Uruguay country
also: Iroquois, Uruguayan, Iroquoian, Monte Villarda, Monteviego
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Claims (47)
USAID trained
Uruguay book_quoted
“Center in Washington was canceled. There was already growing public and congressional criticism of the dark side of Americans' policy without adding to it. During the mid-70s, however, Congress enacted several pieces of legislation which ab…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 27:31
USAID trained
Uruguay book_quoted
“what Bloom had to say. This period covers 1964 to 1970. And of course, we run across some of the same people. He starts off talking about the Office of Public Safety, which was a mission inside of the State Department, which is on its face …”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 3:46
USAID supplied_arms_to
Uruguay book_quoted
“They maintained a close relationship over the years, and OPS, the Office of Public Safety, began operating formally in 1965 in Uruguay. It was responsible for supplying the police there equipment, arms, and training. Four years later, Mitte…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 5:45
Dan Mitrione trained
Uruguay book_quoted
“an exclusive high-class nightclub and wrote on the walls, either everyone dances or no one dances. Dan Mitteroni did not introduce the practice of torturing political prisoners to Uruguay. It had actually already started in the early 1960s …”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 10:23
Dan Mitrione carried_out_attack
Uruguay book_quoted
“Now, keep in mind, we haven't even got to the part, but Dan Meterone was using the basement of a building to torture people. This is the guy that was using homeless people and handicapped people in the basement of a building to teach the na…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1 @ 1:12:45
Josef Mengele member_of
Uruguay documented
“Joseph Mengele escaped to South America after the war where he lived in different places under various false identities. In 1958, Mengele married the widow of his brother Carl in Uruguay using his real name. The Marriage Act was published i…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 51:49
Uruguay member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“in Washington, D.C. with a car bomb. Yeah, Townley, that's the same guy. Indeed, Townley appears to be a key figure in international assassinations all over. Because remember, this is part of Operation Condor. During Operation Condor, a gro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 24:01
Operation Condor deployed_in
Uruguay host_asserted
“They created a computer system that was multinational. They deployed it to Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, all of the people that were participating, later Peru. And they deployed this system so they could, quote unquote, track…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 30:26
Ronald Reagan funded
Uruguay host_asserted
“So he had cut them off at the knees. And do you know who reinstalled it day one? Ronald Reagan. All of those countries with death squads killing their own peoples, foreign aid was immediately reinstalled when Ronald Reagan took over. So the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:03:06
Oscar Gestido headed
Uruguay book_quoted
“that after the IMF got involved, rose to 136%. To overhaul the government, voters decided to do away with the nine-member executive committee and return to a single president. They elected General Oscar Gastito, among whom both supporters a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 59:59
Dan Mitterrand trained
Uruguay book_quoted
“So it does seem like they were setting the stage to sabotage the JFK administration. So before the end of the decade, Dan Mitterrand, along with hundreds of other public safety advisors, had been sent into combat against the quote-unquote c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 11:42
Che Guevara used_passport_of
Uruguay book_quoted
“in the Dominican Republic. Despite Fitzgerald's observation to Ambassador Douglas Henderson, the CIA's secret war against Che Guevara came to a head in Bolivia. And in 1967, Che had arrived in the country late the preceding year, heavily di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 17:29
CIA funded
Uruguay book_quoted
“Next, in terms of level of Langley's involvement in Latin America in the 1960s, they were on record as being involved in political action in Bolivia and Chile. And, well, all of them. Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil, all of them. The mos…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 43:16
United States trafficked
Uruguay caller_asserted
“colony of dignity. They popped up in Uruguay and Paraguay and Brazil, all of which we could. Just a coincidence, I'm sure. Yeah. Called Operation Condor. Yeah. It's crazy. It is a crazy story. Go ahead, Renee.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:02:51
CIA spied_on
Uruguay host_asserted
“by going to Uruguay only to be spied on by the same apparatus, i.e. the CIA. And they're using that information to go back and further persecute people they left behind in those other countries. That's how devious these people are. Other op…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 36:29
Uruguay supported
Grenada Invasion documented
“It was an entire program called Grenada Return to Freedom. Like you've been you lost your freedom under Bishop. The invasion was almost universally condemned throughout Latin America. Only the American installed dictatorships of Chile, Guat…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:03:21
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Uruguay host_asserted
“The purpose was to involve the chief in a CIA plot that would pressure Uruguay to break diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The CIA plan was inventive. Don Conley, the operations officer at the CIA detachment, had chosen four Russia…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 10:20
Miguel Angel Benitez Segova member_of
Uruguay host_asserted
“Mitterrand was clearly in charge of police operations in a way Senez had never had been. That change to the top spot of the public safety office had intrigued everyone around the police station. But no one took a keener interest in Mitterra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 18:12
CIA trained
Uruguay host_asserted
“and told them, now we have someone who will support our activities. As it had been in Brazil, Mudron's assignment also led to an increase in the number of Uruguayans sent to the United States for training. But these days, all students did n…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 22:52
CIA trained
Uruguay host_asserted
“The agency was putting Brazilian, Argentinian, and Uruguayan military and police officers in touch with each other for training and wiretapping and other intelligence procedures, i.e. Operation Condor, guys. Those contacts also led to surve…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 29:36
Carlos Piran member_of
Uruguay host_asserted
“His five fellow team members, three came from the traffic police and two came from the police institute. The director of the effort was President Pacheco's personal secretary, Carlos Piran, P-I-R-A-N, who later sent Uruguayans to Buenos Air…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 32:55
Carlos Piran trained
Uruguay host_asserted
“His five fellow team members, three came from the traffic police and two came from the police institute. The director of the effort was President Pacheco's personal secretary, Carlos Piran, P-I-R-A-N, who later sent Uruguayans to Buenos Air…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors AJ Langguth Part 10 @ 32:55
Thomas Massie spied_on
Uruguay documented
“Oh, my God. Always wake up. Always. Yeah. So he tried to get in the Navy during World War II, but wasn't allowed. So he joined the diplomatic service of the Department of State in 1942 and went to Montevideo in Uruguay. And what was he doin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 1:03:09
Ralph Pazulo lived_in
Uruguay host_asserted
“God, that's where they're setting up all of the counterinsurgency shit that they're going to use all over to include the continuation of the attacks on Cuba. All launched out of Guatemala. So he's there for that. And then, really weirdly, i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 11:31
Dan Nidorone trained
Uruguay book_quoted
“Kruger supplies the details of the arms transactions by which David was able to penetrate to the very heart of the Tupomaro organization. And once again, Kruger, who points out that David's service against the Tupomaros were part of an effo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 30:33
A.J. Langguth reported_on
Uruguay book_quoted
“in Iroquois. He goes on to say it's the same meter on that New York Times reporter A.J. Languth arranged for the Iroquoian police to obtain superior electric torture needles through U.S. diplomatic pouches. So for those of you who are new, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 31:31
Uruguay removed_from_power
Amor book_quoted
“The chief asked Amor about his political philosophy and how he regarded the Tupamaros. Amor responded in single words. The chief grew angry and warned that he would suffer repercussions if he didn't start talking. At 4 p.m., Amor was releas…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 20:02
Héctor Cáspero Casaneto murdered_by
Uruguay documented
“I understand that Castanedo was interrogated and tortured in the house and later murdered and thrown into the river. This final part of the operation was carried out by two functionaries that went with him to the harbor. Later, Barsario dis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 38:36
Héctor Omodio Pérez provided_information_to
Uruguay documented
“The Tupomaros were even more interested in the whereabouts of Hector Perez, Hector Omodio Perez. Omodio was ranked high in the rebel movement, but when his prominence as a leader was challenged, he had seemed to act from spite, providing th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 39:06
Raúl Sendic escaped_from
Uruguay documented
“Once from the Monteviego's prison, now he was captured again and shot through both cheeks. He lived, but his jaw was completely destroyed. In the spring of 1972, a young Uruguayan returned from studying in Buenos Aires and found life in Mon…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 39:36
Juan María Bordaberry removed_from_power_by
Uruguay documented
“publicity that he was a torturer. In Uruguay, a politician by the name of Juan Maria Bordaberry had replaced Errico as president. Before Bordaberry's term had run out, Uruguay's general stripped him of all of his power. Then in 1976, they p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 54:43
Byron Engle appointed
Uruguay book_quoted
“Ingle said, we've been thinking about an overseas assignment for you. Mitterrand said, you know, I love working here at the academy. But Ingle said, yes, but how would you like to go to Uruguay? And Mitterrand's response was, boss, when do …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 40:59
José Batlle y Ordóñez headed
Uruguay book_quoted
“an Uruguayan garden, fate sent an idealist by the name of José Batel Ordóñez, a newspaper publisher who came to power in 1904 after punishing civil war. Perhaps as a consequence of seeing Uruguay divided, Batel had determined to treat the s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 50:08
Uruguay member_of
IMF book_quoted
“The government of Uruguay was in fact undergoing changes very different from what the Tupamaros were promoting. Since 1950, Uruguay had been part of the International Monetary Fund. Bastards. Disregarding Battelle's admonition about getting…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 59:29
CIA installed
Uruguay host_asserted
“inside of Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, and he did, all countries where the CIA had installed fascist dictators, and that is true. We're going to talk about him in a little bit. The OPS has been helping the local police since 1965. I'm jus…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 48:45
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Uruguay host_asserted
“And the Stooges, the CIA and the U.S. Army military slash quote unquote U.N. regime that was setting up down there. And you had the same thing that we saw in Colombia and Paraguay and Uruguay and Chile, where you have these forces that are …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 1:14:19
Philip Agee carried_out_attack
Uruguay host_asserted
“Out of the service. Now, some people have suggested he was at Notre Dame and was kind of guided through his career, but that's neither here nor there. But that kind of gives you the background for his way of thinking. Also, he was involved …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 4:25
USAID supplied_arms_to
Uruguay host_asserted
“USAID torture devices into Uruguay for Dan Mitterrand to use on the citizens of Uruguay. And the Office of Public Safety and USAID, because many of these people were actually CIA agents themselves using this diplomatic pouch capability to s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 58:55
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Uruguay host_asserted
“That we've covered kind of briefly, not like the details of it, but you're going to see how like the coup that happened in Chile and the installation of the chief of national police training in Uruguay.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:05:22
Dan Mitrione trained
Uruguay host_asserted
“Prior to being executed by the freedom fighters in Uruguay in 1970, Mitteroni had advised police forces in Brazil and also in Uruguay. Isn't that interesting? All right. So, and of course, all of those countries are the very countries that …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 31:23
Office of Policy Coordination supplied_arms_to
Uruguay host_asserted
“USAID torture devices into Uruguay for Dan Mitterrand to use on the citizens of Uruguay. And the Office of Public Safety and USAID, because many of these people were actually CIA agents themselves using this diplomatic pouch capability to s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 58:55
Daniel Martínez carried_out_attack
Uruguay host_asserted
“USAID torture devices into Uruguay for Dan Mitterrand to use on the citizens of Uruguay. And the Office of Public Safety and USAID, because many of these people were actually CIA agents themselves using this diplomatic pouch capability to s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 58:55
Smith & Wesson trained
Uruguay host_asserted
“that they were talking about, in addition to them doing that, one of the largest arms manufacturers that was in bed with them during this time was Smith & Wesson. And they actually hosted many of these people at their academy in Springfield…”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 30:28
The Pond carried_out_attack
Uruguay host_asserted
“The PON began D-A-H-L as an information assembly in Argentina and Uruguay. John Grombach reported on Uruguayan officials that were quote-unquote communists. In other words, they were labeling Uruguayan officials as communists so that they c…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 22:19
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Uruguay host_asserted
“There did seem to be in the last 20 years some stumbling blocks where some of their shit got undone. And I do believe that their thought was we'll start with the low hanging fruit. We're going to take Chile. We're going to take Uruguay. We'…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 1:16:59
Operation Gladio overthrew
Uruguay guest_asserted
“Its cousin was called Operation Condor, and that was the operation still ran out of NATO with all of the same Nazis in South America that overthrew Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, moving up into Central America, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicar…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 41:54
Dan Mitrione trained
Uruguay guest_asserted
“a recently coup government down there, I think it's either Iroquois or Paraguay, I lose track of those two, how to torture their people and kill them.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 1:03:34
Mentions (120)
▶ 41:54
Its cousin was called Operation Condor, and that was the operation still ran out of NATO with all of the same Nazis in South America that overthrew Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, moving up into Central America, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicar…
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a recently coup government down there, I think it's either Iroquois or Paraguay, I lose track of those two, how to torture their people and kill them. And so they're all in on this together. Jim Jones, after he got the heat turned up with L…
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They created a computer system that was multinational. They deployed it to Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, all of the people that were participating, later Peru. And they deployed this system so they could, quote unquote, track…
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the CIA used in all these Gladio operations. So as we know, the school was housed in the Panama Canal zone, and they also provided training in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, at the U.S. behest of these operators. So they're flying them all arou…
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And in some cases, rounding them up into stadiums and then just open fire on them while they were in the stadium. You know, kind of like old Rome. In 1971, Bolivia also has a coup where Hugo Banzer Suarez comes to power. And he basically, h…
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I mean, if you go to, I'm actually shocked it's not more. I'm actually shocked it's not an everyday thing that happens. Because if you go to countries like we've delved into, Chile and Paraguay and Uruguay, and you read, especially Nicaragu…
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And I'm going to do a couple of things. I'm going to first cover what William Bloom in Killing Hope had to say in his book about Uruguay. And then I want to go to several articles that I found that talk about it as well. So that's kind of t…
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They maintained a close relationship over the years, and OPS, the Office of Public Safety, began operating formally in 1965 in Uruguay. It was responsible for supplying the police there equipment, arms, and training. Four years later, Mitte…
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and began filling a specific quote-unquote need for the Office of Public Safety. The country was in the middle of what I would categorize an orchestrated decline so that they could install a fascist dictator and create the disturbances that…
▶ 6:49
labor strikes, student demonstrations, militant street violence, that type of thing. Prior to that, Uruguay had been a fairly low-key, modestly wealthy, stable country, like many of the other ones, actually. So the people that were in the s…
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In a surprising interview with a leading Brazilian newspaper in 1970, the former Uruguayan police chief, Otero, declared that the U.S. advisors, and particularly Medaroni, had instructed them how to use torture as a more routine measure to …
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in Mitteroni's time, that the Uruguayan Senate was compelled to undertake an investigation. After a five-month study, the commission concluded unanimously that the torture in Uruguay had become a normal, frequent, and habitual occurrence in…
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And in all likelihood, some of the skills employed by the members were acquired inside the United States. And if you guys remember, we've talked about this specific location in Los Fresnos, Texas, which was a prior military base. They had a…
▶ 19:25
in riot control techniques had been given to about a thousand Iroquoian policemen. Dan Mitteroni had built a soundproof room in a cellar of his house. In this room, there were Iroquoian police officers and they observed the demonstrations o…
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like homeless people, known in Uruguay from the outskirts of Montevideo, as well as women apparently from the frontier with Brazil. There was no interrogation, only a demonstration of the effects of different voltage and different parts of …
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So this guy, who basically became a whistleblower, disappeared from Montevago and turned up later in Havana. Probably get to get the hell out of Dodge because he would have been a dead man walking down there. About half a year later, in 197…
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They demanded the release of 150 prisoners in exchange for him. With the determined backing of the Nixon administration, the Uruguayan government refused. Then, the Uruguayan government discovered Mattaroni's dead body in the backseat of a …
▶ 24:33
attended the funeral for Mitteroni. The city's former police chief, Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis, came to town and did a benefit for the Mitteroni's family. Isn't that nice? White House spokesman Ron Ziegler solemnly said, Mr. Mitteroni's …
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everywhere, as he took freedom away from thousands of people in Uruguay. His widow would call him a perfect man, and his daughter said that he was a great humanitarian. The military's entry into the escalating conflict signaled the beginnin…
▶ 25:36
or freedom, depending on how you look at it. Six months later, the military was in charge because they had had a coup, thanks to the CIA. Congress was dissolved, and everything not prohibited was compulsory. For the next 11 years, Uruguay c…
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They had the largest number of political prisoners per capita in the world. Every human rights organization was basically talking about the fact of their large torture program. And by 1981, at the 14th Congress of the American Armies, the U…
▶ 26:35
with ultimate purpose of political nature in all fields of human activity within the internal sphere of a state whose aims are perceived as not convenient for the overall political system. Quote, people were in prison so that prices could b…
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It appeared in 1972. It is centered around Mitteroni and the Tuporeros and depicted an Uruguayan police officer receiving training at a secret bomb school in the United States. Through the film, it shows a composite picture of the role play…
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In 1981, a former Uruguayan intelligence officer declared the U.S. manuals used during this time to teach techniques to torturers. He said that he had and most of his officers had been trained at the school in Panama, which we talk about ev…
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And many of you, if you've done any research into this, have come across the name Philip Agee. He was a CIA whistleblower. After he left the Ecuadorian embassy, he was also stationed in Uruguay. From March 1964 to 1966, his account of CIA a…
▶ 33:03
thanking the Soviet Union, which none of that was true. They also created documents that maligned the entire thing. And Agee talks about also undermining relationships with Uruguay and other countries that the CIA didn't approve of, like Ru…
▶ 35:07
Electoral candidates or for their fake elections or a move against the government that they had installed. So immediately, newspaper editorials, articles begin attacking the Congress as a communist takeover and that it was communist inspire…
▶ 36:29
by going to Uruguay only to be spied on by the same apparatus, i.e. the CIA. And they're using that information to go back and further persecute people they left behind in those other countries. That's how devious these people are. Other op…
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And they would go in and raid meetings and just basically generally terrorize the local community. And in 1998, a guy by the name of Eladio Moll, M-O-L-L, a retired Uruguayan Navy rear admiral and former intelligence chief, testified before…
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and basically called Uruguay's period from 1972 to 1983, Uruguay's dirty war, and said that orders came down from the U.S. to kill captive members of the Tuporaros after interrogating them. Quote, the guidance was sent from the U.S., said M…
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articles that we have found over a period of time in investigating these different countries. First of all, was an article that is in a thing called TFI Global News, and it talks about Uruguay's CIA plan to send the entire region a state of…
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You find all of those characters doing the exact same operations throughout South America under Operation Condor. And of course, we know there was a large contingent because this program originated from Germany. There was a large contingent…
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So there is a direct line from everything that happened in Operation Gladio to everything that happened in South America under Operation Condor. And then once you start looking into Operation Condor, you pull in the KCIA, which is Korea's v…
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And then other facets of it, for example, Guyana, that played host to Jonestown, which most people don't realize was actually a terrorist training camp for Gladio operators throughout South America before it was ever Jonestown as in Jim Jon…
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Chile one that we did. It covers all of this. Not only did they do that, there was there was Nazis put in Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia. They were everywhere down there. Yeah. Yeah.…
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They had had over 150 changes of government in Bolivia in the 139 years of its independence from Spain. But very few of those was from elections. Now, and you have to contrast that with where we were in some of the other ones like Chile and…
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And aerial photographs taken of approximately 23,000 square miles of southern Bolivia. And let me point out something to you guys that I found completely fascinating. When we did the research on Jonestown's Gladio Base in Uruguay, one of th…
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It was an entire program called Grenada Return to Freedom. Like you've been you lost your freedom under Bishop. The invasion was almost universally condemned throughout Latin America. Only the American installed dictatorships of Chile, Guat…
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to go to the other part of your question in motivation. I do believe the Phoenix program was originally set up in Vietnam in order to quote unquote practice the use of it. And then it was used in Chile and it was used in Paraguay and Urugua…
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and basically anyone attempting to do anything that was not condoned by United Fruit or by the U.S. military was assassinated. They used the same things, the same torture techniques, the electric shock to the genital areas that were taught …
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They called the death squads White Hand. And just trying to hit the highlights here. Oh, and they used the same organizations that we saw in Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, the U.S. Agency for International Development, which at the time …
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or one religious area. Because we know, we've done research into many of the Christian, like the Unification Church, for another. The Unification Church out of South Korea is an Operation Gladio front. They train terrorists. They deploy the…
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He sent his officers to Indiana University's police training, the same training partnership with Michigan State. He was selected as a part of the Office of Public Safety. He was first deployed to Brazil right before their coup. Then you fin…
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There did seem to be in the last 20 years some stumbling blocks where some of their shit got undone. And I do believe that their thought was we'll start with the low hanging fruit. We're going to take Chile. We're going to take Uruguay. We'…
▶ 1:14:19
And the Stooges, the CIA and the U.S. Army military slash quote unquote U.N. regime that was setting up down there. And you had the same thing that we saw in Colombia and Paraguay and Uruguay and Chile, where you have these forces that are …
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The PON began D-A-H-L as an information assembly in Argentina and Uruguay. John Grombach reported on Uruguayan officials that were quote-unquote communists. In other words, they were labeling Uruguayan officials as communists so that they c…
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committee in the United States Senate. He was funding regime changes. And that's thanks to Reagan. So Jimmy Carter, unlike Reagan, tied all foreign aid to human rights. He cut off all foreign aid to Nicaragua because the government was not,…
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Those people went to El Salvador. They went to Honduras. They went to Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Nicaragua. He's been everywhere. He's the guy that was standing there when they arrested Che Guevara and killed him in either…
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a lot of really weird stuff going on. Yeah, absolutely. And then just another helpful tip. I always had problems figuring out the location of... Oops, sorry. Apologies. I'm driving. Paraguay and Uruguay. So Uruguay is under Brazil. Thank yo…
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Yeah, that's a perfect way. Thank you very much. I love it. Sure. Sure. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having me. All right. I'll step back. Yeah, that's the perfect cheat that I needed. Yeah. I always get them flipped and I'm thi…
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That was being done in Czechoslovakia, which people say that that is where Patton was headed when he had his quote unquote accident, which he was assassinated. And that project, there is a book that I read that basically documents its trave…
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in that facility that made it look more like one of the stay-behind units that they would have used in Operation Gladio than anything that resembles a religion. And they did the same thing in Germany. They had a religious orphanage there th…
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All along, go ahead. Hi. Yeah. I just want to make a quick point about, you have probably touched this on other shows, but you mentioned the mayor of, I'm sorry, the police chief of Richmond, Indiana, who was killed in Uruguay. I'm sorry, w…
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That we've covered kind of briefly, not like the details of it, but you're going to see how like the coup that happened in Chile and the installation of the chief of national police training in Uruguay.…
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rape with snakes. I don't even know how that happens. Rape followed by murder, electrical shock, which they referred to as the Bell Telephone Hour. And if you guys remember when we talked about Chile and Uruguay, where they would hook up th…
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What you often see in all of this is the establishment or the replacement of the existing structure just under someone else's control. They're not changing anything. They're not making the lives of the people better. In the case of most of …
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In Argentina, which is where we had a huge rat line of Nazis there. And I had always wondered if there was a nefarious connection to that oil company because it's come up in a couple of books that I've read. I've not gotten anything penned …
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All of our money goes to the production of cocaine, not the elimination of it, which was primarily represented by the FARC. And this is consistent with everything that we've found. All of the resistance efforts throughout all of these conte…
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was led by Argentina's military dictator, which was installed by the CIA. The World Anti-Communist League, which maintained over-contact politically and financially with the West, as well as with overseas Asian communities, which is where i…
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That's the Reader's Digest version. Michael Levine offered an insider's account of the cocaine coup that unfolded on July 17, 1980, after he became the DEA's country's attaché in Argentina and Uruguay. This is a quote from Levine. Explosion…
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They being the U.S. State Department, the CIA. And it is implicated in the activities of the death squads, which is exactly what we found in Chile and Brazil and Uruguay, all of them. That has this exact same setup for different reasons. Th…
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USAID torture devices into Uruguay for Dan Mitterrand to use on the citizens of Uruguay. And the Office of Public Safety and USAID, because many of these people were actually CIA agents themselves using this diplomatic pouch capability to s…
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The disappearance of more than 250,000 Colombians over the past 20 years, surpassing the recorded mass murderers committed by Argentina, Chile, Uruguay in the previous century combined. That's the result. Hey, buddy. That's the result of th…
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When, in fact, the Office of Public Safety and people like, you know, although it was a different country, Dan Mederone, but his counterparts in Chile were training the actual terrorists were the national police and the DINA. And any time t…
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If we hadn't been down there assassinating presidents, we may have never even had a FARC. Good point. And if it wasn't for CIA intervention, a lot of countries, we probably wouldn't have a drug problem. Or at least it wouldn't be that serio…
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A former Honduran government minister once wondered aloud, what happened to Luis Almagro? What did the U.S. government have on the OAS secretary general that made him so eager to act as perhaps the most loyal servant of Washington? Having s…
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how all of these things cross one another when you start peeling back this onion. Yeah. And it branched out, not P2 specifically, but the entire operation. Because not only, as Bridget just said, did we drop off Nazis, a lot of Nazis in Arg…
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And then they had the seven satellite computer systems in all of the countries that they were going to overthrow under the auspices of Operation Condor. And they put all of the dissidents' names in those computer databases because oftentime…
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About how the and basically the FBI is our national police. OK, we don't call it a national police. It is absolutely the national police. When you look at what the national police force that we set up all over the world in Iran, in Chile, i…
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The Brazilian police had preceded the Uruguayan police in the use of electrical torture and basically confronting him, accusing Mitterrand as basically being the impetus to that, both in Brazil and the increase of its use in Uruguay, becaus…
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But of course, we know from the earlier chapters that Mitterrand gave them better supplies, if there's such a thing to torture with, and updated much of the equipment through the use of USAID. And he talks about the deployment of the radios…
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Most of the people had not suspected that Dr. Fry was part of the U.S. operation going on in Uruguay at the time. But there began being suspicions because he ran a laboratory in Uruguay.…
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The education for both of these sides was being provided by the United States. I find I found that very interesting. And then there's a lot more conversation about what the CIA was doing in Uruguay. And they seemed very knowledgeable about …
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in Uruguay as a result of that. So kind of the mean jest of the... Dan Mitterrand obviously was not taken in by the freedom movement of the Tupomaros and the dictatorship of their current government like the ambassador was in Brazil. So the…
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And Dan Mederone says, this is true. That's one of the problems in Latin America. The guy responds, you know, there are a few people who are holding so many interests, you know, like the Bank of America, the First National City Bank and the…
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The next morning, Dan Mitterrand's body was on the back seat of a stolen 1948 Buick convertible. He had been bound and gagged and shot twice in the head. At 9 a.m., President Pacheco decreed a period of mourning. At 11 a.m., the Uruguayan G…
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76 of the 106 members of the General Assembly voted to waive temporarily the rights guaranteed under Article 31 of the Uruguayan Constitution declaring a state of emergency. The Assembly suspended for 20 days the rights of property, assembl…
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The killing of Mitterrand had allowed Pacheco and the security forces to assume dictatorial powers over Uruguay formally. The government now had 14,000 troops and policemen in the streets, searching for Dr. Fly and D.S. Gomide, who was anot…
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Alejandro Otero. He was no longer the leading specialist in combating the Tupomaros, having been replaced months before when the CIA and U.S. police advisors had turned to harsher measures and sterner men. Author Amor, a Brazilian journalis…
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But the U.S. advisers, especially Mitterrand, had introduced scientific methods of torture that violated the Uruguayan Constitution and Otero's philosophy of life. The prisoners advocated psychological torture, Otero said, to create despair…
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but such damning accusations could not be buried. The day after Amor's story appeared in Rio, two Uruguayan intelligence officers and an agent from Interpol came to his hotel with written authority to question him. Amor was not in his room …
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The chief asked Amor about his political philosophy and how he regarded the Tupamaros. Amor responded in single words. The chief grew angry and warned that he would suffer repercussions if he didn't start talking. At 4 p.m., Amor was releas…
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was taken aback by Amor's news story and the treatment of the entire affair within the journal in Brazil. Engel offered a tale of conspiracy to explain the situation. The three Brazilian reporters in Montevideo all denied filing that story.…
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In Uruguay, the war with the Tuporaros intensified after Mutarón's murder. The rebels blew up a bowling alley patronized by the U.S. community. On one nightclub wall, they scrolled, everyone dances or no one dances. On January 8, 1971, the …
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He paid for the lack of security with eight months in an underground cell. At the U.S. Embassy, the political staff watched with fascination when an agent from the British Secret Service arrived to set about working to get Jackson free. The…
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At first, journalists treated the incident as one more example of incompetence by the Iroquoian police. When the Tupomaros released Jackson, however, it began to look like that was actually condoned in order to get Jackson released. So the …
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he will not leave the airport alive. Throughout the early 70s, liberals in Uruguay's Senate had tried to form a united front. When the attempt failed, the dictatorship became ever more oppressive and they were forced to flee, usually going …
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facilitated by the CIA's communication. So everybody that left Brazil for another Southern Cone country was murdered in that other country. Before the Tupomaros were exterminated and Uruguay's democracy snuffed out, Nelson Bardacio was kidn…
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Then when the substitutions of X for the names of police and military officers, Bardacio's confession confirmed that Uruguayan death squads had been bombing and scraping houses of lawyers and journalists suspected of being sympathetic to th…
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Once from the Monteviego's prison, now he was captured again and shot through both cheeks. He lived, but his jaw was completely destroyed. In the spring of 1972, a young Uruguayan returned from studying in Buenos Aires and found life in Mon…
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publicity that he was a torturer. In Uruguay, a politician by the name of Juan Maria Bordaberry had replaced Errico as president. Before Bordaberry's term had run out, Uruguay's general stripped him of all of his power. Then in 1976, they p…
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The New Scientist, a British publication, described a device called the Mitterrand vest. It was designed for interrogations. It slowly inflated until it crushed the ribs of its victims. The vest itself was no more horrifying than any of the…
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In Uruguay, young men and women considered themselves idealist. The U.S. government had developed harsh methods both in South Vietnam and Latin America. Dan Mitterrand made use of them. In the 12 years of the Office of Public Safety, a tota…
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the political acumen to build a bridge to the different coalitions. When Ernesto Che Cavera went to Uruguay for a conference of the Organization of American States, Quadros invited him to stop in Brazil. At the conference in a sea resort in…
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to all of Operation Condor countries after they were overthrown, for them to do exactly that, to consolidate intelligence and use it from country to country. Because if you remember when we covered Operation Condor, the different countries,…
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All shared this database because, for example, people that were in Brazil would travel to Uruguay. People that were in Chile would travel to the other countries to try to get away from the torturers who had been part of the rebellion. And t…
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had lived a scrambling life. For the two weeks after Gulliard fled to Uruguay, Marcos left Rio for the country and waited there with friends to see what was going to happen. In Brazil, employers had no use for an outspoken student leader. T…
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Ingle said, we've been thinking about an overseas assignment for you. Mitterrand said, you know, I love working here at the academy. But Ingle said, yes, but how would you like to go to Uruguay? And Mitterrand's response was, boss, when do …
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the rebel movement in Uruguay, or that he had chosen to send Mitterrand there because of his experience with the Brazilian police. Ingalls preferred to be seen as an ingenious administrator, knowledgeably professional, and a tough cop, just…
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not as a troubled country, but as one of the nicest, most peaceful places on earth. So he's either a criminal or a liar for both. If Engel's account were true, he would have had to have blinded himself to the field reports from Uruguay pass…
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and sent by the guy there, Adolf Sienz, the chief advisor whom Mitterrand would be replacing, treated Uruguay's political problems, or he conveyed them in exhaustive detail. The labor strikes, the student unrest, the revolutionaries who cal…
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Despite later disclaimers, it was clear Mitterrand was headed to Uruguay entirely aware of his assignment and what he was going to be doing in training the police to deal with the Tupomaros. As rebellion spread across the world, criticism o…
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faced serious problems in 1969. Its connections with the CIA, the war in Vietnam, and similar accounts of torturing turning up all over the world were rendering the advisory program politically vulnerable. Worse yet, the rebel movements, es…
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to established order. In other words, to the oligarchs. That Uruguay should become a breeding ground for revolutionaries seemed to be one of history's incongruent accidents, like Switzerland being the birthplace of Jean-Paul Marat. Indeed, …
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It was set between Argentina and Brazil, very much like the Swiss was between Germany and France. Its very existence depended on good neighbors. Of the two nations, nature had been kinder to Uruguay. It had gentle climate and a seacoast for…
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an Uruguayan garden, fate sent an idealist by the name of José Batel Ordóñez, a newspaper publisher who came to power in 1904 after punishing civil war. Perhaps as a consequence of seeing Uruguay divided, Batel had determined to treat the s…
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But Uruguay's Italians did not settle nicely into those communities. They brought the new world and their militant syndicate ideas. With Patel's support, they created a powerful labor movement. Patel resisted relying on foreign capital to b…
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He fostered a benign statism with utilities and industries owned by the government, but incorporated as separate entities. Their goal was not to profit from them, but to keep prices low for their citizens. Patel sought to temper Latin Ameri…
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than anything else he had proposed. It was not until 1951 that Uruguayans at last agreed to be governed by the executive committee. During the first half of the century, Uruguay seemed to fulfill most of Battelle's utopian dreams. It was a …
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The economy flourished. Cattle were ever-renewable resources, which encouraged Uruguayans to take life in a more customary Latin ease. Occasionally, there were warning signs of trouble. When the price of beef dipped, pensions costs kept ris…
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wanting more. The system had neglected the farm workers, particularly those that were harvesting sugarcane. The cane cutters received their pay and vouchers for goods that they could only use on plantation stores. They had to build their ow…
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Every attempt to organize or strike was broken up by police. The cane cutters formed a mute and helpless underside to Uruguay's model democracy. Statistically, only 9% of the population of this population could read or write. They found the…
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Sendak was one of the men marked for a good life. His family was a small landowner in the department of Flores, but Sendak was indifferent to his surrounding and chose to live in a poor section of Montevideo. A member of Uruguayan's sociali…
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He went instead 450 miles north of Montevideo and volunteered to be a legal advisor for a new union for the cane cutters. Possibly, he expected that once the plight of the cutters had came to the attention of his fellow citizens, that the i…
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They asked for a law to limit their working days to eight hours, a standard shift among office and factory workers. Uruguayan press gave the march wide coverage. The legislative investigating team went to Articus and reported that the condi…
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And anyone who neglected to bribe the right official could wait up to 10 years for government documents to be processed for anything. The banks and the highest level of industry, the courts, were all believed to be skimming money off the to…
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A group of burglars had broke into the Swiss Club, a hunting lodge outside of Montevideo, and made off with some of the old, worthless weapons. Five men were involved, and one of them was syndic. Another was a medical doctor and a club memb…
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The government of Uruguay was in fact undergoing changes very different from what the Tupamaros were promoting. Since 1950, Uruguay had been part of the International Monetary Fund. Bastards. Disregarding Battelle's admonition about getting…
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that after the IMF got involved, rose to 136%. To overhaul the government, voters decided to do away with the nine-member executive committee and return to a single president. They elected General Oscar Gastito, among whom both supporters a…
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they decide to do with it. The fact that information will be provided to everyone is just bonuses for those of us who've been on this mission the entire time of getting this information out. So anyway, let's go ahead and start with what is …