The Enterprise organization
also: Enterprise, private intelligence network, off-the-books intelligence apparatus, off books CIA, the enterprise
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Claims (14)
Richard Secord member_of
The Enterprise book_quoted
“Aldolfo Calero came when Congress finally passed the $100 million contra aid appropriation. The NSC staff operators celebrated it, but there was less to celebrate than met the eye. Oliver North had been quite correct that more people would …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 8:32
Santo Trafficante Jr. member_of
The Enterprise host_asserted
“He operated with the protection of the CIA from the day the CIA was set up because he was running part of their covert drug network. And that's the reason why you're never allowed to go a certain level above in busting drug networks because…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 1:22:20
George H.W. Bush coordinated
The Enterprise book_quoted
“would make conducting aggressive covert operations almost impossible. Bush turned to the new administration and began using a private intelligence network, which of course we know was set up a few years before called the Enterprise. This pr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 21:52
Edwin Wilson threatened_to_expose
The Enterprise book_quoted
“Eavesdropping. Wilson, who had been indicted in April 1980, was on the run and was openly threatening in phone conversations to expose the entire operation. Inman also had access to information that could prove that Wilson was still under t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 25:47
William Casey turned_to
The Enterprise book_quoted
“You know, lead them on, play them. It was in this area that Casey turned to Bush's off-the-books intelligence apparatus. After all, Shackley had run all of the anti-Castro programs for the Kennedys, and he still maintained a close relations…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 31:05
National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty laundered_money_for
The Enterprise book_quoted
“at another Washington bank. IBC would then wire the money to IC in the Cayman Islands, which then transferred the majority of it to a Swiss bank account registered to Norse Enterprise. That's money laundering. On March 7th, 87, the Washingt…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 49:51
Felix Rodriguez member_of
The Enterprise book_quoted
“but eventually gave him the fuel anyway because Joe Fernandez stepped in. Relations between Felix Rodriguez and the Enterprise was very rocky. Rodriguez asked what had happened to the Salvadoran end-user certificates for the missiles, only …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 6:11
Bob Dutton member_of
The Enterprise book_quoted
“And the letter was addressed to Felix Rodriguez. Felix ends up in Oliver North's office in early May. And he's basically wanting to throw the towel in, according to the author. And also, Dutton, D-U-T-T-O-N, the guy that we discovered had c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 2:33
Joseph Fernandez member_of
The Enterprise book_quoted
“but eventually gave him the fuel anyway because Joe Fernandez stepped in. Relations between Felix Rodriguez and the Enterprise was very rocky. Rodriguez asked what had happened to the Salvadoran end-user certificates for the missiles, only …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 6:11
The Enterprise front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“what has been labeled as the enterprise, which is basically a CIA within the CIA that operates off the books. And that is part and parcel of Operation Gladio. So it is my hope that throughout this last 10 years that they have been using the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:17:31
Nugan Hand Bank member_of
The Enterprise host_asserted
“But most people sitting in America would, if you're looking at a place to put a branch of an international bank that was headquartered in Australia, you sure as hell wouldn't put it in Chiang Mai unless you're doing drugs. And so in those c…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 33:37
CIA funded
The Enterprise host_asserted
“what has been labeled as the enterprise, which is basically a CIA within the CIA that operates off the books. And that is part and parcel of Operation Gladio. So it is my hope that throughout this last 10 years that they have been using the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:17:31
Donald Gregg member_of
The Enterprise host_asserted
“And you have Donald Gregg, who was actually working directly as the national security advisor for Vice President Bush on his staff. He's the guy that ran Felix Rodriguez. So all of these people ended up in these kind of nebulous, which peop…”
▶ Operation Gladio - National Endowment for Democracy @ 14:42
CIA front_for
The Enterprise host_asserted
“The CIA and their operating capability, both short term and long term, as far as he's concerned. Now, we all know that all they do is take that covert thing and move it outside of the CIA into an entity called the Enterprise. Because rememb…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review @ 20:12
Mentions (29)
▶ 1:52:53
Actually, it's still a shock to me, quite frankly. When you think of paramilitary organizations, you 100% think of them as something that operates outside of the government that, like I've mentioned often in different conversations, where y…
▶ 1:17:07
to find out where this is, where the root of this virus is. So what I want people to take away from this, though, is understanding that the CIA that is housed in Langley is only part of the... You mentioned front companies. They have a ton.…
▶ 1:17:31
what has been labeled as the enterprise, which is basically a CIA within the CIA that operates off the books. And that is part and parcel of Operation Gladio. So it is my hope that throughout this last 10 years that they have been using the…
▶ 9:51
options there as to. But the point that I want to make about the National Endowment for Democracy as it relates to the Reagan administration is, did the firing of the CIA officers provide the ability to create what I refer to and many autho…
▶ 13:12
You have the Jimmy Carter kind of setting this whole thing up by moving over a thousand CIA agents. Now, in amongst many books that I have read, it says that the majority of those people never went anywhere. They became members of what was …
▶ 14:42
And you have Donald Gregg, who was actually working directly as the national security advisor for Vice President Bush on his staff. He's the guy that ran Felix Rodriguez. So all of these people ended up in these kind of nebulous, which peop…
▶ 1:21:50
covert side of the CIA, but they operated in that with the protection of the CIA. And we just talked about it. We were just reading about it. All of those people begin working outside of the CIA with the CIA's protection in the thing called…
▶ 34:24
Most looked upon the A-Team, B-Team experiment as a way of opening up the CIA, but a close examination of the experiment and the personalities involved point more to it being another step on the way to a kind of privatization of a rogue int…
▶ 1:39:13
The best way to explain this is in the 70s, just as you mentioned, with the church committee and all of that other stuff, there was a lot of oversight. So basically, the CIA set up a thing called the Enterprise. And the Enterprise was set u…
▶ 31:48
Basically, and I don't know if you guys are familiar with the term the enterprise, but in the I mean, it's been going on for a long time. We've got instances of it back in the 1950s where they set up fake companies and they employed people,…
▶ 34:03
They were paid through the skimming off of money on that bank. They were never on the civilian payroll. Well, Han may have been because he was actually in the military as well. But generally speaking, they're not on the payroll government. …
▶ 48:46
which was incorporated in 85. IC sits right in the middle of a chart drawn by Oliver North. You remember that he had a chart that said IC, and then he had all of these lines going out to everything else. So these people are all involved in …
▶ 49:20
National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty. We talked about that a little bit before. NEPL. Then it was wired from NEPL's account to Palmer National Bank. That's Stefan Halper's CIA front bank in Washington, D.C. He would then put i…
▶ 35:20
and the Contras. Ace appeared on the diagram of the Contra aid operation found in Oliver North's safe. It was used by Southern Air Transport and North's Enterprise to funnel money to the Contras. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ace wa…
▶ 21:52
would make conducting aggressive covert operations almost impossible. Bush turned to the new administration and began using a private intelligence network, which of course we know was set up a few years before called the Enterprise. This pr…
▶ 22:50
Because he became President Bush's national security advisor, and he immediately turned around and hired Felix Rodriguez, who was front and center in the Iran-Contra scandal. He is also a Cuban exile that was used as an assassin on many, ma…
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Casey did not trust Inman because Inman had a close relationship with Bush. Inman did not approve or trust Shackley and was never officially told anything about Shackley's off the book operations with Bush. But Inman felt caught in the midd…
▶ 31:05
You know, lead them on, play them. It was in this area that Casey turned to Bush's off-the-books intelligence apparatus. After all, Shackley had run all of the anti-Castro programs for the Kennedys, and he still maintained a close relations…
▶ 20:12
The CIA and their operating capability, both short term and long term, as far as he's concerned. Now, we all know that all they do is take that covert thing and move it outside of the CIA into an entity called the Enterprise. Because rememb…
▶ 5:07
Max Gomez, i.e. Felix Rodriguez, went back to El Salvador. Dutton had made the chief pilot in charge of maintenance as well. The Enterprise had sent the damaged C-123, the one that sunk in the mud, to Southern Air Transport for repairs whil…
▶ 6:11
but eventually gave him the fuel anyway because Joe Fernandez stepped in. Relations between Felix Rodriguez and the Enterprise was very rocky. Rodriguez asked what had happened to the Salvadoran end-user certificates for the missiles, only …
▶ 9:03
Secord discussed this with Dutton, who wrote a paper summarizing assets and stating the options. The aircraft and field at Santa Elena, plus all of the other enterprise holdings, were estimated at about $4.5 million. The options were to sel…
▶ 21:49
Meanwhile, phone records tied North explicitly to all of the actions. Inquiries in El Salvador quickly revealed that Max Gomez was Felix Rodriguez and led directly to Donald Gregg in Vice President Bush's office. As if that weren't enough, …
▶ 1:02
But we're definitely going. All right. We're on part five, page 229. This is titled The Enterprise. What the author calls the imperial and globalist line of thinking was evident during the Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon administrati…
▶ 16:14
attributed to what they referred to as the enterprise, which is basically the CIA off book. It's an entity that is created to run off book operations. They, in addition to the enterprise, which isn't a formal company, it's just the name of …
▶ 27:43
that he phone up his buddy, Richard Secord, Mr. Retired Air Force, CIA guy, and kick in the enterprise. One last guy, Albert Hakim. He was an Iranian-born business partner of Richard Secord from the Savak Tehran days. He managed a private s…
▶ 34:02
The enterprise once again turned to what kept it alive all along, drugs. One of the major drug suppliers in the world was the South African, or South African, South American cartels, such as Colombia and Bolivia. Hundreds of tons of cocaine…
▶ 1:28:41
and setting him up to go to jail so they could have his company to use in the off books CIA, the enterprise. Angleton was involved in that. So this all ties together with everything that we've, and again, it's the reason why I wanted to do …
▶ 40:42
His central role in what would later blossom into the Iran-Contra, literally after he'd been fired. And finally, Shackley's alleged role in the creation of what's called a secret team, which was an off-the-books group of former CIA assassin…