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Allen Welsh #Dulles, l'uomo più potente dell CIA, e Adolf #Hitler.

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Secondogenito di Allen Macy e di Edith Foster Dulles, figlia dello statista John Watson Foster. Il fratello fu Segretario di Stato USA, la sorella Eleanor ambasciatrice in Germania, e lo zio Robert Lansing segretario di Stato di Wilson e Rockefeller.
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Dopo la laurea e un lungo viaggio intorno al mondo, nel 1915 Dulles si unì al servizio diplomatico lavorando in missioni statunitensi in Europa. Già da allora, i compiti di Dulles includevano principalmente raccolta di informazioni di intelligence.
britannica.com/biography/Alle…

3/25
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The Germans and Japanese both looted and plundered in WW2. Both got liquid assets out of their countries into neutral banks and industries before wars end. This cold calculation is banal and rational. Bormann arranged it for Germany. Why anyone would doubt that Bormann survived?
Remember, when you hear news of governments making decisions which make no sense and only make things worse:

The engineer intends to wreck the train.
To understand and make sense of the present, study the past. #History
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🐙Genesis of the OSS

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)[3] to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the US Armed Forces.

Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, & post-war planning.

ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USG/J…
The organization was developed with British assistance.

Until some months after Pearl Harbor, the bulk of OSS intelligence came from the UK.

British Security Co-ordination (BSC) trained the first OSS agents in Canada.

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🐙THE BAY OF PIGS

“On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.”

It’s actually much more complicated than this headline portends.

I will dive more deeply into the CIA/mob’s role in Op Mongoose.
First read this article for a sanitized overview.

jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jf…
Read this white paper for a deeper dive.

Pg 29 onward to see where the op went sideways re issues about the planes issues (nosecones didn’t match Cuban planes) & Kennedy’s order to call off the air support for the Cuban exiles waiting on the beach head.

utdallas.edu/library/specia…
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Although there were sanctions and restrictions against working with Germany during World War II, especially when America entered the war in 1941, there were some American companies that profited off both sides of World War II.
Backdoor #Deals #Bribes

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🐙GE assisted the German SIGINT & was of intel value to Dulles during the war.

At the start of WWII GE was a German co that produced electrical equip’t known as Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG). They engaged in corp espionage for Germany.

nsa.gov/Portals/70/doc…
“Overall, the Germans were successful in establishing a secret radio communications network from their control station in Argentina, as well as a courier system involving the use of Spanish merchant vessels for the shipment of paper-form intelligence.”

nsa.gov/Portals/70/doc…
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📌The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, orchestrated by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax")

📌It was the first covert action conducted by the US to overthrow a foreign government during peacetime.
#Dulles #CIA #OpAJAX

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📌”The CIA's covert intervention—codenamed TPAJAX—preserved the Shah's power and protected Western control of a hugely lucrative oil infrastructure.”

📌It’s always about the oil.

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“In Iran's case, with diplomacy having failed and a military incursion infeasible (the Korean War was underway), they decided to take care of "that madman Mossadeq" through a covert action under the supervision of the SOS's brother, (DCI) Allen Dulles.”

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🐙Background #Dulles #CIA

In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis

By Eric Lichtblau
Oct. 26, 2014
In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America.

nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/…
📌”At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet “assets.””

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