Brigade 2506 organization
also: Cuban Exiles Brigade, 2506 Brigade 2506, La Brigada 2506, Cuban Brigade 2506, 2506 Brigade, exile army, exile brigade, exile force, the Cuban brigade, the brigade
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Claims (112)
Fidel Castro removed_from_power
Brigade 2506 documented
“closed in toward the shore with orders to take the survivors out. 22 more survived a sailboat odyssey to land in Mexico. The remnants of the Brigade 2506, including San Roman political advisor Roman Artine and Anito Oliva, who had been the …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 57:34
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“went over the Cuba project with eye-opening details. For most of that day, they brought their knowledge that the US had already created a secret army of Cuban exiles. Gray had poster-sized charts and noted that the US participation was expe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 7:09
Brigade 2506 member_of
Bay of Pigs documented
“respective countries, as well as their deployment forward to do joint operations with other Gladio elements. So with this particular guy, I actually found a CIA document that indicates that kind of cross utilization. And he played a key rol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shell Game Part 4 @ 1:01:57
Roberto San Roman member_of
Brigade 2506 documented
“one of the Cuban exiles is talking to the CIA and it says, this is from a memorandum in a CIA file on Roberto Perez San Roman. In his 23 January meeting,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 0:31
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Havana book_quoted
“Balinquina Hotel, exiles decided to make a raid. Six Cubans crammed into a speedboat with .50 caliber machine guns and a cannon and a bunch of rifles. On August 24th, they entered the suburban harbor at Miramar, sailed close enough to the h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 11:37
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“that they had spent millions and millions of dollars setting up that Brigade 2506, which is where we found Felix Rodriguez, where he was proudly wearing his Brigade 2506 shirt when Tucker Carlson interviewed him. It mentions that the same p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 39:05
Grayston Lynch headed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“He does bring up Grayston Lynch, who was a quote unquote CIA advisor that was in charge of the Brigade 2506 and him going ashore when Kennedy specifically forbid anybody that was an American to be on the shore for plausible deniability.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 41:10
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“who was a student of Ted Shackley and a member of the Brigade 2506, which was part of the Cuban exiles. And it was Felix Rodriguez that went to work for Shackley over in Vietnam. It was Felix Rodriguez that went down to Latin America and di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 40:44
Pablo Escobar carried_out_attack
Brigade 2506 guest_asserted
“And when Escobar, who is notorious down in Colombia, got a little ahead of the schedule for the CIA, and he started coming into Miami knocking off their preferred domestic network carriers, which was the Cuban exiles. They began running the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:50:35
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“Recruit number 2506 fell to his death during a march through the mountains. In memory of him, that's how they came up with the 2506 Brigade. So Felix Rodriguez, the guy that we talk about all the time because he's another Forrest Gump guy o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 34:41
José Pérez San Román headed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“rodriguez santana who was killed during training and his serial number or exile number was 2506 san roman commanded a force that eventually totaled 1400 men beginning with the second battalion battalion the brigade units were success um suc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 35:10
Brigade 2506 trained
Fort Knox host_asserted
“Plus trucks mounted with .50 caliber machine guns. The tank detachment actually trained at the U.S. Army base at Fort Knox and never met their comrades until the invasion. So, hey, you guys all get on this airplane. We're going to fly you t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 36:09
Nino Diaz headed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“until the invasion. Brilliant. The weapons unit contained 4.2 inch mortars, 3.5 inch bazookas, 57 and 75 millimeter recoilless rifles. The battalions ranged from 167 to 185 men, somewhat fewer than a standard rifle company in the U.S. Army.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 36:40
Manuel Villafana headed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“at the event, which is ridiculous. Finally, there was an Exile Air Force under the command of Major Manuel Villafanta. The air group numbered more than 150 Cubans and an equal number of Americans, both as air crew and support roles. The com…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 37:40
Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“eight C-46s and six C-54s. Richard Bissell expected to reinforce the brigade 2506 beachhead once the invasion began. About 500 Cubans gathered in the Miami area and 162 joined the brigade before it left Guatemala.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 38:09
Paul Kennedy exposed
Brigade 2506 documented
“Besides discussions in Miami and Havana newspapers, a major leak appeared in the New York Times on January 10, 1961, an article by Paul Kennedy. And yet another sign of eroding secrecy. In its January 27, 1961 issue, Time magazine printed a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 38:55
Time-Life exposed
Brigade 2506 documented
“Besides discussions in Miami and Havana newspapers, a major leak appeared in the New York Times on January 10, 1961, an article by Paul Kennedy. And yet another sign of eroding secrecy. In its January 27, 1961 issue, Time magazine printed a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 38:55
Esterling headed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“As a matter of fact, secret warriors recount that the final weeks before the election, Nixon encouraged a slowdown in the expectation that he would be taken over. Then, having lost, the vice president egged Ike to accelerate the project. Ta…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 49:48
Admiral Dennison supplied_arms_to
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“The Navy reinforced Guantanamo in case Castro should move against it. And Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, quietly put two battalions of Marines on transports in the area just in case. Denison provided a flotilla built arou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 33:42
Arleigh Burke supplied_arms_to
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“The Navy reinforced Guantanamo in case Castro should move against it. And Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, quietly put two battalions of Marines on transports in the area just in case. Denison provided a flotilla built arou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 33:42
Grayston Lynch member_of
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“on April 1st, viewed the aerial photos of the new landing site at the Bay of Pigs and the nearby village of Playa Garon, he saw coral reefs. Photo interpreters told Lynch he was wrong. Cubans on his ship actually knew the reefs and confirme…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 35:08
Jack Hawkins member_of
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“Drain suggested that they could just not go back to work. Had the Cuba task force walked off the job in the middle of the pre-invasion workshop, that surely would have ended Project ATE. Some looked very uncomfortable. Jack Hawkins was angr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 37:10
Haynes Johnson exposed
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“The men have received more firing experience than U.S. troops would normally receive. I was impressed with the serious attitude of the men. It was that memorandum that resulted in Kennedy giving the go ahead. And it is entirely a lie. When …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 40:03
Mario Zuniga member_of
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“was lying down and lying up for reasons that I don't yet totally understand. Lying up and down, Richard Bissell. Almost immediately, the bombing cover story began to unravel. The exile planes from Nicaragua reached Florida as planned. One l…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 45:31
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Cuba documented
“Brigade 2506 would still have had to get out through a far superior Cuban army, which the terrain would have had favored just as it did to help in an exile defense, which is what they thought it was going to do, except they didn't occupy th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 19:44
Jose Basalto member_of
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“revolutionary director at DRE, continued on the CIA's payroll. One of the raiders, Jose Basalto, would continue to lead similar independent forays into the Cuba for decades that followed. That's weird. It's supposedly independent, but he ha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 12:08
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“At the Miami station, the situation was very confusing. Ted Shackley had seen a stream of orders for more than a week. His exile teams were on edge. Felix Rodriguez, for example, had been accosted by case officer Thomas Clines and asked to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 23:05
Salvadoran Armed Forces founded
Brigade 2506 documented
“Castro's government statements pointedly feared a new larger, better equipped exile brigade. The U.S. denied such plans, but in fact, there was another exile initiative organized by the American military. It created a special Cuban voluntee…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 32:32
Joe Califano headed
Brigade 2506 documented
“Joseph Califano managed the project on behalf of the Secretary of the Army, Cyrus Vance. A special assistant, Califano was serious about the care and feeding of the Cuban brigade. Bobby or JFK was on the phone to Califano almost daily about…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 33:55
Robert F. Kennedy recruited
Brigade 2506 documented
“Joseph Califano managed the project on behalf of the Secretary of the Army, Cyrus Vance. A special assistant, Califano was serious about the care and feeding of the Cuban brigade. Bobby or JFK was on the phone to Califano almost daily about…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 33:55
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 documented
“carries out our foreign policy regardless of what anybody in Washington wants. The CIA refocusing had almost finished training a new team of frogmen for underwater demolition and had two paramilitary teams in readiness and all about 50 exil…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 39:20
CIA funded
Brigade 2506 documented
“sabotage program featured about 50,000 pieces of mail per month sent anonymously to Cubans from throughout the Hispanic world encouraging resistance. Agency subsidies to Cuban political groups continued at at least a quarter million a month…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 39:50
Robert F. Kennedy funded
Brigade 2506 documented
“had gotten permission to pull together all the Cubans in the army and create a combat unit in the army of Cuban exiles. The press had already connected RFK to our time and others in the operation. Bobby suggested floating so many rumors tha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 50:31
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“winds up because remember he's brigade 2506 and a member of the cuban exile community in miami and he ends up as the number three guy running iran contra under vice president bush donald greg his national security advisor and felix rodrigue…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 4:27
CIA funded
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“that they had spent millions and millions of dollars setting up that Brigade 2506, which is where we found Felix Rodriguez, where he was proudly wearing his Brigade 2506 shirt when Tucker Carlson interviewed him. It mentions that the same p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 39:05
CIA covered_up
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“The CIA hoped to conceal the exile's hand, claiming the airstrikes were by Castro defectors. To this end, the agency acquired two additional B-26 bombers simply to fly from Nicaragua to Florida, where the pilots would retell the cover story…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 42:34
Tito Mesa funded
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“had been a benefactor to the members of the Cuban Brigade 2506. No kidding. The infamous, oh, because they got imprisoned on the Isle of Pines, the infamous prison where they kept the Bay of Pigs people. So Tito Mesa was a Cuban drug figure…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 36:49
Tito Mesa paid
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“had been a benefactor to the members of the Cuban Brigade 2506. No kidding. The infamous, oh, because they got imprisoned on the Isle of Pines, the infamous prison where they kept the Bay of Pigs people. So Tito Mesa was a Cuban drug figure…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 36:49
CIA funded
Brigade 2506 documented
“While every single element had to go right for it to have even had a remote chance of success. The CIA's project had been marginal at best from the beginning. Dwight Eisenhower and the agency share the blame for that. Richard Bissell had be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 21:42
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“to go to war against the people that are truly the freedom fighters and the people that want the land back for their original owners, which happened to be in the Sandinista government. Okay, Tom Clines enjoyed a long history and friendship …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 41:20
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“had Cubans running all over the place. The actual Cubans were the Cuban exiles trained as assassins working for the CIA against the good guys and with UNINA, who were the corrupt resource-stealing people up there next to and related to the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 55:17
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“It's just they're all put together in a completely different way based on this other scenario where we have come across all of them in other scenarios. And then, you know, on this project, they all intersect in a completely different way. B…”
▶ Operation Gladio loose ends @ 1:37:16
Brigade 2506 member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“The preponderance of the group that was involved in Watergate were trained by the CIA's Miami station as part of the quote unquote Cuban exiles, which are our Operation Gladio people. The Cuban exiles was used throughout America to do some …”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 59:39
Guatemala removed_from_power
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“began insisting the CIA Cuban units leave immediately. A different and huge obstacle lay in the fact that Eisenhower no longer commanded the secret warriors. JFK had won the 1960 presidential election on November 6, 1960, defeating Richard …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 39:23
Edward Lansdale trained
Brigade 2506 book_quoted
“Exile groups were providing recruits for paramilitary training, and the CIA had a 35-man commando unit that was part of the Nino Diaz element of the Cuban Brigade, ready for action any minute. Propaganda efforts were in the best shape. Radi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 7:12
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“He's a Cuban exile. He was a member of the Brigade 2506.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 29:20
Brigade 2506 deployed_to
Angola host_asserted
“The preponderance of the group that was involved in Watergate were trained by the CIA's Miami station as part of the quote unquote Cuban exiles, which are our Operation Gladio people. The Cuban exiles was used throughout America to do some …”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 59:39
Brigade 2506 deployed_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“to Nicaragua under Reagan. So, um, there's some very nefarious things that he was involved in, but at the same time, he did some good things. So I'm, I'm still researching and I spend a lot of time on Nixon, by the way, um, for that very re…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 1:00:04
José Raúl Verona González member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“Jose Rayol Verona Gonzalez, a Cuban exile and intelligence officer for Brigade 2506. You know, Felix Rodriguez's hangout. He was part of the ultra-secretive Operation 40, a CIA counterintelligence unit of exiles tasked with assassinations.…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:22:30
Carl Elmer Jenkins trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“His first assignment was maritime infiltration in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, which, of course, all of those places we screwed with. Then he served as chief of a CIA base in Guatemala. Oh, yeah, that's right. We coo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 35:43
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Chile host_asserted
“of what the CIA did in Miami with the Cuban exiles. Yes. So the Cuban exiles were used exactly the same way. And they were used not only in the JFK assassination, they were used in the assassination of the Chilean ambassador in Washington, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:34:05
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“of what the CIA did in Miami with the Cuban exiles. Yes. So the Cuban exiles were used exactly the same way. And they were used not only in the JFK assassination, they were used in the assassination of the Chilean ambassador in Washington, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:34:05
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Watergate scandal host_asserted
“of what the CIA did in Miami with the Cuban exiles. Yes. So the Cuban exiles were used exactly the same way. And they were used not only in the JFK assassination, they were used in the assassination of the Chilean ambassador in Washington, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:34:05
Miami trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“for us. And those terrorists have all grown up and have been used extensively throughout the world, not just in the Middle East, throughout the world. They came here on 9-11. They have been used throughout the world, just like the Cuban exi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya @ 1:18:33
Mario Zuniga member_of
Brigade 2506 documented
“The exiled planes detailed for this purpose reached Florida as planned. One landed at Opelika and the other at Miami International Airport, where its pilot, Mario Zuniga, recited the prearranged story as a disaffected Cuban air crew member.…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 40:12
Fidel Castro carried_out_attack
Brigade 2506 documented
“was still in place off the beaches. That was when Castro's Air Force made its contribution. Two strikes at 6.30 and 9 a.m. Sea Flurry aircraft sank the ships Houston and the Rio Escondido. The former…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 49:32
Richard M. Bissell Jr. funded
Brigade 2506 documented
“were driven back on all fronts. The Cuban pilots of the Air Force were also demoralized after losing two of their planes on the initial day. To shore them up, Bissell now authorized combat missions by the American contract crews, the other …”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11 @ 55:39
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 guest_asserted
“Then pulls a fast one. Tucker asked Rodriguez about whether he believed Cuban exiles or the CIA were involved in Kennedy's assassination. This was the response. Quote, I'll tell you, most of the brigade members, and he's talking about the 2…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 41:00
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Angola host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Vietnam host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Honduras host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
El Salvador host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Guatemala host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Nicaragua host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Costa Rica host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Bay of Pigs host_asserted
“had this kind of sneaking suspicion that, although I don't have an actual document that, and nor will we ever find one, that the Cuban exiles were our Gladio. They were our Gladio. And I don't need a smoking gun piece of paper to say that. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shell Game Part 4 @ 1:01:28
Brigade 2506 front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“But if you understand Operation Gladio, it puts JFK's assassination in a completely different light. If you understand that the Cuban exiles were our Gladio units, if you understand what the role of the OAS was in France and the fact that t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 25 (26) @ 1:18:29
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Chile host_asserted
“transportation company down there. And their kids were then recruited into this group called the Brigade 2506. Well, Brigade 2506, if you look them up, was involved in the assassination of JFK. They were involved in the of the Chilean ambas…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:27:08
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Massacres in Nicaragua and El Salvador host_asserted
“Mass murder. They were involved in the staging in El Salvador of the mass murder and complete village annihilation throughout Nicaragua. And we were lying about who they were attacking. They labeled these people as communists and they had n…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:27:35
Brigade 2506 funded
Contras book_quoted
“Adolfo Calero threw himself into fundraising. Cuban exiles were a major target. Restaurants and community centers in Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, became locales for Calero and others to whip up sentiment for them to write checks. But th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 26:33
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“Barry Seale. And the shooting down of the Iran-Contra, what sparked the Iran-Contra revelation was the shooting down of the aircraft that exposed the drug running, all arranged by the CIA, the Cuban exiles. We have tracked the Cuban exile c…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 2:09:38
Frank Castro member_of
Brigade 2506 documented
“It's worked to be the elimination of foreign politicians. It doesn't like, because of course the CIA does that too. The Cuban exile, Frank Castro, was a member of the infamous Brigade 2506, which of course put him in close contact with Feli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 4:34
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“using Cuban exiles, which, by the way, all trained by the CIA…”
▶ CIA_ The CIA doesn’t work domestically, right_ RIGHT_ @ 0:35
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“So they've been deployable Gladio assassins for the CIA, trained down in Southern Florida and New Orleans and Southern Texas.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:04:59
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“they were brought into Miami in order to try to get the island back and basically overthrow Cuba. So they trained these Cuban exiles.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 28:52
CIA recruited
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“And they all came to Miami. And those are the community that people refer to as the Cuban exiles. The CIA cultivated them into Gladio operators. And they were used as assassins all over the world.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:07:48
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Letelier bombing documented
“Two of them were convicted of bombing the former ambassador to Chile, Alende Lettier, in downtown D.C. and killed an American citizen as a result of that, the bombing.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:04:37
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 guest_asserted
“Brigade 2506. Felix Rodriguez, the guy that Tucker interviewed about six months ago, he's an assassin. He was part of Brigade 2506.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 26:52
Reagan administration recruited
Brigade 2506 guest_asserted
“Congo and was controlling it. We wanted to control Angola post-World War II and forward. And so during the Reagan administration, they orchestrated a war using, by the way, Cuban exiles as paramilitary that they trucked into Angola and they…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 2:08:05
Brigade 2506 member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“You had to sign a secret agreement to be in NATO to say that you were setting up these units. So all of them have them. I told you unequivocally that the Brigade 2506, the Cuban exiles, were part of our Gladio facilities. They were deployed…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 1:15:26
Brigade 2506 member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“orchestrating Operation Gladio inside the United States. They were used all over the world. They were used in Colombia. They were used in El Salvador. They were used in Angola. They were used in Vietnam.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:04:59
Lyman Lemnitzer supplied_arms_to
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“that Lyman Lemesger had basically moved those forces, not all of which were known to JFK. JFK's position all along was absolutely no US military boots on the ground, period, none. No US military flying aircraft, no anything. The US military…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 22 (23) @ 58:48
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Cuba host_asserted
“The Cuban exiles then not only just attacked Cuba…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 28:52
Richard M. Bissell Jr. headed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“that they had spent millions and millions of dollars setting up that Brigade 2506, which is where we found Felix Rodriguez, where he was proudly wearing his Brigade 2506 shirt when Tucker Carlson interviewed him. It mentions that the same p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 39:05
Brigade 2506 front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“had this kind of sneaking suspicion that, although I don't have an actual document that, and nor will we ever find one, that the Cuban exiles were our Gladio. They were our Gladio. And I don't need a smoking gun piece of paper to say that. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Shell Game Part 4 @ 1:01:28
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“research project into what we had commonly referred to as Cuban exiles. Cuban exiles, for those of you who don't know, were actually Gladio operators. They were utilized throughout Latin America and South America to help the CIA perform cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 1:26:25
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“These are not poor people. These are not people desperate for a job. These are children of elite people, just like the whole Laurel Canyon garbage that went on out in L.A. So he ends up being in a training cell called Cuban Exiles Brigade. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:08:48
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“Those people went to El Salvador. They went to Honduras. They went to Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Nicaragua. He's been everywhere. He's the guy that was standing there when they arrested Che Guevara and killed him in either…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:09:19
Operation Northwoods carried_out_attack
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“The reason he got fired is because he wrote a plan called Operation Northwood. And if you look up Operation Northwood, it talks about using the U.S.'s Gladio forces, which were called Cuban exiles, to plant bombs in American major cities to…”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 35:59
Norwin Menendez member_of
Brigade 2506 guest_asserted
“was plugged tightly into the Cuban exile community in Miami. He assisted the Cuban Legion in their radio propaganda shows coming from Miami, Terrell said, adding that Menendez was an associate of several members of the 2506 Brigade that mad…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 49:49
Operation Gladio trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“And one of the cartels I came across when I started looking into him isn't even Mexican. The guy's from Cuba. He was one of the Cuban exiles that came and was trained as a terrorist in Miami. And we set him up as a cartel chief in Mexico. S…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 1:17:23
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“And one of the cartels I came across when I started looking into him isn't even Mexican. The guy's from Cuba. He was one of the Cuban exiles that came and was trained as a terrorist in Miami. And we set him up as a cartel chief in Mexico. S…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 2 @ 1:17:23
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 guest_asserted
“Operation Northwood was to take some of the Cuban train CIA train Cuban exiles in Miami, dress them up in Castro uniforms…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 27:23
Brigade 2506 member_of
White House Plumbers host_asserted
“in downtown Washington, D.C., and killed an innocent woman that was walking next to him. So they have done, they're the same people. They're the Cuban exile people that were on the Watergate plumber team. They were the Cuban exiles that wer…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:09:50
CIA trained
Brigade 2506 guest_asserted
“And we're going to use this group called Cuban exiles that we have hanging out down in Miami that we've already trained to be terrorists, which they did.…”
▶ Colonel Towner-Watkins_ Operation Gladio (guest) @ 30:36
Felix Rodriguez member_of
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“There were remnants of that affiliation when he's down in Miami, which was the case in Felix Rodriguez and all of them.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:06:00
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Watergate break-in host_asserted
“Two of those guys were used for the Watergate break-in. One of those guys was used, Allende from Chile, after he was murdered. One of his ambassadors, the ambassador to the U.S. from Chile, got trapped in the United States and obviously cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2 @ 1:25:30
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
United States host_asserted
“You can have this apparatus operating inside of your country. We had the CIA operating rogue operations under JFK that he didn't know anything about. It has happened here. The fact that you guys had never heard of Operation Gladio and the C…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 1:25:33
Otto Skorzeny trained
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“Because I was stationed in Europe. I went on a NATO deployment. I was part of NATO. So that, you know, was just enough to get my interest up. So in researching that, and then you see that the exact same people that Otto Skorzeny trained for…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 12:58
Brigade 2506 assassinated
Washington, D.C. host_asserted
“with the CIA, they wanted him dead. So two, what we refer to as Colombian exiles, planted a bomb and murdered him and another American aide that was working with him on the streets of Washington, D.C. So a Gladio terror event happened in do…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2 @ 1:26:00
CIA framed
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“In any operation that they have, they have layers of blame before you get to the CIA. I believe that the Cuban exiles were one of those layers of blame, just for the record.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 53:20
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“in downtown Washington, D.C., and killed an innocent woman that was walking next to him. So they have done, they're the same people. They're the Cuban exile people that were on the Watergate plumber team. They were the Cuban exiles that wer…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:09:50
White House Plumbers recruited
Brigade 2506 host_asserted
“in Nixon's plumber unit, using Cuban exiles…”
▶ CIA_ The CIA doesn’t work domestically, right_ RIGHT_ @ 0:35
Brigade 2506 assassinated
Orlando Letelier guest_asserted
“One of the Cuban exiles, I think two went to prison. They were trained Gladio people, went to Washington, D.C. and ignited a car bomb, killing him and an American citizen, his aide, in downtown Washington, D.C.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 41:17
Brigade 2506 attempted_coup_against
United States host_asserted
“under the guise of Cuban exiles. They were also used to coup the United States government. And there was some implications of them, although I don't believe they were actually the trigger pullers in the JFK assassination as well. I think th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2 @ 1:26:29
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Robert Kennedy assassination host_asserted
“They were used in the plot to assassinate JFK.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:04:37
Brigade 2506 assassinated
Salvador Allende host_asserted
“Two of those guys were used for the Watergate break-in. One of those guys was used, Allende from Chile, after he was murdered. One of his ambassadors, the ambassador to the U.S. from Chile, got trapped in the United States and obviously cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2 @ 1:25:30
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Robert Kennedy assassination guest_asserted
“They were also implicated in the overthrow of Nixon. They were implicated in the assassination of JFK and RFK.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 41:46
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“But going back to the Cubans, the Cubans ended up in Angola. They were in the Congo when Lumumba was murdered. So these are literal deployable paramilitary assassins, terrorists that will go anywhere and do anything. And that's what they're…”
▶ X SPACES Éire Community-Operation Gladio, Colonel Towner Watkins @ 1:58:17
Sergio Pino member_of
Brigade 2506 caller_asserted
“Sergio Pino, look it up. This is the same person that was introduced in La Brigada 2506, which is where the Cuban leaders are making billions and billions. I can hear you a little bit, Colonel, but you are banding. Yes. Yes, I can hear you,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:15:00
Brigade 2506 overthrew
Richard Nixon guest_asserted
“They were also implicated in the overthrow of Nixon. They were implicated in the assassination of JFK and RFK.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 41:46
Marco Rubio member_of
Brigade 2506 speculative
“Rubio grew up in that. Now, however it affected him, I have no clue.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 1:07:48
Mentions (120)
▶ 1:04:11
We will never know that unless it gets disclosed. Right. And you can make a case for either way. Marco Rubio's family, just in case you guys don't know, if you go back and you look at the Cuban exiles and anybody that follows me knows that …
▶ 1:04:59
orchestrating Operation Gladio inside the United States. They were used all over the world. They were used in Colombia. They were used in El Salvador. They were used in Angola. They were used in Vietnam. So they've been deployable Gladio as…
▶ 1:05:29
of the Cuban elite that were employed by the mafia. Now, if you go look up Rubio's dad, he worked in some of the Cuban mafia Batista establishments in Cuba. You can make the argument, I don't have any conclusive evidence of it, that because…
▶ 1:06:29
So they're all from very wealthy families. All of the Cuban exiles are from very wealthy, complicit Batista families. So just as a reminder that, you know, the mafia basically had installed, basically ran the government of Cuba as their own…
▶ 1:07:48
And they all came to Miami. And those are the community that people refer to as the Cuban exiles. The CIA cultivated them into Gladio operators. And they were used as assassins all over the world. Rubio grew up in that. Now, however it affe…
▶ 0:35
We all know that the CIA was involved, not as trigger pullers, involved in JFK's assassination, in Nixon's plumber unit, using Cuban exiles, which, by the way, all trained by the CIA. But they always use groups outside of their actual agent…
▶ 25:30
People are portrayed to us, the news consumers, in a completely different light than what their real role is. And the best example that I've come across, because I have personal experience with it, living in Florida, is the role of the Cuba…
▶ 26:00
The way to us in America, the way they really are on the ground, wherever they're at. And there's no better illustration of that than the Cuban exiles. For us, we have always been told that the Cuban exiles were people, poor people that wer…
▶ 26:29
For the majority of the Cuban exiles, that is absolutely a fable. The CIA installed Batista in Cuba and they also went into the mountains. Literally CIA agents went into the mountains and trained the Castro brothers along with Che Cabrera a…
▶ 28:22
In Cuba or Chile or wherever they install these dictators. And so in light of that, the Cuban exiles are primarily those elite that got displaced when Castro came to power. They were not the poor peasants. They're all still there. Nobody he…
▶ 28:52
of the Sullivan and Cromwell, the, shoot, United Fruit was in Cuba. So all of those people, the people that worked for William Polly, they were brought into Miami in order to try to get the island back and basically overthrow Cuba. So they …
▶ 29:20
But they also were deployed in Nicaragua. They were deployed in Honduras. They were deployed in El Salvador. They, in many cases, to include Felix Rodriguez in the whole Iran-Contra, number three guy in the Bush vice president Reagan White …
▶ 29:20
But they also were deployed in Nicaragua. They were deployed in Honduras. They were deployed in El Salvador. They, in many cases, to include Felix Rodriguez in the whole Iran-Contra, number three guy in the Bush vice president Reagan White …
▶ 29:45
like a commanding member of the Brigade 2506, which is basically a death squad. He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director. He was training people in El Salvador. He was train…
▶ 30:14
They did it in many of the South American. So the fact that you have this criminal element that was 100 percent groomed and cultivated by the CIA as part of the JFK narrative with the car trip from Miami up through New Orleans, as you menti…
▶ 30:45
Sure. Yeah. Lots of stuff going on with the Cuban exiles. I agree with your assessment that the poor Cubans were not the ones that were getting out as exiles. Yes, that's true. It's funny. Every time you look at a Cuban exile and you study …
▶ 31:14
Yeah. I'm trying to think even where to start on the Cuban exile side of things. Let's talk about Rose Jeremy really quick because you just brought that up. That was – and we'll come right back to the Cubans because they're super involved i…
▶ 44:56
Fun fact. OK, that might that might have been a headline as far as Cuban exiles and the Kennedy assassination. I mean, it's a huge topic. But just what I've covered so far, what I can speak to competently is really the time in New Orleans a…
▶ 45:22
pro castro guys handing out fair play for cuba materials um and then but privately when when we look at witness statements of who he was hanging out with he's he's hanging out with these pro castro people right and uh the counterpoint from …
▶ 47:15
CIA and in the mafia because he's he's a pilot. He's Carlos Marcello's personal pilot. But Oswald is seen at Cuban exile training camps. And there's actually a video that's been that was shown to the HSCA investigators of a film of Oswald a…
▶ 48:12
one of the leading theories let's say about about what happened and i don't want to speak out of turn and i'm not just to be clear like i don't have the receipts for this yet i will next season but i don't i don't have the receipts for this…
▶ 50:02
Like these guys being the Cuban exiles, CIA, mafia, they all had – they were so mad after Bay of Pigs that they did it on their own. John Newman, he's pretty certain that the generals are behind it and that basically the generals had a – yo…
▶ 52:52
I think just as I do with Watergate, that the Cuban exiles had an intricate role, but they were not the actual operators. Could you have found one or two assassins? Yeah. I mean, Felix Rodriguez was an assassin that were deployed there as p…
▶ 53:20
In any operation that they have, they have layers of blame before you get to the CIA. I believe that the Cuban exiles were one of those layers of blame, just for the record. So let me go to your comment about the generals. So I did a list o…
▶ 1:05:43
Kennedy, having had fired Alan Dulles for not doing what he was supposed to do in the Bay of Pigs and disobeying Kennedy, is looking at Lyman Lemonsker when he comes to him with a plan called Operation Northwood. Operation Northwood is an O…
▶ 30:36
And we're going to use this group called Cuban exiles that we have hanging out down in Miami that we've already trained to be terrorists, which they did. And we're going to use them to blow up American city. That was actually a plan. It's b…
▶ 59:39
The preponderance of the group that was involved in Watergate were trained by the CIA's Miami station as part of the quote unquote Cuban exiles, which are our Operation Gladio people. The Cuban exiles was used throughout America to do some …
▶ 1:22:26
diddling around doing all my research in Europe. And it dawned on me about nine months later, holy shit, we're in NATO. Who the hell's our Gladio unit? And that's what led me to research the Cuban exiles and their use in Gladio operations a…
▶ 2:08:05
Congo and was controlling it. We wanted to control Angola post-World War II and forward. And so during the Reagan administration, they orchestrated a war using, by the way, Cuban exiles as paramilitary that they trucked into Angola and they…
▶ 1:22:30
Jose Rayol Verona Gonzalez, a Cuban exile and intelligence officer for Brigade 2506. You know, Felix Rodriguez's hangout. He was part of the ultra-secretive Operation 40, a CIA counterintelligence unit of exiles tasked with assassinations.…
▶ 2:09:38
Barry Seale. And the shooting down of the Iran-Contra, what sparked the Iran-Contra revelation was the shooting down of the aircraft that exposed the drug running, all arranged by the CIA, the Cuban exiles. We have tracked the Cuban exile c…
▶ 2:10:05
CIA operations to include the assassination of President Kennedy. And they are intimately involved. I would say from a textbook classic definition, they are one of our Gladio operations cells. The MK, whatever it was, wave organization that…
▶ 2:11:04
Unequivocally. So one other thing that I thought was absolutely astonishing is one of the largest, and I'm not going to remember the name off the top of my head, but one of the largest cartel, quote unquote, Mexican families that the CIA se…
▶ 1:26:25
research project into what we had commonly referred to as Cuban exiles. Cuban exiles, for those of you who don't know, were actually Gladio operators. They were utilized throughout Latin America and South America to help the CIA perform cou…
▶ 1:23:09
Cuban exiles. So that term got used a lot. Cuban exiles, Cuban exiles, Cuban exiles were supposedly these poor people that had to leave Cuba in order to survive. But when you go into Cuba and you actually look like you look at what happened…
▶ 1:24:32
And so what happens is most of the people, at least in the Cuban exile community, were from that elite group. They came specifically to Miami for a reason. They were going to work with the CIA because the CIA actually funded and equipped an…
▶ 1:26:00
with the CIA, they wanted him dead. So two, what we refer to as Colombian exiles, planted a bomb and murdered him and another American aide that was working with him on the streets of Washington, D.C. So a Gladio terror event happened in do…
▶ 1:26:29
under the guise of Cuban exiles. They were also used to coup the United States government. And there was some implications of them, although I don't believe they were actually the trigger pullers in the JFK assassination as well. I think th…
▶ 1:25:33
You can have this apparatus operating inside of your country. We had the CIA operating rogue operations under JFK that he didn't know anything about. It has happened here. The fact that you guys had never heard of Operation Gladio and the C…
▶ 35:43
His first assignment was maritime infiltration in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, which, of course, all of those places we screwed with. Then he served as chief of a CIA base in Guatemala. Oh, yeah, that's right. We coo…
▶ 47:47
Graphic Interpretation Center supported Jenkins on the plan to assassinate Castro at the DuPont Beach estate east of Havana. Castro was known to go there, and they had pre-positioned a high-powered rifle that was going to be used in the att…
▶ 48:16
I knew pretty well what his habits were. Now, just listen to that sentence. Jenkins is CIA, and he trained two bodyguards that goes on to be cast bodyguards while those two people came from the Brigade 2506, which Jenkins also was responsib…
▶ 2:00:30
You know, look what happened during the Vietnam. They created the Weather Underground. They created the Cuban exiles. And they were going all over the United States blowing shit up. And no one ever put all of that together to understand tha…
▶ 26:24
Operation Northwood was a document that is declassified several pages. And what it does is it is a laundry list of terrorist operations to be conducted inside the United States, killing American citizens and blaming Castro. It articulates t…
▶ 26:52
element in the United States and was for decades. Brigade 2506. Felix Rodriguez, the guy that Tucker interviewed about six months ago, he's an assassin. He was part of Brigade 2506. If you go back and look at that interview, he's wearing th…
▶ 27:23
Operation Northwood was to take some of the Cuban train CIA train Cuban exiles in Miami, dress them up in Castro uniforms, have them go do bombings, just like we were talking about in Italy, killing people, blaming Castro and then justifyin…
▶ 40:53
On domestic U.S. soil that we know of that would fall under the Operation Gladio umbrella, false flag attacks on the United States. I mean, other than the United States, we had Gladio operators that killed the Chilean ambassador that got st…
▶ 41:17
of the assassination of President Allende in Chile. So Ambassador Lettier is his name. One of the Cuban exiles, I think two went to prison. They were trained Gladio people, went to Washington, D.C. and ignited a car bomb, killing him and an…
▶ 41:46
They were also implicated in the overthrow of Nixon. They were implicated in the assassination of JFK and RFK. When he was assassinated, if you trace the people that really did it, not Sirhan Sirhan, they were tied to the Cuban exiles and t…
▶ 1:08:26
We get cut off. The CIA gets cut off from funding Angola directly. So what do they do? They use Israel to funnel weapons into South Africa, which at the time was apartheid South Africa. And they're running them over the border into Angola t…
▶ 1:08:52
They were part of the, I told you about Felix Rodriguez. Felix Rodriguez was training the Contras. So all of this, Israel has been an integral part of all of this. As a matter of fact, we didn't even mention that Taiwan set up a thing calle…
▶ 1:17:23
And one of the cartels I came across when I started looking into him isn't even Mexican. The guy's from Cuba. He was one of the Cuban exiles that came and was trained as a terrorist in Miami. And we set him up as a cartel chief in Mexico. S…
▶ 1:21:35
They had several places in the United States. They had several places in South America. One of the big contingents, like we had the Cuban exiles that we use kind of as a farm team for terrorists. And we had our own school for them down in M…
▶ 1:31:34
He would buy it back, and he was going to buy it back for a million dollars. Well, United Fruit says, you can't buy it back for a million dollars. It's worth $16 million. And he goes, well, fuck you, because you've only been paying taxes on…
▶ 1:34:05
of what the CIA did in Miami with the Cuban exiles. Yes. So the Cuban exiles were used exactly the same way. And they were used not only in the JFK assassination, they were used in the assassination of the Chilean ambassador in Washington, …
▶ 1:18:33
for us. And those terrorists have all grown up and have been used extensively throughout the world, not just in the Middle East, throughout the world. They came here on 9-11. They have been used throughout the world, just like the Cuban exi…
▶ 1:37:16
It's just they're all put together in a completely different way based on this other scenario where we have come across all of them in other scenarios. And then, you know, on this project, they all intersect in a completely different way. B…
▶ 1:27:08
transportation company down there. And their kids were then recruited into this group called the Brigade 2506. Well, Brigade 2506, if you look them up, was involved in the assassination of JFK. They were involved in the of the Chilean ambas…
▶ 1:08:48
These are not poor people. These are not people desperate for a job. These are children of elite people, just like the whole Laurel Canyon garbage that went on out in L.A. So he ends up being in a training cell called Cuban Exiles Brigade. …
▶ 1:12:44
The media is just as involved as all the other people that are on the know. It's such a beautiful thing. Oh, my God. You know, the other aspect of that is all of their other peers that all felt like they were on the same team, although it's…
▶ 1:13:10
So we have a media version of Brigade 2506, and it was attack Trump, it was attack Trump, and it was attack Trump. And you had two defectors in the last 24 hours go grovel to Trump. Can you imagine the panic of all of the rest of the 2506 m…
▶ 36:49
had been a benefactor to the members of the Cuban Brigade 2506. No kidding. The infamous, oh, because they got imprisoned on the Isle of Pines, the infamous prison where they kept the Bay of Pigs people. So Tito Mesa was a Cuban drug figure…
▶ 37:21
who ends up being the paymaster for the Brigade 2506. Don't you love how these stories all just kind of meld together? In 1978, Carter was cutting loose and Stacio Somoza de Bile, a West Point graduate and second generation Nicaraguan dicta…
▶ 35:59
The reason he got fired is because he wrote a plan called Operation Northwood. And if you look up Operation Northwood, it talks about using the U.S.'s Gladio forces, which were called Cuban exiles, to plant bombs in American major cities to…
▶ 1:17:48
people that we refer to as the Cuban exiles that are basically trained assassins by the CIA that were used in that operation to blow that former ambassador up. And fortunately for his assistant, who was a U.S. citizen, you had CIA trained a…
▶ 1:42:58
I had saw this the other day and completely forgot about it. So thank you for bringing it back up. Because again, you look at things with Gladio glasses on, everything appears differently. So we know that the lawyers that are used to hide C…
▶ 1:15:00
Sergio Pino, look it up. This is the same person that was introduced in La Brigada 2506, which is where the Cuban leaders are making billions and billions. I can hear you a little bit, Colonel, but you are banding. Yes. Yes, I can hear you,…
▶ 45:50
I don't know about that. These people were trained by the CIA to do exactly that. So I'm not sure how much effort was put into that because that's what they did. They called the Brigade 2506, like Felix Rodriguez, and they all jumped on boa…
▶ 42:44
They are just a conglomerate of people, the Cuban exiles, another great example that they deploy around the world to do terrorism and terrorism on demand, by the way. And this book is by Kyle Burke. Excellent, excellent book. This book here…
▶ 39:32
and money laundering had been largely in the hands of CIA's Cuban Americans, not Colombians, until Escobar. The CIA's Cuban Americans connections in Miami included a network of agents and informants who ran the South Florida Task Force or w…
▶ 40:28
Anybody that's a threat. Bush's son, Jeb, strongly supported with his own connections to the anti-Castro politics, including ex-CIA Cubans residing in Miami. Jeb Bush was in on all of this. And he, of course, later on goes on to be governor…
▶ 1:03:28
Just like with the Cuban exiles, they deploy all over the world to orchestrate. They're in Ukraine right now. They're all over Africa. They are subcontractors to all of the private military security companies. Colombia is one of the, so the…
▶ 1:50:35
And when Escobar, who is notorious down in Colombia, got a little ahead of the schedule for the CIA, and he started coming into Miami knocking off their preferred domestic network carriers, which was the Cuban exiles. They began running the…
▶ 1:00:54
Three years into this, my mind's not blown very much, but it definitely was. Because all of my nemesis of every book we've ever read is captured in this book. To include Brigade 2506, Felix Rodriguez, William Polly even makes an appearance …
▶ 4:27
winds up because remember he's brigade 2506 and a member of the cuban exile community in miami and he ends up as the number three guy running iran contra under vice president bush donald greg his national security advisor and felix rodrigue…
▶ 49:49
was plugged tightly into the Cuban exile community in Miami. He assisted the Cuban Legion in their radio propaganda shows coming from Miami, Terrell said, adding that Menendez was an associate of several members of the 2506 Brigade that mad…
▶ 14:22
U.S., CIA, FBI, anything that we could correlate term wise to what was going on. You know, weapon caches in all of those kind of terms. And we found the Cuban exiles. The Cuban exiles are our one of ours because there are more. One of our e…
▶ 15:42
So we have documented ongoing Operation Gladio terror events inside the United States using their terror cells. And the use of the words in these memos, which is the first time I've actually seen that particular memo, use the word stay behi…
▶ 36:38
When Corson lives in Houston and Weiland's in Dallas is very suspect. It tells you everything you need to know that Corson was a CIA asset and he's assigned an attorney to work. That's how it works. We've established that over and over. And…
▶ 42:53
That's how come you have that Afghan guy shooting those National Guard people. Every one of these drug trafficking assassins, when they send them out on a mission and put them in country to run Iran-Contra or whatever garbage they're runnin…
▶ 1:05:11
Almost connecting to our present. Yes. It's building up to our present. So two names really, of course, stick out to me. Of course, Paul Haleywell, because recently with all Venezuela being in the news and all of the guys, well, it was Paul…
▶ 1:05:39
involved in Vietnam, the whole drug thing, ended up in Florida. And they are also connected to MJ Wave, which was set up on a, was it an old Navy military base or something, where they trained the Cuban exiles. Yes. And I've made some links…
▶ 1:06:40
set up by one of the Cuban exiles trained at MJ Wave, set up by Paul Helliwell in Caracas, who was part of that whole shenanigan. Then my next, another guy that stood out in this chapter was Mike Harari.…
▶ 35:28
So they had been hired to charter the CIA's Brigade 2506. On April 10th, the exile force began to move from tracks to other bases towards the trampoline designated location, where there was a base force of 316 people, including 159 American…
▶ 46:13
And the next plausible potential way of doing it was if they could land the Brigade 2506 on to Cuba successfully, they could then say that those people had stolen the aircraft because they had pilots among them. That was kind of going to be…
▶ 47:35
They're too stupid to plan a covert operation and then blame JFK for being a novice. At this point, Richard Bissell was called, oh, let's see. All right, so moving on. Now it was all up to Brigade 2506. The fleet of four ships and two landi…
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The exiles had been driven back from the Central Australian designated place and also the Playa Larga place, and the Cuban tanks were moving down the road to Guarón. The paratroop roadblocks near Covadonga on the opposite flank of the bridg…
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Brigade 2506, you know, from the local community because supposedly they hated Castro. Yeah, that didn't pan out either. Apparently that was completely misrepresented. So there were a few people and basically the only thing that they could …
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They sabotage a couple of Woolworth stores in Hershey's Sugar Mill warehouse on the island as kind of like diversionary things. Castro's police arrested everybody that was involved in that. Brigade 2506 had no real chance. On the second day…
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as contractors to the CIA, but they were contracted in such a way as the CIA to never acknowledge they were actually flying their missions. On the third day, April 19th, they loved that day. Brigade 2506 had virtually exhausted all of its a…
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closed in toward the shore with orders to take the survivors out. 22 more survived a sailboat odyssey to land in Mexico. The remnants of the Brigade 2506, including San Roman political advisor Roman Artine and Anito Oliva, who had been the …
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At one of the numerous Washington discussions of how to limit damage caused by the defeat, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were amazed to hear Bissell say, after all of the talk of how an uprising was going to overthrow Castro, that the brigade w…
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Hawley, who had received the information from one of the Brigade 2506's escapees. Hawley also recounted that he had learned of meetings at the White House during the invasion, because they talk all the time. In an allusion to JFK's 1956 boo…
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You had to sign a secret agreement to be in NATO to say that you were setting up these units. So all of them have them. I told you unequivocally that the Brigade 2506, the Cuban exiles, were part of our Gladio facilities. They were deployed…
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After the missile crisis, Castro's price came down while the administration threw its weight behind an effort to raise the $53 million worth of medical equipment, drugs, and baby food. The exchange was negotiated by lawyer James A. Donovan,…
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not even telling him that he was what he was doing and to hand a germ bag to Fidel Castro. Fortunately, the American lawyer, witting or not, took the precaution of replacing the diving suit with one that he had bought himself. Castro return…
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Felix Rodriguez's parents, they were very well off, but they weren't in that top tier. Those people and their kids all went to Miami and eventually joined Alpha 66 or the Brigade 2506, whatever, and became part of the paramilitary part. So …
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Recruit number 2506 fell to his death during a march through the mountains. In memory of him, that's how they came up with the 2506 Brigade. So Felix Rodriguez, the guy that we talk about all the time because he's another Forrest Gump guy o…
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eight C-46s and six C-54s. Richard Bissell expected to reinforce the brigade 2506 beachhead once the invasion began. About 500 Cubans gathered in the Miami area and 162 joined the brigade before it left Guatemala.…
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but no one consulted him. Amory, far from alone in his views, represented the element at CIA that was skeptical about the Cuba project. Some doubted the internal resistance could cripple Castro. Others questioned the outcome, even if the CI…
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went over the Cuba project with eye-opening details. For most of that day, they brought their knowledge that the US had already created a secret army of Cuban exiles. Gray had poster-sized charts and noted that the US participation was expe…
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President Kenney attended a full dress presentation a week after the inaugural. While his Palm Beach conversation had been exploratory, the White House meeting on January 28th was very specific. He listened, as Alan Dulles mentioned, what w…
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Brigade 2506 should try to survive the beachhead and not break out until the time became opportune for the U.S. to intervene. Indeed, CIA planned to fly in Cuban politicians to form a provisional government while the agency planners arrange…
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knew that ATE could not make the planned invasion date of 5 March. Washington delayed it a month. The Guatemalans were asked to accept the delay. The military used this time to send three colonels to inspect camp tracks and other locations.…
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By now, the CIA had a paper arguing that the Cuban exiles could not infiltrate Cuba as guerrillas without huge losses, forfeiting effectiveness and being unable to rendezvous to conduct operations. Rendezvous where? They've already said the…
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could best be solved by sending the brigade to invade Cuba. Bissell later recalled talk of loading the Cubans onto a ship, which, if not able to sell for Cuba, after a reasonable time, could be escorted to a U.S. Navy base like Guantanamo B…
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On the first day, Castro himself revealed at a 2001 conference that the FAR had concentrated two full brigades, six times the force, backed by 30 heavy cannons right at Trinidad, with observation points overlooking the bay and pre-registere…
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Brigade 2506 would have been landing against a superior force in prepared positions. But Trinidad, a big town, violated President Kennedy's edict to reduce visibility. On March 12th, Esserling got orders to redraft. In a frantic all-night w…
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but from Porta Cabeas in Nicaragua. The code name for it was trampoline. The rebel Navy began assembling early in April, starting with the CIA's Blager and Barbara J. Five merchant vessels of the Garcia shipping company, chartered by the CI…
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on April 1st, viewed the aerial photos of the new landing site at the Bay of Pigs and the nearby village of Playa Garon, he saw coral reefs. Photo interpreters told Lynch he was wrong. Cubans on his ship actually knew the reefs and confirme…
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They knew well enough the signs of an operation gone awry. Esterling's section chiefs assembled on April 9th, right after his return from Guantanamo visit, and just before Hawkins went to Porto Cabanza for the brigade embarkment. Richard Bi…
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because you're good soldiers, that's why. Within a week, Esterling and Hawkins would be at Richard Bissell's house trying to resign. On April 10th, the exile force began moving from Trex to the other bases. At Trampoline 316, support person…
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to E. Howard Hunt. Hunt finally had to be relieved and relegated to work with Dave Phillips in the propaganda unit. President Kennedy still reserved his final decision with an option to cancel the invasion up to 24 hours before landing. Alt…
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This is what the cable said. My observations have increased my confidence in the ability of this force to accomplish not only the initial combat missions, but also the ultimate objective, the overthrow of Castro. The brigade and battalion's…
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These officers are young, vigorous, intelligent, and motivated with a fanatical urge to begin battle. They say they know their people and believe after they have inflicted a serious defeat upon opposition forces, the latter will melt away f…
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The men have received more firing experience than U.S. troops would normally receive. I was impressed with the serious attitude of the men. It was that memorandum that resulted in Kennedy giving the go ahead. And it is entirely a lie. When …
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Aware of the UN embarrassment, Cabell wanted to check with Dean Rusk, even though Barrow insisted everything was fine. About 9.30 p.m., McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rusk, called with JFK's decision that no further strikes be launched until Br…
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So neither one of them had the balls to talk to Kennedy. Only later in retrospect did he ask himself if one says no when asked to speak to the president. In his memoirs, Richard Bissell would write, quote, today I view this decision of Cabe…
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that a big mistake had been Dulles' absence from the scene. Going to Puerto Rico created a problem. Among smaller fry, Grayston Lynch, in 1998 memoir, published a fierce diatribe aimed primarily at Schlesinger, Sorensen, and the journalist …
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Agency Deputy Director Charles Cabell makes the same argument. It's 100% speculation. 100%. They have no clue. At best, the CIA's Air Force might have denied Castro's forces entry into Garon area. More likely, it could have done no more tha…