The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7

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0:00 Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon, Colonel. How are you? I'm awesome. I'm going to get us up and running over here on Rumble, and we're going to go. Afternoon, Colonel. ASR. I may have to drop off here. If I get a call to go get my car, it's in the shop. Okay. Thank you much. Sure. I'm going to go ahead. I'll bring Renee up in case we have to switch you out. I'm going to...

0:29 put her on a speaker, so she'll already be ready. All right, so we're going to start with chapter seven, and let me start, well, I'll save it to the end. Bridget, if you'll remind me at the end to tell you about the meeting that I had this morning, and that way more people will be in here, because it was really exciting. Okay.

1:03 You guys are not going to want to miss the 6 o'clock show over on Badlands with CanCon and Ash about this book that they have me reading that's pulling my hair out, Stolen Elections. There's so much garbage. So much garbage. But it'll blow your mind. Okay. Well, not our mind because our mind's already been blown.

1:33 This chapter is called Little Mice. It takes place in August of 1950, and it begins talking about a 28-year-old woman named Erica Glasser Wallach. She was in a West Berlin hotel room, and she locks her papers and most of her money in a cupboard and walked through the Brandenburg Gate to her doom.

2:04 the young German-born woman left behind her husband, a former U.S. Army captain by the name of Robert Wallach. He was studying in Paris, and they had two very small children. She was fearful when she entered the headquarters of the SED, which was the East German Communist Party. A year before,

2:35 Erica Wallach's adoptive father, an American Quaker relief worker named Noel Field, had disappeared after being lured to Prague with the promise of a university teaching position. His wife, Herta, and the younger brother, Herman, went looking for Noel behind the Iron Curtain, and they vanished too, despite the obvious risk.

3:04 Wallach was now determined to find out what happened to Fields, a family that had rescued her during the war when she was 17 years old and a refugee from Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Noel and Herta Fields had whisked a sick and starving Erica and her ailing mother from a French refugee camp and later agreed to care for the teenage girl in Switzerland during the war.

3:34 when her parents fled to England. Wallach now felt on her own to track down the missing family. When Wallach asked to see her old war comrades at the SED headquarters, she was told they were not available. She would later find out why. They were in prison, and Erica Wallach was soon to join them. On her way out of the gloomy SED fortress, a hand suddenly gripped her shoulder. Criminal police, they said.

4:05 please come around the corner. She didn't even bother to turn around. For the next five years, Wallach would suffer harsh imprisonment, first in Berlin's prison, which she christened the House of Horrors, and then for a longer stretch in Vorkuta, a dreaded prison labor complex in Russia's Arctic wasteland, a thousand miles northeast of Moscow.

4:35 Wallach, a cultured daughter of a physician, learned to survive in the gulag by giving up hope that she would ever return to her family and the lost joys of comforts of her old life. She would rise early each morning in the dark with her labor gang and work as hard as she could to avoid freezing. This business of nothing to look at, the ugliness, the lack of color, the lack of smell, that really is worse than hunger, she would later recall.

5:04 but you get used to it. I finally, after three years, got used to the fact that I was totally alone in the world. Wallach learned to ingratiate herself with her fellow prisoners, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Polish women, and even one American who had found a small and less ways of offending the Soviet state.

5:31 She became a different person than the naive woman that had walked through Brandenburg Gate that morning in August of 1950. She even looked like someone else, muscled and thick and calloused from her labor. The young woman made a grim new life for herself at the end of the earth. Among drunken, homesick Soviet guards and her fellow penal colony inmates, she found ways to break up the monotonous days.

6:02 by listening to the Ukrainians' folk songs and attending Sunday salons hosted by educated women whose latrine cleaning duties were the foulest of all prison jobs. In the end, the hardened Wallach decided that surviving a frozen hell was a matter of mental adjustment. Horror, fear, mental torture, she would later write, are not physical facts, but creations of your spirit.

6:32 They were not forced upon me by outside acts or conditions, but lived within me, born of a weakness of my own heart. While she endured this treatment at Volkuta, the Fields were suffering their own nightmare behind the Iron Curtain. After Noel Fields was arrested by Czech authorities in May of 1949, he was drugged and driven to a secret location in Hungary. There he was dropped down a coal chute.

7:02 and subject to torture, beatings, sleep deprivations, and endless interrogations. Noel's brother, Herman Field, who was an architect professor, suffered less vicious treatment after he was grabbed by Polish secret police three months later in Warsaw while searching for his brother. But he spent the first several months of his five-year incarceration in solitary confinement, which was terrible for his spirit.

7:32 When a field mouse suddenly appeared in his cell, Herman was beside himself with joy. The mere brush of the mouse against his leg was a source of enormous comfort. One night while sleeping, he accidentally crushed the mouse, which had crawled under his mattress. Herman was so grief-stricken that he feared he'd lose his mind. A person living a normal life simply cannot comprehend how sharply such

8:00 apparently trivial happenings affect a human being? During the harsh interrogations to which all four members of the Field family were subjected, including Erica Wallach, one name kept coming up. How do you know Alan Dulles? The inquisitors repeatedly asked. The spymaster was the one thread that seemed to connect all four deeply unfortunate prisoners. By the time Noel

8:27 Field was taken prisoner in Czechoslovakia in 1949. It had been nearly four years since Alan Dulles occupied the official position with U.S. intelligence. After the war, Dulles had returned to the fold at Sullivan and Cromwell, a business routine that he found boring. Quote, I must admit that these days I find it hard to concentrate on my profession of law, unquote. He would later on tell a friend.

8:57 Most of my time is spent reliving the exciting days of the war. A steady stream of former OSS colleagues came to pay respects to his Wall Street office, chatting about the old man, as they affectionately called Wild Bill Donovan. But these conversations were not simply fond exercises of nostalgia.

9:22 who called on Dulles, the OSS veterans like Richard Helm, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes, and Kermit Roosevelt, all shared the view that this blissful reign of post-war peace would be short-lived, and the West must quickly gird itself to go to war, basically with Russia. That threat was not a simple, convenient creation of Western imperialism.

9:52 military machine might have been no match for Americans' global reach in nuclear firepower, but it was quite capable of crushing democratic aspirations of Eastern Europe, which the Soviets, following World War II, felt they were entitled to for controlling that area. American intelligence officials like Frank Wisner, who had been stationed in Romania near the end of the war, had witnessed the beginnings of the Soviet-dominated police state.

10:24 As they charted in Dulles' law suite and gathered for drinks at Wild Bill Donovan's townhouse, this rarefied group of OSS veterans who straddled the world's espionage, foreign affairs, and finance were already plotting to create a powerful intelligence apparatus for the Cold War. Spurned by Harry Truman, Donovan began to feel that his own hopes for a return to post-war action would never be realized.

10:53 Our war is over, Allen, he told Allen Dulles one day, but Allen Dulles would have none of it. In truth, while Dulles punctually showed up for work at Sullivan and Cromwell each morning, he never retired from the intelligence game. No sooner had he resumed his life in New York than he began raking a leadership role for a prestigious organization and placing himself in the political debates. At the end of 1945,

11:23 Dulles was elected president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a group whose membership of prominent businessmen and policymakers played a key role in the Cold War and its creation. Dulles would huddle with his colleagues in a soundproof room at the council's headquarters on the Upper East Side as if he was still running a spy agency. Dulles' stubborn insistence on staying in the middle of post-war action paid off.

11:53 In April 1947, he was asked by the Senate Armed Services Committee to present his ideas on a strong centralized intelligence agency. His memo would help frame the legislation that created the CIA. Despite his controversial ties to Nazi Germany, John Foster Dulles had also managed to keep a foot in the political arena, putting himself forward.

12:19 as one of the Republican Party's leading wise men on foreign affairs. Both Dulles brothers pinned their political hopes on New York Governor Thomas Dewey, the GOP frontrunner in 1948. Dewey, a former Wall Street lawyer himself, was an impressive political figure. He was Eastern establishment clear pick for the White House. Political pronosticators

12:48 overwhelmingly predicted that Dewey would win because President Truman was a political hack for Missouri and didn't have any of the influence that Dewey had. Dewey had already picked out his drapes for the White House. Let it be known that Foster would be his Secretary of State and Alan Dulles would be in charge of a new intelligence agency he planned to create.

13:21 It was Allen who was the tougher view on foreign policy at this stage. As Foster started to flesh out his ideas for the Dewey campaign, he showed his brother a draft of his thoughts on the Soviet threat in which he suggested that the U.S. and Russia might somehow find a mutual accommodation. Allen about blew a gasket. The difference between us, Allen told Foster, is that you hold out hope.

13:50 of some satisfactory accommodations between the Soviet system and us. I doubt this, he said. Foster would eventually come around to seeing it through his brother's eyes. Harry Truman had inherited Franklin Roosevelt's attitude towards the Dulles brothers and their circle. The Dulles' close connections to the Dewey camp did nothing to soften Truman's sentiments. He would dismissively refer to the

14:20 to Foster as the Wall Street beller, and more bluntly, as the bastard. Truman was equally suspicious of Allen, who kept pushing the administration to take full advantage of the broad powers granted the new CIA under the National Security Act of 1947. The president, however, took a dim view to powerful spy agencies, fearing that they might turn rogue, even though he used them.

14:48 Alan Dulles believed that the shadow war between the West and the Soviet bloc would have few if any rules, and he was contemptuous of any attempt in Washington to put limits on the conflict. He assumed that the U.S. faced an utterly ruthless enemy in Moscow, and he was prepared to match or go beyond whatever measures they may take. Dulles' aggressive Cold War stance found a key ally in Truman's

15:17 Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, a former Wall Street investment baker at Dylan Reed, who had moved in Dulles' circles and who shared Dulles' suspicions on the Soviet Union. In early 1948, Forrestal persuaded a politically vulnerable Truman, who knew he was facing a tough challenge from Dewey, to appoint Dulles to a blue-ribbon committee to study the...

15:46 year-old CIA and proposed ways to make it effective. The so-called Dulles-Jackson-Coria committee, over which Dulles quickly assumed control, allowed him to roam freely through the halls of the new intelligence agency and develop a plan on how to give it teeth. The committee report was conveniently timed for January 1949, when Tom Dewey would presumably be inaugurated president, and Dulles would take over the CIA.

16:16 The 193-page report would conclude its sharply critical assessment of the CIA by demanding that the agency take off its gloves and confront the Soviet Union. The CIA had declared has the duty to act. The agency has to be given by law wide authority. It was time to take full advantage of the generous powers the committee insisted.

16:42 Dulles and Forrestal didn't wait for the report to be finished before taking action. In March of 1948, James Angleton flew back from Rome to meet with Dulles, warning his mentor that Italy's Communist Party was taking over. Seeing an opportunity for the kind of decisive counterattack that they long envisioned against the Communist advance in Europe, Dulles and Forrestal flew into action, raising millions of dollars to tilt the election in favor of the...

17:13 Christian Democrats really in favor of NATO. That was the whole objective. Within days, a satchel stuffed with American cash was headed off to Italian agents at the Rome Hotel, a luxurious villa atop Spanish steps favored by Dulles during his stays in Rome. More cash would soon be pouring in. The massive infusion of campaign money and U.S. aid ensured victory for the U.S.

17:43 government's political clients. On the evening of April 17th, the first day of Italian voting, Dulles scrutinized the election rally from Rome at Forrester's home in Washington. The two men raised a toast when it became clear that the Christian Democrats would succeed. In November, Dulles suffered his own class electoral defeat when Truman pulled off a shocking upset over Dewey. It was humiliating

18:12 reversal of fortune. Soon after, Dulles would lose his strong ally in the Truman administration because Jim Forrestal, let's see, Jim Forrestal, when the president ousted the Dulles ally from the Pentagon, by that time, by the time he was pushed out, Forrestal was showing signs of exhaustion, angry and despondent.

18:43 He supposedly threw himself out of a window at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Now, obviously, there's lots of controversy about that. The tragic collapse of the defense secretary, a man who had controlled America's fearsome arsenal, was one of the stranger episodes of the Cold War. With the Democrats maintaining control of the White House in the election of 1948, the Dulles brothers' dream of running foreign policy was dashed.

19:11 but Allen would find ways to stay in the spy game. In June of 1949, Dulles organized the National Committee for a Free Europe in conjunction with an illustrious board that included General Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Hollywood director, Cecil DeMille, and time-life publishing magnate, Henry Luce, ostensibly a private philanthropic group.

19:40 The committee was actually a CIA front that channeled funds to anti-communist European immigrants and financed major propaganda efforts at Radio Free Europe, which was also a CIA front. At least $2 million of money poured into the committee's clandestine projects from Nazi gold that Alan Dulles had helped track down at the end of the Cold War. In the early years of the Cold War,

20:09 The Nazi treasure, looted from Jewish families and German-occupied nations, had become a key funding source for Dulles' secret operations. Private citizen Dulles further spread his influence by inserting close allies like Frank Wisner into key intelligence posts. Like Dulles, Wisner was a former Wall Street lawyer himself who had fallen for the glamour of the spy life. In 1949, Dulles helped create a new intelligence outpost.

20:40 and buried it in the State Department's bureaucracy called the Office of Policy Coordination, which of course is where Frank Wisner was placed. It was kind of a combative agency that Dulles envisioned the CIA becoming in the Dewey administration. Wisner was maneuvered into the position as the chief, and under his leadership, the obscure unit quickly

21:09 threw itself into the black arts of espionage, including sabotage, subversion, and assassination. By 1952, the Office of Public Coordination was running 47 overseas stations, and its staff had ballooned to nearly 3,000 employees, with another 3,000 independent contractors in the field. Dulles and Wisner were essentially operating their own private spy.

21:38 out of the State Department. The Office of Public Coordination was run with little government oversight and few restrictions. Many of the agency's recruits were ex-Nazis. While President Truman continued to regard the primary purpose of the intelligence agency as gathering intelligence for the president and his national security advisors, Dulles and Wisner was engaged in their own no-hold bars with the Soviet bloc.

22:08 They saw Eastern Europe as a primary battlefield in a great struggle to roll back the Soviet advance, but their field of combat often strayed into sovereign territory of U.S. allies like France, West Germany, and Italy. During World War II, Dulles had resolutely pursued his own initiatives in Switzerland, often in conflict with FDR. Now he was doing the same under Truman.

22:35 Although the OPC's tactics had been sanctioned by the National Security Council memo NSC 10-2, which had formulated in the heat of the 1948 presidential campaign when Truman was fending off Dewey and the Republicans charged that he was too soft on communism. It was uncertain how fully informed the president was of what the Office of Public Coordination was doing.

23:02 Whether or not Truman was fully briefed, Wisner pursued his job with a sense of daring abandon, dreaming up ever more inventive and dangerous ways to disrupt Soviet rule over European dominion. Wisner would present his own ideas to Dulles as if Sullivan and Cromwell attorney was still his boss. Dulles found one of Wisner's brainstorms particularly intriguing.

23:31 The idea was sparked in May of 1949 when British intelligence informed Wisner that one of Dulles' former wartime assets, a man named Noel Field, was planning to fly to Prague, where an attractive academic post was being dangled before him. Why shouldn't U.S. intelligence take advantage of Field's ill-advised journey behind the Iron Curtain?

23:56 Wisner had acquired a high-place double agent inside the Polish security service, a man named Joseph Switzlow. He would be told to spread the word all the way from Warsaw to Moscow that Field is actually coming to Prague on a secret mission sent by Alan Dulles. While in Prague, Field would be contacting his extensive network of the war years.

24:24 the brave communist nationalist and anti-fascist that he had helped survive as a refugee aid worker. These men and women were all part of a top-secret Dulles Field spy network, the story went. None of it was true, but Wisner and Dulles knew that if they could successfully plant the seed in Stalin's mine, they might wreak havoc. Alan Dulles had a long history with the Field family.

24:51 Most men with this sort of connection to a family would have found it impossible to use them as pawns, not Alan Dulles. But Dulles had set up his plan by turning the unsuspecting Field family into members of a far-reaching U.S. spy ring. Dulles would panic Stalin, already rattled by the 1948 defection of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito.

25:20 into launching witch hunts that would fracture the communist government throughout Eastern Europe. As with all bold counterintelligence gambits he undertook during his career, Dulles threw himself into the field affair with excitement, even personally giving a codename to it called Operation Splinter Factor.

25:50 Dulles had first met Fields in Switzerland during World War I when he tried to recruit Noel's father, Herbert Haviland Field, which was a Harvard-educated, internationally renowned zoologist who ran a scientific institute in Zurich dedicated to the classification of animals. The senior Field, a devout Quaker with a full beard, turned Dulles down flat.

26:21 But he did feed him some information from time to time and he invited the young diplomat to his home for dinners. It was here in the field's hilltop home overlooking Lake Zurich that Dulles became acquainted with Noel and his three siblings. Noel impressed Dulles when he asked the boy what he wanted to be when he grew up. He said, I want to work for world peace.

26:51 Noel became deeply committed to pacifism during the war when he saw train loads of horribly maimed soldiers coming into neutral Switzerland. When his father died suddenly of a heart attack after the war, Noel vowed to dedicate his life to helping lift the sorrows of mankind. He enrolled at Harvard, his father's alma mater, and after storming through his courses in two years,

27:21 And writing his dissertation on the League of Nations and disarmament, he graduated with honors in 1924. Shortly after, he married his Swiss-German sweetheart, Herta, whom he had known since they were both nine years old. Noel then applied to the U.S. Foreign Service, deciding with moral gravity that by far the most practical field in which an individual can

27:48 do his bit towards international understanding. In 1926, after passing the exams, Noel and Herta moved to Washington, D.C., where he began to work for the State Department. From the very beginning, Noel was an odd man in the world of the State Department, whose preppy officers liked to think of themselves as a pretty good club. Noel was bookish, and he betrayed a sentiment weakness to the left-wing causes of the day.

28:17 but the trial of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti to the bonus march of impoverished war veterans on Washington in 1932 that turned violent when General Douglas MacArthur unleashed his troops on the protesters. While other young Foreign Service officers were dining with their own kind in Washington-exclusive clubs, Noel

28:44 would frequent the Capitol's racially segregated theaters, where they sat with their black friends. The Fields also invited racially mixed people into their house. Although he did not join the Communist Party, Noel was intrigued by the Soviet Revolution, which he began to see as a world torn apart by war and greed and poverty. He taught himself Russian by listening to records. In a later era,

29:13 Noel and Herta would have been just another free-spirited couple with utopian dreams. But in Washington in the late 20s and 30s, and the growing misery of the Great Depression pushed the desperate and idealistic to extreme directions, Field was marked for trouble. In 1934, the couple fell in with a woman named Kitty Massing.

29:41 who turned out to be a Soviet intelligence agent. Noel began secretly passing information and copies of documents to her, but increasingly tormented by his dual loyalties, he decided to quit the State Department. In 1935, Noel moved to Geneva, where he took a job in the disarmament section of the League of Nations.

30:05 Field thought by returning to Switzerland, he could maintain an honorable neutrality for the rest of his career, which took Noel from the League of Nations post to humanitarian work on behalf of Nazi refugees from World War II. He convinced himself he would be in good company and serve his country at the same time. But in the end, he would be crushed between two forces. Both sides saw a dreamy field as a useful victim.

30:34 Earl Browder, leader of the U.S. Communist Party, would anoint him a stupid child in the woods. That's the same Earl Browder in charge of the Communist Party that is a relative of Bill Browder, the guy who went and tried to fleece the Soviet Union as it was falling down in the 1990s with Safra.

31:02 who ends up dead in his house, burning to death as the financier for Browder. Same family. So he starts off as the U.S. Communist Party chief and then pretends like he's not communist as he goes into the falling Soviet Union and tries to steal all their shit. As for Alan Dulles, the man...

31:32 who was so impressed by teenage Field's sincerity, he came to see him as just another little mice that could be used. Field volunteered to work for Dulles using his cover as a Unitarian Service Committee relief worker to transmit information back and forth across the Swiss border and to deliver packages of the OSS cash to resistant biters in France.

31:58 Noel was particularly useful as a conduit to the German communist underground. The field's foster daughter, Erica, also proved helpful for Dulles, bicycling guns and medicine to the border of France. It was clear that Noel's anti-fascist work had a communist tilt. In February of 1949, he arrived at the OSS office in Paris with Dulles' written blessing.

32:25 Field met the young OSS officer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the future historian and Kennedy White House aide. Field proposed that the OSS subsidize the recruitment of left-wing German refugees in France who would be dropped inside liberated areas of Germany where they could begin to establish a country's new political foundation. Schlesinger, a man of the left,

32:51 But an ardent anti-communist immediately sniffed out Field's proposal as a scheme to give the Soviet Union a head start. Schlesinger took a strong disliking to Field. Years later, he would describe him as a Quaker communist filled with idealism and smugness and sacrifice. Field exuded the arrogance of humility, Schlesinger said. In Schlesinger's estimation, he was less of a dangerous figure than a pathetic one.

33:21 His pious dedication to the Soviet cause did little damage to the interests of the U.S. Nonetheless, after his Paris meeting, Schlesinger strongly advised the USS against buying into Fields' scheme for post-war Germany. Dulles ended up funding Fields' project anyway, which later resulted in much ridicule from his counterparts in the British intelligence. Some observers have suggested that this is why later on,

33:51 Dulles was able to betray Field with such ease, spreading the lie that he was a secret agent behind the Iron Curtain for the Americans. But when Dulles decided to feed Noel Field to Stalin and then one at a time, his three family members, there was probably little spleen left, just cold calculation. After Noel dropped out of sight in Prague, his family implored Dulles to help. He had been a guest in the family's Zurich home.

34:20 Both Field and his father had put themselves at his service, but Dulles did nothing to rescue Field, and he did nothing to prevent Noel's family members from walking headlong into the same trap. Three months into the long ordeal, as a captive of Poland's Stalinist regime, Noel's brother, Herman, was taken from his cell for another round of grilling. This time, Herman's interrogator was someone like himself.

34:49 an academic. He seemed eager to help Herman out of his predicament. If only he would fully cooperate, there was no use in playing games any longer. Polish security knew that he and his brother were part of a conspiracy. Herman, a political innocent whose ideological ideology amounted to nothing more than a kind of do-gooder Quakerism, was utterly confused. He had no clue

35:18 about why he or his brother had fallen into this nightmare. But you're not talking sense, he told the inquisitor. What conspiracy? Tell me what I have done to you. Give me one example. The tweed man began pacing back and forth and suddenly he stopped and said, who is Alan Dulles? Mr. Field, tell me exactly. What were your contacts with Alan Dulles and what is the nature of your assignment for him? Herman's interrogator clearly thought,

35:48 That by abruptly invoking Allen Dulles' name, Field would finally crumble. But the question only served to deepen the confusion. Field had been too young to even remember meeting Dulles as a child. He had only a vague memory of his name. Herman tried to help, saying, there's a John Foster Dulles. That's the only one I'm aware of. He's some sort of advisor on foreign affairs. But the interrogator would have none of it.

36:20 He kept on badgering Herman hour after hour. I felt like I was in an insane asylum, Field later recalled. In fact, the mysterious Alan Dulles was at the center of Herman Field's ordeal. He just didn't know it. Operation Splinter Factor succeeded beyond the OPC's wildest dreams. Stalin became convinced that the Fields were at the center of a wide-ranging operation to infiltrate anti-Soviet elements.

36:47 into leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc. The Dulles-Whisner plot aggravated the Soviet premier's already rampant paranoia. It resulted in an epic reign of terror before it finally ran its course that would destroy the lives of untold numbers of people. Hundreds of thousands throughout Eastern Europe would be arrested. Many were tortured and executed.

37:13 In Czechoslovakia, where nearly 170,000 Communist Party members were seized as suspects in the make-believe field plot, the political crisis grew so severe that the economy nearly collapsed. Anyone whose life had been remotely touched by Noel Field during his war relief was subject to a sweeping purge. Many of the officials rounded up had been war heroes in their countries.

37:40 anti-fascist fighters who survived the nazi occupation only to be falsely accused as being a traitor by stalin's secret police thanks to alan dallas most victims were independent-minded nationalists the sort of leaders who you'd put your own people's interest ahead of the blind obedience to moscow but not traitors wisner exalted over each wave of arrest in each new round of show trials

38:10 where the accused were made to publicly condemn themselves before they were executed. The comrades are merely sticking knives into each other's back, Wisner wrote gleefully. The Office of Public Coordination men knew that many of the Splinter Factor victims were patriots who were beloved by their own people, but in the eyes of Dulles, this actually made them more dangerous. As one political observer of Splinter Factor said,

38:38 Dulles wished to leave Eastern Europe devoid of hope so that he could introduce a pro-American, anti-Soviet form of government. Nationalist communists were making communism acceptable to people, and it had to be removed. As a result of the rapidly spreading Inquisition, political dialogue in Eastern Europe was frozen. The screws of thought control were tightened. The cultural exchange and trade with the West was shut down.

39:07 But Dulles saw all of that as a positive development. Like the most rigid of Marxists, he believed that by increasing the suffering of Eastern enslaved populations, they would push back, they would be pushed to the breaking point and forced to revolt against the Soviet Union. But as the case with Soviet true believers who advocated heightening the contradiction in order to bring about a glorious revolution.

39:36 Operation Splinter Factor brought only more misery on the people of the Soviet bloc. Dulles would not live long enough to see the day of their liberation. Erika Wallach was freed from her Arctic gulag in 1954 after Stalin died and the field conspiracy was finally exposed behind the Iron Curtain for what it was, a devilishly clever Alan Dulles brainstorm.

40:05 She was released into the custody of Soviet secret police officials who apologized and offered her money and then took her to East Berlin, where she was put in a taxi over to the west side. She walked to freedom through the same Brandenburg Gate that had been the entry to her imprisonment. The fields to the other fields were released that same year. Herman returned to the U.S. where he began an ermine.

40:35 urban studies professor and pioneering studies at Tufts University and wrote novels. Noel and Herta shocked their family by staying in Hungary, where they quietly lived out the rest of their lives. For Noel, the personal betrayal by Dulles and his own country made it impossible for him to ever go back. He would never talk to me about the years in prison, Herman said, of his brother.

41:04 He dismissed the episode as a Stalinist aberration. Wallach was eager to reunite with her husband and her two children, although as much time has gone by, she was unsure how she would even join her family. It would take two years before the US authorities finally allowed her to enter the United States. Two years. She was in prison because of Alan Dulles, and then it took them two years to allow her.

41:34 to come to the United States. She said that she was continuously interrogated, not interviewed, interrogated. My visa was refused three times, even though I had an American husband and American children. The irony was not lost on her. The official mindset on both sides of the Cold War looking glass was remarkably the same. The American interrogators kept asking her the same questions that her Soviet counterparts had.

42:06 After she was finally allowed in the United States, Wallach settled into a comfortable life with her family. Her husband had begun a successful career in Washington, and they lived in a lush Virginia horse country, not far from the new international airport called Dulles Airport. Wallach taught French and Latin in a school called Highland School. Wallach wrote a book about her years in captivity.

42:35 but she didn't believe her ordeal bestowed any special distinction on her. From a European point of view, she said, this is rather common story. Years later, Wallach came to realize that Dulles had played some significant role in her suffering. Wallach had worked briefly for Dulles immediately after the war at the OSS base in Wiesbaden, Germany, where the spy agency had taken over the headquarters of a sparkling wine company.

43:04 Wallach was one of the few OSS women on Dulles' payroll at the time, and she had undoubtedly caught his eye. She had also worked for Frank Wisner at the winery, but neither man ever expressed any regret to what they did to her. A few months before she died in 1993, she recalled her story for a journalist who found his way to her house in Northern Virginia.

43:32 in the final stages of cancer, she would claim that she seemed to float above her own life in a way that gave her a clear perspective. So anyway, that's it. She would basically, she had such a disposition that she didn't harbor ill will. I'd wanna do something really bad to him. I'll just say that, like forever.

44:07 and I would make sure that everybody knew about it. She was much nicer about it than I would have been. Anyway, but she was at the end of her life getting ready to go to heaven, so I'm sure you would look at things differently at that point, but I wouldn't. I'd have never forgiven him. Okay, so that's the end of that chapter. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel, and thank everybody for attending here on Spaces and on Rumble.

44:44 As usual, we find Dulles being anything he can do to better his position and where he went. Now, the funny thing is I noticed here about Wallach and her family who settled in Warrington. She also became a member of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

45:15 And I wonder about that organization because I haven't done any research in it. But I think she stepped right back into a position that she didn't realize what was really going on. Yeah, I don't know anything about that organization. I don't either. So if anybody's got any information on it at this point, that's fine. Take whatever you got. Yeah. But it's unbelievable.

45:45 How he manipulates people and what happens. And then when she comes back, he has the nerve to think she's got any potential information while she's in a gulag. Yeah. The real dump, you know, the real kind of, you have to, they obviously wanted a confrontation.

46:19 with the Soviet Union. They wanted the Cold War. They wanted to keep the military-industrial complex spinning. And the only way you can do that is with a threat. And the propaganda that was created by this operation of how evil Stalin was by purging these people that he all thought

46:50 was part of a infiltration into the Soviet Union, resulted in tens of thousands of people being killed. And then Alan Dulles uses that purging of people that Alan Dulles made up as the mechanism to propagandize America on how cruel Stalin is.

47:20 And I'm not saying he's a good guy, but I am saying this is how manipulated the American population has been throughout all of this. Stalin didn't just go start slaughtering people. He did so based on a trick that Alan Dulles and Frank Wisner created. None of it was true. Illini, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, I think, you know.

47:51 Growing up in school, we learned that Stalin and the Soviets were totally paranoid. And then looking back, all of a sudden, some of the paranoia actually seems... Was legitimate? If you have an opponent like Alan Dulles or Reinhard Galen, the paranoia becomes more understandable.

48:17 But what I'm really fascinated by was Dulles' involvement in the 1948 Italian election, going to that hotel in Rome in March of 1948 and distributing cash to various quote-unquote agents. It kind of goes to your point about the Rockefellers being involved in all of that.

48:47 And the Paul Williams quote in his book saying that the Rockefellers underwrote it. And it's a statement that I believe, but it's a statement that I've tried to run all the way to the ground. And it's tricky doing it, but the involvement of the Dulles brothers gives you another hint that this was a Rockefeller operation. I really just wish that...

49:16 I think somewhere out there there's probably a smoking gun document. I just wish I was aware of it. And $35 million is the figure that is quoted on what they spent in interfering in the 1948 Italian election. I mean, you have to – I'm pretty sure I have an idea of who is at that hotel, those quote-unquote agents. They must have been – they must have had certain associations with a –

49:45 A certain recent Sicilian immigrant who landed there a couple years ago after being pardoned for work with the United States Navy. Meyer Lansky? No, no, I was thinking Lucky Luciano. You're right. I'm sorry. I got the wrong one. There's so many. Yeah, same guys. Just so many connections in this. Tom Karamasins, who worked for...

50:15 who was a prosecutor in New York City who prosecuted Lucky Luciano, or it was at least on the prosecution team, I think that was involving Thomas Dewey. That may have involved him. He winds up being chief of station in Rome in the 1960s. And then later becomes the head of operations for the CIA. And James Angleton was there. James Angleton was there too.

50:43 Oh, yeah. And all this public talk about Angleton running back to Dulles to worry about the rise of the communists and everything. All of a sudden, it feels a little bit more choreographed today. Yes. And to your point, just so that you guys know, after the use of the mafia in Sicily for the landing invasion there, the push through to northern Italy of the U.S. forces.

51:13 basically facilitated the reinvigoration of the mafia. Because now they're riding high. They had just saved Italy from Mussolini. And Mussolini had gotten rid of, for the most part, the mafia. He had held them in check. And so now they're everywhere.

51:36 And they were part of, if you read Paul Williams' book, and it talks about the one guy that was in Rome and Naples that basically took over the black market because goods were hard to get to. And he was taking military stuff and selling it on the black market. And so there's this huge reinvigoration of the mafia throughout.

52:05 which of course then turns into the P2 Lodge and all of that stuff. And so they have this complete, and so you know, I can physically or mentally see the distribution of this money through these mafia families to get people to vote certain ways in the election.

52:27 And you could see how you could spend that kind of money going around through all of these towns and villages in Italy telling everybody this is the way you're going to vote and here's your money to do it. Because they had an instant infrastructure to work with. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. You mentioned the OPC. And I'll give a quote of some information here from AI.

53:03 so to speak, okay? Concerns over the OPC's autonomy and potential to overshadow the CIA's primary intelligence role led to reforms. In April 51, President Truman established the Psychological Strategy Board to better coordinate U.S. psychological efforts. The OPC was fully merged with the OSO on August 1, 52.

53:33 forming the Directorate of Plans, later the Directorate of Operations. That's a name change, not a role change. Just so everybody understands that. And then they were moved into the CIA. Correct. With Frank Wisner in charge the entire time. Correct. Yep. All along, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. I just wanted to mention

54:03 in relationship to the field family. Another book that I read kind of about 15, 17 years ago, but I think would really, really be, you know, your group here is Allie in terms of investigating Gladio and how these, you know, the CIA is so good at making these myriad seemingly

54:32 well, definitely tangential, but very calculated connections with so many different religious groups of so many different flavors. You're like, you know, what the fuck is going on here? Which is sort of the idea. But the book is called, okay, the book is, of course, it's called A Certain Arrogance, The Sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald.

55:00 and the Wartime Manipulation of Religious Groups by U.S. Intelligence. Okay, emphasis again on the Wartime Manipulation of Religious Groups by U.S. Intelligence. The guy taught at Columbia for a while with this kind of book. I don't think he's going to stay there very long. Okay, the author's name is George Michael Avica. But basically, you know, the book is truly incredible in the sense of,

55:31 It looks into the field factor much, much more deeply. And also many other religious groups that the CIA is manipulating. And you're like, why would they do this with so many different religious groups? But one of the more interesting ones I'm reminded of is the American Unitarian Association, the Unitarian Service Committee and the Unitarian Supported.

56:02 albert schweitzer college um he he goes into that quite a lot and um it's interesting because lee harvey oswald you know he he bumps into this unitarian church in los angeles one day in 1959 and somehow out of nowhere he suddenly decides that he is going to albert schweitzer college which is purportedly in switzerland and um

56:30 This is when, remember, he's defecting on what we now know as a CIA false defector program in the Soviet Union. But the initial list, his destination is Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland. OK, so cut to 1964, January 1964, when the War Commission is investigating this so-called Albert Schweitzer College. Nobody in Switzerland had ever even heard of this college. Yet our Mr. Waldo over here.

56:58 I believe Harvey Oswald just happens to hear about it at a Unitarian church in Los Angeles in 1959, just before his defection. And finally, they discovered it to the Wildermen of the Swiss, which sometimes is a fake Wildermen, as we know. But nevertheless, the place closed down in January 1964. So what a hoity-doity.

57:25 that the Warren Commission finally located just as it was closing. So, you know, it's obviously some sort of a little intelligence little, little lint trap there or something weird is going on there. But regardless, this book goes into many different religions and how, and I think it'd be very relevant because, you know, for the Gladio group, because we've seen like, for example, how, you know, Sirhan and his brothers in Southern California were like, you know, going through religions like they were.

57:54 like underwear or something, and, you know, having so many different associations, that can in turn be used to confuse investigators and also get groups collaborating in the cover-up when they might not have had anything to do with the plan and just to avoid association, et cetera. But check out this book. It's truly incredible. Okay. Thank you. Hey, all along. Real quick. Hi, Colonel.

58:24 Yes. Hi. Please tell me when you said the sentence, when the Warren Commission was investigating something, you used air quotes around investigating, right? Yes, I did. Okay. You got to announce those air quotes when we don't have a video. Triple air quotes. Triple air quotes. Yeah. Colonel, you want me to address a couple of the other topics real quick? Sure, go ahead.

58:50 Going back to Illini and his smoking gun, how long have I been saying it? How many times have I said it? All roads lead to the Rockefellers. I'm not going to get to your smoking gun on that hotel, but, and I'd like to give a little bit of preview, I've been doing my homework and preparing for what the colonel and I are getting ready to kind of segue into, and we've got weeks and weeks of absolutely destroying, or just...

59:19 We're going to show you some things the Rockefellers did to tie an awful lot of things together. I just don't have that particular smoking gun on the hotel, but there's a lot there. And the other thing I was going to point out, and this is one of the very first conversations that Colonel and I ever had, what, three, four years ago, is we talked about Operation Underworld and how that connected to, you know, Dewey is the guy who prosecuted Luciano. Dewey's the guy that went there to, you know, send him in there to negotiate with Luciano.

59:48 to protect the docks in New York City, and that led to everything we know and the retaking of Sicily and everything like that. I'll never forget the conversation because it just made perfect sense that once organized crime becomes embedded in an organization, it never leaves. And you can actually see how once upon a time you used to have some honest congresspeople, you used to have real oversight, and over time it just kind of disappeared and drifted away.

1:00:18 It's almost a direct line in lineage from Operation Underworld where you can see that happening. We had corruption before, but it changes. And I'll share a few other observations another time. But this chapter is really good because it went back to some of these things. And I think I probably need to, because the chapter didn't go as deep into Truman's St. Louis gang. Right. I'm going to do a Twitter thread of that probably over the weekend. So that's a little.

1:00:47 I guess I'll hint at that a little bit. I think you all enjoyed that because the St. Louis gang of Truman is very important. Go ahead, Colonel. Go ahead, Illini. The fact that I always used to prove that the Rockefellers were running things is when Kissinger leaves office in 77, all of his highly classified documents that later he has to beg for declassification for from the CIA.

1:01:14 and the odds, you know, 25 years later, guess where it goes? This is on the Nixon Presidential Library's website. It goes to David A. Rockefeller's vault in upstate New York, not to the National Archives. It goes straight to David Rockefeller, president of Chase Bank. I just find that amazing. Not a shocker at all. And of course, Chase Manhattan Bank was always the Rockefeller Bank.

1:01:42 They now own J.P. Morgan, which is another story in and of itself, or they own each other, I guess. Now, that's not shocker at all. Have you heard me talk about the four horsemen of the Rockefellers? I haven't. Kissinger, Brzezinski, Klaus Schwab, and Maurice Strong. Those are the four horsemen of the Rockefellers from the 1960s. We're going to talk a lot about that period in 1971 especially because that's when this happened.

1:02:10 A major shift happens in 71. But for those who don't know, everyone knows who Klaus Schwab is. You all know who Brzezinski is. You all know who Kissinger is. But Maurice Strong was the Canadian oil guy who became a Rockefeller stooge, gets sent to the United Nations, and he's pretty much the father of the entire United Nations climate hoax bullshit. That is all Maurice Strong. He's one of the four horsemen. And when you tie those four together, and they're in a lot of places at the same time together,

1:02:40 So what Illini just said about going straight to the David Rockefeller. Yeah, we're going to get into a lot of that stuff very, very soon. So you're going to love this stuff. So since I have both Illini and Warhamster here today, I do want to share with you guys, no names, but you guys know I came down here and I was able to meet Illini for the first time. And also...

1:03:09 Illini has a friend that I was able to meet today, and he refers to Gold Warriors, the book, one of the first books we did on here, as his Bible, because this gentleman is intimately involved in gold. He's a diver.

1:03:38 I met him diving a wreck down here. And yeah, we went down to 130 feet. And of course, Warhamster is a diver as well. So this story is so crazy. So Illini is also a diver. He meets this guy. And this guy just happens to be down here in the Keys at the same time Illini and I are. And so we had...

1:04:06 brunch together today and so I'm talking and the only reason I ever found Gold Warrior the book was because of Warhamster. Warhamster and I's very first podcast ever after we got off the air we gave each other

1:04:25 I told him, and I don't even remember what I told him to go research, but he didn't do it. I went and researched. He told me to go research Gold Warriors. So I bought the book, I read it, and I was dumbfounded. And of course, we've done it on an earlier series of podcasts. And of course, it ties right into Operation Gladio. And so I explained to this gentleman and his wife what Operation Gladio was.

1:04:54 a media producer. Illini, do you remember any of the... She did Plandemic. She was part of Plandemic and what else? She was part of several independent movies. I'm a little bit concerned about OPSEC here. Okay. Well, we're not going to say their names. But anyway... She's involved in the media and they're working on some stuff and it could be an interesting...

1:05:24 There could be some interesting things happening. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. But anyway, I gave them our podcast at the Colonel's Corner over on Rumble just so they could kind of see some of the stuff that we've done. But it was fascinating. It was a wonderful opportunity to share this information with someone new. And I just love the fact that.

1:05:50 Illini found them diving and Warhamster is the one that told me about Golden Warrior and he's a diver. And the thing just came full circle for me. And it was so awesome that this just explains to you guys what I view as a family effort here with all of you guys. These things to me.

1:06:13 our affirmation that what we're doing is very, very important and meaningful in ways that we don't even understand right now. So I just, I love that story. And it's all because of what we're doing here that we all found each other and that we find other people that are influential people that have the ability to share this message in different.

1:06:38 um forums other than what we have and we just kind of breathe life into um this nefarious history that no one knows um on a daily basis so we'll just leave it as at that sr go ahead thank you colonel i'm going to step back to the rockefellers for a minute and all the research of war hamster is done and i think i'm moving to the top of my list a search and seizure on all the properties of

1:07:07 The Rockefellers, and we'll see what comes up. Especially that vault. Good luck finding them, my friend. They have basically been hiring politicians for more than a century to create the laws, so they basically create trusts and entities. I mean, their stuff is so hidden, it's ridiculous. You have no idea. They broke up.

1:07:34 They broke up Standard Oil, allegedly, but there's Rockefellers on the board of nine of the 12 biggest oil companies in the world. How does that happen? So, I mean, if we ever are able to unpeel that entire – oh, man, good luck with that one. That is a very complex onion. But, yeah, let's do it. Let's go get them. It's an illusion. It's an illusion. All along, go ahead. Yeah, speaking of our beloved Rockefeller brethren, Tom,

1:08:04 I'm just mulling recently the weirdness of the comedy festival that they had in Saudi Arabia fairly recently. They lowered a ton of U.S. comics out there for a comedy special with a gigantic amount of money was spent, obviously. And it just seems kind of strange that, you know,

1:08:35 For a while that there was tension, you know, in the 50s between the Saudi versus Zionist Israel faction in the State Department. And that disappeared, you know, with JFK's assassination, because now they could have their cake and eat it, too. And it's just like, I mean, there's a Zionist genocide going on in Israel. The neocon strategy, as far as I'm concerned, would seem to be like, let's.

1:09:05 use Israel as a headache ball to manipulate and change the entire Middle East and rebuild our fortifications among the Arab monarchies, you know, that have always been our allies. But meanwhile, you know, there's no way any of this psychotic Zionist genocide would be happening were it not for the CIA, you know,

1:09:36 Running Egypt, which was, you know, the most critical threat to the Rockefellers, Saudi Arabia. And as I've said myriad times, you know, that was taken care of with with the JFK assassination. But because by 1970, you know, Nasser was gone and he was the threat to national pan-Arabism. And he shared the oil wealth among the middle among the Arabs in the Middle East. And it's just it seems so. Meanwhile, on the fake U.S. left.

1:10:07 It's like the letter CIA may have left the alphabet because everything – and don't misunderstand me. I think that obviously I think they should be seething about the Zionist genocide and more power to them. But at the same time, they themselves are helping, in my opinion, preserve it by doing what? By making it seem like –

1:10:37 It's all Zionism, and, like, there's no CIA involved here. And what that does is it prevents, you know, a kind of broader left, I mean, if they were serious about being leftist, which they're not, you know, from looking at it as an imperialism, you know, American corporate interest, this little thing called the U.S. Navy keeping the Persian Gulf open sort of, you know, thing.

1:11:03 They completely erased the CIA in the entire Middle East, without which this is not happening. Ironically, the fake left has now started finally, after 40 years, talking about the JFK assassination, but only in terms of Israel did it. It's like everything that they could do to prevent an actual left of, like, in the sense of a group of, like, you know, putting...

1:11:31 our working class coalition together, is being blocked by, you know, what in my opinion is a psychotic argument of anti-Semitism, but one that is facilitated by, you know, the fake left only talking about Israel and just completely erasing Saudi Arabia, chop-chop central, and done by the Rockefellers. It's kind of, it's pretty darn weird.

1:11:59 And lastly, I just wanted to say regarding Rockefellers and their humility. We all know about that book by Colby and Dennett, which in my opinion is the best history book I've ever read. But there's another book by this guy, Cary. I think I've told you about it before, but it's by Cary Wright, R-E-I-C-H. And this one came out in 96, I think a year after the other one. And this was based on the first.

1:12:30 Harry Wright, R-E-I-C-H, he was the first one to go up at Pocantico, or whatever the hell you pronounce that. The David Rockefeller Library, right? He has this public library, which kind of operates a little bit like a national archive, but it's private. Right, and he was the first one in there, and as I've said before, you look at volume one of his book.

1:12:58 There was no volume two because he died on a book tour at age 48 of a heart attack. You read volume one and you tell me if you don't get suspicious palpitations palpitating about that heart attack, because this book is like it ends in 1958 and volume two would have gotten, you know, into, you know, 1963 and stuff. And that would have been awkward, really awkward.

1:13:28 But that was avoided because he died. But, yeah, that book is unbelievable, Carrie Wright. It's an absolutely must-read. Okay. Thank you all along.

1:13:43 I want to read one of the comments over here on YouTube. It says, one of the most important channels on YouTube, one day we'll be taught in grade school textbooks, the alternative American history. And I said, not alternative, the real history. Because hopefully, as a result of all that's going on right now, we are going to eventually get to our real history.

1:14:12 The true history, not the one that they made up for all of us to learn in school and in college and everywhere else. The approved history. So thanks to the YouTube audience here. Anybody else got anything? Oh, go ahead. Well, I just think it's a really important point you just made. You know, we're seeing all the, shall we say, drama going on in the quote unquote influencer world.

1:14:45 On Twitter and other places. That's why we try so hard to really hammer home on just things that are documentable. You know, this is factual information. Draw your own conclusions and not go running after every conspiracy theory until it actually checks out. I think it's so important because most of the people that have heard the colonel, myself and others talk about this stuff, you know, you're like a fraction.

1:15:16 of the population that's got more of an inquisitive mind. But the normies, quote-unquote, to be able to get them to see how badly they've been lied to, you've got to come with a very, very hard, factual argument. And everybody's got their own pain points. And you can start with, hey, the media lies. It lied us into World War II. It lied us into the Vietnam War, et cetera, weapons of mass destruction, et cetera.

1:15:46 That's just an example, but it's just so important to stick to what you can document when you're trying to convince the normies, because there's more of them than there are of us. Everybody listening to this has already got an open mind and pretty much sees the light. You understand, okay, there's a problem out there. It's the people who don't see it yet that we need to convince. And when you talk about the real history versus the fabricated one we've been taught, the only way you can break that narrative is with hard facts.

1:16:17 That's true. And just like I was on a podcast yesterday and the General Holt, the guy that I've been on a couple of podcasts with him, and he was talking about Eisenhower and his farewell speech. And I just happened to mention because he was doing it in more of a sympathetic way.

1:16:42 way that it was Eisenhower that used the CIA to overthrow Iran and Guatemala. And it was Eisenhower. And I didn't mention it on podcast because frankly, I had already made my point, but I did follow up in a post about the same day that speech was made, January 17th, 1961, was the same day that the CIA murdered.

1:17:11 Patrice Lumumba. And to say that Eisenhower had any regret of using the CIA to me is naive because he had, and you can make the argument that he wasn't in control or any of the same argument that they like to use with Reagan, but you can't have it both ways.

1:17:40 He is either the president and responsible for all of the activities. He could have fired Alan Dulles if he was doing something that he didn't want him to do, but he didn't. He just continued to give him the ability to do it. He didn't warn JFK about Alan Dulles. And as a result, he was left in place. So all of that is very relevant. If you want to look at history.

1:18:08 in a non-emotional, factual way. You have to actually deal with all the facts, whether they fit into your preconceived ideas or not. And I fully recognize being in the military, how difficult that is because so much of this is entwined in our military history. So just want to throw that out there. Illini, go ahead.

1:18:38 Just to follow up on Warhamster's comments, the difference between a conspiracy theory and a provable historical fact isn't what the media is reporting or isn't what's in the textbooks. It's defined by a credible primary source with a credible chain of custody. That is how you establish a provable historical fact. And if you have enough of those,

1:19:07 to back up your overall points, you're going to win the debate. And that's kind of the trick for doing research here. Agreed. All along, go ahead. Yeah, relating to the so-called normies and, you know, why they are still, you know, preserving this duopoly system that's so profoundly corrupt that it's a crime to send...

1:19:38 children in to learn about the three branches when they're just simply not the government anymore the reason is that this continues in my opinion is because it's like it second u.s secondary education right because you know we can all you know congratulate ourselves on how you know we're not fooled by you know this stuff you know until the cows come home but

1:20:07 The bottom line is, as far as I think the CIA and the government see it as, look, we have 100 percent of the population in U.S. secondary school. And that that really, really matters. And we're never, ever, ever going to surrender that because after kids graduate from high school, you know, as as.

1:20:37 As much as we might thumb our nose at, oh, my God, that's high school history. It actually really does matter because it's the last time anyone's on the same page. And, you know, you can read this about Nelson Rockefeller when you're 37 and I can read it when I'm 62. But in order for things to change, people have to kind of be talking about that. They have to be on the same page. Right.

1:21:05 So the reason the legacy media still exists is because on all of this stories that the so-called left or this or for that matter, libertarian, you know, could use to just utterly decimate NBC, CBS, New York Times. They never go for those stories. They always they you know, and it's not to say that they don't look at other important things, but they never go big game hunting.

1:21:34 They never look at the stories that could end NBC, such as the interest to JFK and the complete and utter complicity of legacy media in the cover up. They never do that. They're actually the preservers of legacy media. And that in turn creates this tremendous gulf between U.S. secondary education. That's it's just like fumigation right now as far as.

1:22:04 100% corporate narrative with Spectrum and Comcast. They're served 100% of the population in secondary school, paid for by public dimes, and the so-called socialists never say a word about it because if they do, there goes their funding for their podcast. So the alternative media is ironically the best protection of the legacy media.

1:22:30 which creates all of these normies because it's the last time everybody's on the same page. Yeah, I agree. Okay. Did anybody want to add anything else? Hello? City Zen? Yes. Good. I don't know if it's afternoon that way. I am new to this platform and I'm very happy to be here, Colonel. Actually, I am from Africa.

1:23:04 And I was not really invested into world politics because I would say maybe my naive nature. I usually think that maybe what's happening elsewhere so far is not impacting me directly. I don't care. But when I moved to Europe and I started following a little bit of European politics.

1:23:31 and a little bit of american politics i came across this a youtube podcaster redacted and fortunately for me that day they had they had you on and you were talking about the operation clouds you and the the implication on the implication of the operation glad you on the death of patrice lumumba

1:23:59 So my country, I'm a neighbor to Congo, and back in the days, I used to always think that Francis Lumumba was killed by the Belgians. And so I never knew that there was, it was a whole conspiracy that was actually attached to, I don't know if, yeah, let me just put it in my innocent way, that was attached to the U.S. intelligence service.

1:24:27 I was totally shocked. And there is a book that I don't know if you're the one who presented that day. I don't remember the name of the book. I really wanted to get in touch with that book and read it. So from that day, I started investing into American foreign politics. And I made my own research and I started knowing things. And especially this.

1:24:55 ongoing chaos in Iran and the war in Gaza. I started seeing things clearly and I was totally shocked by what has been happening throughout time. I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for what you are doing and I keep making my research and I'm actually learning a lot and it is thanks to you that I actually went into this rapid war and ever since I'm just

1:25:22 My mind is totally blown out. Thank you very much. Sure. Sure. Thank you for coming up. You're welcome. Did anybody else have anything that they wanted to add? No? All right. What an exciting time to be alive. That's all I got to say. Yeah. Definitely that.

1:25:56 Okay, let's see. I'm just having fun watching all this NATO stuff play out now and what's going on. It's just unbelievable what they think they can get away with. I agree. I agree 100% with that. And, you know, the worst thing that we could do to hurt my feelings is to leave NATO.

1:26:25 You've seen some really fun pieces coming out of the quote-unquote military think tanks. We could probably do a show over the weekend on some of the garbage nonsense coming out of that. But we all know who pays for those think tanks. But the transatlantic version of it is, I think, worse. The Anglo-American or the NATO think tanks, I think, are even worse than the ones we have here that are just domestic.

1:26:54 It's pretty hysterical. I mean, I've got a bunch of them bookmarked, you know, the major sites. But some of the stuff they are saying today, it's pure panic. You can almost feel the panic coming off the pages. Yes. And it's glorious. It's glorious. Because they see their cake being taken away from them. Yeah, the gravy train. I mean, that's a lot of money that was going, funneling through these people. Yep. All right.

1:27:26 I agree with that 100% war hamster because they can't figure out who to protect. Do we protect ourselves? Do we protect Greenland? Who do we protect? Well, let me just – because this ties into what the colonel was talking about in this chapter. Colonel, can I go on for about two minutes real quick? Sure. To get a point home. So one of the things you saw with these cold warriors is the early versions of them were still kind of not sold on internationalism.

1:27:55 And that you see the shift throughout the 50s, 60s, and into the 70s. They all became internationalists. And I'm careful when I use those terms. And we'll go over this later. But when the Carnegie Endowment for International War was founded, it was very crystal clear that they wanted to end all conflict. And the only way to do that was to end the nation state, end all governments. That's been the 100-plus year plan, big picture. And the Cold Warriors...

1:28:22 came around to that, and maybe the money flew. We'll talk about how that happened. But going back to the formation of NATO, they weren't about, you know, NATO was not originally supposed to be something to forward the goal of the internationalists, and now it is. And that's really, I think, a huge part of the story. But we're going to spend months on that topic.

1:28:50 So I'm going to push back a little bit as far as the goal of NATO. NATO, with all of their infused Nazis at the origins of NATO, was a instrument that just furthered the Fabians' original goal of one world government. And it was going to be used to create those sectors of...

1:29:17 Pan-America, Pan-Europe, and all of those other things, to your point, to make us a nationless world in order to institute one world government. But I do believe not the overt nature of NATO, but the covert nature of it was certainly that because that's why they housed Operation Gladio, their paramilitary soldiers.

1:29:45 in nato to carry out that global vision because gladio was never isolated just to nato they were used all over the world so so that wasn't actually pushback that that's agreement and what you just described is specifically how they were able to sell the original cold warriors because these politicians in america weren't part of that great plan yet these people like truman were not

1:30:13 They had to be brought along over the next few decades. And how those two worldviews melded, and you make a brilliant point about, and where did we find this originally? The five different sectors of the world, you know, Eurasia versus, you know, the Americana. They tried to give us, you know, the Americano currency, all that stuff. There's some document that first describes that, and I'm struggling to remember what it is.

1:30:41 But it took time to meld those two worldviews together, and that's what we're fighting against today. Yeah, I agree. Illini, go ahead. Yeah, Warhammer. There's a hysterical article by Walter Trohan in the Chicago Tribune from about 1948 or 49, where he basically calls out these globalist do-gooders between the Rockefellers, the Dulles brothers, trying to form the UN.

1:31:11 And knowing that there's this whole constellation of different people who are trying to foster global cooperation. And that's, you know, what's really going on behind the scenes. They did all this link analysis on it back in 48 or 49. But the point is, is that you've got Rockefeller's fingerprints all over the formation of NATO and certainly all over the U.N.

1:31:36 I mean, he donated the site. Yeah. And he's he's. Yeah. If you were to accuse him in 48 or 49 of supporting the United Nations, Rockefeller would raise his hand and say guilty as charged. Yeah. Let's take it back. Let's take it back to the League of Nations. The first attempt. It's you see the same darn people, same darn foundations. Yeah. All roads lead to the Rockefellers.

1:32:06 So by the time Rockefeller gets his man into, you know, Kissinger, you know, into the White House, it seems at that point he's basically won, you know, on internationalism. Agreed. And that's why, like I said, we're going to really go into detail on this stuff. But 1971 is the magic year. All right, guys, I got to run. I got a six o'clock to do with the book club over on Badlands Media. We're going to go through chapter three.

1:32:38 Of this stolen election book. And if I have to do it. You guys have to do it with me. Because it's so. Mind numbing. To actually go through this book. It's killing me. So I'm just going to share my pain with you. So anyway. Thanks for being here everybody. Appreciate it. Take care. We'll be back tomorrow.

Entities here

Allen Dulles57 Noel Field25 Soviet Union23 Frank Wisner17 Harry S. Truman13 Joseph Stalin12 Herta Field12 Erica Glasser Wallach11 CIA10 David Rockefeller10 Erika Wallach10 Thomas Dewey9 United States8 Switzerland8 James Forrestal7 Italy6 Operation Splinter Factor6 Mafia6 Poland5 North Atlantic Treaty Organization5 West Germany5 Rockefeller Foundation5 Dwight D. Eisenhower4 France4 Cary Reich4 League of Nations4 Prague4 Henry Kissinger4 Office of Policy Coordination4 Saudi Arabia3 West Berlin3 Eastern Soviet Union3 United Nations3 Sullivan & Cromwell3 Arthur Schlesinger Jr.3 Operation Gladio3 James Jesus Angleton3 Warren Commission3 Lee Harvey Oswald3 Gold Warriors3

Claims made here

Erica Glasser Wallach spied_on SED book_quoted ▶ 2:04

“the young German-born woman left behind her husband, a former U.S. Army captain by the name of Robert Wallach. He was studying in Paris, and they had two very small children. She was fearful when she …”

Noel Field recruited Erica Glasser Wallach book_quoted ▶ 3:04

“Wallach was now determined to find out what happened to Fields, a family that had rescued her during the war when she was 17 years old and a refugee from Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain. Noel and Hert…”

Erica Glasser Wallach covered_up Noel Field book_quoted ▶ 3:04

SED covered_up Erica Glasser Wallach book_quoted ▶ 3:34

“when her parents fled to England. Wallach now felt on her own to track down the missing family. When Wallach asked to see her old war comrades at the SED headquarters, she was told they were not avail…”

Erica Glasser Wallach covered_up Vorkuta book_quoted ▶ 4:05

“please come around the corner. She didn't even bother to turn around. For the next five years, Wallach would suffer harsh imprisonment, first in Berlin's prison, which she christened the House of Horr…”

Herta Field covered_up Poland book_quoted ▶ 7:02

“and subject to torture, beatings, sleep deprivations, and endless interrogations. Noel's brother, Herman Field, who was an architect professor, suffered less vicious treatment after he was grabbed by …”

Allen Dulles spied_on Erica Glasser Wallach book_quoted ▶ 8:00

“apparently trivial happenings affect a human being? During the harsh interrogations to which all four members of the Field family were subjected, including Erica Wallach, one name kept coming up. How …”

Allen Dulles member_of Sullivan & Cromwell book_quoted ▶ 8:27

“Field was taken prisoner in Czechoslovakia in 1949. It had been nearly four years since Alan Dulles occupied the official position with U.S. intelligence. After the war, Dulles had returned to the fol…”

Allen Dulles member_of CFR book_quoted ▶ 11:23

“Dulles was elected president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a group whose membership of prominent businessmen and policymakers played a key role in the Cold War and its creation. Dulles would hu…”

Allen Dulles founded CIA book_quoted ▶ 11:53

“In April 1947, he was asked by the Senate Armed Services Committee to present his ideas on a strong centralized intelligence agency. His memo would help frame the legislation that created the CIA. Des…”

Thomas Dewey appointed Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 12:48

“overwhelmingly predicted that Dewey would win because President Truman was a political hack for Missouri and didn't have any of the influence that Dewey had. Dewey had already picked out his drapes fo…”

James Forrestal appointed Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 15:17

“Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, a former Wall Street investment baker at Dylan Reed, who had moved in Dulles' circles and who shared Dulles' suspicions on the Soviet Union. In early 1948, Forres…”

Allen Dulles headed Dulles-Jackson-Correa Committee book_quoted ▶ 15:46

“year-old CIA and proposed ways to make it effective. The so-called Dulles-Jackson-Coria committee, over which Dulles quickly assumed control, allowed him to roam freely through the halls of the new in…”

Allen Dulles funded Christian Democracy (Italy) book_quoted ▶ 16:42

“Dulles and Forrestal didn't wait for the report to be finished before taking action. In March of 1948, James Angleton flew back from Rome to meet with Dulles, warning his mentor that Italy's Communist…”

Allen Dulles founded National Committee for a Free Europe book_quoted ▶ 19:11

“but Allen would find ways to stay in the spy game. In June of 1949, Dulles organized the National Committee for a Free Europe in conjunction with an illustrious board that included General Dwight D. E…”

National Committee for a Free Europe front_for CIA book_quoted ▶ 19:40

“The committee was actually a CIA front that channeled funds to anti-communist European immigrants and financed major propaganda efforts at Radio Free Europe, which was also a CIA front. At least $2 mi…”

Allen Dulles laundered_money_for National Committee for a Free Europe book_quoted ▶ 19:40

Radio Free Europe front_for CIA book_quoted ▶ 19:40

Allen Dulles founded Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted ▶ 20:09

“The Nazi treasure, looted from Jewish families and German-occupied nations, had become a key funding source for Dulles' secret operations. Private citizen Dulles further spread his influence by insert…”

Allen Dulles appointed Frank Wisner book_quoted ▶ 20:09

Frank Wisner headed Office of Policy Coordination book_quoted ▶ 20:40

“and buried it in the State Department's bureaucracy called the Office of Policy Coordination, which of course is where Frank Wisner was placed. It was kind of a combative agency that Dulles envisioned…”

Office of Policy Coordination carried_out_attack Soviet Union book_quoted ▶ 21:09

“threw itself into the black arts of espionage, including sabotage, subversion, and assassination. By 1952, the Office of Public Coordination was running 47 overseas stations, and its staff had balloon…”

Frank Wisner spied_on Noel Field book_quoted ▶ 23:56

“Wisner had acquired a high-place double agent inside the Polish security service, a man named Joseph Switzlow. He would be told to spread the word all the way from Warsaw to Moscow that Field is actua…”

Allen Dulles founded Operation Splinter Factor book_quoted ▶ 25:20

“into launching witch hunts that would fracture the communist government throughout Eastern Europe. As with all bold counterintelligence gambits he undertook during his career, Dulles threw himself int…”

Allen Dulles recruited Herbert Haviland Field book_quoted ▶ 25:50

“Dulles had first met Fields in Switzerland during World War I when he tried to recruit Noel's father, Herbert Haviland Field, which was a Harvard-educated, internationally renowned zoologist who ran a…”

Noel Field spied_on Kitty Massing book_quoted ▶ 29:41

“who turned out to be a Soviet intelligence agent. Noel began secretly passing information and copies of documents to her, but increasingly tormented by his dual loyalties, he decided to quit the State…”

Noel Field member_of League of Nations book_quoted ▶ 29:41

Earl Browder member_of French Communist Party book_quoted ▶ 30:34

“Earl Browder, leader of the U.S. Communist Party, would anoint him a stupid child in the woods. That's the same Earl Browder in charge of the Communist Party that is a relative of Bill Browder, the gu…”

Allen Dulles recruited Noel Field documented ▶ 31:32

“who was so impressed by teenage Field's sincerity, he came to see him as just another little mice that could be used. Field volunteered to work for Dulles using his cover as a Unitarian Service Commit…”

Noel Field member_of Unitarian Service Committee documented ▶ 31:32

Noel Field proposed Arthur Schlesinger Jr. documented ▶ 32:25

“Field met the young OSS officer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the future historian and Kennedy White House aide. Field proposed that the OSS subsidize the recruitment of left-wing German refugees in France…”

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. exposed Noel Field documented ▶ 32:51

“But an ardent anti-communist immediately sniffed out Field's proposal as a scheme to give the Soviet Union a head start. Schlesinger took a strong disliking to Field. Years later, he would describe hi…”

Allen Dulles funded Noel Field documented ▶ 33:21

“His pious dedication to the Soviet cause did little damage to the interests of the U.S. Nonetheless, after his Paris meeting, Schlesinger strongly advised the USS against buying into Fields' scheme fo…”

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. covered_up Noel Field documented ▶ 33:21

Allen Dulles betrayed Herta Field host_asserted ▶ 33:51

“Dulles was able to betray Field with such ease, spreading the lie that he was a secret agent behind the Iron Curtain for the Americans. But when Dulles decided to feed Noel Field to Stalin and then on…”

Allen Dulles betrayed Noel Field host_asserted ▶ 33:51

Herta Field spied_on Poland documented ▶ 34:20

“Both Field and his father had put themselves at his service, but Dulles did nothing to rescue Field, and he did nothing to prevent Noel's family members from walking headlong into the same trap. Three…”

Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack Noel Field documented ▶ 36:20

“He kept on badgering Herman hour after hour. I felt like I was in an insane asylum, Field later recalled. In fact, the mysterious Alan Dulles was at the center of Herman Field's ordeal. He just didn't…”

Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack Erika Wallach documented ▶ 36:47

“into leadership positions throughout the Eastern Bloc. The Dulles-Whisner plot aggravated the Soviet premier's already rampant paranoia. It resulted in an epic reign of terror before it finally ran it…”

Operation Splinter Factor carried_out_attack Herta Field documented ▶ 36:47

Joseph Stalin ordered_assassination_of Noel Field host_asserted ▶ 37:13

“In Czechoslovakia, where nearly 170,000 Communist Party members were seized as suspects in the make-believe field plot, the political crisis grew so severe that the economy nearly collapsed. Anyone wh…”

Frank Wisner exposed Operation Splinter Factor documented ▶ 38:10

“where the accused were made to publicly condemn themselves before they were executed. The comrades are merely sticking knives into each other's back, Wisner wrote gleefully. The Office of Public Coord…”

Erika Wallach released Soviet Union documented ▶ 39:36

“Operation Splinter Factor brought only more misery on the people of the Soviet bloc. Dulles would not live long enough to see the day of their liberation. Erika Wallach was freed from her Arctic gulag…”

Herta Field released Soviet Union documented ▶ 40:05

“She was released into the custody of Soviet secret police officials who apologized and offered her money and then took her to East Berlin, where she was put in a taxi over to the west side. She walked…”

Noel Field released Hungary documented ▶ 40:35

“urban studies professor and pioneering studies at Tufts University and wrote novels. Noel and Herta shocked their family by staying in Hungary, where they quietly lived out the rest of their lives. Fo…”

Erika Wallach worked_for Allen Dulles documented ▶ 42:35

“but she didn't believe her ordeal bestowed any special distinction on her. From a European point of view, she said, this is rather common story. Years later, Wallach came to realize that Dulles had pl…”

Erika Wallach worked_for Frank Wisner documented ▶ 43:04

“Wallach was one of the few OSS women on Dulles' payroll at the time, and she had undoubtedly caught his eye. She had also worked for Frank Wisner at the winery, but neither man ever expressed any regr…”

Rockefeller Foundation funded 1948 Italian election book_quoted ▶ 48:47

“And the Paul Williams quote in his book saying that the Rockefellers underwrote it. And it's a statement that I believe, but it's a statement that I've tried to run all the way to the ground. And it's…”

Allen Dulles funded 1948 Italian election host_asserted ▶ 49:16

“I think somewhere out there there's probably a smoking gun document. I just wish I was aware of it. And $35 million is the figure that is quoted on what they spent in interfering in the 1948 Italian e…”

Thomas Dewey prosecuted Lucky Luciano host_asserted ▶ 50:15

“who was a prosecutor in New York City who prosecuted Lucky Luciano, or it was at least on the prosecution team, I think that was involving Thomas Dewey. That may have involved him. He winds up being c…”

Mafia reinvigorated_by United States host_asserted ▶ 50:43

“Oh, yeah. And all this public talk about Angleton running back to Dulles to worry about the rise of the communists and everything. All of a sudden, it feels a little bit more choreographed today. Yes.…”

Benito Mussolini suppressed Mafia documented ▶ 51:13

“basically facilitated the reinvigoration of the mafia. Because now they're riding high. They had just saved Italy from Mussolini. And Mussolini had gotten rid of, for the most part, the mafia. He had …”

Harry S. Truman established Psychological Strategy Board documented ▶ 53:03

“so to speak, okay? Concerns over the OPC's autonomy and potential to overshadow the CIA's primary intelligence role led to reforms. In April 51, President Truman established the Psychological Strategy…”

Frank Wisner headed CIA Directorate of Plans documented ▶ 53:33

“forming the Directorate of Plans, later the Directorate of Operations. That's a name change, not a role change. Just so everybody understands that. And then they were moved into the CIA. Correct. With…”

Lee Harvey Oswald associated_with Albert Schweitzer College guest_asserted ▶ 56:02

“albert schweitzer college um he he goes into that quite a lot and um it's interesting because lee harvey oswald you know he he bumps into this unitarian church in los angeles one day in 1959 and someh…”

Warren Commission investigated Albert Schweitzer College documented ▶ 56:30

“This is when, remember, he's defecting on what we now know as a CIA false defector program in the Soviet Union. But the initial list, his destination is Albert Schweitzer College in Switzerland. OK, s…”

Operation Underworld involved Lucky Luciano host_asserted ▶ 59:19

“We're going to show you some things the Rockefellers did to tie an awful lot of things together. I just don't have that particular smoking gun on the hotel, but there's a lot there. And the other thin…”

Henry Kissinger transferred_documents_to David Rockefeller host_asserted ▶ 1:00:47

“I guess I'll hint at that a little bit. I think you all enjoyed that because the St. Louis gang of Truman is very important. Go ahead, Colonel. Go ahead, Illini. The fact that I always used to prove t…”

David Rockefeller headed Chase Manhattan Bank documented ▶ 1:01:14

“and the odds, you know, 25 years later, guess where it goes? This is on the Nixon Presidential Library's website. It goes to David A. Rockefeller's vault in upstate New York, not to the National Archi…”

Maurice Strong founded United Nations host_asserted ▶ 1:02:10

“A major shift happens in 71. But for those who don't know, everyone knows who Klaus Schwab is. You all know who Brzezinski is. You all know who Kissinger is. But Maurice Strong was the Canadian oil gu…”

Maurice Strong member_of United Nations host_asserted ▶ 1:02:10

Cary Reich member_of David Rockefeller host_asserted ▶ 1:12:30

“Harry Wright, R-E-I-C-H, he was the first one to go up at Pocantico, or whatever the hell you pronounce that. The David Rockefeller Library, right? He has this public library, which kind of operates a…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower overthrew Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:16:42

“way that it was Eisenhower that used the CIA to overthrow Iran and Guatemala. And it was Eisenhower. And I didn't mention it on podcast because frankly, I had already made my point, but I did follow u…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower overthrew Guatemala host_asserted ▶ 1:16:42

Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba host_asserted ▶ 1:16:42

Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Allen Dulles host_asserted ▶ 1:17:40

“He is either the president and responsible for all of the activities. He could have fired Alan Dulles if he was doing something that he didn't want him to do, but he didn't. He just continued to give …”

Belgium assassinated Patrice Lumumba caller_asserted ▶ 1:23:59

“So my country, I'm a neighbor to Congo, and back in the days, I used to always think that Francis Lumumba was killed by the Belgians. And so I never knew that there was, it was a whole conspiracy that…”

North Atlantic Treaty Organization funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:29:17

“Pan-America, Pan-Europe, and all of those other things, to your point, to make us a nationless world in order to institute one world government. But I do believe not the overt nature of NATO, but the …”

Walter Trohan exposed David Rockefeller host_asserted ▶ 1:30:41

“But it took time to meld those two worldviews together, and that's what we're fighting against today. Yeah, I agree. Illini, go ahead. Yeah, Warhammer. There's a hysterical article by Walter Trohan in…”

Walter Trohan exposed Allen Dulles host_asserted ▶ 1:30:41

David Rockefeller funded North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted ▶ 1:31:11

“And knowing that there's this whole constellation of different people who are trying to foster global cooperation. And that's, you know, what's really going on behind the scenes. They did all this lin…”

David Rockefeller funded United Nations host_asserted ▶ 1:31:36

“I mean, he donated the site. Yeah. And he's he's. Yeah. If you were to accuse him in 48 or 49 of supporting the United Nations, Rockefeller would raise his hand and say guilty as charged. Yeah. Let's …”