Edward Cutolo person
also: Colonel Edward Cutolo, Colonel Cutolo, Cotolo, Coutola, Cattolo, Cotolla
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Edward Cutolo member_of
20th Special Forces Group documented
“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 …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 4:30
Bobby Baker recruited
Edward Cutolo book_quoted
“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 …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 4:30
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
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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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to special operations mission inside of Colombia that was being carried out jointly with the CIA. Baker told Cotolo that he had gone on his first mission himself without incident. The project involved bringing in, activating, and defending,…
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were needed to guard against bandits or Colombian armed forces, according to Cotolo. On a December day, Cotolo was introduced to two men that he was told was Frank Turple and Edwin Wilson, the guys we've been reading about this whole time. …
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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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Cattolo's first mission lasted 22 days and he and his troops suffered no casualties. They inflicted none on the Colombian soldiers that they encountered. According to Cattolo, in February 76, which again is right at the, you know, kind of t…
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in the election season. He was present when 30 high-performance aircraft landed safely at Albrook Air Station, where the planes were met by Noriega, who at the time was the Defense Force officer assigned to the Customs and Intelligence Sect…
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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…
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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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40 high-performance aircraft successfully landed in Panama and delivered narcotics. It was Cotolla's last mission for the CIA, but not the last time he would hear from the agency. Cotolla was assumed command of the 10th Special Forces at Fo…
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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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primarily in Libya. But secondly, it's not beyond the possibility, since we know that they wear masks all the time, that one of the two Edwin Wilson was someone pretending to be Edwin Wilson. So that, again, that is not off the table here.…
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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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which were then used to purchase weapons to arm various factions of the CIA as they saw fit. Which again, that fact is true too. The associate, Cotolla claims, was Tom Climes. And again, they worked together all the time. Colonel Cotolla ga…