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[#237] DEMON FORCES VI, Part 5: Ratlines, Renegades, & the Dawn of the Cold War (1945-1947)

Added 2025-03-01 04:00:00 +0000 UTC

Dimitri explores the critical postwar years of 1945-47 in liberated Europe, the first moves of Tito’s new socialist Yugoslavia, and the OSS men who were already busy constructing a permanent covert intelligence infrastructure to wage war against Communism.

Topics include: the 1993 memoirs of Yugoslav OSS liaison Franklin Lindsay, Tito “giddy with success” and the establishment of Communist one party rule, the first crisis of the “Cold War” erupting in the disputed Trieste territory, the Vatican and US-assisted escape of Nazi and Ustase war criminals into US/British occupation zones, Pavelic hiding in Vatican City, James Jesus Angleton, Prince Valerio Borghese, and Decima MAS, the subversion of the Morgenthau Plan to partition and de-industrialize Germany after the war, the deep ties between the American bourgeoisie and the Nazi economy, Prescott Bush laundering Nazi money through his Union Bank Corporation and directly profiting off of Auschwitz slave labor, the prevalence of high WASP blue bloods in the ranks of the OSS Europe division, disagreements between Tito and Stalin over the Greek Civil War, Trieste, and a “Balkan Federation”, Frank Lindsay’s eventual role in OPC as the chief organizer of Operation Gladio stay behind units, and more…