Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE

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0:00 Okay, welcome everybody. I am hosting this space from my mobile command post in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where we safely arrived yesterday. And we are literally on the beach. Technically, I'm about 500 yards away from the beach in my RV.

0:26 I got abandoned about an hour ago when all of our friends went to the beach. So I am going to go through two iterations of Operation Gladio in Greece. And we're going to try to get out of here in under two hours. Can't make any promises. But I do have a beach chair, so I'm incentivized.

0:55 in that direction um let me get my co-hosts in here let me get my um there we go and um cousin it will be with us but she is going to be occupied so she's going to be listening in and um bridget will be um

1:25 working on co-host duties and I'm going to put Sally with a microphone so she can also keep in touch so that we can stay on track. All right we're going to start we're going to do this in two segments. The first segment is Greece 1947 to the early 1950s and we start off with a quote that

1:58 is from a guy who spent some time in a Nazi concentration camp. And this is his quote. For some days now, we had talked of nothing else. At first, some of us thought it was a lie. It had to be. An invention of Nazi propaganda to raise the morale of the people. We listened to the news bulletins on the German radio, broadcast in all of the loudspeakers.

2:26 And we just shook our heads. A trick to raise the morale of the German people. It had to be. But we soon faced up to the evidence. Some of us listened in secret to the Allied broadcast, which confirmed the news. There was no doubt about it. British troops really were crushing the Greek resistance. In Athens, the battle was raging. British troops were retaking the city.

2:55 From the ELAS forces, district by district, it was an unequal fight. ELAS had neither tanks nor planes, but Radio Moscow had said nothing, and this silence was variously interpreted. So let me say this about that quote. ELAS, we were told, were communist. In the age old...

3:27 communist anti-communist rhetoric of operation gladio um as the war was winding down in europe the brits and the americans had design on greece greece was a strategic location the u.s at the time had no bases in greece and they wanted them so during the war the war's not over hitler's

3:59 forces had largely been defeated by the Greek resistance to Hitler wanting their freedom. But the British did not trust the Greek citizens to govern themselves. So while they were under duress and fighting off the last vestiges of the Nazis, the British invaded Greece. There's no other way to say it. They invaded Greece.

4:30 and fought against the resistance fighters that was trying to free the citizenry of Greece in order to be able to control Greece in the aftermath of World War II. Freedom for me, but not for thee, seems to be a reoccurring mantra. The British Army had arrived in Greece during October and November of 1944.

5:00 before and in the immediate aftermath of the Germans fleeing Greece. The evacuation of the Germans fleeing was in large part attributed to ELAS, which was referred to as People's Liberation Army trying to liberate Greece. It was founded in 1941 and 1942.

5:30 It was made up of everybody. It was made up of Catholics. It was made up of atheists. It was made up of all political parties, a large segment of the Catholic priests. And they fought basically a guerrilla-style warfare from the fringe areas of the cities against the Nazis.

6:02 ELAS were basically liberating Greece from the World War. And they also had some very interesting beliefs in that they wanted to promote education. They wanted to regenerate the Greek society. And they even...

6:32 maintained a fighting battalion of women. They were all about women's rights. And there was approximately 2 million of the 7 million Greeks that this movement incorporated. So it was hardly a minor faction.

7:00 This was hardly the kind of social order designed to calm the ulcers of the British old guard like Winston Churchill, who had long regarded Greece as their private manor. The great man was determined that the Greek king should be restored to his rightful place with all that it implied, and that the British military in Greece had lost no time in installing a government dedicated to that end.

7:33 Quislings and conservatives of all stripes found themselves in positions of political power, predominantly in the new Greek army and police. And then, as a result, members of the ELAS found themselves either dead or in prison. In the early days of the World War II, when defeating the Nazis was the Allies' overwhelming purpose,

8:00 had went so far as to refer to the ELAS as gallant guerrillas fighting the Nazis. And ELAS supporters had welcomed the British in November 1944, thinking they were there to free Greece. But as you see in a reoccurring theme, the same thing happened repeatedly with the United States.

8:30 However, shortly after British arrived in Greece, the fighting broke out between ELAS and the British forces, many of whom had fought against ELAS during the war and in the process of collaborating with the Germans. Others had simply served with the Germans. The British Foreign Secretary

8:59 Ernest Bevins acknowledged in August 1946 there were 228 members of the Nazi security battalion, full-fledged Nazis, whose main task had been to track down Greek resistance fighters and Jewish citizens living in Greece on active service in the new Greek army. So they basically

9:31 reinstituted Nazi military people into the British and soon-to-be U.S.-supported Greek army. Further support for the campaign against the ELAS came from the U.S. and the Air Force and Navy, which transported two British divisions into Greece while they were still at war.

9:57 with Nazi Germany. They were invading Greece, who was trying to fight off the Nazis at the same time. That's crazy. In mid-January 1945, ELAS agreed to an armistice, one that had much the appearance and the effect of a surrender. I mean, they had no choice. They were completely outgunned.

10:30 a cynical monopoly game, Britain had landed on Greece. Churchill later wrote that Stalin had adhered strictly and faithfully to our agreement of October, and during all the long weeks of fighting the quote-unquote communist on the streets of Athens, not one word of reproach came from Pravda, nor the radio Moscow. So you have...

10:59 the Soviet Union, Stalin, watching what is going on in what the U.S. and the Brits are doing to the Greeks. And what you will find is in the aftermath of watching them do this, it was only then that the Romania, Bulgaria, and...

11:27 those Eastern European countries had the same thing done to them by the USSR. We're setting a very bad example, in other words. Okay, here's a quote from Professor D.F. Fleming, quote, that Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying great power.

12:00 It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example in Bulgaria and then Romania, though with much less bloodshed by Stalin, unquote. A secession of Greek governments followed, serving by the grace of the British and the U.S., thoroughly corrupt governments, which continued to terrorize anyone that was out of lockstep with them. They tortured them in Ireland,

12:32 prison camps, which is a note. This is a reoccurring thing. They set up, like we've talked about, in Sardinia off the coast of Italy. They did it on the island off the coast of the southeast part of Vietnam. They did it in many other areas where they set up these prison camps on nearby islands. Again, just another pattern. They did the exact same thing in Greece.

13:00 Basically, Greece in the aftermath of World War II was living a hell. In the fall of 1946, the inevitable occurred. They took to the hills and launched a phase two of their civil war. The British were weighed down by many other projects, and in 1947, they informed the U.S. that they could no longer shoulder the burden of maintaining a large armed force presence in Greece, and therefore,

13:30 they were going to withdraw and ask the U.S. to step in. Thus, it was the historic task of preserving all that is decent and good in Western civilization passed into the hands of the United States. The State Department summoned the Greek Charles of the Affair in Washington, informed him that his government was to ask for U.S. aid. This was basically a direction.

13:59 not a suggestion. And in doing so, the State Department had already drafted the request. The text of the letter, the charged affair, later reported, had been drafted with a view to Congress, basically, to approve the aid. It would also serve to protect the U.S. government against internal and external charges of being the aggressor because it was asked for.

14:31 It was demanded that it be done under the guise of asking for it. The note would also serve as a basis for the cultivation of public opinion, i.e. propaganda. In July, in a letter to Dwight Griswold, the head of the U.S. Mission of Aid to Greece, which was abbreviated as AMAG, Secretary of State George Marshall said this, and this is a quote.

15:01 It is possible that during your stay in Greece, you and the ambassador will come to the conclusion that the effectiveness of your mission would be enhanced if a reorganization of the Greek government could be effected. If such a conclusion is reached, it is hoped that you and the ambassador will be able to bring about such a reorganization indirectly through discrete suggestion and otherwise in such a manner.

15:30 that even the Greek political leaders will have a feeling that the reorganization has been effectively largely by themselves and not by pressure from without, unquote. So in other words, it's time to coup the government, but pretend like somebody else did it, like it was an inside job. The secretary spelled out further guidelines for Griswold. In an article in the New York Times, it said this, during the course,

16:14 You will find it necessary to affect the removal of these officials, unquote.

16:29 See how nicely they talk? Do the coup. And if anybody gets in your way, eliminate them. They were not the most cynical aspects of the American endeavor, however. Washington officials well knew that their new client government was so abusive of human rights that even confirmed American, quote unquote, anti-communist were appalled. Stuart Alsa.

17:06 said on February 23, 1947, when, let's see, the noted journalist had cabled from Athens that most of the Greek politicians had, quote, no higher ambition than to taste the profitable delights of a free economy at American expense, unquote. That same year, an American investigation team found huge supplies from the United States rotting in warehouses.

17:37 when it was estimated that 75% of Greek children were malnourished. So difficult was it to gloss over the atrocities that President Truman, in his address to Congress in March of 1947, who was funding all of this shit, asking for aid to Greece based on the Greeks' quote-unquote request, another drafted memo for him.

18:01 attempted to preempt criticism by admitting that the Greek government was not perfect and that it had made plenty of mistakes. Yet somehow, by some alchemy, best known to the president, the regime in Athens was democratic and its opponents, meaning the actual freedom fighter, were the terrorists. There was no mention of the Soviet Union in this particular speech, but it was to be the relentless refrain.

18:30 of the American rationale over the next two and a half years that Russians were trying to get into Greece, that they were paying the guerrillas, and that had it not been for the U.S. and the divisive tactics being used, Greece would go communist. The neighboring communist states of Bulgaria and Albania, and particularly Yugoslavia, in part motivated by

18:59 the old territorial claims against Greece, did aid some of the insurgents with military supplies. But again, this is that old discussion that we've had many times. If you are fighting the United States, you have nowhere else to go get arms. And by the way, we will get to Bulgaria. Bulgaria is and was one of the largest...

19:26 arms dealing countries in the entire world, maybe second only to Israel and the U.S. The USSR, however, in the person of Joseph Stalin, had adamantly opposed to assisting the Greeks in any way. He refused funding. He refused to directly supply them arms because Stalin at this point did not.

19:57 with all of the new territory that they had picked up, did not want to piss off the U.S. or Great Britain. He was actually, when you read back in real history, he was very timid when it came to, in any way, shape or form, coming head to head with those two powers. And in one case, I'm not going to remember, if I'm not mistaken, it was Yugoslavia.

20:27 Because the Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet Union over the dealing of arms. And Stalin absolutely did not want to be seen as arming opponents to the U.S. and the U.K. And he was willing to cut ties to countries that insisted on doing that. So Stalin asked his foreign minister.

20:59 He asked him this question, do you believe in the success of the uprising of Greece, meaning the freedom fighters, unquote. His reply is this, quote, if foreign intervention does not grow and if serious political and military errors are not made, Stalin went on without paying attention to his foreign minister's opinion and said this, quote, if, if, no.

21:28 They have no prospect of success at all. So you have the foreign minister saying that if the U.S. and the U.K. butted their ass out of this intervention, that the freedom fighters would win. But Stalin corrects him and says, no, they have no prospect of success at all because there's no way the U.S. and the U.K. is going to butt out. And then further his quote, what do you think that Great Britain and the United States?

21:56 The United States, the most powerful state in the world, will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean? Nonsense. And we have no Navy. The uprising in Greece must be stopped and stopped as quickly as possible. Unquote. The first major shipload of military assistance under the new American oversight happened in the summer of 1947.

22:26 Significant quantities had also been shipped to the Greek government by the U.S. while the British was running the show. By the end of the year, the Greek military had been entirely supported by U.S. military aid, and that included their clothing and food. The nation's war-making potential was transformed. It increased the size of the Greek armed forces.

22:53 including fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, airfields, napalm, bombs, rifles, naval patrol vessels, comm networks, docks, railways, roads, bridges, hundreds of millions of dollars of our wealth going out the door to suppress freedom fighters in the 1940s via the United States government.

23:19 It was approaching well over a billion dollars by the end of the Second World War. Millions more would be used to create a secret Army Reserve fighting capability, and you can read that as Operation Gladio, because do you know who the founding members of that was? Were the Nazi security battalions that we mentioned earlier.

23:49 So they are no kidding, just like in Ukraine, using real live Nazis to establish stay-behind capability inside of Greece. The U.S. military mission took over the development of the battle plans for the army from the ineffective Greek generals. The missions related military British writer Major Edgar O'Balance, quote,

24:21 took a tough line and insisted that all of its recommendations be carried into effect completely, unquote. More than 250 American Army officers were in the country and assigned to be advisors to the Greek Army divisions, just like they did in Vietnam and every other conflict afterwards. To ensure compliance with directives,

24:48 And it went all the way down to brigade and battalion level authority. There was also 200 U.S. Air Force and Navy personnel on active duty in Greece. All the military training methods were revised and tightened up by American supervision. Infantry units were made mobile.

25:13 They increased their firepower. They created special commando units trained in anti-guerrilla tactics, training in mountain warfare, augmented by, we even shipped them 4,000 mules so that they could chug their stuff up into the mountains to combat the guerrilla forces, which, you know, this has happened repeatedly over and over again.

25:40 like us taking the horses and running around Afghanistan. Both on the ground and in the air, the American support was becoming increasingly active. The Greeks held out for three terrible years, despite losses of tens of thousands of people in their freedom fight, but they saw the writing on the wall and eventually created a ceasefire.

26:08 The extent of the American hegemony over Greece from 1947 onward could scarcely be exaggerated. We have seen Marshall's directives to Griswold in the American management of the military campaign. There were many other manifestations of the same phenomenon. In September 1947, Vice Prime Minister Constantine

26:35 I don't know how to say this last name, T-S-A-L-D-A-R-I-S, agreed to the disillusionment of the government and the creation of a new ruling coalition. In doing so, the New York Times declared, quote, surrendered to the desires of Dwight Griswold of U.S. Ambassador McVeigh, M-A-C-V-E-A-G-H.

27:03 and also the king, unquote. Over the next several years, each of the frequent changes of prime minister came about only after consideration with the American and their input, if not an outright demand. This also occurred in 1950 when the then American ambassador, Henry Grady, sent a letter to the prime minister threatening to cut off USAID if he failed to carry out the government reorganization.

27:35 That they wanted. And he basically stepped down because he was not going to do it. Andres Papadreou. And we're going to talk about him throughout this. I want to spell his last name for everybody. It's P-A-P-A-N-D-R-E-A-U. Papadreou. Later.

28:03 would become prime minister himself. But during this time, he wrote this, quote, cabinet members and army generals, political party leaders, and members of the establishment all made open references to American wishes or views in order to justify or to account for their own actions or positions. So basically, the U.S. is running Greece, in shortcut.

28:29 Undertaking this new crackdown on dissidents in July 1947, Greek authorities first approached the ambassador, the U.S. ambassador, and the U.S. ambassador informed them that the U.S. government would have no objections and no preventative measures would be taken to whatever they deemed necessary. And therefore, in less than the first, after that note,

29:00 there were 4,000 people rounded up off the streets labeled dissidents. Also, another example of what landed Greek citizens in prison was one of the members got an 18-month sentence because he referred to the Americans as, quote, the official representative of a foreign country, unquote. So for those words,

29:31 He was sentenced to prison for 18 months. Does that sound like the United States now? Of course it does. In the economic sphere, Andras Paprandro said, the U.S. exercised almost dictatorial control during the early 50s, requiring the signature of the chief of the economic mission for anything to happen inside the Greek government.

29:59 the American management of the economy may have been even tighter. The memorandum from Athens dated 17 November 1947 from an American Mission to Aid. That's the name of the organization, American Mission to Aid, Greece. On that memo to the State Department in Washington, D.C., it says, quote, we have established practical control over national budget, taxation, currency issue, price.

30:29 wages, and state economic planning, as well as over imports and exports, the issuance of foreign exchange, and the direction of the military reconstruction and relief expenditures, unquote. So we are running the government of Greece, just to be clear. And not to be outdone, of course, the U.S. government installed an organization by the name of KYP.

30:59 That is translated as CIA. That is the counterpart that they set up that immediately became over the secret police and systematic torture, just as we have seen in all of these vassal states that the U.S. takes over using the State Department and the CIA.

31:22 In the early 1950s, Greece had been molded into a supremely reliable ally client of the United States and a full-fledged member of NATO, of course. It even sent troops to Korea because it didn't have a choice, just so the American propaganda machine could say that that was a joint multinational effort.

31:52 when in fact it really wasn't. Greece would have been much more independent of the U.S. if the U.S. obviously had stayed out of its business. Greece would likely have been independent and had nothing to do with the Soviet Union. Like Yugoslavia, which is also free of a common border of the USSR, Greece would have been friendly towards the Russians but maintained its independence.

32:23 And as we well know, thanks to all of our research in Operation Gladio, that's not allowed. When in 1964, there came to power in Greece, a government which entertained the novel idea that Greece was going to be a sovereign nation in the United States and its Greek internal cohorts was going to have to go, we're going to see Operation Gladio in full force.

32:52 So that happens in 1964. In 1964, Andras Papadondros gets elected as the prime minister. And we're going to skip forward to 1964 to 1974 and go over what happens in Greece during that period. But you have to keep in mind, for all of this time, basically, for all practical purposes,

33:20 the U.S. is running Greece. Oh, and let me also point out, because this is going to come up, Greece was one of the countries that was using the crypto AG encryption, right? So no matter what was going on there, and even if you had a rogue government official,

33:43 The U.S. was monitoring every single thing they sent to all of their different ambassadors throughout the world. So just want to, I'm going to now start keeping that in the back of my mind when we look through all of this, now that I've had a better grasp of what all countries was involved in crypto AG. So the government in Greece.

34:16 in 1967 was taken over by a CIA-enabled coup, and it was called the Colonel's Junta. It came to power in April 1967, followed immediately by the traditional martial law, censorship, arrests, beating, tortures, killings, and victims totaling over 8,000 in the first month.

34:43 And keep in mind, this was done with the full knowledge of the United States. Because in 1964, the Andro guy was, excuse me, hold on. They elected a prime minister that was not to the U.S.'s liking, George Hoprando. His son was Andrus.

35:12 So George gets elected, and I'm just going to use his first name. George got elected in 1964, and we're going to go through what basically happens to him because this is just crazy. So once he's overthrown and the colonel's junta takes over, they were so brutal and so swift in the repression that by September,

35:43 Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands was before the European Commission of Human Rights accusing Greece of violating all of the Commission's conventions. Before the year was over, Amnesty International had sent representatives to Greece to investigate the situation and had wrote a report that said torture as a deliberate practice is carried out by the

36:12 Security police and the military police, both of which was trained and equipped by the United States military. The coup had taken place two days before the election. Elections that appeared that George Papandreou was going to be the prime minister. He had been elected in February and he had been couped by the five.

36:42 military colonels after he took office because, again, he dared to talk to the USSR and blah, blah, blah. We already know that whole routine. And he was not going to be a vassal state of the United States. And he basically was representing Greece to be a sovereign nation. And so they basically couped him with a military coup supported largely by the CIA. And then after the coup,

37:12 they had went through, and we'll go into it a little bit, some god-awful crap and tried to play out the fact of not having an election and then eventually forced into having an election, were pissed off that that guy still looked like he was going to win again. And so basically sent in the colonels, blah, blah, blah. So Philip Dean, who was a Greek and former UN official,

37:42 who worked during this period for both the King Constantine, who basically is a puppet, and as an envoy to Washington per the Palpandro government. He has written an intimate account of the subtleties and grossness of this conspiracy to undermine the government and enhance the position of the military plotters, the raw power exercised by the CIA in his country.

38:08 We saw earlier how Greece was looked upon much as a piece of property instead of a country. The story related by Dean illustrates how this attitude was little changed, thus the precariousness of the paprandro position. During one of the perennial disputes between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, which is now spilling over onto NATO, President Johnson summoned the Greek ambassador to tell him,

38:38 of Washington's quote-unquote solution. The ambassador protested that it would be unacceptable to the Greek parliament and contrary to the Greek constitution. Johnson responded, quote, then listen to me, Mr. Ambassador. F your parliament and your constitution. American is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. If these two fleas continue itching the elephant, they might just get whacked by the elephant's trunk.

39:09 whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mr. Ambassador. If your prime minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament, and constitutions, he and his parliament and his constitution may not last very long, unquote. So this comes and is the prevailing attitude of most of the people that occupy the White House, which is why we now realize

39:40 that we have had a Constitution in name only and a Republican name only for a very long time. In July 1965, George Pantrow was finally maneuvered out of the office by royal prerogative. So he was elected in 64. The CIA basically convinced the king to get rid of him. And the king had a coalition of breakaway center union deputies.

40:09 which was Paprandro's party, and rightists waiting in the wings to form a new government. It was later revealed by the State Department's official that the CIA station chief at the time, John Murray, M-A-U-R-Y, and just look him up, he's the typical CIA station guy, had worked on behalf of the palace in 1965. He helped the king buy...

40:40 Off all of Papandro's government, and that's the reason that Papandro's government was overthrown, is because it was bought by CIA's money. And that's actually in a State Department memo. For nearly two years thereafter, various short-lived cabinets ruled until it was no longer possible to avoid having the election.

41:09 What concerned the opponents of George Papandro most about him was his son, Andrus. Andrus had been educated in the United States and was a U.S. citizen. He'd been granted citizenship. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also an active supporter of Adelaide.

41:40 Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. His economic views were those of the American New Deal. What could be wrong with that, right? FDR is a hero of what used to be the West. But Andrus did not disguise his wish to take Greece out of the Cold War. He wanted it to be a neutral country. He publicly questioned the wisdom of remaining in NATO.

42:10 which is a mortal sin, and he vehemently disagreed with Greece being a satellite of the U.S. He leaned towards open relationships with both the Soviet Union and the Americans, and he said that there should be no U.S. military or intelligence teams in Greece. He viewed that as a threat to the democracy of Greece.

42:40 Andres Papandro Bark was much worse than his bite because he does later become a president, and he in no way tried to get Greece out of NATO or anything else. And as we will see, there are allegations that he was approached, as are all foreign nationals going to school in the United States, to be a confidant of the CIA while he was in California.

43:14 Here's a quote from LBJ about Andrus. We gave the son of a bitch American citizenship, didn't we? He was an American with all of the rights and privileges, and he had sworn allegiance to the flag. And then he gave up his American citizenship. He went back to just being a Greek. You can't trust a man who breaks his oath of allegiance to the flag of these United States.

43:44 What a pompous ass. What then are we to make of the fact that Andrus was later reported to have worked for the CIA in the 1960s? He actually criticized the report that made that allegation, but he never denied that he was or had done work on the behalf of the CIA. His dad, George, was a vehement

44:17 anti-communist and had the credentials to prove it, dating back to his role as a British-installed prime minister during the Civil War against the leftists in the 1944 and 1945 time period. But he, too, showed stirrings of independence and had his own views of what needed to happen between Greece and Turkey over the subject of Cyprus.

44:46 and it didn't necessarily jive with the U.S.'s position. He also accepted an invitation to visit Moscow, which, you know, is like dead man walking at this point. He also accepted Soviet aid in preparation for what looked like at the time a war with Turkey over Cyprus. The U.S. embassy demanded an explanation for the acceptance of this aid. It also

45:18 Papandros began to reintroduce civil liberties and readmit into Greece those people who had fought against basically the ELAS people who had been tortured during the time the U.S. was basically running the government. And he wanted to make amends with those people because he understood that they were working on behalf of the country, Greece.

45:47 But then again, the U.S. had already labeled them as terrorists. When Andrus, the son, assumed his minstrel duties in his dad's cabinet in 1964, he was shocked to discover a couple of different things. The Greek Intel Service, CIA for them, KYP, had basically bugged all of their offices. One of the men was...

46:19 named who had been trained by the U.S. and worked with the OSS during World War II was named George Papadopoulos. And I'm not making that up. And I did ask when I first discovered this and wrote my first paper, which is on my sub stack about this whole Greece conflict as part of Operation Gladio, I reached out to George to ask him if this was any relation to him. And he said it was not.

46:48 I'm just going to leave that there. He was the leader of the junta that seized power from George in 1967. And he basically installed himself as their new prime minister. And Andrus, when he became one of the ministers, found that the Greek CIA had bugged all of their offices and turned over all of the information to the CIA.

47:18 Many Western intelligence agencies have long provided the CIA with information about their own government and citizens because a lot of them were originally funded and set up by the CIA and trained by the CIA. And then, of course, they basically do the same. They share data on Americans that they collect. The younger Papandro dismissed the two top CIA members of his staff.

47:48 and replaced them with what he thought to be reliable officers. The new director was ordered to protect the cabinet from surveillance. He came back and apologetically told the guy, we couldn't do it. All the equipment was American, controlled by the CIA or Greeks under CIA supervision. There is no way that we can distinguish between the two systems.

48:16 They are basically operating as a single agency. And this is the foot stomper that I want to make about Crypto AG. This is exactly what they're talking about. They don't name the system. But now that we know we have another addition to our Gladio Glasses inventory that we can now know the system this guy's talking about that the CIA was using to spy on these people conducting State Department level.

48:45 conversations was Crypto AG and we know definitively based on the list that I found that Greece was one of the organizations that was using that system. Papandros ordered to abolish the bugging of the cabinet actually ended up outing several of the people that

49:13 was working on the cabinet as actually being employed by the CIA. So the deputy chief of mission in the U.S. embassy, Norbert, and I'm going to spell his last name, A-N-S-H-U-T-Z, who had also worked for the CIA, demanded that Papandros rescind the order. So the CIA is dictating to a Greek...

49:42 um minister that he doesn't get to control who works on his staff and he goes so far as to say if you don't rescind that order firing those people there will be consequences so papandros the younger one does a thorough search and he found that not only was his office bugged but his home was bugged as well

50:12 and that the deputy director working for him was actually a CIA agent. The endeavor by Andrus to, in the practice of the KYP's funds coming directly from the CIA, and so this just blew my mind, the CIA is funding their counterparts in the Greek government, and that money doesn't even flow through.

50:42 the Greek government. It goes directly from the... So the KYP was a satellite of the CIA just under a different name, posing as Greek's CIA, when in fact they weren't. They were on the payroll of the CIA. And this is not the first time I've come across this arrangement. The CIA is like the Global Intelligence Bureau.

51:12 And like the KCIA that we found in Korea, they basically had, when they were set up, this exact same setup. They were not the Korean CIA. They were our CIA posing as the Korean CIA. It's just quite crazy, actually. So in mid-February 1967, at a meeting that took place in the White House, it was reported.

51:45 that Marquis Childs was there to discuss CIA reports, which, quote, left no doubt that a military coup was in the making. It could hardly have been a secret. Since 1947, the Greek army and American military basically were one in the same. And then here's a quote.

52:07 No course of action is feasible. As one of the senior civilian present recalls it, Walt Rostow, R-O-S-T-O-W, the president's advisor on national security affairs, closed the meeting with the following words. I hope you understand, gentlemen, that what we have concluded here, or rather have failed to conclude, makes the future course of events in Greece inevitable.

52:34 So they were told a coup was going to happen and they did nothing about it. A CIA report dated 23 January 1967 had specifically named the Papadopoulos group as one plotting the coup and was apparently one of the reports discussed in that February meeting. One of the cabal of five officers which took power in April for

53:05 reportedly, were connected to the CIA in Greece. The fit man brought in because of the armored units he commanded. George Papadopoulos emerged as the prime minister later in that year. The catch word amongst the old hands at the U.S. military mission in Greece was that Papadopoulos was the first, get this, quote,

53:33 the first CIA agent to become premier of a European country, unquote. Because what we will find out is he was on the CIA's payroll for 15 years preceding him becoming the prime minister of Greece. So they literally installed a CIA agent in charge of Greece. One reason for the success.

54:01 may have been Colonel Papadopoulos' World War II record. Now get this, this is where it gets even grosser. When the Germans invaded Greece, Papadopoulos served as the captain of the Nazi security battalion. This guy is one of the Operation Gladio Nazis of their stay-behind units installed in Greece.

54:31 He was a great believer in Hitler's new order and his later record in power did little to cast doubt upon that because he became the torture in chief. Let's see. Foley also says that under Papadopoulos, quote,

54:55 Intense official propaganda portrayed communism as the only enemy Greece had ever had, and it minimized the German occupation until even Nazi atrocities were seen as provoked by the communists. This rewriting of history clearly reflects the dictator's concern at the danger that the gap in his official biography may someday be filled in, unquote. So that's what happens when you basically rewrite.

55:25 history. This guy is a Nazi. They did atrocities inside of Greece. But then the CIA puts the Nazi in charge of Greece. Well, they hire him and pay him for 15 years. And then they install him as the prime minister of Greece. And in the aftermath, he basically rewrites it and says, as long as you're not a communist, you're fine. Except for the communists have never been in Greece and never had anything to do with Greece. As part of the rewriting,

55:57 members of the security battalions became heroes of the resistance. Okay, so we're 180 degrees out. It was torture, however, that would undoubtedly mark the seven-year Greek nightmare that was oversaw by Papadopoulos. An American attorney was sent to Greece by Amnesty International, and he wrote this in 1969, quote, a conservative estimate would be placed that

56:26 not less than 2,000, the number of people that were tortured. And here's what he said. People had been mercilessly tortured simply for being in possession of a leaflet criticizing the government. Brutality and cruelty on one side, frustration and helplessness on the other. They were being tortured and there was nothing to be done. It was like listening to a friend who has cancer.

56:56 What comfort, what wise reflection can someone give? Unquote. He also said that some torturers had told prisoners that some of their equipment was U.S. military aid. And like we saw in the case of South America, the wires that they were using was coming through diplomatic pouches.

57:23 to the CIA agents inside of Greece and then being given to the torturers that had been trained by the US military. So, and just like South America, we get to the beatings on the soles of the feet until they can't walk. The bones are broken. It creates scar tissue. These are the exact same methods because they went to the exact same schools.

57:50 that talks about jumping on their stomach after they fill them up with water, tearing their hair out, blah, blah, blah. All of this is the exact same things, waterboarding, that were taught in the schools of America. So, in 1969, the European Commission of Human Rights found Greece guilty of torture, murder, and other violations. For these reasons, the Junta abolishment of parliamentary democracy, the Council of Europe...

58:21 A consultative body at the time, 18 European states under the commission, falls, was preparing to expel Greece from the commission. They basically rejected Greece's claim that it was in danger of a communist takeover, which is just laughable. Amnesty International later reported that the U.S., though not even a member of the council, strongly objected to the council's actions. And the New York Times reported, quote,

58:51 The State Department said today that the U.S. had deliberately avoided taking any position on the question of continued Greek membership in the Council of Europe, which is absolutely a lie. Also, the Amnesty report concluded, the American policy on the torture question, as expressed in official statements and official testimony, has been to deny it where possible and minimize it where it was not possible to deny it.

59:20 This policy flowed naturally from the general support for the military regime. Greece walked out before the council could vote to formalize them being expelled. In a world grown increasingly mad, the support of the world's most powerful nation of a Greek junta military regime was crazy. The two governments thrived upon each other.

59:48 said one American ambassador to Greece by the name of Henry Tasca, T-A-S-C-A. This is the most anti-communist group you'll find anywhere because, you know, that's all that matters. You can kill people as long as you're anti-communist, according to our State Department and CIA. There is just no place like Greece to offer these facilities with the backup of the kind of government you have here.

1:00:18 because they were killing and torturing people. And our State Department is passing them off as awesome. The facilities the ambassador was referring to was the dozens of U.S. military installations with nuclear missiles on them and comm sites and housing tens of thousands of American servicemen where they could then reach further into the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

1:00:50 And that's really the strategic value of the relationship that we had with Greece. Because in Heraklion, Greece, just like in San Vito, Italy, they had one of those major listening posts there, the electronic security group that intercepted all of the transmissions being sent anywhere around there, in there, around there, in addition to Crypto AG. So basically, it was a collection site.

1:01:19 and a convenient place to be able to threaten anybody that got out of line. So vice president, oh, I wanted to say this too. In an attempt, oh, hold on a second. So basically the United States provided the military junta with ample military hardware despite an official congressional embargo. So this is important.

1:01:52 Remember what we did with the Contras. Congress says you're not allowed to give them anything because they're torturing and killing people. And so what our State Department, the CIA, did was set up Israel as the arms dealer and then was paying money to Iran. And we were going to do the Iran hostage for weapons deal. So no matter what Congress says, they're always going to find a way about around it. So the United States built.

1:02:21 military bases in Greece and then use those military bases to funnel weapons to the Greeks' government, of which they controlled because the guy running it was one of their agents, and they were funneling those weapons to him around Congress in an attempt to end

1:02:46 The embargo, the Nixon administration asked Papadopoulos to make some gesture towards constitutional government, which he could then use against Congress to lift the embargo. The Greek prime minister was to be assured, said a secret White House document, that the administration would take at face value, no matter what lie they told him, that whatever they were doing was absolutely the truth and it was going to be done or had been done.

1:03:16 U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew, on a visit to the land of his ancestors, Greece, was moved to disclaim or to acclaim the achievements of the Greek government and its, quote, constant cooperation with the U.S. needs and wishes, unquote. That's definitely a true statement.

1:03:47 half a million dollars made by the military junta to the 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign. Apart from other considerations, it was suspected that this was money given to the military junta by the CIA, which was going to find its way back to Washington, which is exactly what we read in the Golden Warrior was being done with the Japanese government.

1:04:13 Nixon transferring the M-Fund management over to the Japanese government, which was full of gold, and then they were expected to fund Nixon's campaign when he ran for re-election. Perhaps nothing better captures the mystique of the bond felt between the Greeks and their American guardians than the story related by the chief inspector, a guy by the name of Basil Lambro, one of Athens' well-known torturers.

1:04:43 This is so gross. Hundreds of prisoners have listened to the little speech given by the inspector, who sits behind his desk with a displayed red, white, and blue symbol, clasped hand symbol of the American aid. He tries to show the prisoner the absolute futility of resistance. Quote, you make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The world is divided in two.

1:05:12 There are communists on that side, and on this side, the free world. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me is the government. Behind the government is NATO. Behind NATO is the U.S. You can't bite us. We are Americans, unquote. That's what every incoming person was told, every incoming Greek citizen.

1:05:42 was told that was going to undergo torture. They were being tortured by the American government and that they could not resist because it was futile. If they resisted, they were called communist. If you work with us, you'll be fine. And then it talks about several of the people that had been tortured later on giving statements, basically recounting.

1:06:18 that same aspect of this. And in November 1973, a falling out within the Greek inner circle of this junta ended up with Papadopoulos being replaced by a colonel whose last name is I-O-A-N-N-I-D-I-S. Ion Didis, he was the commander of the military police, chief torture and graduate

1:06:50 of the American training in Subversive, basically the School of Americas. Iandidis named as prime minister a Greek-American by the name of Androsopoulos. I mean, this guy's got like 15 letters, so let me spell his name. A-N-D-R-O-U-T-S-O-P-O-U-L-O-S.

1:07:19 who came to Greece after World War II as an official employee of the CIA. So, and he told everybody that he actually worked for the CIA. So you have the second prime minister CIA agent in Greece. Eight months later, this new CIA agent.

1:07:46 went into Cyprus and overthrew the government. And that's a whole nother story that we'll eventually get into. But basically, there was a Catholic priest, archbishop that was in charge of Cyprus. And what they what the CIA did there was horrendous. But and they knew because it was basically a divided.

1:08:09 There was both Muslim and Greeks living on the island that this was going to basically be kicking a hornet's nest. And that's exactly what happened. And Turkey invaded Cyprus as a result. And there was all kinds of crap breaking out. And it was at that point that much of the story of the American complicity in the 1967 coup and its aftermath came out.

1:08:39 At the trials held in 1975 of the junta members and the torturers, many witnesses made reference to the Americans' role in all that we just uncovered. This may have been the reason a separate investigation into the aspect was never scheduled. Well, it was scheduled, but it never took place. There appears that no information came out if it actually ever happened.

1:09:09 And Philip Dean, upon returning to Greece several months after the civilian government took over, was told by leading politicians, for the sake of preserving good relationships with the U.S., the evidence of U.S. complicity would not be made fully public.

1:09:32 had been arrested at the time of the coup and held in prison for eight months. Shortly after his release, him and his wife, Margaret, visited the American ambassador, Phillips Talbot, in Athens. Papandreou related the following. This is a quote. I asked Talbot whether America could have intervened the night of the coup to prevent the death of democracy in Greece. He denied that they could have done anything about it. Then,

1:10:02 Margaret asked a critical question. What if the coup had been a communist or a leftist coup? Talbot answered without hesitation. Then, of course, we would have intervened and the coup would have been crushed. That says it all. So that's what I've got for today. Anybody have any questions or comments?

1:10:39 Thrown back by the depth of the torture and stuff that went on during all that. Hundreds, I mean, thousands and thousands of people, both dead, tortured, you name it. Yeah, absolutely. Go ahead, Stellar. Like totally in your face with that George. I know. That is kind of crazy, isn't it?

1:11:20 Not taking over a government and a country and the evil, sinister crap. What is holy crap? And the CIA paid for both of those guys. I mean, one was a full fledged CIA guy. The other one had been on their payroll for 15 years. Yeah. So my question keeps after each country.

1:11:48 Why do we not know this? Why do we not know this? Why is this not part of our history? They don't want us to know it because like how you did and Bridget and Cousin Et.

1:12:04 And I'm sure the others, too. Everybody's just focused on one thing after another, after another. You've compiled with all of the thousands and thousands of hours. All of you have put in so much time and you're able to see all these little pieces here like the stars. And you've connected all the dots and made it so much easier for us to follow. Holy cow. Right. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel Towner. You might have mentioned Tom Pappas earlier in your presentation.

1:12:35 But if not, have have you, you know, encountered him in your research in Greece? Bella's last name for me, I'll tell you. P.A.P.P.A.S. I came across him. He's not in. Hold on just a second. I need to pull this up. Yeah. Did you have something you wanted to say about him? I have come across that name.

1:13:06 So he got accused, I think, by George Papandreou of being a CIA agent, as referenced in a Boston Globe article in 1969. And I pinned it to The Nest where folks can read some of that. Obviously, he was a big industrialist, but then he's also on the Nixon tapes, too. Number one.

1:13:28 He was providing funding to some of the Watergate defendants, I think. He comes up in some of the conversations with Haldeman, you know, in spring of 73, as they're trying to figure out, you know, how they're going to handle the legal situation. Papandreou, you know, was mentioned as a contributor to his campaign. But then the interest, why you might be interested, is he gets accused of being the CIA by Papandreou.

1:13:56 And then there's this conversation on Nixon tapes. I think it's I've also pinned that one to the nest where he starts talking with Nixon about his plans in Italy. And then suddenly there's this two minute national security break for the Vatican. And he goes on to start talking about Henry Tasker and what a great job he's doing as ambassador. Huh? Yeah, I'll take a look at that. That's very interesting.

1:14:27 Yeah, I came across him early on, not in the context of Greece at all. So that's very interesting. So he would be then part of the international syndicate, which generally speaking, everyone knows, we only do these operations to enable the international syndicate, right?

1:14:59 So in every one of these things, I focus on the military aspect of it, the paramilitary actions of Gladio. For each and every one of these, there is a corollary. And what we will eventually do is come back and look during these time periods of what organizations. And I do hit on some of them where they become fairly obvious, like United Fruit throughout the Central America.

1:15:25 But each and every one of these is done for a strategic reason. One of the things, the reoccurring roles that keeps coming up when you do Greek research is shipping. So because of all of the Greek ports and the huge, I mean, you've got the Onassis connection. There is a huge Greek shipping.

1:15:53 And of course, everybody knows in order to make the weapons work, the drugs work and human trafficking work, you do that via shipping. So having control of the shipping network and being able to put your people in these areas and control these areas, and then you just ship, you tell the shipping conglomerates, if you're going to operate out of a Greek port or.

1:16:21 As a Greek company, when the CIA is in control of your government, you're going to be working for the CIA, period. So that's kind of like the big foot stomper in all of this that we need to keep in the back of our mind as we go through all of this. Always look to see what the international syndicate's role would be during these same time frames in these governments.

1:16:49 To back some of that up, I think Pappas got his start as a grocery store owner in Boston. And he did, I think, get involved in liquor distribution. I mean, his biography is kind of hazy about when that started, whether it was after Prohibition or before the end of it. But then he's also involved in the importation of foodstuffs from Greece and Italy. So that's kind of another interesting factor there.

1:17:19 Perfect. Yeah. Miles, go ahead. Good afternoon, Colonel Beach Bum. So when you do your lectures, I always pull up a map of the area and Greece. So what you're talking about shipping is important. So I'm thinking about, well, what are the resources in that area? Well, it's location, location, location. So if you look at that area.

1:17:50 And also, you know, these people are arrogant. They think they're like earthly gods. And that's why Greece is important to them. You know, this is where democracy started in Mount Olympus and the gods. But besides that, if you look at the location, I mean, it's key, especially Cyprus. It's very close to Lebanon. We know what's, you know, happening in that region right now.

1:18:19 And this all needs to be controlled. Even from Athens, you can get to Istanbul very quickly. And there's a channel that goes into the Black Sea. So just sometimes, guys, you need to look at a map and it kind of explains why this has to be controlled. And by the earthly gods that they think they are. Thanks, Colonel. SR-71, go ahead.

1:18:49 Yes, I find it interesting that Papadopoulos' name came up. And you actually queried Papadopoulos to find out whether or not he was related. Well, of course I did. I'm sure you did. I guess the question I have in looking at all of this is, was this some kind of way connected to Trump by name recognition? No.

1:19:21 I mean, I have to take at face value what George said, that it is not a relative. And I, you know, obviously with the same name, it's likely that it goes back a long time ago. This is only relevant because I'm bringing it up. There isn't any literal transition to Trump. Had I not been doing Gladio research, other than the people who happen to be Greek, would never even, you know, because again, none of this is taught in school.

1:19:50 So the only reason that George Papadopoulos, the CIA paid agent for 15 years who becomes prime minister in a military coup that the CIA originated, is even relevant today is because it's part of the greater Gladio story. I just think it's weird that he has the same name. But anyway, Sally, go ahead. I hope everyone's having a fabulous Monday morning.

1:20:22 Little correction, pop and draw, because draw like as in bow, just in case you want to know. Just because I was curious, because I listened to it earlier. Not earlier, but a different thing. And also, guys, make sure you are following Colonel Towner, Bridget, and Cousin It. They are the ones who put all of this together. And it's not just an hour here or there. It's eight to ten hours every single day. Every single day. They research.

1:20:50 Facts check. They triple fact check to make sure they are given as truth with zero speculation, which is why I trust them. And make sure you turn notifications on. Sharing their stuff, commenting, liking helps them out and helps get their message out because this is extremely, extremely important information that we all need to know. My second thing, I have three things. I'll make them quick. Tonight at 8 p.m.

1:21:17 Eastern time. If you guys are liking this, Bill Elmer is hosting a space with Colonel Towner, and it's going to be great. So if you guys want to come listen to some more Gladio, make sure you guys join that. And then my third thing is, last night when I was covering MKUltra, it was interesting that Dr.

1:21:38 Scott Gottlieb, I don't know if you've talked about him previously, but you probably have, but he was, made several attempts at assassinating Lumumba, which goes right hand in hand with Gladio, which I found very fascinating. Yeah, he tried to, he's the guy that made the toothpaste to kill Castro, too. Yeah. Just to confirm, I've worked in New York with a fellow with the exact same last name. He pronounced it Papandreou.

1:22:10 You're saying that the family pronounces it Papandreou? I'm not sure. I just was listening to an audio book. That's just how they pronounced it. And I'm not saying everyone who reads an audio book says it correctly. Okay. Thank you.

1:22:27 Yeah, I don't even try to pronounce them correctly, which is why I always spell them. I do my best attempt at trying to pronounce them. And generally what I'll do is just what Sally did. There is an application that you can go and tell it to pronounce something. Obviously, it's not going to be 100% correct. They just basically re-say it. And for some strange reason, the woman on the one always sounds.

1:22:53 So I'm not at all convinced that it's an appropriate pronunciation of something that's Greek or even American. But I do try to check that out and do the best that we can. Benjamin, go ahead. Yes, ma'am. I wrote a couple of things down here. I wanted to highlight it's not always easy to see what the left hand is doing, you know, with all these operations.

1:23:23 It's compartmentalization. It's too easy to hide things in the shadows and people not learn about it. You know, one of the great things about what Colonel and all these great ladies do is they bring all these things out to the forefront. You know, like if you take a look here in America, you got a corporation called McGraw Hill. That's what you call a gatekeeper right there. You know, they're the ones they.

1:23:49 There's 13,318 school districts, K-12 in the United States. McGraw-Hill provides 100% of the learning material to over 13,000 of those school districts. So when we talk about why we didn't hear these things, that right there shows you how and why. And that's why when Trump starts talking about...

1:24:12 tearing down the Department of Education and bringing that out of the picture, that is an excellent idea. Because if you have the Department of Education up there, they can control what every student in every district of America and all of our universities or a large majority of them as well. So when you look back and ask yourself, why are we in the position we are? That's a couple of the reasons right there.

1:24:43 Another thing, you know, Colonel highlights all these different operations that have been running all these decades, right? These things, people have came out and told these stories of what really happened. These are CIA agents, people that thought they were on the right side, like the Colonel, you know, thought we were working for the good guys, but turns out that we're not.

1:25:07 You know, so all of these people that brought forth this information to wake Americans up to what's really going on behind the scenes, you add that all up together and you look back and see where people have been held accountable. You know, you won't find too many of them. So that right there, that tells me that they still have control. They still have power. Who that is overall, I don't know. That's why we're all here trying to find out information. My next question for you is, do you think they will stop?

1:25:38 They will be stopped. I don't think they're going to stop. Exactly. Yeah. Speaking of gatekeepers, hold on a second. I want to add to what you just said. Pergamon Press. Pergamon Press, based in Oxford, and we all know what Oxford is. It's a MI6, MI5 Intel factory. It is not a school.

1:26:04 Pergamon Press was created by Paul Osbon and Robert Maxwell. It publishes scientific and medical books and journals. So it basically is the gatekeeper, just like you mentioned about the gatekeeper for schools. They are the gatekeeper for scientific and medical books and journals. And it was founded by Robert Maxwell, Mossad agent.

1:26:32 Jess Lane Maxwell's dad. And they're using Pergamon, which is basically their little emblem, which is a Greek logo, just so y'all know. Go ahead with your next point. Love that. Thanks, Colonel. Just the last thing. Why do you think they're going after Trump so hard?

1:27:00 Bring you into, you know, the situation of where we stand in the world and what's going on. You know, they're not going to tell us the truth. They're not going to. And a lot of people, they're still under the assumption of until my TV tells me the truth, I'm not going to believe anything you say. But there is a lot of people caught in the middle that by you going out and talking and discussing these things and showing them, you know, receipts, you know, we can wake more up. You know, it's an international syndicate. Yep.

1:27:30 That's the whole purpose of what we're doing. So thank you. SR71, go. I'm sorry. I thought I had removed my hand. I'll let somebody else. All right. Bridget, did you have something you wanted to say? No, you already caught it. I was just going to bring up the Pergamon test and all the school books. I mean. Yeah. So also.

1:28:05 Uh, Liza isn't here with us, cousin it. She, uh, did say to thank you, um, Sally for your, um, comments and, um, just wanted to, um, I was just looking up one other thing. So I did want to say, um, there is one other thing I'm going to say about, um, Greece. There was a CIA agent and I'm going to find his first name real quick. Um, so just one second.

1:28:39 And I want to show you how manipulative, not that we don't already know this. His name was Richard Welch. You may have heard me talk about this before, but Richard Welch was a CIA agent and he was murdered in Greece. He, let's see, I'm going to find his.

1:29:11 He was murdered in 1975. Now, if you go back, there was a congressional investigation into the CIA. And it just so happens that his death, Richard Welch's death, was used by the CIA as a propaganda.

1:29:46 that said the investigation that Congress was doing into the wrongdoings of the CIA was putting agents at risk. There are many people that believe that Richard Welch was actually assassinated by the CIA in order to use his death as a talking point to derail the Congress's investigation of the CIA.

1:30:16 And to get them to shut up because exactly that happened. There was a huge propaganda effort through the Washington Post, the New York Times, accusing Congress of endangering all of the worldwide CIA agents by this investigation. And yet no CIA agent was ever endangered and no CIA agent's name was ever used. They were talking about operations and not specific people.

1:30:45 But interestingly enough, if you go back to Richard Welch, there is a reason why that if you look at his dates and times of what he was doing, he was from 60 to 64 in Cyprus. So he was there when all of this crap was kicking off in Cyprus. He was in Guatemala from 65 to 67. We already know what happened in Guatemala, coups.

1:31:15 He was in Guyana as chief of station in 67 to 69, which would have been when they were setting up Operation Gladio terrorist training camps there. He was in Mexico 69 to 72, and he was also in Peru in the 70s, which was when they were basically moving the poppy industry into South America.

1:31:44 He arrives in Athens, Greece in 1975 at the time when the Greeks had just came out of the military junta and basically is there in the aftermath of what everybody in the country knows is the CIA running their country for the last over 10 years through two different regimes. And so the CIA is the one that put these guys at risk.

1:32:13 Because they basically put him there in the aftermath of the dismantling of the CIA state. It had absolutely nothing to do with a congressional investigation. It was the CIA's own actions that made this guy at risk. Because nobody's going to be killing an American on the streets of any country, especially...

1:32:45 someone who, you know, you would think that they're there for the good. But if the CIA wasn't doing such dirty crap, they wouldn't put any of their people at risk. So I just always found that an interesting kind of corollary to that. And I believe it was the, let's see, church, yeah, church committee, which was the one that was looking at that.

1:33:17 So, Sally, go ahead. I don't know who was asking about Trump and why they wouldn't want him in office. And I'm going to make this really quick because Towner needs to get to the beach. So this is coming from someone who did vote for Biden and was completely oblivious to the world, didn't watch news for 15 years until 2020 when the Trump trials were going on for impeachment. And then I started watching the news and the wrong types of news.

1:33:46 I did just do an interview on Friday night with a Erin Stevenson and then a Tara. I can't remember her last name, but she came on the show at the very end. But he so remembered that with Gladio, they don't just use drugs. They use or trafficking drugs. They do weapons. They do human humans. Right. So in 2014, there was a huge surge of human trafficking coming in and out of.

1:34:16 Mexico and the southern part of or whatever like South America okay so when Trump came into office that completely came to a halt and there's a lot of money in the trafficking of human beings because they can be used more than one time well so when Trump was in office that almost came to a halt he apprehended in two years twice as many sex traffickers as

1:34:46 Obama did in eight years. So that came to a complete halt. In April of 2021, so that's when Biden is president, this whistleblower, he was a DHS whistleblower, blew the lid wide open. He was starting to find patterns.

1:35:06 And so ever since Biden's been in office, that thing has closed back up. So what Trump did by closing the border is he was cutting their financial system off at the knee.

1:35:17 withdrawing from Afghanistan, cut their other source of financial system. And there was many other things like defunding WPATH and all different kinds of things. This is why he is a huge threat because he's not doing it through regular channels where we would see what he's doing. He's cutting them off in a way because they work in the dark and they work in secret. Thanks, Sally. SR71, go ahead. Yes.

1:35:48 Talking about what Sally just said, I listened to that the other night as well, and it just blew my mind away. It is unbelievable what they're doing to these kids. And I thank Sally for that. And anyone who has the time to listen to it, I would advise that they do. Thank you. Thanks. And Liza, while she's...

1:36:17 out doing work, also just texted in. If you look at the Pergamon Press, they were sold to E-L-S-E-V-I-E-R. And that's it. Yeah. So they also were basically Pergamon Press was a sister company to Macmillan Printing.

1:36:47 And also Pergamon is the publisher of several works of the Club of Rome. And anybody that knows what that is, it's along the lines of the Committee of 300 and those types of organizations. So another definitely propaganda machine. So we're going to take one more question, SR71, and then we're going to go ahead and close up for today.

1:37:17 Go ahead, SR-71. I don't mean to interrupt, but Colonel Carey, I think we're trying to get up, and she just now got up to where she should be. I'm sorry, Colonel. For some reason, I can't get this message from ILIN off of my screen, so my hand stays raised for some reason. Okay. All right. Never mind. Go ahead, Carey. Carey, did you have a question? She might be having trouble. Yeah. I appreciate it.

1:38:00 All right, let me, I'm going to remove her and then I'm going to bring her back up and see if we can't get her mic working. Where'd she go? Did she get up? There you go. Carrie, did you have a question? I don't know. So let me, I'll give her a minute or two. Just start talking, Carrie, if you get your mic working.

1:38:42 I did want to let y'all know Wednesday I am going to be down at Pauley Island, hopefully interviewing one of the USS Liberty survivors and visiting the stomping grounds of William Pauley, who we've covered extensively in his shenanigans in the CIA and equipping Chiang Kai-shek and taking his yacht to the bunch of.

1:39:10 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and blah, blah, blah. I'm going to look at the local library up there and see if I can find anything about the family. And then hopefully I'll be able to hook up with the USS Liberty survivor that lives in Pauley Island and do an interview with him. And then I'll be back on Thursday. So definitely no noon show on Wednesday.

1:39:33 And tomorrow we're going to be a little flexible. I will be meeting up with Tracy Beans and Brian Cates. They're having a get together here in Myrtle Beach as well. And so I'm going to leave the time frame. I'm tentatively scheduled for noon, but I'm going to leave that kind of hanging open depending on what schedule they have for tomorrow. So as of right now, I'll be back here at noon tomorrow. Thank you all for being here.

Entities here

Andreas Papandreou34 Greece25 CIA25 United States25 United Kingdom20 George Papadopoulos15 People's Liberation Army13 Soviet Union13 Operation Gladio11 1967 Greek coup d'état11 Cyprus8 Joseph Stalin8 Council of Europe6 Pergamon Press6 Tom Pappas6 Dwight Griswold5 Richard Welch5 United States Department of Veterans Affairs5 North Atlantic Treaty Organization5 Turkey4 Athens4 U.S. Congress4 Church Committee4 Nazi Security Battalions4 Bolivia4 Central America3 Lyndon B. Johnson3 World War II3 Italy3 Winston Churchill3 Amnesty International3 Washington, D.C.3 Yugoslavia3 Trump administration3 King Constantine3 Gerasimos Gigantes3 The New York Times2 George C. Marshall2 West Germany2 McGraw-Hill2

Claims made here

United Kingdom carried_out_attack People's Liberation Army host_asserted ▶ 2:26

“And we just shook our heads. A trick to raise the morale of the German people. It had to be. But we soon faced up to the evidence. Some of us listened in secret to the Allied broadcast, which confirme…”

United Kingdom installed Greece host_asserted ▶ 7:00

“This was hardly the kind of social order designed to calm the ulcers of the British old guard like Winston Churchill, who had long regarded Greece as their private manor. The great man was determined …”

United Kingdom recruited Nazi Security Battalions documented ▶ 8:59

“Ernest Bevins acknowledged in August 1946 there were 228 members of the Nazi security battalion, full-fledged Nazis, whose main task had been to track down Greek resistance fighters and Jewish citizen…”

United States supplied_arms_to Greece host_asserted ▶ 9:31

“reinstituted Nazi military people into the British and soon-to-be U.S.-supported Greek army. Further support for the campaign against the ELAS came from the U.S. and the Air Force and Navy, which tran…”

People's Liberation Army attempted_coup_against Greece host_asserted ▶ 13:00

“Basically, Greece in the aftermath of World War II was living a hell. In the fall of 1946, the inevitable occurred. They took to the hills and launched a phase two of their civil war. The British were…”

United Kingdom removed_from_power Greece host_asserted ▶ 13:00

United States funded Greece documented ▶ 17:37

“when it was estimated that 75% of Greek children were malnourished. So difficult was it to gloss over the atrocities that President Truman, in his address to Congress in March of 1947, who was funding…”

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to People's Liberation Army host_asserted ▶ 18:30

“of the American rationale over the next two and a half years that Russians were trying to get into Greece, that they were paying the guerrillas, and that had it not been for the U.S. and the divisive …”

Soviet Union funded People's Liberation Army host_asserted ▶ 19:26

“arms dealing countries in the entire world, maybe second only to Israel and the U.S. The USSR, however, in the person of Joseph Stalin, had adamantly opposed to assisting the Greeks in any way. He ref…”

United States funded Greece host_asserted ▶ 22:26

“Significant quantities had also been shipped to the Greek government by the U.S. while the British was running the show. By the end of the year, the Greek military had been entirely supported by U.S. …”

United States founded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 23:19

“It was approaching well over a billion dollars by the end of the Second World War. Millions more would be used to create a secret Army Reserve fighting capability, and you can read that as Operation G…”

United States trained Greece host_asserted ▶ 24:21

“took a tough line and insisted that all of its recommendations be carried into effect completely, unquote. More than 250 American Army officers were in the country and assigned to be advisors to the G…”

Greece member_of North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted ▶ 31:22

“In the early 1950s, Greece had been molded into a supremely reliable ally client of the United States and a full-fledged member of NATO, of course. It even sent troops to Korea because it didn't have …”

United States spied_on Greece host_asserted ▶ 33:43

“The U.S. was monitoring every single thing they sent to all of their different ambassadors throughout the world. So just want to, I'm going to now start keeping that in the back of my mind when we loo…”

United States ordered_assassination_of Andreas Papandreou host_asserted ▶ 36:12

“Security police and the military police, both of which was trained and equipped by the United States military. The coup had taken place two days before the election. Elections that appeared that Georg…”

CIA supported 1967 Greek coup d'état host_asserted ▶ 36:42

“military colonels after he took office because, again, he dared to talk to the USSR and blah, blah, blah. We already know that whole routine. And he was not going to be a vassal state of the United St…”

CIA funded Andreas Papandreou documented ▶ 40:09

“which was Paprandro's party, and rightists waiting in the wings to form a new government. It was later revealed by the State Department's official that the CIA station chief at the time, John Murray, …”

John Murray member_of CIA documented ▶ 40:09

Andreas Papandreou member_of California State University, Los Angeles documented ▶ 41:09

“What concerned the opponents of George Papandro most about him was his son, Andrus. Andrus had been educated in the United States and was a U.S. citizen. He'd been granted citizenship. He was a profes…”

Andreas Papandreou supported Adlai Stevenson II host_asserted ▶ 41:09

Andreas Papandreou supported Hubert Humphrey host_asserted ▶ 41:09

Andreas Papandreou opposed North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted ▶ 41:40

“Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey. His economic views were those of the American New Deal. What could be wrong with that, right? FDR is a hero of what used to be the West. But Andrus did not disguis…”

Andreas Papandreou member_of Greece documented ▶ 44:17

“anti-communist and had the credentials to prove it, dating back to his role as a British-installed prime minister during the Civil War against the leftists in the 1944 and 1945 time period. But he, to…”

Andreas Papandreou accepted_aid_from Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 44:46

“and it didn't necessarily jive with the U.S.'s position. He also accepted an invitation to visit Moscow, which, you know, is like dead man walking at this point. He also accepted Soviet aid in prepara…”

KYP spied_on Andreas Papandreou host_asserted ▶ 45:47

“But then again, the U.S. had already labeled them as terrorists. When Andrus, the son, assumed his minstrel duties in his dad's cabinet in 1964, he was shocked to discover a couple of different things…”

CIA funded George Papadopoulos host_asserted ▶ 53:33

“the first CIA agent to become premier of a European country, unquote. Because what we will find out is he was on the CIA's payroll for 15 years preceding him becoming the prime minister of Greece. So …”

George Papadopoulos member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 53:33

George Papadopoulos member_of Nazi Security Battalions host_asserted ▶ 54:01

“may have been Colonel Papadopoulos' World War II record. Now get this, this is where it gets even grosser. When the Germans invaded Greece, Papadopoulos served as the captain of the Nazi security batt…”

George Papadopoulos carried_out_attack Greece host_asserted ▶ 55:57

“members of the security battalions became heroes of the resistance. Okay, so we're 180 degrees out. It was torture, however, that would undoubtedly mark the seven-year Greek nightmare that was oversaw…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Greece host_asserted ▶ 1:01:19

“and a convenient place to be able to threaten anybody that got out of line. So vice president, oh, I wanted to say this too. In an attempt, oh, hold on a second. So basically the United States provide…”

United States used_as_intermediary Israel host_asserted ▶ 1:01:52

“Remember what we did with the Contras. Congress says you're not allowed to give them anything because they're torturing and killing people. And so what our State Department, the CIA, did was set up Is…”

Greece donated_to 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign host_asserted ▶ 1:03:47

“half a million dollars made by the military junta to the 1968 Nixon-Agnew election campaign. Apart from other considerations, it was suspected that this was money given to the military junta by the CI…”

CIA funded Greece speculative ▶ 1:03:47

Basil Lambro member_of Greece host_asserted ▶ 1:04:13

“Nixon transferring the M-Fund management over to the Japanese government, which was full of gold, and then they were expected to fund Nixon's campaign when he ran for re-election. Perhaps nothing bett…”

Dimitrios Ioannidis replaced George Papadopoulos documented ▶ 1:06:18

“that same aspect of this. And in November 1973, a falling out within the Greek inner circle of this junta ended up with Papadopoulos being replaced by a colonel whose last name is I-O-A-N-N-I-D-I-S. I…”

Andreas Papandreou appointed Greece documented ▶ 1:06:50

“of the American training in Subversive, basically the School of Americas. Iandidis named as prime minister a Greek-American by the name of Androsopoulos. I mean, this guy's got like 15 letters, so let…”

Dimitrios Ioannidis trained_by School of the Americas host_asserted ▶ 1:06:50

Andreas Papandreou overthrew Cyprus host_asserted ▶ 1:07:19

“who came to Greece after World War II as an official employee of the CIA. So, and he told everybody that he actually worked for the CIA. So you have the second prime minister CIA agent in Greece. Eigh…”

Andreas Papandreou member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:07:19

Turkey carried_out_attack Cyprus documented ▶ 1:08:09

“There was both Muslim and Greeks living on the island that this was going to basically be kicking a hornet's nest. And that's exactly what happened. And Turkey invaded Cyprus as a result. And there wa…”

Philip E. Talbot denied_intervention 1967 Greek coup d'état host_asserted ▶ 1:09:32

“had been arrested at the time of the coup and held in prison for eight months. Shortly after his release, him and his wife, Margaret, visited the American ambassador, Phillips Talbot, in Athens. Papan…”

Andreas Papandreou exposed Tom Pappas documented ▶ 1:13:06

“So he got accused, I think, by George Papandreou of being a CIA agent, as referenced in a Boston Globe article in 1969. And I pinned it to The Nest where folks can read some of that. Obviously, he was…”

Tom Pappas funded Pat Nixon documented ▶ 1:13:28

“He was providing funding to some of the Watergate defendants, I think. He comes up in some of the conversations with Haldeman, you know, in spring of 73, as they're trying to figure out, you know, how…”

Pat Nixon spied_on Vatican City documented ▶ 1:13:56

“And then there's this conversation on Nixon tapes. I think it's I've also pinned that one to the nest where he starts talking with Nixon about his plans in Italy. And then suddenly there's this two mi…”

Robert Maxwell founded Pergamon Press documented ▶ 1:26:04

“Pergamon Press was created by Paul Osbon and Robert Maxwell. It publishes scientific and medical books and journals. So it basically is the gatekeeper, just like you mentioned about the gatekeeper for…”

Robert Maxwell member_of Mossad host_asserted ▶ 1:26:04

Pergamon Press front_for Club of Rome host_asserted ▶ 1:36:47

“And also Pergamon is the publisher of several works of the Club of Rome. And anybody that knows what that is, it's along the lines of the Committee of 300 and those types of organizations. So another …”

William H. Pyle supplied_arms_to Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 1:38:42

“I did want to let y'all know Wednesday I am going to be down at Pauley Island, hopefully interviewing one of the USS Liberty survivors and visiting the stomping grounds of William Pauley, who we've co…”