The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14)

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0:14 I was rocking out to my song. Okay. It is sketchy. I have to give you that, Colonel. All right. Let me get over here. All right. There we go. I got my microphone on, my camera on. We're ready to go. All right.

0:43 And I know, SR, that Bridget had told you she's going to bug out a little early today. So I have to start the show and apologize because I normally do this ahead of time. Yesterday, when we were going over the Jimmy Doolittle commission that was set up by Eisenhower to study the CIA.

1:14 We came across William Polly's name. I had meant to look up the other people there. I recognized one of the guy's names. And now I know why I recognized his name. And I normally do that as I'm going through the book, taking notes. But I didn't. I apologize. So we're going to fix that. So going back to page 148 at the bottom.

1:41 It talks about this commission that was set up in July of 1954. And William Frank, Morris Hadley, and William Polly were doing the review. Well, if you look up these people, specifically, there's not a, I mean, William Frank.

2:10 has his own issues, but the one I wanted to hone in on for the purpose of our conversation is Morris Hadley. Morris Hadley was, I think he's the son of author

2:44 1916 um grad and had went to Harvard Law and is the Hadley in Milbanks um 12 Hadley and McCloy and of course McCloy is John McCloy um that Warhamster and I spent an entire show talking about and um the Hadley

3:14 has skull and bones all in their background as well. So that's the guys that are quote unquote reviewing the CIA. And they took with them, you remember when I said they went to Europe and I said, well, that's weird that they would go to Europe except for it's not because we know about Gladio. They took with them a guy by the name of J. Patrick Coyne. And he has a very interesting...

3:42 background as well. He was both FBI and served in the National Security Council, which is where Gladio was ran out of for the U.S. He also was on the Intelligence Advisory Board from 1959 through 61, took a few months off, came back in 61 through 1970. And one of his best friends is Clark Clifford.

4:12 Clifford, of course, is notorious in all of these stories. He's the guy that was helping BCCI illegally by banks in the United States. He comes up often in all of the conversations about Clinton. He's a long-term Democrat cohort. And what I find most interesting is these types of

4:42 operations cross both parties because, of course, Eisenhower's supposedly a Republican. So I just wanted to go back and clear that up, give you a little bit more context that reviews aren't really reviews. They're basically just going to be stamps of continue doing what you're doing. And we'll use this as an excuse to travel.

5:11 look at different things, perhaps plan different things, and move on. All right, so back to 159. That's where we're at. President Eisenhower had put stock as much as any of his predecessors, perhaps even more, in extolling Democrat values while undermining them.

5:38 Arguments for democracy were pervasive in the psychological warfare ploys he favored. In Europe in the 1950s, Ike put democracy at the core of his secret war against Russia, articulating overtly through U.S. Information Agency, a CIA front, and the Voice of America, a CIA front, but most especially covertly through radios.

6:09 Isn't it interesting that you go around the world and you wonder why people don't want democracy because the view of democracy that the rest of the world has, thanks to our psychological operations, is basically colonialism disguised as democracy. Yet Hungary showed the audience.

6:37 of these preachings beyond question that when the efforts to reach the values that the Americans professed were challenged, the U.S. response would be predicated on power considerations, not democratic beliefs. Realization that people in Eastern Europe and elsewhere could see this undoubtedly contributed to

7:03 the CIA's reputation in the wake of the Hungarian crisis. The president's board of consultants on foreign intelligence activities, commonly known by the name of its chairman, James Killian, could look into any aspect of intelligence activities on its own initiative or at Eisenhower's request. They were to report annually. The Killian board met bimonthly.

7:34 many traveling to Washington to meet. Killian was an inspired choice of this era based on technological developments, supporting strong scientific representation. His experts like Edwin Land, William Baker, and Charles Stark Draper gave U.S. intelligence absolutely crucial suggestions for the U-2 spy plane.

8:04 the SR-71, and NSA communications intercepts. But they loved covert operations. At its first meeting with the CIA, this committee endured eight hours of agency briefing, packed with details on intelligence collections, analysis, and covert operations. Agency Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick

8:38 responsible for all dealings with the board, recalled the first encounter as brutal and writes that it was in truth a saturation effort. But Kirk could not head off the initiative to examine covert action. David K.E. Bruce, the respected diplomat who had led the OSS operations in the European theater during the war, and Robert Lovett,

9:07 a former Secretary of Defense, was also on the board or commission. Frank Wisner was not at all happy that people were looking at his work. He viewed himself with a sophisticated understanding of a secret world. David Bruce went to the heart of the matter. The secret warriors could be buccaneers.

9:40 Bruce found chalking up credits for success, but no debits for failures, with approvals made in pro forma fashion. Between frustrating the Russians and keeping the rest of the world Western-oriented, any operation was deemed important. The young secret warriors needed to justify their existence, but once passed approvals, no one had any idea what was going on except them.

10:11 Bruce and Lovett expressed certainty that no one who had helped launch the secret war in 1948 had foreseen these consequences. Easy approvals brought messy realities. Wisner defended his operations, arguing as he left for Europe just before the Hungarian affair that informality does not mean irresponsibility. Bruce and Lovett also

10:41 had concerns about coordination between the CIA and the Pentagon, observing that someone high in government could be calculating the long-term wisdom of these operations. Bruce and Lovett went to Eisenhower at the end of 56, advising Eisenhower to order the CIA and Pentagon to integrate their plans, have CIA make more thoughtful plans to work in this post-nuclear exchange environment.

11:11 and achieve better synchronization between CIA's black propaganda and the unattributed gray activities carried out by U.S. Information Agency. They were already coordinating. The Killian board told Eisenhower, both in writing and on December 20th, at a meeting, that it rejected the procedures of implementing covert action.

11:36 Projects became the exclusive preserve of the CIA. The 5412 group approvals were too informal. And in particular, as far as we have been able to determine, there is no real joint planning for any clandestine project. There was lots of planning. It just wasn't across government agencies. A month later, Ike met with the top officials in the cabinet room at the White House.

12:06 Dulles said he favored joint approval, but not that if it meant that people all over the government had veto authority over his projects. The president took the CIA side, of course. 5-4-1-2 programs could not be staffed through agencies. Eisenhower questioned bringing more people into the process. More people, more chances for leaks.

12:34 Eisenhower's National Security Advisor suggested a limited compromise that the 5412 group members could each designate staff assistants and only those officials would see the proposals. Eisenhower agreed. He went on to say that he had become increasingly concerned about security. He didn't want any of the covert operations leaking out.

13:02 John Foster Dulles added that he did not think he should have to tell anyone about covert actions unless he wanted to, and used the example of suggestions to his brother Allen that he would not want known at the State Department. The Secretary of Defense asked whether covert actions should be separated from espionage, but Killian and Dulles responded no. The question had been looked at many times and always rejected.

13:32 extended the mantle of plausible deniability by interjecting that in the 5-4-1-2 field were better not known by the president or his top secretaries, so they could be in a position to disavow all knowledge. Eisenhower wanted to know about the idea, but none of the details. Besides, he said later, if something really hot was proposed,

14:01 It will be discussed in a meeting in this room. In a written response to the Killian Board a week later, the CIA accepted its recommendations on the 5412 matters. In early March, the special group itself noted that proposals within established policies did not need joint staffing, but agreed that those outside of the boundaries could be handled in a new way. The special group's agreement on

14:29 March 4th, 1957, actually constitutes the first written requirement for the CIA to circulate proposal papers in advance. Months later, when the NSC considered ordering the Joint Chiefs to undertake a study of limited warfare and Dulles wanted the CIA to be included, the council's note taker recorded, quote, the president replied that he, of course, had no knowledge.

14:57 of covert operations, unquote. But Killian board initiative getting Eisenhower to make Alan Dulles use a chief of staff, the CIA steadfastly refused. The president sided again with Dulles. So all of the rules apply to everybody else except for the CIA and Eisenhower likes that. He did have Dulles bring Luthien Trescott back in yet one more time. This time,

15:28 as a sort of in-house liaison between the clandestine and the analytical side of the agency. During this period, and championed by Dulles, the CIA sought funds for and began to work with a new headquarter complex at Langley, eight miles from downtown Washington.

15:49 President Eisenhower encouraged the agency to relocate even further from the Capitol, precisely because of his fears of the consequences of nuclear war. Focused on his day-to-day need to labor in the vineyards of government, the agency refused. So the president says, go over there, and Allen Dulles says, I'm not going anywhere. Who does the agency really work for?

16:20 Eisenhower worried about controlling the secret warriors, but pursued the Cold War with gusto anyway. The rush of events made it difficult to go back over old ground. The 5412 group provided semi-annual presentations of covert programs, but it remained impossible to exercise control. Initiatives became crucial to protecting the president's interest.

16:49 Like many bureaucracies, however, the 5412 reacted to recommendations rather than providing leadership. The real initiative lay in the hands of the CIA, which launched more covert ventures around the world. These eventually took Eisenhower to the brink of the CIA mess he feared. The locale would not be Russia or even Eastern Europe. It would be in the third world.

17:19 Hungary may have been a crisis in the Middle East, but the Middle East fell into full-scale war. Powerful distractions drew Eisenhower away from Europe. The known issues of Anglo-French invasion of the Suez and the collision of those powers with Israel, which simultaneously launched its 1956 war on Egypt, certainly monopolized attention at the National Security Council.

17:49 But Suez represented only the tip of the iceberg and much that lay below the surface involved secret warriors. One plan originated months before Suez, a CIA contract officer assigned for cover purposes to the Operations Coordination Board, heard the code name Strangle at an Anglo-American intelligence conference. It was in connection with the Middle East.

18:18 project the CIA man had never heard of. In Washington, he discovered that a planning task force called Omega had already formed at the State Department. In fact, Eisenhower had approved this project in March of 1956. Allen Dulles called the Secretary of State on March 22nd saying he had something urgent. The next morning before noon, John Foster Dulles

18:49 hosted a group at his home to hash out the Middle East. Those present, Alan Dulles, Kermit Roosevelt, and James Angleton. Unfamiliar with the chain of command, the CIA officer Wilbur C. Evelyn thought, quote, the plans to undertake a coup in Syria were centered in the State Department, and that struck me as highly unusual.

19:21 That's because he doesn't know how this works. I'd expect to see papers referring to National Security Council policy decisions and instructions that the OCB coordination carrying them out. Instead, it seems the decision was being made by the Secretary of State and the Omega planners were in charge of following through. That's about how it works, especially when the Dulles brothers were there.

19:50 Kermit Roosevelt completed the scheme with George Young in London in April. Foster Dulles considered the final Omega paper on May 23rd. So again, from March to May, lots of planning, just not interagency planning. Shortly thereafter, Evelyn, an experienced Middle East hand, got orders to scout possibilities on the ground. He had two months to do so. In July,

20:21 Roosevelt flew to Jordan on an assignment related to this project. American secret warriors had been operating in the Middle East since the creation of the CIA. They had already planted stay-behind units there. In Syria specifically, Stephen Meade, a military attache and soon to be detailed to the CIA,

20:53 help Syrian officers plan an early military coup. So a military officer, U.S. military officer, working with stay-behinds to plan a coup. And then he's detailed to the CIA to operate. And this happens so many times with these military attaches, as I'm learning. Miles Copeland, among the original CIA political action specialist,

21:27 But the officers they backed held power for barely a few months, after which the secret warriors forged an alliance with a new regime. That group, in turn, was overthrown by a military coup in 1954. Copeland, meanwhile, had diverted to a private consulting company.

21:55 That's not diverted. That's just he's being placed in there while he's still operating for the CIA. And to illustrate that, he returns to the DO political action staff immediately thereafter. In Egypt, Nasser's increasing power, steadfast Arab nationalism, and progressively non-approved reforms.

22:28 was getting everyone in Washington excited. When the Egyptian leader went on to advocate neutralism, which we know is not allowed, he declared a Pan-Arab United Arab Republic, which is absolutely not allowed, and wanted to make arm deals with Hungary, which of course at the time is part of the,

22:59 Soviet Union, he totally pissed off John Foster Dulles. Kermit Roosevelt tried and failed to induce Nasser to change course. As the Syrian leaders showed signs of moving towards the Egyptian orbit, they were especially interested in joining the United Arab Republic. Their nation went back on the CIA hit list.

23:31 Before the end of 54, the agency was in touch with the officer who assassinated the Syrian leader the year before. Although there was no evidence of Washington's complicity in the regime change, no evidence because they classify it. The Syrian public linked the United States to these events and moved closer to Nasser because the people on the ground knows exactly what's happening.

24:01 Thus arose Plan Alpha, an Anglo-American design. By late 1955, John Foster Dulles had set in his mind on new leadership in Damascus, but wanted it to appear like it was coming from within. That meant covert action. President Eisenhower and Alan Dulles took up the matter with British leaders in 1956.

24:30 leading to a general Middle East plan called Omega and its Syrian component called Project Wakeful. All this happened before Suez. So again, it wasn't because of the Suez, it all happened before that. A crisis that would be exceedingly uncomfortable for Eisenhower. In July of 56, Nasser would nationalize the Suez Canal.

25:02 The CIA's Cairo station under James Eichelberger had no advanced warning. What was he doing? The Egyptian move brought outrage from Britain. France saw Nasser as allied to quote-unquote revolutionaries that it was fighting in Algeria. That would just be the people that lived there that wanted their freedom back. So yes, yes, they were allied with them.

25:35 Because they all want not just fake colonialism gone, they want it really gone. So France would join with Britain in a military scheme to invade Egypt and retake the canal. To provide the excuse, the French enlisted Israel to make its own attack, permitting Anglo-French invaders to pose as arbiters separating.

26:07 the warring side. So they're going to pretend like they're the peacekeepers. The maneuver patently colonialist in its aim of restoring British dominion over the canal would conflict directly with American rhetoric for democracy and self-determination. Unlike Hungary, which erupted suddenly and took place simultaneously, the Suez dilemma confronted Eisenhower throughout the summer and fall of 56.

26:36 while his administration plotted coups with the British in Syria. The connection threatened to associate the U.S. with Britain's neocolonialism. Eisenhower strove to avert a British military action by negotiating, but neither the British nor the Egyptians were interested. By September of 1956, U.S. intelligence believed an Anglo-French military move likely

27:05 if negotiations failed. Kermit Roosevelt picked up more hints from the British officials at the UN. On September 12th, the CIA created a special interagency group codenamed the Paramount Committee. It was supposed to track all of the Middle East developments. Agency

27:33 U-2 aircraft flew over the Anglo-French bases, returning photos of invasion preparations. Now, keep in mind, I know most of you have not seen the U-2 podcast that I've done, but they talk about this very operation. And if I'm not mistaken, they were in Turkey flying these missions.

28:05 Later, the U-2 would capture the very moment of the British bombing the Egyptian airfield. Because if you look at their air, their pattern of flying, and they were specifically tasked to fly for this mission. It's crazy. The war began with the Israeli attack on October 29th, with the Anglo-French intervention a few days later.

28:40 Equipped with the CIA's intelligence, Eisenhower felt obliged to veto the Anglo-French resolution at the UN Council that would have given legal justification for the intervention. But that was basically a cover story. Yeah, you can veto it there at the UN, but you have troops on the ground called the CIA, and you've been in all the planning meetings for it to happen.

29:09 And again, I want you to take note of the British is using Israel to do this. This was not an Israeli attack per se. It was British basically telling Israel they wanted them to do this. And that goes to the heart of what we've been talking about, about the strategy of tension and why Israel was even created. It is.

29:40 A strategy of tension, peace to this entire puzzle. Operation Wakeful, known to the British SIS as Straggle, led to a complete disaster. The basic idea was to trigger a coup by Syrian officers and forestall the Ba'ath Party rise to power. Scattered evidence indicates the plan centered on encouraging a revolt.

30:11 among the Druze tribesmen. Combined with the border crisis with Turkey, which of course is NATO, so they're going to create a border crisis, the British manipulated the CIA, they didn't manipulate the CIA, into timing the operation for precisely the time of the Suez. All joint efforts. At the end of October, the CIA paid out $165,000 to a Syrian agent.

30:42 but there could be no question of moving ahead once the British invaded Egypt. The Syrian and Iraqi agents became convinced the Americans were part of the action against Nasser's Egypt. Howard Rocky Stone resurrected the Syrian coup in 1957 as Operation WAPEN, W-A-P-E-N. The CIA

31:11 in Beirut, coordinated a covert working group composed of representatives from the British SIS, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanese intelligence services. Rocky, one of the officers who had worked with Kermit Roosevelt in Iran, had spent a year at headquarters and then gone on to the Sudan, where he had helped a

31:38 sour relationship with its military dictator. Arriving in Damascus in April of 1957, Stone found Washington's demanding fresh action. He relied on deputy author Close and subordinate Frank Jeddin. The plot involved subverting the commander of the Syrian armored school, who would be in a position to command the tanks.

32:08 around Damascus, after which another unit would side with the plotters. There were meetings at CIA safe house and at Stone's home, and at least $3 million that they knew of changed hands. The agency talked to former Syrian president Adib Sirshakli and considered

32:38 He was considered an unacceptable ally in the 1956 coup plan. But, you know, a year later, everything changes. At a key moment in August, Stone invited a couple of embassy secretaries to accompany the group to his house so it would look like a party. This time, Syrian security had been on to the plot from the beginning.

33:09 Stone's agents simply walked up to the desk of an intelligence chief, Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Hamid Sarraj, named the CIA officers and turned in their agency money. Rocky Stone and Frank Jeddin were caught red-handed. They were exposed in the Syrian press and expelled from the country. On August 26, 1957,

33:41 In Time Magazine, they dismissed the report that it was a U.S.-sponsored coup and called it Soviet propaganda. Even though it was reported they had evidence, they had witnesses, Time Magazine said it was all lies to the American people. You really can't hate these people enough. Questions remained regarding the CIA's participation in Iraq.

34:13 In 1958, the Iraqi monarchy fell to yet another military coup. A few days before, Frank Wisner confidently told a State Department colleague that the Iraqi public might not like the government, but there were few activists to do anything about it. Eisenhower's chief of staff, Sherman Adams, agrees that the agency gave no warning of the coup.

34:42 Washington saw the officers who took control as Soviet clients, of course. In April of 59, Eisenhower set up an interagency group to consider covert operations to prevent the takeover of Iraq. Because, you know, it's going to be communist too.

35:08 British documents have John Foster Dulles on record from a year earlier speculating that the Mossadegh example might be the way to handle the Iraq situation. Six months later, there was an attempted assassination of the Iraqi leader, Abdul Karim Qasim. This maneuver became a step in the rise of Saddam Hussein, then a junior officer in the Iraqi army.

35:40 a participant in the coup that was against Abdul Karim Qasim. This is how you get the connection of Saddam Hussein to the CIA. Some also go much further. They actually say that Saddam Hussein was on the payroll of the CIA.

36:13 More conspiratorial views hold that Saddam Hussein took payments from an Egyptian attache and his CIA contact, which was an Iraqi dentist. And that would have paralleled what was done in Egypt. Unlike the 58 coup, which took the CIA by surprise, the agency knew of the attempted murder. Saddam, who failed, fled to Egypt.

36:42 and only returned years later. It was reported that it would only be in Egypt that Saddam Hussein got into contact with the CIA. But again, there's conflicting stories. Iraqi exiles in Beirut bragged of their CIA connections that were involved in the plot. One told anyone who would listen that he had Alan Dulles' private number.

37:16 Other evidence suggests that the CIA had taken measures to incapacitate and eliminate Qasem in 1960 and that it was involved in the coup that overthrew him in 1963. James Critchfield has been cited as making the initial recruitments in 1963's coup. A senior Iraqi official in the successor government openly said,

37:46 We came to power on the CIA train, meeting Saddam Hussein. Miles Copeland would later say, I spent most of my time helping Kermit Roosevelt to pick up the pieces after collisions with Egypt and other Middle Eastern governments caused by Secretary Dulles' insistence on policies and lines of action that both state and CIA field people were uncertain about.

38:19 Indeed, Foster pursued the secret war with the same zeal and energy he displayed in covering distances headed for diplomatic meetings, making himself the most traveled Secretary of State in American history at that time. Of course, Foster kept close tabs on covert actions through his brother. His role has yet to be fully appreciated. The Suez and Hungary crises brought a hiatus.

38:47 when Foster, suffering from acute abdominal pain, was found to have cancer. He had surgery at Walter Reed Medical Facilities, then convalesced at his house in Florida. But in 1957, Dulles had returned to his job. On many fronts, the State Department now cooperated closely with the Secret Warriors. They were... Come on. They were...

39:15 cooperating this entire time. Psychological warfare particularly was pursued covertly by the State Department through U.S. Information Agency and Voice of America Radio. They were working in tandem with the CIA. The U.S. Information Agency also had libraries in many countries, field offices, and sponsored cultural events and speakers. You know, just like the Congress for Cultural Freedom,

39:48 filled with CIA assets or agents, all of them. They were working in the libraries. That's what they were there for. In Japan, for example, psychological strategy board plans dictated support for a liberal democratic party. The U.S. Information Agency quietly invested in Japanese movies and television, just like they do here.

40:17 By 1955, unattributed U.S. information agency money had financed six feature films, opened several broadcasts of more than 18,000 hours of radio time. It would be like the equivalent of beaming on two frequencies 24 hours a day for a year. The U.S. information effort tried to influence or at least neutralize progressive tendencies.

40:47 in Japan. The CIA supplemented and extended these programs with psychological warfare experts like Howard Hunt, crafting scripts for Radio Free Asia. The agency funded the Asia Foundation, which was 100% CIA, and they had their own Japanese commentators that participated in this entire thing. This made it easier

41:20 in Japan, where it was a social custom to pay citizens for their votes. The agency funding of the Liberal Democrats had been awkward, but acknowledged by Al Ulmer in the Far East Division. The extent of the CIA activity remains shrouded in secrecy decades later.

41:47 But the acting CIA director in 1995 letter to the New York Times did not even attempt to deny it. They retreated to the argument that the CIA needed to keep faith with recipients of covert aid. We did it because we had to. The agency marched together in many places because they were basic. I don't know why the guy even pretends the U.S.

42:17 Information Agency was a CIA front. In Italy, where the CIA political action built towards the May 1958 election, the U.S. Information Agency operation grew as large as the secret warriors supporting them. Tracy Barnes and then Miles Copeland headed the CIA political action staff, their projects as unusual as attempting to insert

42:47 astrologers into the entourages of foreign leaders known to rely on the occult or forging links with cultural movements as moral rearmament. In other words, they were just infiltrating every damn thing under every disguise. John Foster Dulles kept the State Department out of the more exotic chicanery, but turned a benign eye on it all.

43:16 Dulles remained an abrasive, rigid figure in the administration. The Secretary of State had already gone into physical decline. He would die of cancer in January of 59, and the continuing crisis took a toll on his remaining strength. But before that happened, Dulles had become a prime mover in a major CIA covert operation, one not very far from Japan.

43:47 In his own recollections of the presidency, Dwight Eisenhower mentions Ahmed Sukarno in Indonesia exactly once, even though he tried to overthrow him. Eisenhower remarks that he had not seen Sukarno in years. This comment in describing why Eisenhower felt justified in rejecting a 1960 plea.

44:14 by Sukarno and other leaders for talks with the U.S. and the Soviet Union reveals nothing about how the president used the CIA to get rid of Sukarno. In fact, President Eisenhower's general dissatisfaction with Indonesia led to a paramilitary operation designed to overthrow the government, much as it had in Iran and Guatemala and Syria and...

44:43 Egypt and, I mean, Eisenhower did quite a few attempted and successful coups. In 1960, there was an appeal for a superpower detente. Sukarno spoke from experience of having been caught between the two adversaries. He was, let's see, John Foster Dulles behaved as if it was like choosing one war camp over another.

45:12 Sukarno's unpardonable offense had been to reject this division of the world into camps. He wanted another way. He wanted an association of non-aligned nations that both superpowers recognized and supported. He didn't wanna have to pick one of the camps. That was not allowed. That, as a matter of fact, is a deadly sin.

45:42 John Foster Dulles steadfastly opposed anything that was associated with non-alignment. My way or the highway, you're either with us or against us. The People's Republic of China had had a big role in 1955 conference in Bengdong at which Sukarno launched the non-aligned movement and China's emergence from diplomatic isolation.

46:12 there pissed John Foster Dulles off. At the Geneva conference a year earlier, Dulles refused even to shake hands with the Chinese foreign minister. His disposition blinded Dulles to real opportunities for improving relations. Again, he's not interested in improving any relations. It is a posture of dominance and exploitation.

46:43 When another of the non-aligned leaders, Premier Wu Nu of Burma, visited Beijing in 1957, he offered to intercede for the Americans. The Chinese indicated that they were willing to release the imprisoned CIA officers John Downey and Richard Fecteau in exchange for nothing more than permitting journalists to visit the People's Republic and report on the new China.

47:13 So China offered to release the political prisoners if we would allow them to send journalists to report on the progress that China had made. John Foster Dulles said no. They were left there for two decades, 20 years. Dulles turned to Soccarno and, excuse me, Dulles turned on Soccarno.

47:45 and leaped at suggestions for covert operations to overthrow his government. The cultural and geographic nature of the land made Sukarno vulnerable. A Dutch colony for almost 400 years, Indonesia had Muslim, tribal people, Buddhists, everything. The different social groups were isolated by geography.

48:16 Indonesia, being a vast archipelago of six big and about 3,000 small islands, allowed people basically to segregate themselves, but all fell under Indonesia. Independence came in the rush of decolonization after World War II. For Indonesians, the problem lie in transforming all of these different ethnic backgrounds into a cohesive government.

48:45 Sukarno had been a prominent wartime nationalist, then active in the post-war resistance, opposing the Dutch. The natural choice for president, at once pragmatic and visionary, Sukarno was no communist. Indeed, he outlawed the Indonesian Communist Party following an abortive coup in 1949.

49:11 turned away from the armed forces too after a political play by army leader Colonel Abdul Harris Nasusin three years later. He walked a tightrope among all of the political factions. Economic chaos reigned. There was political struggle. Rubber, tin, and oil were major export products, but prices for the two fluctuated so much.

49:41 In the 1950s, factionalism grew so rampant that by 1956, parliament had not yet ratified a government budget for the first years of the decade. For an initial project, the CIA tried political action. Indonesia's elections were scheduled for September 1955. Kermit Roosevelt approved a program memorandum requesting a million dollars.

50:07 The memorandum, just a few paragraphs long, completely lacked any details of the need to do it, the plan to do it, or what their results were. Yet the project sailed through and they gave them the money. They were going to fund the progressive Muslim Majami party. Probably the first time we were banking on radical Islamic terrorists. Exchanging the dollars.

50:41 In Hong Kong, on the black market, the CIA quadrupled its money. But in the elections, they didn't do very well. Sukarno then appeared to confirm American fears by making official visits to China, Russia, and Eastern European countries. Because we weren't interested in talking to him because he's a neutralist. Frank Wisner set the pace.

51:14 One day towards the end of 56, he said to the chief of the DO Far East Division, I think it's time we held Sukarno's feet to the fire. Wisner's subordinate, Al Ulmer, returned to his office with word that the new arrangement for Sukarno was a priority. One officer in the Indonesian branch recalls being told if some plan for doing this were not forthcoming, Santa might fill our stockings.

51:43 with assignments in the far worse jobs. The Far East Division was the biggest in the DO. Ulmer had plenty of choices in the matter. As it happened, Alfred Ulmer Jr. knew paramilitary operations, but was not that familiar with Asia. Ulmer had begun with the Navy, transferred to the OSS, and stayed on as an intelligence asset once the CIA

52:13 was created. His work as station chief in Greece, which they also overthrew, impressed Wisner. He had taken Ulmer to the headquarters in 1955. Ulmer depended on others to develop a plan. At just the right juncture, things started to blossom. Military commanders in western and northern Sumatra

52:43 were looked at, which is Sumatra is Indonesia's largest island. They were frustrated by changes and declared themselves independent and not bound by the national military command. The colonels who began the revolt in December of 1956 used their troops to smuggle goods through Singapore. The revolt widened in March of 1957.

53:12 And it's being instigated by the CIA, by the way. There was a state of emergency declared and there was a charter of common struggle that was set up. And let's see, they basically developed a rebel alliance. This would, Permesta is what it was called.

53:42 And they began calling for open rebellion against the centralized government. The CIA had several avenues to reach the plotters. Richard Bissell, special assistant to Alan Dulles, said that some Indonesians had approached the agency at least two years earlier. I think it's fair to say that all of the people in the agency dealt with eventually were...

54:07 strong opponents of Sukarno. They were the people that the CIA was basically trying to get elected to begin with. So they were just using them. These contacts were encouraged by Washington using military attaches. In addition, CIA officer James Smith Jr. went to Sumatra to contact the colonels. The US had conducted training

54:40 already of Indonesian National Police, so they had ends and knew who to contact. A contact in April 1957 through a local channel from two of the more prominent colonels intrigued the CIA. Ahmad Hussein of Central Sumatra was one of them. The other, Maludin Simbolin, passed over for Army Chief of Staff in favor of Nasution.

55:11 in 1954, was stationed in Sumatra. The colonels wished to meet with the CIA. The desk officer took the cable from the station chief, Valentin Goodell, to Ulmer's home, and Ulmer immediately imposed top security, restricting knowledge of this to just nine people at the CIA. There was no...

55:41 5-4-1-2 group approval of the operation. Ulmer persuaded Dulles and Wisner to let him follow up. A meeting took place in Indonesia. They wanted U.S. weapons. After an unsuccessful try to arrange private arms deals, the CIA decided to seek authority. Sukarno helped the Eisenhower administration decide because in February of 1957, the Indonesian president gave a speech asserting

56:14 that Western-style democracy had proved inadequate in Indonesia. Sukarno declared that political parties should disband in the interest of the nation, leaving a system of guided democracy. The government would be assisted by an advisory council. Washington read the speech as basically a totalitarian government. To top it off, Sukarno then welcomed Soviet leader Kilmit.

56:46 for a stay of two months in Indonesia. That fall, Australian Foreign Minister Richard Casey came to Washington for an alliance discussion. He held private meetings with both John Foster and Alan Dulles and had both of them in on-conference talks. The CIA director told the Australian minister his agency had secret contact with rebels. Alan Dulles is reported as saying, quote,

57:17 The breakup of Indonesia should not be regarded as an objective, but only as something which might have to be accepted as a last resort. Okay, we're going to stop there. Yeah, they've already decided they're going to do it. They're already looking for arms to do it. But let's just say to the Australian diplomat, it's something that will be a last resort. Bull hucky. All right.

57:55 Anybody got anything? I know SR has something. Yes, I do, Colonel. I want to thank everybody for being here on X-Bases and on Rumble today. As we know, the Colonel provides all of this free of charge, but you're welcome to donate if you want. So anyway, what I was thinking about, Colonel, you mentioned military attaches. Yeah.

58:27 And we know exactly what a military attache is supposed to do. And it's not work with the CIA. It is not. However, I'm sitting here thinking about it and wondering how many there are that were involved at some time.

58:51 Well, if you remember, that was kind of a shock to me when I was figuring out the whole Otto Skorzeny angle. And we read that book by Major Gannis.

59:04 And he specifically names the two military attaches that were the CIA handlers in Spain for Otto Skorzeny. And that's when I really started honing in on this fact. And kind of the irony of that, so just so that you guys are not in the military understand what this is. So at our embassies around the world, we have a handful of military attaches. Now, the purpose of the attaches,

59:34 are two primary purposes. One is to act as a military advisor to, and I know Italy and the UK the best because two of my friends, I actually worked military attache assignments for two of my best friends. So one eventually got assigned to the UK as a military.

1:00:02 and another one got assigned to the Rome embassy as a military attache. Now, both of these two people performed the duties of acquisition. So they were both acquisition officers. They have special certification to represent the U.S. government on technical advice on buying U.S. military equipment.

1:00:26 They're basically like a facilitator. So in Italy, they had C-130s. They had all types of different army equipment. And so this guy, because he's an acquisition person, works with Washington military salespeople in arranging the contracts and all that stuff for the government to purchase U.S. military equipment.

1:00:54 That's one function. The other function is all of the people that use military equipment need training. And there's also NATO military coordination, exercise planning, and that stuff. So you basically have an acquisition piece and an operation piece in the military attache program.

1:01:19 but this is just kind of the two primary things. And so they act as a U.S. liaison for the military in the country in which they're assigned. Now, the most interesting part of that in Spain at the time when Otto Scorsese was initially being set up there, it was a fascist Franco country. We didn't even have military in Spain.

1:01:47 There was no military bases. As a matter of fact, Otto Skorzeny's construction company with his partner got the first contracts to build military installations in Spain. That's how they hid money to pay him to be a NATO operations gladio trainer was in those contracts because they were padded. And they were also sent through the Air Force logistics community. So why would you have military attaches in a country?

1:02:17 with no U.S. military equipment, no U.S. military bases, and no U.S. military exchanges. They were not in NATO. There was literally no reason to have them there. And yet they were there, working basically sheep-dipped into the CIA, performing handler duties for Otto Skorzeny. So that's just kind of an overview of...

1:02:45 what a military attache is and how awful it is that these people are basically being co-opted by the CIA to perform these duties. Because again, it threatens every military attache in every foreign country because there's, everybody knows.

1:03:06 When these things happen, because it's word of mouth among countries, that if the military attache is basically functioning as a CIA cutout, it literally endangers all of the rest of them. All along, go ahead.

1:03:42 basically stated the degree to which Saddam Hussein part of the rocket, using the analogy of different stages of a rocket launch, was built into the Qasim government, right? The 1958 change is the Qasim government. And the interesting thing there, from what I've just been, you know, figuring, mulling over lately,

1:04:13 Because on account of I read that book from the Indiana University, which is, you know, about how the Middle East was, how come it was going from pan-Arabism and how it got switched to OPEC and how we in the 70s were made it seem like, oh, those bad, you know, quote, Arabs were doing this. In fact, it was just totally the opposite because elites were linking with the international oil cartel.

1:04:41 To prevent, quote, those Arabs from having anything to do with the oil in their own countries. Right. Right. And but it's like it reminds us of how much of like Cold War propaganda or propaganda that seemed to be about communism versus anti-communism really was anything but about that. Correct. It was about it was about basically how are we going to do it? You know what the British and the French had already done to the world.

1:05:11 but make it seem different. But within that seem, like some people, if you actually took, there was kind of a strand of the Democrats that kind of, coming out of Henry Wallace, that was like the four freedoms. So it's not impossible that you're going to have a Democratic senator in the 1950s who's speaking out against, you know, the U.S. becoming more like England and France and calling the bluff actually of the four freedoms.

1:05:41 for an audience that was being activated. And at least they could hear that argument of, as in, we don't want to be like England or France. And you see that manipulated in Suez Canal crisis. But anyway, the short version is, I think, that just as Saddam Hussein is built into the Qasim government for stage two, it's like the Qasim government, he was openly, to my understanding, he was...

1:06:09 openly, you know, pro-Soviet. And it's like, not that that was going to really happen or anything, but it was more, he was anti-Nasser. And that was really important because even the Saudi monarchy, who you would think was the opponent of Nazism on account of they wanted to share, Nazism wanted to share the oil, you know, across Arab boundaries, which in their argument were not made by them anyway, but they were drawn by the British.

1:06:39 Which they actually were in funny other words. But so it's like the goal was how to stop pan-Arabism from going all the way from from Egypt all the way across to, you know, right up into Iraq and on the border of Iran. Right. Which it did have that potential. And so you can see the replacement of Qasim, who's no longer getting along with Nasser right after Syria had had come into.

1:07:09 um the uar but it's but that fell apart by 1961 it's like basically the overall strategy is we're gonna um we have to make sure that the saudis don't get you know play footsie with nasser which it seems like it's obvious that they wouldn't but they did have to because of population from their own people and pan-arabism and it seems like necessary in order to prevent that potential

1:07:39 when you when syria came into the side of ua uar the um when basically um syria and egypt had the same government for like between 58 and 1961 right and so it's just like hmm um you the way they stage these things is it can play

1:08:07 Like the Qasim part of the Syrian strategy and breaking the flow of pan-Arabism was good just temporarily for like two years. But then later, with Nasser no longer a threat, they could just put in somebody who would serve, you know, the interests of the British and the American compromise, the interests there also. And generally, I mean, before the Iraq.

1:08:36 Before the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, there was a tendency among the U.S. and British oil companies to kind of bicker among themselves more, although they always had some similarities. But afterwards, they were more united in responding to, you know, making sure that pan-Arabism overall did not spread. And that could involve, you know, shifting positions for each country. But with the long view of containing pan-Arabism.

1:09:06 from fucking up their oil profits, vast oil profits, as you know. Correct. And you see that in so many of these things. I think the thing that strikes me the most is that overall, well, to your point, they are pro, because again, none of this is based on principle.

1:09:36 None of it's based on democracy. None of it's based on anything other than greed. And so they could be in a country and overthrow it and put this guy in charge of it. And two years later, find somebody they like better and they'll coup the country again and put the other guy in. It's amazing the fluidity of this agenda.

1:10:07 And in some cases, also to your point, any time there's a coalition that you were referring to between Egypt and Syria, that scares the shit out of them. Because they, especially one that they don't control. And that is...

1:10:33 And that's exactly what Sukarno's big crime was. He didn't just want neutrality for Indonesia. He wanted neutral countries to trade among themselves and wanted to have the option of trading with both superpowers. And again, that's not going to be allowed to happen. So, yeah. Yeah. Just one final note, Colonel. Sorry to interrupt.

1:11:07 You know, you're mentioning of Syria and Egypt, but Yemen was also brought into play there, right? And the Saudis were funding one half, and there was a civil war in Yemen in 1963 that reflected the same potential split between Nasser versus Saudi Arabia. And that was a tension that was largely resolved by U.S. domestic coup d'etat in Dallas.

1:11:34 Yemen was so fascinating when I looked at that because you not only had Saudi Arabia to the north, but the south was basically occupied by the UK because they controlled the port of Aden. And you had the whole, for those of you guys who are not familiar with Yemen, the whole eastern part of Yemen basically has nobody living there. It's just a vast wilderness.

1:12:03 the majority of the people reside in the western part of that country and so you had the Yemenis the indigenous population kind of sandwiched between Saudi Arabia who is in bed basically with the west and you had the southernmost boundary controlled by the British and

1:12:34 the Yemenis didn't want the Saudi Arabia in there and they didn't want the British in there. So it has been destabilized for, you know, probably the better part of a hundred years. So anyway, yeah, that was such a fascinating story. And to find out that more recently, Israel had been occupying on the other side of

1:13:06 the waterway there, they had started setting up all kinds of communication and tracking stations along these islands, some of which were considered Yemeni property, but they didn't care. So it's just a fascinating, this whole journey has been very enlightening to me on all of the different dynamics, none of which is consistent with what

1:13:39 most Americans understand about geopolitics at all. Because again, going back to the book, you see that they have no problem literally lying to us. Even though everybody in that community, in Syria, the Middle East in general, knew exactly what was going on, our media consciously lied to us about all of it.

1:14:08 That's just crazy. And because most Americans do not travel overseas, we literally have no clue as to what the real story is in most of these things. And to all along's point, be the one person in Congress that has traveled to that location and know they'll call you a communist. They will call you a communist for speaking truth.

1:14:37 at this time, because they will tell you that the forces that are arraying in a country, just like they did Iran, were communists, even though the Tudor party was, we've already talked about it, was so tiny that it was like basically non-existent. Same thing in Guatemala. But if you're the one person that speaks up and goes, yeah, I really think this is about United Fruit in Guatemala, or I really think it's about the,

1:15:07 Anglo-Iranian oil company and now BP in Iran. Oh, so you're a communist sympathizer. That's the same thing they do now. Oh, no, I don't really think that's what's happening in Ukraine. Oh, you are a Putin puppet. It's exactly the same thing. This is a massive psychological operation to get you to sit down and shut up. So anyway, it's crazy.

1:15:41 Go ahead, SR. It is crazy, Colonel, and they will do anything and everything they can to keep it going. In current events, in looking at what's going on in the Middle East, MBZ asked for an E7A wedge tail because of all the stuff that's been going on in Dubai.

1:16:09 And I'm looking at that, and I'm saying, why in the hell are the Australians, the French, and the British all of a sudden getting involved? This was not their fight to start with. And I look at it, and I say, we got AWACS all over the place, and you're telling me you need an E7A wedge tail. I don't think you do. I think something else is afoot. But that's just me.

1:16:41 Yeah, who knows? The one thing you can stop on is we are not going to get the real story from the mainstream media, which is why we all now have alternative sources of information. So I will be back on at six o'clock on Badlands Media with the book club with King Khan and Ash. If you guys want to tune in, I'm going to jump off here, grab some dinner.

1:17:11 And I will see you back at six o'clock to continue the fake book called Stolen Elections because it just gets more crazy the more you read. But anyway, oh, and I do want to give a big shout out to Seth Ketchel. I just ordered his book. He just released a book about, I don't know.

1:17:38 fake elections, and I'm very interested. I've followed him for a very long time. I know he's a very good friend of Brian Cates, and I would highly recommend getting his book. You guys know that he spent time in Army military intelligence, and he has done analysis of elections over

1:18:01 long periods of times and charted changes in the electorate and voting to show so many inconsistencies. Like I said, I've followed him for a long time. I've met him and I'm very excited to get that book and actually read something based on facts from a guy who probably knows that General Franks was never the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

1:18:32 That would be better than the book we're reviewing to start with. But anyway, okay. So I'm gonna jump off here. You guys have a nice evening and I will see you either at six in the chat or tomorrow. Take care.

Entities here

CIA50 Allen Dulles36 Dwight D. Eisenhower25 Syria20 Egypt19 United Kingdom18 Vietnam14 Sukarno14 Suez Crisis13 Gamal Abdel Nasser10 Iran9 Inter-Services Intelligence9 U.S. State Department8 Abdul Karim Qasim7 Saddam Hussein7 United States Information Agency7 Kermit Roosevelt7 Frank Wisner7 France7 5412 Group6 Israel6 David Bruce5 Japan5 Yemen5 Alfred Ulmer5 Saudi Arabia5 Howard Stone5 Hungarian Revolution5 U.S. Intelligence Board4 Soviet Union4 Miles Copeland4 Sumatra4 Pentagon4 Otto Skorzeny4 China4 North Atlantic Treaty Organization4 Italy3 Robert Lovett3 Spain3 James Killian3

Claims made here

Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed William J. Donovan host_asserted ▶ 0:43

“And I know, SR, that Bridget had told you she's going to bug out a little early today. So I have to start the show and apologize because I normally do this ahead of time. Yesterday, when we were going…”

William J. Donovan member_of William Casey host_asserted ▶ 1:14

“We came across William Polly's name. I had meant to look up the other people there. I recognized one of the guy's names. And now I know why I recognized his name. And I normally do that as I'm going t…”

William J. Donovan member_of William H. Frank host_asserted ▶ 1:41

“It talks about this commission that was set up in July of 1954. And William Frank, Morris Hadley, and William Polly were doing the review. Well, if you look up these people, specifically, there's not …”

William J. Donovan member_of Morris L. Ernst host_asserted ▶ 1:41

John J. McCloy member_of Skull and Bones host_asserted ▶ 3:14

“has skull and bones all in their background as well. So that's the guys that are quote unquote reviewing the CIA. And they took with them, you remember when I said they went to Europe and I said, well…”

Morris L. Ernst member_of Skull and Bones host_asserted ▶ 3:14

J. Patrick Coyne member_of National Security Council host_asserted ▶ 3:42

“background as well. He was both FBI and served in the National Security Council, which is where Gladio was ran out of for the U.S. He also was on the Intelligence Advisory Board from 1959 through 61, …”

J. Patrick Coyne member_of Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board host_asserted ▶ 3:42

Clark Clifford funded BCCI host_asserted ▶ 4:12

“Clifford, of course, is notorious in all of these stories. He's the guy that was helping BCCI illegally by banks in the United States. He comes up often in all of the conversations about Clinton. He's…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed James Killian host_asserted ▶ 7:03

“the CIA's reputation in the wake of the Hungarian crisis. The president's board of consultants on foreign intelligence activities, commonly known by the name of its chairman, James Killian, could look…”

James Killian headed U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted ▶ 7:03

Charles Stark Draper member_of U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted ▶ 7:34

“many traveling to Washington to meet. Killian was an inspired choice of this era based on technological developments, supporting strong scientific representation. His experts like Edwin Land, William …”

Edwin Land member_of U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted ▶ 7:34

William Barr member_of U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted ▶ 7:34

Jean Kirkpatrick member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 8:04

“the SR-71, and NSA communications intercepts. But they loved covert operations. At its first meeting with the CIA, this committee endured eight hours of agency briefing, packed with details on intelli…”

Robert Lovett member_of U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted ▶ 8:38

“responsible for all dealings with the board, recalled the first encounter as brutal and writes that it was in truth a saturation effort. But Kirk could not head off the initiative to examine covert ac…”

David Bruce member_of U.S. Intelligence Board host_asserted ▶ 8:38

Frank Wisner member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 9:07

“a former Secretary of Defense, was also on the board or commission. Frank Wisner was not at all happy that people were looking at his work. He viewed himself with a sophisticated understanding of a se…”

U.S. Intelligence Board covered_up CIA host_asserted ▶ 11:11

“and achieve better synchronization between CIA's black propaganda and the unattributed gray activities carried out by U.S. Information Agency. They were already coordinating. The Killian board told Ei…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Luthien Trescott host_asserted ▶ 14:57

“of covert operations, unquote. But Killian board initiative getting Eisenhower to make Alan Dulles use a chief of staff, the CIA steadfastly refused. The president sided again with Dulles. So all of t…”

CIA funded Langley host_asserted ▶ 15:28

“as a sort of in-house liaison between the clandestine and the analytical side of the agency. During this period, and championed by Dulles, the CIA sought funds for and began to work with a new headqua…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower approved Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 18:18

“project the CIA man had never heard of. In Washington, he discovered that a planning task force called Omega had already formed at the State Department. In fact, Eisenhower had approved this project i…”

Wilbur Evelyn member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 18:49

“hosted a group at his home to hash out the Middle East. Those present, Alan Dulles, Kermit Roosevelt, and James Angleton. Unfamiliar with the chain of command, the CIA officer Wilbur C. Evelyn thought…”

James Jesus Angleton member_of Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 18:49

Kermit Roosevelt member_of Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 18:49

Allen Dulles member_of Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 18:49

Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack Syria host_asserted ▶ 19:50

“Kermit Roosevelt completed the scheme with George Young in London in April. Foster Dulles considered the final Omega paper on May 23rd. So again, from March to May, lots of planning, just not interage…”

Stephen Meade member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 20:21

“Roosevelt flew to Jordan on an assignment related to this project. American secret warriors had been operating in the Middle East since the creation of the CIA. They had already planted stay-behind un…”

Stephen Meade carried_out_attack Syria host_asserted ▶ 20:53

“help Syrian officers plan an early military coup. So a military officer, U.S. military officer, working with stay-behinds to plan a coup. And then he's detailed to the CIA to operate. And this happens…”

Miles Copeland member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 20:53

Miles Copeland funded Syria host_asserted ▶ 21:27

“But the officers they backed held power for barely a few months, after which the secret warriors forged an alliance with a new regime. That group, in turn, was overthrown by a military coup in 1954. C…”

Gamal Abdel Nasser targeted_for_regime_change Egypt host_asserted ▶ 22:59

“Soviet Union, he totally pissed off John Foster Dulles. Kermit Roosevelt tried and failed to induce Nasser to change course. As the Syrian leaders showed signs of moving towards the Egyptian orbit, th…”

CIA assassinated Syria host_asserted ▶ 23:31

“Before the end of 54, the agency was in touch with the officer who assassinated the Syrian leader the year before. Although there was no evidence of Washington's complicity in the regime change, no ev…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower targeted_for_regime_change Syria host_asserted ▶ 24:01

“Thus arose Plan Alpha, an Anglo-American design. By late 1955, John Foster Dulles had set in his mind on new leadership in Damascus, but wanted it to appear like it was coming from within. That meant …”

Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change Syria host_asserted ▶ 24:01

Inter-Services Intelligence targeted_for_regime_change Syria host_asserted ▶ 24:01

Gamal Abdel Nasser carried_out_attack Suez Crisis host_asserted ▶ 24:30

“leading to a general Middle East plan called Omega and its Syrian component called Project Wakeful. All this happened before Suez. So again, it wasn't because of the Suez, it all happened before that.…”

James Eichelberger member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 25:02

“The CIA's Cairo station under James Eichelberger had no advanced warning. What was he doing? The Egyptian move brought outrage from Britain. France saw Nasser as allied to quote-unquote revolutionarie…”

United Kingdom carried_out_attack Suez Crisis host_asserted ▶ 25:35

“Because they all want not just fake colonialism gone, they want it really gone. So France would join with Britain in a military scheme to invade Egypt and retake the canal. To provide the excuse, the …”

France carried_out_attack Suez Crisis host_asserted ▶ 25:35

Israel carried_out_attack Suez Crisis host_asserted ▶ 25:35

Kermit Roosevelt member_of Paramount Committee host_asserted ▶ 27:05

“if negotiations failed. Kermit Roosevelt picked up more hints from the British officials at the UN. On September 12th, the CIA created a special interagency group codenamed the Paramount Committee. It…”

CIA funded Syria host_asserted ▶ 30:11

“among the Druze tribesmen. Combined with the border crisis with Turkey, which of course is NATO, so they're going to create a border crisis, the British manipulated the CIA, they didn't manipulate the…”

Howard Stone member_of Operation Wappen host_asserted ▶ 30:42

“but there could be no question of moving ahead once the British invaded Egypt. The Syrian and Iraqi agents became convinced the Americans were part of the action against Nasser's Egypt. Howard Rocky S…”

Howard Stone carried_out_attack Syria host_asserted ▶ 30:42

Howard Stone member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 30:42

Howard Stone member_of Kermit Roosevelt host_asserted ▶ 31:11

“in Beirut, coordinated a covert working group composed of representatives from the British SIS, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanese intelligence services. Rocky, one of the officers who had worked with Kermit …”

Jordan member_of Operation Wappen host_asserted ▶ 31:11

Iran member_of Operation Wappen host_asserted ▶ 31:11

Inter-Services Intelligence member_of Operation Wappen host_asserted ▶ 31:11

Howard Stone carried_out_attack Sudan host_asserted ▶ 31:11

Frank Jedin member_of Operation Wappen host_asserted ▶ 31:38

“sour relationship with its military dictator. Arriving in Damascus in April of 1957, Stone found Washington's demanding fresh action. He relied on deputy author Close and subordinate Frank Jeddin. The…”

CIA funded Operation Wappen host_asserted ▶ 32:08

“around Damascus, after which another unit would side with the plotters. There were meetings at CIA safe house and at Stone's home, and at least $3 million that they knew of changed hands. The agency t…”

Adib Shishakli targeted_for_regime_change Syria host_asserted ▶ 32:08

CIA involved_in 1963 Iraqi Coup host_asserted ▶ 37:16

“Other evidence suggests that the CIA had taken measures to incapacitate and eliminate Qasem in 1960 and that it was involved in the coup that overthrew him in 1963. James Critchfield has been cited as…”

James Critchfield recruited CIA host_asserted ▶ 37:16

Miles Copeland helped Kermit Roosevelt book_quoted ▶ 37:46

“We came to power on the CIA train, meeting Saddam Hussein. Miles Copeland would later say, I spent most of my time helping Kermit Roosevelt to pick up the pieces after collisions with Egypt and other …”

Allen Dulles headed U.S. State Department documented ▶ 38:19

“Indeed, Foster pursued the secret war with the same zeal and energy he displayed in covering distances headed for diplomatic meetings, making himself the most traveled Secretary of State in American h…”

U.S. State Department cooperated_with CIA host_asserted ▶ 38:47

“when Foster, suffering from acute abdominal pain, was found to have cancer. He had surgery at Walter Reed Medical Facilities, then convalesced at his house in Florida. But in 1957, Dulles had returned…”

Congress for Cultural Freedom front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 39:15

“cooperating this entire time. Psychological warfare particularly was pursued covertly by the State Department through U.S. Information Agency and Voice of America Radio. They were working in tandem wi…”

United States Information Agency worked_with CIA host_asserted ▶ 39:15

United States Information Agency financed Japan host_asserted ▶ 40:17

“By 1955, unattributed U.S. information agency money had financed six feature films, opened several broadcasts of more than 18,000 hours of radio time. It would be like the equivalent of beaming on two…”

CIA funded Ford Foundation host_asserted ▶ 40:47

“in Japan. The CIA supplemented and extended these programs with psychological warfare experts like Howard Hunt, crafting scripts for Radio Free Asia. The agency funded the Asia Foundation, which was 1…”

Alfred Ulmer acknowledged CIA host_asserted ▶ 41:20

“in Japan, where it was a social custom to pay citizens for their votes. The agency funding of the Liberal Democrats had been awkward, but acknowledged by Al Ulmer in the Far East Division. The extent …”

Tracy Barnes headed CIA host_asserted ▶ 42:17

“Information Agency was a CIA front. In Italy, where the CIA political action built towards the May 1958 election, the U.S. Information Agency operation grew as large as the secret warriors supporting …”

Miles Copeland headed CIA host_asserted ▶ 42:17

Dwight D. Eisenhower attempted_coup_against Sukarno host_asserted ▶ 44:14

“by Sukarno and other leaders for talks with the U.S. and the Soviet Union reveals nothing about how the president used the CIA to get rid of Sukarno. In fact, President Eisenhower's general dissatisfa…”

Allen Dulles opposed Sukarno host_asserted ▶ 45:42

“John Foster Dulles steadfastly opposed anything that was associated with non-alignment. My way or the highway, you're either with us or against us. The People's Republic of China had had a big role in…”

China held Richard Fectow host_asserted ▶ 46:43

“When another of the non-aligned leaders, Premier Wu Nu of Burma, visited Beijing in 1957, he offered to intercede for the Americans. The Chinese indicated that they were willing to release the impriso…”

China held John Downey host_asserted ▶ 46:43

Allen Dulles refused_to_release John Downey host_asserted ▶ 47:13

“So China offered to release the political prisoners if we would allow them to send journalists to report on the progress that China had made. John Foster Dulles said no. They were left there for two d…”

Allen Dulles refused_to_release Richard Fectow host_asserted ▶ 47:13

Sukarno outlawed Indonesian Communist Party documented ▶ 48:45

“Sukarno had been a prominent wartime nationalist, then active in the post-war resistance, opposing the Dutch. The natural choice for president, at once pragmatic and visionary, Sukarno was no communis…”

Kermit Roosevelt approved CIA host_asserted ▶ 49:41

“In the 1950s, factionalism grew so rampant that by 1956, parliament had not yet ratified a government budget for the first years of the decade. For an initial project, the CIA tried political action. …”

CIA funded Majami Party host_asserted ▶ 50:07

“The memorandum, just a few paragraphs long, completely lacked any details of the need to do it, the plan to do it, or what their results were. Yet the project sailed through and they gave them the mon…”

Frank Wisner ordered Alfred Ulmer host_asserted ▶ 51:14

“One day towards the end of 56, he said to the chief of the DO Far East Division, I think it's time we held Sukarno's feet to the fire. Wisner's subordinate, Al Ulmer, returned to his office with word …”

Alfred Ulmer transferred_to CIA host_asserted ▶ 51:43

“with assignments in the far worse jobs. The Far East Division was the biggest in the DO. Ulmer had plenty of choices in the matter. As it happened, Alfred Ulmer Jr. knew paramilitary operations, but w…”

CIA instigated Permesta Rebellion host_asserted ▶ 53:12

“And it's being instigated by the CIA, by the way. There was a state of emergency declared and there was a charter of common struggle that was set up. And let's see, they basically developed a rebel al…”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. stated CIA host_asserted ▶ 53:42

“And they began calling for open rebellion against the centralized government. The CIA had several avenues to reach the plotters. Richard Bissell, special assistant to Alan Dulles, said that some Indon…”

James Smith contacted Maludin Simbolin host_asserted ▶ 54:07

“strong opponents of Sukarno. They were the people that the CIA was basically trying to get elected to begin with. So they were just using them. These contacts were encouraged by Washington using milit…”

James Smith contacted Ahmad Hussein host_asserted ▶ 54:07

Valentin Goodell reported_to Alfred Ulmer host_asserted ▶ 55:11

“in 1954, was stationed in Sumatra. The colonels wished to meet with the CIA. The desk officer took the cable from the station chief, Valentin Goodell, to Ulmer's home, and Ulmer immediately imposed to…”

Allen Dulles stated Richard Casey host_asserted ▶ 56:46

“for a stay of two months in Indonesia. That fall, Australian Foreign Minister Richard Casey came to Washington for an alliance discussion. He held private meetings with both John Foster and Alan Dulle…”

Otto Skorzeny handled_by CIA book_quoted ▶ 59:04

“And he specifically names the two military attaches that were the CIA handlers in Spain for Otto Skorzeny. And that's when I really started honing in on this fact. And kind of the irony of that, so ju…”

Otto Skorzeny paid_via North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted ▶ 1:01:47

“There was no military bases. As a matter of fact, Otto Skorzeny's construction company with his partner got the first contracts to build military installations in Spain. That's how they hid money to p…”

Saudi Arabia funded Yemeni Civil War host_asserted ▶ 1:11:07

“You know, you're mentioning of Syria and Egypt, but Yemen was also brought into play there, right? And the Saudis were funding one half, and there was a civil war in Yemen in 1963 that reflected the s…”

United Kingdom occupied Aden host_asserted ▶ 1:11:34

“Yemen was so fascinating when I looked at that because you not only had Saudi Arabia to the north, but the south was basically occupied by the UK because they controlled the port of Aden. And you had …”

Yemen targeted_for_regime_change United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:12:34

“the Yemenis didn't want the Saudi Arabia in there and they didn't want the British in there. So it has been destabilized for, you know, probably the better part of a hundred years. So anyway, yeah, th…”

Yemen targeted_for_regime_change Saudi Arabia host_asserted ▶ 1:12:34

Israel carried_out_attack Yemen host_asserted ▶ 1:13:06

“the waterway there, they had started setting up all kinds of communication and tracking stations along these islands, some of which were considered Yemeni property, but they didn't care. So it's just …”

United Fruit Company funded Guatemala host_asserted ▶ 1:14:37

“at this time, because they will tell you that the forces that are arraying in a country, just like they did Iran, were communists, even though the Tudor party was, we've already talked about it, was s…”

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company funded Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:15:07

“Anglo-Iranian oil company and now BP in Iran. Oh, so you're a communist sympathizer. That's the same thing they do now. Oh, no, I don't really think that's what's happening in Ukraine. Oh, you are a P…”