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Claims (41)
Domestic Intelligence Division operated_in
Chicago documented
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“We developed all of the intelligence information relative to the activities of the dissidents who went out to Chicago to disrupt the convention…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.119
New York City founded
Chicago documented
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“Before being closed on December 31 1944 a satellite of the New York office was opened in Chicago…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.209
IIT Research Institute located_in
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“IIT Research Institute 10 West 35th Street Chicago Illinois…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.238
University of Illinois at the Medical Center located_in
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“University of Illinois at the Medical Center Chicago Illinois…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.239
Sam Giancana operated_in
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“Sam Giancana a known hoodlum in the Chicago area…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.141
Black Panthers located_in
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“Black Panther Party Headquarters Chicago Illinois…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.276
Worker Student Alliance located_in
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“Worker Student Alliance Headquarters Chicago Illinois…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.277
FBI operated_in
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“January 30 1969 letter from FBI headquarters to special agent in charge Chicago re Black Panter Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.5
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach moved_to
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“On the first occasion I left my office for a flight to Chicago at 2:30 a.m…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.222
John N. Clark operated_in
Chicago documented
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“I sent two teams out one from the Civil Rights Division with its statutes to enforce and one from the Criminal Division with its statutes to enforce…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.265
Federal Bureau of Investigation operated_in
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“2 2 C)icago…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.413
Chicago Crime Commission operated_in
Chicago reported
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“These undercover men are to work with the Chicago Crime Commission…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.473
Voice of Women's Liberation Movement located_in
Chicago documented
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“Voice of Women's Liberation Movement 1940 Bissell Chicago Illinois 60614…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.588
Sam Giancana located_in
Chicago documented
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“"Sam Gold was Momo Salvatore Giancana a Chicago-based gang ster…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.91
FBI operated_in
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“In the same vein a directive to the Chicago field office shortly after the 1968 Democratic Convention instructed it to 'obtain all possible evidence that would 'disprove charges that the Chicago police used undue force…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.257
Black Panthers operated_in
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“the Black Panther Party in Chicago blamed the leader of the Blackstone Rangers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.288
FBI operated_in
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“In one "disinformation case the Chicago Field Office duplicated blank forms prepared by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.37
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People located_in
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“the 20,000-member branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Chicago Illinois.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.72
Martin Luther King Jr. lived_in
Chicago documented
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“He added that King was in Chicago last weekend and stayed in Carey's home…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.177
Black Panthers operated_in
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“...sending an anonymous letter to the gang's leader falsely informing him that the Chicago Panthers had "a hit out on him.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.194
Blackstone Rangers operated_in
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“The Chicagopolice had linked the Rangers and rival gangs in Chicago to approximately290killings from 1965--69…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.201
Federal Bureau of Investigation operated_in
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“When the San Francisco Division learned that Garry intended to represent Bobby Seale at the Chicago 7 trial it sent the Chicago office transcripts...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.218
Richard Daley lived_in
Chicago documented
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“The next day another associate of King's contacted (on the telephone in King's room) a member of the MFDP who said she thought King should see ... Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.353
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam located_in
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“A telephone surveillance on this office would provide extremely valuable information regarding the plans of [numerous] groups to disrupt the National Democratic Convention It would also furnish advance notice of any possible activity by the…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.355
Confederate States of America targeted_for_regime_change
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“guerrilla warriors behind Union lines would burn down New York City free rebel troops imprisoned in the North to loot and pillage throughout the industrial Northeast and seize Chicago Buffalo and Indianapolis…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.48
Military Intelligence Division operated_in
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“Van Deman's agents were soon scattered about the country working under cover among the IWW in the Northwest and among the enemy aliens in New York Philadelphia and Chicago…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.84
Roger Sullivan lived_in
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“Roger Sullivan of Chicago…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.103
Ernst Floege born_in
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“Ernst Floege of Chicago…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.162
Pope Leo XIII born_in
Chicago documented
“About 20% is now in Africa where the Catholic Church is growing the fastest, but obviously Africa is very poor. That's why we got the Pope we got. And Robert Prevost, his former name, is interesting. Born in Chicago in 1955. He's got deep r…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 14:37
James Burnham born_in
Chicago book_quoted
“the neocon environment seamlessly. So he was born in 1905, and of course he was born in Chicago. He was raised Roman Catholic. He graduated from Princeton, and of course he went to Oxford. He went to one of the most prestigious colleges at …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 5:38
Mayo Brown founded
Chicago host_asserted
“which is all of the hotspots for CIA money operations and drug trafficking. Mayor Brown was founded in Chicago, and one of its first major clients was Sears and Roebuck. And if you research Sears and Roebuck, the guy that was in charge and …”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #42 @ 1:04:16
Allan Pinkerton appointed
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“Interestingly enough, Pinkerton was very good friends with none other than John Brown. Hmm. All right, so how does he become a detective? He comes across a band of counterfeiters. He's out in the woods looking for wood for his barrels, sees…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:04:09
Bernard Spindel involved_with
Chicago book_quoted
“the nines so that the mafia in chicago knew everything that was going on and what else so spindell was also involved in helping the mafia in operations obviously outside of chicago he was sent trips…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 3 @ 39:39
Operation Gladio exposed
Chicago host_asserted
“That doesn't mean charges won't eventually be brought. That doesn't mean that the list won't necessarily be released eventually. But we have to understand in a town the size of Chicago, it took them nine years of infiltrating networks in or…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 2:05:42
Mafia operated_in
Chicago host_asserted
“They didn't want to deal with the mafia. They were afraid of the mafia. And they literally for almost ever did not carry mozzarella cheese. And obviously the reason was that for the most part in Chicago and New York, the mafia controlled th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 19 OKL bombing @ 1:33:47
FBI carried_out_attack
Chicago host_asserted
“gray something um shoot i'll think of it in a second um but what what it was was an operation that took about seven years that had people that were good people assume identities in a infiltration operation by the feds in order and the state…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 1:39:04
Great Chicago Fire about
Chicago structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Great Chicago Fire' is a work/event about 'Chicago'…”
Lincoln's Counterfeiters: The Wisconsin Gang That Funded the Union and Started the Chicago Mob about
Chicago structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Lincoln's Counterfeiters: The Wisconsin Gang That Funded the Union and Started the Chicago Mob' is a work/event about 'Chicago'…”
Chicago assassination plot about
Chicago structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Chicago assassination plot' is a work/event about 'Chicago'…”
Ted Jorgensen origin from Chicago about
Chicago structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Ted Jorgensen origin from Chicago' is a work/event about 'Chicago'…”
Chicago Tribune about
Chicago structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Chicago Tribune' is a work/event about 'Chicago'…”
Mentions (120)
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people's input on all of the different aspects of what's going on. Go ahead, Miles. Colonel, sorry to be late for a roll call, but yeah, I've been pretty busy with everything that's going on lately. I just wanted, I'll be in here tomorrow b…
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Pay attention to what's happening in Chicago in August. Thanks, Colonel. Yeah, no problem. Thank you. Yeah, Miles, we hope that you're going to come on Friday as well, because that's the idea of the Friday roundtable, is to talk about paral…
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for long-term longevity. So it is a very methodical process in order to map out. And again, I always tell people, go look at Operation Grey Lord in Chicago. That was about a seven to nine year process of trying to identify the international…
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He talks about an indictment hearing and a federal court case in Chicago in 1991, which he was the only reporter that attended the hearing. And he says, my exclusive interviews with the participants confirmed that why certain bank records h…
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Don't want to use YouTube. I also uploaded the documentary in two parts here on Twitter. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I try to avoid YouTube whenever I have a chance. And for those of you listening that don't know, Sam Giancano was …
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um, uh, Marcinicus, um, originated. So he does his, all of the Vatican archbishop financing with a CIA front bank in, um, Chicago and the banker that he banked with and, um, Marcinicus…
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Jessalyn Maxwell was as well. Now, we can focus on the negative and go, no, we don't have his client list. What we don't know, as with operations in the past, like Operation Grey Lord in Chicago, a lot of that information is used to...…
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That doesn't mean charges won't eventually be brought. That doesn't mean that the list won't necessarily be released eventually. But we have to understand in a town the size of Chicago, it took them nine years of infiltrating networks in or…
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Chappell was putting the drugs on freight trains directly to Chicago. They were actually using car manufacturing after NAFTA. The auto trains where they were manufacturing cars in Mexico, they were using those cars as conveyance to Chicago …
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You see the violence problem in Chicago right now. I know I posted a video or I tagged you in a video or something on one of your posts where it's a former gang member in Chicago explaining how they were just gun drops.…
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in chicago where they'd get a call and they'd come down there and there would be crates of guns military grade guns and when this guy you know this one particular gentleman he went legit he would go to a gun range or a gun store and ask for…
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And this is just Alpha's opinion. My opinion doesn't reflect anybody in the room. But if I was an operative, I would tell you the truth 90% of the time. So the 10% I told you a lie, you would believe that too. 100%. And her inflexibility in…
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pretended to be corrupt so that they could find out the extent of the corruption in Chicago's judicial and the state attorney's office there and in their government. And it was not, I mean, it ran for like seven years and you didn't know un…
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But the big one is the Wisconsin counterfeit gang, which is what's detailed in this book. And that's run by a guy by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte Lata, known as Boney Lata. And they're operating out of a place called Monroe, Wisconsin. Wi…
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formed in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858 to protect Republican rallies from pro-slavery Democratic mobs. By 1860, it had 500,000 members across 40 states drilling in black capes and torches like a Republican legion. I think that sounds famil…
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you know, you're going to flourish. And if it doesn't, your town is going to become a ghost town. And that's exactly what happened. So railroad lawyers are not people. And Lincoln came from this Kentucky colony of organized crime, which the…
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Out of Lincoln, the Bonaparte ring would get broken up by the Secret Service not until 1873. And by that time, they'd had their foothold throughout the Midwest and established organized crime, which means the entire Chicago dirty politics w…
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And as early as 1844, he was working for the Chicago abolitionist leaders. Now, what have I said about these abolitionists? But he might have been a true abolitionist, Alan Pinkerton. He had a home in a place called Dundee, Illinois, and it…
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Interestingly enough, Pinkerton was very good friends with none other than John Brown. Hmm. All right. So how does he become a detective? He comes across a band of counterfeiters. He's out in the woods looking for wood for his barrels, sees…
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Alan Pinkerton meets a Chicago lawyer by the name of Edward Rucker, and they formed the Northwestern Police Agency, which then became the Pinkerton Agency. Where it gets interesting, where did they meet? Oh, in a local Masonic Hall. Yeah, t…
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the unions themselves became part of a political machine infiltrated by organized crime, et cetera. But that's a different story. That brings you right back to the mafia of Chicago. So the mafia, yeah, exactly. It's full circle. So the mafi…
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So the name, the religion is named after him. Now, what's interesting about this is that religion in the United States has three primary. Well, it has three primary world locations, Hawaii, Indonesia and Chicago, Hawaii, Indonesia and Chica…
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Those are the three places that Barack Obama lived. That's weird. And it just so happens that Subad religion in the United States had a particular U.S. leader, and her name was Loretta Fuddy for a period of time. You know, the person that..…
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Or was this Ann Sotero's cover for another kind of research in the countryside? And Obama says nothing about his mother's residence in Indonesia during the brutal Suharto's invasion and occupation of East Timor beginning in 1975. My develop…
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That led rival immigrant groups to denounce the ABN's ethnic nationalism as basically Nazism reborn, which it is. Unable to return home, the ABN leaders worked instead among exile communities spread across four continents. They formed chapt…
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You could look at Operation Grey Lord in Chicago and watch how they did that, how they completely infiltrated. That's how they took down the D'Nostra mafia family in Italy as well. So there is a way to do that. And so I don't know that I wo…
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That security guy actually hangs out with those same people. So do I have any direct evidence? No. Does he hang out in all of those same spaces? 100%. So, you know, just like, but I'll caveat that with this. We don't know. If you go back an…
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CIA officer chosen to build the facilities and create a national pacification program that could maintain operations independently of the South Vietnamese Army was fostering local initiatives. And his name was Tom Donohue. D-O-N-O-H-U-E. He…
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That's a very interesting time to be over there. His father, Charles Sheldon, the bonesman, his father was a guy by the name of Sheldon Whitehouse, who was also born in New York City, family money. Interestingly, his great uncle was the guy…
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How far he was in bed with them or whether he was just doing deals for them and he was just like Donald Trump. He's just in the. So we've seen both of these things play out in recent time. So you can make your own assessment. But the other …
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Hold on a second. I'll look it up. But there was this big trading mart for commerce. Chicago Merchant Mart. Is that what you're talking about? So there's the corresponding one of those in New Orleans. And all of the shenanigans of the mafia…
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And a lot of those on a covert black market went to the Chicago one. So there's a lot there. And again, I do agree with you all along. Go read that book. You guys form your own opinions. We're here discussing things that we know about these…
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And I want everybody to understand the information, all of it, not just the part that they want to feed us. I think there's more to this as well. But anyway, I won't. Yeah. Thank you. Sure. Miles, go ahead. I want to get back to the mob bec…
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Came from the UK, went to New York, and then went, okay, let's go down to Australia. No, it went to Chicago. That's where it went right after New York. So they were telling you they were going to do real-time operations from Chicago. Now, i…
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was done much sooner than most of us knows. And there have been people working behind the scenes. And what I offer is a couple of examples like Operation, oh gosh, I'm going to have a war hamster moment now. The one in Chicago.…
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that you had just about every hotel in Chicago, New York, many of the cities in Canada, they were all prostitution houses. That's basically what the hotel was. I did not know that.…
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It culminated in 1920, but it was 40 or 50 years of building up to this. The people that would step into that, the mafia and the alcohol, what we now call the mafia, they already had organized crimes starting in New Orleans, some in New Yor…
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was assassinated by the CIA, the same organization that New York Senator Chuck Schumer covers up for and protects them from the population six ways from Sunday. That one. So when that happens, big media and a city like Los Angeles is going …
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But there was still time to prevent a catastrophe, Beck told the committee. We do not have to have an epidemic of freebase or cocoa paste smoking in the United States. The possibility is strong that this might occur. I have reports from Cal…
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The sociologist said the distribution system seemed custom made for black gang centers like Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Chicago. They also said there is absolutely nothing inherent in this distribution technology, nor in the Los Ang…
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The higher profits, coupled with the increased pressure from local police, have prompted the Los Angeles gangs to extend their territory far beyond the neighborhood. Within the past three to four years, members of the Crips and Bloods have …
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And it was already there. But the Jamaicans formalized Chicago because the cocaine was already in Chicago. But the the Jamaicans really set up a very extensive posse network. They ended up with over like 50 of them. And they did deal.…
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fascinating story. I had no idea what it was. It came up in like two books ago and I'm like, what the hell is it, Tom? It's fascinating, actually. I highly suggest that you go read that article. In the 1930s, the national president of the H…
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Obviously, we're going to have to do more work to actually find these files in all of the JFK file releases. So kudos to Kerry on this. The second thing is I've also posted to The Nest, now that everybody's talking about JFK, the story of A…
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Harold Weissman said a lot of newspaper clippings, you know, for the 1960s on both the Tribune, the Sun Times and the Chicago Daily News. And people can investigate it for themselves. It seems like back in the 60s, the press was completely …
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There are revelations that it was originally planned for the Miami stop. And then there was a revelation that it couldn't happen there. It was going to be done in Chicago. And those two may be out of order, but whatever. Because he was maki…
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Secret Service thing even became a thing is because that there were preparations being made for an assassination attempt in Chicago. And then it obviously happens in Dallas. And so this was a very elaborate thing that was going on. There wa…
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And between taking calls from New York and Chicago and other places, he was trying to help the local boys put together their story. Their local paper was called Palladium Item. As the radio bombardment went on through the afternoon, Ray got…
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Well, now it's happening in Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, North Carolina, and Chicago last night. Yes. So maybe now somebody will start paying attention? Yeah, especially since the Clinton Foundation has gone down to Texas to help …
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that Erwin Weiner was a longtime associate of none other than Jack Ruby. Both had at one time worked for Sam Giacana in Chicago and through a chain of command still did at the time of the assassination. By charting out associates and connec…
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Other planning begins. This is the standard planning style that approaches a problem of this magnitude. Back planning on this particular occasion hinged upon where and when. As early as May, two primary operational areas had been chosen. We…
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ever being written about the proceedings without notes being taken with no stenographer present and no recordings, which is highly unusual. What did happen during the period is the entrance of Jack Ruby, Ruby, the local nightclub owner and …
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April Sound in the 80s was sued by the Texas Attorney General for alleged deceptive trade practices by making false presentations to customers to get them to buy timeshares. The company Sweetwater agreed to make restitution to some of their…
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Some of DeVos' legal fees paid by Harvey Silette, the tax attorney in Chicago, who was also representing Burton Cantner, came from this account on the Isle of Jersey, according to Florida investigators. A former Israeli intelligence officer…
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Paul Hellywell's Castle Bank, and Burton Cantor. Burton Cantor was featured, and he probably cites, he probably cites Penny Lourneau's 1984 book, In Banks We Trust, for his comment on, you know, that if he didn't get those accounts transfer…
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if he decided to run again. Two paragraphs later, it was reported that Evangeline Goteladas Carey had registered to vote as a Democrat in Albany after giving up her independent status in Chicago and marrying Hugh Carey. That's the same Evan…
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who purchased his house from Bill Walters, the real estate guy, builder. Walters had purchased the property, torn down the house and built another one. The person Walters bought the property from was the godfather of white color crime and c…
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evangelist Billy Graham's Youth for Christ International to travel under their banner. I'd like to say I'm shocked. Dick was reportedly instrumental in establishing Youth for Christ International headquarters in Singapore where he traveled …
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who we've talked about before. And in 86, when freedom was in the death throes after Warner Bazarian and a mob associate from New York had looted it, Chicago businessman Sam Zale, an old business partner of Douglas Crocker and Burton Cantor…
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And they had the convention in Chicago both times. There were so many similarities in it. It was just like, holy crap, holy crap. Yeah. History rhymes sometimes. I forget the expression, but yeah. We probably owe it to ourselves to do a ful…
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I'll zip it now. Okay, Miles, go ahead. Yeah, to expand on that, I'm glad Warhamster brought that up. So if the Democratic Convention hadn't turned out the way it did, and there was more unity at that convention, and there weren't riots in …
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Yeah, but that's an awesome point just brought up because people forget that the 1960s made the 2020 Summer of Love look like a warm-up act. If you really go back and look at the 60s, it was far more violent on the streets. There was far mo…
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Also related to 1968, which is something that I mean, we just need to talk about forever. I agree absolutely with what Warhamster is saying. There's something about that year in which the the final Lincoln duopoly kind of two scissor blade …
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Let's think about had RFK survived to Chicago. That's a link between the protesters in the streets and inside the convention. Right. So that's a continuity and political continuity of bringing on a whole new group of people, not only as as …
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had done through his father's eyes. He was sent off to college in Northwestern and became a dentist. Northwestern University, sorry. He used his income to put the rest of his family through college. Jagen met Janet Rosenberg at a political …
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to get the industrial espionage people together under the pretext of a quote unquote trade show. And the international marts in New Orleans, there was one in Chicago, there was one in New York. And again, it's a network. So that's basically…
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And his wife has no way to support their kids and herself. And that's when she got into the business with the DEA Dirty Dozen and ends up moving in co-located with them. So that's like two chapters of the book. There's a lot of details abou…
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the nines so that the mafia in chicago knew everything that was going on and what else so spindell was also involved in helping the mafia in operations obviously outside of chicago he was sent trips…
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to their railway tour of America. On their way to the West Coast, they stopped over in Chicago, visited a speakeasy. Much to the surprise of all of us, said Critchfield, we were greeted by a famous member of the mafia. Not surprising based …
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Fleeing Castro's Cuban, Sierra settled first in Miami, but after passing his U.S. bar exams, he went to work in the legal department at the Union Tank Car Company in Chicago. It was a railroad freight company that had been built by the Rock…
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in the confusing and conflict-ridden Cuban exile movement. In May of 63, following his Washington meeting with Dulles and Clay, Sierra, who was virtually unknown in anti-Castro circles, convened a meeting of Cuban exile leaders at the Royal…
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Sierra attracted enough support from within the anti-Castro network to form a coalition he ambitiously titled the Junta of Government of Cuba in Exile. He crisscrossed the country drumming up support for this new organization and went on a …
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investigation after concluding there was nothing to see there. The Chicago office of the Secret Service, however, suspected the Sierra was a sinister figure. By November of 1963, Chicago, like Miami, New Orleans, and Dallas, had become a ne…
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Secret Service officials foiled a well-organized assassination plot against Kennedy. After landing at Chicago's O'Hare Airport that day, Kennedy was scheduled to ride in a motorcade to Soldier Field for the annual Army-Navy football game. B…
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Paulino Sierra Martinez faded from the front lines of the anti-Castro campaign. Accused by Union Tank Car's legal counsel of wasting the Junta's funds, he was eventually replaced as head of the organization. But according to relatives of Si…
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in the middle of the Watergate crisis while serving as a mysterious courier for her husband. When her United Airline flight in Washington's Dulles Airport crashed while landing at Chicago's Midway Airport in December of 1972, Dorothy Hunt w…
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But I don't think the book actually mentions that there was another assassination attempt in Chicago, that the Secret Service there basically foiled, that Abraham Bolden made the mistake of turning over to the Secret Service's inspector gen…
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So tell everybody about what the basis of that was, because a lot of people don't know who you're talking about. I do. But explain that to everybody. What happened in Chicago? Because there was the assertion that Dallas was not the only pla…
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for the assassination, that there was one in Chicago and also one in Florida while he was on this series of road trips. So go ahead. If I recall correctly, there was a woman at a boarding house who basically caught two, I think she called t…
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What ultimately wound up happening was one of the people wound up recanting their testimony. The defendant that he was chasing recanted his testimony and basically said that the prosecutor supported perjury in the case. And when that got to…
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I mean, yeah, Mark Lane was really the hero. It was kind of a hero in this story. I mean, he got the news media's attention to this whole thing. This guy basically looks like he's been set up, number one. And I think it happened before they…
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The Mexicans agreed to a French extradition request for Giacana, but when his Paris-bound plane stopped over in Houston, Giacana was whisked away by U.S. agents. Soon after, he was found murdered in Chicago. Mexican interior minister offici…
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A top-level Sinaloa player claimed in court pleadings in his criminal case in Chicago that the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization had a quid pro quo agreement with the U.S. government that allowed its senior members to operate with impun…
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cut a plea deal with prosecutors in exchange for cooperating with U.S. law enforcement. A federal judge in Chicago sentenced him to 15 years behind bars in 2019, including time served since his extradition to the U.S. in 2010. In his court …
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these cartels into ones that they control. There was one case that came about that involved the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, according to court filings in Chicago, that involved senior Sinaloa cartel leaders and narcotraffickers in 2013.…
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activities in areas where they have complicit police in place. That was the reason why Chicago, Tampa, and Dallas was picked for the attempted assassination and then assassination of JFK, because they have people embedded in those police fo…
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Pittsburgh and Cincinnati and stuff like that. But this one and the Chicago that Illini is well-versed in, this book specifically deals with that Northern tier. So I'll screen that book and see if that's something that we wanna do to kind o…
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following the British model. Triple Canopy was a 2003 startup, you know, right at the same time that they're deciding that they're going to basically do Iraq and then Afghanistan by contract. It was founded in Chicago by Special Forces vete…
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when the bank failed. Another mob borrower was Carl Russo, a bag man for the Savella family who carried the cash skim from Tropicana Casino in Los Angeles to mafia families in Kansas City and Chicago. The two Carls were convicted in 1983 of…
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guaranteed a $200,000 loan from Indian Springs to his Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. A Schinker associate from Las Vegas, J. Finn, F-I-H-N, was also a borrower at Indian Springs. On the deposit side, at least 12 people with ties to or…
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a registered agent for La Casa Land Company, which participated in the development of the resort. Also affiliated with this resort was Chicago attorney Burton Kanter, K-A-N-T-E-R. He also was on the list of principals that was in charge of …
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as having organized crime connections. The San Diego police had contacted the New Orleans Crime Commission about Beebe. The casino deal eventually fell through. The FBI had discovered in the late 1970s that Beebe's friend and partner, Lance…
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because the bank was just prior to foreclosure. Now, nobody like Phillips throws away millions of dollars to a known mobster like Beebe, unless he's told to do so. There's evidence to indicate that. In 1983, Southmark bought San Joaquin Sav…
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Roselli agreed to help for a fee of $150,000 and contacted Chicago Mafia boss, Sam Giacana, who made arrangements to have a poison pill to be able to kill Castro. That Richard Bissell was involved in a lot of the different outrageous things…
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placed in the hands of Secord and the CIA. And Secord called Wackenhut to handle the security and travel and protection of Barbati and to assist with the export of the products. Wackenhut was doing a contract for the CIA and allegedly shipp…
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decrees that the DOJ straddles these large cities with is what led to the chaos in Seattle. There was one in Miami that allowed all of the chaos to go on there. It's basically them controlling local police departments. They use race as a re…
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And naturally, they blame it on the old families. And what do they do? The FBI, oh, we're opening up a new task force. And what does that do? It wipes out a lot of the old apparatus. But the apparatus over in Chicago survived. The outfit ov…
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But when they got to see the third man, someone Roselli didn't know from Chicago, strangled the 71-year-old gangster to death. He wasn't even on the vessel an hour and he was dead, rubbed out by a mafia hitman who sawed off his legs, stuffe…
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Roselli's murder centered on the fact that another participant in the Castro assassination plots, Sam Giacana, a former mafia boss of Chicago, had been murdered in his home a year earlier. Mr. Giacana was killed shortly before he was schedu…
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Then he gets gunned down by Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who claimed that he did it because he wanted to spare Jackie Kennedy the trauma of a trial. And of course, we know Jack Ruby is Jack Rubenstein, and he also is affiliated with the m…
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I think it's interesting that he's also related to the Beers family, the B-E-E-R-S, which traces back to some very interesting connections in Chicago. But definitely one of the blue bloods. Yeah. It's probably been to a few debutante balls.…
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And I came across them doing some research into the Swift family and some of the mafia, the Pritzkers in Chicago. I came across the Beers family. So I just thought that was a very interesting connection. That was his grandparents on the oth…
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This name rang a bell for me because of Operation Gladio and the fact that I used to go to Catalina Island all the time when I lived in L.A. That was a really cool weekend, kind of take the ferry over type thing. And I learned a lot about t…
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was part of the Cubs, the Chicago Cubs realm. And if you've ever, I've been to Chicago multiple times. I was stationed in Illinois, been through the part that's public that you can walk through in the Wrigley building only because of my inf…
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About 20% is now in Africa where the Catholic Church is growing the fastest, but obviously Africa is very poor. That's why we got the Pope we got. And Robert Prevost, his former name, is interesting. Born in Chicago in 1955. He's got deep r…
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and his time in Peru. But I caught immediately that he started at the Archdiocese in Chicago because the Archdiocese in Chicago gave birth to Archbishop Marcinkus, which we'll get into later when we start talking about the scandals of the C…
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Archbishop Marcinkus was in charge of the Catholic establishment in Chicago and was integral in a lot of the mafia ties to the Chicago mob. They banked at the same bank and there was a lot of banking scandals back then.…
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Archbishop Marcinikis that was tied to all of this money laundering that was going on. And you have the Rothschild Bank in Zurich tied to it as well. So then you get to Blackfriars Bridge. Why was Blackfriars Bridge important? Because of…
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We'll get into them later, because I want to go to the origins of the family. And they are Scots-Irish descent. They settled in Virginia and would eventually migrate to Chicago, Illinois. Now, before I did this, our good friend goes to base…
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In 1845, and he builds a factory, finds a factory in a place called Brookport, New York, so he could mass produce these. 1847, their father passes away and he moves the business to Chicago. And that's where we got the Chicago McCormick's. H…
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All these bubbles with just the names of the siblings, it means they didn't really do anything of note. Okay, so they built their own factory in Chicago. Now at the time, throughout the Midwest, Chicago was a pretty new town and less establ…
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Even though Chicago is a very Republican town. Wait a minute, Chicago? Yeah. So what's Cyrus' politics all about? He pushes for efforts to annex the Dominican Republic as a U.S. territory. A lot of what we've talked about has been about Ame…
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Yes. In 1902, would merge with another one. We're going to get to that. And create a company known as International Harvester. I know. This is the guy. Yep. Brilliant, brilliant. All right, so a little bit more on Cyrus because he's importa…
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It's Young Men's Christian Association, but it evolved into much more than that. Yes. And Moody, again, is a Unitarian. And I'm not going to get in the holy world with anybody over the Trinity versus Unitarians. Okay, so I'm just stating hi…
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The Great Chicago Fire burns the factory down. They build it right back up by 1873. By 1879, his brother Leander would change the company's name from Cyrus H. McCormick and Brothers to the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. And Cyrus is …
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5.4 billion today and i changed my mind on the order i want to do this so bear with me i just want to talk a little bit about william sanderson mccormick born in 1815 dies in 1865 a relatively young man born in virginia he's a businessman a…
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Of 1837, the farm had a lot of trouble, and he jumps in and makes the company profitable again. So he's a good business head. When the two brothers left for Chicago, Cyrus stays home to take care of the estate. That was in 1846. In 1850, he…
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William would travel to Europe to promote the international sales. Now, this poor gentleman suffered from what's known as nervous dyspepsia, and he would end up dying in an asylum in 1865. So he had a short life. His wife is a Marianne Grig…
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And as early as 1844, he was working for the Chicago abolitionist leaders. Now, what have I said about these abolitionists? But he might have been a true abolitionist, Alan Pinkerton. He had a home in a place called Dundee, Illinois, and it…
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Interestingly enough, Pinkerton was very good friends with none other than John Brown. Hmm. All right, so how does he become a detective? He comes across a band of counterfeiters. He's out in the woods looking for wood for his barrels, sees…