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Joe Trento cited_as_source
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“in another person's case. And the two CIA agents that he used as his source when he wrote the one book that we recently reviewed, Prelude to Terror, the one source, when he had them on the phone, because they had a long dialogue on the phon…”
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“And Joe Trento promised not to publish anything about it until after the people, the two CIA agents that stole it were dead, which he kept that promise. And it's an excellent book. Let's see what else we got. This book here by Joseph Scott,…”
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in isolation. In many ways, it was brought about by the same kind of Saudi manipulation that had pulled the U.S. into the Afghan war against the Soviets. Well, the CIA basically set the Soviet Union up on that one, but whatever. Adom persua…
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As the Reagan-Bush team took over, Saddam Hussein offered two attractions. The first one was that he was the ideal hedge against Iran. The second was that billions of dollars in weapons sales meant there could be profits in the war for the …
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was important to the United States, said Robert Crowley, one of the CIA officers that material helped write this book. The CIA was convinced that at some point he could challenge Saddam Hussein. But he didn't. And he did not have the emotio…
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I pray that the Iraqis would never find out, Sarkis said. So that's it for that chapter. It gets us finished a little earlier, but the next chapter is too long to start. It's not a long, long chapter, but it's too long to finish in 15 minut…
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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…
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next Monday on the official continuation of our Prelude to Terror book, and we'll move on from there. So it'll be very spotty over the next several days, and I'll be here when I can. Stellar, go ahead.…
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But it wasn't just there because they also went to Mexico, which has oil. That's as far as I've gotten the book. But the book started out of them doing this in Brazil and they were working their way up. They then went to Mexico because they…
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And then kind of step back to put into context the entire operation. Like, for example, this Prelude to Terror, it's not going to tell me all of the stuff about Mark Dutro and all of those. I had to go to like Daniel Ganser's book that was …
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For many reasons. But let's find out what these CIA agents that gave their information to Joseph Trento, the author of Prelude to Terror, actually has to say about Edwin Wilson. And then we'll talk a little bit about the real story. The aut…
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And step out smartly and do those things. So getting on with our Prelude to Terror book, we're on chapter 18. And basically, we're up to the point in the conversation where, and again, once you've gotten into this as far as we have, what's …
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Saudi Arabia's intelligence network, basically their version of the CIA. So, of course, he shows up in Prelude to Terror because we know that the CIA, which this book is written with material from CIA agents, the CIA was behind BCCI. And, o…
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The book in Chapter 18, it's called Change Partners. The military power the Saudis needed in order to survive had to be provided by the United States. To pay for that power, the Saudis could dispense political and financial favors because o…
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slaves to them. And so that's kind of where we're going to move after we get done with the prelude to terror is kind of just do a few sessions. I'm not going to go through the book as extensively as I do this one. This one is so important t…
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are books that I have that at some point we'll probably go through. But it's just, it's mind-blowing. Mind-blowing. Still today. I mean, I've delved into this stuff, obviously, for quite a long time. And my mind's still blown every day. So,…
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I mean, I've read all about the Safari Club, but I had never, again, because I don't use Wikipedia generally as a source, except for, you know, kind of like the overview. I've never read that. I don't know if that's been added recently. But…
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You can see that these guys that have done this research kind of hang together because they're all referencing each other's books. And again, for those of you who are new, we just did this book, Prelude to Terror, which was based off of act…
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in another person's case. And the two CIA agents that he used as his source when he wrote the one book that we recently reviewed, Prelude to Terror, the one source, when he had them on the phone, because they had a long dialogue on the phon…
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Quite a bit. And it puts together a lot of the pieces that some of the other books didn't. So overall, it's a great book. Like I said, with all of these books, there are a few things that you have to keep tongue in cheek. But overall, a gre…