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Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“The heroin. So the Nugent Hand Bank primarily money laundered for the Golden Triangle out of Asia because you guys are just straight down from there. So you are very, very handy. Plus, Australia had a very and this may have a lot to do with…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 1:04:35
CIA trafficked
Golden Triangle book_quoted
“and had done so for decades. Processed into laboratories, those poppies turned into opium and heroin, morphine, along with other dangerous drugs. The drug trade was lucrative and as pervasive in northern Laos as it had been in Burma and Tha…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 48:01
Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“to traffic, to money launder, drug money from the Golden Triangle, primarily the stuff that transited through Saigon and Thailand and Laos and Cambodia back in the day. One of the founders got suicided and the other one went on the run and …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Open Mic Friday @ 54:05
CIA trafficked
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“The aftermath of losing Vietnam. So when the control of it, I mean, they still buy drugs and opium from the Golden Triangle. But, you know, they moved that to Afghanistan and then we went through the whole initial back in the day Afghanista…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:04:10
Ergenekon trafficked
Golden Triangle book_quoted
“pleat immunity. So that's where this group came from. And Ergenekon was basically, by the late 1970s, controlling all heroin trade from the Golden Triangle, which basically is, for Turkey's perspective, in the northern part of Turkey. And a…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Turkey @ 19:12
Green Gang trafficked
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“He also used his personal yacht for an invasion of Cuba in one of the assassination attempts on Castro. I have that in my notes, too. This ties in the Green Gang, which was the biggest organized crime in China, who were the world's biggest …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 46:03
CIA trafficked
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“We funded the terror training camps that were set up in Pakistan because of our funding of ISI. Pakistan set up a whole bunch of heroin processing labs because of the opium fields in Afghanistan. So we go into Afghanistan and we coup that g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 1:27:46
Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“And, you know, there were a lot of people that came out of there with a hell of a lot of money. And that's kind of what we're exposing in the thread that I've been doing on Nugent Hand. And it's funny how they, not funny in a funny way, but…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 22:17
Green Gang trafficked
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“all the stay-behind lines. This is what our OSS was building towards. I find one of the other fascinating things about World War II and the OSS is what they were doing in Asia. They'd been working with Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek w…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 9; The Ties Between Banking and Intelligence (1 of 2) @ 57:27
United States funded
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“out of the Golden Triangle was much more important than the tens of thousands of military people that were going to die for them to get their opium. Because they walked right in to this loaded cannon and they didn't give a shit about a sing…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie @ 44:39
Operation Gladio trafficked
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“and understanding that, you know, this other faction of evil things happening is all a part of it, if that makes any sense, you know, with the, you know, the human trafficking, the Golden Triangle, all the different stuff you've exposed wit…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 1:37:46
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“But you can't overstate the importance of this drug network that was ran out of the Golden Triangle with Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and that entire region, because they use the Vatican Bank to money launder all of the drug money.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 53:20
Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for
Golden Triangle host_asserted
“The same thing with Nugent Hand down in Australia, which was basically money laundering for the Golden Triangle, primarily Thailand, all of that stuff.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 42:35
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And I want you guys and the reason why I'm spending time talking about this as a refresher is because I want you to understand the attributes of those banks. The same thing with Nugent Hand down in Australia, which was basically money laund…
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ground invasion into Cuba. Because for those of you who don't know, Cuba was being used as a processing place for the CIA drug trafficking out of the Golden Triangle through either the Corsican Mafia in France or the Sicilian Mafia in Sicil…
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During Horn's tour of duty, the ruling junta of Burma did not control various areas of the country because of financial and military limitations. This was true of the Golden Triangle region that borders Laos, Thailand, and China, which is e…
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The narco trade of the Golden Triangle region is controlled by warlords who are able to field large armies funded by opium. Burma's military junta had struck bargains with these factions, such as the United Wa State Army, which had reached …
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We have war wherever there's poppy fields, because in order to have poppy fields, you have to be able to protect poppy fields. And what better way to protect poppy fields than having the U.S. military co-located with your drug production ca…
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Taiwan or recognize mainland China. So now we have another excuse. But you can't overstate the importance of this drug network that was ran out of the Golden Triangle with Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and that entire region, because t…
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belonging to the Masonic Lodge. P2 also shows up in Operation Condor. Their subsidiary was in Argentina. And that's how they were able to coordinate. And it's not coincidental that when we lost the Golden Triangle, we moved to Afghanistan. …
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The aftermath of losing Vietnam. So when the control of it, I mean, they still buy drugs and opium from the Golden Triangle. But, you know, they moved that to Afghanistan and then we went through the whole initial back in the day Afghanista…
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We also know that the closing of the Vietnam in residence portion of the drug trafficking operation and basically the transferring of it to large segments of it, I should say, it didn't exclusively get transferred to South America happened …
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I have done several. If you just type in the search bar Nugent Hand and Murdoch, you'll be able to come up with several of the threads that I've done on that. But Nugent Hand, if you guys don't know, was basically a fake bank that was set u…
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that there was a particular hotel set up by a guy by the last name of Houghton, H-O-U-G-H-T-O-N, that was part of the Nugent Hand Bank, which was a CIA front bank for drug laundering out of the Golden Triangle, that they used this hotel as …
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Richard Nixon's quote-unquote war on drugs, actually what it was, was they were taking out the competition. They went over to France and basically assassinated 400 Corsican mafia dons that were running the drug trades with the number four g…
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pleat immunity. So that's where this group came from. And Ergenekon was basically, by the late 1970s, controlling all heroin trade from the Golden Triangle, which basically is, for Turkey's perspective, in the northern part of Turkey. And a…
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And they're working with these people. So you have a thing called Operation Passage to Freedom. Now, if I zoom out to the 30,000 foot look, we already know by this time that Chiang Kai-shek is doing his opium thing in China. He gets pushed …
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And, you know, there were a lot of people that came out of there with a hell of a lot of money. And that's kind of what we're exposing in the thread that I've been doing on Nugent Hand. And it's funny how they, not funny in a funny way, but…
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This guy basically sprang up as like one of Chiang Kai-shek's deputies to reassert the opium trade inside of Burma. The term Golden Triangle was coined during this period because of the drug-producing region of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. An…
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nationalist version crowd in Burma. An already devoted band of fighters was consolidated on the Thai border and eventually became the Mak Thai Army, a fighting force of over 20,000 troops. By the 1980s, officials estimated that Khun Sa cont…
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And when they decided they were done using that bank as a money laundering, they closed the bank and everybody lost everything they had in the bank. And they don't give a shit. They did the same thing with Nugent Hand in Australia and screw…
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and understanding that, you know, this other faction of evil things happening is all a part of it, if that makes any sense, you know, with the, you know, the human trafficking, the Golden Triangle, all the different stuff you've exposed wit…
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It was never about a long-term win. This was all about situating initially with Chiang Kai-shek in the North before Ho Chi Minh kicked him out, situating him to be the opium controller. They never wanted him in Taiwan. They always wanted hi…
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knew about the Coochie Tunnel systems. The French was very open about the fact that they got their ass kicked. They were very open about the fact that these people were dedicated to killing them because they wanted their freedom. And still …
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in South America come under the tutelage of the South Com commander. So when the CIA went into Columbia, you know, in the late 70s and early 80s and set up the Crystal Triangle, they bring in the primarily the special forces guys, but there…
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for covert operations off the books was generated by opium being trafficked out of that area, the Golden Triangle, spreading into Laos and all of that area and then into the Vietnam. That entire history, very well documented through Thailan…
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the 1992 election with Ross Perot. And like, I remembered it was just sort of this, this weird footnote in the election. Nobody really ever talked about how like, you know, Ross Perot drops out, he comes back in and then, you know, he gives…
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Indeed, as John Evans pointed out, the government was aware the CIA for years had sanctioned heroin traffic from the Golden Triangle of Bermuda, Thailand and Laos into South Vietnam as a way of rewarding top foreign officials in advancing U…
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narcotic trafficking, not anti-narcotic trafficking, just to be clear. Bolton directed the CIA's division and station chiefs, and in doing so, he worked closely with Ted Shackley, you know, the guy supplying it all, who in 1972 was appointe…
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narcotic trafficking, not anti-narcotic trafficking, just to be clear. Bolton directed the CIA's division and station chiefs, and in doing so, he worked closely with Ted Shackley, you know, the guy supplying it all, who in 1972 was appointe…
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With their leader, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek. Oh, and don't forget, we'll rename an island Formosa to Taiwan and say, ah, you can work there. We even set them up shop. We gave them a Navy. We gave them an Air Force. And we were off ru…
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With their leader, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek. Oh, and don't forget, we'll rename an island Formosa to Taiwan and say, ah, you can work there. We even set them up shop. We gave them a Navy. We gave them an Air Force. And we were off ru…
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were on orders to eliminate all high-ranking officers of the FARC and scattering those who escaped to the remote corners of the Amazon. But the operation failed to force the FARC into strategic retreat. During Uribe's presidency, coca produ…
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had estimated that in 2003, they had risen to $52 billion. And that's just from Colombia, folks. This stuff is going on as we... That doesn't include any of that. That's just Colombia. And of course, we had Peru, and then up to a certain po…
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We'll post pictures a little later. It was nice. OK, let's jump into the chapter two of our book. And again, we're talking about the drug trade in Colombia and the creation of the Crystal Triangle. We kind of went over a little bit of the h…
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We'll post pictures a little later. It was nice. OK, let's jump into the chapter two of our book. And again, we're talking about the drug trade in Colombia and the creation of the Crystal Triangle. We kind of went over a little bit of the h…
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came to be. So we're going to dive a little bit deeper into that. And chapter two gives us a little bit more history because it's the transition from the golden triangle to the crystal triangle. And as you guys know, it doesn't go into a lo…
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came to be. So we're going to dive a little bit deeper into that. And chapter two gives us a little bit more history because it's the transition from the golden triangle to the crystal triangle. And as you guys know, it doesn't go into a lo…
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Hawk and the U.S. State Department argued that America should employ whatever means necessary. Arms here, opium there, bribery, propaganda, anything that it took. Rusk advice was thus implemented through strategies of propaganda and covert …
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and eventually the Crystal Triangle. After the Chinese Revolution, Chinese drug lords collaborated with the American-sponsored KMT, exiled in Taiwan to coordinate the Asian heroin trade, drawing upon the support of the China lobby in the U.…
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The KMT's drug connection in China was the Green Gate, and shipments of opium arrived in the U.S. through this route to include the CIA. Support for CIA activities in the Golden Triangle was based upon the preservation and restoration of th…
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Paul Helligwell. So even though they didn't reveal them, we've been able to discover them through our research. In the early 1970s, global drug trafficking originating from the Golden Triangle increased rapidly. President Nixon responded by…
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of doing the drug trafficking, which is why we have to kill all of them. It's a pattern. With the support of the CIA, the government of South Vietnam established a network of drug contacts across the Golden Triangle. A U.S. congressional in…
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Who's trafficking drugs? You can guarantee it's not them. An internal CIA survey revealed that 60% of the world's opium came from the Golden Triangle under the control of the CIA. With the four largest heroin labs in Laos, Burma, and Thaila…
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and most importantly, the paramilitary. It is because of Colombia's narco economy and its economic relationship with the U.S. that the crystal triangle supplies 100% of the cocaine and 60% of the heroin consumed on American streets. Drug tr…
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And South Com. So this last segment of this chapter, before we move on to the last chapter, is about regionalization. And that's where they come up with the name the Crystal Triangle, because obviously Peru and Bolivia for a period of time …
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to prosecute money launderers was undermined by the people in the White House to keep it all quiet. Drug processing requires ether and acetone, which are imported into the crystal triangle. Raphael Pearl of the Congressional Research Servic…
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level of coca cultivation and production within the crystal triangle, i.e. covertly. Even all of it should be covert, but of course we know a lot of it, but there's even more in addition to that is what they're insinuating. And it goes on t…
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to intelligence agencies. Cocaine production increased so much that it became the most important economic activity in the Crystal Triangle. The huge sums of money rapidly accumulated under the cartel system, which led the cartels to invest …
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balance of trade payments, and external crises, a sharp increase in unemployment, and a decline in national income. Within the cocoa growing zone called the Crystal Triangle, Colombia succeeded in developing sophisticated drug cartels and i…
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on average between 150,000 and 200,000 hectares, with dynamic trends concentrated in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru, which is referred to as the Crystal Triangle. Cocaine is exported to the U.S. by air from remote airstrips and by sea from Col…
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The expansionist role of American military force has posed a new security dilemma for U.S. imperialism that can only be achieved through the use of narco-colonialism applied through Cold War strategies from the Golden Triangle to the Crysta…
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The expansionist role of American military force has posed a new security dilemma for U.S. imperialism that can only be achieved through the use of narco-colonialism applied through Cold War strategies from the Golden Triangle to the Crysta…
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The heroin. So the Nugent Hand Bank primarily money laundered for the Golden Triangle out of Asia because you guys are just straight down from there. So you are very, very handy. Plus, Australia had a very and this may have a lot to do with…
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What he did know about, Gritz claimed, was a CIA-run heroin trafficking network that had been operating in the region for more than a decade. Way more than a decade, because we know all about that. Gritz said that Khun Sa, who controlled mu…
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Anybody else got any closing thoughts? I think this has been one of the most interesting, detailed books we've done that took us, I mean, obviously we spent months on the Golden Triangle and the heroine, and we spent months talking about…
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Not only does that feed the black market heroin mafia ran distribution, it also feeds big pharma. With the wanting of the Vietnam War, opium production in the Golden Triangle had also declined. In the case of Laos, it plummeted from 200 ton…
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reversible. The U.S. Bureau of Narcotics reported in 1970 that the illicit opium production at that time was between 1,250 and 1,400 tons, more than half of it coming from the Golden Triangle of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, which before World…
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Well, Vietnam in and of itself, if you look at the Phoenix program, you look at the false flags, you look at the way they set all of that up. And it was all being done on basically to covertly protect the opium production in Laos and the Go…
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and had done so for decades. Processed into laboratories, those poppies turned into opium and heroin, morphine, along with other dangerous drugs. The drug trade was lucrative and as pervasive in northern Laos as it had been in Burma and Tha…
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trying to do trade secrets and all that other stuff in order to be able to get it as close as they could to the way he was doing it, because that was the preferred source. And so once that was done, and now we control Laos, Cambodia, Vietna…
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all of the opium out of the Golden Triangle. And as that is set up, you have the military flying weapons in, right? So you skim off weapons that you're going to redirect and sell to other players. And so you're going to generate funds from …
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Golden Triangle opium field. Dulles' world tour was Washington's recognition of the CIA's global role. For the Warriors, a more accurate sign of their fate lay in Allen Dulles' airplane. In 1958, through a chain of coincidences and misfortu…
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But the CIA is the one that overthrew the government and left when they were moving their operations out of the their primary operations. They didn't ever technically all leave the Golden Triangle. But when they were refocusing them over to…
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We funded the terror training camps that were set up in Pakistan because of our funding of ISI. Pakistan set up a whole bunch of heroin processing labs because of the opium fields in Afghanistan. So we go into Afghanistan and we coup that g…
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But you can score a lot of back points with him and basically say that there's a difference between what you can totally conclusively prove and what you can basically know. And if you're willing to accept that, there's certain things that y…
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But you can score a lot of back points with him and basically say that there's a difference between what you can totally conclusively prove and what you can basically know. And if you're willing to accept that, there's certain things that y…
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The opium trade was created in the Golden Triangle. It was already existing. But the CIA, the OSS going into the CIA kind of harnessed an already existing opium trade. It's probably the best way to say that. In order to fund the off-the-boo…
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Because we were actually running all of that. We trained all of their military in American schools. We had Turkish students in my school in the 1980s. At that time, perhaps 80% of the opium was known to be harvested in the Golden Triangle o…
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as their supply hub. Because, of course, the French Corsican mafia had basically been dethroned out of the Golden Triangle and had looked for alternative sources. Although there were still some being funneled through them because they had, …
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area, the Golden Triangle, not that drugs still don't come out of there, kind of shifted to Afghanistan. Then when we lost to the control of Afghanistan, only then did they begin using primarily Latin America for the drug trade. I've covere…
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conventional manners and it quickly outgrew the approved black budget in the CIA so of course what are we going to do oh we're going to sell drugs so that gave birth to and it's not like it gave birth to it basically the whole reason we wer…
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And of course, that's commonly referred to now as the Golden Triangle because of all of those countries' borders up there. He then goes on to say the raw opium, you guys are going to love this, which was being grown in northern Laos in the …
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Drug lord's percentage of the profits returned to the Golden Triangle was flown to them on board of CIA aircraft. What was on the plane? Gold, 10 million bucks at a time and gold. That plane would return loaded with new shipments of opium. …
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Mysteriously, the records from 60 to 66 were gone. They had accidentally been burned or something. So they could never get records on Bush. Bush was working under Richard Hams and with Ted Shackley all during that time framework. Another ti…
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and cocaine during and after the Vietnam conflict. Once you begin to see the pattern, you can't unsee it. Hi, Bridget. How does one fight Mao's communist forces in China? Sell opium to addicts in China in order to get money to buy guns and …
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nationalist, the Chinese nationalist under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, was the creation of the Golden Triangle and how they used the drugs, opium specifically, to create the covert operations and fund Operation Gladio. And it talks abou…
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Colonel keeps popping up everywhere. They just changed the name after a while. But the CIA with Colby, because Shackley was 66. He was in Laos, 67 CIA station in Saigon. And you have the Golden Triangle. So he became heavily involved moving…
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He also used his personal yacht for an invasion of Cuba in one of the assassination attempts on Castro. I have that in my notes, too. This ties in the Green Gang, which was the biggest organized crime in China, who were the world's biggest …
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Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan. And where has the CIA been neck deep in operations since the 1960s? The Golden Triangle. Yep. And so you had William Polly owned sugar plantations on Cuba. He owned the airline in Cuba and he owned all …
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Isn't that pretty much the recipe for Gladio? Right there. Patterns. A decade before Gladio had ever been invented, they were already doing this. So Mao Zedong comes to power and kicks a lot of those bad guys out. They end up in Hong Kong o…
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all the stay-behind lines. This is what our OSS was building towards. I find one of the other fascinating things about World War II and the OSS is what they were doing in Asia. They'd been working with Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek w…