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Claims (135)
Edwin Wilson paid
Von Marburg book_quoted
“On October 4th, 1978, the Defense Department received a letter from the Egyptians saying that Tersam of Panama, it was registered in Panama, is the sole shipping agent for the government of Egypt. In January 1979, Wilson, Secord, and von Ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:01
Edwin Wilson financed_via
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“On October 4th, 1978, the Defense Department received a letter from the Egyptians saying that Tersam of Panama, it was registered in Panama, is the sole shipping agent for the government of Egypt. In January 1979, Wilson, Secord, and von Ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:01
Edwin Wilson funded
EATSCO documented
“Hussein Salam, an Egyptian. Ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson put up Klein's $500,000 as the initial capital investment in ITSCO. Former CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, the covert side, Ted Shackley, according to his Iran-Contra te…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 25:40
Edwin Wilson 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
Tom Karamessines funded
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“that his AFL-CIO boss, Paul Hall, would become angry if he discovered that his political assistant was, in fact, a CIA agent. Yeah, I doubt that since they're in bed with him anyway, but let's go ahead with the pretense. So Wilson decided t…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 30:36
Edwin Wilson recruited
Rafael Chichi Cotero host_asserted
“to be paid through Wilson's company and to operate under Wilson's control. His top agent was Rafael Chichi Cotero. Now, guys, they have placed a cell of Gladio under Edwin Wilson. That's what I just told you. The others worked in menial job…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 32:32
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted
“Edwin Wilson is involved in both the drug and weapons trafficking. If you don't know who he is, look him up. He was in that World Commerce Corporation and was in the Lebanon area for a long time. He helped Chiang Kai-shek get weapons. He he…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 59:17
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“A lot of the Gladio units get weapons. He's a big deal in this whole apparatus. So we have one last story that I want to get to, and that is Calvi. And I'm skipping a whole bunch, but we need to get to this, and we're already past our norma…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 59:45
Edwin Wilson trafficked
Muammar Gaddafi book_quoted
“in the next chapter, which we will do tomorrow, we get back into with a, again, an inside look of Edwin Wilson, who, as we all know, he was the guy who was supposedly shipping arms to Gaddafi. And he had the front company of Task Force 157 …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 42:04
Edwin Wilson front_for
Task Force 157 book_quoted
“in the next chapter, which we will do tomorrow, we get back into with a, again, an inside look of Edwin Wilson, who, as we all know, he was the guy who was supposedly shipping arms to Gaddafi. And he had the front company of Task Force 157 …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 42:04
Tom Clines funded
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 32:51
Tom Clines framed
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 32:51
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
Kamal Adham funded
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“Wilson had been led into a trap through his relationship with Turple and Hakim. The financing for all of his deals were now controlled by lawyers and bankers with absolute loyalty to Kamal Adem. And Kamal Adem is the Saudi intel guy. Adem w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 44:16
Marion Rosen member_of
Edwin Wilson documented
“Marion Rosen to see what her legal rights against Corson were. Rosen was a flashy criminal defense attorney and divorce attorney. He had represented ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson of the notorious Libyan gun running company that the CIA turned t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 50:17
Edwin Wilson founded
API Distributors host_asserted
“Set up by Edwin Wilson and Klein's and employing Quintero and Shackley to sell oil drilling equipment to PIMEX. That's George Bush. George Bush was involved in PIMEX, which is the Mexican oil company. Ross said that he had never heard of AP…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:10:44
CIA framed
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“I mean, and from their cloak and dagger, we've seen where they get rid of their own when they become no longer useful to them, either through pinning a crime on them like they did with Edwin Wilson or just, you know, getting rid of them. So…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 1:43:35
Edwin Wilson member_of
Task Force 157 book_quoted
“Now, we're very familiar with Task Force 157. For those of you who are new, that Task Force 157 was the Navy's version in-house of basically a CIA. This is the task force that Edwin Wilson was a part of that on behalf of the Department of N…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 17:39
CIA framed
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“in selling arms to Libya and then turn him in and provide the people as witnesses against Edwin Wilson. And he ended up in jail. So that's what the CIA will do to anybody that works inside of their apparatus. SR1 was the channel that Moore …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 19:04
James Jesus Angleton framed
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“And what Colby and not that it directly was Colby. It was a retelling of what Angleton had really done while in the agency. But that disclosure made him too hot to handle to ever be the director. And he knew that. So, yeah, he was on his wa…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 1:28:11
Task Force C founded
Edwin Wilson guest_asserted
“Yeah, go ahead, Colonel. So signature reduction is basically the same thing. I don't know if you're familiar with Task Force 157 that was put into operation by the CNO of the Navy. And it was to basically set up a covert fake company that E…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 1:49:46
Hossein Lavi worked_with
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:23:07
Edwin Wilson created
International Research and Trade book_quoted
“And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 17:07
Edwin Wilson created
EATSCO book_quoted
“And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 17:07
Edwin Wilson worked_under_tutelage_of
Ted Shackley book_quoted
“And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 17:07
Edwin Wilson threatened_to_expose
The Enterprise book_quoted
“Eavesdropping. Wilson, who had been indicted in April 1980, was on the run and was openly threatening in phone conversations to expose the entire operation. Inman also had access to information that could prove that Wilson was still under t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 25:47
Bobby Ray Inman had_access_to_info_proving
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“Eavesdropping. Wilson, who had been indicted in April 1980, was on the run and was openly threatening in phone conversations to expose the entire operation. Inman also had access to information that could prove that Wilson was still under t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 25:47
Arcadia Limited front_for
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“The FBI traced the $500,000 in Arcadia loans to International Research and Trade, IRT, the company Shackley and Klein set up in Bermuda. In mid-August 1981, Klein's made two $500,000 loans from ETSCO to IRT about a week apart. On August 20t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 14:46
Mossad ordered_assassination_of
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“Sadat was killed by Americans to stop his investigation into Itzko, which would have exposed our man, meaning the Israeli man, Shackley, as well as the Americans involved in Itzko. According to the Israeli agent, the instructions the Israel…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 33:28
Prince Turki al-Faisal financed_via
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“Turpel told Wilson that he went back years with Turcay through his personal assistance. When Wilson needed financial backing for several of his large front companies, Prince Turcay put up the cash. In 1992, Wilson said that he shared millio…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 46:44
Prince Turki al-Faisal financed_via
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“Turkay worked directly with the agency's operatives, like Edwin Wilson, and it says, quote, if I needed money for an operation, Prince Turkay made it available, unquote, Wilson said. Clifford's request for Saudi help came at a very critical…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 56:24
Edwin Wilson front_for
Maritime Consultants host_asserted
“helped to get Wilson CIA approval and funds to start a covert operation. With $11,000 in CIA money, Wilson set up shop at the foot of Capitol Hill. He called his company Maritime Consultants. That was a CIA front company. And within months,…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 31:04
Edwin Wilson trafficked
CIA host_asserted
“The Shackley and Klein were intimately involved in the drug side of our wagon wheel. Wilson was the person that they used for drug or excuse me, for arms trafficking. And in that respect, even though he was not a high placed person within t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 36:02
Edwin Wilson member_of
Task Force 157 host_asserted
“No connection now to the CIA at all. A former officer of the CIA. Now I don't have a job. I need a job. I'll come work and do the same thing that I did at the CIA for you at Task Force 157, going around, leading the effort to map all of the…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 59:41
Edwin Wilson member_of
CIA book_quoted
“were needed to guard against bandits or Colombian armed forces, according to Cotolo. On a December day, Cotolo was introduced to two men that he was told was Frank Turple and Edwin Wilson, the guys we've been reading about this whole time. …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 6:26
Michael Hand paid
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“in Operation Condor and the drug and arms running that occurred during the Iran-Contra and all of those other things. Harari was the first guy that we stumbled across. Harari was the one who gave Edwin Wilson two briefcases full of U.S. mon…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 8:56
Edwin Wilson laundered_money_for
Operation Watchtower book_quoted
“Cotolla said in his sworn statement that the man he knew was Edwin Wilson told him, quote, that over 70% of the drug profits from Watchtower were laundered through banks in Panama. The remaining percentage was ran through a Swiss bank and a…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 13:01
Edwin Wilson recruited
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“In August of 1976, he had also called T.T. Quintero and asked him to come to Washington to meet with a friend concerning a business proposition. That friend was Frank Turple. The meeting took place in a parking lot near Washington National …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 33:01
Edwin Wilson paid
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“Ilik Ramirez Sanchez, who was better known as Carlos the Jackal. Two weeks later, Quintero was again summoned to Wilson's office from Miami. Wilson gave Quintero $30,000 in expense money and told Quintero to plan on meeting him in Europe wi…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 34:04
Edwin Wilson paid
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“From Geneva, I called Clines. He didn't know anyone to teach explosive ordnance disposal. I contacted Quintero and Clines contacted Quintero as well. And he said that he could get two others to make arrangements. I arranged the financing. I…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 30:32
Edwin Wilson framed
Frank Turple book_quoted
“to continue the work of his quote-unquote good friend, Ed Wilson's operation. In other words, they expended Ed Wilson out of the picture by blaming him for all of the incidences that was actually Frank Turple and Klein's responsibility and …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 41:55
Richard Shackley covered_up
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“I think if the, in talking about the prosecutor, if he could have joined the CIA, he would have. Shackley spared no effort to persuade Barcella to go after his employee and quote unquote friend. When Shackley planted the idea that Wilson wa…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 40:57
Tom Clines spied_on
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“discovered that it was Clines who had brought Wilson and Ray May together. Shackley had to appear to discipline his old comrade. The penalty was that Clines would continue in his post running Wilson's operation while providing the CIA's Off…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 41:27
Tom Clines recruited
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“in Nicaragua. He provided a great deal of help for the anti-Castro operations. So in the early 60s, when a revolt threatened to topple the elder Somoza's regime, the anti-Castro Cubans were brought in to help. In 1978, Clines asked Wilson t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 41:52
Edwin Wilson recruited
Tina Simmons book_quoted
“Simmons, S-I-M-M-O-N-S. She was the mistress to Congressman Charlie Wilson, a Democrat from Texas. According to Whitmer, Simmons' presence in the Congressman's office was causing a problem. Wilson agreed to hire her to handle decorating cho…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 46:23
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“had begun to front for New York Congressman Robert Murphy. Murphy was a West Point classmate and close friend of Samosa's. He was tired of being criticized for sponsoring foreign aid bills for the dictator, so he asked the Texas colleague t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 46:54
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“He went to see Charlie Wilson at the Democrat Club on Capitol Hill. He told the congressman, quote, here's what I want to do. I can make a buck or two out of it, unquote. So Tina and I and Charlie Wilson get on a plane and go meet Samosa in…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 47:52
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“I can't understand why the hell you don't help me back. Blah, blah, blah. That's basically what Samosa is saying. At a meeting the next morning, Samosa once again expressed to Ed Wilson his bitterness towards Carter. Wilson said he told Sam…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 50:27
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“that that's exactly what the CIA and Wilson had been doing for the Savak in Iran, that they were running basically a covert intelligence operation feeding intelligence to Iran for decades. Wilson suggested that T.P. Quintero, whom Somoza ha…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 51:24
Edwin Wilson front_for
CIA host_asserted
“a large portion of the profits. That's what happened with Edwin Wilson and several other of these people that created these companies. It happened with Paul Helliwell. It happened with William Pauly. There's lots of examples that we went th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 13:10
FBI spied_on
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“organizations all over the world, to include the church. Throughout the 1980s presidential campaign, the FBI continued to investigate Wilson. Shackley was a cooperating source of information. I bet he was, because he's the one setting him u…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 20:34
NSA had_access_to_communications_of
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“who had spent a lifetime trying to outshine his father, would try it once again. For Bush and his rogue element, getting Inman out of the NSA was a real priority because the NSA had constant access to all of Ed Wilson's communications and a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 24:47
Ricardo Chavez member_of
Edwin Wilson documented
“and CIA contract agent who was a member of Edwin Wilson, Ted Shackley, and Tom Klein's group. In fact, Chavez was an officer in Wilson's Houston-based API distributors, all CIA fronts, all of them. Despite all these relationships to CIA ope…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 42:40
Edwin Wilson spied_on
SAVAK book_quoted
“CIA agents are trying to tell us that Iran is sending Iranians that the CIA is basically in charge of to a terrorist training school ran by the Russians. Hello. That doesn't make any sense at all. Okay. Wilson traveled to Tehran routinely t…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 17:19
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
SAVAK book_quoted
“his associates in the Savak. And again, the Savak is a creation of the West, namely General Schwarzkopf's dad. Wilson supplied them with information and the Savak had began a worldwide program of assassinations. Huh. Are we supposed to beli…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 17:50
Edwin Wilson trained
SAVAK book_quoted
“He taught the Savak how to intercept opposition radio communications and how to use surveillance equipment. As the trust built between Wilson and the Savak, he flew back and forth to the U.S. to report on his activities to Shackley and Klei…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 29:02
Edwin Wilson had_interest_in
Libya book_quoted
“Claridge, who was a Rome station chief, had had a special interest in Libya along with Ed Wilson. One of the few remaining traditional secret operatives the agency still employed, Inman watched as Carey created a secret service within a sec…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 32:41
Edwin Wilson spied_on
Libya documented
“During the time Wilson was a fugitive, the former CIA front man sent the Reagan administration and the CIA detailed information of the Libyan nuclear program. The memorandum went from Wilson in Libya through his attorneys to Ted Shackley, w…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 48:22
Edwin Wilson member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“The connections were clear enough. Through Israeli intelligence sources in Libya, the CIA had the memo Ed Wilson had written to Qaddafi's military security on May 12, 1981, detailing his activities in Egypt through ISCO. In that memo, Wilso…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 25:11
Edwin Wilson financed_via
EATSCO host_asserted
“With the slender agreement in hand, Wilson began to talk. For the first time, he detailed the history of ETSCO and confirmed his role in financing all of the operations. He named other witnesses to the payoff and kickbacks. The debriefing l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 34:44
Edwin Wilson founded
EATSCO book_quoted
“They were also selling and trading military equipment and technology for cash and drugs. Two of the individuals involved there were Albert Hakim and Edwin Wilson, who later formed ETSCO, Egypt American Transport and Service Company, which, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 13:40
CIA recruited
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“entity called the Enterprise. I mean, it's gone by different names since, well, first of all, there has always been assets that the CIA has used, like Edwin Wilson, you know, that goes way back. So you have agents and you have assets. Asset…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 6 @ 1:03:20
Theodore Greenberg covered_up
Edwin Wilson documented
“Many of his criminal targets have had access to top secret and are searching for ways to reduce or escape punishment by threatening to disclose sensitive information. I've had a number of major cases. I've been extraordinarily lucky, Mr. Gr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 1:26:00
William Corson warned_about
Edwin Wilson 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
Edwin Wilson member_of
Safari Club book_quoted
“Shackley and Wilson were not members. Only nations could belong. Shackley and Wilson were men who served the club in exchange for power, influence, and money. Pakistani intelligence would handle all of the money going in to facilitate the p…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 17:49
International Research and Trade funded
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“R-O-S-S-O-T-T-I, was the lawyer Tom Clines hired to organize his company called International Research and Trade, the company that had originally been funded by Ed Wilson and Ted Shackley organized, which became Eatsco. So basically, she's …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 29:57
Edwin Wilson member_of
Task Force C book_quoted
“and had been operating in Iran since 1975. He was an agent of a super secret naval intelligence task force called Task Force 157. We've also talked about that. I've posted a whole bunch of different threads about it on X. Clines arranged Wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 15:18
Thomas Clines reassigned
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“and had been operating in Iran since 1975. He was an agent of a super secret naval intelligence task force called Task Force 157. We've also talked about that. I've posted a whole bunch of different threads about it on X. Clines arranged Wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 15:18
Edwin Wilson front_for
World Marine Inc. book_quoted
“because these people turn on you on a dime. He had already set up fronts like the World Marine Inc. and Maryland Maritime and Consultants International. Under Klein's direction, he would become a quote-unquote advisor to the Savak and act a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 16:38
Edwin Wilson front_for
Maryland Maritime book_quoted
“because these people turn on you on a dime. He had already set up fronts like the World Marine Inc. and Maryland Maritime and Consultants International. Under Klein's direction, he would become a quote-unquote advisor to the Savak and act a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 16:38
Edwin Wilson front_for
Consultants International book_quoted
“because these people turn on you on a dime. He had already set up fronts like the World Marine Inc. and Maryland Maritime and Consultants International. Under Klein's direction, he would become a quote-unquote advisor to the Savak and act a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 16:38
Edwin Wilson spied_on
SAVAK book_quoted
“because these people turn on you on a dime. He had already set up fronts like the World Marine Inc. and Maryland Maritime and Consultants International. Under Klein's direction, he would become a quote-unquote advisor to the Savak and act a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 16:38
Edwin Wilson recruited
Albert Hakim book_quoted
“to play a pivotal part in the Shah's purchase of American technology. Hakim had major contacts with Iranian military and the Savak and could further arm cells and obtain lucrative contracts. Shortly after taking the job, he was introduced b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 22:16
Edwin Wilson member_of
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“Subsequent investigations and closings of cash flow conduits affected a parallel operation like Edwin Wilson's Iran arms dealing, which forced him to move to the Libyan weapons and hit team deals for which he would eventually be jailed. He …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 50:40
CIA recruited
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“of any department in the United States. So he's, and I've made this point a lot recently, the CIA embedded him in the Department of Energy. He was always the CIA agent. Adam's involvement in Nugent Hand helps explain why the bank was allowe…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 33:44
Ricardo Chavez worked_with
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“He operated both with Thomas Clines and Edwin Wilson. And remember, Edwin Wilson is the guy that worked both for setting up these private companies as well. He's the guy that helped the Navy set up that company to map all of the harbors. Bu…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 41:44
Bob Woodward exposed
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“of the Libyan President Omar Gaddafi. Now, what I find most fascinating about this particular article is they're blaming Edwin Wilson. Edwin Wilson is the guy they frame for trafficking weapons to Gaddafi and throw him in jail for decades w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 38:18
CIA covered_up
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“Burt Lance was compromised because of the CIA's BCCI bank. So Billy was compromised because of the CIA setting him up over in Libya with Wilson. So basically, you have the CIA taking down a president again. Much of the NSC staff was disloya…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 2:30
Edwin Wilson funded
International Research and Trade book_quoted
“for the Reagan and Bush campaign. The hidden link between Reagan and Bush campaign and the private network was the businesses that Wilson had financed, like International Research and Trade, IRT. Clines, with Shackley's help, had successful…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 7:55
Edwin Wilson appointed
Robert Keith Gray book_quoted
“politicians that he had cultivated a working relationship with. Now, isn't that weird that supposedly only Republicans, and I mean, this is back in the day when that was not necessarily acceptable behavior. I just think that's kind of weird…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 15:00
Edwin Wilson funded
Tom Clines documented
“He said that if all of these companies did well, he expected to be compensated accordingly. However, there was no formula that does, quote unquote, 20 percent, unquote. Shackley confirmed to the Bureau that he was aware that the seed money …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 25:47
Edwin Wilson paid
Tom Clines book_quoted
“He goes on to say, Tom, I want that $500,000 and I'm going to start screaming. So they paid the $500,000. They paid about $450,000 and then I sort of let it go. Then I found out through my other sources that they made about $10 million from…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 27:41
Edwin Wilson paid
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“Wilson put Quintero on his payroll and spent over $100,000 on the search for Dianezo Suarez and Vargelio Pablo Paz Suarez, whom Varsala actually had had in custody at one time, had been allowed to be released, and the more dangerous one, Pa…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 30:59
Chi Chi Quintero spied_on
Edwin Wilson documented
“because they were working for the CIA. Wilson continued, quote, Quintero was working for Army Intelligence at the time, so all the time I'm sending him this information, it's going to Army Intelligence. Now, whether Barcella's getting it or…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 31:56
Edwin Wilson recruited
Bobby Barnes book_quoted
“I took Bobby Barnes over there with me. I had a beautiful villa. It was a pleasant interlude to get out of Libya. However, the PLO guy was an idiot. And one day I went back to Libya and I was arrested in the car and thrown into a small room…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 33:52
CIA framed
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“And they framed Edwin Wilson for arms trafficking and sent him to prison for 25 years. Just so they could steal his company so they could continue to do covert operations and do it under the guise of this company that had been established f…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 41:36
CIA recruited
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“They basically end up doing covert operations. Yeah. Edwin Wilson. So he gets he gets used by the CIA for a very long time. And he was very good at setting up fake companies and doing arms trafficking and all kinds of stuff like that for th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 42:05
Ted Shackley recruited
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“It was a big year for Ted Shackley and his colleagues that had created the Private Enterprise Intelligence Network. Shackley believed that Slatter, which is Edwin Wilson's buddy, could be turned into another Edwin Wilson and that Wilson bas…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 5:31
Tom Clines recruited
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“The use of Doug Schlachter by Shackley and Clines reveals the kind of poor judgment that had haunted Shackley's operation for years. Mike Pilgrim, said Wilson, was expert at recruiting talent for his businesses and using them within their o…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 6:01
Edwin Wilson funded
J.J. Capucci Company documented
“The man who, back in 1968, had recovered the Libyan crown jewels. Wilson had underestimated Capucci's connections and had never properly exploited them. Clines decided to exploit them. Department of Treasury records show that Wilson investe…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 10:25
Don Lowers covered_up
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“was one of the things that Wilson never understood about the setup. Mike Pilgrim, a longtime security operative who worked for J.J. Capucci, said, I wouldn't have trusted Don Lowers as far as I could have thrown him, but he seems to be a su…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 11:26
Don Lowers overbilled_or_diverted
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“According to Pilgrim, Lowers later masterminded an IRS settlement that cost the imprisoned Ed Wilson millions and millions of dollars. But Wilson, at this time, was still in Libya and thought Capucci, not Lowers, was the problem. What a jer…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 11:57
Edwin Wilson funded
Libya book_quoted
“That's Felix Rodriguez. Now I got to find where I was at. All right. So we've got the Israelis. We've got the Egyptians. And Edwin Wilson is in Libya. So got all the bases covered there. Wilson's business operations at the time was estimate…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 28:49
Edwin Wilson funded
Around the World Shipping guest_asserted
“more than $4 billion to bring Egypt's military up to standard with Israel's. According to Wilson, there were millions to be made for the company that would be designated the shipper of all of these military goods. I wanted the group to be a…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 33:44
Edwin Wilson funded
Arcadia Limited guest_asserted
“He estimated that it would cost about $150,000. Wilson soon found that von Marbog seemed to be speaking for the rest of the group. He just got adamant right away. He said, I am not getting involved in some half-assed operation. If you can't…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 36:35
Edwin Wilson founded
Arcadia Limited guest_asserted
“for this new company, along with Ed Wilson's lawyer, Ed Coughlin, C-O-U-G-H-L-I-N. Wilson said that the exercise of setting up the Swiss company, which was called Arcadia, A-R-C-A-D-I-A, was one that he repeated often, so often that he coul…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 39:35
Richard Shackley ordered_assassination_of
Edwin Wilson guest_asserted
“After Wilson had finished setting up IRT Arcadia deal, he learned that Shackler had hired an ex-Green Beret by the name of John Dutcher, D-U-T-C-H-E-R, who was training Libyans to put a hit out on me and have me killed. This is Wilson talki…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 47:33
Edwin Wilson front_for
Task Force 157 book_quoted
“H-O-K-U-M, a CIA security official who had gone to work for Naval Intelligence. So the CIA has infiltrated the Navy to make Wilson the corporate front for 157. Wilson is another CIA agent infiltrating the Navy. Hocum, an old friend and U2 c…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 9:33
Edwin Wilson founded
World Marine Inc. book_quoted
“Wilson was appalled at the thin cover the Navy used for Task Force 157 and the fact that it was running scores of spying operations out of three related checking accounts. You make one of these accounts and all of the operations are comprom…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 11:27
Edwin Wilson recruited
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“Chichi Quintero. Chichi Quintero, Q-U-I-N-T-E-R-O. Wilson hired Quintero for the Navy at a $600 a month retainer. And this is a quote from Quintero. I had run operations in South America and Mexico. And then Wilson goes on to say that he ha…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 12:32
Edwin Wilson recruited
Ricardo Chavez book_quoted
“and offered the Navy access to Cuba through Quintero. They were delighted. After three or four weeks, we had a man reporting from Havana Harbor on what was going on and who was doing it. Wilson reactivated another one of his agents from the…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 13:05
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“He was a Turkish-born Armenian arms dealer from one of the best-connected Christian families in Lebanon. Back when Wilson worked with Air America, he had sold Slohani Island, his first Boeing 707 cargo plane, to haul arms for the CIA back t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 17:05
Edwin Wilson attempted_assassination_of
Felix Rodriguez book_quoted
“this arms dealer, as Klein requested, because he knew that the arms dealer was looking for an experienced man to train the Christian militia. But the arms dealer tells a darker story about what Wilson told him to do with Rodriguez. This is …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 18:06
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“They managed billions in military sales to the Shah's government. According to Wilson, one reason von Marburg was sent to Iran was that the Shah had fallen about a billion dollars behind in his payments for military hardware and that the U.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 26:10
Edwin Wilson member_of
CIA host_asserted
“That's basically what Wilson was. Wilson had the ability, based on his cover, to be deep inside of the military and deep inside of CIA operations at the same time. That's very rare. He also, because of his international arms dealing, was in…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 35:33
Ted Shackley recruited
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“the guy they hired to traffic weapons, who participated in the assassination of the former Chilean ambassador in the United States, which he did not, made that an impossibility. He looked like Shackley was on his own, using his intelligence…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 7:36
Richard M. Bissell Jr. established
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“By now, Shackley was well on his way to establishing a private intelligence network that I refer to as the Enterprise. Shackley's move against Wilson's operation was to take over from Wilson the most successful business front operation the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 11:47
Edwin Wilson recruited
Roberta Barnes host_asserted
“But before long, despite what Wilson had done for him, Lowers was actually working for Klein. It was Lowers who had originally hired Barnes as a bookkeeper. Barnes was essentially Wilson's paymaster. She passed cash to Klein's and Paul Stee…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 13:44
Edwin Wilson released_from_prison
Don Lowers host_asserted
“who purported financial genius and purported financial genius who was in prison in Ohio when Wilson first visited him. Four months later, through a series of maneuvers, Wilson Lowers was released and went to work. Excuse me. Let me go back.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 13:16
Ted Shackley framed
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“because then it talks about, obviously, what happened with Saddam Hussein, and it goes on and talks a little bit about that. It says Ted Shackley died in December 2002. In his own way, he got away with setting up Ed Wilson. Shackley left be…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:19:21
James Jesus Angleton covered_up
Edwin Wilson guest_asserted
“What the hell? Edwin Wilson was on trial for smuggling C4 explosives to Libya because the CIA set him up to steal his company. He had been a CIA asset for a very long time, but Angleton wanted his company and didn't want him, so they set hi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7 @ 50:50
Mossad spied_on
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“Let me put it to you this way. If Ed Wilson was indeed guilty of everything the newspaper has said about him selling arms and training Qaddafi's folks, Mossad would have killed him long ago, said Pilgrim, who is also a leading authority on …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 23:05
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Libya host_asserted
“He actually did bring the terrorists that killed the Munich athletes into Libya and then out again. He was paid $5 million for that job. By late 1977, Wilson had obtained a one-year renewable contract to train Libyan soldiers at Benghazi in…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 20:42
Edwin Wilson spied_on
Libya host_asserted
“He actually did bring the terrorists that killed the Munich athletes into Libya and then out again. He was paid $5 million for that job. By late 1977, Wilson had obtained a one-year renewable contract to train Libyan soldiers at Benghazi in…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 20:42
Edwin Wilson laundered_money_for
International Research and Trade host_asserted
“at a bank in Houston for API. The offshore company would actually procure the equipment PIMEX required and then arrange for Wilson's around-the-world shipping to deliver it. And when the offshore company would bill API, API would pay itself…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 28:58
Waldo Duberstein supplied_arms_to
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“Thanks to Klein, Wilson had a high-level contact in the Defense Intelligence Agency named Waldo Duberstein. I can't spell this one. D-U-B-B-E-R-S-T-E-I-N. Duberstein supplied Wilson information to feed to the Libyans on their Egyptian enemi…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 17:42
Edwin Wilson paid
Waldo Duberstein host_asserted
“Details on everything from personal information on the Egyptian leadership to Egyptian troop and equipment movements. Slatter told the FBI that Wilson paid Duberstein's travel expenses and several thousand dollars for each report. According…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 18:11
Edwin Wilson trafficked
Libya host_asserted
“You would not have even given it a second thought. You'd have went, you know, isolated deal. Guy got, you know, like our arms dealer, Edwin Wilson. If you would have lived back during that time and he would have got caught shipping weapons …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 1:49:42
Edwin Wilson front_for
CIA host_asserted
“or agency people set up as fronts, such as Air America and James Cunningham. Now, again, there are people that try to say that Wilson was not on the CIA payroll at this point, and I think that's all bullshit. He was in one of those public-p…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 18:40
Tom Clines recruited
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“Lends credence to the fact that somebody basically was dressed up as him, used his name, and that he was being set up at the time. He just didn't know about it. So, of course, Chapter 12 is labeled setting up Wilson, because I think Chapter…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 17:41
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Muammar Gaddafi book_quoted
“Let me put it to you this way. If Ed Wilson was indeed guilty of everything the newspaper has said about him selling arms and training Qaddafi's folks, Mossad would have killed him long ago, said Pilgrim, who is also a leading authority on …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 23:05
Edwin Wilson trained
Muammar Gaddafi book_quoted
“Let me put it to you this way. If Ed Wilson was indeed guilty of everything the newspaper has said about him selling arms and training Qaddafi's folks, Mossad would have killed him long ago, said Pilgrim, who is also a leading authority on …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 23:05
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“SCI supplied exotic electronics to the CIA for special missions to include bomb detonators and anything past that all the way to just regular computers. The purpose of this introduction was to allow Wilson to buy some remote control bomb de…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 24:38
Ted Shackley trained
Edwin Wilson host_asserted
“as the guy responsible for Latier's bombing, when in fact, the people that were actually convicted of it was CIA operatives under Ted Shackley, trained by Ted Shackley, that were part of the exile Cuban brigade. So, America was getting sick…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 38:46
Frank Turple trained
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“was cultivated by various CIA operatives, including Shackley, Climes, and Turpel, T-E-R-P-I-L, in the early 1970s when Turpel and Wilson, Edwin Wilson, first started their operations in Libya. Turpel set Wilson up with a Geneva lawyer by th…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 46:14
Edwin Wilson attempted_assassination_of
Larry Barcella host_asserted
“an extraordinary job to this effect. Capping the end of Wilson's prosecution became a bizarre charge that Wilson had tried to hire fellow prisoners to kill Barsala, his wife, prosecutor Carol Bruce, and other enemies. In that case, tried in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 32:51
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“They literally fenced up the press, tried to get me killed down there. They really did. So he had an assassination attempt put out on him. So they really, really didn't want to pay it back. Wilson was referring to a series of stories leaked…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 28:10
Edwin Wilson ordered_assassination_of
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez book_quoted
“Turple said that the target was among these men and that Quintero and whoever he hired would be paid $1 million for the assassination. Quintero would later tell the FBI that he agreed to handle the hit because he trusted Wilson and assumed …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 33:31
Edwin Wilson ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Letelier book_quoted
“There's a couple of quotes here. I don't want to read as much of this part because we've already covered this a lot. But there is a quote here that says Stanford Turner, who had taken over the director of CIA only five weeks earlier, could …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 37:19
Edwin Wilson attempted_assassination_of
Muammar Gaddafi book_quoted
“murder of Orlando Lettier, the former Chilean ambassador in the U.S. In September 1976, the ex-patriot Lettier, an assistant, an American citizen, had been killed while driving along Massachusetts Avenue in Washington. The ex-CIA man, accor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 37:50
Edwin Wilson recruited
CIA book_quoted
“and were used to fund businesses as covers for intelligence operations. Nugent Ham was very much like the Heliwell Bank, just on a bigger scale. Bernie Houghton, who had provided similar services to the CIA during the Vietnam War, was the m…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 7:20
Edwin Wilson secretly_owned
EATSCO host_asserted
“Edwin Wilson front company that is in the process of being taken over by retired CIA agents…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 9:26
Edwin Wilson founded
Associated Traders host_asserted
“I'm going to have to look at this other one too, because I have a blank spot in my notes for this Associated Traders Corporation that was set up. And I know that that had something to do with Edwin Wilson, because that was the name of his f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 1:19:54
Larry Barcella ordered_assassination_of
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“also put out a story that he was cheating the Libyans in his business deals with them. For the first time, Wilson now realizes what's going on. Ignoring the fact that Itzko getting the shipping contract instead of around the world shipping …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 29:08
Edwin Wilson recruited
Larry Barcella host_asserted
“That's really significant that they knew before I ran Contra that these guys were guilty, that they had information. They were in Eatsco. At this time, they wouldn't. Why wouldn't they go ahead and prosecute? Unquote. Wilson gave Barsala hi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 39:38
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▶ 9:26
Edwin Wilson front company that is in the process of being taken over by retired CIA agents. And they're throwing Edwin Wilson under the bus. So that's kind of where we're at. So you've got each goes partners and business was booming. It ha…
▶ 42:13
And the other one has to do with getting Edwin Wilson tricked into coming back to the United States so he can get arrested. So they're going to be dicey. Very interesting information in those. And lots more names for us to follow up on. Oka…
▶ 12:59
what Shackley and Clines and Edwin Wilson was doing as it relates to setting up the network. We left it off in Laos and that they were setting up that whole network. We also talked briefly about Eric von Marbog, M-A-R-B-O-D.…
▶ 13:58
To their cash flow. That's all done by logisticians. And so very, very critical. And Edwin Wilson said about this Eric Marbog guy, quote, he had the ability to get hardware and manpower to where it needed to be under the most difficult of c…
▶ 16:14
kind of run the tables when it came to filling all of those roles. In addition to these, like the Kleins and Marbog and Wilson, there was a supporting cast of characters from the CIA, the military, and CIA-trained Cuban exiles, which we hav…
▶ 28:44
The trade unions weren't communist. They just wanted workers' rights, but they love using that title. A decade later, Edwin Wilson, who had begun his CIA career as a guard for a secret U2 base, found a home. Oh, man, who else did that? That…
▶ 29:14
story about Cord Meyer because his wife ends up getting killed and she allegedly had an affair with JFK, blah, blah, blah. Wilson's cover job was arranged by the American Federation of Labor because labor in the United States leadership is …
▶ 29:38
execution arm of the CIA. They are 100% controlled by the international syndicate. Wilson and Tom Klein first met in Virginia suburbs in 1960 when Klein's was moonlighting as a real estate salesman and Wilson wanted to sell his house before…
▶ 30:07
When they discovered the relationship, they realized that they were both working on the same project. After Wilson's stint in Europe, he returned to the U.S., still undercover for the AFCIO. Wilson's manner and the fact that he handed out m…
▶ 30:36
that his AFL-CIO boss, Paul Hall, would become angry if he discovered that his political assistant was, in fact, a CIA agent. Yeah, I doubt that since they're in bed with him anyway, but let's go ahead with the pretense. So Wilson decided t…
▶ 31:04
helped to get Wilson CIA approval and funds to start a covert operation. With $11,000 in CIA money, Wilson set up shop at the foot of Capitol Hill. He called his company Maritime Consultants. That was a CIA front company. And within months,…
▶ 31:35
Did detailed surveys of nearly every port in Africa. Now, keep in mind what these guys are not telling us. And I don't remember. I read this a couple of weeks ago. What these guys are not telling us is the Navy actually thinks he's working …
▶ 32:06
surveys of the ports in Africa and the Pacific. By the end of the second month, Wilson's overt operations were paying all of his overhead, including his government salary. Wilson was a natural businessman who possessed an uncanny ability to…
▶ 32:32
to be paid through Wilson's company and to operate under Wilson's control. His top agent was Rafael Chichi Cotero. Now, guys, they have placed a cell of Gladio under Edwin Wilson. That's what I just told you. The others worked in menial job…
▶ 58:47
So there's a whole big description of what all they were involved in. But I think you all get the picture by now. Nugent Hand had subsidiary offices in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, blah, blah, blah. But I do want to mention one pa…
▶ 59:17
Edwin Wilson is involved in both the drug and weapons trafficking. If you don't know who he is, look him up. He was in that World Commerce Corporation and was in the Lebanon area for a long time. He helped Chiang Kai-shek get weapons. He he…
▶ 1:49:46
Yeah, go ahead, Colonel. So signature reduction is basically the same thing. I don't know if you're familiar with Task Force 157 that was put into operation by the CNO of the Navy. And it was to basically set up a covert fake company that E…
▶ 41:07
So he fires the entire covert operations. Unfortunately for Jimmy Carter, just like with many of the decisions that President Trump made, they don't go away quietly. They form what is called the enterprise in a black ops behind three or fou…
▶ 41:36
And they framed Edwin Wilson for arms trafficking and sent him to prison for 25 years. Just so they could steal his company so they could continue to do covert operations and do it under the guise of this company that had been established f…
▶ 42:05
They basically end up doing covert operations. Yeah. Edwin Wilson. So he gets he gets used by the CIA for a very long time. And he was very good at setting up fake companies and doing arms trafficking and all kinds of stuff like that for th…
▶ 42:34
And then basically said he wasn't working for the CIA when he was doing it, which he was. And then they they tricked him into going to the Dominican Republic, which was corrupt as well. And they turned him over and shipped him into the New …
▶ 41:44
He operated both with Thomas Clines and Edwin Wilson. And remember, Edwin Wilson is the guy that worked both for setting up these private companies as well. He's the guy that helped the Navy set up that company to map all of the harbors. Bu…
▶ 5:31
It was a big year for Ted Shackley and his colleagues that had created the Private Enterprise Intelligence Network. Shackley believed that Slatter, which is Edwin Wilson's buddy, could be turned into another Edwin Wilson and that Wilson bas…
▶ 6:01
The use of Doug Schlachter by Shackley and Clines reveals the kind of poor judgment that had haunted Shackley's operation for years. Mike Pilgrim, said Wilson, was expert at recruiting talent for his businesses and using them within their o…
▶ 6:30
Mount Airy in the spring of 1978. Shackley spoke seriously of how the agency was being destroyed by Carter and Turner and how the only hope they had was to take things private outside of the CIA. Wilson said Shackley was convinced that unde…
▶ 6:56
And I knew that Shackley and Klein were meeting with Bush. Now, keep in mind that Bush ran against Reagan in the primary in 1980. Shackley suggested to Wilson that if he was willing to back a private company that would allow covert operatio…
▶ 7:27
He reminded me that under Bush, when he was the director of the CIA, that I was not a target of any grand jury investigation. But since the time of Lettier's publicity, that I had been a constant target. And Lettier, remember, is the guy th…
▶ 7:58
Larry Barcella, B-A-R-C-E-L-L-A, was after Wilson and that Wilson says to Shackley that he wasn't smart enough to figure out why. Wilson said that he agreed in principle to back this private intelligence operation as long as his around the …
▶ 8:26
got any shipping business that came out of it. Wilson told Shackley that he wanted one more thing. Tom Clines is my good friend. I don't mind being in the trenches with him, but he has no head for business. If I put up any money, I want to …
▶ 8:58
that would manage the Pemex account. And remember, Pemex is the Mexican oil company that George Bush was involved in. Wilson put up the money and Klein, Quintero, and Chavez were going to be the corporate officers. By the time Wilson's trip…
▶ 9:25
which now amounted to more than $30 million in contracts, which while Wilson worked in Libya, more and more of his operations were taken over by Klein under a guy by the name of Don Lowers, L-O-W-E-R-S, management. Wilson's inability to man…
▶ 10:25
The man who, back in 1968, had recovered the Libyan crown jewels. Wilson had underestimated Capucci's connections and had never properly exploited them. Clines decided to exploit them. Department of Treasury records show that Wilson investe…
▶ 10:57
Wilson moved the company into his townhouse and put Lowers in charge of it. Prior to his incarceration in Ohio on security fraud, Lower had been in the intelligence business. He had been with the Army counterintelligence. The combination of…
▶ 11:26
was one of the things that Wilson never understood about the setup. Mike Pilgrim, a longtime security operative who worked for J.J. Capucci, said, I wouldn't have trusted Don Lowers as far as I could have thrown him, but he seems to be a su…
▶ 11:57
According to Pilgrim, Lowers later masterminded an IRS settlement that cost the imprisoned Ed Wilson millions and millions of dollars. But Wilson, at this time, was still in Libya and thought Capucci, not Lowers, was the problem. What a jer…
▶ 12:24
While I'm down in Libya, he took a contract to train the protection squad for Amwar Sadat. They were bitter enemies. We'd just been through a war between Libya and Egypt. I was afraid I was going to get in trouble. So I got him out. I said,…
▶ 12:54
He bought that for me and went into partnership with Lowers and Slatter. It didn't last very long. Whatever this guy, meaning Livingstone, knows about security, he knows about it by reading about it. He's never been involved in it on the fr…
▶ 14:54
unquote, which, if true, would surprise very few people in the intelligence community. And Livingstone never denied the accusation. Pilgrim said that the money Klein's, Lower's, and Livingstone put into the company J.J. Capucci to buy out W…
▶ 19:46
Not a lot of drugs. Then when Watchtower happened, Noriega was in the thick of it from then on. Yeah, there was a lot of drugs even before that, but you wouldn't expect him to admit that. Livingstone acknowledges that Wilson was not involve…
▶ 20:43
Two well-known quote-unquote businessmen with long ties to U.S. intelligence urged him to go see Don Lowers at Wilson's townhouse. One of those businessmen was the late James Cunningham. He had managed Air America for the CIA for years and …
▶ 21:44
He was probably the world's worst businessman. Neal's job was to come in and teach him and Joe Collins how to run a business. Neal, if nothing else, was a hustler and a hell of a businessman. Livingstone rarely saw Wilson, but he said that …
▶ 22:11
To Livingstone, Capucci was nearly senile and didn't seem to know what was going on. Capucci's only value to the operation was that he had rescued an Egyptian from Gaddafi's overthrow of King Idris, who rose to the highest ranks under Sadat…
▶ 24:06
Livingstone, Shackley and Clines had complete access to all of the security planning for Sadat through the office files, meaning the CIA files. A lot went on that Edwin Wilson didn't know, but Shackley had access as well as Clines. So Shack…
▶ 28:49
That's Felix Rodriguez. Now I got to find where I was at. All right. So we've got the Israelis. We've got the Egyptians. And Edwin Wilson is in Libya. So got all the bases covered there. Wilson's business operations at the time was estimate…
▶ 29:21
And he had a horse farm in Virginia. He had small offices all over Europe that he was running these businesses out of. And he had at least a couple hundred people working for him in all of these businesses all over the world. So he also had…
▶ 29:51
quote unquote, former CIA and Defense Department people. And Wilson had upset the local people in his horse farm area of Virginia because he was supposedly bringing CIA people to the farm on a routine basis. And it says, this is a quote, I …
▶ 30:19
on my more important contracts, for example, the ones in Libya that were dealing with the explosives and other covert stuff. I might have 50 or 60 people working for me at any one time, but I also had an additional core of experts and speci…
▶ 33:44
more than $4 billion to bring Egypt's military up to standard with Israel's. According to Wilson, there were millions to be made for the company that would be designated the shipper of all of these military goods. I wanted the group to be a…
▶ 34:43
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…
▶ 36:06
According to Wilson, Shackley said that he would be getting out of the CIA in the next year and that Klein's would be holding his stock in the company in the meantime. Wilson and the other four agreed that Wilson could set up a company in S…
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He estimated that it would cost about $150,000. Wilson soon found that von Marbog seemed to be speaking for the rest of the group. He just got adamant right away. He said, I am not getting involved in some half-assed operation. If you can't…
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under certain circumstances. The first was that he would play an active role in the company after he completed his work in Libya. The other four expressed concern over the Woodward Washington Post article and other publicity about Wilson th…
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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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are the contracting officers for this purchase, which they're going to be pocketing money personally as a result of it. The fact that Wilson's business partners accepted his second condition, let's see, Wilson claimed that Shackley had asse…
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The fact that Wilson's business partners accepted his second condition caused him to pay less attention to the operation than he should have. That condition was the same one that he had made in setting up API two years earlier, that Shackle…
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for this new company, along with Ed Wilson's lawyer, Ed Coughlin, C-O-U-G-H-L-I-N. Wilson said that the exercise of setting up the Swiss company, which was called Arcadia, A-R-C-A-D-I-A, was one that he repeated often, so often that he coul…
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The company would be divided five ways. Wilson expected to get his $500,000 back with interest in addition to his 20% share in the company. This operation was to work much like the company that he'd had before called API. The plan agreed to…
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of the same name. Funds would be transferred from Arcadia in Geneva to IRT offshore and then onshore to the U.S. branch. Wilson had a specific sense of what everyone in the room could contribute. Klein and Shackley could agree, could guaran…
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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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who also, of course, was part of this deal. Wilson left the meeting feeling like he had accomplished his mission. Quote, I really thought I was doing something patriotic. I really did. I don't mean to blow my own smoke, and I very seldom sa…
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and the proprietary vehicle used by the government. He didn't do it because he was patriotic. He did it because he wanted to make money and appear legitimate. He also goes on to say, I felt if I could get involved with these people, that th…
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who set in motion their plan to betray Wilson a year earlier when Flachter had asked Ed Coughlin to establish his own new company called Delex International. D-E-L-E-X. It was funded in part by a million and a half dollars that Flachter had…
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that that was the plan. The Libyans had taken a strong liking to Slater because Klein had given him the CIA intelligence on Egypt. You gotta love this. So they're working with Egypt and they're providing Egypt's security around Anwar Sadat.…
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Clines had gone further than just telling Slachter that he was a CIA agent. Before Clines left the CIA, he had gone to the trouble of getting Slachter several security clearances, according to Wilson and Clines. Hold on, let me go find Brid…
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visit Libya. On Slachter's trip back to the States, he had begun a love affair with a woman by the name of Tina Simmons. That was Congressman Charlie Wilson's former mistress. According to Ed Wilson, Slachter had fallen so deeply in love wi…
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I don't need you in the United States. I need you in Libya. When he wouldn't stay in Libya, I told him I didn't need him at all. He went back to Arlington, hired a whole staff of people, and started his own company. In fact, Flachter simply…
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Climes debriefed him every time, saying he was doing it for the CIA. At about the same time, Shackley later told the FBI that he introduced Climes to an old colleague, Donald Jamison, J-A-M-E-S-O-N, for the purpose of putting together a com…
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Since Klein's had told Wilson and others that Around the World Shipping would receive new business in exchange for Wilson's financing Klein's company. This was very curious, unless one knew that Klein's and Shackley had already begun to loo…
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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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but he had never given money to Shackley. When Shackley asked him for this loan, he made it clear to me that it was a loan and that it may not ever be paid back. Kind of like a perk. I told him that Libyans were very slow in paying at the m…
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stopped protecting him, and started working to bury him, at least in Wilson's head. More important, he says, I wish I had just enough sense to do that one thing. Wilson, if you said, Wilson, what is the one thing that you wish you would hav…
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At Binh Ho, he risked his own life to get equipment evacuated from the base while it was being attacked. Like Shackley, Von Marbog made his reputation despite the failure of American policy in Vietnam. Now, let me read this last thing and I…
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in the next chapter, which we will do tomorrow, we get back into with a, again, an inside look of Edwin Wilson, who, as we all know, he was the guy who was supposedly shipping arms to Gaddafi. And he had the front company of Task Force 157 …
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That there is a mechanism. You're right, Leon, from the perspective that there has never been a will to hold people accountable because the people that were holding people accountable were guilty of the same damn thing. The only time anybod…
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I don't know if Bridget dropped out. Oh, please add SR-71. All right. All right. Let me find him. All right. There we go. Okay. So in Chapter 6, as I mentioned yesterday, we're going to talk quite a bit about Edwin Wilson. He is one of my a…
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basically threw the CIA for a loop. For Edwin Wilson, the security breach that ended his CIA career freed him to become a millionaire. He actually was already a millionaire by this time because he was actually a CIA agent and he was keeping…
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After Wilson officially left the CIA in 1971, he remained available to his friends in the Pentagon and CIA. So they want you to believe that he was no longer, he's a quote-unquote former CIA agent. What they gave him in return was continued…
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He became very valuable to the CIA because he was available for operations and because he was not financially dependent on the agency. That's the whole purpose. For Shackley and Clines, he would become the key element in creating a private …
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H-O-K-U-M, a CIA security official who had gone to work for Naval Intelligence. So the CIA has infiltrated the Navy to make Wilson the corporate front for 157. Wilson is another CIA agent infiltrating the Navy. Hocum, an old friend and U2 c…
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That was the whole purpose of Task Force 157. This time, Wilson was hired as a GF-13, but that did not matter. He was raking in the money as this front company that he had set up. He had grown up and become a CIA's most valuable intelligenc…
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Wilson was appalled at the thin cover the Navy used for Task Force 157 and the fact that it was running scores of spying operations out of three related checking accounts. You make one of these accounts and all of the operations are comprom…
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was the company that he used as his Task Force 157 front. As he had done with the CIA, Wilson turned over the blank stock certificates to the Navy and began doing business on its behalf. While he was also reporting to the CIA, Tom Clines di…
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Chichi Quintero. Chichi Quintero, Q-U-I-N-T-E-R-O. Wilson hired Quintero for the Navy at a $600 a month retainer. And this is a quote from Quintero. I had run operations in South America and Mexico. And then Wilson goes on to say that he ha…
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and offered the Navy access to Cuba through Quintero. They were delighted. After three or four weeks, we had a man reporting from Havana Harbor on what was going on and who was doing it. Wilson reactivated another one of his agents from the…
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now had little interest in risking his own life in a combat situation. As Wilson explained, Chavez didn't want to go to any more Congo assignments. He now had a wife and a kid. Instead, Wilson used him for one of his most successful operati…
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Once I set up operations, the Navy was still afraid I might hand all the information directly to the CIA and not them. So they were trying to compartmentalize the operation, Wilson said. The Navy's fears were well-founded, but the idea that…
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basically developed his entire career. Thanks to Quintero, Clines, and Shackley, they were dining out on Wilson's and the Navy's efforts, giving Wilson little or no credit. In 1973, Clines also brought Cuban exile Felix Rodriguez to Wilson'…
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that he now feared for his security. Wilson had not heard great reports about Rodriguez from Quintero. Quintero had worked with Felix Rodriguez on both Operation Mongoose and on the Phoenix program in Vietnam, but he still thought Tom Cline…
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If Wilson had a weakness, it was a desire to be accepted by everyone. I wasn't one of the good old boys. I thought these guys could make me part of their world, Wilson said. Some months later, Wilson arranged for Rodriguez to meet the legen…
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said he attempted to recruit the SOG guy, that's how he pronounced his last name, for the CIA, but was told to keep his hands off the DIA, which at that point was also running him as an informant. Wilson said, again, they love dragging in t…
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this arms dealer, as Klein requested, because he knew that the arms dealer was looking for an experienced man to train the Christian militia. But the arms dealer tells a darker story about what Wilson told him to do with Rodriguez. This is …
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for the mercenary paramilitary, Gladio, and that was along the Spanish border with France as well. So I'm not sure which one they used here, but both of those are possibilities. Wilson denies that he instructed the arms dealer to get rid of…
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when Rodriguez was already being paid by the CIA. Wilson said he told Rodriguez that if any arms sales opportunities arose, he would work with and protect him from the arms dealer, who had a reputation as being a very smart, tough businessm…
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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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The Soviet Navy. At that time. Hold on just a second, guys. Okay. My daughter's here with the grandbaby and her husband trying to call and she left her phone at home. So she has to go use John's phone so I can continue the show. Wilson used…
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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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were needed to guard against bandits or Colombian armed forces, according to Cotolo. On a December day, Cotolo was introduced to two men that he was told was Frank Turple and Edwin Wilson, the guys we've been reading about this whole time. …
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in the election season. He was present when 30 high-performance aircraft landed safely at Albrook Air Station, where the planes were met by Noriega, who at the time was the Defense Force officer assigned to the Customs and Intelligence Sect…
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in Operation Condor and the drug and arms running that occurred during the Iran-Contra and all of those other things. Harari was the first guy that we stumbled across. Harari was the one who gave Edwin Wilson two briefcases full of U.S. mon…
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40 high-performance aircraft successfully landed in Panama and delivered narcotics. It was Cotolla's last mission for the CIA, but not the last time he would hear from the agency. Cotolla was assumed command of the 10th Special Forces at Fo…
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American politicians before the 1980 presidential election. Cotolla's strange testimony can be verified up to a point. Unfortunately, Cotolla and a score of others involved in Operation Watchtower have all been killed under circumstances th…
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He would have had to have been in two places at once. Edwin Wilson was in Libya when Cotola's quote-unquote Wilson was in Panama. Now, there's a lot of information about Watchtower out there, and you guys are welcome to do as much or as lit…
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testimony in his affidavit. And it is likely that Edwin Wilson had access because, again, he is a multimillionaire at this point and in the CIA, that he had access to aircraft in order to do exactly what Cotolla said that he did while also …
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primarily in Libya. But secondly, it's not beyond the possibility, since we know that they wear masks all the time, that one of the two Edwin Wilson was someone pretending to be Edwin Wilson. So that, again, that is not off the table here.…
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Since the CIA later goes on to set Edwin Wilson up, that actually increases the possibility that they're doing this and pretending to be Edwin Wilson in order to begin creating a story that if they ever need to get rid of him, they have man…
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Cotolla said in his sworn statement that the man he knew was Edwin Wilson told him, quote, that over 70% of the drug profits from Watchtower were laundered through banks in Panama. The remaining percentage was ran through a Swiss bank and a…
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They asked the question, is it possible that Tom Klein used Turples and Wilson's name in order to set up Watchtower? Klein, in the future, anytime he was asked about it, refused to even have a conversation about his involvement in it. And W…
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Lends credence to the fact that somebody basically was dressed up as him, used his name, and that he was being set up at the time. He just didn't know about it. So, of course, Chapter 12 is labeled setting up Wilson, because I think Chapter…
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Wilson ran businesses ranging from weapon sales, security training and paramilitary training to like as in Gladio. He also had real estate and horses. He used largely ex-military and CIA and government officials as his front people for all …
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or agency people set up as fronts, such as Air America and James Cunningham. Now, again, there are people that try to say that Wilson was not on the CIA payroll at this point, and I think that's all bullshit. He was in one of those public-p…
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Klein still employed as a CIA on the actual payroll. He frequently worked out of Wilson's townhouse in Washington, D.C. As Wilson spent more and more time in Libya, Klein began to move in on all of Wilson's operations. The opportunity for h…
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Tom Clines, for redundancy purposes, as a CIA employee, is working as Edwin Wilson's deputy in the scenario I just gave you. He is going to stay in the rear and continue operations as Edwin Wilson for deployed to Libya to set up arms networ…
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For what Edwin Wilson believes is the CIA. He is working in a public-private partnership off the books in a CIA front company. That's what he was told. That's what he believes he's doing. But because the CIA can never be 100% sure and they …
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And so as Edwin Wilson, if he ever screws up, if he does something they don't like, Tom Clines is going to be the next next iteration of Edwin Wilson. He knows all of his operations. And that's what we're looking at here. That's what I just…
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was using those names in order to set him up absolutely as possible. Clines persuaded Wilson to keep using anti-Castro Cubans in his operation, or as we call them, the Cuban gladiote. Some, like Chi-Chi Quintero and Ricardo Morales, were me…
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But Clines was also bringing in Cubans who had gone to work for Santo Trapacani or had dabbled in the cocaine business. Wilson went along because he believed that Clines was doing what the CIA wanted him to do. As investigations battered th…