James Bo Gritz person
also: James Gritz, Beau, Gritz, Beau Gritz, Grits, Colonel Gritz, Captain James Boe Gritz, G-R-I-T-Z
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Claims (7)
Scott Weakley member_of
James Bo Gritz documented
“at a downtown Holiday Inn. Weakley had just returned from his latest POW hunt with Bo Gritz, allegedly on behalf of the National Security Council, but he discovered that the agents, accompanied by Oklahoma City Federal Prosecutor Steve Koro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 49:55
James Bo Gritz member_of
Operation Eagle Claw host_asserted
“James Bo Gritz. The reconnaissance patrol he accompanied into northern Laos managed to locate a suspected POW camp being guarded by Asians in military uniform. Upon examining the camp with high-powered binoculars and cameras equipped with t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 41:05
James Bo Gritz carried_out_attack
Burma host_asserted
“Yes, that's true. In 1983, Grits' team managed to make their way through the jungle and virgin teak forest of northern Thailand to Burma to meet with Kung Sa. What they found was that once again, the POW-MIA situation was directly linked to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 44:21
Scott Weakley member_of
James Bo Gritz documented
“of a relationship to the CIA and Hasenfuss. And for those of you who haven't listened to the earlier versions, Hasenfuss was the sole survivor of the CIA aircraft shot down over Nicaragua. And the exportation of explosives to the countries.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 34:26
William Harvey covered_up
James Bo Gritz host_asserted
“Grits and Weakley returned to the U.S. by mid-December 1986 with videotapes of their talks about the opium. And Grits said he immediately turned them over to Colonel Harvey at the NSC. Grits said Harvey told him to erase and forget what he …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 53:42
James Bo Gritz spied_on
Khun Sa host_asserted
“into the mountains of northern Burma to visit opium warlord named Khun Sa, who commanded a tribal army estimated at about 40,000 men. Gritz has said that their primary mission from Colonel Harvey at the NSC was to check out a tip Vice Presi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 52:23
Steve Korotash covered_up
James Bo Gritz host_asserted
“I didn't have a clue. He thought Gritz was an idiot, but others didn't find him so unbelievable. A month later, federal agents raided his home in Sandy Valley, Nevada, hauling away boxes of paperwork. Simultaneously, Weakley began receiving…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 55:12
Mentions (47)
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while on a covert mission to gather intelligence on American soldiers missing from Vietnam War. The head of the DIA had wanted to find out once and for all if the rumors were true. And of course, that's the mission that the entire series of…
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James Bo Gritz, a decorated Vietnam hero and former commander of U.S. Special Forces in the Panama Canal. And of course, what's very interesting about that is that's where the School of Americas was. And that's the timing that the School of…
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public information about how to torture, kidnap, and assassinate people was being taught at the School of Americas. And that puts this guy right there. Though he retired from the military in 1979, Grits said that for several years afterward…
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According to author Stephen Emerson, the ISA, known in military intelligence circle as the Activity, provided Grits with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cameras, polygraph equipment to check the veracity of people in the theater, radi…
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Also, given satellite photos and other intelligence data, the operation was codenamed Grand Eagle. Dr. Death, Weakley, was Gritz's right-hand man. In congressional testimony, Gritz said that Grand Eagle was officially shelved after a bureau…
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of DIA, Admiral Alan Paulson, confirmed to Congress that a Department of Defense organization proposed an operation using Mr. Gritz in a collection capacity, but Paulson said the operation was turned down at the first level of approval. The…
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the ironic codename Operation Lazarus. Weakley's contributions, according to a 1983 Soldier of Fortune magazine story, included having silencers altered to fit a 9mm submachine gun to be used by the team. The first mission in November of 19…
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As he prepared to make another stab at infiltrating Laos in early 1983, word of his mission was leaked to Soldier of Fortune magazine and picked up by the Los Angeles Time and Boston Globe. Exposed, Gritz and his squad were arrested by Thai…
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anti-terrorism expert and the daughter of a missing U.S. pilot were jailed and held for trial. In a letter to the LA Times, Grits said that the CIA and DIA both knew of the mission and provided him with the gear. Both agencies disavowed any…
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with powerful transmitters that had been used to send messages from Laos directly to Washington, unquote. UPI reported the disclosure of the radio type and purpose bolstered the credibility of Gritz's statement and that his first mission in…
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Those telling paragraphs were cut from a UPI story that moved later that afternoon. And from then on, most press reports uncritically accepted the government's denial of Grits and Weekly and were dismissed as commandos off on their own priv…
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at his bank. Anderson put it more bluntly. Renault's investment firm was hip-deep in active or retired CIA employees. In other words, a money laundering place. In an affidavit, Renault said the CIA, quote, had originally committed its suppo…
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According to Anderson, the bombshell of Renault's exhibits is a confidential letter to Gritz on official DIA stationery, instructing Gritz to pull together evidence to convince political skeptics that the POWs exist. As an aside, Renault al…
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Evidence surfaced suggesting that Lister's description wasn't far off the mark. At the time Lister made that claim, Scott Weakley was participating in at least two covert operations involving the National Security Council and a special unit…
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Cuban mercenaries working on the southern front. So in other words, he was one of the key coordinators for the entire Contra operation. Gritz testified that he approached Bode and Pena to discuss the Afghan training program he and Weakley w…
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I would call him excited. He said that not only did he approve the proposal, but that he would provide other Afghan groups, since there was a division of about six or seven subgroups, that he would provide other people for us to train also.…
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Grits said. Bode said that that had to be shortened to 30 days, quote, and eliminated some of the classes that he felt were too sensitive for the Mujahideen at the time. It included various secure communication courses that we planned to gi…
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He denied that he authorized the operation. He went on to say, just the fact that we met and had talks didn't authorize anything. The Afghan program is a covert program, okay? All CIA, or perhaps a little bit of Department of Defense, the S…
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The State Department has provided cover for more CIA operations over the years than any other government entity, except maybe the military. Bode's assistant, Nestor Pino, also denied that he had officially authorized the missions. But he sa…
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are in concert with and complementary of U.S. policy for Afghanistan and that Colonel Gritz and Mr. Weakley saw it that way, too. Unquote. Their activities, Pino declared, were inspired by a strong desire to support the Afghan resistance ag…
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the beacon of freedom. In federal court, Weakley and Gritz testified that the money to pay the Afghan training courses came from Stanford Technology, one of the companies fronting for Oliver Norse Enterprise, the quasi-government arms deale…
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In late 1986, Grits and Weakley's training program conducted in the Nevada desert on land owned by the federal government was accidentally exposed by a law student in Oklahoma City who was married to a policeman. She was sitting in her apar…
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a Lieutenant Colonel Tom Harvey, who was on the staff of the National Security Council. Gritz has said Harvey was supervising the POW hunt that he and Weakley had went on and provided them with White House and NSC credentials. Harvey later …
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of a relationship to the CIA and Hasenfuss. And for those of you who haven't listened to the earlier versions, Hasenfuss was the sole survivor of the CIA aircraft shot down over Nicaragua. And the exportation of explosives to the countries.…
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Federal Judge Ralph Thompson said it was not routine that people be released on bail in this kind of case. But he did it anyway. The hearing was over in a matter of minutes and Weakley was soon on his way back home. Then Bo Gritz began shou…
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into the mountains of northern Burma to visit opium warlord named Khun Sa, who commanded a tribal army estimated at about 40,000 men. Gritz has said that their primary mission from Colonel Harvey at the NSC was to check out a tip Vice Presi…
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As with Grits' earlier mission, the U.S. government denies any involvement. However, no one has explained why Grits and Weakley were meeting and speaking with National Security Council officials, which was well documented. After a three-day…
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What he did know about, Gritz claimed, was a CIA-run heroin trafficking network that had been operating in the region for more than a decade. Way more than a decade, because we know all about that. Gritz said that Khun Sa, who controlled mu…
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Grits and Weakley returned to the U.S. by mid-December 1986 with videotapes of their talks about the opium. And Grits said he immediately turned them over to Colonel Harvey at the NSC. Grits said Harvey told him to erase and forget what he …
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charging the U.S. officials for dealing in heroin that the Reagan administration was trying to cover up. So now we've got contra and heroin going on, all of which is true. He pointed to Scott Weakley's recent arrest and conviction on explos…
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Grits, as they always do when somebody's telling the truth, it received some wire service and radio coverage, particularly in Oklahoma City. Weekly's prosecutor, Steve Korotash, was driving to the supermarket when he heard Grits come over t…
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I didn't have a clue. He thought Gritz was an idiot, but others didn't find him so unbelievable. A month later, federal agents raided his home in Sandy Valley, Nevada, hauling away boxes of paperwork. Simultaneously, Weakley began receiving…
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A month later, in May of 1987, Gritz was indicted by a federal grand jury in Nevada for misusing a passport during his travels to Southeast Asia because, of course, he was given a fake passport. He admitted that he used a phony passport, bu…
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Gritz also told the UPI that the charges were intended to silence him and his accusations about the CIA and Defense Department being involved in opium trafficking. Gritz and his attorney vowed to turn his trial into an expose on government …
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that he report any future contact with any officer or employee of the Department of State or Department of Defense or CIA or any other intelligence agency in the United States. While the Justice Department pounced on Grits and Weakley for w…
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from there into Laos in search of evidence of Americans missing in the area. The patrol, which may have had some official U.S. support, may have, was organized by a legendary figure by the name of Captain James Boe Gritz, G-R-I-T-Z.…
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James Bo Gritz. The reconnaissance patrol he accompanied into northern Laos managed to locate a suspected POW camp being guarded by Asians in military uniform. Upon examining the camp with high-powered binoculars and cameras equipped with t…
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Barnes later discovered that the mission leader, Michael Baldwin, was in fact Jerry Daniels, a former CIA and Special Forces operative who had worked under Clines and served as Vang Pao's case officer. I am shocked that guy's not dead. Lite…
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James Gritz, Beau, led a three-man team into the Golden Triangle section of Burma. He had been told by a member of the National Security Council that the opium warlord named General Kuhn Sa might know of or even control some of the captured…
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Yes, that's true. In 1983, Grits' team managed to make their way through the jungle and virgin teak forest of northern Thailand to Burma to meet with Kung Sa. What they found was that once again, the POW-MIA situation was directly linked to…
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That he did not have or know of any American held within the Shan state, his territory. He did want Ritz to take back to America an offer that he felt the Reagan administration could not refuse. The offer was the Shan people would reduce an…
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the reputed war on drugs. You know, that never left Thailand because there was really no war on drugs. He actually called out the Reagan administration for lying. There's no war on drugs because nobody's actually trying to work with him to …
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Peace Corps volunteers to show the Shons how to grow other crops and for the proper equipment to be provided. If the U.S. agreed, he'd stop growing opium. Gritz returned to the U.S. and delivered the message to his contacts at the White Hou…
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Turned cryptic. What about the 900 tons? Asked Gritz, referring to the quantity that had been shipped by this man out to the world market. 900 tons of opium. Harvey replied, Beau, there's no interest here in that. Gritz was taken aback. Tom…
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Grits' reward was to be indicted. Not the drug traffickers, not the people that ordered the other team to be assassinated for finding American POWs. The guy that brought the evidence to the United States, Grits. Yeah, he gets arrested. He g…
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Perot was immediately removed from the position. And in a heart-rending statement made to the POW and families in 1987, he said, I have been instructed to cease and assist. You saw too much. The Pei Ocean Lao continued to hold 308 American …
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want the American POWs to come home again, Gritz said, because when they do, there will be an investigation as to why they were abandoned. At the time, we will uncover this secret organization and their illicit drug money and financing. The…