Robert Vesco person
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Claims (42)
Frank Sturgis did_business_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“on providing the DEA with assassination devices. See how easy, how convenient that is to have a death squad co-located with a company that sells all that shit. Among Warbill's other associates were Frank Sturgis and Robert Vesco. The same R…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 34:19
Carlos Hernandez worked_for
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“like warble himself had been charged with bankrolling narcotic smuggling weird so we're getting all the narcotic guys together putting them under the dea as cover it's brilliant absolutely brilliant carlos hernandez um rumbot the bodyguard …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 34:50
Richard Nixon spied_on
Robert Vesco documented
“It was recorded. It's about half an hour on the phone between Nixon and Rockefeller. I haven't listened to it. I just have the National Archives notes on it so far. But you'll never believe what else comes up in that call about the FEC. The…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund @ 1:16:37
Robert Vesco laundered_money_for
Contras host_asserted
“much more recently, as we've seen with the whole Russiagate hoax and all of that other stuff. That involved all of those same people, same entities. And when today you are still seeing people from the 1970s and 80s that are caught up like t…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 1:04:34
Robert Vesco spied_on
Costa Rica documented
“Now, isn't that interesting? That's in 86. And that's when Costa Rica was in the throes of hiding Robert Vesco and facilitating the DEA and CIA running the Contra operation out of Costa Rica. That's where they had set up shop. So Jeb Bush g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 46:14
Robert Vesco funded
Richard Nixon book_quoted
“to Nixon's reelection campaign and was a close associate. And I can't believe this is not more well-known. It's well-documented in the book Spooks. Nixon's brother, Edward, and his nephew, Donald Jr., they literally were like in bed with Ro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 44:58
James C. Day Jr. defrauded
Robert Vesco documented
“DNC Committee Chairman John White, who was the former Texas Agricultural Secretary. Details of this sting operation, which are practically incomprehensible, are detailed in a book, Vesco, by author Herzog. I actually have that book. I have …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 19:34
Mitchell WerBell III did_business_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“Warbell was simultaneously wired into deals all over the world. He was part of Robert Vesco's operation in Costa Rica with the creation of a company there and the deal to set up the submachine gun factory on Robert Vesco's ranch.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 13:35
Bobby Hall carried_out_attack
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“that doubled as an intelligence gathering apparatus. Very, very interesting. Okay, so towards the end of this introduction, we're still only on the introduction. He says, for example, the plots of private investigator Bobby Hall and some Br…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 1 @ 44:58
Bobby Hall did_business_with
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“You can mention Kenny Bernstein, Warbell's associate, Colonel Robert Banyard, who was shot down in Atlanta parking lot in 1975. Another Warbell associate and co-defendant in his marijuana case, John Nardi, was shot and killed in Cleveland. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 1:00:09
Bobby Hall did_business_with
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“Used to smuggle drugs and weapons back and forth across the border. And that he frequently allowed, either through lease or whatever, Robert Vesco to use that exact same aircraft. Huh. Jaibuddin's kidnapping plot was supposedly, according t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 44:03
Bobby Hall did_business_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“by a Jewish pornographer from Shanghai. He was a corrupt private investigator, drug dealer, and wiretapper. Hall was hooked on the adrenaline of being a spook. He even tried blackmailing Robert Vesco. Probably not a good idea from what we'v…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 1 @ 14:31
Thomas Richardson supplied_arms_to
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“detective's murder, had received a six-year prison sentence for bilking brokerage banks and Ivy League College of millions of dollars. It was Richardson who'd provided Vesco with the use of his executive jet to ferry prostitutes and crates …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 32:03
Frank Warbell conspired_with
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“Warbell, his son, and his company, Defense Services Inc., another one, were charged with illicit weapon sales, was involved in a conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco, and the various corporations to finance clandestine guerrilla activitie…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 45:51
Frank Pierotti exposed
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“Charged Vesco with financing extensive heroin smuggling. For his initiative, Perov was fired. And somebody tried to assassinate him. What? The DEA guy doing his job that's outing an actual drug trafficker was fired? And they tried to kill h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 51:46
Ferdinand Legros did_business_with
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“In 1971, the CIA helped get Vesco released from a prison in Geneva where he had been arrested with Bernard Kornfeld, a fellow co-conspirator at the Investors Overseas Service, IOS. That was the CIA front that Vesco was running. Legros was i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 58:12
Richard Nixon relationship_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“They had plenty of opportunities to get him and never did. It's one of those situations. Nixon himself is alleged to have secretly met with Vesco in Salzburg, Austria. And that's actually verified in that other book, Stooges. This was durin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 46:00
Robert Vesco relationship_with
Mitch Werbell book_quoted
“multi-millionaire Robert Vesco, who until recently was in exile in Costa Rica, where he allegedly financed the smuggling of narcotics. That's probably the least of the things that Robert Vesco did. Robert Vesco is the guy that was basically…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 43:27
Peter Osborne exposed
Robert Vesco caller_asserted
“It was awesome. And so I just kind of reiterated because some of the things, because he's been in it for so long, the audience that was listening may have not gotten some of the details of how significant what he was saying was. So I kind o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:30:01
Robert Vesco operated_in
Costa Rica host_asserted
“multi-millionaire Robert Vesco, who until recently was in exile in Costa Rica, where he allegedly financed the smuggling of narcotics. That's probably the least of the things that Robert Vesco did. Robert Vesco is the guy that was basically…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 43:27
Robert Vesco did_business_with
BCCI book_quoted
“He includes details in here that I haven't found in other areas about Robert Vesco and the iOS operation that he ran and the precursor that was ran. And I think you guys are going to find it very enlightening given what all of the stuff, be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 2:51
Donald Nixon relationship_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“to Nixon's reelection campaign and was a close associate. And I can't believe this is not more well-known. It's well-documented in the book Spooks. Nixon's brother, Edward, and his nephew, Donald Jr., they literally were like in bed with Ro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 44:58
Edward Nixon relationship_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“to Nixon's reelection campaign and was a close associate. And I can't believe this is not more well-known. It's well-documented in the book Spooks. Nixon's brother, Edward, and his nephew, Donald Jr., they literally were like in bed with Ro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 44:58
Joe Kelso spied_on
Robert Vesco guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“The response from Interpol was absolutely not. Sedona's connections to the presidential administration of Richard Nixon, right up there with Robert Vesco, are more firmly established. Sedona's Italian banks were investment partners with Con…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 40:40
Robert Vesco moved_to
Costa Rica book_quoted
“He's the guy that basically took over iOS, the investors overseas services, stole about, depending on who you read, $200 to $300 million out of that company and headed off to Costa Rica. You can do a lot of manufacturing with $300 million, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 8:26
Robert Vesco did_business_with
Frank Warbell host_asserted
“Warbell, his son, and his company, Defense Services Inc., another one, were charged with illicit weapon sales, was involved in a conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco, and the various corporations to finance clandestine guerrilla activitie…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 45:51
Robert Vesco did_business_with
Richard Nixon book_quoted
“have control over the cocaine network as well. The White House protected Robert Vesco, who was a central figure in all of it, including gun running and a large contributor to Richard Nixon. He goes on to assert that there was a syndicate, t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 4:56
Robert Vesco stole
Investors Overseas Services book_quoted
“He's the guy that basically took over iOS, the investors overseas services, stole about, depending on who you read, $200 to $300 million out of that company and headed off to Costa Rica. You can do a lot of manufacturing with $300 million, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 8:26
Robert Vesco did_business_with
Richard Nixon host_asserted
“uh investigation subcommittee could probe deeply deeply into the case it was squelched through the intervention of the white house in 1973 no kidding that seems very very odd in the middle of a war on drugs what okay enough for my sarcasm t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 52:21
Robert Vesco did_business_with
Bernard Kornfeld host_asserted
“In 1971, the CIA helped get Vesco released from a prison in Geneva where he had been arrested with Bernard Kornfeld, a fellow co-conspirator at the Investors Overseas Service, IOS. That was the CIA front that Vesco was running. Legros was i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 58:12
Robert Vesco funded
BR Fox Company book_quoted
“entity where they could have like a quote-unquote free port where they could do all of their narcotics weapons trafficking and that type of thing with their own government and so he's asking if it ever got off the ground and he makes a coup…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 2:00
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations investigated
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“It appears to have been abandoned. They don't abandon anything. They repackage it, create a new proprietary, and continue on because no one is ever held accountable. Koenig was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 39:08
Bobby Hall plotted
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“He had a contingency plan. A politically ambitious prosecutor might well be willing to exchange the fugitive financier for the jailed stockbroker. But Richardson's information, no matter how incriminating, could never guarantee Vesco's retu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 38:29
Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“While Vesco and Warble were hatching their weapons deals, Bosch's base of operation just happened to be Vesco's kingdom of Costa Rica. Shocker. That also was one of Santo Traficani's favorite places to go as well. Traficani Jr. was reported…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 50:39
John Kelly covered_up
Robert Vesco book_quoted
“Vesco's home was being swept by Bobby Hall. Huh, that's really weird. Why would the DEA want to remove bugs on a suspected heroin trafficker? Well, we all know the answer to that. Four years later, John Kelly would find himself as a private…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 34:14
Frank Peroff spied_on
Robert Vesco documented
“A huge supporter of Richard Nixon and his associate, Norman LeBlanc, were the bankrollers of an international heroin trafficking ring. That's not a lie either. Robert Vesco was involved in so many things. And weirdly enough, the other book …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 7 @ 48:03
Robert Vesco employed
Orlando Bosch host_asserted
“consignment of M-10s sent to Spain under license from U.S. authorities had been purchased by the Spanish CIA, which is called DGS. And yes, they were in bed with Otto Skorzeny and Operation Gladio. The fugitive billionaire Robert Vesco empl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 49:05
Robert Vesco did_business_with
Bernie Kornfeld host_asserted
“corporations i mean i'm sure you've read it it's um it's the same guy who wrote secret agenda um then i think the in my opinion best still best book on water beach but it's still escaping me but anyway uh the point is that um it's interesti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 6 @ 1:03:31
Robert Vesco funded
World Wildlife Fund host_asserted
“He has been, you know, he was associated with the guy that set up the World Wildlife Fund and the Club of 1001, all of that stuff. So, yeah, this is huge. OK, thank you very much. That's like I'm just like psyched. OK, Kathy, go ahead. Oh, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund @ 1:18:12
Robert Vesco funded
1001 Club host_asserted
“He has been, you know, he was associated with the guy that set up the World Wildlife Fund and the Club of 1001, all of that stuff. So, yeah, this is huge. OK, thank you very much. That's like I'm just like psyched. OK, Kathy, go ahead. Oh, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund @ 1:18:12
Robert Vesco ordered_assassination_of
Bobby Hall book_quoted
“His teenage daughter said that a month before he was murdered, Hall had taken her on a picnic for Father's Day. She noticed that her dad was carrying a gun and she asked him why. His exact words were, I think Robert Vesco is trying to kill …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 27:45
Mentions (81)
▶ 1:16:37
It was recorded. It's about half an hour on the phone between Nixon and Rockefeller. I haven't listened to it. I just have the National Archives notes on it so far. But you'll never believe what else comes up in that call about the FEC. The…
▶ 1:17:41
The Nixon tapes are hard listening, but, you know, it might be worth taking a look at. Oh, I definitely will. Holy crap. That's huge, actually. And for you guys that don't know Robert Vesco, I will, especially after I listen to this, I'll d…
▶ 40:29
of none other than Robert Vesco, who we've talked about many times. That was a scheme to nationalize the gasoline distributorships in Costa Rica. Who Norwin Menendez was and what he did for a living was no mystery to Costa Rican police offi…
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a standing directive from the CIA to gather intelligence about Robert Vesco. And by the way, Robert Vesco was also employed by the CIA. The millionaire swindler and fugitive who lived in Havana and had been going to Costa Rica and Nicaragua…
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It helps when you're working for the CIA. Kelso found the methamphetamine dealer's ranch, but not its owner. He had a house on the Mexican border, so he'd hop back and forth between the U.S. border and the Mexican border so that he could co…
▶ 27:44
in San Jose, Costa Rica. When he checked to see who was paying the storage bills, he learned that it was the owners of the shrimp company, the cocaine-dealing CIA threat, that was helping Oliver North funnel U.S. government money to the Con…
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while they're pretending they're hunting for him. Just want to make that clear. A decision was being made up here in the United States whether we were going to put a satellite pinger on it or not, Kelso said, and they chose not to. So they …
▶ 46:28
started confiscating everything in the room, tried to take our notebooks, my briefcase, everything, Kelso said. Kelso and Codwell was hustled off to a construction warehouse owned by the Costa Rican Electric Company, where they were shoved …
▶ 40:03
where his sister, Jessie, had lived until her death in 1970. Mason co-authored a biography of Ball titled Confusion to the Enemy. Together, the two traveled all over the world in Mason's jet, rubbing elbows with Middle Eastern sheiks, the S…
▶ 40:30
When Vasco was trying to get Ball and Mason to buy one of his companies, Ball allegedly told Vasco, I had a dream that you and I slept together on a cold night. In the morning, you had all the blankets. At one time, Vasco served on the boar…
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He was a close associate, you guys aren't gonna believe this, of Robert Vesco. You guys remember Robert Vesco? We talked about this in the first year. He's a shyster and intimately involved in the CIA. We saw him, he's the guy that was hang…
▶ 1:30:01
It was awesome. And so I just kind of reiterated because some of the things, because he's been in it for so long, the audience that was listening may have not gotten some of the details of how significant what he was saying was. So I kind o…
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legislature. He got into the oil business, made some money, then went broke and started selling oil tax shelters and mutual funds. In the manner of international con men, Keene eventually met up with mutual fund swindler Bernie Kornfeld and…
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Now, isn't that interesting? That's in 86. And that's when Costa Rica was in the throes of hiding Robert Vesco and facilitating the DEA and CIA running the Contra operation out of Costa Rica. That's where they had set up shop. So Jeb Bush g…
▶ 1:04:11
Anyway, Colonel, what I was looking at, you mentioned Robert Vesco. And I can say we have been watching the International Syndicate at work on TV for quite some time. Because Robert Vesco is a character that was played by Stacey Keech in Th…
▶ 35:48
said by Weiland to Tazewell. The next entry in the diary shows his schedule for the coming Tuesday on which he has a meeting with Roth and Weiland set up at 1230. Sergio knows Vesco, ex-bodyguard who is in Spain. And who's Vesco? Robert Ves…
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by a Jewish pornographer from Shanghai. He was a corrupt private investigator, drug dealer, and wiretapper. Hall was hooked on the adrenaline of being a spook. He even tried blackmailing Robert Vesco. Probably not a good idea from what we'v…
▶ 44:58
that doubled as an intelligence gathering apparatus. Very, very interesting. Okay, so towards the end of this introduction, we're still only on the introduction. He says, for example, the plots of private investigator Bobby Hall and some Br…
▶ 7:30
also criminals and known to work in the arms trafficking area. And then, of course, he goes on to talk about him being involved in Costa Rica, which was Robert Vesco's area of expertise. He also talks about him being involved in Manila, Ban…
▶ 14:52
Behind the scenes, eventually either the indictment gets dropped or they cop a plea deal to be paying some small fine, probation, whatever. So it goes on to talk about his involvement with Robert Besko and that Warbell suddenly found his so…
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in a different country. And that goes to Robert Vesco in Costa Rica, which is where they were working on setting up this plan. Meanwhile, Robert Vesco is looking for some island, which of course we end up with Paradise Island, as a cover th…
▶ 36:31
covered him enough to understand what his um role in this whole thing is with his companies like defense services and he brings in robert vesco and the dirty dozen dea uh embeds and lucien koenig and he moves on to a guy by the name of mike…
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Warbell was simultaneously wired into deals all over the world. He was part of Robert Vesco's operation in Costa Rica with the creation of a company there and the deal to set up the submachine gun factory on Robert Vesco's ranch.…
▶ 39:08
It appears to have been abandoned. They don't abandon anything. They repackage it, create a new proprietary, and continue on because no one is ever held accountable. Koenig was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee …
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the astro catalog the dirty dozen the assassination teams and so forth and he had talked a lot about we didn't cover it because we've covered it in other shows about the um what's going on with my hair um sorry um he talked a lot about the …
▶ 5:08
the sale of this equipment, but none of it being traceable. So he goes on to say that just as the programs would have relied on foreign nationals for the actual commission of a murder, hence the foreign travel, they would have also depended…
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Basically, his point is that having all of them together was kind of like a command post, for lack of a better word. And then he spends the next chapter going through Robert Vesco. We've spent so much time talking about Robert Vesco. I don'…
▶ 8:26
He's the guy that basically took over iOS, the investors overseas services, stole about, depending on who you read, $200 to $300 million out of that company and headed off to Costa Rica. You can do a lot of manufacturing with $300 million, …
▶ 8:56
And as we talked about on Apple Warrior Show last night, Robert Vesco tried to buy Resorts International as well. And he's obviously mixed up with all of these people. And I think that probably between Robert Vesco, Mitch Warbell, and Lucie…
▶ 14:04
which they tried to in the late 1950s under eisenhower and failed and then they came back under johnson and was successful in the later 60s well dewey sacarno his wife had investments at ios according to the author and then he spends a lot …
▶ 14:38
talking about Robert Vesco and the Resort International with Inertel kind of mingling during that time. But here's one quote that I wanted to read. In Latin America, Africa, Asia, iOS was organized in a compartmentalized, clandestine fashio…
▶ 15:41
And of course, enormous amounts of cash were received from members of organized crime syndicates all over the world. Kornfeld, who was the original owner before Vesco took it over, confirmed that as much as 10% of all iOS funds belong to pe…
▶ 22:07
Robert Vesco, being a close friend of James Crosby, Crosby is the guy that had owned Resorts International right before Trump bought it and interimly when Robert Vesco was trying to buy it. Crosby was well-known in Republican circles, had b…
▶ 24:45
Lucy and Koenig was with the OSS and then CIA. And so I make little smart aleck comments out in the column of the book about that. And he spends a whole lot of time with all of these Cuban exiles and their interface with Vesco. And again, I…
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Moving on. Let's see what else we got. A lot of stuff about Costa Rica, but we've covered all of this, so I don't want to bore you guys. Okay. Because basically what he's talking about is Vesco being down there, the whole setup of that weap…
▶ 27:45
His teenage daughter said that a month before he was murdered, Hall had taken her on a picnic for Father's Day. She noticed that her dad was carrying a gun and she asked him why. His exact words were, I think Robert Vesco is trying to kill …
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eddie fisher being one of them professed shock at his assassination but claimed to know nothing about it the police were able to put together some remarkable lines of investigation and yes they involved robert vesco one of his associates th…
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detective's murder, had received a six-year prison sentence for bilking brokerage banks and Ivy League College of millions of dollars. It was Richardson who'd provided Vesco with the use of his executive jet to ferry prostitutes and crates …
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federal narcotics officer John Kelly to have Vesco's New Jersey office swept for bugs. As it happened, Richardson had also employed Bobby Hall at the same time, dispatching the private eye to the Bahamas for the supposed purpose of removing…
▶ 33:03
would soon come under investigation as a suspect in international heroin trafficking in conjunction with the CIA. Organizing the sweep on Vesco's behalf was the LA Regional Director of the BND, which is the DEA precursor. So wait a minute. …
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And the basically the DEA head in L.A. is going with the surveillance tech to sweep his apartments to make sure he's not being surveilled. Yes, that's what I said. John Kelly carrying out the sweep in New Jersey were two high ranking DEA ag…
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Vesco's home was being swept by Bobby Hall. Huh, that's really weird. Why would the DEA want to remove bugs on a suspected heroin trafficker? Well, we all know the answer to that. Four years later, John Kelly would find himself as a private…
▶ 35:22
proved helpful. He told police that he'd hired Bobby Hall to perform a number of delicate assignments. One of them was to obtain information that would force the government to return his confiscated Learjet or drug hauler, weapons hauler, w…
▶ 35:55
The stockbroker had been begging Vesco for money to pay his lawyers. Hall recorded these conversations and Vesco's callous replies. Richardson can go to the joint, Vesco said, or jump bell and join him in Costa Rica. That pissed Richardson …
▶ 36:26
Message. If Vesco didn't come up with the cash, Richardson and Hall would go to the police with information and tape recordings that would ensure his extradition. I doubt it because he's not going to bring him back. He knows too much, but w…
▶ 36:55
offering to bring Vesco to the United States in exchange for a reduction of Richardson's sentence. Richardson claimed that he had offered to provide information about Vesco's gun running, information that ought to have resulted in his extra…
▶ 37:26
purposely being sabotaged by federal officials. And the senators were particularly interested in Richardson's gun-running role. The stockbroker pleaded the Fifth to the subcommittee at the very moment his wireman, Hall, was negotiating with…
▶ 37:56
just two weeks before Hall's assassination. Nobody wants this information public. The detective's reply to the Fed's declination was, quote, that's surprising, but if that's the way it is, so be it, unquote. The Bureau's apparent disinteres…
▶ 38:29
He had a contingency plan. A politically ambitious prosecutor might well be willing to exchange the fugitive financier for the jailed stockbroker. But Richardson's information, no matter how incriminating, could never guarantee Vesco's retu…
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in jail just before the trial gets killed in a plane crash. So he's acquitted because we don't have a witness anymore. Another client interested in producing the Ingram M10 machine pistol in Latin America under the license of Warbell was no…
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Warbell, his son, and his company, Defense Services Inc., another one, were charged with illicit weapon sales, was involved in a conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco, and the various corporations to finance clandestine guerrilla activitie…
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2,000 silenced M10 machine gun pistols. When Warbel failed to secure the proper export license, he devised a plan to smuggle the weapons to Vesco. The two later negotiated the construction of a factory in Costa Rica to build them so they do…
▶ 49:05
consignment of M-10s sent to Spain under license from U.S. authorities had been purchased by the Spanish CIA, which is called DGS. And yes, they were in bed with Otto Skorzeny and Operation Gladio. The fugitive billionaire Robert Vesco empl…
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While Vesco and Warble were hatching their weapons deals, Bosch's base of operation just happened to be Vesco's kingdom of Costa Rica. Shocker. That also was one of Santo Traficani's favorite places to go as well. Traficani Jr. was reported…
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that i'm reading that the three might have joined forces with the cia and their terror campaign in latin america i'd say that's very well documented actually in 1973 some of the details began to surface in a series of scandals linked to the…
▶ 51:46
Charged Vesco with financing extensive heroin smuggling. For his initiative, Perov was fired. And somebody tried to assassinate him. What? The DEA guy doing his job that's outing an actual drug trafficker was fired? And they tried to kill h…
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uh investigation subcommittee could probe deeply deeply into the case it was squelched through the intervention of the white house in 1973 no kidding that seems very very odd in the middle of a war on drugs what okay enough for my sarcasm t…
▶ 52:51
and very generous donator to Nixon. So Robert Vesco had a run in with the SEC. His company where he was, it's basically another CIA front that he's running and had taken hundreds of millions of dollars out of the company and screwed a whole…
▶ 53:27
Midway through the subcommittee's investigation of the heroin charges, the DEA announced the disappearance of their Vesco file. What? It just magically disappeared. Gone. Now we can't do anything to them because we lost all of our paperwork…
▶ 53:59
In 1972, two bugging specialists from the BNDD, the precursor to the DEA, flew from Los Angeles to New Jersey to sweep Vesco's home, an office of surveillance devices. According to the subcommittee, the sweeping tour had been arranged by a …
▶ 54:59
Izzy's rapping on him. What the fuck? That was not the last of Robert Vesco in connection with drugs. In the late summer of 1977, police uncovered a smuggling of large quantities of heroin and cocaine to Rhode Island. In one that involved s…
▶ 55:36
Lansky, courier beat up, unquote. Several things point to Vesco's involvement in a longstanding partnership with the CIA, Lansky, Traficani, Cuban exiles, Warbell, DEA, the whole nine yards, in a drugs for guns terror deal to step up armed …
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antagonist against CIA-installed dictatorships throughout Latin America. Back to Hogan's book, he says the ventures that the conspirators might have used, such as go-betweens and couriers like Patricia Richardson Martinson. According to her…
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Behind the narcotics trade, Eduardo Barodi, a big time heroin and gun smuggler suspected of having arranged Vitus' mystery death in Switzerland. Christian David Conrad Bouchard, a top heroin trafficker heavily involved in Frank Paranoff's V…
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In 1971, the CIA helped get Vesco released from a prison in Geneva where he had been arrested with Bernard Kornfeld, a fellow co-conspirator at the Investors Overseas Service, IOS. That was the CIA front that Vesco was running. Legros was i…
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got back together in Nassau. Legros was seen in the company of Betas in Geneva in Rio de Janeiro. His closest friend was a convicted heroin trafficker, Andre Labey, a close associate of Haiti's Duvalet dynasty, which of course was used for …
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Later, when Legros was placed in protective confinement in Brazil, newspapers speculated that he had involvement in Christian David's narcotic trafficking. Recent years investigation into the CIA organized crime connections has resulted in …
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You can mention Kenny Bernstein, Warbell's associate, Colonel Robert Banyard, who was shot down in Atlanta parking lot in 1975. Another Warbell associate and co-defendant in his marijuana case, John Nardi, was shot and killed in Cleveland. …
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That would also happen to Warbill eventually. After the Senate Investigation Subcommittee attempted probe into the Vesco heroin case was sabotaged, committee chairman Henry Jackson asked, quote, did the U.S. government wish to keep Vesco ou…
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and friends literally inside the washington post right quite literally um at a time when you also have this shift in the international drug trade and the intermediary nature seemingly of the vesco apparatus you know is getting disappeared r…
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have control over the cocaine network as well. The White House protected Robert Vesco, who was a central figure in all of it, including gun running and a large contributor to Richard Nixon. He goes on to assert that there was a syndicate, t…
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and provided a useful tool for all of it. Pointing out this fact was his close association with the Cuba lobby, with people connected to Lansky and Traficani and Robert Vesco. He also points out that the large array of Cuban exiles that was…
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even have been connected to this. It was. We've read about that in other books. The victims had opposed Orlando Bosch's drive to power because he's a part of the approved network. Also a member of this new approved network, of course, was S…
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among other things, but let's just go with this. And we know the entire thing was fake. And while all of that is going on with the creep, his reelection thing and Robert Vesco and all of these nefarious people behind the scenes and Watergat…
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The response from Interpol was absolutely not. Sedona's connections to the presidential administration of Richard Nixon, right up there with Robert Vesco, are more firmly established. Sedona's Italian banks were investment partners with Con…
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the entire narcotics trafficking network with william polly and a whole bunch of other people claire chanel in southeast asia it's all related while sedona was out vescoing robert vesco himself the cia was exploiting sedona's political symp…
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In the late 60s and the early 70s that, you know, possibly involving similarities with, you know, the Robert Vesco organization. Just like that. Yeah. And it's just like, you know, I don't want to like just go ahead and use a regional or ge…
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what was called the bernie cornfield network i think by jim howens in in the book spooks if you recall and then that he used that as precursor to the you know robert vesco shenanigans which frankly i still am not very i'm not sure i get tha…
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Leonard Capaldi. They both pled guilty and received probated sentences. Several months before he was indicted in Texas, Day became a target in a bizarre FBI sting that involved fugitive financier Robert Besko, who again shows up in all of t…
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DNC Committee Chairman John White, who was the former Texas Agricultural Secretary. Details of this sting operation, which are practically incomprehensible, are detailed in a book, Vesco, by author Herzog. I actually have that book. I have …
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much more recently, as we've seen with the whole Russiagate hoax and all of that other stuff. That involved all of those same people, same entities. And when today you are still seeing people from the 1970s and 80s that are caught up like t…