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Charles Boyd person

also: Major General Charles Boyd, Boyd

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Charles Boyd recruited Enrique Bermudez documented
“Soon after the uplifting visit from Samosa's cousin, Bermudez got a call from Major General Charles Boyd, a top Air Force official who visited Bermudez and invited him to the Pentagon just to kick some ideas around. Not like we're going to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 39:29

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The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 39:29 Soon after the uplifting visit from Samosa's cousin, Bermudez got a call from Major General Charles Boyd, a top Air Force official who visited Bermudez and invited him to the Pentagon just to kick some ideas around. Not like we're going to …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 39:57 After sounding out Bermudez on the idea of running a rebel force against the Sandinista government, Boyd told him that he had a friend at the CIA who was interested in speaking to him. In mid-1980, Bermudez had packed his family and his bel…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 40:56 everyone that he could recruit. Those who wonder how Bermudez could afford to travel so much when he didn't have a job was basically told that he was living off the profits of his Washington house. You know, the one he got as a truck driver…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 27:48 the author had stayed in touch over time, kind of bantering back, because obviously he's talking about stuff that Gary Webb was intimately involved in. And he goes on to say that one of the, let me find his name, Charles Bowden, Webb had on…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 28:20 Obviously, Bowden is the author of books called Down by the River, Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family. He had done several different investigative research things, focusing too on the Contra piece of it. Bowden was one of the few journalists …
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 28:50 proverbial lynching, that is. And Bowden wrote in Esquire magazine the following. Two years ago, Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that had some things about the CIA and drug traffickers. The CIA denied the charges and every major newspa…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 29:21 the phone with Bowden in December of 2004. And this is around the time when Gary Webb was murdered and they were talking and Bowden then 59 said he believed that he tells the author here that, yeah, he thinks Gary Webb killed himself.…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 29:51 And the author just immediately says, yeah, the whole two bullet thing, what? And he says, I'm at an age now where I have people dying all around me, Baldwin said. And he really didn't wanna face reality that they could be murdered for tell…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 30:24 touch into that world having done a lot of research with Gary Webb's gone. So he stays in touch with Bowden and it talks a little bit about that. So we get to the point where he says they're talking about his story. And when Bowden heard th…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 30:56 In the daily news sense, Gary was the best investigative reporter in the country, according to Bowden. The next chapter, the ghost of Charles Bowden. So the author says, when I heard that he had passed, I had tears in my eyes. The news came…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 31:29 He died peacefully in his bed at his home in New Mexico, Las Cruz, New Mexico, after having persistent flu-like symptoms in 2014. In August, his companion, Molly Molai, a Latin American researcher, writer, and librarian at New Mexico State …
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 32:00 said that there had been an irregular heartbeat at a recent EKG. He went to bed and didn't wake up. In the author's mind, it was like he can't die. He was so helpful in being a sounding board once he lost Gary Webb. This is what Bowden had …
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 32:30 The DEA, for example, has a need to demonize opponents. Also, they loathe the CIA because intelligence work means having useful relationships with criminals. I do know the DEA agents have talked to me about the CIA's penetration and control…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 32:54 Basically, the drug industry is too connected to American foreign policy needs and for it to be left to the cowboys of the DEA. So not only are they overruled, but they're infiltrated. The DEA agents seem to have stories of busts that were …
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 33:22 I remember when this case, the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena in 1985 began because it prompted then DEA supervisor agent Phil Jordan to explain to me that the DEA had been penetrated by the CIA and such agents watched people like Kiki.…
The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II
▶ 19:46 Almost every member, Dean Rusk, John D. Rockefeller, Charles Bowles, Richard Bradfield, Detlev Brunk, John Dickey, Lewis Douglas, Arthur Houghton, Robert Lovett. Another guy we come across a lot. Of the 20.…