The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)

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0:00 Okay, let's get this party started. I don't see SR's microphone. SR, are you there? I'm here, Colonel. I hope you can hear me. Okay, I can. I just don't see your microphone, so I just wanted to make sure you were connected. All right. Okay, let's get this started. Happy Friday, everybody. All right, we're on the chapter Global Reach.

0:37 continuing our saga. We start with the exposure of the CIA's role in the National Student Association, which we covered yesterday, marked not the end but the beginning of controversy. The agency had no one to blame but itself for what happened next. The media jumped enthusiastically into the fray. Further news stories about the National Student Association connection.

1:06 obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CIA and the National Student Association, they uncovered a bigger story. The foundations that Langley had used to fund the National Student Association were the same that served as a conduit for the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

1:34 and radio-free Europe. This bit of sloppy tradecraft left two key political action projects vulnerable to discovery by inquiry into the student group. Worse, the cat was already out of the bag. Eight foundations CIA used had been publicly identified in congressional hearings several years earlier, actually the 1950s. That's when the Reese Commission was done.

2:08 Embarrassed at the time, Langley had not done enough to alter its arrangements. Why change something that's been working for you for decades? One of Cord Meyer's subordinates, the chief of the program evaluation group, had pushed for more secure channels, but accomplished little. Thus, reporters who followed leads to the foundations financing the students almost immediately found that the CIA's donations were also going to the Radio Free Europe.

2:37 Radio Liberty, and other projects. Soon the papers were full of diagrams tying the CIA to the private institutions, and private is in air quotes, not just the radios, but cultural groups, including the Asia Foundation, among others. Langley had been funneling $10 million into labor, youth, and cultural activities.

3:08 primarily overseas, but not exclusively. Cord Meyer, who had a tin ear for politics and intelligence, regarded what happened as an act of unilateral political disarmament. The truth is that Radio Free Europe link had already begun to fray. The astonishment of the intelligence advisory board members when they learned the CIA

3:41 And Radio Free Europe has already been recounted. No doubt, knowledge of the links to Radio Liberty had a similar impact. Now, come on. They already knew this was happening. There were huge entities with costs to match. A special assistant to Helms put the annual expense of Radio Free Liberty and Radio Liberty at...

4:11 $30 to $35 million annually and determined that up to 90% of the people employed by those two entities were actually CIA. Each year, Radio Free Europe held a big fundraising drive relying on donated space and airtime for advertising in which Americans were told that without their contributions, efforts to encourage democracies in...

4:44 Eastern Europe would be crippled, but they didn't actually do anything to set them up. And the one time when they had the chance with Hungary, they let them get killed. Presidents supported these campaigns at CIA's behest. The Soviet bloc had been watching closely. What Meyer did not wish to say openly had equal significance. A section heading,

5:25 Capitalizing on communist dissension, which could have revealed the Radio Free Europe CIA propaganda mission, had been crossed out of a speech and replaced with source of block information, meaning the Soviet bloc. In November of 1964, Cord Meyer negotiated dates with Mac Bundy for LBJ to appear at a similar event.

5:54 At Langley, Myers and Helms assumed that LBJ supported the radios, but LBJ became restive at participating even before the 1967 meltdown. Some months earlier, another of these events got onto his schedule without, as he saw it, his agreement. Because the commitment had been made, LBJ kept it. I guess they're trying to present LBJ as reluctant.

6:23 But on October 20th, 1966, Johnson sent Helms a note instructing him, please take steps to make sure I don't get committed to fundraising projects without my approval ahead of time. Then came the Ramparts affair and its further revelations. Under the Katzenbach guidelines, the administration moved to sever ties with Radio Free Europe.

6:54 The CIA wanted to provide Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty a large final payment, but this did not erase the flap potential. On May 5th, White House media specialist Robert Kentner informed the president that ABC News now had the goods on CIA Radio Free Europe and intended to use them. Kentner forwarded a paper from Helms.

7:21 That mentioned CIA's idea of a golden parachute, which would have at least eliminated current funding problems. The CIA argued that the radios were not really private voluntary organizations like the National Student Association, but were actually agencies, proprietary fronts working under CIA control.

7:51 So there really wasn't any private funding coming in at all. When the news appeared, CIA's Radio Free Europe connection garnered wide attention. By November, the president had had his bill. After one of his Tuesday lunches, LBJ talked privately with Richard Helms. Quote, I won't fund those radios of yours any longer, Johnson said. The CIA director.

8:25 reacted, you can't do that, Helms said. Helms then started recounting all of the reasons why the radios were so important. After a few minutes, LBJ interrupted and said he would go along if Helms got congressional cooperation without any White House assistance. So he really wasn't committed to that not happening. It took weeks to line up friendly legislatures, apprise them of the situation,

9:06 and enlist their support. Helms then informed LBJ. Of course, Richard Russell was one of the primary targets. He was a close friend of LBJ's. He became one of the strongest backers. The Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty issue consumed almost the entire special group meeting on December 15th. Using a concept of surge funding,

9:38 The CIA proposed to give the radios enough to last through mid-1969. One unusual aspect concerned how the radios should handle their tax liability with the IRS with their cover CIA income now in the open. The Secret War wizards also wanted to preserve the CIA's role setting policy for the radios. So again, they're not giving it up.

10:06 They're just, it's a sleight of hands. It's like a magic act. So a new era dawned for the radios. Helms testified for the budgets before the CIA subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He encountered opposition from the chairman, Louisiana Democrat Alan Inlander, skeptical of the effectiveness of the broadcast into Russia. But Senator Russell and other supporters carried the day for the CIA.

10:39 Toward the end of 68, the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board urged LBJ to push for congressional support of one or more publicly funded institutions that would take care of the radios. The crunch came in 69 when funds were depleted. The last LBJ budget contained new money, but the president cut it intending to present an overall low budget.

11:10 Public fundraising that year, fueled by $20 million in advertising, netted a mere $100,000. The administration of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger as national security advisor were unwavering cold warriors and had no qualms about funding these projects. The CIA money did not disappear after all. By this time, you...

11:38 Alexis Johnson returned to Washington as Undersecretary of State. He sat on Richard Nixon's special group. He recalls hard work as the group kept track of the CIA orphans, as he called them, and sent budget proposals to Congress. Johnson believes the special group agencies could have been more aggressive in persuading the Congress to fund some of these programs overtly.

12:09 And just so that you guys know, one of the many research projects, I went down a rabbit hole. The IRS actually has a list of CIA proprietaries, and they don't pay taxes, just so that you guys know that. They are also excluded from all audits of the CIA. The IRS will not perform an audit on the list of CIA proprietaries.

12:39 They'll audit you and me, but not CIA proprietaries. The Ramparts flap marked a sea change for the agency, ending Frank Wisner's fabled Wurlitzer. Two years later, Cord Meyer went to London as the station chief, his service rewarded by Richard Helms with a Distinguished Intelligence Medal. In 1972, Robert Dreyer, who had been the CIA's spark plug on Radio Liberty, went into retirement.

13:12 And we'll use air quotes there. In January of 71, New Jersey Senator Clifford Case proposed legislation creating a board of international broadcasting to oversee the radios. For the first time, the government official, not merely the media, acknowledged the CIA link to the radios. Case pointed out that the agency had put several hundred million dollars into the radios without...

13:42 ever formally considering the expenditure. The case proposal provided $30 million in 72 and temporary policy guidance from the State Department until the board became established. Hearings before the Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Committee featured repeated testimony from Alex Johnson. Fulbright remained suspicious of the radios as propaganda outlets but could find no malfeasance or other grounds to build an opposition.

14:11 It passed later that year. The funding proposal in March of 1972 gave the radios $36 million for a single year. The International Board finally materialized at the end of 73. In 1967, controversy fed public concern about the U.S. government's use of covert operations and its control of intelligence in general.

14:40 what had now become the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, and he called it a watchdog group, specifically to head off congressional efforts to substitute a formal oversight mechanism. Failure at the Bay of Pigs led Kennedy to tighten executive control. Richard Bissell had suggested surfacing the special group and describing its role, which would replay Ike's strategy of the 50s.

15:11 Until the New York Times series in 1966, Langley had followed a strategy of attempting to discredit and minimize public discussion of intelligence issues, particularly those involving covert operations, while promoting its own achievements. Shortly after the Bay of Pigs, Andrew Talley published a book that portrayed the agency favorably. His work contained information that must have come from Langley.

15:40 no doubt to counteract the negative publicity from the Cuban failure. The major exposés of the CIA that emerged during that period, Hayes Johnson's book, The Bay of Pigs, and David Weiss and Thomas Ross's book, The Invisible Government, both in 1964, were each the subject of high-level agency deliberations on how to neutralize them. The director of CIA discussed Weiss and Ross' book directly with the president.

16:10 Perhaps it's not surprising that few academics and observers who followed intelligence at the time stood for greater openness and oversight. As early as 1958, Harry Howell Ransom had gone on record in favor of joint congressional committees. Paul Blackstock, in his 1964 book, The Strategy of Subversion, renewed the debate.

16:37 Both argued that oversight had become necessary. Blackstock viewed controls as helping legitimate intelligence, part of a process to counteract the dangers of blowback from these activities. Congress had its own concerns, and some of its members listened to the public debate. In particular, Senator Eugene McCarthy, Mike Mansfield, and William Fulbright. They became active in a renewed drive for oversight.

17:09 McCarthy introduced legislation for several years running. His best chance came in 66 on the heels of the time series. Mike Mansfield, the Senate majority leader, summoned top legislatures to discuss the bill in that late May. The legislation to create the Senate oversight panels had been favorably reported out of committee. Mansfield waited to avoid a fight on the Senate floor.

17:39 William Fulbright offered the compromise of setting up another secret subcommittee under the Foreign Relations Committee. If the private citizen who comprised the Intelligence Board could be told about the secrets, he insisted, how could they justify leaving the Foreign Relations Committee out of the loop? Richard Russell rejected any subcommittee.

18:07 And the CIA remains strongly opposed to the oversight, of course. They don't mind the civilian board because they actually work for those people. President Johnson's national security advisor told him of the impasse in early June. Mansfield and minority leader Senator Everett Dirksen met with LBJ on June 2nd. The president resisted broadening CIA reporting to the Senate. Weird.

18:39 Wasn't Johnson just in the Senate? Yeah, but he doesn't want the Senate to know what the CIA is doing. Mansfield developed a further compromise that added a couple members of the Foreign Relations Committee to existing CIA subcommittees. Significantly, LBJ assigned his political aide, Harry McPherson Jr., to handle this. Not his national security advisor, Walt Rostow, or...

19:09 the NSC staffer on intelligence, Peter Jessup. McPherson asked Johnson to stay out of the matter. Although advised to still clear, LBJ, like Eisenhower, worked behind the scenes for the status quo. As early as the fall of 65, a presidential directive reaffirming the role of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board had been prepared, which McGeorge Bundy

19:38 put it, quote, we plan to use as appropriate with congressional leaders when there is any question about our effective supervision of the Intelligence Committee, unquote, which means never. The paper proved useless when the issue actually arose because Fulbright and others were angry precisely because the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board was being given material denied to Congress.

20:07 When the NSC aide, Rostow, who replaced Bundy, told Johnson that Fulbright was unhappy and didn't understand why the foreign relations should be denied access, the president scrolled at the bottom of his copy of the report. Because they leak, LBJ backed up the strong opposition of his CIA director, William Rayburn.

20:37 A few weeks later, when Richard Helms succeeded to the top of the CIA job, advice continued to flow from the White House political assistant, Bill Moyer. You know, the guy that pretends to be a reporter? That Bill Moyer was LBJ's White House political assistant.

21:00 The strategy worked out in meetings and phone calls between McPherson and Senator Russell involved watering down McCarthy's resolution, which lost its provision for a staff and a budget and action by a certain date and became merely an addition to the existing secret subcommittee. In response to a further letter from Fulbright, the CIA again refused information to the Foreign Relations Committee.

21:28 Russell came out strongly against the bill, and once Russell and McPherson determined that they had the votes to defeat it, they insisted on bringing it up for a vote. When Dirksen's Republican minority put the weight Russell threw into the scales, Senator McCarthy's resolution was defeated 61 to 28. To mollify proponents, Russell invited Fulbright and the ranking Republican member of his committee to sit.

21:58 with the secret subcommittee the following year when the CIA went to Capitol Hill for a detailed presentation on Laos. Richard Helms later became a good friend of Senator Eugene McCarthy. Following this episode, the CIA's contact with Congress increased between 65 and 74. On the average, the Senate Armed Forces Committee received three briefings a year. The Senate Appropriations Committee

22:28 And the House Armed Services Committee, four. Congressional attitudes were still lackadaisical. The House held no meetings at all in 71 and 72. While in 67, the CIA appropriation breezed by both the House and the Senate after a single legislator visited Langley to observe a rehearsal of the budget presentation.

22:59 took advantage of all of this. In 1966, Richard Helms went to Capitol Hill with his deputy director for science and technology, which are the same people that did MKUltra, by the way, and in a collection of fancy spy gadgets, successfully deflecting discussion of real issues. Senator Helms, excuse me, similarly, Richard Helms gave the...

23:27 following advice to a special assistant on Vietnam affairs, George Carver, before Carver's first appearance on the Hill. Don't waffle, don't ramble, and don't guess. When you're getting into an area you don't feel you can discuss, you tell them that. But you also tell them as succinctly as possible the answer to the question they ask, not the question they should have asked. Oversight

23:52 thus remained entirely in the hands of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, the civilians. Clark Clifford's panel concerned itself primarily with efficiency, not legality. Many of its inquiries during LBJ's last years concerned aircraft shoot-down incidents, you know, like the U-2s, planes that blundered into foreign airspace. They didn't blunder there, they were sent there.

24:26 Its most prominent post-mortem would be done after the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. The group did one study of intelligence organizations too late for LBJ to do anything about it. During Johnson's final months on covert operations, this report said, quote, the group believes that procedures for the initiation and control of covert operations by the appropriation

24:53 policymakers are now both effective and flexible, but warned this would change if permitted to become a formal ritual. In other words, we can do whatever we want, whenever we want, without oversight. If you guys start looking at this shit, we might not be able to do that. The report found improving secrecy the basic task since most covert operations that failed had been exposed.

25:23 and often highly adverse political consequences at home and abroad flowed from the revelations. Thus, if in years past, the assessment of the feasibility of secrecy had been more accurate, many of the covert activities that were ultimately compromised would not have been initiated and others would have been terminated earlier if somebody had been looking over their shoulder.

25:56 These were pious words indeed in view of the observation of a couple of page laters that said, quote, it is rarely possible to keep large operations secret for long, if at all, and their compromise is usually dramatic, unquote. The ultimate conclusion was that covert operations should be restricted to those that offered substantial chances of success, to which the government is prepared to accept the consequences if it's compromised.

26:26 By the 60s, a concern for secrecy had supplanted the previous dedication to plausible deniability in discussions of covert action. The presidential advice quoted here is representative of a wide array of CIA and other government commentaries. The Bay of Pigs, the Congo, and other events had effectively eroded plausible deniability, resulting in a stand for general assertion of secrecy.

26:56 The people who made the choices, of course, were the members of the 303 Committee, LBJ's renamed special group. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may not speak for all the principals who participated, but his remarks are eyebrow-raising. Quote, I look back with chagrin at my performance as a statutory member of the National Security Council charged with overseeing CIA activities, Rusk wrote in 1990.

27:27 LBJ sometimes called them together, but that happened when their surrogates on the 303 could not agree. The secret war, Russ believes, should have been a focus for we permanent National Security Council members, not our substitutes. Russ himself never asked to review any of it, nor did principals ever draw up the agenda or stop a review.

27:54 what was actually being done rather than just consider items placed on the agenda. The former Secretary of State decided that control ought not be left to subordinates or congressional committees. We learned that the hard way, he said. In actuality, the 303 committee approach had not changed. They just changed the name of it and pretend like it's something new. If anything, LBJ practiced covert techniques even more enthusiastically.

28:25 Between November of 63 and February of 67, the 303 Committee approved 142 covert action proposals. That's an average of five a month. That compares to 4.8 for Kennedy Special Group. During the decade beginning in 65, some 32% of approved covert operations were for

28:56 election interference in foreign countries huh that's crazy during the decade beginning in 65 I wonder if they counted killing RFK election interference I bet they didn't 32 percent of approved covert actions they refer to it as election support it's election interference

29:32 29% was for media and propaganda activities. So that's another third, propaganda. 23% was for paramilitary operations. These included arms transfers. The CIA professed to believe executive control was strong. According to a February 67 memo, this is a quote, the policy arbiters.

30:06 have questioned CIA presentations, amended them, and on occasion denied them outright. The record shows that the group committee in these instances has overridden objections from the director of intelligence and instructed the agency to carry out certain activities. Objections by state have resulted in amendments or rejections of election proposals, suggestions for air proprietories, and support plans for foreign governments.

30:37 The committee had suggested areas where covert action is needed, has decided that another element of government should undertake a proposed action, imposed caveats and turned down specific proposals for CIA action from ambassadors in the field. So this is their best attempt at, look, we have supervision. It doesn't talk at all about all of the ones they did, even though they weren't supposed to.

31:10 This suggests more constraint than actually exercised. In addition, the language indicates a fair amount of tinkering with proposals. That represented an effort to bring sound management to covert actions. But as noted elsewhere, it also brought responsibility closer to the president. Although this narrative has detailed in the 303 committee meetings on a variety of subjects, all pertain to specific

31:41 covert actions. And while the totality clearly conveys the extent to which the NSC managed the secret war, it fails to convey the breadth and depth of the work. A quick survey of 303 business will aid in its understanding. One staple of the work was the joint reconnaissance program. Each month, the officials responsible for spy planes and satellites, DeSoto patrols, and

32:10 assorted other technical collection programs, listed the missions planned, and placed it before the 303 Committee. Significant modifications were also considered. When President Johnson wished to reveal the existence of the CIA Air Force supersonic reconnaissance plane Oxcart SR-71 in 1964, the special group pondered that proposal.

32:38 And just for you guys that don't have premium membership, when I got to that part in the declassified CIA document, Johnson totally botched the announcement of the SR-71. It was actually supposed to be called the RS-71. But because the president misspoke during his speech and called it the SR-71, it then permanently got re-identified as SR-71.

33:07 That was not the original identifier. It was supposed to be RS-71. I thought that was funny. In 67, when the CIA wanted to use Oxcart over North Vietnam, the group considered that too. No one hesitated to dictate alterations. At a November 1967 session, for example, the 303 committee changed the date for one.

33:36 Burning Sun, that's what it was called, collection mission, and modified the closest point of approach to enemy territory plan for another. Peripheral flights around Cuba, missions over North Korea, electronic intelligence tickler flights against the Soviet bloc, the resumption of De Soto patrols in the Gulf of Tonkin, the Liberty and Pueblo affairs all concerned the 303 committee.

34:06 The project to place nuclear-powered detection gear in the Indian Himalayas to monitor China's weapon development came before the 303, as did the continuation of the U.S. intelligence ground stations in Iran, Pakistan, and Ethiopia. The group did not deal in espionage. Now, one of the things that I want to emphasize here is the liberty

34:34 Every time that ship sailed anywhere, it was done with the approval of the 303 committee. A lot of people don't know that. The Liberty was considered a ship equivalent to the U-2. The U-2 flew no missions without it being approved through this committee. That is true of the Liberty as well. So everyone on that meeting knew about the Liberty and its diversion.

35:05 to the Israeli-Egyptian coast when it went. From the beginning of 1967 through May of 68, the 303 Committee handled five proposals for specialized use of submarines, seven for the U-2, eight for the Oxcart, five for other aviation assets, and eight for scientific and technical collection programs, most in the Far East. And by the way,

35:37 They were flying U-2s out of Taiwan all along and into China. They were also flying U-2s out of Incirlik, Turkey, and Pakistan at a classified location for the Middle East. Makes you wonder if there was a U-2 over the, because it's not in the declassified list.

36:08 in 1967. They were there in the skirmish before that when Israel was doing its shit, but there's no mention of them in the declassified document that we reviewed of them being in the area during that time, but they had lots of resources there. During the Vietnam War, the 303 Committee approved similar monthly program proposals for O-Plan 34-A.

36:40 Pressures against North Vietnam as well as cross-border patrols into Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam. Makes you wonder if they were apprised of sending in that special forces team for Red Rock where it was a dead-end mission and they were going to kill them all. In connection with the Gulf of Tonkin incident, former NSC staffer Francis Bader recently reminded the author.

37:08 that it would have been a 303 committee responsibility to ensure that, unless intended, there was no conflict between the 34A attacks along the North Vietnamese coast and the De Soto patrols taking place at the same time. Records are still unavailable to answer that question. In other words, they're still classified because it was a false flag. The special group also monitored implementation of covert programs.

37:38 In the six months through mid-68, for example, the 303 considered 18 different status reports on assorted covert actions. During that period, there was no fewer than 30 requests for project renewals. Former members who had served on the special group told the Council for Foreign Relations symposium in January of 68 that the 303 committee had been notably deficient in reviewing ongoing projects.

38:08 These figures bear that out. Several of the status reports to the 303 concerned Guyana. In March of 67, the CIA proposed a new covert operation to influence the next election. In other words, rig it, interfere with it. The 303 committee approved it. This included monthly payments to Forbes Burnham, ostensibly to help him with party organization.

38:40 By this time, Ambassador met directly with Burnham in early June, and the record of their conversation shows they explicitly discussed how overseas votes in the election would be manipulated, even to the number of votes for different parties that Burnham would allow. That record indicates that Washington had a say in this. The U.S. tried without success to moderate Burnham's behavior. The 303 Committee

39:10 could have halted the flow of money. It did not. Between 62 and 68, the CIA spent more than $2 million interfering with Jagen and him being the prime minister in support of Burnham, which ended up as a fiasco, as they all do. In December 16th, 1968 elections, Burnham's party won an absolute majority.

39:41 in the Guyanese parliament. Approving the consolidated budget for covert operations, an annual exercise always generated heat. A special issue in the summer of 66 was the degree to which the Washington Bureau of Budget, Bob Amory, the former CIA guy that's in charge of the budget,

40:09 could involve itself in the details of the project, and 303 engaged Amory in a protracted negotiation. But the budget was LBJ's budget traffic cop, and this exchange could only end in one way. White House matters arose time and again for the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board inquiries. Some special group meetings with the board

40:37 have already been recounted. In the summer of 68, the Presidential Advisory Board asked what the 303 procedures prevented it from simply being a rubber stamp. Clearly, the board aimed to discover how well the 303 reviewed the projects, what it learned from this, and what was practically the effect. Judging from Dean Russ' comments, the answer would not have been flattering.

41:06 Specific issues preoccupied the 303 committee from week to week. In November of 67, the group immersed itself in forward planning for the CIA's Laos program through 69. Ramparts Magazine and other 67 controversies did not entirely close off youth initiatives. In March of 68, the 303 members authorized the CIA to run

41:33 and operation at the World Youth Festival in Bulgaria. A month later, the special group back on Vietnam considered a move to expand CIA's provisional reconnaissance units, part of the Phoenix program. Over the 17 month beginning in January of 67, the committee dealt with 23 projects for Africa, 33 for Latin America, 15 in Europe.

42:06 14 in Asia, and two in the Middle East. The 303 rejected just six. According to the 303 memo to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, the Middle East projects followed from the Six-Day War, whose aftermath precluded the political action projects that had formed the bulk of the CIA's efforts in the region.

42:36 Sometimes the 303 matters were kicked upstairs to the president. In 67, controversies over CIA funding, for example, these items came before the 303 committee. That July, Russ signaled his desire to bring one of LBJ's Tuesday lunch national security meetings, bring his objections to that meeting.

43:03 As Richard Helms pointed out to Walt Ristow, Russ worried about the fallout in Congress if the operation was blown, not the project itself or its objectives. That December, Nick Krachenbach told the 303 Committee that Dean Rusk had not been overcome with enthusiasm for Operation Night Bolt, a scheme to send SEALs to Haiphong,

43:33 harbor. That's when they were mining it. Walt Ristow agreed to take it up at the next Tuesday lunch. They did it, so I guess it didn't matter that the Secretary of State didn't care, didn't like it. An illustration of the 303 process exists in the matter of CIA political action in Italy. This program came before the 303 committee in June of 65.

44:07 The two meetings that month, the special group considered another year's subsidy, complicated by Italy's multi-party political system, making it necessary for the CIA to approach different groups, sometimes cross-cutting interests. The secret war managers decided to go ahead. Mac Bundy expressed his doubts privately to the president.

44:35 He demanded a review of the Italian program, LBJ did. Early in August, Bundy reported back that LBJ had thought all of those payments were excessive, that the CIA's political action specialist believed the U.S. was not getting its money's worth and that subsidies had been declining for that reason. But there had been a spike upward in 63, which was an Italian election year.

45:06 The subsidies were nevertheless significant and Italians had been telling CIA contacts they needed a lot more money to interfere with their own election. Bundy recommended funding what the 303 committee had already approved with the CIA to tell the Italian politicians they would not get any more unless they could show the money was needed and could be effectively used. Isn't that crazy? They're just having meetings in Washington, D.C.

45:37 talking about interfering in elections like it's no big deal, and you're supposed to believe they don't interfere in our elections. When the program came up for renewal in 66, American diplomats in Italy told Alex Johnson, State Department's 303 representative, that another election was coming and could be especially important. Proposals before the 303 actually provided a cut.

46:07 of one-third of the budget. Efforts were made to structure subsidies so that they went to specific recipients for specific activities to achieve U.S. objectives. In a fellow NATO nation, the committee restored the money on the understanding that the CIA subsidies would be phased out after the election and were supposed to disappear by 1968.

46:37 The 303 Committee approved final subsidies on August 22, 1967. In all, between 1958 and 1968, the CIA's leading Italian recipient received $26 million. $26 million to one recipient, with another $11 million going to other political parties.

47:09 A total cost of the CIA political action in Italy from 1948 elections till the, what date would that have been? 68 was $65 million, 65. And that's just our tax dollars. That's no covert money. That's what we know went there.

47:38 Even on a set of projects the secret war managers wanted to eliminate, it had taken three years and a lot more money to close them out. The parallels to the Golden Parachute arrangement with the students, the radios, and the Asia Foundation was evident. Proponents could always resort to the argument that the CIA assets left in the lurch would be unable to fulfill Washington's objectives or worse, might turn against the U.S. It remained easier to initiate covert action than to stop them.

48:08 Any weakening in a project would reappear on the special group's agenda, as happened in Italy. LBJ's successor encountered the same dynamics. LBJ had been president with a focus supposedly on domestic policy. LBJ viewed foreign affairs as problems. He was keenly disappointed in the Indochina War, which absorbed greater time, energy, and economic resources.

48:41 The growth of the controversy in opposition to the war ultimately cast a spell over Johnson's political future. In the spring of 68, the president decided he would not run for re-election. The strongest candidate in the resulting free-for-all ended up winning Richard Nixon. Well, that's because you killed RFK. Minor overlook. Like Johnson, Nixon stood ready to use the full potential of his office, even...

49:15 in covert actions. This led observers to term these years the imperial presidency. Unlike LBJ, Nixon was primarily interested in foreign policy. He also was suspicious of the bureaucracy and wanted policymakers centered at the White House. Paradoxically, though, Nixon preoccupied himself with details he wished to be seen as above the policy fray. This made his choice of staff crucial.

49:45 especially the advisor for national security and his NSC staff. For his purpose, Nixon selected Henry Kissinger as the security advisor. Adept at maneuvering and fighting the political alleyways of Washington, Kissinger, a former Harvard professor, became the operator Nixon wanted. The caveat there is Henry Kissinger's Harvard institution,

50:15 was a CIA front. Henry Kissinger was latched to the CIA lock, stock, and barrel. He owed everything to the CIA. His stature at Harvard, that entire entity was a CIA proprietary. And that got exposed as well. Nixon's dominance of American foreign policy would be outlasted by Kissinger's.

50:45 In the end, by two and a half years at the onset, however, there was no question as to Richard Nixon's presidency. His remarkable comeback became the prelude to an increased global role for the U.S. From his eight years as vice president under Eisenhower, Nixon had acquired an understanding of covert action. He now took command of the projects in Southeast Asia, initiating new ones.

51:15 initiating ones in the Near East and in Latin America. Although Nixon learned much of what he knew about leadership from Eisenhower, there were fundamental differences. Eisenhower tried to be subtle, work with a hidden hand. Nixon preferred dramatic decisions yielding sensational results. Eisenhower used covert action extensively. Richard Nixon's efforts proved somewhat more restrained.

51:45 In Vietnam, Nixon's program remained robust. In 69, for example, a major 303 committee issue on which Nixon repeatedly prodded Kissinger and Richard Helms was CIA's initiation of a fresh psychological warfare effort against the North Vietnamese. But growing controversy, at least over the secret war in Laos, held Nixon back. Covert actions would be initiated elsewhere, however, and Nixon's

52:15 started viewing them as necessary. Nixon's desires were reinforced by a group assembled by old line man, Frank Wisner's guy, Franklin Lindsay. One of the out of business for several years had direct

52:45 He had become the head of ITEK, I-T-E-K Corporation, which was a contractor for equipment used in U.S. spy satellites. Now, I want to say this as well. ITEK, if you go back and look, this guy was in the CIA. He leaves, quote unquote, leaves the CIA and goes to work at this ITEK Corporation for CIA spy satellites.

53:19 There's a lot of people's opinion that's done research that iTech was a CIA proprietary, and he didn't actually leave the CIA, kind of like QNTEL. Lindsey took up the reins again briefly in 67 and 68 to lead a study group on covert operations.

53:55 Their work relevant to whomever wins the election in 68, which happened to be Richard Nixon. Under the Harvard Center of International Affairs, which is Henry Kissinger's CIA proprietary, Lindsay's group included old war horses Richard Bissell and Lyman Kirkpatrick. Again, they didn't leave. They just moved to proprietaries.

54:26 There were also Abrams Chains and Adam Yarmolinsky and academics like Samuel Huntington, Richard Neustadt, Lucian Pye, Roger Fisher, Edwin Reitzauer, and Max Milliken. The group finalized its report in December of 68 and gave it to Henry Kissinger's transition team.

54:57 This is crazy shit. The CIA proprietary Harvard Center for International Affairs, led by Henry Kissinger, produces a study and gives it back to the White House and pretends that it's not from the CIA, okay? And they're handing off Henry Kissinger's product to Henry Kissinger, who becomes the National Security Advisor.

55:31 So do you think it's going to say anything other than what the CIA and Henry Kissinger want it to say? Oh, my gosh. Dispensing of the traditional plausible deniability, the Lindsay Group advised the president to concern himself directly with covert operations. Well, wouldn't that be setting Richard Nixon up in a passage that no doubt.

56:02 resounded for Kissinger, the report advised Nixon to assign a senior aide with direct access to the president to oversee all covert operation. Kissinger, in fact, got that task in his role as national security advisor. Hey, my institution at Harvard, which is the CIA proprietary, is giving me a report that says you need to have a

56:31 representative that's going to be in charge of all covert operations. And I'm the guy. Imagine that. Holy shit. The Lindsay group, which should be the CIA group slash Kissinger group, viewed Richard Helms as an effective CIA director and saw no need to change. Again, Nixon played along. It also felt that the,

57:10 NSC Special Envoy Kissinger should be able to say no whenever he wanted to. An immediate program change seemed necessary, except that the group pushed hard for public funding for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. In general, the Lindsay report found that covert operations had little capacity to achieve important objectives and were best suited for tactical situations for long-term gains.

57:39 Cost included the danger that Americans could be seen, would see their country as engaging in dirty tricks abroad. Oh, maybe because they were. The weakening of American constitutional checks and balance through their being bypassed in these activities and damage to the international system from the evident of US interference in all of these activities. This is a quote.

58:05 The character of such secret intervention makes it difficult for the U.S. to justify it and reconcile it with the general principles of international behavior for which we stand, unquote. Whether the activities were exposed or not, there were risks and costs, the Lindsay report said, and it affirmed, as had previous reviews, the large-scale operations rarely remain secret. Nonetheless, the major reason to engage in these activities

58:35 remained the need to do things covertly. The cautious approach was quite evident. In the 74 survey, ranging over the many examinations of intelligence through the years, the CIA characterized the Lindsay report as concluding that there was no need for additional supervision, simply stricter internal controls. Langley's own study for the new administration

59:00 made out covert operations as designed to discredit the prestige and ideological of communism. You know, so we have to have them. Otherwise, we wouldn't have a free world. Richard Helms may have been gratified by the Lindsay's group recommendation that he be kept on. But in truth, Helms' appointment was a done deal. After his first transition meeting with Nixon at the LBJ Ranch,

59:30 Richard Nixon pulled Helms aside and told him that Nixon had asked and that he, Johnson, had recommended Helms as an effective spy boss. Later, Nixon summoned Helms to New York's Hotel Pierre for a lookover. Henry Kissinger, already with the president-elect, had known Helms since the Berlin Crisis of 61.

59:58 and seconded the recommendation. Although Nixon did not announce his selection until December 18th, Helms knew that he was going to remain at the CIA. Nixon reappointed Helms, but the president and Chief Spook were never comfortable together. Richard Nixon's memoirs say nothing of his opinion of Helms, but there were numerous comments in Nixon's conversation recorded on tape.

1:00:26 Helms had met Nixon as far back as the Hungarian uprising when he briefed the vice president before Nixon's trip to Austria. They did not cross paths again until now. Helms had no illusion. Reappointment, he writes, quote, did not shake any long standing impression of Nixon's opinion for the agency. Kissinger recorded.

1:00:52 that Nixon suspected Helms of being close to the circles that included some of his worst critics. That was true. But in fact, there were few people with whom Nixon was comfortable. The president intended to keep the CIA at arm's length, initially even excluding its director from his NSC meetings. Reminded that by law, the DCI advised the Council on Intelligence. Richard relented. Nixon.

1:01:25 relented enough to permit Helms to brief the NSC after which he was asked to leave. That clumsy procedure left the principals without answers to any questions and follow-up questions. That lasted less than two months. Nixon smoothed the rough edges by inviting everyone on the NSC to lunch with him after their next meeting. Helms then entered the fold

1:01:51 never knowing whether the president had merely forgotten his previous announcement. Later, Helms learned that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, whom Nixon needed and dared not cross, had issued an ultimatum that Helms had to be included. What? So the Secretary of Defense doesn't work for the president? That's weird.

1:02:20 But Kissinger demanded that all CIA material, intelligence operations, anything go to the president only through him. So Kissinger is the gatekeeper. Nixon continued to hold against Helms and the CIA what he fancied had been their responsibility for his loss in 1960 when JFK had talked on the Bay of Pigs and Nixon thought that it was Alan Dulles that had briefed him.

1:02:47 Later, Nixon demanded that the CIA declassify documents on Diem's assassination and the Bay of Pigs, which the president thought might discredit political opponents. When Helms refused, it became another black mark against him and the agency. Again, what the fuck? The president has ultimate declassification authority, and they just tell him no. What?

1:03:15 But on the afternoon of March 7th, 1969, Nixon helicoptered to Langley with Holmes to address senior leaders at the CIA. Quote, I look upon this organization as not one which is necessary for the conduct of conflict or war, or call it what you may.

1:03:37 But in the final analysis, one of the great instruments of our government for the preservation of peace, for the avoidance of war, and the development of a society in which this kind of thing would not be necessary, if necessary at all. Referring to the, quote, call it what you may, war, Nixon said, I think the American people need to understand the need for foreign policy options.

1:04:05 But there was little hope by 1969 that the public attitude towards covert operations would be as permissive as Nixon had been as vice president before the Bay of Pigs, the Congo, Vietnam, and the National Student Association Radio Free Europe exposures.

1:04:25 The 303 committee approved continued funding for selected Soviet immigrant groups and activities early in the Nixon administration. Then came the Green Beret murder case in Vietnam and revelations of the Laos secret war. In October 69, Kissinger issued a directive in Nixon's name of requiring covert actions normally approved by the 303 committee to be reviewed every year.

1:04:53 Two months later, extending Kennedy and Johnson's practice, Nixon reaffirmed that ambassadors were the leaders in their countries. They were to keep the CIA under control. As became the standard in the White House, in Nixon White House, the president's men then kept ambassadors and much of the rest of the government in ignorance as to what the chief executive had in mind.

1:05:17 Thus, an opening relation with China, for example, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, who rears his head again, who was Kissinger's deputy, another CIA guy, made a series of 1971 secret trips to prepare Nixon's way for a ceremonial visit to Beijing. The China secret affected CIA directly. In December of 71, Beijing suddenly released Richard Fectow.

1:05:49 One of the agency's officers captured in 52 as a goodwill gesture. Langley had no idea why that happened, and the second CIA prisoner, John Downey, stayed in jail, though with a reduced sentence. When the CIA learned of Nixon's China trip, it begged for help on its other prisoner. At the time, Downey's mother was ill and had little chance of surviving until his sentence ran out.

1:06:19 Meeting with Chinese leader Zhao Enzlei on February 25th, 72, Nixon intended to mention Downey. Zhao commented optimistically on a possible release, though he noted the absence of precedence for this between nations that had no diplomatic relations. Nothing happened. By November, Downey's mother had been confined to a home. NSC staff asked Nixon to revisit the issue.

1:06:47 The president used a news conference to admit publicly for the first time that Downey and Factow had been CIA officers and apologized for their presence in China. Downey was released in March of 73. I've read that book about, there's actually a book about their capture. They were there for 20 years after their plane was shot down in one of the, you know,

1:07:20 Thailand CIA operations. All right, that's going to do us for today. The one thing that you have to come away from this book with is what I've said for a very long time. The CIA does not work for the president. I guess maybe even the Secretary of Defense on occasion doesn't work for the president if he gets to call the shots. It's just absolutely crazy. And it goes to show you that

1:07:52 When you become president, and obviously that was not true, especially this term for Trump, the party and other outside influences basically decide who's going to work for you. Like Eisenhower just kept saying, he couldn't fire John Foster Dulles. He couldn't fire Alan Dulles.

1:08:23 powers to be out there obviously have a lot of sway on who gets hired into the administration. So, and I guess that's why you see so much pushback with the people that Trump's hired in his second administration, as opposed to his first administration, because they are obviously not picked by these people. Ron, go ahead.

1:08:54 Yeah, you know, if you go back and you listen to the secret society speech that JFK said, I mean, he said it right there. He's like, I'm not going to allow this to the extent that it is within my control. Yeah. I mean, he was acknowledging in 1962 or 61, rather, that he didn't have full control of the government. And he was the president. Yep. I agree. Hold on, Ron.

1:09:27 Go ahead, F.R. Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here on Spaces and on Rumble. I'm getting the impression that LBJ tried to control the CIA through the budget. That's the impression I'm getting. And I'm also wondering why in the world LBJ was so concerned with the budget, because when I look at 1968,

1:09:58 and what was going on during that time period, and the financial status of the United States, we were, how shall we say it, directly headed into inflation and everything else that went on shortly thereafter to pull us completely away from the gold standard. So I wonder if he had some other inside knowledge on the budget. I don't know.

1:10:30 A lot of the conversation around the budget has more to do with priorities as opposed to not wanting to spend more money. So I don't know. Somebody asked over on Rumble a book to read about Eisenhower.

1:11:00 You can't read a book about Eisenhower and get the real deal about Eisenhower. What you have to do is read about things that happened during his, like if you read the book, Killing Hope by Bloom, he talks about the covert operations that Eisenhower authorized. You have to read books about the events during that time.

1:11:29 that are written by non-approved authors, books that are attacked. Because what everybody wants you to believe about Eisenhower is that he was this great wartime general and he was this great president. But the actual truth is something very different. If you read about Operation Sunrise and his sending the...

1:11:58 General Lyman Limitsker to meet with Alan Dulles and arrange the rat lines of all of the Nazis that they wanted to protect so they could set up Operation Gladio. If you read about Operation Gladio, Paul Williams' book, and you understand how the whole thing was set up because Eisenhower basically became the first allied commander as they were setting NATO up.

1:12:24 And he oversaw the entire project of setting up these stay-behind units that were used for nefarious purposes. So I don't have a book primarily just about Eisenhower. I have all of my information about the stuff he did by reading other books of events that happened during his presidency and the transition immediately after World War II.

1:12:48 They gave safe haven to all of the Nazis. They had dedicated camps under army control of where they put these guys. And then in the case of Otto Skorzeny, allowed them just to walk out. So there's all kinds of other information that you have to get from other sources because most of the biographers of our...

1:13:14 general officers are telling you just the story they want told um ryan go ahead and then we'll go to poor hamster i was going to say if if you're just looking for like a almost a cliff notes um version of something you can read about eisenhower that's not really in depth but it gives you kind of a just a broad overview um actually mike king's book is

1:13:40 It's called I Don't Like Ike, and that actually gives you a – it's a pretty decent overview, but it's not going to go nearly into the detail that you would go into. But for somebody who's just looking for just like a Cliff Notes, that's one you can look up. Thank you. Warhamster, go ahead. Hey, I've been getting bounced in and out of the spaces, so if I cut off, I'm not going to try to come back. I'm getting dizzy already.

1:14:11 It's under attack. It always is. I don't know why that is. It's the first time I've had this issue on my phone, so we'll see how it goes. Well, you got to talk about one of my favorite buddies, Mr. Kissinger. I just want to reiterate a point that I'd like to drive home. Kissinger is one of the four people I call the four stooges of the Rockefellers from the late 60s and 70s. The other three were Brzezinski.

1:14:39 Marie Strong, who basically started the entire climate alarmism scam at the United Nations after making his fortune in energy in Canada. And the fourth, of course, is Marie Strong. I'm sorry, not Marie Strong, but Klaus Schwab, who started the World Economic Forum. So you got Kissinger, Brzezinski, Strong, and Klaus Schwab. So every time you say Kissinger's name, understand that he's got an absolute rat line directly to the Rockefellers, and that's who's calling the shots.

1:15:09 And he put that into perspective with how Nelson Rockefeller went up against Nixon in the 68 primaries lost. And then somehow Nixon was removed from office. We don't know why. And Rockefeller ended up getting into the VP spot. So there's a lot more to that. And when we get into the deeply, when we go deep into the foundations here in a couple months, I am going to give you the deepest dive into Kissinger. I think that maybe anyone's done.

1:15:38 But there's a lot there. I got the last half of today's episode of your reading. This is one of many exploits the celebrated Mr. Kissinger has been involved in. And it all ties back to the Rockefellers. And isn't that amazing? You know, when you understand that, I don't know if this guy,

1:16:08 Prados just didn't know if it had not been identified. Because, I mean, this book was not that old. That the institution that Kissinger ran at Harvard was a CIA proprietary. It was funded by the CIA. And Rockefellers were the ones behind Eisenhower with the Dulles brothers.

1:16:38 Another product of the Rockefellers and, you know, by default, the CIA, because anytime the Rockefellers wanted something, a government overthrown, the CIA did that. And so you have one of their disciples, basically, like the closest you can get to a president when it comes to foreign policy is the National Security Advisor.

1:17:03 And they are the gatekeeper for all of the CIA. And so you know that he was there basically as the handler of Nixon. And people might take exception to that, but that is 100% the case. Everything that he was a gatekeeper on all of these issues. And you wonder, looking back,

1:17:33 And again, that's the reason why Mike Flynn was never going to be allowed to be the national security advisor for Donald Trump during his first administration, because they hold the keys to so many things. And they would go to any extent at all to make sure that they have control over who that is. So just be advised that.

1:18:01 That's the case. Yeah, a couple more things real quick. Our friend RealDevian, at RealDevian on Twitter, just posted, Kissinger Fellowship at McCain Institute. Chairman of the fellowship was Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Chairman of the E.L. Rothschild LLC. Really nice find, Ortain Devian. That's a good dig. I'm going to have to look into that one. Yeah. But the other thing I wanted to say, well, two other things is,

1:18:29 Remind me, do the Rockefellers have anything to do with the foundation, the formation of the Council on Foreign Relations? Yeah, like everything. Exactly. And the other really neat thing about Kissinger is he basically worked for both Republican and Democrat administrations over the decades. And that's such a huge point that they were pulling the puppet strings with both hands.

1:18:54 And that goes to the whole point that we make all the time is that there's literally no difference. It is in name only. Yeah, it's problematic. Yeah. Renee, go ahead. Hey, happy Friday, everyone.

1:19:16 My phone is being a little wacky too, so if I get cut off, don't be surprised. Following up, Warhamster and Kissinger. Oh, by the way, well done with the City of London story on your show, Colonel and Warhamster today. Thank you for that. But I don't know if you have ever, you've probably heard it, I think I've posted it before.

1:19:42 about the John Coleman's, the committee of 300. But he's kind of got this wild, his theory of why they outed Nixon was kind of the city of London, the MI6, because, you know, he considered Kissinger and Haig, Alexander Haig, kind of agents of the Crown and Tavistock trained and everything.

1:20:12 And his theory was that the Watergate was a manufactured punishment to remove Nixon because of his movement against their drug trade in the French Connection scenario.

1:20:33 So I'll post a couple of the quotes from that book and his theory. But anyway, just wanted to share that with you because it also kind of ties in with what you posted yesterday about the great heroin coup. Yeah. Well done on that. That was a lot of great information and dot connecting. But.

1:20:55 Yeah, I'll share a couple excerpts in the pill of the Committee of 300, but it seemed to all tie together with what you posted yesterday, today, and my memory of the Committee of 300. And also, in some digging I had done before about P2 and the creation of, in that time zone, I stumbled across,

1:21:27 Haig and that scenario. So I'll have to, when I get home, I will open up my vault and see if I can find it of Alexander Haig's fingers in that dark pie over there. Colonel, can I address John Coleman? Sure. I love listening to John Coleman. You can find him, some of his videos on YouTube.

1:21:51 where I give pretty long speeches, stuff like that. I very much enjoy his very pleasant British accent, and the story he tells runs pretty close to what the colonel and I have been talking about. The Committee of 300, he's probably the only person ever to mention it, and the criticism of Coleman is that he doesn't actually document a lot of the stuff that he says, but he doesn't miss the mark by much. I mean, he's really close on how he understands things the same way we do.

1:22:19 He's gotten critique, and the better researchers out there have looked at his work and said, okay, it's a little shoddy, but it doesn't mean he's really off-base. But everything he says, you've got to take with a grain of salt and say, can you validate that elsewhere? I absolutely love listening to the guy. And like I said, he's not far off the mark at all. And I've never read the book. I've just watched the videos on it. But it's worth it. It's absolutely worth listening to.

1:22:47 Like I said, he's not far off the mark at all. But the Committee of 300 is basically what he's calling that is the same like the roundtable that actually did exist. And he's submitting one entity for the others. It seems like he almost omits the others. Correct me if I'm wrong. But again, he has faced some criticism. And although some of the criticism is fair because he doesn't document his work, the guy's not far from the truth. And go out and find those videos because he is a joy to listen to.

1:23:15 Yeah, I have his book. I've read his book, The Conspirator's Hierarchy, The Committee of 300. It's a fascinating book. That was probably, I read that book in the first year that I was doing this research. And his work is corroborated.

1:23:39 by other people's work. His work specifically, to Warhamster's point, that's true. But if you go off and do your own research on any one of his points, you're going to find, they of course called him a conspiracy theorist. But that's kind of high praise in this line of work. Travis, go ahead.

1:24:10 On the CIA U-2 flights over Israel, excuse me, a guy I used to know a long time ago used to fly U-2 flights, and he referred to, he would never say anything about where or when or anything. The only thing he ever said about it was chess.

1:24:43 What is what? So chess, as in, you know, the game, board game chess. So I looked up CIA Operation Chess. What I found was interesting. On the CIA.gov website, it states, the CIA never officially named the activities, but in 1955,

1:25:12 CIA Detachment A took over from Detachment B and started flying U-2 flights over the Middle East. They continued this from 1955 through 1967, quote, to study movements in the River Euphrates over time, end quote. While these operations were never officially named,

1:25:41 Confusion has arisen from the fact that the pilots referred to it as chess. Well, that document that I've been covering or that I've finished covering over on the premium side of Rumble actually has all of the U2.

1:26:04 Not all of them. I mean, the ones they disclosed in that document. And they show all of the flights going over Egypt, and they did it several times. So, yeah. Okay, I just wanted to say that it was highly likely that they were flying at the time of the Liberty incident.

1:26:31 Yeah, my point was, I agree with you. My point was that it's not in that document. They actually number all of the flights and they have at the end as an attachment, all of the ones that did fly and where they flew and where they took off from. And that's noticeably missing. And to me, when they had already ordered,

1:27:01 those flights in previous skirmishes, it's a big blank spot to me. So I don't have any confirmation that they did, but it stands out as a big blank spot because the height of everything, how do you two attach to it during that time, to your point? And so it is a...

1:27:31 It's kind of like the dog that didn't bark. It's noticeable by its absence. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. Ron, go ahead. Is that how is is the were the U2 flights how Kennedy knew about Demona? No, that's another big dog that didn't bark. So there's no evidence in that document.

1:28:00 that they flew over Israel for that reason, except when you read the entire document and you understand that by that point, they had it in the late 50s. They were flying over Russia with the technology to detect nuclear activity. So the aircraft was equipped.

1:28:29 with the ability to do that. And so again, why didn't they do it? Why is the whole conversation about denying people boots on the ground and there's absolutely zero information that Kennedy, and Kennedy directed U2s, he approved some of them as far as flights go, a number of them.

1:28:58 But if you're that concerned about the nuclear development of Israel, why wasn't U-2s flown over there? We flew over Russia and got shot down trying to find them. We flew over China trying to find them. But we're supposed to believe that, and I'm not saying he wasn't concerned in that he didn't say some of the things he did because he did. But why wasn't the U-2 sent over Israel for the exact same reason?

1:29:28 It literally makes no sense to me. Sean, go ahead. Hello, Colonel. Thanks for letting me speak. Yeah, I just wanted to ask you about the relationship between the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence services, and specifically about 9-11, you know, this attack that happened.

1:29:57 I just wondered because I've heard that Mossad basically were involved in that because America geographically, it's isolated from its enemies. It's just got Canada on the north and Mexico on the south, and there are no threats. So they're basically, because of geography, they're pretty safe. So Israel wanted to get America involved in a terrorist war because, as you know,

1:30:27 Israel has, since its inception, been involved in the terrorist war because it's surrounded by people who want to wipe it off the map. And here in Europe, God knows I'm Irish, so we went through a 30-year terrorist war with the provisional IRA in the north of Ireland going on. And you've got the Baader-Mein-Hefgang in Germany and the Basque separatists in Europe. So we were very familiar with terrorism.

1:30:57 But America was not because it's isolated by geography. So they wanted to drag America into a terrorist war to declare a war on terror. So basically, that's why they did that operation. What are your thoughts? So I view all of the intelligence agencies absent MI6 as siblings. MI6 is basically the dad.

1:31:27 existed um before all of the siblings were born after world war ii um the majority especially for something related to 9-11 um israel did not whatever their involvement was was not alone in doing that um absolutely not alone in doing that um the whoever did it did it with the knowledge

1:31:56 of the FBI and the CIA. There's been a lot of information that came out. The one FBI guy that was the most vocal about it before it was happening, that something was going to happen, ended up with a new job. And like his first day on the job, one of the towers was killed. So those types of operations

1:32:24 are not done in a foreign country without the knowledge of that foreign country to the extent that 9-11 happened. So it's, and that's kind of what this whole Operation Gladio research project has opened my eyes to the fact, just like the,

1:32:54 IRA in that whole, if you read, whose book is it? Cottrell's book about, I forget the name of it, but his book presents the argument that the IRA was in large part infiltrated by the British government.

1:33:21 so that they were basically exercising some control. And every time that they needed a distraction internally and domestically, something would flare up. That's not unlike in the United States. And because you're not here, maybe you're not aware of, we've had lots of terrorist activity in the United States. We had the weather underground. We had our Capitol bombed by them. Those types of,

1:33:51 terrorist operations without exception can be traced back to people being infiltrated into them. The same thing with Oklahoma bombing. There's always aspects of the intelligence agencies embedded in every single one of them.

1:34:13 So do they do those kind of things? And as a matter of fact, the Patriot Act was already written before 9-11. Peter Goss, the congressman from Florida, prior CIA guy, comes down here and gets elected to Congress through the governor. And he's sitting in Congress and shepherds through.

1:34:37 the Patriot Act in the House and then gets appointed to be the new CIA director. So this is a effort when things like that happen to orchestrate whatever's going to be implemented after the fact. So again, is it possible that Mossad was involved? Yes.

1:35:03 Could they have pulled that off without the complicity of the FBI and the CIA? Absolutely not. So that's my feeling about it. Ron, go ahead. Was the book you're thinking about the Irish Civil War? No. The guy Cottrell wrote a book about Gladio. I just don't remember the name. I'll find it. I was just going to say it was a small victory.

1:35:32 for the people against Kissinger in reference to 9-11 when Bush appointed him as the chairman of the 9-11 commission. And that lasted like maybe two weeks. And the people protested because they had dug up enough dirt and he had to resign because of conflict of interest. So, I mean, there are small victories out there. Yeah. The name of the book is Gladio Nato's.

1:36:02 Dagger at the Heart of Europe. And he goes through, there's also another book that talks about, and I don't have that book in here. It talks about the mafia running drugs out of Boston. And I don't know if Bridget remembers this because we came across this like at the very early stages of this.

1:36:32 because Cousin It is from that area up in Massachusetts. There was a mafia operation where they were running guns and drugs across the Atlantic into Ireland. And then one of the guys that was kind, the book is about him because he eventually starts talking.

1:37:00 and realized that the British government was overseeing the landing of these weapons that they thought they were sneaking to the Irish because these guys in the Boston area were the Irish sympathizers. So they were using drug money to buy weapons and take them over on ships thinking they were helping out the Irish.

1:37:26 One of the trips that the guy made, he realized that it was really being ported at a place that was controlled by the British. And he came back and was telling everybody in the U.S. that, hey, this is all bullshit. We're not actually helping out the Irish. They've been infiltrated over there and there's all kinds of nefarious things going on. It's a whole book written about this. I just don't have it.

1:37:55 Is that the Patriarchia Mafia Crime Family? No. No? I'm trying to find it for you. Yeah. But anyway. Okay. Let's see. There's somebody, Bridget, that was trying to get a mic. George Carlin. I love his name. Go ahead. How you doing, folks? I'm from Ireland.

1:38:50 You can hear probably on the international airwaves there with our government and our police and our army. Our government have decided to turn the army against its people and threaten the people. So we're not very happy about it. But I see your space here is the Colonel's Corner safe for democracy.

1:39:18 I have posed a solution to Ireland's problems and probably the world's problems there. There's this thing called a cleroterian. I've just stuck up a link there in the bottom pill. It's a video on Daily Motion there that explains what this is. This is what started off democracy. The Greeks used this.

1:39:47 back when democracy first started, to pick the first democratically elected government or state officials. So if you want to have a look at that there and discuss it amongst yourselves, because I believe all we need to do is remove every government around the world from power. Everyone is corrupt. And then use this to select democratically elected people then.

1:40:15 And that'll be the first time in any country's history since the Greeks that democracy was restored to the people. And I believe if you give people the power, the wisdom of the masses will sort out any problems that may arise. Yeah, I don't know if you're aware, but Safe for Democracy is actually the name of the book that we've been going through, written by John Prados. And so basically what we do.

1:40:44 is we just go through a series of books. We've probably done 15 or 20 of them. And we kind of learn together. The name of this book is kind of tongue in cheek because it exposes how the CIA has basically undermined democracy all over the world. Under the guise of making a country safe for democracy to thrive, they install military dictators.

1:41:14 after they overthrow the government that was actually a democracy that they just didn't like. So it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek thing. But to your point, I think all of the citizens of the different nations around the world have come to the conclusion that the majority of their government does not.

1:41:42 and has not for a very long time worked for the people, that they are in fact very corrupt. And I think that there's going to have to be a come to Jesus time for all of the people to be able to

1:42:05 For America, the only way that we're ever going to get our republic back is to get rid of electronic voting machines. I don't know how you vote in Ireland, but that's as corrupt as hell. Not for a lot of the reasons people run around on the internet saying, but they're absolutely corrupt.

1:42:28 And it is a way for them to formalize the selection of people as opposed to actually having safe and secure elections. And once they have control of the elections, and part of the book today was talking about the U.S. spending over $60 million.

1:42:49 over the course of 10 years to interfere in the Italian election. So God knows the last time Italy actually had a free and fair election because the CIA has been meddling in it. The first time they did it was in 1948, the year after they were created. They've been interfering in Italian elections the entire time. So I have no idea who was genuinely elected in Italy at any time because it was consistently undermined.

1:43:18 by external intelligence agencies with the knowledge of their own intelligence agency. It's plausible deniability. It isn't that the Italian intelligence agency didn't want it meddled with. They just wanted someone else to do it for them and pay for it. And that's what happened. So I don't know when the last time any of the European countries had free and fair elections. I don't know when the last time we did.

1:43:47 Brian, go ahead. I was going to say, I don't necessarily agree with what the gentleman just said. I think the very best that we could ever hope for is to just get the upper hand and try to hold it as long as possible, because corruption is going to exist at every level where there's bureaucracy. I mean, you've got corruption in HOAs.

1:44:11 Okay? I mean, you've got corruption in school boards. You've got corruption anytime there's a— That's why you minimize the size of it. It has to be the smallest possible thing to keep us out of anarchy. Yes, I agree with that. And all I'm saying, though, is I don't necessarily think that we can ever hope to be rid of corruption. I just don't think that's possible. But we can get ahead of it and minimize it to the best of our ability. And that was the point I wanted to make.

1:44:40 Yeah. McModern over on Rumble says, HOAs are horrible. I am just finishing up one long bit of HOA litigation and getting ready to jump to another, and we're winning. But I will never, ever have an HOA ever again. And to Ron's point, and we've talked about this quite a few times, Ron and I have, decentralize the corruption. It is human nature.

1:45:07 for people to try to take advantage of the situation. You decentralize the corruption. It can't hurt as many people. And most importantly, when you turn your government into a piggy bank, you're going to attract swine. Yes, 100%. And to your point, in the past, when America was decentralized, local justice mattered because people took it into their... And I'm not saying that they did bad things. I'm saying that...

1:45:36 shunning your neighbor, calling your neighbor out, neighbors basically stalking bad people that got in government and shaming them. And I don't mean like cyber stalking like they do today and threatening their lives. I'm talking about, they're not welcome to go in local restaurants. That's the kind of stuff that happened, you know, a hundred years ago in America that kept corruption to a minimum level.

1:46:06 you are always going to have some people doing shady shit. But when it is decentralized, like those guys that, where was it in Tennessee, where they found out that the sheriff was interfering in elections and they stormed the jailhouse and imprisoned the sheriff. And they found boxes of material that he had been interfering in the elections with.

1:46:35 That shit actually happens, and that is the best way to deal with it. George, go ahead. Yeah, thanks for letting me speak again. I'll just say to Ron and the lads there, just have a look at this democratic machine, because if you want to, it's only people that want power for themselves that don't want this machine, because...

1:47:05 The Greeks used this to start off democracy. If you want true and utter democracy, this is what this machine was designed for. You will get a government that you cannot corrupt. It cannot be bought. You cannot buy your way into it. You cannot corrupt it from the inside because you can have terms, limited terms. And you can also pick, not only the government,

1:47:35 But you can pick your judges for each county. You can pick your local councils using this machine. I'd advise everyone to look into this because this is the solution to everyone's problems. Everyone around the world, this is the solution to your problems. If you want real and true democracy, this is the machine. Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to take a step back. So that's what I'm doing here. And I'd advise everyone to look into this thing. And thanks for letting me speak there, Carla. Sure.

1:48:03 George, I absolutely love the Irish accent, but my name is Brady because I'm half Irish. My mom gave me an Irish name, and I've always had a real soft spot for the Irish. That being said, we don't want a democracy here. Democracy is a mob rule. We want a constitutional republic that has some democratic principles. And the word democracy makes me cringe every single time. This whole rules-based liberal world order.

1:48:30 post-World War II, and trying to spread democracy. Not all cultures can have democratic principles. It doesn't work everywhere. They have different cultures. They have different backgrounds. But to think that democracy is one person, one vote, all that stuff, that is not even remotely what we want. What we want is a set of rules that everybody has to follow and the rights of the minority, every single individual's rights are protected. Not 50% plus one get to take away your rights because that's where democracy ends up being. It becomes mob rule.

1:48:59 You want a government, we all should want a government where everybody's individual rights are the most important thing, period. And the government can never take that away because if one person loses their rights, we all do. I agree 100% with you. I agree 100% with you. And I believe in the wisdom of the masses. If you believe in the Bible, you should believe in the wisdom of the masses. And the wisdom of the masses is a lot more precise than any one man or any group of men on this planet.

1:49:29 So I believe in Jesus Christ and I trust the Lord Jesus Christ to guide us. As a fellow Christian, I salute you. And I'll just say that the masses have a tendency to get things wrong and they can be misled. That's why you have to have the ironclad rules in place, which is what a written constitution is all about. Unfortunately, we found ways around it. And people are always going to do that. When the government gets big, the temptation is so large that people are going to say, look, we can turn this to our advantage.

1:49:57 All we have to do is twist a few words, you know, go out and do some propaganda and convince a bunch of people. Maybe we'll just, you know, upend the entire education system so we don't even know or we don't learn about our real past and everything like that. And, you know, like the colonel I talked about today, you know, America was, you know, we got a lot of our ideas from the United Kingdom. There were some good things that came out of the British Empire and it wasn't all terrible. And a lot of them were really some of the most advanced.

1:50:29 sociological advances we've ever seen in terms of how human beings should interact with each other under the rule of law. I have to take exception to the word democracy because it's so misused, the term. It's a good idea for everyone to have a voice, but not necessarily the way we've been exercising that. And thinking that democracy is the end.

1:50:52 No, it's just a ways to get to the end. The end is having just government where our individual rights are preserved. Sorry for the lecture. I agree 100%. I agree 100%. And that's exactly what I want as well. That's exactly what I want. And I believe, giving the power back to the people, they will end up in that situation where they have a democratically elected government that will...

1:51:18 You can change the laws then. Once the corruption has gone out of it, each of you in your own countries can decide what's what. It sure sounds like you guys are going to put that to the test here pretty soon. I just read over the weekend, or just this week, that the Irish military and the police are going after the good protesters, and yet they won't touch the foreign invaders. Is that correct? Yes, 100%. Look, I want every single person that came in here in the last 20 years, I want them out of Ireland.

1:51:50 How can I help? Yeah, yeah. You see, this is why I'm doing what I'm doing. I'm talking in Irish spaces. I host my own Irish space there as well. And we are trying to organize, but there's so much infiltration that's going on in these groups. So what we're trying to do is get our American friends across the water there to spread the word there amongst their

1:52:18 If you can get some mention on the local news over there to the Irish diaspora, that would be fantastic. If you could, you'd be helping us out greatly. George, I just gave you a follow. If you don't mind following back, please invite me to one of your spaces. I'd love to listen in and maybe partake in the future. Yeah, no problem. Listen, thanks for letting me speak there, Colonel. I won't have the space anymore. God bless everyone there. And we will be good and God wins in the end. Absolutely. Okay.

1:52:49 Anybody else have anything? Ron, go ahead. Hey, what you were talking about earlier was the Battle of Athens. It happened in 1946. All these World War II veterans came back and they found that all the sheriff and the whole freaking county was corrupt as hell. And all the World War II veterans got together and they said, no, we ain't going to have this anymore. So they freaking rose up and they overthrew everything. So it is possible. It is possible.

1:53:22 And, and, and, uh, and I did the same thing, uh, Warhamster with, uh, um, uh, I, I followed George as well. So. Okay. All right. That's it for Friday night, guys. Um, we're going to hop off here. Um, I will probably do another, um, premium thing tonight, um, later on, but, um, thanks everybody for being here. I really appreciate it and God bless everybody. Have a nice weekend. Um, and take care.

1:53:53 And good luck in Ireland. Take care.

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Claims made here

CIA funded National Student Association documented ▶ 1:06

“obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CI…”

CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom documented ▶ 1:06

Cord Meyer member_of CIA documented ▶ 2:08

“Embarrassed at the time, Langley had not done enough to alter its arrangements. Why change something that's been working for you for decades? One of Cord Meyer's subordinates, the chief of the program…”

CIA funded Radio Free Europe documented ▶ 2:08

CIA funded Ford Foundation documented ▶ 2:37

“Radio Liberty, and other projects. Soon the papers were full of diagrams tying the CIA to the private institutions, and private is in air quotes, not just the radios, but cultural groups, including th…”

CIA front_for Radio Free Europe documented ▶ 7:21

“That mentioned CIA's idea of a golden parachute, which would have at least eliminated current funding problems. The CIA argued that the radios were not really private voluntary organizations like the …”

Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Radio Free Europe documented ▶ 7:51

“So there really wasn't any private funding coming in at all. When the news appeared, CIA's Radio Free Europe connection garnered wide attention. By November, the president had had his bill. After one …”

Richard Helms appointed Cord Meyer documented ▶ 12:39

“They'll audit you and me, but not CIA proprietaries. The Ramparts flap marked a sea change for the agency, ending Frank Wisner's fabled Wurlitzer. Two years later, Cord Meyer went to London as the sta…”

CIA funded Radio Free Europe documented ▶ 13:12

“And we'll use air quotes there. In January of 71, New Jersey Senator Clifford Case proposed legislation creating a board of international broadcasting to oversee the radios. For the first time, the go…”

Clifford Case funded Radio Free Europe documented ▶ 13:42

“ever formally considering the expenditure. The case proposal provided $30 million in 72 and temporary policy guidance from the State Department until the board became established. Hearings before the …”

John F. Kennedy appointed Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board documented ▶ 14:40

“what had now become the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, and he called it a watchdog group, specifically to head off congressional efforts to substitute a formal oversight mechanism. Failure …”

Andrew Talley exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 15:11

“Until the New York Times series in 1966, Langley had followed a strategy of attempting to discredit and minimize public discussion of intelligence issues, particularly those involving covert operation…”

Haynes Johnson exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 15:40

“no doubt to counteract the negative publicity from the Cuban failure. The major exposés of the CIA that emerged during that period, Hayes Johnson's book, The Bay of Pigs, and David Weiss and Thomas Ro…”

Thomas Ross exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 15:40

David Weiss exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 15:40

Paul Blackstock exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 16:10

“Perhaps it's not surprising that few academics and observers who followed intelligence at the time stood for greater openness and oversight. As early as 1958, Harry Howell Ransom had gone on record in…”

Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Harry McPherson Jr. documented ▶ 18:39

“Wasn't Johnson just in the Senate? Yeah, but he doesn't want the Senate to know what the CIA is doing. Mansfield developed a further compromise that added a couple members of the Foreign Relations Com…”

Richard Helms succeeded William Colby documented ▶ 20:07

“When the NSC aide, Rostow, who replaced Bundy, told Johnson that Fulbright was unhappy and didn't understand why the foreign relations should be denied access, the president scrolled at the bottom of …”

Richard Helms appointed CIA documented ▶ 20:37

“A few weeks later, when Richard Helms succeeded to the top of the CIA job, advice continued to flow from the White House political assistant, Bill Moyer. You know, the guy that pretends to be a report…”

Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Bill Moyers documented ▶ 20:37

CIA carried_out_attack MKUltra host_asserted ▶ 22:59

“took advantage of all of this. In 1966, Richard Helms went to Capitol Hill with his deputy director for science and technology, which are the same people that did MKUltra, by the way, and in a collect…”

Dean Rusk member_of 208 Committee book_quoted ▶ 26:56

“The people who made the choices, of course, were the members of the 303 Committee, LBJ's renamed special group. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may not speak for all the principals who participated, but …”

208 Committee funded Oxcart documented ▶ 33:07

“That was not the original identifier. It was supposed to be RS-71. I thought that was funny. In 67, when the CIA wanted to use Oxcart over North Vietnam, the group considered that too. No one hesitate…”

208 Committee approved USS Liberty incident host_asserted ▶ 34:34

“Every time that ship sailed anywhere, it was done with the approval of the 303 committee. A lot of people don't know that. The Liberty was considered a ship equivalent to the U-2. The U-2 flew no miss…”

208 Committee handled Oxcart documented ▶ 35:05

“to the Israeli-Egyptian coast when it went. From the beginning of 1967 through May of 68, the 303 Committee handled five proposals for specialized use of submarines, seven for the U-2, eight for the O…”

208 Committee approved Forbes Burnham documented ▶ 38:08

“These figures bear that out. Several of the status reports to the 303 concerned Guyana. In March of 67, the CIA proposed a new covert operation to influence the next election. In other words, rig it, …”

Dean Rusk expressed_doubts Operation Night Bolt documented ▶ 43:03

“As Richard Helms pointed out to Walt Ristow, Russ worried about the fallout in Congress if the operation was blown, not the project itself or its objectives. That December, Nick Krachenbach told the 3…”

Richard Nixon selected Henry Kissinger documented ▶ 49:45

“especially the advisor for national security and his NSC staff. For his purpose, Nixon selected Henry Kissinger as the security advisor. Adept at maneuvering and fighting the political alleyways of Wa…”

Franklin A. Lindsay headed International Telephone and Telegraph documented ▶ 52:45

“He had become the head of ITEK, I-T-E-K Corporation, which was a contractor for equipment used in U.S. spy satellites. Now, I want to say this as well. ITEK, if you go back and look, this guy was in t…”

Franklin A. Lindsay led Lindsay Group documented ▶ 53:19

“There's a lot of people's opinion that's done research that iTech was a CIA proprietary, and he didn't actually leave the CIA, kind of like QNTEL. Lindsey took up the reins again briefly in 67 and 68 …”

Lindsay Group included Jean Kirkpatrick documented ▶ 53:55

“Their work relevant to whomever wins the election in 68, which happened to be Richard Nixon. Under the Harvard Center of International Affairs, which is Henry Kissinger's CIA proprietary, Lindsay's gr…”

Lindsay Group included Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented ▶ 53:55

Henry Kissinger headed Harvard Center for International Affairs host_asserted ▶ 53:55

Lindsay Group gave_report_to Henry Kissinger documented ▶ 54:26

“There were also Abrams Chains and Adam Yarmolinsky and academics like Samuel Huntington, Richard Neustadt, Lucian Pye, Roger Fisher, Edwin Reitzauer, and Max Milliken. The group finalized its report i…”

Lindsay Group included Richard Neustadt documented ▶ 54:26

Lindsay Group included Edwin Reitzauer documented ▶ 54:26

Lindsay Group included Max Millikan documented ▶ 54:26

Lindsay Group included Samuel P. Huntington documented ▶ 54:26

Lindsay Group advised Richard Nixon documented ▶ 55:31

“So do you think it's going to say anything other than what the CIA and Henry Kissinger want it to say? Oh, my gosh. Dispensing of the traditional plausible deniability, the Lindsay Group advised the p…”

Henry Kissinger seconded_recommendation Richard Helms documented ▶ 59:30

“Richard Nixon pulled Helms aside and told him that Nixon had asked and that he, Johnson, had recommended Helms as an effective spy boss. Later, Nixon summoned Helms to New York's Hotel Pierre for a lo…”

Lyndon B. Johnson recommended Richard Helms documented ▶ 59:30

Richard Nixon reappointed Richard Helms documented ▶ 59:58

“and seconded the recommendation. Although Nixon did not announce his selection until December 18th, Helms knew that he was going to remain at the CIA. Nixon reappointed Helms, but the president and Ch…”

Richard Nixon excluded Richard Helms documented ▶ 1:00:52

“that Nixon suspected Helms of being close to the circles that included some of his worst critics. That was true. But in fact, there were few people with whom Nixon was comfortable. The president inten…”

Melvin Laird issued_ultimatum Richard Helms documented ▶ 1:01:51

“never knowing whether the president had merely forgotten his previous announcement. Later, Helms learned that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, whom Nixon needed and dared not cross, had issued an ultim…”

Henry Kissinger demanded Richard Nixon documented ▶ 1:02:20

“But Kissinger demanded that all CIA material, intelligence operations, anything go to the president only through him. So Kissinger is the gatekeeper. Nixon continued to hold against Helms and the CIA …”

Henry Kissinger issued_directive 208 Committee documented ▶ 1:04:25

“The 303 committee approved continued funding for selected Soviet immigrant groups and activities early in the Nixon administration. Then came the Green Beret murder case in Vietnam and revelations of …”

China released Richard Fectow documented ▶ 1:05:17

“Thus, an opening relation with China, for example, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, who rears his head again, who was Kissinger's deputy, another CIA guy, made a series of 1971 secret trips to prep…”

Henry Kissinger made_secret_trips_to China documented ▶ 1:05:17

Richard Nixon met_with Zhou Enlai documented ▶ 1:06:19

“Meeting with Chinese leader Zhao Enzlei on February 25th, 72, Nixon intended to mention Downey. Zhao commented optimistically on a possible release, though he noted the absence of precedence for this …”

China released John Downey documented ▶ 1:06:47

“The president used a news conference to admit publicly for the first time that Downey and Factow had been CIA officers and apologized for their presence in China. Downey was released in March of 73. I…”

William Black exposed Dwight D. Eisenhower book_quoted ▶ 1:11:00

“You can't read a book about Eisenhower and get the real deal about Eisenhower. What you have to do is read about things that happened during his, like if you read the book, Killing Hope by Bloom, he t…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of Operation Sunrise host_asserted ▶ 1:11:58

“General Lyman Limitsker to meet with Alan Dulles and arrange the rat lines of all of the Nazis that they wanted to protect so they could set up Operation Gladio. If you read about Operation Gladio, Pa…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:11:58

Lyman Lemnitzer recruited Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 1:11:58

Rockefeller Foundation funded Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 1:16:08

“Prados just didn't know if it had not been identified. Because, I mean, this book was not that old. That the institution that Kissinger ran at Harvard was a CIA proprietary. It was funded by the CIA. …”

John Coleman exposed Committee of 40 host_asserted ▶ 1:21:51

“where I give pretty long speeches, stuff like that. I very much enjoy his very pleasant British accent, and the story he tells runs pretty close to what the colonel and I have been talking about. The …”

CIA carried_out_attack Operation Chaos documented ▶ 1:25:12

“CIA Detachment A took over from Detachment B and started flying U-2 flights over the Middle East. They continued this from 1955 through 1967, quote, to study movements in the River Euphrates over time…”

CIA carried_out_attack Italy host_asserted ▶ 1:42:49

“over the course of 10 years to interfere in the Italian election. So God knows the last time Italy actually had a free and fair election because the CIA has been meddling in it. The first time they di…”

United States founded United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:49:57

“All we have to do is twist a few words, you know, go out and do some propaganda and convince a bunch of people. Maybe we'll just, you know, upend the entire education system so we don't even know or w…”

United Wa State Army overthrew Athens guest_asserted ▶ 1:52:49

“Anybody else have anything? Ron, go ahead. Hey, what you were talking about earlier was the Battle of Athens. It happened in 1946. All these World War II veterans came back and they found that all the…”