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United States overthrew
Puerto Rico host_asserted
“the only one that really comes to mind. But we are also the only country with God-given rights, with the Bill of Rights. They can't be taken away. All these other countries, they might have a constitution or something written. It can be tak…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:21:12
United States overthrew
Puerto Rico host_asserted
“battles fought for decades under the occupation of the Spanish in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. When the US entered the war, they thought the US was coming to save them. And in turn, we occupied them. And we were more vicious than…”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones @ 37:41
United States Marine Corps carried_out_attack
Puerto Rico host_asserted
“events occurred as far as the coups and the takeover, the secret armies being used. In large part during that time, they were actually using the United States Marine in lieu of stay-behind units. And you find throughout the territories that…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 3:39
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events occurred as far as the coups and the takeover, the secret armies being used. In large part during that time, they were actually using the United States Marine in lieu of stay-behind units. And you find throughout the territories that…
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booze runners, the drug runners, whatever you want to call it. So that entire apparatus was moved under and housed in the CIA when it stood up in the late 40s after World War II, because that is the element that went around the world, becau…
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It says, despite the fact that the arms brokers were not licensed to import military weapons to the U.S., instead, one of them was affiliated with a U.S. front company that could only legally import handguns and hunting rifles. In addition,…
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And they're basically talking about what we have talked about with the Spanish-American War and ending up with Cuba and Puerto Rico and our involvement in that area. The U.S. resolved to build an interoceanic canal, which we've talked about…
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Countries that allowed them free reign were considered progressive and friendly. Those that did not were turned into basically a war. The first burst of American expansionism was over by the time President Taft left office in the beginning …
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um changed our isolationist policy to be um one of the big government um globalist and of course um the author goes on and we've talked about this to talk about the hawaiian the philippine the puerto rico um sessions after the um uh america…
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It's interesting to note that Alan Dulles, when the crisis first erupted, had taken the precaution of not being in town. And we've already talked about that. We know that he was in Puerto Rico, given this crucial speech, which could have be…
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the only one that really comes to mind. But we are also the only country with God-given rights, with the Bill of Rights. They can't be taken away. All these other countries, they might have a constitution or something written. It can be tak…
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Think about that. Hold on. Hold on. Your numbers are way off. Fifty six regime change. And I'm not talking about taking over like Puerto Rico. I'm talking about. No, no. We have over 80 governments. Wow. Wow. There's over 400 coups. Not tha…
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nationalist who opposed the CIA from being there because in the CIA's eyes, they were just as evil as anyone that was actually literally a communist because both of those people in both of those groups did not want the CIA or the U.S. in th…
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the wrong person gets elected, like in Chile, they're going to kill them. And then they're going to install their corrupt elitist. And so in these cases where, like what we did with Spain, they had established a corrupt elitist system in th…
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He married a woman named Helen Julia Hay. And who's Helen Julia Hay? Well, her father was a guy by the name of John Hay, who just happened to be the U.S. Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905. Yeah, he came up in the Panama. Yeah, exactly. W…
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What's that part come back again in the story today? It's amazing, all these connections. I mean, we have a bonesman that marries into the Secretary of State while this stuff is going on. Come on, you can't make this stuff up. Yeah, and jus…
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He's the one who framed the civilian governments of Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, etc. This is the guy. Yes. He would step down from that and become Secretary of State in 1905 through 1909. And then he would become a U.S. Senator from New…
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Elihu Root. Oh, my gosh. For those who don't remember, Elihu Root, yeah, was the guy whose law firm. First of all, Elihu Root was a secretary of state from 1905 to 1909. He was a secretary of war from 1899 to 1904. He's the guy that framed …
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trying to counteract them right away? And was Joseph McCarthy actually calling them out without really saying their name? Because there had to be other intel agencies that knew that from the start, this was going to be bad. So not intel age…
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Now, when it comes to the logistics that you're talking about, unfortunately, with the cartels, the NARC subs, I think that's kind of a little bit maybe what you're hinting at. Yeah. Right. So they actually also build them right kind of ove…
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I was assigned to the U.S. Virgin Islands in Puerto Rico as the senior intelligence officer from Homeland Security. I answered to nobody in the Caribbean. My boss was in Atlanta. His boss was at the secretary level at DHS back in 2012 to 20…
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They were Venezuelan boats, and they were drug boats that came basically island hopping through the Antilles and all the way up to USVI in Puerto Rico. You have a lot of coastline there, a lot. If drugs or people can get to either Dominican…
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Any kind of customs and border protection, they don't go through any real screenings because of that. During that time, we had small planes that would fly over the mountains in Puerto Rico, drop drugs in the mountains to be collected. To be…
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an apartment in the projects, and they stash it there until they can move it. Puerto Rican law enforcement, Puerto Rican government tries not to go into the housing projects because they get shot up. If they turn off the power for nonpaymen…
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one-ups to each other. You know, I've got this territory over here. I've got this territory over here. And then they would squabble among themselves like the Spanish-American War. The peasantry didn't fare any better under one than they did…
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in the 18 months that separated the Bay of Pigs from the Cuban Missile Crisis. There were numerous attempts to infiltrate agents into Cuba. Most of them failed. There were several schemes aimed at assassinating Fidel Castro, and obviously t…
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The next day, Eisenhower told a party of congressional leaders that he was ordering the Navy to actually stop any suspicious ship, which, by the way, is illegal. Altham herself was intercepted on the return voyage and escorted to Key West f…
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to establish his base. The rebels were citizens of their own countries. So in other words, there were going to be some lookalike revolution attempts since Castro had successfully done his. Not from outside forces, from people from those cou…
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restore the revolution isn't talking about the Cuban. They want their Batista-like guy back in charge. Most likely, they would be located in Puerto Rico. Isn't Puerto Rico part of the U.S. where they're not supposed to be operating? They al…
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under Nino Diaz of about 168 men who would make a diversion at another point on Cuba's coast just before the main landing. They too trained separately, as did the brigade frogmen in Louisiana. Landing craft crew trained in the Florida Keys …
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could best be solved by sending the brigade to invade Cuba. Bissell later recalled talk of loading the Cubans onto a ship, which, if not able to sell for Cuba, after a reasonable time, could be escorted to a U.S. Navy base like Guantanamo B…
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Instead, he presided over one of the project's key operational failures. Alan Dulles was part of the cover. As part of his cover, he had a speaking engagement in Puerto Rico. So Cabell had command that weekend. His arrangement with Dulles p…
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fail to protest repeated orders to reduce the noise level of the operation. So as to avoid hardening the president's leanings against it. Dulles, who rejected Kirkpatrick's IG report, accepts its key criticisms in his drafts. His successor,…
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Cargoes of Cuban sugar were contaminated with chemicals in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and other ports. Shipments of machinery and spare parts en route to Cuba were sabotaged. Infiltration became the bread and butter of the effort. Exile Felix R…
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Hours every day in Europe, the U.S., and Puerto Rico generating funds. You know, talking to the drug dealers like we studied in Gary Webb's book. Calero took the CIA and the exiles as his constituency. Some directors stayed in Miami. Chamor…
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Adolfo Calero threw himself into fundraising. Cuban exiles were a major target. Restaurants and community centers in Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, became locales for Calero and others to whip up sentiment for them to write checks. But th…
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Over 1,400 CIA-trained anti-Castro exiles waited ashore at Cuba's Bay of Pigs, an operation that would quickly become the biggest debacle of Alan Dulles' career. The CIA director was setting himself 1,000 miles away in Puerto Rico. Dulles h…
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so that he wasn't in the limelight or people crowding around his house asking him if the CIA was involved or whatever. What I feel most interesting about this is where he stayed. He stayed at La Concha. It's spelled L-A-C-O-N-C-H-A. Now, wh…
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or weekend or week or whatever. We went down there for a week, my husband and I. And it's notorious on the island of Puerto Rico because it has this huge clamshell looking restaurant. It's an amazing place. I mean, it's old now. It was bran…
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This was perfectly fine with Dulles too. He was content all along for Bissell to take the lead on that as well as the heat. Bissell supported Dulles' decision to fly off to Puerto Rico on the eve of the mission. The deputy director was eage…
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Dulles was only too pleased to accommodate his rising deputy or sacrifice him. As the mission went to hell, the CIA chief would be far from Washington. By the time Dulles returned home from his Puerto Rico retreat, he would look like the gr…
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which was held in Puerto Rico that year. While there, Dulles stayed at an exclusive Dorado Beach Club that was a luxury resort created by Nelson's brother, Lawrence, on prime coastal real estate owned by the Rockefeller family. When he got …
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and who had worked as an executive secretary for the governor of Puerto Rico, helped connect RFK to his Hispanic constituents. In 67, Bobby and Ethel invited her to fly with them to the island where he scheduled to speak in the old Spanish …
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He married a woman named Helen Julia Hay. And who's Helen Julia Hay? Well, her father was a guy by the name of John Hay, who just happened to be the U.S. Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905. Yeah, he came up in the Panama. Yeah, exactly. W…
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What's that part come back again in the story today? It's amazing, all these connections. I mean, we have a bonesman that marries into the Secretary of State while this stuff is going on. Come on, you can't make this stuff up. Yeah, and jus…
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He's the one who framed the civilian governments of Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, etc. This is the guy. Yes. He would step down from that and become Secretary of State in 1905 through 1909. And then he would become a U.S. Senator from New…
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was a Secretary of War from 1899 to 1904. You know, when he was doing all this stuff in Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico. Do you know who his successor was as Secretary of War? I did, but I just, I got into, grew and my brain's blank. That wo…
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um because we had a lot of people that actually served in the philippines and i do know of two others that ended up in that position both of which served during the spanish american um and just so everybody knows when we took the philippine…
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Yes, the Philippines, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, everything. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Why don't I have something else interesting on him? Okay. John Hay previously had been the private secretary and the biographer of Abraham Lincoln. So think ab…
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And he would command the district of Southwest Georgia in 1945. That's a military district. After the war, basically the South lived for a number of years under military occupation. It wasn't just shake hands and go home. But isn't that wha…
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looking back on him, knowing what I know now, he basically was the exact opposite of Smedley Butler. He was, you know, part and parcel of that Teddy Roosevelt kind of take whatever you want mentality. Yeah, and we've talked about that time …