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United States Department of Defense covered_up
Southern Air Transport documented
“In January 1987, during the first phase of the Iran-Contra revelations, newspapers reported that the Justice Department had recently suppressed a DEA investigation into Southern Air Transport's role in drug trafficking. Here's a quote.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 35:07
United States Department of Defense paid
EAST Inc. documented
“In 1999 and 2000, East received more than $30 million under Defense Department contracts. This is in addition to its unknown share of DynCorp's five-year, $170 million contract in Columbia for the State Department. Gad received immunity for…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 40:27
Gannon Stauch submitted_retirement_paperwork
United States Department of Defense host_asserted
“Literally blocks away from it. And I got up the next morning and I was like, that's it. And I put in my retirement paperwork. I went into work and I'm like, I got to retire. Well, get this. Within 30 days, they asked me to stick around and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:03:34
United States Department of Defense offered_assignment_to
Brookings Institution host_asserted
“Literally blocks away from it. And I got up the next morning and I was like, that's it. And I put in my retirement paperwork. I went into work and I'm like, I got to retire. Well, get this. Within 30 days, they asked me to stick around and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:03:34
United States Department of Defense canceled_assignment
Brookings Institution host_asserted
“He can't go, and my orders were canceled. Complete shock and surprise. No general inform me or anything else. I found out because the monitor, and you can tell folks who that person is who monitors your career. That's your HR person. Right.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:05:36
Alexander Hamilton proposed
United States Department of Defense host_asserted
“Yeah, it's just another way for them to launder money to themselves. Our money, by the way. Absolutely. And Colonel, that's exactly why we should have stopped right away in 1787 with internally funded, I'm sorry, federally funded internal i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner US Empire-CIA-NGOs @ 47:08
Alexander Hamilton headed
United States Department of Defense host_asserted
“The richest man in Pennsylvania, Robert Morris, who funded a lot of the Revolutionary War, writes a letter to Washington and says, you need to get this Hamilton guy to be the secretary of treasury. And he's the only cabinet secretary until …”
▶ The Colonels Corner US Empire-CIA-NGOs @ 47:38
David Barstow exposed
United States Department of Defense book_quoted
“And he goes on to talk about the propaganda that was associated around all of these things and talks about an article written by David Barstow entitled Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. And then it's talking about in 2005, the Bus…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 1:08:45
Mentions (47)
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He was involved in all of those psychological operations. And then it says his other work at the Pentagon in the Office of Special Operations. Lansdale occasionally got the chance to vocalize his views. One such occasion happened in 1959. N…
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Watching his faith as I talked, I got the feeling that he didn't understand me. Imagine that. It was the Pentagon that derailed Kennedy's plan to appoint Lansdale as the new ambassador to South Vietnam. Reportedly, with threats of McNamara'…
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Kennedy formed a committee to canvas the alternatives and present him with a list of options. Given the Pentagon's status as the biggest player in Vietnam, it was not surprising that McNamara's deputy, Roswell Gilpatrick, chaired the group.…
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Prime movers in this effort were the Assistant Secretary of State for Far East, a guy by the name of Roger Hilsman, H-I-L-S-M-A-N, and the American ambassador, Henry Cabot Lodge. In August 1963, a notorious incident occurred when Hilsman, e…
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It's mind blowing because it goes behind the scenes and has a whole bunch of declassified State Department cables between the guy that was sent over to, I think his last name was Pell, P-E-L-L, sent over to England to do the war crimes thin…
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In January 1987, during the first phase of the Iran-Contra revelations, newspapers reported that the Justice Department had recently suppressed a DEA investigation into Southern Air Transport's role in drug trafficking. Here's a quote.…
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operation involving Southern Air Transport, the former CIA-owned airline, at the heart of the IranGate shipments as long ago as last September, only to have their evidence discounted by the Justice Department, unquote. The New York Times th…
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took an 11-page proper based on Palencio's statement to the Justice Department official William Weld. Weiner later wrote in a memo describing the meeting, quote, Weld read about half a page and chuckled. I asked him why. He said, this isn't…
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Wanda's statement that while he couldn't touch, he couldn't vouch for every line in it, there was nothing in it that didn't appear true to him or inconsistent with what he already knew, unquote. Yeah, you know, like Cindy McCain saying that…
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In 1999 and 2000, East received more than $30 million under Defense Department contracts. This is in addition to its unknown share of DynCorp's five-year, $170 million contract in Columbia for the State Department. Gad received immunity for…
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Eventually glad he was spread throughout the world. So are you familiar with Alan and John Foster Dulles' sister, Eleanor? Yeah. And what I found completely amazing is her being, there's the Office of Research and Intelligence in the State …
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So that kind of led me down. And I don't think this point has been brought out as much as I should. But the interoperability of the State Department and their ambassadors, because you see the same ones like William Polly repeatedly in count…
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conduit where they can take CIA officers that's been outed and hide them in state until they can re-identify them to put them back out in the field, the ability to use the State Department in conjunction with the CIA has been critical to th…
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Hank knock and discipline Ted Shackley, a Wilson associate, as well as fire a couple of other officers. He stepped in it. Then there was the denouncement of the Helm affair. Admiral Turner found Helms very defensive when they met. Little wo…
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Carter took office. They loved doing that. Helms was told he was a target of the inquiry. The secret document issued persisted until the fall of 77. The CIA had turned over 60 documents to justice, but they could not be given to the grand j…
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to intimidate any country into complying with anything they want to do, period. And those things are normally done through the CIA and the State Department. And they will privately tell the country that we will withhold all aid. And they un…
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to corrupt leaders in countries that the turning off of the spigot and potential sanctions in addition to that will destroy your country. And so they are bullied into complying with all edicts from the State Department of the United States.…
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Would it have been the CIA that had more authority to get him back to the US than the US government or the NSA? They work in tandem. The State Department and the CIA are not inseparable. They work in tandem with each other. We think of them…
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Would it have been the CIA that had more authority to get him back to the US than the US government or the NSA? They work in tandem. The State Department and the CIA are not inseparable. They work in tandem with each other. We think of them…
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The CIA could enforce something then just as much as any other intel agency and or the Pentagon, the White House. Yes. All the same, is it? Yes. I mean, there would be official U.S. people there to turn them over. But generally speaking, th…
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the State Department and the White House, they're not stepping outside their bounds of authority by telling the officials in that country that you're going to lose everything and we're going to sanction you because that's what the US govern…
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They're just very, very patriotic people and deserve all of the love and support we can give them. Yep. I agree. Their entire government, the entire Department of Justice, all of that power was thrown at these innocent people. And, you know…
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For the love of God, this weaponization of the U.S. government for political purposes is probably the low point in American history, and that's saying a lot considering how critical I am of a few other points in history. But for the love of…
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Both rebels and the Soviets laid many thousands of mines during the war, and both progressed to new generations of them. Later, as the rebels began assaulting defended positions, mine clearing became the issue. Around 83, prodded by the war…
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Milti, as Bearden was known, carried on. One key issue with the Stinger was accountability. Because remember, they're getting them from the Pentagon. This meant tracking the Sams so that they did not fall into the wrong hands. The CIA devis…
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In a maneuver worthy of CIA history on Central America, the deputy director of operations, Claire George, phoned Bearden to certify that the agency had had no rules or knowledge of the attacks. The station chief probably didn't know that th…
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As an assistant attorney general in Eisenhower's Justice Department, Olney had earned the wrath of the FBI Hoover for his aggressive prosecution of civil rights cases and was suspected as being hostile to the FBI. Instead of Warren's man, t…
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There was a smug coziness to the entire Warren investigation. It was a clubby affair. When Secretary of the Treasury, Dillon, finally appeared before the commission in September, less than three weeks before the final report was delivered, …
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and leaping onto the rear. It was an outrageous display of professional incompetence, if you want to call it incompetence, one that Robert Kennedy immediately suspected that the presidential guard was involved in the plot. But Dillon stonew…
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OK, let's go see what this belly of the beast is. That is the Brookings Institute, because I knew that's where a lot of bad ideas came from. I didn't know how bad that I do now, but bad. And so I'm like, OK, I'll I'll do that. I'll stick ar…
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I'm getting out of the military now. I'm like, I cannot take this shot. It's killing people. And I told all the other service members there, this thing is poison. Do not take it. And it's like the cognitive dissonance that's there. It's inc…
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This is where we are. And that's that's my awakening. Sorry for all the long stuff. I'm so glad that you shared all of that because I want to go back and I'm very good at translating the military side to the civilian side. So I want to make…
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Number two, the mask. So those of us who have been in the military and have deployed and had to carry around our mop gear for exposure to biological weapons, it's like a rubberized suit. I carried mine around for six months in northern Iraq…
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His assignment that he just mentioned, being on the joint staff in Korea, for those of you who are not familiar with the military, everything that he described about his career is, and especially his attendance at Air War College. So there'…
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There's a pecking order to it. So the fact that he was at Air War College just kind of screams he's on a fast track. He then goes from there and he goes to a joint staff. Again, those are grooming things to be a general officer. I did my jo…
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even imagine because it was devastating to me as a military officer in retirement to watch this happen to the country that I spent 30 years willing to die for. I can't even imagine what that would have been like to be standing there as an a…
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The only thing that hangs with me is standing over those caskets and those faraway lands and knowing that there's an American citizen's family on the other side of the world that doesn't know that their son or daughter is dead yet. And I di…
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The entire Iraq war was bullshit. The entire six month deployment and time away, missing my daughter's birthday, all of that stuff. And then obviously some of the people don't ever go home. And to have experienced that.…
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And know that every one of those situations that we in the military have been put in has been manipulated. And what they're actually after is the oil, the gold, the diamonds or whatever is a slap in the face to every military person that ha…
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I'll be honest, when I went into the military, I didn't go in because I was, you know, it was all about honor and service and duty. Now, I loved my country. I was extraordinarily patriotic. But I went into the Navy. And incidentally, I was …
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And I still today am proud of my service, but I'm not proud of what my country did in my name while I was serving. And I think that's the dilemma that we as former service members really struggle with. It's like we're proud of our country. …
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was set out to be according to the constitutional principles, but we're disgusted with what it's become. And, you know, again, and you said something very interesting. You said it's not if the country needed something, you know, OK, yes. Bu…
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Well, they're not trying to secure resources. These are the standard oil bubba's going over there to get pennies on the dollar concessions of a devastated country that has just been blown to pieces because of a civil war that the CIA instig…
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And he goes on to talk about the propaganda that was associated around all of these things and talks about an article written by David Barstow entitled Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. And then it's talking about in 2005, the Bus…
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air component been allowed to remain under Army? And I know this firsthand having worked on the budget at the Pentagon for two years. The Army thinks only of tanks and guns. They talk about very tactical level operations. Not that they don'…
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Yeah, it's just another way for them to launder money to themselves. Our money, by the way. Absolutely. And Colonel, that's exactly why we should have stopped right away in 1787 with internally funded, I'm sorry, federally funded internal i…
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The richest man in Pennsylvania, Robert Morris, who funded a lot of the Revolutionary War, writes a letter to Washington and says, you need to get this Hamilton guy to be the secretary of treasury. And he's the only cabinet secretary until …