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Claims (36)
Leslie Stevens member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff documented
“Frank Wisner, and representing the Joint Chiefs of Staff was Rear Admiral Leslie Stevens, S-T-E-V-E-N-S, who had also handled military participation in covert operations at the Pentagon. Rather than restraining and coordinating propaganda a…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 40:37
David Graeber headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“The JCS, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were officially briefed on the CIA's plan for a conventional invasion. This provided for a landing on the south coast near the town of Trinidad and the Escambray Mountains. The Joint Chiefs of Staff offic…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 9:56
Lyman Lemnitzer headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“He's sitting as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:05:14
Lyman Lemnitzer headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff guest_asserted
“Well, he ends up becoming a four-star general, and he's the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when JFK gets into office.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 25:54
Admiral Dennison member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff documented
“Meanwhile, the implementation of Pluto was accelerating. Two final postponements resulted in an invasion set for April 17th. On April 1st, Admiral Dennison got his basic marching orders in a Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum. The Navy could …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 33:29
John David Kane appointed
Joint Chiefs of Staff documented
“We were never taught the truth. That's the only way we can fight back right now. I agree 100% with that. Thank you for sharing that. Miles, go ahead. Thanks, Omega. I'll talk to you later for letting me go first. Colonel, I just want your o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 1:26:34
Lyman Lemnitzer member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“When Wolfe's letter reached Lemitzger, he was stationed at the Pentagon, where he had been appointed to the position of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Lemitzger would ultimately rise to become the Army Chief of Staff under President Kennedy, wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 59:40
Lyman Lemnitzer headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“there was a plan that was written in coordination with the CIA and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lemitsker.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt @ 2:43
Thomas Moorer headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff guest_asserted
“And he was two times chairman of joint chiefs of staff.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-USS Liberty meets Operation Gladio-Regime Change in Egypt @ 1:01:50
Joint Chiefs of Staff endorsed
Invasion of Cambodia documented
“and corroborated columnist Jack Anderson's report that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had endorsed all of the fake intel. So, almost done. The new information does not explain the error of Army intelligence in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. On the c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 51:32
Lyman Lemnitzer headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“He kicked them out. That's how they ended up in Belgium. Now, just one last tidbit and then we can open it up because this is a lot. I realize that. But Lyman Lemonsker is critical to this. Lyman Lemonsker, prior to JFK firing him, was the …”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 34:58
Lyman Lemnitzer headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“knowing what the other people are capable of, what their limiting factors are, so that you can surge one area over the other based on the circumstances that you encounter in warfare. And none of that happened. All of that happened, all of t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 57:36
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:53
Edward Lansdale member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:53
Dean Rusk member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:53
John F. Kennedy member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:53
CIA colluded_with
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“So if you go back to a declassified document called Operation Northwood, that is one of the most critical documents that even people who've read it don't understand necessarily the significance of it. It is a document that was generated bet…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 7:12
Joint Chiefs of Staff funded
CIA documented
“on the island of Nanri Dao, not far from the first operation. That operation proved completely successful, except for the Nationalist General leading it was shot in the head because he poked his head up over a rock. In early 1952, the Joint…”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 57:26
William Crocker headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“They said were severe, unquote, because for those of you who don't know, it's a series of five shots. And a lot of people have bad reactions after the first one. Bioport board of directors included Admiral William Crow Jr., a former chairma…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 1:02:59
Robert F. Kennedy member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 21:53
Fletcher Prouty member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“the Air Force colonel who worked with General Erstein's Office of Special Operations. He was the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that trio of people that you work with that we were just talking about. This reluctance to discuss Tibet is undoubtedl…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 36:46
David Jones headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff documented
“These were created by the CIA at the behest of Chuck Gilbert. At least three times, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General David Jones, Admiral Turner, and Security Advisor Brzezinski appealed to Carter to approve the mission. A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 51:54
Joint Chiefs of Staff issued_orders_for
U.S. Navy book_quoted
“NSC 118, and President Truman approved this by the end of the year. In early 1952, the Joint Chiefs issued orders for the Navy to provide the CIA with ships and facilities for coastal landings on mainland China and Korea. Joint planners at …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 58:39
Leslie Stevens member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff documented
“where it should be noted he had good friends. Bob Joyce represented state, while General John Magruder, once head of the pre-CIA Strategic Services Unit, stood in for the Secretary of Defense. Admiral Leslie Stevens, a member of the Joint C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:05:47
Joint Chiefs of Staff supplied_arms_to
Permesta book_quoted
“The council ordered new planning, a process that led directly to Project HAIK, H-A-I-K, as the Indonesian operation would be called. The Joint Chiefs of Staff complained that the concept conceded Java, the most important part of the country…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 5:08
James Mattis headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“You really get instructions outside the chain of command to do other things from time to time and kind of made a career out of being effective at that, but ended up being the speechwriter for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admir…”
▶ SITREP_ RADICALIZING OUR MILITARY ROUND TABLE @ 1:32:10
Lyman Lemnitzer member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“in Latin America, meaning the Cuban exiles. Although he saw some equipment shortages, Lyman Lemesker, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, agreed with all of them, even though the people on his staff did not. Within weeks, frustrated,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 15:04
Graves Erskine member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“kind of things from the SecDef's perspective. Throughout the Eisenhower period, the officer was Marine Lieutenant General Graves Erskine. You spell his name E-R-S-K-I-N-E. He worked basically directly for the SecDef, which at the time was N…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 17:53
David Petraeus member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“You really get instructions outside the chain of command to do other things from time to time and kind of made a career out of being effective at that, but ended up being the speechwriter for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admir…”
▶ SITREP_ RADICALIZING OUR MILITARY ROUND TABLE @ 1:32:10
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“Cuba policy or on anything else. JFK was ending the Vietnam War, literally ending it. There's no question about that. If you read all seven of the scholarly monographs published since the Assassinations Records Review Board was finished in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:23:31
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“Cuba policy or on anything else. JFK was ending the Vietnam War, literally ending it. There's no question about that. If you read all seven of the scholarly monographs published since the Assassinations Records Review Board was finished in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:23:31
Donald Kehoe member_of
Joint Chiefs of Staff host_asserted
“He was the leading figure behind NICAP. And guess who his boss in the Navy was? Radford. Radford, however, never actually joined NICAP. That might be too obvious for him. So we're just going to use subordinates and superior officers to give…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 2 @ 46:21
Neil McElroy headed
Joint Chiefs of Staff book_quoted
“kind of things from the SecDef's perspective. Throughout the Eisenhower period, the officer was Marine Lieutenant General Graves Erskine. You spell his name E-R-S-K-I-N-E. He worked basically directly for the SecDef, which at the time was N…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 17:53
Joint Chiefs of Staff covered_up
Jonestown massacre book_quoted
“If you read Colonel Purdy's book, you find out that the body bags for those people were ordered the day before the massacre even happened to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to fly the body bags in.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 45:19
Joint Chiefs of Staff framed
Soviet Union guest_asserted
“Russia, Soviet Union and Cuba, so that it could look like, you know, they did it. And then we could we could have our our, you know, logic for domestic politics to allow us to do a first strike.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:12:52
Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered_assassination_of
John F. Kennedy speculative
“John Newman, he's pretty certain that the generals are behind it…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 50:02
Mentions (117)
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Like these guys being the Cuban exiles, CIA, mafia, they all had – they were so mad after Bay of Pigs that they did it on their own. John Newman, he's pretty certain that the generals are behind it and that basically the generals had a – yo…
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Alan Dulles was on at the same time as the joint chiefs. Okay. When he was director of CIA. And so he, he obviously regularly interacted with, with CIA. So it wouldn't be, I think my, probably my working theory, if I had to guess going into…
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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…
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And the idea was, let's just kill everyone and then we don't have to worry about them. And then we can be the dominant hegemons of the world forever. And now the downside is they are going to lob some nukes at us. We're going to lose about …
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How do you say you're a force for good in the world when you're like, we're just going to murder hundreds of millions of people? So anyway, a lot of the generals wanted to do that. They wanted to do this nuclear annihilation plan. And, you …
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I want to start there because JFK, during JFK's presidency, there was a plan that was written in coordination with the CIA and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lemitsker. And that plan was called Operation Northwood. Now, …
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But it was very surprising that they committed it to paper. That was kind of the big takeaway. And it was briefed to the SecDef. It was also briefed to JFK. And JFK was so profoundly disturbed because by that time he'd already fired Alan Du…
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commanded the European and the Pacific forces. Not at the same time, but he's the only one that ever did that. And he was two times, right. And he was two times chairman of joint chiefs of staff. Yes. And he emphatically says, this is not a…
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So if you go back to a declassified document called Operation Northwood, that is one of the most critical documents that even people who've read it don't understand necessarily the significance of it. It is a document that was generated bet…
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They said were severe, unquote, because for those of you who don't know, it's a series of five shots. And a lot of people have bad reactions after the first one. Bioport board of directors included Admiral William Crow Jr., a former chairma…
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a bunch of misdeeds of the CIA and the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in them. But it was documenting things that had already been released. He's not talking about the syndicate. He's not talking about all of the people t…
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I think that was to create a plausible deniability between the link of Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles. They knew Cummings was going to be the reliable go-between between the two of them, and it gave them kind of a plausible deniability.…
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And he's the guy that goes with Alan Dulles to this meeting? Well, of course he is. Now, where's the next time that we come to Lyman Lemesker? Well, he ends up becoming a four-star general, and he's the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…
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Robert McNamara, the secta, and Robert McNamara didn't find anything wrong with it. He said, hey, let's go brief this to JFK. When JFK read Operation Gladio, he's like, are you out of your mind? We're not going to kill Americans for any rea…
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that had been set up. He had just survived the Bay of Pigs and didn't want any more military pissed off at him. So he didn't firefight him and make him retire. He reassigned him out of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And do you know where they p…
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you find out that none of those people were poisoned with cyanide. They all had injection sites at the base of their neck. If you read Colonel Purdy's book, you find out that the body bags for those people were ordered the day before the ma…
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military general running the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith, satisfied the concerns of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington and General MacArthur by combining assets in Korea. Navy underwater demolition teams, marine raids on North Korea infra…
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Well, how to destroy things so that the international syndicate can come in and swoop up all your stuff. So if you go down to the military. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who we've run into a few times. Go ahead. Where …
▶ 1:21:14
Yes. Devin Halper was working in the Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon. And for those of you who are not familiar with that, there is a couple of different offices, one on the joint staff and one at the Department of Defense level, t…
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He kicked them out. That's how they ended up in Belgium. Now, just one last tidbit and then we can open it up because this is a lot. I realize that. But Lyman Lemonsker is critical to this. Lyman Lemonsker, prior to JFK firing him, was the …
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You really get instructions outside the chain of command to do other things from time to time and kind of made a career out of being effective at that, but ended up being the speechwriter for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admir…
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But they have to have an emergency in order to get us to go along. So I'm highly encouraging us not to listen to anybody that tries to make things an emergency that clearly are not an emergency. OK, so they get to the part where President T…
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So there was no predication from the Russians in order to do any of this. George Kennan's proposed the formation of a special studies group under the State Department's control to serve as an elite force in addition to the covert operations…
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Both DeSoto patrols and the 34-A operations were temporarily halted while Washington debated the policy. The Joint Chiefs of Staff argued for open military action bombing North Vietnam and relaxing the rules of engagement of actual combat m…
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McGeorge Bundy was in his office on 9.15 a.m. on Friday morning, September 18th, when DeSoto had another false alarm. The new patrol in the Tonkin Gulf consisted of the U.S. destroyer Morton and Parsons, which reported they had opened fire …
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Fearing that Castro might soon try to export his revolution to South American continent, the special warfare experts at Fort Bragg, which again is JSOC, rushed to instruct the Colombian army in the same counterinsurgency techniques then bei…
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He was resented in polite Washington society because he was straightforward. My friends among DC's marginalized circle of former military and intelligence officials with anti-interventionalist views hope that McGregor could one day replace …
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pointing to the images of Guaido's botched revolt flashing on the screen. I mean, this is the kind of message from Syria. Tucker's carefully staged anti-interventionist theater, capped by the performance of Colonel McGregor, who would go on…
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Many more, including most of the Joint Chiefs, believed that America's first priority in Laos was international to maintain a forward strategy against the imagined Chinese expansionism. Thus, the actual thrust of American policy, if not its…
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The Joint Chiefs, who first, on October 3rd, officially authorized Air America flights to Fumi. Note that, as mentioned above, Air America had already been supplying Fumi since mid-September. The first Air America flights reached Vang Pao o…
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the Laotian troops into battle. At this time, the Joint Chiefs of Staff pressed for a military showdown over Laos, including the possibility of tactical nuclear weapons again, while Richard Nixon himself, in a meeting with Kennedy, urged a …
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I would like to supplement this earlier analysis published in June 1970 in the New York Review of Books of a secret crisis decision to send regular U.S. ground troops to Cambodia. The analysis, which detailed the strategic requirements of t…
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retaliation seems to have been the prime reason. In Washington, new political and economic pressure lent weight to the strategic decisions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for widening the war into Cambodia. Defense Secretary Laird, a hawk by e…
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A president who had recently been elected on a program of peace proved to be highly receptive to military proposals that promised to end the war quickly. More receptive than a secretary of defense who saw the proposals as an overcommitment …
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He also was corroborating quote-unquote authoritative reports in the New York Times that had happened a month earlier that had detailed maps of the things that didn't exist. So, earlier reports pinpointed General Wheeler and General Moore, …
▶ 51:32
and corroborated columnist Jack Anderson's report that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had endorsed all of the fake intel. So, almost done. The new information does not explain the error of Army intelligence in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. On the c…
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We were never taught the truth. That's the only way we can fight back right now. I agree 100% with that. Thank you for sharing that. Miles, go ahead. Thanks, Omega. I'll talk to you later for letting me go first. Colonel, I just want your o…
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in allowing a completely different culture, which is why I think Hedgeseth is so critical in the SecDef position. Because again, as he said, kind of tongue in cheek in his hearing about, you know, about the generals working for the defense …
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incursions across the border based on systematic exaggeration of events was repeatedly used by the U.S. Joint Chiefs to urge introduction into Laos of U.S. troops armed with tactical atomic weapons. Such a confrontation in Laos served the i…
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Admiral Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and seems to have been a lot of CIE support. It was defeated, however, by opposition in the State Department, Pentagon, and members of Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force. The civil air transp…
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Later, top-secret communiques from the Joint Chiefs of Staff indicated how much the Pentagon was relying on Gordon and his staff to direct the U.S. role in the coup. One message stated that a 110-ton package of arms and ammunition was being…
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If he appreciated the deep division between the speeches of Kennedy and Johnson in supporting social reform and resistance and the U.S. business community intelligence services and the Pentagon and police advisors, he may have assumed that …
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In these years that you see the true extent that, you know, the CIA and Joint Chiefs Strategic Air Command were just doing their own thing here and just were barely, barely controlled. And if the American public sees that along with the ass…
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After the U.S. shot down an Iranian passenger jet in Iranian territorial waters, Iran decided it needed a serious anti-ship defense system and went to China for help. China was developing a series of anti-ship missiles sophisticated enough …
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They used one of their front companies, Vector Microwave, to procure copies. The only problem was that the key players in Vector Microwave were under criminal investigation. The head of Vector Microwave fled the country to avoid grand jury.…
▶ 58:39
NSC 118, and President Truman approved this by the end of the year. In early 1952, the Joint Chiefs issued orders for the Navy to provide the CIA with ships and facilities for coastal landings on mainland China and Korea. Joint planners at …
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Meanwhile, the implementation of Pluto was accelerating. Two final postponements resulted in an invasion set for April 17th. On April 1st, Admiral Dennison got his basic marching orders in a Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum. The Navy could …
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At one of the numerous Washington discussions of how to limit damage caused by the defeat, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were amazed to hear Bissell say, after all of the talk of how an uprising was going to overthrow Castro, that the brigade w…
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From one of the chiefs of staff resigned over this very issue in 1955. With some notable exceptions, the Army generals also opposed the new look policy. But the president carefully kept the Navy and the Air Force satisfied and appointed the…
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That's basically another CIA front. Under an economist called Max Milliken, he worked at MIT, another organization that strangely has CIA ties. Brushfire was one among a continuing series of contractors doing research reports for the CIA. O…
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This investigation was done by a committee, of course, and it's called the Green Board. It was chaired by General Maxwell Taylor. And for those of you who don't remember the story, General Taylor was a military advisor to Kennedy while Lyma…
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and that the Operation Pluto plan itself had had marginal character, which increased with each additional limitation. But not actually rejecting the CIA plan outright, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Taylor, seemed to have approv…
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The report also recommended the military be given primary responsibility for paramilitary operations with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the normal avenue for presidential advice and that an inventory of the U.S. paramilitary …
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there is supposed to be zero operational units reporting to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It's like having your lawyer, if you worked for, I don't know, pick a company, IBM, and the lawyer is there to advise the chairman of IBM…
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The lawyer then goes and starts selling computers. That's literally the equivalent of what we're talking about. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is supposed to be an independent fly on the wall for the president so that the step-de…
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view of those operations under the SECDEF for their execution to say, you know what? The SECDEF is using CENTCOM to conduct operations in, I don't know, Iraq. But the plan really sucks. And you might want to look at that. That's the chairma…
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The President Kennedy responded to the recommendations with a National Security Action Memorandum 55 and 56. 55, in fact, appointed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for military type actions in time of peace as well as war. 56 orde…
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whose Bearcat Base prepared agent teams for infiltration. After receiving intelligence in the existence of a prisoner camp, the Special Operations and DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, began feasibility studies for this rescue mission. A pr…
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by state defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A couple of months later, when Smith learned that a subordinate actually controlled communications between headquarters and the field stations so that the DCI did not see all of the cables, he…
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There's a bunch of more jargon, but it all sounds basically like that. The close relationship between psychological warfare and covert operations is further demonstrated by the composition of the strategy boards themselves. An early represe…
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JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff 1807-1 recommended against any sort of special warfare troops. Instead, it favored individual training within specialists who could then call on, could be called on to lead a guerrilla unit. For its part, the Army …
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The whole plausible deniability means nobody by design knows what the hell's going on. Finally, the relations between the Pentagon and CIA were continuing to be controversial. The CIA actually dealt with three different parts of the Pentago…
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the Air Force colonel who worked with General Erstein's Office of Special Operations. He was the Joint Chiefs of Staff in that trio of people that you work with that we were just talking about. This reluctance to discuss Tibet is undoubtedl…
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on the island of Nanri Dao, not far from the first operation. That operation proved completely successful, except for the Nationalist General leading it was shot in the head because he poked his head up over a rock. In early 1952, the Joint…
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Even Chanel had his pictures taken all over the place with Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they all. Well, number one, Burroughs would have known that there's no authorization to be attacking mainland China from Congress. He's…
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March 4th, 1957, actually constitutes the first written requirement for the CIA to circulate proposal papers in advance. Months later, when the NSC considered ordering the Joint Chiefs to undertake a study of limited warfare and Dulles want…
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The council ordered new planning, a process that led directly to Project HAIK, H-A-I-K, as the Indonesian operation would be called. The Joint Chiefs of Staff complained that the concept conceded Java, the most important part of the country…
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which was heavily engaged, had little food or ammunition left. The CIA director, a few days later, would brief the NSC with the same information. The Joint Chiefs of Staff weighed in when officials met on May 8th to work out details to step…
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Curtis LeMay, in charge of the Air Force, Dulles, all in JFK's office screaming at him that he has to use the military. You know, it's interesting. We're going back 60 years or more, and it makes it so…
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in Latin America, meaning the Cuban exiles. Although he saw some equipment shortages, Lyman Lemesker, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, agreed with all of them, even though the people on his staff did not. Within weeks, frustrated,…
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flat out bullshit. The fact that he didn't give the final go, he led every effort up until the change of administration. And this was planned for that particular purpose. According to Eisenhower, there had been a program, but no plan. That'…
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knowing what the other people are capable of, what their limiting factors are, so that you can surge one area over the other based on the circumstances that you encounter in warfare. And none of that happened. All of that happened, all of t…
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and State Department preparation for an anti-Castro propaganda plan to be implemented throughout Latin America. He discovered that the U.S. military had not considered the feasibility of Project ATE and directed the Joint Chiefs of Staff to…
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The JCS, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were officially briefed on the CIA's plan for a conventional invasion. This provided for a landing on the south coast near the town of Trinidad and the Escambray Mountains. The Joint Chiefs of Staff offic…
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military evaluation of the CIA paramilitary plan Cuba. The 17 conclusions of the joint staff paper indicated continuing differences. On one hand, the military judged that if an airdrop was successful, it would take several days for Castro t…
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On the other hand, the chiefs concluded that the Cuban army could reduce the beachhead. What constituted a fair chance, Gray asked. He put it at best 30%. No one he heard went any higher than 40. Others estimated the chance against achievin…
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No, the president said emphatically. If there were any problems, the exiles would fade into the hitherland. American forces need not become overtly involved. The next day, Denison received a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lyman L…
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having an airfield capable of accommodating B-26s and C-54 aircraft, one that could be captured on the first day, and suitable beaches. Only a few places matched those criteria, and just one met all of them, the Bay of Pigs, about 80 miles …
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On March 15th, both options were outlined at the White House. JFK, to Schlesinger's mind, listened carefully, again rejecting Trinidad as a World War II assault operation. He ordered the Bay of Pigs plan to be reoriented for a night as oppo…
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Stevenson doubted JFK had thought through the issues. Within days of the effort of Tracy Barnes' inadequate briefing, it became painfully apparent. Meanwhile, Project ATE accelerated. Two final postponements resulted in an invasion set for …
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At one time, he had been in charge of setting up intelligence requirements for his service, and he had headed the Air Intelligence 2. Cabell had twice worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including during the Korean War, so he knew the int…
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Changes also occurred in the Pentagon. The Office of Special Operations transformed itself after the Bay of Pigs. Although the Office of Special Operations representatives, such as Ed Lansdale, had raised objections to the Cuba project, the…
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of counterinsurgencies. But there were questions as to whether Lansdell knew much about satellites or other technical intelligence issues. Lansdell is CIA, guys. He just happens to be wearing a uniform. The Joint Chiefs of Staff set the sta…
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On September 12th, Lansdale defined the terrain in a paper to the Joint Chiefs. And all service secretaries' routine matters could be handled by those already assigned to liaison between the military and the CIA. But anything requiring poli…
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They wanted to identify countries where propaganda gains against Castro were possible and issues the CIA could use to that end. For all the work built to a meeting with Kennedy in the Oval Office on March 14th, 1962, everyone was there. The…
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He tried to use the March 16th meeting of the special group and the president to alter the orders. Prompted by McComb, Lansdell commented that the priorities tied CIA's hands if sudden developments created opportunity. I'm sorry, that's hil…
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Meanwhile, Washington's belly thumping culminated in a series of meetings in the Joint Chiefs of Staff Operations Room on August 8th and 9th and at the State Department on August 10th. At the last of these, McComb recollected in 1967 that C…
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sensitivity to Vietnam developments, the president took up this question directly. Both DeSoto and 34A operations were put on a pause temporarily. The Joint Chiefs argued for action bombing North Vietnam and relaxing restrictions on America…
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Richard Helms and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman were all present. Richard Nixon approved the strikes if the Peocean Lows advanced. Within 24 hours, the condition had been met. An attack of three B-52 bombers took place on the night of …
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as JFK had. In February, the Joint Chiefs of Staff reviewed U.S. contingency planning for military intervention in Guyana. The chiefs expected that a battle group of ground troops could be inserted in 12 to 27 hours. Why 27? Depending upon …
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Brzezinski ordered preparation for a rescue mission. Colonel Beckwith's unit would have the lead role. Major Burrus, plus a top planner to Washington, he ordered him to report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They were told to obtain the lates…
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These were created by the CIA at the behest of Chuck Gilbert. At least three times, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General David Jones, Admiral Turner, and Security Advisor Brzezinski appealed to Carter to approve the mission. A…
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Competing plans for peacetime intelligence agencies existed even before Truman abolished the OSS. Truman military advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, favored an interagency group to supervise intelligence. The State Department proposed an …
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where it should be noted he had good friends. Bob Joyce represented state, while General John Magruder, once head of the pre-CIA Strategic Services Unit, stood in for the Secretary of Defense. Admiral Leslie Stevens, a member of the Joint C…
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though preferring to spread the risk by having forces in Kuwait and Jordan as well. In November of 91, Bush assured King Fahd that the U.S. would maintain sufficient air power to defeat Iraq. Just as Robert Gates went back to the CIA, his N…
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The Joint Chiefs were to plan for that contingency of Iraqi commanders making a desperate plea for help, no doubt predicated on their rising against Saddam. General Colin Powell, who happened to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,…
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A relationship with the Defense Department evolved despite some opposition. The Secretary of the Army initially prohibited any assignment of Army officers to the CIA on grounds that he wanted his service to have nothing to do with it. But b…
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Representative of the SECDEF, John McGruder, safeguarded defense interests. The State Department repeatedly construed the Psychological Strategy Board inquiries as infringements. General Smith was CIA's delegate. Frank Wisner, the alternate…
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In the Philippines, the Special Warfare Section laid down contingency plans for paramilitary actions, including in the event of war in Europe. One, to obstruct movement of Soviet reinforcements by activating partisan force in Eastern Europe…
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recommended the U.S. support guerrilla warfare under the policy direction of the National Security Council, envisioning the Army acquiring means to carry out the plans. As already noted, Truman's policy provided the CIA to have primary resp…
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and them digging up all of the weapon caches throughout Europe and replacing them with NATO weapons. What they're describing here is the advent of Operation Gladio. Carrying out covert operations naturally meant real units and troops. The J…
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Arthur, Arthur Radford. Radford eventually becomes the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a member of the American Security Council and the National Strategy Committee after he retired from the Navy. Radford had supported Brown's res…
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Trudeau advised Adenauer to clean house before they were admitted to NATO. All hell broke loose in Washington when Dulles learned of Trudeau's position and that he had dared voice it. Although the Joint Chiefs of Staff continued to back the…
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Without informing the president, Burke had already taken the liberty of positioning two battalions of Marines on Navy destroyers off the coast of Cuba, anticipating the U.S. forces might be ordered into Cuba to salvage the invasion. It was …
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Quote, certainly we did not control the Joint Chiefs of Staff, unquote. And he knew from his futile efforts to reform the CIA, the Kennedy White House perhaps had even less control over it. But despite Schlesinger's inside knowledge of Wash…
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to be able to explain to people when you're reading things, even though it happens to be a published book, does not mean it's true. And as I pointed out yesterday, and CanCon understood the significance of it being a Marine, that they could…
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When Wolfe's letter reached Lemitzger, he was stationed at the Pentagon, where he had been appointed to the position of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Lemitzger would ultimately rise to become the Army Chief of Staff under President Kennedy, wh…
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being in St. Petersburg. And all of those aircraft are associated with at least the CIA, if not the FBI, DEA, and CIA. He also says that there was another principal of Atlantic Alcohol that holds a government security clearance and who had …
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General MacArthur and his chain of command approve these recommendations. After approval, the Joint Chiefs of Staff be requested to transmit a message to MacArthur providing they have no objections to this point of view. And all subsequent …
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This message went to everyone. It went to the State Department, the Department of War, Navy, Army, Joint Chiefs of Staff. They all knew. Despite precautions taken to keep these dealings secret, word leaked out among military circles. Before…
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of Germany and their economic policy. Draper emerged as by far the most powerful U.S. industrial and financial officer in occupied Germany with overall authority for implementing the Joint Chiefs of Staff memo and other U.S. quote-unquote d…
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When he was confronted with his lack of progress in denazification and breaking up the cartels, he thought they were fine. Why shouldn't these German businessmen run things the way they used to? I don't know. Maybe it's because it was ran b…
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We didn't pay much attention to the Potsdam Agreement, as perhaps we should from the point of view of a military discipline. There were several efforts to pull me back to Washington and have me charged with not carrying out the directive. G…
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Draper's critics pointed to the tough language from both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and from the Potsdam Agreement, arguing that Draper failed to implement the letter and spirit of the official policy. But what the critics did not understand…
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Cuba policy or on anything else. JFK was ending the Vietnam War, literally ending it. There's no question about that. If you read all seven of the scholarly monographs published since the Assassinations Records Review Board was finished in …
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you are definitely selling the historical significance of JFK's presidency. He was a, and I know that we love President Trump, but to me, JFK at that time, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to use nuclear weapons on every fucking thing,…
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While the war in Korea was still raging, the Joint Chiefs commanded Frank Wisner and the CIA to conduct a major covert offensive against the Soviet Union. Aimed at the heartland of the communist control system, Wisner tried. The Marshall Pl…