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Claims (126)
Robert Komer member_of
National Security Council documented
“ever let them see a tear. You never, ever let them see you sweat. These people are evil. On May 27, 1965, Robert Comer, K-O-M-E-R, a national security staffer, briefed his boss, George Bundy, President Johnson's Special Assistant for Nation…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 18:15
Robert McFarlane member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine Corps officer detailed to the White Hou…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 41:52
Gordon Gray member_of
National Security Council documented
“Precisely timed to place a protective force around the Dalai Lama just as the Dalai Lama fled. Units of the NVDA partisans formed a rear guard behind the Dalai Lama's party throughout his trek to the Indian border. They also created a decoy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 10:53
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council documented
“would earn him a minor place in history, a footnote to one of America's worst scandals, the Iran-Contra. His case would be cited by the Congressional Iran-Contra committees as an example of how Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Nation…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 20:55
Robert McFarlane member_of
National Security Council documented
“Kissinger's NSC staff reviewed the release of every CIA internal history of the church committee. He reviewed everything that they were turning over to the church committee himself. Robert McFarland, then a subordinate on the NSC staff, rul…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 51:03
CIA answerable_to
National Security Council documented
“Under the National Security Act, the CIA was directly answerable because this was the subsequent act, the one that Clifford helped write, was directly answerable to the president through the National Security Council. The National Intellige…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 44:43
James Lay member_of
National Security Council documented
“Precisely timed to place a protective force around the Dalai Lama just as the Dalai Lama fled. Units of the NVDA partisans formed a rear guard behind the Dalai Lama's party throughout his trek to the Indian border. They also created a decoy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 9, continued @ 10:53
Robert Kimmitt member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“William Taft IV, who's, by the way, under investigation, by these same people, the General Counsel of the Defense Department, who had unsuccessfully urged Accord's suspension, and Robert Kimmitt, K-I-M-M-I-T-T, one of Jimmy Carter's NSC emp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 25:25
Harry S. Truman created
National Security Council documented
“Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clipper drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the war and Navy departments into a Department of Defense, which also set up a D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 43:11
Robert Komer member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“So it said he served on the staff of the National Security Council under McGeorge Bundy. And understanding who McGeorge Bundy is, you have to know that he was president of the Ford Foundation, i.e. a CIA front. And he also was part of the C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 5:37
Robert Komer appointed
National Security Council host_asserted
“part of the executive branch problem that we've had in the past. He's definitely part of the international syndicate. All right. So it says after Bundy's departure, Comer briefly served as the national security advisor before he was then re…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 6:35
Chester Cooper member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“State Department wanted the person to be a special assistant to the Secretary of State. Chester Cooper, a staff member of the National Security Council, wrote an impassioned memo to the president arguing that the person should work for the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 36:16
Robert Komer member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“during and after this particular episode. So it says that this view had prevailed and now it was up to Comer to carry out the president's commitment in the face of the bureaucratic resistance from the civilian agencies. So Comer is basicall…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Relook at Robert Komer (Phoenix) as a Ritchie Boy @ 36:45
J. Patrick Coyne member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“background as well. He was both FBI and served in the National Security Council, which is where Gladio was ran out of for the U.S. He also was on the Intelligence Advisory Board from 1959 through 61, took a few months off, came back in 61 t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 3:42
Gordon Gray member_of
National Security Council documented
“Partisan units formed a rear guard behind the party through its trek to the Indian border region and also created a diversion for the PLA. On November 1st, 1958, Gordon Gray sent a note to the NSC executive secretary, James Lay. It read, qu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 25:29
James Lay member_of
National Security Council documented
“Partisan units formed a rear guard behind the party through its trek to the Indian border region and also created a diversion for the PLA. On November 1st, 1958, Gordon Gray sent a note to the NSC executive secretary, James Lay. It read, qu…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 25:29
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“Also, Rob Owens, and if you remember Rob Owens, Rob Owens is the guy that was Oliver Norse. We've talked about him in Gary Webb's book. Rob Owens is the guy that was Oliver Norse's right-hand man that they stuck in the State Department unde…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 33:44
National Security Council approved_support_for
Chiang Kai-shek book_quoted
“in the Taiwan Strait. By late 1951, he was asking what additional actions needed to be taken to hurt the Chinese communists. In early 1951, National Security Council policy NSD-101 approved support for a quote-unquote vigorous program of co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret War Chap 4 @ 58:11
Bob Woodward member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“gave no indication in his column that he had known Haig since his days as a young Navy lieutenant delivering messages to Haig at the National Security Council for his boss, Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations and then the C…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 23:23
National Security Council supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“was willing to provide the arms for hostages that were delivered to Iran in 1985 in exchange for sales of some of the latest American weapon systems. For the next several months, Israel managed to ship some weapon systems into Iran. How did…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 5:55
Michael Flynn member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“And then, of course, Trump basically, according to the syndicate, makes the mistake of putting him at NSA. And their attack on Flynn not only was to keep Flynn out of the National Security Council, because you guys can clearly see the Natio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 1:00:12
Jake Sullivan appointed
National Security Council host_asserted
“Jake Sullivan comes along and he is the national security advisor, the number one guy on the Biden foreign policy team. And as the national security advisor, as my research has illustrated, you run the coups. All of the subordinate entities…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with War Hamster Brady 250418 @ 34:47
James Forrestal wanted_supervision_by
National Security Council documented
“was out in the field playing games. As Admiral Hill and Cotter struggled to establish the CIA, officials at the NSC wrestled with how to control it. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal wanted supervision by the NSC executive secretary. At …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 59:13
Sidney Sowers refused_job
National Security Council documented
“was out in the field playing games. As Admiral Hill and Cotter struggled to establish the CIA, officials at the NSC wrestled with how to control it. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal wanted supervision by the NSC executive secretary. At …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 59:13
National Security Council ordered
U.S. State Department documented
“the covert action. Truman's NSC ordered State and Pentagon to collaborate on a paper that would turn the Dulles-Jackson-Corea report into a set of recommendations, completed and adopted by the NSC that July. One of these was that the CIA es…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:01:12
National Security Council ordered
Pentagon documented
“the covert action. Truman's NSC ordered State and Pentagon to collaborate on a paper that would turn the Dulles-Jackson-Corea report into a set of recommendations, completed and adopted by the NSC that July. One of these was that the CIA es…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:01:12
Walter Bedell Smith persuaded
National Security Council documented
“As DCI, the general said, he had all the authority necessary to direct the OPC. The arrangements made in 48 had been overtaken by events and were no longer valid. As for Wisner's problem with the wartime military control, General Smith pers…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 1:05:18
Jimmy Carter member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“During the Carter administration, this part I was able to figure out, they did not change a lot of the National Security Council structure. So Mondale would have been on all of those committees that approved all of the covert action. And th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review @ 1:10:19
Michael Ledeen member_of
National Security Council documented
“of Israel by the neocons was shared by Ted Shackley. One of Shackley's friends and business associates was a guy by the name of Michael Leden, L-E-D-E-E-N. He was the State Department terrorism expert and consultant to the Reagan National S…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 44:58
CINCPAC presented_plan_to
National Security Council book_quoted
“On December 19, 1963, the Pentagon's planning branch in the Pacific, CINCPAC, presented a plan to a special group. Two weeks later, LBJ approved O-Plan 34A, and Major General Victor Krulik, and I have actually met him, handed the operationa…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 22:09
Jake Sullivan member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“Jake Sullivan comes along and he is the national security advisor, the number one guy on the Biden foreign policy team. And as the national security advisor, as my research has illustrated, you run the coups. All of the subordinate entities…”
▶ The Shadow State 35 Secret Societies 19; Jake Sullivan @ 35:03
Roger Robinson member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“According to former National Security Council member Roger Robinson, the CIA delivered…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 38:38
Norman Bailey member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Quote, we were aware that BCCI was involved in drug money transactions, said Norman Bailey, the national security economist who monitored all terrorism by tracking the movement of follow the money.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 40:01
Michael Ledeen member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 26:06
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 26:06
Zbigniew Brzezinski member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“and give them plausible deniability. And so they will have a representative from the president's office sitting in on whether it's the 40 committee or they all had different names under each president. And Brzezinski basically was in that l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:01:12
Samantha Power member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“But I may be thinking of someone else. Let me look it up real quick. She was the ambassador to the U.N. Yeah, so it says here. Yeah, no, she only was Biden's USAID. She worked on the National Security Council for Obama.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:39:57
National Security Council ordered_assassination_of
Seychelles host_asserted
“In December 1981, the UN Security Council decided to send a commission to the Seychelles to investigate the invasion. Although the U.S. voted for the motion, the American ambassador, Jean Kirkpatrick, suggested to send the commission was to…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 33:10
NSAM 5412 funded
National Security Council host_asserted
“title of a National Security Council to come in and sit in on meetings that were going to direct covert operations. And it's just, it's a recipe for disaster. And it was all facilitated by Dwight D. Eisenhower. He signed that National Secur…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 12 (13) @ 1:13:48
Rob Owens member_of
National Security Council documented
“on a suspected drug run off the coast of Florida. Aboard the plane was marijuana residue and Moss's notes, which, according to a CIA cable, contained, quote, the names of two CIA officers and their telephone numbers, unquote. Also found was…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 5:02
China member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“You know what I mean? So they're supposedly the government in exile in a country called Taiwan. But Taiwan was occupying the seat at the UN Security Council called China. And so if you go back and you look at a lot of the UN initiatives tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 1:52:32
Richard Nixon funded
National Security Council documented
“The change was formalized in February 17, 1970, in Nixon's National Security Decision Memorandum 40. The special group had thus begun labeled as 40 Committee. The National Security Decision Memorandum also rescinded National Security 5412-2…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:03:33
National Security Council funded
Christian Democratic Union book_quoted
“to interfere and prop up a political party. Keith Wheelock, one of the new CIA officers, became the field man on the initiative. Corey himself instigated another. Looking ahead to congressional elections in 1969, he proposed a classic suppo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 49:41
National Security Council reassigned
Tom Gilligan book_quoted
“committee ordered a propaganda workshop to determine what possibilities there were. The agency reassigned Tom Gilligan to Portugal. One reason the 303 committee came to no decision was opposition from the State Department. Henry Kissinger a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 57:02
Roger Morris member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“A bold-faced lie. Richard Nixon exhibited concern and also responded to U.S. corporations. Again, he doesn't list them. In danger of losing their guaranteed investments and highly agitated, Kissinger was also sensitive to Nixon. Roger Morri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 1:05:07
Elliot Abrams member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“He advised multiple Republican campaigns, served in think tanks supporting Republicans. Under George W. Bush, Abrams returned to the National Security Council, where Operation Gladio is ran out of, as the senior director for, quote unquote,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:13:40
National Security Council covered_up
Nathaniel Davis book_quoted
“which studied the Angola covert operation in detail, the Davis Group recommendation was removed from their report at the direction of the National Security Council and presented to the NSC as merely one policy option, the others being to do…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 24:13
Ronald Reagan reorganized
National Security Council book_quoted
“to authorize the actions at the policy level, and to approve CIA budgets via the O&M. Reagan improved the climate within the executive branch for covert action by reestablishing the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board that Carter had d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 43:20
George H.W. Bush member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“to authorize the actions at the policy level, and to approve CIA budgets via the O&M. Reagan improved the climate within the executive branch for covert action by reestablishing the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board that Carter had d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 43:20
National Security Council ordered
CIA book_quoted
“the city's most sacred Buddhist shrine. Sound familiar? Buddhists immediately took up arms and began fighting. The spectacle was repeated across Vietnam as thousands of Buddhists were arrested and jailed and executed. In response, August 21…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 18:40
National Security Council removed_from_power
CIA book_quoted
“In other words, if you were actually honest about an assessment and it didn't fit where they wanted to go, you were ignored. The opportunity for choice arose in the spring of 69, about six weeks after Chile's March elections. The 303 commit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 56:06
National Security Council funded
International Volunteer Air Group documented
“but military personnel were used over the short term until their war ended. The OCB recommendation to form an international volunteer air group was nonetheless taken up that summer. The recommendation was approved by NSC at its 211th meetin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 36:51
William Stead member_of
National Security Council documented
“Later served as a U.S. member on the executive board of the World Health Organization, president of the executive committee of the Pan American Health Organization, U.S. member and alternate member of board of directors of the Global Fund t…”
▶ The Shadow State 43 Secret Societies 26; The Praetorian Guard @ 1:13:46
Operations Coordination Board founded
National Security Council documented
“I'm curious about where whether and where it may overlap with another something that I've read a fair amount about. I'm trying to write something about called the Operations Coordinating Board, which I know, Colonel, you have come across be…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:14:44
National Security Council funded
Chile documented
“Looking ahead to the 70 campaign, the National Security Council special group approved another $700,000 in CIA funding from 69 to 70. John McCone, now representing private interests as the chairman of ITT, increased the secret election fund…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 37:29
John F. Kennedy formed
National Security Council host_asserted
“President John F. Kennedy formed a National Security Council special group to manage U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Vietnam and elsewhere. A special assistant for covert activities was assigned to the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 28:45
David Gompert member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“Ford and Carter administration in the National Security Council. So basically every coup that we did between Nixon, Ford and Carter, this guy was involved in. He also specialized in NATO. He was a special assistant, meaning like right hand …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Charlie Kirk Shooting and PRE 9_11 conversation @ 1:12:53
Jean Kirkpatrick member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“I don't know why the author didn't include the name of it. The money was in the name of Esther Morales, wife of a lawyer friend of Aldolfo Calero, and went to the FDN account at the CIA front bank. In June came a crucial set of discussions …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 9:20
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council documented
“the dopey, gap-toothed zealot portrayed by the Reagan administration and the press, North was one of the most powerful men in Washington. The spring of 1985, he was on top and testified at Allen Fires, the CIA's Central American Task Force …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 33:54
Nunez member_of
National Security Council documented
“Nunes revealed that since 85, he had engaged in a clandestine relationship with the NSC. Nunes refused to elaborate on the nature of these actions, but indicated it was difficult to answer questions relating to the involvement in narcotic t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:04:53
Scott Weakley member_of
National Security Council documented
“reading transcripts of his telephone conversations. Those transcripts said that Scott Weakley was connected not only to the CIA, but to the NSC and the State Department as well, because he was dealing with this Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Nor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:04:01
JSOC member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“involvement from the British government, so to speak. Is that still true today? As far as I know, it is. It's just like our JSOC. Our JSOC is tasked out of the National Security Council and basically works directly for the president. I mean…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Soldier by Hagedoan Part 3 @ 58:40
National Security Council oversaw
USAID documented
“In April 2021, USAID published an internal audit that confirmed that the Venezuelans government had claimed all along the border stunt had been driven entirely by politics, not humanitarian objectives. The audit reported that the State Depa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 50:45
Mark Esper member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:27:53
John Bolton member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:27:53
Juan Guaidó member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“during which U.S. and Guaido officials discussed possible scenarios of a small special operations targeted directly at Maduro. Then, out of the blue, one of Guaido's colleagues looked at Esper across the table and said something like, we ha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:28:22
Cliver Alcalá member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“It was also noted that Guaido's ally made some quick reference to Florida before making eye contact with another person in the room that was working for John Bolton. That person was Cliver Carone. Cliver, Claver, C-L-A-V-E-R dash C-A-R-O-N-…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:28:54
Richard Nixon member_of
National Security Council documented
“And that any revolutionary mischief on the continent would only play into the communist hands. So they would overthrow them, pushing them into the communist hands. At one time, the National Security Council meeting, Vice President Nixon obs…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:03:27
Maurice Stans member_of
National Security Council documented
“And that any revolutionary mischief on the continent would only play into the communist hands. So they would overthrow them, pushing them into the communist hands. At one time, the National Security Council meeting, Vice President Nixon obs…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:03:27
CIA member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“So I understand and we all understand that there's an org chart that shows that they supposedly are under the DNI reporting to the National Security Council and then to the president. But there's actually no line. And I believe there's a li…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:26:20
CIA member_of
National Security Council documented
“Because somebody was thinking they were doing the right thing and found out differently. And so to be able to say what's their underlying belief, you have to go back to the founding. And, you know, originally when the National Security Act …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:23:52
Vincent Cannistraro member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Unquote. Howard Treacher, the senior director of the NSC staff between 85 and 87, stated that that same CIA officer and myself were the coordinators of the Libyan policy within the NSC and did have a direct role in coordinating the papers w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 38:51
Paul Hnit member_of
National Security Council documented
“among the anointed spy chiefs, but had several successful espionage penetration into the Soviet Union. Once Brzezinski connected with the covert action staff, propaganda projects began to move. Paul Hintz seconded from CIA to NSC staff to h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 58:20
Robert Gates member_of
National Security Council documented
“The administration's willingness to concede on this issue remained untested. Meanwhile, the DO stayed in business. Leary of covert operations, as Carter may have been, his national security advisor, Brzezinski, demanded action. You know, be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 56:26
David Aaron member_of
National Security Council documented
“successively as CIA analyst, special assistant to Turner, and NSC staff director for intelligence. Robert Gates dealt with both Brzezinski and his deputy, David Aaron. He recalls, quote, the most frequent criticism of the CIA that I heard w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 56:52
John Mitchell member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Nixon, too, made his changes. According to Kissinger, they changed the name because the 303 Committee had been identified in a 1969 news story. We can't have the American people knowing what their government is doing. In fact, the reconstit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 12:03
National Security Council supplied_arms_to
King Hussein of Jordan book_quoted
“U. Alexis Johnson, back on the group again, writes, quote, it is true that during the Nixon administration, the president and CIA bypassed the committee on sensitive issues, unquote. When Nixon gave his first go-ahead on covert arms to Camb…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 15:29
National Security Council targeted_for_regime_change
Chile book_quoted
“to supply rifles to King Jordan, the King of Jordan. So this was not a matter of excluding a certain type of activity. Everyone from the special group to the Secretary of State lived in ignorance of the Chilean initiative called Track Two, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 15:58
Henry Kissinger member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“A 32-year-old Oxford scholar and a protege of Nelson Rockefeller's. Prior to his employment, he had been Henry Kissinger, who was Nelson Rockefeller's man, according to Seymour Hersh. Henry Kissinger's employment secretary on the National S…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 1:01:25
National Security Council funded
Iran-Contra book_quoted
“Thoughts in Reagan's White House turned towards getting Khomeini to influence the Lebanese Shiites. An interagency study completed in October 1984 concluded that a new relationship could be forged only by Khomeini's successors. In April of …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 2:43
Robert McFarlane member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“involved open use of force. However, that was considered an act of war. An administration having so much trouble getting CIA funds for the project itself had no chance of getting a declaration of war. They didn't care. Over at least two pla…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 24:36
George Shultz member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Cap Weinberger and George Shultz all recognized that Managua depended on imports, especially weapons and foreign oil. Americans' military exercises in Central America had already featured naval task force all up and down the Nicaraguan coas…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 24:06
William Casey member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Cap Weinberger and George Shultz all recognized that Managua depended on imports, especially weapons and foreign oil. Americans' military exercises in Central America had already featured naval task force all up and down the Nicaraguan coas…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 24:06
Caspar Weinberger member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Cap Weinberger and George Shultz all recognized that Managua depended on imports, especially weapons and foreign oil. Americans' military exercises in Central America had already featured naval task force all up and down the Nicaraguan coas…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 24:06
Nguyen Cao Ky headed
National Security Council documented
“And that's basically what they're saying. They elected one of the military generals as being the chief of state, you know, because, of course, they assassinated the president at this point. And in 1965, the National Council of Security was …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program @ 47:04
National Security Council targeted_for_regime_change
Charles de Gaulle book_quoted
“on de Gaulle took a much sharper edge. The National Security Council meeting convened by Eisenhower in September of 58 gloomily forecasted that the French leader's ability to settle the Algerian crisis to America's satisfaction was dim. The…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 18 @ 1:05:29
Eric Ciaramella member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“That's part of it. So this was the period when all of little Adam Schiff, little watermelon head, was having his phone calls and digital communications intercepted. And I'll remind all of the audience, for our purposes, the CIA had planted …”
▶ Operation Gladio- 2024 Election, day after with The Cates Bros @ 1:08:48
National Security Council carried_out_attack
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Dwayne, I'm going to mute you for just a second. They have ran the similar operations, like the Iran-Contra was ran out of the National Security Council in conjunction with the CIA. So if you understand the role of the National Security Cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio- 2024 Election, day after with The Cates Bros @ 1:41:00
John F. Kennedy approved
National Security Council documented
“Rostow, then the Deputy National Security Advisor. In mid-June, both the President and the NSC staff were watching over the proposed text of a presentation that Rostow would make at the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 40:31
Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed
National Security Council documented
“This led to a top secret summer study that combined the themes of deterring guerrilla warfare, limited war, counterinsurgency, and paramilitary operations. Rostow watched this exercise closely. Another spark plug, the study formal chairman …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 40:56
Richard M. Bissell Jr. proposed
National Security Council documented
“Bissell suddenly spoke of regaining public confidence in the CIA's covert action by revealing the existence of the special group, much as Eisenhower had once revealed the Killian board. At another point, Bob Comer did a summary of Bissell's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 42:53
Richard M. Bissell Jr. wrote
National Security Council documented
“The countries are not threatened. The United States oligarchs are threatened. Bissell's last act would thus be to move Kennedy to reorganize his machinery for covert action. In fact, the special group talked over Bissell's report on Decembe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 53:04
Maxwell D. Taylor chaired
National Security Council documented
“the matters continued and said the nomenclature had now been reversed. The 5412 group became the insider jargon. A third special group also appeared. The special group augmented. The difference was that Max Taylor chaired the 5412 group exi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 54:04
Robert F. Kennedy chaired
National Security Council documented
“the matters continued and said the nomenclature had now been reversed. The 5412 group became the insider jargon. A third special group also appeared. The special group augmented. The difference was that Max Taylor chaired the 5412 group exi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Chap 24 (25) @ 54:04
National Security Council proposed
Guyana Project book_quoted
“The state paper in the Washington talks became the basis for the deliberate shadowy unit called the Special Group, the highest U.S. government unit dealing with covert operations. When the Special Group met on March 20th, Guyana was the thi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy CIA Secret Wars Part 1 @ 32:12
Hugh Cumming Jr. headed
National Security Council book_quoted
“stream about the U2. The main center of the planning moved to the State Department, where meetings at the National Security Council Special Interagency Committee were chaired by State Department's Intelligence Director Hugh Cumming. Now, wh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 3:04
National Security Council funded
Project Hake book_quoted
“The council ordered new planning, a process that led directly to Project HAIK, H-A-I-K, as the Indonesian operation would be called. The Joint Chiefs of Staff complained that the concept conceded Java, the most important part of the country…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 14 (15) @ 5:08
Lyman Lemnitzer member_of
National Security Council documented
“And they needed more money. By August, Esterling's task force had reworked its plan and presented it in a new memorandum to Eisenhower. The key meeting took place at the White House on August 18th. Present were Alan Dulles, NSC officials, c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 34:33
Robert Anderson member_of
National Security Council documented
“the Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, who coordinated the U.S. trade policy with Cuba, after talk of the U2 affair, which had consumed Eisenhower since May, the group turned to ATE. Alan Dulles cited success in creating the Cuban politica…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 35:04
George Tenet member_of
National Security Council documented
“who had came from the NSC staff where he had been the top man for intelligence. Tenet has been a decade on Capitol Hill, mostly as a staff member at the Senate Intelligence Committee. A couple of years earlier, Woolsey had favored shutting …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 52 (54) @ 42:59
National Security Council ran
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 46:44
National Security Council ran
Angolan Civil War host_asserted
“And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 46:44
National Security Council funded
CIA documented
“Hillenotter then went to Truman with the problem. A proposal for secret propaganda was initiated for presidential consideration. In this connection, the State Department advised in December that the Soviet covert operations threatened to de…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:13:51
NSC 10/2 Committee member_of
National Security Council documented
“The committee was made up of a unit in the National Security Council and thus worked directly for the president. Their group was composed of representatives from the Secretary of State and Defense. It was called the 10-2 Panel. Now, we've c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:16:19
National Security Council funded
Christian Democratic Union book_quoted
“and his agency station chief to help selected candidates. On February 5th, 1965, the group allocated another $175,000. Richard Helm recorded this as half a million dollars for covert assistance in the March elections. Again, the results wer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 42:49
John F. Kennedy member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Kennedy's National Security Council formally adopted the goal of ousting Castro and considered means ranging from a naval blockade to an international Caribbean security force to strong economic sanctions, with the CIA one more arrow in Ken…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 25:52
Maxwell D. Taylor member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“Robert McNamara and Bobby Kennedy sat in on the meeting. A Goodwin note on November 22nd indicates that the secret warrior had already put his thoughts on paper. When Maxwell Taylor convened the special group the same day, he said that Edwa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 15:18
Edward Lansdale member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“gave Lansdale the role, even nicknaming him FM, I guess for Field Marshal. Almost daily, Lansdale informed Bobby in a quick handwritten note or memorandum or a conversation in the hall of progress. Before a special group session in early De…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 17:55
Robert Maheu member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“And it says that he created his own association under the guise of a private investigative firm in Washington, D.C., you know, where the CIA is. And he is linked to, let's see, under the CIA work, it says that he was summoned to then Vice P…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:17:49
National Security Council overthrew
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“to do some things with the National Security Council, which, of course, we know what they were doing in 1954 at the National Security Council. They were overthrowing Guatemala. It also says that he worked to interfere with an agreement with…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:18:19
National Security Council headed
Operation Mongoose documented
“President Kennedy also revamped White House controls. Instead of Robert Kennedy taking the lead, the National Security Council became the direct point of contact. Aspects of the Cuban project figured in EXCOMM discussions in late 1962 and e…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 31:05
Joe Kelso spied_on
National Security Council guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
John Bolton headed
National Security Council book_quoted
“Trump and John Bolton at the National Security Council started thinking about using covert means of getting rid of Maduro. Given that popular momentum was there and the Venezuelans were lined up ready for the overthrow. So far, so good. Bet…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 29:33
Henry Kissinger member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“So it also goes on to say he was involved in covert arms as part of the National Security Council. He was the director and primary founder of this other entity. It talks about Gordon Gray, who we just talked about in this book. So they're c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 1:13:58
National Security Council ordered_assassination_of
Kwame Nkrumah host_asserted
“The CIA's reluctance to approve the action at the Chinese embassy may have stemmed from the fact that the National Security Council had specifically refused to authorize the agency's involvement in the coup at all. This was, as we had seen,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 37:42
Allen Dulles headed
National Security Council book_quoted
“In February of 1953, the National Security Council meeting just three weeks into Eisenhower's presidency, Foster raised what he called the moral problem that hovered over all nuclear decisions. He was not referring to the profound question …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 55:12
United States Institute of Peace front_for
National Security Council host_asserted
“are a propaganda for the National Security Council, the military-industrial complex, and the CIA, kind of a combination. And they pay people to write things like Rand to reinforce what they're already going to do.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 2:56
Oliver North headed
National Security Council book_quoted
“and cut Israel out. The architects of this was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Richard Secord. By this time, Buckley had succumbed to the stress of incarceration and torture and had died. Still, there were no other hostages to be rescue…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 6:28
National Security Council succeeded
Operations Advisory Group caller_asserted
“When Gerald Ford got in, but basically the same offices make up this. And then Jimmy Carter called it the NSC special coordination committee, the SCC. So every one of the, you know, they basically have it. One of them was called the five, f…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:07:54
National Security Council ordered_assassination_of
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état host_asserted
“The intelligent estimates that were being fed to the National Security Council to get the findings to go in and overthrow the government actually took that information and said it was because they were all communist. They want a communist g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:09:38
National Security Council funded
Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted
“He met with the Undersecretary of State at the time, which was Walter Bedell Smith. Yes, he was also CIA. And although one account of the Guatemala operation alleges that it was approved by the National Security Council Special Group Review…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 31:04
Operation Gladio ran_out_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“He advised multiple Republican campaigns, served in think tanks supporting Republicans. Under George W. Bush, Abrams returned to the National Security Council, where Operation Gladio is ran out of, as the senior director for, quote unquote,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:13:40
William Yandell Elliott member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“after the war elliot and we're talking about the william one served on the national security council…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 55 - _WEF - WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ORIGINS_ - EP.417 @ 33:20
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“directly tied to the CIA and Oliver North out of the national security. So they have all of this information and they literally are doing nothing with it. And that's the chapter. Evil people doing evil things. They need to be stomped out. I…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:04:32
National Security Council ordered_assassination_of
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“They were at the heart of the Lumumba assassination, the Allende assassination. The National Security Advisors meetings is who orchestrates all of that.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:00:52
National Security Council ordered_assassination_of
Salvador Allende host_asserted
“They were at the heart of the Lumumba assassination, the Allende assassination. The National Security Advisors meetings is who orchestrates all of that.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:00:52
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basically grew up um also can i read you something real quick on the william gandell elliot guy sure so here's what i found on him after the war elliot and we're talking about the william one served on the national security council he was a…
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overseeing that. He also was on the National Security Council, that elite group, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And his dad is Clarence Dillon. And who is that? Well, he's a Jewish immigrant from Poland. And have you ever heard of, let's …
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to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in an open hearing. This is a quote. I watched from the inside of our National Security Council when Russia was test driving many of the approaches in Ukraine as our government struggled to ful…
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was furious at the pardons and said that Bush, quote, had stopped the trial of a Confederate, unquote. But the fact was that the arms dealers, former military officers, and Middle Eastern hustlers like Oliver North, William Casey, Admiral P…
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Still, other liabilities arose from the National Security Council's involvement in this and the White House knowledge. Quote, we were aware that BCCI was involved in drug money transactions, said Norman Bailey, the national security economi…
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National Security Council economist goes on to say, quote, we were also aware that BCCI was involved in terrorism, technology transfer, including unapproved transfer of U.S. technology to the Soviet bloc, weapons deals and manipulation of f…
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the former National Security Advisor and consultant to the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff. So you just have to love how little this is. But the, so the, I'm trying to find my note of the name that was the guy that was at DOJ. So anyway, t…
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We all get the fact that there's no line between the Department of Defense, the CIA, and the State Department, right? They meld together. What most people forget is the National Security Advisor staff. And the reason why they could not have…
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chairs the meeting for the coordination with state and with the DOD. So every Gladio operation, every finding that was to assassinate a foreign head of state, every single thing that Operation Gladio is related to and the White House intera…
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that the National Security Advisors Office has ever orchestrated. They were at the heart of the Lumumba assassination, the Allende assassination. The National Security Advisors meetings is who orchestrates all of that. It puts an emphasis o…
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That's part of it. So this was the period when all of little Adam Schiff, little watermelon head, was having his phone calls and digital communications intercepted. And I'll remind all of the audience, for our purposes, the CIA had planted …
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What role do you think General Flynn will have? Do you think he'll come back in as the National Security Advisor? It would be my hope that he has a position like that, and it actually dovetails into what you just said. In Operation Gladio, …
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Dwayne, I'm going to mute you for just a second. They have ran the similar operations, like the Iran-Contra was ran out of the National Security Council in conjunction with the CIA. So if you understand the role of the National Security Cou…
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Trump and John Bolton at the National Security Council started thinking about using covert means of getting rid of Maduro. Given that popular momentum was there and the Venezuelans were lined up ready for the overthrow. So far, so good. Bet…
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The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine Corps officer detailed to the White Hou…
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Sotaro's Russian language training at the University of Hawaii may have been useful to the CIA in Indonesia. And August 2nd, 1966, formerly classified secret memorandum from the National Security Council, Bromley Smith states that in additi…
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C. Douglas Dillon told a Senate investigating committee, which was the Church Committee, that the National Security Council and President Eisenhower had believed in 1960 that Lumumba was a very difficult, if not impossible, person to deal w…
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How far beyond the dreams of a barefoot jungle postal clerk in 1956? That, in a few short years, he would be dangerous to the peace and safety of the world. The perception seems insane, particularly coming from the National Security Council…
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It does say that the National Security Council special group in Washington gave consideration to a program of covert aid to anti-Trujillo Dominicans. Two months later, Eisenhower approved a contingency plan, which provided in part that if t…
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university kind of article that appeared in one of their papers. And basically it talks about a declassified National Security Council and CIA documents that had, hold on. Okay. So NSC and CIA documents that were…
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For some reason, it blocked her and I just unblocked her. And there she is. All right. She's back. She's back. I didn't do that. I don't know how it got done. I did not do that. All I hit was co-host. All right. So I'm going to start over f…
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While the newly released documents written by the National Security Council staffer and an unnamed CIA officer confirmed the essential outlines set forth in what Stockdale said, they also provided additional and chilling details about the U…
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who first joined the White House as a member of President Kennedy's NSC staff, had worked as a CIA analyst for 15 years, which means he's still a CIA asset. In 1967, Johnson tapped him to win the hearts and minds of Vietnam. Yeah, that didn…
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The CIA's reluctance to approve the action at the Chinese embassy may have stemmed from the fact that the National Security Council had specifically refused to authorize the agency's involvement in the coup at all. This was, as we had seen,…
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Congress, and basically subsidizing a quasi-fascist extreme right group and improperly close relationships between the U.S. government and major corporations, unquote. However, just two days after Alente donned the presidential sass in Sant…
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America set out to create that justification. The first blows were struck economically. Two principal American foreign aid agencies called the Export and Import Bank and the Agency for International Development, acting under classified inst…
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Everything that I've read said that the decision to use this capability was briefed at, if you guys remember way back, we were talking about a thing called the Committee of 40 or the 40 Committee, which was basically an entity inside the Na…
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the B-2 rockets, during the war. He was co-founder of an organization called JINSA, J-I-N-S-A. One of their initiatives is the JINSA Iran Policy Project. They also advise Congress on policy. Now listen to this. Shifter served on the Nationa…
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all go through the National Security Advisor. That's their job. That's not a small position. That is head spook. All right, so National Security Advisor, he kind of changed the priorities. One of the first things he does, he puts in writing…
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Out of the National Endowment for Democracy, while she's the foreign advisor orchestrating coups. At the same time, she's in the Naval Reserves working as an intelligent officer for 11 years. Yes. That's mind-blowing. Yes. Remember I told y…
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That's what I'm saying. While he was doing it for Biden in 2022, he was provoking Russia into attacking the Donbass region because as the National Security Council security advisor, he would have coordinated the CIA's underground Gladio uni…
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Yeah. She's in Congress. We got Alyssa Slotkin, Democrat from Michigan. She was a CIA analyst deployed to Iraq three times and was on the National Security Council for both Bush and Obama. Yes. Again, bipartisan. We had Will Hurd, Republica…
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The National Endowment for Democracy is one of the places they ended up. And they were basically still engaged in coups. They were engaged in regime change. And we saw that throughout the 1980s with Angola and Nicaragua and El Salvador, bla…
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a UN Security Council rep for the Reagan administration. And if you don't know anything about the, excuse me, Freedom House, the Freedom House is another one of those quote unquote think tanks that was founded in the early part of the 1940s…
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As you guys have saw today, I kind of went down another rabbit hole with this. When I was looking over the Operation Gladio and its interplay with the National Security Council, I've been reading a lot of material in how the vice president'…
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So I don't even know if you guys know, but from the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, up until the early 1970s, at the UN Security Council, if you go back and you look, China appears to have always been on the Security Council. They weren't. Chi…
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Republic of China, but it wasn't China, China, not mainland China. That didn't happen. And they didn't get their, the China didn't actually get the Chinese seat until Nixon went over there and recognized them. And maybe that's why they hate…
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You know what I mean? So they're supposedly the government in exile in a country called Taiwan. But Taiwan was occupying the seat at the UN Security Council called China. And so if you go back and you look at a lot of the UN initiatives tha…
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These agencies, CIA, FBI, are they standalone or are they subordinate to any organization? So the CIA specifically, according to a wiring diagram, is supposed to report in to the president through the National Security Council. But I can gu…
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He was in El Salvador with the death squads. He was in Honduras with the death squads. He was working on the CONFRA thing out of the Bush vice president White House for Donald Gregg, because Donald Gregg, who was the national security advis…
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the vice president staff running basically the operation for the conference. And he knew Donald Gregg, who was Bush's national security advisor as VP. And Donald Gregg had been involved in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And basically, the …
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In December 1981, the UN Security Council decided to send a commission to the Seychelles to investigate the invasion. Although the U.S. voted for the motion, the American ambassador, Jean Kirkpatrick, suggested to send the commission was to…
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So his name is Robert William Comer, and his nickname was Blowtorch Bob. And he also, of course, spent some time in the National Security Advisor's office, which we know is the White House Executive Agency for Covert Operations, liaisons wi…
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So it said he served on the staff of the National Security Council under McGeorge Bundy. And understanding who McGeorge Bundy is, you have to know that he was president of the Ford Foundation, i.e. a CIA front. And he also was part of the C…
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All of that nasty shit that we've talked about and spent the better part of a week on the Phoenix program and the murder, pacification, burning down of villages, creating another village, put a remote, checkpoints, all of those things. This…
▶ 8:24
It was worded in a way that allowed Israel to do whatever they wanted. So Comer then shows up in 1967 in South Vietnam. Now, keep in mind, there are so many of these stories that we've uncovered, so much of history, I should say, that pivot…
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The cabinet officials from civilian agencies, the Department of Defense, the U.S. missions in Saigon, had met in January of 66 in a small Virginia town outside of Washington, D.C. to discuss the topic, but could not reach agreement on how t…
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State Department wanted the person to be a special assistant to the Secretary of State. Chester Cooper, a staff member of the National Security Council, wrote an impassioned memo to the president arguing that the person should work for the …
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during and after this particular episode. So it says that this view had prevailed and now it was up to Comer to carry out the president's commitment in the face of the bureaucratic resistance from the civilian agencies. So Comer is basicall…
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into Vietnam doing the bidding of the president. And keep in mind, that is the model that was used in the Iran-Contra only out of the VP's office when they had Felix Rodriguez and those guys being ran out of Vice President Bush's office dir…
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With terrier-like determination, he had a reputation among Washington insiders for being prickly, abrasive, brash, impatient, and intolerant of bureaucratic foot dragging. As a longtime central intelligence analyst and NSC staff member, he …
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would assure that the civilian pacification efforts were coordinated with military operations. Further, he would support the U.S. mission in Saigon on matters under his purview. Comer administered a White House bureaucratic coup d'etat as w…
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The president acted as Comer requested when Lodge returned to Washington for consultations. Comer reiterated his concern at a National Security Council meeting a few days later, going as far as to say that the pacification has been outrun b…
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on track so strongly in the 50s because the Pentagon and the military had grown so much during World War II. And our whole history kind of like, kind of like de-emphasizes that. But if you read like the, I would recommend everybody read Hog…
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was people like IET17, Truth Hammer, and Praying Medic. Well, I was on Brian's thing one day when he was talking about something that had happened at the National Security Council, which I knew a little bit about. So I was kind of going bac…
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the city's most sacred Buddhist shrine. Sound familiar? Buddhists immediately took up arms and began fighting. The spectacle was repeated across Vietnam as thousands of Buddhists were arrested and jailed and executed. In response, August 21…
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On December 19, 1963, the Pentagon's planning branch in the Pacific, CINCPAC, presented a plan to a special group. Two weeks later, LBJ approved O-Plan 34A, and Major General Victor Krulik, and I have actually met him, handed the operationa…
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directly with the National Security Council, the National Security Advisor in the White House. It was, in effect, a blueprint for political warfare conceptualized by Ralph Johnson, adapted to Vietnamese unique things, and formalized by Fran…
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I have posted about it. I haven't talked about it in this Vietnam series. Well, I bring up the question because when I was, you know, I'm about halfway through my research on that. And, you know, that's actually, it's a 1955 Eisenhower dire…
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It apparently was named the 303 Committee. The blurb says an NSC National Security Council staffer had recommended the new name, and this is in quotes, be something utterly drab and innocuous to deflect away attention. Yeah. Yeah. So if you…
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When Gerald Ford got in, but basically the same offices make up this. And then Jimmy Carter called it the NSC special coordination committee, the SCC. So every one of the, you know, they basically have it. One of them was called the five, f…
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I'm curious about where whether and where it may overlap with another something that I've read a fair amount about. I'm trying to write something about called the Operations Coordinating Board, which I know, Colonel, you have come across be…
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The point needs to be made, and let me make this point real quick. Each president's National Security Council is set up the way they want it set up. And what you're describing is the same thing as the 303. Like I said, they come up with dif…
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Yeah, just a few general points about the OCB, which I think directly may relate to what you're describing as domestic Gladio opportunity points, is that first of all, the OCB was post-approval by the president. In other words, their job wa…
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The second point is that, you know, according to my research, you know, I can see a lot of possibilities for future domestic gladio operations that were, for example, there's one program called Operation Vigilant Liberty that was sort of, i…
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And that's basically what they're saying. They elected one of the military generals as being the chief of state, you know, because, of course, they assassinated the president at this point. And in 1965, the National Council of Security was …
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So it kind of was like a dual hat, have one of the civilian NGO kind of people here and then the commander up top. Although the civilians continued to object, Johnson wanted quick results, the kind the military could provide. And therefore,…
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So the contract was approved in 1955, and that was right after the National Security Council had endorsed Dem as the president. And the Michigan State University program ran for at least seven years that we can find documentation for. And t…
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President John F. Kennedy formed a National Security Council special group to manage U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Vietnam and elsewhere. A special assistant for covert activities was assigned to the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, a…
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The CIA was forced to give up its active role in the Contra Project and left the mess it had created for someone else to clean up. When the Boland Amendment went into effect in October 1984, the day-to-day control of the Contra Project was …
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the director of Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, where her boss was Condoleezza Rice. She worked briefly at JPMorgan Chase, then went to Merrill Lynch, and then went on to Goldman Sachs. So she has check, check, check. I…
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Okay, let's go on to the next question. So I asked him, who's Robert Pasteur? I had never heard of him. And he obviously was a key person in this globalist agenda. It says that he was born in 1947, American political scientist, foreign poli…
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His PhD from Harvard. So where was his focus on the National Security Council? And remember that the National Security Council is the body that orchestrates and coordinates Operation Gladio in the executive branch. Well, his focus was on th…
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It goes on to say that Pastor was a key advisor and reported directly to Brzezinski on the Carter staff. All right, let's see. He was also involved quite heavily in Romania. And it says that one documented visit to Romania was part of a U.S…
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Truman created the National Security Council in 1947 as part of this Clark Clipper drafted law to advise him on defense and foreign affairs and basically merge the war and Navy departments into a Department of Defense, which also set up a D…
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Under the National Security Act, the CIA was directly answerable because this was the subsequent act, the one that Clifford helped write, was directly answerable to the president through the National Security Council. The National Intellige…
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The president through the National Security Council. And who's in charge in the National Security Council? The National Security Advisor. And who was Trump's National Security Advisor? General Flynn. Now, do you understand why the CIA had t…
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And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…
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around the late 80s, early 90s, when Bush Sr. was in charge, and they had kind of fully fleshed out the enterprise, which is kind of the off-books version of the CIA, which there's definitely direct links, especially with Bush, to that orga…
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For directions, we have found things through Kissinger and Brzezinski that indicates that was still an existing courtesy that was done when the people that were operating in the enterprise, which, by the way, is a private version off the bo…
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He says from the creation of the CIA, it was caught up in different flows of which administration. So in the fall of 1947, the first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, asked the CIA if it would be capable of undertaking secret political…
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Hillenotter then went to Truman with the problem. A proposal for secret propaganda was initiated for presidential consideration. In this connection, the State Department advised in December that the Soviet covert operations threatened to de…
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Also wanted basically a special operations caveat. In June 1948, President Truman resolved this matter by expanding the function not only of the CIA, but of the state and defense departments with the National Security Council as well. Throu…
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The committee was made up of a unit in the National Security Council and thus worked directly for the president. Their group was composed of representatives from the Secretary of State and Defense. It was called the 10-2 Panel. Now, we've c…
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The 10-2 panel funds for the new organization would be included in the budget of the CIA, while the director would be nominated by the Secretary of State and approved by the NSC. According to 10-2 directive, the overt foreign activities of …
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They organized resistance there right away. The captive nations, disaffected minorities, and groups of disillusioned social democrats and communists were fertile recruiting grounds for the CIA and Western intelligence. The first unit at CIA…
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In the heat of the Cold War, government records showed that it was originally intended that the Office of Policy Coordination maintain its capabilities for only extraordinary times. In the 10-2 panel, which is the managing oversight group c…
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made clear that the OPC should be controlled by the State Department during peacetime and by the Pentagon during war. In turn, George Kennan, who of course was the State Department, specified that his department be given detailed informatio…
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The Secretary of Army initially prohibited the assignment of Army officers to the Office of Policy Coordination on the grounds that he wished his service to have nothing to do with covert operations. But in 1948, the Joint Staff went on rec…
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so that you basically became a hostage in your own country. Geography suggested that the possibility of sealing South Vietnamese borders and preventing infiltration was a challenge. The border control approach was being touted early in May …
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Ford and Carter administration in the National Security Council. So basically every coup that we did between Nixon, Ford and Carter, this guy was involved in. He also specialized in NATO. He was a special assistant, meaning like right hand …
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I think you're right. I think there's probably buried in there somewhere some of these same players that hover beneath the spotlight that span that entire time frame in very critical positions because he spent 90 to 93 in the National Secur…
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At the Woodrow Wilson Public and International Affairs School. So he was in and out of the National Security Council multiple times under multiple presidents. So that's the kind of continuity you need for things like this. So thanks, Colone…
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A member of the American Center for Democracy advanced this of the narco-terrorists in three books in which Latin American guerrilla movements described as narco-terrorists were linked to Cuba and the Soviet Union, when in fact, they're not…
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and imperialist conquest for profit. During the final decade of the Cold War, the protection or promotion of major drug traffickers by senior CIA and National Security Council officials became intrinsically linked to the U.S. imperial adven…
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He advised multiple Republican campaigns, served in think tanks supporting Republicans. Under George W. Bush, Abrams returned to the National Security Council, where Operation Gladio is ran out of, as the senior director for, quote unquote,…
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Nicaragua and the surrounding area, for that matter. In the Bush National Security Council, Abrams pushed for the 2003 Iraq invasion, co-authoring a memo that exaggerated the weapons of mass destruction and ignored intelligence to the contr…
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alongside Gaudreau, also asserted the CIA and other U.S. agencies was aware. According to his attorneys, Alcala's effort to overthrow Maduro's government was reported to the CIA, National Security Council, John Bolton, and the Department of…
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remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …
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Esper continued in his description of the meeting. I looked directly at him about 15 feet away from me down the table to my left. He turned to me and our eyes met. His face immediately went blank. Something was up. Esper let his suspicion p…
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Esper noted, I probably should have stayed too. When Operation Gideon went into effect roughly three months later, Esper said he wondered if this was the plan referred to by Guaido's team at the White House back in February. Though Venezuel…
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pointed out the whole rumor mill that was going on throughout the State Department, the CIA with their mouthpieces in the media of all of these threats that they were going to break Saab out of jail any day had literally no intelligence beh…
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In April 2021, USAID published an internal audit that confirmed that the Venezuelans government had claimed all along the border stunt had been driven entirely by politics, not humanitarian objectives. The audit reported that the State Depa…
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directly inhibiting USAID's ability to adhere to humanitarian principles and mitigate operational risks. So in other words, it isn't the normal USAID chain of food being delivered there. What was being delivered there, whatever it was, was …
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He was resented in polite Washington society because he was straightforward. My friends among DC's marginalized circle of former military and intelligence officials with anti-interventionalist views hope that McGregor could one day replace …
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a key electoral prize for an U.S. candidate. Trump eventually enabled Washington's most notorious group to commandeer his approach to Latin America and the Caribbean. In April 2018, he shocked many of his supporters by appointing notorious …
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Caroni, a Cuban-American to head the council's division on Western Hemisphere. Within a matter of weeks, Trump's Latin American policy had been hijacked by the very Beltway swamp creatures upon which he had previously declared war. Througho…
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And it says that he created his own association under the guise of a private investigative firm in Washington, D.C., you know, where the CIA is. And he is linked to, let's see, under the CIA work, it says that he was summoned to then Vice P…
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According to the government's documents filed during North's trial, Noriega offered to have the entire Sandinista leadership assassinated in exchange for a promise from the U.S. to help clean up Noriega's image. North raised the proposal at…
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was sent in bank loans to Noriega. Meanwhile, a former staffer on the National Security Council, Dr. Norman Bailey, was frantically trying to alert various high-ranking government officials to the fact that Noriega was in bed with drug traf…
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the dopey, gap-toothed zealot portrayed by the Reagan administration and the press, North was one of the most powerful men in Washington. The spring of 1985, he was on top and testified at Allen Fires, the CIA's Central American Task Force …
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I saw that happen in other ways in other places with other agencies. FIRE's boss at the CIA was Claire George. And he echoed, I suffer from the bureaucrat's disease that when people call me and say I am calling from the White House for the …
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One of the vehicles North selected to handle that chore was a new unit set up inside the State Department called Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office. The office was officially created in the middle of 1985 to oversee deliveries of $27…
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North and CIA first tried to get the operation placed inside the National Security Council, where it would be free from public scrutiny and North could control it directly. But that failed. Instead, Fiers said, North simply just hijacked it…
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Nunes revealed that since 85, he had engaged in a clandestine relationship with the NSC. Nunes refused to elaborate on the nature of these actions, but indicated it was difficult to answer questions relating to the involvement in narcotic t…
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The agency's position is not to get involved in this matter and to turn it over to others because it had nothing to do with the agency, but with the National Security Council, but with the National Security Council. That came from former CI…
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who ran the Contra project at the time, confirmed that Nunes' questioning was stopped because of the NSC connection and the possibility that it could be somehow connected to North, otherwise known as the Iran-Contra affair. The CIA made the…
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So the president is largely treated like the CIA tries to treat itself. So here's what they do. As we just read, the National Security Council is in charge of a lot of the covert operations, which is where Oliver North was.…
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was going to take over the responsibilities, or at least in part, take over those responsibilities, unquote, not as a volunteer, but as a worker. And we know that he was reporting to Donald Gregg directly to the National Security Advisor of…
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if word ever leaked to the public. CIA records show that Hangar 4 had been used by the agency for covert contra operations until it was turned over in 1985 to the National Security Council and Oliver North for illegal arms called the Enterp…