[0:05:55 - 0:06:13] National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President
Nixon and Ford, the Harvard Academic, nuclear strategist, the man who won a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Vietnam War, but who is also considered by many, a war criminal. That, Henry Kissinger.
[0:22:33 - 0:22:42] His influence continued for decades, spanning the Kennedy, Johnson,
Nixon, and Ford administrations as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
[0:31:48 - 0:32:00] A redacted history of Sandial Laboratories in New Mexico notes that Don Cotter, who was later a
Nixon administration advisor on atomic energy and assistant to the Secretary of Defense.
[0:42:37 - 0:42:44] While Kissinger is now mainly associated with
Nixon's legacy, it is often overlooked that he also worked under Kennedy.
[0:45:48 - 0:45:55] But once again, the campaign didn't take, and Kissinger was unexpectedly available when
Nixon came calling.
[0:45:55 - 0:46:04] Despite once calling
Nixon the most dangerous candidate, Kissinger accepted the role of national security adviser, marking the start of his most infamous chapter.
[0:46:11 - 0:46:22] It is often suggested that it was through his associations with MJ-12, or an MJ-12-like group, that Kissinger was considered the perfect person to accompany
Nixon into the White House.
[0:47:24 - 0:47:28] The
Nixon White House was home to scandal secrets and occasional absurdity.
[0:47:28 - 0:47:39] One of the strangest stories tied to
Nixon, and one that raises questions about what Kissinger might have been aware of, involves the actor, Jackie Gleason, who is famously obsessed with UFOs.
[0:47:43 - 0:47:54] According to Gleason's ex-wife, one night in the 1970s,
Nixon, possibly drunk, showed up at the actor's house unannounced and took him to see alien bodies at a secret facility.
[0:48:04 - 0:48:10] Was
Nixon bragging to impress his golf buddy? Letting off steam? Was it all fake? No one knows.
[0:48:10 - 0:48:19] But if
Nixon was at all interested in UFOs, his closest advisor, who frequently endured his late-night drunk and tirades, was surely hearing about it.
[0:50:48 - 0:50:54] Firstly, we have circumstantial evidence of Harold Maumgren brought into the
Nixon administration in 1971.
[0:51:31 - 0:51:39] Maumgren was used explicitly by
Nixon to check Kissinger in many negotiations to, like, confirm that Kissinger wasn't going rogue on various things.
[0:51:39 - 0:51:46] And the whole China thing, the back channels with the Soviets, Maumgren was
Nixon's, like, you know, confirmation, you know, route.
[0:53:56 - 0:54:02] Kissinger's role under
Nixon is often cited as emblematic of centralized secret governance.
[0:54:11 - 0:54:16] This allowed him to decide what
Nixon would review while bypassing bureaucratic dissent.