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Claims (40)
Bolivia member_of
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“you know, we're talking about, if you will, that's associated with Romania. One of the things everybody has to really look at is the maps prior to World War I, because these people were actually in existence for a long time. Gladio is only …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 1:18:51
United States funded
Bolivia book_quoted
“to improve the image, and that is propaganda, people. No country in the Western Hemisphere is more dependent on Washington aid, wrote the New York Times, and nowhere has the U.S. Embassy played a more basically obstructive role in establish…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 24:00
James Cregan appointed
Bolivia host_asserted
“Oh, look at that. OK, so James Cregan in June 25, 2009 becomes the ambassador and he's the ambassador for 60 days and then he gets replaced by John Creamer. They must have trouble keeping ambassadors. Oh, shit. And Cregan, the guy that got …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 1:31:54
Evo Morales headed
Bolivia book_quoted
“But it wasn't. So with that, let's get to the material. According to Ivo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president. And again, that's a that's a phenomenon that's amazing to me. Ivo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 6:36
CIA interfered_in
Bolivia book_quoted
“in which he not only revealed giving the diary to Castro, but that he himself had worked for the CIA, charging the agency with interfering in the internal affairs of Bolivia. Arrudes finally returned to the capital to stand trial. He surviv…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 34:47
Bolivia trained
Sandinistas book_quoted
“had been Bulgaria's involvement in the training of quote-unquote terrorists in Angola, Cuba, Nicaragua, Yemen, and Tanzania. Now, keep in mind, this is the U.S.'s definition of terrorists because they funded the people that even our State D…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 28:35
Bolivia supplied_arms_to
Mujahideen documented
“The CIA and Saudi money went into ISI bank accounts. Aid in kind, such as weapons and donors purchased directly, brought into the country until 1985. It remained a firm rule that mostly communist bloc weapons would be given to the Mujahidee…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:01:59
Bolivia front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“things that we've discovered here. And as soon as I saw that Hungarian's name, I was like, oh, son of a bitch. Because Hungary, or not Hungary, sorry, Bulgaria. Bulgaria is like the weapons trafficking hub for a lot of Gladio. It comes up o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:13:51
Assembly of Captive European Nations member_of
Bolivia documented
“ACEN, Assembly of Captive European Nations. ACEN brought together all of these organizations, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. They also provided representatives to participate in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 26:30
CIA trained
Bolivia book_quoted
“But supposedly, according to this author, that was new in 2000 in the Serbian elections. Agency officers trained party activists in Bulgaria and George Tenet had made an unprecedented visit there to secure agreement of officials, but the po…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 41:16
George Tenet member_of
Bolivia book_quoted
“But supposedly, according to this author, that was new in 2000 in the Serbian elections. Agency officers trained party activists in Bulgaria and George Tenet had made an unprecedented visit there to secure agreement of officials, but the po…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 41:16
CIA trafficked
Bolivia host_asserted
“And the CIA was intimately involved in the arms trafficking in Bulgaria. And so a lot of those stories and I've read articles by of the same events that like shows up in Washington Post or the New York Times describing the exact same event.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 1:11:04
School of the Americas trained
Bolivia host_asserted
“They also attended the U.S. School of America's in the Panama Canal zone. And by 1964, 1,200 Bolivian officers and other senior NCOs had received training either in the U.S. or on the Panama base, including 20 of the 23 Army officers. The m…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 25:23
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez reassigned
Bolivia book_quoted
“for several more months. In May, federal prosecutor Crossan Anderson called Gonzalez in Costa Rica and told him to get Mr. CIA to California so he could answer questions. Gonzalez replied that he didn't think Roberto would come, but promise…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 29:43
Ralph Pazulo lived_in
Bolivia host_asserted
“Hold on just a second. Let me see if I can find it on my grok history, because it's going to knock your socks off. All right. Okay, here it is. Let's go look at his dad's history and when it happened. Okay, 1965 to 67, his dad's in Bolivia.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 10:05
Roger Sandino Martinez trafficked
Bolivia documented
“of Nicaragua prior to the Sandinistas. Sandino was busted again in April 86, this time as part of one of the biggest cocaine cases on the Atlantic coast. DEA agents in Norfolk, Virginia charged him and 14 other people, including the son-in-…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 48:26
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Bolivia host_asserted
“on the General Assembly floor. So even though they played that speech from Trump, Venezuela did not get up and walk out. In the aftermath of Venezuela's meeting at the UN, it seemed Washington forgot all about its coup in Caracas. In Octobe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 14:38
Byron Engle funded
Bolivia documented
“They were active in over 52 countries. And his initial budget was $200 million through USAID and CIA funds for weaponry, communications, and tactical equipment, which sounds exactly like Operation Gladio. Well, that was the specific OPS ini…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:08:41
Argentine Military carried_out_attack
Bolivia host_asserted
“organization in Bolivia known as the South American General Motors of Cocaine. The Argentinas deployed over 200 military personnel to help coordinate the seizure of power in Bolivia, including an international band of fascist mercenaries, a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 27:23
Alfredo Mario Mingola carried_out_attack
Bolivia book_quoted
“roared into Trinidad, firing at everything that moved. They broke into stores, homes, looting, and shooting. The masked thugs were not Bolivians, spoke Spanish with German, French, and Italian accents. Some, like Alfredo Mario Mingola and h…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 28:23
Luis Arce Gómez installed
Bolivia book_quoted
“although many of them wore Nazi swastikas, armbands, and insignia. The foreigners were soon joined in a frenzy by mutiny Bolivian soldiers, calling for the Bolivian Army Colonel Luis Arce Gomez to lead a national revolution. The following d…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 28:51
Bolivia supplied_arms_to
Colombia host_asserted
“The Bolivians had a military industrial setup that was right out of West Point textbook. It's unbelievable, unquote. The Bolivian dictatorship became the primary source of coca for the Colombian drug cartels that formed during this period. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 32:50
Pablo Escobar recruited
Bolivia host_asserted
“with coca producers in both Bolivia and Peru. The Colombian cocaine trade expanded rapidly as a result. The CAPUS, heads of large drug trafficking clans, organized meetings to centralize production, distribution, and commercialization of th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 40:12
Che Guevara arrived_in
Bolivia book_quoted
“in the Dominican Republic. Despite Fitzgerald's observation to Ambassador Douglas Henderson, the CIA's secret war against Che Guevara came to a head in Bolivia. And in 1967, Che had arrived in the country late the preceding year, heavily di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 17:29
Felix Rodriguez arrived_in
Bolivia book_quoted
“Another Forrest Gump moment. In early August, Felix Rodriguez and Gustavo Valdado arrived in Bolivia and began their special mission, joined by a third Cuban exile agent. They met with Interior Secretary Antonio Argundas, who gave them cove…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 27:05
Gustavo Villada arrived_in
Bolivia book_quoted
“Another Forrest Gump moment. In early August, Felix Rodriguez and Gustavo Valdado arrived in Bolivia and began their special mission, joined by a third Cuban exile agent. They met with Interior Secretary Antonio Argundas, who gave them cove…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 27:05
Philip Seth Goldberg carried_out_attack
Bolivia host_asserted
“is the guy that was intimately involved in the Clinton administration and in the setup of President Trump. And in September 2008, he was kicked out of Bolivia for setting up a coup in, let's see, he moved in 2018 to the embassy in Cuba. Wha…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 56:21
CIA funded
Bolivia book_quoted
“Next, in terms of level of Langley's involvement in Latin America in the 1960s, they were on record as being involved in political action in Bolivia and Chile. And, well, all of them. Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil, all of them. The mos…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 43:16
CIA supplied_arms_to
Bolivia host_asserted
“operation to check out the rumors. American military supplies for combating the guerrilla forces there immediately was dispatched, communication equipment, helicopters. They ended up with a unit of 16 Green Berets dispatched from the Panama…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 46:45
CIA attempted_coup_against
Bolivia host_asserted
“And that's when the CIA was trying to overthrow Bolivia. No big deal. All right. He leaves Bolivia. Now, keep in mind, this is when they're setting up the crystal triangle. So Bolivia is where they plant the plants, right? He leaves Bolivia…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 10:35
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Bolivia host_asserted
“And he talks about the fact that we were in Brazil, we were in Bolivia in 1967, we were in Uruguay killing all the Tupomaros, which were the resistant fighters or the nationalists from 1968 to 73. And then of course, overlapping that,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 45:06
Bolivia front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And we're also going to do, what was the other one, Cousinette? I didn't know we were going to be tested. Germany. Yeah. There's always a test. Yeah, I'm sorry. You thought I was awake. There's always a test. So we're going to do Bulgaria b…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson @ 42:38
Turkey trafficked
Bolivia host_asserted
“with, that are not in the military, with NATO weaponry in their trunks on their way to Bulgaria. Because Bulgaria became the port in which all of the covert shipments of both former Soviet and excess, and I'm putting that in air quotes, lik…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 22:02
Office of Transition Initiatives targeted_for_regime_change
Bolivia host_asserted
“Bolivia. Bolivia. Right. And that was a great post. Thanks. And it got me thinking of, you know, because NED and OTI and USAID and these organizations that kind of go into the Latin American countries, subversing and infiltrating on all dif…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 1:15:04
Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for
Bolivia host_asserted
“that hand ends up running off. Nugent gets assassinated in his car. That bank was primarily the money laundering bank for the Golden Triangle because Australia is just right across the water from Vietnam. BCCI starts around the same time an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 51:48
USAID targeted_for_regime_change
Bolivia host_asserted
“Bolivia. Bolivia. Right. And that was a great post. Thanks. And it got me thinking of, you know, because NED and OTI and USAID and these organizations that kind of go into the Latin American countries, subversing and infiltrating on all dif…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 1:15:04
Bolivia trafficked
Libya host_asserted
“trafficking type scenario where they fake documentation as to it appearing to be from a government when it's not. Massive weapons exports from Bulgaria. So you go around out the port of Bulgaria through the straits there in Turkey by Istanb…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 11:00
United States government overthrew
Bolivia host_asserted
“They don't even grow for the most part the coca leaf there. They get them from Peru and Bolivia. And of course, we had to coup Evo Morales because he was the one guy that said, yeah, we're not going to do this anymore. We legalized the prod…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:39:35
Bolivia trafficked
United States host_asserted
“Not even counting the ones that they because I've read all about these in these books, too, where like Bulgaria was notorious for this. They would issue bills of sale that were certified by government officials. They were forged that said, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 1:56:50
Evo Morales removed_from_power
Bolivia host_asserted
“border areas of Bolivia was still selling coca leaf over to the traffickers. But as a country, he eliminated the cocaine trafficking and production in his country. And he did it by kicking all of the U.S. aid organizations, the DEA, all of …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 58:11
Mentions (120)
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who, by the way, was an arms dealer, to be present in London's hotel room when the deal was made. Sarkis then arranged for shipments of mortars from Bulgaria, arms capital of NATO, and France. Of course, it was still Soviet Union at the tim…
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third party that got the contract, you know, like Khashoggi's, the weapons dealers, they get these contracts and the contracts, let's just say is a hundred million dollars. Well, they took a million dollars and went to some place in Eastern…
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He was an intelligence guy in the bad Argentine army that the CIA sponsored. He was part of a paramilitary group that went into Bolivia during the 1979 cocaine coup.…
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And in some cases, rounding them up into stadiums and then just open fire on them while they were in the stadium. You know, kind of like old Rome. In 1971, Bolivia also has a coup where Hugo Banzer Suarez comes to power. And he basically, h…
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basically kind of made the comment that they had a lot more power, according to the CIA, than they actually ever achieved inside of the country. Paraguay at the time was a haven for political exiles from repressive regimes in Brazil, Argent…
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Not even counting the ones that they because I've read all about these in these books, too, where like Bulgaria was notorious for this. They would issue bills of sale that were certified by government officials. They were forged that said, …
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companies that they were basically doing the same thing too. So that'll be another follow-up on looking back through that and seeing what role they played. Because of course we went through several of them, but they were doing the debt swap…
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It's definitely I mean, I can do full on video. That's where I do all my rumble recordings. And I can't simply be on a phone line to do spaces in there without banding. There's something going on with Twitter. Anyway. All right. So we're go…
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At some point, it would be a good idea to go back and do some deep dives, but we need to establish patterns first. So this story begins, obviously, in 1964. There's a guy by the name of Victor Paz Estesoro who was given a choice when he was…
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But some of them didn't get a choice. The man who led the coup in November of 1964 and replaced Paz, P-A-Z, was the Vice President General Rene Barantos Artuno, R-T-U-N-O.…
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They had had over 150 changes of government in Bolivia in the 139 years of its independence from Spain. But very few of those was from elections. Now, and you have to contrast that with where we were in some of the other ones like Chile and…
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between Fox and Paz. That was something they disagreed on. Paz had been directly opposed to American policy and voted against Cuba's being exposed, their expulsion from the Organization of American States in 1962.…
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He refused to also break diplomatic relationship between Cuba and Bolivia. So that was kind of one of the stumbling blocks between Paz and Fox. But in August of 1964, there's been like five phone calls in the last two minutes.…
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or facing a severe cut in U.S. aid, because, of course, we know that they're going to bully people. And the U.S. or the New York Times wrote an article that basically said that, quote, it was a case of conforming or of facing a severe cut i…
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Leads them, obviously, to the Soviet Union. It always does. But they also approached countries like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, which we know what happened to them, too. Here, the Bolivians eventually yielded to the U.S. pressure. Fox an…
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starting to develop in the mining camps because we know these people all work for the International Syndicate, right? So if there's going to be labor problems and there's going to be problems for the International Syndicate, then they get t…
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And he also, Juan Lecton, was a former vice president who basically wanted Paz's job. The miners controlled their own area of the country. They also had their own militia, their own radio station, and they were intensely opposed to the mili…
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There was a disagreement with the current administration, as in the number of coups that they'd had. They just overthrow the country and move on. And so they didn't want that instability in their area. So they basically formed a country wit…
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their paramilitary Gladio slash embassy people on the line and start cracking some whips. So the minister of mines under Paz was a guy by the name of Rene Zabaleto Mercado. And he later wrote, quote, for over a year and a half, the American…
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And when we want one of them, like in Turkey, to coup the current president, we just pick up the phone or have somebody from the embassy walk across the street. So that's kind of a foot stomper for me. That was one of my revelations in digg…
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that defeated the military in Bolivia. It displaced the oligarchy. It nationalized the tin mines. It instituted land reform and set up a new government under an organization that stands for Movement National Revolution. It's called MNR. And…
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At the time, fostering a missionary militia concept, decades of coups and other abuses had cut a wide swath of anti-military sentiment across the entire Bolivian population. Despite the certain segments of the labor elements, traditional ar…
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It served as a counterweight to the strength of the militias the military did. And because of American pressure, both Paz and his predecessor had permitted, however reluctantly, the slow but significant rejuvenation of the military. Under U…
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They also attended the U.S. School of America's in the Panama Canal zone. And by 1964, 1,200 Bolivian officers and other senior NCOs had received training either in the U.S. or on the Panama base, including 20 of the 23 Army officers. The m…
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with the U.S. as at the top of the pyramid. So the author goes on and points out the conviction was spelled out by a Colonel Truman Cook of the American Military Assistant Mission in Bolivia in a pamphlet that he wrote on civic action progr…
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while Barriantos was still in the hospital, supposedly, undergoing a lengthy operation, he was portrayed by the co-opted press in Bolivia, which we've already talked about, as a national hero and sacrificing himself on behalf of his country…
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One of the lieutenant colonels that was a West Point graduate and an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia. He worked on a NGO called Alliance for Progress. You know, one of those State Department, like USAID kind of things, or George Sor…
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This came from a historian in Bolivia. Hinted publicly that Paz's police had been responsible for the alleged attack. Strong pressures from other high officers as well was exerted upon Paz to vindicate both himself and Barriantos by belated…
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Now, keep in mind that all of these same people that were trained at schools of America would have been trained on bomb making because that's part of the curriculum. Paz had been reelected because of the opposition claiming, amongst other t…
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This period of public chaos and government crisis may have hastened the timing of the coup, which obviously is the CIA's desire. At the same time, convincing reluctant officers who didn't want to have anything to do with another coup and wa…
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would report, quote, has still insisted that Fox was behind his ouster. That's the colonel, the U.S. Air Force colonel. Among Bolivians with an awareness of politics, it is hard to find anyone who disagrees, unquote. So Rene Barriantos pres…
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Miner's boss, Juan Lecton, and other union leaders were ordered exiled and principal labor confederations was banned. All Bolivian unions were directed to reorganize under guidelines that basically made them wards of the state. And of cours…
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So what I'm going to do is kind of give you a general overview of Bulgaria. So I want to start with a map. And if we could post the map, I will, for those of you who don't have access to the internet while you're on here, you may just be li…
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Due east, you go across the Adriatic into several of the smaller, like Bosnia, the old Yugoslavia breakups. And just before you hit the Black Sea, due east, you're going to hit Bulgaria. Bulgaria rests north of Turkey. And it also has...…
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And they have quite a bit of coast on the Black Sea. So obviously in the former Soviet Union, they kind of are nestled in a very convenient place to be. And their access to the Black Sea is how they were able to become the number one arms t…
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post-World War II. But what is most interesting about this to me is, who's got their mic unmuted? Sally? Yeah, thank you. So what's interesting about this is that we've been in control of Turkey for quite a long time. The only way shipping-…
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Bulgarian arms broker with a history of controversial deals. Can y'all hear me? Liza's saying that there's an issue with the sound. Yeah, so it must be Liza. I'm going to drop her down and we'll bring her back up just to see. So anyway, the…
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But when you read this with Gladio glasses on, it's going to change everything. So he's a Russian arms dealer, but mainly the arms that he got was out of Bulgaria, just FYI. But you can't call him a Bulgarian arms dealer. You have to call h…
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Mossad, M-A-S-S-A-U-D. And Bout was actually arming them against the CIA. I find this absolutely crazy that literally everything they've told us is a lie. So in 2000, a UN report identifies that the Bulgarian arms manufacturing company…
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had been exporting all kinds of different weapons to basically all over. And they cite in that report that he was arming the MPLA while the CIA was arming UNITA in the Angolan conflict. In the report, it also mentions the Zaire, which is ac…
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in the past, much of it reads completely different once you understand what's going on. So the next thing we're going to do is move to a review of the Bulgarian arms trade that was written up in the Human Rights Watch report in 1999. And ba…
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that the Bulgarian arms industry became the cornerstone. They were for the Soviet Union like the hot spot within the Soviet Union for manufacturing weapons. And at the time, because of the need for weaponry for the Soviet Union, there was v…
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to basically Bulgaria. Because every time somebody picked up the phone and says the CIA is kicking my ass in Nicaragua or Guatemala or Chile or wherever, the phone basically ended up in Bulgaria for weapons. So business was very good, but o…
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What's interesting, and Cousin It found this, is that at the other end of the hotline was also Robert Maxwell. He had, through MI6 and Mossad, a huge presence in Bulgaria in the arms business. So do you see how that goes round circle? I'm g…
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the scale of what we're talking about. The Bulgaria arms industry was the cornerstone of their national economy. I mean, everything rested on that. And they earned about 20% on the sale of all of the weapons. And their industry...…
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at least in that year alone, was on an annual basis over a billion dollars. And it also says at its peak could be five billion a year. So this is not chump change. This is a very big deal. There was a state-owned manufacturing trading firm …
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And if you look up Kintex, basically what it says, it was an arm of the Bulgarian Communist Party. It was actually a company owned by the state, which in 1991, obviously, the Communist Party went away and it was still manufacturing weapons.…
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and this is what I love the way, and I'm reading from Wikipedia the way they describe this, weapons selling to smugglers and terrorists with both right-wing and left-wing political sympathies. And some of these deals went through Turkey bec…
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Algeria trying to get their freedom from France. So you see how much we've learned in such a short period of time that you can read this stuff now and understand what's going on. Kintex maintained three bases in Sofia to load smuggled goods…
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which is those ports that I was trying to kind of explain to you that they have to go through. Kentex realized annual profits between $5 million and $15 million. And this is just one of many of these companies inside of Bulgaria. And it say…
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The Human Rights Report says it supplied Bulgarian-made weapons to countries of the Warsaw Pact and communist-backed governments and rebel groups on several continents. The official figures are not available, but basically it ended up being…
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who maintained that the country was covertly supplying so-called terrorist groups because they're the enemy. Kintex was closely tied to the Bulgarian Secret Service, thereby contributing to suspicions of arms dealing. Kintex's first post-co…
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He stated, it is possible these arms reached other groups, but we supplied them legally. If they are selling weapons after we ship them, that's their responsibility. Bulgaria's interior minister said in a 1992 statement that during the comm…
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who was kicking the CIA off the island. In Nicaragua, they're talking about the Sandinistas, who were actually the good guys, not the Contras, who the CIA supported. And the same is true in Yemen and Tanzania. So it's how the international …
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and they were in a financial crisis. So it basically says that they tried to convert this entire industry over to private use. And in the interim of trying to do that, the country, because they were government-owned entities, had incurred m…
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The safe, the storage place where all of the Soviet documentation of this kind of activity was stored had a mysterious fire. So I'm sure that's just a coincidence. So anyway, Bulgaria is in desperate straits because they have all of this ar…
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a mafiosa type setup of trading covert arms to arm anybody basically that was against, previously was against the CIA. But now Bulgaria, as of like 2004, actually becomes part of NATO. And they are still, during that time,…
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He's been annoying for days. What I was going to say on the topic is, did you see the post I tagged you in about the attempted coup in Bolivia? Yesterday? Yes. Oh, yeah. That's very interesting, actually, that it was not successful. So the …
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If you look at the ambassadors for Bolivia, they seem to have a problem keeping a job. So you have October 2022, you've got Jaron Hilsman. June 2023, you've got Marcos Mandojana. And in July, a month later, you have Joe Tordella.…
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Okay. Yeah, I knew somewhere in the back of my head. Thank you. Y'all aren't going to believe this. So, I love this. There is a WikiLeaks message from 2009, April 16th. Listen to this. Early April 16th, the Bolivian National Police SWAT tea…
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Hold on just a second. So if I go back to ambassadors to Bolivia, because that was in 2009, I definitely want to mark on my ambassador bad guy list, the one that was there in 2009, because obviously he's one of the players too.…
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pockets of terrorists on these outer islands doing all kinds of shit. So Zuccaro, in this creation of this centralized army, has to have weapons. Well, if you're not going to get weapons from the U.S. and you're not going to get weapons fro…
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In 1980, according to the investigative magazine IF, the Moon Organization collaborated with multiple right-wing military coups in many different countries, but specifically Bolivia that established the region's first narco state. Moon's cr…
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You've got Cyprus and you have Turkey. And all of those areas are places where you have a lot of destabilization. Now, look just north past Greece and remember everything that we talked about, about Bulgaria. Bulgaria was one of the biggest…
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trafficking type scenario where they fake documentation as to it appearing to be from a government when it's not. Massive weapons exports from Bulgaria. So you go around out the port of Bulgaria through the straits there in Turkey by Istanb…
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in Turkey. And it is likely that the same weapons boats that are going through the Straits of Turkey from Bulgaria, a known weapons trafficking country for Operation Gladio, is picking up the people as they go through the Straits there in T…
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Paraguay is the pathway that connects Brazil and its ports to Peru and Bolivia and their natural resources. So it's inland. There's no ocean in Paraguay. So it's in Bolivia. So I think of it as the pathway to Peru. So that's what helps me. …
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Paraguay that you have access like right as it comes into the northeast of Paraguay part of the water basin that goes up through South America and that is where the bush ranch is that's a hundred thousand acres that is littered with airstri…
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is a U.S. ambassador. His background includes ambassadorships in the Philippines, Bolivia, and Colombia. He also was a U.S. mission to Kosovo. He, in his Washington, D.C. State Department role,…
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is the guy that was intimately involved in the Clinton administration and in the setup of President Trump. And in September 2008, he was kicked out of Bolivia for setting up a coup in, let's see, he moved in 2018 to the embassy in Cuba. Wha…
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nelson rockefeller's long island if you will and they kind of need for an extension of the you know commie bad guys emanating from russia right they need a bad guy kind of in the neighborhood in the region and wouldn't it be convenient if t…
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We rolled right out of those two, the Morocco and the Suriname, into Libya. And then Nicaragua, Panama, Bulgaria. And Bulgaria started towards the end of Reagan's administration, but most of it happened during the Bush senior administration…
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All of the money that went in, because we spent more money in Turkey than anywhere on the mill-to-mill sales. And if you go and read different people who live in Turkey and what they write about the arms market, and look where Bulgaria is i…
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with, that are not in the military, with NATO weaponry in their trunks on their way to Bulgaria. Because Bulgaria became the port in which all of the covert shipments of both former Soviet and excess, and I'm putting that in air quotes, lik…
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that we're trying to establish here on how this whole thing works. Okay, so that's what I got for today. I just wanted to put that as our last segment. We collectively decided that we're going to do tomorrow. What was tomorrow? We're going …
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And we're also going to do, what was the other one, Cousinette? I didn't know we were going to be tested. Germany. Yeah. There's always a test. Yeah, I'm sorry. You thought I was awake. There's always a test. So we're going to do Bulgaria b…
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Tomorrow, Bulgaria. Friday, Germany. And then we will most likely, there's a whole lot more obviously we could do in Europe. What we're doing is sampling. We can circle back and do our Jan Socky circle back.…
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Several sources revealed that he outbids rivals to buy explosive shells from Bulgarian arms factories. Okay, so back up just a second. We have, through a series of all of our Operation Gladio, unequivocally proven that Bulgaria, probably se…
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is the leading supplier of arms to Operation Gladio today. So this is astounding. Let me read that again. Several sources reveal that he outbids rivals to buy explosive shells from Bulgarian arms factories. Government documents and intervie…
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and armored vehicles to Ukraine from Bulgaria, Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan. Now let me redo these. Jordan and Pakistan have been under the control of MI6 and the CIA since their beginning. So basically we're saying Bulgaria, Egypt, and MI6 …
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and Afghanistan, everywhere else. Mr. Morales' big break in Ukraine came early in the war. He had a warehouse full of ammunition in Bulgaria that the Pentagon had bought for use in Afghanistan. The Pentagon approved sending it to Ukraine in…
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the Soviet Union, Stalin, watching what is going on in what the U.S. and the Brits are doing to the Greeks. And what you will find is in the aftermath of watching them do this, it was only then that the Romania, Bulgaria, and...…
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It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example in Bulgaria and then Romania, though with much less bloodshed by Stalin, unquote. A secession of Greek governments followed, serving by the grace of the British and the U.…
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of the American rationale over the next two and a half years that Russians were trying to get into Greece, that they were paying the guerrillas, and that had it not been for the U.S. and the divisive tactics being used, Greece would go comm…
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the old territorial claims against Greece, did aid some of the insurgents with military supplies. But again, this is that old discussion that we've had many times. If you are fighting the United States, you have nowhere else to go get arms.…
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for several more months. In May, federal prosecutor Crossan Anderson called Gonzalez in Costa Rica and told him to get Mr. CIA to California so he could answer questions. Gonzalez replied that he didn't think Roberto would come, but promise…
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of Nicaragua prior to the Sandinistas. Sandino was busted again in April 86, this time as part of one of the biggest cocaine cases on the Atlantic coast. DEA agents in Norfolk, Virginia charged him and 14 other people, including the son-in-…
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with conspiracy to import 700 pounds of cocaine worth $158 million. The dope wasn't theirs, however. It belonged to the DEA, which brought it into the United States from Bolivia to use as bait in a reverse sting, a scheme in which the polic…
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They talked about peace treaties for Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria that had participated in World War II. At the end of 1947, a conference ended with no accords at all. Even negotiations for a peace treaty with Austria was broken off by Ma…
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presence in Eastern European nations rather than withdrawing. And after the peace treaties of Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, the Soviet troops stayed in place. Russian diplomats walked out of a meeting of the Foreign Council of Ministers. …
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there as well. Behind the Mask of the Red Death, which was another Greece operation. Goodbye, Piccadilly, which is Bulgaria. And this book, reading about Bulgaria was the first book that clued me in. And again, at this point, I'm only like …
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for most of the illicit arms trafficking around the world. And later, Israel kind of one-upped Bulgaria. But Bulgaria was very important because a lot of the weapons trafficking that was going on that I discovered is, for example, in Afghan…
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funneling money through the ISI so everybody could get their cut, and then into the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Russians, they were actually buying old rusted weapons from Bulgaria that was actually Soviet weapons. And they were …
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and the Colombia proximity to neighboring crystal triangle countries, Peru and Bolivia. And then again, also Panama for the monetary piece of this. It also created transit countries, Mexico, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. The consumer…
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Colombian traffickers were dependent upon Peruvian and Bolivian sources of the coca leaf. In 2001, Colombians' land total area under coca cultivation was three times the size of that used to grow the combined Peru-Bolivia crop. In terms of …
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That marked a turning point for Colombians' cocaine production as traffickers switched to relying more on Colombia rather than Peruvian or Bolivian sources for their cocaine-based supply. And of course, we know during this time, Evo Morales…
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had estimated that in 2003, they had risen to $52 billion. And that's just from Colombia, folks. This stuff is going on as we... That doesn't include any of that. That's just Colombia. And of course, we had Peru, and then up to a certain po…
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The tracking down of Che Cabrera by the CIA in 1967 was a classic case of covert intelligence operations using drug trafficking, a Bolivian counter-narcotics unit, and the FBN, which later became the DEA. In the 21st century, American count…
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has turned this region into a major coca-producing area, which I would contend was the whole purpose, along with stealing all their other resources. This might have been predicted when the U.S. vigorously pursued coca eradication programs i…
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Both in the U.S. and its anti-communist allies feared that Bolivia, with its first female president in 1979, Lydia Goyer Tejada, of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement Party, along with politicized indigenous peasants and labor unions, w…
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In Nicaragua that same year, the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by the Sandinistas' Liberation Front, which launched agrarian reform, which pissed off United Fruit because they were going to take their land back that they ha…
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organization in Bolivia known as the South American General Motors of Cocaine. The Argentinas deployed over 200 military personnel to help coordinate the seizure of power in Bolivia, including an international band of fascist mercenaries, a…
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although many of them wore Nazi swastikas, armbands, and insignia. The foreigners were soon joined in a frenzy by mutiny Bolivian soldiers, calling for the Bolivian Army Colonel Luis Arce Gomez to lead a national revolution. The following d…
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part of the world anti-communistly, which is why that organization, why we covered it in such depth, because it really is one of the key networks behind it all. It should immediately set up a flag. Anytime you hear the word anti-communist. …
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as a cocaine revolution and actually accused the government. And this is before Evo Morales gets there. This is before him. He's the one that gets rid of it again. But these guys, whatever her name was, Lydia, the female president, was goin…
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They couldn't have that. She was going to kick the U.S. out of Bolivia. They couldn't have that. So they rush in all of these thugs and murderers, overthrow her government. The U.S. immediately recognizes it. And then the U.S. State Departm…
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Be a narco-trafficker. So, there you go. Another pattern. Jake Sells, S-A-L-E-S, a CIA pilot based in Bolivia, described what he saw as an extensive jungle-based cocaine manufacturing complex containing laboratories, heavy armaments, radio …
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The Bolivians had a military industrial setup that was right out of West Point textbook. It's unbelievable, unquote. The Bolivian dictatorship became the primary source of coca for the Colombian drug cartels that formed during this period. …
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with coca producers in both Bolivia and Peru. The Colombian cocaine trade expanded rapidly as a result. The CAPUS, heads of large drug trafficking clans, organized meetings to centralize production, distribution, and commercialization of th…
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Mr. CIA himself and CIA Director William Casey were behind the operation. The aim was to centralize the cocaine trade in Colombia and neutralize Bolivia and Peru as rivals. A tactical commander of Pseudo Miranda, Buki attended the Zurich me…
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Cocaine paste was Bolivia. This nation held a near monopoly on coca production. 80% of the world's processed cocaine came from Bolivia from the start. Stephen Crittenden, a CIA veteran of Southeast Asia and Latin America, has reported that …
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Yes, I know. I've found them, you know, but they don't check the... No, they don't check the UPS packages either. Same here. Oh, my God. Distributed cocaine and covert operations involving the DEA as well. And the DEA was in on a lot of thi…
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of this money paid for the drug shipments arriving in South and Central America, which would be distributed by Bolivians and Colombians. The cocaine flights came from a network of private airstrips in Bolivia via Colombia. After January 197…
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The growth of cocaine production in Colombia and trade involved in the ascendancy of military-civilian regimes committed to extending the market relations with the U.S. were created. These included Argentina's military junta of 1976, Bolivi…
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Bush is CIA, Greg is CIA, and Felix is CIA. Running the Iran-Contra. Of course. Out of the Vice President's office. Greg had a decades-long friendship and association with none other than Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-born CIA operative credited…
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And wound up in the international news. So that may have been the beginning of the end. And what's really interesting about, and I don't know whether the movie was trying to depict something that they said was true or not. I'm not familiar …
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And there's a very interesting that the that connection is rarely ever identified in news that's produced in the United States. It is always if you read European news with any of this stuff, they pinpoint Bulgaria repeatedly.…
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In America, because we want to attribute everything bad to the Soviet Union and now Russia, you don't understand here, because of the way the news is crafted as opposed to reported, you don't understand that Bulgaria was the pivot point.…
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And the CIA was intimately involved in the arms trafficking in Bulgaria. And so a lot of those stories and I've read articles by of the same events that like shows up in Washington Post or the New York Times describing the exact same event.…
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translate that and you find out the word Bulgaria is in there multiple times, but not here. I find that extremely interesting because, again, one of the kind of patterns, if I see the word Bulgaria in any of the research that I do, I know i…