The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55)

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0:00 I don't know why I turned my mic back off. Can you hear me, Bridget? Yes, ma'am. Now I can. All right. So five minutes before the show started, we had this huge thunderstorm come through. So I'm watching it rain outside my door or my right now. Though that might be relaxing. I guess it messes with your connectivity. Yes. Yeah, never know. All right. So again, I think.

0:33 Today's going to be our last show on the content of this book. We may do kind of an overview summary tomorrow, but this session will continue the second to the last chapter called Struggle for Control. And where we left off yesterday was the ascension of George Tenet into

1:04 the CIA as there were questions about Tony Lake's nomination, which is who Clinton had nominated. So we're going to pick up from there. The major logjam for Tony Lake was Richard Shelby from Alabama. He is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chairman. And he was

1:34 not going to allow Anthony Lake to be the CIA director. So he tried several different stalling tactics. Asking for his FBI file was but one of those. They had lots of questions about his involvement in Bosnia. And they focused on

2:02 A couple of things that Lake said, one of which was that he believed leakers in the CIA were the equivalent of a spy. That sink in for a little bit. So if you see humanitarian disasters while the CIA is overthrowing a government and the people they're paying money to is slaughtering people, so you want to be a whistleblower, in Anthony Lake's view,

2:35 you're a spy, like a traitor to your country for not wanting innocent people to die. And so, of course, Shelby, along with the other Republicans, because this is under the Clinton administration, made hay with that, as he should have. So they also said that he had suppressed information that had been asked for in his previous job.

3:10 But you should take note of the fact that the FBI actually gave the Senate his FBI file. Because in most cases, when that is asked for, they don't get it, which is what's going to happen with George Tenet. Shelby asked for his as well, and they told him to pound sand. Kind of like, you know, brothers helping brothers.

3:40 So when Shelby, after he got the files and reviewed them, demanded another delay so all of the committee people could see it, that's when Lake threw in the towel. He withdrew his nomination and Clinton had a few choice comments about being sabotaged and called the Senate select.

4:12 Committee on Intelligence, a political circus. So the acting DCI was Deutsch's deputy, George Tenet, and he perfectly fit all of Clinton's criteria, plus he was basically already on the inside, so they felt like he would get favorable consideration.

4:46 Because he had already went through a similar process to be the deputy. So they saw that as a, everybody saw it as a victory. The Republicans thought it was a good choice. He's already on the inside. And Clinton thought it was a good choice. So everybody's happy. And the author goes on and says what we've known for a very long time.

5:22 While the legislatures like to put on these acts, they don't really want control over the intelligence. Most of them don't even want to know what's going on so that they can pretend that they're ignorant and shocked by either the lack of information when something bad happens or vice versa. They can just say it's surprise when we overthrow another government.

5:54 The people in the White House wanted to set up somewhat of a partnership so they could kind of share the blame. And no one really was interested in the actual oversight function of what was going on. Because especially in President Clinton's viewpoint, they viewed that every success of the overseers was a diluting.

6:25 of the presidential powers. So the author also spends a couple of paragraphs talking about how the people that are in and out of the House especially, but even at the Senate, depend almost 100% on their staffs because they're not familiar.

6:52 With all of the goings on inside of government, number one, but especially the intelligence community, which he then says gives the CIA the opportunity to indoctrinate them when they get to Washington. But what's really interesting about that to me is the more recent change of actually having CIA as senators.

7:20 and House. Because in the past, they were perfectly satisfied with having them embedded into the staff, not the actual representative or the Senate. There's a disturbing boldness to the recent change. And Tenet is a good example of that. Tenet was a staffer for a long time.

7:47 on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Now, the author is also going to tell us that prior to him coming into as the deputy to Deutsch, that he was new to intelligence. You are not the senior staffer on the Senate Select Committee and not have intelligence ties in the past. It's not going to happen.

8:16 I think it's fair to say that whether he was associated as an asset or an embedded agent or whatever, that wasn't his first go round. And he spends a little bit of time talking about the layers of intelligence.

8:36 And again, it's plausible deniability. So when something goes down, they just all point fingers at each other. He mentions the Intelligence Oversight Board. He mentions the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. All of them specifically are supposed to have roles in covert operations and including the National Security Council. And so the cumbersome process is by design.

9:04 And that allows them when something bad happens that's planned to be bad, they can just point fingers at it. And the same thing with the Irene Contra, when something bad was planned and it gets exposed prematurely, again, they can, and that's exactly what happened. They were all pointing fingers at each other and it provides almost like an insulating factor.

9:39 George Tenet is nominated. I mentioned that Shelby had asked for his file and didn't get it. Also, there were other good signs, if you're Tenet, one of which was a provision that was put in the 1998 Intelligence Authorization Act that was rejected that would make it legal.

10:08 for a CIA employee to go directly to the oversight committees with evidence of wrongdoing, avoiding having to secure the permission of their supervisor. In other words, basically a whistleblower capability. And it was rejected, not by the CIA, by the Congress. That had been the only mechanism.

10:35 where we were able to learn about what was going on in Guatemala in the Bamaka affair, where they reported that they were killing people. The State Department officer that tried doing this lost his clearance, which means then you lose your job. And they wanted protection. They didn't get it. The worst...

11:10 The worst thing to emerge during Tenet's confirmation was that his father had bought a condominium in Greece. That's it. That's like the dirt. He had already brought over to the CIA as the deputy former House Committee Staff Director Mark Lowenthal. You see what I'm saying here? Again.

11:43 You don't bring people in at the senior level if they've not been around intelligence before. And there's like a thoroughfare in Washington, D.C. of intelligence officials. So another guy on the Congress staff that's making a beeline to the top offices of the CIA. He also encouraged Clinton to appoint Senate committee staff.

12:13 member L. Britt Snyder as CIA Inspector General. Keith Hall of the Senate Committee on Intelligence emerged as the head of the National Reconnaissance Office. Now, for those of you who don't know, this office, so let me say it this way. When I was stationed in Los Angeles,

12:44 There was a satellite NRO office in Los Angeles. Obviously, reconnaissance is spying, satellites, aircraft, blah, blah, blah. So when we brought officers in that had special qualifications, primarily in the technology associated with photography, like the special...

13:12 that are put on satellites. And we've talked a lot about it when we did this series on the U2. Generally around the Xerox, all of those, Rensselaer Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, all of them up in the area where

13:39 cameras and stuff like that were all originally created. So we would go through the process of bringing these people into Los Angeles in the regular classified programs. So all of the programs out there, you had to have TSSCI clearances. But then they had what they referred to as black programs, the ones that were underground, where you had to have retina scans to get into. Those black programs were all part of NRO.

14:09 And the same is true of any reconnaissance type technology in the acquisition area. There will be classified and then there's super classified. And they basically just steal people out of the classified piece for the super classified piece.

14:37 Because they can't have somebody on their books that don't have their clearance yet at the TSSCI. Because the rest of the stuff you get, you're just read into. And the rest of the clearances are temporary. The one that takes the longest is the TSSCI. And so they would allow them to be on the classified side doing special duty so that they're not around classified material, obviously, while they're getting their TSSCI.

15:06 And then they basically steal them. And I did officer assignments. So it seems like every time I would go on a recruiting mission and come back with all of these great people, I'd only end up at the end of about a year and a half with half of them because the other half were down in the basement. So we were perpetually having to go out and recruit people. And I'm like, quit stealing my people. So anyway, that's NRO.

15:34 And it's interesting that they would put the person in charge of NRO out of the Congress. That's like weird, unless they're already read into all of that stuff and part of it, because that's a very technical kind of job. Very interesting. Okay, Tennant was very enthusiastic about...

16:07 highlighting all of the great qualities of the CIA too in the mid-1990s like we just went through Iran-Contra and everybody the only organization when he took over that was viewed worse than the CIA was the IRS imagine that because they had went through so many scandals they just found out that

16:35 all of the 70s stuff come out. Then in the 80s, they're drugging us. And yeah, so nobody held the CIA in high regards at all. But Tenet was gonna change all of that. And he had a plan to do that. So let's see what his plan is. His plan included allowing Hollywood to come film movies inside the CIA building.

17:05 He gave lots of interviews to include Parade. He was very talkative. He also greatly expanded the CIA's officers in residence at college universities. You know, like setting up institutes and having them pretend to be professors.

17:37 And looking for people to recruit. Yeah, he was really big on that. And telling everybody how great the CIA is. That sounds a lot like propaganda to me. And operating domestically. But I'm not a professional. So they also started writing movie scripts. Again, because we've already found out they did that a long time ago. They did.

18:16 interviews for the History Channel. And the one that they did on Somalia was total propaganda. They also set up a program in the agency called Historical Review Program. You know, where they produce shit like this right here that Theodore Shackley wrote saying, debunking Gladio. Yeah, that kind of shit. We're going to produce more of that.

18:49 They also arranged for the Center for the Study of Intelligence to publish monographs and host conferences so we could mix CIA officers and scholars together. What scholars would those be? You mean the ones that are on the CIA payroll? Because they would be the only ones that would actually appear on stage with liars. But I digress.

19:19 You would not be at all surprised with all of this propaganda going on that everybody at Langley loved Tenet. Now, let's put that into perspective. What happened in the 1990s that involved the CIA? You know, like bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Yeah, that happened. And errors on Indian and Pakistani nuclear testing. Yeah, yeah, he missed that too.

19:52 9-11. Yeah, he was the CIA director then too. Missed that one too. Iraq use weapons of mass destruction. Totally fucked that up. They had multiple spy scandals and didn't seem to ever be able to figure out how to generate an offensive covert or otherwise against all of these massive.

20:26 Islamic terrorists running around. Nothing. Couple cruise missiles with bad intelligence again. Yeah, nothing. The CIA people loved him. Now, why would that be? Unless all of this is their handiwork and passed off as, oh gosh, we missed that. They didn't miss anything. They knew about all of that.

21:02 And that's why they loved him. So he didn't necessarily see that any of this needed to be fixed in any way. So he then asked Jack Downing to return from retirement. He was asked to retire, but now it's all good. So come on back in. And Tennant also...

21:34 chose as the deputy director of operations, James Pavitt. He was from one of those new fusion counterproliferation centers while they're proliferating. Yeah, so let's promote him. He eventually gets Pavitt, eventually gets promoted to be the top covert guy because he was so good at non-proliferation while they were proliferating. Can't make this shit up.

22:07 So they're now up to $1.5 billion in supplemental appropriation. And for those of you who don't know, that means in addition to all the money they normally get to buy a whole bunch of satellites in 1998. That's about the last time that we actually did a budget too. Tenet permitted the DO, the Directorate of Operations, to advertise directly.

22:43 to the public for jobs. He also created the infamous spy school at Harvey Point, North Carolina, which I've been by. And they do EOD type, like what they used to do in Texas, blow shit up. They do it right there on the coast of North Carolina. He also graduated, thanks to all of his recruitment on college campuses.

23:16 the largest class ever from Camp Perry spy school during his tenure. So he's been very, very active. Tenet also spoke frequently of the need for more spies in human intelligence. And he talked to a lot of people in Congress about that. It's interesting to note who he talked to. He had allies.

23:46 Like Representative Porter Goss. Not the Porter Goss that championed through the Patriot Act after 9-11 and the Porter Goss that got promoted as a result to be the CIA director. That Porter Goss? Yeah, that same guy. He's best buds with George Tenet. He was a Republican from Florida who happened, which is really, really weird.

24:20 to have been, because he was not in Congress all that long, but somehow he made it to the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. And yes, he was intelligence. It's totally weird. And he just happened to be in that position on 9-11. And then he just so happens to get nominated and confirmed to be the CIA director.

24:53 Yeah, he's best buds with George Tenet. Goss was the one that was working with Tenet to make sure that provision in the law that would allow CIA agents to be whistleblowers. Goss was working that from the inside of the house. He's the one responsible for it not passing. Can't have anybody telling whistles on the CIA.

25:39 Tennant also created a high-level assistant for targeting human intelligence. He also rebuilt the agency's special activities, excuse me, special activities division, which for those of you who's been with me for a while, know that's the paramilitary part where they get third-party people to assassinate people. The agency expanded its fleet of secretly owned aircraft again.

26:12 Oh, because we're going to be doing renditions. So we're going to need a lot of airplanes. And James Pavitt commissioned a review of the Directorate of Operations approval system. Found too many authorities. We like it streamlined. We want to just tell you what we're going to do like in the dullest days and go do it. When the agency's inspector general surveyed capabilities against.

26:47 quote unquote, hard targets in 1999, he found that they were too risk adverse. I guess that kind of equates to you weren't killing enough people. I don't know. Okay. George Tenet insisted that he supported operations with a chance of success and properly opposed those he didn't think were good ones.

27:18 In Afghanistan, the secret warrior's stance did not differ appreciably from that of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Hugh Shelton, the first U.S. military chief to rise directly from the ranks of the special operations community. And not special. The guy that's been working with the CIA his entire career is also the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Definitely makes it a lot.

27:48 easier to get things done. The CIA director reportedly supported a project against Serbian President Milosevic when Clinton approved it in 1998. Tenet did back the inception of a new Afghan secret war, but for intelligence gathering only. You don't actually gather intelligence. You do clandestine paramilitary bullshit and make up the intelligence as you go along.

28:19 Please. He sent expeditions of CIA officers to Kabul. Before the paramilitary effort progressed, because that's why they're there for, beyond initial cash subsidies, it was subsumed into...

28:41 a larger enterprise that is going to be set up under George H.W. Bush. These were the Advan teams. These are the guys going in, figuring out who we're going to work with, who's going to get the money, all that stuff. So the Advan team's already there, which is very important because they did that before 9-11. Just following the timeline here, we just flooded Afghanistan with a bunch of CIA people.

29:10 before 9-11. Crazy. As for Iraq, little reason existed to believe the exiles and the Kurds any more capable than they had been at times in the previous. Ironically, today, after George Tenet's CIA spearheaded the Bush attack on Iraq, the president of the nation is the Kurd Taliban, the president of the Kurdish Federation.

29:46 is Barzani and Shalabi is a key figure in the majority Shiite religious political alliance. Perhaps nothing succeeds like failure. So in other words, all of the people that in the past had been CIA bad guys are now all in charge. Crazy. Risk adverse or not, real risk existed and was framed both politically

30:21 in terms of embarrassment and death. Tenet was pulled into an unavoidable controversy in 2000 when the Peruvian Air Force, as part of a joint operation with CIA in the quote-unquote drug war, shot down a plane filled with U.S. missionaries. Americans died. Investigations by the Intelligence Oversight Board and Congress followed. The CIA spotters

30:50 understood the mistake and tried to warn the Peruvians off and that did not end up mattering because it was way too late. That was an after the fact thing. Oh yeah, yeah, we tried. Further embarrassment followed when the Peruvian spy chief with whom the CIA had worked closely proved to be highly corrupt. That's hilarious because that's the reason why he's picked to work with the CIA is because he's highly corrupt.

31:22 Come on. Oh my gosh. Support for military operations continued. In the 1998, the Senate committee found that the CIA's function remained flawed. In particular, the Senate committee on intelligence criticized the continued inability of agency and military communication systems to link to each other for critical intelligence and processing of satellite.

31:55 Photography. The issue became more than theoretical a year later when the U.S. fought a brief war in the Serb Republic of Kosovo. Tenet made progress on that front, but much of it was wiped away by the intelligence snafu of bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Now, just so that you guys know this, the CIA does not want the military having access to their intelligence.

32:24 Because they craft intelligence. There's literally no reason if you're on a joint mission that requires special operators that you would not have interoperability. They don't want it because they craft intelligence and they know that the military is not bound by their non-whistleblower bullshit.

32:51 And if they were ever discovered to be crafting intelligence as opposed to collecting intelligence, that that'd be the end of them. So they're not interested. This happened when the U-2 was first done as well. They had their own photo interpreters. They had everything. And they did not share that with the military at all.

33:15 It's not that they didn't allow the military to fly the U-2 program because they did because they needed it as a cover story. It was the weather aircraft. But they keep their own shit separate because they don't want you knowing what they're doing. Beginning in 1998, pay attention to this timeline, Tennant traveled to Israel five times to treat the issues personally of...

33:47 the Israeli-Palestinian peace deals. The importance of the CIA's involvement came such that George W. Bush, who announced the end of Tenet's initiative in 2001, was obliged to send him back the following year. Working both sides, Tenet cobbled together confidence-building measures called the Tenet Security Work Program.

34:17 which might have brought the adversaries to where they could cooperate. It, of course, broke down. Following the contested presidential election of 2000, George Bush said that he was keeping on George Tenet. Some people had wanted him replaced with none other than Porter Goss. He gets the job later. When George Tenet is still on the job, of course, 9-11 is attacked.

34:51 led to the invasion of Afghanistan. And a CIA field mission to the northern part of the country, led by Gary Schroen, the station chief designate for Cabal, when the embassy had closed in 1980, was one of the key secret warriors during that time. Schroen made the initial contacts and set up intelligence channels.

35:20 You know, because they're never retired. He then presided over the agency's establishing two field teams. Alpha worked the northwest under General Dostrum and were supposed to be supporting the Afghans to break through to Kabul. Both were supplemented by Special Forces detachment. And guess who makes a starring?

35:56 appearance in our book, none other than Gary Bernstein. Gary Bernstein is the stolen election CIA guy that's trying to tell us all that Venezuela created all of the electronic stuff that's stealing our elections. Yeah, Gary Bernstein's in Afghanistan. He replaced Schroen.

36:25 The name of this was called Jawbreaker. And then it talks about the CIA's battle at Tora Bora, where supposedly Osama bin Laden escaped. In Bernstein's view, due to insufficient U.S. military forces. Isn't that weird? Blame the military.

36:58 Not the CIA's bad intelligence, because most people say it went there at all. But yeah, it's the military's fault. For Iraq, the CIA spent a reported tens of millions of dollars to prepare an Iraqi covert unit called Scorpions, who were to be the resistance front during the 2003 U.S. invasion. The agents never served in their intended role and instead became actors.

37:32 guards or translators in the rest of the story as it unfolded and were part of the people that were filmed in the U.S. treatment of the detainees. Those were basically the stay-behind units that they were seating in Iraq and using for shit like that. CIA teams played a significant role in the abuses. No shit, Sherlock.

38:04 But hey, let's all talk about waterboarding. Iraq led to George Tenet's demise. The CIA flawed claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and tried to sell it to everybody became so controversial that the agency ultimately was exposed as having provided fake intelligence. Porter Goss succeeded him.

38:37 but resigned himself in the spring of 2006, two years later. His main claim to achievement, refilling the ranks of the clandestine service, is really something that George Tenet began. Yeah, hire more of them spies. We need them. The covert operators, the paramilitary. That's a great feather to put in your cap. Goss spoke of a new climate of risk-taking. Langley leaked Talon.

39:10 as senior CIA officers departed or retired with all of this newfound covert operations. Defenders bragged of graduating the largest class of operators in 2005, but not too much came of it. Meanwhile, a congressional presidential commission that reviewed all of the aspects of 9-11 attacks produced recommendations, including the creation of a new post, the DNI.

39:42 to take over because the CIA director sucked. Not that any of the DNIs, other than our current one and a couple that we had during Trump's first administration, they're not that good either because you pick from the same cesspool. Porter Goss and his successors will now manage only the CIA. For the nation's first DNI, President Bush chose John.

40:15 And I'm sorry, we already just did a tweet post on him. That's just like laughable because he's the guy that was up to his freaking eyeballs in Iran-Contra. Yeah, that's the guy that you want as your D&I. It's just laughable. I'm sorry. It's laughable. Oh my God. Finally, the political action had become a growth.

40:47 No kidding. But it evolved in new ways. Langley provided money, political experts, and propagandists to assist moderate politicians in 2000 Bosnia. That's not new. That's not new. I'm sorry. Come on, dude. We know more than that. It's not new tactics to support politicians in foreign elections. They've been doing that since 1948. Come on.

41:16 But supposedly, according to this author, that was new in 2000 in the Serbian elections. Agency officers trained party activists in Bulgaria and George Tenet had made an unprecedented visit there to secure agreement of officials, but the political muscle was provided by semi-private groups like the National Endowment for Democracy and their National Democratic Institute.

41:45 and other entities. The model also served in the 2005 elections in Iraq, where charges of covert U.S. roles were made. Venezuelan government leveled the same accusations. This kind of activity harkens back to the CIA's National Student Association past.

42:10 No, no, it doesn't. It harkens back to Chile. It harkens back to Brazil and to Italy. And where else? Georgia. All over. We've been doing this for 75 years. Come on. Okay. Then he finally does acknowledge that we had been involved in some of that. And he talks about the Philippines.

42:45 Back in the 1950s and 60s, where we did it a lot. And in Japan, where the CIA helped the Liberal Democratic Party. Political action failed in Indonesia. The first time, not the second time. In South Vietnam, the agency innovated the less is more tactic of furnishing only cash and advice before they killed him.

43:16 Next, in terms of level of Langley's involvement in Latin America in the 1960s, they were on record as being involved in political action in Bolivia and Chile. And, well, all of them. Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil, all of them. The most familiar CIA political actions are those in France and Italy.

43:49 during the agency's first decade. Now, keep in mind, we're at the end of the book and we're just bringing this up. Enthusiasts would insist that these were vital missions, that America's Cold War agency was the one to conduct them and that U.S. interests were involved. It is impossible to demonstrate whether given the Western European tradition of parliamentary democracy,

44:23 the French socialist or the quote-unquote communist, because they're always there, if in power, would have actually done anything different than the parties that were basically national socialist. We don't know because they never let them be. When the socialists came to power in France in the 1980s, they proved quite ready to continue their country's alignment with the United States.

44:57 So we know it was just a boogeyman. After the question of how one judges success, a second drawback to political action is that it represents a wild card. That is, operators purchase victory for national leaders who may not be the people Washington thinks they are. To hell with the citizens. They may not be the people that Washington want them to be. The case in Guyana illustrates that.

45:30 Having backed Ford's Burnham, the CIA found him unresponsive. They knew that going in, he was corrupt as hell. The Johnson administration were reduced to begging him to act responsibly. Anything was better than, what was his name, Jetty? Jetty? They did not want him. Chetty.

46:02 Political action is also a wild card in the sense that the activities begun for stipulated purposes may get out of control. This occurred in both East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956, where basically they were undermining the government and when people rose up, they let them be slaughtered. Yeah. Failed political actions contain inherent temptation to escalate, as was the tragedy.

46:33 in Chile. Yeah, you created the crisis and then it escalated with you still being involved in it. Related to this issue is the kind of actions exist within a shifting local and global environment. Political action is conceived for a specific purpose at a moment in time, yet changing conditions and involving problems lead to countermeasures.

47:05 making political action much different than anticipated and more difficult to stop. Well, we certainly know that's true because they don't ever stop. They just keep throwing bodies at it. It's also irretrievable. Presidents who approved a commando mission or a paramilitary operation may decide to recall the operators before the point of contact with no one the wiser.

47:35 except several times they did say stop and they didn't stop. With political action, the first bag of cash handed to a foreign national, the first article planted in a newspaper, or the first act bears the seeds of compromise. Even if the action is called off, the evidence of the U.S. intervention is immense and still there.

47:59 Since successful action requires sustained association with a broad range of foreign institutions, the evidence multiplies in ways that increase revelation. And the pattern of dispersed knowledge makes it highly likely that the revelation of one piece is going to lead to the other pieces. Political action is frequently an element of paramilitary projects. Yeah, because it's escalating.

48:31 scale. We'll try to interfere politically and economically and if all else fails we do it paramilitary. This kind of activity is more bound and more logically related to concrete goals. What goals would those be? The appropriate question should be whether the project as a whole is necessary and beyond that whether the political action and propaganda measures suitably contribute.

49:03 to the goal. The goal is overthrowing the government. In all hands on deck, everything's allowed. In seeking influence, the United States possesses a whole array of resources other than clandestine services. Oh, good God. I'm like rolling my eyes here. We're not seeking influence. We're seeking power and control over resources.

49:33 Then he goes on to talk about the voice of America and all of our propaganda arms and all of our aid that we have where we can do all of this stuff without doing the paramilitary stuff. Yeah, yeah, sure. Political action is a first resort, not a last one. On any secret warrior scale of escalation, intentions can be morally quote unquote just.

50:04 only by means of excruciatingly devious manipulations. And these operations, by definition, are not proportional, regardless of indigenous political tactics, because they involve CIA foreign intervention. Control is almost always violated since the CIA tactics respond to a developing political situation.

50:33 Finally, in almost all cases, the probability of success is unknown at the moment of decisions. By far, the better course is not to become enmeshed in these ambiguity type operations. I couldn't agree more. America's most valuable resource is the image of democracy. Well, that sucks because we have not that image anywhere.

51:07 The worst aspect of covert political action is that the tool is a clear contradiction to democratic values. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say overthrowing a government doesn't look very democratic to me, especially when you're overthrowing a democratically elected government, which generally we are. Like what they're doing right now to Trump and what they did during his first term. It really does look very democratic. Not at all.

51:37 When the guy wrote the book, he says, today, when the Bush administration has made the explicit goal of encouraging a democratic revolution in an Islamic country, that type of action actually subverts democratic values because they're not interested in having a democratic government. So that pretty much does it for this chapter.

52:10 I'm not quite sure why he'd start with most of that stuff. And he waits till the end of the book. But anyway, crazy, crazy, crazy. All right, let me get SR-71 up here. You got anything for me, Bridget? Bridget? Did I lose her? I think I lost Bridget.

52:51 SR, are you there? Yes, ma'am. I'm here. Bridget just texted me. My mic won't work. Well, get out of here and come back. I want to thank everybody for being here on Space. All right. Let me bring you back up. On Rumble. SR, can you talk? Yes, I can. Nope. But you're not hearing me. I can't hear him either. Let me try getting her back up here. All right. Try talking now, Bridget. Okay. Can you hear me now?

53:44 All right, I'm just doing a monologue today, guys. Colonel Towner, can you hear me? Holy crap, that's hilarious. Okay, someone needs to text Colonel Towner and tell her she needs to reset the space. Stellar, can you talk? She's the one that can't hear. Have her back out and come back in. That's what needs to happen. She needs to reset. She's getting attacked. You need to reset the space. We can hear you. You can't hear us. All right. Thank you, Stellar. I text her.

54:32 Yeah, because we could hear you and SR. She couldn't hear either of you or me. So that's why I was like. Right. Okay. There you are. Can you hear us now? I can. Yay. Oh, crap. Wish they'd quit fucking with me. Well, if you weren't so powerful, you know. I'm not. I just have a big mouth. I just have a big mouth. That guy kind of threw it in there at the very end like an afterthought, didn't he?

55:03 Yeah, yeah, it's hilarious. Okay, I'm just looking over the comments over here on Rumble as well. SR seems to have everything under control over here. What's going on with you, Stellar?

55:28 Oh, my gosh. I was in like a marathon space over in Carmen's room and things and Alpha was in there and, you know, just talking. There's so many black pillars out there about what's going on. And, you know, I mentioned, you know, he mentioned how people wouldn't even know about USAID if it hadn't been coming out and stuff. And then both of us at the same time said, Colonel Towner, we learned about that even before.

55:51 Even Doge brought it up, you know, because of, you know, all of the things that you've been able to connect and stuff. So, yeah, we were just talking about how incredible, you know, you have been for all of us to see even more so than what is now coming out. So that's what we're talking about. Yes.

56:10 And that's why they attack your space all the time or attack you and not want your stuff going out because, you know, you're so far ahead of what they are at, like as far as disclosures in my personal opinion. We have definitely connected way more dots way ahead of time. It is so amazing. And again, it's all of us. You guys are...

56:40 I'm just, again, I'm flabbergasted and I talk about this constantly when I'm not on here as well, that there's no way without all of you guys intersecting and all of your background and the things that you have. Like I had read, you guys, I don't know if you've read it yet, if you haven't.

57:09 I need to go read that I made this morning about the document that called all honorable men. James Martin, the guy that wrote that, he is the source for a lot of the information that Antony Sutton had in his book about Wall Street and Hitler.

57:39 were with me during the time we were going through those books, you'll recognize so much of it because he's listed as a source document or a source on Antony Sutton's book. All Honorable Men, I came across, I did not read the entire thing. I was verifying footnotes when I was new at this.

58:05 So I pulled the document up and just to kind of verify who, because I'd never come across Anthony Sutton. And the claims that he was making was pretty outlandish. But reading the entire document, which I did over the weekend because I couldn't put it down, is even more mind-blowing than Anthony Sutton's book.

58:33 everybody that talks about the whole Hitler wasn't bad thing, I can sum up this all honorable men fairly quickly. If you look back at the massinations of World War I and the Bank of International Settlements being set up right after that, what you clearly see

59:01 is a race to set up cartels in everything, steel, chemical, everything, iron, aluminum. And in every case, it's a global cartel. The Germans were linked to the Swedish, which were linked to the British, which was linked to the US.

59:32 and France and the Dutch. These are global cartels. And they literally, he discovered documents, suitcases and boxes. They had train cars of evidence that they were taking out of the basement of these people's houses in Germany that documented.

59:56 meetings the people that were there agreeing to quotas and prices it was a cartel and this went on during the entire quote-unquote reparation phase of post-world war one then what they did and everybody knew this and they had the documents to um prove it the germans

1:00:22 were expanding industrial capability like 90 to one. And so for example, they have a steel complex that has the capability, and I'm just making this shit up, that has the capability of producing long strands of steel, a thousand a day. It's only producing 10.

1:00:50 They are getting massive loans and stuff to do this. Well, why do you have a facility that's operating at 10% of its capability? Because they were anticipating the war. And this was done all over Germany. And everybody knew it. The money people knew it. The industrial people knew it. The entire international syndicate, as we call it, all knew it.

1:01:18 They knew exactly what was coming. They knew exactly what they were doing. And as it turns out, the Himmler and Slatt's little bank accounts that they kept at the Ripes Bank.

1:01:32 And SLATS was actually on the BIS, the Bank of International Settlements Bank. And they basically refer to it as Hitler's Bank, the Bank of International Settlement. Because the people, even though they had an American who is just as dirty as everybody else, they were setting up accounts that all of the industrial magnets deposited into.

1:02:01 in order to fund the rise of Hitler. And so Hitler was basically this little toy that they put on the shelf that did all this shit. And the shit that he did was provide basically slave labor to these industrialists to run their factories during the war. And they basically all got rich. In addition to that, the...

1:02:29 patent agreements and this global cartel thwarted the United States of operating at max capability because of the limited capability they could produce on any given day based on the patents. And for the longest time, they honored those patents in the middle of a war. And so you come up and then, as I illustrated today,

1:02:59 The generals that were specifically placed in charge of the different sectors post-World War II, well, actually during the tail end of the war, they were bankers as well. They were all in on all of this. And they thwarted all of the opportunity there was to break up those cartels post-World War II.

1:03:27 The document, if you guys are interested in this type of information, it really puts to bed anybody that talks about Hitler as a good guy. Hitler was a pawn. He was this guy to go out there and let him do all of this bullshit and take the blame for everything. The real blame for everything belongs on the industrialists and the bankers and the lawyers.

1:03:53 that were over there on the staff, some of them wearing military uniforms, that was responsible for all of this. It's just mind blowing. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everyone for attending here on Spaces and on Rumble. I posted that link to your all honor. I can't hear him. Can't hear me. I can hear you. Can you hear me?

1:04:24 Can you hear me, Colonel? I can hear you, Bridget. Oh, these bastards. She'll reset it again. Oh, no. Okay. I'm sure she'll be right back. You know, it kind of reminds me of the good old days. Huh, Stella? Oh, my gosh, yes. That was, you know, I'd look back and I'd just have to die laughing because I'm like, nobody would believe it now. Can you hear me? Can you hear us? I can hear you now.

1:05:05 Yes. Holy crap. They're messing with me big time today. Deja vu. Just like Bridget was saying. Go ahead. Go ahead, SR. Sorry. Go ahead, SR. I posted that link to all honorable men. Thank you. Reposted it. Also posted it out there on Rumble so people could have a chance to read it. But the one thing that got me when we started this out, you started talking about staffers on the intelligence board. Yeah.

1:05:36 And I'm sitting here thinking, yeah, that's right. There are staffers on the intelligence board. So I decided to go take a look. Well, they're around 40 to 50 staffers. However, we really don't get an exact number besides the senators and everybody else that's there that are on this board. Now, yeah, every one of them's got a security clearance. Now we get back to Tenet and what Tenet was doing.

1:06:06 and how this turned out for him. He served the longest as a CIA director than anybody else during that time period. Yeah, he's the longest one except for Dulles. Go ahead. Exactly, except for Dulles. But just looking at that blows my mind when I'm sitting here thinking about how many people we got walking around that have some clue about what's going on.

1:06:37 And then you wonder about the leaks and the security clearances and everything else that goes on with this stuff. It just blows my mind. Yep. Yep. Yep. Crazy. Anybody else got anything? I think we have Sean Ism coming up. Okay. Sean, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. Thanks.

1:07:21 Yeah, I was just wondering about the Iran war and the straight out wars and all that stuff. And it seems to me like it's all predicated on a lie that we have to rely on fossil fuels to create our energy. And then there is that because, you know, you keep hearing about these scientists and engineers who come up with free energy systems and zero point energy systems.

1:07:51 This new technology for producing energy that would transform the world. And these guys just keep getting disappeared or they die in mysterious circumstances or they get suicided. You know what I mean? Right. And the whole thing is predicated on the lie that we need fossil fuels. And then there was the other lie of climate change that we have to change to renewables like windmills.

1:08:19 wind and solar because of climate change, which is another hoax which has been perpetrated on the planet. And so the whole thing is a bit of a circus, isn't it? It is a circus. It's a massive propaganda, psyops kind of a circus. But, yeah.

1:08:46 It's a circus. Also, one of the categories that you left out is anybody that comes up with revolutionary technology, a lot of times the U.S. government will classify their patents so that they can't do anything with it. I've seen that happen several times, especially on encrypted technology.

1:09:12 they will, because they can't figure out how to create a backdoor to it, so they classify it if it's produced here in the United States. I also was just looking, I didn't even know of George Tenet. One of the things that he got involved in after he left the CIA was facial recognition. He became a,

1:09:42 a contractor for a involved in advisor, whatever you want to call board of directors for a company called L1. And it's a biometric facial recognition. It's part of the fly clear program. And of course, this is the guy that oversaw 9-11 and then he gets a job.

1:10:12 for a billion dollar company that profits off of the fear that he helped orchestrate. So there you have it. They all benefit at our expense. And oh, by the way, that company is owned by the British. And no matter how much money they have, it's never enough. They always want more. No, because it's really not about money. It's about control.

1:10:50 Power and control does not always equal money for them. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's all I got for today. We will look at, I'm just gonna look at my notes for the last chapter. If there's nothing there of substance, we will go ahead and start a new book. And you guys are gonna ask me, what book? I have,

1:11:29 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 books here. And I don't know which one we're going to do, but I'll figure it out tonight. That I want to do actually nine books, sorry. But one that I really do want to get to will be a quick one called The Great...

1:11:54 A Tour Through the Boneyard of the CIA's War on Drugs. It's an interesting book for a couple of different reasons. And I do want to get to it. So it'll be a short one because a lot of the information in it we know, but there's a couple of...

1:12:18 things that I've highlighted that I definitely want to bring to you guys' attention. It fills in a couple of different squares that we have not heard. So we will likely do that one. And then one of the other ones, you hear Illini talk about it a lot, The Politics of Heroin that was written by Alfred McCoy. And it's actually a really, really good book as well.

1:12:47 That may be the one we do afterwards, but we have so many yet to do. So we'll figure it out. There's also a little pamphlet that I ordered called The Fabian Society. It's one of their tracks. And it would also be interesting just to go through. It's actually written by...

1:13:13 They put these out every couple of months. They wrote a new track and it has some interesting notes in it that is in their own words. So we'll try to get to that too because we'll be doing the Fabian Society. This one specifically highlights their work with the Labour Party in Britain and how closely tied they were.

1:13:43 So I found it very, very interesting. Renee, go ahead. Hey there. Sorry for the last minute. I'm driving and I kept getting kicked out and losing signal. And then finally, I just got a strong signal. Wanted to ask, I'm pretty sure you've brought up the Freedom House before. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Because just wanted to share with y'all that I, Woolsey.

1:14:14 It was part of the Freedom House and they are funded also by USAID and NED. It's all in there. It's an NGO, a governmental funded. Well, no, it's weird because it's not governmental, but it's NGO, but it's USAID funded. So I don't know how you title that. It's a non-profit. Okay. Yeah.

1:14:39 would you call it a government non-profit or what what category does this corrupt uh organization so technically it is not because the others like the national endowment for democracy and usaid are set up by law um and um they function as quote unquote independent government

1:15:03 That's different. And of course, we've made the point repeatedly, there's no such thing as an independent government organization because we only have three branches of government and they have to report to someone. And now we obviously know, thanks to President Trump, they report to the executive branch because of course they do. And that's very different than a nonprofit.

1:15:27 A nonprofit, you know, has to be set up under the like 501c3 or c4 or whatever. And they can receive government funds.

1:15:41 But if you go back to Freedom House, I don't know if you guys realize how involved Eleanor Roosevelt was in all of this nefarious shit. She was very involved. Wendell Wilkie, the New York mayor, LaGuardia, I think he was New York or was he New Jersey?

1:16:04 Yeah, New York, New York City. They were very involved in the setting up of the Freedom House. And for those of you who don't know, I posted on it a couple of different times. The Freedom House is known today for producing a freedom, quote unquote, index.

1:16:33 Freedom Index is used as a propaganda tool because it doesn't actually reflect freedom of the people in the country. It creates a metric in order for the CIA to justify interference. So anybody that they want to overthrow has a low freedom score. And the Freedom House writes...

1:17:01 troves of information about just how dastardly whoever it happens to be in charge for targeting purposes to then have Congress and the CIA and anybody else justify going in and overthrowing the non-freedom country. Now, of course, you have only to look at some of the people they give a much higher score to and, you know, they could be a theocracy.

1:17:28 And you don't have a lot of freedom when you're in Jordan or Saudi Arabia or whatever, but it's really not an accurate picture. They also were very involved back in the day because they were created right at the beginning of the war.

1:17:47 Ironically enough, they were involved in the Marshall Plan, which of course we know helped fund Gladio. And they were also intimately involved in the setting up of NATO. So they are very, very nefarious. So did you want to add anything else to that, Renee? Sorry, I'm in a bad zone again. I don't know if you can hear me. Yeah, I can hear you.

1:18:17 Yeah. But, but no, that's all. Yeah. I, I, I'm pretty sure I remembered you talking about it, but yeah, I found our, you know, I'm still in the Woolsey. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Brzezinski was involved in it. Yeah. You're, you're breaking up. Yeah. He's involved in a lot. Sure. Thank you, Renee. SR, go ahead.

1:18:51 Thank you, Colonel. I just wanted to add, since you were talking about the pamphlet from the Fabian Society, for those of you that missed Alpha Warrior and the Colonel on Friday, that's laying the groundwork for all of this. So be sure to be sure to watch that and then tune in this Friday. That's War Hamster, not Alpha. Yes, War Hamster. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Colonel. Thank you.

1:19:18 Yeah, we're gonna do a deep dive into the Fabian Society. I was just looking at Freedom House's numbers on the most recent Wikipedia update. They get an annual budget of $93 million and 80 million of the 93 comes from us, the taxpayers.

1:19:49 That should like totally piss everybody off because in the typical fashion, it's a Orwellian name. It literally has nothing to do with freedom. Just like the Institute of Peace? Yes, just like that one with the cache of weapons. And what was the other one that you, the, oh. The Carnegie Endowment for Peace. Right. Which is really war. Yeah.

1:20:26 Yeah, they're all like that. All of the democracy now and all of that other stuff, it literally has nothing to do with it. They invert everything. They do. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever their name is, they do exactly the opposite. It's a good way of thinking about it. Dayani? Go ahead. Dayani, hello. Greetings from Berlin. Thanks so much. I'm new to your space.

1:21:01 Very interesting indeed. I'm Gen X. I love history and have been involved with whistleblower and research and WikiLeaks for over 14 years now. So this is definitely my cup of tea, as you say. Yeah, indeed. So I'll definitely be chiming in more often. Anyway, thank you.

1:21:27 I'm just also doing deep dives on this Fabian Society, and we're seeing Keir Starmer also fall in here, deep Fabianist there. Maybe we have to wait for your next podcast, but I'm really curious if we have Fabianist influences in the U.S. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Oh, my goodness.

1:21:47 As a matter of fact, let me just tell you from my research, the place you- H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells, that's all I know from the Americans, but I mean, I have not gone down the American route. Well, I'm going to tell you how you can go down it the quickest. Go look up the Pilgrim Society. The Pilgrim Society was created as the bridge of the Fabians to the United States.

1:22:13 So the Fabian Society has a branch in the UK and a branch in the United States. And it's the who's who of everything. And they had one desire.

1:22:30 If you do a light look into the Pilgrim Society, you're going to get the impression that all they do is host dinners. That's not what they do. The Pilgrim Society was the vehicle to transfer and associate people that are Fabians. And it was, excuse me, it's the who's who of.

1:22:58 literally everyone in the United States that were in this, because obviously the goal of the Fabians is to create one world government and to do it- The slow march on the institutions of infiltration. Yeah, to do it using the gradual philosophy, that of a turtle, which was also one of their mottos or symbols.

1:23:27 is that, as we said last Friday in War Hamster and I's podcast, it's the slow march to one world government as opposed to the Bolshevik or Hitler's revolutionary tactics. Now, obviously, occasionally you have to have those types of things to reset.

1:23:53 or to get your hooks in and create the institutional orders that are going to allow you to do this. For example, we just mentioned the Bank of International Settlements was the big creation after World War I in the League of Nations. And then you have after World War II, the UN, NATO, and the IMF and the World Bank. And all of those institutions are required in order to be able to control the worldwide.

1:24:23 And so they use wars in order to create their institutions that will facilitate their slow rolling out of the one world government kind of approach. Brilliant. Thank you so much. I can't wait for the next podcast. Thank you so much. Sure. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I did post a link to the...

1:24:57 Freedom House in the pill and also on Rumble. Every once in a while, you'll see that index pop up in the news media. It'll be there. And I never gave it much thought. But what you just talked about makes absolute sense. Yeah. Yeah. It's really evil. Sean, go ahead.

1:25:22 Yeah, I don't know if you've seen the crest of the Fabian Society. I have. It is literally a wolf in sheep's clothing, right? Yes. It's literally, it's right out there, you know, in your face. And they want to achieve socialism incrementally. Yes. And it's all about individualism versus collectivism. And interestingly, one of the most biggest TV shows recently is one by Vince Gilligan. It's called Pluribus.

1:25:52 And the theme of it basically is individualism versus collectivism. Yeah. I'm sorry. What's the name of the show, Sean? Hi, Sean. Hi, Danny. It's called Pluribus. It's by Vince Gilligan, the guy behind Breaking Bad. Very interesting. They love seeding narratives using television. Would that be the predictive programming? Yes. Okay. So.

1:26:33 Great discussion, you guys. Thanks, everybody, for being here. We will be back tomorrow at 4 o'clock. And then Friday, we will continue our deep dive into, at noon, East Coast time in the U.S. with War Hamster into the Fabian and that whole, the Rhodes Scholars. We're going to get into all of that. That's another one, Deani, is the Rhodes Scholars where they break.

1:27:02 I know. I know. Yeah. And, you know, Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. That's a huge thing. Yes. I think Americans really need to know all about this. This is a great thread. Yeah. Fantastic. Thank you. Yeah. So that's another way that they get their hooks into people in the U.S. and all of the British Empire. And of course. And tie it to Oxford. Yes. Because that's where they go. Right. So the Rhodes Scholars go to Oxford.

1:27:27 Oxford was set up under, and the London School of Economics is another one under the Cecil Rhodes Trust. And so again, all of this is implied. A Fabianist, a Fabianist. They're all Fabianists. And it's so funny because in the United States, nobody even knows what that is. And it's really the thread that goes behind all of this. So we're gonna work on that exposing.

1:27:55 exactly what it is. And we do that on Friday at noon. Just for those of you who don't know, Warhamster and I have a whole series on my Rumble channel. We went through all of the Skull and Bones and their connections. We went through the Skrull and Key at Yale, which is their other secret fraternity there. Not as secret, obviously, as Skull and Bones, but all of this plays

1:28:25 into how connected these people are behind the scenes that we don't see. And that's kind of our mission in life is to shine the light on them. And this is how we do it. So anyway, thanks everybody for being here. We'll see you tomorrow, potentially starting a new book and we'll just continue our journey together. Thanks for being here.

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Bill Clinton appointed Anthony Lake documented ▶ 1:04

“the CIA as there were questions about Tony Lake's nomination, which is who Clinton had nominated. So we're going to pick up from there. The major logjam for Tony Lake was Richard Shelby from Alabama. …”

Richard Shelby removed_from_power Anthony Lake documented ▶ 1:34

“not going to allow Anthony Lake to be the CIA director. So he tried several different stalling tactics. Asking for his FBI file was but one of those. They had lots of questions about his involvement i…”

Bill Clinton appointed George Tenet documented ▶ 4:12

“Committee on Intelligence, a political circus. So the acting DCI was Deutsch's deputy, George Tenet, and he perfectly fit all of Clinton's criteria, plus he was basically already on the inside, so the…”

George Tenet appointed Mark Lowenthal documented ▶ 11:10

“The worst thing to emerge during Tenet's confirmation was that his father had bought a condominium in Greece. That's it. That's like the dirt. He had already brought over to the CIA as the deputy form…”

George Tenet appointed L. Britt Snyder documented ▶ 11:43

“You don't bring people in at the senior level if they've not been around intelligence before. And there's like a thoroughfare in Washington, D.C. of intelligence officials. So another guy on the Congr…”

Keith Hall headed National Reconnaissance Office documented ▶ 12:13

“member L. Britt Snyder as CIA Inspector General. Keith Hall of the Senate Committee on Intelligence emerged as the head of the National Reconnaissance Office. Now, for those of you who don't know, thi…”

George Tenet appointed Jack Downing documented ▶ 21:02

“And that's why they loved him. So he didn't necessarily see that any of this needed to be fixed in any way. So he then asked Jack Downing to return from retirement. He was asked to retire, but now it'…”

George Tenet appointed James Pavitt documented ▶ 21:34

“chose as the deputy director of operations, James Pavitt. He was from one of those new fusion counterproliferation centers while they're proliferating. Yeah, so let's promote him. He eventually gets P…”

George Tenet funded CIA documented ▶ 22:07

“So they're now up to $1.5 billion in supplemental appropriation. And for those of you who don't know, that means in addition to all the money they normally get to buy a whole bunch of satellites in 19…”

George Tenet founded Harvey Point documented ▶ 22:43

“to the public for jobs. He also created the infamous spy school at Harvey Point, North Carolina, which I've been by. And they do EOD type, like what they used to do in Texas, blow shit up. They do it …”

George Tenet member_of Porter Goss host_asserted ▶ 23:46

“Like Representative Porter Goss. Not the Porter Goss that championed through the Patriot Act after 9-11 and the Porter Goss that got promoted as a result to be the CIA director. That Porter Goss? Yeah…”

Porter Goss removed_from_power CIA host_asserted ▶ 24:53

“Yeah, he's best buds with George Tenet. Goss was the one that was working with Tenet to make sure that provision in the law that would allow CIA agents to be whistleblowers. Goss was working that from…”

George Tenet supported Afghanistan documented ▶ 27:48

“easier to get things done. The CIA director reportedly supported a project against Serbian President Milosevic when Clinton approved it in 1998. Tenet did back the inception of a new Afghan secret war…”

George Tenet supported Slobodan Milosevic documented ▶ 27:48

CIA carried_out_attack Kabul documented ▶ 28:19

“Please. He sent expeditions of CIA officers to Kabul. Before the paramilitary effort progressed, because that's why they're there for, beyond initial cash subsidies, it was subsumed into...…”

George H.W. Bush funded Operation Advan host_asserted ▶ 28:41

“a larger enterprise that is going to be set up under George H.W. Bush. These were the Advan teams. These are the guys going in, figuring out who we're going to work with, who's going to get the money,…”

George Tenet supported Israel documented ▶ 33:15

“It's not that they didn't allow the military to fly the U-2 program because they did because they needed it as a cover story. It was the weather aircraft. But they keep their own shit separate because…”

George H.W. Bush appointed George Tenet documented ▶ 34:17

“which might have brought the adversaries to where they could cooperate. It, of course, broke down. Following the contested presidential election of 2000, George Bush said that he was keeping on George…”

Gary Schroen headed Kabul documented ▶ 34:51

“led to the invasion of Afghanistan. And a CIA field mission to the northern part of the country, led by Gary Schroen, the station chief designate for Cabal, when the embassy had closed in 1980, was on…”

Gary Bernstein headed Operation Jawbreaker documented ▶ 35:56

“appearance in our book, none other than Gary Bernstein. Gary Bernstein is the stolen election CIA guy that's trying to tell us all that Venezuela created all of the electronic stuff that's stealing ou…”

Gary Bernstein succeeded Gary Schroen documented ▶ 35:56

CIA funded Scorpions (Iraqi covert unit) documented ▶ 36:58

“Not the CIA's bad intelligence, because most people say it went there at all. But yeah, it's the military's fault. For Iraq, the CIA spent a reported tens of millions of dollars to prepare an Iraqi co…”

Porter Goss succeeded George Tenet documented ▶ 38:04

“But hey, let's all talk about waterboarding. Iraq led to George Tenet's demise. The CIA flawed claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and tried to sell it to everybody became so co…”

CIA covered_up Saddam Hussein documented ▶ 38:04

George Tenet headed CIA book_quoted ▶ 38:37

“but resigned himself in the spring of 2006, two years later. His main claim to achievement, refilling the ranks of the clandestine service, is really something that George Tenet began. Yeah, hire more…”

John Negroponte appointed Office of the Director of National Intelligence book_quoted ▶ 39:42

“to take over because the CIA director sucked. Not that any of the DNIs, other than our current one and a couple that we had during Trump's first administration, they're not that good either because yo…”

Porter Goss headed CIA book_quoted ▶ 39:42

John Negroponte member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 40:15

“And I'm sorry, we already just did a tweet post on him. That's just like laughable because he's the guy that was up to his freaking eyeballs in Iran-Contra. Yeah, that's the guy that you want as your …”

CIA funded Bosnia book_quoted ▶ 40:47

“No kidding. But it evolved in new ways. Langley provided money, political experts, and propagandists to assist moderate politicians in 2000 Bosnia. That's not new. That's not new. I'm sorry. Come on, …”

National Endowment for Democracy funded Serbia book_quoted ▶ 41:16

“But supposedly, according to this author, that was new in 2000 in the Serbian elections. Agency officers trained party activists in Bulgaria and George Tenet had made an unprecedented visit there to s…”

CIA trained Bolivia book_quoted ▶ 41:16

George Tenet member_of Bolivia book_quoted ▶ 41:16

CIA funded Iran book_quoted ▶ 41:45

“and other entities. The model also served in the 2005 elections in Iraq, where charges of covert U.S. roles were made. Venezuelan government leveled the same accusations. This kind of activity harkens…”

CIA funded Venezuela book_quoted ▶ 41:45

CIA funded Philippines book_quoted ▶ 42:10

“No, no, it doesn't. It harkens back to Chile. It harkens back to Brazil and to Italy. And where else? Georgia. All over. We've been doing this for 75 years. Come on. Okay. Then he finally does acknowl…”

CIA funded Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) book_quoted ▶ 42:45

“Back in the 1950s and 60s, where we did it a lot. And in Japan, where the CIA helped the Liberal Democratic Party. Political action failed in Indonesia. The first time, not the second time. In South V…”

CIA funded Vietnam book_quoted ▶ 42:45

CIA funded Uruguay book_quoted ▶ 43:16

“Next, in terms of level of Langley's involvement in Latin America in the 1960s, they were on record as being involved in political action in Bolivia and Chile. And, well, all of them. Uruguay, Paragua…”

CIA funded Bolivia book_quoted ▶ 43:16

CIA funded Chile book_quoted ▶ 43:16

CIA funded Paraguay book_quoted ▶ 43:16

CIA funded Ecuador book_quoted ▶ 43:16

CIA funded Brazil book_quoted ▶ 43:16

CIA funded France book_quoted ▶ 43:16

CIA funded Italy book_quoted ▶ 43:16

CIA funded Forbes Burnham book_quoted ▶ 45:30

“Having backed Ford's Burnham, the CIA found him unresponsive. They knew that going in, he was corrupt as hell. The Johnson administration were reduced to begging him to act responsibly. Anything was b…”

CIA targeted_for_regime_change West Germany book_quoted ▶ 46:02

“Political action is also a wild card in the sense that the activities begun for stipulated purposes may get out of control. This occurred in both East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956, where basica…”

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Hungary book_quoted ▶ 46:02

James Stuart Martin member_of Antony Sutton host_asserted ▶ 57:09

“I need to go read that I made this morning about the document that called all honorable men. James Martin, the guy that wrote that, he is the source for a lot of the information that Antony Sutton had…”

James Stuart Martin member_of All Honorable Men host_asserted ▶ 57:09

Heinrich Himmler member_of Bank for International Settlements host_asserted ▶ 1:01:18

“They knew exactly what was coming. They knew exactly what they were doing. And as it turns out, the Himmler and Slatt's little bank accounts that they kept at the Ripes Bank.…”

Hjalmar Schacht member_of Bank for International Settlements host_asserted ▶ 1:01:32

“And SLATS was actually on the BIS, the Bank of International Settlements Bank. And they basically refer to it as Hitler's Bank, the Bank of International Settlement. Because the people, even though th…”

Bank for International Settlements funded Adolf Hitler host_asserted ▶ 1:02:01

“in order to fund the rise of Hitler. And so Hitler was basically this little toy that they put on the shelf that did all this shit. And the shit that he did was provide basically slave labor to these …”

Alfred McCoy member_of The Politics of Heroin host_asserted ▶ 1:12:18

“things that I've highlighted that I definitely want to bring to you guys' attention. It fills in a couple of different squares that we have not heard. So we will likely do that one. And then one of th…”

Fabian Society member_of Labour Party (UK) host_asserted ▶ 1:13:13

“They put these out every couple of months. They wrote a new track and it has some interesting notes in it that is in their own words. So we'll try to get to that too because we'll be doing the Fabian …”

USAID funded Freedom House caller_asserted ▶ 1:14:14

“It was part of the Freedom House and they are funded also by USAID and NED. It's all in there. It's an NGO, a governmental funded. Well, no, it's weird because it's not governmental, but it's NGO, but…”

National Endowment for Democracy funded Freedom House caller_asserted ▶ 1:14:14

Eleanor Dulles member_of Freedom House host_asserted ▶ 1:15:41

“But if you go back to Freedom House, I don't know if you guys realize how involved Eleanor Roosevelt was in all of this nefarious shit. She was very involved. Wendell Wilkie, the New York mayor, LaGua…”

Wendell Willkie member_of Freedom House host_asserted ▶ 1:15:41

Fiorello La Guardia member_of Freedom House host_asserted ▶ 1:15:41

Freedom House member_of North Atlantic Treaty Organization host_asserted ▶ 1:17:47

“Ironically enough, they were involved in the Marshall Plan, which of course we know helped fund Gladio. And they were also intimately involved in the setting up of NATO. So they are very, very nefario…”

Freedom House funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:17:47

Zbigniew Brzezinski member_of Freedom House host_asserted ▶ 1:18:17

“Yeah. But, but no, that's all. Yeah. I, I, I'm pretty sure I remembered you talking about it, but yeah, I found our, you know, I'm still in the Woolsey. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Brzezinski was involved in it…”

Pilgrims Society front_for Fabian Society host_asserted ▶ 1:21:47

“As a matter of fact, let me just tell you from my research, the place you- H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells, that's all I know from the Americans, but I mean, I have not gone down the American route. Well, I'm …”

H. G. Wells member_of Fabian Society host_asserted ▶ 1:21:47

Bill Clinton member_of Rhodes Scholarship documented ▶ 1:27:02

“I know. I know. Yeah. And, you know, Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. That's a huge thing. Yes. I think Americans really need to know all about this. This is a great thread. Yeah. Fantastic. Thank you. Y…”

London School of Economics funded Rhodes Trust host_asserted ▶ 1:27:27

“Oxford was set up under, and the London School of Economics is another one under the Cecil Rhodes Trust. And so again, all of this is implied. A Fabianist, a Fabianist. They're all Fabianists. And it'…”