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“of Fort Worth, Texas, was killed by sniper fire on a supply ferry flight into the Plain of Jars. In the Laos capital in Washington, the situation looked serious. Ambassador Godley requested massive airstrikes by B-52s as a result. By this t…”
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“By 86 and 87, Ross said a good chunk of his business consisted of exporting drugs to higher priced areas like Fresno, St. Louis, Texas, Alabama. Police in St. Louis said cocaine prices there went into a free fall once the Bloods and Crips c…”
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“The day after we published that and the floods happened in Texas, I woke up to General Flynn and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lee Zeldin and everybody talking about weather modification. So I do believe it's something that needs to be talked …”
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I have to get back to that particular one because I'm like about five people into this story because this is just the craziest story ever. OK, here we go. So let me tell you a little bit about him. He was part of the U.S. Marine Corps and h…
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And he marries a Methodist preacher's daughter, Mary DeBose Barton. He was basically going to Columbia University to get a law degree. And Edward Clark introduces Wallace to LBJ in 1950.…
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If you give them freedom and they're able to negotiate better contracts for themselves. And so they were not all about that. It says that Wallace, this assassin, went to work for Harry Lewis and the LNG Oil Company. And that he began pressi…
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which everything I just told you about happened under the Department of Agriculture. Keep that in mind. And it's said by an author by the name of Robert Caro that Texans were elected on December 7th, 1931, not only to the speakership of the…
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was the day Texas came to power over the federal government. And it stayed that way for over 30 years. So in other words, from 1931 to 1961, basically, Texas ran the country. So that's what this Sweet 8F group is all about. And there's a wh…
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The corruption, it says Suite 8F helped coordinate the political activities of businessmen in the South, which included Robert Anderson of Midwest Oil and Gas, who became the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Treasury. Robert K…
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And let's see, more than 80% of the firm's business came from the government. However, the company had lost $27 million in 1960 and lost even more than that in 1961. So General Dynamics was close to bankruptcy. And so it needed to get the c…
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Texas. And this is, I've watched this happen. This is literally how it happens. Korth not only got the job after strong lobbying from LBJ, a few weeks after taking the post, Korth overruled top Navy officers that had proposed the X-22 contr…
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doesn't even resume until like five years later. Now, here's what's really weird, as if none of that was not weird enough. After resigning from the Secretary of Navy's job, Korth worked as a lawyer. He stayed in Washington because I read hi…
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Growing up, and I loved, I lived in Texas. I was stationed at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio. Absolutely loved Texas. And obviously, there's this underbelly to everything. And I did not see any of that when I lived in Texas. And for…
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of the oil industry. And I guess, you know, it never dawned on me that with that comes all of the corruption and underbelly part of it. Just Texas has always been this place that most of us have all of these, you know, impressions of what i…
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So much of our history evolves around Texas. I mean, the whole Bush empire evolved around Texas and the James Baker and all of those people, all products of some aspect of Texas. Not that they were all originally from there because the Bush…
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they definitely went to Texas to get some of that rich oil kind of stink on them. And as a result, there ended up being a lot of corruption there. And LBJ, I mean, I've been up to his ranch when I was stationed in Texas. As a matter of fact…
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and two of the most prominent, powerful politicians in Texas was associated with it, President George Bush and Senator Lloyd Benson. This small cabal of businessmen realized that the savings and loan were antiquated in the way they did busi…
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are involved in a failed savings and loan, that is usually enough to establish the involvement of the mafia. Members and associates of the mafia don't do such things without the knowledge, permission, and sharing of the spoils with their su…
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From the CIA, you know, the organization that Jeb's dad used to run. Yeah. And John Connolly makes a big appearance in this, who was the former Texas governor. Charles Keating worked on his 1980 Republican presidential race. And his partner…
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He was a borrower from People's Savings in Texas, associate of mobsters and CIA operatives, because, of course, he was laundering money for them. And let's see, Robert Corson. We're going to talk a lot about him. He was a Houston good old b…
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is the mob boss down in New Orleans that was best friends with the Herman Beebe guy. And he basically controlled a lot of what went on with the mafia in Texas as well. Because, you know, New Orleans is right around the corner from Houston. …
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fourth largest landowner in Texas, owned 12% of Belize. This is where I got my Belize information from. They went down and bought the upper northwest corner of Belize, 12% of the landmass. He did that with partners.…
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And he becomes very close with the Morgan Shield family and because they're in the oil business and he does oil as an attorney. Fast forward to nobody in the Bush family is involved in oil. But Bush senior just all of a sudden moves to Texa…
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When Martin Luther King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring the war to …
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And the reason that they do that, and while that one was on purpose, this is the same true with natural resources. They will stop our own, just like we gave up the whole chip industry that was in Texas. It wasn't in Taiwan. It was perfectly…
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just outside of DC that the CIA used. There was another location the CIA used in Texas. And there was another location the CIA used in Miami. And that's just here in the United States. They had places all over. That was kind of like the 201…
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And all of the East Coast from Florida all the way up to include Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Colorado and California. That's where they spend their money. So none of those people are going to want to change any of this. Right. Because t…
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getting hillaried so all we can do is keep fighting yeah i worked with a lady she was a retired well she was a colonel um at down in texas when i was assigned there her husband was a two-star general who had um exposed unfortunately he come…
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bit of information, which kind of went in a completely different, and I'm going to have to come back to this. But when I started looking for the CIA support, I came across another huge weapon stash in Texas, outside of San Antonio. And it's…
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Well, I didn't think. I know they were doing weapon stashes in South Texas where they were teaching people, we've talked about it before, how to blow up things as part of the schools of America. They were shipping them into an abandoned mil…
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is the fact that remember the police academy that's in washington dc and the explosive that was in southern texas the abandoned military base all of that comes into play here and they even go into this phase of so during this phase from 62 …
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the schools. The name of the place, Los Fresnos, F-R-E-S-N-O-S, is the place in Texas that taught them how to blow things up. And the, let's see, the International Police Academy was the name of the school in Washington, D.C. that they trai…
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I grew up in Florida. I did live in Texas for two years when I was stationed at Randolph. And I love Texas. As a matter of fact, when I retired, I was torn between going back to San Antonio and coming back to my hometown. Given what has hap…
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things that will greet people at the entrance of their warehouses when a truck goes to deliver or pick up. So that brings up another point. I was in a space the other day where they were talking about Taiwan and they were talking about the …
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But I also know that they tested it in places like Florida and Texas and other locations. So we have at least California, Texas, and Florida that had this type of weather modification used at some point.…
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with their monetary system. And a lot of them are going into BRICS. So there's a lot of, like you said, the West or America, you know, even though we're the reserve currency at this point, which is being propped up, we're going to see a who…
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And they did that here in Vegas. I have a feeling that if they have to do with like, you know, those executive orders that Trump has, you know, say the CCP will go with them. You know, we know that they're involved with human trafficking an…
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located out of Texas called Ignite, which sells curriculum to schools. Okay, so now you see how this whole thing is just one big long vein that goes round and round and round. And you can't just stop at the person involved. You always have …
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Yeah. She's in Congress. We got Alyssa Slotkin, Democrat from Michigan. She was a CIA analyst deployed to Iraq three times and was on the National Security Council for both Bush and Obama. Yes. Again, bipartisan. We had Will Hurd, Republica…
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And so I do unequivocally believe, and as a matter of fact, Warhamster made a very important point today. The guys that perpetrated most of the domestic violence via the Cuban Gladio training down in Miami, New Orleans, and South Texas for …
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Our government has been providing firearms to criminals for a very long time. And if you go back and you look at the real premise, not the stated premise of Operation Gladio, it's to create weapon caches for them to be activated. They have …
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was a mentally troubled person who actually came from England. If you do some research on that individual and his parents and what they said was happening to him six months prior, that's something to look at. We also had the incident in Day…
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By 86 and 87, Ross said a good chunk of his business consisted of exporting drugs to higher priced areas like Fresno, St. Louis, Texas, Alabama. Police in St. Louis said cocaine prices there went into a free fall once the Bloods and Crips c…
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House was one of five U.S. commissioners to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Prior to that, House was known as the kingmaker in Texas. And no, he was never a colonel. He never served in the military. He just assumed the name. Well, it wa…
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He goes on and he starts talking about Steve Bannon. And it says, before Steve Bannon's name was well known in the realm of politics, he was known for intervening in the strange cultist science experiment known as Biosphere 2. He was hired …
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and Nelson Bunker Hunt of the Hunt family that currently owns the Kansas City football team were feeling the effects of the energy crisis and runaway inflation. Their cash wealth was being eroded annually and weakening the dollar. So they d…
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at its so-called bomb school at Los Farnos in Texas. And of course, we've come across that multiple times because all of the Latin American forces were brought in after the CIA overthrew the governments and taught them how to create bombs a…
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and then redirected to the United States. Many of them were sent to United States Air Force bases in Texas. In interviews, Miranda and the former Nicaraguan anti-drug czar, Roger Mayorga, who arrested Miranda, said that the U.S. Air Base wa…
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It was when Torres started telling about Morello and the Contra in the airfield in New Orleans and Brownsville, Texas, where the Contra cocaine was allegedly being flown in under armed guard, that Giuseppe knew that he was out of his league…
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That have also surfaced regarding the drug smuggling operations involving sprint boats operating out of Texas, Louisiana and Florida. The Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve Kerry's request for a behind the scenes investigation, bu…
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We had a lot of crack in the east and west, but not in Cincinnati until Ricky Ross came here, one of the local police officers said. He could blow the locals out of the water when it came to making drug deals because he was getting them so …
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He said, I guess about a month after I got back to Los Angeles, Blanton started calling him again. Blanton would call two or three times a month until the word got out that Ross was under investigation as well. A grand jury in Smith County,…
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in Texas in May of 1988 and discussed a cocaine deal on a tapped phone line. The fugitive warrant was issued. About three months after I was in Los Angeles, they did a program on CBS that was talking about me, that I was under investigation…
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In June of 1989, Ross and 13 other people were indicted on federal charges of cocaine conspiracy in Cincinnati. And another fugitive warrant was issued. Now he had the state of Texas and the U.S. government after him. Ross melted into South…
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Again, a reminder that the source of all of this is the CIA in collaboration with the FBI and DEA. But let's go after the guys selling it and we'll lock them away forever. And keep in mind, Texas is still waiting for their turn. Ross sat aw…
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The drugs were being smuggled into California through two different routes. One, Menendez had on his payroll a series of American pilots that had taken charge of Control Tower in the state of Texas. Miranda testified that Norwin's cargo pla…
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Before they left, Miranda said, a space would be cleared in the cargo hold area enough to hide 300 kilos of cocaine. When overflying the route in the U.S., they would be airdropped and then they would land normally. At the abandoned airfiel…
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with the capacity to reach the airstrip, so they were unclear as to exactly where they were landing. The other method was equally inventive. Menendez would purchase automobiles in the U.S. through dealerships, import them, fill their frames…
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A kilo of beautiful white flake meant nothing to these crack dealers. They don't care. The investigation of Blanton crept along at a snail's pace until July 1991, when Texas DEA agents finally nailed longtime fugitive Roger Sedino, who had …
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Are they going to put you in jail? Dumb F, but quickly. That was what Blanton said. Are they working for the police? Yes, Blanton said. They are the ones who F'd Herrera. Sardina's suggestion apparently prompted Blanton to do a little check…
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Explaining Norwin's relationship with the DEA, the Contras, the drug flights from El Salvador to Texas, the meetings with CIA pilot Aguardo and CIA agent Enrique Bermudez, the FDN's former military commander, meaning the Contras. Quote, Nor…
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for an atomic bomb. And what's interesting about that is there is documented declassified CIA documents coming out of Texas and several CIA front companies there where it was the CIA that arranged the transfer of some of the critical compon…
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In the 1970s, the CIA offered further training to Colombian and other Latin American police officers at its so-called bomb school in Texas. And guess who else all went there? All the European Gladio operators. Then AID, or what we refer to …
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Well, now it's happening in Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, North Carolina, and Chicago last night. Yes. So maybe now somebody will start paying attention? Yeah, especially since the Clinton Foundation has gone down to Texas to help …
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Another house located on a 7.5 acre plantation subdivision outside of Richmond, Texas, about 20 miles from Houston. Atkinson had one of his companies buy property from the CEO of San Joaquino Savings and then Michener's Allied Bank lent him…
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April Sound in the 80s was sued by the Texas Attorney General for alleged deceptive trade practices by making false presentations to customers to get them to buy timeshares. The company Sweetwater agreed to make restitution to some of their…
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Snitsker said he didn't go through with the transaction because he didn't feel comfortable with it. Atkinson and the boys still wanted to come up with another $20 million to $30 million in addition to Hill's financial $70 million. By this t…
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acreage accounted for 60% of the value of the original $200 million deal. Taxpayers might be able to stomach this if the money went to the Nemours Foundation that helped the crippled children in Texas, but none of it did. In 1986, according…
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The Scud missiles that were shooting at our aircraft in 1991 were being funded by American banks. The author says this, although these weapons were supposed to be used by Iraq in its war against Iran, the irony of American taxpayer dollars …
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Gordon appeared to have been a possible conflict of interest in handling the Atkins loan anyway. Gordon was a registered agent for Houston's International Securities Corporation, which was incorporated in Texas in 82 and forfeited its chart…
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all of this shit's about, supplying money for the Contras. They're buying his big land estate. And why would this guy be in the United States? Because he was sponsored here by the CIA. He had killed tens of thousands of his own people. He w…
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George Bush, Mr. CIA, had one of his friends sell his deposed dictator in Nicaragua a ranch in Texas, right outside of Houston, where George Bush goes all the time. And then George Bush goes on to create Contras, funds them, sends them weap…
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to try to run things and get some development going. Harrison had borrowed tens of millions of dollars from Hilt Financial to buy repossessed real estate in Colorado and in Texas. Evidently, he's the cleanup guy. Under the same warehouse as…
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Actually, it was a planning session for how to continue the fraud. It went on to say, we would like very much for you to attend. We think it's mandatory that a high-level executive from your organization attend, even if you can't make it. L…
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You could blow up the entire island of Cuba with that. This shit was going other places. Arrested in New Orleans along with Seal was a man from Brooklyn, New York named Murray Morris Kessler. Kessler was a key middleman in the deal. He was …
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It was Richmond Harper, a millionaire banker and meatpacking plant owner from Eagle Pass, Texas. And of course, Eagle Pass, Texas is on the Rio Grande right across the river from Mexico. After he was charged in the conspiracy, Harper told r…
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I don't know what he was doing with it. I don't, really. In a statement Seale made after the trial, he said that the request for arms and ammunition was brought across the border to a rancher banker by the name of Mr. Richmond Harper in Eag…
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Ambrose's visits to Harper were also discovered in the 1976 House Banking Subcommittee investigation on the Texas rent-a-bank scandal. So, everybody knew it. They just didn't do anything about it. One of Ambrose's running buddies was Jack C…
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Wheaton said he tracked SEAL's 123 cargo aircraft flying from MENA to William Blackmore's Iron Mountain Ranch in West Texas. There is also an Iron Mountain in Arkansas near SEAL's Contra trading grounds. Blackmore said he had no knowledge o…
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to own anything that's found within the coastal waters. And he did that so that his friends could benefit from it. Now, in Texas, they found a big series of wrecks off San Pedro Island. And all that treasure that was found went into the han…
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as the Texas floods were happening, which is nothing more than an act of God. We are not feds. But I have never talked about this stuff before because the people that I've followed over the last almost two decades, the ones who got a little…
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Vietnamese. Equipment left behind included all kinds of crap that the CIA had supplied them with. They just took off running. They included cannons, recoilless rifles, Russian-made tanks, seven trucks, and an American Air America helicopter…
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that had served as proprietary operations under the CIA. The DCI directive in 1972 ordered that Air America be maintained only through the end of the Indochina War, that Southern Air Transport be sold, and its Pacific Division immediately l…
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actually put two officers, paid them to go into prison in Texas to start it, and then later they sent seven more after training them to radicalize the people in prison. But they started in Texas and then spread it nationwide through the dru…
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The book became an immediate bestseller and won him speaking invitations before influential audiences up and down the eastern seaboard as well as California. Dulles also was invited to appear in Texas. He chose the dates October 25th throug…
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on world affairs. Dulles often used speaking engagements and vacations as covers, and his detour through Texas bears the markings of such a strategy. His stopover in Texas stood out as an anomaly in the book tour, otherwise dominated by the…
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with the big gaps in his schedule throughout his stay there. But Dulles was wired into Texas oil industry, for which his law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, had provided legal counsel for decades, as well as into local political hierarchy, inclu…
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Bay of Pigs house cleaning. So Charles Cabal got fired and his brother just happens to be the mayor of Dallas. With Kennedy's trip to Texas just weeks away, the president was a hot topic in the local circles. Dulles' strongly critical views…
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Because they didn't like the fact that he was trying to get rid of the oil depletion break in taxes for something that's supposed to be a depletable asset, which oil is not. They typically viewed him as a dangerously weak leader. E.M. Ted D…
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that he once berated him at a White House luncheon in front of a group of visiting Texas publishers. Quote, we can annihilate Russia and should make that clear to the Soviet Union, unquote, as he lectured JFK. The general opinion of the gra…
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The Texas oil crowd was also furious at Kennedy for moving to close their tax loopholes on the oil depletion allowance, which threatened to cost them millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. This kind of government mischief would ha…
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always looking at himself as the guy that they thought was illiterate, rude, and crude. They laughed at him behind his back. I think he felt it. It was a mortifying position for LBJ, a pathologically ambitious man with an ego that was as mo…
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And with typical cunning, he chose to do it in LBJ's backyard. Nixon showed up in Dallas on November 21st, 1963, the day before JFK's presidential party was due to arrive. Nixon was there on business. He was attending a PepsiCo company meet…
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the company that had acquired one of the world's largest navies, more than most countries have, PepsiCo, the same company that was involved later in the Salvador Allende overthrow, that PepsiCo. LBJ had become a political liability, Nixon t…
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to his contacts in the Pentagon and CIA. Sounds so familiar. Dulles was among those who maintained warm relations with LBJ, even as both men's stars fell within the Kennedy court. In retirement, the spymaster continued to invite Johnson to …
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And when that venture flopped, he briefly became a perfume salesman. Later, he gave the insurance business a shot. Finally, George settled on oil, figuring that he could follow in his father's footsteps. He eventually wound up in Texas, whe…
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And DeMorganshield soon found himself with a foot in each camp. He alluded cryptically to this early in the Warren Commission testimony when he mentioned that he was involved in a controversial business, an international business. But Commi…
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began debriefing him after his overseas trips. The Baron thought of his CIA handler as a very nice fellow. We got along. Moore, the son of missionary parents, had been born and raised in China, like DeMorganshield's wife, Jean, who I invite…
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She was a curious type. Some people would use the word busybody, the sort of woman who felt like she could set the world straight. And it was her obligation to do so. We've all had neighbors like that. After her husband, Michael, took an en…
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She was also the woman who, the month before JFK's arrival in Dallas, informed Lee about the job at the Book Depository, the warehouse building that was in the final stretch of JFK's motorcade. Ruth had been told about the job by a neighbor…
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Colombian-Bolivian cocaine was coming into the United States, both through Texas and Miami, and they were shuttling it out to Los Angeles, to Blanton in Los Angeles. Blanton eventually becomes Ricky's direct. There was some cutouts in betwe…
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into the United States. Somoza lived in Texas. He is an evil dictator that killed tens of thousands of Nicaraguans backed by the CIA. And they make sure that he gets entrance into the United States and can live a life of Riley after he was …
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George Bush's aide, son, was the head of Utica National Bank. And this guy that's basically working for the CIA is borrowing money from the son, whose dad is the aide, to George Bush. Robert Thompson gained notoriety in the summer of 1990 a…
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another milking job of the American taxpayers. About $35 million of Fales' borrowed money came from ICH Corporation, which is a Kentucky insurance company that at one time tried to buy Southmark, the real estate dumping ground for the mafia…
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So he had, in fact, not only worked for the CIA, he was trained by the CIA. In a December 1990 interview with Dave Armstrong, then the editor of the Texas Observer, Rump said that he was involved in starting Global, which he said was owned …
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Two years later, in 83, he was indicted for conspiracy and smuggling 425,000 pounds of marijuana into Beaumont, Texas, as a spinoff of DEA's Operation Grouper. Some of Grouper's targets, drug money was laundered through Marvin Warner's ComB…
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So he saved it. To bolster the bank's capital and keep it alive, Ray Corona bought the land that the bank headquarters was on and some of the surrounding property, including tracts that Palulo had sold to the bank for a profit of $160,000. …
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his real estate investments, unquote. The name of that company is TLC Investments. It stood for Texas, Louisiana, and California, the three states where they were doing the bulk of the real estate deals. In San Diego, Susala was also a gene…
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The former All-American wide receiver from Arkansas and then star with the San Diego Chargers, Lance Bambi Allworth. There was also a former Texas state senator, Peyton McKnight from Tyler, who later broke with the group because of a $1 mil…
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survived 30 years in the heart of this mafia organization, according to the Metro Crime Commission. Marcella controlled at least five Holiday Inns in Louisiana through front companies and close associate. I'm not even going to try to say th…
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Beebe owned at least six Holiday Inns in Texas and Louisiana, including one in New Orleans that was a hotbed of mafia activity. He would later put that hotel up for collateral on a loan guarantee for his close associate, Don Dixon, to buy t…
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Another Holiday Inn BB owned was in a small town in Texas called Denton. According to AMI's annual report in 1976 and a book called Brothers in Blood, Marcello expert David Chandler states that in the 1960s, a wealthy Louisiana mafioso houn…
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Spread over Texas, they bought controlling shares in at least three banks, and their investments reached into towns as small as Denton. The researcher went on to say one of Houston's largest builders began a series of real estate negotiatio…
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In a groundbreaking series of articles on a circle of Texas banks being looted in what was referred to as the Texas Renovate scandal, reporters Earl Goles, G-O-L-E-S, and Dave McNeely made the allegation that Beebe had associations with mob…
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who was not Novelli's chief pilot, said Barnes, could very well have flown in Novelli's plane. Novelli's former secretary, Helen Spencer, confirmed that Barnes used the plane on several occasions. According to a former Pasadena, Texas, whic…
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everybody being the CIA, on different, he was in business with the Bushes. Yeah, his name shows up everywhere. And we're going to get into Bath in a lot of depth in this book later. Cook was on the board of directors with Lloyd Benson at a …
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everybody being the CIA, on different, he was in business with the Bushes. Yeah, his name shows up everywhere. And we're going to get into Bath in a lot of depth in this book later. Cook was on the board of directors with Lloyd Benson at a …
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Then in January 1973, Novelli and five former security savings officers and directors were indicted for fraud. The charges included Novelli's purchase of stock in five small Texas banks from the officers using a loan from Surety.…
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of almost $3 million. Novelli jumped bond in 1974 and disappeared. He was found two years later by the FBI living under a false name in California and was sentenced to 15 years in jail. After he got out of prison, he went to work for some o…
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Jr. Smith was the son of the state's leading water district attorney who had helped Michener set up his utility districts on the properties that he was developing. Smith Jr. was indicted in 1978 for fraud at Surety Savings, along with the f…
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The FBI spent $25,000 trying to bribe White, but the Justice Department refused to appoint a special prosecutor and the charges against White were dropped. In late 75, before he was indicted, Cyril Smith Jr. secretly sold the savings in loa…
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At the time, Aubin had a home loan financed at surety as well. And his front man to be, J.B. Harrelson, went to work for surety after the rent-a-bank scandal broke in Texas. It's not clear how the promissory notes to surety ended up being c…
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where he was a major stockholder, nor why Beebe was apparently moving close to a million dollars over to Ross Miller. Ross Miller showed up a year earlier in Texas' rent-a-bank scandal when he and two Denver partners bought People's State B…