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Claims (42)
U.S. Department of Justice operated_in
Miami documented
document
“For example we recently were forced to close an important investigation involving major gambling figures in Miami because we were advised that the evidence necessary to obtain a conviction was tainted.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.311
Carlos Bringuier moved_to
Miami documented
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“Carlos Bringuier was called upon to assist in getting this group back to Miami…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.18
United States Customs carried_out_attack
Miami documented
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“On June 15 1963 United States Customs Agents seized a twin Beechcraft airplane on the outskirts of Miami Florida along with a quantity of explosives…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.18
JMWAVE operated_in
Miami documented
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“We felt that the nature of our capability was to simply respond to what we were able to obtain in the Miami area…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.64
United States Army operated_in
Miami documented
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“this Cuban exile was an approved though unused source of Army intelligence in 1963 in an operation centered in the Miami area…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.71
American Intelligence Command moved_to
Miami documented
document
“Other changes in the intelligence structure were effected such as the decentralizing of the American Intelligence Command and relocating it in Miami…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.197
William Harvey operated_in
Miami documented
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“Harvey described the trip to Miami as 'one of a number of periodic trips for the purpose of reviewing in toto * * * the actual and potential operations at the Miami base…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.118
Henry Morrison Flagler invested_in
Miami documented
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“He is also known as a co-founder and major investor of the cities of Miami and Palm Beach, Florida.…”
source: url — Henry Flagler · p.1
Sam Giancana operated_in
Miami reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
William Harvey moved_to
Miami documented
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“In the latter part of April 1962 Harvey went to Miami where the CIA had its JM/WAVE station…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.167
FBI operated_in
Miami documented
document
“...and kept abreast of the Miami police force's plans to raid Dr King's hotel room in 1966…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.139
David Atlee Phillips operated_in
Miami reported
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“Shimon testified that he had accompanied Maheu to Miami to see the third Patterson-Johansson World Heavyweight Championship fight which took place on March 12 1961…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
JM/WAVE located_in
Miami documented
document
“In the latter part of April 1962 Harvey went to Miami where the CIA had its JM/WAVE station…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.167
Operation Leprechaun operated_in
Miami documented
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“I recall for instance the operation in Miami that is generally referred to as Operation Leprauchaun…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.23
SHAMROCK operated_in
Miami documented
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“Company offices in Washington San Francisco and for a short while Miami also participated in a similar fashion…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.64
Southern Air Transport located_in
Miami documented
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“Air America management made a survey of the 18 and determined that Southern Air Transnort in Miami Florida was the most attractive as a purchase possibility…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.248
Samuel Rosselli operated_in
Miami reported
document
“According to Shimon he Giancana Rosselli and Maheu shared a suite in the Fountainebleau Hotel…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.95
FBI operated_in
Miami documented
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“Headquarters authorized the Miami Office 'to furnish data concerning money wasted by the Poor People's Campaign to a friendly news reporter'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.261
Isabella I of Castile lived_in
Miami guest_asserted
“of you know fighting whatever brand you want to put on it right so i uh my name is isabella i live in miami-dade i am a first generation american my parents uh were cubans that fled communist cuba my my grandparents were very involved in uh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner with BelleLiberTea @ 1:52
Fulgencio Batista moved_to
Miami book_quoted
“defeating Batista's army in the battle. The handwriting was on the wall. Batista was no fool, and he knew what was coming. The dictator had only a brief appearance around midnight. He did not relinquish the reins of power at a meeting with …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 4:25
Patrice Chéreau asserted
Miami book_quoted
“of drug dealers. So, Patrice Chernoff's claim to the author that Miami was the main station for the fascist front organizations, i.e. Gladio, and their world service. The significance of Miami to international fascism remains one of America…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 44:13
Station JM WAVE located_in
Miami book_quoted
“Coru's headquarters was in Miami, with the largest CIA station ever assembled. Originally, it sustained a tight collaboration with the CIA and the Chilean Junta, secret police, i.e. DINA. According to former Cuban exile CIA agent Manuel de …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 1:07:30
Jay Sablonsky located_in
Miami documented
“had been in Miami in 1969 on leave from participating in mass murder in Guatemala. Further correspondence in 71 from Magenta Press leader Garen Sarok to Sablonsky is addressed to J. Salby, Seaboard Holding Corporation in Bayshore, Miami. Rh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 1:22:05
Miami trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“for us. And those terrorists have all grown up and have been used extensively throughout the world, not just in the Middle East, throughout the world. They came here on 9-11. They have been used throughout the world, just like the Cuban exi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya @ 1:18:33
Juan Guaidó exiled_to
Miami documented
“And it's an organization that was working behind the scenes that I've never come across. So I can't wait to share all that with you guys. But I got to know how the story ends. SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everybody for her…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 51:33
David Morales headed
Miami host_asserted
“And I don't know, coincidence or not, he's also the guy who led the Watergate break-in 10 years later. So E. Howard Hunt is definitely a player. He's in Dallas just before the assassination. There's another guy by the name of David Morales …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 20:52
Mario Zuniga landed_at
Miami book_quoted
“was lying down and lying up for reasons that I don't yet totally understand. Lying up and down, Richard Bissell. Almost immediately, the bombing cover story began to unravel. The exile planes from Nicaragua reached Florida as planned. One l…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 49:52
Edward Lansdale reassigned
Miami documented
“Three teams had already left for points on the north coast of Cuba when one Cuban who wanted assurances that the cause was good phoned Robert Kennedy. The attorney general now facing a horrifying prospect of nuclear war was not the gung-ho …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 38:10
Grayston Lynch operated_in
Miami documented
“This just basically is saying he was with the 77th Special Forces Group in Laos. He retired as a captain and then joined the CIA. Okay, here, 1960, he joined the CIA working under Ted Shackley, infamous Ted Shackley. He was actually splitti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 4:54
Bella Liberty operated_in
Miami guest_asserted
“with the school board push had over 100 members and I was going to ask you what vehicle you used to do that and in response I heard you had a web presence. So how did you focus your web presence specifically to Miami and that area?…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner with BelleLiberTea @ 1:28:42
CIA operated_in
Miami documented
“which effectively replaced the former 5412 group. For its part in Operation Mongoose, the CIA greatly expanded the Miami station, which retained its location in a colonial-style building on the south campus of the University of Miami and it…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 20:31
Ted Shackley operated_in
Miami documented
“the chief of operations task force running Mongoose, with a CIA group under him called Task Force W and headed by William K. Harvey from the new CIA headquarters at Langley. Harvey supervised the activities of Ted Shackley's Miami station. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 34:27
Barry Seal operated_in
Miami host_asserted
“Thanks, Brian, for pointing that out, because you're absolutely right. And this is not just one airport. I mean, obviously, air operations is huge in many respects, because if you follow the career of Barry Seale and him flying in and out o…”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 3 @ 1:38:09
Juan Guaidó moved_to
Miami host_asserted
“And it's an organization that was working behind the scenes that I've never come across. So I can't wait to share all that with you guys. But I got to know how the story ends. SR71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank you everybody for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 51:16
Pablo Escobar operated_in
Miami host_asserted
“Also worked with the Medellin cartel, but Pablo Escobar got a little out of hand and started doing things his own way, not the way the CIA wanted him to, so they knocked him off. Primarily, he had come to South Florida and started killing a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner COLOMBIA What is going on @ 7:11
Southern Air Transport based_in
Miami caller_asserted
“So this is what I have. He worked the late 1980s until up till 2010. So not only Southern Air, which was based out of Miami, he also worked, did contracts. And sometimes they were, he had a non-disclosure agreement and sometimes he did not …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:09:43
Smartmatic founded
Miami host_asserted
“But long traveler, I think you probably missed the show, but I talked about this. Smartmatic was not made in Venezuela. That is misinformation. Smartmatic was made in Miami, Florida, with Venezuelan expats that were brought here to, in my o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 1:20:04
U.S. Customs Service carried_out_attack
Miami documented
“incensed at the agency's actions, which was carried out over the DEA objections, went on a national television show and essentially accused the CIA of engaging in narcotic trafficking. The CIA operation, which was carried out with the assis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8 @ 39:10
Bush family secretly_owned
Miami host_asserted
“And the Dominican Republic was two of their favorites. And then into Miami. And interestingly enough, the Bush family owned one of the docks down there. So getting it into America logistically was a lot easier. And the same with Spain and R…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 1:00:14
Cuba spied_on
Miami documented
“The Bosch case would resonate for years to some. Cuban officials repeatedly pressed for Bosch and his longtime associates, Luis Posado Carriles, another alleged co-conspirator of the airline bombing, to be extradited to Cuba to stand trial …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 1:22:16
CIA operated_in
Miami host_asserted
“One thing that caught my attention was the Miami. Yesterday and today talked about, you know, very advanced formation of CIA in that city, you know, and it occurred to me that, you know, given the 1972 presidential race.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 1:27:49
Orlando Bosch drive_to_power
Miami book_quoted
“even have been connected to this. It was. We've read about that in other books. The victims had opposed Orlando Bosch's drive to power because he's a part of the approved network. Also a member of this new approved network, of course, was S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 23:28
Mentions (120)
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of the Sullivan and Cromwell, the, shoot, United Fruit was in Cuba. So all of those people, the people that worked for William Polly, they were brought into Miami in order to try to get the island back and basically overthrow Cuba. So they …
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They did it in many of the South American. So the fact that you have this criminal element that was 100 percent groomed and cultivated by the CIA as part of the JFK narrative with the car trip from Miami up through New Orleans, as you menti…
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historically it was always one that was rock solid as one of the strong, we talked about how I've got an upcoming episode on foreknowledge. And so Rose Jeremy is one of the prime examples of foreknowledge. And basically she, she gets into a…
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body in New York, they had actually been picked up by the CIA and transported to Miami and held hostage. It was the CIA during the Bay of Pigs that was actually releasing these messages and not this supposed New York, of which a couple were…
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And this is not disputed. JM Wave was a station it ran out of in Miami. And the name of this operation was ZR Rifle. Bill Harvey was one of the leaders of it. There's a lot of folks involved in it, but Harvey is one of the main guys. And th…
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Because that's not what they were actually training them for. These Colombian fighters were basically the same replica of what the CIA created with the Cuban exiles in Miami. They're a paramilitary force to deploy all around the world. So y…
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of American mercenaries involved in El Salvador is not known, but Lawrence Bailey, a former U.S. Marine, has stated that he was part of a team of 40 American soldiers of fortune paid by wealthy Salvadorian families living in Miami to protec…
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are landed gentry and they don't want their world turned upside down. They like living in the lap of luxury even when it's selling their own countrymen out. I have said since investigating all of this that the term Cuban exiles was used for…
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that left Cuba and came to Miami. This is true of many South American countries and Central American countries. They flee to Miami while the fighting is going on, and they pay gangsters there, gladio-trained operators, to protect their land…
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just outside of DC that the CIA used. There was another location the CIA used in Texas. And there was another location the CIA used in Miami. And that's just here in the United States. They had places all over. That was kind of like the 201…
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to people as part of the Nugent Hand. Yeah, Bernie Houghton was involved, like probably of the, he was the number three guy at Nugent Hand. You had Nugent and you had Hand and then you had Houghton. So Houghton replaces Paul Helliwell in Ba…
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that his AFL-CIO boss, Paul Hall, would become angry if he discovered that his political assistant was, in fact, a CIA agent. Yeah, I doubt that since they're in bed with him anyway, but let's go ahead with the pretense. So Wilson decided t…
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work, and perversion. And those types of things are used all the time in order to gain information on people to blackmail them with. So, you know, that's why Jeffrey Epstein was in Miami because it's a hotspot for the Caribbean and South Am…
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And so what happens is most of the people, at least in the Cuban exile community, were from that elite group. They came specifically to Miami for a reason. They were going to work with the CIA because the CIA actually funded and equipped an…
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So that group became, and they actually had a terrorist training camp set up in Miami outside of Immokalee, Florida. They had weapons stashes on the university down in Miami under the control of one of their guys. So they created this entir…
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A lot of the MPs in their parliament. And again, it's just gross. It was really hard to get through it. But because of the importance of it and how everybody is talking about this stuff going on here, we've obviously talked about Mark Dutro…
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He committed suicide because they understand the implications. And while they will allow themselves to be controlled, they will not allow anybody to know about it in general, generally. So go ahead, Mike. Those those locations like particul…
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They failed to rein in the Salvadorian exiles in Miami who, quote, helped administer death squad activities between 1980 and 1983 with apparently little attention from the U.S. government. I'd add with a lot of attention to do that with the…
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Such use of American territory for acts of terrorism abroad should be investigated and never allowed to be repeated, unquote. And then it should be noted, of course, because I've said this repeatedly, Cuban exiles, of course, have been usin…
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There is a large expat community and also a large tourism from those locations. So in the past, with that small rinky dink, British citizens, in some cases, in some of the documents I was looking at, had to fly into like Miami and then get …
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CIA training location that people suspect was basically like a terrorist training camp like Opelika down in Miami. So all very interesting. Well, to add on that, I forgot to mention is that during that time, we were still selling oil to Chi…
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are coming essentially to keep the country in fighting in itself. And once we started... They're also... Oh, go ahead. They're also coming through Miami. Oh, right. And they're all, for the most part, American weapons. Right. And those have…
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He was revealed to be the buyer of Mercedes at a price of $132,000. Says that he's living in Miami. He also has a house in Switzerland and he has many offshore companies, which of course we know is exactly how they operate. He's originally …
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I would believe that, first of all, we don't even know how much gold we actually have. A second CIA can't do operations on American soil, right? Oh, they do it all the time. But they're not meant to. But yeah, yeah. Yeah. They're not meant …
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And one of the cartels I came across when I started looking into him isn't even Mexican. The guy's from Cuba. He was one of the Cuban exiles that came and was trained as a terrorist in Miami. And we set him up as a cartel chief in Mexico. S…
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They had several places in the United States. They had several places in South America. One of the big contingents, like we had the Cuban exiles that we use kind of as a farm team for terrorists. And we had our own school for them down in M…
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the cartels expanding because they already had some of the cartel structure in when they lost Cuba because Cuba was their port into the United States. And that's why the CIA tried their damnedest to get Cuba back because Fidel Castro cut th…
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He would take those and they had runners, i.e. realtors, i.e. private equity in Miami all over and all over the country. But let's just say Miami because a lot of it went to Miami. And they had these people whose entire businesses was set u…
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of what the CIA did in Miami with the Cuban exiles. Yes. So the Cuban exiles were used exactly the same way. And they were used not only in the JFK assassination, they were used in the assassination of the Chilean ambassador in Washington, …
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for us. And those terrorists have all grown up and have been used extensively throughout the world, not just in the Middle East, throughout the world. They came here on 9-11. They have been used throughout the world, just like the Cuban exi…
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In Latin America, the Caribbean, and then Europe. Coup, coup, coup, coup. Yeah, he did wet work. There's no doubt about that. He was in Miami during the Cuban Missile Crisis, stationed in Miami. So he's part of that. Gets out of the CIA and…
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Well, you definitely find George H.W. Bush doing the oil and you also find the exact same scenario where he did not do well in the oil industry. It was basically like a front. You also have Jeb Bush in southern Florida down in the areas ver…
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She wants me to explain who Felix Rodriguez is. Felix Rodriguez is a Cuban exile assassin who comes up in every single story. He's been in every location. He was part of the training down in Miami.…
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when Rodriguez was already being paid by the CIA. Wilson said he told Rodriguez that if any arms sales opportunities arose, he would work with and protect him from the arms dealer, who had a reputation as being a very smart, tough businessm…
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keep the Cuban nationalist community from being implicated in the Latier case. Was Frank Turple really a fired CIA employee who met Wilson by chance at a Christmas party? Or was Turple on assignment for Shackley and Klein? Did Turple even s…
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Ilik Ramirez Sanchez, who was better known as Carlos the Jackal. Two weeks later, Quintero was again summoned to Wilson's office from Miami. Wilson gave Quintero $30,000 in expense money and told Quintero to plan on meeting him in Europe wi…
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It was all turple. The piece of paper was given to Clines. Clines gave it to Shackley. Shackley put it in a record. CIA records indicate that on the day of the Latier bombing, September 21st, 1976, Clines wrote a memorandum about Wilson's a…
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And so I do unequivocally believe, and as a matter of fact, Warhamster made a very important point today. The guys that perpetrated most of the domestic violence via the Cuban Gladio training down in Miami, New Orleans, and South Texas for …
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Our government has been providing firearms to criminals for a very long time. And if you go back and you look at the real premise, not the stated premise of Operation Gladio, it's to create weapon caches for them to be activated. They have …
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but that he regularly asked her about classified documents. For years, she said, I would watch Klein operate outside the law on the instructions of Shackley and get away with it. Chi Chi Quintero, who lived in Miami with his family, was a f…
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The trips, at least once a month, to Miami began in 1976 on commercial airliners. After Wilson bought the plane for Secord, Secord would fly Brill, Clines, and Quintero down for visits to Key Biscayne, condo of one of the most powerful Cuba…
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began business enterprises with all of them. Because for them, this is personal. This is, you know, they all, all of these rich families got kicked out of Cuba and they're in Miami. And the kids of these rich families that got kicked out of…
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in Nicaragua. He provided a great deal of help for the anti-Castro operations. So in the early 60s, when a revolt threatened to topple the elder Somoza's regime, the anti-Castro Cubans were brought in to help. In 1978, Clines asked Wilson t…
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He went to see Charlie Wilson at the Democrat Club on Capitol Hill. He told the congressman, quote, here's what I want to do. I can make a buck or two out of it, unquote. So Tina and I and Charlie Wilson get on a plane and go meet Samosa in…
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I feel like I'm an old hat at this, but there were two aspects that she brought up that's going to blow your mind as part of the application of Operation Gladio and what she has herself experienced in Miami, surrounded by probably the large…
▶ 44:48
He was actually one of the hobos, supposedly one of the hobos that was in the train car with the Kennedy assassination. He was a CIA operative, and he'd been a CIA operative his whole life. If you do his research on who he was, he was basic…
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and who found themselves drawn into this anti-communist circle in the U.S. In the aftermath of the 1959 revolution, tens of thousands of Cubans, including not a few supporters of the deposed Batista, had fled to the United States, and they …
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Manrara, M-A-N-R-A-R-A. His first name's Lewis. He was an accountant who escaped from Cuba to Miami in 1960. He hadn't been a strong Batista supporter, but Castro and his band of revolutionaries wasn't his cup of tea either. Shortly after h…
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This included bringing 133 Tibetans to the United States to train in political propaganda and paramilitary techniques. You know, like they did the Cuban exiles in Miami. Only this one was going to be set up in Colorado because of the mounta…
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bullshit stuff that they were setting up about how Castro was never part of the CIA and all that other shit didn't they set up a house for the Cuban people in New York City as well yes yes they did because that's where supposedly the people…
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And I read several articles about the one guy that runs his security team. He hung out with all of the Cuban exile groups in Miami that we've talked about repeatedly recently, which are known Operation Gladio people that went on Gladio miss…
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Munkle memo mentioned the CIA cable. And basically, it was assumed that the Munkle was Augusto Munkle, a Contra supporter who had been detained in Miami with Pereira for currency violations during an FBI frogman case that we talked about a …
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from police interference all the way from Panama, where his drug flights originated. Every week, I flew from Panama, between Panama and Costa Rica, with different passports and different names, and they never asked me why. So if that's not …
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Without the assistance, further efforts will not be worthwhile, unquote. Auckland was frustrated with the case, he told the Justice Department. He was glad to get rid of it. He was not getting sufficient help from the FBI in Los Angeles, Mi…
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But no one bothered. We found no FBI records indicating that the Miami FBI office conducted any further investigation into Blanton, the Justice Department IG said. But once the case was officially shelved, Norrin Menendez miraculously reapp…
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the gist of what we're talking about. Daniel Blanton's reassurance to Ross that nothing would change, the Nicaraguan had already made up his mind to get out of Los Angeles. The raids on his home and other locations, his bonus cover, and his…
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There was business considerations as well. Blanton's attorney, Bradley Brunin, said Blanton's used car dealership had been extremely successful and had widespread patronage from the Latin community. But the raids had destroyed it. So he was…
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was tying up loose ends and transferring cash for him so he could buy a house. So he's fine, you know, because he's protected by the CIA and FBI and DEA. But all hell's breaking loose in Los Angeles. Blanton would testify later, I was prepa…
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In 1984, he set up an import-export business, hello, in Miami with the help of Coral Gable's attorney and who had also handled several of Blanton's real estate purchases. He also was in business with the Major General Gestapo Medina and bus…
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Months after fleeing Virginia, Sandino showed up in Los Angeles just in time to take over Danielle Blanton's business, another known government-protected drug dealer. After Blanton moved, Ross said, he would call him in Miami time to time, …
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with the Nicaraguan operation in Los Angeles well after he moved to Miami. By then, Ross said the cocaine business was losing some of its allure. His friends and mentor, Danielle Blanton, was 3,000 miles away. He owned about $5 million wort…
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came to Miami primarily. Some went to New York City, but we'll focus on Miami. And they were labeled as Cuban exiles. If you do any study of the corruption in Miami during this period of time, there is a strong correlation between the peopl…
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and didn't correlate the people that come into America as refugees from these successful deposing of dictators being this elite group of people. So we think that they are just refugees that didn't want to live in communism, when in fact, mo…
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and allowed to get rich off of CIA operations, or they were actually on the CIA's payroll, some of which were trained assassins. And the CIA has no problem moving those people into America to live as your next-door neighbors. As a result, o…
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And it also led to a lot of corruption. The Miami Herald was basically ran by the CIA. Again, very well established. That's not the purpose of this show. We did that when we did our Around the World tour and used references, names, and all …
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of his leading advocate in Miami. In the end, the Justice Department relented and informed the White House counsel, C. Boyden Gray, and then Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, it would agree to a deal to free Bosch to live with h…
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The Bosch case would resonate for years to some. Cuban officials repeatedly pressed for Bosch and his longtime associates, Luis Posado Carriles, another alleged co-conspirator of the airline bombing, to be extradited to Cuba to stand trial …
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In business-to-business exchanges, the website allows stockbrokers to bid on black market funds for traffickers who want to convert the dollars to Colombian pesos for use in their operation at home. A trafficker can bid on different rates. …
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Now, when it comes to the logistics that you're talking about, unfortunately, with the cartels, the NARC subs, I think that's kind of a little bit maybe what you're hinting at. Yeah. Right. So they actually also build them right kind of ove…
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A far more dramatic involvement of the CIA was acknowledged in 1997 when General Ramon Guillen de Vela, chief of the CIA created anti-drug unit in Venezuela, was indicted in Miami for smuggling a ton of cocaine into the United States. Let m…
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According to the New York Times, quote, the CIA, over the objections of the DEA, approved the shipment of at least one ton of pure cocaine into Miami International as a way of gathering information about the Colombian drug cartels, unquote.…
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the total amount of drugs smuggled by General Gillian may have been more than 22 tons. But the U.S. never asked for Gillian's extradition from Venezuela to stand trial. And in 2007, after he was arreste…
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His indictment was still sealed in Miami. Meanwhile, you just can't make this shit up. Meanwhile, CIA officer Mark McFarlane, whom DEA chief Bonner had also wished to indict. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. CIA officer, the DEA chief wanted to indi…
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Romania, were deposited into Richard Nixon's election campaign chest in the chest of other prominent politicians in the U.S. Backed by leading capitalists such as Nelson Rockefeller, the World Finance Corporation and Castle Bank, which is P…
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and other CIA-linked businesses such as the National Bank of Miami and General Development Corporation, contributing to a boon in America and the Bahamas. In 1959, U.S. Congress Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Ma…
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Kennedy administration planned to stem the spread of Castroism into Latin America by depicting the Cuban revolution as a virus that would infect other Latin American people into believing that they might too have a decent life. The CIA supp…
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Because like I told you guys, I just found this book completely fascinating because it broke so many preconceptions that I had. And I was never assigned to South Com, but because they were right down the street from CENTCOM. I mean, you kno…
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Locations for cocaine laboratories and money laundering centers. The Reagan Bush White House was instrumental in what the author refers to as regionalization. Officials in the enforcement section of Treasury monitored sharp increases of cap…
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Now, keep in mind that in the 70s, it's when BCCI and Nugent Hand Bank was created, which are CIA front banks for money laundering. And they had banks in Miami, thanks to Paul Helliwell, and Castle Banks in the Bahamas, that was facilitatin…
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William Bennett, the first director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the position that came about. Sorry, somebody's at the front door. Hey, stop it. He was became he became known as the drug czar. He followed Bush's lead by i…
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network composed of military and government officials that are actively involved with intelligence agencies and organized crime based throughout Latin America, North America, and Europe. All converge in Miami. Cocaine laboratories have been…
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and money laundering had been largely in the hands of CIA's Cuban Americans, not Colombians, until Escobar. The CIA's Cuban Americans connections in Miami included a network of agents and informants who ran the South Florida Task Force or w…
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Anybody that's a threat. Bush's son, Jeb, strongly supported with his own connections to the anti-Castro politics, including ex-CIA Cubans residing in Miami. Jeb Bush was in on all of this. And he, of course, later on goes on to be governor…
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As the cocaine trade is regionalized, coca cultivation will remain under the control of the narco-military networks before it reaches the global market. The U.S. South Com, based in Miami, Florida, states that its aims in Latin America are …
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from the Washington area suburbs in South Florida. This group of people promptly transformed the streets outside the embassy into an autonomous zone of chaos. Acting as stormtroopers for the U.S. State Department, they pitched tents along t…
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They considered that I am most useful at this moment denouncing the abuse which continued to exist against human rights in Venezuela on the international level, he told CNN in his first appearance since fleeing Venezuela. Vecchio described …
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And you want to know where he's currently at? Go ahead and tell everybody. I know where he's at. Miami, Florida. That's where he's at. And at some given point, I expect to hear Guido's name again. We'll change his name somehow, give him an …
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in bed with the CIA. We know Paul Helliwell opened that Tide console in Miami, the whole network. And of course, Paul Helliwell is mentioned in this book as well. So all of that information is known inside our government, and they didn't do…
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towards his fellow citizens. Outrage towards Hernandez was not confined to Venezuelan's government. Having squandered their country's most valuable international asset less than a year into their political project, Guaido's officials began …
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one of a security team by the name of Keith Schiller, S-C-H-I-L-L-E-R, through industry contacts, and won a single silver court contract to provide security for President Trump in November 2018. Still no evidence ever materialized to prove …
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of your inner manifestations. He presented himself as a political mystic, typically assenting his soft features and designer dress that looked like it belonged in Miami. Journalists granted the privilege of visiting Rendon's residence in Mi…
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turned to the media to blame the plot's failure on Rendon and his colleagues in Guaido's shadow government. Around the time that Goudreau took responsibility for the attack via X, he hopped online for an interview with a Miami-based YouTube…
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Rendon's version of events appeared on May 6th in none other than the Washington Post, reporting how Venezuelan opposition leaders had smooched with Goudreau at the consultant's glittering Miami high-rise, complete with obligatory mention o…
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Months later, a Congressional Research Institute report found that the U.S. Treasury attempted to divert millions of dollars raised from its prosecution of the Venezuelan interests, like the ones we've already discussed, to bankroll the con…
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who remains forever encased in an ivory tower of neoliberal delusion. Haasman will never again have the chance to test his failed economic vision on the Venezuelan population and is instead left in Boston with his Saudi-sponsored professors…
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And when Escobar, who is notorious down in Colombia, got a little ahead of the schedule for the CIA, and he started coming into Miami knocking off their preferred domestic network carriers, which was the Cuban exiles. They began running the…
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The plane was on standby for a chartered flight to Miami, Florida for his extradition, where a sealed indictment on money laundering charges awaited him. Assertions that Washington orchestrated the diplomat's extradition and his kidnapping …
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to intercept an Iranian-Venezuelan plot in real time and convince a small island nation to hold a wanted man. Wanted for feeding people outside the State Department and USAID. Yet even as Pompeo and his collaborators succeeded in extra-lega…
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Before the U.S. could put Saab on trial in Miami, it would have to physically transfer him to Florida, a task complicated by the fact that no formal extradition treaty was in effect between Cape Verde and Washington. Unless Cape Verde is a …
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his extradition to the U.S. They decided that the $400 million was more important than complying with the law. Cape Verde did not officially ship the diplomat to Miami until October 16th. At around 5 p.m., a Gulfstream owned by the U.S. Jus…
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Through the U.S. government's case against the diplomat concerned allegations that he laundered funds related to the construction of Venezuela's public housing. Saab's advocates maintain the charges were simply a pretext for extradition. On…
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That violated U.S. sanctions in theory. In reality, the U.S. Treasury jurisdiction did not include agreements and transactions between foreigners and their government. What's more, over a year of torment and isolation in Cape Verde, failed …
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was not only ungrateful for Elliott Abrams' charity, but had deported a foreign journalist for the crime of asking a tough question. When Anya decided her trip was over on February 26th and her partner were leaving Caracas Airport, they not…
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Maybe there is some twisted roundabout truth about that, you know, of presidents we've had, et cetera. Yeah, here's the interesting thing about Smartmatic specifically. Smartmatic was not ever invented in Venezuela, ever. It was invented by…
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In Miami, it has gotten labeled as something that was developed in Venezuela. It absolutely was not. The company was registered in Florida. So, Ron, go ahead. I was doing a little bit of a search. I was asking why Venezuela wouldn't necessa…
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I wanted to say, you know, they're talking about, I loved it when Maduro responded, well, yeah, I've seen people eat trash in New York and Miami. I was like, that was a brilliant comeback. And, you know, I vividly recall a news story where,…
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But long traveler, I think you probably missed the show, but I talked about this. Smartmatic was not made in Venezuela. That is misinformation. Smartmatic was made in Miami, Florida, with Venezuelan expats that were brought here to, in my o…
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The three people that were just indicted in Miami did not create Smartmatic in Venezuela. They created it in Miami, Florida. They just happened to be from Venezuela. There's a lot of expats just like from Cuba. There was a lot of Cuban expa…
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Smartmatic was not set up in Venezuela. It was set up by Venezuelans that lived in Miami. And as Lone Traveler talked about, the servers, which are an important part of it, was in Serbia. And what do we know about Serbia? Well, we know the …
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He had traveled to Florida International University in Miami for a rally with local Venezuelan expats handing out Make America Great Again hats. He promised his fans among the regime change hungry diaspora that a new day was coming in Latin…
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So he's baiting the military in Venezuela to turn against its government. Weeks later, during his February 18th rally in Miami, President Trump issued a statement to Venezuelan troops. We seek a peaceful transition of power, but all options…
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having lived with him while he was a teenager. For anyone to argue that teens or adults living at the same time in Miami didn't know what their family members were in the cocaine business is total horseshit, a former Miami-Dade detective to…
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He believes in God. I believe that there was an event that day that God saved our lives. In Maduro's view, his assassination would have plunged Venezuela into an armed revolution. They planned it to perfection with so much evil to assassina…
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We will incur the hostility of the population. They'll want us ultimately to leave. And if Guaido is viewed as a puppet, he is going to have trouble lasting, unquote. Tucker made sure to feature one pro-Guaido voice on his show. It was none…
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pointing to the images of Guaido's botched revolt flashing on the screen. I mean, this is the kind of message from Syria. Tucker's carefully staged anti-interventionist theater, capped by the performance of Colonel McGregor, who would go on…
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In the pre-dawn hours of July 17, 1979, Somoza and his closest associates, his top generals, his business partners, and their family boarded two jets and flew to Homestead Air Force Base in Miami, Florida, to begin their exile. The vaulted …
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And the Dominican Republic was two of their favorites. And then into Miami. And interestingly enough, the Bush family owned one of the docks down there. So getting it into America logistically was a lot easier. And the same with Spain and R…
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But primarily the way they did it was they overthrew governments in Latin America during Operation Condor. And so the aircraft was going down there full of weapons and they were coming back empty. So they basically have no cost of transport…
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from Los Angeles. The report included a map of the United States showing ominous black errors emanating from LA and stretching as far east as New York City. All of the cities where crack had been found, Miami for some reason, wasn't among t…
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reportedly started there, they also began bringing crack to some of the African-American neighborhoods, but their primary market was still Caribbean immigrants. One drug researcher from the National Institute of Drug Abuse went to Miami spe…