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FBI spied_on Cuba documented document

“These officials were the Bureau personnel most familiar with Cuban matters and the activities of anti-Castro groups at the time of the assassination…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.43

Fidel Castro operated_in Cuba documented document

“when Castro took over Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.112

Operation Mongoose operated_in Cuba documented document

“Operation MONGOOSE its strategy of causing an internal revolt of the Cuban people against Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.163

Edward Lansdale operated_in Cuba documented document

“At the same time we were getting intelligence accumulating very quickly of something very different taking place in Cuba than we had expected…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.181

Raul Castro operated_in Cuba documented document

“A Cuban who had volunteered to assist the CIA in gathering intelligence informed his case officer in Havana that he would probably be in contact with Raul Castro…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.86

CIA spied_on Cuba documented document

“One of these operations was a deception operation involving the passage of information some of it fabricated by the CIA which would alert Chilean officers to real or purported Cuban involvement in the Chilean Army…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.21

Chile did_business_with Cuba documented document

“Chile's decision to establish ties with Communist Cuba contrary to the collective policy of OAS was a challenge to the inter-American system…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.11

Leonard Boudin moved_to Cuba documented document

“bOUDIN HASHADE SEVERAL TRIPSTOCUoA…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.497

Salvador Allende recognized Cuba documented document

“The 1970 NIE on Chile predicted that Allende would recognize Cuba He did so shortly after he was inaugurated…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.197

Felix Rodriguez operated_in Cuba documented document

“The contact report of a meeting between the case officer and a confidante of AM/LASH states that AM/LASH was subsequently informed that it was not feasible to make a silencer for an FAL rifle…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.103

Special Group (Augmented) operated_in Cuba documented document

“During 1962 another NSC subcommittee was established to oversee covert operations in Cuba This subcommittee was the Special Group (Augmented)…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.24

FBI operated_in Cuba documented document

“The initial FBI request to NSA involved "commercial and personal communications between persons in Cuba and the United States.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.75

Cuba funded Salvador Allende reported document

“By CIA estimates the Cubans provided about $350,000to Allende's campaign…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.171

Salvador Allende did_business_with Cuba reported document

“The Allende Government's intention... to align itself with the Castro government in Cuba...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.120

Warren Commission linked_to Cuba reported document

“Was Cuba involved…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.93

United States did_business_with Cuba reported document

“that they would for example delay impede hinder blockmeaningfulnegotie tIbne with the Soviet Union or say with Cube…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.116

United States government funded Cuba documented document

“Cubans hostile to Castro were used in these plots and were provided encouragement and material support by the United States…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.19

John Roselli spied_on Cuba documented document

“Roselli was active in providing pure 'intelligence on what was occurring in Cuba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.322

Operation Mongoose operated_in Cuba documented document

“Under the direction of the Kennedy Administration paramilitary programs were initiated in Cuba Laos and Vietnam…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.73

CIA operated_in Cuba documented document

“It was very simple we were at war with Cuba.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.74

CIA operated_in Cuba documented document

“the Agency's contribution to the verification of Soviet missile emplacements in Cuba was crucial…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.87

Soviet Union operated_in Cuba documented document

“President Kennedy only two years before had faced the Cuban crisis in which the Soviet Union had gained a military base of operations in the Western Hemisphere and had even begun installation of nuclear missiles…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.166

CIA operated_in Cuba documented document

“It places particular emphasis on the effect their Cuban operations seemed to have on the investigation…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.8

Fidel Castro operated_in Cuba documented document

“On New Year's Day Fidel Castro's forces overthrew the Batista regime and assumed control of the government of Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.15

Operation Mongoose operated_in Cuba documented document

“Leaders, MONGOOSE was to use Cuban exiles in operations designed to foment an internal revolution in Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.17

Hotel Nacional located_in Cuba documented document

“...former operator of a casino in the Nacional Hotel Havana Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.19

Special Affairs Staff operated_in Cuba documented document

“The available information indicates that the CIA Special Affairs Staff which was responsible for Cuban operations was as an organizational entity both plotting with AMLASH and at the very same time participating in this interagency review o…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.22

Rolando Cubela lived_in Cuba documented document

“On November 19 AMLASH told a CIA officer that he planned to return to Cuba immediately.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.25

La Chuga worked_for Cuba documented document

“talks between the Cuban delegate to the UN La Chuga and a U.S delegate William Atwood were proposed by the Cubans on September 5…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.26

CIA spied_on Cuba documented document

“The Station was instructed to continue investigating the possibility of Cuban or Soviet involvement because Headquarters had not excluded the possibility that other persons were involved with Oswald…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.35

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“ordering it to halt two planned operations against Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.37

Robert F. Kennedy operated_in Cuba documented document

“The Attorney General rejected the official's evaluation and ordered him to go to Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba 'using whatever assets we could get to make contact with people inside Cuba'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.164

Sam Giancana operated_in Cuba reported document

“Colonel Edwards said that since the underworld controlled gambling activities in Cuba under the Batista government it was assumed that this element would still continue to have sources and contacts in Cuba which perhaps could be utilized su…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.344

Operation Mongoose targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“The Committee Report discusses in some detail the occurrences during the so-called 'MONGOOSE Program against Cuba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.347

Special Mission Group operated_in Cuba documented document

“The March 5 1962 SGA Minutes acknowledged that Agents infiltrated into Cuba would be trained in paramilitary as well as in telligenceskills…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.351

Operation Mongoose operated_in Cuba documented document

“under the program agent teams were dispatched into Cuba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.351

Stokely Carmichael moved_to Cuba documented document

“Hoover answered "that the FBI had no such intelligence, but that Stokely Carmichael's travel to Cuba and other countries "should not be overlooked.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.498

FBI spied_on Cuba documented document

“information that Cuba had plans for 'the use of American Negroes Indians and Communists to methodically sabotage our installations throughout the Western Hemisphere and that Cuban officials had offered arms and assistance to 'Puerto Rican r…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.526

Venceremos Brigade operated_in Cuba documented document

“The Inspector also recommended using the facilities of the FBI Identification Division and the computerized National Crime Information Center for intelligence purposes in locating members of the Venceremos Brigade (VB) who had visited Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.537

Fidel Castro operated_in Cuba documented document

“During the early 1960's the United States was in a state of near war with Cuba Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were promoting and abetting the export of revolution…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.356

J. Edgar Hoover linked_to Cuba documented document

“this memo reminds me vividly of those I received when Castro took over Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.66

Fidel Castro operated_in Cuba documented document

“when Castro took over Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.65

Che Guevara operated_in Cuba documented document

“Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were promoting and abetting the export of revolution to other countries of the Western Hemisphere…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.356

Soviet Union operated_in Cuba documented document

“Russian ballistic missiles were installed on Cuban soil…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.356

United States Army Signal Corps operated_in Cuba documented document

“During the Spanish-American War the Signal Corps dispatched its only available balloon and two aeronauts to Cuba where they apparently saw two brief but effective days of service in the attack on San Juan Hill…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.163

CIA operated_in Cuba documented document

“Edwards told Maheu that if he was approached by the FBI he could refer them to me to be briefed that he was engaged in an intelligence operation directed at Cuba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.93

Sam Giancana operated_in Cuba documented document

“By May 1961 however the Attorney General and Hoover were aware that the CIA had earlier used Giancana in an operation against Cuba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.143

Special Service Staff operated_in Cuba reported document

“Included are those who... travel to Cuba Algeria and North Vietnam in defiance of existing statutes…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.13

Dennis E. Nolan operated_in Cuba documented document

“A West Point graduate he served in infantry and cavalry units prior to general staff duty in 1903 seeing service in Cuba the Philippines and Alaska…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.92

Leonard Wood headed Cuba documented document

“Examples of such expeditions offered by the author included General Leonard Wood's administration of Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.87

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“In May 1961 Robert Kennedy also became aware of the CIA's use of organized crime figures in connection with "clandestine efforts against the Cuban government…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.174

James Allen operated_in Cuba documented document

“To Colonel James Allen United States Volunteer Signal Corps was entrusted the task of severing Cuba telegraphically from Spain…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.72

United States targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“The formal resolution adopted by Congress (1) recognized the independence of Cuba (2) demanded the withdrawal of the Spanish armed forces from that island…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.70

Cuba financed_via Venceremos Brigade documented document

“This travel was financed by the Cuban Government…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.166

Fidel Castro headed Cuba documented document

“the establishment of a communist Cuba by Fidel Castro was seen as presaging a major incursion of revolutionary communism to the Western Hemisphere…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.33

Alpha 66 targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“it had continued planning paramilitary operations against Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.71

CIA operated_in Cuba documented document

“In modern times the President's authorization of the CIA.financed and directed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and paramilitary operations in Laos are examples of this type of covert action…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.43

Lee Harvey Oswald was_not_working_in Cuba reported document

“Another source reported that as of September 1964 the Cuban-American was not working in Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.68

Bay of Pigs Invasion operated_in Cuba documented document

“the President in effect authorized the CIA to secretly direct and finance the military invasion of a foreign country…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.45

Lee Harvey Oswald arrived_in Cuba reported document

“a woman told the group that she had telephoned Cuba at 5 00 a.m and was informed that the Cuban-American had arrived there safely via Texas and Mexico…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.68

United States targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“United States leaders including most Members of Congress called for vigorous action to stem the Communist infection in this hemisphere…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.13

Sheffield Edwards died_in Cuba documented document

“Sheffield Edwards was quite infirm when examined by the Committee and has since died.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.110

Cuba provided_bridge_financing_for Black Panthers reported document

“passports and funds for travel have also been furnished by countries such as Cuba North Korea…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.163

William Harvey operated_in Cuba documented document

“Harvey testified that upon his return he reported to the Special Group on the 'status of the active and potential sources inside Cuba…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.118

Lee Harvey Oswald returned_to Cuba reported document

“some sources told the FBI that the Cuban-American had returned to Cuba in 1963…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.68

Eldridge Cleaver met_with Cuba documented document

“BPP leaders have traveled extensively abroad including visits to Cuba Russia North Korea and Algeria…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.161

5412 Group operated_in Cuba documented document

“By July 1961 the Special Group had agreed that 'the basic objective toward Cuba was to provide support to a U.S program to develop opposition to Castro and to help bring about a regime acceptable to the U.S.'…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.149

CIA operated_in Cuba documented document

“After reviewing the economic military and political situation in Cuba the CIA estimate concluded that the Castro regime had sufficient popular support...…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.151

United States operated_in Cuba documented document

“a dramatic confrontation with the Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.123

Lee Harvey Oswald left Cuba reported document

“The Cuban-American allegedly told FBI sources that he had originally left Cuba to evade Cuban military service…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.68

CIA carried_out_attack Cuba documented document

“This was the era of Operation MONGOOSE a massive covert assault on the Castro regime in Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.156

Lee Harvey Oswald resided_in Cuba documented document

“by the time the Warren Report was published the Cuban-American was still residing in Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.67

Cuba supplied_arms_to MPLA documented document

“The latter group received military and political support from the Soviet Unionand Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.159

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“Covert U.S paramilitary programs have generally been designed to accomplish one of the following objectives (1) subversion of a hostile government (e.g. Cuba)…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.162

Cuba operated_in Angola reported document

“We're told that Soviet aid and Cuban military people are in Angola…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.72

Fidel Castro headed Cuba documented document

“The fear of Communist expansion was particularly acute in the United States when Fidel Castro emerged as Cuba's leader in the late 1950's…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.13

Lee Harvey Oswald moved_to Cuba documented document

“The individual travelled to Cuba in the cockpit of the Cubana airlines plane…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.67

United States targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“In Cuba and the Congo and in Chile we intervened in the internal affairs of other countries on our own initiative…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.64

CIA operated_in Cuba documented document

“In Cuba the Congo and Chile we intervened in the internal affairs of other countries on our own initiative…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.62

Gonzalo Maestre lived_in Cuba documented document

“watching the demise of Goar Maestre in Cuba…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.42

Weatherman linked_to Cuba documented document

“They identify themselves politically with North Vietnam Cuba and North Korea…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.156

Santos Trafficante operated_in Cuba documented document

“"Joe was Santos Trafficante the Cosa Nostra chieftain in Cuba.…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91

Operation Mongoose targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“On February 20 Lansdale detailed a six-phase schedule for MONGOOSE designed to culminate in October 1962 with an "open revolt and overthrow of the Communist regime."…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.157

Venceremos Brigade operated_in Cuba documented document

“The Venceremos Brigade (VB) established to send United States youth to Cuba to aid in the 1970 harvests…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.153

Operation Mongoose carried_out_attack Cuba documented document

“sabotage and paramilitary actions were also conducted, including a major sabotage operation aimed at a large Cuban copper mine…”

source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.160

Scharfenberg operated_in Cuba documented document

“Scharfenberg meanwhile remained in Cuba…”

source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWO The Era of Mobility (1849-1858)

Jack Ruby linked_to Cuba documented document

“Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby who were known to have at least touched the fringes of the Cuban community…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.65

Salvador Allende linked_to Cuba reported document

“The fear of another Cuba in Latin America was very strong…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.25

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented document

“It was decidedly tiresome that that Americans were obsessed about Cuba when they had come to investigate local government.…”

source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.335

Lee Harvey Oswald linked_to Cuba documented document

“Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby who were known to have at least touched the fringes of the Cuban community…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.65

Black Student Union met_with Cuba reported document

“They attended conferences for example in Cuba which were attended as I recall by officials from Communist governments…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.110

Smedley D. Butler operated_in Cuba documented document

“I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in.…”

source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.180

JMWAVE operated_in Cuba documented document

“Now if you are referring to our capability to conduct an investigation in Cuba I would have to say it was limited.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.64

Bay of Pigs Invasion located_in Cuba documented document

“the ill-fated Bay of Pigs landing in Cuba in 1961…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.55

Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba book_quoted

“memorandum in late January could not have been reassuring to the secret warriors. The analysts judged that time, that time was not on Washington's side, that Castro had successfully consolidated his control over the entire island. Barely a …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 5:41

Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed Cuba documented

“Alan Dulles observed that the eligible leaders were no longer in Cuba and noted the CIA had a design to deal with Castro. Quote, we might have another black hole of Calcutta in Cuba. Unquote. That was President Eisenhower's remark. Soon, Du…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 18:53

John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented

“Argentina or Venezuela. The White House interventionist policies toward Latin America was further articulated in a landmark address Bolton delivered that November. He was speaking at Miami Dade University. Bolton vowed Trump's administratio…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 19:37

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented

“operations were to be based on the premise that Cuba had a non-communist government, but that instruction swiftly went into the trash can. That wasn't going to fit the narrative. It was true, but it isn't going to fit the narrative because …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 5:40

Fulgencio Batista removed_from_power Cuba documented

“had his own New Year's Eve party, but it was very subdued. Guests ate chicken served by military aides in dress uniform. There was a little bit of champagne, more coffee than champagne. The atmosphere is captured well by a scene in the movi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 40:05

CIA spied_on Cuba documented

“moral of the story, you can't believe anything these people say, whether they're testifying in front of Congress or whatever, because they'll say whatever they want to say. And when things are proven differently, nothing ever happens to the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 19:15

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to Cuba documented

“Eisenhower had pre-positioned missiles pointing at the Soviet Union in Turkey. That was completely unprovoked forward aggression. There was no reason for those missiles to be there at all. And that was one of the negotiations. And one of th…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 1:39:37

Fidel Castro born_in Cuba book_quoted

“at $500,000. Fidel was the fourth of seven children, two by the first wife, and he was born in 1926. He studied at Jesuit schools and later went to a law university in Havana, where he began politics as a student leader. Fidel acquired his …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 13:15

Fulgencio Batista moved_to Cuba documented

“Aboard three planes, the group took flight. Batista left Camp Columbia base at 2.40 in the morning on January 1, 1959. David Attlee Phillips, now a part-time CIA undercover agent in Havana, sat in his backyard as the aircraft flew overhead.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 42:05

Zapata Bay located_in Cuba documented

“fill in a little bit more of that. So for those of you who don't know, Zapata is a bay in Cuba. And that bay was supposedly suspected of having a very large amount of oil just off the coast of Cuba. And the coastal area being Zapata Bay.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 1:06:44

Fidel Castro nationalized Cuba book_quoted

“was intervened as the Cubans called expropriation. So basically they took it back. During 1960, the sugar plantations and the Havana hotels followed. The Cubans added to the injury by not offering compensation to any of the company owners. …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 20:07

Fulgencio Batista headed Cuba book_quoted

“The author starts at a New Year's Eve party that was it says is it was hosted by Batista, who was the president of Cuba during the time when the mafia was running the island. He was more of a figurehead. And there's a whole history about ho…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 0:57

Cuba nationalized United Fruit Company documented

“they list that as a negative on a country that they want to overthrow. I just have to put that out there. Okay. By early April 1960, the CIA task force began producing daily progress reports. In May, the government completed nationalization…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 34:05

Fulgencio Batista overthrew Cuba documented

“Cuba had a constitution that they adopted in 1940, I believe. Batista, with the help of outside players, overthrew a democratic leader and was basically in bed with the mafia and the CIA. So the irony of restore the revolution isn't talking…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 30:27

John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented

“no course of action currently authorized by the United States government will be effective in reaching the agreed national goal of overthrowing the Castro regime, unquote. It was very interesting, according to Bobby Kennedy, who recalled th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 12:58

Michele Sindona operated_in Cuba host_asserted

“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”

▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 25:58

United States targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented

“Because they have nowhere else to go. So it's there or nowhere. The covert program helped exacerbate tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union as well. The Bay of Pigs invasion was followed by an expansion of the Soviet military aid to…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 31:25

CIA carried_out_attack Cuba documented

“Wouldn't you love to know the name of the Marine Colonel and whatever happened to him? I would. The crucial first action of Pluto was the effort to destroy the Cuban Air Force. If Castro's airplanes were not eliminated, they would pose a th…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 @ 35:09

William J. Donovan did_business_with Cuba book_quoted

“He owned all of the busing transportation in Cuba on the island before Castro took over. He owned multiple sugar plantations and was one of the most pissed off guys because many of those organizations that he owned down there was used as fr…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 7 @ 17:30

Fidel Castro nationalized Cuba book_quoted

“Land reform accelerated with the nationalization of large holdings, beginning with the Castro family plantation. It is said that Fidel's mother never forgave him. So he even confiscated his own family's plantation. That's hilarious. I had n…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 56:59

United States removed_from_power Cuba host_asserted

“in january 3rd 1961 they ended all diplomatic relationships with cuba so obviously all brought on by the united states none of this was done because of castro and it had nothing to do with communism so they began looking at alternatives tha…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 1:12:08

United States targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“Because now at this point that they're plotting to overthrow Castro, the U.S. has officially cut off all loans and put a bad word in at the IMF and everywhere else. So Castro, not a communist at this point, can't get any money from anybody.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 1:05:05

Operation Northwoods targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“And Operation Northwood was a plan to do a multitude of things. There was like four or five major auctions there, all culminating in a ground invasion of Cuba by the U.S. Army. And number one, I'm not listing them in actual order, but numbe…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 16:56

Brigade 2506 trained Cuba documented

“could best be solved by sending the brigade to invade Cuba. Bissell later recalled talk of loading the Cubans onto a ship, which, if not able to sail for Cuba after a reasonable time, could be escorted to a U.S. Navy base like Guantanamo Ba…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 21:37

Brigade 2506 member_of Cuba documented

“1,179 veterans of Brigade 2506 returned to the U.S. In a covert twist within this game, CIA assassination planners bought a scuba diving suit to be presented to Castro as a gift by Donovan. At Langley's Technical Support Division, they had …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 40:30

Fidel Castro nationalized Cuba host_asserted

“already issued for the sale of helicopters to Havana. Two months later, all existing aid programs were terminated. July, the quota for Cuban sugar was reduced to almost nothing. On his side, Castro had nationalized the entire Cuban sugar in…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 1:11:11

CIA used_as_transit_point Cuba host_asserted

“And what most people don't know is the CIA used Cuba as a drug trafficking transit point from overseas into the United States. The mafia went down there and set up basically Shangri-La. They set up gambling, all the vices, prostitution, eve…”

▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 45:22

Dwight D. Eisenhower approved Cuba documented

“ran by Fidel Castro, successful in every endeavor, appeared to be marching to Havana. Despite CIA analysts who argued Batista's solid hold on power, President Eisenhower approved measures to forestall a Castro government. So the CIA is on r…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 32:32

Mafia operated_in Cuba host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 45:22

Lucky Luciano trafficked Cuba host_asserted

“Additional heroin would be packed in cans of sardines, cheese, barrels of olive oil. The drugs would arrive in Cuba. They would be cut in laboratories there by the Tropicani plant, which operated right here out of Tampa. The drugs would the…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:16:05

CIA operated_in Cuba host_asserted

“as a staging point for their heroin network into the United States. And yes, it was the CIA doing it. So under the auspices of the mafia. So the CIA did not want a revolution there. And they actively fought against the nationalists trying t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 24:12

Operation Northwoods proposed_blaming Cuba documented

“which aimed at garnering international support to justify a full-scale invasion of Cuba, fostering the illusion the regime in Havana had actually attacked us. One proposal, blowing up an American vessel in Guantanamo Bay and then blaming it…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 6 @ 15:55

William J. Polk invested_in Cuba host_asserted

“which turned into civil air transport, which turned into Air America. Paul Helliwell was one of his best friends. And he also had a very large investment in Cuba. He owned the entire bus system in Cuba. He also owned several sugar plantatio…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 1:24:37

Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“that it definitely was planned to fail. But I would also tell you that had Richard Nixon won that election, there's no doubt in my mind that Richard Nixon would have authorized the military to go in and overthrow Cuba. I agree. I agree 100%…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 1:12:15

Operation Northwoods aimed_to_justify_invasion_of Cuba documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 6 @ 15:55

Mafia operated_in Cuba host_asserted

“Rosselli had been deeply involved in running mob-controlled casinos in Cuba and were furious when Castro kicked them out and closed them down. According to the CIA documents released in 2007, they were also furious that JFK closed down the …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 36:11

Jack Ruby did_business_with Cuba host_asserted

“J.S. A lot of people look at like young Fidel. Yeah. Killer show with Warhamster. Oh, thank you. Yeah. I really enjoyed doing the shows with those guys. Very interesting. Jack Ruby in charge of Miami casinos in Cuba. He did have he had a lo…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 6 @ 1:15:32

Jim Jones visited Cuba documented

“in the 1964 military coup, which was a CIA coup of Brazil. He was involved in all three of those CIA operations. The Bay of Pigs is probably the most interesting one because you're going to find out tomorrow night why that ties in and why t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 54:26

Cuba operated_in Grenada host_asserted

“And Seychelles, which we're going to talk a little bit about today, happened just as Reagan is coming into office. Then you have Grenada, which lasted from 1979 to 84, which was another CIA coup. And Grenada was used as an excuse because re…”

▶ Operation Gladio Reagan's Complicity MoroccoSeychellesetc @ 5:57

Leonard Wood headed Cuba documented

“He got passed over for command of the American Expeditionary Forces in 1914. He would eventually become the military governor of Cuba, and he was once the governor general of the Philippines from 1921 to 1927. Philippines? That never happen…”

▶ Secret Societies meet Gladio-Society of the Elect @ 57:43

Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba host_asserted

“throughout Central and South America that was set up after Castro took over Cuba and stopped the drug trafficking from Cuba because that was their big port prior to that, has a CIA handler, or excuse me, an Israeli handler just like our Con…”

▶ Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian @ 59:23

Cuba supplied_arms_to MPLA book_quoted

“And most recently, since the spring of 1975, that the Soviets began truly providing any level of assistance. And the most Cuban advisors, quote unquote advisors, that went to Angola was a total of 3,000. The FNLA, which is the one Holden Ro…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 45:35

Nicolás Maduro funded Cuba host_asserted

“in Aravac aircraft to Cuba for medical treatment because they didn't have the supplies because of sanctions to do the medical care. And more importantly, they had to have some currency, if you quote unquote currency, in exchange. So they sa…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:34:03

Che Guevara appointed Cuba book_quoted

“Freeport Sulphur began searching for new nickel deposits because they got kicked out of Cuba. And ironically enough, when Cuba nationalized the nickel refinery, they put Shea Cavera in charge of it. I got a chuckle out of that. Freeport lin…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 14:22

Richard M. Bissell Jr. recruited Cuba book_quoted

“that he had recruited for Operation Mongoose. Shackley's team was being ready for a new effort to overthrow the Chilean government. On September 12, 1973, half a year after Helms left, although, let's see, Allende's economy was collapsing. …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 34:45

Garcia Shipping Company spied_on Cuba book_quoted

“LCIs called the Blagger and Barbara J. Five merchant ships from the Garcia shipping company had also been chartered. And remember, the Garcia shipping company is the company that we learned in the other book that was stationed in New Orlean…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 34:57

Joe Biden removed_from_power Cuba host_asserted

“as a terrorist state, re-designated them. Because Biden had ended that. Okay. And do you know what business Eisenhower was in with Paul Lee? I do not. How can they write that in the book and then they're just relying, I guess. He wasn't in …”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 1:38:03

Donald Trump installed Cuba caller_asserted

“a non-starter as far as I'm concerned. The all-volunteer force is because our country is under threat. When the CIA makes that shit up because they actually work for the defense industry and not for America, fuck that. That's what I got to …”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 1:37:29

Le Cercle attempted_coup_against Cuba host_asserted

“They overthrew Seychelles. They tried to overthrow Nicaragua. And Cuba was just a repeat every single day attempting to overthrow it. So they did the roadmap and Reagan dutifully implemented it, is the bottom line to that. It also then beca…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:53

U.S. Intelligence Board spied_on Cuba book_quoted

“Amori undoubtedly found out. They all got through a capital briefing on January 6, 1961, where Alan Dulles presented the Senate CIA subcommittee some details of the Cuban project. But Amori had no standing to supply reports that might call …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 44:59

U.S. Intelligence Board spied_on Cuba book_quoted

“And again in February 1961. But without deeper knowledge of the CIA plans, their reporting failed to tell the headquarters element of this operation much of what it needed to know about Castro's capability both against the resistance and th…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 45:29

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“the cartels expanding because they already had some of the cartel structure in when they lost Cuba because Cuba was their port into the United States. And that's why the CIA tried their damnedest to get Cuba back because Fidel Castro cut th…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:05:06

John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“So, JFK's approach was that I don't give a crap if you're neutral. You don't have to be pro-American. You're your own country. As far as my position, I would like to politically and economically engage with Cuba and with the Soviet Union. A…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 1:39:09

Nikita Khrushchev installed Cuba host_asserted

“And I don't know if you guys know, but in 1961, NATO and the U.S. put nuclear missiles in Turkey targeting the Soviet Union. It was only after that that Khrushchev put the missiles in Cuba. That was not something that just happened out of t…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 53:25

William Pawley secretly_owned Cuba host_asserted

“They were trafficking the drugs out of that area in Asia through the Corsican Mafia, some, not a lot, going through Sicily and into Cuba and then into the United States. Cuba was a linchpin. We tracked all of this to include William Polly's…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 4:33

Zapata Offshore Company funded Cuba host_asserted

“that one of the things that we've discovered in this whole exercise is that the oil platforms off the coast of the United States was part of the Bush oil company Zapata's staging of supplies for the attack on Cuba. They were actually using …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 23:04

Fulgencio Batista overthrew Cuba caller_asserted

“Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the beginning of the revolution. But we have records. We have, how can I put it? We have so much information that we have shared to leaders like Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez, Crook, Bob Menen…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:05:56

Barack Obama pardoned Cuba documented

“five of whose agents were later arrested by FBI in a notorious spy case that would not get resolved until last year, like fairly recently, when Obama freed the last remaining member as part of a deal to begin normalizing relations with Cuba…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 1:22:43

John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“Kennedy administration planned to stem the spread of Castroism into Latin America by depicting the Cuban revolution as a virus that would infect other Latin American people into believing that they might too have a decent life. The CIA supp…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 21:58

Louis Tams framed Cuba host_asserted

“In another large lab complex, they found 300 empty ether bottles, an arsenal of weapons, and a FARC uniform. For the Reagan enthusiasts, all this was proof that the narco-terrorism marriage had been consummated, and the U.S. ambassador, Lou…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:07:09

CIA trained Cuba host_asserted

“Right. 250,000 before they ever had a stable, legitimate government. And even then it was still under the CIA because Guatemala is the country that they trained all of the Cuban exiles to attack Cuba for the Bay of Pigs. That was largely ba…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 1:01:44

Ronald Reagan funded Cuba documented

“annexes, such as in 1985 with the Afghan escalation. Reagan approved covert actions against Nicaragua in a November 81 decision directive. About a year later, he sanctioned Bill Casey's activism that ordered global covert operations to prev…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 33:49

Erik Prince funded Cuba documented

“Erickson was convicted in Southern District of New York, prosecuted by Securities and Exchange Commission for supplying arms, tech assistance, and financial assistance to ISIS while the entire time we were fighting ISIS. Same court also con…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 1:13:52

Cuba supplied_arms_to MPLA documented

“The Cuban military mission became active in late August, planning to operate four training detachments. The Cuban advisors of one of these participated in combat towards the end of October. A few dozen men compared to the Zulu force of well…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:05:04

Cuba supplied_arms_to MPLA documented

“The reporter believes that Castro moved when he heard that South Africa had intervened. The Cuban unit went into the lines defending Luanda from the FNLA. The MPLA and the Cubans blunted Roberto's attack. The South African advance stalled. …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:06:56

United States overthrew Cuba host_asserted

“In the case with, and obviously Cuba is a great example of that, the organized crime was there. We couped Cuba. We installed Batista. Batista was bought and paid for by the CIA and the United States. And as a result, there was an influx of …”

▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 54:52

William J. Donovan carried_out_attack Cuba host_asserted

“Because if you remember William Polly, the multimillionaire CIA agent that was involved in a whole bunch of overthrows of governments installing fascist dictators in South America, he used his yacht to go launch a coup in Cuba, his personal…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 14:13

Raul Castro ordered_assassination_of Cuba host_asserted

“had been doing that for a very long time. That is also the same group and the same members that bombed the airplane going from Venezuela to Cuba with the fencing team on it. It's the same group that had put car bombs in cars in Miami becaus…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 52:15

CIA trained Cuba host_asserted

“That's exactly what's going to happen with this recent thing that came up in the last couple of days where they want to indict Raul Castro for killing those four people that were in aircraft. They're Cuban exiles. They were CIA trained peop…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 50:46

CIA followed Cuba documented

“For months, the agency had followed events in Cuba in growing fear of the disintegration of Americans' cozy position with their military dictator, Batista. They had been unable to quell the rebellion that spread rapidly through the island, …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 31:33

CIA involved_in Cuba documented

“And without them, there's no way they can hold off Castro. For its part, the CIA became involved in at least four different plots. Colonel Prouty's group at Quarters Eye on December 31st, 1958, sat there because a U.S. aircraft, a Hilo cour…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 35:41

Cuba funded MPLA host_asserted

“where the MPLA were the only ones that had the wherewithal to manage a country administratively. And so you find yourself again in this paradox where it's actually the Cubans that are supporting the only viable option in Angola, and the CIA…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 44:37

Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“climatic phase of a series of televised debates between the candidate, Nixon denounced Castro in a speech, declared his patience exhausted, and advocated for a quarantine of Cuba. The Cuba issue resounded in the debates in which Nixon paint…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 45:22

Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“As a matter of fact, secret warriors recount that the final weeks before the election, Nixon encouraged a slowdown in the expectation that he would be taken over. Then, having lost, the vice president egged Ike to accelerate the project. Ta…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 49:48

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Cuba book_quoted

“This is just crazy. Similarly, Richard Barnes brought in Air Force General Leo Geary for a last-minute assessment. Geary concluded that the air plan would be adequate only if implemented in all aspects. Bissell made choices that precluded t…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 42:06

Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of Cuba book_quoted

“And that's the first day of bombing, which is why JFK called off the second round of bombing because the cat was already out of the bag. Okay, when Kennedy continued insisting on reduced visibility, Richard Bissell on his own halved the ini…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 43:30

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Cuba host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 1:07:53

John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change Cuba book_quoted

“for the new Cuba project. In an effort to obscure the project, Halpern looked at a list of code names that had been set aside for Thailand and selected Mongoose. Lansdale became the man of Project Mongoose, planning and supervising this cov…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 16:57

Edward Lansdale targeted_for_regime_change Cuba book_quoted

“according to Lansdale. Lansdale would look over the situation vis-a-vis the U.S. and Cuba and see what ideas he had. Lansdale reported back within days. He estimated Castro's overthrow to be possible, but the Cuban sugar crop should be atta…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 14:48

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to Cuba book_quoted

“But once the agency had furnished training and equipment, Castro could charge the CIA with the raids, independent or not. The covert action exacerbated Cold War tensions. Expansion of Soviet military aid to Cuba followed the Bay of Pigs, as…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 55:07

William A. Robertson Jr. carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“At one point, Robertson led a mission where the team was to sabotage one of the mines, which was Cuba's largest, setting explosive charges on conveyors and key equipment. The mission came off, but nothing happened. Cuban security found the …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 10:40

Ted Shackley carried_out_attack Cuba documented

“On August 18 and 19, gunboats struck one of Cuba's oil facilities. Desmond Fitzgerald has specifically made Castilla one of the targets, which showed that they had the set of targets from the CIA that they were using for this supposed group…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 51:30

Manuel Artime carried_out_attack Cuba documented

“Luis Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, offered his cooperation. Manuel Artime and other prominent exiles completed their arrangements. They set up shop near a town in Nicaragua. They soon began bombing Cuba. Langley sent Jake Esserling to Pa…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 48:30

CIA trafficked Cuba host_asserted

“And as a result of that, the CIA is down in South America setting up the alternative because by this time we've acknowledged that we're not getting Cuba back because that was the staging place. They were setting up all of the cartels to run…”

▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 57:56

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba book_quoted

“He could foresee that there would occur a time beyond which covert intervention would no longer be feasible. The group also mulled over assassinating Castro, though for security or because he did not know or for other reasons, General Cabel…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 53:26

CIA recruited Cuba 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 Cuba host_asserted

“coordinated with guerrilla activity, and a final phase that provided for an airborne assault on Havana, as well as the contingency for U.S. military intervention if needed. Also, the timing and numbers of men and items of equipment to be se…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 51:40

CIA carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“Unanimously, the exiles insisted that they were told nothing about the actual plan until the final moment of embarkment. They literally were never briefed on what they were about to do. The effort to destroy Castro's Air Force was the first…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 40:36

Michael Townley traded_network_to Cuba book_quoted

“He sided himself with the Sandinistas. He traded expertise with the Cubans, inviting Cuban doctors into Jamaica. And that, of course, pissed off the entire warmongering Washington, D.C. crowd. And so immediately, you know, he's branded a co…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 52:46

CIA carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“Okay. Thank you. He's quicker on the draw. Okay. Thank you. So in case you guys weren't with us back when we talked about Cuba, the CIA used this same type of defoliation project in Cuba and basically destroyed.…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 28:42

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba 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 spied_on Cuba book_quoted

“Participants at the CIA director's morning staff meeting on February 26th listened as officials reported three Cuban merchant vessels en route to Guyana. Within a day, CIA analysts were able to prove, so the vessels supposedly have arms on …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 27:05

CIA carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“retained contact with 26 more Cubans, mostly in the Havana area. The CIA carefully added that some anti-Castro Cubans were carrying out sabotage missions in Cuba, quote unquote, without the CIA's support. Its own plans were for minor action…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 8:12

CIA carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“which of course we know to be Operation Northwood. In mid-December 1961, John McCone had to explain to JFK when the press reported a new covert, Operation Snafu. The eight-man team intended to carry out Operation Well had suffered an engine…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 26:19

CIA carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“knocking out Castro's patrol boats. JFK congratulated his warriors on what they had accomplished, complained about the danger the press might guess what was happening, and wondered if the U.S. could refuse further Cuban migration. The presi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 22:53

CIA trained Cuba book_quoted

“Theodore Shackley's JM Wave had 112 exiles on board from the beginning. In addition, it had 40 CIA officers and 39 more co-located at Opelika. At any given time, there was a dozen or more special forces training exile commandos. Bob Moore a…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 42:13

Sicilian Mafia trafficked Cuba host_asserted

“In a nutshell, I did do one on Cuba. The whole thing is on Cuba. But in a nutshell, what you find out is in the 30s and 40s, the island of Cuba became an integral part of the trafficking of drugs from Southeast Asia, Europe.…”

▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 55:30

Fulgencio Batista supplied_arms_to Cuba host_asserted

“from the Corsican Mafia in France and the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily. They staged, they used Cuba as both an arms trafficking location under the government of Batista, who we installed, and they were running drugs into Harlem.…”

▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 55:58

William Pawley secretly_owned Cuba host_asserted

“multi-multi-millionaire in America that went in and bought up the bus transportation, invested in the railroad transportation, and owned a shipping line that took people down there for vacation. He bought up sugar plantations, and there wer…”

▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 57:12

Fulgencio Batista overthrew Cuba caller_asserted

“we have this uh amount of problems Alex in the last 72 years since the coup the military coup provided by Batista and uh when we started digging on that we started finding the same things that you're talking and um we have to make a decisio…”

▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 1:19:07

United States carried_out_attack Cuba documented

“of Austin's was asking whose side that they were on. And one of the homes of the Cuban ambassador was damaged and looted by American soldiers. And on it, they wrote AA, which is a symbol of the 82nd Airborne with the message, eat shit commi…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 59:28

United States targeted_for_regime_change Cuba book_quoted

“the first round of this expansionist globalist agenda in the United States. And then he also makes the observation of someone other than William McKinley had been president in 1898. He might've decided to set Cuba and the Philippines on a p…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 48:28

William Pawley funded Cuba host_asserted

“And the drug operations and the Curtis aircraft franchise just so happened to be awarded to him. And then his purchasing of all of the stuff on Cuba while it was under the control of Batista. So those can all be fronts. I can make an argume…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 51:55

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted

“Different from the CIA that assassinated him, this is kind of like the core unifying concept of those differences, whether it be Cuba, Vietnam, Congo, Indonesia, Brazil, that, you know, economic nationalism would not be automatically confla…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 1:08:32

Colonel Stanley Beerly carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“Somehow that word didn't make it to the people in charge of the invasion. Meanwhile, Stanley Beerly at the CIA's Air Operations Center planned a follow-up airstrike to neutralize the remainder of Castro's Air Force. Communications intellige…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 48:26

Cuba supplied_arms_to MPLA book_quoted

“But most of it came on two ships, not the dozen or two dozen that Kissinger talks about. Two ships. The MPLA had long had friendly relations with Castro. And not long after the Soviets sent help, Havana followed suit with a small contingent…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 23:04

Mafia trafficked Cuba host_asserted

▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 55:30

Cuba funded Venezuela book_quoted

“Were it not for early preventative measures taken by President Maduro and the solidarity of other countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, along with Cuba, we may have faced a crisis on par with the dismal tragedies of our neighbors …”

▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 15:53

NSDD-75 targeted_for_regime_change Cuba documented

“activist stance on sanction using that same directive basically said it was a campaign of public diplomacy, which nevertheless had certain secret aspects. There was also another one that was NSDD-75, which set the overall goal of covert act…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 45:46

William Howard Taft governed Cuba documented

“I'm almost sure it was. Let me check real quick. Yeah, okay, yes. So here's where my notes, I was just doing a real quick search. William Howard Taft was the governor of Cuba back in 1906 when we took it after the Spanish-American War. I'm …”

▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 29:54

CIA carried_out_attack Cuba documented

“postpone sabotage ops indefinitely. Rescheduling will depend upon consultations with appropriate officials, the new president and his advisors. The mischief, unquote, the mischief and sabotage operations against Cuba would continue for some…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 53:39

CIA spied_on Cuba documented

“Ford's advisors, faced with the church committee's schedule of formal hearings on covert operations, decided the CIA director should brief only, not testify, and only the leaders of the committee. Deep in the hole, politically, Ford proved …”

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 51:56

United States overthrew Cuba host_asserted

“battles fought for decades under the occupation of the Spanish in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. When the US entered the war, they thought the US was coming to save them. And in turn, we occupied them. And we were more vicious than…”

▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones @ 37:41

Pinkerton National Detective Agency carried_out_attack Cuba host_asserted

“to suppress a revolution in Cuba. Interestingly enough, these rebels in Cuba were fighting to end slavery and give citizens the right to vote. But the Pinkertons, who were abolitionists, right, went in there to crush that revolution to prol…”

▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:12:38

Asian Development Bank funded Cuba host_asserted

“The whole government can organize crime. And they just built this fantasy world for consenting adults. The big bank Sindona built in Cuba is called the Bandas Development Bank. And what they did is they used debt financing, so public-privat…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 26:45

Fulgencio Batista overthrew Cuba host_asserted

“money coming from the Jewish mafia in America. And they're totally, totally in cahoots with Batista in Cuba until segue. Until Batista gets overthrown by Fidel Castro. And we also went over this yesterday because this is going to be myth bu…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 27:12

Mafia ran_government_of Cuba host_asserted

“So they're all from very wealthy families. All of the Cuban exiles are from very wealthy, complicit Batista families. So just as a reminder that, you know, the mafia basically had installed, basically ran the government of Cuba as their own…”

▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 1:06:28

Smedley Butler carried_out_attack Cuba book_quoted

“and America is not really supposed to be at war this whole time, but he says, I spent 33 years and four months in active military service, and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall …”

▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 45:58

Bank of United States funded Cuba host_asserted

“basically to push U.S. exports overseas. They give loans. In 1945, right after World War II, it becomes an independent agency within the executive branch, and that timing gets interesting. What they did is they facilitate U.S. exports of go…”

▶ The Shadow State 31 Secret Societies 15; The Export Bank Scam @ 16:25

Winston Churchill operated_in Cuba host_asserted

“The Cuban War of Independence. While he's there observing, he joins the Spanish troops and became involved in some skirmishes. And the whole time he's sending reports back to a newspaper called the Daily Graphic. He's starting his writing c…”

▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 15:04

Otto Skorzeny trained Cuba host_asserted

“around Manhattan's Washington Heights and New Jersey Hudson County. Another 100,000 headed to Spain, which is very interesting. Spain seems to be a hotspot. And yes, Otto Skorzeny was there to train them. Others went to Latin America. Oh, l…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 51:51

CIA recruited Cuba host_asserted

“that in 1973, Cuban Americans recruited by the CIA were suspected in federal and city authorities to be involved in everything from narcotics, extortion rackets, and bombings, which is true. Inside America, there are Gladio operators. The c…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 48:36

William J. Polk did_business_with Cuba host_asserted

“to be distributed between Miami and New York. And interestingly enough, in many of the other books, we found out that they were using United Fruit, hence the importance of United Fruit in the earlier chapter, and William Polly, both who own…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 46:02

William J. Polk owned Cuba host_asserted

“And then it goes on to say that Polly had had a big state in Cuba prior to Castro's takeover. He had owned the Havana bus line, sugar refineries, sugar plantations. He also controlled the airline into Cuba. So he was making money hand over …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 58:38

Meyer Lansky founded Cuba host_asserted

“A war to kill off all the Corsicans. Chapter 15, The Cubans of Florida. Meyer Lansky, the syndicate's financial wizard and chairman from 1947, began building his Cuban empire in his early 40s. When free elections chased his close friend, di…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 43:58

Meyer Lansky trafficked Cuba host_asserted

“Santo Sr. Lansky and Batista settled in Hollywood, Florida, just north of Miami. Before long, Lansky was running an illegal casino empire on the coast. And in 47, he eliminated Bugsy Siegel and moved into Las Vegas. All the while, Lansky ex…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 44:31

Trafficante crime family managed Cuba host_asserted

“Traficani Jr., hired fast-learning natives while dictator Batista's men made the empire, quote-unquote, safe, not for democracy, for organized crime, often appearing more loyal to Traficani than anybody on the island that was actually Cuban…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 49:05

CIA involved_in Cuba documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 36:10

CIA operated_in Cuba book_quoted

“is that they were partners in the endeavor, and they're managing it still to keep the secret. Shifting gears here, let's turn our examination of Ted Shackley and what the CIA Miami station was doing just prior to and just after the Kennedy …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilght of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 45:36

Tropicana Plant trafficked Cuba host_asserted

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:16:05

Adnan Khashoggi trafficked Cuba host_asserted

“Let me find my bookmarker to start there on Sunday night. So I know Liza has been entertaining you guys with your bitch and Brian comment. Khashoggi was running weapons through Cuba with Skorzeny. That is true.…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 6 @ 1:13:35

Philip Bonsall removed_from_power Cuba host_asserted

“was done only after they'd already sabotaged the sugar industry by going to put additional tariffs, for lack of a better word. Political relations deteriorated. Twice during 1960, the U.S. ambassador, Philip Bonsal, B-O-N-S-A-L, was recalle…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 10 @ 1:11:41

Arleigh Burke supplied_arms_to Cuba book_quoted

“basically trying to strong arm President Kennedy into approving a direct military attack on Cuba. Admiral Burke had already moved several Navy resources into the area, anticipating the U.S. forces would be ordered to attack Cuba to save fac…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 7 @ 38:03

Task Force 157 carried_out_attack Cuba documented

“using unmarked planes and pretending that it was an attack on the oil refineries. At the CIA, Task Force W actually moved very probably in response to the Mongoose directive for more dynamic action and to place 10 commando teams of six men …”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 37:40

Robert Amory Jr. carried_out_attack Cuba documented

“He also had a lot more experience with invasions than anyone involved in the Cuba Project. In World War II, Amory had been a landing craft operator, finishing the war as a colonel in charge of a whole regiment of vessels. A veteran of 26 as…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 @ 8:03

Santo Trafficante Jr. trafficked_in Cuba documented

“Joe, who turned out to be Santo Trafficani, the Tampa slash Miami mob boss, who was already working with the CIA, by the way, on all of the heroin trafficking through Cuba. The agency offered $150,000 to assassinate Castro. O'Connell never …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 59:04

Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba documented

“be more cooperative and that Bush's company called Zapata Oil was going to be the concession given company to go and extract the oil or at least look for the oil off the coast of Cuba, which because they now don't control Cuba because Castr…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 1:07:45

Jimmy Carter visited Cuba documented

“And in 1994, he was in Bosnia trying to negotiate a ceasefire there. In 95, he's in Africa on peace missions. Clinton gives him the Freedom Medal in 99. He visits Cuba, which was the highest ranking person since Castro had taken power to vi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner President Carter Special @ 28:02

Lucky Luciano trafficked Cuba book_quoted

“Sicily where they were ordered to haunt and the deported gangster every move and it wasn't long before the agents caught Luciano with a half ton of heroin being ready for shipment to Havana so this guy pressed for an arrest but no action wa…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 30:49

CIA operated_in Cuba host_asserted

“Cuba after the Spanish-American War, as we've talked about. They've just kind of perfected this as they go forward. The connection between the Phoenix program and later events are clearly evident to include El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua, Ho…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam and the Phoenix Program Part 2 @ 39:57

Soviet Union planted_missiles_in Cuba documented

“They became a strategic pawn in the great powers game. When the Russians planted rockets in retaliation for the missiles in Turkey, the world came close to nuclear war. The shots that rang out in Dallas one bright November day in 1963 echoe…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 6 @ 14:28

Soviet Union removed_from_power Cuba documented

“There was no more talk, as there had been in October, for a plan to mine Cuban harbors. The missile crisis was eventually resolved at the highest level. The Soviets removed their offensive weapons from Cuba, and we took ours out from Turkey…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 38:39

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to Cuba documented

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont @ 31:25

Sicilian Mafia trafficked Cuba book_quoted

“being transported into Cuba for refinery and then into the United States. And we also talked about yesterday the Cubans, Santo Tropicani and his family continuing the cut. The heroin was sugar while it was delivered to New Orleans, Miami an…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 28:24

CIA operated_in Cuba documented

“Actions had been impeded either by the United States government reluctance to show its hand, like in the Cuba-Albania operations, or that there were a lack of truly popular indigenous groups in order to recruit, like the made-up ones that t…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 14 @ 9:30

United States overthrew Cuba host_asserted

“If you go back, like I said, to our deposing the Queen of Hawaii, it started in the late 1800s, early 1900s. We overthrew the government there and confiscated that island. And as we were talking about, the Spanish-American War was fought fo…”

▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 1:53:58

Ted Shackley operated_in Cuba documented

“propaganda machine for that. He believed in adaptive response and mostly gave Lair a free hand. Ted Shackley received the Laos posting as a reward for his job in Cuba. As Ted Shackley arrived in the summer of 66, the Mekong River suddenly s…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 15:57

Cuba supplied_arms_to MPLA documented

“one to two millimeter rockets during the summer and fall. Another shipment of Cuban advisors came in, and upon independence, the MPLA government asked Cuba for major assistance. By then, there were 2,600 Cubans in Angola, but an emergency a…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 37:27

Mario Coley moved_to Cuba documented

“Castro took over and moved to the U.S. in early 1959, where he immediately began organizing former members of the Cuban military into Cuban liberators. May 1959, Coley had met a very prominent D.C. attorney by the name of Marshall Diggs, D-…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 1:06:37

Salvador Samuel operated_in Cuba host_asserted

“He returned to the United States with the rest of the brigade in a prisoner exchange on Christmas 1962. Manuel Salvador of Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale, sorry, lived for 10 days on land eating crabs in money water after he had swam ashore fr…”

▶ Book Review The Invisible Government Chapter 4 @ 50:43

Sergio del Valle removed_from_power Cuba documented

“Once such drastic measures was reportedly conceived by Castro's ambassador to Britain, Sergio Santa Marina, who resigned his post in late June of 1960 and returned to Cuba. Information on this assassination attempt on Castro comes from a co…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 1:07:55

Manuel Urrutia Lleó removed_from_power Cuba documented

“Cardona, resigned his post at the insistence of the U.S. government. Fidel Castro took over. Cardona was soon destined to play a role in one of Skorzeny's most secret endeavors. March 10, 1959, the U.S. National Security Council held a clas…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 56:49

Tracy Barnes headed Cuba documented

“This effort was led by the CIA officer Tracy Barnes. Another important government official involved with the task force was Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston merchant, National Security Advisor Gordon Gray, a close friend of Perkin McGuire'…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 1:04:00

Grayston Lynch carried_out_attack Cuba documented

“the hierarchy was okay for his actions in bay of pigs he was awarded the intelligence star and that's a big deal in the cia a big big deal in the six years after the bay of pigs invasion he ran commando raids into cuba he retired in 1971 an…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 4:20

Allen Dulles proposed Cuba documented

“a complete ruse to allow Drahler to secure information that could be gleaned from Castro for intelligence purposes. January 1960, CIA Director Allen Dulles had taken a Cuban covert action plan before the Committee for Special Groups or a Sp…”

▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 1:03:03

CIA attempted_coup_against Cuba host_asserted

“Are you kidding me? We know too much about Dulles at this point to believe any of this garbage. He did not like to involve the CIA in military projects, even ones the military had rejected. That's just horseshit. They tried to use the milit…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The U2 Program @ 1:38:10

Mentions (120)

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 51:05 Bird Oil. Lawrence Bell, Bell Helicopters. Oh my God. I missed him when I looked at this before. William Pauly. William Pauly. Are you fucking kidding me? Oh my gosh. Okay, so William Pauly is the guy that owned the sugar plantations and al…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 51:35 And he is also the guy that created the Air Force and Navy for Chiang Kai-shek over when we installed him in Taiwan to run the entire drug business. How did I miss Williams? And he's involved with the Liberty. How did I miss? No, he wasn't …

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 52:03 But isn't the Liberties Address on Pauley Island? Yeah, but that had really nothing to do with that. That had to do with the guy that was one of the survivors just happened to live there. That's the guy I talked to. I was going to visit Pau…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 52:29 William Polly is the guy, he's the multi, like hundreds of millions of dollars, who has this massive yacht, lives in Miami, and the CIA used him and his yacht to bring a whole bunch of quote-unquote Cuban exiles, Operation Gladio people, to…

1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden

▶ 1:11:33 in the Dominican Republic. Now, again, keep in mind, this is 1960. The Dominican Republic has Operation Gladio units in it, and they are attacking Haiti. Baker argued that the Dominican Republic would be a mafia replacement for Cuba. Howeve…

Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR

▶ 21:38 The Delano side, they were into and owned many railroads, Northwestern Life Insurance of Chicago, Aviation Corp with Harriman as a partner. They owned a portion of Pan Am Airlines, P&O Steamship, a part of Brown Brothers, which was later me…

Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR

▶ 26:23 which again explains so much of why sugar is so invasive and unhealthy in the United States. They set up one of the very first sugar refineries in New York in 1740. And that's where they began having ties to Cuba, which then also explains t…

Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR

▶ 26:49 and the sugar cane plantations that were down there in the 1930s. They were also owners of consolidated coal. They owned, on the Roosevelt side as well, railroad steamboats. And one of them was chairman of the Maritime Canal Company. And th…

Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian

▶ 48:58 Eight years of venues have never had security stripped away from them. Why did this one have security stripped away? So these are all important questions. I also want to compare a couple of things between the Oswald in 1963 and Crooks. You …

Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian

▶ 59:23 throughout Central and South America that was set up after Castro took over Cuba and stopped the drug trafficking from Cuba because that was their big port prior to that, has a CIA handler, or excuse me, an Israeli handler just like our Con…

Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster

▶ 1:05:29 of the Cuban elite that were employed by the mafia. Now, if you go look up Rubio's dad, he worked in some of the Cuban mafia Batista establishments in Cuba. You can make the argument, I don't have any conclusive evidence of it, that because…

Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster

▶ 1:06:00 There were remnants of that affiliation when he's down in Miami, which was the case in Felix Rodriguez and all of them. Felix Rodriguez's family was very well off because they were part of the Batista Mafia Association in Cuba. He went to a…

Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster

▶ 1:06:29 So they're all from very wealthy families. All of the Cuban exiles are from very wealthy, complicit Batista families. So just as a reminder that, you know, the mafia basically had installed, basically ran the government of Cuba as their own…

Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster

▶ 1:06:58 Correct. Political insiders. Yeah. And we've talked about William Polly. William Polly owned the airline going to Cuba. He owned all of the transportation network inside of Cuba. And he owned multiple Cuban sugar plantations inside of Cuba.…

Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster

▶ 1:07:20 were paid to be basically the plantation overseers or the director of transportation or the director of this school versus that school. And those people were their minions on the ground for all of the oligarchs in the United States that bas…

Colonel’s Corner-Book Review-Prelude to Terror Chap 22

▶ 1:19:35 There are 100 purported senators in this country. Israel is playing the icebreaker role of CIA for reshaping the world at the most perilous time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, if not more so. And we cannot get a single senator to comment o…

Colonel’s Corner-Book Review-Prelude to Terror Chap 22

▶ 1:39:18 There were nuclear armed submarines. The only thing that saved the USS Liberty, in my opinion, is the fact that there was a Soviet submarine that actually surfaced to let them all know they were there. And there was another witness and they…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 26:00 The way to us in America, the way they really are on the ground, wherever they're at. And there's no better illustration of that than the Cuban exiles. For us, we have always been told that the Cuban exiles were people, poor people that wer…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 26:29 For the majority of the Cuban exiles, that is absolutely a fable. The CIA installed Batista in Cuba and they also went into the mountains. Literally CIA agents went into the mountains and trained the Castro brothers along with Che Cabrera a…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 26:56 maintain control of Cuba regardless of who wins. So they basically were playing both sides against the middle. Now, a typical way in which the CIA runs countries in this non-imperialistic way that's very imperialistic is that they do exactl…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 27:52 Well, in Cuba, that's exactly what happened. We ran across a guy by the name of William Polly who owned not only the bus transportation, he owned the airline there. He owned a bunch of the plantations. And so then they installed these what …

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 28:22 In Cuba or Chile or wherever they install these dictators. And so in light of that, the Cuban exiles are primarily those elite that got displaced when Castro came to power. They were not the poor peasants. They're all still there. Nobody he…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 28:52 of the Sullivan and Cromwell, the, shoot, United Fruit was in Cuba. So all of those people, the people that worked for William Polly, they were brought into Miami in order to try to get the island back and basically overthrow Cuba. So they …

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 36:06 Well, let me just make this comment here. The recognized spokesperson for the government in exile. Are you still there? It looks like your screen. OK, so the government in exile for Cuba was in New York. So during the Bay of Pigs invasion, …

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 58:52 to recognize Sukarno in a partnership. Well, if that happens, they can't overthrow Sukarno. They will not have the support internal to Indonesia. And the CIA is dead set on making sure that trip never happens. So you have Indonesia. Then yo…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 59:22 business with Cuba, okay? That pissed off everybody. As much as they think that they want, they did not want it under Castro because they didn't control Castro. So that was not going to be allowed to happen. He used a couple of people. He u…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 1:00:39 They've got Chiang Kai-shek that they just installed in Taiwan. William Polly again from Cuba is he has the Curtis aircraft franchise in Asia. He is equipping Chiang Kai-shek with an air force. He is building the fighters. He's building the…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 1:05:43 Kennedy, having had fired Alan Dulles for not doing what he was supposed to do in the Bay of Pigs and disobeying Kennedy, is looking at Lyman Lemonsker when he comes to him with a plan called Operation Northwood. Operation Northwood is an O…

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 1:06:14 dressed as Cuban military in order to justify a ground war with Cuba. Okay. Lyman Lemonsker was willing to sacrifice not only population inside the United States, but then to commit an entire military war against Cuba to retake the island. …

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 1:12:52 Russia, Soviet Union and Cuba, so that it could look like, you know, they did it. And then we could we could have our our, you know, logic for domestic politics to allow us to do a first strike. LBJ came in and he famously said right after …

ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast

▶ 1:46:47 Many of the things that have come out about the JFK has come out securitously through things where he was involved in Indonesia, where he was involved in Algeria, where he was involved in Cuba. And when you start putting all of those docume…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 26:34 Just prior to the assassination of JFK, there was a document that was drafted by our senior military and the CIA just prior to him firing Alan Dulles. It was called Operation Northwood. Operation Northwood was a plan, among other things. It…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 27:28 You have to then go back and look at all of those. Were those false flags, too, in order to get us into a war? And what happened after the Spanish-American War? Well, we took over Cuba, we took over Puerto Rico, and we took over the Philipp…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 29:14 And they come up with this Operation Northwood. It gets briefed to SecDef McNamara. And he didn't find anything wrong with it. He says, yeah, let's take this to JFK. So General Lyman Lemesker goes into JFK. And part of this plan was because…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 29:41 proceeds to pay for Operation Gladio terror events. So it's a very important note to them, and they need to get it back. So they go in to brief JFK, and one of the scenarios is to go to cities like Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Los A…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 30:10 And in doing so, we will terrorize the U.S. population into allowing us to do a full-scale ground invasion because you know what we're going to do? We are going to dress up and implicate the people doing the bombings to look exactly like Cu…

Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest)

▶ 31:06 Because now there's no way to get Cuba back. And so in JFK's disbelief that this was even presented to him, at the time, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff usually got two tours of being the chairman for continuity. JFK tells Wyman h…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25

▶ 7:40 And the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in colluding to orchestrate terrorist events domestically in the United States. And they were going to dress up as Cubans, army people, to orchestrate these events where they were going to ki…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25

▶ 8:10 fake Cuban army people when they were actually CIA trained paramilitary Cuban exiles living in Miami and blame Castro for killing Americans so they could justify a full scale invasion into Cuba. That was presented to John F. Kennedy and he …

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25

▶ 9:07 Like killing Americans. Another one, just weirdly enough, happens to be flying drone aircraft into big buildings. Not like we've ever seen that or anything. Another one was planning a bomb on a commercial airline, which they also did, and b…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25

▶ 19:35 says, hey, this is a great idea. How about if we do what Shane Kyshek does and we just sell heroin to pay for our black operations? We got black money, black operations. Nobody will ever be the wiser. And that worked out great for a time wh…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25

▶ 2:00:10 Because that's not what they were actually training them for. These Colombian fighters were basically the same replica of what the CIA created with the Cuban exiles in Miami. They're a paramilitary force to deploy all around the world. So y…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale

▶ 27:18 If I go back and I start looking at some of the NATO commanders over the course of time, like Lyman Lemitsker, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Kennedy that authored Operation Northwood, which was nothing but false fl…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale

▶ 55:34 So, back to what an action, because we described this in our first one that we did a couple of days ago. Basically, as I articulated with Operation Northwood, which was written in collusion with the CIA and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs …

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale

▶ 56:01 ground invasion into Cuba. Because for those of you who don't know, Cuba was being used as a processing place for the CIA drug trafficking out of the Golden Triangle through either the Corsican Mafia in France or the Sicilian Mafia in Sicil…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale

▶ 2:28:46 So, Helms, you know, who, like, we know that we had the whole Warren Commission and everything. Okay, who really shot John? I think his question was, I think the exact quote was, you know, who shot John? Is Johnson to blame? Is Nixon to bla…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale

▶ 2:31:00 And he winds up, you know, investigating these two. I think it was the Cubans or the Puerto Ricans was what it was labeled. And he discloses all of this to, you know, the Secret Service's inspector general when they're all ordered not to ta…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale

▶ 2:33:46 No, it's just one of them questions. I don't even know how to fucking ask it. It's just so frustrating. Go ahead, Lumi. No, I wanted to bring one point out, which I think you might have mentioned it because I didn't catch the beginning. But…

Gladio 101 El Salvador

▶ 38:27 communist abated by the Soviet Union, by Nicaragua, and by Cuba. And Nicaragua only because the guy currently in Nicaragua when the statement was being written was the guy who was the Sandinista government that they were also attacking beca…

Gladio 101 El Salvador

▶ 45:23 of American mercenaries involved in El Salvador is not known, but Lawrence Bailey, a former U.S. Marine, has stated that he was part of a team of 40 American soldiers of fortune paid by wealthy Salvadorian families living in Miami to protec…

Gladio 101 El Salvador

▶ 45:54 There is this privileged elite that are ordained within these hierarchies. So you had the mafia taking over Cuba. You have Cuban elitist that either are in high ranking positions on the U.S. owned or U.S. company owned sugar plantations tha…

Gladio 101 El Salvador

▶ 46:22 are landed gentry and they don't want their world turned upside down. They like living in the lap of luxury even when it's selling their own countrymen out. I have said since investigating all of this that the term Cuban exiles was used for…

Just Because Keith Malinak w ColonelTowner-Watkins 2025-10-16

▶ 1:40:03 coincidentally happened to train mercenaries for the CIA on them and you could move them around and they were launching operations into Cuba from them. So George DeMorganshield grows up and he just happens to be the guy in Dallas that takes…

MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses

▶ 1:22:30 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.…

MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses

▶ 1:22:58 purges of Castro supporters in establishing post-revolution government. So there's one Raul who was known to operate and was trained by the CIA in Florida and Guatemala. The next one is Jose Raul Martinez, a Cuban pilot recruited as a CIA i…

Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2

▶ 3:39 events occurred as far as the coups and the takeover, the secret armies being used. In large part during that time, they were actually using the United States Marine in lieu of stay-behind units. And you find throughout the territories that…

Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan

▶ 1:50:48 It's a crazy circle. Cousin Nick, go ahead. Then we'll go to Sunshine. No, somebody had mentioned the sugar being like gold, which is really kind of ironic because, yes, it is. As a matter of fact, that's how the Spanish-American War in Cub…

Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan

▶ 1:51:19 Obviously, somebody blew up the main in the harbor in Havana and blamed the Spanish for it. And it was never the Spanish. It was solely to take over Cuba for the sugar and for the oil. And they called the sugar the white gold and they calle…

Operation Gladio (240516)

▶ 19:55 who was a CIA agent, worked with Mitteroni. He said, this is a quote, they basically, before I get to the quote, basically they were teaching these police officers human anatomy and the nervous system to maximize the pain. The quote begins,…

Operation Gladio (240516)

▶ 33:03 thanking the Soviet Union, which none of that was true. They also created documents that maligned the entire thing. And Agee talks about also undermining relationships with Uruguay and other countries that the CIA didn't approve of, like Ru…

Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11

▶ 40:27 was the name of a bay in Cuba. And it just so happens that that bay had been discovered that there's massive oil underground in that bay. And there are people that believe the reason why we spent so much treasure…

Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11

▶ 40:58 trying to get Cuba back was to tap that oil field. It had nothing to do with, I mean, maybe some to do with what we had always suspected as the mafia wanting back in and all that other stuff and more to do with the fact that this oil had be…

Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11

▶ 41:27 There may be something to that story that that oil company was being set up as a CIA front to go in there and drill the oil and basically steal it from the Cuban people after we recovered Cuba. And that makes much more sense than, you know,…

Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections

▶ 3:52 Back to the article. But he was facing stiffer than expected pushback. Anti-government protests were racking the oil-rich South American nation. Hyperinflation was obliterating its economy. More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggeri…

Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections

▶ 4:20 Not necessarily an ally. They're just the only other people that are allowed, because they don't give a shit what the U.S. says, to even talk to Venezuela. Because if anybody else so much as talks to Venezuela, let alone do business with th…

Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections

▶ 16:37 The CIA quickly assembled a Venezuelan task force. That group had its work cut out for it before the Trump administration directives. Venezuela was a low priority for Langley and capabilities had to be built from the ground up, according to…

Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections

▶ 17:32 That is going supposedly to fund other communist dictators, i.e. Cuba, you know, because we hate Cuba because of how communist they are. And Russia, who we blame on, we blame everything on because they're all communist over there, too. And …

Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections

▶ 20:25 that it was a digital sabotage operation enabled by agents on the ground. Who gives a crap? Who gives a crap? It's ridiculous. And they spend an entire, I'm not even going to go through all, they spend an entire paragraph talking about some…

Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections

▶ 28:11 into Joe Biden's open border crisis and turning his government over to Putin, Cuba, and Hezbollah. Oh, so we've added another element here. You know, all of the hated entities. He even infiltrated the rap industry, according to this author.…

Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections

▶ 31:26 And it says, let's see. OK, so let me read this. It was actually worse than that. Bolton speaking to Wired said he did not. It's from his book. There were a lot of them who didn't consider Venezuelan an enemy, who were actually aligned with…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 54:52 In the case with, and obviously Cuba is a great example of that, the organized crime was there. We couped Cuba. We installed Batista. Batista was bought and paid for by the CIA and the United States. And as a result, there was an influx of …

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 55:48 rose up and overthrew Batista. And you have yet again, and believe me, I am not a Castro apologist, but the United States actually aided and trained and set up Gladio training camps to teach people, to include Che Guevara, how to fight in t…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 56:44 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…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 57:14 giving the land back to the people and limiting the size of what can be foreign owned, you know, kind of like what we're doing here. We all want China not to own our farmland. Well, guess what? That's all Castro did. Castro said he didn't w…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 57:44 At some point, the United States cuts Cuba off because he's cutting off U.S. companies. And then they're isolated. They naturally go to the Soviet Union because it was the only other major weapons producer or trading partner because they ha…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 1:00:10 They have a real hard time accepting the fact that Putin is sitting there on top of Russia and all the garbage about, oh, well, if you just don't address him, he's going to take more countries. As Tucker points out repeatedly, he has the la…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 1:05:33 All they did was take their paramilitary people from Europe, NATO, stay behind units and employ them in their colonies. They did the same thing in Indonesia with the Netherlands. They used their paramilitary there. It's a worldwide thing on…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 1:07:42 Italian fruit that was shipped through Cuba and then into the harbor in New York for the New York mafia to sell on the streets of New York, primarily to Harlem, because they were trying to get all of the Black Americans hooked on cocaine ba…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 1:22:19 group that has like interest. And for example, the Cuba, they wanted to monopolize the resources there. There was a mining company called Freeport that was mining ore there. There was the land, United Fruit went in and gobbled it all up. An…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 1:22:44 Prior to World War II, they were using the United States Marines to go in and basically they would instigate problems and then they would use the Marines to go in and quote unquote solve the problem. So the Marines would invade Cuba, take o…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 1:26:53 That was a death squad. They killed people in multiple places. If you look up his history, Felix Rodriguez, he was in Vietnam. He was in Honduras. He did multiple runs on Cuba trying to assassinate Castro for the CIA.…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 1:42 And I have always wanted to research Angola because when we were doing Cuba and Central America and South America, because Angola popped off at the same time, there's so many references to the same CIA people being in and the Cuban exiles a…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 33:09 Simply put, I was opposed to the covert action program in Angola because I was convinced it would not succeed and would badly damage our ability to work in the future with moderate elements in Africa. We were not prepared to spend the neces…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 39:28 One of the big things in history, if you go back and you just start reading generic stuff about Angola, the American version of history is that they had to go in there and do something because the Soviets and the Cubans were already in ther…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 39:53 And the CIA and the people that resigned in protest over what we actually did in Angola, every single one of them will tell you that's a bold-faced lie. There was no significant presence of either Soviets or Cubans being in Angola until aft…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 44:11 And that tribe alone made up 23% of the country, but they had multiple other tribes. They were the only entity, political entity, that had multi-tribal abilities to manage. The other ones are very one tribe specific. And of course, they go …

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 45:09 after first having been refused support by the United States. So they asked the United States first, just as Lumumba did, just as so many other countries did. But there you go. However, it was not until April 1974 revolution in Portugal.…

Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers

▶ 54:46 neither of them are good fighters. In fact, they couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. It was the wrong game and the players we have are losers. That was his quote. Since President Ford's decision, the U.S. has maintained a two-track…

Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2

▶ 1:23:09 Cuban exiles. So that term got used a lot. Cuban exiles, Cuban exiles, Cuban exiles were supposedly these poor people that had to leave Cuba in order to survive. But when you go into Cuba and you actually look like you look at what happened…

Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975

▶ 13:18 And so when you get into these embassies, you could literally consider the entire embassy staff a CIA hornet's nest. So regardless of what the title is or what uniform or civilian clothes they're wearing, and we need to be aware of that bec…

Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975

▶ 13:55 between Fox and Paz. That was something they disagreed on. Paz had been directly opposed to American policy and voted against Cuba's being exposed, their expulsion from the Organization of American States in 1962.…

Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975

▶ 14:23 He refused to also break diplomatic relationship between Cuba and Bolivia. So that was kind of one of the stumbling blocks between Paz and Fox. But in August of 1964, there's been like five phone calls in the last two minutes.…

Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975

▶ 1:46:16 booze runners, the drug runners, whatever you want to call it. So that entire apparatus was moved under and housed in the CIA when it stood up in the late 40s after World War II, because that is the element that went around the world, becau…