Joe Alsop person
also: Joe, the columnist, Alsop, Joe Alsop, Joe Joseph
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Joe Alsop member_of
Brook Club host_asserted
“and the non-existent invasion of Laos reported by the Brook Club member John Alsop than with opium itself. It definitely had to do with the opium. The U.S. government itself commenting on the nearby rebellion of the same year in the state o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 13 @ 1:07:15
Joe Alsop member_of
Claire Chennault host_asserted
“Because they want first dibs on the opium as far back as then. So one of those Washington squadron was lawyer Thomas Colcoran and a young columnist by the name of Joseph Alsop. Chenault would visit bases to recruit pilots for the Central Ai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 37:30
Joe Alsop exposed
Joseph McCarthy documented
“that he once declared that it was his patriotic duty to carry its water, announced that Senator Joseph McCarthy had suffered his first total unmitigated, unqualified defeat, having allowed McCarthy to conceal his defeat behind a typical smo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 44:12
Joe Alsop funded
Air America book_quoted
“along with the phony Laos crisis in 1959, would have gone unheeded had it not been for support from the CIA. A key role was played by the influential CIA ally Joseph Alsop, an old China hand and columnist whose inflammatory reports from Lao…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 23:25
Joe Alsop covered_up
Warren Commission host_asserted
“If that be our definition, then every patriot should hear this phone call because it's amazing. You can literally hear the CIA knit the Warren Commission, which is, again, why, you know, the Gene Hackman character was named Rankin. That's a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 1:12:06
Bernard Fall exposed
Joe Alsop book_quoted
“He had seen survivors arrive on foot, one of whom had a severed leg from a mortar outpost. Bernard Fall, who was also in Laos and knew of the area well, later called all of his, quote, just so much nonsense, unquote, specifying that, quote,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 27:56
Joe Alsop recruited
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“lecturing a country bumpkin my lawyers though joe tell me that the white house the president must not inject himself into local killings lbj said as if he was pleading with a supposed reporter i agree with that alsop said but in this case i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 49:10
Mentions (24)
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but no prisoners because there was no military action. Joseph Alsop, however, who had arrived in Laos just in time to report the events of August 30th, wrote immediately of a massive new attack on Laos. Now, just in case you guys are wonder…
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He would write of, quote, aggression as naked, as flagrant as the Soviet East German attack on West Germany, unquote. There's no noting that the age old process of Chinese expansion had begun again with a new explosive fourth. Those were hi…
▶ 27:56
He had seen survivors arrive on foot, one of whom had a severed leg from a mortar outpost. Bernard Fall, who was also in Laos and knew of the area well, later called all of his, quote, just so much nonsense, unquote, specifying that, quote,…
▶ 28:25
This shit is nonsensical to anyone with a thinking brain. Alsop, by Fall's account, had been a willing witness to a charade staged for his benefit by two of the CIA-installed generals. As on many occasions between 1949 and 1964, Alsop's rep…
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One would like to learn why a U.S. response to an artificially inflated emergency on August 30th was delayed until Eisenhower's isolation five days later, even though it could have awaited his return to Washington three days after that. Onc…
▶ 1:07:15
and the non-existent invasion of Laos reported by the Brook Club member John Alsop than with opium itself. It definitely had to do with the opium. The U.S. government itself commenting on the nearby rebellion of the same year in the state o…
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which in those days serviced the opium-growing areas of the Plain of Jars with the Chinese Nationalist Plains, i.e. civil air transport, which then took over those exclusively once we moved in. Another major figure in 1959 and 64 was the La…
▶ 23:25
along with the phony Laos crisis in 1959, would have gone unheeded had it not been for support from the CIA. A key role was played by the influential CIA ally Joseph Alsop, an old China hand and columnist whose inflammatory reports from Lao…
▶ 1:11:09
You had a fascinating, for me anyway, interest of Joe Alsop in, I believe, around Laos in 49, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong there, but it was fascinating for me because as I've kind of studied the White House phone logs of right aft…
▶ 1:11:38
specifically those with the CIA's literal number one Operation Mockingbird man, Joe Joseph, also of Washington Post and CIA. And they're inseparable in that in that context. You could see him knit that. And especially I'm going to try to pu…
▶ 1:12:06
If that be our definition, then every patriot should hear this phone call because it's amazing. You can literally hear the CIA knit the Warren Commission, which is, again, why, you know, the Gene Hackman character was named Rankin. That's a…
▶ 37:30
Because they want first dibs on the opium as far back as then. So one of those Washington squadron was lawyer Thomas Colcoran and a young columnist by the name of Joseph Alsop. Chenault would visit bases to recruit pilots for the Central Ai…
▶ 1:14:02
as far as lineups of influences on Lyndon Baines Johnson and the formation of the Dulles Committee that we know as the Warren Commission, right? And I think for me, the number one influence would be Joe Alsop of the Washington Post and CIA.…
▶ 41:57
and Alan Dulles, Richard Bissell, and other senior CIA people had also encountered Kennedy on the Washington social scene. Dulles, Bissell, and Kennedy, for example, all shared friendships with newspaper columnists Joe Alsop, Robert Amory, …
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It was Allen, the master of persuasion and seduction, who also expertly handled relations with the press. He counted among his friends, not only the press barons, such as Luce and the New York Times publisher, author Hayes Sulzberger, and T…
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Soon after, McCarthy announced that he and Dulles had come to a mutual agreement to suspend the probe of the CIA. Dulles drove home his victory by making sure that his friends in Washington's press corps reported McCarthy's losing confronta…
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To counter the corporate assault on his presidency, Kennedy said, we have to put out the picture of a small group of men turning against the government and the economy because the government would not surrender to them. That's the real issu…
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By 1963, however, it was Johnson who was the ghost, the once commanding figure whose future grew dimmer by the day, and he knew it. In March, Susan Mary Alsop, Joe's convenient wife, told Schlesinger that LBJ had unburdened himself to her h…
▶ 48:14
In fact, the commission was, from the very beginning, an establishment creation. It was sold to an initially reluctant LBJ, I doubt that, by the most influential voices in Washington power, including Joe Alsop, the CIA's ever-dependent mout…
▶ 48:41
But in a phone call to the White House on the morning of November 25th, Alsop maneuvered Johnson into accepting the idea of a presidential commission made up nationally known figures beyond any possible suspicion. Yeah, who would suspect th…
▶ 49:10
lecturing a country bumpkin my lawyers though joe tell me that the white house the president must not inject himself into local killings lbj said as if he was pleading with a supposed reporter i agree with that alsop said but in this case i…
▶ 44:35
article in the Rolling Stone magazine called The CIA and the Media. It would reveal a massive influence operation by the intelligence agency to deceive the public during the Cold War shortly after the formation of the CIA. In 1953, this is …
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like being mushrooms in a basement. Here's a quote. Alsop was one of the more than 400 American journalists who in the past 25 years have secretly carried out assignments for the CIA, according to documents on file at the CIA headquarters. …
▶ 1:01:32
You know, you already had the core guy, Joe Alsop, who was, you know, you can't, you've mentioned him a million times. Yeah. But you can't overstate his importance. I mean, I would argue he's probably the single most important CIA Operation…