Operation Watchtower operation
also: Watchtower
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CIAintelligence service · 8Edward Cutoloperson · 8Edwin Wilsonperson · 7Panamacountry · 6Manuel Noriegaperson · 5Colombiacountry · 4Libyacountry · 4Neil Livingstoneperson · 3Tom Clinesperson · 3George H.W. Bushperson · 3Mossadintelligence service · 2Albrook Air Stationplace · 1Canal Zoneplace · 1Bobby Bakerperson · 1United Statescountry · 1Washington, D.C.place · 1Switzerlandcountry · 120th Special Forces Grouporganization · 1Michael Handperson · 1Frank Turpleperson · 1Fort Devensplace · 1Don Lowersperson · 1Air Panamaorganization · 1
Claims (7)
CIA trafficked
Operation Watchtower book_quoted
“in Operation Condor and the drug and arms running that occurred during the Iran-Contra and all of those other things. Harari was the first guy that we stumbled across. Harari was the one who gave Edwin Wilson two briefcases full of U.S. mon…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 8:56
Edwin Wilson laundered_money_for
Operation Watchtower book_quoted
“Cotolla said in his sworn statement that the man he knew was Edwin Wilson told him, quote, that over 70% of the drug profits from Watchtower were laundered through banks in Panama. The remaining percentage was ran through a Swiss bank and a…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 13:01
Tom Clines member_of
Operation Watchtower book_quoted
“Not a lot of drugs. Then when Watchtower happened, Noriega was in the thick of it from then on. Yeah, there was a lot of drugs even before that, but you wouldn't expect him to admit that. Livingstone acknowledges that Wilson was not involve…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 19:46
Michael Hand member_of
Operation Watchtower book_quoted
“Livingstone laughed. Are you serious? He did it for the money, and I can tell you who his partner was, Michael Harari. Michael Harari was much like Ed Wilson, a front man used by Mossad, and he had deep interest in his own personal profits.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 20:15
Edward Cutolo carried_out_attack
Operation Watchtower book_quoted
“for short periods of time in Colombia, and Coutola said he was. Coutola ended up commanding the second watchtower mission into Colombia. His unit's job was to establish a series of three transmitters running northeast between Bogota, Colomb…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 6:56
Mossad carried_out_attack
Operation Watchtower host_asserted
“was Bush used in an elaborate scam to conduct a drug operation for profit under the name of the CIA when it was really benefiting others. Well, it benefited a whole lot of people to include the CIA. They are not mutually exclusive. Behind t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 3:00
CIA carried_out_attack
Operation Watchtower host_asserted
“was Bush used in an elaborate scam to conduct a drug operation for profit under the name of the CIA when it was really benefiting others. Well, it benefited a whole lot of people to include the CIA. They are not mutually exclusive. Behind t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 3:00
Mentions (18)
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Livingstone said that he was constantly scrambling for deals and the Air Panama deal was one that looked good. Intelligence work had gotten sporadic at best. Livingstone confirmed that he was present in Panama when Operation Watchtower was …
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Not a lot of drugs. Then when Watchtower happened, Noriega was in the thick of it from then on. Yeah, there was a lot of drugs even before that, but you wouldn't expect him to admit that. Livingstone acknowledges that Wilson was not involve…
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Livingstone laughed. Are you serious? He did it for the money, and I can tell you who his partner was, Michael Harari. Michael Harari was much like Ed Wilson, a front man used by Mossad, and he had deep interest in his own personal profits.…
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get started. We are on Chapter 11, which is called Operation Watchtower, and this one starts off with George Bush's activity that later came back to haunt him from his CIA days. None of his CIA covert actions was more…
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was Bush used in an elaborate scam to conduct a drug operation for profit under the name of the CIA when it was really benefiting others. Well, it benefited a whole lot of people to include the CIA. They are not mutually exclusive. Behind t…
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Watchtower had begun within a month of Bush's assuming the CIA director's job. And it was about the same time that he was having his first meeting with Noriega, who then was the head of Panama's intelligence services. In other words, his pe…
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Citizens opposed to the proposed treaty that would give Panama control of the canal. In reality, the meeting had far more ominous implications. That was a pretext. In 1980, Colonel Edward Cutolo, K-U-T-O-L-O, gave sworn testimony in an affi…
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He was at the time he made the affidavit. He was the commanding officer of the Airborne 10th Special Forces Group based at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Four years earlier, Watchtower had changed his life. Colonel Cutolo said in his December …
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What they are doing is setting up, you know how as you come in using autopilot to an airport, you have the beacons that come in that your ILS, which is the system that does the guidance. As you come in, it basically fears the aircraft autom…
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for short periods of time in Colombia, and Coutola said he was. Coutola ended up commanding the second watchtower mission into Colombia. His unit's job was to establish a series of three transmitters running northeast between Bogota, Colomb…
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In March 1976, Cotolla commanded a third Watchtower mission, which lasted 29 days. It did not go as well as the earlier ones. His special action team was in Turbo, Columbia, waiting for removal by a helicopter when the team encountered 40 t…
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American politicians before the 1980 presidential election. Cotolla's strange testimony can be verified up to a point. Unfortunately, Cotolla and a score of others involved in Operation Watchtower have all been killed under circumstances th…
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He would have had to have been in two places at once. Edwin Wilson was in Libya when Cotola's quote-unquote Wilson was in Panama. Now, there's a lot of information about Watchtower out there, and you guys are welcome to do as much or as lit…
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testimony in his affidavit. And it is likely that Edwin Wilson had access because, again, he is a multimillionaire at this point and in the CIA, that he had access to aircraft in order to do exactly what Cotolla said that he did while also …
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Cotolla said in his sworn statement that the man he knew was Edwin Wilson told him, quote, that over 70% of the drug profits from Watchtower were laundered through banks in Panama. The remaining percentage was ran through a Swiss bank and a…
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A month before he was killed in what was officially labeled an accident during a military training exercise. Well, that's convenient. So he goes on record and then he mysteriously disappears. Manuel Noriega learned of the entire Watchtower …
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They asked the question, is it possible that Tom Klein used Turples and Wilson's name in order to set up Watchtower? Klein, in the future, anytime he was asked about it, refused to even have a conversation about his involvement in it. And W…
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Klein still employed as a CIA on the actual payroll. He frequently worked out of Wilson's townhouse in Washington, D.C. As Wilson spent more and more time in Libya, Klein began to move in on all of Wilson's operations. The opportunity for h…