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Allen Dulles appointed Franklin D. Roosevelt documented
“One of Gerard's principal political and financial sponsors in Western circles was Alan Dulles. Oh, that's convenient. Who had recently returned to his old Hans in Switzerland, this time as the guy in charge of the OSS at that location. He w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 13:17
Franklin D. Roosevelt spied_on Allen Dulles book_quoted
“Allen Dulles was recruited into the OSS by Donovan in October of 1941, his loyalties were still questioned by some administration officials, including Roosevelt. Dulles' various financial connections to the Nazi regime prompted FDR to place…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 21:15
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Herbert Pell documented
“In 1936, Roosevelt named Pell vice chairman of the DNC committee. After the victory, Roosevelt appointed Pell to sensitive ambassadorial posts in Portugal and later Hungary. FDR's conflicts with the Foreign Service dated back to the first d…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 5:44
Franklin D. Roosevelt member_of United States documented
“In 1936, Roosevelt named Pell vice chairman of the DNC committee. After the victory, Roosevelt appointed Pell to sensitive ambassadorial posts in Portugal and later Hungary. FDR's conflicts with the Foreign Service dated back to the first d…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 5:44
Office of Strategic Services founded Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“to be conducted on things like riot control, choking agents. With the two German nerve gases satisfactorily filling the requirement for future chemical weapons, both the military and the CIA shifted Edgewood's doctors and chemists' attentio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 10:16
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Denmark book_quoted
“Shortly after this, one of our members of our group prepared the report was summonsed to the White House for a personal meeting with Roosevelt. Roosevelt was very interested in this. And he summoned the Danish minister and they signed an ag…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 5:58
Franklin D. Roosevelt member_of American Investigation Corporation host_asserted
“He was a director on the American Investigation Corporation, a director at Sanitary Postage Surface.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 16:07
Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed_to Yalta Conference guest_asserted
“And at the end of World War II, there was a problem. And the problem was this, that Roosevelt, who was like Biden sailing the seas of dementia, had agreed in 1945 at Yalta to give Grant, the USSR, most of Eastern Europe.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 23:06
Franklin D. Roosevelt funded Morgenthau Plan host_asserted
“who had killed persons because of their race, religion, or political conviction, or who had committed certain other crimes. All members of the Gestapo, SS, and Nazi party were to be arrested and detained, quote, until the extent of guilt of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 17:48
Franklin D. Roosevelt member_of Fidelity and Deposit Company host_asserted
“He was the vice president of a company called Fidelity and Deposit Company that was located, their New York branch was located at 120 Broadway.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 14:12
Franklin D. Roosevelt headed American Construction Council host_asserted
“He was also during this time period president of the industry trade association called American Construction Council.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 14:43
Franklin D. Roosevelt member_of Marvin, Hooker & Roosevelt host_asserted
“partner at Marvin Hooker and Roosevelt, which was a law firm located at 120 Broadway.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 15:11
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded United Nations War Crimes Commission book_quoted
“nations commission on atrocities in language almost identical to what Burrell had seen. FDR agreed with Churchill's remarks and the Prime Minister returned to London with an agreement in principle to go ahead and quickly implement the UN pl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 18:09
Franklin D. Roosevelt carried_out_attack West Germany book_quoted
“for senior Nazi Germany leaders. This is largely due to the implications, as I've repeated often, of what it would mean to the United States. On October 25, 1941, just prior to the U.S. entry into the war, the Nazis' execution of prisoners …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 4:36
Franklin D. Roosevelt exposed Allied Strategic Bombing Campaign documented
“The U.S. in time adopted many aspects of the British air campaign. The firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo and the later use of the atomic bombs illustrate that. The opening years of the war, when the U.S. was still officially neutral, Preside…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 45:26
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded National Recovery Administration host_asserted
“Two men that were backed by these leaders, FDR and Adolf Hitler in Germany, you had Roosevelt's New Deal and Hitler's four-year plan, that if you put them side by side, you can find very little difference in them. If you look at the origina…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 1:10:28
Felix Warburg member_of Franklin D. Roosevelt caller_asserted
“There's so much to unpack there. But I just wanted to answer Ellie's question. And I may as well just say, you know, my focus in my documentaries I'm focusing on is the families, the bloodlines, who married who. So you'll actually see if yo…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 1:26:07
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Claude Bowers book_quoted
“President thought that it was a wonderful idea, and so he wouldn't forget it. I made him write it down. Morgenthau went on to appeal to Roosevelt's support for his battle with the State Department over U.S. strategy on Germany and the Sovie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 18:30
Franklin D. Roosevelt funded Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“At the time, Roosevelt wished to aid Chiang Kai-shek, and he also wanted American reserve pilots from the three services to gain combat experience. But America was not in war, and the U.S. code forbade the service of active and reserve pers…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 37:00
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Flying Tigers documented
“It was agreed that Polly's new Camco Corporation could not take American pilots into the private war business without presidential authorization, and there was some delay in getting that approval. But by April 15, 1941, Roosevelt signed an …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 40:49
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Allen Dulles book_quoted
“went over into Switzerland, which of course we know is supposedly neutral, but was basically being the vassal state of Hitler's movement of money through various mechanisms, particularly the Bank of International Settlement. And it's not co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 4:19
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan book_quoted
“But Dulles insisted it had to be burnt, and he prevailed, of course. Donovan, who himself was a World War I combat hero and self-made Wall Street millionaire lawyer who had charmed FDR and outmaneuvered powerful rival J. Edgar Hoover to bui…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 10:52
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Herbert Pell documented
“The president met Pell for lunch at the White House. As Pell tells the story in his unpublished memoirs, FDR reassured him of continuing support and encouraged him to return to London to lead the War Crimes Commission in taking a tough stan…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 40:58
Franklin D. Roosevelt member_of Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corporation host_asserted
“He was director of Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corporation.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 15:11
I Am Movement targeted_for_regime_change Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“According to Meyer, the I Am movement was a movement that worked audiences into frenzies as they chanted in response to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's names. Annihilate them was the chant. Wow. The growth of I Am activity was closely alig…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 41:13
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded Georgia Warm Springs Foundation host_asserted
“He was the founder of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, which another suspected money laundering opportunity once you realize who was on the board of directors.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 15:41
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded Flying Tigers book_quoted
“Indonesia, and Laos. In all cases, a pretext of legality was supplied by the same friction, the U.S. military officers and the CIA, along with private military companies. This legal cover was first devised by President Roosevelt for the Che…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 44:48
Franklin D. Roosevelt bought_off_by Federal Reserve host_asserted
“So and they bought off people like FDR in order and Woodrow Wilson in order to get us into those wars. So we were always vulnerable because we were so successful. So I agree with you. I agree with you. But I didn't want to go back to pressu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Inauguration Special @ 1:31:20
William J. Donovan member_of Franklin D. Roosevelt documented
“It says that, let's see, Roosevelt also launched the CIA, the OSS successor, headed by William, the OSS had been headed by William Donovan, enjoying close ties to Roosevelt. Donovan was instructed to provide cover to support national libera…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 54:37
Cordell Hull advised Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“Instead, Dulles sent off a routine cable on the report to Secretary of State Cordell Hall, a man Dulles knew would not lift a finger to help them, even though he was married to a Jewish woman. It was Hall who had advised FDR to reject the S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 36:01
Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Hungary book_quoted
“in Geneva and a group of students he recruited to make 50 copies of the report. The eyewitness account of life and death inside Auschwitz finally broke into the Swiss press and was then picked up by the New York Times and the BBC. In the up…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 36:31
Franklin D. Roosevelt vowed Nuremberg trials book_quoted
“The glory that was European civilization had gone up in human smoke. But FDR was determined to keep his vow that he had made repeatedly throughout the war, that he would bring to justice the perpetrators of this travesty. The Third Reich wo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 37:29
Franklin D. Roosevelt came_around_to Nuremberg trials book_quoted
“Roosevelt finally came around to the idea of an international war crimes tribunal, but once again, he had to face stiff opposition in his own State Department. Foreign service legend George Kennan, who was a junior diplomat in the U.S. Emba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 46:25
Herman Pell asked Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“We certainly have moved past that. So they spend quite a bit of time here about talking about Pell and his relationship with FDR and how the State Department tried to keep him from even going over there. They kept delaying it and he had to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 48:18
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted
“This business of working your way up will come as quite a surprise to young Henry Ford or young Jack Howard, the guy that inherited Scripps and Howard. Eisenhower was comfortable in the company of these men because he shared their conservat…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 40:54
Herbert Pell appointed Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“Brian is Brian Cates is over here texting me stuff. Well, it's a post about something General Flynn posted. I'll have to look at that later. All right. So Chapter 12, Morgenthau's plan. OK, let's dig into this. We're back to talking, of cou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 1:00
Drew Pearson exposed Franklin D. Roosevelt documented
“Morgenthau's group appears to have cast the first stone. Pell told columnist Drew Pearson in mid-September about the sabotage of the War Crimes Commission. The following week, Pearson followed up with revelations of FDR's stunning criticism…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 32:28
Franklin D. Roosevelt removed_from_power Henry Morgenthau Jr. documented
“The newspaper barrage dealt Morgenthau a serious political blow. FDR stepped away from Morgenthau's plan in the weeks that followed. That's why, if you don't understand the backdrop to all of this, you really can't comprehend the role that …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 33:52
Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered_assassination_of Herbert Pell documented
“The only real question left, they said, was whether Roosevelt should personally tell Pell that his job was over or if he preferred state do it. Roosevelt replied to Stenekis, you do it. Hackworth believed he was meanwhile making considerabl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 37:42
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Herbert Pell documented
“in FDR's home state, New York. Shortly after lunch, Roosevelt sent a note to the State Department. Do you think there's a place you could use Herbert Pell? As you know, he's a devoted friend. Pell was not liked at all in the State Departmen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 40:02
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded National Recovery Administration host_asserted
“And then, of course, I mentioned the 1933 National Recovery Administration that gets deemed unconstitutional.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:04:14
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded International Germanic Trust book_quoted
“Among the organizers of the trust, as approved by the banking department in the state of New York, were FDR, Herman Metz, a director of IG Farben,…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 44:25
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded Federal International Investment Trust host_asserted
“He was the incorporator of an entity called Federal International Investment Trust, which was basically kind of a disguise on how to fund German businesses without looking like you're funding German businesses in the lead up to World War II…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 16:36
First City Bank used_by Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“sell like surety bonds to governments, like city governments, state governments, so you can do contracting with them. And they use their, like Roosevelt did, use their political connections and coercion to make companies that want work from…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady Secret Societies Skull&Bones cont'd @ 1:09:30
Thomas W. Lamont paid Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“Because when FDR went to D.C. to take the assistant secretary of the Navy's job, Thomas Lamont leased his townhouse in New York City from FDR.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 28:47
Van Lear Black recruited Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“hire this young lawyer who didn't ever even graduate and had zero experience in this? Well, the answer was he was paying for the political capability of Roosevelt and his connections…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 35:03
Fidelity and Deposit Company paid Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“the $25,000 per year. But that only tells a part of the story because there's kickbacks, evidently, involved in bonding.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 37:25
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William H. Woodin host_asserted
“William Wooden, secretary of the treasurer under FDR.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 55:34
Franklin D. Roosevelt traded_network_to Joseph Stalin host_asserted
“He just let the Russians get the entire amount of Eastern Europe, slowing down all the Western forces. Am I wrong there? So that's an interesting observation. I think, based on what I've read, that if you look at the aftermath, and I'm not …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:14:41
Franklin D. Roosevelt funded Getúlio Vargas book_quoted
“president and basically became a dictator. FDR, who came to office three years after Vargas had taken over, found him to be a great ally of the United States and had helped with a lot of the U.S. oligarchs to begin a program of deficit spen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 5:09
George F. Kennan appointed Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“According to author Kroc of the New York Times, George Kennan, who was a member of the CFR at the time, persuaded Roosevelt to accept the Berlin zoning arrangement. Kennan at the time was the political advisor to Ambassador John Winant, who…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 17:54
Joseph Kennedy Sr. financial_dealings_with Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“Working for and what is their real motive? So I think there's a combination. I think both things can be true. I think things are overstated in many areas. But here's here's one of the particular things about him that I found very interestin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:06:51
Fabian Society funded Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“in New York City and London funded the Bolsheviks that funded Hitler, that funded FDR, that created worldwide fascism. If you understand it all came from the Fabian Society, it doesn't make a frickin' difference that...…”
▶ Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5 @ 1:05:41
Wall Street funded Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“bankers switched to FDR in 1932, basically almost verbatim. If you look at the funding donations to Hoover in 28, they all basically switched to FDR in 32.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 7:52
Fabian Society funded Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“That's what they were doing. That is the plan. If you go back and you read the Fabian Society documentation, the round table, the stuff that was talked about, papers that were written at Oxford during this time in the late 1800s. This is ex…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 1:28:21
Franklin D. Roosevelt covered_up Bank of United States host_asserted
“And the state paid for another report that was more favorable to leaving the bank open until it crashed. So that one was hung around. It should have been hung around FDR's neck. But of course, all they did was hire people to come in and cov…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 13:42
Franklin D. Roosevelt funded World War II host_asserted
“And it was so infringement on capitalism and a free economic apparatus that the Supreme Court overthrew it. They threw it out. They said, no, you can't do that here. That violates the Constitution in every way. And so they came back and pas…”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones @ 1:13:18
Gerald MacGuire attempted_coup_against Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“General Butler is reported to have testified that the affair was an attempted coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and replace him with a fascist dictator. That interpretation is repeated by many writers. However, that is not the accusatio…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:15:28
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded War Industries Board host_asserted
“Once we go to war, he establishes the War Industry Board.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:04:14
Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered_assassination_of West Germany book_quoted
“Roosevelt had a conference with his Joint Chiefs of Staff. They discussed this post-war division and occupation. Roosevelt predicted that Germany would collapse suddenly and that there would definitely be a race to Berlin. The president sai…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 11:42
Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered_assassination_of Japan host_asserted
“The Bushes and their business people that had been financing the Nazis' industries for the last decade and a half were pushing very hard to keep us out of World War II in Europe. They did not want war because basically their investment prop…”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones @ 1:02:59
Wall Street financial crisis of 1929 carried_out_attack Franklin D. Roosevelt host_asserted
“as an excuse to basically use the American money to borrow, to recirculate supposedly in payment of those reparations. And that had a lot to do, which most people don't associate with it, had a lot to do with the Wall Street financial crisi…”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 1:09:28

Mentions (120)

Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 1:05 Well, let me say all but one makes no mention of his Wall Street ties. Not one. Well, one. And the one that does is like a three volume book that attributes one chapter with very shallow paragraphs on the subject at all. So of volumes and v…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 1:35 Almost nothing absent Anthony Sutton's book has been written about his actually extraordinarily deep ties to Wall Street. And I want everyone to understand what those ties are because they matter for the foundation that basically Operation …
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 2:35 That his dying when he died was almost kind of like a coup itself, saying that he was opposed to all of the stuff that would be thought of as the background for Operation Gladio. But what you're going to find out today is he was not only a …
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 4:32 Start because anybody that comes in a little late can obviously we're recording it so they can go back and listen to the beginning. So just to start off with a brief overview, FDR spent the years 1921 to 1928 as a banker and a speculator on…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 5:54 And he also had a lot of businesses relating to insurance. And that gets very interesting. So FDR, when he was running against Hoover or when he was running ad campaigns or helping people.…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 6:23 that were basically anti-Hoover. His biggest criticism of Hoover was his relationship with the bankers, which is ironic once you find out what FDR's relationships were with the bankers. And Hoover, who ran as a Republican, he had J.P. Morga…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 7:52 bankers switched to FDR in 1932, basically almost verbatim. If you look at the funding donations to Hoover in 28, they all basically switched to FDR in 32. And the reason for that was these bankers had created a thing called the Swope Plan,…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 14:12 I mean, his business experience went on for the better part of 20 years. And anytime that you pick up a biography of FDR, almost no mention of any of the stuff I'm about to tell you. He was the vice president of a company called Fidelity an…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 15:11 partner at Marvin Hooker and Roosevelt, which was a law firm located at 120 Broadway. He was president of United European Investment. He was director of International Germanic Trust, which was located in the Standard Oil building. He was di…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 16:36 He was a director of Photomation Oil Company. He was the incorporator of an entity called Federal International Investment Trust, which was basically kind of a disguise on how to fund German businesses without looking like you're funding Ge…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 18:47 Episodes that occurred in 1921 while FDR was on Wall Street but not associated directly with his financial activities are omitted. For example, in 1921, the Senate Naval Affairs Committee issued a report with 27 conclusions, almost all crit…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 19:40 An authorization for the use of these enlisted men as operators or detectives was given both orally and in writing to Lieutenant Hudson by Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt with the knowledge and consent of Joseph Daniels, Secretary…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 28:47 And he was very good friends with FDR going way back while FDR was on Wall Street. Because when FDR went to D.C. to take the assistant secretary of the Navy's job, Thomas Lamont leased his townhouse in New York City from FDR. So moving on.…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 35:03 insurance, hire this young lawyer who didn't ever even graduate and had zero experience in this? Well, the answer was he was paying for the political capability of Roosevelt and his connections, because evidently the way the bonding busines…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 37:25 the $25,000 per year. But that only tells a part of the story because there's kickbacks, evidently, involved in bonding. So there was a lot of money changing hands as a result of having politicians working in the bonding business. So I want…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 40:27 And at the time, J.P. Morgan and Heimler Slott, which goes on to be Hitler's banker, is involved in these deals with FDR. And this was all around a thing called the Young Plan, which there's some information in Antony Sutton's book about th…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 42:46 again, suspected of spying, merge a business into the United European Investors, which is FDR's company. So they were speculating on German inflation. And there are some people that believe that the inflation was partially caused by the spe…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 44:25 investment that he was involved in is called the International Germanic Trust, and it was founded in 1927, was prompted, according to its promoters, by a demand for American banking institutes in Central Europe. Among the organizers of the …
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 47:16 They set this company up to take possession of everything that was during World War I and will be during World War II confiscated by the U.S. government for liquidation, like the patents and that type of thing. So they are preparing with FD…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 50:49 That's the same guy. He's from Chicago. E.M. Herr, H-E-R-R, president of Westinghouse. J.R. Lovejoy, vice president of GE. John McCoon, president of Union National Bank. Mellon of Mellon National Bank. Also another Mellon family member who …
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 54:35 I'm going to tell you. All right. FDR obviously is the president. Basil O'Connor, who happens to be an attorney in the law firm that FDR was in at 120 Broadway. He's one of the trustees. Jeremiah Milbanks of Chase National Bank in New York.…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 1:04:14 eventually gets put into effect called the War Industries Board. FDR actually establishes what his cousin wrote about in 1841. Once we go to war, he establishes the War Industry Board. And then, of course, I mentioned the 1933 National Reco…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 1:08:20 And most of us have been led to believe that what went on was a potential overthrow of FDR. And that's why people have come away with the feeling that FDR potentially was one of the good guys and they were trying to get rid of him. So I wan…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 1:15:28 General Butler is reported to have testified that the affair was an attempted coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and replace him with a fascist dictator. That interpretation is repeated by many writers. However, that is not the accusatio…
Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 1:20:51 But to kick him upstairs and install an assistant president with absolute powers, just why it was necessary to go through the trouble of installing an assistant president is unclear because the vice president was in office. In any event, it…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 37:46 to politicians and political parties. In the U.S., for example, Hoover blamed his 1932 defeat on withdrawal of support from Wall Street, which we talked about when we talked about FDR, because that is exactly what happened. All of the backe…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 50:57 were identified as prominent American businessmen. Walter Teagle, who was an FDR buddy, and he also was the guy that FDR picked to be the NRA administrator. Remember that thing that I told you was the National Recovery Act that was later st…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:02:58 Obviously, we mentioned before about Teagle from Standard Oil and the Warburgs family. These are all people that were also associated with FDR and Gerald Swope, who we talked about last time. And what's very interesting is the role of a guy…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:08:05 Heimar Slott, Bernard Barak, the same international banks, J.P. Morgan, Guarantee Trust, Chase Bank, and most of them are all located at 120 Broadway. This group of international bankers backed the Bolshevik Revolution, FDR, and they profit…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:10:28 Two men that were backed by these leaders, FDR and Adolf Hitler in Germany, you had Roosevelt's New Deal and Hitler's four-year plan, that if you put them side by side, you can find very little difference in them. If you look at the origina…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:10:59 Why did the Wall Street and the international bankers want Roosevelt and Hitler? This is an aspect that definitely needs to be looked at. And Antony Sutton says, according to the myth of Sidney Warburg, that book that's been suppressed, Wal…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:11:27 We know even from establishment history that both Hitler and Roosevelt acted out these policies, which then led to war. So there's a whole bunch of other stuff that has to do with this whole thing. But I think this is the part that I wanted…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:17:22 Of course, Thomas McKittrick, he is very essential. Yeah, McKittrick is bad. Yeah, but he drops out of sight as soon as Bretton Woods is done. I think he got into some moralical troubles or whatever. He just disappears. And also talking abo…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:26:07 There's so much to unpack there. But I just wanted to answer Ellie's question. And I may as well just say, you know, my focus in my documentaries I'm focusing on is the families, the bloodlines, who married who. So you'll actually see if yo…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:26:07 There's so much to unpack there. But I just wanted to answer Ellie's question. And I may as well just say, you know, my focus in my documentaries I'm focusing on is the families, the bloodlines, who married who. So you'll actually see if yo…
Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler
▶ 1:27:24 multiple versions of one world government. They created communism via the Bolsheviks. They created socialism in Germany. They created totalitarianism in Italy. And they created FDR in what they thought was going to be yet another version un…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3
▶ 40:34 He stayed there until 1949. He was part of the Berlin Airlift. And let's see. He also, his dad was a U.S. Senator. He was a close associate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Stan Rayburn.…
Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5
▶ 1:04:11 Along the way of doing this research, there's like nuggets that you can like put up on a shelf and go, that's pivotal. One of the nuggets that I found early on in this when I was reading Antony Sutton's trilogy of Wall Street and the Bolshe…
Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5
▶ 1:05:41 in New York City and London funded the Bolsheviks that funded Hitler, that funded FDR, that created worldwide fascism. If you understand it all came from the Fabian Society, it doesn't make a frickin' difference that...…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady
▶ 3:54 So we're going to consider that a pretty good source, right? He says, and how they measure the way someone's related to somebody is that, you know, 1,000 and 24th, like Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, I bet there's some of that too, but these blood…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady
▶ 5:00 So one of the big highlights when I first began this, when I was reading Antony Sutton's book, and he made the point that FDR was rated related to all but two of the former presidents. Yeah, I've heard similar. And, you know, FDR, well, FDR…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6
▶ 1:14:49 They are not supposed to be doing another damn thing. They are not supposed to be doing the I mean, like long term. We are not supposed to be having a Department of Transportation. Sorry, we're not. If they want to have a commission like le…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6
▶ 1:24:35 Now, if you go back, I just noticed in the research that I've done, especially when you were looking at the paper that I did on fluoride, you find that the Roosevelt administration and Wilson and many of the others were tucking all kinds of…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6
▶ 1:34:32 It is a big deal. And also understand that the guy that wrote the book, Antony Sutton's, the trilogy that we talk about often about the Wall Street and the Bolsheviks and Hitler and FDR, he was asked to leave Stanford for exposing those con…
Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church
▶ 54:37 It says that, let's see, Roosevelt also launched the CIA, the OSS successor, headed by William, the OSS had been headed by William Donovan, enjoying close ties to Roosevelt. Donovan was instructed to provide cover to support national libera…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 26:41 With the filling of an imminent victory in 1943, a renewed interest in terms of post-war peace plans of Roosevelt was evident. The anti-French and anti-colonialist attitude of President Roosevelt was evident, and the trusteeship formula on …
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 48:54 Well, we can just go into all kinds of rabbit holes on that. What I wanted to share, though, is people have talked. We always have this conversation about whether Roosevelt knew Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed ahead of time. If Roosevel…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 49:54 I want to read a few of these for you. November 5th. Matters are crystallizing. Japan is sending us someone who I think will bring a proposal impossible of acceptance. Excuse me. So he's saying Japan's going to send us an emissary. We're ju…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 50:27 The president outlined what he thought he might say. He was trying to think of something which would give us further time. He suggested he might propose a truce in which there would be no movement or armament for six months. I told him, fra…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 57:11 I at once called up Hull and told him about it and sent copies to him and the president. The main question over the message that we shall send to MacArthur on talking with the president this morning over the telephone, I suggested and he ap…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 57:43 in regard to the movements of the Japanese in the Far East, and it amounted to such a formidable statement of dangerous possibilities that I decided to take it to the president before he got up. He branched into an analysis of the situation…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:00:20 which we didn't think we could do, or sitting still and allowing it to go on on the other, which we didn't think we could do, that the only thing for us to do was address it. The only thing to do was to address it a warning that if it reach…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:00:51 I said there ought to be a message by the president to the people of the United States reporting what we would have to do if danger happened. I pointed out that he had better send his letter to the emperor separate as one thing and a secret…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:01:23 December 2nd. The president is still deliberating the possibility of a message to the emperor, although all the rest of us are against it. But in addition to that, he is quite settled. I think that he will make a message to the Congress and…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:01:54 They're saying on December 2nd that the president was going to not only send a cable to the emperor of Japan trying to plead him for peace or threaten him. He also needed to address Congress and then the people of the United States. Now, I …
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:02:24 OK. December 7th, just about two o'clock while I was sitting at lunch, the president called me up on the telephone with a rather excited voice. Ask me, have you heard the news? They've attacked Hawaii. They are now bombing Hawaii. My first …
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:02:59 The Bushes and their business people that had been financing the Nazis' industries for the last decade and a half were pushing very hard to keep us out of World War II in Europe. They did not want war because basically their investment prop…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:11:25 Because it was never about Japan. Japan was an excuse to get us in the war. And if you go and you read that book at dawn, we slept, you're going to find out that there was a lot of miscommunication on purpose. So because Churchill and Roose…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:12:26 And you got to add in the economic side, but we were still in the Great Depression leading up to World War II. The whole world was still in the Great Depression. FDR's economic policies made things worse, not better. So from 1929 to 1939, y…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:12:55 It is good. And you have to understand that the war was used as an excuse to pass the NRA. I'm not going to remember the name of it. We ended up with the NRIA. The original bill was going to make us a socialist country under Roosevelt.…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:13:18 And it was so infringement on capitalism and a free economic apparatus that the Supreme Court overthrew it. They threw it out. They said, no, you can't do that here. That violates the Constitution in every way. And so they came back and pas…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 1:13:42 Because their plan, as Antony Sutton says, is you do the Bolshevik, you do Hitler. Well, Hitler was. Yeah, you do Hitler and you do Roosevelt in the middle. And those three things became the far left, far right. Roosevelt was the third way …
The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady Secret Societies Skull&Bones cont'd
▶ 1:08:58 Remington Arms, United Electric Light and Power Company and Western Union. That's crazy. That's one hell of a career, isn't it? Well, and this is very interesting because I don't know if you guys, if you haven't read Antony Sutton's book ab…
The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady Secret Societies Skull&Bones cont'd
▶ 1:09:30 sell like surety bonds to governments, like city governments, state governments, so you can do contracting with them. And they use their, like Roosevelt did, use their political connections and coercion to make companies that want work from…
The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio
▶ 27:14 laughingly, ran for president in 2020. His campaign manager, weirdly enough, was none other than Cambridge Analytica refugee Brittany Kaiser, which I find very interesting in 2020. In 1933, the United States was in the grips of the Great De…
The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio
▶ 28:07 Many businessmen felt that the New Deal was a recipe for disaster and that devaluing the dollar by printing more of it was like theft. In 1933, Major General Smedley Butler, who we've talked about a million times, was approached by a man ca…
The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio
▶ 29:05 And they were using the American Legion as part of that. So there's some different opinions on what the end state of that. And this guy basically couches it as a coup of Roosevelt. But if you actually read Butler's testimony, what they were…
The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio
▶ 31:02 Congress concluded that the plot was real, even if not close to being realized. Contemporary newspaper accounts largely give the impression that Butler had manufactured the story, but he had not. In April 5th, 1933, FDR issued Executive Ord…
The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25
▶ 1:03:32 I don't know if you're familiar or even if the people listening are familiar, so I'm going to tell you. There is a very weird thing that goes on between anybody that's appointed from the United States to be the ambassador to the UK. There's…
The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25
▶ 1:04:03 to the UK for FDR. FDR was not a good guy. And so if you look at his role in the administration of FDR, particularly the Maritime Commission, which, you know, is drug related and the moving of goods around. And also he goes on to be the SEC…
The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25
▶ 1:07:20 in a well-known relationship financially with FDR when FDR becomes the Assistant Secretary of the Navy because Joe Kennedy is in the steel industry. And that's where, as far as I know, their original financial dealings began to overlap with…
The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2
▶ 41:13 According to Meyer, the I Am movement was a movement that worked audiences into frenzies as they chanted in response to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's names. Annihilate them was the chant. Wow. The growth of I Am activity was closely alig…
The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1
▶ 39:54 He was the enforcement arm of America's imperial will. He was the master of the dark deeds that empires require. When FDR pushed through the New Deal legislation to restrain the, I'm not sure if I agree with this assessment, but the rampant…
The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1
▶ 40:24 John Foster Dulles simply gathered his corporate clients in the Wall Street office and urged them to defy the president. Do not comply, he told them. Resist the law with all your might, and soon everything will be okay. Later, when Dulles s…
The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen
▶ 23:28 founding a company called BioLabs that sold pharmaceutical products. By the late 50s, he became increasingly concerned by communist gains in the Cold War. From a vantage point of 2022, it's easy to sneer at the concerns of Americans in the …
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a
▶ 44:48 Indonesia, and Laos. In all cases, a pretext of legality was supplied by the same friction, the U.S. military officers and the CIA, along with private military companies. This legal cover was first devised by President Roosevelt for the Che…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a
▶ 53:32 like transition period between 1945 and 1948, when the CIA is, you know, they had already in many ways twisted the New Deal. Now, we might disagree on to what extent they had to twist it, but that's fine. But the New Deal had already been t…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a
▶ 54:22 fogged over a lot because that's where you need the fog. And so that's why I think reading up on Tommy the Cork is so important because he's such a key transition figure from FDR into the Cold War. Yeah, I have that book. I think I didn't a…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b
▶ 37:00 At the time, Roosevelt wished to aid Chiang Kai-shek, and he also wanted American reserve pilots from the three services to gain combat experience. But America was not in war, and the U.S. code forbade the service of active and reserve pers…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b
▶ 40:49 It was agreed that Polly's new Camco Corporation could not take American pilots into the private war business without presidential authorization, and there was some delay in getting that approval. But by April 15, 1941, Roosevelt signed an …
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3
▶ 5:09 president and basically became a dictator. FDR, who came to office three years after Vargas had taken over, found him to be a great ally of the United States and had helped with a lot of the U.S. oligarchs to begin a program of deficit spen…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3
▶ 5:39 counter the depression that was going on at the time. There was a lot of parallels between the personal life of Vargas and that of his new friends in Washington, meaning FDR. The dictator had experienced an accident early in his life that l…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3
▶ 7:12 And one author pointed out, quote, the whole principle behind intervention by the U.S. is that when one of your citizens buys property in a foreign land, that property is no longer subject to the local foreign land government. The response …
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3
▶ 15:20 Kubitschek sought to convince foreign capitalists to invest in Brazil by offering concessions that neither Vargas nor Franklin Roosevelt might have approved. The new president canceled the ceilings on profits and allowed foreign investors t…
The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2
▶ 25:22 He didn't even view it as worth his time. And then the author goes back and talks about as late as 1899, a publication called Literary Digest reported a strong sentiment in the United States for annexing Cuba and campaigning in 1920. Frankl…
The Colonel’s Corner Inauguration Special
▶ 1:12:10 cases. It was a book that the Cato Institute put out many years ago that I actually went to a talk about called The Dirty Dozen, and it's about 12 cases that ruined America. And it also has sub-cases on a lot of them, kind of building up to…
The Colonel’s Corner Inauguration Special
▶ 1:31:20 So and they bought off people like FDR in order and Woodrow Wilson in order to get us into those wars. So we were always vulnerable because we were so successful. So I agree with you. I agree with you. But I didn't want to go back to pressu…
The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2
▶ 31:18 And he was accumulating gold, gold, gold, gold. And there was other sources of it where they were basically stealing it from people's physical residence. And so they have this pile of gold. And people have lots of questions about where that…
The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2
▶ 31:47 This is the first move off the gold standard. Roosevelt says, hey, we need so much money to get out of this depression that we have to confiscate all the gold. So it was illegal to possess a bar of gold. I don't know if people realize it wa…
The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2
▶ 33:46 properly so. FDRs basically confiscated America's gold. Now, we have Hitler basically gathering up collectively a bunch of the European gold. At the same time, we have covered the book written by the Seagraves called Gold Warriors. We did a…
The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2
▶ 36:32 And so now you have and this is trillions of dollars of gold. This isn't like billions that we may have gotten out of Europe. This is trillions of dollars of gold. So now you've got this gold captured here. You've got the European gold trap…
The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio
▶ 23:06 And at the end of World War II, there was a problem. And the problem was this, that Roosevelt, who was like Biden sailing the seas of dementia, had agreed in 1945 at Yalta to give Grant, the USSR, most of Eastern Europe.…
The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued
▶ 49:45 He was involved in the Office of Price Administration. And so for those of you who don't know, that's kind of the that was one of the tenets that Roosevelt then tried to in his new deal. He basically.…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 1:11:51 I will say that, you know, looking at this book particular, looking at some of the stuff about the Soviet Union and things that I really was unaware of, it makes it, this illuminates why Stalin and Roosevelt and Churchill allowed, or Roosev…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 1:41:12 on the Bolsheviks. So the Bolsheviks, weren't they part of the New World Order? So didn't they have to deal with the Bolsheviks at some point? If you go back to Antony Sutton's book, the Bolsheviks and Hitler and FDR were all in the same bo…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 1:43:32 Russia as a result of the Bolshevik revolution. Well, then later, you know, FDR gets into office and it is the same people. If you go back and Antony Sutton has all the charts in his book of who funded what and where the money came from. Al…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 1:44:29 And Antony Sutton traces all of that stuff. And so you mean half? I don't remember his name. So the the idea that they formatted in our. So we know that Nazism, the socialist light New Deal that Roosevelt put in, although the original real.…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 1:48:17 When they want to talk to me about the Bolsheviks, the Bolsheviks are just one piece of a pie, but it's the same pie. Do you got something else, Miles? Yeah. Were you in the space when Colonel Kirk was talking about Roosevelt's son? What ab…
The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3
▶ 1:50:53 That's what brought him to be the big foe. And I don't know who he's talking about as far as Roosevelt's son, unless he's talking about Kermit, which is Teddy Roosevelt's grandson. Because Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, Kermit Roosevelt, did s…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
▶ 1:14:17 What is it with Eisenhower and his softness on communism? I just don't, I don't know. I don't think he was soft on communism, but he also was not going to go head to head with it either. Well, I mean, he was the one who allowed, according t…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
▶ 1:17:00 I'm going to mute your mic while I'm talking here just a second. It was almost acknowledged like the way the, just like Korea. So you're assigned sectors, right, of getting the rest of the Nazis out of there. And the lead up to the end of t…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
▶ 1:17:24 had basically reneged on just about everything that was going on. It was later revealed that the Soviets even knew about Operation Sunrise and Alan Dulles making deals with Nazis before the end of the war. So at that point, you've got the S…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)
▶ 1:17:54 and Roosevelt. And you almost get the impression, I do anyway, that he was like, fuck you, I'm not leaving then. I want these things as a buffer against all of you guys because you're all traitors to the alliance that I thought we had. And …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38)
▶ 1:30:48 because Operation Sunrise, while Alan Dulles said he was there as an emissary from FDR, no one has ever been able to produce a piece of paper that ties FDR to Sunrise. So I don't know what FDR knew and what he didn't know. I know that peopl…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38)
▶ 1:31:43 Most of that was the funding for that was a covert line in the Marshall Plan and the Roosevelt's until they got their hands around Shane Kyshek's drug empire, which a lot of that money was funneled into that. So again, they were rogue becau…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51)
▶ 1:04:41 I know about the Missouri gang. I think when you were going over some of the skull and bones, wasn't one or two from there? And we just briefly touched it. We may have touched it. Do you want me to spend a couple minutes on it for everyone …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8
▶ 31:49 to ever receive it. It would not be the first time Roosevelt came to the White House, nor indeed his first brush with exotic adventures. The grandson of Teddy Roosevelt, he had inherited his thrill of basically overthrowing countries. In 19…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8
▶ 32:23 on a Pacific Island cruise slash spy mission in which they used a yachting expedition to conduct surveys. This time, they were surveying Japanese docks, fuel depots, and airfields in the Marshall Islands. Astor had reported to FDR personall…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16
▶ 38:06 He volunteered for charities. But there was no passion in Dulles' campaign. His speeches were stilted and his debate for performance was lawyerly. The month-long primary campaign pitted Dulles against the incumbent, a conservative Democrat …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16
▶ 38:28 who had cross-filed in the Republican primary after President Roosevelt announced his intention to purge O'Connor as a traitor in the New Deal. During the brief race, Dulles tried to carefully parse his attacks on the popular president, exp…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 5:47 Dulles was more in step with many of the Nazi leaders than he was President Roosevelt. Dulles not only enjoyed a professional and social familiarity with many of the members of the Third Reich elite that predated the war, he shared many of …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 9:20 was a bit of a charade. As soon as Dulles showed up in Bern, his arrival was reported in the leading newspapers, which announced him to the spies' great delight as the personal representative of President Roosevelt. This afforded him a stat…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 10:19 He didn't even have a bodyguard and he didn't carry a gun. This strategy of hiding in plain sight did not make much sense from an espionage point of view. But that's not really why he was there. He was running foreign policy on behalf of a …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 10:52 But Dulles insisted it had to be burnt, and he prevailed, of course. Donovan, who himself was a World War I combat hero and self-made Wall Street millionaire lawyer who had charmed FDR and outmaneuvered powerful rival J. Edgar Hoover to bui…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 17:52 And by 1939, Justus Singlemann, a junior Jewish partner at Sullivan and Cromwell, had become so fed up with John Foster's position on Nazi Germany that he confronted his boss, telling Foster that he was hurting the firm's reputation by publ…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 19:51 Hitler, but Dulles nonetheless wrote Foster from Germany that basically he was saying that the conditions were not all that bad there. Not for you. By the end of the 1930s, Dulles' view finally shifted and he came around to dismiss Nazi lea…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 21:15 Allen Dulles was recruited into the OSS by Donovan in October of 1941, his loyalties were still questioned by some administration officials, including Roosevelt. Dulles' various financial connections to the Nazi regime prompted FDR to place…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 22:18 covert enterprise, particularly considering that England was operating on friendly soil. They were actually operating together. Stevenson had been sent to the US in 1940 on behalf of Winston Churchill. With Hitler's forces overrunning Europ…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 22:50 to get in the war. Roosevelt was a strong supporter of the British cause. With as much as 80% of the American public against entering the European war, they were going to need a propaganda campaign and obviously something to kick it off. Th…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2
▶ 26:16 A lot of the old timers say he ran that kind of thing in New York during the war. FDR was well aware of the Dulles' and their Wall Street gang, as well as the Republican Party opposition to his presidency. The brothers, as top legal advisor…