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Tosset person

also: Ephraim Roger, Toss, Tosca

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League for Industrial and Social Cooperationorganization · 3Ethiopiacountry · 3Congress for Cultural Freedomorganization · 2CIAintelligence service · 2Zanzibarcountry · 1The Analystorganization · 1Hit Paroorganization · 1Cubacountry · 1Tanzaniacountry · 1Edward Whitmoreperson · 1

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Tosset member_of League for Industrial and Social Cooperation host_asserted
“editorial policy. At the same time, his relationship with the editor of Hit Paro had deteriorated because of the limitations of his budget and travel opportunities. Instead, his attention was drawn to CLSS as well. In June 1963, he contacte…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 39:07
Tosset spied_on CIA host_asserted
“If he knew of the CIA connections, it obviously didn't bother him. But everybody knew back then that it was a CIA front. So he continued to write and do spying for them. His visit to Ethiopia in 1964 offered a representative impression of t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 40:07

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The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 39:07 editorial policy. At the same time, his relationship with the editor of Hit Paro had deteriorated because of the limitations of his budget and travel opportunities. Instead, his attention was drawn to CLSS as well. In June 1963, he contacte…
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 39:38 of researching what was going on in Cuba. This request resulted in fruitful cooperation over several years, allowing Toss to break his contract with Het Paro, allowed him to keep writing. Performing assignments for CLSS offered him an ample…
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 40:07 If he knew of the CIA connections, it obviously didn't bother him. But everybody knew back then that it was a CIA front. So he continued to write and do spying for them. His visit to Ethiopia in 1964 offered a representative impression of t…
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 40:36 and the topic was Africa and socialism. Also, since the intelligentsia of the underdeveloped people themselves are impatient, he told them that they would be tempted by violence to achieve shortcuts to democracy. Tost warned, quote, violent…
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 41:06 especially when the methods are applied on a mass scale, but the human element of your most important is your most important, if not your only capital. Destruction of the personality, therefore, means destruction of the human capital of you…
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 41:36 The overwhelming majority of the intellectuals is anti-communist labor socialists. They are willing to assist the emperor in the modernization of the nations, but they want to be handled as adults. Tosset advised his audience to establish a…
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 42:05 of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which is the CIA. Quote, the emperor would think twice before attacking a group that has sympathy, respect, and organizational support of the democratic labor world, which eventually can mobilize world …
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 42:36 Toss also contributed to the analyst using the pseudonym Ephraim Roger, R-O-G-E-T. In Zanzibar, After the Long Knives, he sketched how the Russians, Chinese, and East Germans had tried to turn Zanzibar into a center of communist propaganda …
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 43:04 was thus becoming a testing ground for communism in Africa. That's what he wrote. The union with Tanzanika was a victory for Africans over communists of the modern revolutionaries in Zanzibar. Tosca's relationship with CLSS ended in Septemb…