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Claims (9)
DynCorp trafficked
Columbia documented
“According to Nation reporter Jason Vest, who broke the story, Vest said DynCorp, the Columbia National Police, the DEA, and the State Department could not stick to a single account of what had occurred. In 1994, a DynCorp pilot stationed on…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 40:13
Barack Obama supplied_arms_to
Columbia book_quoted
“Colombia has increasingly become a privatized war that goes well beyond the context of plain Colombia. Just as George W. Bush had started in 2001, Obama had continued the fight against quote-unquote narco-terrorism by providing $600 million…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 23:56
Juan Manuel Santos headed
Columbia book_quoted
“President Juan Manuel Santos has replaced the entire military command except for the national police director. These developments follow ongoing criticisms of attacks against the Colombian army, which Santos argues are signs of their weakne…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 26:51
Barack Obama funded
Columbia documented
“In October 2009, Obama and Yorubi signed a military agreement that gave Washington access to seven new military bases in Colombia. White House and Colombian officials maintained the agreement was aimed at fighting drug trafficking, the drug…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 57:55
Luis Alberto Moreno appointed
Columbia book_quoted
“June of 1999, news services reported that Richard Grasso, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and members of his executive staff flew to Colombia. Others who attended the meeting were unnamed. But Grasso's visit was o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 16:19
DynCorp trafficked
Columbia documented
“Corp has been involved in drug trafficking as well as consuming heroin, cocaine, and amphetamines. In May 12, 2000, in the year 2000, Colombian authorities intercepted a parcel containing a sample of liquid heroin in two bottles, which had …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 39:43
DynCorp trafficked
Columbia host_asserted
“potentially outside of Central and South America. DynCorp has participated in eradication missions, training and drug interdiction, and air transport, reconnaissance, search and rescue, airborne medical, ferrying equipment, and personnel fr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 37:44
DynCorp trafficked
Columbia host_asserted
“misconduct in Bosnia, just so that you know, as well as other places. Its contracts with the U.S. government account for 98% of the market share. DynCorp has been under U.S. State Department contract in Colombia since 1991. And in 1998, it …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 35:49
Besko member_of
Columbia host_asserted
“Well, but that's the guy. Hold on just a second. Let me go back. So he's a Russian Jewish person. That's where his family is originally from. Probably the Pella settlement that goes to base. Patrick Henry likes to talk about, but they migra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 1:12:57
Mentions (68)
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owned the 300,000 acre ranch just to the west of the Bush's ranch. And that's where they would import all of the paramilitary quote unquote moonies that were running all the drugs up from South America in through Columbia and then into the …
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Prior to that church moving there, you find out that that installation they plopped that church down on to continue their NK Altra experiments was a Gladio training base that they were mounting paramilitary operations from Guyana into Venez…
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you know, pretty much died in the 1930s, but it was very prominent in the Eastern seaboard, especially at Columbia university. So this is what the Yale school of management is all about is teaching the whole bureaucratic aristocratic revolu…
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successor, Southern Air, to gain access to their Colombian flight schedule, you know, because we're going to keep control of it. We're just going to change the names. Those airlines were Polar Air Cargo, Kitty Hawk Aircraft Incorporated, an…
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Information about cargo carried by these airlines is difficult to retrieve, but their operations were immensely profitable as components of the U.S. outsourced special operation teams in the war on drugs and terror. Two military contractors…
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misconduct in Bosnia, just so that you know, as well as other places. Its contracts with the U.S. government account for 98% of the market share. DynCorp has been under U.S. State Department contract in Colombia since 1991. And in 1998, it …
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DynCorp planes and military helicopters are used for relocation missions that involve chemicals and biological warfare in Colombia. In 2000, DynCorp helicopters were also involved in 60 reported gun battles, all being done by a contractor.…
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battalions carrying troops into battle and rescuing shot down pilots. And how's that drug war going? Did we make any progress? No. DynCorp contract employees include military personnel with experience in Vietnam, the Middle East, and throug…
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potentially outside of Central and South America. DynCorp has participated in eradication missions, training and drug interdiction, and air transport, reconnaissance, search and rescue, airborne medical, ferrying equipment, and personnel fr…
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Eagle Aviation Services and Technology, their acronym is EAST, a subcontractor of DynCorp, has flown U.S. State Department planes such as armed Iroquois Bell Hueys and T-65 Thrush crop dusters in top-secret missions throughout Colombia for …
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Corp has been involved in drug trafficking as well as consuming heroin, cocaine, and amphetamines. In May 12, 2000, in the year 2000, Colombian authorities intercepted a parcel containing a sample of liquid heroin in two bottles, which had …
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According to Nation reporter Jason Vest, who broke the story, Vest said DynCorp, the Columbia National Police, the DEA, and the State Department could not stick to a single account of what had occurred. In 1994, a DynCorp pilot stationed on…
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In 1999, the Colombian state prosecutors launched an investigation into amphetamine smuggling. Documents relating to all three cases were mysteriously disappeared and the issue of drug trafficking abandoned by both Colombian and American au…
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Raul Salinas, the brother of the former Mexican president, Carlos Salinas, at the time the DynCorp contract in 1998 with the U.S. State Department, Treasury and Commerce Departments, the company received a contract with the CIA and NASA. Wh…
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training, and security services worldwide. Many of its contract employees serve on the U.S. Council of Foreign Relations. An inside joke is that MPRI has more generals than the Pentagon. While DynCorp East is responsible for the skies, MPRI…
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Primarily, this means engaging with the guerrillas in direct combat and protecting cocaine distribution routes that have been undermined by the FARC's presence. MPRI has worked with the Colombian Armed Forces and National Police in areas of…
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S-O-Y-S-T-E-R, an MPRI spokesperson, compared his company with other U.S. operating overseas. His analogy was they were like Coca-Cola. They're everywhere. In 2000, MPRI signed a $4.3 million one-year contract with the Defense Department to…
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Congress has little oversight of what private military companies are doing in Colombia, unquote. He went on to say that this is how the Pentagon wants it, because they can put more troops in Colombia than is legally allowed. He also said th…
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They fight alongside their clients' military forces and routinely rotate with U.S. advisors in Colombia. We have a database of more than 10,000 former soldiers who want military-related jobs. That number is now up to 20,000, by the way. Gen…
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In areas targeted for aerial fumigation, paramilitary working with the Colombian Army arrive in helicopter gunships to clear the ground so that the planes, often piloted by Americans, are not shot down, but only in the FARC area. Day-to-day…
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In 1998, Airspan was responsible for bombing the northern town of Santo Domingo, where at least 18 people were killed and at least 30 injured. The Colombian military, in a statement, said it was the FARC. They were all civilians. Time magaz…
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Northrop Drummond is another private military company that had been under contract to the U.S. government. Described as an aerospace and defense services company, it has 75,000 employees and projected revenues of $34 billion in 2010. In a s…
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that can't find any of the drugs, and 10 associated ground satellite stations in Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and Panama that didn't find any of the drugs. Five of Northrop Drummond's radar stations are located in eastern southern Colombia to…
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airplanes not identified by U.S. intelligence are shot down, you know, because they're not ours. Not our drugs ain't going nowhere. On February 2003, Northrop made world headlines when a U.S. biplane carrying four CIA agents and one Colombi…
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The crew members were contract employees of California Microwave Systems, a subsidiary of Northrop Drummond. The plane was essentially a U.S. intelligence plane in Columbia, according to Southcom. The data it collected was popular among cov…
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movement of the product that the FARC was moving, not that the Colombian government and the narco elites were moving. They didn't find any of them. According to official sources, between 1998 and 2003, the FARC shot down 21 U.S. government …
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In October 2009, Obama and Yorubi signed a military agreement that gave Washington access to seven new military bases in Colombia. White House and Colombian officials maintained the agreement was aimed at fighting drug trafficking, the drug…
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with all of our satellites and intelligence and billions, if not trillions of dollars at this point that we put to use not finding the drugs. The Pentagon sought access to the bases in Colombia after Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa cance…
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what he produced. Quote, for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Blood street gangs in Los Angeles and funneled millions of dollars in drug profits to Latin America guerrilla army ran by t…
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About how the and basically the FBI is our national police. OK, we don't call it a national police. It is absolutely the national police. When you look at what the national police force that we set up all over the world in Iran, in Chile, i…
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After Burbrugger was indicted in 82, he either fled the country for his native Columbia or was already there. Miami Herald's story about the indictments in 82 described him as a fugitive. Burbrugger's attorney claimed in a sentencing hearin…
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that are no money laundering is allowed to come back in the United States and get into banking again. That's how you know the whole system's corrupt. All right, first as president of Gulfstream Banks and then as president of City National B…
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And I think I'm going to do a little digging on it. You mentioned a Russian individual who went to Columbia University. No, he was from Columbia. They migrated to Columbia. Oh, sorry. Not Columbia University. Whoopsie. See, still a little f…
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And I think I'm going to do a little digging on it. You mentioned a Russian individual who went to Columbia University. No, he was from Columbia. They migrated to Columbia. Oh, sorry. Not Columbia University. Whoopsie. See, still a little f…
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I keep going back. It keeps taking me back to Columbia University or an individual from Columbia University. Not that Columbia in South America doesn't come up. Yeah. Nor British Columbia, nor Washington District of Columbia. But anyway, ye…
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I keep going back. It keeps taking me back to Columbia University or an individual from Columbia University. Not that Columbia in South America doesn't come up. Yeah. Nor British Columbia, nor Washington District of Columbia. But anyway, ye…
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Went to Columbia University in the early 1900s. There seems to be a pattern there. And even some people who were writers who wrote for some Hollywood films, but CIA connections, early... I'm curious if there's an early...…
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Well, but that's the guy. Hold on just a second. Let me go back. So he's a Russian Jewish person. That's where his family is originally from. Probably the Pella settlement that goes to base. Patrick Henry likes to talk about, but they migra…
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And of course, that's very interesting from the perspective of all of the goings on in Colombia. Now, obviously, he was in Colombia pre-cocaine trafficking, but they did still have the coca plant down there during that time. But it was duri…
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in Arkansas. Belize was also a favorite transshipment point for narcotics trafficking, smuggling cocaine from Columbia to the United States, which is how they paid for all this shit once the Boland Amendment was passed. One of the leaders o…
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Aboard three planes, the group took flight. Batista left Camp Columbia base at 2.40 in the morning on January 1st, 1959. David Attlee Phillips, now a part-time CIA undercover agent in Havana, sat in his backyard as the aircraft flew overhea…
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The Russians advised the government to get rid of Amin, the minister who was concentrating so much power in his own hands. There were doubts whether Amin, who had studied in the U.S. at Columbia University, had in fact been a CIA asset the …
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Well, it's the whole stinking Ivy League, even going back to the foundation that's been used to create these backdoor clubs and everything like that. There's a few in particular that are a little bit more. I mean, you could take a look at H…
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I apologize for that. Yep. You just showed back up. OK, sure. So we're talking about a aircraft that crashed in 2003 and everything about it was suspect. Two people were killed. Three other people were kidnapped, supposedly by the FARC. The…
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And the author is saying that the actual aircraft being brought down was suspicious. Okay, so they say that the DEA had reason to believe that at the time of the plane crash, the coordinates of these flights, and we've already heard this ea…
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Originally, the U.S. and Colombian government said the contractor's plane crashed because of engine failure. However, the FARC claims they shot the plane down. To the FARC, these aerial spying missions over the territory were a threat to th…
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In 2003, DEA polygraph specialists hooked his machine up to a Colombian narco-trafficker who also worked as an informant for the DEA Bogota office. The narco-trafficker informant status, however, was a two-way street. It seems, given his DE…
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of where it was going to be flying. In fact, the polygraph report indicates the narco-trafficker informant hooked up to the lie detector machine confirmed that the flight coordinates was leaked to Colombian narco-terrorist, not the FARC. Na…
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Dieters might not have been aware of it, given that other reporting in Narco News, you know, they read that thing like the back of their book to know what they know about them. Come on, not buying it. Sandalio Gonzalez, prior to becoming an…
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in the Office of International Operations from 95 to 98. He's very familiar with the DEA operations. Gonzalez is very upfront about his assessment of whether the U.S. Embassy leaks led to the downing of the aircraft. His comments were, quot…
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Key figure in exposing all of this information filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit in early 2007 that promised to be quite embarrassing for the government. Filed in U.S. federal court in Washington, D.C., Baroque Vega, a longtime CIA asset,…
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From the lawsuit filed September 21st, 2007, in or about 1996-97, Vega became a documented confidential informant for the U.S. government, specifically two federal law enforcement agencies, the FBI and later the DEA. Mr. Vega was not a trad…
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proved to be innovative and very successful. Mr. Vega would play and later, in fact, did play the role of a broker between Colombian drug traffickers, some then unknown, others unidentified, to U.S. law enforcement, others already identifie…
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By U.S. law enforcement and others already indicted for drug trafficking or money laundering charges in various federal districts in the United States. So he was like the go between guy. Vega's plan, as explained in his pleadings, described…
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to negotiate their criminal exposure with the U.S. government rather than waiting to be indicted or arrested and extradited. In other words, make preemptive plea deals and we'll leave you in place. American lawyers to the Colombian targets,…
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the prosecutors to work out deals with these targets. It allowed them to sell drugs with no possible chance of getting indicted because they had already pled. A particular U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida became the coordi…
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Vega claims in the litigation that as part of this extortion scheme, FBI and DEA agents would initially meet with the Colombian narcotrafficking targets in Panama for introductions, eventually debriefing, and finally to work out the details…
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against a larger context of corruption allegations that were occurring. Vega was very involved in some of the U.S. law enforcement operations mentioned in the Kent memo. Those particular operations between 1997 and 2000 and sought to snare …
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that had taken over for Medellin and Cali. Vega claims that corrupt U.S. agents are part of the Bogota connection and seriously compromised his role as a government asset in a number of his informants within the Colombian narco network beca…
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the paramilitary forces and complicit politicians enlisted with the CIA and the narcotraffickers, all was still going well. They basically had a get out jail free card. Chapter 21, State Department Cable. Baroque Vega kicked a hornet's nest…
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on a major Colombian radio program in late 2010 and accusing a prominent businessman of being a narco-trafficker and subsequently writing a letter to the businessman that became public in which he also called out the alleged corrupt members…
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that the author did with him for Narco News, conceded that the radio show is likely a major contributing factor to his name being invoked. In November 25th, 2009, in a State Department cable sent from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia to…
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Smear campaign against Naranjo. General Oscar Naranjo, director of the Colombian National Police, said Baroque Vega, a drug trafficker who had served time in the U.S. and now resided in Miami, was conspiring with Don Mario and other extradi…
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when he got crosswise with a DEA agent. As far as his alleged conspiracy with Don Mario, Vega told me in an interview, meaning the author, I know his name, but he is one of my enemies who wanted to kill me. I never met him. Vega contends th…
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Well, naturally, because he's in the National Police. You don't survive there unless you are corrupt, especially at this time. All the traffickers that were surrendering and talking to the U.S. government while Vega was working on it spoke …
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the Kent memo. Um, and he goes on to talk about how, uh, Gonzalez had laid out an entire backbone of the devil's triangle, naming names, including corrupt us law enforcement officers in the DEA, us customs and inside of the, um, Columbia po…
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Some 30 articles reported that the jet was headed to an airport in Cancun, but arrived shortly after a work shift change. The security people on the new work shift did not authorize the Gulf Stream to land. So it flew to an airport in the Y…
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grow very well in Mexico. According to Vega, he had traveled between South Florida and South America via a private jet on at least 30 different recruiting trips with different FBI agents and DEA agents, as well as CIA. Vega claims the main …