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Claims (48)
Blackwater financed_via
U.S. Congress documented
“We are trying to do for national security apparatus what FedEx did for the Postal Service, unquote. And then he went on to quote the amount of money Blackwater was making. Since the year 2000, he said, its government contracts had grown fro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 10:19
U.S. Congress funded
United Wa State Army documented
“The further impetus to create actual military units in special warfare was an action of Congress in 1950, building on America's traditional commitment to freedom and interest of captive nations. Oh, my God. The irony of that is just hilario…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 58:17
Jan Schakowsky member_of
U.S. Congress documented
“was still determined to expose the facts of the industry, repeatedly telling the press and Congress that hiding the truth about these companies and keeping the knowledge of their force hidden was damaging the nation. She was persistent and …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 34:46
Paul Robeson member_of
U.S. Congress documented
“The questions as well as the answers were somewhat expected, except for one. It happened when Diane Sawyer asked the candidates to comment on the payroll tax cut that was set to expire at the end of the year. If the tax cut ended, Sawyer sa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 31:27
U.S. Congress targeted_for_regime_change
CIA book_quoted
“In this case, the blend of the Internet and talk radio had made the traditional media irrelevant. The public was marching on without them, and the message got clear to California's top politicians. The L.A. City Council unanimously approved…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 27:48
U.S. Congress funded
FDN documented
“any CIA contra controversies before the election. The Democrat-controlled Congress succeeded in passing yet another Boland Amendment. Unlike the earlier one, though, this one had teeth. It prohibited the CIA, the Department of Defense, and …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 11:38
Francis McNeil confirmed_to
U.S. Congress documented
“At the time, one of the State Department's top narcotics intelligence officers confirmed to Congress that the DC-4 appearance at San Andreas caused red flags to go up in Washington. A stop at San Andreas Island for a Contra resupply plane i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:15:27
Lawton Chiles member_of
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“All of this information is known to government. Several of them, based on the regional area that they worked in, briefed Congress. They all know. There was a briefing to Lawton Childs, the guy that represented my area, that was the Florida …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:10:36
U.S. Congress funded
Contras book_quoted
“After one of those votes in July of 1983, Reagan officials boldly answered that they had no intentions of reducing aid to the rebels, the terrorists. They weren't rebels. Twice, the House voted to terminate the Contra program, saved only be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 4:52
U.S. Congress funded
Contras book_quoted
“In the short term, the CIA got what it wanted. Congress did not strengthen the Boland Amendment, though it kept spending on Nicaraguan war to the 24 million already appropriated and warned that no more would be coming until the next fiscal …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 8:23
Robert Bick exposed
U.S. Congress documented
“and other things to buy more drugs. The Lima conference had taken place only two weeks before Beck appeared in Washington, and the stories he heard were fresh in his mind when he sat before the committee. Once Beck testified, he was in thei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 41:39
Andrew Carnegie funded
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“And remember, this is the guy who talks about how charitable he is when he was 38 years old. He also had a huge leg up because of U.S. trade tariffs. He would constantly lobby Congress to continue the trade tariffs. These are what you call …”
▶ Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy @ 15:39
CIA trafficked
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“But given his membership on the CIA subcommittee, he was now expressing concerns. Symington had backed the Laotian War. And on a visit to Laos and Thailand in 66, the senator had had good things to say to the pilots and the embassy people a…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 42:11
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“Congress memories did not get wiped clean. The very next year, the CIA budget comes up for renewal, and they not only renewed it, they gave them more money. I don't disagree that Congress knew it, but they were intimidated from passing legi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:16:12
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“Warner was a compromised sleeping with a reporter person. You cannot hold an intelligence entity that does covert actions like the CIA accountable by corrupt politicians. It's impossible. So I know what they say came out of the church commi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:06:53
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“Congress has an oversight responsibility, and it is their responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable by running investigations and things like that. The Intelligence Committee setup was just another layer of compromised politic…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:08:57
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“was able to take classified information out of the CAT. And the only reason that the, not the CAT, the SCI facility, the only reason they even have that in Congress now is because of the stupid ass committee that was smoke and mirrors. So t…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:06:23
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“Colonel, what's it called when you can get data, get some special access? Anyway, they are overseers. That's what came out of the church committee. Okay, Carrie, I'm going to take issue with you right now. That's absolute bullshit. Marco Ru…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:05:25
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“So my data on the church committee is that it actually was effective, but they got to Frank Church somehow. But anyway, it's why we have the intelligence committee, which is like eight senators, which tells you everything, that it's just se…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:04:53
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“a prime member of that intel committee. What they did was put lipstick on a pig. They set up, quote unquote, oversight committees that hasn't done jack shit in holding anybody accountable in the CIA. Because after the church committee, when…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:05:55
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“The fact that the church committee happened in, I want to get the exact date, in 1975, and you went through the entire 1980s of the Iran-Contra selling arms, BCCI, Castle Bank, Nugent Hand Bank, and money laundering through the Vatican Bank…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:07:24
CIA influenced
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“fucking person was held accountable? Don't tell me that the church committee was effective. They weren't effective in any way, shape or form. Sorry. Okay. Can I just continue though? There's one more aspect. So that was during Carter and th…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:07:55
CIA carried_out_attack
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“Here we have a situation where information was getting out in the public. And as you're correct, as you're saying correctly, there was no result. Well, why? Because the CIA worked directly through our media to stop Congress. And that can't …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:19:05
U.S. Congress funded
CIA documented
“Because Congress cannot renew their budget. Congress is the one that in our Constitution was given the authority to hold the executive branch accountable. It wasn't the media. It wasn't anybody else. I don't give a shit who the CIA owns or …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:19:35
U.S. Congress covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“the ability to not be charged with laws when they sell drugs to American people or when they train terrorists on domestic soil. And to your point, if that funding were to stop, the few smart people that we do have as part of the population …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 1:29:29
U.S. Congress exposed
Lake Galbraith arms ploy documented
“No fewer than six congressional committees took this up in the House of Representatives, which had shifted to Republican control in the previous election. The incident offered an opportunity to settle some scores. The House International Re…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 54:04
William Colby covered_up
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“and George H.W. Bush, Reagan's two-term vice president, U.S. president, and father of U.S. President George W. Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately misrepresent the scope of the activitie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 47:54
George H.W. Bush covered_up
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“and George H.W. Bush, Reagan's two-term vice president, U.S. president, and father of U.S. President George W. Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately misrepresent the scope of the activitie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 47:54
Fred Thompson headed
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“So after Casey was appointed DCI, a devastating story broke tying Casey to an organized crime figure in New Orleans. The Senate Intelligence Committee quickly pulled together an investigation headed by Watergate Minority Counsel Fred Thomps…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 35:27
Porter Goss member_of
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“In Latin America, the Caribbean, and then Europe. Coup, coup, coup, coup. Yeah, he did wet work. There's no doubt about that. He was in Miami during the Cuban Missile Crisis, stationed in Miami. So he's part of that. Gets out of the CIA and…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Bady 2025-05-22 @ 31:29
CIA spied_on
U.S. Congress documented
“properly on many occasions. In March of 2014, Senator Dianne Feinstein, was chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, had commented in public that the CIA and its top lawyer had illegally spied on the Senate and charged…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 44:39
John Edinger framed
U.S. Congress documented
“That was charged with the investigation of George W. Bush's terrorist practices. She accused the CIA of seeking to intimidate Senate committees by asking the DOJ to investigate the same staffers based on what she described inaccurate inform…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 45:08
George Tenet member_of
U.S. Congress documented
“who had came from the NSC staff where he had been the top man for intelligence. Tenet has been a decade on Capitol Hill, mostly as a staff member at the Senate Intelligence Committee. A couple of years earlier, Woolsey had favored shutting …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 42:59
U.S. Congress declassified
Unit 731 host_asserted
“That completely reported the incident. They had no way to approve the claim. It was because of this that the veterans, such as Pappy Wachow and Greg Rodriguez, banded together and organized an effort to bring the matter before Congress. It …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 2 @ 43:50
L.L. Bora headed
U.S. Congress documented
“Dubinsky, D-U-B-I-N-S-K-Y, who was president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Serafino Rimoldi, who was executive director of the American Institute for Free Labor Development. L.L. Bora, who was general secretary of the U…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 47:55
Otis Pike member_of
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“After Watergate deposed Richard Nixon, the news emerged that the CIA had spied domestically since at least the Johnson administration. Congressman Otis Pike of the House Intelligence Committee began to probe publicly into the CIA. Newspaper…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 14:55
U.S. Congress covered_up
Pike Committee documented
“The Ford administration was able to prevail upon the full House of Representatives not to release the Pike report. Some 246 representatives voted to suppress the report against 124 for its release. When television reporter Daniel Score, S-C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 32:34
Uriah Tracy attempted_coup_against
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“The Federalists got driven out of power, but that's when Talmadge actually gets elected when the rest of his party disappears. A couple other side notes. He defended a guy by the name of Uriah Tracy against accusations by John Quincy Adams …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady @ 13:23
U.S. Congress removed_from_power
Herbert Pell documented
“the appropriation for Pell, but in terms that were very clear to Congress that they did not care for Pell's work at state and it needed to be deprioritized. After several meetings, a congressional conference committee deleted Pell's salary …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 35:42
Blackwater supplied_arms_to
U.S. Congress guest_asserted
“praised the work of Blackwater. Quote, Blackwater has protected dozens, if not hundreds of members of Congress, including myself and members of the committee when they traveled to Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm sorry, I got to say this. Stay you…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 16:37
Daniel Childs member_of
U.S. Congress documented
“Finally, and this is a point that needs to be driven home repeatedly because it's happening today. Listen to this. There was a matter of the Intelligence Committee staff director himself. So they actually referred it over to the Intelligenc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 11:58
Johnny Roselli member_of
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“Although the story he was telling seemed to be falling apart, as detailed in the New York Times article about his death. Quote, three months before his death, April 23rd, 1976, Mr. Roselli was questioned by the Kennedy assassination by repr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:05:16
Robert A. Taft served_in
U.S. Congress documented
“which is interesting. And we're going to diverge away from the bones a little bit here. And of course, from Yale, it goes to Harvard Law. Make that 35 straight times you've seen that. He would join the Sons of the American Revolution, which…”
▶ The Shadow State 25_ Secret Societies 9; The Taft Dynasty @ 32:49
U.S. Congress exposed
Chase Aircraft documented
“Congress finds out that the Navy is using a front company, Chase Aircraft, and basically puts the kibosh on that.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 20:58
CIA member_of
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“They've got more than enough. And there's no oversight if you don't control the purse strings. And even when they control the purse strings, the majority, and this book has documented time after time after time, when the senators would meet…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:27:48
CIA covered_up
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“helping some candidates who didn't have enough money. However, not a single candidate that they helped that didn't have enough money had any backing from Aristide at all. Those people were completely boycotted. The CIA was involved in a ran…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 40:19
CIA spied_on
U.S. Congress book_quoted
“Simmons is quoted as observing that these actions can only be described as a domestic disinformation campaign against the U.S. Congress. Robert McFarland capped the effort in his speech at Annapolis where he told the assembled midshipmen th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 44:41
CIA covered_up
U.S. Congress host_asserted
“First, the CIA could simply go to the FBI and say that a person was under investigation for working for or had worked for the agency and therefore could not be investigated or prosecuted. They were protected. The FBI referred to that as the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 8:29
Mentions (120)
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Navy contracts. That's how ERA was actually created in 1946. Again, we're just post-World War II. Congress finds out that the Navy is using a front company, Chase Aircraft, and basically puts the kibosh on that. ERA, that was set up as a su…
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In January 1982, President Reagan certified to Congress that the El Salvadorian government was, quote, making a concerted and significant effort to comply with internationally recognized human rights, unquote. That's a big fat lie. Quote, a…
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By denials and cover-up by the State Department and a media all-out campaign, the State Department's defense of its position before a congressional committee left the committee members suspiciously underwhelmed, even though the congressman …
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and many other reports of similar nature, it can be appreciated that the Reagan administration had to exercise some creativity in getting around congressional hesitation for the continued military aid of El Salvador. Thus, it was in March 1…
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Washington officials issued warnings to the Salvadorian government to improve its human rights records or told Congress that the record was improving or told the world how much worse the record would have been had it not been for our interv…
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or Freedom Fighter Field Hospital, killing at least 10 people, including five patients, a doctor, a nurse, and raping at least two female victims before shooting them. Sources close to the El Salvador military said afterward that Quell's wa…
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder agreeing to make a referral to the appropriate IG office for an investigation of that wrongdoing and report to the appropriate congressional oversight. Quote, if the U.S. makes these notifications, then it …
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If Rizzo, Yates, and Edinger had nothing to fear in terms of their actions or inactions in the Horn case and sought to do the right thing by ridding the agency of bad actors, then why not file a motion in support of the judge's call for a r…
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The attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice in July of 2010 filed a motion in federal court indicating that Congress was notified officially of the corruption allegations involving the CIA. The motion substantiates a prior report that t…
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The allegations set forth in the court's opinion and order to the Integrity Committee of the Council of Inspector Generals on Integrity and Efficiency and informed their respective congressional oversight committees of the allegations. The …
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They wanted it removed. Upon consideration of the referrals of the allegations to the IG and the House Oversight Committee, which we know goes nowhere, I'll go ahead and remove that because they paid the guy off. That's the end of that part…
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But my dad caught them. And so he wound up having to go to Congress. They got quite a few people involved. They had to do an environmental impact statement. They didn't get to just steal the land at that time. So they had to do this environ…
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And civil engineering takes care of our real estate. Yeah, she worked with a guy named David Waltershide down in Texas. And he was another winner. We were actually able to get rid of him because he was caught lying. He lied to me, you know,…
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We already went through Congress. But we never found out who they went through Congress with. I have no idea. I have no idea. Somebody on the Armed Forces Committee. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody must have got a nice payoff. That's the only thing. S…
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that caused a great deal of consternation in circles of power in this land had to do with his commitment to a massive group of people to, excuse me, commitment to take a massive group of people to Washington and encamp them in the shadow of…
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had so consolidated power that they were representatives, the foot soldiers of the economic and very economic interest who were going to suffer as a result of these times of change. So the very powerful lobby forces that put their people in…
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or freedom, depending on how you look at it. Six months later, the military was in charge because they had had a coup, thanks to the CIA. Congress was dissolved, and everything not prohibited was compulsory. For the next 11 years, Uruguay c…
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It appeared in 1972. It is centered around Mitteroni and the Tuporeros and depicted an Uruguayan police officer receiving training at a secret bomb school in the United States. Through the film, it shows a composite picture of the role play…
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Center in Washington was canceled. There was already growing public and congressional criticism of the dark side of Americans' policy without adding to it. During the mid-70s, however, Congress enacted several pieces of legislation which ab…
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the traveling of people around much to the chagrin of the international syndicate. And some of the people eventually did go to jail and was held accountable. None of that has happened post-World War II because of Congress being intimidated,…
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Immigrants that come to the United States, they'd immediately go into Washington, D.C., and they lobby against the government that just kicked them out because they were assholes. And they join the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for that particul…
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The mission of the Marines had been a humiliating failure, not because they failed in their duty, but because the political backbone of Washington was lacking. The U.S. had arrived in 1982 with all sides welcoming them. They left in 1984, d…
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congressional committee testimonies saying that Flynn's brother had something to do with the whole January 6th failure of the National Guard to show up, which, of course, I debunked that multiple times. He had nothing to do with it. And she…
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House committee. And I just about lost my lunch or breakfast, actually. And I'm like, yeah, it's not like anybody's ever gotten in front of a congressional committee and lied, except for repeatedly. Do they do that? So and we're going to se…
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In order to continue the military funding, because Congress, with the reported massacres coming out of El Salvador almost daily at that point, via death squads had began to ask questions. So you just do what they did now that we continue to…
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There were thousands of people that had been killed in military death squads and no officer had ever been tried, let alone convicted. Officers, let's see, the Salvadorian military tolerated the trials of the officers this time because Congr…
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The story was included in a State Department booklet to highlight the rebel, quote, campaign of intimidation and terrorism, unquote. The booklet was mailed to Congress, newspaper editors, and opinion makers. But the story, as it turns out, …
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But because Grenada had such a great economic record, they didn't necessarily agree with them. In the summer of 1981, the CIA developed plans to cause economic difficulty for Grenada in the hopes of undermining political control of Bishop. …
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We have no idea whether they actually carried through with it because we would have no way of knowing. The main thrust of the American campaign against Grenada was in the form of propaganda. There was a theme that Grenada was a paid up memb…
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A senior official in the Senate Intel Committee stated that liberation theology proponents are not too popular at the agency. Maybe second only to the Vatican for not liking liberation theology are the people at Langley, meaning the CIA. An…
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helping some candidates who didn't have enough money. However, not a single candidate that they helped that didn't have enough money had any backing from Aristide at all. Those people were completely boycotted. The CIA was involved in a ran…
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The agency balked at providing them any information and basically said their involvement in covert electoral actions wasn't basically any of the Senate's businesses. And the quote from a high-ranking source, there are some of us who believe…
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had erupted between Indonesia and Malaysia. And when it caused a blockage of funds from Congress, Kennedy and Sukarno jointly resolved to bring the conflict with Malaysia to an end. To do this, he and Sukarno agreed to visit Jakarta to a Ja…
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in the line of duty in Greece, right at the height of the church commission. And the CIA used that death, turned it around, and said the only reason the guy was gunned down was because too much was being revealed by Congress's investigation…
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So my data on the church committee is that it actually was effective, but they got to Frank Church somehow. But anyway, it's why we have the intelligence committee, which is like eight senators, which tells you everything, that it's just se…
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Colonel, what's it called when you can get data, get some special access? Anyway, they are overseers. That's what came out of the church committee. Okay, Carrie, I'm going to take issue with you right now. That's absolute bullshit. Marco Ru…
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a prime member of that intel committee. What they did was put lipstick on a pig. They set up, quote unquote, oversight committees that hasn't done jack shit in holding anybody accountable in the CIA. Because after the church committee, when…
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That made the NSA. Anyway, that's and that was a direct result of the church committee. I mean, it was like a guillotine to the church committee. So anything that Reagan would have signed has absolutely zero to do with Congress. Reagan cann…
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Congress has an oversight responsibility, and it is their responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable by running investigations and things like that. The Intelligence Committee setup was just another layer of compromised politic…
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Congress has an oversight responsibility, and it is their responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable by running investigations and things like that. The Intelligence Committee setup was just another layer of compromised politic…
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a more important example of Operation Mockingbird than this period. It's the one time when Congress is- Right, so to answer this question, did anything effective come out of the church committee? Well, I would have to say yes, and then it w…
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All committees are shut down at some point. They end. They offer a report. They offered a report. What came out of it that significantly changed and held the CIA accountable? The point is that they were discovering a lot of information that…
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Okay, but hold on. You're missing the whole point. Hold on. No, no, no. Hold on. You're missing the point. You would have to shut down Congress in order for Congress not to pass laws. Congress was never shut down. A committee was. The infor…
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Well, the information was getting out into the public because Congress was investigating. It got out. We all know it. It wasn't known at that time. The reason we know it now is because Congress was investigating. And then it was shut down. …
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corruption, assassinations, and all kinds of horrific shit being done all over the world in the name of us with appropriated funds out of the CIA. Right. That knowledge did not go away. Well, that's where we might disagree. Because how many…
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Did they go in and do some black magic and erase all of the information from the congressional's minds that they just heard in congressional testimony? Did they wipe their memories? No. Congress still had all of the information. Hush. Just …
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Congress still had all of the information to act on. They knew that they were appropriating money every year for the CIA to go out and whack foreign dignitaries, to have a heart attack gun in order to assassinate people.…
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Congress memories did not get wiped clean. The very next year, the CIA budget comes up for renewal, and they not only renewed it, they gave them more money. I don't disagree that Congress knew it, but they were intimidated from passing legi…
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So you just made my point. He was the most regulatory of all of the House of Representatives. Yeah, so you just made my point. The church committee did nothing. Yeah, you made my point. The church committee did nothing. Well, it got a lot o…
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basically shut down the legislative branch. To no effect at all. If you do not have the backbone in Congress to take the information that is revealed in committees, and this is not just the church committee. The same thing happened with the…
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There was not a damn thing done. They knew damn good and well that military resources was used against federal law. Not a fucking person was arrested. The church committee, they revealed laws were broken. Not a single person was arrested. S…
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Every one of these committees that Congress has had over the last 50 years is theater. The only time it's not theater is when somebody like Steve Bannon gets up there and they basically arrest him for not doing jack shit while we've got ass…
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I want Congress to have to have the backbone. And if they don't have the backbone, get your ass out of Congress. You don't get to sit up there and collect retirement on the taxpayer's dime for the rest of your fucking life because you're a …
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Because Congress cannot renew their budget. Congress is the one that in our Constitution was given the authority to hold the executive branch accountable. It wasn't the media. It wasn't anybody else. I don't give a shit who the CIA owns or …
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who have a constitutional responsibility to spend money and hold the executive branch accountable. No one else can do that. Only Congress. And if they're not going to do it, they should not be collecting a retirement. They should not be col…
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If I then do not have the wherewithal to pass a law or say, I'm done, I'm never voting again to give the CIA a penny. I'm going to write a law that holds them accountable. And if I show up dead, you'll know who killed me. That's the kind of…
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is not egregious. But that's even more reason why you hold the CIA accountable, not less. It's not a reason not to do your fucking job. Of course, I'm not making an excuse for Congress not doing their job. I'm just saying Mockingbird is CIA…
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And they had the ability to do it as a result of the Pike Committee, the Church Commission, all of that stuff. And they failed to do it. And they failed to do it every year after that. And every year after that, we have found out more and m…
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And anybody sitting in Congress voting to spend one penny of taxpayer dollars on the CIA is a piece of shit as far as I'm concerned. They seem like they're involved with killing a sitting president. And they were involved with killing a sit…
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There is no actual, there is never any arrest. They intentionally limit and control the narrative. You're thinking of the CIA as being the only one. How many leaks that just in your recent memory can you remember of leaks coming out of Cong…
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I don't think Congress taking away funding for the CIA will be effective anymore. I think that that is just as much theater as everything else you guys have talked about. Because, I mean, just looking at the Indonesia situation and seeing h…
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smoke and mirrors and theater for the public to make it feel like the United States populace and the politicians actually do have some form of control over it, when in reality they have absolutely none. Well, I think that's why they do it a…
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They've had that. It continues to operate. The issue right now is because there's still a thing called the CIA and they still have appropriated funds, they have the ability to offer that protection to anybody that gets caught. They have the…
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Yeah, yeah, no, that actually makes a whole lot of sense. I actually will agree with that narrative. They lose all legitimacy at that point. And do I think that they will stop? Absolutely not. But they no longer have the protection that Con…
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Anybody that, and not to say that it always happened because, of course, there's corrupt prosecutors, there's corrupt government officials, but they were never protected by the government, not overtly, not by laws, not by congressional comm…
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that exist inside the government, all set up inside the CIA and then protected by get out of jail free cards that Congress handed to them voluntarily. There has been several laws passed, even after the church commission, that like the one a…
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And that happened. That whole thing was a setup. And it was a setup because they wanted Philip Agee, who was naming all of the CIA agents, to be able to not have to be a criminal if he continued to do it because he wouldn't stop doing it. T…
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All is set up to manipulate us. And Congress was part of it. And that's why I say I think it's the opposite way. I don't think, I think Congress does the charades. They're part of the actor. They're part of the script. They go along and do …
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They were basically, not basically, I sat in a room while the civilian assistant secretary for the Air Force was telling the general officer that I worked for to lie to Congress. I witnessed it firsthand. So I understand the pressure that g…
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And they have a lot of overlap with the Intelligence Committee, where you see Rubio sitting on the Intelligence Committee, coaxing the interaction on, here's what you really need to say about the weapons labs, the biological weapons labs, s…
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In Latin America, the Caribbean, and then Europe. Coup, coup, coup, coup. Yeah, he did wet work. There's no doubt about that. He was in Miami during the Cuban Missile Crisis, stationed in Miami. So he's part of that. Gets out of the CIA and…
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In Latin America, the Caribbean, and then Europe. Coup, coup, coup, coup. Yeah, he did wet work. There's no doubt about that. He was in Miami during the Cuban Missile Crisis, stationed in Miami. So he's part of that. Gets out of the CIA and…
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General George Washington makes him the director of military intelligence, and he recruits a bunch of other people to become part of what's known as the Culper Ring. I'll get to why they call them Culpers in a second. Real quick, just a lit…
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I'm holding back some of my fire for a future debate with a friend of ours who's pro-Lincoln, Matthew Errett. How you doing, Matt? Matt's a great guy. We disagree on Lincoln and Hamilton. Hopefully we're going to have that discussion. Becau…
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That makes sense. Another thing that popped up in my head, all these illnesses and that that's been popping up. I'll post another link. In 2007, I believe Congress was having a meeting over the proliferation of biolabs amongst the United St…
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to, I just had a brain fart, LeVay, Anton LeVay. Yeah. Just to show you how evil this bloodline type thing is. Anyone, if anybody doesn't know. And let me just caveat so that you guys understand this. I posted this earlier. The first Congre…
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First of all, go back to when supposedly they created the law that says you can't out CIA operatives. And then, of course, what did they need to have happen in order to pass that law? They killed one of their own officers. So in the middle …
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If that's what you chose to do, bad on you. And then it just like Miles was just saying, put your toe in the door and then push the door open as fast as you can. So their toe in the door was assassinating one of their own agents in order to…
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in order to agitate the population to turn against Jimmy Carter. So I think that's what happened with that part of your question. And yes, the ab scam, which basically, for those of you who don't know, was a sting operation. And it led to, …
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After Watergate deposed Richard Nixon, the news emerged that the CIA had spied domestically since at least the Johnson administration. Congressman Otis Pike of the House Intelligence Committee began to probe publicly into the CIA. Newspaper…
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fundraisers, and does all kinds of things to ingratiate himself into this movement. So Liebman is eventually hired by Walter Judd, who, if you guys haven't ran across him, Walter Judd is best known for his time that he spent in Congress adv…
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Congress doesn't go back and remove the authority of the CIA to be running drugs. Why is that? That seems odd to me. Mike, go ahead. Thanks. I wanted to add there's a there's an interesting take on the number of like I have an interesting t…
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You know, pretty good because it goes through even who is president and how this all started. It has a photograph of the East Turkestan separatists meeting with the U.S. Congress members on a Tuesday. So, yeah, that's really undeniable, you…
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And then we bring those CIA trained terrorists in to meet Congress so they can lie to them and propagandize them into supporting Uyghurs that are basically committing terrorist attacks and killing Chinese inside their own country. That's ju…
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Enjoyed listening to your show again. So let me let me just say this. The CIA is not supposed to be in charge of anything. They are supposed to be a subset of the executive office of the president. Number one. Number two, their appropriated…
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As we know, the last time that happened, the congressman was killed. So hold on just a second. There is a built-in disincentive for anyone in Congress, because the majority of them are compromised, to hold the CIA accountable because they t…
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or indefinite imprisonment, usually without trial. The operation committee scheduled at least one other meeting on the report, but it too was called off. Conyers said that after today's failure to gain a quorum, another try would be made to…
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I worked in the Pentagon on budgets for two years. And the way the process works is that the Congress, back then they actually did an appropriation and an authorization bill and passed a budget. Probably one of the last times they did it. B…
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is spent contractually. So if Congress tells the Air Force they have to buy 100 airplanes, they're buying 100 airplanes because Lockheed's going to be the next day at the door knocking, going, where's my contract? Where's my contract? Where…
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and by composing official communiques, which appeared to have originated from the GBN itself. This disinformation campaign led predisposed Americans to believe that the GBN was a legitimately elected representative government, which it was …
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By everyone, including they went in front of the U.S. Congress to explain how they were funding these park, what they call park rangers. But these were militants. I mean, they're in, these are not the way we think of them in the United Stat…
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and a convenient place to be able to threaten anybody that got out of line. So vice president, oh, I wanted to say this too. In an attempt, oh, hold on a second. So basically the United States provided the military junta with ample military…
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Remember what we did with the Contras. Congress says you're not allowed to give them anything because they're torturing and killing people. And so what our State Department, the CIA, did was set up Israel as the arms dealer and then was pay…
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military bases in Greece and then use those military bases to funnel weapons to the Greeks' government, of which they controlled because the guy running it was one of their agents, and they were funneling those weapons to him around Congres…
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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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And remember, this is the guy who talks about how charitable he is when he was 38 years old. He also had a huge leg up because of U.S. trade tariffs. He would constantly lobby Congress to continue the trade tariffs. These are what you call …
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But, yeah, that's exactly right. So it's not just philanthropy. It's about social climbing. It's where a lot of these backroom business deals are done. And as we've shown, some of these backroom business deals are also about who we're going…
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airport. Pastora's plane had been hangared there since 1983 under an arrangement worked out between the CIA pilot and the San Salvadorian Air Force. The C-47 was the first of many aircraft the Colombian trafficker would give to the Contras.…
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Congressional testimony confirmed. Chamorro gave the subcommittee a list of flights made by the C-47 to ferry arms into El Salvador and to Costa Rica. That was in a Senate subcommittee report. It went on to say between October 18th of 1984 …
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As the evidence of Contra drug dealing piled up and suspicions mounted, CIA and State Department officials immediately pointed to Pastora as the only drug dealer for the Contras, citing him as an example at how ridiculous were accusations t…
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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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can be seen as a means to legitimize state terrorism by denying any knowledge of the existing narco-military network. After being extradited to the U.S. on charges of drug trafficking in 2008, the former AUC leader, Salvador Mancuso, testif…
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to the paramilitary groups. These revelations led to what became known as the Parapolitica scandal, implicating Uribe's intelligence service chief, Jorge Nagara, with a recent sentence of 25 years for collaborating with paramilitary groups.…
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that this chemical weapon research would continue in government laboratories. The Office of National Drug Control Policy Reorganization Act of 1996 was passed through Congress, which required that this chemical substance be deployed to Colo…
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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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All of this information is known to government. Several of them, based on the regional area that they worked in, briefed Congress. They all know. There was a briefing to Lawton Childs, the guy that represented my area, that was the Florida …
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but the congressmen weren't interested in discussing educational campaigns or public service announcements. That wouldn't get any cocaine off the streets. What they wanted to know was this. What about the DEA's plan to ask Peruvian and Boli…
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They never came back to any of it. When the hearings resumed, the congressmen peppered the witnesses with such questions as whether they thought Hollywood cocaine use was just contributing to the deterioration of the quality of TV shows. If…
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Those are the kind of questions that the congressmen were interested in. Not another word was said about doing research or warning the public about the dangers. Beck left the hearing stunned. Nobody paid any attention. They listened to it a…
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hearing from our infamous Congress. Instead, Congress and the Carter administration did the exact opposite of what Beck advised. It embarked on an Andrian strategy advocated by DEA to wipe out the coca plant, a tactic that even its supporte…
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For 12 months, the Contras had staggered from one public relations disaster to another. There had been a major uproar in Congress in the spring of 84 when it was revealed that the CIA was running the Contra project and had seeded Nicaraguan…
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In the midst of Reagan's reelection campaign, an illustrated terrorism manual the CIA printed up for the boys in the field ended up in the newspaper, creating yet another public outcry and more congressional thumping. The hardest blow came …
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any CIA contra controversies before the election. The Democrat-controlled Congress succeeded in passing yet another Boland Amendment. Unlike the earlier one, though, this one had teeth. It prohibited the CIA, the Department of Defense, and …
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Reagan had gone so far during a speech as to compare them to the founding fathers of the American Revolution. They're terrorists. The FDN's only ray of hope was to withdraw from battle and lay low until spring, when Congress agreed to let t…
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was used at one time to run drugs, and part of the crew had criminal records. Nice group of boys chose Pat Foley as the owner of the Delaware-based company Summit Aviation, a longtime CIA and U.S. military contractor, often for clandestine …
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to the FDN. That came from a CIA inspector general's report as well. Quote, Oliver North also used Setco for airdrops of military supplies to Contra forces in Nicaragua, unquote. In fact, that appears to have been the reason behind all of t…
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So now think about this. And this is this is on purpose. I would venture to say that Oliver North was a CIA operative for a an extensive part of his military career. And they understand that putting someone in a Marine uniform on the stand …
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of their investigation. For the most part, the CIA reported any drug trafficking activity would have been stumbled upon in the course of the investigation over other issues like money laundering. So they knew that by sending it to Walsh tha…
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Also, given satellite photos and other intelligence data, the operation was codenamed Grand Eagle. Dr. Death, Weakley, was Gritz's right-hand man. In congressional testimony, Gritz said that Grand Eagle was officially shelved after a bureau…
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of DIA, Admiral Alan Paulson, confirmed to Congress that a Department of Defense organization proposed an operation using Mr. Gritz in a collection capacity, but Paulson said the operation was turned down at the first level of approval. The…