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But, yeah, so LBJ kind of got cold feet when he came in. He decided, hey, we're not going to do a nuclear first strike, but I will give you guys Vietnam. Go ahead and do Vietnam. Let's just put all this on Oswald, and we're going to forget …
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I'm asking him about Mexico City. And it's a book that came out in the end of 2022. And I'm like, sorry, man, I just haven't read it yet. And he's like, well, you really need to read that so you don't embarrass yourself. And, you know, fair…
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To your point, you're only telling people half the story. You're telling people enough to make them understand why they're doing something that otherwise they maybe wouldn't do. So the Mexico City story, the whole Mexico City idea, the poin…
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But the part that is transcribed is really interesting. And that is where Johnson asks Hoover, he goes, what about Mexico City? What do we know about Oswald's trip down to Mexico City? And he goes, well, it seems that Oswald was visiting th…
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talking to enemies and look, he's just killed Kennedy and he was talking to the Soviets. So it looks pretty bad. But then J. Edgar Hoover tells LBJ the headline, which is, but our agents in Dallas who have spoken to Oswald at the interrogat…
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And they never had the photos. Even though there's cameras observing the embassy around the clock, they said that the camera wasn't functioning during the hours when Oswald came. Every time Oswald came, the cameras broke. So weird. And then…
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says that there was a tape and he had it in his safe and James Angleton came and got it from him after he died. And oh, by the way, two of the Warren Commission investigators went to Mexico City and they told PBS Frontline, they're on the v…
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Interesting. Interesting. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense because, I mean, you think about all the money that was flowing through there in the 1500s and the 1600s and even the 1700s because of the gold and silver coming out of Peru, gold com…
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else gets magnificently wealthy in the oil industry, but these two struggle because neither one of them were in the oil business to make money. They used their oil businesses as CIA fronts, and you can specifically say that about George Bus…
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and the Federation all together under one umbrella, which he does actually do because in the next paragraph, it says that Liebman was also the general secretary of the steering group in Mexico City to explore the possibility of turning the …
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Of the four, they were all going to be flown out. One would not get on the airplane. He, it says, went to Mexico. And I've told you, according to Autoscores Any Notes, he was escorted, driven to the Mexican border by a Dallas police officer…
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That was founded in Mexico City in 1953 by a man named Jorge Preto Lorenz. L-A-U-R-E-N-S. He was a politician from San Luis Potosi who financed several nationalist slash...…
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So at the insistence of CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, there was money that underwrote the first conference that was going to be held in Mexico City in 1954 by Prito Lorenz. And it gave him a platform to begin denouncing Arbenz, basically, as …
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the Asian People Anti-Communist League, the ABN, and the IACDC, which is the Latin America version, gathered in Mexico City and created the World Anti-Communist Congress for Liberation and Freedom, which, of course, we know it as the WACL, …
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With his family connections and Ivy League education, a career in the U.S. clandestine services seemed likely. He worked for the CIA in Mexico City after finishing college, translating books for his handler, E. Howard Hunt. You know, and th…
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anti-communist league yes he was during world war ii and the korean war yeah i was just wondering i haven't heard you mention his name and i and also i saw there was a call um right after the jfk assassination um that was listened in on tha…
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There's no freaking way that a military analyst looking at those, and we look at it all the time, you could not have missed it. Fair point. You'll have to probably deal with a red herring or two around the Darien Gap. But I think you can pr…
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They didn't bother with Mexico. They didn't need to. But you're right. And again, we got satellites everywhere. I understood. Pre pre breakup of this cartel where they started using Mexico as a land route. There was a period of time when th…
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of the drug trafficking in the mid-1970s exposure, especially after they got rid of Noriega in 89, there was a complete shift from kind of all hands on deck method where the transportation routes through Mexico became a necessity to get the…
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in Colombia, both of them in the same country. And as things went on and things got really bad, all of a sudden things shifted from, of course, Medellin to Cali, and now it's the Mexican cartels. So not only do we keep getting closer to our…
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He tried to alert people to this 10 years ago and it ruined his life. Nobody in Washington wanted to look at this. Republican, Democrat, nobody. They wanted this story buried. And anyone who looked any deeper got buried. You're bringing up …
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Better yet, with his Swiss-German-Spanish accent, it was like talking to Peter Lorre. I persuaded Don to hire him as a stringer, and he set off to find Menendez. Meanwhile, the San Diego attorney who had been out of town when I was looking …
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And that, aside from Costa Rica, its itinerary had included a stop in Panama in Mexico after it left Colombia. Another contra flight, Lippard's plane came back with a unexpected 12 and a half hours of excess flying time on it. Palmer told h…
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After the cell, Lippert said the DC-4 was used to airdrop explosives off the coast of Cuba. Then, a month later, he signed the installment sales papers. It was seized in Mexico with 2,500 pounds of marijuana on board. A story in the Mexican…
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known to have been operating for a long time using large aircraft to transport arms southbound and bring back drugs northbound. Lippert never got the plane back, nor was he ever paid for it. The company that issued the letters of credit tha…
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He was a drug dealer who had been indicted in Nebraska in the early 80s for cocaine trafficking and had fled to Mexico. The Mexicans had booted him out and turned him over to the FBI, who, between the FBI and the DEA, had turned him into an…
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Armand in on his latest cocaine deals. His supplier, Cardona, was now in France and was looking to cross 2,000 kilos that he had stored in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Canadian associate was bringing in a load from Mexico through Houston. Some …
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and a second search of the trunk revealed another $2,000 in money orders. They were blank. Asked why he was driving around with a small fortune in his trunk, Guerrero babbled, quote, he does not have a safe and he uses his two Mercedes Benz…
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Vivas was the earliest member of the Sandinista underground. He had known Norwin Menendez since he was a teenager. Through his attempts to infiltrate anti-Samosa groups, they were itching for a reason to arrest him. In November 1990, a whit…
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She was part of a special guard running the revolution that attacked the National Guard building. They were the worst missions, suicidal ones, but she could fight. I think every man who met her fell in love with her. Certainly, Miranda had.…
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and the Mexican police told him about their arrest, which they said resulted from a DEA tip. Mayorga might want to look into it, they suggested, because he could have a drug ring operating in Managua. When Mayorga learned who owned the van …
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Miranda was a different story. Mayorga dropped by Ivis's house and asked her mother, who knew nothing about their arrest, if he could talk to Ivis. Her daughter, she said, was in Mexico receiving medical treatment at the suggestion of her b…
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So really, really weird. So Blanton has said that he knew one of the brothers, Edgar, from his days in college in Monterey, Mexico, where Edgar had been studying economics. Edgar's brother, I don't know how you say this, Jacinto, J-A-C-I-N-…
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In 1979, the FBI office in Mexico City asked that Menendez be included in the Bureau's Top Thief program and requested an arrest warrant, if for no other reason than to preclude him from coming to the U.S. The FBI also asked for a hold on h…
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mario's space the other day and i got to talk and uh somebody had brought up the fact that oswald went down to the mexico city to get into the rush try to get into the russian embassy and they're acting like that was new information that's …
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All right. All along. Let's try this again. OK, Colonel, can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah. OK. OK. I'm sorry for that. Basically, I wanted to mention a couple of points. Thomas Mann, this guy you mentioned earlier, is really a key guy to look at…
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very, very important in terms of the JFK assassination, in terms of the question of whether or not Oswald was in Mexico City, and the intense manipulation involving both the Mexican and U.S. governments around that whole Mexico City aspect …
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had money siphoned off of it for Operation Gladio. And there are lots of ties of the Inter-American Development Bank to Operation Condor in Latin America. So he's behind that as well. During the Kennedy administration, man, weirdly enough, …
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damned if you do, damned if you don't, even while the older policy is still in place and just allowing it to spread like a cancer through the rest of the government as time passes. And then at the same time, we see that in Mexico City, the …
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to interest a foreign journalist in their ordeal. Once their story reached William Buckley Jr., supposedly a conservative columnist, as he toured Rio, they complained to him that they had heard English-speaking voices in the rooms where the…
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Yes, ma'am. I appreciate your patience with all of us. I have an audience question from someone that came into the space regarding Oswald, his relationship with Kostovo and why he went down to Mexico City. How was he selected? How did some …
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become involved? And then did he go to Mexico City to meet with Kostovo before going back to Dallas to shoot Kennedy weeks before? So people think that it was a double, someone posing a lookalike in Mexico City. I don't spend a lot of time …
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His company bought three airplanes, including one jet. One was a Lockheed Jetstar that DGI acquired from Hughes Tool Company in March of 1984. In 1987, that same plane was sold to Aero Centers in Laredo for export to Mexico. Another plane w…
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Perhaps that's why Joe Cage shuttled Atkinson off to a drug task force attorney when he showed up in Shreveport to talk to Bebe. In 84, Atkinson bought a yacht and named it after himself and his girlfriend. They called it Mika for Michael a…
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where he was accompanied by bankers from Westbelt National Bank and San Joaquino Bank. Haley and Atkinson loved to indulge in high-stake poker games on his trips to Mexico. In the summer of 86, Atkinson went with Riddle and Corson on vacati…
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Right. So let me read this for everybody. This is supposedly his manifesto. And it's actually just an email. That's not exactly what I call a manifesto, but whatever. He says that in case I do not make it to my decision point or on to the M…
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likely Homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely to let me cross into Mexico, but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive VB IED, which is a bomb. So if they know you have a bomb and they're just l…
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From Miami, Ted Shackley's foreign intelligence chief, Nestor Sanchez, spent a good deal of time traveling Latin America and chatting up Cuban officers in different countries. The Pentagon intelligence provided all of his information. One o…
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And that's where he kicked off. I went to the Mexico City station chief, and that's a story about Burke Holder Smith. It's all connected. Yes. That's the important part. It's all connected. Yeah, it's all part of them doing things in our na…
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where they moved into a temporary housing situation with Lee's brother, Robert. It would take nearly two weeks before the FBI got around to interviewing him. Over the next year and a half, the young man seemed to lead aimless existence, dri…
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repository. But on closer examination, there was a method to his movement. While in Texas, Oswald and his family came under the watchful care of people who in turn were being carefully watched. He met quietly with a prominent CIA officer in…
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for the murder of a president. A coup, that's his quote. In late September, Oswald took a bus trip to Mexico City and again made a spectacle out of himself while trying to, in vain, to obtain travel visas for Cuba. While Oswald visited Mexi…
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FBI officials took this surprising step despite Oswald's suspicious behavior in Mexico. The day after the FBI took Oswald off its watch list, the CIA also downgraded him as a security risk. On October 10th, four senior counterintelligence o…
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He was aware of how the agency had monitored the defector during his exploits in Dallas, New Orleans, and Mexico. David Phillips, a man whose career had been nurtured by Helms, had been meeting with Oswald in Dallas. But when Helms was swor…
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and had operational control of Gladio units, which at least one was found in Dallas. The OAS from France had two assassins in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, one of which was escorted to the Mexican border by a Dallas police officer. That Ly…
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And the Corsicans kept popping up a lot. And I found that French connection, those pesky French, ooh la la. But yeah, I found two major guys, one in Mexico, interestingly enough, right? And then another one in Paraguay. But it's really inte…
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as well as information that would expose high-ranking members of the Mexican political party, PRI, because they were assisting the CIA in the arms and drug trafficking. Bodino was murdered in 1984 after leaving his office in Mexico City for…
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There was also an incident while he was in El Paso where a U.S. attorney in San Antonio, Johnny Sutton, and a DEA administrator, Karen Tandy, conspired against him as well. That cover-up was hatched after Gonzalez sent a memo to his counter…
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these cartels into ones that they control. There was one case that came about that involved the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, according to court filings in Chicago, that involved senior Sinaloa cartel leaders and narcotraffickers in 2013.…
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who together with a business associate, El Chapo, led the Sinaloa organization. El Chapo was eventually captured and extradited to the U.S., where in 2019 he was convicted of multiple narco-trafficking charges. El Mayo was arrested by U.S. …
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U.S. officials have stated emphatically that they were not involved in his capture, just receiving him. Mexican soldiers arrested Zambada Nebla in late March 2009 after he met with DEA agents in a Mexico City hotel, a meeting that was arran…
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The newsroom that he worked in was sprayed with bullets. He says, I've even had a gun held to my head while pursuing a story about violent muggings in a Milwaukee neighborhood. There were threats to blow his head off. In Juarez, Mexico, aft…
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They were tailed by Mexican cops down a desolate canyon road passing an area where his fellow cops were. They were trying to stop him, and they didn't stop, but they got back to the city. At the time, Juarez was thick with blood from street…
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They'll get you. He thought about that for a long time. So he moves on. That's his personal part. And he starts talking about a Gulfstream II aircraft that had crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula outside of Cancun, Mexico in the fall of 2007. …
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executive airport headed for Toluca, outside Mexico City, on September 18, 2007. It crashed, what is that, six days later near Cancun. After departing Colombia, Mexican publications, which was reporting on the story from the start, provided…
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Some 30 articles reported that the jet was headed to an airport in Cancun, but arrived shortly after a work shift change. The security people on the new work shift did not authorize the Gulf Stream to land. So it flew to an airport in the Y…
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in a nearby town. Mexican authorities apprehended one of the pilots on board a couple of days later, about three miles away. Four days later, they apprehended a man alleged to be the co-pilot and they had questioned why none of the helicopt…
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We're on chapter 23, flying. And this is, we're still talking about the kind of Latin America angle. And the title of this chapter is called Paper Trail. And it starts off talking about the Gulfstream II jet that had crashed.…
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landed in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in late September 2007 that had four tons of cocaine on it and had been linked by media and internet reports to everything, including aliens. It's like, we have no idea where this stuff, it just fell out…
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the company that sold the jet to Smith and O'Connor. Malayo, who is a Brazilian citizen with business interests in Florida, shared his concern about how his company had been portrayed in the news. Quote, I had some problems when I sold the …
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Until they got in Mexico, where the plane will be delivered for a charter company there. I told him that all the papers will be at a company with the delivery and bill of sale in their name. This aircraft was delivered on September 16th at …
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to Toluca, Mexico. After two weeks, they did that flight with drugs. The authorities in the US call me and I show all the papers for that. And I was never part of the DEA, CIA, or FBI. Some people told on the internet that my company is a C…
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The revelation surfaced during a high-level meeting at DEA headquarters in December of 2007. The operation also appeared to be badly flawed. Well, obviously at this point. It has been carried out unilaterally. Always, it's unilaterally beca…
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packed Gulf Stream abrupt impact with the Earth. This is a case of ice running amok, said the DEA agent. If this operation was being run by the book, they would not be doing it unilaterally without participation of the DEA. At this point, t…
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He also said it was attempting to deliver tons of Colombian cocaine to an infamous Mexican drug cartel. An official with the Mexican federal attorney general office said that. The Associated Press said that Mexican authorities arrested the …
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Munoz, a Mexican citizen, was treated for dehydration and a broken knee and taken to the Capitol for questioning. The official said Munoz told authorities the plane and cocaine belonged to the Sinaloa drug cartel chief El Chapo Guzman, who …
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It appears that the pilots spilled the real beans on the ICE operation during their interrogation by Mexican authorities. DEA sources told the author, the high-level meeting held at DEA headquarters was focused in part on assessing the impl…
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jeopardizing the $1.4 billion U.S. aid package that had been promised to Mexico under Plan Mexico. See how easy that works? We just give American taxpayers out to these countries, tax dollars out to these countries, and we can do whatever w…
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threaten them with their aid. So they'll just remain quiet and not tell all of our secrets. That's so convenient. Mexican law enforcement authorities also arrested in late 2007 an alleged money launderer by the name of Pedro Alfonso Alatorr…
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financed the purchases of the Gulfstream II cocaine as well as a DC-9 jet that was busted by Mexican authorities in April of 2007 with a payload of 5.5 tons of cocaine. Both jets were sold while parked at St. Petersburg Clearwater Internati…
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Otherwise, you're just buying an airplane. It's not like you can do it and not know. So now it is possible that you could be a broker, but brokers have to have license. So if you're just brokering the cell and it's like you're sending it to…
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Fuentes, narco-trafficking organization in Juarez, Mexico. And, you know, you can see that because it's literally right across the river, not deep into Mexico, not deep into Colombia. Juarez is a completely different story. ICE does things …
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Juana and just south of Brownsville in that area. That's not unusual. It's not nearly the same thing as being deep in Mexico flying drugs. Just going to say that out loud. Okay. In that particular operation, ICE placed an informant who was …
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is that our investigation started after the seizure, unquote. The structure of the Mayan Jaguar operation, as outlined by the DEA sources, puzzles law enforcement officials that the author talked to. The operation appears to be playing out …
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did know about the ICE involvement in that operation. DEA spokesman Steve Robertson told the author that his agency played no role in the Gulfstream case, other than being in charge of investigating it after it crashed. Quote, our Mexico Ci…
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disaster relief, famines, earthquakes, you name it. So support to customs control on the Mexican American border, training in Mexico. Spicer was a determined man with intense blue eyes that could stare down a leopard. Yet there he was seemi…
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Lorenz came to prominence in 1954 as an organizer of the First American Congress, which was aimed at being anti-Soviet intervention in Latin America. It was held in May 1954 in Mexico City. Its main objective was to denounce the regime of J…
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Lorenz, increasingly active across Latin America, attempted to solidify the link with a world anti-communist congress in Mexico City in 1958. He invited delegates from five continents. This initial ambitious attempt to unite all anti-commun…
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obviously the Asian. You had the CAL in Mexico City in 1972. There were also new members that were even further fascist, which were directly linked to the death squads in South and Central America that were all members then of the World Ant…
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They labeled them as communist in order to be able to attack them. So you can see behind the scenes all of this propaganda leading to exactly what the CIA wanted to have happen. The CAL, the anti-communist entity in Latin America, primarily…
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for clandestine activity, unquote. Now, just in case you guys didn't hear that section of stuff that we've covered before, Zapata Oil had bought some of the Mexican state-owned oil platforms. Those oil platforms was put out into the Gulf an…
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player involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion had been in Yale's secret skull and bone society by the time Bush became director of the CIA in 76. Phillips writes, three generations of Bush and Walker families already had some six decades of i…
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that made its way into the hands of Watergate burglars. And that has to do with that Mirax, the company that Bush was in business with in Mexico. Then it goes on to talk about from Cuba to Vietnam to Iran-Contra scandal, all of them had a T…