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Claims (122)
Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala appointed
Colombia documented
“Since contributing to the creation of the paramilitary network, MAS, the Colombian military and the U.S. intelligence continued to work in tandem, fomenting alliances to fight the guerrillas as an integral part of their counterinsurgency do…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 33:18
Colombia targeted_for_regime_change
FARC book_quoted
“It became the decade when there was a declaration of basically all-out civil war against the FARC in Colombia. So the measures included coca-cocoa cultivation, production, marketing, transportation, and distribution networks for the new pro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 20:41
Colombia carried_out_attack
Marquetalia book_quoted
“whether they were armed or unarmed, which is exactly what we did in Vietnam. Between 1963 and 66, the Colombian state forces used U.S.-supplied helicopters, vehicles, communication equipment, and weapons to destroy rebel communities through…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 23:06
Plan Lazo trained
Colombia book_quoted
“was provided by the United States. The Colombian peasants, rebels, retreated into agricultural frontiers along the Amazon, where the state had no presence. Modeled on the Phoenix program used in Vietnam, Plan Lazo, L-A-Z-O, sent hunter-kill…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 22:34
Alberto Lleras Camargo headed
Colombia book_quoted
“Accumulation was so great that the new president, Alberto Larris Camargo, who was president from 58 to 62, concluded that the blood and capital accumulation went together. Blood of the indigenous people and capital accumulation for the land…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 24:06
FARC carried_out_attack
Colombia host_asserted
“integrating drug trafficking into Colombian agribusiness, military defense, and politics. That's almost half of the link. At the end of the 90s, the FARC's power and influence extended over 60% of Colombia. In less than three years, over 93…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 36:23
FARC member_of
Colombia host_asserted
“FARC was active in 83 of the 116 municipalities. Some areas are formally organized by the FARC with schools, medical facilities, grassroots judicial structures, and social projects. Field work conducted by sociologist James Britton.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 36:55
Colombia trafficked
United States host_asserted
“on average between 150,000 and 200,000 hectares, with dynamic trends concentrated in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru, which is referred to as the Crystal Triangle. Cocaine is exported to the U.S. by air from remote airstrips and by sea from Col…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 55:11
Ralph Pazulo lived_in
Colombia host_asserted
“And that's when the CIA was trying to overthrow Bolivia. No big deal. All right. He leaves Bolivia. Now, keep in mind, this is when they're setting up the crystal triangle. So Bolivia is where they plant the plants, right? He leaves Bolivia…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 10:35
School of the Americas trained
Colombia host_asserted
“School of Americas is training national police in foreign countries, not just military. And I was like, okay, I'm going to walk as normally as I can to get in the car and leave. So I found it very interesting. I did get a little bit of info…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Thursday 2025-08-14 @ 46:01
FARC carried_out_attack
Colombia host_asserted
“The FARC did some really bad things. I can understand why they did them. They're still really bad things. They kidnapped people, those elite class of people that were stealing the land of the small farmers and adding to their massive ranche…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Thursday 2025-08-14 @ 57:39
Colombia extradited
Herberto Cardona documented
“Cardona, whom Blanton called El Fuco, was one of Colombia's better-known cocaine kingpins. When the Colombian government agreed to extradite him and five other traffickers to the United States in late 1985, it was international news, held a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 21:14
Colombia deported
Juan Mata Ballesteros documented
“There was one trafficker the Colombians refused to extradite, Juan Mata Ballesteros, the Honduran billionaire whose airline, Stetco, was flying supplies for the Contras. Instead of turning Mata over to the U.S., the Colombians deported him …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 21:42
Simón Bolívar founded
Colombia book_quoted
“Venezuelan-born military leader inspired by Enlightenment principles and North American revolutionaries, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, eventually led the local charge against Spain and its royal forces in the South Ameri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 18:01
CIA trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“That drugs originating from Colombia under the control of the CIA has been funneled up through covertly through Venezuela. And the CIA and people that have become whistleblowers outside of the CIA and DEA whistleblowers have said the reason…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:58:48
Ovali member_of
Colombia documented
“Ovali, a detective in Colombia's secret department, said that a government must kill or capture guerrillas in order to reassure the population that the rebel cause cannot prevail. Inspector Madhop Rana of Nepal wrote that an interrogator co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 46:35
Colombia blamed
FARC documented
“the FARC insurgency, and support the Colombian government. On February 7, 2003, Colombia and the U.S. blamed the FARC for a bombing at Club El Noble in Bogota, which made world headlines. The event exemplified essential features of the psyc…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 51:42
George H.W. Bush funded
Colombia host_asserted
“democratic way of life, unquote. We have no democracy down there. It's all fake. And George Bush, along with Clinton, funded the narco state. They know damn good and well it wasn't the part. It was a psychological bombing in order to justif…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 53:05
Bill Clinton funded
Colombia host_asserted
“democratic way of life, unquote. We have no democracy down there. It's all fake. And George Bush, along with Clinton, funded the narco state. They know damn good and well it wasn't the part. It was a psychological bombing in order to justif…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 53:05
United States trained
Colombia book_quoted
“authorized instead a program of anti-communist counterinsurgency throughout South America and above all, Colombia. In February 1962, a U.S. special warfare team first visited Colombia and set in motion an air of systematic centralized count…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 6:17
Fort Bragg trained
Colombia book_quoted
“Fearing that Castro might soon try to export his revolution to South American continent, the special warfare experts at Fort Bragg, which again is JSOC, rushed to instruct the Colombian army in the same counterinsurgency techniques then bei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 6:45
USAID trained
Colombia book_quoted
“at its so-called bomb school at Los Farnos in Texas. And of course, we've come across that multiple times because all of the Latin American forces were brought in after the CIA overthrew the governments and taught them how to create bombs a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 10:10
Human Rights Watch exposed
Colombia documented
“Human Rights Watch continued to document the involvement of senior Army commanders in the planning and execution of paramilitary massacres. According to the report, quote, evidence links half of Columbian's 18 brigade-level Army units to pa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 19:19
CIA trafficked
Colombia book_quoted
“I was very interested in Peter Del Scott's comments about there's proof that the CIA trafficked drugs through Venezuela from Colombia and then basically turned around and accused Venezuela as connections with Castro as being the drug traffi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 38:48
Bolivia supplied_arms_to
Colombia host_asserted
“The Bolivians had a military industrial setup that was right out of West Point textbook. It's unbelievable, unquote. The Bolivian dictatorship became the primary source of coca for the Colombian drug cartels that formed during this period. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 32:50
Colombia trafficked
United States host_asserted
“The Bolivians had a military industrial setup that was right out of West Point textbook. It's unbelievable, unquote. The Bolivian dictatorship became the primary source of coca for the Colombian drug cartels that formed during this period. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 32:50
United States funded
Colombia host_asserted
“Okay. The debt crisis of the 1970s and 80s devastated the balance of payments in many Latin American countries, creating a sharp increase in unemployment and a decline in national incomes. Colombia remained immune to all of that because of …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 33:21
United States laundered_money_for
Colombia host_asserted
“representing the consequence of the u.s war on drugs so we were funding the war on drugs we were funding the drugs dirt using the funds from the war on drugs right right it's just okay so i'm gonna say that again the entire thing was a sham…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 34:19
United States supplied_arms_to
Colombia host_asserted
“They just applied it to everything. Win or lose, no matter what. Right. They applied it to everything. During the cocaine decade, tensions also arose in relations to attempts to eradicate Colombian drug cartel leaders, such as the infamous …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 35:18
CIA laundered_money_for
Colombia book_quoted
“Marana is M-A-R-A-N-A. CIA money was flown from headquarters in McLean, Virginia, to pay their South American contacts in heavily guarded Marana Airport, sometimes using a Boeing 707 aircraft with NASA markings on it. Crittenden, who flew t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 57:26
United States funded
Colombia host_asserted
“Current and former members of Congress were implicated. Nearly all members of President Uribe's governing coalition were indicted. Uribe denied all involvement. Billions of dollars of U.S. capital had been pumped into Colombia to supposedly…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 15:19
United States funded
Colombia host_asserted
“Cocaine saw significant developments in U.S. biological and biochemical research with a focus on striking the supply side of the trade, but only the supply side that they don't want. In March of 2002, the U.S. State Department revealed esti…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 35:50
United States funded
Colombia host_asserted
“to eradicate or even diminish it, despite displacing millions of people. Colombia's cocoa crop had actually increased. Imagine that! The U.S. and Colombian government have discouraged independent investigations of all of this. The U.S. has …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 36:20
Monsanto funded
Colombia host_asserted
“counterinsurgency efforts. The biggest selling commercial formulation of glyphosate is Roundup and Roundup Ultra, products of Monsanto, a chemical and biotech transnational company located in St. Louis. Monsanto, the supplier of Agent Orang…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 36:53
FARC member_of
Colombia host_asserted
“The locals, when fumigations are coming, so that they can dig up their coca plants and hide them, when the fumigation is over, they let a little time pass and replant. Coca is not eradicated. Even without the fart, peasants can also cut dow…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 38:20
U.S. State Department spied_on
Colombia documented
“provoked mass demonstrations, according to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, were sustained by funds from coca production. Embassy officials saw these kinds of operations as proof that, in cases where peasants and FARC threatened mission success,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 43:59
United States funded
Colombia host_asserted
“Chemical spraying aggravates directly and collaterally the already negative environmental effects of the illicit crops. The continuous displacement of crop by fumigation multiplies the pace of deforestization of the Amazon and the mountain …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 49:53
FARC member_of
Colombia host_asserted
“And this is where we get into them dealing with the FARC. And keep in mind, in Colombia, the FARC is the resistance to the government. They're the people who saw that their government was corrupted and being ran by the CIA.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 48:23
Libyan National Army member_of
Colombia host_asserted
“allowed Trende Aragua, the prison gang, to operate under the protection of Maduro's government. I'm not sure that's true either. To grow and expand across Americas, exploiting the routes needed for the Venezuela diaspora. At the same time, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 42:33
North Valley Cartel attempted_assassination_of
Colombia book_quoted
“Special Operations Commander in 2001, a Bell helicopter used for the government's cocoa fumigation program was also used by members of the Hinoa Montoya cocaine trafficking organization for an attempted assassination. They sought to target …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 33:53
Colombia targeted_for_regime_change
FARC host_asserted
“They built a working relationship with the military in the regions of cocoa production to fight increasing influence of the FARC. This opened the door for private clandestine armies that became an integral part of the security network. This…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 18:34
United States funded
Colombia host_asserted
“paramilitary that are available and on call to NATO and the UN to put paramilitary assets anywhere in the world. We are building an international army covertly with U.S. taxpayer dollars through U.S. South Com all under the guise of fightin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 23:51
Philip Morris laundered_money_for
Colombia documented
“with U.S. corporations, and some of that was exposed. For example, one case involved Philip Morris, which was found to have laundered $40 million in Columbia black market pesos in 1995. The case was closed without any prosecution, because w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 12:45
Barry Seal trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“And kind of undermining the government's narrative that, yeah, Barry Steele was a CIA contractor. Yeah, we think we can prove that Barry Steele was trafficking drugs. But this had nothing to do with the CIA. We didn't know about the drug tr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 1:23:45
U.S. State Department funded
Colombia book_quoted
“And Colombia took extraordinary measures to create an army and a paramilitary army to be able to sustain this narco state. And they did it with the aid of the CIA, the U.S. State Department and South Com Command, which is headquartered down…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 20:11
U.S. Southern Command funded
Colombia book_quoted
“And Colombia took extraordinary measures to create an army and a paramilitary army to be able to sustain this narco state. And they did it with the aid of the CIA, the U.S. State Department and South Com Command, which is headquartered down…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 20:11
Juan Guaidó spent_funds_on
Colombia documented
“Months later, a Congressional Research Institute report found that the U.S. Treasury attempted to divert millions of dollars raised from its prosecution of the Venezuelan interests, like the ones we've already discussed, to bankroll the con…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 49:31
Barry Seal assassinated
Colombia documented
“On February 17, 1986, Steele was murdered in New Orleans by a quote-unquote Colombian hitman. Four months later, in June, North called the FBI and claimed that there was an active measures program being directed against him by the Sandinist…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 7:29
CIA trafficked
Colombia book_quoted
“It was the product of ongoing war-creating energies located chiefly in the United States, which to this day have not yet been properly identified or countered, which is why Operation Gladio is still ongoing. Of these forces, none is deeper …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 34:04
Tony Fernandez trafficked
Colombia documented
“He was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the marijuana smuggling syndicate headed by fellow Cuban exile and CIA contract agent Tony Fernandez. From 77 to 81, Fernandez and his associates smuggled more than 1.5 million pounds of marij…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 9:50
CIA trafficked
Colombia documented
“It wouldn't be the first time the CIA has been accused of running roughshod over law enforcement priorities. In the early 1990s, the CIA ran a spook mission designed to infiltrate Colombian narco-trafficking groups. That resulted in at leas…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8 @ 38:39
United States Central Command funded
Colombia host_asserted
“Thanks to the CIA and the U.S. South Com, the Southern Command, and their employment of special forces has went down and trained. What we were told was paramilitary people to combat drugs. Well, they didn't actually combat drugs. They comba…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:16:35
Colombia covered_up
Cali Cartel host_asserted
“narco-trafficking. You have the narco elite. We talked at Nauseam about this. You have the Cali cartel, which never makes the news because it's basically state-sponsored. And to a certain extent, the Medellin cartel, now that they got rid o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:21:37
Colombia covered_up
Medellin Cartel host_asserted
“narco-trafficking. You have the narco elite. We talked at Nauseam about this. You have the Cali cartel, which never makes the news because it's basically state-sponsored. And to a certain extent, the Medellin cartel, now that they got rid o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:21:37
Colombia carried_out_attack
FARC host_asserted
“false flags and would stage, they'd kill a FARC soldier and steal their, you know, distinctive looking garb and plant it in a lab that was being ran by the Cali cartel to say, oh, this is a FARC establishment. So we need more money. Let's d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:22:47
CIA funded
Colombia host_asserted
“Thanks to the CIA and the U.S. South Com, the Southern Command, and their employment of special forces has went down and trained. What we were told was paramilitary people to combat drugs. Well, they didn't actually combat drugs. They comba…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:16:35
Wells Fargo laundered_money_for
Colombia documented
“not Colombia. This too is true of profits from drug trafficking worldwide, roughly 80% of which are laundered through banks of the country of drug consumption, not the country of origin. Just one U.S. bank, Wachovia, paid federal authoritie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 32:15
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Colombia host_asserted
“Bladio, military, whatever, to go in and kill the indigenous people that just want their shit back. This is the same story that's repeated over and over and over again. People who lived in Colombia because their media was co-opted by this e…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 34:55
USAID funded
Colombia host_asserted
“Because a lot of them that lived in the city didn't actually know these people that were out in the militias in the countryside. And that's the reason why they have to own. That's why USAID goes in. One of the first things they do is buy up…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 35:19
DynCorp supplied_arms_to
Colombia documented
“That actually happened in the Bosnia area. DynCorp was best known, though, for running U.S.-authorized paramilitary operations in Colombia to fumigate supposedly coca crops. But as it turns out, they only exterminated the ones that the CIA …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 2 @ 26:31
United States supplied_arms_to
Colombia book_quoted
“who was our ambassador in Colombia under Jimmy Carter. And this is the quote. Tell me where you put your money and I'll tell you what your foreign policy is. If you put over 90 cent of a foreign policy dollar in the Pentagon and the CIA, th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 20:06
United States carried_out_attack
Colombia host_asserted
“They don't want to do it in another way. They want to terrorize the people into submission. Right. And that's, I guess, I just wanted to make sure everybody understood this, that it wasn't like, okay, we're going to do this to wipe out thei…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 47:59
Andrés Pastrana member_of
Colombia host_asserted
“The more solutions they have, the more committed to violence they become, such as we have seen with the renewal of talks between President Pastrana and the FARC. 35 years ago, I called this phenomenon the politics of escalation. Already, a …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 42:48
Southern Air Transport trafficked
Colombia book_quoted
“And both of those, obviously, Air America was primary in Vietnam, Southern Air Transport. We read about in the Iran-Contra, also in Colombia, ferreting drugs out of there and into the United States. There's Bridget. Excuse me. Okay. And als…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 2:31
Occidental Petroleum funded
Colombia book_quoted
“There are reoccurring allegations that U.S. oil companies, either directly or through cutouts, engage in covert operations. Actually, it's the CIA. It's not the oil companies, but the CIA works for the oil companies. They do not work for us…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 11:20
Spain founded
Colombia book_quoted
“It's very, very important contextually to understand what is going on in Latin America. Before Colombian quote-unquote narco-capitalism, the Spanish conquistadors established feudal systems to regulate labor and mining. Under Spanish coloni…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 10:04
Pedro Cieza de León spied_on
Colombia book_quoted
“There has never been in the world a plant or root of any growing thing that bears and yields every year as this does, or that is so highly valued. It was the equivalent of gold for Latin America. Indians were forced from their highland vill…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 11:02
Colombia has_second_largest_network_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“The second largest one we've found so far is Colombia. They have about 20,000. But knowing and understanding this program makes everything going on right now completely different. Matthew, go ahead. Yeah. Hi. How are you all doing? I've bee…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 1:38:23
Southern Air Transport trafficked
Colombia documented
“As in the Far East, the CIA proprietary and contract airlines have been accused of a more direct involvement in drug trafficking. The U.S. airline Southern Air Transport has been flying to Colombia and Venezuela since at least 1960, when it…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 34:39
Jesus Faria Rodriguez member_of
Colombia documented
“Jesus Faria Rodriguez had fled Venezuela in 2006 after breaking out of prison where he was serving a nine-year sentence for overseeing the Dakari farm plot, a foiled plan to assassinate Hugo Chavez by disguising himself as a Colombian param…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 9:01
CIA trained
Colombia host_asserted
“operations in Colombia were working to facilitate Colombia and it talks about the narco elite the narco terrorist the CIA training them goes back to Carter after he had fired all of the covert people withholding helicopters from them and al…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:13:01
CIA supplied_arms_to
Colombia host_asserted
“I mean, they were leaking all kinds of shit to intimidate Carter into giving the Colombian government these three Blackhawk helicopters that they wanted supposedly to root out. But his one question was, how do you guarantee me they're not g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:13:28
CIA trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“operations in Colombia were working to facilitate Colombia and it talks about the narco elite the narco terrorist the CIA training them goes back to Carter after he had fired all of the covert people withholding helicopters from them and al…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:13:01
Mossad member_of
Colombia host_asserted
“Because their intelligence agencies, MI6, Mossad, you find every one of them in these operations. I mean, the Colombian president had a Mossad IDF guy as his advisor. So it is a worldwide drug trafficking network ran by intelligence agencie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:40:50
Blanton family trafficked
Colombia book_quoted
“into the United States. Braun's motion linked the Blanton family to the crash that Hassan Foss C-123 drug plane in Nicaragua in October 86. In other words, he's going for broke here. The same crash Scott Weakley claimed on tape that he'd be…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 48:17
Donald Trump removed_from_power
Colombia host_asserted
“the agreement because there is an official recognition partnership with countries in Latin America that supposedly fight drugs. And we had left that arrangement with Colombia for decades. Trump pulled it two months ago. And I said in one of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:37:58
AUC member_of
Colombia host_asserted
“labor, popular, and peasant movements that dare to question the development of any oligarch project. Resistance from the FARC would spell further retaliatory action from the narco state. The AUC paramilitary death squads in Colombia are dir…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 26:46
Alvaro Uribe appointed
Colombia host_asserted
“The event would have destroyed most political careers. But between 95 and 97, Alvaro Uribe was the governor of one of the big areas. And in 2002, he goes on to become president of Colombia, a known drug trafficker. All right. While he was g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 43:43
Catholic Church trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“Yeah, and he found these, you know, he found these indiscrepancies. Well, these indiscrepancies led to the drug cartels. It led, you know, like in South America, Colombia, the drug cartels. It led to the shipping, the banking, JPMorgan Chas…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 1:27:48
Colombia supplied_arms_to
Danilo Blandon host_asserted
“It was a clever way for the cartels to expand their customer base in the U.S. The Colombians advanced Blanton 15 kilos worth about a million dollars, and they were off to the races. He started out getting 15 kilos a month, and within a few …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 23:12
Alvaro Uribe member_of
Colombia guest_asserted
“I mean, things are getting worse in Colombia. They're not as bad as when I lived here in 93 and 94. But they've definitely gotten worse since Uribe left. It was kind of the peak of security in Colombia at the time. And he has some really we…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:37:17
United States Central Command trained
Colombia host_asserted
“If you saw it in the news, there was a Colombian that was killed on the battlefield in Ukraine. Colombia has 20,000 RENA paramilitary that, thanks to Southcom and the CIA, was trained under the guise of, quote unquote, anti-drug. Well, they…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 1:59:49
Jet Avia trafficked
Colombia documented
“There were, however, a number of rumors linking drugs to the airstrip that East built for Oliver Norris Enterprise on Santa Elena Peninsula in Costa Rica. Jet Avra, which is spelt A-V-I-A, is another airline, which is now out of business, s…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 40:55
United States overthrew
Colombia host_asserted
“So that's just one of many. And that's not even the only one that, and the way I want to present this is that none of this is new, guys. This is basically how we ended up with Panama as a country. We stole it from Colombia, like in 1903. No…”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 1:05:21
Colombia member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“I don't know. We'll see what happens with that. But yeah, they did open up the contracts to the BRICS countries yesterday or today. And what's important about what Cousin It just said is to the west you have Colombia and to the east you hav…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:36:54
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Colombia host_asserted
“And the Stooges, the CIA and the U.S. Army military slash quote unquote U.N. regime that was setting up down there. And you had the same thing that we saw in Colombia and Paraguay and Uruguay and Chile, where you have these forces that are …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 1:14:19
United States overthrew
Colombia host_asserted
“Like the creation of Panama. The fact that we basically stole land from Colombia to create a fake country called Panama. So we could build the canal there because of some client that Salomon and Cromwell had in France. So anyway, we're goin…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 1:00:08
Occidental Petroleum discovered
Colombia host_asserted
“As will be discussed, the current U.S. interest in Colombia began one year after Occidental Oil discovered a billion-barrel oil field in 1983. It led to the National Security Decision Directive of 1986 and 1989 that authorized U.S. military…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 15:41
CIA carried_out_attack
Colombia host_asserted
“in the actions that they perpetrate is oftentimes done in conjunction with other intelligence. For example, when they went in in our last book, when we were talking about Columbia, when they went in and set that whole program up in Columbia…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:06:26
Egmont Group removed_from_power
Colombia host_asserted
“That probably had a lot of people crapping. And just as we were talking on Ghost Show earlier, the Edmont kicked Columbia out of their financial intelligence network, cut them off, because he announced in Columbia before he even came that h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 1:16:18
DynCorp carried_out_attack
Colombia host_asserted
“South Com's military and the U.S. aid and every other program that they could to fund the attack on the actual rebels, the good people. DynCorp was tapped to fill the void. It is even possible Plan Colombia was intended to formalize DynCorp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 15:08
United States supplied_arms_to
Colombia host_asserted
“And we just hate to lose. So we commit more forces with no ability. And that's when they tug on the patriotism. And if you're a naysayer, you hate the military. OK, so you're left with no choice. It could escalate its commitment to include …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 33:49
MAS founded
Colombia host_asserted
“Since contributing to the creation of the paramilitary network, MAS, the Colombian military and the U.S. intelligence continued to work in tandem, fomenting alliances to fight the guerrillas as an integral part of their counterinsurgency do…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 33:18
Israel trained
Colombia host_asserted
“In Colombia, and that's the one I did the most investigation on, in Colombia, there were Israelis assigned as quote-unquote advisors. Noriega had one as well. And they picked the top quote-unquote cartel members to go to an in-residence one…”
▶ Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian @ 59:48
The Atlantic operated_in
Colombia caller_asserted
“When I tried to get more details, that's when he said he couldn't say anything. So, okay, more airlines. So Miami Air, AV Atlantic, which was based out of Fort Lauderdale and Savannah. And he also said that AV Atlantic sometimes flew the Do…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:10:08
Southern Air Transport operated_in
Colombia caller_asserted
“Because I asked him if he knew about Operation Gladio and the Gray Wolves when he brought up Turkey and he did not. Right. And then, of course, Central and South America, I asked him to start naming countries and he said pretty much every o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:13:51
Israel supplied_arms_to
Colombia host_asserted
“Did they supply weapons that ended up in the cartel? Absolutely. We've already talked about the Galil weapons in Colombia and throughout Latin America. Well-known fact. But even Grok got it right when he says 80% of the weapons that have be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:16:51
Colombia assassinated
FARC host_asserted
“The nation was embroiled in its paradoxical war on drugs. The Colombian state continued to target its political opponents under the umbrella of its authority to wage war on drugs with U.S. backing. Colombia's government was empowered by Rea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 37:14
Carlos Castano trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“and other areas close to the border with Panama, a major transshipment route placed him in a favorable position to shape and ultimately inherit a drug trafficking network with contacts in the interior of the country as well as international…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 36:45
Blue Cartel trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“As late as 1998, further reconstructing of the Colombian state was occurring. Two widely publicized foiled drug trafficking attempts by Colombian Air Force officers, one that used the presidential plane of Colombia. It's the Colombian Air F…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 37:14
Department of Administrative Security trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“The officers were referred to as the Blue Cartel, an allusion to their blue uniforms. In another example, 1,600 pounds of cocaine were found in a Colombian Air Force plane that landed in Fort Lauderdale in 1998. In 2000, Colombia's Director…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 37:45
Simón Bolívar founded
Colombia book_quoted
“Andes Mountains, becoming landless workers. For the exploited classes, land meant freedom. However, the landlords had no use for freedom. And when the bourgeois revolution inspired by Simone Bobilaire swept Latin America, the landlords of C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 13:31
Pedro Juan Moreno Vila trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“Vivars later fell under the control of the AUC Constano Cali cartel. His right-hand man was named Pedro Juan Moreno Vila. He was Colombia's leading importer of potassium permagranate, which was the leading…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 44:16
Luis Camacho Viva trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“in Colombia was arrested along with his wife for smuggling cocaine into the United States in 2000. U.S. Army officer. The cocaine was found in a diplomatic pouch. Imagine that. The brother of General Luis Camacho Viva, the Colombian of the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 47:18
Fernando Botero removed_from_power
Colombia host_asserted
“A former Colombian defense minister was forced to resign for accepting drug money. In 1983, an elite army squadron transported an entire cocaine processing lab from Colombia to Brazil using Colombian Air Force aircraft. When the elite anti-…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 47:51
Operation Gladio targeted_for_regime_change
Colombia host_asserted
“um you know deep politics we we could we could address you know the oil if it's part of geopolitics well oil is obviously part of i mean that's why we did that whole book about um the oil and the control of it because a lot of operation gla…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8 @ 1:42:58
FARC taxed
Colombia host_asserted
“FARC, once they became like this dual government control mechanism, they taxed the coca leaves that were sold to the people that were manufacturing the cocaine. What we're going to find out later on is most of the historical information tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 1:12:16
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross trafficked
Colombia documented
“In order to make a dent in the crack cocaine there, they were going to have to shut him down. But then Ricky Ross was a major dealer and he was affecting South Central Los Angeles. He was supplying most of the dope in the region. We were he…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 34:08
Colombia funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“If you don't like the facts, I don't give a shit. Those are the facts. So I will take every opportunity to educate people on to what those facts are. So now we've got Panama. Now go to Colombia. Well, if you guys go back and click that link…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 1:13:33
Southern Air Transport trafficked
Colombia guest_asserted
“one made in 1986 by an FBI informant, Wanda Palacio, who was the wife of a Colombian trafficker. Palacio told investigators for the Cary Senate Subcommittee investigation, Contra Drug Trafficking, that in 1983, she had seen Southern Air Tra…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 37:02
EAST Inc. trafficked
Colombia host_asserted
“Aviation Services and Technology Incorporated. It was a subcontractor to DynCorp operations to spray coca plantations with herbicides. So instead of doing that and eradicating the drug supplies, they were actually ferrying the drug supplies…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 39:29
Colombia trained
NATO host_asserted
“Drugs has only increased in their frequency in the United States. So they've obviously been doing something else with that money. And we discovered that they have trained over 20,000 terrorists that they now rent to both NATO and the UN to …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:37:49
CIA funded
Colombia host_asserted
“of multiple countries. As we've seen here, you've got Mossad, MI6, and the CIA involved, but it's under a protection umbrella, or it would not be allowed to sustain itself. Southern, go ahead. Yeah, I actually remember this story about Laur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 52:16
Israel funded
Colombia host_asserted
“dictators slash presidents, whatever you want to call them in Latin America, especially in Central America, had an Israeli handler. That's where the Galil manufacturing plants were set up. So, yeah, they were all in this together. MI6 is in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 1:23:16
U.S. Southern Command trained
Colombia host_asserted
“in South America come under the tutelage of the South Com commander. So when the CIA went into Columbia, you know, in the late 70s and early 80s and set up the Crystal Triangle, they bring in the primarily the special forces guys, but there…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 58:55
United States trained
Colombia host_asserted
“So those both Guyana and we talked about it when we talked about South America has been cued by the United States. Columbia, ditto. And Columbia is where the 20,000 excess terrorists were trained using drug money that was sent to South Com …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:37:23
Global International Airways trafficked
Colombia guest_asserted
“The problem is the fact that this guy had to get out a jail-free card. His association with Global involved contract flying for the CIA. Some Global flights, the FBI agent added, had munitions and arms going out and narcotics coming in. Van…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 57:27
RAND Corporation spied_on
Colombia host_asserted
“Every single time, six months into the 2000 Bush administration, warnings that used a successive escalation in Vietnam, according to Rand Corporation, read that as CIA, the U.S. is confronting a deteriorating military situation in Colombia …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 33:21
Mossad funded
Colombia host_asserted
“of multiple countries. As we've seen here, you've got Mossad, MI6, and the CIA involved, but it's under a protection umbrella, or it would not be allowed to sustain itself. Southern, go ahead. Yeah, I actually remember this story about Laur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 52:16
CIA trained
Colombia documented
“We found declassified documents that verified that. They were actually training several countries like Colombia during the processing of drugs. They were training them with terror tactics on the property that later became Jonestown.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 1:02:36
United States trained
Colombia host_asserted
“Under the guise of anti-drug, which we know they weren't anti-drug, they were facilitating the drug trade, they trained an extra 20,000 so that they can hire them into these subcontracted private military companies in order for them to go o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 46:20
General Yarborough carried_out_attack
Colombia host_asserted
“Well, I'm black, so I can tell you, yeah, of course, he's tortured people. That's why they sent police to trade torturers in Latin America. Yes, exactly. Colonel, I also think, you know, we saw, to some extent, a preview of that with the mi…”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 1:56:31
Mentions (120)
▶ 59:48
In Colombia, and that's the one I did the most investigation on, in Colombia, there were Israelis assigned as quote-unquote advisors. Noriega had one as well. And they picked the top quote-unquote cartel members to go to an in-residence one…
▶ 1:00:16
A lot of people are not aware of that. And once they graduated, they came back and they basically got their own market. So it is a very sophisticated operation. In addition to that, all of the money from Southcom, from the United States tax…
▶ 1:02:36
We found declassified documents that verified that. They were actually training several countries like Colombia during the processing of drugs. They were training them with terror tactics on the property that later became Jonestown. It was …
▶ 1:59:49
If you saw it in the news, there was a Colombian that was killed on the battlefield in Ukraine. Colombia has 20,000 RENA paramilitary that, thanks to Southcom and the CIA, was trained under the guise of, quote unquote, anti-drug. Well, they…
▶ 2:00:10
Because that's not what they were actually training them for. These Colombian fighters were basically the same replica of what the CIA created with the Cuban exiles in Miami. They're a paramilitary force to deploy all around the world. So y…
▶ 6:13
Again, in many cases, we left Costa Rica alone, but we did stage Gladio operations out of the northern border of Costa Rica into Nicaragua. We did the same when we did operations into Panama. So, and keep in mind that Panama, prior to us bu…
▶ 6:41
you end up in Colombia, which is your entree into South America. So Panama was a critical element of them being able to control land traffic into South America, which is another reason why you would want to break Panama off of Colombia and …
▶ 1:08
researching a whole bunch of different organizations that I'd never heard of. And you find a whole crap ton of skull and bones in these organizations. The Colombian president, it's just, it's crazy. It's literally, I can't wait.…
▶ 21:06
Rockefellers, JP Morgan, all of their law firms, and Panama. That's the only reason we were even in Panama. Then you come into the whole issue of the Panama being a part of Colombia. And anybody that tells you that Colombia basically renege…
▶ 21:36
wanted a concession to be paid for in order for them to, for the U.S. to build that canal. And they wanted basically to do a similar to Nicaraguan deal where they could basically make some money on it. And the U.S.…
▶ 22:29
in a semi-blockade, they then launch people ashore. They have already contacted people in the Panama area and paid them off. So the Panama Railroad, which we just mentioned, basically under the control of Sullivan and Cromwell and his lacke…
▶ 22:59
this destabilization effort from the United States has taken place in, the railroad company, the U.S. Railroad Company, sabotages most of their train cars and can only take a handful of the leaders into the area. Well, as soon as they come …
▶ 23:29
So, they're arrested, and an already arranged leader says, okay, I'm in charge. We've segregated from Colombia. We're now our own country, and we want the U.S. to immediately recognize us, which they do. And that's how you even have a count…
▶ 15:58
that there's no organic terror. And let me just throw out an example for people to understand this. We're supposed to believe that, and I know we'll get to this later, but Venezuela is this narco-terrorist country. But 80% of the cocaine in…
▶ 51:07
But you can't survive the attack from the United States and the CIA without having some measure of authoritarianism. Is it a wonder why we're hated in so many parts of the world? No. And the other thing, let me just since I haven't said thi…
▶ 53:04
Colombia, all of it is coming from Colombia. Let me ask you something. Is anything real? I mean, seriously, how much of that how much of that minutiae was President Reagan? You know what? Don't just do answer that. How much of this?…
▶ 58:20
loaded with drugs coming out of Colombia. We know where they are. We know who they are. Why would you not talk? Colombia as it exists today is a narco state. It is because it has oil and the U.S. has the concessions for their oil. It is all…
▶ 1:00:17
The interaction between them and the government of Venezuela is almost zero. They kind of live in their own little world. They're very, very poor. You have Colombian traffickers that come up there. They start out, if you're a man in this in…
▶ 1:00:47
And those boats that are coming out are like decked out big time. So in the past, the Colombians had paid in motors for these people, because once you get a whole bunch of motors, you're like big time in this village. The drug traffickers h…
▶ 1:02:10
I can't even begin to tell people the capability and not because it's classified. It's just hard to imagine. Our satellites can read your license plate number. They have the ability to literally track from the labs in Colombia, not Venezuel…
▶ 40:26
as well as his client's information. So he is pivotal to that. And what I find most interesting about the timing of your research on Maduro is, isn't that when all of the CIA, they were manipulating the media in Venezuela, they were launchi…
▶ 41:24
in Venezuela that connected to that. And Matt Aret, my co-host, who Brady actually introduced me to Matt, not personally, but just his content years ago. And so it's kind of serendipitous that I do a show with him now. But him and his wife …
▶ 48:00
And in some cases, rounding them up into stadiums and then just open fire on them while they were in the stadium. You know, kind of like old Rome. In 1971, Bolivia also has a coup where Hugo Banzer Suarez comes to power. And he basically, h…
▶ 1:25:08
He was critical in the development of the OAS in a way that the Organization of American States could still be very pliable and controlled by the U.S. and, again, independent of largely the South American population. And it's kind of intere…
▶ 1:22:19
like the guys that were running the major drug routes in Colombia, that they actually were selected by this intelligence apparatus to go attend this one year in residence inside of Israel, advanced tactics, coordination, blah, blah, blah, t…
▶ 1:37:59
And sure enough, two weeks later, the Crocus things happened. And within 24 hours, they had already tracked down the fact that they were trained and deployed from Turkey. And once you understand Operation Gladio, and we'll get to Turkey, Tu…
▶ 1:40:43
Chile one that we did. It covers all of this. Not only did they do that, there was there was Nazis put in Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia. They were everywhere down there. Yeah. Yeah.…
▶ 43:27
And in response, miraculously, Gulf Oil got the oil concessions for Bolivia. Imagine that. In the two years following the disappearance of Che Guevara from public view, in early 1965, rumors had placed him at different times in the Dominica…
▶ 43:58
China, Vietnam, and even New York, always plotting, quote, always plotting revolution with some menacing and bunch of desperados, unquote, which we know is exactly the opposite. You cannot like Shea Cavera for his participation in death squ…
▶ 9:42
And when you go down there, it says Bout was accused of intending to sell arms to a USDA informer pretending to represent the FARC. Well, what's the FARC? Well, the FARC is the people that had their farm stolen in Columbia that worked toget…
▶ 10:11
to get the CIA drug growers and drug runners out of Colombia. So wait a minute. We overthrew the Colombian government. We set the entire country up as a drug network. We trained 20,000 paramilitary people for Gladio operators as rent-a-cops…
▶ 1:36:29
There's a lot of crap there, a lot of broken down rifles. Bridget, you've got to look at it because there's some detailing on the side of the trigger assembly that I don't recognize, but it's definitely US-made rifles, which is strange beca…
▶ 1:36:54
I don't know. We'll see what happens with that. But yeah, they did open up the contracts to the BRICS countries yesterday or today. And what's important about what Cousin It just said is to the west you have Colombia and to the east you hav…
▶ 1:37:23
So those both Guyana and we talked about it when we talked about South America has been cued by the United States. Columbia, ditto. And Columbia is where the 20,000 excess terrorists were trained using drug money that was sent to South Com …
▶ 1:24
Mainstream media has lied to us about everything that was going on around us, right? So you don't know any of the truth that we revealed in the SITREP show on Panama, right? You had no idea there was never actually a treaty signed originall…
▶ 20:02
$10 million in profit annually. Cuban guerrillas overthrew the Batista dictatorship and imposed a radical social and political program around that same time in the 1960s. Other dictators fell in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina. A r…
▶ 1:31:49
oil fields and the connection with the JFK assassination is by looking into Chechnya when that event happened. And that's how I've gained all of this knowledge is one thing leads to another, leads to another. So having said that, just like …
▶ 1:44:52
An operative from CIA into Gladio operation and Castro did too. Castro was also part of the killing of one of the, in Colombia, people know the event in 1947, I think it was. People know the event at the Bocotazo. Okay. But also Castro took…
▶ 1:27:48
Yeah, and he found these, you know, he found these indiscrepancies. Well, these indiscrepancies led to the drug cartels. It led, you know, like in South America, Colombia, the drug cartels. It led to the shipping, the banking, JPMorgan Chas…
▶ 1:14:19
And the Stooges, the CIA and the U.S. Army military slash quote unquote U.N. regime that was setting up down there. And you had the same thing that we saw in Colombia and Paraguay and Uruguay and Chile, where you have these forces that are …
▶ 1:51:53
attempted, well, not attempted, actually murder of 147 people. Those were all Tajikistan Gladio operators trained in Turkey, which remember, Turkey has the biggest gray wolf population of Operation Gladio trained killers, maybe less now sin…
▶ 1:13:37
They had the largest oil and gold find that they found in the 1930s and kept it secret until the 1960s when they overthrew the Indonesian government in order to have a puppet in there so that the U.S. and Standard Oil basically managed to s…
▶ 1:26:38
were either very wealthy people that were corrupt and part of the ownership of Colombia or Cuba, or they were their children. And in most cases, they were the children of the elite that the CIA had basically paid to be planned. Owners had b…
▶ 38:59
We seem to have located a target country. Colombia was the target in Latin America. The Philippines seems to have been the target in Asia. That we train up tens of thousands of paramilitary people as RENA paramilitary. And then...…
▶ 1:00:08
Like the creation of Panama. The fact that we basically stole land from Colombia to create a fake country called Panama. So we could build the canal there because of some client that Salomon and Cromwell had in France. So anyway, we're goin…
▶ 1:02:47
And I just wanted to offer my services. If you guys need some help doing that map, I can certainly help with that. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Go ahead, Jeff. Good afternoon, Colonel Bridget. I'm C-Cousin at Trump. How are you guys doing? My …
▶ 1:22:20
He operated with the protection of the CIA from the day the CIA was set up because he was running part of their covert drug network. And that's the reason why you're never allowed to go a certain level above in busting drug networks because…
▶ 1:28:17
whatever the quadruple, whatever the number is for five, it went up five times into the United States as far as the amount of heroin. And so there was never a war on drugs. There was a war on the competition for the CIA's drug trafficking. …
▶ 3:00
was Bush used in an elaborate scam to conduct a drug operation for profit under the name of the CIA when it was really benefiting others. Well, it benefited a whole lot of people to include the CIA. They are not mutually exclusive. Behind t…
▶ 5:00
to special operations mission inside of Colombia that was being carried out jointly with the CIA. Baker told Cotolo that he had gone on his first mission himself without incident. The project involved bringing in, activating, and defending,…
▶ 6:26
were needed to guard against bandits or Colombian armed forces, according to Cotolo. On a December day, Cotolo was introduced to two men that he was told was Frank Turple and Edwin Wilson, the guys we've been reading about this whole time. …
▶ 6:56
for short periods of time in Colombia, and Coutola said he was. Coutola ended up commanding the second watchtower mission into Colombia. His unit's job was to establish a series of three transmitters running northeast between Bogota, Colomb…
▶ 7:26
Cattolo's first mission lasted 22 days and he and his troops suffered no casualties. They inflicted none on the Colombian soldiers that they encountered. According to Cattolo, in February 76, which again is right at the, you know, kind of t…
▶ 9:28
In March 1976, Cotolla commanded a third Watchtower mission, which lasted 29 days. It did not go as well as the earlier ones. His special action team was in Turbo, Columbia, waiting for removal by a helicopter when the team encountered 40 t…
▶ 13:59
A month before he was killed in what was officially labeled an accident during a military training exercise. Well, that's convenient. So he goes on record and then he mysteriously disappears. Manuel Noriega learned of the entire Watchtower …
▶ 1:03:05
are put in solitary confinement to hide them from everybody, to include their lawyers, not unlike what we've seen with January 6th. You don't find them normally recruiting out of prisons. These people, most of the people, for example, the C…
▶ 54:30
is a U.S. ambassador. His background includes ambassadorships in the Philippines, Bolivia, and Colombia. He also was a U.S. mission to Kosovo. He, in his Washington, D.C. State Department role,…
▶ 1:02:03
The overtly attack that was done by NATO on Russia is not a gladio. Now, I will tell you that the killing of 140-some civilians at that theater was 100% gladio. It was trained and exercised in Turkey. Turkey is the largest, other than Colom…
▶ 1:03:01
While the CIA was in Afghanistan, they recruited Kajikistan and several other Kazakhstan and Afghanis as basically like a Mujahideen kind of apparatus that they much like they did in Colombia. There's 20,000 of them in Colombia and they use…
▶ 1:20:46
using paramilitary forces to include these things they called the Cuban exiles, which were just trained Gladio mercenaries. They have over 20,000 of them in Colombia today that are basically RENA mercenaries to NATO and the UN. They get a f…
▶ 1:05:21
So that's just one of many. And that's not even the only one that, and the way I want to present this is that none of this is new, guys. This is basically how we ended up with Panama as a country. We stole it from Colombia, like in 1903. No…
▶ 1:05:52
Because the French company building the canal went bankrupt. It was already 40% done. We, the United States, was building a Nicaraguan canal. We weren't even in Panama. Panama wasn't even a country. So we basically staged an insurrection th…
▶ 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…
▶ 1:23:33
which of course were U.S., who were under the control of William Cromwell of New York and the State Department officials in Washington, knew about any revolution that was going to happen. So it was not an organic revolution. And the purpose…
▶ 4:54
Doesn't exist. But the U.S. immediately recognized and had a ceremony in Washington, D.C. for this government that doesn't exist. Well, now, you know, for things like that, like they did with Panama when they stole it from Colombia and Kata…
▶ 1:21:41
We went in and overthrew their governments and took over any resistance by landing Marines. We actually stole Panama from Colombia and set it up as a country in order to be able to build the Panama Canal. The God-given rights that we have i…
▶ 43:15
Because it was the U.S. military aid that was sent to Colombia that allowed them to set up the drug networks and create the 20,000 trained assassins that they trained under the same criteria in order to funnel the drugs through its track to…
▶ 1:44:15
The same group of people, the Wild Bill Donovans of the world, the group that he is from in Buffalo, New York, were among the exact same people that were in and out of government in different positions that stole the country of Panama from …
▶ 1:56:31
Well, I'm black, so I can tell you, yeah, of course, he's tortured people. That's why they sent police to trade torturers in Latin America. Yes, exactly. Colonel, I also think, you know, we saw, to some extent, a preview of that with the mi…
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And this is exactly what happened in Colombia, by the way. So the U.S. military command was the supposedly ruling authority. They took no action to prevent any of the murder, the rape, the torture, or the destruction that was taking effect …
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And so that's very interesting that you say that, because obviously and I try to make this point every time I like we just did the entire book about Colombia. People ask me all the time because obviously SOP and a lot of the Green Berets an…
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They quickly learned that Pereira was one of the biggest narco traffickers to have operated in Costa Rica. The newspaper reported that the man behind nearly every major drug trafficking case in Costa Rica since 1981 with connections to Hond…
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In March of 1984, Cesar and two other contra officials who had close ties to the CIA's ARDE logistics chief, Aldolfo Chamorro, and the Air Force commander, Marcos Awando, met with a major Colombian drug trafficker named George Morales at hi…
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and ask him to contribute to Pastora's army. During our conversation, they told me that they were CIA agents. Two of them said they were Cesar and Eduardo were the CIA agents. Morales said in 1986 congressional testimony, quote, I knew that…
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was a training area and a hiding place for Contra soldiers. It was where the Legion of September 15 gathered before its raid on the Argentina radio station, which we read about several chapters back. After they dropped off arms, Morales and…
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Why, sure, he said. And bring drugs back? Yes. And did these CIA people know that you were doing this? Certainly, he said. Ask if he was surprised that his boss, Morales, was helping the Contras. Benzer, who pleaded guilty to federal drug c…
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So the cartel and people like that are definitely anti-communist. I don't suppose their world would function too well in a communist world. It's strictly a capitalist movement and a drug business. When money from the drug sales was collecte…
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He said he delivered bags of money sometimes two or three times a day. I paid a lot of money, maybe millions. In 1996 interviews with the Washington Post, Cesar and Chamorro both said the CIA was fully aware of their involvement with the Co…
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airport. Pastora's plane had been hangared there since 1983 under an arrangement worked out between the CIA pilot and the San Salvadorian Air Force. The C-47 was the first of many aircraft the Colombian trafficker would give to the Contras.…
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where it was reloaded with drugs before flying back to Florida, Kidney reported. This assertion is entirely plausible and even somewhat corroborated in Justice Department charges that Morales was importing cocaine at the time for the larges…
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Eden Pastora remains the only Contra commander the U.S. has ever officially admitted was involved in the drug money. A few months after the AP story appeared, Pastora quit the Contra war and became a fisherman. The CIA linked ARDE commander…
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Torres was a brother of Jacinto and Edgar, the two guys that are part of Blanton's drug trafficking network. So there's a third Torres brother. Roberto later reported back to the DEA on those meetings and his debriefing reports must have ch…
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In order to make a dent in the crack cocaine there, they were going to have to shut him down. But then Ricky Ross was a major dealer and he was affecting South Central Los Angeles. He was supplying most of the dope in the region. We were he…
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in South America come under the tutelage of the South Com commander. So when the CIA went into Columbia, you know, in the late 70s and early 80s and set up the Crystal Triangle, they bring in the primarily the special forces guys, but there…
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one in the most depth recently, they brought in the U.S. military to train what the U.S. military was told was going to be people to attack the narco networks. That's not what they were going to be used for. Now, obviously,…
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The regular military doesn't know that because the regular military will go to Colombia and then they'll go to, you know, Kenya and then they'll go to Afghanistan. So they don't have any continuity across geographical regions. That is not t…
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senior level conversations with the Colombian military and you have an entire staff of experts on the civilian side of all of the history of Colombia and not know that you're dealing with narco terrorists. So there's absolutely no excuse fo…
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And it goes back to the part of this book in the earlier chapters that we were reading about how Barry Seale landed his plane throughout a bale of cocaine, took a picture in Nicaragua. And then everybody in the CIA controlled media ran with…
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And it talks about all of the different countries down there. It was a really amazing book from that perspective. And this is kind of where I came up with the information about them basically training, especially in Colombia, all of the exc…
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is you find the model that they use like in Hawaii and in the Philippines and in Puerto Rico and Cuba. And that model was that they are going to go in. I mean, they did it in Panama. Panama is probably one of the most interesting ones in ho…
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recent events that happened with Columbia. Now, mine immediately snapped to the Colombian cartel. What is your take on the moves and counter moves that took place? Okay. I'll talk about Columbia in just a second. There was some comments ove…
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And I want everybody to understand that that was a political decision that they did on purpose in order for us not to push back against them. And we need to understand that. So hopefully that clears that up. Now, let's talk about Columbia. …
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quote-unquote treaty. It was something the United States government shoved down their throat and said, this is what we're going to do because we just finished the canal after we stole Panama from Colombia to begin with, okay? Everybody need…
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If you don't like the facts, I don't give a shit. Those are the facts. So I will take every opportunity to educate people on to what those facts are. So now we've got Panama. Now go to Colombia. Well, if you guys go back and click that link…
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um histories there is um and charlie kirk's ignorant comment about the current president having been a part of a terrorist organization and dressing up as a woman let me explain to you guys if you haven't read the post why he did that he wa…
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on the side of people whose land had been stolen by places like United Fruit and other U.S. corporations that had went down and corrupted the Colombian government. And they were selling these people's properties to conglomerates in order to…
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that were corrupt. And so these people basically had their land stolen. And then they started growing poppy on the land that they had stolen. And the people really were pissed off because they didn't want their kids being exposed to cocaine…
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CIA called them terrorists because they were fighting back against the CIA corrupt government. So of course they're going to call them terrorists, just like they called the Sandinistas communists because they were fighting back against the …
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Are you there, Bridget? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. OK, so if you look at the actual and again, I'm going to play devil's advocate here. So Columbia, if you guys recall, if you've been with me this entire time, we discovered approximately 20,000…
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And CIA has trained in Colombia that has been basically a RENA paramilitary that are used on UN and NATO missions. So like when they had the Kenya guys come into Haiti and they rape and murder. Well, Colombia has 20,000 of those trained peo…
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So, if those terrorists that were trained by the CIA are in the United States, I can't say as I blame Columbia for not wanting them back. Now, again, we can be the bully, the big guy on the block, and force them to take their terrorists bac…
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where all of these people are and take them out, that's just bullshit. You need to use your brain. SR71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending today. Really appreciate it. Say hello there. Anyway, what I was thinkin…
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Didn't uncuff them the minute they got off the plane. But I think I think we know that answer. The other thing that got me and I started thinking about it for a minute when when when Columbia came back and said, well, we're going to do 25 p…
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Taiwan, go Google, not Google, Yandex, Taiwan in parentheses and Colombia. And look at the, excuse me, look at the connection. The same thing with Colombia and Israel. You're going to find that eaten guy that was basically the handler of th…
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what the author talks about as primarily a cartel system in Colombia to actually embedding it in the infrastructure. And he does a really good job of kind of documenting how that whole process started. And he refers to it as the post-cartel…
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country of Colombia. And this happened, this has happened all over. And I just want you guys kind of to start off with that. The countries that are involved in drug trafficking, even when substantial changes happen within the country, it do…
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Throughout the late 70s and the 80s, the Colombian narco elite relied heavily on drug cartels and money laundering specialists to get their profits into banks. And there was a law passed in the United States in 1986 that was a U.S. Money La…
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Now, what that did was force changes in Colombia. The narco elite switched to contracting out their money laundering services. And that is where Panama became a vital link in this business. And it also shifted the burden, as we're going to …
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her manganate companies, transport companies, and private security firms. Again, that keeps coming back over and over again. In contrast to the conventional framework and organized crime model with a centralized hierarchy, what the Colombia…
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modes of production and distribution and technology to increase efficiency. When the Medellin cartel was basically decapitated, it had little impact on the actual narco elite in Colombia. The decentralization and privatization would be key …
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The destruction of the Medellin cartel did not affect the collaboration among the narco elite and the sectors of the ruling class, as well as the military, particularly in the regions where the FARC contested Medellin's control. The cartel …
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Now the Colombian government, with the support of the United States, took firm measures that resulted in structural changes of the entire production and distribution of drugs. In the transition, the Colombian cocaine industry was decentrali…
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but made it easier for corporations and businesses in Colombia to prosper without taking as much risk. The Colombian traffickers adopted a management strategy and moved into legal business activities, even negotiating with Mexican drug cart…
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Genoa Montoya Organization, also known as the Norte de Valle Cartel, with which the AUC, the Cali Cartel, was affiliated. By the end of the 20th century, Colombia had become the most advanced cocaine-producing country in the Crystal Triangl…
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and the Colombia proximity to neighboring crystal triangle countries, Peru and Bolivia. And then again, also Panama for the monetary piece of this. It also created transit countries, Mexico, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. The consumer…
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and Spain was considered the gateway into Europe. The Medellín cartel had attempted to establish a monopoly control over the trade without negotiating market share with other enterprises, which is why it was decapitated. The Cali cartel, on…
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to link together the various components of the industry to a broader drug trafficking organization with opportunities to branch into other markets such as heroin and amphetamines. According to a UN report that was issued in 1994, the year a…
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In spite of the rise of illicit transnational corporations in developing countries, the Cali cartel remains, in effect, the developing country's most successful transnational corporation.…
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involves a complex network of banks, corporations, and professionals with offices in New York, Miami, the Caribbean, and throughout Latin America. The rise of the quote-unquote legitimate transnational drug corporations coincided with the r…
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The U.S. and Colombia appeared to develop a mutual dependency on the export of cocaine and an interest in preserving the economic conditions and the status quo. The narco elite acquired continuous greater capital and assured greater economi…