National Guard (El Salvador) organization
also: National Guard, guard units, guard, reserve units, state National Guards, National Guardsmen, Samosan National Guard
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Claims (4)
National Guard (El Salvador) member_of
United States House of Representatives host_asserted
“All of those same players are here and all of those same players are being used. It's not coincidental during January 6th that the two-star general that was in charge of the National Guard in D.C. ends up within a couple of days. So the nex…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 1:07:05
Carlos Cabezas member_of
National Guard (El Salvador) host_asserted
“kind of a self-made man in Nicaragua. And in the 1970s, he went to the United States where he spent four years studying to be a commercial pilot, working nights as a janitor to support himself. He took his pilot license back to Nicaragua an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 41:26
U.S. Army member_of
National Guard (El Salvador) guest_asserted
“The staff was a very small staff at the Department of War. And during wartime, we relied exclusively or initially on guard units throughout the states because, again, the federal government's only job was to represent the states. And the st…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 2:05:32
Norwin Menendez member_of
National Guard (El Salvador) host_asserted
“outside of Managua for five years, but he had none of the fluorescent tube look of someone who had spent all that time in prison. He was tanned. He was well-rested. According to, let's see, one of the prisons that had, it was a prison that …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 30:35
Mentions (19)
▶ 13:15
Throughout the 1960s, multi-faceted American experts occupied themselves in El Salvador by enlarging and refining the state's security and counterinsurgency apparatus, the police, the National Guard, the military, the communications intelli…
▶ 1:06:37
I don't want to cut any of that out. And I want you to understand how pervasive in these governments that the CIA sets up, like the fact that you are using the Department of Treasury in El Salvador, you're using the military, you're using n…
▶ 1:07:05
All of those same players are here and all of those same players are being used. It's not coincidental during January 6th that the two-star general that was in charge of the National Guard in D.C. ends up within a couple of days. So the nex…
▶ 1:07:35
the new Sergeant of Arms for the House, the guy that was the National Guard, not the Air National Guard, the National Guard for the D.C., the two-star, he becomes the Sergeant of Arms. You have to understand that everything that we're readi…
▶ 1:53:21
psychological warfare. They've been attacking us for decades. All right. I don't see any more hands. We're at our two-hour time frame, so any last words? Bridget, Stellar? I have a quick question, if you don't mind. You know how, like, we w…
▶ 1:55:39
The states had primacy and the states had National Guard. And if we were going to go to war, the National Guard is what provided the feeder into the initial war machine while the training up of a bigger response would happen simultaneously.…
▶ 1:56:06
war planners in a war department before World War II. The war department had operational plans to go places and do things based on whatever the situation was at the time. Until World War II, standing military, because the entire concept of …
▶ 2:05:32
The staff was a very small staff at the Department of War. And during wartime, we relied exclusively or initially on guard units throughout the states because, again, the federal government's only job was to represent the states. And the st…
▶ 2:06:57
went around, they did not even mobilize guard or reserve units because they did not want that war to generate anti-war resistance, which it would, as we saw after 9-11, when entire police, you know, if you've got a large guard unit in a sma…
▶ 2:07:23
And large portions of people's police force and when they mobilized a local guard unit to go to Desert Storm or whatever, large swaths of the entire town was taken with the guard unit. And that immediately generated a hypersensitivity. And …
▶ 16:49
claimed that he was a target of an elaborate CIA scheme to force him out of the war, a plot that involved the use of drug dealers working for intelligence agency. This occurred, he said, after he refused CIA orders to unite his forces with …
▶ 30:35
outside of Managua for five years, but he had none of the fluorescent tube look of someone who had spent all that time in prison. He was tanned. He was well-rested. According to, let's see, one of the prisons that had, it was a prison that …
▶ 41:26
kind of a self-made man in Nicaragua. And in the 1970s, he went to the United States where he spent four years studying to be a commercial pilot, working nights as a janitor to support himself. He took his pilot license back to Nicaragua an…
▶ 43:00
He then took that opportunity to get a law degree. So he's an accountant. He's a pilot and a lawyer in Nicaragua. So he sets up a practice. But the very next year after he got his law license, the Sandinistas were on the outskirts of Managu…
▶ 14:26
whom the CIA describes as playing a major role in the Contra movement. The CIA contact with the Chamarros began in 1982. Most of 82, Farns served as the southern branch of the CIA's Contra force. The FDN, the other element of it, ran by the…
▶ 15:54
Both Pastora and Bermudez were still reporting to the CIA. When Bermudez, like Bermudez, Pastora was put on the CIA's payroll, and he remained on the payroll to at least 1984. The merger between the Chamorro brothers and Pastora's group mad…
▶ 30:16
They are contributing economically to the Contras, unquote. It would take another three years before an American journalist made the connection. Zavala complained to the court that similar stories had appeared in Spanish-language press in C…
▶ 32:56
Somoza's hillside bunker overlooking Managua had been a nerve center of a war waged by the National Guard under his personal direction against the people in Nicaragua. They had black site prisons. They had torture campaigns. They had everyt…
▶ 4:49
They floated the story that Pastora's associates were involved in a drug running scheme. And that was the excuse for supposedly the CIA severing the relationship with Pastora. But again, that's a lie. Pastora refused to do anything with the…