United States Central Command organization
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Claims (30)
Colonel Towner member_of
United States Central Command host_asserted
“I was assigned at Andrews Air Force Base for two years and then went over to the Pentagon for four years. I left the Pentagon in 1999 and down to MacDill, and I was stationed at U.S. Central Command over 9-11, which, of course, is the comba…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 10:58
Joint Special Operations Command member_of
United States Central Command documented
“We also have a different kind of COCOMs that are functional based. So you have cybercom now, you have strategic, you have space, you have, and that obviously branched off into kind of a separate service, but still under the Air Force. It's …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 1:05:25
United States Central Command headed
John McCain documented
“I'm not saying that's what's going to happen here because I don't believe it is, but I do believe that that's their plan. There, to your point, there are generals that have embedded themselves in, and McCaffrey is one of the ones you've see…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 1:25:28
Scott Bennett member_of
United States Central Command book_quoted
“Scott Bennett was a Booz Allen Hamilton associate and army officer who worked as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. CENTCOM and was indicted, tried, and convicted on charges after he sent two reports up the chain of command. One pre…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 8:34
John Galvin member_of
United States Central Command documented
“make my point here even more. Listen to this. I just looked up who the South Com commander was in 1985. It's a guy by the name of John Galvin. Now, I know this name. He's one of the West Point Mafia guys. And interestingly, he gets his mast…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 1:16:10
United States Central Command carried_out_attack
Iran documented
“just the pictures of it. So they were very afraid when Desert Storm kicked off. So they all fled to Southern Turkey, which based on what I had said and what Warhamster just echoed, because the Turkish hates the Kurds, UCOM was tasked to imm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 11 (12) @ 1:10:13
United States Central Command spied_on
Collateral Murder host_asserted
“which I think is what you're alluding to, was he morally correct in doing that or not? You cannot say that it wasn't classified information because it was. I know what the gunship, I know how secure, I was at U.S. Central Command, all of th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 1:56:40
David Petraeus headed
United States Central Command book_quoted
“of counterinsurgency. Both Galula and Phoenix would prove to be enormously influential on how U.S. operated in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006, the U.S. Army published a new counterinsurgency field manual, FM 3-24. One of its authors was none…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 14 Final @ 33:03
David Petraeus headed
United States Central Command book_quoted
“of counterinsurgency. Both Galula and Phoenix would prove to be enormously influential on how U.S. operated in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006, the U.S. Army published a new counterinsurgency field manual, FM 3-24. One of its authors was none…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Drugs Oil and War by Peter Dale Scott Part 1 @ 33:03
Tommy Franks headed
United States Central Command documented
“to be able to explain to people when you're reading things, even though it happens to be a published book, does not mean it's true. And as I pointed out yesterday, and CanCon understood the significance of it being a Marine, that they could…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 1:20:47
United States Coast Guard member_of
United States Central Command guest_asserted
“And it was on Absolute Storm. And it was a deep dive on the USCG. And I was like, whoa, they have a lot of powers I didn't even know about. The Coast Guard. Yes, ma'am. I know all about them because we had Coast Guard at CENTCOM. I know exa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 1:15:22
John McCain headed
United States Central Command host_asserted
“He was the guy for years that was responsible for interdicting drugs. He didn't interdict drugs. They doubled. Then he's moved on to be Clinton's drug czar. Okay, the Clinton that was governor where MENA, Arkansas was being used as a weapon…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 1:25:58
United States Central Command member_of
Qatar host_asserted
“well done to date. But I also want to point this out too. Another one of their talking points is, oh my gosh, Qatar. Oh, and the other point I didn't even mention is the largest U.S. base in the Middle East is in Qatar. U.S. Central Command…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 1:25:39
Booz Allen Hamilton member_of
United States Central Command book_quoted
“T-I-M-U-S, with the Armed Services Organization, whose central mission was to combat, destroy, and prevent terrorist threat finance operations and networks. This organization was U.S. Central Command's terrorist threat finance team, managed…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 27:41
Scott Bennett member_of
United States Central Command host_asserted
“and flew down with him personally to CENTCOM. And I was given temporary housing at McDeal. I arranged to live on base in order to facilitate my army unit transfer and also to be safer. I had a TSSCI, which meant I was at the top of the terr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shellgame Part 1 @ 31:58
United States Air Transport member_of
United States Central Command documented
“In CENTCOM, you have a representative of another one of those specialty commands is TRANSCOM. They handle all global transportation. And so you have a geographical, what they call CINCS, commander in charge. And you also have functional uni…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 1:29:26
UBS financed_via
United States Central Command book_quoted
“internal machinations of the covert war against China. And I think that's especially relevant right now, given what's going on with the tariffs in China. But again, there's so many to pick from. This one is a really good book. This one is c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY @ 4:51
United States Central Command member_of
Joint Special Operations Command host_asserted
“attached to him will be a soft commander with soft forces. So, for example, CENTCOM has SOC CENT, which is their Special Operations Command Central. And that SOC CENT commander is a one- or two-star general, and he takes care of all special…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:55:46
United States Central Command headed
United States documented
“and the U.S. Army's Special Operation Command at Fort Bragg. The military group, which is the in-country military group, is a quote-unquote advisory unit, normally under the control of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota. SOUTHCOM coordinates deploy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 7 @ 32:34
United States Central Command spied_on
Drug Trafficking Operations host_asserted
“Is it a state thing or a national thing of monitoring what goes in and out of these landing strips, private landing strips? So it's like a dual authority. I mean, if the feds actually cared about drug trafficking, they'd be all over this. T…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 1:13:44
Michael Flynn removed_from_power
United States Central Command host_asserted
“Obviously, General Flynn was fired for not lying in congressional testimony when he was the D.I.A. commander. You also have General Carter Ham, who was the in the army, and he was one of the people that testified in front of Congress that s…”
▶ SITREP_ RADICALIZING OUR MILITARY ROUND TABLE @ 1:04:05
Charles Gaouette removed_from_power
United States Central Command host_asserted
“to rescue them. And later on, he was accused of using profanity and then making insensitive comments. And basically he was faced with administrative process. So he retired. So in other words, they got rid of him too.…”
▶ SITREP_ RADICALIZING OUR MILITARY ROUND TABLE @ 1:05:33
United States Central Command member_of
United States Air Force Special Operations Command documented
“has under every geographical command, like CENTCOM, what they call a SOC, a Special Operations Command. So SOC CENT reports to the four-star and goes with them everywhere they go to do anything. So we had, and they require very specialized …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 1:28:59
United States Central Command funded
Colombia host_asserted
“Thanks to the CIA and the U.S. South Com, the Southern Command, and their employment of special forces has went down and trained. What we were told was paramilitary people to combat drugs. Well, they didn't actually combat drugs. They comba…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 1:16:35
United States Central Command member_of
Horn of Africa host_asserted
“Horn of Africa was part of the CENTCOM AOR and then basically the rest of Africa. And that's area of responsibility, meaning that if crap goes down, it's CENTCOM's responsibility. And again, this was before they stood up the command, the co…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 1:54
United States Central Command trained
Colombia host_asserted
“If you saw it in the news, there was a Colombian that was killed on the battlefield in Ukraine. Colombia has 20,000 RENA paramilitary that, thanks to Southcom and the CIA, was trained under the guise of, quote unquote, anti-drug. Well, they…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 1:59:49
United States Central Command carried_out_attack
Manuel Zelaya host_asserted
“Six months after Obama came into office and that Southcom was basically helping in the Honduras coup that happened in 2009. And for those of you who don't know, Southcom is the geographical combatant commander that does Central and South Am…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:04:47
Andrew Wood headed
United States Central Command host_asserted
“Three quick reaction security detachments named Situation Security Teams deployed in Tripoli were withdrawn in the summer despite objections of their chief, Colonel Andrew Wood. He later told CBS that losing those units was likely being ask…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 43:59
Century Management front_for
United States Central Command caller_asserted
“to create blackouts. And so they would land in the pitch black and unload and reload. And he said that was pretty wild. And then he did mention he was in like Bosnia, Albania, the Balkans. So that's pretty much what I got out of it. And the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 1:14:42
United States Central Command supplied_arms_to
Benghazi attack host_asserted
“In addition, the police officers supposed to guard the mission were often late. The Pentagon's regional headquarters, AFRICOM, based in Stuttgart, Germany, not even in Africa, offered to send soldiers to fill the gap, but Stevens declined, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 44:55
Mentions (120)
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using it. It then gave the impetus for the military to mandate anybody going to the AOR to fight that war had to take the anthrax series of vaccines, which are five different shots. Because I was at U.S. Central Command in a deployable head…
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And now afterwards, because again, you never think that the government that you're willing to die for is going to experiment on you. If you go back and actually look at the research that had been done on the anthrax, it was as experimental …
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They're an ally, not a NATO ally, but an ally. And it's the largest Middle Eastern Air Force base there. Hold on. Qatar's a whole different story. They've been on both sides of every issue. Yes, we have U.S. Central Command's forward-deploy…
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Unlike most of your combatant commands, they're at MacDill Air Force Base. They do not reside in the theater in their operating area at Qatar. They only have the ability to ramp up that facilities like after 9-11, which they did. And then t…
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On 9-11, I'm stationed at U.S. Central Command. And totally not classified information. I'm sitting listening to people talk about, well, you know, we've got to pick another country because we can't really do a full out war in Afghanistan a…
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room when 9-11 happened. Where I sat in the crisis action team at CENTCOM headquarters, we had both representatives of the FBI, the CIA in all of the briefings, and you just pick up things.…
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If you saw it in the news, there was a Colombian that was killed on the battlefield in Ukraine. Colombia has 20,000 RENA paramilitary that, thanks to Southcom and the CIA, was trained under the guise of, quote unquote, anti-drug. Well, they…
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I was assigned at Andrews Air Force Base for two years and then went over to the Pentagon for four years. I left the Pentagon in 1999 and down to MacDill, and I was stationed at U.S. Central Command over 9-11, which, of course, is the comba…
▶ 43:03
I went back from the very beginning of that and I read every post that whatever that group is posted. My takeaway from it is, and I was involved in a project when I was at U.S. Central Command, that we were standing up a bunch of reserve jo…
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I watched as these teams came in and trained these people to do intelligence assessment reports for U.S. Central Command. So I became familiar with how that process works and the tools that they taught them to use to prepare these assessmen…
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He's going to meet his counterpart, who is ever in charge of their military there, and he's going to meet with some of the politicians. The intelligence directorate at CENTCOM had to prepare a trip book, and the trip book has all of the bac…
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It would be billions of dollars because it's all the simulators. It's all of the other maintenance and all of that other stuff that is going to be required. And not to mention the fact that you're going to talk about thousands of U.S. milit…
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attached to him will be a soft commander with soft forces. So, for example, CENTCOM has SOC CENT, which is their Special Operations Command Central. And that SOC CENT commander is a one- or two-star general, and he takes care of all special…
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in order to do something that needed to be done, other than going through the, you know, socks sent up to CENTCOM, up to the SECDEF. Because the other thing that everybody needs to understand, and that came up with all of this garbage that …
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That would be a good central southeast kind of sector dual hatted guy because he's into logistics already. And or 9th Air Force, like I said at Shaw, because he's actually like the combatant commander for CENTCOM, always expeditionary. They…
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But generally speaking, you wouldn't dual task somebody that's already in a war plan because it may be the decapitation and then Incentcom has to go do a war. You don't want 9th Air Force, although he does have reserve two stars on tap to f…
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I spent two years over at Andrews Air Force Base, which is where Air Force One is, and I spent four years at the Pentagon. I left in 1999, and my follow-on assignment was U.S. Central Command, which has the responsibility for the Middle Eas…
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The crazy thing is I had went to work at MacDill Air Force Base, which is where U.S. Central Command is headquartered. And I had been in the military at that point. Let's see, I was still a major. I think I pinned on, I may have pinned on L…
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I texted it. Okay. Yeah. It's in space. Bridget, it's in spaces as well. Or the signal. Okay. Thank you. So Ethiopia is very interesting. And just so that you guys know, I don't think I've mentioned this. When I was at U.S. Central Command,…
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Horn of Africa was part of the CENTCOM AOR and then basically the rest of Africa. And that's area of responsibility, meaning that if crap goes down, it's CENTCOM's responsibility. And again, this was before they stood up the command, the co…
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Obviously, I find that totally ironic now. There was a hesitation to put an entire effort into Afghanistan only because of the past of you can't win in Afghanistan. There's just there's not that they've ever done anything to win. Don't get …
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throughout U.S. Central Command to do too much operationally in Afghanistan. And almost immediately, they began looking for an alternative to what we were told, draw out the terrorists, kind of like a honeypot, if you will, to draw them in.…
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When I started looking into Africa, because I had been very familiar, I've met officers because we did a lot of mill to mill. As a matter of fact, Bright Star, the major annual every other year exercise that is done at U.S. Central Command …
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Six months after Obama came into office and that Southcom was basically helping in the Honduras coup that happened in 2009. And for those of you who don't know, Southcom is the geographical combatant commander that does Central and South Am…
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While the U.S. ambassador intervened to stop an earlier attempted coup, a Honduran military advisor warning the night before the coup was met with indifference. So in other words, they were told ahead of time it was going to happen and they…
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There was a group of military officers surrounding him, including former South Com commander and now White House chief of staff John Kelly, who knew all about U.S.-backed militarization of Honduras and elsewhere in the region. What this rev…
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In addition, the police officers supposed to guard the mission were often late. The Pentagon's regional headquarters, AFRICOM, based in Stuttgart, Germany, not even in Africa, offered to send soldiers to fill the gap, but Stevens declined, …
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which I think is what you're alluding to, was he morally correct in doing that or not? You cannot say that it wasn't classified information because it was. I know what the gunship, I know how secure, I was at U.S. Central Command, all of th…
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undercover DIA operation, because especially when going into hostile ports. So let me just give you a scenario. If you're a war planner for CENTCOM and you have on the drawing board plans that would require you, and for every country in the…
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In the plans area, you have this entire library of information on every country. So when you're war planning and you're developing an off-the-shelf kind of operation, which we have to have ready, and then we just tailor the ready-made plans…
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relied on the CIA for intelligence. That's all you have to say. We had no clue. As a matter of fact, why I mentioned the fact that I was at CENTCOM on 9-11, all of the intelligence that we used to operate on post 9-11 came from the CIA. The…
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If the U.S. said we're going to carve out and treat separately the Horn of Africa from the rest of Africa, everybody else goes, OK, we're going to do that, too, no matter how stupid it was. And so talking about this is very important becaus…
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and all of their resources in UCOM, and UCOM is giving them military aid, they can go, oh, I don't know anything about what's happening in, oh, let's just say Kenya or Uganda, or one that may be have separate funding from a different combat…
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All of this, Turkey was not part of CENTCOM's AOR, but all of the Middle East was. I've heard more than I can name conversations with people from that area saying everything that I just said. I'm giving you the Reader's Digest version, but …
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all of which the Middle East was represented. We had UAE, we had Oman, we had everybody in Tampa, Florida, every one of them. So I spent my last year at CENTCOM basically getting them all bedded down. So they all came in within like about a…
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10 or 20 years within the intelligence community already. And anyway, so it's a very interesting to look behind the sort of the shades that get put on to a lot of the investigation hearings and the such after these things eventually come ou…
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where you're assigned all your reading, the background material on the governments, the leaders of the governments, their economic system, their political system, because we study all three elements of their power. When you go to a combatan…
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the AOR. And you study the three pillars of power of every country. And they will have books that they recommend you read because every one of those COCOMs have like an institute, a learning institute that you can learn as much or as little…
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No, I'm talking specifically about the military. These people weren't killed. I'm talking about the staff at CENTCOM. When people questioned the set of parameters that we were handed to create a plan on what we were going to do in Afghanist…
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that was handed to the planners at CENTCOM to go into Iraq were all based on lies. If you said, hey, I've been working the Iraq desk at CENTCOM for the last four years, none of that shit in that CIA's assessment is true. You were tolerated …
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not excess, that's the wrong word, a military inventory black market ring going on. And in multiple occasions where investigators from PACOM would arrive to do an investigation into missing material, when they wrote their report,…
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That when I was assigned to you a central command, I got some very wise advice from a two star that said, you have to read both sides of every conflict, because if you don't, you'll never know the truth. Absolutely. And that's what I do wit…
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And one of the things that he pointed out to me, because, of course, CENTCOM was our AOR that can that included most of everything except for Israel in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. And so obviously we were dealing with a lot of t…
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Wargaming annual exercise at what we now call PACOM in Hawaii, home of the Pacific Fleet. And during this wargaming exercise, it went on for decades. Never had any Asian force ever come across the Pacific and successfully…
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People that were assigned to, I'm just going to call it PACOM. I don't know what the actual term, PACOM was not what it was called, but basically the Pacific Fleet. There were people that later turned out to be spies, part of this war gamin…
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navy commander of carrier strike group three for u.s central command he was on duty the night of benghazi and he told congress that there may not have been um under testimony he told congress there may not have been enough time to get fligh…
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Are you there, Bridget? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. OK, so if you look at the actual and again, I'm going to play devil's advocate here. So Columbia, if you guys recall, if you've been with me this entire time, we discovered approximately 20,000…
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That there was a lot of retired people because they didn't let any bad news out of the Air Force that showed up at that confirmation hearing. And he did not get confirmed as a result of that. So I just wanted to explain that. That's my take…
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We're not in any I mean, we're still flying deny flight kind of stuff over Iraq and stuff like that left over from Desert Storm. But there's no real activity going on. There's some special operations stuff going on. But we're pretty much in…
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South Com and CENTCOM is the only combatant commander that's not physically located in their AOR. So they basically take a big chunk of the headquarters over every year and to one of the countries for acclimation and they do an exercise.…
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What the hell is going on? So I sent all of the people that worked for me home because it was quite obvious it was a terror attack, regardless of whether we orchestrated it or not. I knew exactly what that meant for the headquarters there i…
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And we had no room for these people. We had to actually set up temporary facilities out in the parking lot at CENTCOM, which meant then you had to walk a mile to work if you were able to go home to get to the office because the entire parki…
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I agree with you and I agree with your model. But the only thing is, I'm hard pressed to say that they could run this whole thing out of Washington, D.C. in the 1980s or the early 90s. Oh, I don't think they ran it out of Washington, D.C. T…
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civil affairs, six, psychological operations, seven, counterterrorism, eight, humanitarian assistance, not a lot of that, nine, theater search and rescue, and ten, activities specified by the president or SECDEF. Those are assassinations. T…
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and the U.S. Army's Special Operation Command at Fort Bragg. The military group, which is the in-country military group, is a quote-unquote advisory unit, normally under the control of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota. SOUTHCOM coordinates deploy…
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U.S. Army Special Operations Command provides the forces, SOUTHCOM coordinates, and the military group links all of the operations, maintaining liaison with the Colombian military. Former members within the Colombian military command, such …
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Because like I told you guys, I just found this book completely fascinating because it broke so many preconceptions that I had. And I was never assigned to South Com, but because they were right down the street from CENTCOM. I mean, you kno…
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Because like I told you guys, I just found this book completely fascinating because it broke so many preconceptions that I had. And I was never assigned to South Com, but because they were right down the street from CENTCOM. I mean, you kno…
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whose husband spent three years in the intelligence area of South Com. So I know quite a bit about what their mission was, and I would love, they're divorced now, so I don't have any contact with him, but I would love to be able to talk to …
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as opposed to being out in the field. Although I know he traveled down there routinely as well. So anyway. Okay. You guys have a nice weekend and I will talk with you soon. Take care. Have an amazing weekend. Thanks. You too.…
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had been activists against their government, including academics, unionists, and others. When the Uribe administration stepped up its Civil War preparations in 2002, the U.S. government demanded cooperation in shielding U.S. forces statione…
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As the cocaine trade is regionalized, coca cultivation will remain under the control of the narco-military networks before it reaches the global market. The U.S. South Com, based in Miami, Florida, states that its aims in Latin America are …
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is to lead efforts to halt the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. and support host nations' effort to combat narco-terrorism, threats to legitimate governments, dangers to their citizens associated with the production and sale of drugs. Me…
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our special operation guys down there, to actually train people to be terrorists. And all of this time that this is going on, the drug trafficking continues to increase. That wasn't just a byproduct. That's the entire purpose. South Com con…
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However, in assessing that the U.S. means by strategic objectives, it's important to keep in mind that the former commander in chief of SOUTHCOM, General Peter Pace, argued in 2000 the vital U.S. interests included the preservation of capit…
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Pace explained the real goal in Colombia was to maintain a continued stability required for access to markets in the CENTCOM, or excuse me, Southcom AOR, which is critical to the expansion of prosperity in the U.S. I don't even know how tho…
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that by 2010, trade with Latin America is expected to exceed that with the European Union and Japan combined. In order to cement the integration of Latin America into the U.S. capital market, all things were on the table. The comments made …
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The $2.3 billion Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act is where the money came from. And $23 million was set aside for this project. Virtually all the money went to weapons purchases for South Com using the anti-drug tagline. Title VIII o…
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I don't want anybody to misunderstand me. I'm not saying the FARC is good. What I am saying is that we've been lied to about the FARC. We were told unequivocally that the FARC is a communist organization. We were told that the FARC, in larg…
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The crew members were contract employees of California Microwave Systems, a subsidiary of Northrop Drummond. The plane was essentially a U.S. intelligence plane in Columbia, according to Southcom. The data it collected was popular among cov…
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And it was on Absolute Storm. And it was a deep dive on the USCG. And I was like, whoa, they have a lot of powers I didn't even know about. The Coast Guard. Yes, ma'am. I know all about them because we had Coast Guard at CENTCOM. I know exa…
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um have some control over special ops yeah so um it is very interesting and the only reason i know it i i didn't learn that i mean i know what the roles and missions are from a um high level military how everybody fits together which is wha…
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And I tell them, I want you to read the article and I want you to tell me the bias because everything you will read has a bias. And so many people don't do critical thinking. They just consume stuff and assume it's gospel. So I 100% agree w…
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basic like biography kind of stuff, not like Middle Eastern focused or whatever. When I got to CENTCOM, I had a mentor there that was assigned to CENTAP up at Shaw, Major General Twitchell. He became a lifelong, very, very close friend of m…
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well done to date. But I also want to point this out too. Another one of their talking points is, oh my gosh, Qatar. Oh, and the other point I didn't even mention is the largest U.S. base in the Middle East is in Qatar. U.S. Central Command…
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The U.S. Central Command commander actually lives at MacDill Air Force Base. His forward deployed, his AOR is the Middle East. His forward deployed headquarters, which he goes to all the time, is in Qatar. It's been in Qatar since like the …
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of counterinsurgency. Both Galula and Phoenix would prove to be enormously influential on how U.S. operated in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006, the U.S. Army published a new counterinsurgency field manual, FM 3-24. One of its authors was none…
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I sat next to the fucking CIA guy at U S central command. Don't give me the shit about your grandpa being in the OSS. Um, but they do it. They do it. Colonel. Like it's one of those obvious things, right? Um, it's like the most stupid thing…
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who were closer to the army and national security apparatus than they ever were to the narco-gorillas. But it led to national security decision directives of 1986 and 1989 that created the U.S. military presence in Colombia, and it was all …
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of the entrance into that straight to go up to the Suez Canal. And that's why the Horn of Africa, and I'm going to be very open with you guys. When I got to CENTCOM, CENTCOM's AOR, which is Area of Responsibility, included all of the Middle…
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Why would you not have the Middle East? And another thing, they did not have initially all of the stands like Kurdistan, Tajikistan. Those all belong to Europe, too. But they all have Middle East ties. So while I was there, they chopped all…
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And then I asked, of course, where did you fly to? And there's a lot. It's almost kind of like, where did you not fly to? I got a lot of Air Force bases, Honduras, Honduras, Jose Enrique Sotocano, Cherry Point, North Carolina, the Marine Co…
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The guy that was orchestrating it in Kenya had very good relations with the United States. So a lot more Kenyans came than the other countries. Kenya was critical as a launching pad for operations inside of Africa for lots of different reas…
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The big annual exercise they did, it was done in Kenya more than any other country. The last year we did it right before 9-11, then we went from exercises to real world, was done in Egypt. But Kenya was kind of the go-to place for most of t…
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Almost all of the Horn of Africa area was under CENTCOM's AOR, the Area of Responsibility. So there is a long history of our country and Kenya. It's not a coincidence also that when Jimmy Carter fired over 800 CIA…
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internal machinations of the covert war against China. And I think that's especially relevant right now, given what's going on with the tariffs in China. But again, there's so many to pick from. This one is a really good book. This one is c…
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just the pictures of it. So they were very afraid when Desert Storm kicked off. So they all fled to Southern Turkey, which based on what I had said and what Warhamster just echoed, because the Turkish hates the Kurds, UCOM was tasked to imm…
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On February 22nd, both Alan Dulles and Christian Harder again raised this matter with the CNO. About this time, aerial reconnaissance disclosed Indonesia's site preparation for a bomber-length airstrip on the island of Natuna Basar, which w…
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shit into a foreign country, a newspaper prints it, and the words from the CIA immediately go out and tell all of the other newspapers they're not allowed to print it. Anxious to shore up the rebellion, CIA General Cabell made proposals tha…
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Now there's MARSOC. Yes, I dealt actually with MARSOC. The CENTCOM had its own subordinate Marine element. And there were lots of Marines at CENTSOC as well. But again, let's see, what else?…
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between the air ops, particularly the U.S. military assistance in Honduras. When General Paul Gorman took over SOUTHCOM and made his first trip to Tegu in June of 83, Honduran Commander Alvarez asked for help in improving eight airfields su…
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Calero talked to North about borrowing a T-33 jet from the Honduran Air Force that could hit the port. A single plane strike would have been too limited. And Honduran cooperation was also a factor. So they dropped the plan. Okay, this is a …
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getting into this fiasco, crazy shit. And that's another point that I wanted to bring up. Do you think that the J2 shop at Southcom, meaning the intelligence and their special operations branch, don't know any of this stuff is happening? It…
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They have all of this information. What the hell was Southcom doing during all of this? All of this shit could not be going on in your area of responsibility without the senior generals and the senior intelligence people knowing all of it. …
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This is something that at the four-star level, which the South Com commander was, I mean, he's in Panama. He's right down the road. He knows all of this shit's happening. And it's just mind-boggling to me. Even if you didn't have Gladio gla…
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They have advisors. They have in-country advisors for the South Com commander. So none of this was news to that guy. Why are you so mad? Go ahead. Talking about the 80s, I'm pretty sure we had some pretty sophisticated satellites, DMSP weat…
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make my point here even more. Listen to this. I just looked up who the South Com commander was in 1985. It's a guy by the name of John Galvin. Now, I know this name. He's one of the West Point Mafia guys. And interestingly, he gets his mast…
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83-page military whistleblowing report, which influenced Edward Snowden's decision to circumvent Congress and release his information directly to the American people. The report was written by an Army officer and psychological warfare analy…
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Scott Bennett was a Booz Allen Hamilton associate and army officer who worked as a terrorist threat finance analyst at U.S. CENTCOM and was indicted, tried, and convicted on charges after he sent two reports up the chain of command. One pre…
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basically come to the conclusion that there's no organic terrorist organizations. They basically are all created, funded, trained by intelligence services. The real story revolves around a whistleblowing report written by a U.S. Army office…
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which wasted tens of millions of dollars and exhausted our nation to the point of fatigue. The Army officer had extensive experience at U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Central Command, and the State Department in the Counterterrorism …
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T-I-M-U-S, with the Armed Services Organization, whose central mission was to combat, destroy, and prevent terrorist threat finance operations and networks. This organization was U.S. Central Command's terrorist threat finance team, managed…
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And neither Senator Carl Levin nor President Barack Obama nor any member of the Congressional Committee ever allowed Brad Birkenfeld's testimony or financial information to be shared with the CENTCOM team. It was only after I met Brad Birke…
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As an officer in the United States Army Reserve, based on my experience at the Bush administration, advanced degrees and prior work in psychological warfare and intelligence analyst at the State Department and the U.S. Special Operations Co…
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and flew down with him personally to CENTCOM. And I was given temporary housing at McDeal. I arranged to live on base in order to facilitate my army unit transfer and also to be safer. I had a TSSCI, which meant I was at the top of the terr…
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It was a surreal turf war between military commanders fighting for power, government agencies occupying space without really producing anything, and private sector contractors trying to work within the dynamics. Most offensive to me as a mi…
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after being the first person in CENTCOM's history to test out of a prior mandatory beginning and intermediate course. However, the missing component of subtle delicacy and psychological complexity was applied by a guy by the name of Edward …
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to the author was the fact that he had worked for Ambassador Daley at the State Department's Counterterrorism Office at the time as his liaison officer to U.S. SOCOM. So I knew everything the State Department and U.S. SOCOM was doing in thi…
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and their Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Unit, which the author had been working with when he was at CENTCOM in the State Department, had basically the ability to undercut the financing of terrorism worldwide and had never talked to B…
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He goes through all of these people that he contacted when he was in jail writing. So first of all, he files a whistleblower complaint and basically he hears nothing. Then he sends a letter to Marine General James Mattis, who at that time w…
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sent a letter to John Custer III, who was the director of intelligence at CENTCOM. He gets no response. He sent letters to just about everybody in Congress. He gets no response. He sent letters to literally almost everybody. Let me give you…
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hunting terrorist in the CENTCOM SOCOM state department arena he was comparing the list of entities that Birkenfeld made public to information that he had that indicated some of the same entities that Birkenfeld with these offshore…
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allegation that it was basically a payoff makes a lot of sense when you take all of that information into perspective. He was going to be set up with a nice nest egg, and he wasn't going to ruffle any feathers. But Bennett claims that CENTC…
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of counterinsurgency. Both Galula and Phoenix would prove to be enormously influential on how U.S. operated in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006, the U.S. Army published a new counterinsurgency field manual, FM 3-24. One of its authors was none…
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as it's happening and they're going to make the right choice to do. Just for those of you who don't know, the gaming, and I don't mean that as it's a game, it's not a game, but there are computer systems. I used them when I was at Air War C…
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the outputs of every decision that the commander makes, and you as the staff officer are gathering up the inputs to provide to him, he makes the decisions, they get locked in, and then you get outcomes again on what those decisions led to. …
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Like I had, everybody there had a TSSCI. That's kind, while it's an important clearance, it does not have compartmentalized information. Those are programs that you are read in on and you only retain those particular clearances while you're…
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to be able to explain to people when you're reading things, even though it happens to be a published book, does not mean it's true. And as I pointed out yesterday, and CanCon understood the significance of it being a Marine, that they could…
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The woman that did research into private military companies at George Washington University is convinced that the U.S. officials knew exactly who they were hiring. The man in charge of writing the specifications for the U.S. contract propos…
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They handed that over without ever securing the country to the coalition provisional authority. And so now technically, while CENTCOM has people on the ground, they're not in charge anymore. The coalition provisional authority is actually i…