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Claims (27)
Robert McFarlane member_of
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine Corps officer detailed to the White Hou…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 41:52
Ronald Reagan removed_from_power
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“The day after Rajir's kidnapping on February 7th, 1984, Reagan suddenly reversed himself and announced that all U.S. Marines would shortly be redeployed. The next day, the battleship USS New Jersey fired 290 rounds of one-ton shells from it…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 46:54
Robert Barron headed
United States Marine Corps documented
“on just using Wikipedia, it's B-A-R-R-O-W, Robert Hilliard Barrow. He obviously is the Commandant in 1983. That was at the end of his four-year assignment as the Commandant. He had experience in World War II, Korea War, and Vietnam. So this…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 11:41
Jim Jones headed
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“general officers. I went to his change of command when he took over commandant of the Marine Corps. We were deployed together. We rode on the same helicopter for six months every day. I spent just about all day long every day with him for s…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 3 @ 1:42:58
Lee Harvey Oswald member_of
United States Marine Corps documented
“In October of 56, Oswald, barely 17 and less than a month into his 10th grade year, followed the same path of his older brothers and enlisted in the Marines. The following year, he was sent to Arasugi, the naval air station outside of Tokyo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23 @ 9:39
William Corson led
United States Marine Corps book_quoted
“In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 8:56
Oliver North member_of
United States Marine Corps book_quoted
“Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 25:37
Thomas Jefferson ordered_assassination_of
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“memories of me getting excited about history was Thomas Jefferson sending the Marines over. When I found out that the references to Tripoli and us going to save Americans from pirates that kept kidnapping and holding Americans for ransom, n…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:46:56
United States Marine Corps carried_out_attack
First Barbary War host_asserted
“military expedition as a new country was to go save Americans from being kidnapped by Muslim pirates off the coast of Africa. Well, yeah, I mean, the Islamic slave trade is still alive. And I guess, I mean, as you could see probably from my…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:48:17
Oliver North member_of
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“Oliver North was not functioning as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps at the NSC, not knowing the shit that he knew. On that, I can agree. And I can almost sit here and say that if that's the case, that loan of Oliver N…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:38:14
Rafi Landau carried_out_attack
United States Marine Corps documented
“On February 2nd, a unit of three Israeli tanks, tanks led by Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Rafi Landsberg, tried to pass through a Marine Army, both people were there, lines at a university in South Lebanon. By this time, Landsberg was no stra…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 25:56
United States Marine Corps carried_out_attack
Panama host_asserted
“quote-unquote treaty. It was something the United States government shoved down their throat and said, this is what we're going to do because we just finished the canal after we stole Panama from Colombia to begin with, okay? Everybody need…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 1:13:03
Frederick W. Smith member_of
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“because they had common flying interests. They would go fly their small planes on weekends. He goes to the Marines, and he's a Marine Corps pilot from 1966 to 1969. He's a forward air controller in Vietnam, and he flew the backseat of the O…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Bady 2025-05-22 @ 58:37
Robert Debs Heinl Jr. member_of
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“E-I-N-L, Jr. He was an American Marine. And the initiative was quickly quelled. And it says information about the men that came from Cuba were basically all provided by the Haitian government, which is why the numbers are disputed. And in r…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 25:19
United States Marine Corps refused_to_participate_in
Joint Special Operations Command guest_asserted
“Again, the Marines, like they always do, God bless them, in a good way, they refused to participate. They told the Special Operations Four Star Commander that every Marine is trained to the same standard. They don't have special Marines. Th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 1:13:12
United States Marine Corps member_of
U.S. Navy caller_asserted
“At the forefront, you've got to realize when the Constitution was written, the only branch of the military that does not need to be reauthorized with the NDAA every two years is the Navy. That's why the Marines are part of the Navy. They're…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 1:32:13
United States Marine Corps issued_caution_to
Gannon Stauch host_asserted
“And I got cleared on it and everything else. They did give me a non-punitive letter of caution because I said that the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated our entire government and referenced Radcliffe's statement saying the exact same …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:04:47
Jim Jones member_of
United States Marine Corps documented
“I actually went to his commandant. He was the Marine Corps commandant. I went to his change of command. Had never been to anything like that. It was an amazing experience. But General Jones definitely is one of those generals that changed o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 1:30:12
Gannon Stauch member_of
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“And I got cleared on it and everything else. They did give me a non-punitive letter of caution because I said that the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated our entire government and referenced Radcliffe's statement saying the exact same …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:04:47
United States Marine Corps member_of
United States Navy documented
“And has that been fixed? So the Marines didn't come out of the Navy. The Marines were around a lot longer than the Navy. The Marines are there. When they reorganized, the Marines were put under the Navy at some point in time. The reason the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 1:16:10
Buzzy Krongard member_of
United States Marine Corps guest_asserted
“Yeah, Buzzy knew Eric Prince, and he brought them in. What was interesting in that time frame, I had found information that he had been part of the CIA, because he spent his first three years from Princeton going in as a junior military off…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:26:23
United States Marine Corps carried_out_attack
Cuba 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
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
United States Marine Corps carried_out_attack
Philippines 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
United States Marine Corps carried_out_attack
Katanga host_asserted
“quote-unquote treaty. It was something the United States government shoved down their throat and said, this is what we're going to do because we just finished the canal after we stole Panama from Colombia to begin with, okay? Everybody need…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 1:13:03
Erik Prince member_of
United States Marine Corps guest_asserted
“Yeah, Buzzy knew Eric Prince, and he brought them in. What was interesting in that time frame, I had found information that he had been part of the CIA, because he spent his first three years from Princeton going in as a junior military off…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 1:26:23
Bill Lind member_of
United States Marine Corps caller_asserted
“Thank you, Stoney, for doing that. Wicksell, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Thanks for the space. I used to, when I was in the Marine Corps, the circles I was in were pretty friendly with Bill Lind. And he was talking about cultural Marxism, even …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 2:05:56
Mentions (120)
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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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we had no intentions of freeing them and that we were going to keep them as our own imperialistic type colonies. And that is, in fact, what we did. And in each of those cases, we used the U.S. Marines to some extent to do that. And that als…
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coups that we participated in in the mid-1900s. So this, again, it goes back. The problem for this international syndicate in doing it that way is it left them open for prosecution for doing illegal activities internationally. And the misus…
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Prior to World War II, they were using the United States Marines to go in and basically they would instigate problems and then they would use the Marines to go in and quote unquote solve the problem. So the Marines would invade Cuba, take o…
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Good evening, everybody. We are live, live today. It is June 18th. Had to pick up the calendar. It's Operation Gladio Night, you guys. I got my co-host with me tonight, the Colonel. We are on Chapter 59. We're going to be talking about the …
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But we're not going to let them. No, we're not. So the colonel contacts me yesterday and she's like, we're going to talk about Beirut and I'm going to blow the top off your head, Alpha. So I am like, what the heck are we going to learn toni…
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expressing frustration and anger at Israel. General R.H. Barrow charged that Israeli troops were deliberately threatening the lives of Marines who were serving on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. So, of course, the first thing I do is fin…
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I must formally register my deep concern over the two unprovoked incidents in Beirut of the past weekend involving Marines and the multinational force and members of the IDF, Israeli Defense Forces. I had considered commenting on earlier in…
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which were rapidly implemented in February 1983, appeared to diffuse the situation. I can no longer remain silent on this continual problem of provocation from the IDF. In addition to the U.S. MNF, which is multinational force incidents, I …
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attached to the UN Truce Supervisory Organization, UNTSO. These particular incidents involved U.S. Marines and U.S. Army officers in life-threatening situations replete with verbal degradation of officers, their uniform, and their country, …
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Incidents of this nature are the rule rather than the exception. It is evidence to me and the opinion of the U.S. commanders afloat and ashore that the incidents between the Marines and the IDF are timed, orchestrated, and executed for obtu…
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The IDF, however, persists in creating serious incidents. I am distinctly proud to have Marines participating, both as members of the multinational force and the UNTSO, under the auspices of the UN. It is inconceivable to me why Americans s…
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He just established motive. OK, so there was, he wrote, just reemphasizing this, a systematic pattern of harassment by the IDF. And it was resulting in life threatening situations. All right. Israelis motives, to your point, it was widely b…
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Oh, he just happens to have been involved in, he was the guy that gave the direct order to attack the USS Liberty. This Dayan guy, D-A-Y-A-N. So just to put it in perspective. So him and Sharon are buddies. Okay, got that established. Barro…
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during their posting to Lebanon starting in August 25, 1982, as a result of Israel's invasion 11 weeks earlier. So the whole reason we're there is because Israel invaded Lebanon. Initially, a U.S. unit of 800 men was sent to Beirut Harbor a…
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in no case would stay longer than 30 days. What did I say? August 1982. This turned out to be not true. They did withdraw temporarily on September 10th, but a reinforcement unit of 1,200 had to be rushed right back in 15 days later because …
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shown to be liable and part of the massacre. The Israeli forces were part of that massacre, which was then used as another excuse to send not just the original amount, but even more Marines back in there. So the whole reason we're in Lebano…
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The casualties started within a week of the return of the Marines in September 1982. See, we only focus on the barracks, but that wasn't the first. On the 30th, a U.S.-made cluster bomb left behind by the Israelis exploded, killing Corporal…
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while their first brief stay had been to separate Israeli forces from Palestinian fighters evacuating Beirut. Their new mission was a part of a multinational force sent to prevent Israeli troops from attacking Palestinian civilians left def…
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The massacre sickened the international community and pressure from Western capitals finally forced Israel to withdraw from Beirut in late September. The troops from Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, i.e. NATO, were interposed …
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It was at the airport that the Marines would suffer their cavalry over the next year. Starting in January 1983, small Israeli units began probing Marine lines. At first, the effort appeared aimed at discovering the extent of the Marines' de…
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On February 2nd, a unit of three Israeli tanks, tanks led by Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Rafi Landsberg, tried to pass through a Marine Army, both people were there, lines at a university in South Lebanon. By this time, Landsberg was no stra…
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Although such units would normally have a commander no higher than a sergeant or a lieutenant. So this is intentional. They have the guy that they determine is their expert in charge of the harassment of the U.S. Marines. The suspicion grew…
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The Israeli tactics were more at forcing a joint U.S.-Israeli strategy than merely probing lines. So they're going to claim that this is only occurring because there's a lack of coordination. And if they start coordinating, then they can av…
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Charles Johnson, who firmly refused permission for Landsberg to advance in the tanks. When two of these Israeli tanks ignored his warning to halt, Johnson leaped on Landsberg tank, drew his pistol and demanded Landsberg and his tanks withdr…
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So they turned around. However, that was very embarrassing to Landsberg because he did it in front of the NCOs in the IDF. Landsberg and the Israeli embassy in Washington tried to laugh the incident off, implying that Johnson was a trigger-…
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Landsberg even went so far as to claim that alcohol was on Johnson's breath and that he was drunken and clouded in his response. Marines were infuriated because Johnson was a well-known teetotaler. He didn't even drink. Now, that's very unu…
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In this case, he doesn't drink, so you have that. Two, if a Marine does drink, it will never impair that Marine's ability to do their job because they know cutoff time. And it's just like at 0359, you could be completely drunk. And then at …
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Marines were infuriated because Johnson, let's see, America's flock to Johnson's side. He received hundreds of letters from even schoolchildren throughout the United States because everybody knew that it was a lie. Former Marines and also C…
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is a, for lack of a better word, an administrative job to train and equip Marines to cut them over to operational commands to go forward deploy under a operational combatant commander. And in this case, there would be a forward deployed com…
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They kind of chop to an operational commander. The commandant is there to train and equip Marines to go on operational missions. They are not an operational commander. The amount of correspondence coming back to the commander throughout the…
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command structure to get to the commandant. And then there has to be so much of that traffic getting to the commandant that he takes time out of his busy schedule to say, what the fuck are you doing to my Marines that I have chopped to you …
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to which they get killed. And here's the thing. And people will say, yeah, but there's decades of time in between the two. It doesn't matter. The Marine Corps leadership is Marine Corps leadership. Now, granted, what we were dealing with in…
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Cinco de Mayo, and we didn't have mail. You want to talk about lighting a fuse up someone's ass to correct that ship? They literally turned it into a mission, Colonel, with helicopters and escorts. You know the logistics and money they spen…
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that they didn't have this kind of information to recognize the bullshit games that were taking place with the Marines down in Beirut, not to address it? Baloney. Baloney. It just means everybody was turning a blind eye. So the Marine Corps…
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This is a big freaking deal. He wanted a letter written. That probably was at the point, he probably had already talked to the people in the SecDef's office. You don't write a letter to the SecDef just off the cuff. So this is meeting after…
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with feelers out there, and not a single ounce of intelligence was provided to the Marines to fortify their positions. Nothing. So my point in all of this has always been, if anybody thinks the CIA is there to collect intelligence, you're a…
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the Dominican Republic asked the Queen of Spain to come back after they'd kicked them out because there's so much internal turmoil going on. So then happened the War of Restoration. Eventually, we get to the part where in the late 1800s, U.…
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to protect trade going through the Panama Canal. So that was kind of a big motivation too. Well, eventually the Panama Canal, the Panama Canal hasn't been established yet. And then, because we, our Marines has been down there multiple times…
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Our Marines die, their people die, and it just keeps going back and forth. So Wilson ordered another U.S. Marine expedition in 1916, which would seize their ports, their capital. And they retreated to the mountains and basically kept this m…
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The Shepard Knapp, K-N-A-P-P. And they were not happy with that at all. So, but of course, they had old rifles and not a lot of ammunition because they didn't make any on the island. And the U.S. Marines had machine gun, modern artillery, b…
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And it became very awkward, too. There was a lot of race issues at this time because there was a large portion of the Dominican Republic that were minority. And at the time, there were no minorities allowed in the Marines. They didn't deseg…
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would not interfere militarily to prevent the assassination and would support them and recognize the new government afterwards. The Dominican Republic, where American Marines have landed on four separate occasions in this century, the last …
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And then it is the people within the National Guard slash military structure that rises up and becomes the new dictator, as in the case with Rafael Trujillo. It was during one of those Marine invasions into the Dominican Republic that the U…
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We're going to get to the numbers. We lost quite a few Marines and Army guys. We lost 135 dead Americans for this bullshit. We killed 84 Cubans and we killed 400 Grenadians with this invasion. Just saying. The neutral movement under Maurice…
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So there was that. Now, as for the invasion itself, 2,000 American Marines and paratroopers the first day, by week's end, 7,000 on the island, even more waiting offshore. Planes bombing everything, destroying all manner of structures, inclu…
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Ordered to march in front of American Jeeps as they advanced on Cuban positions, which is a violation. They basically were using them as human shields, which is a violation of the Geneva Convention. And promises of all kinds were made to th…
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Haiti to train Dovier's forces, stepped in. The Americans instituted an air and sea reconnaissance capability to locate the rebels, and the U.S. Marines were, additional ones, were airlifted to the area, and we had Navy planes come in from …
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E-I-N-L, Jr. He was an American Marine. And the initiative was quickly quelled. And it says information about the men that came from Cuba were basically all provided by the Haitian government, which is why the numbers are disputed. And in r…
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You can just see their mind melting right in front of you as you tell them things. Because, you know, somebody will, like the first night I was here, the guy that runs the whole thing, his nephew had flown in from Southern California becaus…
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So when the guy that runs this was introducing me to him, he says, oh, yeah, she's a retired colonel, blah, blah, blah. So we spent the next hour, hour and a half talking. And what was really interesting about the conversation was his insig…
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You could tell by what he was saying and the way in which he described the Marine Corps' social media program that he wasn't about any of it. And so he's very much looking forward to doing his time and then retiring. He has made the decisio…
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because they had common flying interests. They would go fly their small planes on weekends. He goes to the Marines, and he's a Marine Corps pilot from 1966 to 1969. He's a forward air controller in Vietnam, and he flew the backseat of the O…
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Thank you, Stoney, for doing that. Wicksell, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Thanks for the space. I used to, when I was in the Marine Corps, the circles I was in were pretty friendly with Bill Lind. And he was talking about cultural Marxism, even …
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At the forefront, you've got to realize when the Constitution was written, the only branch of the military that does not need to be reauthorized with the NDAA every two years is the Navy. That's why the Marines are part of the Navy. They're…
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general officers. I went to his change of command when he took over commandant of the Marine Corps. We were deployed together. We rode on the same helicopter for six months every day. I spent just about all day long every day with him for s…
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big picture. You have to understand how the international syndicate is working behind the scenes while this paramilitary force is at their beck and call. And as I articulated earlier, the paramilitary force prior to World War II's conclusio…
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Go ahead, Sunshine. Bridget, I can almost piggyback off of what you just said. I have several uncles that were in Vietnam, and one in particular was a Marine that went there. And he couldn't get the help from the VA that he needed. I don't …
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truly horrific um agent orange and the other biological experiments and biological things that we did to those people are still the side effects are still happening today it's still happening well there's still unexploded ordnance over ther…
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memories of me getting excited about history was Thomas Jefferson sending the Marines over. When I found out that the references to Tripoli and us going to save Americans from pirates that kept kidnapping and holding Americans for ransom, n…
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Special Forces, Navy, Air Force, Marines, blah, blah, blah. Farmgate retained its clandestine status while semi-clandestine units followed. They used mule teams to fly short-range air transport and Ranch Hand, which was another code name, w…
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quote-unquote treaty. It was something the United States government shoved down their throat and said, this is what we're going to do because we just finished the canal after we stole Panama from Colombia to begin with, okay? Everybody need…
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The Navy and the Air Force and other like Marines and Green Berets and stuff all sit in the United States military vis-a-vis the CIA, the FBI and the 17, 18 odd intel agencies. So just on a generic level, just so that I'm getting more value…
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So you know that Navy carriers have fighter aircraft on them. So the whole idea of our Navy and Marines is forward deployed expeditionary forces. So our whole military is made up of the concept that these floating bases are all over the wor…
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And so the carrier and the Marines functioning as what you would normally characterize as an army mission, the infantry mission. So you've got the Marines on the carrier and you've got the fighter aircraft on the carrier. They carry the ope…
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countries organize their forces however um just to go one better the marines have their own fighter pilots too right so this is where if everybody a medal and everybody gets as many medals as possible for flying over as many bases as possib…
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causes lots of consternation so if as the chief of the navy you have all naval operations to include the fighter aircraft on your deck under your command and control they feel that that's a much more efficient way of doing it now there are …
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So we do have kind of a hybrid model, but it really is about command and control. Yeah. OK, so that makes much more sense now. But also, I think it's pretty ironic that you've got the word Marine, which to me means water. Who are the people…
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If you looked at what was left in the Air Force, the Army and the Navy and then look at them in one direction, then turn around 180 degrees and look at the Marines. The Marines look exactly like the Army, the Air Force, the Navy. Oh, hello.…
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Marines look exactly like the other three, only in a smaller scale. So the Marines are truly a military, they actually call them that, a MEU, a military expeditionary unit, because they have everything. They can deploy to an area, because t…
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I agree with you there. I'll jump in here real quick, please. In the 70s and late 70s, early 80s, throughout the end of the 80s, the Marine Corps was already transmitting data across every installation the Marine Corps had. And I know this …
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I think they're starting to use drones themselves, right? So we do have the resources, but they've come out with more lucrative ways. So these NARC subs, okay, what if I told you the U.S. Navy and the Marines are kind of learning how we cou…
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Oliver North was not functioning as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps at the NSC, not knowing the shit that he knew. On that, I can agree. And I can almost sit here and say that if that's the case, that loan of Oliver N…
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To me, it's not a bad thing. That's a solidly good thing. And the less information we hear, in my humble opinion, knowing how things work, and I'm sure you can attest to this, that's actually a positive. But what I wanted to get to in terms…
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meaning they were CIA. And for years, Air America's pilots flew in a combat support role as early as April 1961. When U.S. advisors are first known to have guided the Laotian army in combat, Air America's pilots flew the troops into battle …
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That hurt it. And. You know. Even something like. What we were talking about. On the Alpha Warrior show. Where you have. The commandant of the Marine Corps. Because his Marines. Stationed in Lebanon. Was being abused by the IDF forces. That…
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That went up the chain of command in the Marine Corps instantly. And he wrote the letter to the SecDef and said, that needs to stop immediately. And that was the lead up to the Beirut bombing of where the Marines were. And that type of reac…
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and took embassy officials hostage. Now we have confirmed that several of those embassy personnel were CIA agents. So again, these people are trained to not let that happen. There were Marines guarding the embassy. They have guns. Again, ta…
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films where superheroes save civilization with military weapons in alliance with the U.S. military. Strub had a scene removed from The Wind Talkers in 2002, where U.S. Marines took out the gold teeth of Japanese soldiers they had killed as …
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who was moonlighting as a security guard for Ace Security Services. Now, this part is huge, actually. The CIA U-2 program was also connected to JFK's assassination because Oswald worked on the U-2 in Japan for the CIA while he was in the Ma…
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So one of the guys that papers were used to create this book is a guy by the name of William Corson. And William Corson had, he looked like the same haircut and everything else, like a Marine. And he had been in Washington for generations. …
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So in April 1984, Corson had decided that he was going to go there because he wanted to lend a hand to a former Marine student who had just undertaken an assignment at the National Security Council. Corson wanted to send a message to the as…
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In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…
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Risking a court-martial, he capped his military career by writing a damning expose on the Vietnam War called The Betrayal. Lyndon Johnson withdrew an Article 39 indictment against Corson when reminded of the embarrassing secrets Corson coul…
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the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …
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He was worried about how North might be used in his new job. It was a good instinct, and as it turns out, I had real reason to worry. His desire to get what he wanted caused him to shade his perceptions of truth. He never believed he was ly…
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Perensko wrote of North during this period. Along with the doggedness, the will to succeed, there emerged a darker side, a willingness to trifle with the facts. His years at an obscure teacher's college after he was dismissed from Annapolis…
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Corson, not surprisingly, had received a call from the agency regarding North, who had undergone a battery of tests. He was the perfect guy for Shackley. Oliver would do anything to reach a goal. It was on that contact with the CIA that the…
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He achieved his dream of going to Vietnam. He served as a Marine officer while Shackley and his cronies were running the intel war in Vietnam. After that first contact at the Navy Academy, the clandestine services had kept an eye on North. …
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willingness to serve as a clandestine officer would not be forgotten, especially by the Bush administration. That is why North got the assignment to the National Security Council. North said in his autobiography that he won a silver star fo…
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was lost in battle, possibly because North's unit did not provide the protection that they were there to provide. Corson said Mike got killed five days before he was set to come home. The battle was up in the DMZ. Some of North's fellow Mar…
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Robert Bud McFarlane became Clark's deputy and Oliver North, as McFarlane's assistant, was on his way. Now McFarlane, Oliver North, John McCain, and John Poindexter were all at the academy around the same time. So was Webb, the Navy secreta…
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guys and their tenure at the Naval Academy. It is a very interesting book, by the way. On January 2nd, oh, let's see, a small group of Marine officers who had served with distinction in Vietnam, I don't know what kind of distinction, but wh…
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Bud McFarlane had emerged from the original Marine landing at Da Nang to become Henry Kissinger's military aide in 1973 with the help of his mentor, Nixon, Marine aide, Colonel Jack Brennan. Now McFarlane took North under his wing as Brenna…
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One of Brennan's cronies, Lieutenant Colonel James Tully, T-U-L-L-Y, became a friend of Oliver Norse. Tully, who had a knack for making money, was also a close friend of General Richard Secord and Ted Shackley. North did not know it at the …
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Rigid ceilings had been placed on defense spending. With the atomic forces emphasized, the ceilings required reductions somewhere in the military, and these cuts could only come from the area of conventional forces. Eisenhower's period ther…
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Any new missionaries coming in will be done so at the detriment of the ones that are already there. And it's like when they set up Special Operations Command, SOCOM, at MacDill, the Marines pushed back because it required each of the servic…
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The navies are the SEALs and stuff like that, very easily identifiable. The Army tried to do, in some point, part what the Marines did, but the Marines were successful in doing it. The Marines said that they don't have special forces. All o…
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The CIA and the Pentagon rigged it so the Bay of Pigs landing would be intentionally a failure and have the military waiting off the coast for an invasion. And that was all planned to kind of force JFK's hand into a U.S. Marine invasion of …
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It seems that two plane loads flew to the affected places, but never got off the aircraft. So we're told. Cuban veterans like Felix Rodriguez, another force gump of Operation Gladio, have spoken and written about the intervention. The U.S. …
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And now everybody's wearing a beret? Oh man, they were pissed. But thank you anyway. Sure. And you know, that came out around the same time where there was a big push in the military to designate people that did special operation missions. …
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Again, the Marines, like they always do, God bless them, in a good way, they refused to participate. They told the Special Operations Four Star Commander that every Marine is trained to the same standard. They don't have special Marines. Th…
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you're not going to stay in AFSOC your whole career as an Air Force person, but it's going to look a lot like that. You're going to spend a lot of time there because they put a huge investment into those resources. Thank you, Colonel. Thank…
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all of them drop well and that's you don't want 20 push-ups you drop give me 20 all of them drop it give you 20 it's not just one yeah they didn't want to play in the whole you know we're going to um integrate um basic training all of that …
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produces primarily the best senior leadership that doesn't buy into the bullshit. They definitely bring them up much differently where taking chances is not career ending. And that's not to say they don't scapegoat people because they have,…
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Now there's MARSOC. Yes, I dealt actually with MARSOC. The CENTCOM had its own subordinate Marine element. And there were lots of Marines at CENTSOC as well. But again, let's see, what else?…
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Pentagon staff, and now another Marine became the SATSA. With an eye toward the White House, the Marine Corps gave the post to an officer who had served with Jack Kennedy in the South Pacific during World War II, Major General Victor Brute …
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15 Air America aircraft at Bangkok were flying 1,000 tons of supplies a month into Laos. Eisenhower ordered a naval task force bearing Marines into position for intervention in Laos and placed them on high alert. Again, this is two weeks be…
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by them being out in the fields and finding them. And they communicate with these Marine detachments over there, and then they go out and secure the unexploded ordnance in the field. There's still wreckage over there. We went and saw a few …
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Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…
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North marched into the vacuum, soon becoming the focal point on the staff. Another reason for North's longevity was Robert McFarlane. McFarlane had come to the NSC in 82. He had been hired by William Clark as Deputy National Security Adviso…
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Robert McFarlane had a soft spot for North and thought of him almost as a son. He gave North the primary responsibility for Latin arms trading and later for Nicaragua. North remained oddly defensive as if he constantly felt the need to prov…
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Appearing as a character witness in the court-martial of a Marine buddy, North misrepresented himself as a pre-med in college, where in fact he had earned D's in geometry. Other times he claimed that during his Okinawa tour that he had comm…
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a democratically elected government. Oliver's Norse operations did not always come out perfectly. As a midshipman at Annapolis, he had used insurance money to buy a Shelby Cobra painted Marine Corps green. When the Academy had a field trip …
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prey to predatory members of the staff. This is eerily familiar. And Lee was said to have witnessed scenes of sexual exploitation at a very young age. Marguerite withdrew Lee from Bethlehem after a year and his two brothers came home severa…
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military school and moved Lee to Fort Worth with her. When Lee's older brothers fled the domestic chaos and enlisted in the military, he was left adrift. In the summer of 1952, when Lee was nearly 13, Marguerite packed up the two of them an…
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In October of 56, Oswald, barely 17 and less than a month into his 10th grade year, followed the same path of his older brothers and enlisted in the Marines. The following year, he was sent to Arasugi, the naval air station outside of Tokyo…
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if subjected to hallucinogenic treatments by his captors. Some chroniclers of Oswald's life have suggested that he was one of the young Marines that was part of the test. Oswald's overseas tour of duty was a troubled one. He shot himself in…
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Oswald now launched on a grand adventure, not entirely of his own making. He quit the Marines, claiming falsely that his mother had been injured and needed his help. On September 20th, 1959, nine days after receiving his discharge, he left …
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Oswald maintained his allegiance to his native country throughout his time in Russia. His loyalty was evident in the small gestures he made and the arguments. He was proud of his military service as a Marine. By 1961, when Oswald notified t…