The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles

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0:00 going to do probably not a long video, but I definitely wanted to show you what I found. So let's dig in to Grayston Lynch. I think you're going to find what I found fascinating. I know I did. So just so that you can see what I did, I went into

0:36 Yandex. So I started looking at, I mean, I've already came across Tim, but I'm kind of just going to walk you through this search. So went there and then I'm going to show you this tab that I found. Let me run through, first of all.

1:12 Let me run through his background that you can just find anywhere. Little different angle because I have to actually use my computer for this. OK, so we're going to go through his Wikipedia just so you guys can get an overview of what this guy looks like. So.

1:47 If you guys are in the chat, let me know if you guys can see that on your screen. Oh, here it is. Never mind. There it is. Okay. All right. Born June 14th, 1923. He died in 2008. He died the month after I retired. All right. So started off as an American soldier.

2:21 went into the CIA. He was one of only two CIA officers who actually commanded the Brigade 2506. Now, you guys remember what the Brigade 2506 is? The CIA-sponsored group of Cuban exiles, one of which was Felix Rodriguez.

2:45 That was involved in the Bay of Pigs, and they did all kinds of other things because we know Felix Rodriguez was in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras. They were over in Angola, all over. Okay, so he starts off in Victoria, Texas. His dad was an oil dweller, so he was in World War II.

3:14 Normandy, Battle of the Bulge. And he goes to Korea and is at Heartbreak Ridge. I actually have a book called Heartbreak Ridge. He served, he goes to Vietnam where he's in special forces, not just anywhere in Laos with the CIA. Highly decorated. He was selected from the elite.

3:48 to become a paramilitary operations officer in the CIA's Special Activities Division, which is kind of like their highest clandestine entity in 1960. This is where the detachment alpha guys were under this auspices. I'm not saying he was one of them, but that's the area where they...

4:20 the hierarchy was okay for his actions in bay of pigs he was awarded the intelligence star and that's a big deal in the cia a big big deal in the six years after the bay of pigs invasion he ran commando raids into cuba he retired in 1971 and we'll go through a little bit um

4:54 This just basically is saying he was with the 77th Special Forces Group in Laos. He retired as a captain and then joined the CIA. Okay, here, 1960, he joined the CIA working under Ted Shackley, infamous Ted Shackley. He was actually splitting his time between Key West and Miami.

5:26 Special Ops training for the Bay of Pigs people. Okay, Lynch was transported to Cuba aboard the SS Blagger. No Americans were authorized to land on the beach of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs. Lynch defied that order, leading command of Brigade 2506 onto the beach.

5:55 Lynch did this because, from his perspective, the mission was going wrong from the beginning. The second round of aerial bombardments that had been quote-unquote promised had not hit their intended targets in support of Operation Pluto. Naval assets were lost, and he was informed by Washington that the Cuban Air Force still had air superiority.

6:24 In an interview with Bill Moyers, Lynch said, We were hit just after daylight by Castro's planes. They continued to hit us all morning. We lost two ships, sunk. We did not unload the ammunition for the brigade. The brigade went ashore carrying one day's supply of ammunition. That's it. Over the radio from Washington, Lynch was promised aid that never came.

6:49 Now, that Washington would not have been the White House. It would have been the CIA. Because Kennedy made his ground rules going in very clear. No military, period. We know that Alan Dulles tried to trick Kennedy into...

7:10 Not doing what needed to be done as far as the Bay of Pigs operation, because no one on the joint staff believed it even had a chance of working. Then they changed the landing site at the last minute. Then, remember, they had the one aircraft that wasn't even engaged going to land as if he was a survivor in Miami.

7:37 flying the wrong version of the aircraft that Cuba had. So the very day of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, it was clear that it was a U.S.-ran operation, and yet you had this Cuban who supposedly had stolen a Cuban aircraft.

8:00 And the story was going to be that there's a revolution going on. He made it out safely and flew to Miami. And this was supposedly a Cuban aircraft, but they did not have the same equipment on it that the Cuban aircraft did. So it was noticed because there was pictures plastered everywhere of this, you know, defector.

8:27 So the plan was already screwed up from the beginning. And Alan Dulles was trying to bully JFK into providing another wave of attacks, but they already had been outed. That's the part everybody leaves out of the story. So they can blame it on JFK. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a complete failure, with Operation Pluto resulting in over 1,000 men captured by the Castro government.

8:56 Operation Mars being called off and Operation Puma dropping less than half of its promised payload, Lynch became one of the many people on the ground that day who believed the invasion was betrayed by the Kennedy administration, which is not true, either through a series of bad command decisions or deliberate sabotage attempts by members of the administration. After the Bay of Pigs,

9:24 The sabotage came from Alan Dulles because he wanted a full ground invasion, which is what Operation Northwood was all about. Lynch began conducting paramilitary training of Cuban exiles at JM Wave and conducted commando raids inside of Cuba for six years. The problem with that is that none of that was authorized. None of it. He personally led over 100 raids into Cuba.

9:55 When asked about the specific number of raids, his response was, this was spread out over many years. Other captains have had, I don't know, maybe 100, 150. We had people who went inside of Cuba on Operation 50, 60, 70, 80 times. It was a long war. Did you know that we were at war with Cuba? At the beginning of Operation Mongoose,

10:21 the U.S. Coast Guard was not made aware of the clandestine nature of the missions causing several instances of interference. Lynch was often forced to tell the commander of a Coast Guard vessel to contact their superiors. However, an arrangement was eventually made where a countersigned passphrase was issued in a sealed envelope to Mongoose operators. If these operators were questioned by the Coast Guard,

10:50 They would call the pass phrase and the Coast Guard would let them pass, but it's not authorized. And this is critical to the story. So he retires in 71 from the CIA and he joins the former version of the DEA. Now keep in mind who this guy is. He's a trained assassin. He trains.

11:22 Brigade 2506 to invade foreign countries, i.e. Cuba, and they were used all over. And we know that the Cuban exiles were part of the drug trade, right? Completely established fact. They were used as the distributors inside of the United States until we decided to use a whole bunch of the Somoza Nicaraguans in the 80s.

11:51 So he leaves the CIA, but no one actually leaves the CIA. And he joins basically the DEA. And this is a problem that we've come across repeatedly where you really can't separate those two organizations. There are a lot of retired CIA in the DEA. Okay, but listen to this. Lynch, Lynch.

12:22 was recruited by Lucien Koenig. This is the guy that was over in Vietnam, the French guy, the whole French-Marsai connection in Vietnam that basically works the transferring of what was the French network in Southeast Asia over to the CIA. Critical. Part of DCON after the

12:54 BNDD was renamed DEA. So basically he's the guy that's running CIA drug operations or a part of it. He wasn't running it. A part of the CIA drug operations in Southeast Asia recruits Lynch to come from the CIA into basically the DEA. What? Then it goes on to say.

13:24 Bob Medell requisitioned Grayston Lynch to work directly with him in BUNCEN. Lynch's primary task was to identify offshore suppliers of illegal drugs. Lynch had been running secret CIA operations in Cuba, Central and South America for many years and developed

13:53 numerous clandestine resources. So he writes a book that basically elevates the brigade 2506 because he was a commander and blames everything on Kennedy. So let's look up, because I have not looked this one up yet. Let's look up this B-U-N-C-I-N and see if we get a hit on that on Yandex.

14:26 All right. Okay. Feeding. All right. So let me switch the sharing and we're going to go back over here and share what just came up. All right. We have this. Feeding the drug business. How the CIA commandeered the DEA by our buddy Douglas Valentine.

15:07 The outlawing of narcotic drugs at the start of the 20th century and the turning of the matter from public health to social control coincided with Americans' imperial open-door policy and the belief that the government had an obligation to American industrials to create markets in every nation in the world, whether the nation liked it or not. I love him, except for he's like way out there on some issues.

15:36 institutions like public education were required to sanctify this policy while security bureaucracies were established to ensure the citizenry conformed. It takes a book to explain the economic foundation of the war on drugs and the reasons behind the regulations. Suffice it to say that by 1943, the nations of the free world were relying on America and their opium derivatives under the guardianship of Harry Engslinger.

16:06 who was the original Federal Bureau of Narcotics guy. And I mean, he was as corrupt as the rest of them. We've read about him a long time ago. Narcotic drugs are a strategic resource. And when Engslinger learned that Peru had built a cocaine factory, he and the Board of Economic Warfare confiscated its products before it could be sold to Germany or Japan.

16:31 In another instance, Engslinger and his counterpart at the State Department prevented a drug manufacturer in Argentina from selling drugs to Germany. At the same time, Douglas Clark Kinder and William Walker III in an article said that Engslinger

16:51 permitted an American company to ship drugs to Southeast Asia despite receiving intelligence reports that French authorities were permitting opiate smuggling into China and collaborating with Japanese drug traffickers. Okay, so then he goes through the FBN OSS, William Donovan, to provide seasoned FBN agents to help organize OSS and train its agents how to work undercover.

17:22 I'm trying to get up to where we're at in the story. And then it says, of course, we had the CIA decided to test LSD and the FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses. So they're literally in bed with each other. Relationship was formalized overseas in 1951 when agent Charlie Saragusa opened an office in Rome and began to develop the FBN's foreign operations. And why Rome?

17:52 because we're going to use the Vatican Bank and the mafia to run this operation. And then it says a handful of FBM agents were actually recruited into the CIA while maintaining their FBN credentials. The entire thing's contaminated. Okay. Officially, FBN agents set limits. Saragusa, for example, claimed to object when the CIA asked him to mount a controlled delivery into the U.S. What?

18:24 and identifying the American members of a smuggling ring with communist affiliations. So we're going to blame the communists for drugging Americans while it's the CIA. As Saragusa said, the FBN could never knowingly allow two pounds of heroin to be delivered to the U.S. and be pushed to mafia customers in the New York area, even if in the long run we could seize a bigger haul. And in 1960, when the CIA asked him to recruit assassins,

18:55 You mean like Grayston? From his stable of underworld contacts, Saragusa again claimed to have refused, but drug traffickers, including some prominently Santo Trafficani Jr., were soon participating in the CIA attempted assassination of Fidel Castro. So you see how this whole thing works? You've got the Brigade 2506.

19:24 the mafia, Santo Traficani Jr., and the CIA, and the DEA. And Grayston embraces all of them. As the dominant partner in the relationship, the CIA exploited its affinity with the FBN. Like the CIA, FBN agent Robert DeFall explained, narcotic agents

19:47 mount covert operations. We pose as members of the narcotic trade. The big difference is we were in foreign countries legally, and through our police and intelligence sources, we could check out just about anyone or anything. Not only that, we were operational, so the CIA jumped in our stirrups. Jumping in their stirrups afforded CIA deniability, which in turn affords them impunity.

20:13 To ensure the CIA's criminal activities were not revealed, narcotics agents are organized military within an invulnerable chain of command, highly indoctrinated. They blindly obey on a need-to-know basis. This institutionalized ignorance sustained the illusion of righteousness in the name of national security. FBN agent Martin Pera.

20:40 explain most FBN agents were corrupted by the lore of the underworld. They thought they could check their moralities at the door, then come back and retrieve it. But you can't. In fact, if you're successful because you lie, cheat, or steal, those things become tools. Institutionalized corruption began at headquarters, where FBN executives covered for CIA assets engaging in drug trafficking.

21:08 In 1966, Agent John Evans was assigned as an assistant to Enforcement Chief John Enright. And that's when I got to see what the CIA was doing. I saw a report on the KMT saying that they were the biggest drug dealers in the world and that the CIA was underwriting them. Air America was transporting tons of KMT opium. I took the report to Enright. He said, leave it here and forget about it.

21:38 This is crazy shit. Other things came to my attention, Evans said. That proved that the CIA contributed to drug use in America. They were in constant conflict with the CIA because it was hiding its budget in hours. And because CIA people were smuggling drugs into the U.S., we weren't allowed to tell anybody, and that fostered corruption.

22:04 Heroin smuggled by CIA people into the U.S. was channeled by mafia distributors primarily to African-American communities. Local narcotics office agents then targeted disenfranchised Blacks as an easy way of preserving the white ruling class privileges. We didn't need a search warrant, explains New Orleans narcotics officer. It allowed us to meet our quota, and it was ongoing.

22:32 If I find dope on a black man, I can put him in jail for a few days. He's got no money for a lawyer and the courts are ready to convict. There's no expectation on a jury's part that we even have to make a case. So rather than cold turkey, an addict becomes an informant, which means I can make more cases in the neighborhood, which is all we were interested in. We don't care about Carlos.

22:57 Marcello or the mafia. City cops have no interest in who brings the dope in. We just arrest people and we get our quota. The establishment's race and class privileges have always been equated to national security. All right. The war on drugs is largely a projection of two things. This is where he gets into his philosophical standpoint. Racism that has divined America from its exception.

23:30 and government policy. See, I don't believe that's what it's all about at all. It's about control. It's about control. That's all it's about. They just assume lock up whites, but they had to destroy the black culture because that was a strong pinning to America.

23:59 And they target people by culture. That's what it's about. It had nothing to do with racism per se. Black Americans in the 1960s had high education, high marriage rates, and were by leaps and bounds. Kind of like the...

24:27 the backbone of stabilization. And there is certainly racism in these elite mindsets. That goes back to the Fabian Society, where they were saying that they were going to enslave the African continent for basically the workers of their one world government. But in America, it was more about breaking their culture.

24:57 Black immunity from prosecution for turning these policies into practice, or blanket, sorry, blanket immunity from prosecution for turning these policies into practice engendered a belief among bureaucrats that they were above the law. It fostered corruption, illegal wiretaps, they tampered with heroin, transferred it to informants to sell, and even murdered other agents who

25:24 basically were going to be whistleblowers. All of this was secretly known at the highest levels. In 1965, at the Treasury Department, they launched a corruption investigation into the FBN headed by Andrew Targalino. The investigation ended in 68 with the resignation of 32 agents and an indictment of five. That same year,

25:52 They reorganized into the BNDD. Nixon was elected president based on a vow to reestablish law and order. He launched Operation Intercept along the Mexican border. This was a stop and search operation so badly damaged relations with Mexico that the National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger formed an ad hoc committee on narcotics to coordinate drug policy and prevent diplomatic disasters.

26:23 Heroin committee was composed of cabinet members. Of course, we had to have the CIA represented, a member of the CIA counterintelligence. Ludlam had been the CIA's liaison officer for the FBN since 1962, so he's dirty as hell. When Kissinger set up his heroin committee,

26:47 Ludlam recalled the CIA certainly didn't take it serious because drug control wasn't part of their mission. No, they were the ones trafficking it. Okay, so as everybody knows, the CIA for years had been doing the heroin trafficking out of the Golden Triangle, Burma, Thailand, Laos, into South Vietnam. All right, Nixon's response, CIA mission.

27:20 Although reluctant to betray the CIA client, Helms told Ludlam, go break their rice bowls. This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, named the names of the complicit military officers and politicians to the White House. But as Dick recalled, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker called a meeting in Saigon at which the states-in-chief

27:49 Ted Shackley appeared to explain that it was a delicate balance. What he said in effect was that no one was willing to do anything. Meanwhile, to protect the network, the CIA began infiltrating the BNDD too, taking over its internal security, intelligence, and foreign branch offices. This massive reorganization required the placement of CIA officers at influential positions in every federal agency concerned with drug.

28:18 law enforcement cia officer paul van marx for example was assigned the u.s ambassador to to france assistant on narcotics why france because of the marseille france connection and that's where that koenig guy comes in from that vantage point van marx ensured the bndd conspiracy cases against european traffickers didn't compromise cia he could vet assets the bnd

28:49 The FBN never had more than 16 agents stationed overseas, but Nixon dramatically increased that to hundreds of agents. The success of these overseas agents soon came to depend on CIA intelligence. So do you think they're going to get any? No. BNDD agents immediately felt the impact of CIA's involvement in drug law enforcement operations in the U.S.

29:14 Operation Eagle was a flashpoint. Launched in 70, Eagle targeted anti-Castro Cubans smuggling cocaine from Latin America to Traficante's organization in Florida. Of the dozens of traffickers arrested in June, many were found to be members of Operation 40. I wrote an entire paper on that. A CIA terror organization active in the U.S., the Caribbean, and ran by the CIA.

29:44 The revelation that CIA drug smuggling assets were operating within the U.S. led to the assignment of CIA officers as counterparts to mid-level BNDD enforcement officials, including Latin American Division Chief Jerry Strickler. Like Van Marks in France, these CIA officers served to protect CIA assets from exposure.

30:09 Many Cuban exiles arrested in Operation Eagle were indeed hired by the BNDD and sent throughout Latin America. They got fantastic intel, but many were secretly still working for the CIA. The BNDD director Inglesol's inspection staff had gathered enough evidence to warn investigation into dozens of FBN agents who had risen to management positions in the BNDD.

30:36 But Ingersoll could not investigate his top managers while simultaneously investigating drug traffickers. He asked CIA Director Helms for help building a counterintelligence capability. Bad, bad, bad. The result was Operation Twofold, in which 19 CIA officers were infiltrated into BNDD to spy on corrupt BND. This is like literally putting the fox in the hen house.

31:05 According to the chief inspector, Patrick Fuller, a corporation engaged in law enforcement hired three CIA officers posing as private businessmen to do contact and interview work. CIA recruiter Jerry Soule, a former Operations 40 case officer, i.e. drug guy, drug trafficking guy, primarily selected officers whose careers had stalled due to gradual reduction in force in Southeast Asia.

31:36 Those hired were put through the BNDD training course, assigned to spy on particular regional directors. No records were kept. Some participants never identified. Charles Grutenson was a typical two-fold torpedo. Prior to his recruitment into the BNDD, he had spent two years at the CIA base in Paxi, a major heroin transit point between Laos and South Vietnam.

32:06 Fuller said that when we communicated, I was to be known as Leo Adams for Los Angeles. He was to be Walter DiCarlo for Washington, D.C. Their cover, however, was blown before he got to L.A. Someone at headquarters was talking and everybody knew. About a month after I arrived, one of the agents said to me, I hear that Pat Fuller signed your credentials.

32:29 Twofold, which existed at least until 1974, was deemed by the Rockefeller Commission to have violated the CIA participating in law enforcement activities. You think? All right. The next infection. The White House blamed the BNDD failure to stop international drug trafficking on its underdeveloped intelligence capabilities, a situation that opened the door for more CIA.

33:00 infiltration. Helms arranged for his recently retired chief of continuing intelligence, E. Drexel Godfrey, to review BNDD's intelligence procedures. Among other things, Godfrey recommended that BNDD create regional intelligence units. The regional intelligence unit were up and running in 1971, with CIA officers often assigned as analysts, prompting BNDD agents to

33:29 View them with suspicion. So this is CIA working all through America, guys. You know, the thing they're never allowed to do. They're everywhere. And if you think that they only did this with the DEA, you're crazy. All right. The SIO was harder to implement.

33:53 And says, as the director, John Warner, explained, we needed to understand the political climate in Thailand in order to address the problem. We needed to know what kind of protection the Thai police were affording traffickers. Now, again, pays to know our history. The CIA had bought the entire Thai police. Remember the $35 million that Paul Helliwell arranged? $35 million spent to buy the Thai police.

34:23 Seaport and Airport, 100% owned by the CIA. Organizing the SIO fell to CIA officers Adrian Swain and Tom Tripati, both of whom were recruited from the CIA into the BNDD. In April of 71, they accompanied Ingersoll to Saigon, where Shackley

34:53 The guy running the drug operations briefed them. Through his CIA contacts, Swain's obtained maps of drug smuggling routes. Upon their return, Swain and Tripati expressed frustration that the CIA had access to people capable of providing the BNDD with intelligence, but these people were involved in narcotics trafficking and the CIA didn't want to identify them.

35:18 Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special ops strategic operations staff of their own. Basically, own CIA using a backdoor approach to gather intelligence. Those operations would rely on longer range, deep penetrating clandestine operations. The White House approved a plan in 71. Kissinger presented a $120 million drug control proposal, which $50 million was earmarked.

35:48 for special operations three weeks later nixon declared a war on drugs at which point congress responded with funding these operations sio director warner was given a seat on the u.s intelligence board so they could get raw intelligence from the cia they don't produce intelligence they create it but whatever but in turn the sio was compelled to adopt cia security procedures a cia officer established the

36:18 file room, and computer system, the safe and still doors. The Whitting agents had to obtain CIA clearances, so they own the computer system. There's no computer system the CIA has ever owned that doesn't have a back door. See where we're going with this? Active duty CIA officers were assigned to the SIO as desk officers.

36:46 Everywhere there's drugs, Europe, Middle East, Far East, and Latin America. Tripati was assigned as chief of operations. He spent the previous six years in the CIA's security research service, where his duties included penetrating peace groups, as well as setting up firms to do black bag jobs. Notably, White House plumber E. Howard Hunt inherited Tripati's special operations unit. Ta-da!

37:17 Tripati liaised with the CIA on matters of mutual interest and covert collection of narcotic intelligence outside routine channels. As a part of his operational plan, codenamed Medusa, Tripati proposed the SIO agents hire foreign nationals to blow up contraband planes while they were refueling at clandestine airstrips. Well, those are all CIA.

37:43 Another proposal called for ambushing traffickers in America and taking their drugs and money. Enter Lucien Koenig. The creation of the SIO coincided with the assignment of CIA officer Lucien Koenig to the BND, the guy that set up the French liaison from Vietnam after we took over from the France. He's now going to be embedded in the BNDD.

38:13 as a CIA liaison officer, voila, instant access. As a member of the OSS, Koenig had parachuted into France and formed resistance cells that included Corsican gangsters. These are the same ones that become Gladio. Do you see the connection here? Koenig in 1954 was assigned to Vietnam and organized all anti-communist forces. And in 1963,

38:44 And these anti-communist forces they're talking about is basically a stay-behind network in Vietnam. Okay. In 1963, achieved infamy as the intermediary between Kennedy White House and Cabal generals that murdered President Diem. That's Koenig. Alfred McCoy has alleged that in 65, Koenig arranged a truce between the CIA and drug trafficking Corsicans in Saigon.

39:18 which is true. The truce, according to McCoy, allowed the Corsicans to traffic as long as they served as contact men for the CIA. The truce also endowed the Corsicans with free passage at a time when Marseille heroin labs were turning from Turkish to Southeast Asian morphine bases. Koenig denied these allegations and insisted that his meeting with the Corsicans was to resolve a problem caused by

39:47 Peccadillo's with mistress of a Corsican. Sure. It's impossible to know who's telling the truth. I'm going with Koenig as bad. What is known as July 1971 on Howard Hunt's recommendation. And remember, E. Howard Hunt is in all of these. He's in the JFK assassination. He's involved in the Watergate break-in. He just, he's another Forrest Gump guy.

40:19 The White House hired Koenig as an expert on Corsican drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant to the SIO's Far East desk. His activities will be discussed more. Now, what's important about this is, remember, it was Nixon's war on drugs that basically ends up eliminating the Corsican from the drug trafficking.

40:45 And it all ends up going through the CIA control mafia in Sicily. And in the 50s, they were still using Cuba as one of the staging points. In 1971, the Heroin Committee was reorganized as a cabinet committee for international narcotics control under Secretary of State William Rogers. There was a mandate that was set policies which related to international considerations to domestic considerations.

41:14 By 75, its budget amounted to $875 million, and the war on drugs had become the most profitable industry. $875 million spent to control something your government over here on the CIA side is actually doing. This is 100% money laundering. The CIA formed a unilateral drug unit in its operations division under

41:45 seymour bolton known as assistant special assistant to the director for coordination of narcotics bolton directed cia division and station chiefs in the unilateral drug control operations bolton directed cia division and station chiefs in their drug control operations the control of the drug operations not trying to stop it

42:14 In doing this, Bolton worked closely with Ted Shackley again, who in 1972 was appointed as the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division because we're getting ready to start the cocaine trade. Bolton and Shackley worked together in post-war Germany as well as anti-Castro's. Now, why is that important? What was going on in post-war Germany? We were setting up Gladio. Bolton and Shackley was there.

42:44 They, Shackley, was part of the literal Gladio program in Italy, setting it up in the aftermath of World War II. Bolton was there too. Where did they go then? Oh, they're going to be in our Gladio programs in the Cuban exile operations in the 1960s. Okay. Later, it was said by one of the Latin chief division.

43:15 Bolton screwed us and so did Shackley. Bolton screwed the BNDD and the American judicial system by setting up a parallel mechanism based on a computerized register of international drug traffickers and a CIA staff communication crew that intercepted calls from drug traffickers inside the U.S. to their accomplices around the world.

43:40 The International Narcotics Information Network was modeled on a computerized management system that Shackley had used to terrorize the underground. That's Phoenix program. The International Narcotics Information System was the Phoenix program in America. That's what he just said. Bolton's staff was retooled. Dozen of CIA officers and slipped them into the BNDD.

44:11 So you've got the CIA running the narcotics information system like they're running the Phoenix program over in Vietnam that's supposed to be monitoring the narcotics trafficking that they're doing. Everybody keeping up? Okay, so Bolton staff.

44:41 Several went to Lou Koenig at the SIO for clandestine, highly illegal operations. Factions within the CIA military were opposed to Bolton's parallel mechanism, but CIA Executive Director William Colby supported Bolton's plan to preempt the BNDD and use its agents in informants for unilateral CIA purposes. The White House also supported the plan for political purposes related to Watergate. Both BNDD officials who resisted were

45:11 expunged, those who cooperated rewarded. In 72, DCI Helms, then emerged in Watergate Intrigue, told BNDD Director Ingersoll that CIA prepared files on specific drug traffickers in Miami.

45:33 the Keys, and the Caribbean. Helms said the CIA would provide Ingersoll with assets to pursue the traffickers and develop information on targets. The CIA would also provide operational, technical, and financial support. The result was that the Bureau of Narcotics Covert Intelligence, that's what that stands for, Bunsen, whose methodology reflected Tripati's Medusa plan and included

46:05 provocations, inducement to desertion, creating confusion and apprehension. Some Bunsen intel activities were directed against senior foreign government officials and were blamed on other government agencies or even on intelligence services. So they were doing Gladio operations. They were doing, they were targeting senior foreign officials that they didn't like.

46:33 and then would blame it on other government or intelligence services of other nations. Basically, they're running false flags under their narcotics covert intelligence network out of what will eventually be the DEA. Oh, and they targeted American civics and political groups inside America. And it's literally the CIA pretending to be the DEA.

47:03 The BNDD officials managed Bunsen's legal activities while Koenig at the SIO managed its political and CIA aspects. According to Koenig's administrative deputy, Bunsen was an experiment on how to finesse the law. The end product was intelligence, not seizures or arrest. CIA officers Robert Medell and William Logey

47:30 was selected to manage Bunsen. So let's go back over here. Robert Medell is who recruited, this Medell guy is who recruited Grayston. Okay. So CIA officers, Robert Medell, who's CIA pretending to be DEA, hires a retired CIA guy.

48:08 to become dea no no they're all cia this is literally crazy so your cia we're going to put you over in bndd and pretend that you're bndd and then i'm going to take grayston who cia and every place you look it says that he retired from the cea and he was then

48:42 transferred and hired by the DEA. No, he was not. He was literally hired by another CIA officer to pretend to work at the BNDD. This just like literally blows my mind. The Bay of Pigs veteran born in Cuba, Medell, was initially assigned to the twofold program. Medell was Bunsen's covert agent and recruited its principal agents to include Grayston.

49:14 All of his assets had previously worked for the CIA, all of them, and all believed that they were still working for them. Medell started running agents in March of 73 with the stated goal of penetrating the Traficani organization. To this end, the BNDD enforcement chief, Tartaglino, introduced Medell to Sal Caneba.

49:43 a retired mafia who had been in business with Traficani since the 50s, like in Cuba. Caneba in one day identified the head of the Cuban side of the Traficani family as well as its organizational structure. But the CIA refused to allow BNDD to pursue the investigation because Traficani's in bed with the CIA. Because it...

50:10 had employed Traficani in its assassination attempt against Fidel Castro. And because Traficani's Operation 40 associates were performing similar functions for the CIA around the world. In other words, what I have been telling you the entire time is the Cuban exiles are our gladio. They're performing these functions all over the world. Narcotics trafficking, hit jobs, whatever.

50:42 Medell's principal agent was Bay of Pigs veteran Guillermo Trabaj, whom the CIA paid $1,400 a week. While receiving this princely sum, he participated in the Alvarez Cruz drug smuggling ring. The CIA is literally paying people to smuggle drugs. Medell also recruited agents from Manuel R. Times anti-Castro Cuban.

51:13 organization, which is that court thing that's basically a terrorist organization. Former CIA officer and White House plumber Howard Hunt notably had been R-Time's case officer for years, and many members of the R-Time organization had worked for Ted Shackley while Shackley was the CIA station chief in Miami. Bill Logey was the overt agent assigned to Bunsen office in Miami.

51:41 Loge had been Shackley's bodyguard in Saigon in 69. From 70 to 71, Loge had served as a special police liaison and drug coordinator for Saigon, like literally coordinating the drugs to be trafficked. Medell and Loge's reports were hand-delivered to BNDD headquarters via the Defense Department.

52:03 classified courier service. The Defense Department was in charge of emergency planning to provide Bunsen agents with special communication equipment. The CIA supplied their assets with forged IDs that enabled them to work for foreign governments, including Panama, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. Now again, this is back when

52:24 the cartel de las olas and venezuela was under the control of the cia as well as panama and costa rica costa rica the next decade in the 80s would be running the contra drug trafficking like twofold bunsen had two agendas one according to what was told and according to chief inspector fuller was told

52:52 and had a narcotics mission, and the other provided cover for the plumbers. Orders for the domestic political facet emanated from the White House and passed through Koenig to plumber Gordon Liddy and his Operation Gemstone squad of exiled Cuban terrorists from the Our Time organization. Enforcement chief Tartaglino was unhappy with the arrangement and gave agent Ralph

53:23 Friars, the job of screening anti-Castro Cubans sent by the White House to the BNDD. Friars was assigned to International Affairs Chief George Belk. When Nixon's White House Chief of Staff, H.R. Bob Holderman, sent over three Cubans, Friars interviewed them and realized that they were plants. Those three were not hired, but Friars

53:46 commented, many others were successfully infiltrated into the BNDD and other federal agencies. Under Bunsen's cover, CIA anti-Castro assets reportedly kidnapped and assassinated people in Colombia and Mexico. Isn't that nice? Bunsen's White House sponsors also sent CIA anti-Castro Cuban assets to gather dirt on Democratic politicians in Key West when Bunsen's drug law enforcement

54:17 sank to new lows of political repression. So we could go on about this. The Nixon White House introduced operations by committee management method to ensure control over the illegal drug operations, but they're actually running a drug operation.

54:43 The preeminent agency, the CIA, not only separated itself from BNDD as part of Bolton's parallel mechanism, it rode off into the sunset on the BNDD. They basically had captured it. At their introductory meeting in Mexico City in 72, Ted Shackley told Latin American Division Chief Strickler to hand over all BNDD files, informant lists, and cable traffic. They literally captured it.

55:12 According to Strickler, bad things happened. The worst abuse was that the CIA allowed drug shipments into the U.S. because they're running the drug network. All right. Insofar as the evidence acquired by CIA electronic surveillance, inadmissible in court, the CIA was able to protect its controlled deliveries into the U.S. merely by monitoring them. What?

55:42 So the fact that they were monitoring them made them inadmissible in court. Numerous investigations had to be terminated as a result. So they're contaminating the evidence of their own drug trafficking. It just literally blows your mind. Strickler knew which CIA people were guilty of sabotaging cases in Latin America and wanted to indict them. And so, at Bolton's insistence, Strickler was reassigned.

56:12 Get rid of him. Meanwhile, CIA assets from Bolton's unilateral drug unit were kidnapping and assassinating traffickers as part of Operation Twofold. So they were kidnapping and assassinating traffickers that weren't playing their game. Ingersoll confirmed the existence of this covert facet of Twofold. Its purpose, he said, was to put people in deep cover in the U.S. to develop intelligence on drug trafficking.

56:44 The regional directors weren't aware of it. Ingersoll said he got authority from Attorney General John Mitchell and passed the operation on to John Bartles, the first administrator of the DEA. He said the unit did not operate inside the U.S., which is why he thought it was legal. That's bullshit. Ingersoll added that he was surprised that no one from the Rockefeller Commission asked him about it.

57:11 why would you be surprised? The Rockefeller Commission with General Lyman Lemesker was another kabuki dance. And you're certainly not going to offer up the fact that you were doing all of this nefarious stuff. All right. So then we have down here, it goes on, but we've got to the part of this that I wanted to get to in order to introduce something.

57:40 to you that I found in the CIA files. So let's go here. All right, these CIA files, okay, JFK assassination, June 9th, 95. What we're going to find here is, I don't know how to shrink that up so we can see more of it on the screen, but anyway.

58:15 These are notes that, let's see, that's just kind of their disclosure form. I love the fact that this results from, I don't know if Illini is in the audience, but Frank Anthony Sturgis, Justice Department request for ITT Chile, not Chile, like.

58:47 what you eat chile file by originator james schlesinger from dci that from discussion with william colby stated sturgis was not had not been paid on the payroll for a number of years um and then we get down here this is talking about a letter sent to cuban ambassador in mexico

59:19 And then we get to this. Assassination attempts on Castro. Obtain Inspector General's report from 1967 from CIA. Interview Gordon, former staff counsel for church committee. Grayston Lynch. Look what it says here. Training camp in Algiers.

59:49 Training of assassin teams. Isn't that interesting? What was going on in Algiers? That's where Otto Skorzeny was attempting in 1962-ish. Algiers, JFK and Charles de Gaulle, the president of...

1:00:25 France had discussions about giving Algeria their freedom. And then you had the whole French resistance that were opposed to Algeria having their freedom. And they coordinated with French citizens in Algeria that didn't want to leave because they're the elite enslaving Algerians and living high on the hog. And they attempt a coup of Charles de Gaulle.

1:00:54 that happened before the JFK assassination. Charles de Gaulle is able to thwart that attempted coup. And he would later go on to say, we just found out in the devil's chessboard, that he believed the same people in his Gladio unit in OAS was responsible for JFK's assassination as well, because they tried to overthrow his government and tried to kill him over 30 times.

1:01:26 So the fact that Grayston was being part of the training program in Algeria, 100% puts him in Gladio. The resistance training that was being provided in Algeria was under Otto Skorzeny in Spain. He was in charge of it. We learned that a long time ago.

1:01:54 He actually traveled several times to Algeria to help them plan strategies. And this guy's there. Grayston was there. And it says right there in the CIA's own report that he was a trained assassin. And if you read, I found excerpts of his book online. This guy vehemently hates.

1:02:27 JFK. He's responsible for training assassins. That's literally crazy. So the entire time he's CIA. He's CIA when JFK is killed. He's fake retirement when he goes to work for the soon to be DEA, still CIA.

1:02:56 Because that entire organization was infiltrated to protect CIA drug trafficking networks. That's just literally crazy. At least from my perspective. But he's one of the few people that we've been able to, and you see it goes on down here on this. Let me go back to that page. It goes on.

1:03:24 down here and talks about the 1963 CIA report on Sturgis and Merida training. And it says here, case officer under Grayston Lynch, case officer for Algiers training camp in the 60s, recently debriefed by CIA, training of anti-Castro paramilitary groups.

1:03:56 What we have to understand here, Otto Skorzeny ran those training camps. Grayston is the CIA case officer for Otto Skorzeny's training camps in Algeria. He's also responsible for training, which he's getting his training watching Otto Skorzeny.

1:04:29 i.e. Gladio, i.e. Nazis, to come back to the United States and train anti-Castro paramilitaries in the United States and as part of the whole drug trafficking network. This just literally blows my mind. Literally blows my mind. This talks about, this is the Deputy IG report.

1:05:03 on the security analysis group in New Orleans, talking about the anti-Castro groups and what demolitions were given to anti-Castro groups in the 1960s. So Grayston also taught them how to blow things up.

1:05:29 The memo continued with references to agency training should not be confused with the infamous training which took place at the Lake Pontchartrain area in 1962. The Lake Pontchartrain training was ran by Jerry Patrick Hemming as part of Interpen Group. Sturgis was connected to Interpen, which was no agency connection with the activity. Yeah, bullshit. That entire thing was CIA.

1:05:59 Cover memos with the Lynch debriefing contains routing slips with the following information. Review was made by Logay File, which disclosed no interviews with Lou Koenig. All of these names are spelled wrong, which is on purpose, by the way. So when you're doing word searches, you can't find them. And information that indicated an interest in Lou Koenig.

1:06:28 An ex-CIA type now in DEA. He wasn't ex-CIA. He was still CIA embedded in the DEA. Okay. Debriefing on training and demolitions given to anti-Castro. Debriefing includes, so here's the guy. This is proof. Because remember, Gladio had explosives. So you have to have a demolition explosive guy.

1:07:01 He lived in Tampa. This is crazy. That's like 45 minutes from my house. Former CIA case officer appears to have been in charge of certain aspects of anti-castro activities in the New Orleans area and possibly New Orleans SAC or in charge of domestic contact division of CIA. So he could have been the station chief.

1:07:30 Lynch was debriefed concerning the following topics, training of anti-Castro paramilitary groups, including training at the old Algiers army dump, supplies of these training bases, infiltration teams, 2506 brigade training, Cuba airline bombings, plans to infect Cuba with swine fever, assassinations by the agency, especially Juan Jose.

1:08:01 That's the ambassador that was killed in a car bomb in downtown D.C. CBS telecast on Bay of Pigs, the agency in DEA, JM Wave's operation. Lynch mentioned...

1:08:19 redacted name, who is retired from the agency and currently residing in New Orleans, would have had more information, especially about the use of Fort Stewart in Panama and Guatemala for training. B was formerly chief of operations for the Bay of Pigs invasion and deputy for the PM and chief of operations of JM Waves. So I'm not going to go through all of this. I just wanted to show you guys that we had made that connection because this is the first time.

1:08:48 that i mean there's been anecdotal things that kind of just led us all to that but that's crazy um just totally crazy so i'm gonna keep looking through this if i find anything else maybe i'll just um write a long post or something like that because this is definitely so intriguing to me um kind of a guy that

1:09:17 is lurking in the background that we've came across a couple of times, but I've never done any deep research in it. And I did not find that CIA document the first time I was looking at them. So anyway, thanks for joining. I appreciate it. My mind's still blown. Anyway, you guys take care. Let me get all of this stuff turned off and I need to go over here.

1:09:48 and find us a place to go that's live. Where can we go find a live show that's worth rating you guys over to now that I know how to do that? Let's do Badlands Media. All right. Let me get this copied and paste.

1:10:20 And go up here to Rumble and do my OK. I did it. Thanks for being with us, everybody. Have a nice evening. We'll be back tomorrow where we start our book, Safe for Democracy. Take care.

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Grayston Lynch headed Brigade 2506 documented ▶ 2:21

“went into the CIA. He was one of only two CIA officers who actually commanded the Brigade 2506. Now, you guys remember what the Brigade 2506 is? The CIA-sponsored group of Cuban exiles, one of which w…”

Grayston Lynch member_of CIA documented ▶ 2:21

Grayston Lynch born_in Victoria, Texas documented ▶ 2:45

“That was involved in the Bay of Pigs, and they did all kinds of other things because we know Felix Rodriguez was in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras. They were over in Angola, all over. Okay, so he st…”

Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack Bay of Pigs Invasion documented ▶ 2:45

Grayston Lynch member_of U.S. Army Special Activities documented ▶ 3:48

“to become a paramilitary operations officer in the CIA's Special Activities Division, which is kind of like their highest clandestine entity in 1960. This is where the detachment alpha guys were under…”

Grayston Lynch carried_out_attack Cuba documented ▶ 4:20

“the hierarchy was okay for his actions in bay of pigs he was awarded the intelligence star and that's a big deal in the cia a big big deal in the six years after the bay of pigs invasion he ran comman…”

Grayston Lynch operated_in Miami documented ▶ 4:54

“This just basically is saying he was with the 77th Special Forces Group in Laos. He retired as a captain and then joined the CIA. Okay, here, 1960, he joined the CIA working under Ted Shackley, infamo…”

Grayston Lynch operated_in Key West documented ▶ 4:54

Grayston Lynch member_of CIA documented ▶ 4:54

Grayston Lynch carried_out_attack Bay of Pigs Invasion documented ▶ 5:26

“Special Ops training for the Bay of Pigs people. Okay, Lynch was transported to Cuba aboard the SS Blagger. No Americans were authorized to land on the beach of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs. Lynch defi…”

Grayston Lynch member_of Drug Enforcement Administration documented ▶ 11:51

“So he leaves the CIA, but no one actually leaves the CIA. And he joins basically the DEA. And this is a problem that we've come across repeatedly where you really can't separate those two organization…”

Lucien Conein recruited Grayston Lynch book_quoted ▶ 12:22

“was recruited by Lucien Koenig. This is the guy that was over in Vietnam, the French guy, the whole French-Marsai connection in Vietnam that basically works the transferring of what was the French net…”

Grayston Lynch operated_in BUNCIN book_quoted ▶ 13:24

“Bob Medell requisitioned Grayston Lynch to work directly with him in BUNCEN. Lynch's primary task was to identify offshore suppliers of illegal drugs. Lynch had been running secret CIA operations in C…”

Bob Medell recruited Grayston Lynch book_quoted ▶ 13:24

Harry Anslinger headed Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 16:06

“who was the original Federal Bureau of Narcotics guy. And I mean, he was as corrupt as the rest of them. We've read about him a long time ago. Narcotic drugs are a strategic resource. And when Engslin…”

Charles Saragusa member_of Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 17:22

“I'm trying to get up to where we're at in the story. And then it says, of course, we had the CIA decided to test LSD and the FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses. So they're literally in …”

Charles Saragusa member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 17:52

“because we're going to use the Vatican Bank and the mafia to run this operation. And then it says a handful of FBM agents were actually recruited into the CIA while maintaining their FBN credentials. …”

Santo Trafficante Jr. did_business_with CIA book_quoted ▶ 18:55

“You mean like Grayston? From his stable of underworld contacts, Saragusa again claimed to have refused, but drug traffickers, including some prominently Santo Trafficani Jr., were soon participating i…”

CIA attempted_assassination_of Fidel Castro book_quoted ▶ 18:55

John Evans member_of Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 21:08

“In 1966, Agent John Evans was assigned as an assistant to Enforcement Chief John Enright. And that's when I got to see what the CIA was doing. I saw a report on the KMT saying that they were the bigge…”

Andrew Tartalino exposed Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 25:24

“basically were going to be whistleblowers. All of this was secretly known at the highest levels. In 1965, at the Treasury Department, they launched a corruption investigation into the FBN headed by An…”

Bureau of Narcotics merged_with Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 25:52

“They reorganized into the BNDD. Nixon was elected president based on a vow to reestablish law and order. He launched Operation Intercept along the Mexican border. This was a stop and search operation …”

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Operation Intercept book_quoted ▶ 25:52

James Ludlam member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 26:23

“Heroin committee was composed of cabinet members. Of course, we had to have the CIA represented, a member of the CIA counterintelligence. Ludlam had been the CIA's liaison officer for the FBN since 19…”

CIA trafficked Vietnam book_quoted ▶ 26:47

“Ludlam recalled the CIA certainly didn't take it serious because drug control wasn't part of their mission. No, they were the ones trafficking it. Okay, so as everybody knows, the CIA for years had be…”

Richard Helms ordered_assassination_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 27:20

“Although reluctant to betray the CIA client, Helms told Ludlam, go break their rice bowls. This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, named the names of the co…”

CIA infiltrated Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 27:49

“Ted Shackley appeared to explain that it was a delicate balance. What he said in effect was that no one was willing to do anything. Meanwhile, to protect the network, the CIA began infiltrating the BN…”

Paul Van Marks member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 28:18

“law enforcement cia officer paul van marx for example was assigned the u.s ambassador to to france assistant on narcotics why france because of the marseille france connection and that's where that ko…”

Paul Van Marks operated_in Paris book_quoted ▶ 28:18

Operation 40 member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 29:14

“Operation Eagle was a flashpoint. Launched in 70, Eagle targeted anti-Castro Cubans smuggling cocaine from Latin America to Traficante's organization in Florida. Of the dozens of traffickers arrested …”

Operation Eagle Claw targeted_for_regime_change Santo Trafficante Jr. book_quoted ▶ 29:14

CIA infiltrated Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 30:36

“But Ingersoll could not investigate his top managers while simultaneously investigating drug traffickers. He asked CIA Director Helms for help building a counterintelligence capability. Bad, bad, bad.…”

Jerry Soule member_of Operation 40 book_quoted ▶ 31:05

“According to the chief inspector, Patrick Fuller, a corporation engaged in law enforcement hired three CIA officers posing as private businessmen to do contact and interview work. CIA recruiter Jerry …”

Charles Grutenson member_of Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 31:36

“Those hired were put through the BNDD training course, assigned to spy on particular regional directors. No records were kept. Some participants never identified. Charles Grutenson was a typical two-f…”

Charles Grutenson member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 31:36

Rockefeller Commission exposed Operation Twofold book_quoted ▶ 32:29

“Twofold, which existed at least until 1974, was deemed by the Rockefeller Commission to have violated the CIA participating in law enforcement activities. You think? All right. The next infection. The…”

E. Drexel Godfrey member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 33:00

“infiltration. Helms arranged for his recently retired chief of continuing intelligence, E. Drexel Godfrey, to review BNDD's intelligence procedures. Among other things, Godfrey recommended that BNDD c…”

CIA funded Thailand book_quoted ▶ 33:53

“And says, as the director, John Warner, explained, we needed to understand the political climate in Thailand in order to address the problem. We needed to know what kind of protection the Thai police …”

Tom Tripati member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 34:23

“Seaport and Airport, 100% owned by the CIA. Organizing the SIO fell to CIA officers Adrian Swain and Tom Tripati, both of whom were recruited from the CIA into the BNDD. In April of 71, they accompani…”

Adrian Swain member_of Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 34:23

Tom Tripati member_of Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 34:23

Adrian Swain member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 34:23

Adrian Swain did_business_with CIA host_asserted ▶ 34:53

“The guy running the drug operations briefed them. Through his CIA contacts, Swain's obtained maps of drug smuggling routes. Upon their return, Swain and Tripati expressed frustration that the CIA had …”

Adrian Swain proposed Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted ▶ 35:18

“Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special ops strategic operations staff of their own. Basically, own CIA using a backdoor approach to gather intelligence. Those …”

Henry Kissinger proposed Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted ▶ 35:18

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted ▶ 35:48

“for special operations three weeks later nixon declared a war on drugs at which point congress responded with funding these operations sio director warner was given a seat on the u.s intelligence boar…”

Marvin Warner headed Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted ▶ 35:48

CIA recruited Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted ▶ 36:18

“file room, and computer system, the safe and still doors. The Whitting agents had to obtain CIA clearances, so they own the computer system. There's no computer system the CIA has ever owned that does…”

Tom Tripati headed Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted ▶ 36:46

“Everywhere there's drugs, Europe, Middle East, Far East, and Latin America. Tripati was assigned as chief of operations. He spent the previous six years in the CIA's security research service, where h…”

E. Howard Hunt succeeded Tom Tripati host_asserted ▶ 36:46

Tom Tripati proposed Medusa host_asserted ▶ 37:17

“Tripati liaised with the CIA on matters of mutual interest and covert collection of narcotic intelligence outside routine channels. As a part of his operational plan, codenamed Medusa, Tripati propose…”

Lucien Conein member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 37:43

“Another proposal called for ambushing traffickers in America and taking their drugs and money. Enter Lucien Koenig. The creation of the SIO coincided with the assignment of CIA officer Lucien Koenig t…”

Lucien Conein operated_in North Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 38:13

“as a CIA liaison officer, voila, instant access. As a member of the OSS, Koenig had parachuted into France and formed resistance cells that included Corsican gangsters. These are the same ones that be…”

Lucien Conein ordered_assassination_of Ngô Đình Diệm host_asserted ▶ 38:44

“And these anti-communist forces they're talking about is basically a stay-behind network in Vietnam. Okay. In 1963, achieved infamy as the intermediary between Kennedy White House and Cabal generals t…”

Alfred McCoy exposed Lucien Conein book_quoted ▶ 38:44

Lucien Conein did_business_with Corsica book_quoted ▶ 39:18

“which is true. The truce, according to McCoy, allowed the Corsicans to traffic as long as they served as contact men for the CIA. The truce also endowed the Corsicans with free passage at a time when …”

Richard Nixon recruited Lucien Conein host_asserted ▶ 40:19

“The White House hired Koenig as an expert on Corsican drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant to the SIO's Far East desk. His activities will be discussed more. Now, what's…”

Lucien Conein member_of Office of Strategic Influence host_asserted ▶ 40:19

Seymour Bolton headed CIA host_asserted ▶ 41:45

“seymour bolton known as assistant special assistant to the director for coordination of narcotics bolton directed cia division and station chiefs in the unilateral drug control operations bolton direc…”

Seymour Bolton did_business_with Ted Shackley host_asserted ▶ 42:14

“In doing this, Bolton worked closely with Ted Shackley again, who in 1972 was appointed as the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division because we're getting ready to start the cocaine trade. Bolton and Shac…”

Ted Shackley member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 42:44

“They, Shackley, was part of the literal Gladio program in Italy, setting it up in the aftermath of World War II. Bolton was there too. Where did they go then? Oh, they're going to be in our Gladio pro…”

Seymour Bolton member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 42:44

Seymour Bolton founded International Narcotics Information Network host_asserted ▶ 43:15

“Bolton screwed us and so did Shackley. Bolton screwed the BNDD and the American judicial system by setting up a parallel mechanism based on a computerized register of international drug traffickers an…”

International Narcotics Information Network front_for Phoenix Program host_asserted ▶ 43:40

“The International Narcotics Information Network was modeled on a computerized management system that Shackley had used to terrorize the underground. That's Phoenix program. The International Narcotics…”

William Colby supported Seymour Bolton host_asserted ▶ 44:41

“Several went to Lou Koenig at the SIO for clandestine, highly illegal operations. Factions within the CIA military were opposed to Bolton's parallel mechanism, but CIA Executive Director William Colby…”

Richard Helms did_business_with Inger Ingersoll host_asserted ▶ 45:11

“expunged, those who cooperated rewarded. In 72, DCI Helms, then emerged in Watergate Intrigue, told BNDD Director Ingersoll that CIA prepared files on specific drug traffickers in Miami.…”

Robert Medell member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 47:03

“The BNDD officials managed Bunsen's legal activities while Koenig at the SIO managed its political and CIA aspects. According to Koenig's administrative deputy, Bunsen was an experiment on how to fine…”

Grayston Lynch member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 48:42

“transferred and hired by the DEA. No, he was not. He was literally hired by another CIA officer to pretend to work at the BNDD. This just like literally blows my mind. The Bay of Pigs veteran born in …”

Robert Medell recruited Grayston Lynch host_asserted ▶ 48:42

Robert Medell did_business_with Sal Caneba host_asserted ▶ 49:14

“All of his assets had previously worked for the CIA, all of them, and all believed that they were still working for them. Medell started running agents in March of 73 with the stated goal of penetrati…”

Sal Caneba did_business_with Fidel Castro host_asserted ▶ 49:43

“a retired mafia who had been in business with Traficani since the 50s, like in Cuba. Caneba in one day identified the head of the Cuban side of the Traficani family as well as its organizational struc…”

CIA ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro host_asserted ▶ 50:10

“had employed Traficani in its assassination attempt against Fidel Castro. And because Traficani's Operation 40 associates were performing similar functions for the CIA around the world. In other words…”

Robert Medell recruited Guillermo Trabaj host_asserted ▶ 50:42

“Medell's principal agent was Bay of Pigs veteran Guillermo Trabaj, whom the CIA paid $1,400 a week. While receiving this princely sum, he participated in the Alvarez Cruz drug smuggling ring. The CIA …”

E. Howard Hunt did_business_with Manuel R. Tims Organization host_asserted ▶ 51:13

“organization, which is that court thing that's basically a terrorist organization. Former CIA officer and White House plumber Howard Hunt notably had been R-Time's case officer for years, and many mem…”

William Loeb did_business_with Ted Shackley host_asserted ▶ 51:41

“Loge had been Shackley's bodyguard in Saigon in 69. From 70 to 71, Loge had served as a special police liaison and drug coordinator for Saigon, like literally coordinating the drugs to be trafficked. …”

CIA supplied_arms_to Manuel R. Tims Organization host_asserted ▶ 52:03

“classified courier service. The Defense Department was in charge of emergency planning to provide Bunsen agents with special communication equipment. The CIA supplied their assets with forged IDs that…”

Ralph Friars member_of Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs host_asserted ▶ 52:52

“and had a narcotics mission, and the other provided cover for the plumbers. Orders for the domestic political facet emanated from the White House and passed through Koenig to plumber Gordon Liddy and …”

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Operation Gemstone host_asserted ▶ 52:52

H.R. Haldeman recruited Manuel R. Tims Organization host_asserted ▶ 53:23

“Friars, the job of screening anti-Castro Cubans sent by the White House to the BNDD. Friars was assigned to International Affairs Chief George Belk. When Nixon's White House Chief of Staff, H.R. Bob H…”

Grayston Lynch member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:01:26

“So the fact that Grayston was being part of the training program in Algeria, 100% puts him in Gladio. The resistance training that was being provided in Algeria was under Otto Skorzeny in Spain. He wa…”

Otto Skorzeny trained Manuel R. Tims Organization host_asserted ▶ 1:03:56

“What we have to understand here, Otto Skorzeny ran those training camps. Grayston is the CIA case officer for Otto Skorzeny's training camps in Algeria. He's also responsible for training, which he's …”

Frank Sturgis member_of Interpen Group host_asserted ▶ 1:05:29

“The memo continued with references to agency training should not be confused with the infamous training which took place at the Lake Pontchartrain area in 1962. The Lake Pontchartrain training was ran…”

Gary Patrick Hemmings headed Interpen Group host_asserted ▶ 1:05:29

Grayston Lynch trained Manuel R. Tims Organization host_asserted ▶ 1:07:30

“Lynch was debriefed concerning the following topics, training of anti-Castro paramilitary groups, including training at the old Algiers army dump, supplies of these training bases, infiltration teams,…”

CIA assassinated Juan Jose Braga host_asserted ▶ 1:08:01

“That's the ambassador that was killed in a car bomb in downtown D.C. CBS telecast on Bay of Pigs, the agency in DEA, JM Wave's operation. Lynch mentioned...…”