Friday 29 August 2008

William Colby

William Egan Colby – CIA Director



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William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920 – April 27, 1996) spent a career in intelligence for the United States, culminating in holding the post of Director of Central Intelligence from September, 1973, to January, 1976.

During World War II Colby served with the Office of Strategic Services. After the war he joined the newly created CIA. Before and during the Vietnam War, Colby served as Chief of Station in Saigon, Chief of CIA's Far East Division, and head of the Civil Operations and Rural Development effort; he was responsible for the Phoenix Program. After Vietnam, Colby became Director of Central Intelligence and during his tenure revealed a large amount of information about U.S. intelligence activities to the Church Committee. Colby served as DCI under President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford and was replaced by future President George H.W. Bush on January 30, 1976.

Early life and family

William Egan Colby was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1920. His father, Elbridge Colby, was a professor of English and an Army officer who served in the Army and in university positions in Tientsin, China; Georgia; Vermont; and Washington, DC. His grandfather, Charles Colby, had been a professor of chemistry at Columbia University but had died prematurely. William Colby attended public high school in Burlington, Vermont and then Princeton University, graduating in 1940 and entering Columbia Law School the following year.

Colby was for most of his life a staunch Roman Catholic.[1] He was often referred to as "the warrior-priest." He married Barbara Heinzen in 1945 and they had five children. In 1984 he divorced her and married Democratic diplomat Sally A. Shelton.

Office of Strategic Services

Colby volunteered for the Army and served with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, parachuting behind enemy lines twice and earning the Silver Star as well as commendations from Norway, France, and Great Britain. In his first mission he deployed to France as a Jedburgh commanding Team BRUCE, in mid-August 1944, and operated with the Maquis until he joined up with Allied forces later that fall. In April of 1945, he led the NORSO Group into Norway on a sabotage mission designed to tie down German forces in Norway from reinforcing the final defense of Germany. After the war, Colby graduated from Columbia Law School and then briefly practiced law in William Joseph Donovan's New York firm. Bored by the practice of law and inspired by his liberal beliefs, he moved to Washington to work for the National Labor Relations Board.

Central Intelligence Agency

Shortly thereafter, an OSS friend offered him a job at the CIA, and Colby accepted. Colby spent the next twelve years in the field, first in Stockholm, Sweden. There, he helped set up the stay-behind networks of Gladio, a covert paramilitary organization organized by the CIA to make any Soviet occupation more difficult, as he later described in his memoirs.[2]

Colby then spent much of the 1950s based in Rome, where he led the Agency's covert political operations campaign to support anti-Communist parties in their electoral contests against left wing, Soviet Union-associated parties. The Christian Democrat and allied parties won several key elections in the 1950s, preventing a takeover by the Communist Party.

Vietnam

In 1959, Colby became the CIA's Deputy Chief and then Chief of Station in Saigon, Vietnam, where he served until 1962. In 1962 he returned to Washington to become the Deputy and then Chief of CIA's Far East Division. During these years he was deeply involved in Washington's policies in East Asia, particularly with respect to Vietnam, as well as Indonesia, Japan, Korea, and China. He was deeply critical of the Kennedy Administration's decision to abandon support for Republic of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, and believed this played a material part in the weakening of the South Vietnamese position in the years following. In 1968, despite preparing to take up the post of Chief of Station Moscow, President Johnson sent Colby back to Vietnam as Deputy to Robert Komer, who had been charged with streamlining the civilian side of the American efforts against the Communists. Shortly after arriving Colby succeeded Komer as head of the U.S./South Vietnamese rural pacification effort. This was an attempt to quell the Communist insurgency in South Vietnam. Part of the effort was the controversial Phoenix Program, an initiative designed to identify and attack the "Viet Cong Infrastructure". There is considerable debate about the merits of the program, which has been alleged to have involved assassination and torture. Along with Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and MACV Commander General Creighton Abrams, Colby was part of a leadership group that worked to apply a new approach to the war. Some, including Colby later in life, argue that this approach succeeded in quelling the Communist insurgency in South Vietnam, but that South Vietnam, abandoned by the United States after the 1973 peace accords, was ultimately overwhelmed by a conventional North Vietnamese assault.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Colby


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The Phoenix Program was concocted by CIA's Far East Division Chief, William Colby (Jesuit trained, Knight of Malta; WWII "Vatican Ratline" operative: working in the Vatican with James Jesus Angleton {awarded the Sovereign Military Order of Malta by Pope Pius XII for rescuing Prince Valerio Burghese/"Black Prince": leader of the neo-fascist syndicate: "Movimento Sociale Italiano" from a twelve year prison sentence given him at Nuremberg} who was an operative in the assassination of John Kennedy), was implemented by CIA station chief, William Casey (Sovereign Knight of Malta: "Vatican Ratline" operative). Tom Ridge (Knight of Columbus), Oliver North and Bob Kerry (Nebraska Senator) were among the operatives in the Phoenix Program (genocide).

http://members.foothills.net/ricefile/homeland__ssecurity.htm
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At least five (5) directors of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been papal Knights of Malta: William “Wild Bill” Donovan, John McCone, William Casey, William Colby, and George Tenet.

If at least five directors of the powerful CIA had come from the Austin, Texas Rotary Club, or the Austin, Texas Lions’ Club (or from our hometown Rotary Club or Lions’ Club), then wouldn’t we Americans be suspicious that there might be a “good old boys’ club” running the CIA? Shouldn’t such important “news” be of interest to the American people? Shouldn’t we expect that all of the “alternative media” would be reporting such “news” to us? Well, at least five directors of the powerful CIA came from a Roman Catholic military order, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta – i.e., the Knights of Malta – an organization subordinate to the Jesuit Superior General. Isn’t that worthy of being reported by all of the “alternative media”? Doesn’t having so many of its men at the top of the CIA give the Vatican a whole lot of control over what transpires in the USA – especially in the arena of intelligence and “Black Ops”?

http://calltodecision.com/pktc.htm
Other sites mentioning Colby as a Knight of Malta:
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/raskob.html
http://calltodecision.com/hout15.htm
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/GoodAmericans.html
http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/Catholic/ReligiousRight.html
http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/FDRcoup.html
http://www.oss.net/dynamaster/file_archive/...20Epilogue~1Jan2005.pdf
http://www.opednews.com/articles/4/opedne_l...ow_the_cia_created_.htm
Quote denying membership:
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The American section of the SMOM is one of the main channels of communication be-tween the CIA and the Vatican. Of course, neither party will acknowledge this. "The Knights of Malta is an honorific society of Catholics. That's all it is. ... It has no political function," asserts former CIA director William Colby, who declined an invitation to join the illustrious order. ("I'm a little lower key," he confessed.)

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1983/07/willbedone.html
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Earlier, Bill Colby, who headed the spy agency during the Vietnam War era was approached to become a member but declined. Other senior CIA knights included William Buckley and John McCone. On the US military side General Alexander Haig was appointed a knight of SMOM. This almost unbroken but subterranean connection between the two is reported to extend to the current DCI, George Tenet, according to a former CIA source.

http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/masters_of_persuasion.pdf
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