OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 2

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0:20 Hi, can you hear me? Can you hear me? So a couple of things. We're going to be interrupted in a minute because my husband is going to bring the puppy out so everybody can see him. And my daughter's here. She got off school and had to run pick her husband up.

1:05 They're visiting. Oh, I just heard the door. It's coming. So, we've decided on a name. We're naming it Maverick. Yes. Out of Top Gun. So, perfect timing. Where's the puppy? Oh, you have him in your hoodie. You crazy butt. All right. Let me see. Come here, buddy. Come here. Oh, goodness. All right.

1:41 so here's the puppy this is maverick everybody beat is john coming to get him yeah okay say hi maverick this is our new puppy he's tiny yes he's so sweet say hi maverick say hi to everybody hi they just said they have to get another one and name it goose oh

2:20 that's a great idea okay my husband just said we're gonna get another puppy and name it goose that's a great idea okay so um tonight i want to take just a couple of minutes and go over the um tower 22 syria jordan and the

2:55 killing of three American soldiers. So just a couple of thoughts. We're being told a story that the drone was coming in at about the same time that a drone was due back to that location. So first of all, it tells you that...

3:28 Also that that base straddles the Jordan-Syria line. So the collaborative base is actually has portions of it in Syria. So we have military operationally, operational military people in Syria. Not that that's a newsflash because they've been there for a long time. They fought with President Trump when he tried to get them out of Syria. So flying drones.

4:01 out of Syria, even if the actual runway is in Jordan, is a huge big deal. So this Tower 22 is important as well for the spying electronic surveillance that's going on. So supposedly this drone's coming.

4:32 We're expecting a drone coming back off of a mission around the same time, which is how an enemy drone got that close to that location in order to kill three people and injure a bunch more. There's everything wrong with that scenario. And I'm only going to go over one thing. And that's the frequency in which our drones communicate versus enemy drones.

5:01 It's just like an aircraft where they squawk on particular frequencies in order to be able to tell hostile and friendly apart. So there's no way that our military should have not known immediately because there are procedures to identify friendly and foe. Okay, so that's horse crap, number one.

5:33 But in addition to the potential that somehow a country was able to impersonate via their drone, our drone's frequencies and communication capability. Well, did we leave any drones in Afghanistan? I don't know the answer to that. Did we provide drones to...

6:08 Ukraine? And did they sell them to Iran? Did they sell them to one of our gladiator? Because we all, as collectively as a group, because we've all went through all of this education together, we know that several of the weapon sales that happened on the black market out of NATO actually had fighter aircraft in them. They were skimming things like fighter aircraft.

6:37 giving them to Gladio operators and selling them via weapons deals, just like the whole drugs and everything else. We've covered all of that. So has someone been siphoning off our drones so that they're squawking the right frequencies and capabilities? And who's training the people that are flying them then? Are we training Gladio somewhere?

7:08 the military knows it or not, in order to then stage a false flag of getting close enough to actually do what they did and kill Americans so they can start a war. I don't know the answer to those questions, but I want y'all to be thinking about that because there's nothing about this story that's right. It has...

7:40 As the Intel agencies like to say, it has the hallmarks of a false flag Gladio operation. So having said that, we're going to dive in. Now, just as a refresher, what we went through is the two companies that was set up as part of Operation Gladio.

8:08 British American Canadian Corporation, and the other corporation was the World Commerce Corporation. The World Commerce Corporation, both of them are going to be functioning pretty much as CIA front companies. And the William Stevenson, who is a

8:41 CIA operative, is in charge of the BACC. And Frank Ryan is in charge of the WCC, the World Commerce Corporation. So that's just kind of where we left off as a mini refresher. So Project Safe Haven, Chapter 2. The timing of the people involved in the events described those companies.

9:09 indicate that Stevenson and General Donovan had secretly transferred elements of their old organization to these private enterprises, even before the formal decision was to disband the OSS. The answer is found in the wartime placement of the SOE, which is the British CIA Gladio entity.

9:39 under the umbrella of the Ministry of Economic Warfare. So in Britain, they took the SOE, which had made up part of their Gladio infrastructure, and placed it into the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Just think about that. And it had the mission of blockading Germany and also securing Nazi assets.

10:08 The Skorzeny paperwork added an invaluable piece to the equation, since as the reader will soon find out, the Skorzeny business papers are in fact connected to the World Commerce Corporation. Both the OSS veterans, Frank Ryan and Ricardo Sicri, are found in the Skorzeny papers.

10:31 Specific revelations from the Skorzeny Papers will also confirm that BACC and WCC were born out of a highly classified project known as Safe Haven. Safe Haven actually began May 1944 when the Allies had concerns that the Nazis could use hidden assets to reconstruct the Fourth Reich or escape justice.

11:05 So the U.S. and British intelligence units were formed to track down and block German assets in neutral and by non-belligerent countries. The Ministry of Economic Warfare created special committees to carry out Operation Safe Haven. These groups were comprised of the OSS personnel and the SOE personnel.

11:36 I'm going to go ahead and finish this, and I'm going to tell you what my thoughts are on this because of this other book that I'm reading. A major target of Safe Haven was a vast German corporate entity known as basically Social Financial Industrial, called SOF, So Find Us. The corporation also served as a cover for a vast Nazi intelligence network.

12:08 that extended to South America. Sofindus Network, it's S-O-F-I-N-D-U-S, like Indus, was controlled in Berlin from the same Reich security office that controlled Skorzeny. And keep in mind, Skorzeny was in the commando unit.

12:38 Much like the General Wolf unit that operated all the stay-behind units for Germany, the Galen organization. Skorzeny was fully aware of all the operational aspects of Sofindus, I'm just going to call it that, and its agent network. In the field, that network was controlled out of Madrid, Spain, with its tentacles in France, North Africa, and South America.

13:07 Safehaven was one of the primary reasons for the formation of BACC and WCC and the recall of the British and American personnel to Spain. There is a multitude of other collaborating evidence to support the conclusion that the BACC and the WCC were part of Safehaven.

13:36 But for brevity purposes, the author will cite only a few. For example, one of the senior corporate officers of BACC was a guy by the name of George Merten, M-E-R-T-E-N, who had been in charge of Operation George, an OSS investigation into enemy penetration of South America. The target of Operation George would have been So Find Us Network.

14:06 Another individual who worked with the BACC was Nelson Rockefeller, the wartime coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the U.S. intelligence agency that intercepted Nazi activity in South America. Finally, there was a public announcement in numerous U.S. newspapers on September 25, 1945, that Nazi assets had been seized.

14:35 in Spain by the Allies. The article specifically mentions, so find us, since the date of the article matches the events described above, it presents further evidence that this organization's asset seizure and the formation of the World Commerce Corporation are linked. More details are important and it's significant to Otto Skorzeny's personal archives will be

15:05 revealed later. The formation of WCC, General Donovan engaged in extensive world travel, including to the Far East, where he consulted with the OSS officers in that theater. At the end of September, he departed for Germany. Only a limited number of Donovan's former OSS operatives were recruited into the WCC. Meanwhile, other OSS personnel were slated to remain in government service. So let me explain something to you that I have

15:35 uncovered in probably the book we're going to do next, which has to do with the Asian theater and a operation called Golden Lily, where in a nutshell, all of the looting that went on for decades before World War II for Japan through, and we'll go through this, Korea.

16:13 China, Manchuria, Northern China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia. What they did was basically, in addition to destroying these countries, they looted them. They took every ounce of gold. They took every...

16:37 They dug up tombs and took all of the treasures out of the tombs. They took fixtures out of people's houses that they would use to later build barracks and stuff. I mean, they just literally, it was like scorched earth for like 20 countries. So they eventually take all of this treasure and they start converting some of it.

17:06 into like these trusts that they administer as part of Operation Gladio to pay for all this crap and to bribe governments to do what they want. So you've got MacArthur in Japan who basically does, there's two theaters. Everything that we've learned about Operation Gladio, there was an Operation Golden Lily going on. So there's an Asia version of Gladio too. Almost identical.

17:36 And we're going to get to that after this book. So they take all of these resources and they put them in these entities. Well, if I go back over this now, based on what I just told you, they set up trust and then they buy off the entire theater as far as Asia goes. They set up a fake tribunal. They killed a couple of people that had basically nothing to do with.

18:07 um the real criminals they protect the real criminals it is literally a replication of everything that we know now based on what we've learned about gladio that happened where they make the deal with galen he gets his old job back they've done the exact same thing in japan okay and macarthur was in on all of it and a lot of the same people so let me um go back over what we just read because i this is

18:36 This is so important that we understand. So safe haven, think about what that even means. A highly classified project called safe haven. They are literally creating a safe haven for the Nazis that they're going to protect. This isn't about getting resources. This was about protecting resources that the Nazis had already.

19:07 collected that the winners now, the US and Britain, are going to use those resources in addition to West Germany, the BND, which Galen's in charge of, and eventually Mossad and all of them. They're going to use these to buy new governments all over the world, to buy military stuff all over the world. So that's what actually...

19:33 safe haven was all about. It was not about securing the resources and trying to gather up because it was decades later before anybody saw the first dime of restitution from the German government for all of the stuff that they had stolen. And what's going to really bake your bagels is in Japan, which happened after Europe, they learned a lesson.

20:03 And in the treaty that they eventually sign in San Francisco, they write in the treaty that they don't have to pay a single penny to any service member that was used as a slave, that was tortured, not a single penny to any of the people in China that was raped and pillaged and Korea and all of the loot. They have no way of getting anything back because the U.S., the CIA,

20:32 all kept it for themselves so then when we get to the part where it says oh where did they set up this operation in madrid do you remember us reading about the third um way and the madrid circular and how in the madrid circular it said that they were going to do all of the things that they have done as far as

20:59 setting up and turning everything into a fascist dictator on behalf of the British Roundtable, right there it tells you they set it up in Madrid. That's where Skorzeny operates out of for the most after World War II is out of Madrid, Spain. So it's likely Skorzeny is the one that wrote the Madrid Circular. Okay, so then you have...

21:32 the George Merton who was put in charge of Operation George. And supposedly he's hired as part of the BACC and the OSS to do investigation into enemy penetrations of South America. Actually, he was probably down there setting everything up to operate the fascist

22:02 takeover of south america that we were literally on the eve of because we know that they went through every country down there and changed the government and then of course you find nelson rockefeller and rockefeller is the one that went in and bought after they cooed guatemala bought up 42 percent of guatemala and was shipping all of the fruit out of there using slave labor of the

22:35 making billions of dollars off of it so when you know you know okay all right so that's the the highlights that i wanted to point out of what we already know dealt and how it overlays this and when it talks about how um since the since talking about that article that was written september 1945 it describes that this

23:11 organizations, SoFindUs, Assets, Seizure, and Formation of the World Commerce Corporation are linked. What we're going to find is they collected assets, put them into these companies so they could never be found and given back to the people they were taken from or be available for the lawsuits and everything else that eventually came.

23:40 They're hiding them in these companies for them to use for nefarious reasons. That's your CIA. Okay. The formation of the Strategic Services Unit. Happening at the same time they were setting up the WCC toward the end of Donovan's tenure at OSS. The OSS is on its way out.

24:16 And Donovan, despite pitching a fit, is told that it's not going to continue. So in September of 1945, literally five days before all of this article is talking about these two new companies and all of this asset recovery and all this other stuff, which is really going to be done for themselves.

24:49 Truman had written an order terminating the OSS. So you have these two entities created, and then they take down the OSS. And a lot of the OSS people end up working in these organizations. So it's basically privatizing what they had already been doing.

25:16 The OSS doesn't really go anywhere. It just turns into a private entity. So either there is truth to the accepted version of history that Donovan was at odds with Truman, or perhaps there's a strategic deception at play. It is possible the friction between the two was a ruse to hide from the Soviets the fact that the U.S. had secretly shifted the OSS capability to a commercial cover, which is exactly what I think happened.

25:48 September 26, 1945, Brigadier General John Magruder, Donovan's former Deputy Director of Intel and Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, reportedly circumvented Truman's disbandment order and acted to save what they could of the OSS. The OSS

26:14 Officers from the Special Operations Branch and Special Intelligence Branch were transferred to a new government organization called the Strategic Services Unit. General Magruder was then placed in charge of it, which was officially formed on October 1, 1945. Also under this revision, another branch of the OSS, the Research and Analysis Branch, was absorbed inside the State Department.

26:46 in a new office called Interim Research and Intelligence Services. So, isn't that nice? The president says you're not going to do this, and so they just do it anyway. They keep everybody, the ones that they haven't already shifted off to the civilian organization, they hide in another government organization. So, Donovan leaves for Germany and meets with Otto Skorzeny. That's the next.

27:17 section of our chapter donovan um so he has the orders to close the oss and he's created the world commerce corporation to make back channel arrangements for the recruitment of people into the world commerce corporation um in november 1945 which is so all that stuff happened in september so now we're in november general donovan would interrogate

27:50 SS Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, the wartime chief of Hitler's commandos, i.e. Gladio, who was being held as a POW in Nuremberg. Donovan asked to see me. This is his quote in Skorzeny's memoirs. Donovan asked to see me during my time in Nuremberg prison. The meeting was very cordial. There was neither victor nor vanquished.

28:19 Just two soldiers, both rather daredevilish and inventive, who had served their countries to the best of their ability, unquote. Skorzeny also claimed that he did not know at the time that Donovan was and only who Donovan was and had only found out later as he was, he viewed him as his counterpart. That's what Skorzeny said.

28:49 They met in a big conference room at the Nuremberg detention facility. Also present were senior staff officers. With the revelation cited above concerning the formation of the WCC and its role in Project Safe Haven, it is likely Donovan's meeting with Skorzeny was not a routine interrogation, but rather a sounding out.

29:15 He was there to see firsthand the man entrusted to carry out Germany's most secret missions and evaluate his inside knowledge of Nazi assets to provide asset recovery operations for themselves. In December, General Donovan announced his retirement. That same month, the OSS was assigned the task to support the International War Crimes Tribunal under the leadership of Supreme Court Justice

29:48 Robert Jackson. Justice Jackson had been selected by President Truman as chief counsel for the prosecution of Nazi war crimes. Donovan would clash with Justice Jackson over the procedures for handling high-ranking Nazi officials and the methods to be used to acquire testimony for the trials. Back in Washington, the Joint Chiefs of Staff was still discussing about

30:13 Intelligence priorities and missions leading to a proposal for a new organization under the control of the state, war, and Navy departments, with each still retaining individual service intelligence branches. President Truman approved the proposal and created in January 1946 the Central Intelligence Group, or SIG, C-I-G, was formed, absorbing the only recently

30:44 formed strategic services unit that they had done without his permission. The SIG was the direct precursor to the CIA. So the threat of the anticipated Nazi underground turned out to be minimal. This was the escalation of espionage by, so basically he's making the point that they're doing this transition thing that we've come.

31:19 come to see as the anti-communist, we're going to create the scenario where the Soviet Union is, oh my gosh, you know, they're going to come across the Folga Gap and annihilate all of Europe, even though they never showed any intention of doing that and had just been our allies and had been given all of that crap by those countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia and...

31:49 part of Germany in the settlement agreement. So at no point did they know that that was going to happen, but they've used that as a way to cover them stealing all of the resources and creating these Gladio units for control because you have to have the big bad wolf.

32:18 So army counterintelligence also began establishing their own clandestine networks with some of the same individuals. To make matters even more complicated, special intelligence units from Britain and France were also immersed in similar activities. These secret networks were not aware of each other. I'm not sure about that because a lot of them were coordinated prior to while they were still under.

32:52 Nazi domination. So I'll just leave that there. They did not at the time, though, have a central planner, which we know that happened out of NATO. On the American side, Alan Dulles, the senior OSS officer in Europe, later to become the director of the CIA, set up a special unit designated as the War Department Detachment, WDD.

33:21 near Wiesbaden. To handle the removal or retention of agent networks, the WDD was actually a cover name for a newly formed strategic services unit, that SSU. So that was just going to be the in-theater version of what was set up back in Washington. Dulles was specifically chosen because of his control of a number of extensive agent networks all over Europe.

33:49 Because remember, this is at the time where he's already met with Galen and had all of Gladio transferred under him. He was also a loyal friend to General Donovan, leaving in place the conduit for Donovan basically to still be in charge. Dulles from his station in Bern, Switzerland, had penetrated German intelligence to include important clandestine contacts inside the dreaded SS. That's Galen and General Wolff.

34:21 who was part of Skorzeny's command structure. Dulles had been in contact with Skorzeny at the end of the war. As the head of WDD, Dulles retained management of his secret records to prevent exposure of former spies and double agents that they had been operating with. The WDD also managed the disposition of former members of the Nazi intelligence services and the Gestapo.

34:49 The initial priority requirements for the WDD was working with the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Not really working with them. They're basically going to screw them. So, I mean, I don't consider that working with them, but whatever. It was Alan Dulles who handled these sensitive matters, given his extensive knowledge of the German clandestine network.

35:16 working with the tribunals and the judges and all that other stuff. So let me just tell you what that means. His extensive knowledge was who he could give them as meat to, you're going to have to have a few tokens that's got to die. That's just the way it is. They're all bad, but the ones that we don't think are, the ones that we think are the weak links, we're just going to hang them.

35:44 The ones that are really horrible in an evil way that we can use like Skorzeny, he's not hanging. Neither is Galen. They were the evilest of evil. But so if they had not falsified the records and did all these shenanigans, those are the people that would have been at the end of the rope and not necessarily the people that were at the end of the rope because a lot of them were scapegoats. Exactly, Bridget.

36:12 So you're going to find this exact same thing happening over in Japan when we get to the next book. The parallels are unbelievable. Does it appear? And again, I mean, I have read just about every book other than these. I hate to say, I'm MacArthur. I mean, I read At Dawn We Slept and just a ton of World War II books and never.

36:43 Would I have dreamed somebody's going to tell me I'm going to find out that General MacArthur's a bad guy? General MacArthur is a really bad guy. So anyway, the senior officers at the heart of all the document handling for the Nuremberg was a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and OSS veteran, Colonel Robert Story, S-T-O-R-E-Y. Now this is where it gets interesting.

37:13 Y'all need to tattoo Robert Story's name on your forehead, because on the inside of your eyelids, because his name's going to come up over and over again. He's from Dallas, Texas. Colonel Story was also one of the very few officers in the entire U.S. military privy to Ultra. Years later, Story would play a very prominent role.

37:42 as an independent attorney working with the Warren Commission after the assassination of JFK, which we know was a Gladio operation. So the guy that is the chief documents handler for Nuenberg has a tie to the Operation Gladio.

38:11 murder of JFK and the Warren Commission afterwards. Story noted in his personal memoirs that Alan Dulles had provided invaluable assistance to his division. I bet he did, like the list of who you can try and who you can't. Dulles departed Europe to return to his law practice at the end of 1945.

38:38 he would be replaced on the orders of General Donovan by OSS attorney James Donovan. Attorney Donovan would, in later years, become a high-level CIA officer. And that's what totally pisses me off when people go, oh, we need Nuremberg 2.0. We didn't have Nuremberg 1.0. It was all bullshit. All right.

39:12 During the Cold War, it was James Donovan who was sent to the East Germany to coordinate the exchange of U-2 pilot Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Colonel Willem Fischer, a.k.a. Rudolf Abel. The story was the basis for the Steven Spielberg's movie Bridge of Spies, released in 2015. So, Alan Dulles remained a high-level consultant to the

39:48 government in the evolution of the intelligence organization, which of course we know he does because he comes back as the CIA director. As time progressed through the Nuremberg trials, the WDD would be involved in the recruitment and redirection of clandestine assets toward new intelligence priorities. Dulles had originally assigned former OSS operative Frank Wisner.

40:18 whose name comes up over and over again in Operation Gladio, to manage the first agent's activity of the WDD and to develop the new spy network. These new areas of interest included military, political, and security structures, as well as Germany's industrial, economic, and scientific elements.

40:44 It extended into Germany's social, religious, cultural, and educational institutes as well. Because, you know, that's what you want to do if you're a spy. Knowledge of the WDD activities was above top secret and known only to the highest levels of the U.S. government. Wisners divided his group into a steering division and a production division. The steering division was directed by Army Captain Harry...

41:15 Rozitsky, who established liaison with other U.S. and friendly foreign intel. He established relationships with labor and church groups. These relationships allowed for the development of an intelligence network. The production division was focused on agent recruiting and acted on the requirements generated from the steering division. Production units

41:45 were formed across Western Europe and in the American zone of Germany. An extensively sensitive area for the production division was the control of Allen Dulles' Crown Jewels, or high-level secret agents Dulles had controlled during the war. In 1946, when Frank Wisner left Germany for the U.S., his successor, Crosby Lewis,

42:16 Had previously served as the chief of X2 security control group in Germany, Lewis was subsequently replaced by Gordon Stewart. The executive officer for the WDD from 46 to 49 was Lewis Kubler, a veteran of World War I. Before joining the military, Kubler had served 18 years as a New Jersey state policeman.

42:43 and had been called to testify as a fingerprint specialist for the Lindbergh kidnapping case. So basically then we also find out that Sir William Stevenson, who was the SOE, the British version of the OSS, they're going to disband the SOE. And basically, you know, they end up with MI6 and says the new prime minister.

43:13 In Britain, Clement Attlee held views similar to President Truman and ordered the SOE closed down. This occurred January 15, 1946. William Stevenson's British security coordinator, the BSC, was soon to follow. Most of Stevenson's agents returned to civilian life, but he kept a small staff. General Donovan, too, had quietly retired to civilian life.

43:44 having assumed his old law practice back in New York. But we know for a fact these people didn't actually retire. They have now formed these civilian companies and they're going to pretend like these civilian front companies are not part of the intelligence apparatus when in fact they are. So they are not.

44:08 technically retired. And that's true of just about every CIA. There's no such thing as a former CIA agent or a retired CIA agent. A lot of them, even while they were technically being paid by the CIA, they will... We had a guy, I'll just tell you this because this is crazy. We had a guy that...

44:34 PCS into our base in Los Angeles, there was an investigation going on at the time. There was a big bust about a year after I got there of people doing things they shouldn't have been doing. And the guy that came in, I noticed in his personnel record, there was a couple of things that would just seemed weird as far as a sequence of events of their career, but didn't think anything about it.

45:05 A year later, it was exposed that that guy was basically an agent. I don't know what organization he actually worked for. It could have just been an OSI agent, which is kind of like the internal CIA for the Air Force or NCIS, whatever, for the Air Force, the Office of Special Investigations. But he wasn't who he, they had made up his entire record.

45:33 They had created the record down at our personnel center. They had the paper copy of it. It looked, there was a couple of things that looked a little odd to me, but they just made them up out of thin air so they can do that. And I found that very interesting, which is basically what they do. So you don't know that some of the senior officers.

46:02 Cause you're going to see it in operation or the Phoenix program where they took people that were truly civilians, but felt them having a military rank based on the operation was more effective and they just made them an officer. So that's interesting to know. So chapter three is where we get introduced to Otto Skorzeny.

46:32 Going back to the interrogation of Otto Skorzeny, it was revealed previously that Colonel Rex Benson of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, which was the lead British interrogator for Skorzeny. Benson was involved in the founding of the BACC. So already you see the use of the civilian.

47:01 in conjunction with Gladio as front companies. So they basically interrogate him. Skorzeny is originally from Vienna, Austria, which I find interesting because that's where Hitler was from too. His father was a civil engineer. They were middle class. He had basically a regular childhood. He was excellent in mathematics and chemistry.

47:34 He spoke English and French as well as German. And then there's just some other really not relevant stuff about his background. He became active in events sponsored by the Nazi party to include motor racing, attending Nazi party meetings and the motor car core.

48:08 that he belonged to was a legitimate sports racing club to attract new members, but it was also a cover for Nazi security activity in Austria at the time, providing a rapid mobile force for party security and police augmentation, almost like Gladio. Additionally, Skorzeny was active in the German gymnastics organization, another cover organization for Nazi party defense activities.

48:39 The association with SS cover organizations, even before the war, proved to be fertile ground for the cultivation of the knowledge that Skorzeny would possess later on for covert activities. So Skorzeny comes to the notice of Ernest Kaltenbrunner, who was head of the Austrian SS and a friend of Skorzeny's through...

49:08 sword fighting, dueling while he was in college. So this Kaltenbrunner basically becomes the Reich main security office guy in charge. So Skorzeny has kind of an in and a very high ranking office. When Hitler invades Poland in 1939, Skorzeny volunteered.

49:38 First for the Luftwaffe, which is the Air Force, as a private pilot with his engineering background, he believed himself suitable for that. However, it was turned down because he was very tall and he was already 31 years old. So he ended up being in the SS combat unit. February 1940, Skorzeny had received orders to report to Berlin.

50:09 where he was assigned to an elite SS unit. He transferred a few times. He was in the invasion of Holland in 1940. He saw action in Yugoslavia in 1942. He was promoted, got his officer rank.

50:34 In April of 1942, he single-handedly captured 57 enemy soldiers, including three officers, without firing a shot and was awarded a medal. And he also took part in the invasion of Russia. So that's kind of just a background of, no kidding, he's a real military guy in the Nazi army. Germany's first formation of special troops was small...

51:06 consisting of specialized elements of highly trained saboteurs assigned to German intelligence service, which would have been under Galen. They dressed in civilian attire. They would go in in advance of the combat troops and destroy strategic targets and capture key bridges. So that's what Skorzeny's role was. In March of 1943, a decision was made to expand these special units.

51:37 using politically reliable SS troops. Walter Snellenberg, who was the head of the SD Auslan intelligence service of the SS, got the job of making these organizations bigger. The reorganization would include training agents in saboteur espionage, paramilitary techniques, and when called upon,

52:05 basically do assassinations. This is basically the beginnings of their gladio. So while stationed in Berlin, Skorzeny heard about this, and he undertook research of Allied commando operations and conducted special covert

52:27 warfare. He researched for every resource he could find on the topic, noting tactics, techniques, procedures of various allied and acts of special forces, what caused successes, what were the failures, including the failed attempt by British commandos to capture General Erwin Rommel in North Africa. The more he learned, the more he envisioned

52:54 that there was a role for commando operations within the SS. So, on April 18, 1943, Skorzeny was promoted and assigned to command the RSHA, which is basically the intelligence special operations kind of...

53:25 Operation Gladio. It's probably the beginning of what we know as the werewolf units inside of Germany. Skorzeny's unit would eventually be known as the hunting group, which again, because of the, and each one of these books have their own language that they refer, you know, the words that they use. So a hunting group was like the werewolves and they went out and hunted.

53:55 the people at night, so it's not inconsistent with what we already know about Operation Gladio. Skorzeny recruited personnel for these units. Eventually, his commando group included Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel. Skorzeny becoming the prominent Special Forces commander of the Third Reich.

54:19 He makes sure that they have foreign language skills, basic skills and knowledge in firearms, grenades, artillery, ability to operate automobiles, motorcycles, watercraft, locomotives, be expert swimmers, and can parachute from an aircraft. So he's basically creating his own special ops for Gladios. And the author does say this, all Skorzeny's training was rough and tough.

54:49 and included covert operation skills required for stay-behind missions in enemy territory. Gladio. So Skorzeny's chain of command started with Walter Snellenberg, head of Section 6-S, then within the RSHA apparatus, and then it went through Kaltenbrunner.

55:22 and then Heinrich Himmler. So those are his three chain of commands. Despite his command structure, Skorzeny would on several occasions actually take taskings directly from Hitler, which made him one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich. Skorzeny appointed as his executive officer a guy by the name of Karl Rad, R-A-D-L.

55:55 He also was an intelligence officer. And Skorzeny's original wife, named Emmy, was a close friend of Rad's. Rad had studied law at the University of Berlin. He was an excellent staff officer. He was attached to the SS intelligence services.

56:25 He accepted the job offer as the executive officer for Skorzeny. So they began working very closely together. Skorzeny's most famous mission was a glider-borne mountaintop rescue of Benito Mussolini on September 1943. This mission carried out on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler. It was called Operation Oak.

56:51 And we're going to talk a minute about that because it's pretty incredible what he did. And let's see. So in July of 1943, it was a major turning point in World War II for Skorzeny's career and notoriety. On July 10th, British and American forces had invaded Italy.

57:26 Remember that we came in through the island of Sicily and we're going to go up the peninsula of Italy. Well, that created a lot of consternation in the north. At a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council in July 24th, a vote of no confidence was passed against Mussolini after the invasion. And the vote for Mussolini, who had...

57:57 been in charge for 21 years to seek the support of King Emmanuel III. His appeal to the king for support was to Noah Bell. So the king had basically acquiesced to Mussolini's fascist role. And keep in mind that, remember the Borghese, the prince, the black prince that basically had the training role of...

58:27 Operation Gladio in Italy. And he was basically forced to, he got arrested and then the CIA bailed him out. I think it was Angleton. And then he was forced to go live in Sardinia. And then we find out later on that Sardinia, an island off the coast of Italy, was where they were training all of the Gladio people. So obviously they didn't take him out. They just relocated him so they could get him to safety.

58:57 That prince is part of this royal family who was all fine with Mussolini and didn't have a problem with him. However, he sees the handwriting on the wall once the U.S. and British forces have gotten a foothold in, which is hilarious on the boot, the actual foot of the boot, in Italy. So he's going to basically...

59:25 throw Mussolini to the wolves and say, yeah, no, I can't save you at this point. So, Marshal Bodaglio becomes head of the Italian government and Mussolini is arrested and placed under guard at an army barracks in Rome. He is soon transferred to a tiny island called Pansa off the coast of Naples.

59:52 Hitler's alliance with Italy was now endangered and he demanded the release of Mussolini. Apparent to Hitler that Italy had intended to betray its alliance with Germany and turn Mussolini over to the Allies, which he did not want to have happen. So he tells Skorzeny, basically, you got to go rescue Mussolini. So he meets with Hitler.

1:00:20 And Hitler tells them it's top secret. You basically can't tell anybody. I want you to train for this mission, but don't tell anybody what it is until the last minute. Even the commander, the field marshal in Italy didn't know what was going on. So they basically deploy and Skorzeny established a base camp.

1:00:48 at an air base near Rome to gather intel. So Mussolini had been removed from the Pansa Island and had been transferred to an Italian warship docked in the water nearby. So he then gets transferred to La Maddalena, which is near Sardinia.

1:01:21 Scorzini flew in a bomber taking photos of the location, but the bomber was spotted and attacked by allied fighters, forcing it to ditch. But they get rescued by an Italian destroyer, Scorzini and his guys do. He had a couple of broken ribs, but he's fine. So he returns to Rome, comes up with another plan.

1:01:52 finds out that Mussolini had been moved again. So they have Mussolini on top of this mountain in a hotel. And it's a ski resort. There's like one way in and it's a cable car. No driving, no nothing. So this is going to be, you know, there's barely a place to land up there. And there's no roads. So they don't know what they're going to do.

1:02:22 So Skorzeny deploys a medical guy to the hospital that's co-located within this mountain area. And that's how he gets the reconnaissance done. So photographs reveal that there's a small open area next to the hotel, which is where he wants to basically use gliders.

1:02:52 in to storm the location. At the same time, they're going to take over the cable cars down at the bottom. They're going to bring up some units. They're going to take the Mussolini down and then ferret him off. So, ironically enough, on September 11th, can't make this shit up, 1943, Skorzeny and his men, along with elements of the

1:03:20 General Students Paratrooper Brigade decide that they're going to attack this mountaintop at 7 o'clock with 12 gliders assigned for the mission. So they start off having problems right away. They don't get the mission started because of difficulty until noon. So the lead aircraft is piloted by an intel officer.

1:03:57 and they've got these gliders have multiple people on them. Skorzeny's glider had some high-ranking carabinary officers, and there's about a total of 200 of them. So they secure the lower area cable guy, and they basically land.

1:04:35 They find Mussolini, who's on the second floor, and Skorzeny dashes into the hotel, goes up to the second floor, grabs Mussolini. They get him out, and let's see. They're basically going to try to take off in these gliders off the top of the mountain.

1:05:08 They basically do that. They get him back to an airfield. They take off in a German aircraft and flew him out of this ski resort rescuing Mussolini. So, obviously, Skorzeny's a hero. Excuse me. Everybody thinks this is, like, the best thing since sliced bread.

1:05:42 The guy that wrote this book actually interviewed the man that heard the original broadcast proclaiming Skorzeny a hero of the Reich based on this rescue. Joseph Goebbels proclaimed Skorzeny to be the most dangerous man in Europe as a result of this. The enduring legend and notoriety of Skorzeny was born. Even Churchill had acknowledged his...

1:06:10 bravery and bravado in pulling off this rescue. The object of war is to break the will of the enemy, and this was devastating to the Allies. Yes, Mussolini was a big guy. Tara, you're right. The raid permitted the maintenance of the fascist government, albeit a weak one, and it delivered great success at a time when the German people were dealing with continually bad news.

1:06:39 So Winston Churchill begrudgingly admitted that it was a daring raid. And let's see. This author says, in the fall of 2011, Time Magazine released a special edition called Special Ops, The Hidden World of America's Toughest Warriors. This collector's edition was the result of a public fascination with a spectacular

1:07:14 Navy SEAL raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan on May 1st. The man who prepared the mission and ordered the Navy SEAL to attack the bin Laden was Admiral McRaven, commander of SOCOM. McRaven had started his career as a Navy SEAL and early on took an active interest in unconventional warfare. Through his studies, McRaven focused specifically on Skorzeny's Grand Sasso mission

1:07:42 In order to come up with the mission for Bin Laden. According to McRaven's. A paper that he had written. So. He's also given speeches about it. McRaven. So under assassinations and abductions. Skorzeny's men would be very ruthless. And what they referred to as wet works. Which are assassinations.

1:08:17 The final two years of the conflict, Hitler had issued orders directly to Skorzeny time and time again on these secret wet works. Perhaps the most famous of these were Operation Hummingbird, the SS liquidation of Ernst Rohm, R-O-H-M, and other rival Nazi leaders of the SA or Brown Shirts.

1:08:43 The operation was secretly supported by German military who feared Rome, and he had declared his SA troopers would replace the military as a new national armed forces. The alliance between Hitler and the military was cemented with the removal of Rome by Himmler's SS. The planning began for the invasion of England codenamed Operation Sea Lion. Part of the planning

1:09:10 included an airborne mission to kidnap the royal family from Buckingham Palace. Hitler had issued orders for the removal of Churchill, Roosevelt, Tito, and Stalin, and perhaps others. What follows are the details of known assassinations and abduction missions carried out by Skorzeny's commandos. And there's a whole bunch of them.

1:09:39 I'm going to go through a couple of these. Operation Long Jump. In November 1943, Hitler received intelligence that seemed to present an opportunity to execute an attack on a high-level Allied command and control. U.S. President FDR and Churchill and Stalin were scheduled to meet in Tehran, Iran.

1:10:07 Obviously, that would provide a very lucrative target. It is known that Russian intelligence on the assassination plot was passed to the Americans and British at the time. This may have been a Russian ruse, however, to get Roosevelt to stay in a bugged room at the Soviet embassy. Russian accounts claim that the mission was ultimately compromised by one of their sleeper agents posing as a German in the advanced element.

1:10:35 German transport carrying the assassins was interrupted by Russian fighters and shot down. That would have been interesting. Operation Knight's Leap was a Yugoslavian partisan leader, Marshal Joseph Broz Tito. He was identified by Nazi intelligence as the principal Yugoslav resistance leader against the Germans. And earlier attempts had failed.

1:11:07 Skorzeny and Arno Bessenkow set to develop a plan and abduct Tito at his headquarters using inside agents. The task to locate Tito was carried out by several German intel organizations, including Skorzeny's commandos, who continued to operate independently from the German forces. He soon devised a direct action raid. It was including a...

1:11:38 airborne element to assault the headquarters. The plot was militarily sound, including speed, shock, and surprise through air and ground assaults from all directions. The plan was not implemented, however, due to communication problems. Instead, a combined German Army and SS paratrooper mission was launched that did not include Skorzeny's unit. It was called Operation Night's Leap.

1:12:09 beginning in May 1944, which was eventually aborted due to heavy casualties and the inability to locate Tito. So, Operation Mickey Mouse. That's hilarious. This was about working with the SD office in Rome. Several of Skorzeny's officers developed a plan to blow up General Mark Clark's 5th Army headquarters by approaching the target by sea.

1:12:40 Several problems were encountered, including finding British uniforms for the mission, because they were going to dress up like the British their assassins were. Four missions were attempted, and the final one succeeded in getting underway. However, the team's boat was spotted, fired upon, and destroyed. Despite setbacks, Skorzeny's unit's reputation remained intact.

1:13:13 and actually received expanded missions. And let's see, he worked closely with the German Navy to include acquiring midget submarines and torpedoes. Very dangerous guy. In September 1944, Skorzeny was again summoned by Hitler to carry out almost an impossible task.

1:13:41 Disaster was looming on the Eastern Front as Russians continued their relentless advance. Several key allies of the Nazis had fallen, including Finland, the Baltic States, and Romania. On the Western Front, the American armies had liberated France and was on the border of Germany. Hitler's only remaining ally was Hungary. So they come up with Operation Panzerfaust. I love the names.

1:14:16 Skorzeny was authorized in writing by Hitler with supreme powers, including forceful removal of an admiral who supposedly had been dealing clandestinely with the Soviets. The admiral was heavily influenced by his playboy son, Miklas Jr., in negotiating with the Russians, and that was not going to be allowed.

1:14:49 So, the kidnapping, which is what they were basically going to kidnap the son, was called Operation Mickey Mouse. The young guy, the son, was wrapped in a carpet, rushed to an airfield, and flown to Germany. Despite the kidnapping, Admiral Horthy refused to alter his course, announcing an armistice would immediately take place with the Russians.

1:15:16 Horthy's palace was located on a high hill under heavy guard. Skorzeny proceeded directly toward the palace, leading a convoy of German troops in four tanks. Bluffing his way past the guard, Skorzeny ordered his tanks forward and stormed the last barrier heading straight for the palace. Overpowering Hungarian forces, Skorzeny seized the object and placed Horthy into custody.

1:15:41 Once again, Skorzeny had proven his superior methods of war. Quote, there are times when a million men can be saved by the removal of a single object. Obstacle, sorry. So I had to remove one man to save a million, unquote. After his success in Hungary, Skorzeny was again summoned by Hitler. Hitler informed Skorzeny of a planned offensive through the Belgian forest at a great...

1:16:12 to secure decisive victory for Nazi Germany. And that was dubbed Target Eisenhower. And let's see what time we got. I think we're probably going to stop there. We've got a couple of left sections left, Target Eisenhower. And we also have, which is kind of a long one, the infamous Peter Group.

1:16:44 which really talks directly to Operation Gladio and a couple others. That kind of goes to the heart of who Skorzeny is. We'll talk briefly about Eisenhower. It just kind of gives you an idea. But we definitely have to talk about the Peter Group because it comes up over and over.

1:17:11 And then we get into chapter four, which is secret armies, which is Gladio. So we're going to stop right there. Target Eisenhower will be our next topic. And that will be Thursday night. I also wanted to share with y'all on Monday of this coming week, next week, someone had offered to do.

1:17:43 a Spaces event on Twitter about Operation Gladio. So I will be presenting Operation Gladio on Twitter in a Spaces forum. She was going to be doing a flyer, the girl that's going to host the show. And I will get it out to you guys as soon as I get it. I will definitely have it on Thursday and we will put it in the

1:18:12 comments so that y'all can share it. Please share it as wide as you can. This girl's going to go to a lot of trouble setting this thing up and I would love for it to be as big as we can make it. People are waking up every day. I've had a ton of people on Twitter, which I apologize for not being on True Social as much as I normally am, but I think I've kind of maximized my audience there.

1:18:39 And there are so many people on X, Twitter, that have no clue about Operation Gladio. And I have people every day asking, where can I read about this? Where can I see this? And there is definitely a much broader international audience on Twitter. I had a guy find a video for me that...

1:19:09 had been dubbed from the Netherlands and, um, a lot of people on there from Sweden and Finland that have all experienced operation Gladio themselves and are kind of piling on validating the fact that not only does it exist. Um, I don't, I've never been on American girl. I've never been on getter. Um, I.

1:19:37 I think I actually set up an account because there was somebody on there I wanted to see a video of, but I am not on there. Um, that may be something again, I am so technology, um, uh, challenged. Um, I could ask my daughter to look into that one. Um, I'm kind of strung out at this point to be quite honest with you between doing our podcasts and, um,

1:20:05 It's a rah-rah site. I don't know what rah-rah means. But anyway, I'm tickled to death to be doing a spaces. I would like to do, I honestly think because people can interact with you there, it may be a good way to do a book. And once we get done with this one, maybe the next one that we do, which is going to be a knock your socks off because it's the...

1:20:36 Asian version, Operation Golden Lily. Maybe it will be our first one that we do there because people can, you know, talk, you can turn people's mics on. I would just have to have somebody host it because I don't know how to do that.

1:20:52 Maybe my daughter can figure it out. But anyway, so I just wanted to throw that out there. I appreciate everybody here. Please give us a thumbs up if you wouldn't mind and follow the channel if you're new here. It helps us whenever somebody searches on the keywords of either the book's title or Operation Gladio or whatever.

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1:21:47 I think it's awesome. So anyway, again, thank you guys for being here. You keep me motivated to want to come back every time. So I appreciate it. And I will see you on Thursday night.

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William Stephenson headed World Commerce Corporation book_quoted ▶ 8:41

“CIA operative, is in charge of the BACC. And Frank Ryan is in charge of the WCC, the World Commerce Corporation. So that's just kind of where we left off as a mini refresher. So Project Safe Haven, Ch…”

Frank Ryan headed World Commerce Corporation book_quoted ▶ 8:41

William J. Donovan recruited Frank Ryan book_quoted ▶ 10:08

“The Skorzeny paperwork added an invaluable piece to the equation, since as the reader will soon find out, the Skorzeny business papers are in fact connected to the World Commerce Corporation. Both the…”

Ministry of Economic Warfare departments funded Project Safe Haven book_quoted ▶ 11:05

“So the U.S. and British intelligence units were formed to track down and block German assets in neutral and by non-belligerent countries. The Ministry of Economic Warfare created special committees to…”

SOFINDUS operated_in Madrid book_quoted ▶ 12:38

“Much like the General Wolf unit that operated all the stay-behind units for Germany, the Galen organization. Skorzeny was fully aware of all the operational aspects of Sofindus, I'm just going to call…”

George Merck headed Operation George book_quoted ▶ 13:36

“But for brevity purposes, the author will cite only a few. For example, one of the senior corporate officers of BACC was a guy by the name of George Merten, M-E-R-T-E-N, who had been in charge of Oper…”

George Merck member_of World Commerce Corporation book_quoted ▶ 13:36

Nelson Rockefeller did_business_with World Commerce Corporation book_quoted ▶ 14:06

“Another individual who worked with the BACC was Nelson Rockefeller, the wartime coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the U.S. intelligence agency that intercepted Nazi activity in South America. Fin…”

Nelson Rockefeller member_of Inter-American Affairs Office book_quoted ▶ 14:06

John Magruder circumvented Harry S. Truman book_quoted ▶ 25:48

“September 26, 1945, Brigadier General John Magruder, Donovan's former Deputy Director of Intel and Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, reportedly circumvented Truman's disbandment order and act…”

John Magruder headed Strategic Services Unit book_quoted ▶ 26:14

“Officers from the Special Operations Branch and Special Intelligence Branch were transferred to a new government organization called the Strategic Services Unit. General Magruder was then placed in ch…”

William J. Donovan founded World Commerce Corporation book_quoted ▶ 27:17

“section of our chapter donovan um so he has the orders to close the oss and he's created the world commerce corporation to make back channel arrangements for the recruitment of people into the world c…”

William J. Donovan recruited Otto Skorzeny book_quoted ▶ 29:15

“He was there to see firsthand the man entrusted to carry out Germany's most secret missions and evaluate his inside knowledge of Nazi assets to provide asset recovery operations for themselves. In Dec…”

CIA absorbed Strategic Services Unit book_quoted ▶ 30:13

“Intelligence priorities and missions leading to a proposal for a new organization under the control of the state, war, and Navy departments, with each still retaining individual service intelligence b…”

Harry S. Truman founded CIA book_quoted ▶ 30:13

War Department front_for Strategic Services Unit book_quoted ▶ 33:21

“near Wiesbaden. To handle the removal or retention of agent networks, the WDD was actually a cover name for a newly formed strategic services unit, that SSU. So that was just going to be the in-theate…”

Allen Dulles spied_on Reinhard Gehlen book_quoted ▶ 33:49

“Because remember, this is at the time where he's already met with Galen and had all of Gladio transferred under him. He was also a loyal friend to General Donovan, leaving in place the conduit for Don…”

Allen Dulles spied_on Otto Skorzeny book_quoted ▶ 34:21

“who was part of Skorzeny's command structure. Dulles had been in contact with Skorzeny at the end of the war. As the head of WDD, Dulles retained management of his secret records to prevent exposure o…”

Allen Dulles headed War Department book_quoted ▶ 34:21

James A. Donovan succeeded Allen Dulles documented ▶ 38:38

“he would be replaced on the orders of General Donovan by OSS attorney James Donovan. Attorney Donovan would, in later years, become a high-level CIA officer. And that's what totally pisses me off when…”

Allen Dulles appointed Frank Wisner documented ▶ 39:48

“government in the evolution of the intelligence organization, which of course we know he does because he comes back as the CIA director. As time progressed through the Nuremberg trials, the WDD would …”

Crosby Lewis succeeded Frank Wisner documented ▶ 41:45

“were formed across Western Europe and in the American zone of Germany. An extensively sensitive area for the production division was the control of Allen Dulles' Crown Jewels, or high-level secret age…”

Gordon Stewart succeeded Crosby Lewis documented ▶ 42:16

“Had previously served as the chief of X2 security control group in Germany, Lewis was subsequently replaced by Gordon Stewart. The executive officer for the WDD from 46 to 49 was Lewis Kubler, a veter…”

William Stephenson headed British Security Coordination documented ▶ 43:13

“In Britain, Clement Attlee held views similar to President Truman and ordered the SOE closed down. This occurred January 15, 1946. William Stevenson's British security coordinator, the BSC, was soon t…”

Rex Benson founded World Commerce Corporation documented ▶ 46:32

“Going back to the interrogation of Otto Skorzeny, it was revealed previously that Colonel Rex Benson of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, which was the lead British interrogator for Skorzeny. B…”

Otto Skorzeny born_in Vienna documented ▶ 47:01

“in conjunction with Gladio as front companies. So they basically interrogate him. Skorzeny is originally from Vienna, Austria, which I find interesting because that's where Hitler was from too. His fa…”

Otto Skorzeny member_of Nazi Party documented ▶ 47:34

“He spoke English and French as well as German. And then there's just some other really not relevant stuff about his background. He became active in events sponsored by the Nazi party to include motor …”

Otto Skorzeny member_of Luftwaffe documented ▶ 49:08

“sword fighting, dueling while he was in college. So this Kaltenbrunner basically becomes the Reich main security office guy in charge. So Skorzeny has kind of an in and a very high ranking office. Whe…”

Otto Skorzeny member_of SS (Schutzstaffel) documented ▶ 49:38

“First for the Luftwaffe, which is the Air Force, as a private pilot with his engineering background, he believed himself suitable for that. However, it was turned down because he was very tall and he …”

Walter Schellenberg headed SD (Sicherheitsdienst) documented ▶ 51:37

“using politically reliable SS troops. Walter Snellenberg, who was the head of the SD Auslan intelligence service of the SS, got the job of making these organizations bigger. The reorganization would i…”

Otto Skorzeny headed RSHA documented ▶ 52:54

“that there was a role for commando operations within the SS. So, on April 18, 1943, Skorzeny was promoted and assigned to command the RSHA, which is basically the intelligence special operations kind …”

Otto Skorzeny trained SS (Schutzstaffel) documented ▶ 53:55

“the people at night, so it's not inconsistent with what we already know about Operation Gladio. Skorzeny recruited personnel for these units. Eventually, his commando group included Army, Navy, and Ai…”

Walter Schellenberg headed RSHA documented ▶ 54:49

“and included covert operation skills required for stay-behind missions in enemy territory. Gladio. So Skorzeny's chain of command started with Walter Snellenberg, head of Section 6-S, then within the …”

Heinrich Himmler headed SS (Schutzstaffel) documented ▶ 54:49

Ernst Kaltenbrunner headed RSHA documented ▶ 54:49

Karl Radl headed Otto Skorzeny documented ▶ 55:22

“and then Heinrich Himmler. So those are his three chain of commands. Despite his command structure, Skorzeny would on several occasions actually take taskings directly from Hitler, which made him one …”

Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack Operation 40 documented ▶ 56:25

“He accepted the job offer as the executive officer for Skorzeny. So they began working very closely together. Skorzeny's most famous mission was a glider-borne mountaintop rescue of Benito Mussolini o…”

Adolf Hitler ordered_assassination_of Benito Mussolini documented ▶ 59:52

“Hitler's alliance with Italy was now endangered and he demanded the release of Mussolini. Apparent to Hitler that Italy had intended to betray its alliance with Germany and turn Mussolini over to the …”

William H. McRaven member_of U.S. Army Special Forces documented ▶ 1:07:14

“Navy SEAL raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan on May 1st. The man who prepared the mission and ordered the Navy SEAL to attack the bin Laden was Admiral McRaven, commander of SOCOM. McRaven had s…”

William H. McRaven headed United States Air Force Special Operations Command documented ▶ 1:07:14

Adolf Hitler ordered_assassination_of Ernst Röhm documented ▶ 1:08:17

“The final two years of the conflict, Hitler had issued orders directly to Skorzeny time and time again on these secret wet works. Perhaps the most famous of these were Operation Hummingbird, the SS li…”

Heinrich Himmler removed_from_power Ernst Röhm documented ▶ 1:08:43

“The operation was secretly supported by German military who feared Rome, and he had declared his SA troopers would replace the military as a new national armed forces. The alliance between Hitler and …”

Adolf Hitler ordered_assassination_of Josip Broz Tito documented ▶ 1:09:10

“included an airborne mission to kidnap the royal family from Buckingham Palace. Hitler had issued orders for the removal of Churchill, Roosevelt, Tito, and Stalin, and perhaps others. What follows are…”

Adolf Hitler ordered_assassination_of Winston Churchill documented ▶ 1:09:10

Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack Operation Long Jump documented ▶ 1:09:39

“I'm going to go through a couple of these. Operation Long Jump. In November 1943, Hitler received intelligence that seemed to present an opportunity to execute an attack on a high-level Allied command…”

Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack Operation Knight's Leap documented ▶ 1:11:07

“Skorzeny and Arno Bessenkow set to develop a plan and abduct Tito at his headquarters using inside agents. The task to locate Tito was carried out by several German intel organizations, including Skor…”

Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack Operation Mickey Mouse documented ▶ 1:12:09

“beginning in May 1944, which was eventually aborted due to heavy casualties and the inability to locate Tito. So, Operation Mickey Mouse. That's hilarious. This was about working with the SD office in…”

Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack Operation Panzerfaust documented ▶ 1:13:13

“and actually received expanded missions. And let's see, he worked closely with the German Navy to include acquiring midget submarines and torpedoes. Very dangerous guy. In September 1944, Skorzeny was…”

Adolf Hitler ordered_assassination_of Miklós Horthy documented ▶ 1:14:16

“Skorzeny was authorized in writing by Hitler with supreme powers, including forceful removal of an admiral who supposedly had been dealing clandestinely with the Soviets. The admiral was heavily influ…”

Operation Mickey Mouse carried_out_attack Miklós Horthy host_asserted ▶ 1:14:49

“So, the kidnapping, which is what they were basically going to kidnap the son, was called Operation Mickey Mouse. The young guy, the son, was wrapped in a carpet, rushed to an airfield, and flown to G…”

Miklós Horthy proposed Russia host_asserted ▶ 1:14:49

Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack Miklós Horthy host_asserted ▶ 1:15:16

“Horthy's palace was located on a high hill under heavy guard. Skorzeny proceeded directly toward the palace, leading a convoy of German troops in four tanks. Bluffing his way past the guard, Skorzeny …”

Otto Skorzeny operated_in Hungary host_asserted ▶ 1:15:41

“Once again, Skorzeny had proven his superior methods of war. Quote, there are times when a million men can be saved by the removal of a single object. Obstacle, sorry. So I had to remove one man to sa…”

Adolf Hitler ordered_assassination_of Target Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 1:15:41

Peter Group relationship_with Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:16:44

“which really talks directly to Operation Gladio and a couple others. That kind of goes to the heart of who Skorzeny is. We'll talk briefly about Eisenhower. It just kind of gives you an idea. But we d…”