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Claims (52)
Tom Clines sold
EATSCO book_quoted
“of $499,934.63. At the same time, Clines arrived in Geneva and was given a release on the original Wilson loan when he finally paid him off. In January 1982, Clines officially severed his business relationship with Eatsco, selling his share…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 15:16
Tom Clines member_of
CIA book_quoted
“in order to inject national security concerns to thwart the DOJ investigation. Discussing the substance of the meeting, Sporkin wrote that Clines, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were conducting weekly meetings to discuss ways to obtain c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 27:31
Tom Clines financed_via
International Research and Trade book_quoted
“The FBI traced the $500,000 in Arcadia loans to International Research and Trade, IRT, the company Shackley and Klein set up in Bermuda. In mid-August 1981, Klein's made two $500,000 loans from ETSCO to IRT about a week apart. On August 20t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 14:46
Tom Clines framed
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“He simply took over Wilson's operation while Wilson was in Libya. He recruited Wilson's people like Flachter. Brill got to know and like Ed Wilson. She found him extremely generous to Clines, constantly lending him money and backing his rea…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 32:51
Tom Clines succeeded
Carl Elmer Jenkins host_asserted
“after which Tom Clines became Quintero's case officer. Shackley and Clines boss and headed up the CIA's Miami station after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was also involved in the CIA's use of mafia to try to assassinate Castro. Jenkins also …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:09:38
Tom Clines founded
API Distributors host_asserted
“Set up by Edwin Wilson and Klein's and employing Quintero and Shackley to sell oil drilling equipment to PIMEX. That's George Bush. George Bush was involved in PIMEX, which is the Mexican oil company. Ross said that he had never heard of AP…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:10:44
Tom Clines member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“Sadat on several occasions and from my conversations with him as a partner who is a member of Sadat's intelligence, as well as being Sadat's back man, unquote. Wilson then went on to say that for a substantial retainer, he might be able to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 25:38
Tom Clines recruited
Flachter book_quoted
“He simply took over Wilson's operation while Wilson was in Libya. He recruited Wilson's people like Flachter. Brill got to know and like Ed Wilson. She found him extremely generous to Clines, constantly lending him money and backing his rea…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 32:51
Tom Clines funded
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“He simply took over Wilson's operation while Wilson was in Libya. He recruited Wilson's people like Flachter. Brill got to know and like Ed Wilson. She found him extremely generous to Clines, constantly lending him money and backing his rea…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 32:51
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“Klein and Shackley were still just hanging on, but a lot of people within the CIA wanted to help because they knew that the Sandinistas were the bad guys. In fact, Wilson's notable description of the motive for helping Somoza was only a fra…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 44:25
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“that the United States actual government in charge don't want to be affiliated with. Wilson said that Klein urged him to go see Somoza and make a deal. About the same time, a lobbyist by the name of R.C. Wittner, W-H-I-T-N-E-R, whose nickna…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 45:52
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“I can't understand why the hell you don't help me back. Blah, blah, blah. That's basically what Samosa is saying. At a meeting the next morning, Samosa once again expressed to Ed Wilson his bitterness towards Carter. Wilson said he told Sam…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 50:27
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“be the liaison for the contract. Wilson says that he and Klein's were trying to set up for Nicaragua was a for-profit version of the Vietnam Phoenix program assassination program. Wilson offered Somoza a small initial contract for $700,000.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 51:54
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“had any intentions of giving Wilson that business. Wilson believed that Somoza simply decided that the CIA connection was not enough to keep him in power. In fact, working through Dr. Artemi, Klein took over the operation, apparently never …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 52:23
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Manuel Artime book_quoted
“had any intentions of giving Wilson that business. Wilson believed that Somoza simply decided that the CIA connection was not enough to keep him in power. In fact, working through Dr. Artemi, Klein took over the operation, apparently never …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 52:23
Tom Clines removed_from_power
CIA book_quoted
“Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO post. And he was actually the liaison at …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 33:20
Tom Clines member_of
CIA book_quoted
“Shackley felt that this would get Klein's out of harm's way, but Turner ordered it canceled. Despite the circumstances of Shackley and Klein's departure from the CIA, Shackley still talked about wanting to be the DCI. Brill said both men ta…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 33:53
Tom Clines member_of
CIA book_quoted
“H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with Secord and Quintero as being like blood b…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 34:51
Tom Clines member_of
TER SAM host_asserted
“Salam proposed that Klein control 49% of the shipping contract through Eats Go with Tursam controlling the 51%. In 1981, Sadat's staff undertook an audit of the Tursam Eats Go shipping invoices and discovered a serious overcharge and misuse…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 20:47
Shirley Brill spied_on
Tom Clines book_quoted
“but that he regularly asked her about classified documents. For years, she said, I would watch Klein operate outside the law on the instructions of Shackley and get away with it. Chi Chi Quintero, who lived in Miami with his family, was a f…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 31:20
Barbara Rosati worked_for
Tom Clines book_quoted
“R-O-S-S-O-T-T-I, was the lawyer Tom Clines hired to organize his company called International Research and Trade, the company that had originally been funded by Ed Wilson and Ted Shackley organized, which became Eatsco. So basically, she's …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 29:57
Albert Hakim recruited
Tom Clines book_quoted
“At this point, Israeli intelligence decided to compromise the president through his brother, Billy. Albert Hakim, from the Israeli end, got in touch with Tom Clines to set up the operation. Clines, in turn, gave Doug Slatter his assignment …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 21:44
Tom Clines recruited
Douglas Slatter book_quoted
“At this point, Israeli intelligence decided to compromise the president through his brother, Billy. Albert Hakim, from the Israeli end, got in touch with Tom Clines to set up the operation. Clines, in turn, gave Doug Slatter his assignment …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 21:44
Tom Clines covered_up
Jimmy Carter book_quoted
“Iranian revolution, the fact that the Shah was in jeopardy, Shackley and his associates made Carter look like a fool. The Billy Carter affair handled by Clines on the American end made the president look out of control. So in other words, y…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 30:41
Tom Clines front_for
International Research and Trade book_quoted
“for the Reagan and Bush campaign. The hidden link between Reagan and Bush campaign and the private network was the businesses that Wilson had financed, like International Research and Trade, IRT. Clines, with Shackley's help, had successful…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 7:55
Tom Clines front_for
EATSCO book_quoted
“for the Reagan and Bush campaign. The hidden link between Reagan and Bush campaign and the private network was the businesses that Wilson had financed, like International Research and Trade, IRT. Clines, with Shackley's help, had successful…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 7:55
Tom Clines founded
EATSCO book_quoted
“the Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, ETSCO. Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, ETSCO. It was established by Klein to cut Wilson's around-the-world shipping out of the picture. So it's going to replace…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 8:25
Tom Clines member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“Hill and Knowlton, Robert Gray, the whole nine yards. During Koreagate, Vigari had been involved with Park and the Korean CIA, KCIA. Vigari was paid nearly a million dollars for a direct mail campaign on behalf of the Koreans as a PR campai…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 18:32
Edwin Wilson funded
Tom Clines documented
“He said that if all of these companies did well, he expected to be compensated accordingly. However, there was no formula that does, quote unquote, 20 percent, unquote. Shackley confirmed to the Bureau that he was aware that the seed money …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 25:47
Tom Clines funded
Arcadia Limited documented
“He was aware that Tom Clines got a loan for a company called Arcadia Limited and that Ed Wilson assisted Clines in getting the loan. He did not know who the principals were, according to him. And he said that at the time, he was not concern…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 24:20
Edwin Wilson paid
Tom Clines book_quoted
“He goes on to say, Tom, I want that $500,000 and I'm going to start screaming. So they paid the $500,000. They paid about $450,000 and then I sort of let it go. Then I found out through my other sources that they made about $10 million from…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 27:41
United States Intelligence Agency spied_on
Tom Clines documented
“and for the Army intelligence, but also that he was reporting to his Army intelligence, hold on, reporting to his Army intelligence control everything that he was told by Wilson. That material, in turn, was being disseminated to Shackley an…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 32:23
Tom Clines trafficked
CIA host_asserted
“Air America. During that time, Shackley, Secord, and Clines were all involved in the CIA drug operations in that area. Also working with these individuals in that theater was General John Siegel, a Marine officer, along with Oliver North. O…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:10:10
Tom Clines recruited
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“The use of Doug Schlachter by Shackley and Clines reveals the kind of poor judgment that had haunted Shackley's operation for years. Mike Pilgrim, said Wilson, was expert at recruiting talent for his businesses and using them within their o…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 6:01
Tom Clines member_of
Operation Watchtower book_quoted
“Not a lot of drugs. Then when Watchtower happened, Noriega was in the thick of it from then on. Yeah, there was a lot of drugs even before that, but you wouldn't expect him to admit that. Livingstone acknowledges that Wilson was not involve…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 19:46
Tom Clines recruited
Felix Rodriguez book_quoted
“basically developed his entire career. Thanks to Quintero, Clines, and Shackley, they were dining out on Wilson's and the Navy's efforts, giving Wilson little or no credit. In 1973, Clines also brought Cuban exile Felix Rodriguez to Wilson'…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 15:34
Tom Clines spied_on
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“discovered that it was Clines who had brought Wilson and Ray May together. Shackley had to appear to discipline his old comrade. The penalty was that Clines would continue in his post running Wilson's operation while providing the CIA's Off…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 41:27
George H.W. Bush appointed
Tom Clines book_quoted
“discovered that it was Clines who had brought Wilson and Ray May together. Shackley had to appear to discipline his old comrade. The penalty was that Clines would continue in his post running Wilson's operation while providing the CIA's Off…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 41:27
Richard Helms appointed
Tom Clines book_quoted
“Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO post. And he was actually the liaison at …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 33:20
Stansfield Turner removed_from_power
Tom Clines book_quoted
“Shackley felt that this would get Klein's out of harm's way, but Turner ordered it canceled. Despite the circumstances of Shackley and Klein's departure from the CIA, Shackley still talked about wanting to be the DCI. Brill said both men ta…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 33:53
Tom Clines recruited
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“in Nicaragua. He provided a great deal of help for the anti-Castro operations. So in the early 60s, when a revolt threatened to topple the elder Somoza's regime, the anti-Castro Cubans were brought in to help. In 1978, Clines asked Wilson t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 41:52
Richard Shackley ordered_assassination_of
Tom Clines book_quoted
“Klein, when she met Shackley and his wife, Hazel, she found the tall, blonde CIA officer very laid back and almost shy. Klein told her Shackley was paranoid and would not work with anyone but Klein. Shackley had a particular fondness for Ge…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 32:21
Tom Clines funded
Contras host_asserted
“They're fighting the Contras and Sandinistas. And then they decide they're going to fight Nangola too. But Reagan was the best president ever. Tom Clines and the private network helped Oliver North use all of his connections to operate all …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 41:28
Tom Clines recruited
Dionisio Suarez host_asserted
“While in the U.S., Contreras traveled to Miami to meet the Cuban exile leaders and all of the former CIA agents, including Wilson's associate, Quintero and Felix Rodriguez. Tom Clines made some of the arrangements for the Miami meeting. The…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 33:19
Tom Clines recruited
Virgilio Paz host_asserted
“While in the U.S., Contreras traveled to Miami to meet the Cuban exile leaders and all of the former CIA agents, including Wilson's associate, Quintero and Felix Rodriguez. Tom Clines made some of the arrangements for the Miami meeting. The…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 33:19
Tom Clines assigned_code_name
Richard Secord host_asserted
“aircraft that Wilson had bought for his youth. Secord's code name, assigned by Kline, was the Little General. Like Shirley Brill, Barnes witnessed Wilson preparing intelligence reports for Shackley and Kline on activities in Libya, and she …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 14:44
Tom Clines disliked
Stansfield Turner host_asserted
“as if it was an open goodwill gesture. Rumors that Paisley had defected to the Soviet Union and the fact that the Office of Security had been looking at Paisley's loyalty before he disappeared came back to haunt Turner. He looked foolish in…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 32:17
Tom Clines member_of
CIA host_asserted
“Klein still employed as a CIA on the actual payroll. He frequently worked out of Wilson's townhouse in Washington, D.C. As Wilson spent more and more time in Libya, Klein began to move in on all of Wilson's operations. The opportunity for h…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 19:11
Tom Clines recruited
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“Lends credence to the fact that somebody basically was dressed up as him, used his name, and that he was being set up at the time. He just didn't know about it. So, of course, Chapter 12 is labeled setting up Wilson, because I think Chapter…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 17:41
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“SCI supplied exotic electronics to the CIA for special missions to include bomb detonators and anything past that all the way to just regular computers. The purpose of this introduction was to allow Wilson to buy some remote control bomb de…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 24:38
Tom Clines disliked
Jimmy Carter host_asserted
“as if it was an open goodwill gesture. Rumors that Paisley had defected to the Soviet Union and the fact that the Office of Security had been looking at Paisley's loyalty before he disappeared came back to haunt Turner. He looked foolish in…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 32:17
Tom Clines recruited
Albert Hakim book_quoted
“H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with Secord and Quintero as being like blood b…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 34:51
Mentions (120)
▶ 6:01
The use of Doug Schlachter by Shackley and Clines reveals the kind of poor judgment that had haunted Shackley's operation for years. Mike Pilgrim, said Wilson, was expert at recruiting talent for his businesses and using them within their o…
▶ 6:56
And I knew that Shackley and Klein were meeting with Bush. Now, keep in mind that Bush ran against Reagan in the primary in 1980. Shackley suggested to Wilson that if he was willing to back a private company that would allow covert operatio…
▶ 8:26
got any shipping business that came out of it. Wilson told Shackley that he wanted one more thing. Tom Clines is my good friend. I don't mind being in the trenches with him, but he has no head for business. If I put up any money, I want to …
▶ 9:25
which now amounted to more than $30 million in contracts, which while Wilson worked in Libya, more and more of his operations were taken over by Klein under a guy by the name of Don Lowers, L-O-W-E-R-S, management. Wilson's inability to man…
▶ 10:57
Wilson moved the company into his townhouse and put Lowers in charge of it. Prior to his incarceration in Ohio on security fraud, Lower had been in the intelligence business. He had been with the Army counterintelligence. The combination of…
▶ 11:26
was one of the things that Wilson never understood about the setup. Mike Pilgrim, a longtime security operative who worked for J.J. Capucci, said, I wouldn't have trusted Don Lowers as far as I could have thrown him, but he seems to be a su…
▶ 12:54
He bought that for me and went into partnership with Lowers and Slatter. It didn't last very long. Whatever this guy, meaning Livingstone, knows about security, he knows about it by reading about it. He's never been involved in it on the fr…
▶ 14:54
unquote, which, if true, would surprise very few people in the intelligence community. And Livingstone never denied the accusation. Pilgrim said that the money Klein's, Lower's, and Livingstone put into the company J.J. Capucci to buy out W…
▶ 19:46
Not a lot of drugs. Then when Watchtower happened, Noriega was in the thick of it from then on. Yeah, there was a lot of drugs even before that, but you wouldn't expect him to admit that. Livingstone acknowledges that Wilson was not involve…
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He was probably the world's worst businessman. Neal's job was to come in and teach him and Joe Collins how to run a business. Neal, if nothing else, was a hustler and a hell of a businessman. Livingstone rarely saw Wilson, but he said that …
▶ 23:09
that Klein, Lower, and Slachter had intended to make the most of using the general. From a security expert point of view, Livingstone was assigned to organize the training program for Sadat, basically like their castle guard. That is how Li…
▶ 24:06
Livingstone, Shackley and Clines had complete access to all of the security planning for Sadat through the office files, meaning the CIA files. A lot went on that Edwin Wilson didn't know, but Shackley had access as well as Clines. So Shack…
▶ 31:17
Tom Clines kept an office in Wilson's West End townhouse in Washington, D.C., where all of the U.S. operations Wilson had been running were based at. It was ironic that it was located next door to the Libyan embassy. I'm sure that's not a c…
▶ 31:48
and von Marbog were his business associates. Wilson recalled what he had told them. Quote, look, you guys, between you, Shackley, and Secord, you know every head of government, every intelligence chief, and every minister of defense in the …
▶ 32:47
deal. When that's away, you start back and then all of the balls can remain in the air. He's talking about the deal that he was working on for the security. And basically he went on to say that Wilson, Wilson went on to say that having Shac…
▶ 6:15
to handle communications between Kissinger and the Communist China. Moore had not been made privy to any of these Task Force 157 communications. Shackley and Clines also wanted to know more about 157. Normally, the CIA and the National Secu…
▶ 9:04
He became very valuable to the CIA because he was available for operations and because he was not financially dependent on the agency. That's the whole purpose. For Shackley and Clines, he would become the key element in creating a private …
▶ 12:00
was the company that he used as his Task Force 157 front. As he had done with the CIA, Wilson turned over the blank stock certificates to the Navy and began doing business on its behalf. While he was also reporting to the CIA, Tom Clines di…
▶ 15:04
Once I set up operations, the Navy was still afraid I might hand all the information directly to the CIA and not them. So they were trying to compartmentalize the operation, Wilson said. The Navy's fears were well-founded, but the idea that…
▶ 15:34
basically developed his entire career. Thanks to Quintero, Clines, and Shackley, they were dining out on Wilson's and the Navy's efforts, giving Wilson little or no credit. In 1973, Clines also brought Cuban exile Felix Rodriguez to Wilson'…
▶ 16:04
that he now feared for his security. Wilson had not heard great reports about Rodriguez from Quintero. Quintero had worked with Felix Rodriguez on both Operation Mongoose and on the Phoenix program in Vietnam, but he still thought Tom Cline…
▶ 17:35
said he attempted to recruit the SOG guy, that's how he pronounced his last name, for the CIA, but was told to keep his hands off the DIA, which at that point was also running him as an informant. Wilson said, again, they love dragging in t…
▶ 28:36
Clines and Shackley, Von Marbog, and Secord agreed to help the secret police because Wilson wanted to keep Savak happy. They made it easy for him to do business in Iran. He assisted the Savak, the Shah's torturers, from 1974 to 1977. Well, …
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He taught the Savak how to intercept opposition radio communications and how to use surveillance equipment. As the trust built between Wilson and the Savak, he flew back and forth to the U.S. to report on his activities to Shackley and Klei…
▶ 30:56
being given credit for all of the information that he was providing to Shackley and Klein. But eventually, Klein's admitted that all of the information that Wilson had sent back and had been expunged from his file was provided by a guy by t…
▶ 32:13
in the West End section of Washington, D.C., and to accommodate his growing business. Wilson began offering scores of retired generals, admirals, and other military officers support and backing in exchange for half of the profits that they …
▶ 33:46
But his opulent lifestyle attracted the attention of his old friends from Vietnam. Number one on that list was Tom Clines. So, again, Tom Clines is part of the CIA. They know exactly what's going on. And these CIA agents are trying to dista…
▶ 34:37
But Wilson's beautiful mansion and farm attracted very powerful people to include a lot of congresspeople. Wilson also provided a convenient front for Shackley and Clines to hide operatives and run operations without consulting their superi…
▶ 13:30
which were then used to purchase weapons to arm various factions of the CIA as they saw fit. Which again, that fact is true too. The associate, Cotolla claims, was Tom Climes. And again, they worked together all the time. Colonel Cotolla ga…
▶ 17:12
They asked the question, is it possible that Tom Klein used Turples and Wilson's name in order to set up Watchtower? Klein, in the future, anytime he was asked about it, refused to even have a conversation about his involvement in it. And W…
▶ 17:41
Lends credence to the fact that somebody basically was dressed up as him, used his name, and that he was being set up at the time. He just didn't know about it. So, of course, Chapter 12 is labeled setting up Wilson, because I think Chapter…
▶ 18:40
or agency people set up as fronts, such as Air America and James Cunningham. Now, again, there are people that try to say that Wilson was not on the CIA payroll at this point, and I think that's all bullshit. He was in one of those public-p…
▶ 19:11
Klein still employed as a CIA on the actual payroll. He frequently worked out of Wilson's townhouse in Washington, D.C. As Wilson spent more and more time in Libya, Klein began to move in on all of Wilson's operations. The opportunity for h…
▶ 21:36
Tom Clines, for redundancy purposes, as a CIA employee, is working as Edwin Wilson's deputy in the scenario I just gave you. He is going to stay in the rear and continue operations as Edwin Wilson for deployed to Libya to set up arms networ…
▶ 22:06
For what Edwin Wilson believes is the CIA. He is working in a public-private partnership off the books in a CIA front company. That's what he was told. That's what he believes he's doing. But because the CIA can never be 100% sure and they …
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And so as Edwin Wilson, if he ever screws up, if he does something they don't like, Tom Clines is going to be the next next iteration of Edwin Wilson. He knows all of his operations. And that's what we're looking at here. That's what I just…
▶ 23:06
was using those names in order to set him up absolutely as possible. Clines persuaded Wilson to keep using anti-Castro Cubans in his operation, or as we call them, the Cuban gladiote. Some, like Chi-Chi Quintero and Ricardo Morales, were me…
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But Clines was also bringing in Cubans who had gone to work for Santo Trapacani or had dabbled in the cocaine business. Wilson went along because he believed that Clines was doing what the CIA wanted him to do. As investigations battered th…
▶ 24:10
In August of 1976, the month before the Lettier bombing in Washington, D.C., Tom Clines arranged a meeting at the Tyson Corner Holiday Inn in suburban Virginia between Ed Wilson and Raymond May of a group called Scientific Communications, I…
▶ 24:38
SCI supplied exotic electronics to the CIA for special missions to include bomb detonators and anything past that all the way to just regular computers. The purpose of this introduction was to allow Wilson to buy some remote control bomb de…
▶ 25:08
were also part of the CIA. In fact, Klein's knowingly set up a clandestine CIA source for a cell to a terrorist corporation, or excuse me, a terrorist country through this corporation. Furthermore, DINA, which is the Chilean Operation Condo…
▶ 27:11
the Kurdish aircraft franchise in Southeast Asia, and he's the one responsible for building the Flying Tigers, Air America, and giving Chiang Kai-shek his air force, all using Kurdish aircraft. Small world. On September 9th, 1976, 12 days b…
▶ 27:43
She explained to Klein that Kevin Mulcahy, M-U-L-C-A-H-A, excuse me, H-Y, a former CIA employee currently working for Wilson, had recently returned from Libya very drunk and very upset. He had told Mrs. Harper that her husband and son…
▶ 28:09
were not on a mine clearing operation at all, that they were teaching Libyans how to make terrorist bombs. According to CIA documents, Klein went to Langley and told Shackley that Mrs. Harper believed her husband was involved in much more t…
▶ 28:36
Clines then went a step further. At Mrs. Harper's request, he joined her at a meeting with Raymond May, who her husband had told her had supplied Wilson with electronic bomb triggers. In front of Mrs. Harper, the two men did not reveal that…
▶ 30:05
was that Scalopter and Harper's son, John Jr., were being held hostage by the Libyans at a summer residence in the Libyan countryside. Turple, this was later said by Wilson, Turple and I took Harper and went to Geneva and paid him off. We n…
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From Geneva, I called Clines. He didn't know anyone to teach explosive ordnance disposal. I contacted Quintero and Clines contacted Quintero as well. And he said that he could get two others to make arrangements. I arranged the financing. I…
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and John Harper's son were still in Libya. The Libyans would not let them leave until they got someone down there to take their place. Wilson's Libyan operation may provide the key to an enduring mystery in the Latier Cape. How, even with G…
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keep the Cuban nationalist community from being implicated in the Latier case. Was Frank Turple really a fired CIA employee who met Wilson by chance at a Christmas party? Or was Turple on assignment for Shackley and Klein? Did Turple even s…
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that were suspected in the bombing. Wilson said in a 1990 interview that he held these meetings at Klein's request. CIA records confirm some of that. What makes the meetings especially interesting is that it appears that Klein was buying on…
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He said that the Velaverde brothers had already gone back to the States and that they didn't want any part of Libya. Quintero went back to the United States as well to cover his rear because he already was a coward. He went to Clines to dis…
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It was all turple. The piece of paper was given to Clines. Clines gave it to Shackley. Shackley put it in a record. CIA records indicate that on the day of the Latier bombing, September 21st, 1976, Clines wrote a memorandum about Wilson's a…
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I think if the, in talking about the prosecutor, if he could have joined the CIA, he would have. Shackley spared no effort to persuade Barcella to go after his employee and quote unquote friend. When Shackley planted the idea that Wilson wa…
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was cultivated by various CIA operatives, including Shackley, Climes, and Turpel, T-E-R-P-I-L, in the early 1970s when Turpel and Wilson, Edwin Wilson, first started their operations in Libya. Turpel set Wilson up with a Geneva lawyer by th…
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used to finance several of his intelligence operations. According to Wilson, the amounts were in the millions and millions of dollars, according to Tom Clines. The relationship between the Saudis and private U.S. intelligence network grew o…
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but that he regularly asked her about classified documents. For years, she said, I would watch Klein operate outside the law on the instructions of Shackley and get away with it. Chi Chi Quintero, who lived in Miami with his family, was a f…
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on a regular basis and throw them away. Brill said Tom and I had some problems over that. I said to him, where did you get them? And he said, Shirley, don't ask me questions. He also said, Shirley, go in the other room. But they were cuttin…
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Klein, when she met Shackley and his wife, Hazel, she found the tall, blonde CIA officer very laid back and almost shy. Klein told her Shackley was paranoid and would not work with anyone but Klein. Shackley had a particular fondness for Ge…
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He simply took over Wilson's operation while Wilson was in Libya. He recruited Wilson's people like Flachter. Brill got to know and like Ed Wilson. She found him extremely generous to Clines, constantly lending him money and backing his rea…
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This is every single time we do a space. It's absolutely ridiculous. All right. It's education they don't want anybody to know about, Colonel. It's just crazy. I mean, whatever. Anybody can buy the stupid book and read it themselves. They j…
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Wilson had no hint that he was a suspect in the Orlando Latier bombing or that he was under any investigation beyond a minor CIA internal issue. Complicating all of this was the divided loyalties inside the CIA with the old boys versus the …
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I got him back to his hotel and told him that he was fired. He threatened to kill me. We disarmed the guy, and the next morning, I took him out of Libya to Geneva. To make matters worse, in order to get closer to Gaddafi regime, Ed Wilson e…
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and wasn't really there to do any job that had anything to do with nuclear. Shackley now had a man at the top of American nuclear security. By the time of the Halloween massacre, Turner had issued a former letter of reprimand to Tom Clines.…
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It was in the fall of 1977 that Wilson's top assistant, Roberta, who went by Bobby, excuse me, Barnes, met Clines for the first time. On a Saturday morning with her son, Mark, she opened the door to Wilson's Washington townhouse with her ke…
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to Wilson's townhouse, to parking lots. After a few months, Wilson decided that he could trust Barnes and made her his office manager. By 1978, she was his mistress as well. As Wilson's girlfriend, Barnes found herself socializing with Clim…
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aircraft that Wilson had bought for his youth. Secord's code name, assigned by Kline, was the Little General. Like Shirley Brill, Barnes witnessed Wilson preparing intelligence reports for Shackley and Kline on activities in Libya, and she …
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Although Clines had put in for his retirement and Shackley was no longer in the Directorate of Operations, they continued to task Wilson as if everything was still normal. They also sent taskings to Slatter and Quintero for information abou…
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Soviet weapons that were inside of Libya. Barnes would later testify that she flew with Schachter to Geneva and waited with him when Swiss customs delayed him to examine the shopping list for Soviet weapons. She then saw him give Wilson the…
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but Shackley's big interest was in their Soviet weapons. He tasked Wilson to find out about Soviet surface-to-air missiles and the later Soviet artillery and tanks that Gaddafi had acquired. Clines worked with Wilson and Secord to try to ge…
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By having Lloyd-Jones and the other people, we found out that the SAM sites, where the SAM sites were, surface-to-air missiles, and what they were doing in Chad, I was able to report to Clines and Shackley on a real-time basis. At the very …
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They plan to use three different companies, API, FejaMex, and a new Bermuda-based company called International Research and Trade, IRT. And Bridget, you or SR71 looked that up. That one has come up repeatedly as well. And maybe just post a …
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as if it was an open goodwill gesture. Rumors that Paisley had defected to the Soviet Union and the fact that the Office of Security had been looking at Paisley's loyalty before he disappeared came back to haunt Turner. He looked foolish in…
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Tom hated Turner. Tom Clines. I know that Tom is one who sent Turner a cassette of Randy Newman's song, Short People, after Turner had all of the podiums cut down at the CIA because Turner was short. These guys are assassinating people all …
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Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO post. And he was actually the liaison at …
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Shackley felt that this would get Klein's out of harm's way, but Turner ordered it canceled. Despite the circumstances of Shackley and Klein's departure from the CIA, Shackley still talked about wanting to be the DCI. Brill said both men ta…
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H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with Secord and Quintero as being like blood b…
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careful to always stay in the background. He was never a visible person. If he came around to the house, everyone else had to leave. Brill said that if there were other people around, Tom would sometimes go out and meet him, drive around, a…
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The trips, at least once a month, to Miami began in 1976 on commercial airliners. After Wilson bought the plane for Secord, Secord would fly Brill, Clines, and Quintero down for visits to Key Biscayne, condo of one of the most powerful Cuba…
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to go to war against the people that are truly the freedom fighters and the people that want the land back for their original owners, which happened to be in the Sandinista government. Okay, Tom Clines enjoyed a long history and friendship …
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in Nicaragua. He provided a great deal of help for the anti-Castro operations. So in the early 60s, when a revolt threatened to topple the elder Somoza's regime, the anti-Castro Cubans were brought in to help. In 1978, Clines asked Wilson t…
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and other various parts of the world on retainer because that's the Gladio guys. These Cubans would help him get his government back if he was to ever be overthrown. So they have assassins on retainer living in the United States being train…
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in charge of the Sandinistas. Castro had no control over the Sandinistas at all. They just wanted their land back from United Fruit. Wilson recalls that Klein told him it looked like Somoza was going down the drain and Carter was not going …
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Klein and Shackley were still just hanging on, but a lot of people within the CIA wanted to help because they knew that the Sandinistas were the bad guys. In fact, Wilson's notable description of the motive for helping Somoza was only a fra…
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quote-unquote security program. Carter had ordered Turner to cut Somoza off from all intelligence and CIA operations because of his dismal human rights, because he had death squads. According to Wilson, Klein said to him, quote, we can feed…
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I can't understand why the hell you don't help me back. Blah, blah, blah. That's basically what Samosa is saying. At a meeting the next morning, Samosa once again expressed to Ed Wilson his bitterness towards Carter. Wilson said he told Sam…
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be the liaison for the contract. Wilson says that he and Klein's were trying to set up for Nicaragua was a for-profit version of the Vietnam Phoenix program assassination program. Wilson offered Somoza a small initial contract for $700,000.…
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had any intentions of giving Wilson that business. Wilson believed that Somoza simply decided that the CIA connection was not enough to keep him in power. In fact, working through Dr. Artemi, Klein took over the operation, apparently never …
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Wilson, Shackley, and Clines all defended their actions in various FBI interviews on the grounds that Carter's policies were naive, so why bother paying attention to them? The private intelligence network was created under the guise of mora…
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At this point, Israeli intelligence decided to compromise the president through his brother, Billy. Albert Hakim, from the Israeli end, got in touch with Tom Clines to set up the operation. Clines, in turn, gave Doug Slatter his assignment …
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Iranian revolution, the fact that the Shah was in jeopardy, Shackley and his associates made Carter look like a fool. The Billy Carter affair handled by Clines on the American end made the president look out of control. So in other words, y…
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for the Reagan and Bush campaign. The hidden link between Reagan and Bush campaign and the private network was the businesses that Wilson had financed, like International Research and Trade, IRT. Clines, with Shackley's help, had successful…
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the Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, ETSCO. Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, ETSCO. It was established by Klein to cut Wilson's around-the-world shipping out of the picture. So it's going to replace…
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drugs, weapons, and that type of thing. According to Klein's, Yitzko's came from an idea that he had to use the connections of Sikord and von Marburg had with the Shah of Iran to be appointed a shipping agent for all U.S. military assistanc…
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Clines and Wilson shifted the entire operation to target the business being offered by the Camp David Accords. And let me just also say, whether it's a peace agenda called the Camp David Accords or what happened in Bosnia or what's going on…
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Hill and Knowlton, Robert Gray, the whole nine yards. During Koreagate, Vigari had been involved with Park and the Korean CIA, KCIA. Vigari was paid nearly a million dollars for a direct mail campaign on behalf of the Koreans as a PR campai…
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which was also located at 7777 Leesburg Pike as a tenant of Bakari's. So you already have Bakari and his Bakari company. Now we have Itzko at that same location, and both of them are CIA operations. Many of old Wilson's operatives, like Don…
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when he's going to kill the people who were taking it. But he says to the FBI agent that in his opinion, they were not reliable. So they're reliable to kill people when he has the gun, but when it involves him and his credibility, they're n…
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Shackley was able to structure his own retirement in 1980 so that it appeared that he had gone to work for Klein's in Ed Wilson's old company. This gave Shackley deniability when the FBI asked him about activities outside of what he had con…
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He also told the Bureau that he did not want to get involved in any activity that involved materials that went bang or boom. Sure. It was not until 1983 that Shackley was even mildly questioned about working at Eatsco. More than a year afte…
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though he was present at every meeting about Itzko. When the FBI confronted him with the allegation that he was one of the original partners, Shackley responded very carefully. According to his FBI 302, this is a quote. At this point in the…
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and Dick Secord had allegedly formed a business group of which each would have 20% interest, with Wilson providing funding, Von Marbog and Secord being silent partners, and Klein and Shackley being out front individuals regarding the busine…
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He was aware that Tom Clines got a loan for a company called Arcadia Limited and that Ed Wilson assisted Clines in getting the loan. He did not know who the principals were, according to him. And he said that at the time, he was not concern…
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and consultant at SSI, the API Distributors Incorporated, and in International Research and Trade. Those are the names of all those companies. It goes on to say, Shackley denied having a 20% interest in any business association with Wilson,…
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He said that if all of these companies did well, he expected to be compensated accordingly. However, there was no formula that does, quote unquote, 20 percent, unquote. Shackley confirmed to the Bureau that he was aware that the seed money …
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Scores of witnesses such as Clines, Capucci, Secord, von Marburg all told the FBI that Shackley was the boss, not even just an equal partner. He was in charge. As for Wilson, the man who underplayed all of these people, his long run of good…
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Larry Barcella succeeded in getting a grand jury indictment on Wilson. Wilson was now a wanted man, and his need for funds was even more desperate. In April 1980, this is a quote from him, I'm under indictment, so I can't come out. So I con…
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He goes on to say, Tom, I want that $500,000 and I'm going to start screaming. So they paid the $500,000. They paid about $450,000 and then I sort of let it go. Then I found out through my other sources that they made about $10 million from…
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starts leaking the fact that he was working for the CIA at the same time the CIA is saying he doesn't work for them, trying to get him killed while putting people in jail for the same thing, saying someone actually works for the CIA that ac…
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and for the Army intelligence, but also that he was reporting to his Army intelligence, hold on, reporting to his Army intelligence control everything that he was told by Wilson. That material, in turn, was being disseminated to Shackley an…
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While in the U.S., Contreras traveled to Miami to meet the Cuban exile leaders and all of the former CIA agents, including Wilson's associate, Quintero and Felix Rodriguez. Tom Clines made some of the arrangements for the Miami meeting. The…
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as a result of the meeting that Klein's had arranged in Miami, were Denicio Suarez, and I'm going to spell his name. His first name is D-I-O-N-I-S-I-O, and Suarez, S-U-A-R-E-Z. And the second person was Virgilio Pablo Paz.…
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The Lettier murder could not have happened at a worse time for Shackley, Clines, and the operations directorate at the CIA. Attorney General Levi's bloodhounds set on the trail of Ambassador Corey were already pressing the CIA to produce do…
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R-O-S-S-O-T-T-I, was the lawyer Tom Clines hired to organize his company called International Research and Trade, the company that had originally been funded by Ed Wilson and Ted Shackley organized, which became Eatsco. So basically, she's …
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Helicopters Guatemala instructed him to transport a helicopter owned by the company from New Orleans to commercial helicopters facility in Lafayette and then ship it to Guatemala along with an engine belonging to them. Jenkins had other con…
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after which Tom Clines became Quintero's case officer. Shackley and Clines boss and headed up the CIA's Miami station after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was also involved in the CIA's use of mafia to try to assassinate Castro. Jenkins also …
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Air America. During that time, Shackley, Secord, and Clines were all involved in the CIA drug operations in that area. Also working with these individuals in that theater was General John Siegel, a Marine officer, along with Oliver North. O…
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Set up by Edwin Wilson and Klein's and employing Quintero and Shackley to sell oil drilling equipment to PIMEX. That's George Bush. George Bush was involved in PIMEX, which is the Mexican oil company. Ross said that he had never heard of AP…
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It was, after all, according to Crowley, Clines, and Corson, and Capucci, in the national interest of the U.S., to keep Egypt as a client state. The CIA did not tell a series of presidents that while Sadat was reaching for peace with Israel…
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I, the CIA front bank, because they're all going to get a cut too. The connections between ETSCO, BCCI, Casey, and Sadat were just beginning of the massive amount of aid that would go to Egypt and the Afghan resistance, quote unquote resist…
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Von Marbog was close to Egyptian's military attaché in Washington, a Major General Abu Ghazala, G-H-A-Z-A-L-A, as well as Mubarak. Through Ghazala, Von Marbog suggested to Salaam that Tom Klein would be an acceptable American partner in his…