United Fruit Company organization
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Claims (78)
Atlantic Fruit Company business_partner_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“who was in business with United Fruit, by the way. The two of them were like, basically they owned each other. Yes. Did you know that? Yeah. The incestuousness of the fruit companies was very apparent. Yeah. So American Fruit and United Fru…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady Secret Societies Skull&Bones cont'd @ 1:06:17
United Fruit Company recruited
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes book_quoted
“Castillo Armas, as president of Guatemala, tells how a retired executive of United Fruit tried to recruit him for the coup and how, when in office, a Washington law firm told him, we had financed the liberation movement, quote unquote, of C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 23:55
Robert Lehman member_of
United Fruit Company book_quoted
“was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for all of the Indochina operations. And at…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a @ 27:21
United Fruit Company front_for
Swan Island host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
United Fruit Company funded
Contras documented
“He got called a communist for doing that. And the CIA and all of the companies to include United Fruit, but also the railroads, went down there and funded the Contras, as did the Reagan administration, and told us they were freedom fighters…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 1:01:05
United Fruit Company funded
Somoza dynasty host_asserted
“CIA-sponsored, US-sponsored, United Fruit-sponsored dictators in place in Nicaragua because the Sandinistas has not come back to power yet. And so they set up shop. One of Haney's problems was that the CIA's own Western Hemisphere Division,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 35:58
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Cuba host_asserted
“was not actually owned in large part by Cubans. You had people like William Polly who owned your airline. You had people like William Polly who owned the entire bus franchise on the entire island. He owned a lot of the big major sugar plant…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:00:16
United Fruit Company funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“And he was very, very popular because he was doing the agricultural reform and basically taking the people's land back that had been stolen from them through corrupt government deals to United Fruit. And so, oh, and by the way, United Fruit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 27:14
Sullivan & Cromwell funded
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“And he was very, very popular because he was doing the agricultural reform and basically taking the people's land back that had been stolen from them through corrupt government deals to United Fruit. And so, oh, and by the way, United Fruit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 27:14
Thomas Corcoran funded
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“for Civil Air Transport, which means he's a lawyer for CIA front companies. And he is also the lawyer for United Fruit, because, you know, Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles is a little busy right now. They're pretending to be in the govern…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 30:36
United Fruit Company financed_via
Operation PBSUCCESS documented
“Wisner and Allen Dulles, however, backed Haney and gave him a free hand. In the end, United Fruit itself decided not to go in on Operation Success. If the operation failed, they didn't want to have anything to do with it. And that, by the w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 37:59
CIA supplied_arms_to
United Fruit Company documented
“In at least one respect, the CIA was carrying on with United Fruit's program. That is, they had already been one CIA paramilitary effort aimed at Guatemala, and that one involved United Fruit. Under a code named Fortune, in the last several…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 38:58
United Fruit Company recruited
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes documented
“The CIA went first to the candidate who was defeated by Arbenz in the 1950 election, Miguel Fuentes. He had already been approached by United Fruit, but was not interested because the United Fruit was already very busy down there. Then Amer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 47:20
Chiquita Brands International succeeded
United Fruit Company documented
“He says, the author says, in recent developments, the Chiquita Banana International Company, the successor to United Fruit, one of the best known U.S. monopolies, pleaded guilty in March of 2007 to providing $1.7 million in funding over sev…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9 @ 34:15
Edward Bernays member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“There's no apparent documented connection. Actually, there is. In a couple of the books that I've read of the Guatemalan coup that they did in 1954, he was an advisor on it. Oh, yeah. I mean, he had already been working for UFC, United Frui…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 1:04:23
United Fruit Company funded
Edward Bernays host_asserted
“huge swaths of real estate down in South America by essentially eminent domain type of stuff. Well, we're getting upset. So United fruit had him organize a campaign to, to, you know, get set up with the coup. And I imagine at this time, yes…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 6 II @ 1:04:54
United Fruit Company funded
Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted
“One would have to go back in time to the 17th or 18th century when the Dutch East India Company ruled a far-flung empire with the power to make war, negotiate treaties, hang convicts, and mint their own money to find another corporation tha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 36:13
Walter Bedell Smith member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“began lobbying the White House to overthrow Arbenz. Walter Bedell Smith, the president's trusted friend and undersecretary of state, was seeking an executive position with the company, Mr. CIA himself. Henry Cabot Lodge, who argued the Unit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 36:41
John P. Cabot Lodge member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“began lobbying the White House to overthrow Arbenz. Walter Bedell Smith, the president's trusted friend and undersecretary of state, was seeking an executive position with the company, Mr. CIA himself. Henry Cabot Lodge, who argued the Unit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 36:41
John Moore Cabot member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“were connected to United Fruit because that's where they were headquartered. John Moores Cabot, who was in charge of Latin American affairs at the State Department, was the brother of the United Fruit's former CEO. When the president's pers…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 37:11
Ann Whitman member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“were connected to United Fruit because that's where they were headquartered. John Moores Cabot, who was in charge of Latin American affairs at the State Department, was the brother of the United Fruit's former CEO. When the president's pers…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 37:11
Allen Dulles member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“who just so happened to be Robert Lansing, who was not only a former counsel for United Fruit, but Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. Allen became so frequent a visitor to Guatemala as a legal envoy of United Fruit that he began taking al…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 38:38
United Fruit Company funded
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“And of course, we know the CIA director did not resign. And that's Alan Dulles. And he was directly tied to that because of the representation of United Fruit, who was behind instigating that CIA operation to overthrow the government of Gua…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA @ 39:07
United Fruit Company trafficked
Chile host_asserted
“We don't even want them owning our farmland. And yet we own the farmland in every freaking country in South America and Latin America and wouldn't give it back. And we bought it through corrupt deals. Not we, the American companies like Uni…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 2:00:46
Fulgencio Batista member_of
United Fruit Company caller_asserted
“on my own recently. And his father and himself actually worked, uh, are connected with United Fruit as well in Cuba. And he had an interesting life kind of bouncing back between the United States and Cuba. Um, and when he fled on, uh, that,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:24:19
United Fruit Company funded
CIA book_quoted
“campaigned to label him a communist. In March 1953, the CIA approached disgruntled right-wing officers in the Guatemalan army and arranged to send them arms. United Fruit donated $64,000, this is in 1953, to buy weapons to undermine the gov…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 28:08
CIA supplied_arms_to
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“train and equip Arbenz rebels. Yes, you heard me right. The CIA had used some of that farmland to train rebels in country, in Guatemala, under the tutelage of United Fruit. Project Fortune proved abortive, but cast the die for success. Somo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 59:21
Maurice Bishop targeted_for_regime_change
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“He realized that he had a formidable task. His first priority was to create jobs, schools, teacher training, which is why the Cuban teachers were there, adult literacy, a milk program for young kids. He wanted health care. He wanted agricul…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 43:32
United Fruit Company funded
Contras host_asserted
“fruit, wanted to monopolize and capture all of the land and resources so that they could control. If you have independent people producing, that's competition. They're not about competition. They're not capitalists. These people are Satanis…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:54:28
Rockefeller member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“Its board members were all of the what I refer to as the international syndicate, the Rockefellers, the Harrimans. All of those people were board members and they kind of rotated board members. And United Fruit was going throughout all of C…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 1:56:03
Harriman family member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“Its board members were all of the what I refer to as the international syndicate, the Rockefellers, the Harrimans. All of those people were board members and they kind of rotated board members. And United Fruit was going throughout all of C…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 1:56:03
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Honduras host_asserted
“installed several of the presidents. In the years after the coup that he sponsored in 1911, his Cuyamel Fruit Company and two others, Standard Fruit and United Fruit, which of course we recognize, came to own almost all of the fertile land …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 9:37
United Fruit Company targeted_for_regime_change
Jacobo Árbenz host_asserted
“a sampling of news articles, and this is really just random, and people can verify it for themselves by going to newspapers.com, of the news reporting in 1953 and 54 in Guatemala. Everybody knows today that Arbenz was a liberal. He wasn't a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 b @ 1:35:12
Walter Bedell Smith member_of
United Fruit Company book_quoted
“She was Eisenhower's personal secretary. Under Secretary of State and former director of the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith was seeking an executive position with United Front. At the same time, he planned the coup. He was later named to the comp…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 25:38
Ann Whitman member_of
United Fruit Company book_quoted
“The Fruit Company influence amongst Washington's powerful was impressive. On a business and personal level, it had ties close to the Dulles brothers, the State Department, congressmen, ambassadors to the UN. Ann Whitman, the wife of the cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 25:08
United Fruit Company funded
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“that the CIA used to basically have backdoors into privileged communications. And that's how I suspect they were able to do that for the USS Liberty, because Egypt and Jordan both had that system. It allows the CIA to manipulate the message…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 46:17
United Fruit Company paid
Oswaldo López Arellano host_asserted
“In 1975, the SEC discovered that General Lopez Aureliano had received $1.25 million in secret payments from United Fruit, which evolved into United Brands, which then evolved into today Chiquita Banana. The conglomerate had absorbed United …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 22:54
United Fruit Company succeeded
United Brands host_asserted
“In 1975, the SEC discovered that General Lopez Aureliano had received $1.25 million in secret payments from United Fruit, which evolved into United Brands, which then evolved into today Chiquita Banana. The conglomerate had absorbed United …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 22:54
Whiting Willauer involved_in
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“because of the Boston Brahmins and the maritime monopoly. That's also where United Fruit was. And remember, he was involved in the United Fruit Guatemalan coup. So this is one of the main players in the beginning of the CIA. Also, so there …”
▶ The Colonel’s CornerSafe for Democracy Part 10 (11) @ 17:24
American International Underwriters Corporation funded
United Fruit Company book_quoted
“The American International Corporation had a substantial investment in Grace Russian Company and through Holbrook, an interlocking directorship. So he was going to be on both boards. And that's seen a lot in this whole thing, too. AIC also …”
▶ Operation Gladio - The History of the International Syndicate @ 33:53
United Fruit Company funded
Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted
“They all do. This time, it wasn't Standard Oil. It was United Fruit, who also was a Sullivan and Cromwell Dulles Brothers customer. It too had used Sullivan and Cromwell. United Fruit was the largest landowner in Guatemala. They owned 550,0…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 42:54
Rockefeller secretly_owned
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“Look through my books. I have the source that basically says that through the there was an American fruit company and a Boston that they were the majority shareholder, although I think they only ended up with 40 percent. But the other parts…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 1:03:36
United Fruit Company front_for
CIA host_asserted
“about the Boston Fruit Company and its shipping, the actual ships that it owned and how they tied in to a lot of CIA activity as well. That really did surprise me. But anyway. Well, it makes perfect sense. I mean, that just ties into why th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 1:05:21
United Fruit Company funded
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted
“You know, in his book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. And I'll just read this kind of the paragraph summation. It says, he discusses the 54 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacob Arbenz. Perkins presents this event as…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:11:50
Jacobo Árbenz targeted_for_regime_change
United Fruit Company book_quoted
“which felt threatened by our Ben's land reform policies. So, you know, and obviously I'm not going to go into what Perkins did, but, you know, that's another fantastic book. If you guys don't know about Economic Hitman, you need to read tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:12:19
Allen Dulles member_of
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“German military adventures could come to no good, he found himself caught up in this contradiction. It goes on to say that captured German records show that United Fruit Company, where Dulles maintained a long and active directorship, so th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 43:41
United Fruit Company trafficked
Nicaragua host_asserted
“United Fruit did was they actually said, this is an actual quote, that they could buy a congressman, a senator was their word, they could buy a senator cheaper than they could buy a donkey in these countries. So they got crooked land deals …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:30:47
Sandinistas overthrew
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“retaken their farmland to give it back to the people whose previous government had sold them out. They've made illegitimate deals with United Fruit in order to confiscate these people's land. It was rightfully those people's, not unlike the…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 2:07:36
CIA covered_up
United Fruit Company book_quoted
“Uprisings began to break out in several towns, but were quickly put down by the loyalist troops. The rebels were put on trial, and it was revealed that United Fruit had been behind it, but they were unaware of the fact that the CIA had play…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 28:33
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Guatemala host_asserted
“was basically owned by a lot of the oligarchs from the United States, like the Rockefellers in United Fruit, some of the mining concessions, the processed food like PepsiCo that we found in Chile, ITT, their telephone. A lot of the utilitie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 1:30:46
Paulino Sierra Martinez financed_via
United Fruit Company guest_asserted
“On other occasions, he did drop names. Interestingly enough, they were names like United Fruit. Again, U.S. Steel, DuPont. U.S. Steel is very interesting given what we covered yesterday about U.S. Steel stabbing Kennedy in the back and then…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 20 @ 41:18
United Fruit Company funded
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“That's not what it does. That's not what it's ever done. Now, do they do that at some level? Yes, the lower level. But here's what happens. Like what we saw in Guatemala with declassified State Department cables. You had analysts, some of w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:08:40
United Fruit Company funded
Jacobo Árbenz host_asserted
“Simply put, he had tried to uplift his people. In doing so, he defied the gods of his country, the almighty United Fruit Company and its powerful friends in Washington, as well as the Guatemalan land barons who had gotten rich by getting in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 12 @ 28:58
United Fruit Company front_for
Rockefeller caller_asserted
“That's where they assassinated the guy in the car. I can't remember his name. I know you're talking about. Yeah. So in Nicaragua specifically, United Fruit, which again was Rockefeller and Cromwell and Sullivan, all of those guys, they they…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 3:13:04
United Fruit Company funded
Somoza government host_asserted
“coffee plantations that people could make decent livings on. And basically, the government that was in bed with the Rockefellers, United Fruit, would basically trump up charges against the landowner, bankrupt them, and then United Fruit wou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 1:16:32
Sandinistas removed_from_power
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“Two guy for Vice President George Bush when they were running the Iran-Contra scam and trafficking guns and trafficking drugs, helping the Contras, who were the bad guys, by the way, they were the Gladio operators, try to overthrow the Sand…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 1:27:46
United Fruit Company undermined
El Salvador host_asserted
“or that they were, sorry, very similar to programs that the U.S. had advocated in other third world countries since the 1950s. But they advocate them and the international syndicate like United Fruit would go in and undermine them. And for …”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 29:49
United Fruit Company paid
Somoza family host_asserted
“that the workers that were working at that copper mine should be paid more money. The guys in Nicaragua didn't think $87 a year was enough money to live on in the 1970s in Nicaragua. Well, here's a newsflash for you. It wasn't. And United F…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Loose ends and Open Mic @ 1:08:53
Benjamin Gilman associated_with
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“Senator Saltonstall is from Massachusetts, which would be Boston, which would be the United Fruit guys, and all of the old money that resides in Boston. So he definitely didn't want to know. Yeah, good point. Okay, so we're going to...…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:57:22
Paul L. Williams overthrew
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“William Paul Lee, a CIA operative and multimillionaire, facilitated the 1954 Guatemalan coup for United Fruit, supplied aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek, and co-founded Civil Air Transport, later Air America, linking drug trafficking Cuban exile…”
▶ Gladio 101 @ 10:47
Allen Dulles founded
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“They're the ones that set up United Fruit. They're the ones that went into Nicaragua and to Cuba and all of these other places and basically negotiated with the government by slipping them money to buy land through corrupt government offici…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:46:58
United Fruit Company attempted_coup_against
Nicaragua host_asserted
“kicked him out of the country and said, here's your money for your farmland. We don't want you here anymore. And they basically tried to overthrow his government repeatedly. So saying that you don't want to trade with anybody that engages i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 1:01:34
United Fruit Company member_of
Grenada host_asserted
“whose primary exports, and you're going to love this, cocoa, nutmeg, and bananas. So you know who was there. United Fruit. The United States government had a lot to say about what went on in Grenada. And three days after the invasion, the D…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 18:05
United Fruit Company paid
Richard Nixon caller_asserted
“And so they wanted to redistribute the land back to the original landowners. And, you know, they even offered to pay United Fruit. And United Fruit went to the government. And in the case of Chile, they went to Richard Nixon and they paid m…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 3:13:33
Sandinistas removed_from_power
United Fruit Company guest_asserted
“are the Contras. And the good guys are the Sandinistas that want their country back and their farmland from Nelson Rockefeller and the United Fruit people, right? You know, same thing that we want. We want our farmland back from China. Same…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 1:31:52
United Fruit Company funded
Operation Mongoose host_asserted
“He was trying to persuade U.S. oil companies to stop refining crude for Castro at their Cuban refineries. Three weeks later, Charles Cabell briefed Vice President Nixon on the developments. Richard Bissell and J.C. King were on hand to take…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 31:31
United Fruit Company funded
Guatemala host_asserted
“at this time, because they will tell you that the forces that are arraying in a country, just like they did Iran, were communists, even though the Tudor party was, we've already talked about it, was so tiny that it was like basically non-ex…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 1:14:37
United Fruit Company overthrew
Nicaragua host_asserted
“but we later cued the government and screwed the entire country up thanks to the United Fruit guys.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 22:38
United Fruit Company targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“coffee plantations and were middle class until United Fruit moved into Nicaragua and Guatemala and all those places and bought their government in order to sell their coffee farms to United Fruit for them to create banana farms. And then en…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:56:56
United Fruit Company targeted_for_regime_change
Guatemala host_asserted
“coffee plantations and were middle class until United Fruit moved into Nicaragua and Guatemala and all those places and bought their government in order to sell their coffee farms to United Fruit for them to create banana farms. And then en…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:56:56
United Fruit Company funded
Cuba host_asserted
“group that has like interest. And for example, the Cuba, they wanted to monopolize the resources there. There was a mining company called Freeport that was mining ore there. There was the land, United Fruit went in and gobbled it all up. An…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 1:22:19
United Fruit Company member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“This is all Gladio stuff. It is weird, isn't it? Yeah. And the oranges. The oranges. Yeah, and the oranges, of course. Yeah, so, again, everybody's life changes with Gladio glasses. Harry, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to say the Russian ru…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 56:18
United Fruit Company front_for
CIA host_asserted
“soon realized United Front basically was a front company for the CIA and control over all of these countries. Mainly because of who the stock owners were. When you understand how the whole syndicate works and the CIA being their paramilitar…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 28:57
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Nicaragua guest_asserted
“you go back and you start reviewing the attempted overthrow of the Nicaraguan government under the same auspices that we don't want them to have their own farmland. They were primarily owned by United Fruit as well.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 1:07:04
Rainforest Alliance front_for
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“And then there's a whole bunch of Latin America banana growers and problems that they've had with them and Costa Rican pineapples, blah, blah, blah. So there's lots of really bad reports on them and things that they've been involved in that…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 2:00:43
Dulles secretly_owned
United Fruit Company guest_asserted
“Well, a U.S. oligarch owned the majority of Guatemalan farmland, and that was United Fruit. And one of the primary stockholders of United Fruit was the Dulles brothers and the Rockefellers.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 30:30
United Fruit Company benefited_from
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état guest_asserted
“indicate that many of the analysts were saying he's not a communist. He may be a socialist, but he's not a communist. And this happened repeatedly. Guatemala, the coup in Guatemala back in the 1950s, was done on behalf of United Fruit. Unit…”
▶ Colonel Towner WATKINS JOINS THE REVIVAL OF AMERICA 5 pm PST @ 15:24
Rockefeller secretly_owned
United Fruit Company guest_asserted
“Well, a U.S. oligarch owned the majority of Guatemalan farmland, and that was United Fruit. And one of the primary stockholders of United Fruit was the Dulles brothers and the Rockefellers.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 30:30
Mentions (120)
▶ 22:38
Congress-approved canal project that was given to the country of Nicaragua, but we later cued the government and screwed the entire country up thanks to the United Fruit guys. The way that they got the canal project out of Nicaragua was a s…
▶ 28:52
of the Sullivan and Cromwell, the, shoot, United Fruit was in Cuba. So all of those people, the people that worked for William Polly, they were brought into Miami in order to try to get the island back and basically overthrow Cuba. So they …
▶ 15:24
indicate that many of the analysts were saying he's not a communist. He may be a socialist, but he's not a communist. And this happened repeatedly. Guatemala, the coup in Guatemala back in the 1950s, was done on behalf of United Fruit. Unit…
▶ 10:47
William Paul Lee, a CIA operative and multimillionaire, facilitated the 1954 Guatemalan coup for United Fruit, supplied aircraft to Chiang Kai-shek, and co-founded Civil Air Transport, later Air America, linking drug trafficking Cuban exile…
▶ 29:49
or that they were, sorry, very similar to programs that the U.S. had advocated in other third world countries since the 1950s. But they advocate them and the international syndicate like United Fruit would go in and undermine them. And for …
▶ 24:54
and thought they were doing what was right. And State Department and syndicated criminal businessmen who like United Fruit and Railroads and General Electric and many companies like that would go down to like Central America, South America,…
▶ 41:12
and reoccupy it. And then all hell broke loose. So in the meantime, when we do that, we call them a communist because we cut them off. We mined Nicaragua's harbor when they decided that they weren't going to listen to what we wanted them to…
▶ 56:44
come to America, they all said that they supported him during the revolution because there was so much corruption going on down there. And in the aftermath of that, he instituted land reform because the same company that had bought up all t…
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group that has like interest. And for example, the Cuba, they wanted to monopolize the resources there. There was a mining company called Freeport that was mining ore there. There was the land, United Fruit went in and gobbled it all up. An…
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Two guy for Vice President George Bush when they were running the Iran-Contra scam and trafficking guns and trafficking drugs, helping the Contras, who were the bad guys, by the way, they were the Gladio operators, try to overthrow the Sand…
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So in Latin America, in countries like Nicaragua, where you had the United Fruit, who basically monopolized all of the land and basically stole land from all the coffee growers and put them into banana plantations. And the people, after the…
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and wanted to kick the CIA-installed dictator out. When they did that, they basically wanted their farmland back. So what the CIA would do via these organizations, the one for the unions, and Rockefeller, that book, talks about it explicitl…
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which is exactly what Operation Gladio was doing, right? They sent in the terror cells to do exactly that. They were the killers. That's how all of these things overlap. Coca-Cola was one. We already know PepsiCo was. In their article, they…
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And not have at least one CIA agent somewhere embedded in their organization. They've used everything. They've used Coke. They've used Pepsi. They used ITT. They used United Front, which is now Chiquita Bananas. And they embed. We just saw …
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whose primary exports, and you're going to love this, cocoa, nutmeg, and bananas. So you know who was there. United Fruit. The United States government had a lot to say about what went on in Grenada. And three days after the invasion, the D…
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He realized that he had a formidable task. His first priority was to create jobs, schools, teacher training, which is why the Cuban teachers were there, adult literacy, a milk program for young kids. He wanted health care. He wanted agricul…
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Actually, the Freedom Fighters and the Reagan administration funded the Contras all around them to overthrow that government because they wanted land reform and wanted to basically not even throw United Fruit out. They just wanted the land …
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He also mentioned in this book, I'm sorry, I'll link you to it so you can look into this because it blew my mind. It's just random in this book. So I don't talk very often about this, but everybody needs to understand that when I refer to t…
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this international syndicate, as is the senior military people, and then they continue to rape, pillage, and steal all of the resources. That's why they wanted Nicaragua. That's why they wanted the Contras to install their own dictator ther…
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had to seek arms from Czechoslovakia because the U.S. had refused to sell it any since 1948 because they had a reformist government that was articulating their independence and had already pissed off United Fruit Company by its reform and t…
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The centerpiece of Arbenz's program was land reform, which of course is what pissed off United Fruit. All too familiar, under developed country statistics and a nation overwhelmingly rule, 2.2% of the landowners owned 70% of the farmable la…
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They infiltrated them. They did not support a particular program. They exploited it. Communists did not back Orbens. They used him. Now, we're going to find out in a minute, and it's probably good to bring it up now. Bernays was hired by Un…
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However, soon after the Eisenhower administration came in in 1953, the plan was resurrected. Both administrations were pressured by executives at United Fruit, much of whose vast and uncultivated land the Guatemalan had expropriated by the …
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And I want you to think how this applies to the United States. The company wanted nearly $16 million for the land that they had owned, and they came across this land by bribing and inducing illegal transactions to gain it. So they want to b…
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half a million, $525,000. And ironically enough, United Fruit's own figure of $525,000 is what they had been paying taxes on for years. So their tax value of which they're paying taxes to the country of Guatemala was going to be used.…
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to compensate them, and they said, oh, no, it's actually $16 million, then you actually owe us money because you should have been paying taxes on $16 million, not $500,000. United Fruit functioned in Guatemala as a state within a state. It …
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And remember what we learned in Chile where you had, and in Uruguay where we had the ITT company, which was basically a CIA front, because they use these telegraph and telephone companies to spy on the people. It also administered the only …
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Part of their negotiations with these countries down there was they would build a harbor only if they were given like 50-year leases of the customs office. So they restricted everything that came in and out of the country. That's how they h…
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The Fruit Company influence amongst Washington's powerful was impressive. On a business and personal level, it had ties close to the Dulles brothers, the State Department, congressmen, ambassadors to the UN. Ann Whitman, the wife of the cou…
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She was Eisenhower's personal secretary. Under Secretary of State and former director of the CIA, Walter Bedell Smith was seeking an executive position with United Front. At the same time, he planned the coup. He was later named to the comp…
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and a highway to compete with United Fruits Holding. He also built a hydroelectric plant to give them cheaper energy because there was a U.S. company controlling their electricity as well. Arben's strategy was not to do what other ones did,…
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Foreign capital will always be welcome as long as it adjusts to local conditions, remains always subordinate to Guatemalan law, cooperates with the economic development of this country, and strictly abstains from interfering in the social a…
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campaigned to label him a communist. In March 1953, the CIA approached disgruntled right-wing officers in the Guatemalan army and arranged to send them arms. United Fruit donated $64,000, this is in 1953, to buy weapons to undermine the gov…
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Uprisings began to break out in several towns, but were quickly put down by the loyalist troops. The rebels were put on trial, and it was revealed that United Fruit had been behind it, but they were unaware of the fact that the CIA had play…
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soon realized United Front basically was a front company for the CIA and control over all of these countries. Mainly because of who the stock owners were. When you understand how the whole syndicate works and the CIA being their paramilitar…
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United Fruits board members over the years. That's the syndicate. And the CIA operated as its paramilitary capability. So Eisenhower administration resolved to do the job right the next time that they tried to coup him. It had been almost a…
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had leased his country out to be an airstrip for several of the people that were going to be infiltrating Guatemala. They also took advantage of several Guatemalan exiles in the US that had been part of previous coups on behalf of the CIA a…
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that the CIA used to basically have backdoors into privileged communications. And that's how I suspect they were able to do that for the USS Liberty, because Egypt and Jordan both had that system. It allows the CIA to manipulate the message…
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was bombed and sunk by a CIA plane after the crew had been warned to get off. It turned out that the ship had come to Guatemala to pick up coffee and cotton. And despite Trujillo's plea repeatedly with the Ambassador Purifoy to call off the…
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The bad guys, the CIA, has taken over Guatemala. So the peasants, the Mayans, all of the indigenous people who want their government back and want these infiltrators out and the stooges from United Fruit and the American military and CIA ou…
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and basically anyone attempting to do anything that was not condoned by United Fruit or by the U.S. military was assassinated. They used the same things, the same torture techniques, the electric shock to the genital areas that were taught …
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that own the copper mines, that own the ITT communication, that own the United Fruits. They come in while this chaotic situation is going on and people are being mass murdered and they steal all your resources. They steal all of the copper.…
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And so basically Aristide was unable to get much of his legislation enacted. However, he did set up programs for literacy, public health, and agrarian reform, which is the redistribution of farmlands. And oh, by the way, United Fruit is in …
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In 2009, there was a Swedish producer, journalist called Fredrik Gerten, and he was making a movie called Bananas, connected to Dole and connected to United Fruit Company. Have you run into this? Because it's not so much politics as it is..…
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It's on the Swedish televisions, so you cannot look at it if you're not in Sweden or using a VPN. But have you heard this connection? So we've talked about this connection a lot. United Fruit, and there was a company prior to it, they chang…
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Its board members were all of the what I refer to as the international syndicate, the Rockefellers, the Harrimans. All of those people were board members and they kind of rotated board members. And United Fruit was going throughout all of C…
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We find them there as one leg of a multi-leg where you find ITT, which was the telecom prior to Erickson, that was going throughout Central America and South America that also was buying up and running all of the telecoms for the CIA so tha…
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And United Fruit was in bed with the railroad barons, and by locking up the farmland, they basically were driving out the coffee farmers, monopolizing the farmland by paying this elite group in each of these countries that make up the 10% t…
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My conclusion of reading during you talking today, this is what I concluded in my brain, that the role of the United States in supporting and protecting economic interests like the United Fruit Company in Latin America was extensive and inc…
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installed several of the presidents. In the years after the coup that he sponsored in 1911, his Cuyamel Fruit Company and two others, Standard Fruit and United Fruit, which of course we recognize, came to own almost all of the fertile land …
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where they basically employed people at slave labor wages to the ports that they owned and through the custom houses that they also owned. And there was an atlas that was published in 1961 that was devoted exactly one sentence to Honduras. …
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large fruit companies coming in and working corrupt deals with the legislatures or the senators that they bought and installed and the presidents that they bought and installed. They would, in exchange for being bought and installed in the …
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the oligarchs that wanted to use it to grow bananas or whatever it is that they were growing. And it took the ability of these people to maintain a middle-class lifestyle away from them using coffee farms to do it. That's why that's so sign…
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The only option available to energetic and ambitious Hondurans was to work for one of the banana companies. These companies were basically presented to Central America as an American free market capability, but they were using their power t…
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the Liberal Party, which Sam Zamuri's coup had forced from office nearly half a century before, finally returned to power. Its leader was a guy by the name of Ramon Valenda Morales. He took over the country in which United Fruit was the big…
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He called it a country of the 70s, 70% literacy, 70% illiteracy, or excuse me, 70% illiteracy, 70% illegitimacy, 70% rural population, and 70% avoidable deaths. Valenda tried to pass land reform, which would force the withdrawal under, basi…
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In 1975, the SEC discovered that General Lopez Aureliano had received $1.25 million in secret payments from United Fruit, which evolved into United Brands, which then evolved into today Chiquita Banana. The conglomerate had absorbed United …
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and the United States because Alvarez was a fierce, quote-unquote, anti-communist who detested the Sandinista movement. And keep in mind, the Sandinista movement was the freedom fighters that the U.S. government labeled as communists so the…
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From $4 million to $77 million of your taxpayer dollars is going to fund people that are murdering other people who just want their country back from United Fruit. Once again, it had surrendered its national sovereignty to Americans. Rivals…
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on the private industry side by the international syndicate and the government. And it also shows you the consequences, both foreign and domestic, of this regime change, Gladio operation, that has gone on since the aftermath of World War II…
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They worked with the Pentagon, National Security Council, oh, and the CIA. Oh, and many large corporations like United Fruit, Standard Oil, Honeywell, U.S. Steel, Sears, and the CIA-linked front company, Foreign Policy Research Institute. S…
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Who who owned all of the Guatemalan farmland? You know, that thing that we think is absolutely horrible if China owns our farmland. Well, a U.S. oligarch owned the majority of Guatemalan farmland, and that was United Fruit. And one of the p…
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I ran Contra. If you understand Operation Gladio and you go back and you start reviewing the attempted overthrow of the Nicaraguan government under the same auspices that we don't want them to have their own farmland. They were primarily ow…
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was a Princeton graduate and senior partner of Sullivan and Cromwell, who we've learned in our past studies represented most of these large, ginormous international cohorts like United Fruit in the suffocation of the economic capability of …
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Like, for example, in Chile, they wanted their telephone company back because the U.S. ITT company was using it to spy on them. And they wanted their mines back because they were stealing all of their copper. And they wanted the rest of the…
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United Fruit did was they actually said, this is an actual quote, that they could buy a congressman, a senator was their word, they could buy a senator cheaper than they could buy a donkey in these countries. So they got crooked land deals …
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And by the way, when in Nicaragua specifically, when they elected the first guy that was going to take care of their people and not the international syndicate, when he told United Fruit that they had to get out and that he would buy the la…
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Now, I can tell you exactly that that's what happened in Nicaragua. The United Fruit had came in there. The Sandinistas had basically.…
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There is a lot of analogies there. And so these Sandinista people were trying to take their government back from a CIA installed dictator who was basically the butt boy of United Fruit. And not only were they fighting the communist installe…
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that the workers that were working at that copper mine should be paid more money. The guys in Nicaragua didn't think $87 a year was enough money to live on in the 1970s in Nicaragua. Well, here's a newsflash for you. It wasn't. And United F…
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That's where they assassinated the guy in the car. I can't remember his name. I know you're talking about. Yeah. So in Nicaragua specifically, United Fruit, which again was Rockefeller and Cromwell and Sullivan, all of those guys, they they…
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Have we had any Boston University connections to the CIA before? Is that one of the big recruiting grounds or is it just the fact that it is Boston? There's a lot that goes on with Boston University and not necessarily per se from CIA agent…
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Yeah, these guys are playing really in the gray area of finance laws, but they have a big advantage. And they've lobbied Congress for decades to get these tax advantages and not be considered a corporation. And that's exactly what the U.S. …
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All right. More on Larry Fink. Where's he come from? Do you know where he's from? I don't. He's a California boy. Went to UCLA and UCLA MBA business school. It was a California guy. He was not connected, but he's a hustler and he's smart. A…
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Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…
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coffee plantations and were middle class until United Fruit moved into Nicaragua and Guatemala and all those places and bought their government in order to sell their coffee farms to United Fruit for them to create banana farms. And then en…
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And then there's a whole bunch of Latin America banana growers and problems that they've had with them and Costa Rican pineapples, blah, blah, blah. So there's lots of really bad reports on them and things that they've been involved in that…
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But now that I've already done the history of Swan Island and know that it was purchased, quote unquote purchase, it was actually stolen from Honduras temporarily, under the ownership of a CIA fake company that was a steamship in Boston wit…
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We don't even want them owning our farmland. And yet we own the farmland in every freaking country in South America and Latin America and wouldn't give it back. And we bought it through corrupt deals. Not we, the American companies like Uni…
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are the Contras. And the good guys are the Sandinistas that want their country back and their farmland from Nelson Rockefeller and the United Fruit people, right? You know, same thing that we want. We want our farmland back from China. Same…
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Sandinistas win the election in Nicaragua and basically begin kicking out United Fruit and everybody else. The entire thing falls apart, and that's Contras. So the Contras get housed over in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. They're flying …
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Artemi was and had always been a Castro intelligence agent and that he was helping Castro regime take control this is bullshit of the Sandinista revolution this is total horseshit this is the CIA trying to legitimize what they're about to d…
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And, of course, we joke here now because all of the things that Americas are up in arms about, wanting our farmland back and all this other stuff from foreigners, this is the same shit we've done all over the world. Not us personally, but t…
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Most of the American companies that were involved in this were not necessarily all that prominent inside the United States as far as their presence goes, like United Fruit. That's not the case in Europe. In Europe, when you start talking ab…
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talk about the international syndicate element, it cuts across a whole bunch of them. And if we don't go and first talk about the paramilitary and the coups that they committed and all this other stuff, then I think doing a round two of goi…
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out railroads in the entire country. And then what they did was they only built railroads to the businesses of their buddies, like United Fruit in Nicaragua, and didn't do it as they had said they would when they came into the country to be…
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The American International Corporation had a substantial investment in Grace Russian Company and through Holbrook, an interlocking directorship. So he was going to be on both boards. And that's seen a lot in this whole thing, too. AIC also …
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United Fruit, ITT, and all of those things of the past. What's crazy to me is we read historically about these things and we go, oh, well, you know, ITT doesn't exist anymore or the Resort International, you know, Nugent Hand, they all got …
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South America and in Central America. Did the whole Iran-Contra thing. Talked extensively about the... Because we cooed literally every government in Latin America. Every government. A fascinating history is the Boston Fruit Company and how…
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I guess like now today, knowing everything that's gone on, we know for sure that a lot of the people that I mean that are I mean, I know that there's like, quote unquote, it's like the shadow government type of thing. And you have a lot of …
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So in every one of these things, I focus on the military aspect of it, the paramilitary actions of Gladio. For each and every one of these, there is a corollary. And what we will eventually do is come back and look during these time periods…
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I didn't want to gloss over Anaconda because it is hugely important to the resource piece of Operation Gladio and why they go in and overthrow governments. Yeah, it's one of the United Fruit Company's, the poster child for the Banana Republ…
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So fun little side note. All right. So let's just see. What exactly did Percy do in his life? What did he do for a living? Basically, he sat on boards. And I'm going to give you a list of a little over a dozen boards that he sat on in alpha…
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who was in business with United Fruit, by the way. The two of them were like, basically they owned each other. Yes. Did you know that? Yeah. The incestuousness of the fruit companies was very apparent. Yeah. So American Fruit and United Fru…
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in the monopolization of farmland in Latin America to basically colonize them, which is, they benefit, although United Fruit's the one that's stuck out there all the time, American Fruit, or Atlantic Fruit, is very much in that picture ever…
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United Fruit finally got busted for the cocaine smuggling. They need to restore their reputation. Well, and they just got busted for the death squads. They were found guilty in a court in Miami with just in the last couple of years. All rig…
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and Navy. And so all of these entities would be your forward deployed spying people. So a U.S. company like United Fruit or whatever, PepsiCo, ITT, which was telephone companies, would go into these countries and pay off all of the elite.…
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And the political people, I mean, they had a saying that in one of those countries in Latin America, it was cheaper to buy a donkey, cheaper to buy a senator than it was to buy a donkey. And so they would go in and buy the political quote u…
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on the side of people whose land had been stolen by places like United Fruit and other U.S. corporations that had went down and corrupted the Colombian government. And they were selling these people's properties to conglomerates in order to…
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In Nicaragua that same year, the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by the Sandinistas' Liberation Front, which launched agrarian reform, which pissed off United Fruit because they were going to take their land back that they ha…
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He says, the author says, in recent developments, the Chiquita Banana International Company, the successor to United Fruit, one of the best known U.S. monopolies, pleaded guilty in March of 2007 to providing $1.7 million in funding over sev…
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Between 1997 and February 2004, Chiquita, i.e. United Fruit, made more than 100 payments to the AUC, including over 50 payments totaling $850,000 after the State Department had listed it as a terrorist organization. Prior to 1997, Chiquita …
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The United Fruit turned around and said, no, no, it's worth 10 times that. Well, if it's worth 10 times that, why weren't you paying taxes on 10 times worth that? And this is a dilemma. There is a risk when you invest in other countries, es…
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for the oligarchs that are going to benefit from the pipeline but at the same time covertly you have the cia there reaping the rewards of the opium and the black market um cash that comes along with that does that make sense oh yeah i um on…
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United Fruit owned a lot of property in a lot of countries down there. Yes, they did. They weren't doing a lot with some of it. And the whole thing about Guatemala, what was it? 1954, I think it was. They were going to basically use kind of…
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UFC hired Ed Bernays and he started a campaign down there. He was working with the CIA and eventually ended up with a coup down there. Yeah, we talked about that. So, yeah, it's, you know, it seems like they certainly have a playbook for it…
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And what's interesting about this to me, and it goes to the whole part of Operation Gladio, is the Somoza government was put in place and controlled by the CIA. And it spawned all of these people, all of these corrupt people. You've heard m…
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coffee plantations that people could make decent livings on. And basically, the government that was in bed with the Rockefellers, United Fruit, would basically trump up charges against the landowner, bankrupt them, and then United Fruit wou…
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That's not what it does. That's not what it's ever done. Now, do they do that at some level? Yes, the lower level. But here's what happens. Like what we saw in Guatemala with declassified State Department cables. You had analysts, some of w…
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No, no, they just, they want their land back. It's all corrupt down here. United Fruit has bought all of the politicians. They put the politicians in power. They give them land deals. They funnel money to the elite to protect them. They set…
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gung-ho 100% kicked China out. They can't own our farmland. Tariffed everybody. And then when another country did the same thing 40 years ago, they're a communist. How do you square that in your peak brain is what I want to know. When Guate…
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Also, United Fruit was there and all kinds of other Rockefeller oil fruit ventures. They went in and did what they did in all of Latin America. They're going to create an elite group of people. And they do that by putting a lot of money out…
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You mentioned the United Fruit Company and you mentioned in the same context with the Rockefellers. Now, I have done a ton on the United Fruit Company and Banana Republics, and I've never made that direct connection, although I do say all r…
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Look through my books. I have the source that basically says that through the there was an American fruit company and a Boston that they were the majority shareholder, although I think they only ended up with 40 percent. But the other parts…
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And it was not a commonly known fact. But I can't remember if it was in one of the Sullivan. I've got that Sullivan and Cromwell, the law book that they wrote. But I do have the source that it was a Rockefeller company. Yeah, I appreciate i…
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But what you said doesn't shock me. I just had never sourced that. So if you find it, I'd love to hear it. I'd love to read it. Yeah. And as a matter of fact, the company, was it in New Orleans? Yes. Yeah. That was tied very closely to it. …
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about the Boston Fruit Company and its shipping, the actual ships that it owned and how they tied in to a lot of CIA activity as well. That really did surprise me. But anyway. Well, it makes perfect sense. I mean, that just ties into why th…
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And it's basically identified as a terrorist organization. And its origins, as far as this book is concerned, was 1981. And of course, 1981 is the beginning of the Reagan administration and the beginning of the planning for the Contras in o…
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who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, the insurance interest of Asia's CV Star, who was also from the OSS, and United Fruit, and was said by fortune to mai…
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And most people don't understand how close these things are associated with the CIA so that when they go bankrupt, everybody thinks, oh, it's a one-off thing. It's not. They're all connected. It's another way to money launder. And then, of …