The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51)

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0:02 Okay. So. Can I tell you something funny? Sure. Okay. You know that three degrees of separation kind of thing? Yeah. Okay. So, Tucker Carlson, I keep telling you, is going to be the one next, right? Well, redacted, what's his name? Clayton Morris.

0:32 is like best friends with Tucker Carlson. Now I go to look at Alex Jones quick profile picture. Guess who it is. It's him and Tucker Carlson. Okay. So I'm telling you, you're just getting closer and closer. Yeah. Um, so anyway, um, I know. I'm sorry. I was just, that just was funny to me cause I just, it just happened.

1:04 Great show today. Thank you. And it bears repeating, we've said this often, I think Operation Gladio is so important as a concept for, not only is it historical, it happened, the same techniques are currently being used.

1:33 They didn't go away. And I think that regardless of whether you like someone or you don't like someone, whatever your feelings are, I just feel compelled to bring awareness to it. And I think people need to understand that. We don't live in a black and white world, no matter how much people want to put us in that world.

2:04 And it's just more important to get this message out. So we'll just leave that there. I was blown away by the feedback and I received lots of it. So thank you all for being in the chat and providing, I spoke with Illini afterwards for providing all of the references.

2:36 Just because of how over, you know, kind of the direction that it went. You guys being there is critically important to the awareness of how much information is out there documenting all of this. And it's just not ever been collated.

3:05 in a meaningful way in order to tie all of the pieces together. And I've said this often, I'm gonna say it again, I could not do any of this without you guys. So thank you very, very much for being there. So for anybody new, because there will be new people, obviously, during our four o'clock spaces, we do book reviews.

3:32 And it brings you all of the documented history of just how much is out there. And generally speaking, because I pre-read all of these books, we basically just kind of go chapter by chapter with me telling you. And a lot of you buy the books that we feature on here. And you guys can just go along as we go through the material.

4:02 This particular book, Safe for Democracy, it was so hard going through here. As I said before, I literally had almost every page completely highlighted. Not because it was necessarily new information, but this author, more than any other book that I've read, and we're well over 160 now.

4:26 named names of station chiefs and assistant station chiefs and people in the CIA at the headquarters running these operations and in the State Department, that it was almost impossible to do any justice to this material without literally going through the book. So just so that you guys know, that's not our normal practice.

4:54 It's more of, and we normally go through the books much quicker as a result of that, but you can see we're on part 49. It's almost impossible to do with this book. So thank you for all bearing with us as we go through this book. But I just think it's imperative that we get this information out in an audio format that folds in all of the other books that we've read to put it in context.

5:23 Having said that, we're going to dig in. And we're on chapter 23, page 572. Again, we're almost done with this book. So we start off with CIA Director Casey resigning on February 2nd, 1987.

5:51 You know, we're towards the end of Reagan's administration at this point. The election is going to be in 1988. And searching for a new CIA director at that point is like a scramble. And because he was sick, he was in and out of the hospital. So they were not expecting his resignation. So Gates.

6:21 fills in temporarily after his resignation. And as a reminder, we're in the middle of exposing Iran-Contra. So it's not the job you want at this particular point. So Gates is a loyalist. He's been there through this entire operation. And Robert Gates gets the job.

6:54 The Senate is supposed to confirm the CIA director. But how do you do that? Because he's intimately involved in Iran-Contra. And in 1986, the Democrats had regained control of the Congress. And that made Oklahoma Senator David Boren chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

7:24 And so they are going to be in a driver's seat. So Pat Leahy saw Gates' appointment as a wise move. The general opinion would be that he could at least answer the questions because he was there on Iran-Contra. And he tried. So he had been in this environment for a very long time.

7:57 He was seen as a leading figure in U.S. arms control talks as well. He had crafted many national intelligence estimates as a national intelligence officer. He had also been chairman of the National Intelligence Council. And so he basically has the perfect resume for this job. He had been an executive assistant to the former...

8:27 CIA directors. And for those of you who don't know, in the government, you have an executive staff that is around you when you're the director. Anybody that's on that staff is basically viewed as a gatekeeper. They determine who gets in to see the CIA director and who doesn't. And Gates had also performed that role.

8:59 He also had been in the White House. He served under Jimmy Carter. So again, he's viewed kind of as a bipartisan spy. He had worked for both administrations, as we know how the Uniparty works. So he also had experience in the clandestine service. So he's like the perfect guy, except for Iran-Contra. Gates gave that his best shot too.

9:32 Not coincidentally, it became known that when he took over as the acting director, Gates had recorded a classified video affirming that the CIA would act only under legal authority and would never again do anything like the Iran arms shipment without proper approval. When the hearings opened in February,

9:58 Gates quickly made it known that he felt the Iran-Contra had broken all of the rules. And he would resign if ordered to do something like that again. He didn't resign before, but now he would. So obviously, that was a very interesting introduction to his confirmation hearing. And again, we're at the beginning of these revelations.

10:31 He also had some misremembering of his knowledge of the Richard Secord enterprise going on. So Bill Gates, or excuse me, Robert Gates' chances were disappearing into all of the illegalities that were being exposed.

11:02 about the violations of the Arms Export Control Act. So the question for the Congress was, did he violate it? And of course, we talked about the backdated finding that they had Reagan sign that, I mean, legally it does not work that way, but he was involved in that.

11:38 After all of this stuff was coming to surface, Robert Gates decided to withdraw his nomination. The next day, the administration took back the nomination. Gates issued a statement defending his actions during the Iran-Contra affair and denied any illegalities. Eventually, the Joint Committee cleared Gates of illegal actions.

12:07 And the Iran-Contra special prosecutor affirmed those conclusions, which is weird because he was intimately involved in all of it. In his memoirs, Robert Gates, this is a quote, I would go over those points in my mind a thousand times in the months and years to come, but the criticism still hit home.

12:31 A thousand times I would go over the might have beens if I had raised more hell than I did with Casey about non-notification of Congress. If I had demanded that the NSC get out of covert action. If I had insisted the CIA not play by NSC rules. If I had been more aggressive with the DO in my first months as the deputy DCI. Or if I had went to the attorney general. Unquote. He did none of those things.

13:02 So in withdrawing that nomination, Reagan announced William Webster to be the next director of the CIA. Webster would be referred to as the judge. He had been a jurist on the federal bench, eventually being elevated to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. So he had incredible standing.

13:34 from a legal perspective. Let's see. He was from St. Louis and he went to law school at Washington University. Then he spent time as a U.S. attorney and then was appointed to the bench. In 1978, Carter named Webster to head the FBI, the post he held when Reagan asked him to go.

14:10 to the CIA. So you go from the director of the FBI to the director of the CIA. Judge Webster came with great reviews. He appeared squeaky clean. The Senate Intelligence Committee approved his nomination. The full Senate consented to it. Robert Gates felt the weight of the entire Iran-Contra. He also had heard that his brother,

14:44 from his brother that his father had passed away. So Webster established himself at Langley. And again, like Admiral Turner under Carter, Webster had brought with him an entire inner circle from the FBI. Isn't that interesting? So because he had experience in government and the security field, he was looked at as kind of like a breath of fresh air.

15:22 In Webster's last months at the FBI, the Bureau had been investigating Southern Air Transport, the CIA proprietary. Webster's knowledge of intelligence resulted from participation in the National Foreign Intelligence Board. Webster's tenure would later get mixed reviews. Melissa Boyle Mayle, who was an officer in the Near East Division, saw Webster.

15:55 as isolating himself rather than leading the CIA. He treated the CIA, according to her, as basically dirty laundry. Quote, he did not lead the troops or ever really try to get to know them. The TIPA station in Brussels, whose name was Richard Holm, felt that he didn't fit in. He wasn't a good choice.

16:25 And this, again, is kind of the reception that anybody outside of the CIA gets when they get to the CIA. They're an outsider. So, of course, the people on the inside don't like them. Dewey Claridge said that Webster, quote, didn't have the stomach for bold moves of any sort, unquote. The early test for Webster was going to be how he dealt with the Iran-Contra.

17:00 independent inspector general for the CIA's in-house operations. Congress saw an IG report on the arm cells rendered in early 87, and it paled next to the facts established by their own investigation. In other words, it was well known that the CIA's IG, generally a former agent that was no longer field worthy for whatever reason, like the one guy that was medically

17:30 not fit to be in the field, usually were assigned to the IG from the inside. Suggestions for an independent IG appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate had been around since the church committee days in the mid-70s. Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, who by the way would later go on to be the Secretary of Defense, was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He introduced a bill.

18:04 to create an independent IG shortly before Webster arrived. Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania tabled it. And why would that be? Because we found Arlen Specter in the book that Pete Bruton wrote about being involved in the Savings and Loans CIA mafia money laundering. I'm sure that had nothing to do with it. Webster argued that he had made extensive changes to the IG office and it was fine.

18:40 That worked for a little bit, but the more information came out, the more people pressed for this. And finally, that was actually done. Meanwhile, Webster took his time on looking into Iran-Contra. George, Alan Fiers, and a couple of others received performance bonuses after it was revealed that they were integral.

19:10 part of Iran-Contra. Webster believed Claire George, who was a friend of his, was innocent of all wrongdoing. And we established he was in the middle of it. Webster also knew that George H.W. Bush liked Dewey Claridge. Webster also knew him as well and concluded later that Claridge had been a loose cannon, not always candid. In other words, he was a liar.

19:48 Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean they went away. That is a paperwork shuffle because many of these end up as contractors after their quote unquote let go.

20:22 So in many cases, we've seen their names pop up in future events because they're a contract agent. While they were struggling, Russia started making all kinds of accommodations. And the change first became evidence with the nuclear arms control. Moscow publicized its change to a defensive military doctrine.

20:55 In Afghanistan, it invited the negotiations that led to their military withdrawal. In Angola, it supported a similar negotiations that ended the Cuban intervention into Angola. As these developments occurred, the CIA was kind of on their back foot trying to figure out what are we going to do? We're losing our boogeyman.

21:24 So everybody was in the tizzy. And it had yet to be revealed that the CIA Aldridge Ames was basically a traitor. So all of this was used to do a reorganization. And despite what the CIA caveated as a success in Afghanistan,

21:57 on more ways than one since we just recently found out that that money was being diverted to make Pakistan a nuclear power. The covert operations was coming under a big microscope. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, we have this new boogeyman because we just trained all the Mujahideen. And it's going to give birth to this new radical Islamic terrorism.

22:29 That's gonna be the next boogeyman. And even the book's author says, we had this looming terrorism problem that we created. Webster needed someone he trusted in charge of the Directorate of Operations, which runs the covert operations program. Webster had graduated also from Amherst College. Two years behind him was a friend, Richard.

23:03 Stoltz. He had been in World War II and was now an old hand at the CIA. You spell his last name, S-T-O-L-Z. He had been recruited into the CIA by another Amherst classmate. Stoltz had done his first tour in Trieste, which is in northeast Italy, in the heart of Operation Gladio.

23:34 Because that's where they had initially created the NATO version of Gladio in that area because it was along the border of the Soviet occupied Eastern European countries. And so that area was hot in 1950 as far as Operation Gladio and the stay behind units. So he was a spy more than he was a covert operator.

24:05 But he had also served in Yugoslavia under quote unquote diplomatic cover, as well as Germany and Bulgaria, which is interesting because those are all of the hotspots. Remember, Bulgaria is like the Soviet covert weapons. That's where they were buying all of the Soviet style weapons, even in 1980s for the Afghanistan Mujahideen.

24:34 Bulgaria is a big hotspot as well. So he was considered so well-liked inside the CIA, he was made station chief of Moscow in 1964, which is a big deal. Stoltz closed out his Italian political action as chief of station in Rome from 1966 to 1969. And why is Rome so important? Because it's the hotbed of Operation Gladio.

25:10 especially during this timeframe. In the 1970s, he headed the CIA in Belgrade and then was promoted to the Director of Operations, Western European Division. Stoltz had been considered by Turner to be a deputy director, but he chose instead John McMahon. By the time Casey arrived, Stoltz was like the...

25:45 Big deal. And how do we know that? Because he got the CIA station chief in London. And again, that's like a stepping stone to be director. Casey did not pick Stoltz to be a deputy director a second time. And he picked Max Kugel instead.

26:17 When he got passed over the second time, he quote unquote retired. But the author makes clear he was on contract, just as we just talked about, because he was called in all the time by Casey as a quote unquote consultant, which means he was not on the books for Iran-Contra. And that's a large reason why they do this.

26:45 There he is, crystal clean, because he was retired, in big air quotes. Webster's most important initiative at CIA was to accept the concept of fusion and created a method to be able to portray that as some big renovation of the CIA. And by fusion, it was like the

27:18 melding of supposedly real intelligence with covert operations. Because, you know, in the past, we just made up that stuff to justify the covert operations. And so he created, that was his big idea in cleaning up the CIA was to create these fusion centers.

27:43 It was focused on specific functional areas instead of being basically geographically aligned, which had been the case in the past. The entity, the Counterterrorism Center, had partly been foisted upon him by a presidential commission on terrorism that was headed by who? George H.W. Bush. So George H.W. Bush as vice president.

28:16 and president intimately involved in all of the operations to create the Mujahideen and the future terrorist, creates and mandates the CIA set up a counterterrorism cell before we actually even have terrorism. Kind of weird. Dewey Claridge claims some credit for this idea as well. And he credits a terrorist attack.

28:51 in Rome at the airport that happened in 1985 while George Bush was vice president and at the Rome station. Bush wasn't at the Rome station, but again, it's Rome. And they just so happened to have a domestic terror event right around the time Bush is pushing for the creation of a counter-terrorism.

29:25 Webster was known for making the counterterrorism cell a priority. In 88 and 89, he created these fusion cells. And supposedly one of the fusion cells was to deal with narcotics. How do you think they did? Well, it depends on how you're grading them. Did narcotics trafficking go up exponentially? Yes. Did it ever have any effect on...

29:56 bringing the narcotic trafficking down? No. Okay, so the division chiefs basically were kind of blasé about this whole thing. They were not necessarily thrilled about it, but took the opportunity to claim credit for it because it was a done deal at this point.

30:23 So Webster took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and tried to defuse opposition to his changes. He was basically going to use that as an excuse. Webster and Stoltz established a group of senior officers to brainstorm strategic planning. Dick Holm, back from Brussels, to run the career management staff played a key role. After weeks of...

30:53 Headaches, they decided to sell the plan to the DO staff, then to Capitol Hill. The proliferation of these fusion shells continued into the 1990s. Tension between the centers and line operators are still apparent. In fact, the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004, by giving a new director of national intelligence the authority to create his own fusion centers, basically illustrated

31:27 how dysfunctional this was. So, other changes. In November of 88, obviously, we get Bush Sr. as president. Barely a month later, the Soviet leader Gorbachev gave a speech at the UN in which he publicly retreated from the Cold War front. Gorbachev announced major unilateral cuts in Soviet troops in East Germany, Eastern Europe,

31:58 and even Mongolia. Coupled with reductions in Russian military manpower, it included language saying that Eastern European nations were entitled to self-determination. Given the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, Gorbachev's UN speech had huge implications. Bush, the only president of the US ever to head the CIA, moved cautiously. The CIA was too wary of developments in Russia.

32:29 The CIA analysts had long seen the potential of this happening, supposedly, and understood Gorbachev to be responding to basically the inevitable. But again, this leaves a huge gap in their modus operandi because they had used the existence of the Soviet Union to justify literally everything that they did.

33:02 At the Directorate of Operations, an attitude prevailed. Richard Stoltz feared being taken in. Burton Gerber, a legendary case officer and street man in Eastern Europe and station chief in Moscow, was now heading the Soviet and Eastern European divisions. Gerber questioned what the CIA was seeing on the surface. In other words, big regret.

33:31 that the Soviet Union was going away, so let's just milk it for as long as we can. Beginning in December of 87, the CIA began having its own sit-down with Soviet intelligence, but the Russians certainly weren't giving away the store. Worried about a mole in the agency simultaneously focused the spooks even more than usual on a spy versus spy espionage. Deputy Director Gates put it,

34:02 Quote, the American government, including the CIA, had no idea in January of 1989 that a tidal wave of history was about to break upon us, unquote. Now, keep in mind, we've had the CIA since 1947, and they're shocked that this is going on in the Soviet Union. So Gates leaves Langley. President Bush National Security Advisor Brett Skorokoff asked him to the White House as deputy.

34:34 President Bush also wanted his choice of the CIA director. He decided to keep Webster, Gates' successor as the DCI, would be Richard Kerr. Again, another guy from the analyst side, not the operations side. So Webster and Richard Kerr was the front of the Iran.

35:10 Contra. It took Bush several months to move on the Gorbachev and Eastern European piece of this. By mid-April 1989, the president had ended trade restrictions on Poland and gave the first of several speeches about Eastern Europe and Russia in general. By then, the Polish military

35:33 and communist government had acknowledged its labor and democratic opposition by opening roundtable talks. Bush scheduled a visit to Poland. Perhaps the Eastern European upheaval beginning in Poland was interesting, and the CIA saw the opportunity to claim a success, saying that they were the ones behind it.

36:02 knowing that Iran-Contra is hanging out there in the wind. So they're claiming credit for this sudden shift in the Soviet Union. East Germans began escaping to the West through Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Efforts were made to seal Eastern Germany's borders. There were mass public demonstrations, and this time the Russians rejected intervention.

36:32 Gorbachev gave no comfort to the German communists who wanted to push back on the resistance. Instead, the East German government fell and the cabinet that took over from them resigned in turn. Their successors told East Germans that they could leave the country without special permission. On the night of November 9th and 10th, excited crowds from both East and West Germany

37:00 began tearing down the wall. These events excited everybody in Washington and the CIA. President Bush said in his Oval Office meeting with Brent Scrocoff that they turned on the television immediately and watched the entire thing. At Langley, the secret warriors took to the hallways. They were filled with excitement, claiming credit that they had finally done it.

37:31 They had brought down the Soviet Union. They credited, of course, their success in Afghanistan for doing that. Over the next months, the communist government of Eastern Europe were swept away. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania all went down. These nations put in democratic governments or at least as close to democratic governments as they could. Behind the questions of what the CIA knew and when,

38:03 And whether Langley had missed the entire thing was topic of many debates. George Bush inherited secret wars that were already ongoing because he had been in charge of them as vice president. In Bush's case, the primary theaters was Angola, Afghanistan, Libya, and Nicaragua.

38:36 In 89, Angola had begun implementation of a multilateral agreement provided for South African and Cuban withdrawal and reconciliation among the warring factions. Bush continued CIA's funding to UNITA for at least two years. And in 1990, the president vetoed the intelligence appropriation, retaining the preceding year's funding level.

39:06 over a dispute on findings. The second time around, he kicked up a ruckus with the Oversight Committee to obtain peak appropriations of $80 million. Beyond that, not much else was happening in that area. Elections for a government was finally held and the MPA agreed to a coalition. And again, this is what the MPLA had proposed at the very beginning.

39:39 before anybody died. They wanted a coalition government. They are the only ones that are educated in the city centers in Angola that had the ability to administer a country, not the tribe guys up near the Congo that had all the uranium and the diamonds and the gold, the Unina faction, which is who the CIA primarily funded because the oligarchs wanted control of that area and they were corrupt.

40:08 And they wanted them to run the government so they could basically steal all their shit. So all of those years, all of those dead bodies, we ended up with what the MPLA wanted at the beginning. Not unlike Nicaragua. Okay, not all was quiet because Zimbabwe, the guy that the CIA was keen on.

40:44 He smuggled himself out of the country in a coffin and then basically tried to re-engage the coalition government. The Angolan War would go on with him being basically a terrorist in his own country for another 10 years. The UN finally brokered a ceasefire and sent in peacekeeping force.

41:13 UNINA shot down a UN aircraft and South Africans resumed their covert intervention. Angolan starved in the meantime. Only Zimbabwe's death in battle in 2002 seemed to finally bring conflict to those. Had the foreign administration not begun the secret war, Angola might have been

41:44 Well, you'd have a whole lot more Angolans. As for Afghanistan, the Soviets' withdrawal left the situation virtually unchanged. The Mujahideen remained pitted against the government. The Russians sent Najibullah arms and cash. The CIA continued to support the Mujahideen. New weapons would appear on the battlefield to the point of frustration. And there were bombings.

42:18 with long-range missiles that we provided. President Bush made Afghanistan a subject of bilateral conversations between Moscow and Washington, and they were a topic of conversations with his meetings with Gorbachev. Over the time, they agreed to stop funding their proxies. The CIA, however, in their usual fashion, wrote him a big fat check so they could continue only unofficially without the CIA.

42:52 Najibullah control gradually weakened. His power was compromised when the Uzbek warlord, Rashid Dostrum, defected, shifting the balance of forces. By the time Kabul fell in 1992, Bush had disengaged the United States officially.

43:21 coup attempts began to mount and civil war between Dostrum and Massoud's forces. And Massoud is the guy that's up in the north that the CIA refused to ever fund because in my assessment, he's the good guy. He was the most competent warlord and was not okay with the whole opium, all of that other shit.

43:45 And the CIA had, that was kind of like their one thing with the, and the ISI hated him because he was a nationalist. So not surprising that he didn't get along with Dostrom at all. By the time Kabul fell in, let's see, in 92, there were new rounds of civil war.

44:18 Popular frustration with the corruption and infighting of the warlords and the fundamentalists led to a rise of Mullahs and the quote-unquote fundamental Taliban. Pakistani intelligence shifted their support to the Taliban with your money, which introduced new rocket attacks, conquering Kabul themselves in September of 1996. They then killed Najibullah.

44:50 who had been sheltered by the UN. The Taliban admitted Osama bin Laden, and he brought along with him the new name for the Mujahideen, which was relabeled Al-Qaeda. But rest assured, everything's fine because we have these new fusion cells of the counterterrorism center at the CIA just in the nick of time.

45:20 that's going to be able to figure out this whole terrorism thing, which they just had created. On Nicaragua, President Bush still steered a much more careful course because he was implicated in the entire Iran-Contra affair. He wanted a truce with Congress. The CIA's project had ended supposedly in 1988, although it did not. Lely's division chief, Jerry Gruner,

45:54 watched as diplomatic contact led to partial agreements. Congress approved humanitarian aid to tide the rebels over, meaning the Contras. Managua had scheduled elections for February of 1990. Inviting among the Contra factions revealed all kinds of trouble in the rebel, quote unquote, rebel side. Bermudez lost his commanding position, though he basically,

46:27 was still kind of like the godfather of the Contras. James Baker was now Secretary of State for Bush and he refused to meet Contra leaders, but he definitely backed them. Some leaders finally saw the president. Bush remained cool as he can't get too close to him because everything's being looked at. President Bush also took up the matter of Soviet arms with Gorbachev.

47:00 in December of 1989 at a Malta summit and was told by the Russians that they had halted shipments to Nicaragua. American officials disputed that they had stopped. Oh, I'm shocked. Gruner and the CIA played a political action role in the elections themselves in Nicaragua. They fueled $9 million.

47:34 to ensure the Sandinistas lost. Election interference, anybody? That's what we know of. The Sandinista loss was an outcome most U.S. officials had believed Managua would not permit. That says something about the Sandinistas, too. International observers, headed by none other than McGeorge Bundy, our Skull and Bones star, pronounced that the voting was fair.

48:07 In March of 90, there were slightly more than 6,000 Contra troops in Nicaragua. These soldiers began regrouping and rearming, ending the long secret war because now it's going to be taken mainstream. There was an estimated between 8,500 and 11,500 Contra rebels that died during this. And that's not...

48:39 counting the number of Nicaraguans that were killed. The last of the crossover covert operations concerned Libya. Reagan had never abandoned his dislike for Gaddafi. Though there had been previous misadventures, they needed a new formula.

49:04 Gaddafi furnished the means with a fiasco of his own, a strike into Chad in 1988 that ended with the capture of hundreds of Libyan soldiers. The CIA recruited 600 of these prisoners for a new strike force. They volunteered in order to stay out of prison camps. This was going to be a fresh front against Gaddafi. They had already approached one of Gaddafi's political

49:38 leaders who had rejected to work with the CIA. Gradually, a new CIA initiative evolved, stimulated by the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. It, of course, was attributed to Libya, but if you go back and do the research, it's really sketchy, like many other plane bombings. The moment never seemed right to commit

50:12 even in 1990 when controversy surged over whether Qaddafi had produced chemical weapons. Late in the year, renewed fighting for control of the Chad government exposed the unit that the CIA had recruited. It was revealed that they possess large stocks of U.S. weapons, including Stinger missiles. This secret initiative turned into more of an embarrassment than anything else. So again,

50:45 The CIA arming units to attack a sovereign country. Only this time they robbed the prisons in Chad to do it. And it was exposed. Did you ever hear about it in the news? I didn't. When Gaddafi demanded repatriation, the leaders of Chad rejected the Libyans. The soldiers went then, you'll never guess where, to Nigeria. Yeah, CIA trained.

51:17 basically terrorist, ended up in Nigeria. And what do we have in Nigeria today? All kinds of shit. Blamed on terrorists. Some of them went to the Congo to work for the CIA buddy there. They were farmed out to these other countries by US aircraft, by the way. Colonel Mubato expelled them when Congress halted US aid to Zaire, even though we had shipped them there.

51:55 Congress says no, because they found out about it. And then he goes, okay, I'll get rid of them. Just give me back my money. In March of 1991, about 400 of the refugees went on to Kenya. Though the Libyan government in exile in Rome, Prince Idris, the Libyan government in exile, agreed to care for the soldiers with all of his wealth. They're terrorists that the CIA trained.

52:34 Kenya suddenly received $5 million from Bush, though the aid to that country had been denied on human rights grounds prior to that. But hey, if you're going to give a home to our trained terrorists, we're good. Yeah. The supposed government in exile prince, the heir to the Libyan throne, you know, because we're all about royalty, as long as it...

53:09 displaces someone that we don't like more, he died in 1992. And then the fake government idea of replacing Gaddafi with him died too. So Bush pledged cooperation with the oversight committees, which refrained from enacting a law requiring notification of 48 hours. Bush substituted written assurances of quote-unquote timely notification.

53:39 In October of 89, Bush told the committees that he would usually give notice within a few days. This didn't set well with everybody. That resulted in 1990 of an effort to make notification rules explicit. This official account of its oversight efforts, the Senate reports that Bush officials assured them that everything was good. The 91 intelligence budget bill contained the provision, which President Bush.

54:09 then trumped by a pocket veto. No accountability for the CIA. The offending element was a part of a bill that defined covert operations so as to include third-party activities, meaning you couldn't pay front companies to do what you did in Iran-Contra. Bush asserted in November 30th of 1990 in a letter, quote,

54:36 unclear exactly what sort of discussions with foreign governments would constitute reportable requests under this provision, unquote. Really? You mean like the one that you made to Saudi Arabia to fund the Contras? Like that one? That one was unclear. No, it was very clear. You went to a foreign government to chip in money to fund a covert operation. It's very clear what they meant.

55:09 Side assurances to the White House from the chairman of both oversight committees were not satisfactory to Bush. Revised legislation passed Congress on July 31st, 1991, without settling the third party issue. Bush successor Bill Clinton would be hoist on the petard over this issue a few years later. So that takes us to a good stopping point. More Tomfoolery.

55:44 Just saying. Well, it's amazing to me, again, and we've said this a million times, that there will be no accountability for the CIA. No matter how many people try, in whatever ways they try, no accountability. And if you really, really try, like Leo Ryan, they'll just kill you. Or JFK. SR, go ahead.

56:18 Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here on Spaces and on Rumble. I see we have some new faces. If you have a question for the Colonel, just raise your hand. We'll bring you up, and you can ask your question when she calls on you. I want to personally thank Eli and I for all of the books he put out there. That was absolutely stunning. No sooner did you say something...

56:46 Illini had a book posted. It was unbelievable. Yeah, I gave him a cheat sheet of what I was going to be talking about. He was amazing. And I could not have asked for better support. Big round of applause for Illini. Awesome, awesome job. I know my daughter was like, who is that guy?

57:15 Thanks, Colonel. It was fun. Yeah, you had a lot of people show up for you in the chat, including your co-hosts. Bridget sent me a message. I think she sent everybody a message about your appearance in Alex Jones. I think we saw Alfred Newman, Tara, Shelley the Kiwi, and I think a number of other people in there. Yeah, you guys were awesome.

57:41 I was working sort of on a definition for Gladion and how to like communicate like the core message. And, you know, for I guess the goal is to not bore anybody here. You know, if there's new people, this definition is helpful, but it's also useful for communicating, kind of giving everybody the 30 second elevator pitch.

58:04 about what it was. And my argument is, if you want to have a definition for it, it might be that Operation Gladio was a U.S.-organized intelligence operation that started at the end of World War II that did two different things. Number one, it brought the Sicilian mafia and Nazi war criminals, as well as certain aspects of the Vatican, into the post-war intelligence apparatus.

58:30 And number two, you know, adopted, you know, the mafia's and Nazis political tactics, including, you know, political fraud, stay behind units and false flag operations to control political outcomes in Italy, you know, which is eventually extended elsewhere. And I think if if if you start with that, you know, a 30 second definition of what it was and then you start to sort of, you know, supplier evidence, you know, like talking about, you know, the.

59:00 you know, herder committee and the Marshall plan and everything that everybody knows about. But then the fact that, well, Ellen Dulles was on the Queen Mary too, and he was going over to Italy. And what nobody talks about is, you know, he actually wrote two, you know, biographies about how he recruited, you know, Reinhard Galen and, you know, Carl Wolf, including, you know, bailing him out, you know, in Italy, you know, at the end of World War II. Right.

59:31 I think there's a way to get into the details of it and expose it from, draw people in from what they know as normies into the other facts that kind of run the ground, including Dulles' own statements. And then you bring in the Kefauver Committee and Alfred McCoy's 1972 Senate hearing.

1:00:00 And all of those authoritative admissions against interest to bring in, you know, the Italian mafia. Right. And then you sort of expose the political control operation that resulted in the 1948 Christian Democrats victory. Right. And I think if that might be a way to boil it down to, you know, probably three minutes. Gladio in three minutes. Yeah. Why are you so mad? Go ahead.

1:00:33 I am sorry I did not get to see you on Alex Jones today. I was busy working. If there's a way that I can actually see it, can I get it on YouTube? Do I have to go to Rumble? The video is still running on Alex Jones Live. Kernel was great. Oh, it is? Yeah. Alex kept her on for like 90 minutes. He seemed to kind of like her. Hard to tell.

1:01:03 I really enjoyed it. I thought it was pretty neat. It's definitely worth a watch. That is fantastic. I hope you get on again. Absorb and inform his audience because he's got a big audience. Also, when I think of Libya, I think of Dick Cheney and Hal Burton. Is there a book that I can do some research into that? Because I believe that he was on the board.

1:01:32 Sure, I'm not clear, but he was on the board of Halliburton and they got fined by for giving Libya some some things that they were not supposed to be giving them. And I'm trying to find that information because I know Dick Cheney was involved when it came to Libya and Halliburton for sure. So there's not one single book that I'm aware of. That information is kind of littered through.

1:02:02 a whole bunch of other books that talk about, you know, Libya in general as part of some of these covert operations. So. Just one more. Oh, I'm sorry. Just one more. I'm curious. Has anybody know where Saeed Gaddafi has ended up? I'm just wondering where he's.

1:02:32 He's been this whole time. I've, I've heard he, I mean, he escaped Olivia or he may still be there. I'm just, I'm curious if anybody's had any knowledge about his whereabouts. I, I don't, I thought they tried to kill him. Yeah. They tried to kill him. Yeah. I heard they tried to kill him and they were pretty close, but he wound up escaping and I have no idea where he went. He could be in the U S for all I know.

1:03:08 Well, if he wants to be safe, he probably ought to be in Russia. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. To answer your question, you're so mad about Alex Jones. Alex Jones did say he was going to have her back on at the end of the show. So I expect more on Alex Jones. Warhamster, how are you? Howdy. Still a little jet lag. Came in on the red eye yesterday. But good to be back.

1:03:43 Home after a cathartic trip to San Diego. Answer the question about Gaddafi. His main son was assassinated in Libya. The other three, one was, I've got it in notes here somewhere, Turkey. Still there. Another one was in prison in Lebanon. Nobody knows where he is now. And a third is in exile.

1:04:09 in either Oman or Algeria. And that's all I had in my notes. That's probably about six months old information. So hope that helps. I'm glad you asked the question. Colonel, did I hear you talking about one of your characters today being from St. Louis? Yes. Who was that? Webster. Interesting. So one of the themes you were kind of hitting on, you know, the different factions in the CIA, depending on who's in charge, like that started on day one. And have we talked at all about the Missouri gang?

1:04:41 I know about the Missouri gang. I think when you were going over some of the skull and bones, wasn't one or two from there? And we just briefly touched it. We may have touched it. Do you want me to spend a couple minutes on it for everyone here? Because I think it ties into what you're talking about. Sure. So Truman, of course, is from St. Louis. And he was always backed by what's known as the Pendergast gang in Kansas City. That's the political machine of Kansas City.

1:05:10 So when he gets – when he gets promoted from VP to – from VP to president when Roosevelt died, he had some interesting decisions like, oh, should I drop the bomb? And one of the first things he had to do, he had to go to Potsdam and talk to Churchill and Stalin. So that was kind of a – going from Kansas City political machine to international affairs was quite a big leap. When the OSS breaks up –

1:05:37 He had to staff his own intelligence, and he had a group of about six guys. They were all from Missouri. And that was the original. These are the guys that were going to do the non-covert action that ended up replaced and ousted as soon as Dulles got in there two years later. But the Missouri gang consists of the military chief of staff, a guy by the name of Admiral Leahy.

1:06:02 The first DCI we ever had, a guy by the name of Sidney Sowers, and his background was in Missouri grocery stores. So think about that. The second DCI was also from Missouri, a guy by the name of Hoyt Vandenberg. Here's the name you knew from Skull and Bones. That was Clark Clifford. He was a White House lawyer. Yeah. And then there was Larry Houston, the general counsel for the OSS and the CIA later. And the big one, though, who we've talked about before, of course, is Roscoe Hillenkotter.

1:06:32 Yeah. First director of the CIA, Annapolis grad, total linguist. He was a military assay in World War I. He had probably more intel experience of the founders of the CIA, and he left the fewest footprints, which was an interesting comment. He knew how to operate correctly in the intel worlds. And he was actually in Paris when the Nazis marched in in World War II.

1:06:57 Funny story about Hill and Coder. He transfers back to the Pacific Fleet just in time to have his ship sunk from underneath him in Pearl Harbor. And he was the senior surviving officer. And then, of course, he would become the chief of Admiral Nimitz's understaffed intel center before he took that to CIA for CIA director stuff. But that was the Missouri gang. And every single one of these people, pretty well decorated, got ousted within a year of.

1:07:22 of our boy Alan Dulles coming in, but it shows you the different factions and I guess exclusive clubs that works in Intel. And I think you were hinting at that a little bit in today and probably previous chapters as well. Yeah, there's definitely an undertone network to all of this. And then just to further your point, he becomes...

1:07:49 Jimmy Carter's FBI director. And again, the gang, the whole corruption that was out there. I mean, would you agree that it's like Tammany Hall Jr.? Tammany Hall Midwest? Yeah, I would say yeah, but I would call it a slightly cleaner version if that's possible once you get into the political machine. Right. But it's still that mired in

1:08:19 Yeah, it's cronyism, without a doubt. These people have been doing each other favors. I mean, how do you get from being a grocery store magnate to being the DCI? How does that happen without being political favors? And so to take that further, not only get to the CIA director, but Webster took a tour through the FBI as well. So how much FBI...

1:08:47 these shenanigans are going on, or non-shenanigans, non-accountable shenanigans, while he's the FBI director. What I would want to look at with him when he's FBI director is, and we've hinted at this, but when we talk about secret societies, one we haven't really dug deep on, because it's such a massive undertaking, of course, is the Freemasons. And as we've always said, the best place to hide a secret society is within a secret society, and most nations...

1:09:16 Most Masons are totally benign. But the founder of the FBI, of course, was J. Edgar Hoover, and he was a devout, very active member of the Scottish Rites Freemasons, as were the vast majority of the people he appointed early on. And I don't know how many decades that continued through. I have not done that homework. But if your boy Webster is a Freemason, that's right. I would think that would be a rock to look underneath. Right.

1:09:46 Good point. Let's see. Renee, go ahead. Hey, everyone. Good afternoon. Bravo, bravo, Colonel Towner. Great show. Super exciting to watch. So proud and so happy for you. It really feels like we're moving forward in disclosure. And I'm just...

1:10:16 elated over the moon that we finally have got to the we got to this point I mean it seems a couple years ago of just like how we were questioning how and when would it ever happen would you get on these shows and it finally happened so congratulations it was

1:10:35 So cool to watch Alex Jones say, oh, my gosh, she knows more than me. And she's so smart. Colonel Towner is so smart. It was just filled my heart. And I'm just so proud and excited. And it means that we're getting closer and closer to all of this being exposed and the house of cards falling down. So congratulations.

1:11:02 Thank you, Renee. And I've said this a million times and you're definitely one of them. I could not have done this without you guys. You guys have filled in so many holes because you take all of this information and run it to ground. And you guys have provided me so much assistance in all of this. This is definitely a team effort. And everybody in here every day that's been here for the last almost four years now,

1:11:32 It's kudos to all of us, not just me. I just happen to be the person doing the speaking. But you guys have been a wealth of information in all of your diligent research. Colonel, one more thing. I was thinking recently because I've been digging in to Los Angeles County and the whole election thing here that's approaching.

1:12:01 And I know you've taught us all on Operation Gladio with NED and within that NED, the NDI and the IRI and the whole Madeline Albright and no name McCain, you know, digging into their journey. It seems, you know, it's starting in 83.

1:12:30 It seems like to me like Operation Gladio is almost like a evil twisted traveling circus because it goes all over to the world, all over the world in groups. And you got more than three rings. I don't know how many rings you can say.

1:12:47 But you've got the mafia in one, the CIA another. You've got training of the animals. You've got the accountants. You've got people who do the PR and the propaganda. It's one big Ringling Brothers, or better yet, it's a big jerk to Soleil. But I started thinking it's just like this wild traveling circus because...

1:13:15 You see these patterns and you've taught us through our Gladio glasses how to recognize the names of groups and affiliations. And they all travel together in a country. They're all, you know, you see all the names, the groups, the everything. I keep spotting this. And even down to L.A. County now, when I look into all the clowns in position currently,

1:13:45 It makes perfect sense, whether it's Karen Bass and her affiliation being connected to a book called the Fabian Freeway. I sent Warhamster a link to that of how the connections of her Venceramos Brigade with all these other organizations prior to our guy who...

1:14:11 who was a big part of our creating the election equipment in 2008. He was connected to the NDI and NED and was over in Morocco and some other countries prior to coming back to L.A. and being full on creating the system, which everyone knows now Smartmatic had their fingers in and still does.

1:14:40 So yeah, big traveling circus and all the usual suspects are there. So thank you for enlightening all of us and taking us on this journey. And Godspeed to all those involved. I don't know if we're going to have like a sting happening soon to bring it all down in LA with these primaries approaching.

1:15:08 It's very exciting times. Thank you again. Sure. So I got to go back to War Hamster because you guys know I had a friend that was on his way to the processing center at Fort Hood during that shooting that the Obama administration labeled as a workplace violence thing. Do you know who was in charge of the investigation?

1:15:38 Into that, William Webster. And do you know who the FBI director was that appointed him? Robert Mueller. And we find Robert Gates, the guy we were just talking about, was the secretary over all of this.

1:16:07 So that just shows you, that one incident shows you how controlled all of these things that happened. And of course, he was the lone wolf. There wasn't anybody behind him. That's basically what the investigation ended up saying, that, you know, yeah, it's fine.

1:16:31 It was a workplace violence issue, and you end up with the same freaking people running the entire cover-up. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And the way you mentioned control, like we were talking about the terrorists that were in Libya that wind up in one place and then another in the whole nine yards.

1:17:01 Even if and it just crossed my mind about what's really going on here as well. Even if I don't have a job for you, I got a place for you to go because you're going to have a job soon enough. But more than that, wherever I move you, should anyone in the administration or the Congress request an extradition, you ain't going to get it. You know, it's not going to happen. True. They keep them in the bullpen.

1:17:33 Yep. Why waste the funding and the training? We'll keep tabs on you as we move you around in U.S. Air Force aircraft. It's crazy. Okay. So Wednesday night, I'm going to bug out of here a little early. And again, thank you all. It's been an amazing journey and lots more to come.

1:18:06 So I will be on the Apple Warriors show tonight at nine o'clock. I hope to see you guys all there. And we'll be back tomorrow at four. Take care, everybody.

Entities here

CIA25 George H.W. Bush20 William Webster18 Robert Gates17 Soviet Union17 Iran-Contra affair16 Libya14 Muammar Gaddafi10 Richard Stolz10 Operation Gladio9 Nicaragua8 Angola8 Mikhail Gorbachev7 Afghanistan7 Italy6 Mujahideen5 West Germany5 William Casey5 Dewey Claridge4 Langley4 Directorate of Operations4 Safe for Democracy3 Rashid Dostum3 Fall of the Berlin Wall3 MPLA3 United States3 UNITA3 National Counterterrorism Center3 Najibullah3 Chad3 Contras3 Eastern Soviet Union3 Sicilian Mafia3 Jimmy Carter3 Poland3 Nazi Party3 Allen Dulles3 Church Committee3 Jonas Savimbi3 Roscoe Hillenkoetter3

Claims made here

William Casey resigned CIA documented ▶ 5:23

“Having said that, we're going to dig in. And we're on chapter 23, page 572. Again, we're almost done with this book. So we start off with CIA Director Casey resigning on February 2nd, 1987.…”

Robert Gates appointed CIA documented ▶ 6:21

“fills in temporarily after his resignation. And as a reminder, we're in the middle of exposing Iran-Contra. So it's not the job you want at this particular point. So Gates is a loyalist. He's been the…”

Robert Gates member_of Iran-Contra affair documented ▶ 6:21

Robert Gates removed_from_power CIA documented ▶ 11:38

“After all of this stuff was coming to surface, Robert Gates decided to withdraw his nomination. The next day, the administration took back the nomination. Gates issued a statement defending his action…”

William Webster appointed CIA documented ▶ 13:02

“So in withdrawing that nomination, Reagan announced William Webster to be the next director of the CIA. Webster would be referred to as the judge. He had been a jurist on the federal bench, eventually…”

William Webster reprimanded Dewey Claridge documented ▶ 19:48

“Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn'…”

William Webster fired Alan Fiers documented ▶ 19:48

CIA funded Mujahideen host_asserted ▶ 21:57

“on more ways than one since we just recently found out that that money was being diverted to make Pakistan a nuclear power. The covert operations was coming under a big microscope. Meanwhile, in the M…”

Richard Stolz member_of CIA documented ▶ 23:03

“Stoltz. He had been in World War II and was now an old hand at the CIA. You spell his last name, S-T-O-L-Z. He had been recruited into the CIA by another Amherst classmate. Stoltz had done his first t…”

Richard Stolz headed Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 23:03

Richard Stolz headed CIA documented ▶ 24:34

“Bulgaria is a big hotspot as well. So he was considered so well-liked inside the CIA, he was made station chief of Moscow in 1964, which is a big deal. Stoltz closed out his Italian political action a…”

Richard Stolz headed CIA documented ▶ 25:10

“especially during this timeframe. In the 1970s, he headed the CIA in Belgrade and then was promoted to the Director of Operations, Western European Division. Stoltz had been considered by Turner to be…”

William Webster created National Counterterrorism Center book_quoted ▶ 27:43

“It was focused on specific functional areas instead of being basically geographically aligned, which had been the case in the past. The entity, the Counterterrorism Center, had partly been foisted upo…”

George H.W. Bush headed Presidential Commission on Terrorism book_quoted ▶ 27:43

Mikhail Gorbachev ordered_assassination_of Soviet Union documented ▶ 31:27

“how dysfunctional this was. So, other changes. In November of 88, obviously, we get Bush Sr. as president. Barely a month later, the Soviet leader Gorbachev gave a speech at the UN in which he publicl…”

CIA spied_on Soviet Union documented ▶ 33:31

“that the Soviet Union was going away, so let's just milk it for as long as we can. Beginning in December of 87, the CIA began having its own sit-down with Soviet intelligence, but the Russians certain…”

Richard Kelly appointed CIA documented ▶ 34:34

“President Bush also wanted his choice of the CIA director. He decided to keep Webster, Gates' successor as the DCI, would be Richard Kerr. Again, another guy from the analyst side, not the operations …”

George H.W. Bush ended Poland documented ▶ 35:10

“Contra. It took Bush several months to move on the Gorbachev and Eastern European piece of this. By mid-April 1989, the president had ended trade restrictions on Poland and gave the first of several s…”

CIA claimed_credit_for Fall of the Soviet Union book_quoted ▶ 37:00

“began tearing down the wall. These events excited everybody in Washington and the CIA. President Bush said in his Oval Office meeting with Brent Scrocoff that they turned on the television immediately…”

George H.W. Bush funded UNITA documented ▶ 38:36

“In 89, Angola had begun implementation of a multilateral agreement provided for South African and Cuban withdrawal and reconciliation among the warring factions. Bush continued CIA's funding to UNITA …”

Jonas Savimbi carried_out_attack UNITA host_asserted ▶ 41:13

“UNINA shot down a UN aircraft and South Africans resumed their covert intervention. Angolan starved in the meantime. Only Zimbabwe's death in battle in 2002 seemed to finally bring conflict to those. …”

South Africa carried_out_attack Angola host_asserted ▶ 41:13

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to Najibullah host_asserted ▶ 41:44

“Well, you'd have a whole lot more Angolans. As for Afghanistan, the Soviets' withdrawal left the situation virtually unchanged. The Mujahideen remained pitted against the government. The Russians sent…”

George H.W. Bush funded Mujahideen host_asserted ▶ 42:18

“with long-range missiles that we provided. President Bush made Afghanistan a subject of bilateral conversations between Moscow and Washington, and they were a topic of conversations with his meetings …”

Rashid Dostum defected Najibullah host_asserted ▶ 42:52

“Najibullah control gradually weakened. His power was compromised when the Uzbek warlord, Rashid Dostrum, defected, shifting the balance of forces. By the time Kabul fell in 1992, Bush had disengaged t…”

Inter-Services Intelligence funded Taliban host_asserted ▶ 44:18

“Popular frustration with the corruption and infighting of the warlords and the fundamentalists led to a rise of Mullahs and the quote-unquote fundamental Taliban. Pakistani intelligence shifted their …”

Taliban assassinated Najibullah host_asserted ▶ 44:18

Taliban recruited Osama bin Laden host_asserted ▶ 44:50

“who had been sheltered by the UN. The Taliban admitted Osama bin Laden, and he brought along with him the new name for the Mujahideen, which was relabeled Al-Qaeda. But rest assured, everything's fine…”

James Baker funded Contras host_asserted ▶ 46:27

“was still kind of like the godfather of the Contras. James Baker was now Secretary of State for Bush and he refused to meet Contra leaders, but he definitely backed them. Some leaders finally saw the …”

Mobutu Sese Seko removed_from_power Libya host_asserted ▶ 51:17

“basically terrorist, ended up in Nigeria. And what do we have in Nigeria today? All kinds of shit. Blamed on terrorists. Some of them went to the Congo to work for the CIA buddy there. They were farme…”

George H.W. Bush funded Kenya host_asserted ▶ 52:34

“Kenya suddenly received $5 million from Bush, though the aid to that country had been denied on human rights grounds prior to that. But hey, if you're going to give a home to our trained terrorists, w…”

Operation Gladio recruited Sicilian Mafia host_asserted ▶ 58:04

“about what it was. And my argument is, if you want to have a definition for it, it might be that Operation Gladio was a U.S.-organized intelligence operation that started at the end of World War II th…”

Operation Gladio recruited Nazi Party host_asserted ▶ 58:04

Allen Dulles recruited Karl Wolff host_asserted ▶ 59:00

“you know, herder committee and the Marshall plan and everything that everybody knows about. But then the fact that, well, Ellen Dulles was on the Queen Mary too, and he was going over to Italy. And wh…”

Allen Dulles recruited Reinhard Gehlen host_asserted ▶ 59:00

Dick Cheney member_of Halliburton host_asserted ▶ 1:01:32

“Sure, I'm not clear, but he was on the board of Halliburton and they got fined by for giving Libya some some things that they were not supposed to be giving them. And I'm trying to find that informati…”

Harry S. Truman member_of Pendergast Machine host_asserted ▶ 1:04:41

“I know about the Missouri gang. I think when you were going over some of the skull and bones, wasn't one or two from there? And we just briefly touched it. We may have touched it. Do you want me to sp…”

William D. Leahy member_of Missouri Gang host_asserted ▶ 1:05:37

“He had to staff his own intelligence, and he had a group of about six guys. They were all from Missouri. And that was the original. These are the guys that were going to do the non-covert action that …”

Clark Clifford member_of Missouri Gang host_asserted ▶ 1:06:02

“The first DCI we ever had, a guy by the name of Sidney Sowers, and his background was in Missouri grocery stores. So think about that. The second DCI was also from Missouri, a guy by the name of Hoyt …”

Sidney Sowers member_of Missouri Gang host_asserted ▶ 1:06:02

Hoyt Vandenberg member_of Missouri Gang host_asserted ▶ 1:06:02

Roscoe Hillenkoetter member_of Missouri Gang host_asserted ▶ 1:06:02

Lawrence Houston member_of Missouri Gang host_asserted ▶ 1:06:02

J. Edgar Hoover member_of Freemasons host_asserted ▶ 1:09:16

“Most Masons are totally benign. But the founder of the FBI, of course, was J. Edgar Hoover, and he was a devout, very active member of the Scottish Rites Freemasons, as were the vast majority of the p…”

Venceremos Brigade connected_to The Fabian Way host_asserted ▶ 1:13:45

“It makes perfect sense, whether it's Karen Bass and her affiliation being connected to a book called the Fabian Freeway. I sent Warhamster a link to that of how the connections of her Venceramos Briga…”

Karen Bass member_of Venceremos Brigade host_asserted ▶ 1:13:45

Robert Gates headed Trump administration host_asserted ▶ 1:15:38

“Into that, William Webster. And do you know who the FBI director was that appointed him? Robert Mueller. And we find Robert Gates, the guy we were just talking about, was the secretary over all of thi…”

William Webster appointed Robert Mueller host_asserted ▶ 1:15:38