Jamaica country
also: Jamaican, Jamaicans
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Claims (8)
Norman Manley appointed
Jamaica host_asserted
“the more radical element that wanted faster change than the gradualist wanted. And he, I found it interesting that he becomes the governor of Jamaica and Jamaica plays such a role in Gladio that I was fascinated because we're also, you fast…”
▶ The Shadow State 71 Fabian Socialists Pt. 4 @ 1:05:24
CIA attempted_coup_against
Jamaica host_asserted
“I don't know if we actually did a show on it, but basically it had a leader and the CIA did not want that leader to be in charge. And they sent teams in. They did surveys as a way of identifying people who would rise up against the.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 16:01
Jamaica supplied_arms_to
UNITA book_quoted
“some of the Jamaican military over to fight against the CIA-backed UNITA in Angola. That really pissed them off. So in 1977, two investigative reporters exposed a destabilization program against Manley's government, reportedly being ran by …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 53:15
CIA carried_out_attack
Jamaica documented
“Moscow's activity with journalists. Findings were also approved for operations against pro-Cuban government in Grenada, pro-Cuban government, a political action in Jamaica, and actions in Nicaragua and El Salvador, as those governments face…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 59:20
Jamaica funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“the more radical element that wanted faster change than the gradualist wanted. And he, I found it interesting that he becomes the governor of Jamaica and Jamaica plays such a role in Gladio that I was fascinated because we're also, you fast…”
▶ The Shadow State 71 Fabian Socialists Pt. 4 @ 1:05:24
Jamaica was_node_for
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“It's horrible what happened to them as far as the hurricane. Understand that our perspective in Operation Gladio Jamaica was one of the key nodes. Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Trinidad are names that I've come across repeatedly as being …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101 @ 58:02
CIA spied_on
Jamaica host_asserted
“They send in a grad student and some cohorts to do surveys among all of the people so they can fill people out to see who likes the government and who doesn't like the government.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 26:21
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Jamaica host_asserted
“when they go in to overthrow a government, one of the very first things the CIA does is surveys. They go in with survey teams. And like in Jamaica,…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 25:54
Mentions (50)
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And it just so happens that the company starts doing surveys and advertising. They become actually part of the ER firm. Okay, so wait a minute. And I have said repeatedly, when they go in to overthrow a government, one of the very first thi…
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They send in a grad student and some cohorts to do surveys among all of the people so they can fill people out to see who likes the government and who doesn't like the government. And they do surveys. That's how they find the fault lines. I…
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And the surveys that they do, as a matter of fact, they did one in Jamaica. And the guy that did the Jamaica one was out of Indiana University. And that's where that's my old alma mater for my bachelor's degree. And he went around just talk…
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Interestingly enough, you'll recognize all of these Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, all of which, by the way, we've overthrown. So you start and there's a few others in the Caribbean. So we're going to basically be work…
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Being associated with the invasion damaged his personal credibility. He was absolutely disgusted. One of the fundamental falsehoods concerning the invasion on Tuesday, 25 October 1983, was the United States had been requested to intervene b…
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Then Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Siga, and keep in mind, these are two stooges that we basically have installed, also asserted that there was a plea by Caribbean nations that was triggered by an offer from the United States. And so basic…
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So they had gotten they were going to use part of their IMF loan to upgrade their airport. Their original airport was kind of up in a mountainous area and was very logistically not convenient. And so they wanted a similar quality air.…
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there was other evidence that puts Reagan's analysis in question. At least five other Caribbean islands, Barbados, Jamaica, blah, blah, blah, all had airports of similar size. The building of the airfield was actually encouraged and recomme…
▶ 1:28:55
in Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and St. Martin. Oh my God, look at that. All of the places that the CIA has cued, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica. I haven't done St. Martin yet, but I do know there's a lot of fake banks down there that work…
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Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO post. And he was actually the liaison at …
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And then you'll have Zaire, which we will go over. And then it runs into Jamaica. And we talked about Jamaica. Jamaica was where they had, I did a thread on that. It was.…
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I don't know if we actually did a show on it, but basically it had a leader and the CIA did not want that leader to be in charge. And they sent teams in. They did surveys as a way of identifying people who would rise up against the.…
▶ 57:30
When you have enough pieces out of the tower, it falls. And that's what you're watching happening. I understood this operation was like two years in the making that went on with that, Colonel. And just on a side note, given what's going on …
▶ 58:02
It's horrible what happened to them as far as the hurricane. Understand that our perspective in Operation Gladio Jamaica was one of the key nodes. Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Trinidad are names that I've come across repeatedly as being …
▶ 58:31
is not one right now. And Jamaica is the one that had, what did they call them? We learned the word for them in Gary Webb's book. They had a different word. They don't call them cartels, but they were all in, they were primarily in New York…
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and the Colombia proximity to neighboring crystal triangle countries, Peru and Bolivia. And then again, also Panama for the monetary piece of this. It also created transit countries, Mexico, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. The consumer…
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And then again, do you know how many ships and aircraft have to take off out of Panama to go to Spain and the United States through, I think he mentioned, Panama, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica? Not the land routes. I'm not even counting t…
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You know, we know what happened to Escobar. So that's kind of a lowdown of how that it's morphed over time as to who the preferred network is in the United States. And it also depends regional. A lot of the former Jamaican posses.…
▶ 59:53
But they use Spain. And if you look geographically, getting a covert illicit drugs through the Caribbean from Colombia, stopping off points, Jamaica.…
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But primarily the way they did it was they overthrew governments in Latin America during Operation Condor. And so the aircraft was going down there full of weapons and they were coming back empty. So they basically have no cost of transport…
▶ 1:34:41
Or there's a lot more to it. And so we're going to do that. And I am going to talk a little bit. One of the upcoming things in a couple of chapters, it'll be talked about here in a couple of chapters, is the Jamaican role in all of this. I …
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the arrest of one of the major kingpin drug people from Jamaica and because I just read it in this book as well I did a little digging around and we're going to talk a little bit about that at the end because it definitely shows another pat…
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drug market. It doesn't go a long way in kind of furthering our CIA line until we move into the next section. And I do want to get to this before we open it up, because this part's crazy. Just as the South Central crack market began flouris…
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one of the most effective trafficking groups in relation to the posses in the United States, rivaled only by the Crips and Bloods in L.A. Since the 1970s, Jamaica had been run by a socialist government headed by Michael Manley. He was a gra…
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He sided himself with the Sandinistas. He traded expertise with the Cubans, inviting Cuban doctors into Jamaica. And that, of course, pissed off the entire warmongering Washington, D.C. crowd. And so immediately, you know, he's branded a co…
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some of the Jamaican military over to fight against the CIA-backed UNITA in Angola. That really pissed them off. So in 1977, two investigative reporters exposed a destabilization program against Manley's government, reportedly being ran by …
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to Manley's opponents, the use of selective violence, bombings, and assassinations, covert funding aid to conservative Jamaican Labor Party, the opposing party, and fomenting labor unrest through bribery. You know, the standard shit. One of…
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a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran, they just keep popping up, with a history of engaging in arms for drugs deals, was cited in Jamaica next to one of the bombings, according to the reporter. He actually got a picture of him. During the course of …
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Rival political gangs killed more than 700 people, according to the reporters. Dan Lee lost the election. What happened next was, in many ways, a carbon copy of exactly what happened in Nicaragua to Los Angeles.…
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A year earlier, despite the fact that there was political changing of the guards and roughly the reverse of Nicaraguan's situation, following the election, many of the political gunmen left Jamaica and came to the United States. So it's the…
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These were just temporary assassins that they trained. And while they weren't necessarily kicked out of the country, the new Jamaican leader didn't want them there. The CIA thought it'd be a great idea to bring them here because they need a…
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Which is exactly what we did with El Salvador after the fact as well. So there you have it. So what goes on next? The following, let's see. In the early 1980s, the U.S. posse leaders maintained a sense of allegiance to their political parti…
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Mention regarding your comment on the Jamaican posses and their connection to this trade, because there's an interesting novel by this British novelist. No, I'm sorry. He actually lives in Minneapolis. He's born in Jamaica, and he wrote a b…
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A key dude in Middle East CIA, very high level. The name is escaping me now, but you've all heard everyone here has heard his name. You've heard his name a million times. But anyway, it just struck me as interesting that that seemed to be t…
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the assassination attempt on Bob Marley when he was visiting Jamaica. Very interesting book. Yeah. So thank you for bringing that up. That was one of the things that I read because when I was looking at articles preparing for the show last …
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We talked about him a few chapters ago. He's the guy up in New York. Expensive taste. Basically, he's the guy that lived in that big mansion. He became chairman of an international construction company called International Planners and Deve…
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escaped the attention and interest of the CIA, particularly because of the countries he was dealing with. Now, of course, the CIA is not going to miss anything with Saudi Arabia. They were in bed with Saudi Arabia. They're not going to miss…
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had quit his job at iPad and was the treasurer of the Arab International Bank in Saudi Arabia, of Saudi Arabia, sorry. It was an offshore bank where he cut his teeth on banking and CDs. Also around this time, he was negotiating to purchase …
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While the opposition parties and those trade unions that catered to the African population maneuvered to take advantage, Jagen could have mobilized East Indian laborers from the plantations to fight the brawlers. But instead, he asked the B…
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Did they ever show up with a clipboard? Yes, they did in Jamaica. We went over that when we were talking about the Caribbean and the different coups that happened there. In Jamaica, they actually did. They hired, the CIA hired, funded throu…
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And find out with addresses who was supportive of the president that they were trying to overthrow and who wasn't. And then they use that information when they began the actual overthrow of the Jamaican government. So in more modern days th…
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During the first phase of the project, there were 30 supply missions, only four of them judged successful. 30, but only four was judged successful. There were also more emergency landings in Mexico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands. In the J…
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The FDR radio monitors heard the emergency message and exiles warned the secret warriors of the disaster. Worse, when the pilot telephoned the agency's Guatemalan emergency number, officers said they had never heard of him. Only swift actio…
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Moscow's activity with journalists. Findings were also approved for operations against pro-Cuban government in Grenada, pro-Cuban government, a political action in Jamaica, and actions in Nicaragua and El Salvador, as those governments face…
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Involved there was Richard Holm and Milt Bearden. In Jamaica, a woman chief of station, Janine Bruckner, was replaced after reporting one of her officers for abusing his wife. So you got fired for reporting an abusive CIA agent. She was the…
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networks that that grow into bcci well wait yeah wait till we get to next wednesday's alpha show on permadex and talk about jamaica and the operation they set up there um oh yeah permadex is something i definitely yeah yeah it's it's fascin…
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It's all about the strategy of tension. So if you understand how this works, there are, and we've learned this by looking into these organizations. When I looked into the Office of Public Safety, National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, the…
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The survey guy that went down there with a couple other, they were quote unquote college students, all on USAID dime, meaning CIA dime. They did a quote unquote survey in Jamaica. And the survey is to find friction, to identify minority gro…
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the more radical element that wanted faster change than the gradualist wanted. And he, I found it interesting that he becomes the governor of Jamaica and Jamaica plays such a role in Gladio that I was fascinated because we're also, you fast…
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The series I'm doing with Alpha, Permadex, the guy that founded Permadex, actually set up like a secret intelligence organization in Jamaica. And Jamaica is basically full of these Fabians throughout their civil service as well. He also was…