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Claims (12)
CIA supplied_arms_to
Portugal book_quoted
“to use CIA-trained Cuban exile pilots that were trained by the CIA in Miami to fly those planes. So you have the CIA actually participating in the fight in order to take over the revolution, just like what they did with Cuba and Castro.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 16:13
Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa overthrew
Portugal host_asserted
“Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa staged a military coup in Portugal. And so keep in mind, military coups are not unique to Gladio, but post-World War II, they were unique to being done primarily in a coordinated fashion around the world by…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Portugal @ 4:13
CIA funded
Portugal host_asserted
“for the CIA's black money. And throughout the, you know, throughout the 50s, became, you know, the reason that the CIA could topple governments throughout the world, started with Greece and Turkey and Portugal and Iran.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 59:26
Amílcar Cabral overthrew
Portugal host_asserted
“Its figure, and I'm going to butcher his name, is Amalir Amakar Cabral until his assassination in 1973. And that's a whole different story. Cabral led West Africans fight for sovereignty from Portugal, a prolonged guerrilla campaign like Op…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:46
Portugal member_of
North Atlantic Treaty Organization book_quoted
“And remember that both Portugal, which was, by the way, a member of NATO, even though there was a dictator in charge, it was not a democracy. And Spain both had dictators. Spain was not allowed in. Portugal was. But they put a huge chunk of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 7:25
Intermountain Aviation supplied_arms_to
Portugal documented
“Angola, too, by the way, several years later. The hypothesis that these were private adventures is cast into doubt by the indictment of Intermountain Aviation, another CIA front company, for illegally exporting B-26 bombers to Portuguese Af…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 12 continued @ 36:59
Portugal member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“called in regularly at PIDE's headquarters. The director of PIDE's investigative branch was the Portuguese representative to Interpol. In the late 1960s, four senior PIDE inspectors toured Brazil. So remember that in Portugal, they were emb…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 44:46
Operation Gladio member_of
Portugal host_asserted
“throughout Europe. Military units in the Netherlands, military units in Sweden, military units in France, military units in Germany, military units in Italy, military units in Greece, military units in Portugal. Some vast undertaking, right…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 45:11
Intermountain Aviation supplied_arms_to
Portugal host_asserted
“And basically, the proprietary the CIA was using this time was, again, Intermountain Aviation. And they were illegally exporting B-26 bombers to Portuguese Africa.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 45:40
Legion of Portuguese member_of
Portugal documented
“the general confirmed, was also directly linked to PIDE and the Legion of Portuguese, unquote. Despite this revelation, no investigation was ever ordered or conducted. It's crucial to remember, as we find out more about the internal affairs…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Portugal @ 37:37
PIDE member_of
Portugal documented
“the general confirmed, was also directly linked to PIDE and the Legion of Portuguese, unquote. Despite this revelation, no investigation was ever ordered or conducted. It's crucial to remember, as we find out more about the internal affairs…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Portugal @ 37:37
World Anti-Communist League member_of
Portugal host_asserted
“It would incorporate the fascist elements of Portugal and Spain because they were both fascist at that point. It would incorporate the fascist elements of the Nazis. And to a lesser degree, the elements of all of those, because there was a …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 8:44
Mentions (120)
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There's a lot more to this one. I really like this one because what he did, if you look through his book, he goes through every country except for, he talks about the secret war in the U.S., Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Be…
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and um portugal agenter press that but he talks here's all of them they exist they're real and they were used um oh what was that oh domestic terror so they were billed as stay behind units with guns and trained to be assassins and torture …
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If you do a search on Grok and ask for people that were associated with Operation Gladio in Europe at the time, and remember that Portugal was a genter press, they had a Gladio unit there. And there was a guy whose name, it's like a four na…
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Hey, good evening, everybody. I didn't really have any comments yet, but I would like to ask you, please, can you spell Raul's name in the operation Gladio in Portugal you found? I'll post it after we're done. Okay. And the next question, p…
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Okay, great. Okay, there you go. Okay, great. I did that. And then also remember there were in, I forget which book it was, but remember there were a lot of, there was like P1, P2, P3. The Masonic Lodges. Yeah. The Masonic Lodges. Do you re…
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Right. Yeah. And the point that this happened in close proximity to RFK's assassination points to an even greater conspiracy than was laid out here. So I wanted to get back to Renee's comment. So when I was looking for rails, I don't find t…
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portugal's was called a gender press so when they say things if you are not aware of the bigger picture what they are saying is technically correct but it is not everything and it's only half of what you really need to know so i'm um very u…
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murder their own citizens and then blame the communists so that the citizens of Spain would look to him for protection. They did the same thing in Portugal, which was also under a fascist dictator at the time. And later on, after the 1940s …
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Algeria because the preponderance of France's Gladio capability and the shock troops and the OAS were all employed in Algeria, their colony that wanted freedom. And the same is true with Portugal. But I had more material with me to do Portu…
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Operation Gladio efforts in Portugal. And there's some going in positions that you have to understand about Portugal. At the time, at the end of World War II, there was a dictator there by the last name of Salazar. And just like in Spain, w…
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was almost immediately allowed to enter NATO with a dictator in charge, which to any outside observer would make you scratch your head. It certainly did me. And if we're allowing dictators in because we have no quote unquote democracy requi…
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There was a plausible liability. If Spain's not in NATO, then you can say, hey, that's not part of NATO, right? And so it wasn't until after Franco's gone that Spain eventually ends up in NATO. So you have to keep all of those things in min…
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South Africa, and then what was back then called Southwest Africa, Boswala land, all of those entities between the Brits and Portugal, all of those had like UK ties, and then you have Mozambique and Angola.…
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M.P.L.A. All right. So M.P.L.A. M.P.L.A. And I'll go through this guy's interview goes through why they would have been the logical choice. They were highly educated, most of them educated inside of Portugal. Very articulate, very savvy whe…
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fighting strategy everything they had the most capability to actually run a government because again they were all very educated the leader at the time this was going on was actually married to a Portuguese citizen and had traveled back and…
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In 1964, chiefly to report on various African liberation movements, since Angola was a Portuguese colony, Lisbon provided the actual intelligence coverage. This office was closed in 1967, mainly, as you suggest, to humor the Portuguese. In …
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that he believed that labor had a bigger seat at the table than what the colonial powers were willing to embrace at the time. You know, that's their label of communism, is giving people decent wages. Netto, the undisputed leader of the MPLA…
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social leaning background of many of the MPLA leaders. They were the most effective, better educated, better trained, better motivated. The rank and file were also better motivated, particularly the armed combatants who fought harder and wi…
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And there's a couple of things that I want to go over here because there's so much here. This is just a short tidbit that says on November 11th, 1975, Angola became a free country after 500 years of Portuguese colonialism.…
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is generally recognized as the strongest and the least radical of the three. MPLA was founded in the mid-1950s and began armed resistance to Portugal in 1961. It draws its primary support from the Kimbundu people.…
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Algeria, Mozambique, and Guinea-Basel all recognized MPLA's claim to legitimacy and all had furnished it with military support at some point in this effort. The MPLA started receiving modest amounts of support from outside entities in 1960s…
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after first having been refused support by the United States. So they asked the United States first, just as Lumumba did, just as so many other countries did. But there you go. However, it was not until April 1974 revolution in Portugal.…
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There was this huge independence movement going around. And in secret, the CIA was already subsidizing a lot of groups that were trying to get their independence from Portugal because what they saw, even though Portugal was another NATO mem…
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other countries in South Africa, like Rhodesia and South Africa. According to the State Department, the CIA did not totally drop Roberto. They basically ignored Nixon and later the Senate's hold on aid to Angola. And when it became clear th…
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at this particular time in the 70s, is when Salazar goes bye-bye. They have what's called the Carnation Revolution, and Salazar is basically in a non-violent coup, is overthrown, and Portugal would become a democracy. And at that time, that…
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Portugal was used for. They created all of the fake passports. This was all coordinated at this meeting. Fake birth certificates, fake histories, fake journalistic credentials, fake photography credentials. I read in one of the books where …
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To some extent, they still are, and we'll get to that in a minute. But grossly corrupt. But they're perfectly fine coming into NATO. And we saw that back when we looked at Portugal, when they had an installed dictator. I mean, it was a soci…
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my formal education and the time that I was in the U.S. military, one of the things that I learned and was taught, quite frankly, is throughout Africa, back in the, you know, late 1800s, early 1900s, when, well, primarily 1800s, when Africa…
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The exact opposite happened. We experienced that with the Congo and Belgium and some of the other ones, Portugal with Angola, blah, blah, blah. They don't leave an educated population. They don't leave a stable government. And what I found …
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the Europe countries with the colonial adventures and how they kind of, many cases, especially in the 50s and 60s, they overlap a lot. While a country in, and just take, for example, the first one that we did was Portugal.…
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The 11th shock troops was the Iron Fist for the SDECE. One of the most prominent members of the 11th shock troop originally was Yves-Garin Seurat. And y'all remember him because we talked about him. He eventually goes to Portugal and sets u…
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come to these schools. However, in Europe, which we will go to next, some of those training sites were the Canary Islands, the island of Sardinia. There's a couple of islands off the coast of Portugal. And we will find that those are the pr…
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But you didn't want anybody to know that you were actually at war with the rest of the world. That entity would look like the World Anti-Communist League. And it would incorporate the Japanese because they were fascist. It would incorporate…
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We've revealed that time and time again. They killed multiple reporters in Germany, in Italy, in Portugal, in Belgium, in London, all because they were reporting on Operation Gladio before it got exposed. You know, the octopus, Danny Castel…
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you can see all these what's happening abroad being prepared in germany or much of it they were closed and you have a lot of people being trained here from abroad in uh message of the persian and political terror and so on i've seen i was i…
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Calling somebody, you know, like the Agenter Press, where when we discovered the Portugal Operation Gladio element being called Agenter Press, if all I ever did was talk about Agenter Press and I never hearkened back to the fact that they w…
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And, you know, some good, some bad. There's kind of a mixed bag as it relates to that. And so, yeah, it wouldn't surprise me that several of these and obviously in Brazil, Portugal was an intricate part of their background for a very long t…
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Is Gladio all wrapped up in a ribbon? And none of us knew that. And once we get through with Portugal, who was the colonizer of Portugal, I'm sorry, of Angola, you're going to understand why. I'm sitting here. I'm sorry. I'm a little distra…
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Anyway, we're going to start a little earlier than Operation Gladio with Portugal so that you understand. Because Portugal and Spain, as members eventually of NATO, are very unique for two different reasons. And we will cover them as we con…
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Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa staged a military coup in Portugal. And so keep in mind, military coups are not unique to Gladio, but post-World War II, they were unique to being done primarily in a coordinated fashion around the world by…
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or aparatcha after World War II. He abolished the Portuguese constitution. He dismissed parliament and basically turned the entire country into a dictatorship. That was problematic because Portugal had a huge colonial empire.…
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At this point, almost no correlation with the Allies. And you will find a free exchange of people traveling from Portugal to Spain to Germany and to Italy during World War II. And in the lead up to it, quite frankly, because they all shared…
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with these fascist dictators because they looked exactly like the ones you just said you defeated. So there's a big disconnect going on politically and economically during this as they're trying to sort this kind of oddity out. And what's r…
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30,000 foot look because, again, most of the Gladio support apparatus that you wouldn't want to have for plausible deniability housed in your country got housed in Spain under Franco. And he wouldn't let anybody come in and look at anything…
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eventually became a member of the European Union. Portugal had a military secret police. And there are several entities, and I'm going to go over each one of them, in Portugal that played a role in Operation Gladio. And this is true.…
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let everyone know what they are. So when you come across them in other research, you instantly recognize they are part of the Gladio network. So Portugal's secret police is called PIDE. And again, they would all participate in training and …
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And because Portugal remained a dictatorship, it was oftentimes very difficult to determine where the quote-unquote secret police ended and where Gladio's stay-behind units began. Because, again, if you remember the whole constitution of th…
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And at night is when they went out and did missions. And so kind of the secret police operates under that same auspices. So with the exposure in 1990 of the Italian network, Portugal's network was also exposed. And while all the regimes in …
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Gladio was always used to suppress the domestic population and to blame that suppression on quote-unquote communist elements, either inside or outside their country. The Gladio units in Portugal were used to prop up the fascist regime. A ge…
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Agenter Press became synonymous with the Gladio units in Portugal. A newspaper in 1990 informed a stunned audience that, quote, the secret network erected at the bottom of NATO and financed by the CIA, along with other intelligent agencies,…
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It was called a gender press and was allegedly involved in assassination operations in Portugal, as well as Portuguese colonies in Africa, unquote. And again, you know, we see because we did Angola yesterday, the implications of that quote.…
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This organization operated not exclusively in Portugal, but also in Italy. Italian senators found that the CIA supported Agenter Press, and Agenter Press was led by a French guy by the name of Captain Yves-Garrion Serac. Serac, a specialist…
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Because the answer was the intel apparatus that was both in Germany, England, and the United States, as well as many others. The name of Gentry Press was officially adopted in Portugal in September 1966. But that doesn't mean that's when th…
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Domestic operations were much more important to Portugal's leadership than a Soviet invasion. Gladio forces were used to suppress Vietnam activists inside of Portugal because they feared the destabilizing effort of the social movement, beca…
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Many of Portugal's Gladio units had previously fought against the African colonial independence movements throughout Portugal colonies. Compellingly, Yves Gaterin Serrat was a Catholic militant who had fought on behalf of France and Vietnam…
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From Spain, he moved to Portugal and participated in their Gladio. And in many ways, people actually believe he set it up. He sounds just like a hired mercenary. The CIA and Portugal Gladio units set up training camps and instructed mercena…
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It goes on to say that such false flag operations will create a feeling of hostility towards those who threaten the peace of each and every nation. And in their sights, that was to be blamed every single time on the communist. A gentle pres…
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networks, the same funding sources, the same people operating them, etc. In May 1974, Portugal's revolution of flowers, and actually I've seen it's called the revolution of carnations and a couple of different things, but it happened in 197…
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was actually, and this is so important, I should have brought it up earlier, a gender press was, if you were walking down a street in Lisbon, you would have walked right by it, not giving it a second thought, because it was portrayed to the…
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with this new regime coming in and supposedly the democracy breaking out all over Portugal, wasn't about to go away peacefully and had planned to go out to the island of Azores, which I don't know if you guys know where that's at. It's off …
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independent government, you know, because it's not like they've done that before with Katanga or any of these other places. They were not able to accomplish this, however, and during their preparation, somebody ratted them out and they had …
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when all the documents got stolen. So then there was no commission because they had no evidence against secret police. Later, an Italian journalist would recall being present when the original raid occurred inside of the Agenter Press headq…
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And they call them different things in different places. For example, in Portugal, they called it the agenda press. In Turkey, they call it the gray wolves. And they did that so that it doesn't look alike so that you couldn't go, oh, my God…
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Using the Cuban exile population, just like Gladio was in Italy, just like a ginger press was in Portugal, just like the gray wolves was in Turkey. They are our American Gladio operations. Go ahead, Ron. Yeah. So I have a question for you. …
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has been in both sides, both Democrat and Republican administration, because he's actually an intel operative himself that has been infiltrated over several decades into all kinds of nefarious things. And he was currently at the time the am…
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That's where some of the arms got caught up in customs in the Iran-Contra affair. So, and by the way, it was for the very long time a fascist organization because the Genter Press, part of Operation Gladio, was staged out of Portugal. So, w…
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When I think he was in charge of the Navy, which he had no experience over in England. It was just through his family. And he actually sent a wire back. I'm leaving from Portugal. And if something happens to my ship, this was Joe Kennedy. I…
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So as a result of that, Spain became a hotbed of travelers that were Operation Gladio focused. Dale Shea, the Italian, Yves Saint-Garrion from Portugal.…
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sort of European sphere kind of influence. And I think it's very interesting how you are sort of broadening that into looking at how we really are discussing a much more broader phenomenon of false flag operations and covert terrorism that …
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terrorist attack in Italy, a scandal shocks Western Europe, the silencing of NATO, CIA, the silence, sorry, of NATO, CIA, and MI6, basically describing the network, the secret war in Great Britain, the secret war in the US, the secret war i…
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also played a role in creating this organization. All of these radios were basically an important resource in their secret war of the CIA against Russia. They used increasingly powerful transmitters located throughout Germany. And from 1952…
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these cases did not constitute the bulk of the international heist committed against Venezuela thanks to Guaido's U.S. direct coup efforts. Portugal's Novo Banco, which is majority owned by a U.S. private equity fund, similarly blocked the …
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Its figure, and I'm going to butcher his name, is Amalir Amakar Cabral until his assassination in 1973. And that's a whole different story. Cabral led West Africans fight for sovereignty from Portugal, a prolonged guerrilla campaign like Op…
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I think that's so interesting just because it looks so much like what was done in the earlier days of Operation Gladio with what we were looking at with a genter press in Portugal and those people using the printing press to create fake pap…
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corporations, large, very rich elite oligarchs that all operated under the fascist totalitarian government of Mussolini. The same thing in Spain under Franco. The same thing in Portugal. They are not at all interested in communism where the…
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Reports were coming in as far as Athens, where Greeks believed the CIA had conspired to bring a military junta to power, which they did. From Portugal, ports were coming in, where Washington had supported a dictator there for generations an…
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In Portugal, officers from the intelligence agency called PIDE were boasting to their victims that a grade school education was no longer sufficient for their work. The new interrogation methods were too complicated. The source of PIDE's im…
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called in regularly at PIDE's headquarters. The director of PIDE's investigative branch was the Portuguese representative to Interpol. In the late 1960s, four senior PIDE inspectors toured Brazil. So remember that in Portugal, they were emb…
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Their war of independence from Portugal was fought without a single dead body. They didn't literally fight because it just was not within the Brazilian population who valued peace and discussion to take up arms against each other. They also…
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started out as a stage actor in 1890 under the name Nathaniel Hartwig. So he changed his name, but later joined his brothers in finance and became a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Herman was a doctor and served as a U.S. ambassador …
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And it does say he was the ambassador after World War II. So for those of you who don't know, with your Gladio glasses on, Portugal was a fascist dictatorship during World War II, supposedly neutral, but they were already fascist. It is als…
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Many of our, and a great deal of our economic interest regarding Rockefeller and company were involved in Italy. And then dollars came to realize that the problem is not only in Italy, but the same movement, this communist movement was erup…
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throughout Europe. Military units in the Netherlands, military units in Sweden, military units in France, military units in Germany, military units in Italy, military units in Greece, military units in Portugal. Some vast undertaking, right…
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for the CIA's black money. And throughout the, you know, throughout the 50s, became, you know, the reason that the CIA could topple governments throughout the world, started with Greece and Turkey and Portugal and Iran.…
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This is the Portugal Operation Gladio that was happening. And so let's go back up there to the top, to the outline. So all of these things here were all of the major operations that he was involved in. And notice what they call it, strategy…
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The Portugal's program, a gentle press. He was in and out of South America a lot. So there's a lot of bleed over that Chirac guy that was part of the Italian new order. He was down there all the time. So they definitely had an entire cadre …
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through the Azores, which is Portugal, and Portugal was a dictatorship at the time, into Czechoslovakia and then into Israel. And that Israel then used those aircraft to bomb residential neighborhoods of the people that lived in Palestine a…
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cited the quote-unquote disposal problem to JFK as one reason to go ahead with the Bay of Pigs invasion. Far from disposing of the Cuban contract agents, the operation led to an almost open-ended CIA involvement with the Cuban exiles all ov…
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Angola, too, by the way, several years later. The hypothesis that these were private adventures is cast into doubt by the indictment of Intermountain Aviation, another CIA front company, for illegally exporting B-26 bombers to Portuguese Af…
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that were calling for independence. The primary target for the U.S., although this was going on in other soon-to-be former colonies throughout Europe, was the Portuguese colony of Angola. That's the one during this period of time that we're…
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that we overthrew in 1961. And it now, during this period of time when the story is being told, has they changed the name when they installed the CIA stooge to be in charge of it to Zaire. Okay, the Angola affair really began in Portugal, a…
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Portugal had been waging a counter-surgency warfare against an indigenous independence movement in Angola, as well as other African colonies. The new Portuguese government had no stomach for this warfare. Now, if you guys remember, when we …
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And remember that both Portugal, which was, by the way, a member of NATO, even though there was a dictator in charge, it was not a democracy. And Spain both had dictators. Spain was not allowed in. Portugal was. But they put a huge chunk of…
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They were very destabilized. And what parts weren't destabilized, they were going to destabilize. So the independence movement was in name only. They still continued to be economic prisoners to the West. So the situation was complicated by …
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This is in the past. So when they had, over the period of time, fought against the Portuguese, which, again, is part of NATO, do you think they could buy weapons from any NATO organization? No, they could not. So where else are they going t…
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Sevembi broke away from the FNLA in 1966 to form his own organization called UNITA. And those people were called Ovimbundo, which was the largest tribe of two million of whom inhibited the plateaus in southern Angola area. The groups had wa…
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but were not allied. Except for the Cold War, Angola would have reached independence without anyone taking much notice. During the period of the revolution, the CIA had played both sides, as they always do. They had funded Holden Roberto as…
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They want to manipulate the outcome. When the Portuguese coup occurred, the CIA formed a special task force, but its purpose was to influence the events in Portugal, not Angola. Both, actually. The connection with Roberto had been maintaine…
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And they pull in assassins from other Gladio organizations because you find Delachey throughout Latin America. And he definitely was a European, you know, Gladio guy. You find that Yves Saint Laurent, whatever his name was, from Portugal th…
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The Dutch West India Company held on to the territory that, this is back in the 1600s, sorry, until 1796 when it fell to the English during the Napolitanic Wars. In 1814, Guyana was ceded to England by treaty. The Dutch Portuguese and Engli…
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not as prime minister, but on the advisory group. Business interests formed another political party in 1960 called the United Front, because we're going to have a spoiler. These people basically represented the Portuguese minority. The next…
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Real quick, a historical factoid that goes back to Rene's question about China and everything like that. And we probably won't get into this more deeply, but Marco Polo was pretty much considered the very first intelligence, foreign intelli…
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He took with him, of what majority I can find, almost $300 million when he fled. You're fading out again. Connections he had. And he had Swiss bank accounts. And naturally, he ended up in Florida and then later went to Madera.…
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Portugal and he was in Spain in the end of his life, both Portugal and Spain. So it all fits in full circle with Operation Gladio completely. So this is like, I'm very excited to see how this all comes together and how Trump plays this out …
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The doctors in the unit organized the first vaccination campaign ever carried out in that country. Another aim, continuing in revolutionary solidarity, was to train fighters for groups in Angola, where an independence movement fought Portug…
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went undercover and entered Cabinda to work directly with the rebel movement. When leaders planned an attack on a Portuguese fort, a larger Cuban force participated, and the Cubans even contributed four artillery guns to the Angola Revoluti…
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The affair began in April 1965 when executives from the Tucson, Arizona firm called Aero Associates approached a British pilot about ferrying 10 B-26s to Portugal. The first transfer went smoothly, but a second flight, the pilot John Hawk, …
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Although Houston denied any CIA connection with the arms shipments, he affirmed the agency had known all along of each B-26 transfer in advance. The CIA document admitted in evidence dated May 25, 1965. The very early approval of the projec…
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committee ordered a propaganda workshop to determine what possibilities there were. The agency reassigned Tom Gilligan to Portugal. One reason the 303 committee came to no decision was opposition from the State Department. Henry Kissinger a…
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There would be murders, attempted assassinations in Costa Rica, Mexico, France, Portugal, Argentina, and on the streets of Washington, D.C., where they killed Orlando Ladier when his car blew up in September 1976, along with an American cit…
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a covert action in Africa, carried out even as the investigations were going on. This was called Project AI Feature. Like the Congo, Feature intended to influence events in an African colony headed for independence. This time, the target wa…
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The Angola affair really began in Portugal in April of 74, leftist military coup that overthrew a longstanding dictatorship. Portugal had been warring against the indigenous independence movement in Angola and its other African colonies. Th…
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Angola represented a classic case of colonial underdevelopment. It would become independent on November 11th, 1975. Until then, under the Albor Agreement, Portugal negotiated with three rebel movements in January. A coalition government wou…
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as did the existence of the Angolan oil production in a section of the country, Cabinda, isolated from the rest. Each of the three rebel movements had its own armed forces, and they were left to fight it out among themselves. Well, not quit…
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had the strongest political organization appealing to the Mubundu tribe, which was founded in 1956 as an offshoot of the Angola Communist Party. It is also the only group that had actually occupied cities and was educated primarily in the W…
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came from the Congo. It had about 700,000 people, many of which had fled to Zaire during the Portuguese resistance war. Holden Roberto was an educated Christian and founded the FNLA in 1954. The CIA had known him since 1953, and he had been…
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They sold the Portuguese B-26 bombers and permitted them to recruit Cuban exile pilots to fly them. They were paying Holden Roberto as an intelligence source. When the Portuguese coup took place, Langley created a special task force for Por…
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While Portugal was in charge, years before, the Soviets had been supplying weapons to resistant forces against Portugal, but they had stopped that for several years. Now it's back on. Moscow had favored the same MPLA faction as Kenneth Kaun…
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as the station chief in Athens, where Langley's headaches were from Greek colonels who had taken over the government. Another CIA collusion story. That had been his second Greek assignment. Potts had tired of political action, but Angola of…
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praised the fighting forces of FNLA and UNITA when they weren't fighting either one of them. They were fighting Mubato and South African troops. The Zulu force represented one prong of a pincer attack on the capital. Roberto's FNLA was the …