Operation Gladio in Chile
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okay and everybody's going to make it through the storm just fine. So I did a show last night and had a hoot doing it. It was so much fun. What did you think about that, Bridget? I thought it was great. I love the guy's music. I felt like I should have had my cowboy boots on for his
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His music at the beginning, just a lot of fun. He really had great energy. He was high-powered, and I think he blew his mind. And all the listeners. Yeah, definitely a lot of fun. Average Joe Patriot, 1776. Big shout-out to you and your audience for having us on there last night. Really appreciate it. Oh, and there he is.
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So, anyway, we're going to go ahead and get started. We're going to talk about Chile today. Chile. And a lot of people would be like, what? Do they have stuff going on in Chile? Well, as I have indicated multiple times, the subordinate operation called Operation Condor that was focused exclusively on South America, CUDE,
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all of the governments down there at one time or another, and some of them multiple times. So I did find one quote that said, in trying to explain why we would even be bothered with Chile, and it was from Henry Kissinger saying that he dismissed Chile as, quote, a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica, unquote.
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indicating there wasn't a lot of commercial interest, which, as I've indicated multiple times, is the reason why you exercise the paramilitary capability of NATO in these Gladio units is on behalf of the commercial interest of the international syndicate. However, Salvador Alente...
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Gosens, was elected president of Chile. And he set off a panic in Washington because it wasn't that they necessarily had a lot of interest in Chile, but Chile was connected to quite a few countries that they had a huge interest in, especially in the poppy and drug industry. So he...
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had spent his entire career badmouthing the U.S. for their imperialistic leanings and practices. And that kind of is what made him popular among the people in his country. And he talked to Fidel Castro. He was not a communist, but he talked to Fidel Castro.
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And we already know from many other stories that if you talk to a communist, you are going to get labeled a communist. And if you trade with a communist, you're going to be a really, really bad communist. So he also vowed to nationalize any American-owned companies that had come to dominate his economy because they were not the...
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The trade agreements that they had were not negotiated in good faith, and basically the local people were getting screwed. So Alente did not win a majority of votes cast in the presidential election. It was a 36.3% in a three-way race. His victory had to be confirmed by the Chilean Congress. In past cases, that was a rubber stamp.
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It was whoever finished first was going to get confirmed by the Congress. And there's a guy down there by the name of Augustin Edwards. He was Chile's richest man and owner of the largest newspaper. And I think you pronounce the newspaper El Mercurio. And he did not want Allende elected president.
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Because he had made all kinds of side deals with the imperialist Americans and was basically in bed with all of them. So he went to the American embassy in Santiago, which is the Chilean capital. And there was an ambassador, Edward Corey, there. He asked him, quote, will the U.S. do anything militarily, directly or indirectly?
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Question mark. Corey told him, no, we would not. That was not the answer that Edwards was wanting to hear. So he decided he was going to go above Corey's head and he was going to approach people in Washington and ask for a few favors. Edwards was personally, professionally and ideology. I anyway.
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close to most of the leading American executives that did business in Chile. So he had access to all of the inner circles. And the timing is 1970. So this is the Nixon administration. President Nixon had repeatedly declared his determination to protect American business interests abroad, quote unquote, fight communism, and suppress challenges to U.S. hegemony in the Western Hemisphere.
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Edwards flew to Washington to tell the president that he could do all three in Chile. As Edwards was packing his bag in Santiago, directors of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, ITT. Now, I have to stop right here because if you guys remember when we were going over the Hitler businesses that sponsored and contributed money to the slush fund, and I mentioned to you that.
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The telephone and telegraph company, the ITT, was a front company for the CIA. And that they, because if you had them in your country, they could spy on everything that was on the television or telephone, sorry, and the telegraph. So here we find it again in Chile. So I just wanted to draw the connection because this happens in all of Operation Gladio. There's overlay over overlay.
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So the directors of the ITT Corporation held their monthly meeting in New York. ITT was one of the largest conglomerates in the world. It had large holdings in Chile and faced the same threat that hung over Edwards' business empire. Its prized asset, the Chilean telephone system, was high on Alente's list for nationalizing.
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as it should be because you want control over your communication system. During the ITT board meeting, Harold Green, Greenan, G-E-N-E-E-N, the company's chief operating officer and one of the best known businessmen in the world, took one of the board members aside to make an audacious proposition.
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What he told me, the board member later said, was that he was prepared to put as much as a million dollars in support of any plan that was adopted by the government for the purpose of bringing about opposition to Alente. That board member was none other than John McCone, the former director of the CIA.
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And now you know why the former director of the CIA is on as a board member of ITT, because ITT is a front company. It's another way of spying on the world. McCone had joined ITT less than a year after leaving the CIA, but remained a consultant to the agency, meaning that he was simultaneously on both payrolls, as most of them are. This arrangement made it ideal.
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for him to be the link between ITT and the government. McCone was able to see Kissinger, the president's national security advisor, immediately to convey Guinan's million-dollar offer. Although Kissinger did not accept it, he was impressed at how serious ITT was about taking on the Chilean problem. Later, McCone presented a case to his successor.
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Richard Helms, who was the current CIA director. A covert campaign in Chile could not be launched without an order from the president. Edwards undertook to secure that order. He chose his old friend and business partner, Donald Kendall, K-E-N-D-A-L-L. He was chairman of the board of Pepsi-Cola. He stayed at Kendall's house in Connecticut and told him that Chile was about to fall under communist rule.
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You see how they do that? Pepsi-Cola lubricated these relationships with Kendall and hired Nixon to be the company's international legal counsel in the mid-60s, when Nixon was in political wilderness between the time that he was the vice president and when he was later elected president. So in other words, he was a conduit for PepsiCo as well.
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his many other business ventures was the principal Pepsi distributor in Chile. All three thrived on international business overlaps with geopolitical contacts. September 14th, Kendall brought his father to the White House to meet President Nixon. He took Nixon aside and repeated what Edwards had told him about Chile. Nixon focused intently on the warnings.
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He never wavered in his determination to bring Alente down from that moment on. He had been triggered into action, Kissinger said. Immediately after hearing from Kendall, Nixon sent him to meet with Kissinger and Attorney General John Mitchell. Kendall urged them to hear what Edwards had to say.
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and they agreed to meet with him the next morning during a breakfast conversation that would prove to be among the most far-reaching in the history of U.S. and Latin America relations. Edwards painted a dark picture of what was happening in his homeland. He predicted that if Alente was allowed to take office, that he would nationalize the Chilean economy, force American businesses out, and steer Chile into a Soviet-Cuban orbit, which of course was all horseshit, but...
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That's the accusation. Kissinger, and let me just say this. They all know this is horseshit. This is the crap that they fed to the American public. But every single one of them understands what this anti-communist, the World League, the World Anti-Communist League was doing. They understand all of this. Kissinger listened attentively. As soon as the meeting was over, he called Helms and asked him to meet with Edwards to glean whatever insight he might have.
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on ways of stopping Alente. Later in the morning, Kissinger met with another powerful figure, eager to protect large interests in Chile, David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank. Ooh, bringing in the big leagues now. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Kissinger, Mitchell, and Helms came to the Oval Office to receive Nixon's marching orders.
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Their meeting lasted only 13 minutes. Nixon was so explicit with no more time was needed. The Chilean law, Congress had to certify Alente's election within 15 days after 50, sorry, days after the election. Nixon wanted somehow to make that not happen. No tape or transcript of this meeting is known to exist. Because again,
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If there was a transcript, you would see that this entire thing is garbage. However, one of the officials in the meeting later told the New York Times that Nixon gave the impression of being extremely anxious for quick results. Another described him as frantic. Helms scribbled a page of notes that has
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become a classic documentation in the history of diplomacy and covert action. And I'm going to, it has bullets. I'm going to read to you the bullets. One in 10 chance, perhaps, but save Chile. Worth spending. Not concerned, risk involved. No involvement of the embassy. $10 million available, more if necessary.
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Don't you love your tax dollars being used to overthrow governments? Full-time job, best man we have. Game plan. Make economy scream. 48 hours for plan of action. So, in other words, go ahead and starve the people. Nobody cares. It was suffered through, let's see. Of course, because Chile is part of South America, its history is...
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proof that the geography does not always determine destiny. It has suffered through less anarchy, civil war, and repression than almost any other country in the hemisphere, talking about Chile. In the 139 years after its constitution took effect in 1833, its democratic order was interrupted only three times. Two-thirds of the way through the 20th century, Chile
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was well on its way to modernity and with high literacy rate, a relatively large middle class, and a strong civil society. The Democrat approach to life, politics, was deeply woven into this country. Many countries whose government Americans had overthrown possessed valuable resource. Chile was no exception. It had the world's largest producer of copper,
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which for thousands of years had been one of the world's most prized commodities. Copper shaped the development of human race, and with the dawn of the electrical age, it became an even more important resource. It is the vital material for motors, generators, cables, wires, etc. American businesses became interested in Chile copper in 1905.
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The Braden Copper Company, which would later be absorbed into Kennecott, K-E-N-N-E-C-O-T-T Copper Corporation, began mining in El Tenente, a mountain of ore set in the Andes, about 100 miles southeast of Santiago.
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Seven years later, a forerunner of the Anaconda copper mining company began operations in a northern desert area. These two American-owned companies, Kennecott and Anaconda. If you wouldn't mind, Bridget, putting links in the comments, provided it works today for those two. Thank you.
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Already doing it. All right. Kennecott and Anaconda grew into the twin titans in the world of copper. By mid-century, they were the largest underground copper mine in the world. And the other one was the largest open pit mine. Kennecott operations in Chile earned an after-tax profit of about $20 million per year.
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Anacondas brought in about $30 million per year. Together, these two companies accounted for most of Chile's export earnings and a third of the tax revenue. That gave them overwhelming influence over Chilean political processes. Besides mining companies and consumer product companies like Pepsi-Cola, one of the other large American firms was ITT. They played a major role in Chile.
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In 1930, when ITT was the cutting-edge telecommunication firm, it bought a majority share of the British-owned Chilean telephone company, and with it, control over the country's telephone and telegraph systems. That proved to be one of the best investments ever made.
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$10 million in profit annually. Cuban guerrillas overthrew the Batista dictatorship and imposed a radical social and political program around that same time in the 1960s. Other dictators fell in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina. A rest of younger generation cast about
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for new political ideas and away from the fascist installed dictators of the imperialist. In 1961, seeking to respond to this challenge, President Kennedy created the Alliance for Progress. It was to operate within the American hemisphere and, quote, comprehensive.
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unquote, social and political change. He asked his aides to look for a country that could be the first alliance for a progressive showcase. It had to be one where the basic political and physical infrastructure was already in place and where people had demonstrated a desire for peaceful change. Chile, with its strong private sector and democratic tradition, was the obvious choice.
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Kennedy hoped that it was there he could show the world that the capitalist model for third world development worked better than the Marxist ones. During the 1960s, Chile received more than $1.2 billion in aid from the Alliance for Progress and directly from the United States, more per capita than any other country in the hemisphere.
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At first, this attention from Washington brought Chile nothing more than money. Beginning in 1964, it brought something else because, of course, now Kennedy's gone. That was the year the CIA set out for a decades-long campaign of intervention and destabilization that ultimately tore Chile away from its democratic roots. The CIA began sending money and other forms of support to Chile's newspaper student groups,
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trade unions, and political parties in the early 1960s. It concentrated its support on the center-left Christian Democratic Party, whose leader, Eduardo Frey, F-R-E-I, was in, they categorized him as a reformer in exactly the right mold to fit Washington's policy of basically fascism.
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He led reporters and columnists to call him the Chilean Kennedy. When he ran for president in 1964, his American friends rallied to his side, meaning the international syndicate. They did so not just because they liked him, but because they wished him to block Allente. Now, I want to go over a couple of things here, because we're trying to establish, now that we've established the foundation on which...
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Gladio rest, we're going to start establishing patterns in which they operate. So notice the first thing they do is they get control of the newspapers. Then they start paying and hiring student groups. Then they're going to take control of the trade unions.
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And then they take control of the political parties. And what you have to do whenever you see this pattern, you always have to come back to the United States. Everything they do in other countries, they do here. They have control of our newspapers. They have control of the student groups. They have control of the trade unions. And they have control of the political parties. That's what you call patterns.
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And that's what we have to keep paying attention to as we go through each and every one of these countries, is we're going to see patterns time after time, and every single pattern is being tried here or already implemented here. So one of the...
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Despite Chile's relatively prosperous position among South American nations, millions of its people lived in poverty. And let me just caveat this. The poverty that they lived in was based on an income standard of the people that had moved to the middle class, which was the largest preponderance of the people.
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they did still have a lower class, as all countries do. And it was those people that Alente wanted to pay the most attention to and provide them an avenue to get them into the middle class. Equally outrageous to Alente was the fact that foreign companies controlled his country's all-important copper industry. Alente...
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was basically, he gave off the air to people around him as if he was a college professor. He had an air of sophistication and almost like he was a little too refined, in some people's opinion. He was also a third-generation Mason.
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He was very comfortable and had spent a lot of time around the higher income people in Chile. He was not like a middle class do-gooder or someone that came up from the bootstraps. This is a guy that had lots of connections. The CIA covertly spent $3 million to ensure that
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Frey, his opponent, would defeat Alente in the 1964 election, paying more than half the cost of his campaign. He won easily over the next four years the CIA spent. It doesn't say. I didn't write down the date for that one. Over the four years, the CIA spent $2 million on covert projects aimed at supporting Frey.
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along with 175,000 in covert aid to 22 candidates that ran for Congress in 1965 in Chile, nine of whom were elected. It also subsidized an anti-communist women's group, supported a breakaway faction of the Socialist Party, paid for political organizing campaigns in slums, sponsored dissident groups, and endowed...
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newswire and a right-wing weekly newspaper, the U.S. also intensified its long effort to cultivate friends in the Chilean military. Between 1950 and 1969, nearly 4,000 Chilean officers were trained at American military bases. And guess which one that would be? The U.S. Army School of the Americas in the Panama Canal Zone.
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where they teach you how to assassinate, torture, and kidnap people. So students learned a rigorous counterinsurgency doctrine there that equated to Marxism with treason, all in the name of democracy, by the way. Chile also received $163 million in American military aid during this period.
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more than any other country in the entire hemisphere except for Brazil, because they were cooing Brazil too, by the way. All of this overt and covert aid gave the United States a deep stake in Chile. It led some officials to believe that as in Vietnam, they had purchased the right to guide the course of Chilean politics. Edward Corey
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who became the ambassador in 1967, went so far as to assert that the United States had assumed a fiduciary responsibility for this country because it had spent so much money there. That's imperialism at its finest. The U.S. policy towards Chile and indeed towards all of Latin America changed dramatically after Richard Nixon assumed the presidency in January 69. Nixon disdained the Alliance for Progress,
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partly because of its association with Kennedy and partly because he considered it a dangerous triumph of idealism over reality. He feared by promoting reform, especially land redistribution, it would undermine right-wing governments that were friendly to the U.S. Rather than encourage Latin America's democratic left, as Kennedy and Johnson had tried to do, he was going to support its business elite and military.
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I will never agree with the policy of downgrading the military in Latin America. You know, because there's a huge geographical threat that you need large militaries in South America. The only reason you needed large militaries in South America was to guard the poppy fields that they were putting in. They are power centers subject to our influence. The others, the intellectuals, are not subject to our influence.
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So we can buy the military. We can't buy the intellectuals. In 1970, Alente ran for president, not as a candidate of his own socialist party, which was too weak to win on its own, but as the head of a coalition called Popular Unity. The challenge of keeping him out of power came to obsess the American embassy in Santiago. Early in 70,
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Ambassador Corey and his CIA station chief, Henry Heckscher, H-E-C-H-S-H-E-R, asked the Nixon administration for permission to embark on a covert spoiling campaign to block Allente. They addressed their request to the 40 Committee. The 40 Committee was named after the number of presidential directive that created it.
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which was composed of the country's top national security officials. Kissinger effectively ran the committee. When he proposed an action, the others approved. His old friend, David Rockefeller, whose Chase Manhattan Bank had multi-billion dollar investments in South America, urged him to press ahead with the spoiling campaign. Because our government works in order to
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ensure the international syndicate is happy, not what's best for America. The Chilean election approached. Rockefeller recalled in his memoirs, he made a telephone call that helped push the Nixon administration onto an anti-Alente track. Here's a quote. In March 1970, well before the election, my friend Augustine Edwards
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the publisher of that newspaper, El Mercurio, Chile's leading newspaper, told me Alente was a Soviet dupe who would destroy Chile's fragile economy. He wasn't a Soviet dupe and Chile did not have a fragile economy and extended communist influence in the region. If Alente won, he was warned Chile would become another Cuba.
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a satellite of the Soviet Union. He insisted that the U.S. must prevent Allente's election. The Edwards concern were so intense that I put him in touch with Henry Kissinger, unquote. Kissinger would be more directly responsible for what happened in Chile than any other American, with the possible exception of Nixon himself. For three years, during which he dealt with the host of crises around the world, he never lost interest in Chile.
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Nixon pressed him relentlessly, and also because of the anti-Alente project, it fit perfectly with his view of the world and America's place in it. From his background as a refugee from Nazi Germany, Kissinger took the lesson that a statesman's goal must always be to establish and maintain stability among nations. Stability, that's an interesting word.
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So he goes on to talk about an Austrian diplomat who was one of the modern world's master practitioners of big power democracy. Once in office, this prince applied some particular ideas, and Kissinger duplicated those by projecting American power through regional allies like Iran, Zaire.
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and Indonesia and turned a blind eye as dictators in those countries oppressed and looted with abandon. Because the whole idea, and it's interesting that Kissinger admits that this is not their original idea. This is an idea from 100 years ago to install these dictators to implement the one world government. And the fact that he, and we will get to both.
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Well, all of them, actually. Iran, Zaire, and Indonesia. I'm currently reading a book on Indonesia. And I'm really excited about being able to share that with you because it's a huge eye-opener into how this whole operation worked. And the guy that wrote it is a professor from Australia. The book is not available here. We kind of jumped through some hoops to get it. And it's a very interesting book.
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One of Kissinger's longtime associates was a guy by the name of Lawrence Eagleburger. He concluded he was guided by principles that are the opposite to American experience. In other words, whatever it was they were doing, it wasn't democracy. Eagleburger said, quote, Americans tend to want to pursue a set of moral principles. Henry does not have an intricate.
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feel for the American political system, and he does not start with the same values and assumptions, unquote. No, he starts with the values of Hitler. During his long career, Kissinger, like many other statesmen of his generation, had paid almost no attention to Latin America. However, in the spring of 69, he visited the Chilean embassy in Washington and bluntly told the southern portion
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and told the ambassador, quote, I am not interested in nor do I know anything about the southern portion of the world from the Pyrenees down, unquote. A year later, he heard from Edwards and everything changed. The 40 committee approved the spoiling campaign against Alente with a budget of $135,000, later increased to about $400,000.
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It was a small-scale version of the multi-million dollar effort the CIA had launched to prevent Allente from winning in 1964. Agents dusted off many of the same tactics from planting propaganda in the press to supporting anti-communist civic action groups. Some printed and distributed posters showing Soviet tanks on the streets of Prague. Others opened...
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News agencies sowed discord within popular United Fronts and published anti-Alente books, pamphlets, and leaflets. As the presidential campaign intensified in Chile, Harold Guinan, the ITT chairman, decided to try to influence its outcome. He asked McCone to arrange for him to meet William Broe, B-R-O-E.
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the CIA's chief of covert operations in the Western Hemisphere. They met in the ITT suite at the Sheraton Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C. in July. Geenan said that his company wanted to see the CIA as a conduit to pass money to the campaign of Jorge Alessandri, the rightist presidential candidate. Breaux suggested that the company
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make its contribution directly and with help from the CIA officers in Santiago. It did. ITT covertly donated $350,000 to Alessandri's campaign and arranged for other American businesses to donate another $350,000. The CIA's spoiling campaign and large contributions that the American companies made to Alessandri may have had some effect.
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But it was not enough. On September 4th, Chilean voters went to the polls and gave Alantra his victory of plurality. Such outcomes were not unusual in Chile's multi-party political system. Congress had long established traditions of choosing the first place finisher as president. That was what President Nixon was after now.
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The president came down very hard that he wanted something done, and he didn't much care how, and he didn't care how much it cost. It was a pretty all-exclusive order, all-inclusive order, sorry. If I ever carried a marshal's baton in my knapsack out of the Oval Office, I did that day. Nixon ordered the CIA to produce an anti-alente plan within 48 hours, so Helms had no time to waste.
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He met with his covert action team and they proposed a plan that President Nixon had decided that Alente's regime in Chile was not acceptable to the U.S. Nixon had, quote, asked the agency to prevent Alente from coming to power or to unseat him, unquote. And that in a break from normal practice, the agency is to carry out this mission without coordination from the Department of State or defense.
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Helms and his operatives were working to design a covert operation. Kissinger told a group of newspapers if Alente was allowed to take power, he would establish some sort of communist government, and that would be a massive problem for the U.S. The next morning, there was a meeting that was convened of the 40 committee to hear the CIA's plan. Helms outlined the anti-
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Allente operation would have two parts. The first part was going to be called Track 1. It was aimed at blocking Allente by legal means. It was immediately implemented and led to the placement of dozens of articles in the Chilean press warning of disaster if Allente become president. Its principal focus was on the outgoing president, Eduardo Frey. The CIA hoped
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that its press campaign, together with private mailings to Frey, would orchestrate pressure on him from political confidants and would lead for him to call on Congress to break with Chilean tradition and deny the president an approval with the one that had the most popular votes. This approach failed, largely because President Frey was, as one CIA cable put it,
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too gentle of a soul, and unwilling to support the disruption to his country's political system. Imagine that, somebody that didn't want to see their country destroyed. Within a few weeks, Track 1 became subsumed by a far more ambitious one called Track 2, which was aimed explicitly at fomenting a military coup, because when all else fails, pay a few military officers, create a coup, and install a fascist.
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Plotters at the CIA headquarters directed their agents in Santiago to begin probing military possibilities to thwart Alente, strengthening the resolve of the Chilean military to act. So this is a quote. Contact the military and let them know the U.S. government wants a military solution and that we will support them now and later.
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In sum, we want you to sponsor a military move which would take place to the extent possible in a climate of economic and political uncertainty, unquote. So to create that climate, Americans needed to push Chile towards chaos. Kissinger set out to do exactly that. With considerable resources at his command, he justified this effort with what became one of his most quoted axioms.
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I don't, quote, I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people, unquote. Oh, my gosh. These people are just so crazy. And they know damn good and well they're not going communist. A national security study memorandum produced at Kissinger's direction concluded, quote, the U.S. has no vital national interest in.
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So that's their own national security memorandum. We have no business being there. Henry Heckscher.
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H-E-C-K-S-H-E-R, chief of the CIA station in Santiago, who had worked on the covert plan to deny the election to Alente, reported that with the election now over, he would not consider any kind of intervention in the constitutional process desirable. Another CIA officer wrote in a memorandum that Alente
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was not likely to take orders from Moscow or Havana, and that plotting against him would be repeating the errors made in 59 and 60 when we drove Fidel Castro into the Soviet camp, because Castro was never a communist either. Assistant Secretary of State Charles Meyer predicted that the covert action against Alente would further tarnish America's image in Latin America. Oh my God, he is so right. Kissinger's
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Chief Advisor on Latin America, Varun Vaiky, V-A-K-Y, his first name is V-I-R-O-N, and his last name is V-A-K-Y, warned him that consequences of striking against Alente would be disastrous. Here's the quote. What we propose is patently a violation of our own principles and policy and tenets. Moralism aside, this has practical
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operational consequences. If these principles have any meaning, we normally depart from them only to meet the gravest threat to us, to our survival. Is Alente a moral threat to the U.S.? It's hard to argue this. It's impossible to argue this. That last part was mine. These doubters did not realize how fierce determined Nixon and Kissinger were to block Alente.
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And see, let me just stop right there. You guys know this has nothing to do with Alente. It has nothing to do with Chile. It has to do with them fulfilling the orders of the international syndicate and their financial interest. That's the only thing that makes any sense in these situations because this is about copper resources and the people that paid.
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for Nixon to be installed in the front office. This has zero to do with communism, and it has zero to do with the Chileans, obviously. Their warnings had no effect on the coup plotters in Washington. One of them, David Attlee Phillips, whose name comes up often in these scenarios, was out to overthrow his second Latin American government. Phillips
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who had run the highly successful Voice of Liberation radio campaign in the 1954 coup against President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala, became co-director of the CIA's newly formed Chilean task force. His partner was William Breaux. The two of them were almost hourly contact with the CIA station in Santiago.
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As the American plot against Alente began to take shape, Phillips and Brough sent a lengthy cable to their agents in Santiago. It directed them to use three tools, economic warfare, political warfare, and psychological warfare to create a coup. Here's a quote. Sensitize feelings within and without Chile that election of Alente is a nefarious development in Chile, Latin America, and the world.
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surface conclusions that military coup is the only answer. Key psychological warfare within Chile. The station should employ every stratagem, every ploy, however bizarre, to create this internal resistance. Prop, basically propaganda warfare, should become sharper and more provocative.
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Public and provocative rallies should be held, growing in size and intensity until the communists must react, except for there's no communist. We are successful in heightening tensions through the three main lines noted above. The pretext will, in all probability, present itself, because they'll make sure it does. All right, another quote. You have asked us to provoke chaos in Chile.
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Hetzker cabled back to the headquarters. We provide you with formula for chaos, which is unlikely to be bloodless, unquote. Over the next several weeks, the political climate in Chile became increasingly tense. Newspapers and radio stations with CIA subsidizing denounced Alente and warned graphic horrors if his government was to be brought about. A fascist-oriented group
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Fatherland and Liberty, which had received $40,000 from the CIA, staged a rally in Santiago. CIA quietly contacted nearly two dozen military officers and those who seemed open to the idea of staging a coup. It was later written in a report that the US Congress, quote, were given assurances of strong support at the highest levels of the US government.
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both before and after the coup, unquote. A centerpiece of the operation was the CIA FUBELT, F-U-B-E-L-T. That's kind of like their code name, like MJ Wave and all of those types of things. Apparently, a reference to the tightening of a belt around Chile. That was the disruption of the Chile's
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economy. Helms wrote in a memo to Kissinger, a suddenly disastrous economic situation would be the most logical pretext for a military move. The U.S. would work to create at least a mini crisis. Ambassador Corey suggested that the American banks be pressured to stop granting short-term credit to Chilean businesses, that agents spread rumors of impending food rationing, bank collapses,
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and non-existent plans by Alente to seize private homes and forbid anyone from leaving the country. Not a nut or a bolt will be allowed to reach Chile under Alente, Corey warned. The Minister of Defense, they had a meeting shortly after the election. Quote, we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and the Chilean people to the utmost deprivation and poverty, unquote.
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These are our government officials. It is the tribute to the Chilean political system that despite all the CIA's effort, Fubelt failed. Neither President Frey nor members of Congress from anti-Alente parties could be persuaded with the threat that Alente posed such a great problem.
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As for the idea of promoting a military coup, only a few officers were sympathetic, and they had no realistic hope of success because General Rene Snyder, the Army commander, was fiercely opposed to military influence in politics. A few sane people. They don't last long under the threat of the CIA, though.
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Ambassador Corey cabled his superiors in Washington. General Snyder would have to be neutralized by displacement if necessary. That's an actual quote. In late September, the Americans began to focus on Snyder as a key obstacle to their plan. Anything we or station can do to the effect of removing Snyder? The CIA planners asking a cable to Henry Hexler.
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We know that this is a quote. We know this is a rhetorical question, but want to inspire thoughts on both ends on this matter, unquote. Yeah, they're just wanting to ask the president if he'll do a finding that they can do an assassination. American agents in Santiago began meeting with disgruntled Chilean officers. The most enthusiastic was a retired general by the name of Roberto Vioxx.
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V-I-A-U-X, who was an extreme anti-communist who had cashiered from the army after leading an abortive uprising on President Frey. So he's the perfect guy. Anti-communist means he's a fascist, and he meets the CIA's criteria for their...
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The guy that they're going to prop up as a dictator. CIA agents in Santiago passed him $20,000 in cash to keep him, quote, financially lubricated, unquote, with enough money to buy arms, bribe commanders, and acquire and provide arms if needed.
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On October 13th, with less than two weeks remaining before the Chilean Congress was scheduled to install Alente, President Nixon summoned his national security team to the White House and demanded action. Nixon went out of his way to impress everyone there that his conviction was that it was absolutely essential that the election of Alente to presidency be thwarted.
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frustrated that Corey seemed unable to arrange this and summoned the ambassador to the White House. Here's a quote, that son of a bitch, that son of a bitch. That's what Nixon was quoted as saying to himself as he pounded his fist into his palm as Corey entered the Oval Office. So Corey was a bit startled and Nixon said, not you, Mr. Ambassador.
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It's that son of a vigilante. We're going to smash him. It's hard to believe that a president of the United States would even talk that way. But alas, here we are. Kissinger met with Tom Caramassini, the CIA director of covert operations, to discuss their Chilean project. What happened at this meeting has been the subject of considerable debate.
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Kissinger later claimed that he turned off the plot against General Snyder and called off track two before it was ever implemented. Minutes of the meeting, however, record no such action. They say that Kissinger approved the decision to diffuse the Vioxx plot at least temporarily, but also mentioned that he authorized a remarkably encouraging message to the general.
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preserve your assets, the message said. The time will come when you will have, when you with all of your friends can do something. You will continue to have our support. After the meeting, Cara Massini sent a cable to the CIA station in Santiago, reiterating the administrative's firm continuing policy that Alente be overthrown in a coup. To implement the policy, the cable said,
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Agents in Santiago should, quote, propaganda, use propaganda, black operations, surfacing of intelligence and disinformation, personal contact, or anything else your imagination can conjure up, unquote. The cable also directed the agents to wish General Vioxx and another group of rebellious officers headed by General Camilo Valenzuela.
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maximum good fortune. Soon the CIA sent those officers more than good wishes. The bounty came inside of a diplomatic pouch and arrived at the airport on October 21st. It was a package containing three submachine guns, several boxes of ammunition, and six tear gas hand grenades.
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The plot reached its climax two days later at two o'clock in the morning on a dead, quiet street. Colonel Paul Weimart, W-I-M-E-R-T, the U.S. military attaché in Santiago, delivered the weapons to Chilean conspirators aligned with Vioxx. Six hours later, while General Snyder was on his way to work, a drink.
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A Jeep struck his chauffeur-driven car. Five men surrounded it. One smashed the rear window with a sledgehammer. Accounts differ on whether or not it was Snyder, but a pistol was drawn to defend himself, but his assailants opened fire using weapons of their own rather than those the CIA supplied. They hit Snyder with three shots. He died at the hospital later that day.
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And that technique of them doing that, that's how they tried like five different times to kill Charles de Gaulle. They use that boxing in of cars. They surround them. They always have equipment to smash in the windows. And they'll either plant a bomb or generally it's a machine gun fire.
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Quote, the station had done an excellent job of guiding Chileans to a point where a military solution is at least an option for them, was the response that came once they knocked Snyder off. The CIA planners in Washington cabled their Santiago agents after hearing of the assassination. Quote, station chief and others involved are commended for accomplishing
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this under extremely difficult and delicate circumstances, unquote. So they're high-fiving they assassinated somebody. The idea behind this murder was that it would set off a wave of instability that would allow anti-Alende officers to stage a coup. It had the opposite effect. This was the first murder of an important Chilean political figure in more than a century.
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And instead of throwing Chileans into panic and inducing them to call for authoritarian rule, it outraged them. It strengthened their conviction of soldiers and civilians alike that democracy must be allowed to take its course, meaning that Alente would become president. Responding to this consensus, the Chilean Congress met on October 24th and voted 153 to 24 to certify his election. He was inaugurated on November 4th.
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It is a controversial period and one that does not do credit to American ideals, it was later said, since it includes an effort to prevent a freely elected president from taking office by fomenting a military coup. The assassination of Chilean general, for which the United States was indirectly responsible, authorization, though not execution. We don't know that. Of effort to bribe the Chilean...
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Congress, and basically subsidizing a quasi-fascist extreme right group and improperly close relationships between the U.S. government and major corporations, unquote. However, just two days after Alente donned the presidential sass in Santiago, President Nixon convened the National Security Council to discuss ways of deposing him. No one questioned the assumption.
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In fact, there was remarkable, it was unanimous that they all wanted to proceed in basically cooing him now that he's elected. We want to do it right and bring him down. And that was a quote, according to Secretary of State William Rogers. He also went on to say we can put an economic squeeze on him. So Secretary of Defense Melvin.
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Laird said, I agree with Bill Rogers. We have to do everything we can to hurt him and bring him down. These are like jackals. These aren't even people. Nixon delivered a monologue explaining why he considered Alente such a threat. And I'm going to save the monologue, but you understand that they're just hellbent on doing this.
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And the only thing, again, that explains it is they're being directed to do this. Nixon made clear that there would be no let up in the campaign against Alente. The CIA had already drawn up a plan headed Alente after the inauguration that proposed a campaign thesis. It said that if Chile was to suffer continued economic decline, the country might fall into chaos and military would have to intervene.
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America set out to create that justification. The first blows were struck economically. Two principal American foreign aid agencies called the Export and Import Bank and the Agency for International Development, acting under classified instructions from the National Security Council, announced that they would no longer approve any new commitment of U.S. bilateral assistance to Chile.
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When the U.S. representative at the Inter-American Development Bank was instructed to block all proposals for loans to Chile, the bank president protested. The administrator forced his resignation. The new president reduced Chile's credit rating from a B to a D. Private banks followed suit. The Export-Import Bank
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Citing the reduction, canceled the scheduled $21 million loan intended to pay for the new Boeing jets for Chile's National Airlines. That's almost kind of funny at this point. The World Bank, the American representative, arranged for the suspension of the $21 million livestock improvement loan to Chile, and they announced that the U.S. would oppose all new World Bank lending to the country. So you see how this is done?
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They just cut them off. And who else would actually step in and help these countries once the U.S. has decided you're going to have a fascist government that's going to kill tens, if not hundreds of thousands of your people while he's the fascist governor or president? That's what they do. They isolate these people and force them to do whatever it is that the United States wants.
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The cutting of aid and loans and credits to Chile became known as an invisible blockade, but it was relatively straightforward. It certainly fell within the right of the U.S. or any country to apportion its aid as it see fits, but the American campaign against Alente went very much farther. They basically demanded that the World Bank do the same. They demanded that everybody cut him off.
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Between 1970 and 73, the CIA carried out a wide-ranging series of covert operations in Chile. The historian and archivist Peter Kornblum has cataloged them. Quote, more than $3.5 billion was funneled into opposition parties and allied organizations. Station operatives conducted $2 million in propaganda campaigns.
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concentrating on Chile's largest newspaper. So, of course, that guy made a killing because they're placing all of these ads. And he's the guy that started the whole damn thing. But he's going to make a fortune using his newspaper to badmouth the president. More than 1.5 million was passed to businesses, labor, civics, and paramilitary organizations, organizing protests, demonstrations, and violent actions. In other words,
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They formed Operation Gladio units in the paramilitary realm to create havoc. Soon after Alente's inauguration, most of the leading American companies active in Chile, including ITT, Kennecott, Anaconda, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Bethlehem Steel, Charles Pfizer, W.R. Grace, Bank of America, Ralston Purina, and Dow Chemical,
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joined to form a Chilean ad hoc committee. It was decided, according to a memo prepared at its first meeting, to work with officials in Washington handling the Chilean problem. Over the next few months, its members set out on a quiet destabilization campaign of their own. That includes closing offices, delayed payments, slow deliveries, and credit denial.
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It was so effective that within two years, one-third of Chile's buses and 20% of its taxis were out of service because it couldn't get spare parts. In 1971, the Chilean Congress, meeting in joint session, unanimously approved a constitutional amendment authorizing the nationalization of Kennecott and Anaconda and the smaller Cerro Mining Corporation.
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that the date would henceforth be called National Dignity Day. To celebrate the first one, he came to the city that hosted one of the biggest mines. In a triumphant speech to a group of cheering miners, he accused Kennecott and Anaconda of having made immorally high profits in Chile while masses of Chileans lived in poverty. He did not encourage the companies to hope for much in the way of compensation.
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We will pay it if it is just, he promised. We will not pay what is not just. Alente later announced that he considered an annual profit of 12% per year to be rightful, and anything higher than that was excessive, which would be the mining for Chile. That's hilarious. Barely a year had been, let's see.
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Chile's comptroller awarded its compensation of $14 million. For Kennecott and Anaconda, though, the situation was quite different. So they awarded CERO, C-E-R-R-O, $14 million. According to Alente's formula, they had made $774 million in excess profit over the past 15 years.
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He asked the comptroller to deduct that sum from their due compensation. The comptroller agreed, and since $774 million was more than the book value of their minds, Kennecott and Anaconda was not awarded anything. No, this is hilarious. We used to be the effer, said one of Anaconda's lawyers. Now we're getting the effed.
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Soon after taking this step, Alente's government took one more, assuming management control of ITT. Two days later, ITT's vice president in Washington, William Merriam, sent the White House an 18-point list of steps it could take to ensure that Alente would not get through the crucial next six months.
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Miriam confidently predicted that the measures, if adopted, would push Chileans' economic crisis. As Alente was trying to withstand the American campaign, he also faced intense pressure from groups of workers and peasants for trying to create a new social order. They pushed him relentlessly towards radicalism, which most people, when you read about this, don't believe that that part was organic.
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Among them were radicals who embraced Shea Carvera's theory that the only way to bring social justice to Latin America was to repress the traditional ruling classes using violence if necessary. Some carried out armed actions. And again, a lot of people believe this is not organic when this began to happen, that this was all part of the...
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CIA's chaos plan. Allente could never move quick enough to satisfy his most radical supporters. The U.S. was engaged in a multi-layer campaign against him. The anti-Allente project had been underway for more than a year when the secrecy surrounding it was breached. A muck-raking Washington newspaper columnist, Jack Anderson, obtained 24 internal
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ITT memos that graphically detailed that what Anderson called the company's bizarre plot to stop the 1970 election of President Alente. They told of ITT's offer of $1 million to help the CIA prevent Alente from coming to power. Quote, no one can dream that we are going to pay even half a cent to this multinational company that was on the verge of plunging Chile.
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into a civil war, unquote. President Allente declared after the memos were published, many Americans were equally outraged, quote, how could it be so if it is so that in 1970, an American president would consider the possibilities of acting to prevent a democratically elected president of supposedly a friendly country from taking office, unquote. The Washington Post asked.
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Nixon and his aides sought to play down the importance of the ITT papers, but the scandal did not fade away. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee established a subcommittee to hold hearings. In its final report, the subcommittee condemned Alente for his nationalization policy, but it was even harsher on ITT. ITT, this is a quote, sought to engage the CIA in a planned covert
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covertly to manipulate the outcome of the Chilean presidential election. In doing so, the company overstepped the line of acceptable corporate behavior. If ITT's actions in seeking to enlist the CIA for its purposes with respect to Chile were to be sanctioned as normal and acceptable, no country would welcome the presence of multinational corporations, unquote.
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By the end of 72, Alente's divisive policies in the American destabilization campaign had been combined to throw Chile into a grave crisis. Street disturbances became so regular that Alente was forced to replace his police chief and his interior minister. Shopkeepers and truckers staged crippling strikes. Food became scarce. Other temporary states of emergencies occurred. Alente arrived in New York to address the U.N.
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21 years earlier, Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran had come to the UN to present his case against a foreign corporation that controlled his country's basic resource. And of course, that was BP because we've talked about him. Alente was in a similar position. His country was a victim of resource curse, just as Iran had been. The riches that lay beneath our soil came.
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Under the control of foreign corporations, and then they tried to reclaim them, great powers came down upon them. At 11 o'clock on the morning of December 4th, 1972, after a brief meeting with George H.W. Bush, the American ambassador to the UN, Allente strode to the General Assembly podium. His speech eerily echoed Mosaday's, showing how little
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relationships between large corporations and small countries had changed over the last two decades. Both leaders had come to the UN to fire a volley in which Alente called the Battle of Defense of Natural Resources. And it does, there's a quote here, I'm not going to read it, but it basically articulates that these countries should have control over their own resources.
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In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United Nations speech, he decided to replace Richard Helms, the CIA director. He was displeased that Helms had failed to bring Alente down. To smooth Helms' fall, Nixon named him as ambassador to Iran.
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That's sweet. Put the CIA director over in Iran because it's already so screwed up. Thanks to the CIA. At his confirmation hearing, he said, he replied, no, sir, when asked if the CIA had tried to block the election of Alente in 1970. The two-word statement later led to a federal court convicting him of perjury.
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And he called his conviction a badge of honor. When Nixon was sworn in for his second term as president in 73, his campaign against Alente was reaching a crescendo. Chilean military commanders prepared to step in and strike the final blow. At every step, the CIA friends urged them on, quote, we should attempt to induce as much of the military as possible.
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not all, to take over and displace the Alente government, unquote. The CIA plotters in Langley directed the Santiago station, quote, the creation of a renewed atmosphere of political unrest and controlled crisis must be achieved in order to stimulate serious consideration for intervention on part of the military, unquote.
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So on April 10th, the CIA directed at Santiago Station to begin accelerating the efforts against the military target. Three weeks later, the chief of the agency's Western Hemisphere Division, Theodore Shackley, who is in every one of these stories, told the station to bring our influence to bear on key military commanders so that they may play a decisive role in the side of the coup forces.
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These efforts came to premature fruition on June 29th, when a handful of officers staged a confused coup that involved tanks stopping for traffic lights as they made their way through Santiago. For the first time in 42 years, the Chilean soldiers had struck against an elected government. No senior officers supported the uprising, and General Carlos
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Fratz, the army commander, suppressed it easily. Still, it had nerves on end. As military conspirators prepared to strike against Alente, they faced the same problem that they confronted three years before. The army commander, General Pratz, successor of the murdered Snyder, was a strict constitutionalist dedicated to supporting the elected government. Quote, only
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Only way to remove Pratt's would appear to be abduction or assassination, unquote, CIA agents in Santiago reported in a cable to Langley. Allante is a desperate attempt to head off the inevitable. Had begun saying military commanders in his cabinet, and by mid-September in 1973, General Pratt's was Minister of the Interior. After Pratt's crushed the tank revolt in June,
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The local newspaper that was owned by the American began a campaign depicting him as a treasonable pro-communist person. One day, several hundred wives of Chilean officers encouraged by the CIA operatives convened in front of his home, supportively to give his wife a letter protesting his support for Alente. The gathering erupted into violence, and the national police called the carabinieri. They used tear gas to break it up.
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General Prats was so shaken, he asked his fellow generals for a vote of confidence. When they refused, he had no alternative but to resign. He recommended that President Alente name his deputy to replace him, and Alente followed his advice. The new man was General Augusto Pinochet, and if y'all know anything about Chile, this guy becomes the deadly killer.
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whom the CIA, according to reports, already knew to be a friend. Penashe previously, this is a quote, Penashe, previously the strict constitutionalist, reluctantly admitted to harboring second thoughts that Alente must be forced to step down or be eliminated. Penashe was in Panama.
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And while in Panama, talked with the more junior U.S. officers he knew from the days of School of Americas, which is where he was trained, and was told U.S. will support the coup against Alente in whatever means necessary when the time comes. So in other words, he's been trained to take over his country at an American military school. Although the CIA had noticed Pinochet's growing willingness to consider the idea of a coup,
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His colleagues in Chile had not. President Alente said General Prats considered him to be supremely apolitical and not ambitious. Both would pay dearly for their miscalculation. While CIA operatives in Santiago were helping to orchestrate the removal of General Prats, the 40 committee was in Washington.
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approving another $1 million to further destabilize Chile. And it was used to basically begin bribing political parties. By the CIA's own reckoning, it brought $6.5 million to be the total that was spent on covert operations against Alente during his presidency. The investigation by the U.S. Senate later put the figure at $8 million.
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with over $3 million expended in fiscal year 72 alone. The final act in Allente's drama began to unfold. The departure of General Prats was a DIA memo saying, quote, removed the main mitigating factor against a coup, unquote. CIA agents reported to Langley that, quote, the military is united behind a coup and key Santiago regimental
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have pledged their support, unquote. Truckers staged another nationwide strike, obviously paid by the CIA. They got taxi drivers and other utility people to strike. Meat was becoming scarce, basic commodities like sugar and coffee. They had basically a naval blockade going on.
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so that you couldn't get goods in to the harbor. So they're in all-out mode at this point. Anti-government, basically the Gladio operators that they had set up, began dynamiting roads and tunnels and bridges. The CIA agent by the name of Jack Devine sent his superiors the news that everything was working.
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and you'll never guess what date the coup attempt was initiated on. September 11th, Devine wrote a cable. All three branches of the armed forces and the carabinieri are involved in this action. A declaration will be read on the radio on September 11th. They will assume responsibility for the country away from President Allente.
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And so at a birthday party for General Pinochet's younger daughter on September 9th, Chilean officers made their final decision to strike Alente. And Pinochet took one of his guests, another general that was in charge of the Air Force, to another part of the house and talked with the Navy commander. And basically they chose September 11th to initiate the coup.
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Allente spent these frantic days working on a proposal to call for a national peace. And basically, he gets told on September 11th that what's going on. And it was said that the coup proceeded methodically, just as Pinochet had predicted. Soldiers around the country had been called to duty.
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That morning, soon afterwards, they began securing the radio station, town halls, blah, blah, blah. And Alente learned of these developments by telephone at his official residence. His bodyguards made elaborate plans to defend the residence in an emergency, but he decided not to stay there. The presidential palace was basically the traditional seat of the democracy.
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and that's where he decided he was going. A convoy of four blue Fiats and a pickup truck screeched to a halt in front of the building on the morning of September 11th. President Alente was among the first to emerge. Around him were 23 bodyguards, each carrying automatic rifles. The squad also shared two .30 caliber machine guns and three bazookas. Alente carried
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A gun that Fidel Castro had given him that had been inscribed, Alente called them briefly together and told them that he had resolved to die at the nation's capital if necessary, and he was deploying them around the building. Soon after, Alente took a telephone call from one of the rebel commanders. They had decided to offer him free passage out of the country if he'd resign. Alente refused.
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He probably could not have escaped in any case since, according to tape recordings that surfaced later, Penashe was planning to shoot his plane down before it took off in Chilean airspace. At around 9 o'clock, he stepped onto the balcony for a final look over the Constitutional Square. Half an hour later, through a makeshift radio hookup, he addressed his last words to the people.
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He basically said, I will not resign. I will not do it. I am ready to resist by all means necessary, even if it costs me my life. Foreign capital, imperialism united with reaction, created the climate for the army to break with their tradition. Long live Chile. Long live the people. These are my last words. I am sure that my sacrifice will not be in vain. I will be sure it will be at least a moral lesson.
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and a rebuke to crime, cowardice, and treason. Soon after Alente delivered the impassioned farewell, infantry units began advancing on the palace over cover of artillery fire. Defenders fired back, men on both sides fell. Shortly before noon, two British made
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fighters were roared out of the sky they swooped down and fired at the palace striking so accurately one missile flew right through the palace's front door that some theorists later suggest the pilots must have been american because there's no way the chilean air force could have done that soon after 1 30 an infantry man finally reached the flaming palace a group of politicians and doctors
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had um basically uh were able to get in the infantry crashed past them onto the ground floor by one account their commander shouted upstairs for alente to surrender and according to another peniche himself made the final demand by telephone what is certain is that alente refused by mid-afternoon the shooting was over and he was dead so that's the end of the story and um
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So many of what we're going to learn in many of these countries across South America is very similar to this. And we're not going to go obviously through every single one of them, but we will go through enough to establish a pattern for how these things happen. And also, I want y'all to be comfortable.
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with the amount of documentation that is available as far as the documents that is used to support. This is a combination about three different books that I've read in all of the information. So it's important that...
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You know that the documentation is out there. The State Department's been involved. The CIA's been involved. And in some cases, our military has been involved. It is very unlikely at that time that it was a... I got it, Bridget. I'm seeing the notes. That the...
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Chilean Air Force was competent enough to do what was done. So it would be interesting if there was any documentation available as far as tasking orders in the Department of Defense on this particular one. But anyway, we're going to go ahead and open it up for questions. Go ahead, Bridget. Are you there, Bridget? Yes, ma'am. Sorry.
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Can you hear me now? I can. Okay, great. I think we're, I posted a lot of different historical links and other links down under the comments for people to dig in. And a lot of it just backs up pretty much everything that you have covered already. But it does look like we have.
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Someone raising their hand if you're ready to take some questions. Sure. Great. I guess my question would be in regards to what will come of all of it. I mean, if we're able to prove that we did things that we shouldn't have done, what would be the next step?
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Well, it's not a matter of proving. It's already been proven. The documents are all out there. They've had Senate testimony on all of this. This is a proven fact. This happened. We overthrew the government. What I'm trying to do, number one, is teach our real history. Have you ever been taught the fact that we overthrew the Chilean government? I haven't. No, no. And we wouldn't. But my question being is.
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Would there be some ramification or could we do something to guarantee it not happen again legally? Well, first of all, the way you guarantee it never happens again is you learn the history, which is we're on step one. Once you learn the history and you can identify the patterns of what our government is doing, because seeing when it's happening right now, because I can tell you right now unequivocally.
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Based on what I know about Operation Gladio, our government is currently trying to overthrow the Russian government. That attack was an Operation Gladio event in Moscow, and they murdered innocent civilians. And how do I know that? Because I have studied over 70 of these so far. I know what the patterns are. Do we need to wait for 20 years to know that our government did it?
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We don't need to wait anymore because we now know. The more of us that knows what is going on, the more of us that can speak out. We can go to congressional meetings in our local hometowns. We can explain all of this evidence to our congressional members before you even elect them. The first thing to me, the first thing that needs to be asked, do you know what Operation Gladio is and what are you going to do to hold our government accountable to make sure it never happens again? But if you don't know it,
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And if you're not here learning it, how are we ever going to hold them accountable in the future for doing it? It won't stop until we know it. Does that make sense? Yeah, I just I would like to see some not retribution, but but but some accountability for past events. And I don't know how.
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how far that would stretch. You know what I mean? Because there are a lot of people that may have been a part of it, like you'd mentioned before, that didn't know, but more so hitting the people that knew that were putting people in harm's way. I agree. I agree. Bridget, I'm going to have to, my screen is frozen, so I'm going to go out and come right back in. Sounds great. And thank you for the questions.
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deal with a little bit of technical issues. It seems that the spaces are always wrought with some, especially when you're bringing pretty good, powerful points. All right. Yeah, I don't know what happened to Liza. I guess she got dumped out too. These spaces have gotten really awful as far as the capability of them. But who's next?
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I think, SR, you had your hand up. Yes, thank you, Colonel. I've got a little more to add concerning Kissinger and the aftermath of all of this. Kissinger, believe it or not, was involved with Copper from the very onset. And why he didn't know what was going on there is beyond me. He knew. But in the end...
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He became director of Freeport McMoran. He sat on the board of directors for that and wound up with that company owning 51% of copper in Chile today. Yeah, he also was a big player in Indonesia. His name's come up repeatedly in...
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the book I'm reading about Indonesia. So, yeah. But again, I mean, that just makes sense because they're actually doing this for the international syndicate hat they wear, not for the government hat they wear. And all of these people that go in and out of the State Department and the Department of Defense, they're all part of the international syndicate. They just wear different hats. I agree, Colonel. Agree 100%. Thank you. Sure. Okay, I thank Mr. Hobart.
1:37:12
Hey, thanks, Bridget. Thanks for inviting me up, Colonel. There is there is a couple of two comments I primarily wanted to make listening in was that I would recommend that the listeners here consider the like the relevancy and the kind of like the impact of these moves with around copper and gold and how they were being portrayed and carried out just a short time right before Nixon took us off the gold standard.
1:37:41
Um, I would bet that a lot of this gold, cause like I, I'm also looking into the Indonesia topic and like the, I, I would argue that the gold is largely just off the books and illegally kept secret, not, not in the possession of any aspect of the U S government, which would probably be something that the public would like to know. Um, and then, uh, there's another aspect of like all of it. I liked how you, you, you refer to these people as jackals.
1:38:09
Because those that have read the book Confessions of an Economic Hitman, especially the most recent updated version, the part two, all of this stuff really plays in. I didn't know any of this about Chile, but there's a serious repetition of their strategies. It's a pattern. Yeah, yeah.
1:38:33
You're absolutely right. So I'd be interested in your take on Indonesia as well, once you get through the research, because we're probably going to walk on parallel paths here. So I will make sure, I'm obviously following you already, so that'll be great. Also, I think it's, your emphasis on the...
1:38:59
patterns part of this and the gold so i don't know are you familiar with golden lily and the fact that um all of the well 70 of the japanese gold that they got during world war ii ended up being buried on the philippines and a a large amount of it not i don't even know if half of it's been um extracted but
1:39:21
A large majority of what was extracted was on the black market because Marcos could not sell it on the open market because gold has fingerprints. And so they eventually got a guy in with some smelting capability to recast it with local gold to try to give it a Filipino-like fingerprint. But Marcos wanted the money.
1:39:51
And I mean, we're talking tens of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of pounds of gold, tons of gold that was taken out of the Philippines and put on the black market. Are you aware of that? I had heard about the golden lily aspect very, very lightly, but I was by no means privy to that amount of information.
1:40:15
The book called Gold Warriors, we just finished doing a book review on it as it relates to Operation Gladio, because a lot of the same players that did the CIA part.
1:40:31
of hiding the access to it, like the Ted Shackley's, the Paul Hellywell's, those were all involved in laundering the gold. They created the M Fund and two other funds that basically stashed this gold in banks. And even the people that legitimately had some of the gold as their quote unquote handling fee.
1:40:57
billions of it ended up in Citibank and some of the other like Swiss Bank, UBC, HSBC, and they were never allowed to retrieve the gold. It is sitting in these banks. And if someone comes with the right paperwork to get it, they just move it to another bank.
1:41:15
You're right. There is a huge amount of gold that is, even if it's in a bank, it's completely unaccounted for because it's sitting in accounts of the people that have already died and the banks are using it as leverage. Yeah. And then the last thing that I wanted to add as a comment, and then I'll yield to the rest of the individuals who want to speak. For those that are like all of us that are listening, I'm sure that like we're all listening because we like to.
1:41:44
really pay attention and kind of like delve into these topics. I was talking about this particular angle, the Indonesia angle with my father about a week or two ago. And he brought up an interesting pushback point that I think is very important or useful for all of us to kind of like be aware of, to be able to tackle when we're talking about this with our peers, because I think talking about these kinds of.
1:42:09
is very important for people to understand specifically what's going on, especially with the point that you brought up, Colonel, that I agree with, with recent events that were carried out in Moscow. When we're looking at, like, this kind of stuff, the operations get, like, they have a specific date as far as, like, the legal paperwork or the official paperwork.
1:42:30
And my father gave some pushback and he's like, well, that was at that point. Right. I'm like, okay. Yeah, sure. The quote unquote official operation was that it was carried out in this particular timeframe. But when you learn something, do you just not carry that strategy out into the future? Like, do you just stop doing something that works when you, when you find out how well it works? Like, no, like you're going to keep going. You're going to keep doing it. They're going to wrap it up into some other project. Like the interesting thing is that the,
1:43:00
whether you want to talk about Satanist or not. Like the, the interesting thing is that like these kinds of operations, they're actually leaving a trail of breadcrumbs throughout Hollywood. And people are completely unaware, like just right out in front of them. One of my, one of the best examples is actually the Jason Bourne trilogy. I'm talking about operation black writer.
1:43:22
Like they, they just, they just take everything that they've learned. They wrap it up into something else and then they put it into it so they can say that they're still documenting it. But it's just like, I don't know. It's just something to be aware of so we can get more people on board to understand just like how dark and pervasive this intelligence community has become. And it's like a completely rogue government. So it's what you're referring to as predictive programming when they put it into movies so that they sent, they normalize it.
1:43:50
as an activity, and that's the whole 007 James Bond thing. As a fiction, yeah. Yeah, so they normalize the spy is always good, and that's called predictive programming. The spy is always going to kill the bad guy or do whatever, and so they twist it just enough so that
1:44:18
You glamorize this CIA aspect to it while in fact what they're doing is downright deadly and millions of people end up dead as a result of it. There's nothing glamorous about it at all. And that's kind of my mantra at this point. As far as the...
1:44:41
The thing about a particular operation being over and then thinking that they're not going to do it again, that brings me right back to my comment about patterns. If I know that the particular pattern that was used in Ukraine in 2014 was used three other times.
1:45:00
all of which had to do with Operation Gladio, then I can tell you unequivocally that 2014 was an Operation Gladio, and here's the other three that look just like it. And that's why I decided to commit enough time out of my day to come here and bring this to everybody. So when you're having these conversations, as you just had, you can say, sure, Operation Gladio.
1:45:30
had a beginning after World War II. It has never ended. It is a generic term that is used for the U.S. and the IC at all, all of them, not just the CIA, but the MI6, the BND, the KCIA, all of them, Mossad, to go around and knock off foreign leaders.
1:45:57
and to wreak havoc in these countries. And the fact that they change, oh, well, we have these capabilities for anti-communists, and then we have these capabilities for radical Islamists. It doesn't matter who you're fighting. That's a tactic of an overall operation. And we're focused at the operational and strategic level while...
1:46:19
reviewing the details at the tactical level because the signature that it is one of these operations is by investigating the tactical level details. But if we focus on the operational and strategic level and we look across the horizon at how many times they've pulled off a particular operation based on a tactical fingerprint, if you will, it allows us to be able to put
1:46:49
the pieces together and see it for what it really is. It also allows you a certain amount of predictability. We knew when they released that New York Times article that they were going to hit Russia. It was so clear. And then a week before they hit Russia, the State Department said, basically, everybody needs to stay away from these following venues. It told you exactly what was going to happen. And once you know what their MO is,
1:47:19
All of us can all say at the same time, here's what's going to happen. And we will be able to see the telltale signs of it happening. Once you start calling your elective representatives and enough of us are smart enough to begin doing this, they can't hide anymore. And if the Congress continues to fail to take action, then we will have no other choice but to step up to the next level of.
1:47:49
peaceful resistance in this entire operation, because we are going to get so good at this that we are going to be able to have conversations with our congressional members. We're going to be able to forewarn them. And then at some point they can't ignore us anymore. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. You know, Allende definitely comes up in the Nixon tapes a lot.
1:48:21
And, you know, he talks a lot with Richard Helms about it. But one thing I wanted to raise is that Nixon was totally careless with a lot of stuff, including, you know, the whole Watergate break-in. I mean, obviously he had the smoking gun tape. But then on top of that, I mean, there's conversations with him at, you know, the Federal Administrative Building where he also had tape recordings with H.R. Haldeman.
1:48:49
In, like, late spring of 73, and he's basically saying, look, we can't let Congress find this stuff. We have to keep these people from testifying because then we're screwed. And he's basically just letting the entire cat out of the bag on the tapes. Now, he's also, I think, he talks about Allende. He also talks about ITT. There's this clearly a cozy relationship there.
1:49:18
He doesn't mention anything about a syndicate, at least not directly. So I guess my question for you is maybe the character of this is OK, yet Chile was clearly a CIA op. He's clearly talking about it with Richard Helms. It clearly has that fingerprint on it, which is kind of similar to other stuff that's happened more recently. But wouldn't it be fair to say, though,
1:49:45
That, yes, it's one cool club and we're not in it, like George Carlin would argue. But the syndicate doesn't really have a secret handshake or a secret password. And, you know, a a, you know, articles of incorporation here. It's just sort of more of these cozy relationships between Washington, D.C. politicians and big corporations. So if you're focused on my made up term.
1:50:14
And calling it a syndicate, if you understand the way a syndicate operates, it is not a formal relationship. It's not a secret society. It's not a secret handshake. It's a loosely aligned collective all operating towards a common goal. Their common goal is one world government. This is a syndicate. It's an international syndicate. They are all working collectively. And you also cannot separate.
1:50:43
a politician from a business owner. Most of these people, go back and look, a lot of the people that have been state departments, like John Foster Dulles was a lawyer for Cromwell, Sullivan and Cromwell. And he represented every large business, manufacturer, industrialist or whatever, of any elk for decades.
1:51:10
all while being the Secretary of State. The same thing with Alan Dulles. He worked at the same law firm. These people go in and out of government and while they're representing big businesses as lawyers at the same time. The same thing is true as Congress and with Senate. They are all one big club.
1:51:30
The fact that some days they wear a politician's hat, some days they wear a lobbyist's hat, and some days they wear a lawyer's hat or a CEO of a business. They all serve on each other's board of directors. They all get nice, low-interest home loans. They all get sweetheart deals. They are a syndicate. They work together collectively, not to our benefit, but to the benefit of themselves.
1:51:58
I think we're mostly on the same page. My only point is I don't think Nixon even realized it didn't even occur to him. OK, he's friendly with ITT. I scratch your back. You scratch mine. That's the way he's seeing this. He doesn't realize that the public would look at this and perceive it as totally corrupt. And we assume it was deliberate. All right. I disagree with you. This is just one element of Nixon of an overall.
1:52:26
I've looked at several of these coups that happened during both the time he was the vice president. Nixon was the vice president when this entire network was set up. He can't not know. He went to all of the meetings. He knows all about Operation Gladio. He was vice president for eight freaking years. He knows. This entire thing was set up on his watch. He wanted so desperately. As a matter of fact, I'll go one step further.
1:52:52
The M Fund that I just talked about that was part of Golden Lily, Nixon gave the M Fund management that was being managed by Senglib out of the CIA to Japan if Japan would give him money for the 1960s to run his campaign. And they did, and he lost. He's manipulated this entire system. He knows everything about it. He's not naive. He and the French president.
1:53:21
took out the entire Corsican mafia to switch the drug trafficking to Sicily out of Marseille, France, in order to give the CIA more power over the cocaine and heroin distribution network. He did that on purpose, knowingly did that. You raise some good points. Thank you. Okay. Yeah, I'm not talking about any of this in isolation.
1:53:52
And we will get to all of that when we get to the Europe. I just wanted to start in South America because so much of this, you can almost, in some cases, when you get to Europe and look at the one-upsmanship, you know, Germany's been at war with France, France has been at war. There's no reason to do any of this in South America, which is why I think it's more egregious.
1:54:19
These people have struggled their entire existence of being colonies and being all of this other stuff. None of that stuff applies to Europe. To me, it's just more pathetic that our government would be doing this in South America. And the fact that we had...
1:54:37
the school of America is down there. There's just so much of it there. That's why I wanted to start there. Plus it's in the Western hemisphere. They're like our neighbors. There was no reason to be doing this shit to these people. Um, but anyway, all right, what do we got? Um, SR 71 go. Um, yeah, Colonel, since, since the, uh, subject of the goal was brought up.
1:55:03
The question I have, and the gentleman's name escapes me, the one that burned the original maps and sent pictures back to the States, did they ever recover all of those pictures that he took? Well, what he's talking about in the book, Gold Warriors, the Japanese had created some very sophisticated maps of all of the three sets of them.
1:55:30
of each place of 175 sites that they buried gold. And there was one person that had all but three of the maps, and he still had the last that I knew, the copies that he had made, because as you articulated, his copies of the maps, the official maps, were all burnt. Now, keep in mind,
1:56:00
He only had 172 of them. The three was kept by the kid, Ben, that had escorted the Japanese prince around to all of the different locations. So there was never an indication what happened to those last three maps. And the copies of the maps that the miner from Nevada had, he still has. So go ahead.
1:56:29
Okay, so in other words, there's still more maps out there that have not been discovered. Correct. Besides the three. Well, the three has never been worked at all because Ben kept those copies of the official maps. The miner never had them. Of the 172 that he had, about half of the actual gold deposits or hidden places are still never been excavated. Okay, thank you. Yeah, sure.
1:57:00
Miles, go ahead. Colonel, this episode is really close to my subject of expertise. So the timeline is really interesting as far as what was happening in Chile because my father met with Nixon in 1972 and an expedition was approved. Now they had to go to Chile and they, you know that I'm interested in...
1:57:31
aviation, they bought a Lockheed 1049 Super Constellation for the expedition. And they were sitting for two months in Port of Williams. That's the southernmost airport to go to a certain place that I will not talk about. So just that they could even do this during this period of time.
1:58:01
It's really interesting that they were allowed to fly down there when all this was going on. Just wanted to point that out. Thank you. Thank you. Does anybody else have any other questions? I did want to add, you know, back to Ilanai's question earlier and how he was talking about some of the government officials not being aware or being aware and something that you always bring up.
1:58:36
and that is we all have people in history that we believed were not corrupted or were naive or were still the good guy, still trying to do the right thing. And unfortunately, through all of our research, I believe every one of us has had our heroes toppled, even and including Reagan. You know, we all...
1:59:06
thought there was oh this one was the the guy this one was the guy that you know actually did good things but the digger and it's funny because the deeper you dig the more you realize that they are just they're just as corrupt as the other ones we just it just depends on how much the news covered it and how many people talked about it and the more we expose these repetition and patterns repetition and patterns
1:59:38
We steal their power. They have the power to manipulate us through newscasts, through manipulating mass casualty events. And the more we call them out for what they're doing, the faster it, you know, the more it becomes we recognize those patterns. And we steal their power to do that. I agree. Sally, did you want to say something? Yeah, I just had a question.
2:00:09
When you did your bullet points or your write-up on Felix, was there only seven of them? Seven what? So you did the Tucker Carlson interview that you did with a guy from Cuba that was part of Gladio. Rodriguez, yeah. Yeah, so on your timeline, you had like seven things to your thread. Was that all that you wrote about it or was there more? I'd have to go back and look.
2:00:41
I'll look while we're talking. I don't remember. Okay. I was going to do a show tonight and we were going to watch the Tucker interview, but I wanted to go after watching it through gladiolus. And then I wanted to go over your point afterward. Well, I'm flattered. But yeah, I'll go back and look and make sure I usually put end at the end of it. So I'll go back and look.
2:01:11
OK, it could be later. I'm going to do it at 8 p.m. Mountain. So whenever you get time is fine. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. Go ahead, Michael. So as far as the, you know, Nixon knowing what was going on, I mean, again, by the way you make it sound, you know, he had to have known what was going on. Was there a point that he.
2:01:38
kind of switch sides in a sense, or, or, I mean, I know that him and Kissinger had a riff and I, and I know, you know, I just, I'm trying to figure out how, because we know he was set up. We know he was on, he was outed. So my question being is, did he have a change of heart? Do we know anything about why Nixon was all of a sudden set up? So, um,
2:02:07
There are several theories out there. I'm still based on I'm creating a timeline of these coups and the politics surrounding each one of them. There were several things going on. Nixon may have taken one for the team in some other things that were going on around the same time frame.
2:02:36
There was a lot of unrest. We have simultaneously, we have a lot of the weather underground things going on back then as well. And you can never discount anything. So I have an open mind. I do know like Kennan is a good example of that. Kennan was in the middle of all of the hype of anti-communist giving.
2:03:04
When to the creation of the Operation Gladio units all over Europe, he assisted in the narrative, creating this entire apparatus. But he did later on have a change of heart as he, I mean, like decades later. And he began writing about things, basically saying that he was wrong in what he had done.
2:03:31
I don't discount any of that. I try to keep an open mind about all of it, but I can unequivocally say in the timeframe of what was going on in Chile, he absolutely knew and he was part of it. And I think that's the most important part of all of this. Being a military officer, that was one of the things when we went to a geographical combatant commander, we all...
2:04:06
because of the way we were raised or our religion or whatever, we go into things with preconceived ideas. One of the things that we were taught to do is to analyze things objectively and put, it's basically compartmentalization. When you go to work, especially when you're doing intelligence work, you have to lock away your religious bents when you're dealing with.
2:04:33
religions that are not your own, you have to lock away your cultural preferences or preconceived ideas and look at things based on the culture of the people that you're evaluating while making assessments, because otherwise your assessments are tainted.
2:04:53
It is one of the things that is the most hardest to do for people who grew up in America and have never traveled and been exposed to different cultures. It is hard to see the world through other people's eyes when all you've ever been is American. So that is one of the things I think that allows people that have been previously in the military and lived all over the world.
2:05:22
to look at these things in an objective manner. And like Bridget said, we have like straw men. We say, this is what we think this means. This is what we think happened here. And then five steps down the road, we'll go, that's a wrong assumption. Let's go back here and we'll go down a different road that maybe this person had ill.
2:05:52
intent. And you can, by pattern recognition, you keep readjusting everything. And literally, I've had to go back and reread books based on new information that came out of a different book in order for me to be able to reconcile the two. Because sometimes we'll make a hypothesis based on something that is in one book, only for it to be proven.
2:06:21
or disproven in a different book because it wasn't necessarily addressed in book number one. It just seemed like a logical conclusion. When you get more information, you then have to go back and kind of change it up a little bit.
2:06:36
We've been at this for about nine months. I feel I will not present anything that I'm not 100% crystal clear that has happened and that I've confirmed the authors on which I'm presenting that if I haven't actually seen the documents myself, that it's been written about in papers. I don't use just one paper, multiple confirmations that this in fact did happen type of thing.
2:07:06
so that we can all ensure that we're on the same sheet of music and we're actually learning the real history, not another fake version of it. So Liza just found that post that I made in response. No, no, there's, I'm up to 27. It looks like there's 31, maybe more. Oh no, there's more.
2:07:39
You know I couldn't do it in just seven. That's what I thought. That's why last night when I was copying and pasting it into a PowerPoint to make sure that I had it, I was like, there can't be seven of these because she does at least 100. So I was like, I'm not asking. There can't be seven of them. And I did write. I'll try and post it in the comments. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's hilarious. Yeah, I definitely got super excited about that.
2:08:13
I still can't believe Tucker Carlson had that hitman sitting across the table from him. He should fire every part of his security staff. That's just unbelievable to me. And I'm sure he went there to case the entire thing out. There's no way I've ever let that guy in my house. I know he lives on an island, but it's not his island. It has multiple houses on it off the coast of Florida. And I can't believe he let him in. I'm just still dumbfounded by it.
2:08:42
As much as Tucker Carlson has been a news reporter, he's still naive about a lot of the things in the world because he was, you know, giving stories, right? Report on this, report on that. And I think his eyes are starting to open up a little bit. Yeah, he had a cold-blooded killer sitting across the table from him. But anyway, that's on him. What do you got, Michael? Well, I'm just kind of wondering.
2:09:10
You know, as far as Gladio goes and we're a centralized, you know, I guess I would assume Pentagon. But going into this a little bit, I keep noticing a lot of information about Frankfurt, about Germany. And I was wondering if there's more information in regards to this and why Germany.
2:09:35
It is not ran out of the Pentagon. It's ran out of NATO. That's number one. NATO had two organizations. One was called the Clandestine Planning Committee and the Allied Clandestine Committee. The CPC and the ACC were the two entities within NATO that ran the Operation Gladio program at all. But there were other...
2:09:58
front organizations like the World Anti-Communist League that posed as front companies or front entities for planning and for coordination. And there were subsets of that organization that were more geographical, like the Americas. There's one for the Caribbean. There was one for Europe under the guise, again, of anti-communist.
2:10:24
The reason why a lot of it focuses around Germany is for a couple of reasons. Number one, it was primarily created, the current version of it was primarily created by Hitler's Germany under the guise of Reinhard Galen. And Reinhard Galen, even after World War II, is kept on and kept out of Nuremberg, even though he should have been hung.
2:10:54
to be the Chancellor Adenauer's first West Germany's chief of intel. And it is SS General Reinhard Galen that created the German BND, which is their version of the CIA. And because of his close proximity to Otto Skorzeny, who eventually goes to Franco-Spain,
2:11:24
Otto Skorzeny has a very close working relationship for many years with Galen, and he becomes the Gladio trainer at all. He designs missions for assassinations. He sometimes actually goes on the mission if it's most critical, and he organizes all the training for decades, at least two decades, for the original.
2:11:52
cadres of Operation Gladio operators all over the world. They cycle them in through these training camps in Spain, on the Canary Islands, and off the coast of Italy and Sardinia. And so a lot of this focused around the residual capability of the stay-behind creators in Germany. Sally, go ahead.
2:12:25
I was just going to ask you, how come you don't multi-stream to X as well as Rumble? How come I don't stream to X and Rumble on my book reviews? Yeah. I have been. Oh, okay. I didn't realize that you were streaming to X. I was like, it's a great opportunity to reach more people. So I just started on this book we're doing right now.
2:12:49
The golden, the gold, um, warrior book, I had already gotten halfway through it before I decided I was going to even do a stream. I had never done one, um, until like two or three weeks ago. So we were already halfway through, um, gold, um, warrior. And I didn't think that would be a good place to start halfway through a book. So the book that we just started, Gladio, um, the dagger in the heart, NATO, um,
2:13:17
uh nato's dagger in the heart of europe that book we just started we're still on the first chapter and i have been streaming them 2x so okay well we've been at this for two hours um we're good for the day
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“So, anyway, we're going to go ahead and get started. We're going to talk about Chile today. Chile. And a lot of people would be like, what? Do they have stuff going on in Chile? Well, as I have indica…”
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“The telephone and telegraph company, the ITT, was a front company for the CIA. And that they, because if you had them in your country, they could spy on everything that was on the television or teleph…”
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▶ 9:23
“What he told me, the board member later said, was that he was prepared to put as much as a million dollars in support of any plan that was adopted by the government for the purpose of bringing about o…”
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“What he told me, the board member later said, was that he was prepared to put as much as a million dollars in support of any plan that was adopted by the government for the purpose of bringing about o…”
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“And now you know why the former director of the CIA is on as a board member of ITT, because ITT is a front company. It's another way of spying on the world. McCone had joined ITT less than a year afte…”
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“Richard Helms, who was the current CIA director. A covert campaign in Chile could not be launched without an order from the president. Edwards undertook to secure that order. He chose his old friend a…”
Richard Nixon appointed
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“You see how they do that? Pepsi-Cola lubricated these relationships with Kendall and hired Nixon to be the company's international legal counsel in the mid-60s, when Nixon was in political wilderness …”
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Salvador Allende book_quoted
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“He never wavered in his determination to bring Alente down from that moment on. He had been triggered into action, Kissinger said. Immediately after hearing from Kendall, Nixon sent him to meet with K…”
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“Their meeting lasted only 13 minutes. Nixon was so explicit with no more time was needed. The Chilean law, Congress had to certify Alente's election within 15 days after 50, sorry, days after the elec…”
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Salvador Allende host_asserted
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“Their meeting lasted only 13 minutes. Nixon was so explicit with no more time was needed. The Chilean law, Congress had to certify Alente's election within 15 days after 50, sorry, days after the elec…”
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▶ 15:05
“become a classic documentation in the history of diplomacy and covert action. And I'm going to, it has bullets. I'm going to read to you the bullets. One in 10 chance, perhaps, but save Chile. Worth s…”
CIA funded
Eduardo Frei book_quoted
▶ 27:06
“Frey, his opponent, would defeat Alente in the 1964 election, paying more than half the cost of his campaign. He won easily over the next four years the CIA spent. It doesn't say. I didn't write down …”
CIA trained
Chile book_quoted
▶ 28:06
“newswire and a right-wing weekly newspaper, the U.S. also intensified its long effort to cultivate friends in the Chilean military. Between 1950 and 1969, nearly 4,000 Chilean officers were trained at…”
United States supplied_arms_to
Chile book_quoted
▶ 28:35
“where they teach you how to assassinate, torture, and kidnap people. So students learned a rigorous counterinsurgency doctrine there that equated to Marxism with treason, all in the name of democracy,…”
Henry Kissinger headed
Committee of 40 book_quoted
▶ 31:54
“which was composed of the country's top national security officials. Kissinger effectively ran the committee. When he proposed an action, the others approved. His old friend, David Rockefeller, whose …”
David Rockefeller funded
Salvador Allende book_quoted
▶ 31:54
“which was composed of the country's top national security officials. Kissinger effectively ran the committee. When he proposed an action, the others approved. His old friend, David Rockefeller, whose …”
Lawrence Eagleburger member_of
Henry Kissinger host_asserted
▶ 35:50
“One of Kissinger's longtime associates was a guy by the name of Lawrence Eagleburger. He concluded he was guided by principles that are the opposite to American experience. In other words, whatever it…”
Committee of 40 funded
Salvador Allende documented
▶ 36:51
“and told the ambassador, quote, I am not interested in nor do I know anything about the southern portion of the world from the Pyrenees down, unquote. A year later, he heard from Edwards and everythin…”
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Salvador Allende documented
▶ 40:17
“He met with his covert action team and they proposed a plan that President Nixon had decided that Alente's regime in Chile was not acceptable to the U.S. Nixon had, quote, asked the agency to prevent …”
CIA funded
Patria y Libertad documented
▶ 49:49
“Fatherland and Liberty, which had received $40,000 from the CIA, staged a rally in Santiago. CIA quietly contacted nearly two dozen military officers and those who seemed open to the idea of staging a…”
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
Salvador Allende documented
▶ 56:03
“Kissinger later claimed that he turned off the plot against General Snyder and called off track two before it was ever implemented. Minutes of the meeting, however, record no such action. They say tha…”
CIA supplied_arms_to
Roberto Viaux documented
▶ 57:31
“maximum good fortune. Soon the CIA sent those officers more than good wishes. The bounty came inside of a diplomatic pouch and arrived at the airport on October 21st. It was a package containing three…”
Roberto Viaux assassinated
René Schneider documented
▶ 58:24
“A Jeep struck his chauffeur-driven car. Five men surrounded it. One smashed the rear window with a sledgehammer. Accounts differ on whether or not it was Snyder, but a pistol was drawn to defend himse…”
Bank for International Settlements financed_via
Chile documented
▶ 1:04:09
“Citing the reduction, canceled the scheduled $21 million loan intended to pay for the new Boeing jets for Chile's National Airlines. That's almost kind of funny at this point. The World Bank, the Amer…”
Export-Import Bank financed_via
Chile documented
▶ 1:04:09
“Citing the reduction, canceled the scheduled $21 million loan intended to pay for the new Boeing jets for Chile's National Airlines. That's almost kind of funny at this point. The World Bank, the Amer…”
CIA funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
▶ 1:06:37
“They formed Operation Gladio units in the paramilitary realm to create havoc. Soon after Alente's inauguration, most of the leading American companies active in Chile, including ITT, Kennecott, Anacon…”
Salvador Allende targeted_for_regime_change
CIA host_asserted
▶ 1:11:34
“CIA's chaos plan. Allente could never move quick enough to satisfy his most radical supporters. The U.S. was engaged in a multi-layer campaign against him. The anti-Allente project had been underway f…”
Richard Nixon appointed
Richard Helms host_asserted
▶ 1:15:36
“In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United …”
Richard Nixon removed_from_power
Richard Helms host_asserted
▶ 1:15:36
“In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United …”
Richard Nixon appointed
Nathaniel Davis host_asserted
▶ 1:15:36
“In Washington, Nixon was overhauling his Chilean team. He had already replaced Ambassador Corey with another career diplomat, Nathaniel Davis, who had been serving in Guatemala. After Alente's United …”
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Carlos Prats documented
▶ 1:18:58
“Only way to remove Pratt's would appear to be abduction or assassination, unquote, CIA agents in Santiago reported in a cable to Langley. Allante is a desperate attempt to head off the inevitable. Had…”
CIA trained
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
▶ 1:20:48
“And while in Panama, talked with the more junior U.S. officers he knew from the days of School of Americas, which is where he was trained, and was told U.S. will support the coup against Alente in wha…”
Committee of 40 funded
CIA host_asserted
▶ 1:21:43
“approving another $1 million to further destabilize Chile. And it was used to basically begin bribing political parties. By the CIA's own reckoning, it brought $6.5 million to be the total that was sp…”
CIA funded
Chilean Army host_asserted
▶ 1:22:39
“have pledged their support, unquote. Truckers staged another nationwide strike, obviously paid by the CIA. They got taxi drivers and other utility people to strike. Meat was becoming scarce, basic com…”
Augusto Pinochet assassinated
Salvador Allende host_asserted
▶ 1:28:27
“had um basically uh were able to get in the infantry crashed past them onto the ground floor by one account their commander shouted upstairs for alente to surrender and according to another peniche hi…”
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Salvador Allende host_asserted
▶ 1:32:03
“Well, it's not a matter of proving. It's already been proven. The documents are all out there. They've had Senate testimony on all of this. This is a proven fact. This happened. We overthrew the gover…”
CIA carried_out_attack
Soviet Union host_asserted
▶ 1:32:59
“Based on what I know about Operation Gladio, our government is currently trying to overthrow the Russian government. That attack was an Operation Gladio event in Moscow, and they murdered innocent civ…”
Freeport-McMoRan secretly_owned
Chile guest_asserted
▶ 1:36:04
“He became director of Freeport McMoran. He sat on the board of directors for that and wound up with that company owning 51% of copper in Chile today. Yeah, he also was a big player in Indonesia. His n…”
Henry Kissinger member_of
Freeport-McMoRan guest_asserted
▶ 1:36:04
“He became director of Freeport McMoran. He sat on the board of directors for that and wound up with that company owning 51% of copper in Chile today. Yeah, he also was a big player in Indonesia. His n…”
Ted Shackley laundered_money_for
M-Fund host_asserted
▶ 1:40:31
“of hiding the access to it, like the Ted Shackley's, the Paul Hellywell's, those were all involved in laundering the gold. They created the M Fund and two other funds that basically stashed this gold …”
Paul Hellyer laundered_money_for
M-Fund host_asserted
▶ 1:40:31
“of hiding the access to it, like the Ted Shackley's, the Paul Hellywell's, those were all involved in laundering the gold. They created the M Fund and two other funds that basically stashed this gold …”
M-Fund financed_via
Citigroup host_asserted
▶ 1:40:57
“billions of it ended up in Citibank and some of the other like Swiss Bank, UBC, HSBC, and they were never allowed to retrieve the gold. It is sitting in these banks. And if someone comes with the righ…”
M-Fund financed_via
UBS host_asserted
▶ 1:40:57
“billions of it ended up in Citibank and some of the other like Swiss Bank, UBC, HSBC, and they were never allowed to retrieve the gold. It is sitting in these banks. And if someone comes with the righ…”
M-Fund financed_via
HSBC host_asserted
▶ 1:40:57
“billions of it ended up in Citibank and some of the other like Swiss Bank, UBC, HSBC, and they were never allowed to retrieve the gold. It is sitting in these banks. And if someone comes with the righ…”
CIA member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
▶ 1:45:30
“had a beginning after World War II. It has never ended. It is a generic term that is used for the U.S. and the IC at all, all of them, not just the CIA, but the MI6, the BND, the KCIA, all of them, Mo…”
Mossad member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
▶ 1:45:30
“had a beginning after World War II. It has never ended. It is a generic term that is used for the U.S. and the IC at all, all of them, not just the CIA, but the MI6, the BND, the KCIA, all of them, Mo…”
Richard Nixon spied_on
Salvador Allende documented
▶ 1:47:49
“peaceful resistance in this entire operation, because we are going to get so good at this that we are going to be able to have conversations with our congressional members. We're going to be able to f…”
Allen Dulles member_of
Sullivan & Cromwell documented
▶ 1:50:43
“a politician from a business owner. Most of these people, go back and look, a lot of the people that have been state departments, like John Foster Dulles was a lawyer for Cromwell, Sullivan and Cromwe…”
Allen Dulles member_of
Sullivan & Cromwell documented
▶ 1:51:10
“all while being the Secretary of State. The same thing with Alan Dulles. He worked at the same law firm. These people go in and out of government and while they're representing big businesses as lawye…”
Richard Nixon funded
M-Fund host_asserted
▶ 1:52:52
“The M Fund that I just talked about that was part of Golden Lily, Nixon gave the M Fund management that was being managed by Senglib out of the CIA to Japan if Japan would give him money for the 1960s…”
Japan funded
Richard Nixon host_asserted
▶ 1:52:52
“The M Fund that I just talked about that was part of Golden Lily, Nixon gave the M Fund management that was being managed by Senglib out of the CIA to Japan if Japan would give him money for the 1960s…”
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Mafia host_asserted
▶ 1:53:21
“took out the entire Corsican mafia to switch the drug trafficking to Sicily out of Marseille, France, in order to give the CIA more power over the cocaine and heroin distribution network. He did that …”
George F. Kennan member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
▶ 2:03:04
“When to the creation of the Operation Gladio units all over Europe, he assisted in the narrative, creating this entire apparatus. But he did later on have a change of heart as he, I mean, like decades…”
Allied Clandestine Committee headed
Operation Gladio documented
▶ 2:09:35
“It is not ran out of the Pentagon. It's ran out of NATO. That's number one. NATO had two organizations. One was called the Clandestine Planning Committee and the Allied Clandestine Committee. The CPC …”
NATO headed
Allied Clandestine Committee documented
▶ 2:09:35
“It is not ran out of the Pentagon. It's ran out of NATO. That's number one. NATO had two organizations. One was called the Clandestine Planning Committee and the Allied Clandestine Committee. The CPC …”
World Anti-Communist League front_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
▶ 2:09:58
“front organizations like the World Anti-Communist League that posed as front companies or front entities for planning and for coordination. And there were subsets of that organization that were more g…”
Reinhard Gehlen appointed
Konrad Adenauer documented
▶ 2:10:54
“to be the Chancellor Adenauer's first West Germany's chief of intel. And it is SS General Reinhard Galen that created the German BND, which is their version of the CIA. And because of his close proxim…”
Otto Skorzeny trained
Operation Gladio host_asserted
▶ 2:11:24
“Otto Skorzeny has a very close working relationship for many years with Galen, and he becomes the Gladio trainer at all. He designs missions for assassinations. He sometimes actually goes on the missi…”
Operation Gladio founded
West Germany host_asserted
▶ 2:11:52
“cadres of Operation Gladio operators all over the world. They cycle them in through these training camps in Spain, on the Canary Islands, and off the coast of Italy and Sardinia. And so a lot of this …”