OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1

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1:05 There we go. That y'all can see me and the sound's working. Can we get a sound check? Hello, Tara. Can you hear me okay, Tara? Trying to get the video feed over there. Make sure that that camera's on. FaceTime. All right. Good to go. I don't see it on my rumble.

2:02 So can you see and hear me, Tara? Because the video feed's not coming across on my Rumble channel. I can see it on my StreamYard channel. All right. So this book tonight that we're going to start, the Skorzeny Papers, is quite a fascinating book. So just a little bit, again, I want to...

2:39 let everyone know when I first found this book and saw that the author was a retired major, I decided I was going to do something I'd never done before and I was going to find him. So I started searching for him. I found a couple of numbers, called one out of service, called the second one and a lady answered the phone.

3:09 It happened to be his ex-wife, but still on good talking terms. So I explained to her who I was and what I had been doing and told her that I wanted to talk to her husband about his book and just kind of wanted the history of what he did and why he did it. So we talked for almost, I don't know, over half an hour on the phone once I got a hold of him.

3:40 I emailed him. She gave me his email address. He called me. And I do have to call him back, which I will try to do before our next podcast. Now that I finished the book, he did want to talk to me after I finished the book. So I do want to call him. And I do have a couple of things I wanted to discuss with him. As I will point out, as I always do, as we go through the book, in how it compares to the other books we've already reviewed.

4:10 I will tell you if you guys are of the mind that you would like to buy the book and read along. As I said before, he said that the book to buy would be the paperback book because it hasn't updated forward. And there are some typos in this hardback book that I have.

4:34 Which I made note of, and I'd be happy to send it to him if he ever does think he'll do a second edition. But anyway, look at me doing spell checking on other people. So I'm going to skip through the preface. I do want to tell you this. The Major Gannis, who wrote this book, purchased from Scorsese.

5:03 uh scorzini's son his entire box of paperwork that was placed in a attic in a house that was passed down to the mom who then passed it down to scorzini's son so these are authentic papers this guy is in the process of putting together a mobile museum and plans to tour the country in

5:33 so that everybody can see this collection that he's put together. He doesn't just have scores in his papers. He has other memorabilia from this same time frame, much of which is talked about and referenced in this book, which we will go over as we get to it. But it is very interesting. So without any further ado, we're going to jump into chapter one.

6:03 Chapter one starts off with the title, A War With No Rules. And it has a quote from Winston Churchill. Admiral Darling's murder, however criminal, relieved the allies of their embarrassment at working with him. That was part of Winston Churchill's memorabilia in a book that he wrote.

6:36 And he starts off describing in May of 1940, Great Britain was fighting for its national survival. Nazi Germany had defeated Belgium and France and was basically just kind of rolling over much of the ally countries.

6:59 It says, fortunately for the English, they did manage to evacuate 198 British soldiers from Dunkirk in rescue missions dubbed Operation Dynamo. So we're going to try it in the first chapter to kind of set the stage so that you understand the setting for which we're going to begin. England also was alone and prepared to defend the homeland. And we already know much of what happened in their preparation to...

7:28 defend the homeland from a German invasion, Winston Churchill, who had spent his reporting reporter days in the Boer Wars in South Africa, had learned about the stay-behind units, which we've already gone over, and he did, to some extent, create such a thing in Britain in case Germany invaded.

7:55 And, of course, we also know that those remained well after World War II under the guise that they were going to be needed for anti-communist outfits. And we also know up front that they were never used for anti-communists. For the most part, they were used for domestic violence against their own citizens. So it does talk about the top secret stay-behind units and how they were going to use them.

8:23 It talks about Churchill immediately turned his attention to going on the offense after those were established, quote, to set Europe ablaze using subversive warfare and covert actions, unquote. It talks about the Office of Strategic Services, OSS, which we know was the precursor to the CIA. In this book, he says that it was actually originated from William.

8:54 Stevenson's, which was the British intelligence liaison to the United States. His name comes up quite often. Stevenson was the head of the British Security Coordination, BSC, an intelligence outfit tasked to speed America's entry into the war on the British side. So Stevenson approaches President Roosevelt with the concept of American version

9:25 of a special tactical capability called the SOEs. Americans had monitored with great interest the success and efficiency of the British Secret Services, SOE, and commandos. Roosevelt immediately supported the formation of such a group, which became the OSS. He appointed William Wild Bill Donovan,

10:01 Highly decorated from World War I. During the conflict, Donovan held the rank of Major and served in the 1st Battalion Commanders. Donovan had come from an immigrant Irish family and settled in Buffalo, New York. After a few years in Canada, he had once considered the Catholic priesthood and later became a lawyer.

10:31 His education included St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, Niagara University, and finally Columbia Law School. While at Columbia, he was a classmate of FDR's. Brian Cates, instead of watching my podcast, is texting me about the football game. He just left here. He was here for the first game and then went home to watch the second game. And now my phone's on fire.

10:59 I'm going to have to text him and tell him, hey, you're supposed to be watching me and not football. Just kidding. So in other research we've done, we clearly identified Wild Bill Donovan as a Jesuit, as Knights of Malta. And in a couple of instances, he attended Zionist type meetings.

11:32 like the, I'm not going to recall the actual name, so I'm not going to say it, but in my research of Zionism, there is a crossover. I also want to say that I recently had a conversation that was kind of mind-boggling to me that someone suggested that while Bill Donovan was a good guy, I was like,

12:03 almost rendered speechless. While Bill Donovan was not a good guy, for anybody that's been part of these podcasts, we've shown unequivocally that he was responsible for the beginnings of Operation Gladio and basically set the network up. So anyway, I also wanted to let y'all know that we...

12:32 did a little bit of digging into Wild Bill Donovan and his wife, who was part of the elite, if you remember a couple of books ago, we talked about it, in Buffalo. One of the richest families, her family was one of the richest families in the United States at the time he married her. And Rumser, R-U-M-S-E-R.

13:01 They owned like 22 of 42 square miles of the city of Buffalo. They were into railroads. Her family built that magnificent railroad station that is as big and was as grand as Grand Central Station in Buffalo. It just blows your mind.

13:26 And the churches, especially the Catholic churches, I don't know if y'all have ever been to Buffalo. We went this past summer. The churches there were magnificent. And almost all of them were empty. The Catholic cathedrals were just crazy, ornate, big. You could tell there was lots of money there at some point. Not now. Okay. So he also served as a U.S. attorney for the Western District.

13:57 of New York. He also did a tour at the Department of Justice, and he spent a lot of time traveling, establishing his credentials in international affairs, meeting with world business leaders. In 1940 and 41, he was chosen as an informal emissary to Britain. Britain was fond of him, particularly Winston Churchill. I bet he was.

14:24 who gave Donovan open access to classified information, even though he was not working for the U.S. government or the British government. Donovan was very close to Sir William Stevenson, and Sir William Stevenson was a Canadian businessman, codenamed Intrepid, who was British's top spy in North America.

14:53 Stevenson headed the British Security Council, BSC, a part of Britain's MI6. So MI6 is the same as the CIA slash OSS, and Sir William Stevenson is part of the British version of the CIA. Stevenson was a brilliant, highly successful business and secret warfare expert.

15:21 In another book called Desperate Deceptions, the author says it comes closest to capturing the essence of William Stevenson's inner character, the James Bond figure does. So, Stevenson was a tough, ruthless businessman who once volunteered to kill Hitler with a high-powered hunting rifle. BSC was turned into a top-notch...

15:57 by agency, by Stevenson. And he had no problem with assassination or anything else that would later come up in Operation Gladio. Another author is said as, quote, in order to be an agent for Stevenson, you had to be intelligent, ruthless. And one of the recruiting things was, I cannot tell you what sort of work you will be involved in, but you will join us, not.

16:31 You must not be afraid of forgery and you must not be afraid of murder. So that's what Stevenson does. Stevenson's BSC operated out of several floors of the Rockefeller building. Oh my gosh, I'd like to say I'm shocked. And they paid no rent. So basically, Stevenson and MI6 were operating out of Rockefeller's.

17:04 building, organization on behalf of Rockefeller. And we find that often in all of this where basically the OSS folded in to its organization the people that a corporation would hire as their own private army.

17:33 If you had private intel agencies and private, like, Blackwater organizations, goons, that is what literally became the OSS. Then that folded into the CIA. They are the international syndicate's military. That's what they are. And they're just as criminal as the mafia, which many of them ended up making that jump over as well.

18:06 So Donovan's relationship with Stevenson became a matter of official business July 1941, when Donovan was appointed by Roosevelt as the coordinator of information. That's the precursor to the OSS. His charter was to develop a national intelligence capability. Donovan established the COI.

18:33 in a New York office building co-located with the British MI6, appointing a New York lawyer called Alan Dulles as his office manager. Within the COI, Donovan established several branches, including a secret intelligence branch, SI, and a special operations branch, SO. SI was responsible for espionage, while SO...

19:01 was tasked with sabotage and liaison of foreign undergrounds. In October 1941, Donovan selected Lieutenant Colonel Robert Solberg, S-O-L-B-O-R-G, a veteran Army intelligence officer, as his deputy for special operations. Solberg had received the recommendation of BSC Chief William Stevenson's deputy, Dick Ellis.

19:32 He would serve as an undercover intelligence officer for both the Americans and British, because there is no difference between the two. Solberg could speak 11 languages. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, and that was when Poland was still part of the Russian Empire. Solberg's father had been a Russian general.

20:07 considered part of the white Russian, and that gave Solberg white Russian contacts that landed him the OSS position. Dick Ellis's first wife was a Russian immigrant who had met Solberg. Their wives became close friends, and the white Russian immigration group

20:41 was associated with Solberg and will play a significant role in assisting Lee Harvey Oswald when he arrives in Dallas, Texas in the summer of 1962. These important connections will be expanded on later. So the point is that many of these people that we're going to associate with throughout this book brushed up against and were part of

21:10 friends circles professional associations with Russians that had immigrated to the United States and we know that Lee Harvey Oswald in order to get Russian smell on him much like they did to Trump with the whole Russiagate was all brought about by these Russian acquaintances that

21:41 these people involved in OSS and CIA will make along the way. Now, we already know that the CIA had a role in assassinating JFK, and you're going to see throughout this book how close the Russian immigrant population were to all of the people involved in Operation Gladio.

22:10 inside the United States and with Skorzeny that allowed that to come to fruition. So during World War I, Solberg served as a private working for Wild Bill Donovan, who at the time was a major. So Solberg and Donovan's relationship goes all the way back to World War I.

22:40 Solberg would become a special representative of a company called American Rolling Mill Company, Armco. They sold sheets of iron to foreign countries to include Russia. He spent many years in Paris, France, and in 1939, he was the company's managing director for Britain and France.

23:02 At some point, Salzburg, as an American intel officer, was selected as a liaison for British intelligence, for whom he also conducted espionage missions. Using Armco as a cover, Salzburg became a top intelligence agent reporting on Germany's war production, including a visit to Germany during the first year of World War II. In December 1940,

23:29 Army intelligence sent him on a secret mission throughout Portugal, Spain, and French territories in North Africa. Now, what's very important about this is what we already know before. Portugal and Spain were integral parts of Operation Gladio. Portugal had a gentry press and were...

23:58 was under a fascist dictator, as was Spain. And remember that whenever any of the Gladio operators got in trouble, where did they run to? Portugal and Spain. Where were they trained? Portugal and Spain. This guy's going in all of the same places. And we also know that companies like Armco served as cover

24:28 for intelligence operators to travel doing business while they were also spying and collecting intelligence. And also his trip to French territories in North Africa is Algeria being one of them. And we know what happened with Algeria and their civil war and the Operation Gladio, which will be discussed at length in this book and Skorzeny's role in it.

25:02 soulsburg knew stevenson prior to the entry of the u.s into the war also for several years before the war stevenson was closely connected to press steel company which provided metal to the british automotive industry and likely did business with armco so um what's interesting about

25:28 We're going to see, and I do not know, it's something somebody else can dig on, steel companies throughout this entire book keep coming up over and over and over again. A lot of steel people involved in Operation Gladio. In the fall of 1941, Colonel Salzberg departed for London on orders from General Donald...

26:00 Donovan to tour the SOE bases in and remember that's like their secret service bases in England and Scotland. This was the first time an American officer had been allowed access to any of these programs. He also received permission to be an active participant in the training learning firsthand how lethal aspects of the business worked.

26:31 He was even awarded an honorary commando status complete with swagger stick and a black beret. Now, remember that many of the Gladio operators was also trained by the SOE. We learned that back in Paul Williams' book about Operation Gladio. They trained a lot of the Gladio operators in the British SAS and SOE programs.

26:59 Sulzberg returned to the States. He briefed Donovan on the ideas for subversion, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare. And Donovan said that that needed to be included and disseminated as part of Black propaganda. So, he's also quoted as saying it should be, they should be fomenting, organizing, equipping, training, and leading disaffected elements under enemy rule.

27:32 as part of the whole program. So Solberg had suggested that sabotage alone would not be sufficient, but must be able to excite revolution, starting with passive resistance and moving towards open violence, which of course is, we knows what they did multiple, over 70 times in 70 different governments.

27:57 The basic concept was to establish an American force that could do the same thing and be inserted into Europe to assist, train, and organize people to carry out secret warfare behind enemy lines. Operation Gladio. Meanwhile, William Stevenson had established a highly classified secret agent training base in Canada known as Training School 103, unofficially called Camp X.

28:27 And this is the first time we're coming across this. Thanks, Bridget. See ya. The camp was established December 6, 1941, on the very eve of Pearl Harbor, which I find very interesting. December 6. So technically, right before Pearl Harbor, almost like they know we're going to get into the war and need to train a whole bunch of people. Isn't that fascinating?

29:07 It provided covert warfare training for American, British, and Canadian forces assigned to the COI, which is the precursor to OSS. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the FBI also trained at this facility. Camp X was shut down after the war. Colonel Solberg

29:39 had difficulty working with Donovan and was critical of the way that he managed the COI. I'm just going to call it the OSS because that's what it actually becomes. In February 1942, Salzburg was dispatched to Lisbon to set up the OSS operations in neutral Portugal, a vital overseas station at the time.

30:07 American diplomat Robert Daniel Murphy, who was part of the American diplomatic corps, was assigned in Portugal at the time. Murphy was active in making clandestine contact with French and Arab underground movements in an attempt to sway them to the Allied cause. Murphy, like Bill Donovan, hailed from an Irish Catholic family. He was a graduate of George Mason University.

30:37 spent time in Bern, Zurich, Munich, Seville, Paris. In Munich, he had personally witnessed Adolf Hitler's attempt to seize control of the Bavarian government in 1923. So, like, you almost can't make this up. So this guy who is in Portugal, where we know they set up a gender press, was also

31:08 Just coincidentally, in Munich, when Hitler attempts the coup of the Bavarian government, I'm sure that's completely a coincidence. In 1940, he was a senior diplomat in the American embassy in Paris. After France surrendered to Germany in the same year,

31:34 The French government was dissolved and a new puppet state was formed. The new government departed Paris and established a capital in the town of Vichy, V-I-C-H-Y. The French leader of the Vichy state was Marshal Henry Philip Pétain, P-E-T-A-I-N, a World War I hero who administered the southern part of France.

32:06 because the northern part was under German control. So the U.S. Embassy had vacated Paris at the time and moved with the French government to Vichy. Daniel Murphy, the embassy staff, in addition to Daniel Murphy, the staff included a Major Robert Scow, S-C-H-O-W, and U.S. Navy Attaché.

32:38 Commander Roscoe Hillenocker. Hillen Noter? Cotter? H-I-L-L-E-N-K-O-E-T-T-E-R. These people just cannot have names like Smith or Jones. After the war, Major Scow would rise to the rank of Army General and Director of the CIA's Special Operations.

33:10 section, while Hillen Coter would attain the rank of admiral and later serve as the first director of the CIA. It's actually the transition to the CIA. So these aren't everyday run-of-the-mill people. These are people at the heart of setting up Operation Gladio, and they could be found in the French

33:43 corrupt government at the time during World War II. Although independent of Donovan's COI, Murphy worked very closely with Donovan's senior agent of Colonel Solberg and was aware and worked closely with him when he was doing his tour of North Africa as well.

34:17 Two options for gaining control of the region soon emerged in the intelligence when they were talking about North African region. One came from Donovan and the other one came from Colonel Salzberg. Donovan's plan was a plot involving the removal of the pro-Vichy Arab prime minister. However, Murphy did not like Donovan's plan, believing it would potentially be harmful to American French.

34:50 and canceled it. Colonel Salzburg, on the other hand, wanted a guy that was in the French underground, Jacques Lemaise de Brel, one of Salzburg's pre-war business contacts. This business guy, Jacques, was a wealthy businessman. He played an active role to remove the French Vichy government in North Africa.

35:29 He developed, along with another Frenchman, Henri d'Astier de la Vigre, a plan to incite a coup in the French colonial army, replacing the Vichy officials with a pro-allied provisional government. See, they were doing coups before it was cool. An important network in the secret scheming of Le Mège was a group

35:58 with far-reaching implications for Otto Skorzeny and others in this book. It was a pre-war fascist-leaning organization called Comité de Secret Action Révolutionnaire, or Secret Committee of Revolutionary Action. It was nicknamed La Cagiole, or Hooded Ones. The origins of this dangerous secret organization

36:29 was in the divisions that existed within the French political system prior to World War II. Basically, it was a secret Catholic brotherhood that was vehemently anti-communist and had as a goal to return the French to a monarchy. Cajoli, the secret hooded ones, directed violent action against communists and operated from 1935 to 1937.

37:00 Hooded ones, kind of like Antifa. It conducted ruthless assassinations and bombings to achieve its objectives. Eventually infiltrated the French government as well. And it was never fully rooted out. In an attempt, the French military imprisoned members, but those same members were released at the outbreak of the war to defend France.

37:33 The network was heavily populated with Conjolet men making secret enterprise very dangerous. These are the exact same men that Colonel Salzberg wanted to negotiate with. So, Bridget, you've heard about them? Very interesting. Salzberg worked closely with COI operative Colonel William Eadie.

38:02 EDDY, a highly decorated Marine who had been assigned to Donovan's COI in Tangier, Morocco. Colonel ED requested large sums of money, arms, and equipment for the French in preparation of the La Margerie plan. Donovan, however, was very skeptical of this, and as was the military Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the time, though,

38:33 Because we're not post-war. This is pre-war. There's actually not a Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time. The Joint Chiefs of Staff come along after World War II. Prior to that, it was the War Department. So anyway, the military decided not to back that La Margerie plan. Instead, funding was designated for a buildup of guerrilla groups in anticipation of a North African invasion by the Allies.

39:04 What's that saying is because remember when we chose the African invasion as opposed to going directly into Europe and hitting Hitler head on, we were going to go through Africa and come up through Italy. They're talking about deploying like a softening force into Northern Africa to create, instigate problems for the potential of invasion.

39:36 So, Colonel Eadie turned back to Donovan's original plan of supporting the Arabs, this time in Spanish Morocco. At the end of May, Daniel Murphy was once again in communication with La Margerie and reopened secret discussions pertaining to support for their underground. In these new discussions, it was developed involving the idea of installing General Henry.

40:11 Gerard, a military war hero, as the head of the temporary French government in North Africa. The champion of this plan was Colonel Salzburg. Salzburg traveled to London and met with General Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the French army, who had escaped to England in June of 1940 and designated the Free French Forces. Salzburg was not impressed with

40:39 General de Gaulle, but reported to Donovan that de Gaulle was supportive of Girard. In June of 1942, Salzburg had undertaken a secret mission to North Africa to meet with La Margerie, who claimed to have General Girard's support and a plan to take over Vichy, North Africa. La Margerie departed for Vichy and conferred secretly with Girard. Despite

41:07 Acting in concert with Daniel Murphy's encouragement to meet with La Magere, Sulzberg had not informed General Donovan of his trip to North Africa. It's a big mess. In June, the SOS was authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. So now they're setting up the OSS, selecting General Donovan.

41:37 as its first and only commander. June 15th, two days later, a furious Donovan directed Salzburg to stop all secret negotiations with that group and report immediately back to Washington. So basically, he was firing him. Despite Salzburg's pleas and assurances that no promises had been made and the plan was a viable option, Donovan was intransient.

42:06 In addition to insubordination, Donovan was concerned that any failure at this early stage in the formation of the OSS would endanger it. So Salzburg was relieved as duty in the special operations area, who then returned to Lisbon as the military attache, a post he would retain until the end of the war. So what's very interesting about that.

42:39 is Salzburg obviously had his own connections because he didn't go back to Washington. He went to Portugal. He was there during the entire war. And we know that Portugal set up stay-behind units under the guise of a gentry press. So that's very interesting to me. Colonel Salzburg, who set in motion a political intrigue between the Allies and the former Conjole network of Frenchmen, after Salzburg...

43:10 secret contact with the French resistance in North Africa was taken over by Robert Murphy and Colonel William Eddy. The next stage of events evolved around the OSS could support the Allied invasion of North Africa. So, the Darlin' Affair. The Allies invaded North Africa in November 1942, at which time La Marais implemented his plan with

43:45 Henry d'Astier, leading a coup in the city of Algiers. During the coup, the resistance arrested the commander of the Vichy forces, Admiral Frankos Darlin. The Allies had also secretly brought to North Africa General Henry Girard.

44:07 in a coordinated attempt by Robert Murphy to secretly maneuver the general into a position of taking charge of the French forces in North Africa. So they're just cooing other people's military too. A respected general, although he was a respected general, he was not recognized by the Vichy French forces opposing the Allied landing.

44:34 Unable to resolve the situation with Girard, the Allies then negotiated with Admiral Darlin, who was the legitimate Vichy authority, thus ending French's hostility towards the Allies. A deal was then struck with Darlin remaining in control of the civilian government and General Girard retaining military commander, being the military commander. Darlin ordered the Vichy forces cease fire.

45:03 ending the short battle between the French forces opposing the Allied landings. Now, is that crazy? The French has already been defeated in Europe. This is like their government in exile. And they're fighting against the French or against the Allies coming in to North Africa instead of helping them to get over to Europe to come up and free the entire country of France. That's crazy.

45:35 Darlin signed an armistice with the Allies, incorporating the Vichy forces in with the Free French military, then under Charles de Gaulle. Darlin was not, however, trusted by the Free French. Suddenly, on Christmas Eve 1942, Darlin was assassinated by Ferdinand Bonnier de la Chapelle.

46:00 a 20-year-old royalist who had slipped out of France to North Africa after the German invasion in 1940. Bonniere joined a paramilitary security force formed by Henry d'Astaire. After d'Astaire was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Interior, he continued to maintain contact with this corps and met several times with Bonniere.

46:34 Bonnier served as a courier prior to the assassination of Darlin. The entire incident is recorded in history and referred to as the Darlin Affair. The day after the assassination, Bonnier was convicted in a trial that lasted less than an hour and sentenced to death, but the case was overturned by a military tribunal. Bonnier stated that he had acted strictly for moral reasons.

47:00 Although the law required that Bonnier's case be heard by a French head of state, a high commissioner pronounced the Senate should go forward. At this point, General Girard, who had been the head of the military justice as commander-in-chief, ordered the execution be carried out. Before Bonnier died, he attempted to implicate Henry d'Astier, but the confession was never revealed. Girard was elected to replace Darlin.

47:31 Henry Astier had attempted to appeal to Bonnier, but was told it was too late. Darling's sudden murder removed major political obstacles in the relationship between the Free French, the Allies, and de Gaulle, and the French resistance movement. Because when you have problems, you just kill the people. Could the American, British, Free French, and La Marge Underground network

48:05 have carried out this assassination. Historians have examined the question in greater detail with no clear answer, although the coincidental evidence suggests it was Henry d'Astaire who did it. The Darling affair could be considered a model in an assassination operation for establishing a fall guy or a patsy. That being said, the reader may have to already

48:32 may have already picked up the similarities between the Darlin assassination and the JFK assassination involving Lee Harvey Oswald 21 years later. So basically what the author is trying to point out is there are patterns that we're going to see come up over and over again in this book of some of these assassination plots that we'll see.

49:04 The next chapter is a very long chapter, chapter two. So I think what we'll do is we'll go through a couple of the sections and we'll call it a night. And then we'll dive in in the middle of chapter two in our next session. And I'll try to pick up our sessions like we've been doing where we do Tuesday and Thursday nights and then a couple on the weekend.

49:34 And I will pin, as y'all suggested, our schedule so that we can kind of get back into the habit of doing this. This one is called The Fate of the OSS. By early 1943, it had been determined that the senior officer in the OSS should have a military rank. So, since Donovan had held a commission as a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve,

50:04 They just decided to promote him to brigadier general. Eventually, he attains the rank of major general. And I find that very interesting for a lot of reasons. I mean, I understand in a military, in the war, how it would be important for somebody operating in a theater that is at war to have a military rank. But it also...

50:42 contaminates the military from basically what's functioning as more of a private operation. Because we know the OSS folded in lots and lots of civilians. So let's just talk about this for a second. The OSS took on all of the

51:16 mafia criminal element. They took on all of the business, what I refer to as all of them, as the international syndicate. They folded them into the office of strategic whatever, OSS. And in doing so, they put a military person in charge of it.

51:46 There's nothing military about this organization. It's a complete bastardization of both the military aspect and the criminal syndicate that they are putting together. And I believe for many reasons, this began the degradation, if you will, the breakdown of our military.

52:18 You can't have a military officer in charge of a corrupt entity that has all of the elements of the mafia and all of the elements of international businessmen posing as spies going out and murdering people. There's nothing military about any of that. And frankly, it's disgusting. But the whole thing was set up to basically...

52:51 destroy every tenant of what we think of the appropriate roles of, that are supposed to occur during war. And they did that very well. That's about the only thing they did well. So anyway, so he's a major general. On April 18th, 1943, an obscure reserve SS officer by the name of Otto.

53:22 Skorzeny was advanced to captain and assumed command of a new German commando group. Despite the significant difference in their rank, Captain Skorzeny was the German counterpart to General Donovan. In the last two years of the war, both Donovan and Skorzeny would leave an indelible mark on the history of World War II, unbeknownst to either men. They were definitely going to be joined at the hip.

53:56 The author goes on and talks about some of the kind of details, if you will. But a highlight of that is both the special intelligence and the special operation branches of the OSS were involved in performing acts of sabotage, propaganda war, organizing and coordinating anti-Nazi resistance groups in Europe.

54:27 which is bullcrap because they hired all the Nazis, but they performed military training. They formed special teams for highly sensitive missions, such as acquiring Nazi nuclear material. Prior to the invasion of Europe, special teams were formed under the Operation Jetberg, J-E-D-B-U-R-G-H.

55:00 to infiltrate mainly by parachute small four-man Jedburgh teams composed of British, American, French, Dutch, Belgium, OSS, and SOE operators. These were highly dangerous missions meant to link up with local resisting groups like stay-behind units. The Jedburgh Michigans paved the way for the large landing force on D-Day.

55:29 Also formed at the same time was a joint OSS headquarters designed Special Force Headquarters, SFHQ, to handle the integration of the OSS, which is the U.S., and SOE, which is British management in the European theater. So it was like the first joint headquarters. A new headquarter formation did not change the functions of either one of them.

55:59 but it would allow the coordination of both. Under the subtitle assassination operations, both the Allies and Axis planned and executed assassination missions. It's very possible that OSS and SOE were both involved in the Darlin affair that we just talked about because they had already trained assassins. The American OSS and...

56:29 There's a lot of argument. I did a little bit of extra research on that whole Darling thing. There's substantial evidence that because the French resistance forces in Northern Africa did not want to participate and didn't support the Allies taking over their territory, that they were basically...

56:54 infiltrated and their leader assassinated so that they could go and do it anyway. That's it in a nutshell. That's how they claim national security shield. You're right, Bridget. They got that special stamp, national security stamp on everything. Okay. Section X of the SOE was specifically tasked with assassination of German leaders.

57:24 One example is Operation Foxley, F-O-X-L-E-Y. It was a plan to liquidate Adolf Hitler. The operation was not declassified until 1998, 50 years later. Other Third Reich personalities were also on the target list, including Otto Skorzeny.

57:52 One of the most famous SOE assassination operations conducted in May of 1942 was codenamed Anthropoid. In an Operation 2 check chain, Czechoslovakian trained by the SOE was parachuted into their country where they successfully carried out a grenade attack against Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Main Security Office.

58:26 The Americans also formed special OSS units tasked with assassination. In one case, General Donovan issued orders to OSS Captain Aaron Bank to target Hitler. The OSS plan was codenamed Operation Iron Cross. Colonel Bank's special unit included a detachment of German-Americans who were to be parachuted into Bavaria. Their mission

58:54 kill or capture Hitler at his mountain headquarters in Birch Garden. The author interviewed a member of Colonel Banks' intelligence team called Tom Polgar, P-O-L-G-A-R, who later became a senior CIA officer, because of course he did. Ultimately, Operation Iron Cross was never carried out, coming too close to the end of the war.

59:21 In 1944, with the end of the war in Europe in sight, the OSS received orders to begin securing documentation on Hitler's government and the military organizations that would be required for post-war prosecution into war crimes and Nazi atrocities. The OSS had been involved in secret acquisition missions, securing scientific personnel, research and development archives, advanced technology, military intelligence, and a host of other material.

59:51 In the fall of 1944, General Donovan submitted a secret memorandum to the White House, as requested by FDR, outlining the creation of a post-war U.S. intelligence agency. The plan included a unified intelligence organization with representation from the Army, Navy, and State Department. Donovan's idea was supported by some influential military commanders, such as

1:00:20 General Omar Bradley. Their concern in the OSS was that their personnel would be dispersed and that it needed to be kept together for continuity purposes. However, Army intelligence and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI really disliked the OSS and Donovan. So, when after the war they were talking about maintaining the OSS capability,

1:00:57 It was Hoover who leaked information that they were trying to set up a centralized intelligence organization. And the press immediately started nicknaming it the American Gestapo. So that caused a lot of turbulence. And President Roosevelt at the time, who, although he held Donovan in high esteem,

1:01:27 had decided that he wasn't going to redo it. And then it was Truman. Let's see. Truman assumed the presidency in the wake of Roosevelt's death. A scathing report created by a group linked to Army G2 intelligence was sent to the White House highlighting damaging information compiled from every agency that had ever lodged a complaint against the OSS.

1:02:08 Truman would eventually act on this information and on his personal bias against Donovan. Truman had the opinion that the primary mission of intelligence services was to provide him with daily updates on world events and not conduct covert operations. Donovan was highly vocal in his criticism of Truman and Truman's view on the OSS. So there is an organization set up called

1:02:43 British American Canadian Corporation, BACC. British intelligence chief, Sir William Stevenson, the MI6 guy, shared the same deep concern as General Donovan. So basically what they have brewing is we're going to have a central intelligence officer office, and it doesn't matter what the hell a president thinks, right? That's where we're going with this.

1:03:19 Donovan's critics viewed, let's see, two organizations was seized upon by Donovan's critics as a security risk, highlighting the foreign intelligence connection to American intelligence. And Stevenson and Donovan remained undeterred and that it was at this critical point in history that for their organizations that they moved expeditiously to save what they could. So in America.

1:03:52 We thought it was awful weird that Donovan had his eyes, that he wanted to integrate, because Britain was considered a foreign country at the time. And I would echo that today. And I would go so far as to say they're a hostile foreign country, in my opinion.

1:04:20 That was Americans' view after World War II. They didn't want to have anything to do with foreign countries. And they feared our intelligence capability being in bed with another foreign country's intelligence apparatus. And look where we're at today. Oh, my God. So those people back then would be rolling over in their grave if they knew what was going on. So they were very apprehensive about this.

1:04:51 But as you can see, they will not be deterred. We're going to have a CIA. Suddenly in May 1945, Stevenson and a small circle of associates moved on the formation of a highly private corporation called BACC, British American Canadian Corporation. The New York-based company was formed with a Panamanian, i.e. Panama, registry.

1:05:22 It operated in New York in the same building that served as the headquarters for Stevens B.S.C., which happens to be Rockefeller's building. Nearly all of its corporate officers and almost all of its rank and file were former intelligence officers. Two of Stevenson's top partners in the corporation were senior level British intel officers, Sir Charles Hambro,

1:05:50 and we've ran across him before, and Colonel Rex Benson. In civilian life, Benson was a merchant banker, because of course, you know, intel and banking goes hand in hand. And it was Benson that put up most of the money for the new corporation. Hambro was also a powerful merchant banker, because of course he was, and a highly decorated World War I veteran.

1:06:20 At the beginning of World War II, he joined the Ministry of Economic Warfare to oversee several departments of the SOE, including the French, Belgium, German, Dutch sections. Also for five months beginning in November 1941, he was the SOE deputy, meaning he's involved in special forces too. He also was an early coordinator with William Donovan.

1:06:49 Considering Stevenson and Donovan's extensive intel background, the creation of BACC is very unusual. There is also every indication that General Donovan was directly involved in the formation of BACC as well. His OSS personnel represented a vital component of the overall salvage plan. Actually, from the start, BACC's formation, Donovan's law firm acted as the corporate legal advisory group.

1:07:24 Newspapers covering the formation of BACC state that the company exported such things as adding machines, textiles, evacuators, automobile equipment, and all kinds of heavy equipment, tractors, chemicals, botanical drugs, waxes, gum, seeds, and fixed oil. There was another company that was created at the same time, which we've covered before. That's called

1:07:57 The World Commerce Corporation, WCC. And we are going to read a lot about WCC. So I'm going to cover this one and then we'll end for the evening. But I want you to keep in mind that under the auspices of, oh my gosh, we're not going to get a CIA. We better come up with Plan B.

1:08:25 They create the BACC and the WCC. So for the WCC, that came about in August of 1945. The formation of the WCC is linked directly to former OSS personnel. For example, the president was Frank Ryan. Frank Ryan was an OSS officer.

1:08:56 who had been the chief of special intelligence for Spain and Portugal. See how those keep coming up? So if you've got two countries in the entire world that have fascist dictators after World War II, why is all of the people that, well, first of all, why do we even have American representatives in fascist countries like Portugal and Spain during World War II?

1:09:29 They were neutral. They weren't part of the war. Why do we have Americans there? I mean, I know why, but then why are all of those people that are there all of a sudden in key, after the war, key places in things that we know are all associated with Operation Gladio?

1:09:54 So were they working to set up all of the training capability in Operation Gladio in the dictator-controlled Portugal and Spain? Because immediately after World War II, that's where they all went when they stood up NATO for training. So I'm going to say that these people were in those countries for a very specific reason. And afterwards, when they think they're not going to get the CIA,

1:10:23 they all start forming their own intel companies that are going to function on behalf of Operation Gladio, whether we like it or not. So back to the story. Frank Ryan, Portugal and Spain. Ryan had worked very closely with the previously described Colonel Soulsburg because they were on the same staff in Lisbon together. Ryan was a tech...

1:11:00 textile exporter and business representative for J.S. Bach, B-A-C-H-E and Company, an investment company that had also provided a large portion of the American capital for William Stevenson's BACC. So that's weird. So the guy that financially backs

1:11:30 The BACC also financially backs the WCC like they're the same company. Frank Ryan's real name was Francis Timothy Ryan. Born in Troy, New York in 1907. And there's not a lot known about him. He came from a very wealthy family. They don't know when he joined the OSS.

1:12:01 In the 1920s, Frank Ryan's father, John J. Ryan Sr., had founded a textile cotton waste business as John J. Ryan and Sons. Frank was in Washington, D.C. at the beginning of the war, and he handled OSS operations for Spain and Portugal, as we already said.

1:12:38 In 1945, he returned to the family business, which was operated by his brother, John J. Ryan Jr. Frank had a reputation as a playboy. He had lots of girlfriends, model Anita Colby, linked to actor Clark Gable, Mrs. Neal Vanderbilt Jr., actress Joan Fontaine.

1:13:09 and actress Ann Miller were among his women friends. It is said that Ryan was seldom seen without a beauty on his arm. In his personal life, Ryan was personally selected by Donovan as the point man for the World Commerce Corporation. Because you need a castanet for playing that role.

1:13:36 The World Commerce Corporation description also included a conglomerate of worldwide businesses. And like the BACC, it functioned mostly as an import-export company. Now, let me just say, that's a common pattern with all of these groups. Permadex, they all, and remember the whole Commerce Department of the last book where Ron Brown was involved?

1:14:05 That's a key repeating pattern that we've seen in all of this, the import-export aspect of it. So the background of the WCC and how it came about was actually recorded years later by a female former OSS agent who was directly involved in its formation. A participant was Betty Lussier.

1:14:36 L-U-S-S-I-E-R, who also went by the name of Aline, A-L-I-N-E, Countess of Romanos. She served as the OSS in Spain from January 1944 to 1945 and worked directly with Frank Ryan during the war.

1:15:06 Her account of the WCC formation can be found in a book called The Secret Wars, The Office of the Strategic Services of World War II. She recounted her transition from the OSS to the WCC, quote, In August 1945, a cable came in from Washington ordering the immediate return of all OSS employees in Spain and the termination of all networks that had been working for us. That same week, I received a surprise.

1:15:38 The OSS official in Washington visited informed me that I was the only one of our SI group to be kept on for work in a super secret organization inside Spain. She continued, quote, I was told that this would depend on my being able to get a visa extended to permit me to remain in the country. A cable showing I.

1:16:04 had a serious job to reopen offices in the American firm of John J. Ryan and Son, you know, WCC, in Madrid. So secret was the new organization that the acting ambassador, Walter Butterworth, made Lucier swear on a Bible not to reveal the organization's formation.

1:16:28 Lussier said she had no problem taking the oath as she believed she would be working for some intelligence department of the U.S. government, unquote. Lussier opened an office in Madrid for John J. Ryan and Sons. Then she was abruptly ordered to leave for Paris. There she was to work with a company called World Commerce, Inc. She further explained this move. I took for granted that this was my new cover. I worked with Jack Oakey there.

1:16:58 who had been in the OSS Lisbon, Portugal, station. We did more or less the same work in Paris as in Madrid. Opened offices, initiated business with French firms, and handled barter of products between Czechoslovakia and Sweden. Then suddenly, six months later, I was asked to proceed to Zurich, where I opened bank accounts for World Commerce.

1:17:25 and establish an office there for the same company. In closing out her comments on world commerce, she said, I had the impression that I was essentially being organizing networks for information on Soviet intelligence activities. I was scheduled to move to Prague to open offices there when I married. Only 40 years later did I learn that this company was not

1:17:51 openly being used as a cover for U.S. intelligence, even though everybody I saw and worked with during those two years in the job had been an OSS agent in one country or another. The company setup seems to have been a precursor to the Iran-Contra situation, where sales of private companies were used to bolster pro-U.S. groups in foreign countries, i.e., that unquote.

1:18:22 And as far as I'm concerned, what she's just describing is she's setting up the banking capability because we have already discovered that when you delve into Iran-Contra, both on the weapons side and the drug side, they are Operation Gladio through and through. So basically, she's describing setting up the banking operation and the business covers for Operation Gladio, of which this...

1:18:51 World Commerce Corporation is integral as a cover for Operation Gladio. Lucier's husband was in fact Ricardo Sicre, S-I-C-R-E, a former OSS agent that had operated in Spain. He was also vice president of World Commerce Corporation. Certainly a man worthy of an independent study.

1:19:23 Ricardo Sicri was a top agent of William Donovan and had conducted a number of sensitive black jobs, meaning special operations, black world, overt, including an operation to penetrate the Spanish embassy in Washington in 1942. In other words, spy on the Spanish embassy in Washington. An extremely handsome man of Spanish descent.

1:19:57 Sicri accomplished this mission by seducing unsuspecting secretaries, after which he broke into the embassy at night, cracked the safe, photographed the contents, and exited with volumes of classified documents. Later, he was placed under Frank Ryan and was transferred to the OSS station in Spain. There, he used the alias Richard Stickler.

1:20:26 Sicri would later set up a training school for spies who crossed into Vichy, France from Spain. So basically, he's a gladio operator. Sicri ended up the war as an army captain and was awarded a bronze star for his dangerous exploits, like sleeping with secretaries. He also became an American citizen, because of course he did, because that's the kind of people we want becoming citizens, right? Sicri and Lucier.

1:21:00 belonged to Special Counterintelligence, SCI, within the X2 of the Counterespionage Branch of the OSS. That was the most highly classified section of the OSS since it was linked to all of the ULTRA programs. ULTRA was the Super Secret Allied Communication Intercept Program used against the Nazis.

1:21:29 Main purpose was to pass counterintelligence information between military units and conduct wide ranging counterintelligence activities from deception to targeting of enemy networks. So that's where we're going to stop for tonight. But I think this is a good start to lay the groundwork for this overall.

1:21:57 operation that we're going to work through. I just, I can't say enough. I think this major has done an amazing job of collecting information and presenting it in a very clear way. He does a good job on building up, but he's going to focus on something, obviously, Skorzeny's role in all of this.

1:22:25 and come at it from a completely different, very personal way, where most of the Operation Gladio information that we've come across thus far is a very distant recounting. This is going to be a very intimate recounting of Skorzeny's personal words coming off the paper as these operations were conducted. So this is going to seal...

1:22:55 This is kind of like this ceiling stamp on top of everything that we've discussed thus far. Because like I said, whether it's Gansler's book or Paul Williams' book, every book that we have read about Operation Gladio was kind of like a 20-foot pole approach. And although every one of them was very well documented, leaves no guessing as to whether

1:23:25 It's real and an accurate depiction of what had went on and what is currently going on. This one actually brings it closer to like a two foot rule and allows you to kind of reach out and touches. And the fact that it goes out to the same conclusion that Paul Williams is kind of just like a nice circle around where the.

1:23:52 Forces involved in Operation Gladio, 1,000% were involved in the assassination of JFK. And we are going to walk down that road together with this book review. Most of you know from the postings that I have been doing, thanks to Cousin It, Liza, I have started a book.

1:24:19 that deals with the eastern aspect of operation gladio because we have only dealt thus far operation gladio is a worldwide operation it was not just the european theater it's not just the cia it is every intel agency that has ever existed the korean cia version the um japanese version the um

1:24:47 BND in Germany, the MI6, Mossad, CIA, all of them has been involved. The SAFAR, S-I-F-A-R, is just one of many entities in Italy that you had the gray wolves in Turkey, Argentina Press, Portugal, blah, blah, blah. So, but almost everything that we've read so far has

1:25:18 had to do with the European theater because it got the most exposure because of Italy. However, Liza pointed out the book about the, my mind's just completely blank. I left the book inside. The Japanese acquired gold that was hidden in the Philippines. And I do want to go over that book.

1:25:54 I'm trying to decide whether we're going to do that kind of simultaneously where I'll pick a couple of other times where we can just kind of generally talk about that. Um, it's, it's very, very heavy. I don't necessarily want to wait till the end of this book. Um, they kind of go together, um, unfortunately, but the Japanese, um,

1:26:28 campaign and is very, very heavy stuff. So I'm trying to figure out the best way to do that. And I'm almost thinking that it would be an excellent book to try to do over on now that Liza's gotten kicked off for the fifth time of Twitter or X. It would have been a great place to do a Spaces book club.

1:26:58 as kind of a test for that format as well. The one thing I do like about it the best is that it allows you to interact with people because people can talk. Julie had come up with using Telegram as a venue for doing that as well.

1:27:23 And I think what I might do in the next couple of days is get together with a couple of y'all and try out the different mediums. I don't know anything about Twitter spaces, although I do have someone that would help us with it who's hosted them before. So I'll reach out to a couple of you and kind of get feedback on that. And also, I have some news.

1:27:53 uh cottage is almost completely done so we're going to try doing one from there um in the next time or two because i can't wait to show it off i also want to spend just a second and i'm going to um let's see i want to share screen entire screen and i'm going to show y'all

1:28:25 Some very exciting news. Let me find it. Let's see. I need to go which way. All photos. Years. Let's go here. And let's see. December. That's my handsome husband and our barn door for his man cave that we're building.

1:29:02 That's freaking me out. It's doing it too often. Days. Let's see. Car show. Oh, that's me and General Flynn. Went to a. Here it is. That's my news, everybody. We're going to get a new baby and he will be here on Tuesday. So we are so excited.

1:29:35 As many of y'all know, and, um, I appreciate having all of y'all, um, uh, help me get through the loss of my baby, um, over Memorial day weekend. And, um, we lost, um, the second of our two snowsers over, um, last Memorial day weekend. And, um, we waited all of these months and, um, I, I don't know.

1:30:06 I found that baby and the lady that is the breeder is going to drop him by after his last vet appointment, which is Tuesday. So he will be here at our next video. So I'll introduce y'all to the new baby and we're very excited about it. So anyway, that's all my news.

1:30:34 And I think we will probably be doing the next video from our new facility. And I'm going to have to have somebody check out my audio and stuff with me because I'm just not sure how. For some reason, the RV seems audio wise to be the best place to do these. So we'll check it out. I appreciate y'all being here.

1:31:02 I will see you on Tuesday. I will set up a new schedule and post it and pin it to our true social and on X. Thanks for being here, everybody.

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Major Gannis authored The Skorzeny Papers host_asserted ▶ 2:02

“So can you see and hear me, Tara? Because the video feed's not coming across on my Rumble channel. I can see it on my StreamYard channel. All right. So this book tonight that we're going to start, the…”

Major Gannis acquired Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 4:34

“Which I made note of, and I'd be happy to send it to him if he ever does think he'll do a second edition. But anyway, look at me doing spell checking on other people. So I'm going to skip through the …”

Winston Churchill commented_on Admiral Darlan book_quoted ▶ 6:03

“Chapter one starts off with the title, A War With No Rules. And it has a quote from Winston Churchill. Admiral Darling's murder, however criminal, relieved the allies of their embarrassment at working…”

Nazi Germany defeated France documented ▶ 6:36

“And he starts off describing in May of 1940, Great Britain was fighting for its national survival. Nazi Germany had defeated Belgium and France and was basically just kind of rolling over much of the …”

Nazi Germany defeated Belgium documented ▶ 6:36

United Kingdom evacuated_from Dunkirk documented ▶ 6:59

“It says, fortunately for the English, they did manage to evacuate 198 British soldiers from Dunkirk in rescue missions dubbed Operation Dynamo. So we're going to try it in the first chapter to kind of…”

Winston Churchill created United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 7:28

“defend the homeland from a German invasion, Winston Churchill, who had spent his reporting reporter days in the Boer Wars in South Africa, had learned about the stay-behind units, which we've already …”

Office of Strategic Services originated_from William Stephenson book_quoted ▶ 8:23

“It talks about Churchill immediately turned his attention to going on the offense after those were established, quote, to set Europe ablaze using subversive warfare and covert actions, unquote. It tal…”

William Stephenson headed British Security Coordination documented ▶ 8:54

“Stevenson's, which was the British intelligence liaison to the United States. His name comes up quite often. Stevenson was the head of the British Security Coordination, BSC, an intelligence outfit ta…”

Franklin D. Roosevelt supported_formation_of Office of Strategic Services documented ▶ 9:25

“of a special tactical capability called the SOEs. Americans had monitored with great interest the success and efficiency of the British Secret Services, SOE, and commandos. Roosevelt immediately suppo…”

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan documented ▶ 9:25

William J. Donovan born_in Buffalo documented ▶ 10:01

“Highly decorated from World War I. During the conflict, Donovan held the rank of Major and served in the 1st Battalion Commanders. Donovan had come from an immigrant Irish family and settled in Buffal…”

William J. Donovan classmate_of Franklin D. Roosevelt documented ▶ 10:31

“His education included St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, Niagara University, and finally Columbia Law School. While at Columbia, he was a classmate of FDR's. Brian Cates, instead of watching my podca…”

William J. Donovan married Rumsey family host_asserted ▶ 12:32

“did a little bit of digging into Wild Bill Donovan and his wife, who was part of the elite, if you remember a couple of books ago, we talked about it, in Buffalo. One of the richest families, her fami…”

William Stephenson headed British Security Coordination documented ▶ 14:53

“Stevenson headed the British Security Council, BSC, a part of Britain's MI6. So MI6 is the same as the CIA slash OSS, and Sir William Stevenson is part of the British version of the CIA. Stevenson was…”

British Security Coordination operated_in Rockefeller Building documented ▶ 16:31

“You must not be afraid of forgery and you must not be afraid of murder. So that's what Stevenson does. Stevenson's BSC operated out of several floors of the Rockefeller building. Oh my gosh, I'd like …”

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan documented ▶ 18:06

“So Donovan's relationship with Stevenson became a matter of official business July 1941, when Donovan was appointed by Roosevelt as the coordinator of information. That's the precursor to the OSS. His…”

William J. Donovan appointed Allen Dulles documented ▶ 18:33

“in a New York office building co-located with the British MI6, appointing a New York lawyer called Alan Dulles as his office manager. Within the COI, Donovan established several branches, including a …”

William J. Donovan selected Robert Solberg documented ▶ 19:01

“was tasked with sabotage and liaison of foreign undergrounds. In October 1941, Donovan selected Lieutenant Colonel Robert Solberg, S-O-L-B-O-R-G, a veteran Army intelligence officer, as his deputy for…”

Robert Solberg born_in Warsaw, Poland documented ▶ 19:32

“He would serve as an undercover intelligence officer for both the Americans and British, because there is no difference between the two. Solberg could speak 11 languages. He was born in Warsaw, Poland…”

Robert Solberg operated_in Paris documented ▶ 22:40

“Solberg would become a special representative of a company called American Rolling Mill Company, Armco. They sold sheets of iron to foreign countries to include Russia. He spent many years in Paris, F…”

Robert Solberg did_business_with American Rolling Mill Company documented ▶ 22:40

Robert Solberg operated_in Spain documented ▶ 23:29

“Army intelligence sent him on a secret mission throughout Portugal, Spain, and French territories in North Africa. Now, what's very important about this is what we already know before. Portugal and Sp…”

Robert Solberg operated_in Portugal documented ▶ 23:29

Robert Solberg operated_in French North Africa documented ▶ 23:29

William Stephenson did_business_with American Rolling Mill Company host_asserted ▶ 25:02

“soulsburg knew stevenson prior to the entry of the u.s into the war also for several years before the war stevenson was closely connected to press steel company which provided metal to the british aut…”

William J. Donovan ordered Robert Solberg documented ▶ 25:28

“We're going to see, and I do not know, it's something somebody else can dig on, steel companies throughout this entire book keep coming up over and over and over again. A lot of steel people involved …”

Robert Solberg trained_at Special Operations Executive documented ▶ 26:00

“Donovan to tour the SOE bases in and remember that's like their secret service bases in England and Scotland. This was the first time an American officer had been allowed access to any of these progra…”

William Stephenson established Camp X documented ▶ 27:57

“The basic concept was to establish an American force that could do the same thing and be inserted into Europe to assist, train, and organize people to carry out secret warfare behind enemy lines. Oper…”

Camp X located_in Canada documented ▶ 27:57

Robert Solberg dispatched_to Lisbon documented ▶ 29:39

“had difficulty working with Donovan and was critical of the way that he managed the COI. I'm just going to call it the OSS because that's what it actually becomes. In February 1942, Salzburg was dispa…”

Robert Murphy assigned_to Portugal documented ▶ 30:07

“American diplomat Robert Daniel Murphy, who was part of the American diplomatic corps, was assigned in Portugal at the time. Murphy was active in making clandestine contact with French and Arab underg…”

Robert Murphy witnessed Beer Hall Putsch documented ▶ 30:37

“spent time in Bern, Zurich, Munich, Seville, Paris. In Munich, he had personally witnessed Adolf Hitler's attempt to seize control of the Bavarian government in 1923. So, like, you almost can't make t…”

Philippe Pétain headed Vichy documented ▶ 31:34

“The French government was dissolved and a new puppet state was formed. The new government departed Paris and established a capital in the town of Vichy, V-I-C-H-Y. The French leader of the Vichy state…”

Robert Murphy worked_with Robert Solberg documented ▶ 33:43

“corrupt government at the time during World War II. Although independent of Donovan's COI, Murphy worked very closely with Donovan's senior agent of Colonel Solberg and was aware and worked closely wi…”

Robert Solberg negotiated_with Jacques Le Marois de Breil documented ▶ 34:50

“and canceled it. Colonel Salzburg, on the other hand, wanted a guy that was in the French underground, Jacques Lemaise de Brel, one of Salzburg's pre-war business contacts. This business guy, Jacques,…”

Jacques Le Marois de Breil member_of Comité de Secret Action Révolutionnaire documented ▶ 35:29

“He developed, along with another Frenchman, Henri d'Astier de la Vigre, a plan to incite a coup in the French colonial army, replacing the Vichy officials with a pro-allied provisional government. See…”

Robert Solberg worked_with William Gaddy documented ▶ 37:33

“The network was heavily populated with Conjolet men making secret enterprise very dangerous. These are the exact same men that Colonel Salzberg wanted to negotiate with. So, Bridget, you've heard abou…”

William Gaddy assigned_to Tangier documented ▶ 38:02

“EDDY, a highly decorated Marine who had been assigned to Donovan's COI in Tangier, Morocco. Colonel ED requested large sums of money, arms, and equipment for the French in preparation of the La Marger…”

Betty Lussier worked_for John J. Ryan and Sons book_quoted ▶ 1:16:28

“Lussier said she had no problem taking the oath as she believed she would be working for some intelligence department of the U.S. government, unquote. Lussier opened an office in Madrid for John J. Ry…”

Betty Lussier worked_for World Commerce Company book_quoted ▶ 1:16:28

Betty Lussier did_business_with Czechoslovakia book_quoted ▶ 1:16:58

“who had been in the OSS Lisbon, Portugal, station. We did more or less the same work in Paris as in Madrid. Opened offices, initiated business with French firms, and handled barter of products between…”

Betty Lussier operated_in Zurich book_quoted ▶ 1:16:58

Betty Lussier did_business_with Sweden book_quoted ▶ 1:16:58

Ricardo Sicre married Betty Lussier book_quoted ▶ 1:18:51

“World Commerce Corporation is integral as a cover for Operation Gladio. Lucier's husband was in fact Ricardo Sicre, S-I-C-R-E, a former OSS agent that had operated in Spain. He was also vice president…”

World Commerce Company front_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:18:51

Ricardo Sicre headed World Commerce Company book_quoted ▶ 1:18:51

Ricardo Sicre spied_on Spanish embassy in Washington book_quoted ▶ 1:19:23

“Ricardo Sicri was a top agent of William Donovan and had conducted a number of sensitive black jobs, meaning special operations, black world, overt, including an operation to penetrate the Spanish emb…”

Ricardo Sicre operated_in Vichy France book_quoted ▶ 1:20:26

“Sicri would later set up a training school for spies who crossed into Vichy, France from Spain. So basically, he's a gladio operator. Sicri ended up the war as an army captain and was awarded a bronze…”

Counterintelligence Corps subsidiary_of Counterespionage Branch book_quoted ▶ 1:21:00

“belonged to Special Counterintelligence, SCI, within the X2 of the Counterespionage Branch of the OSS. That was the most highly classified section of the OSS since it was linked to all of the ULTRA pr…”

Ricardo Sicre member_of Counterintelligence Corps book_quoted ▶ 1:21:00

Counterintelligence Corps linked_to ULTRA book_quoted ▶ 1:21:00

Operation Gladio involved_in Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted ▶ 1:23:52

“Forces involved in Operation Gladio, 1,000% were involved in the assassination of JFK. And we are going to walk down that road together with this book review. Most of you know from the postings that I…”

Operation Gladio involved Mossad host_asserted ▶ 1:24:47

“BND in Germany, the MI6, Mossad, CIA, all of them has been involved. The SAFAR, S-I-F-A-R, is just one of many entities in Italy that you had the gray wolves in Turkey, Argentina Press, Portugal, blah…”