Swan Island place
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Claims (5)
United Fruit Company front_for
Swan Island host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
Swan Island supplied_arms_to
Cuba host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
Swan Island supplied_arms_to
Guatemala host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
Swan Island supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
Swan Island supplied_arms_to
El Salvador host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
Mentions (16)
▶ 23:53
Because after you get them hooked, that's what happens. And we also know unequivocally that radio station after radio station, I did the whole expose on, what was it, Swan Island. That Swan Island off the coast south of Cuba that we basical…
▶ 3:59
But of course, one of the funniest parts is since I just did that big expose on Swan Island, don't you know the damn things talked about in here? It's like an integral part of all the shit that we were doing in Guatemala and Cuba. And I'm l…
▶ 4:28
What's funny about, not funny in a funny way, but what's funny weird about this is, again, once you understand how they do all of this, you are able to read these things where before I would have read about Swan Island and thought, you know…
▶ 4:57
But now that I've already done the history of Swan Island and know that it was purchased, quote unquote purchase, it was actually stolen from Honduras temporarily, under the ownership of a CIA fake company that was a steamship in Boston wit…
▶ 5:27
And so you can just see all of the similarities. So they were using Swan Island in order to control the people in Central America via propaganda from this freaking radio station on this island that they stole from Honduras. So, again, it's …
▶ 48:56
And we read all about the Swan Island that was being used for the radio. So he basically kind of just takes the reader through a whole bunch of that, which we already know. So for Buckley and Mannion, the Bay of Pigs fiasco was instantly fa…
▶ 1:49:51
which is kind of a tongue in cheek. The Gray Operation, Missile Crisis, Electronic Spies, Black Radio, CIA, Guano, Paradise. And I think this is the book that talked about Swan Island, if I'm not mistaken. And that was the first time I'd ev…
▶ 1:50:14
Of Swan Island, which was the radio station used to coordinate in Guatemala and in Cuba. And I found that like, yeah, Swan Island. Yeah, it's the one that it does a really good job of. I mean, it's an entire chapter of talking about how the…
▶ 1:50:38
using those radio stations like that. And this just uses Swan Island as an example. But if you don't know about Swan Island, it's an incredible story of our CIA being assholes. But anyway. That one, I actually got the archive of the book, a…
▶ 57:36
providing all of the military support, like ferrying people back and forth to different places because they had, remember that we're still using at this time, Swan Island for a communication site, the like tiny island with this ginormous an…
▶ 17:38
a quote unquote gray radio station would broadcast on long and shortwave bands in the original proposal, then it said it was going to be located on Swan Island, northeast of Honduras. I did a long thread on Swan Island. If you just go to my…
▶ 35:34
if we're going to wage political warfare. They were temporarily setting it up in Mexico. The CIA director also went on about how great Radio Swan on Swan Island was with all of their propaganda. Its broadcast had expanded who they were atta…
▶ 36:10
putting propaganda out there about Fidel Castro. They're actually propagandizing anybody within range that they didn't care about. Cuba had already began jamming the transmissions from Swan Island. At Fort Gulick in Panama, the CIA had trai…
▶ 40:52
appointed Jean Kirkpatrick. Because of the proximity to Aquacate to Nicaragua and the restrictions on flights close to the border, air missions were carried out of Swan Island. Swan Island is the place between that area and the Honduran cou…
▶ 58:24
I think that gets us up to a good stopping point. We're not done with the chapter, but it is a good stopping point. So that's a lot of material. Southern, go ahead. Yeah, my favorite, George Walker Bush. Shackley, they set up Zapata because…
▶ 36:21
when they were invading Guatemala and Nicaragua and Honduras and all of those, the radio station on Swan Island and how that was critical to the operation. Those are exactly the tactics of the CIA when they go in to overthrow government. Sh…