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Claims (21)
William Clark member_of
Trump administration book_quoted
“According to Wingate Lloyd's handwritten notes, Pittman stated that the National Security Advisor, William Clark, made clear that the White House does not want any criminal prosecution. With that clear instruction, Theodore Greenberg carrie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 30:53
Trump administration appointed
Gina Haspel host_asserted
“So this is basically, and then the next paragraph gets to Gina Haspel, who is the CIA director at the time. And it says, to some Trump officials, CIA executives, including the director, were clearly opposed to the administrative directive. …”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 24:42
Trump administration framed
Abraham Bolden guest_asserted
“You know, accused the Nixon administration of retaliating against this guy, you know, for speaking to the press and declaring him crazy and managed to get him out of the mental ward at that hospital. They really retaliated against this guy.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 1:19:09
Trump administration targeted_for_regime_change
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“Back to the article. But he was facing stiffer than expected pushback. Anti-government protests were racking the oil-rich South American nation. Hyperinflation was obliterating its economy. More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggeri…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 3:52
Trump administration member_of
Lima conference documented
“He said cocaine smoking can represent the same threat that the speed epidemic did in the 1960s. Beck also wasn't the only American scientist who attended the Lima conference that came back alarmed. The impact of these experiences were impre…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 42:05
Nicole Wallace member_of
Trump administration host_asserted
“Nicole Wallace was originally in the W. Bush White House, who significantly was targeted with convincing Democratic resistance to support the Iraq war in 2003. So she was a Republican. To these people, it really doesn't matter whether you'r…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 1:35:28
Jim Bath did_business_with
Trump administration host_asserted
“everybody being the CIA, on different, he was in business with the Bushes. Yeah, his name shows up everywhere. And we're going to get into Bath in a lot of depth in this book later. Cook was on the board of directors with Lloyd Benson at a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 16:30
William Corson advised
Trump administration book_quoted
“the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 10:15
Trump administration removed_from_power
Rene Vivas documented
“Almost single-handedly, an underpaid middle-aged Nicaraguan policeman had in 18 months done something that the entire U.S. government, with all of its bike satellites, international wiretapping, and an army of drug agents, had never been ab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:27:35
Trump administration removed_from_power
Roger Mayorga documented
“the Nicaraguan National Police Commander, Vivas. Roger Mayorga, who by then had begun looking into Danielle Blanton's relationship with Menendez's drug ring and its money laundering in Central America, was fired too. Menendez, meanwhile, wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:28:05
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Bosch documented
“was dragging bare feet to find him a new home at the behest of the White House trying to mullify the anti-Castro community in South Florida, according to internal documents. Margaret Love, then Associate Deputy Attorney General, noted in Ja…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 1:19:25
Trump administration covered_up
Operation Ranch Hand documented
“to compensate victims. Representative Weiss went on to state unequivocally that while the Reagan administration defended the Vietnam conflict as an honorable war, it worked behind the scenes to deny benefits to the very people who sacrifice…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 5 @ 44:36
Robert Gates headed
Trump administration host_asserted
“Into that, William Webster. And do you know who the FBI director was that appointed him? Robert Mueller. And we find Robert Gates, the guy we were just talking about, was the secretary over all of this.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 1:15:38
Trump administration covered_up
POW/MIA Cover-up book_quoted
“documentary on the POW MIA situation that presented dramatic evidence that MIA and POWs were still a lot. Landreth discovered that the stations that had agreed to carry the broadcast had suddenly backed out. Landreth began to investigate an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 8 @ 1:04:26
Philip Buchan member_of
Trump administration documented
“Contrary to assertions that Director Colby said what he pleased and ignored the White House, Ford's staff actually kept close control. The president's political advisors looked after general attitudes while lawyer Philip Buchan followed dai…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 50:33
John Marshall headed
Trump administration documented
“Contrary to assertions that Director Colby said what he pleased and ignored the White House, Ford's staff actually kept close control. The president's political advisors looked after general attitudes while lawyer Philip Buchan followed dai…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 50:33
Trump administration covered_up
Rockefeller Commission documented
“He wanted to sanitize documents given to the Rockefeller Commission only to be overruled by the White House. He assigned Scott Breckinridge of the IG office, an original author of the 1967 report on assassination plots, to dissuade the Rock…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 52:56
Pedro Carmona visited
Trump administration documented
“It had failed in less than 48 hours. Diplomatic sources at the OAS in Washington eventually charged U.S. officials with directing the plot, revealing to The Guardian, quote, Venezuelans plotting a coup included Carmona himself, unquote. He …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 32:37
Operation Piano Solo member_of
Trump administration guest_asserted
“You know, ideally from, you know, journalists, like either Italian journalists, ideally translated into English or academics, you know, that could be really helpful for me right now because there's this interesting connection that gets you …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 1:19:31
Trump administration covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“Yet that became the main tactic utilized by the White House and the CIA, arguing the need to preserve the secrecy of the agency's quote unquote sources and methods. Then stretching that category to cover every conceivable bit of information…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 47:10
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro speculative
“Trump administration officials publicly denied any role in the drone attack and a dissident member of the Venezuelan army later claimed responsibility. There are a lot of evidence. There's a lot of people that believe that was actually a CI…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 6:43
Mentions (120)
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That's something to put on. I've got it on my watch list. Can you talk to us about the shorts that happened on Friday before the attempted assassination? Yeah, I'd love to. Well, the story comes out there that this company called Austin Pri…
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Don't get me wrong. I don't want my government overthrowing other people's governments. I don't want my government anywhere near other people's governments. But on the surface of it, if he's a dictator and we were the white knights, that wo…
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Back to the article. But he was facing stiffer than expected pushback. Anti-government protests were racking the oil-rich South American nation. Hyperinflation was obliterating its economy. More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggeri…
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Trump administration officials publicly denied any role in the drone attack and a dissident member of the Venezuelan army later claimed responsibility. There are a lot of evidence. There's a lot of people that believe that was actually a CI…
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In recent days, Maduro had even said he was considering skipping the U.N. meeting altogether because he was worried about another assassination attempt, and rightfully so. As bitter adversaries, the Trump administration and Maduro's regime …
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After the U.N. meeting, the Trump administration amped up their efforts around the world to isolate and depose the leader, including levying additional punishing sanctions against his regime. Much of that diplomatic maneuvering played out i…
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disrupting a computer system that pays the military is some big feat. So it says the story of that secret Maduro effort also lays bare the tensions between the administration with hardliners laser focused on disposing the Venezuelan autocra…
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whose latest sham reelection in July of 2024 has again thrust his country into chaos. The details of that covert CIA-assisted campaign told exclusively to Wired by eight Trump administration and former agency officials with knowledge of the…
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Good conservatives, more like Khan Inc. Okay, according to the article, on January 23rd, Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido, the guy that was basically trying to get himself installed instead in Venezuela, stood before cheering protest…
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the administration recognized him as Venezuela's rightful acting leader and went to work lobbying other countries to do the exact same thing. So where have we seen this before? In every freaking country. Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras. This is…
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Around the time the administration turned to the CIA to seek the agency's help in ousting Maduro, according to former U.S. officials familiar with the secret program, so secret that Wired magazine is writing about it, sources requested anon…
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The CIA quickly assembled a Venezuelan task force. That group had its work cut out for it before the Trump administration directives. Venezuela was a low priority for Langley and capabilities had to be built from the ground up, according to…
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Go and basically create it from scratch? I'm just, the more I read this, the more livid I get at how fucking stupid they think we are. One of the task force's first goal, an expansion of efforts to hack Venezuela's government networks, very…
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In fact, when officials in the administration asked to have NSA hacking resources redirected, a former Trump-era official said top Pentagon officials pushed back hard. Who the fuck is in charge? You're telling me that the president said do …
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But as these efforts got underway, oh, and by the way, this actually counteracts what they had just said before about not having anything in Venezuela as far as assets. So they've actually got them there because they're secretly conducting …
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Trump administration officials were unimpressed by the agency's quote-unquote democracy promotion effort. I wonder why. The CIA's secret program appeared to be indistinguishable from pro-democracy initiatives carried out openly by other org…
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Embarrassing bullshit ever, one former national security official said. Not even sinister. Lazy. But to some Trump administration officials, the presence in Venezuela of a viable, legitimate opposition leader and the ongoing humanitarian ca…
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The average person had lost weight, had no food, no electricity and no jobs. They have no medicine and we're trying to sell democracy to them. All this led some administration officials to believe that the CIA was focusing on the democracy …
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So this is basically, and then the next paragraph gets to Gina Haspel, who is the CIA director at the time. And it says, to some Trump officials, CIA executives, including the director, were clearly opposed to the administrative directive. …
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According to Wired magazine, he targeted Venezuela, home to a fraudulent elections in anti-American activity, unleashing the CIA on them. Did I just say something about unleashing the CIA? I mean, it's pathetic. It's absolutely pathetic. Wi…
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But she goes on saying, which is basically what we have the CIA for. Trump dispatched the CIA to do what it does best, which is overthrow regimes creating problems so that we don't have to send in the Marines. What? It was about as legitima…
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into Greece, the Nixon administration asked Papadopoulos to make some gesture towards a constitutional government, you know, at least pretend not to be a dictatorship, so that the White House could save face and drop the embargo. The Greek …
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Soon after taking this step, Alente's government took one more, assuming management control of ITT. Two days later, ITT's vice president in Washington, William Merriam, sent the White House an 18-point list of steps it could take to ensure …
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that Soleimani appears to be part of an U.S.-supported, like through the Obama administration, element in Iran. And that there are ties between him and the forces that were being armed in...…
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Soleimani. So if my assumption of taking out Soleimani was in retribution to the taking of American lives at the Benghazi compound, that makes to me perfect sense to go back and then look at the left or the Obama administration's response t…
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Yeah, they are. That's exactly what they're doing. They're shifting the blame and they're going to put it squarely back on Trump's team and not at the White House or the Department of Homeland Security, which it falls under. Which is part o…
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lives of military personnel to the graveyard in order to harvest opium. And I can't say that often enough or loud enough, because everything that I'm telling you was known to the State Department, it was known to the CIA, it was known to th…
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whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mr. Ambassador. If your prime minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament, and constitutions, he and his parliament and his constitution may not last very long, unquo…
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And like the KCIA that we found in Korea, they basically had, when they were set up, this exact same setup. They were not the Korean CIA. They were our CIA posing as the Korean CIA. It's just quite crazy, actually. So in mid-February 1967, …
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The embargo, the Nixon administration asked Papadopoulos to make some gesture towards constitutional government, which he could then use against Congress to lift the embargo. The Greek prime minister was to be assured, said a secret White H…
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was dragging bare feet to find him a new home at the behest of the White House trying to mullify the anti-Castro community in South Florida, according to internal documents. Margaret Love, then Associate Deputy Attorney General, noted in Ja…
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State's relatively relaxed efforts to find a country to take Dr. Bosch reflect what it understands to be the present disposition of the White House in the matter. So CIA agent George H.W. Bush is basically facilitating the harboring of a kn…
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of his leading advocate in Miami. In the end, the Justice Department relented and informed the White House counsel, C. Boyden Gray, and then Deputy Director, Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, it would agree to a deal to free Bosch to live with h…
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arrest a few people. Richard Nixon was elected president based on a vow to restore law and order in America. To prove that it intended to keep that promise, the White House in 1969 launched Operation Intercept along the Mexican border. This…
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Indeed, as John Evans pointed out, the government was aware the CIA for years had sanctioned heroin traffic from the Golden Triangle of Bermuda, Thailand and Laos into South Vietnam as a way of rewarding top foreign officials in advancing U…
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Given the addiction among U.S. troops in Vietnam was soaring, the massive amounts of Southeast Asian heroin being smuggled into the U.S. for use by middle class was on the verge of a revolution. Nixon's response was to make drug law enforce…
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This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, passed the names of the complicit military officers to the White House. But as Dick recalled, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker called a meeting in Saigon at whic…
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The Nixon White House blamed the BNDD's failure to stop international drug trafficking on its underdeveloped intelligence capability, a situation that opened the door for even more CIA infiltration. That's so convenient. In late 1970, CIA D…
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Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special operations or strategic operations staff that would function on its own outside the CIA. Those operations would rely on longer-range deep penetration clandestin…
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had the Corsicans gaining free passage into Marseilles' heroin labs. Koenig denied McCoy's allegation, but of course we know they're all true. It's impossible to know, according to this article author who was telling the truth, but we know …
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Bush brought him to Florida from his position as director of strategy for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Florida Republican Bill McCollum helped secure the first $23 million for financing this chemical in his defens…
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have produced consistent health complaints from peasants in the Colombian countryside, which were promptly ignored by both the White House and Monsanto. When interviewed by Corp Watch, a nonprofit investigative research group, a U.S. State …
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A member of the American Center for Democracy advanced this of the narco-terrorists in three books in which Latin American guerrilla movements described as narco-terrorists were linked to Cuba and the Soviet Union, when in fact, they're not…
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It had failed in less than 48 hours. Diplomatic sources at the OAS in Washington eventually charged U.S. officials with directing the plot, revealing to The Guardian, quote, Venezuelans plotting a coup included Carmona himself, unquote. He …
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They considered that I am most useful at this moment denouncing the abuse which continued to exist against human rights in Venezuela on the international level, he told CNN in his first appearance since fleeing Venezuela. Vecchio described …
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The U.S. officials eventually confessed their ability to conduct such large-scale industrial terrorism themselves. In June of 2019, the New York Times reported Washington had increased remote cyber attacks on Russia's electrical grid in a w…
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He said cocaine smoking can represent the same threat that the speed epidemic did in the 1960s. Beck also wasn't the only American scientist who attended the Lima conference that came back alarmed. The impact of these experiences were impre…
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The fact that there's one designated person, sometimes that person's the VP, sometimes that person's the Secretary of State. Sometimes that person is like the chief of staff of the White House. It varies in administrations. So that designat…
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a Lieutenant Colonel Tom Harvey, who was on the staff of the National Security Council. Gritz has said Harvey was supervising the POW hunt that he and Weakley had went on and provided them with White House and NSC credentials. Harvey later …
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Almost single-handedly, an underpaid middle-aged Nicaraguan policeman had in 18 months done something that the entire U.S. government, with all of its bike satellites, international wiretapping, and an army of drug agents, had never been ab…
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Nicole Wallace was originally in the W. Bush White House, who significantly was targeted with convincing Democratic resistance to support the Iraq war in 2003. So she was a Republican. To these people, it really doesn't matter whether you'r…
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In the closing days of 1968 presidential campaign, the Democrats made an 11th hour bid for the presidency through a White House announcement that all bombing in North Vietnam was being stopped and the serious peace negotiation was going to …
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who publicly rejected the coming negotiations. And three days later, the Democrat candidate lost to Richard Nixon in a narrow margin. After the election, it was revealed that a major Nixon fundraiser and supporter had engaged in elaborate n…
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Christopher Still, that Stephan Halper that was employed by the Pentagon in the Office of Net Assessment, that Stephan Halper. He, with BB's money, created Palmer National Bank in Washington, D.C. So that bank was set up to help funnel mone…
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I don't know what he was doing with it. I don't, really. In a statement Seale made after the trial, he said that the request for arms and ammunition was brought across the border to a rancher banker by the name of Mr. Richmond Harper in Eag…
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Ambrose's visits to Harper were also discovered in the 1976 House Banking Subcommittee investigation on the Texas rent-a-bank scandal. So, everybody knew it. They just didn't do anything about it. One of Ambrose's running buddies was Jack C…
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after its Batman was murdered. This was the C-123 that was shot down by the Sandinistas in 1986 while it was making a resupply run to the Contras. The resulting crash blew the lid off the White House secret support of the Contras as the pla…
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When he was chief counsel of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Weiland made a cameo appearance along with his boss, Senator Roth, in Oliver North's White House notebooks. On January 6, 1984, North got a phone call from a …
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North then wrote that Weiland wants Woodworth to proceed with a meeting with Sergio Brule, B-R-U-L-L, in Miami. The next line was set off in quote marks by North. Quote, White House, underlined twice by North, is interested in moving on Pro…
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are their terrorist training camp. The word that is illegible appears to be a four-letter word that begins with D-R and the last letter is G, meaning drug people. About the same time that Jenkins was training anti-Sandinistas, or Contras is…
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Oliver North quotes the chief counsel of a powerful Senate subcommittee that the White House is interested in a project, and the White House being Vice President George Bush, Mr. CIA himself, and Ronald Reagan. They're interested in a proje…
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Keep in mind that this is Wednesday night, so I will be breaking early. So we're just going to do one chapter. And this chapter is a very important one in the overall story because this deals with the company called EATSCO, E-A-T-S-C-O. So …
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Van Marbogh, Klein's, and the Egyptians in an illegal and unauthorized intelligence operation. As the Pentagon, with Van Marbogh retired, Frank Carlucci was now doing his best to protect General Secord. The depth of the government's knowled…
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where top officials of the CIA and the Justice Department and State Department gathered to discuss the White House position on the Itzko prosecution. Stanley Sporkin, Bill Casey's hand-picked general counsel for the CIA, wrote a memorandum …
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According to Wingate Lloyd's handwritten notes, Pittman stated that the National Security Advisor, William Clark, made clear that the White House does not want any criminal prosecution. With that clear instruction, Theodore Greenberg carrie…
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So in April 1984, Corson had decided that he was going to go there because he wanted to lend a hand to a former Marine student who had just undertaken an assignment at the National Security Council. Corson wanted to send a message to the as…
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He achieved his dream of going to Vietnam. He served as a Marine officer while Shackley and his cronies were running the intel war in Vietnam. After that first contact at the Navy Academy, the clandestine services had kept an eye on North. …
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He was close to Bill Casey, but not particularly popular with George Bush or with Shackley's private enterprise network. Allen did not like cowboys and was even less comfortable with Bush off the books operations. It was not long before All…
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because you can tell because of their haircut. As he walked across Lafayette Park to meet Corson for their lunch, North was fully aware that he was meeting with a man who had been a great success at the White House. When North had called Co…
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He thought he'd had them figured out. He thought he was playing poker with the big boys. But Corson repeatedly warned North, people like you and I play one role, and that's to be expendable. I don't think he ever really understood what I wa…
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A year later, Sarkis was slowly rebuilding his business in Jordan when he came home to the U.S. for Christmas. He was arrested by customs again and charged with bank fraud involving a counterfeit cashier's check on a Southern California ban…
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Whatever the Peruvians did with them after I sold them to them is on them. Sarkis's allegations of an elaborate double-cross raised serious questions about U.S. agencies' close ties to spy chiefs. To make matters worse, the CIA was involved…
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Barzani thought this was a good idea. The White House, unfortunately, did not. On October 16, 1973, Kissinger instructed the director of the CIA to tell the Kurds not to attack, and Barzani followed the orders. Because, again, their whole i…
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That, of course, pisses the CIA and the oligarchs off. Kennedy outlined this initiative and gave it a name in Tampa, Florida in October of 1960. Among the tenets of that speech, Schlesinger says, in a quote, unequivocal support for democrac…
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Fry to move in directions that the U.S. favored. Washington's deliberation took time in part because of a set of decisions that happened when Kennedy was assassinated. As the secret war wizards deliberated, the price tag went up. When Fry's…
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and find out exactly how much cash was at stake. The CIA now said it had no money for this project. The special group would have to approve the use of their contingency fund. Bundy convened the group in the White House sit room on April 2nd…
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Would it have been the CIA that had more authority to get him back to the US than the US government or the NSA? They work in tandem. The State Department and the CIA are not inseparable. They work in tandem with each other. We think of them…
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the State Department and the White House, they're not stepping outside their bounds of authority by telling the officials in that country that you're going to lose everything and we're going to sanction you because that's what the US govern…
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Yeah, I've been there. At least it's not just me. Sorry, SR. Go ahead and go back on X. Okay. All right. There we go. That's crazy. Well, I obviously did the co-host thing, too. So I don't know. Maybe it just picked one. All right. Let's ge…
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Casey sent the fuller paper intended for internal circulation to the White House, but the CIA's official position contained in the May 1985 update to the Iran Special National Intelligence Estimate remained pessimistic. Improvement, because…
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approached National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane two months later to ask if the U.S. might sell weapons to Iran. Huh. When McFarlane replied he thought not, the Israeli asked whether Washington would have any objections if Israel did i…
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You can just give us the weapons back. His request led to a national security group meeting at the White House on August 8th, which appears to have been the Israeli go-ahead. Deals with Iran, many deals with Iran followed, related both to o…
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The Israelis bungled their shipment, routing it through Portugal without appropriate clearance and appealed to the U.S. for help because they got caught. This compromised the White House. McFarland personally intervened with the Portuguese …
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being none other than General Richard Secord, attended a meeting at the White House on January 11th. There, Secord met with the CIA. And again, I need to remind you, Reagan is in these meetings. He's signing this stuff. This is not George H…
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They hired them as lobbyists. Savembe, the CIA stooge that is killing people in Angola, hired a PR firm to encourage the Reagan White House to get back involved in Angola. Despite...…
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perhaps relocating to the US. Yeah, BS. There was a bombing at Radio Free Europe in Munich. And then the board wanted to use operating funds to make repairs. The Reagan White House saw an opportunity to energize the entire operation. And th…
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You guessed it, the Soviets. John Lenkowski, Soviet specialist on the national security staff, spearheaded this effort. He proposed $2.6 billion to revamp Radio Free Europe. See what happens when you get a bomb detonated? You get a request …
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It's very exciting times. Thank you again. Sure. So I got to go back to War Hamster because you guys know I had a friend that was on his way to the processing center at Fort Hood during that shooting that the Obama administration labeled as…
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like sending the Marines into Lebanon in 1958 to ensure the Beirut government remained in friendly hands. The rest of the Americans' imperial mission during the Eisenhower years fell to Allen Dulles. Whispers about Dulles' tactics began mak…
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in books that we've already done or books that I've already read. So they all knew. There's just not a paper trail in most cases. John Eisenhower, who served his father as a White House aide, later blamed the Dulles spy set for manipulating…
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The freedom that they had been granted and his extremely high-powered machine go barging into other countries, scare the hell out of us, Levitt would later say. But once again, Eisenhower ignored the strong criticism leveled at the spy agen…
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Dulles' CIA grew to become the most potent agency of the Eisenhower era. Dulles was a master at seeding Washington bureaucracies with agency men, meaning putting CIA agents into other government organizations, even though they're not allowe…
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but by resisting the temptation to crow about his wisdom in the press. Kennedy soon began seeking his advice on other things. One of the liberal critics was Alfred Kazin, K-A-Z-I-N. When Kazin arrived at the White House, JFK was at his best…
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compiled essays and investigative features about Dulles' reign from the liberal press. The White House advisor completed his memo for revamping the CIA on June 30th. He acknowledged that his proposal implies a fairly drastic rearrangement o…
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Taylor also opposed changing the agency's name for the same reason. Who gives a shit? On the morning of July 15th, Bobby took Schlesinger aside at the White House and told him that the CIA reorganization was on hold until a replacement for …
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After Kennedy's engineered steel pack was signed, guess what U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blow did? He scheduled a meeting at the White House and told the president that he was announcing a 3.5% price increase anyway. But he had locked in labo…
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In victory, JFK adopted a magnanimous posture. Over dinner at the White House on May 3rd, Schlesinger asked Kennedy what he had said to Blow when the U.S. steel chairman surrendered. I told him that his men could keep their horses for the s…
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No, he just made them keep their word. Chatting with Schlesinger in the Oval Office, Kennedy said, I understand better every day why Roosevelt, who started out as such a mellow fellow, was so anti-business at the end. JFK vowed that he was …
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To counter the corporate assault on his presidency, Kennedy said, we have to put out the picture of a small group of men turning against the government and the economy because the government would not surrender to them. That's the real issu…
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not only to engage in deadly spy versus spy antics, but to subvert democratic governments they deemed insufficiently Americanized and to terminate these governments' elected leaders. Dedicated to dark necessity of expanding American power, …
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exasperated with him and succeeded in having him jettisoned from the administration. But Allen managed to stay on good terms with Nelson and with David too. As he left the Eisenhower White House in December 1955, Nelson sent the CIA chief a…
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In March of 1961, it was a massive foreign aid program for Latin America designed to stimulate economic growth, redistribute wealth, and promote democratic governments in the region. They don't want democratic governments in that region. Th…
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You know, accused the Nixon administration of retaliating against this guy, you know, for speaking to the press and declaring him crazy and managed to get him out of the mental ward at that hospital. They really retaliated against this guy.…
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Working in the Kennedy White House not only gave Schlesinger a voice in global affairs, it offered him the intellectual, as an intellectual, a chance to rub elbows with everyone. He gossiped over lunch with actresses and actors about Frank …
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Schlesinger was sipping midday cocktails with publishing queen Kay Graham and her Newsweek editors who had flown him to New York to advise them on a magazine makeover. Schlesinger soon realized that he was the odd man out in the anti-intell…
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Not a request to do anything, nor an invitation to a single meeting. The entire mood of the White House suddenly shifted under Schlesinger's feet. LBJ differs from JFK in a number of ways, he said. Most notably, perhaps, in the absence of i…
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Supreme FDR JFK gift of keeping a great many things in his head, remembering them all, and then demanding to know new things. Schlesinger's early resignation from the Johnson administration, which came seven months before Bobby Kennedy's ow…
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Quote, certainly we did not control the Joint Chiefs of Staff, unquote. And he knew from his futile efforts to reform the CIA, the Kennedy White House perhaps had even less control over it. But despite Schlesinger's inside knowledge of Wash…
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in our cities and to close the gap between black and white, between rich and poor, between young and old in the country. Oh my gosh, big target on him. Kennedy left unstated the other reason, the main reason that still tormented his family.…
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that they had set up the camp and trained the Contras with the approval of the White House. But the prosecutors claimed the operation was not sanctioned by the Reagan administration. It certainly was sanctioned by the vice president because…
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who was Ian Benson's partner and an alleged CIA operative. Jim Bath was definitely a CIA agent or asset. He's the guy that retrofitted all of the Saudi corrupt princes' aircraft outside of Houston. He's been in several of these books. He wa…
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to compensate victims. Representative Weiss went on to state unequivocally that while the Reagan administration defended the Vietnam conflict as an honorable war, it worked behind the scenes to deny benefits to the very people who sacrifice…
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Not everyone in the upper echelons of military power surrendered to the White House. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the former chief of naval operations in Vietnam, testified in the Weiss Committee that Dr. Vernon Hawk, H-O-U-K, of the Center for Di…
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Embargo request while UPI and NBC after talking with the embassy press officer admitted the item entirely from its news story. Details on the account being reported through military channels by what was referred to as bright light messages …
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documentary on the POW MIA situation that presented dramatic evidence that MIA and POWs were still a lot. Landreth discovered that the stations that had agreed to carry the broadcast had suddenly backed out. Landreth began to investigate an…
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20,000 Americans were never returned from the Soviet Union post-World War II. Among other recent attempts to cover up the information regarding American POWs or taken prisoner and never returned are the following events. In 1991, Brent Scow…
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co-author of Soldiers of Misfortune, regarding evidence provided by Rastorov about the U.S. POWs that he had seen transported. Skrokov on White House stationery ordered the National Archives not to release the report and to classify it as s…
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have never blown up an airliner with a bomb planted in the U.S. The government spokesmen were being much more cautious about jumping to conclusions. However, the White House spokesperson, Mike McCurry, and others, including President Clinto…
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Variations of these sightings matched what the FAA radar controllers saw at JFK, departure control. And also was the exact same story the three C-130 crew members said happened. But the FBI and other federal agencies, up to and including th…
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They claim an Egyptian fundamentalist group backed by Iran was responsible for smuggling the weapons across the Canadian border and into the U.S. The article went on to identify that group as Gamma al-Islamiyah, the same group that attempte…