Gladio 101 El Salvador

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0:13 Okay, if I could ask everyone, if you wouldn't mind, to repost the space so we can get started. We're going to talk a little bit about El Salvador today. And I want to make sure everybody knows where it's at and a little bit about it. So, obviously, geography-wise.

0:50 We have North America, Central America, and South America as kind of the primary Americas that people normally refer to. And Central America generally is considered Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Belize. For those of you who...

1:22 understand that area. We're going to be covering basically El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama in depth. What's interesting, Costa Rica kind of plays a sideshow in many of the stories of their neighbors because the CIA operated bases on the

1:51 perimeter of Costa Rica to attack many of their neighbors. What is very interesting is that you very rarely ever hear anything about Belize. For those of you who may or may not know, Belize still today, although they have been given, was part of the British Empire. They were given their independence, but they still recognize.

2:21 the queen, now the king. And I found that very interesting because of all of that area, they were the only country, although they do run drugs through there, and the capital there has a lot of issues because of it being a drug corridor. There were no

2:49 U.S. military bases to stage any of the Gladio operations out of for Operation Condor in South America, unlike all of their neighbors, which is totally weird just on the surface. So just wanted to put that out there. And geography wise.

3:23 You can take a look at the neighbors of El Salvador. I'll let y'all do that while I get started on the subject at hand. And I thought going over what we think is kind of a good news story after the fact on...

3:54 The current government of El Salvador would be an interesting contrast to how everything plays out. So when y'all are traveling down through Mexico, through Central America, you have a choice of the southern perimeter of Mexico is Guatemala and Belize.

4:24 And Guatemala, Belize is surrounded by Mexico on the north, Guatemala on the west, and Guatemala on the south. So it's kind of blocked. It has a huge perimeter along the Caribbean. So basically the only way to get from Mexico to South America is through Guatemala at some point. And then you have just to the...

4:54 South of Guatemala and to the west, you have El Salvador. And to the east, you have Honduras. So kind of on the same latitude, you have Honduras and El Salvador kind of as neighbors with Guatemala to the north. Now, no part of El Salvador touches Nicaragua. Honduras and Nicaragua share a border. And you have to, in order to get to Costa Rica, you have to go through Nicaragua.

5:24 In order to get from Guatemala to Nicaragua, you have to go through Honduras. So those become kind of the big players in the drug running, arms running type of scenario when you're going by land. Now, obviously, all of these countries have water as borders.

5:46 That became very important when we were basically staging coups because we would go into harbors and mine the harbors. We would blockade the coastal area so that they couldn't get supplies. And that's basically one of the ways that we extorted them. So then you go from Nicaragua to Costa Rica and then from Costa Rica to Panama.

6:13 Again, in many cases, we left Costa Rica alone, but we did stage Gladio operations out of the northern border of Costa Rica into Nicaragua. We did the same when we did operations into Panama. So, and keep in mind that Panama, prior to us building the canal, belonged to Colombia, which is, if you go through Panama,

6:41 you end up in Colombia, which is your entree into South America. So Panama was a critical element of them being able to control land traffic into South America, which is another reason why you would want to break Panama off of Colombia and be able to control it. So all very important. So we're going to start with the fact that the U.S.

7:12 This is around the 1980 timeframe. The U.S. was supporting the government of El Salvador. And President Reagan said it was because they were trying to halt the infiltration into the Americas by terrorists and also outside interference. Any of them, any of the people that were going through El Salvador,

7:42 as a corridor from South America into North America posed a threat.

7:56 him, let me get, I want to give you an exact quote, to halt the infiltration into the Americas by terrorists and by outside interference. And those who aren't just aiming at El Salvador, but I think are aiming at the whole of Central and possibly later South America, and I'm sure eventually North America. So it's kind of weird, that quote, because

8:25 El Salvador didn't have anything. Nobody was actually focused on El Salvador for anything. If there were insurgents in El Salvador, the smallest country by far of all Central and South America, if they were engaged in a plot to capture the Western Hemisphere, that would be very odd because that's not where they would congregate.

8:59 Not that they wouldn't use it as a corridor, but that's not where they would congregate. However, when you look back on it, it cannot be asserted that the Salvadorian people rushed into revolution at the first painful sting of being repressed by a bigger power or that they turned to the gun because of their inherent violent nature.

9:31 They definitely tried to work within the system, and they also tried to keep outside agitators from destroying their country. For as long as anyone could remember, the reins of El Salvador's government had resided in the hands of one military dictator or another, while the economy had been controlled.

9:56 by the celebrated 14 coffee and industrial families with only the occasional short-lived bursting of accumulated discontent to disturb the neat arrangements. And I have to side note here, I just found out and I posted it this morning, I'm in the middle of a Yemen thread on X, that up until the 1600s,

10:25 Yemen was the sole possessor of coffee, period. They owned every single coffee tree that was known to exist. It was not until the British basically infiltrated and literally stole coffee trees that they were distributed through the East and West Indies companies.

10:50 Basically, the coffee trade spread around the world, generally where the British colonies traded. In December 1980, the New York Times reporter Raymond Bonner asked Jose Napoleon Duarte why the guerrillas were in the hills. Duarte, who had just became president of the ruling junta.

11:22 responded with an answer that surprised Bonner. Quote, In the decades following the famed Peasant Rebellion in 1932, which was crushed by an unholy massacre,

11:51 A reform government had occupied the political stage only twice, for nine months in 1944, then again in 1960. The later instance was precipitated by thousands of students of the National University who staged a protest against the curtailment of their civil liberties. The government responded by sending in police who systematically smashed offices.

12:18 classrooms, laboratories, beat up school presidents, killed a librarian, bayoneted students, and raped dozens of young women. Finally, when the students amassed anew, troops actually opened fire, killing many of them. The bloody incident was one of the turning points for a group of junior military officers. They staged a coup in October aimed at major social and political reforms, but the new government lasted only three months before being overthrown in a counter-coup.

12:48 which the U.S. was involved in. Dr. Fabio Castillo, a former president of the National University and a member of the ousted government, testified years later before U.S. Congress that the process of overthrowing the reform government, the American embassy immediately began to intervene directly, and members of the U.S. military mission openly intensified their invitation to conspiracy and rebellion.

13:15 Throughout the 1960s, multi-faceted American experts occupied themselves in El Salvador by enlarging and refining the state's security and counterinsurgency apparatus, the police, the National Guard, the military, the communications intelligence networks, the coordination with their counterparts in Central American countries, other dictatorships. As matters turned out,

13:42 There were the forces and resources which were brought into action to impose a widespread repression and wage war. Years later, the New York Times quoted as follows. In El Salvador, American aid was used for police training in the 1950s and 60s, and many officers in the three branches of the police later became leaders in the right-wing death squads that killed tens of thousands of people in the 70s and 80s.

14:11 That is describing, as we've all come to recognize, is Operation Gladio. And this is done repeatedly, and it's done via the police. And it is basically the Phoenix program replicated in country after country after country that we used in Vietnam. And I make the contention that you're seeing it here in the United States as well. If during the 1960s,

14:43 The apparatus could not be charged with the level of murder or torture or disappearances of political opponents reached in Guatemala and elsewhere in Latin America. It had more to do with the modest degree of outspoken dissent and violent unrest it faced with the greater respect for human rights. Those opposition groups which were not outlawed were those regarded as unthreatening.

15:10 the bloated stomachs of malnourished children were not regarded as threatening at all, for apparently no better reason than the fact that even militants cherished the veneer of legitimacy during the 1960s. Certain political organizations

15:29 of general urban middle-class membership were allowed to run candidates for municipal and legislative office. They did well, though the government calculated returns consistently left the opposition as a minority. In other words, they screwed with the elections.

15:49 As we've indicated, the CIA has done that repeatedly around the world. In 1967, the government went through the motions of the first contested election for presidency since 1931. After declaring its party, the PNC, the winner, the government promptly banned one of the major contending parties, the PAR, on the grounds that it supported principles contrary to the Constitution. That sounds so familiar.

16:18 According to the PAR spokesperson, the principle involved was support for the agrarian reform, which, of course, during this period of time was taking place throughout Central America because U.S. corporations had went down there and basically, quote unquote, bought up all of the land through improper, unconstitutional monopolies.

16:46 that the government had sanctioned because they were all paid off and bought off by the same international mercantilist. Undeterred, a center-left coalition called the UNO was formed and put forth a Christian Democrat, Jose Napoleon Duarte.

17:12 as its presidential candidate in 1972. Though the UNO was confronted by violence against its candidates and campaigners, including the murder of an aide of Duarte and the sabotaging of the coalition's radio broadcast, it arrived at Election Day with great expectation. Two days after the polling, the Central Election Board

17:36 after first announcing a victory for PNC, shocked everyone by declaring that a recount had shown the UNO to be the winner instead. The government quickly imposed a news blockout, and the next two days, nothing was heard concerning the election results. On the third day, the election board announced that PNC was again the winner after all. Dang, that sounds so familiar.

18:04 In the 1974 and 76 legislative elections, and again in the 77 presidential elections, the government employed similar creative counting along with gross physical intimidation of candidates, voters, and poll watchers. It's all been tried before, folks. A mass demonstration following the 1977 polling protesting against electoral fraud was surrounded by government security forces who opened fire.

18:34 The result was nothing less than a bloodbath. The death toll was in the hundreds. In the immediate aftermath, top leaders of the UNO were exiled and the party's followers became liable to arrest, torture, and murder. The country's president, Colonel Arturo Molina, blamed the protesters and called them communist. You just literally can't make this shit up. Government political violence of this sort

19:03 had been sporadic in the 60s but became commonplace in the 70s as more and more Salvadorians, frustrated by the futility of social change through elections, resorted to other means. While some limited themselves to more militant demonstrations, strikes, occupation of sites, the increasing number turned to guerrilla warfare, such as assassination of individuals seen as part of the

19:29 machinery, bombings, kidnapping for ransoms. The government and its paramilitary right-wing vigilante group called death squads, or in our terminology, gladio operators, is the self-named modern genre, countered with a campaign centered upon leaders of the labor union, peasant organizations, political parties, as well as priests,

19:58 and religious workers. And they even had a slogan called, be patriotic, kill a priest. Church people were accused of teaching subversion to peasants, what the church people themselves called the word of God. The CIA and the U.S. military played an essential role in the conception and organization of the security agencies, which were the death squads, where the death squads originated.

20:32 The CIA surveillance program routinely supplied these agencies with information on and the whereabouts of various individuals who wound up death squad victims. In October, and see, I have to make this point. This allows people like the guy that sat on Tucker and said, you know, hey, I was just there watching them murder somebody.

20:55 And that allows them, the fact that they do the training and they accompany them and they give them all of the bits and pieces of them to do the murder and they have someone else's hand on the gun doesn't mean they're not intimately involved in the massacres and the murders. They set them up and hand a gun to someone else to pull the trigger.

21:17 They are equally, if not more so, involved because the person pulling the trigger would have no clue how to get to the people without the CIA's involvement. In October 1979, a group of younger military officers, repelled by the frequent massacres of civilians and wishing to restore the military's good name, ousted General Carlos Romero.

21:45 from the presidency and took power in a bloodless coup. A number of prominent civilian political figures were given positions in the new administration, which proclaimed an impressive program of reforms. But it was not to be. The young and politically inexperienced officers were easily co-opted by older conservative officers and by pressure exerted by the U.S. to install certain military officers that they already knew were on their payroll.

22:15 The civilian members of the government found themselves unable to exercise any control over the armed forces and was left to function only as a camouflage to real reform. Washington had supported the removal of the brutal Romero because only three months earlier, the Sandinistas had overthrown the Somoza.

22:36 dictatorship in Nicaragua, and the Carter administration did not wish to risk the loss of a second client state in Central America in so short a span of time, but they needed to put the brakes on. They couldn't let them get too independent. Meanwhile, the security forces did not miss a beat as they continued to fire into crowds. The body can't count.

23:00 continued to escalate. By January 1980, almost all civilian members of the new government had resigned in disgust over the government as usual tactics. The experience was the straw which broke the back of many moderates and liberals, as well as members of the Salvadorian Communist Party, who still clung to hopes of peaceful reforms.

23:30 The people that were not in the far right had supported a new government and even contributed to the minister of labor because they believed it was going to comply with its promises that they had ran on. The party was the last hope to quell the rebellion. One of the civilians, a minister of education, Salvador Samuel,

24:00 in front of a TV camera, simultaneously announced his resignation and his enlistment into a quote-unquote guerrilla group. Now, keep in mind, when they refer to a guerrilla group, they do so in a pejorative way, when in fact what they're talking about is people who want their country back. For those who continue to harbor illusions, a steady drumbeat

24:27 of terrorism soon brought them into the fold. Because again, like every Gladio operation, we are going to affect terror in order to manipulate the civilian population. A demonstration marched by a coalition of popular organizations on the January 22nd was first sprayed with DDT, a crop duster, by crop dusting planes.

24:55 Then when the demonstrators reached San Salvador's Central Plaza, snipers fired at them from surrounding building tops and at least 21, left 21 people dead and 120 seriously wounded. And some reportedly, it was reported that some people from the demonstrators returned fire. There's not a lot of evidence that actually proves that to be true. And so El Salvador.

25:27 capital center square gets put in the fold of Ukraine and Greece in how these operations are orchestrated. Nothing new, just evil. On March 17th, a general strike was met by retaliatory violence and 54 more people were killed.

25:54 A week later, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, an outspoken critic of the government's human rights violation, called on President Carter, Christian to Christian, to cease providing military aid. He was assassinated then. In his last sermon, he had addressed the security forces with these words, quote, I beseech you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God, stop the repression.

26:23 unquote, which of course is more than the Archbishop in Argentina did later. The next day, he became the 11th priest murdered in El Salvador in three years. At the funeral of the martyred Archbishop, who had been a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize the year before, 23 members of the U.S. House of Representatives being among his nominators.

26:54 While they were having the funeral, a bomb was thrown amongst the mourners in the plaza, followed by rifle and automatic fire, all emanating from the National Palace and some of the office buildings, flanked the plaza, all government, by the way. At least 40 people more were killed and hundreds injured. The Junta president, Duarte, tried to put the blame for the funeral carnage on the left. Again, we're gonna blame the communists.

27:23 His case rested apparently on a bold statement and nothing else. For all eyewitness reports stated that the bomb and the gunfire came from the National Palace and the other government buildings. The statement issued by eight bishops and 16 other foreign church visitors who had been present denied the government version. They called every witness said that they lied.

27:52 Seven years were to pass before Duarte elected to the presidency in 1984, accused former Army Major Roberto, I'm not sure how you pronounce this guy's name, it's D apostrophe A-U, B as in Bravo, U-A-S-S-O-N, the prominent leader of the country's right wing with having ordered Romero's murder.

28:16 Though this was a belief already widely held, the public accusation created a stir in El Salvador and the U.S. The CIA, it turned out, knew the facts no later than one year after the assassination. I'd argue they knew the day they knew before the assassination. It was reported that this guy, Diabusan?

28:44 was a man who once had told three European reporters, quote, you Germans are very intelligent. You realize that the Jews were responsible for the spread of communism and you began to kill them, unquote. The American trained former intel officer was never arrested because of immunity arising from him being a deputy in the National Assembly. He died in 1992. So again,

29:13 He's American trained, and that's incredibly important. That's what you find with most of these people that do these horrible things. During the early months of 1980, the government with direct American influence and input enacted a program of agrarian reform as a sign of social change in El Salvador. It's key provision, tenant farmers gaining title to the plots of land that they owned.

29:49 or that they were, sorry, very similar to programs that the U.S. had advocated in other third world countries since the 1950s. But they advocate them and the international syndicate like United Fruit would go in and undermine them. And for the same reason as a counterinsurgency tactic, stealing the guerrilla's thunder and to make the government.

30:19 receiving U.S. military aid appeared to be more deserving in the eyes of Congress and the world. But again, it's a money laundering opportunity. They say that and they send the money for it, and then they use the money to stifle the people in those countries. A memorandum from the Agency for International Development, which is AID, which became USAID later, in the mid-1980s,

30:45 commenting on the reaction in El Salvador to the program called Land to the Tiller, T-I-L-L-E-R, says, quote, many believe it is symbolic and cosmetic measure, which was proposed because it would look good to certain American politicians and not necessarily because it would be beneficial or significant to the Salvadorian context, unquote. The reaction in El Salvador could have

31:16 within the El Salvador elite could have been predicted. They expelled many thousands of the peasants from their meager plots to preclude land being turned over to them. But this was not the worst of it. In testimony,

31:34 Later given, quote, the troops came and told the workers the land was theirs now. They could elect their own leaders and run it themselves. The peasants couldn't believe their ears, but they held elections that very night. The next morning, the troops came back and I watched as they shot every one of the elected leaders, unquote. This was not an isolated case. The assistant manager of agriculture.

32:03 Jorge Alberto Villacorta, in his resignation letter in 1980, stated that, quote, during the first days of the reform, to cite one case, five directors and two presidents of the new organization were assassinated, and I am informed that this repressive practice continues to increase, unquote. And let me just give you an analogy here. So when the U.S. government wants to

32:33 stage an operation. And I'm going to use January 6th as the most obvious. They will infiltrate that operation and then they will arrest or harass and in some cases kill, as they did on January 6th, people that step up to address the grievances of

33:04 the population of the United States. And by holding them as political prisoners, and in some cases, murdering them, they psychologically inhibit other people from standing in their place. That's the entire...

33:21 point of this. And the same is true where you have these organizations that Liza and Bridget and I have been investigating and looking at the patriots across the United States whose only goal is to teach each other how to fire guns and to farm to be self-sufficient. The government will infiltrate them. They will stage

33:48 violations, either like with a sawed-off shotgun a little too short, or somebody saying something, like they tried to infiltrate one in Virginia repeatedly by inserting somebody who kept trying to get them to blow shit up. And in doing that, they discourage people to join those types of organizations, number one. But number two, and probably most importantly,

34:16 They get insiders to identify the true patriots in America and put them on lists so that when push comes to shove and they put this stuff into full gear, they already have a list of everybody they need to go round up. And that is quite frankly what that Quad S list is as well for the airlines. It is a way for them to identify us.

34:41 as the ones who are going to stand up and lead a resistance if necessary. And by doing this in advance, they have already done their homework. And when you start looking into Operation Gladio and them having done this around the world and the details of them doing it, it becomes crystal clear what we're experiencing here in the United States. So, ongoing. In a quote from Karl Marx,

35:08 quote, force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one, unquote. That's crazy. Revolution was now the only item of importance on the political agenda of the opposition. United as never before, united more by a common enemy than by a common ideology. But many saw this grouping as strength rather than weakness. Leftists

35:39 would now be fighting alongside their former Christian Democrats, whom only shortly before had been serving the U.S. imperialism. So at some point, you drive everybody too far so that they unite despite the differences that they have among them. In Jimmy Carter's trumpeted devotion to human rights,

36:04 was to be taken seriously, his administration clearly had no alternative but to side with the Salvadorian opposition or to at least keep its hands strictly out of the fighting. The Carter administration, however, with only an occasional backward glance at its professed principles, continued its military support of the government. Within days before his term ended in January 1981, Carter ordered a total

36:30 of $10 million in military aid, along with the additional American advisors to be sent to El Salvador, an action characterized by one observer as President Carter's foreign policy establishment last convulsion effort to evade responsibility for having been too soft in dealing with the Salvadorian rebels, which, of course, again, the rebels are the freedom people that our government conveniently labels communist.

36:59 Meanwhile, we're actually funding the actual oppressors via the government. Two years later, as a private citizen, President Carter stated, quote, I think the government in El Salvador is one of the bloodthirstiest in the hemisphere now, unquote. But he gave them $10 million on his way out the door.

37:28 The Reagan administration, to whom human rights was a suspect term invented by leftists, had little fear of the too soft label. Its approach to the conflict was threefold. One, a sharp escalation, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in the American military involvement in El Salvador. Two, a public relations campaign to put a face on the military junta. Three.

37:58 a concurrent exercise in news management, i.e. Operation Paperclip, to convince the American public and the world that the Salvadorian opposition had no legitimate cause for revolution, which was to say that the Salvadorians had experienced during the previous two decades, indeed for half a century in some people's estimation, was an inspiration of unprovoked, mindless,

38:27 communist abated by the Soviet Union, by Nicaragua, and by Cuba. And Nicaragua only because the guy currently in Nicaragua when the statement was being written was the guy who was the Sandinista government that they were also attacking because he was not a communist. He was a freedom fighter who had overthrown the CIA and stalled dictatorship. So just to put it all in perspective, El Salvador.

38:57 did not turn into another Vietnam quicksand for the U.S., as many critics had warned. But for the Salvadorian people, the war and its horror dragged on forever. American support of a regime won even more loathsome than in Vietnam, which would have crumbled dismally if the U.S. would have left it alone. Despite overwhelmingly superior military might, the government

39:25 could hold the insurgents no more than at a stalemate. The amount of American military aid to El Salvador from 1980 to the early 90s for the hardware alone ran into the billions of dollars. Six billion.

39:43 is the figure commonly used in the press, but the true figure will never be known. The Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus, a bipartisan congressional group, accused the Reagan administration in the mid-1980s of supplying insufficient, misleading, and in some cases, false information concerning the aid to El Salvador. Because again, they use black funds too.

40:07 The administration concluded that the caucus study characterized most military aid as development aid, another money laundering opportunity, and undervalued the real cost of the hardware, even when it was properly categorized as military aid. Could be another reason why we're missing trillions of dollars out of the DOD. To this, you must add the cost of training the personnel that...

40:37 the CIA used in all these Gladio operations. So as we know, the school was housed in the Panama Canal zone, and they also provided training in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, at the U.S. behest of these operators. So they're flying them all around, getting them training to do all of these massacres.

41:10 One telling result of this massive provision of weapons and training, as well as money to pay higher salaries, was the sizeable expansion of the Salvadoran armed forces and other security services. Because, again, they use them as rent-a-cops in other countries.

41:32 From an estimated 7,000 to 12,000 men in 1979, the Army alone jumped to more than 22,000 by 1983. So in four years, it went from 7 to 22. With an additional 11,000 civilian security forces, three years later, the total of these two forces spiraled to...

42:01 53,000 people. The equipment available to them flowed endlessly. When in 1982, the rebels destroyed 16 of 18 aircraft in a raid on an airport, the U.S. replaced them in a matter of weeks with 28 new aircraft.

42:24 Part of the air power available to the government was U.S. reconnaissance planes fitted with sophisticated surveillance equipment, which could provide almost instant intelligence on movements before and after combat operations and designate bombing targets. The freedom fighters had...

42:44 neither air power nor practical anti-aircraft capability until November 1990 when they used a Soviet-made surface-to-air missile for the first time. And yet they could proudly say that in many cases they inflicted much more damage to the government forces because the government forces had so much more equipment to damage.

43:14 Predictably, the bombing as well as the strafing and napalming, because of course they love their napalm, took the lives of many more civilians than the freedom fighters who had better learned how to avoid the attacks. Countless dwellings were leveled in the process because it burns everything in its path. Villages destroyed, a nation of refugees created, and then you wonder why they're all coming to America.

43:45 from air or ground raids were not necessarily accidental, as the many massacre stories made evident. It is a basic tenet of counterinsurgency. Kill the sympathizer and you win the war. And let me also just put a foot stomping in here. We know that these quote-unquote El Salvadorian gangs, I'm going to assert

44:14 that the origination of all of these gangs were Operation Gladio training camps. I want y'all to just think about that. We teach people how to murder, how to assassinate, how to kidnap, and how to torture people. And then you turn around and you call them a gang member when they're no longer convenient to the story. Considerable evidence surfaced of

44:53 a U.S. role in the ground fighting as well. There were numerous reports of armed American spotters in combat areas. A report by CBS News of U.S. advisors, quote, fighting side by side, unquote, with government troops. And reports of other Americans, some ostensibly mercenaries, killed in action. They're Gladio operators. The extent...

45:23 of American mercenaries involved in El Salvador is not known, but Lawrence Bailey, a former U.S. Marine, has stated that he was part of a team of 40 American soldiers of fortune paid by wealthy Salvadorian families living in Miami to protect their plantations from takeover by the freedom fighters. So just like we learned when I was talking about Cuba, I said that

45:54 There is this privileged elite that are ordained within these hierarchies. So you had the mafia taking over Cuba. You have Cuban elitist that either are in high ranking positions on the U.S. owned or U.S. company owned sugar plantations that also.

46:22 are landed gentry and they don't want their world turned upside down. They like living in the lap of luxury even when it's selling their own countrymen out. I have said since investigating all of this that the term Cuban exiles was used for the children and that landed gentry.

46:50 that left Cuba and came to Miami. This is true of many South American countries and Central American countries. They flee to Miami while the fighting is going on, and they pay gangsters there, gladio-trained operators, to protect their landed gentry holdings.

47:16 in the off chance that they can put down the rebellion of the local people who are trying to throw off this cabal that is funded by the U.S. government so they can maintain their dictatorship and the exploitation of these people via the U.S. corporations that own basically these...

47:41 installed dictators. So you see this playing out over and over and over again. They take refuge in the United States and they become an exile population. And I'm going to put forward that many, not all, many of these that are

47:58 posited in these exile communities, then go through their own Gladio training and go back in, or their children certainly do, as the case of Felix Rodriguez, and they go in and they join the CIA and they become the oppressor. During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, it was disclosed that at least until 1985,

48:25 The CIA paramilitary personnel had been organizing and leading special Salvadorian army units into combat areas to track down guerrillas, i.e. freedom fighters, and call in airstrikes. These are Operation Gladio slash Operation Condor people. These bit-by-bit disclosures pointed to a frequent, if not routine, American involvement in ongoing combat. In September 1988, another news item

48:54 relating to U.S. military advisors, was caught in a gun battle between Salvadoran army forces and freedom fighters in that in, quote, self-defense, unquote, they opened fire on the freedom fighters. A degree of overall control of the military operations by the U.S. is perhaps best captured by an excerpt.

49:20 From an interview given to Playboy magazine in 1984 by President Duarte, one of the few Christian Democrat leaders in the early days still working within the government. Quote, this is what Playboy reporter asked. Do the American advisors also tell you how to run the war? Duarte, this is the problem. No, the root.

49:46 of this problem is that the aid is given under such conditions that its use is really decided by the Americans and not by us. Decisions like how many planes or helicopters we buy, how we spend our money, how many trucks we need, how many bullets and of what caliber, how many pairs of boots and where our priorities should be.

50:14 All of that and all of the money is spent over there. We never see a penny of it because everything arrives here already paid for. Unquote. Money laundering. In Duarte's previous incarnation as a government opponent, his view was even harsher. U.S. policy in Latin America, he said in 1969, was designed to maintain the American

50:44 Countries in a condition, basically Central American countries, in a condition of direct dependence upon the international political decisions most beneficial to the U.S., both at the hemisphere and world level. Thus, the North Americans preach to us of democracy while everywhere they support dictatorships, unquote. Amen. And then Duarte grows up and becomes one of them. Duarte's...

51:13 however, appears to have been a flexible and marketable commodity. Yes, as his participation in it later illustrates. Because he, in the 1970s and later, began supplying the CIA with all kinds of information and then basically became part of their apparatus.

51:37 In January 1982, President Reagan certified to Congress that the El Salvadorian government was, quote, making a concerted and significant effort to comply with internationally recognized human rights, unquote. That's a big fat lie. Quote, achieving substantial control over all elements of its own armed forces so as to bring an end to indiscriminate torture and murder.

52:06 murder of Salvadorian citizens by these forces, unquote. What he left out was the fact that they had been trained by the U.S. to do exactly what they were doing. Two days later, but in his defense, Congress already knew that because they already knew about the School of Americas. Two days later, the American and foreign press had carried the story of how government troops had engaged in a massacre of the people in the village of El...

52:37 Mozatti in December. From 700 to 1,000 people were murdered, mostly elderly women and children, which of course is their modus operandi. When a very long detailed account of this incident appeared eventually in 1993, it became even more apparent than ever.

52:56 that this was one of the most repulsive, cruelest massacres of the 20th century carried out by ground troops face to face with their victims. People were hacked to death with machetes, beheaded, a child thrown in the air and caught on a bayonet, the orgy of rapes of very young girls before they were killed. If you don't kill them, the children now, they'll grow up to be a gorilla, barked one of the army officers. Both immediately and thereafter, the massacre was attended.

53:26 By denials and cover-up by the State Department and a media all-out campaign, the State Department's defense of its position before a congressional committee left the committee members suspiciously underwhelmed, even though the congressman did not yet know the full story. Two days after the president's certification, the world would read about the Salvadoran soldiers had pulled about 20 people out of their beds in the middle of the night, tortured them, and then killed them. Meanwhile,

53:56 finding time to rape several of the teenage girls in the houses. Earlier the same month, the New York Times had published an interview with the deserter from the Salvadorian Army who described a class where severe methods of torture were demonstrated on teenage prisoners. He stated that eight U.S. military advisors, apparently Green Berets, were present, watching while...

54:21 Watching will make you feel like you're a man, a Salvadoran officer told the recruits, adding that they should not feel pity of anyone but that, quote, hate for those who are enemy of your country, unquote. Another Salvadoran, a former member of the National Guard, later testified, quote, I belong to a squad of 12. We devoted ourselves to torture and to find people.

54:50 whom we were told were guerrillas. I was trained in Panama, I told you, for nine months by the, he says something unintelligible, of the U.S. for anti-guerrilla warfare. Part of the time we were instructed about torture, unquote. Officers of the National Guard were also trained in the United States.

55:14 In August 1986, CBS television reported that three senior National Guard who had been linked to these terror death squads received training at the police academy in Phoenix. In 1984, Amnesty International reported the following, quote,

55:32 Regular, often daily reports identifying El Salvador's regular security and military units as responsible for the torture, quote, disappearance, unquote, and killing of noncombatant civilians from all sectors of Salvadoran society. A number of.

55:50 Patients have allegedly been removed from their beds or operating theater and tortured and murdered. Types of torture reported by those who have survived the arrest and interrogation includes beating, sexual abuse, use of chemicals to disorient, mock executions and burning of the flesh with sulfuric acid. In light of the above,

56:13 and many other reports of similar nature, it can be appreciated that the Reagan administration had to exercise some creativity in getting around congressional hesitation for the continued military aid of El Salvador. Thus, it was in March 1984, the administration tacked on a request for additional military aid to legislation to send U.S. food to starving Africans.

56:37 a typical tactic. A few days later, it tacked on a request for support of the Nicaraguan Contras, more criminals, and Gladio operators to a bill to provide emergency fuel spending for the poor in parts of America, which were suffering a severe winter. Death squad executions, military massacres, and the legion of the disappeared, the numbers reached well into the tens of thousands, and the death squads may have reached their

57:07 into the U.S. A number of Americans and Salvadorans living in Los Angeles and working with refugees or actively opposing U.S. military aid to El Salvador started receiving death threats in 1987. Reverend Luis Olivares, a Catholic priest whose church is part of the Sanctuary Movement, was sent an anonymous letter bearing the letters E.M.

57:36 which were often found on the doors or buildings of people that were targeted in El Salvador. The letters stand for Escuadron Moroto or Death Squad. In July 1987, a Salvadorian woman named Yanero Correa, who had received threatening phone calls and letters, was kidnapped outside of Los Angeles office of the Committee of Solidarity for the People of El Salvador.

58:05 Two men speaking with what she described as Salvadorian accents forced her at knife point into a van, interrogated her about her political activities and colleagues, cut her hands with a knife, burnt her fingers with cigarettes, sexually assaulted her with a stick, then raped her. A month earlier, she had been narrowly escaped being abducted along with her three-year-old son. Other activities that their cars had been smashed or vandalized.

58:31 For several years under Reagan administration, the FBI conducted a nationwide investigation of this organization. During that period, some of the organization's offices were broken into with nothing of value taken except files. It's imperative because they want the names of everybody who will give any information to expose them for what they're really doing in El Salvador.

58:56 They want to intimidate anybody that stands against them, and that's our federal government. It is imperative at this time to formulate some plan of action against this organization, reads one FBI teletype later made public. On some days during the 1980s,

59:18 Washington officials issued warnings to the Salvadorian government to improve its human rights records or told Congress that the record was improving or told the world how much worse the record would have been had it not been for our intervening. On most other days, the U.S. continued to build up each of these components of the military and paramilitary forces engaged in the atrocities. In 1984, in an interview with the New York Times, Colonel Roberto Salabanas,

59:48 A former Salvadorian military official who had served at the highest level of the security police confirmed for those who may still have entertained doubts that the network of death squads had been shaped by leading Salvadorian officials and was still directed by them. He also revealed that one of these officials, Colonel Nicholas Carranza,

1:00:13 The head of the Treasury Police, which has long been considered the least disciplined and most brutal of all Salvadorian security forces, had been receiving more than $90,000 a year during the previous five years from the CIA. Although some members of the Treasury Police were linked by the Reagan administration itself to death squad activities, the U.S. continued to train and equip them. In a visit to San Salvador,

1:00:42 In February 1989, Vice President Dan Quayle told Army leaders that death squad killings and human rights violations attributed to the military had to be ended. Ten days later, the U.S.-trained Atalcatl Battalion, which was believed to have been a U.S. trainer assigned to it at the time, attacked a guerrilla.

1:01:13 or Freedom Fighter Field Hospital, killing at least 10 people, including five patients, a doctor, a nurse, and raping at least two female victims before shooting them. Sources close to the El Salvador military said afterward that Quell's warning was not taking serious. It was just rhetoric for the U.S. Congress and the American public. The October 1989

1:01:40 Former Salvadoran Army Commando Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez, in an interview on CBS, related that he and others in his unit, the intelligence section of the Army's 1st Brigade, had acted as a clandestine death squad, that the two U.S. military advisors attached to the unit were aware of the assassinations, although they refused to hear the details, and that advisors supplied money to his unit.

1:02:09 that helped maintain two civilian vehicles used for the death squad operations in a safe house. They served as a secret base of operations in storage of the weapons. Now, if the refusal to help is anything like that that Felix Rodriguez mentioned when he said he didn't participate in the murder of Shea Calvera, yeah, I'm going to call bullshit on that one. In subsequent interviews with the American press,

1:02:39 Hoya Martinez stated that the advisors had used the names Marico Torres and Raul Martina Lazo in his unit had carried out 74 assassinations of Salvadorian dissidents between April and July 1989, and that he himself had been personally involved in eight torture murders. Apropos of deadly bombings in El Salvador in November,

1:03:10 of dissonant organizations like a union hall or an organization of mothers had disappeared. He added that his unit had received explosive training from U.S. advisors. The Salvadorian embassy in Washington, while denying any government involvement in death squads, did confirm that Hoya Martinez was a member of the intelligence unit of the First Brigade. In July 1990, an aide to Representative

1:03:37 Joseph Moakley, a Democrat from Massachusetts, chairman of the Speaker's Task Force on El Salvador, declared, quote, the fact that Hoya Martinez has been in the U.S. since last August, given all kinds of interviews, been arrested, and no one from the government has bothered to question him seems pretty strange unless people don't want to find out the answers, unquote. And I just want to foot stomp that because these are trained killers. That's what they do for a living.

1:04:05 And our State Department, in conjunction with the military trainers and the CIA trainers, have them walking around us all the time. Just keep that in mind. On the 12th of the month, Oya Martinez had been arrested for having illegally entered the U.S. after being deported six years earlier. Yeah, after a lengthy legal battle.

1:04:31 He was ordered deported back to El Salvador in 92. His supporters in the U.S. expressed their concern about his safety in El Salvador. That's hilarious. To which the State Department official responded, quote, he has admitted to killings and torture and it would be callous to the victims to prevent him from standing trial, unquote. Like he's going to stand trial when the people who ordered him to do the killings are still in charge.

1:05:11 There's a little bit more about this, but I kind of want to stop at that point. I think we're going to pick up on the second part of this tomorrow.

1:05:40 Yeah, I don't want to go any further with this. And looking at the material in each one of these, I don't know. I mean, I've read about six different books, all of which had a section on El Salvador, and that's kind of a compiling of all of them in a chronological order. And I've got about that much material more, so I can do that tomorrow. I don't want to cut any of this short because...

1:06:10 understanding the different aspects. There wasn't any part of what we just went over that I can leave out because you have to understand their methods and the techniques that they use. And you also have to understand what actions our government is taking at the same time. They're fully aware of the murder and the mayhem that they're creating.

1:06:37 I don't want to cut any of that out. And I want you to understand how pervasive in these governments that the CIA sets up, like the fact that you are using the Department of Treasury in El Salvador, you're using the military, you're using not only the National Guard, you're using... You have to understand all of that because then when you're looking at what's happening in the United States, you have to understand...

1:07:05 All of those same players are here and all of those same players are being used. It's not coincidental during January 6th that the two-star general that was in charge of the National Guard in D.C. ends up within a couple of days. So the next day they fire the sergeant of arms or he quits. He resigns the next day. Well, guess who becomes?

1:07:35 the new Sergeant of Arms for the House, the guy that was the National Guard, not the Air National Guard, the National Guard for the D.C., the two-star, he becomes the Sergeant of Arms. You have to understand that everything that we're reading about goes on here. It's right around us. And we have to understand the breadth of this if we're ever going to get our arms around the whole thing. So I'll pick up there tomorrow.

1:08:06 Does anybody have any questions? Liza, Bridget, go ahead. I just wanted to say I posted, boy, there is a vast amount of information that's available on all of these events that have later been declassified. And anyway, there are tons of links down underneath all this that I encourage anybody who is interested.

1:08:39 to read about it, you know, more in detail or just, anyway, there's a variety of them on all of the things that she covered today. And you're right. You have to definitely spot the patterns. The patterns are key, you know, and that's what's going to help us pull out of this. Anyway, that's all I wanted. Thank you. Thanks Bridget for putting all those links down there.

1:09:10 Liza, did you have anything you wanted to add? Liza? Hello, can you hear me? She still may be working through her new phone. Hello? Trying to get it figured out. Okay, so you can't hear me. All right, then. I can't hear you, Liza. And Sally, I sent you a link to add as a speaker. It just came back saying that you can speak.

1:10:33 And then it says there's an error. I don't know. There's so many glitches in the spaces forum. It is very difficult to have a coherent speeches forum with all of the different glitches. Yeah, Liza texts me and says something's going on. I know, Liza.

1:11:05 So I don't know what happened to Sally either. Like kicked her out too. So does anybody else have any questions? I'm going to try to get Liza out and then back in real quick. And then otherwise, if no one else has anything, let me find her. Let me find Liza real quick. Well, shoot. I took her out of the...

1:11:58 speaking lineup. And then she just like disappeared off the face of the earth. And so did Sally. So I guess they're not going to let us have questions and answers with anybody because it's not going to let me give the mic to anybody. Hang on. I think I found out what was going on with Sally and she should be able to go back in. Hang on. There she is. Can you talk now, Sally?

1:12:42 Yeah, someone must have accidentally kicked me from the space. I was trying to figure out how to rejoin another avenue. Cool. I was going to say, oh, Liza's not up here anymore. I was going to say, if you drop Liza and bring her back up, she should be able to. I know. I can't find her. I couldn't find you either. Yeah, someone accidentally kicked me from the space. And when you do that, then I can't retrieve it. Because I sent a link to someone else, I was able to get a link.

1:13:12 From another person. Anyway, got back in. Someone accidentally kicked me. Okay. What you got? Gosh, I don't even know if I have any questions. This whole, I don't know why South America, the stuff they did there. I know they did this in other countries. It just seems like everything they did in this part of the world was so much more savage. And maybe it wasn't. And maybe it's just because it's closer to our country and where we live. And I don't know.

1:13:42 It is so disturbing what they have done all in the name of power and money and control. I don't know if I really have much to say. So it isn't more savage, to answer your point. If you go back and you read any of the books about the Phoenix program in Vietnam, it was as equally, if not more so, savage. If you look at what they did in the Philippines, even before the CIA was formed in the early 1900s, the savagery is kind of...

1:14:11 the hallmark of it. I mean, they refer to these things as death squads because they don't just kill people. They tortured them to death. They made them die in the most savage. And I believe unequivocally that it was the psychological warfare aspect of the slow tortured murder and the gruesomeness of it that that's the whole goal of it. They wanted.

1:14:41 to scare the living shit out of people to keep them from in mass rising up because there's so many more people than there are them. And so the only way that you can equal the odds is by psychological warfare. And if I can make your potential death as gruesome as I can, then I basically have made myself.

1:15:09 a bigger presence in your mind than what I occupy in reality. So that is what they teach you in warfare is you have to figure out ways when you are outnumbered to make yourself bigger. I never envisioned us doing it with the bad guys, but that is in fact how that whole thing works. Miles, what you got?

1:15:40 Good afternoon, Colonel. Because of Gladio, now I've got other stuff that I have to do homework on. Thank you very much, Colonel. So I'm looking at past events, and I've been taking notes. So this would be TWA Flight 800 in 1996. Do you have any information on that, that that might have been a Gladio event?

1:16:10 50 witnesses saw a missile go up to the 747 and it was covered up. I have looked into that. There was a new Navy system that was being tested during the exact same time that that flight occurred. And that Navy system that had been being tested.

1:16:40 was not a very accurate system. And it is believed by many that the, and I mean, we can say it misoperated. It may have operated. There may have been somebody on board that they wanted to disappear. But there are many people that believe it was that system that took that aircraft down.

1:17:18 Okay, I'm looking at some different angles because of some other names that popped up. So we have, do you remember when they had... Does anybody else have any other questions? Colonel, can you hear Miles? I heard him when he asked about the TWA 800. I can't hear him now. Miles, try speaking again. Colonel, can you hear me now?

1:17:48 Colonel. Okay, Miles, I'm going to remove you as the speaker, and then I'll pass you the mic again, okay? 10-4. Yeah, he's very garbled up. Why is it that every time you start answering questions with everybody, everyone loses signal? When you're giving your presentation, I can hear just fine, and then when we start asking the important big questions, then it's always a little glitchy. You're noticing that, too?

1:18:30 I do think that that's totally not a coincidence, I guess I could say, because it does happen almost every single time, if not every single time. I have one. Miles, go ahead. Yeah, I'll get right to you. So, Colonel, just so you know, I've been in this business for a long time on social media. When you're over the target, you're going to get flack.

1:18:56 And because of events that are going to happen, I think, in the near future and the election, there's probably going to be another purge on this platform. So don't don't be too surprised about if something happens. So what I was saying, some other I'm looking at this from a different angle because there were some documents that, you know, released declassified. Are you familiar with Felix Sater?

1:19:27 The name rings a bell. Yeah, he was working with the government and giving them information about in Afghanistan, there were certain singular rockets that were given to the Mujahideen when, you know, during the Afghanistan war with Russia. And I think maybe some of those weapons came back here, some of those missiles.

1:19:56 And we're not talking about RPGs, anything like that. We're talking about stingers. And then one other thing. There was a guy, Louis Freed. Do you know who Louis Freed was? Okay. In 1993, he started the Office of General Counsel. But nobody was on that board for 10 years until 2003, which sounds really weird.

1:20:26 So I'm doing my homework. I'm trying out here. Thanks. Awesome. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, go ahead, Sally. I was just going to ask if when you set up your spaces, do you make sure that you have it to where anonymous listeners cannot join? Anonymous what? Listeners. So when you set up a space, you can click and say if anonymous people can join without their profile. So anonymous people might be joining.

1:20:58 Who then can do things behind the scenes that you don't know about. Okay. I'll look for that next time. I was not aware of that. Anybody else have anything? Okay. So we're going to call it a day and we'll be back around noon tomorrow. Thanks for being here, everybody.

Entities here

United States25 El Salvador25 Operation Gladio15 Salvadoran Armed Forces12 José Napoleón Duarte10 Nicaragua9 CIA7 Guatemala7 Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez7 Death Squads7 Jimmy Carter6 Panama5 Reagan administration5 U.S. Congress5 Costa Rica5 Cuba4 Belize4 Honduras4 Assassination of Óscar Romero4 National Guard (El Salvador)4 Óscar Romero4 1960 Salvadoran coup d'état4 U.S. State Department3 January 6 Capitol attack3 TWA Flight 800 crash3 Roberto D'Aubuisson3 El Mozote Massacre3 Miami3 Ronald Reagan3 San Salvador2 National Palace (El Salvador)2 The New York Times2 Panama Canal2 Phoenix Program2 Colombia2 U.S. Navy2 Funeral bombing of Óscar Romero2 Carter Administration2 USAID2 Felix Rodriguez2

Claims made here

United States funded El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 7:12

“This is around the 1980 timeframe. The U.S. was supporting the government of El Salvador. And President Reagan said it was because they were trying to halt the infiltration into the Americas by terror…”

Ronald Reagan host_asserted El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 7:12

Fabio Castillo exposed United States book_quoted ▶ 12:48

“which the U.S. was involved in. Dr. Fabio Castillo, a former president of the National University and a member of the ousted government, testified years later before U.S. Congress that the process of …”

United States trained El Salvador book_quoted ▶ 13:15

“Throughout the 1960s, multi-faceted American experts occupied themselves in El Salvador by enlarging and refining the state's security and counterinsurgency apparatus, the police, the National Guard, …”

United States funded El Salvador book_quoted ▶ 13:42

“There were the forces and resources which were brought into action to impose a widespread repression and wage war. Years later, the New York Times quoted as follows. In El Salvador, American aid was u…”

United States ordered_assassination_of Carlos Romero host_asserted ▶ 22:15

“The civilian members of the government found themselves unable to exercise any control over the armed forces and was left to function only as a camouflage to real reform. Washington had supported the …”

Roberto D'Aubuisson ordered_assassination_of Óscar Romero book_quoted ▶ 27:52

“Seven years were to pass before Duarte elected to the presidency in 1984, accused former Army Major Roberto, I'm not sure how you pronounce this guy's name, it's D apostrophe A-U, B as in Bravo, U-A-S…”

United States funded El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 29:13

“He's American trained, and that's incredibly important. That's what you find with most of these people that do these horrible things. During the early months of 1980, the government with direct Americ…”

United Fruit Company undermined El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 29:49

“or that they were, sorry, very similar to programs that the U.S. had advocated in other third world countries since the 1950s. But they advocate them and the international syndicate like United Fruit …”

Jorge Alberto Villacorta exposed El Salvador book_quoted ▶ 32:03

“Jorge Alberto Villacorta, in his resignation letter in 1980, stated that, quote, during the first days of the reform, to cite one case, five directors and two presidents of the new organization were a…”

Operation Gladio carried_out_attack El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 34:41

“as the ones who are going to stand up and lead a resistance if necessary. And by doing this in advance, they have already done their homework. And when you start looking into Operation Gladio and them…”

Carter Administration funded El Salvador documented ▶ 36:04

“was to be taken seriously, his administration clearly had no alternative but to side with the Salvadorian opposition or to at least keep its hands strictly out of the fighting. The Carter administrati…”

Reagan administration funded El Salvador documented ▶ 39:25

“could hold the insurgents no more than at a stalemate. The amount of American military aid to El Salvador from 1980 to the early 90s for the hardware alone ran into the billions of dollars. Six billio…”

CIA trained Salvadoran Armed Forces host_asserted ▶ 40:07

“The administration concluded that the caucus study characterized most military aid as development aid, another money laundering opportunity, and undervalued the real cost of the hardware, even when it…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Salvadoran Armed Forces documented ▶ 42:01

“53,000 people. The equipment available to them flowed endlessly. When in 1982, the rebels destroyed 16 of 18 aircraft in a raid on an airport, the U.S. replaced them in a matter of weeks with 28 new a…”

Lawrence Bailey member_of Death Squads documented ▶ 45:23

“of American mercenaries involved in El Salvador is not known, but Lawrence Bailey, a former U.S. Marine, has stated that he was part of a team of 40 American soldiers of fortune paid by wealthy Salvad…”

José Napoleón Duarte spied_on CIA host_asserted ▶ 51:13

“however, appears to have been a flexible and marketable commodity. Yes, as his participation in it later illustrates. Because he, in the 1970s and later, began supplying the CIA with all kinds of info…”

Salvadoran Armed Forces carried_out_attack El Mozote Massacre documented ▶ 52:06

“murder of Salvadorian citizens by these forces, unquote. What he left out was the fact that they had been trained by the U.S. to do exactly what they were doing. Two days later, but in his defense, Co…”

U.S. State Department covered_up El Mozote Massacre documented ▶ 53:26

“By denials and cover-up by the State Department and a media all-out campaign, the State Department's defense of its position before a congressional committee left the committee members suspiciously un…”

CIA trained Salvadoran Armed Forces documented ▶ 54:50

“whom we were told were guerrillas. I was trained in Panama, I told you, for nine months by the, he says something unintelligible, of the U.S. for anti-guerrilla warfare. Part of the time we were instr…”

Reagan administration funded Contras documented ▶ 56:37

“a typical tactic. A few days later, it tacked on a request for support of the Nicaraguan Contras, more criminals, and Gladio operators to a bill to provide emergency fuel spending for the poor in part…”

CIA paid Nicholas Carranza documented ▶ 1:00:13

“The head of the Treasury Police, which has long been considered the least disciplined and most brutal of all Salvadorian security forces, had been receiving more than $90,000 a year during the previou…”

Atalcatl Battalion carried_out_attack El Salvador documented ▶ 1:00:42

“In February 1989, Vice President Dan Quayle told Army leaders that death squad killings and human rights violations attributed to the military had to be ended. Ten days later, the U.S.-trained Atalcat…”

CIA funded Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez documented ▶ 1:02:09

“that helped maintain two civilian vehicles used for the death squad operations in a safe house. They served as a secret base of operations in storage of the weapons. Now, if the refusal to help is any…”

Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez carried_out_attack El Salvador documented ▶ 1:02:39

“Hoya Martinez stated that the advisors had used the names Marico Torres and Raul Martina Lazo in his unit had carried out 74 assassinations of Salvadorian dissidents between April and July 1989, and t…”

Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez member_of 1st Brigade Intelligence Section documented ▶ 1:03:10

“of dissonant organizations like a union hall or an organization of mothers had disappeared. He added that his unit had received explosive training from U.S. advisors. The Salvadorian embassy in Washin…”

CIA trained Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez documented ▶ 1:03:10

National Guard (El Salvador) member_of United States House of Representatives host_asserted ▶ 1:07:05

“All of those same players are here and all of those same players are being used. It's not coincidental during January 6th that the two-star general that was in charge of the National Guard in D.C. end…”

U.S. Navy covered_up TWA Flight 800 crash caller_asserted ▶ 1:16:10

“50 witnesses saw a missile go up to the 747 and it was covered up. I have looked into that. There was a new Navy system that was being tested during the exact same time that that flight occurred. And …”

Felix Sater supplied_arms_to Mujahideen caller_asserted ▶ 1:19:27

“The name rings a bell. Yeah, he was working with the government and giving them information about in Afghanistan, there were certain singular rockets that were given to the Mujahideen when, you know, …”

Louis Freeh founded Office of General Counsel caller_asserted ▶ 1:19:56

“And we're not talking about RPGs, anything like that. We're talking about stingers. And then one other thing. There was a guy, Louis Freed. Do you know who Louis Freed was? Okay. In 1993, he started t…”