Seychelles country
also: Serenam
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Claims (6)
National Security Council ordered_assassination_of
Seychelles host_asserted
“In December 1981, the UN Security Council decided to send a commission to the Seychelles to investigate the invasion. Although the U.S. voted for the motion, the American ambassador, Jean Kirkpatrick, suggested to send the commission was to…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 33:10
South Africa carried_out_attack
Seychelles host_asserted
“The South African force made up just half of the proposed invasion force. The other members of that force came from Great Britain, Rhodesia, the U.S., Germany, and Austria. So in other words, it was a NATO force used, as we have seen so man…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 33:44
Le Cercle targeted_for_regime_change
Seychelles host_asserted
“They overthrew Seychelles. They tried to overthrow Nicaragua. And Cuba was just a repeat every single day attempting to overthrow it. So they did the roadmap and Reagan dutifully implemented it, is the bottom line to that. It also then beca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:53
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Seychelles book_quoted
“opposition, but it actually was canceled because the cover was blown. Schultz shot down Serenam, where in 1983, Casey wanted to insert a couple hundred Korean commandos to overthrow the government. And by Korean commandos, he's talking abou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 22:09
CIA attempted_coup_against
Seychelles host_asserted
“The CIA began hatching a plot to not just coup the government, but they're going to do an overall invasion of the Seychelles. And they're going to overthrow his government. Unfortunately for them, like so many, like Mossadegh and Iran, they…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 25:54
NATO carried_out_attack
Seychelles host_asserted
“The South African force made up just half of the proposed invasion force. The other members of that force came from Great Britain, Rhodesia, the U.S., Germany, and Austria. So in other words, it was a NATO force used, as we have seen so man…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 33:44
Mentions (24)
▶ 1:16:44
I was in for a spell, and a lot of the training, my understanding, is pretty much straight infantry and advanced infantry stuff and unconventional warfare, and I'd never seen the really bad stuff going on anywhere I was at. But I'm sure tha…
▶ 1:17:42
Yeah, we actually covered when we were doing our Around the World tour, we covered the Seychelles coup about them. So it gave them a little bit of advance notice that a coup was going to happen. Yeah, well, basically it blew up and they had…
▶ 16:20
People from the State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy, the OAS, the Organization of Americas, all of those people. They just descended on Jamaica and decided they were going to overthrow the government. And Seychelles, whic…
▶ 19:06
El Salvador was going on during that time. Afghanistan was going on during that time, the Mujahideen version of it. So I just wanted to kind of picture this for you in a completely different plane being time wise as well, because that's oft…
▶ 19:36
The Seychelles is in the Indian slash Pacific, you know, way down there area. We use that. And I first got acquainted with the Seychelles when I was at my first officer duty station in Los Angeles Air Force Base because Los Angeles Air Forc…
▶ 19:57
And it used to be where they managed all of the space programs for the Air Force. And Seychelles has been a space tracking station for a very long time. And it was part of our area of responsibility. And so the officers that were assigned t…
▶ 20:26
I did turn down an opportunity to go there when we were changing our officer promotion systems. I kicked myself in the butt for doing it, but I was a single parent, didn't have a choice because it's absolutely beautiful. And now given this,…
▶ 21:55
when we were using South Africa as a proxy. So he's very well acquainted with these. I almost said change of command operations, but assassination operations, coups, whatever you want to call it. But it's definitely a change of command oper…
▶ 22:25
And it has a population of about 62,000 people. It used to be, a long time ago, a British colony. And it has the Air Force Station there. And in 1977, there was a guy by the name of France Albert René, who, in a coup, took over the governme…
▶ 23:30
So the U.S. had to use all of its formidable powers and economic and political persuasion just to be able to retain its base there for a satellite tracking station because he wanted us gone too. Our lease was not up for about another 10 yea…
▶ 24:55
You're just allowed to say it, not be it. Okay. He was also a very strong advocate for a nuclear-free Indian Ocean. He did not want any foreign military bases in the Indian Ocean, and he didn't want to be the guinea pigs with nuclear fallou…
▶ 25:54
The CIA began hatching a plot to not just coup the government, but they're going to do an overall invasion of the Seychelles. And they're going to overthrow his government. Unfortunately for them, like so many, like Mossadegh and Iran, they…
▶ 26:22
discovered what they were trying to do, and it happened to be before the mercenaries ever even took off from South Africa. An official investigation into the matter by the Seychelles government concluded that the U.S. and France had been di…
▶ 27:19
plans with the CIA and South Africa and France to get his old job. So the U.S. liaison, they don't really have a full-fledged ambassador there, so they charged the affair in the Seychelles, was the link man in the conspiracy.…
▶ 27:44
So 120 Americans that were employed at the consulate there and at the U.S. base that were proven to be in cohorts with this entire coup got kicked out of the Seychelles. Two years later, in 1981, an invasion force of more than 40 men preten…
▶ 28:14
the Seychelles, aboard a regular commercial flight. It appeared that the attack was not planned for the actual arrival, but that they were going to like check into their hotel, get their shit together, and then do it. Unfortunately for them…
▶ 33:10
In December 1981, the UN Security Council decided to send a commission to the Seychelles to investigate the invasion. Although the U.S. voted for the motion, the American ambassador, Jean Kirkpatrick, suggested to send the commission was to…
▶ 34:17
It would seem that someone else had already determined that the Rene government should not stay in power because in December 1983, South Africa announced that it had arrested five men for attempting to recruit mercenaries for yet another pl…
▶ 21:37
project. Again, that's a bunch of crap. Robert Gates comments that Casey never warmed to the operation, that it remained a child of Schultz's State Department. Schultz says nothing of Cambodia at all. They're all lying. Projects planned for…
▶ 22:09
opposition, but it actually was canceled because the cover was blown. Schultz shot down Serenam, where in 1983, Casey wanted to insert a couple hundred Korean commandos to overthrow the government. And by Korean commandos, he's talking abou…
▶ 1:29:22
But it cannot be resolved, cannot be resolved properly. It's like, God, I should have gone to law school because these guys get paid to give you the worst advice in the world, the most convoluted legal system in history. And it's still bett…
▶ 1:29:53
I don't know much about it. We may start looking at real estate in Seychelles, poor hamster. I told you the story that in 2015, I was all but selling my practice and moving to the Cayman Islands and scuba diving my life away. I was gone. Ye…
▶ 37:21
This planning document, which was also handed to Prime Minister Thatcher, suggested the certain peripheral countries that needed to be attacked. You will not find it at all surprising once I name these countries. Grenada, Angola, Seychelles…
▶ 37:53
They overthrew Seychelles. They tried to overthrow Nicaragua. And Cuba was just a repeat every single day attempting to overthrow it. So they did the roadmap and Reagan dutifully implemented it, is the bottom line to that. It also then beca…