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Jim DiEugenio on The Devil's Chessboard - Deborra Ann Low - 05-01-2016 Anthony Thorne Wrote:Quote:It's also interesting that Robert Baer has over the past few years, periodically been coming forward as a kind of a whistle-blower against the CIA by talking about operations he's been involved in for the purpose of destabilizing regimes (kind of like Economic Hitman, Perkins), such as his recent confession about the role he played in helping to widely distribute propaganda against the Serbs in Yugoslavia. Thank you! It's too damned easy to get duped if you don't do any homework. I'm learning, but I've been burned more than a few times. Much appreciated! Jim DiEugenio on The Devil's Chessboard - Drew Phipps - 05-01-2016 The general end of Corsi's story about Hitler's escape (IIRC) was the house on the lake in Barriloche, Argentina, which our intrepid History Channel detective team visited. However, they then went to Columbia and found evidence that he arrived there, in the midst of civil unrest, in the company of a couple rocket scientists and some sort of plans....and the series ended. Perhaps following Corsi's story was planned, perhaps the extra bit about Columbia caused the series to fold... Jim DiEugenio on The Devil's Chessboard - Magda Hassan - 06-01-2016 Anthony Thorne Wrote:The above rang a bell as I'd just read this Robin Ramsay piece a few days earlier. Baer has been outspoken about a number of issues, but I'd take that recent confession with a grain of salt. Yep, quality control problem. Shoestring budget and staff. Not the first time I've seen it there too. Pretty sure I actually posted that article too! Wonder who is pushing Baer? And why? No doubt millions were spent to destabilise Yugoslavia though. Others have covered this as well. Doing the same now in Ukraine too. Quote: ::::What a useless interviewer if he signed off after that. Jim DiEugenio on The Devil's Chessboard - David Guyatt - 06-01-2016 Deborra Ann Low Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:And it is at this point I note a curious fact. Allen Dulles son, Avery became a Catholic priest. So did Martin Bormann's son, Martin Jnr. In and of itself this isn't remarkable. But what is surprising is that they both shared the same "Guardian" during their early years in the Church. It's a small world, I know. But the real curiosity is that the "Guardian" in question was Bishop Alois Hudal, who established the so called Ratlines that enabled up to 40,000 of the very worst Nazis and SS to escape to freedom --- many of whom enrolled in America's cold war against the Soviet Union. Yes, you're right. I guess it was the fact that Allen and John Foster were almost wholly in league when it came to the Nazis that resulted in me conflating the both of them. Jim DiEugenio on The Devil's Chessboard - David Guyatt - 06-01-2016 Drew Phipps Wrote:The general end of Corsi's story about Hitler's escape (IIRC) was the house on the lake in Barriloche, Argentina, which our intrepid History Channel detective team visited. However, they then went to Columbia and found evidence that he arrived there, in the midst of civil unrest, in the company of a couple rocket scientists and some sort of plans....and the series ended. Perhaps following Corsi's story was planned, perhaps the extra bit about Columbia caused the series to fold... That's the strange thing Drew, because the Gerard Williams book also almost concludes at Bariloche too. I have Hunting Hitler and it is quite slim at 135 pages. Whereas Williams and Dunstin's Grey Wolf, which was published 3 years earlier at nearly 400 pages is more in depth and is very well footnoted. Whereas Corsi's has none. Where the two books diverge is what happened after Bariloche and also the role Bormann played in Hitler's escape and how the latter went on to run the Organization, whereas Hitler gradually faded in importance and died a lonely old man. That and the fact that Bormann, after Peron's overthrow, arranged in 1955 for Hitler to be moved from Bariloche to a smaller residence deeper in the countryside of Patagonia with just his two closest aides, his doctor, Otto Lehman and Heinrich Beth. The house they moved to was La Clara - which the documentary team touch on in one episode, but in no way wished to conclude with it. Lastly, Grey Wolf concludes with an observation that whereas there were many FBI reports, albeit somewhat fragmentary, there were very little CIA documents that had ever come to light. But one did and that was dated 1955, which they reproduce, and which shows that Hitler had fled to Colombia and has a photograph of Hitler - still with his classic moustache. The authors conclude that it is an obvious fake. For me, this is probably another plant with another fake photograph aimed at deflecting attention away from reality. The fact that the documentary makers end their series in Colombia, where Hitler didn't go and didn't live out his last years in failing health is telling. As we saw with the Ladislas Farago episode, all it takes is one wrong step to fold an otherwise substantial story. Jim DiEugenio on The Devil's Chessboard - David Guyatt - 06-01-2016 I also want to point out that the authorized version of history, that Hitler died in his Berlin bunker, came from British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper in his 1947 book, The Last Days of Hitler. During WWII, Trevor-Roper was an intelligence analysts for British Secret Intelligence Service and was involved in decrypting signals from Nazi intelligence, the Abwehr for the Double Cross System "XX" (which I believe was the British precursor to the CIA's Operation 40). Trevor-Roper's decision to write his book stemmed from being ordered, by Dickie White, head of Britain's Counterintelligence in Berlin to investigate Hitler's death to rebut Stalin's "propaganda" that Hitler was alive and well and living in the West (which at that time was almost certainly true). Dick White became Director General of MI5 in 1953 and then head of Mi6 (SIS) from 1956-68. Jim DiEugenio on The Devil's Chessboard - Anthony Thorne - 27-02-2016 I'll mention as an update that as of late February 2016, THE DEVIL'S CHESSBOARD is at #2899 (very high) of all books on the Amazon charts, and now has more than 200 reviews, nearly all five stars. It's doing extremely well. A bookshop here in Melbourne told me they had sold a number of copies already, and when I returned, they had three or four copies displayed on their new release stand in the centre of the store. It's very encouraging. |