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Keen On Democracy
Episode 2536: Is Spying an Un-American activity?

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 39:38


Is spying an un-American activity? Not according to Jeffrey Rogg, whose new book, The Spy and the State, tells the story of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present day. Rogg explores America's ambivalent relationship with espionage, arguing that spying is often viewed as "un-American" and yet necessary. he discusses key figures in American intelligence history such as OSS founder “Wild” Bill Donovan as well as shameful episodes like the botched Bay of Pigs invasion. Rogg highlights how these agencies reflect American society's strengths and weaknesses, and warns against over-politicizing intelligence. Throughout history, he emphasizes, Americans have gotten the intelligence community they've "bargained for." Which is certainly one way of thinking about SignalGate and the current state of American intelligence. 5 take-aways * Americans have historically viewed spying as a "necessary evil" that contradicts core American values of transparency and forthrightness, creating an inherent tension in the intelligence community.* Intelligence agencies often reflect the broader society - during crises, they tend to surveil minority groups, showing how America's fears manifest in intelligence operations.* Major intelligence failures (like the Bay of Pigs) and domestic surveillance represent dark chapters that have eroded public trust in intelligence institutions.* Political polarization of intelligence agencies is dangerous - when appointed leaders and career officials are at odds, it creates a toxic environment for effective intelligence work.* The intelligence community struggles to keep pace with technological advances, creating challenges for modern operations (as seen in the Signal Crisis and COVID work-from-home limitations).* Jeffrey P. Rogg is Senior Research Fellow at the Global and National Security Institute at the University of South Florida. He previously held academic positions at the Joint Special Operations University at US Special Operations Command, the Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel, and the National Security Affairs Department at the US Naval War College. He has a BA from Swarthmore College, a JD from Villanova University, an MA in Security Studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a PhD in history from The Ohio State University. He serves on the boards of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence and the Society for Intelligence History. He lives in Tampa, Florida.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

SpyCast
“An Imperial History of the CIA” – with Hugh Wilford

SpyCast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 63:58


Summary Hugh Wilford joins Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss his new book. Hugh is a professor, author, and leading CIA historian.  What You'll Learn Intelligence Imperial influences on American intelligence Key figures in CIA history  “Wild” Bill Donovan & British influence Groton School's impact on CIA leaders Reflections Inherited history Challenging established narratives And much, much more … Resources  SURFACE SKIM *Spotlight Resource* The CIA: An Imperial History, Hugh Wilford (Basic Books, 2024) *SpyCasts* The British Monarchy and Secret Intelligence with Rory Cormac and Richard Aldrich (2024) The Past 75 Years with Historian of the CIA Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (2022) The 75th Anniversary of the CIA with former Director Robert Gates (2022) DEEPER DIVE Books A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA, R. Jeffreys-Jones (Oxford University Press, 2022)  Spymasters: CIA Directors, C. Whipple (S&S, 2020) A Brief History of the CIA, R. Immerman (Wiley, 2014) Primary Sources  Sherman Kent Obituary (1986) Maj. Gen. Edward G. Lansdale to go to South Vietnam (1965)  CIA Review of the World Situation (1947) Lester to Truman re Centralized Intelligence (1947)  National Security Act (1947) Intelligence Remarks of Major General William J. Donovan (1946) *Wildcard Resource* Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling As Hugh mentions in this interview, this book was the inspiration behind Kermit Roosevelt Jr.'s nickname, Kim. Harold Adrian Russell Philby, the infamous member of the Cambridge Spy Ring better known as Kim Philby, took inspiration from the same source.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sportsmen's Nation - Whitetail Hunting
No Lowballers - Spy History, Firearms, Gadgets & The International Spy Museum

Sportsmen's Nation - Whitetail Hunting

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2024 29:56


On today's show with GunBroker.com, we're talking all about spies! We open up with Allen going over the International Spy Museum. He talks about technology that we use today in our everyday life that at one point was used by spies in military aspects. One of those examples is Bluetooth, which was an early spy communication and also used as a torpedo guidance system that we now use for things like talking on our phones in our cars or to connect your smartwatch to your phone. Logan dives into just how crazy the secrecy is within the espionage world and gives an incredible example of the DEER gun, which most intelligence agencies still deny its existence. Tune into this episode brought to you by GunBroker.com, to hear all about espionage and the world of spies! We dive into the history of Wild Bill Donovan and how he's linked to Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond novels. Ian Fleming was asked by Bill Donovan to put together a memo that then became the charter document for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. There's a rumor that as a thank you for the memo, Ian Fleming was gifted a Colt Police Positive that was chrome plated and engraved “For Special Services” by Bill Donovan but that gun has yet to be seen! Closing out we go over our favorite bits of espionage history. The group has some interesting favorites, from using a civilian to take out your target, to trying to assassinate Fidel Castro by poisoning his beard. We also go over if everyone could only have one piece of spy gear, what would they choose to have? Dan tells us about being disappointed that his first ever pair of dress shoes didn't have a hidden compartment. If you could get your hands on one piece of spy gear what would you choose? The show launches every Thursday morning. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sportsmen's Nation - Big Game | Western Hunting
No Lowballers - Spy History, Firearms, Gadgets & The International Spy Museum

Sportsmen's Nation - Big Game | Western Hunting

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2024 27:56


On today's show with GunBroker.com, we're talking all about spies! We open up with Allen going over the International Spy Museum. He talks about technology that we use today in our everyday life that at one point was used by spies in military aspects. One of those examples is Bluetooth, which was an early spy communication and also used as a torpedo guidance system that we now use for things like talking on our phones in our cars or to connect your smartwatch to your phone. Logan dives into just how crazy the secrecy is within the espionage world and gives an incredible example of the DEER gun, which most intelligence agencies still deny its existence. Tune into this episode brought to you by GunBroker.com, to hear all about espionage and the world of spies!We dive into the history of Wild Bill Donovan and how he's linked to Ian Fleming, the author of James Bond novels. Ian Fleming was asked by Bill Donovan to put together a memo that then became the charter document for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. There's a rumor that as a thank you for the memo, Ian Fleming was gifted a Colt Police Positive that was chrome plated and engraved “For Special Services” by Bill Donovan but that gun has yet to be seen!Closing out we go over our favorite bits of espionage history. The group has some interesting favorites, from using a civilian to take out your target, to trying to assassinate Fidel Castro by poisoning his beard. We also go over if everyone could only have one piece of spy gear, what would they choose to have? Dan tells us about being disappointed that his first ever pair of dress shoes didn't have a hidden compartment. If you could get your hands on one piece of spy gear what would you choose?The show launches every Thursday morning. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

The John Batchelor Show
#Londinium90AD: What is the 21st Century mission? Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2023 8:14


#Londinium90AD: What is the 21st Century mission? Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA Hardcover – October 17, 2023 by  Liza Mundy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Sisterhood-Secret-History-Women-CIA/dp/0593238176 1945 Wild Bill Donovan, OSS

ParaPower Mapping
UNLOCKED - ALTERED STATE FASH ACTORS (Pt. III): Hypno Harvard Pledge Week w/ Dr. Estabrooks, Dr. Murray, & ARTICHOKE Seeds

ParaPower Mapping

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 100:52


***Klonny here. I've unlocked the charting of Harvard & Colgate Unis as mind control nexuses aka "ASFA (Pt. III)" for your listening pleasure; make sure to subscribe to the Patreon to access Pt. IV & V of the ASFA series. We'll be getting red-in-the-face & across a brand new, surprise EP sometime in the next few days... A momentary interlude from our ongoing ASFA & Nazi Occultism series*** Subscribe to: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Hey there, Theta Chi & Masonic Templar MK-ULTRA Dr's class of 1926! Welcome back to campus. It's Hypno Harvard Pledge Week. Time for a mini-dive into the formation of the Harvard Psychology Clinic & the lives of some of the MKULTRA & intel-affiliated doctors that graced its halls w/ their hypnosuggestive whispers & scraped the brains of "shell shocked" WWI veterans. We're talking Herr Doctors Estabrooks, Murray, Langer, Beecher, Morton Prince, Orne, Cameron, Milton Erickson, etc. & a veritable sanitarium of hypnotherapists & mad MK scientists who I don't have the time to list this second. We're back in MasSUSchusetts for a second before we take that transatlantic Hindenburg zeppelin flight (waft? float?) and touch down in Babylon Babelsberg Berlin. A Lowell-Lawrence makes an appearance in this one; as does Alfred North Whitehead.  We spend half our time w/ Murray, his work in agent profiling for the OSS & British Intelligence, his lover's sexually-fraught mentor-mentee relationship w/ Carl Jung, Murray's work w/ Walter Langer, with whom he'd write the psychoanalytical report on Hitler at Wild Bill Donovan's behest. There's more Wild Bill in this one—+ good old J. Edgar Hoover! You'll hear the voice of Admiral & CIA Director Stansfield Turner from the MKULTRA hearings briefly, as well as numerous clips from the 1970s TV documentary "Mission Mind Control". We spend the meat of the EP on George H. Estabrooks, his 1943 text "Hypnotism", his role in formulating MK & super courier procedures, his Cardinal Mindszenty propaganda, the fact that he & Hitler both suffered gas attacks in Ypres (Belgium), the fact he was likely hypnotized after said disastrous experience on the Western Front, his 33° wedding in Rome, & his many, many sus scientific, military, & academic connections. We break it all down, showing how he began consulting w/ MID, the War Dep't, & the OSS years & years before BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, or MKULTRA came in to being... Perfectly encapsulating my argument that WWI hypnotherapy prefigured modern American mind control.  Oh yeah, and like basically every frickin' MK Dr. is a Harvard Crimson.  Songs:  | The Kinks - "Brainwashed" |  | Michael Abels - "Hypnosis" (Get Out OST) |  | Mission of Burma - "Learn How" |  Clips from the previously mentioned ABC doc "Mission Mind Control", as well as the intro to an interview w/ Dr. Henry Murray

ParaPower Mapping
UNLOCKED - ALTERED STATE FASH ACTORS (Pt. II): Hypnotherapy, American Legion, Wild Bill Donovan, Pelley, & the Rise of American Fascism

ParaPower Mapping

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023 74:43


Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping. I've unlocked ASFA Pt. II in anticipation of Parts 4 & 5 dropping a little later today! Subscribe to the PPM Patreon to access the complete investigation: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping⁠ The description's going to be relatively brief. I've been scraping out my ears w/ passenger seat audio editing & late night hotel recording over the past couple days... Because I've been hurrying to get you this crucial second part ASAP—as they were initially intended to be a single piece—the description's a lil rushed. Rest assured I'll return to give the full PPM liner notes treatment (does anybody read these things, anyways?). This is the second installment of a multipart interlude in our Comp. Paranoid Analysis of Nazi Occultism. We continue w/ our retelling of the metamorphosis of William Dudley Pelley, this time plumbing the depths, combing for possible repressed materials & unconscious memories of hypnotization that may have slipped through the veil of his "Seven Minutes in Eternity". From there, we plummet through the medical machinery that recycled the war neurotic doughboys of WWI into placid-eyed, strikebreaking stormtroopers for the capitalist-enforcing paramilitary founded by the very same industrialists who planned the Wall St. Putsch. Our nosedive through the intersections of the American Legion; their lobbying & fundraising work to bring a slate of brand new psych hospitals for veterans into existence in the post-war years; the influence that wealthy industrialists, military careerists, & figures like Wild Bill Donovan, founding father of the CIA, had on these efforts; and the use of hypnotherapy on shell shocked patients will, ultimately, bring us to the inevitable question of whether the American Legion & military hypnotherapy is a part of the same mind control lineage as Project ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, & MK-ULTRA. Along the way, we list some of the repo-baby, capitalist-class-defending founding officers of the American Legion... We also get to talk a little Wild Bill Donovan, who was a part of the group of four who initially conceived of the anti-communist (*ahem* fascist *ahem*) veterans paramilitary in direct response to Bolshevism, which once again broaches the question: are the Legion, the Wall St. Putsch, and the AL's approach to military psych treatment the predecessors of MK today? NOTE: Apologies if the audio is a little wonky in places &/or there are more ambient sounds than usual. You already know about the hotels n traveling—it was a PAIN. Songs: | Linda Jones - "Hypnotized" |  | "The American Legion March" |  | Protomartyr - "A Private Understanding" |

ParaPower Mapping
ALTERED STATE FASH ACTORS (Pt. III): Hypno Harvard Pledge Week w/ Dr. Estabrooks, Dr. Murray, & ARTICHOKE Seeds [TEASER] - Comp. Paranoid Analysis of Nazi Occultism Cont'd...

ParaPower Mapping

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2023 52:47


Hey there, Theta Chi & Masonic Templar MK-ULTRA Dr's class of 1926! Welcome back to campus. It's Hypno Harvard Pledge Week. Time for a mini-dive into the formation of the Harvard Psychology Clinic & the lives of some of the MKULTRA & intel-affiliated doctors who prowled its halls w/ their hypnosuggestive whispers & scraped the brains of "shell shocked" WWI veterans. Subscribe to the PPM Patreon to access the back half of this EP: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping We're talking Herr Doctors Estabrooks, Murray, Langer, Beecher, Morton Prince, Orne, Cameron, Milton Erickson, etc. & a veritable sanitarium of hypnotherapists & mad MK scientists who I don't have the time to list this second. We're back in MasSUSchusetts for a minute before we take that transatlantic Hindenburg zeppelin flight (waft? float?) and touch down in Babylon Babelsberg Berlin. A Lowell-Lawrence makes an appearance in this one; as does Alfred North Whitehead.  We spend half our time w/ Murray: his work in agent profiling for the OSS & British Intelligence; his lover's sexually-fraught mentor-mentee relationship w/ Carl Jung; Murray's work w/ Walter Langer, with whom he'd write the psychoanalytical report on Hitler at Wild Bill Donovan's behest. There's some more Wild Bill in this one—+ good old J. Edgar Hoover! You'll hear the voice of Admiral & CIA Director Stansfield Turner from the MKULTRA hearings briefly, as well as numerous clips from the 1970s TV documentary "Mission Mind Control". We spend the meat of the EP on George H. Estabrooks: his 1943 text "Hypnotism"; his role in formulating MK & super courier procedures; his Cardinal Mindszenty propaganda; the fact that he & Hitler both suffered gas attacks in Ypres (Belgium), plus his probable hypnosis after said disastrous experience on the Western Front; his 33° wedding in Rome; & his many sus scientific, military, & academic connections. We break it all down, showing how he began consulting w/ the MID, the War Dep't, & the OSS years & years before BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, or MKULTRA came in to being... Perfectly encapsulating my argument that WWI hypnotherapy prefigured modern American mind control.  Oh yeah, and like basically every frickin' MK Dr. is a Harvard Crimson or passed through there. A shit ton of them came through Estabrooks's Colgate hypnosis symposiums, which we also detail. Oh, & there's a Julian & Aldous Huxley sighting, too. Songs:  | The Kinks - "Brainwashed" |  | Michael Abels - "Hypnosis" (Get Out OST) |  | Mission of Burma - "Learn How" |  Clips from the previously mentioned ABC doc "Mission Mind Control", as well as the intro to an interview w/ Dr. Henry Murray

ParaPower Mapping
ALTERED STATE FASH ACTORS (Pt. I): Hypnotherapy, Automatic Writing, Ether Polka, Pelley, and the Rise of American Fascism—Comp. Paranoid Analysis of Nazi Occultism

ParaPower Mapping

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 75:40


Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping. The description's going to be relatively brief (only temporarily, will return to give the full PPM liner notes treatment), as I'm hurriedly uploading this EP while I have WiFi before I have to get back on the road.  Subscribe to the PPM Patreon: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping This is the first installment of a multipart interlude in our Comp. Paranoid Analysis of Nazi Occultism—Pt. II is close behind. We continue w/ our retelling of the metamorphosis of William Dudley Pelley, this time plumbing the depths, combing for possible repressed materials & unconscious memories of hypnotization that may have slipped through the veil of his "Seven Minutes in Eternity". From there, we plummet through the medical machinery that recycled the war neurotic doughboys of WWI into placid-eyed, strikebreaking stormtroopers for the capitalist-enforcing paramilitary founded by the very same industrialists who planned the Wall St. Putsch. Our nosedive through the intersections of the American Legion; their lobbying & fundraising work to bring a slate of brand new psych hospitals for veterans into existence in the post-war years; the influence that wealthy industrialists, military careerists, & figures like Wild Bill Donovan, founding father of the CIA, had on these efforts; and the use of hypnotherapy on shell shocked patients will, ultimately, bring us to the inevitable question of whether the American Legion & military hypnotherapy is a part of the same mind control lineage as Project ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, & MK-ULTRA.  Along the way we'll dig into the ether addiction epidemic in Poland and automatic writing's influence on culture & William Dudley Pelley's transmutation. NOTE: Apologies if the audio is a little wonky in places &/or there are more ambient sounds than usual. Recorded these two EPs in hotel conference & bedrooms, and it was a PAIN, lemme tell ya.  Songs:  | Scott Walker - "Opening" (The Childhood of a Leader OST) |  | Andrew Sisters - "Beer Barrel Polka" |   | PJ Harvey - "When Under Ether" | 

ParaPower Mapping
ALTERED STATE FASH ACTORS (Pt. II): Hypnotherapy, American Legion, Wild Bill Donovan, Pelley, & the Rise of American Fascism (TEASER)—Comp. Paranoid Analysis of Nazi Occultism

ParaPower Mapping

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 18:51


Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping. Here's the teaser for ALTERED STATE FASH ACTORS (Pt. II). Subscribe to the PPM Patreon to access the complete investigation: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping⁠ The description's going to be relatively brief. I've been scraping out my ears w/ passenger seat audio editing & late night hotel recording over the past couple days... Because I've been hurrying to get you this crucial second part ASAP—as they were initially intended to be a single piece—the description's a lil rushed. Rest assured I'll return to give the full PPM liner notes treatment (does anybody read these things, anyways?). This is the second installment of a multipart interlude in our Comp. Paranoid Analysis of Nazi Occultism. We continue w/ our retelling of the metamorphosis of William Dudley Pelley, this time plumbing the depths, combing for possible repressed materials & unconscious memories of hypnotization that may have slipped through the veil of his "Seven Minutes in Eternity". From there, we plummet through the medical machinery that recycled the war neurotic doughboys of WWI into placid-eyed, strikebreaking stormtroopers for the capitalist-enforcing paramilitary founded by the very same industrialists who planned the Wall St. Putsch. Our nosedive through the intersections of the American Legion; their lobbying & fundraising work to bring a slate of brand new psych hospitals for veterans into existence in the post-war years; the influence that wealthy industrialists, military careerists, & figures like Wild Bill Donovan, founding father of the CIA, had on these efforts; and the use of hypnotherapy on shell shocked patients will, ultimately, bring us to the inevitable question of whether the American Legion & military hypnotherapy is a part of the same mind control lineage as Project ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, & MK-ULTRA. Along the way, we list some of the repo-baby, capitalist-class-defending founding officers of the American Legion... We also get to talk a little Wild Bill Donovan, who was a part of the group of four who initially conceived of the anti-communist (*ahem* fascist *ahem*) veterans paramilitary in direct response to Bolshevism, which once again broaches the question: are the Legion, the Wall St. Putsch, and the AL's approach to military psych treatment the predecessors of MK today? NOTE: Apologies if the audio is a little wonky in places &/or there are more ambient sounds than usual. You already know about the hotels n traveling—it was a PAIN. Songs: | Linda Jones - "Hypnotized" | | "The American Legion March" | | Protomartyr - "A Private Understanding" |

Our American Stories
“Wild Bill" Donovan, America's Top Spymaster

Our American Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2023 30:17 Transcription Available


On this episode of Our American Stories, “Wild Bill" Donovan was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals—the man President Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. “Wild” Bill was the director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency). He is known as the founding father of both the CIA and the military's Special Operations Forces—along with being credited as the father of psychological and cyber warfare. Here to tell the story is Douglas Waller. He is the author of the bestseller, Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage.  Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ghosts of Arlington Podcast
#94: The Spymaster Who Created Modern American Espionage, Part V

Ghosts of Arlington Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2023 43:15 Transcription Available


As the war in Europe draws to a close, Wild Bill Donovan once again tries to convince FDR of the need for a centralized intelligence service - but when the president suddenly dies, he has to deal with a new chief executive, Truman, who he is not familiar with. All this while also helping Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson prepare for with will be known as the Nuremburg Trials.After the war, he goes back to his private practice, at least until a new president, Dwight Eisenhower, has a new job for him to do.This week's Ghosts of Arlington is US Army Major General William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan who is buried in Section 2, Grave 4874.The introduction and transition music heard on the podcast is composed and recorded by the eldest Ghosts of Arlington, Jr. While the rest of his catalogue is quite different from what he's performed for me, you can find his music on bandcamp.com under the names Caladrius and Bloodfeather.As always, a very special thanks to Mountain Up Cap Company for its continued help to spread the word about the podcast on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/MountainUpCapCompany Climb to Glory!For more information about the podcast visit: ·       The GoA website: https://www.ghostsofarlingtonpodcast.com    ·       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ghostsofarlingtonpodcast·       Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArlingtonGhosts·       Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostsofarlington/ 

School of War
Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"

School of War

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2023 42:33


John Lisle, a historian of science and the American intelligence community and author of The Dirty Tricks Department, joins the show to talk about the World War Two-era Office of Strategic Services and its Research and Development Branch. ▪️ Times  • 01:44 Introduction  • 02:10 “Wild Bill” Donovan • 05:54 Donovan's style  • 08:53 Stanley Lovell • 12:35 An unconventional training process • 16:40 Explosive pancake batter • 19:24 Limpet mines and Java Man • 23:33 A meaningful legacy? • 27:34 Target: Werner Heisenberg • 31:51 WMDs  • 35:40 Truth Serum • 39:02 From OSS to CIA Follow along on Instagram

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
GERINIMO'S GHOST, KAMIKAZI BATS, JULIA'S SHARK RECIPE, AND THE REST OF THE STORY

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2023 62:48


Six great stories today- 1) Gerinimo's Ghost still haunts an old fort in Florida where he was imprisoned for two years; 2), Puppy Love- an urban legend about a California couple who think they smuggled a little dog out of Mexico,; 3) A true and very batty story of a US WWII project to use bats as the delivery method for swarms of tiny incendiary bombs; 4), The story of Wild Bill Donovan, head of the OSS, which became the CIA; 5), The story of Julia Child, who also worked for the OSS before becoming America's top TV chef; and 6) The story of Paul Harvey and his radio show "The Rest of The Story". New Twitter address- @1001podcast Follow Us! ANDROID USERS- 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/ 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a60ec356-c7d0-4535-b276-1282990e46ba/1001-radio-crime-solvers 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMMzA0OTMyMjE1Mg/episode/ZGZjY2U4ZmUtNzMzYi0xMWVkLWE3NzUtMmY1MGNmNGFiNDVh?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwifjrqi8-L7AhViM1kFHQ1nA_EQjrkEegQICRAI&ep=6 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vQURMNzU3MzM0Mjg0NQ== 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20heroes 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories (& Tales from Arthur Conan Doyle) https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20sherlock%20holmes APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Stories From The Old West- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-from-the-old-west/id1613213865 Catch 1001's Best of Jack London- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-best-of-jack-london/id1656939169 Catch 1001 Radio Crime Solvers- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers/id1657397371 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2  Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 History's Best Storytellers (Interviews) on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW Enjoy 1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories and The Best of Arthur Conan Doyle https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-sherlock-holmes-stories-best-sir-arthur-conan/id1534427618 Get all of our shows at one website: https://.1001storiespodcast.com REVIEWS NEEDED . My email works as well for comments: 1001storiespodcast@gmail.com SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! https://.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our American Stories
"Wild Bill" Donovan, America's Top Spymaster

Our American Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2023 30:17


On this episode of Our American Stories, “Wild Bill" Donovan was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals—the man President Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. “Wild Bill" was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency). He is known as the founding father of both the CIA and the military's Special Operations Forces—along with being credited as the father of psychological and cyber warfare. Here to tell the story is Douglas Waller. He is the author of the bestseller, Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

History Homos
Ep. 119 - The O.S.S.

History Homos

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2022 77:02


This week we discuss the activities of the first explicit intelligence service in the United States, formed within the military for use during WW2 and headed by the enigmatic "Wild" Bill Donovan that what would eventually become the C.I.A.. This organization was pivotal in spreading morale breaking propaganda to the Axis powers during the war and innovating the GLADIO "leave behind forces" techniques that would become the C.I.A.'s signature move throughout the 20th century and today. We also examine their role in spreading some of the more salacious rumors of German war crimes that are now considered by mainstream historians to be false. Don't forget to join our Telegram channel at T.me/historyhomos and to join our group chat at T.me/historyhomoschat The video version of the show is available on bitchute, odysee. For weekly premium episodes or to contribute to the show subscribe to our channel at www.rokfin.com/historyhomos Any questions comments concerns or T-shirt/sticker requests can be leveled at historyhomos@gmail.com Later homos --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historyhomos/support

Our American Stories
"Wild" Bill Donovan, Super Spy Extraordinaire

Our American Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2022 38:16


On this episode of Our American Stories, Drew Newman, of JC Newman Cigars, tells the story of cigars in the United States, a story his family played a big part in. “Wild Bill" Donovan was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals—the man President Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. “Wild Bill" was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency). He is known as the founding father of both the CIA and the military's Special Operations Forces—along with being credited as the father of psychological and cyber warfare. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)   Time Codes: 00:00 - The History of Cigars in America 10:00 - "Wild" Bill Donovan, Super Spy Extraordinaire See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Public Theologians
Matt Sutton - The CIA's secret missionary spies

Public Theologians

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 55:54


Ok we've established that the CIA is and has always been an institution that has been up to no good. We've also discussed the fact that Wild Bill Donovan was more than ready from the beginning to use religion as a tool for spycraft both domestically and abroad. This week we complicate matters with the story of the missionary-turned-spies in Germany at the beginning of WWII with Dr. Matthew Avery Sutton discussing his book Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War. We get into the ethics of deceit, of being used by a government apparatus in the extreme circumstances of Nazi Germany. Are there lessons for today? What does it mean to make decisions when there don't seem to be good options? I'd love to hear your feedback on this conversation! Email Casey at dissidentorthodoxypodcast@gmail.com with your thoughts! Support Dissident Orthodoxy on Patreon Rate/Review Dissident Orthodoxy on Apple Podcasts Follow Casey's substack

New Books Network
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 33:35


Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in History
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 33:35


Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

New Books in American Studies
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 33:35


Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

New Books in National Security
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

New Books in National Security

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 33:35


Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

New Books in Religion
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

New Books in Religion

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 33:35


Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

New Books in Christian Studies
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

New Books in Christian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 33:35


Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

New Books in Catholic Studies
Michael Graziano, "Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

New Books in Catholic Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 33:35


Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (U Chicago Press, 2021) investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like “Wild” Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that American agents could use to their advantage. But more tellingly, Graziano shows, American intelligence officers were overly inclined to view powerful religions and religious figures through the frameworks of Catholicism. As Graziano makes clear, these misconceptions often led to tragedy and disaster on an international scale. By braiding the development of the modern intelligence agency with the story of postwar American religion, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors delivers a provocative new look at a secret driver of one of the major engines of American power. Allison Isidore is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association and is an Instructor of Record for the Religious Studies department at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project, producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Out Of The Blank
#1075 - John Ranelagh

Out Of The Blank

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2022 75:10


John Ranelagh is a television executive and producer, and an author of history and of current politics. Author of various books one in particular "Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA" filled with scores of interviews with insiders and more than seven thousand pages of formerly classified documents support this history of the CIA, which focuses on "The Company's" remarkable personalities and leaders from Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/out-of-the-blank-podcast/support

Nudie Reads
Nudie Reads Simple Sabotage Field Manual [S2E14]

Nudie Reads

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2022 39:23


In 1944 Wild Bill Donovan of the US Office of Strategic Service produced a Simple Sabotage Field Manual for citizen saboteurs fighting against Axis powers. It's a short, punchy 78-year old perfectly worded 'how to'. Some of it might even sound familiar.

The Sicilian Corner
The Sicilian Corner 2/25/22

The Sicilian Corner

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2022 56:44


Hi Gang! This week we are preparing for another Friday Snowstorm! We also have Ray DiFiore on with us this week and we have a lot on the agenda. From Famous Merrimack Valley, mutual sucorso, Bernstein, Frost, Goulet, Wild Bill Donovan, Gen Antonelli, Chris Lennertz, Steve Bedrosian and so much more!!   Please join us!   #TheSicilianCorner #Sicilian #TSC #TomZappala #MikeLomazo #Studio21PodcastCafe #UnitedPodcastNetwork   Follow Us On: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSicilianCorner/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-Op7TLxqV7yoqkAfv8KQg   Listen to Us on Podbean: https://thesiciliancorner.podbean.com/ or anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts

TrineDay: The Journey Podcast
62. Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould: America Murdered Afghanistan

TrineDay: The Journey Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2021 24:11


RA “Kris” Millegan talks with Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould about their book, The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond – Allard Lowenstein, Oliver Stone, Wild Bill Donovan (who called his OSS agents Knights Templar), David Ferrie, Carter, Brzezinski, and “The Man Who Would Be King.”#allard Lowenstein, #oliverstone, #wildbilldonovan, #jimmycarter #zbigniewbrzezinski #afghanistaninvasion #paulfitzgerald #elizabethgould #thevalediction

Programmed to Chill
15 - Spyclopedia #1, William Stephenson pt. 4, or, World Radio University Listeners

Programmed to Chill

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2021 36:49


Today we talk again about Wild Bill Donovan's COI and OSS, as well as BSC's Camp X training site. Then we discuss the infiltration of the WRUL and KGEI radio stations by BSC, which included almost total control of information by British agents; it was handed over to US intelligence. Then we talk about the OWI - Office of War Information, the agency in charge of non-black propaganda, the relationship between OSS and SIS, and a frank assessment of Allen Dulles as spy re Fritz Kolbe. I call out some historians, which is reckless; then we talk about US foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, of which there's additional evidence of it via the BSC. Finally, we talk about Gallup polling and it's relationship to spying and population control. It's good stuff, and this is all before Operation Mockingbird even gets started. Check it out.

Programmed to Chill
13 - Spyclopedia #1, William Stephenson pt. 2, or, FBI Foot Guys

Programmed to Chill

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2021 53:28


Today we're talking about the America First movement, the German Bund, and the isolationists. We talk more about Wild Bill Donovan, British ambassadors, the ONI and G2, and especially the FBI, with its legal restrictions and limitations. We talk about the British Imperial Censorship in Bermuda and its letter-opening program, and how they taught the tricks to the FBI. There's weird foot stuff and sexism involved. Then a series of incidents with Italian and German spies in the Americas, and some hypothesizing about why German spying in the US was underwhelming, and some of Germany's very curious links to certain sectors of US industry. Several German spy rings get broken up, and we talk about the frank mail privilege, ending with Nazi propaganda efforts in the US. There are limericks, too.

Programmed to Chill
12 - Spyclopedia #1, William Stephenson pt. 1, or, the Brits are on our side, right?

Programmed to Chill

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2021 51:44


Wouldn't it be pretty bad if FDR sold the American public on WWII with falsified evidence? Ahh that would be bad if that had happened huh? It'd be bad if the British made up a fake Zimmerman Telegram 2.0, for sure. Today we talk about William Stephenson, a British businessman and spymaster who gave pushed the US into WWII. We talk about his early years as a soldier, POW, boxer, businessman, and spy. We also talk about Wild Bill Donovan, FDR, J. Edgar, cash and carry, US destroyer sales to the UK, and so on.

OODAcast
Episode 47: Lessons In Leadership From Ellen McCarthy and Her Journey From Junior Analyst To The Most Senior Echelons of the Intelligence Community

OODAcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2021 53:01


Ellen McCarthy is a highly accomplished and distinguished executive whose career started as a junior analyst and ended up reaching to the very highest echelons of the US intelligence community. In this OODAcast we explore lessons learned from her journey, capturing insights that can inform actions for those at any stage of a career. Ellen’s career began at the office of Naval Intelligence. She then moved to Norfolk and the Atlantic Intelligence Center (where we first met). She moved back to DC and would later lead all intelligence activities for the US Coast Guard as their director of intelligence, then joined DoD’s office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence working strategy and human capital management. Later she led the non profit public private partnership INSA (the intelligence and national security alliance), helping make that organization what it is today. She returned to government service as chief operating officer of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), then later led the firm Noblis as its president. Ellen was then appointed the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (INR), where she lead an organization famed for the highest quality of analysis in the US IC. We examine her leadership style, which was informed by exposure to several types of leaders early on in her career. Over time she developed a knack for creating visions that could help others form up on a unified purpose. She also thrived in the domain of executive action, which could come in incredibly handy when appointed to the number three position at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). We discuss examples of her decision-making and tools any of us can put in place to optimize our perspectives. This includes the strong recommendation to know history. In her case she benefited from a deep dive into the history of one of the great transformational leaders of the intelligence community, Wild Bill Donovan, creator and leader of the Office of Special Services (OSS), a forerunner of the organization she would later lead, the Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael
Weaponizing Anthropology + the CIA & Publishing w/ David H. Price

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 68:35


If you appreciate Parallax Views and the work of J.G. Michael please consider supporting the show through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/parallaxviews On this edition of Parallax Views, David H. Price is a scholar who has been studying aspects of the National Security State from the Cold War onward. In particular, he has written a great deal about the weaponizing of academic anthropology during the Cold War by the National Security establishment in America. His two books, Weaponizing Anthropology and Cold War Anthropology, cover the matters in-depth. Recently he also penned an article for Counterpunch entitled The CIA Book Publishing Operations: Fragments of Sol Chaneles’ Lost Manuscript detailing the CIA's involvement in book publishing during the Cold War (ie: the CIA's promotion of the book Doctor Zhiavago, the Ramparts investigation into the issue of CIA and the publishing world, and more). David Price joins us on this edition of the program to discuss both the weaponization of anthropology and his recent research into the CIA's involvement in the publishing industry as well as giving listeners an idea of how to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and engage in quality research. We also touch on topics like MKULTRA, Don Delillo's observations about the CIA, Cold War liberals in the National Security State apparatus, and much, much more!NOTE FROM THE HOST: Late in the interview I mistakenly refer to William Casey as "Wild" Bill Casey when I was meaning to refer to OSS's "Wild" Bill Donovan.

Mentioned in Dispatches
Ep192 – ‘The Fighting Irish’ – The US 69th Infantry Regiment in WW1- Stephen L. Harris

Mentioned in Dispatches

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2021


American historian and author Stephen L. Harris talks about his recent book Duffy’s War that looks at the wartime service of the US 69th Infantry Regiment, their padre Fr. Francis Duffy and commander ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan during their deployment in France. This book is published by Potomac Books.

Sofa King Podcast
Episode 541: Ian Fleming: James Bond’s Spy Master

Sofa King Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2020 92:43


On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at the life and imagination of Ian Fleming. Fleming was of course, the creator of the iconic James Bond and author of a dozen Bond books, but he was also a key figure in British Intelligence during WWII. In fact, many people say his depiction of Bond is one of the most accurate depictions of what a spy was like during the war. His own exploits involve trying to steal an Enigma Machine, training one of the most important commando-spy units in Great Britain, and even helping draft the key elements of the CIA in Washington, D.C. He was a drinker, a womanizer, an adulterer, and a spy, and the world was made better for him. He was born to a very wealthy family. His grandfather was the founder of a bank, and the family had deep pockets and strong political connections. His father died in the trenches in WWI, and he grew up a smart and inquisitive child (though not one who cared for school work). Eventually, he was sent to a boarding school in Austria where he could train to join the Foreign Office. He applied for work there, but he failed to land a job. So, his mom got him a post as a reporter, and he traveled extensively, even coming close to an interview with Joseph Stalin. When the war started, his mother got him hired as the assistant of Admiral Godfrey, head of Naval Intelligence. From there, Ian Fleming had a sterling career. He wrote a thing called the Trout Memo, came up with plans to steal an Enigma Machine, trained the 30th Commando and worked with the SOE. His men were the epitome of British Intelligence officers, trusted by the Navy, and responsible for securing plans for things like the V-2 Rocket and the Messerschmitt Me 163 fighters. He was also close with Wild Bill Donovan, who was the chief liaison between British and American Intelligence during the war. In fact, the two of them wrote the blueprints for what would become the CIA. After the war, he went back to being a journalist, but was bored to tears by it. His job allowed him three months of vacation every year, and he built a house in Jamaica, called Golden Eye, which is where he would stay. Eventually, one of his long time girlfriends/affairs, was left by her husband (she and Ian were having an affair while also having affairs on each other…). They married, and before the marriage, he was challenged to write Casino Royale, the first Bond story. So how was this book received? What did his friends think, and why did the publisher decide to print it? Where did he get the name James Bond from? What spies and events were his novels based on? How much did he smoke and drink each day? How many affairs did he have? How did the movie deals come to be, and why is JFK key for the success of James Bond? Listen, laugh, learn.   Visit Our Sources: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2018-featured-story-archive/ian-fleming-the-man-behind-the-most-famous-spy.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming https://www.ianfleming.com/ian-fleming/ https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/travel/09Jamaica.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/11/extraordinary-letters-between-ian-fleming-and-wife-to-be-sold https://www.famousauthors.org/ian-fleming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIcFSDa79Y https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/bid/290676/book-collector-s-tidbits-ian-fleming-and-james-bond

Tour Guide Tell All
Julia Child was a Spy? (WWII Special Series)

Tour Guide Tell All

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2020 36:23


"One of the things she worked on was shark repellent. This was a big problem during the war. They were developing explosives to combat German U boats but these explosives were being set of by sharks, so they needed ways to repel sharks from the explosives. This was one of the things Julia Child was working on"Before perfecting the art of French cooking, Julia Child worked at the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. Learn more about her work, her boss, Wild Bill Donovan, and actual spy, Virginia Hall. Support Tour Guide Tell All by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/tourguidetellallComments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.comIf you're interested in in more information, we find these sources helpful:Julia's Marriage to PaulAmerican History Museum: Julia Child's KitchenThe Child's Georgetown DC HomeWild Bill Donovan Bio: CIANew Yorker, Profile on OSSNPR, Virginia HallYou're Listening To: Becca Grawl, Rebecca Fachner, and Canden ArciniegaThe Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan KingIntro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

Black Op Radio
#981a – Douglas Valentine (Part 1)

Black Op Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 49:23


  Douglas Valentine's website: www.douglasvalentine.com Author of many books Book: TDY: Paperback, Kindle Book: The CIA as Organized Crime: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook Book: The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook List of all books by Douglas Valentine Thallo Pictures Ltd has purchased an option on TDY The story of Valentine's dad, a POW in World War 2 DCI William Colby introduced Valentine to a group of CIA officers involved in the phoenix program The CIA's ability to control the media and propagandize people Book: The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle Book: The Strength of the Pack: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle The CIA runs federal drug law enforcement There is no difference between the CIA and The New York Times The CIA and The New York Times work for the same people Wild Bill Donovan and the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Donovan appointed his friends from Wall Street to all the big management positions of the OSS The deep state has a stranglehold on everything The CIA does not overthrow right-wing governments CIA's influence is greatest in the USA The US is now an empire that controls the world CIA = Capitalism's Invisible Army Operation Paperclip and Reinhard Gehlen How the CIA took over the DEA The CIA has also taken over the US Customs The staff of the House of Representatives and the US Senate are run by the CIA Black Op Radio conducted the very first interview of Douglas Valentine on the internet Listen to episodes 19 and 26, Season 1 (2000) Buy the complete Season 1 of BOR for just $10 here  

Virginia Historical Society Podcasts
Lincoln's Spies by Douglas Waller

Virginia Historical Society Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2020 54:03


On January 23, 2020, Douglas Waller delivered the Banner Lecture, "Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation." Lincoln’s Spies is a story about dangerous espionage and covert operations during the Civil War. It is told through the lives of four Union agents. Allan Pinkerton, whose detective agency had already brought him fame nationwide, was George McClellan’s failed spymaster, delivering inflated intelligence reports that made the Union general even more cautious. Lafayette Baker ran counter-espionage operations in Washington for the War Department, putting hundreds in jail and pocketing cash from graft he uncovered. George Sharpe, a New York lawyer, successfully ran spying for generals Joseph Hooker, George Meade, and Ulysses S. Grant, outpacing anything the Confederates could field. Elizabeth Van Lew, a Virginia heiress, ran a Union espionage ring in Richmond, providing Grant critical information as his army closed in on the Confederate capital. And behind these secret agents was Abraham Lincoln who became an avid consumer of intelligence and a ruthless aficionado of covert action. The phone tapping, human collection and aerial snooping you see today’s spies doing can be traced back to the Civil War. Douglas Waller is a former correspondent for Newsweek and TIME, where he covered the CIA, Pentagon, State Department, White House, and Congress. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage; The Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers; and Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan. His latest book is Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save the Nation.

New Books in World Christianity
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

New Books in World Christianity

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 28:15


What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019), historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it. Stephen Colbrook is a graduate student at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policy-making. This work will focus on the political and policy-making side of the epidemic and aims to compare the different contexts of individual states, such as California, Florida, and New Jersey. Stephen can be contacted at stephencolbrook@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Diplomatic History
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

New Books in Diplomatic History

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 28:15


What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019), historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it. Stephen Colbrook is a graduate student at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policy-making. This work will focus on the political and policy-making side of the epidemic and aims to compare the different contexts of individual states, such as California, Florida, and New Jersey. Stephen can be contacted at stephencolbrook@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in American Studies
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 28:15


What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019), historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it. Stephen Colbrook is a graduate student at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policy-making. This work will focus on the political and policy-making side of the epidemic and aims to compare the different contexts of individual states, such as California, Florida, and New Jersey. Stephen can be contacted at stephencolbrook@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in History
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 28:15


What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019), historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it. Stephen Colbrook is a graduate student at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policy-making. This work will focus on the political and policy-making side of the epidemic and aims to compare the different contexts of individual states, such as California, Florida, and New Jersey. Stephen can be contacted at stephencolbrook@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Military History
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

New Books in Military History

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 28:15


What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019), historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it. Stephen Colbrook is a graduate student at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policy-making. This work will focus on the political and policy-making side of the epidemic and aims to compare the different contexts of individual states, such as California, Florida, and New Jersey. Stephen can be contacted at stephencolbrook@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books Network
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 28:15


What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019), historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it. Stephen Colbrook is a graduate student at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policy-making. This work will focus on the political and policy-making side of the epidemic and aims to compare the different contexts of individual states, such as California, Florida, and New Jersey. Stephen can be contacted at stephencolbrook@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Religion
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

New Books in Religion

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 28:15


What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019), historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it. Stephen Colbrook is a graduate student at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policy-making. This work will focus on the political and policy-making side of the epidemic and aims to compare the different contexts of individual states, such as California, Florida, and New Jersey. Stephen can be contacted at stephencolbrook@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Christian Studies
Matthew A. Sutton, "Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War" (Basic Books, 2019)

New Books in Christian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2019 28:15


What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019), historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it. Stephen Colbrook is a graduate student at University College London, where he is researching a dissertation on the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policy-making. This work will focus on the political and policy-making side of the epidemic and aims to compare the different contexts of individual states, such as California, Florida, and New Jersey. Stephen can be contacted at stephencolbrook@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CUNY TV's Conversations with Jim Zirin
Does History Offer Hope in Tumultuous Times?

CUNY TV's Conversations with Jim Zirin

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2019 26:46


Bill vanden Heuvel has been in the trenches with spymaster “Wild Bill” Donovan; run for Congress against John Lindsay; marched with Martin Luther King; accomplished prison reform; and served as Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to the United Nations. He tells Jim Zirin we must understand our history to manage tumultuous times.

Blackbird9s Breakfast club
Wild Bill Summons A Sinister Clown Cabal - Blackbird9 Podcast

Blackbird9s Breakfast club

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2018 133:37


In the First Hour we cover the chaotic events brought on by the teachings of the Frankfurt School Marxists. Their mission has always been to establish a Greater Israel ruled by globalism under the direction of Talmudic Noahide Law and at the same time force all other nations to surrender their independent sovereignty. https://www.blackbird9tradingposts.org/2018/10/03/wild-bill-summons-a-sinister-clown-cabal-blackbird9/In our Second Hour, Wild Bills Summons A Sinister Clown Cabal, the host will look at the history of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). From the symbolism in the stories of Cain, Lamech and Tubal Cain in the book of Genesis, to the tales of Joshua's spies working with the harlot Rahab before the conquest of Jericho, to the Golden Apple of Discord and the Trojan Horse Symbolism in the tales of Homer, to the political assassination of Julius Caesar, to the Order Out of Chaos philosophy of Freemason Albert Pike, to the training of the Glorious Amateurs of Wild Bill Donovan's Office of Strategic Services during World War II, to the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947, to CIA Operations Mockingbird, MK-Ultra, ARTICHOKE, NORTHWOODS, CHAOS, to the scandals of The Bay of Pigs, Iran-Contra and Abu Ghraib the host examines the long history of Spy Craft and the role the CIA has played in Domestic and World Affairs since its founding.

Webcasts from the Library of Congress II
Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan

Webcasts from the Library of Congress II

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2016 56:54


March 7, 2016. Four of the most controversial directors of the Central Intelligence Agency -- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby and Willian Casey -- are the subject of a new book by Douglas Waller, who did much of his research at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Douglas Waller is a former correspondent for Newsweek and Time magazines, where he covered the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House and Congress. He is the author of the best-sellers "Wild Bill Donovan," "Big Red" and "The Commandos." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7246

Pirate Radio Podcasts™
Episode #14 - GONZO Author Todd Brendan Fahey

Pirate Radio Podcasts™

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2016 126:21


Chief Communication Officer Japhy's INTRO / #SNAFU Mea Culpa 4min - #Kraken alert, stormy seas, tech issues & echoes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken http://www.fargonebooks.com/high.html http://www.amazon.com/Todd-Brendan-Fahey/e/B001K91I5G https://medium.com/@ToddFahey/hell-bottled-up-chronicles-of-a-late-propaganda-minister-far-gone-books-2016-74b285b197c3#.xjpa63nse Hell Bottled Up is "an eye-opening, Gonzo journey into the dark heart of John McCain via the strange, twilight world of ultra-Right Arizona politics. Gut-wrenching, humorous and confrontational journalism issued by a propaganda specialist stationed at Ground Zero. Todd Brendan Fahey is one of the most illuminating, renegade minds in contemporary America" - Alex Burns, [former] Editor-in-Chief Disinfo.com 5min30sec - The Worlds' BIGGEST Ever Pirate Story 1989 #USC Professional Writing Program, dabbling in various #psychedelics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelia Paul Gillette #PlayMistyForMe http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067588/ http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/18/us/paul-gillette-58-wrote-play-misty.html #ClintEastwood, Dr. Humphrey Osmond, #AldousHuxley #FrankChurch #MKULTRA #LauraHuxley Al Hubbard is the co-protagonist of #WisdomsMaw: The Acid Novel [Far Gone Books, 1996]: http://www.amazon.com/Wisdoms-Maw-Todd-Brendan-Fahey-ebook/dp/B00FSG7NCE https://web.archive.org/web/20040214095925/ http://www.thememoryhole.org/hubbard/ 14min - #OSS, Wild Bill Donovan, #HankAlbarelli #FrankOlsen https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hank+albarelli+lsd https://duckduckgo.com/?q=frank+olson+lsd 17min30sec - Operation Midnight Climax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax 19min - George Hunter White, Political Blackmail, #AcidDreams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Dreams https://duckduckgo.com/?q=george+hunter+white+operation+midnight+climax 22min30sec - Todd drops an F-BOMB! ( on a Pirate Ship ) Fear & Loathing w/ Al Hubbard's "spooky" archivist, factionalized 30min - #ExclusiveInterview, living in an UN disclosed location, sick & tired of Korea 32min - A String Of Saturdays, 33min - #HellBottledUp 34min - Fear & Loathing in Amsterdam, #SmokeMagazine 38min - #TheWarOnSomeDrugs 39min - Let's Make A Book Deal, signed copies, PDF form, #AmazonReviews http://fargonebooks.com/wisdomsmaw/1/WMchap1.pdf 41min - Timothy Leary hated HST, #WisdomsMaw published 1996, Thompson's publisher #WilliamStankey 43:30min - #KrisMillegan, #TrineDay Publications 45min - #SPINMagazine, 46min - #FarGoneBooks 48min - Mike Kawitsky "Journey To Everywhere" http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Kawitzky/e/B00KX8K7LQ #Neuronauts, #TerrenceMcKenna 51min - #VICEMagazine, Kindle, Amazon bloodsuckers 52min - #DavidBowie, Oh You Pretty Things, #RUSirius, Kenn Goffman, MONDO 2000, True Mutations 56min - #DouglasRushkoff, #Mindsdotcom, take BACK the power 58min - Appear.in video conferencing platform, algorithms, Facebook's AWFUL hashtags 1hr - #EdwardSnowden #AnimalFarm, #BoingBoing Zine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Frauenfelder http://realitysandwich.com/260993/the- future-is-now-an-interview-with-douglas-rushkoff/ 1hr1min - #TPP legitimacy controversy 62min30sec - #JohnPerryBarlow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow https://www.youtube.com/results?q=declaration+independence+cyberspace #BlockChain Technology, decentralized, Digital #CryptoCurrency, #NetFreedom, #CreativeCommons, #TOR 1hr7min - Reality Sandwich.com, #DanielPinchbeck, #BillOttman, #WSBurroughs, The #BeatGeneration 1hr8min - #USENET, #USC, #HighTimes 1hr10min - #DouglasRushkoff, Program Or Be Programed, #WarrenZevon, Enjoy Every Sandwich, #DavidLetterman, #HST does stand-up comedy, #Hunter S. Thompson, Redondo Beach, The Strand Theater, Off the Record, #COCAINE http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rapscallion Hunter as the Pirate King 1hr14min - Bohemian Grove, Todd's Bohemian Grove "friends", Alex Jones, HST infamous snuff allegations https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hunter+s+thompson+snuff+movie&ia=videos #FACTCHECK 1hr16min - #AdamGorightly & the EARLY Discordians, Greg Hill, Kerry Thornley, Robert Anton Wilson, #RAW 1hr18min - #RUSirius, #DavidBowie, #PhilipKDick, the PINK Beam 1hr20min - TBF on the supernatural & paranormal, Man-made UFOS as an #OpenSecret https://duckduckgo.com/?q=secret+man+made+ufos+triangular+tr+3B 1hr21min - #GregBishop, #RadioMisteriso, Pirate Radio Exclusive, Coast to Coast AM, #GeorgeKnapp, depression, suicide, professional struggles, lack of recognition, HST's personal note to TBF July 1997, & helping to save lives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Is_Not_the_End https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=death+is+not+the+end+dylan 1hr27min - #KittyDukakis drinks rubbing alcohol, #JimmyCarter and HST friends? #RUTHLESS https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hunter+s+thompson+on+jimmy+carter 1hr28min - #KennThomas, Konspiracy Kon in Korea ????? #Parapolitics #Spooks #Kooks 1hr31min - #ChejuDo #photography. Wisdom's Maw #screenplay "As your attorney, i advise you to ..." 1hr33min - TBF's CLASS vs. SHIT list, #PaulKrassner ( is NOT DEAD ..... yet ) http://www.paulkrassner.com/ #PaulKanter http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2016/01/28/reports-jefferson-airplanes-paul-kantner-dies/79490508/ #AlAronowitz http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/al-aronowitz-77-a-writer-of-1960s-scene/18088/ 1h37min - Xenophobia in Korea Dr, David A Mason ( Episode #12 of Pirate Radio Poddcast ) http://space-pirate-radio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-28T22_20_40-07_00 1hr38min - Japhy meets Kesey & the Pranksters in #Edinburgh, #WheresMerlin Tour, Grateful Dead, Kesey's Farm, August 1992, #JerryGarcia collapses into diabetic coma http://www.key-z.com/who.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters 1hr41min - #MagicBus #Furthur restored, #Pranksters 50th Anniversary Tour, more #ficitionalization, #HellBottledUp, #FranklinMoore, threats of lawsuits, TBF denied yet again 1hr43min - #ZaneKesey invites Japhy on #Further, #VanMorrison ( on Todd's CLASS list ), #CHANNEL4, #CH4, #JohnCassidy, #JB, #RosslynChapel, Japhy invites Pranksters, #HolyBloodHolyGrail, #DaVinciCode, #DanBrown 1hr45min - #Standford LSD experiments, #MenloPark Veterans Hospital, ground zero for the psychedelic 60's, did it lead to the END of #MKULTRA? FREE PDF download of Wisdom's Maw - Chapter One http://www.tokesignals.com/wisdoms-maw-the-acid-novel-how-it-all-began-2/ 1hr49min - The War on SOME "Drugs", #ERGOT, the #WarOnConsciousness, #MagicMushrooms, prohibiting nature, the Yage Letters, #AllenGinsberg, #Genesis1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yage-Letters-William-S-Burroughs/dp/0872860043/279-5116520-0451153 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kesey+stanford+hospital+lsd 1hr50min - #BiometricBeast, #PoliticalPrisoners, #Fingerprinting, #RetinalScans, SouthKorea, #NannyState, #Confucianism, textbook #Fascism, #CHAEBOLS, "The SIXTIES never happened ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol 1hr53min - #RobertAntonWilson, #RAW, #Austin,Texas, Reverend #IvanStang, #ChurchOfSubGenius, #SantaCruz, #Disinfo DOT com, #ConspiracyCon, #DisinfoCon, TBF saves Uncle Bob's ass & becomes a bonafide POPE of #Discordia 1hr57min - Tech issues be DAMNED! Contact: fargonebooks@gmail.com for digital goodies 1hr58min - http://www.howtoteachenglishabroad.com/blog/9-celebrities-you-wont-believe-taught-english-abroad #MINDS dot com #FANN Fringe Alternative News Network (FANN™) https://www.facebook.com/groups/162594 0707672680/ Pirate-Radio-Podcasts.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/461356700723676/ Pirate Radio Calendar April 16th - Kris Millegan ( #SNAFU CANCELLED ) April 22nd/23rd - #ToddBrendanFahey #GONZO #Journalism April 25th - #EXCLUSIVE #MindsPanel April 29th/30th - #WilliamRamsey #Crowley & the #occult May 6th - #TammyFaye - #NYC Musician & performer May 13th - *Chris Brown #UFOContactee / Todd Winnipeg Alternative Press #WAM https://www.facebook.com/mcdooge May 20th - #AageNost May 27th - Seph N. Havens #MGTOW June first 2 weeks TBA - #JohnFord roundtable, #KrisMillegan June 17th https://www.facebook.com/peterdaley72 #SEWOL #KoreanCults June 24th/25th week #KennThomas #SteamshovelPress #Parapolitics July1st - WEED #Roundtable “Life is real; life is earnest. Death is not the goal” - Hunter S. Thompson to Todd Brendan Fahey, July 1997 Talk to Mark Frauenfelder about Blockchain. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=magic+bus+who+pranksters

SpyCast
Author Debriefing: Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan

SpyCast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2015 51:28


SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author Doug Waller to discuss his new book Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan. The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, Waller tells Houghton the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had—Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan.

The History of WWII Podcast - by Ray Harris Jr
Episode 142- Douglas Waller Interview

The History of WWII Podcast - by Ray Harris Jr

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2015 89:52


Douglas Waller's latest book, Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan. OSS Agents penetrate Nazi Germany for information and acts of sabotage, then face the counter intelligence agents of Stalin's Soviet Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The WW2 Podcast
06 - The OSS - America's WW2 Intelligence Service

The WW2 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2015 42:59


In this episode I talk to Douglas Waller about the Office of Strategic Services, the OSS. The US entered the Second World War with no foreign intelligence service. Roosevelt selected William Donovan, WW1 Medal of Honor recipient, to create an agency based on the British MI6 and SOE. A task he did with gusto. Douglas is a veteran journalist and has work for Time Magazine and Newsweek. For twenty years as a Washington correspondent he has covered the Pentagon, Congress, the State Department, the White House and the CIA. He has written two books looking at the American Office of Strategic Services, the OSS, which was America’s Intelligence service during WWII. His first book on the subject “Wild” Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage is a biography of William Donovan who ran the organisation up until it was disbanded in 1945. His new book Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan takes a closer look at the activities of the OSS, through the careers of four future CIA directors who were active during the war.

The Peace Revolution Podcast
Peace Revolution episode 082: The British Elephant in the American Living Room

The Peace Revolution Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2014 840:00


  Peace Revolution episode 082: The British Elephant in the American Living Room / The Empire Always Listens, and Never ForgetsTo Purchase the HISTORY BLUEPRINT (Richard's Brain Model Organizing History): https://www.tragedyandhope.com/the-brain/ To Donate or Subscribe to the Tragedy and Hope online learning community:https://www.tragedyandhope.com/subscribe/  The Peace Revolution Page (all feeds, formats, and episodes): https://www.tragedyandhope.com/peace-revolution/  Follow Richard on Twitter (@TragedyandHope)Reference Map to Episode 082(0m-1m) Secret Recordings of Donald Rumsfeld suggesting another False Flag attack(1m-3m) 9-11 Plot Revealed in 1996 sample from “Long Kiss Goodnight” film; see also: Emad Salem & Dan Rather's 1993 WTC bombing report involving the FBI's role in the bombing.(3m-3:30m) My Country Tis of Thee meets God Save the Queen (same tune, different words)(3:30m-6:30m) East India Company Timeline / History of Britain: Private Armies and Opium Profits(6:30m-8m) How East India Company works from the film “The Rising” (1857 Indian Uprising against the British Empire / EIC “free market” )(8m-9:30m) Opium Fields guarded by U.S. Troops in Afghanistan / Geraldo Rivera (9:30m-12m) Empire: Opium Trade / Empire Episode 4 BBC (EIC Opium Wars in China)(12m-15m) Empire: Making a Fortune (Jardine Matheson's industrial quantities of opium trafficking, huge influx of wealth into the British Empire, Chinese Emperor dumps 1,000 tons of EIC opium into the sea, free trade & opium wars)(15m-22m) Thom Hartmann / The True Story of the Boston Tea Party (“Beware of the East India Company”, 1773 “Tea Act” giving EIC tax break/refund, Americans dumped tons of EIC opium into the sea. Same gangster tactics of dropping prices and flooding the market of monopoly creation, as used in the monopoly of the opium market, similar to the CIA / “Freeway Rick” Ross network in the 80's-90's.)(22m-26m) 1932 A True History of the United States (LaRouche): Aaron Burr, Lord Shelburne, and Lord Palmerston fuel EIC's British Conquest to Re-Conquer America (ongoing), Adam Smith's ideas on funding tyranny via black markets and monopoly… see also: GCHQ(26m-27m) Aghan Opium Record & GCHQ / New World Next Week with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato(27m-30m) A True History of the CIA and Cocaine by James Corbett with Kris Millegan(30m-33m) Peruvian Cocaine by Immortal Technique(33m-34m) Empire: Making a Fortune / Hong Kong and the East India Company, HSBC opium and EIC slave trading(34m-39m) Lyndon LaRouche Theatre from Saturday Night Live April 19, 1986 see also this link.(39m-40m) God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols(40m-41m) The Real Story: James Bond (Smithsonian Channel) / The “ultimate male fantasy”, is in actuality a psychological warfare media operation to change the attitudes, beliefs, values, and activities of Americans, introducing the British mentality of “torture porn” and subversion of trust on all levels. See also: Ian Fleming and British Security Coordination (41m-45m) The Palmerston Zoo (sample) on Jeremy Bentham, of the East India Company; the Panopticon is GCHQ/NSA surveillance network. “Radical Writers Shop” is a psychological warfare operation, similar to the “Baker Street Irregulars” (James Bond series), and similar to the H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley's roles in political warfare through popular dystopian futuristic media.(45m-50m) Jennet Conant: The Irregulars (Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming) The granddaughter of James Bryant Conant describes the British infiltration of American Intelligence to propagandize America to support the “Allies” in WWII. See also: British Security Coordination and the history of the James Bond Film Franchise (staffed by ex-BSC Irregulars)(50m-1h) Lord Justice Fulford Pedophile Group in Britain attempts to lower age of consent to 4 years old. New World Next Week with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato / Vatican Corruption and drug smuggling, and how the Sinaloa Cartel uses HSBC (Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation), NYSE's Grasso meets with druglords(1h-1h03m) NSA spying and Gun Control/People Control/Slavery from Infowars Nightly News (03-27-2014)(1h03m-1h04m) Dan Bidondi questions R.I. congressman on the 2nd Amendment and gets “Go Fuck Yourself” in response (twice)(1h04m-1h05m) Wire Transfer NSA paid 150 million to GCHQ(1h05-1h25m) Senator Rand Paul speaks at Berkeley Forum: GCHQ and NSA spying / Who's in Control of Your Rights?(1h25m-1h50m) Richard's Introductory Monologue (notes below)To Purchase the HISTORY BLUEPRINT (Richard's Brain Model): https://www.tragedyandhope.com/the-brain/ (1h-50m-3h37m) “Sherpa Pow-Wow” / Review of the Introductory Montage Clips in Context of our ongoing History, featuring Paul Verge and Lisa Arbercheski (Video) Errol Morris discusses The Unknown Known (Book) “A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War” by William Stevenson (1976)  President Roosevelt 1941 speech “secret map” reference p. 297; Donovan sent to Britain by Rockefeller Foundation reference p. xxi, 5; British Security Coordination & creation of the OSS (FDR, Donovan, Stephenson, Fleming) p. 160 – 164; BSC offices at Rockefeller Center p. xxiv, 101 – 104A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War (CFR's Foreign Affairs Review)(Book) “The Corporation That Changed The World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational” by Nick Robins (2006); Reference for: Opium Trade Monopoly p. 119 -120, 155; Opium Wars p. 157- 158, 161- 162, 174; Jardine Matheson p. 141 – 144; Free Trade p. 142; Slave Trade p. 23, 47, 56, 174 Gold Fixing (Wiki) (Book) “The Anglo-American Establishment” by Carroll Quigley (1981) (Book) “Fleshing Out Skull & Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society” by Antony Sutton, Kris Millegan, Howard Altman, Dr. Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin & Webster Tarpley (2003) Lyndon LaRouche (Book) “Dope, Inc.: The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy”  by Executive Intelligence Review (1992) (Book) “America's Nazi Secret” by John Loftus (2010): Kissinger professional spy for Dulles p. 11; Third Reich funded by Wall Street & “the City”, London's financial district p. 12; Hitler funded by Robber Barons of Wall Street p. 13, 17, 198, 228; Wall Street, the CIA, the Muslim Brotherhood & Osama Bin Laden p. 14 - 17)(Book) “Ian Fleming” by Andrew Lycett (1995 Biography): reference for British Security Coordination (BSC) p. 127 – 128, 143, 194; Special Operations Executive (SOE) p. 102, 118, 132, 138; Camp X p. 149; relationship with Wild Bill Donovan p. 120, 124 – 126; BSC & FDR p. 120Ian Fleming: A Biography (Washington Times Book Review)James Bond in Film (Wiki) The Gulag reference: Peace Revolution Episode 047: Slavery is Death / Practical Applications of Irrationality (Book) “History of the Secret Service” by La Fayette Charles Baker (1867)(Video) Norman Dodd The Hidden Agenda for World Government(Book) “Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II” by Jennet Conant (2002)James Bryant Conant (Wiki)(Book) “The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington” by Jennet Conant (2008)(Book) “Ian Fleming” by Andrew Lycett (1995 Biography); Robert Fleming & Company p. 452; GCHQ p. 121(Article) New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations' (reference for Batman, GCHQ, NSA slides) SpyGate archive by Jon RappoportSmart Grid (Wiki) Panopticon (Wiki)Webster Tarpley's “The Venetian Conspiracy” (interview) (3h37m-4h14m) Empire: Making a Fortune (BBC) featuring the East India Company and the “Free Trade” of the Opium Market(4h14m-4h48m) The Irregulars: British Spies in America pre-WWII, a discussion of Jennet Conant's book on Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and David Ogilvy.(4h48m-7h48m) Lord Palmerston's Zoo lecture by Webster Tarpley & Co. / LaRouche(7h48m-10m25m) The British Empire Wants YOU… To be stupid.  / LaRouche EIR(10h25m-11h15m) The History of the CIA and Cocaine by James Corbett(11h15m-13h) Shadows of Power lecture on CFR by James Perloff(13h-14h) Britain's Invisible Empire: The Empire today by Jeff Steinberg / LaRouche EIRWould You Like to Know More?See also: (Audio) Peace Revolution episode 027: DIAMONDS / The Jewel of Denial / Outgrowing Stockholm SyndromePeace Revolution episode 023: How to Free Your Mind / The Occulted (Hidden) Keys of WisdomPeace Revolution episode 046: Liberty is Life / Practical Applications of RationalityPeace Revolution episode 047: Slavery is Death / Practical Applications of IrrationalityPeace Revolution episode 048: The Philosophy of Life / This is John Galt Speaking

The Peace Revolution Podcast (Archive Stream 2006-Present)
Peace Revolution episode 082: The British Elephant in the American Living Room

The Peace Revolution Podcast (Archive Stream 2006-Present)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2014 840:01


Peace Revolution episode 082: The British Elephant in the American Living Room / The Empire Always Listens, and Never Forgets To Purchase the HISTORY BLUEPRINT (Richard's Brain Model Organizing History):  https://www.tragedyandhope.com/the-brain/ To Donate or Subscribe to the Tragedy and Hope online learning community: https://www.tragedyandhope.com/subscribe/  The Peace Revolution Page (all feeds, formats, and episodes):  https://www.tragedyandhope.com/peace-revolution/  Follow Richard on Twitter (@TragedyandHope) Reference Map to Episode 082 (0m-1m) Secret Recordings of Donald Rumsfeld suggesting another False Flag attack (1m-3m) 9-11 Plot Revealed in 1996 sample from “Long Kiss Goodnight” film; see also: Emad Salem & Dan Rather's 1993 WTC bombing report involving the FBI's role in the bombing. (3m-3:30m) My Country Tis of Thee meets God Save the Queen (same tune, different words) (3:30m-6:30m) East India Company Timeline / History of Britain: Private Armies and Opium Profits (6:30m-8m) How East India Company works from the film “The Rising” (1857 Indian Uprising against the British Empire / EIC “free market”) (8m-9:30m) Opium Fields guarded by U.S. Troops in Afghanistan / Geraldo Rivera (9:30m-12m) Empire: Opium Trade / Empire Episode 4 BBC (EIC Opium Wars in China) (12m-15m) Empire: Making a Fortune (Jardine Matheson's industrial quantities of opium trafficking, huge influx of wealth into the British Empire, Chinese Emperor dumps 1,000 tons of EIC opium into the sea, free trade & opium wars) (15m-22m) Thom Hartmann / The True Story of the Boston Tea Party (“Beware of the East India Company”, 1773 “Tea Act” giving EIC tax break/refund, Americans dumped tons of EIC opium into the sea. Same gangster tactics of dropping prices and flooding the market of monopoly creation, as used in the monopoly of the opium market, similar to the CIA / “Freeway Rick” Ross network in the 80's-90's.) (22m-26m) 1932 A True History of the United States (LaRouche): Aaron Burr, Lord Shelburne, and Lord Palmerston fuel EIC's British Conquest to Re-Conquer America (ongoing), Adam Smith's ideas on funding tyranny via black markets and monopoly… see also: GCHQ (26m-27m) Aghan Opium Record & GCHQ / New World Next Week with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato (27m-30m) A True History of the CIA and Cocaine by James Corbett with Kris Millegan (30m-33m) Peruvian Cocaine by Immortal Technique (33m-34m) Empire: Making a Fortune / Hong Kong and the East India Company, HSBC opium and EIC slave trading (34m-39m) Lyndon LaRouche Theatre from Saturday Night Live April 19, 1986 see also this link. (39m-40m) God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols (40m-41m) The Real Story: James Bond (Smithsonian Channel) / The “ultimate male fantasy”, is in actuality a psychological warfare media operation to change the attitudes, beliefs, values, and activities of Americans, introducing the British mentality of “torture porn” and subversion of trust on all levels. See also: Ian Fleming and British Security Coordination (41m-45m) The Palmerston Zoo (sample) on Jeremy Bentham, of the East India Company; the Panopticon is GCHQ/NSA surveillance network. “Radical Writers Shop” is a psychological warfare operation, similar to the “Baker Street Irregulars” (James Bond series), and similar to the H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley's roles in political warfare through popular dystopian futuristic media. (45m-50m) Jennet Conant: The Irregulars (Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming) The granddaughter of James Bryant Conant describes the British infiltration of American Intelligence to propagandize America to support the “Allies” in WWII. See also: British Security Coordination and the history of the James Bond Film Franchise (staffed by ex-BSC Irregulars) (50m-1h) Lord Justice Fulford Pedophile Group in Britain attempts to lower age of consent to 4 years old. New World Next Week with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato / Vatican Corruption and drug smuggling, and how the Sinaloa Cartel uses HSBC (Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation), NYSE's Grasso meets with druglords (1h-1h03m) NSA spying and Gun Control/People Control/Slavery from Infowars Nightly News (03-27-2014) (1h03m-1h04m) Dan Bidondi questions R.I. congressman on the 2nd Amendment and gets “Go Fuck Yourself” in response (twice) (1h04m-1h05m) Wire Transfer NSA paid 150 million to GCHQ (1h05-1h25m) Senator Rand Paul speaks at Berkeley Forum: GCHQ and NSA spying / Who's in Control of Your Rights? (1h25m-1h50m) Richard's Introductory Monologue (notes below) To Purchase the HISTORY BLUEPRINT (Richard's Brain Model):  https://www.tragedyandhope.com/the-brain/ (1h-50m-3h37m) “Sherpa Pow-Wow” / Review of the Introductory Montage Clips in Context of our ongoing History, featuring Paul Verge and Lisa Arbercheski  (Video) Errol Morris discusses The Unknown Known  (Book) “A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War” by William Stevenson (1976)  President Roosevelt 1941 speech “secret map” reference p. 297; Donovan sent to Britain by Rockefeller Foundation reference p. xxi, 5; British Security Coordination & creation of the OSS (FDR, Donovan, Stephenson, Fleming) p. 160 – 164; BSC offices at Rockefeller Center p. xxiv, 101 – 104 A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War (CFR's Foreign Affairs Review) (Book) “The Corporation That Changed The World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational” by Nick Robins (2006); Reference for: Opium Trade Monopoly p. 119 -120, 155; Opium Wars p. 157- 158, 161- 162, 174; Jardine Matheson p. 141 – 144; Free Trade p. 142; Slave Trade p. 23, 47, 56, 174 Gold Fixing (Wiki) (Book) “The Anglo-American Establishment” by Carroll Quigley (1981) (Book) “Fleshing Out Skull & Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society” by Antony Sutton, Kris Millegan, Howard Altman, Dr. Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin & Webster Tarpley (2003) Lyndon LaRouche (Book) “Dope, Inc.: The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy”  by Executive Intelligence Review (1992) (Book) “America's Nazi Secret” by John Loftus (2010): Kissinger professional spy for Dulles p. 11; Third Reich funded by Wall Street & “the City”, London's financial district p. 12; Hitler funded by Robber Barons of Wall Street p. 13, 17, 198, 228; Wall Street, the CIA, the Muslim Brotherhood & Osama Bin Laden p. 14 - 17) (Book) “Ian Fleming” by Andrew Lycett (1995 Biography): reference for British Security Coordination (BSC) p. 127 – 128, 143, 194; Special Operations Executive (SOE) p. 102, 118, 132, 138; Camp X p. 149; relationship with Wild Bill Donovan p. 120, 124 – 126; BSC & FDR p. 120 Ian Fleming: A Biography (Washington Times Book Review) James Bond in Film (Wiki) The Gulag reference: Peace Revolution Episode 047: Slavery is Death / Practical Applications of Irrationality (Book) “History of the Secret Service” by La Fayette Charles Baker (1867) (Video) Norman Dodd The Hidden Agenda for World Government (Book) “Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II” by Jennet Conant (2002) James Bryant Conant (Wiki) (Book) “The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington” by Jennet Conant (2008) (Book) “Ian Fleming” by Andrew Lycett (1995 Biography); Robert Fleming & Company p. 452; GCHQ p. 121 (Article) New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations' (reference for Batman, GCHQ, NSA slides) SpyGate archive by Jon Rappoport Smart Grid (Wiki) Panopticon (Wiki) Webster Tarpley's “The Venetian Conspiracy” (interview) (3h37m-4h14m) Empire: Making a Fortune (BBC) featuring the East India Company and the “Free Trade” of the Opium Market (4h14m-4h48m) The Irregulars: British Spies in America pre-WWII, a discussion of Jennet Conant's book on Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and David Ogilvy. (4h48m-7h48m) Lord Palmerston's Zoo lecture by Webster Tarpley & Co. / LaRouche (7h48m-10m25m) The British Empire Wants YOU… To be stupid.  / LaRouche EIR (10h25m-11h15m) The History of the CIA and Cocaine by James Corbett (11h15m-13h) Shadows of Power lecture on CFR by James Perloff (13h-14h) Britain's Invisible Empire: The Empire today by Jeff Steinberg / LaRouche EIR Would You Like to Know More? See also: (Audio) Peace Revolution episode 027: DIAMONDS / The Jewel of Denial / Outgrowing Stockholm Syndrome Peace Revolution episode 023: How to Free Your Mind / The Occulted (Hidden) Keys of Wisdom Peace Revolution episode 046: Liberty is Life / Practical Applications of Rationality Peace Revolution episode 047: Slavery is Death / Practical Applications of Irrationality Peace Revolution episode 048: The Philosophy of Life / This is John Galt Speaking

World War I Podcast
The Fighting 69th in the Great War - A Lecture by Author Stephen L. Harris

World War I Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2012 24:56


Author Stephen L. Harris visited the Memorial in October 2012 and gave a presentation on “The Fighting 69th” in World War I. As part of the New York National Guard, elements of the 69th Infantry Regiment have participated in five wars to date: the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Iraq War, and Afghanistan. The regiment earned its nickname “The Fighting 69th” during the Civil War, and lived up to this nickname in World War I. In 1917, the 69th Infantry was added to the 42nd “Rainbow” Division and renumbered the 165th Infantry Regiment. The “Rainbow” Division was then sent to France as part of the American Expeditionary Force. Col. Douglas MacArthur served as Chief of Staff of the “Rainbow” Division, and within the ranks of the 165th Infantry were legendary men like Father Francis Duffy, “Wild” Bill Donovan, and Joyce Kilmer.

SpyCast
Author Debriefing: "Wild Bill" Donovan

SpyCast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2011 66:08


“Wild Bill” Donovan was a World War I hero with a Medal of Honor to prove it, a millionaire Wall Street lawyer, and a prominent Republican. Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt chose this brilliant yet disorganized visionary to be his spymaster, head of the World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Veteran journalist Douglas Waller has written a compelling biography of William Donovan. He describes Donovan’s reckless nature: how he needlessly risked his life on foreign battlefields and engaged in extramarital affairs that emboldened his enemies in Washington. Waller also recounts the OSS’s daring operations overseas and the vicious political battles that Donovan had to fight with Winston Churchill, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Pentagon. Donovan’s plans to continue the OSS after the war were defeated, yet the CIA rose like a phoenix from the OSS’ ashes. This event took place February 17, 2011. Get the book: http://www.spymuseumstore.org/wild-bill-donovan-book.html#.Vxk4yJMrJTY

Books & Beyond
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS & Modern American Espionage

Books & Beyond

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2011 61:38


Author Douglas Waller discusses "Wild" Bill Donovan and his role in the OSS and modern American espionage, the subject of his new book. Speaker Biography: Douglas Waller, a former veteran correspondent for Newsweek and Time, has reported on the CIA for six years. Waller also covered the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House and Congress. Before reporting for Newsweek and Time, he served eight years as a legislative assistant on the staffs of Rep. Edward Markey and Sen. William Proxmire. He is the author of the best-sellers "The Commandos: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers," which chronicled U.S. Special Operations Forces, with a lineage tracing back to the OSS, and "Big Red: The Three-Month Voyage of a Trident Nuclear Submarine." He is also the author of "A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial that Gripped the Nation," the critically acclaimed biography of the World War I general.

Sins of Omission Radio
Douglas Waller on 'Sins of Omission' with Host Paulie Abeles

Sins of Omission Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2011 59:42


Join Paulie Abeles of Real Democrats for the popular weekly show “Sins of Omission”--- aimed at giving listeners insight into the topics of the day beyond the nightly news.GUEST: Bestselling author DOUGLAS WALLER talks about his new book "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage"

Sins of Omission Radio
Douglas Waller on 'Sins of Omission' with Host Paulie Abeles

Sins of Omission Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2011 59:42


Join Paulie Abeles of Real Democrats for the popular weekly show “Sins of Omission”--- aimed at giving listeners insight into the topics of the day beyond the nightly news.GUEST: Bestselling author DOUGLAS WALLER talks about his new book "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage"

Best of Old Time Radio
Best of Old Time Radio 72 Hedda Hoppers Hollywood presents The Life Story of Dorothy Lamour Part 2

Best of Old Time Radio

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2009 15:59


Hedda Hopper's Hollywood. December 5, 1940. CBS net. Sponsored by: Sunkist (California Blossom Serving Spoon premium). The program originates from New York. Gossip about Wild Bill Donovan, Lily Pons, Jeanette MacDonald, Inez Robb, Greta Garbo, Daryl Zanuck, Charlie Chaplin, Lillian Gish, Madeleine Carroll, Arthur Treacher, Major Edward Bowes, Charles Laughton, Gary Cooper. Part #2 of "The Life Story Of Dorothy Lamour." Dorothy is portrayed by Jeanette Nolan, which is pronounced by Hedda as "Jeanette Logan." Hedda Hopper, John King (announcer), Jeanette Nolan.