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Claims (25)
CIA supplied_arms_to
Kurdistan documented
“in the Iran-Contra. At first, the CIA provided $1 million of captured Soviet equipment and munitions. Later aid was raised to $5 million and ultimately a total of $16 million. The Israelis were also helping the Kurds and had been doing so s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 27:06
CIA handled
Kurdistan documented
“Nixon and Kissinger made an official visit to Iran in May of 1972, immediately after the Moscow summit at which the first SALT agreements were reached. In Tehran, John Connolly, a political associate of Nixon's, told the Shah that the U.S. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 26:09
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Kurdistan guest_asserted
“from the inflammatory stuff to get us, you know, kind of riled up, angry, upset to, you know, the counters that the state uses. So it is, it's very pertinent what is happening here in Ireland. And this Operation Gladio as well had significa…”
▶ X SPACES Éire Community-Operation Gladio, Colonel Towner Watkins @ 31:12
Saddam Hussein used
Kurdistan host_asserted
“from Iraq working for Saddam Hussein. That particular hydrogen cyanide is capable of penetrating gas masks. But make sure, I'm sorry, but make sure you put that paper mask on. This is the chemical used against the Kurds in Northern Iraq whe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 31:08
Kurdistan located_in
Iran host_asserted
“a country called Kurdistan. Well, if I want to create a fault line in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, I'm going to do away with that country and I'm going to divide those people into part of them in Turkey, part of them in Syria, part of the…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 1:09:22
Kurdistan located_in
Turkey host_asserted
“a country called Kurdistan. Well, if I want to create a fault line in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, I'm going to do away with that country and I'm going to divide those people into part of them in Turkey, part of them in Syria, part of the…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 1:09:22
Kurdistan located_in
Syria host_asserted
“a country called Kurdistan. Well, if I want to create a fault line in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, I'm going to do away with that country and I'm going to divide those people into part of them in Turkey, part of them in Syria, part of the…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 1:09:22
Gene Sharp operated_in
Kurdistan host_asserted
“Georgia, Iran, Kurdistan, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. And of course, that's just among ones up until the date that this was published. And this was published quite a while ago, actually. But I thought that was…”
▶ Special Dive Tiananmen Square @ 44:59
Reza Pahlavi funded
Kurdistan documented
“The Shah offered the Kurds money and weapons to resume their fight with Iraq. Dissatisfied with Iraqi implementation of the settlement, the Kurds were tempted, but they didn't trust the Shah either. Barzani countered that he would consider …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 25:42
Reza Pahlavi removed_from_power
Kurdistan documented
“The Shah halted his aides to the Kurds, stopped free passage for CIA arms shipment, and closed his borders to Barzani's men. The next day, the Iraqis attacked the Kurds. On March 10th, the Kurds sent an anguished appeal to the CIA. Our peop…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 29:30
Gene Sharp operated_in
Kurdistan host_asserted
“Japan, what? Georgia, Iran, Kurdistan, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. And of course, that's just among ones up until the date that this was published. And this was published quite a while ago, actually. But I tho…”
▶ Albert Einstein Inst's How to Conduct a Revolution through Gladio Glasses @ 45:00
Henry Kissinger headed
Kurdistan documented
“Kissinger set up the Washington apparatus for the Kurdish secret war. His military aide was Colonel Richard Kennedy, who met with one of Barzani's sons and with the CIA on the Kurdish request. A staff assistant by the name of Alfred Atherto…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 26:37
Israel supplied_arms_to
Kurdistan documented
“in the Iran-Contra. At first, the CIA provided $1 million of captured Soviet equipment and munitions. Later aid was raised to $5 million and ultimately a total of $16 million. The Israelis were also helping the Kurds and had been doing so s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 27:06
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
Kurdistan documented
“Israeli paramilitary advisors suggested to the Kurds that now is the time for a big offensive against Iraq. Barzani thought this was a good idea. The White House, unfortunately, did not. On October 16th, 1973, Kissinger instructed the direc…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 28:33
Reza Pahlavi supplied_arms_to
Kurdistan documented
“The Shah offered the Kurds money and weapons to resume their fight with Iraq. Dissatisfied with Iraqi implementation of the settlement, the Kurds were tempted, but they didn't trust the Shah either. Barzani countered that he would consider …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 25:42
Reza Pahlavi funded
Kurdistan documented
“is only too happy to help. These involvements were dwarfed by the Shah's contributions, which was several hundred million. Armed with this assistance, which began in August of 1972, the Kurds raised 100,000 troops, a force larger than Barza…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 27:35
United States supplied_arms_to
Kurdistan documented
“One nation to fill the weight of Nixon's covert action was Iraq, and even more so the Kurds in Kurdistan. This secret war involved basically the U.S. doing a favor for the Shah of Iran. The Kurds were oftentimes referred to as nomadic peopl…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 22:48
NATO operated_in
Kurdistan host_asserted
“Then, so Gene Sharp comes back and says, then from Serbia, the news spread to Georgia, which was under a very repressive regime, and then to Ukraine, which again had problems and it spread there. And then in a series of other countries, oh,…”
▶ Albert Einstein Inst's How to Conduct a Revolution through Gladio Glasses @ 38:52
Iraq carried_out_attack
Kurdistan documented
“The Shah halted his aides to the Kurds, stopped free passage for CIA arms shipment, and closed his borders to Barzani's men. The next day, the Iraqis attacked the Kurds. On March 10th, the Kurds sent an anguished appeal to the CIA. Our peop…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 29:30
Mullah Mustafa Barzani headed
Kurdistan documented
“Long campaigns alienated the opposing forces. You had Mustafa Barzani, a tribal leader since 1945 that led the main forces. And finally, from sheer exhaustion, the Iraqis and Kurds reached an agreement in a 15-point settlement in 1970. Peac…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 24:46
Ivan Raiklin operated_in
Kurdistan guest_asserted
“And I just felt like as I uncovered all of the stuff I did about that, it was like all of my assignments, like I was in Northern Iraq and at CENTCOM, went to the AOR several times. All of it kind of jived with all of the information that I …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Ivan Raiklin @ 1:04:22
Kurdistan located_in
Iraq host_asserted
“a country called Kurdistan. Well, if I want to create a fault line in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, I'm going to do away with that country and I'm going to divide those people into part of them in Turkey, part of them in Syria, part of the…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Conservative Patriot Network @ 1:09:22
CIA supplied_arms_to
Kurdistan host_asserted
“To fill the weight of Nixon's covert options was Iraq and even more so the Kurds in Kurdistan. The new secret war was going to involve the U.S. doing a favor for the Shah of Iran. The Kurds were, I think we probably want to save this one be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Presidents’ Secret Wars, chapter 15 @ 51:40
Standard Oil spied_on
Kurdistan host_asserted
“all of those oil wells identified. You're absolutely right. They did not. But behind the scenes, something that I have found out since doing all of this research is these geological survey teams that have been dispatched by the Standard Oil…”
▶ Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan @ 52:19
British Petroleum spied_on
Kurdistan host_asserted
“all of those oil wells identified. You're absolutely right. They did not. But behind the scenes, something that I have found out since doing all of this research is these geological survey teams that have been dispatched by the Standard Oil…”
▶ Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan @ 52:19
Mentions (46)
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specifically one that I actually deployed to and is very personal for me, is that 1900 map will show you a place called Kurdistan. If you go to the 1950 map, it disappeared. The people that sat down that drew the boundaries after World War …
▶ 51:49
had, and I'll have to find it and I'll post it later because it's incredible. There is a picture of Iraq in this guy's dissertation that illustrates why they got rid of Kurdistan. So Kurdistan had basically all of the oil. And again, you gu…
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What they suspected was where all of the resources are. And so the area where Kurdistan, the Kurdish part of Iraq, is exactly where all of the northern oil wells are. And that is all of Iraq's...…
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There was basically a billion-dollar deal that had been put together, and there was a sizable stock owner of a unit of a French firm called American Lafarge, L-A-F-A-R-G-E. The elder Bush was implicated in reportedly supplying the ingredien…
▶ 26:52
And the day I heard that you could wear a paper mask, just for those of you who've not heard this story, I deployed with the entire Kim gear set up. I went to Northern Iraq. It was 120 degrees every day. Okay. It was hotter than hell. This …
▶ 27:22
And you got that big old nasty thing that mats down your hair, saves your life, but it's a pain in the ass. And every time the siren goes off, you got to drop everything, put that shit on. So this is what we did to avoid an airborne virus w…
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Countries fighting with each other, they can get people within countries fighting with each other. You can go back to World War II and you find out, like in the case of Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, the dissecting of Kurdistan up into four…
▶ 1:08:23
so that they could agitate Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria with the Kurds. They set up Israel, the state in the middle of the Middle East, so they could agitate all of them. So as you go around the world, and the same thing obviously happened…
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Nixon and Kissinger worked on the legislation which passed Congress March 3rd, 1972, providing that radios for things like Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and all of the other propaganda bullshit was passed with $36 million in its first f…
▶ 26:46
indirect connections remained, to include the crossover of the people. One nation to fill the weight of Nixon's covert action was Iraq, and even more so the Kurds in Kurdistan. This secret war involved basically the U.S. doing a favor for t…
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Which, by the way, is bullshit. I was in their cities. There was not anything nomadic about them. They had regular big cities like we do. A federation of 40 tribes who desired nationhood. Yeah, they wanted the nation back that World War II …
▶ 28:11
He went on to say that periodically the Kurds had fought the Turks, the Iraqis, and the Iranians in their quest for freedom. Shortly after World War II, Kurds had cooperated with the Russians in setting up a republic, which was, and again, …
▶ 28:42
coup in Baghdad, the Kurdish autonomy seemed threatened by the Iraqis. The tribes took the field again in a partisan war in which long campaigns alienated the opposing forces. You had Mustafa Barzani, a tribal leader since 1945 that led the…
▶ 29:09
From sheer exhaustion, the Iraqis and Kurds reached an agreement in a 15-point settlement in 1970. Peace might have reigned except for Iran. The Iranians had several border disputes with Iraq, including one over the Tigris River, which had …
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The end of the Kurdish war would bring a more direct confrontation between Iran and Iraq, so he was not adverse to storing up trouble. The Shah offered the Kurds money and weapons to resume their fight with Iraq. Dissatisfied with Iraqi imp…
▶ 30:04
that he would consider the offer only if the U.S. guaranteed that the Shah would not be allowed to suddenly cut them off. Tehran passed the Kurdish request on to the U.S. Nixon and Kissinger made an official visit to Iran in May of 1972, im…
▶ 30:31
A political associate of Nixon's told the Shah that the U.S. was willing to help the Kurds. The CIA handled the American side from their station in Tehran. Kissinger set up the Washington apparatus for the Kurdish secret war. His military a…
▶ 30:58
A staff assistant by the name of Alfred Atherton, A-T-H-E-R-T-O-N Jr., became the NSC focal point, much like Oliver North would stand in later in the Iran-Contra. At first, the CIA provided $1 million of captured Soviet equipment and muniti…
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were also helping the Kurds and had been doing so since 1965, which again is consistent with what we find out that anytime there's arms needed, Israel is only too happy to help. These involvements were dwarfed by the Shah's contributions, w…
▶ 31:51
Armed with this assistance, which began in August of 1972, the Kurds raised 100,000 troops, a force larger than Barzani had ever fielded before. The Kurds engaged large Iraqi forces, including their 65,000 regular army troops, with 500 tank…
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Now, is it the guys running on the camel to the trading post tribal? No. There has been significant modernization. Like when I was in Northern Iraq, I told you guys, the Kurdish people are culturally very tribal, but they live in big cities…
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their rallying point. After the meeting with Shalabi began dividing his time between Kurdistan and the West, organizing in one place, lobbying in others. Saddam's view of Shalabi's efforts may be gauged by the 1994 attempted bombing of his …
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In 94, Stephen Richter replaced Frank Anderson as the head of the division. He wanted action. Fred Turco agreed that Langley should at least be testing possibilities. His deputy, Robert Bayer, plus a couple of other staffers visited Kurdist…
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Among the generations of case officers who joined the agency after Vietnam, Merrick spoke Turkish and could find his way around northern Iraq, although it often seemed like slicing salami. Merrick thought the Iraq project, codenamed Achille…
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Langley did not order the training, but Fred Turco made no move to halt it either. Merrick became the first of a secession of CIA teams in northern Iraq. Usually, the Americans entered by truck from Turkey. I know, I did it from Diyarbakir.…
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in the Humvees. Would never, ever recommend that to anybody, especially when it's 120 degrees in the summer. Task Force Deputy Baer argued that the CIA needed a permanent presence. He volunteered to set up a CIA base. Baer arrived in Januar…
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a confirmed Middle East expert. He had been deputy station chief in Morocco, most recently station chief in Tajikistan, and had been doing cleric at the Terrorism Center. Teams rotating through Kurdistan on his watch varied from four to 10 …
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Because of national security. This faction sowed its metal when adherents and disaffected officers stole radios from stockpiles at the Iraqi 4th Army Corps in the south. Smuggled to the north, the gear could be used in military operations. …
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based in the Kurdish zone, assembled the bombs, and activists were paid to place them places. March 96, a former chief of station of Saddam's army, General Nazar Khosrowsky, defected and threw his support behind this group. There were other…
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Taliban factions switched sides to align with the Iranians while the Barzani forces sided with Saddam himself. The Iraqi army began attacking in August of 1996, the golden anniversary of the date of Barzani's father formed a Kurdish politic…
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at Erbil fled across the Turkish border. Iraqi troops seized Qalabi's offices with their computers and files. Baghdad flung 20,300 troops and 350 tanks into the Kurdish territory. Congressmen who had talked up the possibilities against Sadd…
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was created in the aftermath of World War I under the auspices of that British mandate. And it became a country, a state, after World War II. So all of that was devised by the exact same people that set up the strategy of tension. It is the…
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by stealing property from Afghanistan and India. It's the same people that created East Pakistan, which is now Bangladesh. It's the same people that took the entire Kurdish country of Kurdistan away and divided those people up into four cou…
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for illicit arms deals in Africa and for commanding murderous military units in Northern Ireland. Two soldiers in the unit shot and killed Peter McBride, a Catholic teenager in Belfast in 1992 while under Mr. Spicer's command. Two soldiers …
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The voices of protest came from Northern Ireland and the Irish-American lobby, growing louder by the day. Within hours of the government's announcement of the contract, Washington-based Irish National Caucus had pressed the U.S. government …
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The most important figure in the transition of old world mercenaries to these new private military companies had already lived several lives. He was a graduate of Sandhurst British Elite Military Academy for British Army officers, had serve…
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Special Forces officers, MI6 agents, Arab sheiks, and a wide range of entrepreneurs. He knew the power of PR and the perception of management in building the success of any endeavor. He knew what it was like to be lamb blasted and despised …
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Aegis indeed focused on the coordination aspect of the project when it entered the competition, and this was what the U.S. government wanted. But the government also wanted Spicer's expertise, Avant said. At the time, according to knowledge…
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as it was in the rest of Iraq in 2004, it appeared to be, and the U.S. did not want to take chances. Now, let me just tell you how big of a bullshit line that is. There was not instability in the North. The Kurds has the PKK, and they take …
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I was there in the early 1990s. Everybody that was in. See, this is the kind of crap that had General Jay Garner stayed there and not Bremer. They would have never gotten away with because General Garner was the task force commander in nort…
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from Iraq working for Saddam Hussein. That particular hydrogen cyanide is capable of penetrating gas masks. But make sure, I'm sorry, but make sure you put that paper mask on. This is the chemical used against the Kurds in Northern Iraq whe…
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And again, for those guys, for any of you new guys, I actually was deployed with Colonel Jim Jones in northern Iraq. He was our new commander there. And I flew on a helicopter with him to work every day and on the way back every day. And ba…
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I usually sat next to him on those helicopter flights. And if you guys have not been part of the history of me telling the story of my deployment to Iraq, I was the aide to a two-star army general there. For the most part, the only female f…
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It's interesting that people that are sitting at the big boy table in the stuffy rooms of the private clubs are involved so often in the Red Cross. Yes, and I actually met Elizabeth Dole when she was the president of the Red Cross. She came…
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from the inflammatory stuff to get us, you know, kind of riled up, angry, upset to, you know, the counters that the state uses. So it is, it's very pertinent what is happening here in Ireland. And this Operation Gladio as well had significa…
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I would specifically be looking at the troubles, the conflict in Northern Ireland. So here's what I came across. The IRA, so I have to tell this story first. You know the Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the UK. So most people don't know thi…