U.S. Southern Command organization
also: South Com, Southern Command, Southcom, U.S. Southern Command, Southern Air Command, U.S. South Com, SALCOM, South Com Command
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Claims (6)
Maxwell Thurman headed
U.S. Southern Command documented
“In February 1990, General Maxwell Thurman, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, told Congress that the El Salvador government was not able to defeat the rebels and that the only way to end the fighting was through negotiations. So, and of…”
▶ Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2 @ 35:25
U.S. Southern Command trained
Contras host_asserted
“I had a conversation about six months ago with one of the guys that was actually deployed from South Com to Honduras who thought that Nicaragua had been infested with actual communists and that the Contras was the good guys and that he was …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 2:03:42
Chris Nowlin headed
U.S. Southern Command documented
“Nowlin, Commander of 12th Air Force and Air Force Southern, J-I-A-T-F, South, which is a joint international task force that has all of the military services, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol, DEA, blah, blah, blah. It says, just like…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 36:20
Douglas Frazier headed
U.S. Southern Command book_quoted
“Despite the lack of studies on the changing security situation, it is not clear whether the increase in the number of private military companies in South America has been a direct result of Plan Colombia. In a recent press conference held i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 25:19
U.S. Southern Command funded
Colombia book_quoted
“And Colombia took extraordinary measures to create an army and a paramilitary army to be able to sustain this narco state. And they did it with the aid of the CIA, the U.S. State Department and South Com Command, which is headquartered down…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 20:11
U.S. Southern Command trained
Colombia host_asserted
“in South America come under the tutelage of the South Com commander. So when the CIA went into Columbia, you know, in the late 70s and early 80s and set up the Crystal Triangle, they bring in the primarily the special forces guys, but there…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 58:55
Mentions (21)
▶ 35:25
In February 1990, General Maxwell Thurman, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, told Congress that the El Salvador government was not able to defeat the rebels and that the only way to end the fighting was through negotiations. So, and of…
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I had a conversation about six months ago with one of the guys that was actually deployed from South Com to Honduras who thought that Nicaragua had been infested with actual communists and that the Contras was the good guys and that he was …
▶ 58:27
That the exact same network that the CIA set up to traffic drugs into the United States, that they would now be tasked with disassembling it. But let me go one further. I will also want to point out the military. They just announced that th…
▶ 59:46
The regular military doesn't know that because the regular military will go to Colombia and then they'll go to, you know, Kenya and then they'll go to Afghanistan. So they don't have any continuity across geographical regions. That is not t…
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senior level conversations with the Colombian military and you have an entire staff of experts on the civilian side of all of the history of Colombia and not know that you're dealing with narco terrorists. So there's absolutely no excuse fo…
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paramilitary that are available and on call to NATO and the UN to put paramilitary assets anywhere in the world. We are building an international army covertly with U.S. taxpayer dollars through U.S. South Com all under the guise of fightin…
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such as the P-3 Orion aircraft used by U.S. Customs. Bribing officials and drawing on an elaborate counterintelligence database seem to be outdated. According to an anonymous retired narcotics operative in U.S. Army's Southern Command, SALC…
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And Colombia took extraordinary measures to create an army and a paramilitary army to be able to sustain this narco state. And they did it with the aid of the CIA, the U.S. State Department and South Com Command, which is headquartered down…
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And South Com. So this last segment of this chapter, before we move on to the last chapter, is about regionalization. And that's where they come up with the name the Crystal Triangle, because obviously Peru and Bolivia for a period of time …
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Despite the lack of studies on the changing security situation, it is not clear whether the increase in the number of private military companies in South America has been a direct result of Plan Colombia. In a recent press conference held i…
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Contractors enabled special operation forces under coordination of Southcom to work alongside private contractors for covert operations. Most importantly, private military contractors decentralized covert operations by decreasing the U.S. o…
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They indexed the name of several State Department and USAID officials, along with Guaido's D.C.-based representatives, including his quote-unquote U.S. ambassador, Carlos Becchio. Representatives from Brazil and Colombia's U.S. embassies we…
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play dumb, two attendees at the meeting acknowledged their participation in the April 10th roundtable discussion, which was revealed to have taken place where they were actually wargaming military intervention. And interesting that you woul…
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A Chilean journalist later reported another commitment. During his stopover in Rio in early March, General Andrews O'Meara, the commander of U.S. South Com, had promised to fly paratroopers out of Panama's zone and drop them into any pocket…
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to stop weapons shipments from Nicaragua to Salvadorian resistant fighters. On March 9th, 1981, Reagan approved a presidential finding. The finding went to the National Security Planning Group, which ordered detailed preparations. Casey bec…
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After all of the work, there was no reports of Q-boats attacking vessels that were smuggling arms across the Gulf of Forensica that separates Nicaragua from El Salvador, because that was not the purpose of them at all. The U.S. Southern Com…
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Southern Command discovered that much of the smuggling actually utilized boats belonging to Salvadorans. Weird. Claridge records a Contra Commando raid on one of the coastal staging areas used for the traffic. A second ploy was an air attac…
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safe for democracy. We are still talking about Nicaragua and Oliver North. Oliver North asked Robert McFarlane for permission to provide intelligence about El Bluff and went to the U.S. Southern Command General Paul Gorman and the CIA's Nat…
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of excursions and not a steady exertion of military pressure. Congress had it on high authority from Southern Command General Paul Gorman that the Contras were incapable of overthrowing the Managua government. One possibility was to give th…
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Until that happened, Felix Rodriguez had had that duty since he was the only one that spoke Spanish. The airlift's first great moment occurred in March of 86. A Sandinista infantry force pursued FDN troops across the border and made for the…
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that is staffed with DEA, Coast Guard, and U.S. Customs, and the CIA. Carousel's role as a major staging area for intelligence operations is widely known in that area. I sure as heck didn't know it when I went on vacation there. That's very…