William Webster person
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Robert Gates succeeded
William Webster documented
“the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, who had gone from the FBI to the CIA in …”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:17:50
William Webster succeeded
William Casey documented
“the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, who had gone from the FBI to the CIA in …”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:17:50
William Webster fired
Alan Fiers documented
“Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean they went away. That is a paperwo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 19:48
William Webster reprimanded
Dewey Claridge documented
“Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean they went away. That is a paperwo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 19:48
William Webster appointed
CIA documented
“So in withdrawing that nomination, Reagan announced William Webster to be the next director of the CIA. Webster would be referred to as the judge. He had been a jurist on the federal bench, eventually being elevated to the Eighth Circuit Co…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 13:02
William Webster member_of
Alibi Club book_quoted
“telephone on a stand with a list of excuses next to it and the price for each. The alibi prided itself on decorating with odd things donated by its members. Besides Dulles, future CIA directors Richard Helms, William Casey, and William Webs…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 13:16
William Webster founded
Counter-Narcotics Center book_quoted
“Here's a quote from an article that he wrote in Counterpunch. The director of the CIA, William Webster, formed the CIA's counter-narcotics center in 1988. Stacked by over 100 agents, it ostensibly became the springboard for the covert penet…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5 @ 1:32
William Webster created
National Counterterrorism Center book_quoted
“It was focused on specific functional areas instead of being basically geographically aligned, which had been the case in the past. The entity, the Counterterrorism Center, had partly been foisted upon him by a presidential commission on te…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 27:43
William Webster appointed
Robert Mueller host_asserted
“Into that, William Webster. And do you know who the FBI director was that appointed him? Robert Mueller. And we find Robert Gates, the guy we were just talking about, was the secretary over all of this.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 1:15:38
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And the Fannie Willis and, like, Wade case, that third witness there, you know, they were trying to, you know, interrupt some of the questions there with assertions of privilege. And it's interesting how that kind of gums up the system. Yea…
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Please don't tell me it was Bob Mueller. It was William Webster. And guess where he went to work? The CIA director. Of course he did. One hand washing the other, right? William Webster was the CIA director and goes on to be the CIA director…
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I did all of this shit and I didn't tell anybody that they're running cocaine trafficking networks all over the United States while I'm the FBI director. Oh shit, it hit the fan. Let me run over to the CIA to make sure all of it gets hidden…
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In February of 1990, the Houston Post published the first story detailing some of those allegations. One day later, U.S. Representative Frank Annunzio, a Democrat from Illinois, called for the CIA Director William Webster to appear before h…
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All he knew was it was going to give him an excuse to deflect some of the adverse publicity he himself was going to be getting with the savings and loan issue. Webster refused to appear before the committee, saying it was a matter for the i…
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the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, who had gone from the FBI to the CIA in …
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telephone on a stand with a list of excuses next to it and the price for each. The alibi prided itself on decorating with odd things donated by its members. Besides Dulles, future CIA directors Richard Helms, William Casey, and William Webs…
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So in withdrawing that nomination, Reagan announced William Webster to be the next director of the CIA. Webster would be referred to as the judge. He had been a jurist on the federal bench, eventually being elevated to the Eighth Circuit Co…
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from a legal perspective. Let's see. He was from St. Louis and he went to law school at Washington University. Then he spent time as a U.S. attorney and then was appointed to the bench. In 1978, Carter named Webster to head the FBI, the pos…
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to the CIA. So you go from the director of the FBI to the director of the CIA. Judge Webster came with great reviews. He appeared squeaky clean. The Senate Intelligence Committee approved his nomination. The full Senate consented to it. Rob…
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from his brother that his father had passed away. So Webster established himself at Langley. And again, like Admiral Turner under Carter, Webster had brought with him an entire inner circle from the FBI. Isn't that interesting? So because h…
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In Webster's last months at the FBI, the Bureau had been investigating Southern Air Transport, the CIA proprietary. Webster's knowledge of intelligence resulted from participation in the National Foreign Intelligence Board. Webster's tenure…
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as isolating himself rather than leading the CIA. He treated the CIA, according to her, as basically dirty laundry. Quote, he did not lead the troops or ever really try to get to know them. The TIPA station in Brussels, whose name was Richa…
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And this, again, is kind of the reception that anybody outside of the CIA gets when they get to the CIA. They're an outsider. So, of course, the people on the inside don't like them. Dewey Claridge said that Webster, quote, didn't have the …
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to create an independent IG shortly before Webster arrived. Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania tabled it. And why would that be? Because we found Arlen Specter in the book that Pete Bruton wrote about being involved in the Sav…
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That worked for a little bit, but the more information came out, the more people pressed for this. And finally, that was actually done. Meanwhile, Webster took his time on looking into Iran-Contra. George, Alan Fiers, and a couple of others…
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part of Iran-Contra. Webster believed Claire George, who was a friend of his, was innocent of all wrongdoing. And we established he was in the middle of it. Webster also knew that George H.W. Bush liked Dewey Claridge. Webster also knew him…
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Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean they went away. That is a paperwo…
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That's gonna be the next boogeyman. And even the book's author says, we had this looming terrorism problem that we created. Webster needed someone he trusted in charge of the Directorate of Operations, which runs the covert operations progr…
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There he is, crystal clean, because he was retired, in big air quotes. Webster's most important initiative at CIA was to accept the concept of fusion and created a method to be able to portray that as some big renovation of the CIA. And by …
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in Rome at the airport that happened in 1985 while George Bush was vice president and at the Rome station. Bush wasn't at the Rome station, but again, it's Rome. And they just so happened to have a domestic terror event right around the tim…
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Webster was known for making the counterterrorism cell a priority. In 88 and 89, he created these fusion cells. And supposedly one of the fusion cells was to deal with narcotics. How do you think they did? Well, it depends on how you're gra…
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So Webster took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and tried to defuse opposition to his changes. He was basically going to use that as an excuse. Webster and Stoltz established a group of senior officers to brainstorm st…
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President Bush also wanted his choice of the CIA director. He decided to keep Webster, Gates' successor as the DCI, would be Richard Kerr. Again, another guy from the analyst side, not the operations side. So Webster and Richard Kerr was th…
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Into that, William Webster. And do you know who the FBI director was that appointed him? Robert Mueller. And we find Robert Gates, the guy we were just talking about, was the secretary over all of this.…
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July 14th, 1995. It could be called the seventh floor day. Four of the five witnesses had either been the director of the CIA or the deputy. They included Dick Helms, Webster, John McMahon, and James Woolsey. The commission would hear from …
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Here's a quote from an article that he wrote in Counterpunch. The director of the CIA, William Webster, formed the CIA's counter-narcotics center in 1988. Stacked by over 100 agents, it ostensibly became the springboard for the covert penet…
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role in the secret arms for hostage transaction with Iran and the subsequent cover-up by the CIA. His knowledge of this came up in April 1987 during the confirmation hearing of William Webster for the CIA directorship. Hemings was ordered b…
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After the death of William Casey, William Webster took over as director of the CIA. He was there from 1987 to 91 with Robert Gates as his deputy. And again, he goes on to say that he was an agent on Gates' protective detail because he had b…
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He says he was pleased when he became the CIA director. Gates was a genuine CIA man, the only director to have risen from the entry level to a top position. He says, Kevin Shipp, that he would argue that the agency was mostly ran by Gates d…