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Claims (16)

Joe Kelso member_of U.S. Customs Service documented
“It was a tough nut to crack, he said, but I was constantly emphasizing they had to work with the feds. Hoffman reluctantly agreed to bring the Department of Justice agents aboard, but had the L.A. officers known what was going on right then…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 20:01
Larry LaDodge member_of U.S. Customs Service documented
“by the way, is just what they did to Tom Homan. And they tried to do to Matt Gates. They tried to do this to everybody that they feel they can control or that they can use for whatever their purpose is. His control officer, Special Agent La…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 25:44
Roy C. Matthews trafficked U.S. Customs Service documented
“Rodney Matthews, who was a known smuggler, was allowed to smuggle drugs into the country, which was an allegation he made to ABC Primetime News in 1998. Mark Conrad, who at the time headed the U.S. Customs Internal Affairs Office, said that…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7 @ 41:25
Joe Kelso member_of U.S. Customs Service documented
“Some of what he said was totally checked out to the best of my ability to corroborate it, Black told the district judge. He confirmed that Kelso worked around the world under another name for the U.S. Customs Service. Argued Snow, quote, by…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 58:11
Joe Kelso spied_on U.S. Customs Service 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
U.S. Customs Service covered_up Norwin Menendez book_quoted
“The FBI report went on to say that the customs agent told Ainsworth that Menendez would have been arrested in a major drug case in 1983, except that he had been warned that he was given a warning by a redacted officer not to arrest him. Oth…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 1:12:04
U.S. Customs Service carried_out_attack Miami documented
“incensed at the agency's actions, which was carried out over the DEA objections, went on a national television show and essentially accused the CIA of engaging in narcotic trafficking. The CIA operation, which was carried out with the assis…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8 @ 39:10
CIA lied_to U.S. Customs Service documented
“It shielded both Nunes and Vidal from criminal investigation into drug trafficking and money laundering. At various times, the CIA told U.S. Customs and DEA that it had no information on any of it. The CIA's Directorate of Operation, which …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:07:15
Mark Conrad member_of U.S. Customs Service documented
“If you go through those countries not deemed friendly to the U.S., then the corrupt politicians and traffickers you're dealing with are less likely to assume it's a U.S. operation. Attorney Mark Conrad, a former high-level U.S. customs agen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 33:14
Joint International Task Force South member_of U.S. Customs Service documented
“Nowlin, Commander of 12th Air Force and Air Force Southern, J-I-A-T-F, South, which is a joint international task force that has all of the military services, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol, DEA, blah, blah, blah. It says, just like…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 36:20
Mark Conrad member_of U.S. Customs Service guest_asserted
“It did not, however, contain information about any passengers on board or the purpose of the flights. Since the disclosure of the initial flight plan data, the Council of Europe's inquiry broadened to include investigations into a number of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8 @ 36:24
U.S. Customs Service member_of U.S. Treasury Department documented
“Department of Treasury, U.S. Customs Service, report of investigation. It is dated 1987, the 2nd of December. This office was contacted by the Tallahassee, I'm sorry, February 12th. It says this office was contacted by Tallahassee Police De…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 45:15
Tallahassee Police Department recruited U.S. Customs Service documented
“Department of Treasury, U.S. Customs Service, report of investigation. It is dated 1987, the 2nd of December. This office was contacted by the Tallahassee, I'm sorry, February 12th. It says this office was contacted by Tallahassee Police De…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 45:15
U.S. Customs Service covered_up Joe Kelso host_asserted
“were undercover customs investigators. Kelso's arrest presented the CIA with a problem. The agency's charter prohibits it from working inside the United States, which it was doing. To keep the operation under wraps, Kelso was advised by his…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 24:12
CIA recruited U.S. Customs Service guest_asserted
“It could well be a CIA operation working under the cover of ICE, unquote. Gosh, that's like what happens all the time. Conrad says such a cover approach is not a crazy conspiracy theory. No kidding. He adds that when he was at U.S. Customs …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8 @ 37:44
U.S. Customs Service member_of Devil's Cartel guest_asserted
“corrupt national police officer as Colonel Danielo Gonzalez. That also included alleged alliance with the paramilitary forces ran by Carlos Castano under the AUC, which was working hand in hand with the CIA. The intelligence arm of the devi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 15:06

Mentions (85)

Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster
▶ 6:57 It's like the moon. It starts growing bigger and bigger as you go through the lunar cycle. And by 1988, there was so much known at the highest reaches of government that undercover customs agents were risking their lives to learn less about…
Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster
▶ 7:23 So this is from 1988 to 92. They are still pursuing drug lords. They're still pursuing weapons traffickers, all while our government is in bed with the money laundering and the CIA is orchestrating those operations. So you have customs peop…
Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster
▶ 7:52 was all part of this criminal syndicate. So that's very important to understand. Not only were they just silent, but many of them blocked further inquiry as these officers in customs and securities and the SEC, which we mentioned earlier be…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6
▶ 39:00 such as the P-3 Orion aircraft used by U.S. Customs. Bribing officials and drawing on an elaborate counterintelligence database seem to be outdated. According to an anonymous retired narcotics operative in U.S. Army's Southern Command, SALC…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8
▶ 33:25 Contains the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act. The legislation authorized billions of dollars in funding during 1999, 2000 and 2001 for U.S. Customs Service, Coast Guard and the State Department and USAID, the Department of Defense a…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 36:26 During the preliminary hearing, one of the arresting officers was asked about the search he conducted at Torres' house and his Mercedes Benz. Did you find any contraband in the Mercedes, Torres' attorney asked. No contraband. Just some prop…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 36:56 The other attorney says, I move to strike that answer. The judge says, just a minute. What is it now that you want to strike? I ask him, did he find any contraband? The answer was no. Then he went on to say something about United States cus…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11
▶ 8:53 a laser sighting device for an AR-15 rifle. Lister's partner, Bill Downing, was a design gizmo, which he used tiny laser beams to put a small red dot on a target for killing people at night. According to a 1996 report from U.S. Customs, Mon…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11
▶ 25:25 Evidence of Lister's involvement in sophisticated international arms transactions was found in the notes Lister made, naming Nelson and Salvadoran politicians. Lister had drawn a flowchart containing boxes labeled Swiss Bank, U.S. State Dep…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11
▶ 27:43 Or it's a trans-shipment situation. That was precisely what the flowchart sees from Lister's house illustrated. According to U.S. customs expert who analyzed the document, were these transactions taking place today, Special Agent James McSh…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13
▶ 1:07:15 It shielded both Nunes and Vidal from criminal investigation into drug trafficking and money laundering. At various times, the CIA told U.S. Customs and DEA that it had no information on any of it. The CIA's Directorate of Operation, which …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13
▶ 1:22:35 And this is another one that comes up in so many of our stories. Setco, S-E-T-C-O, which happened to be owned by Honduran drug kingpin Ballesteros. In fact, the U.S. Customs Service had known since 1983 that Setco was the principal company …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 33:34 On the morning of February 1985, a white T-39 Sabre Liner jet took off from John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, with Garola and three other men, Cuban Americans, aboard. It stopped briefly in Kingsville, Texas, to refuel. It wa…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 37:55 The investigation came to a sudden abrupt halt with a lot of questions left unanswered because U.S., that was according to U.S. Customs Agency, Ernest Allison. That was because the Justice Department had just made a quick deal with Garola. …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 39:51 In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 1997, the Customs Service claimed it could not locate any records of him at all. Castillo said that in January 1986, he began firing off a string of reports to DEA headquarters in…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 50:48 CIA and DEA records show that the airline was under investigation for drug trafficking by the U.S. Customs Office by 1987. Southern Air was of record in the DEA's database from 1985 through 1990 for alleged involvement in cocaine traffickin…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 1:11:37 There you had the FBI there. You had the DEA there. You also had a CIA, several CIA people in Southern California. Every single one of them was corrupt. You had an entire infrastructure in the DOJ corrupt, an entire infrastructure in the DE…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14
▶ 1:13:04 And the DEA, Customs, FBI, and the biggest U.S. CIA station in America all residing in Miami. And there's tons and tons of drugs and money laundering and everything else to include the Fed. I mean, the Fed in L.A. and the Fed in Miami had t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 20:44 But for some reason, he found it necessary to buy eight money counting machines in the space of a month in 1986. Money counting machines for someone who has no job. To U.S. Customs agent Fred Hero and IRS agent Carl Knudsen, that made it ve…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 30:53 It was mind boggling. They revealed a drug ring that was dumping hundreds of kilos of cocaine every week into black neighborhoods in L.A., generating truckloads of cash. The confidential informant had admitted laundering up to a hundred mil…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 20:01 It was a tough nut to crack, he said, but I was constantly emphasizing they had to work with the feds. Hoffman reluctantly agreed to bring the Department of Justice agents aboard, but had the L.A. officers known what was going on right then…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 23:43 Saddam Hussein. The agency figured it would draw some interesting people out of the woodwork, Kelso said, but the mission ended in a disaster. A tough-talking 26-year-old was arrested by the U.S. Customs Service and charged with attempting …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 24:45 Federal court records lend support to Kelso's story. Despite the severity of his crime, attempting to acquire cruise missiles for a quote-unquote unfriendly government, although it was actually propped up by the CIA as well, Kelso was put o…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 25:44 by the way, is just what they did to Tom Homan. And they tried to do to Matt Gates. They tried to do this to everybody that they feel they can control or that they can use for whatever their purpose is. His control officer, Special Agent La…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 31:16 and left it at that. Kelso claimed that Agent LaDodge authorized him to pursue the allegations further. He snooped around Neves and the other DEA agents working at the embassy for a couple of months, enlisting the aid of a Canadian who work…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 40:01 and some personal papers of DEA agents, including the radio code names. A customs agent familiar with the case said Kelso stole Agent Neves' briefcase from his car. In an interview with the Jack Webb, Kelso denied this. At the end of July 1…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 40:33 and to the U.S. military Southern Command headquarters in Panama, to their CIA officer located there. It was hand-carried on a microcassette. The allegations included counterfeiting, and those were sent to Secret Service. William Rosenblatt…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 41:35 The Customs Service, quote, coordinated with Secret Service as well as our Customs Attaché in Panama, who is responsible also for the country of Costa Rica. Arrangements were made for one of New Orleans agents to travel to Miami down to Cos…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 42:03 The New Orleans agent, Douglas Lee Kotchenberger, met with Kelso and Codwell in early August, ostensibly to debrief them and also to pay them the money that Mr. LaDodge felt was owed to them. Rosenblatt testified to this. He did not check i…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 53:45 It was all done by the DEA agents that, or ordered by the DEA agents that he had tried to turn in. So it goes on later to say that Owen confirmed, North's sidekick, Robert Owen, confirmed that he had picked up the tapes from the customs off…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 56:43 Jack Lawn, the DEA director, told Congress in 1987 he'd never even heard of it. The U.S. Customs also quit looking. Customs agent Hilberry said the DEA allegations were turned over to DEA. Two Costa Rican intelligence officers were eventual…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17
▶ 58:11 Some of what he said was totally checked out to the best of my ability to corroborate it, Black told the district judge. He confirmed that Kelso worked around the world under another name for the U.S. Customs Service. Argued Snow, quote, by…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19
▶ 5:12 The U.S. Customs agent told federal investigators that Weakley's stint with the Navy SEALs gave him, quote, unquote, contacts in the intelligence community, including the CIA and NSA, unquote. In 1983, he and several other Americans were ar…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19
▶ 15:17 On the flip side of Blanton's criminal enterprise, the sale of exotic weapons and communication gear, some of which was being sold to freeway Ricky and his fellow craft dealers in South Central Los Angeles. A U.S. customs agent, John Kellog…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19
▶ 15:45 And how did you come to that belief, he was asked. Kellogg was asked by a federal judge that exact question. Though his various contacts with me and his foreign travels, Kellogg said, he would come by after several months absence and come i…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19
▶ 16:16 the customs agency. According to interviews Weakley did with the ATF agents in 1987, he admitted that he had been involved with the Contras in the past. A U.S. customs official told the ATF that Weakley was acting at the directions of custo…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19
▶ 29:36 Southwest Regional Director of the U.S. Customs Service, to the National Security Council, and to a defense contractor by the name of United Technologies. The agents broke the news to federal prosecutor Kortash, who was not pleased. The sto…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19
▶ 55:43 not to finger anyone. That was their deal, not his. Weakley was protesting the hell out of, protecting the hell out of Bo Gritz. When Weakley's sentencing on the explosive case rolled around in April 1987, Kortash filed a confidential memor…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19
▶ 57:33 After spending 14 months in prison, Scott Weakley was ordered released after a hearing revealed that he had indeed been working for the U.S. government at the time of his offenses and had also been working as a U.S. customs informant for ma…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6
▶ 17:52 and would have anywhere between $80,000 and $100,000 in cash to deliver to the Contras. Alba called U.S. Customs the next day. Pereira was arrested in Miami, boarding an Air Florida flight to Costa Rica. The agents found $70,000 cash, which…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6
▶ 18:21 Soon afterwards, this is quote, Horatio is going to court tomorrow. Carlos has some money to help Horatio. The money taken by customs will be kept. Carlos asked why Trulio had not called. Horatio was interviewed but did not mention Carlos's…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8
▶ 3:00 That's an actual quote. Seals Farm in Baton Rouge, according to a 1983 U.S. Customs report, was allegedly used as a drop site for cocaine and marijuana flown into the country in a DC-4 aircraft that was labeled N-90201. That same plane subs…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9
▶ 1:11:08 In September of 85, Ainsworth was contacted by U.S. Customs officials who was investigating the Nicaraguan role in a large narcotic ring extending from Miami through Texas to California. The customs agent wanted to ask Ainsworth about the F…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9
▶ 1:11:36 and he acted frustrated at the claims of the events. Ainsworth would later tell the FBI, according to name redacted, two U.S. Customs Service officers who felt threatened and intimidated by the national security interference in legitimate n…
The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22
▶ 30:26 for different jaunts. But he denied going on any airplane trip to Belize with Garvin and Powers, meaning Michener, because he said he didn't do anything. Although there were several people that have said that was true. U.S. Customs Service …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 47:02 was Miles Ambrose, the U.S. Customs Commissioner. It's very convenient when you know the Customs Commissioner if you are illegally bringing shit in the country. And he was also in charge of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, which of course is t…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 47:43 So you got cover for narcotics and you got cover for any other thing that you want to bring into the country. Ambrose would come to visit Harper and go hunting with him on his ranch in Mexico. According to former customs officials who work …
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 48:44 the CIA Dirty Trick Squad, John Ehrlichman, buddies with Jack Caulfield, who's buddies with Ambrose. In addition to the scheme to sell explosives to the anti-Castro Cubans, Harper had also been observed by customs agents flying arms and amm…
The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11
▶ 51:55 The second witness, Francisco Peco Flores, was a defendant, but federal agents couldn't find him. The judge declared a mistrial and the charges were later dismissed by an appeals court. End of story. Or was it? After the trial, Seale wrote …
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 24:03 The U.S. had taken pains to avoid angering or embarrassing Cairo, unquote. The pains the Reagan-Bush administration was willing to take became clear as the Itzko case moved up the bureaucratic ladder to the National Security Council. What h…
The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32
▶ 26:50 And this Carter is spelled K-H-A-R-T-E-R from previous chapters. Equipment was shipped and pan-aviation planes without export permits were used with the informal approval of customs. Carter said that I was worried about this, but Sarkis sai…
The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32
▶ 31:14 or the first year of it. One of his FBI friends told him that he was under a serious U.S. Customs investigation for illegal arms shipment. He would also come under IRS investigation for taxes owed on the commissions that he never received. …
The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32
▶ 37:02 Sarkis had been tipped off that the U.S. Customs Service was after him. I knew that the CIA's instructions to call certain customs men to approve shipments could be a problem. Tony had warned me, and I had seen these customs guys lie in the…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27)
▶ 44:41 cloaked by an array of Miami Cuban groups conducting the operation from the U.S., compelled the CIA to create liaisons with federal, state, and local authorities, meaning they're all fucking corrupt. Absolutely ridiculous. These included th…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 16:54 perpetrated on the Sandinistas in 1984. They hadn't forgotten. Joe Fernandez wired Dunton demanding damage control. North, then John Poindexter, intervened with justice to delay FBI and Customs investigation of Southern Air Transport, where…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10
▶ 33:14 If you go through those countries not deemed friendly to the U.S., then the corrupt politicians and traffickers you're dealing with are less likely to assume it's a U.S. operation. Attorney Mark Conrad, a former high-level U.S. customs agen…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10
▶ 35:14 the illicit funding ones that had several meetings in Curacao. It says that the economy there is basically tourism, money laundering. Interesting. The Netherlands condone money laundering on their territory. Oh, and narco trafficking. It is…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10
▶ 35:47 that is staffed with DEA, Coast Guard, and U.S. Customs, and the CIA. Carousel's role as a major staging area for intelligence operations is widely known in that area. I sure as heck didn't know it when I went on vacation there. That's very…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3
▶ 14:33 and the book he owned that had been signed with a personal note from none other than George Tenet himself, a former director of the CIA. Attorney Mark Conrad served as a supervisory special agent who had oversaw nine states and two differen…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6
▶ 11:55 He also claimed that he discovered the operations were being compromised by current players in the DEA and U.S. Customs. U.S. Customs was involved in targeting Colombian narco traffickers during the same period that Vega was working for the…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6
▶ 15:06 corrupt national police officer as Colonel Danielo Gonzalez. That also included alleged alliance with the paramilitary forces ran by Carlos Castano under the AUC, which was working hand in hand with the CIA. The intelligence arm of the devi…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6
▶ 17:18 activities and was willing to discuss cooperating with U.S. officials. Vega claims that during that meeting, Gonzalez laid out the entire backbone of the Devil's Cartel, naming names. He also, supposedly according to Vega, told him the name…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6
▶ 17:46 Vega says all of the information from that meeting with Gonzalez was turned over to the FBI. He suspects no action was taken on the corrupt charges because it involved naming DEA and Customs Authority. Vega says one of those cases was broug…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6
▶ 18:16 If the alleged corrupt DEA and custom law enforcement officers were now exposed, Vega contends, the cases they helped make against the narco-traffickers could be threatened because defense attorneys would say the evidence was tainted. But w…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7
▶ 20:29 the Kent memo. Um, and he goes on to talk about how, uh, Gonzalez had laid out an entire backbone of the devil's triangle, naming names, including corrupt us law enforcement officers in the DEA, us customs and inside of the, um, Columbia po…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7
▶ 33:38 Well, originally, I met Greg Smith. We needed a pilot, a very trustful pilot, someone that could get us to bring in the Colombian drug traffickers to surrender for their little secret backroom plea deals. Then the FBI recommended to get in …
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7
▶ 40:29 He says it is not to be ignored in the case of the Gulfstream 2 jet crash in Mexico that the flight allegedly left Rio Negro, Colombia, just outside Medellin, where it managed to avoid the nation's customs and law enforcement scrutiny. How …
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7
▶ 40:57 Allegations of U.S. law enforcement corruption, such as those that surfaced in Bogota connection in the Kent memo, leads us to believe that this is a fairly common occurrence of aircraft leaving Columbia with narcotics on it. So what exactl…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7
▶ 41:25 Rodney Matthews, who was a known smuggler, was allowed to smuggle drugs into the country, which was an allegation he made to ABC Primetime News in 1998. Mark Conrad, who at the time headed the U.S. Customs Internal Affairs Office, said that…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8
▶ 36:24 It did not, however, contain information about any passengers on board or the purpose of the flights. Since the disclosure of the initial flight plan data, the Council of Europe's inquiry broadened to include investigations into a number of…
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8
▶ 37:44 It could well be a CIA operation working under the cover of ICE, unquote. Gosh, that's like what happens all the time. Conrad says such a cover approach is not a crazy conspiracy theory. No kidding. He adds that when he was at U.S. Customs …
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 8
▶ 39:10 incensed at the agency's actions, which was carried out over the DEA objections, went on a national television show and essentially accused the CIA of engaging in narcotic trafficking. The CIA operation, which was carried out with the assis…
The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4
▶ 31:58 CEO Christy Clemons had run public relations for none other than Paul Bremer. She had also been a Bush appointee at the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol. Ages had also became an official advisor to Lloyds of Londo…
The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3
▶ 41:02 the author that during the BB instigated lawsuit against him, he received a phone call from Texarkana's federal prison. It was Carlos Marsala. He had been sentenced for bribery. The Mafia Don made an astounding offer to help Broadhead with …
The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA&George Bush Part 3
▶ 41:34 How does the mafia control U.S. Customs? Huh? Isn't U.S. Customs the one responsible for keeping the drugs out? Yes. During this struggle against Beebe and First United in his effort to escape liability for First Union's failure, Broadhead …
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4
▶ 45:15 Department of Treasury, U.S. Customs Service, report of investigation. It is dated 1987, the 2nd of December. This office was contacted by the Tallahassee, I'm sorry, February 12th. It says this office was contacted by Tallahassee Police De…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4
▶ 50:16 It said that the duty agent received a call and this is the customs piece of it. And it basically regurgitates a lot of the stuff that we just talked about. And it goes on to say that U.S. Customs was contacted because the police officers.…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4
▶ 50:41 involved suspected the adults of child pornography and knew that Customs Services had a network for child pornography investigators. One of the detectives said that two adults were blah, blah, blah, well-dressed, and one of them produced a …
The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12
▶ 22:02 That eventually becomes called the contrast. And we've talked about this in several of these books. It's a goat rope, to put it mildly. But it's a goat rope that every one of the agencies in the United States was part of. The Customs and Bo…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15
▶ 1:14:31 They do drug trafficking all over the world. So if you read that chapter that we just covered in isolation, you may have some very valid questions about, surely the DEA is not involved in it. Yes, they are. Surely the customs aren't involve…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 17
▶ 14:45 being able to get fake IDs and passports and go in and out of customs because there's intelligence operatives sheep dipped into customs. That's weird. Yusuf was a quote unquote soldier who traveled freely within the framework of internation…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing
▶ 50:58 placed in the hands of Secord and the CIA. And Secord called Wackenhut to handle the security and travel and protection of Barbati and to assist with the export of the products. Wackenhut was doing a contract for the CIA and allegedly shipp…
The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale
▶ 6:54 This BCCI starts, it's like the moon, it starts growing bigger and bigger as you go through the lunar cycle. And by 1988, there was so much known at the highest reaches of government that undercover customs agents were risking their lives t…
The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale
▶ 7:23 So this is from 1988 to 92. They are still pursuing drug lords. They're still pursuing weapons traffickers, all while our government is in bed with the money laundering and the CIA is orchestrating those operations. So you have customs peop…
The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale
▶ 7:52 was all part of this criminal syndicate. So that's very important to understand. Not only were they just silent, but many of them blocked further inquiry as these officers in customs and securities and the SEC, which we mentioned earlier be…
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