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Claims (149)
Rio Tinto operated_in
Spain documented
document
“...its geographical range from Spain to Belgium, Rhodesia and the Americas.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)
Carlists operated_in
Spain documented
document
“This, however, proved to be short-lived as the Carlists seemed to gain the upper hand.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Rodrigo Rato worked_for
Spain documented
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“Rodrigo Rato, formerly Spain’s finance minister…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.195
Monzer al-Kassar lived_in
Spain documented
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“Until recently, another member of the same tier of shadow elites was sixty-one-year-old Monzer al-Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer who, thanks to his adopted residence and lifestyle of luxury in Spain, was called the “Prince of Marbella.”…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.247
Spain did_business_with
Isaac Pereire documented
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“One was Spain, which issued a loan through Mires in 1856…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWO The Era of Mobility (1849-1858)
Spain sold_to
France documented
document
“the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800) returned the province to France at the behest of Napoleon…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.23
Aaron Burr did_business_with
Spain documented
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“Burr obtained a small sum from the Spanish…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.23
Jose Lopez worked_for
Spain documented
document
“summoned the Spanish commander Don Jose Lopez to surrender…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.25
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Spain documented
document
“The declaration of war against Spain adopted by Congress on April 20 1898…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.70
Fernandez del Campo operated_in
Spain documented
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“A secret agent using the name Fernandez del Campo was dispatched to Spain by the War Department…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.71
William J. Donovan operated_in
Spain documented
document
“next he was in Spain scrutinizing the development of the civil war in that land…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.146
Klemens von Metternich operated_in
Spain documented
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“Metternich proved able to exert considerable diplomatic influence over events in Spain.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Spain documented
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“The United States was going to war with Spain.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.335
Rothschild family did_business_with
Spain documented
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“Significantly, the Rothschilds were tempted to lend to the Spanish liberals...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. PREFACE
Rothschild family financed_via
Spain documented
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“By controlling a tangible asset like the Almadén mines, then the world’s biggest, the Rothschilds could finance the Spanish government with minimal risk, advancing money against consignments of mercury.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. PREFACE
United States government did_business_with
Spain documented
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“Cuba, which momentarily acquired a political importance when the American government sought to buy it from Spain…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWO The Era of Mobility (1849-1858)
Zaragoza line operated_in
Spain documented
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“Finally, the Spanish railways were much less profitable than those of Italy.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
James A. de Rothschild did_business_with
Spain documented
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“All this helps to explain the relatively cautious attitude of James and his nephews when approached by successive Spanish governments for loans in the 1860s.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
James A. de Rothschild funded
Spain documented
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“A small advance was agreed in 1861-2; but a larger operation foundered in 1864...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
Société Générale de Belgique funded
Spain documented
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“This was followed in 1867 by a further loan arranged by the Société Générale (with Barings in a supporting role) which was intended to convert the so-called “passive” debt on which interest payments had been suspended.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
English Rothschilds did_business_with
Spain documented
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“the English Rothschilds were as reluctant as ever to encumber themselves with new Spanish bonds, preferring to continue the system of modest advances against the output of the Almadén mines.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
Salamanca worked_for
Spain documented
document
“The negotiations, which were initiated on behalf of the Narváez government by the banker Salamanca, were still dragging on inconclusively...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. THREE Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863)
France invested_in
Spain documented
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“As we have seen, many of the new banks and railways established in countries like Spain, Italy and Austria after 1850 were based on French capital.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
James A. de Rothschild funded
Spain documented
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“Indeed, it was only after the revolution that it proved possible to reach an agreement on a loan to Madrid along the lines envisaged by James since 1866…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
Spain paid
Zaragoza railway company documented
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“in return, the Spanish government paid subsidies worth 30 million francs to the Zaragoza company.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
Rothschild family banking houses did_business_with
Spain documented
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“the Rothschilds were more than content to continue the traditional system of advances against the output of the Almadén mines…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
Spain sold_to
Rio Tinto documented
document
“the Bourbon restoration at the end of the following year led to the sale of the mines to a British company for £3.7 million…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
Queen Isabella removed_from_power
Spain documented
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“No sooner had Queen Isabella been ousted than speculation began about a possible successor from one of the other European royal houses.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FIVE Bonds and Iron (1867-1870)
Cortes dissolved
Spain documented
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“this meant that instead of remaining in session to elect Leopold, the Cortes was dissolved, creating an unforeseen delay.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. SIX Reich, Republic, Rentes (1870-1873)
Rothschild & Co invested_in
Spain documented
document
“Their mining interests in Spain and Mexico did not require foreign intervention...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Paul Eugène Bontoux moved_to
Spain documented
document
“After his conviction for financial malpractice and flight to Spain, Bontoux repeatedly claimed that he was the victim of a “Jewish plot”;…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Rothschild family operated_in
Spain documented
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“In the 1830s they had acquired control of the Almadén mercury mines in the belief that some kind of tangible asset was necessary if money was to be advanced to a state as unstable as Spain.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. ELEVEN The Risks and Returns of Empire (1885-1902)
Arthur Balfour ordered_assassination_of
Spain documented
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“Indeed, Balfour had requested that Rothschilds refuse any loan requests from Spain in 1898.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWELVE Finances and Alliances (1885-1906)
Spain nationalized
Almadén mines documented
document
“...the Almadén mines were nationalised in 1929...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. FOURTEEN Deluges (1915-1945)
James A. de Rothschild invested_in
Spain documented
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“Indeed, by the 1860s James de Rothschild had built up something like a pan-European railway network extending northwards from France to Belgium, southwards to Spain and eastwards to Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. INTRODUCTION Reality and Myth
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington operated_in
Spain documented
document
“He gets money to Wellington in Spain…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. INTRODUCTION Reality and Myth
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington paid
Spain documented
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“The outgoings of his military chest were running at around £100,000 a month, including not only payments to his own troops, but also subsidies to Portugal and Spain (now forcibly won over to the British side).…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THREE “The Commanding General” (1813-1815)
France carried_out_attack
Spain documented
document
“After all, had not the 1820 revolution begun with a mutiny by soldiers about to be sent across the Atlantic? And were not Ferdinand’s advisers convinced that recovering the American colonies would solve all his financial problems? It was th…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. FOUR A“ Court Always Leads to Something” (1816-1825)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild did_business_with
Spain documented
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“Ultimately, that was why he was unwilling to lend to absolutist Spain without a guarantee from constitutional France.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. FOUR A“ Court Always Leads to Something” (1816-1825)
United Kingdom operated_in
Spain documented
document
“This explains Britain’s refusal to sanction the French intervention in Spain…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. FIVE “Hue and Cry” (1826-1829)
Ignaz Bauer operated_in
Spain documented
document
“Another nephew (Moritz) worked at the London house for eighteen years, while a third (Ignaz Bauer) was sent to Spain to assist Weisweiller.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. TEN The World’s Bankers
Rothschild family banking business operated_in
Spain documented
document
“The year 1836 was critical in the history of their operations in Spain, where a bloody civil war was raging…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. ELEVEN “Il est mort” (1836)
James A. de Rothschild did_business_with
Spain documented
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“In September 1839, for example, James accused the London house of collecting half the profits on their business in Spain but leaving the Paris house to run all the risks.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. ELEVEN “Il est mort” (1836)
London Rothschild house did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“In September 1839, for example, James accused the London house of collecting half the profits on their business in Spain but leaving the Paris house to run all the risks.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. ELEVEN “Il est mort” (1836)
Paris Rothschild house did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“In September 1839, for example, James accused the London house of collecting half the profits on their business in Spain but leaving the Paris house to run all the risks.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. ELEVEN “Il est mort” (1836)
Rothschild family operated_in
Spain documented
document
“The Rothschilds proved ready and willing to lend to whichever side they thought would win in both Portugal and Spain.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Carlos Rodrigo Santana moved_to
Spain documented
document
“returning to Spain to mobilise his supporters ten months later.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
House of Rothschilds did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“Spain (unlike Portugal) had a particular kind of asset which proved irresistibly attractive to the Rothschilds as a security for any loans…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Spain did_business_with
Fuggers documented
document
“most famously mortgaging them in the sixteenth century to the Augsburg bankers, the Fuggers.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Spain did_business_with
Havana documented
document
“Spain still had lucrative commercial ties with her remaining colonies, notably Cuba and the Philippines…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Spain did_business_with
Philippines documented
document
“Spain still had lucrative commercial ties with her remaining colonies, notably Cuba and the Philippines…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Ferdinand VII of Spain did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“King Ferdinand had refused to honour following the suppression of the revolution.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild proposed
Spain documented
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“on April 18 Nathan unilaterally proposed to advance the Spanish government 15 million francs…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild invested_in
Spain documented
document
“Given the country’s notorious record of default, it is not surprising that Nathan’s decision to involve himself in Spanish finances attracted satirical comment.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Carlos Rodrigo Santana moved_to
Spain documented
document
“To make matters worse, Toreno’s appointment coincided with the return of Don Carlos to Spain...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Rothschild family financed_via
Spain documented
document
“From now on, rather than issue bonds for Spain against effectively worthless paper securities, they would finance the country’s chronically unreliable government by making relatively short-run advances on the royalties they had to pay for t…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Francisco Martínez de la Rosa worked_for
Spain documented
document
“Heine joked that Mendizábal (who became Finance Minister in 1835) had pawned an ancient pearl necklace “to cover certain / deficits in state finances”…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Nathan Mayer Rothschild sold_to
Spain reported
document
“According to accounts which Salomon enclosed, Nathan had sold no less than £2 million of Spanish bonds, ruining Toreno’s credit...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Rothschild family did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“Ultimately, despite pressure from the French government to come to Maria Christina’s assistance, the Rothschilds kept on selling Spanish bonds; indeed, Nathan’s last instructions to his sons were to liquidate all their holdings.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
France did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“Ultimately, despite pressure from the French government to come to Maria Christina’s assistance, the Rothschilds kept on selling Spanish bonds...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Francisco Martínez de la Rosa worked_for
Spain documented
document
“The Spanish Prime Minister was now “that stinking Mendizábal,” whom James had “never trusted”...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Rothschild family paid
Spain documented
document
“They were also continuing to pay the salaries of Spanish diplomats in Paris at this time, an arrangement dating back to 1834.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
James A. de Rothschild refused
Spain documented
document
“When Guizot and his ambassador in Madrid interpreted James’s refusal to back a loan to Narváez and Mon as a vote of no confidence in their marriage schemes…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Bank of San Fernando located_in
Spain documented
document
“In Spain, that role was played by the Bank of San Fernando.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. THIRTEEN Quicksilver and Hickory (1834-1839)
Lionel Davidson did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“Lionel Davidson—who for several years had been importing Rothschild mercury from Spain…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
Rothschild banking dynasty did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“resumption in earnest of negotiations for a new mercury contract in Spain…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“where Baring was mounting a serious challenge…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
Lionel de Rothschild did_business_with
Spain documented
document
“Even Lionel and his brothers were now ready to contemplate new business, although they were still more interested in revolutionless Spain and America than in Central Europe.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 · ch. SIXTEEN 1848
Crypto AG supplied_arms_to
Spain book_quoted
“I found it very interesting that Venezuela was on that list, given that all of that crap goes on for all of those years, and we knew everything that was going on inside of Venezuela. But, of course, we have to act surprised. The U.S., NATO'…”
▶ Operation Gladio Malaysia @ 29:23
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Spain documented
“Then on to Spain. So that's kind of where we've already confirmed that she is definitely a spy and works with him. So throughout the 50s, Skorzeny continued to expand his network of companies out of his office in Madrid. And remember, he's …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 18-19 @ 2:38
Francisco Franco operated_in
Spain documented
“corporations, large, very rich elite oligarchs that all operated under the fascist totalitarian government of Mussolini. The same thing in Spain under Franco, the same thing in Portugal. They are not at all interested in communism where the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Look into the Minutemen wGladio Glasses @ 1:08:36
Robert Solberg operated_in
Spain documented
“Army intelligence sent him on a secret mission throughout Portugal, Spain, and French territories in North Africa. Now, what's very important about this is what we already know before. Portugal and Spain were integral parts of Operation Gla…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 1 @ 23:29
Francisco Franco headed
Spain host_asserted
“And Spain is a fascist government at the time. So Franco's in charge of Spain.…”
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Francisco Franco headed
Spain documented
“stationed in Spain that were his, that was his handlers. And I found that really interesting, mainly because Spain at the time was under the control of Franco, who himself was an admitted fascist. So that's all very interesting to me, espec…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY @ 1:45:02
Winston Churchill member_of
Spain documented
“He uses his mother's influence to get posted to a war zone. Winston wants action. So he goes to observe the Cuban War of Independence. While he's there observing, he joins the Spanish troops and became involved in some skirmishes. And the w…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 15:11
Spain not_officially_admitted_to
Permanent Committee of Consultation book_quoted
“authorities, the general reason, would have found themselves in a situation of extreme embarrassment before the parliament if it was revealed that Italy not only ran a secret army, but that Spanish had their own secret army and was harborin…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 43:03
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Spain host_asserted
“actually resulted in the killing of eight people to include an entire family sounds like barack obama the same unit was training for an attack on a police station there were stealing weapons in order to plant them on communist agitators in …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 15 and 16 @ 24:16
Albert Stravetsky fled_to
Spain host_asserted
“saying that Novelli told him that Novelli was a mafia member and would have Stravetsky killed if he testified before a grand jury. Stravetsky fled to Spain, so he obviously believed he was part of the mafia. Novelli had come to Houston from…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 13:24
Nazi Party ratlined
Spain host_asserted
“ratlined through Spain onto Argentina and South America. They were at a conference in Madrid, Spain, where Otto Skorzeny had taken up residence and wrote a document called the Madrid Circular that basically articulates Operation Gladio, the…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 2:03:23
William Stephenson carried_out_attack
Spain book_quoted
“Stevenson's operatives also undertook black bag operations such as breaking into the Spanish embassy in Washington where they stole the secret codes for diplomatic messages flowing between General Franco's fascist government in Berlin. Stev…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 24:23
Operation Gladio operated_in
Spain book_quoted
“dealing with remnants of it today. So again, it's going to go through several of those different organizations and who was in charge of them. It's not relevant to our conversation, but the secret war in cooperation with the Italian extremis…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 38:30
Mossig operated_in
Spain book_quoted
“Afterward, he was assigned to various criminal police departments in Germany until February of 1942. He was assigned as a foreign intel operative in Spain, working undercover in South Indus. So again, it perfectly illustrates how industrial…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 1:14:11
Spain became_member_of
NATO documented
“and started by saying his government had maybe overestimated the reality of the danger of the threat from the East. I wanted to provoke him. He, looking at me in complete surprise, admitted that Spain had the problem of the communists. Ther…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 45:30
Spain cultivated_close_contacts_with
NATO book_quoted
“In an illustration of continued influence behind the scenes of the military apparatus, refused to hand over one such person because they had married the daughter of a Spanish general. That's a good technique to not get extradited for murder…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 41:28
Spain member_of
NATO book_quoted
“Eisenhower did not need convincing of the logic of a strong relationship with Spain. So they entice him with USAID, you know, because we buy our friends. And the Spanish government became full partners with the United States in basically Op…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 10:52
Alianza Anticomunista Argentina carried_out_attack
Spain documented
“exchange of assassins between Latin America and Europe back and forth. In August of 77, the Spanish AAA stole jewels worth $20 million from a cathedral. The police recovered most of the jewels when several terrorists were stopped at the Por…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 16:45
Spain removed_from_power
Operation Prosperity Guardian documented
“The U.S. announced the start of Operation Prosperity Guardian with a new international coalition to protect Western maritime traffic in the Red Sea. France and Spain, which were initially part of the coalition, subsequently announced their …”
▶ YEMEN DESIGNATION OF ANSAR ALLAH AS A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION @ 1:12:15
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Spain book_quoted
“assassinations. The MAG interacted with Skorzeny at paramilitary commando training sites set up in Spain and other places. There was a Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Herbert who attended several of these training camps in 1960. He referred to t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 7:22
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Spain book_quoted
“for outside assistance, including approaches to Portugal, Spain, Israel, and South Africa, all countries that should be noted dealing directly with Skorzeny and covert matters. So basically, we see that Portugal and Spain are fascist dictat…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 17 @ 15:22
Germany carried_out_attack
Spain documented
“Think about that. Because these people are not communists. They're nationalists. And Soviet Union is arming them while Hitler and Mussolini is arming Franco. The German Air Force dropped horrors on Spain. A fact immortalized in Pablo Picass…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 13:36
Otto Skorzeny trained_in
Spain documented
“were also ordered to Vietnam to carry out training with new unconventional warfare units engaged in assassinations. The 11th Shock attended Skorzeny's training sites in France and in Spain. There, he and his men taught sabotage, demolitions…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 16:22
Catholic Church operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“Yeah. And of course, Argentina, by the time all of this was happening, you know, it was like the second home to so many of the Nazis that, ironically enough, had been exported via the Catholic Church underground railroad system that we lear…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 7 and 8 @ 1:45:09
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“But Otto Skorzeny is going to be their trainer and he's in Paris. Well, he gets spotted because he's got this big ass scar on his face. So they move him to Madrid, Spain. And Madrid, Spain at the time was Franco, Spain, dictator, fascist, a…”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 6 @ 1:33:47
Mossig spied_on
Spain documented
“Operation Gladio. He continued to direct assassination operations even though the war was over. On November 5, 1945, many months after the war had ended, U.S. attache D.P. Medali reported that a reliable source had stated that Mosig's job w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 1:15:46
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“And where did he go in the 70s? Who was in Spain in the 70s? And where did all the Gladio people go to hide? Franco's, Spain, particularly Madrid, because Otto Skorzeny had arrangements in safe houses to protect them all.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Guyana and Jim Jones @ 26:13
Otto Skorzeny lived_in
Spain book_quoted
“Ricardo Sicri and his wife, former OSS agent Betty Lucier, L-U-S-S-I-E-R. So Sicri's wife is also a spy. We're very close friends with Gardner, Ava Gardner. Incredibly, Gardner lived in a luxury apartment in downtown Madrid on the floor dir…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 20 @ 37:42
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“Q-J-W-I-N. Q-J slash W-I-N. So Otto Skorzeny comes from Spain, which is where he's at, and he travels in country to oversee this operation. And I want to just briefly go over how horrific this is so people understand what these people are c…”
▶ SITREP Turkey and the Congo @ 49:58
Francisco Franco installed
Spain host_asserted
“Already installed, remember, because Spain had Franco in charge of it. And Portugal is where a genter press eventually gets set up with a fascist dictator in charge. Both of them hotbeds of training for Operation Gladio because of the dicta…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 4 @ 24:44
Raoul Salan moved_to
Spain book_quoted
“and he's basing this on Skorzeny's own paperwork. Only two months after Skorzeny was again at the center of developing events concerning the ultras, in December 1960, General Raoul Salon, the former commander-in-chief of French forces in Al…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 1:18:45
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“countries for Germany, he gets selected by NATO to be their trainer for the new NATO stay behind units. And he was originally stationed in Paris, but he almost immediately gets recognized because he's got this big scar on his face. So they …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 26:10
Robert F. Wagner appointed
Spain documented
“The Preservation Society has an interesting story with him, too, because he signed a law in 1965 that created the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Wagner had previously saved Carnegie Hall from demolition, but he also oversa…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Society Societies @ 40:56
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Spain host_asserted
“in order to control the populations like the Bologna train station, the bank that was in downtown, I think it was Milan, the fast forward, the Spanish railroads that were blown up, train cars, the tube in England, which is their subway. The…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO through Drugs, Oil, and War Part 6 @ 1:32:32
Fourteenth Air Force located_in
Spain book_quoted
“would be established in Spanish Morocco, because Morocco at the time was a colony of Spain. Eventually, 16th Air Force would be stationed in the country, and 16th Air Force was part of the legendary Strategic Air Command. Squadrons of nucle…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 19:46
Alpha 66 operated_in
Spain book_quoted
“Historians credit the red hand with the October 16, 1960 assassination attempt on Dr. Wilhelm Beisner, a former SS officer who became involved in supplying arms to FLN. One of the companies that Dr. Beisner was associated with was a Spanish…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 1:17:19
Aldo Tisse carried_out_attack
Spain documented
“Chey carried out well over a thousand bloodthirsty attacks, including an estimated 50 murders. The secret war in Spain was characterized by assassination and acts of terror. Members of his secret army, including Italian right-wing Aldo Tiss…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 33:19
Jose Servent member_of
Spain book_quoted
“had formally resigned on October 7th. At the ceremony, Meadows received the Great Cross of the Order of Civil Merit by Franco, nothing like getting a medal from a fascist, but personally presented to him by Servent of the Institute of Natio…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 21 (final) @ 1:25:55
Alger Meadows did_business_with
Spain book_quoted
“October 1963, the Dallas paper carried an article on Meadows stating that he had received a medal from the Spanish government for his oil work there. Huh. Isn't that cool? So the ceremony took place October 63. An important piece reference …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 21 (final) @ 1:25:18
Eva Gardner lived_in
Spain book_quoted
“Ricardo Sicri and his wife, former OSS agent Betty Lucier, L-U-S-S-I-E-R. So Sicri's wife is also a spy. We're very close friends with Gardner, Ava Gardner. Incredibly, Gardner lived in a luxury apartment in downtown Madrid on the floor dir…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 20 @ 37:42
BND operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“So you have that link, and then Germany ends up with all these stay-behind units under Galen, and they're in all of the Axis countries, the Ukraine, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and they all have fascist people in charge of the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 1 @ 1:23:18
Otto Skorzeny located_in
Spain documented
“The author is trying to decipher the notes, and he wasn't sure if it said Thompson or Stimson. The same memo says Skorzeny was settled down officially in Madrid and opened an engineering office, which was obviously a cover. The information …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 13 @ 14:26
Spain founded
Colombia book_quoted
“It's very, very important contextually to understand what is going on in Latin America. Before Colombian quote-unquote narco-capitalism, the Spanish conquistadors established feudal systems to regulate labor and mining. Under Spanish coloni…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 10:04
Spain attempted_assassination_of
Ron Martin host_asserted
“And Spain tried to arrest him saying that he was extorting Venezuelan expats because he learned how to track money because he worked for the IMF here in the United States. So, okay, that's two strikes. He worked for the IMF, supposedly doin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 5:35
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Spain book_quoted
“the train station in Spain and killed untold amount of people and injured hundreds of others. This is what they do. So only if you understand Operation Gladio can you put anything in perspective that has happened in the United States since …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 20:32
Francisco Franco headed
Spain documented
“corporations, large, very rich elite oligarchs that all operated under the fascist totalitarian government of Mussolini. The same thing in Spain under Franco. The same thing in Portugal. They are not at all interested in communism where the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:10:53
Otto Skorzeny moved_to
Spain book_quoted
“confrontation, new contingency war planning was initiated in great secrecy. The great secrecy wasn't for the war. It was to plan the invasion, which of course they used Skorzeny to help with. In September 1950, Skorzeny crossed over the bor…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 9 cont - 10 @ 53:10
Spain hired
Pinkerton National Detective Agency host_asserted
“Because it's going to end up being your thugs. It's the people that goes out and rounds up anyone who disagrees with the dictator or whoever they've installed in the government. It becomes a nationalized terrorist organization to thwart dis…”
▶ The Shadow State 57 Lincoln's Spies & Counterfeiters @ 1:12:07
Winston Churchill member_of
Spain host_asserted
“The Cuban War of Independence. While he's there observing, he joins the Spanish troops and became involved in some skirmishes. And the whole time he's sending reports back to a newspaper called the Daily Graphic. He's starting his writing c…”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 15:04
Charles LaCourse arrested
Spain host_asserted
“them in. He then fled to Spain, taking his SAC archives with him, but Spanish police arrested him and put him in prison. They extradited him to France two months later, but not before the Spanish intelligence agency had photocopied everythi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7 @ 16:46
Charles LaCourse fled_to
Spain host_asserted
“them in. He then fled to Spain, taking his SAC archives with him, but Spanish police arrested him and put him in prison. They extradited him to France two months later, but not before the Spanish intelligence agency had photocopied everythi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7 @ 16:46
Spain member_of
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“Eisenhower did not need convincing of the logic of a strong relationship with Spain. So they entice him with USAID, you know, because we buy our friends. And the Spanish government became full partners with the United States in basically Op…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 10:52
Spain member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“as active participants but again we know this is bullshit nato was part of it the cpc the acc and so were the neutral because spain and portugal were part of the um operation gladio a great variety of non-state actors became linked together…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Deep Dive - WORLD ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAGUE @ 25:25
Spain claimed_not_member_of
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“to explain exactly what role, if any, the country played with respect to Operation Gladio and stay behind units of NATO. Now, this is 90. So they're in. They're not only in NATO. They're in the Gladio-ACC coordination cells. Already a day l…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 51:37
Operation Gladio operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“with my screen. So Julie, if you'll text me, if I drop the sound or anything, cause I'm going to be, um, on a different screen and not paying attention to the chat. So, um, I'm going to jump right in. Obviously, um, Spain's been in the news…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 1:58
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
Spain documented
“While in the context of the prelude to the Second World War, it has been written that the failure of Chamberlain and the French prime minister to stop Hitler and Mussolini in Munich in September of 38, the silent support from London, Paris,…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 13:06
Otto Skorzeny operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“In 1950 to the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Spain, and Italy. And why is that important in that time frame? Because Operation Gladio is getting off the ground in primarily Italy. But who moved to Spain and set up all the training for the ini…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 53:16
Fulgencio Batista lived_in
Spain host_asserted
“You're fading out again. ...connections he had. And he had Swiss bank accounts. And naturally, he ended up in Florida and then later went to Madeira, Portugal. And he was in Spain in the end of his life, both Portugal and Spain. So it all f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 @ 1:25:15
Stefano Delle Chiaie carried_out_attack
Spain book_quoted
“Chey carried out well over a thousand bloodthirsty attacks, including an estimated 50 murders. The secret war in Spain was characterized by assassination and acts of terror. Members of his secret army, including Italian right-wing Aldo Tiss…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 33:19
NATO supplied_arms_to
Spain host_asserted
“and Spain, because they were not part of NATO, is where NATO hid all of their crap. That's where they hid Otto Skorzeny. That's where they hid all of the training camps that they did on the continent, as opposed to on an island off the cont…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 3:34
Leopoldo Lopez took_refuge_in
Spain host_asserted
“They eventually settled in Spain's Caracas embassy, and Guaido was nowhere to be found. Multiple accounts, including Bolton's, later revealed that Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez had duped Leopoldo, Guaido, and their U.S.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 14:12
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Spain host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack
Spain host_asserted
“of all of the assassins and the kidnapping and all of that other stuff. He set up camps all over Franco Spain to do these terror training camps. They were also on Sardinia, just off the coast of Italy, and they were also on the Canary Islan…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 1:20:46
Otto Skorzeny built
Spain host_asserted
“Qaddafi's German-built chemical weapons plant in Libya. Huh, that's weird. Oh, and just so that we keep the record straight, we paid Otto Skorzeny to build the airfields in Spain for the US Air Force. I'm sure there's no similarities at all…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 28:23
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Spain host_asserted
“I don't like them very much. I hate them. Anyway, I hate them. Alon, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, regarding the chemical and biological weapons research, and you're kind of alluding here, I think, to the whole Gladio mixing operation that occur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 1:10:27
Otto Skorzeny moved_to
Spain host_asserted
“When someone noticed the scar on his face in Paris, as you remember during our Scores Any Paper book review, they whisked him down to Franco Spain where he could live free and clear, helped him set up, like we helped him set up a constructi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 26 Cont @ 1:00:30
Netherlands did_business_with
Spain host_asserted
“The Dutch are awesome. I got about five Dutch friends from different walks of life, and every single one of them would be an American patriot, and they speak better English than half the people on the spaces. I absolutely love the Dutch peo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 1:02:34
Condor Legion connected_to
Spain caller_asserted
“former Nazis who had eventual positions in NATO. I found Condor Legion in Spain, and I never heard of the Condor Legion. I posted it in the Purple Pill earlier, but I found it really an interesting connection because we talk of Operation Co…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 2:08:56
Otto Skorzeny traveled_to
Spain host_asserted
“assets that accumulated Nazi-wise in Spain eventually all make their way to Latin America one way or the other. Even if it's not permanently, but like Otto Skorzeny makes multiple trips, Spain was the rat line to South America. So it would …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 2:09:52
Operation Gladio operated_in
Spain host_asserted
“And at least in Italy's case, they actually admitted they did it. They admitted they killed a reporter because he was on to them. It was later found that they blew up an airplane to kill one of the government officials that was doing stuff …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 19 OKL bombing @ 20:30
Otto Skorzeny spied_on
Spain host_asserted
“And you realize that the two military liaisons that were his handlers in Spain, both of which were interviewed later, said that they were fully aware because they watch him. They know who's coming to visit him. That's what their whole job i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 56:12
World Anti-Communist League member_of
Spain host_asserted
“It would incorporate the fascist elements of Portugal and Spain because they were both fascist at that point. It would incorporate the fascist elements of the Nazis. And to a lesser degree, the elements of all of those, because there was a …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 8:44
USAID funded
Spain book_quoted
“Eisenhower did not need convincing of the logic of a strong relationship with Spain. So they entice him with USAID, you know, because we buy our friends. And the Spanish government became full partners with the United States in basically Op…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 14 @ 10:52
Reinhard Gehlen member_of
Spain host_asserted
“You know, the whole Reinhard Galen network out of Franco Spain, you know, with Skorzeny and the framing of Lee Harvey Oswald. And as you know, most of the framing was done in New Orleans. Right. And yes, there's a kind of intense overlap of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 1:02:26
CIA carried_out_attack
Spain host_asserted
“But it was, you know, doing its sing over there in Franco's Spain in the sandbox for international, you know, syndicate. Yeah. That group where literally you had South African Zionists and whatnot. You know, the whole crew that would later …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:19:32
Spain required_to_create
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Spain or Portugal or any of them, actually, to include now the latest group. There is a separate secret agreement that I don't know if it still exists during this whole time. It was discovered in the Italian court cases. There is a separate…”
▶ Operation Gladio Spain (Ganser's NATO's Secret Armies) @ 47:00
Spain funded
Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“to us because it housed Otto Skorzeny and provided him protection. And it was also used as a money laundering opportunity to pay Otto Skorzeny under the guise of creating U.S. bases in Spain. And for those of you who might be new to this, t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Spain @ 5:25
United States overthrew
Spain book_quoted
“He goes back to, which we've covered now. And it's funny because I've read all of these books and then go back and read them after I've read like four more. Like he goes back to the Hawaiian kingdom, which we've talked about. And the fact t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 6 @ 7:10
Ottoman Empire carried_out_attack
Spain host_asserted
“or you would be killed. Now, when they got into Spain and southern Italy, as they were coming into the European continent, they realized quickly that the modern city-states that were very different than going across desert areas where there…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 1:16:45
Otto Skorzeny carried_out_attack
Spain book_quoted
“Now, keep in mind, somebody in Spain wrote this document. And the allegation is once Otto Skorzeny got to Spain and there was this fascist committee set up in Spain working for Otto Skorzeny, not necessarily being paid by Otto Skorzeny, but…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Portugal @ 38:34
Netherlands trafficked
Spain host_asserted
“The Dutch are awesome. I got about five Dutch friends from different walks of life, and every single one of them would be an American patriot, and they speak better English than half the people on their spaces. I absolutely love the Dutch p…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 56:23
Mentions (120)
▶ 13:56
In the defense contracting business, it is used for a lot of different nefarious things. And so those of you who've been following me for a long time know that in the aftermath of World War II, NATO hired Otto Skorzeny to be a trainer for O…
▶ 14:26
And he sets up shop in Spain. And Spain is a fascist government at the time. So Franco's in charge of Spain. And the U.S., in order to pay Otto Skorzeny to be their mentor assassin, if you will, because he basically went around and set up O…
▶ 15:19
that the U.S. through the Air Force contracting office, because it was new and didn't have historical accounts and stuff like that, so it's easier to hide this, was going to be the executive agency to build bases for the U.S. in Spain. Now,…
▶ 15:47
We being the big republic and all about freedom, if we had had a base in Spain, it would have been closed. But because we're going to use it as a money laundering opportunity, everything about every foreign policy that we have ever had was …
▶ 16:15
managed by a fascist dictator who kills a lot of people. So the contracts were let for a whole lot more money than what it actually cost to build the bases. And Otto Skorzeny just so happened to have a partner that they co-owned a construct…
▶ 28:16
Interesting. Interesting. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense because, I mean, you think about all the money that was flowing through there in the 1500s and the 1600s and even the 1700s because of the gold and silver coming out of Peru, gold com…
▶ 3:39
There's a lot more to this one. I really like this one because what he did, if you look through his book, he goes through every country except for, he talks about the secret war in the U.S., Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Be…
▶ 18:41
very notorious SS guy. And he was rehabilitated, initially put into Paris and then later on moved over to Franco's Spain because it was already a dictatorship and hidden there and allowed to train and build all of the U.S. bases in Spain th…
▶ 1:20:18
basically made him the primary contractor for billing all of the military bases in Spain because he was camped out in Franco's Spain at the time. And he got millions and millions and millions of dollars, only a fraction of which is what was…
▶ 1:20:46
of all of the assassins and the kidnapping and all of that other stuff. He set up camps all over Franco Spain to do these terror training camps. They were also on Sardinia, just off the coast of Italy, and they were also on the Canary Islan…
▶ 4:10
Each one of them thinking after they had been colonialized by Spain for extended periods of time was going to get their freedom because the country that portends itself to be the beacon of freedom had basically entered the Spanish-American …
▶ 13:08
He then relocates to Franco, Spain, because Franco has said that he will protect Otto Skorzeny. And he is basically managed by military people going as go-betweens for the CIA, which is a newly created organization, to give information to O…
▶ 21:05
I will tell you that after yesterday's session, I did have somebody private message me that is currently living in Spain. And she said that one of the books, I think it was Ganser's book, that said, oh, you know the part where he says that …
▶ 21:33
the stuff that happened during that time. And I, as politely as I could, I explained to her that Franco was a fascist. You can say that he had some nationalistic tendencies, but if you go back into the prior timeframe of Spain, you can't ar…
▶ 25:57
50 million Americans, maybe 100 million Americans still walking around thinking Jim Jones, Jonestown was about drinking Kool-Aid. It was not. Those people were murdered. All you have to do is look. The information's out there. We were just …
▶ 1:50:48
It's a crazy circle. Cousin Nick, go ahead. Then we'll go to Sunshine. No, somebody had mentioned the sugar being like gold, which is really kind of ironic because, yes, it is. As a matter of fact, that's how the Spanish-American War in Cub…
▶ 1:51:19
Obviously, somebody blew up the main in the harbor in Havana and blamed the Spanish for it. And it was never the Spanish. It was solely to take over Cuba for the sugar and for the oil. And they called the sugar the white gold and they calle…
▶ 2:38
Operation Gladio efforts in Portugal. And there's some going in positions that you have to understand about Portugal. At the time, at the end of World War II, there was a dictator there by the last name of Salazar. And just like in Spain, w…
▶ 3:05
was almost immediately allowed to enter NATO with a dictator in charge, which to any outside observer would make you scratch your head. It certainly did me. And if we're allowing dictators in because we have no quote unquote democracy requi…
▶ 3:34
and Spain, because they were not part of NATO, is where NATO hid all of their crap. That's where they hid Otto Skorzeny. That's where they hid all of the training camps that they did on the continent, as opposed to on an island off the cont…
▶ 4:02
There was a plausible liability. If Spain's not in NATO, then you can say, hey, that's not part of NATO, right? And so it wasn't until after Franco's gone that Spain eventually ends up in NATO. So you have to keep all of those things in min…
▶ 1:03:00
discovered. Someone noticed him because he was there under an assumed name and they had to relocate him to Madrid. And then he stayed headquartered in Madrid for the entire rest of his career. And what's interesting about that is he set up …
▶ 1:03:24
And that's where all of the OAS agents, two of which was in Dallas for JFK's assassination. They were also in Algeria. They were also responsible for the assassination of Lumumba. They were trained in those training camps. And off the coast…
▶ 10:52
They had had over 150 changes of government in Bolivia in the 139 years of its independence from Spain. But very few of those was from elections. Now, and you have to contrast that with where we were in some of the other ones like Chile and…
▶ 1:46:44
The same thing with Puerto Rico, the same thing with Haiti, the same thing with Cuba. After the Spanish-American War, supposedly they had been fighting in each of these locations for their own independence from Spain, and they thought once—…
▶ 1:49:39
those people embedded themselves in the Gladio network around the world. And you have only to look at Otto Skorzeny and him being set up in fascist Franco Spain as the international trainer, where everybody goes to Spain to get training and…
▶ 48:43
are CIA assets wearing a military uniform. And they have been the handlers, the CIA handlers, for the assassins when they come in the country. Because remember, the most notorious one was Otto Skorzeny, where the military attachés at the co…
▶ 17:51
parts of France, generally out in the boondocks. However, eventually, France's training began occurring on their border just inside of Spain because Otto Skorzeny, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, as an SS officer that had worked…
▶ 18:47
set up their units. He's in contact with all of the SDECE people on the French government side. And eventually, not too long, he wasn't there very long, he gets spotted. And he's technically not supposed to be there. He's there under an ass…
▶ 19:14
his training camps along the border of France and most of what will eventually become the OAS assassins that will be used all over the world to include the United States. And they were used in the Lumumba murder. They were also used in the …
▶ 30:48
So as long as they could label you as anti-communist, it didn't matter how many of your own citizens you killed, you were good to go. The facilities the ambassador was referring to was dozens of U.S. military installations from nuclear miss…
▶ 31:44
Gladio training bases there. And the way we paid Otto Skorzeny for him being the worldwide Gladio trainer was we worked a deal with Franco. Now keep in mind, this guy's a dictator. He killed people. We made a deal with him that we're going …
▶ 33:58
Money laundering. Apart from any other consideration, it was suspected that this was money given to the junta by the CIA finding its way back to Washington. That's probably not a bad. But also, during this entire time, we are building elabo…
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But I just wanted to let you know I'm doing it a little chronologically backwards, but I had my reasons for doing it. So anyway, because you're going to need to know what the results of what they did in South America as I show you how they …
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of the people massacred in South America, especially Chile, those people, because Pinochet ended up getting arrested in England for the murder of Italian and European citizens. And those, both in Spain and in Italy, they held court in absen…
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to be the Chancellor Adenauer's first West Germany's chief of intel. And it is SS General Reinhard Galen that created the German BND, which is their version of the CIA. And because of his close proximity to Otto Skorzeny, who eventually goe…
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cadres of Operation Gladio operators all over the world. They cycle them in through these training camps in Spain, on the Canary Islands, and off the coast of Italy and Sardinia. And so a lot of this focused around the residual capability o…
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these international syndicate entities. And it talks about it going into a whole bunch of petroleum acquisitions. And it, let's see, talks about that in Africa today, they are in Congo. They are also in Finland.…
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But you didn't want anybody to know that you were actually at war with the rest of the world. That entity would look like the World Anti-Communist League. And it would incorporate the Japanese because they were fascist. It would incorporate…
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Georgia Guidestones, and I'll listen to the rest of the show. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Thanks, Sherman. Well, I'm going to give you the Reader's Digest version of the JFK. We know unequivocally, Otto Skorzeny becomes the trai…
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So he was basically there to oversee it. When Borghese died in Spain in 1974, because of course he was basically disenfranchised from Italy after this, Delge said that the Black Prince had been poisoned because investigations into the 1970 …
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They will be back in 20 years when the next generation is prepared to fight. And they openly spoke about it. Yeah. We've also covered the Madrid circular that was written at a conference there by a lot of Germans that, not Germans, Nazis, t…
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ratlined through Spain onto Argentina and South America. They were at a conference in Madrid, Spain, where Otto Skorzeny had taken up residence and wrote a document called the Madrid Circular that basically articulates Operation Gladio, the…
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I found it very interesting that Venezuela was on that list, given that all of that crap goes on for all of those years, and we knew everything that was going on inside of Venezuela. But, of course, we have to act surprised. The U.S., NATO'…
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because it's going to end up being your thugs. It's the people that goes out and rounds up anyone who disagrees with the dictator or whoever they've installed in the government. It becomes a nationalized terrorist organization to thwart dis…
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to suppress a revolution in Cuba. Interestingly enough, these rebels in Cuba were fighting to end slavery and give citizens the right to vote. But the Pinkertons, who were abolitionists, right, went in there to crush that revolution to prol…
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Spain doesn't get the same grief we do. All right. And I think it's important to note too, you're mentioning of them guarding the railroads. Who did that benefit? The robber barons. Yeah. Because internationally, that's in fact what they di…
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That we would not give them the Philippines islands back to Spain. That would be cowardly and dishonorable. Number two, that we would not turn them over to France or Germany, our commercial rivals in the Orient. That would be bad business a…
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and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over their worst than Spain's was. And number four, that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all and educate the Filipinos and uplift and civilize and Christianize them and by Go…
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Spain agreed to cede the islands, basically they sold them to us, for $20 million. But the Filipinos, who had already been fighting for the independence and a republic, were not interested in having another occupation from a foreign governm…
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Anyway, we're going to start a little earlier than Operation Gladio with Portugal so that you understand. Because Portugal and Spain, as members eventually of NATO, are very unique for two different reasons. And we will cover them as we con…
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So eventually in 1933, the Da Costa guy, dictator, is succeeded by another dictator by the name of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Salazar supported and was actually part of the Spanish Civil War, which brought...…
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At this point, almost no correlation with the Allies. And you will find a free exchange of people traveling from Portugal to Spain to Germany and to Italy during World War II. And in the lead up to it, quite frankly, because they all shared…
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founding member of NATO as a dictatorship. So NATO didn't have a requirement to be a democracy. And Spain, as I pointed out yesterday, was left out. And there's good reason that it was left out.…
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30,000 foot look because, again, most of the Gladio support apparatus that you wouldn't want to have for plausible deniability housed in your country got housed in Spain under Franco. And he wouldn't let anybody come in and look at anything…
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He essentially functioned as a mercenary. And after Charles de Gaulle closed down the OAS out of France, the Gladio leadership fled to other countries. And Serac was hired by the Spanish dictator Franco. Franco employed his skills to incorp…
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Number four, international fascism with clandestine paramilitary funding and training. And that pretty much sums it up. Siroc fled to fascist Spain and sought Franco's protection after the raid. His headquarters was reestablished in Spain, …
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along with him. And interestingly enough, I know Cousin It and I disagree on the disposition of Skorzeny, or I should clarify, there's a question mark. She believes that he basically left Spain in disguise and lived longer. But it's interes…
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Death occurred in 1975 that coincided with Franco's death. So either way, that's not a coincidence. Siroc fled Spain at that time, but a Spanish investigation indicated that he had left behind weapons and explosives, and he coincidentally t…
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the general confirmed, was also directly linked to PIDE and the Legion of Portuguese, unquote. Despite this revelation, no investigation was ever ordered or conducted. It's crucial to remember, as we find out more about the internal affairs…
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Now, keep in mind, somebody in Spain wrote this document. And the allegation is once Otto Skorzeny got to Spain and there was this fascist committee set up in Spain working for Otto Skorzeny, not necessarily being paid by Otto Skorzeny, but…
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It's just a very interesting kind of stamp as we're talking about the correlation between Portugal and Spain. That kind of is the overview of the apparatus that was set up in Portugal. Again, when we get to Africa, which is where we're goin…
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They probably picked up all this shit. Let's go ahead and sink the Liberty. We'll use that as the excuse to launch an all-out invasion into Egypt, blah, blah, blah. Well, what's very interesting about all this, and I know a submariner, and …
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the place that we can land and take off and have fresh water from? Well, if you look at where Morocco is on a map, you will see immediately what the advantages are. And let me bring this up real quick. Just a second. When you look across th…
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Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, all of that area, Russia, Odessa, Crimea, all of that stuff, all transits the Straits through Turkey. You can't get out to the Mediterranean, to the Atlantic without control of Turkey. So if you go around through…
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Spain, the southern tip of Spain, is off the coast of Morocco. Now, also, you'll hear lots of conversations about the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands has some dubious distinctions, and that is very close to that area as well. Number one …
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because they control these Gladio units. So they set up Otto Skorzeny, who's now going to be the NATO terrorist training command, because that's what he did for the Nazis. He was their trainer. So they set him up in Paris. Well, he has this…
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and make this deal with Nazi Germany to support the transfer, you know, of Jews to help, you know, legitimate in the eyes of Germany. Palestine became becoming a Jewish state. And also, you know, I think you also allude to the crucial role …
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which is kind of proto-CIA. It is the year before CIA, yet it has, you know, key players of all of the future. Well, not all of the key future CIA players, but certainly key one. And it's clear that, you know, there was a very ecumenical ap…
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for the United States in the intel apparatus since post-World War II. And before that, when we actually overthrew the Spanish-American war was fought, in part, we got the Philippines as a result of that. And the freedom fighters in the Phil…
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the Asian People's Anti-Communist League began republishing all of their articles. In exile, Stetsko maintained a life on the move, traveling to meet foreign dignitaries and anti-communist activists in dozens of nations. Generally accompani…
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And like we read in the Philippines, how they had been fighting for 35 years against Spanish colonialism. The Vietnamese had been fighting the French forever to get them the hell off their island before the Japanese took it over. So those p…
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that have been created that has left that many dead bodies around. Certainly not World War II. So yeah, it was crazy. So if you haven't read it, please go look at it because it's crazy town. All right. So we're going to talk initially about…
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The UK, whatever you want to call it. So basically, Spain is probably one of the least explored from my perspective of Operation Gladio events because for a significant portion of time when Operation Gladio was created after World War II.…
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I have mentioned repeatedly that Spain was under the dictator Franco's regime, and therefore a lot of the documentation of any quote-unquote state-sponsored terror events under his dictatorship would not have survived his tenure. It's proba…
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to us because it housed Otto Skorzeny and provided him protection. And it was also used as a money laundering opportunity to pay Otto Skorzeny under the guise of creating U.S. bases in Spain. And for those of you who might be new to this, t…
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So as a result of that, Spain became a hotbed of travelers that were Operation Gladio focused. Dale Shea, the Italian, Yves Saint-Garrion from Portugal.…
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who was originally from France, all spent significant time in Spain because they basically were kind of the lieutenant of the Operation Gladio for NATO. And they had safe passage anywhere in Spain. We had a consul, even though it was a fasc…
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The entire time, but you can look at some of the ambassadors that we had, the consul generals that we had there, the military attaches. Those people that served in the military as attaches in Spain actually were handlers for Otto Skorzeny. …
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for the next 20 years as they progressed and ranked throughout the U.S. military. So all of that's very interesting. So one of the dates in Spain that's notorious is March 11th. It's called 3-11, kind of like our 9-11. And it happened March…
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And that's actually saying something because the Spanish went through 50 years of violence during the fascist dictatorship. For those of you who have not studied that history, there was a civil war that went on from 1936 to 1939 with all of…
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The incoming socialist government immediately switched attention from the rebel Basque to the cells of jihadist sympathizers, supposedly who had secured access to dynamite that was stolen from contacts in a coal mine in their northern mount…
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This strange and motley crew was alleged to be capable of military-scale precision and planning smuggling explosives into the city center without arousing the smallest suspicion. The police organization had already had some alleged perpetra…
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After the bombing, when a group supposedly taken by surprise in a safe apartment, they obligingly blew themselves up. The Daily Spanish paper, the second largest newspaper called El Mundo, took a highly critical line of the official jihadis…
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or the possibility of a conspiracy organized at the heart of government. When the judge handed down his judgments at the close of the record-breaking 21-month chaotic trial, no one in Spain was any the wiser as to who was responsible for th…
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He's married to a Spaniard. Their young son was dutifully studying at the local Catholic school. Jamal Hamidin, A-H-M-I-D-A-N, his alias that he went by then was El Chino, the Chinaman, and the name of the legendary tango bar in Buenos Aire…
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can never be proven, nor can we know for certain if they were actually there at all. One of the officers told Spain's most popular radio station, they call us heroes. We were fools to go where we did. The suicide pact had served its purpose…
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Oftentimes we find a pattern somewhere else and then it'll ring a bell and have something to do. For example, when we get to Spain, we're going to talk about the trials that they recently had.…
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Not like yesterday, but Italy is having one right now that deals with trying to hold accountable some of those South American governments. And they're turning up material that we've never seen before that related to the dictatorships of Pin…
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It was late in the whole Ottoman Empire setting up. Originally, when the Ottoman Empire began, it was convert or die. They just literally killed everybody that didn't convert to Islam. But as that empire grew so big, especially as it branch…
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When we stumbled across Otto Skorzeny as the trainer that was set up by the United States Air Force via base building in Spain, contracts that were overpriced in order to pay him on the side, I'm like, shit, this is bigger than...…
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And I don't know what we collectively do to stop it. But I think, again, the first step is all of us recognizing that it's not just here. It's not just in London. It's not just in Spain. These people have been doing this all over the world.…
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nationalist who opposed the CIA from being there because in the CIA's eyes, they were just as evil as anyone that was actually literally a communist because both of those people in both of those groups did not want the CIA or the U.S. in th…
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This was called pacification. Next, this appeared in a Ramparts magazine in December 1965. Quote, what we're doing, what we're really doing in Vietnam is killing the cause of wars of liberation. It's a testing ground like Germany and Spain.…
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the wrong person gets elected, like in Chile, they're going to kill them. And then they're going to install their corrupt elitist. And so in these cases where, like what we did with Spain, they had established a corrupt elitist system in th…
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counter-espionage, or in Spain or in France, and in Germany it's still the old Gestapo style to suppress the opposition. And even a reporter from the NZZ, from Zurich, from Switzerland, the newspaper, he said it's the Verfassungsschutz, not…
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terrorist attack in Italy, a scandal shocks Western Europe, the silencing of NATO, CIA, the silence, sorry, of NATO, CIA, and MI6, basically describing the network, the secret war in Great Britain, the secret war in the US, the secret war i…
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NATO was in Paris, France at the time. So all of them are collaborating in Paris, France. Otto Skorzeny, because of his scars, gets identified fairly quickly. And they have to move him to a safe haven, which just so happened to be Madrid, S…
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politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …
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their hip pocket, the normal criminal counterintelligence and factual checks were not done. They found themselves relying on politically motivated zealots. For example, one of Gray's representatives in Spain was Carter Clues, C-L-E-W-F, fir…
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He was part of the fascist government of Franco and definitely not a good guy. He would have been one of those guys that interacted with Otto Skorzeny, who was there in Spain along with Franco. As the operations grew around the world, the p…
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and the Colombia proximity to neighboring crystal triangle countries, Peru and Bolivia. And then again, also Panama for the monetary piece of this. It also created transit countries, Mexico, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. The consumer…
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the narco state of Colombia and the entire apparatus of the U.S. government coalescing. And that doesn't even describe the inner workings of Europe and their dependency on cocaine being imported through Spain into Europe. So you literally h…
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And then again, do you know how many ships and aircraft have to take off out of Panama to go to Spain and the United States through, I think he mentioned, Panama, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica? Not the land routes. I'm not even counting t…
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And you realize that the two military liaisons that were his handlers in Spain, both of which were interviewed later, said that they were fully aware because they watch him. They know who's coming to visit him. That's what their whole job i…
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They operate with impunity at the time. So, under the pressure from George W. Bush administration, President Uribe neutralized Chavez's growing influence in the Colombian conflict by dismissing his mediating efforts that had commenced in 20…
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It's very, very important contextually to understand what is going on in Latin America. Before Colombian quote-unquote narco-capitalism, the Spanish conquistadors established feudal systems to regulate labor and mining. Under Spanish coloni…
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Their power based greatly on commercial exploitation of the coca plant, which was widely used by Europeans as medicine. Let me say that again. Widely used by Europeans for medicine. The Spanish chronicler Pedro Cisa de Leon recorded, quote,…
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There has never been in the world a plant or root of any growing thing that bears and yields every year as this does, or that is so highly valued. It was the equivalent of gold for Latin America. Indians were forced from their highland vill…
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to nullify the need for food, sleep, and water, and to reduce resistance to their living conditions. To supply great quantities of coca leaf, coca plantations were established, just like we did in other countries with rubber and coffee and …
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Long hours of brutal slave labor produced high death rates. The coca slaves died in large numbers due to poor nutrition, exhaustion, and European diseases that were brought over by the Spaniards. By 1650, the Inca population had fallen to 4…
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Yeah. In the 16th century, another Spaniard, Hernando de Santillan, wrote, quote, down there in the coca plantations, there is one disease worse than all the rest, the unrestrained greed of Spaniards, unquote. Another system of colonial exp…
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Andes Mountains, becoming landless workers. For the exploited classes, land meant freedom. However, the landlords had no use for freedom. And when the bourgeois revolution inspired by Simone Bobilaire swept Latin America, the landlords of C…
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From 1875 to 1930, 450 major confrontations between the peasants and landlords occurred in Colombia. So again, as early as the early 1900s, this conflict, thanks to Spain, imperialism was born.…
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involving manufacturing and trafficking of cocaine. Unlike other drugs, the transformation of coca into cocaine requires chemicals and specialized equipment that generally must be imported. The dynamics of the Colombian cocaine trade must b…
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Four decades before the Monroe Doctrine defined Latin America and the Caribbean as Washington's backyard, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson expressed concern that Spain would soon lose its Southern American colonies. He said, quote, my fear i…
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entire group, which we call the International Syndicate. The liberal model of global development established via Bretton Woods is enforced through NATO, and it has enabled Western powers to maintain their imperial status to this day, despit…
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The push to sabotage the vote was overseen by Leopoldo Lopez, who coordinated the opposition PR campaign from the comforts of Spain. He's not even in Venezuela. So this is literally the definition of outside interference. After spending rou…
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where they found sanctuary following Guaido's failed military uprising in April of 2019. Lopez and his family finally relocated back to the capital of the former Venezuelan colonial occupier, Spain. Lopez escalated the opposition delegitimi…
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For readers in the United States, the story of revolutionaries on the American continent declaring sovereignty over European kings is a familiar story. Where we had the British, Venezuelans had the Spanish. In fact, the current government o…