Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2

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0:00 Okay, so I got all the notices out. I posted it on True Social. And if everybody could invite people into the space, we're going to get started here shortly. I'll do a little bit of an overview from yesterday. I did have to laugh this morning. I was responding to...

0:37 A crazy person that follows me, which hopefully she won't after I responded to her post. But she was, of course, saying something negative about General Flynn in that the the guy that the colonel that had gotten on one of the.

1:10 congressional committee testimonies saying that Flynn's brother had something to do with the whole January 6th failure of the National Guard to show up, which, of course, I debunked that multiple times. He had nothing to do with it. And she made some comment about, well, that military officer testified that that was true in front of the...

1:38 House committee. And I just about lost my lunch or breakfast, actually. And I'm like, yeah, it's not like anybody's ever gotten in front of a congressional committee and lied, except for repeatedly. Do they do that? So and we're going to see that repeatedly when it comes to congressional investigations into things that has to do with.

2:07 Operation Gladio and the military's use of terror tactics, because when they eventually, if they do, get called on the carpet, many of them lie or they hedge the truth in particular ways that if you know what's going on, you can identify that. If you don't, you'd be clueless as to the fact that they were actually lying.

2:38 We're going to go over just a couple of things that we went over yesterday to kind of capture where we were at in El Salvador, as with Guatemala, Nicaragua, and many of the other Central American countries, as we will see. And with Chile, which we already went over, we see a group of people in a country that want their freedom.

3:08 And we see a group of people, generally the elitist in the government, wanting to stifle the freedom of the people. And for some strange reason, even though we supposedly are on the side of freedom, we always come down on the side of the dictatorship installation in every single one of these, which is why you know at the end of the day this was all on purpose.

3:37 You could make an argument that every once in a while a person from the outside is going to pick the wrong side because of false information or whatever. But we've been doing this at least 75 times, and every single time we pick the dictator. So nothing about this is random. It's all on purpose. And kind of where we left off yesterday is we had the—

4:06 Reagan administration in, and he was hiding the aid for the fascist in El Salvador in the form of the government and the elitist in U.S. food supplies for starving Africans. He also hid some aid in a request they sent over for emergency fuel spending during a particular severe winter.

4:36 In order to continue the military funding, because Congress, with the reported massacres coming out of El Salvador almost daily at that point, via death squads had began to ask questions. So you just do what they did now that we continue to watch happen is they try to hide the funding in like the defense bill or whatever.

5:02 So we also learned about Reverend Louis Olivares, the Catholic priest that had been threatened here in the United States. And the one woman that was picked up who has been a former citizen and she was assaulted and raped and they left spray paint car in her house.

5:33 that they were from the death squads. And those were things that was happening here in America as it related with immigrants from El Salvador. And they had started setting up gangs in like Los Angeles, et cetera. So also we read about Colonel Roberto Yuleo Santabanares.

6:08 who was a former Salvadoran military official who had served at the highest level of the security police. And he had confirmed that there was a network of death squads throughout El Salvador and was still being directed by them. He also revealed that a Colonel Nicholas...

6:36 Carranza, who was head of the Treasury Police, was one of the most brutal assassins in the overall security forces that had been trained by the United States and that the CIA had continued to pay him $90,000 a year for years on end to manage the death squads. Also, in February 1989, you had

7:04 Vice President Dan Quell, who told Army leaders that the death squad killings had to stop. Yet 10 days later, a U.S.-trained battalion, which was believed to have had a U.S. trainer embedded in it at the time, attacked a guerrilla-filled hospital, killing at least 10 people, five of which were patients, a doctor, and a nurse.

7:34 The warning was not worth the paper it was written on. And in 1989, former Salvadoran Army Commander Cesar Villalman Martinez was in an interview on CBS, and he basically was saying that he was a member of the 1st Brigade, that they were a clandestine death squad, and that he had murdered hundreds of people.

8:05 And basically, this is the guy that had been in the country illegally and nobody had done anything about it, let alone deport him. Announcing on television that he's basically a mass murderer. And he just continued to be interviewed both by print journalists and in the media. In 1990.

8:33 Representative Joseph Moakley, a Democrat from Massachusetts who was chairman of the Speaker's Task Force on El Salvador, declared the fact that Martina had been in the U.S. since last August, had been giving interviews, and been arrested, and no one even bothered to talk to him, like from the federal government, he felt was totally bizarre. Weeks after

9:03 Martinez went public in the U.S., one of the most shocking atrocities of the war happened. And that's when six Jesuit priests at the University of Central America in San Salvador was shot to death in cold blood at their campus residence, along with their housekeeper and her young daughter. A witness who the killers overlooked, her name was Lucia Barilla.

9:33 De Cerna said she saw five armed men in uniforms carrying out the murders. The Salvadorian military, whom the Roman Catholic order had often criticized for human rights violations, were the immediate and logical suspects. There was an extraordinary outcry of protest as a result of how gross the murders were.

10:01 in the U.S. and internationally. There was a special congressional task force referred to, the one that we were just referring to. Two months later, nine officers and enlisted men were arrested. A platoon from that death squad battalion, seven of whom, it turned out, had only two days before the murders participated in combat training exercise.

10:29 supervised by U.S. Special Forces Green Berets in El Salvador, almost like that was a training mission for them. Almost two years passed before any of those arrested were convicted of the crime. They were all low-level officers with the higher-ups who directed the assassinations, not touched at all.

10:53 There were thousands of people that had been killed in military death squads and no officer had ever been tried, let alone convicted. Officers, let's see, the Salvadorian military tolerated the trials of the officers this time because Congress had made the prosecution of the killers a condition of continued military aid. But again, they were low-level officers. During the two-year period, as well as

11:24 After the convictions, officials of the Bush administration appeared to be trying to thwart an investigation and aid into the cover-up and the tactics used. So here's some of the things that they did to try to thwart an investigation. They intimidated the witness, Serna, the lady that had seen them commit the assassinations, and they labeled her a liar, number two.

11:54 They refused on grounds of national security to provide a Salvadorian court with classified documents. This is the U.S. doing this, that dealt with the case, withholding on the same ground substance material from journalists via FOIAs. Three, they refused for a long time to allow questioning by the investigating judge of a U.S. Army Major, Eric Buckland.

12:23 who had been stationed in El Salvador, who had learned of the military's culpability in the murders from a Salvadorian Colonel Carlos Aviles. Then they imposed a series of conditions on Buckland's questioning that served to conceal most of his story. Four, putting Buckland through

12:54 such horrendous interrogation that he underwent a nervous breakdown. Five, so basically the U.S. government destroyed a military officer who not only they commanded to train people to assassinate their own citizens, but then once they got caught doing that, they intimidated him so much they caused him a mental breakdown. That's our government. Five, immediately informing the Salvadorian high command about what Aviles

13:23 had revealed to Buckland, which caused Avila much grief. Poor baby. Father Charles Byrne, the vice rector of the Jesuit University, declared in 1991 that the, quote, the Americans were helping to protect the Salvadorian army, high command all along. They were afraid the whole house of cards would fall if the investigation went any further.

13:55 Unquote. The cruelty level, this is a part of what came out, the cruelty level of the guerrillas' military and political campaign generally stood in sharp contrast to that of the government campaign. In a Newsweek article in 1983, that when the rebels, quote, captured a town, they treated, now keep in mind, the rebels are the freedom fighters.

14:28 They would capture a town, treat the civilians well, pay for the food and hold their destruction at a minimum. And they had begun to free most of the government troops that they captured. And many of them actually came to the quote unquote rebel side because they were tired of being directed to be murderers of their fellow countrymen. Eventually, however.

14:59 the rebels began treating the government officials more cruelly because of what they were doing to the rebel forces. Given the numerous instances of disinformation disseminated by the Salvadorian government about the rebels and the fact that they were supposedly more ruthless than the

15:32 a certain amount of caution. In February 1988, the New York Times reported the following. Villagers say the rebels publicly executed two peasants because they had applied for and received new voter registration cards. According to the villagers, the rebels placed the voting cards of the two men in their mouth after executing them as a warning for others not to take part in the election.

16:02 The story was included in a State Department booklet to highlight the rebel, quote, campaign of intimidation and terrorism, unquote. The booklet was mailed to Congress, newspaper editors, and opinion makers. But the story, as it turns out, was the invention of the Salvadorian Army propaganda specialist who had placed it in the San Salvador newspaper.

16:27 From there, it got picked up by the New York Times reporter who gave the impression that he had interviewed the villagers who had firsthand knowledge of the incident, which he had not. And he failed to attribute the story to the military as the Salvadorian newspaper had done. So he just left out that minor detail while implying that he had actually heard it firsthand.

16:58 That's why you can't believe anything the government writes and you can't believe what you read in papers, especially the New York Times. Sometimes, this is a quote from a Reagan administrator. Sometimes I feel like Sifras, a senior Reagan administration official involved in developing the U.S. Latin policy said, quote, every time we head up the hill.

17:29 To explain or justify our policies, the stone comes crushing down on top of us, unquote. You might try not lying. Two weeks earlier, Secretary of State Alexander Haig had asserted that the U.S. had, quote, overwhelming and irrefutable, unquote, evidence, kind of like we did in Iraq, I guess, that the insurgents had.

17:57 were being controlled from the outside, like by the Soviet Union. Haig, however, declined to give any details on any of where he got that information. Challenged to prove his charges two days later, the general insisted that the U.S. had unchallengeable evidence of Nicaraguan and

18:24 Cuban involvement and of course Nicaraguan at the time he's referring to the Sandinista government which was the good guys and he also said that they had a direct hand in the command and control of the El Salvador rebel fighters. Oddly enough only the day before a Nicaraguan military man had been captured there. As it turns out according to the Mexican embassy

18:54 in San Salvador, which was their embassy there in the capital. The man was a student on his way back to school in Mexico from Nicaragua, traveling over land because he couldn't afford to fly. So they found a single Nicaraguan student roaming around the countryside.

19:21 in El Salvador and said, oh my God, the Nicaraguans are influencing the government. That's literally what they did. The following week, a Nicaraguan was captured fighting with guerrillas. He told the U.S. Embassy and the Salvadoran army official that he had been trained in Cuba and Ethiopia, then went to El Salvador by way of Nicaragua. The State Department was totally excited about this find.

19:49 presented the young man at a press conference in Washington, at which time he declared that he had never been to Cuba, he had never been to Ethiopia, and had joined the guerrillas on his own and made his previous statements under torture from Salvadoran captors and added that he had never seen another Nicaraguan or Cuban in El Salvador at all.

20:16 and denied that Nicaragua had provided any aids to the guerrillas at all. Quote, then there were two Nicaraguan Air Force defectors, unquote, according to Time, quote, who were scheduled to bear witness to their country's involvement in El Salvador, but by week's end were judged not ready to face the press, unquote. So, basically,

20:47 They had decided that that wasn't going to work either. So they basically had one guy who did it on his own, and that was it. And a lot of egg on their face at the end of the day. In January 1981, U.S. diplomats disclosed that five boats had landed in El Salvador containing 100, quote, well-armed, well-trained guerrillas.

21:20 allegedly from Nicaragua, unquote. They knew the boats had come from Nicaragua because they were made of a special kind of tree wood not native to El Salvador. No sign of any of these people were ever discovered. It was just a rumor. But 100 of certain things seemed to be a favorite choice of number for the Reagan administration on repeated...

21:55 disclosures of information, all of which never proved to be true. The world was also informed that the Soviet and Chinese weapons had been seized from the rebels and that this was cited as further proof of outside communist aid and the fact that they of course were all communist. The weapons captured may have been real, although the CIA had long had

22:24 Huge warehouses full of communist weapons of all kinds in the local area. Because what the CIA had been doing, both in Honduras and Nicaragua and other places, is they used this large stash of black ops communist weapons, Soviet Union weapons, to stage Gladio operation events claiming they were perpetrated by communists.

22:50 So in Central America, as well as in South America, there were tons of former Soviet weaponry laying around because the CIA repeatedly used it for their own black ops. But let's see, they had warehouses full of communist weapons suitable for all occasions. But then what we were to make of the U.S.

23:24 Oh, yeah. So also they found, when they began looking, U.S., Israeli, Belgium, and German weapons, which by Washington's own admission a month later, were also found among the rebels. So how did they get U.S.-made weapons in the hands of the rebels, Israeli-made weapons, Belgium-made weapons, and German-made weapons?

23:53 Must be an awful lot of NATO black market selling going on. The world arms traffic is indeed wide open and fluid. In neighboring Honduras, the U.S. supported Contras, the bad guys, were using Soviet-made missiles to shoot down Soviet-made helicopters of Nicaragua. Also, the Salvadorian rebels captured

24:23 Weapons from government forces, and they claimed that they were also purchased arms from corrupt Salvadorian army officers who was making a quick buck by selling the weapons that the U.S. was buying and giving to the government. In other words, they had their own black market among the.

24:46 government and the rebel forces going on inside of El Salvador. That's what happens when you deal with criminals. And evidently it happens a lot in these types of conflicts. The centerpiece of the Reagan administration campaign to prove the international conspiracy nature of the revolution in El Salvador was a white paper issued a month after taking office and based largely on purported, quote, captured,

25:20 guerrilla documents, unquote, some of which were included in the report. Among various analysis of the white paper, which cast grave doubts upon its claims, was one of the Wall Street Journal's reporters, Jonathan Whitney. This included an interview with a State Department official, John Glassman.

25:47 who was given the major credit for the white paper, admitted Mr. Glassman parts of the paper were possibly, quote, misleading and over embellished, unquote. He also later admitted it had mistakes and guesstimates in it. Said the Wall Street Journal, quote, a close examination indicates that if anything, Mr. Glassman may have maybe.

26:17 understating the case in his concession that the white paper contains mistakes and guessing. In other words, it was a piece of crap. Some of the shortcomings of the paper, quote, statistics of armament shipments into El Salvador, supposedly drawn directly from documents, were extrapolated. No documentation at all. Mr. Glassman concedes,

26:46 In a questionable way, it seems, much information in the white paper can't be found in the document at all once it's reviewed and compared. It was not merely the accuracy of the white paper that was in question, but the authenticity of the documents themselves. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Robert White, sacked by the Reagan administration because of excessive commitment to human rights.

27:18 We wouldn't want anybody that concerns themselves with human rights. Quote, the only thing that even makes me think that these documents were genuine was that they prove so little, unquote. When pressed to state what proof his government had of Nicaraguan intervention, President Duarte declined to answer on the grounds that the world would not believe him anyway. But Reagan.

27:45 had some evidence to offer. He saw the hand of foreign masters pulling strings in the fact that demonstrators in Canada, this was actually said, carried the same signs as demonstrators in the U.S., which read U.S. out of El Salvador. That was the sole basis of saying that there was outside intervention in the actual war and supplying the rebels with war material.

28:16 in El Salvador. But all of this is essentially beside the point. Revolutions are not exported like so many cartons of soap. We have seen what the circumstances were in El Salvador for decades, which finally provoked people to take up guns. Ambassador White, no champion of the rebel cause, observed that, quote, the revolution situation came about in El Salvador

28:46 Because you had what was one of the most selfish oligarchs the world has ever seen combined with a corrupt security force. Whether Cuba existed or not, you would have still had a revolutionary situation in El Salvador, unquote. Because at the end of the day, I'm going to say it again, this is about elite, upper middle class people.

29:16 in these countries getting in bed with the international syndicate and their government and the U.S. government at the cost of everyone else in these countries. So the businesses, relationships that the international syndicate has in these countries have bought the army and have bought the government, and they're in bed with the upper...

29:45 middle and upper, upper class of people in these countries, as we're going to see in just a minute. And that relationship has to thwart 95% of the people in the country in order for it to maintain its leverage over the country. And at some point, the 95% of the people are going to join hands and resist the 5% that are stealing all of their wealth.

30:14 We're living through that right now. Education minister turned guerrilla or rebel freedom fighter, Salvador Samioa, speaking in 1981, asserted that U.S. charges that the Soviet bloc was directing the rebel movement reveals Washington's deep ignorance of our movement. He pointed out that three of the five guerrilla groups that made up the

30:42 Farabundo Martinational Liberation Front, the FMLN, were strongly anti-Soviet. To say that we are ran by Cuba because we have a relationship with Cuba is like saying we're a Christian movement because we have received enormous help from the church. Instead of seeing us as communist subversives, the U.S. should see us as a people struggling to survive. And that kind of...

31:12 puts an exclamation point at the point that I was trying to make. The immediate accusation of our government in labeling the good guys as communist has to be something that we recognize and it has to be something then that we use to go back and examine history with. How many times has our...

31:40 country labeled somebody a communist when in fact they were a freedom fighter that's something that we have to know and it's also something that we have to understand this labeling serves a purpose as we know that the fact that we've been labeled personally but

31:58 Seeing what's being done to us right now by reviewing history to me is just illuminating and gives us affirmation that what we are seeing going on right now is in fact what we believe it to be. Despite American patrol boats in the Gulf of Fonseca, which separates El Salvador from Nicaragua,

32:21 AWACS surveillance planes in the sky over the Caribbean, and an abundance of aerial photographs, despite a very large U.S. radar installation in Honduras manned by 50 American military technicians, the finest electronic monitoring equipment you can buy, and all of the informers paid by the CIA, despite it all,

32:48 The Reagan administration singularly failed to support its case that the fires of the Salvadorian Revolution were stoked by Nicaragua or Cuba or even the Soviet Union. So that's another very, very important point.

33:06 Every time we are told these things, they're doing it knowing damn good and well because they eavesdrop on everybody about everything. They know what the real story is. There can be no confusion about what's going on. They're listening to all of it. Whatever military support the Salvadorian rebels...

33:30 actually received from abroad, necessarily limited to what could be carried by the occasional clandestine small truck or boat, plainly did not belong in the same league, nor on the same planet, for that matter, as the huge transport, plane full and ship full of American aid in all forms that the Salvadoran government received. The U.S., because again, they blockade the coast of these countries.

33:57 So the fact that you would have to have airdropped in, and then again, there would have been radar proof that that happened, these weapons, it's just ludicrous. The U.S. had waged ruthless war against the Salvadorian rebels and threatened worse. In April 1991, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, our old buddy General Colin Powell,

34:22 announced that if necessary, the civil war in El Salvador could be resolved the same way it was in the Persian Gulf. Big threat. So basically, he's talking about just going in and annihilating through a bombing campaign El Salvador. It's just, it's so ridiculous. In early 1992, the war came to an official end when the UN Commission, after a year and a half effort,

34:54 finally got the warring sides to agree to a ceasefire and a peace agreement. A major offensive launched by the rebels in 1989, in which they brought the war home to wealthy neighborhoods and Americans in the capital, had finally cleared the way for negotiations. So as long as they could just be killing peasants, they were fine with continuing. But once it got close to their house, it had to stop.

35:25 In February 1990, General Maxwell Thurman, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, told Congress that the El Salvador government was not able to defeat the rebels and that the only way to end the fighting was through negotiations. So, and of course, this is around the same time that the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War had undermined the U.S. professed rationale for defeating communists.

35:57 communism, which had been used as one of the rationales in El Salvador, Congress was balking more and more also at maintaining the level of military aid necessary to keep the rebels at bay. And then the year before, you'd had the mass murder of the Jesuit priests. One of the many provisions of the complex peace agreement was the establishment of the UN Commission of Truth.

36:24 to, quote, investigate the worst acts of violence since 1980, unquote. In March of 93, the commission presented its report. Among its findings and conclusions are as follows. The military forces supported by the government and the civilian establishment were plainly the main perpetrators of massacres, execution, torture, and kidnappings during the Civil War. These acts could not be blamed on excesses of the war.

36:53 but on premeditated and torturous inspiration decisions to kill. The commission called for the dismissal of more than 40 high-ranking military personnel, including Defense Minister General Rene Emilio Ponce, a longtime favorite of the U.S. officials, whom it found had given the orders to kill the priest.

37:23 and stipulated that none should ever be allowed to return to military or security duty and should be banned from any office for 10 years. Dismissal and a 10-year ban was also specified for government officials and bureaucrats who had abused human rights or took part in the cover-up of the abuses, including the President of the Supreme Court.

37:55 It was, let's see, the Salvadorian National Assembly quickly pushed through an amnesty law barring prosecutions for any of the crimes committed. Several leaders of the left were singled out for the assassinations of 11 mayors during the war. Now the left, they're calling the rebels. So they're calling them out for the assassination of 11 people when tens of thousands of people were murdered by the government.

38:26 The special investigation of death squads was called for. These squads, said the report, often operated by the military and supported by powerful businessmen, landowners, and leading politicians. The peace accords did not put an end to this. Dozens of leaders and members of the rebels were assassinated after the peace accord was signed.

38:55 Cited as the most notorious of the death squad leaders by the report, Roberto de Abuson, the principal founder of the National Republican Alliance, which was nicknamed Arena Party, the party of the country's current president, Alfredo Cristiani, this de Abuson, the report confirmed, hired the sharpshooter who killed

39:25 the Archbishop we talked about yesterday, Archbishop Romero. Other sins laid out at the doorstep of the government were rapes, killings of three American nuns, and a female religious worker in 1980, the murder of two American labor advisors in 1981, and the assassination in 1982 of four Dutch journalists who were reporting on the rebel activity. The commission

39:54 did not focus on any American role in the abuses or cover-up. Of course not. Quote, the role of the U.S. in El Salvador is a role more effectively studied by the U.S. Congress, unquote. No, it's not. One of the commission members was a guy by the name of Thomas Bergenthal, an American jurist, at a news conference. However, let's see. Oh.

40:28 That's what that guy said. The Thomas Bergenthau, who's an American jurist, said that the commission didn't take any look at the American role, that the Americans should take a look at their own role. How convenient. The commission did chastise the U.S. for failing to rein in Salvador. This is a critical point, people.

40:56 They failed to rein in the Salvadorian exiles in Miami who, quote, helped administer death squad activities between 1980 and 1983 with apparently little attention from the U.S. government. I'd add with a lot of attention to do that with the CIA.

41:19 Such use of American territory for acts of terrorism abroad should be investigated and never allowed to be repeated, unquote. And then it should be noted, of course, because I've said this repeatedly, Cuban exiles, of course, have been using Miami as a base for terrorism abroad, as well as inside the U.S. for over 30 years. And that is a fact. And all of it stems either out of New Orleans or Miami for some reason.

41:51 Members of Congress, outraged by the findings of the commission, called for the declassification of State Department, Defense Department, and CIA files on El Salvador to help determine whether the Reagan and Bush administration had concealed evidence from Congress about widespread human rights abuses in El Salvador. Quote, it simply verifies, talking about the report, what a number of us knew all along.

42:22 said Representative David Obey, quote, that our own government was lying like hell to us, unquote. The report proves that the Reagan administration was willing to lie and certify to anything to get the money it wanted. More than 12,000 once-secret documents released by the Clinton administration unequivocally confirmed Obey's charge. Other papers revealed that

42:53 The current vice president of El Salvador, Francisco Marino, had organized death squads. The CIA referred to Roberto de Osposin as, quote, egocentric, reckless, and perhaps mentally unstable, unquote. What? I mean, come on.

43:20 He killed tens of thousands of people. Of course, he's mentally unstable. And the CIA paid him to do it. And so their own documents document that they're paying a mentally ill person to assassinate fellow countrymen. It also indicated that he trafficked in drugs and smuggled arms. His paramilitary unit was responsible for thousands of murders. So they are basically...

43:50 articulating, this was Operation Gladio in this area called Operation Condor, engaging in drug smuggling and arms smuggling, which we've talked about repeatedly, via paramilitary units. And in 1983, he and his advisors were invited by American Ambassador Dean Hinton to have lunch with the visiting U.S. representatives.

44:19 with the U.N. Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick. Six years later, shortly before the CIA reported that due Osborson, Inner Circle had plotted to assassinate the President Christiani, Ambassador William Walker invited him to the embassy for a Fourth of July party.

44:45 And I want to just take a second because we always look at ambassadors. And I wanted to go through this William Walker real quick. Because as with all of these guys, they have some similar backgrounds. So we find him as having served in Bolivia. They had a coup.

45:15 Brazil, they had a coup. El Salvador, they had a coup and a civil war. Honduras, they had a coup. Peru, they had a coup. He also served in Argentina. They had a coup. He's also a State Department fellow at the CFR, the Council of Foreign Relations. Big shocker. And he also was responsible.

45:41 for the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs that had to do with Panama, who also had a coup. The shocking part of this is that he was the vice president of the National Defense University, which is one of the senior service schools for military. And he also was involved during the Kosovo fiasco, which obviously ended up with tens of thousands of people dead.

46:12 and basically couped and broke up Yugoslavia. So he is one of those people to be added to the list of everywhere he goes, he ends up in the middle of crap that our government is doing. So he is a trusted ally to go along, to get along with this agenda.

46:42 American military advisors trained a militia of some 50 wealthy Salvadorians, ostensibly for them to defend their own homes against rebel attack. But the group was actually linked to that major hitman, and their militias were actually a cover for the recruitment and training of paramilitary civilian death squads.

47:10 ambassador walker was um that knew about and eventually when the word started getting out about them um uh put up a week protest about them actually happening in march 1994 the ruling party arena and its main ally scored a victory in electoral um actions

47:41 And there's also a lesson to be learned in their elections. So they kept electing the people that had wrecked all of this havoc and were responsible for the death squads. So a lot of people who honestly wanted to know how to fix that went to El Salvador to figure out why they kept electing people that were responsible for death squads.

48:12 For example, the president that they had recently elected in the mid-90s was Armando Calderon Sol, who had close ties to death squad godfather Roberto de Acevan. A large portrait of him hung in this man's office. So he's celebrating the guy that killed tens of thousands of their fellow countrymen.

48:41 A declassified document referred to this situation, and it raised questions about Calderon Soul himself and connections to kidnapping a group of young arena militants who bombed the Ministry of Agriculture and wreaked havoc in the early 1980s.

49:11 Arena's sophisticated multi-million dollar campaign relied heavily on nurturing two kinds of fears, traditional fear of communism, there it is again, and the economic result of putting people in that had no government experience. How did honest and fair, or how honest and fair were their elections?

49:46 I'm just going to give you a few examples. The Arena Party controlled all of the press and all of the money used to administer the elections. And one paper questioned some of the and their offices were immediately bombed. They also had an entity called the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.

50:20 TSE, which supervised elections. And of course, that was ran 100% by the arena political party. So some of the things that happened was that people didn't get their voting card on time, and they had to have a voting card. And then they limited the number of

50:49 voter stations in the rural areas so people had to travel long distances they didn't man them very well so once they traveled the long distances they had to wait in extraordinarily long lines in order to vote and um the

51:06 people, the elitist, actually ran the bus system that people had to use to go to the polling places. And they were always notoriously breaking down on election day. So there was no way for the people who even wanted to travel the long distance to get to that. So you see, there's just an overwhelming, monumental inability to get the honest

51:32 and fair elections, while our country is telling us that these people were fairly elected, when once you understand the limitations and the situation on the ground in these countries, it's provably false. And it's not that our government doesn't know. They know very well what's going on. And also, this group refused international advice on how to better administer

52:01 They had people from the UN. They had people from other countries there to observe the elections. And basically, they just ignored everything that was suggested. In the days immediately following the vote, see if you recognize this, election authorities delayed the release of the official results. Then on the third day, they abruptly cut off access to party monitors and computerized tabulators.

52:34 The FMLN said that the initial tabulation showed that many ballot boxes contained more votes than the legal maximum of 400, some two and three times as many. So they were stuffing the ballot boxes. And then the ARENA government party came in and stole 15 ballot boxes. Sound familiar to anybody?

53:02 Seems like they use all of these smaller countries to try out all of the things that they plan on using here eventually, which is a good reason why we should study this stuff. As it turns out, in the announced result of the presidency, the Arena Party got 641, which only accounted for 49% with all of that cheating. And because they didn't get 50%, they had to be a runoff.

53:34 And then once they had the runoff, even more people were discouraged and even less people voted. So the arena party eventually won. The Los Angeles Times reported the story of the master of ceremony at a rally staged by the arena party attended by a number of peasants, farmers, and market vendors. Here's a quote. All those who support arena, raise your hats.

54:01 The emcee said to the crowd, a few people lifted their hats, kind of like a Joe Biden rally thing. All those who support Arena, raise your hat, he tried again. And those who don't raise your hat are, and he used the word terrorist, which was a word used by the army during their civil war. So then, of course, a lot of people took their hats off and raised them. So you get support by intimidation.

54:31 For the benefit of which Salvadorians did, what was the benefit to the Arena Party staying in power after killing over 75,000 civilians during their civil war? For the U.S. Treasury, and the U.S. Treasury had contributed $6 billion for their civil war. According to the New York Times, this is a quote.

55:09 During a party, a guest said she was convinced that God had created two distinct classes of people, the rich and the people to serve them. She described herself as charitable for allowing the poor to work as her servants. Quote, it's the best you can do, she said. The woman's outspokenness was unusual, but her attitude is shared by a large segment of the Salvadorian.

55:38 upper class. The separation between classes is so rigid that even small expressions of kindness across the divide are viewed with suspicion. When an American visiting an ice cream store remarked that he was shopping for a birthday party for his maid's child, other store patrons immediately stopped talking and began staring at the American. Finally, an astonished woman at the checkout spoke out saying, you must be kidding me, she said.

56:09 That's emblematic of the distinct divide that I have been articulating throughout this whole spaces. Another instance, the Time apparently did not ask the advisors whether they believed that the U.S. government had in some ways been forced to take sides in the Civil War. And if not, what had their government's ultimate motive been?

56:40 And if so, why had they not taken the side of the insurgents or the rebels? And how bad would the human rights abuses have been in the armed forces had Washington never supplied the weapons and training to bring about the destruction, pain and suffering to over 75,000 people? And that kind of finishes the...

57:08 Ooh, and right on time. Dang, I'm good. One hour. So that kind of finishes up and gives us an overview of what was going on during Operation Gladio events in El Salvador and how brutal the regime was and basically what our government does in our name. And most of that information.

57:37 was gathered from multiple books that I've read, but primarily a lot of the statistics is William Blum, B-L-U-M's book. He's written, he never calls it Operation Gladio though, which is kind of frustrating for me, but he has written about this paramilitary force that we have been engaged in since World War II.

58:04 And he does author some really good books. So with that, I'm going to open up the floor for questions. Hi, Dwayne. Hello, Colonel. Hope you guys can hear me. I was going off my stereo in my car and all of a sudden it's now jumping back to my phone. So hope you guys can hear me. I can. Okay. I just wanted to point out from the Soul Wharf perspective.

58:39 The first thing they've done, and you can just watch this through history, going back to about, I don't know how far back this goes, at least the 1880s, they began infiltrating the churches in Central and South America and removing all of the, what I would call the wholesome concepts of Christianity and replacing it with political science, which was...

59:08 When you're talking about the Salvadoran people having the master-servant mindset, that's baked in. And the only way they could get that to happen was to remove the general spiritual and religious teachings of the Bible. And now we've got the Catholic charities that are basically just NGOs right now.

59:37 But the thing that struck me listening, I've only been listening for about the last 15 minutes, is when you were talking about that story about the American back in the day, that hadn't yet metastasized to its fullest degree here. We discovered that with COVID, that they've infiltrated our churches. And in essence, these are political science control mechanisms and not really based on the spiritual nature of our creator in Christ.

1:00:07 You could not have said it any better, Duane. You're absolutely right. Did you have something, Bridget? I just wanted to totally agree. And there's so much information out there to back all of this, everything that you brought up today. And I've posted links down in the comments and encourage everybody or anybody to read in this and to get familiarized with it.

1:00:41 Just like Duane pointed out, and just like you've pointed out, this is not a new thing. They've been doing this in other countries, and they've been doing it in our United States. And the more we recognize the patterns, the more we can stop the mind control and manipulation, and we can get ahead of it and actually redirect it back to the way our country was set up to work.

1:01:10 but only if we recognize the patterns and the manipulation. And that's pretty much it. That's all I wanted to say. Thanks. Sally, I'm going to invite, give you a mic. I know you have something to say. Liza, did you have anything you wanted to add? No, ma'am. I think you did a very thorough job, but thank you for asking. Sure. Oh, real quick, Colonel. Yes.

1:01:59 You were talking about, I came across a thread of yours on X, and you were talking about how Yemen was the original nation or country that grew coffee. Yes. I just read that. I had never heard this before, and as a hobby historian, I can't tell you how amazed I was when I come across something of such a historical nature, and I just read the entire thread.

1:02:28 and how the British basically, what was that, the East India Trading Company, basically created this monopoly, and they did it in the typical heartless, soulless merchant without any biblical boundaries was just absolutely stunning to me. Yeah. Again, I...

1:02:55 thoroughly enjoy i don't think i don't take anything as face value because what's going on in yemen right now uh colonel you're banding yeah i um el salvador had been um great honduras had been destroyed um so

1:03:27 you start recognizing patterns. And I'm like, well, what the hell is Yemen's deal? I know like the last 30 years worth of it because Yemen was in our AOR. And so I was familiar from about the late 1990s on. I kind of kept up with it. But I was like, there's got to be something there. And sure enough, you start digging and you find out that

1:03:57 It basically had functioned as British-controlled territory, but they constantly were fighting the British and trying to expel them. And one of the treks of British being there, they stole a bunch of their coffee trees and basically then throughout the Caribbean and the West Indies.

1:04:26 Selling around, they created coffee plantations with those stolen trees. And they did it in the Eastern Indies or the East Indies company as well.

1:04:41 And then use that as the trading capability where they were taking spices to those areas and then bringing that stuff back. And the fact that they were there, they needed Yemen after the Suez Canal for a coal capability. And so basically they entered into contracts with Aden, the capital, to take...

1:05:04 tons and tons of their coal, which basically meant then you had to have the Yemeni people basically like slave laborers to the coal mines in order to be able to generate enough coal to keep their ships running around that area over to India and then back through the Suez Canal. And their domination of the area of the Suez Canal is what in effect has caused all of the instability.

1:05:33 In that area, because they played the Yemeni warring factions against each other, against the House of Saud when we fictitiously created Saudi Arabia after World War II, too. So it just was the whole thing was very fascinating to me. And you just see the same patterns fall out. What do you got, SR71? Hello, everyone.

1:06:03 Yesterday, Colonel, you gave a very extensive and comprehensive look at Central America and every nation that is combined in there. And you mentioned Ibiza saying, well, Ibiza has never been any part of this. So it got me thinking and I started digging around. And the only thing I can come up with is that is the playground for the rich and famous or one of them, at the very least.

1:06:34 Right. So I'm beginning to believe that they already have their own little corners of the world set up where, shall we call it retreat? Right. If that makes sense to anyone. I don't disagree. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Miles, what you got? I want to talk about the guy at the ice cream shop. Kind of struck a nerve with me when you said that because.

1:07:10 In my lifetime, I've worked with people from other countries, and I kind of focused on the women. Once I got to know them, they'd never had a birthday party, and they were in their 40s. They never had a cake. They never got a present. And so I did that for them. And people were kind of shocked. Look, they really appreciated it, but they didn't expect it. So I wanted to bring that up.

1:07:38 The coffee thing, I know a lot about coffee history and how it went political, but that's for another space at another time. Thank you, Colonel. Mr. Miles, I do want to share with you, you and I are kind of the birthday buddies, because I was, I'll just say this, my dad was a long-distance truck driver. We didn't have a lot of money growing up. I grew up in a trailer on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.

1:08:08 I would say if I had to categorize, we were definitely lower class as far as we weren't like dirt poor, but we didn't have a lot of stuff. And we got one store-bought cake a year for our birthdays. And I grew up in Central Florida where we had Publix. They used to have Danish bakeries here.

1:08:31 Their bakery was not in their store. It was next door. And it was a big deal to go to Danish Bakery because we never got to go except for on our birthdays. And you got to pick out the color of your roses and what cake you wanted. And they didn't have all the crazy cakes. It was just the cake with roses on it. And then you got to decide who all the attendees in your birthday.

1:08:54 Who got the roses? And of course, you never gave them to your siblings. You just gave them to friends. And so birthdays at my house was always a big deal. And unfortunately for me, my older sister's birthday is five days from mine. And for like the first six years, we had to share a cake. So I never got to pick anything. So again, a big deal. When I joined the military, I never realized that people...

1:09:23 grew up without birthday parties. That never even occurred to me. Even as poor as we are, we were, we did not have, not have a birthday cake and not have a birthday party. So that was like, holy crap, that's just crazy. So I made it like my mission for 30 years. We had every month in my units, once I became a commander,

1:09:54 We had monthly birthday parties and everybody that was co-located with us got to celebrate their birthday in a big birthday. We had the potluck, lunch, blah, blah, blah. And the same thing in every office when I was enlisted.

1:10:10 Then we had individual birthdays and I was always the one that brought the cake. I was always the one that made everybody because generally I was in maintenance. I was the only female there. I bought the card. I got everybody to sign the card. And again, it just was a mission in life that you needed to do that because people need to be honored and made feel special, especially on your birthday. It's just like the way it is. Go ahead, Sally.

1:10:42 I just figured you out. You're one of the rare people in service. I'm not saying rare, but a lot of people get hardened by their military service. And your ability to empathize and sympathize with people, I think, is what makes you really, really great at what you do. And I think that's neat. And I'm not saying that I grew up really poor. I didn't get birthday cakes either, so I'm not.

1:11:04 is I know you're not like oh poor me I know you're not that attitude but the fact that you care about people and what you're doing is simply to help somehow if we can turn this country around and I want to just comment on what Bridget was saying I think it was Bridget or was it Liza that it's the patterns once you once you know the pattern you see them everywhere you start recognizing certain people who associate with certain people and you're like ha ha

1:11:33 These people aren't to be trusted. And anyway, amazing job. Thank you, Sally. What you got, Dwayne? Back to my original point about the master-slave mindset when it comes to all of these nations throughout, especially like modern history, which I consider after the U.S. Civil War, it's kind of like modern industrial age up till now, the tech age. Notice that all of these countries

1:12:02 If you start looking at their original histories, it's unrest. South America and Central America were always hotbeds of chaos and destruction. What we missed, the missing puzzle piece, was all of these industrialists who were fomenting the chaos so they could take advantage, replace governments, and place governments that would do it their way. And one of the ways of doing that, you just mentioned birthdays. Hey, here's a tie-in. It's effortless.

1:12:33 Human individuality, our U.S. Constitution basically was supposed to create a country that created individuals, which is why our birthday parties are so special. You look at all of these other countries where people look askance at you, they don't understand what you're doing. It's because you're tied to the state. You're supposed to celebrate the state, or you're supposed to celebrate your state-sponsored religion. You're not supposed to celebrate...

1:13:00 Your individual humanity or rights are that of your children. It is just as plain as day that a system is being created, and they use these nations, they use Operation Gladio to shatter them. Then they place the people that will play ball with them. I mean, basically what I'm hearing is Nicaragua was basically Noriega stopped playing ball. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point. You're absolutely right as far as the...

1:13:31 individualness versus the statist that has been driven into these people. Yeah, that's a great observation, Doi. Does anybody else have any questions? All right. Well, tomorrow we're going to be moving on to a new country. We're going to stay in this same area just so we can begin picking up.

1:14:01 patterns. We all agree that those are very important and we'll do a few more countries in this area and then we're going to move on geographically to a different area because there are some unique aspects geographically. So I will see you tomorrow.

Entities here

El Salvador25 Nicaragua17 UN Commission of Truth11 FMLN10 National Republican Alliance10 Jesuit murders9 Cuba8 Operation Gladio7 El Salvador Civil War7 Soviet Union7 Ronald Reagan6 Roberto D'Aubuisson6 U.S. Congress5 William Walker5 Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez4 White paper on El Salvador4 Eric Buckland3 John Glassman3 U.S. State Department3 Alexander Haig2 Robert White2 Carlos Aviles2 University of Central America2 Lucia Barilla De Cerna2 Roberto Yuleo Santabanares2 Alfredo Cristiani2 Thomas Bergenthal2 Armando Calderon Sol2 Miami2 Honduras2 Supreme Electoral Tribunal1 South Africa1 Francisco Franco1 CFR1 Manuel Noriega1 William Black1 Colin Powell1 Salvador Samuel1 Óscar Romero1 Luis Olivares1

Claims made here

Ronald Reagan funded El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 4:06

“Reagan administration in, and he was hiding the aid for the fascist in El Salvador in the form of the government and the elitist in U.S. food supplies for starving Africans. He also hid some aid in a …”

Eric Buckland spied_on Carlos Aviles host_asserted ▶ 12:23

“who had been stationed in El Salvador, who had learned of the military's culpability in the murders from a Salvadorian Colonel Carlos Aviles. Then they imposed a series of conditions on Buckland's que…”

John Glassman founded White paper on El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 25:47

“who was given the major credit for the white paper, admitted Mr. Glassman parts of the paper were possibly, quote, misleading and over embellished, unquote. He also later admitted it had mistakes and …”

Ronald Reagan removed_from_power Robert White host_asserted ▶ 26:46

“In a questionable way, it seems, much information in the white paper can't be found in the document at all once it's reviewed and compared. It was not merely the accuracy of the white paper that was i…”

Ronald Reagan funded El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 33:30

“actually received from abroad, necessarily limited to what could be carried by the occasional clandestine small truck or boat, plainly did not belong in the same league, nor on the same planet, for th…”

Maxwell Thurman headed U.S. Southern Command documented ▶ 35:25

“In February 1990, General Maxwell Thurman, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, told Congress that the El Salvador government was not able to defeat the rebels and that the only way to end the fight…”

UN Commission of Truth exposed Rene Emilio Ponce documented ▶ 36:53

“but on premeditated and torturous inspiration decisions to kill. The commission called for the dismissal of more than 40 high-ranking military personnel, including Defense Minister General Rene Emilio…”

Roberto D'Aubuisson founded National Republican Alliance documented ▶ 38:55

“Cited as the most notorious of the death squad leaders by the report, Roberto de Abuson, the principal founder of the National Republican Alliance, which was nicknamed Arena Party, the party of the co…”

Roberto D'Aubuisson ordered_assassination_of Óscar Romero documented ▶ 38:55

Roberto D'Aubuisson trafficked El Salvador documented ▶ 43:20

“He killed tens of thousands of people. Of course, he's mentally unstable. And the CIA paid him to do it. And so their own documents document that they're paying a mentally ill person to assassinate fe…”

Dean Rusk recruited Roberto D'Aubuisson documented ▶ 43:50

“articulating, this was Operation Gladio in this area called Operation Condor, engaging in drug smuggling and arms smuggling, which we've talked about repeatedly, via paramilitary units. And in 1983, h…”

William Walker member_of CFR documented ▶ 45:15

“Brazil, they had a coup. El Salvador, they had a coup and a civil war. Honduras, they had a coup. Peru, they had a coup. He also served in Argentina. They had a coup. He's also a State Department fell…”

William Walker headed National Defense University documented ▶ 45:41

“for the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs that had to do with Panama, who also had a coup. The shocking part of this is that he was the vice president of the National Defense University, which is one o…”

Armando Calderon Sol member_of National Republican Alliance documented ▶ 48:12

“For example, the president that they had recently elected in the mid-90s was Armando Calderon Sol, who had close ties to death squad godfather Roberto de Acevan. A large portrait of him hung in this m…”

National Republican Alliance controlled Supreme Electoral Tribunal host_asserted ▶ 49:46

“I'm just going to give you a few examples. The Arena Party controlled all of the press and all of the money used to administer the elections. And one paper questioned some of the and their offices wer…”

William Black exposed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 57:37

“was gathered from multiple books that I've read, but primarily a lot of the statistics is William Blum, B-L-U-M's book. He's written, he never calls it Operation Gladio though, which is kind of frustr…”

Operation Gladio carried_out_attack Central America host_asserted ▶ 1:13:00

“Your individual humanity or rights are that of your children. It is just as plain as day that a system is being created, and they use these nations, they use Operation Gladio to shatter them. Then the…”

Manuel Noriega removed_from_power Nicaragua host_asserted ▶ 1:13:00

Operation Gladio carried_out_attack South Africa host_asserted ▶ 1:13:00