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Federal Bureau of Investigation member_of
National Security Council reported
document
“One Bureau memorandum to the Petersen committee even suggested that the Attorney General did not have authority over the FBI's foreign counterintelligence operations since the Bureau was accountable in this area directly to the united State…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.146
Morton Halperin member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“initial FBI inquiries suggested that Morton Halperin a staff member of the National Security Council could have been in a position to leak the information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.330
NSA member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“NSA was created by executive order in 1952 and its functions are described in directives of the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.324
CIA did_business_with
National Security Council reported
document
“If the CIA believes that an investigation of an American should be opened but the FBI declines to do so the CIA should be able to appeal to the Attorney General or to the appropriate committee of the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.323
Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference reported_to
National Security Council documented
document
“The Committee reported to the National Security Council and an NSC staff member was assigned responsibility for internal security…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.284
Gordon Gray worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“At a Special Group Meeting the next day Gordon Gray made a pointed reminder to Allen Dulles of the President's concern about the Congo…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.76
Allen Dulles worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“In the course of his intelligence briefing to the NSC on September 21 1960 Allen Dulles stressed the danger of Soviet influence in the Congo…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.76
Robert H. Johnson member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“There are at least four possible explanations of the failure of NSC records to reveal whether the President ordered the assassination of Lumumba at one of the meetings where Robert Johnson was present…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.73
National Security Council met_with
5412 Group documented
document
“In March 1960 the National Security Council and the Special Group focused on America's Cuban policy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.128
Dwight D. Eisenhower met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“The record of the NSC meeting of March 10 1960 (at which President Eisenhower was present) states that Admiral Arleigh Burke in commenting on Allen Dulles statement that the Cuba covert action plan was in preparation 'suggested that any pla…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.128
Morton Halperin worked_for
National Security Council documented
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“The Halperin tap and that on another National Security Council staff member moreover remained in operation long after both of these targets left the employ of the National Security Council and became advisors to Senator Edmund Muskie…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.349
Trump administration spied_on
National Security Council documented
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“The reinstatement of the tap on one National Security Council staff member was apparently requested by H R Haldeman simply because "they have some concern [about him] they may have a bad apple and have to get him out of the basket.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.343
Marion Boggs member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Marion Boggs who attended the meeting of August 18 as Acting Executive Secretary of the NSC…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.73
Dwight D. Eisenhower member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Dillon's remarks prompted the only statements about Lumumba attributed to the President in the Memorandum of the August 18 meeting…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.72
Douglas Dillon member_of
National Security Council documented
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“Dillon's remarks prompted the only statements about Lumumba attributed to the President in the Memorandum of the August 18 meeting…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.72
Marion Boggs worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“...or Deputy Executive Secretary Marion Boggs…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.71
James Lay worked_for
National Security Council documented
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“Johnson testified that the person with whom he consulted... was one of the two top NSC staff officials at that time NSC Executive Secretary James Lay...…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.70
Robert H. Johnson worked_for
National Security Council documented
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“In 1960 Johnson was Director of the Planning Board Secretariat, third in command on the NSC staff.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.70
Robert H. Johnson worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Robert H. Johnson a member of the National Security Council staff from 1951 to January 1962…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.69
5412 Group member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Beginning in 1955 the responsibility for authorizing CIA covert action operations lay with the Special Group a subcommittee of the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.24
National Security Council directed
CIA documented
document
“it created the National Security Council and gave that body authority to direct the CIA to 'perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to ti…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.23
CIA subsidiary_of
National Security Council documented
document
“There is hereby established under the National Security Council a Central Intelligence Agency with a Director of Central Intelligence who shall be the head thereof…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.216
United States founded
National Security Council documented
document
“There is hereby established a council to be known as the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.215
National Security Council worked_for
Committee of 40 documented
document
“approvals or disapprovals are obtained over the phone by the 40 Committee Special Group officer a CIA officer on loan to the NSC staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.192
CIA did_business_with
National Security Council documented
document
“the establishment of an interagency working group to coordinate overt economic activities towards Chile (composed of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division Chief and representatives from State the NSC and Treasury)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.176
Theodore Sorensen member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“He was a member of the National Security Council Executive Committee that dealt with the Missile Crisis…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.174
Cyrus Vance worked_for
National Security Council documented
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“Mr VANCE I will try to respond to it Senator Hart It seems to inc that could be one of the criteria and I would expect that to be in the minds of the President his advisers in the National Security Council and on the joint oversight committ…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.92
United States Congress targeted_for_regime_change
National Security Council documented
document
“The NSC came under attack also for certain failures on their part…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.91
Morton Halperin worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“FORMER ASSISTANT FOR PLANNING NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL STAFF…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.61
Cyrus Vance proposed
National Security Council documented
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“I believe that any proposal for a covert action should first go to the National Security Council not a sub-Cabinet level committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.58
National Security Council authorized
CIA documented
document
“It was under this clause that early in the operation of the 1947 Act covert activities were authorized…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.55
National Security Council operated_in
United States documented
document
“At a meeting of the National Security Council on May 5 1961 the question of United States policy toward the Dominican Republic was considered…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.223
Task Force on Cuba worked_for
National Security Council documented
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“Agreed that the Task Force on Cuba would prepare promptly both emergency and long-range plans for anti-communist intervention in the event of crises in Haiti or the Dominican Republic…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.223
Robert McNamara met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“On October 2 McNamara and Taylor returned to Washington and presented their findings to the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.234
Maxwell D. Taylor met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“On October 2 McNamara and Taylor returned to Washington and presented their findings to the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.234
Morton Halperin member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Mr Halperin was a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs and a member of the National Security Council staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.54
John F. Kennedy proposed
National Security Council documented
document
“Thereafter on May 16 1961 President Kennedy approved National Security Council recommendations that the United States not initiate the overthrow of Trujillo until it was known what government would succeed the dictator…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.276
Richard Nixon headed
National Security Council documented
document
“The National Security Council met the next day and noted the President's view that the United States should not initiate the overthrow of Trujillo…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.286
National Security Council targeted_for_regime_change
Patrice Lumumba documented
document
“NSC and Special Group discusses action against Lumumba and Dulles cables Congo station that Lumumba's "removal must be an urgent and prime objective…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.305
Clark Clifford founded
National Security Council documented
document
“Mr Clark Clifford who was one of the framers of the 1947 National Security Act [see app B p 210] which created the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.53
National Security Council directed
CIA documented
document
“Section 102 (d) 5 of the National Security Act of 1947 as amended authorizes the CIA to 'perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time …”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.8
Dwight D. Eisenhower met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“President Eisenhower's Discussion at the August 18 1960 National Security CouncilMeeting…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.319
Robert H. Johnson worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Robert H Johnson an NSC staff member from July 1951 to January 1962 attended that meeting as he had others and took the minutes…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.340
National Security Council headed
Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference documented
document
“the NationalSecurity Council hereby authorizes and directs that the Interdepartmental lntelll nee Conference effect the coordination of all investigation of domestic espionage counterespionage sabotage subversion and other related intellige…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.583
Arleigh Burke met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“The minutes of that meeting report that Admiral Burke thought we needed a Cuban leader around whom anti-Castro elements could rally…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.107
National Security Council dissolved
Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference documented
document
“The IICas an independent committeeceased to exist as pursuant to the NationalSecurity Actof 194 which formedthe National Security Council (`:`'C) it was absorbed and chartered by the `_SC presic'act over by the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.583
National Security Council appointed
CIA documented
document
“Yet a few months after enactment of the 1947 legislation the National Security Council authorized the CIA to engage in covert action programs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.12
National Security Council operated_in
United States documented
document
“Secret Executive Orders issued by the NSC to carry out covert action programs were not subject to congressional review…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.13
National Security Council member_of
Executive Branch documented
document
“In all the agencies whether CIA FBI NSA INR DIA or the NSC documents and evidence have been presented through the filter of the agency itself…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.15
J. Bromley Smith worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“the Executive Director I believe the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Mr J Bromley Smith called me on one occasion…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.205
J. Bromley Smith member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“The results of this physical surveillance were disseminated to J Bromley Smith Executive Secretary of the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.174
National Security Council appointed
CIA documented
document
“the National Security Council gave this organization through the Director of CIA some specific jobs to do…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.96
James Jesus Angleton met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“I don't know of any Director who would not take that up with Dr Kissinger or with the National Security Council or the Forty Committee or with the President…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.95
National Security Council met_with
John F. Kennedy documented
document
“Following consideration by the National Security Council the President has decided that…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.211
National Security Council founded
CIA documented
document
“the Act also created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.29
United States worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Under the auspices of the National Security Council the Departments of State and Defense the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency the Office of Science and Technology the Intelligence Community and other agencies worked closely together on t…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.204
National Security Council headed
CIA documented
document
“The National Security Council under the Act of 1947 is given the responsibility of directing our country's intelligence activities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.37
United States Congress founded
National Security Council documented
document
“In the 1947 Act Congress created the National Security Council and the CIA giving both of these entities a statutory charter…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.41
Harry S. Truman headed
National Security Council documented
document
“Presidents Truman Kennedy and Johnson found a loose and informal NSC structure to their liking…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.50
John F. Kennedy headed
National Security Council documented
document
“Presidents Truman Kennedy and Johnson found a loose and informal NSC structure to their liking…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.50
Lyndon B. Johnson headed
National Security Council documented
document
“Presidents Truman Kennedy and Johnson found a loose and informal NSC structure to their liking…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.50
Dwight D. Eisenhower headed
National Security Council documented
document
“President Eisenhower's NSC system is the best example.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.50
Richard Nixon headed
National Security Council documented
document
“the creation of a centralized system of NSC subcommittees under President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs Dr Kissinger…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.50
Henry Kissinger worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“the creation of a centralized system of NSC subcommittees under President Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs Dr Kissinger…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.50
CIA member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“The Act provided that the CIA was 'established under the National Security Council'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.52
Committee on Foreign Intelligence member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“The new committee will report directly to the NSC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.52
National Security Council worked_for
United States Department of Defense documented
document
“On January 25 1973 the National Security Council Undersecretary's committee provided the President a memorandum reporting its review on the U.S chemical warfare and biological program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.186
Bromley Smith worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“According to Bromley Smith an official who served on the National Security Council staff from 1958 to 1969…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.54
National Security Council founded
NSC-4/A documented
document
“NSC-4-A a National Security Council directive issued in December 1947…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.56
National Security Council founded
NSC-4 documented
document
“At the Council's first meeting on December 19 1947 it approved NSC-4 entitled "Coordination of Foreign Intelligence Information Measures.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.56
National Security Council founded
Office of Policy Coordination documented
document
“In 1948 an independent CIA office.the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC).was established to carry out the covert mission assigned by the NSC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
National Security Council worked_for
United States documented
document
“And I think it gets to the heart of the question of whose service some of the Government services are serving And I think it is a very direct issue and I realize that you differ with me on it But that is what this is all about That is why w…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.124
National Security Council operated_in
United States documented
document
“And I think it gets to the heart of the question of whose service some of the Government services are serving And I think it is a very direct issue and I realize that you differ with me on it But that is what this is all about That is why w…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.124
United States Department of Defense worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“It is clear to me Mr Helms from the memorandum of the National Security Council that it was intended that the Department of Defense would devise methods and ways of destroying these toxins and also to determine the amounts to be retained fo…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.125
Operations Coordination Board member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Several points stand out in the history of the committees charged with overseeing covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65
Psychological Strategy Board member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Several points stand out in the history of the committees charged with overseeing covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65
Committee of 40 member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Several points stand out in the history of the committees charged with overseeing covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65
5412 Group member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Several points stand out in the history of the committees charged with overseeing covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65
Committee of 40 member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Several points stand out in the history of the committees charged with overseeing covert operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.65
Office of Management and Budget member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“OMB has not in the past been represented on the National Security Council or the 40 Committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.68
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“The Board requested 40 Committee and NSC minutes to determine the facts…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.72
National Security Council appointed
William P. Rogers documented
document
“Now in both those memorandums the Secretary of Defense was instructed to submit recommendations concerning the disposal of existing stocks of toxin weapons and/or agents…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.124
National Security Council funded
CIA documented
document
“Ambassador HELMS Sir we received the National Security Council Decision Memorandum on the subject of toxins and the Presidential policy to include those in the ban that he had issued earlier in November…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.124
Richard Helms worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Because Director Helms decided in April not to send such an estimate to the NSC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.87
William Colby worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“the statute reads that the Director of Central Intelligence reports to the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.102
Henry Kissinger worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Mr SCHWARZ Did you divulge such activity to Mr Kissinger who was then the Secretary of the NSC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.101
Richard Helms met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“because I attended a National Security Council meeting at which he announced that he intended to have this study made…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.99
CIA worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Section 102(d) of that Act lists the following 'powers and duties for the Agency to advise the National Security Council in matters concerning such intelligence activities...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.135
National Security Council funded
CIA documented
document
“Paragraph 5 was cited by the National Security Council in authorizing covert action by the CIA in NSC.4.A and NSC 10/2…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.139
National Security Council funded
NSC 4A documented
document
“Paragraph 5 was cited by the National Security Council in authorizing covert action by the CIA in NSC.4.A and NSC 10/2…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.139
National Security Council funded
NSC 10/2 documented
document
“Paragraph 5 was cited by the National Security Council in authorizing covert action by the CIA in NSC.4.A and NSC 10/2…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.139
National Security Council founded
CIA documented
document
“The National Security Act of 1947 (which established the Agency and the National Security Council)...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.151
Clark Clifford worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“One of the drafters of the 1947 Act former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford has referred to this provision as the "catch-all clause…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.152
National Security Council worked_for
CIA documented
document
“In response the CIA at the direction of the National Security Council expanded its European and crisis-oriented approach into a world-wide effort to anticipate and meet communist aggression…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.154
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“McGeorge Bundy a former Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson has Stated While in principle it has always been the understanding of senior government officials outside the CIA that no covert opera…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.165
Operations Advisory Group member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“The Committee also concludes that the appropriate NSC committee (e.g. the Operations Advisory Group) should review every covert action proposal…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.168
FBI worked_for
National Security Council reported
document
“the FBI was accountable in this area directly to the United States Intelligence Board and the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.179
John F. Kennedy worked_for
National Security Council reported
document
“I think he asked the Secretary of Defense who is on the National Security Council to promulgate some guidelines for doing this very thing…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.87
National Security Council funded
Salvadoran Armed Forces reported
document
“The memo we have from the Army indicates that they reported through official channels and apparently received National Security Council approval to keep the 3 grams for research purposes…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.84
Fort Detrick did_business_with
National Security Council documented
document
“Fort Detrick did report some 3 grams as was testified to that they inventoried and got approval from the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.83
National Security Council funded
Air America documented
document
“The National Security Council considered whether this asset should be retained in 1956 and on Dulles recommendation decided to continue the subsidy to Air America…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.229
Henry Kissinger worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“A propensity for further unifying these leadership capacities may be seen in the example of Dr Henry Kissinger (when serving as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs/chief of staff National Security Council)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.297
National Security Council founded
United States Intelligence Board documented
document
“Established in 1960 by a classified National Security Council Intelligence Directive the Board is the successor to the Intelligence Advisory Committee created in 1950…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.265
Directorate of Intelligence did_business_with
National Security Council documented
document
“Most National Security Council (NSC) meetings begin with an assessment of the current situation given by the DCI and prepared by DDI analysts.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.273
National Security Council founded
CIA documented
document
“the Central Intelligence Agency was established as a sub unit of the National Security Council by the National Security Act of 1947…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.259
CIA did_business_with
National Security Council documented
document
“Prior to the issuance of the Executive Order CIA regulations amended to conform to the recommendations of the Rockefeller Commission required reports to be sent to the NSC and PFIAB…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.311
Henry Kissinger headed
National Security Council documented
document
“the Council served as an important coordinating mechanism for Dr Kissinger in centralizing and alarming his control over national security and intelligence matters…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.256
National Intelligence Authority merged_with
National Security Council documented
document
“These two organizations evolved through the National Security Act of 1947 into the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.332
National Security Act of 1947 founded
National Security Council documented
document
“The National Security Act of 1947 which created the CIA and NSC also strengthened civilian authority over military services...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.333
Richard Nixon worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“President Nixon significantly altered these arrangements by vesting a great deal of autonomy in his assistant for national security affairs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.255
McGeorge Bundy worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“The Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy also played an important role in the national security process Not only was he a top presidential adviser but as overall director of the NSC staff he partic…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.254
James S. Lay Jr. worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“With the arrival of the Eisenhower Administration the Council was transformed into a highly organized and enlarged forum for the formulation of both national defense and foreign policy Auxiliary coordination units were added to the NSC stru…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.253
Robert Cutler worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“With the arrival of the Eisenhower Administration the Council was transformed into a highly organized and enlarged forum for the formulation of both national defense and foreign policy Auxiliary coordination units were added to the NSC stru…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.253
Defense Intelligence Agency did_business_with
National Security Council documented
document
“The Directorate for Estimates produces all DOD intelligence estimates including DOD contributions to National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) for the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.357
James S. Lay Jr. headed
National Security Council documented
document
“The Senior Staff was composed of representatives of State Defense NSRB Treasury JCS and CIA and shortly there after of Harriman's office and headed by the Executive Secretary an official without departmental ties…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.253
Sidney Souers worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“ited to statutory members and five other specifically designated officials (the Secretary of the Treasury the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the Director of Central Intelligence a Special Assistant to the President [W Averell Harrima…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.253
United States Department of Defense worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“The Defense Department duly carried out the Presidential directive according to the instructions and supervision of the National Security Council staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.370
National Security Council spied_on
MKNaomi documented
document
“The National Security Council staff charged by the President with determining what U.S policy should be did not discover MKNAOMI in the course of its study…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.371
W. Averell Harriman worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“ited to statutory members and five other specifically designated officials (the Secretary of the Treasury the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the Director of Central Intelligence a Special Assistant to the President [W Averell Harrima…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.253
Sidney Souers headed
National Security Council documented
document
“Under President Truman who did not make extensive use of the panel the NSC staff a small body of permanent Council employees and officers detailed temporarily from the participating agencies was headed by a nonpolitical civilian executive s…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.252
National Security Act of 1947 founded
National Security Council documented
document
“The principal contemporary intelligence activities statutes are the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat 495) and the Central Intelligence Act of 1949 (63 Stat 208) which establish the National Security Council and the Central Intelligenc…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.9
Church Committee investigated
National Security Council documented
document
“Of these the Committee spent the overwhelming preponderance of its energies on five ... and The National Security Council and its component parts.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.7
Allen Dulles met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“A lengthy meeting of the National Security Council on the following day involved a discussion of American policy to "bring another government to power in Cuba. The minutes of that meeting report that... Mr Dulles said someanti-Castro leader…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.107
5412 Group member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“At this time review and approval of covert operations against Cuba were the responsibility of the National Security Council's Special Group chaired by McGeorge Bundy…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.21
John Mitchell member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Attorney General Mitchell who was a member of the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.169
Dwight D. Eisenhower met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“President Eisenhower presided probably the NSC meeting of August 18 1960…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.147
National Security Council appointed
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
document
“Formal authority for FBI investigations of 'subversive activity' and for the agreements between the FBI and military intelligence was explicitly granted in executive directives from Presidents Truman and Eisenhower the National Security Cou…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.55
Robert H. Johnson worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Robert Johnson was not an advisor to President Eisenhower and was certainly not one of those closest to him…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.146
National Security Council founded
Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference documented
document
“The National Security Council was established by the National Security Act of 1947 which authorized the NSC to advise the President with respect to 'the integration of domestic foreign and military policies relating to the 'national securit…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.61
Robert H. Johnson worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Robert H Johnson's testimony was said to be incorrect by two of his superior officers nor of the fact that the August 18 1960 meeting was the first of only two NSC meetings ever attended by Robert H Johnson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.145
Marion W. Boggs worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Marion Boggs who attended the meeting of August 18 1960 as Acting Executive Secretary of the NSC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.145
National Security Council operated_in
United States documented
document
“The decisionmaking arrangements at the NSC level created an environment of blurred accountability which allowed consideration of actions without the constraints of individual responsibility…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.99
National Security Council appointed
CIA documented
document
“A National Security Council Intelligence Directive assigned CIA the primary responsibility for clandestine activities abroad…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.67
National Security Council founded
5412 Group documented
document
“In March and November 1955 two NSC policy directives NSC 5412'1 and NSC 5412/2 were issued outlining revised control procedures They established a group of 'designated representatives...'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.57
Psychological Strategy Board member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“The Psychological Strategy Board (PSB) an NSC subcommittee had been established in 1951…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.56
National Security Council adopted
Psychological Strategy Board documented
document
“The NSC adopted Smith's proposal making the Psychological Strategy Board the approval body for covert action…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.41
National Security Council targeted_for_regime_change
Soviet Union documented
document
“On April 14 1950 the National Security Council issued NSC 68 which called for a non-military counter-offensive against the U.S.S.R. including covert economic political and psychological warfare to stir up unrest and revolt in the satellite …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.38
National Security Council founded
Office of Special Projects documented
document
“While authorizing a sweeping expansion in covert activities NSC 10/2 established the Office of Special Projects…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.36
National Security Council funded
CIA documented
document
“on December 14 the National Security Council adopted NSC 4/A a directive which gave the CIA responsibility for covert psychological operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.34
Robert Lovett proposed
National Security Council documented
document
“He proposed an advisory board to insure "prior consideration by the chiefs of the intelligence services for matters scheduled to go before the NSC"…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.31
National Security Council funded
Dulles-Jackson-Correa Survey documented
document
“Commissioned by the National Security Council in 1948 the Survey examined the U.S intelligence establishment focusing principally on the CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.23
CIA worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“The five general tasks assigned to the Agency were (1) to advise the NSC on matters related to national security…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.21
Sidney Souers worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Souers return to Washington a year later to assume eventually the position of Executive Secretary of the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.16
Ferdinand Eberstadt proposed
National Security Council documented
document
“Instead he proposed a consultative arrangement for the State Department the Army and the Navy and an independent Air Force through a National Security Council (NSC)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.14
Dwight D. Eisenhower met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“The President said we might have another Black Hole of Calcutta in Cuba and he wondered what we could do about such a situation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.107
J. Edgar Hoover met_with
National Security Council documented
document
“The question of pro-Cuban activities had arisen earlier at a National Security Council meeting in May 1961 after the Bay of Pigs invasion Director Hoover attended at the request of the Attorney General…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.472
Andrew Goodpaster member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“He regularly attended NSC meetings and was listed among the participants at the NSC meetings of August 18 1960 and September 21 1960…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.78
Gordon Gray member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“Gray served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in which capacity he coordinated the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.78
Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference member_of
National Security Council documented
document
“the IIC under the chairmanship of FBI Director Hoover recommended to the NSC…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.469
Admiral Souers worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“Upon receiving the Attorney General's proposed statement presidential aide George Elsey asked Admiral Souers Executive Secretary of the National Security Council "to undertake a review of the state ment with a view to limiting the excessive…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.467
National Security Council funded
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
document
“a confidential directive of the National Security Council in 1949 granted authority to the FBI and military intelligence for counterespionage operations and the investigation of 'subversive activities.'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.464
Robert McFarlane member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine Corps officer detailed to the White Hou…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 41:52
Robert Komer member_of
National Security Council documented
“ever let them see a tear. You never, ever let them see you sweat. These people are evil. On May 27, 1965, Robert Comer, K-O-M-E-R, a national security staffer, briefed his boss, George Bundy, President Johnson's Special Assistant for Nation…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 18:15
National Security Council proposed
Organization of American States documented
“The board favored economic warfare, eliminating subsidies on Cuban sugar. Further, Washington should convince the Organization of American States, the OAS, to cast Cuba as a hemispheric problem. It's an oligarch problem. It's not a hemisphe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 17:54
Robert Kimmitt member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“William Taft IV, who's, by the way, under investigation, by these same people, the General Counsel of the Defense Department, who had unsuccessfully urged Accord's suspension, and Robert Kimmitt, K-I-M-M-I-T-T, one of Jimmy Carter's NSC emp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 25:25
Robert McFarlane member_of
National Security Council documented
“Kissinger's NSC staff reviewed the release of every CIA internal history of the church committee. He reviewed everything that they were turning over to the church committee himself. Robert McFarland, then a subordinate on the NSC staff, rul…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 51:03
Harry S. Truman created
National Security Council documented
“Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clipper drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the war and Navy departments into a Department of Defense, which also set up a D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 43:11
CIA answerable_to
National Security Council documented
“Under the National Security Act, the CIA was directly answerable because this was the subsequent act, the one that Clifford helped write, was directly answerable to the president through the National Security Council. The National Intellige…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 44:43
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council documented
“would earn him a minor place in history, a footnote to one of America's worst scandals, the Iran-Contra. His case would be cited by the Congressional Iran-Contra committees as an example of how Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Nation…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 20:55
Gordon Gray member_of
National Security Council documented
“Precisely timed to place a protective force around the Dalai Lama just as the Dalai Lama fled. Units of the NVDA partisans formed a rear guard behind the Dalai Lama's party throughout his trek to the Indian border. They also created a decoy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 10:53
James Lay member_of
National Security Council documented
“Precisely timed to place a protective force around the Dalai Lama just as the Dalai Lama fled. Units of the NVDA partisans formed a rear guard behind the Dalai Lama's party throughout his trek to the Indian border. They also created a decoy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 10:53
National Security Council headed
Michael Flynn documented
“So understand this, because this point is crucial to what we're going through right now. The CIA is directly answerable to the president through the National Security Council. And who's in charge of the National Security Council? The Nation…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 39:34
Harry S. Truman created
National Security Council documented
“It just is crazy. These people's name just comes up over and over again. So Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clifford drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 37:35
Robert Maheu member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“And it says that he created his own association under the guise of a private investigative firm in Washington, D.C., you know, where the CIA is. And he is linked to, let's see, under the CIA work, it says that he was summoned to then Vice P…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:17:49
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Robert McNamara and Bobby Kennedy sat in on the meeting. A Goodwin note on November 22nd indicates that the secret warrior had already put his thoughts on paper. When Maxwell Taylor convened the special group the same day, he said that Edwa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 15:18
China member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“You know what I mean? So they're supposedly the government in exile in a country called Taiwan. But Taiwan was occupying the seat at the UN Security Council called China. And so if you go back and you look at a lot of the UN initiatives tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 1:52:32
Richard Nixon funded
National Security Council documented
“The change was formalized in February 17, 1970, in Nixon's National Security Decision Memorandum 40. The special group had thus begun labeled as 40 Committee. The National Security Decision Memorandum also rescinded National Security 5412-2…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:03:33
Roger Robinson member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“According to former National Security Council member Roger Robinson, the CIA delivered…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 38:38
J. Patrick Coyne member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“background as well. He was both FBI and served in the National Security Council, which is where Gladio was ran out of for the U.S. He also was on the Intelligence Advisory Board from 1959 through 61, took a few months off, came back in 61 t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 3:42
Robert Komer member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“during and after this particular episode. So it says that this view had prevailed and now it was up to Comer to carry out the president's commitment in the face of the bureaucratic resistance from the civilian agencies. So Comer is basicall…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 36:45
Chester Cooper member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“State Department wanted the person to be a special assistant to the Secretary of State. Chester Cooper, a staff member of the National Security Council, wrote an impassioned memo to the president arguing that the person should work for the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 36:16
Robert Komer appointed
National Security Council host_asserted
“part of the executive branch problem that we've had in the past. He's definitely part of the international syndicate. All right. So it says after Bundy's departure, Comer briefly served as the national security advisor before he was then re…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 6:35
Robert Komer member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“So it said he served on the staff of the National Security Council under McGeorge Bundy. And understanding who McGeorge Bundy is, you have to know that he was president of the Ford Foundation, i.e. a CIA front. And he also was part of the C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 5:37
NSAM 5412 funded
National Security Council host_asserted
“title of a National Security Council to come in and sit in on meetings that were going to direct covert operations. And it's just, it's a recipe for disaster. And it was all facilitated by Dwight D. Eisenhower. He signed that National Secur…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:13:48
National Security Council ordered_assassination_of
Seychelles host_asserted
“In December 1981, the UN Security Council decided to send a commission to the Seychelles to investigate the invasion. Although the U.S. voted for the motion, the American ambassador, Jean Kirkpatrick, suggested to send the commission was to…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 33:10
Samantha Power member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“But I may be thinking of someone else. Let me look it up real quick. She was the ambassador to the U.N. Yeah, so it says here. Yeah, no, she only was Biden's USAID. She worked on the National Security Council for Obama.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:39:57
Zbigniew Brzezinski member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“and give them plausible deniability. And so they will have a representative from the president's office sitting in on whether it's the 40 committee or they all had different names under each president. And Brzezinski basically was in that l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:01:12
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 26:06
Michael Ledeen member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 26:06
National Security Council overthrew
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“to do some things with the National Security Council, which, of course, we know what they were doing in 1954 at the National Security Council. They were overthrowing Guatemala. It also says that he worked to interfere with an agreement with…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:18:19
National Security Council headed
Operation Mongoose documented
“President Kennedy also revamped White House controls. Instead of Robert Kennedy taking the lead, the National Security Council became the direct point of contact. Aspects of the Cuban project figured in EXCOMM discussions in late 1962 and e…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 31:05
Norman Bailey member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Quote, we were aware that BCCI was involved in drug money transactions, said Norman Bailey, the national security economist who monitored all terrorism by tracking the movement of follow the money.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 40:01
Rob Owens member_of
National Security Council documented
“on a suspected drug run off the coast of Florida. Aboard the plane was marijuana residue and Moss's notes, which, according to a CIA cable, contained, quote, the names of two CIA officers and their telephone numbers, unquote. Also found was…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 5:02
Edward Lansdale member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“gave Lansdale the role, even nicknaming him FM, I guess for Field Marshal. Almost daily, Lansdale informed Bobby in a quick handwritten note or memorandum or a conversation in the hall of progress. Before a special group session in early De…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 17:55
National Security Council funded
Christian Democratic Union book_quoted
“to interfere and prop up a political party. Keith Wheelock, one of the new CIA officers, became the field man on the initiative. Corey himself instigated another. Looking ahead to congressional elections in 1969, he proposed a classic suppo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 49:41
National Security Council reassigned
Tom Gilligan book_quoted
“committee ordered a propaganda workshop to determine what possibilities there were. The agency reassigned Tom Gilligan to Portugal. One reason the 303 committee came to no decision was opposition from the State Department. Henry Kissinger a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 57:02
Roger Morris member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“A bold-faced lie. Richard Nixon exhibited concern and also responded to U.S. corporations. Again, he doesn't list them. In danger of losing their guaranteed investments and highly agitated, Kissinger was also sensitive to Nixon. Roger Morri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 1:05:07
Elliot Abrams member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“He advised multiple Republican campaigns, served in think tanks supporting Republicans. Under George W. Bush, Abrams returned to the National Security Council, where Operation Gladio is ran out of, as the senior director for, quote unquote,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:13:40
Ronald Reagan reorganized
National Security Council book_quoted
“to authorize the actions at the policy level, and to approve CIA budgets via the O&M. Reagan improved the climate within the executive branch for covert action by reestablishing the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board that Carter had d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 43:20
George H.W. Bush member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“to authorize the actions at the policy level, and to approve CIA budgets via the O&M. Reagan improved the climate within the executive branch for covert action by reestablishing the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board that Carter had d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 43:20
National Security Council ordered
CIA book_quoted
“the city's most sacred Buddhist shrine. Sound familiar? Buddhists immediately took up arms and began fighting. The spectacle was repeated across Vietnam as thousands of Buddhists were arrested and jailed and executed. In response, August 21…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 18:40
National Security Council removed_from_power
CIA book_quoted
“In other words, if you were actually honest about an assessment and it didn't fit where they wanted to go, you were ignored. The opportunity for choice arose in the spring of 69, about six weeks after Chile's March elections. The 303 commit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 56:06
National Security Council funded
International Volunteer Air Group documented
“but military personnel were used over the short term until their war ended. The OCB recommendation to form an international volunteer air group was nonetheless taken up that summer. The recommendation was approved by NSC at its 211th meetin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 36:51
John F. Kennedy member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Kennedy's National Security Council formally adopted the goal of ousting Castro and considered means ranging from a naval blockade to an international Caribbean security force to strong economic sanctions, with the CIA one more arrow in Ken…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 25:52
National Security Council funded
Christian Democratic Union book_quoted
“and his agency station chief to help selected candidates. On February 5th, 1965, the group allocated another $175,000. Richard Helm recorded this as half a million dollars for covert assistance in the March elections. Again, the results wer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 42:49
NSC 10/2 Committee member_of
National Security Council documented
“The committee was made up of a unit in the National Security Council and thus worked directly for the president. Their group was composed of representatives from the Secretary of State and Defense. It was called the 10-2 Panel. Now, we've c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:16:19
William Stead member_of
National Security Council documented
“Later served as a U.S. member on the executive board of the World Health Organization, president of the executive committee of the Pan American Health Organization, U.S. member and alternate member of board of directors of the Global Fund t…”
▶ The Shadow State 43 Secret Societies 26; The Praetorian Guard @ 1:13:46
Jake Sullivan member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“Jake Sullivan comes along and he is the national security advisor, the number one guy on the Biden foreign policy team. And as the national security advisor, as my research has illustrated, you run the coups. All of the subordinate entities…”
▶ The Shadow State 35 Secret Societies 19; Jake Sullivan @ 35:03
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“among other things, became involved in the arms for hostage efforts of the National Security Council, William Casey, Admiral Poindexter, Richard Secord, Oliver North, and others. And those are the same people that were involved in Vietnam, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 17 OKL bombing @ 14:24
William Casey member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“among other things, became involved in the arms for hostage efforts of the National Security Council, William Casey, Admiral Poindexter, Richard Secord, Oliver North, and others. And those are the same people that were involved in Vietnam, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 17 OKL bombing @ 14:24
Richard Secord member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“among other things, became involved in the arms for hostage efforts of the National Security Council, William Casey, Admiral Poindexter, Richard Secord, Oliver North, and others. And those are the same people that were involved in Vietnam, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 17 OKL bombing @ 14:24
John Poindexter member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“among other things, became involved in the arms for hostage efforts of the National Security Council, William Casey, Admiral Poindexter, Richard Secord, Oliver North, and others. And those are the same people that were involved in Vietnam, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 17 OKL bombing @ 14:24
National Security Council funded
CIA documented
“Hillenotter then went to Truman with the problem. A proposal for secret propaganda was initiated for presidential consideration. In this connection, the State Department advised in December that the Soviet covert operations threatened to de…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:13:51
National Security Council ran
Angolan Civil War host_asserted
“And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 46:44
National Security Council ran
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 46:44
George Tenet member_of
National Security Council documented
“who had came from the NSC staff where he had been the top man for intelligence. Tenet has been a decade on Capitol Hill, mostly as a staff member at the Senate Intelligence Committee. A couple of years earlier, Woolsey had favored shutting …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 42:59
National Security Council funded
CIA host_asserted
“NSC-101 approved support for a quote-unquote vigorous program of covert operations to aid the guerrillas. Disruption of Chinese supply lines was explicit in NSC-118, and President Truman approved this by the end of the year. In early 1952, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 4 @ 55:15
Robert Anderson member_of
National Security Council documented
“the Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, who coordinated the U.S. trade policy with Cuba, after talk of the U2 affair, which had consumed Eisenhower since May, the group turned to ATE. Alan Dulles cited success in creating the Cuban politica…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 35:04
Lyman Lemnitzer member_of
National Security Council documented
“And they needed more money. By August, Esterling's task force had reworked its plan and presented it in a new memorandum to Eisenhower. The key meeting took place at the White House on August 18th. Present were Alan Dulles, NSC officials, c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 34:33
National Security Council funded
Project Hake book_quoted
“The council ordered new planning, a process that led directly to Project HAIK, H-A-I-K, as the Indonesian operation would be called. The Joint Chiefs of Staff complained that the concept conceded Java, the most important part of the country…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 5:08
Hugh Cumming Jr. headed
National Security Council book_quoted
“stream about the U2. The main center of the planning moved to the State Department, where meetings at the National Security Council Special Interagency Committee were chaired by State Department's Intelligence Director Hugh Cumming. Now, wh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 3:04
National Security Council proposed
Guyana Project book_quoted
“The state paper in the Washington talks became the basis for the deliberate shadowy unit called the Special Group, the highest U.S. government unit dealing with covert operations. When the Special Group met on March 20th, Guyana was the thi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 32:12
Robert F. Kennedy chaired
National Security Council documented
“the matters continued and said the nomenclature had now been reversed. The 5412 group became the insider jargon. A third special group also appeared. The special group augmented. The difference was that Max Taylor chaired the 5412 group exi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 54:04
Maxwell D. Taylor chaired
National Security Council documented
“the matters continued and said the nomenclature had now been reversed. The 5412 group became the insider jargon. A third special group also appeared. The special group augmented. The difference was that Max Taylor chaired the 5412 group exi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 54:04
Richard M. Bissell Jr. wrote
National Security Council documented
“The countries are not threatened. The United States oligarchs are threatened. Bissell's last act would thus be to move Kennedy to reorganize his machinery for covert action. In fact, the special group talked over Bissell's report on Decembe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 53:04
Richard M. Bissell Jr. proposed
National Security Council documented
“Bissell suddenly spoke of regaining public confidence in the CIA's covert action by revealing the existence of the special group, much as Eisenhower had once revealed the Killian board. At another point, Bob Comer did a summary of Bissell's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 42:53
National Security Council covered_up
Seven Sisters book_quoted
“The blood was sucked out of the civil suit by a series of decisions that could only have been brought about by the continuing presentation in government circles by the oil companies. According to David Haberman, the National Security Counci…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 39:55
Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed
National Security Council documented
“This led to a top secret summer study that combined the themes of deterring guerrilla warfare, limited war, counterinsurgency, and paramilitary operations. Rostow watched this exercise closely. Another spark plug, the study formal chairman …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 40:56
John F. Kennedy approved
National Security Council documented
“Rostow, then the Deputy National Security Advisor. In mid-June, both the President and the NSC staff were watching over the proposed text of a presentation that Rostow would make at the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 40:31
National Security Council carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Dwayne, I'm going to mute you for just a second. They have ran the similar operations, like the Iran-Contra was ran out of the National Security Council in conjunction with the CIA. So if you understand the role of the National Security Cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio- 2024 Election, day after with The Cates Bros @ 1:41:00
Robert Schweitzer member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“Schweitzer happened to be Ronald Reagan's senior army advisor in the National Security Council. So the year before this is all going on is the Iran-Contra. So their money was running a little low. Schweitzer had retired from active service …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 32:16
Edwin Meese member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“So there are definitely different players on the field in the 60s in California. Yeah. Where are we talking about? Oh, okay. So Meese joins the Reagan White House as a chief counsel right from almost day one. He also sits on the National Se…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 1:02:03
Paul Kagame relationship_with
National Security Council host_asserted
“B-A-G-I-N-A. He wrote in November 2006 that it defies logic that the UN Security Council had not ordered an investigation as it had following the assassination of Rafik Harari in Lebanon in 2005. The 27th anniversary marks an opportune time…”
▶ Operation Gladio - RWANDA - AFRICA @ 1:04:30
Roger Morris worked_at
National Security Council caller_asserted
“But half the book is about looking at this period between 68 and 72, the Democratic Party. Fully anti-party measures were taken by elites in the Democratic Party. And he's about the best read you can put people through. He's such an amazing…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner President Carter Special @ 58:22
William Stead did_business_with
National Security Council host_asserted
“He also was on a global fund to fight AIDS. So he's a very close friend of Fauci's. Without a doubt. And how'd they do in fighting AIDS? Did I say fighting? I mean, causing AIDS. Yeah. And the last thing I'll say is he was the HHS liaison t…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #42 @ 1:11:37
David Gompert member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“ford and carter administration in the national security council so basically every coup that we did between nixon ford and carter this guy was involved in he also specialized in nato he was a special assistant meaning like right-hand man of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner 911 Eve conversation @ 1:12:46
5412 Group subsidiary_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“an official on the special group, which is the 5412. That's what they're calling that National Security Council group at the time. The decision to wind down the Congo operation was made in early 1966, which is during the Johnson administrat…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 12 cont @ 34:03
George F. Kennan member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“George Kennan, the secretary who later soured on this whole enterprise, so we're told, remained an enthusiastic supporter of covert operations at their inception. It was Kennan who the secretary of state placed on the 10-2 panel as the firs…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 6:50
William Quandt member_of
National Security Council documented
“A few weeks after Billy Carter returned from his first of two trips to Libya, he called Brzezinski, the president's national security advisor, and asked for a briefing on the status of the C-130 deal. William Quant, Q-U-A-N-D-T, a Carter Na…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 20:12
Elise Stefanik member_of
National Security Council documented
“Okay, so here's what I found. We got Abigail Spanberger, Democrat from Virginia, eight years as a CIA operations officer. She's in Congress. We got Alyssa Slotkin, Democrat from Michigan. She was a CIA analyst deployed to Iraq three times a…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #34 @ 56:16
Jake Sullivan appointed
National Security Council documented
“Jake Sullivan comes along and he is the national security advisor, the number one guy on the Biden foreign policy team. And as the national security advisor, as my research has illustrated, you run the coups. All of the subordinate entities…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #34 @ 34:47
Michael Ledeen member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 14:47
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 2 @ 14:47
Ronald Reagan reorganized
National Security Council book_quoted
“He issued finding statements to justify each covert operation, to authorize the actions at the policy level, and to approve CIA budgets via the O&M. Reagan improved the climate within the executive branch for covert action by reestablishing…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 17 @ 43:35
Oliver North worked_for
National Security Council documented
“was part due to North. In late 1981, North was plucked from the Naval War College to serve on the National Security Council. I had no business being assigned to the National Security Council, North later wrote. I was in over my head. As Nor…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 3031 @ 15:07
Samantha Power member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“I may be thinking of someone else. Let me look it up real quick. She was the ambassador to the UN. Yeah, so it says here. Yeah, no, she only was Biden's USAID. She worked on the National Security Council for Obama.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 1:38:47
Zbigniew Brzezinski member_of
National Security Council guest_asserted
“sitting in on whether it's the 40 committee or they all had different names under each president. And Brzezinski basically was in that layer of National Security Council roles. So he basically was the figurehead, if you will, that approved …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 1:00:11
George H.W. Bush member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“which included George Bush as VP, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, Chief of the CIA, the National Security Advisor, and three other top political aides. The Attorney General and OMB Director, who had been regular members of…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 17 @ 44:04
CIA reports_to
National Security Council documented
“to the State Department. There's a reason, you know, Alan Dulles' brother, John Foster Dulles, was running the State Department. You know, you can't get much more close than that. So I wouldn't say they report to them. They actually report …”
▶ JFK ASSASINATION WITH COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY @ 38:29
Robert F. Kennedy headed
National Security Council documented
“had he not been under attack by the United States. President Kennedy kept his distance from the paramilitary offensive, but his brother Bobby was at the forefront of the operations, prodding the planners to get moving, encouraging action wi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 33:08
National Security Council covered_up
Seven Sisters book_quoted
“It will be assuming that the enforcement of the antitrust laws of the United States against Western oil companies operating in the Near East may be deemed secondary to national security interests. In the event of a conflict between any prop…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 7 @ 43:42
Edwin Black member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“As they're withdrawing from Vietnam, General Edwin Black, the bank's representative in Hawaii, commanded American troops in Thailand, again, Poppy, during the Vietnam War, having previously served in the National Security Council. So maybe …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 1:07:16
Eric Ciaramella member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“That's part of it. So this was the period when all of little Adam Schiff, little watermelon head, was having his phone calls and digital communications intercepted. And I'll remind all of the audience, for our purposes, the CIA had planted …”
▶ Operation Gladio- 2024 Election, day after with The Cates Bros @ 1:08:48
National Security Council targeted_for_regime_change
Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“on de Gaulle took a much sharper edge. The National Security Council meeting convened by Eisenhower in September of 58 gloomily forecasted that the French leader's ability to settle the Algerian crisis to America's satisfaction was dim. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:05:29
Nguyen Cao Ky headed
National Security Council documented
“And that's basically what they're saying. They elected one of the military generals as being the chief of state, you know, because, of course, they assassinated the president at this point. And in 1965, the National Council of Security was …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 47:04
Henry Kissinger member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“A 32-year-old Oxford scholar and a protege of Nelson Rockefeller's. Prior to his employment, he had been Henry Kissinger, who was Nelson Rockefeller's man, according to Seymour Hersh. Henry Kissinger's employment secretary on the National S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 1:01:25
National Security Council targeted_for_regime_change
Chile book_quoted
“to supply rifles to King Jordan, the King of Jordan. So this was not a matter of excluding a certain type of activity. Everyone from the special group to the Secretary of State lived in ignorance of the Chilean initiative called Track Two, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 15:58
National Security Council supplied_arms_to
King Hussein of Jordan book_quoted
“U. Alexis Johnson, back on the group again, writes, quote, it is true that during the Nixon administration, the president and CIA bypassed the committee on sensitive issues, unquote. When Nixon gave his first go-ahead on covert arms to Camb…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 15:29
National Security Council covered_up
Nathaniel Davis book_quoted
“Military intervention carried a high risk of exposure with the possibility of negative effects across Africa. It offered only limited results and potentially contributed to increased involvement by the Soviet Union in other countries there.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 23:29
John Mitchell member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Nixon, too, made his changes. According to Kissinger, they changed the name because the 303 Committee had been identified in a 1969 news story. We can't have the American people knowing what their government is doing. In fact, the reconstit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 12:03
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basically grew up um also can i read you something real quick on the william gandell elliot guy sure so here's what i found on him after the war elliot and we're talking about the william one served on the national security council he was a…
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overseeing that. He also was on the National Security Council, that elite group, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And his dad is Clarence Dillon. And who is that? Well, he's a Jewish immigrant from Poland. And have you ever heard of, let's …
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to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in an open hearing. This is a quote. I watched from the inside of our National Security Council when Russia was test driving many of the approaches in Ukraine as our government struggled to ful…
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was furious at the pardons and said that Bush, quote, had stopped the trial of a Confederate, unquote. But the fact was that the arms dealers, former military officers, and Middle Eastern hustlers like Oliver North, William Casey, Admiral P…
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Still, other liabilities arose from the National Security Council's involvement in this and the White House knowledge. Quote, we were aware that BCCI was involved in drug money transactions, said Norman Bailey, the national security economi…
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National Security Council economist goes on to say, quote, we were also aware that BCCI was involved in terrorism, technology transfer, including unapproved transfer of U.S. technology to the Soviet bloc, weapons deals and manipulation of f…
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the former National Security Advisor and consultant to the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff. So you just have to love how little this is. But the, so the, I'm trying to find my note of the name that was the guy that was at DOJ. So anyway, t…
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We all get the fact that there's no line between the Department of Defense, the CIA, and the State Department, right? They meld together. What most people forget is the National Security Advisor staff. And the reason why they could not have…
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chairs the meeting for the coordination with state and with the DOD. So every Gladio operation, every finding that was to assassinate a foreign head of state, every single thing that Operation Gladio is related to and the White House intera…
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that the National Security Advisors Office has ever orchestrated. They were at the heart of the Lumumba assassination, the Allende assassination. The National Security Advisors meetings is who orchestrates all of that. It puts an emphasis o…
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That's part of it. So this was the period when all of little Adam Schiff, little watermelon head, was having his phone calls and digital communications intercepted. And I'll remind all of the audience, for our purposes, the CIA had planted …
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What role do you think General Flynn will have? Do you think he'll come back in as the National Security Advisor? It would be my hope that he has a position like that, and it actually dovetails into what you just said. In Operation Gladio, …
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Dwayne, I'm going to mute you for just a second. They have ran the similar operations, like the Iran-Contra was ran out of the National Security Council in conjunction with the CIA. So if you understand the role of the National Security Cou…
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Trump and John Bolton at the National Security Council started thinking about using covert means of getting rid of Maduro. Given that popular momentum was there and the Venezuelans were lined up ready for the overthrow. So far, so good. Bet…
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The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine Corps officer detailed to the White Hou…
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Sotaro's Russian language training at the University of Hawaii may have been useful to the CIA in Indonesia. And August 2nd, 1966, formerly classified secret memorandum from the National Security Council, Bromley Smith states that in additi…
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C. Douglas Dillon told a Senate investigating committee, which was the Church Committee, that the National Security Council and President Eisenhower had believed in 1960 that Lumumba was a very difficult, if not impossible, person to deal w…
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How far beyond the dreams of a barefoot jungle postal clerk in 1956? That, in a few short years, he would be dangerous to the peace and safety of the world. The perception seems insane, particularly coming from the National Security Council…
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It does say that the National Security Council special group in Washington gave consideration to a program of covert aid to anti-Trujillo Dominicans. Two months later, Eisenhower approved a contingency plan, which provided in part that if t…
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university kind of article that appeared in one of their papers. And basically it talks about a declassified National Security Council and CIA documents that had, hold on. Okay. So NSC and CIA documents that were…
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For some reason, it blocked her and I just unblocked her. And there she is. All right. She's back. She's back. I didn't do that. I don't know how it got done. I did not do that. All I hit was co-host. All right. So I'm going to start over f…
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While the newly released documents written by the National Security Council staffer and an unnamed CIA officer confirmed the essential outlines set forth in what Stockdale said, they also provided additional and chilling details about the U…
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who first joined the White House as a member of President Kennedy's NSC staff, had worked as a CIA analyst for 15 years, which means he's still a CIA asset. In 1967, Johnson tapped him to win the hearts and minds of Vietnam. Yeah, that didn…
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The CIA's reluctance to approve the action at the Chinese embassy may have stemmed from the fact that the National Security Council had specifically refused to authorize the agency's involvement in the coup at all. This was, as we had seen,…
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Congress, and basically subsidizing a quasi-fascist extreme right group and improperly close relationships between the U.S. government and major corporations, unquote. However, just two days after Alente donned the presidential sass in Sant…
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America set out to create that justification. The first blows were struck economically. Two principal American foreign aid agencies called the Export and Import Bank and the Agency for International Development, acting under classified inst…
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Everything that I've read said that the decision to use this capability was briefed at, if you guys remember way back, we were talking about a thing called the Committee of 40 or the 40 Committee, which was basically an entity inside the Na…
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the B-2 rockets, during the war. He was co-founder of an organization called JINSA, J-I-N-S-A. One of their initiatives is the JINSA Iran Policy Project. They also advise Congress on policy. Now listen to this. Shifter served on the Nationa…
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all go through the National Security Advisor. That's their job. That's not a small position. That is head spook. All right, so National Security Advisor, he kind of changed the priorities. One of the first things he does, he puts in writing…
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Out of the National Endowment for Democracy, while she's the foreign advisor orchestrating coups. At the same time, she's in the Naval Reserves working as an intelligent officer for 11 years. Yes. That's mind-blowing. Yes. Remember I told y…
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That's what I'm saying. While he was doing it for Biden in 2022, he was provoking Russia into attacking the Donbass region because as the National Security Council security advisor, he would have coordinated the CIA's underground Gladio uni…
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Yeah. She's in Congress. We got Alyssa Slotkin, Democrat from Michigan. She was a CIA analyst deployed to Iraq three times and was on the National Security Council for both Bush and Obama. Yes. Again, bipartisan. We had Will Hurd, Republica…
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The National Endowment for Democracy is one of the places they ended up. And they were basically still engaged in coups. They were engaged in regime change. And we saw that throughout the 1980s with Angola and Nicaragua and El Salvador, bla…
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a UN Security Council rep for the Reagan administration. And if you don't know anything about the, excuse me, Freedom House, the Freedom House is another one of those quote unquote think tanks that was founded in the early part of the 1940s…
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As you guys have saw today, I kind of went down another rabbit hole with this. When I was looking over the Operation Gladio and its interplay with the National Security Council, I've been reading a lot of material in how the vice president'…
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So I don't even know if you guys know, but from the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, up until the early 1970s, at the UN Security Council, if you go back and you look, China appears to have always been on the Security Council. They weren't. Chi…
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Republic of China, but it wasn't China, China, not mainland China. That didn't happen. And they didn't get their, the China didn't actually get the Chinese seat until Nixon went over there and recognized them. And maybe that's why they hate…
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You know what I mean? So they're supposedly the government in exile in a country called Taiwan. But Taiwan was occupying the seat at the UN Security Council called China. And so if you go back and you look at a lot of the UN initiatives tha…
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These agencies, CIA, FBI, are they standalone or are they subordinate to any organization? So the CIA specifically, according to a wiring diagram, is supposed to report in to the president through the National Security Council. But I can gu…
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He was in El Salvador with the death squads. He was in Honduras with the death squads. He was working on the CONFRA thing out of the Bush vice president White House for Donald Gregg, because Donald Gregg, who was the national security advis…
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the vice president staff running basically the operation for the conference. And he knew Donald Gregg, who was Bush's national security advisor as VP. And Donald Gregg had been involved in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And basically, the …
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In December 1981, the UN Security Council decided to send a commission to the Seychelles to investigate the invasion. Although the U.S. voted for the motion, the American ambassador, Jean Kirkpatrick, suggested to send the commission was to…
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So his name is Robert William Comer, and his nickname was Blowtorch Bob. And he also, of course, spent some time in the National Security Advisor's office, which we know is the White House Executive Agency for Covert Operations, liaisons wi…
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So it said he served on the staff of the National Security Council under McGeorge Bundy. And understanding who McGeorge Bundy is, you have to know that he was president of the Ford Foundation, i.e. a CIA front. And he also was part of the C…
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All of that nasty shit that we've talked about and spent the better part of a week on the Phoenix program and the murder, pacification, burning down of villages, creating another village, put a remote, checkpoints, all of those things. This…
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It was worded in a way that allowed Israel to do whatever they wanted. So Comer then shows up in 1967 in South Vietnam. Now, keep in mind, there are so many of these stories that we've uncovered, so much of history, I should say, that pivot…
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The cabinet officials from civilian agencies, the Department of Defense, the U.S. missions in Saigon, had met in January of 66 in a small Virginia town outside of Washington, D.C. to discuss the topic, but could not reach agreement on how t…
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State Department wanted the person to be a special assistant to the Secretary of State. Chester Cooper, a staff member of the National Security Council, wrote an impassioned memo to the president arguing that the person should work for the …
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during and after this particular episode. So it says that this view had prevailed and now it was up to Comer to carry out the president's commitment in the face of the bureaucratic resistance from the civilian agencies. So Comer is basicall…
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into Vietnam doing the bidding of the president. And keep in mind, that is the model that was used in the Iran-Contra only out of the VP's office when they had Felix Rodriguez and those guys being ran out of Vice President Bush's office dir…
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With terrier-like determination, he had a reputation among Washington insiders for being prickly, abrasive, brash, impatient, and intolerant of bureaucratic foot dragging. As a longtime central intelligence analyst and NSC staff member, he …
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would assure that the civilian pacification efforts were coordinated with military operations. Further, he would support the U.S. mission in Saigon on matters under his purview. Comer administered a White House bureaucratic coup d'etat as w…
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The president acted as Comer requested when Lodge returned to Washington for consultations. Comer reiterated his concern at a National Security Council meeting a few days later, going as far as to say that the pacification has been outrun b…
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on track so strongly in the 50s because the Pentagon and the military had grown so much during World War II. And our whole history kind of like, kind of like de-emphasizes that. But if you read like the, I would recommend everybody read Hog…
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was people like IET17, Truth Hammer, and Praying Medic. Well, I was on Brian's thing one day when he was talking about something that had happened at the National Security Council, which I knew a little bit about. So I was kind of going bac…
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the city's most sacred Buddhist shrine. Sound familiar? Buddhists immediately took up arms and began fighting. The spectacle was repeated across Vietnam as thousands of Buddhists were arrested and jailed and executed. In response, August 21…
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On December 19, 1963, the Pentagon's planning branch in the Pacific, CINCPAC, presented a plan to a special group. Two weeks later, LBJ approved O-Plan 34A, and Major General Victor Krulik, and I have actually met him, handed the operationa…
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directly with the National Security Council, the National Security Advisor in the White House. It was, in effect, a blueprint for political warfare conceptualized by Ralph Johnson, adapted to Vietnamese unique things, and formalized by Fran…
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I have posted about it. I haven't talked about it in this Vietnam series. Well, I bring up the question because when I was, you know, I'm about halfway through my research on that. And, you know, that's actually, it's a 1955 Eisenhower dire…
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It apparently was named the 303 Committee. The blurb says an NSC National Security Council staffer had recommended the new name, and this is in quotes, be something utterly drab and innocuous to deflect away attention. Yeah. Yeah. So if you…
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When Gerald Ford got in, but basically the same offices make up this. And then Jimmy Carter called it the NSC special coordination committee, the SCC. So every one of the, you know, they basically have it. One of them was called the five, f…
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I'm curious about where whether and where it may overlap with another something that I've read a fair amount about. I'm trying to write something about called the Operations Coordinating Board, which I know, Colonel, you have come across be…
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The point needs to be made, and let me make this point real quick. Each president's National Security Council is set up the way they want it set up. And what you're describing is the same thing as the 303. Like I said, they come up with dif…
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Yeah, just a few general points about the OCB, which I think directly may relate to what you're describing as domestic Gladio opportunity points, is that first of all, the OCB was post-approval by the president. In other words, their job wa…
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The second point is that, you know, according to my research, you know, I can see a lot of possibilities for future domestic gladio operations that were, for example, there's one program called Operation Vigilant Liberty that was sort of, i…
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And that's basically what they're saying. They elected one of the military generals as being the chief of state, you know, because, of course, they assassinated the president at this point. And in 1965, the National Council of Security was …
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So it kind of was like a dual hat, have one of the civilian NGO kind of people here and then the commander up top. Although the civilians continued to object, Johnson wanted quick results, the kind the military could provide. And therefore,…
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So the contract was approved in 1955, and that was right after the National Security Council had endorsed Dem as the president. And the Michigan State University program ran for at least seven years that we can find documentation for. And t…
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President John F. Kennedy formed a National Security Council special group to manage U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Vietnam and elsewhere. A special assistant for covert activities was assigned to the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, a…
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The CIA was forced to give up its active role in the Contra Project and left the mess it had created for someone else to clean up. When the Boland Amendment went into effect in October 1984, the day-to-day control of the Contra Project was …
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the director of Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, where her boss was Condoleezza Rice. She worked briefly at JPMorgan Chase, then went to Merrill Lynch, and then went on to Goldman Sachs. So she has check, check, check. I…
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Okay, let's go on to the next question. So I asked him, who's Robert Pasteur? I had never heard of him. And he obviously was a key person in this globalist agenda. It says that he was born in 1947, American political scientist, foreign poli…
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His PhD from Harvard. So where was his focus on the National Security Council? And remember that the National Security Council is the body that orchestrates and coordinates Operation Gladio in the executive branch. Well, his focus was on th…
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It goes on to say that Pastor was a key advisor and reported directly to Brzezinski on the Carter staff. All right, let's see. He was also involved quite heavily in Romania. And it says that one documented visit to Romania was part of a U.S…
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Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clipper drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the war and Navy departments into a Department of Defense, which also set up a D…
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Under the National Security Act, the CIA was directly answerable because this was the subsequent act, the one that Clifford helped write, was directly answerable to the president through the National Security Council. The National Intellige…
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The president through the National Security Council. And who's in charge in the National Security Council? The National Security Advisor. And who was Trump's National Security Advisor? General Flynn. Now, do you understand why the CIA had t…
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And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…
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around the late 80s, early 90s, when Bush Sr. was in charge, and they had kind of fully fleshed out the enterprise, which is kind of the off-books version of the CIA, which there's definitely direct links, especially with Bush, to that orga…
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For directions, we have found things through Kissinger and Brzezinski that indicates that was still an existing courtesy that was done when the people that were operating in the enterprise, which, by the way, is a private version off the bo…
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He says from the creation of the CIA, it was caught up in different flows of which administration. So in the fall of 1947, the first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, asked the CIA if it would be capable of undertaking secret political…
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Hillenotter then went to Truman with the problem. A proposal for secret propaganda was initiated for presidential consideration. In this connection, the State Department advised in December that the Soviet covert operations threatened to de…
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Also wanted basically a special operations caveat. In June 1948, President Truman resolved this matter by expanding the function not only of the CIA, but of the state and defense departments with the National Security Council as well. Throu…
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The committee was made up of a unit in the National Security Council and thus worked directly for the president. Their group was composed of representatives from the Secretary of State and Defense. It was called the 10-2 Panel. Now, we've c…
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The 10-2 panel funds for the new organization would be included in the budget of the CIA, while the director would be nominated by the Secretary of State and approved by the NSC. According to 10-2 directive, the overt foreign activities of …
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They organized resistance there right away. The captive nations, disaffected minorities, and groups of disillusioned social democrats and communists were fertile recruiting grounds for the CIA and Western intelligence. The first unit at CIA…
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In the heat of the Cold War, government records showed that it was originally intended that the Office of Policy Coordination maintain its capabilities for only extraordinary times. In the 10-2 panel, which is the managing oversight group c…
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made clear that the OPC should be controlled by the State Department during peacetime and by the Pentagon during war. In turn, George Kennan, who of course was the State Department, specified that his department be given detailed informatio…
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The Secretary of Army initially prohibited the assignment of Army officers to the Office of Policy Coordination on the grounds that he wished his service to have nothing to do with covert operations. But in 1948, the Joint Staff went on rec…
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so that you basically became a hostage in your own country. Geography suggested that the possibility of sealing South Vietnamese borders and preventing infiltration was a challenge. The border control approach was being touted early in May …
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Ford and Carter administration in the National Security Council. So basically every coup that we did between Nixon, Ford and Carter, this guy was involved in. He also specialized in NATO. He was a special assistant, meaning like right hand …
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I think you're right. I think there's probably buried in there somewhere some of these same players that hover beneath the spotlight that span that entire time frame in very critical positions because he spent 90 to 93 in the National Secur…
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At the Woodrow Wilson Public and International Affairs School. So he was in and out of the National Security Council multiple times under multiple presidents. So that's the kind of continuity you need for things like this. So thanks, Colone…
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A member of the American Center for Democracy advanced this of the narco-terrorists in three books in which Latin American guerrilla movements described as narco-terrorists were linked to Cuba and the Soviet Union, when in fact, they're not…
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and imperialist conquest for profit. During the final decade of the Cold War, the protection or promotion of major drug traffickers by senior CIA and National Security Council officials became intrinsically linked to the U.S. imperial adven…
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He advised multiple Republican campaigns, served in think tanks supporting Republicans. Under George W. Bush, Abrams returned to the National Security Council, where Operation Gladio is ran out of, as the senior director for, quote unquote,…
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Nicaragua and the surrounding area, for that matter. In the Bush National Security Council, Abrams pushed for the 2003 Iraq invasion, co-authoring a memo that exaggerated the weapons of mass destruction and ignored intelligence to the contr…
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alongside Gaudreau, also asserted the CIA and other U.S. agencies was aware. According to his attorneys, Alcala's effort to overthrow Maduro's government was reported to the CIA, National Security Council, John Bolton, and the Department of…
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remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …
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Esper continued in his description of the meeting. I looked directly at him about 15 feet away from me down the table to my left. He turned to me and our eyes met. His face immediately went blank. Something was up. Esper let his suspicion p…
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Esper noted, I probably should have stayed too. When Operation Gideon went into effect roughly three months later, Esper said he wondered if this was the plan referred to by Guaido's team at the White House back in February. Though Venezuel…
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pointed out the whole rumor mill that was going on throughout the State Department, the CIA with their mouthpieces in the media of all of these threats that they were going to break Saab out of jail any day had literally no intelligence beh…
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In April 2021, USAID published an internal audit that confirmed that the Venezuelans government had claimed all along the border stunt had been driven entirely by politics, not humanitarian objectives. The audit reported that the State Depa…
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directly inhibiting USAID's ability to adhere to humanitarian principles and mitigate operational risks. So in other words, it isn't the normal USAID chain of food being delivered there. What was being delivered there, whatever it was, was …
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He was resented in polite Washington society because he was straightforward. My friends among DC's marginalized circle of former military and intelligence officials with anti-interventionalist views hope that McGregor could one day replace …
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a key electoral prize for an U.S. candidate. Trump eventually enabled Washington's most notorious group to commandeer his approach to Latin America and the Caribbean. In April 2018, he shocked many of his supporters by appointing notorious …
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Caroni, a Cuban-American to head the council's division on Western Hemisphere. Within a matter of weeks, Trump's Latin American policy had been hijacked by the very Beltway swamp creatures upon which he had previously declared war. Througho…
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And it says that he created his own association under the guise of a private investigative firm in Washington, D.C., you know, where the CIA is. And he is linked to, let's see, under the CIA work, it says that he was summoned to then Vice P…
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According to the government's documents filed during North's trial, Noriega offered to have the entire Sandinista leadership assassinated in exchange for a promise from the U.S. to help clean up Noriega's image. North raised the proposal at…
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was sent in bank loans to Noriega. Meanwhile, a former staffer on the National Security Council, Dr. Norman Bailey, was frantically trying to alert various high-ranking government officials to the fact that Noriega was in bed with drug traf…
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the dopey, gap-toothed zealot portrayed by the Reagan administration and the press, North was one of the most powerful men in Washington. The spring of 1985, he was on top and testified at Allen Fires, the CIA's Central American Task Force …
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I saw that happen in other ways in other places with other agencies. FIRE's boss at the CIA was Claire George. And he echoed, I suffer from the bureaucrat's disease that when people call me and say I am calling from the White House for the …
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One of the vehicles North selected to handle that chore was a new unit set up inside the State Department called Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office. The office was officially created in the middle of 1985 to oversee deliveries of $27…
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North and CIA first tried to get the operation placed inside the National Security Council, where it would be free from public scrutiny and North could control it directly. But that failed. Instead, Fiers said, North simply just hijacked it…
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Nunes revealed that since 85, he had engaged in a clandestine relationship with the NSC. Nunes refused to elaborate on the nature of these actions, but indicated it was difficult to answer questions relating to the involvement in narcotic t…
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The agency's position is not to get involved in this matter and to turn it over to others because it had nothing to do with the agency, but with the National Security Council, but with the National Security Council. That came from former CI…
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who ran the Contra project at the time, confirmed that Nunes' questioning was stopped because of the NSC connection and the possibility that it could be somehow connected to North, otherwise known as the Iran-Contra affair. The CIA made the…
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So the president is largely treated like the CIA tries to treat itself. So here's what they do. As we just read, the National Security Council is in charge of a lot of the covert operations, which is where Oliver North was.…
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was going to take over the responsibilities, or at least in part, take over those responsibilities, unquote, not as a volunteer, but as a worker. And we know that he was reporting to Donald Gregg directly to the National Security Advisor of…
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if word ever leaked to the public. CIA records show that Hangar 4 had been used by the agency for covert contra operations until it was turned over in 1985 to the National Security Council and Oliver North for illegal arms called the Enterp…