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Claims (76)
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were involved in Iran-Contra. These are the s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 42:52
Robert McFarlane member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were involved in Iran-Contra. These are the s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 42:52
John Poindexter member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were involved in Iran-Contra. These are the s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 42:52
John McCain member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were involved in Iran-Contra. These are the s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 42:52
Gary Webb exposed
Iran-Contra affair documented
“And what happened when Gary Webb released the information about the crack cocaine epidemic and the CIA and its connections to Iran-Contra and just how really pissed off the public was. And it got, as Tim suggested, got, you know, hit the pu…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 2:19:33
Iran-Contra affair diverted_funds_to
Contras documented
“the sale of U.S. weapons to Iran despite an embargo. And the same was true with the Contras because that too was embargoed. Not embargoed, but prohibited by law. The Iran and Contra operation were merged when funds generated from the sale o…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 53:55
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“at Palmer to an account in Switzerland used by Oliver North for Contra fundraising for arms deals and the Iran portion of the Iran Contra. The money would go from this foundation account at Palmer to an account in another Washington bank co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 25:31
Robert Gates member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“fills in temporarily after his resignation. And as a reminder, we're in the middle of exposing Iran-Contra. So it's not the job you want at this particular point. So Gates is a loyalist. He's been there through this entire operation. And Ro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 6:21
Adnan Khashoggi member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“And let me read just this little bit. Khashoggi was directly involved in helping organize and fund the top secret Operation Moses in 1984 to airlift 14,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel during a famine caused by the Ethiopian civil wa…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 1:26:02
Elliot Abrams member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“And the fact that Elliott Abrams was actually convicted of nefarious shit during Iran-Contra, him being one of the lead guys that Bolton used in this is very nefarious as well.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:29:26
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Iran-Contra affair documented
“later on was overturned due to technicalities of his trial. Abram was a central figure in Iran-Contra where Reagan officials illegally sold arms to Iran and diverted funds to the Nicaraguan Contras fighting the Sandinista government in defi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:17:29
Elliot Abrams covered_up
Iran-Contra affair documented
“Described by Bolton as an old friend, Abrams was best known for his lead role in the Iran-Contra affair of the early 1980s, where he directed Washington's dirty war against the fighters in Central America as a senior State Department offici…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 23:02
CIA supplied_arms_to
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“money laundering for weapons and drugs. They all benefited. The big banks benefited. The only people that got screwed was us. Both the people that had money on account in the savings and loan, because a lot of them did not get all of their …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 41:30
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Oliver North was, you know, we went on this mission. So I do think that as people gain more knowledge about what our real history is, that there will be more stories, excuse me, like that of them coming out and sharing things that they did …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY @ 48:33
Jeffrey Epstein connected_to
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“was running the Rome station from. And then, of course, now we find out all these other connections that are slowly coming out about Epstein's connections to Iran-Contra. And you see how there's an extra link now. Not just this tangential t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 1:02:27
Lee Hamilton covered_up
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Bush over there on some supersonic aircraft. There are a handful of people that have said on the record, and it's part of the congressional investigation that Lee Hamilton ran and covered the entire thing up as a Democrat, I might add, whic…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:24:59
Williams & Connolly covered_up
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Firm represented Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra affair. Oh, my gosh. Ready for this? And John Hinckley, the would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan. Friendly reminder that the Hinckley family was in business with Bush's b…”
▶ Live Research Dig w WarHamster and GBPH @ 24:55
George H.W. Bush headed
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“When Bush needed big favors, especially 10 years later when he was running the Iran-Contra operation for Ronald Reagan, he turned to Evans. For example, Evans helped persuade the Indiana freshman Senator Danford Quayle to provide cover for …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 1:07:12
Richard Secord member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 16:43
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 16:43
National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty funded
Iran-Contra affair documented
“and private meetings with Reagan to raise $10 million for the Contras when Congress had banned military aid to the rebels. Chanel was the first person to plead guilty to illegal activities in the Iran-Contra scandal. He was placed on a two-…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 24:33
Richard Secord member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“Because every legitimate banking transaction goes through the Cayman Islands. And then on to Lake Resources account at Credit Suisse in Geneva. That account was controlled by two people, Oliver North and Richard Secord. In March of 1986, th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 26:00
George H.W. Bush carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“with George H.W. Bush the entire time that he was the vice president. He was orchestrating these terror campaigns with his oligarchical buddies in the international syndicate in, you know, orchestrating coups as well as the Iran-Contra.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Open Mic Friday (241018) @ 7:57
Richard Secord member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“$13 billion. Years later, he and Hakim would play major roles in the Iran-Contra. Beau Secord kept his word to Wilson and arranged for the contract transfer. Wilson, in turn, asked Secord what he could do for him. Secord told Wilson that he…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 34:49
Danny Sheehan exposed
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“for this entire apparatus. Sheehan would be unsuccessful in this effort with his supporters claiming it was because the intelligence agency didn't want to reveal their dirty laundry, while his critics said it was because Sheehan was deluded…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 22:50
Jim Lyons financed_via
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“Michener's friend, Jimmy Lyons. Who's Jimmy Lyons? Well, Jimmy Lyons just happens to be one of the big fundraisers for Iran-Contra. In June 1984, Mainland paid out almost $20 million to Allied in a deal that showed Hill's friendship with Me…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 23:57
CIA laundered_money_for
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Yep. Yeah. So it was a big deal. But prior to reading this book, I had never put the savings and loan crisis in the same bed with the Contras or the CIA or even the mafia. I had no idea they were all connected. So basically, in a nutshell,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 40:07
Oliver North orchestrated
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“This is an off-books CIA operation, both Western goals and the world anti-communist league. Singlib would eventually be called to testify before Congress to explain his role in the Iran-Contra affair, which was orchestrated by CNP bigwig an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 14:24
Walter Pincus covered_up
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“of what we're going to report. Pincus would later play an important role in helping to impede the Iran-Contra investigation, according to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. In his memoirs, Firewall, Walsh wrote that at a critical moment in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 47:07
Ronald Reagan covered_up
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“attacking wildly speculative false stories and characterizing the Iran arms cell as a small amount of defensive weapons. Missiles are defensive weapons? He also went on to say that they could fit in a single airplane, which was completely u…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 22:47
Gary Webb exposed
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“to write the story that literally blows Iran Contra out of the water and exposes everything. And, you know, it destroys his life as it has so many other people that have exposed pieces of this entire octopus. So anyway, we're in for a few m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 1:35:45
John Bolton member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“And that's why I thought it was so important. And I still, I'm dumbfounded on how Abram, Elliott Abrams even managed to get, I mean, I know that Bolton hired him. And Bolton, of course, was involved in Iran-Contra as well. So, but I honestl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 48:46
Gary Webb exposed
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“the agreement because there is an official recognition partnership with countries in Latin America that supposedly fight drugs. And we had left that arrangement with Colombia for decades. Trump pulled it two months ago. And I said in one of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:37:58
Robert Gates covered_up
Iran-Contra affair documented
“retired middle-ranking CIA officers were more outspoken about the secrets of the Cold War and illegal operations of the CIA, among them Thomas Polgar, who had retired in 81 after 30 years in the CIA and in 91 testified against the nominatio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 @ 46:22
CIA covered_up
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“Global was also named as a CIA front by a retired CIA Middle East expert. In 1990, Bruce Hemings, a retired CIA senior operations officer who had worked the Iran desk in 85, issued several written statements criticizing the CIA's role in co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 51:21
Thomas Twitten covered_up
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“T-W-E-T-T-E-N, the deputy director of operations, which does the covert stuff for the CIA, and he was Hemings' former boss. In one section, Hemings discusses the weapon sales to Iran and how Twitin deliberately undermined a case of a foreig…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 54:16
John Negroponte member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“And I'm sorry, we already just did a tweet post on him. That's just like laughable because he's the guy that was up to his freaking eyeballs in Iran-Contra. Yeah, that's the guy that you want as your D&I. It's just laughable. I'm sorry. It'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 40:15
National Security Council carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Dwayne, I'm going to mute you for just a second. They have ran the similar operations, like the Iran-Contra was ran out of the National Security Council in conjunction with the CIA. So if you understand the role of the National Security Cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio- 2024 Election, day after with The Cates Bros @ 1:41:00
National Security Council ran
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 46:44
Seymour Hersh exposed
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“about capitalism and about capital. But I guess, number one, it shows you that there's been a Hegelian dialectic going on that's made it harder for us to get all the facts. And then number two, we would have missed the whole foundation that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:14:07
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“When Brian and I were doing these stories, we got our brains beat out. People from the administration were calling our editors, telling them we were crazy, that our sources were no good, that we didn't know what we were talking about. The J…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 1:00:13
Washington Times covered_up
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“When Brian and I were doing these stories, we got our brains beat out. People from the administration were calling our editors, telling them we were crazy, that our sources were no good, that we didn't know what we were talking about. The J…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 1:00:13
CIA covered_up
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“on a regular basis, General Alexander Haig. So that's just nuts. That's nuts. So, and of course, Haig is there in the middle of the Nixon fiasco, and he's in the middle of the Reagan fiasco. Both fiascos orchestrated Iran-Contra and Waterga…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 22:02
CIA covered_up
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“This disingenuousness, even in retrospect, is necessary to maintain the appearance the CIA acted within the scope of the finding. Claridge called his warships Q-boats, Q-boats, after the disguised armed merchant cruisers used in both world …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 14:45
CIA covered_up
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“Claridge account of the mine campaign is highly suspect. The Latin chief, Claridge, puts the timing towards the end of January of 84, telling a story of how for once he arrived home with time to reflect. Claridge achieved sudden clarity. Qu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 29:54
FBI covered_up
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Kind of where we left off, PatCon was an FBI operation. And by the way, don't think that they're different. The CIA's had people working inside of the FBI. The FBI worked hand in hand with the DEA and the CIA to cover up Iran-Contra. So the…”
▶ Just Because Keith Malinak w ColonelTowner-Watkins 2025-10-16 @ 1:06:52
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“us to break all diplomatic ties with Washington. In the immediate aftermath, I participated in several meetings with U.S. officials in New York, during which Elliot Abram, and we're going to go over him in a minute. Elliot Abram's name keep…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 12:00
Iran-Contra affair involved
Reagan administration documented
“to a small Lebanese publication. What became known as the Iran-Contra affair involved two secret Reagan administration policies that were coordinated by the National Security Advisor and his staff, along with the CIA, and using former CIA a…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 51:55
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Iran-Contra affair documented
“The DEA hired him back as an informant and began issuing him visas to the United States. At the height of the American public's outrage over the Iran-Contra scandal, the criminal investigation involving Contra cocaine sales in Los Angeles w…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 33:06
John Poindexter member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Brothers and sisters. Yeah, it's amazing. And I mean, Annapolis has the same thing. You got Poindexter, McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North and Webb all out of the same basic couple of years at Annapolis. And they all go on to Iran Contra fame …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 44:23
Robert McFarlane member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Brothers and sisters. Yeah, it's amazing. And I mean, Annapolis has the same thing. You got Poindexter, McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North and Webb all out of the same basic couple of years at Annapolis. And they all go on to Iran Contra fame …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 44:23
John McCain member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Brothers and sisters. Yeah, it's amazing. And I mean, Annapolis has the same thing. You got Poindexter, McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North and Webb all out of the same basic couple of years at Annapolis. And they all go on to Iran Contra fame …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 44:23
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Brothers and sisters. Yeah, it's amazing. And I mean, Annapolis has the same thing. You got Poindexter, McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North and Webb all out of the same basic couple of years at Annapolis. And they all go on to Iran Contra fame …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 44:23
Albert Webster member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Brothers and sisters. Yeah, it's amazing. And I mean, Annapolis has the same thing. You got Poindexter, McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North and Webb all out of the same basic couple of years at Annapolis. And they all go on to Iran Contra fame …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 44:23
Robert McFarlane funded
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“effectively shut down the diplomatic track. McFarland, who contrary to his own proposal at the meeting, had already solicited third-party cash from Saudi Arabia, had laid the basis for what became the Iran-Contra affair. The congressional b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 12:12
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“organization. The fake organization that was quote-unquote non-governmental humanitarian to hide the fact that the CIA was embedded in the State Department helping the Contras. That was one aspect of his role in the Iran-Contra. Also, he wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:38
Operation Demavand front_for
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Dev Mavin, D-E-M-A-V, as in Victor, A-N-D. That would be the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal. For Sarkis, the first inkling of the Reagan administration in Israel had embarked on a secret program to arm both Iran and Iraq in their brutal b…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 35:36
Dan Quayle carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“When Bush needed big favors, especially 10 years later when he was running the Iran-Contra operation for Ronald Reagan, he turned to Evans. For example, Evans helped persuade the Indiana freshman Senator Danford Quayle to provide cover for …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 1:07:12
Palmer National Bank laundered_money_for
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“opened a bank called Palmer Bank in Washington, D.C., and it was used to money launder Iran-Contra funds. Same guy. He was intimately involved in the Iran-Contra money laundering and then weirdly gets hired at the Office of Net Assessments …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3 @ 59:18
Arian Ben-Menashe exposed
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“by a New York jury. He also claims that the Bush administration went after him because he had leaked information on an earlier American arms for hostage deal with Iran. Ben Meneshe has claimed it was he who leaked this information to the Le…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 12:09
George Shultz member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“which sought to relieve the economy in terms of abolishing the gold standard and presided over the end of the Bretton Woods system. And then in 1974, he becomes an executive of Bechtel. Oh, and he was in charge of the State Department durin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 1:23:54
Marana Airport carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“has always been a CIA front company. Rumors ran rampant that during Iran-Contra, the airstrip had been one of several used for drug shipments. He knew the facility, which was located near Highway 10 that runs from Phoenix to Tucson, that th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 33:16
Guillermo Hernandez-Cartier member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Here's a guy I ran across, Guillermo Hernandez Cartagena, who is a Cuban exile and international banker. He spanned the anti-Castro activism. He was protected by the CIA. Big soccer. Exactly. And he played a role in not only the SNL stuff, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 1:08:03
Iran-Contra affair financed_via
BCCI host_asserted
“as a stopping off point for trafficking weapons and drugs. And we're going to get into that. But this book is littered. I mean, I would be safe to say after reading this book that the entire savings and loan takedown was, you could not have…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 1:02:32
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“The National Security Advisor for Vice President Bush hired Felix Rodriguez to be his point man in Iran-Contra. So I was just dumbfounded. But anyway, we do a lot of research. We spend a lot of time doing this just so that we can go back th…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 1:28:14
Jim Bath supplied_arms_to
Iran-Contra affair documented
“a Michener associate, as well as to the sons of George Bush and Lloyd Benson. One of Bath's partners was named as a supplier of aircraft to the Contra Connected Operations. Bath is also the guy that retrofitted all the aircraft for the Saud…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 28:36
Ted Shackley member_of
Iran-Contra affair caller_asserted
“Mr. Burkholder Smith, Deputy Station Chief of Mexico City, and his statements. He was taken to Argentina to meet with two Nazis working with the CIA on drugs trade with Theodore Shackley, linked to Iran, Contra, etc. to keep his job in the …”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 2:01:31
Adnan Khashoggi member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“who runs an account called Zingle. I think he's now Zingle's CEO, who went through Adnan Khashoggi's FBI FOIA documents. And apparently the Las Vegas FBI was investigating Adnan Khashoggi back in the early 70s. And later, Khashoggi would ge…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:14:58
Adnan Khashoggi funded
Iran-Contra affair guest_asserted
“Joseph Mifsud. And, you know, someone had alluded to Khashoggi earlier. Well, Adnan Khashoggi actually cut all the deals for Iran-Contra going all the way up until the Sandinistas in Rome, between Malta and Rome, through the P2 Masonic Lodg…”
▶ Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian @ 1:44:51
Robert Keith Gray carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Livingstone put together a dubious cast of characters to carry out the missions under his authority. Among others, he hired Rob Owen, who had absolutely no qualifications in PR work at all. He was hired to run the Iran-Contra inside of Gray…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 18:30
Ronald Reagan involved_in
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“If you live 50 years from now and you went back and you listen to a Ronald Reagan speech, you'd think he's the best thing since sliced bread, too. And he absolutely wasn't. I can point to any number of the top 10 reasons why he was a crappy…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 1:42:49
George H.W. Bush covered_up
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“The Bushes were not happy about that at all. True. True, true, true. Okay. Anybody else? Stellar? She must be working. I don't see her mic. I don't know if her thing is actually working or not. Let me take her down. Bring her back up. See i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 1:11:28
George H.W. Bush funded
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Obituaries have transformed the terror that Bush inflicted as head of the CIA, as Ronald Reagan's vice president, and as president on the poor countries, depicting it as heroism. The invasion of Panama is given scant notice, and the first G…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 50:02
Citigroup financed_via
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Exciting. I can't wait. I know. I know. I will post a picture as soon as it gets here. All right. Joseph. Hi. So, Matt, you asked some fantastic questions. I had just a couple of comments and then a question. So for Matt, you're wondering a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:19:31
CFR member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“The organization is called the American Security Council, and it is looped into Operation Gladio in a crazy way. And several of the people that were involved in the Iran-Contra and many of these other Operation Gladio events from the Americ…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 1:15:06
Franklin Scandal trafficked
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“is if you take a look at the Franklin scandal. You've got multiple teenage kids in the late 1980s in Omaha, Nebraska, saying that they're getting trafficked by this cult that's also trafficking drugs, that's also taking them off to Washingt…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 2:42:54
Mentions (120)
▶ 1:44:51
Joseph Mifsud. And, you know, someone had alluded to Khashoggi earlier. Well, Adnan Khashoggi actually cut all the deals for Iran-Contra going all the way up until the Sandinistas in Rome, between Malta and Rome, through the P2 Masonic Lodg…
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is if you take a look at the Franklin scandal. You've got multiple teenage kids in the late 1980s in Omaha, Nebraska, saying that they're getting trafficked by this cult that's also trafficking drugs, that's also taking them off to Washingt…
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posited in these exile communities, then go through their own Gladio training and go back in, or their children certainly do, as the case of Felix Rodriguez, and they go in and they join the CIA and they become the oppressor. During the Ira…
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Actually, let me correct that a little bit because I learned a lot when I did my deep dive into Iran-Contra. Obviously, fentanyl is a pharmaceutical drug. China makes actual fentanyl and sells it legally. What also is required to make fenta…
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But if you go back to Iran-Contra and the manufacturing of cocaine, I didn't know anything about cocaine. I've never done drugs. I never looked into any of this until I started doing this research project. So you take a coca leaf off of a p…
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Kind of where we left off, PatCon was an FBI operation. And by the way, don't think that they're different. The CIA's had people working inside of the FBI. The FBI worked hand in hand with the DEA and the CIA to cover up Iran-Contra. So the…
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This is the law firm that's representing Perkins Coie against the Trump administration. All right, let's jump back into the clients because this is great. That's a nice find. Okay. William and Connolly. Tell me when I'm back up. Take me dow…
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If you live 50 years from now and you went back and you listen to a Ronald Reagan speech, you'd think he's the best thing since sliced bread, too. And he absolutely wasn't. I can point to any number of the top 10 reasons why he was a crappy…
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Barry Seale. And the shooting down of the Iran-Contra, what sparked the Iran-Contra revelation was the shooting down of the aircraft that exposed the drug running, all arranged by the CIA, the Cuban exiles. We have tracked the Cuban exile c…
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and destroying our education system. They didn't do it. They just created the apparatus to do it. But then the next guy is going to fill that apparatus. And the guy after that is going to do the one child left behind, which was a total disa…
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Dwayne, I'm going to mute you for just a second. They have ran the similar operations, like the Iran-Contra was ran out of the National Security Council in conjunction with the CIA. So if you understand the role of the National Security Cou…
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The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …
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given Operation Gladio. And I mean, if the Iran-Contra or the Sandinista-Contra conflict went on for, you know, 10, 12 years, you know how many weapons, how many missiles, how many aircraft, everything. Angola, the war. This was all black m…
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Two guy for Vice President George Bush when they were running the Iran-Contra scam and trafficking guns and trafficking drugs, helping the Contras, who were the bad guys, by the way, they were the Gladio operators, try to overthrow the Sand…
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That's not been made public. They have had two major thousands of missile shipment, one for the October surprise before the election, shipment number one. And this is in the lead up to the Iran-Contra missile cell. So the CIA is secretly ar…
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Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were involved in Iran-Contra. These are the s…
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The fact that the church committee happened in, I want to get the exact date, in 1975, and you went through the entire 1980s of the Iran-Contra selling arms, BCCI, Castle Bank, Nugent Hand Bank, and money laundering through the Vatican Bank…
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better known as CIA agent, not a general, another one in a military uniform that's really a CIA agent, emerged from the shadows of the League, meaning the Anti-Communist League, to become caught up in what? Oh, the Iran-Contra scandal. As c…
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served as the headquarters for the League in the U.S. Oh, so the CIA is using a religion in order to hide Operation Gladio inside the United States. During the Iran-Contra hearings, the League was described as a multinational network of, an…
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The organization is called the American Security Council, and it is looped into Operation Gladio in a crazy way. And several of the people that were involved in the Iran-Contra and many of these other Operation Gladio events from the Americ…
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Bush is a VP. He's the one who ushered in the whole Iran-Contra and all this stuff. And I remember Reagan commenting that my vice president is more involved in the government than any VP in history. Well, yeah, you let him run your foreign …
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labeling of people as communist in order to justify regime change, which is basically what Contra was, while at the same time, supposedly dealing with Iran, who everybody told us that the Ayatollah was, you know, not Western oriented at all…
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disguising the sale of weapons to Iran as part of the Iran-Contra. But do you know who we were using as the cutout for weapons trafficking? Israel. Yeah, it was absolutely the Israelis. We also used Israel as the cutout for shipping weapons…
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He issues a pardon for Casper Weinberger, who had been getting investigated criminally for the Iran-Contra stuff. And that put a stop to all of the bodies that could have been uncovered and unburied through Iran-Contra. We never got through…
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When he was 30, he was a sewer contractor, somehow bought into a bunch of Honduran paper mills, ended up selling them to Clint Merkelson Jr. And in 1952, that land that he had the paper mills in Honduras were where they staged the 1952 Unit…
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with George H.W. Bush the entire time that he was the vice president. He was orchestrating these terror campaigns with his oligarchical buddies in the international syndicate in, you know, orchestrating coups as well as the Iran-Contra.…
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What I want out of it was legitimacy. I want to get a share of the profit. And pretty much what was later set up via the Iran-Contra by Secord was basically his company that they took over. Wilson admitted that the group decided to set up a…
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and an Israeli officer whom Cattola would later identify as Michael Harari. Now, Bridget, if you wouldn't mind, Michael Harari, it's spelled H-A-R-A-R-I. This is the guy that we came across early on in our investigation that illustrated jus…
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Reagan and who? Oh, that's right. Vice President Bush, the guy who staged this entire bullshit thing. So he stages this A-team, B-team thing, then uses this as a way to create the basically the privatization of the intelligence infrastructu…
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When Bush needed big favors, especially 10 years later when he was running the Iran-Contra operation for Ronald Reagan, he turned to Evans. For example, Evans helped persuade the Indiana freshman Senator Danford Quayle to provide cover for …
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Tom called Ed the dumb son of a bitch, unquote. Also, he said, the dumb son of a bitch still thinks he works for the CIA. She said, wait a minute. That's no one's fault but your own. You're the one that's telling him that he's still working…
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Fred Turple wanted to sell to Iran could only be sold if the contract was commercial, not military. Wilson said that Secord used his influence in Iran to arrange for the transfer of the military contract to a civilian one. According to Wils…
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relied on the CIA for intelligence. That's all you have to say. We had no clue. As a matter of fact, why I mentioned the fact that I was at CENTCOM on 9-11, all of the intelligence that we used to operate on post 9-11 came from the CIA. The…
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and i can give them sources they can come back to me and and tell me what part of it i've got wrong i had a lady whose father grew up in nicaragua and when we did the iran contra nicaragua um she said her dad called her crying when she sent…
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And let me read just this little bit. Khashoggi was directly involved in helping organize and fund the top secret Operation Moses in 1984 to airlift 14,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel during a famine caused by the Ethiopian civil wa…
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that ran clandestine operations all around Africa, you know, when they were running around overthrowing all the governments over there. And at the time, the U.S. Congress had limited the power of the CIA to do anything over there because th…
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Those are just all facts. And those are things that we've talked about when we were talking about how Israel was being used as a cutout for the Iran-Contra deal, that we were actually sending billions of dollars to Israel for them to purcha…
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The things that Reagan did was not good for America. The whole Iran-Contra was not good. Our involvement in GOLA was not good. Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education at the very end of his term. It was Ronald Reagan that funde…
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Palma murders, for example, have you seen any connections to, for example, the Iran-Contras affair or the Boforsh affair, for example, in India and so on? Because to my knowledge, I'm not an expert on the subject. Well, not sufficient enoug…
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However, I will tell you that I know for a fact that people, especially on the intel side of it, that have been involved in providing intelligence assessments are given some parameters to operate within. And I'll give you an example. They w…
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In complete ignorance that he had never picked up a phone and talked to anyone in the Soviet Union. Yes, I do believe that. But again, that deniability is gone now because anybody that has half a brain after we went through Iran-Contra and …
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They already, they know that what they're doing, or do you think that the CIA people are so brainwashed too that that's their way of? I just don't think they are anymore, Stellar. I could give you plausible deniability up until about five t…
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The fact that when this article was written and let me see if I can get a date. It does not have a date. It looks to me like it was in the 80s because one of the things that's happening is the Iran-Contra thing. So he starts out saying, if …
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quote unquote, private organizations that have been part of basically CIA activity and how the executive branch using the National Security Council has been orchestrating covert actions along with the CIA. And it certainly did that. But I d…
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Yeah, that's Cheney who did the cover up there. Becomes the White House chief of staff from 75 to 77, and then would manage Ford's 1976 presidential campaign. The one he lost. Yes. Jimmy Carter. Yes. So he goes back to Congress. I'm sorry, …
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So yesterday we left off with definitely confirming that Lister was involved in the CIA. So we're going to start from there. This is diving back into Costa Rica and their lack of any enforcement. The number of American agents stationed in C…
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The reconnaissance aircraft spy satellites made routine overflight, photographing all of northern Nicaragua for the Contra War and monitoring Sandinista troop movements in rural airfields where the Contra is used for their supply flights. N…
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Fiers Jr. was convinced that Hall's Ranch was being used for Contra drug flights. There is no doubt in Fiers' mind that Pastora's men trans-shipped drugs out of the airstrip on Hall's Ranch. Investigators for the Iran-Contra prosecutor, Law…
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Kerry later discovered that the AP Washington bureau chief was having regular meetings with Lieutenant Colonel North, who was running the Contra drugs for weapons program. So, although he was cut off from his editors and ignored by most of …
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Fernandez confirmed to Congress in 1987 that the CIA decided to diminish Pastora's influence and raise up the statue of Chamorro. What we needed to do was put Pastora aside and at the same time enhance the organization that we were supporti…
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Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, in his memoirs of the Iran-Contra scandal, wrote that Chamorro was picked because he had been acceptable to the Contra leader, Calero, and responsive to CIA. The agency's choice demonstrates how contrived…
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had far more links to drug traffickers than Pastora's accusations ever did. And those ties can be traced all the way back to the beginning of the Contra War. The leadership of the FARN had been dealing directly with the Frogman case in 1983…
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And it was said that he didn't pick any of the people the CIA did. As the fighting force, FARN was an unmitigated disaster. Probably the most inept Contra group there was. Never numbering more than a couple hundred fighters, the FARN caused…
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Their hesitancy was based on going deep inside of Nicaragua. They would not have Costa Rica to be able to run back to. Blanton's drug-dealing friends, the Torres brothers, told L.A. County Sheriff's investigators that during the height of t…
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Fernandez went on to say this was no joke. He called our outside line. The lawmakers were apparently so amused by Fernando's story that none of them thought to ask why the CIA continued to train and finance these clowns. But Chamorro and co…
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The CIA was forced to give up its active role in the Contra Project and left the mess it had created for someone else to clean up. When the Boland Amendment went into effect in October 1984, the day-to-day control of the Contra Project was …
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The people want me to do so I'm going to resign and the guy that's going to replace me as a crook and needs to be impeached. That's one thing that would have made him a great president. Having done none of that and never revealed. I mean, h…
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I thought so, because even one of Carter's big aides has come out publicly and said the Republicans were involved in the negotiations. Most people don't realize that there were actually two missile shipments to Iran, the one involving the I…
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would involve the CIA. Sensitive wasn't actually the correct word. It was white hot. The same morning Anderson was dictating his letter to the IRS, President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese were announcing to a group of reporters in…
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supposedly tyrannical government of Iran, had been illegally diverted to the Contras by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. The Iran-Contra scandal was busting wide open. Now, the strange papers that had been found in Blanton and Lister's hous…
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When Auckland finally got to Lister, he asked him point blank if he was involved in training of Contras. Lister denied knowing anything about North, clammed up and, quote, requested that an unidentified representative of another agency be p…
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drug agents. Of course, he wasn't hiding from the American drug agents. He was working with them. The story sent the DEA office at the U.S. Embassy into a tizzy. Their top secret informant had just been outed as a major Contra drug traffick…
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Both denied that it ever existed. If no deal existed, then it means the real reason for not indicting Menendez in January of 1987 was something else entirely. More likely, it was the fear of political blowback from an indictment in the midd…
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was asking if Menendez's indictment would cause national security problems for other agencies shows just how wise the agency was to the potential ramifications of the case. They knew all along. And given that what else was going on in Washi…
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the chances were increasing that the Contra drug issue was going to be dragged out of the shadows and exposed in neon lights. An item in January 13, 1987, Washington Talk column of the New York Times headlined, quote, drugs and the Contras,…
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The DEA hired him back as an informant and began issuing him visas to the United States. At the height of the American public's outrage over the Iran-Contra scandal, the criminal investigation involving Contra cocaine sales in Los Angeles w…
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And it goes back to the part of this book in the earlier chapters that we were reading about how Barry Seale landed his plane throughout a bale of cocaine, took a picture in Nicaragua. And then everybody in the CIA controlled media ran with…
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This is an off-books CIA operation, both Western goals and the world anti-communist league. Singlib would eventually be called to testify before Congress to explain his role in the Iran-Contra affair, which was orchestrated by CNP bigwig an…
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On orders from the executive branch, Iran-Contra was the biggest scandal of the Reagan presidency. A messy, complicated affair, it threatened to ruin his legacy and those of several others, including Robert McFarlane, Reagan's national secu…
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the Heritage Foundation in 1973, the Hunt brothers helped to fund Western Goals, which was a private intelligence agency founded by Jack Singlib and Larry McDonald, which was behind the Iran-Contra affairs. So what we're describing here, an…
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And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…
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through this operation. Through the 1980s, the number of people carrying the administrative water grew and the scope of their efforts reached around the world. With the expansion, Casey and Bush became even more reliant on Shackley and his …
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Livingstone put together a dubious cast of characters to carry out the missions under his authority. Among others, he hired Rob Owen, who had absolutely no qualifications in PR work at all. He was hired to run the Iran-Contra inside of Gray…
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So they identified some political and religious organizations that they wanted to infiltrate. And Casey was hiring previous intelligence people and military people to do that job. These were the most secret and political of private intellig…
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Its work was overshadowed by an immediate feeding frenzy surrounding Iran-Contra and North, which began in 1986, almost like it was taking all of the air out of the room for the real investigation into Colombia. The subcommittee took testim…
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And Greg's daughter married William Buckley's son. Yeah. And William Buckley, CIA. Right. Have you ever had any? It's all in the family. Right. It was Bush's office that deployed Rodriguez, the Central American, made arrangements for him to…
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Looked like they ceased operation the end of the year. December 31st, 2013. Yeah. So I worked for them back during this exact time period. Which is what just freaks me out every time we talk about this. Because during the height of the drug…
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And they are right in the middle of Iran-Contra. That's the craziest thing ever. It has to make you scratch your head. It does. I'd have paid a lot more attention if I'd have known anything. Which is why they don't want us to know anything,…
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When, of course, we found out later, based on Iran-Contra, that it was actually the Contras that were primarily the drug traffickers. Narco-terrorism encompassed a variety of phenomenon. Guerrilla movements financed by drugs or taxes on dru…
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Current and former State Department officials have argued that East's interest in Columbia has nothing to do with the controversial past. Jonathan Weiner, a name that sticks out, Senator John Kerry's aide during Iran-Contra in 2001, said, q…
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During that time, recruited agents for DynCorp's delivery operations. Richard Secord, you know, the same guy involved in Iran-Contra. Yeah, that guy. A former CIA agent, Herbert Winokur, W-I-N-O-K-U-R, was chairman of the board of DynCorp f…
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Goopman's classic 1978 book, The Shadow Government. He had been a permanent fixture in Washington's good old boy network of the Cold War years. Winokur was a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, a clearinghouse for the really ch…
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about capitalism and about capital. But I guess, number one, it shows you that there's been a Hegelian dialectic going on that's made it harder for us to get all the facts. And then number two, we would have missed the whole foundation that…
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You've got a number of different journalists all covering it in the 1980s, some of them losing their jobs for that coverage. And then, of course, it all connecting today. I wonder what Crimson Thread links will ultimately show up that might…
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And then we gave them a second shipment during Iran-Contra of missiles. And so in the 80s, during the Reagan administration, when supposedly we were arming Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, we were secretly shipping missiles to Iran for them to at…
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us to break all diplomatic ties with Washington. In the immediate aftermath, I participated in several meetings with U.S. officials in New York, during which Elliot Abram, and we're going to go over him in a minute. Elliot Abram's name keep…
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was the office that was overseeing USAID-type things for the State Department. Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. That is going to make you laugh in just a minute. He was also the Assistant Secretary for Inter-Am…
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later on was overturned due to technicalities of his trial. Abram was a central figure in Iran-Contra where Reagan officials illegally sold arms to Iran and diverted funds to the Nicaraguan Contras fighting the Sandinista government in defi…
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do a coup by force. He didn't even deny it or downplay it or try to tout it as organic. He literally said in an interview, and I forget which interview it was, but he said, yeah, this is our sphere of influence. We're going to take control.…
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And the fact that Elliott Abrams was actually convicted of nefarious shit during Iran-Contra, him being one of the lead guys that Bolton used in this is very nefarious as well.…
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the agreement because there is an official recognition partnership with countries in Latin America that supposedly fight drugs. And we had left that arrangement with Colombia for decades. Trump pulled it two months ago. And I said in one of…
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And that's why I thought it was so important. And I still, I'm dumbfounded on how Abram, Elliott Abrams even managed to get, I mean, I know that Bolton hired him. And Bolton, of course, was involved in Iran-Contra as well. So, but I honestl…
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Control that is exercised over Costa Rica and who claims to be a neutral country and everything we in Dark Alliance, Gary Webb's book found out that Costa Rica is where all of the DEA CIA assets were housed during the Iran Contra Contra ver…
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Described by Bolton as an old friend, Abrams was best known for his lead role in the Iran-Contra affair of the early 1980s, where he directed Washington's dirty war against the fighters in Central America as a senior State Department offici…
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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. …
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It started to bother me. I believe that I had better than average knowledge of the Civil War in Nicaragua. Having religiously followed the Iran-Contra hearings on television, I would videotape them while I was at work and watched them at ni…
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for several years. We had a good working relationship. Dawn could size up a story quickly. I read her several portions of Blanton's grand jury testimony. Weren't there some stories about that back in the 80s, she asked. See, that's what I t…
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I followed him closely and I heard all about it. Don's memory, as it turned out, was better than mine. During one part of Oliver Knorr's congressional testimony in 1987, two men from Baltimore had jumped up in the audience with a large bann…
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Why in the world would you want to go back into this? I told him about my discoveries of Menendez and Blanton and the later's cocaine cells in Los Angeles. I wondered if he or anyone had ever reported this. Not that I'm aware of, Perry said…
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When Brian and I were doing these stories, we got our brains beat out. People from the administration were calling our editors, telling them we were crazy, that our sources were no good, that we didn't know what we were talking about. The J…
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He tried to alert people to this 10 years ago and it ruined his life. Nobody in Washington wanted to look at this. Republican, Democrat, nobody. They wanted this story buried. And anyone who looked any deeper got buried. You're bringing up …
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You know, yeah, it's really, really difficult. There's hesitation. You know, Perry of formerly of Newsweek, who was fired over this, as I think you mentioned, was skeptical, but agreed to go forward. Right. And, you know, let's let's look a…
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You know, the story of Gary, stories of Gary Webb broke, you know, really big time. And I believe it was 1996. And that in turn, you know, caused a national media risk. What's the point here? It's like, let's contrast the media right now wi…
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If Menendez wanted to help the Reagan administration, he'd come to the right place. The U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica was the nerve center for all of their covert operations in the Contra War. And these included a number of illegal C…
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who runs an account called Zingle. I think he's now Zingle's CEO, who went through Adnan Khashoggi's FBI FOIA documents. And apparently the Las Vegas FBI was investigating Adnan Khashoggi back in the early 70s. And later, Khashoggi would ge…
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You know, there there is this whole honeypot thing going on that then connects him later, you know, with Iran Contra. And then it's it's only one link from there or two links to get you to the Franklin scandal and Craig Spence. And you know…
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Yeah, you know, it's there's just a lot of connections flying back and forth here. But I think that, you know, the transition from mafia control to corporations moving into Las Vegas, late 60s, early 70s. I think that's an interesting perio…
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all the way to the ground. Or, you know, the IT&T scandal. But that would be another place to look for people who are either interested in the Rancontra connection with Adnan Khashoggi. And there's a guy who's already done some of the work …
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was the Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, upon whom every potential allegation of drug trafficking by the Contras was dumped by the CIA and the Reagan administration. Of course, Walsh had neither the time nor the authority to investiga…
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who ran the Contra project at the time, confirmed that Nunes' questioning was stopped because of the NSC connection and the possibility that it could be somehow connected to North, otherwise known as the Iran-Contra affair. The CIA made the…
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In his testimony to the Iran-Contra Committee, Rob Owen confirmed that the airplane was involved in an unexplained, embarrassing situation in Costa Rica. That's when I decided some real strange shit was happening, Lippert said. It came back…
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In his testimony to the Iran-Contra Committee, Rob Owen confirmed that the airplane was involved in an unexplained, embarrassing situation in Costa Rica. That's when I decided some real strange shit was happening, Lippert said. It came back…
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In 1998, Fiers told CIA interviewers in 1987 that he and the humanitarian office director, Robert Dumling, had frequent meetings regarding possible contract cargo carriers. Fiers said that he had checked out some of the carriers for Dumling…
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The entire trial went down like 50 different avenues, all of which, oh, my God, the shredding of the paper. All of that is a kabuki show. As we have learned, every one of these Senate hearings is a kabuki show. And so they have this sympath…
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That is not a solution to this. That's the very problem I just spent the last hour explaining. Every single one of those people that were involved in Iran-Contra had been arrested in the United States for drug trafficking, and they used the…
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In March of 1985, the CIA reported that Vaughn was said to be an associate of Nicaraguan narcotics trafficker Norwin Menendez. Menendez, at the time, was working with the DEA in Costa Rica, assisting the Contras and Oliver North on the whol…
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in any of their stories was ever referenced. The crack hysteria continued unabated through the elections until something else diverted its attention. It was not until the revelations about Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Iran-Contra…
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And he said so in a U.S. News and World Report. The magazine identified the Justice Department official responsible for the decision as Associate Attorney General Stephen Trott. By then, however, Steve Trott had bigger worries about inner c…
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Not only was Congress screaming about North and beginning to scrutinize the Justice Department's involvement in the scandal, but Trott was monitoring a pesky Senate investigation into allegations of the Contra drug trafficking. Trott viewed…
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This stuff is going on right now with Iran-Contra. Well, my mind, the way it goes now is when there's a big shiny object going on, what else is going on? And I kind of posed the question as like, what else was going on at the same time of I…