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Claims (54)
William J. Donovan member_of
Buffalo documented
“That building is like the old architecture that was in the United States, which you basically cannot find anywhere. It looks like downtown Moscow. And so everything about his assassination and just keep in mind, Buffalo was ran by about thr…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund @ 56:47
Robert Jackson removed_from_power
William J. Donovan documented
“On November 26, a few days after the trial began, Jackson wrote a letter to Donovan making it clear that their views were far apart and there was no role for the OSS chief on Nuremberg's team. By the end of the month, Donovan was gone. But …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 6:19
William J. Donovan recruited
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
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
William J. Donovan documented
“wartime chief of OSS and Eisenhower's appointment in 1953 to ambassador of Thailand. Why Thailand? Because that's where they're going to run all the drugs out of. Oversaw the attempt to clean up the Lee Mai mess. This repatriation of Chines…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 1:06
William J. Donovan member_of
William H. Frank host_asserted
“It talks about this commission that was set up in July of 1954. And William Frank, Morris Hadley, and William Polly were doing the review. Well, if you look up these people, specifically, there's not a, I mean, William Frank.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 1:41
William J. Donovan member_of
Morris L. Ernst host_asserted
“It talks about this commission that was set up in July of 1954. And William Frank, Morris Hadley, and William Polly were doing the review. Well, if you look up these people, specifically, there's not a, I mean, William Frank.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 1:41
William Casey worked_for
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“veterans to the Circle Complex. Among the American partners were several former OSS men and current CIA people like William Casey. Casey, it will be recalled, worked for William Donovan's law firm back in Buffalo and the same law firm that …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 34:48
William J. Donovan recruited
Alfred Victor DuPont book_quoted
“in total was $200 million purchase of just 21,000 acres of the land from St. Joe Company. The DuPonts are no stranger to the CIA either. Alfred DuPont's son, Alfred Victor DuPont, an architect, was recruited by General William Bill Donovan …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 31:08
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
William J. Donovan funded
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“He not only was massively involved in the operational level of setting up Chiang Kai-shek and the China lobby and all of that other stuff to include fronting as companies like the Curtis franchise over there so they could build fighters and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 2:10:45
William J. Donovan member_of
China Lobby host_asserted
“He not only was massively involved in the operational level of setting up Chiang Kai-shek and the China lobby and all of that other stuff to include fronting as companies like the Curtis franchise over there so they could build fighters and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 2:10:45
William J. Donovan secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“Once you find, oh, and then, you know, we're doing Condor. We moved on and he shows up as an ambassador in Latin America. And then we look at Cuba and, oh, my God, he owned the airline there. He owned the bus company for the entire island. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 2:11:08
William J. Donovan recruited
Kermit Roosevelt book_quoted
“Kim joined the War Information Office that while Bill Donovan would eventually turn into the OSS. Roosevelt's PhD dissertation in propaganda, yeah, propaganda in England's glorious revolution had been just the thing to appeal to Donovan who…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 33:24
William J. Donovan established_base_in
Kunming host_asserted
“That's where the OSS came in. And we know that it was at the time ran by Wild Bill Donovan. And Wild Bill Donovan, once he was told to establish a presence in the Pacific, decided that they were going to put the base at a place called Kunmi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 27:10
William J. Donovan looked_for_man_to_maintain_relationships_with
Tai Li host_asserted
“Naturally, there's a functioning French administration and a French intelligence in that territory. However, the goals of the Allies diverged toward the oncoming war. An urgent need for independent firsthand intelligence emerged. Thus, Dono…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 29:06
Paul Helliwell proposed
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“to attack Chiang Kai-shek and get him out of the country because he was poisoning, drugging all of the Chinese. And Paul Helliwell watched Chiang Kai-shek pay for his war effort by selling opium to the local people. And Paul Helliwell thoug…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:17:30
William J. Donovan founded
World Commerce Corporation book_quoted
“It was a private intelligence firm established by none other than Wild Bill Donovan, which was set up right after they closed up shop of the OSS. The WCC or World Commerce Corporation was staffed with all the former OSS officers. So basical…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 8:00
William J. Donovan secretly_owned
World Commerce Corporation host_asserted
“Eventually, soft industry companies were also taken over by a shadowy entity known as the World Commerce Corporation. Huh. We found that and we also know who actually owned that. Wild Bill Donovan. Huh. Isn't that crazy? So, this goes to sh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 53:30
William J. Donovan pardoned
Hjalmar Schacht book_quoted
“when the Nazis were in power. Slott is widely credited with the German miracle that enabled Hitler to rearm in the intervening years when supposedly they were so strapped they couldn't make the reparation payments. In the aftermath of the w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 19:31
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
William J. Donovan founded
Air America host_asserted
“and take him down to Cuba for an assault on the island. He also owned the airline, the one that they bombed and killed everybody on board, the Cuban exiles. That airline, that Cuban airline, he owned before Castro took over. He owned all of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 10:16
William J. Donovan founded
World Commerce Corporation host_asserted
“basically Operation Gladio. They're going to be, and so they set up an organization called the World Commerce Corporation, and that's going to be a vehicle. It's basically a CIA front company that they're going to do all of this through. So…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 11:18
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“And I know, SR, that Bridget had told you she's going to bug out a little early today. So I have to start the show and apologize because I normally do this ahead of time. Yesterday, when we were going over the Jimmy Doolittle commission tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 0:43
William J. Donovan member_of
William Casey host_asserted
“We came across William Polly's name. I had meant to look up the other people there. I recognized one of the guy's names. And now I know why I recognized his name. And I normally do that as I'm going through the book, taking notes. But I did…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 1:14
William J. Donovan attempted_coup_against
Robert Jackson documented
“Donovan and Jackson began to grow in July when the OSS chief moved to take over what Nuremberg prosecutors referred to as the trial's economic case. As Wall Street lawyers, Donovan and Dulles considered themselves uniquely equipped to take …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 2:29
Robert Jackson removed_from_power
William J. Donovan documented
“was a part of FDR's Justice Department. He had taken on corporate interests like the Mellon family and fought tax evasion and antitrust battles. Well aware of the corporate conflict of interest that Donovan and Dulles brought to the Nurembe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 3:31
William J. Donovan recruited
Hermann Goring documented
“The banker knew where much of the Nazi Germany's assets were hidden, which continued to make him valuable. Behind the scenes, Donovan took the shameless step of working out a deal with these two prominent defendants, offering them leniency …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 5:22
William J. Donovan recruited
Hjalmar Schacht documented
“The banker knew where much of the Nazi Germany's assets were hidden, which continued to make him valuable. Behind the scenes, Donovan took the shameless step of working out a deal with these two prominent defendants, offering them leniency …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 5:22
Allen Dulles argued_with
William J. Donovan book_quoted
“been encircled by Nazi forces, but he also was surrounded by old friends, meaning the actual Nazis." While Dulles had originally been slated to go to London on behalf of the OSS, he argued with Wild Bill Donovan that him being stationed in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 14:34
William J. Donovan member_of
Special Operations Group host_asserted
“Hadley, and you're never going to believe who the fourth person was on this study. Bridget, one guess. Any guess? Exactly. Gotta be. William Pauly. Pauly. They do turn up like bad pennies, don't they? Oh, my God. That's all I can say. If yo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 8:45
William J. Donovan funded
Flying Tigers host_asserted
“William Polly is like the ultimate CIA guy that was never affiliated with the CIA and was 100% CIA his entire life. He shows up and he's the guy that basically created and funded the Flying Tigers. No matter what you read, he's at the heart…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 9:19
William J. Donovan founded
Air America host_asserted
“initial aircraft for the Flying Tigers, which became the Civil Air Transport, which became the main drug thoroughfare. He's behind all of that. So to find out that he sits on, I just about fell out of my chair when I first got this book. An…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 11:40
William J. Donovan supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“William Polly is like the ultimate CIA guy that was never affiliated with the CIA and was 100% CIA his entire life. He shows up and he's the guy that basically created and funded the Flying Tigers. No matter what you read, he's at the heart…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 9:19
William J. Donovan founded
World Commerce Corporation host_asserted
“Hambro was a partner of William Stevenson, and William Stevenson ran the front company called British American Canadian Corporation, BACC. BACC merged with, while Bill Donovan's WCC, the World Commerce Corporation, because they were both fr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 30:56
William J. Donovan recruited
Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted
“that conducted covert operations at home and abroad. As a result, OSS chief William Donovan asked Engslinger to provide seasoned FBN agents to help organize the OSS and train its agents to work undercover in hostile nations. The relationshi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 7:16
William J. Donovan appointed
Thailand host_asserted
“We talked about earlier when Warhamster and I were doing our show about why Bill Donovan ended up as the ambassador of Thailand. Well, of course he ended up as the ambassador of Thailand because we were setting up Thailand as the narco netw…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 1:15:01
William J. Donovan funded
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“their Air Force. And he also helped fund the creation of Sea Supply, which basically gave, it was a CIA front company for ships that was basically at the end of the day all given to Taiwan in order to orchestrate drug trafficking. So you ha…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 14:43
William J. Donovan carried_out_attack
Cuba host_asserted
“Because if you remember William Polly, the multimillionaire CIA agent that was involved in a whole bunch of overthrows of governments installing fascist dictators in South America, he used his yacht to go launch a coup in Cuba, his personal…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 14:13
William J. Donovan founded
Office of Strategic Services caller_asserted
“I never finished the book, Wild Bill Donovan, the spymaster who created the OSS. But early on in that book, it brings up his extreme amount of extramarital affairs and how he would use it against his political rivals. And then also, I think…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 6 @ 44:20
William J. Donovan ran
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“That's where the OSS came in. And we know that it was at the time ran by Wild Bill Donovan. And Wild Bill Donovan, once he was told to establish a presence in the Pacific, decided that they were going to put the base at a place called Kunmi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 27:10
William J. Donovan headed
Office of Strategic Services book_quoted
“had convinced Harry Truman that we needed a peacetime version of it as well. Truman, of course, agreed and set up all types of intelligence capability, mainly what originally was termed the Central Intelligence Group, which became the Centr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 11:17
William J. Donovan appointed
Thailand host_asserted
“He is now sitting in the ambassadorship to Thailand in the early 1950s. This was repatriation of the Chinese nationalist in northern Burma in accordance with the express wishes of the Burmese government. So for those of you who may be new, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 21:29
William J. Donovan member_of
Rumsey family host_asserted
“And I said, that's the family that Wild Bill Donovan married into in Buffalo, New York. And they owned like half of Buffalo. All of the prime real estate was in their family. And they're the family that got, they were in railroads and all k…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 47:45
William J. Donovan recruited
Robert Jackson documented
“underlined the various ways that he could be of use as Jackson prepared the cases, including providing German witnesses for the prosecution as well as secret enemy documents. Jackson was delighted by Dulles' offer of assistance, noting in h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 0:58
Robert Jackson exposed
William J. Donovan documented
“of Nuremberg. Jackson after having agreed to this began realizing that he had fallen into an OSS trap. It became clear to the Nuremberg prosecutor that Donovan and Dulles harbored ulterior motives and agenda that did not always mesh with th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 1:55
Paul Helliwell proposed
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“Because it's a 100% cash industry. And he suggests to, during the end of the OSS into the beginning of the CIA, to William Donovan and then on to Alan Dulles, that they do the same thing. And they use that black market money for the sale of…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 9:14
Allen Dulles succeeded
William J. Donovan guest_asserted
“was a guy by the name of Paul Helliwell. Paul Helliwell, he would eventually become a CIA guy who created a fake bank called Castle Bank in the Bahamas to money launder their drug money. He contacted Wild Bill Donovan, the guy running OSS d…”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 20:25
William J. Donovan member_of
Sullivan & Cromwell host_asserted
“The same group of people, the Wild Bill Donovans of the world, the group that he is from in Buffalo, New York, were among the exact same people that were in and out of government in different positions that stole the country of Panama from …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:44:15
William J. Donovan covered_up
Nazi Party host_asserted
“by putting a number of OSS agents on his staff. Now, keep in mind, Allen Dulles has already prepared to ratline Nazis out. And just like he did with JFK's assassination, he worms his way in to basically controlling Nuremberg. And that's wha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 1:25
William J. Donovan carried_out_attack
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Once you find, oh, and then, you know, we're doing Condor. We moved on and he shows up as an ambassador in Latin America. And then we look at Cuba and, oh, my God, he owned the airline there. He owned the bus company for the entire island. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 2:11:08
Erik Prince spied_on
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“And that that wasn't all a bad idea. And I mean, the guy just, oh, he's just awful. He likened himself to Wild Bill Donovan. Exactly. And I should tell you a bunch. Yeah, I can see the likeness. But I will post that up in the pill.…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Africa overview_ WWF exposed @ 1:08:19
William J. Donovan member_of
Office of Strategic Services host_asserted
“If you go back to the founding of our intelligence agencies, almost all of the people, even back to the OSS days, the Dulles's, Wild Bill Donovan, these are all lawyers, but more specifically, they're international investment bankers.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 40:30
CIA appointed
William J. Donovan host_asserted
“The CIA is part of the executive office of the presidents, per se, where the State Department is a separate cabinet. But the poorestness, for example, we have found CIA agents that have been appointed to be ambassadors. Wow. We have found, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Open Mic @ 43:11
William J. Donovan member_of
Nazi Party host_asserted
“was still split over the issue of whether to bring him to trial. The U.S. hardliners favored prosecution, as did Jackson, but Jackson's most senior deputy, former SS chief William Donovan, strongly opposed the trial. Donovan argued that Sla…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 34:19
Mentions (120)
▶ 40:30
So it's absolutely no coincidence that CIA would be involved in international banking. If you go back to the founding of our intelligence agencies, almost all of the people, even back to the OSS days, the Dulles's, Wild Bill Donovan, these …
▶ 1:01:26
Paul Helliwell calls Alan Dulles and Bill Salt while Bill Donovan and says, hey, I got an idea. If we set this Gladio shit up in NATO, we can pay for it all off book selling heroin, selling cocaine. We'll do it just like Chiang Kai-shek doe…
▶ 1:05:14
worked for who during World War II? Eisenhower in Europe as his logistician, okay? So he would have been present while they were formulating the plan to lay in Operation Gladio with Alan Dulles, who was OSS at the time in Europe with Wild B…
▶ 27:05
Most people think Taiwan has always been a functioning democracy. It has not. Taiwan was a new country that was set up post World War II on an island called Formosa by a Chinese general by the name of Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek was ac…
▶ 1:08:19
And that that wasn't all a bad idea. And I mean, the guy just, oh, he's just awful. He likened himself to Wild Bill Donovan. Exactly. And I should tell you a bunch. Yeah, I can see the likeness. But I will post that up in the pill.…
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Singlib, you have all of these people that share commonalities in many of the different countries. So we are building the narrative or the story of how they all interrelate. So we will have a segment that talks about some of the main charac…
▶ 12:18
in collaboration with U.S. intelligence, namely Wild Bill Donovan, and he formed what they refer to as an insurance intelligence unit within the OSS. This unit utilized Star's extensive international network of insurance offices to put OSS …
▶ 27:08
All right. Now we're going to talk about CV Star's corporate lawyer. The OSS spy guy turned AIG's corporate lawyer. Okay. It just so happens that Duncan Lee was a confidential assistant to Major General William Wild Bill Donovan while he wa…
▶ 29:39
as a quote-unquote secret member. I'm thinking he was probably a mole in the organization. Okay, so after he graduates from law school, he joined, of all the law firms you could join in New York City after graduating from Yale, he joins Wil…
▶ 30:12
And then he later goes on as his personal assistant in the OSS, working for him over in Europe. So as an OSS officer, Lee served as the head of the China section of what was called Secret Intelligence Branch. He was later accused of actuall…
▶ 27:28
that they have documented by name, says after Stevenson established the facility and acted as the camp's first commander, Commandant Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Koldbeck, while Bill Donovan, which of course led the OSS, credited Stevenson wit…
▶ 10:19
Paul Helliwell's boss during the OSS days was Wild Bill Donovan. He has a very interesting background I'm going to delve into for just a little bit as it relates to this. Donovan takes this idea and runs it past James, Jesus, Angleton, Alle…
▶ 10:49
that they referred to as Little Bill because his name was also William, like Wild Bill Donovan, Little Bill Stevenson. And Little Bill Stevenson, I'm sorry, he was actually from the British Security Office. So all of those people sit down a…
▶ 15:43
That would eventually be based in Taiwan as well. So just want to put that all in context. Not all of that is in Paul Williams book, but that's all of the stuff that I've accumulated knowledge wise since reading his book. So the CIA with wh…
▶ 19:05
120 Broadway played in basically creating Bolshevik communism and the Hitler regime. So you have all of the people represented. You also have the Bank of New York represented. And then they go into Wild Bill Donovan's background, an Ivy Lea…
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He was able to basically help them out during all of that. And at Donovan's request, Commander Happenden, who was part of the ONI contingent, the Office of Naval Intelligence, basically worked to negotiate with Lucky in his jail cell.…
▶ 43:11
The CIA is part of the executive office of the presidents, per se, where the State Department is a separate cabinet. But the poorestness, for example, we have found CIA agents that have been appointed to be ambassadors. Wow. We have found, …
▶ 43:39
William Polly was an asset slash agent, depending on how you want to. And here's the gray area. So if while I'm going to college at Harvard, somebody approaches me and says, hey, we want you to work for the CIA, but we're not going to actua…
▶ 20:25
was a guy by the name of Paul Helliwell. Paul Helliwell, he would eventually become a CIA guy who created a fake bank called Castle Bank in the Bahamas to money launder their drug money. He contacted Wild Bill Donovan, the guy running OSS d…
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basically a collective of anti-communist Operation Gladio operatives in Southeast Asia, whose job it was to orchestrate, cover up the drug trafficking and prop up Chiang Kai-shek. This is the organization that William Pauly helped create.…
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Because if you remember William Polly, the multimillionaire CIA agent that was involved in a whole bunch of overthrows of governments installing fascist dictators in South America, he used his yacht to go launch a coup in Cuba, his personal…
▶ 2:30
connections for me. And so to go down the whole eugenics thing only to come full circle and find the buffalo at the heart of it was just mind-boggling to me. And of course, the overlay with Wild Bill Donovan really does make you think that …
▶ 52:08
to Wild Bill Donovan, who sets up OSS and the CIA. I mean, the connections are just crazy. But, and Kellogg, I mean, you know, he's into funding the whole eugenicists and creates breakfast cereals to poison our kids. I mean, you just can't …
▶ 18:40
Another few names I want to throw out just from what Paul Williams said. Ergenekon basically originated back when Bill Donovan and Paul Helliwell and James Angleton was kind of at the helm where they funded and enabled street thugs and assa…
▶ 56:47
That building is like the old architecture that was in the United States, which you basically cannot find anywhere. It looks like downtown Moscow. And so everything about his assassination and just keep in mind, Buffalo was ran by about thr…
▶ 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…
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As a PR person, he was an advertising executive going into World War Two. And that's where while Bill Donovan found him because they had been using him on the West Coast just as an international syndicate guy to give good press. He had been…
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That's where the OSS came in. And we know that it was at the time ran by Wild Bill Donovan. And Wild Bill Donovan, once he was told to establish a presence in the Pacific, decided that they were going to put the base at a place called Kunmi…
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Naturally, there's a functioning French administration and a French intelligence in that territory. However, the goals of the Allies diverged toward the oncoming war. An urgent need for independent firsthand intelligence emerged. Thus, Dono…
▶ 1:17:30
to attack Chiang Kai-shek and get him out of the country because he was poisoning, drugging all of the Chinese. And Paul Helliwell watched Chiang Kai-shek pay for his war effort by selling opium to the local people. And Paul Helliwell thoug…
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And they kicked them, kicked Chiang Kai-shek out. And that's when the U.S. and William Pauly and the CIA and everybody else all got together and plopped him down in Taiwan and basically changed the KMT army that had been doing all of this t…
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Because it's a 100% cash industry. And he suggests to, during the end of the OSS into the beginning of the CIA, to William Donovan and then on to Alan Dulles, that they do the same thing. And they use that black market money for the sale of…
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I hear a lot of, you know, there's a lot of information that's really not true out there and obviously needs to be debunked with the right information, the correct information for all of us. So the OSS was really a great organization when i…
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The same group of people, the Wild Bill Donovans of the world, the group that he is from in Buffalo, New York, were among the exact same people that were in and out of government in different positions that stole the country of Panama from …
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James Killian, General John Hull, Jimmy Doolittle, who shows up again with the guy, remember we talked about Doolittle and his working with William Polly, who was instrumental in setting up Gladio, and Omar Bradley, and Joe Kennedy, like in…
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And those of you who are new to the series, Wild Bill Donovan's hometown was Buffalo, New York. And there's a lot of nefarious characters and a lot of very, very, very, very rich people that are originally from Buffalo, New York. Yeah, you'…
▶ 4:52
folded all of that capability, the executives, the corporate espionage, all of those functions, the Justice Department piece of this, gets folded into the CIA post-World War II. So it's very interesting to go back and look at how they did i…
▶ 30:03
And the author notes that World War II was crucial in many different ways, which is kind of the point that I've been making the entire time. It changed everything. The U.S. found its British allies to be avid practitioners of secret warfare…
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that conducted covert operations at home and abroad. As a result, OSS chief William Donovan asked Engslinger to provide seasoned FBN agents to help organize the OSS and train its agents to work undercover in hostile nations. The relationshi…
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The OSS was filled with people out of corporate America. The Dulles brothers, the Wild Bill Donovan, who married into a massive amount of money in Buffalo, New York. All of the people in the OSS were the oligarchs and their minions.…
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that got this quote-unquote intelligent stink on them as a result of World War II. They are the guard dogs of the oligarchs. All we did after World War II was take all of those Dovermans, full of oligarchs, and fold them into an organizatio…
▶ 2:10:29
And the very first one that kind of made me, we suspected it a lot as we initially started into this, just based on some of the stuff that we were reading. But the one, again, the one I use all the time is William Polly.…
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He not only was massively involved in the operational level of setting up Chiang Kai-shek and the China lobby and all of that other stuff to include fronting as companies like the Curtis franchise over there so they could build fighters and…
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Once you find, oh, and then, you know, we're doing Condor. We moved on and he shows up as an ambassador in Latin America. And then we look at Cuba and, oh, my God, he owned the airline there. He owned the bus company for the entire island. …
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The firm set up the mission Commerce International China, which that's actually the name of like a company. It was a subsidiary of William Donovan's World Commerce Corporation. Okay. A firm that was backed by leading capitalists like Nelson…
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Corcoran, William Pauley, Whiting, Willauer, and others played important roles in projecting a forward U.S. presence in that area. This was true both for the support of the KMT forces and allies in Taiwan, Burma, Thailand, Korea, Laos, and …
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He said that he should have commented along with the role of Richard Nixon in all of those same events, notably with Polly and Willauer in preparation for the Bay of Pigs. Nixon was a man of political skill and complexity not reduced to wis…
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I think there were less than 40,000 people who had any use of it at all. I mean, it wasn't known, and it certainly wasn't widespread. So, Hello Well, meeting with Dulles and meeting with William Donovan and other people, including Rockefell…
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He knew that the mafia had refineries in Marseille and that the drugs could be freighted by companies that the CIA would create, World Commerce Organization under Bill Donovan, from Indonesia to Marseille where it could be refined. It could…
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the affairs of the Vatican are laid to rest and Pope Pius XII is happy because, you know, there's no longer this awful threat facing him. Well, but there's, you know, Donovan and company and Dulles say, you know, there's one thing that we c…
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in total was $200 million purchase of just 21,000 acres of the land from St. Joe Company. The DuPonts are no stranger to the CIA either. Alfred DuPont's son, Alfred Victor DuPont, an architect, was recruited by General William Bill Donovan …
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Air drops of propaganda leaflets. In just a few months, they dumped like 300 million leaflets, all of which were flown by the Civil Air Transport and the Nationalist Air Force, which, of course, we know was supplied by William Polly. The se…
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Hadley, and you're never going to believe who the fourth person was on this study. Bridget, one guess. Any guess? Exactly. Gotta be. William Pauly. Pauly. They do turn up like bad pennies, don't they? Oh, my God. That's all I can say. If yo…
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William Polly is like the ultimate CIA guy that was never affiliated with the CIA and was 100% CIA his entire life. He shows up and he's the guy that basically created and funded the Flying Tigers. No matter what you read, he's at the heart…
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He was a multi, multi, multimillionaire who died under mysterious circumstances. And he is also the one that created the Navy for Chiang Kai-shek to attack constantly mainland China. He also showed up as ambassador every time there was goin…
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and take him down to Cuba for an assault on the island. He also owned the airline, the one that they bombed and killed everybody on board, the Cuban exiles. That airline, that Cuban airline, he owned before Castro took over. He owned all of…
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in Cuba on the island before Castro took over. He owned multiple sugar plantations and was one of the most pissed off guys because many of those organizations that he owned down there was used as front for the mafia when they had people dow…
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and all of the busting. And they were using that as honeypot in order to blackmail people that came down there and met mafia dons. William Polly is one of the most corrupt people that you will ever meet. And of course, he's dead now. We won…
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initial aircraft for the Flying Tigers, which became the Civil Air Transport, which became the main drug thoroughfare. He's behind all of that. So to find out that he sits on, I just about fell out of my chair when I first got this book. An…
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They're launching all kinds of excursions. And keep in mind, I just told you William Polly gave Chiang Kai-shek an airline. They're taking pamphlets. They're dropping bombs. They're dropping all kinds of shit all along the Chinese border. A…
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5-4-1-2. While President Eisenhower pondered the problems of managing the covert operations and these secret wars out in the field, the operation success down in Guatemala was unfolding, and another set of operations was being carried out i…
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of mainland China. And he spent some time in Burma and basically while Bill Donovan being the ambassador in Thailand was intimately involved in what was going on with Chiang Kai-shek. So General Lee Me himself returned to Taiwan in October …
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Um, while Bill Donovan of the OSS, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles. So all of these people are basically, um, uh, uh, hobnobbing together. Right. I think the Warburg as well. Right. Oh, yeah. He comes up in. Yeah. Cause I'm doing the, um…
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And I said, that's the family that Wild Bill Donovan married into in Buffalo, New York. And they owned like half of Buffalo. All of the prime real estate was in their family. And they're the family that got, they were in railroads and all k…
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And I don't have it in front of me. But if you look at the family where all of the daughters and mainly the daughters of the Rumseys, who all they married, like the one daughter married while Bill Donovan. It's like the who's who, like one …
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than oss chief william donovan yeah she wasn't a civilian she actually was part of the oss and then became part of the cia yeah she wasn't a civilian yeah yep i just found it fascinating that she actually helped set up what would become the…
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Stop that. Put that over there. Turn my camera and my microphone back on. There we are. Oh, my gosh. Crazy. All right. This is crazy. Okay. Now, we're going to start. All right. We're still in the adventures in Asia. William J. Donovan.…
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Doolittle knew President Eisenhower from Britain in 1944 when he had a subordinate air command to Eisenhower. He had met Eisenhower in early July 1954, then sat down with William Frank Morris Hadley and who? None other than William Polly to…
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Let that sink in just a second. William Polly, the guy that's in Southeast Asia setting up the opium empire, Curtis Airline franchise, working with Paul Helliwell, Taiwan, all of that stuff. That guy that's setting up this kind of stuff in …
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Accounts by former CIA officers suggest the agency people in Hungary were caught up in the events of the rebellion and barely escaped across the Austrian border. Vice President Richard Nixon and former OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, like Wisn…
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And I know, SR, that Bridget had told you she's going to bug out a little early today. So I have to start the show and apologize because I normally do this ahead of time. Yesterday, when we were going over the Jimmy Doolittle commission tha…
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Casey had also been one of the original secret warriors. In World War II, he went into the OSS, where he worked as an aide to Wild Bill Donovan. The OSS chief, in turn, sent Casey to London. There, the acolyte helped organize the Jedburgh P…
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while Bill Donovan used the OSS globally with major commands in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, Burma, and China. OSS teams parachuted into France, Norway, former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. They blew up bridges in the Balkans, worked wi…
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and the Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower. By no means was Sullivan and Cromwell the only ones. Donovan, Leisure, Newton, and Lombard, formed by William Donovan, OSS, was formed in 1929. While Bill himself, executor of private m…
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to agitate for the creation of the CIA and remained a strong supporter of the CIA throughout the rest of his life. Donovan's firm employed a number of former OSS people, OSS veteran William Colby being one of them. Frank Wisner had his own …
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at a private school and attended the University of Virginia. He graduated third in his class, bringing an immediate offer from a Wall Street firm. Wisner joined Carter Ledyard Milburn in 1934, located three floors above Donovan's law firm i…
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James Ledyard did essentially the same work as Donovan's law firm. Even older than Sullivan and Cromwell, the firm had been founded in 1854 by lawyers from New York City and Buffalo, New York. James Carter, the Buffalo counsel, left after a…
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at Sullivan and Cromwell. Dulles, like Wild Bill Donovan, became a public figure agitating for the CIA, what would become the CIA. In 1946, Wisner took a huge pay cut and returned to the government as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State…
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Kim joined the War Information Office that while Bill Donovan would eventually turn into the OSS. Roosevelt's PhD dissertation in propaganda, yeah, propaganda in England's glorious revolution had been just the thing to appeal to Donovan who…
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history instructor. One day, while Bill asked Roosevelt what he thought of Iran, effectively giving Kim a portfolio he kept throughout his career. He went to the Eastern Mediterranean with his OSS boss, Stephen Penrose, serving as a top int…
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It was a private intelligence firm established by none other than Wild Bill Donovan, which was set up right after they closed up shop of the OSS. The WCC or World Commerce Corporation was staffed with all the former OSS officers. So basical…
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Eventually, soft industry companies were also taken over by a shadowy entity known as the World Commerce Corporation. Huh. We found that and we also know who actually owned that. Wild Bill Donovan. Huh. Isn't that crazy? So, this goes to sh…
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while Bill Donovan and Alan Dulles in order to set up the negotiations that we know ended up with all of this being folded under NATO. And by 1946, he had the full backing of the U.S. Galen began to assemble the German BND, which is going t…
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Oh, OSS guys. All of the OSS guys, by the way, had a business interest in Europe to begin with that had basically been in bed with Hitler. Nothing to see there. Some of those people were Wild Bill Donovan and Alan Dulles. Also, Thomas Brade…
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Hambro was a partner of William Stevenson, and William Stevenson ran the front company called British American Canadian Corporation, BACC. BACC merged with, while Bill Donovan's WCC, the World Commerce Corporation, because they were both fr…
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and an American piece of a front company that's going to be fronting for Operation Gladio. And while Bill Donovan, of course, was a member of the Knights of Malta. So the future Circle members, along with the Knights of Malta, if you compar…
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who we know, not only did he work for Donovan's law firm, which started out in Buffalo, New York, and eventually moved to New York City, and was instrumental in setting up the World Commerce Corporation. So naturally, all of the initial fro…
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After the SOE had been disbanded in 1946, some of those networks were transferred over to MI6, becoming Operation Gladio as well. It is also highly probable that some of the SOE assets from that network had been transferred to the British A…
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under Wild Bill Donovan. When the British began to formally participate in Gladio, the man tapped to oversee the entire thing was Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, G-U-B-B-I-N-S. Gubbins had had operational command of the SOE. He was basical…
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veterans to the Circle Complex. Among the American partners were several former OSS men and current CIA people like William Casey. Casey, it will be recalled, worked for William Donovan's law firm back in Buffalo and the same law firm that …
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when the Nazis were in power. Slott is widely credited with the German miracle that enabled Hitler to rearm in the intervening years when supposedly they were so strapped they couldn't make the reparation payments. In the aftermath of the w…
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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 …
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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…
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Donovan had recruited an eclectic array of talent from Ivy League adventurers to society girls to safecrackers and professional killers. But Dulles, who moved in the same social circles as Donovan and competed aggressively with him on the t…
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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…
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Dulles' machinations with the prince went nowhere. President Roosevelt was very much in control of the U.S. government, and his uncompromising position on Nazi capitulation was still firmly in place. When OSS Chief Wild Bill Donovan informe…
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Both brothers were militant advocates of U.S. imperial interest, particularly in Latin America, where the Rockefeller family had extensive holdings, and they had background in U.S. intelligence. During World War II, Nelson did not follow ot…
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but higher duties called. All right, we're in May of 1945. Alan Dulles and OSS Chief Bill Donovan met in Frankfurt with Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson, who had just been named Chief U.S. War Crimes Prosecutor by the new pres…
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underlined the various ways that he could be of use as Jackson prepared the cases, including providing German witnesses for the prosecution as well as secret enemy documents. Jackson was delighted by Dulles' offer of assistance, noting in h…
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by putting a number of OSS agents on his staff. Now, keep in mind, Allen Dulles has already prepared to ratline Nazis out. And just like he did with JFK's assassination, he worms his way in to basically controlling Nuremberg. And that's wha…
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of Nuremberg. Jackson after having agreed to this began realizing that he had fallen into an OSS trap. It became clear to the Nuremberg prosecutor that Donovan and Dulles harbored ulterior motives and agenda that did not always mesh with th…
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Donovan and Jackson began to grow in July when the OSS chief moved to take over what Nuremberg prosecutors referred to as the trial's economic case. As Wall Street lawyers, Donovan and Dulles considered themselves uniquely equipped to take …
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financed Hitler's regime. But such a role would have given the two OSS men the ability to control the legal fate of German business figures who had strong ties to their own Wall Street circles. Robert Jackson was close to RFK, excuse me, to…
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was a part of FDR's Justice Department. He had taken on corporate interests like the Mellon family and fought tax evasion and antitrust battles. Well aware of the corporate conflict of interest that Donovan and Dulles brought to the Nurembe…
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Jackson quickly discovered that his concerns were well-founded. As the trial start date approached that fall, Donovan began communicating with Goring and Slatt, whom he recognized as the two most financially astute men among those accused. …
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The banker knew where much of the Nazi Germany's assets were hidden, which continued to make him valuable. Behind the scenes, Donovan took the shameless step of working out a deal with these two prominent defendants, offering them leniency …
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Goring and Slatt, the prosecutors, were aghast. Telford Taylor, Jackson's assistant prosecutor, later called Donovan's actions ill-conceived and dangerous. Goring was a surviving leader and the symbol of Nazism. To put him forward as a man …
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On November 26, a few days after the trial began, Jackson wrote a letter to Donovan making it clear that their views were far apart and there was no role for the OSS chief on Nuremberg's team. By the end of the month, Donovan was gone. But …
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Sentenced to hang by the neck until dead, among them was Goring, whom not even Bill Donovan was able to save. He had predictably proclaimed his innocence to the end. The only motive which guided me was my ardent love for my people. This pro…
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It seemed to cling to him. Here was the man that would finally take her into the world of action, which she had fantasized ever since she was a girl. When she watched while Bill Donovan paraded down Fifth Avenue with his troops on Armistice…
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I never finished the book, Wild Bill Donovan, the spymaster who created the OSS. But early on in that book, it brings up his extreme amount of extramarital affairs and how he would use it against his political rivals. And then also, I think…
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Most of my time is spent reliving the exciting days of the war. A steady stream of former OSS colleagues came to pay respects to his Wall Street office, chatting about the old man, as they affectionately called Wild Bill Donovan. But these …
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As they charted in Dulles' law suite and gathered for drinks at Wild Bill Donovan's townhouse, this rarefied group of OSS veterans who straddled the world's espionage, foreign affairs, and finance were already plotting to create a powerful …
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There was another guy by the name of Harry Hopkins, Wild Bill Donovan, and this guy, Stone, all kind of collaborated for that international stretch of fighting the wars, funding England, blah, blah, blah. But the Stone guy was the man who w…
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So sorry for that long rant, but yeah, there was a connection there. I just wanted to share because also the part of that circle of FDR and Wild Bill Donovan and this Stone guy, that Harry Hopkins is a very interesting one as well. He kind …
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Regarding that timeline with FDR and Stone and Hopkins and Wild Bill Donovan, interestingly enough, that is when Joseph Kennedy was ambassador to the UK. And they were, the whole lot of them were squeezing him out. And apparently JFK.…
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into Germany. Their motto was who dares wins. That's on the picture of Sterling in this residence. There is also a gold figurine of a winged dagger, which is the SAS emblem. There's also a picture of Wild Bill Donovan on the wall. The club …
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from military to private military security companies, from a traditional military to a mix of primarily focused on special forces drones and PMCs. What was undisclosed was the reality that as the traditional military began to shrink, non-tr…
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had grown into a huge paramilitary organization that employed spies and soldiers. The OSS, I mean, it employed a whole bunch of people, mainly bankers and lawyers. The OSS was active in all theaters of the war and utilized people of both Am…
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We talked about earlier when Warhamster and I were doing our show about why Bill Donovan ended up as the ambassador of Thailand. Well, of course he ended up as the ambassador of Thailand because we were setting up Thailand as the narco netw…