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Claims (7)
Office of Policy Coordination used
Fort Benning book_quoted
“to train the CIA paramilitary forces. While the request for a detailee was later withdrawn, in mid-November, the OPC and Army representatives agreed to use Fort Benning, Georgia, so now you know why they relocated the School of Americas the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (4) @ 37:25
Fort Benning funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“been following the Operation Gladio series knows that that base comes up a lot, that and Fort Benning. Both of those two bases is the CIA's hunting ground and training ground for Gladio cells all over the world. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll be kee…”
▶ Secret Societies Skull and Bones @ 0:55
Fort Benning trained
Anastasio Somoza host_asserted
“training both ICE agents and border agents. And those are the same guys that trained Pinochet and all of the Somoza dictators in Latin America that went out and killed tens of thousands of their own citizens. They're all trained at the same…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 38:53
School of the Americas located_in
Fort Benning host_asserted
“and find the places where you talk so much about the School of the Americas, and then it got shut down and moved to one of our military bases, didn't it? Fort Benning in Georgia. Okay, Fort Benning. I'm writing that down. And so is it reali…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12 @ 1:06:57
Fort Benning trained
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“training both ICE agents and border agents. And those are the same guys that trained Pinochet and all of the Somoza dictators in Latin America that went out and killed tens of thousands of their own citizens. They're all trained at the same…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 38:53
Fort Benning trained
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“especially when we first started digging into this with the civilians that are like, you know, civilians by day and werewolf by night, like they originated in Germany. That's kind of my mindset. So as we got more and more into it, and I rea…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:53:50
CIA trained
Fort Benning host_asserted
“Okay, okay. And weren't they both out of Fort Bragg at one time? But just to keep in mind, throughout all of our research, there are two military bases that the CIA brings everybody to for training, Fort Bragg and Fort Benning. There have b…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 5 @ 1:12:33
Mentions (58)
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But I want you guys to understand something. There is a very large CIA station on Fort Bragg. There is a huge CIA station on Fort Benning. Fort Benning is host to the old School of Americas where they bring all of the foreign terrorists, as…
▶ 9:40
with the CIA on the same base. So there's no way around the CIA's fingerprints on every bit of this. Understand that. And anybody that is on social media telling you that the CIA are good guys is a fucking liar.…
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especially when we first started digging into this with the civilians that are like, you know, civilians by day and werewolf by night, like they originated in Germany. That's kind of my mindset. So as we got more and more into it, and I rea…
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to include the guys that are cooing their governments over in Africa right now, all graduates of Fort Benning, I became kind of like, what the hell? And the same thing with Fort Bragg. Many of these books document the fact that many of thes…
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Because this is the analogy of them closing the school in Panama called the School of Americas. When they didn't actually close it, they just moved it to Fort Benning. So in this case, they basically took the people that were associated wit…
▶ 1:19:09
Really seemed kind of iffy, but we don't pick them. We just train them. So anyway, you bring up a very interesting point that because I've talked about both the schools of America and the hemispheric school that is now at Fort Benning doing…
▶ 1:20:36
to learn aircraft maintenance, which is the career field that I was in, and we didn't pick who showed up. They just show up one day and say, hey, I'm here from XYZ, and you train them. You train them the same as you do everybody else. The d…
▶ 1:40:00
several of them up to an abandoned military base in South Texas and taught them how to create explosives, not disarm explosives someone else created, but actually how to make explosives and blowing up cars. And when someone recognized, as M…
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but of the international syndicate through the state and CIA. So I hope that's becoming clear to everybody. So when you look at all of the militaries that we schooled at the School of Americas and Fort Benning throughout South America, thos…
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The senior army officials in Indonesia, by the thousands, into Fort Leavenworth and Fort Benning, training them, just like they did with School of Americas. This went on through the entire Kennedy administration, even though Kennedy respect…
▶ 10:53
in Guyana and there was terrorist training camps there, I go back and I look at this and I'm like, oh my God, it was staring me right in the face. And I want to point this other thing out, which is another pattern. So in the past, when you …
▶ 1:11:47
is the fact that remember the police academy that's in washington dc and the explosive that was in southern texas the abandoned military base all of that comes into play here and they even go into this phase of so during this phase from 62 …
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has designated training sites. And they're not all administered by the U.S. We talk often, because we're in the hemisphere of the West right now, about the School of Americas, the Fort Benning successor to that, the explosives one down in T…
▶ 12:37
demolition, hand-to-hand combat, and other guerrilla warfare skills at a secret CIA facility where? Fort Benning, Georgia, called Training Center One. They helped the CIA in clandestine operations designed to subvert communism in its grand …
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And at most, they had learned how to parachute at Fort Benning. The CIA history of this time, this is a quote, quite frankly, with the exception of hardcore cadre, green and untried case officers were substituted for qualified, experienced …
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in terrorism skills these people. Because I would be willing to bet that Fort Benning, which is, what, an hour drive outside of Atlanta, that the terrorists that they have brought in there since they closed the School of Americas don't just…
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A Ritchie boy at the end of the day. He goes to OTS at Fort Benning, Georgia. He trained at Camp Ritchie as part of the Ritchie boys. He was commissioned a lieutenant. He becomes a military intelligence officer. And he ends up marrying, let…
▶ 49:29
So they killed an American in addition to the former ambassador. So they've done operations here. We trained, we just talked about last week that we were training Tibetans in Colorado to go back and create terrorist organizations inside of …
▶ 42:57
like two or three shows on War Bell because that guy is like crazy. He's an arms dealer who set up shop right outside of Fort Benning after they moved the School of Americas there. And he literally has the paramilitary training camp where h…
▶ 13:14
Ankara, Balu, B-O-L-U, Buka, which is near Izmir, and Kanakale, C-A-N-A-K-K-A-L-E. And then, of course, you won't be surprised at all to know that many of their officers were sent to Fort Benning, Georgia.…
▶ 14:10
in Niger was led by a special forces officer, Musa Salau Barmau, B-A-R-M-O-U. He was trained at our famous Fort Benning, Georgia, in the hemispheric blah, blah, blah school that used to be the School of Americas. He also was later sent…
▶ 5:56
for one such attack. So, you know, that was an interesting character. And then we went to Warbell, W-E-R-B-E-L-L III, and found out that he owned basically a private munitions company outside of Atlanta, you know, right by Fort Benning, whe…
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Death squads are a major element of these programs. We know that from looking not just at the Phoenix program in Vietnam, but also in Nicaragua, where they trained people in assassination using initially the schools of America and then the …
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with this core police force within the police force that are capable of, like we just saw today, of arresting a woman who is complaining to her city council that they're spending too much money. These people, in every one of these entities,…
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that was sponsored by the CIA, which I have on my list to cover. It will be a show because it's crazy. But the CIA put many of those around, and generally they're on military bases, weirdly enough. Kind of like the School of Americas was on…
▶ 1:14:21
They're not ever going to do anything. They're not ever going to change anything. That's going to require us making sure those kind of people stay the hell out of Congress. And to me, the biggest tell in this entire investigation was when u…
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and assassinate people. And the SOBs, after having defunded it, wrote it back in with a new name and put it at Fort Benning. And they continue today training people to assassinate, kidnap, and torture people at Fort Benning, Georgia. And th…
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been following the Operation Gladio series knows that that base comes up a lot, that and Fort Benning. Both of those two bases is the CIA's hunting ground and training ground for Gladio cells all over the world. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll be kee…
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for the CIA to use as training, which is how we ended up with Schools of America, Fort Benning, Fort Bragg being used for Operation Gladio training. While the request for an officer was later withdrawn, by mid-November, a conference had alr…
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to be used for the CIA training location. Oh, you mean where they moved the School of Americas? Yeah, that same Fort Benning. One of the OPC men at the conference was Richard G. Stilwell, who had served in the Detachment 101 with the OSS in…
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The counterinsurgency methods deployed in Colombia have been taught since the 1960s at the School of America's now called the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperations at Fort Benning, Georgia. And I told you guys the story th…
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and was met by a Colombian major coming out the door as I was entering the facility. That still just boggles my mind. Special operation agents, including former Green Berets veterans from covert operations in Central America and the Gulf Wa…
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by everyone. A major DEA report in 1999 cited heavy involvement in pervasive drug-related corruption in all branches of the Colombian government, including its military, who, by the way, is still being trained today in the United States. As…
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Because obviously this has been going on for a very long time as Somoza is lecturing the ambassador. Quote, what are you going to do with the National Guard of Nicaragua? Somoza asked the ambassador. I don't need to know. But after you have…
▶ 42:27
It's hard. It's gut wrenching to walk through and kind of put on one hand. You don't want to be, you know, a complete cynic. And you have to be very careful, especially here at Fort Benning, because you're surrounded like they were bringing…
▶ 42:56
And you don't want them overhearing anything that I say to my husband because I just don't feel like that's the proper time to have those conversations. But it was very, very interesting. So one last thought about my trip to Fort Benning. A…
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looked up the hemispheric um whatever uh the name of the uh school is the new version the new name it's a name changer too of the school of america's it's here at fort benny and i did want to go in and i did want to talk to somebody and i d…
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C-O-E-T-T-E-R, had asked the Pentagon to form a staff of service representatives to help the CIA establish their paramilitary training program. Two months later, the Secretary of the Army approved the assistance to Frank Wisner's office in …
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and find the places where you talk so much about the School of the Americas, and then it got shut down and moved to one of our military bases, didn't it? Fort Benning in Georgia. Okay, Fort Benning. I'm writing that down. And so is it reali…
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manner to be a bunch of assholes. So technically the only thing that I have found is that they began having ICE and Border Patrol go to the school at Fort Benning. Not like the Capitol Police. That doesn't mean they haven't been. I just hav…
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Our government has went around the world and set up paramilitary capability all over the world. And in conjunction with the paramilitary, installed a dictator. And in addition to installing the dictator, sent training cadre like the war bul…
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Okay, okay. And weren't they both out of Fort Bragg at one time? But just to keep in mind, throughout all of our research, there are two military bases that the CIA brings everybody to for training, Fort Bragg and Fort Benning. There have b…
▶ 1:13:33
Fort Bragg and the Schools of America. And so there has been an ongoing effort to use the resources. And the CIA, I know now, has a station on Fort Bragg and on Fort Benning. The one on Fort Benning, if I'm not mistaken, square footage wise…
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He was recalled into service during the Korean conflict. He had been noticed among the names of assignment list by Ray Pierce, who had him seconded to the CIA. The agency used Esterlin at its Fort Benning training camp, then sent him to the…
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And it's really important that you understand the relationship between Fort Benning's quote unquote training camp and the School of Americas. Because when the School of Americas forward of the CIA's training at Fort Benning, they basically …
▶ 29:39
Jose Pepe San Roman, an officer of the old Batista army trained in the US at Fort Benning. You know, the home of School of Americas. He was one of theirs. And that shows you just how close the CIA was with the Batista government. So this is…
▶ 49:34
often accompanied by Quintero, usually in the U.S., though not in Miami. Another indication of CIA support was what happened when our time in Quintero tried to recruit Felix Rodriguez for their communications. They promised him a demonstrat…
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He demanded radio training right there on the base instead of his normal duties. Two gentlemen promptly showed up at Benning and did that. Yeah, that's not the way the Army works at all, so you know that wasn't Army. On July 16th, Desmond F…
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at Fort Benning because this guy shows up. He doesn't show up. He's sometimes there. He's not there. It's basically sheep dipping CIA assets and agents into the military. And that's horrible for the military. I was looking at that portion a…
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come into units. And in the case of this program, they were actually assessed into the army and they would just come and go based on when the CIA had things. And then they go on these deployments and they're assigned to like Fort Bragg, whe…
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So it definitely needs to be used exactly what it is. And that's something that I noticed early on in this research is it can be, they do that with government organizations and other things that they like periodically changing the names of …
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to train the CIA paramilitary forces. While the request for a detailee was later withdrawn, in mid-November, the OPC and Army representatives agreed to use Fort Benning, Georgia, so now you know why they relocated the School of Americas the…
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He mentions Dave McGowan, of course, and his great work that he did on Laurel Canyon and basically talking about how all of that is woven into psychological operations and how they're conducted. So he goes on. I mean, this guy's hitting on …
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a small arms manufacturing capability, and he created basically a terrorist training camp outside of Fort Benning, Georgia, and he moonlighted for the CIA. He also worked very closely with the DEA and was involved in all of their drugs for …
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During this same timeframe, things like the School of Americas that had been in Panama was shutting down and being moved to Fort Benning. So there was a lot of things in flux at the time. I just have never seen anybody say, you know, hey, N…
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It literally changes everything you think you know about Columbia. It's crazy. And I am going to try. Hold on. I got to bring this up. Tomorrow, I am sitting right now outside the gates of Fort Benning. And tomorrow.…
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He had a compound outside of Fort Benning that was basically like a terrorist training camp. And because that was set up when they moved the School of Americas back to Fort Benning. And it's called the Hemispheric whatever blah, blah, blah …
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Evidence has surfaced that indicates more than 7,000 servicemen had become guinea pigs to not only LSB, but PCP and mescaline. The majority of this number were tested at Edgewood, but the Army permitted other tests at places like Fort Bragg…