Operation Gladio (240516)

1:07:26 · recorded 2024-05-16

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0:00 Good afternoon, everybody. I'm going to wait just another minute or two so that we can invite people into the space. But while we're waiting, let me talk for just a minute about a couple of different things. I'm going to bring up my screen on my computer while I do this so I get all of the names correct.

0:43 And obviously you can see why I feel understanding Operation Gladio is so important because it's happening all around us. So you have the Slovakian prime minister shot and you get a story. You don't get the story. And as soon as you.

1:12 begin looking into a story that they try to feed us, you can immediately begin seeing the disconnects based on information that we have learned about patterns of what they try to do. So I think it's very important to

1:40 obviously take a step back and look at the facts around situations like that and as I don't know whether she'll be able to join us today or not but Liza has pointed out and that we have found just collectively doing our research there's so many other areas right now that all of this applies to whether it's

2:09 We talked about Belarus. We've talked about Georgia. There's many of these. Another one that is kind of boiling up is Armenia. And if you know anything about Armenia, it's problematic for a bunch of different reasons. Primarily, it's on the border of Turkey, and we already know Turkey has a lot of Operation Gladio-trained entities there. So that becomes very problematic.

2:40 So anyway, just wanted to bring that up. I did pin the post or the thread that I made about the guy that they're saying attempted to assassinate the prime minister. I highly suggest everybody go look at that. It's very interesting. And we're going to go ahead and get started since we have so, so much to cover today. So we're going to start with.

3:16 And I'm going to do a couple of things. I'm going to first cover what William Bloom in Killing Hope had to say in his book about Uruguay. And then I want to go to several articles that I found that talk about it as well. So that's kind of the process we're going to go to. So starting with.

3:46 what Bloom had to say. This period covers 1964 to 1970. And of course, we run across some of the same people. He starts off talking about the Office of Public Safety, which was a mission inside of the State Department, which is on its face laughable. The Office of Public Safety was in charge of teaching.

4:17 countries how to torture people. So it literally had nothing to do with public safety, unless you want to consider safety of the government public safety. The guy that makes the star appearance in this story is Dan Mitteroni, and I've talked about him quite a bit in the past, actually. He was a fellow

4:45 classmate, like from elementary school, of Jim Jones from Indiana, Richmond, Indiana, specifically. Dan Mitteroni is basically FBI slash CIA. He became the chief of police in Richmond, Indiana. He has quite an interesting background. But the most important aspect of him is the

5:13 time that he spent in the Office of Public Safety working for AID, which was the precursor to USAID. And there was another guy that was the director who actually is the one responsible for hiring him by the name of Byron Engle, E-N-G-L-E. He, of course, is another CIA guy pretending to work at the State Department and in a nonprofit.

5:45 They maintained a close relationship over the years, and OPS, the Office of Public Safety, began operating formally in 1965 in Uruguay. It was responsible for supplying the police there equipment, arms, and training. Four years later, Mitteroni arrived.

6:17 and began filling a specific quote-unquote need for the Office of Public Safety. The country was in the middle of what I would categorize an orchestrated decline so that they could install a fascist dictator and create the disturbances that we've come to appreciate is the precursor for doing that.

6:49 labor strikes, student demonstrations, militant street violence, that type of thing. Prior to that, Uruguay had been a fairly low-key, modestly wealthy, stable country, like many of the other ones, actually. So the people that were in the streets trying to counteract the CIA's activity

7:19 became known as the Tupamaros, T-U-P-A-M-A-R-O-S. They were very resourceful. And of course, they immediately got branded as urban guerrillas because they were trying to restore sanity while the CIA was trying to destroy their country. A lot of the locals regarded them as a Robin Hood.

7:51 type organization trying to give power back to the people and away from the government and the CIA-backed perpetrators, primarily residing in the police force. So, however, there were also people that were embedded in the banks and the universities, as well as the military and the police. The Tupamaros

8:23 avoided bloodshed at all costs. They were not always able to do that because they were constantly attacked by people like Dan Metteroni. And a favorite tactic was to raid the files of a private company to expose their corruption and deceit in high places. They would kidnap prominent figures and try them before a people's court.

8:54 They generally never hurt the person. They just held mock courts based on the files that they stole from these people. So in a different book I was reading about this particular group, it was actually historical. They had stolen so many files that they ended up having to buy a building that was this.

9:24 this huge warehouse because they had so many files of corruption. And they would film themselves in this building going through the paperwork exposing the corruption. It was actually kind of hilarious. And when this room was discovered, the good police

9:51 went in there and said it would take decades for them to go through and kind of categorize, prosecute all of the bad things based on all of the good work that this group had done. So literally just, we definitely need to have these people here. So they once ransacked.

10:23 an exclusive high-class nightclub and wrote on the walls, either everyone dances or no one dances. Dan Mitteroni did not introduce the practice of torturing political prisoners to Uruguay. It had actually already started in the early 1960s and to some extent was going. He actually perfected it and taught them new techniques, though.

10:51 In a surprising interview with a leading Brazilian newspaper in 1970, the former Uruguayan police chief, Otero, declared that the U.S. advisors, and particularly Medaroni, had instructed them how to use torture as a more routine measure to the means of inflicting pain.

11:19 They had added a scientific refinement and to that a psychology to create despair by playing a tape in the next room of women and children screaming and telling the prisoner that was his family being tortured. Quote, the violent method which were beginning to be employed, said Otero, caused an escalation in the Tupomaro activity.

11:46 Before then, their attitude showed that they would use violence only as a last resort, unquote. Imagine that. Your response becomes more violent as the state's violence increases. The newspaper interview greatly upset American officials in South America and in Washington, D.C., because he was basically spilling the beans.

12:12 Byron Engel later tried to explain it all away by saying, quote, the three Brazilian reporters in Montevideo all denied filing that story. We found out later that it had been slipped into a paper by someone in the composing room. In other words, they controlled the press, so that should have never happened. Otero had been a willing agent of the CIA.

12:42 And listen to this, a student at the International Police Services School in Washington, D.C. Now, if you guys remember, I've talked about this quite a bit. This is much like the School of America's class that was actually hosted in Washington, D.C., that many of the people, especially the leadership of the people, go to this particular class.

13:13 The senior to middle management was going to the schools of America, but the top goes to this particular police academy school that our government was running in Washington, D.C. They're bringing terrorists into Washington, D.C. to go to school. He was also a major recipient of CIA cash over the years, but he was not a torturer. What finally drove him to speak out was perhaps the torture of a woman who

13:45 while a Tupomaro sympathizer was also a friend of his. When she told him that Mitteroni had watched and assisted in her torture, Otero complained to him about this particular incident, as well as his general methods. The only outcome of the encounter was Otero being demoted. Tells you everything. Sounds like whistleblowers here.

14:16 And he only spoke out because it was a friend, not the general practice, just because it was a friend. William Cantrell was a CIA ops officer stationed in Montevito, ostensibly as a member of the Office of Public Safety team. In the mid-1960s, he was also instrumental in setting up Department of Information and Intelligence, the DII, and providing it with funds and equipment.

14:47 Some of the equipment came from the CIA's Technical Services Division and was used specifically for torture. So the CIA is giving torture equipment to these barbarians in order for them to carry out torture, and they're teaching them how to use the torture machinery. One of the pieces of equipment that was found useful, according to a New York Times reporter,

15:19 was a wire so very thin that it could be fitted into the mouth between your teeth and was pressing up against your gums to increase the electrical charge. And it was carried into the countries through diplomatic state department pouches that Mitteroni got through this process. Things got so bad.

15:49 in Mitteroni's time, that the Uruguayan Senate was compelled to undertake an investigation. After a five-month study, the commission concluded unanimously that the torture in Uruguay had become a normal, frequent, and habitual occurrence inflicted upon the Tupamaros as well as others. Among the type of torture, the commission's report made reference to where electrical shocks to the genitals

16:21 electrical needles underneath the fingernails, burning with cigarettes, the slow compression of the testicles, daily use of psychological torture. Quote, pregnant women were subjected to various brutalities and inhuman treatment, unquote. Certain women were imprisoned with their very young infants and subject to the same type of treatment. Eventually, the DII came to serve as a cover for the

16:50 death squads, which was created throughout Latin America, primarily by police officers who bombed and strafed the homes of suspected Tupomaro sympathizers and engaged in assassination and kidnapping. The death squads received some of the most special explosive material from the Technical Services Division.

17:17 And in all likelihood, some of the skills employed by the members were acquired inside the United States. And if you guys remember, we've talked about this specific location in Los Fresnos, Texas, which was a prior military base. They had an eight-week course there that the CIA ran. And it says between 69 and 73, at least 16 Uruguayan police officers attended that course in Texas.

17:47 where it designed, manufactured, and employed bomb and incendiary devices. So they were teaching people how to bomb their own citizens. This was, however, not instructions on how to destroy or, you know, like EOD, trying to dismantle bombs. This was a course specifically designed in making these.

18:18 In at least one reported occasion, the students were not policemen, but members of private right-wing organizations, at least in the case with Chile. Another part of the curriculum, which might also have proven valuable to death squads, was a class in assassination weapons, a discussion of various weapons used by assassins. Equipment and training of this kind

18:53 was in addition to the normal provided OPS, riot helmets, shields, tear gas, gas masks, comm gear, vehicles, batons, and other devices. The supply of these tools increased in 1968 when public disturbances reached kind of like the climax there. And by 1970, American training

19:25 in riot control techniques had been given to about a thousand Iroquoian policemen. Dan Mitteroni had built a soundproof room in a cellar of his house. In this room, there were Iroquoian police officers and they observed the demonstrations on how to apply torture. One of the observers, a Cuban,

19:55 who was a CIA agent, worked with Mitteroni. He said, this is a quote, they basically, before I get to the quote, basically they were teaching these police officers human anatomy and the nervous system to maximize the pain. The quote begins, soon things turned unpleasant. As subjects for the first testing, they took beggars.

20:28 like homeless people, known in Uruguay from the outskirts of Montevideo, as well as women apparently from the frontier with Brazil. There was no interrogation, only a demonstration of the effects of different voltage and different parts of the human body, as well as demonstrating the use of a drug which induces vomiting.

20:56 I don't know why or what that was for, and another chemical substance. All four of the people were found dead. In his book, the guy that's talking about this does not say specifically what Mitteroni's direct part in all of this was, but he does later publicly state that the OPS chief personally tortured four beggars to death with electrical shock.

21:26 He also said that he sat with Metaroni in his house, and over a few drinks, the American explained to the Cuban his philosophy of interrogation. Metaroni considered it to be an art. First, there would be the softening up period with the usual beatings and insults. The object is to humiliate the prisoner and make him realize he's helpless.

21:54 To cut him off from reality, no questions, only blows and insult, then only blows in silence. Only after this, said Mitteroni, is the interrogation to begin. Here, no pain should be produced other than what's caused by the instrument which is going to be used, quote, the precise pain in the precise place in the precise amount for the desired effect, unquote.

22:24 Now, I just want to stop there for a second and remind you, this was the chief of police in Richmond, Indiana. During the sessions, you were supposed to keep the subject from losing all hope of life because this can lead to resistance. You must always leave him some hope, a distant light. When you get what you want, and I always get it, quote,

22:57 It may be good to prolong the session a little to apply another softening up, not to extract information now, but only as a political measure to create a healthy fear in meddling in subversive activities, unquote. The American also pointed out that upon receiving a subject, the first thing is to determine their physical state, their degree of resistance, blah, blah, blah. Basically do like a medical workup on them and their state of mind.

23:28 So this guy, who basically became a whistleblower, disappeared from Montevago and turned up later in Havana. Probably get to get the hell out of Dodge because he would have been a dead man walking down there. About half a year later, in 1970, Dan Mitteroni, he himself was kidnapped by the Tuporaros. They did not torture him.

24:01 They demanded the release of 150 prisoners in exchange for him. With the determined backing of the Nixon administration, the Uruguayan government refused. Then, the Uruguayan government discovered Mattaroni's dead body in the backseat of a stolen car. He turned 50 while he was a prisoner of the Mattaronis. Secretary of State William Roger and President Nixon's son-in-law, David Eisenhower,

24:33 attended the funeral for Mitteroni. The city's former police chief, Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis, came to town and did a benefit for the Mitteroni's family. Isn't that nice? White House spokesman Ron Ziegler solemnly said, Mr. Mitteroni's devoted service to the cause of peaceful progress in an orderly world will remain an example for free men.

25:03 everywhere, as he took freedom away from thousands of people in Uruguay. His widow would call him a perfect man, and his daughter said that he was a great humanitarian. The military's entry into the escalating conflict signaled the beginning of the end for the Tuporeros. By the end of the 1972, the curtain was descending on their guerrilla theater.

25:36 or freedom, depending on how you look at it. Six months later, the military was in charge because they had had a coup, thanks to the CIA. Congress was dissolved, and everything not prohibited was compulsory. For the next 11 years, Uruguay competed strongly for the honor of the most repressive dictatorship in all of South America, and that's saying something given what they were going through at the time.

26:06 They had the largest number of political prisoners per capita in the world. Every human rights organization was basically talking about the fact of their large torture program. And by 1981, at the 14th Congress of the American Armies, the Uruguayan Army offered a paper in which it defined subversive as actions, violent or not.

26:35 with ultimate purpose of political nature in all fields of human activity within the internal sphere of a state whose aims are perceived as not convenient for the overall political system. Quote, people were in prison so that prices could be free, unquote. There was a film made called State of Siege.

27:02 It appeared in 1972. It is centered around Mitteroni and the Tuporeros and depicted an Uruguayan police officer receiving training at a secret bomb school in the United States. Through the film, it shows a composite picture of the role played by the U.S. in repression throughout Latin America. A scheduled premiere showing of the film at the federally funded JFK Art

27:31 Center in Washington was canceled. There was already growing public and congressional criticism of the dark side of Americans' policy without adding to it. During the mid-70s, however, Congress enacted several pieces of legislation which abolished the entire public safety program. OPS had provided training for more than one million police officers throughout the world.

28:05 10,000 of them had received advanced training in the United States. They had received over $150 million worth of equipment that had been shipped to police forces abroad. That was just what we know of. That was actually the appropriated version of it, not any of the black ops. To a large extent, the DEA simply picked up where the OPS left off.

28:37 Because this is the analogy of them closing the school in Panama called the School of Americas. When they didn't actually close it, they just moved it to Fort Benning. So in this case, they basically took the people that were associated with this organization, the Office of Public Safety, and embedded them in the DEA. The drug agency was ideal suited for this task.

29:04 Covering Latin America under the guise of drug control, the DEA acknowledged in 1975 that 53 former employees of the CIA, and I'm putting former in quotation marks, were now on the staff and that there was a close working relationship between the two organizations. The following year, a GAO report said

29:30 DEA agents were engaging in many of the exact same activities that the OPS had been doing out. So they didn't actually close it at all. Some training of foreign policemen was transferred to the FBI schools in Washington and Quantico. And also that not just arms, but security equipment.

29:58 And it became a booming business. And anytime they do this, then what they normally do is they set up front companies to, when they go in and they do some of these activities where they're going to teach torture and they need torture equipment, then they create front companies to do that. So they're the one money laundering the money back to themselves. That's how that works. In this case, though, I found it interesting.

30:28 that they were talking about, in addition to them doing that, one of the largest arms manufacturers that was in bed with them during this time was Smith & Wesson. And they actually hosted many of these people at their academy in Springfield, Massachusetts as well, part of the military-industrial complex. Let's see.

31:01 In 1981, a former Uruguayan intelligence officer declared the U.S. manuals used during this time to teach techniques to torturers. He said that he had and most of his officers had been trained at the school in Panama, which we talk about every single time, and that the manuals listed 35 nerve points on where to hook up these torture equipment machines.

31:30 And many of you, if you've done any research into this, have come across the name Philip Agee. He was a CIA whistleblower. After he left the Ecuadorian embassy, he was also stationed in Uruguay. From March 1964 to 1966, his account of CIA activity is further testimony to the amount of international money.

32:01 that can be used to buy and torture people. Among the many things that he says happened was a Latin American student conference had been held in Montevideo and was undermined by promoting the falsehood that it was nothing more than a creature of the Soviet Union. They basically produced all kinds of propaganda.

32:35 the CIA did, maligning this student conference because it was not friendly to the fascist dictator. Editorials on this began appearing in the local papers that the CIA controlled, and it was followed by publication and a forged letter from the student leader.

33:03 thanking the Soviet Union, which none of that was true. They also created documents that maligned the entire thing. And Agee talks about also undermining relationships with Uruguay and other countries that the CIA didn't approve of, like Russia, Cuba.

33:37 Czechoslovakia at the time. And they were doing that by disrupting the communication flow. And of course, you have to harken back, like we talked about last night, to Crypto AG. Crypto AG had been sold to all South American governments as a way for them to communicate with their embassies around the world. And the CIA had a backdoor to all of it. And so

34:04 They used that as a way to create havoc among all of these countries and countries the CIA didn't approve of. So they began planting disparaging media propaganda. They were reading the mail, the diplomatic cables, as I just articulated. Then there was a thing called the Congress of the People, which brought together

34:35 all kinds of community groups to begin basically creating a movement, almost like the 9-12 project or the Tea Party project. Well, of course, you know, that's going to be infiltrated immediately. And they invited everybody that wanted to get their country back. So this greatly disturbed the CIA because there was a potential that there was going to be a united front against their

35:07 Electoral candidates or for their fake elections or a move against the government that they had installed. So immediately, newspaper editorials, articles begin attacking the Congress as a communist takeover and that it was communist inspired. So predictable. The Uruguayan Communist Party had.

35:39 basically kind of made the comment that they had a lot more power, according to the CIA, than they actually ever achieved inside of the country. Paraguay at the time was a haven for political exiles from repressive regimes in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

36:03 The CIA, through surveillance and infiltration of the exile communities, was able to collect more information and transmit it back to those other countries in order for them to capture their network. So just imagine this. They're thinking that they're getting away from persecution of the CIA-installed dictatorships in Argentina and some of these other places.

36:29 by going to Uruguay only to be spied on by the same apparatus, i.e. the CIA. And they're using that information to go back and further persecute people they left behind in those other countries. That's how devious these people are. Other operations were designed to take control of the streets away from the people that were resisting them.

36:55 And they would go in and raid meetings and just basically generally terrorize the local community. And in 1998, a guy by the name of Eladio Moll, M-O-L-L, a retired Uruguayan Navy rear admiral and former intelligence chief, testified before a commission that the Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies commissioned.

37:26 and basically called Uruguay's period from 1972 to 1983, Uruguay's dirty war, and said that orders came down from the U.S. to kill captive members of the Tuporaros after interrogating them. Quote, the guidance was sent from the U.S., said Mole. Was, quote, was that...

37:55 What had to be done with the captured gorillas was to get information and then afterwards they didn't deserve to live, unquote. So that's the part from the book. But I did want to go a little bit further and talk to you guys briefly about some of the...

38:22 articles that we have found over a period of time in investigating these different countries. First of all, was an article that is in a thing called TFI Global News, and it talks about Uruguay's CIA plan to send the entire region a state of, to send it into a state of political instability.

38:52 And of course, that was absolutely true. And it talks about reports emerging from CIA's increasing involvement in Paraguay. There are fears that the agency's actions could have far-reaching consequences, which of course they did. And it's a great article. And so I will post that article in my normal feed. And I also wanted to...

39:24 I read a couple of things from a post that's about fascism in Uruguay. I was not aware of the large early amount, like in the 1920s, of Italians that came to immigrate to Uruguay. And they actually had a civil war back in that period of time.

39:54 And there was a huge amount of Mussolini-type fascists that ended up moving to Uruguay. They have Italian schools there, and they basically kind of crafted some very interesting economic theories, political theories of a...

40:24 fascist nature. And so you see where some of the tendencies originated from. But one of the things that I discovered was Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York, was a former congressman from New York, was threatened with assassination in 1976. And this article says, military officials of Uruguay who were members of a secret

40:53 Southern Cone Intelligence Alliance, called Operation Condor, which we're very familiar with, threatened to assassinate U.S. Congressman Edward Koch in 1976, according to a book that was written in 2004 by investigative journalist John Dingus. The book reveals that the CIA intercepted the threat.

41:19 but failed to take any action on it for more than two months. No doubt that they were trying to allow that to actually happen if they weren't fomenting it themselves. Koch said that the then director of Central Intelligence, George H.W. Bush, informed him in October 76 that his sponsorship of legislation to cut off military assistance to Uruguay on the grounds of human rights.

41:49 provoked a secret police contract out on them. Now, I don't know about you, but what I have come to realize is that was not a secret police contract that was put out on him. That's the CIA telling Koch to sit down and shut up and stay out of their business where they're fomenting revolutions around the world, according to the CIA. That would be my take on that based on what I've actually learned in this.

42:20 But anyway, I found that interesting that that threat was made while Bush Sr. was the CIA director. Also making appearance in Uruguay is none other than E. Howard Hunt. You remember how I told you about patterns? These people show up repeatedly. So E. Howard Hunt became the station chief for the CIA in Uruguay.

42:48 And, of course, they talk about a lot of his very controversial working methods because, of course, he spent a large amount of time in Vietnam where the death squads torture and all that other stuff was a standard practice. Also, a separate article went on to talk about the CIA agents being associated with death squads in Uruguay and said.

43:15 that every CIA station maintains subversive control watch lists of most important and what they refer to as left-wing activists, but that's activists that are anti-CIA. They gave names of family and friends, according to this one reporter, and those lists included biographical data, photos,

43:41 also provided the CIA with a national voter registration that effectively listed all of the ID cards so that they had the full name, date of birth, parents' addresses, place of work, and other information that was invaluable for surveillance operations.

44:03 and subversive control. So that's how they were able to network and pick people up for torture is because the government was providing the CIA a list of voter registrations. That's why you never want the government to have information like that. And in regarding to the death squads from 70 to 72, the same author said that CIA ops

44:30 officer used the cover of AID, Public Safety Advisor, that's that State Department, which is now USAID, and part of this was embedded in the DEA, for a cover for the Department of Information and Intelligence, that DII, that actually managed the death squads. So they're making the correlation between the CIA operations and the death squads.

45:00 Also, in November 1996, Bush the Elder arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, amid controversy over a newly created Spanish language that had to do with the Church of Moon from Korea. And I have talked a lot about the Moonies.

45:28 in the unification church of dr moon being in south america and providing um guards for the opium fields which they did a lot of and they also provided trained paramilitary capability for many of these governments so you have um a moon uh weekly newspaper that had been set up

45:56 In Argentina, Bush smoothed things over as a principal speaker at the paper's inaugural dinner. In other words, Bush is sponsoring or legitimizing this presence of these Moonies in any controversy that came about because of their presence as paramilitary. Bush goes down there to try to smooth that over.

46:25 The former president then traveled with Dr. Moon to neighboring Uruguay to help him open a seminary to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of Unification Church across Latin America. The young Japanese seminarians were later accused of laundering $80 million through Uruguayan banks, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

46:55 The Times also reported that Reverend Jerry Falwell's Liberty University faced bankruptcy. Moon bailed it out with millions of dollars and loans in grants. Besides the Washington Times, the Unification Church had business holdings, including the UPI, and this is all owned by Dr. Moon, who is a known affiliate of drug dealers.

47:20 Moon was often shown in the mainstream media presiding over mass marriages of his followers. More importantly was his marriage of convenience to the CIA and Bush family. His corruption of American politics would live on. In a separate news article, throughout the following decade, there were accusations the Moon commune

47:51 was being used as a black site for interrogations and torture following the CIA's installation of a Chilean dictator. In 1979, Amnesty International formally made the accusation, and a guy by the name of Weisenthal would later temper his accusations about who lived inside the commune, and in the 1980s, saying it was Germans in general.

48:20 Later, a judge ordered Amnesty International not to publish a book with stories of the two former secret police agents who actually performed the torture inside the commune. John Loftus, who has written extensively on this, has written about Nazis post-World War II, saying his research indicates Mengele traveled.

48:45 inside of Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, and he did, all countries where the CIA had installed fascist dictators, and that is true. We're going to talk about him in a little bit. The OPS has been helping the local police since 1965. I'm just trying to see the rest of the points in that article. Okay, in a separate article,

49:12 It says that for decades before the CIA got a hold of it, Uruguay was known as the Switzerland of Latin America, given its longstanding stability and democratic traditions and its minimum welfare number of people, but a very generous government program of social benefits.

49:39 In 1973, little attention was initially paid to Uruguay's regime, perhaps because of the country's longstanding stability. And obviously it was overshadowed by a coup in Argentina, a coup in Brazil, and then the violent coup in Chile where they assassinated the president.

50:07 However, Uruguay's regime was equally violent and repressive. It just didn't get the headlines that everybody else did. And then this article also talks about the torture chamber that Mattaroni had installed in his house. And let's see. I wanted to get down to the part about the Mengele. A lot about...

50:43 the, um, uh, Mitteroni, um, he made such an awful, um, and lasting impression on, um, that area. It's horrific. Um, let's see if I can find that part where it talks about Mendeley in there. Um, I mean, it got so bad there, um, during the,

51:23 fascist takeover that they basically, throughout most of the international community, were talking about the fact that the Nazis had resurged in Uruguay and basically taken over the entire country. That's how bad it was.

51:49 Joseph Mengele escaped to South America after the war where he lived in different places under various false identities. In 1958, Mengele married the widow of his brother Carl in Uruguay using his real name. The Marriage Act was published in the local newspaper and was debated about whether the inhabitants of the town were just indifferent to his presence or simply did not know who he was. Some testimonies also point out

52:18 his involvement in the construction of a dam carried out by a German enterprise, like a German company. Also, a guy by the last name of C-U-K-U-R-S, who was a Nazi aviator and one of the main figures in the Holocaust in Latvia. He was...

52:44 personally involved in the extermination of over 30,000 people. And he also fled to Brazil and lived originally in Rio de Janeiro. An operation by Mossad tricked him into traveling to Iroquois in the immediate aftermath of the Brazilian coup, where four agents killed him in a fight. So, anyway.

53:12 That's what I've got for this particular area. And I'm going to open it up for questions. If anybody has any questions. I'm thinking of questions I want to ask. There's so much information that I'm trying to figure it out. This stuff is just everything. It's the same story, different place. And it's anyway, give me a second.

53:52 It really is. And I think that's what I want people to come away with is I want people to see the patterns of how they use the student organizations, how they use the street protests, how they implement and foment, just like they're doing here in the United States with the students on the campus. They foment this crisis.

54:17 And then they want us to emotionally respond to it. And you see this happen on these social media platforms quite a bit. What you have to do is not emotionally respond to them because that's how they hook you in and manipulate your emotional response. If you just calmly let people know this is an orchestrated chaos, and as people point out, aptly so.

54:45 Look, all of the tents are the exact same color. Look, you can, when they interview these people, they're not even students at this location. Can you not understand this is a pattern? This is the exact same thing they do in every dreams of the country. Tell them to go look up Uruguay. Tell them to go look up Chile. Tell them to go look up Nicaragua. Go look up El Salvador. Tell them.

55:13 Send them the links to these things, which is why we're putting them out there in public in a verbal way so people can just listen to them for an hour in their car and they can begin to see the same patterns. And once they see the patterns, they're not going to be taken in by the emotional response. Go ahead, SR71. Afternoon, all, and thank you, Colonel. Something's reeling in my mind at the moment concerning what's going on with...

55:48 torture and all the places where they were trained to do it and people who trained them and everything else. Have you run across at any given point serial killers around the globe that were actually trained by Gladio? In other words, get out of it and there's serial killers on the public.

56:15 You're talking more about the MKUltra program and not Gladio. And there have been occasions where they overlap. We are not focused on the MKUltra aspect of Gladio. We are sticking straight. Because honestly, I mean, this octopus encompasses everything. The drug network, the arms dealing.

56:44 We are focused on the paramilitary aspect of this, not the psychological aspect of it. But things like Jonestown, where you come across both, where they were doing MKUltra experiments on the people at a terrorist training camp that was used in Operation Gladio or Operation Condors more specifically. We will address it in that context, but no, I'm not.

57:12 At this point, that's not to say we won't at some future point. But you have to understand that many of these things, the way they can psychologically hook people into doing things that's contrary to what their moral belief system is, is psychological torture and manipulation through MKUltra. I'm just not an expert in that area.

57:40 And so I'm not going to delve into that at this point. Mine, obviously, background is military. And so we're focused primarily on the military aspect of that. But that's a great question. Thank you, Colonel. And it's understandable. I get the point. Yeah, you're right. I could be 24 hours a day if I took on the entire piece of the apple. Sermons, go ahead. Sermons, are you there?

58:14 Yes, I am. I'm just 65 and I forgot to hit the mute button. So, you know, I saw I was around to see the funeral for John F. Kennedy and also Bobby was shot and then Martin Luther King on and on and on. And so, you know what, this Hydra that you're talking about, this, you know, it's a international crime syndicate. And I guess my question and I hope this doesn't sound too naive to your listeners, because.

58:45 I'm not as educated of an anon as most of these folks are. But is there is there an ongoing military operation going on right now to take them down? Because I'm in Southern California and the army has been they have been there on. I'm in the country in the mountains and they've been, you know.

59:15 They're activated. They've been activated for like three years on U.S. soil. You know, I'd call it what you wish, but they're here and I've talked to them. So what can you tell us about cutting the head off, all these heads off the Hydra? And when you know what's going on, what's going on in that that room? Thank you so much for doing this space. Sure. Well.

59:37 You live in an area where the Army has their major training facility, so of course you're going to see 24-7 military operations because they actually deploy there for that training. So obviously, even if I knew, I don't. I'll be very honest with you. I wouldn't be allowed to tell you if it was an ongoing operation. I can tell you from an outsider perspective with no access to any special information at all.

1:00:06 If you start going around the world, and I've mentioned in some of these spaces, there are operations to take down segments of this hydra, as you call it. The ones that I look specifically to was massive drug and syndicate arrest in Argentina that happened in the...

1:00:29 The 2019 period and 2020, just prior to their current president being able to be elected in what appears to be one of their most fair elections ever, which is probably why one of the CIA approved candidates did not get elected. The same thing happened in Italy, where you have someone that is much more a centrist than had ever been elected in from the Christian Democrat Party in Italy.

1:00:57 And that coincided with the 2019 operation that took down an entire crime family that operated in the southern part of Italy around where I was stationed that had been there for over 150 years. And that crime family is gone. They were all imprisoned or worked. So those are just two major operations that I'm aware of that has happened. And there's more. You have things like...

1:01:25 Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to operate inside the United States and internationally for decades. He was taken down. Same thing with just lanes. The same thing is happening with many of the blackmail operations that has held this. The blackmail part of all of this, they took down the huge one, Marc Dutro in Belgium. That has allowed this operation. It's the grease that greases the wheel for it to turn down the road. And that has been.

1:01:55 being dismantled, obviously not fast enough for most of us. But keeping in mind that if you're going to do this and you're going to do it correctly, you have to do it in a way that you're able to map out all of their avenues where you take the first one down. Because if you take someone down and they are allowed like bedbugs to drill into the wall and come out at a later date, you've basically done nothing overall.

1:02:23 for long-term longevity. So it is a very methodical process in order to map out. And again, I always tell people, go look at Operation Grey Lord in Chicago. That was about a seven to nine year process of trying to identify the international syndicate that was operating in the Chicago amongst the courts, amongst the businesses, the trade unions.

1:02:49 And all of that. And they did a massive takedown there, too. But it was almost a decade-long process to do that. And that didn't even include the trials that then became necessary because of all the arrests. So there is good news. It just doesn't get the press that all of the bad news gets. What you got, Sally? I just got to tell SR7-119.

1:03:20 Bill Elmar does a MKUltra space every Saturday night. I posted a link for his space in the Purple Pill. So the guy who's doing it is a guy by the name of Researcher, and he's been researching this topic for I think over 10 years. So it's really good information if that's something that you're interested in. Thank you. Also, Colonel, I posted links.

1:03:53 On the articles, most of the articles that you covered and information that you covered down below the space for everyone to read more in detail. Perfect. Thank you, Bridget. Does anybody else have any questions? Okay. Well, if we're done for today and we will do one more tomorrow. We do have a book review on the book that we've been.

1:04:39 reading tonight. It's actually going to be, I normally do them at 7. I'm going to do it at 6.30 tonight because we are joining someone in a space at their invitation. Let me see if I can find it real quick so that you guys will be aware of that if you want to join it. It's just going to be a generic if you have someone that's new to this whole thing and you want them to step in.

1:05:08 Um, it is, um, it starts at eight o'clock central time. So I guess I could, that's nine o'clock my time. I can keep it at seven. So we'll leave it at seven. Um, and her name is Janet from another planet, which is hilarious, I think. Um, so we are going to be, um, streaming over to a spaces on, um, X just so that, you know.

1:05:40 So that's kind of our activity for the next 24 hours. We will be here tomorrow at noon. And then we will also do our book review tonight. And we'll do just a generic Operation Gladio 101 show tonight with Janet from Another Planet. Anyway, thank you all for being here. Oh, and just one last note. Please, everyone, repost this because we are being shadow banned.

1:06:11 Yeah, actively being shadowbanned. So please, everybody, repost it. And I don't like putting the whiny-ass crybaby stories up on there about that. But I was showing Bridget that for like four days in a row now, we are within 100 of the exact same number on that little chart that charts how many impressions you have.

1:06:39 And I don't know if I could ever do that on purpose, but it does seem that we are throttled at exactly that number and we are not going to get above it. So I just find that absolutely hilarious. That's not why we're here. I do know that people are getting this. I get it in the comments all of the time and people are seeing it and sharing it. And I really appreciate all of the work that you guys do for that purpose.

1:07:08 I can't thank you enough. And I do hear people now more often talking about this. So we are definitely having effect. So God bless you all for doing that. So we'll see you tomorrow.

Entities here

Uruguay25 Dan Mitrione18 CIA17 Tupamaros12 USAID9 Operation Gladio7 Argentina7 Unification Church7 Sun Myung Moon6 George H.W. Bush6 Montevideo5 MKUltra5 Chile5 Alejandro Otero4 Brazil4 Edward Koch4 Washington, D.C.4 Josef Mengele4 Richmond, Indiana3 Department of Information and Intelligence3 Soviet Union3 U.S. Congress3 U.S. State Department3 Operation Condor3 William Black2 St. Petersburg Times2 Byron Engle2 Philip Agee2 Panama Canal2 Amnesty International2 Paraguay2 Alberto Mattarollo2 Kukurs2 School of the Americas2 Italy2 E. Howard Hunt2 CIA Technical Services Division2 Cuba2 Eladio Moll2 Jim Jones1

Claims made here

William Black book_quoted Killing Hope book_quoted ▶ 3:16

“And I'm going to do a couple of things. I'm going to first cover what William Bloom in Killing Hope had to say in his book about Uruguay. And then I want to go to several articles that I found that ta…”

USAID member_of U.S. State Department book_quoted ▶ 3:46

“what Bloom had to say. This period covers 1964 to 1970. And of course, we run across some of the same people. He starts off talking about the Office of Public Safety, which was a mission inside of the…”

USAID trained Uruguay book_quoted ▶ 3:46

Dan Mitrione member_of USAID book_quoted ▶ 5:13

“time that he spent in the Office of Public Safety working for AID, which was the precursor to USAID. And there was another guy that was the director who actually is the one responsible for hiring him …”

Byron Engle appointed Dan Mitrione book_quoted ▶ 5:13

USAID supplied_arms_to Uruguay book_quoted ▶ 5:45

“They maintained a close relationship over the years, and OPS, the Office of Public Safety, began operating formally in 1965 in Uruguay. It was responsible for supplying the police there equipment, arm…”

Dan Mitrione trained Uruguay book_quoted ▶ 10:23

“an exclusive high-class nightclub and wrote on the walls, either everyone dances or no one dances. Dan Mitteroni did not introduce the practice of torturing political prisoners to Uruguay. It had actu…”

Dan Mitrione trained Alejandro Otero book_quoted ▶ 10:51

“In a surprising interview with a leading Brazilian newspaper in 1970, the former Uruguayan police chief, Otero, declared that the U.S. advisors, and particularly Medaroni, had instructed them how to u…”

Alejandro Otero member_of International Police Services School book_quoted ▶ 12:42

“And listen to this, a student at the International Police Services School in Washington, D.C. Now, if you guys remember, I've talked about this quite a bit. This is much like the School of America's c…”

William Cantrell funded Department of Information and Intelligence book_quoted ▶ 14:16

“And he only spoke out because it was a friend, not the general practice, just because it was a friend. William Cantrell was a CIA ops officer stationed in Montevito, ostensibly as a member of the Offi…”

William Cantrell member_of USAID book_quoted ▶ 14:16

CIA Technical Services Division supplied_arms_to Department of Information and Intelligence book_quoted ▶ 14:47

“Some of the equipment came from the CIA's Technical Services Division and was used specifically for torture. So the CIA is giving torture equipment to these barbarians in order for them to carry out t…”

Uruguayan Senate exposed Dan Mitrione book_quoted ▶ 15:49

“in Mitteroni's time, that the Uruguayan Senate was compelled to undertake an investigation. After a five-month study, the commission concluded unanimously that the torture in Uruguay had become a norm…”

Tupamaros assassinated Dan Mitrione book_quoted ▶ 24:01

“They demanded the release of 150 prisoners in exchange for him. With the determined backing of the Nixon administration, the Uruguayan government refused. Then, the Uruguayan government discovered Mat…”

USAID trained Uruguay book_quoted ▶ 27:31

“Center in Washington was canceled. There was already growing public and congressional criticism of the dark side of Americans' policy without adding to it. During the mid-70s, however, Congress enacte…”

Smith & Wesson trained Uruguay host_asserted ▶ 30:28

“that they were talking about, in addition to them doing that, one of the largest arms manufacturers that was in bed with them during this time was Smith & Wesson. And they actually hosted many of thes…”

CIA spied_on Uruguay host_asserted ▶ 36:29

“by going to Uruguay only to be spied on by the same apparatus, i.e. the CIA. And they're using that information to go back and further persecute people they left behind in those other countries. That'…”

Eladio Moll exposed Uruguay's Dirty War documented ▶ 36:55

“And they would go in and raid meetings and just basically generally terrorize the local community. And in 1998, a guy by the name of Eladio Moll, M-O-L-L, a retired Uruguayan Navy rear admiral and for…”

CIA ordered_assassination_of Tupamaros book_quoted ▶ 37:26

“and basically called Uruguay's period from 1972 to 1983, Uruguay's dirty war, and said that orders came down from the U.S. to kill captive members of the Tuporaros after interrogating them. Quote, the…”

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Paraguay host_asserted ▶ 38:52

“And of course, that was absolutely true. And it talks about reports emerging from CIA's increasing involvement in Paraguay. There are fears that the agency's actions could have far-reaching consequenc…”

Operation Condor attempted_assassination_of Edward Koch book_quoted ▶ 40:53

“Southern Cone Intelligence Alliance, called Operation Condor, which we're very familiar with, threatened to assassinate U.S. Congressman Edward Koch in 1976, according to a book that was written in 20…”

CIA covered_up Edward Koch book_quoted ▶ 41:19

“but failed to take any action on it for more than two months. No doubt that they were trying to allow that to actually happen if they weren't fomenting it themselves. Koch said that the then director …”

George H.W. Bush appointed E. Howard Hunt host_asserted ▶ 42:20

“But anyway, I found that interesting that that threat was made while Bush Sr. was the CIA director. Also making appearance in Uruguay is none other than E. Howard Hunt. You remember how I told you abo…”

CIA funded Department of Information and Intelligence host_asserted ▶ 44:30

“officer used the cover of AID, Public Safety Advisor, that's that State Department, which is now USAID, and part of this was embedded in the DEA, for a cover for the Department of Information and Inte…”

George H.W. Bush funded Unification Church host_asserted ▶ 45:56

“In Argentina, Bush smoothed things over as a principal speaker at the paper's inaugural dinner. In other words, Bush is sponsoring or legitimizing this presence of these Moonies in any controversy tha…”

Sun Myung Moon funded Liberty University documented ▶ 46:55

“The Times also reported that Reverend Jerry Falwell's Liberty University faced bankruptcy. Moon bailed it out with millions of dollars and loans in grants. Besides the Washington Times, the Unificatio…”

Amnesty International exposed Unification Church documented ▶ 47:51

“was being used as a black site for interrogations and torture following the CIA's installation of a Chilean dictator. In 1979, Amnesty International formally made the accusation, and a guy by the name…”

CIA installed Chile host_asserted ▶ 47:51

CIA installed Uruguay host_asserted ▶ 48:45

“inside of Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, and he did, all countries where the CIA had installed fascist dictators, and that is true. We're going to talk about him in a little bit. The OPS has been help…”

CIA installed Argentina host_asserted ▶ 48:45

Josef Mengele member_of Uruguay documented ▶ 51:49

“Joseph Mengele escaped to South America after the war where he lived in different places under various false identities. In 1958, Mengele married the widow of his brother Carl in Uruguay using his rea…”

Mossad assassinated Kukurs documented ▶ 52:44

“personally involved in the extermination of over 30,000 people. And he also fled to Brazil and lived originally in Rio de Janeiro. An operation by Mossad tricked him into traveling to Iroquois in the …”

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Nicaragua host_asserted ▶ 54:45

“Look, all of the tents are the exact same color. Look, you can, when they interview these people, they're not even students at this location. Can you not understand this is a pattern? This is the exac…”

CIA targeted_for_regime_change El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 54:45

CIA trained Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 55:48

“torture and all the places where they were trained to do it and people who trained them and everything else. Have you run across at any given point serial killers around the globe that were actually t…”

CIA trained Operation Condor guest_asserted ▶ 56:44

“We are focused on the paramilitary aspect of this, not the psychological aspect of it. But things like Jonestown, where you come across both, where they were doing MKUltra experiments on the people at…”