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United States government funded 1966 Ghanaian coup d'état documented
“provide compelling new evidence of the U.S. government in the 1966 overthrow of the Ghana president Kwame Nkrumah. And I'm going to spell this for you guys. K-W-A-M-E. And his last name is N-K-R-U-M-A-H. The coup d'etat organized by army of…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 6:18
Larry McDonald member_of United States government documented
“That they could testify that they had been ambushed and that there was no warning, no gunshots across the nose, no blinking lights, nothing? Hardly. It was more likely that they were victims of a far greater, darker plot. Only one small men…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 47:03
United States government targeted_for_regime_change Ethiopia book_quoted
“basically began creating chaos throughout Ethiopia. And then the U.S. immediately after this chaos began, ordered sanctions placed on Ethiopia to financially weaken it, which is, again, a pattern that we see repeatedly. So they create the c…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 9:31
United States government installed Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted
“in this uprising. The U.S. main motive for encouraging the rebellion was to restore the TPLF to power in Ethiopia, which they had been installed in power from 1991 to 2018, and to use the TPLF to control the Strategic Horn of Africa region.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 11:35
Anthony Lake member_of United States government book_quoted
“Ali recounted a visit that he had in early 1990s with the then National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, who told him that the U.S. strategy for maximizing its influence in Africa in the post-Cold War era was by dividing the continent into fo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 12:05
United States government installed Meles Zenawi book_quoted
“Egypt under Mubarak, South Africa under Mbeki, Nigeria under General Abaka, and Ethiopia under the TPLF rule. And its leader at the time was Zenawi, Z-E-N-A-W-I. And he was president from 1991 until 95.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 12:35
United States government funded Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted
“had told a journalist, Ann Garrison, that over the last three decades, the U.S. showered the TPLF minority regime with roughly $1 billion of UNI's tax money in aid under the guise of humanitarian assistance. In exchange, the TPLF served as …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 25:33
United States government targeted_for_regime_change Eritrea book_quoted
“or anybody else to include the Department of Defense from the U.S. in its country. To punish it for its defiance, the U.S. began imposing crippling sanctions under the false pretext that Eritrea supported the Somalian terrorist group al-Sha…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 32:57
United States government funded Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted
“wrote in Black Agenda Report that such negative and prejudiced views obscured the fact that Eritrea is a functioning and proudly sovereign state, which overcomes the hardships created by U.S. sanctions to care for its people. It was Eritrea…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 35:16
United States government ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“He still suspects the U.S., and so would everybody else. Of course, the U.S. was out to get him. Moreover, Kruma was keenly aware of a recent African precedence that made the notion of the U.S.-organized sanctioned assassination plot, namel…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 16:15
United States government funded 1966 Ghanaian coup d'état documented
“Mahoney again correctly forecast the future. Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, it would be a military takeover. But Mahoney was not a prophet. However, he represented the commitment of the U.S. government in coordination w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 14:26
United States government funded 1966 Ghanaian coup d'état documented
“countries, including France, have been helping to set up the situation by ignoring Kruma's pleas for economic aid. Comer's reference to not being told if the U.S. was directly involved in the coup is revealing, and quite likely, a nod to hi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 20:11
United States government funded 1966 Ghanaian coup d'état book_quoted
“In this book, Pruma accuses the CIA of being behind numerous setbacks and crises in Africa as well as Eastern Europe. He later wrote that the American government sent me a note of protest and promptly refused Ghana $35 million in aid. Four …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 29:58
United States government paid José Raúl Martínez host_asserted
“was awarded a Legion of Merit for murdering people. I got mine for doing a good job. And that, it just floored me. There's many other things like this thing called Operation Charlie. Click on that and just read a little bit about what they …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:12:25
United States government funded Contras host_asserted
“From $4 million to $77 million of your taxpayer dollars is going to fund people that are murdering other people who just want their country back from United Fruit. Once again, it had surrendered its national sovereignty to Americans. Rivals…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 26:18
United States government supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted
“and the United States because Alvarez was a fierce, quote-unquote, anti-communist who detested the Sandinista movement. And keep in mind, the Sandinista movement was the freedom fighters that the U.S. government labeled as communists so the…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 24:53
United States government supplied_arms_to Dominican Republic documented
“the Dominican Republic asked the Queen of Spain to come back after they'd kicked them out because there's so much internal turmoil going on. So then happened the War of Restoration. Eventually, we get to the part where in the late 1800s, U.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 8:39
United States government funded Tigray People's Liberation Front book_quoted
“countries where we already control the government and they set up terrorist training camps on these border areas and they are used to insert insurgencies and create instability and chaos in countries. So just keep that in mind. Hassan blame…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 9:01
United States government funded Rwanda host_asserted
“This guy is like, you know, I don't know, killed a few million people, but he did not. When you have a guy sitting over in Rwanda that literally did kill tons and tons and tons and tons of people. And our government, go look up the USAID th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Rwanda @ 1:15:31
United States government protected Rwanda host_asserted
“citizens and the former president. He was found guilty of killing the former president in a French investigation that awarded money to the survivors of the air crew. There was an indictment out for his arrest in the United States that the U…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Rwanda @ 1:16:02
United States government trafficked Nicaragua host_asserted
“cocaine on. It didn't come from Nicaragua. It came from Colombia. And the president of the United States got on national news with a grainy photo saying, here's my proof. Nicaragua is trafficking drugs and killing our citizens. No, you assh…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:16:09
United States government framed Nicaragua host_asserted
“that they would try to frame it on the Nicaraguan government, who they hated because he got rid of their stooge called Somoza. That's the extent to which the U.S. government is corrupt. Well, sometimes it's not always, and this is what I wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:16:40
United States government funded Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“Gladio training bases there. And the way we paid Otto Skorzeny for him being the worldwide Gladio trainer was we worked a deal with Franco. Now keep in mind, this guy's a dictator. He killed people. We made a deal with him that we're going …”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 31:44
United States government funded Venezuela Popular Will documented
“Wasn't it Juan Guaido that appointed him? And isn't Juan Guaido the president that he was supposed to be advising him? He addressed it to Leopoldo Lopez. What? So what? Osman revealed the true leader of the Venezuelan coup regime was not Gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 42:26
United States government targeted_for_regime_change Venezuela book_quoted
“Juan Guaido, be recognized as Venezuelan's leader. While Venezuela and other targets of Western war maintained confidence in the UN system and leaned on it for legitimacy, the US and the European allies' ability to manipulate the organizati…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 4:28
United States government funded Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“maintaining official ties with Maduro's UN-recognized government while providing critical assistance to the Washington regime change led by John Bolton. Most notably, the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights issued consequential rep…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 4:59
United States government funded Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“The U.S. State Department, on this fact sheet, celebrated the following accomplishments. Guaido had announced his interim presidency. $3.2 billion worth of Venezuela's overseas assets were frozen. Maduro's government was cut off from U.S. f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 17:25
United States government funded Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“as Maduro's assigning blame for his own shortcomings. Her analysis was not only contradicted by evidence presented throughout this book, but also by the U.S. government itself. Months before Bachelet released her report, the U.S. State Depa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 16:26
Saudi Arabia financed_via United States government host_asserted
“Riyadh lifted its oil embargo and purchased U.S. Treasury bonds in exchange for U.S.-supplied military equipment. More importantly for Washington, however, that was that from 1974 on, Saudi Arabia agreed to sell all oil in U.S. dollars. Due…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 49:19
United States government supplied_arms_to Saudi Arabia host_asserted
“Riyadh lifted its oil embargo and purchased U.S. Treasury bonds in exchange for U.S.-supplied military equipment. More importantly for Washington, however, that was that from 1974 on, Saudi Arabia agreed to sell all oil in U.S. dollars. Due…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 49:19
United States government targeted_for_regime_change Iran host_asserted
“2018 withdrawal from the JPOA. The policy quickly put SWIFT's supported independence to test. November 2018, the U.S. Treasury issued a threatening directive advising providers of specialized financial messaging service like SWIFT to discon…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 50:45
Soviet Union framed United States government host_asserted
“The Russians were left with no choice but to shoot it down. The Americans, of course, were to blame. It was then who placed the 269 innocent passengers at risk for their own reasons. The Americans, by their deceitful actions, the Soviets sa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 37:36
United States government trained Dominican National Guard book_quoted
“would not interfere militarily to prevent the assassination and would support them and recognize the new government afterwards. The Dominican Republic, where American Marines have landed on four separate occasions in this century, the last …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 29:02
United States government installed Joaquín Balaguer host_asserted
“Resentment spilled over into the streets. By October, the protests were occurring daily and being put down by tanks. Students were being shot dead by government troops. The U.S. began to make moves for the situation in the street and the hi…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 37:20
United States government supplied_arms_to Dominican Republic host_asserted
“The anti-communist liberals aren't strong enough. We must use our influence to take Balaguer along the road to democracy, unquote. To make certain that the Dominicans got the message, a U.S. naval task force of eight ships and 1,800 Marines…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 38:45
United States government removed_from_power Joaquín Balaguer host_asserted
“Not a good scene there. And the rest of the holdouts that had been the Troheolites left for Florida. However, when Balaguer proved to be a major obstacle to beginning the process of democratization and indicated that he did not regard his r…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 40:18
United States government trained White Helmets host_asserted
“General Robert Kennedy arranged for riot control equipment to be sent to Santa Domingo. The equipment came complete with Spanish-speaking L.A. detectives to impart to their Dominican counterparts the fine art of quelling such uprisings that…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 42:08
John Bartlow Martin headed United States government host_asserted
“While a seven-man council of state administered the state of the government, the U.S. continued to treat the Dominican Republic as a private experiment of the prevention of communism. The American ambassador now was John Bartlow, B-A-R-T-L-…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 41:07
United States government overthrew Honduras host_asserted
“on the private industry side by the international syndicate and the government. And it also shows you the consequences, both foreign and domestic, of this regime change, Gladio operation, that has gone on since the aftermath of World War II…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 31:53
United States government installed Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“by the name of Rafael Trujillo. It's T-R-U-J-I-L-L-O. And he's a very interesting guy. He ends up being installed in 1930 as a dictator, and he remains in power until 1961. And he did do, in his defense, many good things.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 14:00
United States government conducted MKUltra guest_asserted
“took the vulnerable among them, whether they were actual orphans because of the warfare that we perpetrated or whatever, whether they stole them, whatever the case may be, they bring them back here. That in and of itself is a traumatic even…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 1:42:29
United States government recruited Jimmy 'Barbecue' Chérizier guest_asserted
“And when you are backed against that kind of wall, you know, you are going to take back your country. And I pray and hope that these people do succeed. However, again, NATO and the U.S., via a Caribbean council, appointed a presidential cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 53:30
United States government installed Juan Guaidó guest_asserted
“The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, most members of the European Union, the Organization of American States, all of these viewed Guido as legitimate. All of the NATO, basically, is what you're saying, and the OAS under the contro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 46:19
United States government funded Venezuelan Opposition Government guest_asserted
“imperialistic powers of control over other countries. And they orchestrate that control through USAID and our foreign aid programs. I got to give it to the lady that brought all this forward and put everything out there for everybody to see…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 46:49
Theodore Roosevelt appointed United States government host_asserted
“because of the Monroe Doctrine and the fact that he was owned by the elite and the international syndicate, that he's going to impose U.S. administration of all Dominican customs, which is where they got like 90 percent of their money.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 10:32
United States government trained Rafael Trujillo host_asserted
“And then it is the people within the National Guard slash military structure that rises up and becomes the new dictator, as in the case with Rafael Trujillo. It was during one of those Marine invasions into the Dominican Republic that the U…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 29:59
United States government funded Rafael Trujillo book_quoted
“And had been part of his rise to power as well, because at any one time, the U.S. was intimately working with him over those 30 years. So there was no attempt to boycott him. There was no attempt to cut the harbor off, as you see with anybo…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 19:53
United States government covered_up January 6 Capitol attack host_asserted
“Just to your point, Colonel, I always point back to how about what they told you about January 6th? The same people that are telling you that January 6th was a bunch of people storming the castle and causing the only time ever in our histor…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Rwanda @ 1:23:31
United States government covered_up Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot host_asserted
“And their people are not going to get arrested or charged. And if they are forced into it, they do like they did with the guy out in Arizona. And it's just, you know, basically probation and no big deal. And that's illustrative of Operation…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Rwanda @ 1:27:51
United States government overthrew Bolivia host_asserted
“They don't even grow for the most part the coca leaf there. They get them from Peru and Bolivia. And of course, we had to coup Evo Morales because he was the one guy that said, yeah, we're not going to do this anymore. We legalized the prod…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:39:35
United States government overthrew Evo Morales host_asserted
“They don't even grow for the most part the coca leaf there. They get them from Peru and Bolivia. And of course, we had to coup Evo Morales because he was the one guy that said, yeah, we're not going to do this anymore. We legalized the prod…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:39:35
Anastasio Somoza member_of United States government host_asserted
“that they would try to frame it on the Nicaraguan government, who they hated because he got rid of their stooge called Somoza. That's the extent to which the U.S. government is corrupt. Well, sometimes it's not always, and this is what I wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:16:40
CIA trafficked United States government host_asserted
“um because you're not allowed not to play in the cia's drug network yeah it's amazing like if you actually think about it just in terms of the sheer numbers the united states intelligence community is the largest pushers of drugs in the wor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:40:02
Philip E. Talbot covered_up United States government book_quoted
“He denied that they could have done anything about it. Then Margaret asked a critical question. What if the coup had been a communist or leftist coup? Talbot answered without hesitation. Then of course we would have intervened and they woul…”
▶ Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974 @ 39:17
United States government laundered_money_for Otto Skorzeny host_asserted
“basically made him the primary contractor for billing all of the military bases in Spain because he was camped out in Franco's Spain at the time. And he got millions and millions and millions of dollars, only a fraction of which is what was…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 1:20:18
United States government funded CENTAP host_asserted
“Syntac did was it pulled treasury people it pulled DEA they even had a couple of guys that had formerly been in the CIA that knew when the CIA was like when they were operating over in Asia trying to map this one network they knew when the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:08:40
DynCorp trafficked United States government host_asserted
“Yeah, we all are wearing permanent Gladio glasses. Yes, we are, McModern. Yes, we are. All right. Yeah, somebody mentioned, oh, McModern did too, about the DynCorp and the trafficking of people. Yes, DynCorp is one of the evil entities that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:19:52
Organization of American States member_of United States government guest_asserted
“The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, most members of the European Union, the Organization of American States, all of these viewed Guido as legitimate. All of the NATO, basically, is what you're saying, and the OAS under the contro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 46:19
United States government funded Haiti host_asserted
“Sorry, one more. It's funny what you said just brought this to mind. It's like they use Canada in the U.S. sort of like a good cop, bad cop. You know, the U.S. take the bad reputation of coming in and the Canadians come by. But the syndicat…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 1:10:16
United States Capitol Police attempted_coup_against United States government host_asserted
“Cops in the Capitol Police Force, which you don't even know are cops, by the way, because they infiltrate these organizations all the time, were in on a coup to overthrow the government of the United States.…”
▶ Anyone applauding Tim Pool’s “smack down” of a lib video today needs to read or reread ._@GenFlynn_ and ._@boonecutler_ 5GW book. Here’s why @ 2:06

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Anyone applauding Tim Pool’s “smack down” of a lib video today needs to read or reread ._@GenFlynn_ and ._@boonecutler_ 5GW book. Here’s why
▶ 1:01 Because Tim Pool wedges in this little caveat that only the January 6th people who didn't hit a cop needs to be pardoned, needs to be forgiven, needs to have their sentence commutated, whatever. Let me tell you why that's a limited hangout.…
Anyone applauding Tim Pool’s “smack down” of a lib video today needs to read or reread ._@GenFlynn_ and ._@boonecutler_ 5GW book. Here’s why
▶ 1:33 The CIA, the FBI, the Department of Defense, all of them staged a coup on January 6th. Their purpose was to ensure that they could impeach Donald Trump prior to the end of his term and prevent him from ever running again. The United States …
Anyone applauding Tim Pool’s “smack down” of a lib video today needs to read or reread ._@GenFlynn_ and ._@boonecutler_ 5GW book. Here’s why
▶ 2:06 Cops in the Capitol Police Force, which you don't even know are cops, by the way, because they infiltrate these organizations all the time, were in on a coup to overthrow the government of the United States. I don't give a shit what uniform…
Anyone applauding Tim Pool’s “smack down” of a lib video today needs to read or reread ._@GenFlynn_ and ._@boonecutler_ 5GW book. Here’s why
▶ 4:17 We're not shutting up and we're not taking it anymore. And there are no caveats to pardoning every fucking person that was in January 6th that this tyrannical fascist government put in jail. I'm done with it. This all needs to stop and it n…
Anyone applauding Tim Pool’s “smack down” of a lib video today needs to read or reread ._@GenFlynn_ and ._@boonecutler_ 5GW book. Here’s why
▶ 4:50 that somehow you have the right to beat to death an American citizen, fuck you all. That's what I got to say to you. Every January 6th person, whether you were at the Capitol or you weren't, whether you hit a cop because you were entrapped …
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1
▶ 1:19:55 But Dwayne's perfectly right in everything that he said. Otto Skorzeny played such an integral part. And I did, Dwayne, share with them that he was given U.S. contracts. This also came out in Major Gannis' book. The way they money laundered…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1
▶ 1:20:18 basically made him the primary contractor for billing all of the military bases in Spain because he was camped out in Franco's Spain at the time. And he got millions and millions and millions of dollars, only a fraction of which is what was…
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1
▶ 1:21:40 I, too, like you a little bit, have been arm's length to way too much of this stuff. And I say to myself, wait a minute, I was there. Wait a minute. I was there. Right. I can confirm everything you just said. And also the and I'm sure that …
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1
▶ 1:29:06 So we decided we're going to go back and look at what the heck has been going on here in the United States besides Jonestown. And so if you look at Waco and then you go back to Ruby Ridge, most people don't understand that exactly 10 years …
Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1
▶ 1:37:35 Most of those loans went out to themselves. And so now their money grew by nine times. And they just kept rolling this money over and over. They did the savings and loan in the United States that way. Most of those savings and loans were ow…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 37:20 Resentment spilled over into the streets. By October, the protests were occurring daily and being put down by tanks. Students were being shot dead by government troops. The U.S. began to make moves for the situation in the street and the hi…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 37:49 with the Trujillo clan and the military leaders, and bluntly told them that U.S. military power would, if necessary, be used to compel the formation of a provisional government headed by Haquin Balaguer, B-A-L-A-G-U-E-R, until elections cou…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 38:45 The anti-communist liberals aren't strong enough. We must use our influence to take Balaguer along the road to democracy, unquote. To make certain that the Dominicans got the message, a U.S. naval task force of eight ships and 1,800 Marines…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 39:15 Spanish language broadcast from the ship warned that the Marines were prepared to come ashore while overhead American jet fighters occupied the skies. Nothing like a show of force. One of the generals, a key military figure, was persuaded b…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 40:18 Not a good scene there. And the rest of the holdouts that had been the Troheolites left for Florida. However, when Balaguer proved to be a major obstacle to beginning the process of democratization and indicated that he did not regard his r…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 40:48 after only two months in office. Washington then turned around and issued another stern warning to General Rodriguez, threatening Dominican leaders with a large loss of aid if they supported another coup and mounted another naval show of fo…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 41:07 While a seven-man council of state administered the state of the government, the U.S. continued to treat the Dominican Republic as a private experiment of the prevention of communism. The American ambassador now was John Bartlow, B-A-R-T-L-…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 42:08 General Robert Kennedy arranged for riot control equipment to be sent to Santa Domingo. The equipment came complete with Spanish-speaking L.A. detectives to impart to their Dominican counterparts the fine art of quelling such uprisings that…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 42:40 Imagine that. Thanks to those two detectives, this riot control unit remained as a permanent part of the Santo Domingo police force. They became known as the White Helmets. They came to be much hated by the populace. Shortly afterwards, the…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 43:12 anti-guerrilla organization. And what they mean by that is that's what they're going to be. Finally, in 1962, elections were held under terms dictated in large part by Ambassador Barton to the two candidates. So in other words, his purpose …
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 43:47 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…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 44:20 And also the exporting of Castro communists to the U.S. from where they were not allowed to leave until after the election was over. So in other words, we kidnapped a bunch of people and brought them to the United States and forced them to …
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 46:52 with the wonderment or the puzzling reality that in the name of democracy, we have set up totalitarian dictatorships all over the world. But our government came home in so doing and lied to us.…
Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic
▶ 53:30 And when you are backed against that kind of wall, you know, you are going to take back your country. And I pray and hope that these people do succeed. However, again, NATO and the U.S., via a Caribbean council, appointed a presidential cou…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 8:01 And I probably butchered that, but it's Z-E-N-A-W-I. And they both wanted more rights for the Ethiopian people. And they are predominantly a Muslim population. So Hassan told an international tribunal that was held on U.S. imperialism.…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 9:01 countries where we already control the government and they set up terrorist training camps on these border areas and they are used to insert insurgencies and create instability and chaos in countries. So just keep that in mind. Hassan blame…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 9:31 basically began creating chaos throughout Ethiopia. And then the U.S. immediately after this chaos began, ordered sanctions placed on Ethiopia to financially weaken it, which is, again, a pattern that we see repeatedly. So they create the c…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 10:30 that that was not true. And so, of course, then the Ethiopian government has no choice but to counter offensive these uprisings. And when they do that, then it gives the State Department and the U.S. government even more ammunition to say, …
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 11:04 The Tigray People's Liberation Front, that's TPLF, launched an insurgency in November of 2020. So this is very recent. And Hassan blamed the U.S. And basically, as a result, in just two years, it was estimated that over 600,000 people were …
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 11:35 in this uprising. The U.S. main motive for encouraging the rebellion was to restore the TPLF to power in Ethiopia, which they had been installed in power from 1991 to 2018, and to use the TPLF to control the Strategic Horn of Africa region.…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 12:05 Ali recounted a visit that he had in early 1990s with the then National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, who told him that the U.S. strategy for maximizing its influence in Africa in the post-Cold War era was by dividing the continent into fo…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 14:40 He may be. I don't know. But this labeling of people by our State Department, as I have said repeatedly, may or may not be true. And I think that's what gets us in trouble. And we have been programmed to have visceral reactions to these lab…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 24:32 isn't going to be able to subscribe to that. And you sure as hell can't turn your entire freaking society upside down and then walk away. But that is what has happened in many of these cases. And then without any of this information, withou…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 25:33 had told a journalist, Ann Garrison, that over the last three decades, the U.S. showered the TPLF minority regime with roughly $1 billion of UNI's tax money in aid under the guise of humanitarian assistance. In exchange, the TPLF served as …
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 26:03 It used its influence in the African Union, which is based in Addis Ababa, to protect Washington's interest on the African continent. So basically what, let me just rephrase that. What that's saying is the State Department was using, under …
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 30:24 who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for his role in helping to broker a durable peace agreement with Eritrea, and for releasing political prisoners and establishing a free press after years of TPLF authoritarian rule. According to Hassan Al…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 31:57 that they found necessary by the decision of the U.S. Defense Secretary John Foster Dulles in the 1950s to support Ethiopia's occupation of Eritrea. Eritrea rejected loans from the World Bank and the IMF and promoted economic self-reliance …
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 32:57 or anybody else to include the Department of Defense from the U.S. in its country. To punish it for its defiance, the U.S. began imposing crippling sanctions under the false pretext that Eritrea supported the Somalian terrorist group al-Sha…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 34:17 The sanctions as such were expanded upon to the detriment of the Eritrean people who were deprived of medicines, goods, and prevented from carrying out financial transactions on the SWIFT system because you have to financially break these p…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 35:16 wrote in Black Agenda Report that such negative and prejudiced views obscured the fact that Eritrea is a functioning and proudly sovereign state, which overcomes the hardships created by U.S. sanctions to care for its people. It was Eritrea…
Operation Gladio - Ethiopia
▶ 36:15 checked all of the boxes of Western war propaganda. Western economic interest in geopolitical scheming in the Horde of Africa was obscured and the history of U.S. imperial intervention in the region was ignored, along with the history of th…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 6:18 provide compelling new evidence of the U.S. government in the 1966 overthrow of the Ghana president Kwame Nkrumah. And I'm going to spell this for you guys. K-W-A-M-E. And his last name is N-K-R-U-M-A-H. The coup d'etat organized by army of…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 7:17 and its ongoing official history of American foreign policy. This was prepared by the State Department's Office of Historian. The latest volumes reflect the overt diplomacy and covert actions of LBJ's administration from 1964 to 1968. Thoug…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 7:46 was only recently revealed. Allegations of American involvement in the coup arose almost immediately because of the well-known hostility of the U.S. to Kruma's socialist orientation or…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 8:05 pan-African activism. So in other words, it really had nothing to do with socialism, communism, or anything else. It had to do with them protecting their resources and believing in a pan-African union, which we know, of course, caused the c…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 11:53 While the newly released documents written by the National Security Council staffer and an unnamed CIA officer confirmed the essential outlines set forth in what Stockdale said, they also provided additional and chilling details about the U…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 14:26 Mahoney again correctly forecast the future. Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, it would be a military takeover. But Mahoney was not a prophet. However, he represented the commitment of the U.S. government in coordination w…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 14:52 He felt that there was little chance that either the Chinese communists or the Soviets would, in adequate measure, come to his financial rescue. The British would continue to adopt a hard-nosed attitude in denying Ghana aid. At the same tim…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 15:46 He had been through in the last month, recalling that there had been seven attempts on his life, no doubt by the CIA. Mahoney did not attempt to discourage Kruma's fears, nor did he characterize them as unfounded. While Kruma apparently con…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 16:15 He still suspects the U.S., and so would everybody else. Of course, the U.S. was out to get him. Moreover, Kruma was keenly aware of a recent African precedence that made the notion of the U.S.-organized sanctioned assassination plot, namel…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 16:45 Lumumba's assassination in 61 was the work of the U.S. government. And he wasn't wrong. When Lumumba's murder was announced, Kruma told students at the inauguration of an institute that bore his name that the brutal murder should teach them…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 20:11 countries, including France, have been helping to set up the situation by ignoring Kruma's pleas for economic aid. Comer's reference to not being told if the U.S. was directly involved in the coup is revealing, and quite likely, a nod to hi…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 20:36 Among the most deeply ingrained aspects of intelligence tradecraft and culture is plausible deniability, the habit of mind and practice designed to insulate the U.S., particularly the president, while they're doing covert operations. Comer …
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 25:06 While I pull that up. OK, here it is. So this is a BBC article. And not only did it talk about during the same time frame, the Patrice Lumumba coup in 1961, but it mentions the overthrow of Kruma in Ghana. And I'll just read real quick what…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 26:08 CIA station, was nonetheless encouraged by headquarters to maintain contact with all the dissidents. It was given a generous budget to help patch the plot. He says that the CIA in Ghana got more involved and its operatives were given unoffi…
Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966
▶ 33:00 unable, ultimately, to keep Ghana from falling under the way of the multinationalist corporations. When he attempted to lessen his country's dependence on the West by strengthening economic and military ties with other countries, to include…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 32:13 overcharged the U.S. government, i.e. us, and the slush of that money laundering opportunity was going to go to pay Otto Skorzeny, because do you know who got all the contracts to build all those bases? Otto Skorzeny and his partner that ow…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 34:58 who sits behind his desk, which displays the red, white, and blue clasp symbol of American aid. He tries to show the prisoners the absolute futility of resistance. He would tell them, you make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anyt…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 35:56 They would also say the tortures from the start had said that the United States supported them and that that was what counted, unquote. In November 1973, a falling out within the Greek inner circle culminated in the ousting of Papadopoulos …
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 38:21 This may have been the reason a separate investigation of this aspect was scheduled to be undertaken by the Greek Court of Appeals, but it appears that no information resulted from this inquiry as if it actually ever took place. It was neve…
Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974
▶ 38:49 The evidence of U.S. complicity will never be fully known. Andreas Paparando had been arrested at the time of the coup and held in prison for eight months. Shortly after his release, him and his wife visited the American ambassador, Philip …
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 5:55 They were trying to kill, as we've said many times, the Sandinistas. And the Sandinistas was actually the freedom fighters trying to take their country back from the global oligarchies, the international syndicate, as I refer to it. And you…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 10:05 its electric power plants, its sugar mills, which was a huge source of income, and the single largest bank in the country. Now, I have to stop here for just a second to remind everybody because this is my new soapbox. There are states withi…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 13:51 900 of which belonged to the U.S. fruit companies, and they were put there specifically to be used only by the fruit companies to haul their fruit to the harbor, not to be enjoyed by the people. Strikes, political protests, uprisings, and a…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 24:27 Honduras held its next election in 1981, and Roberto Suarez O. Cordova, a country doctor and veteran political infighter, emerged as the president. True power remained with the military, specifically a military commander by the name of Gene…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 24:53 and the United States because Alvarez was a fierce, quote-unquote, anti-communist who detested the Sandinista movement. And keep in mind, the Sandinista movement was the freedom fighters that the U.S. government labeled as communists so the…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 25:53 Soon, hundreds of Contras were operating from the camps along the Nicaraguan border inside of Honduras, and thousands of American soldiers were flying in and out of an Aquacate, A-Q-U-A-C-A-T-E, airbase nearby. From 1980 until 1984, annual …
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 28:12 But those did not come to light until much later. Thousands of poor Honduran families submerged the grinding poverty and fear of the military fled the country in the 1980s. And guess where they all went? They went to the United States. Many…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 31:20 We have documented evidence that these people have done domestic terror events inside the United States that were trained in a foreign country by the CIA and then later allowed to immigrate here. So, just saying. I want to keep you guys tot…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 31:53 on the private industry side by the international syndicate and the government. And it also shows you the consequences, both foreign and domestic, of this regime change, Gladio operation, that has gone on since the aftermath of World War II…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 32:22 governments that crushed every attempt at national development and went back on lies, bribery, and everything. In 1980, when democracy finally seemed ready to emerge in Honduras, the U.S. prevented it from flowering because it threatened th…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 32:54 And Hondurans were basically earning less than three thousand dollars a year in Honduras. No one can know what might have happened in Honduras if it had been left alone. Two facts, however, are indisputable. First, the U.S. had used overwhe…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 33:23 for more than a century. Second, Honduras today faces a nightmare of poverty, violence, and instability as a result of that. The shattering events in 1898 established the U.S. as a world power. In the first years of the 20th century, it beg…
Operation Gladio - Honduras
▶ 33:47 And they're basically talking about what we have talked about with the Spanish-American War and ending up with Cuba and Puerto Rico and our involvement in that area. The U.S. resolved to build an interoceanic canal, which we've talked about…
Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2
▶ 1:11:58 It's done in a way on page 10 that never brings it to national attention. But it's out there. And that's why going back after the fact is very important because you can pull those pieces out. So if you go to this Martinez page, you see that…
Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption
▶ 1:22:56 And they said, oh, no, there was some mistake. A few people got these emails, whatever. So, again, I don't know if it's a mistake or if there's something going on there. But basically, they just told me to ignore it, and that's all. But, ye…
Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption
▶ 1:29:00 That has got a lot of steam and people of notable stature behind it that it does appear to be going somewhere. And yes, it's it would not be the ability. But that that's to your point. The Second Amendment and gold goes hand in hand, becaus…
Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption
▶ 1:42:58 They basically are molding these. And you have no idea because our government keeps shit from us. You have no idea how many there are. You have no idea what they did to them. And this is a government using your money to do that with. And th…
Operation Gladio - Rwanda
▶ 1:15:31 This guy is like, you know, I don't know, killed a few million people, but he did not. When you have a guy sitting over in Rwanda that literally did kill tons and tons and tons and tons of people. And our government, go look up the USAID th…
Operation Gladio - Rwanda
▶ 1:16:02 citizens and the former president. He was found guilty of killing the former president in a French investigation that awarded money to the survivors of the air crew. There was an indictment out for his arrest in the United States that the U…
Operation Gladio - Rwanda
▶ 1:16:30 We know damn good and well he's guilty. And yet we continue to fund him. And I'm not saying anything about you, Miles, but the United States has been lied to about this man and the government over there. And like Miles being the good citize…
Operation Gladio - Rwanda
▶ 1:16:59 The government, if you do anything outside of X, Y, and Z, is going to murder you. So the audacity of our government to tell us that Maduro or Chavez before him is really the bad guy, or do you just want their oil? Is he bad because he won'…
Operation Gladio - Rwanda
▶ 1:24:03 To me, it was the most obvious, you know, but like you said, hard to break the programming. It is hard to break the programming, but we're dang sure going to try. And I also wanted to share with you guys some other very interesting informat…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 3:40 And this is it starts with for most of World War Two, the United States considered Vietnam to be a relatively unimportant French colony to someday be reclaimed from the Japanese. But America showed little interest in enlisting Vietnamese ai…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 5:30 B, as in Bravo, T, GBT, had been providing information on weather conditions, movement of Japanese troop trains, naval vessels, and escape routes for downed airmen from the 14th U.S. Air Force stationed in China. Up to this point, the GBT r…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 6:22 from the 14th Air Force the previous year when he escorted a downed American pilot out of Vietnam into China. The OSS agent, Charles Finn, F-E-N-N, tracked down the man in question, Ho Chi Minh, describing him as articulate, charismatic, an…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 7:19 base area to train them for operations against the Japanese. When Thomas and his team arrived in late July, they were greeted by a large banner proclaiming, Welcome to our American friends. With the tone of their work set, Deer Team went ab…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 7:48 Their training did not last long, however, with the bombing of the atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, World War II ended. Upon receiving the news, the Americans of Deer Team and the Viet Minh laughed and drank long into the night. Thomas…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 8:47 By the time the first Americans arrived in Hanoi on August 22nd to help prepare for the formal Japanese surrender, Vietnam men were firmly in control of the North. The man in charge of the American mission to Hanoi was named Captain Archime…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 9:44 They actually gave the U.S. primetime spot. Vo Nguyen Giap, G-I-A-P, who would later become famous as the Viet Minh's preeminent military commander, said, quote, this is the first time in history of Vietnam that our flag has been displayed …
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 10:14 I will long remember this occasion, unquote. And there's pictures of them all saluting the flags. On September 2nd, Patty and his team watched as Ho Chi Minh read Vietnam's Declaration of Independence before a cheering crowd. Their Declarat…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 10:42 the OSS officers. This apparent U.S. recognition of Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese independence further inflamed the French, whose opinion, as most colonials had expected, the Americans to refuse to deal with this upstart government and help Fr…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 12:07 Tall, handsome, very rich, idealistic, it was only natural for the Vietnamese to fall in love with Americans. This seemed true even at the highest levels. Perhaps the relationship can best be illustrated by one of the last meetings between …
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 14:06 And just so that you guys know, I had to do protocol for six months deployed. And the seating arrangements at things like this is of paramount concern to everybody. This would have been like, I mean, like sticking an ice pick in these peopl…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 14:34 were strained, however, the excitement and optimism for the Vietnamese felt at the end of World War II for both a free and independent nation and the good relations with the U.S. had eroded. The U.S. government wanted to leave the messy col…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 14:57 In their last transmission to the OSS headquarters in autumn of 1945, Captain Peter Dewey reflected this sentiment. China is burning. The French and British are finished here, and we ought to clear out of Southeast Asia. On the day of his s…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 15:25 who may have mistaken him for a Frenchman, thus becoming the first American casualty in Vietnam in the post-war period. In the decades to come, however, many more would die. So there is some discussion about that. Actually, him being shot w…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 16:56 And I wanted to read this statement from him. It was during an interview that he did in 1981. In my opinion, the Vietnam War was the greatest waste. There was no need for it to even happen in the first place at all. None whatsoever. During …
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 17:49 And he is employed by the Pentagon, by the State Department, and had a job at some point in the White House. And not a single person ever asked him about his personal experience and his opinion on Ho Chi Minh. So that tells you right there …
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 18:47 Patty arrived in Hanoi on a mercy mission with an OSS agent, Carlton B. Swift, and a French government official by the name of Jean Chantini. His primary mission was to assist with the repatriation of Allied prisoners of war as the U.S. gov…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 19:44 The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence had a similar structure, but different in content, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, since the history and circumstances of the two countries were a little different. Indeed, Ho Chi Minh had re…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 21:47 Having gone through those experiences and then know later in life that your government completely ignored your firsthand experience and basically went to war anyway. And of course, we all know it was a drug war after the fact. But and then …
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 23:49 Ho Chi Minh's distinctive character significantly resulted or contributed to this result. It is the focus of easy essay on the relationship between the U.S., namely the OSS, and Ho Chi Minh before and after the proclamation of Vietnamese in…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 26:14 not the exile government, the one that was physically in France, were fascist in nature already, so they wouldn't have been that concerned about it. The arrival of the first Japanese troops in Indochina rapidly drew the attention of the U.S…
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 26:41 With the filling of an imminent victory in 1943, a renewed interest in terms of post-war peace plans of Roosevelt was evident. The anti-French and anti-colonialist attitude of President Roosevelt was evident, and the trusteeship formula on …
Operation Gladio - Vietnam history 1940’s and prior
▶ 30:06 Don't forget, Japan is there, too. So all of this is, you know, a lot of turmoil right now going on in China and then in all of these Asian countries. So the person chosen for the job is a U.S. Navy captain, Milton Miles. Ty Lee, who's the …
The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13
▶ 20:19 contingent could hardly be called a group anymore, so they redesignated it as Military Assistance Command, and the figures rose by 1963 to be 22,000 people. Conditions in South Vietnam deteriorated despite the increase in forces. Government…
The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13
▶ 29:26 He was a man who spoke four or five different languages, including French. He was indispensable in Vietnam. Richardson had been a classmate of Richard Nixon at Whittier College in California. Richardson's problem was not the Vietnamese, but…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11
▶ 35:47 Even though they don't have anything to do with Venezuela and they're not even in Venezuela. If these activities do not constitute government functions, then Haasman was admitting that what many of the critics in Washington already knew. It…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11
▶ 37:57 U.S. law or Harvard norms? Anya replies, okay, but shouldn't you disclose your private consulting clients if you're a government advisor? Rather than answer that question, Hosman changed the subject. You tried to disqualify my daughter just…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11
▶ 43:26 as the economic part of the government and serving in post for a political party still residing in Venezuela. It would be like the DNC appointing an economic advisor and then appointing that economic advisor to go represent the U.S. abroad,…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11
▶ 43:56 But then all these other governments that don't like the United States goes, yeah, we'll recognize him and let him screw America. That's exactly what just happened. So that's crazy shit. Something happened to SR-71. Let me get him back up h…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11
▶ 45:47 Oh, my Lord. Name off some of the... Didn't we just do this everywhere else? Name off some of the countries that accepted him after the U.S. did that. Some of the countries that accepted him... Well, I can tell you ones that rejected it rea…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11
▶ 46:19 The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, most members of the European Union, the Organization of American States, all of these viewed Guido as legitimate. All of the NATO, basically, is what you're saying, and the OAS under the contro…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11
▶ 49:48 this effort went. And to me, I came away from it as the entire recognition of the fake government was a way for grand theft at a magnitude that's dumbfounding. Because again, it would be like allowing an opposition political party in Americ…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11
▶ 50:18 As a representative, because another country recognized them as a fake government of the United States. And, you know, that would never be tolerated by the United States. And yet it was us doing it to another country. But we haven't even go…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12
▶ 47:54 It's unlikely that average U.S. citizens regularly consider SWIFT's existence or their dollar status as a world reserve currency. For foreign leaders struggling against the U.S. and European economic wars, it's a big deal. For decades, U.S.…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12
▶ 48:25 privilege status was noted in Washington's historic relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which enabled it to form the petrodollar system. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Saudi Arabia began overtaking the U.S. and the Soviet Union as t…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12
▶ 48:55 Within a matter of months, the U.S. was rocked by a sudden 40% surge in gas prices. In the summer of 1974, Richard Nixon dispatched U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simons and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Saudi Arabia with a mission…
The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12
▶ 49:19 Riyadh lifted its oil embargo and purchased U.S. Treasury bonds in exchange for U.S.-supplied military equipment. More importantly for Washington, however, that was that from 1974 on, Saudi Arabia agreed to sell all oil in U.S. dollars. Due…
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