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Claims (19)
Peace and Freedom Organization front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“opportunity and also more along a psychological operation being crafted. So the Peace and Freedom Organization was intended to build a transnational network geared towards a common anti-communist theme that devolved into a collaboration and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 35:52
Jean-Paul David founded
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“All right, guys, we're going to try this one more time. We will not be defeated. All right. So again, setting France 1950s, John Paul David creates a poster that says the dove that goes boom. And it is part of a network that was called the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 0:00
Peace and Freedom Organization carried_out_attack
Soviet Union host_asserted
“It's being funded by the CIA and the Marshall Plan, just like Operation Gladio. Let's move on. The network decided in May 1951 to launch the poster campaign with denunciation of Soviet camps. For your holidays, visit the USSR, Country of Fr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 29:03
Peace and Freedom Organization front_for
United States Institute of Peace host_asserted
“Well, the public safety was more militant. They are the actual ones that were killing people. The Institute of Peace is exactly like this. Okay, maybe that's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah, it is exactly like that. And thank you for bringing…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 37:48
Peace and Freedom Organization front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And there's the French words, but that's basically what it means. It's C-I-A-S. And it was set up in 1956. Throughout the decade, it participated in American psychological warfare campaigns and mobilization of Europeans into an anti-communi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 0:33
Pierre Rostini member_of
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“because he was basically one of his lieutenants. Both organizations were direct products of the Cold War. Their roots traced back to the anti-communism of the interwar period and throughout the Second World War. Peace and Freedom certainly …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 7:54
George Albertini member_of
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“In the 1950s, Silverani reactivated an organization called the Institute of Social History, an anti-communist documentation center that he had founded in 1935. John Paul Davis also relied on a guy by the name of George Albertini, A-L-B-E-R-…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 9:57
Giglio Di Marzio founded
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“C-H-A-N-T-R-E. Following these meetings, at the behest of the CIA, David promoted the creation of several new peace and freedom organizations in all of Europe. There was one founded in Italy in 1951 by Giglio Di Marzio, an employee of the p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 16:34
Marcel Pasternac headed
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“for the Marshall Plan, who was attached to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and whom Jean-Paul David had been directed to by the Italian authorities. At the end of spring 1951, Peace and Freedom Committee was also set up in Brussels…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 17:09
E.P. Van Damme headed
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“had run the Society of Politics and Economics, a private anti-communist organization that represented the Belgium section. And from, let's see, at the start of 51, he served as Jean-Paul David's intermediary in the creation of a Dutch Peace…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 18:07
Jean-Paul David headed
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“leadership role because he becomes, as a result of this meeting, the Secretary General. David also prepared an agreement protocol and an internal ruling determining relations between them and any other organization they were going to collab…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 21:08
Peace and Freedom Organization front_for
Allied Clandestine Committee host_asserted
“including centralizing all the documentation, maintaining finances, and convening quarterly meetings. And keep in mind, what I'm describing to you, which I find completely fascinating, is the precursor to the ACC and the CPC that gets house…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 22:34
Eduardo Sogno member_of
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“their version of this, which joined the European Committee in December 1952. Then it talks a little bit about the Switzerland one and the controversy, you know, because they're neutral and blah, blah, blah. David was also involved in the re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 24:35
Pierre Rostini member_of
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“at a NATO meeting in 1952. What would David be going to a NATO meeting for? David's deputy by 1953 was a guy by the name of Pierre Rostini. He solicited the British authorities to set up their version of this. In March of 1952, the date of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 25:34
CIA funded
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“Notably, these funds served to mask the provision of aid from the United States via the CIA and the Marshall Plan counterpart funds. All starting to make sense? Support given to these peace and freedom networks fell under the clandestine op…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 27:32
Psychological Strategy Board funded
Peace and Freedom Organization host_asserted
“Notably, these funds served to mask the provision of aid from the United States via the CIA and the Marshall Plan counterpart funds. All starting to make sense? Support given to these peace and freedom networks fell under the clandestine op…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 27:32
CIA funded
Peace and Freedom Organization book_quoted
“it was very certain where the money came from. The money came originally from the Marshall Plan and the Rockefellers. Paul Williams tells us that. So does Danielle Ganser and many other books that talks about this operation. According to on…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 2:35
Marshall Plan funded
Peace and Freedom Organization book_quoted
“it was very certain where the money came from. The money came originally from the Marshall Plan and the Rockefellers. Paul Williams tells us that. So does Danielle Ganser and many other books that talks about this operation. According to on…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 2:35
Rockefeller Foundation funded
Peace and Freedom Organization book_quoted
“it was very certain where the money came from. The money came originally from the Marshall Plan and the Rockefellers. Paul Williams tells us that. So does Danielle Ganser and many other books that talks about this operation. According to on…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 2:35
Mentions (20)
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All right, guys, we're going to try this one more time. We will not be defeated. All right. So again, setting France 1950s, John Paul David creates a poster that says the dove that goes boom. And it is part of a network that was called the …
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The Paulette Liberté was first and foremost a two-dimensional state private network. At the national level, the agents from the civil society joined forces with the state to fight against the quote-unquote communists. At the international l…
▶ 1:34
psychological warfare during the Cold War. There were two factors that gave Po-Liberté organization a transnational dynamic. Its anti-communist purpose and its determination to act in ways that went beyond national framework. It therefore p…
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With the CIA at the head, and technically it was NATO, but all of their intelligence organizations were part of it. At the end of the summer of 1950, two associations emerged in France and in the Federal Republic of Germany that seemed to h…
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The Peace and Freedom Organization was placed on the registrar of private associations. So it's ran by the government, but they listed it as private, which kind of gives you the same model that was later adapted here, where you have the pub…
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because he was basically one of his lieutenants. Both organizations were direct products of the Cold War. Their roots traced back to the anti-communism of the interwar period and throughout the Second World War. Peace and Freedom certainly …
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A peace and freedom organization was approached by a small anti-communist group called Resistance Occidental, RO, that was set up in 1951 in Germany around a guy by the name of Berndt Engelmann, E-N-G-E-L-M-A-N-N, which aimed to create…
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C-H-A-N-T-R-E. Following these meetings, at the behest of the CIA, David promoted the creation of several new peace and freedom organizations in all of Europe. There was one founded in Italy in 1951 by Giglio Di Marzio, an employee of the p…
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for the Marshall Plan, who was attached to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and whom Jean-Paul David had been directed to by the Italian authorities. At the end of spring 1951, Peace and Freedom Committee was also set up in Brussels…
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of political refugees from Central Europe. There was one in Belgium called the CIDCC. The true architect of the Belgian wing, however, was officially created for October 51 by two guys, Marcel de Ruver, R-O-O-V-E-R, and Maurice, I'll spell …
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had run the Society of Politics and Economics, a private anti-communist organization that represented the Belgium section. And from, let's see, at the start of 51, he served as Jean-Paul David's intermediary in the creation of a Dutch Peace…
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a civilian slash government entity to coordinate Operation Gladio activities is basically, and ironically, they're calling it peace and freedom. So the contacts were established between peace and freedom and the VFF. Several indications see…
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was abandoned shortly afterwards, however, as a European Committee of Peace and Freedom was set up in San Remo in August of 1951 during a Congress that they had there. So then you had French, German, Italian, Dutch, Belgium, all collaborati…
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Clandestine Planning Committee. Those two organizations basically take over the duties of everything that we're talking about here. In the Committee for Europe, there was a huge expansion under David's leadership. He worked towards the foun…
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That's only because they're still a French colony, remember? So all of this is getting set up to create a quote-unquote global front for this anti-communist effort. The financing of the committees were insured, get this, by subsidies origin…
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Through this framework, CIA subsidies was transferred to the national committees. The Peace and Liberty also benefited from additional funds intended for international committees, which were used to assist the formation of new organizations…
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with the same emblems, the same everything, just with different wording for the languages. The background constituted a reactivation of anti-communist themes beloved by Goebbels, thereby doubling the initial message. It also, let's see, pea…
▶ 35:52
opportunity and also more along a psychological operation being crafted. So the Peace and Freedom Organization was intended to build a transnational network geared towards a common anti-communist theme that devolved into a collaboration and…
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Operation Gladio. And one of the notes I just highlighted talked about several of the people not necessarily mentioned in the chapter were all members of the French Vichy activists, which, as you guys know, they were the people that didn't …
▶ 36:11
Familiar? That's exactly what the Peace and Freedom Organization that we were just talking about the last two days. They promote democracy and human rights. And in their wake, millions of people died. I'm not convinced at all they care abou…