The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2

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0:00 Okay. Glad you made it back Bridget. So far so good. Yep. It's the last two days. It's not kicked me out of the space like it does every, every day. So maybe they're making some good changes. Yeah. Yeah. Did you see what I was talking about when that they kept you? I mean, that was pretty crazy, wasn't it? Yes. I mean, I don't know a lot about.

0:32 There was a whole bunch of different people that said different things. I don't know what they were talking about, but I can definitely see in the numbers if we go a couple of. It's the the changes in the numbers are crazy. So anyway, but most of the time people come in and as long as they.

1:02 Go in and like, you know, a few hundred people repost something, it breaks it and then it's fine for several days. Absolutely. So it is breakable. That's what tells me. Yeah, that's what tells me that it's something's going on because it won't be just that day. The numbers increase. They will increase for several days and then they precipitously drop back down.

1:31 That just tells me something weird is going on. But anyway, we will push through it as we always have in the past. Yeah. All right. So I am going to go ahead and get started. If you guys wouldn't mind reposting the space so everybody knows that we've started today.

2:01 We are going to begin a couple of different what will be a multi-day approach to trade unions, unions in general. And the first one, it's not really a long one, so we should definitely get through it. It focuses specifically on Nordic trade unions.

2:31 and transnational anti-communist networks at the beginning of the Cold War. So they go back in this particular essay to November of 1945. It says that Irving Brown, an American, had shown up in Copenhagen. He was doing a major tour.

3:00 of the European continent. So he wanted to visit Denmark. He was a representative of the American Federation of Labor, at the time AFL. And if you guys recall, initially AFL was separate from CIO. Now, of course, we know them as AFL-CIO, but they were separate unions back then. Brown,

3:30 Irving Brown, had been invited by the Danish Federation of Trade Unions. And he began working very closely with them. Brown's visit was basically just to look at what unions look like in the Nordic countries. And basically, he was conducting of all of the Europeans. Again, this is post-World War II.

3:59 They are going to, they being the international syndicate, is going to begin using trade unions to infiltrate countries to basically install dictatorships. So this is, as we have learned, how they go around and do quote unquote surveys to figure out the lay of the land and know which ones they can use and which ones they can't. Irving Brown was the guy for AFL that was doing this tour.

4:27 And he was basically surveying, questioning, doing a lay of the land to know if people were more nationalist or New World Order type people. Because what you're going to see is if the people were nationalist and they were in unions and wanted the best for their country, they're going to call them communist.

4:57 They're going to call them socialists and they're going to attack them because they're looking for pliable areas that they can mesh together to create this bulwark of capability to basically go into other third world companies and like mow them down. Not like literally, although they did that too. I just meant like steamroll the union efforts in those.

5:26 other countries. Basically, what he says is that they did observation, he wrote a two-page report that basically said that the Danish Social Democrats and the quote-unquote communists there had shifted due to a communist infiltration into Denmark, even though

6:00 They had been occupied by Germany, which was anti-communist too. So the parliament elections of October 1945, they had a Denmark communist party receive 18 seats out of 149. So basically, not a lot.

6:32 the Social Democrat Party had received somewhere in the same ballpark. Eiler Jensen, E-I-L-E-R, Jensen, J-E-N-S-E-N, was the president of the trade union there. And the trade union there was called DFTU. He informed Irving Brown.

7:02 that the reason that there was a shift in vote was basically because of the repulsion that the residents in Denmark had to the occupation of Germany, and they associated that occupation with socialists, and that pushed people towards a party which, at least in words,

7:31 meaning the Denmark Communist Party, was for workers' rights as opposed to socialism. And this is a trend, if you guys recall, when we did the regional look in Latin America, anyone that was for workers' rights, and again, I'm not questioning the fact that communism is bad.

7:58 But somewhere in history, there's been a merging of workers' rights with communism. And what people were calling themselves in different periods of time or being labeled really was for workers' rights, not the government ran anything. Because no one wanted the government to run everything. But what they did want...

8:27 is workers' representation in what had been ran as basically an oligarch system where workers had no rights. In 1945, there was a unity negotiation between two of the Danish labor parties. But it basically ended up even worse than before the negotiations.

8:59 as many as 650,000 members out of a population of 4.2 million people that was in the trade union movement on the two opposing sides. The Social Democrats controlled the DFTU and the majority of the trade unions in the country. This Danish trade union movement

9:29 was a movement that was trying to unify the country. There was no parallel trade union structure outside of the DT, DF, TU. It was the most organized. They had one called a Christian trade union, but it was very small and had been marginalized. So Brown's visit provided him the opportunity to appeal to the Americans for support on two fronts.

10:00 Fundraising to reconstruct the European continent and also to begin a propaganda campaign to counter what he coined the quote-unquote Soviet propaganda campaign that he anticipated that was going to be launched in Western Europe.

10:27 The first post-World War contact between the Danish and American trade union movements was his visit. So, the American trade union movement consisted of two big national organizations, the AFL and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the CIO. It was the AFL's activity during this period that became decisive in

11:00 to any future affiliations with the Nordic trade union movement. And therefore, for the purpose of this essay, the author sticks strictly with the AFL. Hold on. Excuse me. The AFL was the organization that was the most anti-communist. And the AFL.

11:28 had disassociated itself from the Roosevelt administration's wartime alliance with the Soviet Union. The AFL considered the Soviet Union a threat even during the war when it was our ally. The AFL, and again, this is kind of self-preservation, right? If you have a communist government, thank you, he said, bless you.

11:59 If you have a communist movement, there's no room for union because they don't give a shit what the workers think. So obviously, the AFL is in a self-preservation mode. They don't want the communist-style government because they all lose their job. Okay, AFL was opposed to any so-called popular front policy that involved anything to do with the Soviet Union.

12:31 The AFL formed an organization called Free Trade Union Committee, FTUC, F-T-U-C. The purpose of the committee was to gather information on and assist the formation of, quote-unquote, free trade unions, and to, quote, fight against totalitarianism on an international basis to ensure free labor.

13:03 Also, they defined free labor as being independent of the state and employers, and supposedly that's what the AFL was all about. Except the AFL, like the CIO later, basically worked on behalf of the oligarchs and not labor at all, in many cases.

13:33 exists a good deal of research on the role that FTUC and its close relationship with the AFL with regards to the private organization that was formed by a group of these labor leaders that were associated with the AFL. It basically functioned as an informal group.

14:02 for international work on behalf of AFL. Let's see. It was labeled a semi-autonomous labor foreign policy unit. Another author, Julia Anster, argued that FTUC worked as a kind of foreign policy think tank, as at best an inadequate one, and in many cases was very misleading.

14:29 The EFTUC also had an operational side of great importance, including contacts and activities in the Eastern European theater as well as Western Europe, and made contributions to the establishment of so-called, quote-unquote, stay-behind networks in Western Europe.

14:56 I'm going to mic drop that for just a second. Let that just simmer for just a second. The AFL and FTUC was associated with creating stay-behind networks in Western Europe. The research indicates that FTUC was an integral part of the structure of AFL, not a separate entity as they wanted people to believe.

15:31 In an internal EFTUC document, it documented the activities that were supported by the General Assemblies of AFL that the committee was always headed by the highest officers of the AFL, that's a quote from it, and was formerly a subcommittee under the International Committee of the AFL.

15:55 So, in other words, although they tried to portray it as a separate entity, it was in no way, shape, or form separate. So, F. Tuck was managed by a legendary team of two people, Irving Brown and J. Lovestone, literally written Lovestone, whose activities had been referred to as one of the, quote, most astounding private initiatives of the Cold War, unquote.

16:28 Brown headed the committee's European office, which was located in Brussels, which, remember, is where NATO moves, in November 1946. From there, Brown toured the European continent with a borrowed typewriter and a suitcase packed full of money. Isn't that weird? And he gave that money to anyone that he thought he could buy.

16:59 Brown sent almost daily reports to Jay Lovestone, who ran F-Tuck from its headquarters in Washington, well, in the U.S. I want to say I looked that up and it was Washington. Lovestone was a person for whom, quote unquote, anti-communism was a personal matter. Lovestone's career in the communist movement had culminated in a brief period as actually being the chairman.

17:29 of the U.S. Communist Party. We've come across him repeatedly. And keep in mind, I'm just going to pause here for a second, in case you're new, almost all of what is proverbial

17:47 referred to as the far right being like National Review and all of those, the young leaders, conservative leaders, whatever that group was called, young Republican leaders, something like that. All of those people that created those organizations at one point for the original ones were affiliated with the Communist Party in the United States. So it's...

18:15 Quite an amazing transformation that you take the Communist Party and then transform them into the quote-unquote right when you've already established a quote-unquote left. Because you have to have both. But they both have to be infiltrated and controlled. Okay.

18:40 In 1929, he fell from grace after the Comintern's Sixth World Congress in Moscow. During the subsequent decade, Lovestone gradually moved into a committed anti-communist. So in other words, he was not well received while he was going to all of the communist activities. And so he just mysteriously decides he's not going to be a communist anymore.

19:11 And he's going to be now a representative of the quote unquote far right. So the AFL film love stones expertise in the subject of communism, a perfect fit for their new anti-communist movement. So they close this section with.

19:38 Along with many others in that decade, the violence and duplicity of the Stalinist regime had caused him to change political directions. And I find that very interesting because obviously Stalin had taken over from the original Bolshevik movement. And there's like...

20:04 three or four distinct phases of communism, as we generically call it, inside the Soviet Union. And somehow he fell out of grace with the Stalinist segment of it. In Europe, the disillusionment of many with Stalin was delayed because fascism and the threat of war postponed a break with the communist ideology. Skepticism and criticism of

20:32 The course taken by the Soviet Union had to give way to the necessity of beating Hitler. Americans were at a comfortable distance from the day-to-day machinations of these efforts. So ex-communists became key figures in the fight against communism. Almost like they are still doing what they originally believed in, but cloaked in something else.

21:02 The war was a turning point for the American trade union movement, which achieved legitimacy and recognition. The AFL used Lovestone to channel funds to parts of the European labor movement that were driven underground and contributed to the resistance against the German occupation. They also learned his knowledge was used on how to organize clandestine activities.

21:32 and make use of front groups. After the war, Lovestone and Brown made use of their European contacts, including Danish ones, allied with leading figures in the trade union movement who had adopted an anti-communist attitude. So, I find that fascinating. They are basically describing the integration and support of

22:03 the AFL in Operation Gladio. Their strategy was to gain influence on the quote-unquote non-communist left. Many European socialists and social democrats may not have been very enthusiastic about the U.S., but they were definitely anti-communist. So you can see

22:30 how the use of the words anti-communist became the rallying cry. It became the maypole that everybody danced around. And propaganda-wise, this has to be a Bernays gold nugget, right? When you find something like this that unifies an entire massive population to hide your evil behind, they're going to run this thing to the ground.

23:01 The FTUC began a campaign against communist influence in the international labor movement. Its first major objective being to break the unity that had risen in the international trade union circles with the establishment of the World Federation of Trade Unions in 1945. The war had transformed the social and political order.

23:28 and brought former opponents in the labor movements together. They then formed resistant movements. The new federation had proclaimed a hard-won unity. In the World Federation Trade Union, the ideology and national boundaries were supposed to be overcome for the greater cause of labor rights. For the first time, both Russians-Americans

23:59 and Europeans, and a long list of third-party countries were represented in the same trade union, international, and to Lovestone's chagrin, they had communist inside of it. So you can see already, without even reading another word of this, you have the AFL that is going to set up

24:31 a counter to the World Federation Trade Union because it's really an integrated, everybody gets along regardless of how your country's ran, trade union about people. They can't allow that, they being the international syndicate. That thing has to be destroyed because number one, they're going to use, they've already decided they're going to use communists as the boogeyman.

25:00 Well, you can't have international organizations with communists in them because then you can't have a boogeyman because they're going to go to these things and they're going to talk. People are going to talk to them and they can't have that. You're not allowed to talk to them. You're not allowed to associate with them. So this thing has to be destroyed. Sorry. And if Stalin was Stalin, how did they even allow to have a World Federation trade union with communists in them?

25:32 It makes you start questioning everything about our history. How do you have a trade union if the government runs everything and workers have no rights? Those are the kind of questions they don't want anybody asking. And so you can't have any of these integrated world bodies. And again, keep in mind, 1945, Russia, Soviet Union, lost over 25 million.

26:03 primarily men, who the hell is in the trade unions, right? So everything about this just has like a million questions going off in my mind. So if the majority of the people that are basically working age people, men, in the Soviet Union were murdered in a world war,

26:32 Wouldn't you want to engage with the rest in bodies like this so that you could co-opt them? Not if you're going to use them as a boogeyman. They have to be isolated, weirded out, and we have to be propagandized to hate them. This should be a red flag to everything that the government tells you that you have to hate. The Scandinavian National Organizations

27:03 joined the WFTO, the World Federation Trade Union. In a meeting of the Nordic national organizations in July of 1945, there was a common statement issued. Strong and well-disciplined labor organizations united in a powerful international federation would have been able to prevent the rise of Hitlerism to power and influence. We could have prevented the war.

27:31 This insight should be reason enough for a trade union movement to avoid divisions and internal disagreements in the future. International cooperation of workers of the world is a prerequisite for a secure world peace. Well, shit, you've got to go there because that's not what we have in mind. Nordic trade unionists believe that an international trade union federation would actually have been able to prevent.

28:02 the Second World War. And again, the oligarchs wouldn't have got rich off the Second World War. So you see the problem building. Eiler Jensen had been elected as a representative of a Nordic national organization. Personally, Jensen believed that in order to maintain good cooperation, a prerequisite that would be necessary, that he was going to have to be the

28:34 used as a guardian against any future war. The reoccurring bone of contention in the World Federation Trade Union was an organizational statute. The conflict was about the autonomy and independence associated with national organizations under the umbrella of international organization. Eiler Jensen proposed the need.

29:08 to be able to control certain aspects. Immediately upon returning home in July of 1946 from a meeting of the World Federation Trade Union that had happened in Moscow, Eiler Jensen reported to the labor movement's Nordic Cooperation Committee that the Soviets did not wish to make any concessions to the trade secretariats.

29:39 In Jensen's opinion, efforts should be made to make them a part of the World Federation Trade Union, but under their terms. Another statement, quote, we should not nourish any illusions. The new trade union international will be bigger but not stronger than the old one.

30:08 The trade union international is totally dependent upon whether the UN achieves success or not. Strong differences exist in the trade union international. Later on, he is quoted as saying, the Nordic trade unionists gave up the idea that the international solidarity of workers would be able to prevent any conflict. So he's already...

30:38 sabotaging anything that's going to work. In 1947, the American government proclaimed that both the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was a thing. Parallel to official U.S. diplomacy, the other trade union, EFTUC, launched a labor diplomatic offensive that was intended to convince all the European trade union movements

31:07 to embrace the Marshall Plan. Now, keep in mind, the Marshall Plan was partly used to set up Operation Gladio. Kelly says the rumble sound is worse than here. I don't know what that means. It seems rumble might be glitching, actually. Some people have even gotten thrown out. Okay. Great. We've got spaces working and now rumble's screwed up. And we've got bots attacking on both sides.

31:44 It's not surprising. Nothing we can't handle, I guess. Okay. Okay. All right. So, I don't know what to do about the sound. Let's see. Okay. At the same time, there was a split forming, thanks to people like our buddy over here, Jensen, in the World Federation Trade Union movement.

32:19 Of course, the communists were not interested in the U.S. using a Marshall Plan because their view was they were basically just buying the allegiance of all of Europe, which basically they were, under the guise of rebuilding Europe. And no doubt understood that.

32:43 because they used it against the Soviet Union almost immediately, that the stay-behind network that Dillon had already created and was already using against the Eastern European countries to destabilize them, like we read in Albania and several other places, they definitely knew what was going on. So, of course, they're not interested in the Marshall Plan at all. So the F-TUC...

33:12 uses the Soviets' reluctance to embrace the Marshall Plan as the wedge. So they're going to say that because the Soviet Union is part of the WFTU, that their lack of embracing the Marshall Plan is going to be the reason why you have to use the FTOC option.

33:37 and not a body that includes the Russians because they're definitely against the Marshall Plan. So again, this is a way of buying your friends and setting up what's going to be used as Operation Gladio, the stay-behind units with Marshall Plan funding, and ostracizing further the Soviet Union. So in 1947, metal workers...

34:06 International Trade Secretariat held a Congress in Copenhagen. The leaders, including the Danish, began expressing displeasure with the WFTU and basically started questioning whether or not they wanted to be members. Irving Brown was the American delegate to that body and said that ever since the foundation,

34:35 of the inclusive one, that the AFL had been using the question of trade secretariats to attack the inclusive one. Brown held a long speech that urged the European trade movements to support the Marshall Plan, which would begin the division and ousting of the Soviets from any worker trade union.

35:08 Brown continued his offensive during the first two months of 1948. He met with representatives in as many as 14 different countries in Western European to include the Nordic countries. And Brown wrote to Eiler Jensen, quote, I feel the time is soon coming for action in defense of the international free trade unionism by all of us.

35:38 that have a common belief and goal, meaning no communists. Then he also said that he wanted all of the Scandinavians to convene trade union conferences and embrace the Marshall Plan, which would further ostracize the Soviet Union. And Brown met the party secretary of the Norwegian Social Democrat Party, Hagen Lai.

36:13 Let me spell that. H-A-A-K-O-N-L-I-E. He encouraged Jensen to gather the leaders of all of the Nordic unions and persuade them to support the Marshall Plan. Late in that year in December, Brown informed Lai that Jensen was prepared to meet him. And in the meantime, Jensen had responded that it would be possible.

36:43 to have a completely unofficial conversation about how to proceed. So they end up having a meeting in January of 48, and leaders in the national organizations of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark all get together for a quote-unquote off-the-record meeting.

37:08 a report to Lovestone of that meeting. And they had all decided that by embracing the Marshall Plan, it would be a way of, quote, bypassing the World Federation Trade Union, and that all of that could be done with or without the British, which had also

37:37 registered some hesitation about how to proceed. Jensen promised to do everything in his power to persuade the Nordic colleagues to embrace the Marshall Plan and to collectively then they would approach the British. If Jensen, let's see, they wanted to place the question of the Marshall Plan on the agenda for the next executive meeting,

38:09 of both trade unions. So basically confront the Soviet one of the World Federation Trade Union that had the Soviet membership in it. And obviously the bottom line is everybody came on board with the Marshall Plan and that then created a big rift in the labor union movement.

38:40 They go on to say that the DFTU announced support immediately for the Marshall Plan, where in the meeting with the World Federation Trade Union, they made big hay out of the fact that the Soviet Union was not wanting the Marshall Plan. And then at the end of the day, they use that as a justification to denounce the inclusive trade union.

39:07 and go with the one that wanted to ostracize. Again, it's just this manipulation of how this thing works is just crazy. So the DFTO then participated in establishing a thing called the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. In 1949, the Western Oriented Trade Union International, with the AFL,

39:41 playing a major role, and with Eiler Jensen as its vice chairman, was formed. Through its affiliation with the ICFTU, that's the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the DFTU became involved in intelligence work, no kidding, and transferring funds to anti-communist forces in the trade union movement.

40:11 in Western Europe, which, by the way, is Gladio Units. So they are using this newly formed international union to support, stay behind Gladio Units in Western Europe and to try to create ones or reestablish ones that are inside of Eastern Europe.

40:38 And what's interesting about that is if you guys remember when we were talking about Galen being put in charge of the BND and like Albania where they tried to, Galen kept telling Alan Dulles that his stay behind units that he had set up were still active in the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. They were not.

41:03 There's lots of declassified Soviet documents that basically said they found them and killed them all or deported them. But Galen, in order to pretend like he had intelligence from inside the Soviet Union, continued to provide, quote unquote, intelligence to the West to reiterate the fact that he's still relevant.

41:29 There's a whole lot of documentation that basically says, like, for example, when we read that book about Albania, one of the very first operations where we were going in supposedly based on Galen's intelligence, that there were still existing stay-behinds. But they kept sending people after people after people, and nobody came out because every time they inserted them, they got killed.

41:54 One guy finally, after several insertions, made it back out to basically say, there ain't anybody there. They're all dead. But that took a lot of dead bodies in order to figure that out. The same thing was true in some of the other Eastern European countries. And it became very obvious after a while that Galen was full of shit. But, all right, back to the story.

42:27 ICFTU meant that the Danish trade unions contributed towards Denmark's integration into the Western Alliance. And the same thing happened in other Nordic countries to include Sweden, even though officially, militarily, and politically they were neutral. They were very much tied to this network to include the stay-behind units as something other than neutral via these trade unions.

42:55 Over the next decade, more than 150 Danish trade unionists were invited to the U.S. to learn about the productivity and the American way of life. And what most people believe that to be is the CIA facilitating those people to come here and go to specific schools like we were doing with the Cuban exiles and everybody else.

43:21 With these national organizations individually joining the Marshall Plan and breaking the unity of the other trade union, events began to escalate. In France and Italy, where the dominant national organizations maintained their associations with the old inclusive one, competing national organizations were established and strengthened with the aid of the U.S. funding them.

43:50 In practice, there was a division occurring because of the follow the money. In the meantime, the first containers of Marshall Plan deliveries began arriving in Europe. In the major metropolitan ports like Marseille, Genoa, and Naples, physical fights erupted because of different trade union representatives, and it was called the Battle of the Docks.

44:22 there were attempts to sabotage certain deliveries. And local Corsican gangsters and a workforce of Italian strikebreakers were called in to pacify the docks. Now, again, depending on where you read, this is the people that had figured out what was going on.

44:52 was the trafficking of weapons and drugs into these ports, Naples, Marseille, and Genoa. Those were major drug trafficking entries into these countries. And that the Battle of the Docks had a lot more to do with territorial, who's going to be in charge than anything else.

45:18 Brown's efforts in Denmark were supplemented by the U.S. State Department, which saw the Nordic countries as the strongest social democrat bulwark against communist influence. At least that's how they build it. The State Department considered the Danish SD to be more openly hostile to the Soviet Union.

45:44 Eiler Jensen, who built up a close relationship with the U.S. Embassy, read that as CIA, was characterized as a, quote, unquote, conservative sound thinker. Also, quote, one of the key men in the whole Scandinavian area, unquote. Thus, both the American trade union movement and state representatives.

46:09 thought very highly of Jensen. Now, let me just remind you, who else is up there during this time? William Colby setting up Operation Gladio. He was the guy that was tasked to set up all of their stay-behind units. This is not a coincidence. Even though AFL maintained an official distance from the U.S. government in order to protect the image of quote-unquote free labor, in reality, American authorities and trade union movements cooperated on every level.

46:39 The main example of this was the Labor Attaché Program, through which the AL announced the appointment of labor attachés at all U.S. embassies. Brown often attended the coordination meeting where these people were designated. At one stage, Lovestone was accused of having infiltrated the program and abused it for his own activities, which again,

47:06 is all supporting Operation Gladio. Brown's comprehensive overseas activity started to drain the treasury of the AFL in 1948. They were seeking funds elsewhere. Enter the CIA, which with the dawn of the Cold War, benefited from the trade union's network with contacts.

47:33 from all of these meetings that included the communists in Eastern European countries, but also Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The relationship between the CIA, Lovestone, and Brown matured and basically said that other than having a few ruffled feathers based on turf,

48:02 They worked good because they basically were all working towards the same goal. Lovestone regarded the AFL as playing a vanguard role in international union politics and a vital component of the post-war position of the United States, thereby attempting to evade any accountability and often omitted vital information to the CIA to increase his own power, but then used it.

48:33 for financial support. Lovestone also encountered problems with Joseph McCarthy in taking interest in his past and his conspiratorial work methods and had initiated an investigation. McCarthy was stopped by J. Edgar Hoover, who most likely had greater insight into the nature of Lovestone's activities.

49:04 and also said that there were several competing anti-communist strategies inside the United States that merged state and private entities like union representatives. Let's see. There were others who believed that precisely the ex-communists like Lovestone were the best people to be waging the anti-communist movement.

49:38 U.S. experienced problems obtaining visas for the U.S. if you had any quote-unquote communist ties, and yet people like Lovestone came and went at the drop of the hat during that time. An Italian historian by the name of Federico Romero

50:04 emphasized that American intervention in trade union affairs in countries like Italy, where the EFTUC was instrumental in splitting the trade union movement into pieces so that they could control it. Not only because the trade union movement was divided, but because you had the nationalist people.

50:30 And then you had people that they decided they wanted to call communists, even though we later find out that it was really people that they wanted a communist entity to infiltrate it and use it for Operation Gladio purposes. And then you had the people that were basically mafia controlled, all sitting in kind of different buckets, but on purpose for the strategy of tension to work. Okay.

51:05 So basically what they did was set up a thing called free trade unions, which weren't free at all. They were government controlled. There is a practice that Lovestone and Brown set up with this free labor movement, and it says it became paradoxical when the duo employed anti-democratic methods to defend democracy, which is what we see today.

51:38 Lovestone and Brown helped to compromise the very concepts of democracy by pretending to be democratic while they were basically setting up trade unions controlled by fascist oligarchs. In Denmark, the trade union movement was strong and the hegemony of the Social Democrats ensured that it remained a single unitary movement without the different factions.

52:08 Americans came to function as a kind of sovereign mediator between labor and capital, an operator coming from outside who enjoyed authority over both parties and therefore was able to sanction the class compromise, which of course was beneficial of the oligarchs. But they were seen as kind of an outsider. You know, we're all about freedom and democracy. So they use that to their advantage.

52:37 So they used the Western unity and the national financial interest to create trade union solidarity into a cohesive international trade union movement that was able to, in theory, stand up against, you know, big business, but it did exactly the opposite.

53:12 Then you had the launch of the Marshall Plan, and you had all of the labor unions march in lockstep. And it says, let's see, besides the short post-war honeymoon of workers' parties, the actual workers' parties soon began to fade.

53:39 and that coincided with the intensification of the Cold War tensions internationally, which gave birth to the term strategy of tension. Both Americans and Danes favored this unified method, and the Danish industry even embraced centralized planning in order to achieve higher productivity, which at the end of the day made them look more like communists.

54:10 than they were willing to admit. American intervention was a result of some well-placed Danish officials, but also using them kind of as the front to get into Norway and Sweden. So then you have, it says that once you implement the Marshall Plan and the Danish society in its entirety,

54:43 began adopting some very socialist looking welfare state pieces. And at the end of the day, you have a lot of the Scandinavian countries looking more like the very thing they said they were against, which is government ran everything. So the irony can't be lost on anyone.

55:10 And I looked through the notes. I didn't have any that stood out. So that basically does it for the lesson part of the show. Again, when I get these books, and I know they're relative, they have some relationship to Operation Gladio. I'm still shocked every time that I see them mention stay-behind units. Still shocked today. I know I shouldn't be, but I am.

55:41 Okay. Anyway, you want to open it up, Bridget? Yep, absolutely. And I tell you that the, well, when I was doing some searches on these unions, I'm just, I know I shouldn't be shocked. I'm just shocked at how far and how connected and how often, and it's like repeat, repeat, repeat, you know?

56:17 They are not what they appear to be, whatsoever. Well, and now, what's really weird, kind of the disconnect for me, or the continuity, I guess, in some respects, is you go back and you read in history how they are connected, and then you see it playing out in real time. Like the teachers' union being connected to the government, and they don't represent...

56:44 schools or teachers or anything. They're part of the government apparatus. And so we shouldn't be shocked because we're living through it. But our bias wants us to believe in this hologram that we've been living in, that there's some part of it that's real. And the more research we do, the more we verify that not any of it's real. Ron, go ahead.

57:18 I find it very rich that the Soviet Union would be complaining about buying favor when we were basically funding a lot of the stuff that they were doing behind the scenes, unless that was things that they were saying outwardly. I mean, weren't we? I mean, I know we did that during the Bolshevik where we were using. Well, if you wouldn't mind, just mute your mic for just a second, Ron, where we were.

57:53 We weren't funding any of that. The oligarchs in America made use of the Bolshevik Revolution to go over there and electrify Russia to build railroads and do all of that. But they were paid in czar's gold that was basically recycled through Sweden. So I don't know of any of our actual...

58:23 contributions, like as in a Marshall Plan, ever being utilized inside of the Soviet Union. Okay, so I'm wrong in assuming that the United States clandestinely was giving them money or technology or paying them in any way, shape, or form. That was just all business that was exploiting that and it was being allowed to be exploited by the government? So we're talking about the difference of about

58:56 30 years, though. So the Bolshevik Revolution and that, the oligarchs, the Western oligarchs going into Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution happened, you know, in the early part of the 1900s and now we're up to the 1940s. And so there was not a lot, although there were some.

59:25 Actual businesses that are still owned by at this point, like in the 30s and 40s, by the Western oligarchs operating inside of the Soviet Union. There were some. Well, I mean, but they were operating as businesses. Sutton talked about how there were more caterpillars and international trucks built in the Soviet Union than were ever built in the United States. So, I mean, and that was that certainly would have to have happened after.

59:54 World War II. So maybe I'm just using that and extrapolating it out, but I'm just saying that, you know. Well, but those are businesses. That's not a welfare program. Well, but they were businesses, but I mean, they had to have been doing that with the full knowledge of the United States government and being allowed to get away with it. I guess that was kind of the point I was trying to make. It just seems hypocritical that it's like, you know, they are still benefiting. Maybe not. They weren't necessarily benefiting from giving them money.

1:00:24 They were benefiting from us helping their their economy by by having factories and stuff. American businesses having factories using slave labor in the Soviet Union. Maybe that's just what I'm trying to say. But isn't that what happened in Germany? Yeah. I mean, that's exactly what happened in Germany. We had Ford and everybody else over there doing exactly the same thing with Hitler during the war.

1:00:50 Yeah, 100%. I'm not disputing that. I'm saying it seems hypocritical for the Soviets to complain about that publicly when behind the scenes we're essentially giving them, you know, we're helping fund their economy. Maybe not directly by giving them money, but we're still giving, we're still allowing things to transpire that benefit them.

1:01:15 So the Marshall Plan did not include the Soviet Union. Them complaining about the fact that America was buying their friends under the Marshall Plan when in all likelihood, because of the KGB and spying, they knew that the Marshall Plan was going to be used to set up the stay-behind networks as well. And Churchill, before the end of the war, had made it very clear with his Iron Curtain.

1:01:42 comment that they were going to turn the Soviet Union into the boogeyman. That was all well known in the Soviet Union. They are not going to obviously cut their nose off to spite their face and kick out U.S. corporations that have patented capability being manufactured in the Soviet Union. And at the same time, the Soviet Union's willing to participate in a

1:02:12 unionization effort on a world level to join hands, for lack of a better word. And it was the U.S. that formed an alternative world trade thing to not include the Soviet Union because they were on a one track mission to make them the boogeyman. That's what I get out of that. Well, you're right about that. And I think, you know, today we even.

1:02:41 Talk about it. It's like, you know, first world, second world, third world. Well, second world was everything that was essentially Soviet Union. I mean, that was the third world is basically everything that is, you know, poverty stricken places that aren't even that don't measure up to anything. So, you know, I mean, we use that in our vernacular today talking about, you know, making the Soviet Union a boogeyman. So anyway.

1:03:07 I'm agreeing with you. I'm just saying that I just find it a little bit hypocritical that we're complaining about certain things, us buying favor. I mean, they were trying to do the same exact thing with funding, giving weapons and stuff out to all these Soviet or communist satellites. But at the end of the day, I guess I just look at this as it was like...

1:03:30 It was a manufactured boogeyman, and both the Soviet Union and the United States at the highest levels were working in unison with each other. But maybe that's just a little bit too simplified. Yeah, I don't know. You lost me on the U.S. working with the Soviet Union at the highest level. Maybe not at the highest levels, but I'm talking about KGB and CIA.

1:04:01 manufacturing wars so that they could have proxy wars all over the place. More like Vietnam and Korea. Obviously, those wars transpired, but at the same time, the higher-ups were working together to make sure that those things happened because they wanted to make sure it's like the bankers funding both sides of wars. I guess that's the point that I'm making. Again, I'm probably oversimplifying it.

1:04:29 Anyway, I'll shut up. Okay. Okay. Stellar, go ahead. Well, I was going to ask Ron because like, okay, so I used to spend a lot of time overseas and I had a friend who went with Putin on the inaugural flight when he first became president 30, 40 years ago, whenever.

1:04:46 Anyway, this man used to work at the embassy. He probably was KGB thinking about it because he worked at the embassy in London as well as the one in New York and worked with the UN. Well, anyway, he's an attorney. His wife is really, really good friends with.

1:05:03 You're talking about that deal that happened in the 70s with Caterpillar. And it was with the highest. It was through the finance minister because she worked in that office during that time and stuff. So I don't know if it was like an Operation Gladio type of a thing or if it was just literally just a, you know, who knows nowadays. It was Operation Gladio. Every company seems to have or embedded within the CIA. So I don't know. But I just wanted to say that. I mean, I can try and get a hold of Olga.

1:05:32 And see, because they live in Russia and see if she can talk with you. But she wouldn't. They don't know anything about this Operation Gladio because I've talked to them. So you're talking and we're talking different time frames here. And that's why I want to make clear this. What we just read is happening in the mid 40s. By the 70s, there was an active effort to engage the Soviet Union in order to westernize it.

1:06:01 and try to get the engagement going under the guise of, because again, one of the problems that everybody had with JFK being on the inside was him trying to have conversations with the Soviets because his philosophy was if you engage them, you stop pushing.

1:06:25 the countries in Latin America and everybody else into their arms by trying to overtly take over those countries. And JFK was adamant about the fact that he wanted to engage. Obviously, there's a lot of people, they're still using them as the boogeyman that did not want that to happen. And so you definitely had some give and take. The farther away from World War II we got,

1:06:53 the more the engagement increased. I agree. I agree with that because JFK pissed off so many people, but one, you know, one of the elements that he pissed off with the American generals, because essentially he wanted to, he wanted to work in cooperation with the Soviets, call off the space race and work in cooperation with the Soviets. And that was like, that was totally antithetical to the military brass. But anyway.

1:07:21 Well, the military brass had this crazy, which I, again, I bought into the fact that we were all about nonproliferation and the military wanted to use tactical nuclear weapons at every opportunity. One of the parts about this journey that's been the most shocking to me is how many declassified messages has general officers at the four-star level in these high-level meetings.

1:07:48 actively promoting the use of tactical nuclear weapons in every engagement we were in, even minor engagements. It was quite shocking, actually. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Well, around the Centers of Unions, I've added to the nest. I'm not sure we got to the 1960s, but I've added some links between Jay Pritzker. He's, I think, the father of both Penny and J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois and Penny's.

1:08:15 the head of the Harvard Corporation, I think, which runs Harvard and appointed Cloudy and Gay. There's kind of an interesting revolving door there with a lot of the capital that the Teamsters Union's pension fund engaged in. I'm not sure if you've run into this before, but there's some interesting links between Jimmy Hoffa.

1:08:43 You know, who is kind of controlled by the Chicago mob and a number of different corporations out there, including, you know, at least he wasn't. I'm not going to give it any more innuendo than that. But there does seem to be a link between the Teamsters and funding Hyatt House. So in Whitney Webb's book, amongst other books, there is a.

1:09:13 intermingling of union pension funds and covert operations and shell companies and everything else. There is a huge intermingling. And yes, Jimmy Hoffa has come up in several different books. Again, because of the close ties.

1:09:41 of the union people to covert operations, the close ties of union people to the mafia, which has close ties to Operation Gladio. So you can't go into any of these operations without tripping over that topic. I'll just say that. So if I told you that J.B. Pritzker

1:10:09 is standing there basically saying that if Trump wants to get rid of illegal aliens, he's going to have to get through me on the one hand. And then on the other hand, you got Penny Pritzker, the chairman of Harvard, who's appointing Claudine Gay. And Claudine Gay is promoting all kinds of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and also trying to get rid of researchers, including, what was his name?

1:10:38 Roland Fryer, this black economics professor there who basically showed that there wasn't any difference in outcomes between, you know, white people and black people in inner city policing. And they were trying to basically instead promote this narrative that black people are well, that there's differences between races and that and to try to pit people against each other. Would any of that surprise you at all? No, because.

1:11:07 They use universities to create those frictions. Sorry. Go ahead. We were going to say the same thing. Strategy of tension, I think. Yes. Yes. So they keep in mind their quote unquote survey teams go into.

1:11:29 countries and they find the fault lines. They find the centers of friction and they exacerbate them. So no, I don't find it at all surprising that someone would find the fault line of race in America and then they would do everything that they could to quote-unquote document through bullshit research with grants and USAID grants from the American people and these foundation grants.

1:11:57 to generate rot, garbage bullshit, to reinforce an idea that doesn't exist, and then use them as the experts in the area, and then also use that power to squash anybody doing independent research that didn't get any of those grants that are actually producing honest research. So no, I would not find any of that surprising. One last, she got nominated by Michael McFall.

1:12:27 who was on the board of Hamilton 68 and was the U.S. ambassador to Russia inside the State Department. McFaul is one of the worst. He is, I am convinced 100% that he's CIA. He is one of those guys that fits the perfect description of a corrupt State Department official that is on the inside of the belly of the beast.

1:12:58 One hundred percent. SR 71. Go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everybody for attending. And sorry about the trolls over there on Rumble. We took care of it. All that said, we're talking strategy attention all the way across the board. And what's been discovered and what I've come to realize is that strategy attention can be anything from racism to.

1:13:27 Identity crisis to you name it. And if they can't find something, they will create it as they did in Vietnam by moving people, mass migration to pit them against each other. It's unbelievable the extent that these cretins will go to to make humans do some of the absolute.

1:13:57 Worst things that can possibly be done. And it just it just makes me angry. Well, and obviously that's what we're watching happen with the influx of illegals into all of Western countries all along. Go ahead. Yeah. Colonel, just relating to, you know, your emphasis on the AFL.

1:14:26 you know, which was definitely kind of on the side of the CIA internationally during the Cold War, you know, for all this of this gladio style shenanigans. I think it's like really worth noticing that the split between the AFL-CIO, right, it was

1:14:56 The CIO was active, which was, you know, technically it was they were the CIO was the less skilled workers. Right. Who had not been as well organized as the AFL had been like by Samuel Gompers since the like 1880s. Right. And so then, of course, we as we all learn in high school, the CIO became kind of on the map.

1:15:24 in the New Deal during the sit-down strikes led by Walter Reuther. However, in 1947, they're kind of like frozen out because of the McCarthyism and a bunch of folks or leaders are fired. And then, you know, there's the formal merger of the AFL-CIO in 1955.

1:15:56 McCarthyism was very strong and the CIO was not really flexing, as it were. They were kind of like a junior partner. They entered the partnership in a position of weakness in 1955 because of McCarthyism and because they'd kind of been deflated by 1947. So, however, what's really incredibly important is, you know, Walter Reuther's...

1:16:24 putting the UAW behind the march on Washington in D.C. And the reasons that that's important is because, you know, if you look at the CIO and how they differed from the AFL, you know, the CIO was more racially integrated. And that had been a way of dividing, you know, the unions earlier. Like the AFL was more white.

1:16:54 And it was, you know, often, you know, racist against less skilled and black workers and even black skilled workers. They could, you know, were discriminated against getting the AFL. So this was seen as, you know, from in terms of the oligarchy and employers, it was a way of, OK, well, we'll accept some unions, but the AFL will be a way of accepting some unions while keeping the.

1:17:24 workers divided between skilled and non-skilled. And the other thing that the CIO had was they were much more flexible about recent immigrant workers, whereas the AFL was more nativist. And these differences, by the way, parallel the earlier differences in Chicago between the AFL versus the Knights of Labor in 1886. And the Knights of Labor had been kind of

1:17:53 similar to the cio in 1886 but they were you know the haymarket riot was kind of a gladio operation in 1886 to wipe out the knights of labor so there's a lot of parallels there but just to sum up all this um the really important part of course is the cio getting stronger in the mid-1960s and this parallels also what we were talking about yesterday with the civil rights movement turning

1:18:22 into more economic issues and foreign policy issues, whereby the AFL, led by George Meany, he was a supporter of the CIA intervention in unions in foreign countries, like the A-field, the means by which the CIA and the AFL work together to intervene in foreign countries. And whereas Walter Reuther was much more skeptical about that, he...

1:18:52 He saw how the CIA was manipulating the unions to, in fact, control labor and not really help, you know, the workers. And above all, you know, George Meany and Walter Reuther dippered on Vietnam. And then, of course, Walter Reuther joins RFK and MLK in the 1968 RFK campaign. And then Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers.

1:19:22 dies in his second plane crash, both of which were since joining the RFK campaign of 1968. And I just want to, you know, I know I'm rambling on here, Colonel, but I just want to ask listeners to kind of think about this for a second. I mean, you have a Democratic Party who, you know, the 1968 RFK campaign is what they pretend.

1:19:51 To be all about. Comma man. Like we're for the working class. We're for the. We're all. We all want all races together. Oh but wait a minute. When all races were getting together. Including the working class. That was. Met by three. CIA assassinations. It was sabotage. Yeah. So why are the Democrats.

1:20:22 I mean, not not only are the Democrats refusing to ever say a single word about this, but the fake left is at least as quiet about it, if not more so. I mean, I've tried to spread this all over the Internet and the left gatekeepers will block me instantaneously because they because you're talking about the truth. Yeah. So in the next chapter, we talk about the CIO a little bit. It does come up.

1:20:50 So we'll cover that tomorrow. And you're right. Anytime the Rainbow Coalition, any movement that has everybody in it is going sabotaged 100 percent, just like the union that we just talked about, an international body that had everybody there. But you can't have everybody there because it's going to ruin the whole mantra that the Soviet Union.

1:21:18 doesn't have workers' representatives or anything else like that because they want to isolate whoever they're going to use as a boogeyman so that no news gets in or out, just like they did with North Korea. They used that for decades as a boogeyman. And you have to be completely isolated if that narrative is going to work. And we need to understand that.

1:21:43 It's a lesson that we did not learn early enough. And I believe it's still being used against us right now. So that's why history is so important. And I do want to say something. I'm going to have to go here in just a second because it's Wednesday and it's family dinner night. You guys are going to hear people that you respect say things that are inconsistent with

1:22:13 what we have learned to be real history. And because I don't want to, it puts me in a rock and a hard place because some of the people that I still hold in respect are commenting about things that I know to be not true.

1:22:46 I don't know why they're doing it. I don't know if there's something bigger going on to draw attention to it, much like with the Panama Canal. And then we went in and we said what the real deal was. And as it turns out, there are things happening. But just because things are happening and there's some agreement now to sell those to port companies, you have to look into those port companies that they're selling them to.

1:23:14 One of the guys that's a majority owner in that company is a bad guy in Italy that I've come across his name a couple of different times. And he has very close connections with drug running because he's a major ship owner. We are not going to just because we see things happen.

1:23:37 in the news, stop doing what we're doing. We're not going to stop researching. It's going to get uncomfortable for some people. I understand that. But I'm not ever going back to sleep. I'm not going to just because somebody that I respect says something, I'm going to not say something to correct them.

1:24:01 And I want to use, because I have promised you guys that I would name names, and I'm going to be 100% honest with you guys. I want to share with you an example of what I'm talking about. This happened several months ago. It is not a current thing. Boone Cutler, who I absolutely love to death, made a comment about Taiwan and China.

1:24:30 You guys all know that we have completely blown out of the water a lot of misinformation about that relationship. It was all brand new to me when I discovered it two years ago. I had no idea any of that information was true. So I hold everybody to that same standard. If it's not presented to you or told to you.

1:25:00 that likely other people that grew up in similar circumstances don't know it either. So I posted a very long response going over the basic points of history and why that relationship is still rocky given the U.S.'s role in it. And he DM'd me, didn't respond to me publicly, DM'd me and said, thank you for...

1:25:32 providing that information, I'd love to discuss further with you, which of course I gave him my phone number and would have loved if he had called me. He did not call me. We've never discussed it since. One of you guys, bless your heart, responded to him in a very aggressive way and not a nice way.

1:25:58 the police on speech. I respond all the time in not nice ways. That's not in any way a knock. But he comes back to that person and says, oh, by the way, I responded to her in a DM and thanked her for her information. And that publicly was the end of that conversation. But he has never reached out to me. And that has happened to me so many times. So I just want you to know.

1:26:27 That just because we place these people in positions of respect doesn't mean that they know everything. And it doesn't mean that we need to keep information that we have learned to ourselves either. So when you guys see me speak out, it doesn't mean that I don't like the person. It doesn't mean that I've lost respect for that person. It just means I feel like I now have an obligation, having done the research that I've done,

1:26:57 to put real truthful information out there, even when it's not comfortable. It is not comfortable for me to say something to someone like Boone Cutler, who has written books. I've never written a book. And it is very uncomfortable, but I'm still going to do it. And I'm sorry if it makes you uncomfortable, but I'm still going to do it. I want you to understand why I'm doing what I'm doing.

1:27:27 It doesn't mean that I don't like them and I don't respect them, but I'm not going to keep my mouth shut. SR-71, did you have something else? And then I've got to run. Yes, ma'am. I just want to say thank you for that because we all know, everyone here I'm sure knows, if we don't keep calling it out, it's going to happen again. So I really appreciate that. And I think everyone else here does as well. Thank you, Colonel. Yeah, no problem.

1:27:57 All right, guys, take care and I will be back tomorrow and hopefully Rumble will be working better tomorrow. Take care, everybody.

Entities here

Soviet Union25 Danish Federation of Trade Unions23 Marshall Plan19 AFL-CIO16 Denmark15 Irving Brown13 Operation Gladio12 Eiler Jensen12 Free Trade Union Committee11 United States9 Jay Lovestone8 John L. Lewis8 William Green5 French Communist Party5 Sweden4 Free Trade Union International3 Reinhard Gehlen3 Penny Pritzker3 West Germany3 J.B. Pritzker3 Albania3 Congress of Industrial Organizations3 Walter Reuther3 Norway3 Joseph Stalin3 Social Democrats USA3 George Meany2 Copenhagen2 Italy2 Harvard Corporation2 United Auto Workers2 1968 United States presidential election2 International Brotherhood of Teamsters2 Genoa2 Jimmy Hoffa2 Marseille2 Naples2 Battle of the Bulge2 Haakon Lie2 Strategy of tension2

Claims made here

Irving Brown member_of AFL-CIO documented ▶ 3:00

“of the European continent. So he wanted to visit Denmark. He was a representative of the American Federation of Labor, at the time AFL. And if you guys recall, initially AFL was separate from CIO. Now…”

Irving Brown recruited Danish Federation of Trade Unions documented ▶ 3:30

“Irving Brown, had been invited by the Danish Federation of Trade Unions. And he began working very closely with them. Brown's visit was basically just to look at what unions look like in the Nordic co…”

Eiler Jensen member_of Danish Federation of Trade Unions documented ▶ 6:32

“the Social Democrat Party had received somewhere in the same ballpark. Eiler Jensen, E-I-L-E-R, Jensen, J-E-N-S-E-N, was the president of the trade union there. And the trade union there was called DF…”

Free Trade Union Committee founded AFL-CIO documented ▶ 12:31

“The AFL formed an organization called Free Trade Union Committee, FTUC, F-T-U-C. The purpose of the committee was to gather information on and assist the formation of, quote-unquote, free trade unions…”

AFL-CIO funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 14:56

“I'm going to mic drop that for just a second. Let that just simmer for just a second. The AFL and FTUC was associated with creating stay-behind networks in Western Europe. The research indicates that …”

Free Trade Union Committee front_for AFL-CIO book_quoted ▶ 14:56

Irving Brown funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 16:28

“Brown headed the committee's European office, which was located in Brussels, which, remember, is where NATO moves, in November 1946. From there, Brown toured the European continent with a borrowed typ…”

Irving Brown headed Free Trade Union Committee documented ▶ 16:28

Jay Lovestone headed Free Trade Union Committee documented ▶ 16:59

“Brown sent almost daily reports to Jay Lovestone, who ran F-Tuck from its headquarters in Washington, well, in the U.S. I want to say I looked that up and it was Washington. Lovestone was a person for…”

Jay Lovestone member_of French Communist Party documented ▶ 16:59

Free Trade Union Committee targeted_for_regime_change Danish Federation of Trade Unions documented ▶ 23:01

“The FTUC began a campaign against communist influence in the international labor movement. Its first major objective being to break the unity that had risen in the international trade union circles wi…”

Marshall Plan funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 33:37

“and not a body that includes the Russians because they're definitely against the Marshall Plan. So again, this is a way of buying your friends and setting up what's going to be used as Operation Gladi…”

Irving Brown recruited Eiler Jensen documented ▶ 36:13

“Let me spell that. H-A-A-K-O-N-L-I-E. He encouraged Jensen to gather the leaders of all of the Nordic unions and persuade them to support the Marshall Plan. Late in that year in December, Brown inform…”

Eiler Jensen member_of Free Trade Union International documented ▶ 39:41

“playing a major role, and with Eiler Jensen as its vice chairman, was formed. Through its affiliation with the ICFTU, that's the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the DFTU became invol…”

Danish Federation of Trade Unions member_of Free Trade Union International documented ▶ 39:41

Danish Federation of Trade Unions funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 40:11

“in Western Europe, which, by the way, is Gladio Units. So they are using this newly formed international union to support, stay behind Gladio Units in Western Europe and to try to create ones or reest…”

Reinhard Gehlen covered_up Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 41:03

“There's lots of declassified Soviet documents that basically said they found them and killed them all or deported them. But Galen, in order to pretend like he had intelligence from inside the Soviet U…”

Soviet Union assassinated Operation Gladio documented ▶ 41:03

U.S. State Department funded Danish Federation of Trade Unions host_asserted ▶ 45:18

“Brown's efforts in Denmark were supplemented by the U.S. State Department, which saw the Nordic countries as the strongest social democrat bulwark against communist influence. At least that's how they…”

William Colby headed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 46:09

“thought very highly of Jensen. Now, let me just remind you, who else is up there during this time? William Colby setting up Operation Gladio. He was the guy that was tasked to set up all of their stay…”

Joseph McCarthy spied_on John L. Lewis host_asserted ▶ 48:33

“for financial support. Lovestone also encountered problems with Joseph McCarthy in taking interest in his past and his conspiratorial work methods and had initiated an investigation. McCarthy was stop…”

J. Edgar Hoover covered_up John L. Lewis host_asserted ▶ 48:33

Free Trade Union Committee funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 50:04

“emphasized that American intervention in trade union affairs in countries like Italy, where the EFTUC was instrumental in splitting the trade union movement into pieces so that they could control it. …”

Winston Churchill targeted_for_regime_change Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 1:01:15

“So the Marshall Plan did not include the Soviet Union. Them complaining about the fact that America was buying their friends under the Marshall Plan when in all likelihood, because of the KGB and spyi…”

Jimmy Hoffa member_of International Brotherhood of Teamsters host_asserted ▶ 1:08:43

“You know, who is kind of controlled by the Chicago mob and a number of different corporations out there, including, you know, at least he wasn't. I'm not going to give it any more innuendo than that. …”

International Brotherhood of Teamsters funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:09:41

“of the union people to covert operations, the close ties of union people to the mafia, which has close ties to Operation Gladio. So you can't go into any of these operations without tripping over that…”

Walter Reuther supported March on Washington documented ▶ 1:16:24

“putting the UAW behind the march on Washington in D.C. And the reasons that that's important is because, you know, if you look at the CIO and how they differed from the AFL, you know, the CIO was more…”

Haymarket Riot carried_out_attack Knights of Labor host_asserted ▶ 1:17:53

“similar to the cio in 1886 but they were you know the haymarket riot was kind of a gladio operation in 1886 to wipe out the knights of labor so there's a lot of parallels there but just to sum up all …”

Walter Reuther headed United Auto Workers documented ▶ 1:18:52

“He saw how the CIA was manipulating the unions to, in fact, control labor and not really help, you know, the workers. And above all, you know, George Meany and Walter Reuther dippered on Vietnam. And …”