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Joe Scheider met_with Bronson Tweedy documented document
“Bronson Tweedy functioned as a conduit between Bissell and Scheider for instructions relating to the PROP operation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.81
Bronson Tweedy met_with Joseph Scheider documented document
“Tweedy and Tweedy's Deputy tell Scheider to go to Congo to deliver poisons to Hedgman and instruct him to assassinate Lumumba if possible…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306
Bronson Tweedy met_with Lawrence Devlin documented document
“Tweedy cables Hedgman that Scheider will come to Congo on sensitive mission…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306
Bronson Tweedy ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented document
“Tweedy and Tweedy's Deputy tell Scheider to go to Congo to deliver poisons to Hedgman and instruct him to assassinate Lumumba if possible…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.306
Bronson Tweedy worked_for CIA documented document
“Bronson Tweedy who had direct operational responsibility at Headquarters for activities against Lumumba…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.147
Bronson Tweedy worked_for CIA documented document
“Bronson Tweedy who was Chief of the Africa Division of CIA's clandestine services…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.29
Bronson Tweedy worked_for CIA documented document
“Bronson Tweedy testified that he may have seen Dulles cable of August 26 before it was transmitted and that he "might even have drafted it.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.30
Bronson Tweedy ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented document
“Scheider procured toxic biological materials in response to Bissell's request and was then ordered by Tweedy to take these materials to the Station Officer in Leopoldville…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.33
Joseph Scheider met_with Bronson Tweedy documented document
“Scheider's testimony generally substantiated this account although he acknowledged that his meetings with Bissell and Tweedy were the only bases for his impression about Presidential authorization…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.33
Bronson Tweedy met_with Joseph Scheider documented document
“Tweedy stated that it was 'perfectly clear that he had met with Scheider…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.36
Joseph Scheider met_with Bronson Tweedy reported document
“Scheider stated that he had an "independent recollection of telling the Station Officer about his meetings with Bissell Tweedy and Tweedy's Deputy including Bissell's reference to "the highest authority."…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.40
Bronson Tweedy worked_for CIA documented document
“Tweedy and his Deputy made it clear that the agent was being viewed as a potential assassin…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.42
Bronson Tweedy ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba reported document
“Tweedy stated that it would have been proper for his Deputy to issue this cable authorizing the Station Officer to take the assassination operation 'one step further'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.42
Bronson Tweedy funded Lumumba assassination documented document
“Tweedy indicated that he continued to support the assassination operation and advised... 'CONSIDERING DISPATCHING THIRD COUNTRY NATIONAL OPERATIVE'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.43
Bronson Tweedy met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented document
“Tweedy commented that rather than questioning the truth of the Station Officer's testimony the discrepancies between their testimony could be attributed to his own lack of recall.3 Even after he reviewed the cables on the PROP operation Twe…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.48
Bronson Tweedy met_with Lawrence Devlin documented document
“Despite Tweedy's lack of recollection about the actual plot to poison Lumumba he recalled discussing the feasibility of an assassination attempt against Lumumba with Bissell and communicating with the Station Officer about gaining access to…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.48
Bronson Tweedy ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba alleged document
“Tweedy characterized his discussions with Bissell about assassinating Lumumba as "contingency planning (Tweedy 9/9/75 p 28)…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.48
Bronson Tweedy met_with Richard M. Bissell Jr. reported document
“Richard Bissell testified that he did not remember discussing the feasibility of assassinating Lumumba with Bronson Tweedy but it seemed 'entirely probable to him that such discussions took place…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.50
Bronson Tweedy denied WI/ROGUE documented document
“Tweedy testified that WI/ROGUE would 'absolutely not have been used on an assassination mission against Lumumba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.61
Richard M. Bissell Jr. met_with Bronson Tweedy documented document
“On September 19 1960 Bissell and Tweedy cabled Station Officer Hedgman to expect a messenger from CIA Headquarters…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.66
Frank Bissell met_with Bronson Tweedy documented document
“Tweedy said however that the "impression he derived from his meetings with Bissell and from the Dulles cable of August 26 was that the Agency had authorization at the highest level of the government…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.81
Bronson Tweedy member_of CIA documented
“looked toward its first big operation. Chief Bronson Tweedy, his wartime background in naval intelligence and later CIA service in Bern, Vienna, and London, stood ready to go. Bruns, in his time, had coordinated a few covert actions with th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 40:19

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The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 40:19 looked toward its first big operation. Chief Bronson Tweedy, his wartime background in naval intelligence and later CIA service in Bern, Vienna, and London, stood ready to go. Bruns, in his time, had coordinated a few covert actions with th…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 42:17 Helms had sent it in his stead. In his memoirs, Bissell recalls his return to duty when Alan Dulles explained that he had written the cable just after a meeting with Eisenhower and his advisors had explored the subject at length. Bissell me…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 47:46 A CIA officer tossed the stuff into the Congo River. Oh, you know, poison in the river, no big deal. There are other reports that said it was taken back and sealed in a safe in the CIA, but it's probably more likely it was in the river. Got…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24)
▶ 48:47 told congressional investigators that Richard Bissell asked him to go to kill Lumumba. O'Donnell rejected the mission for the same reason as Devlin. He also suggested that such a conspiracy hatched in Washington would be a federal felony. O…
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