Operation Gladio Greece 1964-1974

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0:00 Okay, guys. Sorry I'm a little bit late. I have a baby shower for my daughter for my first grandbaby coming up. And I had a couple of ladies here cleaning everything. Definitely needed my spring cleaning done. So just as they were wrapping up.

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0:55 And so I didn't feel like I could cut her off any sooner than I did, but I did promise to send her a bunch of the seed oil videos and stuff like that. So I have some homework after the show, but definitely wanted to get her enough information to send her off to be able to start reading about it. So I apologize for my tardiness and we're going to jump right in.

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2:53 So anyway, yeah. Okay, now that we've got the real stuff out of the way, let's start on Greece. Now, I do want to preface, this is going to limit not all of Greece. There is, like with every story, a pre-story to Greece that had to do with the aftermath of World War II,

3:25 Greece had been occupied and there was rebel forces inside of Greece that were fighting against the occupation forces. And as they withdrew, England wanted those...

3:48 those rebels that were fighting against the occupation force during World War II, they didn't want them to get too carried away because they didn't want Greece to be actually independent. And so they came in, quote unquote, to help. And there was some shenanigans pulled during that time. And so you have to understand that first. So let's dig into where we're at.

4:20 It starts off with a quote, it's the best damn government since, um, miracles, unquote. The American two-star general declared, the news report did not mention whether he was chewing on a big fat cigar or not. The government about which the good general was so, um, thrilled was that of the colonel's junta, which came to power in a military coup in April.

4:49 1967, which we of course helped with, followed immediately by the traditional martial law, censorship, arrest, beatings, tortures, and killings. The victims totaling some 8,000 in the first month. This was accompanied by the equally traditional declaration that this was all being done to save the nation from a quote-unquote communist takeover. Corrupting and subversive influences

5:19 In Greek, life were to be removed. Among these were many skirts, long hair, and foreign newspapers. Church attendance for the young would be compulsory. So brutal and so swift was the repression that by September, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands were before the European Commission of Human Rights to accuse Greece of violating most of the Commission's conventions.

5:48 And keep in mind, we're only like 15 years out from World War II. Before the year was over, Amnesty International had sent representatives to Greece to investigate the situation. From this came a report which asserted that torture as a deliberate practice is carried out by the security police and the military police.

6:11 And that kind of goes in line with what we were talking about yesterday and training National Guard people in order to affect this terror campaign. The coup had taken place two days before the campaign for national elections was to begin because they didn't want the guy that was leading in the elections to win. Elections, which appeared certain to bring the veteran liberal leader, George Papandreou.

6:43 Papa and I don't know how you say his last name. It's P-A-P-A-N-D-R-E-O-U. It's Drow, Papa, Papa Rand Drow as the prime minister. So he had been elected in February 1964 with the only outright majority in the history of modern Greek elections. The successful.

7:13 maneuvers to unseat him had begun immediately, proved candidates. The joint effort of the royal court, because they still had kind of like the king, like in Britain, the Greek military and the American military and the CIA stationed in Greece all come out against him. Philip Dean, D-E-A-N-E,

7:44 which was the pen name for a guy by the name of Gerasimos Gigantes, G-I-G-A-N-T-E-S, who was Greek, a former UN official who worked during this period both for King Constantine and as an envoy to Washington for the Paparandu government. He has written an account of basically

8:15 what was going on, and the conspiracy to undermine the government and enhance the positions of the military plotters and of the raw power exercised by the CIA in Greece. We saw earlier how Greece was looked upon much as a piece of property to be developed according to Washington needs.

8:39 The story related to Dean illustrates how this attitude was little changed, and thus the Paparandros position was very precarious. During one of the disputes between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, which was now spilling over into NATO, President Johnson had asked the Greek ambassador to tell him he had

9:07 Asked the Greek ambassador to come to the White House to basically tell him what the Washington solution to the Greece problem was going to be. The ambassador protested that it would be unacceptable to the Greek parliament and the Greek constitution. Johnson is quoted as saying, listen to me, Mr. Ambassador, F your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea.

9:36 If these two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk. And I mean whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greek, Mr. Ambassador. If your prime minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament, constitutions, he and his parliament and constitution may not last very long. And as usual, Johnson made good on that promise. In July 1965, George Paparandos.

10:05 was finally maneuvered out of office by a royal prerogative because, of course, they have the king on their side. The king had a coalition of breakaway center union deputies and rightists waiting in the wings to form a new government. It was later revealed that the State Department official, by a State Department official, that the CI station chief in Athens, John Maury, M-A-U-R-Y, had worked

10:34 On behalf of the palace in 1965, he helped King Constantine buy center union deputies so that the Papadros government was toppled. So you have the CIA working with the king to overthrow the elected government of Greece. For nearly two years thereafter, various short-lived cabinets ruled until there was no longer a possibility to

11:02 avoid having elections based on the Constitution. So they're doing everything they can to destabilize Greece and avoid having a new election. What concerned the opponents of the current president most was his son, Andrus Papandrus.

11:29 who had been head of the economics department at the University of California, Berkeley, and a minister in his father's cabinet. He was destined for a leading role in any new government with the current, well, with the prime minister. But he by no means was a wide-eyed radical. In the United States, Andrus had been an active supporter of the

11:55 moderate liberals like Adelaide Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. His economic views, wrote the Washington Post, are those of American New Deal, which is basically socialism light. But Andrus, Papa Andrus, did not disguise his wish to take Greece out of the Cold War. He publicly questioned the wisdom of remaining in NATO, which, of course, is dead man walking.

12:26 and remaining a satellite of the United States. He leaned toward opening relations with the Soviet Union, another dead man walking strike, and other nations on Greece's border. He argued that the swollen American military and intelligence teams in Greece compromised the nation's freedom, and he viewed the Greek army was a threat to democracy.

12:51 wishing to purge it of its most dictatorial, royalist-minded senior officers. Andrus was more of a centrist than he was a leftist or even on the right, as his presidency was to demonstrate because he eventually does get elected president. He did not, for example, pull Greece out of NATO or

13:20 dismantle U.S. military bases. But in Lyndon Johnson's Washington, if you are not totally and unquestionably on board, you are 100% against them. And you basically had to be neutralized because you were viewed as betraying the U.S. Here's another quote from LBJ. We gave the son of a bitch American citizenship, didn't we?

13:44 He was an American with all the rights and privileges, and he had sworn allegiance to the flag, and then he gave up the American citizenship. He went back to just being a Greek. You can't trust a man who breaks his oath of allegiance to the flag of the United States, unquote. He was actually a Greek citizen first. He was born in Greece. What then are we to make of the fact that Andrus

14:11 was later reported to have worked with the CIA in the 1960s. He criticized the publication of the report, but he did not dispute its truth. It would not have been incompatible with being a liberal for him to have been basically like a Greek informant in the United States, because anybody that comes here that is of significant social status to have been considered part of governmental

14:42 in a foreign country is basically a target for the CIA for them to howl around with just for nothing else, not even just like spying, for them to understand culturally what they're dealing with in foreign countries. They basically kind of milk you for everything that you know that would help them do better assessments, not necessarily correct assessments.

15:08 more informed assessments so that they could twist the truth if they wanted to. So it doesn't surprise me that he was actually a target. As for his dad, his anti-communist credentials were impeccable, dating back to his role in the British-installed prime minister during the Civil War against the left in 1944 and 45, which is immediately after World War II.

15:35 But he, too, showed stirrings of independence from the Western superpower. He refused to buckle to Johnson's pressure to compromise with Turkey over Cyprus. He accepted an invitation to visit Moscow. And when his government said that it would be acceptable to take Soviet aid in preparation for a war with Turkey, the U.S. embassy demanded an explanation. Moreover, in an attempt to heal the old wounds of the Civil War, Papadro began to

16:04 reintroduce certain civil liberties and to readmit into Greece some of those who had fought against the government during the Civil War, you know, being a good leader. When Andrus assumed his minister duties in 1964, he was shocked to discover what was becoming a fact of life for

16:25 every industrial state in the world, an intelligence service gone wild, a shadow government with powers beyond the control of its leaders. This, thought the younger Papandros, accounted for many of the obstacles the government was encountering in trying to carry out its policies. The Greek intelligence service, which is known by KYP,

16:50 was created by the OSS and the CIA in the course of the Civil War, with hundreds of its officers receiving training in the United States. Notice a pattern there? One of these men, George Papadopoulos, and yes, he spells it exactly the same way, was the leader of the junta that seized power in 1967. Andras Papadopoulos

17:20 found that KYP routinely bugged ministers' offices and overheard their conversations. Then they would turn that data over to the CIA. Many Western intelligence agencies have long provided the CIA with information about their own government and citizens, with the CIA reciprocating it. The nature of such much of this information has

17:47 been such that if a private citizen were to pass it on to a foreign government they would be charged with treason but it's an everyday occurrence when you're in the intelligence office and also i checked greece was another one of crypto ag customers um so the cia had the ability to even check to see if the information they were getting from their um egyptian or excuse me uh greek counterparts

18:17 was correct because they're also overhearing it in their own right on their own encryption machines. As a result of his discovery, the younger Paprandros dismissed the two top KYP men and replaced them with reliable officers. The new director was ordered to protect the cabinet from surveillance. He came back apologetically and said he couldn't do it.

18:46 All the equipment was American. See what I mean? Controlled by the CIA or Greeks under CIA supervision. There was no kind of distinction between the two services. They duplicated the function as a counterpart relationship. In effect, it was one organization. The younger guy, Andrus, ordered to abolish the bugging of the cabinet, inspired the deputy chief of mission of the...

19:17 U.S. Embassy, Norbert, and let me spell his last name, A-N-S-H-U-T-Z, or it's also spelled a different way. He used different spellings, which tells you right there he's CIA. A-N-S-C-H-U-E-T-Z to visit him. And who had been linked to the CIA, da-da, demanded that the younger

19:49 Papantros rescind his order to disassemble the eavesdropping material. And he also demanded that the American leave his office, which he did, but not before warning him that there would be consequences. Seven ways to Sunday. So the younger guy then requested that a thorough search be made of his home office for electronic devices.

20:15 by the new KYP deputy director. It wasn't until much later that he discovered he simply planted a lot more new bugs. Lo and behold, we'd brought in another American paid operative as the number two guy, the deputy director in the KYP, and they didn't even know it. An endeavor by Andrus to end the practice of

20:39 KYP's funds coming directly from the CIA without passing through a Greek ministry also failed. But he did succeed in transferring the man who had been the liaison between the two agencies for several years. This was George Papadopoulos. The change in his position, however, appears to have mounted to little more than a formality, for the organization still took orders from him even afterwards. Greek opposition politicians who sought the ear

21:08 of James Potts, the CIA deputy chief in Athens before the coup, were often told, go see George, he's my boy. In mid-February 1967, a meeting took place in the White House and a guy by the name of Marquis Childs to discuss CIA reports that left no doubt that a military coup was in the making. It could hardly have been a secret. Since 1947, the Greek army and the

21:37 American military aid group in Athens, numbering several hundred, had worked as part of the same team. The solemn question was whether, by some subtle political intervention, the coup could be prevented and thus preserve the parliamentary government that was actually elected. So, quote, no course of action was feasible. As one of the senior civilians' presence recalled, Walt

22:04 R-O-S-T-O-W, Rostow, who's a recurring figure in all of Operation Gladio, the president's advisor on national security affairs, closed the meeting with these words. I hope you understand, gentlemen, that what we have concluded here, or rather have failed to conclude, makes the future course of Greece inevitable. Basically a coup. A CIA report.

22:31 dated 23 January 1967, had specifically named Papadopoulos' group as one of the plotting the coup, which of course he was trained in the U.S. Of the five officers which took power in April, four were intimately connected to the American military and or the CIA. The fifth man had been brought in because of the armored units he commanded. He's the heavy.

23:01 George Papadopoulos emerged as the de facto leader, taking the title of prime minister later in the year. The catchword among the old hands at the U.S. military mission in Greece was that Papadopoulos was the first CIA agent to become premier of a European country. And it's not even a stretch of the imagination. Many Greeks consider this to be the simple truth. At the time of the coup, Papadopoulos

23:30 had been on the CIA payroll for some 15 years. One reason, but that's true of all of the ones in South America too. And that's the reason why I decided to skip over here to Greece, because I want to show you the pattern. It's very similar.

23:47 One reason for this success may have been Colonel Papadopoulos' World War II record. When the Germans invaded Greece, Papadopoulos served as the captain in the Nazi security battalions, whose main task was to track down Greek resistance fighters, the freedom guys. He was, it said, a great believer in Hitler's new world order and his later record in power.

24:18 did little to cast doubt upon this claim. One author wrote that when he mentioned the junta leaders' pro-German background to American military advisors, he met with a party in Athens. The American hinted that it was related to Papadopoulos' subservient attitude to U.S. wishes. Quote, George gives good value because

24:46 There are documents in Washington he wouldn't want us to let out, unquote. So another quote, intense official propaganda portrayed communism as the only enemy Greece had ever had and minimized the German occupation until even Nazi atrocities were seen as provoked by the communists.

25:09 This rewriting of history clearly reflects the dictator's concern at the danger that the gap of his official biography may someday be filled in, unquote. So, again, you can clearly see how we've all been hoodwinked. They are purposely rewriting history and eliminating anything that...

25:34 illustrates the total manipulation and control that we've been under since the end of World War II. I mean, obviously it goes back, well, way farther to at least the Fed, but clearly after World War II, there has been nothing organic happen. It has all been controlled. As part of the rewriting of history, members of the security battalion became heroes of the resistance, but they were the actual Nazis.

26:05 It was torture, however, which most left the mark the seven-year Greek nightmare. James Breckett, an American attorney, went to Greece with Amnesty International, wrote the following, quote, a conservative estimate would place not less than 2,000 the number of people tortured, unquote. He went on to say, quote, people had been mercilessly

26:35 simply for being in possession of a leaflet criticizing the regime. Brutality and cruelty on one side, frustration and helplessness on the other. They were being tortured and there was nothing to be done. It was like listening to a friend who had cancer. What comfort, what wise reflection can someone give that would comfort the person? Torture might

27:03 last a short time, but the person will never be the same, unquote. Beckett reported that some torturers had told prisoners that some of their equipment had come from the U.S. A special thick white double cable whip was one such item. Another was the head screw known as the iron wreath, which was progressively tightened around the head and ears.

27:30 Amnesty delegations described a number of other torture methods, among them being beating the soles of the feet with a stick or a pipe. After four months of this, the soles of a prisoner's feet was covered with thick scar tissue and crippled, broken bones. Numerous incidents of sexual-oriented torture, shoving fingers in private parts, also done in other private parts.

27:59 and using tubes to insert in private parts and then high pressure water being inserted. Techniques of gagging with the throat, cutting off people's windpipe, using filthy rags soaked in body fluids and shoving them in people's mouth, tearing out hair from the head and other areas, jumping up and down on the stomach once you've flushed water into their system.

28:28 and pulling out toenails and fingernails. That's just among many. Those were not the worst. The junta's response to the amnesty report was to declare that it was comprised of charges emanating from international communism and that that was the motivating factor behind them writing the report because they were all communists too. In 1969, the European Commission of Human Rights found Greece guilty of torture, murder,

29:00 and other violations. For these reasons, and particularly for the Hunters getting rid of parliamentary democracy, the Council of Europe, at the time 18 European states under the Commission, was preparing to expel Greece. The Council rejected categorically Greece's claim that it had been in danger of a communist takeover. Amnesty International later reported that the U.S., though not a member of the Council, actively applied diplomatic pressure

29:30 to the other states to prevent the expulsion because, of course, the U.S. was directing all of it. The State Department said today that the, this is a quote, that the U.S. had deliberately avoided tasking any position on the question of continued Greek membership in the Council, unquote. The European members said Amnesty believed.

29:55 that only the United States had the power to bring about change in Greece because, of course, they were behind the current regime. Quote, this is from the Amnesty Report, quote, American policy on the torture question, as expressed in official statements and official testimony, has been to deny where possible and minimize it where denial was not possible. This policy flowed naturally from general support for the military regime, unquote.

30:21 In a world grown increasingly hostile, the support of the world's most powerful nation for the Greek junta, you had two governments thrive upon each other, said the American ambassador to Greece, Henry Tosca. This is the most anti-communist group you'll find anywhere. There is just no place like Greece to offer these facilities with the backup of the kind of government that you've got here.

30:48 So as long as they could label you as anti-communist, it didn't matter how many of your own citizens you killed, you were good to go. The facilities the ambassador was referring to was dozens of U.S. military installations from nuclear missile bases to major comm sites housing tens of thousands of American servicemen. The U.S. in turn provided the Junta with ample military hardware despite an official congressional embargo.

31:16 as well as the police equipment required by the Greek authorities to maintain their rigid control. So not unlike Spain. So keep in mind, we haven't got to Spain yet. But Spain, when NATO was stood up, was basically a fascist-slash-socialist country with Franco in charge. And what we did there was we set up Otto Skorzeny and...

31:44 Gladio training bases there. And the way we paid Otto Skorzeny for him being the worldwide Gladio trainer was we worked a deal with Franco. Now keep in mind, this guy's a dictator. He killed people. We made a deal with him that we're going to create a lot of US military bases throughout Spain. And we're going to use the contracts to set those bases up to

32:13 overcharged the U.S. government, i.e. us, and the slush of that money laundering opportunity was going to go to pay Otto Skorzeny, because do you know who got all the contracts to build all those bases? Otto Skorzeny and his partner that owned a construction company.

32:31 That's how we laundered money to pay Otto Skorzeny for him training Gladio troops to deploy all over the world. We did it through the contracting system by overcharging for the services delivered. Now, that could possibly be where much of that $2 trillion eventually gets off to with contracting shenanigans like that. So, in an attempt to formally end the embargo,

33:03 into Greece, the Nixon administration asked Papadopoulos to make some gesture towards a constitutional government, you know, at least pretend not to be a dictatorship, so that the White House could save face and drop the embargo. The Greek prime minister was to be assured, said a secret White House document that the administration would take at face value anything he said.

33:29 The U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew, on a trip to the land of his ancestors, was moved to say that the quote-unquote achievements of the Greek government and its constant cooperation with the U.S. needs and wishes. One of the satisfied needs Agnew may have had in mind was the contribution of $549,000 made by the junta to the 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign.

33:58 Money laundering. Apart from any other consideration, it was suspected that this was money given to the junta by the CIA finding its way back to Washington. That's probably not a bad. But also, during this entire time, we are building elaborate military bases. So more than likely, they were using the same money laundering opportunity that they used in Spain with Otto Skorzeny with this government in Greece as well.

34:28 A Senate investigation of this question was abruptly canceled at the direction of Henry Kissinger. Perhaps nothing better captures the mystique of the bond felt by the Greeks to their American guardians than the story related by the chief inspector Lambrou, L-A-M-B-R-A-O-U, one of the Athens' well-known torturers. Here's a quote. Hundreds of prisoners have listened to the little speech given by the inspector.

34:58 who sits behind his desk, which displays the red, white, and blue clasp symbol of American aid. He tries to show the prisoners the absolute futility of resistance. He would tell them, you make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The world is divided into two. There are the communists on that side and on this side, the free world, the Russians and the Americans and no one else. What?

35:27 Are we? We're Americans. Behind me, there is the government. Behind the government is NATO. Behind NATO is the U.S. You can't fight us. We are Americans, unquote. Amnesty International adds that some torturers would tell their victims things like, quote, the Human Rights Commission can't help you now. The Red Cross can do nothing for you. Tell them all it will do you no good. You are helpless, unquote.

35:56 They would also say the tortures from the start had said that the United States supported them and that that was what counted, unquote. In November 1973, a falling out within the Greek inner circle culminated in the ousting of Papadopoulos and his replacement by Colonel, another crazy Greek name, I-O-A-N-N-I-D-I-S. Ionidas?

36:29 commander of the military police, chief torture, graduate of the American Training School in anti-subversive techniques, confidant of the CIA. He was named as prime minister of a Greek-American. He named a prime minister who happened to be both a Greek and American, and he has a crazy last name.

37:00 Papalos, A-N-D-R-O-U-T-S-O-P-O-U-L-O-S. I love these Greek names. He came to Greece after World War II as an official employee of the CIA, a fact that he boasted about constantly. So you've got Colonel Papadopoulos, who was a CIA employee.

37:28 As president, and then they oust him and they install a prime minister that was a CIA asset. Eight months later, the Ioannidis regime had overthrown the government in Cyprus. It was a fatal miscalculation because that...

37:51 provoked Turkey to invade Cyprus, and the reverberations in Athens resulted in the military giving way back to a civilian government. The Greek nightmare had come to an end. Well, the torturous one. Much of the story of American complicity in the 1967 coup and its aftermath may never be known. At the trials held in 1975 of the junta members and torturers, many witnesses made reference to the American role.

38:21 This may have been the reason a separate investigation of this aspect was scheduled to be undertaken by the Greek Court of Appeals, but it appears that no information resulted from this inquiry as if it actually ever took place. It was never announced. Philip Dean, upon returning to Greece several months after the civilian government took over, was told by leading politicians that for the sake of preserving good relations with the U.S.,

38:49 The evidence of U.S. complicity will never be fully known. Andreas Paparando had been arrested at the time of the coup and held in prison for eight months. Shortly after his release, him and his wife visited the American ambassador, Philip Talbot, in Athens. He related the following. This is a quote. I asked Talbot whether America could have intervened the night of the coup to prevent the death of democracy in Greece.

39:17 He denied that they could have done anything about it. Then Margaret asked a critical question. What if the coup had been a communist or leftist coup? Talbot answered without hesitation. Then of course we would have intervened and they would have been crushed. The end. So.

39:37 This, of course, is the second occurrence, but the one most related to what we've been studying in Central America and the Caribbean and South America. So I wanted to pull that out just to show you the similarities of these as you go around the world and how that they're done. It is 100% controlled demolition of any government.

40:05 that talks to anybody. It's literally like being in junior high when your best friend starts talking to your boyfriend or your best friend starts talking to another friend that you think that they may like that other friend better than you. That's literally what this is like in a very horrific way. The U.S. officials

40:33 Would not allow anybody to step out of any line that they had drawn. And if you did, chances are tens of thousands of people are going to die as a result to send a message. Don't ever do it again. So do we have any questions or comments? Go ahead, cousin. I just wanted to say, I see that Mr. Bombadil is here and Johan is here.

41:07 And they were kind enough to consolidate all of your spaces and post them today so that they're easy to access and they're on an MP3. So anybody looking for the complete series and the Gladio 101 will pin that and you can find all the past information for anybody that's new here.

41:32 And I do want to extend a huge thank you for doing that, guys. That was so sweet of you. Really very touching. And Sally had been on me to do that for a while. So I'm glad that someone did that because now that she won't have to keep getting on to me about doing it. Not that she did. I'm just kidding. I love Sally to death. But Sally had asked me to do that a while back. And it's an excellent idea.

42:02 As Cousin It and Bridget will tell you, I'm the most IT challenged person. It is not my cup of tea. Doing the research is my cup of tea. So I'm glad everybody, this is, and really for everybody, this is for all of us. I hope that this is a lasting contribution that we can all utilize together as it continues to grow and we all chip in and be part of this.

42:31 exposure. I welcome everybody into our community. And I want to echo Cousin It's thank you. I appreciate it. I'm very humbled by the fact that you guys show up here every day and are learning with us all of this vital information. So thank you. SR 71, go ahead.

42:58 Afternoon, everybody, or evening or whatever time zone you may be in. But thank you, Colonel, for all this information. You did mention an organization I hadn't heard of in a long time, and that is Amnesty International. So what are they doing about any of this? Well, they're kind of a hit and miss kind of thing. As a matter of fact, it is on my to-do list because oftentimes,

43:28 Amnesty International has went in and documented much of these atrocities, but they are only used when they support the regime and they are sidelined when they don't. As a matter of fact, Amnesty International was where I went to do the research on Kosovo. They had went in there and documented some of the most horrific atrocities.

43:56 Because, I mean, obviously I was in Italy at the beginning of that and was involved in the NATO response for all of the search and rescue people that came from the European theater and from the U.S. actually camped out at San Vito, Italy, which was the base. I did the reception of forces for them.

44:19 Because they did a lot of the air over the Adriatic Sea going into the bombings, both the A-10s, the F-16s. So a lot of the helicopters were stationed like forward at our base, which was, as I've articulated before, it was a listening base. It had the elephant cage. We did all of the intercepts. We were basically a spy base. And so we housed all of the people.

44:49 put up a big tent city on the base and housed all of the guys that came in to, um, do all of the pararescue stuff. Um, and so, yeah, it's, they documented all of that and, um, what led into, and you know, the U S again was responsible for setting up a lot of the chaos there that then eventually led into the bombings. Um, and we murdered a bunch of people that should have never been,

45:20 And you can talk about they also do a really good job of documenting sexual abuse of these contractors like Bechtel and some of the large defense contractors that go in in the aftermath. That that reading is horrific. The child trafficking, human trafficking. It's all documented there. I mean, somebody could literally put.

45:46 If you just went to Amnesty International reports and put that side by side with our Gladio operations, because in every instance when they have a Gladio operation, there is going to be a subsequent Amnesty International report because every time that we've done one of these coups, we install a dictator, which then obviously leads to these atrocities. So you could couple the entire thing together.

46:16 focused mainly on the paramilitary, but there is a human trafficking piece and a torture piece that goes with every one of these incidents. And we talk about it generically. We don't concentrate on the human misery that has been left in the wake, but Amnesty International does. Thank you, Colonel. That gives me a good feeling about Amnesty International and them not being infiltrated, if you will. Yeah, I don't.

46:47 I don't know. Again, I do know that they have done really good work, but I don't know at the very tippy top of it that they couldn't have.

47:00 It's almost like they're documenting it for prosperity, but the people that find themselves in charge of it doesn't do near as much as they could to bring it out and make it much more visible. So I'm torn at the very tippy top. They definitely have done a good job in documenting most of this stuff at the lower level. Pete Grande, go ahead. Thank you. Thank you, Colonel, for...

47:30 For a great space. I'm learning a lot. I must say, I'm usually not as well versed in the Central and South America and Greece. So thank you very much for all the information. I just had a personal experience with the Amnesty International from when I was a child in school here in Sweden where I grew up.

47:59 And it seems to me like they're doing a lot of good work, but certain aspects of the organization might be infiltrated. Of course, that goes without saying. Any effort to control the narrative is infiltrated from many different sides.

48:20 But we had an interesting thing. The school system is, I guess, very different in different countries. So if I were to refer to middle school in Sweden, it might not be equivalent to how it's understood in the US, for example. But we were around maybe...

48:41 15, 14, 15 years old, something like that, and we had a presentation from some representatives of Amnesty International who came, and they were very interesting indeed, because they looked like the typical, stereotypical hippies, basically. They came on and started, you know, it was a brainwashing effort, more or less. For people who have some sort of

49:08 internal compass that says, okay, the message I am receiving is wrong and is trying to distract me from something. A lot of red flags went off after that. And they routinely do that in schools in Sweden, apparently. I've heard it from many others as well. So I just wanted to add that little bit of information that certain aspects of that organization might be involved in some sort of damage control efforts as well.

49:36 But it's just from my own experience. I haven't looked into it that much from a wider perspective. But I just wanted to add that little one. Yeah, that's a very interesting observation for two reasons. If you have the mission of documenting this stuff, you also have the capability of gate guarding it as well. So if you go in to document it, you...

50:04 Prevent other people and not, prevent's not the right word, but you have, by saying that is your mission and you actually doing that, and then you safeguard the information and only let out the pieces that you want out, it's kind of limited hangout, right? No one else is going to go in there and do that if quote unquote Amnesty International is the international one doing it. So they basically have a monopoly on the information because they're the only one out there doing it.

50:32 Then, in addition to that, you can have a separate entity that is the propaganda arm that knows what the real facts are because they were gathered, but then uses the real facts like we just read, where they take them and twist them exactly the opposite to control history. So if we want to make the communists look bad.

50:56 And I'm not suggesting they're not bad, so don't even go there. But if we want to make them look worse, we can do that because we're controlling the information and our people are the only ones, ours as in Amnesty International, on the ground that could refute it. So we're the gate guard now. So again, the report, it's exactly like the NIH, guys. That just popped into my head. So the NIH, if you go, the National Institute of Health, if you go to their website,

51:26 You can find every piece of documentation telling you that ivermectin is the best thing since sliced bread. You can also go to their website and find out that hydroxychloroquine is the best thing since sliced bread. But they control the information and what gets highlighted and released to the public, but they can't not do it. It's all there. You have to go find it.

51:49 And I think, P. Grande, what you just hit on is exactly the way I was trying to struggle to say what the impression I got from Amnesty International. It's just like NIH. All of the information is there. But for those of us who don't go and look, they get to gate guard it being leaked out in the way in which they want to so they can spin the narrative, which is exactly what NIH has done with all of our help.

52:18 information. So thank you for putting that in perspective. Benjamin, what you got? First off, Colonel, I love listening to you. I don't know what it is. Well, I know what it is. It's very easy to see that you've done a lot of briefs in your career while you were in the Air Force, how you tie everything together. You're very, very meticulous, and I love that about you.

52:45 But just some of the things that I see that tie into some of the operations and how they maneuver that tie in today. So one of the things I try to get people to do is step away from their TV. That's one-sided. There is no back and forth. There is no debate. This is here it is. And you get what you get. So I try to get people in my community that I get out and talk to all the time.

53:13 time to get onto venues like Twitter, because at least on Twitter, you can have some sort of back and forth and discussion. And one thing that we do is we play the phone game. I love getting information directly from the source, from the horse's mouth. It's like being in the military, they talk about getting out on the deck plates. I like getting out.

53:38 where people are and seeing it for myself. You know, you get a lot more information, a lot more depth to what's really going on by hearing it, you know, from the third or fourth person. So that's something that I see happening in the battlegrounds online on Twitter. You know, we have, you know, symbols like MAGA that we unite under. And then you have people that infiltrate into that, like Ariel, that's a big name that's going around.

54:06 is one of them that's been highlighted a lot online. So one of the things I believe with that is because his attacks on General Flynn, who I fall under, well, not directly, but, you know, that's one of the guys that I believe as far as is on the inside, as far as on Trump's team. Now, some of the things like you got illegal immigration that's going on here in America, and

54:33 For those that live in those areas over by the Mexican border, they need to be on the lookout for these processing stations and things like that to highlight them and get them online. That way, the rest of us can see it and hear about it and know what's going on. It gets us more on the same page. But part of the reason I think what's going on with Ariel and him being highlighted is because this is the battleground. We're all involved in the battleground right now.

55:02 We have to highlight all these bad actors and get them brought out into the light where everybody can see them because you have a lot of people that fall under MAGA that are still going to people like Ariel for their information. That's why there's certain individuals that I follow. I like going into their spaces. That way I can hear.

55:21 What they're saying, because they're people that I believe they're tied closer to the source. Like Trump can only say so many things. That's why General Flynn is talking about different things and getting people to be aware of different things to be looking. Right. Sorry, my mom called. General gives us more things. I got to call her back. She's going through some bad stuff, but that's another day. Always call mom back. My queen. I love that woman.

55:53 That's a strong woman. That's why I love you so much, Colonel. You remind me a lot of my mother. Thank you. That's probably the best compliment anybody could ever give me. Oh, yeah. She's an angel. But, you know, that's why we have to, you know.

56:09 Follow what's going on and figure out who these bad actors are. You know, the fact that Ariel refuses to go into spaces and delete or debate his points lets you know a lot, says a lot. So those are just things to look out for. You know, so one last thing I'll land on is.

56:28 you know, getting your information directly from the source, try to get more in the habit of doing that because we got to get out of this habit of being a quick reaction. You know, like when the thing goes on and I ran and the choppers go down, take a couple of days, let, let the information filter in that way. You can get a better, you know, feel of what's really going on. Love y'all. And thank you.

56:54 Yeah, I understand that you probably need to go and give your mom a call back and thank you for being here. But I do want to highlight what you said. One of the reasons why I take the opportunity and I spell every one of these last names. So obviously I butcher most of them. I want everybody to do their own research. Bridget does a great job of giving you links to get started based on the people that we're talking about.

57:22 I painstakingly throw out sources and the spelling of the names. I'm big on giving you the dates, obviously the countries. You can go do all of your own research, and I hope you do. I love having the dialogue. We had the guy, as Stellar can attribute, when we were talking last night, it was her friend.

57:51 from France. And it was so illustrative of what we are trying to get people to get out of their comfort zone. We were talking about New Caledonia and the rioting and the Operation Gladio efforts that are going on in that country right now, which is basically a colony of France. The guy was from France.

58:18 initially took the position that, of course, France is right. The original inhabitants of the island of New Caledonia are called K-A-N-A-K, and they have a constitution.

58:38 Where you have to go through certain hoops in order to vote in what France is currently trying to do is reduce those hoops so that they can water down the indigenous natives vote and basically import people to water down their vote. And he.

58:57 Initially, I don't know how he left the conversation, but he initially was going, you know, basically, they don't know what's good for them. We do. And I'm paraphrasing, of course. And that, you know, they're kind of rabble rousers. Well, hello.

59:15 They have a lot of natural resources on the island. It's a huge mining thing in which the locals are not getting the money for the mining because France is in the middle of it. So they want not to be a French colony, number one, so they can work out their own resource deals.

59:33 countries. Tesla just came in and was a big investor in the mine there. And they're basically being sold out from under them. And a lot of the mining companies destroy the local environments. They're poisoning their water. And the people that make a living there are getting screwed. And so they're pissed off and they have a right to be. So again, I think, and I pointed this out, we have a problem and we stand up and bitch about

1:00:02 China owning our farmland. What do you think we did for the last 100 years in Central America? It was U.S. countries that went down and bought up all of the farmland from these countries, paid no taxes in those countries, and monopolized the farmland. And then we stand here when it's being done to us and go, well, shit, that's a bad idea.

1:00:26 Well, it was a bad idea for all those people. And now you know why all of those people were pissed off at us because we did it to them. So that's kind of what I'm hoping everybody understands. We have to stop being hypocrites in our foreign policy. If we don't want it done to us, stop doing it to other people. That's kind of where I'm landing. Go ahead, Stellar.

1:00:53 I was going to say thank you so much. Yes, that was the man that I'd met probably about five years ago in France, and he and I became very, very good friends. I didn't know about Operation Gladio, but I did know that there are things that were not quite right. And so he and I used to talk well about.

1:01:08 I want to say a few months ago, he reached out to me and he's like, oh, my gosh, everything you said is starting to happen. So when he came in yesterday, I so appreciate you, appreciate Cousin Ed, appreciate Bridget and everyone who participates in here. And, you know, because he is following and he will be following and learning. His English isn't the best, but he wants to learn. He was one of the ones that also, you know, like when they France does a lot of shady stuff within their government as far as like the voting. I mean.

1:01:38 You know, they were afraid that Le Pen was going to win. So what did they do? They added another party in there to separate and divide it even more. You know, so it's just great. I mean, the things that they do. You mentioned Bechtel. My father worked at the test site. He worked in the control room for the underground bombs and stuff like that. And it was EG&G to begin with. And they had stuff all over the place. But then the contract was bought out by Bechtel.

1:02:06 They do a lot of shady stuff all over the world, like when they were doing the channel and all kinds of other stuff. I'm just praying that, like you had said yesterday, that people were compartmentalized and didn't know. So I'm praying for that. I think that my dad did know, but who knows.

1:02:24 But the other thing that I wanted to bring up is I noticed today that the G7, I guess the U.S. is pushing for G7 to seize more of the Russian assets and stuff like that or trying to get G7 to, I guess, bully G7 to seize more of Russia's assets. Do you think that all of this stuff is still part of their Operation Gladio or is it because they're trying to seize the assets because they're losing a lot of the money that they were able to?

1:02:51 you know, take from people and things like that? Do you think maybe that's what they're doing? So it's a, there's several things. Wow. Stellar. Wow. So, yeah. So let's go back to Bechtel. So most of the people that work for Bechtel does not know how evil and the money laundering that goes on.

1:03:12 in that organization. They think it's just a contracting company that does construction all over the world and good on them. So that's number one. Number two, let me go back and make sure everybody understands what Stellar was talking about. So let's start off with what happened with the Iranian assets. So because it's kind of a linear progression.

1:03:38 In the state of economic warfare, so you basically have political warfare, you have economic warfare, and you have military warfare. And it's basically just your power centers. When in economic warfare, before you get to the warfare part of it, you have to understand that the way a country

1:04:05 tends to mitigate their risk is they put, let's just say we have for practical purposes, 10,000.

1:04:15 tons of gold. We're going to put a thousand in what we think to be the most stable country. And let's just say that's the UK. We're going to put a thousand in Germany. We're going to put a thousand in China. We're going to put a thousand in Japan. So you see, we distribute our risk so that if any one country goes down and we lose our gold, we've not lost everything. And keep in mind,

1:04:37 All of the countries have a certain amount of gold in the Bank of International Settlements. That was the entire reason why it was created. They also have resources in the World Bank. So having said that, in the past, for any other country but America, America was the number one safe place. It was the last country that was going to go down. So out of the hundred and...

1:05:03 whatever it is we're up to now, 90 countries in the world. Just about every single one of them has resources in the United States. It props up our bank. And let me explain to you why that's important. We do fractional lending. A bank can loan out $9 for every $1 they have on deposit.

1:05:23 If that's the case and we got a shit ton of gold and other assets in the United States that are being safeguarded from all of the countries around the world because they trust the United States not to F with them. When a country does something that we don't like and we freeze their assets, what we did with Iran is we got Korea to freeze their assets. We didn't do it.

1:05:50 We got Korea to do it. They froze $6 billion. All they did recently was unfreeze Iran's own dollars. Now, I'm a very hands-off when it comes to this kind of crap. I don't think the U.S. has any role in the world at all.

1:06:15 in telling another country. And believe me, if South Korea hadn't have done that, we would have messed with them. They don't have any choice when we tell them to do it. We'd have cut them off. We'd have stopped selling military. We'd have bullied them. So when we ask them to do it, we're not actually asking them, we're telling them to do it. So we told South Korea to freeze Iranian.

1:06:40 Deposits, $6 billion worth, and they did it. Then recently, for whatever reason, we told them to unfreeze them, and they did it. So it was just basically giving Iran back their money. We should have never been able to do that to begin with, okay? So everybody needs to understand that. So Russia, like everybody else, had money on deposit in America in different banks.

1:07:07 And there were other things like they own real estate here. So we froze when they did their special military operation into Ukraine. The U.S. government froze those assets and they put people who had made those investments on a list that said you can't do business with any of these people. So it was a double whammy. It wasn't just freezing their assets. It was putting them on a list saying that no business can be done with these people.

1:07:36 Then, more recently, the House and Senate, because they're dumbasses, passed the authority for the White House to take all of those Russian frozen assets and give them to Ukraine. So, wait a minute. You have upwards of 150 of the 180 or 190 countries in the world who have resources on deposit in the United States.

1:08:07 And you just for the first time that I can find in history said, not only are we going to freeze them so you can't have them back, we're actually going to give them to someone else. And by doing that, do you think that the rest of the world's not going to go, son of a bitch?

1:08:29 They ain't giving my shit away. I'm taking my shit out. They are no longer a safe haven because if the rest of the world, especially those that are signing up for BRICS, are going to be economically tied to each other, wouldn't you move your shit to them and get it out of the United States so you don't have to be bullied by the United States anymore? I sure as hell would. I'd have done it yesterday. And do you know what that's going to do to us? So keep this in mind.

1:08:58 If there is 10,000 tons of gold and tomorrow 10,000 tons of gold at whatever that value is goes out of the United States and gets deposited internally to brick aligned countries, that contracts the United States borrowing power by 10,000 tons of gold value.

1:09:28 $9 for every $1 is gone overnight. There will be no borrowing anymore because they're not going to be able to do that within the stress test that was set up. And I'm telling everybody, I don't do financial advice. I am just going to tell you one of the very first things I did when this debanking garbage started was...

1:09:57 If you have a penny in a Chase Bank or Bank of America or Wells Fargo or any of these banks that are those, look at your bank and see if your bank has ever been charged with money laundering. That's what I will tell you. Look at your bank and see if your bank's ever been charged with money laundering. If you work at Bank America, it has. If you bank at Chase, it has. If you bank at Wells Fargo, it has. If you bank at HSBC, it has. Those banks that...

1:10:26 are involved in that, all you ever see is the cream floating on the top. For every money laundering scheme that they get caught in, there's probably a hundred that they don't get caught in. And if you are still banking at one of those banks, don't come crying to your neighbor, to your family member that you got debanked or that your bank went broke.

1:10:50 Because what's going to happen is those are the banks that has all of those countries' resources in them that are now going to start moving outside the United States. That's a guarantee. So that's your heads up. Sally, go. What you just were saying is something that I've been curious about, and I've actually covered on my channel a couple times, is all this Gladio, all this New World Order, whatever you want to call it.

1:11:21 So one of the ways they're going to accomplish this is by having universal basic income, and they have to destroy the U.S. dollar. So them doing what they're doing to Russia, other countries panicking and taking it out of America, is one more way of destroying our dollar, which forces us to have to go to CBDC. Then they can just cut us off whenever they want. Correct.

1:11:48 I pray that we don't get to that part, but you are absolutely right in the sequence of events. OK, so this is the good news, because, you know, you guys have all of that stuff and everything. And I woke up through the financial system, the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, the World Economic Forum. Charles Schwab is going down. He's resigning.

1:12:13 There's so much going on on that part of it. We're moving from a centralized system is what the West is on where, you know, everything goes through the Federal Reserve. Well, the Federal Reserve has been absorbed into the Treasury and what's going on. We see what's going on within our government, you know, getting rid of, you know, Senator Massey or whatever his name is.

1:12:31 putting in to break the Fed or get rid of the Fed. All of this stuff is happening because we're moving from a centralized system because I see how the patterns were back in the 70s when they put in their New World Order and their plan. And I honestly feel like the White Hats, probably about 15 years ago, I want to say,

1:12:54 They've started flipping that, especially when we had the big monetary, you know, like when the governments were bailing out the banks on the last big fall that we had. And that opened up the entire world.

1:13:05 to go through like a reset. And I see us going through from a centralized system where the banks and governments are in control into a decentralized system where it's peer to peer. So it goes from me to you, as opposed to me to the government back to you. That's how a centralized system is. It migrates somewhere else first, and then it goes to you. It doesn't go directly from me to you. The system that we're moving into now, the decentralized

1:13:34 decentralized system, it's peer-to-peer, business-to-business, person-to-business. There is no middleman, if that makes any sense. It does. It eliminates the bank. Correct. So that that way we are in control of our own assets. So people are really fearful of, yeah, the CBDCs. Yeah, that's through the banking stuff. But just know that how everything is happening.

1:13:58 And I do believe that we are a part of it. The United States will be the last to enter BRICS because everything has to be on an equal level playing ground. The dollar is so propped up because of other countries' resources. I mean, that's how we got our, you know, being the reserve, you know, financial thing or whatever. Currency. Currency. Thank you.

1:14:21 And so with the decentralized, people should embrace it in the fact that, you know, we are the bank. We hold the key. We hold the lock. And the government has no control of it. So like if everything shut down, you know, and the banks all fell tomorrow, I know that, well, I know that a lot of my friends, because I've been teaching this for about four years now, a lot of my friends have their stuff, you know, scattered around and with different things just so that that way if they needed to have cash for whatever, they're able to.

1:14:52 With Klaus Schwab being bye-bye and then the FDIC, the FDIC is so corrupt. You guys have to understand where the FDIC gets their money from. They get it from the banks. They don't have anywhere near the amount to cover the depositors of the United States alone. SVB, when it collapsed, that's why Janet Yellen asked for the other banks and they ended up getting a Swiss bank to cover for SVB.

1:15:18 Because there's not enough funds to cover if a big bank did fall. But I do believe, like you said, all of these banks, the large banks and stuff like that throughout the world are all, every single one of them are laundering. I'll keep it quiet now. Sorry. Thank you. No, you're good, Stellar. They are. UBS was another one. Obviously, we cover BCCI, which grew to be a $7 billion. It was 100% money laundering.

1:15:47 The Vatican Bank, money laundering, UBS. There are several of them in Switzerland that all were in money laundering. The Deutsche Bank, huge money launderer. HSBC, huge money launderer. And so there are tons of the big banks that are going to be very risky in the future.

1:16:15 Again, we don't want to get too far off topic, but yeah, that's a huge big deal. Well, I was just wondering if you think all of this stuff was also part of this Gladio thing, because at one time they were going to try and destroy the entire West. But now that things aren't, and now that we're understanding Gladio and things like that, and they had their hands, I guess, in governments, the banking systems, the cartel. I mean, they were just shady people everywhere. So I don't...

1:16:43 There's a difference between destroying it and controlling it. So if you go back to the late 1800s, their vision of one world government was basically a bunch of little dictators around under a regional dictator. Like, for example, Pan America would include North, South.

1:17:05 and Central America with America having the seat at the table. So we're kind of the regional dictator and then all of the other sub-dictators would be under them. And that was, in fact, why they were doing Gladio. They were on a rolling installation of dictators perfecting the way to do that, basically rolling up to the larger countries as they went. So we're going to get all of the little ones under their dictators and then we're just going to do a rolling coup.

1:17:34 and collect the medium-sized countries and then roll into the bigger ones. And you can see that at some point they hit a brick wall. Trump definitely was a brick wall. But there were stumbling blocks along the way where they would lose one because the citizens...

1:17:53 And the freedom fighters, like in the case of Nicaragua, when they eventually were able to overthrow. And then you had El Salvador. So there has been hiccups. And then Castro threw a monkey wrench. They couldn't get rid of Assad. So they can't get rid of Putin. So there has been hiccups. And when they have hiccups, there are several of the smaller ones that they had gotten under control that then gets loose again.

1:18:21 You could see as you start tracking all of these from the end of World War II, where they created all the destabilization lines, kind of the rolling coup, where they were buying off on the governments and controlling the governments and moving to the next one, blah, blah, blah. And I think at some point, like I said, they ran into some hiccups. And I think the brick wall was Trump. Trump broke everything.

1:18:50 And he broke their financial control. He broke their world control. And I honestly think that's the reason why all of those people at all of those world meetings looked so disgruntled with him. I mean, to include the Pope, because of course we know that the money laundering was going on there. And one of the things as stellar.

1:19:17 articulated, that if you start looking at things under the guise of the 30,000 foot look, what you immediately start to realize is something changed. So if you followed our book study on Golden Lily, which talked about

1:19:39 trillions of dollars in gold stashed in the Philippines, and you understand that they had access to all of this money for all of these decades to do all of this damage, there would be no need to redistribute Russia's resources to Ukraine, which is kind of their mafia headquarters.

1:20:05 If, in fact, they still had access to all of that money. There's been several things that have happened, like the insistence of the appropriated billions of dollars to Ukraine. At no time has the CIA ever came up on the radar and go, oh, my God, you got to do this. They did. They came out of the CIA cloak and dagger and basically got involved in lobbying for this aid. So with that New York Times article.

1:20:33 that they were desperate to get money. So there has definitely been a noticeable change of how they're getting their money and the lack of money that they're getting. Now, I can't put my finger on it. I'm just talking about isolated incidences, but they all kind of morph into a linear

1:21:02 um avenue if you will that something definitely has happened that stopped and they've taken down huge networks of drug dealers um and that obviously puts a kink in their funding um so i don't know i do know that there are those posts out there about we've got all of the gold and stuff like that and if that is in fact true that's trillions of dollars worth of gold because um most of the

1:21:32 treasure that was hidden on the Philippines had not yet been excavated. So I don't know what else is happening with that. But it is very interesting that there has been a huge shift in resource allocation. And I think we'll find more of that, as Stellar mentioned, when they're redirecting money internally to BRICS and taking it outside of the money laundering.

1:22:02 opportunity that the CIA had in the past. So the more non-aligned people that are outside of the CIA's control, the less access to resources they have. I feel that a lot of the big shifts started happening after the big stock market one just recently back in 2007, 8, 9. There was a lot of fraudulent stuff that had gone on.

1:22:31 I work in real estate. In 2013, they started enforcing Dodd-Frank. We know when that came out because you talked about it in one of your rooms and why that was put in. Because again, I woke up, I saw money being shifted here, there, and everywhere all over through governments, through charities, and all that other stuff. I had no idea about the trafficking. I didn't know. I just knew that there was a lot of money going out.

1:23:01 from about 2010, 2011 is when there were big hearings that were going on internationally, especially here in the United States too, because the people did not agree to bail out the banks.

1:23:16 The government just did it on their own. Well, governments get their money from taxpayers. So that's fraud. So when Trump used to always say fraud vitiates everything, that's part of it. So they started. So at some point, I think that they got control of the banking. I mean, even how the if you Basel three, Basel one, Basel two, Basel three.

1:23:37 And then now we're partially in Basel IV. They postponed the rest of Basel III. That has to do with the banking of international settlements and things like that with what the banks have to have. Now, around 2019, 2020, they started using things on the blockchain. Well, they've always had it on the blockchain. It's open source. You can track money on the blockchain. And I love doing that. It's fun. It's like a puzzle. But when they started...

1:24:05 It was mirrored on the quantum financial system. So a lot of the ISOs, they were doing beta tests back in 2020, 2019. Swift even said the banks are using it, the Ripple Ledger. The important thing about the ISO stuff that's going to be the utility moving money, tokenizations of everything where you have access and it's yours. It's not anyone else's.

1:24:31 And you're the lock and key. There's a lot of like AI, if you want to say they're called nodes and they track. And I mean, literally, it's like a freeway. So once they started paralleling it, they were also able to start seeing all of the money that's going here, there and everywhere. And then I don't know if you guys watch whale alerts because everything is moved digitally. Any types of large money moving here, there are tokens, whether it's.

1:24:58 Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple or XRP, any of those ones, Tron, any of them, you can see them and follow them. You may not know where they go to, but you can see a lot of movement happening without even knowing what's going on in the news, in my opinion. But that's where I think a lot of this stuff started getting changed was somewhere around 2011, 2012. But I know that there were hearings and they changed a lot of the banking rules. And there was that issue with the people of America.

1:25:28 And people of all over the world did not agree to let their banking systems get bailed out. They were supposed to fall. I mean, you know, right. So that's where I see a lot of the stuff changing and laws changing. And then now everything's like they said, drip, drip, drip. It's been drip, drip and, you know, gray hair everywhere.

1:25:48 But now I see all this stuff happening with Charles Schwab, you know, the FDIC guy, you know, we're going to, you know, we have, you know, we've had CEOs leaving for a long time. But even with some of these larger ones, the, you know, knowing how people are making money through all of these, you know, like through COVID and then all the other stuff, you can see the movement everywhere. I mean, you could go on it and watch it.

1:26:11 And it's just amazing how everything is all open source. And when you have a lot of people like me that are kind of nutty when it comes to numbers, we want to track everything. So I see a lot of it happening. And with your explaining everything for all these years, I was wondering, what the heck were they doing? Now it makes sense. Correct. And you also have to consider one of the reasons that a lot of people think, in addition to COVID affecting the election,

1:26:40 COVID is what drove us from single digit debt to $34 trillion in debt. That's the printing of money. Well, that money went somewhere and obviously it all caused the inflation. And so as a result of that, that's another indication that there was a desperateness in order to try to make.

1:27:09 um, what had become a, not a deficit, but a, um, an absent of what they had had plenty of money in the past. And then all of a sudden they didn't. And so I view that as a good sign that somebody's putting the screws to them and we don't necessarily have to see everything in order to be able to look at some of the indicators as Stellar has, um, uh, uh, indicated.

1:27:39 that there are things happening. Not all of us can explain all parts of it, but I do think of us working together and sharing this information is vital to putting the entire puzzle piece together.

1:27:57 As time goes on and things do begin to get more revealed in a bigger picture, it's going to be those of us who already have 50% of the puzzle put together that are going to be able to hold hands with the other 50% to get them to where they need to be to understand that the world's not going to fall apart.

1:28:19 So, even though I spend my time in trying to get you guys to recognize patterns and understand our real history so that we can understand where we fit into that, I do still see everything that we're going through right now in a very positive way because our educating people as to the things that we've done in the past, because that's the first thing you should ask a legislator.

1:28:45 Why do you think it's a good idea that we protect our farmland when in the past we've taken everybody else's farmland? And if you don't think if you think it's OK, like ask Kristi Noem, if you think it's OK to protect the farmland of South Dakota, why aren't you standing up against our taking farmland and mining lands from other indigenous people around the world? Why are you OK with why have you not spoken out against the CIA going to other countries and doing the exact same thing to them?

1:29:15 Because honestly, I don't think they know. I want you guys to have that information, and I want you to be able to stand up in a town hall and call them out on it. Okay, I noticed that you voted to protect U.S. farmland. Ask DeSantis, for those of you in Florida. If you're going to protect Florida's farmland, are you also going to call the CIA and the State Department on the carpet for...

1:29:43 creating the circumstances in foreign governments, like by infiltrating them with Marines and taking over for corporations to take over their farmland because the U.S. is doing it. The fact that the government of China is doing it, does that matter to us when the full back of the U.S. government is behind these corporations? Because if the countries then tell the corporations to pound sand and get the hell out, we're going to go in and boycott them and mine their harbors.

1:30:13 Because that's literally what we've done. And it was Congress that funded it. And you sat in Congress. Why didn't you do anything about it? That's the kind of tough conversations you have to have with people. Throw the name out, Operation Gladio. Go do your research. You need to make sure that you don't ever allow the United States and you don't fall prey to the corporations that are manipulating the United States to do the exact same thing you're lobbying against having done to the United States.

1:30:41 Having said that, we're going to go ahead and close out today. Thank you. Well, we've got, excuse me, Colonel, we've got P. Grande that's been most patient and Sally, if that's okay, if you have enough time for another question or two. Yeah, yeah, they've been very patient. So P. Grande and then Sally. Yeah, I didn't see their hands up. Go ahead. Sally, go ahead. Oh, I thought she said P. Grande first.

1:31:11 As usual, guys, make sure that you're following the panelists. Colonel Towner, Bridget, and Cousin It do a great job doing research. They're not getting paid for this. Some corporation isn't paying them. They're doing this because they see an issue. They see a problem. As usual, too, if you are a truth teller, you get de-boosted and you get demonetized or whatever. But so make sure you have notifications turned on so you don't miss anything that they post. You can also donate by...

1:31:40 Going to their main profile, next to the DM box, there's another little box that has a design on it that will give you links to places you can donate. And if you don't have funds to donate, share with someone who might. Or go through their timeline, like their post, share their post, comment. That is another way to help them out. Thank you. That is absolutely true. I really appreciate all of you guys. Thank you, Sally. Yes, Sally is awesome.

1:32:06 If we had a paid staff, she'd be our PR person for sure. And also I will tell all of you, Sally does a lot of Operation Gladio podcasts as well. So be sure that you follow her and do all of the things that she just said, because I don't know anything about any of that crap. And yeah, she does a fantastic job of hitting a lot of the...

1:32:32 Operation Gladio stuff as well. I was talking to Cousin It and Bridget about the one she did. She took Tucker's entire video of him talking to Felix Rodriguez, who is an Operation Gladio CIA assassin. And then she also afterwards took the very long thread that I did.

1:32:56 on who exactly Felix Rodriguez was. And it's very enlightening to actually do what she did and put them side by side with each other because it's mind-boggling to me that Tucker's security even allowed the man to enter his house because he literally is an assassin. So I still am amazed by that. But she does a really good job of breaking Operation Gladio down as well.

1:33:24 P. Grandi, did you have something that you wanted to say? No, I think there must be a glitch because I raised my hand once and I spoke. So I just wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you yet again. Great space. Looking forward to the next one. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. OK, we'll be back tomorrow and tonight we will do our seven o'clock book review. So take care, everybody. Have a great day.

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Claims made here

United States targeted_for_regime_change Greece book_quoted ▶ 8:15

“what was going on, and the conspiracy to undermine the government and enhance the positions of the military plotters and of the raw power exercised by the CIA in Greece. We saw earlier how Greece was …”

King Constantine removed_from_power Andreas Papandreou book_quoted ▶ 10:05

“was finally maneuvered out of office by a royal prerogative because, of course, they have the king on their side. The king had a coalition of breakaway center union deputies and rightists waiting in t…”

CIA funded King Constantine book_quoted ▶ 10:34

“On behalf of the palace in 1965, he helped King Constantine buy center union deputies so that the Papadros government was toppled. So you have the CIA working with the king to overthrow the elected go…”

United States funded King Constantine book_quoted ▶ 10:34

CIA recruited Andreas Papandreou book_quoted ▶ 14:11

“was later reported to have worked with the CIA in the 1960s. He criticized the publication of the report, but he did not dispute its truth. It would not have been incompatible with being a liberal for…”

CIA founded KYP book_quoted ▶ 16:25

“every industrial state in the world, an intelligence service gone wild, a shadow government with powers beyond the control of its leaders. This, thought the younger Papandros, accounted for many of th…”

KYP spied_on Greece book_quoted ▶ 17:20

“found that KYP routinely bugged ministers' offices and overheard their conversations. Then they would turn that data over to the CIA. Many Western intelligence agencies have long provided the CIA with…”

CIA spied_on Greece book_quoted ▶ 17:20

CIA funded KYP book_quoted ▶ 20:39

“KYP's funds coming directly from the CIA without passing through a Greek ministry also failed. But he did succeed in transferring the man who had been the liaison between the two agencies for several …”

CIA trained George Papadopoulos book_quoted ▶ 22:31

“dated 23 January 1967, had specifically named Papadopoulos' group as one of the plotting the coup, which of course he was trained in the U.S. Of the five officers which took power in April, four were …”

George Papadopoulos carried_out_attack Greek military coup of 1967 book_quoted ▶ 23:01

“George Papadopoulos emerged as the de facto leader, taking the title of prime minister later in the year. The catchword among the old hands at the U.S. military mission in Greece was that Papadopoulos…”

George Papadopoulos member_of Greek junta book_quoted ▶ 23:01

CIA funded George Papadopoulos book_quoted ▶ 23:30

“had been on the CIA payroll for some 15 years. One reason, but that's true of all of the ones in South America too. And that's the reason why I decided to skip over here to Greece, because I want to s…”

United States funded Greek junta book_quoted ▶ 29:55

“that only the United States had the power to bring about change in Greece because, of course, they were behind the current regime. Quote, this is from the Amnesty Report, quote, American policy on the…”

CIA covered_up Greek junta book_quoted ▶ 29:55

United States funded Greek junta host_asserted ▶ 30:48

“So as long as they could label you as anti-communist, it didn't matter how many of your own citizens you killed, you were good to go. The facilities the ambassador was referring to was dozens of U.S. …”

United States supplied_arms_to Greek junta host_asserted ▶ 30:48

United States government funded Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 31:44

“Gladio training bases there. And the way we paid Otto Skorzeny for him being the worldwide Gladio trainer was we worked a deal with Franco. Now keep in mind, this guy's a dictator. He killed people. W…”

Otto Skorzeny trained Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 32:31

“That's how we laundered money to pay Otto Skorzeny for him training Gladio troops to deploy all over the world. We did it through the contracting system by overcharging for the services delivered. Now…”

Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change George Papadopoulos book_quoted ▶ 33:03

“into Greece, the Nixon administration asked Papadopoulos to make some gesture towards a constitutional government, you know, at least pretend not to be a dictatorship, so that the White House could sa…”

Henry Kissinger covered_up U.S. Navy book_quoted ▶ 34:28

“A Senate investigation of this question was abruptly canceled at the direction of Henry Kissinger. Perhaps nothing better captures the mystique of the bond felt by the Greeks to their American guardia…”

Dimitrios Ioannidis removed_from_power George Papadopoulos book_quoted ▶ 35:56

“They would also say the tortures from the start had said that the United States supported them and that that was what counted, unquote. In November 1973, a falling out within the Greek inner circle cu…”

Dimitrios Ioannidis installed Andreas Papandreou book_quoted ▶ 36:29

“commander of the military police, chief torture, graduate of the American Training School in anti-subversive techniques, confidant of the CIA. He was named as prime minister of a Greek-American. He na…”

Turkey carried_out_attack Cyprus book_quoted ▶ 37:51

“provoked Turkey to invade Cyprus, and the reverberations in Athens resulted in the military giving way back to a civilian government. The Greek nightmare had come to an end. Well, the torturous one. M…”

Philip E. Talbot covered_up United States government book_quoted ▶ 39:17

“He denied that they could have done anything about it. Then Margaret asked a critical question. What if the coup had been a communist or leftist coup? Talbot answered without hesitation. Then of cours…”

Amnesty International spied_on Kosovo guest_asserted ▶ 43:28

“Amnesty International has went in and documented much of these atrocities, but they are only used when they support the regime and they are sidelined when they don't. As a matter of fact, Amnesty Inte…”

Amnesty International spied_on Bechtel guest_asserted ▶ 45:20

“And you can talk about they also do a really good job of documenting sexual abuse of these contractors like Bechtel and some of the large defense contractors that go in in the aftermath. That that rea…”

France targeted_for_regime_change New Caledonia host_asserted ▶ 58:38

“Where you have to go through certain hoops in order to vote in what France is currently trying to do is reduce those hoops so that they can water down the indigenous natives vote and basically import …”

Korea funded Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:05:23

“If that's the case and we got a shit ton of gold and other assets in the United States that are being safeguarded from all of the countries around the world because they trust the United States not to…”

United States ordered_assassination_of Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 1:07:07

“And there were other things like they own real estate here. So we froze when they did their special military operation into Ukraine. The U.S. government froze those assets and they put people who had …”

United States funded Ukraine host_asserted ▶ 1:07:36

“Then, more recently, the House and Senate, because they're dumbasses, passed the authority for the White House to take all of those Russian frozen assets and give them to Ukraine. So, wait a minute. Y…”

Felix Rodriguez member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:32:32

“Operation Gladio stuff as well. I was talking to Cousin It and Bridget about the one she did. She took Tucker's entire video of him talking to Felix Rodriguez, who is an Operation Gladio CIA assassin.…”