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Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission documented
“to be on the Justice Earl Warren's commission to investigate Kennedy's assassination. While both Dulles and Kennedy had worked together, obviously their differences were known to everyone since he openly fired him from being the CIA directo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 56:09
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“you have the main full time guy, Alan Dulles, who, of course, was fired by JFK, investigating JFK's assassination. And his star witness is a kid that he met when he was 10 years old.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 21:51
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“After Kennedy's assassination, Dulles was again pushed himself into the Washington spotlight, lobbying LBJ to appoint him to the Warren Commission. Dulles was so actively involved in the official investigation of Kennedy's murder that one o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 49:39
John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission documented
“the World War II sort of implied cover-up about in the way history has written since World War II. You mentioned, you know, why weren't these places bombed by Strategic Air Command? And it's, I know you know this, but of course, our good ol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 1:18:52
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission documented
“and their connections to the CIA or organized crime. No kidding, because no one wants to investigate the CIA for real. Despite the Secret Service's suspicion about Sierra, his name appears nowhere, nowhere in the Warren Report's 26 volumes.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 48:50
Cecil Hurst member_of Warren Commission documented
“and basically ensured that it was him and not the U.S. that got the chairmanship. The Foreign Office regarded Hearst as a model of experience and was unlikely to make waves, but Eden seriously underestimated his appointee. Cecil Hearst join…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 38:29
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission documented
“setting the stage for McCone's lies, but omitted one very crucial fact. The head of the Warren Commission was none other than Alan Dulles, the former head of the CIA, who'd been fired by Kennedy. In a legal investigation, that would have be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 3:56
Herbert Pell member_of Warren Commission documented
“favored summary execution of Nazis without a trial. 15% called for torturing them before you killed them. So yeah, they were a little pissed off. In late January 1944, Pell wrote to Roosevelt and to Breckinridge Long, supposedly the guy tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 33:15
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
House Select Committee on Assassinations exposed Warren Commission caller_asserted
“Remember, 1979, they had another commission that talked about the Warren Commission and said, you know, they had this all figured out. The House Select Committee on Assassinations, right, Frank? Yeah. Say that again. You've got to join our …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:29:24
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“into the assassination of President Kennedy. And we know that Dulles played the primary role as really the only full-time quote-unquote investigator, interrogator, whatever you want to call his role that he played on there. And George DeMor…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 49:33
George de Mohrenschildt member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“into the assassination of President Kennedy. And we know that Dulles played the primary role as really the only full-time quote-unquote investigator, interrogator, whatever you want to call his role that he played on there. And George DeMor…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 49:33
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“And as several scholars have pointed out, he quoted from the exact same book that Alan Dulles would quote on the very first meeting of our Blessed Warren Commission, saying how, hey, here in the U.S., assassinations are always a lone nut. T…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:19:14
John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“is very significant. So when you look at John J. McCloy and Alan Dulles' influence in decision policymaking regarding Germany and going right into the Warren Commission, there's a lot of continuity there that's been obfuscated beyond belief…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 1:24:06
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“As attorney Mark Lane, one of the first critics of the lone gunman's theory, later observed, it should have been called the Dulles Commission because of course it should. His dominant role in the investigation was throughout the entire comm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 2:50
Allen Dulles supplied_arms_to Warren Commission book_quoted
“other remaining members of the trio to set up a pretend investigation, keeping the focus tightly on Oswald and avoiding any areas that had the faintest tinge of conspiracy. Dulles tried to establish the framework in the inquiry early on by …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 7:30
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“The Dulles camp itself made no bones about the fact that the old man aggressively lobbied to get appointed to the commission. Dick Helms later told historian Michael Kurtz that he quote personally persuaded unquote Johnson to appoint Dulles…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 46:16
John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“You always do what's best for the country. I found out about you a long time ago, unquote. You're a lying devil. In the end, it all worked out just as Washington establishment wanted. And as Charles DeGaulle had predicted, the commission wa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 50:14
Warren Commission covered_up Robert Kennedy assassination book_quoted
“He sought, quote, men who were known to be beyond pressure and above suspicion, unquote. But the biggest suspected criminal of all was put in charge of it. What LBJ wanted was men who could be trusted to close the case and put the public su…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 44:00
Kwame Nkrumah exposed Warren Commission book_quoted
“Dulles and McCloy. After months of investigative wheel spinning, the panel would reach its foregone conclusion. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president, case closed. When President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, one of the new Afric…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 50:45
Eugene V. Rostow member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“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.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 1:14:02
Warren Commission discredited Gene Hill host_asserted
“You know, Jean Hill is, of course, the closest to the limo next to her. She's the woman in red closest to the limo with her friend Mary Mormon with the Polaroids process going on. And they tried to discredit her testimony by saying by point…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 1:17:28
Warren Commission discredited John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“We're going to see some smoke under the knoll very, very shortly. That's going to blow that out of the water. And it's similar to how they do this with other witnesses. The Warren Commission, for example, one witness mentioned something abo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 1:17:56
Richard Russell member_of Warren Commission documented
“Richard Russell, no relation to the – I don't think he's related to the founder of Skull & Bones, Russell. I could not find a link there. But it's interesting about him. He also sat on the Warren Commission with some other interesting peopl…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 53:33
Warren Commission covered_up Robert Kennedy assassination documented
“As a congressman, Ford had served on the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination, concluding that he was killed, obviously, by the magic bullet concept. When one genuinely looks at the facts of this period of Americans' hi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 31:18
John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“W.R. Grace was hiring a bunch of the Nazis post-World War II. Yeah. McCoy was also in the Warren Commission, of course. Sorry to interrupt. Yeah. There's just mountains and mountains of W.R. Grace material and the CIA. The story giver. Oh, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 1:45:43
Warren Commission covered_up Robert Kennedy assassination documented
“The 1964 Warren Commission, into the killing, decided that Oswald had acted alone. But 15 years later, the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations set up an investigation into the death of JFK and MLK concluded that Kennedy was probab…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 34:32
Raymond Rocca covered_up Warren Commission book_quoted
“of a heart attack. I guess the word had gotten out. But Rocha, the veteran counterintelligence agent assigned to babysit the commission, made sure nothing turned up. Quote, I came to like and trust Rocha, said the young staff attorney, who …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 18:22
Allen Dulles covered_up Warren Commission book_quoted
“Warren was very upset by the news report, which suggested that the commission had rushed to judgment before hearing all the evidence. The leak was clearly intended to counter the publicity being generated by Lane and Buchanan. While the com…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 24:18
Richard Russell member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“Following the release of the Warren report, there are still a few murmurs of doubt, including some within the commission itself. Senator Russell, who strongly suspected that Oswald had been backed by others, seemed eager to distance himself…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 37:56
J. Lee Rankin member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“lauded the book in the Washington Post and used his review to call for a reopening of the investigation, a bombshell that marked the first time a member of Kennedy's inner circle had issued such a call. Dulles' anxiety was overwhelming. He …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 54:34
Arlen Specter member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“lauded the book in the Washington Post and used his review to call for a reopening of the investigation, a bombshell that marked the first time a member of Kennedy's inner circle had issued such a call. Dulles' anxiety was overwhelming. He …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 54:34
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“of the United States from assassination, was selected by Dulles' partner on the Warren Commission, at the time, Congressman Gerald Ford. You fast forward, we get rid of Nixon, Ford becomes president, and we're going to have another investig…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 34:02
Warren Commission investigated Albert Schweitzer College documented
“This is when, remember, he's defecting on what we now know as a CIA false defector program in the Soviet Union. But the initial list, his destination is Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland. OK, so cut to 1964, January 1964, when the Wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 56:30
Lord Simon covered_up Warren Commission documented
“The Foreign Office representative, Sir Alexander Cadogan, strongly concurred. Lord Simon secured an official rejection of most of Hirsch's proposals for the War Crimes Commission and went so far as to argue that even the murders of American…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 10_11 @ 41:45
George de Mohrenschildt member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“George de Morgenschild, the star witness at the Warren Commission, from money that dated back to his dad being the oil minder for the Nobel family out of Sweden, as in the Nobel Peace Prize, which is ironic of all ironics, because they were…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY @ 19:32
Allen Dulles headed Warren Commission host_asserted
“A lot of people think that his wife was his handler. So now he's got a wife he brings back. And this wife is connected to DeMorgan Shield, who is connected like best buddies with Alan Dulles. And Alan Dulles runs the Warren Commission. And …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 1:32:05
John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission documented
“the shadow government. Oh, and then he rears his head on the Warren commission too. He was instrumental in the Warren commission with Alan Dulles. So he is one of the evil guys. He's probably in the top 10 of the evil guys. So. And Lyman Le…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 58:47
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission documented
“the shadow government. Oh, and then he rears his head on the Warren commission too. He was instrumental in the Warren commission with Alan Dulles. So he is one of the evil guys. He's probably in the top 10 of the evil guys. So. And Lyman Le…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 58:47
Warren Commission covered_up Lee Harvey Oswald host_asserted
“counter espionage effort to infiltrate pro Castro groups. In other words, it was being used as a front. And it says that the Warren commission and house select committee on assassinations found no evidence linking the two together, but of c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 16:34
John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission book_quoted
“Then before he could even finish that sentence, he was released by the High Commissioner of Germany, John J. McCloy, who later became the president of the World Bank and served on the commission of the assassination of JFK, the Warren Commi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 5 @ 17:23
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“And what a coinkydinky that that's the part that Netflix leaves out because our good friends Alan Dulles and John J. McCloy, future top dogs of the Warren Commission, because Gerald Ford was their water boy. Right. No question about it. We'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 1:05:47
John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“And what a coinkydinky that that's the part that Netflix leaves out because our good friends Alan Dulles and John J. McCloy, future top dogs of the Warren Commission, because Gerald Ford was their water boy. Right. No question about it. We'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 1:05:47
Arlen Specter member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“France that had like what they considered snow white heroin number four. It was like the top of the premium amount and it was what everybody wanted. And so there was a lot of competition to try to perfect or basically reverse engineer his p…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:29:51
Warren Commission covered_up Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“and their connections to the CIA or organized crime. No kidding, because no one wants to investigate the CIA for real. Despite the Secret Service's suspicion about Sierra, his name appears nowhere, nowhere in the Warren Report's 26 volumes.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 48:50
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“a.k.a. the chairman, as he was known on Wall Street, has been identified by the historian Kai Bird in his book, The Chairman, as the key guy in making the decision not to bomb the trains leading to the concentration camps. So here's a secon…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 1:19:19
John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission caller_asserted
“Reinhard Galen and the BND, their CIA. And the other guy is, you know, High Commissioner of Germany is John J. McCloy. So those are the two guys, you know, who students of the Warren Commission, and I would refer specifically to the book ca…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 1:17:47
Richard Nixon exposed Warren Commission host_asserted
“So, Helms, you know, who, like, we know that we had the whole Warren Commission and everything. Okay, who really shot John? I think his question was, I think the exact quote was, you know, who shot John? Is Johnson to blame? Is Nixon to bla…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 2:28:46
Gerald Ford member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“And, you know, he played his role on the Warren Commission. So he was just a good soldier for him.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:42:19
Gerald Ford member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“And what a coinkydinky that that's the part that Netflix leaves out because our good friends Alan Dulles and John J. McCloy, future top dogs of the Warren Commission, because Gerald Ford was their water boy. Right. No question about it. We'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 1:05:47
Edward J. Epstein exposed Warren Commission host_asserted
“on the Kennedy assassinations that was published as part of the assassination chronicles. So he wrote Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend. And it's kind of funny. I'm trying to figure out the timeline for it right now, but it seems like he sho…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 1:02:35
Arlen Specter member_of Warren Commission caller_asserted
“Which one? The Warren Commission was the Senate committee to investigate the shooting. Yeah, with all of the inside bad actors. Yeah, so Warren Commission. Yeah. A funny tidbit of the Warren Commission was Arlen Specter was a young, I think…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 57:02
Gerald Ford member_of Warren Commission host_asserted
“Ford was completely owned by the establishment. Ford was the guy they stuck on the Warren Commission because he's adult. He was completely under their control. So you have to get Ford in there first so that Nixon, when you do him, you're go…”
▶ Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan @ 1:16:01
Gerald Ford member_of Warren Commission caller_asserted
“Yes. So the two so the two paper clippiest dudes, the two closest to Alan Dulles, one of whom was Alan Dulles, but John J. McCloy, you know, as you I know you've mentioned him repeatedly is known as the chairman on Wall Street. So and their…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 1:18:15
Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission caller_asserted
“Reinhard Galen and the BND, their CIA. And the other guy is, you know, High Commissioner of Germany is John J. McCloy. So those are the two guys, you know, who students of the Warren Commission, and I would refer specifically to the book ca…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 1:17:47

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Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR
▶ 1:42:19 The whole way he came about, if you go back where he's from, the money that was poured into his campaigns, he was a bought and paid for guy as well. Did what he was told to do, how he was told to do it. And, you know, he played his role on …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 11:28 We've been looking at all the different angles. Season one was kind of the basic information, you know, the greatest hits, Oswald in the book depository, J.D. Tippett, all the medical evidence, Jack Ruby killing Oswald, you know, sort of th…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 11:53 So we're zooming in on Oswald. So what I did, just to zoom out here, I've got this scorecard for season one. I didn't use it for season two. But season one, I've got the issue. I've got here's what Warren Report critics say. Here's what War…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 18:47 critical element of the Warren Commission, critical element of having housed and associated with, to the point where he could have been the handler of Oswald. And let me just go through this briefly for the audience, anyone that's new, and …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 21:51 And so then you have the single star witness of the most important commission ever done, the Warren Commission, where you have the main full time guy, Alan Dulles, who, of course, was fired by JFK, investigating JFK's assassination. And his…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 50:58 And so they sort of used that tool of ZR rifle against Kennedy and then put Dulles in place to to clean everything up for the Warren Commission. So, yeah. All right. So let me go from there. And I just want to add a couple of things. Ferrar…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:31:02 and dislike of the CIA ends up being a corner of the carpet that we can pull up because it's not defensible from a defending the official record position. So anyway, so what's LBJ do? He talks to Richard Russell and Earl Warren to try to ge…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:32:56 says that there was a tape and he had it in his safe and James Angleton came and got it from him after he died. And oh, by the way, two of the Warren Commission investigators went to Mexico City and they told PBS Frontline, they're on the v…
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale
▶ 2:28:46 So, Helms, you know, who, like, we know that we had the whole Warren Commission and everything. Okay, who really shot John? I think his question was, I think the exact quote was, you know, who shot John? Is Johnson to blame? Is Nixon to bla…
Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale
▶ 2:29:13 the Warren Commission. He frames the JFK assassination in terms of that whole Bay of Pigs thing. And then, of course, most recently what we find out at the hearings, and I'm curious about Destiny's opinion on this, is Jefferson morally come…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3
▶ 1:29:51 France that had like what they considered snow white heroin number four. It was like the top of the premium amount and it was what everybody wanted. And so there was a lot of competition to try to perfect or basically reverse engineer his p…
Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan
▶ 1:16:01 Ford was completely owned by the establishment. Ford was the guy they stuck on the Warren Commission because he's adult. He was completely under their control. So you have to get Ford in there first so that Nixon, when you do him, you're go…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2
▶ 55:41 during one of the most crucial operations there is. The author goes on and talks about how Dulles started his intelligence well before JFK was even born and that he was obviously still in that business when in 1964, he was the first person …
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3
▶ 1:06:08 got confirmation of what he was saying. So we're going to start there tomorrow. And we're also going to discover a connection that I found completely separate. And that's of Dulles' relationship with the dead Morgan Shield, George, the star…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3
▶ 1:17:47 Reinhard Galen and the BND, their CIA. And the other guy is, you know, High Commissioner of Germany is John J. McCloy. So those are the two guys, you know, who students of the Warren Commission, and I would refer specifically to the book ca…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3
▶ 1:18:15 Yes. So the two so the two paper clippiest dudes, the two closest to Alan Dulles, one of whom was Alan Dulles, but John J. McCloy, you know, as you I know you've mentioned him repeatedly is known as the chairman on Wall Street. So and their…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3
▶ 1:19:13 And Gerald Ford, in particular, in the final commission, like three days before the final report of the Warren Commission comes out, he changes the wording so that it can align with Arlen Specter's crazy, insane magic bullet theory. And he …
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3
▶ 1:20:14 So just to put that piece together, that's who he's talking about. So he was instrumental in setting up Operation Gladio. McCoy was. Yep. And in writing the Warren Commission with Alan Dulles, it should have been called the Dulles Commissio…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 49:05 Dulles, of course, levied that in his favor. Some links from the 1920s and 30s, Dulles was still using in the 1960s. Dulles also had a link with George DeMargan Shield, which is the star witness of the JFK Warren Commission.…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 49:33 into the assassination of President Kennedy. And we know that Dulles played the primary role as really the only full-time quote-unquote investigator, interrogator, whatever you want to call his role that he played on there. And George DeMor…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 50:01 Basically, Dulles was the first. He was highly influential in who else got assigned to the commission into President Kennedy's assassination, which is irony since President Kennedy fired him. Of the 418 witnesses questioned by the commissio…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 51:59 But no links to Allen Dulles was ever revealed. Even though Jenner's questioning more than once peeled back history to provide what should have been direct links between Dulles and DeMorgan Shield, it never got brought up. DeMorgan Shield h…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 52:59 DeMorgenschild described Dulles' presence at the 1964 hearings as, quote, Dulles did not interfere in the proceedings but was there as a distant threat, unquote. George DeMorgenschild is not suggesting Alan Dulles would have disrupted the q…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 53:26 DeMorganshiel became part of the conclusion that the commission reached, but in his manuscript, DeMorganshiel disagreed with the outcome of the Warren Commission, which simply blamed Oswald. This was a Dulles-directed conclusion. In effect,…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 1:01:29 by two of his friends who just so happened to work at Standard Oil. It was clear to Jenner that DeMorgan Shield agreed the real purpose of the party was to allow others to meet and befriend Oswald and Marina. The Warren Commission transcrip…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 1:02:32 not only an association, but a cover story using these meetings as a way to plan these terror events. As it may later be seen, there were way more connections than most people are aware of. If the Warren Commission had been informed about D…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 1:08:01 They stayed on a family estate, as George later described it to the Warren Commission, which was a wooded area in Poland, right on the border of Russia, which was like five or six thousand acres. Yeah. George's mother died soon after they a…
Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5
▶ 40:30 does anyone tell Sukarno that he's basically sitting on all of these riches because they plan on getting rid of him. So it would be a bad deal to tell him that. So the utter secrecy was required when George DeMorganshield was given, giving …
Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5
▶ 53:32 married George. So, oh, yeah, and he made his canoe, he canoed over to New Guinea out of a tree himself. He made his own canoe. So, in April 1964, at the same time George DeMorganshield was facing the Warren Commission, Michael Fomenko had …
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady
▶ 53:33 Richard Russell, no relation to the – I don't think he's related to the founder of Skull & Bones, Russell. I could not find a link there. But it's interesting about him. He also sat on the Warren Commission with some other interesting peopl…
Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508
▶ 34:30 How many Hollywood connections do we get? A guy by the name of Peter Penoyer. You haven't heard of him. Class of 1975. I brought him up because he's the great-grandson of J.P. Morgan. Keep it in the family. We have a Louis Thompson Preston,…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
▶ 50:32 assassination of Kennedy because several of the witnesses on the ground had mentioned that they talked to CIA operatives. Well, in the Warren report, they said they identified every CIA operative there, and the ones that they said the eyewi…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
▶ 59:47 There you go. They did the same thing in China. Yep. And that's one of their spying vehicles. Crazy, crazy, crazy. It's interesting that you mention that because, like I said in the book, I can't even think of his name. I'd have to dig it u…
Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
▶ 25:12 He was also later appointed by Gerald Ford to a commission on CIA activities within the United States, which was referred to as the Rockefeller Commission. So you've got the guy running Operation Gladio with the CIA in NATO, who, like the e…
The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz
▶ 16:34 counter espionage effort to infiltrate pro Castro groups. In other words, it was being used as a front. And it says that the Warren commission and house select committee on assassinations found no evidence linking the two together, but of c…
The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2
▶ 1:23:35 Etc. Yeah. Same same damn company. Yeah. They survived quite well. Yeah. All along. Yeah. A couple of follow up points on what we've been discussing. What you just said, Colonel, you know, the role of key Warren Commission ally of Allen Dul…
The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2
▶ 1:24:06 is very significant. So when you look at John J. McCloy and Alan Dulles' influence in decision policymaking regarding Germany and going right into the Warren Commission, there's a lot of continuity there that's been obfuscated beyond belief…
The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2
▶ 1:28:49 The other fun thing I was going to bring up is he mentioned my good buddy John McCloy sitting on the Warren Commission, among other things. I don't know if you all remember what John McCloy's job was at the time he was selected to be on the…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:44:17 It seems to have had a significant impact on him. And if you think about it, think about what the OSSCI has just coming out of World War II, a period of intense, on all sides, intense research and psychological warfare. That's where C.D. Ja…
The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1
▶ 49:39 After Kennedy's assassination, Dulles was again pushed himself into the Washington spotlight, lobbying LBJ to appoint him to the Warren Commission. Dulles was so actively involved in the official investigation of Kennedy's murder that one o…
The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1
▶ 50:08 the inquiry away from the agency itself and towards the lone gunman scenario. How did a bitter political enemy of JFK wind up playing a lead role in the official investigation into his death? It was just one more mystery in a lifetime of en…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day
▶ 1:32:05 A lot of people think that his wife was his handler. So now he's got a wife he brings back. And this wife is connected to DeMorgan Shield, who is connected like best buddies with Alan Dulles. And Alan Dulles runs the Warren Commission. And …
The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day
▶ 1:33:57 It and the car that when they did the recreation in the Warren Commission, that road sign had been moved. After the Warren Commission was over, someone had a picture. It came out in some other forum that someone that day, I think it was the…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2
▶ 1:29:24 Remember, 1979, they had another commission that talked about the Warren Commission and said, you know, they had this all figured out. The House Select Committee on Assassinations, right, Frank? Yeah. Say that again. You've got to join our …
The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY
▶ 19:32 George de Morgenschild, the star witness at the Warren Commission, from money that dated back to his dad being the oil minder for the Nobel family out of Sweden, as in the Nobel Peace Prize, which is ironic of all ironics, because they were…
The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY
▶ 20:23 Standard Oil while Alan Dulles was a representative of Standard Oil and arranged the purchase of that concession. And then he met during this time, George DeMorgan Shield was 10 years old. He met George, was very good friends with George's …
The Colonels Corner Operation Gladio look into RFKs Murder
▶ 44:43 Johanna Nides, however you say his name, who was the chief of the CIA psychological warfare branch in Miami during the 1960s, who later served as a CIA liaison to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, just like Dulles served on the …
The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued
▶ 1:45:13 Warhamster and I are going to talk about him because you can do a whole show on him. He was part of the CFR Ford Foundation. He was over in Germany in post-World War II as quote-unquote like the governor guy that was letting all the Nazis g…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25)
▶ 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.…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18)
▶ 1:17:00 Lead investigative reporter. I know I've said this a million times. I'm going to post it in the bubble again. Fred Cook was he wrote an amazing article or chapter from his book on how Kerry McWilliams, the famous left liberal, you know, edi…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33)
▶ 1:04:36 that went from I-75 to the base. It's called Russell Parkway for a reason. The museum is named after him. He is the icon of military. He was the Southern Democrat. He had literally people eating out of his hands. I cannot overstate how popu…
The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9
▶ 1:18:44 You know, Whitney, Jock asked JFK to stay on as the ambassador, and JFK sent the snarky email, Jock Pack Jack, which, as I've said now for the 12th time, is not the way you want to address. And Robert Barron, probably. But anyway, and then …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14
▶ 1:05:47 And what a coinkydinky that that's the part that Netflix leaves out because our good friends Alan Dulles and John J. McCloy, future top dogs of the Warren Commission, because Gerald Ford was their water boy. Right. No question about it. We'…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 48:20 that the relevance to the assassination of Sierra's activities remain undetermined on purpose. At least the House Select Committee on Assassinations tried to shed light on Sierra in another kabuki dance. The first official inquest into Pres…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20
▶ 48:50 and their connections to the CIA or organized crime. No kidding, because no one wants to investigate the CIA for real. Despite the Secret Service's suspicion about Sierra, his name appears nowhere, nowhere in the Warren Report's 26 volumes.…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 3:56 to be such an interesting case that he made the 13-year-old the subject of one of his seminars. Hartog's psychiatric profile of Oswald, which he would reprise for the Warren Commission a decade later, created the pathological framework by w…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 5:44 the New York State Psychiatric Institution, which received funding from the Army Chemical Corps and the CIA. So Oswald was under the care of a psychiatrist associated with the CIA. Malwitz is the guy who was involved in the LSD experiments.…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 11:28 curiosity about the Soviet Union got the better of him. He transferred to the El Toro Air Station in Southern California in December of 58. He applied himself to learning Russian. J. Lee Rankin, the chief counselor for the Warren Commission…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 18:01 a philosophical idea. He goes on to talk about how he was not a political extremist. He had very well-reasoned arguments. He was quoted as saying, Oswald did not produce the impression of a narrow-minded political zealot. He would not allow…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 37:51 The Baron told the Warren Commission that she had a habit of walking around the rugged oil fields in Colorado Rockies, where the DeMorgan Shields were working at the time, wearing a bikini among all of the men. Albert Jenner Jr., the Warren…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 40:58 And DeMorganshield soon found himself with a foot in each camp. He alluded cryptically to this early in the Warren Commission testimony when he mentioned that he was involved in a controversial business, an international business. But Commi…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 46:14 No Warren Commission witness betrayed Oswald more deeply than George DeMorganshield. His testimony before the commission, the lengthiest of anyone's, did more to convict Oswald in the eyes of the press and the public than anyone else. He ti…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 47:42 that as far as I'm concerned, Oswald was an admirer of President Kennedy's, unquote. During a conversation they had about JFK, acknowledged DeMorganshield, Oswald described him as an excellent president, young, full of energy, and full of g…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 48:09 But the Warren Commission simply glided over all of the inconsistencies in DeMorganshield's testimony and highlighted just the beginning. It was the baron's unfounded and irresponsible remarks about the crazy lunatic Oswald, a man supposedl…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 48:38 the man who hung on his every word and threw him under the wheels. On the morning of April 22nd, 1964, when he appeared at the VA building in D.C., where the Warren Commission set up shop, DeMorganshield was not in possession of his customa…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 49:08 His business affair in Haiti began to suffer as rumors spread about the mysterious Russian who had been Oswald's closest confidant. It is highly unlikely that de Morgenschild knew in advance about how Oswald was to be used on November 22nd.…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 50:07 Letting Jenner handle the interrogation, but the Baron found Dulles' silence unnerving. He was there as a distant threat, de Morgenschild later wrote in his memoirs, a provocative remark that he did not explain further. Was the near presenc…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 51:07 When the DeMorgan Shields interrogation was over, the Baron told his wife, it was an unpleasant experience, but in Russia, we'd have been sent to Siberia. Jenner raked over the most embarrassing details of the DeMorgan Shields' private life…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 51:58 from his grandfather's Standard Oil partnership with John D. Rockefeller. DeMorganshield was forced by the Warren Commission to read out loud from his own letters to Janet Atkinsloss, whom he had known from the time that her daughter Jackie…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 52:47 obviously undermined his own testimony about Oswald as a crazy lunatic who killed the president, DeMorganschild was put in an awkward position to clarify. After DeMorganschild concluded their Warren Commission ordeal, they were invited by J…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 53:14 felt confident enough to voice their true feelings about the assassination. By now, it was dawning on the couple that the Warren Commission was not interested in the real story of the president's murder. They suspected that the true purpose…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 56:31 as the Baron described him, knew that this was the most mixed up part of de Morgenschild's testimony and it was imperative that he fix it. If the commission were to succeed in portraying Oswald as a lone nut, but de Morgenschild again frust…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 58:15 In the last years of his life, de Morgenschild sought atonement for his sins. To make it right with the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald, he wrote his memoirs, I Am a Patsy, an outspoken form from the heart whose raw Russian syntax de Morgenschil…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 58:42 He proclaimed Oswald's innocent and took back the damning things that he told the Warren Commission. In truth, Lee was not jealous of the Kennedys' wealth and did not envy their social positions. Of that, I am sure, to him, wealth and socie…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 59:12 Along with Titovitz, Chronicle, I Am a Patsy stands out as the most convincing portrait we have of Oswald. DeMorgan Shields' manuscript, which his wife gave to the House Select Committee on Assassinations after his death, remained unpublish…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 1:27:11 The CIA worked through New York Times and Washington Post to get – all they have to do is replace the chief counsel on the House of Elections. They don't have to replace everyone because that's the steering wheel. Just like in the Warren Co…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 1:11 To use Brennan's words, the hallmarks of intelligence. All right, so we had finished talking about George DeMorgan Shields' role leading up to the assassination of JFK in his testimony during the Warren Commission. So we're going to move on…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 1:11 To use Brennan's words, the hallmarks of intelligence. All right, so we had finished talking about George DeMorgan Shields' role leading up to the assassination of JFK in his testimony during the Warren Commission. So we're going to move on…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 4:05 as the DeMorganshields prepared to go to Haiti. But if Ruth Payne was assuming DeMorganshield's role as Oswald's monitor, she was doing it, the author says, not as a witting agent. Payne would later tell the Warren Commission that she had n…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 4:05 as the DeMorganshields prepared to go to Haiti. But if Ruth Payne was assuming DeMorganshield's role as Oswald's monitor, she was doing it, the author says, not as a witting agent. Payne would later tell the Warren Commission that she had n…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 12:27 by Ruth Forbes Payne was Alan Dulles and Mary Bancroft. As the Warren Commission went about its business, Mary wrote Dulles chatty letters about the Forbes and the Paynes and their horrified reaction to the events in Dallas, as if she were …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 16:28 recent scant attention after the Kennedy assassination, despite him owning the building, the Warren Commission never questioned him. Not one time. And reporters did not profile him. Even after the millionaire took the odd step of removing t…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 27:43 Appearing before the Warren Commission, Ruth and Michael Payne seemed confused and tentative when it came to assigning guilt to Oswald. They both agreed that while he was a man of headstrong conviction, he did not impress them as dangerous.…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 27:43 Appearing before the Warren Commission, Ruth and Michael Payne seemed confused and tentative when it came to assigning guilt to Oswald. They both agreed that while he was a man of headstrong conviction, he did not impress them as dangerous.…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 29:43 There was something lost about both young men. They never hit it off. Lee was too dogmatic for Michael. He reminded him of his distant father, too wrapped up in political theories. Apart from providing a few suspicious circumstantial detail…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24
▶ 31:46 as sure as Ruth. As he talked about the catastrophic days, he seemed bewildered, like somebody trying to explain a collision that he had survived long ago. He still wavered back and forth, just as he did with the Warren Commission. Oswald w…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 42:08 The Truman Record is yet another example of the spymaster's strange activities. But Dulles' greatest success at reconstructing reality was still to come. With the Warren Report, Dulles could literally rewrite history. The inquest into the d…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 43:00 Who one would think would be more skeptical considering the exhaustive detail with which he documented JFK's habitual deceit in his multi-volume work. In his 1971 memoir, Johnson wrote that he appointed Dulles and John McCloy to the Warren …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 43:30 LBJ clearly felt that he could get away with that lie. But the idea that LBJ would huddle with a man he hated in order to discuss a political sensitive composition of that commission is ludicrous. The Warren Commission inquiry had the abili…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 44:00 He sought, quote, men who were known to be beyond pressure and above suspicion, unquote. But the biggest suspected criminal of all was put in charge of it. What LBJ wanted was men who could be trusted to close the case and put the public su…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 45:52 Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, with whom he had done business since his days at Chase Manhattan. It was a national security establishment, not Bobby Kennedy, that advised the new president to put Dulles and McCloy on the Warren Commis…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 46:16 The Dulles camp itself made no bones about the fact that the old man aggressively lobbied to get appointed to the commission. Dick Helms later told historian Michael Kurtz that he quote personally persuaded unquote Johnson to appoint Dulles…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 47:12 who was close to Dulles, confirmed that the spymaster pulled strings to get on the Warren Commission. Quote, he lobbied hard for the job. Unquote, Corson said. He had commanded young Allen Jr. during the Korean War. After he took his place …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 50:14 You always do what's best for the country. I found out about you a long time ago, unquote. You're a lying devil. In the end, it all worked out just as Washington establishment wanted. And as Charles DeGaulle had predicted, the commission wa…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 50:45 Dulles and McCloy. After months of investigative wheel spinning, the panel would reach its foregone conclusion. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president, case closed. When President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, one of the new Afric…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 56:32 Wanted to throw something out there. I thought of when you were mentioning, I forget the name of it, that phony committee that was put together just at the end of the chapter. Fair play. Yeah, kind of reminded me of the January 6th select c…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 57:02 Which one? The Warren Commission was the Senate committee to investigate the shooting. Yeah, with all of the inside bad actors. Yeah, so Warren Commission. Yeah. A funny tidbit of the Warren Commission was Arlen Specter was a young, I think…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 57:30 a lot of that commission, and later he winds up on the 9-11 commission. Weird, isn't it? Yeah, it's kind of funny how these certain senators and certain, you know, Washington, D.C. characters keep showing up to manage the same deep politica…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25
▶ 1:02:35 on the Kennedy assassinations that was published as part of the assassination chronicles. So he wrote Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend. And it's kind of funny. I'm trying to figure out the timeline for it right now, but it seems like he sho…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 2:18 We're talking about the Warren Commission. As we all know, the Warren Commission was named after Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. And he basically had to be strong-armed by President Johnson into chairing it because he didn't want t…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 2:50 As attorney Mark Lane, one of the first critics of the lone gunman's theory, later observed, it should have been called the Dulles Commission because of course it should. His dominant role in the investigation was throughout the entire comm…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 3:21 as a deflection because of the questions being asked about Dulles' involvement after his firing by JFK. Although the Chief Justice was a former Republican governor of California and the Eisenhowers appointee to the bench, he had a sterling …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 3:49 Warren was to be quoted as saying that years later. Behind the scenes, Dulles was even more active than the commission chairman. Warren was forced to juggle his commission duties as well as his Supreme Court duties. Dulles, of course, didn'…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 4:22 all the time. He promptly began assembling his own informal staff, drawing on the services of his former CIA colleagues and his wide network of political and media contacts. Two other principal players in the inquest were Dulles' longtime f…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 4:54 who was then an ambitious Republican congressman from Michigan with ties to the FBI. While the rest of the commission, Congressman Hale Boggs from Louisiana and Senators Richard Russell from Georgia, along with John Sherman Cooper of Kentuc…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 5:24 Dulles, McCloy, and Ford took control of the investigation. Now keep in mind, Hale Boggs, we've talked about before, and his corrupt running of Louisiana. Richard Russell, of course, is most notorious in Georgia for his relationship with th…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 5:59 Dulles McCloy Ford trifecta demonstrated their dominance at the commission's first executive session held December 5th, 1963, when they joined forces to block Warren's personal favorite for the chief counsel position, Warren Olney, O-L-N-E-…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 6:28 As an assistant attorney general in Eisenhower's Justice Department, Olney had earned the wrath of the FBI Hoover for his aggressive prosecution of civil rights cases and was suspected as being hostile to the FBI. Instead of Warren's man, t…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 6:59 Now, wait a minute. The Warren Commission Chief Justice Warren doesn't get to pick who's going to be the lead prosecutor? All a kabuki dance. In 1958, Dulles had heartily recommended Rankin for membership in the Century Association, an excl…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 7:30 other remaining members of the trio to set up a pretend investigation, keeping the focus tightly on Oswald and avoiding any areas that had the faintest tinge of conspiracy. Dulles tried to establish the framework in the inquiry early on by …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 8:26 that John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln, was part of a broader Confederate plot to decapitate the federal government, rather famously contradicting the Donovans' theory. But undeterred, Dulles continued to push the commission to frame Oswa…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 8:54 the quote unquote proper track. He showered Rankin with memos, passing along investigative tips and offering guidance on commission strategy. There was no detail too small for Dulles to bring to the chief counsel's attention. Quote, a great…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 9:47 Despite Dulles' efforts to keep the commission away from any hints of a conspiracy, from time to time, uncomfortable questions along those lines cropped up. During an executive session that was convened on December 16, 1963, Warren tried to…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 11:13 I think they'll doctor anything they hand to us. Yes, yes, they do that. Russell was edging painfully close to a fundamental problem at the core of the Warren Commission. How could the board run a credible inquest when it had limited invest…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 11:44 in their failure to protect the president. The Warren Commission was, in fact, so thoroughly infiltrated and guided by the security services that there was no possibility of the panel pursuing an independent course. Dulles was at the center…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26
▶ 12:12 Despite the chronic tension between the CIA and the FBI, Hoover proved a useful partner during the JFK inquiry. The FBI chief knew that his organization had its own secrets to hide related to the assassination, including its contact with Os…