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Claims (19)
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 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 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 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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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 (43)
▶ 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…
▶ 3:42
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…
▶ 4:12
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…
▶ 17:26
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…
▶ 38:51
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…
▶ 40:35
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…
▶ 27:31
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…
▶ 31:36
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…
▶ 1:06:02
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…
▶ 35:47
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…
▶ 36:16
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…