OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16
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All right. Hopefully tonight this all is going to work and go off without a hitch. So let me know when y'all can hear me because we're going to plow right into this. All right. Let's make sure that this is going to work tonight. Nope. Oh my gosh. All right. It should be live now. Is that good? Finally, right?
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All right. So maybe they're giving us a reprieve and not going to be blocking me out today. So I found this really interesting ginger beer craft from Reed's at Trader Joe's. It's made with cane sugar. This stuff's got some real kick-ass ginger in it. That's all I got to say. It's like, wow. Anyway, love it. All right.
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So very interesting day today. It seems like every day there's a new garbage story. So we go from a guy that's been in prison for three years, sailing right along, not being tortured, no danger to Putin whatsoever, not even all that popular in Russia.
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All of a sudden, he's dead. And for some reason, that gets blamed on Putin, who would have had zero reason to kill the guy since he was already locked up in jail and not getting out anytime soon. But the people that would want to knock him off are the same people that were trying to make a deal with him to coup Putin because he's a loose end and it's never to be.
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Never a good idea to be a loose end in the intelligence world. So, oh, and we get a twofer because if we knock them off now, we can blame Putin and get more money for Ukraine. See how that works? So today, I was just looking at X before I got on here, and now Putin is going to blow up a bunch of satellites out of the sky.
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For no apparent reason whatsoever. But I thought they just told us that he wanted Biden to win. So what's going on? What would be in Putin's interest to disrupt an election that supposedly Biden's going to win as the incumbent? Right? That makes no sense. Why would he...
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blow up satellites. So my thought process always is, if it doesn't make sense, they're lying. There's no plausible explanation that would benefit Putin in blowing up satellites. None. Not in this world, not in the next world. So I just love the fact that they have to literally blame everything on Putin.
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It has gotten so ridiculous at this point. All right, let's get started. French Indochina. Okay, for nearly a decade after World War II, the French government attempted to hold on to the jewel of her empire, which was French Indochina. And the author goes into explaining kind of a little bit about the history. And in our next book, we're going to go into a lot of this history.
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For this purpose, in 1940, Japan invaded French Indochina, declaring Asia for Asians. So, Japan invaded basically Vietnam and any other area that French had taken and colonized. And basically, Japan was saying, get out of here. You're not Asian. You don't need to be here.
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The Japanese were not the good guys either because the Japanese did some horrific things, which again, we'll talk about later. But Japan had allied themselves with Germany and obviously the French government was with the allies and had already been defeated. So they get no say in it anyway. So they decide they're going to oust the French.
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And in March of 1945, the Japanese arrested virtually all of the French government administrators and military authorities that was in the French Indochina area. So the Japanese also complicated this situation by granting Vietnam independence, which was kind of out of spite for...
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because the French obviously had been there before the war and basically wanted it back. But the Japanese had went in there and stole tons of treasure out of libraries, banks, all over the continent, actually. They went into China and Korea and basically stole everything to include the kitchen sink.
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So the U.S., Russia, and Great Britain agreed that Vietnam was going back to the French. You know, because this wasn't about democracy or anything. Get that silly thought out of your head. They weren't going to actually free anybody. What was the purpose of World War II again? The British were dispatched into Vietnam from the South, releasing French soldiers from captivity and placing the French colonial government back in power.
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The nationalist leader and communist, Ho Chi Minh, moved to secure political power. Minh had provided intelligence on the Japanese to the American OSS during the war. And at this point, he was much more of a nationalist than a communist. He wasn't communist at all. In August of 1945, Minh declared himself president of the Free Vietnam.
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all of it. On September 2nd, he proclaimed the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He also carried out elections in North Vietnam, in which he was certainly the winner. Minh realized, however, that he would have to contend with the French. To that end, he worked out an agreement and then recognizing the
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Northern part is a free and independent state within the French Union. The French government made political concessions as well, allowing more freedom while retaining ultimate authority. France then began a military buildup, because they weren't going to actually have any of that, and began to reassert its power in the southern part of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The French in Hanoi
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cheered the troops upon their arrival and viewed their return as the establishment of legitimate authority. In direct violation of the treaty signed with men, the French declared the South separate from the North. You know, breaking them treaties again. They do this every single time. The Vietnamese insisted the South was part of their country, but the French remained resolute on the issue. Men tried to achieve a compromise, but the French wasn't having any of it.
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because it's not about democracy. Relations continued to deteriorate and hostilities erupted. The French began military operations against a mounting rebellion. The French army believed that only force would stop the men's nationalist army and initiated violent punitive operations. By late 1946, men's rebels were forced out of the cities and into the countryside.
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The French were confident that they could defeat men's forces and readily, steadily, sorry, the bloodshed increased. So the French basically weren't interested in a negotiated peace, kind of like what's going on in Ukraine right now. The Vietnam men had the backing of the peasant people in the countryside because they didn't like the French either.
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The rural people had already established networks that provided valuable intelligence to men on the disposition of the French. So there was a soldier that was named General Vau Nguyen Giap, whose army continued to grow and gain more territory. In an attempt to delegitimize men's movement, the French created a rival government.
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The U.S. had only limited involvement in the war at this point, but CIA officers were all over it. Anywhere there's a war, they're there. French forces were organized into three main military organizations. The Metropolitan Infantry, which were French volunteers. The Colonial Infantry, which was compromised the bulk of the French army. And the French African volunteers.
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that were assigned to static post. They also had some from the French Foreign Legion. There were also private paramilitary groups and spy outfits embedded in all of this. So two battalions of Foreign Legion paratroopers were created in 1948. They were designated as Parachute Battalion 1 and 2. They were formed in North Africa and deployed to Vietnam in 1948.
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So, again, these people never demobilized from World War II. They just went from one war. Now, this is going on in Vietnam. At around the same time, we're going to be involved in Korea. And then, of course, we leave Korea and come over here. Foreign Legion units were engaged in hard battles across Vietnam and were considered excellent soldiers. French airborne forces were...
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committed to exhausting pace of operations. And you know what's funny about all of this? The French rolled over when Germany came in. They were defeated in no time. So they go from utter humiliating defeat in World War II to immediately arrogantly insisting that they can still control.
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a country halfway around the world when they couldn't even control their own home country. So in 1947, the French began organizing new units of a specialized manner. They were placed under the command of a Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Graal to train indigenous soldiers in sabotage communications and intelligence gathering. These units received special training from a French SAS commando unit.
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And keep in mind, this is at the exact same time that Gorzini is in Paris, France, after the war. So they're in regular contact with the U.S. MAG, M-A-A-G advisors, which are basically the CIA. And we looked at that similar unit two chapters ago. So they supervised the distribution of U.S. military equipment and assisted the French officers in training.
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These French commando operations in Vietnam actually impacted Otto Skorzeny. Skorzeny and Elsie were relocated from their seclusion in Germany to a secret location in Paris. The American-French covert project arranged with French intelligence. There's a mosquito in here. Sorry about that. So you have the American and French.
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covert project arranged with French intelligence chief in the national police and that guy by the name of Roger Wybot, W-Y-B-O-T, who is head of the counter intel services in France that was working with Skorzeny. So the French and the U.S. MAG, which is basically the CIA, established secret weapons. Oh my gosh, listen to this. Weapons and ammunition caches and
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provided training to covert forces. That sounds an awful lot like stay-behind units. They were active in these covert operations and basically used secret De Gaulle intel services. One of the units received training from Skorzeny in 1949 and continuing for many years the 11th Shock Paratroop Regiment.
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a covert unit operating in concert with the Action Services of the French External Intel Services, which we came across these guys in our first Gladio book, the SDECE. They were basically integral to managing the stay-behind units in France itself. Officers and NCOs from the SDECE 11th Shock Battalion
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were also ordered to Vietnam to carry out training with new unconventional warfare units engaged in assassinations. The 11th Shock attended Skorzeny's training sites in France and in Spain. There, he and his men taught sabotage, demolitions, and other unconventional warfare skills. So, the interesting part of all of this, obviously, is that you have Skorzeny
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training people that are going to Southeast Asia to fight. You have Skorzeny training the people that were going to Africa in Algeria and all these other places to fight. And you have Skorzeny training the people that we just learned when we were doing the spaces with Kloss Barbie down in South America. This guy's a world famous trainer.
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And special tactics in assassinations. Everywhere. So, he makes a lot of close contacts in France. And he comes in contact with a large portion of the French Foreign Legion. Which was also comprised of Germans that had been part of Skorzeny's former units. And in 1950, a general by the name of Tasigi.
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assume command of all French forces in Indochina. His task was to bring vigor to the campaign, which had fallen into a stagnant battlefield situation. One suggestion was for a formation of new secret units focused on counter-guerrilla operations and psychological warfare. So in the spring of 1951, he begins creating these units. The colonel's first action was taking command
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After taking command was to send a hardened officer who had handled these assignments before. And his name was Major Roger T-R-I-N-Q-I-U-E-R. A recognized leader in psychological operations. So he was on his third Indochina tour, this major was. So he starts working with a Captain Camerette.
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And they are basically tasked to train indigenous soldiers for highly dangerous infiltration operations into the north. They would carry out direct action missions using sabotage, intelligence gathering, establishment of escape and evasion routes, and recruit agents. These sensitive missions were outside the operations of the regular French forces.
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They also were permitted to use assassination, and they also had Vietnam men or Ho Chi Minh had propaganda teams, and they were authorized to basically massacre them. In 1951, another French guy from the SDECE informed the CIA that
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The French agreed to accept a senior CIA representative in Indochina, together with two officers from the Office of Special Operations and two from the Office of Policy Coordination. Under the terms of the agreement, the CIA agreed to accept two representatives from the French equivalent of OPC into their efforts in Korea. You know, because we're just going to share wars here.
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By the end of October, the U.S. legation in Saigon requested the State Department's approval to establish a covert relationship with the French intel. But the CIA opposed the move in favor of an impending establishment of a formal CIA-French intelligence liaison in Indochina. In 1952, the French liaison with the CIA continued to expand coordination between the CIA operators and their French counterparts.
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Despite the development of these elite commando special forces, battling the North continued to be a challenge. So they took even more drastic actions when China and Russia began sending military supplies to Ho Chi Minh. So now get this. This is what cracks me up in not a good way. So you have people who don't want France there at all.
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So not only is the French there, but the U.S. sends the CIA in. And they've got the Brits sending them weaponry. So they're overwhelming the military capability of people who don't even want them there in the South. And the minute Ho Chi Minh turns around to China and Russia at the time of the Soviet Union and say, help.
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We're about to get overrun. They call him a communist. Where else is he going to turn? You're occupying Japan, right? That's where MacArthur is. There's nowhere else for him to turn. What's he supposed to do? Lay down and let you run over his entire country and take it? No, we're going to fight and we're going to ask for weapons from whoever will give it to us. And the only people that would stand up to the West.
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happened to have the term communist next to their name. So Ho Chi Minh was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. So this, let's see, two other events occur in the struggle of the East and West confrontation. The first was the outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula in 50. The second was the recognition of men's government by China and Russia.
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These new developments pushed the U.S. to recognize South Vietnamese as a legitimate government, even though they didn't even have a government. They had a bunch of villages. President Harry Truman authorized direct aid to the French in Vietnam beginning in 1950, thus increasing the U.S. MAG footprint in the region. By 1951, the North began receiving military aid from China.
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The battle in Vietnam changed from a guerrilla warfare to a conventional one. The French responded by forming a nationalist army in the south and began building up that force with U.S. material aid. The U.S. military assistance program was assigned to MAGG, M-A-G-G, Indochina, which is basically a CIA mission, although there are some special ops people in there. At this point, the Vietnam War was escalating.
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into a major conflict. And by the end of 1953, the U.S. was paying for most of the French war effort in Vietnam. The French maintained control of the cities, but the North controlled the countryside. The war was extremely unpopular in France, and it was for the American public as well. The French army relied on colonial troops in the French Foreign Legion.
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Many of the legionnaires were foreigners, including a sizable number of ex-German soldiers from Hitler's army. You know, because there's nothing like having a bunch of Nazis fighting a war for you and you sitting there calling the indigenous forces communists. The basic tactics employed by these forces involved search and destroy missions into the rural areas. By 1953, the situation in Vietnam was not going well for the French.
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Despite all of the efforts of their top generals, they were unable to defeat the Norse army. So the North had also taken over a large area of Laos, which at the time was a French ally, permitting cross-border operations into Vietnam. And you really have to look at a map to understand how significant that is. French defense had become static depending on strong points in major cities.
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And so they were trying to develop a strategy designed to cut off the Norse supply bases in Laos. They did that by trying to fortify like an airhead deep into the mountainous area of Vietnam called Dinh Binh Phu, which, of course, if you know anything about Vietnam, you know, that was a disaster. So in 1953.
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They too had an Operation Condor, which is not the same as the Operation Condor in South America. It began as a 1,800 battle-hardened French paratroopers descending into Dien Bien Phu. Now, I'm going to read this and then I'm going to tell you all something. So these Sky Warriors were the best combat troops France had. It was not the first time France had been in Dien Bien Phu.
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since they had fought there a year before, but were pushed out by the communist guerrilla forces. See, they're not communists. They were nationalists that got supplied by the communists because nobody else would help them. The last battle lasted nearly two months. The human wave tactics and lack of medical care had a negative effect on the Norse morale, but
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Fresh troops from Laos and a change in tactics to siege warfare eventually broke the French defense. Unable to be supplied adequately by air, the massive casualties, the French finally capitulated after a final all-out attack by the North on May 7, 1954. Thousands of French soldiers went into a brutal captivity and were used as bargaining chips in negotiations.
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The Geneva Convention temporarily divided the country and the communists in the north, not communists, and the French in the south. So let me tell y'all something. I actually did my Air War College trip to this area. I was in all of Vietnam. We spent almost five days in...
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Hanoi. We went into Nha Phong Harbor, which we probably don't, I don't think we go into it here, but Nha Phong Harbor, they loaded up ships full of North Vietnamese people and the psychological, see almost the entire country's almost Catholic, right? There's been Catholic missionaries there for decades. So our psychological warfare people went into the North and
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They did all kinds of operations, scaring the hell out of everybody up there that they were all going to die and that they all had to leave. And they used the Catholic church to instill this fear. They had people, whether they were real priests or not, they were dressed up as priests and scared the hell out of people. So people got on airplanes and they got on ships. They moved almost a million people to the South.
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So now they had set up a scenario where you've got northern Vietnamese people who've never been out of their villages a day in their life, probably in the last 200 years, living in the south in hovels. And any time a Kodal or any visitors came and the people in the south needed a war, they pitted those people against the southern people.
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because they ethnically didn't necessarily get along. Even though they were all Vietnamese, they were from completely different tribes. And there is a couple, three major sectors of cultural differences in Vietnam. And so they would piss each other off and we would incite the terror, get them fighting with each other and then act like we're the heroes.
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in going in and annihilating these people that we forced to move from the North into the South. So that's one thing. One of the places we visited in Vietnam, and yes, we went to the Hanoi Hilton and all of those other places, but the most fascinating place we went to was Dinh Vinh Phu. We actually sat in a museum on top of where the French were.
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They had cleverly devised this mock-up of the battlefield, and it was kind of like a hill. And they had, I mean, probably millions of people. They had rice paddies all around the area. These people had created a tunnel system under the French fort.
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Their base there. And the way they moved the dirt is women with their rice paddy baskets. So they would go into the tunnels, fill their baskets up, not with rice, with dirt. They would go down along the water and they would dump the dirt. And what they did was amazing, frankly. Ingenuity and...
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It was crazy. And they had actually a lighting system that day by day turned on the lights in every tunnel that they had dug that day. And it's like day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine. And it just, so they start at the top and they went down and.
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I actually went into the Coochie Tunnels that they have in another area of Vietnam. Like four stories down, they had full-size hospital rooms. They had dormitories. I don't necessarily like going down in tunnels, but they were so big and so well done.
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that that's where they all hid out. They had these bamboo piping systems that when they cooked there or when they were heating stuff up to do medical procedures, long, and I mean like a mile long bamboo, like duct tape together stick system that took all of the steam out to a water source. And they used
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The steam that was coming from the heating piped it out there. So the steam came up in the water. And if you've ever been over there, it's humid as hell. So that would be a natural phenomenon. It is just crazy what they were able to do. I was just like, I remember sitting in that auditorium with my mouth hanging open like.
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Those bastards did not stand a chance. They literally just rose up and they would come out here. And while they were like picking a fight over here, these guys would just swarm them from behind. They literally came up from the ground and would swarm them. Then they would retreat and they would pick a fight over here and they would swarm them over here. It was just like, and they're watching us.
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Watch that. And every one of us are just looking at each other going, what the hell? Because it wasn't anything like what we had been told. Nothing. Simply amazing. Anyway. All right. Back to the story. So that's what they're talking about when they talk about the human wave tactics. That literally is what it looked like because they were showing us with the lights exactly how they did it.
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So, although there was no direct American military involvement in the battle, the U.S. did provide weapons, material aid, and maintenance crews for the Air Force, and there was a lot of CIA people over there. Additionally, the U.S. Navy supplied limited covert air support, and the U.S. Air Force provided 12 C-119 transport aircraft flown by French air crew.
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Sure. Probably more like CIA air crew, but whatever. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a disastrous failure for the French army. Although many units fought bravely and well, the decisive North victory would signal the end of the French involvement in Indochina and mark the beginning of a withdrawal from the French military that was completed in April 1956. In February,
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1955, which is a year and a couple of months, the U.S. and France agreed that the French mission would be transferred to the CIA, which was renamed from Mag Indochina to Mag Vietnam. On November 1st, 1955, which, you know, is what, nine months after the French made that agreement,
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President Eisenhower deployed mag Vietnam, marking the official beginning of the Vietnam war. That's crazy. So, um, I'm going to go ahead and do a couple of sections into our next, um, chapter. Um, just so that we, uh, cause it's, it's not a long chapter, but it's also not a short chapter and I don't want to, um, short change it. So
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It's called Chapter 16, The Dirty War. Otto Skorzeny's role in Algerian conflict was a carryover from his role as a paramilitary advisor to the French intel in Indochina. So again, he helped the French because he was actually in Paris at the time with their preparation to go over there and get their butt kicked. So he's going to help them again.
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Although there were many important pathways contained in this book to the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, no historical period had greater importance to Skorzeny than the French war in Algeria, as was often the case in his well-
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I don't know, in his life. Otto Skorzeny's role in the Algerian conflict was cloaked in the shadows, but the evidence that we have today enables us to view the outline of a significant involvement. The conflict was a divide between the French people who favored keeping Algeria as a colony, basically, including a large segment of the French military and the native Muslim separatists that drove for its independence.
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It was a long, tragic story of which few are aware, but it had a major factor in the progression, not only of the history of France, but of the United States too, because JFK was intimately involved with Charles de Gaulle, who stood up to all of the Europeans who wanted France to keep Algeria as a colony.
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was one of the only heads of state that was supporting, Western heads of state, that was supporting Charles de Gaulle in wanting them to have freedom. The French war in Algeria started in 54 and it continued until 1962 with the granting of independence by Charles de Gaulle. And he did that much to his credit against just about everybody.
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And it's crazy that after World War II, not only did you have the Korea invasion, you have the Vietnam invasion, and then you have all of the Europeans still not wanting to give up any of their colonial powers in Africa when supposedly the whole thing was about democracy. Just a big fat lie. Okay, French soldiers who fought in Vietnam found themselves locked in yet another bitter strap.
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struggle with a French colony in North Africa. They swore that they would never be defeated again after getting their butts kicked at Dembinfu. But as we find out, that didn't save them. Beginning in 1952, an important nationalist movement began to take form in Algeria. It was called the Front Liberation National, FLN, or National Liberation Front.
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It was organized to achieve political objectives by revolutionary means, and it created a military wing called the National Liberation Army, or ALN, you know, because they do everything backwards. The formation of the FLN coincided with an evolving change in the attitude of the French people over Algeria and a rising call for France to grant the country its independence.
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By 1954, the French citizens had determined not to continue to hold Algeria as a colony, especially by force, because it was going to be too costly. And they were still trying to recover. It was seen as tarnishing French's international standing. And this was on the heels of the very costly financial struggle in Vietnam. And basically, they had just lost the will to do it.
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This was perceived by the FLN as an opening to be capitalized on. Plans were made to usher in a campaign of terror in order to push the events over the threshold and achieve independence in Algeria. November 1st, the FLN initiated nationwide attacks, including assassination bombings and an attempt to break French resolve.
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Let me just give you a different opinion. Now, I obviously respect this guy, but one of the other books that I've read says that's exactly not what happened. What actually happened was the OAS, the disgruntled special ops people in France who were hell-bent on not giving up Algeria, actually went to Algeria and staged...
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these assassinations and these bombings because they wanted to appeal to the French forces that there was radical, crazy people in Algeria and it wasn't safe to leave them to themselves at that current point. It was a complete manipulation of the situation via terror.
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which strangely sounds exactly like Operation Gladio. The FLN launched the war mainly in the rural areas and in the mountains, and the FLN drew chiefly on basically the Viet Cong model of organization. So what cracks me up about that is he says that, but how would the Algerian
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Muslims who's only ever lived in Algeria know anything about the Vietnam tactics. The only people that would know about the Vietnam tactics is the Gladio people that Skorzeny trained to go over and do what they did in Vietnam, which is terror. So I'm going to go ahead and say that that's exactly what happened in Algeria. They basically staged
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So then it goes on to say a strategic error was made early by the French approaching the FLN as a communist movement when in reality it was a nationalist movement. And that is very true. But I think the French sabotaged that nationalist movement to basically gain victim status. And I don't remember, we'll see whether they go into it, but some of the horrific...
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terrorism that did occur is very clearly done by the Skorzeny-trained people. The violence caused by the FLN was countered by the French army with equal force. Highly trained French guerrilla warfare operations who had fought in Vietnam were now fighting in Algeria. Among them were Roger Wybot, the chief of the external security services, DST.
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Wybot had the primary responsibility of surveillance and intel gathering on subversive or rebellious movements in French overseas territories or protectorates or colonies. The Algerian War found Wybot once again working with his old-time buddy, Jacques Sestel. Both men had helped organize the Free French wartime intelligence. Sestel was over the...
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a unit called the BCRA, of which Wybot ran the counterintel part of it. Wybot backed the maintenance of Algeria as a province of France. Basically, he didn't want them to be free. And he was a very close friend of many of the local French colonists that had moved to Algeria.
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Wybot undertook highly classified covert operations against FLN bases of support. Wybot's secret war was focused mainly against international arms dealers supplying the FLN with small arms, ammunitions, and explosives. He ruthlessly carried out his FLN campaign by using a combination of official and unofficial intelligence organizations. He also worked very close with the SDECE, which basically ran the Gladio program.
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So within that program, there was a special unit that was created to conduct covert warfare called Service 29. They were later called Action Service. They were basically the Dirty Trick Squad, like our CIA. So again, the 11th Shock Paratroop Regiment is involved in this. They are doing unconventional warfare.
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a whole bunch of other military people that they talk about. And there is a unit called Jedburg, J-E-D-B-U-R-G-H, which are special commandos comprised of British special operations and the British SOEs, the American, basically the OSS that had.
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then transformed into the CIA. So these people were psychological warfare, clandestine operations experts. They also were all trained in demolition and to sabotage or eliminate enemies. And all of these organizations had been trained in covert intelligence networks using
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SS men, including Skorzeny's commandos. Shortly before the initial revolt in Algeria by FLN rebels in 54, perhaps as early as 52, a mysterious organization appeared in North Africa called the Red Hand. Huh. A professional editor and freelance writer from the period, author Joachim Josten,
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followed the trail of the Red Hand through the late 1950s and into the early 60s. His discoveries were assembled in a small history called the Red Hands, first published in 1962. He squarely places the Red Hand as a creation or perhaps invention of Roger Wybots. So again, this is a made-up unit.
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Operation Gladio style, just what they did to the Red Brigade in Italy. They are going to make up the bad guy. They are going to have a battle with a perceived bad guy in order to achieve the results that they want, which is keeping, for these people, keeping Algeria as a colony. And they don't give a shit about how many people they kill in the meantime.
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Evidence gathered by Jostin indicated that the Red Hand grew out of what it started off as a legitimate self-defense organization during the earliest days of the terror campaign. YBOT included former French soldiers and intelligence personnel that had banded together in a small commando outfit or vigilant groups for protection.
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The groups began to grow and eventually developed into a countrywide self-defense network bent on revenge and reprisal. The ranks of the French population in Algeria who had established paramilitary networks that Wybot would create the counter-FLN terror group Red Hand. In fact, Jostin noted Wybot's link stating that Red Hand was the offspring of the French Secret Service.
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emphasizing that DST and the Red Hand are as inseparable as Siamese twins. He went on to write that despite the close relationship of the Red Hand with various French secret services, the relationship did not necessarily imply that all of their actions was approved. Wybot called upon counter-terror experts such as Otto Skorzeny to enhance the network's capability.
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and distance the DST from the Red Hand operations. So he is in fact saying at this point that it is definitely part, which is what I had already read. He said that the origins of the Red Hand are difficult to pin down, but appears to have started in Tanzania. Although it eventually spread throughout the region, its members were mostly French, but some Italian and Corsican operatives, which...
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ironically enough, is exactly where you would find all of the Operation Gladio, right? So you've got the Corsican Mafia, which is part of Gladio operations, especially at that time, because if you remember, they were taking all of the drugs out of Vietnam, shipping them into Marseille, into the Corsican Mafia.
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for refinement and then shipping them on to Cuba and then into the United States. So it makes perfect sense. And then you have the Italians. And if you remember the Borghese, the Black Prince, how they were doing all the training on Sardinia. And so a lot of those guys, every time they got in trouble, they would run to Spain. So it's only logical that you would have those because they worked for Skorzeny once they got to Spain, that you would have them here.
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performing operations in that theater as well. And that's why it's so important as we go through this history that it's one book on top of another book on top of another book because they all kind of build on each other. And then once you understand where all of these people came from, when you read something that's as innocuous as, oh, it was Italian and Corsican operatives, well, you know right away they're Gladio.
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So to the press, the Red Hand was a terrorist organization, plain and simple, elusive, deadly, and criminal. But in reality, the organization operated in the manner of a paramilitary group that sprang up in Germany after the First World War, of which Skorzeny participated. It was called the Hooded Ones, like the werewolf's units. The former French intel officers that fought in Algeria tended to remain
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silent about the activities linked to the red hand. There is, however, enough documented evidence to actually place Otto Skorzeny as a major player coordinating the most sensitive enterprises of the red hand network.
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using his independent operators, freelancers, and the French Secret Service operatives. The 11th Shock members were detailed through Bureau 24 of the SDECE to thwart international arm dealers supplying the FLN. These secret soldiers had access to almost every weapon in the 007 inventory to liquidate their targets. Bureau 24
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operations in his comprehensive history of conflict, a book called A Savage War of Peace, Algeria 54-62. This author identifies a man known only in history as the killer, was personally responsible for many of the assassinations. This man, the author noted, was
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once worked for the Galen organization in West Germany and for the French SDECE. Gosh, I wonder who that could have been. Although there could have been many candidates, the killer one logically would think was Skorzeny or a member from his stable of assassins. As a consequence of his clandestine support to Algeria operations, the Skorzeny group worked directly with the handpicked men in the 11th shock.
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And that guy's name was Paul Assasores. He was the commander of the 11th Shock, admitted later that he received orders to liquidate the FLN as quickly as possible. The 11th Shock had grown into a dangerous, unhinged killing unit, targeting representatives of the Algerian independence movement and European supporters.
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even on the streets of France. That tends to happen when you give people freelance to just go around and murder people, because that's exactly what ends up happening to the OAS. The OAS was part of their secret service that turned on Charles de Gaulle, and he finally had to disband that. But remember, that's the people that come over and are here when JFK is assassinated. Once you turn people into killers, it's kind of hard to turn them off.
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Roger Wybot was an aggressive intelligence director who did not shy from using assassination as a means to achieve an end. Wybot's attitude on the subject was captured clearly in an exchange that occurred in 1977 between him and William Colby, who obviously was a former director of the CIA. Two killers talking about killing. In a magazine dated June 16, 1977,
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repeated a French radio broadcast of an enlightening conversation between Colby, who was in charge of the CIA from 73 to 76, and the retired DST chief Wybutt. It read, quote, the talk got around to murder, in the national interest, of course. Colby insisted that, apart from the attempts on Castro and Lumbamba, which came to nothing,
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The CIA had never killed anyone. The 20,000 dead in Operation Phoenix against subversives in South Vietnam should really be put down to military action, unquote. These people are evil because they did in fact kill Mubamba, whether or not he pulled the trigger does not matter. They gave the order to have it done.
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Concerning the assassination of Admiral Darlan, D-A-R-L-A-N, Wybet commented, Colby disagreed with the premise of assassination, saying it might have been effective in the days of monarchies, but not in the modern world. To Colby, this would be playing God.
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Wybit maintained his position on the matter, noting that he could not see any difference considering Eastern Europe. Also of note is that Colby's allusion to the attempts on Castro and Lubamba are interesting since it was Skorzeny under the highly classified Q.J. Wynn program who carried out these operations. Certainly, the unreported part of their conversation was a discussion of Skorzeny.
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So yeah, Colby definitely gave the order. In 1956 or 1957, and I'll just say that's basically their issue is plausible deniability. The FLN initiated a new plan of attack, moving their operations into Algiers. It was hoped that the French army would not be as effective in the narrow confines of the city.
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It resulted in the main urban battle of the war, known as the Battle of Algiers. The French forces were successful in eliminating rebel sanctuaries and establishing control, mainly by the use of very effective but inhumane interrogation. The FLN also suffered reverses due to infighting among various internal factions, conducted terror against other Muslims, and
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To maintain its political supremacy, the Battle of Algiers would eventually be won by the French army, and the FLN leadership was broken up. Within months of the Battle of Algiers, the government of the Fourth Republic would collapse. The French army had secured a military victory, but it had lost the political war. In political terms, they had lost the war because their entire government collapsed.
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May 13th, 1958, a large strike, an angry mob happens, frustrated over the government's weak positions and feeling their cause would be sacrificed, stormed the offices of the governor general. Then that was General Massou, along with senior leaders and three army colonels formed a committee of public safety. And basically they urged Charles de Gaulle to return to office in order to safeguard French Algeria.
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Behind all of the political maneuvering and public demonstrations were the secret activities of the army and the intel, who were driving on the collapse of the government. De Gaulle entered office with full emergency powers for six months to rule by decree, and by ascending to office by vote, De Gaulle was not beholden to the army. Despite the fact that the Junta had brought events to this ending,
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They wrote a new constitution that was approved in September, creating the Fifth Republic. The new constitution gave de Gaulle strong executive authorities for a seven-year term as president. So in the beginning, de Gaulle, he actually escalated the war from an attempt to finally crush the remnants of the FLN still occupying the country.
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but he also simultaneously opened up a direct negotiation with the FLN leaders in a move that pissed off all the army people. De Gaulle also began removing ranking and mid-level officers. The purge combined new directions in heading the FLN infuriated the military and the support De Gaulle that had supported De Gaulle's return to power because De Gaulle was a general during World War II.
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They felt utterly betrayed. DeGaulle's return also marked the end of Roger Wybott. His reign as DST chief was out. He was also infuriated by being treated by DeGaulle like a common criminal, even though he was a common criminal. Roger Wybott's dismissal
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Prior to his dismissal, Otto Skorzeny was an integral part of the DST covert operations involving Red Hand and its interdiction of arms and material flow into Algeria. These operations had centered on assassination and intimidation, but the question arises when Wybet was providing operational cover to the Red Hand through the DST, who picked up the control and support of the terror group after he was gone.
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The answer can be found in a list of CIA personnel assigned to France at the time of Wybott's departure. Beginning in 1959, the CIA station chief was Al Umer, U-L-M-E-R, and we come across his name repeatedly in this story. This is the same CIA officer who initiated and directed the clandestine contact with Skorzeny in Madrid in 1950.
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Ulmer, U-L-M-E-R, was also the former station chief in Austria in 1948, which is where Skorzeny went when he left Camp King. Importantly, like Roger Wybutt, Ulmer was secretly in the league with the ultras and the French secret units supporting covert operations.
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It seemed likely that the CIA picked up cover for red-handed operations or at a minimum used Skorzeny as a surrogate for the terror group. Wybut maintained contact with Skorzeny and continued to support the red-handed operations from the shadows during his retirement. That happens a lot with these people. They don't ever retire. So in 1960,
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commander of the 10th Parachute Division in Algeria, declares that he will not, in all circumstances, obey Charles de Gaulle. The comment appeared in the French papers, and he was promptly recalled by a furious de Gaulle. The recall of Massou, who was extremely popular with the ultras in Algeria.
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was used as a pretext by the ultra leaders to stir up political action in the streets of Algiers. This move was secretly supported by CIA Paris chief Al Umar, and it was at this point that Skorzeny suddenly emerged as an intermediary between the ultras and the CIA. In 1960, at the request of the ultra leaders, Skorzeny approached the CIA contacts in Madrid.
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made a pitch for support to plans that they were developing in Algeria. The station chief at the time was Archibald Roosevelt Jr., as in FDR's son, who was likely working closely with Al Omer in Paris. Skorzeny's request was forwarded to Washington, where CIA...
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Counterintelligence James Angleton prepared a report indicating that Skorzeny's willing or unwilling was a channel for black propaganda, false information, to weaken Charles de Gaulle and encourage Americans' mistrust of the French government. Angleton, like Al Umer and Roosevelt, had sympathies for the ultra faction and saw an opportunity to use Skorzeny's network to their advantage.
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The green light was given for Madrid and Paris to engage Skorzeny in this plight. Now, let's see. So we're into 1960 at this point. So that's still Eisenhower. All right. Not the man I thought he was. The ultras initiated a revolt in January 24th, 1960. The senior ultra leader.
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was Joseph Ortiz. He actually owned a restaurant in Algiers. Ortiz headed the Ultra Group and was in league with several of the counter-terrorist groups, including one established by a guy by the name of Rene Kovacs. So they all joined together.
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And it says the style of the Front National French, FNF, which was a neo-fascist with a Celtic cross armband. The chief organizer of FNF was a guy by the name of Perez, who was a doctor with a record of counterterrorism vigilante activity, including bombings.
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Nothing like a killer doctor. Another guy by the name of Susini was a popular political leader and head of the student organization in Algeria. Bortez and Kovacs were identified as being affiliated with Skorzeny's network. Confirmation of this collusion came just over a year later by an American journalist writing at the Washington Post.
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He said, let's see, that the uprising headed by Skorzeny, question mark, neo-Nazi link to Algeria French, and stated that the ultras were actually part of the Skorzeny ring and that the general that was in charge of them was part of Skorzeny's network. So again, another confirmation that the whole Algeria garbage going on and...
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The Civil War was basically an Operation Gladio event. So American Committee for France and Algeria, with Skorzeny's operational involvement with the ultras, another CIA initiative to support the ultras with propaganda happened. To avoid the implications of the CIA's direct involvement, a private committee or pressure group was formed outside the CIA channels to be used for propaganda.
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Designed to employ white cop propaganda or information with aims and intentions identified, the committee would solicit help for the ultras. This would include morale, financial, and logistical support. Skorzeny's intelligence impact, a standout clue that Skorzeny's intelligence impacted the CIA operations, is the selection of attorney Clifford Forster, which was
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Skorzeny's American business partner as a lead to the pressure group. In February of 60, Forster, along with James Burnham, a contract CIA officer, founded the American Committee for France and Algeria. Forster was the chairman of the committee. It will be recalled Forster had first appeared in this history with Otto and Elsie Skorzeny.
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when they first arrived in Paris in 1949 to work with French intelligence chief Wybott in Berto. At that time, Forrester was associated with the American Friends of Paris, that Peace for Liberty organization, which was a CIA front for the stay-behind operations as they were being set up in Paris.
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Later, Forster would also be involved in the committee to aid Katanja Freedom Fighters, another CIA front group that also hid stay-behind-unit capability in Congo. This group included the CIA station chief Archibald Roosevelt Jr. Again, you find Archibald Roosevelt Jr.
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involved in the Egyptian stay-behind units as well. That man got around. So the existence of three separate CIA-associated committees, all associated directly with Clifford Forster, a principal business partner and friend of Otto Skorzeny's, is inescapable compelling.
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The group called Peace and Liberty that was formed in 49, the American Committee for France and Algeria formed in 60, and the Committee for Aid of Katanga Freedom Fighters in 61, all represented exact geographical areas at precisely the right time for Skorzeny's covert operations in that area. So they're basically fronts for the CIA.
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to run Skorzeny Ops, which is basically Gladio Ops. So there was clearly an indication the direction of support taken by Forrester, quote, we of the American committee consider Algeria the most important strategic area being contested in the struggle between East and West. Well, first of all, Algeria is definitely not East. That's even a ridiculous statement.
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It would be wrong for us to think that Algeria rebellion in the simplest terms of a colony fighting for freedom. This is exactly what the Soviet bloc wants you to think. This is exactly the reasoning behind those US intelligence officials supporting the French military and the ultras. That's just laughable on its face. That's like calling anybody who points out that Russia.
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Wasn't behind the murder is a Putin lover. That's just ridiculous. Oh, yeah, you're right. War hamster. Thank for pointing that out. Kermit Roosevelt was involved in the Iranian coup as well. Are we talking here about Otto Skorzeny, the famous German officer who say, yes, we are talking about that guy. The entire thing is talking about Otto Skorzeny, the whole book.
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So, it would be wrong for us to think, okay, so we already got that part. Oddly, the last issue of the U.S. and French report appears to be number 11, dated December 1963. The issue carried the headline, The Assassination.
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The article, perhaps evident of Black propaganda, lays blame for the Kennedy assassination on, quote, the conspiracy, which it explains is a vast communist network within the United States aligned with the left.
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According to the article, the reason the assassination took place was to lay blame on the far right, and this would have happened if not for the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald before his intended escape. It would be pointed out that the CIA counterintelligence chief, Jane Angleton, was the CIA liaison to the Warren Commission. At every turn, we find Otto Skorzeny's role as a covert asset in a mask link to the CIA.
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Clifford Forster was in the shadows, confirming his role as a clandestine conduit between the CIA and Skorzeny. Again, we hearken back to NSC Directive 10-2, which confirms Skorzeny's covert role. The guy that wrote this book also says, clandestine assistance, or as originally articulated by George Kennan, quote, assistance to any
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anti-communist faction in countries outside Soviet orbit where local communists might gain power through democratic process. Here again, the evidence is overwhelming. You have those three committees, all of which was part of CIA front company. So basically what they're saying, according to George Kennan,
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is that you can basically do anything to keep communist forces from being elected during a democratic process and still call it a democratic process. Does that even freaking make any sense to anybody? No. Angleton is also the one who flew in and cleaned up Allen Dulles' house after he died. Yes, you're right, he did. Angleton is a weird dude, too.
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Um, by clean, you know what I mean? Yes, we know what you mean. Um, like they cleaned up the, um, was it, was it Colby's wife that was murdered and they cleaned up her art, uh, studio. All right. We're going to go to the rest. We've only got a couple of pages left of this chapter. So Skorzeny and the rise of the secret army.
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OAS. Now this is the most important part of this book, guys, because this sets the foundation for it translating into how all of the Operation Gladio networks spilled over into the assassination of JFK. Okay. That's the premise of this book. And the OAS is the foundation for that. So we went through the whole book to get to this part.
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By the end of 1960, the last holdouts of the French military command would turn to more desperate measures in the last attempt to keep Algeria French and to keep their promise to never be defeated again. In addition to CIA propaganda efforts to support the ultras, the CIA appears to have provided much more lethal forms of support.
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This would also involve Otto Skorzeny. It will be remembered that with the dismissal of the French DST chief, Roger Wybut, the secret counter-terror group, Red Hand, had lost its official cover, at least from the French side. It is the contention of this author that the CIA, or at a minimum, the pro-Ultra factions within it, continued utilizing the Red Hand.
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Historians credit the red hand with the October 16, 1960 assassination attempt on Dr. Wilhelm Beisner, a former SS officer who became involved in supplying arms to FLN. One of the companies that Dr. Beisner was associated with was a Spanish arms company called Alpha, which had been infiltrated by Bureau 24 of French Intel Services, SDECE.
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However, by late 1960, de Gaulle had conducted a number of purges within the Army and the intel services, so it is not determinable who controlled the assassination operation exactly. In the attack, red-hand operatives placed a shrapnel-laden bomb in Biesner's car that blew him through the roof of the vehicle. His wife was also badly injured.
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The attack shows that the ultra operatives in the red hand were still interdicting FLN arms. A key component to this story, never before revealed, is the fact that Otto Skorzeny also worked for the arms company Alpha and was associated with Biesner in other business ventures. The attack has all of the hallmarks of a Skorzeny designed working through red hand networks.
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and he's basing this on Skorzeny's own paperwork. Only two months after Skorzeny was again at the center of developing events concerning the ultras, in December 1960, General Raoul Salon, the former commander-in-chief of French forces in Algeria, clandestinely moved out of France and took refuge in Spain. And keep in mind, this is Franco's
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fascist Spain. His intention was to begin a process of consolidating various ultra factions and organize a formal secret military structure. He set up his headquarters in the Hotel Princia in Madrid. According to historian Alistair Horn, the hotel was an
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and French, and former Nazi collaborators. Salon had come to Spain to organize the forces necessary to stop the fall of Algeria. And by the fall of Algeria, they mean back into the hands of actual Algerians and out of France as a colony. And he was damned and determined to do it by whatever means necessary.
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One of Salon's first contacts had been Otto Skorzeny. The historical accounts of this meeting report that Skorzeny did not hold out very high hopes for the enterprise. Salon's meeting with Skorzeny marked the beginning of a formation of the secret army organization called OAS. Skorzeny also met with other OAS leaders such as Jacques Zuzini,
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After the meeting of OAS leadership with Skorzeny, the general concept for a secret army, one based on military lines, was well underway. The general's clandestine move out of France appears to mark the formal beginning of this transformation. So basically, you have French military people leaving France and forming their own military, and it's labeled the OAS.
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but it's made up of a bunch of French former military people and some that were still on duty. So the general civilian aide, Jacques Octard, was a very close friend of Skorzeny's business partner, Clifford Forster. He would later be described as the most dangerous OAS leader. In the early days of the OAS formation, Octard...
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was General Salon's eyes and ears, making numerous trips into Algeria to coordinate the ultra networks. As a resident of Algeria, Octard had no trouble entering and leaving Spain. The close personal relationship between Forster and Octard places Skorzeny's network into the heart of the OAS. Greatly assisting General Salon with efforts to establish OAS was Spanish General
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Suneir, S-U-N-E-R. He was Francisco Franco's, the fascist president's, brother-in-law and former foreign minister. He was highly sympathetic to the OAS cause and very close to Skorzeny. It was Suneir who first gave Skorzeny entry into Spain in 1950 at the behest of the French intelligence. He is also the one that
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authorized Skorzeny's covert mag training sites around the country. So basically what he's saying here is what we have talked about. All of those training bases that Skorzeny was using to train all of the European Gladio people, this guy, this Sunier guy, is the one that approved Skorzeny's setting all of that up.
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Ultimately, Spain would prove to be a major bastion of OAS training and a base for launching its operations. The general and other leaders of OAS would depend upon Skorzeny to train, organize, and equip the OAS forces. The men attending these camps were former officers and NCOs who had served in Vietnam and Algeria. Many of them interacted with Skorzeny directly and had covert operation connections to the Red Hand.
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The OAS contained a large contingent of French collaborators and former SS volunteers. This state of affairs led political wits to refer to the OAS as OASS. As it happens, the core of the OAS leadership also contained members from the old guard or pre-war anti-communist movement. We know that to be Gladio. Specifically, the legacy terror group named the Hooded Ones.
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And that was a brotherhood that bonded Skorzeny to the French right. So that's basically their stay-behind network. In 1961, de Gaulle's government determined that Algeria could not be maintained as part of France without continued rebellion. De Gaulle's referendum on Algeria's pathway to independence proved to be the last straw for the ultras and the French military commanders, who had labored for so many years trying to keep Algeria part of France.
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The die was cast. Now the OAS commanders in Algeria decided to take action. Working secretly with active officers in the French military, particularly sympathetic corps of supporters within the ranks of the French Foreign Legion paratrooper units, they were organizing a coup to seize control of the country. The effort was backed by U.S. military officers and intelligence officials linked to Skorzeny's
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clandestine network. And let me just say for the record here, NATO headquarters, who runs Operation Gladio, is currently located in Paris, France, while all of these things are being planned. Okay, keep that in mind. It's very important. Suddenly, in a hastily drawn plan, four French generals linked to OAS moved to take action in Algeria.
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in a last-ditch effort to stop de Gaulle's policies. This was the General's coup of April 1961, which included General Salon, Jacquard, Zeller, and Chali. General Chali and Zeller had secretly entered the country just before the event.
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All of these men held high positions in military posts in the Algerian War and were highly respected by the French population. Initial operations began on the afternoon of April 21, 1961. The next morning, the radios announced that the army had seized control of Algeria. The generals were joined by the ultras and secret cells of the OAS.
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They were also heavily supported by units of the French Foreign Legion, primarily the 1st R.E.P. Other military units joined the coup, including elements of the 11th Shock and French Air Commandos. The plan called for seizing the key cities of Algeria and taking key locations in Paris at the same time, but those were never acted on. From the start of the coup,
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It did not garner the support from the population as needed to make some of the key units remain loyal to the government. So it stalled. De Gaulle quickly moved to quell a revolt. Dressed in his old military uniform from the war, he went on national television delivering an impassioned speech and the coup collapsed. De Gaulle then ordered the disbandment of the units that had been involved in the coup on...
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April 30th, with heads held high, the Legionnaires, true to their belief and defiantly singing their unit song, I Regret Nothing, left the garrison for the last time. By May 31st, 1961, the Air Commandos met the same fate and did the illustrious 10th and 25th Parachute Divisions. After the coup, stories of American involvement began to swirl.
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The New York Times reported that the day of the general's coup, rumors were afoot generated by minor American officials in France that the general's plot was backed by strong anti-communist elements, read Gladio, within the U.S. government and military services. And author William Bloom in Killing Hope, the U.S. and CIA's intervention since World War II.
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also points out that the Americans were angry over de Gaulle's policies, paralyzing NATO and rendering the defense of Europe impossible. Bloom added CIA men assured the generals that if they and their followers succeeded, Washington would recognize the new Algerian government within 48 hours.
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And you have only to look at what we were talking about the other day about South America. That's exactly what they did. Every time a dictator took over within minutes, they were recognizing the dictator as opposed to the democratically elected person. The behavior of the U.S. during the recent crisis. This is a quote from a French paper. The behavior of the U.S. during the recent crisis was not particularly skillful.
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It seems established that American agents more or less encouraged General DeGaulle. Curiously, the paper also reported that President Kennedy, quote, did not know of this contact, unquote. If true, the CIA planners likely kept the use of scores any hidden from the president who had already canceled Operation Tropical.
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Due to the press stories over potential U.S. involvement in the general's coup, the Kennedy administration went into damage control. Administration officials denied that the U.S. hadn't been involved in the plot. The U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, contradicted this claim, telling the U.N.
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New York Times in an interview that an emissary from the rebellious French generals had visited the U.S. consulate in Algiers to request aid, but it had been rebuffed. In fact, just prior to the coup, and prior to his resigning from the French military, General Maurice Chali, as Commander, let's see, Chief Allied Forces Central Europe,
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had daily interaction with senior military officers at NATO. Concerning American military collusion with the French generals, an investigative reporter named Claude Carife reported in L'Express, a widely read French liberal weekly, both in Paris and Washington, the facts are known in private, the highest French personalities make no secret of it.
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What they say is the CIA played a direct part in the Algiers coup and certainly weighed heavily on the decision taken by the ex-general to start the coup. Quote, basically talking about the general, the French general, had several meetings with CIA officers who told him get rid of de Gaulle would render the free world a great service. That's our CIA. Assassinate another president.
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In a more significant claim, at least for the history here, Grief also reported on an important clandestine meeting supposedly that took place in Madrid on April 12, 1961, between various foreign agents, including members of the CIA and the Algiers conspirators, who disclosed their plans to the CIA men. His comments contained a veiled reference to Otto Skorzeny's involvement in the attempted seizing of Algeria.
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So that's the end of the chapter. But I do want to emphasize a couple of things about the fact that NATO is in Paris at the time that this all is happening. And then I'm going to go through the comments. So the important thing about this is during this time, and I don't remember if in the next chapter he gets into it, there's over 20 attempts on Charles de Gaulle's life, primarily from OAS.
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And during the time that they were trying to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, JFK supported Charles de Gaulle, as I said earlier, and he was one of the only ones in the West that did, because he didn't believe in holding territory either. And there is a comment that...
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Charles de Gaulle says, leaving the United States after JFK was assassinated, that basically says, and I'm paraphrasing, that the OAS got to him. So despite the fact that they had already tried to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, we're going to find out that that group of idiots had two agents that
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were dispatched to um dallas and were present on november 22nd 1963 when um jfk was assassinated whether they pulled the trigger or not i don't know but they were definitely there and they were definitely part of this and they were pissed off so you have what this what they just said is that the cia was acting behind jfk's back
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I know for a fact, I've convinced myself, I've done this repeatedly. Yeah, there you go. Thank you, Warhamster. Kennedy was killed by the same security forces who went after me, quote. And he's talking about OAS. That is true. So it's remarkable to me that...
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All of this evidence to me that JFK was never told about Operation Gladio, because I've made this point emphatically multiple times. When Lemonsker writes Operation Northwood and presents it to McNamara, who presents it to Kennedy, and Kennedy says, get the hell out of here, we ain't killing Americans. So Operation Northwood, for everybody's knowledge, is a plan.
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Because the mafia and the internationalists wanted Cuba back and were doing anything they could to get it back. They recommended General Lemitsker, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had worked with Alan Dulles just before he got fired, to create a plan to go into multiple large U.S. cities and launch multiple bombs, killing hundreds of Americans.
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And use that, they were going to dress up as Castro Cubans and blame it on Castro. And use that as the justification for a full-scale army invasion of Cuba to take out Castro. That was an actual plan that was devised by the CIA and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So Kennedy said no.
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And because they had just went through the Bay of Pigs, he didn't want to fire Lemonsker and appear weak like he wasn't in control. So he basically did what should have resulted in Lemonsker's resigning, which was he reassigned him to a lesser status position. It was still a four-star job, but it was significantly less prestigious than him being chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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And that is NATO commander. Kennedy would have never made Lemonsker after he just proposed killing people in America, innocent civilians, in charge of Operation Gladio, which was being ran out of NATO at the time, if he had even known about Operation Gladio. So that tells me unequivocally Kennedy knew nothing about Operation Gladio. He was never read into that program. So Lemonsker goes over to...
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um paris and after all of this crap goes down charles de gaulle calls him into his office and says get the hell out of my country take you got six months take every ass wiping one of you out of nato out get out you're not going to be in my country trying to kill me out so when he does this um
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He takes all of the French forces out of NATO. So from the time that NATO is kicked out of Paris, France, and moves to Belgium, all the way, and this is in the 1960s, all the way till 2009, France is not even in NATO. No French forces are in NATO.
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So what's interesting to me about all of this and they're talking about, oh my gosh, it's such a crazy thing that Trump is talking about. NATO doesn't need to exist or we don't need to be in NATO or whatever. He's absolutely right. Did NATO fall apart when France wasn't a member? No. Are you saying that France is nothing? And so every time anybody mentions NATO.
1:38:35
Every single one of us needs to write a little freaking paragraph on their stupid post that says, we don't need to be in NATO. NATO runs Operation Gladio and they unequivocally do the name of the organization within NATO that does it is the initials ACC, Allied Clandestine, what is it? Allied Clandestine Committee. So that entity does it.
1:39:05
And they were kicked out of NATO. NATO was kicked out of Paris, France for trying to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. So NATO's not good. NATO's never been good. They run Operation Gladio. They go around the world assassinating people. And we should not be afraid to say that. Do whatever homework you need to in order to come up with your own little saying and feel very confident about saying it, that France left NATO.
1:39:35
In the 1960s, did not return until 2009 when they elected a fascist as a president. And NATO did just fine. If they can leave, so can we. All right, let's go back and look at some of these comments. Warhamster and Al Pacino. I love that name. Okay. It's been crazy in the comments here. Let's see.
1:40:06
We talked about Kermit. And Al Pacino says I lived 40 miles distance from that fortress in Belgium. Oh, cool. Eagleton is also the one who flew in and cleaned out. All right. We talked about that.
1:40:29
Thank you about the comment about Warhamster showing. I love doing shows with Warhamster. There's a synergy between his expertise in the banking industry and his constitutional foundation and my military and love of the operational nature of things that kind of just click together. And I love doing shows with him.
1:41:00
The Nazis never lost the war. I definitely think you can make that argument. They keep popping up everywhere. I would argue they never paused. Their integration into every aspect of life immediately after the war. D. Skorzeny, he's went into preparation for Vietnam. He did all of the prep work in the early 50s for the South.
1:41:30
and the overthrowing of all the governments down there. He trained all of the assassin forces down there that went and picked all these people off, trained them in explosives. They come up to America. They blow up the ambassador of, which ambassador was that? Paraguay, I think. And his assistant and two innocent civilians dead on the streets in Washington, D.C. Yeah, I'm not convinced there was even a pause as far as I'm concerned.
1:42:05
Warhamster, you took my thunder. I don't think they paused either. We're all on the same sheet of music. That's good to see. They all asked JFK. You got my quote. I didn't know a lot of these details. I'm learning too. So Daniel Ganser.
1:42:29
was the second book that I read. Um, and so let's see, do I even have that book out here? Um, yeah, I think I, Oh, right here. So yeah, Dan's Danielle Ganser. I actually follow him on, um, uh, X and I, uh, love the guy to death. He's very, very smart.
1:42:56
Um, that was the second Gladio book I ever read. And it is my second favorite, my first favorite book. Um, I don't think I have it out here cause I've been making notes on it. Um, is the, um, Paul Williams book. That was the first one we did over on true social in my book club and on here on rumble, you'll find that one. Um, but.
1:43:20
The way Danielle wrote his book is very good as far as taking you through the entire process. Another one that I would highly recommend is this book right here. Oh, there's Paul Williams' book. Yeah, so that was my favorite one. This book right here is also a very good book. We have not done a book review on this. I don't know that I would. But what I like about this one.
1:43:47
It's Gladio, NATO's dagger at the heart of Europe, the Pentagon Nazi mafia, which it absolutely is. This guy does a very interesting job in, he basically, instead of organizing it kind of chronologically, this guy goes event by event by event. For example, he takes you to...
1:44:13
Portugal, but he does just a particular event. Then he does the Vatican where the gray wolf Turkish guy tries to quote unquote assassinate John Paul II. When you actually go through the details of that, he was not actually trying to assassinate him. It was a warning. John Paul II was sending a lot of the laundered money that the
1:44:44
Operation Gladio Drug Network was depositing and laundering into the Vatican. He was using the 10 to 15% cut that the Vatican was taking for the money laundering and giving it to Solidarity in a, and he was actually talking to the Soviet Union as they began to transition out of being the Soviet Union and knew that at that point it was going to dissolve.
1:45:12
That was a warning for him to stop talking. They do not want anybody talking either to the Soviet Union or to Russia now. They have completely different intentions. And so they dispatched from NATO headquarters. The order came down that they were going to use an assassin from the Gray Wolves in Turkey, which is their Gladio unit. And he was going to go shoot the Pope. And that's exactly what he did.
1:45:42
And he was eventually charged with that. There was a lot to do about it, but that eventually happened. Also, he talks about the Operation Gladio happening on Cyprus and Greece. We went over Greece, which is...
1:46:02
Very interesting. That's where we come up with Colonel George Papadopoulos, which I still just can't believe. But there's a whole history of the dividing of Cyprus, the island, between Greece and Turkey, which I was not even aware of. And he also talks about Bulgaria. And that's where I found Bulgaria was basically the arms trafficking hub.
1:46:31
of operation gladio just about every black market weapon transited bulgaria um in some uh former fashion so that was all very interesting and that is these books is i mean there's like
1:46:50
five other ones over here. I won't go through all of them, but those are kind of the thing that set me on this path that gave me the foundation to be able to talk in public about this subject. And I'm forever grateful to Gansler and Paul Williams and all of them for writing those books. We definitely need to know all of this. By the way, I live in a city called in the Netherlands, closely located.
1:47:19
From the German border. Also close to Belgian border. I can literally drive through three countries. I've been in that area actually. When I lived in Italy. We drove up through. My cousin was stationed in. Just outside of Amsterdam. And at Schusterberg. And we drove from Italy. I took three and a half weeks off. Drove in my 1989 Toyota Supra. Loved that car.
1:47:49
From San Vito, Italy, which is the heel of Italy, we drove up through the west coast of Italy, up through Switzerland to Luxembourg, Belgium, a little bit of Germany into the Netherlands. And then we came back and went down through the Bavaria area and into Austria.
1:48:17
And we came down the east coast of Italy on our way back through all of the Adriatic Sea resort areas. Absolutely beautiful country. And I look back on that now. I did not speak a lick of any language other than English. We drove for thousands of miles in those three and a half weeks. And I could not read a single road sign.
1:48:46
Good on us. We made it back. So glad to have you here, Al Pacino. Appreciate you being here. Okay. Let's see what else we got. Yeah. Thanks for everybody giving us the thumbs up. I see y'all are cracking that whip. And our numbers today, we were just talking about that. We're over 900 followers. Thank you very much, everybody, for being here. I really appreciate it.
1:49:25
So please follow us. That's how our videos move up in kind of the, when somebody does a query on trying to find particular content. So I really appreciate you being here and pushing those numbers up for us. I don't make any money off of this. I think we've probably.
1:49:49
made less than like $20 total. And I'm very open about that. I've already bought one of our researchers a tablet that I don't even remember what it's named. So I've already spent more money than I'll ever make on this stupid thing. But I'm here just so people can be exposed to the truth. And that's the only reason that we do what we're doing. And I will be very upfront with y'all about all of that.
1:50:19
Um, it is my hope someday that if we ever did any money that we would host a big ass party right here at my house and everybody that can make it can come down and we're going to have a big, big party because we're going to win the war. Um, that's my goal. Um, two years. Let's see. Good synergy. Uh, well, okay. So Liza, you're right. And thank you for reminding me.
1:50:49
They actually killed the first John Paul I. So prior, obviously, to John Paul II, we had John Paul I. John Paul I was in office for 33 days. They poisoned him the night of his 32nd day. He was found dead the morning, like at five o'clock in the morning on his 33rd day. And now keep in mind that when this happened, the entire Catholic church is filled with Masonic P2 members.
1:51:19
And we know what the significance of 32 and 33 is in the Masonic order. So it is not coincidental that John Paul I was murdered. He was poisoned. And the description from the nun of what his body looked like on the morning that she discovered him, and she ends up dead, by the way, was clear that he was poisoned. And what was laying astrewed across his bed.
1:51:47
was a briefing that he had been given by the Secretary of State, who happened to be Marcinkas, who was the Illinois Archbishop that was banking with the mobsters. No coincidence there either. Then he was hired to come and be over the Vatican Bank. So they're money laundering for the drug CIA, BND, MI6, blah, blah, blah networks.
1:52:15
The Pope, John Paul I, finds out about it. They come in and poison him because he had told them the day before that he was exposing all of this and it had to be cleaned up. So, there you go. That's why I'm interested in the subject. What is his... You just spell his name, Warhamster. It's D-A-N. It's his actual name.
1:52:48
D-A-N-I-E-L-E-G-A-N-S-E-R. And you have to do the little translator thing on the brave, um, in order to, cause he writes, he's, um, um, I, Al Pacino told us, um, he's Austrian or something like that. Um, and he writes in that language. Um, Europeans a hell hole. I agree. Um,
1:53:24
All right. Let's see. All right. That's it. So I think I got through all the comments. Thank you all again for being here. Love the fact that we have a lot of new names here. Patrick Webb breaking CNN claims Julian Assange has mental health issues and may take his life if extradited. Okay. I don't know.
1:53:56
I think that's a little dramatic, but I don't know that that wouldn't be a viable option. Our prison system with the likes of, yeah, Pompeo wants to finish the job. Liza, you're reading my mind, girlfriend. Our prison system with what happened to Jeffrey Epstein is not a good thing for Julian Assange. That's all I'm going to say about that.
1:54:25
Um, so God bless him and keep him in your prayers, everybody, because what they have done to that man is just, it's horrendous. It's absolutely horrendous. So, okay. I'll see you guys here. Um, Thursday night, seven o'clock be here. Hope to see you all then. Thank you very much for being here.
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Japan invaded
Indochina documented
▶ 5:01
“For this purpose, in 1940, Japan invaded French Indochina, declaring Asia for Asians. So, Japan invaded basically Vietnam and any other area that French had taken and colonized. And basically, Japan w…”
Japan granted_independence_to
Vietnam documented
▶ 6:11
“And in March of 1945, the Japanese arrested virtually all of the French government administrators and military authorities that was in the French Indochina area. So the Japanese also complicated this …”
Japan arrested
France documented
▶ 6:11
“And in March of 1945, the Japanese arrested virtually all of the French government administrators and military authorities that was in the French Indochina area. So the Japanese also complicated this …”
United States agreed_with
Russia documented
▶ 7:12
“So the U.S., Russia, and Great Britain agreed that Vietnam was going back to the French. You know, because this wasn't about democracy or anything. Get that silly thought out of your head. They weren'…”
United Kingdom dispatched_to
Vietnam documented
▶ 7:12
“So the U.S., Russia, and Great Britain agreed that Vietnam was going back to the French. You know, because this wasn't about democracy or anything. Get that silly thought out of your head. They weren'…”
United States agreed_with
United Kingdom documented
▶ 7:12
“So the U.S., Russia, and Great Britain agreed that Vietnam was going back to the French. You know, because this wasn't about democracy or anything. Get that silly thought out of your head. They weren'…”
Ho Chi Minh declared_independence_of
Democratic Republic of Vietnam documented
▶ 8:14
“all of it. On September 2nd, he proclaimed the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He also carried out elections in North Vietnam, in which he was certainly the winner. Minh realized, …”
France violated_treaty_with
Ho Chi Minh documented
▶ 9:14
“cheered the troops upon their arrival and viewed their return as the establishment of legitimate authority. In direct violation of the treaty signed with men, the French declared the South separate fr…”
France initiated_military_operations_against
Ho Chi Minh documented
▶ 9:43
“because it's not about democracy. Relations continued to deteriorate and hostilities erupted. The French began military operations against a mounting rebellion. The French army believed that only forc…”
France created_rival_government_for
Vietnam documented
▶ 10:47
“The rural people had already established networks that provided valuable intelligence to men on the disposition of the French. So there was a soldier that was named General Vau Nguyen Giap, whose army…”
France formed_unit
French Foreign Legion documented
▶ 11:45
“that were assigned to static post. They also had some from the French Foreign Legion. There were also private paramilitary groups and spy outfits embedded in all of this. So two battalions of Foreign …”
Edmund Graal commanded
France documented
▶ 13:19
“a country halfway around the world when they couldn't even control their own home country. So in 1947, the French began organizing new units of a specialized manner. They were placed under the command…”
CIA supervised_distribution_of_equipment_for
France documented
▶ 13:50
“And keep in mind, this is at the exact same time that Gorzini is in Paris, France, after the war. So they're in regular contact with the U.S. MAG, M-A-A-G advisors, which are basically the CIA. And we…”
Roger Wybot headed
France documented
▶ 14:54
“covert project arranged with French intelligence chief in the national police and that guy by the name of Roger Wybot, W-Y-B-O-T, who is head of the counter intel services in France that was working w…”
Roger Wybot worked_with
Otto Skorzeny documented
▶ 14:54
“covert project arranged with French intelligence chief in the national police and that guy by the name of Roger Wybot, W-Y-B-O-T, who is head of the counter intel services in France that was working w…”
Otto Skorzeny trained
11th Parachute Shock Regiment documented
▶ 15:28
“provided training to covert forces. That sounds an awful lot like stay-behind units. They were active in these covert operations and basically used secret De Gaulle intel services. One of the units re…”
SDECE managed
France documented
▶ 15:55
“a covert unit operating in concert with the Action Services of the French External Intel Services, which we came across these guys in our first Gladio book, the SDECE. They were basically integral to …”
11th Parachute Shock Regiment operated_in_concert_with
SDECE documented
▶ 15:55
“a covert unit operating in concert with the Action Services of the French External Intel Services, which we came across these guys in our first Gladio book, the SDECE. They were basically integral to …”
11th Parachute Shock Regiment ordered_to
Vietnam documented
▶ 16:22
“were also ordered to Vietnam to carry out training with new unconventional warfare units engaged in assassinations. The 11th Shock attended Skorzeny's training sites in France and in Spain. There, he …”
Otto Skorzeny trained_in
Spain documented
▶ 16:22
“were also ordered to Vietnam to carry out training with new unconventional warfare units engaged in assassinations. The 11th Shock attended Skorzeny's training sites in France and in Spain. There, he …”
Tasigi assumed_command_of
France documented
▶ 17:19
“And special tactics in assassinations. Everywhere. So, he makes a lot of close contacts in France. And he comes in contact with a large portion of the French Foreign Legion. Which was also comprised o…”
Roger Trinquier tasked_with_training
Vietnam documented
▶ 19:02
“And they are basically tasked to train indigenous soldiers for highly dangerous infiltration operations into the north. They would carry out direct action missions using sabotage, intelligence gatheri…”
France agreed_to_accept_representative_from
CIA documented
▶ 19:37
“They also were permitted to use assassination, and they also had Vietnam men or Ho Chi Minh had propaganda teams, and they were authorized to basically massacre them. In 1951, another French guy from …”
CIA agreed_to_accept_representative_from
France documented
▶ 20:04
“The French agreed to accept a senior CIA representative in Indochina, together with two officers from the Office of Special Operations and two from the Office of Policy Coordination. Under the terms o…”
China sent_military_supplies_to
Ho Chi Minh documented
▶ 21:00
“Despite the development of these elite commando special forces, battling the North continued to be a challenge. So they took even more drastic actions when China and Russia began sending military supp…”
Russia sent_military_supplies_to
Ho Chi Minh documented
▶ 21:00
“Despite the development of these elite commando special forces, battling the North continued to be a challenge. So they took even more drastic actions when China and Russia began sending military supp…”
China recognized_government_of
Ho Chi Minh documented
▶ 22:35
“happened to have the term communist next to their name. So Ho Chi Minh was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. So this, let's see, two other events occur in the struggle of the East and West con…”
Russia recognized_government_of
Ho Chi Minh documented
▶ 22:35
“happened to have the term communist next to their name. So Ho Chi Minh was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. So this, let's see, two other events occur in the struggle of the East and West con…”
Harry S. Truman authorized_aid_to
France documented
▶ 23:10
“These new developments pushed the U.S. to recognize South Vietnamese as a legitimate government, even though they didn't even have a government. They had a bunch of villages. President Harry Truman au…”
China sent_military_aid_to
Vietnam documented
▶ 23:10
“These new developments pushed the U.S. to recognize South Vietnamese as a legitimate government, even though they didn't even have a government. They had a bunch of villages. President Harry Truman au…”
France formed_nationalist_army_in
Vietnam documented
▶ 23:38
“The battle in Vietnam changed from a guerrilla warfare to a conventional one. The French responded by forming a nationalist army in the south and began building up that force with U.S. material aid. T…”
United States paid_for
France documented
▶ 24:08
“into a major conflict. And by the end of 1953, the U.S. was paying for most of the French war effort in Vietnam. The French maintained control of the cities, but the North controlled the countryside. …”
Vietnam took_over_area_in
Laos documented
▶ 25:09
“Despite all of the efforts of their top generals, they were unable to defeat the Norse army. So the North had also taken over a large area of Laos, which at the time was a French ally, permitting cros…”
France launched_operation_at
Dien Bien Phu documented
▶ 26:10
“They too had an Operation Condor, which is not the same as the Operation Condor in South America. It began as a 1,800 battle-hardened French paratroopers descending into Dien Bien Phu. Now, I'm going …”
Vietnam defeated
France documented
▶ 27:07
“Fresh troops from Laos and a change in tactics to siege warfare eventually broke the French defense. Unable to be supplied adequately by air, the massive casualties, the French finally capitulated aft…”
United States provided_weapons_to
France documented
▶ 34:14
“So, although there was no direct American military involvement in the battle, the U.S. did provide weapons, material aid, and maintenance crews for the Air Force, and there was a lot of CIA people ove…”
United States supplied_air_support_to
France documented
▶ 34:14
“So, although there was no direct American military involvement in the battle, the U.S. did provide weapons, material aid, and maintenance crews for the Air Force, and there was a lot of CIA people ove…”
United States agreed_to_transfer_mission_to
CIA documented
▶ 35:16
“1955, which is a year and a couple of months, the U.S. and France agreed that the French mission would be transferred to the CIA, which was renamed from Mag Indochina to Mag Vietnam. On November 1st, …”
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Algeria book_quoted
▶ 36:20
“It's called Chapter 16, The Dirty War. Otto Skorzeny's role in Algerian conflict was a carryover from his role as a paramilitary advisor to the French intel in Indochina. So again, he helped the Frenc…”
Charles de Gaulle granted_independence_to
Algeria documented
▶ 38:08
“was one of the only heads of state that was supporting, Western heads of state, that was supporting Charles de Gaulle in wanting them to have freedom. The French war in Algeria started in 54 and it co…”
Front Nationale carried_out_attack
Algeria documented
▶ 40:44
“This was perceived by the FLN as an opening to be capitalized on. Plans were made to usher in a campaign of terror in order to push the events over the threshold and achieve independence in Algeria. N…”
Roger Wybot headed
Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire documented
▶ 43:45
“terrorism that did occur is very clearly done by the Skorzeny-trained people. The violence caused by the FLN was countered by the French army with equal force. Highly trained French guerrilla warfare …”
Roger Wybot worked_with
Jacques Kostel book_quoted
▶ 44:13
“Wybot had the primary responsibility of surveillance and intel gathering on subversive or rebellious movements in French overseas territories or protectorates or colonies. The Algerian War found Wybot…”
Roger Wybot worked_with
SDECE book_quoted
▶ 45:06
“Wybot undertook highly classified covert operations against FLN bases of support. Wybot's secret war was focused mainly against international arms dealers supplying the FLN with small arms, ammunition…”
Joachim Josten authored
The Red Hands documented
▶ 47:39
“followed the trail of the Red Hand through the late 1950s and into the early 60s. His discoveries were assembled in a small history called the Red Hands, first published in 1962. He squarely places th…”
Roger Wybot founded
Red Hand book_quoted
▶ 47:39
“followed the trail of the Red Hand through the late 1950s and into the early 60s. His discoveries were assembled in a small history called the Red Hands, first published in 1962. He squarely places th…”
Otto Skorzeny trained
Red Hand book_quoted
▶ 49:34
“emphasizing that DST and the Red Hand are as inseparable as Siamese twins. He went on to write that despite the close relationship of the Red Hand with various French secret services, the relationship…”
Red Hand originated_in
Tanzania book_quoted
▶ 50:04
“and distance the DST from the Red Hand operations. So he is in fact saying at this point that it is definitely part, which is what I had already read. He said that the origins of the Red Hand are diff…”
11th Parachute Shock Regiment worked_with
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 53:39
“once worked for the Galen organization in West Germany and for the French SDECE. Gosh, I wonder who that could have been. Although there could have been many candidates, the killer one logically would…”
Otto Skorzeny worked_for
SDECE book_quoted
▶ 53:39
“once worked for the Galen organization in West Germany and for the French SDECE. Gosh, I wonder who that could have been. Although there could have been many candidates, the killer one logically would…”
11th Parachute Shock Regiment headed_by
Paul Assasores book_quoted
▶ 54:10
“And that guy's name was Paul Assasores. He was the commander of the 11th Shock, admitted later that he received orders to liquidate the FLN as quickly as possible. The 11th Shock had grown into a dang…”
William Colby headed
CIA documented
▶ 55:39
“repeated a French radio broadcast of an enlightening conversation between Colby, who was in charge of the CIA from 73 to 76, and the retired DST chief Wybutt. It read, quote, the talk got around to mu…”
Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack
Attempts on Castro and Lumumba book_quoted
▶ 57:03
“Wybit maintained his position on the matter, noting that he could not see any difference considering Eastern Europe. Also of note is that Colby's allusion to the attempts on Castro and Lubamba are int…”
Charles de Gaulle supported_by
General Massu book_quoted
▶ 58:59
“May 13th, 1958, a large strike, an angry mob happens, frustrated over the government's weak positions and feeling their cause would be sacrificed, stormed the offices of the governor general. Then tha…”
Roger Wybot removed_from_power
Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire book_quoted
▶ 1:00:55
“They felt utterly betrayed. DeGaulle's return also marked the end of Roger Wybott. His reign as DST chief was out. He was also infuriated by being treated by DeGaulle like a common criminal, even thou…”
Alfred Ulmer headed
CIA book_quoted
▶ 1:01:51
“The answer can be found in a list of CIA personnel assigned to France at the time of Wybott's departure. Beginning in 1959, the CIA station chief was Al Umer, U-L-M-E-R, and we come across his name re…”
Otto Skorzeny intermediary_for
CIA book_quoted
▶ 1:03:47
“was used as a pretext by the ultra leaders to stir up political action in the streets of Algiers. This move was secretly supported by CIA Paris chief Al Umar, and it was at this point that Skorzeny su…”
Alfred Ulmer supported
1960 Algiers Revolt book_quoted
▶ 1:03:47
“was used as a pretext by the ultra leaders to stir up political action in the streets of Algiers. This move was secretly supported by CIA Paris chief Al Umar, and it was at this point that Skorzeny su…”
James Jesus Angleton prepared_report_on
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 1:04:42
“Counterintelligence James Angleton prepared a report indicating that Skorzeny's willing or unwilling was a channel for black propaganda, false information, to weaken Charles de Gaulle and encourage Am…”
Joseph Ortiz affiliated_with
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 1:06:46
“Nothing like a killer doctor. Another guy by the name of Susini was a popular political leader and head of the student organization in Algeria. Bortez and Kovacs were identified as being affiliated wi…”
Rene Kovacs affiliated_with
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 1:06:46
“Nothing like a killer doctor. Another guy by the name of Susini was a popular political leader and head of the student organization in Algeria. Bortez and Kovacs were identified as being affiliated wi…”
Clifford Forster business_partner_of
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 1:08:53
“Skorzeny's American business partner as a lead to the pressure group. In February of 60, Forster, along with James Burnham, a contract CIA officer, founded the American Committee for France and Algeri…”
Clifford Forster founded
American Committee for France and Algeria book_quoted
▶ 1:08:53
“Skorzeny's American business partner as a lead to the pressure group. In February of 60, Forster, along with James Burnham, a contract CIA officer, founded the American Committee for France and Algeri…”
American Friends of Vietnam front_for
CIA book_quoted
▶ 1:09:20
“when they first arrived in Paris in 1949 to work with French intelligence chief Wybott in Berto. At that time, Forrester was associated with the American Friends of Paris, that Peace for Liberty organ…”
American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters front_for
CIA book_quoted
▶ 1:09:50
“Later, Forster would also be involved in the committee to aid Katanja Freedom Fighters, another CIA front group that also hid stay-behind-unit capability in Congo. This group included the CIA station …”
Archibald Roosevelt Jr. operated_in
Egypt book_quoted
▶ 1:09:50
“Later, Forster would also be involved in the committee to aid Katanja Freedom Fighters, another CIA front group that also hid stay-behind-unit capability in Congo. This group included the CIA station …”
Clifford Forster member_of
American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters book_quoted
▶ 1:09:50
“Later, Forster would also be involved in the committee to aid Katanja Freedom Fighters, another CIA front group that also hid stay-behind-unit capability in Congo. This group included the CIA station …”
Archibald Roosevelt Jr. member_of
American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters book_quoted
▶ 1:09:50
“Later, Forster would also be involved in the committee to aid Katanja Freedom Fighters, another CIA front group that also hid stay-behind-unit capability in Congo. This group included the CIA station …”
Clifford Forster relationship_with
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 1:10:16
“involved in the Egyptian stay-behind units as well. That man got around. So the existence of three separate CIA-associated committees, all associated directly with Clifford Forster, a principal busine…”
American Committee for France and Algeria front_for
CIA book_quoted
▶ 1:10:41
“The group called Peace and Liberty that was formed in 49, the American Committee for France and Algeria formed in 60, and the Committee for Aid of Katanga Freedom Fighters in 61, all represented exact…”
American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters front_for
CIA book_quoted
▶ 1:10:41
“The group called Peace and Liberty that was formed in 49, the American Committee for France and Algeria formed in 60, and the Committee for Aid of Katanga Freedom Fighters in 61, all represented exact…”
Peace and Liberty front_for
CIA book_quoted
▶ 1:10:41
“The group called Peace and Liberty that was formed in 49, the American Committee for France and Algeria formed in 60, and the Committee for Aid of Katanga Freedom Fighters in 61, all represented exact…”
CIA funded
Organisation armée secrète book_quoted
▶ 1:16:29
“By the end of 1960, the last holdouts of the French military command would turn to more desperate measures in the last attempt to keep Algeria French and to keep their promise to never be defeated aga…”
CIA recruited
Red Hand book_quoted
▶ 1:16:53
“This would also involve Otto Skorzeny. It will be remembered that with the dismissal of the French DST chief, Roger Wybut, the secret counter-terror group, Red Hand, had lost its official cover, at le…”
Alpha 66 operated_in
Spain book_quoted
▶ 1:17:19
“Historians credit the red hand with the October 16, 1960 assassination attempt on Dr. Wilhelm Beisner, a former SS officer who became involved in supplying arms to FLN. One of the companies that Dr. B…”
Red Hand attempted_assassination_of
Wilhelm Beisner documented
▶ 1:17:19
“Historians credit the red hand with the October 16, 1960 assassination attempt on Dr. Wilhelm Beisner, a former SS officer who became involved in supplying arms to FLN. One of the companies that Dr. B…”
SDECE spied_on
Alpha 66 book_quoted
▶ 1:17:19
“Historians credit the red hand with the October 16, 1960 assassination attempt on Dr. Wilhelm Beisner, a former SS officer who became involved in supplying arms to FLN. One of the companies that Dr. B…”
Wilhelm Beisner did_business_with
Alpha 66 book_quoted
▶ 1:17:19
“Historians credit the red hand with the October 16, 1960 assassination attempt on Dr. Wilhelm Beisner, a former SS officer who became involved in supplying arms to FLN. One of the companies that Dr. B…”
Raoul Salan moved_to
Spain book_quoted
▶ 1:18:45
“and he's basing this on Skorzeny's own paperwork. Only two months after Skorzeny was again at the center of developing events concerning the ultras, in December 1960, General Raoul Salon, the former c…”
Raoul Salan lived_in
Hotel Princia book_quoted
▶ 1:19:16
“fascist Spain. His intention was to begin a process of consolidating various ultra factions and organize a formal secret military structure. He set up his headquarters in the Hotel Princia in Madrid. …”
Raoul Salan founded
Organisation armée secrète book_quoted
▶ 1:20:18
“One of Salon's first contacts had been Otto Skorzeny. The historical accounts of this meeting report that Skorzeny did not hold out very high hopes for the enterprise. Salon's meeting with Skorzeny ma…”
Raoul Salan relationship_with
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 1:20:18
“One of Salon's first contacts had been Otto Skorzeny. The historical accounts of this meeting report that Skorzeny did not hold out very high hopes for the enterprise. Salon's meeting with Skorzeny ma…”
Jacques Massu relationship_with
Clifford Forster book_quoted
▶ 1:21:17
“but it's made up of a bunch of French former military people and some that were still on duty. So the general civilian aide, Jacques Octard, was a very close friend of Skorzeny's business partner, Cli…”
Juan Suner appointed
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 1:22:18
“Suneir, S-U-N-E-R. He was Francisco Franco's, the fascist president's, brother-in-law and former foreign minister. He was highly sympathetic to the OAS cause and very close to Skorzeny. It was Suneir …”
Juan Suner relationship_with
Francisco Franco book_quoted
▶ 1:22:18
“Suneir, S-U-N-E-R. He was Francisco Franco's, the fascist president's, brother-in-law and former foreign minister. He was highly sympathetic to the OAS cause and very close to Skorzeny. It was Suneir …”
Juan Suner relationship_with
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
▶ 1:22:18
“Suneir, S-U-N-E-R. He was Francisco Franco's, the fascist president's, brother-in-law and former foreign minister. He was highly sympathetic to the OAS cause and very close to Skorzeny. It was Suneir …”
Otto Skorzeny trained
Organisation armée secrète book_quoted
▶ 1:23:15
“Ultimately, Spain would prove to be a major bastion of OAS training and a base for launching its operations. The general and other leaders of OAS would depend upon Skorzeny to train, organize, and equ…”
Organisation armée secrète member_of
Comité de Secret Action Révolutionnaire book_quoted
▶ 1:23:45
“The OAS contained a large contingent of French collaborators and former SS volunteers. This state of affairs led political wits to refer to the OAS as OASS. As it happens, the core of the OAS leadersh…”
NATO operated_in
France host_asserted
▶ 1:25:19
“clandestine network. And let me just say for the record here, NATO headquarters, who runs Operation Gladio, is currently located in Paris, France, while all of these things are being planned. Okay, ke…”
Maurice Challe attempted_coup_against
Charles de Gaulle documented
▶ 1:25:51
“in a last-ditch effort to stop de Gaulle's policies. This was the General's coup of April 1961, which included General Salon, Jacquard, Zeller, and Chali. General Chali and Zeller had secretly entered…”
Jacques Massu attempted_coup_against
Charles de Gaulle documented
▶ 1:25:51
“in a last-ditch effort to stop de Gaulle's policies. This was the General's coup of April 1961, which included General Salon, Jacquard, Zeller, and Chali. General Chali and Zeller had secretly entered…”
Raoul Salan attempted_coup_against
Charles de Gaulle documented
▶ 1:25:51
“in a last-ditch effort to stop de Gaulle's policies. This was the General's coup of April 1961, which included General Salon, Jacquard, Zeller, and Chali. General Chali and Zeller had secretly entered…”
Jacques Soustelle attempted_coup_against
Charles de Gaulle documented
▶ 1:25:51
“in a last-ditch effort to stop de Gaulle's policies. This was the General's coup of April 1961, which included General Salon, Jacquard, Zeller, and Chali. General Chali and Zeller had secretly entered…”
CIA funded
Generals' Putsch book_quoted
▶ 1:28:33
“also points out that the Americans were angry over de Gaulle's policies, paralyzing NATO and rendering the defense of Europe impossible. Bloom added CIA men assured the generals that if they and their…”
John F. Kennedy relationship_with
Operation Tropic book_quoted
▶ 1:29:24
“It seems established that American agents more or less encouraged General DeGaulle. Curiously, the paper also reported that President Kennedy, quote, did not know of this contact, unquote. If true, th…”
CIA covered_up
Generals' Putsch book_quoted
▶ 1:29:49
“Due to the press stories over potential U.S. involvement in the general's coup, the Kennedy administration went into damage control. Administration officials denied that the U.S. hadn't been involved …”
Maurice Challe member_of
NATO book_quoted
▶ 1:30:09
“New York Times in an interview that an emissary from the rebellious French generals had visited the U.S. consulate in Algiers to request aid, but it had been rebuffed. In fact, just prior to the coup,…”
CIA funded
Generals' Putsch book_quoted
▶ 1:31:09
“What they say is the CIA played a direct part in the Algiers coup and certainly weighed heavily on the decision taken by the ex-general to start the coup. Quote, basically talking about the general, t…”
Otto Skorzeny member_of
Generals' Putsch book_quoted
▶ 1:31:40
“In a more significant claim, at least for the history here, Grief also reported on an important clandestine meeting supposedly that took place in Madrid on April 12, 1961, between various foreign agen…”
Organisation armée secrète attempted_assassination_of
Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
▶ 1:32:11
“So that's the end of the chapter. But I do want to emphasize a couple of things about the fact that NATO is in Paris at the time that this all is happening. And then I'm going to go through the commen…”
John F. Kennedy relationship_with
Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
▶ 1:32:45
“And during the time that they were trying to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, JFK supported Charles de Gaulle, as I said earlier, and he was one of the only ones in the West that did, because he didn't …”
Organisation armée secrète carried_out_attack
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
▶ 1:33:42
“were dispatched to um dallas and were present on november 22nd 1963 when um jfk was assassinated whether they pulled the trigger or not i don't know but they were definitely there and they were defini…”
Lyman Lemnitzer proposed
Operation Northwoods host_asserted
▶ 1:34:35
“All of this evidence to me that JFK was never told about Operation Gladio, because I've made this point emphatically multiple times. When Lemonsker writes Operation Northwood and presents it to McNama…”
Charles de Gaulle removed_from_power
NATO host_asserted
▶ 1:37:01
“um paris and after all of this crap goes down charles de gaulle calls him into his office and says get the hell out of my country take you got six months take every ass wiping one of you out of nato o…”
NATO funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
▶ 1:38:35
“Every single one of us needs to write a little freaking paragraph on their stupid post that says, we don't need to be in NATO. NATO runs Operation Gladio and they unequivocally do the name of the orga…”
Operation Gladio operated_in
Portugal book_quoted
▶ 1:44:13
“Portugal, but he does just a particular event. Then he does the Vatican where the gray wolf Turkish guy tries to quote unquote assassinate John Paul II. When you actually go through the details of tha…”
Grey Wolves attempted_assassination_of
Pope John Paul II book_quoted
▶ 1:44:13
“Portugal, but he does just a particular event. Then he does the Vatican where the gray wolf Turkish guy tries to quote unquote assassinate John Paul II. When you actually go through the details of tha…”
Vatican City funded
Solidarity (Poland) book_quoted
▶ 1:44:44
“Operation Gladio Drug Network was depositing and laundering into the Vatican. He was using the 10 to 15% cut that the Vatican was taking for the money laundering and giving it to Solidarity in a, and …”
Pope John Paul II laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio book_quoted
▶ 1:44:44
“Operation Gladio Drug Network was depositing and laundering into the Vatican. He was using the 10 to 15% cut that the Vatican was taking for the money laundering and giving it to Solidarity in a, and …”
Vatican City laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio book_quoted
▶ 1:44:44
“Operation Gladio Drug Network was depositing and laundering into the Vatican. He was using the 10 to 15% cut that the Vatican was taking for the money laundering and giving it to Solidarity in a, and …”
NATO ordered_assassination_of
Pope John Paul II book_quoted
▶ 1:45:12
“That was a warning for him to stop talking. They do not want anybody talking either to the Soviet Union or to Russia now. They have completely different intentions. And so they dispatched from NATO he…”
Grey Wolves member_of
Operation Gladio book_quoted
▶ 1:45:12
“That was a warning for him to stop talking. They do not want anybody talking either to the Soviet Union or to Russia now. They have completely different intentions. And so they dispatched from NATO he…”
Operation Gladio operated_in
Cyprus book_quoted
▶ 1:45:42
“And he was eventually charged with that. There was a lot to do about it, but that eventually happened. Also, he talks about the Operation Gladio happening on Cyprus and Greece. We went over Greece, wh…”
Operation Gladio operated_in
Greece book_quoted
▶ 1:45:42
“And he was eventually charged with that. There was a lot to do about it, but that eventually happened. Also, he talks about the Operation Gladio happening on Cyprus and Greece. We went over Greece, wh…”
Operation Gladio operated_in
Bulgaria book_quoted
▶ 1:46:02
“Very interesting. That's where we come up with Colonel George Papadopoulos, which I still just can't believe. But there's a whole history of the dividing of Cyprus, the island, between Greece and Turk…”
Operation Gladio trafficked
Bulgaria book_quoted
▶ 1:46:31
“of operation gladio just about every black market weapon transited bulgaria um in some uh former fashion so that was all very interesting and that is these books is i mean there's like…”