OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429

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0:00 Good evening, everybody. We are live, live today. It is June 18th. Had to pick up the calendar. It's Operation Gladio Night, you guys. I got my co-host with me tonight, the Colonel. We are on Chapter 59. We're going to be talking about the 1983 Beirut bombing on the Marine Corps Barretts. This is Episode 429. I want to remind everybody, if you have not, you need to go tune in to Monday Night's Just Alpha show.

0:28 We covered a lot. I definitely love your guys' feedback. And then the premiere of a new series that took place last night, Defcon Zero, with my other co-host, the real Joshua Reed. You guys know him as Joshopedia. A whole lot of content in those first two shows, completely relevant to what's going on in the world right now. And tonight, we're going to put the cherry on all of that with the conversation that we have. But first, let's get to the sponsor of tonight's show. All right, Warriors, let's get real for just a second.

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1:53 I'm good. I'll tell you what, it is exhausting on the information battlefield that's out there, the psychological operations that are out there. It is a lot, but I've got to do my part to protect our audiences, our people, our country, humanity, because God knows there's a lot of people out there, Colonel, with a lot of different agendas, and they want to see America collapse. I can't disagree with anything you just said.

2:23 But we're not going to let them. No, we're not. So the colonel contacts me yesterday and she's like, we're going to talk about Beirut and I'm going to blow the top off your head, Alpha. So I am like, what the heck are we going to learn tonight regarding, you know, the Marine bombing at the barracks? So before we get into that, Colonel, anything that you want to bring up, any thoughts from the day that you want to put out into the universe?

2:53 No, I just want to thank you again for connecting Nino Rodriguez. What a wonderful person he is and just an amazing patriot. And I was on his show earlier today and I absolutely loved it. So thanks. I listen. I love both you guys. You guys are both phenomenal human beings. And this is what we need. We need the colonel in front of these massive audiences.

3:21 Because, I mean, Nino has he has a huge reach. So to have people hear what you have to offer, even if it's not about Operation Gladio, just to hear your analysis and assessment of things, they're going to appreciate it and they're going to respect it. And that's going to bring them to your conversations around Operation Gladio. And I'm one I'm a person who believes at a minimum on the plus one. Everybody tells everybody at least once.

3:47 And we exponentially grow that way. So I'm glad that that relationship is working out. So what's interesting about that is the universe that is created. Because without this, and you know more than anyone else, the Operation Gladio applicability to everything that is playing out today.

4:19 So much, not that any of this is easy because it's not, but it is so much easier for me to navigate through the information war knowing the foundation that I have collected over the last two and a half years. So I'm very blessed to have had that put in my path in order to be able to offer what it is that I can offer today.

4:48 All right. Well, let's fire it off. Full send, Colonel. Let's do this. So I had someone, I made a post about the situation with Iran. And again, this is why it's critical for you guys to interact with my ex account. Just an innocent post. I don't even remember the guy's name. Apologize because I probably.

5:14 He probably wouldn't want me to call him out anyway. But he made a comment about on my post about we all know that Hezbollah was involved in the Beirut bombing. And my immediate response to him was, how do you know that was were they wearing name tags? And I mean, I literally said that kind of being facetious, but I wasn't because the only reason.

5:44 that we would know Hezbollah was involved is through intelligence. I think at this point, we've proven that the intelligence apparatus as a whole creates fake intelligence to drive us into these conflicts. So I was kind of being facetious, but I really wasn't.

6:13 I said to myself after I made the shit post, you know what? It's been a while since I've even looked at that because I did a paper in Air War College on the Yom Kippur attack. And again, nothing that I was presented at Air War College as far as information turned out to be.

6:44 Real. So for the audience, because I know there's some people here that doesn't or either not on X or whatever. I spent part of my trip out to Fort. I'm on my way to Fort Hood and to see my daughter in Austin at Air War College. I just left there. I was there for about four days. My first stop at Maxwell and it hit me when I drove on base.

7:12 I hadn't been there in over 20 years. And it seems like yesterday. So I went to the library because I had had a conversation with General Quast, who was the commander at Air University. And for those of you who don't know, Air University is the professional military education for the entire Air Force. Everybody goes to Maxwell at some point if you go to in residence professional military education. And again.

7:43 Having never come across Operation Gladio in my entire career, I wanted to know it because I did Southeast Asia. I should have been made aware of it even existing. Not a and it's a you have to understand this. It's not your city library, even if you live in New York City. It's this huge library because it serves as the library for all of Air Force PME. It's a big ass library.

8:13 Not a single book in the entire library on Operation Gladio. Interesting. Not a single book of any of the books that I've read. So I went into the periodicals. There's two articles in the periodicals. Two. One was written like in the 1990s. And I didn't bring it with me. I don't have it handy. That appeared in a May-June article of Foreign Policy.

8:44 which is basically a CFR rag that was titled Operation Gladio. So the next issue was a article from James Jesus Angleton that basically calls it a conspiracy theory. Now, this importance of that is that these periodicals.

9:16 are usually written months in advance. The articles for them, the vetting of the articles for them, it appeared in the very next one. So someone's article didn't get published in order to refute the gentleman who wrote the initial article. And it was by none other than James Jesus Angleton, who was involved in Operation Gladio from the day it began.

9:42 And so I asked the librarian if she would go give me a copy of that article, which she did. And I read it live on one of my last couple because I've not been doing all of my four o'clocks because we're traveling. One of my last ones was kind of an impromptu. Oh, my God, you're not going to believe what I found in the library. And it was basically just two columns, one page of hogwash in the typical CIA hogwash.

10:13 debunking of something that is absolutely true. And I went through word by word the article showing people how they lie to you using words that mislead you completely. So it's out there if you guys want to go look at it. It's very important to understand how this is. So anyway, this guy makes this post. So I go back and I start doing research.

10:41 And the entire time I'm reading, I'm going, oh, my God, this is going to blow off his mind. Oh, my God, this is going to blow off his mind. So hence, here we are today. So, again, all of the things that you think you know has been fed to us through a CIA filter, i.e. the media, whatever. So on March 14th, 1983, the commandant of the Marine Corps sent a highly unusual letter to the secretary of defense.

11:13 expressing frustration and anger at Israel. General R.H. Barrow charged that Israeli troops were deliberately threatening the lives of Marines who were serving on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. So, of course, the first thing I do is find out who the Marine Corps Commandant is. Now, if you want to bring up Barrow's background, you can see

11:41 on just using Wikipedia, it's B-A-R-R-O-W, Robert Hilliard Barrow. He obviously is the Commandant in 1983. That was at the end of his four-year assignment as the Commandant. He had experience in World War II, Korea War, and Vietnam. So this is not someone who has not come in contact with Operation Gladio.

12:11 He's very aware of because listen to this part of his biography from August 44 to 45. He was the SACO, S-A-C-O, which was a U.S. trained and equipped. He was operating with U.S. trained and equipped Chinese guerrilla teams in Japanese occupied Central Asia, which would have put him co-located with Chiang Kai-shek.

12:41 So, again, this isn't someone who doesn't know what he's talking about. And he does not have any of the telltale signs assignment wise as being in the tank for these guys, because I know now what to look for in the general officer corps. So he's definitely a legit guy. So let me read the letter that he wrote. Dear Secretary.

13:08 I must formally register my deep concern over the two unprovoked incidents in Beirut of the past weekend involving Marines and the multinational force and members of the IDF, Israeli Defense Forces. I had considered commenting on earlier incidents between Marines and IDF, but corrective measures, which were rapidly improving. Excuse me.

13:34 which were rapidly implemented in February 1983, appeared to diffuse the situation. I can no longer remain silent on this continual problem of provocation from the IDF. In addition to the U.S. MNF, which is multinational force incidents, I have raised information. I have received information concerning serious harassing incidents by the IDF of U.S. officers.

14:06 attached to the UN Truce Supervisory Organization, UNTSO. These particular incidents involved U.S. Marines and U.S. Army officers in life-threatening situations replete with verbal degradation of officers, their uniform, and their country, meaning the United States of America. Unfortunately, of greater concern to me,

14:34 Incidents of this nature are the rule rather than the exception. It is evidence to me and the opinion of the U.S. commanders afloat and ashore that the incidents between the Marines and the IDF are timed, orchestrated, and executed for obtuse Israeli political purposes. The U.S. has been prompt and forthcoming in diffusing previous problems and have established a viable communication procedure between Marines and IDF.

15:02 The IDF, however, persists in creating serious incidents. I am distinctly proud to have Marines participating, both as members of the multinational force and the UNTSO, under the auspices of the UN. It is inconceivable to me why Americans serving in peacekeeping roles must be harassed, endangered, and degraded by an ally.

15:33 diplomatic initiatives have not eliminated difficulties between our Marines and the IDF. Additionally, the expansion of communication links and the use of liaison officers will not preclude additional problems unless the attitude and actions of the Israelis are altered. It is time for firm, strong action to demonstrate to the Israelis that a role as a peacekeeper does not presume weakness.

16:00 If anything, Israelis should respect our efforts in the region. Warm personal regards. Sincerely, R.H. Barrow. Now, this is five seconds into this research that I find this letter. It clearly articulates there's a huge epping problem. Motive. Okay. When I was listening to you read, the first thing that comes to mind for me is motive.

16:33 He just established motive. OK, so there was, he wrote, just reemphasizing this, a systematic pattern of harassment by the IDF. And it was resulting in life threatening situations. All right. Israelis motives, to your point, it was widely believed then and now that.

17:09 The Israeli defense minister, Ariel Sharon, one of Israel's most Machiavellian political generals, was creating the incidents deliberately in an effort to convince Washington that the two forces had to coordinate their actions in order to avoid such tensions.

17:34 This, of course, would have been taken by the Arabs as proof that the Marines were not there independently in Lebanon as peacekeepers at all, but allies of the Israelis, a perception that would have obviously been advantageous to Israel. So the whole purpose, the whole motive behind this was to force the United States to act as allies.

18:03 as a confrontation force with the Israelis against Arabs. Think about what's happening right now. Sharon would later become prime minister. Now, if you look at Sharon's Wikipedia, you can see that he dates back to his past.

18:35 Russian Jewish immigrants into mandatory Palestine. So there at the beginning of the Palestinian state, he has lots of different issues in his background. If you go down to, he was there during the Battle of Jerusalem in 1948.

19:03 He was part of Unit 101. What's Unit 101? Well, let's read. It says that as a major, he was the founder and commander of a new Unit 101. What is that? Unit 101 is a very interesting organization. They were armed with nonstandard weapons and tasked with carrying out retribution operations across state borders. In particular,

19:33 establishing small unit maneuvers as activation and insertion tactics. That sounds very Operation Gladio-ish to me. Big time. Yeah. Okay. So the unit was merged with the 890th Paratroop Battalion during January 1954 on orders of General Mosse de Bon. And who is he?

20:02 Oh, he just happens to have been involved in, he was the guy that gave the direct order to attack the USS Liberty. This Dayan guy, D-A-Y-A-N. So just to put it in perspective. So him and Sharon are buddies. Okay, got that established. Barrow's extraordinary letter was indicative of the frustrations and miseries of the Marines suffering.

20:34 during their posting to Lebanon starting in August 25, 1982, as a result of Israel's invasion 11 weeks earlier. So the whole reason we're there is because Israel invaded Lebanon. Initially, a U.S. unit of 800 men was sent to Beirut Harbor as part of a multinational force to monitor the evacuation of PLO guerrillas from Beirut. The Marines, President Reagan announced,

21:03 in no case would stay longer than 30 days. What did I say? August 1982. This turned out to be not true. They did withdraw temporarily on September 10th, but a reinforcement unit of 1,200 had to be rushed right back in 15 days later because of massacres at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.

21:35 that accompanied the Israeli seizure of West Beirut. The U.S. forces remained until February 1984. So again, we are only there because of Israel's aggression into Lebanon. And they staged the attack and the massacre, and it was a massacre, which Sharon later on was...

22:04 shown to be liable and part of the massacre. The Israeli forces were part of that massacre, which was then used as another excuse to send not just the original amount, but even more Marines back in there. So the whole reason we're in Lebanon at the time, in Beirut specifically, was Israel. During their year and a half posting in Lebanon, the Marines suffered 268 kills.

22:36 The casualties started within a week of the return of the Marines in September 1982. See, we only focus on the barracks, but that wasn't the first. On the 30th, a U.S.-made cluster bomb left behind by the Israelis exploded, killing Corporal David Reagan and wounding three other Marines. A cluster bomb left by the Israelis. Corporal Reagan's death represented the dangers of this new mission for the Marines in Lebanon.

23:04 while their first brief stay had been to separate Israeli forces from Palestinian fighters evacuating Beirut. Their new mission was a part of a multinational force sent to prevent Israeli troops from attacking Palestinian civilians left defenseless there after the withdrawal of the PLO. The whole reason the PLO was there was to defend the civilians. As President Reagan said, for this multinational force to succeed, it is essential.

23:33 that Israel's withdrawal from Beirut, Israel's siege of Beirut during the summer of 1982, had been brutal and bloody, reaching a peak horror on August 12th, quickly known as Black Thursday. On that day, Sharon's forces launched at dawn a massive artillery barrage that lasted for 11 straight hours and was accompanied by saturation air bombardment.

24:01 as many as 500 people, mainly Lebanese, and all of them were civilians, were killed. On top of the bombardment came the massacres the next month at Sabra and Shatila. When Sharon's troops allowed Lebanese Moranite killers, the preferred French-trained, Gladio-style assassins, to enter these camps, left defenseless all of the civilians.

24:28 The massacre sickened the international community and pressure from Western capitals finally forced Israel to withdraw from Beirut in late September. The troops from Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, i.e. NATO, were interposed between the Israeli army in Beirut, with U.S. Marines deployed in the most sensitive area of the entire operation at the international airport, directly between Israeli troops in West Beirut.

24:55 It was at the airport that the Marines would suffer their cavalry over the next year. Starting in January 1983, small Israeli units began probing Marine lines. At first, the effort appeared aimed at discovering the extent of the Marines' determination to resist penetration. Now again, this is an ally, right? The lines proved solid and the Marines' determination strong. The Israeli troops were politely but firmly turned away.

25:25 Soon the incidents began to escalate, on both sides pointing loaded weapons at each other, but no one firing. Tensions were high enough in late January that a special meeting between U.S. and Israeli officers were held in Beirut to try to agree on precise boundaries beyond which the IDF was not allowed to proceed. However, despite all of these meetings and an attempt by these U.N. peacekeepers,

25:56 On February 2nd, a unit of three Israeli tanks, tanks led by Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Rafi Landsberg, tried to pass through a Marine Army, both people were there, lines at a university in South Lebanon. By this time, Landsberg was no stranger to the Marines. Since the beginning of January, he had been leading these small units probing the Marines line.

26:25 Although such units would normally have a commander no higher than a sergeant or a lieutenant. So this is intentional. They have the guy that they determine is their expert in charge of the harassment of the U.S. Marines. The suspicion grew that Sharon's forces were deliberately provoking the Marines and Landsberg was there to see that things did not get out of hand.

26:51 The Israeli tactics were more at forcing a joint U.S.-Israeli strategy than merely probing lines. So they're going to claim that this is only occurring because there's a lack of coordination. And if they start coordinating, then they can avoid it. They are pushing, pushing, pushing. In February 2nd incident, the checkpoint was commanded by Marine Captain...

27:21 Charles Johnson, who firmly refused permission for Landsberg to advance in the tanks. When two of these Israeli tanks ignored his warning to halt, Johnson leaped on Landsberg tank, drew his pistol and demanded Landsberg and his tanks withdraw. He also said that your brains are about to decorate this vehicle if you do not turn around. Yes. Yeah.

27:50 So they turned around. However, that was very embarrassing to Landsberg because he did it in front of the NCOs in the IDF. Landsberg and the Israeli embassy in Washington tried to laugh the incident off, implying that Johnson was a trigger-happy John Wayne type and that the media was exaggerating this routine event. Well, it was routine to them.

28:20 Landsberg even went so far as to claim that alcohol was on Johnson's breath and that he was drunken and clouded in his response. Marines were infuriated because Johnson was a well-known teetotaler. He didn't even drink. Now, that's very unusual for a Marine, but he didn't drink. You know what? Just real quick on that, Colonel. Either way, it's not believable.

28:48 In this case, he doesn't drink, so you have that. Two, if a Marine does drink, it will never impair that Marine's ability to do their job because they know cutoff time. And it's just like at 0359, you could be completely drunk. And then at 0400, when you're supposed to be in formation, you insta-sober because it's just this special power that Marines have. I'll give it back to you, Colonel.

29:15 Marines were infuriated because Johnson, let's see, America's flock to Johnson's side. He received hundreds of letters from even schoolchildren throughout the United States because everybody knew that it was a lie. Former Marines and also Commandant Barrow gets involved. It was a losing battle for the Israelis and Landsberg quickly dropped out of sight. But the incidents did not stop.

29:42 These now included helicopter harassment by which U.S. made helicopters were glaring spotlights on the Marines so that it was illuminating Marine outposts and exposing them to potential attack. Constant harassment. As reports of these incidents piled up, General Barrow received a letter on March 12th from a U.S. Army major stationed in Lebanon with the U.N.

30:11 Troops Advisory Organization. The letter described a systematic pattern of Israeli attacks and provocations against the UN forces, including instances to which U.S. officers were singled out for near miss shootings, abuse. They even detained U.S. officers. The same two Marine patrols were challenged and cursed by Israeli soldiers.

30:39 Two days later, Barrow wrote that infamous letter to Casper Weinberger, who was at the time the sec def. He endorsed it and sent it along to the State Department. That followed with high-level meetings, and incidents seemed to be less frequent, perhaps largely because by this time, Ariel Sharon had been fired as a defense minister. He had been found by his...

31:06 an independent Israeli commission to have been personally responsible for the massacres of Sabra and Shatir. So now think about this. He's basically the sec def of the IDF. He has been personally responsible for murdering civilians in Lebanon, and he goes on to be the prime minister of Israel. Despite the bad taste left from the clashes with the Israelis, in fact, no Marines have been killed in the incidents, and their lines had been secured up to the end of,

31:37 the winter of 1983. Then, and I'm going to put this in quotation, Islamic guerrillas became active. On the night of April 17th, 1983, an unknown sniper fired a shot that went through the trousers of a Marine sentry. It did not harm him, but for the first times, the Marines returned fire. Now, this is 1983.

32:07 And I just need to remind everybody that there were allegations that these Islamic radicals that took that shot were sponsored by Iran. Interesting. So what's really interesting about that is secretly the Reagan president, President Reagan, had been shipping missiles to Iran.

32:39 That's not been made public. They have had two major thousands of missile shipment, one for the October surprise before the election, shipment number one. And this is in the lead up to the Iran-Contra missile cell. So the CIA is secretly arming Iran while at the same time they're accusing intelligence, Iran, of shooting ourselves. So why the f***?

33:07 are you sending missiles to Iran? Yeah, no, none of this adds up. This, this smells so much like Benghazi and all that stuff. It's a pattern and we're watching it play out in real time today. The next day, the U S embassy in Beirut was blown up by a massive bomb with the loss of 63 lives among them, 70 or 17. There's that number again, 17 Americans killed.

33:37 were CIA Middle East specialists, including Robert C. Ames, the agency's top Middle East expert, disaffected former Israeli Mossad case officer, Victor Ostrowski, and he's going to come up later. It's O-S-T-R-O-B-S-K-Y, later claimed.

34:04 that Israel had advanced information about the bombing plan, but had decided not to inform the United States. A claim that was denied, of course, by Israel. They said, and the CIA, that there was an Iranian-backed Islamic jihad that had claimed responsibility. Veteran correspondent John Cooley considered the attack, quote, the day...

34:33 Khomeini's offensive against America and Lebanon began in earnest, but it was not his offensive. More to the story. Ames' close relationship with Ali Hassan Salameh, a senior PLO figure. Now, again, Israel created and funded Hamas to fight the PLO. The PLO is definitely a threat to Israel because they were insisting on a separate Palestinian state.

35:04 So Ames had created a relationship with this senior PLO figure. Ames became a threat to Israel. So that created a lot of friction with Mossad, who viewed Salome as a terrorist linked to the 1970 Olympic attacks. The Israelis sought to assassinate him. And in 1979, they assassinated him in Beirut with a car bomb.

35:38 Before his assassination, Mossad inquired if Salome was a CIA asset to which Ames could not confirm due to Salome's non-formal status, reflecting a delicate balance in how the CIA and Mossad operate. To say that Bob Ames was sympathetic to the Palestinian cause would have been an understatement. He empathized with them deeply. This perspective often put him at odds with Israelis' points of view.

36:06 He believed in a Palestinian state and he believed that it would stabilize the region and benefit all parties. And Ames was very well respected in the United States as a foreign policy expert. So his elimination was critical to ensuring they had control of the narrative because he oftentimes spoke up, rightly so.

36:36 about misinformation that was coming even out of his own CIA. So he was viewed as a big threat. In 1977, he wrote a letter to his wife, Ames did, expressing his frustration with U.S. policy, stating, and this is a quote, I know I can get the Palestinians to stop, but the old U.S. government regime will not pressure the Israelis, unquote.

37:05 This back-channel work known to CIA Director Richard Helms and Henry Kissinger was kept discreet to avoid antagonizing Israel. Ames' biography highlights open hostility between the CIA and Mossad during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent massacres that Sharon was later implicated in. Because they had used what they called a Christian militia,

37:37 to back the Israeli forces killing Palestinian refugees. Ames' sympathy for Palestinians deepened his criticism of Israel's actions during this period. So he was very, very vocal about this. His frustrations with U.S. reluctance to pressure Israel, as expressed in his letters, reflected a broader CIA sentiment among Arabists who felt U.S. policy was overly deferential to Israeli interests.

38:05 and that it was a significant loss to U.S. intelligence and Middle East diplomacy. And he was right. Still, it was not until four months later on August 28th that Marines came under direct fire by rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at the airport. They returned fire with M-16s and M-60 machine guns. The firefight resumed the next day when Marines firing 155-millimeter

38:32 artillery and 81-millimeter mortar rockets from Cobra helicopter gunships against the positions that were firing on them. Two Marines were killed and 14 wounded in the exchange, the first casualties of actual combat since the Marines had landed the previous year. From this time on, the combat involvement of Marines grew. Their actions were generally seen as siding with Israel against the Muslims.

38:59 slowly changing the status of the Marines from a neutral peacekeeper to an opponent of the Muslims, which is the entire point of the original game plan. Israel could hardly have wished for more. The polarization meant that increasing the conflict would be perceived as a U.S.-Israel attack against the Middle East.

39:26 Israel accelerated the building conflict on September 3rd, 19, let's see, on September 3rd by unilaterally withdrawing its troops southward, leaving the Marines exposed behind their thin line at the airport. So they had been basically right behind the Marines, the Marines, and then the rest of Beirut. So they just unexpectedly packed up and left, exposing a...

39:58 flank. Now, would you do that to your ally? Nope. There was no coordination. The U.S. had asked Israel's government to delay its withdrawal until the Marines could, like, so they're already leaving and they get on the phone and they're going, holy shit, they're leaving. And the U.S. government called Israel and said, yeah, don't do that. But Israel refused to stay.

40:26 The result was as feared. Heavy fighting immediately broke out between the Christian Lebanon forces and the pro-Syrian Druze units, both seeking to occupy positions evacuated by the Israelis, while the Marines were left in the crossfire, the entire purpose. On September 5th, two Marines were killed, three wounded, in fighting as it escalated. On an ill-considered effort to subdue the combat, the 6th Fleet Frigate

40:55 Bowen fired several 5-inch naval guns hitting the Druze artillery positions in the mountains that were firing into the Marine compound at the Beirut airport. It was the first time U.S. ships had fired into Lebanon, dramatically increasing the level of combat. But the Marines' exposed location on flat terrain at the airport left them in an impossible position. On September 12, three more Marines were wounded.

41:24 Anybody on the ground would go, time out. Nope. September 13th, President Reagan authorized what was called aggressive self-defense for the Marines, including air and naval strikes. Five days later, the U.S. essentially joined the war against the Muslims when four U.S. warships unleashed the heaviest naval bombardment since Vietnam into Syria and the Druze position in eastern Lebanon to support the Lebanese Christians.

41:52 The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine Corps officer detailed to the White House who was in Lebanon at the time and was also a strong supporter of Israel and its Lebanese Christian allies. McFarlane.

42:23 issued the order despite the fact that the Marine commander at the airport, Colonel Timothy McGardy, strenuously argued against it because, in the words of correspondent Robert Friedman, he knew that it would make his soldiers party to what was clearly now an inter-Lebanese civil war and that Lebanese Muslims would not retaliate against Navy ships but attack the Marines. Now, let me just...

42:52 Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were involved in Iran-Contra. These are the same people that are supplying Iran with missiles covertly through Israel.

43:29 So Israel is giving Iran missiles while then telling everybody that it's Iran backing the Muslims, Hezbollah, that are fighting in Lebanon. Again, that meme of somehow my tax dollars are paying for this and somehow my tax dollars are paying for this played out in Lebanon. Okay.

43:59 By now, the Marines were under direct daily attack. The Muslims were charging. They were no longer neutral. At the same time, the battleship USS New Jersey with 16-inch guns arrived off the coast of Lebanon, increasing the number of U.S. warships to 14. Similarly, the Marine contingent at the Beirut airport was increased from 1,200 to 1,600, slowly cooking the frogs alive, the frogs being Marines.

44:29 The fight now was truly joined between the Shia Muslims and the Marines, who were essentially pinned down at the airport bunkers and under orders not to take offensive action. Not to take offensive action. Sitting ducks. The tragic climax of their predicament came on October 23rd when a gorilla drove a truck.

44:57 Passed guards at the Marine Airport compound and detonated an explosive with the force of 1,200,000 pounds of dynamite under the building housing Marines and other U.S. personnel. Almost simultaneously, a car bomb exploded at the French compound in Beirut. Casualties were 241 Americans and 58 French troops killed. The bombings were the work of none other than Hezbollah, according to intelligence.

45:26 Americans' agony increased on December 3rd when two carrier planes were downed by Syrian missiles during heavy U.S. air raids on eastern Lebanon. The same day, eight Marines were killed in fighting in and around the airport. By the start of 1984, an all-out campaign to rid Lebanon of all Americans was underway. The highly respected president of the American University of Beirut, Dr. Malcolm

45:55 Kerr, a distinguished scholar in the Arab world, was gunned down on January 18th outside his office. On February 5th, Reagan made one of his stand tall speeches by saying the quote, the situation in Lebanon is difficult, frustrating, and dangerous, but this is no time to turn our backs on our friends and cut and run. Our friends, the same friends that have been setting us up from the beginning. The next day, Frank

46:24 Razier, a U.S. citizen teaching at the American University, was kidnapped. Razier's kidnapping was the beginning of a series of kidnappings of Americans in Beirut that would helm the Reagan administration and it would continue on into the Bush administration and would lead to eventually the expulsion of nearly all Americans from Lebanon, where they had prospered for more than a century. Even today, Americans are still prohibited from traveling to Lebanon.

46:54 The day after Rajir's kidnapping on February 7th, 1984, Reagan suddenly reversed himself and announced that all U.S. Marines would shortly be redeployed. The next day, the battleship USS New Jersey fired 290 rounds of one-ton shells from its guns into Lebanon as a final act of U.S. frustration. Reagan's redeployment was completed by February 26th when the last of the Marines retreated from Lebanon.

47:22 The mission of the Marines had been a humiliating failure, not because they failed in their duty, but because the political backbone of Washington was lacking. The U.S. had arrived in 1982 with all sides welcoming them. They left in 1984, despised by many and were the objects of attacks. Even relations with Israel were strained, if not in Washington, where a sympathetic Congress granted increased aid to Israel.

47:53 We rewarded Israel. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if you had a chance to get it because I know you were looking at something, Colonel, but I have this map that they drew up of that bombing attack that took place on October 23rd. It sketches it out right here on what that looked like. For the audience, I was wondering what that was. Yeah. This comes from the Marines.mil website.

48:26 if people are wondering about its authenticity or accuracy. Again, I'm gathering up all of this stuff and I'm just astounded at how eerily similar it is to how the U.S. government is pushed into this because you have to believe that at the end of the day, everybody in the U.S.

49:00 state department everybody in the cia knew exactly what was going on so absolutely absolutely there's no way after all those events yes it's like come on all right so the negative result is perhaps one reason a number of israelis and their supporters today oppose sending u.s peacekeepers um to other events and there was because they didn't want to repeat this um

49:33 type of thing. So in an article that J. Bruce Campbell wrote for Veterans Today, it says, I hadn't known back then that the Saudi royal family are themselves. Let's see. So the Saudi Arabia government at the time was basically in bed with the Israelis. They were sharing intelligence and all kinds of things. And a lot of people didn't know that.

50:04 He goes on to say, in the summer of 1983, an informant had told Mossad about a large Mercedes truck that was being fitted out by the Shiite Muslims with spaces that could hold bombs. He said it was even larger than usual spaces for this, so that whatever it was being...

50:35 destined for use as it was going to hit a major target. Now, Mossad knew that for the size of what the inside of this van looked like, because it was very detailed intelligence, there was only a few logical targets that it would be used for, one of which was the U.S. compound. The question then was whether or not to warn the Americans to be on particular alert for a truck matching the description.

51:05 the decision was too important to be taken at the Beirut station. So it was passed along to Tel Aviv, where Nahum Admoni, A-D-M-O-N-Y, then head of Mossad, decided they would simply give the Americans the usual general warning, a vague notice that they had reason to believe someone might be planning an operation against them.

51:32 But this was so general and so commonplace, it was like sending a SITREP. They had sent tons of these. There was no special alert, no thing that said, hey, we got this informant. He's a reliable source. And here's what they're doing. They're not even retrofitting it for standard size car box. It's being made for large explosives. None of that detailed intelligence was.

52:03 Which would have changed the way they structured the gates at the... God, man, they set these guys up. It was so common, it was referred to as like sending a weather report. It was unlikely to raise any particular alarms or prompt increase in security. In the six months following receipt of this information...

52:26 There had been no less than 100 general warnings of car bomb attacks. One more would not have heightened anybody's concern. Admini, in refusing to give the Americans specific information on this particular truck, said, quote, no, we're not there to protect Americans. We're a big country. Send only the regular information, unquote.

52:52 At the same time, however, all of Israeli installations were giving specific details in case they were the target. Wow. Obviously, they felt that it was relevant information. To send detail to their own units, but not the Americans, the ally. At 6.20 a.m. on March 23rd, 1983, a large Mercedes truck that fit the exact description.

53:21 Passing well within sight of Israeli sentries in their nearby base, going through a Lebanese army checkpoint and turning left into the parking lot, a U.S. Marine guard reported with alarm that the truck was gathering speed, and before he could do anything, the truck roared towards the entrance of the four-story reinforced concrete aviation safety building used as a headquarters for 8th Marine Battalion. Crashing through the wrought iron gate, hitting the sandbagged guard post,

53:50 smashing through another barrier and ramming over a wall of sandbags into the lobby, exploding with a terrific force that instantly reduced the building to rubble. A few minutes later, another truck smashed through the French paratrooper headquarters, a seafront residential neighborhood just two miles from the U.S. compound, hitting it with such an impact that it moved the entire building and killed 58 soldiers.

54:15 The loss of the 241 US Marines, most of them still sleeping in their cots at the time of the suicide mission, was on the highest single-day death toll for Americans since the 246 died throughout Vietnam at the start of the Tet Offensive. Within days, the Israelis passed along to the CIA the names of 13 people who they said were connected to the bombing deaths of the US Marines and French paratroopers.

54:43 Let me say this very slowly. The only intelligence that was ever provided about who was responsible for that bombing was Israel. The only intelligence on who was responsible came from Israel. I wonder why that is. At Mossad's headquarters, there was a sigh of relief that it wasn't for us and we didn't get hit. It was seen as a small incident.

55:15 so far as Mossad was concerned, that we had stumbled over it and wouldn't tell anybody. The problem was if we had leaked information and it was traced back to our informant, they would have been killed. So they put the life of one informant over the life of 200-plus Marines. Which is never policy. Ever. A source never, ever takes priority over your own people. Never. There's never a scenario.

55:47 But we're not considered their own people. Exactly. Unless that source is working on an operation that's even far greater on something, which is a different situation, whole different variables. But based on this situation, it doesn't apply. Correct.

56:06 So this Israeli that's basically telling this story said, for me, it was the first time I had received a major rebuke from my Mossad superior liaison officer. I said at the time that the American soldiers killed in Beirut would be on our minds longer than our own casualties because they had came in good faith to help us out of this mess that we created. I was told, just shut up. You're talking out of your league.

56:35 We're giving the Americans much more than they're giving us. They always said that, but it was not true. So much of Israeli's equipment was Americans and the Mossad owed them a lot. One more. I'm not going to shed a tear when unit 8200 and Mossad and all that ceases to exist. Me neither. All right. So from another article, it says.

57:10 Marines obviously did not have much in way of intelligence regarding the local situation in Beirut, thanks to Mossad, which knew about the truck being fitted with explosives for at least three months and decided not to give any specific warning to the Marines. Consider that for a moment. Their informant described the truck where the work was being done and how much space was being allocated for the explosives. Very detailed intelligence. They were fully aware that the truck bomb,

57:40 was meant for the Marines who they refused to warn. That's if you buy the Mossad version. This guy thinks that the entire incident was set up to get back at Captain Charles Johnson for the embarrassment of what he did with the IDF tanks. And they go through the article, what we already went through about him confronting Lieutenant Colonel Robbie Landsberg.

58:10 And so there's multiple accounts of that story out there if you want to look for it. But all of them basically tell you what I just kind of concisely put from all of the different articles that I found. So the bottom line is there is every reason to believe based on that information that Israel.

58:38 And there's been witnesses that came forth. The one former Mossad officer that said they had all of the detailed information. They were put on high alert and never passed on that information to the Americans. You know, when it's the good guys that do these things, it's handled the right way. I remember the first time, Colonel, I get a call from the gang unit within the prison systems. And it's to give me a heads up on, hey.

59:09 There's a contract out on you because that's the way it works. Even if it jeopardizes or compromises their investigation, you protect the life of, you know, your people, your assets. And regardless of what story you believe here, you know, whether it was vengeance for the embarrassment or, you know, the other one heard, they're just not saying it because we're going to let it blend in.

59:37 Whatever perspective you choose, both of them have the intent of seeing the Marines get hurt or killed. Correct. Forget being complicit. To me, that's an accessory. And this is the first time that I've ever heard any of this information when it comes to Beirut. Right. And it's all out there. You just have to know where to find it. It is. I've been pulling up.

1:00:10 a lot of these documents and stuff, uh, as you were talking for the audience to see, um, the links will be in the description, you know, after the show and I'm doing the editing and this is crazy. And then if you go back to, you know, when you were talking about what was the guy's name? Uh, is it angle? Um, James, James Angleton, James, Jesus Angleton. Yeah. That's the guy that's going to call this conspiracy. So James, Jesus Angleton,

1:00:40 Understand how he fits into this whole thing. Let me bring up his picture so everybody can see this weirdo. He ran the Israeli and the Vatican desk at the CIA. He has two monuments in Israel dedicated to him when he died. The Vatican and Israel. The same desk officer ran the Vatican and Israel in the CIA. And that's the man.

1:01:16 I don't know if there's any relation here, but I'll just read it. Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein agrees with the high regard in which Angleton was held by his colleagues in the intelligence business and adds that Angleton earned the trust of six CIA directors, including Walter Bettle Smith, your favorite, Alan Dulles, and Richard Helms. They kept Angleton in key positions and valued his work. That statement alone tells you everything you need to know about this guy.

1:01:45 I'm very curious on this Epstein name right here. Maybe a relation, maybe not. I don't think so, but I've read a lot of what he has written, and it is very pro-Israel as far as his writings go. How's none of this massive public information? I mean, everybody's talking about, we want the JFK files, we want the JFK files, and I get it.

1:02:18 We all want that for the same stuff. But at the same time, it's like, thank you. At the same time, it's like, somebody's playing with me over here. It's one of those things where this stuff's already available. Like you said, this is all open source information. Correct. You want to destroy people's confidence in understanding Mossad in the IDF. I mean, this is all information that...

1:02:47 It's like anybody can share it. Correct. I have a bias here because these are Marines. So this especially pisses me off because I, you know, and to know that these guys are fighting. Here's the thing. Just, you know, I can't prove this, but just knowing the nature of Marines, just having the understanding that these guys, when we talk about that, they were fighting and they knew.

1:03:21 that there was these issues between them and Israel with what's going on. These aren't stupid guys. If the Holocaust is illuminating them to jeopardize their positions, if tanks are coming to where you have to have one of their captains jump on the tank, they understand that there's a rift taking place and they're still going to hold their positions. And then to come to have that final demise, it's wrong. Alpha.

1:03:48 What would it take for the Marine Corps Commandant to write a letter to the SECDEF saying WTF? Wouldn't take anything but a few minutes. No, but I mean the amount of frustration that they were experiencing on the ground. So for those of you who have never worked in the Pentagon, let me just tell you the point I'm trying to make very bluntly. The Commandant of the Marine Corps.

1:04:21 is a, for lack of a better word, an administrative job to train and equip Marines to cut them over to operational commands to go forward deploy under a operational combatant commander. And in this case, there would be a forward deployed commander that reported to whoever the geographical combatant commander was on this operation, right?

1:04:49 They kind of chop to an operational commander. The commandant is there to train and equip Marines to go on operational missions. They are not an operational commander. The amount of correspondence coming back to the commander throughout the entire Marine Corps chain of command. We're talking about a most a captain or a major on the ground. There's level after level after level of.

1:05:18 command structure to get to the commandant. And then there has to be so much of that traffic getting to the commandant that he takes time out of his busy schedule to say, what the fuck are you doing to my Marines that I have chopped to you for a peacekeeping mission that this supposed ally that you keep cramming down my throat is harassing my Marines on the ground and then leaves exposing their flank.

1:05:48 to which they get killed. And here's the thing. And people will say, yeah, but there's decades of time in between the two. It doesn't matter. The Marine Corps leadership is Marine Corps leadership. Now, granted, what we were dealing with in Iraq was small potatoes compared to what these poor bastards were dealing with at Beirut. But when our officers, when the general officers found out that we hadn't gotten mail, that we had been in theaters since February and we're approaching.

1:06:16 Cinco de Mayo, and we didn't have mail. You want to talk about lighting a fuse up someone's ass to correct that ship? They literally turned it into a mission, Colonel, with helicopters and escorts. You know the logistics and money they spent? That was millions of dollars that they spent to bring us mail because they didn't like how it was affecting us. You're telling me that you rewind the clock all the way back then?

1:06:45 that they didn't have this kind of information to recognize the bullshit games that were taking place with the Marines down in Beirut, not to address it? Baloney. Baloney. It just means everybody was turning a blind eye. So the Marine Corps Commandant writes a letter the SecDef knows, the Secretary of State knows, because they had high-level meetings with the Israeli officials. And then the Israeli officials basically try to malign the Marines when they're confronted.

1:07:15 with the fact that one of the tank commanders says, blow your fucking head off if you don't stop harassing my troops. And then they tried to line that Marine. This is so big. And the percolating of this up to the commandant for him to, because again, the SecDef is in the chain of command. He wrote a letter. He didn't have a meeting. He wanted it in writing.

1:07:45 This is a big freaking deal. He wanted a letter written. That probably was at the point, he probably had already talked to the people in the SecDef's office. You don't write a letter to the SecDef just off the cuff. So this is meeting after meeting after meeting, and no one did anything. So he formally puts them on notice, quit fucking with my Marines. And that still happened.

1:08:15 Everybody knew in America, chain of command, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, everybody knew. A cover-up, just like the USS Liberty. Everybody knew. And the only intelligence on who pulled that operation off came from Israel. Which that in and of itself makes a very strong insinuation. Since they're the ones that were doing all of the harassment.

1:08:51 And since we already know that they had created and funded Hamas in order to attack the PLO. When, and obviously this is, you need a lot more than just a statement I'm going to make, but given you, you've provided us all with all those variables tonight, when you're the originator, if people aren't catching what, at least, at least what I think is being said here, Colonel, when you're the origination of the intelligence.

1:09:21 Is it because you're part of the facilitation? Correct. You know, so I want to be very clear with that to the audience to make sure that they understand that. And when you add all these other variables that you've articulated, Colonel, I'm sorry, I'm forming the opinion that absolutely you help facilitate this. Well, at the very least, you help facilitate it by withholding critical information.

1:09:47 If you look at the window. That's at the very least. At the very least, yeah. Because if you look at the window between when they had the intel and when it actually went into action, there's a significant timeframe there. And that was actionable information, which means you could have worked it back. Not only could you have prevented it, you probably could have ended up buying out.

1:10:09 who's all involved with this and develop, you know, separate investigations. But you could have took down a whole entire structure if there was a legitimate terrorist organization out there and it wasn't the actual IDF or Mossad that pulled this off. Which is probably why they didn't put the information out there because then they would have got caught. Well, that goes to the whole pattern that we established on why no investigations were ever done into the actual drug apparatus. Because every time you

1:10:39 Got up to the CIA person involved. The investigation stopped. Same thing. And I just want to make a note to the audience. When I'm referring to Israel, I'm referring to the government, the politicians, the IDF, Mossad, Unit 8200. You know, I do make a distinction between governments. Absolutely. So I want to make sure people understand that so they don't take that out of.

1:11:08 who was involved and found culpable, responsible for the massacre. They don't care about dead bodies. That's the bottom line. They don't care about dead bodies. Let me bring him up so everybody can see his face. This is Ariel Sharon right here. And here's the Sabra Shatila massacre. Yeah. Graphic, if you guys don't want to, don't zoom in if you guys don't like graphic stuff. Yeah. He was found responsible and goes on to be the prime minister.

1:11:38 So the guy that was responsible for the massacre of innocent civilians becomes the prime minister of Israel. And this is a large amount because it says the Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16th to 18th of September, 1982, killing between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias in the city of Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. It was perpetrated by the Lebanese forces, one of the main Christian militias in Lebanon and goes on and on.

1:12:08 So here you go. But it was facilitated by the IDF. Yeah. No, I'm tracking. I was just reading what. Yeah. No, I know. Yeah. He was found responsible. So when you have this, and like I said, this isn't the only incident. We also have the USS Liberty. And you see, you know, when we talk shell companies, Colonel, and that mindset. Well, when you look at what's unfolding, it seems like there's like these shell events as well.

1:12:40 You know, do we know that Iran is, you know, the number one funder of terrorism through proxies all around on the surface level? Yes. But that's the shell part of it, because then once you dive into it, you realize it's this mechanism that's really funding it. And it's just putting this Iran IRGC label that's on it. But you got to understand who controls it behind it.

1:13:08 And you have these people that have these, they want to polarize the conversation with Americans. You got to be pro-Israel or you got to be pro-Iran. That's why I keep telling people, no, you got to be pro-America. Because what you realize is it's both sides of that coin are being controlled by the same entity. But that's the reason why I point out the rest of behind the story, the same apparatus in America that was funding Iran with missiles.

1:13:39 is telling you that Iran is attacking Lebanon. Wait a minute. So you're telling me, and as a result of all of this, what happened? Massive amounts of increased aid went to Israel. Massive amounts of increased aid went to Israel. Well, and that's what I want people to understand, even with this conversation, you know, with Iran, because everybody asks, why do you always say, you know, Hamas is a little boogeyman and Iran's a big boogeyman?

1:14:11 Because this ongoing threat that Iran, you know, you know, looks like on paper because that's what the CIA tells us. And that's what Mossad tells us, you know, that Iran, you know, how many years have they been telling us that Iran is this close to making a nuke? And that's been I was to say they've been saying that as long as I've been alive and I'm not saying that the IRGC are good people. I don't want anybody to get that twisted.

1:14:40 I've shown, you know, the receipts where they call to death to America, but you got to understand they're just puppets and you got to see who's the one controlling the strings. And that's why these conversations are so important, because when it leads you back to the same intelligence agencies, therein lies the issue. We keep wanting to treat the symptoms. We don't want to treat the root cause of what we're dealing with. So here's another aspect of this that hasn't been said.

1:15:07 So we're supposed to believe that Mossad found this informant, right, that told him months in advance that this, where was the CIA? Where was the CIA during all of this? Are you telling me that the CIA had no informants and that this expert Ames guy had been there for God knows how long? You've got people throughout the university system in Lebanon.

1:15:37 with feelers out there, and not a single ounce of intelligence was provided to the Marines to fortify their positions. Nothing. So my point in all of this has always been, if anybody thinks the CIA is there to collect intelligence, you're a fucking moron at this point. They have never prevented any of this shit.

1:16:05 So they are either facilitating it or they are a box of rocks. And we have wasted trillions of dollars on an agency that does absolutely nothing for the American people, except get a field. Yeah. And I'm not going to give them. I know we always we like to say box of rocks. And I will say that exists at some levels. But these people are they're smart. They are brilliant. They have these. It means that they're capable in all of it.

1:16:35 Exactly. As I say, which makes it so much worse. So you're either building trillions of funneling trillions of dollars into a box of rocks or they're complicit. There's no middle ground. There's a reason Trump offered to buy them out because he knows. Absolutely. My only hopes is that the ones that were planted in the CIA facilitate what they need to do for President Trump.

1:17:07 to find out where this is, where the root of this virus is. So what I want people to take away from this, though, is understanding that the CIA that is housed in Langley is only part of the... You mentioned front companies. They have a ton. After the Halloween massacre of the Jimmy Carter administration, they created...

1:17:31 what has been labeled as the enterprise, which is basically a CIA within the CIA that operates off the books. And that is part and parcel of Operation Gladio. So it is my hope that throughout this last 10 years that they have been using the people in the CIA to map where all of those off-the-book operations are. And I firmly believe that is happening.

1:17:57 that is going to at some point be exposed as well. Because you have to map all of the apparatus if you're going to take it all down. Now, you did mention, unless I missed it, that Victor Ostrowski was going to get brought up? Yeah. Well, that's the last part that I read about where he says that he thinks it was part of payback for the Captain Johnson. That was from him. Gotcha.

1:18:30 Gotcha. And I should have said that those were his comments. That's from an article that was quoting him. I gotcha. Well, then let me give you this for the final thoughts, then, Colonel, for tonight. When you look at this information and we see in real time what's happening right now, you know, Trump and them meeting with Iran. I'm a firm believer and it's just my opinion. I'm a firm believer.

1:19:01 that trump knows about this corruption that exists but he also understands that these people are surrounding him so how how does he how does he handle this situation colonel if he ignores it americans get hurt that gets weaponized them that he's a failed president if he tries to go about this preemptively then he falls into the pocket of he's controlled by the zionists and he's doing the work of mossad

1:19:30 So if he does it, they got a narrative and agenda to attack him. If he doesn't do it, they have a narrative and agenda to attack him. How do you think he threads the needle on this? So he protects Americans, doesn't get used, but still handles the situation. So I think that there is a controlled release of information that will occur as events unfold so that the.

1:20:01 understanding, and maybe, I mean, this goes to your point about why no one is talking about Operation Gladio, because it exposes all of this. Once it's go time to expose how all of these events are connected and who's behind all of them, I think we're going to be flooded with information. The beauty of our audience is we already know the information that is going to come out.

1:20:27 because we've done the research and found it ourselves. But most of America, most of the world don't know what we know because they've not done the research. So I don't believe that there is anyone, especially in the MAGA movement, but in America, that once this information starts flowing out is going to not be 100% behind Trump.

1:20:56 and the takedown of all of this. So let me close with this, because I think this is another sticking point with most people, and it goes to your point about how you view Iran. Every one of these countries has this apparatus, this controlling apparatus. I have articulated over the last two and a half years what this apparatus looks like in country after country.

1:21:23 If you understand the history of Iran, and I just talked about this today, if you guys missed my 4 o'clock today, please go listen to it, because it is the history of Iran from Operation Ajax, where we overthrew Mossadegh, the creation of the Savak. The creation of the Savak, as we've talked about many times, was created by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr.

1:21:51 That is their secret fleet. That's their intelligence apparatus. It's their CIA. So one of the continuities, which is why I know that the mullahs were no different than the Shah. Careful with that word, Colonel. You're going to hit the algorithms. The reason why I know that there was a continuing controlling mechanism throughout Iran, regardless of the change,

1:22:21 So you guys have heard me oftentimes speak about how the CIA always has the next iteration. If they control the dictator in charge, which was what the Shah was, and you'll see all of those photos popped up on social media. Oh my God, look how wonderful life was under the Shah. It wasn't wonderful. It was wonderful in the same way that it was wonderful for an upper middle class and above and everybody else got shit on.

1:22:47 They got their property stolen. They lived in squalor. That's what was happening in Iran under the Shah. The Shah had a secret police force that was the same as Pinochet's Chile, as Peron in Argentina. The Sabah, there was one political party that was allowed. There was no independent press. Those people were under a dictator. That's what the Shah was.

1:23:15 crown prince bullshit that you see people posting all over is a second iteration of his father. No one, that no king riots. Isn't it hilarious that the same people posting how stupid it is to think that America has a king is advocating to return a king to Iran? It's literally blowing my mind. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? Colonel, no kings is so yesterday.

1:23:45 That's yesterday. Yes. Yeah. So if you look at the SABAC's creation, a couple of years after the Shah is put back in power by the CIA and MI6 and Mossad, you have the iteration of the creation of the SABAC by all of these same intelligence apparatuses to be their network. Remember the KCIA, the German BND, MI6, they're all in the network.

1:24:13 The Savak is their network. When the Mullahs took over, do you know what, you would assume that if they're these radical Islamic crazy people, they would want nothing of anything that had been set up in the previous administration under the Shah, right? So the first thing to go would be the Savak. That didn't happen. The Savak just changed its name and kept the entire apparatus.

1:24:41 I tell people about this all the time, Colonel. They got rid of one person. That's it. And then they rebranded it to MOIS, the M-O-I-S or however you say it. All they did was they just rebranded. Yes. And that tells you everything. And do you know who took over the training of Savak when the CIA kind of basically left? This, if I remember correctly.

1:25:10 Wasn't it Mossad? It was. Yes, I was going to say it's Mossad that helped do the training. So Mossad went in and trained and equipped the SAVAK to continue operations. So what you don't know behind the scenes, as Alpha pointed out, there is this, and it's the same thing in China with the CCP.

1:25:33 You can have this apparatus operating inside of your country. We had the CIA operating rogue operations under JFK that he didn't know anything about. It has happened here. The fact that you guys had never heard of Operation Gladio and the Cuban exiles had done terror attacks inside the United States, include Richard Nixon, tells you that this operation is able to operate inside of a country outside of the government.

1:26:02 OK, so when you look at Iran today, what Trump is doing is trying to get rid of this apparatus that's inside of these countries and negate it, put it into the trash bin while not destroying the country itself. That's a very precise mission. Well, this will be my final thought to bring a little bit of some light and some hope to tonight. President Donald Trump.

1:26:35 Put up two flagpoles with American flags at the White House today, folks. One on the North Lawn, one on the South Lawn, 88 feet tall. But during that conversation in the interview, he makes a statement. Well, you know, I was being hunted, but now I'm the hunter. And anybody that's been paying attention to the boards, immediately ears went up, say, what? Well, hold on, boss, man. Don't be saying shit like that.

1:27:05 Because, you know, we know what that means. And for those that are like, what are you talking about, Alpha? The first time that the word hunted pops up on the cube boards is post number 158. I'm not going to read the whole post, but it reads this. It ends with this. The hunter becomes the hunted. Operations underway. Operators active. Colonel, I think we're this close. This close.

1:27:31 To Trump making the statement, the storm is upon us. And this is not just speculation, folks. The word hunted pops up on the cue boards. Take a guess, Colonel. How many times do you think the word hunted shows up on the cue boards? How many posts? 17. 17 posts. And in one of those particular posts, it actually references an image that talks about the storm. So I think we are getting close to that.

1:28:01 Which means that you got to definitely make sure you have your Operation Gladio glasses clean and you're ready because things are going to escalate. It's going to get more confusing the closer we get to it because it's going to... Not to us. Not to us. Not to us. But that's why our glasses have to be clean because it is going to be for the regular people. And even a lot of people that think they know what's going on.

1:28:27 It's going to be very hard to delineate good from bad when narratives start to spill over on each other. And you guys, because you understand Operation Gladio, you understand the names, and you've seen they're not changing the playbook, folks. They're just changing the names and the locations. And now you guys are able to see that, and you're going to be able to walk your fellow Americans and patriots throughout the world through this and keep everybody from falling into the fear of chaos because that's what they want, chaos, and they win. Colonel.

1:28:56 You are phenomenal as always. You guys make sure you're following the kernel. Make sure you subscribe to the kernel. And I want to make sure we get the link to give to everybody. Make sure no audio blast in my ear when I do this. Make sure you guys go to thekernelscornershop.myshopify.com to get your gladiator gear. Yeah. Get your mug. Get your college coin because it is going to be very, very relevant in the future.

1:29:28 Absolutely. So unless you got anything else, Colonel, I will close this out with that rock and roll video, which I forgot to send you. So let me mention 12 o'clock tomorrow, Eastern time. I will be on with War Hamster on Secret Societies at I want to make sure I get the right time. I am doing the interview with Kevin. That is it's his own personal.

1:29:55 but he is affiliated with blaze TV. Um, so I'm very excited about that. And that is on, um, two 30 tomorrow, um, Eastern time. And I sent out a link. I'll resend that out tomorrow morning and tomorrow night I will be on, um, stormy Patriot Joe show at nine o'clock Eastern time. So there, there you have it folks. And so,

1:30:24 Two things I got to do, Colonel. I got to send you a video, and there's another person that wants to have you on their show. So I got to make that connection for you guys. So with that, what video am I talking about that I will, Colonel? It's this awesome rock and roll one. You guys, this has been Operation Gladio. It has been live, live. Let me make sure there's no rumble rants that I forgot. There's not. We're good. All right, you guys. Tune in tomorrow morning with me and CanCon Badlands Daily. Catch us in the evening with SitRep, and then catch us on Saturday with People. It's going to be a very heart.

1:30:54 warming show. This one's going to hurt folks. It's motivation, but it's also very tragic. So with that, you guys, good night and Semper Fi.

Entities here

Lebanon36 United States Marine Corps33 Israel30 Israel Defense Forces25 United States25 CIA24 Mossad22 Iran19 Ariel Sharon13 Operation Gladio13 1983 Beirut barracks bombing13 Robert C. Ames8 Sabra and Shatila massacre8 Donald Trump8 Robert Barron7 Ronald Reagan6 Reza Pahlavi5 Rafi Landau5 Charles Johnson5 James Jesus Angleton5 SAVAK5 U.S. Navy4 Multinational Force in Lebanon4 Hezbollah4 Ali Hassan Salameh3 Robert McFarlane3 France3 U.S. Air Force3 Hamas3 Beirut3 Syria3 Frank Razier3 American University of Beirut3 Victor Ostrowski2 Moshe Dayan2 United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization2 PLO2 MacDill Air Force Base2 USS Liberty incident2 Iran-Contra affair2

Claims made here

Hezbollah carried_out_attack 1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted ▶ 5:14

“He probably wouldn't want me to call him out anyway. But he made a comment about on my post about we all know that Hezbollah was involved in the Beirut bombing. And my immediate response to him was, h…”

James Jesus Angleton member_of Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 9:16

“are usually written months in advance. The articles for them, the vetting of the articles for them, it appeared in the very next one. So someone's article didn't get published in order to refute the g…”

Robert Barron headed United States Marine Corps documented ▶ 11:41

“on just using Wikipedia, it's B-A-R-R-O-W, Robert Hilliard Barrow. He obviously is the Commandant in 1983. That was at the end of his four-year assignment as the Commandant. He had experience in World…”

Robert Barron trained Chiang Kai-shek guest_asserted ▶ 12:11

“He's very aware of because listen to this part of his biography from August 44 to 45. He was the SACO, S-A-C-O, which was a U.S. trained and equipped. He was operating with U.S. trained and equipped C…”

Ariel Sharon founded Unit 101 documented ▶ 19:03

“He was part of Unit 101. What's Unit 101? Well, let's read. It says that as a major, he was the founder and commander of a new Unit 101. What is that? Unit 101 is a very interesting organization. They…”

Moshe Dayan ordered_assassination_of USS Liberty attack guest_asserted ▶ 20:02

“Oh, he just happens to have been involved in, he was the guy that gave the direct order to attack the USS Liberty. This Dayan guy, D-A-Y-A-N. So just to put it in perspective. So him and Sharon are bu…”

Ariel Sharon carried_out_attack Sabra and Shatila massacre guest_asserted ▶ 24:01

“as many as 500 people, mainly Lebanese, and all of them were civilians, were killed. On top of the bombardment came the massacres the next month at Sabra and Shatila. When Sharon's troops allowed Leba…”

Rafi Landau carried_out_attack United States Marine Corps documented ▶ 25:56

“On February 2nd, a unit of three Israeli tanks, tanks led by Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Rafi Landsberg, tried to pass through a Marine Army, both people were there, lines at a university in South Leba…”

Ariel Sharon removed_from_power Israel Defense Forces documented ▶ 30:39

“Two days later, Barrow wrote that infamous letter to Casper Weinberger, who was at the time the sec def. He endorsed it and sent it along to the State Department. That followed with high-level meeting…”

Ariel Sharon ordered_assassination_of Sabra and Shatila massacre documented ▶ 31:06

“an independent Israeli commission to have been personally responsible for the massacres of Sabra and Shatir. So now think about this. He's basically the sec def of the IDF. He has been personally resp…”

Ronald Reagan supplied_arms_to Iran guest_asserted ▶ 32:07

“And I just need to remind everybody that there were allegations that these Islamic radicals that took that shot were sponsored by Iran. Interesting. So what's really interesting about that is secretly…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 32:39

“That's not been made public. They have had two major thousands of missile shipment, one for the October surprise before the election, shipment number one. And this is in the lead up to the Iran-Contra…”

Robert C. Ames member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 33:37

“were CIA Middle East specialists, including Robert C. Ames, the agency's top Middle East expert, disaffected former Israeli Mossad case officer, Victor Ostrowski, and he's going to come up later. It's…”

Victor Ostrowski member_of Mossad host_asserted ▶ 33:37

Islamic Jihad carried_out_attack 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut host_asserted ▶ 34:04

“that Israel had advanced information about the bombing plan, but had decided not to inform the United States. A claim that was denied, of course, by Israel. They said, and the CIA, that there was an I…”

Israel funded Hamas host_asserted ▶ 34:33

“Khomeini's offensive against America and Lebanon began in earnest, but it was not his offensive. More to the story. Ames' close relationship with Ali Hassan Salameh, a senior PLO figure. Now, again, I…”

Israel assassinated Ali Hassan Salameh host_asserted ▶ 35:04

“So Ames had created a relationship with this senior PLO figure. Ames became a threat to Israel. So that created a lot of friction with Mossad, who viewed Salome as a terrorist linked to the 1970 Olymp…”

Robert C. Ames spied_on Ali Hassan Salameh host_asserted ▶ 35:38

“Before his assassination, Mossad inquired if Salome was a CIA asset to which Ames could not confirm due to Salome's non-formal status, reflecting a delicate balance in how the CIA and Mossad operate. …”

Henry Kissinger covered_up Robert C. Ames host_asserted ▶ 37:05

“This back-channel work known to CIA Director Richard Helms and Henry Kissinger was kept discreet to avoid antagonizing Israel. Ames' biography highlights open hostility between the CIA and Mossad duri…”

Richard Helms covered_up Robert C. Ames host_asserted ▶ 37:05

Israel carried_out_attack 1982 Lebanon War host_asserted ▶ 37:05

Ariel Sharon carried_out_attack Sabra and Shatila massacre host_asserted ▶ 37:05

Robert McFarlane ordered_assassination_of 1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted ▶ 41:52

“The bombardment lasted for three days and was personally ordered by National Security Council Director none other than Robert McFarlane. Who's Robert McFarlane? Well, he just so happens to be a Marine…”

Robert McFarlane member_of National Security Council host_asserted ▶ 41:52

Robert McFarlane member_of United States Marine Corps host_asserted ▶ 41:52

John McCain member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 42:52

“Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were …”

Robert McFarlane member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 42:52

Oliver North member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 42:52

John Poindexter member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 42:52

Israel supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 43:29

“So Israel is giving Iran missiles while then telling everybody that it's Iran backing the Muslims, Hezbollah, that are fighting in Lebanon. Again, that meme of somehow my tax dollars are paying for th…”

Hezbollah carried_out_attack 1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted ▶ 44:57

“Passed guards at the Marine Airport compound and detonated an explosive with the force of 1,200,000 pounds of dynamite under the building housing Marines and other U.S. personnel. Almost simultaneousl…”

Malcolm Kerr member_of American University of Beirut host_asserted ▶ 45:26

“Americans' agony increased on December 3rd when two carrier planes were downed by Syrian missiles during heavy U.S. air raids on eastern Lebanon. The same day, eight Marines were killed in fighting in…”

Frank Razier member_of American University of Beirut host_asserted ▶ 46:24

“Razier, a U.S. citizen teaching at the American University, was kidnapped. Razier's kidnapping was the beginning of a series of kidnappings of Americans in Beirut that would helm the Reagan administra…”

Ronald Reagan removed_from_power United States Marine Corps host_asserted ▶ 46:54

“The day after Rajir's kidnapping on February 7th, 1984, Reagan suddenly reversed himself and announced that all U.S. Marines would shortly be redeployed. The next day, the battleship USS New Jersey fi…”

Saudi Arabia spied_on Israel book_quoted ▶ 49:33

“type of thing. So in an article that J. Bruce Campbell wrote for Veterans Today, it says, I hadn't known back then that the Saudi royal family are themselves. Let's see. So the Saudi Arabia government…”

Mossad covered_up 1983 Beirut barracks bombing book_quoted ▶ 50:35

“destined for use as it was going to hit a major target. Now, Mossad knew that for the size of what the inside of this van looked like, because it was very detailed intelligence, there was only a few l…”

Nahum Admoni headed Mossad book_quoted ▶ 51:05

“the decision was too important to be taken at the Beirut station. So it was passed along to Tel Aviv, where Nahum Admoni, A-D-M-O-N-Y, then head of Mossad, decided they would simply give the Americans…”

Israel covered_up 1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted ▶ 54:43

“Let me say this very slowly. The only intelligence that was ever provided about who was responsible for that bombing was Israel. The only intelligence on who was responsible came from Israel. I wonder…”

James Jesus Angleton spied_on Israel host_asserted ▶ 1:00:40

“Understand how he fits into this whole thing. Let me bring up his picture so everybody can see this weirdo. He ran the Israeli and the Vatican desk at the CIA. He has two monuments in Israel dedicated…”

James Jesus Angleton spied_on Vatican host_asserted ▶ 1:00:40

James Jesus Angleton member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:00:40

Allen Dulles headed CIA book_quoted ▶ 1:01:16

“I don't know if there's any relation here, but I'll just read it. Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein agrees with the high regard in which Angleton was held by his colleagues in the intelligenc…”

Richard Helms headed CIA book_quoted ▶ 1:01:16

Walter Bedell Smith headed CIA book_quoted ▶ 1:01:16

Israel funded Hamas host_asserted ▶ 1:08:51

“And since we already know that they had created and funded Hamas in order to attack the PLO. When, and obviously this is, you need a lot more than just a statement I'm going to make, but given you, yo…”

Ariel Sharon carried_out_attack Sabra and Shatila massacre host_asserted ▶ 1:11:08

“who was involved and found culpable, responsible for the massacre. They don't care about dead bodies. That's the bottom line. They don't care about dead bodies. Let me bring him up so everybody can se…”

Lebanese Forces carried_out_attack Sabra and Shatila massacre host_asserted ▶ 1:11:38

“So the guy that was responsible for the massacre of innocent civilians becomes the prime minister of Israel. And this is a large amount because it says the Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16th to 1…”

CIA funded The Enterprise host_asserted ▶ 1:17:31

“what has been labeled as the enterprise, which is basically a CIA within the CIA that operates off the books. And that is part and parcel of Operation Gladio. So it is my hope that throughout this las…”

The Enterprise front_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:17:31

CIA founded SAVAK host_asserted ▶ 1:21:23

“If you understand the history of Iran, and I just talked about this today, if you guys missed my 4 o'clock today, please go listen to it, because it is the history of Iran from Operation Ajax, where w…”

CIA overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted ▶ 1:21:23

Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded SAVAK host_asserted ▶ 1:21:23

Mossad installed Reza Pahlavi host_asserted ▶ 1:23:45

“That's yesterday. Yes. Yeah. So if you look at the SABAC's creation, a couple of years after the Shah is put back in power by the CIA and MI6 and Mossad, you have the iteration of the creation of the …”

CIA installed Reza Pahlavi host_asserted ▶ 1:23:45

SAVAK front_for Ministry of Intelligence and Security (Iran) host_asserted ▶ 1:24:13

“The Savak is their network. When the Mullahs took over, do you know what, you would assume that if they're these radical Islamic crazy people, they would want nothing of anything that had been set up …”

Mossad trained SAVAK host_asserted ▶ 1:25:10

“Wasn't it Mossad? It was. Yes, I was going to say it's Mossad that helped do the training. So Mossad went in and trained and equipped the SAVAK to continue operations. So what you don't know behind th…”

CIA carried_out_attack United States host_asserted ▶ 1:25:33

“You can have this apparatus operating inside of your country. We had the CIA operating rogue operations under JFK that he didn't know anything about. It has happened here. The fact that you guys had n…”

Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack United States host_asserted ▶ 1:25:33