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Claims (9)
Roscoe "Rocky" Sudark member_of
Lebanon documented
“guy that was in the um aircraft and we found out that they were trying to overthrow him and then the actual coup happened in the later 60s the successful one yeah that's where i guess i was saying he missed out on that but long story short …”
▶ The Shadow State 64 The Diplomats @ 1:09:34
Pan American World Airways trafficked
Lebanon book_quoted
“that at least once or twice a week, a courier would carry a brown Samsonite suitcase full of drugs from Cyprus to Frankfurt, where an arrangement in Frankfurt with a baggage handler would switch the suitcase with a similar suitcase full of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 52:39
DEA trafficked
Lebanon book_quoted
“What he, the friend, fixed is his bag, a tape recorder. The family may or may not have known that Khalid was also taking a suitcase filled with heroin to the U.S. through a system that they had thought was safe, but which was actually part …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 49:16
Jamil Hamira trafficked
Lebanon book_quoted
“His activities and a method for financing at the first level had internal military activities within Lebanon. And at the second level, terrorist financing from abroad, meaning the CIA. To this, FBI agent Oliver Buck Revell, who supervised t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 47:48
CIA financed_via
Lebanon book_quoted
“His activities and a method for financing at the first level had internal military activities within Lebanon. And at the second level, terrorist financing from abroad, meaning the CIA. To this, FBI agent Oliver Buck Revell, who supervised t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 47:48
Jafar family trafficked
Lebanon book_quoted
“Lebanon is a conduit for a great deal of drugs and the organizations that are moving it through are at least supporting the movement and are violent political organizations. They are directly connected with much of the drug trafficking thro…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 48:16
Khalid Jafar trafficked
Lebanon book_quoted
“What he, the friend, fixed is his bag, a tape recorder. The family may or may not have known that Khalid was also taking a suitcase filled with heroin to the U.S. through a system that they had thought was safe, but which was actually part …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 49:16
Iran targeted_for_regime_change
Lebanon host_asserted
“Oliver North was going to take, because they sold it to him at inflated prices, was going to take that excess money to fund the Contras as well. And there was supposedly an agreement that Iran would intervene in Lebanon where they were hold…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 59:38
United States carried_out_attack
Lebanon host_asserted
“extricated itself without pain from only two unwinnable situations, Somalia and Lebanon. And in neither case did the Pentagon risk its credibility. After 40 years of active involvement in Colombia, it's hard to think that it would make the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 43:17
Mentions (120)
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Sarkis, S-A-R-K-I-S, S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N. And remember, he's the Turkish-born Armenian who had grown up in Lebanon before violence became a way of life. But the beauty of life in volatile Beirut was shattered for Sarkis.…
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According to DIA Control Officer Colonel Joseph Hunt, that Sarkis became one of the most valuable intelligence assets we ever had. Sarkis became a utility man for both DIA and CIA. His fluency in seven languages made him invaluable. In 1974…
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in the arms trade. Kayabalyan had been recruited out of Lebanon as well as Saddam Hussein's personal tailor. Kayabalyan was a big man who was not intimidated at all by Saddam. He conveyed sophistication to Saddam without making him uncomfor…
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Now that the president's returned from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and meeting with Cater as well. But some of you have been in the spaces. Now, I've been poking at this question about, you know, back after 9-11, Wesley Clark, General Wesley Clar…
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of the international syndicate. So you had Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria. There was a smaller one in Tanzania and Bahrain. And there were also small demonstrations in Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Sudan. So, I mean, it was j…
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Also, let's see. Oh, and his very first oil dealings was in Beirut, Lebanon, where he got his initial riches off of the Iran-Iraq war. You know, the one we funded both sides of? Evidently, he did too. That war made a lot of people rich. And…
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In one of the comments, they said the stock market is going down because of this event. So if it's orchestrated by third parties, you're going to see many, many other events unfolding, even leading to a possible bigger impact in the conflic…
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expressing frustration and anger at Israel. General R.H. Barrow charged that Israeli troops were deliberately threatening the lives of Marines who were serving on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. So, of course, the first thing I do is fin…
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I must formally register my deep concern over the two unprovoked incidents in Beirut of the past weekend involving Marines and the multinational force and members of the IDF, Israeli Defense Forces. I had considered commenting on earlier in…
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Oh, he just happens to have been involved in, he was the guy that gave the direct order to attack the USS Liberty. This Dayan guy, D-A-Y-A-N. So just to put it in perspective. So him and Sharon are buddies. Okay, got that established. Barro…
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during their posting to Lebanon starting in August 25, 1982, as a result of Israel's invasion 11 weeks earlier. So the whole reason we're there is because Israel invaded Lebanon. Initially, a U.S. unit of 800 men was sent to Beirut Harbor a…
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in no case would stay longer than 30 days. What did I say? August 1982. This turned out to be not true. They did withdraw temporarily on September 10th, but a reinforcement unit of 1,200 had to be rushed right back in 15 days later because …
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that accompanied the Israeli seizure of West Beirut. The U.S. forces remained until February 1984. So again, we are only there because of Israel's aggression into Lebanon. And they staged the attack and the massacre, and it was a massacre, …
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shown to be liable and part of the massacre. The Israeli forces were part of that massacre, which was then used as another excuse to send not just the original amount, but even more Marines back in there. So the whole reason we're in Lebano…
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The casualties started within a week of the return of the Marines in September 1982. See, we only focus on the barracks, but that wasn't the first. On the 30th, a U.S.-made cluster bomb left behind by the Israelis exploded, killing Corporal…
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while their first brief stay had been to separate Israeli forces from Palestinian fighters evacuating Beirut. Their new mission was a part of a multinational force sent to prevent Israeli troops from attacking Palestinian civilians left def…
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that Israel's withdrawal from Beirut, Israel's siege of Beirut during the summer of 1982, had been brutal and bloody, reaching a peak horror on August 12th, quickly known as Black Thursday. On that day, Sharon's forces launched at dawn a ma…
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as many as 500 people, mainly Lebanese, and all of them were civilians, were killed. On top of the bombardment came the massacres the next month at Sabra and Shatila. When Sharon's troops allowed Lebanese Moranite killers, the preferred Fre…
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The massacre sickened the international community and pressure from Western capitals finally forced Israel to withdraw from Beirut in late September. The troops from Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, i.e. NATO, were interposed …
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It was at the airport that the Marines would suffer their cavalry over the next year. Starting in January 1983, small Israeli units began probing Marine lines. At first, the effort appeared aimed at discovering the extent of the Marines' de…
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Soon the incidents began to escalate, on both sides pointing loaded weapons at each other, but no one firing. Tensions were high enough in late January that a special meeting between U.S. and Israeli officers were held in Beirut to try to a…
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On February 2nd, a unit of three Israeli tanks, tanks led by Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Rafi Landsberg, tried to pass through a Marine Army, both people were there, lines at a university in South Lebanon. By this time, Landsberg was no stra…
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These now included helicopter harassment by which U.S. made helicopters were glaring spotlights on the Marines so that it was illuminating Marine outposts and exposing them to potential attack. Constant harassment. As reports of these incid…
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Troops Advisory Organization. The letter described a systematic pattern of Israeli attacks and provocations against the UN forces, including instances to which U.S. officers were singled out for near miss shootings, abuse. They even detaine…
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an independent Israeli commission to have been personally responsible for the massacres of Sabra and Shatir. So now think about this. He's basically the sec def of the IDF. He has been personally responsible for murdering civilians in Leban…
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are you sending missiles to Iran? Yeah, no, none of this adds up. This, this smells so much like Benghazi and all that stuff. It's a pattern and we're watching it play out in real time today. The next day, the U S embassy in Beirut was blow…
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Khomeini's offensive against America and Lebanon began in earnest, but it was not his offensive. More to the story. Ames' close relationship with Ali Hassan Salameh, a senior PLO figure. Now, again, Israel created and funded Hamas to fight …
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So Ames had created a relationship with this senior PLO figure. Ames became a threat to Israel. So that created a lot of friction with Mossad, who viewed Salome as a terrorist linked to the 1970 Olympic attacks. The Israelis sought to assas…
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This back-channel work known to CIA Director Richard Helms and Henry Kissinger was kept discreet to avoid antagonizing Israel. Ames' biography highlights open hostility between the CIA and Mossad during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and…
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and that it was a significant loss to U.S. intelligence and Middle East diplomacy. And he was right. Still, it was not until four months later on August 28th that Marines came under direct fire by rocket-propelled grenades and automatic wea…
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The result was as feared. Heavy fighting immediately broke out between the Christian Lebanon forces and the pro-Syrian Druze units, both seeking to occupy positions evacuated by the Israelis, while the Marines were left in the crossfire, th…
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Bowen fired several 5-inch naval guns hitting the Druze artillery positions in the mountains that were firing into the Marine compound at the Beirut airport. It was the first time U.S. ships had fired into Lebanon, dramatically increasing t…
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Anybody on the ground would go, time out. Nope. September 13th, President Reagan authorized what was called aggressive self-defense for the Marines, including air and naval strikes. Five days later, the U.S. essentially joined the war again…
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The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine Corps officer detailed to the White Hou…
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So Israel is giving Iran missiles while then telling everybody that it's Iran backing the Muslims, Hezbollah, that are fighting in Lebanon. Again, that meme of somehow my tax dollars are paying for this and somehow my tax dollars are paying…
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By now, the Marines were under direct daily attack. The Muslims were charging. They were no longer neutral. At the same time, the battleship USS New Jersey with 16-inch guns arrived off the coast of Lebanon, increasing the number of U.S. wa…
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Passed guards at the Marine Airport compound and detonated an explosive with the force of 1,200,000 pounds of dynamite under the building housing Marines and other U.S. personnel. Almost simultaneously, a car bomb exploded at the French com…
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Americans' agony increased on December 3rd when two carrier planes were downed by Syrian missiles during heavy U.S. air raids on eastern Lebanon. The same day, eight Marines were killed in fighting in and around the airport. By the start of…
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Kerr, a distinguished scholar in the Arab world, was gunned down on January 18th outside his office. On February 5th, Reagan made one of his stand tall speeches by saying the quote, the situation in Lebanon is difficult, frustrating, and da…
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Razier, a U.S. citizen teaching at the American University, was kidnapped. Razier's kidnapping was the beginning of a series of kidnappings of Americans in Beirut that would helm the Reagan administration and it would continue on into the B…
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The day after Rajir's kidnapping on February 7th, 1984, Reagan suddenly reversed himself and announced that all U.S. Marines would shortly be redeployed. The next day, the battleship USS New Jersey fired 290 rounds of one-ton shells from it…
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At the same time, however, all of Israeli installations were giving specific details in case they were the target. Wow. Obviously, they felt that it was relevant information. To send detail to their own units, but not the Americans, the all…
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Passing well within sight of Israeli sentries in their nearby base, going through a Lebanese army checkpoint and turning left into the parking lot, a U.S. Marine guard reported with alarm that the truck was gathering speed, and before he co…
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Yeah, one of the guys that we found early on in this is that the Safra guy that is Jewish, he's from Lebanon, moved to Brazil, came back and set up his bank in Switzerland. And he's the guy that the Green Beret burned alive mysteriously, no…
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was undertaken to keep secret a CIA drug smuggling network ran by Ted Shackley out of Lebanon. And just that you guys know, that had to do with some crazy coded suitcase thing that they had these young Libyans who thought they were transpor…
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what they thought was classified type information, and they would take it on an airplane from like Lebanon or Libya and take it to Europe. And then from Europe, it'd be flown into the United States. However, like every second one or every t…
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which is a three or four star command. And he was there in the late 70s. So he basically served quite a bit. And he was, let's see, the Southern European Affairs, which would have probably been down in Naples as well. He was at the embassy …
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What I read there was a it basically had to do with money laundering and it was in both. Let's see, Benghazi and what's the other port in Lebanon? Libya? No, not Libya. Well, Benghazi. Yeah, Benghazi is in Libya. But in Lebanon, there was a…
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that had a big explosion there. Are you talking about the one in 2018? It was Beirut. Beirut. Okay. So both in Beirut and in Benghazi, in the ports, they have these entities that are storage facilities. And they're like state-of-the-art sto…
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She's a research fellow in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Libya. Wait a minute. So let me just scroll. She had to have been. I see that she was Navy Reserve. She had to be intel, right? Yep. She was Navy. She jumped ahead. Well, just because of…
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They've been involved on both sides of the Trump scandals. She was there. She starts working as a senior foreign policy advisor to the U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain. But she has no foreign policy. Well, she did her research fe…
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and use him as a protected witness against Wilson. Also in the briefcase was an autographed picture of Billy Carter sitting on a reviewing stand with Frank Turple. Turple had asked Billy Carter if he was interested in joining him in importi…
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And Turple was still protected by the CIA because their buddies arranged for the Mossad to locate, move him to Lebanon and then forward him to Cuba for safe protection. Which, interestingly enough, makes you go back to, you know that we've …
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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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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…
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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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So Israel attacking Lebanon when they were attacked by Hamas, under the guise that they're trying to attack Hezbollah, is attacking another sovereign foreign country. That is an act of war. So Israel went to war with Lebanon already.…
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They've already declared war on Lebanon by attacking a sovereign country. I don't give a shit who's in the country. You are not allowed to attack a sovereign country. I would venture to say that we have Hezbollah people in the United States…
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As that occurs, and they have been doing that. I mean, they've launched attacks into Syria in the border under the guise of, you know, hey, there's some bad guys there. Okay, well, you don't get to do that. So they have openly now declared …
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Let's see. Hold on. Bridget just got lost. Not at all surprising. You know, you go back to the map that everybody likes to refer back to in the greater Israel, which basically takes Israel through all of Syria, Lebanon and up to and includi…
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Hutu and Tutsi origin, whose life-saving efforts were the basis for the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, and has now been jailed by the Kagame regime, has supported the allegation that Kagame was behind the plane downing. And I'm going to spell that…
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And also, you know, these people are arrogant. They think they're like earthly gods. And that's why Greece is important to them. You know, this is where democracy started in Mount Olympus and the gods. But besides that, if you look at the l…
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controversial and people were struggling over territory. They changed from places where generations had raised their families in relatively safety to where children can't even go outside. Sometimes the neighborhood looked like they belonged…
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while boarding a plane for Switzerland. In their possession was a briefcase filled with $5 million in cash. According to Spanish government officials, in May of 1987, the money was destined for a bank account in Zurich controlled by North. …
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Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…
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Oliver North was going to take, because they sold it to him at inflated prices, was going to take that excess money to fund the Contras as well. And there was supposedly an agreement that Iran would intervene in Lebanon where they were hold…
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and Lebanon. So it was kind of a three-part arrangement. And so what's really interesting to me about this part of the book is that you have someone who is bringing with official stamps out of Iran into America with fraudulent documentation…
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extricated itself without pain from only two unwinnable situations, Somalia and Lebanon. And in neither case did the Pentagon risk its credibility. After 40 years of active involvement in Colombia, it's hard to think that it would make the …
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around that because I don't think she was actually going to school. I think she was actually an agent at this point. She was also in Lebanon and Tanzania. She did an internship with the CFR and then worked with the Eurasia Group. If this do…
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That hurt it. And. You know. Even something like. What we were talking about. On the Alpha Warrior show. Where you have. The commandant of the Marine Corps. Because his Marines. Stationed in Lebanon. Was being abused by the IDF forces. That…
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And they're telling us that there's PLO training camps there and all the shit. I didn't see any of that. That doesn't mean that it's not there. I don't know. I didn't see it. We talked to locals quite a bit and none of them talked about any…
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against him had arranged for the attempted murder of himself. The court date was pushed off until February 5th, 1985. But thanks to Barcalas getting Kaiser released on bail, Kaiser was able to flee to West Germany with his wife. Kaiser woul…
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So this is November 1984. Shackley met Hashimi at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hamburg. Hashimi introduced him to Gorbanifar. He also was a SAVAK agent and an arms dealer. Gorbanifar opened the three-day negotiation with Shackley by suggesting…
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had brought his longtime intelligence associate businessman, William Zylka, Z-Y-L-K-A. Casey asked Zylka to work with the same Iranian businessman who had facilitated the October surprise meeting in Spain. The shipments to Iran continued fo…
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when Nicaraguan government soldiers shot down an American cargo plane that was carrying military supplies to the Contras. The one surviving crew member, American Eugene Hasenhoff, was taken into captivity and stated that he was an employee …
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The coup was resurrected in 57 and renamed Operation WAPEN, W-A-P-P-E-N, with the CIA in Beirut, Lebanon, coordinating a covert working group composed of representatives from the British SIS plus Iraqi, Jordanian, and Lebanese intelligence.…
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was going to be used over Indonesia to create intel. Cabal began to rely on Bissell's organizational skills for operational planning. Everybody was excited because they were going to pull off another coup. Umar exclaimed, we'll drive Lebano…
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By far the most serious situation to confront Bush during his time at Langley was the Lebanese Civil War. Fighting broke out there in the spring of 75 and was stifled temporarily by Syrian mediation and then intervention. But a year later, …
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In 75, Division Chief David Blee promoted his deputy, Claire George, to chief of station in Beirut, then considered a prestigious assignment. George was a skilled street man, relaxed ballroom dancer. He needed all the dexterity in Beirut.…
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On June 16th, 76, the new American ambassador, Francis Malloy Jr. died under a hell of bullets on his way to a very first meeting with the president-elect of Lebanon. With him perished his driver and an embassy economic counselor, which may…
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George scrambled to figure out whether the murders had been some insane mistake or an act against the U.S. It turned out that Malloy had been abducted before being killed. The next day, President Ford held an NSC meeting, considered evacuat…
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The evacuation would be carried out by the U.S. Navy. The CIA scored a coup here because it had established a relationship with the PLO. And the PLO security forces now furnished protection for the maneuver, which had already ordered evacua…
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to monitor the pullout. In the middle of the night, Bush came to watch along all of the other DO officers. The move was successful. For a time, the Beirut station worked out of Athens, Greece. That fall, the Arab League placed a deterrent f…
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to Beirut. Jerry Ford faced the Lebanon crisis in the middle of his political campaign for re-election in 76. He lost that election to Jimmy Carter. During the hard-fought campaign, Carter several times indicated suspicion of the CIA. A cli…
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The incoherence of U.S. policy comes into sharp focus when the question of relations between Washington and Iran is juxtaposed with the Islamic government's support for terrorists in Lebanon. Shiite Muslim militia in Beirut began a campaign…
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The Shiite militia had close ties to Tehran. There was no detente with the great Satan. The suicide attack, be interesting to see how he categorizes this. I don't remember. Fanatics loaded a panel truck with explosives, rammed their way int…
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The blow energized Langley. The U.S. government began to crack down on arms shipments to Iran in Operation Staunch. So again, we're supplying them. They blow up Americans and then we crack down on them. And even more ambitious dual operatio…
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Followed on October 23rd, 1983. That's where the 241 American Marines were killed, plus another 100 injured. Bombings continued of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait and Israeli military headquarters, the American Embassy in Beirut again, this time…
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The Shiites also struck directly at CIA again on March 16, 1984, kidnapping William Buckley, recently arrived station chief in the tough Middle Eastern city. Despite protective measures, the station chief was seized right off the street in …
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Thoughts in Reagan's White House turned towards getting Khomeini to influence the Lebanese Shiites. An interagency study completed in October 1984 concluded that a new relationship could be forged only by Khomeini's successors. In April of …
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You can just give us the weapons back. His request led to a national security group meeting at the White House on August 8th, which appears to have been the Israeli go-ahead. Deals with Iran, many deals with Iran followed, related both to o…
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bypassing Gorbanifar's link. A second channel was eventually opened and one further arms transaction was arranged. But Gorbanifar learned of it and struck back by blowing the operation's cover. McFarlane's visit to Tehran was revealed in a …
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all of the spare parts for them. He also sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. But on the streets of Beirut, the terrorists grabbed four more Americans plus a British mediator, Terry Waite. The CIA station chief, Bill Buckley, tortured for mont…
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Home after a cathartic trip to San Diego. Answer the question about Gaddafi. His main son was assassinated in Libya. The other three, one was, I've got it in notes here somewhere, Turkey. Still there. Another one was in prison in Lebanon. N…
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The Shiite elements across the Middle East, including Lebanon, will be activated or pacified in a new political arrangement. You can't really look at these countries one at a time. And this, you know, that has to be considered before you ju…
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Wilbur and Copeland carried the Ajax paper to Beirut, where they met on 10 June with Kim Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt. He had traveled in to meet them from Washington, D.C. Senior Representative George Carroll and CIA Tehran staff. The maitr…
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A friend of Carol's from his OSS days in Nice gave them a quiet table and kept people away. Always helps to have friends. Roosevelt took the paper on to London with only minor changes. On his last evening in Beirut, he dined with the chief …
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A Furman, which is a declaration on Mosaddegh. Another ordering the army to remain loyal and a letter declaring confidence in General Fazola Zahidi. He was the CIA's, SIS's pick to be the new leader. Schwarzkopf left for Tehran through Beir…
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Ahead of time, Eisenhower perceived Mosaddegh's failure to suppress the Tudor demonstrations as coddling communists. Well, that's at least the way they spun it here in the United States. And again, they're less than 1% of the entire populat…
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Because it was a front company. KMS was linked to a host of dubious dealings, including training Sri Lankan soldiers in counterintelligence, excuse me, counterinsurgency techniques, aiding Ian Smith's apartheid government in Rhodesia, which…
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The Secretary of State assured the oilman that if any sultan or despot were to be as unwise as Mosaddegh and try to nationalize his underground desert treasure, the country would soon find itself the target of an international intervention.…
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But whatever. He goes on to say that the Beirut mission was another. And then Afghanistan, of course. And Nicaragua, of course. He leaves out Angola and all the other ones. But let's just suffice it to say there was a lot of activity going …
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We're already doing the missile cells and all that stuff that we've talked about. It says, then in March of the following year, which would make it about 1984, CIA Station Chief William Buckley was kidnapped outside of his Bayry apartment, …
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discussions about how to free Buckley and a handful of international hostages, which again is very weird because as the author points out, it's the exact opposite of what we had been doing in the past. We just walked away. But of course, th…
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In the Bexar Valley, terrorist groups rub shoulders with heroin drug gangs. Often, they're one in the same. You know, kind of like here. According to Steve Donahue, an ex-USDEA undercover agent, the heroin labs themselves are located in the…
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His activities and a method for financing at the first level had internal military activities within Lebanon. And at the second level, terrorist financing from abroad, meaning the CIA. To this, FBI agent Oliver Buck Revell, who supervised t…
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The DIA agent, who was later detailed to work with the DEA and CIA in Lebanon under the quote unquote drug war, explained, quote, they could not eradicate the drugs in Lebanon. So they could only do two things. Join them. No, that wasn't it…
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in drugstains operations back in the U.S. to set up drug buys and catch drug buyers in the U.S. Now that's a fancy way of saying that they're just facilitating it because they don't do any of that shit. They do monitor it for their own gain…
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headed by Michael Hurley, the country's attache, meaning he's CIA. My main responsibility was to gather intelligence in Lebanon relating to opium production and trafficking and that sort of thing. The operation was simple. Paid DEA informan…
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Of the CIA and the mafia and all them guys running the savings and loan money laundering scheme, his name comes up in those. And the whole real estate, oil, Oklahoma, that book, Belly Up, that I just read, and all of them. In 1969, after th…
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had begun eroding for decades, but by the time the Turkish defeat of World War I, it still included most of what is today Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and the oil sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. The European go…
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And see if these countries ring a bell. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay. Huh. Those are all the countries we cooed. That's really weird. Mexico, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Turkey, the Phil…
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Their members featured prominently in inter-doc conferences from that period forward. It is also an important role for the World Anti-Communist League activists in many other locations like Lebanon, India, South Korea, and South Vietnam. Th…
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N-O-C-S, who typically posed as business executives for the next nine years, agency operatives purportedly worked for him, were dispatched to Uzbekistan, Cyprus, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and many other countries. This arrangement worked out …
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Gotta love them. Isinson, who was the co-chairman of Charles Bank Capital Partners, a private equity in Boston. Ahmed Farrar, who is a Lebanese Australian businessman. Neil Fitsch, who he has, I'm just going to, he has a very interesting ba…
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Next one was the Nazi Germany. Mussolini banned Freemasonry. And then under a dictatorship in 1864, Egypt did it. Same thing with Syria in 1964. And then 1965 was Syria, and now most Arab countries, with the exception of, I believe, Lebanon…
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She gets a Bachelor of Arts in History from Yale University. Oh, wait. Are we checking boxes again? All right. She goes to Yale Law School. She's a research fellow in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Libya. Wait a minute. So let me just scroll. S…
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She gets done with, I mean, I guess she's checking boxes, isn't she? She went to work with a law firm we've talked about a ton, Skadden Arps. They've been involved on both sides of all the Trump scandals. She was there. She starts working a…
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guy that was in the um aircraft and we found out that they were trying to overthrow him and then the actual coup happened in the later 60s the successful one yeah that's where i guess i was saying he missed out on that but long story short …
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1995 as the Colonel State with Peter Sutherland at the head, the World Trade Organization is created and GATT is folded into it. 164 member countries. How many countries do we have in the world? Like 195? Yeah. Liberia and Afghanistan have …