The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17

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0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel. Good afternoon, Miss Bridget. How are you? I am dying laughing at the thing I sent you. Oh, my God. Okay. So I have to share with you, I finally, hold on, let me get live over here on Rumble. I finally got to meet Carly when I went to that event in Washington, D.C. Totally, totally awesome.

0:31 She has one of the most hilarious sense of humors. So I don't know if you re-shared it, Bridget, but if you want to post it down in the pill, that would be awesome. I will. Yeah, she's got it going on. Love her to death. Anyway, all right. Let's get started. And if you guys would repost out the space, I'd appreciate it. Okay.

1:03 We stopped yesterday in the chapter, The Torch is Past. And we are at where the author begins talking about the 1960 presidential election. And it says,

1:30 approached its climax, JFK's criticism of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy grew sharper, focusing on the Republican administration's irresponsible record of nuclear brinksmanship, as well as disquieting ignorance of international affairs. Foster, who had little interest in the world beyond the central poles of power, once mixed up

1:58 Tanzania with Indonesia. And his State Department staff had a difficult time distinguishing between Niger and Nigeria. But other than that, Alan Dulles did not let Kennedy's often-cutting campaign rhetoric disrupt their relationship. Dulles knew that the race between Kennedy and Nixon would be close. He was confident of his continued command of the CIA.

2:29 If the Republican candidate, a longtime disciple of the Dulles brothers, as we've indicated in this book, won the election. But Dulles realized that if his job were to survive a Democratic presidential victory, Kennedy would be required more charm and effort on his part.

2:50 During the JFK run for the White House, Dulles received inside reports on the Kennedy camp from a number of mutual friends, including Charlie Reitzman and Mary Bancroft. Reitzman, whose Kennedy's ties seemed to trump his Republican values, reported to Dulles on the growing confidence within the Kennedy circle as the election approached.

3:20 John and Robert Kennedy, through her Democratic Party activism in New York City politics, became increasingly smitten with JFK. In July of 1959, Bancroft wrote Kennedy a gushing letter after meeting him at a New York political gathering, vowing that she would support his ambitions all the way, and not just for 60, but forever. Dulles and

3:50 Kennedy engaged in a careful dance during the 1960 campaign. Both men knew they belonged to different political worlds, but there was some social overlap between their circles and neither man saw any reason to antagonize the other. Kennedy knew that Dulles ruled a powerful empire that could help or hurt his campaign, and he made an effort to stay in his good graces.

4:18 Going as far as to add his late brother's name to an honorable roster of political heroes Kennedy wrote about in his book, Profiles in Courage. It was Jackie Kennedy who tipped off Dulles to the pleasures of James Bond, giving him a copy of From Russia with Love, which became one of his favorite spy novels. After he got hooked on Ian Fleming,

4:48 The CIA director would send copies of new Bond novels to the senator and his wife as soon as he could get his hands on them. Dulles played both sides of the 1960 presidential campaign in his typical fashion, currying favors with the Kennedys and the Nixon campaign. On July 23rd, the CIA director met with the Democratic candidate at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port.

5:17 to give him an intel briefing. After the election, Nixon charged that Dulles had given his opponent an unfair advantage at this meeting by briefing JFK about the CIA's plans for a paramilitary invasion of Cuba in his memoirs, Six Crises. Nixon accused Kennedy of using this inside information to straitjacket him on the Cuba issue. When JFK demanded militant action on Cuba,

5:45 On the eve of the final presidential debate, Nixon, who could not reveal the administration was indeed planning such a secret mission, was forced to take a much more cautious posture. Dulles later strongly denied Nixon's accusation, insisting that he did not brief Kennedy on the Bay of Pigs operation until after the election. But his denial had a slippery feel to it. Quote, Nixon indicated he thought.

6:15 He'd been double-crossed, unquote, Dulles told a former CIA colleague, Tom Braden, in 1964. Quote, I said this is all a misunderstanding because as far as I know, President Kennedy did not know about the training, from me anyway, unquote. Doesn't mean he wasn't told. Dulles did not spell out whether any other CIA official had tipped him off.

6:46 If Dulles used his Kennedy briefings to win points with the Democrat nominee, he also used these private sessions to gain inside information for the Nixon camp. On a Saturday evening in September of 1960, Robert Kennedy, his brother's notoriously aggressive campaign manager, phoned Dulles at home, interrupting a dinner he was hosting to inform the CIA director

7:12 that JFK wanted another intel briefing on Monday morning at his Georgetown home. It was the kind of request the CIA officials would grow used to receiving from Robert Kennedy, who was not known for his patience or ingratiating manners when it came to his brother. Dulles was not used to being summoned in such a fashion, particularly by a political operative like RFK.

7:42 who was more than three decades his junior, but still eager to please the Kennedys, he showed up at the appointed hour. When the presidential candidate, who was meeting with Senator Al Gore Sr. of Tennessee at the time, kept the CIA director waiting, Dulles didn't even complain, and he graciously allowed another guest, a minor Middle East prince, to see JFK before him.

8:10 But after Dulles' half-hour meeting with the Democrat nominee, the spymaster promptly sent a memo about their conversation to Andy Goodpaster in the White House, knowing that Eisenhower's staff would give it to Nixon. That's how he gets away with saying he didn't directly do it. On September 21st, Dulles' memo focused on the U2 controversy, of which Kennedy had already made a campaign issue.

8:40 The CIA director, who was acutely aware of his responsibility for the crisis and how it was being exploited by the Democrats, informed Goodpastor that JFK asked him for his reaction to Countdown for Decision, a new book by retired Army General Medaris, that was sharply critical of the Eisenhower's administration of handling the U2 affair. Quote,

9:09 As I mentioned to you, I have reason to believe that this book will be cited in the campaign in view of certain statements which were made to me by Senator Kennedy when I briefed him last Monday, unquote. Despite Dulles' efforts to help the vice president by informing him on the Kennedy campaign, Nixon continued to hold a grudge about the CIA's chief's duplicity.

9:36 Until the end of his Washington career, Nixon would harbor suspicions about the CIA and its political treachery. Nixon, who had carried water for the Dulles brothers ever since the Alger Hiss affair, had expected the spymaster's uncompromising support in his run for the White House. But Dulles was not concerned with personal or political loyalties by playing both sides of a closely contested 1960 race.

10:04 Dulles ensured that he would be the victor no matter what. And that's all that matters. If you get nothing else out of this book, this man is the devil, like literally the devil. He wants control and power, and he has zero, zero loyalties. On Wednesday evening, November 9th, the day after JFK's breathtaking close victory,

10:34 The president-elect and several members of his inner circle sip cocktails in the living room at his Hyannis Port home, recovering from their all-night ordeal and savoring a hard-won moment. The group of insiders began discussing what Kennedy should do first as president. The group was keenly aware the historical turning point and the unique opportunities open to JFK for generational change.

11:02 The first thing he should do, suggested one, was fire J. Edgar Hoover. While he was at it, another one said, he should also fire Alan Dulles, and he should have. Both men were symbols of reactionary past, and there was something sinister about both of them. But the next morning, when they were unpleasantly surprised to read that he was keeping them both.

11:27 Kennedy later explained to author Schlesinger that considering his slim margin of victory, he didn't feel he had sufficient political capital to uproot Washington pillars like Hoover and Dulles. Jettisoning the national icons, as Schlesinger described them, would have provoked a sharp backlash from the influential network of allies that they had accumulated in the Washington bureaucracy and among the Georgetown in Manhattan.

11:56 chattering classes. Schlesinger, ever eager to put Kennedy's actions in the best possible light, later called JFK's decision to include prominent Republicans such as Dulles and C. Douglas Dillon, who was appointed Treasury Chief, part of the youthful president-elect's strategy of reassurance. The Harvard historian played a unique role in Kennedy's life. Special Assistant to the President Political Advisor, Court Chronicle,

12:25 and liaison to the liberal and intellectual circles, which JFK had a complicated and prickly relationship with. Here's author JFK remarked one evening as his advisor casually joined the staff in the Oval Office. He used to be a liberal. Maybe he can explain why they do such crazy things. But Kennedy had a respectful, if sometimes teasing, relationship.

12:57 with Schlesinger often using him as a sounding board for new ideas and appointments. When Schlesinger communicated to Kennedy, liberals growing concern about his political appointment, the president told him he understood, but they shouldn't worry. What matters is the program. JFK assured his advisor that his policies would be solidly liberal, no matter who held positions in his administration.

13:25 Besides, Kennedy said, he had given men like Dulles only temporary reprieve. They would soon be gone. We'll have to do with this for a year or so, he said. Then I'll bring in new people. I suppose it may be hard to get rid of these people once they're in. Kennedy already, it was hard to get rid of them even when they were out. Kennedy already knew the men he wanted to replace Dulles. He wanted Richel.

13:54 Richard Bissell Jr., a Groton, Yale-educated chief of clandestine operations for the CIA. Bissell, a popular member of the Georgetown set, had managed to survive the political fallout of the U2 disaster, even though he was in charge of it. You got to scratch your head. When his impressive academic credentials, which included a degree from the London School of Economics,

14:25 Another grooming place for globalists. And his grasp of the latest surveillance technology, Bissell struck JFK as a man of the future, but deeply tied to the past. Soon after Kennedy's inauguration, Dulles organized a well-lubricated mixer for his top CIA men and Kennedy's White House team at the Alibi Club, his favorite place.

14:56 It was a gentleman's club whose president was Chester A. Author. It catered to exclusive membership only, which included Supreme Court justices, joint chiefs, chairmen, and former presidents. After breaking the ice with a pleasant three-cocktail dinner, one of the guests described it.

15:23 The CIA men got up one at a time to explain their mysterious roles to the White House aides. Dulles himself was used to dominate these occasions. But on this evening, it was Bissell who took the spotlight. Dulles' deputy introduced himself saying, I'm your basic man-eating shark, with just the right mix of bravado and self-mockery to charm the new frontiersman.

15:51 The president made no secret of his plan to shake up the CIA and to replace Dulles with his number two man. Kennedy's father had served on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board that had urged Eisenhower to overhaul the management of the spy agency. Joseph Kennedy had made his son fully aware of Dulles' dangerously unsupervised management style. After the election, a member of Kennedy's transition team

16:19 aware of his low opinion of CIA leadership, asked him, there must be someone you really trust within the intelligence community. Who is that? Kennedy said he could think of only one man, Richard Bissell. But Allen Dulles had no intentions of going anywhere, not even relinquishing command to Bissell. To Dulles, the transition was just one more season in the Washington cycle.

16:51 The press was filled with stories about all the fresh new faces in Washington, but many of the Kennedy appointments had closer ties to Dulles than they did to the new president. Among them was McGeorge Bundy, the Harvard dean who Kennedy appointed as national security advisor. The long ties between Dulles and the Boston Brahmin Bundy family had been fortified when the CIA director

17:18 rescued Mac Bundy's brother, CIA officer Bill Bundy, from Joseph McCarthy's grasp. Mac Bundy regarded Dulles as an uncle. Maintaining a warm correspondence with him, that lasted until the end of the elder man's life. When Bundy became dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Science in 1953 at age 34, the youngest in school's history,

17:48 He used his post to identify prospects for CIA recruitment, the student's body's best and brightest, which is still done today. Dulles could be assured that Mac Bundy in the White House and his brother Bill moving to Kennedy's Defense Department, where the press dubbed him as the Pentagon's Secretary of State, the CIA director, had eyes and ears.

18:18 everywhere he needed them in the Kennedy administration. Kennedy's new frontier, as they were called, was laced throughout with other Dulles loyalists, especially in the Foreign Service and National Security agencies. General Lyman Lemonsker was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom Kennedy inherited from Eisenhower. He had been a long partner with Dulles. Back to wartime intrigues.

18:49 in Operation Sunrise. Kennedy's choice for Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was well known to the Dulles brothers as well from their membership in the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation, where Rusk served as president and John Foster as trustee. Rusk's State Department continued to be filled with Dulles men and women, including

19:19 Eleanor Dulles herself. And this book says that she remained at the German affairs desk. She was actually in charge of the research and intelligence branch, which is the belly button of the CIA in two. And that's been documented a whole bunch of places. Even Jackie Kennedy's social secretary, LaTisha Baldwig,

19:48 had worked for the CIA in the early 50s, specializing in psychological warfare. Imagine having a secretary, a social secretary, that was a specialist in psychological warfare. That's crazy. She had also served as assistant to Dulles' close ally, Ambassador Claire Booth Luce, in the U.S. Embassy in Rome. You know.

20:24 the home of Operation Gladio. Dulles was confident enough that the Dulles era would continue under JFK that he made boasts to that effect on the Washington dinner circuit within full earshot of Kennedy loyalists. Shortly after Kennedy took office, the painter William Walton, a close friend of JFK and Jackie, found himself at a gathering with Walter Lippmann.

20:51 at his house where Dulles was a guest. After dinner, Dulles started boasting that he was still carrying out his brother Foster's foreign policy. He said, you know, that's a much better policy. I've chosen to follow that one, like he's in charge. And by the way, John Foster's policy wasn't necessarily his, it was the oligarchs that he served.

21:22 Walton, who loathed the CIA boss, couldn't believe Dulles' audacity. The spymaster knew that Walton was one of Kennedy's inner circle, but he felt no need to hold his tongue. Dulles was clearly sending the new president a message. And Kennedy's close friend duly delivered it. Early the next morning, Walton phoned JFK at the White House and reported what Dulles had said. JFK said, GD it.

21:52 Did he really say that? The torch had been passed to a new generation of Americans, Kennedy declared in his inaugural address. But in fact, the Dulles old guard was deeply reluctant to give up power to the new frontier team. In fact, the power struggle between the new president and the CIA director started before Kennedy was even sworn in. When Dulles took advantage of the transition period and Eisenhower's authority,

22:21 to carry out a brazen act of insubordination. Patrice Lumumba was fleeing for his life, sworn in less than six months earlier as the Congo's first democratically elected leader, following the end of Belgium's brutal colonial rule. Lumumba was now on the run from the CIA-backed Congolese military forces headed by Belgium officers that had deposed him.

22:51 Lumumba had broken free from house arrest in the capital, Leopoldville, on the evening of November 27, 1960. He was now making his way through a tropical downpour across the countryside to Stanleyville, which is where the forces loyal to their nationalist prime minister or president, whatever he was, Patrice Lumumba.

23:18 some 750 miles to the east, where he hoped to raise an army and reclaim his office. Lumumba was driven along with his wife, Pauline, and their two-year-old son, Roland, part of a three-car convoy that included other high officials from his toppled government. The election of Lumumba in June of 1960 had electrified the Congo, a nation that had been enslaved and plundered.

23:47 by its Belgian rulers for three quarters of a century. In the late 19th century, King Leopold II had carved an empire out of this benighted African territory through a system of forced labor so vicious that Joseph Conrad modeled the colonial nightmare in his novel, Heart of Darkness. Calling Leopold's rape of the Congo the vilest scramble for loot.

24:16 that ever disfigured the history of human consciousness. Hands chopped off from Congolese men who refused to work under the colonial master's yoke became a world symbol for Belgium's vile rule. They actually did that to kids too. After Leopold, the looting of Congo continued with rubber and ivory being replaced by gold, diamonds, copper.

24:46 And 10, as the objects of Western desire, global mining companies turned the mineral-rich African nation into their private jewelry box, with huge fortunes amassed in Brussels, London, and New York. But Patrice Lumumba, and it's weird that they don't mention uranium because uranium was their number one export, but Patrice Lumumba's election threatened this long reign of greed. Lumumba...

25:16 was a graceful man with glasses and a mustache with a goatee. He looked more like a postal clerk, which he had been one time. But he spoke with a heartfelt eloquence that dazzled followers and alarmed his enemies. On June 30th, the Congo's independence was formally celebrated at the National Palace in Leopoldville.

25:43 King Badawan of Belgium, a young monarch who never fully took to his role and would become known as the sad king, delivered a speech praising his royal predecessors for bestowing the fabric of civilization on a primitive nation. They enslaved the entire country and called it civilization.

26:13 on a primitive nation. Let that sink in. It fell to Lumumba, who followed the king to the microphone to set him straight. The Congo's colonial history, said the new prime minister, was much too painful to be forgotten. Lumumba spoke passionately about his people's struggle against humiliating bondage forced upon us. Years that were filled with tears, fire,

26:44 and blood. But he ended on a hopeful note, vowing, we shall show the world what the black man can do when working in liberty. We shall make the Congo the pride of Africa. Lumumba's ardent remarks lifted up the Congolese people who danced in the streets in their celebration of freedom.

27:08 The king and other Western representatives who attended the independence ceremony were insulted by the prime minister's frank remarks. Frank and true. Lumumba had, quote unquote, marred the ceremony, unquote. That was written in the New York Times. Honesty and truthfulness marred the ceremony, according to the New York Times.

27:41 After Lumumba's Independence Day speech, national security officials in Washington and Brussels were already monitoring the Congolese leader. Began regarding him, listen to this, as a serious threat to Western interest. No, no, he was only a serious threat to the oligarchs.

28:08 More than his defiant rhetoric, it was Lumumba's refusal to be bought off by multinational corporations controlling Congo's wealth that undoubtedly sealed his fate. He'd be alive. He would have been allowed to live if he was corrupt. In speeches to his followers, Lumumba opened a door on the corrupt backroom dealings that continued to dominate African capitals in the neocolonial era.

28:38 The U.S., he declared, was rubbing its hands over the Congo's uranium deposits, the same deposits that supplied uranium for the bombs that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Speaking to dinner guests at a political event in October of 1960, Lumumba said that he could have made millions of dollars if he was willing to mortgage.

29:07 the national sovereignty. Dulles, Doug Dillon, then serving as the State Department Undersecretary, and William Burden, the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, led the charge within the Eisenhower administration to demonize, then depose, Lumumba. All three men had financial interest in the Congo. The Dillon family's investment bank handled all of the Congo's bond issues.

29:38 I'm going to let that sink in. The man in the State Department's family had financial interest while at the same time demonizing him in the United States. Dulles' old law firm represented American Metal Company, later called AMAX, a mining giant with holdings in the Congo. And Dulles was friendly with the company's chairman, Harold Hochschild.

30:12 and his brother and successor, Walter. Oh, and by the way, Walter just happened to have served in the OSS with Dulles. Ambassador Burden was a company director, and Frank Taylor Ostrander, Jr., a former U.S. intelligence official, served the Hochschilds brothers as a political advisor.

30:37 Corporate executives with major stakes in Africa were able to mingle and confer with U.S. national security officials at prestigious organizations like the Manhattan-based African America Institute. All of these are basically CIA fronts. The institute, which Harold Hochschild helped launch in 1953, sponsored the American education of future generations of African leaders.

31:07 a goal the CIA found strategically valuable enough to fund. That's the same program that brought Barack Obama's dad to the United States and Mondami's dad to the United States. CIA backed. Years later, the African-Africa-America Institute was exposed as a CIA front. Hochschild appeared chagrined when the subject came up with his son, Adam.

31:43 The younger Hochschild co-founded Mother Jones Magazine and later authored King Leopold's Ghost, a powerful indictment of the Belgian reign of tower in the Congo. After the CIA's ties to the Institute were exposed, Child later recalled, quote, father seemed uncomfortable. He defended the link, saying that it was in the early years there was no

32:12 where else the Institute could have gotten enough money for its work. But he was clearly embarrassed that the whole thing had to be kept secret, unquote. Not embarrassed that they were doing it, just embarrassed. And what they did was they brought African leaders to the United States to educate them and obviously drop off a child or two and go back.

32:36 Because then they compromise them while they're here and they go back and be African leaders with compromising material so they can be controlled. The Eisenhower administration increasingly militant policy towards Lumumba took shape over cocktails in a club-like environment such as the Africa America Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.

33:01 The men driving the policy had little feel for the suffering or the longing of the Congolese people. They don't give a shit. Ambassador Burden was a Vanderbilt heir. No kidding. A big high society boozer who was stuffed full of imbecilic and prejudice of his caste. He was not fond of Jews and he treated his legions of nameless servants as indentured.

33:34 particularly bright, he represented what his granddaughter, Wendy, would later call dead in gene pools. Everything was marvelous in Burden's world. He said it, quote, the way a character in a Fitzgerald novel would, according to Wendy. She described him saying marvelous all the time. Everything was marvelous. Burden

34:06 who had acquired his ambassadorship by contributing heavily to Eisenhower's campaign, spent his days in Brussels attending diplomatic receptions, soaking up champagne, along with the racial prejudices of the Belgium Empire. It was the ambassador who first raised alarms about Patrice Lumumba, whom the Belgians only yesterday were calling a dirty monkey. And then they began calling him Satan.

34:38 The guy that wants to free Congo is Satan, and the people that enslaved the Congo and chopped people's hands off is not Satan. Burden began sending agitated cables to Dulles in Washington well before Lumumba even was elected, suggesting that the growing aspirations of the Congolese people were, quote unquote,

35:08 Soviet inspired freedom. Freedom is inspired by the Soviets who were communist with zero freedom and urging strong measures to be used to put down African unrest. One cable. Dear Alan, have your organization and the Department of Defense done much work recently in studying the type of rioting which is occurring and might occur?

35:43 It's either occurring or might occur. I don't know which. In the various countries of Africa, the degree to which new weapons, such as those new gases, might enable such difficulties to be controlled. You know, they're monkeys, just gas them. By the following summer, Burden was cabling Washington to destroy Lumumba's government. That was literally his words, to destroy Lumumba's government.

36:16 as a quote-unquote threat to our vital interest in Congo. It's not about national security. It's vital to their interest. Sorry, guys, this just so pisses me off. Dulles quickly embraced the idea that Lumumba was a diabolical agent of the communist subversion. Never talked to the Soviet Union, came to America, tried to work out a deal.

36:46 The president wouldn't see him. The vice president wouldn't see him. Came to America, wanted freedom. Already labeled a communist subversive. In truth, Lumumba had less of a connection to Moscow than any of the other African leaders. He explicitly tried to keep his struggling nation out of the superpower vortex, vowing that the Congo would never be a satellite of Russia.

37:17 or the U.S. That's a death warrant. Just making that statement. We want no part of the Cold War, Lumumba declared. We want Africa to remain African, neutral. But in the Dulles viewpoint, there was no such thing as neutrality. And everyone who professed such notions belonged in the enemy camp. This is the Bush doctrine. You're either with us or against us. There's no in between.

37:48 None. You're not allowed to be neutral. At a July 22nd, 1960 National Security Council meeting in the Eisenhower White House, just three weeks after Lumumba's Independence Day speech, Dulles denounced him as a Castro or worse. That's a quote. It is safe to go on the assumption that Lumumba has been bought by the communists, unquote. They offered to buy him.

38:21 He said no. Communist Alan Dulles offered to buy him. Doug Dillon strongly backed Dulles' view of Lumumba. As a Soviet accomplice, no intelligence said anything of the sort. It was an alarmist view calculated to convince Eisenhower that the African leader had to be terminated. As it turned out, the president required little persuasion. By the summer of 1960, Ike was sick.

38:56 tired and cranky. He had little patience about third world freedom struggles. Conferring with the British foreign minister, Lord Holm, Eisenhower quipped that he hoped Lumumba would fall into a river full of crocodiles. At a National Security Council meeting in August of 1960, Eisenhower gave Dulles direct approval to eliminate Lumumba. And I want to explain to you guys how rare this is.

39:27 I've explained multiple times. There's a distancing of presidents from those types of National Security Council meetings. What they do is they send one of their staff and the staff relays unwritten what was talked about for a decision so that nothing is written down. They felt so strongly about assassinating Patrice Lumumba.

39:57 that Eisenhower personally approved it. Robert Johnson, the minutes taker at the National Security Council meeting, later recalled the shock in the room. There was a stunned silence for about 15 seconds as the meeting continued. Johnson said there was nothing ambiguous about Eisenhower's lethal order. I was surprised.

40:30 that I would ever hear a president say anything like this in my presence or the presence of a group of people. I was startled, unquote, because it was unheard of to do anything like that. Over the next several months, the CIA, working with its allies in Belgian intelligence, engineered a military coup led by a cocky 29-year-old colonel named Joseph Mubatu.

41:01 who had been bought. And by the way, this is all NATO. NATO was involved from the get-go in this. But that was not enough for the CIA. Lumumba would remain grave danger. They actually said that. Dulles told the National Security Council meeting on September 21st, 1960, as long as he is not yet disposed of, he would remain a grave danger.

41:33 Three days later, Dulles made it clear that he wanted Lumumba permanently removed from the face of the earth. Cabling the CIA office in Leopoldville, quote, we wish give every possible support in eliminating Lumumba from any possibility resuming governmental position, unquote. That's the death order.

42:04 Washington ascribed a kind of witchcraft-like power to Lumumba. Dulles marveled at the man's political survival skills and Dillon was amazed at his power of persuasion. Quote, he had this tremendous ability to stir up a crowd or a group. And if he could have gotten out and started to talk to a battalion of Congolese army, he probably would have had them in the palm of his hands in five minutes. Unquote. To prevent this from happening,

42:34 The CIA recruited two cutthroats from the European criminal underworld, NATO, whom they codenamed Q.J. Wynn and W.I. Rogue. These Tweedledum and Tweedledee assassins were such loathsome mercenaries that even their CIA handlers found them unsavory. Rogue was the kind of morally unhinged man who would try anything at least once.

43:04 said his agency supervisors. While Rogue went about trying to organize an execution squad to kill Lumumba, Nguyen focused on penetrating the protective ring of UN troops that encircled the house where the Congolese leader was in custody. Now, in the book and several other things, I just made a post about Q.J. Nguyen. There's a lot of evidence that's Otto Skorzeny.

43:36 QJ Wen had been supplied a tube of poison toothpaste, which had been delivered to the CIA station by Sidney Gottlieb, the agency's wizard in toxins. Dr. Ewan Cameron of the notorious Allen Institute, you know, MKUltra, had analyzed Lumumba at the CIA's request and determined he must brush his teeth regularly because they were white.

44:04 Therefore, UN assured Dulles a chemically altered dental product was the key to getting rid of him. In the end, the CIA didn't go through with the toothpaste plot, apparently deciding that poisoning a popular leader while he's under UN protective custody in his own house would be too flagrant. Because they knew that could be traced back to them. It would be wiser, the agency decided, to deliver Lumumba to his murderous

44:36 political rivals in the Congo and let them do the work for them. And so Lumumba fled house arrest or was allowed to escape, which is what most people believe, because somehow he miraculously skipped past UN troops that were guarding him. But Mubato hostile forces were somehow not there.

45:07 They couldn't get in, but he could get out. So he's on the run to Stanleyville. As Lumumba's convoy made its way along the muddy, bumpy roads, he was pursued by Congolese troops because somehow they just all knew that it was going to happen. It was led by Captain Gilbert Pongo, Mubato's notorious security chief. Pongo buzzed after Lumumba's party in a helicopter.

45:40 That was provided by who? Oh, Claire Timberlake. That doesn't sound like a Congo name because that was the U.S. ambassador, a person that had worked in the CIA delegation for the U.S. ambassador in the Congo. So literally the CIA is flying the guy they hired.

46:11 and promised that he could be in charge of the country when they kill him around in a helicopter pursuing their target. Lumumba's flight was slowed whenever his convoy drove through villages because everybody came out wanting to touch him, to hear him speak. He delivered several speeches. Our program is clear, complete independence for Congo and the Congolese people.

46:39 He told one group one night, 14 million Congolese want to work, a better future for their children. They want to be citizens with full political rights. They want a new life. That's a national security threat to the political elite. When Lumumba's military pursuers drew too near, villagers would delay by putting up roadblocks and tearing down bridges. On the evening of December 1st,

47:10 Lumumba's group reached the small village of Lodi on the west bank of the river. This wide, muddy stretch of the river was the last serious obstacle that lay between him and Stanleyville. The other side of the river was a bastion of pro-Lumumba nationalism. There was only one canoe on the riverbank. Lumumba and a few of his top aides crossed first. As they disembarked, they heard the commotion on the other side. Mubatu's soldiers had caught up with the group.

47:40 Lumumba's wife and toddler was among the people over there. Lumumba's compatriot begged him not to go back across the river. The life of the whole nation is at stake, he was told, but he could not stand to hear the cries of his wife. When one struggles for one's country, one has to expect a tragic end, he said. He got back in the canoe and went back across the river where they grabbed him.

48:08 Lumumba tried winning over Mubato's men. For a while, his words seemed to work. The soldiers hesitated, but then Captain Pongo intervened, reminding his soldiers of the dire consequences that would befall them and their family. They turned in an instant and began beating him and even was hitting his two-year-old son.

48:38 Lumumba was hustled into the helicopter flown by the CIA to Leopoldville, where he emerged in the glare of TV news cameras that had all been set up. Miraculously, he was subjected to another vicious round of beating by Mubato's thugs on film. It was all videoed. Throughout it all, Lumumba maintained dignity of a martyr.

49:13 that he would soon be. On Lumumba's face was the look of a man who did not yet believe that fate could be against justice for his people. His white shirt now spotted with blood, but his head was still erect. He personified the best of the race that would never be enslaved again, but they were. Over the next several weeks, Lumumba's fate became the focus of international drama.

49:45 As a symbol of African freedom languished in a military prison south of Leopoldville, world leaders like Khrushchev, Nasser, Ghanas, Kwame Karuma issued pleas for his release with the Soviet leader promising that the colonialists will be thrown out of Congo once and for all. Lumumba's followers prayed that he would survive until the inauguration of Kennedy.

50:14 In the Leopoldville, U.S. and Belgium, agents were feverishly maneuvering to ensure no release ever happened. The man at the center was Lawrence Devlin, the CIA station chief in the Congo, a Harvard man who had been handpicked by none other than his dean, Mac Bundy.

50:41 Larry Devlin's aggressive campaign against Lumumba had won him the admiration of the agency's top command, including Dulles. At the end of November, when Mubato's troops were in pursuit of Lumumba, Devlin had flown to Rome to meet Richard Bissell, whom Dulles had put in charge of the Lumumba assassination. This is the same Bissell that JFK thinks is perfectly fine. The CIA was still determined to carry out Eisenhower's termination order.

51:12 But Devlin and his CIA superiors knew it had to be done before January 20th. U.S. intelligence officials continued to fret about the Congo situation even after Lumumba was captured. When Mubato's rule still shaky and the Congolese politics in chaos, Devlin realized that Lumumba's imprisonment could not be insured indefinitely. In fact, by the second week of January 1961,

51:42 When Lumumba's jellers briefly mutinied and threatened to free him, his captivity seemed even more in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Dulles and his Congo team were acutely aware of the presidential transition underway in Washington. Their time was ticking. Kennedy, whose inauguration was scheduled for January 20th, had already signaled that he supported African nationalists like Lumumba.

52:10 In late December, after returning from a five-week tour of the Congo and other African countries on a Democrat fact-finding delegation that included JFK's brother, Edward Kennedy, predicted that the new administration would align itself with the Movement for Freedom and express strong sympathy for Lumumba's plight. Ted Kennedy later went further, calling for the release of Lumumba and suggesting his brother agreed with the position.

52:40 A raging battle over Lumumba's future broke into the U.S. press with the CIA's media assets predicting drastic consequences if the Congolese leader was returned to power. As the Congo crisis reached its climax, a news correspondent, I'm going to put news, or new correspondent at the New York Times showed up in Leopoldville.

53:08 with a distinctly anti-Lumamba bias. His name was Paul Hoffman, a sophisticated Austrian with a colorful past. During the war, he was the top aide to a Nazi general, Kurt Mauser, who was later convicted of mass murder of Italian partisans. Yeah.

53:43 a Nazi to report on Lumumba. The Angleton family had helped Hoffman in the Rome Bureau of the New York Times, where he continued to be of good use to his friends in the U.S. intelligence, translating reports from confidential sources inside the Vatican and passing them to Angleton. Hoffman became one of Time's leading foreign correspondents, because of course, because he's a Nazi.

54:17 Eventually taking over the newspaper's Rome Bureau, which only makes sense when you're doing Operation Gladio. Why would you want anybody else in Italy reporting for the New York Times? The New York Times coverage of the Congo crisis had always been slanted against Lumumba, of course. It had columns and commentary labeling him as inexperienced and irresponsible and a virtual dictator.

54:49 He hadn't even been in office but a few months talking about freedom to do deals. But Hoffman's Congo coverage was so virulent in its bias that it seemed as if he was acting as part of a psychological warfare conduit for U.S. intelligence because he fucking was. In article after article during the critical Congo endgame, Hoffman portrayed Lumumba as a dangerous boogeyman for the Soviets.

55:24 called them mentally unbalanced. He also said, been behind bars. Lumumba continued to work his dark mischief, Hoffman told his readers, plotting the murders of whites. What? And bring in flow of Soviet arms into the country, all while living the life of luxury in military prison. He described his prison as three houseboys at his service.

56:02 He was being beat daily. The message behind Hoffman's relentless barrage was clear. Despite the crocodile tears cried by the Soviet Union over Lumumba's plight, no man as treacherous as this deserved mercy. He was engaged in psychological operations inside the United States on behalf of the CIA as a former Nazi.

56:31 In its explosive 1975 report on the CIA assassination plot against former leaders, the church committee absolved the agency of any responsibility for Lumumba's murder. Quote, it did not appear from the evidence that the U.S. was in any way involved in the killing, unquote. That's why I call every one of these fucking committees a kabuki dance. The fucking CIA guy was flying the helicopter that picked him up.

57:03 He was driven around in the trunk of Devlin's car after he was murdered. They had nothing to do with it. This became a convenient myth, one that is still routinely repeated in the press. But the truth is far less comforting.

57:26 As a new wave of historical research has determined, the CIA insured Lumumba's violent end by making certain that he was delivered into the hands of his enemies. Not his enemies. That's just even bullshit too. They co-opted Mubato. They bought him. They groomed him to do this. They were paying him among his tormentors in the final hours of his life.

57:57 were CIA-funded goons. Devlin, the CIA man in the Congo, later tried to portray himself as ignorant of the Lumumba affair, and indeed as a man who found assassination morally repugnant. Fucking liar. But as former congressional aide and scholar Stephen Weissman has observed, quote, the CIA was not the innocent bystander.

58:23 and its Congo operatives, not the paragons of morally sensitive professionalism they claim to be. In particular, Devlin was a key participant in the Congo's government decision to approve Lumumba's fatal rendition, unquote. In fact, Devlin appears to have been more of a driver of the action leading to Lumumba's death than a participant. On April, or excuse me, on January 17th, 1961.

58:53 The same day Eisenhower is giving his immortal speech about beware of the military industrial complex, they were murdering Patrice Lumumba at his directive. Three days before Kennedy's inauguration, Lumumba was taken from his jail cell and hustled onto a Belgium chartered plane. They couldn't have done any of this without NATO. None of it. NATO's money, NATO's people.

59:25 nato's equipment congolese authorities took this action under pressure from devlin who was the king maker behind the mubato regime with devlin's full knowledge lumumba had been flown to katanga now let me explain because it doesn't explain this in this book during all of this going on

59:53 There was a NATO base in Katanga because that's where all of the uranium and all of the resources were. During this entire thing, they had pre-positioned forces in Katanga immediately after Lumumba became the prime minister. They basically staged a fake civil war where Katanga declared independence and immediately was recognized.

1:00:26 As a foreign country, just let that sink in. So that even if they couldn't get Patrice Lumumba, they would have all of his resources. Just in case, that was their backup plan. And they killed tons, tons of people during the Katanga operation. Okay, back to the story. The station chief later acknowledged that Lumumba's transfer to Katanga mounted to...

1:01:04 amounted to a death sentence because the entire area was under the control of NATO. I think there was a general assumption once we learned that he had been sent to Katango that his goose was cooked, Devlin told the church committee. Fuckery, total fuckery. They didn't know his goose was cooked. They cooked his goose. Devlin knew of Lumumba's imminent transfer.

1:01:37 by January 14th, three days before it happened, because he arranged it. He did not officially inform Washington until January 17th because they didn't want anything in writing. Devlin knew that cabling Washington would risk tipping off Africa policymakers in the incoming Kennedy administration, who likely would have intervened by keeping quiet.

1:02:10 he ensured Lumumba's death. Larry Devlin was not a rogue agent. He was an up-and-coming intelligence officer whose Congo exploits won glowing marks at CIA headquarters. The Congo station chief's decision to keep Lumumba's faith quiet until it was too late to do anything about it was clearly a result of consultation with...

1:02:41 the headquarters. Devlin suffered no agency reprimands for his action, and in fact, his intelligence career soared after Patrice Lumumba was murdered. Before retiring from the CIA in 1974 to pursue, guess where he ends up working when he retires from the CIA? That son of a bitch went to work in the Congo's lucrative diamond industry.

1:03:14 He was promoted to the CIA's Africa division chief for the rest of the time. And then rewarded by being employed very lucratively by the government that he helped install that mass murdered all the nationalists in the Congo. I don't even know how these people live with themselves. It boils my blood.

1:03:48 Patrice Lumumba suffered a terrible martyrdom during his final hours on earth. He was beaten bloody during his flight to Katanga. Clumps of his hair was pulled out. When the plane landed, he was seized by armed guards of Moise Tushambi, the fake ruler of the fake Katanga country, put in power by NATO. He was subject to another round of abuse.

1:04:20 As he suffered the rain of blows, he maintained a silence. He was then dragged to a jeep and driven to a farmhouse where another group of men connected to US and Belgian intelligence beat him to death. An orgy of sadism that stretched over several hours. According to one account, even the ministers appeared at one point to contribute to Lumumba's.

1:04:49 suffering, kicking and hitting him in his near lifeless body. Despite the agency's evasions, CIA officer John Stockwell, who was stationed in the Congo in the aftermath of the assassination, had no doubt who was responsible for the African leader's death. Eventually, he was killed, not by our poisons, but beaten to death, apparently by men who had agency

1:05:20 which mean code names, means they were being paid by the CIA. Stockwell concluded, years after Lumumba's death, Stockwell fell into conversation with one of his more particular CIA colleagues, a man Stockwell anointed Goldfinger. The man regaled Stockwell with a story of the evening when he had driven around the capital of Katanga with Lumumba's battered corpse in his trunk. That's the CIA.

1:05:54 They drove around with a man's body. And as a matter of fact, in other books, they describe it. He was in that trunk for days. The entire car stunk. They could never get the smell out of it. They were trying to decide what to do with this body because they didn't want his body buried because they knew it would eventually be dug up and he would become a martyr. And everybody would know that he had been beaten to death.

1:06:23 After Kennedy's inauguration, the CIA continued to keep Lumumba's death under wraps. On January 26, Dulles briefed the new president on the Congo. Do you think he told Kennedy? Nope. The CIA director said nothing about Lumumba's assassination, though his fate was well known by that time.

1:06:54 Kennedy team. They still think Lumumba's fine. The old Congo hands were alarmed by the administration's new policy paper, which envisioned disarming Lubato and freeing Lumumba. They are sitting in a room knowing the man's dead. Devlin considered JFK's admiration of the nationalists naive. Timberlake meeting with Kennedy in the White House argued that the Congolese people were too primitive.

1:07:26 They just fucking beat a man to death. They did, the CIA. But those people over there are primitive. Good God. Neither Timberlake nor Dublin took the opportunity to tell Kennedy or his staff they'd already killed him. The Kennedy White House remained in the dark about Lumumba for a full month after his murder. When JFK finally heard of the leader's death, the news came not from Dulles, but from UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Jack?

1:08:00 Lowe, a young photographer who had been unobstructively documenting the Kennedy story from the earliest days of his presidential run, in the Oval Office with JFK, received a phone call from Stevenson. I want to show you this picture. It's actually in this book for those of you who are watching. Let me find it. This is a picture of JFK with his face in his hands.

1:08:31 on the phone being told that Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. That's it. That's him. It's crazy. It's just literally crazy. There was none was more powerful than the picture that the young photographer snapped the moment when Kennedy was told of Lumumba's fate. The photo is one of the most searing documents of the Kennedy presidency.

1:09:07 In the close-up shot, JFK looks physically stricken as he absorbs the news on the phone. It was an image of such anguish that it seemed to come from deep inside the presidency, the president. Lowe later recalled, I was alone with the president. His hand went to his head in total despair. Oh no, I heard him groan.

1:09:34 Lumumba was considered a troublemaker and a leftist by many Americans, but Kennedy's attitude towards black Africa was that many who had considered leftists were in fact nationalists and patriots. He felt that Africa presented an opportunity for the West and speaking as an American unhindered by colonial heritage. He had made friends in Africa. The call therefore left him heartbroken for he knew that the murder

1:10:04 would be a prelude to chaos. When the killing of Lumumba was finally announced, furious street protests swept the world. New Delhi, Warsaw, Tokyo, Lumumba's fellow leaders in the third world, including Egypt's Nasser and Naruma of Ghana, who had been a mentor, were particularly outraged by his murder.

1:10:31 lashing out at the West and at the UN for failing to protect him. Brazilian delegates to the UN exclaimed horror and repulsion. They hadn't been overthrown yet. Brazil will be overthrown in 63. But as much as the world mourned, the Western press continued its snide coverage of Lumumba, exhuming the martyred leader only to subject him to more abuse. Time magazine snickered.

1:11:03 At the traditional way, his widow, Pauline, chosen to mourn her husband, marching bare-breasted through the streets of Leopoldville. Meanwhile, the New York Times continued to demean Lumumba, sometimes resorting to the most shopworn neocolonialism stereotypes of the era. Lumumba, this is a quote, combined the skills of the late Senator McCarthy with the brashness of a ward healer.

1:11:31 and the magic touch of an African witch doctor. That was written by Henry Tanner of the New York Times Magazine. Quote, then there was his name, musical, easily pronounced in all languages and yet exotic, African sounding like the drums in the jungle. Unquote. After her husband's funeral possession, Pauline Lumumba crumbled to the floor in the dark corner of a friend's house to cry.

1:12:03 She raised her arms in the air and let them hang there as if in a surrender. Her husband's murderers did not even have the decency to give her his body. Pauline's brother told reporters, as little Roland Lumumba hovered anxiously over his mother, the room was filled with wails of women. Our strong leader is gone. Our great father is no more. In his final letter to his wife, Patrice Lumumba vowed, quote, neither brutality nor cruelty.

1:12:30 nor torture will ever bring me to ask for mercy, for I prefer to die with my head unbowed, unquote. It was an oath that Lumumba kept throughout his ordeal. Lumumba also told his wife, quote, history will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the UN. Africa will write its own history. And to the north and south of the Sahara.

1:12:57 It will be a glorious and dignified history, unquote. This promise didn't come true for the Congo. The mourners of Lumumba's wake knew how profound a loss it was. It was meant for their nation and what it meant for their nation. There is nothing for us to do now, muttered Lumumba's brother-in-law. He's gone. There is no one to take his place. With one...

1:13:23 of Africa's brightest lights extinguished, the Congo slid into an endless nightmare of tyranny and corruption. Propped up by the United States, Mubato became a 32-year-old dictator that looted the country of its wealth and left the nation in ruins. In his rampant thievery, Mubato modeled himself on King Leopold. So smug was the dictator in his iron-fisted rule that he declared Lumumba, a national hero, a sick joke.

1:13:53 that he enjoyed. The CIA officials responsible for Lumumba's murder also had a change of heart about the man who had once haunted their days. In 1962, shortly after Dulles' departure from the CIA, he remarked, I think we overrated the Soviet danger, let's say, in the Congo. And Devlin, for his part, insisted that he never thought of Lumumba's assassination as essential to U.S. security.

1:14:22 You know, they just killed him for no reason. I didn't regard Lumumba as the kind of person that was going to bring about World War III. He later told the church committee, then why did you fucking kill him, you devil? So, and nowhere in here they talk about, they actually decided what to do with his body. They boiled it in acid to dissolve it. And we only know that because not that long ago, a few years ago.

1:14:54 a Belgian soldier returned his gold tooth to his family in the Congo and told everybody about it. It's literally one of the craziest stories. So, okay, that's it. Tomorrow we start part three of the book. Bridget, did you have anything? Evil, evil, evil. We should say next chapter in evil, evil, and more evil deeds, you know?

1:15:37 Somebody over on Rumble had said, and rightly so, that most Americans have no idea about any of this. And it would sure shatter the looking glass had anybody done so. Yeah. Yep. And Queen Jackie says, now I understand why my father, Lieutenant Colonel in Yugoslavia, couldn't stand the CIA and would never come visit me here. That's why. They're evil.

1:16:10 They're evil, evil, evil. SR, go ahead. Then we'll go to all along. Thank you, Colonel. And thank you, everybody, for being here on Spaces and Rumble. I'm sorry I couldn't put anything in the pill today. For some reason, I don't have a pill icon. But anyway, looking at what's going on here, the one thing that I'm listening to and what was going on through all of this is Diamonds became a very big deal.

1:16:41 During all of this to fund all of these wars that were going on there in Africa. Blood Diamonds didn't wind up being called out until 1990s. 1998, I think it was. Being called out by NGOs, specifically Global Witness. And, of course, everybody else chimed in there.

1:17:13 including the beers that were complicit in all of this in the whole nine yards. And I'm looking at that and saying it took that long for somebody to complain about diamonds coming out of Africa. And if we're looking at it in that light, I have to wonder why it was released and who jumped on it other than somebody was missing out. Probably Israel.

1:17:43 On diamond income. Oh, no. Israel controls the entire diamond market. Exactly. Yeah. And why would they all of a sudden decide, oh, we got blood diamonds? All along. Go ahead. Yeah, Colonel. I think it's especially worth noting that, you know, the two major league genocides that occurred.

1:18:19 you know, shortly after JFK's assassination. And it were both a direct result of 180 degree policy changes made after the JFK assassination under the so-called administration of LBJ, which is really, you know, to a large degree, in my opinion, the administration of the CIA. And so what's especially noteworthy for me, you know,

1:18:48 Being a longtime observer of, you know, when I was younger, I thought was the quote unquote left. But now which I realize is that completely and utterly controlled left is like, guess what? Two assassinations. They say almost nothing about. Well, surprise, surprise. It's Congo and Indonesia. And it's just it to my mind. It's indicative of.

1:19:17 You know, their function, again, it's like selling. They do say a lot of true things, you know, in terms of what I call capillary truths that, you know, but they're only going to affect like graduate students in history because like they're the only ones reading about like the history of the Salvador death squads and that sort of. I mean, it's not like it's a not not a serious topic. It is, but it's not going to affect everyone. But if you if folks are getting, you know.

1:19:46 If the so-called left, the actual left to start reading about the genocide in Congo and Indonesia, at least directly to Dallas. Right. Yeah. So that's exactly what these McLeft, these fake leftists are paid to avoid come hell and high water. Correct. So coincidence that these two genocides have gotten the least attention by the fake left. And of course, you know, Vietnam.

1:20:13 I mean, that could be easily seen as a third genocide. But of course, you know, the fake leftists, their strategy there is they lied worse than even mainstream media lied between like roughly 1980 and 2010. But by after around 2010, they just stopped talking about it. Right. Because there's too much information out there that is, you know, can show them that they're.

1:20:40 utterly lying so did you know it's like if you're going to lose an argument the trick is don't talk about it right and it's just uh very indicative that's why i think you know i really feel like the jfk assassination needs to be held right at the fake leftists and that will because they're the ones who actually protect the democrats from their number one achilles heel they're having become 100 cia yeah right yeah and they complain they they

1:21:10 They correctly, in many cases correctly, bashed them on everything unless it would actually matter. Right. Absolutely. Meganuk and then Illini. I believe that there is a special place in hell for all these asshats. They're there now. These guys are all dead. I understand that. What I'm more concerned with is how big the property needs to be for all the asshats in the world today.

1:21:44 that are going to be visiting that location. On that, I'm out. I'm of the mind at this point since they are the derivatives of these people and their favorite way of getting rid of people was taking them up in airplanes and feeding them to the sharks. We don't need a big piece of property. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Yeah, I mean, well, first off,

1:22:11 You know, when they talk about the psychological warfare against Lumumba, basically portraying him as unhinged and using, you know, all these different – talking about how he's such a terrible leader and inexperienced and everything else. It kind of gives you a throwback to the period, you know, 2017 to 2020 as they were coming after Trump.

1:22:37 And, you know, CNN was devoting, like, at some point, 70% of their airtime to the Russia collusion hoax. Yeah. That was kind of my first thought on this. The second one was going through Lumumba. You know, there's an interesting corollary from Seymour Hersh. He reported on, you know, a decent amount of this, you know, the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 70s.

1:23:05 And then decades later, he comes out with his book called Reporter, which is basically his autobiography and his stories about working on all these different stories. And I have a quote from it that goes to La Mamba here. So he was discussing with – so his editor, Abe Rosenthal.

1:23:30 um met with gerald ford on january 16th 1975 about the rockefeller commission and you know rosenthal leaves this memo behind that uh that that hirsch finds years later and when he was asked you know why why the president you know why he had selected such an obviously loaded commission

1:23:58 You know, with the Rockefeller Commission, Ford responded that he needed to appoint those who could be trusted to keep those secrets that had to remain secret. Yep. Rosenthal, Hersh's editor, follows up with, like what? He asks. And then President Ford says, like assassinations, but that's off the record. So number one, Ford knows what's going on. Yep.

1:24:26 He needs to keep it a secret. He's a pliant administrative state. Vessel. Yes. He's being... They're doing another kabuki dance. And you've got the New York Times on the record in this memo that Rosenthal, his editor, wrote for to...

1:24:57 to Hirsch that he found later. And Hirsch, of course, is a New York Times reporter who's exposing all of this. So it's kind of interesting. So it gives you another piece of the puzzle in terms of this relationship between the New York Times, some of the other big publishing outlets, the administrative state, Gerald Ford. He's willing to trust them to keep that secret. I found that shocking. Yes, it is shocking.

1:25:26 But not surprising, given what we now know. It just pisses me off so bad. It just pisses me off so bad. Every fucking thing about our history is a lie. Everything. Congress is a crime scene. It's been a crime scene.

1:25:58 They all are complicit in this Kabuki theater. All of the previous administrations, there are no exceptions. They're all part of a theater that has led to the imprisonment and the slavery of the American population on a plantation that most Americans can't even see. They can't see the prison bars.

1:26:26 They can't see the fact that they are on a plantation and that everything around them. That's why I say, after doing all of this research, you guys know, I described this entire thing as a hologram. We have lived in a hologram of lies. Everything around us, if you reach out and touch something, that's government. It's a lie. All of it is.

1:26:55 And I want to say BG88, it's so hard to believe that this is actually true. It's sickening. I agree. But it is true. This is one of probably 20 books that I've read that describe the situation in the Congo. It is definitely all true. SR, go ahead.

1:27:27 Thank you, Colonel. I want to step back for a moment to Katanga and in looking what was going on there in the timeline. They got their independence from Belgium in June. 30 June of 60. Well, the Congo did. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Katanga was part of the Congo. The entire country of the Congo got there.

1:27:58 quote unquote, freedom from Belgium on that date. Correct. Go ahead. They declared, Katanga declared itself as a sovereign nation in July of 60. It wasn't dissolved until 63. Within a month. Within a month. Within a month of.

1:28:30 Patrice Lumumba becoming the prime minister of the Congo. Belgium had already moved a whole bunch. NATO had moved in forces onto the NATO base in Katanga and faked a civil war against the Congo and declared the Katanga area.

1:28:57 an independent country, which then they immediately recognized as an independent country. And that's what I find fascinating. Fast forward to today. We are told that absolutely nothing after World War II has, in the nation state, has ever had boundaries redrawn. Are you fucking kidding me right now? I remind everybody that ever says that. You know, we can't ever recognize Russia owning

1:29:28 or possessing these breakaway entities on the east part of Ukraine as actually part of Russia, because that would just violate everything, because we don't change nation states. And everybody needs to understand that's a bold-faced lie. NATO was behind the quote-unquote independence.

1:29:52 And why? Because that's where all of the resources to include uranium was, and they did not want to allow, in case he was able to survive, Patrice Lumumba to be able to improve the lot of the Congolese with the resources that were their own fucking resources. Correct. And then at that point in...

1:30:20 63 when Katanga was never recognized as a sovereign nation by the UN in 63 in January it was dissolved and became part of the Congo again and later on that year in November that's when Kennedy was assassinated so I'm looking at that timeline and I'm saying oh my god yeah

1:30:49 Well, by 63, they had secured all of the control over the Congo and had duly had enough blackmail on the leader. And they were able to then just undo what they had done and let it go on because they controlled all the resources via their controlled puppet that they had installed in the Congo. Renee, go ahead.

1:31:21 Good afternoon, everyone. Yeah, it's easy to understand why Ibrahim Trahori does not want any Western fingers in the rejuvenation of his country right now. But also wanted to share, interestingly enough, I don't know if you all know, and I couldn't, I don't have a purple pill to post it in either.

1:31:42 But I learned recently when I was reading, tracking The Jackal, The Search for Carlos about, you know, I was fascinating, long, long book. But actually, Ilik Ramirez and his brother, Lenin, who they call Carlos the Jackal, they actually went to the university, the Patrice Lumumba University in Russia. Yeah.

1:32:11 I don't know if you all are aware, but this was a university that was established in 1960 in honor of Patrisse Lumumba. Yeah, so very interesting. And they try and help countries form an alliance who...

1:32:36 um are decolonized de-imperializing themselves etc so forth so just wanted to share that yeah and unfortunately for those future leaders um the CIA has used the propaganda of them attending that as them being um Russian or communist sympathizers um but again if you don't want your

1:33:04 future leaders groomed by the CIA, you don't want to send them to the United States for education and you sure as hell don't want to send them to Europe. And very few other established countries have the educational wherewithal to prepare future leaders. So anyway, Seaweed, did you want to say something? Sure. Hi, Cornel. Hi.

1:33:38 Gosh, every time you talk about Mbamba, I get so angry. Me too. Yeah. I don't know. This might be a silly question, but does Trump's war gaming supercomputer have this kind of info in it? And if not, what kind of info is in there? And I just wanted to say, these are the agencies that are funding.

1:34:08 And training what we're looking at on TV every day. Yes. Insurgency. Yes. So to answer your question, yeah, the Wargaming software has all of the previous.

1:34:34 operations to the greatest extent that they have the detail of how things turned out. Generally, military operations, not so much CIA, but it does have the special forces elements in them. Not so much the CIA assassination stuff, but obviously

1:35:01 at the military level. Now, anything that Trump has is going to have everything in it. But in the military, they program all of the events that are known. And we all had clearances. So it's not just what's publicly known. It's what's known inside of the military.

1:35:24 of events leading up to certain things and then the military operations that occur in the aftermath of them. And so you're talking about a massive database of how things are played out based on certain circumstances and decisions that are made as a result of those circumstances. So the military,

1:35:54 piece of that is different than anything that would be done at the national security level, because at the national security level, like the security council level, it's going to have a broader amount of agencies information involved. So for example, even though the NSA is part of the military,

1:36:24 There are things that still have not been declassified outside of a compartmentalization code name that would not be even at ours because those of us that attend war colleges, you're not there with compartmentalized security clearances. And I don't know if you guys understand how that works, but at that level,

1:36:53 Like I had, everybody there had a TSSCI. That's kind, while it's an important clearance, it does not have compartmentalized information. Those are programs that you are read in on and you only retain those particular clearances while you're in that job and while you're working on that program. There are people that are at CENTCOM.

1:37:19 That can be read in on one program. And when they move to another program, they have different classifications of security clearances. There's like alphabet soup after your TSSCI based on the programs that you're read in on. So there was no alphabet soup designation in the wargaming that we did. It was all at the TSSCI.

1:37:47 Which is, again, while a top-level security clearance, it's kind of basic from the perspective of having compartmentalized information available to you. And that's the kind of information, obviously, that President Trump has available to him that we would not see unless we were read in on a particular program. So hopefully that answers your question. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel.

1:38:15 In terms of the protests going on in Minneapolis, I was wondering if you've heard anything about the Neville Singham thing. Some of it's coming from Bill O'Reilly, which leaves me skeptical. But he's saying that, you know, some of this goes back to Neville Singham, who was a U.S. citizen, but he was funded by the CCP, and now Neville Singham.

1:38:40 is is back in in china and you know besides george soros and and you know mike novogratz and those other groups you know neville singham was involved in in standing up some of these operations as well so i don't believe anything that bill o'reilly says um and not because i have any animus towards bill o'reilly bill o'reilly like likes to make himself the um story as opposed to

1:39:10 reporting news. And I understand that there's an entire, you see it every day. They want to talk about everybody else's involvement in our domestic situation, except the domestic people responsible for the domestic situation we're in. Is it likely?

1:39:40 that foreign entities are involved. Yes, but we've well established that there's a deep state in every country and they collaborate together, even outside of the intelligence agencies. So what I would like to do is I would like for someone to talk about

1:40:08 the domestic organizations. Like no one that I know of has even brought up the fact with all of these unions involved, the Teachers Union, AFL-CIO, all of them. No one talks about the National Endowment for Democracy's union slush fund that funds this shit. So I would like someone to focus on the American people.

1:40:39 that are, and again, have you heard anybody talk about the Albert Einstein Institute besides me? No. Um, there's, I think Mike, I mean, there's another guy whose name won't be mentioned on the, on a Colonel Tyler space. Who's done it. I think that's about it. Yeah. Um, but basically I want to focus on the American problem in all of this, as opposed to

1:41:09 the foreign problem. Because if you clean out the American problem, you won't have a foreign problem. Because there won't be anybody here to buy off. That's where I'm worried, though. I mean, my way of handling it, Colonel, would make it really easy, would be, you know, you have the civil RICO hearing, and you shut off the funds.

1:41:36 But the problem is if China can sneak money into the country using stupid stuff like prepaid gift cards, you can't shut off the oxygen to these protests. You have to either cooperate with China or figure out a way to keep the flow of funds from getting inside the United States.

1:42:00 And you basically have to get it down to the individual, maybe not individual level, but individual organizer. Yeah, I agree. So our two choices for stopping it are, number one, shut off the funds. And we can do a lot with USAID, NED, IRI, those organizations. We should be doing it. The problem is that that's going to create a vacuum.

1:42:27 And the question is, is whether China or Iran are going to step into it and how we shut off the flow of funds for or more likely actually Canada and probably NATO. I would say that's probably the second step. Not Iran and not China.

1:42:45 Well, I see Europe is weak. I see Canada ex-Alberta is weak. There's ways to deal with that. But you say they're weak. They have trillions of dollars in offshore accounts. Their banks are about to blow up, Colonel. That's what I think. I think there's about to be a financial crisis in Europe. I don't doubt that, but I'm not talking about their banks. Their banks are not where their money is. Their banks are in...

1:43:15 Offshore, like the Isle of Jersey, they have stashed away gold. They've stashed away trillions of dollars of resources outside of their country. They're in the Cayman Islands. They're all over. Those people have made sure that because they had a planned implosion of banks to screw us all. You could see that happening.

1:43:44 they well protected themselves. So yeah, there's the possibility that there could be, but again, I think we have to understand that the people that are in charge of this are smart enough to anticipate those types of things happening at the time, at the appropriate time.

1:44:12 All along. Go ahead. Yeah, Colonel. I'm speaking of how CIA operating inside the US is not being called out. I mean, that's a huge theme right there, you know, and especially in CIA in the media. I mean, it's kind of the whole theme of our show. Right. So, again, you know.

1:44:46 You know, I don't want anyone to be confused about my motive here because, you know, I'm not I'm obviously not a Trump supporter, really. And I'm but at the same time, I feel like, you know, because of the programming kind of like the Trump supporters are the ones pulling out the deep state kind of.

1:45:15 I mean, you do it all the time, but others are, you know, and yet the further, quote, left you go, unquote, with emphasis, quote, the less people call out the CIA, especially inside the United States. And it's like, hold on, you call yourself a leftist, and yet you are going to spray, you know, 100% of U.S. high school students.

1:45:43 with cia mediated um yes elections yes you know it's like pre-cooked you know there's a point at which maybe politicians did debate things you know mcgovern versus nixon you could actually hear some differences and kids could learn but now i'm sorry the dictating democrats versus trump there's there it's like cia versus trump and it's like the breadth of that discussion is is all programmed it's like

1:46:11 So if power all swam upstream from politicians to media, which it did, how on earth can any leftist just completely, 100% all the time, never, ever talk about CIA and media when it's a whole damn government? This, to me, is what everyone should be. Because calling out the fake left is essential because they're absolutely the best protection of the Democrats.

1:46:40 They pretend to oppose. Yes. So you've got the fake left and you have the fake right in the Cheney, Bill Kristol, and all of those. And MAGA has carved out a middle ground, which is why that scares them to death. Because in the process of standing up this movement,

1:47:12 it has shown a very bright light on the fake left and the fake right. And if we get nothing else out of the Trump administration, I think the fact that that light has been so brightly shown that basically woke up all of the centrist that like,

1:47:41 like yourself, who may not support Trump, and obviously you've known this for a long time, but people that are centrist now can't ignore the fake left and the fake right for all of the reasons that you articulated. And I think that's hugely important. SR71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel.

1:48:14 To all along's point, my issue is, and I think all along knows this as well, anybody in the media starts to talk, somebody gets killed. So the bottom line is I don't expect much from the media, period. What I will say is this, for those of us who have been following the colonel and knowing what's going on at this point in time, the new people that come on board, their brain is short-circuited.

1:48:44 There's no doubt in my mind. Mine was. It just blew the hell out of me. And it was like, no, no way in hell. Nobody wants to believe that. But the more you get into it, it's like, holy goddamn shit. Now I don't believe a damn thing that comes out of our government, much less the who, much less Europe, much less anywhere else.

1:49:12 Because of this very problem that we have of nothing but lies upon lies upon lies. And the media is not going to correct it for us. I see that already. So thank you, Colonel. Sure. Yeah, that's definitely the case. So anybody else have anything that they want to add?

1:49:46 No. Okay. So announcement, there was a schedule change. King Kong had a conflict. So we are not going to do the buff club tonight at seven. That's going to be delayed till next week. So I just wanted to give you, I know maker Sarge, he's always on the ball over there on rumble had asked that question. And so I will see you tomorrow at four o'clock.

1:50:18 All along. Did you have something else you wanted to add? No? Okay. I'm sorry. No, I didn't. Sorry. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you all for being here. And we will continue. Like I said, we start part three of the book tomorrow. That is the final part. This book is written in three parts. And that is chapter 15.

1:50:47 I will see you tomorrow at four o'clock. Thanks for being here.

Entities here

CIA47 Congo38 Allen Dulles29 United States25 John F. Kennedy25 Patrice Lumumba25 Lumumba assassination20 Dwight D. Eisenhower16 Belgium14 Lawrence Devlin13 Mobutu Sese Seko12 Soviet Union10 NATO10 Richard Nixon9 Congo Crisis8 Kennedy family8 1968 United States presidential election7 Richard M. Bissell Jr.7 Leopoldville7 Paul Hoffman6 The New York Times6 United Nations5 Brent Burden5 African American Institute5 U.S. State Department5 Dulles family5 National Security Council4 Gerald Ford4 Rosenthal4 Seymour Hersh4 Georgetown4 Stanleyville4 Arthur Schlesinger Jr.4 Katanga Secession4 William Walker3 McGeorge Bundy3 Otto Skorzeny3 Robert F. Kennedy3 U-2 incident3 Donald Trump3

Claims made here

John F. Kennedy criticized Dwight D. Eisenhower book_quoted ▶ 1:30

“approached its climax, JFK's criticism of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy grew sharper, focusing on the Republican administration's irresponsible record of nuclear brinksmanship, as well as disqu…”

Allen Dulles received_inside_reports_from Charles Bluhdorn book_quoted ▶ 2:50

“During the JFK run for the White House, Dulles received inside reports on the Kennedy camp from a number of mutual friends, including Charlie Reitzman and Mary Bancroft. Reitzman, whose Kennedy's ties…”

Allen Dulles received_inside_reports_from Mary Bancroft book_quoted ▶ 2:50

Mary Bancroft supported John F. Kennedy book_quoted ▶ 3:20

“John and Robert Kennedy, through her Democratic Party activism in New York City politics, became increasingly smitten with JFK. In July of 1959, Bancroft wrote Kennedy a gushing letter after meeting h…”

John F. Kennedy added_to_book Joseph Kennedy Sr. book_quoted ▶ 4:18

“Going as far as to add his late brother's name to an honorable roster of political heroes Kennedy wrote about in his book, Profiles in Courage. It was Jackie Kennedy who tipped off Dulles to the pleas…”

Allen Dulles met_with John F. Kennedy book_quoted ▶ 4:48

“The CIA director would send copies of new Bond novels to the senator and his wife as soon as he could get his hands on them. Dulles played both sides of the 1960 presidential campaign in his typical f…”

Richard Nixon accused Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 5:17

“to give him an intel briefing. After the election, Nixon charged that Dulles had given his opponent an unfair advantage at this meeting by briefing JFK about the CIA's plans for a paramilitary invasio…”

Allen Dulles denied Richard Nixon book_quoted ▶ 5:45

“On the eve of the final presidential debate, Nixon, who could not reveal the administration was indeed planning such a secret mission, was forced to take a much more cautious posture. Dulles later str…”

Robert F. Kennedy phoned Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 7:12

“that JFK wanted another intel briefing on Monday morning at his Georgetown home. It was the kind of request the CIA officials would grow used to receiving from Robert Kennedy, who was not known for hi…”

Allen Dulles sent_memo_to Andrew Goodpaster book_quoted ▶ 8:10

“But after Dulles' half-hour meeting with the Democrat nominee, the spymaster promptly sent a memo about their conversation to Andy Goodpaster in the White House, knowing that Eisenhower's staff would …”

John F. Kennedy kept_in_position Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 11:02

“The first thing he should do, suggested one, was fire J. Edgar Hoover. While he was at it, another one said, he should also fire Alan Dulles, and he should have. Both men were symbols of reactionary p…”

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. explained_decision_of John F. Kennedy book_quoted ▶ 11:27

“Kennedy later explained to author Schlesinger that considering his slim margin of victory, he didn't feel he had sufficient political capital to uproot Washington pillars like Hoover and Dulles. Jetti…”

John F. Kennedy appointed C.D. Jackson book_quoted ▶ 11:56

“chattering classes. Schlesinger, ever eager to put Kennedy's actions in the best possible light, later called JFK's decision to include prominent Republicans such as Dulles and C. Douglas Dillon, who …”

John F. Kennedy wanted_to_replace Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 13:25

“Besides, Kennedy said, he had given men like Dulles only temporary reprieve. They would soon be gone. We'll have to do with this for a year or so, he said. Then I'll bring in new people. I suppose it …”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed CIA book_quoted ▶ 13:54

“Richard Bissell Jr., a Groton, Yale-educated chief of clandestine operations for the CIA. Bissell, a popular member of the Georgetown set, had managed to survive the political fallout of the U2 disast…”

Allen Dulles organized_mixer_for John F. Kennedy book_quoted ▶ 14:25

“Another grooming place for globalists. And his grasp of the latest surveillance technology, Bissell struck JFK as a man of the future, but deeply tied to the past. Soon after Kennedy's inauguration, D…”

John F. Kennedy appointed McGeorge Bundy book_quoted ▶ 16:51

“The press was filled with stories about all the fresh new faces in Washington, but many of the Kennedy appointments had closer ties to Dulles than they did to the new president. Among them was McGeorg…”

Allen Dulles rescued William P. Bundy book_quoted ▶ 17:18

“rescued Mac Bundy's brother, CIA officer Bill Bundy, from Joseph McCarthy's grasp. Mac Bundy regarded Dulles as an uncle. Maintaining a warm correspondence with him, that lasted until the end of the e…”

McGeorge Bundy used_post_to_recruit_for CIA book_quoted ▶ 17:48

“He used his post to identify prospects for CIA recruitment, the student's body's best and brightest, which is still done today. Dulles could be assured that Mac Bundy in the White House and his brothe…”

Lyman Lemnitzer partnered_with Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 18:18

“everywhere he needed them in the Kennedy administration. Kennedy's new frontier, as they were called, was laced throughout with other Dulles loyalists, especially in the Foreign Service and National S…”

Dean Rusk member_of CFR book_quoted ▶ 18:49

“in Operation Sunrise. Kennedy's choice for Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was well known to the Dulles brothers as well from their membership in the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as the Rockef…”

Dean Rusk served_as_president_of Rockefeller Foundation book_quoted ▶ 18:49

LaTisha Baldwin worked_for CIA book_quoted ▶ 19:19

“Eleanor Dulles herself. And this book says that she remained at the German affairs desk. She was actually in charge of the research and intelligence branch, which is the belly button of the CIA in two…”

Eleanor Dulles worked_at U.S. State Department book_quoted ▶ 19:19

LaTisha Baldwin served_as_assistant_to Clare Boothe Luce book_quoted ▶ 19:48

“had worked for the CIA in the early 50s, specializing in psychological warfare. Imagine having a secretary, a social secretary, that was a specialist in psychological warfare. That's crazy. She had al…”

Allen Dulles boasted_to William Walker book_quoted ▶ 20:51

“at his house where Dulles was a guest. After dinner, Dulles started boasting that he was still carrying out his brother Foster's foreign policy. He said, you know, that's a much better policy. I've ch…”

William Walker reported_to John F. Kennedy book_quoted ▶ 21:22

“Walton, who loathed the CIA boss, couldn't believe Dulles' audacity. The spymaster knew that Walton was one of Kennedy's inner circle, but he felt no need to hold his tongue. Dulles was clearly sendin…”

Allen Dulles carried_out_insubordination_against Dwight D. Eisenhower book_quoted ▶ 21:52

“Did he really say that? The torch had been passed to a new generation of Americans, Kennedy declared in his inaugural address. But in fact, the Dulles old guard was deeply reluctant to give up power t…”

CIA backed Patrice Lumumba book_quoted ▶ 22:21

“to carry out a brazen act of insubordination. Patrice Lumumba was fleeing for his life, sworn in less than six months earlier as the Congo's first democratically elected leader, following the end of B…”

Leopold II ruled Congo book_quoted ▶ 23:47

“by its Belgian rulers for three quarters of a century. In the late 19th century, King Leopold II had carved an empire out of this benighted African territory through a system of forced labor so viciou…”

Patrice Lumumba refused_to_be_bought_by American Metal Company book_quoted ▶ 28:08

“More than his defiant rhetoric, it was Lumumba's refusal to be bought off by multinational corporations controlling Congo's wealth that undoubtedly sealed his fate. He'd be alive. He would have been a…”

William J. Burns led_charge_to_depose Patrice Lumumba book_quoted ▶ 29:07

“the national sovereignty. Dulles, Doug Dillon, then serving as the State Department Undersecretary, and William Burden, the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, led the charge within the Eisenhower administrat…”

Allen Dulles led_charge_to_depose Patrice Lumumba book_quoted ▶ 29:07

C.D. Jackson led_charge_to_depose Patrice Lumumba book_quoted ▶ 29:07

Mellon family handled_bond_issues_for Congo book_quoted ▶ 29:07

Allen Dulles represented American Metal Company book_quoted ▶ 29:38

“I'm going to let that sink in. The man in the State Department's family had financial interest while at the same time demonizing him in the United States. Dulles' old law firm represented American Met…”

Harold Hochschild helped_launch African American Institute book_quoted ▶ 30:37

“Corporate executives with major stakes in Africa were able to mingle and confer with U.S. national security officials at prestigious organizations like the Manhattan-based African America Institute. A…”

CIA funded African American Institute book_quoted ▶ 31:07

“a goal the CIA found strategically valuable enough to fund. That's the same program that brought Barack Obama's dad to the United States and Mondami's dad to the United States. CIA backed. Years later…”

African American Institute exposed_as_front_for CIA book_quoted ▶ 31:07

Adam Hochschild authored King Leopold's Ghost book_quoted ▶ 31:43

“The younger Hochschild co-founded Mother Jones Magazine and later authored King Leopold's Ghost, a powerful indictment of the Belgian reign of tower in the Congo. After the CIA's ties to the Institute…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented ▶ 38:56

“tired and cranky. He had little patience about third world freedom struggles. Conferring with the British foreign minister, Lord Holm, Eisenhower quipped that he hoped Lumumba would fall into a river …”

CIA installed Mobutu Sese Seko documented ▶ 40:30

“that I would ever hear a president say anything like this in my presence or the presence of a group of people. I was startled, unquote, because it was unheard of to do anything like that. Over the nex…”

Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented ▶ 41:33

“Three days later, Dulles made it clear that he wanted Lumumba permanently removed from the face of the earth. Cabling the CIA office in Leopoldville, quote, we wish give every possible support in elim…”

CIA recruited Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 42:34

“The CIA recruited two cutthroats from the European criminal underworld, NATO, whom they codenamed Q.J. Wynn and W.I. Rogue. These Tweedledum and Tweedledee assassins were such loathsome mercenaries th…”

Sidney Gottlieb supplied_arms_to Otto Skorzeny documented ▶ 43:36

“QJ Wen had been supplied a tube of poison toothpaste, which had been delivered to the CIA station by Sidney Gottlieb, the agency's wizard in toxins. Dr. Ewan Cameron of the notorious Allen Institute, …”

Gilbert Pongo carried_out_attack Patrice Lumumba documented ▶ 48:08

“Lumumba tried winning over Mubato's men. For a while, his words seemed to work. The soldiers hesitated, but then Captain Pongo intervened, reminding his soldiers of the dire consequences that would be…”

Paul Hoffman member_of The New York Times documented ▶ 53:43

“a Nazi to report on Lumumba. The Angleton family had helped Hoffman in the Rome Bureau of the New York Times, where he continued to be of good use to his friends in the U.S. intelligence, translating …”

Paul Hoffman spied_on CIA host_asserted ▶ 53:43

Paul Hoffman member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 54:49

“He hadn't even been in office but a few months talking about freedom to do deals. But Hoffman's Congo coverage was so virulent in its bias that it seemed as if he was acting as part of a psychological…”

Church Committee covered_up Lumumba assassination documented ▶ 56:31

“In its explosive 1975 report on the CIA assassination plot against former leaders, the church committee absolved the agency of any responsibility for Lumumba's murder. Quote, it did not appear from th…”

CIA funded Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted ▶ 57:26

“As a new wave of historical research has determined, the CIA insured Lumumba's violent end by making certain that he was delivered into the hands of his enemies. Not his enemies. That's just even bull…”

NATO funded Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted ▶ 58:53

“The same day Eisenhower is giving his immortal speech about beware of the military industrial complex, they were murdering Patrice Lumumba at his directive. Three days before Kennedy's inauguration, L…”

Lawrence Devlin covered_up Lumumba assassination documented ▶ 1:01:37

“by January 14th, three days before it happened, because he arranged it. He did not officially inform Washington until January 17th because they didn't want anything in writing. Devlin knew that cablin…”

Lawrence Devlin secretly_owned Congo host_asserted ▶ 1:03:14

“He was promoted to the CIA's Africa division chief for the rest of the time. And then rewarded by being employed very lucratively by the government that he helped install that mass murdered all the na…”

NATO installed Moise Tshombe host_asserted ▶ 1:03:48

“Patrice Lumumba suffered a terrible martyrdom during his final hours on earth. He was beaten bloody during his flight to Katanga. Clumps of his hair was pulled out. When the plane landed, he was seize…”

CIA covered_up Lumumba assassination documented ▶ 1:06:23

“After Kennedy's inauguration, the CIA continued to keep Lumumba's death under wraps. On January 26, Dulles briefed the new president on the Congo. Do you think he told Kennedy? Nope. The CIA director …”

CIA assassinated Patrice Lumumba host_asserted ▶ 1:07:26

“They just fucking beat a man to death. They did, the CIA. But those people over there are primitive. Good God. Neither Timberlake nor Dublin took the opportunity to tell Kennedy or his staff they'd al…”

Adlai Stevenson II spied_on John F. Kennedy documented ▶ 1:07:26

Bob Lowe spied_on John F. Kennedy documented ▶ 1:08:00

“Lowe, a young photographer who had been unobstructively documenting the Kennedy story from the earliest days of his presidential run, in the Oval Office with JFK, received a phone call from Stevenson.…”

John F. Kennedy spied_on Patrice Lumumba documented ▶ 1:08:31

“on the phone being told that Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. That's it. That's him. It's crazy. It's just literally crazy. There was none was more powerful than the picture that the young photograph…”

Mobutu Sese Seko succeeded Patrice Lumumba host_asserted ▶ 1:13:23

“of Africa's brightest lights extinguished, the Congo slid into an endless nightmare of tyranny and corruption. Propped up by the United States, Mubato became a 32-year-old dictator that looted the cou…”

United States funded Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted ▶ 1:13:23

Joseph Devlin ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba documented ▶ 1:13:53

“that he enjoyed. The CIA officials responsible for Lumumba's murder also had a change of heart about the man who had once haunted their days. In 1962, shortly after Dulles' departure from the CIA, he …”

Joseph Devlin covered_up Lumumba assassination documented ▶ 1:14:22

“You know, they just killed him for no reason. I didn't regard Lumumba as the kind of person that was going to bring about World War III. He later told the church committee, then why did you fucking ki…”

Seymour Hersh exposed Gerald Ford book_quoted ▶ 1:23:05

“And then decades later, he comes out with his book called Reporter, which is basically his autobiography and his stories about working on all these different stories. And I have a quote from it that g…”

Rosenthal spied_on Gerald Ford book_quoted ▶ 1:23:30

“um met with gerald ford on january 16th 1975 about the rockefeller commission and you know rosenthal leaves this memo behind that uh that that hirsch finds years later and when he was asked you know w…”

Gerald Ford covered_up Lumumba assassination book_quoted ▶ 1:23:58

“You know, with the Rockefeller Commission, Ford responded that he needed to appoint those who could be trusted to keep those secrets that had to remain secret. Yep. Rosenthal, Hersh's editor, follows …”

NATO supplied_arms_to Congo host_asserted ▶ 1:28:30

“Patrice Lumumba becoming the prime minister of the Congo. Belgium had already moved a whole bunch. NATO had moved in forces onto the NATO base in Katanga and faked a civil war against the Congo and de…”

Belgium funded Congo host_asserted ▶ 1:28:30

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez member_of Patrice Lumumba University guest_asserted ▶ 1:31:42

“But I learned recently when I was reading, tracking The Jackal, The Search for Carlos about, you know, I was fascinating, long, long book. But actually, Ilik Ramirez and his brother, Lenin, who they c…”

Lenin Ramírez member_of Patrice Lumumba University guest_asserted ▶ 1:31:42

China funded Neville Singham guest_asserted ▶ 1:38:15

“In terms of the protests going on in Minneapolis, I was wondering if you've heard anything about the Neville Singham thing. Some of it's coming from Bill O'Reilly, which leaves me skeptical. But he's …”

National Endowment for Democracy funded AFL-CIO guest_asserted ▶ 1:40:08

“the domestic organizations. Like no one that I know of has even brought up the fact with all of these unions involved, the Teachers Union, AFL-CIO, all of them. No one talks about the National Endowme…”

National Endowment for Democracy funded Teachers Union guest_asserted ▶ 1:40:08