William J. Donovan person

· born in Buffalo · died in Washington, D.C.

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George V. Strong relationship_with William J. Donovan documented document

“He vigorously fought Roosevelt's proposal that Colonel Donovan should be returned to active duty with the rank of major general…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.153

William J. Donovan operated_in Knights of Malta documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Egypt documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Greece documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Bulgaria documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Yugoslavia documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Turkey documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Cyprus documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Palestine documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Portugal documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan headed Office of Strategic Services documented document

“William J Donovan is hereby designated as Coordinator of Information…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.147

William J. Donovan headed Office of Strategic Services documented document

“William J Donovan is hereby appointed as Director of Strategic Services…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.147

William J. Donovan proposed Office of Strategic Services documented document

“Preparing his own case Donovan with staff assistance drafted and redrafted a proposed OSS directive establishing the agency's operational authority…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.148

William J. Donovan worked_for Thailand documented document

“After serving as ambassador to Thailand during 1953-1954…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.162

William J. Donovan founded R&A Board of Analysts documented document

“At the start Donovan established an R&A Board of Analysts consisting of half a dozen scholars…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.152

William J. Donovan founded Office of Strategic Services documented document

“Through the driving initiative and single-minded determination of General William J Donovan sponsor and later first director of OSS the organization became the United States first central intelligence body…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.105

William J. Donovan headed Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Fears that a foreign intelligenceagency would intrude into domestic matters went back to 1944 when General William Dono van head of the Officeof Strategic Services (the CIA's wartime predecessor) proposedthat OSSbe transformed from a wartim…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.73

William J. Donovan proposed Strategic Services Unit reported document

“Donovan's plan was leaked to the Chicago Tribune al legedlyby FBI Director Hoover and it was denouncedas a "super spy system which world "pry into the lives of citizens at home.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.73

William J. Donovan worked_for Office of Strategic Services documented document

“Eventually Donovan personally intervened fired Miles and challenged Tai Li to try and halt OSS agents operating in his country…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156

William J. Donovan removed_from_power Milton Miles documented document

“Eventually Donovan personally intervened fired Miles and challenged Tai Li to try and halt OSS agents operating in his country…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156

William J. Donovan founded Sino-American Cooperative Organization documented document

“To retain an OSS foothold in China Donovan found it necessary to agree to creating the Sino-American Cooperative Organization headed by Chiang Kai-shek's feared and hated secret police chief Tai Li…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156

William J. Donovan proposed National Intelligence Authority documented document

“OSS Director William Donovan had also proposed such an entity in 1944.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.247

William J. Donovan died_in Washington, D.C. documented document

“on February 8 1959 William J. Donovan died in the nation's capital…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.162

William J. Donovan recruited Shortwave Research Inc. documented document

“Early in the war influential German emigres to the United States were recruited by Shortwave Research Inc. a COI front to broadcast anti-Nazi messages to their homeland.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.156

William J. Donovan met_with Joint Chiefs of Staff documented document

“In an appeal to the Joint Chiefs of Staff he pointed out that Britain's proposal "suggests `coordination and 'agree '5Smith op cit. pp 51-52…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.155

William J. Donovan worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“In 1944 the head of OSS William Donovan negotiated an agreement with the Soviet Union...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432

William J. Donovan did_business_with Soviet Union documented document

“In 1944 the head of OSS William Donovan negotiated an agreement with the Soviet Union for an exchange of missions between OSS and the NKVD…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.432

William J. Donovan member_of Rainbow Division documented document

“they had served together in the Rainbow Division during the First World War…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.154

William J. Donovan appointed James Murphy documented document

“James Murphy formerly Donovan's secretary when he was Assistant Attorney General was made his personal assistant…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.151

William J. Donovan headed Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Fears that a foreign intelligence agency would intrude into domestic matters went back to 1944 when General William Donovan head of the Officeof Strategic Services proposed that the OSS be transformed from a wartime basis to a permanent 'ce…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.465

William J. Donovan proposed Strategic Services Unit documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.465

William J. Donovan headed Office of Strategic Services documented document

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.105

William J. Donovan met_with White House documented document

“Donovan protested this incredible FBI action to the White House…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.154

William J. Donovan founded Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Through the driving initiative and single-minded determination of William J Donovan sponsor and first director of OSS the organization became the United States first independent intelligence body…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.10

William J. Donovan headed Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Through the driving initiative and single-minded determination of William J Donovan sponsor and first director of OSS…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.10

William J. Donovan headed Office of Coordinator of Information documented document

“COI with Donovan as Coordinator reported directly to the President…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.11

William J. Donovan worked_for Strategic Services Unit documented document

“Donovan's hope that OSS would continue uninterrupted did not materialize…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.12

Office of Strategic Services relationship_with William J. Donovan documented document

“Mr ANGLETON... during World War II the OSS had many people who were loyal to General Donovan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.73

William J. Donovan studied_at British Intelligence Service documented document

“Donovan's original idea for a centralized intelligence agency had derived from his exposure to the British intelligence structure during his 1940 observation missions.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.149

William J. Donovan headed American Committee on a United Europe documented document

“he devoted much of his time to the cause of European federalism as chairman of the American Committee on United Europe…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.162

Frank Knox met_with William J. Donovan documented document

“Early in December Donovan had an informal chat with his old friend Frank Knox Secretary of the Navy…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.148

William J. Donovan headed International Rescue Committee documented document

“he worked as national chairman of the International Rescue Committee…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.162

Franklin D. Roosevelt met_with William J. Donovan documented document

“In the autumn of 1944 as Allied troops continued to roll across Europe and press closer to Japan in the Pacific President Roosevelt sought Donovan's thinking on the matter of a permanent intelligence organization for the period after the en…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.157

Robert A. Taft relationship_with William J. Donovan documented document

“Isolationist senators such as Burton Wheeler and Robert Taft likewise opposed Donovan's advance in rank…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.153

William J. Donovan founded Office of Strategic Services documented document

“The man proposing the new intelligence entity was William J Donovan... he agreed to form the new agency under the somewhat misleading title of Coordinator of Information.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan documented document

“President Roosevelt welcomed the suggestion of a single agency... and invited Colonel Donovan to be its head…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.144

William J. Donovan born_in Buffalo documented document

“Born in Buffalo New York on New Year's Day 1883 William Joseph Donovan's paternal grandparents had immigrated to the United States from Ireland in about 1840…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan studied_at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute documented document

“After attending St Joseph's Collegiate Institute and Niagara University (B.A. 1905) William studied at Columbia University (LL.B. 1907)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan studied_at Niagara University documented document

“After attending St Joseph's Collegiate Institute and Niagara University (B.A. 1905) William studied at Columbia University (LL.B. 1907)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan studied_at Columbia University documented document

“After attending St Joseph's Collegiate Institute and Niagara University (B.A. 1905) William studied at Columbia University (LL.B. 1907)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan worked_for New York National Guard documented document

“Four years later he formed his first law partnership and began his military career enlisting in the 1st Cavalry of the New York National Guard…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan worked_for 42nd Rainbow Division documented document

“With the formation of the 42nd "Rainbow Division he was assigned to the 165th Infantry…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan worked_for 165th Infantry documented document

“With the formation of the 42nd "Rainbow Division he was assigned to the 165th Infantry…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan worked_for Fighting 69th Regiment documented document

“With the formation of the 42nd "Rainbow Division he was assigned to the 165th Infantry and subsequently became a colonel with the Fighting 69th Regiment…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan married Ruth Donovan documented document

“In the summer of 1919 returned to civilian life and about to resume his law practice in Buffalo Donovan and his wife of five years left the United States on a long-deferred honeymoon to Japan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

Roland Morris met_with William J. Donovan documented document

“They had relaxed in Tokyo but a few days when the American ambassador Roland Morris called Donovan on urgent business…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan worked_for U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York documented document

“He became a U.S Attorney for the Western District of New York in 1922…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan worked_for Assistant Attorney General documented document

“In 1924 Donovan was appointed Assistant Attorney General in charge of Federal criminal matters…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.145

William J. Donovan worked_for John G. Sargent documented document

“to Attorney General John G Sargent a position he held until 1929…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan moved_to New York City documented document

“Returning to New York Donovan acted as counsel for the panel revising the state laws pertaining to the Public Service Commission…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Ethiopia documented document

“During the 1930's he traveled to Ethiopia as an impartial observer of the invasion by Italy…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Spain documented document

“next he was in Spain scrutinizing the development of the civil war in that land…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan worked_for Frank Knox documented document

“In July 1940 he went to Great Britain to observe the Blitz for Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in United Kingdom documented document

“In July 1940 he went to Great Britain to observe the Blitz for Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

William J. Donovan operated_in Gibraltar documented document

“In December he was again on a reconnaissance mission touring Gibraltar Malta Egypt Greece Bulgaria Yugoslavia Turkey Cyprus Palestine Spain Portugal and again to Great Britain.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan documented

“of a special tactical capability called the SOEs. Americans had monitored with great interest the success and efficiency of the British Secret Services, SOE, and commandos. Roosevelt immediately supported the formation of such a group, whic…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 9:25

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan documented

“So Donovan's relationship with Stevenson became a matter of official business July 1941, when Donovan was appointed by Roosevelt as the coordinator of information. That's the precursor to the OSS. His charter was to develop a national intel…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 18:06

William J. Donovan born_in Buffalo documented

“Highly decorated from World War I. During the conflict, Donovan held the rank of Major and served in the 1st Battalion Commanders. Donovan had come from an immigrant Irish family and settled in Buffalo, New York. After a few years in Canada…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 10:01

William J. Donovan appointed Allen Dulles documented

“in a New York office building co-located with the British MI6, appointing a New York lawyer called Alan Dulles as his office manager. Within the COI, Donovan established several branches, including a secret intelligence branch, SI, and a sp…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 18:33

William J. Donovan ordered Robert Solberg documented

“We're going to see, and I do not know, it's something somebody else can dig on, steel companies throughout this entire book keep coming up over and over and over again. A lot of steel people involved in Operation Gladio. In the fall of 1941…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 25:28

William J. Donovan selected Robert Solberg documented

“was tasked with sabotage and liaison of foreign undergrounds. In October 1941, Donovan selected Lieutenant Colonel Robert Solberg, S-O-L-B-O-R-G, a veteran Army intelligence officer, as his deputy for special operations. Solberg had receive…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 19:01

William J. Donovan founded Office of Strategic Services documented

“yeah that's pretty insidious the timing of all this stuff happening is interesting um and i think it's worth noting that the united states prior to world war ii never had intelligence agencies during peacetime they had to develop one on cod…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt 7; Robert Maxwell - Man of Many Vices @ 20:45

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 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

William J. Donovan classmate_of Franklin D. Roosevelt documented

“His education included St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, Niagara University, and finally Columbia Law School. While at Columbia, he was a classmate of FDR's. Brian Cates, instead of watching my podcast, is texting me about the football gam…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 10:31

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 founded World Commerce Corporation book_quoted

“section of our chapter donovan um so he has the orders to close the oss and he's created the world commerce corporation to make back channel arrangements for the recruitment of people into the world commerce corporation um in november 1945 …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 27:17

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…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 16:59

William J. Donovan founded World Commerce Corporation book_quoted

“about the Office of Policy Coordination and how it had basically turned into a terrorist organization. So he was absolutely right. The World Commerce Corporation. So finally, while Bill Donovan resigns from the military and goes on to form …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 58:52

William J. Donovan founded World Commerce Corporation book_quoted

“in the missions that had been tabled by the exposure of Plan Blue. Donovan suggested the formation of a private paramilitary group made up of former American, British, Canadian and French operatives and placing them under the cover of the W…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 41:01

William J. Donovan married Rumsey family host_asserted

“did a little bit of digging into Wild Bill Donovan and his wife, who was part of the elite, if you remember a couple of books ago, we talked about it, in Buffalo. One of the richest families, her family was one of the richest families in th…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 12:32

William J. Donovan member_of Office of Strategic Services host_asserted

“Basically connected to the World Commerce Corporation, FDR. That's his wife. One of the mob bosses, Paul Helliwell, that we talked about. And of course, he worked for the OSS, follow on CIA, numerous examples. So if you want to look at this…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 6:35

William J. Donovan proposed Compass Rose book_quoted

“ultra-secret war planning established Europe-wide. Polgar also told the author that the planning was made following the pattern of organizations that existed in the final years of World War II in Western Europe, which was stay-behind units.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 40:31

William J. Donovan did_business_with Jedburgh units book_quoted

“while Bill Donovan had worked with the SOE Jedburgh units in Britain throughout the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, Burma, and China, which kind of is going to go into the second book that we're going to do after this one. Because he talks …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 25:04

William J. Donovan worked_for Morgan family host_asserted

“working, defending trust and different groupings of companies in the corporate area. He was a internationalist, both personally and politically. He looked out for corporate interest. He traveled to Russia on behalf of the Morgans to collect…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 34:55

William J. Donovan moved_to New York City host_asserted

“What the heck does a Catholic church need an intelligence agency for? When the Nazis seized control of Western Europe, Donovan, well, we know because they used it. Donovan relocated, that was a rhetorical question. Donovan relocated Morleon…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 7 and 8 @ 45:57

William J. Donovan did_business_with Union Intelligence Service book_quoted

“It talked about how Donovan had forged an alliance with the Catholic Intelligence Service, which of course is something that we talked about in our last book as well. It talks about Pope Pius decorating while Bill Donovan, and that they had…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 1 @ 17:03

William J. Donovan resigned Robert H. Jackson documented

“and that a tough cross-examination of him on the witness stand would undermine the stability of Germany and our national security. Jackson, however, found himself hemmed in by his commitments to France and the Soviet prosecutors who strongl…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 33:31

William J. Donovan founded World Commerce League host_asserted

“that sets up the world commerce league making bank on everything post-world war ii that sold to re-arm europe okay we learned that in another book and of course we know him to be the chief of the oss and intimately involved in setting up th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2 @ 27:03

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 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

▶ 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 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 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

▶ 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 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 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

Nicholas Murray Butler trained William J. Donovan documented

“Need confirmation on this to receive the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, and the National Security Medal. And just as a side note, he also won a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. So kind of an impress…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 54:32

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

▶ 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 Pilgrims Society documented

“He basically gave birth to Wild Bill Donovan, both of which are pilgrims. Wild Bill Donovan becomes a pilgrim as well. He also was a mentor to J. Edgar Hoover. Did you know that? Do I have that in my notes or did I skip over it? Hoover migh…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 55:06

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

▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 9:19

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 member_of New York National Guard documented

“Nick. Yes. He became the troop leader for the New York National Guard Cavalry Unit that would mobilize in 1916 and serve on the U.S.-Mexico border, part of the hunt for Pancho Villa. Wild Bill was very much known as this very, very, very br…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 56:10

William J. Donovan recruited Allen Dulles documented

“um he brings in alan dallas as part of that and if you look at stevenson the guy that the british sends over who sets up his operation kind of co-located with sullivan um or uh wild bill donovan and um they're basically hatching…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:07:41

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan documented

“Met with King George VI, met with Winston Churchill and all of his intelligence directors. And then 1941, FDR names him coordinator of information, which would lead to the OSS. How deep do you want to go? Well, it's important to be able to …”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:07:09

William J. Donovan member_of Rumsey family documented

“in their own documentation, the wealthiest family in Buffalo, the Rumsey family. I did a big deep dive into the Rumsey family. Very, very interesting and their own connections. Ruth Rumsey, and while Bill Donovan gets married, and that give…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:03:00

Herbert Hoover appointed William J. Donovan documented

“Very good. In 28, Herbert Hoover wins the presidential election. Donovan had supported him and promised him the attorney general job. But the anti-Catholic pressure in D.C., Hoover couldn't give him that job. So instead, he offered him the …”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:04:28

William J. Donovan spied_on George V documented

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:07:09

William J. Donovan spied_on Winston Churchill documented

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:07:09

William J. Donovan member_of Rockefeller Foundation documented

“And he takes a trip in the middle of World War I to Berlin on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation to persuade the governments of England and Germany to allow food shipments into Belgium, Serbia, and Poland. This is while he's actually had …”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 56:46

Harlan Fiske Stone appointed William J. Donovan documented

“The Department of Justice has been absolutely scandal free ever since. Donovan becomes Harlan Stone's assistant in charge of the criminal division. So he's in D.C. He does not get along with Hoover at the FBI. This is important because when…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 59:52

William J. Donovan member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted

“out this whole intelligence infrastructure collectively. And it goes right back to the Pilgrim Society. You have the British liaison for intelligence, Stevenson, sitting with Wild Bill Donovan, the US intelligence guy, hatching the entire s…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:08:06

William J. Donovan headed Office of Strategic Services host_asserted

“A guy by the name of Wild Bill Donovan becomes the first coordinator of information. By the way, the FBI and military did not want Wild Bill Donovan. He was a New York Republican lawyer. This concept of fraternal hostility was born. And bas…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 30:57

William J. Donovan headed Office of Strategic Services host_asserted

“Shows deleted is a guy by the name of Wild Bill Donovan. Coincidentally, Donovan was a lawyer from New York. Joining this, you know, other people who had a lot of intelligence experience, of course, went to these other law firms like Solomo…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 54:39

William J. Donovan supplied_arms_to Chiang Kai-shek book_quoted

“He had the Curtis franchise in Southeast Asia. He basically built Chiang Kai-shek's air force. 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…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 7 @ 16:33

William J. Donovan boss_of Paul Helliwell documented

“One of the attorneys in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest case made the statement that Cantor had introduced how Helliwell was introduced to Helliwell by none other than Wild Bill Donovan, the famous OSS director, who was Helliwell's boss…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B @ 41:29

William J. Donovan did_business_with Cuba book_quoted

“He owned all of the busing transportation 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 fr…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 7 @ 17:30

William J. Donovan received_approval_from Lucius Clay book_quoted

“Soon thereafter, in November, General Donovan and the World Commerce President Frank Ryan would receive formal approval from General Lucius Clay, military governor of Germany, and senior U.S. diplomat Robert Murphy to use WCC as a cover for…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 1:09:18

William J. Donovan did_business_with Special Operations Executive book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 25:04

William J. Donovan opposed Hjalmar Schacht documented

“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…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed in The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12B @ 33:06

William J. Donovan pardoned Hjalmar Schacht host_asserted

“In the aftermath of the war, the OSS founder, Wild Bill Donovan, and future CIA director, Alan Dulles, both would intervene to save him from Nuremberg. By the early 1950s, he would have become a key business partner of Skorzeny's after Skor…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER through Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 24:48

John J. McCloy succeeded William J. Donovan book_quoted

“While Bill Donovan ran the OSS in the European theater during the war, after the war, basically the OSS is dismissed and McCloy, M-C-C-L-O-Y, he basically replaces Donovan as the governor. He's like what MacArthur did in Japan, he did in Eu…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 1:19:53

William Stephenson relationship_with William J. Donovan host_asserted

“Hoover and Stevenson would ultimately have a rift between them by the 1940s. And that's at the point where Stevenson started working closer with William Donovan, which obviously would have been a thorn in Hoover's side because as soon as OS…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 38:33

Nelson Rockefeller relationship_with William J. Donovan host_asserted

“in Italy, which killed 11 supporters of the Italian Communist Party and wounded 57. Nelson Rockefeller's relationship with Donovan and the WCC is telling. It testifies to his complicity in the heroin trade, his ties to organized crime, and …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Last Chapter and Epilogue @ 1:08:42

Allen Dulles did_business_with William J. Donovan host_asserted

“who was the OSS guy in charge. And by the way, he was a major general at the time that he was in charge. Dulles meets with him and tells Donovan about his great idea of joining with the Nazis to fight against the Soviets. So Dulles' justifi…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:31:08

World Commerce Corporation founded William J. Donovan book_quoted

“revamped, reincorporated into the World Commerce Corporation, formed by Wild Bill Donovan and operated by Frank Ryan and Ricaldo Sicri. For his cooperation with the Allies, Johannes Bernhardt received Spanish citizenship in 1946. In other w…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 58:35

Felix Morlion relationship_with William J. Donovan host_asserted

“These poor people's known about it the entire time. So prior Felix Morlion, a Belgian priest, was affiliated with the Hyperion Language School and served to establish its branch of the school in Rome. During World War II, he had worked clos…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 7 and 8 @ 45:27

Preston Goodfellow appointed William J. Donovan host_asserted

“So there's a guy that worked for both the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and as an OSS operative by the name of Garland Williams. And the two of them worked together. Williams was dispatched by Preston Goodfellow, a former Hertz executive, the…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:02:46

Pope Pius XII appointed William J. Donovan book_quoted

“While Bill Donovan, while he's still a military two-star general, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester, the oldest and most prestigious papal knighthood. So in the months that followed 1948 national election, the CIA, b…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 26:53

Pope Pius XII relationship_with William J. Donovan book_quoted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 1 @ 17:03

Pope Pius XII did_business_with William J. Donovan book_quoted

“Several prominent Nazis, including Walter Roth, who had led an extermination unit of the SS across Italy, still remained sheltered in Vatican City, ready to join in the struggle against the Red Menace. In 1945, the Pope had held private aud…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 26:26

James Doolittle member_of William J. Donovan book_quoted

“Doolittle got his basic instructions in a conversation with Ike in early July, then sat down with William Frank, F-R-A-N-K-E, Morris Hadley, and you're never going to believe who the fourth person was on this study. Bridget, one guess. Any …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 7 @ 15:24

Frank Ryan did_business_with William J. Donovan host_asserted

“The president of Botch, B-A-C-H-E and company, incidentally, was Frank Ryan, a veteran of the OSS, who was partnered with spymaster William Donovan and other veterans of the U.S. and British intelligence in World Commerce Corporation, WCC. …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 1:58:30

Phao Siyanon did_business_with William J. Donovan book_quoted

“General Pfau developed a close relationship with Wild Bill Donovan, who had been appointed the U.S. ambassador to Thailand. Now, come on, guys. There's no way that the State Department doesn't know all of this is going on when they're appoi…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:01:54

William J. Donovan born_in Columbia University host_asserted

“Wild Bill Donovan came from Columbia University. Most of the early CIA guys came from academia. Woodrow Wilson, who got us into World War I, came from academia. Correct. And where does academia come from? Well, they get founded by the found…”

▶ The Shadow State 53 Wag the Dog @ 5:40

William J. Donovan studied_at Columbia University host_asserted

“The founder of the OSS is from Columbia, Wildfield Donovan. A lot of the early people they got weren't just businessmen. They got a lot of academics. A lot of them were. That's William Sloan Coffin, his father, or his uncle. He's good buddi…”

▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies Summary Part 2 @ 36:38

William J. Donovan member_of Knights of Malta book_quoted

“Alexander Haig, and Wild Bill Donovan. I guess he got two knighthoods. He must be really special. Also knighted under this particular one was General Reinhard Galen, the guy who created the stay-behind units, who was Hitler's intelligence c…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 42:52

William J. Donovan funded Flying Tigers book_quoted

“Oh my God. That's all I can say. If you guys are new, 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 Fly…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 7 @ 16:05

William J. Donovan arranged_for F.F. Edward Yeo-Thomas book_quoted

“It was now evident that working behind the scenes, General Donovan and William Stevenson of MI6 had arranged for a courtroom rescue of the former enemy by arranging a surprise witness for the defense. It is exactly how Donovan's plan played…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 1:02:21

William J. Donovan financed_via Portella della Ginestra massacre book_quoted

“Genestra, killing 11 and wounding 57. The funds for the massacre was provided by Wild Bill Donovan through his World Commerce Corporation. So the Italian leading labor organizer, a guy by the last name of Risotto, was found dead at the bott…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 32:53

William J. Donovan married Ruth Ramsey host_asserted

“I like to look up the families of these players. So when I got to Wild Bill Donovan and his background, he married the heiress of one of the richest families in America at the time. Her name, although in this book they misspelled it, they s…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:02:57

William J. Donovan did_business_with Robert Wood host_asserted

“at the time. So, and a lot of people think that's how we ended up getting into World War II. So Donovan conferred closely with another guy by the name of Robert Sherwood, who was a playwright, ardent interventionalist, which is an internati…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 39:39

William J. Donovan founded World Commerce Corporation host_asserted

“Alpha over the last several weeks is while Bill Donovan and Stevenson, the guy that was basically the UK SOE chief in New York during World War II, they founded a company called the World Commerce Corporation, WCC.…”

▶ Fabian Society Hayek vs Keynes wWarHamster Brady @ 38:15

William J. Donovan proposed World Commerce Corporation book_quoted

“The situation, a plan was devised by General Donovan of the OSS to restructure the BACC under WCC and to utilize the combined secret network of former SOEs and OSS officers currently operating under the respective corporate structures.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 3 - 4 @ 29:43

William J. Donovan founded World Commerce Corporation host_asserted

“established by Donovan. So they're going to basically, you'll see in a few minutes where the, or in another chapter where the Nazi gold comes from and where it's wandered through. But they're going to set up a whole bunch of fake companies …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 1:58:13

William J. Donovan founded Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Lombard book_quoted

“who had a bit part in Versailles, joined Sullivan and Cromwell in 1926 with Nazi Germany companies among his clients. During World War II, Allen went to Switzerland for the CIA director and the Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 @ 9:48

William J. Donovan funded Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted

▶ 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 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 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

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 Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 5:22

William J. Donovan moved_to Paris documented

“and that Donovan had made a trip to Paris for the purpose of surveying and inspecting the activities of this group. Now, again, this is why it's so important because we're on like our, you know, multiple books of this. Where was NATO origin…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 6 - 7 @ 15:12

William J. Donovan founded Air America documented

“Prescott Bush is buddies with William Polly. All right. I don't have very many. And I, again, I've already read this and I just like completely forgot about this part. One of those operations resulted in the creation of the Flying Tiger Air…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 55:04

William J. Donovan founded American Committee on a United Europe book_quoted

“The basic purpose of ACUE was to counter the communist threat in Europe by promoting European political integration. The structure of ACUE was designed by William Donovan of the OSS and Alan Dulles, who is between the OSS and his CIA job. D…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 @ 23:34

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 headed American Committee on a United Europe book_quoted

“Formed after World War II for the purpose of enabling the rearmament of Germany, considered essential to everything in the quote-unquote Cold War that was starting, the committee's chairman was General William Wild Bill Donovan, American Co…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2 @ 26:33

William J. Donovan sent_to_study_at Yale University host_asserted

“Okay. I also find it very interesting that not only did Wild Bill Donovan send this guy to Yale, but he sent him there specifically to study Malayan language. And what happened right after World War II in Malaysia? Well, the British went in…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 3 @ 4:39

William J. Donovan funded European Movement host_asserted

“It's into the migration into Europe. Their website is crazy. And when you go back and you look at who, and the fact that basically Alan Dulles and Wild Bill Donovan set the damn thing up as far as the funding and all that stuff goes. It's j…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 6 @ 1:17:52

William J. Donovan recruited Otto Skorzeny book_quoted

“He was there to see firsthand the man entrusted to carry out Germany's most secret missions and evaluate his inside knowledge of Nazi assets to provide asset recovery operations for themselves. In December, General Donovan announced his ret…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 29:15

William J. Donovan carried_out_attack Operation Gladio host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 2:11:08

William J. Donovan ordered_assassination_of Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted

“Because Paul Helliwell, working with Chiang Kai-shek, had already got the go ahead from Alan Dulles and Wild Bill Donovan and the State Department to do black ops with drug sales like Chiang Kai-shek had been doing in southern China. He pai…”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 8:44

William J. Donovan member_of Rumsey family host_asserted

“And they're from Buffalo. They literally owned like almost half of the real estate in Buffalo proper. They owned everything. They owned everybody. They built this train station there that rivaled Grand Union Station in D.C. and New York. An…”

▶ The Shadow State 23 Secret Societies 7 The Harriman Dynasty @ 21:46

William J. Donovan member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted

“It is a terrible economic structure and Marshall's behind it. And all of that post-World War profiteering went through an entity called the World Commerce Corporation, which was set up by who? Oh, wow, Bill Donovan, who was Marshall's buddy…”

▶ The Shadow State 77 Pilgrims Society 3 @ 1:07:36

William J. Donovan founded World Commerce Corporation host_asserted

▶ The Shadow State 77 Pilgrims Society 3 @ 1:07:36

William J. Donovan funded Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted

“This is crazy. Okay. William Polly, we know, had the Curtis Airline franchise in China. He's the guy that basically was the enabler for Chiang Kai-shek. He built Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force. He built their Navy. This is just crazy. I forgot…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 54:34

William J. Donovan funded Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted

“an airline that later became notorious for ferrying drugs out of the Golden Triangle. By the 1950s, Polly used Prescott Bush's help to promote operations on behalf of a powerful Shanghai shack, China lobby. Another Prescott Bush and Polly a…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 55:30

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 member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted

“as they do in each one of these operations to operate the transportation, the airline, the sugar plantations, blah, blah, blah. And that's where we first met William Polly, who is one of the dastardly faces that no one ever knows about behi…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 2:25

Prescott Bush relationship_with William J. Donovan host_asserted

“into corporate america to be all over the world under the guise of international corporations he became a friend and advisor oh my god i forgot about this part sorry my shock face he became a friend and advisor to william paulie a former pa…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 1 @ 54:03

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 recruited Frank Ryan book_quoted

“The Skorzeny paperwork added an invaluable piece to the equation, since as the reader will soon find out, the Skorzeny business papers are in fact connected to the World Commerce Corporation. Both the OSS veterans, Frank Ryan and Ricardo Si…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2 @ 10:08

William J. Donovan introduced Burton Cantor host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19B @ 41:29

William J. Donovan founded Compass Rose book_quoted

“All of his activities centers on setting up a Europe-wide quote-unquote anti-communist, but it's basically Gladio, stay behind force. Also, he mentions Donovan's secret paramilitary group in support of Compass Rose. I'm not convinced they'r…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 4:09

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

Operation Gladio founded William J. Donovan book_quoted

“Oswald, linking to the broader U.S. intelligence network of command and control elements of the U.S. government only weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy. Jack Ruby was associated with the Skorzeny network before the assassin…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 21 (final) @ 1:43:24

William Stephenson recruited William J. Donovan book_quoted

“And it also allowed people like Meyer Lansky to blackmail Hoover, which we will get into in a little bit. So according to Whitney, Stevenson basically was cultivating Donovan to basically work for the British interests as well, if not overt…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 39:06

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

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

Walter Bedell Smith succeeded William J. Donovan host_asserted

“Sweet. So enough of that. That makes me sick. But anyway, Walter Bedell Smith, who succeeded killing Coyter as the CIA director, despite bringing Alan Dulles in and making him his deputy, had supposedly he didn't like Alan Dulles, but he un…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 4 and 5 @ 42:09

William J. Donovan debriefed BND host_asserted

“which we already know happened because they had already made the deal with Galen to give all the tactical information up because that's the reason why they moved Galen into the United States for several weeks and debriefed him. The Colonel …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 1:02:49

William J. Donovan interrogated Otto Skorzeny host_asserted

“Skorzeny dedicated an entire chapter of his Russian and Ukrainian wartime contacts in his memoirs. His personal knowledge of these immigration groups, their wartime covert activities, and especially his ability to reestablish contact with t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8 @ 1:02:19

Vatican operated_intelligence_network William J. Donovan host_asserted

“While Bill Donovan had a very good idea of how intelligence works, and so did most of all the governments, because you will fast forward to William Colby's famous quote, there's no one that had a better intelligence apparatus than the Vatic…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt 7; Robert Maxwell - Man of Many Vices @ 21:39

William J. Donovan spied_on Benito Mussolini host_asserted

“And he's connected. He runs for governor of New York in 1932, but loses. So more of the interwar years, he's part of an informal network of U.S. businessmen who collected intelligence on foreign affairs while they're doing business with the…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:05:32

William J. Donovan spied_on CFR host_asserted

“are very vocally anti-communist while they also fought fascists. And we'll tie this knot together why the seeming contradictions actually are not. But he's doing this while the people who are sponsoring him are making a fortune off of elect…”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 58:51

William J. Donovan member_of Nazi Party host_asserted

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 34:19

William J. Donovan ordered_assassination_of Nuremberg trials host_asserted

“All right. We all know what the OSS did in World War II, and we've been talking about that for years. So let's skip forward to post-war. First of all, Bill Donovan was a major guy who was pushing for the Nuremberg trials. But to know about …”

▶ The Shadow State 76 The Pilgrims Society Pt. 2 @ 1:09:06

Mentions (120)

Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster

▶ 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 …

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 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…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 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…

Colonel Towner WATKINS JOINS THE REVIVAL OF AMERICA 5 pm PST

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio and Africa overview_ WWF exposed

▶ 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.…

Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2

▶ 1:49:04 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…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 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 …

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 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…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 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…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY'

▶ 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…

OPERATION GLADIO - 'GEOGRAPHY OF GLADIO' - EP.374(AlphaWarrior Show)

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio - Italy

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio - Italy

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio - Italy

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio - Italy

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio - Italy

▶ 31:06 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.…

Operation Gladio - Open Mic

▶ 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, …

Operation Gladio - Open Mic

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke

▶ 13:44 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.…

Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke

▶ 14:13 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 - Spain

▶ 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 …

Operation Gladio - Spain

▶ 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 …

Operation Gladio-Turkey

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church

▶ 1:01:00 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…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior

▶ 27:10 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

▶ 29:06 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

▶ 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…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior

▶ 1:42:15 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…

Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3

▶ 9:14 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 Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:38:38 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…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4)

▶ 1:44:15 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 …

Secret Societies Skull and Bones with War Hamster Brady

▶ 44:27 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…

The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady- Secret Societies meets Operation Gladio 250404

▶ 27:48 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'…

The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady Secret Societies Skull&Bones cont'd

▶ 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…

The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history

▶ 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…

The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101

▶ 7:16 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 Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6

▶ 1:01:35 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.…

The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6

▶ 1:02:01 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6

▶ 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.…

The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6

▶ 2:10:45 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

▶ 2:11:08 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 9 a

▶ 3:46 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b

▶ 26:50 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 …

The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b

▶ 27:20 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…

The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio

▶ 50:36 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…

The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio

▶ 53:29 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…

The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio

▶ 56:49 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…

The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 6

▶ 1:17:52 It's into the migration into Europe. Their website is crazy. And when you go back and you look at who, and the fact that basically Alan Dulles and Wild Bill Donovan set the damn thing up as far as the funding and all that stuff goes. It's j…

The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9

▶ 31:08 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- Presidents Secret War Chap 4

▶ 1:05:51 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…

The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7

▶ 8:45 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

▶ 9:19 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

▶ 9:49 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…

The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7

▶ 10:16 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

▶ 10:44 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…

The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7

▶ 11:10 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…

The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7

▶ 11:40 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

▶ 27:47 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…

The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a

▶ 20:59 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…

The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a

▶ 22:30 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 …

The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d

▶ 1:14:01 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…

The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5

▶ 47:45 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

▶ 48:13 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 …

The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1

▶ 1:15:45 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12)

▶ 0:40 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.…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)

▶ 8:20 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)

▶ 9:02 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 …

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13)

▶ 1:00:57 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14)

▶ 0:43 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 42 (44)

▶ 15:30 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3)

▶ 9:31 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)

▶ 11:12 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)

▶ 11:46 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 …

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)

▶ 12:46 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)

▶ 13:18 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4)

▶ 17:39 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…

The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8

▶ 33:24 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

▶ 33:56 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…

The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2

▶ 26:33 Formed after World War II for the purpose of enabling the rearmament of Germany, considered essential to everything in the quote-unquote Cold War that was starting, the committee's chairman was General William Wild Bill Donovan, American Co…

The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 2

▶ 27:03 that sets up the world commerce league making bank on everything post-world war ii that sold to re-arm europe okay we learned that in another book and of course we know him to be the chief of the oss and intimately involved in setting up th…

The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 3

▶ 4:39 Okay. I also find it very interesting that not only did Wild Bill Donovan send this guy to Yale, but he sent him there specifically to study Malayan language. And what happened right after World War II in Malaysia? Well, the British went in…

The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2

▶ 8:00 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 3

▶ 53:30 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 Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4

▶ 7:43 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…

The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4

▶ 18:31 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…

The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4

▶ 30:56 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

▶ 31:26 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…

The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4

▶ 32:00 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…

The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5

▶ 17:01 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…

The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5

▶ 17:31 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…

The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6

▶ 34:48 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 8

▶ 19:31 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 The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2

▶ 10:19 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 …

The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2

▶ 10:52 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

▶ 11:23 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…

The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2

▶ 21:15 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

▶ 56:21 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…

The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 24

▶ 48:18 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…