The tag 'OSS' is associated with 61 posts.

Thompson Agonistes: The Dissent and Subsequent Disappearance of A CIA Officer

COMMENT: Younger readers/listeners might be puz­zled by dis­cus­sion of a “lib­eral” CIA offi­cer. Before the trans­for­ma­tion of the CIA into a huge para­mil­i­tary force, Jim Thomp­son worked for the Agency and its World War II pre­de­ces­sor the Office of Strate­gic Ser­vices. Imbued with the ideals of the Roo­sevelt admin­is­tra­tions and the war against fascism, [...]

Does Goldman Sachs Chief Lloyd Blankfein Enjoy Connections to the Intelligence Community?

COMMENT: In recent years there has [appro­pri­ately] been much dis­cus­sion of Gold­man Sachs. CEO Llolyd Blank­fein has an inter­est­ing pro­fes­sional back­ground, which might indi­cate oper­a­tional con­nec­tions to the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity.
After a rise that could truly be called a clas­sic Amer­i­can “up-by-the-bootstraps” ascent, Blank­fein worked for years as a tax lawyer for Dono­van Leisure, the [...]

A Descent into the Abyss

CIA, Vat­i­can, the Mafia, ele­ments of the mil­i­tary, and the Amer­i­can power elite con­spire to traf­fic in drugs and gold, stage assas­si­na­tions and coups, import Nazi war crim­i­nals, sub­vert the constitution.

Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Insur­ance giant AIG’s pro­lific use of off­shore scams, cap­tive rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions, aided by high-level gov’t offi­cials and legislators.

FTR #629 It’s Not Easy Being Green, Part II: “Ecofascism”

Recorded March 16, 2008
MP3: Side 1 | Side 2
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Sup­ple­ment­ing infor­ma­tion pre­sented in FTR#628, the broad­cast high­lights the “green wing” of the Ger­man Nazi Party under Hitler, not­ing the movement’s pre-Nazi antecedents in Ger­man eco­log­i­cal think­ing, as well as its influ­ence on some ele­ments of the con­tem­po­rary green move­ment. Among the antecedents of Nazi green thinking [...]

FTR #588 The Aliens Are Coming, The Aliens Are Coming—Not

Polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions of the UFO phe­nom­e­non and the ET myth.

FTR #586 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

GM prof­ited hand­somely from its asso­ci­a­tion with the Third Reich.

FTR #585 Update on Biological Warfare and Lyme Disease

Lyme dis­ease, bio­log­i­cal war­fare research, Amer­i­can employ­ment of Nazi sci­en­tist Erich Traub fol­low­ing World War II,

FTR #583 Update on Islamic Fascism

Recorded Jan­u­ary 28, 2007
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Updat­ing the sub­ject of Islamic fas­cism, the pro­gram empha­sizes its oper­at­ing links with other, non-Islamic fas­cist ele­ments. Exem­pli­fy­ing this rela­tion­ship is the role of Kazbek Soob­zokov in a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion called Islamic Relief World­wide. The son of Waf­fen SS offi­cer and CIA oper­a­tive Tscherim Soob­zokov, Kazbek is the Amer­i­can representative [...]

The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA

by Bur­ton Hersh; Wealthy, well-connected, even intellectually-inclined founders of the OSS / CIA were con­sid­er­ably less than idealistic.

FROM THE LECTURE SERIES