Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17

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0:00 Can you hear me, Colonel? I am muted. Can you hear me? I can hear you fine. Can you hear me? Yes, ma'am. Now I can hear you. That's weird. Same here. I was down below and I couldn't hear a thing. I thought it was me. Okay. So did you not hear anything for the whole time? No. I heard it all on rumble. Oh, my gosh. This is so crazy. Why won't they just let us have our spaces in peace?

0:32 Amen. I mean, they got to make it trigonometry, right? All right. I'm sorry for you guys on Rumble. I'm going to have to start this over again. Just bear with me. So basically, you have Stanfield Turner coming in as the DCI into this CIA, the director, and Bush is gone.

0:57 They try to manipulate, they being Shackley and Klein, who's going to serve as Stanfield Turner's deputy. And they first push off a guy by the name of Admiral Daniel Murphy, who we've come across in the past. And Turner knows too much about him, knows he's one of the deep state players, so he passes on him. That ticks everybody off.

1:26 He ends up firing the current deputy, Hank Nolte, and he wants to fire Shackley and Klein, but he's kind of waved off on doing that and takes all of his venom out on Nolke, which you spell his name K-N-O-C-H-E. Then Wisenberger and Loomis get fired. So this is kind of, you see the,

1:56 Halloween massacre that people talk about where almost a thousand CIA officers get the axe. Well, now you can see why, because they're basically all criminals. And he's Turner, to his credit, starts almost immediately in getting rid of all these people. But they basically trick him into by spreading rumors that they all hate Carlucci. Frank Carlucci, who.

2:27 has been in both sides, both Democrat and Republican administration, because he's actually an intel operative himself that has been infiltrated over several decades into all kinds of nefarious things. And he was currently at the time the ambassador to Portugal. And Portugal, as we know, plays a critical role in arms trafficking.

2:57 That's where some of the arms got caught up in customs in the Iran-Contra affair. So, and by the way, it was for the very long time a fascist organization because the Genter Press, part of Operation Gladio, was staged out of Portugal. So, wouldn't surprise me to find Frank Carlucci there. So, Frank Carlucci becomes the...

3:29 deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush appointed to the directorship of the CIA to begin with. So they're all big one happy family. Carlucci is also very close to General Richard Secord, who of course is going to be

3:58 front and center in the Iran-Contra affair, but he shows up in Operation Gladio all over to include Vietnam forward. And General Secord at the time, which it seems like everybody is, is in Iran. He is in charge of the Chief of Military Aid Office in Iran. And Erich von Marbog was the Defense Security Assistance Administration, which is basically like military aid.

4:27 point of contact. And according to Shirley Brill, the girlfriend of Klein, you have Carlucci and Shackley being very, very good friends. Shackley and Klein and Carlucci all worked together on the Chilean operation to overthrow Allende, which resulted in his assassination. Carlucci also was Richard Nixon's OMB director, which

4:57 He's the one that facilitated all the funds going to the Chilean operation to murder Allende. So by the summer of 1977, when Carlucci could be installed, Turner declared open war against the Directorate of Operations. He decided that both Shackley and William Wells, which was supposedly Shackley's boss, had to leave.

5:26 Turner reassigned both men to what he believed was meaningless jobs. Shackley's colleagues in the DO, the demotion was basically a body blow to a small, very close-knit group of covert operators. Although he could have retired, Shackley remained and acted as if the change in his career didn't bother him. He now had one primary goal, and that was to get rid of Jimmy Carter and Turner.

5:53 Shackley did not leave the CIA for almost two more years, and what happened inside the CIA while he was still there was nothing short of remarkable. When Turner began to dig deeper, he learned that an internal CIA study had recommended 1,350 positions in the Directorate of Operations be eliminated over five years, and that George H.W. Bush had failed to implement the reduction. In fact,

6:21 Bush had taken no action on it at all. In August 1977, Turner ordered the CIA to reduce the Directorate of Operations by 823 positions within two years. The DO sent out the cable firing 823 veteran case officers on Halloween. Inside the agency, the event became known as the Halloween Massacre. Turner was not ridding the agency of young, low-level employees, but CIA veterans.

6:49 With the firings, the agency had a full-scale mutiny on its hands. Jimmy Carter had taken on a force he didn't understand. Turner's act fell on veterans of some of the most legendary operations. It seemed that Turner was deliberately destroying the shrines once considered untouchable inside the CIA. The new head of DO, John McMahon, tried to rationalize his cable firing some of the CIA's top veterans.

7:19 It was because of budget cuts, not incompetency or your association with shady figures. One of the telegrams that went to Vienna, firing station chief George Weiss, W-E-I-S-Z. Weiss had been Shackley's colleague in Berlin in the early days. He was later his deputy in Vietnam. For Weiss, however, there was never a break in his government service. He was rushed to the top security job.

7:49 at the nation's nuclear weapons complex. And unfortunately, what we found out in the aftermath of doing all of the research that we've done is most of these people that were quote-unquote fired from the CIA didn't actually go anywhere, nor did they really have a change of jobs. They basically were embedded in other organizations still doing their CIA enterprise mission.

8:19 Just not under the direction because some people have the misnomer that they think the CIA actually works for the executive branch. They've never worked for the executive branch in any way, shape or form. They work for the International Syndicate. Their orders come from NATO. Their plans come from NATO. Their training comes from NATO. And they have all of these off the books training apparatuses that.

8:48 For example, we'll get to it, but I'll give you guys a sneak peek. Part of the World Anti-Communist League was to set up a school in Taiwan that we find almost every operator, in addition to attending School of Americas, that was kind of like their, for military, like their three-level school, like going in and being your introductory tech school. But the advanced school,

9:16 was in Taiwan that Chiang Kai-shek set up. That all of the people in South America and many of the people in Europe went to that school too. The master's degree was in Israel for a one year in residence. So they've got all of these off the book training apparatuses that they've set up in order to teach all of these people how to be paramilitary terrorists. So crazy.

9:48 Crazy, crazy. All right. So we've got a CIA guy going over to be in charge of nuclear weapons. Nothing to see here. Herbert Klaus, K-O-U-T-S, was the official at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Weiss told him that both George Bush and James Angleton had been instrumental in putting Weiss where he was in the nuclear program.

10:20 At the time that Bush was CIA director, Wise headed the Foreign Intelligence Division of the Directorate of Operations. One former Bush deputy said that Bush liked Wise for his directness. Wise's predecessor at the Energy Department was Admiral Harvey Lyons, L-Y-O-N. The people I worked with, this is a quote, the people I worked with out there were quite startled and upset with the appointment of Mr. Wise.

10:50 Weiss's new colleagues quickly discovered that their boss not only had no advanced degree in math or physics or any experience in nuclear safeguards or material handling, but that he did not have the slightest technical inclination in any of those areas. To these technocrats, Weiss was a cipher they could not break. Weiss made it clear that from the start, he would be there doing international travel.

11:19 and wasn't really there to do any job that had anything to do with nuclear. Shackley now had a man at the top of American nuclear security. By the time of the Halloween massacre, Turner had issued a former letter of reprimand to Tom Clines. Clines realized that his agency career was no longer of any use to Shackley. He took Shackley's advice and applied for retirement at the end of 1977.

11:47 By now, Shackley was well on his way to establishing a private intelligence network that I refer to as the Enterprise. Shackley's move against Wilson's operation was to take over from Wilson the most successful business front operation the CIA had ever used. The scope did not matter once he had the tools Wilson had created. The private intelligence network would expand out of Wilson's old operation. You just got to get rid of Wilson.

12:17 It was in the fall of 1977 that Wilson's top assistant, Roberta, who went by Bobby, excuse me, Barnes, met Clines for the first time. On a Saturday morning with her son, Mark, she opened the door to Wilson's Washington townhouse with her key and was startled to find two men inside. She demanded to know what was going on. A man she would later learn was Clines said to her.

12:47 I'm Pierre and it's okay. We are checking for bugs. With Klein's was Chi-Chi Cuatero. And rather than checking for bugs, they were actually placing bugs inside Wilson's offices. Klein suggested that Barnes call Don Lowers, L-O-W-E-R-S, who could confirm his story according to Wilson and Mike Pilgrim. Lowers was the disgraced.

13:16 who purported financial genius and purported financial genius who was in prison in Ohio when Wilson first visited him. Four months later, through a series of maneuvers, Wilson Lowers was released and went to work. Excuse me. Let me go back. Wilson got Lowers out of prison and then he went to work for Wilson.

13:44 But before long, despite what Wilson had done for him, Lowers was actually working for Klein. It was Lowers who had originally hired Barnes as a bookkeeper. Barnes was essentially Wilson's paymaster. She passed cash to Klein's and Paul Steer while they were both still in the government payroll. She flipped Klein's white envelopes with tens of thousands of dollars in cash in venues ranging from restaurants,

14:14 to Wilson's townhouse, to parking lots. After a few months, Wilson decided that he could trust Barnes and made her his office manager. By 1978, she was his mistress as well. As Wilson's girlfriend, Barnes found herself socializing with Climes, Secord, Shackley, and Von Marbach all over the world. Secord took her and her son flying in his Beechcraft.

14:44 aircraft that Wilson had bought for his youth. Secord's code name, assigned by Kline, was the Little General. Like Shirley Brill, Barnes witnessed Wilson preparing intelligence reports for Shackley and Kline on activities in Libya, and she witnessed payoffs to other government officials later. Barnes became the conduit for messages among Shackley, Kline, Von Marbog, Secord, and Wilson.

15:13 Although Clines had put in for his retirement and Shackley was no longer in the Directorate of Operations, they continued to task Wilson as if everything was still normal. They also sent taskings to Slatter and Quintero for information about Libya. According to Barnes, she was present when Clines gave a document to Slatter requesting that Wilson try to get a long list of

15:42 Soviet weapons that were inside of Libya. Barnes would later testify that she flew with Schachter to Geneva and waited with him when Swiss customs delayed him to examine the shopping list for Soviet weapons. She then saw him give Wilson the list. That meant that Clines was collecting intelligence after he had been put out for retirement. And after Schachtley

16:11 had been given a different job. The secret documents from which Shirley Brill had seen Klein and Quintero removing the markings of were not just CIA, but they were also from Mossad and Saudi. Klein's meeting with Secord and the CIA officials were merely a way to protect the identity of Shackley's real customers. The Wilson companies that Shackley and Klein used

16:41 to collect intelligence were multiplying. Wilson had offices in London, Geneva, as well as his townhouse in Washington, while he himself was in Libya making contact. Now, what's interesting, as I went through this book, these companies that Wilson sets up looks a whole lot like all of the places BCCI had branches of operation. And we know...

17:11 that BCCI was used all the way up until the early 90s for these transactions. Wilson's first solo, that is after Turple, and with the contract with Libya, was for a small $200,000 deal to furnish clothing and parachutes from the United States. That got him in. So for a small company, we were able to get quite a few contracts that way.

17:42 Thanks to Klein, Wilson had a high-level contact in the Defense Intelligence Agency named Waldo Duberstein. I can't spell this one. D-U-B-B-E-R-S-T-E-I-N. Duberstein supplied Wilson information to feed to the Libyans on their Egyptian enemies. According to Douglas Flathor, Duberstein gave Wilson

18:11 Details on everything from personal information on the Egyptian leadership to Egyptian troop and equipment movements. Slatter told the FBI that Wilson paid Duberstein's travel expenses and several thousand dollars for each report. According to Wilson and government documents, one of the issues that Jack Lee wanted Wilson to look into was whether the military equipment the U.S. had left behind in Vietnam was making its way to embargoed companies.

18:41 countries like Libya. Huh. Wilson said, quote, Shackley had asked me to find out where the equipment from Vietnam was going because they were selling the small arms through Singapore. He wanted to stop it. Yeah, I doubt that. He wanted those weapons to remarket. He certainly wanted to stop any sales of C-130 aircraft.

19:14 He would grab it as soon as it came out of the country. The only way I could find out was to put out a contract to purchase 5,000 M16s. It was a very small number, but enough to get bids all over the world. I got bids from England, the Philippines, Korea. Oh, shocker, Taiwan. All of this information was passed back to Quintero and Shackley.

19:42 I talked to Shackley about it and he seemed confident the information was good and was glad to receive it, unquote. Shackley's new job as liaison to friendly intelligence services included the collection of information on terrorists and terrorism. This dovetailed perfectly with what the Israelis were looking for and was another reason why intelligence Wilson was delivering was so important to Shackley. Among these things Wilson was tasked with was to,

20:12 to observe for Shackley were the comings and goings of Carlos the Jackal. Wilson said, the best I could find out is that he had some kind of fallen from favor, some incident that caused him to fall from favor in the Libyan government. When he was brought, let's see, when he brought people into Libya and the mission failed, he was trying to smuggle people in, evidently.

20:42 He actually did bring the terrorists that killed the Munich athletes into Libya and then out again. He was paid $5 million for that job. By late 1977, Wilson had obtained a one-year renewable contract to train Libyan soldiers at Benghazi in basic training and parachuting. That contract gave him detailed information to pass back to Shackley on the readiness of the Libyan military.

21:11 but Shackley's big interest was in their Soviet weapons. He tasked Wilson to find out about Soviet surface-to-air missiles and the later Soviet artillery and tanks that Gaddafi had acquired. Clines worked with Wilson and Secord to try to get some of that information from the DIA, but DIA wanted to take it a step further, and they wanted Wilson to try to get actual samples of the weapons.

21:42 At that time, Wilson was servicing Qaddafi's aging fleet of C-130 transport planes and American-made helicopters. Wilson brought two of his top men on the project, Lloyd Jones and Bob Hitchman, into the intelligence operation. One of the things that they were trying to do is steal a MiG-25, which was still in the hangar alongside the C-130s. And we also tried to steal a MiG-23.

22:12 Bob Hitchman had recruited MiG-23 pilots and was about to bring out an airplane, which would have been landed on a carrier or in Italy. The pilot we recruited had been a chief pilot for the Russians in Libya, and he was killed in a quote-unquote training accident just before it went live. The C-130 operation was a break-even operation.

22:39 By having Lloyd-Jones and the other people, we found out that the SAM sites, where the SAM sites were, surface-to-air missiles, and what they were doing in Chad, I was able to report to Clines and Shackley on a real-time basis. At the very time the Libyans was most active as a quote-unquote terrorist state, the CIA was providing expertise in explosives and other technology useful to terrorists.

23:09 So the CIA was creating another terrorist state? Within the few weeks George Weiss's arrival at the Department of Energy, Ed Wilson got a request from Klein's for information about Libyan's nuclear program. Wilson soon had something to report back to Shackley. According to Gaddafi's top personal assistant, six Libyan students.

23:39 who had been studying nuclear physics in the US and other Western countries, had died in a mysterious death. The assistant, named Shelby, told Wilson that Gaddafi believed these deaths to be assassinations. According to an FBI report, the reason these students were studying nuclear matters was so that they would be able to return to Libya to build atomic weapons, according to Shelby. The report went on to say,

24:10 that Shelby told Wilson that Gaddafi was convinced that the assassinations was an Israeli operation. What neither Shackley nor Wilson knew was that Weiss had been working for both the Israelis and the Soviets at various times in his career at the CIA. Huh. And then he gets moved over to the nuclear program in the United States.

24:38 Toward the end of 1977, Wilson and Climes were converting the long-running Mexican intelligence operation featuring George Bush's old buddy, Jorge Diaz de Reno, and the CIA's Ricardo Chavez into a profit-making venture called API. Wilson's bank records show that he instructed his Geneva lawyer, Ed Coughlin, C-O-U-G...

25:06 to transfer $100,000 to Klein to back the venture. Curiously, API was being set up in Wilson's Around the World shipping office in Houston, Texas. So George Bush is still in the intelligence business long after he left the director's job.

25:36 Wilson claims his only expectation was that around-the-world shipping would get any of the new venture shipping business. Officially, according to Klein's, API made pipe hangers for the oil industry when not providing Army intelligence or being a CIA cover front. In fact, Wilson expected much more than that. He and Klein's were taking private

26:03 the intelligence operation that had paid off so handsomely for the CIA and Army intelligence over the years. Diaz Serrano had now risen to the head of PEMEX, P-E-M-E-X operation, which was doing business with George Bush. So Diaz Serrano was appointed to that post by his boyhood friend, Jose Lopez Portillo.

26:34 P-O-R-T-I-L-L-O. Wilson, Klein, Quintero, and Chavez were preparing to continue to bribe Serrano and other Permex officials who had worked for U.S. intelligence. This time, however, instead of getting information, they would get petroleum supply contracts for Chavez's company, which the name was Fija Mex.

27:04 F-I-J-A-M-E-X, which would in turn contract with API. A $20,000 bribe was paid to Serrano through Fija Mex to get API its first contract. API was not prosecuted under the FARA Act because according to a prosecutor on the case, we did not want to endanger national security.

27:32 So they're going to send Edwin Wilson to jail for doing the contract, but not the company used to do the contract with because of national security. Such shit. And people think that what's been going on in the last few years with the DOJ is something new. These people have always been a criminal enterprise. Quintero and Chavez were virtually taking over a CIA operation.

28:03 They plan to use three different companies, API, FejaMex, and a new Bermuda-based company called International Research and Trade, IRT. And Bridget, you or SR71 looked that up. That one has come up repeatedly as well. And maybe just post a wiki thing for it.

28:29 That would prove to be very important to Shackley, Secord, Clines, and Von Marbog. API would submit a bid to Fijimex for a contract offered by Pimex. Fijimex, in turn, would offer the bid to Pimex. This, everyone, is called money laundering. When Pimex accepted the bid, Pimex would establish a letter of credit.

28:58 at a bank in Houston for API. The offshore company would actually procure the equipment PIMEX required and then arrange for Wilson's around-the-world shipping to deliver it. And when the offshore company would bill API, API would pay itself only enough money to keep itself in operation. All remaining proceeds went to the overseas account in Bermuda.

29:27 That, folks, is money laundering. Can you give me the name of that real quick again? International. I had my hands full. International Research and Trade. I-R-T. Sure. When Stanford Turner made Frank Carlucci his deputy in February of 1978, he had no idea of the strength of the Republican connection to his new guy. Turner wrote of Carlucci and his CIA.

29:59 CIA memoirs, Secrecy and Democracy, quote, it wasn't long after Frank Carlucci arrived that he came to share my concerns. He told me he had come to perceive that running the CIA from the director's office was like operating a power plant from a control room with a wall containing many impressive levers that on the other side of the wall all had been disconnected.

30:27 We decided that we were not really in charge of a single CIA, but of three separate organizations, covert, intelligence, and science and technology, all operating autonomously. Neither of us had seen anything like it, and Frank had served in various government posts, unquote. In other words, Turner had no effect.

30:54 on anything, no matter what lever he pulled or pushed, because the power was being siphoned off from an outside organization. At this point, he was not aware of the private network and that it was growing by leaps and bounds. Turner quickly picked up the nickname Stand Still Burner from the rank and file at the CIA.

31:20 In fairness to Turner, he had been appointed to the CIA with a presidential order from Jimmy Carter to clean up and reform it. Unfortunately, because neither man understood either the culture or the duplicity of the opposition, they were doomed to failure. Turner's nickname fit for another reason. Turner was easy to manipulate and to make look like a fool, and that was precisely what all the covert operators

31:49 were doing on a daily basis. One of the efforts of the covert officers involved the disappearance of John Paisley. And you spell Paisley P-A-I-S-L-E-Y. After Paisley vanished, Turner's enemies in the DO fed him one piece of disinformation after another, which Turner willingly handed out to major media.

32:17 as if it was an open goodwill gesture. Rumors that Paisley had defected to the Soviet Union and the fact that the Office of Security had been looking at Paisley's loyalty before he disappeared came back to haunt Turner. He looked foolish in story after story, like a man not in control of his agency. Shirley Brill knew that Shackley and Clines disliked Turner and Carter.

32:46 Tom hated Turner. Tom Clines. I know that Tom is one who sent Turner a cassette of Randy Newman's song, Short People, after Turner had all of the podiums cut down at the CIA because Turner was short. These guys are assassinating people all over the world and doing shit like that.

33:20 Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO post. And he was actually the liaison at the time as well to the Department of Defense. Shackley arranged through the Foreign Intelligence Division an assignment for Klein's as chief of station in Jamaica.

33:53 Shackley felt that this would get Klein's out of harm's way, but Turner ordered it canceled. Despite the circumstances of Shackley and Klein's departure from the CIA, Shackley still talked about wanting to be the DCI. Brill said both men talked about how their retirements had come a little quicker than they wanted, but they both expected that they would make a great deal of money because they have lots of blackmail.

34:21 often spoke favorably of George Bush, with whom they continued to meet long after he left the CIA, because he's part of the enterprise. And through his subsequent vice president and president's campaign, they continued to meet. Brill said they used code names to set up meetings. Brill also was introduced to Israeli and Iranian middleman Albert Hakim.

34:51 H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with Secord and Quintero as being like blood brothers. They did everything together. Brill met with CIA men who were part of her inner circle with Clines, including a man by the name of

35:21 Glenn Robbie Robinette. And this always struck me as weird that this Robinette guy, isn't that Biden's middle name? The agency security expert who later arranged for Oliver North's infamous home security system. That also was Glenn Robinette. Von Marbog and Klein were very close, according to Brill. But Von Marbog was...

35:54 careful to always stay in the background. He was never a visible person. If he came around to the house, everyone else had to leave. Brill said that if there were other people around, Tom would sometimes go out and meet him, drive around, and then come back. Throughout Brill's relationship with Clines, she became fearful only during their mysterious trips to Florida.

36:20 The trips, at least once a month, to Miami began in 1976 on commercial airliners. After Wilson bought the plane for Secord, Secord would fly Brill, Clines, and Quintero down for visits to Key Biscayne, condo of one of the most powerful Cuban drug figures in the 70s and 80s by the name of Tito Mesa. M-E-S-A. Mesa

36:49 had been a benefactor to the members of the Cuban Brigade 2506. No kidding. The infamous, oh, because they got imprisoned on the Isle of Pines, the infamous prison where they kept the Bay of Pigs people. So Tito Mesa was a Cuban drug figure.

37:21 who ends up being the paymaster for the Brigade 2506. Don't you love how these stories all just kind of meld together? In 1978, Carter was cutting loose and Stacio Somoza de Bile, a West Point graduate and second generation Nicaraguan dictator. Okay, so Somoza is...

37:51 Father Somoza was the guy that the CIA put in. His son succeeds him as a dictator in Nicaragua. And it was the political party of the Sandinistas that won the election when this second generation Somoza goes out the window. Then when the...

38:18 Sandinistas win the election in Nicaragua and basically begin kicking out United Fruit and everybody else. The entire thing falls apart, and that's Contras. So the Contras get housed over in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. They're flying in and out of Costa Rica, all around Nicaragua to get rid of the duly elected president there.

38:47 is how Iran-Contra got created. And Jimmy Carter was basically cutting all ties to the dictator death squad last Somoza. And we've been brainwashed to believe that Jimmy Carter's the bad guy. It's just crazy. He also believed that if he supported the Sandinista movement against Somoza,

39:21 and his infamous National Guard, which were basically the death squad, that he would avoid implicating President Eisenhower's mistake of driving Fidel Castro into the Soviet camp. So he was right in supporting the Somoza's overthrow, however, or not even overthrow, allowing for an actual election to get a democratically elected president in under

39:50 the Sandinista movement, which were the nationalists. But the CIA is not going to like that because the CIA doesn't work for us. They work for the syndicate, and the syndicate wanted to be there with slave labor. As Somoza lost his power grip, the CIA aligned themselves with some of the most brutal landowners and military officers in Central America. Their patrons organized death squads throughout the region. Many of the anti-Castro Cubans

40:22 began business enterprises with all of them. Because for them, this is personal. This is, you know, they all, all of these rich families got kicked out of Cuba and they're in Miami. And the kids of these rich families that got kicked out of Cuba don't want their Latin America fellow bud to be kicked out of the criminal.

40:51 syndicate that's going on in Nicaragua, Honduras, and all of these other countries, mainly because the benefactors is the Sullivan and Cromwell Rockefeller crowd of international syndicate. So they're going to leverage the anti-Castro Cubans as militants in the army with the wealthy families in Central America.

41:20 to go to war against the people that are truly the freedom fighters and the people that want the land back for their original owners, which happened to be in the Sandinista government. Okay, Tom Clines enjoyed a long history and friendship with President Somoza that had begun shortly after the Bay of Pigs. Somoza's father, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, had allowed the CIA to train the anti-Castro brigade.

41:52 in Nicaragua. He provided a great deal of help for the anti-Castro operations. So in the early 60s, when a revolt threatened to topple the elder Somoza's regime, the anti-Castro Cubans were brought in to help. In 1978, Clines asked Wilson to return from Libya so that he could introduce him to a close associate of President Somoza's. The associate was a mysterious Cuban immigrant.

42:22 and Miami doctor by the name of Manuel Artemi, A-R-T-E-M-I, who had the export contracts for all Nicaraguan beef. It's all about the resources. Wilson explained that this was a payoff from samosa to the Cubans because Artemi kept about 100 Cubans in the United States.

42:53 and other various parts of the world on retainer because that's the Gladio guys. These Cubans would help him get his government back if he was to ever be overthrown. So they have assassins on retainer living in the United States being trained by the CIA under basically Operation Gladio auspices. What Somoza, Wilson, and Clines didn't know was that Manuel

43:24 Artemi was and had always been a Castro intelligence agent and that he was helping Castro regime take control this is bullshit of the Sandinista revolution this is total horseshit this is the CIA trying to legitimize what they're about to do in the murder of 100,000 people Castro was never

43:55 in charge of the Sandinistas. Castro had no control over the Sandinistas at all. They just wanted their land back from United Fruit. Wilson recalls that Klein told him it looked like Somoza was going down the drain and Carter was not going to help him and that Somoza was unhappy and he wanted the U.S.'s help. Wilson added it was all confused inside the CIA and a lot of people had been fired.

44:25 Klein and Shackley were still just hanging on, but a lot of people within the CIA wanted to help because they knew that the Sandinistas were the bad guys. In fact, Wilson's notable description of the motive for helping Somoza was only a fraction of the truth. Klein's Wilson and Wilson's protege, Douglas Slatter, and Chi-Chi Quintero all believed there was big profit in selling Somoza a major...

44:54 quote-unquote security program. Carter had ordered Turner to cut Somoza off from all intelligence and CIA operations because of his dismal human rights, because he had death squads. According to Wilson, Klein said to him, quote, we can feed information to him, meaning Somoza, that he does not get. He used to get the satellite information.

45:22 He used to get the name check. That really important. That's really important. The name checks on all of the people floating in and out. So Mosa knew that he'd go down the drain quicker if he didn't have this help, unquote. So what they're doing, again, because they don't work for the United States government, they are setting up the private intelligence operation and they've got a conduit into the CIA to feed them the information and then basically sell it to people.

45:52 that the United States actual government in charge don't want to be affiliated with. Wilson said that Klein urged him to go see Somoza and make a deal. About the same time, a lobbyist by the name of R.C. Wittner, W-H-I-T-N-E-R, whose nickname was Preacher, which we've come across before, asked Wilson to hire a girl by the name of Christina.

46:23 Simmons, S-I-M-M-O-N-S. She was the mistress to Congressman Charlie Wilson, a Democrat from Texas. According to Whitmer, Simmons' presence in the Congressman's office was causing a problem. Wilson agreed to hire her to handle decorating chores in his townhouse office in Washington. Wilson learned from Whitmer that Congressman Wilson

46:54 had begun to front for New York Congressman Robert Murphy. Murphy was a West Point classmate and close friend of Samosa's. He was tired of being criticized for sponsoring foreign aid bills for the dictator, so he asked the Texas colleague to do it for him. Ed Wilson was convinced that Charlie Wilson was on the House Intelligence Committee and he could legitimately get

47:25 legislation passed that would include intelligence aid to Samosa. This would pay for the security contract Ed Wilson and his colleagues had in mind. Ed Wilson, who was with a straight face still claiming that he never lobbied on Capitol Hill, asked Tina Simmons to arrange a meeting with her boss and lover. What a brazen act even for Wilson.

47:52 He went to see Charlie Wilson at the Democrat Club on Capitol Hill. He told the congressman, quote, here's what I want to do. I can make a buck or two out of it, unquote. So Tina and I and Charlie Wilson get on a plane and go meet Samosa in Miami. He was in the same hotel and we just met him in the dining room. The table was a long dining room table and Samosa is sitting here and Tina.

48:22 sits here and he's like describing where they're all sitting and samosa's witness or what that mistress is where is with him not his wife and i'm at the end of the table with an assistant mayor and samosa is just loving tina like crazy with his mistress getting mad i gotta nap here's driving me nuts so his mistress is getting mad because he's flirting

48:52 with the congressman's mistress. And Samosa's mistress had been with him for many, many years. She's getting mad as hell. And she, Tina, keeps dancing with Samosa. And the mistress is now dancing with Charlie Wilson. I just sat there in amazement. And I asked the mayor, who's going to get shot? Because that would be something that would happen.

49:24 All the bodyguards were around and they were all carrying weapons. I'm thinking, I'm not going to get out of here alive. So we get just about ready to go and the mistress picked up something and they start flying around here. He instantly takes his glasses off and gets his handkerchief and wipes his glasses because she throws a glass of liquid onto him.

49:59 and they're in the back. This is so crazy. Charlie Wilson's sitting there with Tina, and I'm sitting there with this gal on a jump seat, and she won't even talk to them. She's talking to the driver, and I'm talking to Samosa, and we're talking about the days when we were going down to Nicaragua and training against Castro. Look, I helped a lot of people.

50:27 I can't understand why the hell you don't help me back. Blah, blah, blah. That's basically what Samosa is saying. At a meeting the next morning, Samosa once again expressed to Ed Wilson his bitterness towards Carter. Wilson said he told Samosa, there are people inside the agency itself, despite the orders of the president, that are going to provide information to you. Wilson proposed to Samosa that he and Clines would, for a payment,

50:55 Identify his enemies using CIA resources so as to enable your personal projects to be carried out and destroy your search and destroy missions against your enemy in a more effective way. Wilson and the rogues were offering to sell the same service to Somoza that he had been getting from the CIA outside the CIA for personal gain. And by the way, they go on to say.

51:24 that that's exactly what the CIA and Wilson had been doing for the Savak in Iran, that they were running basically a covert intelligence operation feeding intelligence to Iran for decades. Wilson suggested that T.P. Quintero, whom Somoza had almost met during the, had also met during the Castro operations.

51:54 be the liaison for the contract. Wilson says that he and Klein's were trying to set up for Nicaragua was a for-profit version of the Vietnam Phoenix program assassination program. Wilson offered Somoza a small initial contract for $700,000. Wilson would never get the contract, neither Shackley nor Klein nor Slatter.

52:23 had any intentions of giving Wilson that business. Wilson believed that Somoza simply decided that the CIA connection was not enough to keep him in power. In fact, working through Dr. Artemi, Klein took over the operation, apparently never realizing that he was supplying classified material to a communist agent in Artemi. And he still wasn't communist, sorry. But anyway.

52:55 That's it. That's a lot. Crazy shit. So again, we are reading information that was provided by CIA agents that were around these people during that time. So you have to take the stuff that they say with a grain of salt. I would say 90% of what they say checks out because we've come across it in other books.

53:26 Some of the stuff, just as I pointed out, has been disproven or proven to have occurred in a different way based on declassified information that we've come across in other books. That's obviously the beauty of going through these books, having gotten 60 or 70 other books under our belt at this point, and being able to

53:54 Because once you read it in, you know, 10 different books from 10 different people, you're pretty guaranteed that that's the way it happened. But in every one of these books, there's going to be some piece of it that doesn't go with the other nine pieces of the 10 piece puzzle. And it may be the one outlier that is actually true.

54:22 But we've unequivocally proven that in the cases where we have discovered Cubans to be present, for example, in Grenada, they were teachers there because the incoming elected president in Grenada was setting up new schools there and no one, because everybody else had cut them off.

54:48 would help him. The only person that he could go to for help was Cuba. And so in so many of those, same thing with Lumumba, you know, the only Cubans there were the Cubans in Katanga trying to kill Lumumba. Same way in Angola. They kept saying that the, what was that, MNT, MLNT, whatever that was, the good guys.

55:17 had Cubans running all over the place. The actual Cubans were the Cuban exiles trained as assassins working for the CIA against the good guys and with UNINA, who were the corrupt resource-stealing people up there next to and related to the CIA-installed dictator in the Congo. So, anyway, let's open it up if anybody has questions. It is truly like a seven-headed...

55:49 Hydra, is it not? Yeah. It just winds everywhere. As soon as you turn around, there they are again. Same people, same group. You know what the funny part about all of this is? Doesn't it blow up every stereotype that we've ever learned that Carter wasn't anything like what we were taught in school?

56:12 Reagan wasn't anything like what we were taught in school. Eisenhower wasn't anything like what we were taught in school. Nixon wasn't anything like what we were taught in school. What happened? Like half the people just went away. Whoa, I totally, same thing. What the hell just happened? Almost everybody just disappeared as I was bringing this one guy up. What happened? Thank you, everybody. I don't know what's going on with you all.

56:46 You can still see everybody? Yes, ma'am, I can. Okay, well, I can't. So y'all are going to have to be calling on people then. Because everybody but you, Bridget, Bradley, Ron, and Apollonia are gone. So. I had one hand raised and it disappeared. Don't know where they went. Other than that, let me say this. I wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving before we cut out of here. But what really surprises me out of this whole thing.

57:21 is we don't much hear or hear often about women being privy to or involved in a lot of this stuff. And it just shocks the stew out of me that you got a handful of them here now. The mistresses, you mean? Exactly. So what's interesting about that in many of the different books that I've read, one of the...

57:52 big missing pieces is that almost every one of these people had mistresses and how they are like the, obviously there's pillow talk, right? They're going to have went on these trips and almost no author has explored the critical role that they play in all of this as far as information goes.

58:20 This is really the first book that has, but these guys were in those circles. So obviously they know, and they, having been agents themselves, they know how to use the mistresses to pump information out. And so of course they're going to include it because they know that's a critical node in the operation. But you're right, SR-71, it is a critical piece that's left out of almost every book that we've read.

58:52 Great, great, great, great observation. All right, so people are now back on here. Ron, go ahead. Hey, I missed the entire space because I had work stuff to do, but I just wanted to take this opportunity to, because it's almost Thanksgiving, just to send my gratitude and gratefulness to you. I'm very thankful to you for all the work that you've done.

59:22 done to illuminate this subject. Obviously, you're much more passionate about it than I, but I'm equally as passionate about it. I just don't have the knowledge base that you do. But I just want to say thank you for all the hard work that you've done, because I've learned so much just from listening to you and observing your work. So that's all I wanted to say right now. Thank you very much.

59:46 And Mager Sarge is over on Rumble and he looked that up. It's MPLA. Thank you, Mager Sarge, for looking that up. MPLA was the good guys in Angola that the CIA fought the war against in the War of Independence for Angola. Thank you very much for looking that up. He also mentions that Charlie Wilson.

1:00:12 The whole Charlie Wilson's war was about Afghanistan, but he obviously was involved in multiple operations, which really speaks a lot about how infiltrated our Congress actually is. Thank you for bringing that up. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, two things. I kind of understand, but why was Kissinger

1:00:45 so um ravenous about um getting at china like he even went like almost you know like a few months before he died like 99 year old hauled his ass over to china to try to you know wash the

1:01:14 the bite and hate off of them. Um, I just don't, I don't really, I mean, I understand they want to take it over, but man, um, and the other thing I saw a pattern and I wondered if you knew about it. Um, these assassins, um, often have, um,

1:01:43 connections to prison. So I guess they're farming people from prison to do crazy shit. Have you run across that? No. Do some of them transit prison? Yes. Interestingly enough, prison's role in Operation Gladio isn't at all what I would have thought it was going to be. They actually hide people in prison.

1:02:14 And the people that they hide in prison mysteriously have the ability to walk in and out of jail while they're in jail. But there have been people that the excuse is given that they couldn't possibly have been in this assassination because they were in jail over here. But what you find out is that the jail over here.

1:02:41 has had other Operation Gladio people in the jail that had basically their own key to their cell and were free to come and go. So prisons in this whole thing aren't used for what we think they're used for. They're also people who they don't want to talk.

1:03:05 are put in solitary confinement to hide them from everybody, to include their lawyers, not unlike what we've seen with January 6th. You don't find them normally recruiting out of prisons. These people, most of the people, for example, the Cuban exiles, they all are children of very wealthy families that they train to be assassins. The same is true with El Salvador.

1:03:36 Colombia, a lot of the people that are in charge of these operations are from very wealthy families. They don't tend to get their recruits from prison. Well, I was thinking about Sirhan Sirhan. He was in prison. He wasn't an assassin. Okay.

1:04:04 Yeah, I don't understand that whole thing. And some historians are like, absolutely not. He did it. But they give no proof of that. Well, the proof is the bullet that actually killed RFK came from the opposite direction of where their hand for hand was in the autopsy. But how did they get him to be a stooge?

1:04:31 People believe that that is the whole purpose of MKUltra. And there's also the simultaneous training exercises that occur during all of these scenarios where people that participate actually think they're part of an exercise that's ongoing during an actual operation. And the operation goes hot.

1:05:00 unbeknownst to them, and they're caught in the middle of it. There's lots of different things that happen. Yeah, and then they're complicit, and they're like, oh, I can't say anything because I'm complicit. So we've seen lots of different, and then they're usually always killed immediately, like Timothy McVeigh. So a lot of these things happen, and

1:05:26 But none of that's really associated with prison per se, unless you're going to make the argument that they were MKUltra'd in prison. You probably have something there. I just don't know what it is because I don't really get into the MKUltra thing. I know. It's too bad. Hopefully somebody will because it's so crazy. I will not. What? Oh, you will not. I don't know anything about it. I'm not qualified to talk about it. And I'm more than...

1:05:56 occupied with what I am doing. And when I'm done doing what I'm doing, I want my life back. Yeah. The other assassin was the latest Trump guy. He was in prison. The second one. Yes. The second one was in prison. He was also working for the CIA. So because there's no other way he got in and out of all those countries.

1:06:27 Oh, absolutely. But I think, you know, he was in prison long ago. So I was just trying to see if there was a pattern where they were collecting people from prison. Anyway, sorry. Sorry to go on and on. Anybody else got anything? Can you answer the other thing about China and Kissinger? Not in the time that we have, because it's a very long story.

1:07:00 And you can suffice that story to say, oh, my grandbaby just arrived. You can suffice that story for the time that we have today to be basically what you alleged in that the ultimate goal is to take over all of the resources and control of the world.

1:07:29 The placement of China and the kind of roundabout way, they tried forever. I mean, we've documented that for the good part of 20 years to get into China using Chiang Kai-shek. And at some point around the 72-ish, they decided that that was not going to work. And it was only then.

1:07:55 that they began to make inroads with China itself. Because up until that point, China had been cut off from everything. And the only recognized China that existed was Taiwan. And once they ran out of options of getting Chiang Kai-shek inserted back into China, that is when Henry Kissinger began his operation to basically co-opt China in a completely different way.

1:08:24 So that's kind of a Reader's Digest version. Go ahead, Bridget. Very briefly, just a question as far as the current moment that Kamala came out and did her apology speech. So did Tim Walz. And all of a sudden there's apparent hype bomb warnings and so on for the Trump administration incoming. Do you think this is?

1:09:01 I guess this is just a continuation of their attempt to intimidate anyone from accepting any position. I don't know what you're talking about, so I can't talk about it. I've not seen anything that you're talking about. I did see the word salad of her, you know, I'm still in this blah, blah, blah garbage to the extent that I could listen to it. But it's very hard for me to.

1:09:29 spend five seconds listening to her dribble. But I don't know anything about a bomb or anything else that you're talking about. Go ahead, SR71. Yeah, on that subject, Bridget, I didn't hear anything about a bomb. But I did hear about threats and whatnot on the news this morning on MSNBC, I think it was, or something like that. But the bottom line is, from what I understood and from what I heard,

1:10:00 is there's no names that have been released. The press is treating this all as a hoax now. So until there's further information, I don't know how far this goes. Trump released a statement earlier today. Hang on, and I can read it for you. Because this is pretty big and important. Go ahead.

1:10:28 Last night and this morning, several of President Trump's cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted in violent, un-American threats to their lives and those who live with them. These attacks range from bomb threats to swatting. In response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted.

1:10:54 President Trump and the entire transition team are grateful for their swift action. President Trump and the transition are focused on doing the work of uniting our nation by ensuring safe and prosperous future. With President Trump as our example, dangerous acts of intimidation and violence will not deter us. Okay. So, yes, that's definitely Operation Gladio chaos right there. Right. That's exactly it.

1:11:25 It just so happened that Kamala and Walt both released a video today, and they initially had said that they were pushed into it by the Obama administration. Now, I don't know how truthful that is because I haven't seen anything. However, one of the things they kept on pushing is they kept on saying, you still have power. You still have the same power that you had before.

1:11:52 And again, it just rung true to me that this is just an Operation Gladio and they're encouraging this. So I was just reading on inside the league of an area that I had read it, but I wanted to go back because there were parts of it that kind of look like some of the research that I was doing for the Syria.

1:12:20 show that we did today on Badlands. And I was going back over that information. And one of the things, for example, in El Salvador, you have this D'Ambrosin guy. I don't know how you pronounced his last name. It's a D apostrophe A and a whole bunch of letters. So he's part of the assassination death squad guys, right?

1:12:49 And he went to the School of Americas. He went over to the Taiwan Academy. He did all that crap. So he comes back. He's in El Salvador. And one of the things that I found fascinating is there's a model that they use where they and they learned this in Taiwan from the KMT. So they had decided back in the late 40s, early 50s that.

1:13:19 If you took your army of assassins and clothed them in a political party, that that was a strategic initiative because the opposing good people, when attacking the assassins, were attacking a quote unquote political party and therefore could be accused of being.

1:13:49 a threat to democracy. Does that sound familiar? Like anti-Semitic? No, like what's happening right now where every time you attack the Democrat Party, you're the threat to democracy, even though the assassins are hiding in the other political party. The real miscreants wrap themselves in a political party and then claim, when you point out that they're actual death squad assassins,

1:14:20 That you're attacking democracy because they're hiding inside a political party. Right. And call them Hitler and Nazis. So if you take that model and you look at what happened in Taiwan, where a Chinese general took a Chinese mafia style army of assassins that were unleashed inside of.

1:14:50 China to decimate all of the other fellow warlords. And he was doing it both with drugs and guns. And he decides to take his army, the KMT, and the CIA, plops it down in Formosa and calls it Taiwan. And they call the KMT a political party. From then on, it legitimized the trained assassins.

1:15:20 in the army because now they wore a cloak called a democracy political party. So the point that the author was making is this was replicated all over the world. They took non-existent political parties, started them, and the people inside the political party

1:15:49 were actually the death squad members. And, you know, they got a few other people that weren't trigger pullers, but basically they used the auspices of a political party to cloak the assassins in. So if you go into El Salvador and you go into Honduras and you go into Guatemala, you find in every case they cloaked the actual...

1:16:19 people destroying the country inside of a political party to pretend that all of the good guys that came up and tried to struggle against getting rid of the death squads they said they were attacking democracy and i was dumbfounded by the parallels to what we're going through right now and so the infiltrators into and taking over of

1:16:45 The Democrat Party that we've all watched happen over the last several decades now is on the surface a political party, but every Marxist, fascist, crazy is inside of something that they're calling a political party that no longer functions as a political party at all.

1:17:16 It is the destruction. It's like a tank with a camo flogged type of moniker around it that has driven into Tiananmen Square and set up shop. And anybody that dares to call it the tank, as opposed to a political party, is somehow attacking democracy. Makes perfect sense. That's what we're watching.

1:17:48 There could have been a call to action that you are describing, Bridget, in those two speeches that you said happened. Again, I've been a little busy, so I didn't hear any of this stuff. And President Trump's calling attention to the fact that it triggered or was the aftermath for whatever these destabilization tactics of.

1:18:18 terror threats to people in the incoming administration mirror the struggle in Latin America of the non-infiltrated political parties trying to come to power like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and I forget what the name of the guys were in El Salvador, who actually won an election and then got overthrown because they were the good guys. They wanted to reform.

1:18:47 El Salvador. But every time anybody that was good got elected that was anti-CIA, they got quickly overthrown for shit like this. There were death threats. Their kids would be. When we get to that part in the Alpha series, what they did to these people's families is it'll make your stomach turn. But they did that as an intimidation tactic to get people not to be judges, not to be political opponents.

1:19:17 And that's what we're seeing. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, I sent you something along those lines. I sent you something today or yesterday about changing the word democracy to bureaucracy when we're talking about it. I just wanted to thank you, Colonel, here on the eve of Thanksgiving and tell you that I deeply love you and I super hyper appreciate you.

1:19:54 Thank you, Carrie. I appreciate that. And I have to say on the eve of Thanksgiving, thank you all for being here every day. Thank you for echoing this information out to the masses. I see you. I appreciate you. I see that we have created an army of our own, of truth. And I, from the bottom of my heart, appreciate you guys being in this fight with me.

1:20:25 I wouldn't be anywhere else. And I just feel every day there's some little nugget that is a positive reinforcement that you see someone else talking about it or someone else reaching out or whatever. And I just think this is all good and that we are part of turning on the light to.

1:20:52 all that's going on. So again, thank you guys all for taking, I don't take any of you for granted. I appreciate all of you for being here each and every day and your support. It means everything to me. So I am incredibly thankful for all of that. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and duck out. I appreciate you guys being here. Trump frog, do you have anything coming up? Cause I am not going to do a show tomorrow or Friday.

1:21:24 You know, I don't know. I'm thinking about it with all the bullshit going on. Most likely. Okay. The shields are out in full force. Like, doc, what a clown. Did you see Mr. Truth bomb's threat about all the losers? Yes. On X being exposed. That was beautiful. Yeah. So yeah, I'll probably jump into the fray a little bit and have some fun. And we do a little trolling around here. Just a little. Yeah. I mean, Mr. Truth bomb.

1:21:52 obviously is like one of my heroes. His talent in making, I wish I had it. I wish I could make this information more entertaining. I just don't know how to do any of that. So I'm just one of those people that gets the information out there. But at some point, we do have to have some very talented person come behind me and make this more enjoyable. So as far as the video part of it goes.

1:22:21 So that this can then be turned into curriculum about our real history. Right. I agree. At least it's all going to be out there and they'll know where all the sources are. Exactly. I just want to say I hope that you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving. Thank you, Trump fraud. And everyone else. And I wish that for everybody. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

1:22:51 I'll talk to you guys whenever I do this weekend. Otherwise, we'll be back on Monday at four.

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Claims made here

Stansfield Turner fired Hank Nolte host_asserted ▶ 1:26

“He ends up firing the current deputy, Hank Nolte, and he wants to fire Shackley and Klein, but he's kind of waved off on doing that and takes all of his venom out on Nolke, which you spell his name K-…”

Aginter Press part_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 2:57

“That's where some of the arms got caught up in customs in the Iran-Contra affair. So, and by the way, it was for the very long time a fascist organization because the Genter Press, part of Operation G…”

Donald Rumsfeld appointed George H.W. Bush host_asserted ▶ 3:29

“deputy thanks to the manipulation of Shackley and Bush. And as it turns out, Carlucci is very close friends with Donald Rumsfeld. And it was Donald Rumsfeld who worked with President Ford to get Bush …”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_with William Colby host_asserted ▶ 4:27

“point of contact. And according to Shirley Brill, the girlfriend of Klein, you have Carlucci and Shackley being very, very good friends. Shackley and Klein and Carlucci all worked together on the Chil…”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. worked_with Frank Carlucci host_asserted ▶ 4:27

Frank Carlucci funded Chilean Coup host_asserted ▶ 4:57

“He's the one that facilitated all the funds going to the Chilean operation to murder Allende. So by the summer of 1977, when Carlucci could be installed, Turner declared open war against the Directora…”

Stansfield Turner reassigned William Wells documented ▶ 5:26

“Turner reassigned both men to what he believed was meaningless jobs. Shackley's colleagues in the DO, the demotion was basically a body blow to a small, very close-knit group of covert operators. Alth…”

Stansfield Turner reassigned Richard M. Bissell Jr. documented ▶ 5:26

George H.W. Bush failed_to_implement Directorate of Operations documented ▶ 5:53

“Shackley did not leave the CIA for almost two more years, and what happened inside the CIA while he was still there was nothing short of remarkable. When Turner began to dig deeper, he learned that an…”

Stansfield Turner ordered_assassination_of Halloween Massacre documented ▶ 6:21

“Bush had taken no action on it at all. In August 1977, Turner ordered the CIA to reduce the Directorate of Operations by 823 positions within two years. The DO sent out the cable firing 823 veteran ca…”

World Anti-Communist League established School of the Americas host_asserted ▶ 8:48

“For example, we'll get to it, but I'll give you guys a sneak peek. Part of the World Anti-Communist League was to set up a school in Taiwan that we find almost every operator, in addition to attending…”

Chiang Kai-shek established World Anti-Communist League host_asserted ▶ 9:16

“was in Taiwan that Chiang Kai-shek set up. That all of the people in South America and many of the people in Europe went to that school too. The master's degree was in Israel for a one year in residen…”

George H.W. Bush appointed George Weiland host_asserted ▶ 9:48

“Crazy, crazy. All right. So we've got a CIA guy going over to be in charge of nuclear weapons. Nothing to see here. Herbert Klaus, K-O-U-T-S, was the official at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Weiss …”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. established Edwin Wilson host_asserted ▶ 11:47

“By now, Shackley was well on his way to establishing a private intelligence network that I refer to as the Enterprise. Shackley's move against Wilson's operation was to take over from Wilson the most …”

Edwin Wilson released_from_prison Don Lowers host_asserted ▶ 13:16

“who purported financial genius and purported financial genius who was in prison in Ohio when Wilson first visited him. Four months later, through a series of maneuvers, Wilson Lowers was released and …”

Edwin Wilson recruited Roberta Barnes host_asserted ▶ 13:44

“But before long, despite what Wilson had done for him, Lowers was actually working for Klein. It was Lowers who had originally hired Barnes as a bookkeeper. Barnes was essentially Wilson's paymaster. …”

Roberta Barnes paid William Colby host_asserted ▶ 13:44

Roberta Barnes paid Paul Steer host_asserted ▶ 13:44

Tom Clines assigned_code_name Richard Secord host_asserted ▶ 14:44

“aircraft that Wilson had bought for his youth. Secord's code name, assigned by Kline, was the Little General. Like Shirley Brill, Barnes witnessed Wilson preparing intelligence reports for Shackley an…”

Waldo Duberstein supplied_arms_to Edwin Wilson host_asserted ▶ 17:42

“Thanks to Klein, Wilson had a high-level contact in the Defense Intelligence Agency named Waldo Duberstein. I can't spell this one. D-U-B-B-E-R-S-T-E-I-N. Duberstein supplied Wilson information to fee…”

Edwin Wilson paid Waldo Duberstein host_asserted ▶ 18:11

“Details on everything from personal information on the Egyptian leadership to Egyptian troop and equipment movements. Slatter told the FBI that Wilson paid Duberstein's travel expenses and several tho…”

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez carried_out_attack Munich Olympics Attack host_asserted ▶ 20:42

“He actually did bring the terrorists that killed the Munich athletes into Libya and then out again. He was paid $5 million for that job. By late 1977, Wilson had obtained a one-year renewable contract…”

Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to Libya host_asserted ▶ 20:42

Edwin Wilson spied_on Libya host_asserted ▶ 20:42

CIA provided_expertise_to Libya host_asserted ▶ 22:39

“By having Lloyd-Jones and the other people, we found out that the SAM sites, where the SAM sites were, surface-to-air missiles, and what they were doing in Chad, I was able to report to Clines and Sha…”

George Weiland spied_on Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 24:10

“that Shelby told Wilson that Gaddafi was convinced that the assassinations was an Israeli operation. What neither Shackley nor Wilson knew was that Weiss had been working for both the Israelis and the…”

George Weiland spied_on Israel host_asserted ▶ 24:10

José López Portillo appointed Jorge Díaz de la Vega host_asserted ▶ 26:03

“the intelligence operation that had paid off so handsomely for the CIA and Army intelligence over the years. Diaz Serrano had now risen to the head of PEMEX, P-E-M-E-X operation, which was doing busin…”

Edwin Wilson laundered_money_for International Research and Trade host_asserted ▶ 28:58

“at a bank in Houston for API. The offshore company would actually procure the equipment PIMEX required and then arrange for Wilson's around-the-world shipping to deliver it. And when the offshore comp…”

Stansfield Turner appointed Frank Carlucci documented ▶ 29:27

“That, folks, is money laundering. Can you give me the name of that real quick again? International. I had my hands full. International Research and Trade. I-R-T. Sure. When Stanford Turner made Frank …”

Stansfield Turner wrote Secrecy and Democracy documented ▶ 29:59

“CIA memoirs, Secrecy and Democracy, quote, it wasn't long after Frank Carlucci arrived that he came to share my concerns. He told me he had come to perceive that running the CIA from the director's of…”

Tom Clines disliked Jimmy Carter host_asserted ▶ 32:17

“as if it was an open goodwill gesture. Rumors that Paisley had defected to the Soviet Union and the fact that the Office of Security had been looking at Paisley's loyalty before he disappeared came ba…”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. disliked Jimmy Carter host_asserted ▶ 32:17

Tom Clines disliked Stansfield Turner host_asserted ▶ 32:17

Richard M. Bissell Jr. disliked Stansfield Turner host_asserted ▶ 32:17

Richard Helms appointed Tom Clines book_quoted ▶ 33:20

“Turner put out a notice that if he found out who it was, he would fire them. Brill said, I know that Tom did it. The immediate reason for Klein's bitterness came after he was removed from his old DO p…”

Tom Clines removed_from_power CIA book_quoted ▶ 33:20

Stansfield Turner removed_from_power Tom Clines book_quoted ▶ 33:53

“Shackley felt that this would get Klein's out of harm's way, but Turner ordered it canceled. Despite the circumstances of Shackley and Klein's departure from the CIA, Shackley still talked about wanti…”

Richard Helms member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 33:53

Tom Clines member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 33:53

Tom Clines recruited Albert Hakim book_quoted ▶ 34:51

“H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with S…”

Tom Clines member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 34:51

Glenn Robinette member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 35:21

“Glenn Robbie Robinette. And this always struck me as weird that this Robinette guy, isn't that Biden's middle name? The agency security expert who later arranged for Oliver North's infamous home secur…”

Tito Mesa paid Brigade 2506 book_quoted ▶ 36:49

“had been a benefactor to the members of the Cuban Brigade 2506. No kidding. The infamous, oh, because they got imprisoned on the Isle of Pines, the infamous prison where they kept the Bay of Pigs peop…”

Tito Mesa funded Brigade 2506 book_quoted ▶ 36:49

Jimmy Carter removed_from_power Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 37:21

“who ends up being the paymaster for the Brigade 2506. Don't you love how these stories all just kind of meld together? In 1978, Carter was cutting loose and Stacio Somoza de Bile, a West Point graduat…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted ▶ 38:18

“Sandinistas win the election in Nicaragua and basically begin kicking out United Fruit and everybody else. The entire thing falls apart, and that's Contras. So the Contras get housed over in Guatemala…”

Sandinistas overthrew Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 38:18

CIA funded Contras book_quoted ▶ 38:47

“is how Iran-Contra got created. And Jimmy Carter was basically cutting all ties to the dictator death squad last Somoza. And we've been brainwashed to believe that Jimmy Carter's the bad guy. It's jus…”

CIA trained Brigade 2506 book_quoted ▶ 41:20

“to go to war against the people that are truly the freedom fighters and the people that want the land back for their original owners, which happened to be in the Sandinista government. Okay, Tom Cline…”

Tom Clines recruited Edwin Wilson book_quoted ▶ 41:52

“in Nicaragua. He provided a great deal of help for the anti-Castro operations. So in the early 60s, when a revolt threatened to topple the elder Somoza's regime, the anti-Castro Cubans were brought in…”

Anastasio Somoza paid Manuel Artime book_quoted ▶ 42:22

“and Miami doctor by the name of Manuel Artemi, A-R-T-E-M-I, who had the export contracts for all Nicaraguan beef. It's all about the resources. Wilson explained that this was a payoff from samosa to t…”

Manuel Artime spied_on CIA book_quoted ▶ 42:53

“and other various parts of the world on retainer because that's the Gladio guys. These Cubans would help him get his government back if he was to ever be overthrown. So they have assassins on retainer…”

Manuel Artime spied_on Sandinistas book_quoted ▶ 43:24

“Artemi was and had always been a Castro intelligence agent and that he was helping Castro regime take control this is bullshit of the Sandinista revolution this is total horseshit this is the CIA tryi…”

Tom Clines supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 44:25

“Klein and Shackley were still just hanging on, but a lot of people within the CIA wanted to help because they knew that the Sandinistas were the bad guys. In fact, Wilson's notable description of the …”

Stansfield Turner removed_from_power Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 44:54

“quote-unquote security program. Carter had ordered Turner to cut Somoza off from all intelligence and CIA operations because of his dismal human rights, because he had death squads. According to Wilso…”

Tom Clines supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 45:52

“that the United States actual government in charge don't want to be affiliated with. Wilson said that Klein urged him to go see Somoza and make a deal. About the same time, a lobbyist by the name of R…”

R.C. Wittner recruited Tina Simmons book_quoted ▶ 45:52

Edwin Wilson recruited Tina Simmons book_quoted ▶ 46:23

“Simmons, S-I-M-M-O-N-S. She was the mistress to Congressman Charlie Wilson, a Democrat from Texas. According to Whitmer, Simmons' presence in the Congressman's office was causing a problem. Wilson agr…”

Charles E. Wilson front_for Robert Murphy book_quoted ▶ 46:54

“had begun to front for New York Congressman Robert Murphy. Murphy was a West Point classmate and close friend of Samosa's. He was tired of being criticized for sponsoring foreign aid bills for the dic…”

Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 46:54

Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 47:52

“He went to see Charlie Wilson at the Democrat Club on Capitol Hill. He told the congressman, quote, here's what I want to do. I can make a buck or two out of it, unquote. So Tina and I and Charlie Wil…”

Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 50:27

“I can't understand why the hell you don't help me back. Blah, blah, blah. That's basically what Samosa is saying. At a meeting the next morning, Samosa once again expressed to Ed Wilson his bitterness…”

Tom Clines supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 50:27

Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 51:24

“that that's exactly what the CIA and Wilson had been doing for the Savak in Iran, that they were running basically a covert intelligence operation feeding intelligence to Iran for decades. Wilson sugg…”

CIA supplied_arms_to SAVAK book_quoted ▶ 51:24

Tom Clines supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 51:54

“be the liaison for the contract. Wilson says that he and Klein's were trying to set up for Nicaragua was a for-profit version of the Vietnam Phoenix program assassination program. Wilson offered Somoz…”

Tom Clines supplied_arms_to Manuel Artime book_quoted ▶ 52:23

“had any intentions of giving Wilson that business. Wilson believed that Somoza simply decided that the CIA connection was not enough to keep him in power. In fact, working through Dr. Artemi, Klein to…”

Tom Clines supplied_arms_to Anastasio Somoza book_quoted ▶ 52:23

CIA supplied_arms_to UNITA book_quoted ▶ 55:17

“had Cubans running all over the place. The actual Cubans were the Cuban exiles trained as assassins working for the CIA against the good guys and with UNINA, who were the corrupt resource-stealing peo…”

CIA trained Brigade 2506 book_quoted ▶ 55:17

CIA supplied_arms_to MPLA book_quoted ▶ 59:46

“And Mager Sarge is over on Rumble and he looked that up. It's MPLA. Thank you, Mager Sarge, for looking that up. MPLA was the good guys in Angola that the CIA fought the war against in the War of Inde…”

Henry Kissinger carried_out_attack China host_asserted ▶ 1:07:55

“that they began to make inroads with China itself. Because up until that point, China had been cut off from everything. And the only recognized China that existed was Taiwan. And once they ran out of …”