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Claims (159)
Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“They were just going to blame the failure on it if they couldn't get him baited in to send the military. The whole thing was planned. Nor did Dulles or Bissell share with Kennedy their other magic bullet for success in Cuba. The ongoing plo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 17:29
AMLAsh targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro documented
“Let me go on down here. There was the reporter that's interviewing him showed Jenkins a file of declassified cables, which is State Department messages, about the AMLASH, A-M-L-A-S-H affair, a notorious CIA plot to kill Castro in the early …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 38:16
Fidel Castro overthrew
Cuba book_quoted
“memorandum in late January could not have been reassuring to the secret warriors. The analysts judged that time, that time was not on Washington's side, that Castro had successfully consolidated his control over the entire island. Barely a …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 5:41
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista documented
“hospitable reception during his 11-day visit to the U.S. Fresh from his revolutionary victory on New Year's Eve, Fidel was still something of a political mystery to the Eisenhower administration. And the media embraced him as a silver-tongu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 2:33
Fidel Castro removed_from_power
Brigade 2506 documented
“closed in toward the shore with orders to take the survivors out. 22 more survived a sailboat odyssey to land in Mexico. The remnants of the Brigade 2506, including San Roman political advisor Roman Artine and Anito Oliva, who had been the …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 57:34
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro documented
“The official record notes the conclusion, quote, no course of action currently authorized by the United States government will be effective in reaching the agreed national goal of overthrowing the Castro regime, unquote. It was very interes…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 8:34
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“On March 15th, both options were outlined at the White House. JFK, to Schlesinger's mind, listened carefully, again rejecting Trinidad as a World War II assault operation. He ordered the Bay of Pigs plan to be reoriented for a night as oppo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 27:20
Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“Much more concrete was what occurred following Eisenhower's decision on August 18th. Deputy Director Richard Bissell called up Colonel Sheffield Edwards and asked him to drop by. Edwards, another of the ex-FBI folks at the agency, headed th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 47:56
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Fidel Castro documented
“barely tried to tell Cabell that everything was fine. But Cabell wanted to check with Secretary of State Dean Rust. Within a few minutes, McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rust, called in to report that the president had decided no further airstri…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 45:41
Fidel Castro carried_out_attack
Brigade 2506 documented
“was still in place off the beaches. That was when Castro's Air Force made its contribution. Two strikes at 6.30 and 9 a.m. Sea Flurry aircraft sank the ships Houston and the Rio Escondido. The former…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 49:32
CIA carried_out_attack
Fidel Castro documented
“It noted allegations of CIA assassination efforts against foreign politicians like Castro, Diem, Dominican dictator Trujillo. Kissinger flipped quickly through the pages, but slowed when he came to the part about assassinations. He stopped …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 38:04
Fidel Castro overthrew
Cuba host_asserted
“throughout Central and South America that was set up after Castro took over Cuba and stopped the drug trafficking from Cuba because that was their big port prior to that, has a CIA handler, or excuse me, an Israeli handler just like our Con…”
▶ Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian @ 59:23
George H.W. Bush alleged
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“They blamed Castro for harboring airplanes used for drug smuggling and alleged that there was a drug connection behind the 1985 assault on Columbia's Palace of Justice by M-19 guerrillas, in which 100 people were killed, including 12 Suprem…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 21:57
Fidel Castro removed_from_power
Freeport-McMoRan host_asserted
“In the 60s, you have Fidel Castro, who implemented a 25% ore tax, effectively nationalizing and seizing Freeport's nickel mining in Cuba. And let's see. Then it talked about them getting into the Indonesia mining. And it talks about…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:42:33
Fidel Castro removed_from_power
Freeport Sulphur book_quoted
“Freeport Sulphur began searching for new nickel deposits because they got kicked out of Cuba. And ironically enough, when Cuba nationalized the nickel refinery, they put Shea Cavera in charge of it. I got a chuckle out of that. Freeport lin…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 14:22
Movimiento C40 targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro caller_asserted
“Inside Cuba, there's a bunch of Cubans, more than 2 million Cubans, starting to defend the Constitution, starting to take some actions. So I'm not going to discuss right here, right now, but they are doing it. And I know they're going to ge…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 2:39:06
James Schlesinger ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“At last, William Colby proceeded with his briefing, then handed Kissinger a copy of the report. It contained allegations of CIA assassination efforts against such foreign political leaders as Castro, Diem in Vietnam, the Dominican dictator …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 25:58
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“This is what it read. My observations have increased my confidence in the ability of this force to accomplish not only initial combat missions, but also the ultimate objective, the overthrow of Castro. The brigade and battalion commanders n…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 36:51
James Jesus Angleton ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“the organized crime chief financial officer who had been forced to flee Havana ahead of Castro's revolutionaries, leaving behind the mafia's highly lucrative casino empire. Lansky was part of the Jewish mob, but had close business ties to t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 56:45
Cosa Nostra attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“and the mafia in the spy agency's attempt to use Costa Nostra members to assassinate Fidel Castro. So there you've got the narcos, the mafia, and the CIA all tied together. And the Murchison's factor really huge in Texas politics.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 1:07:35
Richard Helms ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Asked by Senator Charles McMatthias from Maryland whether an explicit presidential order to assassinate Castro was necessary. Helms was quoted as responding, I think any of us would have found it very difficult to discuss assassinations wit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:23:51
Richard Nixon spied_on
Fidel Castro documented
“To the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he did not meet Eisenhower, but spoke to State Department officials and with Vice President Richard Nixon, who thought Fidel sincere. But he reported, quote, he is either incredibly naive about …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 48:07
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista documented
“But Batista's corruption and oppression increasingly lost their support. Cubans flocked to Castro's July 26th movement by the droves. It had taken this name from the date of an unsuccessful revolt that Castro had once led. The M26 guerrilla…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 40:35
Fidel Castro founded
26th of July Movement documented
“But Batista's corruption and oppression increasingly lost their support. Cubans flocked to Castro's July 26th movement by the droves. It had taken this name from the date of an unsuccessful revolt that Castro had once led. The M26 guerrilla…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 40:35
Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro documented
“Now, six months later, Eisenhower approved measures that began a secret war. So again, Castro hasn't even been there very long at all, six months, and they've already declared war on him. The CIA already had an answer. In August of 59, disc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:01:45
Allen Dulles supplied_arms_to
Fidel Castro documented
“On November 24th, Alan Dulles saw the British ambassador and asked Great Britain to resist Cuban attempts to buy weapons, in particular, Hawker Hunter jets, then that was already under negotiations from the previous administration in Cuba. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:02:47
Christian Herter proposed
Fidel Castro documented
“Even though they're officially recognizing Castro's not a communist. As Cabell spoke on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Christian Harder put finishing touches on a paper he sent to Eisenhower. The memo proposed four measures on Cuba. These…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 59:48
Fidel Castro exposed
United States documented
“Flames quickly spread. All of the firefighters in Havana barely contained the blaze before it reached the nearby electric plant. More than 100 people were killed or injured. Castro immediately blamed this on Americans. Of course, Washington…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:07:06
J.C. King ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“dictatorship not be permitted to stand. The White House division chief advocated a range of actions, among them that, quote, thorough consideration be given to the elimination of Fidel Castro, which would greatly accelerate the fall of the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 3:24
Allen Dulles attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“not yet willing to go that far, crossed out King's word elimination, substituting it for removal from Cuba. I'm not sure what the difference is. I mean, I know what it is, but he doesn't want to actually come out and say, because they have …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 3:54
Juan Orta attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“1961. Oh, that's right. JFK is now president. By then, the plot had already failed. The mafia men in Havana, Juan Orta, director general of Castro's personal office, had been slated as the hitman to poison Castro. Orta had apparently gotten…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 57:57
Tony Verona attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“But Fidel fired him on January 26th after the CIA had no way to deliver the poison. Castro always seems to be one step ahead of these guys. Weird. Traficani briefly favored using a prominent exile identified as Tony Verona as the assassin. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 58:28
Rafael Trujillo attempted_coup_against
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Several contingents of these workers for the revolution made progress until Havana ordered them to substitute the different educational doctrine. That became the last straw for yet more Cubans. By the summer, opponents had began to coalesce…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 8:32
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista book_quoted
“A different story of the vendetta against Castro is told by the Cuban exiles themselves. For the most part, the exiles ardently believed, with some justification, that they created a resistance of which the CIA took advantage. As agency rep…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 7:09
Lino Fernandez spied_on
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“He passed along important intelligence that MRR agents acquired. Orjeda had to deal with another rebel commander, Prito, who insisted he had contact with the Americans and direct support from the CIA. Prito wanted to be taken to the rebels …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 13:32
Desmond Fitzgerald targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“The lawyers decided that if the project had been authorized by the president and attorney general, it would be legal. Now, Houston is the same guy that says no covert operations is legal. So just keep that in mind. The seashell plot never m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 8:36
Fidel Castro member_of
Castaño family host_asserted
“the leaders of the AUC. The Castanos were from an upper-middle-class land-owning family, the narco-elite. Offered their services, particularly in the area of intelligence, to the military battalion, Bombona, that operated in Segovia. Anothe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 34:45
Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Bilateral trade became one area where Eisenhower pretty much had his say. Eisenhower beamed at the performance of Bob Anderson, coordinator of US economic actions. In mid-March of 1960, the US revoked export licenses already issued for the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 2:19
Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Don't you love those memorialized memos? Kind of reminds you of the Obama administration. We did everything by the book. The next morning at the last Eisenhower-Kennedy meeting of the transition, Eisenhower turned Cuba. According to Clark C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 17:26
Frank Church exposed
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“uh senator church was um how he basically exposed everything from watergate to um guatemala yep uh to number of issues surrounding the bay of pigs the assassination attempts on castro to um i i i think he he helped expose um the chilean cou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 1:10:09
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“to make it impossible for the agency to construct another operation like the Bay of Pigs. He said something about setting up a special group on Cuba. Kennedy leaned forward in his chair, quote, what would you think if I ordered Castro to be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 13:14
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Kennedy said he had only been testing him. He felt the same way, but he had been under terrible pressure to go ahead and do just that. The US, the president said, morally must not be a party to assassinations. The reporter made no use of th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 13:46
Johnny Roselli attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“It also says that he worked with mob boss Johnny Roselli. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Roselli would later get implicated in trying to assassinate Castro in the late 60s. And then he would get assassinated right before he was going to testify …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:19:18
Maxwell D. Taylor ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Acting on specific instructions from Maxwell Taylor, the executive secretary of the special group asked Taylor's assistant to develop a contingency plan. What was wanted was a plan against the contingency that Castro would in some way or an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 36:46
Edward Lansdale ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“rears its ugly head again, the paper General Lansdale sent to his agency managers after the August 10th meeting assigned Bill Harvey to write a paper on the CIA's role, listing under the rubric of political, the aspect of splitting the regi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 13:55
Fidel Castro traded_network_to
United States documented
“as there had been on October 4th of mining Cuban harbors. McCone soon packed Bill Harvey off to the Rome station, getting him out of the line of fire. And we all know what he did there. All this time, the exiled prisoners from the Bay of Pi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 26:50
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“Pilot Francis Gary Powers negotiated the exchange. Final agreement on the prisoner trade was made on December 22, 1962. Altogether, 1,179 veterans of Brigade 2506 returned to the U.S. In a covert twist, CIA assassination plotters bought a s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 27:51
CIA Technical Services Division supplied_arms_to
Fidel Castro documented
“The Langley Technical Service Division scientists impregnated the suit with a fungus to trigger a skin disease, and the breathing apparatus had tuberculosis in it. The suit was carried to Donovan by an unwitting lawyer, John Nolan, who lear…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 28:21
John Nolan covered_up
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“a germ bag. Fortunately, the American lawyer, witting or not, took the precaution of replacing the diving suit with one he bought himself. Castro returned the prisoners, including 20 non-brigade CIA agents. So, if you think that these basta…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 29:14
Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“This was the moment to act if they were going to. The agency had completed more proposals for covert sabotage. Bobby Kennedy proposed the U.S. aim at ousting Castro, causing as much trouble as possible. The director of central intelligence …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 43:23
John McCone targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro documented
“This was the moment to act if they were going to. The agency had completed more proposals for covert sabotage. Bobby Kennedy proposed the U.S. aim at ousting Castro, causing as much trouble as possible. The director of central intelligence …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 43:23
Desmond Fitzgerald ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“On August 18 and 19, gunboats struck one of Cuba's oil facilities. Desmond Fitzgerald has specifically made Castilla one of the targets, which showed that they had the set of targets from the CIA that they were using for this supposed group…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 51:30
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“after which Tom Clines became Quintero's case officer. Shackley and Clines boss and headed up the CIA's Miami station after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was also involved in the CIA's use of mafia to try to assassinate Castro. Jenkins also …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:09:38
CIA carried_out_attack
Fidel Castro documented
“And this was a quote out of Encyclopedia Britannica. Early on the June 17th, 1972, police apprehended five burglars at the office of the D.C. Watergate complex. It was later claimed that they were looking for evidence of a Democratic ring o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 28:52
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“One plot envisioned radioactive chemicals sprinkled in Castro's shoes, presumably during a scheduled visit to Chile, which could cause his hair to fall out, robbing the image of his vitality. The CIA had agents on staff of a radio station o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 47:25
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“except they made it. Edwards next turned to the technical services brands for poison caplets, bacteria in liquid form. What he got would be solid white pills, but the support chief tested one. It lay inert at the bottom of the glass. That w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 56:55
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Desmond Fitzgerald's interpreter. Fitzgerald's field report and San Halpern agreed that they avoided any mention of the actual operation. Nevertheless, Rolando Cubala demanded equipment support and the CIA provided it. Scientists at Langley…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 13:30
CIA blamed
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“fake Cuban army people when they were actually CIA trained paramilitary Cuban exiles living in Miami and blame Castro for killing Americans so they could justify a full scale invasion into Cuba. That was presented to John F. Kennedy and he …”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 8:10
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“He had been given a contract for the shipping of the Gulf oil, and he was not under the CIA's control. So the only people that were allowed to do the shipping was people that were under the CIA's control for the Rockefeller people so that t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 28:11
CIA carried_out_attack
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“up until the new president comes in so that the new president is forced to go along with whatever operation that they're initiating. The Cuban exiles could establish a beachhead, declare a provincial government, then call for American help.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 5:01
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“who had installed the government that was allowing all of this debasing to go on, also was funding Castro. And they sent actual CIA paramilitary people into those mountains to arm them and to train them to be snipers. So when this revolutio…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 58:54
Dwight D. Eisenhower removed_from_power
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Because when he came to the United States, Eisenhower refused to see him and basically kind of just cut him off after that. Now, that may be a story that we were fed because it would make much more sense if the CIA aided and abetted him, se…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 1:00:07
Fidel Castro funded
Maurice Bishop documented
“The world was asked to believe that there was a major Cuban military presence in imminent control, in threat of taking over the country. Yet the Cubans in Grenada were unable to even save Maurice Bishop, who supposedly was the communist, so…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 38:25
Fidel Castro supplied_arms_to
Sandinistas host_asserted
“All remaining assistance ended in September and the Sandinistas further infuriated the State Department by denying that they served as an avenue for arms to the El Salvador rebels. Castro soon sent 2,000 teachers and doctors to Nicaragua af…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 1:04:48
Frank Church exposed
Fidel Castro documented
“We seem unable to learn about the failures of our Vietnam policy or the equally evident failure of our hardline policy with Castro in Cuba, Church told David Broder of the Washington Post. It is this idea that the communist threat is everyw…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 1:07:50
Ted Shackley carried_out_attack
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“He launched the reader into a systematic examination of what the old master, Alan W. Dulles, called the craft of intelligence, unquote. Let me tell you how this former CIA intelligence officer and trained analyst interprets the opening. The…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 9:57
Johnny Roselli spied_on
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“The manuscript of Mr. Roselli's testimony has been classified top secret, but a copy of it supposedly was examined by the Times. How's that happen? Mr. Roselli testified that he had told some people he believed that Fidel Castro was behind …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:05:45
Alpha 66 targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro guest_asserted
“2021. Joe Biden had just been inaugurated and my father who had, my grandmother was a political prisoner for nine years. She was caught smuggling guns to the rebels in the mountains to fight against Fidel Castro. She spent nine years in pri…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 1:29:26
Sam Giancana ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“And he ended up in Miami. And there was the recorded telephone call or the recorded meeting in the Miami hotels with the CIA and Ruby. But Giancano was actually the one that was put in charge of supposedly put in charge of finding the assas…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Turkistan @ 1:13:14
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“in the 18 months that separated the Bay of Pigs from the Cuban Missile Crisis. There were numerous attempts to infiltrate agents into Cuba. Most of them failed. There were several schemes aimed at assassinating Fidel Castro, and obviously t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 29:35
James Jesus Angleton ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“in the hands of government. Years later, when James Jesus Angleton and William Harvey, two legends of the counterintelligence, were searching for assassins to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, they sought the advice of Peter Wright, another B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 25:50
William Harvey ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“in the hands of government. Years later, when James Jesus Angleton and William Harvey, two legends of the counterintelligence, were searching for assassins to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, they sought the advice of Peter Wright, another B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 25:50
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“By 1963, the military and espionage officials in Kennedy's government were all too aware of their commander-in-chief dedication to peace, a growing commitment to detente with the communist world that, in the minds of the National Security H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 18:55
Alexander Haig involved_in_effort_to_remove
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Casey learned that Haig had played a key role in the early 1960s in the Kennedy administration's effort to remove Castro. While many in the Reagan administration were sympathetic with Haig's view on Castro, the idea of an invasion was off t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 30:36
Ted Shackley ran_programs_against
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“You know, lead them on, play them. It was in this area that Casey turned to Bush's off-the-books intelligence apparatus. After all, Shackley had run all of the anti-Castro programs for the Kennedys, and he still maintained a close relations…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 31:05
Fidel Castro targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba book_quoted
“and extracted 79 people. Early in 1961, Castro imported fast patrol boats and radars from Russia to stop those activities. Around December of 1960, Castro's FAR became actively involved in major counterinsurgency campaigns against the Escam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:50
Fidel Castro supplied_arms_to
Cuba book_quoted
“and extracted 79 people. Early in 1961, Castro imported fast patrol boats and radars from Russia to stop those activities. Around December of 1960, Castro's FAR became actively involved in major counterinsurgency campaigns against the Escam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 41:50
John McCone ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Far East was the largest because, you know, we're running a war in Vietnam and a drug empire. They had about 1,500. Africa was the smallest with 300. Apart from the CIA director's contingency fund, the director for operations spent almost 6…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 57:33
Operation Northwoods targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“So that they could blame the Cuban government, Castro, and then justify a full-scale army-led invasion into Cuba to kill Castro. Now, Castro didn't do a damn thing, okay? Castro had nothing to do with it. It would be 100% done by our govern…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:24:18
Fidel Castro targeted_for_regime_change
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“I started here because this, I could, I could have read some very similar story to what I just read that happened in Cuba when the OSS slash CIA went in to train Castro and Shea Cavera in the mountains of Cuba when they were preparing to ta…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior @ 1:01:44
Manuel Noriega spied_on
Fidel Castro documented
“had performed valuable work for the U.S. government in Central America during the 80s and should give him a break. Though federal prosecutors called him an international drug trafficker and money launderer of unequaled proportions, Winters …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 14:25
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista caller_asserted
“Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the beginning of the revolution. But we have records. We have, how can I put it? We have so much information that we have shared to leaders like Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez, Crook, Bob Menen…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:05:56
Fidel Castro paid
John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“to receive in his hotel room a mahogany box inlaid with a Cuban seal of their prized cigars. The note accompanying the cigars read, since I have no greeting card, I have to write. Since I have to write to an enemy is difficult. I limit myse…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 24:19
United States attempted_coup_against
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“who had promised to end the economic disparity between the Americas, we talked about him yesterday or the day before, met the man sworn to hold Goodwin to that promise. By the time the conference arrived, relations between the U.S. and Cuba…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 23:50
Richard Nixon spied_on
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“and afterwards wrote a confidential memorandum to the CIA, the State Department, and the White House, stating flatly that Castro was either a communist dupe or a disciple and should be treated accordingly. So that began the campaign against…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 7:13
Fidel Castro supplied_arms_to
Panama book_quoted
“Until 1959, Engel's outline had called for combating communism and subversion. But then the king of Iran was assassinated by an armored unit said to owe its fidelity to Nasser of Egypt. And more alarming was 200 men sent by Fidel Castro to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 35:24
Venceremos Brigade targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“was to overproduce sugar under the Castro regime. And by doing so, flooded the market, the world market with sugar, which drastically reduced the prices of sugar and almost collapsed Cuba's entire country because the reduction in the price …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:26:11
Robert Maheu attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Who's Robert Mayhew? We've talked about him a lot. He's the guy that was the right hand of Howard Hughes and was basically the CIA handler for Howard Hughes. He worked as the go-between between CIA, Mafia, and also attempted to use Costa No…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 51:16
CIA attempted_coup_against
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“And of course, we know the CIA director did not resign. And that's Alan Dulles. And he was directly tied to that because of the representation of United Fruit, who was behind instigating that CIA operation to overthrow the government of Gua…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA @ 39:07
Sam Giancana attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Roselli agreed to help for a fee of $150,000 and contacted Chicago Mafia boss, Sam Giacana, who made arrangements to have a poison pill to be able to kill Castro. That Richard Bissell was involved in a lot of the different outrageous things…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 38:35
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“And they had the elite landowners that had worked alongside the mafia and the CIA during the Batista regime. And when Castro overthrew it, they just exfiltrate them to the United States and they set them up primarily in New York and Miami i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 3 @ 58:02
Fidel Castro ousted
CIA host_asserted
“Concerns about the suppression of drug trade took second place to the Cold War. The rules of this intelligence game were the same in America's backyard, but only more so. One of the CIA's worst setbacks occurred in Cuba in the 1950s when Fi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 8:27
Fulgencio Batista overthrew
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“wearing chunky orthopedic shoes. He talks a lot about the glory days. I always wanted to fly, he said. He had made a decision as a young man to quit medical school and become a pilot in the Cuban Navy. That was under the rule of Batista, th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 31:36
Fidel Castro targeted_for_regime_change
United States documented
“that they would need to put up a $20,000 security deposit, which outraged Fidel Castro, insisting that his government did not have ready access to cash, announced that they would leave the hotel and pitch tents if necessary. Castro's 1960 t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 2:02
Allen Dulles spied_on
Fidel Castro documented
“from a vassal state of the U.S. into a sovereign nation. By early 1960, Dulles had resolved the debate within the intelligence agency over Castro's true identity. He declared he was a communist. That designation then meant he was a national…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 4:30
William Pawley ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“Pauly began lobbying the Eisenhower administration to take aggressive action against Castro when he was still fighting Batista soldiers in the mountains. After Fidel rode into Havana on a tank in January of 1959, Pauly, who was gripped by w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 5:30
Fidel Castro targeted_for_regime_change
United States documented
“He ended his speech with a declaration that became a ringing slogan of the Cuban Revolution. Motherland or death, we shall win. Determined that Cuba would not become another Guatemala, Castro turned to the Soviet Union for economic and mili…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 8:35
Malcolm X recruited
Fidel Castro documented
“incapable of providing hospitality to world leaders, Castro fumed, perhaps the UN should be moved. But then Castro turned his humiliation into a propaganda triumph. And I'm sure this left all of them seething. As the Cuban delegation was pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 10:33
Love B. Woods funded
Fidel Castro documented
“But Woods, an elderly man who had grown up in Jim Crow, South Carolina, knew what it was like to be denied a roof over your head. Woods stood his ground and opened the doors of Harlem's finest hotel to the Castro delegation. Quote, we don't…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 12:23
Conrad Lynn funded
Fidel Castro documented
“Knowing that Woods might have trouble cashing the Cuban's check because of rising political tension between the two countries, a Harlem attorney by the name of Conrad Lin arranged to have a local gambling kingpin put up $1,000 in cash to co…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 12:51
Fidel Castro spied_on
Malcolm X documented
“which accelerated after his split with the Nation of Islam in 1964 made him increasingly dangerous. And Corey, among others, was convinced that it led to his assassination in 1965. In 1960, Malcolm was the target of an intensive FBI surveil…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 24:00
Robert Maheu ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro documented
“like it was a tortured process, but it actually sounded like a relative no-brainer for the security contractor. The CIA had made Robert Mayhew. He owed everything he had to the agency, even the stereo system. He wasn't about to give it all …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 27:15
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro documented
“by Nixon's soft-on-global communists, carved out a position on Cuba that was even more militant than the Republican candidate, declaring that Castro had betrayed the ideals of the Cuban Revolution and called his regime a communist menace th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 31:05
C. Wright Mills spied_on
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“The Fair Play for Cuba Committee, FPCC, organized a party in his honor at the hotel's ballroom. Among the guests was Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, and C. Wright Mills, whose own impassioned defense of the Cuban Revolution, Listen Yankee,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 20:41
Robert Taber spied_on
Fidel Castro documented
“the first African-American reporter for CBS News, who had scored an exclusive interview with Castro when he was still fighting in the mountains, stirred liberal circles by purchasing a full-page ad in the New York Times that passionately en…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 19:51
John F. Kennedy supported
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“where Kennedy was joined on the platform by a formidable supporting cast of Democrat dignitaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman Powell. The presidential contender sounded more like a supporter of the bearded revolutionary in w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 32:55
Fidel Castro ordered_assassination_of
Angola book_quoted
“established that Fidel Castro decided to commit combat troops to Angola on November 4th, the same day Havana had sent hundreds of heavy weapon experts to Angola. Kissinger both greatly exaggerated the pace and timing of the Cuban commitment…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:06:27
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“rose up and overthrew Batista. And you have yet again, and believe me, I am not a Castro apologist, but the United States actually aided and trained and set up Gladio training camps to teach people, to include Che Guevara, how to fight in t…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 55:48
Felix Rodriguez attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“That was a death squad. They killed people in multiple places. If you look up his history, Felix Rodriguez, he was in Vietnam. He was in Honduras. He did multiple runs on Cuba trying to assassinate Castro for the CIA.…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 1:26:53
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro guest_asserted
“the idea is that there was a pre-existing operation with that involved the cia working with cuban exiles to try to kill fidel castro…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 48:12
Operation Northwoods framed
Fidel Castro documented
“dress them up in Castro uniforms, have them go do bombings, just like we were talking about in Italy, killing people, blaming Castro and then justifying a full scale military invasion of Cuba in order to overthrow Castro.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 27:23
Fidel Castro member_of
Fair Play for Cuba Committee documented
“The Fair Play for Cuba Committee, FPCC, organized a party in his honor at the hotel's ballroom. Among the guests was Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, and C. Wright Mills, whose own impassioned defense of the Cuban Revolution, Listen Yankee,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 20:41
Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“But not as many as his biographer have written. His daughter said today she said that her father was not involved in Operation Mongoose, an intelligence operation said to have been ordered by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to assassinat…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 35:44
Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“the tip of the iceberg. If they come out, blood will flow, Kissinger said. The National Security Advisor added that Richard Helms had confirmed the worst. In a veiled reference to Operation Mongoose and the plotting against Castro, Kissinge…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 40:37
John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Castro's rule, and even today, Marxism and Leninism are tied together, but I never saw anything that Castro did or anybody who's leading Cuba today to move towards communism. So I'm not saying, and I don't think this book is saying that Cas…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:11:59
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“There were no missiles, nor were there Soviet defectors. And the raiders themselves all disappeared into Castro's security net. Years later, two of the mercenaries who had slithered through Miami's anti-Castro underground in the early 60s c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 26:28
John F. Kennedy removed_from_power
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“They were busily engaged in saving face for the Soviets and making concessions, giving up junipers deployed overseas when all we had to do was write our own ticket. In other words, kill a whole bunch of people. That's their ticket. By sprin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 21:54
William P. Bundy attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“There were no missiles, nor were there Soviet defectors. And the raiders themselves all disappeared into Castro's security net. Years later, two of the mercenaries who had slithered through Miami's anti-Castro underground in the early 60s c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 26:28
John F. Kennedy feared
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“counterterror inflicted by professionally trained paramilitary units dates from that visit, which reflected the Kennedy's administration desire to move away from that. Fearing that Castro might soon try to establish a brand of revolutionary…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 34:27
CIA trained
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Several Iranians who had been on the CIA's payroll in the United States joined his staff in France. They're plotting as part of his staff, this is the CIA, for him to come back to Iran. And you remember what we discovered like in Cuba with …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 36:14
Fidel Castro recruited
Bombona Battalion host_asserted
“the leaders of the AUC. The Castanos were from an upper-middle-class land-owning family, the narco-elite. Offered their services, particularly in the area of intelligence, to the military battalion, Bombona, that operated in Segovia. Anothe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 34:45
Fidel Castro targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba host_asserted
“At some point, the United States cuts Cuba off because he's cutting off U.S. companies. And then they're isolated. They naturally go to the Soviet Union because it was the only other major weapons producer or trading partner because they ha…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 57:44
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“when he was questioned about the assassination of President Kennedy. The CIA may have been involved, according to one theory, because it feared further damaging revelations about its mafia connections. The Cuban agents may have been involve…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:00:45
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“the tip of the iceberg. If they come out, blood will flow, Kissinger said. The National Security Advisor added that Richard Helms had confirmed the worst. In a veiled reference to Operation Mongoose and the plotting against Castro, Kissinge…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 40:37
Carl Elmer Jenkins trained
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Graphic Interpretation Center supported Jenkins on the plan to assassinate Castro at the DuPont Beach estate east of Havana. Castro was known to go there, and they had pre-positioned a high-powered rifle that was going to be used in the att…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 47:47
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“the land away from their rightful owners under a corrupt Batista government. I mean, that was what brought the entire revolution. And the people that initially supported Castro, who apparently after he got in power, like many people who get…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:00:42
CIA trained
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“In the 40s and early 50s? I have never seen any evidence that he was on the payroll. What I have seen is that the CIA had agents in the hills, in the mountains, in Cuba, training both Castro and his brother and Che Guevara.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:53:33
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“And so basically they spent the next whatever it is, 60 years trying to kill him before he eventually died. So it does appear that something very similar to that happened with Gaddafi in that he very much was happy to have the help, even if…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya @ 22:09
CIA trained
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Literally CIA agents went into the mountains and trained the Castro brothers along with Che Cabrera as the revolutionary forces…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 26:29
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“This book shows how in the last half century, the United States has helped to centralize and militarize the class conflict. And above all, how cocaine has come to play a central role in financing the oppression. American involvement in Colo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 5:50
Fidel Castro spied_on
CIA book_quoted
“there was a French journalist sitting with Castro when he got the news. He was a peace emissary from Kennedy. So Castro's exact words at the moment he found out Kennedy was assassinated, this is bad news. Everything has changed. Castro imme…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 25 @ 33:21
John McCone ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Meanwhile, Washington's belly thumping culminated in a series of meetings in the Joint Chiefs of Staff Operations Room on August 8th and 9th and at the State Department on August 10th. At the last of these, McComb recollected in 1967 that C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 12:40
Fidel Castro attempted_assassination_of
Antonio Boscara host_asserted
“fought to repel them, taking reconnaissance photos of Castro's training site in Mexico and supporting counterintelligence operations when the rebels landed into Cuba in 1956 and set up guerrilla strongholds in the mountains. Vazcarro flew t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 32:01
Ian Fleming proposed
Fidel Castro documented
“The star attraction was the Englishman, former spy and author of the James Bond thriller, Ian Fleming. Asked about Castro, Fleming ruminated that what he would do would be discredit the Cuban leader, subject him to ridicule, harping on Cuba…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 45:24
Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“and confirmed that they intended to do so. The State Department, Robert Hurwicz, Assistant for Cuban Affairs, wanted exiled pilots to bomb the missiles using unmarked planes, ostensibly trying to attack oil refineries. Bobby himself, accord…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 22:01
CIA funded
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Castro getting his intel to fight Batista, was he getting that from the CIA too? Yes. Playing both sides? Okay. So, yeah, during the Cuban Revolution, the CIA was funding both sides. They thought they could get, they knew Batista was out. B…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:18:35
CIA trained
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Castro, Raul and Che Guevara all were trained in the mountains by CIA people. When Castro won the revolution in the hotel where he originally set up his soon to be administration on the same floor was his CIA handler.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:19:34
Fidel Castro ordered_assassination_of
Huber Matos book_quoted
“But the Fidelist broke it up. They purged the army of all former Batista elements. Actually, I don't know why they didn't do that to begin with, but whatever. The October featured the Red Terror. It progressed with Havana ordering the arres…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 9:04
Fidel Castro succeeded
Fulgencio Batista caller_asserted
“from the point of view of legality, constitutionally, and all of that, that Castro pretty much didn't make a revolution. Castro pretty much is a continuation of the military coup provided by Batista. So there was no revolution. That was a s…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 1:20:09
Richard M. Bissell Jr. ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“He could foresee that there would occur a time beyond which covert intervention would no longer be feasible. The group also mulled over assassinating Castro, though for security or because he did not know or for other reasons, General Cabel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 53:26
Operation Gladio attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“So I'm just going to leave that at that. And I believe that there is going to be something that follows. Go ahead, Jeff. Thank you, Colonel. I appreciate that. I do believe it will happen again, considering there was 250 attempts on Fidel C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Trump assassination attempt @ 47:26
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro book_quoted
“Successfully overthrow Castro because of his control over his armed forces and the country in general, unless you had an invading force backed up by intervention of U.S. forces, unquote. JFK received the O&E estimate judging time to be on C…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 9:04
Fidel Castro member_of
Operation Gladio caller_asserted
“An operative from CIA into Gladio operation and Castro did too. Castro was also part of the killing of one of the, in Colombia, people know the event in 1947, I think it was. People know the event at the Bocotazo. Okay. But also Castro took…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 1:44:52
Fidel Castro front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Yeah, the only one that they weren't able to get rid of was Castro. And I still find that amazing. I've not ruled out the fact that that was kind of a side deal. Because like I told you, Castro gave the US government the justification to us…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:48:44
Fidel Castro carried_out_attack
Carlos Prío Socarrás caller_asserted
“An operative from CIA into Gladio operation and Castro did too. Castro was also part of the killing of one of the, in Colombia, people know the event in 1947, I think it was. People know the event at the Bocotazo. Okay. But also Castro took…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 1:44:52
CIA trained
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“That's why when you write these books and you don't understand Operation Gladio, you say stupid things like that. Then his assertion is that because of lack of human intelligence, we didn't see the revolution coming. That's horseshit. Not o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 29:31
CIA embedded_with
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“That's what you get for your investment in intelligence. Despite the fact that we already have documented evidence that the CIA was embedded in the mountains with the Castro and Che Guevara. Eisenhower's mind influenced by Florida businessm…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 32:33
CIA supplied_arms_to
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“And unfortunately for them, they didn't get much better with Omar Gaddafi. I just think they thought they were going to get better. And that that happened a couple of different times where they I mean, it happened with Cuba. Right. They tra…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya @ 20:51
Fidel Castro covered_up
Camillo Cienfuegos book_quoted
“as well as some revolutionary leaders like Huber Matos, now accused of fomenting a revolt against Castro. Days later came the death of another admired comandante, Camillo Cienfrutos, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances after arre…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 9:32
CIA trained
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“Every single one of those countries, and you read every single time, we did it because of Castro. We did it because of Castro. You're like, damn, that's awful convenient that you had a Castro. So, and we do know that the CIA helped, and thi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 1:03:52
John F. Kennedy traded_network_to
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“He was talking behind the scenes at peace with Fidel Castro. Well, that would have fucked up the entire CIA at that point. So he even just one screw up like a Linde saying, I want my copper mine back is enough to get him dead. He just wante…”
▶ Operation Gladio Indonesia Part 5 @ 1:28:39
John F. Kennedy attempted_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“conflict the whole or de-escalate the whole bullshit going on with trying to assassinate him every five minutes. And that totally pissed off Alan Dulles. So there was like probably anywhere from five to 10 different foreign policy things th…”
▶ Operation Gladio -France Part 2 @ 1:53:23
Fidel Castro overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“Castro was too hard of a nut to crack, but that didn't stop them from them training Castro and his rebels and them overthrowing the government. Now, once they figured out that they couldn't co-opt Castro, they set about attacking him. Right…”
▶ X SPACES Éire Community-Operation Gladio, Colonel Towner Watkins @ 1:53:25
Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“All of the ambassadors are going to not want a Castro because the ambassadors actually represent the international syndicate, not us. The station warned of Batista's vulnerability, even as the CIA tried its 11th hour efforts. On December 23…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 37:31
Fidel Castro carried_out_attack
Cuba speculative
“not to have any kind of buoyancy at all or any kind of thermal protection at all when I'm in the Caribbean. But that being said, and they call it a breathing device. It's not a breathing device. It's called a regulator. You can't put a viru…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 1:08:46
United States installed
Fidel Castro host_asserted
“and still acting as if he approaches, you know? I don't know. There's no reason for Castro to gain power so easily in Cuba. And it was because Batista didn't have any longer support from the United States and had to go. But then they put in…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:26:06
John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of
Fidel Castro speculative
“Sheffield Edwards rejected Bobby's demand for a written report. That wasn't CIA's practice for sensitive operations. Yeah, we don't want to put that in writing because then maybe we would be held accountable at some point. Did the Kennedys …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 40:12
Fidel Castro funded
William Schergales speculative
“One asserted that the Castro government had hired them. The story could have been true or not, but probably not, because it was later indicated that they had some fairly sketchy backgrounds, but that was going to be their cover story, that …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:06:03
Fidel Castro member_of
Students for a Democratic Society host_asserted
“were soon to make their impact on history. A young Fidel Castro and Shea Cavera poured over the book in the Sierra Matras mailbox, and at home, Tom Hayden drew heavily on Mills' writing for the Fort Huron Statement, the manifesto of the eme…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8(b) @ 31:32
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▶ 59:23
throughout Central and South America that was set up after Castro took over Cuba and stopped the drug trafficking from Cuba because that was their big port prior to that, has a CIA handler, or excuse me, an Israeli handler just like our Con…
▶ 1:06:00
There were remnants of that affiliation when he's down in Miami, which was the case in Felix Rodriguez and all of them. Felix Rodriguez's family was very well off because they were part of the Batista Mafia Association in Cuba. He went to a…
▶ 1:07:20
were paid to be basically the plantation overseers or the director of transportation or the director of this school versus that school. And those people were their minions on the ground for all of the oligarchs in the United States that bas…
▶ 26:00
The way to us in America, the way they really are on the ground, wherever they're at. And there's no better illustration of that than the Cuban exiles. For us, we have always been told that the Cuban exiles were people, poor people that wer…
▶ 26:29
For the majority of the Cuban exiles, that is absolutely a fable. The CIA installed Batista in Cuba and they also went into the mountains. Literally CIA agents went into the mountains and trained the Castro brothers along with Che Cabrera a…
▶ 28:22
In Cuba or Chile or wherever they install these dictators. And so in light of that, the Cuban exiles are primarily those elite that got displaced when Castro came to power. They were not the poor peasants. They're all still there. Nobody he…
▶ 45:22
pro castro guys handing out fair play for cuba materials um and then but privately when when we look at witness statements of who he was hanging out with he's he's hanging out with these pro castro people right and uh the counterpoint from …
▶ 46:09
I forget the exact organization, but they were basically a group that that funded they got funds from the CIA to to, you know, support fighting against Castro. And the main thing Oswald's doing in the summer of 1963 is he's handed he's work…
▶ 48:12
one of the leading theories let's say about about what happened and i don't want to speak out of turn and i'm not just to be clear like i don't have the receipts for this yet i will next season but i don't i don't have the receipts for this…
▶ 58:52
to recognize Sukarno in a partnership. Well, if that happens, they can't overthrow Sukarno. They will not have the support internal to Indonesia. And the CIA is dead set on making sure that trip never happens. So you have Indonesia. Then yo…
▶ 59:22
business with Cuba, okay? That pissed off everybody. As much as they think that they want, they did not want it under Castro because they didn't control Castro. So that was not going to be allowed to happen. He used a couple of people. He u…
▶ 59:47
He's a skull and bones. He's toes so deep state. It's not even funny. And these are the guys that would have been working with Alan Dulles behind the scenes to out JFK fact that he's trying to undermine their rifle operation to overthrow Ca…
▶ 8:10
fake Cuban army people when they were actually CIA trained paramilitary Cuban exiles living in Miami and blame Castro for killing Americans so they could justify a full scale invasion into Cuba. That was presented to John F. Kennedy and he …
▶ 56:01
ground invasion into Cuba. Because for those of you who don't know, Cuba was being used as a processing place for the CIA drug trafficking out of the Golden Triangle through either the Corsican Mafia in France or the Sicilian Mafia in Sicil…
▶ 1:22:30
Jose Rayol Verona Gonzalez, a Cuban exile and intelligence officer for Brigade 2506. You know, Felix Rodriguez's hangout. He was part of the ultra-secretive Operation 40, a CIA counterintelligence unit of exiles tasked with assassinations.…
▶ 1:23:28
informed by his CIA handler that he was given the assignment to fly Raul Castro back from Prague. CIA headquarters approved a plot offering Martinez money to sabotage the flight and cause a fatal accident. He later got cold feet and withdre…
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rose up and overthrew Batista. And you have yet again, and believe me, I am not a Castro apologist, but the United States actually aided and trained and set up Gladio training camps to teach people, to include Che Guevara, how to fight in t…
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And because they wanted to play both sides, they were helping Batista and they were helping Castro so they could control the aftermath. As a result of that, Castro was not going to be dictated to. And he did the same thing that they did in …
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come to America, they all said that they supported him during the revolution because there was so much corruption going on down there. And in the aftermath of that, he instituted land reform because the same company that had bought up all t…
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giving the land back to the people and limiting the size of what can be foreign owned, you know, kind of like what we're doing here. We all want China not to own our farmland. Well, guess what? That's all Castro did. Castro said he didn't w…
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At some point, the United States cuts Cuba off because he's cutting off U.S. companies. And then they're isolated. They naturally go to the Soviet Union because it was the only other major weapons producer or trading partner because they ha…
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That was a death squad. They killed people in multiple places. If you look up his history, Felix Rodriguez, he was in Vietnam. He was in Honduras. He did multiple runs on Cuba trying to assassinate Castro for the CIA.…
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And so what happens is most of the people, at least in the Cuban exile community, were from that elite group. They came specifically to Miami for a reason. They were going to work with the CIA because the CIA actually funded and equipped an…
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using Gladio operations throughout Central and South America. Those are just facts. And both things can be true at the same time. Word also had it that he had gone mad and was confined to an insane asylum or that he was imprisoned or execut…
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What is clear is it was a huge case of overkill based on, but not for them. Because keep in mind, you would have thought that, I don't know, 70 some missions to try to kill Castro was overkill too for a little island in the middle of the Ca…
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Whatever label, there was indeed a fresh political conflict in Bolivia. Two weeks later, it erupted into a military revolt. General Ovando was out and General Torres was in. Ovando had lasted one year. Juan Jose Torres, 10 months in office,…
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Bowing to the United States' wishes, the Labour Party ruled out early independence for the British Guyana and was going ahead with the proportional representation elections. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, it was reported, had left the new Br…
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You know how we keep saying that in this chaos and control game that they play, that they create the chaos to implement the control. And in order to play this game, they have to have the proverbial boogeyman. Well, we've already done Cuba, …
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And I had always thought that that was done. And I said it in the presentation that they were just hedging their bet. Right. So they're going to support Batista, which they did. And they installed Batista. And that understanding that the re…
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aiding and abetting both Che Guevara and Castro was to install Castro in Cuba so that they could use Castro as the boogeyman to overthrow all the rest of the governments. Because if they cut off, he's now the Soviet representative in the We…
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It has been the gift that kept giving. In every single one of these overthrows, it is Castro's Cuba that keeps getting used over and over and over again to murder massive amounts of people and implement control and chaos. So that was kind o…
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Yeah, I just wanted to ask about if you can, maybe it's a bit off topic, but you mentioned Castro. I read a lot about what went on there and so on. Can you tell us a bit more, maybe not today, but another day about that? Because I want to u…
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who had installed the government that was allowing all of this debasing to go on, also was funding Castro. And they sent actual CIA paramilitary people into those mountains to arm them and to train them to be snipers. So when this revolutio…
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and Che Calvera, who was fighting with them, overthrew the Batista government. Castro came to Washington, D.C. He was one of them. In the hotel where Castro was living when he initially took over, there was a CIA agent on the same floor in …
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That was kind of like his go-between, if you will. So he very much was aided and abetted by the CIA in the takeover of Cuba. Now, I had always thought that he had refused to go along with some of their dictates, and that's what got him off …
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Because when he came to the United States, Eisenhower refused to see him and basically kind of just cut him off after that. Now, that may be a story that we were fed because it would make much more sense if the CIA aided and abetted him, se…
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Because each and every time when they went to Guatemala, when they went to Nicaragua, when they went to Panama, when they went to Chile, when they went to, it was always Castro. We have to avoid having another Castro. Guyana, same thing. Ev…
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or we can defeat Castro in power. We first need to understand exactly, historically, legally, constitutionally, what was going on in Cuba, how the things were done. But also in the middle of that, we found all this information and we starte…
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from the point of view of legality, constitutionally, and all of that, that Castro pretty much didn't make a revolution. Castro pretty much is a continuation of the military coup provided by Batista. So there was no revolution. That was a s…
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I really appreciate what you're doing because that makes it a little easier for us to put everything together and continue explaining these things. How Cubans have been playing fool with all the craziness created by Castro and CIA and all o…
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inside Cuba, how to recover from disaster, restoring, fully restoring the Constitution. The Constitution has not been suspended. It's suspended. It's not being used, but it's there. It's the Jewish Constitution. But in the middle of that, w…
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Castro has added on top of all of this a lot of false narrative. Everything is being manipulated, not well understood. And what really is catching my attention is at least, guys, for you here in the USA, regular citizen people are now openi…
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had been Bulgaria's involvement in the training of quote-unquote terrorists in Angola, Cuba, Nicaragua, Yemen, and Tanzania. Now, keep in mind, this is the U.S.'s definition of terrorists because they funded the people that even our State D…
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Everybody's talking about the fact that she's a communist. We know that the CIA ran everything they had at Castro. Right. And we know that she was part of the organization that put the.…
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And so not only did it help starve Cubans, but it decreased the sugar price, which meant that the money that had been put in there, they got pennies on the dollar for it because it depressed the entire international sugar. So they actually …
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That's so true what you said about Meyer Lansky and his involvement with Copacabana in Cuba with the Riviera Hotel before Fidel Castro took over in 59. Santo Traficante was the main black, dark intelligence figure of the mafia in that era. …
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We are, for a long time, more than six decades, with Batiste and with Fidel Castro, they've broken all of us. Sorry. That's okay. Go ahead. You know, I never find somebody that's talking about what happened in my country and in another coun…
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what happened and please don't leave I live right now in America I was living in Germany and I know what is free what is liberty and what is to respect the constitution what they was doing in my country for a long time Fidel Castro was…
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So you also had exiles that had fled to Guatemala and New Orleans and Miami. I'm sure that's a coincidence, though. And in 1949, as people are getting tired of him, there is an invasion not unlike the one, the several that happened for Cuba…
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to the Soviet Union for help. But it is interesting that at one point, apparently he did reach out just before he was assassinated to the Soviet Union and legalized the Communist Party in the Dominican Republic. I'm sure that had nothing to…
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When you tell a foreign country who they can and can't have as a president and you assassinate anybody that they want as their president that is actually elected, it makes people a little radical. That obviously is newsflash to them. And in…
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So the decision to get rid of Trujillo was reinforced in 1960 when the U.S. sought to organize opposition to the Castro regime. And it was noticed by everyone that the U.S. would only oppose leftist governments and not equally tyrannical go…
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Eisenhower was led to observe that, quote, it's certain that American public opinion won't contend Castro until we have moved against Trujillo, unquote. So you see how they're setting their ducks up. The President Eisenhower's belief that i…
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right-wing dictators in Guatemala, Nicaragua, I mean, they installed them, Haiti, and elsewhere before and after Trujillo's assassination. Yet the American public readily fell in line in condemning Castro as a result supposedly of them havi…
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spies on their own government. And then at the right time, they will use those people. They install them. And that's what just happened in Niger. So it's still going on. So anyway, there was some requirements that the U.S. had as far as who…
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And it is assumed at that point is when he was sent to the terror training camp because he comes back, finishes high school. Then he goes to begin overthrowing Castro as a sniper. So he had to learn how to shoot somewhere. And it's not a co…
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a continuation of Trujillo regime or a Castro regime. We ought to aim at the first, but we really can't renounce the second until we are sure we can't avoid the third. Rafael Trujillo Jr. was clearly not ideal. Besides bearing an inescapabl…
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Fiat was inescapable, a highly condescending intrusion into the affairs of a sovereign nation. His instructions extended down to the level of what the loser should say in his concession speech. Further, under the emergency law of the U.S. a…
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what they wanted to do in Algeria. And there was like one after another, after another of these foreign policies that JFK wanted to do to include what was going on in South America and Central America. And every single one of them, he actua…
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And the freedom fighters, like in the case of Nicaragua, when they eventually were able to overthrow. And then you had El Salvador. So there has been hiccups. And then Castro threw a monkey wrench. They couldn't get rid of Assad. So they ca…
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The world was asked to believe that there was a major Cuban military presence in imminent control, in threat of taking over the country. Yet the Cubans in Grenada were unable to even save Maurice Bishop, who supposedly was the communist, so…
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The Cuban government had expressed in no uncertain terms its distaste for the military revolutionary council, which is what overthrew Bishop. Before the U.S. invasion, Castro had blamed Bishop's death on grave errors by extremists. Yeah, li…
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power in March of 1979 by ousting the Eric Gary guy that was illegally elected in a bloodless coup. Bishop, on the other hand, was a London educated lawyer. And see, that's kind of weird to me. And you see that in many of these cases where …
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the story about Cuba. We've went over it, right? That the CIA trained and backed Castro, but when Castro decided he was not going to allow the CIA to run his government and it become a drug haven again, he was thrown out with the bathwater.…
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Ordered to march in front of American Jeeps as they advanced on Cuban positions, which is a violation. They basically were using them as human shields, which is a violation of the Geneva Convention. And promises of all kinds were made to th…
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A man who only a year earlier had declared, I still think capitalism as it's carried out is a sin. Or the Fidel Castro in Cuba, who could not be controlled. The atrocities of the Haitian government were simply trotted out by President Clint…
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If you go back and you do your actual history on Cuba, the CIA trained Castro's army, the rebels, and we paid for that. And then those people that fought for him that didn't like the fact that he wasn't going to go along and be another stoo…
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leadership in all of these countries in order to be able to so even the good guys turn bad and they are co-opted just like what happened with Castro eventually he takes on all of the dressings of a communist because he has been radicalized …
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Let me go on down here. There was the reporter that's interviewing him showed Jenkins a file of declassified cables, which is State Department messages, about the AMLASH, A-M-L-A-S-H affair, a notorious CIA plot to kill Castro in the early …
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whose disclosure led to fundamental changes in the CIA. The revelation of Am's Lash plot in 1976 report of Senate investigators proved to be a pivotal moment in CIA history. Coming directly after the Watergate scandal, the disclosures that …
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CIA guy. With the paper trail in front of him, Jenkins recalled the plot to kill Castro in fine detail, laying to rest any lingering historical controversy about who actually orchestrated the conspiracy to end the life of the Cuban communis…
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He says Richard Helms, the CIA director with a reputation for keeping the darkest secrets, insisted in his memoir and on Capitol Hill that AMLASH operation was playing at tilting the domestic politics in Cuba by fomenting political oppositi…
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telling a bold-faced lie. Because this guy, as crazy as he is, is actually saying, yes, we tried to kill him. And we tried multiple times to try to kill him. So the reporter says, was Amlash an assassination operation? Jenkins immediately s…
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in a Havana nightclub. Two men in the crowd pulled out pistols and shot Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico, the chief of the Cuban military intelligence services, dead. One of the gunmen, Rolando Cubela, C-U-B-E-L-A, was a medical student at the U…
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And Pubella had not liked what Cuba, he didn't like the fact that Castro had to reach out to the Soviet Union. They always anticipated staying tethered to the United States.…
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Cuba, a lot of the people that was with Castro, they still envisioned themselves tethered to the United States. So when Castro got cut off by the United States because he wouldn't bend to their will, not because he was communist at that tim…
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the Cubela guy. So CIA men who knew Cubela's armed exploits targeted him for recruitment under the code name Amlash. Let's see. Helms sent an up-and-coming CIA direct officer, Nestor Sanchez, to Brazil to take over the handling of Cubela be…
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He continued to have personal access to Castro, though. Sanchez was handling a poison pen to Kubela in a CIA safe house in Paris on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated. Sanchez, who would go on to hold senior positions in the C…
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Graphic Interpretation Center supported Jenkins on the plan to assassinate Castro at the DuPont Beach estate east of Havana. Castro was known to go there, and they had pre-positioned a high-powered rifle that was going to be used in the att…
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It gets done. I'm not sure exactly. I think his partner did most of it because he was busy training Gladio killers. But they give contracts to Otto Skorzeny and his partner, and they are basically building U.S. bases in Spain all over. The …
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first-person account of supplying murder weapons, corroboration of CIA files, and basically just saying Helms lied to Congress, that they absolutely amlashed, was an assassination conspiracy of many different facets to kill Castro, despite …
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had spent his entire career badmouthing the U.S. for their imperialistic leanings and practices. And that kind of is what made him popular among the people in his country. And he talked to Fidel Castro. He was not a communist, but he talked…
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was not likely to take orders from Moscow or Havana, and that plotting against him would be repeating the errors made in 59 and 60 when we drove Fidel Castro into the Soviet camp, because Castro was never a communist either. Assistant Secre…
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A gun that Fidel Castro had given him that had been inscribed, Alente called them briefly together and told them that he had resolved to die at the nation's capital if necessary, and he was deploying them around the building. Soon after, Al…
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In the 60s, you have Fidel Castro, who implemented a 25% ore tax, effectively nationalizing and seizing Freeport's nickel mining in Cuba. And let's see. Then it talked about them getting into the Indonesia mining. And it talks about…
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that Rockefeller interests or persons in the Dutch government were already aware of the correct version of Dossi's gold discovery merely highlights the concerted policy of concealment. Yet Freeport persistently says they were not aware of t…
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reporters that it would be hard for me to believe that because JFK and almost every case in foreign policy whether it was Indonesia whether it was Israel whether it was South Africa whether it was Angola whether it was Algeria whether it wa…
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Operation Northwood was a document that is declassified several pages. And what it does is it is a laundry list of terrorist operations to be conducted inside the United States, killing American citizens and blaming Castro. It articulates t…
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Operation Northwood was to take some of the Cuban train CIA train Cuban exiles in Miami, dress them up in Castro uniforms, have them go do bombings, just like we were talking about in Italy, killing people, blaming Castro and then justifyin…
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Thank you. Sorry if I myself was doing things. I just have a question. I wanted to see what your thoughts are. And I know communism and all this fascism has been around for quite a long time. But now that it's coming to Mexico openly becaus…
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that the Cuban Constitution was communist. It wasn't, because it was a communist constitution. Castro would easily pick the Constitution and continue running on it. And he's not. It didn't happen. The other thing is that pretty much people …
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We found the same thing, the same tricks played in Vietnam. And we started finding the same things done a lot of times. Yes. Now, the crazy part in here is Juan Batista was not able to control Cuba. They allowed another person to get in pow…
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Maybe. But to my point of view, no, he was not a communist. He was a player. I mean, he was instructed to play people, Latin American, to pose as a communist and start spreading Gladio operation the same way it was stopped. So it creates a …
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They got a lot of money putting into the accounts that was needed to run the whole operation, and Castro was in the middle. At some point, Castro maybe thought or think that he can run the things from himself. And that makes maybe the break…
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An operative from CIA into Gladio operation and Castro did too. Castro was also part of the killing of one of the, in Colombia, people know the event in 1947, I think it was. People know the event at the Bocotazo. Okay. But also Castro took…
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the ship sunken on the Nippon Bay in Cuba, say that Castro was there as a lieutenant. Where did Castro get the instruction to become a lieutenant? Where? Well, in the United States. Castro was disappeared into the United States from 1946 to…
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Inside Cuba, there's a bunch of Cubans, more than 2 million Cubans, starting to defend the Constitution, starting to take some actions. So I'm not going to discuss right here, right now, but they are doing it. And I know they're going to ge…
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the cartels expanding because they already had some of the cartel structure in when they lost Cuba because Cuba was their port into the United States. And that's why the CIA tried their damnedest to get Cuba back because Fidel Castro cut th…
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And unfortunately for them, they didn't get much better with Omar Gaddafi. I just think they thought they were going to get better. And that that happened a couple of different times where they I mean, it happened with Cuba. Right. They tra…
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They thought that they were patting both sides of the fight, that they were going to support Batista in Cuba and they were going to support Castro. But basically, we know what happens. Castro tells them they're not bringing the mafia back i…
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the CIA or the International Syndicate wasn't having that, nor any of the landed landowners like William Pauly that owned the entire transportation system, his sugar plantation and all that other stuff. They weren't satisfied with the terms…
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You know, and again, the same is true as in Cuba. We funded both the Batista movement and the Chavez, not Chavez, sorry, Castro side. So this is not uncommon for these people in order for them to affect control of the overall ball of black.…
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That comes up a lot as well when it came to the rabble-rousers back in the weather underground days. So it says, under the Young People's Socialist League, he authored a 13-page paper that called for the Castro regime in Cuba to stop fundin…
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It was the guerrilla movements the CIA was funding that was trying to overthrow Castro, not the other way around. But see, this is exactly what I was telling you. So they write these paper accusing Castro of doing what they, in fact, were d…
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We have the guy that actually hates us in Cuba send a whole bunch of boatloads of people emptying his prisons and his insane asylums arriving on the shores of Florida in what was referred to as the Cuban boat lift. Does that sound familiar?…
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Kim, we worked with him to kick out the Japanese and we worked with Ho Chi Minh to kick out the Japanese in Vietnam. And we worked with Castro. Actually, we trained Castro to get rid of Batista. And then the knife comes out, i.e. Gladio, an…
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Cuban overthrow of Castro, that if you joined the military, they would give you your citizenship. And so Felix goes over to Vietnam and works for Donald Gregg and then basically has ran as part of the CIA ever since then. Felix Rodriguez is…
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and his infamous National Guard, which were basically the death squad, that he would avoid implicating President Eisenhower's mistake of driving Fidel Castro into the Soviet camp. So he was right in supporting the Somoza's overthrow, howeve…
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the Sandinista movement, which were the nationalists. But the CIA is not going to like that because the CIA doesn't work for us. They work for the syndicate, and the syndicate wanted to be there with slave labor. As Somoza lost his power gr…
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and other various parts of the world on retainer because that's the Gladio guys. These Cubans would help him get his government back if he was to ever be overthrown. So they have assassins on retainer living in the United States being train…
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Artemi was and had always been a Castro intelligence agent and that he was helping Castro regime take control this is bullshit of the Sandinista revolution this is total horseshit this is the CIA trying to legitimize what they're about to d…
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and they're in the back. This is so crazy. Charlie Wilson's sitting there with Tina, and I'm sitting there with this gal on a jump seat, and she won't even talk to them. She's talking to the driver, and I'm talking to Samosa, and we're talk…
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There were over 400 attempts on Castro's life, none of which worked. Does anybody believe that? Does anybody believe that they tried to take out Castro over 400 times and failed if they honestly were trying to take out Castro? It's almost b…
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that can deploy anywhere on a moment's notice to include taking out JFK and cooing Nixon and blah, blah, blah, that we are supposed to believe on the same team that they can't take out a third-rate dictator on an island 90 miles from here. …
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Was getting ready to speak to an industry wide conference right before the hit, and that may or may not be significant in terms of, you know, cartelling control of cartel narrative and whatnot. I just wanted to make a couple of other points…
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nelson rockefeller's long island if you will and they kind of need for an extension of the you know commie bad guys emanating from russia right they need a bad guy kind of in the neighborhood in the region and wouldn't it be convenient if t…
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businesses and organizations, just like Bush Sr. He was actually involved in the oil industry, but he was actually a CA. They put him in a spot of a position to where they could use that as an asset, and that's where the connection to the B…
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quote-unquote Cuban exiles, which we refer to as Operation Gladio operatives, in order to conduct not just raids on Cuba, but throughout all of Latin America. You find these Cuban exiles in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua. You f…
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metastasized into post-World War II. What were the tenets of it and how all of the new intelligence agencies that were set up post-World War II, how they've all colluded together to do all of this. And if any one head of state gets out of l…
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And you guys remember when we were covering South America, this is a proverbial ongoing thing. The gift that keeps giving the entire overthrow of Latin America was justified on the fact that Castro was sitting in Cuba. If I was a conspiracy…