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also: three Baltic nations
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“were pushing hard for engaging Azerbaijan in a membership question. Quote, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Poland, and UK and the Baltic states, unquote, are among the member states also backing a fast track for Azerbaijan's NATO membership. I'm ju…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 13:51
William Colby recruited
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“William Colby. There you go. I can always get those two confused, Casey and Colby. I should remember Colby Cheese. Maybe that's how I'll remember it. He had worked in Scandinavia for the OSS and he went back where his primary mission was, s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 28:01
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▶ 13:51
were pushing hard for engaging Azerbaijan in a membership question. Quote, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Poland, and UK and the Baltic states, unquote, are among the member states also backing a fast track for Azerbaijan's NATO membership. I'm ju…
▶ 3:59
We are on the Secret Warriors chapter in Safe for Democracy. American capabilities for covert operations came too late for some. In the Baltic states, where nationalists waged a tragic struggle against the re-imposition of Soviet control, t…
▶ 4:31
Nonetheless, an attempt would be made. Wisner's move into paramilitary action was preceded by the British Secret Intelligence Service, SIS, whose controller, North, became the first to make contact and give the Baltics hope and support. It …
▶ 5:02
when news of the atomic bomb reached Lithuania. In Baltic cities, one heard speculation that the Americans would hand Stalin an ultimatum and force Soviet withdrawal. To the enthralled partisans, it seemed freedom must lie around the next d…
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As with the displaced persons after the war, they found a ready pool of enlistees. Infiltration of SIS teams began in 1945. The experience was similar in all of the Baltic nations. When the British gathered most Baltic refugees in small num…
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The pretense would be maintained throughout training, the only exception being a few carefully selected recruits sent to Germany or Britain for specialized instruction. Carr and other SIS chiefs reasoned that spies whom the Russian inserted…
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And the British permitted these unarmed ships to wear Royal Navy ensign. The SIS then enlisted a former German naval officer, Hans Helmut Kloss, who had led a torpedo boat flotilla in the Baltics. In other words, he was a Nazi. To skipper t…
▶ 13:09
Here's where the CIA could be helpful. You know, our money. In particular, Frank Wisner. He had money to burn because of the Marshall Plan. Not only was Wisner liberally funded by three different agencies and the Marshall Plan, he had other…
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President Truman himself, in a dramatic gesture near the close of 1946, congratulated a group of Estonian refugees who crossed the Atlantic in a wooden sailing vessel and ordered the immigration services to ignore their lack of visas. Senat…
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Operations were mounted from the western zone of Germany, as was preliminary agent training, though certain specialties such as parachute jumping were taught in England and the United States. And in the camps among the Baltic immigrants in …
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So the Nazis are picking out their own people. The Germans had fewer language difficulties with the Baltic nations. So they also did much of the basic training and housekeeping at the bases. They have Nazis training these people. And these …
▶ 19:09
October 3, 1949. A team was parachuted into Lithuania by Czech air crew working for OPC, Frank Wisner. Communications remained poor. The agent's messages garbled. The Baltics warned that the operation had been penetrated by the enemy, but t…
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Latvians, and Lithuanians. The CIA also did some recruiting among other immigrant population living in the United States. They would be working for Lindsay at $125 a week for three months of training, $100 per day in the denied area, and a …
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where they met with Harry Carr and other senior SIS officers concerned about these operations. Harry Rositsky led the group for the CIA, and one of the more suspicious Baltic officers accompanied the OPC team. Officers like Lindsay and Jerr…
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in whose jurisdiction much of the recruiting and support work was done, were under a cloud because of operational failures. Wisner's plans for seaborne landings in the works, doubts had to be cleared up. Rositsky also raised questions regar…
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In Lithuania, the National Partisan Army decided to disband in 1952. A few partisans continued to fight. There were reports of captures as late as 1960 and of the deaths in action against the Russians as late as 64. The CIA-SIS operation pe…
▶ 26:57
direct civilian casualties in the three states were estimated at 75,000 people. It never had a hope of working. All of their agents that they sent in were killed. And along with it, anybody that had anything to do with them, which amounted …
▶ 28:33
We know they were used for something else. The Baltic partisan failure particularly upset Bill Colby with its implications for his own attempts to create prospective resistance groups. The tight compartmentalization of information within th…
▶ 44:10
One footnote that I wanted to highlight, it says, the Americans wanting to avoid interfering in the internal politics of the Soviet Union, which is laughable, did not include the separatist movements of the white Russians, Ukrainians, or Be…
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His men were dropping gold indigates into lakes and burying caches of weapons for the coming battles. In the marshes and foothills of Ukraine and the Baltics, his pilots were dropped to their deaths. That was basically dropping them in thos…