The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b)

auto-scroll word highlight ▶ Rumble @ here

Transcript

0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel. Good afternoon, SR. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you? Good, good. You getting a lot of Jimmy time? He's here right now. Yay! I had to run in here and get the show started, so he was taking a nap. John just replaced me, but I heard him out there, so he's up from his nap.

0:28 Well, keep an eye on Maverick. He started in my dreams last night for some reason. Well, he went to the beauty shop today. Oh. He's all spiffy with his nice little, what do you call those, bandana ties on. Yeah, he's looking sharp. Dapper Dan. Dapper Dan. Yep. All right. We're going to get started. Okay.

1:00 So we're still on the scoundrel time. And that is finishing up chapter eight. We are talking about Richard Nixon. By 1952, Richard Nixon's triumph. My daughter's here to get the baby. Richard Nixon's triumph as a Cold War inquisitor had won him the number two spot on the Republican presidential ticket headed by war hero, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1:31 But on September 29th, Drew Pearson, Washington's leading muckraker, dropped a bombshell on Nixon, one of his favorite targets. That briefly threatened to end his political career. The story was part of a larger theme of corruption that reporters like Pearson believed hovered over Nixon's career. Nixon, the humble son of Whittier, always seemed hungry for ways to profit from his public service.

1:59 Earlier in the race, Pearson had discovered Nixon's wealthy Southern California supporters had set up a slush fund for the Republicans' personal use, a revelation that nearly forced a VP candidate to resign as Eisenhower's running mate. It took Nixon's brilliantly homespun TV address to the nation, which would go down in history as the Checkers speech.

2:25 after the black and white cocker spaniel that had been given to Nixon's daughter by a supporter to preempt the budding scandal and save his political career. Quote, and you know the kids love the dog, Nixon told the audience, and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what you say about it, we're going to keep it, unquote. His shameless performance managed to transform a case of blatant political corruption

2:54 into a domestic drama that touched the hearts of millions. Nixon's enormous relief was shared by the GOP power brokers who had picked him for the race. It was the Dulles Dewey Group that had tapped Nixon for vice president. Their decision was conveyed to Eisenhower by Herbert Brownell Jr., a fellow Wall Street attorney who had taken a leave from his blue chip.

3:21 firm to run the Republican campaign for the White House. The GOB brain trust convinced the aging general that the young senator from California not only brought regional balance to the ticket, but the kind of slashing energy and anti-communist fervor that the campaign needed. By now, in the final weeks of the presidential contest,

3:52 Pearson was again on the verge of blowing up Nixon's career. Reporting in his widely syndicated Washington merry-go-round column, Pearson revealed that the VP candidate had left out something very important from his checker speech, namely his crooked relationship with a Romanian industrialist named Nicolae Malaxa, M-A-L-A-X-A. The wealthy Romanian immigrant had

4:20 collaborated with the Nazis during the war and later with communist regimes that took over his homeland. But Mille Lacs' reputation, Pearson reported, did not discredit him with Senator Nixon. He was intimately involved in the CIA operation that went on in Romania as well. Pearson reported, let's see, but

4:53 Melaxa's, let's see, where'd I go? Senator Nixon, who pulled strings on his behalf to allow him to continue living in the U.S. and procure a major tax break for him. Pearson knew that Nixon had performed these favors for Melaxa in return for an impressive bribe. But lacking the document, the columnist had to leave out that crucial piece of information.

5:21 There was indeed a smoking gun, a $100,000 check from Malaxa deposited in Nixon's Whittier bank account, but Pearson was unable to get his hands on it. In a twist of bad luck for Nixon, one of the tellers at the bank branch turned out to be a Romanian refugee who loathed Malaxa. He sent a photostatic copy of the check to political rivals on the notorious industrialists.

5:50 in the exile community, who in turn forwarded the copy of the check to their contact in the CIA, Gordon Mason, chief of agency's Balkans desk. By fall of 1952, Allen Dulles was the number two man at the CIA and was in line to take over the agency in the Eisenhower-Nixon victory. As deputy director, Dulles was already making the agency his own, working with loyal associates like Frank Wisner.

6:20 who would soon take over the action arm on ways to escalate the covert war in the Eastern Bloc. But the ambitious plans that Dulles and Wisner were hatching for a long-awaited Republican presidency suddenly seemed in peril when Gordon Mason walked into Wisner's office with a copy of the check. Wisner's response was, Jesus Christ, we'd better see Alan Dulles.

6:49 As he had long demonstrated, Frank Wisner was quite willing to recruit from the ranks of the fascists for his espionage operations in Eastern Europe, many of whom he had even passed immigration authorities in order to get them into the United States, just like we've been saying all along, despite their barbaric wartime records.

7:16 But Wisner, somewhat mysteriously, had insisted on drawing the line at Nikolai Malaksa, whom he considered a particularly unsavory character. He wasn't even bad enough, or he was too much for even the CIA to put their stamp of approval on. In March of 1951, CIA memo, Wisner had even urged that Malaksa

7:46 who had finagled his way into the United States after the war as part of a Romanian trade delegation, be deported. Wisner had served as the OSS station chief in Romania, and he considered the country his turf. He was acutely sensitive to the factions and feuds within the Romanian exile community, where Malaxa provoked feelings passionate enough to tear apart their united front.

8:13 in the U.S., which they used as an advocacy group in order to further the CIA's operations. Despite Wisner's feelings, he realized that Alan Dulles was deeply implicated in the Romanian unsavory story. Dulles had not only been Malaxa's lawyer, he had introduced him to Nixon. The Malaxa money trail, in fact, led in many...

8:42 compromising directions, including Nixon's bank account, Dulles' law firm, the CIA front organization called National Committee for Free Europe, and even some of Wisner's own secret combat groups. The Romanian industrialists who reportedly stashed away as much as $500 million, which would be the equivalent of $6.5 million today.

9:13 in overseas bank accounts before he fled to the U.S. had made himself extremely useful as a shadow financier in the CIA's underground network. Malaxa was the type of scoundrel with whom Dulles enjoyed doing business. The Romanian oligarch had no ideology. He believed only in opportunity. He had some witty sense of humor and

9:42 The looks, and this is so ironic, of a dashing werewolf. Isn't that interesting? A dashing werewolf, considering he was helping fund werewolf units, at least their follow-on. He conducted himself with a cynical European confidence that everyone had a price, greasing his way through life by smoothly slipping cash to all the right people.

10:13 Bribery came so naturally to him that he once tried to buy off the dedicated Immigration and Nationalization Service prosecutor who was handling his case. A man to Mille Lacs' great surprise turned it down. He began his career in a modest fashion. He was a locomotive repairman, but he had a talent for making connections and opening doors.

10:38 Soon he had amassed a small fortune as a manufacturer of railroad equipment. In the 1920s, he and his family moved into a mansion in Bucharest, where he entertained capital's high society and befriended the mistress of King Carol II, Madame Magda Lopescu.

11:02 In a Game of Thrones-like move, he cemented his royal connections by arranging for his own daughter to become the mistress of the king's son, Prince Michael. By forging a partnership with the king, who proved equally vicarious, Malaxa became the dominant player in the country's steel, munitions, and oil industries.

11:29 In the 1930s, as Hitler built his war machine in Germany, King Carol's rule came under increasing pressure from homegrown fascist movements like the Iron Guard. The veritably anti-Semitic organization blamed Jews for Romania's woes and targeted prominent Jewish figures like Madame Lopesco.

12:02 the mistress. Despite the debt he owed the king's mistress for her patronage, the ever opportunistic Malaxa began currying favor with the Iron Guard as the group grew more powerful, financing its activities and flying its flag from the roof of his mansion. In September 1940, the Iron Guard forced King Carol to abdicate and a pro-German fascist government took over.

12:29 With Hitler's influence expanding into Romania, Malaxas made another move, merging his industrial empire with that of Hermann Göring's brother Albert. Your interests, my dear Mr. Malaxas, are the same as ours, the Nazi industrialists assured him. In January of 1941, Malaxa green-uniformed Iron Guard thugs feeling betrayed by Romania's new fascist government.

12:59 launched a coup attempt using the industrialist mansion as a base. During the coup, the Iron Guard fell upon the country's Jews in one of the most horrific violence in Romanian history. Thousands of Jews in Bucharest were rounded up, beaten, tortured, including a group of more than 100, among them children as young as five. They were marched into a slaughterhouse and butchered.

13:25 The Iron Guardsmen hung their victims still alive on meat hooks. We talked about this on Alpha Show when we were talking about the beginnings of the Eastern Europe group that was brought over into the United States by the CIA. It include Ukrainian Nazi sympathizers, Romania.

13:52 Hungary, Albania, Alan Dulles brought them all and they were as guilty of these types of crimes and they plopped them down in America to live next to you and I. The Iron Guard's pogrom was so depraved that it shocked even the country's fascist regime, which appealed to Hitler to put down the uprising.

14:22 After the coup was suppressed, Malakza was jailed as a leader of a conspiracy and his industrial empire was confiscated by the Nazis and Romanian government. But in 1944, as the advancing Soviet army drove the Germans out of Romania, Malakza again rose from the ashes, insinuating himself with the new Moscow-backed regime. He was only Romanian capitalist to whom the communist government

14:49 returned all of his industrial property. Nevertheless, Malaxa was savvy enough to realize that his future was not bright in communist Romania. He had already taken the precaution of moving his fortune into U.S. accounts after the war by making a generous distribution of bribes. Now, keep in mind, he's working with Frank Wisner while Frank Wisner is in Romania during World War II, just so that you guys keep up.

15:22 His generous distribution of bribes included jewels, Cadillacs, and cash. Malaxa persuaded Romanian officials to allow him to travel to the United States, ostensibly on trade business. He arrived in 1946 and never returned. Malaxa wisely chose to apply for permanent residency instead of American citizenship, knowing the process was not as demanding. But his resume was so eyebrow-raising.

15:50 that his battle to stay in the U.S. would drag on for years. Malaksa's OSS, CIA, FBI, and INS files bulged with condemnations. One government report labeled him notorious. Another called him the most vile man in Romania. He was a master of the art of bribery who had ushered in an era of corruption in Romania. He was a flagrant opportunist who had been on all sides of the fence.

16:22 at various times during the war. He had gone from playing Hitler's game to someone who must be considered an agent of the Soviet government and that of the Romanian communists in the U.S. According to a 1952 CIA memo, perhaps the most concise appraisal of Malakza came from an American diplomat who found him entirely unscrupulous, turning with the wind, and like a cat, he developed a art.

16:52 of landing on his feet. He is considered to be essentially a dangerous type of man. None of that mattered to Alan Dulles when Malaxa turned up in his office at Sullivan and Cromwell. The pertinent fact was that Romanian had a huge fortune and he was willing to spend millions of it where Dulles wanted him to. In return for financing Dulles' far-flung anti-communist network, i.e. Gladio,

17:23 which had stretched from Buenos Aires to Bucharest, Malaxa secured Dulles' influential help in his battle to stay in the U.S. Some of Malaxa's treasure went to prominent Romanian exile leaders who hoped to take power after the communist regime was toppled. Other funds went to Juan Peron's Argentina, where Malaxa was involved in rising fascist movement, you know, because we...

17:51 parked a whole bunch of Nazis there. And the same was true in France, where he underwrote scholarships for exiled Romanian students who turned out to be veterans of the Iron Guard. That was a scam. It was just a way to pay them. And they turned into gladio operators. In 1948, Malaxis was ensconced in a luxurious apartment on Manhattan Smith Avenue.

18:20 but his wheeling and dealing had begun to attract unwanted press. In May, a gossip columnist, Walter Winchell, exposed the notorious collaborator who was freely enjoying the city's pleasures. Winchell noted that the distinguished firm of Sullivan and Cromwell had recently dropped the Romanian as a client, presumably because he had grown too hot. But Dulles did not abandon Malaxa. Behind the scenes, he entrusted

18:53 Romanian's immigration battle to his political protege, Nixon. In return for Malaxa's substantial gift of $100,000, the California senator became vigorously lobbying the INS officials on his behalf and pushing an immigration bill through Congress that was designed to win Malaxa U.S. residency. When those efforts stalled due to determined resistance from legislatures who were repelled by the immigrants past,

19:22 Malaxis and Nixon tried a different tact. With the help of Nixon's cronies in Southern California, Malaxis announced that he was setting up a pipeline factory in Whittier that he called the Western Tube Corporation. Nixon wrote a letter to the Defense Production Administration claiming that Malaxis' project was strategic and economically important for both California and the U.S. The Western Tube factory never got built.

19:52 But the Phantom Project succeeded in winning Malaxus a huge tax windfall, and it kept alive the Romanians' immigration campaign. California Congressman John Shelley later denounced the Western Tube affair as a complete fraud, a springboard for Malaxus to stay in the U.S. As the smoldering Malaxus scandal threatened to erupt into flames in the final days of the 1952 presidential race, Dulles moved quickly to Dowsett.

20:22 After Wisner and Mason showed him Mille Lacs' $100,000 check, the deputy CIA director knew that he would have to send it up the chain to his boss, General Walter Bedell Smith. But Dulles also realized that in this case, passing the buck was as good as destroying the evidence. CIA director Beadle Smith had served as Eisenhower's intensely dedicated chief of staff during the war. He was just as...

20:51 devoted to Ike as Dulles was. It was Gordon Mason who was given the unpleasant task of showing the evidence of Nixon's corruption to General Smith, who predictably flew into a rage. Smith was a man who could cuss in three languages in almost every sentence. He also had a violent tipper, and he acted as though I personally was trying to scuttle Eisenhower.

21:16 Smith demanded that Mason immediately gather up every scrap of incriminating material against Nixon and bring it into his office. The story was cleaned from the books, said Mason. Wisner, too, had no doubt what was done with the evidence. Beadle just flushed it down the toilet. Without a copy of the check, Drew Pearson could not keep the story going, and it petered out. On election day, Eisenhower

21:43 and Nixon swept to a decisive victory, winning 55% of the vote and carrying 39 of the 48 states. After Republicans' triumph, Dulles and Nixon were finally able to speed Malaxa's immigration case through the bureaucracy. In December of 1953, officials in Eisenhower's Justice Department bypassed Congress and the INS and granted Malaxa permanent residence.

22:11 through an administrative decree. Justice Department officials explained that they had reached their decision due to the unique technical services provided by the non-existent Western Tube Corporation. The fact that his company didn't actually exist didn't matter. Nikolai Malaksa lived out the rest of his days in the comfort of his Fifth Avenue apartment.

22:41 He began to fancy himself a great benefactor. In January of 53, shortly before Eisenhower's inauguration, Malaxa reached out the hand of friendship to a prominent Jewish exile named Iancu Zizou. Malaxa sent word that he was eager to meet him. He had co-founded the Romanian exile group. The odd meeting took place in a New York apartment of a popular Romanian singer.

23:10 According to one witness, Malaxa told Zissou that he had wanted for some time to know him because he is a great friend of the Jews and a great admirer of the Jewish religion, despite the fact he was responsible for the death of many. Malaxa stated that if he could change his own religion, he'd be Jewish. As he bid Zissou farewell, Malaxa assured him that there had been his friends.

23:41 assured him that those who had been his friends had never had any reason to regret it. It was a surprising burst of goodwill or more likely another attempt to buy political support. From the financial patron of the Iron Guard butchers to the great friend of the Jews, that describes Malakza. Moving on to chapter nine, the power elite.

24:11 For the Dulles brothers, the Eisenhower-Nixon victory was a culmination of years of political strategy dating back to the Roosevelt era. They had come achingly close to achieving that in the 1948 election with Tom Dewey. But now they were headed to the very center of Washington power as the new heads of the State Department and the CIA. They would direct the global operations of the most powerful nation in the world.

24:39 The fraternal partnership gave the Dulles brothers a unique leverage over the incoming administration, and they were imbued with a deep sense of confidence in the roles that they were destined to play. The 1952 presidential election represented the triumph of the power elite. According to C. Wright Mills,

25:09 Power in America was not solely in the hands of the Marxist ruling class, those who own the means of production, nor was it a balancing act of competing interests, such as big business, organized labor, farmers, and professional groups. This ebb and flow concept of power, which was clung to by liberal and conservative scholars alike, was a fairy tale, in Mill's words, one that was not adequate.

25:37 even as an approximate model of how American system works. Instead, Mills wrote in his masterpiece, The Power Elite, America was ruled by those who control the strategic command post of society, the big corporations, the machinery of state, and the military establishment. These dominant cliques were drawn together by a deep mutual stake in the permanent war economy.

26:05 that had merged after the Cold War. Though political tensions could flare within the political elite, there was a remarkable unity of purpose among them. The top corporate executives, government leaders, and high-ranking military officers moved fluidly in and out of one another's worlds, exchanging official roles, socializing in the same clubs, and educating their children at the same exclusive schools. Mills called this professional

26:34 and social symmetry, the fraternity of the successful. Within the system of American power, Mills saw corporate chiefs as first among equals. Long interlocked with the federal government, corporate leaders came to dominate the political directorate during World War II. The U.S. had largely become a democracy in form only.

27:00 More than half a century before the John Roberts era of the Supreme Court that legally sanctioned corporate control over the electoral process, Mills recognized the shift towards oligarchy and was well underway. The longtime tendency of business and government to become more intricately and deeply involved with each other has now reached a new point.

27:28 in explicitness the two cannot now be seen clearly as two distinct worlds the crucial task of unifying the power elite according to mills fell on a special subset of the corporate hierarchy op wall street lawyers and investment bankers these men were the in-between types he's describing to you the international syndicate that um i've been talking about for the last three years

27:56 who shuttled smoothly between Manhattan corporate suites and Washington command post. Little known to the general public, these skilled executors of power constituted, in Mill's words, America's invisible elite. They were the men who forged the consensus on key decisions of national significance and who made certain that these decisions were properly implemented. Their work was largely unseen and vaguely understood.

28:24 but it is an enormous impact on the lives of ordinary men and women. It was men like John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles whom Mills had in mind when he wrote about the power elite's inner core. Born in Waco to an insurance salesman and a housewife and educated at the University of Texas and University of Wisconsin, Mills was steeped in the native populism rather than European ideology and New York intelligentsia.

28:55 He could debate for hours on end with the likes of Dwight McDonald and Irving Howe. During the Eisenhower years, searching instead for a new language to explain the American colossus that had emerged in the post-war era, Mills took aim at the most important topic in American society, the soul-killing, cheerfully robotic regimentation of corporate life, the unique terrors of the nuclear age.

29:31 an age he argued when war itself had become the enemy, not the Russians, and of course the overworld of American power, a realm that he believed few average citizens could grasp, even though it cast a long shadow over your daily existence. Take it big, the intelligently ambitious Mills liked to explain. He wrote in a vigorous style.

30:02 quote, bloated puffery of grand theory. Soon after The Power Elite was published, it began stirring wide debate, catapulting the ivory-covered walls of academia on the bestsellers list. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, corporate lawyer and presidential advisor Adolph Burrell, a member in good standing of The Power Elite, found it uncomfortably true. In Mill's book,

30:35 but fought off his discomfort by concluding that it was essential. We had to have it. Mills also struck a sensitive chord with Cold War liberals like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., whom he accused of abandoning their intellectual independence by joining the heirs' American celebration. Schlesinger fired back, charging that Mills' books seemed more intent on stirring the masses.

31:03 than on stimulating serious academic debate. Quote, I look forward to the time when Mr. Mills hands back his profit robes and settles down to being a sociologist again, unquote. Mills considered himself an intellectual loner. I am a politician without a party, he wrote, but the power elite touched a deep cord with a rising new generation of revolutionaries and radicals that soon to...

31:32 were soon to make their impact on history. A young Fidel Castro and Shea Cavera poured over the book in the Sierra Matras mailbox, and at home, Tom Hayden drew heavily on Mills' writing for the Fort Huron Statement, the manifesto of the emerging new left. By the time the Fort Huron Statement was presented to the Students for a Democratic Society convention in 1962,

32:07 C. Wright Mills was dead. He had an inconvenient heart attack at age 45. But his critique of the power elite and his sense of its fundamental undemocratic illegitimacy would continue to heavily influence the 60s generation. Six years after his death in the wake of a global youth uprising in 1968, the CIA continued to identify him as one of the leading intellectual threats.

32:38 of the established order. Schlesinger was partly right about Mills. Though he was a rigorous researcher and careful craftsman, the power elite did indeed resound here and there with a prophet's moral urgency. Mills, who was deeply concerned about the runaway nuclear arms race of the Eisenhower era, knew that American rulers not only possessed terrifying instruments of violence, these men felt largely unrestrained by any checks and balance.

33:09 The ability of American leaders to end life on the planet imbued them a dark power, according to Mills, one that inspired impassioned passages in The Power Elite. Here's a quote from the book. The men of the higher circles are not representative men. Their high positions is not a result of moral virtue. Their fabulous success is not firmly connected to meritorious ability.

33:39 They are not men shaped by naturally responsible parties that debate openly and clearly the issues this nation now so unintelligently confronts. They are not men held in responsible check by a plurality of voluntary associations which connect debating publics with the pinnacles of decision. Commanders of power unequaled in human history, they have succeeded within the American system.

34:08 of organized irresponsibility. I would say organized crime, but we'll go with irresponsibility. Men like Dulles brothers rejoiced in such organized irresponsibility. Democracy in their mind was an impediment to the smooth functioning of the corporate state. John Foster Dulles had made that clear early in his Wall Street career as he jousted with FDR's New Deal.

34:35 complaining to Lord McGowan, chairman of the Imperial Chemical Industries, about government efforts to control the spiraling power of global cartels. Foster loved global cartels. Quote, the fact of the matter is that most of these politicians are highly insular and nationalistic. So business people have had to find ways for getting through and around.

35:05 political barriers, unquote. Allen, for his part, had gone through his espionage career with similar disdain for presidential directives and, quote, stupid political barriers, unquote. As Richard Helms put it with typically understatement, quote, there can be no question that Dulles felt more comfortable running things on his own with a minimum of supervision from above, unquote.

35:35 When Franklin Roosevelt moved into the White House in 1933, he was well aware of the interest that he was confronting as he attempted to reform the country's financial system and to create a social buffer. The real truth, FDR wrote to Colonel House, President Wilson's close advisor, as you and I know, is that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.

36:04 And weirdly enough, as pointed out in Anthony Sutton's book, the same people put FDR in the White House, as he's now decrying, are bad. But the militarization of government during World War II began to return power to the corporate elite as captains of industry and finance moved into key government posts. The Eisenhower presidency would complete this political counter-revolution.

36:35 As Washington was taken over by business executives, Wall Street lawyers, and investment bankers, and by closely aligned warrior caste that had emerged into the public dominance during World War II. During the Eisenhower administration, the Dulles brothers would finally be given full license to exercise their power in the global arena. In the name of defending the free world from communist tyranny,

37:01 they would impose an American reign on the world enforced by nuclear terror and cloak and dagger brutality. Elevated to the pinnacle of Washington power, they continue to forcefully represent the interest of their corporate leaders, conflating them with national interest. C. Wright Mills, among the first to take note of how national security could be invoked by the power elite to more deeply disguise operations,

37:31 The Dulles brothers would prove masters at exploiting the ancient state of permanent diligence that accompanied the Cold War, which is why it was created. For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about emergencies without foreseeable end. Mills wrote, such men as these are crackpot realist. In the name of realism, they are constructing.

38:00 a paranoid reality all their own. And we lived in it for decades. This chilling observation, and I'd argue we still live in it. They just changed the face of it to be terrorism. The chilling observation, which still has disturbing echoes today, captured the glooming atmosphere of the Eisenhower-Dulles era.

38:25 It was a time of American celebration of unprecedented prosperity and unparalleled military prowess, as well as hair-trigger nuclear tensions. President Eisenhower enjoyed being in the company of wealthy and powerful men. He filled his administration with power players from the Dewey, Dulles, Rockefeller, Luce-dominated New York nexus, as well as from higher rungs of industry in the Pentagon, Wall Street, lawyer,

38:54 Herbert Brownell was named Attorney General after running Ike's campaign. General Motors CEO Charles Wilson was tapped to run the Defense Department. And Chase Manhattan Chairman John McCloy, the very personification of the power elite, was called on to be the National Security Advisor. And of course, we know that's a critical role because that's where the conduit into the White House comes from Alan Dulles.

39:26 Even the Eisenhower administration's second rung of power, the undersecretary and deputy level, was weighted with men from Wall Street like C. Douglas Dillon, another close associate of the Dulles brothers. The exclusive ranks of the Council on Foreign Relations, where the brothers had held sway, was a fertile ground for administrative recruiters. Ike also liked to spend his leisure time with the high and mighty, an avid golfer-in-chief.

39:57 often took prominent business executives and army generals in tow during his twice-weekly trip to Burning Tree Country Club in Bethesda, including the CEOs of General Electric, Coca-Cola, Reynolds Tobacco, and Young & Rubincom. Merriman Smith, the longtime White House wire service reporter, defended Ike's strong affinity for the power elite.

40:25 It would be unfair to say that he likes the company of kings of finance and industry purely because they're done in Bradstreet ratings. He believes that if a man has worked his way up to become president of Ford Motor Company or script Howard newspapers, then certainly the man has a lot on the ball, knows his field thoroughly, and will be literate and interesting. To which one observer, quoted by Mills, responded, quote,

40:54 This business of working your way up will come as quite a surprise to young Henry Ford or young Jack Howard, the guy that inherited Scripps and Howard. Eisenhower was comfortable in the company of these men because he shared their conservative business-oriented views. President Truman, who had helped pave the general's path to the White House by appointing him the first Supreme Commander of NATO,

41:22 in 1951 tried to persuade Eisenhower to run for president as a Democrat, promising that he would guarantee him the party's nomination. But Eisenhower replied, what reason have you to think that I have ever been a Democrat? You know I have been a Republican all my life and that my family has always been Republican. When Truman persisted, Ike made it more plain.

41:47 telling him that his differences with the Democrats, particularly when it comes to the party's pro-labor positions, were simply too immense for him to consider it. Meanwhile, Dewey Dulles' group courtship of Eisenhower to become the Republican standard bearer, which had begun two years earlier, was coming to a successful conclusion. Dewey had first broached the subject of the White House run at a private meeting with Eisenhower in 49.

42:17 following the governor's own traumatic presidential defeat. Dewey had beseeched the reluctant general to jump into the political arena, telling him that he was the only man who could save this country from going to hell in a handbasket of paternalism, socialism, and dictatorship. By early 52, the Dulles brothers had come to agree that throwing their support behind the popular war hero was their best path to power. In May,

42:46 Foster flew to France, meeting with the general twice at NATO headquarters. You know, where he was there with all of the Nazis. He urged him to run. The two men did not immediately hit it off. Foster was uncharacteristically uncertain in the presence of a legendary warrior. Eisenhower, accustomed to crisp military briefings, found Foster's discursive and lawyerly monologues boring.

43:17 Foster quickly wore out the general's patience, which he was in the habit of communicating by tapping out a relentless drumbeat on his knee with a pencil. And when that failed to end the ordeal by glazing blankly at the ceiling, signaling he was done. Foster later brought out the wicked wit of Churchill, who proclaimed him dull, duller, dullest.

43:43 But the foreign policy paper that Dulles presented to Eisenhower in France was far from dull. The memo, which Foster appropriately titled The Policy of Boldness, urged the next president to take a much sharper stand against the Soviet bloc, aiming to roll back communism in Eastern Europe rather than simply contain it. Foster called for an escalation of underground war against Moscow, i.e. Gladio.

44:11 which his brother was going to do, including psychological warfare. We should be dynamic. We should use ideas as weapons. And these ideas should conform to moral principles, which they did not. That we do, this is right, for it is the inevitable expression of faith. And I am confident that we still do have a faith. What, in the devil? Foster's paper.

44:48 had the cadence of a preacher's sermon. Foster was at his most zealous in his discussion of nuclear arms. He proposed an unsettling shift in thinking about America's fearsome nuclear arsenal, moving away from an instrument of last resort to one of first strike. The United States must reserve the right.

45:16 to massively retaliate against any Soviet aggression in the world, wherever and whenever it chooses, he wrote. By making it clear to the world that Washington was not afraid to use nuclear arms as if they were conventional weapons, the U.S. would gain a commanding strategic advantage. It was the type of leverage enjoyed by a heavily armed madman in a crowded room. But Foster had a more diplomatic way of reasoning it.

45:43 Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of statesmen could serve as an effective political weapon in defense of peace. They weren't interested in peace. They were interested in war. And they were interested in using the nuclear arsenal as their heavy hand on behalf of their corporate bosses. So we can go anywhere we want and take anything we want with the threat of first strike so you don't stand up against us.

46:14 Foster further sweetened his argument by pointing out that a nuclear-based military strategy would help contain the growing cost of America's far-flung extravagant defense complex, which of course he wasn't interested in at all. Instead of maintaining expensive troop presence, we'll just use nuclear weapons as a deterrent. Even Master of War Eisenhower was initially taken back.

46:42 by Foster's proposal of first-use nuclear strategy. After making his presentation to the general, Foster returned to his suite at the Ritz, where he frantically paced the room telling a confidant that Eisenhower somehow fell to graphs that the world was facing a dire Soviet threat. But Eisenhower did share Foster's passionate anti-communism and the cost efficiencies of massive retaliation strategy appealed to the budget-minded general, who was

47:11 Equally concerned about the growing burden of military spending on the economy. So began the reign of nuclear terror or brinksmanship. Foster's new policy of boldness became a centerpiece of Eisenhower's presidential campaign. The Wall Street lawyer was widely touted as the next Secretary of State. Henry Luce helped enshrine Foster by running his foreign policy paper in Life magazine.

47:42 in May of 1952. No one had a broader bipartisan understanding of U.S. foreign policy than John Foster Dulles, the article said. After Foster was sworn in as Secretary of State in January 1953, a position he had long coveted and felt he was destined to hold, he addressed several hundred Foreign Service employees gathered in front of the State Department.

48:09 The weather was uncomfortably cold, but the 65-year-old foster stood on the steps overlooking the crowd and said he carried himself like someone who owned the place. Quote, I don't suppose there is any family in the U.S., he told the people, which had been so long identified with Foreign Service and the State Department, than my own family. You know, basically, he had come back home. Once installed,

48:43 Foster quickly took command of Eisenhower's foreign policy, elbowing aside other experts in international affairs that sought the president's ear. Sherman Adams, president of Eisenhower's chief of staff, found the new secretary of state a tough viper individual, an aristocrat in his own domain, who insisted on maintaining his own direct line to the president.

49:10 Foster was a rather secretive person, Adams said. After their initial uneasiness with each other, Eisenhower ultimately decided that even though his Secretary of State was a bit sticky at first, he had a heart of gold. When you get to know him, they don't even have a heart. Foster soon had Eisenhower in his palm, observed a State Department aide. Allen Dulles felt as firmly entitled to run the CIA as Eisenhower.

49:44 under Eisenhower as his brother did at State. The junior Dulles had worked uncomplainingly for two years as Walter Bedell Smith's deputy director, though he had considerably more intelligence experience than Smith. Dulles good-naturedly put up with the crusty general's foul-mouthed explosions with the expectation that Smith would anoint him as successor. The general was in fine form this morning.

50:12 Wasn't he? Ha ha. Dulles would chuckle. During the 1952 presidential race, Dulles proved his loyalty to the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign by channeling funds to the Republican ticket through CIA front groups and by leaking embarrassing intelligence to the media about Truman administration handling of the Korean War, a flagrant violation of the CIA's charter to interfere in an election.

50:41 which they have routinely done ever since. But even though Smith recruited Dulles for the agency and made him the deputy, he never warmed up to him. Beadle, who as Eisenhower's former wartime aide, enjoyed a unique access to Eisenhower, and he became an impediment to Dulles' CIA ascension.

51:08 After two years of close personal observation, wrote a CIA historian, Smith lacked confidence in Dulles' self-restraint. The general felt Dulles was too enamored with the dark arts of spycraft. Smith would tell friends that running the CIA sometimes made it necessary to leave your moral values outside the door. But he quickly added, you'd damn well better remember exactly where you left them. Dulles struck Smith as a man.

51:38 who was all too easy to abandon his scruples because he didn't have any. The deputy CIA director had no qualms about advocating the assassination of foreign leaders. We know. Even presenting a plan to Smith in 1952 to kill Stalin at the Paris summit meeting. Smith firmly rejected the plan. He shuddered at the thought of it being presented.

52:08 As Smith prepared to step down at the CIA, he lobbied against Dulles as his replacement, advising Eisenhower that it would be politically unwise to have the brother of the Secretary of State serve as the administration's chief intelligence. Instead, Smith urged Eisenhower to select another one of his agency deputies, Lyman Kirkpatrick. Like Dulles, Kirkpatrick was a product of Princeton.

52:34 and had an impressive espionage resume dating back to the war. But as a career CIA, he also had a well-tuned sense of proper conduct. Years later, Kirkpatrick would be called upon to direct the internal investigation of the Bay of Pigs debacle that nearly ruined the agency, doing such an honest job, ha ha ha, that some CIA old boys, including Dulles, never forgave him.

53:03 He probably did better than anybody else, but it still wasn't a good job. Despite Beatlesmith's close ties to Eisenhower, he found himself outmaneuvered by the Dulles brothers. Anticipating Smith's objections, Foster got to Eisenhower first and convinced him that having his brother at the CIA would actually be an asset. It would provide smooth-running foreign policy, not in the best interest of Americans.

53:31 but in the best interest of their actual clients. When Smith began making his case against Dulles, Eisenhower cut him off, telling him that he had already talked to Foster and he was fine with it. Smith was never really stood a chance of blocking Allen Dulles anyway. Eisenhower was too beholding to the Wall Street Republican power brokers for getting him in the White House. They had provided him the campaign manager.

54:02 They had provided him Richard Nixon. Everything was handed to Eisenhower to make Eisenhower. The Dewey-Dulles Group was Ike's brain trust and bank. Under Alan Dulles, the CIA would become a vast kingdom, the most powerful and least supervised agency in the government. Dulles built his...

54:26 Citadel with the strong support of President Eisenhower, who despite occasional misgivings about the spymaster's unrestrained ways, consistently protected him. As America extended its post-war reach around the world with hundreds of military bases in dozens of countries, the U.S. oil mining and agribusiness and manufacturing corporations operated on every continent.

54:50 Eisenhower saw the CIA, along with the Pentagon's nuclear firepower, as the most cost-effective way to enforce American interests overseas. And by interests, he means oligarchs. Presidential historian Blanche Cook, author of Declassified Eisenhower, initially regarded Ike as a presidential pacifist. But after examining the administration's documentation for her 1981 book,

55:20 Cook arrived at the conclusion that America's most popular hero was America's most covert president. Eisenhower participated in his own cover-up. His presidency involved a thorough and ambitious crusade marked by covert operations that depended on secrecy. The rise of Dulles' spy complex in the 50s would further undermine U.S. democracy that Mills had warned about.

55:46 The mechanism of surveillance and control that Dulles put in motion were more in keeping with the expanding empire that they were creating. Journalist David Haberstam said, quote, the national security complex became in the Eisenhower years, a fast growing apparatus to allow us to do in secret what we could not do in the open. This was not just an isolated phenomenon.

56:16 but part of the growing of something larger going on in Washington, the transition from isolationism to imperialism. A true democracy had no need for a vast security state, but an imperial country did. What was evolving was a closed state within an open state. That's probably a good place to stop. So I'm going to say again,

56:54 It is no coincidence on the day that Eisenhower gave his famous speech, the CIA was murdering Patrice Lumumba. It was not a warning. It was a statement of what he had done. These are crazy people, you know it? Thank you, Colonel. I was looking at Biloxi, and as it turns out, this guy was into anything and everything he could get his hands into. Yes.

57:32 Assets were seized. And later on in 2006, Romania decides to pay their grandchildren for all the assets. Go figure that out. Must have been a guy controlled by the CIA. Not surprising. Vicious, vicious, vicious man. Yes, he was. Absolutely. I mean, he had all kinds of things.

58:07 From a. What I want to call it. Mercantile standpoint. Going on for him. He gets involved with. Just about everybody. He can get involved with. Until he gets involved with Dulles. And then they really take off. And do stuff. Yep. Ash machine or covert operations. And part of the. Gladio infrastructure. And again.

58:38 from a guy who was originally on the side of the Nazis. Just another one in a long list. Of course, he was fine working with communists too because he doesn't really have any type of principles. It was just making money. But there's a couple of lessons here. And to me, one of the big lessons is that the U.S. government

59:09 all of the elements of it, whether it's the FBI, the DOJ, are complicit in this infiltration of these nefarious people into our country. And they come from places that the CIA is involved in. Because like I said, this guy was working alongside

59:39 Frank Wisner. I have Wisner's book right here. Let me see if he's even mentioned in here, but I know he was working beside him because of some of the same things that are talked about in here. Frank Wisner's book on the, there's several chapters about his involvement in Romania. They're the exact same operations.

1:00:07 Whether or not this particular author connects the two, they are definitely connected. Let me see if they mention him in here. Oh, right, there he is. Let me look here real quick. So they do mention him in here. All right, let me see. Here it is. Let's read this little bit.

1:00:36 Beatlesmith's investigators discovered that it was questionable source in Romania gossip circles. They're talking about this guy who had been responsible for the salacious charges that had been leveled against Wisner. The source was Nicolae Maleksa, a disreputable Romanian industrialist and financier of the fascist Iron Guard. Maleksa was a bitter enemy.

1:01:03 of an equally disreputable Roman steel magnet accused of collaborating with the Germans. So they're basically having a pissing contest. Wisner came into Malexa's sights because immediately after the war, when he had returned to his law firm, Wisner had represented

1:01:38 was Nikolai's art enemy in America. And Malaxa had hired Alan Dulles. So Wisner's representing one of them and Dulles is representing the other one. And that's how you control the outcome. That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. I had even forgotten about that part.

1:02:06 Let me see what else they said. He's in here three different times. I don't know why I even have this book sitting here, but that's hilarious that I do. Let me see if I can find it quickly where he's talking about him here. There it is. So Hoover was running an investigation on someone.

1:02:49 He had turned up, Hoover had turned up old news that Beadle Smith had earlier checked out and found groundless. But it turned out that the information had been provided by Nicholas Malaxa. Oh, that's when they were in the FBI. So the FBI kept a huge folder on Frank Wisner. And Nikolai didn't like Frank Wisner because he had,

1:03:20 once they were here they worked together during the war but he got mad at him here for representing his arch rival because let me just explain something that I've come to realize the immigrant populations that come here in the United States they vie for being almost like an exiled government

1:03:45 And there's factions. I saw it in the Cuban exile community. The guys that went to New York and the guys that were in Miami constantly were trying to one-up themselves as center of gravity to dictate policy and ingratiate themselves into the CIA. And so they have this robust competition of these different pots of people.

1:04:13 to see who can do the most nefarious stuff and earn the most credit with primarily the CIA, but also the State Department. Because the State Department gives contracts to these immigrants to be representatives and to go on missions overseas to their former countries. And it's very lucrative. And they're constantly trying to one-up themselves in these immigrant communities.

1:04:43 So that's definitely one of my takeaways in doing this research is there's tremendous competition for them to kiss the butts of these people. And they love it because it's a power thing for them as well. They love having the competition where they can dole out money in exchange for favors from these people.

1:05:15 Anyway, SR, go ahead. The other thing that I noticed here in this chapter is the warnings came. They came fast, they came early, and nobody paid attention. Or they were provided real quick. Yes, that's probably more an accurate description. They were actually paying attention in order to formulate a way to thwart.

1:05:44 the discovery of the information that they had. They were protecting their sources. Do we have anything else? No? All right. Well, that's going to do the lesson in the conversation today. I do want to say two things. War Hamster and I will be doing our

1:06:20 Secret Society meets Operation Gladio at noon tomorrow. And I will be appearing, this just came up this morning, on SITREP tonight at 8 o'clock on Badlands Media with CanCon and Alpha. So, go ahead, SR. Just on a final note, I want to thank everybody here on Spaces and everybody in Rumble. Sorry for the troll, but we got rid of him. Hope to see y'all.

1:06:51 Tomorrow for the Colonel's Corner. Thank you, SR. I didn't even notice the troll. That's why I have you guys. You guys are awesome. Warhamster, did you want to add something? Well, you were given a little bit of a promo for our upcoming show tomorrow. I thought I'd jump in with that. Enjoyed today, by the way. I don't have anything to add on it because the story kind of tells itself. So tomorrow, people.

1:07:21 We're going to be talking a little bit about the political machine of New York. And, oh, yeah, it's connected to all these little things. And, oh, yeah, just everything you've done this week is just a little bit of segue to what we're going to do tomorrow. And the Colonel is going to love a couple of mic drop connections that are going to be done. And so I've been sitting there working on going through my notes and ready to rock and roll tomorrow. Isn't it funny how you can tell?

1:07:48 cover what seemingly is two separate subjects and they're not separate at all yeah once you know what when you when you really know what to look for the connections are almost always there yeah it's like oh well it's pattern recognition it's like okay so i wonder if he knew this guy or was doing this thing and then all you gotta do is uncover you know hit a couple clicks next thing you know it's it just happened again yeah every single almost every single time yeah

1:08:18 I mean, that's just like when we were doing the stolen election book and we're reading and I had all of this information on all the nefarious cases that this Michael Nadler guy had. And Ash goes, is that Jerry Nadler's son? And sure as shit it was. Well, you guys weren't doing any election denial stuff, were you? You know, that's a joke. I know it's a joke, but the.

1:08:48 The funny thing is that I haven't even finished the book because I'm reading three different books at the same time. But what was funny to me is I already knew reading the first chapter what the story's going to be. And it's painting out exactly as I thought. And so I find it just interesting that we're cognizant enough.

1:09:17 having done all of this research, that you can enter into what seemingly is a completely different subject and know exactly where it's going to go because you're inside that OODA loop. And the OODA loop is the word planning slang for the...

1:09:42 concept of operations when you're going to war and so it's just it's hilarious that once you're inside it it gives you a foresight because you know what the patterns of their operations are and it's it's spooky um to have that ability now but it just becomes so crystal clear

1:10:08 And the same thing with what just happened in Iran. You knew exactly how that was going to play out. And sure as shit, you have the guy over on Israeli TV going, yeah, no, we're there. We're dressed up like Iranian military and we're responsible for shooting people because we want them to have a revolution. It's weird. And it's as if...

1:10:38 all of the things that Bridget and I talked about a long time ago about feeling like all of this research was divinely inspired so we can be where we're at today and be one of those artificially small voices of being able to identify what's going on. It's just an amazing time.

1:11:07 Artificially small is a very cute term. I like that little hint at you being suppressed on X. I like that. Yeah. You know, it's revolting to me to think that Nadler actually procreated, but does his kid look like him at all? Exactly like him.

1:11:24 That was the most hilarious part because Ashley was or Ash was doing an A.I. query just to see if she could get a real short answer in the middle of our discussion. And she she found a picture of him and put it up. And I'm like, don't even say anything else. He looks exactly like him. Well, I guess the guy is capable of procreation, but, you know.

1:11:51 So are single cell amoebas. What was I going to say? I just want to give a shout out to this whole community and stuff like that. I'm pretty blackpilled right now over the last few weeks about politics and the direction of this world. I just see so much.

1:12:12 Proper word is fuckery. And I'm on the low end of my optimistic scale and stuff like that. But this community has been great on X and I do appreciate it quite a bit. My black pills tend to go away and I'll have hope again in the future. But oh, my God. Yeah, it's it's we that's the curse of knowing what we know is you just see how and it's this incredible mountain to climb to get it all revealed and maybe fixed.

1:12:38 So I wanted to say thanks to everybody. So I've had a lot of good interactions with people on accidents. It has helped quite a bit. It is an amazing community. Very, very smart. Yeah. Yeah. Did you read my article today? I did. Did you not see my response? I did not. Well, do you want me to address it right here? Yes. Yes, I do. Well, it's fascinating. You know, we did this about a year ago. We talked about executive orders on my Federalist show because an executive order.

1:13:08 It does not have the power of law. An executive order only dictates to the executive branch how they're to perceive and act on existing laws that the legislative branch that actually makes laws has already given them. Right. So it'll be fascinating because this will be challenged in international court. Yeah. And I threw the quote out there. It's, you know, it's Andrew Jackson quote. I don't like Jackson because he's expanded the administrative state, but did say.

1:13:36 You know, Supreme Court's made their decision. Now let them try to enforce it. And that's kind of the point of your articles. They really did just change international finance. But if I'm a multinational corporation and I no longer have ICSID and investor state dispute settlement treaties to protect my investments while I'm exploiting resources,

1:14:04 That changes the entire risk-reward calculation quite a bit. And it nullifies that fucking court that isn't a real court. Well, it is a real court because the treaties make it a real court, but it has no power to enforce its rulings if someone like Donald Trump just says, yeah, okay. Because you really can't do anything against the commander-in-chief of the United States military. Right.

1:14:31 I just love it. And I understand your technical point, but it's not a court in the sense of there's no justice ever metered out of that because it's weighted always in favor of the corporatist. And I love the fact that he just kicked him in the balls. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be interesting. I want to see the international reaction. I'm assuming this will be challenged in international courts.

1:14:58 They'll be feckless. Yes. But it weakens international treaties, which weakens the IMF. Yes. Tell everybody about the court just real quick for people that are new. Okay. So ICSID, well, that's called ISDS. It's Investor State Dispute Settlement. It was set up in the 1950s. You'd had a few major events. By John Foster Dulles. He was involved.

1:15:27 They had – what was going on? Decolonization is going on post-World War II. And, of course, multinational corporations and the banks, they don't want to be totally decolonized. You can vote however you want. We still want your resources. So they basically forced into treaties, which are known as ICSID, I-C-S-I-D, or ISDS, Investor State Dispute Settlements. Almost every – 158 countries are part of the ICSID agreement, which basically means –

1:15:56 If I'm a multinational corporation and I'm exploding your resources and you're in, oh, we'll use Peru because we'll be talking about them tomorrow, and you decide to nationalize your resources or we can talk about Venezuela, those disputes get settled in an international court. Now, this is a tribunal made up of three people, probably appointed by international bankers, and they really have a tendency to favor the corporations over sovereign nation states.

1:16:25 But you can't be part of the Anglo-American rules-based order in the dollar hegemonic financial system unless you agree to these treaties. One of the reasons I really like Trump, when he started pulling out of things like NAFTA and Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, was because those are the type of agreement, these treaties, two-thirds of their language is ISDS language.

1:16:51 So corporations have sovereignty over your resources, over your own government. That's the issue here. Yes. And we most certainly favor sovereign nation states and don't favor the multinational corporations exploding resources because that's the entire Gladio theme right there. Yes. In a nutshell, the problem, but we also, you know, it's going to be interesting because international treaties.

1:17:20 do need to be followed to some degree, even when they're done in bad faith. I don't want to live in a world where there is no, you know, I've watched enough pirate movies to know what this, you know. What the alternative is. Yeah, so there's got to be, you hope there's something in between. You know, I don't want one world government, obviously, and I certainly don't want pure anarchy. Right. But, yeah, it's fascinating that you wrote that article.

1:17:50 I agree with you. There was a huge shot across the bow. I just think it's going to be fascinating to see how it plays out. And we should all send me any article that talks about this stuff if anybody finds it, because this is one of my favorite topics. And so basically, for those of you who I highly encourage you to go read it, but for those of you who have not read it, kind of the Reader's Digest version is the executive order that Trump issued on.

1:18:17 Venezuela and the oil is that it basically put a big tall fence around Venezuela that negated, and you guys know because we did the Venezuela coup, we know all about all of the litigation that was orchestrated during the Guaido period that was all illegitimate and went to this court.

1:18:44 and was represented by people that weren't even in Venezuela. They were not part of Venezuela's government, but because the prior Trump administration had recognized them, they had standing in these courts from the United States. And most of the people that represented Venezuela in air quotes had previously worked for Exxon. The entire thing was bullshit.

1:19:12 Trump basically in his executive order said, Venezuela's oil is going to be used for Venezuela. And everything that was done during my first administration is now nil and void, gone. And in addition to that, and I love this part, that they're going to use Qatar as basically the,

1:19:42 banking for it. And it was just amazing to me. And then, of course, I mentioned the executive order of Qatar that basically says that if anybody goes into Qatar and tries to do anything, the full strength of the American government is going to kick your butt. And so all of those talking heads on

1:20:08 and everywhere else that were just beside themselves with the degree to which Trump was working with Qatar, now you know at least one of the reasons why that was true and why he signed that executive order. Because there's so many things going on behind the scenes that are being rolled out.

1:20:33 that you cannot get involved in these emotional diatribes of people that are completely ignorant to the bigger picture, which is why I don't ever tend to jump in the mix of those, because what I have noticed, obviously, with Trump, and most of you have too, everything he does has a purpose, but you don't always understand the purpose of it when it happens.

1:21:00 At the time it happens, it may seem completely out of place, but you're going to find out within a few days, within a few weeks, if not a month, exactly why he did what he did. So avoid that. Go ahead. That's fascinating. I just on Twitter, on my laptop, I added you or whatever, tagged you on the video from when we talked about.

1:21:28 There's a third show the Colonel and I ever did a couple of years, a few years back. It's called, on my channel, it's called The Shadow State Part 8, Recolonization, the Corporate Side of Operation Gladio. So if you want more details. Yes. That was a great show. Oh, it really was. And it just, you know, it segued straight into probably the next two years of conversations. Yes. Especially after today. Yeah. And, you know, you bring up, you know, Qatar. Sorry, I'm still going to call them Qataris.

1:21:58 You know, I kept reading about the Gulf states that Trump seems to be really good friends with. They're taking all kinds of measures to prevent extreme radical Islam. Yes. Being taught in their own countries. Yes. Yeah. Well, it tells you all you need to know. So Jim Simpson does some great work. If you want to look it up on YouTube, Jim Simpson, the Red Green Alliance, has been talking about this stuff for 15, 20 years.

1:22:26 My friend Doug Gibbs actually knows Jim. I'm trying to get him on the show someday. But this whole Islamic global intifada movement, they are the bad guys, obviously. And I don't know that I'm willing to say that the Qataris are good guys, but they sure are playing nice when it comes to changing the world global security alliance. They sure seem to be doing a lot of things that we would like to see done. Yeah, well, and to that point,

1:22:55 If you have the, not if, they were presented with this oligarchical system. They were dependent upon the oil companies for their wealth. And in many cases, they were held hostage to those concessions. And one of the obvious parts of...

1:23:25 The covert piece of those concessions was you are going to fund and you are going to participate in our creation of radical Islamic terrorists. And they certainly did. And were there in the former family structure in Saudi Arabia, they were as corrupt as the CIA. The current one is not. And that's during first Trump's administration with the.

1:23:55 rising up of MBS and the imprisonment of all of the really, really bad guys in Saudi Arabia, you saw the beginnings of dismantling their funding of the terrorist organizations. And we have proven through all of our research that these front banks like BCCI and Nugent Hand and Castle Bank had all of them, the Carlyle Group.

1:24:23 the Palmer National Bank, it had all of them in them. And the money was flowing in all of the directions. So you have this corporatist network, you have a financial network. And I wouldn't go so far as to say that a lot of these Gulf states were held hostage to this entire network, but it would be just this side of that.

1:24:51 Were some of them complicit? Yes. But obviously, they've been offered the opportunity to extract themselves from that semi-hostage state. And those that are working with Trump obviously have now the protection that they did not have from these corporatists before. Yeah, and the counter side of that issue.

1:25:22 There's a lot of Qatari money funding NGOs here in America. You read about how they're building mosques all over Texas and Florida and the Islamic movement. There's counterbalancing forces even in the friendly Gulf states. It's a concern because they do have more money than God and they do have ridiculous amounts of power.

1:25:52 I'm wondering, and I'm just saying this out loud because I have no proof of this at all. I'm wondering how much of that is actually Qatari money. Are they doing it in Qatari's name? Because that's exactly what the CIA did with the mosque early on in the 80s and 90s as they were building up. The CIA actually funded many of the mosques in the United States.

1:26:22 They were part of getting Congress and the prison system to allow Muslim imams into the prison to convert the blacks. They were funding the radicalization programs in the mosque here in the United States, primarily aimed at the African-American community. So have you uncovered yet? There's a connection here, and it's been a while since I read about this.

1:26:51 But when the civil rights movement was going on in the 60s, guys like Marcuse and the Frankfurt School guys were getting in. The cultural Marxism was seeping into the civil rights movement. They started intersecting, and that's exactly when the Islamic influence came into that. Now, that most certainly, the FBI was involved in that, which means I'm guessing that the CIA most certainly had its fingerprints on it.

1:27:21 But I haven't really done any deep reading on that, but I know that it happened. Yeah. Yeah. A very interesting timeline. You're so mad. Go ahead. Great space today. Thank you. I actually wanted to talk to Warren Hamster. Hey, don't blackmail yourself. Be optimistic. Let the fuckery continue. It's extremely entertaining painting people in the corners like this.

1:27:53 And I'll even state that, hey, in God's plan, you don't get the full picture, nor should you get the full picture. So let it continue. It's entertaining for those that know what's going on piece by piece. And we'll just see what happens. I love you. Why are you so mad? I love you. There's your pep talk, poor hamster. I'm not going to let him get blackmailed.

1:28:23 I appreciate it. Well, it's hard. It is. You know how many lawyers I've been dealing with the last month or two? Yes. And I actually have to make a compromise that's against my principle because it actually saves me money and it just drives me nuts that I got to write an email tomorrow that said, you're wrong about everything and I'm still going to concede because it's not worth it for me to fight this for three years in court. Yeah. It absolutely drives me nuts. That contributes to how corrupt our system is.

1:28:52 unfortunately been on the front lines of the legal system way too often lately. And even when you win, you lose. That is a true statement. That goes back. Compensation will be at hand. Compensation will be at hand. Don't worry about it. Hang in there and just ride it out. That's like my boss's famous saying, you can be so right, you're wrong. I hate it. I hate it. You got three parties in a dispute and everybody agrees with your point.

1:29:22 But it cannot be resolved, cannot be resolved properly. It's like, God, I should have gone to law school because these guys get paid to give you the worst advice in the world, the most convoluted legal system in history. And it's still better than every other legal system we've ever seen. So, you know, yeah, it's true. And that just drives into politics. And that's where the black bill comes from. But thank you. Thank you for the kind words, people. I am in this fight to the end because I got no place else to go. Exactly. I don't know. We were talking about the Seychelles last night.

1:29:53 I don't know much about it. We may start looking at real estate in Seychelles, poor hamster. I told you the story that in 2015, I was all but selling my practice and moving to the Cayman Islands and scuba diving my life away. I was gone. Yeah, I'm not going to the Cayman Islands. There's too much bad guys there. Well, they're not actually there. They're just a bunch of shell companies on paper. They don't actually live there. I know, but there's people that visit there. I don't want to be there. Oh, scuba diving is amazing.

1:30:20 Well, check out the scuba diving in the Seychelles. I'll have to go do that in person, huh? All right. Give me some dates. Done. All right. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. Join us tonight at 9 o'clock, tomorrow at noon, and tomorrow at 4 o'clock. We'll see you then. Take care, everybody.

Entities here

Allen Dulles49 CIA29 United States27 Nicolae Malaxa25 Dwight D. Eisenhower25 Romania22 C. Wright Mills22 Richard Nixon17 Frank Wisner16 Walter Bedell Smith12 Donald Trump10 Iron Guard8 Qatar8 The Power Elite8 Operation Gladio7 1968 United States presidential election7 West Germany6 Immigration and Naturalization Service5 Gordon Mason5 Republican Party5 Drew Pearson5 King Carol II4 Thomas Dewey4 Whittier4 Venezuela4 International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes4 Harry S. Truman3 Iancu Zissu3 Western Tube Corporation3 Soviet Union3 1941 Iron Guard Coup Attempt3 The Policy of Boldness3 Bucharest3 Manhattan3 Sullivan & Cromwell3 Checkers Speech3 France2 Herbert Brownell Jr.2 Magda Lupescu2 Jean Kirkpatrick2

Claims made here

Richard Nixon member_of Republican Party documented ▶ 1:00

“So we're still on the scoundrel time. And that is finishing up chapter eight. We are talking about Richard Nixon. By 1952, Richard Nixon's triumph. My daughter's here to get the baby. Richard Nixon's …”

Drew Pearson exposed Richard Nixon documented ▶ 1:31

“But on September 29th, Drew Pearson, Washington's leading muckraker, dropped a bombshell on Nixon, one of his favorite targets. That briefly threatened to end his political career. The story was part …”

Richard Nixon funded Nicolae Malaxa book_quoted ▶ 4:53

“Melaxa's, let's see, where'd I go? Senator Nixon, who pulled strings on his behalf to allow him to continue living in the U.S. and procure a major tax break for him. Pearson knew that Nixon had perfor…”

Nicolae Malaxa paid Richard Nixon book_quoted ▶ 5:21

“There was indeed a smoking gun, a $100,000 check from Malaxa deposited in Nixon's Whittier bank account, but Pearson was unable to get his hands on it. In a twist of bad luck for Nixon, one of the tel…”

Allen Dulles headed CIA documented ▶ 5:50

“in the exile community, who in turn forwarded the copy of the check to their contact in the CIA, Gordon Mason, chief of agency's Balkans desk. By fall of 1952, Allen Dulles was the number two man at t…”

Frank Wisner recruited Nicolae Malaxa book_quoted ▶ 6:49

“As he had long demonstrated, Frank Wisner was quite willing to recruit from the ranks of the fascists for his espionage operations in Eastern Europe, many of whom he had even passed immigration author…”

Allen Dulles recruited Nicolae Malaxa book_quoted ▶ 8:13

“in the U.S., which they used as an advocacy group in order to further the CIA's operations. Despite Wisner's feelings, he realized that Alan Dulles was deeply implicated in the Romanian unsavory story…”

Nicolae Malaxa funded Iron Guard book_quoted ▶ 12:02

“the mistress. Despite the debt he owed the king's mistress for her patronage, the ever opportunistic Malaxa began currying favor with the Iron Guard as the group grew more powerful, financing its acti…”

Iron Guard overthrew King Carol II documented ▶ 12:02

Nicolae Malaxa carried_out_attack Iron Guard book_quoted ▶ 12:29

“With Hitler's influence expanding into Romania, Malaxas made another move, merging his industrial empire with that of Hermann Göring's brother Albert. Your interests, my dear Mr. Malaxas, are the same…”

Nicolae Malaxa funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 16:52

“of landing on his feet. He is considered to be essentially a dangerous type of man. None of that mattered to Alan Dulles when Malaxa turned up in his office at Sullivan and Cromwell. The pertinent fac…”

Allen Dulles funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 17:23

“which had stretched from Buenos Aires to Bucharest, Malaxa secured Dulles' influential help in his battle to stay in the U.S. Some of Malaxa's treasure went to prominent Romanian exile leaders who hop…”

Richard Nixon funded Western Tube Corporation book_quoted ▶ 19:22

“Malaxis and Nixon tried a different tact. With the help of Nixon's cronies in Southern California, Malaxis announced that he was setting up a pipeline factory in Whittier that he called the Western Tu…”

Walter Bedell Smith covered_up Richard Nixon book_quoted ▶ 21:16

“Smith demanded that Mason immediately gather up every scrap of incriminating material against Nixon and bring it into his office. The story was cleaned from the books, said Mason. Wisner, too, had no …”

U.S. Department of Justice pardoned Nicolae Malaxa documented ▶ 21:43

“and Nixon swept to a decisive victory, winning 55% of the vote and carrying 39 of the 48 states. After Republicans' triumph, Dulles and Nixon were finally able to speed Malaxa's immigration case throu…”

C. Wright Mills exposed The Power Elite book_quoted ▶ 25:37

“even as an approximate model of how American system works. Instead, Mills wrote in his masterpiece, The Power Elite, America was ruled by those who control the strategic command post of society, the b…”

Tom Hayden founded Fort Huron Statement host_asserted ▶ 31:32

“were soon to make their impact on history. A young Fidel Castro and Shea Cavera poured over the book in the Sierra Matras mailbox, and at home, Tom Hayden drew heavily on Mills' writing for the Fort H…”

Fidel Castro member_of Students for a Democratic Society host_asserted ▶ 31:32

CIA spied_on C. Wright Mills host_asserted ▶ 32:07

“C. Wright Mills was dead. He had an inconvenient heart attack at age 45. But his critique of the power elite and his sense of its fundamental undemocratic illegitimacy would continue to heavily influe…”

C. Wright Mills founded The Power Elite host_asserted ▶ 32:07

Allen Dulles member_of Imperial Chemical Industries host_asserted ▶ 34:35

“complaining to Lord McGowan, chairman of the Imperial Chemical Industries, about government efforts to control the spiraling power of global cartels. Foster loved global cartels. Quote, the fact of th…”

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 40:54

“This business of working your way up will come as quite a surprise to young Henry Ford or young Jack Howard, the guy that inherited Scripps and Howard. Eisenhower was comfortable in the company of the…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower headed NATO host_asserted ▶ 40:54

Thomas Dewey recruited Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 41:47

“telling him that his differences with the Democrats, particularly when it comes to the party's pro-labor positions, were simply too immense for him to consider it. Meanwhile, Dewey Dulles' group court…”

Allen Dulles recruited Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 42:46

“Foster flew to France, meeting with the general twice at NATO headquarters. You know, where he was there with all of the Nazis. He urged him to run. The two men did not immediately hit it off. Foster …”

Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 43:43

“But the foreign policy paper that Dulles presented to Eisenhower in France was far from dull. The memo, which Foster appropriately titled The Policy of Boldness, urged the next president to take a muc…”

Allen Dulles founded The Policy of Boldness host_asserted ▶ 43:43

Allen Dulles appointed Dwight D. Eisenhower documented ▶ 47:42

“in May of 1952. No one had a broader bipartisan understanding of U.S. foreign policy than John Foster Dulles, the article said. After Foster was sworn in as Secretary of State in January 1953, a posit…”

Allen Dulles headed CIA host_asserted ▶ 49:10

“Foster was a rather secretive person, Adams said. After their initial uneasiness with each other, Eisenhower ultimately decided that even though his Secretary of State was a bit sticky at first, he ha…”

Allen Dulles member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 49:44

“under Eisenhower as his brother did at State. The junior Dulles had worked uncomplainingly for two years as Walter Bedell Smith's deputy director, though he had considerably more intelligence experien…”

Allen Dulles funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 50:12

“Wasn't he? Ha ha. Dulles would chuckle. During the 1952 presidential race, Dulles proved his loyalty to the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign by channeling funds to the Republican ticket through CIA front gro…”

Allen Dulles attempted_assassination_of Joseph Stalin host_asserted ▶ 51:38

“who was all too easy to abandon his scruples because he didn't have any. The deputy CIA director had no qualms about advocating the assassination of foreign leaders. We know. Even presenting a plan to…”

Walter Bedell Smith removed_from_power Allen Dulles host_asserted ▶ 52:08

“As Smith prepared to step down at the CIA, he lobbied against Dulles as his replacement, advising Eisenhower that it would be politically unwise to have the brother of the Secretary of State serve as …”

Jean Kirkpatrick exposed Bay of Pigs host_asserted ▶ 52:34

“and had an impressive espionage resume dating back to the war. But as a career CIA, he also had a well-tuned sense of proper conduct. Years later, Kirkpatrick would be called upon to direct the intern…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Allen Dulles host_asserted ▶ 53:31

“but in the best interest of their actual clients. When Smith began making his case against Dulles, Eisenhower cut him off, telling him that he had already talked to Foster and he was fine with it. Smi…”

Blanche Wiesen Cook founded Declassified Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 54:50

“Eisenhower saw the CIA, along with the Pentagon's nuclear firepower, as the most cost-effective way to enforce American interests overseas. And by interests, he means oligarchs. Presidential historian…”

CIA assassinated Patrice Lumumba host_asserted ▶ 56:54

“It is no coincidence on the day that Eisenhower gave his famous speech, the CIA was murdering Patrice Lumumba. It was not a warning. It was a statement of what he had done. These are crazy people, you…”

Frank Wisner member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 59:39

“Frank Wisner. I have Wisner's book right here. Let me see if he's even mentioned in here, but I know he was working beside him because of some of the same things that are talked about in here. Frank W…”

Nicolae Malaxa member_of Iron Guard host_asserted ▶ 1:00:36

“Beatlesmith's investigators discovered that it was questionable source in Romania gossip circles. They're talking about this guy who had been responsible for the salacious charges that had been levele…”

Frank Wisner spied_on Nicolae Malaxa host_asserted ▶ 1:01:03

“of an equally disreputable Roman steel magnet accused of collaborating with the Germans. So they're basically having a pissing contest. Wisner came into Malexa's sights because immediately after the w…”

Nicolae Malaxa paid Allen Dulles host_asserted ▶ 1:01:38

“was Nikolai's art enemy in America. And Malaxa had hired Alan Dulles. So Wisner's representing one of them and Dulles is representing the other one. And that's how you control the outcome. That's craz…”

Nicolae Malaxa spied_on Frank Wisner host_asserted ▶ 1:02:49

“He had turned up, Hoover had turned up old news that Beadle Smith had earlier checked out and found groundless. But it turned out that the information had been provided by Nicholas Malaxa. Oh, that's …”

J. Edgar Hoover spied_on Frank Wisner host_asserted ▶ 1:02:49

Allen Dulles founded International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes host_asserted ▶ 1:14:58

“They'll be feckless. Yes. But it weakens international treaties, which weakens the IMF. Yes. Tell everybody about the court just real quick for people that are new. Okay. So ICSID, well, that's called…”

Donald Trump removed_from_power International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes host_asserted ▶ 1:19:12

“Trump basically in his executive order said, Venezuela's oil is going to be used for Venezuela. And everything that was done during my first administration is now nil and void, gone. And in addition t…”