Senate Foreign Relations Committee organization
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed
BCCI documented
“For the next six days, I sat with rolls of dimes and microfiche printers back in the good old days in a quiet wooded paneled library, reading and copying many of the 1,100 pages of transcripts and exhibits from the Cary committee hearings, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 54:18
Nancy Kassebaum member_of
Senate Foreign Relations Committee documented
“Quote, we should understand that this thing may take us places we have rather not gone, but we should be aware of it. And I think there is no choice but to go there. Unquote. Senator Nancy Kasabam of Kansas said she didn't think the committ…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 34:11
Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed
Contra-Cocaine Trafficking documented
“For the next six days, I sat with rolls of dimes and microfiche printers back in the good old days in a quiet wooded paneled library, reading and copying many of the 1,100 pages of transcripts and exhibits from the Cary committee hearings, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 54:18
Joe Biden member_of
Senate Foreign Relations Committee documented
“Quote, it is clear that there is a network of drug trafficking through the Contras. And it goes right up to Calero, Aldolfo Calero and Enrique Bermudez. And we have people who will testify and who have unquote. But the idea of diving into s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 33:38
Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed
Manuel Noriega documented
“Years before anyone knew what that bank scandal was even about, they had found evidence in Manuel Noriega's involvement with drugs years before the invasion. Many of the Kerry committee witnesses, I noted, later became U.S. Justice Departme…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 54:46
Frank Church member_of
Senate Foreign Relations Committee host_asserted
“You find out that he was a protege of Lyndon B. Johnson, which for everybody that's been following us should make the hair on the back of your neck stand up because Lyndon B. Johnson got to the Senate by killing a bunch of people and cheati…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Loose ends and our new friend Cartwright @ 27:18
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Senate Foreign Relations Committee guest_asserted
“But the Justice Department, he said, had stonewalled the committee's request for information, and he had finally given up trying to obtain the records, moving on to other more productive areas. There was a lot of weird stuff going on out th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 56:04
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fully agree with the U.S. policy objectives, and he's basically saying that he agreed with what he had said, and Killerman was trying to tell him there's a different perspective. And also, the U.S. policy objectives that had been articulate…
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Nixon and his aides sought to play down the importance of the ITT papers, but the scandal did not fade away. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee established a subcommittee to hold hearings. In its final report, the subcommittee condemned…
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to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Now, I want you to think about today because it's not any different. The people that are in the Senate Foreign Relations are the people that are part of Operation Gladio. They're the people that go…
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This is the same guy. I'm sorry. What was Weinstein's first name? Weinstein's first name is Allen. A-L-L-E-N. Thank you. And let's see. Let me get my place back here. Okay. At the request of Senators Lugar and Pell of the Senate Foreign Rel…
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very indiscreet in several ways, unquote. Carbog did not recruit operatives only from Capitol Hill. Once when Senator Helms was going through some of his thunder and fire about unacceptable ambassador appointments that had been sent up to t…
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Venezuela is going to enter a period of suffering no nation in our hemisphere has confronted in modern history, unquote. Rubio said that before a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing on Venezuela that featured Elliott Abrams, the c…
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which catalog congressional hearings by topic and witness names. Menendez wasn't listed, but there was a series of hearings back in 87 and 88. I saw dealing with the issue of Contras and Cocaine, a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relatio…
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For the next six days, I sat with rolls of dimes and microfiche printers back in the good old days in a quiet wooded paneled library, reading and copying many of the 1,100 pages of transcripts and exhibits from the Cary committee hearings, …
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Years before anyone knew what that bank scandal was even about, they had found evidence in Manuel Noriega's involvement with drugs years before the invasion. Many of the Kerry committee witnesses, I noted, later became U.S. Justice Departme…
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By June of 86, Kerry's staff had compiled enough information for the senator to approach his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and seek authorization for an official investigation. According to transcripts of that secret …
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At the request of the Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, Perry gave the committee a list of areas that needed investigation, among them the murder of Dr. Hugo Spadaforto by Contras engaged in drug smuggl…
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That have also surfaced regarding the drug smuggling operations involving sprint boats operating out of Texas, Louisiana and Florida. The Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve Kerry's request for a behind the scenes investigation, bu…
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And don't you know that he was the senior Republican senator chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during 1995 to 2001. He was intimately involved in advocating for increased funding of the IRI through congressional appropriations…
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The International Police Academy instructors in Brazil agreed among themselves that the streets at night were less dangerous than the streets of New York, and Mitterrand could feel that he had contributed to the quiet that had fallen across…
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Numbers of Americans in the country was put at 228 military, 388 government employees, and 424 contract personnel. In the Senate, Symington asked the administration to bring Godley back to testify in front of the committee, Foreign Relation…
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Further details was added to the record in April 1970 when continuing political pressure forced the administration to relent and release the 1969 congressional testimony. Any chance of limiting the damage was lost when Nixon ordered an inva…
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And then they discovered that the base had an air-conditioned American-style officer's club with panoramic glass windows. Beginning with the Los Angeles Times, the Long Tan story appeared everywhere. In the Senate, Symington asked the admin…
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So, and it just happens that it happened right at the time when all this shit was breaking here. Weird. Further Laos hearings were scheduled for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Angry senators ruled out allowing testimony in executiv…
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ever formally considering the expenditure. The case proposal provided $30 million in 72 and temporary policy guidance from the State Department until the board became established. Hearings before the Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Commi…
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William Fulbright offered the compromise of setting up another secret subcommittee under the Foreign Relations Committee. If the private citizen who comprised the Intelligence Board could be told about the secrets, he insisted, how could th…
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put it, quote, we plan to use as appropriate with congressional leaders when there is any question about our effective supervision of the Intelligence Committee, unquote, which means never. The paper proved useless when the issue actually a…
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When the NSC aide, Rostow, who replaced Bundy, told Johnson that Fulbright was unhappy and didn't understand why the foreign relations should be denied access, the president scrolled at the bottom of his copy of the report. Because they lea…
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The strategy worked out in meetings and phone calls between McPherson and Senator Russell involved watering down McCarthy's resolution, which lost its provision for a staff and a budget and action by a certain date and became merely an addi…
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Strictly negotiations. After everything I just read, Kissinger is sitting in Congress saying they're only involved in negotiations. Negotiations to bring in mercenaries, negotiations to bring in weapons, not negotiations to solve the proble…
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On October 8th, Robert Gates appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He insisted the CIA had nothing to do with the Hassan bus plane and gave background data on Cooper and Sawyer. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee set a hear…
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In closed-door testimony in 1991 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the CIA asset and pilot William Robert Tush Plumlee blew the whistle on alleged CIA narco-trafficking corruption in Latin America. Closed door. We're no…
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There was a summary of his congressional testimony leaked out about 10 years, if I recall right, after he did it. And I'm going to read you a part of it because it's very interesting. Sensitive documentation provided by law enforcement to t…
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military, and CIA asset from 1956 to 1987. Do the math, folks. Three decades. With a long history of CIA activities in Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, Plumlee had worked for various CIA proprietories or front companies, including Riddle …
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The Dodge Corporation, Intermountain Aviation, Evergreen Helicopters, Ace Technology, and Air America. There were other companies whose name he couldn't remember. As a standard CIA procedure, Plumlee stated to this committee that the agency…
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Some of his aliases included Buck Pearson, James Plumlee, James Rawlings, William Pearson, Juan Carbello, and others he, again, could not remember. Plumlee, having served in the U.S. Army, told the committees that he tried to leave covert o…
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projects. Mr. Plumlee confirmed to the committee the existence of alleged drug smuggling operations involving the CIA and the U.S. military with the full knowledge of the White House and the National Security Council. He mentioned drug flig…
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Gary Hart, isn't that the one that they set up with the honeypot? Yeah, that Gary Hart. Mr. Plumlee testified under oath that there was close cooperation between Mexican and U.S. government officials in drug smuggling. There is other eviden…
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The following is a summary of the testimony Plumlee provided to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in August 1990. Quote, documentations provided by Mr. Plumlee and other testimony from pilots and operatives indicate Plumlee flew many b…
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adjudicated when the judge threw out the charges ruling that the United States was not technically at peace with Nicaragua at the time, but that the question remained whether Castro used drug money to finance the operations. In May of 21st,…
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a younger generation of reporters who for a while broke free of the confines of the national security state. This is how it was described in February 1970 as the program grabbed the attention of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Quote…
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terror operation that some critics, including the Viet Cong, had portrayed it to be, these officials insisted. That's nonsense, one of them said. Phoenix is just not a killing organization. The kind of things they, the Foreign Relations Com…
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Briefly, Phoenix works this way. When local officials feel they have enough evidence against a person suspected of being connected to the Viet Cong, they arrest him. If he's not released quickly, suspects often vanished out of back doors of…
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Were there any incentives in this program to protect the rights of those who may have been falsely accused? Absolutely not. As the hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee into the Phoenix program continued, many senators were…
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The committee had a report from the American military command in Saigon that seemed to give Phoenix the credit for hunting down and killing 6,187 Viet Cong political cadre last year. Then it heard William Colby, the pacification chief in Vi…
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Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and to many journalists, not just Jack Anderson. He used the documents for articles attacking Salvador Allende originally. What changed between 70 and 72 was the public pe…
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potential recruits. Fulbright did nothing with the ITT documents or with the Pentagon Papers, which he had received during that same period. Again, Congress is a crime scene, but Nixon and Kissinger's cavalier treatment of the Foreign Relat…
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Both published pieces on September 8th, revealing Harrington's letters. On September 12th, Hirsch wrote that Senator Frank Church intended to press the Chile issue. A week later, when Henry Kissinger sat before the Senate Foreign Relations …