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Claims (136)
CIA operated_in
Guatemala documented
document
“employing it in Guatemala in 1954…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.55
Jacobo Árbenz located_in
Guatemala documented
document
“In 1953 and 1954 two of the Agency's boldest most spectacular covert operations took place the overthrow of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and the coup against President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman of Guatemala…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.51
CIA operated_in
Guatemala documented
document
“The first is the major political or paramilitary endeavor such as an attempt to change a government Guatemala for instance…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.59
CIA operated_in
Guatemala documented
document
“A year later in Guatemala a relatively limited number of advisers accomplished a facet of American foreign policy that our President at the time wanted…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.83
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala documented
document
“the CIA had set aside $20 million to overthrow a leftist regime in Guatemala…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.264
Jacobo Árbenz operated_in
Guatemala documented
document
“In 1953 and 1954 two of the Agency's boldest most spectacular covert operations took place... and the coup against President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman of Guatemala…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.119
José Efrain Rios Montt headed
Guatemala documented
document
“...the Guatemalan general and former de facto president José Efrain Rios Montt...…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.226
Jacobo Árbenz member_of
Guatemala documented
“The recently deposed president of Guatemala was escorted into the Guatemala City airport with his small entourage, including his wife and two children. Arbenz was beloved among his poor country's peasants and workers for their land and labo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 14:49
Henry Heckscher operated_in
Guatemala documented
“Heckscher be transferred somewhere else. Alan Dulles knew of Heckscher's arrogance, but he also knew that the station chief was very resourceful, and they also knew what plans they had for Laos. Heckscher had worked against the Russians and…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 21:36
Che Guevara member_of
Guatemala host_asserted
“He's helping fight off the CIA. He's 25 years old at the time, and his name is Che Guevara. Guevara, who had been living in Guatemala since 1953, when they basically started this last phase, had tried to spark armed resistance to help Arben…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:02:07
Jacob Esterlin headed
Guatemala documented
“Esterling had never had anything to do with Latin America, yet suddenly found himself the deputy chief of the Guatemalan Coup Task Force in 1953. After the Esterling had served as the chief of station in Guatemala, where they ran the coup f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 12:20
Celerino Castillo III appointed
Guatemala documented
“So it says it didn't take him very long to discover what was going on at the airbase. Two days into his new job as the DEA's regional office in Guatemala City in October 1985, Castillo said the agent in charge, Robert Stia, took him aside a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 4:35
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala host_asserted
“labor representatives and low labor relation facets of his government. At a second meeting, the officers also demanded that Arbenz reject the creation of a people's militia, which he wasn't even the one that was trying to create that. At on…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 36:10
CIA carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“Within hours, a CIA plane had taken off from Honduras, bombed a military base, and destroyed the government radio station. Colonel Castillo Armas, whose anti-communism the U.S. could trust, was soon to be the new leader of Guatemala. The pr…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 58:45
CIA carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“Guatemala Confederation opens its Congress, period, inferring there's communists in the Guatemala Congress. And then, of course, the CIA continued making its arrangements. The offensive began in earnest on 18 June with planes dropping leafl…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 42:49
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala guest_asserted
“do covert operations under plausible deniability. So when the CIA wants to overthrow a government, like in the case of Guatemala that we were just talking about, they don't usually use too many Americans. What they do is they recruit from t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 1:15:38
Thomas Massie overthrew
Guatemala documented
“and he established Norman Armour as the U.S. ambassador and sought to support the new military dictatorship of Castillo Armas. So Mann is deciding who's going to be in charge of ambassadors in their newly created military dictatorships. He …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 1:07:06
Ralph Pazulo lived_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“That the FARC didn't want all of the illegal crap and, you know, they're going to be the bad but less bad than the actual narcos. Yeah. So he's there at the Bogota embassy. So he leaves there. And weirdly enough, in 1969, he goes to Guatema…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 11:06
Jacobo Árbenz headed
Guatemala host_asserted
“He was offered to be in charge of what's going to happen in Guatemala basically right after that. But he declined going down there. It says the government there was, of course, another democratically elected government that was elected in 1…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 26:44
United Fruit Company funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“And he was very, very popular because he was doing the agricultural reform and basically taking the people's land back that had been stolen from them through corrupt government deals to United Fruit. And so, oh, and by the way, United Fruit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 27:14
William A. Robertson Jr. carried_out_attack
Guatemala documented
“Instead, he sent a party from Armas' Liberation Army to blow up the railroad tracks outside of the port. Robertson led the team himself and laid the explosives on the track, but it just so happens it rained and it didn't work. The CIA team …”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 52:32
U.S. Navy spied_on
Guatemala documented
“The actual communist in Czechoslovakia wasn't actually his friend because they didn't even take care of him. They screwed him too. So the useless weapons from Czechoslovakia enabled Eisenhower to come out with his infamous, oh my God, Arman…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 53:36
Jimmy Carter removed_from_power
Guatemala documented
“halted all foreign aid because of the death squads and gross human rights abuse. And by the way, Jimmy Carter is the only president that did that. Congress tried to do it during the Reagan administration, but Reagan ignored him and did it i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 1:07:38
Dwight D. Eisenhower overthrew
Guatemala host_asserted
“And you guys have heard me say many times that during the eight years of the Eisenhower administration with Vice President Richard Nixon, he more than once with Iran, Guatemala and the Congo at the top of the list overthrew governments. And…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 8:36
CIA carried_out_attack
Guatemala documented
“Castillo Armas led his force across the border into Guatemala, driving a battered station wagon. The real threats to Arbenz presidency came from the bombing raids on the capital with aircraft flown by CIA pilots. This created panic among th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 41:10
CIA paid
Guatemala host_asserted
“One army commander reportedly was paid $60,000 to surrender his troops. When Arbenz realized that his army officers could not be counted on to obey his orders and defend the capital, he knew the game was over. Unwilling to take to the mount…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 41:41
CIA trained
Guatemala documented
“or if any, of the 58 prominent Guatemalans were eventually assassinated. We know Arbenz's name's on it, so it's not actually too far to stretch to think that his name never came off that list. But what is known is that by training and encou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 50:15
Carlos Castillo Armas ordered_assassination_of
Guatemala documented
“would do everything in his power to purify Guatemala of those thoughts. The CIA, enamored of making ominous lists, helped the new regime assemble a list of subversives that soon grew to 70,000 names. This is exactly what they did in Vietnam…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 51:43
Nathaniel Davis set_in_motion
Guatemala book_quoted
“He had worked for the CIA in Guatemala from 1968 to 1971 in a terror campaign unleashed on that country, which followed the August 1968 assassination of U.S. Ambassador Gordon Maine. The campaign allegedly set in motion by Maine's successor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 1:21:04
Whiting Willauer appointed
Guatemala host_asserted
“Will Aulner. It's spelled W-I-L-L-A-U-N-E-R. He goes on to become, actually, he was specifically appointed ambassador during 1953 Guatemala coup by the CIA. This Will Aulner guy who buds with this attorney, they fire,…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 56 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' @ 34:37
Ronald Reagan funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“So he had cut them off at the knees. And do you know who reinstalled it day one? Ronald Reagan. All of those countries with death squads killing their own peoples, foreign aid was immediately reinstalled when Ronald Reagan took over. So the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:03:06
Israel supplied_arms_to
Guatemala host_asserted
“We're giving aid to Israel, and Israel's selling guns to the Contras and the Guatemalans and the Costa Ricans and the El Salvadorians and blah, blah, blah, to the point where they're actually setting up arms manufacturing plants in their co…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 10:33
Czechoslovakia supplied_arms_to
Guatemala book_quoted
“as did the Soviet Union. A month before the coup, that is, long after Washington had begun to prepare for it, Czechoslovakia made a single arms sale to Guatemala for cash, something the Czechs would no doubt have done for any other country,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 11:25
John Weber appointed
Guatemala host_asserted
“So I'm trying to give you the Reader's Digest version of this. So another, there's a, oh gosh, this, yeah, this is horrific. All right. So within days after one of the CIA install guys takes office, U.S. Colonel John Weber arrived in Guatem…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:12:13
John Weber supplied_arms_to
Guatemala host_asserted
“He immediately expanded the counterinsurgency training in Guatemala. 5,000-man army brought in U.S. Jeeps, trucks, communication equipment, helicopters to give the army more firepower and mobility. Now, this is against unarmed civilians, gu…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:12:48
General García headed
Guatemala guest_asserted
“But he definitely supported it. Yeah. And we didn't cover Efrain Rios Montt. We didn't cover, I think General Garcia was the guy who preceded him, I think, and ran. So I think it was General Garcia who ran Guatemala from 78 to 82. And that …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:50:02
Efraín Ríos Montt headed
Guatemala guest_asserted
“But he definitely supported it. Yeah. And we didn't cover Efrain Rios Montt. We didn't cover, I think General Garcia was the guy who preceded him, I think, and ran. So I think it was General Garcia who ran Guatemala from 78 to 82. And that …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:50:02
Nestor Sanchez involved_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“in the whole CIA schema thing. Also, let's see. Yeah, he was involved in the Iran-Contra that we're learning a lot about in my most recent threads. He was involved in couping Guatemala. He was also the guy that was the CIA…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 31:04
Psychological Strategy Board targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala documented
“The Psychological Strategy Board, in its capacity as arbiter of America's secret war, approved the concept on August 12th, 1953. And two weeks later, PSB, the Psychological Board, gathered together to give Guatemala the next highest priorit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 35:34
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala documented
“So you mentioned the fact that they were involved in Guatemala. And I want to just specifically say, because I was just asked this on an earlier podcast this morning, the way they were working in Guatemala was not just in Guatemala media.…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 50:59
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Dwight D. Eisenhower overthrew
Guatemala host_asserted
“way that it was Eisenhower that used the CIA to overthrow Iran and Guatemala. And it was Eisenhower. And I didn't mention it on podcast because frankly, I had already made my point, but I did follow up in a post about the same day that spee…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 7 @ 1:16:42
United States carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“Now, of course, we know that because we've researched so many of the CIA's activities in the immediate aftermath of World War II, like in Iran and Guatemala. And all of the international laws were developed so that the indigenous people fig…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 22:14
United Brands operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“and Alfred Taubman are all directors on this company, basically meaning they're part of the CIA. And United Brands owned 42% of the land in Guatemala. They use basically slave labor. And the transportation or logistics, thank you.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 13 and 14 @ 10:01
National Guard (El Salvador) trained
Guatemala host_asserted
“it was a program called air america and basically mel gibson's the pilot robert downey jr is the co-pilot and they find out you know halfway through the movie they're moving cocaine um out of colombia using the the air force to do it i'm te…”
▶ Colonel Towner with Enjoy the Show Hosted by DC Lidzone @ 57:34
World Anti-Communist League involved_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“of Americans and a lot of our senior military people were part and parcel of it. And it does go through many of the coups that we've talked about over the course of time in Guatemala and Honduras and Nicaragua and Chile and that type of thi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 13 @ 2:31
United Fruit Company operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“And he was very, very popular because he was doing the agricultural reform and basically taking the people's land back that had been stolen from them through corrupt government deals to United Fruit. And so, oh, and by the way, United Fruit…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 26:45
Dean Rusk operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“that it says that he went to National War College 10 years later, which he must have went as an ambassador because it would have taken him 20 years to get in there if he had stayed in the military. So his foreign service, yeah, he definitel…”
▶ School of Americas @ 7:32
CIA overthrew
Guatemala host_asserted
“all of your companies down there. And you basically create a slave labor market because you're the only guy in town. That's literally what the CIA did with United Front in Guatemala. And after they did that and the country got together and …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 21 @ 1:26:15
CIA carried_out_attack
Guatemala book_quoted
“happened without the helping hand of the CIA. As I understood your book, in the last 25 years, the CIA got quite a few so-called little helpers in the form of NGOs. Could you please elaborate on that? Mr. Engel said, response, during the Re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner US EmpireCIANGOs @ 3:27
Covenant House operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“Macaulay-Ritter Alliance was cemented. The Covenant House seems to become enmeshed in similar intel-linked networks. The Covenant House grew into an international organization. It had a list of this. Now, supposedly, this is a charity for r…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 10 @ 1:29:26
Operation Gladio overthrew
Guatemala guest_asserted
“You're not going to be able to get World Bank loans or any of that. And you're not going to be able to participate in the dollar based economic system unless you agree to these trade deals. I'll pause right there for your comment. A couple …”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with War Hamster Brady - The Shadow State Recolonization - The Corporate Side of Operation Gladio @ 10:03
Gene Sharp operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“Lebanon, with Maldivians, Iran, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Guatemala, and the West Papuans. Right? They're telling us. Sudan. So Gene Sharp comes back and says, then from Serbia, the news spread to Georgia, which was under a very repressive regime…”
▶ Special Dive Tiananmen Square @ 38:24
Gene Sharp operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“Lebanon, with Maldivians, Iran, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Guatemala, and the West Papuans, right? They're telling us. Sudan.…”
▶ Albert Einstein Inst's How to Conduct a Revolution through Gladio Glasses @ 38:26
CIA operated_in
Guatemala documented
“And this guy leaves off a lot of them, actually, because we know they were in Cambodia. He does mention Vietnam. And of course, they were in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala. What was true of the agents was true of the operators as well. R…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 17 @ 28:25
United Fruit Company operated_in
Guatemala guest_asserted
“The Rockefellers was one of the board directors at the time. Two CIA agents was board directors at the time. And like three other industrialists, they owned 42 percent of Guatemala and they paid zero taxes in Guatemala. And you wonder why w…”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with War Hamster Brady - The Shadow State Recolonization - The Corporate Side of Operation Gladio @ 25:37
Richard M. Bissell Jr. involved_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“And very instrumental with the nuclear weapons and the new propulsion systems, the whole thing. He was a brilliant man, no doubt, but he was as evil as they come. Yes, yeah. He took over from Frank Wisner and was involved in the assassinati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and Martha Sheshan @ 26:27
Costa Rica operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“Yes. Well, Costa Rica especially, because Costa Rica was used instrumentally to launch attacks into Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. So, yes, it does matter that we have him under control because we use his borderland to attack everybody …”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #37 @ 1:02:31
CIA assassinated
Guatemala host_asserted
“and killed 50,000 other people in that country. Don't ever get too big for your britches again. The CIA owns you. You are going to be our slaves. Shut up. They terrorized those people. They have done that repeatedly all over the world. In a…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 21 @ 1:27:14
USAID funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“based on fascism, like a world dictatorship. These were the instruments that were being used to do exactly that. And now to think how much power these people have and how long they've been playing this game. It's like I tried to explain Gua…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner meet Ryan Matta with Operation Gladio warning @ 50:18
Operation Tropic operated_from
Guatemala documented
“The activities there and the operational name of the compound in Guatemala, the increased activities at that plantation, and the close cooperation of U.S. officials in Guatemala and Panama made official connections impossible to deny. By la…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 18:50
CIA carried_out_attack
Guatemala documented
“Only in the case of Albania did President Eisenhower inject a cautionary note, quote, because of the question of who gets it and who gets hurt, unquote. Both the Guatemala and Iran covert actions were carried out. What an interesting meetin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 56:26
Guatemala supplied_arms_to
Czechoslovakia documented
“Cabell. Barnes described the status of the various PB success elements. The CIA project seemed to be moving along smoothly. One action by the Arbenz government did play into the preparation for the success. The Guatemalans turned to Czechos…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 36:03
Rodolfo Mendoza member_of
Guatemala documented
“and went to town on the arm caches and the freighter. Then in only real defection sparked by the CIA, former Guatemalan Air Force Chief Rodolfo Mendoza left the country with a former U.S. air attache who had been at CIA the day before depar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 37:28
Carlos Castillo Armas carried_out_attack
Guatemala documented
“rebel troops, most of them not from Guatemala. Castillo Armas advanced to a church six miles inside Guatemala and halted. He awaited a popular revolution that was supposed to support him. From there, the main force would march over land and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 46:18
Jacobo Árbenz removed_from_power
Guatemala documented
“Arbenz received an ultimatum and resigned before the day was out, taking refuge at the Mexican embassy and asking for political asylum. PB's success had achieved its goal. Despite the success of this unintended strike, that incident had a m…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 54:10
CIA carried_out_attack
Guatemala documented
“Iran and Guatemala as models of successful covert operations. The inner stories reveal that both Project Ajax and PB's success was filled with failures. At some point in each case, the CIA came close to canceling their operation. The projec…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 56:34
Jimmy Carter removed_from_power
Guatemala documented
“The excesses of the ruling oligarch became such that the U.S. itself, under the Carter administration, finally halted virtually all foreign aid to the country. Over the long haul, the covert actions did not produce democracies. Imagine that…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 58:36
Swan Island supplied_arms_to
Guatemala host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
United States installed
Guatemala caller_asserted
“Because we installed a military dictator that we controlled that just let us do everything because we're the ones that kept them in power. Go ahead, Illini. Hey, Colonel. To Renee's point, you know, in Operation Gladio, we referred to the P…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 58:01
Guatemala carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs caller_asserted
“was the use of the CIA in the destabilization of that. And of course, they used Guatemala covertly afterwards for decades to launch operations throughout Latin America to include the Bay of Pigs, to include Iran-Contra in nearby Nicaragua. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 57:33
United Fruit Company interfered_in_election
Guatemala host_asserted
“If you just Google Chiquita Banana lawsuit Miami, it will come right up. Okay. And so just so that everybody understands, United Fruit would go in as one of America's oligarchs into a country and they would pay, they'd interfere in the elec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner meet Ryan Matta with Operation Gladio warning @ 6:27
Operation 40 targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala host_asserted
“more in just a minute. The perceived success and relatively low cost of Operation Ajax encouraged the CIA to carry out similar covert operations to overthrow additional countries. And the next one happened the very next year in Guatemala. A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation AJAX-How it relates to current events in2025 @ 25:47
Guatemala supplied_arms_to
Contras documented
“This is what he's talking about. Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador fronted arms shipments for the Contras. In both cases, the CIA turned to the People's Republic of China, meaning Taiwan, to supply additional weaponry and missiles to its…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 24:57
Frank Church exposed
Guatemala host_asserted
“uh senator church was um how he basically exposed everything from watergate to um guatemala yep uh to number of issues surrounding the bay of pigs the assassination attempts on castro to um i i i think he he helped expose um the chilean cou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 1:10:09
CIA overthrew
Guatemala host_asserted
“Not Nicaragua. Guatemala had already been overthrown by the CIA and they were killing their own people. Same thing with El Salvador. Same thing with Chile. Same thing with Paraguay and Uruguay. He stopped all foreign aid to those countries …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:02:38
CIA recruited
Guatemala host_asserted
“Oh, okay. Yeah, so we brought the KMT guys in, we brought the Turks in, we brought in the Filipinos, and we were going to bring in some Guatemalans along with all of the Cuban exiles to create this battalion-size invading force. Yeah. It's …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 1:02:53
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala host_asserted
“to make more than 87 cents a day in copper mines in Chile or picking bananas for United Fruit, an American company that had bought up all the farmland in Guatemala, Cuba, blah, blah, blah, Nicaragua. So the very country that now has this pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 58:22
CIA trained
Guatemala book_quoted
“for the CIA to conduct operations in these countries. And he believed Engel's appointment proved his point. At the CIA, the advantages of putting U.S. operatives in close contact with local police was obvious. But as late as the 1960s, with…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 34:31
Guatemala supported
Grenada Invasion documented
“It was an entire program called Grenada Return to Freedom. Like you've been you lost your freedom under Bishop. The invasion was almost universally condemned throughout Latin America. Only the American installed dictatorships of Chile, Guat…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:03:21
Guatemala removed_from_power
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“began insisting the CIA Cuban units leave immediately. A different and huge obstacle lay in the fact that Eisenhower no longer commanded the secret warriors. JFK had won the 1960 presidential election on November 6, 1960, defeating Richard …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 39:23
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala host_asserted
“is they get themselves in a desperate position on land and then kind of bait like Bay of Pigs. That's what that whole thing was about. They execute a plan that has no way in hell of working. If it does work, it's a fluke. As we've seen this…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 58:30
Henry Hexer spied_on
Guatemala documented
“where they were setting up Gladio units on the northern side in Korea. Also on the team was former Berlin station chief Henry Hechter, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, whose professionalism and skill was already legendary in the CIA. He would operate under…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 41:26
Allen Dulles spied_on
Guatemala host_asserted
“supposedly communist leanings. And that was derived from the fact that the labor, the actual peasants that were roped together and hauled around to work on plantations were talking about forming a union. That's labor unrest. Upon returning …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 38:09
CIA overthrew
Guatemala host_asserted
“in Iran, what happens is the CIA's intelligence assessment basically labels them communists and labels the actual real government of foreign countries insurgents so that they can then use counterinsurgency operations in order to take down l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 40:41
CIA trained
Guatemala host_asserted
“people that are going to be created as assassins, they're going to take them out of the country. They're going to send them to School of Americas, just like they did in Chile, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay, blah, blah, blah. So they take the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 42:10
Dwight D. Eisenhower carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“Gets back in the investment business and then gets recalled again by Marshall to become the deputy secretary of defense. By 1951, he's the U.S. secretary of defense, directing the Korean War and arguing for a bigger military at all times. G…”
▶ The Shadow State 49 Skull & Bones Finale Pt. 2 @ 1:12:56
United Fruit Company funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“We saw a pattern emerging in the 1950s. In 1953, the CIA and MI6 took out most of Iran. That was all about British Petroleum Company. In 1954, the CIA took out the president of Guatemala because he was trying to redistribute land back to th…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 8; Recolonization - The Corporate Side of Operation Gladio @ 7:42
Operation Gladio overthrew
Guatemala guest_asserted
“after the institutionalization of gladio um via nato and the cia because independence is not allowed and they went into iran guatemala and they overthrew the government for their overlords that's the whole purpose of operation gladio so and…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 8; Recolonization - The Corporate Side of Operation Gladio @ 10:28
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Guatemala guest_asserted
“The Rockefellers was one of the board directors at the time. Two CIA agents was board directors at the time. And like three other industrialists, they owned 42 percent of Guatemala and they paid zero taxes in Guatemala. And you wonder why w…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 8; Recolonization - The Corporate Side of Operation Gladio @ 25:37
Sheldon Whitehouse appointed
Guatemala documented
“In the 1920s, he was the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Paris in the 1920s. He finishes his career in 1929. He's the U.S. minister to Guatemala. Yeah, I'll let that hang there. And in 1933, he's the U.S. minister to Colombia. And,…”
▶ Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats @ 37:05
CIA carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“The CIA programs most often cited as successes were Operation Ajax in Iran and Operation Success in Guatemala. Yet these victories had only a short-term effect. Action on Iran sowed the seeds for what became anti-Americanism. Imagine that. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 18 (Final) @ 6:42
United Brands operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“Fisher becomes chairman of United Brands. Now, we know what United Brands is because we've talked about this in every book that we've done on Gladio. United Fruit was the company that Rockefeller had ties to that, if I'm not mistaken, it's …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 13 @ 1:00:38
Henry Heckscher worked_in
Guatemala documented
“where they were setting up gladio units on the northern side in Korea. Also on the team was former Berlin station chief Henry Heckscher, H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, whose professionalism and skill was already legendary in the CIA. He would operate und…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 40:56
National Guard (Nicaragua) moved_to
Guatemala host_asserted
“there was an immediate rebellion again. And he was basically forced out of office the next day. So the National Guard collapsed and many fled in exile to Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Which are all basically border Nicaragua.…”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 5 @ 46:17
John Doherty appointed_to
Guatemala documented
“by an air component of the CIA. The groundwork was prepared as quietly as possible. An unenthusiastic station chief in Guatemala was replaced early by a guy by the name of John Doherty, D-O-H-E-R-T-Y. Appointed ambassador to Honduras in lat…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 42:53
Mikasa operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“He also said that our zoo-led branch of Covenant House procured children for a pedophile ring based in the United States. A few years later, Mikasa, another U.S.-ran charity in Guatemala that George H.W. Bush had personally toured with his …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 10 @ 1:31:05
Carlos Castillo Armas invaded
Guatemala documented
“was infiltrated by the U.S. Information Agency. So they're writing articles down there, all lies. And they had, let's see, Arbenz made his invasion on June 18th, riding in old vehicles with about 140 soldiers with him. But there was, they e…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 54:45
Jacobo Árbenz headed
Guatemala host_asserted
“He was offered to be in charge of what's going to happen in Guatemala basically right after that. But he declined going down there. It says the government there was, of course, another democratically elected government that was elected in 1…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 26:15
William A. Robertson Jr. carried_out_attack
Guatemala documented
“from Armas' Liberation Army to blow up the railroad tracks outside of the port. Robertson led the team himself and laid the explosives on the track, but it just so happens it rained and it didn't work. The CIA team then opened fire on one o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 52:07
Brigade 2506 operated_in
Guatemala documented
“defining the scope of and restrictions of the U.S. Navy support for the invasion. By mid-February, it was apparent that Operation Pluto could not make the planned invasion date of March 5th. The operation was delayed for a month. The Guatem…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 24:03
Operation Fortune operated_in
Guatemala documented
“and the CIA. Despite Haney's and United Fruit's preferences, in at least one respect, the CIA was carrying on with United Fruit's program. That is, they had already been one CIA paramilitary effort aimed at Guatemala, and that one involved …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 6 @ 38:23
Timothy J. Davis assigned
Guatemala host_asserted
“This guy shows up now. And then when you look at Timmy Davis, who happens to be the actual ambassador, because, you know, that's a lesson learned out of all of this is you actually have to look at the ambassadors. I found it interesting tha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio-Ukraine 2014 Coup & MH17 Review @ 1:10:27
NATO operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“Then, so Gene Sharp comes back and says, then from Serbia, the news spread to Georgia, which was under a very repressive regime, and then to Ukraine, which again had problems and it spread there. And then in a series of other countries, oh,…”
▶ Albert Einstein Inst's How to Conduct a Revolution through Gladio Glasses @ 38:52
Jacobo Árbenz elected_president_of
Guatemala host_asserted
“ended up with hundreds of thousands of acres. Well, they were only actually farming about 20% of it, but they didn't want any competition. And so when all of this was going on, Arbenz becomes a spokesman for all of these displaced farmers. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner meet Ryan Matta with Operation Gladio warning @ 9:33
Cuban Exiles operated_in
Guatemala host_asserted
“And you also find that those Cuban exiles were deployed all over the world. They were in El Salvador. They were in Nicaragua. They were in Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Vietnam. They were in the Philippines. They have been a …”
▶ William Ramsey Investigates with Colonel Towner Watkins @ 54:45
Operation PBSUCCESS targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala guest_asserted
“They planned PB's success, which was the name of the operation to overthrow the Guatemalan president. And that was General Eisenhower.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 31:21
26th of July Movement carried_out_attack
Guatemala book_quoted
“what was going on in Cuba. There were reports of a legion created for this purpose. During the 1959 and 60, small armed groups invaded Panama, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. Much as Castro himself had sailed to Cuba to establish his…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 57:33
AFL-CIO funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“And they would use that money to go to Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, everywhere throughout Latin America. Now, we have found them over in Angola and some African countries as well. But their primary focus initially was in Latin Am…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 13:26
United States paid
Guatemala host_asserted
“To bring people to them? Absolutely. But that's no different than what we've been doing with Operation Gladio in paying entire governments like in Nicaragua or Guatemala or Honduras, you know, you name any of them. We paid those people to o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 44:04
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
Ronald Reagan funded
Guatemala guest_asserted
“But I think it was not tacit. It was very direct. He actually traveled to Guatemala. He knew exactly what was going on there. Go ahead. I think Reagan absolutely knew what was going on there. They'll debate whether he caused whether he dire…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:49:33
Reagan administration funded
Guatemala guest_asserted
“What was going on in northern Guatemala and all the stuff that was kind of happening out of, you know, who to to Nago and and those kinds of areas. Kids are learning about this aspect of it, which I think is is is pretty neat, as well as th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:49:03
The Invisible Government exposed
Guatemala book_quoted
“It talks about Burma. Most books do not cover Burma at all. Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Guatemala. And then it talks about the NSA, DIA. You find very few books that actually address the DIA. Then it spends a couple of chapters talking about …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 1:49:24
International Republican Institute carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“international republican institute they were used to regime change in foreign country so you you you hit a real um hotbed of very interesting you know i think that one of the reasons i think that kind of what has occurred is that you know l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 50:20
Jimmy Carter removed_from_power
Guatemala host_asserted
“We all feel that he, Reagan, is going to be our savior, unquote. Now, I should mention that it was Carter that cut off aid to these people, the bad guys. And as I have jokingly said, I do think at some point.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:20:51
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Guatemala host_asserted
“was basically owned by a lot of the oligarchs from the United States, like the Rockefellers in United Fruit, some of the mining concessions, the processed food like PepsiCo that we found in Chile, ITT, their telephone. A lot of the utilitie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 1:30:46
United States Department of Defense ordered_assassination_of
Guatemala host_asserted
“But they also had this entire collective of the people that I had mentioned earlier that were basically ordered not to cover what was actually happening in Guatemala. As a matter of fact, they put out edicts to the State Department that dis…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 51:27
Aginter Press carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“was used in the Piazza Fontana massacre. Many consider that to be the opening salvo of the Gears of Lead campaign throughout Italy. Even more ominous was the use of agenda assets in the Guatemalan counterterrorism operation undertaken by th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 41:17
United Fruit Company funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“Again, the oligarchs, the United Fruit and all of those, the Rockefellers, are building very limited railroad systems through those countries, but they go in each and every time into those countries swearing that they're going to build exte…”
▶ Shadow State 30 Secret Societies 14; Rhode Island Rats @ 37:39
Bank for International Settlements carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“And they'll say, well, we'll protect you and we will help your population and we'll help you with business and loans and blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, they'd rug pull them eventually and coup them and set up all their operations in …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 1:23:35
Save the Children trafficked
Guatemala guest_asserted
“was actually taken to court or indicted in Guatemala for child trafficking. Yeah, we've come across AmeriCare, the Covenant House that was in New York, so many of them. Go ahead, Bridget. Oh, excuse me. One of the things, Miles, that you wo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 1:45:13
AmeriCares trafficked
Guatemala host_asserted
“People like Barbara Bush and Jill Biden and all those people have served as honorary heads of these, of AmeriCare specifically, and it's being looked at as one of the child traffickers from Guatemala into the United States right now. This g…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 1:02:01
Ronald Reagan funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“halted all foreign aid because of the death squads and gross human rights abuse. And by the way, Jimmy Carter is the only president that did that. Congress tried to do it during the Reagan administration, but Reagan ignored him and did it i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 1:07:38
Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of
Guatemala guest_asserted
“I just went through Guatemala again in Wisner's, the book I'm reading on Wisner. They knew there was no communist infiltration. There was no virtually no contact with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union didn't have anything to do with Guatem…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 1:03:19
Dwight D. Eisenhower overthrew
Guatemala guest_asserted
“when he becomes president, he's the guy that overthrew Iran. He's the guy that used this organization to overthrow the president in Guatemala.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 30:03
United Fruit Company targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala host_asserted
“coffee plantations and were middle class until United Fruit moved into Nicaragua and Guatemala and all those places and bought their government in order to sell their coffee farms to United Fruit for them to create banana farms. And then en…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:56:56
CIA spied_on
Guatemala host_asserted
“And remember what we learned in Chile where you had, and in Uruguay where we had the ITT company, which was basically a CIA front, because they use these telegraph and telephone companies to spy on the people. It also administered the only …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 24:10
United Fruit Company funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“at this time, because they will tell you that the forces that are arraying in a country, just like they did Iran, were communists, even though the Tudor party was, we've already talked about it, was so tiny that it was like basically non-ex…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 1:14:37
Richard M. Bissell Jr. overthrew
Guatemala host_asserted
“He took over from Frank Wisner and was involved in the assassination of, well, in the overthrow of Iran and Guatemala and all of those.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 26:47
Guatemala Operation about
Guatemala structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Guatemala Operation' is a work/event about 'Guatemala'…”
Guatemala Coup about
Guatemala structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Guatemala Coup' is a work/event about 'Guatemala'…”
Invasions of Panama, Guatemala, and Dominican Republic about
Guatemala structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Invasions of Panama, Guatemala, and Dominican Republic' is a work/event about 'Guatemala'…”
Guatemala '54 coup about
Guatemala structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Guatemala '54 coup' is a work/event about 'Guatemala'…”
Operation Gladio trafficked
Guatemala guest_asserted
“some of the people that lived in that neighborhood. And she mentions one of them, but there's more. The planes, I don't know if you're familiar with like the baby lift that came out of Vietnam. What I have now discovered is that's like what…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 2:21:09
Regime change in Guatemala about
Guatemala structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Regime change in Guatemala' is a work/event about 'Guatemala'…”
Mentions (120)
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We have North America, Central America, and South America as kind of the primary Americas that people normally refer to. And Central America generally is considered Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Belize…
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understand that area. We're going to be covering basically El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama in depth. What's interesting, Costa Rica kind of plays a sideshow in many of the stories of their neighbors because the CIA o…
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The current government of El Salvador would be an interesting contrast to how everything plays out. So when y'all are traveling down through Mexico, through Central America, you have a choice of the southern perimeter of Mexico is Guatemala…
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And Guatemala, Belize is surrounded by Mexico on the north, Guatemala on the west, and Guatemala on the south. So it's kind of blocked. It has a huge perimeter along the Caribbean. So basically the only way to get from Mexico to South Ameri…
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South of Guatemala and to the west, you have El Salvador. And to the east, you have Honduras. So kind of on the same latitude, you have Honduras and El Salvador kind of as neighbors with Guatemala to the north. Now, no part of El Salvador t…
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In order to get from Guatemala to Nicaragua, you have to go through Honduras. So those become kind of the big players in the drug running, arms running type of scenario when you're going by land. Now, obviously, all of these countries have …
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The apparatus could not be charged with the level of murder or torture or disappearances of political opponents reached in Guatemala and elsewhere in Latin America. It had more to do with the modest degree of outspoken dissent and violent u…
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I said, here are a few examples of brilliant CIA-engineered coup attempts worldwide. I was proud of myself, Colonel, because I only had to Google a little bit of this list. A lot of this came off the top of the head. Its track record is ste…
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It's like Assad in Syria, that he has stood the test of time against an onslaught from the United States. There are countries around the world that admire him for taking the beating, both politically, economically and militarily, being cut …
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And very instrumental with the nuclear weapons and the new propulsion systems, the whole thing. He was a brilliant man, no doubt, but he was as evil as they come. Yes. He took over from Frank Wisner and was involved in the assassination of,…
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Jose Rayol Verona Gonzalez, a Cuban exile and intelligence officer for Brigade 2506. You know, Felix Rodriguez's hangout. He was part of the ultra-secretive Operation 40, a CIA counterintelligence unit of exiles tasked with assassinations.…
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we had no intentions of freeing them and that we were going to keep them as our own imperialistic type colonies. And that is, in fact, what we did. And in each of those cases, we used the U.S. Marines to some extent to do that. And that als…
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And because they wanted to play both sides, they were helping Batista and they were helping Castro so they could control the aftermath. As a result of that, Castro was not going to be dictated to. And he did the same thing that they did in …
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come to America, they all said that they supported him during the revolution because there was so much corruption going on down there. And in the aftermath of that, he instituted land reform because the same company that had bought up all t…
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in Belgium and a larger extent that part of Europe. He was doing basically a much earlier, I mean, as in the age of the children, version of what Epstein was doing with teenagers. So a lot of that goes on in this network. And where we find …
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Attorney General of Guatemala accused the U.S. of trafficking children. We'd already discovered that. That network went back to Cardinal Spellman and a bunch of different children organizations in New York, where one of the very first books…
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We're giving aid to Israel, and Israel's selling guns to the Contras and the Guatemalans and the Costa Ricans and the El Salvadorians and blah, blah, blah, to the point where they're actually setting up arms manufacturing plants in their co…
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you had to have these units fully staffed and trained. The problem was they never used them for any anti-communist event at all. They 100% always used them to control their domestic populations. And we've went country by country all over Gu…
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In Guatemala, the Contras supposedly were the good guys when it was actually the Sandinistas that were trying to get their country back from an international syndicate that wanted all of their farmland and wasn't going to give it up. They e…
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overthrow their government, we refer to that as a revolution. When the CIA, when those people through a voting mechanism, like in Nicaragua and Guatemala, actually elect somebody in Allende and Chile, elect somebody that's going to represen…
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And in response, miraculously, Gulf Oil got the oil concessions for Bolivia. Imagine that. In the two years following the disappearance of Che Guevara from public view, in early 1965, rumors had placed him at different times in the Dominica…
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Because each and every time when they went to Guatemala, when they went to Nicaragua, when they went to Panama, when they went to Chile, when they went to, it was always Castro. We have to avoid having another Castro. Guyana, same thing. Ev…
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this gold deposit that was in indonesia and i believe colonel correct me if i'm wrong i believe the same like intent and strategies for that specific resource was deployed in chile guatemala and honduras if i'm not mistaken from the the las…
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to basically Bulgaria. Because every time somebody picked up the phone and says the CIA is kicking my ass in Nicaragua or Guatemala or Chile or wherever, the phone basically ended up in Bulgaria for weapons. So business was very good, but o…
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and have access to children, quote unquote, charities. And as a result, many of them have been found over the years to be pedophiles that are involved in this. Go ahead, Bridget. Save the children.…
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according to the man. So again, this is exactly the same pattern. So we want to take over Nicaragua. So we're going to take over Costa Rica. We're going to take over Guatemala. We're going to take over El Salvador. We're going to take over,…
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So in Latin America, in countries like Nicaragua, where you had the United Fruit, who basically monopolized all of the land and basically stole land from all the coffee growers and put them into banana plantations. And the people, after the…
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which is exactly what Operation Gladio was doing, right? They sent in the terror cells to do exactly that. They were the killers. That's how all of these things overlap. Coca-Cola was one. We already know PepsiCo was. In their article, they…
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Will Aulner. It's spelled W-I-L-L-A-U-N-E-R. He goes on to become, actually, he was specifically appointed ambassador during 1953 Guatemala coup by the CIA. This Will Aulner guy who buds with this attorney, they fire,…
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the Honduran ambassador because he didn't want them staging the attack on Guatemala and housing the dictator that they're going to install there and training his forces in Honduras. So he starts making waves and Frank Wisner picks up the ph…
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I mean, we saw in the one, I don't remember if it was Guatemala or Nicaragua, where the guy said it was cheaper to buy a mule than it was a senator. So they literally just go in and buy the government. And when they spent, you know, $5 mill…
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for the government was through their customs house. Now, remember, when we talk about Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama, that is the U.S.'s method for control of these governments is to take over the custom houses because they know that external…
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So you also had exiles that had fled to Guatemala and New Orleans and Miami. I'm sure that's a coincidence, though. And in 1949, as people are getting tired of him, there is an invasion not unlike the one, the several that happened for Cuba…
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right-wing dictators in Guatemala, Nicaragua, I mean, they installed them, Haiti, and elsewhere before and after Trujillo's assassination. Yet the American public readily fell in line in condemning Castro as a result supposedly of them havi…
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thought they may have been doing something. And again, it all was geared towards workers' rights. At a time when workers didn't have any rights, some of the examples that we went through in Nicaragua and Guatemala, these people were working…
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stealing apparatus, laundering our money through these governments, which, you know, on the face of it, and oh, by the way, the CIA is out giving them business because they go into Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, blah, blah, blah, a…
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It was an entire program called Grenada Return to Freedom. Like you've been you lost your freedom under Bishop. The invasion was almost universally condemned throughout Latin America. Only the American installed dictatorships of Chile, Guat…
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Okay, you guys, we're going to wait until my co-hosts get in. And if you guys wouldn't mind while we wait to send out the announcement and invite all your friends, this is going to be a very interesting one. We're going to talk about two ph…
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about Guatemala is how it ties into El Salvador and Nicaragua and for that matter another one that we will do Costa Rica in that it became a kind of a hub of especially the second phase of it became a hub…
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A jumping off point for the consolidation of operations out of U.S. South Com and the overwhelming amount of weaponry and munitions that got stockpiled inside of Guatemala to use amongst the neighbors, specifically Nicaragua in the attackin…
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El Salvador, Panama, anybody that became a competitor in the drug market for the CIA, operations were launched out of the Guatemala. And it basically was used as a staging area. And we're going to see how that turned out.…
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That guy has like 700,000 followers. So that was a good little bit of advertising for our initiative there. Anyway, all right, let's get started. So we're going to talk about Guatemala in two different phases. We're going to talk about them…
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The primary person, when we talk about the number of people that were massacred, over 200,000 in Guatemala alone, were primarily the original Indian Mayans. And it appears that it was a very targeted execution of those villagers. So I'm goi…
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It says that the CIA and its army was advancing its territory and the CIA planes are overhead bombing the country. That was an observation that was made. Leaders of Guatemala tried everyone, the UN, the Organization of American States, whic…
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in desperate hopes that someone would understand and end the violence. Nothing helped. Dwight Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, and Alan Dulles had decided that the legally elected government of Jacobo Arbenz, A-R-B-E-N-Z, was communist. Ther…
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The foreign minister of Guatemala was saying that anything that Guatemala did for itself was labeled communist by the American government and was not to be allowed. Trujillo was close to the truth. He was dead on. Washington officials retai…
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They also called it an outpost on which the continent, to the detriment of all American nations, would be affected by the scourge of communists in Guatemala. The U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, John Parafoy, P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y, and…
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They know that this guy, this is not mistaken identity. They know that this guy is a nationalist. He is not a communist. So that has to be kind of first and foremost. And another quote, they didn't want it to become a base from which the So…
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Senator Margaret Chase Smith hinted unmistakably that the, quote, unjustified increases in the price of coffee imported from Guatemala were due to communist control of the country and called for an investigation. When all they wanted to do …
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Could be excused if it was somewhat bewildered by all of the rhetoric. For the Russians had zero interest in Guatemala. It did not provide the country with any military assistance. It did not even maintain a diplomatic relation. It didn't h…
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knew exactly what the U.S. was trying to do in blaming them for something that the U.S. was about to do. And you still see, as Liza always points out, the patterns of recognition. You see that whoever the U.S. accuses of doing something is …
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as did the Soviet Union. A month before the coup, that is, long after Washington had begun to prepare for it, Czechoslovakia made a single arms sale to Guatemala for cash, something the Czechs would no doubt have done for any other country,…
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And it was probably set up by CIA agents in Czechoslovakia to paint them as having done this because no one would sell anything to Guatemala because they didn't want to piss off the U.S. except one country and not at this particular time. B…
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present in the second part of this presentation, which will deal with the later dates that happened in the 60s through 80s. So if I don't get it in time, I will post about it as soon as I get it. But there's a connection there. American pro…
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had to seek arms from Czechoslovakia because the U.S. had refused to sell it any since 1948 because they had a reformist government that was articulating their independence and had already pissed off United Fruit Company by its reform and t…
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or international syndicate as I refer to them. So like the Soviets, Arbenz, who is the reformer, had reason to wonder about the American charges. This Guatemalan president took office in 1951 after being elected by a wide margin and had no …
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and the American press explicitly began labeling Arbenz almost immediately as a communist. Even though they knew better, they had, and we're going to see, they have State Department cables that illustrate they're doing this on purpose. Guat…
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The State Department group occupied with planning Arbin's overthrow concluded that propaganda concerning Guatemala's U.N. record would, quote, would not be particularly helpful in our case, unquote, because they voted lock, stock, and barre…
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The State Department analysis paper reported that the Guatemalan president had support not only from labor and quote-unquote friend professional and intellectual groups, but also among many anti-communist nationalists in their urban areas. …
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Washington repeatedly and adamantly expressed its displeasure about the presence of communists working in the Guatemalan government. And basically, this Ambassador Purifoy was trying to paint anybody that was not a fascist or pro-American c…
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The centerpiece of Arbenz's program was land reform, which of course is what pissed off United Fruit. All too familiar, under developed country statistics and a nation overwhelmingly rule, 2.2% of the landowners owned 70% of the farmable la…
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Now, I'm talking annual, guys, $87. Before the Revolution of 1944, which overthrew a guy by the name of Ubeko, dictatorship, farm laborers had been roped together by the army and delivered to farms where they were basically used as indentur…
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tactics to take land away from the landed because you will find in Haiti the exact same situation we found in Nicaragua and Guatemala and Chile and everywhere else where they have created 90% poor people, a 10% elite that has been…
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In Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, coffee planters slowly accumulated capital. They invested in banks and other commercial enterprises and went on to assert a civic and political power, although it eventually was cued, al…
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Thanks, Miles. So Miles brings up a good point. We've talked about this map while we're trying to get SR-71 back up so I can hear him. We've talked about this map. You look at where you have Mexico and you have to go through Guatemala in or…
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and then Panama, and then into South America. That's why when you look at those countries, they became critical. Belize is kind of a sideshow off to the east, and El Salvador is basically a sideshow off to the west, which El Salvador kind o…
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But you don't have to go through it in order to get through the entire length of Central America. And so that does lend itself. And again, we know that Operation Gladio lends, they will do the borders of the countries that they're targeting…
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for Nixon to be installed in the front office. This has zero to do with communism, and it has zero to do with the Chileans, obviously. Their warnings had no effect on the coup plotters in Washington. One of them, David Attlee Phillips, whos…
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In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United Nations speech, he decided to replace Ri…
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So he is in charge of their spy organization and Alan Dulles becomes in charge of the CIA. And they both orchestrated the spreading of the stay behind units all over the world. I found them in Iran when we overthrew Mossadegh in 1953. They …
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That meeting was never going to be allowed to happen. And also, a lot of people think General Eisenhower was a great guy. Let me just assure you he was not. Not only did he oversee the creation of Operation Gladio while he was in Europe, wh…
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Who who owned all of the Guatemalan farmland? You know, that thing that we think is absolutely horrible if China owns our farmland. Well, a U.S. oligarch owned the majority of Guatemalan farmland, and that was United Fruit. And one of the p…
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He said that he did not want any foreigners owning farmland. Imagine that. And exactly the irony of everything that's happening right now just blows my mind. Because what's happening in America today is what we, not we, you and I, but our g…
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They planned PB's success, which was the name of the operation to overthrow the Guatemalan president. And that was General Eisenhower. Also, one of the very last things he did was issue a findings, which is what it's called when you order t…
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And he owned the bus system and several large sugar plantations in Cuba. He used his personal yacht to take a group of Cuban exiles to Cuba for a land invasion. He's an ambassador out of the State Department. He also worked on the Guatemala…
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are what we're after and not the interest of the United States as a country. Right. Oh, clearly. Yeah, he's fascinated. He's mentioned in a book called The Legacy of Ashes. He literally went to a bank and pulled out $150,000 after meeting w…
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oil fields and the connection with the JFK assassination is by looking into Chechnya when that event happened. And that's how I've gained all of this knowledge is one thing leads to another, leads to another. So having said that, just like …
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in the whole CIA schema thing. Also, let's see. Yeah, he was involved in the Iran-Contra that we're learning a lot about in my most recent threads. He was involved in couping Guatemala. He was also the guy that was the CIA…
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set up all of these terrorist training camps surrounding the entire country. They were in Costa Rica. They were in Guatemala. They were in El Salvador. They were in Honduras and just launched holy hell on these people that just wanted to fr…
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They put their people in power in these countries like Guatemala. And if the people of these countries dare to rise up in a quote unquote democratic election and vote in a nationalist who are not going to let these robber barons destroy the…
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Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…
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at a camp just outside of Immokalee. And they then sent them all over the world, Angola, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, blah, blah, blah, El Salvador, Vietnam, to be assassins and killers and torturers and kidnappers. And they were all tra…
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coffee plantations and were middle class until United Fruit moved into Nicaragua and Guatemala and all those places and bought their government in order to sell their coffee farms to United Fruit for them to create banana farms. And then en…
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committee in the United States Senate. He was funding regime changes. And that's thanks to Reagan. So Jimmy Carter, unlike Reagan, tied all foreign aid to human rights. He cut off all foreign aid to Nicaragua because the government was not,…
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Those people went to El Salvador. They went to Honduras. They went to Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Nicaragua. He's been everywhere. He's the guy that was standing there when they arrested Che Guevara and killed him in either…
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But of course, one of the funniest parts is since I just did that big expose on Swan Island, don't you know the damn things talked about in here? It's like an integral part of all the shit that we were doing in Guatemala and Cuba. And I'm l…
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Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, and everywhere else. This is a planned fascist rolling coup all over the world post-World War II. The most insidious part of the CIA operation in the Philippines was the fundamental manipulation of the nation's p…
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Otto Skorzeny was instrumental in setting up stay-behind units throughout the Axis territory, which we've talked about numerous times. And Sablonsky of the CIA worked with the Green Berets and the Agenter Press to conduct terror operations …
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And we're going to arm the Contras because they're freedom fighters. They're the heroes. They're actually the bad guys. And you military, we need you to bring in all of these resources. We're going to set you up in El Salvador and we're goi…
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Sandinistas win the election in Nicaragua and basically begin kicking out United Fruit and everybody else. The entire thing falls apart, and that's Contras. So the Contras get housed over in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. They're flying …
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were actually the death squad members. And, you know, they got a few other people that weren't trigger pullers, but basically they used the auspices of a political party to cloak the assassins in. So if you go into El Salvador and you go in…
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quote-unquote Cuban exiles, which we refer to as Operation Gladio operatives, in order to conduct not just raids on Cuba, but throughout all of Latin America. You find these Cuban exiles in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua. You f…
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from the National Endowment for Democracy. And as we all know now, that is a front for the CIA. While it is administered out of the State Department, it is 100% lock, stock, and barrel. CIA to agitate the strategy of tension philosophy, pre…
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I don't know if she saw it. If not, I'll have to redo it. There she is. So the CIA immediately begins forecasting, you know, there's communists running around everywhere and that they're gaining force and numbers and all of these countries,…
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what this author calls right wing groups at a Mexican, at many Mexican universities. Frito Lorenz believed that his country elected leaders that were blind to the spread of international communism in the Americas. In other words, he's just …
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that Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras basically became supporters of their ambassadors and CIA assets on the ground in those countries, all organized behind Crito Lorenz in order to overthrow Guatemalan duly elected, you know, democracy, t…
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When the coup in Guatemala succeeded in June of 1954, you know, like the next month. However, the CIA began looking cross-eyed at Prito Lorenz. And without funds from the U.S. government, he looked to Brazil to form a close relationship wit…
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And we know that it was actually drafted under Eisenhower. They wanted to do it at the very beginning of Kennedy's administration. So if it failed, he would get stuck with the tar baby. And we all know how it turned out to be a massive tar …
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in places like El Salvador, Honduras, and basically all over. We found them in Angola. We found them in the Congo. And they've just become paramilitary, being used for Operation Gladio, overthrows, and any other kind of paramilitary act.…
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a titan in the Pan-African movement who also was overthrown by a CIA coup in 1966. He also doesn't discuss Lumumba's attempt to control his economy and the resources that made him a target for regime change similar to the ones in Guatemala,…
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Not unlike what we did in Guatemala and in Latin America and many of these countries. We talked about when we talked about Argentina, how they basically stole children and gave them to the elite group, whether they raised them as their own …
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People like Barbara Bush and Jill Biden and all those people have served as honorary heads of these, of AmeriCare specifically, and it's being looked at as one of the child traffickers from Guatemala into the United States right now. This g…
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train them to do it internally, and then drag them around with us when we go forward to other places. For example, there were people that when we overthrew the government in Honduras that became basically CIA contractors that then moved ove…
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When they were doing the drugs, flying out of there, that's where the one aircraft that crashed and they found drugs on it actually launched from was Costa Rica. He was also the ambassador to Panama during the early 90s, again, while they'r…
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In 67 to 69 in Guatemala and the following two years in Chile against Allende, Hinton, under the cover of working with USAID, had played a role in the CIA operation. He then served on a subcommittee of the National Security Council before t…
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But interestingly enough, if you go back to Richard Welch, there is a reason why that if you look at his dates and times of what he was doing, he was from 60 to 64 in Cyprus. So he was there when all of this crap was kicking off in Cyprus. …
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In the 1920s, he was the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Paris in the 1920s. He finishes his career in 1929. He's the U.S. minister to Guatemala. Yeah, I'll let that hang there. And in 1933, he's the U.S. minister to Colombia. And,…
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Again, the oligarchs, the United Fruit and all of those, the Rockefellers, are building very limited railroad systems through those countries, but they go in each and every time into those countries swearing that they're going to build exte…
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And both of those gave birth to Operation Gladio. Thank you. Well, this guy's there working for the CIA. So something happens in 1953. He gets disillusioned. And I think this is an actual break because, well, we'll see. He saw what happened…
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Perera never served a day of his sentence. He was released on bail and disappeared. Menendez said his friend was chopped into tiny bits in Guatemala a few years later when he became embroiled in a dispute over a drug debt. The Costa Rican g…
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As for the informants who snitched them off to the DEA and FBI, Blanton and Torres knew who they were, Roberto reported. The individuals would be killed. Nine months later, one of the men Blanton suspected, Contra FDN member Carlos Roca, wa…
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It talks about Burma. Most books do not cover Burma at all. Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Guatemala. And then it talks about the NSA, DIA. You find very few books that actually address the DIA. Then it spends a couple of chapters talking about …
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Of Swan Island, which was the radio station used to coordinate in Guatemala and in Cuba. And I found that like, yeah, Swan Island. Yeah, it's the one that it does a really good job of. I mean, it's an entire chapter of talking about how the…
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politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …
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The deal is that you have to allow us to run the customs house, which means we can strangle you anytime we want to because we control all of your import and exports, which is how they knew to create the import-export bank because that's wha…
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But if you provide them, as Illini has always said, with the evidence and you do it in the distance past and then you go, oh, we did that in Chile. And this is this happens because people will go, oh, well, if we did that in Chile, do you k…
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All of our money goes to the production of cocaine, not the elimination of it, which was primarily represented by the FARC. And this is consistent with everything that we've found. All of the resistance efforts throughout all of these conte…
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You know, he does produce these documents from the 1980s showing, you know, from Guatemala, which he says, you know, show that he was, you know, flying these flights, you know, to the Contras. So it could be a little bit of additional corro…
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He says, the author says, in recent developments, the Chiquita Banana International Company, the successor to United Fruit, one of the best known U.S. monopolies, pleaded guilty in March of 2007 to providing $1.7 million in funding over sev…
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until Arrayo 1964. And why is that important? Because what happened in 1963? Do you remember? We overthrew Brazil's government. A coup. Another coup. Another coup. Okay. I lose track. There's so many. Right. So it is important to understand…