OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 8

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0:10 All right. Let's see. Can everybody hear me? Bridget, how's the sound? Let's make sure I'm on the right Wi-Fi. Got it. See and hear you. All right. Awesome. Okay. For some reason, my video isn't going to work off of Rumble, but luckily I can switch over. I can only see the chat on Rumble though.

1:42 It's crazy. Always technicalities. What I want to do here real quick, and I don't remember who sent this to me. Who sent this to me? I want to give them a shout out. OB2021 on True Social sent me this clip that we're going to watch real quick because I just want y'all to know.

2:15 We're making an impact. So share entire screen. Click share. All right. Let me get to that clip. Where did it show up at? Let's see. Holy moly. All right. Here it is. Listen to this. So let me make a distinction here.

4:16 the goal wasn't ever to um uh can you not see um share screen turn off something else testing could y'all um see could you hear what was he was saying when i was playing that hello could y'all hear what um i was saying or what uh jack posebick was saying on the video i was just playing okay so um i'll just tell you can y'all hear me now

5:01 Fine. I'm going to go back and stop sharing the screen. And can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Okay. So as long as you can hear me, I'll tell you what he was saying. All right. So Jack Posebeck, I'll post the video both on or repost it on Truth because somebody had just sent it to me. And I'll post it on Twitter as well or X.

5:51 So, oh, and by the way, Bridget and Liza, I don't have my phone with me. So if you text me, I'm not going to get it. What he was saying is that the whole thing about Ukraine, which we already know, started with the Gladio operation in 2014. There was also another one in 2005.

6:23 2014 one was the snipers on the top of the building killing about 100 people, primarily shooting at women and children, caused a change of government, a coup. It was all done by the CIA, Gladio, et cetera, from the West, because the guy that they had duly elected, so you know they don't really believe in democracy, was and liked.

6:50 to talk and deal with Russia because Russia's on their border. It's in his best interest to work with the people on his border. So the West didn't want anybody talking to Russia because their entire goal for the last hundred years was to destroy Russia. And we've already went into why. So you're not allowed to talk to Russia, even if they're your neighbor. So they coup the government.

7:20 And they've created instability there. And they don't care. They don't care how many people die in the process as long as they get what they want. And in the meantime, they go in just like they were doing in Russia after 1991. They're buying up things penny on the dollar. They created baby factories. They created bioweapons labs. You name it. They've turned Ukraine into this social experiment with digital ID, blah, blah, blah.

7:50 Jack Posabeck just posted at the end of this video, and actually he calls it, he's not pronouncing it Gladio, but he calls it Gladio 2.0, that basically the sabotage attack on the pipeline, the bridge attack where they murdered the truck driver, he's actually acknowledging.

8:20 That's Gladio operations, which of course it is and we know it. But this is the first time in all of the screaming that all of us have done all over social media talking about Gladio that someone has actually said it out loud. I assume that video is from today. So maybe we just broke the glass. Maybe doing the spaces last night.

8:52 caused some glass to break. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just glad it happened. So anyway, I'll be damned. I know, right?

9:05 And for all of you that were there for the spaces for as long as you could hold out, it went four hours. A lot of it was because of the technical difficulty of it continuing to drop. But at the end of the day, the number that I saw when I finally logged off was 900. I don't know how they calculate that. I don't know if that's all the people coming and going or if it was 900 at that particular minute. I don't know any of that.

9:33 I will say we definitely kind of transitioned yesterday as a result of.

9:42 That spaces. And I have to give a special shout out for Bridget and Liza behind the scenes were texting me. I had made a rough draft as far as an outline to go by. And I had left out a couple of key points. They were right there with me the entire first hour, which was the actual presentation of all the material. So I'm internally grateful to them for.

10:11 being with me. I couldn't do what I do without them, obviously. And I know y'all shared that with Julie. I hate that she's not here. I love her to death. And she texted this morning after y'all talked to her and shared with her the success of the spaces yesterday. So from the bottom of my heart, I'm eternally grateful for each and every one of you. I just want to say that.

10:41 dog in this fight is I'm happy to go away when everybody knows and understands what Gladio is and we no longer have a CIA as a result of it. That's my goal. So until then, we're going to continue the education process. You have a target on you. Be careful. Okay. So I'm just saying, I don't care. That's the bottom line.

11:14 I'm very security conscious. It was drilled into me for 30 years. I do have my concealed carry permit, even though we don't need the permit anymore here in Florida. I'm fully capable of taking care of myself and I'm not afraid to do it. So I do understand the chances, but I'm not going to live a coward. That's not why I joined the military and it's not why I love my country. And also in honor of Tomi Keith, who is by...

11:43 Far, my all-time favorite singer. I'm wearing the cover. It's like a cape that I wore to his concert, the last concert I went to, and my Toby Keith hat. Loved him to death. He personifies what all of the music industry ought to be.

12:07 I read an article earlier today that not one time today has Taylor Swift came out and acknowledged the fact that he passed away and he gave her her first record deal. She would not be Taylor Swift without Toby Keith. So obviously, best wishes. I know, me too.

12:29 My prayers are with his family. God bless him and all of the sacrifice he did for our military. There is no single celebrity in the United States that loved our military more. It just is crazy. I will share with y'all this one thing.

12:51 Right. It was 2002. I had left CENTCOM. I was there over to obviously 9-11, 2001. So I transitioned to Maxwell Air Force Base for a master's degree one year at Maxwell Air Force Base. And that's in Montgomery, Alabama. So it's a very military friendly town. They have a little coliseum there.

13:17 And Toby Keith that year was going around all over the United States playing at small venues near military bases. And he came to Montgomery. I went with a friend of mine from my Air War College class, a Navy aviator, and my two daughters. And it was the first time he sang the Taliban song to an audience.

13:44 It's a song that he wrote with his bandmates. Evidently, there's like roadie songs that they kind of play around with jokingly in their RV when they're traveling. This was one of those songs and he had never played it for an audience until that night. There was a standing ovation for at least five minutes. It seemed like 15 minutes, but at least five minutes because if you've ever heard that song, it's hilarious.

14:15 It's crazy funny. So anyway, if you haven't heard it, when we're done, go listen to it. And the whole building just went crazy. So anyway, God bless you, Toby. So we're on chapter eight. This is about Frank Wisner and the Office of Policy Coordination, OPC. In the midst of Skorzeny's efforts to reestablish contacts from his old command.

14:45 Where we left off, Skorzeny is now gone, supposedly escaped, although he didn't actually escape. They just let him go. But the story was he escaped. So we're at August 19th, 1948. Frank Wisner, who is the director of the Office of Policy Coordination, the division of the CIA responsible for covert actions. Now, and keep in mind.

15:13 During the war, Frank Wisner was in a basically the same job for the State Department. And basically all they did was take the people out of that and shove them into the CIA. These are the spooks and sneaky people. So he officially took charge September 1st, 1948.

15:35 The title he was given as assistant director for policy coordination and the policy people are supposed to be in government. The ones that just come up with like how you're going to do stuff. They're not the actual operators. That's not how the CIA works, though. The policy and just like it. So everything about the CIA is a lie, including the titles of what they do.

16:00 They don't create policy. This is basically the wet works section of the CIA. So although the CIA administration, administratively, the OPC took its direction from the Department of State, an important distinction in these days when the new anti-communist strategies was being formulated by the U.S. government. The OPC mission.

16:31 authorized June 18, 1948, under National Security Council Directive 10-2, was the key authorization for covert action put in place on the eve of Skorzeny's release. And we already talked about that directive a little bit before. With the creation of OPC, the CIA, only one year old at this point, the two main branches was OPC

17:00 and the Office of Special Operations. The Office of Special Operations, unlike the OPC, was fully under the CIA's control. So basically what it's saying is this Wet Works out in the field operation had basically two lines of directives that they would be following. One came from the State Department and one came from the CIA. And the OPC, or excuse me, the Office of

17:30 Let's see. The OSO, the Office of Special Operations, was directly under the CIA and had nothing to do. They didn't talk to state. So in 1952, the OSO and the OPC would be merged into the Directorate of Plans. So they combined special operations and the policy to create a bigger.

17:58 Wet Works Department, and they're going to be directly under the CIA at this point. Wisner had nearly no oversight from the CIA leadership while they had that dual chain of command and embarked on highly secretive operations unknown to other sections of the agency. One of his earliest secret additions was Otto Skorzeny. Wisner was specifically

18:26 with covert psychological and paramilitary operations. Now, Wisner and Dulles is like this. So there's no way he was working with Skorzeny and Dulles. No, I'm just going to clarify that for you. Wisner served under Dulles.

18:57 While they were setting up the first post-war cover networks in Germany, but eventually left the OSS to go back to a Wall Street firm. However, he goes back to the state. This is just an overview of where he spent the war time. He goes back to the State Department as the deputy, and that's when he starts working in the OPC, which then, when they stand up, the CIA shares responsibility.

19:27 Wisner established OPC representatives throughout Germany and Austria, including the embassy staff at the State Department. Within a year, it had 300 individuals with a budget of $4 million, which, of course, in 1949, that's a lot of money. Early OPC cover organizations included the International Refugee Organization, IRO, a front company, and the Economic Cooperation Administration.

19:58 ECA, another front company. The ECA was an important U.S. government agency involved with labor issues in the European recovery program, which Wisner embedded his officers. So you can, one of the things that we have to understand by going through these books is these are telling us how our current government operates too. Whether it's USAID,

20:25 or any of the other state departments, or Voice of America, or any of those things, PBS, there are agents embedded in every single aspect of our government. That's how they operate, and that's how they control the flow of information. Skorzeny's early businesses were established using ECA contracts. So now this is very important.

20:55 So just like the USAID, and for those of you who don't know how our government operates, I do want to make this crystal clear. Money doesn't actually change hands. When I was a commander and I needed a car, my last job, I had a staff car.

21:19 They didn't have staff cars, but they rented me a car. There's a contract that's written. I don't go down there and actually write a check. I don't pay them money. They allocate money into a central accounting system. And my comptroller would give me acquisition or my contracting officer would write a contract and I would take it down. They know how to requisition the government for the money. And I just pick up the keys.

21:49 So we don't ever actually spend money. The same thing with computers and all of that other stuff. You issue contracts and then the contracting officer takes care of them sending in a piece of paper and the government transferring money to them. You don't do that at the end. People that are like working. So when they're talking about giving Ukraine money.

22:17 They're not actually giving, generally, they're not actually giving Ukraine money because they can't. That's not how our government works. They give a contract to Boeing. And if Boeing makes widgets and widgets are needed to shoot at Russia, then they give a contract to Boeing and Boeing ships the widgets to Ukraine.

22:41 So there's no actual money that gets to Ukraine, even though they say it is. That money all goes to government contractors. That's how it works. Even in the theater afterwards, like in Iraq, when they were going in and Biden's brother did this, he got a $4 billion contract the day after he set up a contracting company to rebuild housing in Iraq that we had bombed. And not any of the housing ever got built. The whole thing was a scam.

23:11 There are ways that you can send in the request for that money as if you're actually doing the work, but it doesn't ever get done. And you have to have complicit government people because their signatures that are contracting officers, they just buy them off. That's done all the time. It was done in Afghanistan, a lot in Afghanistan, actually. But that's done everywhere. This whole thing is a scam.

23:41 When this book is telling us that Skorzeny's program was paid for by a government front office set up by the CIA called the Economic Cooperation Administration, how that works is the CIA will get appropriated money from Congress. One day it just shows up in your account. Boom, you've got $4 million. Okay, great. I want to set up a fix.

24:11 company called the Economic Cooperation Administration. All I do is I call the State Department. I said, hey, I need you on your manning document to create a four-letter organization called the Economic Cooperation Administration. I'm going to transfer you a million dollars to put in that account.

24:32 Then I want you to start issuing contracts. And the guy that you're going to contract to do the work that I'm going to tell you needs to be done on a statement of work is Otto Skorzeny. Here's his bank account routing number. So every time Skorzeny would send in a requisition, they'd send him money. It looks like a legitimate government organization. It sits on the manning documents of somebody's superior organization or hierarchy.

25:00 But there's nobody in it. It's a funnel to use to get money to other people without it looking like the CIA is contracting Nazis to do work, which is exactly what they were doing. So I just wanted to make sure you understand what this is saying. This is our government giving our tax dollars because you wouldn't have to do all of this if you're doing it with black money. That's all cash. You just throw them the money and say, go kill a bunch of people.

25:28 This is crap they were doing with our tax dollars, which is why they required a front company to be able to issue contracts. Skorzeny's involvement with the ECA and associated CIA activity will be covered in a future chapter in a little bit more detail. So just need to get that out of the way as a foundation. Another author by the name of Tim Weiner says,

25:58 His specialty was U.S. national security programs, said in his history of the CIA that although the public was aware of the CIA, they would not have known about Wisner's OPC. Not only were OPC operations secret, the existence of the organization itself was also secret. So it didn't show up on any organizational chart. They didn't know any.

26:26 they didn't have any funding associated with it, so it was basically invisible. Weiner also noted that during OPC's formative years, the organization was, quote, the most secret thing in the U.S. government after nuclear weapons, unquote, and the OPC programs were actually part of the nuclear war planning. Wisner was specifically tasked to create stay-behind

26:54 of foreign agents in the Eastern Bloc countries to be used in the event of nuclear war. This included preparing forces and stockpiling weapons. U.S. General Curtis LeMay, commander of Strategic Air Command, SAC, also tasked OPC to set up escape routes for nuclear bomber pilots that would be shot down or, as he knew, would have to ditch.

27:24 east of the Iron Curtain. These missions directly affect the CIA's interest in Otto Skorzeny, since they demanded finding the right people with the skills, experience, and composure necessary for dangerous work. These missions gave Wisner great authority to leverage as a wide

27:45 range of government and non-government agencies. His power in the early years of the CIA was unprecedented. He also turned to Black assets such as former Nazis. He then placed into secret networks using the cover of the International Relief Organization.

28:04 or a matriarch of private businesses and foundations. And that's how they use the Red Cross. That's how they use the WWF. That's how they use all of these organizations that all of these people, if you research anybody like Liza and Bridget and I have looked up several of these people, every single time you look these people up, they all have their own foundation.

28:30 And that's how black money is funneled to them to do whatever their role is in this whole operation. Wisner divided the OPC into two branches, one for planning and the other for operations. Wisner's deputy was Frank Lindsey. He headed the operational branch, which carried out the missions directing foreign agents, a critical factor when considering Otto Skorzeny was used by OPC.

28:59 Lindsey had been in Paris in June at the same time General Donovan was confirming with members of the secret paramilitary group organizing Compass Rose. So that's his link to the fact that this guy is embedded in the Operation Gladio network. Lindsey's full name was Franklin A. Lindsey.

29:24 He was one of the key planners for OPC covert intelligence and paramilitary operations. In his service as an OSS officer, because of course they all started there, Lindsay carried out dangerous behind-the-lines missions in Austria and Yugoslavia, where he was assigned to head OSS liaison missions to Marshal Tito. Tito, it will be recalled, had been the subject of an attempted

29:55 abduction or assassination by Otto Skorzeny during World War II under the codename Night Leap. Given his own background with Marshal Tito, the Skorzeny operation to abduct Tito must have been of great interest to Lindsay. Lindsay, as head of the operations branch of OPC, was assigned abduction and assassination missions. That's the primary mission.

30:25 That's the primary interest that he had in Skorzeny because he knew about Skorzeny's experience in that area firsthand. Frank Lindsay's main objective was to leverage the immigrant populations for covert action. This effort zeroed in on Ukrainians and East Europeans who were escaping Soviet domination.

30:53 And as previously pointed out, many had fought or had collaborated with the Nazis. So this is them targeting Ukrainians that are coming over into Poland and Western Germany at the time that still have contacts back in those locations to be able to leverage them basically as spies or to do wet works.

31:18 assassination, kidnapping attempts, and stuff like that. And this is the formation of what we now know today as Right Sector and the Azov Battalion. We covered it in the other book about there being two factions of the

31:37 Ukrainian Nazi network, and they kind of competed with each other. The two, Bandero, and I forget the other guy's name, it started with an M, were always at each other's throat trying to get Hitler's attention and a pat on the head saying they were doing a good job. Vetting, organizing, and training these people into covert assets was assigned directly to Frank Lindsay.

32:01 Lindsay was also tasked to make sure official U.S. government involvement was not visible and you had plausible deniability. Putin just said it without saying it. Yeah. The other section of OPC was the planning branch. This branch drafted the operational plans that would then be sent over to Frank Lindsay's for execution.

32:36 The sections within the planning branch was called political warfare, psychological warfare, economic warfare, evacuation, guerrilla and partisan type warfare, i.e. political, sabotage and counter sabotage. And the last one is called other covert operations, which.

33:05 was everything except for espionage and deception for military operations. So basically that's your catch-all. If it didn't fit in one of the other organizations, it was going to go there. So Wisner's OPC appears to, in a now declassified CIA document,

33:32 covering an interview conducted with Skorzeny at the U.S. Embassy in Spain of 1958. Now, let me point out how important this is. Because in a...

33:47 Vladimir Putin confirms to Tucker that President Biden is not. Oh, yeah, I saw that earlier just before we came on on Twitter that that Biden's not really running it, that there's a force behind him. Yeah, that's hilarious. Like we didn't know that already. But it's great having a foreign leader say it. OK, so in the 19.

34:13 like actually in 1950. If you remember the book we read that is called The Third Way, he began at the beginning of it talking about the Madrid Circular. The Madrid Circular was the document that basically told everybody what was coming and the fact that the Nazis did not lose. They basically just changed tactics and went underground.

34:40 that by pretending a bunch of them died, they were able to get out of the country and resurrected, integrated, and basically embedded themselves in all of the governments all over to fight another day. And one of the ways they were going to fight another day was with the Gladio program. So, and of course, take over with their scientists and all of that other stuff, which when you look back on it, that's basically what happened. So the fact that Skorzeny

35:09 ends up in Spain and they're having meetings there and all the training gets done in Spain. And that's where everybody's seeking sanctuary when they go out and do their wet works operations is Spain. That's very important. So, and we're going to talk a lot about the people that we put in the Spanish embassy because it's critical because they knew about all of this. The interview had been requested by the Department of State.

35:39 which was processing a request by Skorzeny to visit the United States. Skorzeny was asked to describe any contact with U.S. intelligence up to that point. He gave a rather lengthy description of his activities. However, documents in the Skorzeny papers indicate that Skorzeny did not necessarily give the interview viewer, CIA officer Daniel Wright, who was under diplomatic cover,

36:08 all of his contacts in the U.S. intelligence from the preceding years. This indicates that Skorzeny was likely dealing with compartmented or separate offices and that he simply was obeying instructions not to reveal other activity. What he did say points to a very significant meeting with U.S. intelligence shortly after his release that has all of the hallmarks of an OPC operation.

36:38 Skorzeny related how shortly after his release in January 1949, he was secretly approached by a mysterious Mr. Martin, who claimed to be from the U.S. State Department, although Skorzeny said he doubted that was really where he worked. The author has narrowed down the identification of Mr. Martin to David Martin. David Martin was the director of

37:05 the International Relief Organization, the IRO, that fake, one of the two fake organizations that Wisner set up. He was in Germany during this period, and as mentioned above, providing operational cover for Wisner's OPC. Skorzeny had pre-existing IRO links at this time as well. You may recall that Major Robert Bishop

37:33 a one-time OSS officer under Frank Wisner, had handled Skorzeny's records during the Nuremberg trial. He was basically the one that was editing out all the bad stuff. He later assumed a senior position working as undercover intelligence operative with the IRO in Italy, which means he was there.

37:58 on behalf of the IRO, setting up Italy's Gladio program, because this is the exact same time they were doing that. So, the focus was several key topics, and as we shall see, all of them were the exact covert missions assigned to Frank Wisner's planning branches at OPC, including the establishment of an underground system for the return of shot-down Western pilots and the organizing of sabotage.

38:29 inside the Soviet bloc. These accurately reflect Frank Wisner's OPC planning branches. For example, PB4 was titled evacuation, and PB6, these are the different branches that I read off a minute ago, was called sabotage. So they basically match what Wisner was setting up as the operational capability of his organization, OPC.

39:00 Another area of discussion at the meeting was contingencies for a Soviet invasion of Germany. Specifically, how to deny the Soviets from capturing German industries and how to evacuate scientists, engineers, and technical personnel. The fact that the evacuation of key personnel was a talking point is critical. The Skorzeny papers contain correlating documentation.

39:28 written after the Martin meeting, specifically referring to plans Skorzeny termed as rescue actions. Basically, they were specially trained commando units that Skorzeny had assembled from his wartime command and contacts that could be sent in to deny areas to extract key personnel and rescue them if the Soviets were to ever try to seize them. The rescue capability to develop

40:00 Skorzeny's matches the OPC missions precisely and leads to another meeting that occurred at a very near future date. Another meeting of great consequence to Skorzeny was one involving Colonel Boris Pash, P-A-S-H, an Army officer who had been detailed from the military to Wisner's OPC in the fall of 1948.

40:31 who had tremendous credentials in covert warfare, to lead one of his branches that handled war plans, front companies, and covert operations. Colonel Pash's assignment revealed for the first time during testimony during the Senate Select Committee on Government Intelligence in 1976. Now keep in mind, this is happening in 1948. So 30 years later.

41:01 At that time, Pash had been called to testify because of comments made to the press by former CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, who claimed that the branch he was in charge of handled assassinations. Hunt, at the time, was serving in federal prison in Florida, jailed for his participation in Watergate.

41:25 In December 1975, Hunt told the New York Times that the CIA had a small unit set up to arrange for the assassinations of suspected double agents and similar low-ranking officials. Hunt went on to claim that the man in charge of the assassination unit was Colonel Boris Pash. Hunt's shocking revelation resulted in Colonel Pash being called to Washington to testify.

41:51 Pash denied under oath that his branch conducted assassination operations. The author believes this to be correct, but his full testimony gives evidence that his branch was associated with certain aspects of assassination and that he likely held a meeting with Skorzeny where the discussion included these missions. So see, this is the plausible deniability and why you have these fake companies and why you contract this crap. So you can sit and lie your ass off in front of Congress and say, I didn't do that.

42:21 when in fact your organization did do it and you let a contract and gave them that mission, the fact that you didn't pull the trigger doesn't mean you didn't do it. And the fact that these people are wearing a uniform disgusts me. Frankly, it pisses me off. Pash denied under oath. Let's see.

42:44 Pash described to the committee a meeting that had occurred around the time of his initial posting to that branch in early 1949. Interestingly, the description of the meeting described by Colonel Pash matches in every manner the meeting described by Skorzeny with Mr. Martin, which also occurred at the same time. Pash recalled that a meeting

43:11 There was a discussion regarding the potential invasion of the West and that operations could be carried out to deny Soviet key industries, such as blowing them up and what actions could be taken to prevent the capture of certain difficult to replace highly technical individuals whose skills had been developed for years. On the last point, Pash remembered a woman sitting at the table who spoke up and said, why don't we murder them?

43:39 Pash claimed the bluntness of the woman's comment caught many in the meeting by surprise. Who she was, I don't remember. I don't know whether I knew her name or not. She was in the group sitting across the table. Now, of course, that's probably Skorzeny's future wife, the woman that was with him in Austria, because we've already established that she's definitely...

44:08 an agent as well, and was for Germany. So he goes on to basically say that although he didn't say it's most likely, what did we decide her name was? Elsie? Elsie. It is certainly non-coincidental when considering all of the facts and the thesis grows stronger as more details of the meeting gets revealed. The comment about murder caught the immediate attention of the city.

44:40 Senate committee members who pressed Pash for more information on his statement. Pash reluctantly told the committee that assassination was mentioned in the meeting, but maintained his group did not conduct assassination operations. No, his group did not. He contracted that out. Two scores any. Colonel Pash was born Boris Theodore Pashkovsky.

45:11 in San Francisco, California in the year 1900. His father, Theodore Pashkovsky, was a Russian Orthodox priest who had been sent to California in 1894 by the church. In 1912, the family returned to Russia, and during the Russian Revolution, they supported the white Russians, which were the good guys, the nationalists, against the communists.

45:41 During the struggle, Colonel Pash developed a strong hatred for communism, holding them directly responsible for the death of his mother, who became ill and was denied medical treatment by the communist authorities. In 1920, the family returned to the U.S., not wanting to live under communism. Pash married that same year.

46:06 And in 1923, attended Springfield College in Massachusetts. He graduated with a P.E. degree and changed his last name to Pash. He joined the Army Reserve. He spent time in the intel branch and also worked in counterintelligence in the FBI, but still in the military. Colonel Pash would become no stranger to sensitive covert operations.

46:36 and during World War II stacked up an illustrious service record. His first assignment was preparing for a Japanese attack on the west coast of the United States. He dealt with the internment of the Japanese Americans. He was an Army counterintel officer working in a highly classified Manhattan project. Pass was tasked with investigating security breaches at the Manhattan project in Berkeley Radiation Laboratory.

47:08 He also worked with Major General Leslie Groves. And he targeted enemy scientists working on the German atomic program in the United States. It was not just to build a... So they're saying that General Groves, who was one of the guys over that program, as a quote, quote, had an extraordinary...

47:42 resolution to win the war. It was not just to build a bomb, but to build it, use it, and prevent the Germans from building one. He was equally resolute about all three, unquote, talking about the general. That was their mission. So they obviously were very interested in German atomic scientists. Also, another quote from a General Strong, the killing of scientific personnel employed

48:15 would be particularly advantageous. Little bloodthirsty people. Pash identified the greatest threat to the atomic program as Soviet agents attempting to steal classified research. These threats would demand the removal and perhaps liquidation of Soviet agents, double agents, and anyone that they deemed a threat to the project. These agent assassination programs, by their very nature, required

48:45 Finding unique individuals with the character traits and abilities to successfully carry out the exceptionally ruthless but necessary liquidation missions. And the author here notes that that basically was the position that Pash was in for the Manhattan Project. So assassinations wasn't anything new for him. When responding to the Senate committee, Colonel Pash.

49:15 suggested assassination programs may in fact have been mentioned in the charter of the section that he was in charge of as a result of the influence of former OSS officers who had routinely carried out assassination missions. He said that he had glanced over the OPC charter language concerning assassinations and therefore could not remember specifics or details. He emphatically stated,

49:44 that his section was only involved in planning, more specifically exploring assassination options. He also stated there was a lot of entrepreneurs and adventurers or former OSS operatives that had wild ideas and wild approaches to things. Another officer who was not named, questioned by the Senate committee,

50:15 Holding the title of Director of Operations Planning, or the individual in charge of the supervising of all seven branches, which would have been Colonel Pash's boss, stated emphatically that Colonel Pash was responsible for assassinations and kidnapping, as well as other special operations, and that he had a clear recollection of the written charter of the special operations, and stated that that

50:43 particular office will be responsible for assassinations, kidnapping, and other such functions from time to time may be given it by higher authority. The same officer also stated that Frank Wisner agreed that Pash should have jurisdiction over assassinations and kidnapping of personages behind the Iron Curtain, not in sympathy with the regime.

51:09 In regard to assassination, the director clarified that it was a matter of keeping up with the Joneses, pointing out that every other power conducted these operations. You know, so that makes it perfectly fine. Pash stated that any involvement by his office in assassinations would have been, it would have had to have been originated by the people at the top. Frank Wisner would have been one of those people. The committee.

51:40 that his office was not an operational unit, but a planning group. And see, that's critical because as I just pointed out to you, they hide behind these titles. Just because it said planning, eventually when those two offices melded, it's actually still called the plans director, even though they do the actual execution in it. Paff stated that he had received instructions.

52:07 for an assassination operation, that his office would only include the conditions for which the task was done, who would be involved, and who would be involved. The timing, location, and how the mission was carried out did not fall under his office. He stated that Frank Lindsey, who was head of the OPC operations division, would take that plan and be the one for making it operational.

52:37 Colonel Pash's own explanation holds the key to his meeting with Skorzeny and Elsie. Colonel Pash handled cover and deception. Since Pash's office supported Frank Lindsay's operational branch, Pash's direct role was providing the cover and deception necessary for Frank Lindsay's operation branch to carry out assassination missions. The inclusion of Otto and Elsie Skorzeny.

53:08 in exploratory meetings on assassination by Frank Wisner's OPC makes perfect sense. First, the secret objectives as outlined by the National Directive 10-2 in June of 1948 included assassinations and abductions matching precisely the key talking points that Colonel Pash had talked with Skorzeny about. Second, that office that Pash was responsible for

53:36 was responsible for establishing cover, i.e. private corporation structures, that would in turn give Frank Lindsay's operational branch the plausible deniability for wet works. When CIA official E. Howard Hunt had given information to the press that the CIA had a small unit that set up and arranged assassinations of suspected double agents in similar low-ranking

54:03 foreign officials, it appears to confirm the early formation of the U.S. post-war assassination capability inherent in Frank Wisner's OPC. E. Howard Hunt claimed the CIA unit was set up to arrange versus carry out assassinations. Therefore, assassination operations contemplated and planned by OPC logically used surrogates, given the revelations above. This would mean Skorzeny's private network.

54:34 was going to be used as the cutout to do the wet works, which is why they set up that front company to contract it. So now they've got plausible deniability because that's all invisible and located outside the CIA. So if they ever had to say, oh yeah, that office over there, they were doing some really bad things. It's not inside the CIA, which gives them plausible deniability. They're everywhere. Hunt also...

55:03 had been in Paris in 1948, assisting with the implementation of classified programs under the Marshall Plan. And we've already discovered that the Marshall Plan was basically a disguise. It funded the setup of the Gladio units initially, and it was used as kind of an overarching umbrella. The OPC demanded that cover operations be entirely untraceable. We knew what we were doing.

55:32 recalled a CIA officer, Harry Brozeski, a Soviet expert who had once worked with Wisner. He also added it was a visceral business of using any bastard as long as he was anti-communist. Gotta love that. At least he's honest. Wisner was also fully aware of Soviet's wet affairs.

56:01 carried out by the 13th Directorate, a KGB branch tasked with eliminating double agents and Western spies by assassination. Within the CIA, Wisner's OPC was directed to develop a similar U.S. capability. Colonel James Critchfield, a CIA liaison assigned to the super secret Galen organization, which is basically the BND, which turns into Germany's CIA counterpart.

56:31 who was aware of Wisner's cloak and dagger operations, recalled, some of the people Frank brought in were terrible guys, but he didn't focus on it. Years later, CIA officer Peter Sechel, S-I-C-H-E-L, a member of the Office of Special Operations, would note that the OPC

56:59 people had their missionaries zeal in their eyes. We distrusted them, basically. Skorzeny will be involved in nearly every mission category described under Wisner's OPC. He was one of those agents that can do everything.

57:29 Skorzeny in his memoirs notes his participation in clearing rubble in a town outside of Camp King at the time of his internment and close to his escape. This seemingly insignificant activity is actually linked to a covert assassination operation. I will explain. Clearing rubble

57:52 in bombed out Germany's cities was carried out by German citizens and immigrants that were displaced from what became the Soviet Union. These people formed in special workforce groups called labor service companies. The need for these groups were certainly legitimate, but their formation also created some very interesting dynamics. They basically used many of these people

58:19 that were brought into the labor service companies because they were displaced immigrants. They had a fear and a hatred of communism, so they made the perfect collaborators with the former Nazis. It is precisely these groups that were targeted for recruitment by Frank Wisner's OPC. It was under the guidance set forth under National Security Act 10-2.

58:51 National Security Council 10-2, that labor service companies were secretly financed and used as a cover for paramilitary programs involving covert warfare. The secret formation was to serve as a guerrilla unit, basically gladio units, for a potential war with the Soviet Union. The backgrounds and the use of these labor companies and why they were set up is under a

59:23 evidently there's a book and I made a note to get this book. I haven't done it yet. Blowback, colon, America's recruitment of Nazis and its destructive impact on our domestic and foreign policy by author Christopher Simpson. In his book, Simpson reveals the U.S. war planning involved in the use of labor companies and their importance to a much bigger strategic nuclear war preparation. And that's an area that we have not gotten into.

59:53 but it is very relevant to this whole thing. The U.S. intelligence was keenly aware that the Nazis had created similar work brigades of Ukrainian and foreign-born Germans for use during the invasion of Poland and the Baltic states. These Nazi labor service squads also served as hitmen organized into special assassination units.

1:00:23 During the war, Skorzeny had established sabotage schools and trained Russian defectors, Ukrainians and Latvians and others from the Baltic countries. During the latter part of World War II, Skorzeny was involved in setting up stay-behind formations, GLADIO, for the Ukrainian underground in a secret program designated as Operation Sunflower.

1:00:52 Liza, if you'd take a note to look up Operation Sunflower, and we'll look into that tomorrow. I definitely, I made a note that we definitely need to look at that one. After the war, some of the foreigners associated with Skorzeny's schools ended up in the immigration camps and undoubtedly sought work with these special labor companies, i.e. Gladio units.

1:01:24 So it's a matter of record during World War II, the Allies were the undisputed masters of covert operations dealing with undergrounds. I don't know that I agree with that because they inherited the Galen underground network. But I find that interesting with the Churchill connection. Because remember, we...

1:01:48 He's the first one that ever discovered the stay-behind units down in the Boer Wars. So I find that very interesting, but obviously somehow that was communicated to Hitler because Galen had created all of those werewolf units in 1942 as well. Skorzeny's knowledge of true stay-behind networks was actually more extensive given the Allies never actually had to deal with an advancing enemy into their territories.

1:02:19 Skorzeny dedicated an entire chapter of his Russian and Ukrainian wartime contacts in his memoirs. His personal knowledge of these immigration groups, their wartime covert activities, and especially his ability to reestablish contact with them would have been extremely interesting to Frank Wisner and his planning staff. Skorzeny was likely pressed for his knowledge of these stay-behind groups by General Donovan.

1:02:49 which we already know happened because they had already made the deal with Galen to give all the tactical information up because that's the reason why they moved Galen into the United States for several weeks and debriefed him. The Colonel Benson, during his initial interrogation of Skorzeny while he was supposedly a POW.

1:03:14 We can now determine that Skorzeny's knowledge of the Nazi network secreting the assets and covert paramilitary operation as a principal reason why Skorzeny and his adjutant, Karl Rad, were sent to Camp King in 1947. Skorzeny himself confirmed his connections to the labor services company while in Camp King.

1:03:37 And it is not unreasonable to suspect his expertise used in some capacity for the operations involving paramilitary auxiliaries. The timing of the meetings and activities described above involving Skorzeny can now be put into a broader context. So very important. Yes, that's the same one, Liza. That was the German name for it, which translates into sunflower.

1:04:08 So basically what the author just did was set up the fact that Skorzeny is directly related to Gladio. He's directly related to setting up assassination squads of Gladio operators. And a significant element of that was him doing that in Ukraine.

1:04:31 which of course, as Liza pointed out, is Azov, but also another one, which was the rival one. I think Azov was the direct descendant of Bandera, and then his competitor was the one that was kind of the founding member of Right Sector, which is another Nazi organization. Both have currently been melded with...

1:04:55 the Ukrainian army, but they were very distinctly separate and very competitive with each other, stay behind units. So we've directly tied them now to Skorzeny as far as the training and creation of them. We had already done it in another book, but I'm just going with the author building blocks.

1:05:20 Documented evidence for official state-sponsored assassination or paramilitary actions involving assassinations are extremely rare. In many cases, these documents were uncovered as a result of official or unofficial investigations of actual assassination incidents. Two examples were cited in Christopher Simpson's book, Blowback, that likely have implications for Skorzeny's covert history.

1:05:48 although at this point they are parallel occurrences. Nonetheless, the chances of some of these direct or indirect connections to the facts related in this chapter are very high. Assassination operations and questions were called, code-named, Hagberry, H-A-G-B-E-R-R-Y, and Lithia, L-I-T-H-I-A. It is known they targeted foreign agents.

1:06:18 who had penetrated U.S. and British immigrant espionage networks. Operation Hagbury was the liquidation of a guy by the name of Chikalov Ring. U.S. intelligence had identified him as a Soviet intelligence operator.

1:06:43 within the U.S. zone. Operation Lithia was initiated in November of 47 and authorized the liquidation of Kinderman Ring, a large Czechoslovakian espionage net also operating in the American zone. The mission of the operation was to terminate all suspected double agents within the Kinderman Ring. Records also indicate that the operation was directed by an unidentified

1:07:14 joint U.S. and British command and control element called Operation Rusty. Operation Rusty was the code name used by Galen organization, but may not be identical. At the same time, Operation Lithia went into effect. Otto Skorzeny and his pal, Carl Radd, were at Camp King being processed by the U.S. intelligence. Both men were allowed a

1:07:42 14-day pass. Remember when we talked about that? They were given a 14-day pass in December during which they had a number of immigrant meetings and from which they returned to the camp. Later, both men were given passes to clear rubble, associating them with the service labor companies. These companies were under the U.S. Army control and as covered above were the exact cover used.

1:08:13 for assassination accounts. So their code name for Wetworks was Clearing Rubble. Isn't that convenient? Christopher Simpson's research also revealed an even more violent project known as Operation Ohio. This assassination operation used gangland-style murders. The operators were a squad of Ukrainian ex-Nazis

1:08:42 That carried out at least 20 murders in the displaced persons camp in Miltonwald, which was south of Munich. Again, the targets were suspected double agents. The operational cover for Ohio was to attribute the murders to a fact fractional, a factional violence among rival right wing Ukrainian immigration groups. You see how they set that up?

1:09:10 They blame other people. Patriot Front, you're right. U.S. Air Force Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, which we talked about when we first started talking about this, he spent a lot of time as the joint staff liaison to the CIA. He was involved in the early formation of covert assets in Europe. This is a quote for him.

1:09:39 We capped personnel at several air bases around the world for these types of missions. Some of these were the best commercial hitmen you have ever heard of. They were mechanics, killers. They were Ukrainian, mainly, and Eastern Europeans, Greeks, and some Scotsmen. I don't know how the Scotsmen got there, but they were there. None of them were American citizens, unquote.

1:10:04 Evidence for Skorzeny's participation in these paramilitary formations also revealed in a report from Colonel Aaron Banks' counterintel Region 4 from the period of Skorzeny's post-escape and during the time of the operations described above.

1:10:27 The nearly illegible declassified document originated from an unidentified individual who came into the army counter Intel to report on information he had on Scorzini, which probably he didn't know he was on being used by the CIA. The source said he had gotten word from British Intel and was aware of the presence and clandestine activities of Scorzini near Munich and had been joined by his former pal, Carl.

1:10:56 Rat. Importantly, he stated there were two, the two were now working for U.S. intelligence building a sabotage organization. The use of the term sabotage is another vital clue in unraveling the assassination, the assassinations.

1:11:20 fact, the historical precedent is quite clear. History has proven that the American OSS and British SOE had assassination programs during World War II. When we examine men and women who trained, organized, and carried out these missions, we generally find that they were formed within the designated sabotage unit of the parent organization. In the case of OSS, for example, sabotage fell under the Special Operations Branch.

1:11:47 These personnel were highly classified methods of destruction, subversion, and more lethal capabilities of spy work. The term sabotage is used as a blanket and more palatable way of saying assassination. The obvious reason in war for having an assassination unit is to disrupt command and control networks of the enemy by eliminating decision makers.

1:12:17 Besides targeting the enemy leaders, assassination was also used to eliminate foreign agents, traitors, and individuals who meant to threaten exceptionally critical national security programs. Well, today, that's all of us. See why those things are a bad idea? The Skorzeny papers confirm he was in contact with former officers of the infamous Peter Group.

1:12:46 the SS assassination unit sent to Denmark in 1944 through 1945. So he could also tap those with the unique skills for the different nationalities that would serve in Nazi units, including Ukrainians and Eastern Europeans for specific assassinations. So when you focus on Skorzeny's activities in the post-escape period, we find ample evidence that Skorzeny meets with

1:13:21 The third objective set out for the NSC Directive 10-2, dealing with counterforce. Counterforce was described by Kennan as outright paramilitary actions, guerrilla units, sabotage, and subversion, in which the guidance and funds would pass to a private American organization or business enterprise composed of private citizens with filled offices in...

1:13:51 Europe and Asia. This is literally the description used for World Commerce Corporation and the Donovan's SPG that we covered a long time ago. Well, in one of the former chapters. So they're basically saying they're contracting out the wetworks part of the CIA under front companies. And what's interesting about this is we've

1:14:19 known about this. We've talked about it in several of these other books. This guy is using Skorzeny's own paperwork telling us this is what they did. That's what fascinates me about this book. This guy bought Skorzeny's papers and he is telling us based on his own handwritten notes this is what they did. The official records for Boris Pash, the colonel,

1:14:50 have never been released. So if we don't have his records, it's very safe to assume that all of them are classified. And there are occasions in the military when the missions that you are doing

1:15:11 result in a classified report being written on you, which is not allowed to be in your record. They make special provisions for promoting people whose situations are like that. Very, very rare. Skorzeny's personal papers and supporting documentation provided solid evidence to confirm Skorzeny was involved in training, organizing, and

1:15:37 and conducting covert warfare for Western intelligence. Skorzeny's support was centered on sabotage and the traditional department for conducting assassinations. In the book Blowback, Christopher Simpson rendered his academic opinion on the mysterious disappearance of the branch records that Pash

1:16:03 belong to and precisely outlines the key elements of the rise of the Cold War assassination capability. Quote, the early bloodstone operations played a significant role in laying the groundwork for what one Senate investigator later called a procedure within the CIA, which, although not spelled out in so many words, was generally understood and served as a basis to plan and otherwise contemplate political assassinations.

1:16:32 Unquote. It's a more fitting, it's more than fitting to end this chapter with that quote and serves well in setting the stage for the final act found in this book, which of course is the JFK assassination. And that's kind of the whole relevant thing that we're building towards is you first establish the fact that Skorzeny was working for.

1:17:04 the United States government. More specifically, he's working for the CIA. More specifically, he was conducting assassinations for the CIA. And that's where we're at, at the end of chapter eight. This guy builds to what we already know, the climax of the book, is the involvement of

1:17:33 this capability in the assassination of JFK. So I have said from very early on, after having read a while back, the book Final Judgment, I do recommend it. It's not one that we will do. I mean, later on, maybe when all Gladio gets exposed and we're bored, we could go look at that again.

1:18:01 That book is probably, not probably, that book is the best book I've ever read about the assassination of JFK. It also was, they attempted to ban the book because anything that they don't want you to read, i.e. truth, as we're talking about with Tucker's interview of Putin, it seems relevant to make the statement that they're all about banning books.

1:18:29 they somehow shed light on their ill deeds. So they'll accuse us of banning books. They are the ones that actually ban books. And Final Judgment had a very difficult time being published. And he actually talks about Clay Shaw. He talks about E. Howard Hunt. He talks about all kinds of, he really brings in everything. All of the discrepancies of the autopsy, everything.

1:19:00 Ask questions about all of it. It's just quite an amazing book. But it's very clear that, and we've already discovered the evidence of the OAS officer that was in Dallas the night that it happened. Different books we've read said there were two agents here. One was definitely escorted down to the Mexican border by a Dallas police officer.

1:19:30 That's where we're going to end up at the end of the book. So that's all we're going to do tonight. We will do chapter nine tomorrow. It's called Deadly Intelligence. And I appreciate y'all being here. Make sure you give us a thumbs up and also follow the program. If you haven't, we're nearing our 700.

1:19:51 Follow her, Mark, which is ecstatic. I'll have to make sure I send Julie a text. She'd be so tickled. I remember when she was cheerleading to get us over 400. That's so funny. But anyway, I really appreciate y'all being here and the support for this and learning all of this enlightening information. And what I can't get over, and thank you for whoever sent that to me on Truth Social, is...

1:20:20 that we've been here for months talking about Operation Gladio and then had a big podcaster actually mention it the day after we get our biggest showing ever on Spaces yesterday. So that's very exciting news. Thank you for being here to share it with us. And I will see you Thursday night. Thanks all for being here.

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Jack Posobiec proposed Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 5:51

“So, oh, and by the way, Bridget and Liza, I don't have my phone with me. So if you text me, I'm not going to get it. What he was saying is that the whole thing about Ukraine, which we already know, st…”

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination documented ▶ 14:45

“Where we left off, Skorzeny is now gone, supposedly escaped, although he didn't actually escape. They just let him go. But the story was he escaped. So we're at August 19th, 1948. Frank Wisner, who is…”

Office of Policy Coordination merged_with CIA Directorate of Plans documented ▶ 17:30

“Let's see. The OSO, the Office of Special Operations, was directly under the CIA and had nothing to do. They didn't talk to state. So in 1952, the OSO and the OPC would be merged into the Directorate …”

Office of Policy Coordination merged_with Pentagon Office of Special Operations documented ▶ 17:30

Frank Wisner recruited Otto Skorzeny book_quoted ▶ 17:58

“Wet Works Department, and they're going to be directly under the CIA at this point. Wisner had nearly no oversight from the CIA leadership while they had that dual chain of command and embarked on hig…”

Frank Wisner served_under Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 18:26

“with covert psychological and paramilitary operations. Now, Wisner and Dulles is like this. So there's no way he was working with Skorzeny and Dulles. No, I'm just going to clarify that for you. Wisne…”

Frank Wisner founded International Regional Labor Organization book_quoted ▶ 19:27

“Wisner established OPC representatives throughout Germany and Austria, including the embassy staff at the State Department. Within a year, it had 300 individuals with a budget of $4 million, which, of…”

Frank Wisner founded Economic Cooperation Administration book_quoted ▶ 19:58

“ECA, another front company. The ECA was an important U.S. government agency involved with labor issues in the European recovery program, which Wisner embedded his officers. So you can, one of the thin…”

Economic Cooperation Administration financed_via Otto Skorzeny book_quoted ▶ 20:25

“or any of the other state departments, or Voice of America, or any of those things, PBS, there are agents embedded in every single aspect of our government. That's how they operate, and that's how the…”

Tim Weiner exposed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted ▶ 25:58

“His specialty was U.S. national security programs, said in his history of the CIA that although the public was aware of the CIA, they would not have known about Wisner's OPC. Not only were OPC operati…”

Frank Wisner tasked Curtis LeMay book_quoted ▶ 26:54

“of foreign agents in the Eastern Bloc countries to be used in the event of nuclear war. This included preparing forces and stockpiling weapons. U.S. General Curtis LeMay, commander of Strategic Air Co…”

Franklin A. Lindsay headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted ▶ 28:30

“And that's how black money is funneled to them to do whatever their role is in this whole operation. Wisner divided the OPC into two branches, one for planning and the other for operations. Wisner's d…”

Otto Skorzeny attempted_assassination_of Josip Broz Tito documented ▶ 29:55

“abduction or assassination by Otto Skorzeny during World War II under the codename Night Leap. Given his own background with Marshal Tito, the Skorzeny operation to abduct Tito must have been of great…”

Franklin A. Lindsay recruited Azov Battalion host_asserted ▶ 31:37

“Ukrainian Nazi network, and they kind of competed with each other. The two, Bandero, and I forget the other guy's name, it started with an M, were always at each other's throat trying to get Hitler's …”

Franklin A. Lindsay recruited Right Sector host_asserted ▶ 31:37

Daniel Wright spied_on Otto Skorzeny book_quoted ▶ 35:39

“which was processing a request by Skorzeny to visit the United States. Skorzeny was asked to describe any contact with U.S. intelligence up to that point. He gave a rather lengthy description of his a…”

Otto Skorzeny recruited Office of Policy Coordination host_asserted ▶ 36:08

“all of his contacts in the U.S. intelligence from the preceding years. This indicates that Skorzeny was likely dealing with compartmented or separate offices and that he simply was obeying instruction…”

David Martin headed International Regional Labor Organization documented ▶ 36:38

“Skorzeny related how shortly after his release in January 1949, he was secretly approached by a mysterious Mr. Martin, who claimed to be from the U.S. State Department, although Skorzeny said he doubt…”

International Regional Labor Organization front_for Office of Policy Coordination documented ▶ 37:05

“the International Relief Organization, the IRO, that fake, one of the two fake organizations that Wisner set up. He was in Germany during this period, and as mentioned above, providing operational cov…”

Rupert Bishop member_of International Regional Labor Organization documented ▶ 37:33

“a one-time OSS officer under Frank Wisner, had handled Skorzeny's records during the Nuremberg trial. He was basically the one that was editing out all the bad stuff. He later assumed a senior positio…”

Rupert Bishop carried_out_attack Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 37:58

“on behalf of the IRO, setting up Italy's Gladio program, because this is the exact same time they were doing that. So, the focus was several key topics, and as we shall see, all of them were the exact…”

Office of Policy Coordination funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 37:58

Boris Pash member_of Office of Policy Coordination documented ▶ 40:00

“Skorzeny's matches the OPC missions precisely and leads to another meeting that occurred at a very near future date. Another meeting of great consequence to Skorzeny was one involving Colonel Boris Pa…”

E. Howard Hunt involved_in Watergate scandal documented ▶ 41:01

“At that time, Pash had been called to testify because of comments made to the press by former CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, who claimed that the branch he was in charge of handled assassinations. Hunt, …”

E. Howard Hunt exposed Boris Pash documented ▶ 41:01

E. Howard Hunt claimed Boris Pash documented ▶ 41:25

“In December 1975, Hunt told the New York Times that the CIA had a small unit set up to arrange for the assassinations of suspected double agents and similar low-ranking officials. Hunt went on to clai…”

Boris Pash met_with Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 41:51

“Pash denied under oath that his branch conducted assassination operations. The author believes this to be correct, but his full testimony gives evidence that his branch was associated with certain asp…”

Boris Pash met_with David Martin host_asserted ▶ 42:44

“Pash described to the committee a meeting that had occurred around the time of his initial posting to that branch in early 1949. Interestingly, the description of the meeting described by Colonel Pash…”

Elsie Skorzeny married Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 43:39

“Pash claimed the bluntness of the woman's comment caught many in the meeting by surprise. Who she was, I don't remember. I don't know whether I knew her name or not. She was in the group sitting acros…”

Boris Pash born_in San Francisco documented ▶ 44:40

“Senate committee members who pressed Pash for more information on his statement. Pash reluctantly told the committee that assassination was mentioned in the meeting, but maintained his group did not c…”

Theodore Pashkovsky member_of Russian Orthodox Church documented ▶ 45:11

“in San Francisco, California in the year 1900. His father, Theodore Pashkovsky, was a Russian Orthodox priest who had been sent to California in 1894 by the church. In 1912, the family returned to Rus…”

Boris Pash studied_at Springfield College documented ▶ 46:06

“And in 1923, attended Springfield College in Massachusetts. He graduated with a P.E. degree and changed his last name to Pash. He joined the Army Reserve. He spent time in the intel branch and also wo…”

Boris Pash worked_on Manhattan Project documented ▶ 46:36

“and during World War II stacked up an illustrious service record. His first assignment was preparing for a Japanese attack on the west coast of the United States. He dealt with the internment of the J…”

Boris Pash worked_with Leslie Groves documented ▶ 47:08

“He also worked with Major General Leslie Groves. And he targeted enemy scientists working on the German atomic program in the United States. It was not just to build a... So they're saying that Genera…”

Leslie Groves headed Manhattan Project documented ▶ 47:08

Frank Wisner appointed Boris Pash documented ▶ 50:43

“particular office will be responsible for assassinations, kidnapping, and other such functions from time to time may be given it by higher authority. The same officer also stated that Frank Wisner agr…”

Franklin A. Lindsay headed Office of Policy Coordination documented ▶ 52:07

“for an assassination operation, that his office would only include the conditions for which the task was done, who would be involved, and who would be involved. The timing, location, and how the missi…”

Boris Pash supported Franklin A. Lindsay documented ▶ 52:37

“Colonel Pash's own explanation holds the key to his meeting with Skorzeny and Elsie. Colonel Pash handled cover and deception. Since Pash's office supported Frank Lindsay's operational branch, Pash's …”

Harry Barnes worked_with Frank Wisner documented ▶ 55:32

“recalled a CIA officer, Harry Brozeski, a Soviet expert who had once worked with Wisner. He also added it was a visceral business of using any bastard as long as he was anti-communist. Gotta love that…”

James Critchfield liaison_to BND documented ▶ 56:01

“carried out by the 13th Directorate, a KGB branch tasked with eliminating double agents and Western spies by assassination. Within the CIA, Wisner's OPC was directed to develop a similar U.S. capabili…”

Peter Sechel member_of Pentagon Office of Special Operations documented ▶ 56:31

“who was aware of Wisner's cloak and dagger operations, recalled, some of the people Frank brought in were terrible guys, but he didn't focus on it. Years later, CIA officer Peter Sechel, S-I-C-H-E-L, …”

Otto Skorzeny involved_in Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 56:59

“people had their missionaries zeal in their eyes. We distrusted them, basically. Skorzeny will be involved in nearly every mission category described under Wisner's OPC. He was one of those agents tha…”

Otto Skorzeny involved_in Camp King book_quoted ▶ 57:29

“Skorzeny in his memoirs notes his participation in clearing rubble in a town outside of Camp King at the time of his internment and close to his escape. This seemingly insignificant activity is actual…”

Office of Policy Coordination recruited Labor Service Companies host_asserted ▶ 58:19

“that were brought into the labor service companies because they were displaced immigrants. They had a fear and a hatred of communism, so they made the perfect collaborators with the former Nazis. It i…”

Christopher Simpson authored Blowback documented ▶ 59:23

“evidently there's a book and I made a note to get this book. I haven't done it yet. Blowback, colon, America's recruitment of Nazis and its destructive impact on our domestic and foreign policy by aut…”

Otto Skorzeny involved_in Operation Sunflower documented ▶ 1:00:23

“During the war, Skorzeny had established sabotage schools and trained Russian defectors, Ukrainians and Latvians and others from the Baltic countries. During the latter part of World War II, Skorzeny …”

William J. Donovan interrogated Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 1:02:19

“Skorzeny dedicated an entire chapter of his Russian and Ukrainian wartime contacts in his memoirs. His personal knowledge of these immigration groups, their wartime covert activities, and especially h…”

William J. Donovan debriefed BND host_asserted ▶ 1:02:49

“which we already know happened because they had already made the deal with Galen to give all the tactical information up because that's the reason why they moved Galen into the United States for sever…”

Colonel Benson interrogated Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 1:02:49

Otto Skorzeny sent_to Camp King documented ▶ 1:03:14

“We can now determine that Skorzeny's knowledge of the Nazi network secreting the assets and covert paramilitary operation as a principal reason why Skorzeny and his adjutant, Karl Rad, were sent to Ca…”

Karl Radl sent_to Camp King documented ▶ 1:03:14

Operation Hagberry targeted Chikalov Ring documented ▶ 1:06:18

“who had penetrated U.S. and British immigrant espionage networks. Operation Hagbury was the liquidation of a guy by the name of Chikalov Ring. U.S. intelligence had identified him as a Soviet intellig…”

Operation Lithia targeted Kinderman Ring documented ▶ 1:06:43

“within the U.S. zone. Operation Lithia was initiated in November of 47 and authorized the liquidation of Kinderman Ring, a large Czechoslovakian espionage net also operating in the American zone. The …”

Operation Lithia directed_by Operation Rusty documented ▶ 1:07:14

“joint U.S. and British command and control element called Operation Rusty. Operation Rusty was the code name used by Galen organization, but may not be identical. At the same time, Operation Lithia we…”

Otto Skorzeny located_in Camp King documented ▶ 1:07:14

Operation Rusty used_by BND documented ▶ 1:07:14

Karl Radl located_in Camp King documented ▶ 1:07:14

Otto Skorzeny associated_with Labor Service Companies documented ▶ 1:07:42

“14-day pass. Remember when we talked about that? They were given a 14-day pass in December during which they had a number of immigrant meetings and from which they returned to the camp. Later, both me…”

Karl Radl associated_with Labor Service Companies documented ▶ 1:07:42

Labor Service Companies controlled_by United States documented ▶ 1:07:42

Operation 40 operated_in Miltonwald book_quoted ▶ 1:08:42

“That carried out at least 20 murders in the displaced persons camp in Miltonwald, which was south of Munich. Again, the targets were suspected double agents. The operational cover for Ohio was to attr…”

Otto Skorzeny operated_in Munich book_quoted ▶ 1:10:27

“The nearly illegible declassified document originated from an unidentified individual who came into the army counter Intel to report on information he had on Scorzini, which probably he didn't know he…”

Otto Skorzeny did_business_with Peter Group book_quoted ▶ 1:12:17

“Besides targeting the enemy leaders, assassination was also used to eliminate foreign agents, traitors, and individuals who meant to threaten exceptionally critical national security programs. Well, t…”

Peter Group operated_in Denmark book_quoted ▶ 1:12:46

“the SS assassination unit sent to Denmark in 1944 through 1945. So he could also tap those with the unique skills for the different nationalities that would serve in Nazi units, including Ukrainians a…”

NSC Directive 10/2 funded World Commerce Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:13:51

“Europe and Asia. This is literally the description used for World Commerce Corporation and the Donovan's SPG that we covered a long time ago. Well, in one of the former chapters. So they're basically …”

NSC Directive 10/2 funded Strategic Planning Group host_asserted ▶ 1:13:51

Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted ▶ 1:17:33

“this capability in the assassination of JFK. So I have said from very early on, after having read a while back, the book Final Judgment, I do recommend it. It's not one that we will do. I mean, later …”

Final Judgment exposed E. Howard Hunt host_asserted ▶ 1:18:29

“they somehow shed light on their ill deeds. So they'll accuse us of banning books. They are the ones that actually ban books. And Final Judgment had a very difficult time being published. And he actua…”

Final Judgment exposed Clay Shaw host_asserted ▶ 1:18:29