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Claims (49)
Richard Secord member_of
Joint Task Force documented
“General James Vaught continued leading the Joint Task Force, which prepared a larger scale plan, Honey Badger. Vaught had some of the best covert operations people around. His air commander, Brigadier General Richard Secord of the Iran-Cont…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 5:32
Richard Secord member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:31
Richard Secord member_of
Secret War in Laos host_asserted
“and with the opium warlock, warlord, Vang Pao. In 66, Secord had already flown more than 200 secret combat missions, mostly into Cambodia, and won four air medals. When he appealed to General Aderholt for his chance to join the secret war i…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 17:42
Richard Secord member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“Because every legitimate banking transaction goes through the Cayman Islands. And then on to Lake Resources account at Credit Suisse in Geneva. That account was controlled by two people, Oliver North and Richard Secord. In March of 1986, th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 26:00
Richard Secord member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“$13 billion. Years later, he and Hakim would play major roles in the Iran-Contra. Beau Secord kept his word to Wilson and arranged for the contract transfer. Wilson, in turn, asked Secord what he could do for him. Secord told Wilson that he…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 34:49
Edwin Wilson funded
Richard Secord book_quoted
“Secord had for years denied anything other than operational relationship with Ed Wilson. Brill contradicts Secord's version of events. She led the FBI to evidence that Wilson bought the airplane, a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, worth severa…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 35:17
Richard Secord carried_out_attack
Contras documented
“with John Molina, a banker for Ron Martin, who was gunned down in the streets of Panama City in 1987. On July 29, 1986, North had a meeting with retired General Richard Secord, who was running the Contra resupply effort, as well as handling…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 37:36
Eugene Hassenfuss filed_lawsuit_against
Richard Secord host_asserted
“because the CIA continued to attack Nicaragua, simply because they didn't control Ortega. Well, it seems to me they got more hot water out of letting him go and sending him back to the United States, because Hossenfuss, when he got back to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:09:45
David Jones appointed
Richard Secord host_asserted
“hostage rescue mission. General James Vaught was the nominal commander and Secord's deputy commander. Jones made it clear that it was Secord's show. Such a rescue, if successful, would have been a tremendous boon to the Carter administratio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 52:04
James Tully friend_of
Richard Secord book_quoted
“One of Brennan's cronies, Lieutenant Colonel James Tully, T-U-L-L-Y, became a friend of Oliver Norse. Tully, who had a knack for making money, was also a close friend of General Richard Secord and Ted Shackley. North did not know it at the …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 25:53
William Corson warned_about
Richard Secord book_quoted
“References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 31:43
Richard Secord supplied_arms_to
Egypt book_quoted
“and most notoriously, BCCI. The unscrupulous individuals and groups can make fortunes through supplying covert operations. Richard Secord of Iran Contra fame, also a Nugent Hand client, first made millions with Farhad Azima and Global Inter…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 6:26
Richard Secord member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“and most notoriously, BCCI. The unscrupulous individuals and groups can make fortunes through supplying covert operations. Richard Secord of Iran Contra fame, also a Nugent Hand client, first made millions with Farhad Azima and Global Inter…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 6:26
Richard Secord supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“And we've read about that as well. ISCO is spelled E-A-T-S-C-O. And that was after they had overthrown the government of Egypt. Secord made more money by negotiating Iran-Contra arm deals to Iran. He also worked with David Kimche, K-I-M-C-H…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 6:56
Richard Secord appointed
Richard Garner book_quoted
“who told him of the need for the airfield at what they labeled Point West. Tams told the Costa Ricans that an airfield benefited them. Getting Fernando Chamorro's troops into Nicaragua would reduce the contra problem in Costa Rica. General …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 17:29
Richard Secord member_of
The Enterprise book_quoted
“Aldolfo Calero came when Congress finally passed the $100 million contra aid appropriation. The NSC staff operators celebrated it, but there was less to celebrate than met the eye. Oliver North had been quite correct that more people would …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 8:32
Felix Rodriguez alleged
Richard Secord book_quoted
“association with the Nicaraguan War. Bush had visited with the Contra commanders at an airfield in Honduras in March of 85. Gregg continued to keep him apprised of conditions in Central America. Rodriguez went over the ground he had covered…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 7:10
Richard Secord headed
Setco host_asserted
“through CIA Airlines in Latin America, Southern Air Transport, and the use of private contractors linked to organized crime and money laundering. One contractor called Setco, S-E-T-C-O, Air, and we've looked into them before, owned by a Hon…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:01:54
Richard Secord headed
Southern Air Transport host_asserted
“through CIA Airlines in Latin America, Southern Air Transport, and the use of private contractors linked to organized crime and money laundering. One contractor called Setco, S-E-T-C-O, Air, and we've looked into them before, owned by a Hon…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:01:54
Richard Secord headed
Oliver North host_asserted
“trying to work with Norse group and was going to arrange a delivery of some of the small planes. At a later date in the diary, he discusses as having a falling out with retired General Richard Secord, who headed up Norse resupply efforts fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 39:14
Christic Institute exposed
Richard Secord host_asserted
“when he found out the possible connections to drug smuggling. Later, he worked as a paid investigator for the Christic Institute, which sued a number of CIA-connected people, including Richard Secord, for their alleged involvement in the bo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 39:43
Richard Secord supplied_arms_to
Shah Pahlavi book_quoted
“Brigadier General Richard Secord shows up and he's sent to Iran as chief of U.S. Air Force Military Assistance Advisory Group, AMAG. As such, he's positioned for U.S. contractors in the cell of arms to the Shah. He was also responsible for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 18:12
Richard Secord funded
Iran host_asserted
“of George H.W. Bush and George Bush and worked in the Reagan administration. That Richard Secord. Secord was reported to have been in business with James Tully and Jack Brennan, a former aide to Richard Nixon, who were involved in a $181 mi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 35:50
Richard Secord member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 16:43
Richard Secord member_of
American Mission to Aid Greece book_quoted
“Brigadier General Richard Secord shows up and he's sent to Iran as chief of U.S. Air Force Military Assistance Advisory Group, AMAG. As such, he's positioned for U.S. contractors in the cell of arms to the Shah. He was also responsible for …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 18:12
Richard Secord funded
The Enterprise host_asserted
“was also credited with finding funds from the Saudi Arabia government. Because back then, the Saudi Arabia government was in bed with the Bushes and everybody else. George H.W. Bush, Jim Baker, all of those guys. Okay, so it's a party. We w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 27:37
Richard Secord trafficked
CIA host_asserted
“Air America. During that time, Shackley, Secord, and Clines were all involved in the CIA drug operations in that area. Also working with these individuals in that theater was General John Siegel, a Marine officer, along with Oliver North. O…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:10:10
Richard Secord member_of
Defense Security Assistance Agency documented
“he would be able to pull it off. Under the terms of the Camp David aid package, Von Marbog was an administrator for the Defense Security Assistance Agency, and he had to certify any shipper that was selected for the project. So Von Marbog's…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 34:15
Richard Secord member_of
Department of Defense book_quoted
“notified General Richard Secord that he was the subject of a criminal investigation. Tapp wrote Secord, the investigation involved Itzko von Marbog, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Klein, Hussein Salam, and officials in the United Arab Republic and em…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 22:40
Richard Secord supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“Fred Turple wanted to sell to Iran could only be sold if the contract was commercial, not military. Wilson said that Secord used his influence in Iran to arrange for the transfer of the military contract to a civilian one. According to Wils…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 34:18
Richard Secord member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“I, the CIA front bank, because they're all going to get a cut too. The connections between ETSCO, BCCI, Casey, and Sadat were just beginning of the massive amount of aid that would go to Egypt and the Afghan resistance, quote unquote resist…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 14:24
Richard Secord supplied_arms_to
Iran host_asserted
“This was done under the guise of providing Iraq with agricultural loan guarantees. With the U.S., through arms dealers like Secord, funneled millions of dollars of biological and chemical weapons technology to Iraq, thanks originally to the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 40:34
Richard Secord assisted
Ihsan Barbali book_quoted
“but they definitely had chemical and biological ingredients and used them. According to a Nightline broadcast, the New Orleans exporter, who was a business associate of none other than Richard Secord, assisted Barbati with exporting the pro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 34:44
Richard Secord met_with
Ihsan Barbali book_quoted
“but they definitely had chemical and biological ingredients and used them. According to a Nightline broadcast, the New Orleans exporter, who was a business associate of none other than Richard Secord, assisted Barbati with exporting the pro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 34:44
Richard Secord collaborated_with
Oliver North host_asserted
“And phone records show that several calls were placed to Barbadi's office to Secord's private number in McLean, Virginia. Now, again, Richard Secord is the same guy that was arranging the missile cells with Oliver North via Israel to Iran a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 35:17
Richard Secord connected
Ihsan Barbali host_asserted
“Iraq was developing an atomic device for Qaddafi that would be used against the U.S. in retaliation for the airstrikes in 1986 against Libya. According to Nightline, a New Orleans exporter named Don Seaton, a business associate of Richard S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 47:11
Richard Secord business_partner_with
James Tully host_asserted
“which tells you 100% the guy's CIA. Barbati met with Secord in Florida, which is where the headquarters was for Wackenhut at the time. On several occasions, phone records show that several calls were placed from Barbati's office to Secord's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 47:42
Richard Secord business_partner_with
James J. Brennan host_asserted
“which tells you 100% the guy's CIA. Barbati met with Secord in Florida, which is where the headquarters was for Wackenhut at the time. On several occasions, phone records show that several calls were placed from Barbati's office to Secord's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 47:42
Richard Secord recruited
Albert Hakim documented
“went to General Sikord after having been turned down by him for lucrative business contracts. Now Sikord put Hakim in touch with his Air Force intelligence. A flood of reports came from Hakim and other sources. General Sikord said there wer…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 8:29
Richard Secord carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra book_quoted
“Through 1986, Secord negotiated many deals, organized shipments, and supported operations in progress. McFarlane, and do I need to remind you as a general, he's a retired military officer, which means he's subject to UCMJ authority doing al…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 7:37
Richard Secord founded
Stanford Technology Trading Group International guest_asserted
“Basically, there was a company called Stanford Technology Trading Group International, which I think you may have mentioned. So this dodgy guy, Albert Hakim and Richard Secord, who was U.S. military, had set up this dodgy holding shell comp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 1:07:47
William K. Park appointed
Richard Secord book_quoted
“And then they got him his star and made him a general. Secord kind of got the big head over there. When I was over there visiting him, I said to Von Marbog, quote, is Secord going to get a second star? Unquote. Von Marbog said, he's getting…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 41:45
Theodore Greenberg covered_up
Richard Secord host_asserted
“And inside those files was the information that would have exposed Greenberg's performance in Judge Williams' courtroom as a complete fraud. Also sitting in Greenberg's safe were the files that made up the case Thomas G. Kline's et al. misu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 38:41
Richard Secord recruited
DynCorp host_asserted
“During that time, recruited agents for DynCorp's delivery operations. Richard Secord, you know, the same guy involved in Iran-Contra. Yeah, that guy. A former CIA agent, Herbert Winokur, W-I-N-O-K-U-R, was chairman of the board of DynCorp f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 41:38
Richard Secord ordered_assassination_of
William Cantrell book_quoted
“His conclusion was that the trio had been eliminated because they had discovered profit skimming going on, which again is exactly what the CIA does. They go in and they set these fake companies up. They get all of these military contracts a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 24:14
Richard Secord founded
Global International Airways guest_asserted
“Another private investigator in Houston who does work for federal agencies has looked into Global and Eats Go, agreed, quote, William Klein and Richard Secord incorporated Global. Azizma has denied this, pointing out that he incorporated Gl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 44:27
Richard Secord trafficked
Norwin Menendez book_quoted
“That Menendez and Gonzalez were dealing cocaine together had been known to the CIA since late 1984. One of the men closely involved in the Contra operation around that time was none other than retired Air Force General Richard Secord. That …”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 47:21
Tom Clines assigned_code_name
Richard Secord host_asserted
“aircraft that Wilson had bought for his youth. Secord's code name, assigned by Kline, was the Little General. Like Shirley Brill, Barnes witnessed Wilson preparing intelligence reports for Shackley and Kline on activities in Libya, and she …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 14:44
Richard Secord supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci supported Von Marbog and Secord's initiatives as they orchestrated the secret shipments through Israel, the weapons trafficking hub, for the October surprise weapons that were promised to Iran…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 11:16
Mentions (120)
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allowed Shackley, Secord, and Von Marbog and Klein to continue their profit-making activities while convincing Casey and Bush that they were doing their individual bidding. Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci supported Von Marbog and…
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The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …
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Answered to both Singlib and General Adderholt, who headed the military assistance command in Thailand. Now, for those of you who are not military inclined, General Harry Adderholt is an icon in special operations, like the granddaddy. Both…
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and with the opium warlock, warlord, Vang Pao. In 66, Secord had already flown more than 200 secret combat missions, mostly into Cambodia, and won four air medals. When he appealed to General Aderholt for his chance to join the secret war i…
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will be with us always. One of his assignments for Shackley was to drop dishwashing soap on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in a rainy season. The CIA had concluded that this would make the trail too slippery for the enemy use. Like most of the CIA's…
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but liked his ramrod straight West Point train professionalism. I thought he was arrogant. He acted like a general when he was a captain, but he was the best officer I ever had. General Singalib ran covert air operations in the entire regio…
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he would be able to pull it off. Under the terms of the Camp David aid package, Von Marbog was an administrator for the Defense Security Assistance Agency, and he had to certify any shipper that was selected for the project. So Von Marbog's…
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Wilson recalls that Klein rented a hotel room at Crystal City Marriott, stayed there many times, for their meeting. We all met in this hotel room, von Marburg, Shackley, Klein, and Secord, and myself, just the five of us. Wilson said he ope…
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What I want out of it was legitimacy. I want to get a share of the profit. And pretty much what was later set up via the Iran-Contra by Secord was basically his company that they took over. Wilson admitted that the group decided to set up a…
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Secord, Clines, and Shackley were all still high-level officials at the time. They're all on the government payroll meeting to steal money from the government with a fake company. So according to Wilson and FBI records, they were there disc…
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vouched for him working for the CIA, so he felt like his six was covered. In addition, their ties to overseas was critical for all future business arrangements. Secord would be the Pentagon liaison handling all of the Middle East contracts.…
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On Wilson's next trip to the U.S., Shackley summons Tim to a meeting at the Albert Pick Hotel near Washington Post headquarters. Wilson had done small acts of kindness for Shackley over the years, like giving Shackley's daughter a horse. No…
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and made key contacts directly outside of Wilson. A few months later, the arms dealer took Rodriguez off his payroll because he couldn't keep his mouth shut. In his duties for the Task Force 157, Wilson kept in touch with Richard Secord and…
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that is ran by the Defense Security Assistance Agency for foreign military aid. So, Wilson did not provide assistance to these men out of the goodness of his heart. These high-level contacts impressed the management of Task Force 157, which…
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Seemed to Task Force 157 management to outweigh any concerns about him sharing information with the CIA and Pentagon. Secord had done so well in Vietnam and Laos that he had been sent back to the U.S. for advanced training. With Wilson's he…
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he had learned that procurement was the source of real power in the military. And so procurement in this sense means basically like the contracting, logistics, and that type of thing. Wilson used his relationship with von Marburg and Secord…
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He was assigned to dispatch a small spy ship to the waters off of Iran to spy on the Soviet Navy. At that time, von Marbach was head of the Defense Department Purchasing Office in Iran, with a rank equal to that of Ambassador Richard Helms.…
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Now, the military assistance group is like those mags that started the Phoenix program in Vietnam, just FYI. This is at the same time that we're going to find Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, our Schwarzkopf from Desert Storm's dad, over i…
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While Wilson was working on his spy project, he was introduced through von Marbog and Secord to General Nematola Nasari, the head of the SAVAK, the Shah's murderous and brutal secret police, who asked Wilson if he could provide more up-to-d…
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When Savak found out that Wilson was a friend of these people, von Marburg and Secord, they were all over me to help them furnish material for torture. And keep in mind, these guys are experts at this because they were all in Vietnam doing …
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Clines and Shackley, Von Marbog, and Secord agreed to help the secret police because Wilson wanted to keep Savak happy. They made it easy for him to do business in Iran. He assisted the Savak, the Shah's torturers, from 1974 to 1977. Well, …
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because obviously General Secord and many of the military are absolutely implicated in so much of this. But in an objective way, they are fencing off portions of their responsibility, shoving it off on the military, when in fact there's lik…
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He simply took over Wilson's operation while Wilson was in Libya. He recruited Wilson's people like Flachter. Brill got to know and like Ed Wilson. She found him extremely generous to Clines, constantly lending him money and backing his rea…
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Tom called Ed the dumb son of a bitch, unquote. Also, he said, the dumb son of a bitch still thinks he works for the CIA. She said, wait a minute. That's no one's fault but your own. You're the one that's telling him that he's still working…
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when he returned home on leave from his position in Iran. Now, remember, Helms is over in Iran as the ambassador, and General Secord is stationed in Iran. And they all end up in the Iran-Contra deal. Big shocker. So Secord continued to be W…
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Fred Turple wanted to sell to Iran could only be sold if the contract was commercial, not military. Wilson said that Secord used his influence in Iran to arrange for the transfer of the military contract to a civilian one. According to Wils…
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$13 billion. Years later, he and Hakim would play major roles in the Iran-Contra. Beau Secord kept his word to Wilson and arranged for the contract transfer. Wilson, in turn, asked Secord what he could do for him. Secord told Wilson that he…
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Secord had for years denied anything other than operational relationship with Ed Wilson. Brill contradicts Secord's version of events. She led the FBI to evidence that Wilson bought the airplane, a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, worth severa…
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deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush appointed to the directorship of the CIA…
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front and center in the Iran-Contra affair, but he shows up in Operation Gladio all over to include Vietnam forward. And General Secord at the time, which it seems like everybody is, is in Iran. He is in charge of the Chief of Military Aid …
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to Wilson's townhouse, to parking lots. After a few months, Wilson decided that he could trust Barnes and made her his office manager. By 1978, she was his mistress as well. As Wilson's girlfriend, Barnes found herself socializing with Clim…
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aircraft that Wilson had bought for his youth. Secord's code name, assigned by Kline, was the Little General. Like Shirley Brill, Barnes witnessed Wilson preparing intelligence reports for Shackley and Kline on activities in Libya, and she …
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but Shackley's big interest was in their Soviet weapons. He tasked Wilson to find out about Soviet surface-to-air missiles and the later Soviet artillery and tanks that Gaddafi had acquired. Clines worked with Wilson and Secord to try to ge…
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They plan to use three different companies, API, FejaMex, and a new Bermuda-based company called International Research and Trade, IRT. And Bridget, you or SR71 looked that up. That one has come up repeatedly as well. And maybe just post a …
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The guy goes up against anybody that goes up against him has a problem. Behind it all, he's the mastermind of the whole thing, unquote. Wilson witnessed Von Marbog manipulating Richard Secord while Secord ran the Air Force military assistan…
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And then they got him his star and made him a general. Secord kind of got the big head over there. When I was over there visiting him, I said to Von Marbog, quote, is Secord going to get a second star? Unquote. Von Marbog said, he's getting…
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drugs, weapons, and that type of thing. According to Klein's, Yitzko's came from an idea that he had to use the connections of Sikord and von Marburg had with the Shah of Iran to be appointed a shipping agent for all U.S. military assistanc…
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though he was present at every meeting about Itzko. When the FBI confronted him with the allegation that he was one of the original partners, Shackley responded very carefully. According to his FBI 302, this is a quote. At this point in the…
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and Dick Secord had allegedly formed a business group of which each would have 20% interest, with Wilson providing funding, Von Marbog and Secord being silent partners, and Klein and Shackley being out front individuals regarding the busine…
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and consultant at SSI, the API Distributors Incorporated, and in International Research and Trade. Those are the names of all those companies. It goes on to say, Shackley denied having a 20% interest in any business association with Wilson,…
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Scores of witnesses such as Clines, Capucci, Secord, von Marburg all told the FBI that Shackley was the boss, not even just an equal partner. He was in charge. As for Wilson, the man who underplayed all of these people, his long run of good…
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And he goes on to explain this is how he ended up on the good side of the CIA. Because during this lawsuit, they actually named Richard Secord, who was in the Iran-Contra story, and Ted Shackley, who is in every story. And basically...…
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They had made some errors in the actual lawsuit. So the judge found against Christic Institute and then made them pay damages to Secord and all of the actual criminals. And so in order to pay the damages, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, an…
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Greg Enders and Rodriguez presented their updated pink plan to Bush. On Richard Secord's behalf, Enders and Rodriguez also arranged airdrops of Israeli weapons to the CIA secret army in Nicaragua, the drug-smuggling Contras who had terroriz…
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That Menendez and Gonzalez were dealing cocaine together had been known to the CIA since late 1984. One of the men closely involved in the Contra operation around that time was none other than retired Air Force General Richard Secord. That …
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But other than that, you make a $29,999 profit on a plane? Now, come on. Yeah, that was basically given to him. And then on top of that, General Secord himself was an interesting character in this as well. He was also charged in this affair…
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His participation was vacated by the judge for some reason. Yeah, we'll get to more about him in some of the later chapters. He was knee deep in all of this. And that's why I say when people jump to defend all military, they are woefully un…
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And in the retired ranks of the military. Yeah, go ahead, Ron. Is it Secord or Secord? Secord. Okay, that's what I thought. So he was, wasn't he like deputy, like the secretary of defense or something under Reagan in his first two years? An…
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between Lister and the Iran-Contra scandal and precluded any further investigation, even though they had pages of documentation showing the connection. The next month, the FBI would learn that Lister, quote, had told an unidentified neighbo…
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The old line veterans at the CIA were shocked to see men like Shackley and Klein being welcomed into Casey's inner circle. Shackley and his partner now had their tentacles throughout the foreign policy side of the administration. Shackley a…
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For Bristow, the meeting with Nixon had a weird quality to it. Bristow didn't know, though, that Nixon probably did, that the Bush connection and that Richard Secord was actually planning a second mission, but later goes on to say that noth…
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and his vice president, Spiro Agnew, had set up a series of businesses that were all engaged in military sales, which is what General Secord got put in charge of. Nixon, in effect, became a front man for these companies and wrote letters to…
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through CIA Airlines in Latin America, Southern Air Transport, and the use of private contractors linked to organized crime and money laundering. One contractor called Setco, S-E-T-C-O, Air, and we've looked into them before, owned by a Hon…
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a CIA veteran in Vietnam, directed both CETCO and Southern Air Transport. In other words, he was like the CEO. The second contractor was D-I-A-C-S-A. It was owned by a Bay of Pigs veteran, Alfredo Caballarero. The third was Vortex, whose vi…
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about working as a contractor, most likely for DynCorp, and the fact that he OD'd taking drugs while he was in Columbia. Just going to leave that there. Richard Gad, a retired United States Air Force officer, founded DynCorp during the coca…
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During that time, recruited agents for DynCorp's delivery operations. Richard Secord, you know, the same guy involved in Iran-Contra. Yeah, that guy. A former CIA agent, Herbert Winokur, W-I-N-O-K-U-R, was chairman of the board of DynCorp f…
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because the CIA continued to attack Nicaragua, simply because they didn't control Ortega. Well, it seems to me they got more hot water out of letting him go and sending him back to the United States, because Hossenfuss, when he got back to …
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and most notoriously, BCCI. The unscrupulous individuals and groups can make fortunes through supplying covert operations. Richard Secord of Iran Contra fame, also a Nugent Hand client, first made millions with Farhad Azima and Global Inter…
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And we've read about that as well. ISCO is spelled E-A-T-S-C-O. And that was after they had overthrown the government of Egypt. Secord made more money by negotiating Iran-Contra arm deals to Iran. He also worked with David Kimche, K-I-M-C-H…
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Because he ran both the Vatican and the Israeli desk at the CIA. They work seamlessly together. Finally, in 1992, Sikord and Kimchi were reportedly in Azerbaijan trying to negotiate the sale of arms from Israel. One year later, Hek Martyr, …
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The House subcommittee cut his travel funds and once again, he resigned in frustration. It does not pay to be an actual whistleblower about what the government's doing because the government will ensure that it persecutes you. Another inves…
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In the late 1970s, Wilson put up half a million dollars to front Klein's half ownership in the Egypt American Transport Services, ETSCO. We've done shows on ETSCO before. Which won the contract to transport billions of dollars worth of Amer…
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The company was later convicted of overbilling the Pentagon for $8 million. In 1990, Clines was convicted of income tax fraud involving payments received for arms shipments to the Contras. Clines had been brought in by Secord to handle arms…
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Helicopters Guatemala instructed him to transport a helicopter owned by the company from New Orleans to commercial helicopters facility in Lafayette and then ship it to Guatemala along with an engine belonging to them. Jenkins had other con…
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Air America. During that time, Shackley, Secord, and Clines were all involved in the CIA drug operations in that area. Also working with these individuals in that theater was General John Siegel, a Marine officer, along with Oliver North. O…
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at Palmer to an account in Switzerland used by Oliver North for Contra fundraising for arms deals and the Iran portion of the Iran Contra. The money would go from this foundation account at Palmer to an account in another Washington bank co…
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to an IBC account at another Washington bank. On April 9th, IBC wired $740,000 to IC in the Caymans, which then was wired $650,000 to Lake Resources in Geneva. And you notice they use slightly different figures as if that's going to throw o…
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on April 3rd to remind Secord to send $650,000 to Lake Resource. On April 16th, Secord reported $650,000 received today as reported by the banker. The Washington Post also reported that IC sent $21,000 to the Gulf and Caribbean Foundation, …
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That is an exhibit to the testimony of Richard Secord. It is in a 1986 letter to Albert Hakim, Secord's Contra resupply partner from Willard Zucker, their attorney, who helped to set up the corporations and Swiss bank accounts to do all the…
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with John Molina, a banker for Ron Martin, who was gunned down in the streets of Panama City in 1987. On July 29, 1986, North had a meeting with retired General Richard Secord, who was running the Contra resupply effort, as well as handling…
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along with Miami gun dealer David Duncan, and the use of East German ship that Panamanian dictator Noriega was holding. Bruhl was also named by Secord in an interview he had with the FBI in 1986. Secord said Bruhl was an associate of Jack T…
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He's a CIA agent whose previous claim to fame was his role in Rafael Chichi Quintero's case officer during the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Quintero, an infamous CIA operative who worked with Thomas Klein and Edwin Wilson, among others, was brought …
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General David Jones, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoned his most knowledgeable officers concerning clandestine operations. That happened to be, unfortunately, General Richard Secord, who basically is a CIA asset, who doesn'…
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Secord now headed the Air Force's international program at the Pentagon, which is like the mill-to-mill sales. He seems the perfect candidate to plan a second rescue mission. No, he wasn't. We had special operators. Secord was the last pers…
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hostage rescue mission. General James Vaught was the nominal commander and Secord's deputy commander. Jones made it clear that it was Secord's show. Such a rescue, if successful, would have been a tremendous boon to the Carter administratio…
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Another rescue operation could catch the Republicans unaware, however, was effectively erased when Jones' assignment of Secord to head the operation. Secord asked for time to plan the mission and concluded that a fast, massive strike would …
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Howard Brown. Harold Brown, sorry. Harold Brown. Harold Brown's the guy that eventually gets killed in the military aircraft that was on Clinton's staff. Brown agreed that Secord would get access to a wide variety of units from several mili…
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In the end, it never happened. There was no second rescue attempt because it got called off. Carter's most secret operation were thoroughly penetrated by Bush seniors, partisans, not just the cord who would later go on to be part of Iran-Co…
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during the so-called White Revolution in 1963. Cyrus and Jamshed had both left Iran and had become involved in a shadowy world of international arms deals. While they remained close to the anti-Shah clerics, they also had connections in Ame…
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with a cleric by the name of Ayatollah Makdini Kurubi, who had close ties to Khomeini's son. According to Gary Sick, the Hashmini brothers also offered the Carter administration a meeting as well. When Donald Gregg, keep that name in mind, …
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through James Baker. But Lobby was also one of the arms brokers that Edwin Wilson used, along with Richard Secord and von Marbach. Lobby said that what was discussed at the meeting was F4 parts in exchange for the hostages. Lobby agreed tha…
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of the Mujahideen effort, getting their cut. That happens to be Richard Secord and Von Marbach, weapons traffickers extraordinaire. Orchestrating much of what was going on in Egypt was a CIA agent by the name of William Buckley.…
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had lunch with Tom Clines at a restaurant in suburban Virginia. In their report they filed after the luncheon, they speculated that Clines had been using a concealed tape recorder. Clines had repeatedly lied to the investigators about his c…
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had anything to do with. What the investigators found put von Marburg, Klein, and Shackley in the middle of an enormous criminal enterprise dealing with the new president that the CIA installed in Egypt. It did not take the FBI long to trac…
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Up until the time Secord introduced him to Edwin Wilson in Laos in the 1960s, there was no evidence that von Marbog was interested in accumulating government money for his own personal use. More typical of von Marbog's career was an inciden…
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notified General Richard Secord that he was the subject of a criminal investigation. Tapp wrote Secord, the investigation involved Itzko von Marbog, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Klein, Hussein Salam, and officials in the United Arab Republic and em…
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who had been promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern, African, and South Asian Affairs, that he must not initiate any written or oral communication with Wilson, Klein, von Marburg, or Shackley. By this time, von M…
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The U.S. had taken pains to avoid angering or embarrassing Cairo, unquote. The pains the Reagan-Bush administration was willing to take became clear as the Itzko case moved up the bureaucratic ladder to the National Security Council. What h…
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Van Marbogh, Klein's, and the Egyptians in an illegal and unauthorized intelligence operation. As the Pentagon, with Van Marbogh retired, Frank Carlucci was now doing his best to protect General Secord. The depth of the government's knowled…
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where top officials of the CIA and the Justice Department and State Department gathered to discuss the White House position on the Itzko prosecution. Stanley Sporkin, Bill Casey's hand-picked general counsel for the CIA, wrote a memorandum …
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William Taft IV, who's, by the way, under investigation, by these same people, the General Counsel of the Defense Department, who had unsuccessfully urged Accord's suspension, and Robert Kimmitt, K-I-M-M-I-T-T, one of Jimmy Carter's NSC emp…
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in order to inject national security concerns to thwart the DOJ investigation. Discussing the substance of the meeting, Sporkin wrote that Clines, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were conducting weekly meetings to discuss ways to obtain c…
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The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…
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In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …
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that at the time he was telling everything he knew to Barsala. Theodore Greenberg had long since made a plea bargain with Clines and all of the others. As part of that arrangement, Shackley, Secord, and von Marbog went on with their lives a…
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that because of the national security, he was leaving out what his own investigators had discovered. Sitting inside a safe in his office at the Justice Department were the files of a case entitled Thomas Gregory Klein's Major General Richar…
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And you see the news clip to General Secord and you see that he's getting indicted and he's going to have to testify from the Senate for doing the same shady shit that you're sitting in jail for. It's crazy. As I'm reading these, it seems a…
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In the 1960s, Corson taught constitutional government at the Naval Academy. He was a linguist, an economist, and an accomplished historian. He did not appreciate shortcuts. And that is why in 1966, with thousands of Marines having died in V…
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One of Brennan's cronies, Lieutenant Colonel James Tully, T-U-L-L-Y, became a friend of Oliver Norse. Tully, who had a knack for making money, was also a close friend of General Richard Secord and Ted Shackley. North did not know it at the …
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which spooks, because he made a reference to retired ones. North told him how Brennan, Tully, Shackley, Secord, Klein, and Von Marbog had been helpful. It was then that I realized what was happening. These dumb bastards got sucked into the …
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He tried to warn North about the character flaws in the men that he was dealing with, but all I could do was hope that Oliver North would get burned and back away before the whole thing fell apart. Preaching to him just caused him to shut y…
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References to lunch with WC are a regular feature in the note-taking, and that is Corson. Also, in Oliver North's notes are Corson's warning about Bush, Shackley, Secord, Klein, Wilson, and their cohorts. North knew that Corson had been thr…
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They're fighting the Contras and Sandinistas. And then they decide they're going to fight Nangola too. But Reagan was the best president ever. Tom Clines and the private network helped Oliver North use all of his connections to operate all …
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for Israeli arms merchants and Gabonafar, which is huge because we were doing a lot of business with Israeli as our arms dealer. It was Lieden who would use Shackley and his influence with Bush to orchestrate what would become known as the …
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That would become the greatest scandal of the Reagan administration. As Wilson watched the years begin to go by in prison, Von Marbog, Tom Clines, Richard Secord, Ted Shackley all participated in a scandal that the congressional record woul…
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In an important sense, this strategy succeeded. The independent counsel discovered much of the best evidence of the cover-up in the final year of active investigation, which was too late for prosecutions, on purpose. The national security r…
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The scandal would dominate the news for the remainder of the Reagan-Bush administration. During the independent counsel's probe, 14 people were charged criminally. Clines and Secord were charged with operational crimes that dealt with illeg…
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Their air boss through the late 60s was none other than a major at the time, Richard Secord. You know Richard Secord, the guy that was in Iran-Contra? Yeah, that guy. He's running the secret air operation at Udorn for Laos, when we're not e…
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by an Air America pilot firing a rifle from his helicopter. This battle punctuated Ted Shackley's final months as the station chief in Laos. The blonde ghost from Cuba and Berlin rode close herd over Project Momentum, installing his own man…
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General James Vaught continued leading the Joint Task Force, which prepared a larger scale plan, Honey Badger. Vaught had some of the best covert operations people around. His air commander, Brigadier General Richard Secord of the Iran-Cont…
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He also had worked in Laos and had special operations experience. I got the hiccup, sorry. So Kord had also been an air advisory group boss in Iran in 75 to 78, which means he was intimately involved in all of the covert operations in Iran …
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Vought's chief operations planner, Colonel Robert Dutton, had three distinguished flying crosses for his operations in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Dutton had served under Secord in Iran, too. So this is like old home week. The Joint Ta…
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went to General Sikord after having been turned down by him for lucrative business contracts. Now Sikord put Hakim in touch with his Air Force intelligence. A flood of reports came from Hakim and other sources. General Sikord said there wer…
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I guess we're pretending that we don't have satellites, but whatever. Uncertainty continued. With the Joint Task Force in constant consultation with the CIA, in October 1980, Langley suddenly announced it had new information, presenting an …
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because of the abrupt claim that the CIA all of a sudden had all the answers. Joint Task Force Intelligence had no information to corroborate anything that the CIA said. General Secord actually escalated this dispute up the chain of command…
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being none other than General Richard Secord, attended a meeting at the White House on January 11th. There, Secord met with the CIA. And again, I need to remind you, Reagan is in these meetings. He's signing this stuff. This is not George H…
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Through 1986, Secord negotiated many deals, organized shipments, and supported operations in progress. McFarlane, and do I need to remind you as a general, he's a retired military officer, which means he's subject to UCMJ authority doing al…
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He is a commissioned military officer, an agent of the government. McFarlane called back to go along on one mission in May, thought that he could talk directly to the Iranians. He didn't. A divergence developed. U.S. officials assumed that …
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The Cayman Islands account number he gave North also went to retired General John Singlum and Richard Secord. Singlum had been to Honduras in March, impressed by the FDN camps and their need for modern anti-aircraft weapons. Singlum would h…
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George also spoke with Alan Fiers about weapons being bought in China by Richard Secord. A year later, in April of 86, the CIA reporting from Europe picked up indications of purchases on behalf of the Contras by Secord and his agent, CIA Th…