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Bob Woodward member_of
The Washington Post book_quoted
“I'm about halfway through it at this point. It's like a page turner, especially when you go through the chapters on Bob Woodward. In journalism school, Woodward and Bernstein are held up as these bastions of journalism, right? Great investi…”
▶ HIGH ALERT! BONDI BEACH FALSE FLAG ATTACK AS POLICE STOOD DOWN FOR 20 MINUTES, STRATEGY OF TENSION @ 1:04:26
Philip Graham headed
The Washington Post documented
“Former Law Secretary, Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed and Felix Frankfurter, who we talked about yesterday, who was president and publisher of the Washington Post. Many of these are duplicates. Philip Reed, who had many positions in the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 3 @ 23:17
CIA influenced
The Washington Post book_quoted
“And no intelligence committee is going to change that. Right. Well, it ended up that way, but it's very important to see how the CIA did that. And that is primarily through Operation Mockingbird. She has them just go into the New York Times…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:11:30
The Washington Post covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“and its readers' eyes from such things, Pincus asserted frequently in consultation with the government. We've been dealing with it for a long time, and I think we have withheld a great deal of information, Pincus said. It ought to be made c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 46:37
Jeff Bezos funded
The Washington Post documented
“That newspaper is lock, stock, and barrel, an intelligence operation. And of course, we know the Washington Post and their affiliation. That may be exactly what they did in 2014 with the purchase of the Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 23:35
Bob Woodward member_of
The Washington Post book_quoted
“Woodward was hired at the Post in September 1971. Watergate and all the president's men. In 1972, the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein at the Post was regularly denounced by the Nixon re-election campaign, Republican leaders in the White…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 18:05
Bob Woodward member_of
The Washington Post documented
“Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for reporting on the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, in which 25 U.S. Army officers and enlisted men killed more than 500 unarmed civilians. How is it that Woodward, a junior reporter at the Washington Post, was able to s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 37:08
The Washington Post exposed
MKUltra documented
“Involuntary commitments, that's kind of a double-edged sword because most crazy people probably don't want to be committed, so they do go in involuntarily. But do you really want the government forcing us against our will when we haven't be…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societys 2025-05-29 @ 4:28
Philip Graham headed
The Washington Post book_quoted
“Saturday Review of Literature. Let me see. Philip Graham of the Washington Post and Times Herald. We come across him all the time. Walter Lippman, Ascended Columnist. Henry Luce, Publisher of Time Live, Fortune Sports Illustrated. Malcolm M…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 13:14
The Washington Post member_of
Operation Mockingbird host_asserted
“Newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post, even in newspaper, like I said, once again, newspapers, every major newspaper became part of Operation Mockingbird in which they, what they would do is they would proclaim the news that came from…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2 @ 1:07:01
The Washington Post exposed
BioPort Corporation host_asserted
“As part of an apparent blackmail effort against the younger Bush, the Washington Post began inquiring into BioPort's ownership and other details. Targeted to shut up by George Bush, the Washington Post used Bob Woodward, an interesting choi…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 1:12:02
The Washington Post covered_up
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shootdown host_asserted
“they went for the disinformation campaign. The end result is that the world press swallowed the Soviet version and even came up with other reinforcing stories that the Korean 747 had indeed been a CIA spy mission. The Washington Post headli…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 38:33
CIA member_of
The Washington Post host_asserted
“You don't think that you're operating under an ideology because the ideology has almost become an invisible hand that that is affecting your thinking in ways you don't realize. And just so I think the Democrats have become kind of the CIA i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 1:37:48
Benjamin Gilman married_into
The Washington Post speculative
“And the other thing I just wanted to comment on is that, you know, I think you made some points earlier on about the degree to which Congress was just basically, you know, not, you know, MIA from the very beginning. Yep. With the quote abou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:54:07
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primary channels and the New York Times and the Washington Post. So you can live for three years overseas as a military person and have no clue what's going on in your own country because you're saturated with CIA talking points posing as m…
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on behalf of intelligence agencies. And it's been documented, it was in congressional testimonies in the 1970s, that all of the major networks, ABC at one point was basically owned by a front of the CIA, the Washington Post, the New York Ti…
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I'll go back like I was just doing. I'm reading a book now about the mafia and the savings and loan debacle. I'll go back and read what the New York Times and Washington Post was saying, as opposed to what the Houston, I think it was the Tr…
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editor that was breaking all of the mafia and CIA connections to the savings and loan failure. And they're night and day. One guy's actually on the ground writing and not a single other mainstream media. It was not on news anywhere on mains…
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I'm about halfway through it at this point. It's like a page turner, especially when you go through the chapters on Bob Woodward. In journalism school, Woodward and Bernstein are held up as these bastions of journalism, right? Great investi…
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But it did get actually significant stories in the mainstream press. And one of the key reporters, I might add, that covered this in the Washington Post was Larry Stern or Lawrence Stern, as his byline sometimes goes. And that's a guy who, …
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And I've gotten a lot of collaboration on that since looking into it. And also Larry Stern, who was basically the main intelligence beat writer for The Washington Post at the time of the JFK assassination. And his articles are a woozy, as i…
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And let's see. I think there was one. Oh, yes, right here. He was a good buddy of William F. Buckley, who also was a known CIA agent. So he has a very interesting background. This Washington Post article goes into it as far as where he came…
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As part of an apparent blackmail effort against the younger Bush, the Washington Post began inquiring into BioPort's ownership and other details. Targeted to shut up by George Bush, the Washington Post used Bob Woodward, an interesting choi…
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The School of America's observed the Washington Post in 1968 counts so many important Latin, this is a quote, counts so many important Latin officers as alumni that it is known throughout Latin America as the, basically the coup school, unq…
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I did want to read this one Washington Post quote that I found. Western diplomats set the part of the Congo controlled by... What the heck? They're really messing with me. My television just automatically turned on. I didn't even push a but…
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Lumumba's startling changes of position, his open challenge of the U.N. and the secretary general, his constant agitation of the largely illiterate Congolese can be explained in no other way, veteran observers say, period. That's a quote fr…
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including Left Wing Nation magazine. And I looked during that time at like Atlantic and Washington Post. And again, it's the Mockingbird Media. You see this narrative repeated over and over again. Democracy Now produced a series of similar …
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moderate liberals like Adelaide Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. His economic views, wrote the Washington Post, are those of American New Deal, which is basically socialism light. But Andrus, Papa Andrus, did not disguise his wish to take Gre…
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into a civil war, unquote. President Allente declared after the memos were published, many Americans were equally outraged, quote, how could it be so if it is so that in 1970, an American president would consider the possibilities of acting…
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And no intelligence committee is going to change that. Right. Well, it ended up that way, but it's very important to see how the CIA did that. And that is primarily through Operation Mockingbird. She has them just go into the New York Times…
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And the Pike Committee, get rid of them. And the New York Times and the Washington Post are working hand in glove with CIA. I know that. Yeah, I'm not saying you don't know that. It doesn't negate the fact that.…
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Right. And this makes that point exactly because it shows the CIA's use of Operation Mockingbird to just decimate these congressional investigations, right? They replaced the chief counsel and that was it. At the direct order, basically, of…
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OK, we did a book review on that. We spent probably two or three weeks going over that entire book. So, yes, I am very familiar with that book. Right. Well, not to steal anyone's fire, even though it's been out for a while, because this is …
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And he made two very interesting comments because, as you know, he was a longtime so-called China hand. And he mentioned that he had been also an editor for The Washington Post in the early 1960s. And I'm not sure if you mentioned this, but…
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And as you probably know, that was August 3rd, 1963. And I'm telling you, if there was a loose cannon in in all U.S. media that you wanted to take care of, if you were going to do a domestic CIA coup d'etat, it was Phil. OK, you probably kn…
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It was Catherine's dad that really was the money behind the Washington Post. The other strange death he commented on was there was a Washington Post intelligence reporter by the name of Larry Stern. And Sterling Seagrave said he also believ…
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the scandal that LBJ was going down with on the... The killer? I'm sorry? The guy that killed everybody? No, LBJ's little helper, Bobby Baker. I'm sorry. Yeah, he was on... Well, he had several. He had an assassin that actually worked for h…
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But anyway, I'm running on. But Larry Stern's articles running right through the 70s are very, very interesting. And boy, do they contrast with the way, you know, the Washington Post and New York Times covers the CIA today. But yes, I just …
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Wow. Wow. That's a lot of crap. Finally, the Washington Post Sunday edition carried several references to Haftar, including a front page article profiling the divisions within the rebel military leadership. Khalifa Haftar, a former army col…
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When asked to explain the conflict in light of its earlier announcement of Hoftar's appointment, said, quote, this is the position of the council today. The situation is fluid. The political viewpoints change frequently, unquote. Gotta love…
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encryption equipment from a now shuttered company owned by the US and German spy agencies. And of course, everybody's screaming crypto AG. Yes, that one even has a picture of their headquarters on there. And this article is dated February 2…
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who are basically in control of the intelligence agency. Yet we know it's crystal clear that the intelligence agencies are the ones who caused Watergate. There was Mockingbird Media and insiders that deposed them, Deep Throat and the Washin…
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Involuntary commitments, that's kind of a double-edged sword because most crazy people probably don't want to be committed, so they do go in involuntarily. But do you really want the government forcing us against our will when we haven't be…
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CIA agent who's bought with British money. Young George, as a senator's son, was being given money from Britain to be able to function as a taxi of the CIA. And he also got additional funding from his uncle and his father. One of the first …
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And he was a very close friend of Prescott Bush's. Of course he was. Because they run these ops for the people like Prescott Bush of the International Syndicate. And he was also very good friends with Catherine and Philip Graham of the Wash…
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and who eventually joined the board of Zapata offshore after it was sold, said big money was needed quickly. Rigs grew bigger by the day, and Bush was left with outdated equipment in the struggle. Bush wasn't raised to be a businessman. Yea…
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The dotted line organizations are supposed to have to use covert funding, whether that's drug sales, weapon sales or whatever. That's under the theory that it's actually a legitimate organization that makes a profit, but kind of lends itsel…
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And to get them to shut up because exactly that happened. There was a huge propaganda effort through the Washington Post, the New York Times, accusing Congress of endangering all of the worldwide CIA agents by this investigation. And yet no…
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Ramirez became the first head of the narco-military network in Colombia, which was designed by U.S. experts. According to the Washington Post, he also served as a paid informant for the CIA while maintaining his ties to the paramilitary gro…
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Voice of America, the CIA rag. Venezuela's Guaido blocked from Congress as rival lawmaker claims speaker's post. The Washington Post, another CIA rag. Venezuela's last democratic institution falls as Maduro's attempts de facto takeover of t…
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His November 2018 rendezvous with the Post, Goudreau and Silvercorp would soon attain international notoriety that he craved. When his name first surfaced in media reports connected to Venezuela, the story was almost too absurd to believe. …
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Rendon's version of events appeared on May 6th in none other than the Washington Post, reporting how Venezuelan opposition leaders had smooched with Goudreau at the consultant's glittering Miami high-rise, complete with obligatory mention o…
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Rendon insisted that he and others within Guaido's circle, including the interim president, the fake president, eventually grew suspicious, you think, and began to doubt key elements of the plan. Rendon told the Post that as of November 201…
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between 98 and 2000. And by IRI, we mean John McCain. John McCain was the chairperson and approved all of that, just like he approved the money for overthrowing Ukraine in 2004 and again in 2014. Formed in 1983, Ned represented a Reagan-era…
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than his promotion of the catastrophic Iraq war. Though Trump did not fire Bolton until September, the president's frustration with his national security advisor reached a breaking point following the events of April 30th, 2019. Echoing Tuc…
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I think natural causes, I don't mean to say just anything sinister there, but he was, you know, he was unemployed, but from the big networks, he had to find his, start his own little news site. But I, you know, as time goes by and other jou…
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You're like you contrast it with today and you're like, no way this is conspiracy theory, but it's on page one of The Washington Post every day of the week. It was called the 1970s. And sure, I mean, I'm willing to not willing to say that a…
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Yeah, historian Sterling Seagrave said Larry Stern of the Washington Post was actually killed in 1980. And then we go back and look at Larry Stern's catalog in the Washington Post. That's kind of an entryway, you know. And I think we really…
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His piece in the Times also caught the eye of the Washington Post L.A. bureau chief, Jay Matthews. He did a follow up in December of 1984. The story described rock cocaine as a marketing breakthrough that flourished this metal class drug in…
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All this makes for an intelligent, well-organized system that is maximally effective. In short, it works efficiently and is very impressive and could easily explode across the country, which of course it did. While the Washington Post story…
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Nor did the press notice that a similar migration had been occurring on the East Coast for about 18 months as the Jamaican posses, which is their name for gang, and Dominican gangs from Miami began spreading their markets all over. The typi…
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And I stressed it repeatedly to my editors. New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh's 1974 expose of Operation Chaos, a massive illegal CIA domestic spying operation, had brought on attacks from the Washington Post. They said he had no hard p…
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to a national television audience, but it was the only network attempting to advance the story. The establishment papers, the New York Times, Washington Post, and the LA Times, the same newspaper that tried to one-up him, all were silent. W…
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made it more difficult for them to report it. How could they come back 10 years later and admit everything that they had denied? In early October, I was in New York City getting ready for an appearance on the Montel Williams show, which was…
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It would be in the morning edition and it was highly critical of the series. He asked me to take a look at it and give him my reaction. What did they say was wrong? They didn't say anything was wrong. They just don't agree with your conclus…
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The story grudgingly and often backhandedly admitted that the basic facts presented in the series were all correct, and it buried key admissions deep inside, such as the fact that the CIA knew about some of these activities and did nothing …
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There is no connection between the Contras and African-American drug dealers because Blanton said he had stopped sending money to the Contras by the time he met Ross. No mention was made of the DEA reports, the Sheriff Department's affidavi…
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I wrote, set post, a memo pointing out the holes in the post story. The pinkest piece I wrote, quote, is just silly. It's the kind of story you'd expect from someone who spent three weeks working on a story as opposed to 16 months, unquote.…
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To his credit, Setpost fired off a blistering letter to the Post, pointing out the factual errors in the piece and calling Pincus' claim of racially charged allegations a complete and total mischaracterization. The most difficult issue, thi…
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The Post's conclusions are very different, and I believe flawed, but the major facts aren't. I'm not sure how many of us could sustain such a microscopic examination of our work, and I believe Gary Webb deserves recognition for surviving un…
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Shortly afterwards, I got an email message from a woman in Southern California. There was a story in the Mercury archives that I needed to see, she wrote, and provided a date and a page number. I sent it to our library and got a photocopy o…
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That just cannot be true, I thought. The Washington Post veteran national security reporter, a former CIA operative and propagandist. Now, for us, because of all the research we've done, we know most reporters fit that category. Unwilling t…
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He merely identified himself as a Washington journalist. When the Post found itself under rare criticism by the CIA in 1986 for allegedly printing classified information, Pincus went on McNeil-Lair NewsHour and stated his newspaper wasn't s…
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senior, which of course would be CIA. Gray, Walsh wrote, had been known to float stories through persons close to the publishers at the Washington Post. Pincus had sometimes been asked to write these stories. I suspected Gray or someone els…
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Pincus' big scoop was completely bullshit. The LA Times and the New York Times struck next. On October 20th, 1996, both ran stories attacking my reporting in the series. They took the same tact as the Washington Post, admitting that the bas…
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The next day, the LA Times absolved the CIA of any involvement with Blanton and Menendez. Its authoritative sources was a former CIA director, Robert Gates, former CIA official, Vincent Castorero, and current CIA director, John Deutsch. All…
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But Cepos wouldn't budge on that issue. Thousands of reprints with the CIA crack logo were gathered up and burned, and a CD-ROM version of the series, which had been pressed and was ready for distribution, were all destroyed. The Post and t…
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A week later, George called with more good news. Enrique Miranda, the former Menendez aide who had escaped a year earlier, had been found in Miami and tossed on a plane to Nicaragua. George had visited him in prison. Miranda started talking…
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They were owned by Reverend Moon. Understood, Colonel, but I want names to go with who did it. Reverend Moon. Who in the CIA did it? Who in that kind of deal? Reverend Moon is a product of the CIA and the KCIA. He bought the Washington Time…
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elicited mostly yawns from the news media. The Washington Post stuck the story deep inside the paper further back than they had buried the findings of the Kerry Committee Senate investigation in 1980s, which officially disclosed the Contra …
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Once again, the LA Times found nothing newsworthy about it, and the Washington Post concurred. The release three months later of Hitt's 400-page report, filled with horrifying details of the CIA's collusion with drug traffickers, money laun…
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in Arkansas was a manufacturer of parking meters called Park On Meter Inc. And that's one directly tied to the Clintons, by the way. It was located in a town called Russellville. Reed claimed that the company was secretly manufacturing M16 …
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to investigate Reed's story. While the resultant article was a snide and ham-handed attempt to portray Reed as a crackpot conspiracy theorist, it nevertheless confirmed all of the basic elements of his story. So you can tell it was written …
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exists in the same form that Reed had portrayed them. The Washington Post grudgingly admitted that Ivor Johnson's arm company near Little Rock, which the book portrays as being at the center of the gun manufacturing effort, did ship loads o…
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Mattico described it in the book as part of a CIA plan. He said the rifles were M1s, not M16s. The Post found the parking meter company Reed named did make some gun parts for Ivor Johnson. Another relationship characterized in the book as p…
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to a Time Magazine reporter that Park on Meter was making rocket launchers. So basically everything that Gary Webb said was true. Everything that Danny Casolaro said was true. And Reed Parker in his book says all of this. Excuse me. What's …
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You don't think that you're operating under an ideology because the ideology has almost become an invisible hand that that is affecting your thinking in ways you don't realize. And just so I think the Democrats have become kind of the CIA i…
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Belatedly, in 1990, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. officials had failed to investigate drug trafficking by Pakistan's intelligence services and Hekmata because he and Pakistan was the one receiving all of our tax dollars to supp…
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specifically those with the CIA's literal number one Operation Mockingbird man, Joe Joseph, also of Washington Post and CIA. And they're inseparable in that in that context. You could see him knit that. And especially I'm going to try to pu…
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Right. Just having this using the U.S. government Defense Department stockpiling for commodities for basically as a means of rigging global commodities markets. Right. And this actually was, you know, exposed in mainstream media by Washingt…
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Bezos secured a $600 million contract in 2013 with the CIA on behalf of the Web Services. Now, right after he secures that, he buys the Washington Post. That's going to tell, it's probably going to tell us down here somewhere. Where's the W…
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August 5th, he announces it in 2013. Let's go back up here. CIA contract, 2013. So the CIA is paying him way too much money for cloud hosting. And you have a guy whose dad was in some way, shape, or form.…
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$600 million contract from the CIA and then turns right around within a couple of months and purchases the Washington Post. And the Graham family, of course, has intimate ties with the CIA. And the Washington Post has been a mouthpiece for …
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There was journalism in the Washington Post, in particular by Larry Stern, a guy I know I've mentioned repeatedly, who, you know, Sterling Seagrave said he was murdered by the CIA. Literally, he said that later on in 1980. But Larry Stern w…
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very, very important in terms of the JFK assassination, in terms of the question of whether or not Oswald was in Mexico City, and the intense manipulation involving both the Mexican and U.S. governments around that whole Mexico City aspect …
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The revelations in the Washington Post today, if anyone has not seen the article in the Washington Post today, it's kind of a, you know, ground sort of a groundbreaking article when it comes in terms of seeing, you know, the establishment m…
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Newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post, even in newspaper, like I said, once again, newspapers, every major newspaper became part of Operation Mockingbird in which they, what they would do is they would proclaim the news that came from…
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protested its innocence. Major newspapers, the Washington Post, New York Times, the LA Times, sided with the CIA, as they always do. In lengthy articles, all three papers attacked the Mercury News of poor journalism, but acknowledged the lo…
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at another Washington bank. IBC would then wire the money to IC in the Cayman Islands, which then transferred the majority of it to a Swiss bank account registered to Norse Enterprise. That's money laundering. On March 7th, 87, the Washingt…
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And then stated, quote, it is not clear from the documents who is behind IC Inc., the Cayman Islands Company, or why it was needed to transfer the money, unquote. Apparently, no investigator in the Tower Commission probe of Iran-Contra or t…
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It was controlled again by the same guy, William Walker. Walker is just a nominee or front owner of IC and Skyways. In the case of IC and its successor company, Intel Co-Operation, they both vanished after they were exposed in the Washingto…
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The citizen representative, Jasmine Crockett, was from Dallas. And so basically, she kind of cut off some of the testimony by the three main JFK experts, Jefferson Morley, who is an interesting one. By the way, his grandfather owned the Was…
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but not in complete control of his mind. Sirhan's death sentence was commuted to life in prison, and he was denied parole 15 times. In a 2018 interview with the Washington Post, RFK said that he traveled to meet Sirhan at the…
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Before coming to the CIA, Robert, or excuse me, Thomas R. and Samuel F. McNeil contacted Bob Woodard and provided him a Washington Post colleague, Patrick Tyler, with 16 audio tapes featuring an angry Max Hogle threatening the brothers usin…
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John McMahon, who had preceded Hoogle as the head of the DO, said with irony, I don't know how those tapes got to the Washington Post. And he's a big fat liar. It might have been one of the agency's covert operative. Hoogle was replaced by …
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Because he worked originally at the Washington Post. If you wanted smear stories, if you wanted good stories, he was your guy. He made you look really good or he made you look really bad. Carrie, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. Just a quick question…
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kind of nuts and bolts engine of how the CIA works in terms of going directly to the press and eliminating real opponents of the CIA. And in particular, the key folks in the House Select Committee were just literally replaced by the CIA goi…
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as far as lineups of influences on Lyndon Baines Johnson and the formation of the Dulles Committee that we know as the Warren Commission, right? And I think for me, the number one influence would be Joe Alsop of the Washington Post and CIA.…
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And the other thing I just wanted to comment on is that, you know, I think you made some points earlier on about the degree to which Congress was just basically, you know, not, you know, MIA from the very beginning. Yep. With the quote abou…
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was married to Ben Bradley of the Washington Post. So think about what, you know, we just heard, you know, you read from the book about Saltonstall saying he did not want to know. And now he's married into the Washington Post. You know, som…
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Other details of the White House activity remained obscured, but the summons to Helms came the day before any of this began, when Rampart discussed its finding in a full-page ad in the New York Times and Washington Post. The front-page stor…
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The first leaks appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times. In late September, they were muted by the continuing CIA manufactured propaganda, a case of blowback in which the agency's foreign affairs affected American politics. Even …
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In 1994, a debate waged on the letters page of the Washington Post. Former CIA James Potts attributed the legislation to a complete outsider, the academic Gerald Bender. The true story revolves around California Democrat Alan Cranston, the …
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Right down to shaking Saddam's henchmen, a list of the participants. By then, Bush's time had ended. Iraq became a crossover project handed off to the Clintons. And an interview with the Washington Post, Brent Scrocoff reflected that oustin…
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For better and worse, and again, for better and worse, there was a very, very significant amount of journalism about CIA, not just in the, you know, marginalized press, but in the Washington Post and New York Times. You know, we've been thr…
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after the middle of 1968. And then in turn, you see a decided change, like in the amount of journalism in the Washington Post, New York Times, you know. And again, these are these are wide access journalism sites. It's like that has really,…
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that some of these stories in the Times and Post were not limited hangouts. Unquestionably, they were. But nevertheless, in my opinion, you can't just say, dismiss them and say, because Congress was yakking about this at the same time. And …
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There you go. You're back. Okay. I love debating people. I'm not going to bait anybody that's going to fact check me on Grok. It just isn't going to happen. I'm willing to do it as long as I can cite my own sources and basically say, hey, t…
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in the Washington Post in 1977 or 78, it's just like another galaxy from right now where the Senate is scared to, you know, ask a single question about the CIA. And it's the most unchecked, you know, part of government. So where would absol…
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Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, and a few others. He literally heard nothing back from any of them. He also contacted CNN, Jim Cafferty, Wall Street Journal's Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, USA Today's Tom Vanderbrook, The New York Times, Micha…
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exuberance over its success. A Washington Post editorial saw the overturning of the Iran's democratic government as a, quote, cause to rejoice, unquote. The New York Times took a similar line, calling Mossadegh a rabid, self-seeking nationa…
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I mean, I just I kind of get your, Colonel, your point about, you know, these comments by Eisenhower. And, you know, we see it again with Truman in December 22nd, 1963, with his op ed in The Washington Post. Yeah. I mean, there is a sense i…
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Yeah, and yet I still, I think that there is, you know, especially with the Truman comment, to me, I'm not ready to completely dismiss it as historically irrelevant, you know, simply as a guy who's trying to, you know, from the moral perspe…
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Truman was removed from the Washington Post, I believe after the Bulldog edition, you know. Well, we're going to get to it in the book. There's a lot of context around that. Yeah. And so, you know, to some extent, these comments might, you …
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And and they're basically, you know, conspiring is part of this this coup plot. It winds up the all these internal IT&T memos, which are supposed to wind up in the shred bin, instead wind up on Jack Anderson's desk. And he publishes them on…
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Dulles was so deeply connected to the media world that the critical response to The Craft of Intelligence was all but assured when it was published in the fall of 63. Washington Post heralded what amounted to little more than a predictable …
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The nation's capital was filled with edgy chatter about the assassination. Talking on the phone with Kennedy family confidant Bill Walton, Agnes Meyer, the outspoken mother of Washington Post publisher Catherine Graham, snapped, quote, what…
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He remarked that the bloodshed in Dallas reminded him of his tour of duty in Haiti as a young army major. When he visited the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, he was shocked to realize that two-thirds of the former heads of state, whose m…
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posed by Truman's explosive piece in the Washington Post, which instantly caught fire and inspired several anti-CIA editorials from Charlotte, North Carolina to Sacramento, California. Syndicated columnist Richard Starnes used the Truman op…
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Unable to alter reality, he simply altered the record, like any good spy would do. On April 21st, 1964, upon returning to Washington, Dulles wrote a letter about his half-hour meeting with Truman to CIA General Counsel Lawrence Houston. Dur…
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The Truman portrayed in Dulles' letter seemed to be suffering from senality and either could not remember that he had written it or had taken advantage of by an aide who perhaps wrote this piece under the former president's name. In fact, C…
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Quote, I am happy as I can be that my article on the CIA rang a bell with you because you know why the organization was set up, unquote, Truman wrote back to him. In a letter that Truman wrote to Look Magazine managing editor William Arthur…
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In fact, the commission was, from the very beginning, an establishment creation. It was sold to an initially reluctant LBJ, I doubt that, by the most influential voices in Washington power, including Joe Alsop, the CIA's ever-dependent mout…
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Predictably, the New York Times and Washington Post set euphoric tone of the press coverage, with Robert Donovan, the same journalist whose book on assassinations, had made a debut in the commission. Newsweek National Affairs editor John J.…