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CIA funded Iran-Contra documented
“was done, but that was, I mean, we know now that was going to be two years. So Alan Fiers, the guy we talked about through this whole series, pleaded guilty in July of 1991. And Gates was fearful that he would be implicated since he pled gu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 3:12
Iran-Contra financed_via BCCI host_asserted
“because BCCI was at the heart of all of the deals for Iran Contra all of the money that went to buy the missiles through Israel into Iran went through BCCI all of the money laundering for the drugs out of South America…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 34:19
Donald Gregg member_of Iran-Contra book_quoted
“He was in El Salvador with the death squads. He was in Honduras with the death squads. He was working on the CONFRA thing out of the Bush vice president White House for Donald Gregg, because Donald Gregg, who was the national security advis…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 25:26
Felix Rodriguez member_of Iran-Contra host_asserted
“Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to be tasked with that either, but he was. So the rank of the individual has literally nothing to do with that. And it was out of the vice president's office using his national security advisor that Iran-Cont…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:10:49
National Security Council funded Iran-Contra book_quoted
“Thoughts in Reagan's White House turned towards getting Khomeini to influence the Lebanese Shiites. An interagency study completed in October 1984 concluded that a new relationship could be forged only by Khomeini's successors. In April of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 2:43
Ronald Reagan funded Iran-Contra book_quoted
“the finding to approve the CIA's November involvement retroactively, backdating. The CIA and the NSC together drafted a document that Reagan approved on January 17th, 1986. The finding contained orders that Congress not be informed and that…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 6:36
Richard Secord carried_out_attack Iran-Contra book_quoted
“Through 1986, Secord negotiated many deals, organized shipments, and supported operations in progress. McFarlane, and do I need to remind you as a general, he's a retired military officer, which means he's subject to UCMJ authority doing al…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 7:37
Felix Rodriguez member_of Iran-Contra book_quoted
“the vice president staff running basically the operation for the conference. And he knew Donald Gregg, who was Bush's national security advisor as VP. And Donald Gregg had been involved in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And basically, the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 25:54
BCCI provided_bridge_financing_for Iran-Contra documented
“in a number of arms deals with Khashoggi and at least five different deals with the United States and BCCI, providing bridge financing from Israel to Iran.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 37:09
John Singlaub member_of Iran-Contra host_asserted
“the Western goals, which was a CIA front. And he was fully involved in the Iran-Contra affair as well. So just wanted to make sure I got that part in. So let's open it up. Ron, go ahead. Sorry, I hit the wrong button. Mom, I'm sitting here …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:05:39
Felix Rodriguez involved_in Iran-Contra book_quoted
“Because he became President Bush's national security advisor, and he immediately turned around and hired Felix Rodriguez, who was front and center in the Iran-Contra scandal. He is also a Cuban exile that was used as an assassin on many, ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 22:50
Mark McFarlane member_of Iran-Contra host_asserted
“Even strangers we know from multiple firsthand accounts that operatives and January 6th filmmaker were also involved in operations at Standing Rock. Iran Contra alumnus Bud McFarlane wrote in 2006 that it would be advantageous to get access…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 30:27
Franklin Credit Union funded Iran-Contra host_asserted
“And you have the names of the different FBI agents who are all involved because they were involved in the prosecution. I mean, there's other elements of it, too, that have some links like these kids were getting taken from Boys Town, you kn…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 59:27
Bush family funded Iran-Contra host_asserted
“Where, I mean, they almost, that thing almost got exposed completely by the Washington Times. And, you know, there's some interesting links to all of that through Les Wexner. And certainly through, you know, Iran-Contra and the Bush family.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 54:46
Oliver North member_of Iran-Contra host_asserted
“Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to be tasked with that either, but he was. So the rank of the individual has literally nothing to do with that. And it was out of the vice president's office using his national security advisor that Iran-Cont…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:10:49
Donald Gregg member_of Iran-Contra host_asserted
“Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to be tasked with that either, but he was. So the rank of the individual has literally nothing to do with that. And it was out of the vice president's office using his national security advisor that Iran-Cont…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:10:49
George H.W. Bush member_of Iran-Contra documented
“which revealed that Bush, in a critical meeting, voted to send Iran tow missiles in exchange for hostages.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 35:37
John Poindexter member_of Iran-Contra documented
“Primary front and center was Admiral John Poindexter of Iran-Contra fame…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12 @ 18:25
Ronald Reagan funded Iran-Contra host_asserted
“The hostages get released on Inauguration Day of Ronald Reagan. That gave him the needed booze to be pro-military. And what did he do with that? He sets up Iran-Contra, which then has Israel selling missiles to Iran to generate money for th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 55:26
David Kimche ordered_assassination_of Iran-Contra book_quoted
“approached National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane two months later to ask if the U.S. might sell weapons to Iran. Huh. When McFarlane replied he thought not, the Israeli asked whether Washington would have any objections if Israel did i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 4:10
George H.W. Bush headed Iran-Contra host_asserted
“I ran Contra, which he orchestrated, and we bailed that savings and loan out $700 million.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 7:08

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Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster
▶ 34:19 landfield minefield of the Reagan Bush era Iran Contra because BCCI was at the heart of all of the deals for Iran Contra all of the money that went to buy the missiles through Israel into Iran went through BCCI all of the money laundering f…
Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster
▶ 34:44 BCCI. BCCI was at the heart of everything about the supposed money going into Iran that was going to free hostages over in Lebanon. All BCCI. So through the scandal, Bush, Bush's reelection campaign, he weathered the many allegations of his…
Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster
▶ 35:08 insisting that he had not been in the loop on the Iranian Arms for Hostage initiative or the covert support of the rebel forces in Nicaragua. His statements were flatly contradicted the week before November 1992 election when the Iran Contr…
Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster
▶ 35:37 which revealed that Bush, in a critical meeting, voted to send Iran tow missiles in exchange for hostages. The potentially damaging evidence in those notes did not, however, prevent George Bush from issuing a full pardon on Christmas Eve of…
Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster
▶ 49:09 weaponry throughout NATO and everything else. So we're not only just arming Iraq at that point, we're shipping in the 1980s via Iran-Contra missiles and all kinds of technology shit through Israel into Iran. We're literally arming both side…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 4:41 by the system. Unlike Watergate and Iran-Contra, this was a bipartisan scandal. There was no opposition party to push for an independent investigation. In fact, the same group of wealthy, powerful businessmen centered in Houston then encirc…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 7:08 I ran Contra, which he orchestrated, and we bailed that savings and loan out $700 million. The savings and loan scandal was almost the perfect crime. The layers of protection and insulation between what the public discovered was going on at…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 16:20 if there were documented evidence of a CIA agent involved, showing savings in loan money going from an asset to a CIA operation, like we found with Iran-Contra. This is obtainable only by a subpoena. Even in such case, the CIA would deny th…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 17:53 is Irene Contra and the other is the shipment of the missiles to the Middle East. The CIA either knew what was going on or their operatives knew. And then you're asked, why if they knew, didn't they stop it? How effective an intelligent age…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 31:30 I'm sure they laundered money into that, too, from their little stash everywhere. So, yeah, the deputy CIA director's son-in-law sets up a bank in Washington, D.C. to use for Iran-Contra that was 100% financed by the mafia. Nothing like kee…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 34:14 connected so many pieces of things, all tied to the implosion of the savings and loan industry that was directly tied to Iran-Contra, weapons trafficking, now human trafficking, and the whole nine yards. And all of us that lived through tha…
Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1
▶ 48:18 as money traffickers for the Contra operation that was coming up and all of the rest of their covert operations in Iraq, Kuwait, wherever. They purposely did this to facilitate the disaster that they knew. They planned the disaster. They li…
Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12
▶ 18:25 Primary front and center was Admiral John Poindexter of Iran-Contra fame and a guy by the name of Brian Sharkey. Poindexter, of course, was the Reagan National Security Advisor who had been convicted of five felony counts for his role of ly…
Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 12
▶ 18:53 While working on Genoa for DARPA, he befriended Sharkey, who would go on to become a senior vice president at SAIC and their chief technology officer during the 1990s. In the aftermath of 9-11, Poindexter and Sharkey felt it was time to rev…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 29:20 But they also were deployed in Nicaragua. They were deployed in Honduras. They were deployed in El Salvador. They, in many cases, to include Felix Rodriguez in the whole Iran-Contra, number three guy in the Bush vice president Reagan White …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 1:27:00 in the support of the Contras in Nicaragua, the pilots will tell you that they were flying supplies in to help people defend themselves against communists. No, no, there was no communist anywhere in Nicaragua.…
Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)
▶ 41:54 Its cousin was called Operation Condor, and that was the operation still ran out of NATO with all of the same Nazis in South America that overthrew Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, moving up into Central America, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicar…
OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP
▶ 55:26 The hostages get released on Inauguration Day of Ronald Reagan. That gave him the needed booze to be pro-military. And what did he do with that? He sets up Iran-Contra, which then has Israel selling missiles to Iran to generate money for th…
'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED
▶ 1:07:04 I ran Contra. If you understand Operation Gladio and you go back and you start reviewing the attempted overthrow of the Nicaraguan government under the same auspices that we don't want them to have their own farmland. They were primarily ow…
'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED
▶ 1:07:32 to fund the Contras. Reagan, with George Bush as his vice president, starts using Israel as a weapons cutout. So they become a major weapons trafficker. The U.S. is- Into Nicaragua. So we can sort of wash our hands- Well, into Iraq and then…
'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED
▶ 1:08:00 We're funneling it through Israel, so it's not really going to Nicaragua. Yeah, exactly. Correct. And the same thing happened in Angola under Reagan. So we do not want the government that Angola is going to put in place. Angola backs up to …
Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day
▶ 1:31:34 He would buy it back, and he was going to buy it back for a million dollars. Well, United Fruit says, you can't buy it back for a million dollars. It's worth $16 million. And he goes, well, fuck you, because you've only been paying taxes on…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19
▶ 25:26 He was in El Salvador with the death squads. He was in Honduras with the death squads. He was working on the CONFRA thing out of the Bush vice president White House for Donald Gregg, because Donald Gregg, who was the national security advis…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19
▶ 25:54 the vice president staff running basically the operation for the conference. And he knew Donald Gregg, who was Bush's national security advisor as VP. And Donald Gregg had been involved in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And basically, the …
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17
▶ 2:57 That's where some of the arms got caught up in customs in the Iran-Contra affair. So, and by the way, it was for the very long time a fascist organization because the Genter Press, part of Operation Gladio, was staged out of Portugal. So, w…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17
▶ 3:29 deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush appointed to the directorship of the CIA…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17
▶ 34:51 H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with Secord and Quintero as being like blood b…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17
▶ 38:47 is how Iran-Contra got created. And Jimmy Carter was basically cutting all ties to the dictator death squad last Somoza. And we've been brainwashed to believe that Jimmy Carter's the bad guy. It's just crazy. He also believed that if he sup…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond
▶ 11:47 the guy that featured prominently in the Phoenix program, Donald Gregg and Rudy Enders. He goes on to explain that Donald Gregg, and let me just tell you guys, this is how overlapping these are. Donald Gregg is the guy that worked for Vice …
Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond
▶ 17:37 And he goes on to explain this is how he ended up on the good side of the CIA. Because during this lawsuit, they actually named Richard Secord, who was in the Iran-Contra story, and Ted Shackley, who is in every story. And basically...…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond
▶ 21:42 Obviously, he was hired as Vice President Bush's National Security Advisor, because that's where we found him in our other story for the Iran-Contra. Rudy Enders, assigned as Chief of the CIA Special Operations Division to oversee covert pa…
The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation
▶ 1:38:57 And, you know, he talks about he watched them go up. He watched them come down. And then he basically says, I wasn't really worried about them hitting, you know, Rockefeller Center just because due to a lack of imagination. So you have the …
The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation
▶ 1:39:28 The puzzle pieces all fit. I'm not going to jam them together. I'm willing to try the different ways that they fit. And what we know is that Osama bin Laden, while Iran-Contra is going on, he's getting support in Afghanistan to fend off the…
The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation
▶ 1:39:58 getting involved in sending Stinger missiles and going out and visiting Afghanistan and stuff like that. While that's going on, bin Laden sets up Maktab al-Qidamad, which is his sort of funding mechanism. And I think there's information out…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8
▶ 54:46 Where, I mean, they almost, that thing almost got exposed completely by the Washington Times. And, you know, there's some interesting links to all of that through Les Wexner. And certainly through, you know, Iran-Contra and the Bush family.…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8
▶ 59:27 And you have the names of the different FBI agents who are all involved because they were involved in the prosecution. I mean, there's other elements of it, too, that have some links like these kids were getting taken from Boys Town, you kn…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14
▶ 1:10:49 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to be tasked with that either, but he was. So the rank of the individual has literally nothing to do with that. And it was out of the vice president's office using his national security advisor that Iran-Cont…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 34:41 a route being flown so that they could get out before they got caught. And that's according to the Costa Rican police. Gonzalez and Neves were never charged with a crime, either in Costa Rica or the United States, and the allegations were n…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 36:07 release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 37:34 while boarding a plane for Switzerland. In their possession was a briefcase filled with $5 million in cash. According to Spanish government officials, in May of 1987, the money was destined for a bank account in Zurich controlled by North. …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 38:32 who was later forced to resign from the CIA for his illegal involvement in the Contras. Fernandez was indicted by Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but the charges were dropped when the U.S. attorney, Richard Thunberg, refused to decla…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 54:46 He gave the only copy of the tape recording made by an undercover source to a total stranger, the congressman complained. Owen did not tell Rosenblatt that he worked for North or the CIA. He told him he worked for a private organization. No…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 55:15 That were the subject of the tapes. Owen said his last trip to Costa Rica to meet the DEA agents occurred in October 86. Within a day or two of the Iran-Contra scandal breaking, Owen threw the Kelso tapes away. They were thrown out, along w…
The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2
▶ 24:59 even as they were increasingly constrained by Congress, controlled by the Democrat Party. Undeterred, they initiated a series of covert programs ranging from Western goals to counsel for national policy, Iran-Contra, BCCI, which is the bank…
The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2
▶ 29:28 opposing operations, which had their own issues at Standing Rock. The Romero Institute is a project of Danny Sheehan, a Jesuit-backed lawyer who had had another notable brush in the spotlight. In the wake of Iran-Contra, he sued Jack Single…
The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2
▶ 30:27 Even strangers we know from multiple firsthand accounts that operatives and January 6th filmmaker were also involved in operations at Standing Rock. Iran Contra alumnus Bud McFarlane wrote in 2006 that it would be advantageous to get access…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24
▶ 22:50 Because he became President Bush's national security advisor, and he immediately turned around and hired Felix Rodriguez, who was front and center in the Iran-Contra scandal. He is also a Cuban exile that was used as an assassin on many, ma…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43)
▶ 48:22 William Casey again did his little happy dance. He wanted to fly to Pakistan right away. But instead, Bob Gates made the trip to familiarize himself with the front line of the secret war. During the visit to Iran, Contra affair had begun, c…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43)
▶ 1:01:42 Iran-Contra itself opened up everything that was really going on. And what really, given the age of this crowd, I would say there's a lot of people here listening in that have loved ones that were in Iraq, that were in Afghanistan, that wer…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43)
▶ 1:06:57 The U.S. Army veteran admitted he helped start ISIS when he was drunk. He told me that. So you can say that after the fact, but that's not what they believed when they were over there training the Mujahideen, which morphs into Al-Qaeda and …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 2:43 Thoughts in Reagan's White House turned towards getting Khomeini to influence the Lebanese Shiites. An interagency study completed in October 1984 concluded that a new relationship could be forged only by Khomeini's successors. In April of …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 3:12 The language that communicates with just the right people. Oh, you want weapons? Okay. The CIA entered the picture in May when Graham Fuller, Ames' successor, sent Bill Casey a memo that argued for a bolder and perhaps riskier policy on Ira…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 3:40 Casey sent the fuller paper intended for internal circulation to the White House, but the CIA's official position contained in the May 1985 update to the Iran Special National Intelligence Estimate remained pessimistic. Improvement, because…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 4:10 approached National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane two months later to ask if the U.S. might sell weapons to Iran. Huh. When McFarlane replied he thought not, the Israeli asked whether Washington would have any objections if Israel did i…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 4:41 You can just give us the weapons back. His request led to a national security group meeting at the White House on August 8th, which appears to have been the Israeli go-ahead. Deals with Iran, many deals with Iran followed, related both to o…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 5:14 which we've talked about several times, especially early on. A man with a shadowy past of dealing with various security services, including Iranian, American, and Israeli. And it's weird that they left out the UK because he dealt with them …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 5:41 The Israelis bungled their shipment, routing it through Portugal without appropriate clearance and appealed to the U.S. for help because they got caught. This compromised the White House. McFarland personally intervened with the Portuguese …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 6:06 Deputy Director John McMahon agonized over this use of CIA services without a presidential finding. I'm sure he did. Meanwhile, McFarlane resigned in December to be replaced by Admiral John Poindexter. At a Christmastime event, Langley aske…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 6:36 the finding to approve the CIA's November involvement retroactively, backdating. The CIA and the NSC together drafted a document that Reagan approved on January 17th, 1986. The finding contained orders that Congress not be informed and that…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 7:06 being none other than General Richard Secord, attended a meeting at the White House on January 11th. There, Secord met with the CIA. And again, I need to remind you, Reagan is in these meetings. He's signing this stuff. This is not George H…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 7:37 Through 1986, Secord negotiated many deals, organized shipments, and supported operations in progress. McFarlane, and do I need to remind you as a general, he's a retired military officer, which means he's subject to UCMJ authority doing al…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 8:07 He is a commissioned military officer, an agent of the government. McFarlane called back to go along on one mission in May, thought that he could talk directly to the Iranians. He didn't. A divergence developed. U.S. officials assumed that …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 8:38 bypassing Gorbanifar's link. A second channel was eventually opened and one further arms transaction was arranged. But Gorbanifar learned of it and struck back by blowing the operation's cover. McFarlane's visit to Tehran was revealed in a …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 9:07 The Iranian arms deal, together with the events simultaneously occurring in Nicaragua, ignited a firestorm during the Reagan presidency. Three hostages were released, Reverend Benjamin Ware, Father Lawrence Jenko, and David Jacobson. Reagan…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 9:37 all of the spare parts for them. He also sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. But on the streets of Beirut, the terrorists grabbed four more Americans plus a British mediator, Terry Waite. The CIA station chief, Bill Buckley, tortured for mont…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 10:08 leaving what is reputed to be a 400-page debriefing. Langley was wounded. Meanwhile, the NSCE staffer managing the arm cells, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, had given the Iranians a sample of intelligence that might be available in a coop…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 10:38 Germany, where the steady flow of Iranian workers and migrants made it possible to access people without suspicion. Some hold this to have been strictly an espionage ploy. Others claim that the CIA attempted to set up a stay behind group to…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 11:10 basically overrunning Iran like there was ever a chance of that. There was not. Interesting that he uses the words stay behind group since we now know what that is. A number of Iranians were recruited. As early as 86, there were warnings th…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45)
▶ 11:41 Secret writing, an old method, rather than new technology. Tehran had indeed penetrated his scheme. Beginning in 88, Iranian authorities arrested more than 30 people, and they accused them of being agents of the CIA. Ricker could do nothing…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52)
▶ 2:39 The same day, Bush called Gates while they were on board Air Force One and asked him if he would accept the CIA nomination. The Iran-Contra investigations were ongoing at the time. And he would definitely not be cleared until the final spec…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52)
▶ 3:12 was done, but that was, I mean, we know now that was going to be two years. So Alan Fiers, the guy we talked about through this whole series, pleaded guilty in July of 1991. And Gates was fearful that he would be implicated since he pled gu…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52)
▶ 7:00 Most notably among them was Mel Goodman. He had been a colleague for years. Jennifer Glodsman, a former Soviet analyst, and Harold Ford. Yeah, the same Harold Ford that we know now. Alan Fiers appeared as part of the committee's fairly exte…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52)
▶ 12:15 We need more spies. The Directorate of Operations officers in the field met with silence when they proposed new operations or recruitments. Iran-Contra showed that Langley would not back its officers in trouble and now morale was suffering.…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52)
▶ 13:43 She went on to say, quote, the CIA entered a new phase of overt covert operations, doing them in plain sight, but then pretending that they were covert operations, which of course everybody inside the CIA saw as an oxymoron. The consequence…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2
▶ 44:24 for guerrillas. That sounds so familiar. And to transit drugs and weapons. That's in a DEA document, part of a larger effort to fund and supply the Contras. Huh, like a Gladio training camp? That covert effort was linked to a scandal known …
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2
▶ 1:01:09 Rodriguez was also part of the Iran-Contra and had a vested interest in making sure that anything that Camerino had discovered never saw the light of day because Felix Rodriguez was working for George H.W. Bush.…
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 16:42 Roland's connections to the Reagan administration are impressive. In June of 1981, his pilot was arrested in Houston for illegal possession of and importation of AK-47 rifles while flying Roland and his wife to Acapulco. Roland was quick to…
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 24:30 Plumlee is named in several books and articles about the Contra affair, but is only identified by his mysterious pilot name, Tosh, T-O-S-H. In the 1982 book, The Fish is Red, he is identified, although only by his name, Robert Plumlee, and …
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 32:59 airstrip where I thought we were going to run off the end, and we did not. And it was very short. Kenneth Kloss, the manager of the airport at Alpine, a nearby town, said the landing strip is in the flight path of a low-level training route…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7
▶ 1:05:39 the Western goals, which was a CIA front. And he was fully involved in the Iran-Contra affair as well. So just wanted to make sure I got that part in. So let's open it up. Ron, go ahead. Sorry, I hit the wrong button. Mom, I'm sitting here …
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8
▶ 35:44 But not as many as his biographer have written. His daughter said today she said that her father was not involved in Operation Mongoose, an intelligence operation said to have been ordered by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to assassinat…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8
▶ 39:09 later in Central America on behalf of the Contra rebels, again under Shackley, and was questioned in the Iran-Contra scandal. In other words, he was one of Shackley's guys. And in the interview, he seemed interested in rehabilitating Shackl…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b
▶ 35:32 but they brought him down in a joint CIA-FBI operation called Watergate. President Carter tried to end as much of the secrecy, but of course he fell victim to the deep state himself. President Reagan, who we know brought us not only George …
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b
▶ 50:17 News reporters kneeling in front of the committee dais quickly go to work, taking shot after shot of Church holding this heart attack gun. Unquote. The image of Church and John Tower, who would later lead the Tower Commission, which essenti…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b
▶ 1:51:11 Understand that Israel massages intelligence apparatus with the CIA, both of which are post-World War II intelligence agencies, has worked hand in hand. And I have articulated multiple times how Israel has stepped in as the weapons traffick…
The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6
▶ 52:11 not as a hidden hand. Of course, some would bring up the Cuban situation, the Project Phoenix in Vietnam, perhaps even the Iran-Contra affair, or any number of other instances, and there would be nervous laughter. But I'd gently guide them …