WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:15.119 Guinea pig stuff in Africa, so. 2 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:15.840 It's so insane. 3 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:32.640 Funk up. 4 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.200 Funcer Boo. 5 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:45.920 Unco funker bo. 6 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:05.280 I got married. I got married to funk We got wedded, 7 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:13.680 come joint in the subway he shot. I am married. 8 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:21.919 I'm married to a focal. But do we get joined? 9 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:25.759 Go write as soon as su where he shot? 10 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:32.879 Or specimens and biscuits and minerals they come to even 11 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.800 to my whole life is spit what you gonna do? 12 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:52.319 Mm hmmm, Up up, up, up of. 13 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:04.960 I'm married to a bongo who we got wedded. We 14 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.719 got joined in the subway. He shot over road. 15 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:16.400 Visiting and then come to you visit it and rooms 16 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:17.240 they come. 17 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.680 From me this year too, not. 18 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:26.199 Don't talk for. 19 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:49.159 Don't I got married. I got married to my flober 20 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:57.120 who we got wedded. We get joined in the subwhere 21 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:57.680 he shot. 22 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:03.479 Love the first sight, first sight? What should I do 23 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:04.639 with the first sight? 24 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.080 Put it in my head, throwing on the ground. 25 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:14.319 And who knows? Just what will I do? Louisa ready. 26 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.519 Enjoined me with some wadys. 27 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:39.959 Love the human guinea pig stuff in Africa, it's so insane. 28 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:51.759 The human guinea pig stuff in Africa. 29 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:17.800 It's so insane, so. 30 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:59.680 So in so inside. 31 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:40.079 Funk uh funk up, funk up, funck up. I got that. 32 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:42.120 I got that. 33 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:49.959 Oh oh oh yes, oh yes, we're doing it. Well. 34 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.319 You thought I was just a loser gamer. You thought 35 00:06:54.399 --> 00:07:00.199 I was just a loser gamer. Excuse me. I I'm 36 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:06.439 also a loser internet history man who covers the topics 37 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:10.399 that no one else covers on the internets except for 38 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:13.000 a couple of people who are our friends. Obviously, I'm 39 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:19.920 not dissing those people. Those people are wonderful beloved. Today 40 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.800 we're gonna be talking about the first part of this 41 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:29.399 excellent history of espionage book by French author and historian 42 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:39.079 Munie Gilis Mounier, Gilsmunie, Gillis Munir. Thank you. This is 43 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.600 him french man here, and you wrote a great book 44 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:46.120 called Black Gold Spies. I saw it advertised in the 45 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:50.120 back of another book. Remember how books used to advertise 46 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:55.240 other books in the back of the book, So it's 47 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.360 kind of an old school classic way to learn about 48 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:02.199 other books. Footnotes are another great way about a lot 49 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:07.839 of books through footnotes over the years. So we're going 50 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:10.600 to be getting into the key spies who made the 51 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:15.240 modern world. You have to understand this because people don't 52 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:19.600 even know that there. People don't even know that there's 53 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:23.040 like anything. People don't even know like what the hell 54 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:27.839 is even that. People know nothing and they know even 55 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:35.960 less than nothing of history. For example, computers come out 56 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:43.879 of cryptography. Cryptocurrencies come out of cryptography. Where does cryptography 57 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:49.720 come from? The spy world? It is the bread and 58 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:55.600 butter of the spy world. Most of the tech gadgets 59 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:59.919 and gimmicks that gimmicks and gimmickry gadgetry that we have 60 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:05.120 I can't talk comes out of the spy and military world. 61 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:10.840 Not everything, but many things. So you would think that 62 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:15.240 more people would understand than in understanding the world. We 63 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:19.480 might want to understand this secret world from which all 64 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:25.679 of these things come. But that's why you get to 65 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:30.840 front run everybody with the deep wisdom and knowledge you 66 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.559 get over here at this channel. That's our value proposition 67 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.240 on this channel is that we provide infotainment than no 68 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:38.919 one else provides. And I hope you guys enjoy it 69 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:41.519 if you would hit like and share, And we're going 70 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:45.360 to talk about a lot of these guys I didn't 71 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:48.200 know about, right, So I've studied this topic. It's an 72 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:51.759 immense topic. It's a fascinating topic. Some of the lives 73 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:56.600 of these people are absolutely insane. I mean, spies are 74 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:59.240 like you know, everybody has if you remember, like when 75 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:01.440 you were in high school or whatever, the party dudes 76 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:03.320 and the guys that were like the crazy guys. Oh, 77 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.559 that guy's crazy. He jumped his dirt bike off of 78 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:10.399 the bridge into the lake right when we were eighteen. 79 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:13.200 That guy's crazy. Spies are like ten times that. They're 80 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:15.919 the meta version of that. I mean, these guys just 81 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:24.200 have like it's almost a lust for putting themselves in 82 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:27.679 preposterous situations. And I think that's why they make so 83 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.879 many spy movies, is because you know, spy movies actually 84 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.320 kind of sell short what real spies do. Now we're 85 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:36.080 talking about the real famous spies from history. We're not 86 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:39.919 talking about most quote spies today who don't do any 87 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.799 cool shit. For the most part, they're more like confidential 88 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.960 informant police officers. Is boring and human compromise and it's 89 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.480 just really nasty stuff. But some of these spy stories 90 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:58.440 of the Napoleonic British Imperial period, these dudes are wild. 91 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.840 Them dudes, They wiling, Okay, they're doing stuff that is 92 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:06.679 just like off the hook, and we're gonna talk about 93 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:10.279 some of that people I'd never heard of. As you 94 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:13.080 guys know, we covered a actually a video that went 95 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.279 a lot further on Twitter than it did anywhere else, 96 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.519 which is interesting because typically we still get a lot 97 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:21.679 more viewership over here on YouTube than we do on Twitter. 98 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:25.720 But my history of sexpionage s the espionage got a 99 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:27.679 lot of views on Twitter. It's up to like seventy 100 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:30.519 eighty thousand views on Twitter, and I think over here 101 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.240 on YouTube we only got about fifteen twenty, which is 102 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:34.919 not bad, it's average. 103 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:34.559 But. 104 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.919 It's just like I'm still mystified, like why are people 105 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:44.399 not coming and watching these topics, because you're not going 106 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.759 to understand how the world works and people it's like 107 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.519 just like with cryptos or bitcoin, it's like people only 108 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:54.480 start asking me about bitcoin when it's one hundred thousand dollars, 109 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:56.720 when you should have been asking when it was thirty 110 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:03.279 preparing for it being one hundred thousand. But anyway, likewise, 111 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.120 the spy world is one of the keys to understanding 112 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:11.759 how the world works because everybody knows about all these 113 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.039 empires and history and all these different nation states and 114 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.320 kingdoms and kings and queens. How do you think kings 115 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:21.639 and queens run they stuff? How they run it up 116 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:26.480 and in here? Is it just they call the shots 117 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.080 because they're bowlers and shot No, it's because they have 118 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:34.960 a giant network of spots, and we're going to talk 119 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:38.759 about those today. The first who is a famous one 120 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:42.799 that we do know about that comes up in today's 121 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:46.440 discussion is actually Ian Fleming, who we have studied quite 122 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.200 in depth, studied him in grad school. Wrote my only 123 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:53.919 published peer review paper, which is on bond and Ian 124 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:58.200 Fleming is published in the American Journal of Sociology and Economics. 125 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:02.600 You can look it up. I get updates and notifications 126 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.279 when people read my paper, which I don't, which is 127 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:08.679 weird because I mean, I wouldn't think anybody would be 128 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:10.519 reading that paper. But every now and then I get 129 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:14.039 in notification that some nerd in some country read your paper. 130 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:19.919 But I think that's just because academia is always trying 131 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:21.279 to get me to pay for some crat which I 132 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:26.960 would never pay for anyway. So why do we want 133 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:31.480 to talk about these spies. Well, the way that the 134 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:36.200 world is structured today is structured on the basis of 135 00:13:36.639 --> 00:13:43.480 the empires of yester your namely France, namely the British Empire, 136 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:48.840 namely Austro Hungarian Empire and others, and the Russian Empire. 137 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.480 And so today we are going to be talking about 138 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:54.679 this very important era of history, the Great Game, and 139 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:58.200 what kicks off the Great Game and what's the background 140 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.240 to the Great Game which is still being played out. 141 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:06.080 In other words, today's Anglo American establishment versus Eurasia is 142 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:11.360 a repeating of the Great Game of one hundred plus 143 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:14.639 years ago. But how do we get the Great Game 144 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.080 set up? Well, then we're going to have to go 145 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.399 back in time and understand what Napoleon was up to, 146 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.600 what Napoleon wanted to take from the British, what the 147 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.840 Russian Empire and the Tsars were up to, and how 148 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.320 they were all competing, and how they were carving up 149 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:33.240 the Ottoman Empire when it fell. And that will lead 150 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:38.159 to Syke's Pico, that will lead to the Balfour Declaration 151 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.639 and the modern instantiation of the Great Game when the 152 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.759 British Empire fades and becomes the deep state run Anglo 153 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:53.759 American Zionist Western power structure, which is where we are today. 154 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:01.440 So the book begins with the fact that spies, we're 155 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:06.720 not just sent out for, you know, peeking on who 156 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:10.919 was sleeping with him. Okay, espionage was not primarily concerned, 157 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:15.080 although it's a huge part of it with sex compromise, 158 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:17.720 and we covered that in that history book a few 159 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:22.600 months ago by Donald Boer, which I recommend everybody who 160 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.120 likes this talk go listen to the History of a 161 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:28.320 s the Xpionage book that we did, because it relates 162 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:32.960 to this. But a big part of it is scouting 163 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:37.240 out and finding resources because at this time a lot 164 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:38.919 of the world was kind of still being charted. People 165 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:41.399 trying to figure out, Okay, what's over here in this region? 166 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.399 What's over here is this ghetto? But do they got 167 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.320 a bunch of gold? Are we gonna uproot that tree? 168 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:49.679 I want to go I want to know where to 169 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:53.720 go at. Obviously, empires are out looking for gold, they 170 00:15:53.840 --> 00:16:01.120 out being gold finger right, Well, who's going to go 171 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:11.360 out and find gold? Well, people who travel, so adventurers, merchants, missionaries, 172 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:15.000 and spies, But you're not going to go to another 173 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.519 country and be like, I'm a spy. Do y'all got gold? 174 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:22.559 Do y'all got any goal. I'm a spy. Where y'all 175 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:25.200 go at, I want to go, get me the gold. 176 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:31.879 I'm a uproot that kingdom. I want to go, show 177 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:37.519 me to go. No spies are going to enter countries 178 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:42.200 under cover. And what are some of the classics covers 179 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:46.240 for spies? Missionaries of course, and even the Vatican and 180 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:50.480 some of its entities will play into today's story in 181 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:54.200 today's wild characters as we get into black gold spies. 182 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:57.000 Now what's the black gold? It's oil. So the discovery 183 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:03.879 of oil becomes a major early on for the British Empires, 184 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:11.759 spy guys that are sent out to find oil. Once 185 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:17.839 oil was discovered, the Baku oil fields become very important 186 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:21.880 in the nineteenth century, and then in the twentieth century 187 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:28.240 the oil fields of Persia and Mesopotamia become crucial. Thus, 188 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:34.119 the Caucasus, Iran Iraq continue to be these heavily troubled zones, 189 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:38.880 not just oil nowadays a lot of other reasons as well, 190 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:40.960 but early on, a lot of it had to do 191 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.559 with oil and the British Empire, as we're going to 192 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:47.200 see carving up the Middle East, even coining the term 193 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:53.759 Middle East. That's a British imperial term, and this will 194 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.599 bring us all the way up into today's setting for 195 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.880 the making of the modern world, even to the relationship 196 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:04.799 of the East, in the Middle East to the West 197 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:09.759 via Islam. Islam will play crucial role in this as well. Obviously, 198 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:13.720 we've gone a lot deeper into the history and the 199 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:15.799 theology of Islam in the last five years due to 200 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:18.319 all the debates. Everybody who's followed the channel over here 201 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.359 knows about that many many debates with the Muslims over 202 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:25.720 the last five years. So this history book plays very 203 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.240 tightly into that, very closely into that, and we're going 204 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:32.160 to notice some fascinating alliances that bear out our thesis 205 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:37.720 and our analysis Radical Islam, Sufi's, etc. Wahabbies, things that 206 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.079 are popping off, perhaps in the news even now aligned 207 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:45.559 with Western intelligence agencies. Perhaps Syria. Syria plays a big 208 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:47.759 role in this book. But we got to start with 209 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.279 this fascinating character here, although historically the book goes back 210 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:56.079 much earlier. Mounier, to my surprise, starts his book with 211 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:03.319 Ian Fleming. And so, as you guys know, we've covered 212 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.000 this a lot. I kind of got burnt out covering 213 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:09.160 Bond and Fleming stuff over the years. It was a 214 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:12.160 huge part of Esoteric Collavid one and two. It was 215 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.920 part of my grad work which I just ended up 216 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.960 publishing in peer review by the way. So, by the way, 217 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.640 when I diss peer review, I can actually say that 218 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.240 peer review is a joke because I'm peer reviewed. So 219 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.319 it's like a double whammy against anyone who's a nerd 220 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:28.160 that cites peer review. And I'll be like, peer review 221 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:30.240 is junk, and they'd be like, you're an idiot. I 222 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:31.720 don't have to listen to you. And then I'm like, yeah, 223 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:33.400 but I'm peer reviewed, so you do have to listen 224 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.160 to me on the basis of your MPC worldview. And 225 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.559 I just dissed your MPC worldview as an authority in 226 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:45.240 your worldview, So you just got owned boom. So Ian 227 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:47.720 Fleming is one of the key figures that want to 228 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:50.200 talk about because most of the James Bonds stories contain 229 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:54.160 quite a bit of truth. They contain elements of Bonds. 230 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:58.240 It be Fleming's own life, combinations of stories from spies 231 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:01.559 that he met over the yearstions that British intelligence was 232 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:07.039 involved with, and then key figures like the infamous Sidney Riley, 233 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:12.240 the Ace of spies, So Bond is kind of a 234 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:16.359 conglomeration of a bunch of different historical figures. And Mounier 235 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:19.920 begins his book by noting that Bond is not just 236 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:24.799 from the imagination of Fleming. The author drew from his 237 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:29.599 own experiences in Her Majesty's Secret Service, His Majesty's Secret 238 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:32.920 Service at Camp X where he was trained in all 239 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.359 the espionage techniques. Camp X is I six is training school. 240 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:39.319 And this was set up in Canada on the banks 241 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:43.839 of Lake Ontario by William Stevenson code name Intrepid, And 242 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:47.079 of course Stevenson had an office at Rockefeller Plaza, so 243 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:51.880 you'll notice the close connection and also between the Rockefellers, Stevenson, etc. 244 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:57.000 And William Stevenson and others helped Bill Donovan establish the 245 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:02.640 OSS that is the pre course of the CIA. Fleming 246 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:05.480 was recruited in nineteen thirty nine by the Special Operations 247 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:10.119 Executive that is basically the Special Operations of the British Spies. 248 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:16.359 That's like Black Ops for British spies. The OSSCIA version 249 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:18.920 is called the Office of Policy Coordination in the early days, 250 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:22.680 and the idea was to learn everything you could about weapons, 251 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:28.640 explosive sabotage, encryption, cryptography, and how to establish spy and 252 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:32.640 resistance networks, as well as the art of assassination. So 253 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:39.000 you'll notice that running counter establishment movements, fake revolutions, cutouts, 254 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:43.240 that's a big part of what British intelligence was mastering. 255 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:44.559 Now why do you have to do all of this? 256 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:48.200 Because if you're a giant empire, running a giant empire 257 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:54.799 requires of necessity, a vast surveillance network. All empires require 258 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:58.920 this to maintain the imperium. That's nothing to do with 259 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:00.880 whether it's good or bad. You like what you don't. 260 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:03.079 This is the reality. This is the real politic that 261 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:10.160 we're talking about. So Ian Fleming was involved in naval intelligence. 262 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:12.160 He comes out of the Navy. That's why Bond is 263 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:15.440 Commander Bond is a guy from the Navy. He was 264 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:17.720 also involved in the Enigma machine. If you remember the 265 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:21.440 history of the decoder machine that the British used to 266 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:26.400 decode tiny mustacheman messages. If you remember the story Operation 267 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:28.759 mints Meat where they put the fake plans on a 268 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:32.200 dead body, that's also something that Ian Fleming was involved in. 269 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.039 And yes, he goes on with Bill Donovan to help 270 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:44.000 set up and structure. The oss bond is essentially then 271 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:47.279 the spy that Ian Fleming wanted to be. However, he 272 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:50.319 was a combination of other spies, not just himself, but 273 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:55.720 Sidney Riley, a person named Fitzroy MacLean, and these men, 274 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:02.079 their names are synonymous with the cert for oil as 275 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:07.680 well as the Cold War and the battle against fascism. Now, 276 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:09.759 the first character that we want to talk about, as 277 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:14.039 we mentioned before, is this infamous Sidney Riley. And you'll 278 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:16.119 notice as you get into the history of Sidney Riley 279 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:21.759 that he's a character with a lot of different accounts, 280 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:28.559 so it's hard to tell exactly whether he was good bad. 281 00:23:31.400 --> 00:23:37.200 Some conspiratorial accounts, as we know from the Rakowsky interrogation, 282 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:42.400 they will, of course, as we've noted, link him with 283 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:47.319 being the direct top operative of the Ralph Childs and 284 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:53.680 the Elite. He plays a role, however, in trying to 285 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:58.519 rest the control of certain oil fields from one of 286 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:01.920 the Rothschilds, which seems to run counter to that narrative, 287 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:09.039 but perhaps that was all subterfuge, because eventually the oil 288 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:11.720 fields that are in question that Riley is working to 289 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:14.920 rest from people in the Middle East and so forth, 290 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:17.440 end up in the hands of the British government. But 291 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:20.359 if the British government is essentially under the Royal Childs anyway, 292 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:28.200 maybe it's still evens out. But Riley went under the 293 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:33.799 cover of being a Catholic priest, which is interesting. So 294 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:37.640 notice one of the easiest covers, as we've noted, is 295 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:44.640 to portray yourself as a religious missionary. But while he 296 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:46.839 was doing this he worked for British intelligence. He was 297 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:51.799 also a He had multiple about eight wives in other countries. 298 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:57.359 He was a gambler, a wild gambler, had eleven passports, 299 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:03.720 and eventually took possession of vast oil fields in arabis 300 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:06.960 Stan and handed it over ultimately to the British government. 301 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:09.799 So it looks like, at least for the most part, 302 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:12.359 he was an offer of the British government. But what's 303 00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:16.440 curious is his close connection to the other British spy 304 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:23.480 are Bruce Lockhart and Lockhart's close relationship with the Trotskyites, 305 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:26.839 Lenin and others. And Munie goes into a lot of 306 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:34.640 detail about this, positing his theory that although Sidney Riley 307 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:38.680 essentially did rest the oil fields out of foreign hands 308 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:42.079 and give it to the Bruce government, he was constantly 309 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:49.839 called a communist Marxist, but also perhaps participate in the 310 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:53.240 plot to have Lenin assassinated, but it wasn't successful, at 311 00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:55.920 least the attempt that Riley was supposedly involved in. But 312 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:59.880 then the other stories tell of him disappearing into Russia. 313 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.160 Now did he disappear into Russia because he was put 314 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.680 into a working camp in Siberia or was he assassinated 315 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:10.079 or was he actually defecting to the Marxist communists. It's 316 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:13.200 hard to say. So there's elements of this that we 317 00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:15.799 don't know. But I do have Lockhart's memoirs, and the 318 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:20.160 last chapter kind of maybe I should get that. I'll 319 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:31.079 see what he says. So Lockhart claims who was the 320 00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:44.759 Lord Milner guy to the Soviets At the end of 321 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:56.559 the book, Lockhart claims that he became a Bolshevik the 322 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:02.039 very end of the book. Did he or did he not? 323 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.359 Or was he always working for that in some degree? 324 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:11.519 Because if the Bolsheviks were funded by the interests like 325 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:14.480 Ralph Child, which we think is likely, it's pretty much 326 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:18.480 the case the Sutton research, others, Warburg Ship, et cetera. 327 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:28.200 Been This supposed contradiction perhaps makes sense anyway, so a 328 00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:31.759 an explorer by the name of William Knox Darcy is 329 00:27:31.799 --> 00:27:35.079 who discovered all of this oil in these regions. He 330 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.319 also was claiming to be a missionary, So they love 331 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:47.440 to do this missionary cover. Now excuse me. William Knox 332 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:52.160 Darcy confided in Sidney Riley pretending to be a Catholic missionaries, 333 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:55.240 I should say, And so it's this is very similar, 334 00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:59.680 by the way to Melville's Confidence Men Man book. If 335 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:02.839 you read Confidence Man, is like the story that Mounier 336 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:06.359 gives of them on the on this like steamboat or whatever, 337 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:09.759 when they're on their way to inspect these oil fields. 338 00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:15.240 Sounds just like Confidence Man. But the priest, of course 339 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.000 was not an actual priest, but was in fact Sidney Riley. 340 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:22.039 He handed over all this information to his handler, William Melville, 341 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:24.759 who was Chief of British Intelligence known as M. This, 342 00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:27.200 by the way, in the Bond stories is when you 343 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:31.200 hear about M. M is based on William Melville, who 344 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:35.440 was known as M. Who is Sidney Riley's handler. Melville 345 00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:38.519 had recruited Riley as an informant in eighteen ninety six 346 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.119 when he was a Chief of Special Branch at Scotland 347 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:45.599 Yard News soon broke of the creation of the Anglo 348 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:51.039 Persian Oil Company that becomes the Anglo Iranian Oil Company 349 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:56.920 that becomes VP. Fifty six percent of this was held 350 00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:00.720 by the British Admiralty, while we have consolation. Darcy was 351 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:05.000 appointed on the board. And yet although he wanted, probably 352 00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:08.079 sincerely in the part of William Knox Darcy, he wanted 353 00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:10.799 to convert to the Arabs to Christianity, the Persians, I 354 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:13.759 should say that the Iranians. He gave up on this 355 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:18.039 by nineteen seventeen. So William Knox Darcy, the sort of 356 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:23.559 adventurer character, he apparently really wanted to perhaps convert iran 357 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:29.279 to Anglicanism or Catholicism. I'm not sure this he gave up. 358 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:33.160 But did he really or was this just a venture 359 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:38.640 to secure resources? It's hard to say. Meanwhile, there were 360 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:42.240 rumors that Riley had also offered the same concessions and 361 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.480 information to Standard Oil and David the Rockfellers, who were 362 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:53.880 not interested. Maybe R. H. Bruce Lockhart. R. H. Bruce 363 00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:57.759 Lockhart is the author of Sidney Riley's biography and gives 364 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:01.000 another version. According to Lockhart, m sent Riley to the 365 00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:04.200 south of France. His mission was to prevent Darcy from 366 00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:09.799 granting concession to Baron Alfonds de Rothschild, and he disguised 367 00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:13.119 himself as a priest, and the British agent thus borned 368 00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:16.160 the Billionaires yacht under the pretext of collecting donations for 369 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:20.680 an orphanage. This sounds just like Melville's Confidence Man novel. 370 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.839 He took Darcy aside and whispered to him that the 371 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:28.039 British government would pay double anything that Baron Rothschild was offering. 372 00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:31.240 So this is kind of where he gets hazy, because 373 00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:36.200 Lockhart and others have these conflicting accounts about what Riley 374 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:40.160 was really up to. But again, Lockhart concludes his book 375 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:43.559 by saying that he thinks Riley actually became it became 376 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:48.400 a Bolshevik. So I don't know. It's a difficult story. 377 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.319 But to get a little background on Sidney Riley, he 378 00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:56.000 was born to an Odessa to Azarist family. When his 379 00:30:56.119 --> 00:30:58.920 mother died, he discovered that he was actually the son 380 00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:02.200 of a Jewish doctor. Disowned by his family, he stowed 381 00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:07.079 aboard a ship for South America. One day, when he 382 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.680 was leading a group, they were attacked by natives and 383 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:12.599 Riley saved the life of one of the explorers, who 384 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:14.960 by way of thanks, provided him with a British passport 385 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:17.119 in a ticket England. By the age of twenty two, 386 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:20.519 he came to London, where as an explorer he impressed 387 00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:24.759 his impressed by his bravery and his sharp analytical skills. 388 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:28.440 He was recruited by British intelligence. In nineteen twelve, he 389 00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:33.799 became Agent st Ie and was officially given British citizenship. 390 00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:38.839 His successful grab of Persian oil deserved no less. So 391 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:41.839 he was doing some pretty wild stuff. Early on the 392 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:44.240 beginning of World War One, Riley made another master stroke. 393 00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:46.599 After having killed a German staff officer, he donned his 394 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:49.400 uniform and attended a German high command meeting in the 395 00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:53.039 presence of Kaiser Wilhelm IID. This duy was doing some 396 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:56.400 pretty wild stuff, assuming all these stories are true. Among 397 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:58.920 these missions that Riley was assigned, one was to prove 398 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.559 faithful for his career the infiltration of the Russian anti 399 00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:05.960 Czarist groups. So at least at this point, the story 400 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.519 is that early on he's anti Bolshevik and he's working 401 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:14.559