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Claims (44)
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island documented
“Everybody wanted to control everything. So that's kind of not like a newsflash. In April of 2023, President Joe Biden will host South Korea president for a state visit, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it says South Korean president was to atten…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 56:58
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island documented
“Even as the survivors and others demand a U.S. apology, they don't believe anything's coming anytime soon. And that basically encapsulates the part that I wanted to read about this island. There's basically, I mean, the graveyards, the pict…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 57:27
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island documented
“so coveted by the U.S. after World War II, had to be retained. As recently as March, the U.S. Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer made a port call at the Korean naval base at Jeju in what the commanding officer said was to ensure f…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 56:00
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island documented
“For more than 16 years, Choi and other activists have protested daily outside of the Navy base, calling for an end of the militarization. During World War II, Jeju was a staging ground for the Japanese air attacks. As early as 1885, Japanes…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 56:30
Walt Rostow addressed
United States Armed Forces documented
“Special Forces was already adopting counterinsurgency courses at Fort Bragg. They emphasized economical, social, political, and psychological origins of war. Special Forces seemed to be on top of the subject. Kennedy was impressed. A few mo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 34:19
William Yarborough headed
United States Armed Forces documented
“Has a very large presence on Bragg that helped assassinate him. Its commander at the time was Brigadier General William Yardborough. Took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the Green Beret. The president came and saw, spoke suppo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 37:41
John F. Kennedy supported
United States Armed Forces documented
“Has a very large presence on Bragg that helped assassinate him. Its commander at the time was Brigadier General William Yardborough. Took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the Green Beret. The president came and saw, spoke suppo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 37:41
John F. Kennedy ordered
United States Armed Forces documented
“Has a very large presence on Bragg that helped assassinate him. Its commander at the time was Brigadier General William Yardborough. Took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the Green Beret. The president came and saw, spoke suppo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 37:41
United States Armed Forces specialized_in
Africa documented
“The different groups would specialize geographically. The 10th group covered Europe. The 1st, Asia. The 8th, Latin America. The 3rd and 6th were planned for Africa in the Middle East. The 77th Special Forces Group was redesignated the 7th, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 38:40
United States Armed Forces covered_up
Jeju Uprising host_asserted
“When the Republic of Korea was established, the U.S. military still held command over the Korean forces but basically refrained any demonstration of force because they didn't want everybody on the outside to know they were still in charge. …”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 47:18
United States Armed Forces funded
Republic of Korea documented
“called the Republic of Korea, headed by a U.S.-backed Syngman Rhee, South Korea's first president. In a letter to Truman, Syngman Rhee wrote, quote, Such bullshit. Syngman Rhee also expressed confidence that the U.S. would be permitted to b…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 46:17
United States Armed Forces supplied_arms_to
Korean Military book_quoted
“was articulated through its military advisory group and the operations to suppress the Jeju uprising. They go on to say that the provision of military advisors to counter intelligence core, as well as many other blah, blah, blah. And it goe…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 58:58
United States Armed Forces trained
Korean Military book_quoted
“was articulated through its military advisory group and the operations to suppress the Jeju uprising. They go on to say that the provision of military advisors to counter intelligence core, as well as many other blah, blah, blah. And it goe…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 58:58
United States Armed Forces carried_out_attack
Jeju Island host_asserted
“when the police went unpunished, the lack of accountability fueled anger. Does that sound familiar? So as strikes begin to occur, mass arrests continue to increase. The U.S. military is using the right-wing, what they call right-wing, param…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 42:35
United States Armed Forces specialized_in
France documented
“The different groups would specialize geographically. The 10th group covered Europe. The 1st, Asia. The 8th, Latin America. The 3rd and 6th were planned for Africa in the Middle East. The 77th Special Forces Group was redesignated the 7th, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 38:40
United States Armed Forces recruited
Klaus Barbie host_asserted
“It has been a coordinated effort where we have worked extensively in our State Department and our military with known Nazis, to include Kloss Barbie, all throughout South America in order to overthrow and install fascist dictators. It's alm…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:42:26
Wesley Clark supplied_arms_to
United States Armed Forces host_asserted
“Wesley Clark was the commander of Fort Hood during the Waco disaster. And Wesley Clark provided military people and military equipment to kill Americans in Waco. And we did a big expose of that on our Rumble channel at the Colonel's Corner,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:45:17
United States Armed Forces overthrew
South America host_asserted
“Israel was supplying Iran weapons while we were supplying Iraq. And then we started supplying Iran weapons through Israel. And then when you get to South America, they set up Israel, set up a whole bunch of Galil manufacturing companies dow…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 2:04:57
United States Armed Forces supplied_arms_to
Iran host_asserted
“Israel was supplying Iran weapons while we were supplying Iraq. And then we started supplying Iran weapons through Israel. And then when you get to South America, they set up Israel, set up a whole bunch of Galil manufacturing companies dow…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 2:04:57
United States Armed Forces funded
Israel host_asserted
“aid to go set up military weapon suppliers in countries while we go in and overthrow the government. So it's kind of a weird network and we're exposing all of that. But we're kind of doing it in a methodical way in which it lays out the ent…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 2:05:20
United States Armed Forces specialized_in
Middle East documented
“The different groups would specialize geographically. The 10th group covered Europe. The 1st, Asia. The 8th, Latin America. The 3rd and 6th were planned for Africa in the Middle East. The 77th Special Forces Group was redesignated the 7th, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 38:40
United States Armed Forces specialized_in
South Africa documented
“The different groups would specialize geographically. The 10th group covered Europe. The 1st, Asia. The 8th, Latin America. The 3rd and 6th were planned for Africa in the Middle East. The 77th Special Forces Group was redesignated the 7th, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 38:40
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“Um, I don't know if you guys, um, yeah, here's the other link. I'm going to send it to you right now, Bridget. Um, but anyway, um, we can open up, uh, mics to anybody that wants to talk. We're going to try to stay on topic. Um, cause I stil…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 57:58
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“So we'll try to stay on topic for today. May I add just one tiny little section of something that is relevant, that is pertaining to this? One article said the role of the U.S. military continued even after the formal establishment of the R…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 58:27
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island book_quoted
“was articulated through its military advisory group and the operations to suppress the Jeju uprising. They go on to say that the provision of military advisors to counter intelligence core, as well as many other blah, blah, blah. And it goe…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 58:58
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island book_quoted
“that an unknown ship had emerged from the shores of Jeju, or that the Soviet Union considered Jeju to be its satellite, thereby prompting, and this goes to show you how they were using, even back then, the mockingbird media to spread rumors…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 59:27
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island book_quoted
“Anyway, it was just also that they talked about how this was their center for anti-communist activities. In other words, Operation Gladio. Right, exactly. I mean, it's just every single time it just blows my mind. Yep. SR-71, what you got? …”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 59:55
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“And we're looking at Korea today and where Korea stands, North Korea specifically, with its mineral deposits. The one thing that's puzzling me at this point in time is why they're not being exploited by China or being exploited by Russia. I…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:00:23
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“So it would be greatly appreciated. But SR-71, you are using logic. And that's how I started this whole thing off. If you think about it, if China or Russia wanted North Korea and they truly were communist, would they not have already taken…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:00:53
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“We're looking at Operation Gladio here, who accuses everybody of doing what they are actually doing, when I see evidence that says they are not. And you can't get more evidence than North Korea. North Korea, even before, I mean, keeping thi…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:01:23
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“who helped North Korea defeat, after they were attacked by the U.S., by the way, in addition to the U.S. attacking North Korea before North Korea attacked them, despite the way history is taught. Why didn't China, who is supposed to be the …”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:01:52
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“like we are told happened to all of these other countries. Why didn't it happen to North Korea? There had to be something inside of North Korea that didn't allow either Russia, at the time Soviet Union, or China to do that that is being sup…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:02:21
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“have speculated that what happened in Korea wasn't anything like what we were told. That basically, that northern part of Korea was occupied by an entity that was hostile to China and to the Soviet Union and wanted an area that they could o…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:02:51
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“That pretended to be a country, not unlike what they do or what they did in Pakistan, because they created Pakistan out of whole cloth. It has always been a satellite ran by the CIA under the guise of the Afghan war, which we started to. An…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:03:21
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“nuclear weapon. So all of that crap, when you go back and look at it, it's all kind of like, what? How did we ever believe that to begin with? It's very easy now looking back to begin questioning things because what hampered us before is we…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:03:50
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“We had been put in a box as a kid in history class, and we were not allowed to see outside of the box. Operation Gladio cut the box to shreds. And when you understand that the U.S. military isn't always a force of good, when you understand …”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:04:20
United States Armed Forces funded
Jeju Island host_asserted
“not what we've always been told they are. Well, part of the other thing that blows my mind here, Colonel, is Trump actually opened negotiations with North Korea. Yeah. He actually stepped on North Korean soil, if you want to get right down …”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 1:04:50
William J. Burns member_of
United States Armed Forces host_asserted
“He was the ambassador to Jordan from 98 to 2001. Okay. Hold on a second because we need to put that in reference. Jordan has always been one of the behind the scenes in the lap of both the British and the United States. Jordan is a Western …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady- Secret Societies meets Operation Gladio 250404 @ 1:02:49
William J. Burns member_of
United States Armed Forces host_asserted
“Who was an army major general at Fort Bragg. So he would have been the commanding general at Fort Bragg? Mm-hmm. Pretty down high up there. No, I'm pretty sure that's the commanding general. And for those of you who don't know, okay, the Fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady- Secret Societies meets Operation Gladio 250404 @ 1:03:57
United States Armed Forces planned_infiltration_of
Eastern Europe documented
“Psychological warfare units were also increased in early 1965 to three battalions and two companies plus detachment. By June 30, 1964, the actual strength of the warfare forces was at 11,343. In Germany, the 10th Special Forces Group retain…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 39:08
United States Armed Forces overthrew
South America host_asserted
“It has been a coordinated effort where we have worked extensively in our State Department and our military with known Nazis, to include Kloss Barbie, all throughout South America in order to overthrow and install fascist dictators. It's alm…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:42:26
William J. Burns trained
United States Armed Forces host_asserted
“because of their interaction with the Green Beret Special Forces that are trained at Fort Bragg. So this guy, his dad, is the guy that integrated all of the Special Forces capability into the CIA on CIA missions. And I'm not going to attrib…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady- Secret Societies meets Operation Gladio 250404 @ 1:04:26
United States Armed Forces carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“in Venezuela that connected to that. And Matt Aret, my co-host, who Brady actually introduced me to Matt, not personally, but just his content years ago. And so it's kind of serendipitous that I do a show with him now. But him and his wife …”
▶ Live Research Dig w WarHamster and GBPH @ 41:24
United States Armed Forces funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Anyway, it was just also that they talked about how this was their center for anti-communist activities. In other words, Operation Gladio. Right, exactly. I mean, it's just every single time it just blows my mind. Yep. SR-71, what you got? …”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 59:55
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▶ 8:47
have defense contracts. These are the tech people and defense contractors. They're not American. They have no allegiance to America. And I need to have someone explain to me in small words how the United States military can take Americans, …
▶ 9:19
data people, but private industry can't do that. These are high school graduates that come into the United States military and we turn them into incredibly well-trained people. So what are you doing on the civilian side to do the same? Also…
▶ 40:57
internal terrorist, when in fact it was what I know to be CIA-trained terrorist militia in Colombia. Their border down in the southeast area is porous with people flowing over into Venezuela. Yeah, yeah, that's a great point. And I believe,…
▶ 41:24
in Venezuela that connected to that. And Matt Aret, my co-host, who Brady actually introduced me to Matt, not personally, but just his content years ago. And so it's kind of serendipitous that I do a show with him now. But him and his wife …
▶ 1:42:26
It has been a coordinated effort where we have worked extensively in our State Department and our military with known Nazis, to include Kloss Barbie, all throughout South America in order to overthrow and install fascist dictators. It's alm…
▶ 1:45:17
Wesley Clark was the commander of Fort Hood during the Waco disaster. And Wesley Clark provided military people and military equipment to kill Americans in Waco. And we did a big expose of that on our Rumble channel at the Colonel's Corner,…
▶ 2:00:25
Monsanto, do you ever get into Monsanto and how they travel with our military as well? And do we have anybody in higher command that's actually going to say enough is enough? I honestly think people. So that that's kind of a tough question.…
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A senior officer in the military and understanding the congressional testimony process, that definitely spelt the end of his career. And of course, we watched what happened. He got fired. So it is costly on one hand to do that, but you're r…
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So I don't know what part of all men are created equal when you start talking about their unfit, but that was William McKinley. And basically, William McKinley's idea of doing what was best for the Filipinos was to employ the United States …
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Spain agreed to cede the islands, basically they sold them to us, for $20 million. But the Filipinos, who had already been fighting for the independence and a republic, were not interested in having another occupation from a foreign governm…
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proceeded to instill in the population an appreciation for the Americans being in charge. Nearly half a century later, the U.S. Army again landed in the Philippines to find a nationalist movement fighting against a common enemy. This time i…
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You guys know the story about the fact that MacArthur was there. He got driven out during World War II. The Japanese took over the Philippines and MacArthur basically hung out down near Australia and eventually made his way back to the Phil…
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The American forces disarmed many of the Hux units, removed the local governments, which the Hux had established, and arrested and imprisoned many of their high-ranking members, as well as the leaders of the Philippine Communist Party. And …
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and the diseases of poverty that the Huck Rebellion is, according to the New York Times, and they called it a communist rebellion, of course, is generally regarded as an outgrowth of the misery and discontent among the peasants of the centr…
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By the end of 1945, four months after the close of World War II, the U.S. was training and equipping a force of 50,000 Filipino soldiers for the quote-unquote Cold War. In testimony before a congressional committee, Major General William Ar…
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University of North Carolina and its association with the Army Fort Detrick's program kind of all ties together. And, you know, the initial attack that Putin carried out on Ukraine looks very closely related to where the bioweapons labs wer…
▶ 19:31
groups in South Vietnam. This basically, in response to that, U.S. Special Forces commandos were trained in, get ready for it, behind the lines anti-guerrilla and intelligence gathering operations. So basically what we have here in our term…
▶ 20:31
what they provoked themselves by installing them. So working in 12 member A teams under the cover of civic action, the Green Berets organized paramilitary units in remote rural regions and SWAT teams consisting of security forces in the cit…
▶ 21:01
Developed as a way of fighting cost-effective counterinsurgencies, the rough-and-tumble Green Berets were basically acting in this case as an extension of the CIA, which made them basically a threat to the main body of the army. And there h…
▶ 26:04
became very problematic to a COCOM who's responsible for the mission in the theater when the CIA keeps pulling off your guys to go on side missions for the CIA. There is a built-in problem with that. So Special Forces troopers would go on t…
▶ 39:08
Also, another element that compounds all of this is because they had been occupied for so long by Japan, a lot of the villagers were Japanese collaborators. They had sold their neighbors out. So again, in some defense of the U.S. military, …
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where there's a lot of indigenous hatred of people who had sold their neighbors out. And to be quite honest with you, it would be almost impossible for the U.S. military to discern who the good guys and the bad guys are. So it's very chaoti…
▶ 41:09
paramilitary groups by like 10 times what had ran when it was under occupation by Japan. The paramilitary groups start attacking supply lines, exacerbating the food shortages. So it's basically just falling apart. Let's see. Oh, don't do th…
▶ 42:35
when the police went unpunished, the lack of accountability fueled anger. Does that sound familiar? So as strikes begin to occur, mass arrests continue to increase. The U.S. military is using the right-wing, what they call right-wing, param…
▶ 43:33
And this is exactly what happened in Colombia, by the way. So the U.S. military command was the supposedly ruling authority. They took no action to prevent any of the murder, the rape, the torture, or the destruction that was taking effect …
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During the autumn of 1948, violence raged as civilians were killed using bamboo spears, and entire villages were burned to the ground. Fearing targeted reprisals, villagers fled beyond the five-kilometer coastal area into the island's inter…
▶ 47:18
When the Republic of Korea was established, the U.S. military still held command over the Korean forces but basically refrained any demonstration of force because they didn't want everybody on the outside to know they were still in charge. …
▶ 47:48
you know, like in the media or news. One U.S. official saw the uprising as an opportunity for the South Korean forces to gain, quote-unquote, combat experience. You know, just kill your neighbors, no big deal. In late 1948, Sigmund Rhee was…
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Hyo Ho Chung interviewed retired American military advisors who had been on Jeonju during the April 3rd incident and claimed to know nothing about the massacres happening around them. That's how bullshit this is. As the drive for reconcilia…
▶ 50:45
apology regarding the role of the U.S. government and the U.S. military advisor group has been delayed. Ko notes, the guy that's doing all of this remembrance stuff, notes that in 2018, more than 200 South Korean civil society organizations…
▶ 51:12
He points out that the previous U.S. presidents who have expressed remorse for the acts or mourned the extreme violence committed by the U.S. and says that it's time for the U.S. to apologize for what happened. The families of the victims h…
▶ 52:13
such tragedies in the future anywhere around the world, unquote, as they are continuing to do them every day. Such bullshit. Heo Ho-jung, who spent more than 30 years researching the uprising for his book, says that America's role is well-p…
▶ 52:44
about them, he was only concerned about keeping South Korea separate. In his book, it says, quote, South Korea's jails were overflowing with political prisoners as a result of the undeclared war by its police on the citizens. While American…
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They had labeled the communists as the target. Keogh says there needs to be more awareness of the role the U.S. played in the carnage. And speaking the truth, he says, should not be a means to be punished, but rather a path toward reconcili…
▶ 53:37
calls Jeju the core of the post-1945 conundrum and collapse of what still continues to be a Pax Americano. She told someone, Inkstick, that Jeju was arguably the precursor to the Korean War, which began after widespread civil conflict and b…
▶ 54:05
had already occurred elsewhere in Korea, meaning this went on everywhere. The Jeju Massacre stands as history for what a total bloodbath looks like. Jeju was huge because the sheer violence was supported by the U.S. military and pushed, bas…
▶ 55:07
What took place was a model for the scorched earth policies in other parts of the world, like Vietnam, Central America and the Middle East. And she's not wrong, actually. She implores Americans to learn the history of Jeju to better underst…
▶ 55:31
You frame the people, you divide the people, you target the people, and you justify the killings. Those are her words. And she just described Operation Gladio. So according to her, peace activists on Jeju are still targeted under South Kore…
▶ 58:27
So we'll try to stay on topic for today. May I add just one tiny little section of something that is relevant, that is pertaining to this? One article said the role of the U.S. military continued even after the formal establishment of the R…
▶ 58:58
was articulated through its military advisory group and the operations to suppress the Jeju uprising. They go on to say that the provision of military advisors to counter intelligence core, as well as many other blah, blah, blah. And it goe…
▶ 59:27
that an unknown ship had emerged from the shores of Jeju, or that the Soviet Union considered Jeju to be its satellite, thereby prompting, and this goes to show you how they were using, even back then, the mockingbird media to spread rumors…
▶ 59:55
Anyway, it was just also that they talked about how this was their center for anti-communist activities. In other words, Operation Gladio. Right, exactly. I mean, it's just every single time it just blows my mind. Yep. SR-71, what you got? …
▶ 1:01:23
We're looking at Operation Gladio here, who accuses everybody of doing what they are actually doing, when I see evidence that says they are not. And you can't get more evidence than North Korea. North Korea, even before, I mean, keeping thi…
▶ 1:02:51
have speculated that what happened in Korea wasn't anything like what we were told. That basically, that northern part of Korea was occupied by an entity that was hostile to China and to the Soviet Union and wanted an area that they could o…
▶ 1:04:20
We had been put in a box as a kid in history class, and we were not allowed to see outside of the box. Operation Gladio cut the box to shreds. And when you understand that the U.S. military isn't always a force of good, when you understand …
▶ 1:49:18
Bruce and I went to the Air Force Academy together, and all the service academies have it. We have this honor code. We will not lie, steal, or cheat, and tolerate among us anyone who does. And so that soul ripping you talk about, that is so…
▶ 1:04:26
because of their interaction with the Green Beret Special Forces that are trained at Fort Bragg. So this guy, his dad, is the guy that integrated all of the Special Forces capability into the CIA on CIA missions. And I'm not going to attrib…
▶ 8:24
Briefly, he found that the government had increasingly been ineffective in the countryside and was losing the guerrilla warfare. Civilian control over the armed forces was such that Diem, the South Vietnamese fake president that the CIA ins…
▶ 8:24
Briefly, he found that the government had increasingly been ineffective in the countryside and was losing the guerrilla warfare. Civilian control over the armed forces was such that Diem, the South Vietnamese fake president that the CIA ins…
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The U.S. military advisory group with which Lansdell himself had served from 54 to 56 was too small and too hampered by local restrictions. Lansdell spent a little over two weeks in Vietnam. He spoke with Diem and other political and milita…
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and he never uttered one word to JFK about Vietnam. They talked about Laos, never about Vietnam. The SecDef wanted to hear from the author himself, so Robert McNamara asked Lansdale to come to his office. Casting about for some kind of dram…
▶ 13:08
overrode all opposition. In the meantime, Ed Lansdell had retired in 1963 with the rank of major general. In Vietnam, psychological warfare would function strictly as an adjunct to the conventional military force. One recommendation of the …
▶ 14:35
Nevertheless, Gilpatrick's group came back to Kennedy with a menu of 40 options, which is ridiculous on the surface. Kennedy's decision in this initial case conditioned much of the subsequent U.S. experience in Vietnam. Between doing nothin…
▶ 15:29
was in the memorandum. It included deployment of Special Forces Green Berets, 400 of them, with a mandate to expand the present operations in the field of intelligence, unconventional warfare, and psychological operations. Kennedy also sear…
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The twin pillar of pacification, which is basically intimidate the hell out of everybody until they quit resisting, and isolation, which was building these villages and isolating the different cities from each other so that they basically c…
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The twin pillar of pacification, which is basically intimidate the hell out of everybody until they quit resisting, and isolation, which was building these villages and isolating the different cities from each other so that they basically c…
▶ 17:25
The possibility arose in the context of the Laos situation, but it was desirable also from a Vietnamese standpoint. The American occupation of Laos might have had the effect of blocking Ho Chi Minh Trail, which the North Vietnamese had buil…
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who had just returned from a trip, was suggesting that that's probably something that was needed. Rostow had taken Ed Lansdale along with him on a special assignment to compile a survey for unconventional warfare. The Taylor-Rostow report a…
▶ 19:21
This deployment was part of a much wider expansion of American forces in Vietnam. The size of the assistant group rose from 700 when JFK took office to a year and a half later to 12,000. There were many more military advisors, U.S. supply u…
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Special Forces, Navy, Air Force, Marines, blah, blah, blah. Farmgate retained its clandestine status while semi-clandestine units followed. They used mule teams to fly short-range air transport and Ranch Hand, which was another code name, w…
▶ 20:19
contingent could hardly be called a group anymore, so they redesignated it as Military Assistance Command, and the figures rose by 1963 to be 22,000 people. Conditions in South Vietnam deteriorated despite the increase in forces. Government…
▶ 20:45
It was evident by 63 that President Diem had lost most of the political support that he had, and his brother began using force to quell demonstrations by the majority Buddhists in the country. They were operating under the auspices of being…
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was approval of an initiative to put the tribal program on a much more formal footing. The tribal units would then become civilian irregular defense groups with fortified camp bases and leadership from the Green Berets. From 1961 to 65, 80 …
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Special forces participation increased dramatically from one medic on temporary duty in late 1961 to the first A-team deployment from Okinawa in February of 62 to a peak of 3,480 by 1968. Until November of 1962, this new civilian irregular …
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was entirely a CIA responsibility. Their actor operational command was gradually transferred over to the military advisory command by the summer of 1963. So the CIA sets it up and then hands it off to the U.S. military. By then, Colby had l…
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Affairs found no evidence of FARC involvement in drug trafficking, but its main finding pointed to an extensive drug smuggling into the U.S. by the paramilitary groups in collaboration with wealthy drug barons, the military, key financial f…
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That's not even an option. And I think that's something that most people don't understand in the military. And I say this with the understanding the way civilians take this. The military owns you. You do not have freedom. You don't have fre…
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Get your ass out of the military. You don't have that freedom in a uniform. You just don't. And I think, Colonel, I think the crucial component there is in uniform. I think you can do certain things out of uniform, but if you have a uniform…
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Very restricted. If I was out of uniform and went to a political rally as a senior officer, that would have been contentious. That's the reason why people, while they're on, I don't think it's in uniform. It's while you're on active duty is…
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and the Constitution, you do not live by whatever the civil norms are in society. You just don't. And I was not free to advocate for a political position while I was on active duty. Even, like I said, in my own quote-unquote op...…
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in civilian clothes, I would have never even considered as a wing commander to attend a political rally because half the people that I work for doesn't necessarily align with my political views. And that would have driven a wedge between me…
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It wasn't even a second thought because that stuff is drilled into you that you are apolitical from the time you're on active duty until you resign or retire. You don't do those things. So I just looked it up. Restrictions while in uniform …
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They may not use their rank position or authority to influence or interfere in elections. They are prohibited from running or holding partisan offices. They cannot distribute a distribution of partisan materials.…
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Permitted political expression out of uniform is voting, joining a political party or a club, making monetary contributions, expressing personal views on candidates and issues as private citizens, not as representatives of the military. The…
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or I guess it's D-O-W now. Ron, Ron, I understand what it says. I'm telling you the practical piece of this. As a senior officer, you don't participate in partisan politics. You just don't.…
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And I was never a senior officer. I only got to E4. And my understanding is what I was. So you're right. As an officer, it's probably a whole other level. And I would say that's the same thing with like a chief or a senior master sergeant, …
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Was I always a registered Republican? Could anybody look up my political registration because they're online? Absolutely. And I was a registered Republican the entire time that I served on active duty. But I never participated. And I will t…
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So anyway, I don't know who's next. Bridget, who was next? I don't know. Guru, go ahead. You haven't talked yet. No, sure. Yeah. Guru, go ahead. Yeah, sorry. I'll be quick, guys. But I just got a question, and I think I know the answer to i…
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So let's go back where that come from. And was that a fighting technique to have our troops do what they need to do? Or is this a planned event from the cabal to actually, you know, from way back to actually contain and manipulate our troop…
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But really, in the background, was it a ploy to control the military? So originally, the intent is to erase your individual identity by shaving your head.…
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conforming to haircuts, everybody wearing the exact same thing. So you coalesce around a unit and an identity as a Marine, an airman, a soldier, or a sailor. That's the intent. You cannot go to war if you have internal strife. And so by mak…
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It allows you to conduct very complex military operations. Having said that, because we are all taught to conform, could someone use that for evil? Absolutely. I did not ever experience that.…
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blowback if you go against the grain of a particular policy or whatever and you speak your mind. Does it have a drawback in building too much conformity? Yes. But when you go to battle, the stress of being deployed doesn't allow you the aut…
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So the intended purpose is to create a lethal fighting machine. But as we have seen in some of the nefarious shit that some of the like the JSOC guys who literally are taught to go in and be paramilitary and kill people.…
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Can that psychological profile be a bad thing? Absolutely. But that's basically what you have to have in order to have the cohesiveness to do some really death-defying things in battle. It's like, you know, I talk about the Air Force, obvio…
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go out every day and you fly with the same people and you know exactly how your wingman is going to react, you are able to do amazing things. What you can't have is somebody that goes, you know what, I don't really think that's the right th…
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This is our air campaign. Go out and fly it. You just lost all your votes. So I can see how evil people could try to use that. But it was never intended for that. I hope that answers your question. Thanks, Colonel. Yeah. And I'm sorry if I …
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shown more by corporate controlled media that it seems like it's not political. It's extremely dangerous and tyrannical. I can't agree, disagree with any of that. S.R., go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I just want to reiterate what you said ab…
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Before you know it, you're ball-headed and everybody else is there with you in the same manner, same place, same how. But given all of that and looking at what's going on, I can also say as an E6, if you were ever late for anything, when yo…
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An accident or something like that, that's tolerable. But other than that, there is no excuse. Yeah. Back in the day, if you didn't have a reason that involved blood, there was no excuse. You were never late to anything. Being late to anyth…
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um to do manual labor so it is drilled into you from the get-go that you are not late to anything ever and i am still not late to anything ever and it's kind of a running joke in my family um when i would come home for the holidays um my no…
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The Eisenhower administration was both the creator and the captive of an illusion in Vietnam. A combination of factors, Cold War, bipolarism, and paranoia, the arrogance of power, cultural and racial chauvinism, blinded U.S. leaders to soci…
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The Marshall Plan primarily funded things like Operation Gladio and the reestablishment of the businesses there for the international oligarchs. And that was true in Laos and Vietnam as it related to drugs. This was never about, you know, d…
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incursions across the border based on systematic exaggeration of events was repeatedly used by the U.S. Joint Chiefs to urge introduction into Laos of U.S. troops armed with tactical atomic weapons. Such a confrontation in Laos served the i…
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This was not a trivial matter. Laotian opium production concentrated in the Northeast was in the order of 50 to 100 tons a year and constituted the country's most valuable export. In retrospect, it appears that the CIA's efforts in Laos wer…
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which began in Laos in 59 and 60. Moreover, it appears that Eisenhower did not really know when his office and authority was being committed to the Laotian conflict. I'm not sure I agree with that, but whatever. In its invasion of internati…
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Because of the expertise of the 18 members, however, these units were also well-suited to train friendly forces and to command friendly irregular units within a friendly territory. By adopting these counterinsurgency methods, special forces…
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After Eisenhower took no action in response to the Hungarian revolt, the unconventional warfare experts were also smarting from an encounter with the army bureaucracy, which banned the wearing of special forces headgear, the green beret. De…
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By 1960, Special Forces Group had increased threefold, but still totaled only about 2,000 men. This was fewer than the number of personnel spaces the Army had allocated in a 1952 decision. Good fortune came to the Special Forces with the el…
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Special Forces was already adopting counterinsurgency courses at Fort Bragg. They emphasized economical, social, political, and psychological origins of war. Special Forces seemed to be on top of the subject. Kennedy was impressed. A few mo…
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Rostow had completed his own inquiry, which JFK encouraged, and found that the core of the Special Forces was estimated to be only a few hundred men. Just two weeks before JFK's inauguration, Khrushchev had declared the Soviets support for …
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Rather, we confront it in guerrilla warfare in the underdeveloped areas, a systematic attempt by the communists to impose a serious disease on those societies, attempting to transition to modernization. Let me say that again. So he's tellin…
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They were already modern. As a matter of fact, Allende had already created a computer system that he was using for the efficiency of the government. They were already a modern place. They just didn't want to be subordinate to the United Sta…
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That every time you say the word communist, there's someone that has to be killed. Special Forces was perceived in Washington to have done just that. Rasto was back at Fort Bragg in late 1961, this time accompanying JFK on his own tour of t…
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Has a very large presence on Bragg that helped assassinate him. Its commander at the time was Brigadier General William Yardborough. Took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the Green Beret. The president came and saw, spoke suppo…
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The message called the Green Beret a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, and a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. Henceforth, Special Forces would be called Green Berets, and there would be an official relation governing th…
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The different groups would specialize geographically. The 10th group covered Europe. The 1st, Asia. The 8th, Latin America. The 3rd and 6th were planned for Africa in the Middle East. The 77th Special Forces Group was redesignated the 7th, …
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Psychological warfare units were also increased in early 1965 to three battalions and two companies plus detachment. By June 30, 1964, the actual strength of the warfare forces was at 11,343. In Germany, the 10th Special Forces Group retain…
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in 1962 for six subversive activities and 49 guerrilla warfare zones throughout Eastern Europe, where the 10th group would be dispersed. Its A-teams were each credited with the ability to mobilize one 500-man partisan battalion every month …
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Get this, behind the lines wartime activity, you know, like stay behind units. The 10th Special Forces Group became an exception within the Special Forces. Green berets working in other areas of the world concentrated more on questions of c…
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attended few of the VEA PIGS sessions, so it basically didn't, like, blow back on him. Starting out as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant, Holmes successfully served in the OSF and then in the CIA. His specialty was Central European espionage, whic…
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The contract flight crews reported sighting seven Russian aircraft, presumably those of the Soviet airlift, to the Pashin-Lau. It was not surprising that the White Star advisors were exposed by the open combat. Although the deputy chief of …
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One of the RLAF colonels to whom the Foamy gave command of Mobile Group 15 had been in charge for several days before he accidentally encountered his Green Beret advisors, not at his command post, but with the foremost detachments. When the…
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teams. The RLAF colonel recounts that he had almost no contact with those Americans at all. The Green Beret Captain Moon, M-O-O-N, who died fighting with Mobile Group 15 and the passengers and crew of an Air America plane that was shot down…
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Eight White Star Green Beret teams reportedly accompanied the Vang Pao forces. At this point, Kang Li's neutralist forces retreated from the capital and made straight for the Hmong Plain of Jars area to engage. Vang Pao lost his own village…
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The memorandum written by Lansdell at the time explicitly noted that the CIA station chief controlled the Hmong troops. Assigned to work with them were nine CIA specialists, nine Green Berets, and 99 Thai contract agents from the so-called …
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just like Trump did by creating Space Force, because we are now at the point where even within the Air Force that has a very strategic view, their use of space command within the Air Force. So the Air Force had a space command. But again, w…
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Sorry, I couldn't unmute. How you doing, Colonel? I hope everything's all well. Happy Mother's Day to you. Thank you. And everybody else. I hope you had a great one. I did. Good to hear. You know, Space Force, people think Space Force is ju…
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the U.S. military, the Secretary of Defense, all of that. You have services like the Air Force, Space Force, Army, Navy, which houses the Marines. They train and equip their people in order to be matrixed to a completely different organizat…
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that goes forward and supports that warfighter. And those are operational commands. Those are completely different from your services. The services are only to train and equip people to go work for warfighters. And so you can think of the A…