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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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by the battles between the Muslims and the Christians. After his father, a Christian, was murdered in the 1950s, Sarkis began toting a machine gun until he found his father's killer and got revenge. He worked as a ski instructor and met and…
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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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to which they get killed. And here's the thing. And people will say, yeah, but there's decades of time in between the two. It doesn't matter. The Marine Corps leadership is Marine Corps leadership. Now, granted, what we were dealing with in…
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that they didn't have this kind of information to recognize the bullshit games that were taking place with the Marines down in Beirut, not to address it? Baloney. Baloney. It just means everybody was turning a blind eye. So the Marine Corps…
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So the guy that was responsible for the massacre of innocent civilians becomes the prime minister of Israel. And this is a large amount because it says the Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16th to 18th of September, 1982, killing between …
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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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So this is a critical area. And we know unequivocally that not only were the CIA trying to overthrow Libya, they have had strategy of tension, disruption capability in Egypt. You've got right around the bend, Israel. Right around the bend i…
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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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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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He then suggested that the poor hostage captured by terrorists in Lebanon could be traded through Iran in exchange for cash. Because one of these hostages was Shackley's old friend and colleague, William Buckley, the station chief at the Be…
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in Beirut, like the Olympic thing or like the airplane stuff, were those all like beta tests for the bigger ones, like the Iran-Contra and Jimmy Carter stuff with the, you know, embassy stuff? I mean, it sounds like everything is just nothi…
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in the Humvees. Would never, ever recommend that to anybody, especially when it's 120 degrees in the summer. Task Force Deputy Baer argued that the CIA needed a permanent presence. He volunteered to set up a CIA base. Baer arrived in Januar…
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Roosevelt estimated the price to be no more than a couple hundred thousand dollars. The flap potential, he said, was ambiguous. If the spooks seriously miscalculated, the result would be disastrous in the entire Middle East. The project got…
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were taken hostage in Lebanon by extremist terrorist organizations in an attempt to contain events in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf. Then President Reagan dispatched both military and CIA personnel to the region. Marines and CIA officer…
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Their job was to conduct reconnaissance patrols, man observation posts, along with international boundary enforcement, and to set up checkpoints. Though the mission was to have been peaceful, the 101st found itself targets on several occasi…
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Drug trafficking. We can't have a communist screw that up. So, had to get him out. And then, of course, Beirut. He goes into that. And, you know, I had no idea until we started doing this research project years ago. The real truth about Bei…
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And now that we know that most of the quote unquote Iranians were not actually Iranians, it was very interesting to go back and reread all of the actual history that got reported, not just the news things that were used to brainwash us, tha…
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to house a very large bomb. And Israel's informant told Israel that it was to kill Americans. Israel, by the way, didn't bother to tell anybody that. They, throughout the entire quote-unquote UN operation that was not UN at all, they would …
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Be on the lookout. Hey, with nothing specific in it, even though they had very specific, actionable intelligence, that a bunch of Americans were going to get blown up. And I also covered the fact that in the lead up to this, that the Israel…
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coming at them with guns, rolling tanks into their area. Just a perpetual harassment campaign had been lodged against the Marines. And it got so bad that the Marine Corps commander on the ground ran it up. So they ran it up the operational …
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of the Marine Corps. And the commandant of the Marine Corps went to Caspar Weinberger and said, hey, you need to handle this. Look at what's going on. It's Israel actually harassing the U.S. You need to get a handle on that. Tell them to st…
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don't have enough guts to put shit in writing. That was not the case with the Marine Corps Commandant. He wrote a very nasty letter that you can find on the internet to Caspar Weinberger saying that it was a total disgrace what Israel was d…
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Why they did not provide that actionable intelligence to the United States. Their answer was very simple. They didn't want to burn their informant. One guy, 300 Americans. Not even a question when it came to Israel's decision. Best ally, in…
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bit of that money was siphoned off by the ISI to fund their nuclear program as well. So yeah, we bought that too. And oh, by the way, then they later on sell it to Iran. Yeah, so in a way, everything circles back around to us. We fund all o…
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back to the one with the drugs in it. Then it would go on board the airplane. It would arrive at Kennedy and would be picked up. So if you want to take somebody out, just put the bomb in one of those suitcases because they're already cleare…
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In a hostage rescue effort, he refused to go through with it. Instead, he took his team out of Beirut to Cyprus, where he and his comm man notified Washington that he would be returning to the States with his team, complete with all travel …
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That was going on simultaneously with the Iran-Contra affair. According to the Maltese double-cross, the DEA was watching McKee, separately telexing McKee's final travel arrangements to CIA director in Washington, MI6 director in the UK, an…
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Later on, you have ISIS and blah, blah, blah. So they began the incubation of the, quote, unquote, radical Islamic terrorists in the 80s, well before the Soviet Union collapsed, by baiting Russia in that gave them a reason to put all of thi…