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Claims (30)
Pentagon financed_via
Capital Air Inc. documented
“and air mobility command contracts. Another Azizma company, Capital Air Inc., was located in Smyrna, Tennessee. It had won a $5.5 million mobility air command contract for long-range international air transportation in August 1982. Azizma p…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 28:05
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency member_of
Pentagon documented
“Totally ridiculous. Because as a lawyer for a defense agency, you can carry your ass up to Boston and get the same shit that this reporter got. That's how he got it. Why would you call the reporter and ask for that information? The NGA, in …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 51:19
Robert Gates headed
Pentagon documented
“33,000 by 2015. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced the plan in April of 2009, but only 16 months later, it was gone. He told the press that he was not satisfied with the progress. Dispelling past defeats, Representative Jan Sikowsk…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 34:22
EATSCO overbilled_or_diverted
Pentagon documented
“That's probably around the time they were framing Edwin Wilson and he was going to jail. Azizma added that Global International Airways was not implicated in any criminal activities with ETSCO because I don't know how it wouldn't have been …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 26:39
James Schlesinger appointed
Pentagon book_quoted
“He did the management study for Nixon in 70 and 71. First, he replaced Richard Helms. Schlesinger then moved over to the Secretary of Defense after only five months. And that's going to make sense in a minute. Within the agency itself, the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 2:29
Pentagon financed_via
Global International Airways documented
“the Department of Defense, which contracted with Azizma Company to provide military airlift of military passengers. One such contract was for $2.7 million beginning in 1983, just days before Global filed bankruptcy and continued through Sep…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 27:37
AeroVironment supplied_arms_to
Pentagon documented
“under rigid requirements such as flying them under 400 feet. In anticipation of a 2015 deadline, drone manufacturers were marketing drones already used in war zones and designing new ones for law enforcement. AeroVironment, a Pasadena-based…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 1:07:34
CIA funded
Pentagon book_quoted
“who actually was a fascist and had led violent protests against the government of Venezuela. Theaters of War ends by pointing out that the U.S. has well-established laws against propaganda, which the CIA and Pentagon has obviously violated.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA @ 41:41
Edward Lansdale member_of
Pentagon book_quoted
“Many of these other books all said that the Pentagon did not view it as viable in any way. Lansdale spoke up, but Allen Dulles interrupted to say he was not a principal in the committee. In other words, Ed Lansdale was representing the Pent…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 9:53
CIA trafficked
Pentagon book_quoted
“but to launch an investigation, which for our practical purposes means they basically were going to cover it up. The team of officers began in Hong Kong and spent over two weeks at 11 agencies interviewing over 100 CIA, State, USAID, Pentag…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 53:44
Pentagon funded
Global Ordnance book_quoted
“The Pentagon has signed contracts worth about $1 billion with his company. The Pentagon has signed contracts of approximately $1 billion with a shady arms company in Florida. It's called Global Ordinance, mainly for ammunition supply. Accor…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Ukraine weapons…WHERE @ 5:41
Richard M. Bissell Jr. member_of
Pentagon book_quoted
“Von Marbog, who officially worked at the Pentagon Assistant Comptroller at the time, was in fact making certain that the logistical pipeline for the secret war was running smoothly. Harry Adderhall was one of the CIA's most important assets…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 39:52
Doc Cook worked_at
Pentagon host_asserted
“of one of the guys that I had met. I mean, I got to know really well when I was at the Pentagon because of where my ex, who was also in the Air Force, worked in the SecDef suite. And he was known as the mayor of the Pentagon. He'd been ther…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia @ 1:04:59
Kenneth Adelman member_of
Pentagon documented
“Hosby Kelly was still operating as an inter-doc link man, though, and one more attempt was made via Kenneth Adelman, A-D-E-L-M-A-N, at the time with the Pentagon's Army Review Board Agency and its advisor to the Secretary of Defense, who ha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 48:12
Donald Rumsfeld headed
Pentagon documented
“Hosby Kelly was still operating as an inter-doc link man, though, and one more attempt was made via Kenneth Adelman, A-D-E-L-M-A-N, at the time with the Pentagon's Army Review Board Agency and its advisor to the Secretary of Defense, who ha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8 @ 48:12
Pentagon funded
Project Matrix documented
“And they're not sharing intelligence. There's not a single coordination going on. And this is unlike anything that any military doctrine would ever allow to happen. The idea developed in the 2004 contract known as Project Matrix. Jointly de…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 44:57
National Security Council ordered
Pentagon documented
“the covert action. Truman's NSC ordered State and Pentagon to collaborate on a paper that would turn the Dulles-Jackson-Corea report into a set of recommendations, completed and adopted by the NSC that July. One of these was that the CIA es…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:01:12
Pentagon funded
Laos book_quoted
“and given to the Pentagon. The old Directorate of Plans disappeared. It became the Directorate of Operations, which is obviously more appropriate. Tom Casamacenas went into retirement, quote-unquote retirement, with his colleague and friend…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 4:12
Aegis Defense Services funded
Pentagon documented
“The 2004 contract with the DOD under which the Cadem's shooter had been employed was a London-based Aegis. The Aegis American subsidiary had not opened until 2006. Besides, it was not the legal entity under the contract with the DOD when th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 40:49
William Howard Taft worked_for
Pentagon host_asserted
“As we were talking about Lovett and all the other, you know, rebuilding Europe post-World War II. We don't need to cover that too much, but here's another one of these insiders that are part of that. And, of course, in 1951, he worked for a…”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 39:01
William Howard Taft served_as
Pentagon host_asserted
“Reagan appoints him to be the general counsel for the Department of Defense. So he is the Pentagon's general counsel during the middle of, well. Iran-Contra. Yeah. Then becomes the deputy secretary of defense from 1984 to 1989. So he is the…”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 45:47
William Howard Taft served_as
Pentagon host_asserted
“Yes. Okay, so George H.W. Bush takes over for Reagan, and he's trying to get his people nominated, confirmed, just like Trump's doing right now. So during that interim, he was the acting Secretary of Defense under Bush, which means we have …”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 46:46
General Estes member_of
Pentagon documented
“He was in the joint staff as one of the Air Force representatives in the operational area during that time. And obviously, he was there from 94 to 96. And so we overlapped a little bit. I wasn't on the joint staff. I was on the air staff, w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 1:32:32
Robert F. Kennedy member_of
Pentagon book_quoted
“in order to help Cuba overthrow a communist regime. The Pentagon State Department and CIA were to designate representatives to help Lansdell, and each should have effective operational control over all aspects of their department operations…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 17:26
Pentagon funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Gladio network that they had been using that's been disrupted, it makes me wonder if they are not using these third-party cutouts in order to skim money for their black ops in some form or fashion, because this is highly unusual. For the Pe…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Ukraine weapons…WHERE @ 36:54
CIA founded
Pentagon book_quoted
“I've been creating this phrase, kind of historical-CIA. And it sounds kind of pretentious, perhaps. Hard to imagine, I know. But what I'm trying to say is that, you know, you have these long history of CIA ties to all kinds of media, all ki…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 1:10:20
Pentagon funded
1964 Bolivian coup d'état host_asserted
“peace and stability and were hallmarks of democracies where this place had been a pit of hell for a very long time. And Paz was unseated despite support from the American ambassador, who at the time was Douglas Henderson, because both the C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 11:20
Evergreen Aviation Corporation front_for
Pentagon host_asserted
“In the course of the litigation admitting its ownership of Southern Air Transport, the ultimate losers were the employees. The CIA also liquidated Intermountain Aviation in 1973, selling its airfield complex to Evergreen Aviation Corporatio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 14:03
Larry Stern exposed
Pentagon host_asserted
“There was journalism in the Washington Post, in particular by Larry Stern, a guy I know I've mentioned repeatedly, who, you know, Sterling Seagrave said he was murdered by the CIA. Literally, he said that later on in 1980. But Larry Stern w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 1:23:55
Donald Rumsfeld exposed
Pentagon caller_asserted
“And that was a hard day. And fortunately, Delta wasn't. In other words, nothing happened with a Delta plane because we found the stuff that maybe could have been used. But it's it just never felt right that I don't know. I just felt like it…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 1:27:59
Mentions (120)
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So it changes after World War II, and we get the Cold War era, and the CIA is very active in regime change using covert operations. The Church Committee comes around in 1975, exposes a lot of what the CIA has been doing, all under the comma…
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multinational corporations, what have you. The Cold War ends right around 1990, and they didn't stop their activities in any way, shape, or form, but they had to kind of subtly change how they do it. And what you would see in 1990-91 is a r…
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airline in history, Air America. James Cunningham used Wilson through his front companies to make sure that Air America got what it needed for its friends. Wilson had nothing but admiration for Shackley and Cunningham. Wilson worked with th…
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Von Marbog, who officially worked at the Pentagon Assistant Comptroller at the time, was in fact making certain that the logistical pipeline for the secret war was running smoothly. Harry Adderhall was one of the CIA's most important assets…
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And that was a hard day. And fortunately, Delta wasn't. In other words, nothing happened with a Delta plane because we found the stuff that maybe could have been used. But it's it just never felt right that I don't know. I just felt like it…
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In fact, when officials in the administration asked to have NSA hacking resources redirected, a former Trump-era official said top Pentagon officials pushed back hard. Who the fuck is in charge? You're telling me that the president said do …
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peace and stability and were hallmarks of democracies where this place had been a pit of hell for a very long time. And Paz was unseated despite support from the American ambassador, who at the time was Douglas Henderson, because both the C…
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But Barrientos, the former commander of the Air Force, had a very close relationship with both the CIA and the Pentagon. And his basic point of contact, if you will, for the U.S. was a guy by the name of Colonel Edward Fox, F-O-X. And Fox w…
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Bolivian revolution with its potential for independence from the United States. And given the country's history, the military process and basically infiltrating it and co-opting it was critical to the continued control by the U.S. The Penta…
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Paz, because Paz has decided he's not going to interfere with the mine strike and he's, you know, he's opening communications with other people. So, you know, that's dead man walking for the CIA. And so what the author points out is there w…
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aggressive with the Guatemalan army to take appropriate measures. In May, the U.S. established a base designed specifically for counterinsurgency training. The Pentagon prefers the term counterinsurgency to counterrevolutionary because it w…
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That whole thing is totally weird. So the guy they hire on to renovate the Pentagon gets the one section done that gets hit, and then Doc Cook is gone, and he gets Doc Cook's job in order to ensure that any security…
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um there was probably i don't know a hundred monitors um and i'm looking at all of it i'm like oh shit that's the concourse because for those of you who've never been in the pentagon…
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There's an area called the concourse where all of the restaurants, the flower shop, the bank, that's all inside on the main level, just as you come in what used to be the subway. Now you have to get out of the subway outside of the Pentagon…
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the Pentagon. You still had security, but you just kind of walked right in from the subway. Now they don't let you do that. You have to walk around the building. So, and when you would come up to the top of the escalators there, you're in l…
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I know they exist. I saw them. Like, not the film, obviously. But I know they had cameras on the outside of the building. And all we get is some stupid-ass thing from the side over here by an entrance to a parking lot that's, you know, way …
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I'm just curious, Colonel, since you did get the opportunity to tour that place, how many people do they have on staff there? In the SecDef suite? I have to sit here and think a lot more people saw what was going on than just a handful of p…
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You know, if you're wanting to hide something like this, sorry, then you just control the controllables. You know, you know, the pieces on the board that you've got to take advantage of. Colonel was talking about all those cameras all aroun…
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I can tell you firsthand, spending four years at the Pentagon, watching these hapless civilians, the ones that were nominated that you never saw were hideous. Usually only through a bunch of mid-level officers lobbying their congressional r…
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for posterity reasons, being the first commander. I mean, it is a big deal. Plus all of the paperwork, you have to have the emblems, the symbols, all of that, your patches, everything. It's just, it's a big pain in the ass. Just ask me, I k…
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while he was a one star at the Pentagon. So as an additional duty, all of the one and two star generals can volunteer to be basically the masters of ceremony. You walk in front of the horse-drawn carriage, you perform the service, blah, bla…
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What Trump does is he goes, starts talking to North Korea and he hires Flynn. And I also want to point out, having spent time at the Pentagon and watched because of my ex-spouse who worked in the SecDef's office. Right. Happening by the tim…
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Your life is threatened each and every day. I will tell you, having worked at the Pentagon, my ex did the phones in the SecDef's office. The SecDef, which is not anywhere near the president, got daily death threats every day coming into his…
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with economic overlays. And what Trump is doing is he's creating an economic construct with social overlays, which is, and he flipped it. It's based on a business model. It's a business construct based on best practices, zero-based budgetin…
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In other words, let's contextualize JFK vis-a-vis the CIA for a second, because like for eight years, they had had, you know, what for all intents and purposes could be seen as like their first president. And they had been given a lot of le…
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their stay-behind network inside of Turkey. It was through this collaboration that Colonel Turks traveled extensively between the United States and Turkey and became intricately involved with the Pentagon and the CIA. He also, from 1955 to …
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A specific reference was made to Turkey highlighting how the pan-Turkish movement could be exploited strategically by the U.S. Turkey, according to the Pentagon document, is, quote, extremely favorable territory for the establishment of bot…
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were present. The meeting revealed a quiet part of the Biden's administration's war strategy. The U.S. has provided Ukraine with over $40 billion in security aid, advanced armaments included, but the Pentagon depends on little-known arms de…
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The Pentagon has signed contracts worth about $1 billion with his company. The Pentagon has signed contracts of approximately $1 billion with a shady arms company in Florida. It's called Global Ordinance, mainly for ammunition supply. Accor…
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Van Esch, V-A-N-A-S-H, a longtime advisor to the Ukrainian defense minister, to communicate to the defense ministry on behalf of global ordinance. Van Brunt said Ukraine's defense ministry confirmed the legality of the hiring. Morales is sa…
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It says the Justice Department, this was the interesting part to me. So it talks about Morales being 51 and a Pentagon go-to person for arms deals. Now, keep in mind, the Pentagon doesn't need anybody for arms deals. They can actually do th…
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There are nothing illegal about outbidding competitors, but it shows how the Pentagon is shaping the global arms market and creating wealthy, politically connected weapons dealers. Ukrainian anti-corruption groups have said that billions of…
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proved reliable and the Pentagon soon became his biggest customer. Global Ordinance won more than $78 million in defense contracts from 2016 to 19. Weeks before, so he actually started this up around 2016, which I find very interesting timi…
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a five-year contract worth up to $750 million to help arm American allies. Now, let me rephrase that. Before the Ukraine-Russia special military operation, before it, the Pentagon had awarded them a global ordinance, the company, a five-yea…
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of $750 million. And that's with no war. Why would global ordinance have a $750 million contract when nothing like that is going on? Because this contract was for basically Operation Gladio type shit that was going on in all of Africa, Syri…
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and Afghanistan, everywhere else. Mr. Morales' big break in Ukraine came early in the war. He had a warehouse full of ammunition in Bulgaria that the Pentagon had bought for use in Afghanistan. The Pentagon approved sending it to Ukraine in…
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the approval through the State Department, and it's basically military foreign sales. And there's an entire department in the Pentagon that works on this. And they work with Lockheed or Boeing or whatever, and they arrange these sales as a …
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Gladio network that they had been using that's been disrupted, it makes me wonder if they are not using these third-party cutouts in order to skim money for their black ops in some form or fashion, because this is highly unusual. For the Pe…
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And so I was born in Germany, and then we came back, and my dad was stationed at the Pentagon. He sat next to George H.W. Bush at the Pentagon working CIA stuff. Was he on the Joint Staff? I don't know. I'll have to double-check. I'm still …
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On December 19, 1963, the Pentagon's planning branch in the Pacific, CINCPAC, presented a plan to a special group. Two weeks later, LBJ approved O-Plan 34A, and Major General Victor Krulik, and I have actually met him, handed the operationa…
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Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clipper drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the war and Navy departments into a Department of Defense, which also set up a D…
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He was, you know, the Air Division commander at Beale Air Force Base. I did not know that he was at Beale. I knew of him more from his time in the 90s because I was stationed at the Pentagon from 95 to 99.…
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Ramirez directed the state's war against Pablo Escobar and provided political protection for the Cali cartel, because we're going to pick the winners and losers, and the losers are always the people that don't support us 100% of the time. A…
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DC-based firm that routinely rakes in federal contracts from the State Department and the Pentagon. So it's not private at all. It's funded with our taxpayer dollars almost exclusively. But it does provide a way for vested commercial intere…
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He was resented in polite Washington society because he was straightforward. My friends among DC's marginalized circle of former military and intelligence officials with anti-interventionalist views hope that McGregor could one day replace …
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You know, he's just completely changed his character because he bought the Trump administration and the intelligence are now sucking up all the data saying this system is so corrupt. We need to do we need to we need to do MAGA. And MAGA mea…
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It would be a godsend for the usual suppliers of weapons, big ag like insecticides and stuff like that, and the military industrial complex via helicopters because what they were proposing was $234 million contracts for helicopters so that …
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The petroleum industry, although not as vocal, clearly hopes to see an end to the disruption of their pipelines. Most importantly, the Pentagon is using Plan Colombia to steer contracts and profits to outsource parts of its infrastructure t…
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the planning part of this, not Columbia or anything, just in the Pentagon. What they did is they used these operations as a way to get more defense contracts. And there were constant pressure to reduce the manpower on active duty, obviously…
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staff support functions to contractors, like he names two of them, DynCorp and MPRI, which were big pieces of this. And they're basically considered private military. And so they would use these operations as an excuse to build a contract t…
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And so, of course, by the time it got around to me speaking, I had a list of like four things. And I said, OK, not to piss anybody off. And they were all still there. But NAFTA was not signed by George Bush. It was signed by Clinton. I know…
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as it relates to Operation Gladio. You're just not. Sorry. Anyway, let's get to the story. We're on Chapter 6 in the book, Drugs, Oil, and War. And again, we're still on the topic of Colombia. The true national interest of the U.S. and that…
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who was our ambassador in Colombia under Jimmy Carter. And this is the quote. Tell me where you put your money and I'll tell you what your foreign policy is. If you put over 90 cent of a foreign policy dollar in the Pentagon and the CIA, th…
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death squads, many of them trained in Taiwan as well. Today, more and more observers are seeing the analogies to America's failed adventure in Vietnam. The tactics are similar from military advisors, high-tech listening posts, defoliation p…
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the chief of which were policies in Laos that almost unilaterally created a serious crisis. The incoming Kennedy administration diffused this crisis by escalating in Vietnam. In 1969, working from public sources, I attached the blame for a …
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Admiral Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and seems to have been a lot of CIE support. It was defeated, however, by opposition in the State Department, Pentagon, and members of Chiang Kai-shek's Air Force. The civil air transp…
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Civil Air Transport C-119s were serviced in Vietnam by 200 mechanics of the 81st Air Services Unit, which was the United States Air Force. Five of these men were declared missing on June 18, 1954. Thus, the Civil Air Transport operation bro…
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foreign intelligence operation, given the fact that we had the military and we had already made the decision to have, excuse me, a standing military that was going to require its own intelligence. And then they had the big argument between …
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foreign intelligence operation, given the fact that we had the military and we had already made the decision to have, excuse me, a standing military that was going to require its own intelligence. And then they had the big argument between …
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There was also, you know, the question of during JFK's administration where he used the bully pulpit as president to shine a light on what had been basically a massive commodities rigging scandal involving the Pentagon, where the Pentagon w…
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There was journalism in the Washington Post, in particular by Larry Stern, a guy I know I've mentioned repeatedly, who, you know, Sterling Seagrave said he was murdered by the CIA. Literally, he said that later on in 1980. But Larry Stern w…
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The top graduates were sent to Los Fernos, Texas. That's the place that we uncovered a long time ago that teaches you how to set and explode bombs. The instruction at Los Fernos became particularly embarrassing to the Office of Public Safet…
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The Office of Public Safety said that it had asked the U.S. Army to give the training, but the Pentagon had refused. Maybe they didn't have room for it on any of their bases, one of the Office of Public Safety officials said. The obvious an…
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who actually was a fascist and had led violent protests against the government of Venezuela. Theaters of War ends by pointing out that the U.S. has well-established laws against propaganda, which the CIA and Pentagon has obviously violated.…
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Christopher Still, that Stephan Halper that was employed by the Pentagon in the Office of Net Assessment, that Stephan Halper. He, with BB's money, created Palmer National Bank in Washington, D.C. So that bank was set up to help funnel mone…
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The House subcommittee cut his travel funds and once again, he resigned in frustration. It does not pay to be an actual whistleblower about what the government's doing because the government will ensure that it persecutes you. Another inves…
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The company was later convicted of overbilling the Pentagon for $8 million. In 1990, Clines was convicted of income tax fraud involving payments received for arms shipments to the Contras. Clines had been brought in by Secord to handle arms…
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was working during the time that he was basically furthering the CIA's implication of Russiagate on a contract from the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment. Now, I did a long thread on the Office of Net Assessment and its history. It's the …
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was all of these crazy things overseas. And again, I'm a major, I don't know most of what they're talking about, but now I realize the significance of him working in the Office of Net Assessment because his follow-on assignment was to a cla…
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that was trying to tell everybody in Washington, D.C., hey, they're running drugs and weapons out of here. The one honest guy in all of that. And they tried to set him up when he went to Costa Rica to try to communicate outside of his own o…
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the company that Egypt designated as the sole shipping agency for all military hardware coming from the United States. When Salam, S-A-L-E-M, went to see von Marburg at the Pentagon to get his company accredited as a shipping agent, von Mar…
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And I was going to get to see them in the Rose Bowl for the first time ever because I was stationed in Los Angeles. They didn't make it. Michigan at the last minute or Michigan State, one of the two, ended up coming out. So anyway, big, big…
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The guys. So they're all doing their March Madness bracket. And so one of them, I hear him whispering because we're in cubicles in the basement of the Pentagon. And I hear him whispering going, yeah, you can get her money because I was bran…
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but to launch an investigation, which for our practical purposes means they basically were going to cover it up. The team of officers began in Hong Kong and spent over two weeks at 11 agencies interviewing over 100 CIA, State, USAID, Pentag…
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Thus, Godley's request for airstrikes came in the midst of all of this political charged situation. Fearing leaks from the Pentagon about the B-52 in Laos, Secretary Marvin Laird, Secretary of Defense, instructed his representatives to oppo…
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The disclosure of the secret war had led Nixon to put Laotian military aid back in the Pentagon budget, thus openly funding the war and increasing the amount. The fiscal year 1971, the U.S. expenditures was going to amount to $162 million f…
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Only a handful of CIA battle deaths were admitted by the agency or State Department. The Pentagon maintained that about half of its losses resulted from the air war, but lists over 400 deaths and 556 servicemen still missing in action in th…
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Mao fielded armies, nevertheless swept through the mainland China. The nationalist collapse climaxed in 1949 when the Chinese communists overran Peking and southern China, which basically is where he was hanging out. This happened despite m…
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the CIA signed a formal agreement in November. In the Pentagon, a few days before, a detailed proposal for covert operations in China had been sent to the SEC DEF by a General John Magruder, M-A-G-R-U-D-E-R. Magruder endorsed the proposal, …
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And so then after World War II, he's in the CIA again, but he's wearing an army uniform. That's why this stuff is bullshit. Desmond Fitzgerald was another former officer who had been in Burma and an advisor to the Nationalist Army. As early…
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C-O-E-T-T-E-R, had asked the Pentagon to form a staff of service representatives to help the CIA establish their paramilitary training program. Two months later, the Secretary of the Army approved the assistance to Frank Wisner's office in …
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Where? Fort Benning, Georgia. Yeah, set it up. The Pentagon went on to establish a staff to coordinate military arrangements for psychological warfare, which of course we know is done at Fort Bragg, and covert operations with CIA in Novembe…
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Frank Wisner's Far East division chief refused to commit the CIA to any command arrangement with the Pentagon. Richard Stilwell would only say that he was reasonably certain that military theater commanders would be informed of and could ap…
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Song Zhen and others were arguing that the U.S. should support all of the anti-communists, not just Chiang Kai-shek. The Joint Strategic Planning Committee recommended $300 million to conduct covert operations all over mainland China. The C…
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The squadron was later expanded to a wing supplemented by more combat crew and a combat support group and special air warfare school at Eglin. All of these capabilities were controlled by the Special Warfare Division at the Pentagon. It was…
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Graves Erskine had run a tight ship, but perhaps there was just too much work for a single office to handle. At the time, the Office of Special Operations was truly an intelligence focal point. Not only did it handle liaison on covert opera…
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CIA chief was managing the hidden compartments of what was fast becoming an intelligence empire. The covers and contacts of the staff to include journalism, broadcasting, businesses, and academic. They were in all of them in the United Stat…
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In the fall of 1983, an amendment to the defense budget proposed by Charlie Wilson, a Democrat of Texas, that would have rerouted Pentagon money to purchase new foreign-made heavy anti-aircraft cannons. The guns would go to the CIA for the …
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The Pentagon's top man on intelligence, General Richard Stilwell, who had worked on and off for the CIA over a long period of time, argued that the cannon was the wrong weapon because it required more expensive ammunition. When the White Ho…
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Pentagon special warfare planners. Quote, such a unit will always be useful and ready to strike in the event of renewed aggression in any part of the Far East. Without it, no airstrike force exists, which can be employed on short notice in …
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Again, a private combat air force. The Pentagon planners believe that the creation of the international volunteer air group was consistent with and within the framework of the U.S. national policy. You know, because having covert air operat…
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To carry out this bombing campaign, known eventually as Operation Menu, in a nation with which the U.S. was at peace, Nixon ordered unprecedented levels of secrecy. The regular Pentagon records themselves classified and supposedly secured w…
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during the actual rescue. Now, of course, the U.S. says those wounds were inflicted by the enemy, but who the hell knows, because you can't believe anything they say. Still, the Pentagon began considering a rescue mission at Sante among…
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There was bickering back and forth between the CIA and the Pentagon. And for President Truman, the problem was to stimulate covert operations while maintaining their secrecy. You know, because that's what you do in a republic is keep secret…
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assign an underling like their deputy or a division chief to go to those meetings so they can plan on killing people around the world and the big guys don't have to get their hands dirty. Only disagreements among the panel were to be referr…
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administrative situation for Frank Wisner. With his authority from the NSC and his policy directives from the 10-2, Frank Wisner could draw expenses from the CIA while shielding his activities from the CIA, hiding behind either the State De…
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by state defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A couple of months later, when Smith learned that a subordinate actually controlled communications between headquarters and the field stations so that the DCI did not see all of the cables, he…
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The intelligence aspect of it is focused in supporting oligarchs, not the country, which is why they go around overthrowing governments on behalf of the oligarch and not us, because technically we don't need anybody government overthrown. N…
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We are going to go back to our book, President's Secret War and the CIA and Pentagon's covert operations since World War II with John Prados. So we're on chapter three. Oh, I need to add that to the title. Forgot that part. That might help.…
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Or Iraq invaded Kuwait. And so a lot of us just kept our uniforms at work and we went back and forth in civilian clothes, which is not all that uncommon. I did that the same the entire time I was at the Pentagon. Because there's obviously a…
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responsible for all dealings with the board, recalled the first encounter as brutal and writes that it was in truth a saturation effort. But Kirk could not head off the initiative to examine covert action. David K.E. Bruce, the respected di…
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Bruce and Lovett expressed certainty that no one who had helped launch the secret war in 1948 had foreseen these consequences. Easy approvals brought messy realities. Wisner defended his operations, arguing as he left for Europe just before…
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had concerns about coordination between the CIA and the Pentagon, observing that someone high in government could be calculating the long-term wisdom of these operations. Bruce and Lovett went to Eisenhower at the end of 56, advising Eisenh…
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John Foster Dulles added that he did not think he should have to tell anyone about covert actions unless he wanted to, and used the example of suggestions to his brother Allen that he would not want known at the State Department. The Secret…
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military people involved in CIA operations. Such operations as Project Hague required close coordination with the military. The Pentagon CIA link ran through the 5412 group, whose staff the CIA provided. So just so you guys know, just imagi…
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The semi-annual covert operation review took place on 15 January 1959. Four days later, Gray sent a memo of random thoughts to Allen Dulles, the Secretary of State and the Pentagon representative on the 5412 group. Gray's criticisms were no…
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Gray reported that it had not been approved by the group. Within the last 11 months, it had never even been discussed. Finally, relations between the Pentagon and CIA remained a point of controversy. The CIA actually dealt with three differ…
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That had been approved. The Hall Board criticized many facets of the Pentagon's involvement and raised the possibility of a single focal point, preferably under the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Eisenhower said that this got the mi…
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attended for the CIA. Guess who else was there? General Lansdale. He represented the Office of Special Operations at the Pentagon. Mr. Lansdale himself. Gordon Gray pushed members to report status. The Pentagon worried about the large Castr…
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600 to 750 exiles with U.S. training and equipment. Frank Egan described the Cuban force at Camp Trax and its superior motivation and leadership. Egan felt these exiles would have no trouble extracting a heavy toll on Cuba's larger forces. …
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of the Pentagon's foot dragging, specifically the refusal of special forces personnel for temporary duty in training. It was true. Since August, the Office of Special Operations, which advised the Secretary of Defense on covert operations, …
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And that's weird because Lansdell loves these things. Lansdell was especially upset in his comments to Undersecretary James Douglas, who represented the Pentagon at the Cuba meetings. In the discussion on December 8th, Douglas agreed to rec…
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Many of these other books all said that the Pentagon did not view it as viable in any way. Lansdale spoke up, but Allen Dulles interrupted to say he was not a principal in the committee. In other words, Ed Lansdale was representing the Pent…
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that the group should listen to him. Months later, when CIA Airboss Stan Beerly told an investigating panel that the agency had had to fight for every single thing it got out of the Pentagon, the complaint really referred to Lansdell and hi…
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We've said that the State Department is an extension of the CIA. This illustrates that point perfectly. You have an ambassador serving as the head honcho for a covert operation. He wanted 5,000 to 10,000 volunteers to train in the US to get…
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A CIA is the deputy in the Pentagon and a Pentagon guy is the deputy in the CIA. They wanted a briefing. Carter, General Carter, delayed it. A week later, he refused the briefing altogether. There were complaints and it was finally schedule…
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Beyond the intelligence board, McCone had problems managing the components of the CIA's far-flung intelligence empire. The covers and contact staff had placed people in journalism, people in journalism, broadcasting, businesses, and at univ…
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In 1973, its Pentagon contracts amounted to $41 million. So again, what they do is they contract with the Department of Defense, taking our taxpayer dollars to haul quote unquote cargo for the military and supplement those shipments with dr…
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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…
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Bill Harvey took the Shockley Cable and forwarded it to Ed Lansdale. General Lansdale circulated it in the Pentagon and forwarded it to the Special Group. Three of the teams had already left in submarines for the north coast of Cuba. Six mo…