The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15

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0:00 Okay, we need to get started. Let me get us live over here on Rumble so we can get started. There's Miss Bridget. All right, we're starting chapter 13 labeled Dangerous Ideas. This part of the book starts on March 12, 1956.

0:38 Galendez, a lecturer in Spanish and government at Columbia University, finished leading a graduate seminar at Hamilton Hall and headed home. One of his students offered to drive him to the Columbus Circle subway so he could take a downtown train to his Greenwich Village apartment. He was never seen again.

1:06 Galendez was a 40-year-old bachelor, popular with his students, born to a prominent family in Spain and educated as a lawyer. During the Spanish Civil War, he had fought against Franco's fascists. After Franco triumphed, he fled for his life to France and booked passage on a ship to the Dominican Republic.

1:35 where strongman Rafael Trujillo had promised sanctuary to Spanish exiles. Arriving in late 1939 in Santo Domingo, the capital city, which the dictator had renamed after himself, Galindez found work as a professor of history and languages, and later as a government advisor.

2:03 Yeah, there we go. But he and most of his fellow Spanish refugees soon discovered that they had left the frying pan and jumped into the fire. Rafael Trujillo had ruled the Dominican Republic since the 1930s, a reign of terror that combined equally measures of violence and pageantry.

2:30 His theater of blood included the horrific 1937 mass slaughter of thousands of Haitian immigrant workers, including women and children, many of which were hacked to death. His political enemies were rounded up and tortured in concentration camps. Others were assassinated and their bodies displayed at festivals, like the murdered rebel leader Enrique Blanco.

3:00 whose corpse was tied to a chair and paraded through his hometown where the peasant followers were forced to dance. Those who fell into disfavor in the regime lived in mortal fear of being denounced in the notorious gossip column of the leading government newspaper. The denunciations could ruin careers and destroy lives. It was a method of execution that was slower and more perverse.

3:31 than being shot, beaten to death, or fed to sharks, all of which happened. He was the master of fear. During the later years of his regime, which continued until the 1950s, all it took to spread panic in the Capitol was for one of his security cars to crawl through a neighborhood. The black VW Beetles created a suffocating sensation that he was watching.

4:03 He was also infamous for his official larceny, taking over all of the country's core industries, including oil, cement, meat, sugar, rice, and even prostitution. Now, normally, if those were owned by the U.S. government, he would have been overthrown, but he wasn't. Running the Dominican economy was a family business.

4:31 He amassed a personal fortune that made him the wealthiest man in Latin America. Trujillo's sexual appetites were equally large, earning him the title the goat on the streets. He plowed his way through three wives, two mistresses, and countless young women whose physical charms briefly captivated him. He, whose mother was a Haitian mulatto,

5:01 He was attracted to white, plump women. His 1929 wedding to socialite Benavida Ricardo, he horrified the guests, which were among the Dominican's high societies, by cutting the wedding cake with a military sword, sending the tower of cake crashing to the floor.

5:37 was basically a very base kind of man. He was gross. But he had won admiration among the poor and uneducated in the society at the time. He was especially popular among men who admired his naked ambition and sexual prowess. He was an earlier version of a gangster.

6:09 Trujillo also provided thousands of young men from the lower orders, including blacks and other traditional outcasts, a path upward by expanding the civil service as well as the military, transforming his army into the second most powerful in Latin America after Venezuela. Trujillo further ensured his control over the palace by courting the powerful giant to the north.

6:37 pledging his nation's allegiance to the United States, especially during World War II and the Cold War, and showering money on Washington politicians and lobbying firms. His courtship with Washington paid off, which was why he was allowed to stay. By 1955, John Foster Dulles' State Department was celebrating the strongman as one of the hemisphere's foremost spokesmen against.

7:09 communism. That same year, Vice President Nixon visited the Dominican Republic and made a very public display of embracing him. The U.S. should overlook the notorious defects of the Dominican dictator Nixon later advised Eisenhower's cabinet, because after all, they have many talents, but government is not one of them. Trujillo himself was too thuggish a character to work his way into polite company.

7:40 at home, or abroad. But by the 50s, his roguish social circle had produced several personalities smooth enough to be embraced by the international jet set, including his first daughter, Flora D. Ora, and the suave ladies' man that she once married to and never got over, who was, I'm going to butcher this guy's name.

8:12 and Perferio Rubirosa. He was a leading symbol of Dominican masculinity on the world stage. Rubirosa started his career as a military aide to Trujillo, parlaying his connections, good looks, and elegance into becoming one of the most

8:41 celebrated Latin lovers of his day. He was referred to as the Dominican Don Juan or Caribbean Castanova. Rubiroso, affectionately known as Ruby, was the son that Trujillo had always wanted, polished against his crude style. The dictator, like the rest of the Dominican male populace,

9:11 reveled in the tales of Ruby's romantic exploits. The playboy had passionate affairs with blonde movie goddess like Kim Novak and courted some of the world's richest women, including American heiress Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton, both of whom he eventually married. Some in high circles sneered at Ruby, saying that he was unworthy.

9:41 Hutton was particularly graphic about his appeal of the sexual nature. We'll just leave it at that. This was the Dominican imagery of lusty and glamorous that Trujillo wanted to project to the world, particularly the U.S. Maintaining this positive image of vitality with his neighbors to the north was not simply a matter of ego gratification for the dictator.

10:12 $25 million a year in foreign aid, most of which ended up in his overseas foreign bank accounts. The CIA further enriched the dictator with several secret payments, delivering suitcases stuffed with cash when he came to visit the UN because they were using the Dominican Republic as a terrorist training camp and narco-trafficking. While Trujillo succeeded in crushing dissent at home,

10:45 By 1956, there was one man, Jesus D. Galenza, who in the dictator's mind threatened his regime. Galenza, who lived in a book-stuffed apartment on Fifth Avenue and enjoyed going to Latin dance clubs at night, did not strike his academic colleagues as a big threat. But to Trujillo, he was a treacherous serpent who was poisoning public opinion against his regime.

11:15 Not long before he vanished, he had completed a damning 750-page dissertation on the dictator called the Heir of Trujillo and had submitted it as part of his PhD at Columbia. Scholarly theses do not normally incite violent passions, but Trujillo knew that Galenza, who had worked in Dominican civil service and had inside information,

11:43 about his regime was a threat. He viewed it as a betrayal. Trujillo's agents tried to convince Galinza to sell the manuscript to them, offering as much as $25,000, but he refused. The dictator decided that left him only one course of action. Galinza saw his scholarly expose of the tyranny as part of a broader campaign of popular liberation. In the mid-1950s,

12:14 Iron-fisted regimes like Trujillo dominated Latin America with dictators ruling 13 of the 20 nations, thanks in some part to the CIA. The Eisenhower administration found these despots to be useful Cold War allies. They allowed U.S. corporations to exploit these nations' peoples and resources. They cracked down on labor agitation and social unrest.

12:45 But Galenza's scholarly activism, which included numerous magazine articles and pamphlets that he published in Mexico and the U.S., attacking the Trujillo regime and championing human rights in Latin America, was challenging this order. It was his experience as an exiled Spanish freedom fighter that, said Galenza, that made him deeply sympathetic to the social struggles.

13:16 His own people doomed crusade for self-determination made the problems of Puerto Ricans in New York or the drumbeat of black Caribbeans reverberate inside of him. Galenza's life in New York as a politically active refugee at the height of the Cold War was a complex web. In addition to his activism against Trujillo, the scholar served as the U.S. representative to the Spanish government in exile.

13:46 maintained an ambitious relationship with U.S. security officials. His escape to the U.S. in 1946 was no doubt made smoother by the fact that he had been secretly working as an informant for the FBI during the war, passing along information of suspicious pro-Nazi activity in the Caribbean. After he arrived in New York, the Bureau asked him to spy on communist affiliated members.

14:14 of the anti-Franco resistance in the U.S. In May of 1951, the special agent in charge of the Bureau's New York FBI office told Hoover that Galenza was an invaluable informant whose reports were extremely detailed, accurate, and thorough. The FBI reports on Galenza also noted that the Spanish exile community was strongly critical of U.S. policy

14:44 in the eisenhower dallas air he had heard denouncing he had been heard denouncing the administration for supporting the admission of franco spain into the un and for backing latin dictators like samosa in april of 55 galindez

15:08 told his FBI informant in Miami that since John Foster Dulles entered the picture, the U.S. had started to write the blackest pages of international relations. Never before in the history of the world has one single government more effectively supported dictatorial powers in free nations, which we know to be a fact. Despite this scathing remark about Eisenhower-Dulles policy,

15:33 which made their way to his FBI files, the Bureau continued to have confidence in him, paying the lecturer up to $125 a month plus expenses for his information. The FBI also helped him gain permanent residence in the U.S. The activist intellectual placed limits on what he would do for the FBI.

16:00 He refused, for example, to publicly testify against suspected communists in the anti-Franco movement, arguing that it would blow his cover. He was clearly playing a deeply intricate game of exile politics, perhaps believing that his relationship with the FBI would offer him protection. He was wrong. But the Bureau knew that he was not safe. On March 6, 1956, five days before he disappeared,

16:28 An FBI official noted in a memo that his dissertation on Trujillo may involve informant and personal difficulties. This matter will be watched closely and the Bureau kept advised. Not closely enough. Galendez was well aware of his perilous situation. Trujillo maintained a network of agents in the U.S.

16:56 And they had already killed at least one opponent of his regime in New York. Strange notes were slipped into his books on campus and disturbing phone calls were made to his home. One day, two rough-looking Dominicans in bright tropical shirts sat in the back of his classroom. But it was not Trujillo's thugs who were responsible for his disappearance in the march after his final class.

17:28 Kidnapping was a sophisticated operation ran by Robert Mayhew, M-A-H-E-W, the guy we've come across repeatedly, the CIA. He was a private detective firm staffed with former, quote, and I'm going to use air quotes, former CIA and FBI.

17:55 That the intelligence agency used as a cutout to do dirty jobs on U.S. soil, where the CIA was, quote unquote, forbidden to operate, but did so anyway. Grabbed by Mayhew's agents who were waiting for him at his apartment, he was drugged and carried into an ambulance and then driven to a small airport on Long Island. He was loaded into the aircraft.

18:22 that was especially equipped to fly long distances, stopping for refueling after midnight in West Palm Beach before continuing on to the Dominican Republic. After landing, Galendez, still half-conscious, was transported to the dictator's favorite hideaway. There, Trujillo, dressed in a riding outfit, confronted the traitor with the evidence of his betrayal, a copy of the dissertation, which the agents had stolen.

18:51 He demanded that he eat it. The dazed Galendaz took the pile of papers, but could not keep hold of them, letting them fall to the floor as his head slumped to his chest. The dictator screamed at him and started beating him with a riding crop. Galendaz was taken to a torture chamber in the city's capital, where he was stripped, handcuffed, and hoisted on a pulley. He was then slowly lowered into boiling water.

19:22 What remained of him was thrown to the sharks. The abduction of the Columbian University academic from the streets of Manhattan is the first flagrant example of what would become known as the War on Terror. With bureaucratic banditry as extraordinary rendition, the secret CIA practice of kidnapping enemies of Washington and turning them over to merciless security machines

19:51 in undisclosed foreign locations. During his final semester, Galendez mentioned several times that he was being threatened by Trujillo's people. Marie Joy, one of his students, thought that he was showing off, but later after she read about his disappearance, she was horrified, not only because he had vanished, but because something like this could happen in the United States. If this can happen here, what is left, she wrote. There was a flurry of public...

20:21 public concern over his disappearance. On April 24th, a group of Colombian university professors asked the Justice Department to investigate charges that the Trujillo regime had assassinated their colleague. The following day, the case worked its way into the President Eisenhower's press conference when a reporter asked if the administration planned to examine whether the agents of a dictatorship which enjoys diplomatic immunity

20:50 are assassinating persons under the protection of the U.S. Eisenhower replied that he didn't know anything about it, but he would definitely look into it. But in truth, the CIA had already moved swiftly to shut down the case. New York Police Department officials informed the disappearance was a highly sensitive national security issue. Put the case in the hands of the Bureau of Special Services, referred to as BOSS. The New York...

21:20 Police Department's intelligence section, the CIA, which had no jurisdiction to investigate domestic crimes, used secret police units like BOSS to take charge of delicate investigations within the border that they were involved with. And we've seen this repeatedly, as we did with the Dallas police force, which half of the officers was in the secret.

21:49 488th Military Intelligence Unit. The same thing happened in LA. This is a pattern. Dulles himself communicated the importance of the Galindas case to the NYPD, asking police officials to send a detective to the Scholar's Greenwich Village apartment to retrieve the contents of his briefcase. Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy

22:18 made sure the CIA's director's request was carried out, and the papers inside of his briefcase was delivered to Dulles himself. Kennedy made it clear to the detective that he was to keep his mouth shut about the errand. John Frank, the Mayhew operative who organized the kidnapping, was closely connected to some of the principal boss inspectors working the case. Frank was a shrewd operator who, like Mayhew himself,

22:48 had begun his career as an FBI agent during World War II before going to work for the CIA. The 42-year-old Frank lived in Washington where Mayhew's detective agency was based, but he kept an office in Trujillo's salmon-colored Italian Renaissance-style palace. Isn't that interesting? As the high-paying dictator became an increasingly important client of the Mayhew.

23:20 firm. Frank won the trust of Trujillo, who made him his bodyguard during state visits to Europe and the U.S. Mayhew's agency was also given a lucrative contract to upgrade his security in the Dominican Republic. Frank liked to play tennis with friends in the spy set and boasted of reading Voltaire in French. He was not part of the CIA's Georgetown inner circle.

23:51 Men like Frank and his boss, Mayhew, were CIA contractors entrusted with the agency's most risky and squalid task. They were not the sort of men to play tennis on Allen Dulles' backyard court. Mayhew later claimed that the Mission Impossible TV series was based on his firm's exploits, a secret team whose actions would be disavowed by the government should any of them be caught or killed. They were expendable.

24:22 Bob Mayhew fit the profile of an FBI gumshoe more than a CIA spook. He was eager to please his audience, but his eyes could go suddenly dead and his jaw could become grimly set. He came from humble beginnings of a devout Catholic French-Canadian immigrant who ran a small bottling company in a Maine mill town, graduating from Holy Cross and then

24:50 Georgetown Law and getting hired as a field agent by the FBI, where he worked on sensitive national security cases during the war. But Mayhew was not content to stay on under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership. In 1954, he opened up his own security business with the CIA, which put him on a $500 a month retainer as his leading client.

25:22 The CIA used Mayhew and associates as a front, putting undercover agents on his staff. The agency also directed a stream of highly sensitive and rewarding contracts to Mayhew, including a major job for a Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos that established the company as a leading player in the security field. Mayhew's firm was hired to help sabotage an agreement between

25:52 Nayarko's business rival, Onassis, and the Saudi royal family that the international oil cartel and the Dulles brothers feared would corner the oil shipping business and harm their customers' interest. The oil caper involved a series of shady maneuvers aimed at smearing the operation of Onassis and perhaps even more ruthless actions to eliminate supporters.

26:21 of the Onassis deal in the Saudi royal court. After the successful resolution of the case, a grateful Nyarkos gave Mayhew a big bonus, which was a Cadillac and a split-level house in Sleepy Hollow, Virginia. Mayhew would become the top paid security contractor in the country, taking on confidential missions for Vice President Nixon, Howard Hughes,

26:51 who later hired him to run his Las Vegas empire. Despite his success, Mayhew liked to say that he never forgot where he came from. Mayhew did not socialize with the top CIA men like Helms and Angleton and Wisner. He met Dulles only once. He said it was an accident. There was something about the Dulles brothers' cozy power act that did not set well with Mayhew. I always resented the fact that Alan Dulles' brother was Secretary of State.

27:22 You can't have respect for the diplomatic pouch and be in the intelligence business at the same time. The State Department should have to know how you got the information. It was his CIA handler, Sheffield Edwards, who ran the agency's security office. And Edwards' deputy, Jim O'Connell, whom Mayhew trusted, invited to his home.

27:50 These were the cops of the CIA, tough men, many of them FBI and Catholic, who, like Mayhew, were not afraid to get their hands dirty. The CIA had an elite reputation within the organizations. There was a distinct class system, Ivy League types on top and ex-FBI hard guys and former cops in the middle, and even more ruthless, disposable hired guns at the bottom.

28:20 On Saturdays, Mayhew would invite Edwards, O'Connell, and other Washington security types like Scott McCloy, the zealous anti-communist watchdog who had been hired by John Foster Dulles to clean out the State Department during the McCarthy era, to watch Notre Dame football games and enjoy barbecues. Mayhew prided himself on entertaining these people. He would have regular crowds.

28:49 that would find themselves in cheerful conversations with a curious range of special guests, from senators to gangsters. They were all part of Mayhew's colorful world. Working with Sheffield Edwards' team and their contacts in the New York PD, boss unit Mayhew and Frank initially succeeded in containing the Galindez story. Columbia University President Grayson Kirk,

29:19 A friend of Dulles' and a trustee of several foundations, I saw Warhamster, that served as pipelines for CIA funding did nothing to keep the missing lecturer's case alive, prompting charges of university indifference. Meanwhile, the Trujillo regime spread the word that Galindo's was suffering from a persecution complex. They boiled him alive.

29:50 And he had likely disappeared for personal reasons. Phony Galendez sightings were reported throughout Latin America as far away as the Philippines. At the same time, the CIA disseminated other disinformation about Galendez to friendly press assets, claiming that the missing scholar had absconded with $1 million of CIA funds. The CIA told them to print that.

30:24 which the agency allegedly had given him to set up an anti-Franco underground in Spain. Other CIA documents that circulated as high as Dulles' office tried to brand Galendaz as a witting tool of communists. The agency's smear campaign succeeded in making Galendaz' character the story rather than the shocking crime. But in December, just as the story seemed to be flickering out, Trujillo threw gas on the fire.

30:53 He went too far and ordered the murder of three young American, the murder of the American pilot who had flown Galendez to the Dominican Republic. 23-year-old Gerald Murphy had dreamed of being a pilot his whole life. He had been prevented from joining the Air Force because of his eyesight. He pursued the career as a mercenary pilot, winding up in the Dominican Republic, flying missions.

31:22 for the CIA in Trujillo. It beats the hell out of Oregon, the young Portland native said. But Murphy's life took a fatal turn when he was engaged by John Frank to fly the heavily sedated Galendez to Trujillo. John Frank told Murphy that Galendez was a wealthy invalid who wanted to visit his Dominican relatives one last time before he died.

31:51 But after photos of Galindez began appearing in the press, the pilot figured out the true identity of the passenger. Given to reckless chatter when he was drinking, Murphy began boasting in Trujillo's watering holes about a big story that he was sitting on, his chances of striking it rich by making a deal with the Dominican regime to stay quiet. Trujillo, however,

32:19 preferred a more certain method of ensuring his silence. Frank brought Murphy to the National Palace, telling him that he was being granted an audience with Trujillo. It was the last time the pilot was seen. On December 4th, the young American's Ford was found on a cliff near a slaughterhouse where he was dumped into the sea in a swarm of sharks.

32:51 It was known as the favorite disposal site for Trujillo's enemies and referred to as the swimming pool. Murphy's suspicious disappearance ignited a new uproar and the Oregon Congressman, Charles Porter, demanded Eisenhower get to the bottom of it. In March of 1957, even Suvesant Wainwright, the wealthy Republican congressman from Long Island's Gold Coast,

33:21 waded into the growing controversy, writing directly to his neighbor, Dulles, and asking for more information on the Galindez affair, which he called an incredible invasion of human being personal protection in our country. Wainwright told Dulles that he felt a personal connection to the case since Murphy had flown Galindez to his fate from a Long Island airport.

33:46 Dulles blandly replied that the CIA had no jurisdiction on American soil, so the congressman's inquiry about the case was better directed to the FBI. Galendez's case, in fact, was turning into a major source of friction between the two federal agencies. Hoover, who informed Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. that Galendez had been a valued informant of the FBI, took his probable murder personally.

34:15 Hoover was further enraged by the suspicious disappearance of Gerald Murphy and a new round of embarrassing political fallout from the case. To make matters worse, the FBI soon tied John Frank to the crimes. A man who was not only a former bureau agent, but like his boss Mayhew, was part of the shadowy CIA orbit that operated above the law.

34:41 As was common when Hoover sought revenge in Washington's political wars, he leaked much of the Galendez story to the press. In late February, Life magazine ran a dramatic version of the affair under the headline, A Story of a Dark International Conspiracy. The Eisenhower Justice Department knew that despite the sensitive national security ramifications, someone had to take a fall.

35:10 and John Frank was the obvious choice. But as federal prosecutors began to build a case of conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide against Frank, the CIA's general counsel, Lawrence Houston, and Dulles himself, was disturbed. So they needed to talk to the attorney general. Brown assured the CIA that they would keep a tight lid on the case to avoid further press leaks because he realized the affair involved...

35:40 national security interest. There was no national security interest. It was just embarrassing to the CIA. Brownell's deputies grew frustrated as they tried to peel away the layers surrounding the case. In March of 57, Assistant Deputy Attorney General William Olney III complained in a memo to Brownell.

36:04 In my opinion, the information given to you by the CIA is vague and uncertain and does not solve the question as to whether Frank has in fact been used in any capacity by the CIA. Olney recommended that the CIA be requested directly and definitely to state its exact relationship with those involved in the mystery.

36:27 After negotiations between the DOJ and CIA, John Frank was finally charged with an astonishing light offense, failure to register as a foreign agent. Quote, I fully appreciate that to indict a person involved in a possible murder and kidnapping for violations of the Registration Act is like hitting a man with a feather when he should have been hit with a rock, unquote, said a DOJ official.

36:57 But considering the highly charged political atmosphere surrounding the case, he observed, it was the only way to ensure the subject didn't get away scot-free and keep the CIA secrets. December 1957, Frank was convicted of multiple counts of violation of the FARA Act and sentenced to a maximum of eight months to two years in federal prison. But the following years, his conviction, of course, was overturned.

37:27 on federal appeal in the D.C. courts. That ruled that Frank had been denied a fair trial because of the prosecutor's attempt to connect him in the jury's mind to Galendez and Murphy affair. As he entered the second round of legal battle, Frank made it clear that he was not going to be the fall guy for the CIA on the Galendez case. But before his new trial,

37:52 Frank played his trump card, making it known that his line of defense would be that he had been working for the CIA throughout the entire affair. When Frank's lawyer issued subpoenas for several CIA witnesses to appear in court, agency officials quickly moved to block them from testifying, thereby aborting the trial. The Justice Department was forced to strike a plea deal with Frank, and in March 1959, he paid a modest fine.

38:22 Signed an agreement not to work as a foreign agent and walked out of court a free man. Nobody was ever charged with the murders and they knew exactly who did it. Allen Dulles' CIA believed in the power of ideas. It was easy for Dulles' Ivy League educated executive team to understand why Trujillo's regime began.

38:49 became so obsessed with a doctrinal dissertation written by an obscure academic. They knew that ideas mattered. They floated like seeds in the wind over mountains and sea and took root in unexpected places. The Cold War was, in fact, a war of ideas, fought primarily with symbolism, with propaganda, and proxy conflicts, instead of on battlegrounds where superpowers clashed head to head.

39:17 Joseph Stalin, too, understood the power of words, calling writers the engineers of the human soul. The Soviet leader had a way of expressing himself with industrial bluntness. He would say, quote, the production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. The CIA's method of cultural engineering were far more subtle, but no less effective.

39:45 on the war of ideas, subsidizing the intellectual and creative labors of those who were deemed politically correct and seeking to marginalize anyone that wasn't. The main front organization used for this was the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which we've talked about repeatedly because it was a CIA front. It was kind of a cultural NATO, if you will. It was founded in 1950.

40:15 The Congress for Cultural Freedom grew to become one of the biggest art patrons in world history, sponsoring an impressive array of books, publishing, startups, and literary magazines, including The Encounter and Paris Review. They also had art exhibits, literary prizes, concert tours, and international conferences in places like Paris, Berlin, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Retreat.

40:44 overlooking Lake Como. There was a seductive appeal to the CIA's cultural patronage, for it offered not only the satisfaction of doing one's patriotic duty and resisting Stalinist tyranny, but implementing fascist terrorism, but also a comfortable reprieve from financial anxieties of leading a creative life. We'll just take CIA money.

41:13 These stylish and expensive excursions must have been great pleasure for the people who took them at government expense. Jason Epstein, a former Random House editorial director and co-founder of the New York Review of Books, said, quote, but it was more than pleasure because they were tasting power. Who wouldn't like to be in a situation where you were politically correct and at the same time well compensated for the position you've taken?

41:42 Unquote. Many artists and intellectuals fell into the ranks of the CIA generously funded culture war, including author Schlesinger Jr., Mary McCarthy, Robert Lowell, Dwight McDonald, Daniel Bell, Isaiah Berlin, George Plimpton, Peter Matheson, and Mark Rothko.

42:11 But the recipients of CIA sponsorship paid a price, their intellectual independence. It was noted by a historian, the individuals and institutions subsidized by the CIA were expected to perform as part of a propaganda war. Those who took agency funds became cheerful robots of the Cold War. And see Wright Mills' memorable phrase.

42:38 Mills, one of the few prominent American scholars to have actively resisted this, was predictably attacked in all of those same circles. While Mills was coming under fire in the pages of the CIA-funded publications like Encounter, he was embraced by other intellectuals in Europe like Ralph Miliband. He was father of the British Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband.

43:06 Mills was fortunate in other ways too. His intellectual gifts and personal fortitude allowed him to carve out a public position for himself even at the height of the Cold War. But most of those who challenged the mandatory spirit of American triumphalism soon found themselves intellectually isolated and professionally invisible. Under the reign of CIA-approved thought, unpleasant realities about U.S. imperialism

43:35 were considered out of bounds for scholarly and journalistic exploration, including the bloody regime changes in Iran and Guatemala and the bloody, the boiling cauldron of injustice at home. The grants, literary prizes, journalism awards, and academic endowments went to those who saw America as the hope of the world, not to be focused on any of its very blatantly obvious flaws.

44:03 Those CIA-approved intellectuals who dared to assert their independence soon found that once welcoming doors were closed permanently. In 1958, Dwight McDonald, a frequent intellectual sparring partner of his friend Mills, broke out of the Cold War thought bubble with a cranky article in The Encounter said, America, America, in which he riled against the country's mass culture.

44:32 There was nothing particularly surprising in the article, but the article was deemed unacceptable by the editors of Encounter. And though McDonald was a former editor there, they refused to publish it. Like many in the CIA-sponsored literary projects, Encounter reflected James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's unofficial cultural commissar. As a Yale undergraduate,

45:00 Angleton had founded the avant-garde literary magazine, Foriso. He had also befriended Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings. The spy wizard was a devotee of modernist school of poetry, especially the high priest, T.S. Eliot. And on the pages of Encounter were dominated by this sensibility.

45:34 A new generation of beat poets led by Allen Ginsberg was beginning to challenge the literary modernism, invoking a popularism and unabashed deviancy of Walt Whitman. As the beats laid siege to the Eisenhower cultural monopoly, the CIA-funded poetry establishment struggled to keep these barbarians outside the gate.

46:03 Years later, Ginsburg imagined a confrontation between himself and Angleton's favorite poet. What did you think of the dominance of the poetics by the CIA? Ginsburg asked Elliot. After all, wasn't Angleton your friend? The old master admits he knew of the infamous spook's literary conspiracies, but insists that they were of no importance. But Ginsburg disagreed.

46:31 The CIA, he told Elliott, secretly funded the whole field of scholars of war and nourished the careers of too many square intellectuals, thereby undermining efforts to create an alternative free, vital, decentralized culture. The result, as Ginsburg wrote in his 1956 masterpiece, Owl, was an unchallenged rise of an American moloch.

47:00 Vast stone of war, whose soul is electricity and banks. A culture that would devour its own children. Angleton carried an elaborate portfolio at the CIA, from politics of art to the metaphysics of assassinations. In December 1954, Dulles officially named him chief of counterintelligence. The department tasked with blocking enemy penetration into the agency.

47:31 But in reality, his duties were as hard to get a hold on as smoke curling up from a cigarette. I remember Jim as one of the most complex man I ever met, said Richard Helms, one of Angleton's defenders and patrons in the agency. One did not always have to agree with him to know he possessed a grasp of secret operations.

47:58 Jim had the ability to rise an operational discussion not only to a higher level, but to another dimension. It is easy to mock this, but there is no one within the agency with whom I'd rather have a discussion on a complex operational problem. Angleton's activities ranged from reviewing documents at foreign embassies to opening the mail of American citizens.

48:26 He referred to himself as the postmaster. He also wiretapped bedrooms of CIA officials. It was his job to be suspicious of everybody. He was keeping a treasure trove of sensitive files and photos locked in his vault. Each morning at the CIA headquarters, Angleton would report to Dulles on fishing expeditions from everything from the Georgetown party circuit to Washington pillow talk.

48:58 As Dulles was well aware, Angleton had even tucked away explosive secrets on Dulles himself. That is why Dulles had rewarded him with the most sensitive job in the agency. Angleton confided to journalist Joseph Trento near the end of his slide, you know how I got to be in charge of counterintelligence. I agreed not to polygraph or require detailed backgrounds on Alan Dulles and 60 of his closest friends.

49:27 They were afraid that their own business dealings with Hitler's pals would come out. That's according to Angleton. Angleton's selection as the top hunter of Soviet moles struck many in the agency as peculiar. During and after the war, Angleton had been badly fooled by his close chum, Kim Philby. He had basically went under the radar of Angleton.

49:59 Angleton's children remembered the drunken nursery game played by Philby and his friend Guy Burgess and Donald McLean, who belonged to the same secret ring of Cambridge-bred traders, when they were invited to the Angleton home for dinner. After Philby was finally exposed, ultimately fleeing to Russia, Angleton's anti-Soviet sentiments hardened into a fundamentalism that clouded his judgment.

50:34 I have no doubt that the exposure of Kim Philby was lodged in the deepest recesses of Jim's being, Helm said. Angleton told another British intelligence, I would kill Philby. The betrayal was painfully intimate, and it bred a paranoia that bloomed darkly in Angleton. When he was named counterintelligence chief, he saw traitors and signs of Soviet treachery everywhere. He was compulsively mole hunting.

51:03 and ruining the careers of dozens of CIA agents. But under Dulles, Angleton enjoyed free reign to pursue his demons. He dreamed up Cold War phantoms and boogeymen everywhere. He operated a kind of virtual CIA within the CIA, reporting only to Dulles himself, and even the top spy master was not fully aware of his murky activities. My father once said, I'm not a genius, but in intelligence, I am a genius.

51:39 one of the daughters of Angleton said. Dulles and Angleton went out back together to the dark maze of post-war Rome, went back together to that time. Like Helms, Dulles admired Angleton's complex mind and his spy craft. Jim Dulles once told Angleton's wife, Sicily is the apple of my eye. Angleton in turn grew deeply fond of Dulles as well.

52:11 who he viewed as a father figure. Angleton was fascinating, recalled Joan Dulles. My mother liked him a lot. He was very talkative and very intellectual. He loved to grow orchids. He was referred to as an oddball as well as a real scholar. The two couples, Alan Dulles and his wife and Angleton and his wife, spent a lot of time together.

52:44 Dulles and Angleton shared a disdain for Washington bureaucracy and for governmental oversight of their agency. Later in post Watergate 70s, when the church committee opened a probe into the CIA law breaking, Angleton was called to account for himself. As he completed his testimony, Angleton rose from his chair and thinking he was off the record, muttered, quote, it is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government has to comply.

53:13 with all of the overt orders of the government, unquote. That's exactly the way he viewed the CIA, that they were unaccountable, and they were. Allen wasn't red tape, and neither was Daddy, according to Angleton's daughter. You know, back then, people were much more interesting. Dulles entrusted Angleton with the agency's most vital and sensitive missions. He was the principal CIA liaison.

53:44 with the key foreign intelligence services, including the frontline Cold War nations like France, West Germany, Turkey, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia, as well as Mossad. What they leave out in this book is he also was the Vatican's desk officer. Angleton developed a special bond, hold on just a second, they inserted a whole bunch of photos, with the Israelis.

54:15 And of course we know that because they have two monuments to him when he died. Both parties conveniently overlooked Angleton's role in the Nazi rat lines after the war. I would take issue with that because we found Israel working with all of them in South America. The Israelis maintained close ties to the American espionage Oracle until the end of his life. Several members of the Mossad came to Angleton's home.

54:52 as he was dying in the spring of 1987 to pay their last respects. Dulles also put Angleton in charge of the CIA's relationship with the FBI, a delicate task considering the rivalry. At the same time, he was working with the FBI, supposedly fighting organized crime. Angleton was also pursuing the CIA partnership with the mafia. So it was a conduit. It's all a group. Angleton possessed one of the

55:24 rare intellects and characters that allowed him to lead a live field with contradictions. He easily passed back and forth between Washington's overworld and the criminal underworld. He was a sort of man who could crossbreed a new orchid, cook pasta, and sit down with the mafia to talk about murder. Though he dined and drank in Georgetown's high society, Angleton's work also brought him in contact with rough characters.

55:52 including Chef Edwards' security cops who helped install Angleton's bugs and Bill Harvey, a hard-drinking gun nut who figured prominently in the assassinations. It was all of a piece, intricately wired mind of Jim Angleton, countering dangerous ideas.

56:17 by publishing CIA-vetted literature, and by eliminating the intellectuals and leaders who espounded these ideas. One day shortly after Fidel Castro took over power in Havana, Angleton had a brainstorm. He summoned two Jewish CIA officers, including Sam Halperin, who had recently been assigned to the agency's covert Cuba team. Angleton asked them to fly to Miami to meet with Meyer Lansky.

56:45 the organized crime chief financial officer who had been forced to flee Havana ahead of Castro's revolutionaries, leaving behind the mafia's highly lucrative casino empire. Lansky was part of the Jewish mob, but had close business ties to the Italian mafia. Angleton told Halpern and other Jewish CIA agents to see if they could convince Lansky to arrange for the assassination of Castro.

57:15 Angleton's emissaries met with Lansky, but the crime mogul drove too hard a bargain for his services and the deal fell through. It was only the beginning of the CIA's endless quest to kill Castro. Castro would never stop haunting the dreams of the CIA high command. The Cuban revolutionary was not only intellectually formidable and politically fearless,

57:43 His dream of national liberation was backed up with guns. Castro and his equally charismatic comrade, Che Cavera, made it clear from the start that they would not share the fate of Arbenz in Guatemala. They would fight fire with fire. Che was a 25-year-old doctor in search of a grander meaning to his life and was living in Guatemala City when Arbenz was overthrown. He saw what happened to Arbenz. Modest reforms came.

58:14 and went up against United Fruit and the CIA. Shea would let her write, I am not Christ or a philanthropist. He wrote that in a letter to his mother when basically she was asking what the heck he was doing. I fight for the things I believe in with all of the weapons I have at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross.

58:46 To avoid Arben's fate, Castro and Cavera would do everything he had not. Put the hardcore thugs of the old regime up against a wall, run the CIA agents out of the country, purge the armed forces, and mobilize the Cuban people. By militarizing their dream, Fidel and Che became an audacious threat to the American empire. They represented the most dangerous revolutionary idea at all. The one that refused to be crushed.

59:17 So, like I said, this is a long chapter. That's where we're going to stop today. We'll pick it up from there on Monday. Boy, it really does a great job at, again, showing the network of connections, you know, even the family ties. Nefarious, nefarious, nefarious. Shit, shit, shit needs to be burnt down, peed on, and buried under.

59:50 10 pounds of nuclear waste. So no one ever touches it again. Amen. Yeah, it's interesting looking back on that, that assassination or the kidnapping and then assassination, you don't ever hear anyone talking about it when they're giving examples of operations that the CIA has conducted in the United States. And that Mayhew guy,

1:00:20 He has showed up in so many of our books. He was intimately involved in Castle Bank. They had, when we were talking in, I don't know if I still have that book in here, but when we were talking about the Gary Webb book, and there was a lot of different operations being ran out of Arizona. And Mayhew.

1:00:50 had a big operation there. That's where the Evergreen Airlines, which was a CIA front, had their big base that they flew, did all their depot maintenance out of. And the place where Mayhew had rented under the guise of renting it for Howard Hughes was one of those operating locations. They had a safe house there that was right by that airport.

1:01:20 So his name's come up multiple times. Colonel? Yeah? Have you ever ran into or talked about May Hughes split up with Howard Hughes? Yes. Okay. That was covered in one of the books that I read a couple of years ago. Did you want to talk about it? No, if you've already covered it, I mean, just real briefly, I'm just pulling this out of my memory, but Hughes was furious that, you know, despite all the sophisticated operation, him and the Mormon mafia,

1:01:50 had that Mayhew stole money from him and continued to harass him in courts for years. He couldn't stand Mayhew at the end. Yeah. Illini, did you want to add anything? Hey, Colonel. Yeah, it's another one of these really long chapters where a lot of names are crossing. I guess the first thing is, you know, it was kind of interesting to observe that all roads kind of lead to Rome with the CIA.

1:02:20 between James Angleton serving as the Rome station chief. I think Dulles, you mentioned that Dulles was involved there too. I think you've also, you definitely got Karamasins, who was there in 63 for Piano Solo, and later got involved with Operation Condor, or at least the beginning of it, with the plotting of...

1:02:46 The kidnapping of General Schneider and some of the false flags there. So it's interesting how you've got this relatively small group. The one thing that I'm a little bit disappointed by in here is I've paged to the very end on Kindle and I can see the end notes at the very end. But, you know, some of these citations about Angleton.

1:03:12 being involved with the mafia and working directly with Meyer Lansky and everything. On the one hand, I believe it. On the other hand, to a lot of people out there, that's a wild claim. I mean, particularly prior to, you know, some of the later allegations.

1:03:40 With the House Select Committee on assassinations, if he was doing that in the 50s, or if there were other operations with the mafia, that's material. It goes a lot further than, you know, Alfred McCoy's, you know, claims about Lucian Conine having, you know, the gold medallion from the Corsican mafia. And this well-vetted, you know, Senate hearing in 72.

1:04:10 That's a lot more fundamental. But it goes to the overall narrative, though, about what circles these guys are operating in and who they're all working with and how everybody in the CIA who's running important stuff seems to at one point have wandered through the Rome station office.

1:04:34 And then, of course, that goes back to the original Gladio model and, you know, the original network that Nixon and Dulles, you know, seemed to have kind of been involved with the Marshall Plan and the Herder Committee back in about 48, 49. Yep. I found that fascinating. And then the other thing that I found, you know, with the Galindez kidnapping,

1:05:04 I think Gerald Murphy's mistake was going to Trujillo and asking for hush money. I mean, the diabolical thing in all of this was, you know, all he had to do was stay quiet or get involved with his own stuff. And then there would have sort of been this mutual extortion network that, you know,

1:05:34 And isn't it interesting that he thinks that he can blackmail the guy that orchestrated the kidnapping of someone out of New York City, flew him all the way to the Dominican Republic, and then boiled him alive. That's not the guy you want to blackmail. Yeah, yeah.

1:06:04 It goes to the level of how these people's brain operates. And at first, obviously, he didn't know who that was, and he was fed a story. And to me, anybody, even someone that age, would go, holy shit, they kidnapped somebody out of New York City.

1:06:35 covered it up, boiled him alive, and then threw him to the sharks. Maybe that's not the guy you want to blackmail. Yeah. But I did want to add this. I still have the Mafia CIA and George Bush book on my desk. And I knew that Mayhew was mentioned in there. So Pete Bruton's book. Let me just read this paragraph. Another CIA.

1:07:06 tie to Murchison was his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corporation in Santa Monica, California. California journalist Mary Fricker said Murchison was the director of a company with Robert Nichols, an arms dealer and CIA operative, and Robert Mayhew, a CIA contractor and former aide to Howard Hughes, who was the first liaison between the CIA

1:07:35 and the mafia in the spy agency's attempt to use Costa Nostra members to assassinate Fidel Castro. So there you've got the narcos, the mafia, and the CIA all tied together. And the Murchison's factor really huge in Texas politics.

1:08:03 And there were allegations that they threw a huge party the night before, you know, Kennedy was assassinated. Yes. And who was implicated? The mafia, the CIA, and the Cuban exiles. J. Edgar Hoover attended that party, allegedly. And, you know, he was good friends with the Murchison family. I think there was a note in...

1:08:33 not John Ehrlichman, but John Haldeman's diary that said that when Nixon dined with Hoover, they would get steaks flown in for the Murchison Ranch. So this is a very connected family that apparently also has some interesting underworld ties. They've got ties to law enforcement. They've got ties to the other side, too. And they're kind of the power brokers in Texas.

1:09:02 It's just very fascinating. It's a big club, and we're not in it. As a native-born Texan who's still got a few thousand relatives there, including some who have been involved in Texas politics, I was turned on to that family a long time ago. And we could do weeks and weeks of shows just based on the newspaper articles on them going back 60, 70 years.

1:09:30 About as deep as Texas. Texas politics is about as corrupt as you'll find anywhere, but it's got its own unique brand. And it kind of does tie into Yankees, Cowboys. It's at some point. But it goes back to the founding of Texas, cattle barons, all that kind of stuff. It is a proud as I am of that state. That is one of the dirtiest chapters. So I'm glad people are paying attention to it. LBJ says hello. Yeah. Well.

1:09:58 When you have LBJ who had his own personal assassin, you know things are nefarious. And not only that, I still can't get over it. I think about it often. The colonel, I forget their last name, the five brothers that was running the entire narco network in the eastern part of the state out of the National Guard.

1:10:23 And one of the brothers was a professor and was running interference in Austin for them. And they were never held to account. As a matter of fact, the colonel, when he was finally driven out of the National Guard, got a job working for the state. So Texas is crazy when it comes to those components. CIA, mafia.

1:10:53 And corrupt politicians. And drugs. Yeah. Well, what happened to Warhamster? He just ran away. Yeah, he must have got a call or something. All right. Anybody else got anything here? A question from over on Rumble. Yeah. It said, you mentioned what's his name, had his own son, MKUltra Doctor, operated on what was...

1:11:28 Alan Dulles. Oh, I'm Dulles. Okay. Yesterday, we covered the part where Dulles' son was injured in the Korean War. He had a mortar explode near him, and he had a head injury. And he was never right after that. And after they sought all kinds of different expertise, Alan Dulles had him seen both in Canada.

1:11:55 And in the United States with people that were working on the MK Ultra program. He also had his niece lobotomized by one of those doctors. Okay, she said, what was the operation? What do you mean, what was the operation? They were operating on his head. Like a lobotomy? No, that was the niece. Oh, okay. His son.

1:12:25 The experiments up in Canada was electroshock therapy, deprivation of light, locking them in rooms and that type of thing. They're just sickos, aren't they? I mean, demented. Yeah. We got some weird person over there. Yeah, I bought them all. Okay. Well, that's it for the chapter today. I will let you know. Let's see. We'll finish up this chapter.

1:13:05 Um, there's a few more interesting, um, parts of it. The next one is called, um, uh, the torches past. Um, it's a, it's very interesting too. The whole book is interesting actually, but, um, yeah, yeah, I definitely am glad that, um, we did this because I think, um, understanding the depth of depravity, um, because

1:13:36 We were talking about that on the earlier show I was on at 11 with Tommy's podcast. People don't understand how evil these people are because we're not that evil. We can't fathom how evil these people are. We were talking about the use of nuclear weapons and a lot of people think, well, that's not ever going to happen. And that's just ridiculous.

1:14:05 I mean, we know throughout this entire period of time, the generals were trigger happy when it come to using tactical nukes in every occasion. They left millions of people dead through Southeast Asia with Cambodia and Indonesia. They don't really care. They don't care if they wipe an entire place off the earth. They'll just carry in slaves.

1:14:31 to mine the resources there after all the indigenous people are dead. They don't care. They don't care about life itself because what they're doing isn't going to affect them. They have alternative plants. And that's why these people and these organizations that house these people have to be eliminated. The organizations have to go away. They have to be shut down, locked, as Bridget said, buried under nuclear waste.

1:15:01 Um, so no one ever touches them again, but anyway, that's all I got. Thanks. Didn't you have an extra show today or am I? We had to, I did Tommy's podcast at 11. Um, as soon as I get a DM from him, he does it recorded. Um, and then he edits it. Um,

1:15:30 And as soon as he DMs me a copy of it, I'll put that out. That was with General Blaine Holt and EM. Anyway, I'll put that out. We also did the noon show with War Hamster on Scroll and Key. That was about an hour and a half long and had some real doozies in it as well. So we're gonna...

1:15:59 Like I said, from now on, Friday at noon is going to be that regular show. So I don't have anything this weekend. And we'll talk about the schedule for next week on Monday's show. I still have a couple of things up in the air right now. But anyway, you guys enjoy your weekend. I know most of you are going to be very, very cold. It is going to get cold here again next week.

1:16:31 I told my husband, his friend from Detroit called earlier and was talking about how frigid cold it is up there. So I looked at my- Colonel, it's zero in Chicago right now. If you don't have ice storms and if your temperature is positive, be happy. Yeah, I told my husband, I feel guilty sitting inside. I need to go outside. I was doing some research. And so I was sitting outside. He got ready to go to his car show.

1:17:00 And I said, I feel guilty sitting inside not enjoying the sunshine since most people don't have it today. And I won't tell you what his response was, but he didn't have any sympathy for anybody. Eight degrees right now, I'm just saying. Yeah, it's supposed to be 80 here on Saturday and Sunday. On my way. You're always welcome.

1:17:32 Yep. All right, guys. Thanks for tuning in. Stay warm. Stay inside. Stay safe, especially in those crazy cities. Take care, everybody.

Entities here

CIA51 Allen Dulles29 James Jesus Angleton25 Jesús de Galíndez25 Rafael Trujillo25 United States21 Robert Maheu17 Dominican Republic14 FBI14 John Frank14 Manhattan9 Cold War9 Gerald Murphy8 J. Edgar Hoover7 Jorge Eduardo Galindez6 Galindez Affair6 Fidel Castro6 Robert A. Mayhew Associates6 Dwight D. Eisenhower5 Francisco Franco5 Odessa, Texas5 World War II5 Encounter5 Meyer Lansky4 Howard Hughes4 Mossad4 H.L. Hunt4 The Heir of Trujillo4 Washington, D.C.4 New York Police Department4 Columbia University4 C. Wright Mills4 Georgetown4 Pérfido Rubirosa4 BOSS (Bureau of Special Services)4 Cuba3 Jacobo Árbenz3 Guatemala3 Herbert Brownell Jr.3 Spain3

Claims made here

Jesús de Galíndez fought_against Francisco Franco documented ▶ 1:06

“Galendez was a 40-year-old bachelor, popular with his students, born to a prominent family in Spain and educated as a lawyer. During the Spanish Civil War, he had fought against Franco's fascists. Aft…”

Jesús de Galíndez fled_to Dominican Republic documented ▶ 1:06

Rafael Trujillo ruled Dominican Republic documented ▶ 2:03

“Yeah, there we go. But he and most of his fellow Spanish refugees soon discovered that they had left the frying pan and jumped into the fire. Rafael Trujillo had ruled the Dominican Republic since the…”

Rafael Trujillo ordered_assassination_of Enrique Blanco documented ▶ 2:30

“His theater of blood included the horrific 1937 mass slaughter of thousands of Haitian immigrant workers, including women and children, many of which were hacked to death. His political enemies were r…”

Rafael Trujillo married Benavida Ricardo documented ▶ 5:01

“He was attracted to white, plump women. His 1929 wedding to socialite Benavida Ricardo, he horrified the guests, which were among the Dominican's high societies, by cutting the wedding cake with a mil…”

Rafael Trujillo pledged_allegiance_to United States documented ▶ 6:37

“pledging his nation's allegiance to the United States, especially during World War II and the Cold War, and showering money on Washington politicians and lobbying firms. His courtship with Washington …”

Allen Dulles celebrated Rafael Trujillo documented ▶ 6:37

Richard Nixon visited Dominican Republic documented ▶ 7:09

“communism. That same year, Vice President Nixon visited the Dominican Republic and made a very public display of embracing him. The U.S. should overlook the notorious defects of the Dominican dictator…”

Flora Trujillo married Pérfido Rubirosa documented ▶ 7:40

“at home, or abroad. But by the 50s, his roguish social circle had produced several personalities smooth enough to be embraced by the international jet set, including his first daughter, Flora D. Ora, …”

Pérfido Rubirosa married Barbara Hutton documented ▶ 9:11

“reveled in the tales of Ruby's romantic exploits. The playboy had passionate affairs with blonde movie goddess like Kim Novak and courted some of the world's richest women, including American heiress …”

Pérfido Rubirosa had_affair_with Kim Novak documented ▶ 9:11

Pérfido Rubirosa married Doris Duke documented ▶ 9:11

CIA paid Rafael Trujillo host_asserted ▶ 10:12

“$25 million a year in foreign aid, most of which ended up in his overseas foreign bank accounts. The CIA further enriched the dictator with several secret payments, delivering suitcases stuffed with c…”

CIA used_as_training_camp Dominican Republic host_asserted ▶ 10:12

Rafael Trujillo ordered_assassination_of Jesús de Galíndez documented ▶ 10:45

“By 1956, there was one man, Jesus D. Galenza, who in the dictator's mind threatened his regime. Galenza, who lived in a book-stuffed apartment on Fifth Avenue and enjoyed going to Latin dance clubs at…”

Jesús de Galíndez wrote The Heir of Trujillo documented ▶ 11:15

“Not long before he vanished, he had completed a damning 750-page dissertation on the dictator called the Heir of Trujillo and had submitted it as part of his PhD at Columbia. Scholarly theses do not n…”

Jesús de Galíndez spied_on Francisco Franco documented ▶ 13:46

“maintained an ambitious relationship with U.S. security officials. His escape to the U.S. in 1946 was no doubt made smoother by the fact that he had been secretly working as an informant for the FBI d…”

FBI paid Jesús de Galíndez documented ▶ 15:33

“which made their way to his FBI files, the Bureau continued to have confidence in him, paying the lecturer up to $125 a month plus expenses for his information. The FBI also helped him gain permanent …”

Robert Maheu kidnapped Jesús de Galíndez documented ▶ 17:55

“That the intelligence agency used as a cutout to do dirty jobs on U.S. soil, where the CIA was, quote unquote, forbidden to operate, but did so anyway. Grabbed by Mayhew's agents who were waiting for …”

Robert Maheu transported Jesús de Galíndez documented ▶ 18:22

“that was especially equipped to fly long distances, stopping for refueling after midnight in West Palm Beach before continuing on to the Dominican Republic. After landing, Galendez, still half-conscio…”

Rafael Trujillo tortured Jesús de Galíndez documented ▶ 18:51

“He demanded that he eat it. The dazed Galendaz took the pile of papers, but could not keep hold of them, letting them fall to the floor as his head slumped to his chest. The dictator screamed at him a…”

CIA covered_up Jesús de Galíndez documented ▶ 20:50

“are assassinating persons under the protection of the U.S. Eisenhower replied that he didn't know anything about it, but he would definitely look into it. But in truth, the CIA had already moved swift…”

John Frank worked_for Robert A. Mayhew Associates documented ▶ 22:18

“made sure the CIA's director's request was carried out, and the papers inside of his briefcase was delivered to Dulles himself. Kennedy made it clear to the detective that he was to keep his mouth shu…”

Stephen Kennedy delivered_evidence_to Allen Dulles documented ▶ 22:18

John Frank worked_for Rafael Trujillo documented ▶ 23:20

“firm. Frank won the trust of Trujillo, who made him his bodyguard during state visits to Europe and the U.S. Mayhew's agency was also given a lucrative contract to upgrade his security in the Dominica…”

Robert Maheu worked_for FBI documented ▶ 24:50

“Georgetown Law and getting hired as a field agent by the FBI, where he worked on sensitive national security cases during the war. But Mayhew was not content to stay on under J. Edgar Hoover's leaders…”

CIA funded Robert A. Mayhew Associates documented ▶ 24:50

CIA used_as_front Robert A. Mayhew Associates documented ▶ 25:22

“The CIA used Mayhew and associates as a front, putting undercover agents on his staff. The agency also directed a stream of highly sensitive and rewarding contracts to Mayhew, including a major job fo…”

Robert A. Mayhew Associates sabotaged Aristotle Onassis documented ▶ 25:22

Stavros Niarchos paid Robert Maheu documented ▶ 26:21

“of the Onassis deal in the Saudi royal court. After the successful resolution of the case, a grateful Nyarkos gave Mayhew a big bonus, which was a Cadillac and a split-level house in Sleepy Hollow, Vi…”

Howard Hughes hired Robert Maheu documented ▶ 26:51

“who later hired him to run his Las Vegas empire. Despite his success, Mayhew liked to say that he never forgot where he came from. Mayhew did not socialize with the top CIA men like Helms and Angleton…”

Sheffield Edwards handled Robert Maheu documented ▶ 27:22

“You can't have respect for the diplomatic pouch and be in the intelligence business at the same time. The State Department should have to know how you got the information. It was his CIA handler, Shef…”

Grayston Kirk failed_to_investigate Jesús de Galíndez documented ▶ 29:19

“A friend of Dulles' and a trustee of several foundations, I saw Warhamster, that served as pipelines for CIA funding did nothing to keep the missing lecturer's case alive, prompting charges of univers…”

CIA disseminated_disinformation_about Jesús de Galíndez documented ▶ 29:50

“And he had likely disappeared for personal reasons. Phony Galendez sightings were reported throughout Latin America as far away as the Philippines. At the same time, the CIA disseminated other disinfo…”

Rafael Trujillo ordered_assassination_of Gerald Murphy documented ▶ 30:53

“He went too far and ordered the murder of three young American, the murder of the American pilot who had flown Galendez to the Dominican Republic. 23-year-old Gerald Murphy had dreamed of being a pilo…”

John Frank hired Gerald Murphy documented ▶ 31:22

“for the CIA in Trujillo. It beats the hell out of Oregon, the young Portland native said. But Murphy's life took a fatal turn when he was engaged by John Frank to fly the heavily sedated Galendez to T…”

Charles Porter demanded_investigation_into Gerald Murphy documented ▶ 32:51

“It was known as the favorite disposal site for Trujillo's enemies and referred to as the swimming pool. Murphy's suspicious disappearance ignited a new uproar and the Oregon Congressman, Charles Porte…”

Gerald Murphy carried_out_attack Jorge Eduardo Galindez documented ▶ 33:21

“waded into the growing controversy, writing directly to his neighbor, Dulles, and asking for more information on the Galindez affair, which he called an incredible invasion of human being personal pro…”

John Wainwright spied_on Allen Dulles documented ▶ 33:21

J. Edgar Hoover spied_on Jorge Eduardo Galindez documented ▶ 33:46

“Dulles blandly replied that the CIA had no jurisdiction on American soil, so the congressman's inquiry about the case was better directed to the FBI. Galendez's case, in fact, was turning into a major…”

Allen Dulles covered_up Jorge Eduardo Galindez documented ▶ 33:46

John Frank member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 34:15

“Hoover was further enraged by the suspicious disappearance of Gerald Murphy and a new round of embarrassing political fallout from the case. To make matters worse, the FBI soon tied John Frank to the …”

J. Edgar Hoover exposed John Frank documented ▶ 34:15

J. Edgar Hoover exposed Jorge Eduardo Galindez documented ▶ 34:41

“As was common when Hoover sought revenge in Washington's political wars, he leaked much of the Galendez story to the press. In late February, Life magazine ran a dramatic version of the affair under t…”

Herbert Brownell Jr. covered_up Jorge Eduardo Galindez documented ▶ 35:10

“and John Frank was the obvious choice. But as federal prosecutors began to build a case of conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide against Frank, the CIA's general counsel, Lawrence Houston, and Dulles h…”

William Olney III spied_on John Frank documented ▶ 36:04

“In my opinion, the information given to you by the CIA is vague and uncertain and does not solve the question as to whether Frank has in fact been used in any capacity by the CIA. Olney recommended th…”

CIA covered_up John Frank documented ▶ 36:27

“After negotiations between the DOJ and CIA, John Frank was finally charged with an astonishing light offense, failure to register as a foreign agent. Quote, I fully appreciate that to indict a person …”

CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom documented ▶ 39:45

“on the war of ideas, subsidizing the intellectual and creative labors of those who were deemed politically correct and seeking to marginalize anyone that wasn't. The main front organization used for t…”

Congress for Cultural Freedom funded Encounter documented ▶ 40:15

“The Congress for Cultural Freedom grew to become one of the biggest art patrons in world history, sponsoring an impressive array of books, publishing, startups, and literary magazines, including The E…”

Congress for Cultural Freedom funded Paris Review documented ▶ 40:15

CIA funded Mary McCarthy documented ▶ 41:42

“Unquote. Many artists and intellectuals fell into the ranks of the CIA generously funded culture war, including author Schlesinger Jr., Mary McCarthy, Robert Lowell, Dwight McDonald, Daniel Bell, Isai…”

CIA funded Dwight McDonald documented ▶ 41:42

CIA funded Robert Lowe documented ▶ 41:42

CIA funded Arthur Schlesinger Jr. documented ▶ 41:42

CIA funded Mark Rothko documented ▶ 41:42

CIA funded Peter Matheson documented ▶ 41:42

CIA funded George Plimpton documented ▶ 41:42

CIA funded Isaiah Berlin documented ▶ 41:42

CIA funded Daniel Bell documented ▶ 41:42

Encounter exposed C. Wright Mills documented ▶ 42:38

“Mills, one of the few prominent American scholars to have actively resisted this, was predictably attacked in all of those same circles. While Mills was coming under fire in the pages of the CIA-funde…”

Ralph Miliband member_of British Labour Party documented ▶ 42:38

James Jesus Angleton founded Foriso documented ▶ 45:00

“Angleton had founded the avant-garde literary magazine, Foriso. He had also befriended Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings. The spy wizard was a devotee of modernist school of poetry, especially the high pri…”

Allen Dulles appointed James Jesus Angleton documented ▶ 47:00

“Vast stone of war, whose soul is electricity and banks. A culture that would devour its own children. Angleton carried an elaborate portfolio at the CIA, from politics of art to the metaphysics of ass…”

James Jesus Angleton spied_on Allen Dulles guest_asserted ▶ 48:58

“As Dulles was well aware, Angleton had even tucked away explosive secrets on Dulles himself. That is why Dulles had rewarded him with the most sensitive job in the agency. Angleton confided to journal…”

James Jesus Angleton spied_on Kim Philby documented ▶ 49:27

“They were afraid that their own business dealings with Hitler's pals would come out. That's according to Angleton. Angleton's selection as the top hunter of Soviet moles struck many in the agency as p…”

Kim Philby member_of Soviet Union documented ▶ 49:59

“Angleton's children remembered the drunken nursery game played by Philby and his friend Guy Burgess and Donald McLean, who belonged to the same secret ring of Cambridge-bred traders, when they were in…”

James Jesus Angleton ordered_assassination_of Kim Philby documented ▶ 50:34

“I have no doubt that the exposure of Kim Philby was lodged in the deepest recesses of Jim's being, Helm said. Angleton told another British intelligence, I would kill Philby. The betrayal was painfull…”

James Jesus Angleton member_of Mossad host_asserted ▶ 53:44

“with the key foreign intelligence services, including the frontline Cold War nations like France, West Germany, Turkey, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia, as well as Mossad. What they leave out in this book is h…”

James Jesus Angleton spied_on FBI documented ▶ 54:52

“as he was dying in the spring of 1987 to pay their last respects. Dulles also put Angleton in charge of the CIA's relationship with the FBI, a delicate task considering the rivalry. At the same time, …”

James Jesus Angleton recruited Meyer Lansky documented ▶ 56:17

“by publishing CIA-vetted literature, and by eliminating the intellectuals and leaders who espounded these ideas. One day shortly after Fidel Castro took over power in Havana, Angleton had a brainstorm…”

James Jesus Angleton ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented ▶ 56:45

“the organized crime chief financial officer who had been forced to flee Havana ahead of Castro's revolutionaries, leaving behind the mafia's highly lucrative casino empire. Lansky was part of the Jewi…”

CIA overthrew Jacobo Árbenz documented ▶ 58:14

“and went up against United Fruit and the CIA. Shea would let her write, I am not Christ or a philanthropist. He wrote that in a letter to his mother when basically she was asking what the heck he was …”

Evergreen International Airlines front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:00:50

“had a big operation there. That's where the Evergreen Airlines, which was a CIA front, had their big base that they flew, did all their depot maintenance out of. And the place where Mayhew had rented …”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:02:20

“between James Angleton serving as the Rome station chief. I think Dulles, you mentioned that Dulles was involved there too. I think you've also, you definitely got Karamasins, who was there in 63 for …”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of Operation PBHistory host_asserted ▶ 1:02:20

Gerald Murphy ordered_assassination_of Rafael Trujillo host_asserted ▶ 1:05:04

“I think Gerald Murphy's mistake was going to Trujillo and asking for hush money. I mean, the diabolical thing in all of this was, you know, all he had to do was stay quiet or get involved with his own…”

Rafael Trujillo carried_out_attack Kidnapping and murder of Orlando Letelier host_asserted ▶ 1:05:34

“And isn't it interesting that he thinks that he can blackmail the guy that orchestrated the kidnapping of someone out of New York City, flew him all the way to the Dominican Republic, and then boiled …”

Peter Del Scott cited_as_source The Mafia, CIA and George Bush book_quoted ▶ 1:06:35

“covered it up, boiled him alive, and then threw him to the sharks. Maybe that's not the guy you want to blackmail. Yeah. But I did want to add this. I still have the Mafia CIA and George Bush book on …”

Robert Maheu member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 1:07:06

“tie to Murchison was his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corporation in Santa Monica, California. California journalist Mary Fricker said Murchison was the director of a company with …”

Robert Maheu member_of First Intercontinental Development Corp book_quoted ▶ 1:07:06

H.L. Hunt member_of First Intercontinental Development Corp book_quoted ▶ 1:07:06

Robert Maheu appointed Howard Hughes book_quoted ▶ 1:07:06

Cosa Nostra attempted_assassination_of Fidel Castro book_quoted ▶ 1:07:35

“and the mafia in the spy agency's attempt to use Costa Nostra members to assassinate Fidel Castro. So there you've got the narcos, the mafia, and the CIA all tied together. And the Murchison's factor …”

CIA recruited Cosa Nostra book_quoted ▶ 1:07:35

J. Edgar Hoover member_of Murchison family host_asserted ▶ 1:08:03

“And there were allegations that they threw a huge party the night before, you know, Kennedy was assassinated. Yes. And who was implicated? The mafia, the CIA, and the Cuban exiles. J. Edgar Hoover att…”

Richard Nixon paid Murchison family host_asserted ▶ 1:08:33

“not John Ehrlichman, but John Haldeman's diary that said that when Nixon dined with Hoover, they would get steaks flown in for the Murchison Ranch. So this is a very connected family that apparently a…”

Allen Dulles funded MKUltra host_asserted ▶ 1:11:55

“And in the United States with people that were working on the MK Ultra program. He also had his niece lobotomized by one of those doctors. Okay, she said, what was the operation? What do you mean, wha…”