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Claims (151)
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 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
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
Fidel Castro supplied_arms_to
Cuba book_quoted
“and extracted 79 people. Early in 1961, Castro imported fast patrol boats and radars from Russia to stop those activities. Around December of 1960, Castro's FAR became actively involved in major counterinsurgency campaigns against the Escam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:50
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
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Cuba documented
“Brigade 2506 would still have had to get out through a far superior Cuban army, which the terrain would have had favored just as it did to help in an exile defense, which is what they thought it was going to do, except they didn't occupy th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 19:44
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
Henry Luce funded
Cuba host_asserted
“Luce convened a remarkable war council of his top editors at Time Life, where he declared that if the Kennedy administration was not bold enough to overthrow Castro, his corporation would take on the task itself. Luce and his wife were alre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 6:38
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 funded
Cuba host_asserted
“Luce convened a remarkable war council of his top editors at Time Life, where he declared that if the Kennedy administration was not bold enough to overthrow Castro, his corporation would take on the task itself. Luce and his wife were alre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 6:38
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
“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
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
Cuba supplied_arms_to
MPLA book_quoted
“the Soviets took a hand in assuming aid for, or resuming aid for the MPLA, which they had previously terminated in 1973. The assistance included airlift of weapons. The MPLA had long maintained friendly relationships with the Soviets, and t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 21:50
Cuba supplied_arms_to
MPLA host_asserted
“And upon independence, the MPLA government asked Cuba for major assistance. By then, there were 2,600 Cubans in Angola, but an emergency airlift and sea lift apparently called Carlotta. Cuban regular units were introduced in large numbers. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 37:59
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
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
William J. Donovan secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“Once you find, oh, and then, you know, we're doing Condor. We moved on and he shows up as an ambassador in Latin America. And then we look at Cuba and, oh, my God, he owned the airline there. He owned the bus company for the entire island. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 2:11:08
CIA trained
Cuba book_quoted
“flew 11 times to Cuba before registering a good drop. The frustration was palatable. The resistance felt the same. One mission rated successful took place on December 30th. Four days earlier, Miami base learned that one of the CIA trained a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 36:21
Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of
Cuba book_quoted
“Told the cargo represented a small proportion of the capacity, Cabell ordered the load topped off with rice and beans. Dick Drain, startled, warned Cabell that the plane's task was to deliver the specific items requested. Propaganda chief D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 37:18
CIA supplied_arms_to
Cuba book_quoted
“The next day, the headquarters sent word to tell the agent he would retrieve the shipment as he had requested. But the air staff, in cables not cleared through Esterling, added allotments of 80 pounds of rice and beans. 800 pounds, sorry. A…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 37:50
CIA carried_out_attack
Cuba book_quoted
“They also threw in 200 pounds of leaflets for propaganda. That'll get you killed, but go ahead and put it in there. When the C-54 flew the mission, the plane lingered too long in the area, showed lights, dropped the leaflets onto the agent'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 38:17
CIA recruited
Cuba book_quoted
“Esterling used his frequent trips to keep the Guatemalan leader humored. CIA contributed to rupturing secrecy. In his effort to recruit Cubans in Miami, Howard Hunt took photos of the forward operating base in Guatemala. Again, OPSEC. The p…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 48:57
Fidel Castro targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba book_quoted
“and extracted 79 people. Early in 1961, Castro imported fast patrol boats and radars from Russia to stop those activities. Around December of 1960, Castro's FAR became actively involved in major counterinsurgency campaigns against the Escam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:50
CIA supplied_arms_to
Cuba book_quoted
“Since the project began, boat operations were all improvised. Cubans themselves were quicker off the mark. With Cuban-owned boats, such as the Reefer and Wasp, beginning supply deliveries in September of 1960. Typically, CIA case officers l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 40:50
CIA recruited
Cuba book_quoted
“Since the project began, boat operations were all improvised. Cubans themselves were quicker off the mark. With Cuban-owned boats, such as the Reefer and Wasp, beginning supply deliveries in September of 1960. Typically, CIA case officers l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 40:50
CIA funded
Cuba book_quoted
“or anti-Castro people, or insert agents. They basically contracted out everything. Around November, the agency actually acquired, they bought the WASP from the Cuban owners. In 1960, a dozen Cuban or CIA boat missions took place off of Cuba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:20
CIA supplied_arms_to
Cuba book_quoted
“or anti-Castro people, or insert agents. They basically contracted out everything. Around November, the agency actually acquired, they bought the WASP from the Cuban owners. In 1960, a dozen Cuban or CIA boat missions took place off of Cuba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:20
CIA recruited
Cuba book_quoted
“or anti-Castro people, or insert agents. They basically contracted out everything. Around November, the agency actually acquired, they bought the WASP from the Cuban owners. In 1960, a dozen Cuban or CIA boat missions took place off of Cuba…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:20
CIA recruited
Cuba book_quoted
“and extracted 79 people. Early in 1961, Castro imported fast patrol boats and radars from Russia to stop those activities. Around December of 1960, Castro's FAR became actively involved in major counterinsurgency campaigns against the Escam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:50
FAR (Cuba) carried_out_attack
Cuba book_quoted
“and extracted 79 people. Early in 1961, Castro imported fast patrol boats and radars from Russia to stop those activities. Around December of 1960, Castro's FAR became actively involved in major counterinsurgency campaigns against the Escam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:50
FAR (Cuba) carried_out_attack
Cuba book_quoted
“the food going to the guerrillas. They were also capturing and killing some of them. By the spring of 1961, the FAR blockade had the guerrillas starving. In all, aircraft dropped almost 14 tons of materials. Perhaps a third actually reached…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 42:21
CIA supplied_arms_to
Cuba book_quoted
“the food going to the guerrillas. They were also capturing and killing some of them. By the spring of 1961, the FAR blockade had the guerrillas starving. In all, aircraft dropped almost 14 tons of materials. Perhaps a third actually reached…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 42:21
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 supplied_arms_to
Cuba book_quoted
“They were doing shit on their own. And the analysts using the U-2 overhead satellite capability would have had intelligence that indicated that. So they would have had intelligence where they were massing their forces. Because again, using …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 55:05
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
Swan Island supplied_arms_to
Cuba host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
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
Ron Lippert supplied_arms_to
Cuba guest_asserted
“My interview with Lippert, jailed for 10 years by Fidel Castro for flying explosives into Cuba for the agency, solved one of the final mysteries of the Southern Front. How CIA operative John Hall, that's the guy that had the big ranch in Co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:09:32
William J. Polk secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“was not actually owned in large part by Cubans. You had people like William Polly who owned your airline. You had people like William Polly who owned the entire bus franchise on the entire island. He owned a lot of the big major sugar plant…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:00:16
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“was not actually owned in large part by Cubans. You had people like William Polly who owned your airline. You had people like William Polly who owned the entire bus franchise on the entire island. He owned a lot of the big major sugar plant…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:00:16
Fulgencio Batista headed
Cuba host_asserted
“the land away from their rightful owners under a corrupt Batista government. I mean, that was what brought the entire revolution. And the people that initially supported Castro, who apparently after he got in power, like many people who get…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:00:42
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
Cuba spied_on
Miami documented
“The Bosch case would resonate for years to some. Cuban officials repeatedly pressed for Bosch and his longtime associates, Luis Posado Carriles, another alleged co-conspirator of the airline bombing, to be extradited to Cuba to stand trial …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 1:22:16
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
United States carried_out_attack
Cuba documented
“into the United States. That was their lifeblood. And by launching a secret campaign aimed at sabotaging Castro's government. By February of 1960, mercenary pilots hired by the CIA had dropped bombs on Cuba's sugar mills. In March, a French…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 6:30
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
Cuba supplied_arms_to
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“There's always a Cuban military presence in Venezuela, but they'll see an influx of Cuban troops come in on the streets because Maduro fears that enough of the Venezuelan government could turn against him during those moments and back the p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:52:57
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba documented
“The reverberations of the axis of evil beyond Bush's original hit list was no accident. Months after the president's address, a senior State Department official delivered a talk entitled Beyond the Axis of Evil. Because the axis of evil is …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 21:37
Lucien Conein trafficked
Cuba caller_asserted
“And he was a very valuable intelligence partner during World War II, and at least according, I think, to the Kefauver committees, well after that, as well as Lucien Conine in his interview with Alfred McCoy in 71. Yeah, and Conine is the gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:00:23
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
“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 100%. Yeah, y…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 1:07:53
CIA carried_out_attack
Cuba documented
“Moscow's activity with journalists. Findings were also approved for operations against pro-Cuban government in Grenada, pro-Cuban government, a political action in Jamaica, and actions in Nicaragua and El Salvador, as those governments face…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 59:20
CIA trafficked
Cuba guest_asserted
“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 @ 56:01
Thomas Sankara traded_network_to
Cuba host_asserted
“among themselves to do much better. Sankara additionally forged relationships with non-traditional states such as Cuba. He repudiated an IMF structural adjustment program that would have forced him to cut back social services. So I just wan…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 32:37
Edward Lansdale trained
Cuba host_asserted
“This guy has done all kinds of nefarious shit. Killed people, trained terrorists. Yeah, yeah, it's Castro that did it. If there was one thing he could take back, that would be it. Not the vampire shit they were doing in the Philippines, sca…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 5:11
William J. Polk financed_via
Cuba book_quoted
“not the CIA. Life magazine photographers went on another. And our Forrest Gump guy, businessman William Polly, financed at least one raid. Financed? He used his own yacht. Others by groups like the Second Naval Guerrilla or Alpha 66 suppose…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 54:33
USAID targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“It's almost like every single time they're telling us what they're doing without telling us what they're doing. And he goes on to then bring in the use of the HIV. And we know that USAID was basically using a Cuban HIV clinic in a way to, i…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Loose ends and Open Mic @ 10:44
Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“They're the ones that set up United Fruit. They're the ones that went into Nicaragua and to Cuba and all of these other places and basically negotiated with the government by slipping them money to buy land through corrupt government offici…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:46:58
Venezuela front_for
Cuba host_asserted
“Because they're directly tied because they used to live in Venezuela. So that's more my line of thinking that smartmatics definitely interfere in elections and can be manipulated. That's been proven. But the contention that those elections …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:37:25
Operation Northwoods targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba guest_asserted
“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 @ 27:18
William Pawley secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“He owned sugar plantations in Cuba, William Polly, that is. He owned the bus transportation for the entire island. He owned the airline flying in and out, the only airline flying in and out of Cuba. And this was during the heyday of Cuba wh…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 1:04:17
Desmond Fitzgerald carried_out_attack
Cuba host_asserted
“two cuba operations in the western hemisphere i think he may have i don't he wasn't head of western hemisphere but he was like very high up there with um whatchamacallit the head of western hemisphere and it's just in 1962 now kind of an in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:15:30
William J. Polk carried_out_attack
Cuba host_asserted
“or spare parts en route to Cuba were sabotaged. And there were commando raids against the Cuban railroads and sugar refineries. And who do we know was behind, who worked in that industry? William Polly, who, by the way, used his yacht to br…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 30:05
Zapata Oil targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“is that they thought Castro was going to 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.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 1:08:51
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“for the military-industrial complex inside the United States. He was literally having detente with Fidel Castro at the very second of his assassination with the French diplomat Jean Daniel being sent by JFK around the back of the CIA becaus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 1:23:11
William J. Polk trafficked
Cuba host_asserted
“the Cuban exiles and Central America and stuff like that, we ran across William Polly. William Polly to me was fascinating, number one, because no one in the world had ever heard of him. And he played such an instrumental part, not only in …”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 4:58
Venezuela supplied_arms_to
Cuba caller_asserted
“have helped the Cuban people, not the government really. Right now they are being in petroleum. When Venezuela is still giving them, they are giving them petroleum. But I also believe that helping them is because the government keeps everyt…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:01:40
Philip Agee exiled_to
Cuba host_asserted
“He was kicked out of Germany. He was kicked out of Italy. The only place that he could go live was Cuba. That's it. That's telling, isn't it? SR-71. Colonel, this is something else. Thank you all for attending first here in the chat and on …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 1:04:27
United States Marine Corps carried_out_attack
Cuba host_asserted
“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 101 Pt 2 @ 3:39
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Cuba host_asserted
“The Cuban exiles then not only just attacked Cuba…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 28:52
U.S. State Department stockpiling
Cuba host_asserted
“Right. Just having this using the U.S. government Defense Department stockpiling for commodities for basically as a means of rigging global commodities markets. Right. And this actually was, you know, exposed in mainstream media by Washingt…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 1:49:54
Mafia trafficked
Cuba guest_asserted
“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 @ 56:01
Che Guevara removed_from_power
Cuba host_asserted
“He left Cuba once he realized that Castro wasn't going to follow through on all of the promises that he had made either. And there's a reason why the Felix Rodriguez was standing in the room. And if you listen, if you know anything about th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 1:09:13
Sicilian Mafia channeled_through
Cuba guest_asserted
“that Nixon set up in the early 70s, late 60s, was not a war on drugs. It was a war on the Corsican mafia portion of the drug trade. And they wanted it all aligned because they owned the Sicilian mafia. And the Sicilian mafia and the New Yor…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 1:32:17
Fidel Castro targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“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 @ 57:44
Sicilian Mafia trafficked
Cuba guest_asserted
“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 @ 56:01
Mafia secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“the mafia basically had installed, basically ran the government of Cuba as their own island. They put up like 14 casinos…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:06:29
Office of Transition Initiatives targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“OTI, excuse, is that it? OTI and USAID, they were all in there at that same time. So no wonder everyone's like, how dare Trump put the kibosh on all that progress and whatever, but it's because he had to kick out all that stuff. So OTI is t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 1:16:23
Cuba removed_from_power
First City Bank book_quoted
“In another study, the privileges extended to the new automobile industry to include Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, and Ford were shown to equal Brazil's national budget. So Germany and the U.S. flooded into Brazil. In those same…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 17:15
Fabian Society targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“campground off the coast of the United States are the same people that have destabilized countries all over the world. The destabilization is the problem. If the intelligence networks and the international syndicates that basically had went…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 1:59:54
Soviet Union financed_via
Cuba caller_asserted
“The Muslims are there. Hamas is there. China is there. Because they have sold out our country to anyone who wants to pay because Cuba doesn't produce anything. They have destroyed totally the country. They don't produce anything. They owe m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 1:57:42
Cuba trained
MPLA host_asserted
“Actually, they're supporting the good guys and doing what little they could, which was not a whole lot. But as we have seen in many of these scenarios, they did have some people to help them set up schools, medical facilities and that type …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 41:46
United States installed
Cuba host_asserted
“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 @ 1:22:44
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“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 1968 and East Pakistan @ 1:51:19
Sicilian Mafia trafficked
Cuba host_asserted
“labs refining the heroin. We talked about the Corsican labs that was shut down under Nixon and moved down to Sicily. We've documented all of this, the whole use of Cuba as a drug processing avenue. So I think this guy was arrested during th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 1:51:41
United Fruit Company funded
Cuba host_asserted
“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 @ 1:22:19
CIA recruited
Cuba host_asserted
“And the CIA called upon its own mercenaries as well. A band which included Americans, Cuban exiles, which are our own Miami Operation Gladio people, Rhodesians and South Africans, the latter having been recruited. This is all Operation Glad…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 51:59
United States overthrew
Cuba host_asserted
“William Pauly is the guy that owned the sugar plantations and all of the transportation in Cuba when we went down and basically overthrew the government of Cuba.…”
▶ 1968 Election vs 2024; Johnson’s corruption vs Biden @ 51:05
Operation Gladio financed_via
Cuba guest_asserted
“proceeds to pay for Operation Gladio terror events. So it's a very important note to them, and they need to get it back.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 29:41
Cuba supplied_arms_to
Angola host_asserted
“The Cubans were there as part of an expeditionary force and was actually fighting. There's no evidence of that at all. The Cubans, and again, this is something that I've ran across repeatedly. That was the exact same story we were told in G…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:21:45
Fidel Castro carried_out_attack
Cuba speculative
“not to have any kind of buoyancy at all or any kind of thermal protection at all when I'm in the Caribbean. But that being said, and they call it a breathing device. It's not a breathing device. It's called a regulator. You can't put a viru…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 1:08:46
Cuba supplied_arms_to
Grenada host_asserted
“The world was asked to believe that there was a major Cuban military presence in imminent control, in threat of taking over the country. Yet the Cubans in Grenada were unable to even save Maurice Bishop, who supposedly was the communist, so…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 38:25
Mentions (120)
▶ 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…
▶ 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 …
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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 …
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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.…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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 …
▶ 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…
▶ 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 …
▶ 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, …
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 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. …
▶ 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 …
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Jose Rayol Verona Gonzalez, a Cuban exile and intelligence officer for Brigade 2506. You know, Felix Rodriguez's hangout. He was part of the ultra-secretive Operation 40, a CIA counterintelligence unit of exiles tasked with assassinations.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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come to America, they all said that they supported him during the revolution because there was so much corruption going on down there. And in the aftermath of that, he instituted land reform because the same company that had bought up all t…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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We saw that yesterday because it's operated in every single one of these 1950s to early 60s overthrows. They took an unusual step. They began showing films of the evils of Castroism and communism on street corners throughout British Guyana …
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Cuban warships approaching the coast to basically invade Guyana to help Zoggins control the mass people that were funded by the CIA. In other words, chaos agents. The centerpiece of the CIA's program in British Guyana was the general strike…
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to the government, forcing Joggin to appeal to Cuba for oil, which of course then we know will then trace back to the Soviet Union, which then brings all of the same, oh my God, we're working with communists here. Do you see these patterns?…
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if it favors a classic private enterprise system, unquote, of which the U.S. oligarchs dominate. In an attempt to surmount the hurdles of U.S. obsession with the Soviet Union and other Cuba crises in the Western Hemisphere, or the allegatio…
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You know how we keep saying that in this chaos and control game that they play, that they create the chaos to implement the control. And in order to play this game, they have to have the proverbial boogeyman. Well, we've already done Cuba, …
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And I had always thought that that was done. And I said it in the presentation that they were just hedging their bet. Right. So they're going to support Batista, which they did. And they installed Batista. And that understanding that the re…
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It has been the gift that kept giving. In every single one of these overthrows, it is Castro's Cuba that keeps getting used over and over and over again to murder massive amounts of people and implement control and chaos. So that was kind o…
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Yeah, I just wanted to ask about if you can, maybe it's a bit off topic, but you mentioned Castro. I read a lot about what went on there and so on. Can you tell us a bit more, maybe not today, but another day about that? Because I want to u…
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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.…
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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.…
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They targeted African-American Black communities in America in this effort specifically. It expanded, obviously, to other neighborhoods. But they used Cuba as this hub, and it became a vital piece of it. And they set Cuba up to be like Maca…
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That was what Cuba was. The mafia went down there and installed buku amounts of casinos, music venues. Frank Sinatra was flown in all the time to sing down there for his mafia dons. And there's this elaborate amount of investment that went …
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And so what they did in Cuba is what they did in all South American. They develop an elite. So let's say 10% of the population, they're going to help them with jobs in running the casinos and stuff. And then they buy all of the property up …
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And this was perpetuated country by country by country. Well, in Cuba, they were prostituting young girls. They were kidnapping women, using them in brothels. And it began to become so debased that the men on the island rebelled.…
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There was a revolutionary force that formed in the mountains of Cuba. They trained in paramilitary capability to run these jackals out of their country that were kidnapping their women and torturing people and basically destroying what thei…
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who had installed the government that was allowing all of this debasing to go on, also was funding Castro. And they sent actual CIA paramilitary people into those mountains to arm them and to train them to be snipers. So when this revolutio…
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and Che Calvera, who was fighting with them, overthrew the Batista government. Castro came to Washington, D.C. He was one of them. In the hotel where Castro was living when he initially took over, there was a CIA agent on the same floor in …
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Because when he came to the United States, Eisenhower refused to see him and basically kind of just cut him off after that. Now, that may be a story that we were fed because it would make much more sense if the CIA aided and abetted him, se…
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Because each and every time when they went to Guatemala, when they went to Nicaragua, when they went to Panama, when they went to Chile, when they went to, it was always Castro. We have to avoid having another Castro. Guyana, same thing. Ev…
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But it definitely has to be on the table of options. Yeah, okay. So thank you. And sorry for me derailing from the British Guyana thing. No, it actually fits right in there because the whole reason they did the British Guyana thing is becau…
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maybe sometimes not articulate in the correct way. One thing that's very strange for me is why not all of Cuba to the Cubans? Why is there a big of pigs and the Guantanamo base? Well... I'll leave it at that. And I will watch... There is a …
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post-World War II in the Philippines, the black gold can then be put into the real market. It's just at a steep discount. So, yeah, that's how they launder it. Go ahead, Eduardo. Hello. Can you hear me, guys? Yep. Okay. Yep, we can hear you…
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pretty much the main subject of your talking lately. I want to thank you for these kinds of spaces. Why? Because for me and for many other Cubans, all these stories that you are talking about, all these problems, all this innuendo, is somet…
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how Cuba went across all these problems in the last 72 years. And I'm part of a movement that is trying to recover, to fully restore a constitution, the Cuban Constitution of 1940. And I'm trying, the idea is, first, to understand historica…
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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…
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He stated, it is possible these arms reached other groups, but we supplied them legally. If they are selling weapons after we ship them, that's their responsibility. Bulgaria's interior minister said in a 1992 statement that during the comm…
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had been Bulgaria's involvement in the training of quote-unquote terrorists in Angola, Cuba, Nicaragua, Yemen, and Tanzania. Now, keep in mind, this is the U.S.'s definition of terrorists because they funded the people that even our State D…