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Claims (25)
Joint Special Operations Command member_of
United States Central Command documented
“We also have a different kind of COCOMs that are functional based. So you have cybercom now, you have strategic, you have space, you have, and that obviously branched off into kind of a separate service, but still under the Air Force. It's …”
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William Boykin member_of
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“while people like General Flynn and General Boykin are veterans of JSOC assignments. Flynn directed intelligence for JSOC, while Boykin commanded it in the 1990s. Boykin has also been deputy director of special activities, which was housed …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 7:06
Donald Rumsfeld founded
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“might actually offer an intelligence assessment that was not approved by the CIA. Rumsfeld wasn't done, though. The CIA had nearly a monopoly on covert operations and special operation forces, most notably the Green Berets, were frequently …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 9:57
Michael Flynn member_of
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“DeVos family were major backers of the Family Research Council, a Christian charity and activist group linked to James Dobson's focus on the family. Eric Prince interned there while William Boykin was an executive vice president to the orga…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 17:21
William Boykin headed
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“Elsewhere, the Phoenix program had been described as the grandfather of the JSOC approach to war, and Boykin just so happened to be the man Rumsfeld placed in charge of hunting down high-value targets. As such, this Phoenix program is much …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 38:41
Delta Force member_of
Joint Special Operations Command documented
“James Reese, a former operator of the Delta Force, one of the key components of JSOC. TigerSwan soon deployed military-style counterinsurgency techniques to the protesters that included keeping lists of activists, tracking them, infiltratin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 45:56
Joint Special Operations Command funded
U.S. Air Force guest_asserted
“And the reason why that was so important is because SOCOM has money to train anybody designated as a special operator to a higher standard than their normal service. So for us, all special forces capability is in AFSOC, Air Force Special Op…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 1:13:41
Joint Special Operations Command trained
U.S. Air Force guest_asserted
“So the Air Force buys the 130, the Air Force trains the NCO, the Air Force trains the officer, they assign them to Special Operations Command and SOCOM then trains all those same people and modifies the Air Force bought equipment to a highe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 1:14:10
Joint Special Operations Command member_of
United States documented
“U.S. Army Special Operations Command provides the forces, SOUTHCOM coordinates, and the military group links all of the operations, maintaining liaison with the Colombian military. Former members within the Colombian military command, such …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 33:01
Michael Flynn member_of
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“while people like General Flynn and General Boykin are veterans of JSOC assignments. Flynn directed intelligence for JSOC, while Boykin commanded it in the 1990s. Boykin has also been deputy director of special activities, which was housed …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 7:06
United States Marine Corps refused_to_participate_in
Joint Special Operations Command guest_asserted
“Again, the Marines, like they always do, God bless them, in a good way, they refused to participate. They told the Special Operations Four Star Commander that every Marine is trained to the same standard. They don't have special Marines. Th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 1:13:12
Fort Bragg trained
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“And that's true with everything. UCOM has SOC, your PACOM has SOC PAC. Every combatant commander has their own assigned soft forces. Fort Bragg is a training facility for all soft forces. There are a few other places, but that's one of the …”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:56:15
United States Central Command member_of
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“attached to him will be a soft commander with soft forces. So, for example, CENTCOM has SOC CENT, which is their Special Operations Command Central. And that SOC CENT commander is a one- or two-star general, and he takes care of all special…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:55:46
Michael Flynn member_of
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“Do you know who would have written that assessment? Do you know who was the JSOC intel guy during Grenada? Alpha knows. Who was it, Alpha? The scary, scary, scary, scariest man alive. Correct. Tell the audience who would have written that i…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 36:24
Keith Kellogg headed
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“the 101st Airborne, he took the Special Forces Officer Qualification course at Bragg and then returned to Vietnam where he served as a Special Forces Officer assisting the Cambodian Army. After returning from Vietnam, Kellogg was briefly de…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 8:00
Michael Flynn headed
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“while people like General Flynn and General Boykin are veterans of JSOC assignments. Flynn directed intelligence for JSOC, while Boykin commanded it in the 1990s. Boykin has also been deputy director of special activities, which was housed …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 7:06
William Boykin headed
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“while people like General Flynn and General Boykin are veterans of JSOC assignments. Flynn directed intelligence for JSOC, while Boykin commanded it in the 1990s. Boykin has also been deputy director of special activities, which was housed …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 7:06
Keith Kellogg headed
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“the 101st Airborne, he took the Special Forces Officer Qualification course at Bragg and then returned to Vietnam where he served as a Special Forces Officer assisting the Cambodian Army. After returning from Vietnam, Kellogg was briefly de…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 8:00
Michael Flynn member_of
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“DeVos family were major backers of the Family Research Council, a Christian charity and activist group linked to James Dobson's focus on the family. Eric Prince interned there while William Boykin was an executive vice president to the orga…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 17:21
William Boykin headed
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“Elsewhere, the Phoenix program had been described as the grandfather of the JSOC approach to war, and Boykin just so happened to be the man Rumsfeld placed in charge of hunting down high-value targets. As such, this Phoenix program is much …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 38:41
Scott Bennett member_of
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“U.S. Special Operations Command, and U.S. Central Command in D.C. and in Florida. The report answers the following. Why did Eric Snowden feel he had to immediately go public? What connects Booz Allen, Hamilton, the NSA, the CIA, UBS, the Un…”
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Fort Benning trained
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“especially when we first started digging into this with the civilians that are like, you know, civilians by day and werewolf by night, like they originated in Germany. That's kind of my mindset. So as we got more and more into it, and I rea…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:53:50
Donald Rumsfeld founded
Joint Special Operations Command book_quoted
“might actually offer an intelligence assessment that was not approved by the CIA. Rumsfeld wasn't done, though. The CIA had nearly a monopoly on covert operations and special operation forces, most notably the Green Berets, were frequently …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 9:57
U.S. Army trained
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“especially when we first started digging into this with the civilians that are like, you know, civilians by day and werewolf by night, like they originated in Germany. That's kind of my mindset. So as we got more and more into it, and I rea…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:53:50
Joint Special Operations Command appointed
Department of Defense host_asserted
“The difference in what they did with the JSOC alignment going directly to the SECDEF is they cut out the COCOM. So the SECDEF and where Esner, Coe, and Wachnett worked, it gave him the capability to kind of short circuit this very laborious…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:59:06
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combatant commander for Southwest Asia, which is basically all of the Arabian Peninsula minus Israel. And co-located with them is Special Operations Command. That's a four-star command. It's a combatant commander of all special operations f…
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attached to him will be a soft commander with soft forces. So, for example, CENTCOM has SOC CENT, which is their Special Operations Command Central. And that SOC CENT commander is a one- or two-star general, and he takes care of all special…
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And that's true with everything. UCOM has SOC, your PACOM has SOC PAC. Every combatant commander has their own assigned soft forces. Fort Bragg is a training facility for all soft forces. There are a few other places, but that's one of the …
▶ 1:56:15
And that's true with everything. UCOM has SOC, your PACOM has SOC PAC. Every combatant commander has their own assigned soft forces. Fort Bragg is a training facility for all soft forces. There are a few other places, but that's one of the …
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That's Joint Special Operations Command. They're almost like a severable 911 SOC capability that is separate from all of the stuff I just told you. And what they did had to do with JSOC, and it basically gave you an expeditious capability a…
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The difference in what they did with the JSOC alignment going directly to the SECDEF is they cut out the COCOM. So the SECDEF and where Esner, Coe, and Wachnett worked, it gave him the capability to kind of short circuit this very laborious…
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Do you know who would have written that assessment? Do you know who was the JSOC intel guy during Grenada? Alpha knows. Who was it, Alpha? The scary, scary, scary, scariest man alive. Correct. Tell the audience who would have written that i…
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J2 at the time of the Grenada invasion. That's what all of these idiots keep trying to pin on him is his participation in Grenada. You see how this is all related? That would have been a very inconvenient intel assessment at the time. Grena…
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The four-star sitting in the Pentagon's job is to provide them trained resources to go to war. And not only do they buy for money amongst themselves, you had this newcomer called Special Operations Command, which was a four-star general sit…
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um avsoc and then avsoc puts on it all of the special operations gear and that's all paid for the specialty equipment by socom the special operations combatant commander and so when socom says i need t10 c130s to do my missions around the w…
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The Air Force has to go get those 130s. Then SOCOM gives them the money to trick them out as special operations. And the same thing with the people. If you need special gear to do special operation missions, which of course you do, SOCOM pa…
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After 9-11, this pissing contest between the services and SOCOM, the Marine Commandant bowed out his chest and said, I don't have any special operations Marines. Every one of my Marines is trained to the same standard. If you're going to gi…
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And he was really the only one that kind of stuck to his guns as far as the kind of tension that exists between this. And so there has always been this kind of rivalry when it comes to money on who's paying for what and what they're getting…
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um about when you have a subset of the army whether it's delta force or the green berets if they have to train to an extra higher standard than what the army has them that it is basically billed to socom okay and because let me just add thi…
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Not all the time. So when we went to war in Afghanistan, the four-star General Franks had missions in which special operations commands, SOC CENT, which is their subcommand for special operations, did real military missions. But most of the…
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civil affairs, six, psychological operations, seven, counterterrorism, eight, humanitarian assistance, not a lot of that, nine, theater search and rescue, and ten, activities specified by the president or SECDEF. Those are assassinations. T…
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and the U.S. Army's Special Operation Command at Fort Bragg. The military group, which is the in-country military group, is a quote-unquote advisory unit, normally under the control of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota. SOUTHCOM coordinates deploy…
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U.S. Army Special Operations Command provides the forces, SOUTHCOM coordinates, and the military group links all of the operations, maintaining liaison with the Colombian military. Former members within the Colombian military command, such …
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That's why I think they take advantage of the esprit de corps within our special operations is because there's no greater bond in our family. They're like Siamese twins. When you get on a SEAL team, when you get on one of the black teams th…
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while people like General Flynn and General Boykin are veterans of JSOC assignments. Flynn directed intelligence for JSOC, while Boykin commanded it in the 1990s. Boykin has also been deputy director of special activities, which was housed …
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the 101st Airborne, he took the Special Forces Officer Qualification course at Bragg and then returned to Vietnam where he served as a Special Forces Officer assisting the Cambodian Army. After returning from Vietnam, Kellogg was briefly de…
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independent covert operations through JSOC. It wasn't just that the CIA that Rumsfeld wanted to bypass. He wanted to bypass much of the hierarchy within the Pentagon itself. He envisioned JSOC being a kind of global unit that sought to elim…
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Remember how we were talking about the 4512-2 directive that says you could assassinate anybody as long as they were a communist and then they added terrorists to that. He wanted to use that authority, have their own little military special…
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So the DIA established an organization called the Strategic Support Branch, SSB, in 2002. That same year, the activity was transferred to JSOC. The SSB would work closely with the activity to provide real-time intelligence to special operat…
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was part of the intelligence staff at JSOC. Some of the methods developed by Flynn, namely his concept, find, fix, finish, exploit, and analyze, appear to have been incorporated in special access programs, which is basically classified prog…
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of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Stephen Camboni. Reportedly, Boykin, who worked directly under Camboni, was deeply involved in these dealings. As such, it's highly probable both men encountered each other during that time…
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was linked to a turf war between JSOC and the CIA, which traces back to Rumsfeld reform of the national security apparatus. Petraeus was replaced by none other than John Brennan. Now, what you also have to understand, just because they set …
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Given that Petraeus is possibly the most prestigious military officer of his era, this strongly indicates that the revolutionary concepts were still warmly embraced within the inner circle that he inhabited. That brings us back to the Phoen…
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whether it was Al Qaeda or Viet Cong. But unlike the Phoenix program, which restricted to Vietnam and the surrounding areas like Cambodia and Laos, JSOC was global. They had the ability to track their targets down all over the world. The Ph…
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Elsewhere, the Phoenix program had been described as the grandfather of the JSOC approach to war, and Boykin just so happened to be the man Rumsfeld placed in charge of hunting down high-value targets. As such, this Phoenix program is much …
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James Reese, a former operator of the Delta Force, one of the key components of JSOC. TigerSwan soon deployed military-style counterinsurgency techniques to the protesters that included keeping lists of activists, tracking them, infiltratin…
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Any new missionaries coming in will be done so at the detriment of the ones that are already there. And it's like when they set up Special Operations Command, SOCOM, at MacDill, the Marines pushed back because it required each of the servic…
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And so, of course, the Air Force, we have Air Force Special Operations Command, which is AFSOC, which is at Hurlburt Field in the panhandle of Florida. They're the gunships, the specially retrofitted helicopters that do black ops kind of ac…
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The navies are the SEALs and stuff like that, very easily identifiable. The Army tried to do, in some point, part what the Marines did, but the Marines were successful in doing it. The Marines said that they don't have special forces. All o…
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AC-130s, which are gunships, and they also have MC-130s with refueling capabilities. Most C-130s, other than theirs, none of them have refueling capability where they can refuel helicopters, like Army helicopters and Air Force helicopters. …
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equipment package that goes on a standard 130. So in the Air Force budget, they budget for the 130. And then SOCOM goes to Congress and says in a separate line item, I need this amount of money to retrofit Air Force hardware to make it miss…
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pressure in those communities. I won't go into detail about that. But anyway, the one guy that's hanging, and so all of the C-130s that belong to ABSOC, that are combat, you know, special ops, they're not even in this pie at all. So the one…
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Again, the Marines, like they always do, God bless them, in a good way, they refused to participate. They told the Special Operations Four Star Commander that every Marine is trained to the same standard. They don't have special Marines. Th…
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And the reason why that was so important is because SOCOM has money to train anybody designated as a special operator to a higher standard than their normal service. So for us, all special forces capability is in AFSOC, Air Force Special Op…
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And the reason why that was so important is because SOCOM has money to train anybody designated as a special operator to a higher standard than their normal service. So for us, all special forces capability is in AFSOC, Air Force Special Op…
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So the Air Force buys the 130, the Air Force trains the NCO, the Air Force trains the officer, they assign them to Special Operations Command and SOCOM then trains all those same people and modifies the Air Force bought equipment to a highe…
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a special operations entity. So the Air Force is still responsible for the basic airframe, supplying mechanics, blah, blah, blah. But any special operations command entity that's put on there, they pay the bill to have it operate at that hi…
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The Air Force does all of the basic trainings, the senior service school, all that other stuff. But SOCOM is the one that would then spend, if you want them to speak a specific language or integrate into an air package that's going to do so…
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you're not going to stay in AFSOC your whole career as an Air Force person, but it's going to look a lot like that. You're going to spend a lot of time there because they put a huge investment into those resources. Thank you, Colonel. Thank…
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83-page military whistleblowing report, which influenced Edward Snowden's decision to circumvent Congress and release his information directly to the American people. The report was written by an Army officer and psychological warfare analy…
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which wasted tens of millions of dollars and exhausted our nation to the point of fatigue. The Army officer had extensive experience at U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Central Command, and the State Department in the Counterterrorism …
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As an officer in the United States Army Reserve, based on my experience at the Bush administration, advanced degrees and prior work in psychological warfare and intelligence analyst at the State Department and the U.S. Special Operations Co…
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Although it meant relocating my entire life from D.C. to Florida, I did it. I informed an Army battalion, 11th Psychological Operation Battalion in Washington, D.C. area and began the process of transferring to CENTCOM. I was given a specia…
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It was a surreal turf war between military commanders fighting for power, government agencies occupying space without really producing anything, and private sector contractors trying to work within the dynamics. Most offensive to me as a mi…
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had now shed the blood of one of their own and shamed America. Despite my being a U.S. Army officer and counter-terrorist defense contractor, despite my having worked at the State Department, U.S. Special Operations Command, the Pentagon, d…
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how he was a lone psychological warfare analyst that had single-handedly outmaneuvered and checkmated the entire U.S. military intelligence community, and that by using his charisma, encyclopedic mind, and hypnotic communication skills, was…
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which is also known as, let's see, so Blackwater's known use of Chilean and South African forces who served in authoritarian regimes was doing the training. In addition to these potential death squads, Blackwater also assisted the CIA in jo…
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while people like General Flynn and General Boykin are veterans of JSOC assignments. Flynn directed intelligence for JSOC, while Boykin commanded it in the 1990s. Boykin has also been deputy director of special activities, which was housed …
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the 101st Airborne, he took the Special Forces Officer Qualification course at Bragg and then returned to Vietnam where he served as a Special Forces Officer assisting the Cambodian Army. After returning from Vietnam, Kellogg was briefly de…
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independent covert operations through JSOC. It wasn't just that the CIA that Rumsfeld wanted to bypass. He wanted to bypass much of the hierarchy within the Pentagon itself. He envisioned JSOC being a kind of global unit that sought to elim…
▶ 10:53
Remember how we were talking about the 4512-2 directive that says you could assassinate anybody as long as they were a communist and then they added terrorists to that. He wanted to use that authority, have their own little military special…
▶ 12:58
So the DIA established an organization called the Strategic Support Branch, SSB, in 2002. That same year, the activity was transferred to JSOC. The SSB would work closely with the activity to provide real-time intelligence to special operat…
▶ 17:53
was part of the intelligence staff at JSOC. Some of the methods developed by Flynn, namely his concept, find, fix, finish, exploit, and analyze, appear to have been incorporated in special access programs, which is basically classified prog…
▶ 18:24
of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Stephen Camboni. Reportedly, Boykin, who worked directly under Camboni, was deeply involved in these dealings. As such, it's highly probable both men encountered each other during that time…
▶ 34:05
was linked to a turf war between JSOC and the CIA, which traces back to Rumsfeld reform of the national security apparatus. Petraeus was replaced by none other than John Brennan. Now, what you also have to understand, just because they set …
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basically JSOC, beginning back at the Bush Jr.'s presidency. In both cases, a killer capture program was in effect, while detainees then being subjected to enhanced interrogation, which basically was very similar to the Phoenix program to i…
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whether it was Al Qaeda or Viet Cong. But unlike the Phoenix program, which restricted to Vietnam and the surrounding areas like Cambodia and Laos, JSOC was global. They had the ability to track their targets down all over the world. The Ph…
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Elsewhere, the Phoenix program had been described as the grandfather of the JSOC approach to war, and Boykin just so happened to be the man Rumsfeld placed in charge of hunting down high-value targets. As such, this Phoenix program is much …
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James Reese, a former operator of the Delta Force, one of the key components of JSOC. TigerSwan soon deployed military-style counterinsurgency techniques to the protesters that included keeping lists of activists, tracking them, infiltratin…
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But one of the things that did get birthed out of this is JTHOC, which is the Joint Special Operations Command that is co-located at Fort Bragg. And that was mimicked off of the British Special Forces Jedburgh Group. So the more recent year…
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We also have a different kind of COCOMs that are functional based. So you have cybercom now, you have strategic, you have space, you have, and that obviously branched off into kind of a separate service, but still under the Air Force. It's …
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is what we refer to as an OTE command. So every service, whether it's Air Force, Navy, Marines, Army, has people in it that are designated special forces or special operations. SOCOM's sole job is organize, train, and equip…
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I have an administrative command in the Air Force and I have an operational command through CENTCOM. When I'm deployed, I report through CENTCOM. I fly missions for the CENTCOM commander. I come back home and I'm under the administrative co…
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I have an administrative command in the Air Force and I have an operational command through CENTCOM. When I'm deployed, I report through CENTCOM. I fly missions for the CENTCOM commander. I come back home and I'm under the administrative co…
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helicopters and C-130s that have special, special operations equipment on them. The Air Force does not pay for those special operation command doodads that are put on our helicopters and the C-130s. We supply a regular C-130 to AVSOC, that'…
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helicopters and C-130s that have special, special operations equipment on them. The Air Force does not pay for those special operation command doodads that are put on our helicopters and the C-130s. We supply a regular C-130 to AVSOC, that'…
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to lobby Congress to get money, they are given their own special line item in a budget that equips all of our C-130s and helicopters to fly Special Operation Command missions. So CIDCOM has a subordinate command called SOCSINT, Special Oper…
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When they deploy forward, they're under the command of those theater, they call them theater SOCs, Special Operations Command. And they report to CENTCOM. What you're finding out with this latest hoax is the name of SOCOM's commander keeps …
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they provide specialized equipment, organized training equip, capability to the theater SOCs. So Southcom has what's called SOC South. So if I go to any mission in the Caribbean or South America, and I'm going to do an operation, Southcom, …
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to whatever the president and the SECDEF tells them to do, they create a war plan to go do that. If they need special operations command capability, they get it from their theater SOC. And they just talk to SOUTHCOM and say, hey, I need thi…
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He happens to be somebody that embeds with Army Special Operations Command as an Air Force officer. And I'm like, I need you to check me. Has the chain of command somehow changed since I retired? Why is everybody talking about the SOCOM com…
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That can be tasked directly from the White House to the SECDEF to a assistant secretary at the Pentagon. And the acronym used to be SOLIC, Special Operations LIC. And that entity normally, now that we can talk about JSOC because it's alread…
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to go operate in a theater. And the reason why I explained the difference between administrative command and operational command is this. The JSOC commander normally is a two-star guy. He administratively reports directly to SOCOM. He's at …
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South Com's not going to be involved in the planning of it or the execution of it. And while that operation is ongoing, South Com's forces will not go into that area that has been designated a special. But when that happens, his operational…
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and an administrative command. SOCOM is an administrative command for all things special operations. They organize, train, and equip every special operator in the administrative military, the Air Force, the Army, the Marines, and the Navy. …
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He just simply makes sure that all of the special forces people are trained to the same standard on the same equipment for the theater socks, the special operations command commanders that are subordinate to the war fighting commander like …