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Claims (63)
Edward Clark met_with
Clark Clifford documented
document
“Attorney General Clark's recommendation of a presidential statement on FBI authority was made the day after he met with White House aides Clark Clifford Charles Murphy and George Elsey to discuss how the President should handle the Bentley …”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.467
Clark Clifford worked_for
Harry S. Truman documented
document
“Presidential assistant Clark Clifford reviewed the situation and came down on the side of the FBI as "better qualified than the Civil Service Commission.103…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.60
Clark Clifford met_with
Harry S. Truman documented
document
“Memorandumfrom Cark Cliffordto the President 5/7/47…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.60
Clark Clifford worked_for
National Security Council documented
document
“One of the drafters of the 1947 Act former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford has referred to this provision as the "catch-all clause…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.152
Clark Clifford founded
National Security Council documented
document
“Mr Clark Clifford who was one of the framers of the 1947 National Security Act [see app B p 210] which created the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.53
Clark Clifford founded
CIA documented
document
“Mr Clark Clifford who was one of the framers of the 1947 National Security Act [see app B p 210] which created the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.53
Clark Clifford worked_for
Harry S. Truman documented
document
“STATEMENT OF CLARK M CLIFFORD COUNSEL TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.54
J. Edgar Hoover spied_on
Clark Clifford documented
document
“After J Edgar Hoover informed the President that former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford planned to write a magazine article criticizing President Nixon's Vietnam policy...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.356
Clark Clifford worked_for
U.S. Congress documented
document
“Mr CLIFFORD I would take a first try at it I think it would be a serious mistake for this committee to recommend and for the Congress to adopt language…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.78
Stephen Spingarn met_with
Clark Clifford documented
document
“After this meeting Spingarn advised Clark Clifford that "the issuance of such a statement at this time by the President might give rise to the impression that he was making a rather transparent show of activity on this matter as a result of…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.467
Harry S. Truman met_with
Clark Clifford documented
document
“The notes of one presidential aide on a meeting with the President reflect that Truman felt "very strongly anti-FBI on the issue and wanted "to be sure and hold FBI down afraid of `Gestapo.'"…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.60
Clark Clifford member_of
Church Committee documented
document
“It is my conviction that the efforts of this committee will assist us in regaining confidence in our national integrity…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.37
Clark Clifford targeted_for_regime_change
Patrice Lumumba reported
document
“In the Lumumba case for example Johnson and Dillon who were Administration officials with no covert operation experience construed remarks as urging or permitting assassination…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.279
Clark Clifford worked_for
Harry S. Truman documented
document
“Presidential aide Clark Clifford reviewed the situation and came down on the side of the FBI...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.440
Harry S. Truman met_with
Clark Clifford documented
document
“Presidential aide Clark Clifford reviewed the situation and came down on the side of the FBI...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.440
Clark Clifford member_of
Jimmy Carter documented
“worked in the Truman administration, the JFK administration, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, and the Jimmy Carter administration. He was one of the most well-placed Democrat party bosses that has ever been created. And as you said, he…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 36:00
Clark Clifford member_of
Lyndon B. Johnson documented
“worked in the Truman administration, the JFK administration, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, and the Jimmy Carter administration. He was one of the most well-placed Democrat party bosses that has ever been created. And as you said, he…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 36:00
Clark Clifford headed
BCCI host_asserted
“Clifford and Altman using BCCI or was BCCI using them? Yes, that's the answer. Both. I think that's it's one hand washing the other. These public servants, you know, they don't make that much money in government. They've got to move to the …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 1:03:54
Clark Clifford headed
First American Bank host_asserted
“They deny everything. And this is when Witness B ends up telling Bloom that Clifford is operating as basically the lawyer of First American Bank, as well as being the chairman of the board and that Altman is the president of the DC Bank too…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 59:22
Clark Clifford removed_from_power
Burt Lance host_asserted
“He is a number one scumbag. And he's the guy that was responsible for getting Burt Lance fired. So Jimmy Carter then goes on to try to work with NATO in an arms control that I was just mentioning before. He was not involved. He was not inte…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 58:04
Clark Clifford recruited
Kamal Adham book_quoted
“Adam was initially approached by one of the most respected and powerful men in Washington, Clark Clifford, who rose to power under Harry Truman and had enjoyed a relationship with the intelligence community for years. Quote, Clark Clifford …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 48:11
Clark Clifford member_of
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“Clifford was in a law practice together. And Clark Clifford was in the whole story that we just told about the election in 1968 because he was a political advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson. He was all tied up in LBJ's criminality. He was on the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Is it the Octopus of Danny Casalaro’s writings_ @ 51:49
Clark Clifford funded
BCCI host_asserted
“Clifford, of course, is notorious in all of these stories. He's the guy that was helping BCCI illegally by banks in the United States. He comes up often in all of the conversations about Clinton. He's a long-term Democrat cohort. And what I…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 4:12
John F. Kennedy appointed
Clark Clifford documented
“but the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the prominent civilian group to which Clark Clifford and Gordon Gray were soon appointed. And you guys remember who Clark Clifford is? Clark Clifford is the guy that goes on to facili…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 16:08
Clark Clifford succeeded
James Killian documented
“The Intelligence Board chairman, James Killian, created and his successor, Clark Clifford, continued a subcommittee on covert operations. This group finally received the agency's general briefings. The panel included Gordon Gray, who had re…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 38:51
Clark Clifford founded
1947 National Security Act book_quoted
“So in 1946, they drafted a proposal. Thanks to Clark Clifford. Clark Clifford, the guy that eventually goes on to be involved in BCCI. That same Clark Clifford. He helps draft the intelligence legislation. Vandenberg pushed for the bill and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 27:31
Clark Clifford recruited
Kamal Adham documented
“BCCI with their domestic institutions. The clearest example was the effort of Robert Altman and Clark Clifford, who you guys who've watched our series on the BCCI Bank with Warhamster, and I will remember those names, to help Kamal Adem tak…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:00:46
Clark Clifford member_of
Missouri Gang documented
“And interesting name on the Missouri gang was a White House lawyer by the name of Clark Clifford, who we just talked about in BCCI. That's kind of cracked me up. But the thing that really set it apart was the Doolittle Commission in 1954. A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:48:34
Clark Clifford member_of
Missouri Gang host_asserted
“The first DCI we ever had, a guy by the name of Sidney Sowers, and his background was in Missouri grocery stores. So think about that. The second DCI was also from Missouri, a guy by the name of Hoyt Vandenberg. Here's the name you knew fro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 1:06:02
Clark Clifford laundered_money_for
BCCI book_quoted
“What does the Secretary of Defense have to do with overthrowing a government? Other influential old-line Democrats like Clark Clifford, a BCCI CIA money laundering fame, had loyalties that came nowhere near Jimmy Carter. When Carter refused…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 32:12
Clark Clifford covered_up
Richard Helms book_quoted
“Clifford, though he was not Helms' lawyer, actively lobbied the Justice Department to drop their investigation because he's afraid that it's going to show up his role in BCCI and the money laundering. Richard Bennett Williams, excuse me, Ed…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 32:42
Clark Clifford drafted_legislation_for
CIA documented
“Clifford, Clark M. Clifford, the same guy that falsely, illegally helped BCCI, the CIA's fake bank that supposedly was from Pakistan that was actually operated out of London and the UAE and Luxembourg, which is where it was registered. So C…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 42:11
Clark Clifford covered_up
USS Liberty incident host_asserted
“Clifford served frequently as an unofficial White House counsel and sometimes undertook short-term official duties, including a trip to General Maxwell Taylor in 1967 to South Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. H…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 57:33
Clark Clifford headed
BCCI host_asserted
“And in walks BCCI lawyers Clark Clifford and Robert Altman. They appear as the attorneys for BCCI. Now, I know you're going to want to say something about them. And it also turns out that they were functioning as the U.S. branch in Washingt…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 33:22
Robert Altman member_of
Clark Clifford host_asserted
“the saintly senator from utah that everyone loved and of course former secretary of state james baker is involved in that as well among others that's crazy and of course james baker makes an appearance in the carlisle fiasco with the carlis…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 40:49
Clark Clifford leadership_of
BCCI host_asserted
“He was on the president's intelligence advisory board for LBJ when all of the criminality was happening while he was president. And the fact that that guy was in the leadership of the BCCI bank, basically it tells you everything. Every piec…”
▶ Operation Gladio - THE OCTOPUS - Danny Casolaro Murder @ 51:59
Clark Clifford did_business_with
BCCI host_asserted
“and the uae and luxembourg which is where it was registered so clark clifford helps draft the legislation to set up the cia and then several years later is the guy that's helping the cia's fake bank bcci buy illegally three american banks i…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 37:07
Clark Clifford lobbied
U.S. Department of Justice host_asserted
“Another coup. Clifford, though he was not Helms' lawyer, actively lobbied the Justice Department to drop their investigation because he's afraid that it's going to show up his role in BCCI and the money laundering. Richard Bennett Williams,…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 24:28
Clark Clifford proposed
Kamal Adham book_quoted
“Adom was initially approached by one of the most respected and powerful men in Washington, Clark Clifford, who rose to power under Harry Truman and had enjoyed a relationship with the intelligence community for years. Quote, Clark Clifford …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 13 @ 41:48
Robert Altman member_of
Clark Clifford host_asserted
“So he basically gets a job working for Clark Clifford in the immediate aftermath of him graduating from law school and stuff. So he's kind of scarfed up right away. And he also had a partner, Christopher Weaver, that was involved in media.…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 41:20
Kamal Adham did_business_with
Clark Clifford book_quoted
“agency payroll for the first time. This made Adem, in effect, Sadat's case officer. This relationship gave Adem leverage when the time came to persuade Sadat to sign the Camp David Accords. Adem and Abedi believed the U.S. needed monitoring…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 13 @ 57:37
Robert Altman law_practice_with
Clark Clifford host_asserted
“who was basically the sec def. And Altman and Clark Clifford was in a law practice together. And Clark Clifford was in the whole story that we just told about the election in 1968 because he was a political advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson. He …”
▶ Operation Gladio - THE OCTOPUS - Danny Casolaro Murder @ 51:30
Harry S. Truman appointed
Clark Clifford host_asserted
“deft at money management that President Roosevelt appointed him a special aide to the Secretary of War, Stimson. Huh, so he's going to have access to all that Black Eagle money with responsibility for keeping tabs on the Axis loot. Navy Cap…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:04:16
Clark Clifford did_business_with
Edward Levi book_quoted
“Because Atom, through his relationships with Shackley and Bush, had intimate knowledge on just how desperate the U.S. intelligence was for services, a convenient Washington, D.C.-based bank acquiring one became one of his main goals. Meanwh…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 13 @ 58:05
Clark Clifford member_of
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented
“but the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the prominent civilian group to which Clark Clifford and Gordon Gray were soon appointed. And you guys remember who Clark Clifford is? Clark Clifford is the guy that goes on to facili…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 14:58
Clark Clifford headed
First American Bank host_asserted
“They deny everything. And this is when Witness B ends up telling Bloom that Clifford is operating as basically the lawyer of First American Bank, as well as being the chairman of the board and that Altman is the president of the DC Bank too…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 59:22
Clark Clifford member_of
First American Bank host_asserted
“Also sneered Anderson's protege, Clark Clifford, who was indicted for fraud. Clifford and his associate, Robert Altman, headed First American Bank Shares. That's the bank. It was a BCCI front bank in the nation's capital and was accused of …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 7 @ 1:08:10
Clark Clifford drafted
CIA host_asserted
“and the uae and luxembourg which is where it was registered so clark clifford helps draft the legislation to set up the cia and then several years later is the guy that's helping the cia's fake bank bcci buy illegally three american banks i…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 37:07
Clark Clifford political_advisor_to
Lyndon B. Johnson host_asserted
“who was basically the sec def. And Altman and Clark Clifford was in a law practice together. And Clark Clifford was in the whole story that we just told about the election in 1968 because he was a political advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson. He …”
▶ Operation Gladio - THE OCTOPUS - Danny Casolaro Murder @ 51:30
Clark Clifford did_business_with
BCCI book_quoted
“Jeslene Maxwell attended the donor reception with Epstein, which included a tour of the White House. Other attendees was Clark Clifford, who we've talked about before, who was a former presidential advisor and secretary of defense, who was …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 16 @ 33:29
Clark Clifford front_for
BCCI host_asserted
“They're the ones that facilitated the buying of these banks in the U.S., which was criminal from the get-go.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 55:17
Clark Clifford funded
BCCI host_asserted
“So he is at the heart of Operation Gladio, the setting up of the drug networks, the setting up of the weapons networks, the weapons network that was going on during the Vietnam and the skimming off at the top of those. All of that stuff wou…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 38:25
Clark Clifford front_for
BCCI host_asserted
“get them convicted. And who I'm talking about is Clark Clifford and Altman, the real kind of criminals in this as far as the U.S. was concerned. They're the ones that facilitated the buying of these banks in the U.S., which was criminal fro…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 55:03
Clark Clifford headed
BCCI host_asserted
“Clifford and Altman using BCCI or was BCCI using them? Yes, that's the answer. Both. I think that's it's one hand washing the other. These public servants, you know, they don't make that much money in government. They've got to move to the …”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 1:03:54
Clark Clifford did_business_with
BCCI host_asserted
“Clifford and Altman using BCCI or was BCCI using them? Yes, that's the answer. Both. I think that's it's one hand washing the other. These public servants, you know, they don't make that much money in government. They've got to move to the …”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 1:03:54
Clark Clifford member_of
BCCI host_asserted
“for LBJ when all of the criminality was happening while he was president. And the fact that that guy was in the leadership of the BCCI bank, basically it tells you everything. Every piece of this is all tied together. It's quite amazing. Ev…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Is it the Octopus of Danny Casalaro’s writings_ @ 52:17
Clark Clifford drafted
National Security Council Directive 4-A host_asserted
“crazy to me that they do the same thing over and over and over again. Well, I was actually shocked to find out that Clark Clifford drafted the National Security Act. That did shock me. Knowing what his ultimate role over the years were in O…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 1 @ 1:16:52
Clark Clifford did_business_with
BCCI host_asserted
“Isn't that interesting? What does a secretary of defense have to do with overthrowing a government? Other influential old line Democrats like Clark Clifford, a BCCI CIA money laundering vein, had loyalties that came nowhere near Jimmy Carte…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 23:56
Clark Clifford acted_as_lawyer_for
BCCI host_asserted
“the legislation to set up the CIA, and then several years later is the guy that's helping the CIA's fake bank, BCCI, buy illegally three American banks in the United States as their lawyer. It just is crazy. These people's name just comes u…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 42:45
Clark Clifford member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Oh, he did a JFK one, Six Degrees of Separation, Disclosure, Without Limits. The Hunger Games. Oh, shoot. For his portrayal of Clark Clifford, who, of course, we know is fundamental to Operation Gladio in so many ways.…”
▶ Exploring a few of Hollywood's Operation Gladio shows @ 23:50
Clark Clifford covered_up
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“So he is at the heart of Operation Gladio, the setting up of the drug networks, the setting up of the weapons networks, the weapons network that was going on during the Vietnam and the skimming off at the top of those. All of that stuff wou…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 38:25
Clark Clifford facilitated
BCCI host_asserted
“but the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the prominent civilian group to which Clark Clifford and Gordon Gray were soon appointed. And you guys remember who Clark Clifford is? Clark Clifford is the guy that goes on to facili…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 16:08
Clark Clifford funded
CIA host_asserted
“It's just crazy to me that they do the same thing over and over and over again. Well, I was actually shocked to find out that Clark Clifford drafted the National Security Act. That did shock me. Knowing what his ultimate role over the years…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:22:21
Mentions (62)
▶ 54:50
But the fact that he derailed what was obviously the CIA's intent was to jump ahead of Morgenthau, basically try them in a speedy trial with very few charges, get them convicted. And who I'm talking about is Clark Clifford and Altman, the r…
▶ 55:17
They're the ones that facilitated the buying of these banks in the U.S., which was criminal from the get-go. But the DOJ was going to basically try them and kind of set them aside so they couldn't do double jeopardy in New York City and jus…
▶ 51:20
Um, and I was shocked when I first read that he actually had agreed to meet with him because if you remember some of the past stories that we've told, um, one of the, um, big players in all of this is a guy by the name of Clark Clifford, um…
▶ 51:49
Clifford was in a law practice together. And Clark Clifford was in the whole story that we just told about the election in 1968 because he was a political advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson. He was all tied up in LBJ's criminality. He was on the …
▶ 54:09
But I wanted to kind of tie all those pieces together because it kind of starts with 1968 and another assassination of a priest over in Vietnam. And of course, we know the whole reason Johnson, one of the reasons of many that he dropped out…
▶ 22:51
opposed expansion of Vietnam War. And when Clark Clifford became the new SecDef, he was one of the top civilian leaders trying to educate Clifford about, look, we might want to pursue peace here. That's not working out militarily. So he's o…
▶ 55:24
inadvertently selling his bank to BCCI. Ah, there it is. BCCI scandal. And do you know who set him up in selling his bank to BCCI? Clark Clifford. Enough. And a guy by the name of Altman. Look up Clark Clifford. All right. Let me do that. C…
▶ 56:00
Look for his CFR links. Yeah. But you really have to go back and look at the whole BCCI illegally buying these banks. Clark Clifford is the guy that provided cover for the CIA front bank to buy U.S. banks. That guy right there. That guy rig…
▶ 56:34
Yes, it was a key figure, key figure in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal, which led to a grand jury indictment. Yes. And that was because not the Department of Justice brought that case. The New York Manhattan district …
▶ 57:02
The only reason he was ever indicted was the D.A. Morgenthau followed this up for years and put all of the pieces together without any help from the Department of Justice at all. This this this dude was involved in quite a few things. Look …
▶ 57:33
Clifford served frequently as an unofficial White House counsel and sometimes undertook short-term official duties, including a trip to General Maxwell Taylor in 1967 to South Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. H…
▶ 58:04
He is a number one scumbag. And he's the guy that was responsible for getting Burt Lance fired. So Jimmy Carter then goes on to try to work with NATO in an arms control that I was just mentioning before. He was not involved. He was not inte…
▶ 47:12
would play enormous roles in servicing the spy network designed to replace the official CIA while it was under congressional scrutiny between the time of Watergate and the end of the Carter administration, the Enterprise. The idea of using …
▶ 47:42
A guy by the name of Clark Clifford. Is Warhamster still in here? I saw him earlier. Clark Clifford is the guy that is hired by BCCI to disguise the illegal purchase of three American banks by BCCI. So let me read that again.…
▶ 48:11
Adam was initially approached by one of the most respected and powerful men in Washington, Clark Clifford, who rose to power under Harry Truman and had enjoyed a relationship with the intelligence community for years. Quote, Clark Clifford …
▶ 56:24
Turkay worked directly with the agency's operatives, like Edwin Wilson, and it says, quote, if I needed money for an operation, Prince Turkay made it available, unquote, Wilson said. Clifford's request for Saudi help came at a very critical…
▶ 1:04:03
This made Adem, in effect, Sadat's case officer. This relationship gave Adem leverage when the time came to persuade Sadat to sign the Camp David Accord. Adem and Abedi believed the U.S. needed monitoring after Adem left the Intelligence Di…
▶ 1:04:29
Because Atom, through his relationships with Shackley and Bush, had intimate knowledge on just how desperate the U.S. intelligence was for services, a convenient Washington, D.C.-based bank acquiring one became one of his main goals. Meanwh…
▶ 32:12
What does the Secretary of Defense have to do with overthrowing a government? Other influential old-line Democrats like Clark Clifford, a BCCI CIA money laundering fame, had loyalties that came nowhere near Jimmy Carter. When Carter refused…
▶ 32:42
Clifford, though he was not Helms' lawyer, actively lobbied the Justice Department to drop their investigation because he's afraid that it's going to show up his role in BCCI and the money laundering. Richard Bennett Williams, excuse me, Ed…
▶ 40:04
But weeks passed by with nothing. When answers finally came, Levi and his prosecutors seemed to be faced with a classic case of objection, excuse me, obstruction of justice. But Levi did catch the attention of the Washington establishment. …
▶ 40:34
Clifford was one of the two lawyers that helped BCCI buy three banks inside the United States illegally. Washington insider Clark Clifford visited Deputy Attorney General Harold Tyler. He warned him that the indictment of Richard Helms woul…
▶ 41:41
the executive office to have this organization. And I love this part. It says, already several bills had been proposed in Congress and the White House had held discussions with the Central Intelligence Group lawyers in 1946. And you'll neve…
▶ 42:11
Clifford, Clark M. Clifford, the same guy that falsely, illegally helped BCCI, the CIA's fake bank that supposedly was from Pakistan that was actually operated out of London and the UAE and Luxembourg, which is where it was registered. So C…
▶ 42:45
the legislation to set up the CIA, and then several years later is the guy that's helping the CIA's fake bank, BCCI, buy illegally three American banks in the United States as their lawyer. It just is crazy. These people's name just comes u…
▶ 43:11
Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clipper drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the war and Navy departments into a Department of Defense, which also set up a D…
▶ 1:22:21
It's just crazy to me that they do the same thing over and over and over again. Well, I was actually shocked to find out that Clark Clifford drafted the National Security Act. That did shock me. Knowing what his ultimate role over the years…
▶ 1:48:34
And interesting name on the Missouri gang was a White House lawyer by the name of Clark Clifford, who we just talked about in BCCI. That's kind of cracked me up. But the thing that really set it apart was the Doolittle Commission in 1954. A…
▶ 1:00:46
BCCI with their domestic institutions. The clearest example was the effort of Robert Altman and Clark Clifford, who you guys who've watched our series on the BCCI Bank with Warhamster, and I will remember those names, to help Kamal Adem tak…
▶ 31:45
Now, the story we're told is that he was in financial trouble and he was best friends with Jimmy Carter because Jimmy Carter's farm loans was through his bank, which means when the BCCI buys Burt Lance's bank, which they did under false pre…
▶ 16:08
but the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the prominent civilian group to which Clark Clifford and Gordon Gray were soon appointed. And you guys remember who Clark Clifford is? Clark Clifford is the guy that goes on to facili…
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background as well. He was both FBI and served in the National Security Council, which is where Gladio was ran out of for the U.S. He also was on the Intelligence Advisory Board from 1959 through 61, took a few months off, came back in 61 t…
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Clifford, of course, is notorious in all of these stories. He's the guy that was helping BCCI illegally by banks in the United States. He comes up often in all of the conversations about Clinton. He's a long-term Democrat cohort. And what I…
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Don't you love those memorialized memos? Kind of reminds you of the Obama administration. We did everything by the book. The next morning at the last Eisenhower-Kennedy meeting of the transition, Eisenhower turned Cuba. According to Clark C…
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The Intelligence Board chairman, James Killian, created and his successor, Clark Clifford, continued a subcommittee on covert operations. This group finally received the agency's general briefings. The panel included Gordon Gray, who had re…
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even though that's the entire purpose of the board. It didn't work. A few weeks later, the Clifford board demanded and received full information. Well, as full as you're going to get from about Cuba. They asked again in June when Clifford a…
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thus remained entirely in the hands of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, the civilians. Clark Clifford's panel concerned itself primarily with efficiency, not legality. Many of its inquiries during LBJ's last years concerned air…
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So in 1946, they drafted a proposal. Thanks to Clark Clifford. Clark Clifford, the guy that eventually goes on to be involved in BCCI. That same Clark Clifford. He helps draft the intelligence legislation. Vandenberg pushed for the bill and…
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The president spoke to Clifford several times expressing doubt, though he went ahead and did it anyway. Truman planned a reorganization of the entire military establishment, a proposal he sent to Congress in 47. Provisions for the peacetime…
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had not contemplated international coercion. The White House privately held a much more expansive view. The other functions were purposely not specified but were expected to include covert operations. Clark Clifford notes of the language, q…
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The first DCI we ever had, a guy by the name of Sidney Sowers, and his background was in Missouri grocery stores. So think about that. The second DCI was also from Missouri, a guy by the name of Hoyt Vandenberg. Here's the name you knew fro…
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Soon after the post published Truman's diatribe, Dulles began a campaign to get the retired president to disavow his own peace. The spymaster began enlisting the help of Washington power attorney, again, Clark Clifford. The same Clark Cliff…
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President Johnson's Intelligence Advisory Board, the CIA, quote, was really HST's baby, Truman's, or at least his adopted child, Dulles pointed out in a letter to Clifford. Perhaps the attorney could talk some sense into the old bird and ge…
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In accordance with the wishes of William Casey, the CIA director under Reagan, the BCCI stood alone, financially independent and free from congressional scrutiny. Thanks to Lance and Stevens, Western Arkansas suddenly became an internationa…
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And he was Robert McNamara's legal counsel when he was the SecDef during Vietnam. Yeah, he was the general counsel of the SecDef in 67. He actually had some pretty good positions. He opposed expansion of Vietnam War. And when Clark Clifford…
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Look, we might want to pursue peace here. It's not working out militarily. So he's on the right side of history on that one. And who was Clark Clifford again? Wasn't he the guy that was illegally involved in BCCI? God, there's such a small …
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And in walks BCCI lawyers Clark Clifford and Robert Altman. They appear as the attorneys for BCCI. Now, I know you're going to want to say something about them. And it also turns out that they were functioning as the U.S. branch in Washingt…
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So they're the lawyer and the president for the bank that was criminally bought. Yeah. Well, the question we need probably need to tell everyone is who was Clark Clifford? He's not a household name, but he should be because he used to be th…
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And Mike Benz just did a blockbuster show the other day where he showed that Rumsfeld was the drug guy at Gilead who becomes the Secretary of Defense. Now we have another money launderer that becomes the Secretary of Defense. So it makes yo…
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or Democrat president, with very few exceptions since World War II, our foreign policy and these shenanigans that we pull on other countries, they don't change depending on right versus left, Republican versus Democrat. No, two wings of the…
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worked in the Truman administration, the JFK administration, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, and the Jimmy Carter administration. He was one of the most well-placed Democrat party bosses that has ever been created. And as you said, he…
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the White House counsel job from 1946 to 1950. That was during the Truman administration. And what's key for us in my research is that was the very creation of Operation Gladio. That is when all of the units and the agreements and all of th…
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They were busy in preparing what would become the Angola mess later on. All of this stuff would have been under his purview and in his job jar as the Intelligence Advisory Board chairman. And then in the immediate aftermath of him serving a…
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So he is at the heart of Operation Gladio, the setting up of the drug networks, the setting up of the weapons networks, the weapons network that was going on during the Vietnam and the skimming off at the top of those. All of that stuff wou…
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the saintly senator from utah that everyone loved and of course former secretary of state james baker is involved in that as well among others that's crazy and of course james baker makes an appearance in the carlisle fiasco with the carlis…
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They deny everything. And this is when Witness B ends up telling Bloom that Clifford is operating as basically the lawyer of First American Bank, as well as being the chairman of the board and that Altman is the president of the DC Bank too…
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Clifford tells the regulators when he's asked that some of the same investors were in BCCI and First American, but he swears, which is what gets him in trouble, that BCCI has no role in the management of any of the U.S. They just happen as …
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money laundering drugs. Yeah. Go ahead. No, I was just going to say, you just can't make this stuff up. The overlap is amazing actually in so many different ways. Okay. So let me, let me get to my next note. So I had a question and I'd like…
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Clifford and Altman using BCCI or was BCCI using them? Yes, that's the answer. Both. I think that's it's one hand washing the other. These public servants, you know, they don't make that much money in government. They've got to move to the …
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The rest of the founding that I had, and that was Clifford, the attorney slash president slash chairman, Clark Clifford, ends up talking to Senator Claiborne Peel. And Claiborne Peel, who's a Democrat, is in charge of the Foreign Relations …
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That's that's I was going to talk about Northeastern Blue Bloods. That's going all the way back to royal family type stuff. Yes. So this is the guy that Clifford uses inside of the Senate. And you also see that Peel ends up he's in oil. He …
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get them convicted. And who I'm talking about is Clark Clifford and Altman, the real kind of criminals in this as far as the U.S. was concerned. They're the ones that facilitated the buying of these banks in the U.S., which was criminal fro…