The Colonel's Corner Deep Dive - WORLD ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAGUE

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0:00 I just wanted to do a quick update on, you know, we're doing a series on the Alpha Warrior program about the World Anti-Communist League. And I just found a paper that is actually incredible. And I'm going to see if I can't go over this real quick.

0:29 And instead of me reading it and then trying to retell the story, I'm going to go through this with you real time and show you basically how I do this. Plus, I'm using Rumble Suite, their new capability. And there's a couple of things on here that I want to try to do. So we're going to work through that together.

0:59 because I need to learn how to use this like we use, let's see, alpha, beta, would like to record this screen. Open. Hold on just a second. Hello? Hello? Hello? My husband's butt dialing me. So.

1:39 It's not going to let me share my screen, which is interesting. So these are some of the things that I need to figure out how they work in order to be able to do this. So, all right, I'm going to have to come back to that. So we're just going to go through the document real quick without sharing the screen.

2:12 um because it's not going to let me maybe it'll let me if i bring it over here to the brave tab um let's see if that works all right so brave tab right there all right let's see if this works um can presentation there we go all right it's gonna work um so

2:47 I'm going to go through this document. And unfortunately, I don't know that I can navigate it and look at this at the same time. See full. Oh, gosh. Continue with Apple. All right. They make this so hard. They make this so hard.

3:26 Holy crap. Let me stop sharing the screen for just a second. Yeah. All right. Let's see if I can log in here. No, it's not going to let me. All right. Never mind. We're going to read it. Y'all are just going to have to trust me. Like we haven't been through this together already. All right. So basically what this paper says is in January 2013,

4:14 Oh, and by the way, the paper was written by Guile Scott Smith and Stephanie Rulon. And the name of it is Transnational Anti-Communism in the Cold War, Agents, Activities and Networks. So they start off the paper by saying in January 2013, the Joint World League for Freedom and Democracy-Asian Pacific League for Freedom and Democracy annual conference was held in Taipei.

4:43 taiwan and it goes on to explain that the world league for freedom and democracy is actually the world anti-communist league and i was like what um yeah another name changer um it said there were 400 delegates from over 100 countries that took part in the world freedom day celebration international development committee meetings occurred

5:14 there the new chapters which is very interesting were nigeria didn't they just have a coup and thailand the world's league mission statement was adopted and this is what it says international non-governmental organization dedicated to the aim of uniting the freedom and democracy loving people of the entire globe without distinction as to race nationality location

5:43 occupation, religion, party, or sex in an endeavor to pursue freedom and democracy for all mankind and to preserve world peace. I'm about to throw up, okay? They terrorize the entire globe without distinction as to race, nationality, location, occupation, religion, party, or sex. Their joint endeavor is not world peace.

6:14 I'll go on. With a massive following in the Asian Pacific region, the World League for Freedom and Democracy is probably the largest scale transnational anti-communist network. Now, I would call it a transnational terrorist network that has continued into the post-Cold War era.

6:39 originating as the Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League, which we know in 1954 that transitioned officially into 1966 to become the World Anti-Communist League. Faced with the collapse of their arch nemesis boogeyman, the Soviet Union, my comments, and the gradual transformation of the People's Republic of China,

7:05 to not be the communist boogeyman either into a capitalist economy in 1990 to 1991 the world anti-communist league did a name change and they became the world league for freedom and democracy because that's what happens when your boogeyman goes away you just change your name the durability and adaptability is a prime example of how networks of transnational

7:35 quote anti-communist or terrorists have successfully morphed according to changes in global politics because once you're around you're never going away other organizations covered in this volume the mont pelerin p-e-l-e-r-i-n society la circle which we've talked a lot about the bible smuggling operations also

8:04 continue to this day. The Assembly of Captive European Nations, ASIN, Assembly of Captive European Nations, okay, may have disbanded in the 1970s, but its legacy lives on through the continuing observance by the US political system of Captive Nations Week, the third week of July. The assumption that the demise of world communism led these networks to declare

8:34 mission accomplished is mistaken. Anti-communism is typically understood in two principle ways. In terms of periodization, it is generally regarded as a Cold War world phenomenon and therefore lost its meaning at the end of the 80s because, you know, anti-communism, once communism in the Soviet Union went away,

9:00 and China was not the enemy that it needed it to be at that point, kind of meant you had to pick a different boogeyman, which they did. In terms of the organization, the United States is often credited with playing the principal role in dominating Western anti-communist efforts to oppose Moscow's nefarious designs, only to find out that it was our nefarious designs that everybody needed to be afraid of.

9:29 Yet as the example of the Freedom and Democracy League shows, anti-communism is a flexible label, which we found out. Communist doctrine has been opposed from many directions, ranging from its designation as an evil empire and a contagious disease to more measured rebuttals of its egalitarianism.

9:56 justification of political violence, atheism, destruction of private property, negation of individual rights, economic collectivism, Bolshevikism, and materialism. Many of these positions, which often overlap, could be grouped under a broader label of anti-totalitarianism, which some anti-communists prefer to emphasize their support for basic rights.

10:24 and values threatened by both the left and the right. And that's a very interesting distinction because we know that their real aim is totalitarianism or fascism. As this collection of essays demonstrate, anti-communism has, in fact, known many different political identities and motivations, ranging from basically anarchism to the socialist left.

10:57 to the conservative nationalism to Christian movements to the far right. See, I don't go with the left and the right. That's garbage. These allegiance has always been present with anti-communism under the convenient label to link up and unify a wildly divergent interest groups.

11:20 and i do agree with that that the anti-communist label was slapped on this entire endeavor to try to group everybody behind this initiative without clearly articulating what it was because it was never anti-communism the stark ideological divisions have continued to divine political activism most notably in asia requiring reflect reflection on the eurocentric um

11:49 of the Cold War interpretations. Most significantly, the place of the US as the orchestrator supreme of the anti-communist cause needs to be nuanced. It is undeniable that the United States, and here we refer principally to the CIA, had an oversized impact on Western anti-communist ideology, mobilization, and propaganda during the Cold War.

12:19 Yes, it did. Thanks to its dominant political position, strength of purpose, global reach, unlimited budgets, because they sold drugs to fund it, this often gives the impression that the U.S. was able to coordinate anti-communist activities according to its own worldview in response to an assumed globally orchestrated campaign run from Moscow. However,

12:46 There is evidence that clearly show that this did not mean that the U.S. could always decide which direction to move in or all of the possible outcomes. There is thus a need to dissenter the U.S. within the anti-communist narrative. While recognition is given to its crucial role beyond all other principles or participants, sorry, it is above all necessary to adopt multiple viewpoints and escape.

13:14 the all-encompassing discourse of Washington, D.C.-focused Cold War history, or indeed the history of anti-communism as predominantly a government-run enterprise within the boundaries and the context of particular nation-states. The organization of anti-communism involved not just the U.S. government allies, but a remarkable host of private actors determined to make their cause as well. The essays presented here explore

13:44 how and why these determined individuals and diverse movements linked up, overlapped, and stubbornly pursued their own paths with or without state support. Rather than national foreign policies looking to deploy private forces, the non-governmental organizations, as part of their arsenal, the essays presented here portray a complex mosaic of anti-communist motives and movements that at times supported and at other times cut across or transcended the state-run scenario.

14:14 It is a mistake to reduce them to being no more than walk-on extras. Neither does the story begin with the Cold War. Initiatives to oppose socialism and international worker movements appeared in the 19th century. Security measures against communist threats were intensified after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the aftermath of World War I. The Machiavellian twist, the German...

14:40 foreign ministry had sought to foment revolution in russia through a transnational network of alexander helfen who had established a scientific institute in copenhagen for this purpose but the interwar period was seminal moment as numerous civic organization interest groups and militia focusing on national concerns across

15:05 Europe and the U.S. in the turmoil and instability from 1918 to 20. A large-scale immigration from Russia's empire between 1917 and 1923 contributed to the anti-communist climate and the hostilities towards the Bolshevik regime. Now, I want you guys to think about what I just read in context of what's going on. So Germany published material.

15:38 as did Britain, as did elements in the United States, that all instigated or articulated the need to basically foment revolution in Russia. And we know that New York City and London participated in the revolution by harboring Lenin and Trotsky.

16:08 In the late 1800s, around the time the Fabian Society was around, fomenting this entire thing, they're talking in this paper about creating a revolution in Russia, which we know unequivocally generates what? Refugees. And so they go in and foment this revolution. They have this large scale immigration.

16:39 from the russian empire into both europe and the united states and they create these russian immigrant populations which is kind of what's going on right now where we have went in and fomented revolution and overthrew those governments and then imported all of the people both into europe and here do you see the similarities it's a pattern

17:13 Russian anti-communist exile organizations blossomed in the center of this immigration in Berlin, Paris, Belgrade, Prague, among others, London and New York. These were some of the first transnational forces to appear in the anti-communist cause, and they found support and sympathy in their host countries. Hopes for a united movement foundered

17:41 on the unmanageable ideological, political, and cultural divisions between the different groups. So if you want to generate an anti-communist cause that you can rally behind, you have to first create communism. Then you have to create a revolution based on communism. So we funded the Bolshevik revolution, created that revolution.

18:11 and then co-opted the immigrants that were displaced as a result of that to then create this anti-communist mass. Hold on just one second. Hello? Hey. I did not. Yeah, get to. Yeah. Yeah, get to. They'd be a week old anyway. Okay. All right. Bye. Okay.

18:53 preparing for our trip to cruise on the coast. So, trying to logistically get everything done. Okay. So, I find that interesting, creating the chaos so you can control the situation. So, in order to create an anti-communist movement, you have to first create communism. Then you have to displace all of these people and then use them. And that's exactly what's happening.

19:23 with all of the other revolutions that we create this displaced immigrant population, then we import them, literally pick them up on airplanes and ships and bring them here. And then they use them to implement their chaos here. Do you see it happening? You should. Hopes for a united movement. Let's see.

19:56 Okay, so the unmanageable ideological, political, and cultural divisions between the different groups. Perhaps the first transnational explicitly anti-communist organization was the Entente International Anti-Communist, EIA. It was established in Geneva in 1924, intended to act as a pressure group. It was led by Swiss lawyer, Theodore.

20:26 Aubert, A-U-B-E-R-T, and a Russian immigrant, George Laudijansky. Although the EIA soon distanced itself from the immigrant politics in order to prevent being typecast as a minority movement and to reach out to a wider audience. In existence until 1950, the EIA linked state and non-state actors in a dedicated campaign

20:55 across Europe and the U.S., coordinated propaganda, bought brochures, and monthly press reviews based on communist and Soviet newspapers, aiming for the fall of the Soviet communist regime and the destruction of the third international com intern. The EIA was never able to gain a solid foothold in the United States where anti-communist organizations were less willing to

21:20 work with foreign-based partners to extend their efforts outside of North America. While the EIA religious committee, Pro Deo, that existed from 1933 to 1939, would also fail to unite Catholics, Protestants, and exiled Orthodox groups against the evils of communism. The Protestant Moral Rearmament, established in 1938 in Oxford, would gather more support.

21:48 as a faith-based grounds after World War II. Was the anti-communist effort and all of its diversity in any way coordinated across national boundaries? Certainly to a degree. George Kennan's infamous policy planning staff memo in 1948, the inauguration of political warfare, proposed that the liberation committees should be created amongst the large immigrant population communities from Central Europe and the Soviet Union.

22:17 In support of people suffering under oppression, with a calm intern and Willie Munzenberg as the clear models for this move into the political warfare. In just one document, George Kennan had set the agenda for all of the United States front operations in the first years of the Cold War. Kennan's memo led directly to the first of the public-private organizations.

22:45 In 1949, the National Committee for a Free Europe, goaded on by Kennan, the CIA, under the initial guidance of his pioneer, Frank Wisner and Alan Dulles, rapidly developed the mighty Wurlitzer, which we've talked about, of patrons and partnerships that enabled and disseminated views, opinions throughout the world. Part of this CIA sphere of influence

23:13 has been thoroughly covered, but gaps still remain. The extensive research of the CIA has inevitably led to suspicions of agency involvement in all anti-communist activities. A good example would be the widely circulated claim that CIA money was pivotal for financing the first Bilderberg meeting.

23:36 between north america and the western european representatives in 1954 simply because it seems logistical that they would have done so nato was seen by many as a potential central pole around which to organize psychological warfare on a transatlantic level yet several of its member states were wary of involving nato in anything that smacked of propaganda to avoid undermining its legitimacy and status instead through article 2 of the nato treaty

24:06 it functioned more as an inspiration for private organizations to fill that organizational space themselves. It was precisely this inability and unwillingness to officiate, coordinate anti-communist campaigns among NATO countries that prompted the private sector to step in. Now, we know this to be completely false. We know about the ACC and the...

24:35 the clandestine planning committee that orchestrated all of this out of NATO. So I find it interesting that they do these, and we'll read on, I have not pre-read this, but we know that NATO was absolutely involved, but so were private organizations. This had...

24:56 its advantages as far as it could be denied or distanced from state-run foreign policy while at the same time it served to mobilize private energy in the civilian society against communist threat in doing so it legitimized anti-communist cause and the anti-totalitarian identity of the west crucially by going transnational and de-linking anti-communist mobilization from nato or other official organs the neutral states could also be included

25:25 as active participants but again we know this is bullshit nato was part of it the cpc the acc and so were the neutral because spain and portugal were part of the um operation gladio a great variety of non-state actors became linked together in these enterprises from trade unions to commercial conglomerates to media

25:56 outlets and faith-based organizations, which is the part that's always intrigued me, to the most intriguing anti-communist entrepreneurs who took on the cause as a personal mission. In the process of the public-private world became so entangled with personnel effectively operating in the name of both that the distinction between the state and non-state blurred into insignificance. And I don't disagree with that, but

26:25 They are making a proposal that it was completely ostracized from NATO and done on the private sector, and that's just simply not true. What were the motivations for taking on such a role? The claim that a worldwide communist conspiracy ran from Moscow necessarily required a centralized and coordinated response from the non-communist world. The call for a world institute for the defense against Soviet propaganda.

26:55 The fear that democratic freedoms were vulnerable to if the anti-communist struggle failed to organize itself across national boundaries. The determination to awake citizens to the fact that they're taken for granted freedoms were being subverted and threatened without them knowing it. In other words, they're going to create a psychological operations to convince us that we're about ready to be overrun. The domino effect.

27:22 The need to study the theory and the practice of Soviet communism in order to understand and exploit its social and political divisions and contradictions. The desire for a spiritual NATO or a Marshall Plan for the mind. The political identity to be defended by these efforts also varied from a vague designation of the West to democratically oriented labels such as the free world.

27:49 to more cultural and civilization declarations like the Christian civilization. The individuals and organizations covered actively link up between themselves via conferences, joint publications, and public campaigns, but they also challenge each other. Blah, blah, blah. The calls for coordination there were therefore often attempts to claim top spot as much as it was to

28:19 improve anti-Soviet propaganda. Several organizations aspired to play the central role, such as the Catholic Committee for International Defense of Civilization, the Franco-German-Dutch Interdoc, and particularly the Congress for Cultural Freedom. I've done a little looking into that one, definitely on our bad list.

28:47 which sought to maintain a broad coalition of liberal and conservative anti-totalitarian to oppose restrictions on cultural and intellectual production, which of course is all they're about now, is to place those restrictions. Certain individuals themselves functioned as important nodes, such as the Frenchman George Albertini.

29:08 who was associated with the whole range of private national and transnational anti-communist organizations as well as official state institutions such as the british information research department which is basically a spy agency the sheer density and diversity of the anti-communist actors and activities makes it difficult to propose uniform lines of analysis the first covers

29:35 The first of many things that they're going to write about in this series covers... Hold on just a second. Just one second. Okay. The first covered the 19th future thing that they're going to write about. Covers the 1940s to the 50s when the Soviet Union reactivated its networks of fronts.

30:20 from the interwar Mutzenberg period and the Central and Eastern European immigrants featured strongly in the responses organized by the CIA MI6 and Western Germany's Gatlin organization, the BND, and other allied intelligence agencies. The U.S. was the dominant orchestrating force in this period looking to exploit widespread fear of communist subversion and aggression in Western Europe and Asia.

30:48 and acting as the principal financier of these operations, meaning it was all financed from the intel agencies. Many of the surviving networks and organizers from the interwar period adapted themselves into this U.S.-led environment. There are also an influx of former fascists and Nazis who used the anti-communist umbrella to gain post-war respectability. The battle of the fronts was transformed by the swift

31:15 excuse me, by the shift in Soviet policy towards peaceful coexistence and the pursuit of ideological warfare combined with the support for armed struggle for the decolonizing third world. Now, this is very important because the Soviet Union did documentedly shift to a peaceful coexistence where they unequivocally said,

31:41 They were not interested in expansion. And yet that never trickled into the West propaganda because they needed them to be used as a boogeyman. And also the Soviets policy was to support the decolonization of the third world, which is why you find them oftentimes supplying arms to countries like the Congo that were trying to decolonize.

32:11 but the west didn't want to release their hooks they just wanted to pretend like they were which then they say created a second period from the 50s and 60s and this one required reprisals of the existing anti-communist campaigns first hardline approaches that negated everything communism stood for were now seen by some as counterproductive resulting in the search of a positive anti-communist

32:42 an anti-communist approach. Secondly, there was a recognition in Western Europe that the one-size-fits-all approach of American anti-communism was no longer effective or appropriate, coupled with the fact that the revival of the post-war economies meant that Washington felt its allies could do more for themselves. This led into a third period of the 70s characterized by detente.

33:08 between the superpowers, the gradual normalization of the People's Republic of China and world politics, and the appearance of a new left, which some interpreted as another reincarnation of Moscow's invisible hand. At least that's what it was billed at. It was also this period that the deepest splits emerged in the anti-communist coalition, as those who deemed the value of the East-West rapprochement and considered it no more than a

33:37 competence trick and a cover for continuing subversion, which many in the groups like Le Circle in Europe felt that was the case, lined up against those who sought to utilize detente to promote human rights causes and so undermine the Soviet bloc from a different angle. This contest was fought out verbally both within the anti-communist networks and between the networks

34:06 and their government supporters. In the case of an organization like ACEN, there were continual demands to recognize Soviet oppression in Central Europe in a time when Washington was open for increasing more dialogue with the Soviet Union. The Missile Crisis and the popular appeal of peace movements

34:32 across the Western world in the early 80s did involve a last revival of the Soviet-sponsored Popular Front, generating responses from the anti-communist lobby. But from the late 80s, we entered the final ongoing post-Cold War period defined as a rise of non-governmental organizations promoting a diverse range of experimental, medical, ethical,

34:58 and humanitarian causes within the intricate complex, often highly specialized government dominance. It is in this period that those still existing anti-communist organizations shift emphasis, if they were not already done so, to promote the broader cause of democratic freedoms in a post-Soviet Maoist world.

35:24 In many ways, the realm of anti-communist organization is the perfect laboratory to apply a transnational historical approach, rejecting a statist interpretation that anti-communist activities were orchestrated and controlled according to the interests of government. It focuses on the role of non-state actors in their interactions, both between themselves and the elements of the state. Previous scholarship has addressed these issues, most notably through the notion of private

35:53 state networks and the influence of patronage networks nurtured by philanthropic organizations. What I find interesting about this is they use a lot of words just to describe the international syndicate, because that's basically what this is boiling down to. They're somewhat discounting

36:22 and eliminating the government as basically an observer and saying that they're making the argument that the like Carnegie Endowment for Peace, the Ford Foundation and those types of organizations, the non-state actors are the actual patronage networks.

36:51 that are pulling the strings. It goes on to say, this volume does more than simply contribute to this trend. The goal is to de-link these activities from the presumption of an all-embracing US-focused analysis.

37:06 For the first time, it uses the transnational as the principal framework through which to interpret and analyze the great many strands of the Cold War anti-communism. Secondly, it gathers together a wide array of actors and activities and networks to enable comparison and contrast across national contexts, political motivations,

37:27 the individual backgrounds. In this way, it lays out new terrain for the analysis of anti-communists in particular in the study of transnational history in general. Why a transnational approach? Transnational history in its broadest sense addresses the study of connections, links, and interdependencies, exchanges, circulations between nations and societies.

37:50 introduced into international relations already in the early 1970s. It is only since 1990, in the wake of the initial moves into an international global history and its context to the relative decline of the nation state as a political unit, that it has become grounded in history, basically studied extensively. And the impact of its trans-border connections, whether through individual

38:19 non-national identities, non-state actors, or in the terms of objectives shared by the people based on their nationality. It examines how the connections both feedback to shape the nations and interact to establish basically its own field of study. And it also says that transnational does not equal super.

38:50 natural, supranational. An international tribunal can have the force of a supranational law without actually having a transnational dimension. And now they're just kind of getting into nuances as to how to skin the baby. That didn't come out right.

39:16 So basically, it goes on to say that it expounds the boundaries of the transnational historical field by examining the national, international, and transnational levels of activities along the lines of anti-communism. So the usage of network, again, they're just trying to explain their terms, which is always a good thing to do so people understand. The network encompasses the NGOs.

39:45 people in the formal decision-making process. And then it talks about the overlapping of some of the networks, depending on where they're located. It mentions one of the networks, Interdoc, was actually based on a commercial model that assumed multinationals would pay for various services to entrench anti-communist thinking into their workforce, you know, like psychological operations.

40:14 This relative freedom of action also had its downside, in particular, the danger of self-exclusion and deterioration into nothing more than an elite club for a select few. There were also plenty of obstacles to influence cultural perceptions, determinations of sovereignty and national priorities, blah, blah, blah. Differences between the U.S. and European fundamental Protestant movements.

40:41 When you're looking at the religious aspect of it, it also says that there was kind of a dividing up of duties to look into the different aspects of this. And it says that basically they set up organizationally this thing. The first section would cover a set of organizations and individuals.

41:10 that were involved in the anti-communist um that was put together under u.s leadership and then it says the second was going to cover the transnational networks with case studies from the 1940s through the 80s um in like for example the captive european nations interdoc and the world anti-communist league the institute for study of conflict and la circle um to be

41:39 just some of them which is interesting because those are what we're looking at the third section covers intellectual networks and anti-totalitarianism with contributions of several different activists along those lines that were in switzerland poland the vatican west germany and the united states at the time and it gives a little bit it says however

42:08 In the realm of economics, the Mount Pelerin, P-E-L-E-R-I-N Society, initially represented an informal debate academy. However, it soon evolved into a form of pressure group for free marketing ideology with increasing success, first in West Germany and then in other countries like Penashees, Chile, Thatcher's Britain, Reagan's United States. Anti-communism was a motive.

42:38 or as a motive, has tended to underplay or entirely remove from the society's narrative. But a chapter of this project that they're working on brought that back to bear. And it also says this was the invisible hand that is now in a different form. The final section.

43:02 um was dedicated to the christian networks examines both the catholic and protestant anti-communist activism universalist by vocation in their fight against communism a communist atheism these activists utilize long-established methods like bible smuggling as well as more former formal

43:27 transnational organizations like the protestant international council of christian churches or the catholic committee for international defense and in the case of the former the cultural divisions between the us european protestant reveals the evident limit to trans

43:48 Atlantic transnational organizations. The American branch went so far as to defend the preemptive use of nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union and China, a stance considered too radical for the European branch. And we went into that a little bit in our previous podcast with the JFK earlier today. The fact that the United States was all in on total war.

44:15 That basically covers this first section. I am going to go and find these other papers. And I just joined this academic page that's like a college paper, things that people have written on. And I did a search so that it sends me anything. I did some terms like anti-communist, which is how I got this paper.

44:45 So now that I have this one, I have to go find the rest of them because this was part of a series. So I am going to go find them and go through them to see if there's any that kind of go along with what we've already known. But I did want to let you know.

45:07 because I found it fascinating that we're in the middle of studying the World Anti-Communist League, and this paper just shows up mysteriously in my mailbox this morning, letting me know that the World League for Freedom and Democracy is the follow-on new version of it, because in bureaucracies, nothing ever dies. So thanks for going through that with me. I was able to figure out that I have no clue how to operate.

45:36 the new rumble suites sharing documents so bridget and i are going to have to um work on that offline and see if we can't figure out how to do that because we definitely um have to be able to do that and i'm kind of want to get away from using stream yard it's cumbersome to set up the stream yard then you have to set up rumble

46:02 And then they have to interface with each other. And so if I can go to just using the Rumble suite, that's going to be awesome. But we're also going to have to be able to figure that out. Mailbox, somebody's paying attention to you. Actually, SR71, I wish that was true. That's not true, unfortunately. I found this.

46:29 edu site that was associated with air war college of which i'm a member so i can go get papers that people who attend their war college right from having graduated there but there's a lot of dot edu sites that once you graduate from a particular university you can sign up for so i found this website that kind of takes written

46:58 documents that people write as part of their academic endeavor, like thesis for your PhD and that type of thing. And you can create an account, enter search words in anybody that writes on that subject. It will automatically email you a link to go read their work. Now, obviously,

47:26 What's really cool about that is that you are able to then go, because to me, this is always the best thing. And I do this always. When I first get a book, as I'm reading the book, well, before I start reading the book, I go to the back and I look at who they use as references. And now, because I've read so many pieces of work.

47:53 as it relates to operation gladio i can look down through the index of or their notes and i can see who they're citing and if they cite only like the approved cia talking head i don't even bother um bringing the uh book up for um consideration to do a book review on it that doesn't mean i won't read it because i do want to know what they want us to know and what they hide from us more importantly

48:22 um but reading um the index or the note pages the references is oftentimes where i have found some of the more relevant books that people have like for example let's just run through that's a great idea um let's run through a couple of them all right so their notes here um

48:47 One of the very first notes is the World Anti-Communist League. It lists two authors and the article is called Inside the League. Now, I have not read that particular article. So what I will do is I will go find that on archive.org and I will read that. And they're using it as a reference. So I want to know who these authors are. And I want to read that article to know whether or not the article here is.

49:17 using good sources. So the next one, I'm looking down here, De-Centering America, De-Centering Cold War History, Local and Global Change, Combating the Enemy Within. That was a paper that was written from, it covers 1830 to 1970. It was written

49:44 published by a Baltimore publishing house, Not Without Honor, The History of American Anti-Communism, Yale University Press, 1998, Total Cold War, Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. And you see already, there's like four articles that

50:15 are like, holy shit. And I've not read any of those. British and American anti-communism before the Cold War. America in anti-communist propaganda, 1945 to 1958, from the Information Research Department. Now, I know unequivocally that is part of the MI6. I've actually read that. Here's another. This is a book.

50:43 The Hidden Hand, Britain, America, Nicole Ward's Secret Intel. I've read that book. Excellent book, actually. Another one. Let's go down through here. There's a couple of French ones, which I may or may not have read as far as articles, because unless they're translated, I don't know. I do read a lot of European.

51:14 um translated through the brave browser and yandex um in order to be able to bring them to you and oftentimes those are some of my longer posts that i kind of like repost almost verbatim in um the translated so that you guys don't have to go through the trouble of creating a new browser if you don't already have one of the translatable ones downloaded so you can still read the material um they have a couple from radio free europe which are

51:44 basically the CIA propaganda sources. War of the Black Heavens, the battles of Western broadcasting in the Cold War. And again, if you're focusing on the propaganda element, the psychological warfare element, those are the articles that you want to read. There's one from Radio Liberty. All of those things are CIA.

52:10 pieces of crap organizations but that doesn't mean you discount the material because that's a good way of learning what they want you to know here's another um reference um i don't know if this is a it looks like it's a book covert network progressives the international rescue committee and the cia i don't have that book so i'm definitely let me cut and paste that one i gotta look that one up

52:40 Um, cause that definitely sounds like that would be right up our alley. Um, let me just bookmark that real quick and I'll come back to this. Um, okay. So then there's some, when they talked about Bilderbergs, when we were just reading through that, there's a whole bunch of articles, um, on a footnote about the Bilderberg so that you can, um, uh, go do the research on there. There's both books and articles that are written here.

53:14 Then, let's see, Not a NATO Responsibility, Psychological Warfare, The Berlin Crisis, and the Formation of Interdoc. That looks like that. It's an article. Transforming NATO in the Cold War. That's an actual book. Propaganda and Intelligence in the Cold War, the NATO Information Services. That's a book, and I don't have that book either. So you see how reading through these,

53:42 um is critical um in order to find other pieces of information um on a particular subject and because of knowing several of these sources and having um a few of these books i can say that generally speaking and we just read through the article um other than the fact that um

54:11 they basically kind of separated the government from the private sector and kind of focused more on the private sector, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I just don't think it's done exclusively as they kind of portended it to be. So anyway, that's kind of the process that I use in vetting information that I bring to you guys.

54:41 i think it's important and i did promise you guys i'll do a few more of these where we're um going through the um process of how to do the research um which is why i have to get the presentation thing so i can show you the tabs um and we can work through um because i have a few bios that i want to share with you guys but i want to be able to

55:11 walk down through them online where you guys are reading simultaneously with me as opposed to me just reading to you i think it's more interesting that way so once i figure that out we'll be back to do that part two okay so that's it for now i'll be back at three o'clock with brian um and then we'll start our stream um for operation gladio um at whatever and i get finished

55:42 And then we'll be on at 7 with Justin Ivey. Y'all are going to be sick of me by the time this week's over. But I'm doing this this week because next week I will be not as available. And I don't know what my schedule is going to be because we're going to be in Biloxi, Mississippi at Cruise on the Coast Car Show. So I'm trying to get a lot of this out of the way and the information to you guys. And then because next week's going to be very sporadic.

56:13 Cause it's like such a cool time. And we're going to be meeting some more of the people that used to work for me. If they don't go on camera, we will do a podcast with them in person. Cause they're going to come down and see me and Biloxi. They just moved from the central Florida area up to Mississippi. So I'm really looking forward to seeing them. And maybe they can come on and tell you guys some more of my secrets. So.

56:41 See you guys at three on Brian's show. I will link that on my ex and true social website once he sends me the link. Talk to you guys later.

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Germany funded Alexander Helfen book_quoted ▶ 14:40

“foreign ministry had sought to foment revolution in russia through a transnational network of alexander helfen who had established a scientific institute in copenhagen for this purpose but the interwa…”

Alexander Helfen operated_in Copenhagen book_quoted ▶ 14:40

George Laudijansky headed Entente Internationale Anticommuniste book_quoted ▶ 20:26

“Aubert, A-U-B-E-R-T, and a Russian immigrant, George Laudijansky. Although the EIA soon distanced itself from the immigrant politics in order to prevent being typecast as a minority movement and to re…”

Theodore Aubert headed Entente Internationale Anticommuniste book_quoted ▶ 20:26

George F. Kennan proposed National Committee for a Free Europe book_quoted ▶ 21:48

“as a faith-based grounds after World War II. Was the anti-communist effort and all of its diversity in any way coordinated across national boundaries? Certainly to a degree. George Kennan's infamous p…”

Allied Clandestine Committee operated_in NATO host_asserted ▶ 24:35

“the clandestine planning committee that orchestrated all of this out of NATO. So I find it interesting that they do these, and we'll read on, I have not pre-read this, but we know that NATO was absolu…”

Spain member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 25:25

“as active participants but again we know this is bullshit nato was part of it the cpc the acc and so were the neutral because spain and portugal were part of the um operation gladio a great variety of…”

Portugal member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 25:25

George Albertini member_of Information Research Department book_quoted ▶ 29:08

“who was associated with the whole range of private national and transnational anti-communist organizations as well as official state institutions such as the british information research department wh…”

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to Congo book_quoted ▶ 31:41

“They were not interested in expansion. And yet that never trickled into the West propaganda because they needed them to be used as a boogeyman. And also the Soviets policy was to support the decoloniz…”

Assembly of Captive European Nations operated_in Central Europe host_asserted ▶ 34:06

“and their government supporters. In the case of an organization like ACEN, there were continual demands to recognize Soviet oppression in Central Europe in a time when Washington was open for increasi…”

Popular Front funded Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 34:32

“across the Western world in the early 80s did involve a last revival of the Soviet-sponsored Popular Front, generating responses from the anti-communist lobby. But from the late 80s, we entered the fi…”

Interdoc operated_in West Germany host_asserted ▶ 39:45

“people in the formal decision-making process. And then it talks about the overlapping of some of the networks, depending on where they're located. It mentions one of the networks, Interdoc, was actual…”