The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11

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0:00 Good afternoon, everyone. Renee, if you're available, I'm going to throw you the co-host until Bridget gets here. I don't see her. Oh, there she is. Let's go ahead and bring her up. Good afternoon, Colonel. Good afternoon. I'm going to go ahead and make Renee a speaker.

0:36 Let me get live over here on Rumble so we can get started. We're on chapter 10, episode 11. So we're going to start talking about the Dulles Imperium is the name of the chapter. So this part of the book starts in August of 1953 with Muhammad Raja Pahlavi.

1:09 the 33-year-old Shah of Iran and his glamorous 21-year-old wife. They were swept into the lobby of the Hotel Excellier in Rome's fashionable Via Veneto. The young royal couple cut a striking image.

1:42 with all of their royal garb. Soraya was half Persian and half German and had, by many, described as the most beautiful person in royalty at the time. They had disembarked from an aircraft and

2:19 Paparazzi had followed them to the hotel. Back in Tehran, violent mobs controlled the streets of the capital. And after 28 years on the peacock throne, the Pavlovi dynasty seemed to be on the verge of collapse. Fearing for their lives, the Shah and his wife had fled, carrying a couple of suitcases and headed for Baghdad.

2:49 That was just the first part of their journey. They took off so fast, they left the queen's dog. The young Shah seemed lost in exile. We do not have any money, the Shah warned his wife, who was the daughter of a prominent Iranian diplomat and used to living a very luxurious lifestyle. He told Saraya that

3:21 They would have to be careful with their spending. Before they fled, he had even asked her whether or not they could sell some of their wedding gifts. To include a mean coat and a desk set with black diamonds from Joseph Stalin. During their first night at the hotel, you know, because if you have no money, you're going to stay at this big fancy hotel. The Shah paced the living room, unable to sleep.

3:54 He kept his personal pilot awake late into the night fretting about the future. The Shah begged the pilot, one of only two retainers who accompanied the royal couple to Rome, to stay with him in exile. Who am I going to play tennis with, he said. But the Shah was far from abandoned. The CIA, which had prevailed upon.

4:21 the Persian industrialist who owned the fourth floor suite to make it available to the royal couple was keeping the Shah under careful care. The Iranian monarchs found their accommodations to their liking. It was very luxurious. The grandeur had been drawing royal guests since early 20th century. The hotel,

4:53 also had become a favorite rendezvous point for espionage agents from around the world, as well as Italian men of mystery, including Lucio Galli, the leader of Propaganda Du. The conspiratorial Masonic order whose intrigue undermined Italian democracy for many years. They kept the three adjoining rooms at the hotel. So the entire thing...

5:28 was part of the CIA. The discreet gentleman who paid visits to Galley, whose secret quote-unquote anti-communist operations, meaning Gladio, drew funding from the CIA too. They would enter room 127, conduct business in 128, and then leave through 129. More important from the Shaw's point of view, this hotel

5:58 was also favored by Alan Dulles on his visits to Rome. That August, he and Clover were vacationing in Switzerland when the spymaster suddenly informed his wife they had to go to Italy. And on the afternoon of August 18th, the Dulleses checked in to the same hotel at exactly the same time as the Shah. Frank Wisner insisted that was just a coincidence.

6:30 and we have learned there's no such thing as coincidence when it comes to the CIA. They both showed up at the reception desk at exactly the same time, Wisner told a CIA associate, and Dulles had to say politely, after you, your majesty. Dulles' arrival in Rome was quote-unquote conveniently timed. By the following morning, the mobs running the riots through the streets of Tehran

7:01 were led and financed by the CIA and the final act to a covert drama aimed at overthrowing the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restoring the Shah. Mossadegh was a dedicated patriot and survivor of Iran's treacherous politics, had antagonized the British government by nationalizing the powerful Anglo-Iranian oil company.

7:31 later to become BP, soon after taking office in 1951. The British oil company, the third largest producer of crude oil in the world, ruled Iran with an imperial arrogance for much of the 20th century, crushing labor strikes in the hellish oil fields and propping up and replacing local regimes at will. Mosaddegh's defiant seizure of Iran's oil

8:02 treasure set off a global thunderclap. By the end of the 1980s, most countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Asia and Latin America, had nationalized their oil and thus gained influence over the world prices. In the early 1950s, however, such a loss was seen as heralding the end of civilization as the West had known it, not only for Britain, but for the entire industrial world.

8:32 After Mosaddegh's bold move, the British spy agency, MI6, began working strenuously to undermine his government. When the prime minister responded to the British plotting by shutting down the British embassy, it wasn't just plotting, they actually tried to coup him first. And they threw out the ambassador. Then London turned to Washington, Dulles, and Standard Oil for help.

9:01 The Dulles's were more than willing to help. Through their law firm, the brothers had long ties to U.S. oil companies like Standard Oil, which strongly supported the tough British stand against Mossadegh with hopes of securing their own stake in the Iranian oil fields, which of course we know they did. Allen had another former client with a big interest in Iranian oil dispute, the London-based J. Henry Schroeder Banking Corporation.

9:31 whose board he had served on, was a financial agent for the Anglo-Iranian oil. The Dulles brothers had demonstrated their dedication to the former Sullivan and Cromwell Petroleum clients soon after Eisenhower took office by sabotaging a Justice Department antitrust case against the Seven Sister Oil Giants.

9:55 The price-fixing case against the oil cartel, a holdover from the Truman years, was reduced from a criminal to a civil charge and conveniently transferred to Foster Dulles' jurisdiction. The State Department. That's weird. The first time in U.S. history that an antitrust case was handed over to the State Department for domestic oil companies.

10:22 Foster argued that the case had national security implications and it quietly disappeared, leaving Big Oil unscathed. Furthermore, Allen Dulles had a business history with the Shah in 1949 while still employed at Sullivan and Cromwell. Dulles had flown to Tehran where he met the Shah and negotiated a stunningly lucrative deal on behalf of a new company called Overseas.

10:52 Consultants, Inc., a consortium of 11 large U.S. engineering firms. Iran agreed to pay Overseas Consultants, Inc. a $650 million bill for which the consortium pledged to modernize the backward country, building hydroelectric plants, importing industries, and transforming entire cities.

11:22 This would be the largest overseas development project in modern history. It was the greatest triumph of Allen's legal career. For Sullivan and Cromwell, it opened a world of possibilities and spelt doom for the rest of the world. The Shah realized that Allen Dulles could be an important ally. And indeed, Dulles repaid the young ruler's generosity by opening doors for him in New York and Washington.

11:53 In November of 1949, Dulles hosted an exclusive dinner party for him in the dining room of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Shaw's remarks were music to the ears of the dinner guests. Quote, my government and people are eager to welcome American capital, to give it all possible safeguards. Nationalization of industry is not planned.

12:23 But the rise of Mossadegh and his National Front political alliance disrupted the dream of prosperity that the Shah had spun for his private audience. Mossadegh coalition led the opposition to the OCI deal, which National Front leaders denounced as a massive giveaway that would break the backs of future generations in Iran. This patriotic

12:52 Speech stirred the passions of the Iranian people, whose fate had long been determined by foreign powers. In December of 1950, Iran's parliament voted not to fund the monumental development project, thereby killing the chances of Dulles and OCI for a huge payday and forever poisoning Alan Dulles against Mosaddegh. Western observers found Mosaddegh a perplexing character.

13:25 strongly against British colonial attitudes, but touchingly hopeful that such an alliance with the growing U.S. empire could be made. The aging leader had a great personality, given to emotional outbursts and feigning spells. On a visit to Washington in October 1951, the new prime minister charmed Truman administration officials. Secretary of State Dean Atchins,

13:55 was tickled by his childlike way of sitting in a chair with his legs tucked under him. In the beginning, Eisenhower also seemed sympathetic to him, who sent the president-elect a heartfelt note on the eve of his inauguration, bemoaning the economic blockade that Britain had imposed on Iran and asking for U.S. assistance. There was a beguiling, innocent tone to the Iranian leader's plea.

14:25 Quote, it is not my desire that the relations between the U.S. and the U.K. should be strained because of differences with regard to Iran. I doubt, however, whether in this day and age, a great nation, which has such an exalted moral standing in the world as the U.S., can afford to support the internationally immoral policies of a friend and ally. He was wrong. The Iranian people merely desire to lead our own lives.

14:56 in our own way. They wish to maintain friendly relations with all people. But the Anglo-Iranian oil company, which for years has engaged in exploiting our oil resources, unfortunately has persisted to interfere in the internal life of our country, unquote. Eisenhower's Midwestern sense of decency initially made him recoil.

15:24 from backing the British colonial siege of Iran. He rebuffed the Dulles brothers' advice, suggesting that it might be a better idea to stabilize Mossadegh's government with a $100 million loan than to topple it. If Eisenhower had followed through on his original instincts, the history of U.S.-Iran relationships would be completely different, including today. An era of tragic heroism clung to Mossadegh.

15:54 When American envoys made a last-ditch effort to persuade him to appease the British oil giant, he refused. The history of Iran's leadership was plagued by cowardness and corruption, said Mosaddegh, and he would not continue that legacy. Anglo-Iranian oil had already been offered fair compensation. Mosaddegh would not compromise the resource rights of his country any further.

16:23 If he cut a deal with the British, the prime minister told U.S. mediators, his reputation would be forever stained with the Iranian people who would immediately assume their nation had been sold out. Mosaddegh's adamant defense of Iranian sovereignty made him a beloved figure in his homeland with a popular referendum at the height of the Iran crisis, giving him unanimous support. Realizing this is kind of a weird.

16:55 realizing that Eisenhower was not inclined to defend British imperial interests. The Dulles brothers reframed their argument for intervention. On March 4th, 1953, Allen appeared at the National Security Council meeting in the White House, armed with seven pages of alarming talking points. Guess what they happened to be?

17:18 You know the word communist is going to come up multiple times, even though it had never came up before. Iran was confronted with a maturing revolutionary setup, he warned. And if the country fell into communist hands, 60% of the free world's oil would be controlled from Moscow.

17:46 Oil and gasoline would have to be rationed at home, and U.S. military operations would have to be curtailed. It's not like we don't have other sources, you know, like Standard Oil's Aramco in Saudi Arabia or any place else, or, you know, the guy right down south, Venezuela. Yeah, none of them were available at the moment. It's all about Iran. In truth, the global crisis over Iran had nothing to do with the Cold War.

18:17 but a struggle between imperialism and nationalism, between first and third worlds, between north and south, between developed industrial economies and underdeveloped countries dependent on their raw materials. Dulles made Mosaddegh out to be a stooge of communists, but he was far from it. He was from an aristocratic Persian family. The prime minister was educated where? In France.

18:47 and Switzerland. He tilted 100% towards the West. He wanted nothing to do with the Soviets. Mosaddegh was a nationalist, another Gandhi, if you will. The Tudor Iran Communist Party regarded Mosaddegh with wariness, viewing him as a liberal elite with dangerous illusions about America.

19:19 They just happened to be right in this case. Mosaddegh, in turn, relied on the Tudor's support when it suited him and kept his distance most of the time. Meanwhile, the Soviet leadership remained reluctant to get involved in any of it because they didn't want to piss off America either. But after weeks of intensive lobbying by the Dulles brothers and the British government, Eisenhower became convinced.

19:47 that Iran was a Cold War battleground and Mosaddegh had to go. In June of 1953, Allen presented the CIA plan to overthrow Mosaddegh's government to his brother in a special meeting in Forrester's office. The coup plan had been drawn up by Kermit Roosevelt Jr., Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, Allen's handpicked man to run the operation on the ground.

20:18 Roosevelt was well regarded in the CIA. Even Kim Philby said, oddly enough, the quiet American five years referred to Roosevelt as the quiet American before it came out in the book. He was a courteous, soft-spoken Easterner with impeccable social connections, well-educated rather than intellectual, unassuming.

20:54 was taken aback by the fate of the Iran's democracy was discussed in Foster's office that day. Quote, this was a grave decision to have made, he later observed. In fact, I was morally certain that about half of those present, if they had felt free or had the courage to speak, would have opposed it, unquote. But the Dulles brothers had already made up their mind about Iran and they allowed no room for debate.

21:25 And again, that's because they don't work for the U.S. government. They work for the oligarchs. And once the brothers fixed the administration on its course, they were confident they had the right man for the job. The Dulles' could see the ruthless streak beneath Kermit's smooth Groton and Harvard polish. Three years earlier, they had recruited Roosevelt to work in Iran as a lobbyist for their ill-fated Overseas Consultant, Inc.

21:56 And for the past two years, he had spearheaded, listen to this, a secret CIA operation to organize underground resistant networks inside of Iran, burying crates of guns and cash in the desert to distribute to tribal warriors in case of a quote-unquote Soviet invasion.

22:25 What does that sound like? That sounds exactly like stay-behind units under the guise of a commercial deal, Overseas Consultants Inc., which Kermit was buried in, in order to set up stay-behind units in Iran so they could overthrow the government. Roosevelt now turned this clandestine effort against Iran's elected government.

22:56 Because it was always meant for that. It was never meant for anti-communism. Hiring bands of mercenaries and paying military leaders to betray their country. When push came to shove, Kermit Roosevelt revealed that he shared his grandfather's enthusiasm for imperial adventures. The U.S. and British intelligence operatives running the anti-Mosedec.

23:24 operation were prepared to go to any length to accomplish their task. Key officials in the military and government who remained loyal to Mossadegh were kidnapped and murdered. One of those officers, Mahmoud Afshartas, the officer in charge of purging the armed forces of traitors. The general's mangled corpse was found dumped on a roadside outside of Tehran.

23:56 as a message to anyone else who stood for their prime minister and their country. Other prominent loyalists had their throats slit and their bodies buried in the mountains. In the end, the Tudor party leaders feared Mosaddegh was undone by his faith in the American government. The prime minister still controlled the streets of Tehran on August 18th.

24:26 with National Front and Tudor militants roaming throughout the capital, toppling royal statues and other symbols of the Shah rule. But after conferring with Roosevelt, U.S. Ambassador Lloyd Henderson, the Dulles brothers, other emissary in Iran, arranged a fateful meeting with Mosaddegh. During the meeting, Henderson vehemently protested the anti-West mob attack.

24:54 which he claimed had even threatened the U.S. embassy and assaulted his chauffeur, all of which is bullshit. Henderson warned the prime minister if he didn't restore order, the U.S. would have to evacuate all Americans and withdraw its recognition of the Mosaddegh's government. As they are attacking Iran, the U.S. ambassador goes to the prime minister and tells him if he doesn't stop the U.S.'s attack.

25:23 in the Iran that we're just going to have to go home. The gambit worked. Mosaddegh lost his nerve, according to Henderson, and immediately ordered his police chief to clear the streets. It was the U.S. diplomat later observed his fatal mistake. Do you see how this works? How the ambassador works with the CIA to overthrow the government.

25:53 That was true then, and it has always been true. There is no difference in any of these stories between the State Department and the CIA. Mosaddegh's supporters off the streets, the CIA hired thugs, were free to do whatever they wanted, which was the plan. Backed by rebellious elements on the morning of August 19th, as Mosaddegh huddled in his home,

26:24 With his advisors, tanks driven by pro-Shah military officers and street gangs, where pockets were literally stuffed with CIA cash, converged on Mosaddegh's house. For two hours, a firefight raged outside of Mosaddegh's home. The U.S. is literally attacking a foreign head of state.

26:50 It was protected by three tanks commanded by officers loyal to the prime minister. But the rebel forces had two dozen tanks, including two powerful U.S. Sherman tanks. And the outcome was predictable. The shells tore into the residence. Mosaddegh ordered his tank commander to cease fire. The prime minister and his top aides were able to climb over the wall to get away from.

27:19 The U.S. paid assassins. He barely escaped the hired mob that was paid to kill him. They smashed down the gate, ransacked his house. One of the brave officers in charge of defending him was torn limb from limb. Soon after, Mosaddegh and the other officials were arrested and put in jail in a military barracks. Ending.

27:56 The one and only time Iran has ever had a democratically elected prime minister. Mohammad Mosaddegh had been violently evicted from his office, but the CIA coup could not be successfully completed until the Shah was returned. As the coup got underway, Kim Roosevelt had worked frantically to prevent the Shah.

28:23 from fleeing the country, telling him that it was his duty to stand with the rebel forces and assured him of U.S. protection. But the Shah was a chicken shit and left. He went to Baghdad and then to Rome. As the turbulent events unfolded in Tehran, the Shah and the Queen was photographed shopping in Italy, buying Gucci and Dior.

28:56 Despite his budget worries, the Shah mustered the nerve to buy himself four tennis rackets and a pair of black antelope shoes, as well as two crocodile handbags and a dozen summer frocks for his wife on a budget. I've shopped in Italy. There's nothing on a budget, especially in Rome. The paparazzi later snapped Soraya.

29:23 In one of her stylish outfits, an eye-catching polka-dotted dress, as the coup reached its climax, Dulles was monitoring the operations from his bunker in the U.S. Embassy, just down the block from the hotel in Rome. The spymaster's vigil was no doubt enlivened by the presence of the American ambassador to Rome, Claire Booth Luce.

29:56 Henry Luce's wife. While Clover entertained herself at the hotel, Dulles, who was rumored to be sexually involved with Claire Booth Luce, spent the afternoon together watching his forces overthrow a country. Although Claire Luce was a Catholic,

30:24 and was later known for widely reprinting speech decrying that anything goes new morality towards sex, she and her husband seemed to have an aristocratic license to do whatever they wanted sexually themselves. While Dulles was dallying with Luce's wife, the magazine mogul was enjoying his own time with none other than Mary Bancroft, Dulles' mistress.

30:55 But the strongest link between Dulles and the Luce's was their shared conviction that were driving forces behind Henry and the new American century. Luce coined that term in 1941 at Life Magazine, calling the United States to take a dominant global affairs approach. Quote, exerting upon the world the full impact of our influence for such purposes as we see fit.

31:24 and by such means as we see fit, unquote. In effect, Luce was calling for the United States on the brink of entering World War II to replace Britain as the New World Empire, not by holding overseas territories as in the past, but by flexing its military, commercial, and cultural strength. Luce's missionary vision of American power, which would

31:50 find echoes in a later generation's embrace of American exceptionalism mesh neatly with that of Dulles brothers. But while Luce could only preach about the historic imperative of American power, Alan Dulles acted on it. Dulles' main mission in Rome was to stiffen the Shah's spine and get him back on the throne. The royal couple was taking their lunch.

32:17 In the dining room at the hotel, when they heard that Mosaddegh had been overthrown, the Shah seemed shaken by the news instead of overjoyed. His jaw dropped, according to one observer. I have to admit that I hadn't had a very important part in the revolution, he said. But his wife was very excited.

32:42 Placing a reassuring hand on her husband's arm, Dulles quickly arranged a special commercial flight to get him back in the country so no one would notice that he had abandoned them. Soraya stayed on in Rome. She was also consulting with a prominent American gynecologist flown in by the CIA to help her get pregnant. Four times a night, she told the doctor, and twice every afternoon.

33:14 and I still can't get pregnant. Soraya never overcame her infertility. Frustrated by the queen's inability to provide an heir, a weeping shah finally announced their divorce in 1958. Aided by a generous royal settlement, she returned to Rome, where she became the lover of Italian director Franco in Dovina and had a brief film career.

33:43 As the Shah boarded his charter KLM airliner home, he knew that he was returning to a tempest in Iran where he was widely reviled by the citizens. But according to the same accounts, Dulles himself helped brace the shaky ruler by accompanying him to Tehran. The CIA also spread around more cash to make his arrival to cheering crowds.

34:13 for pictures. Some were paid to fling themselves on the ground and kiss his feet. The Shah warmly greeted Ambassador Henderson as one of the heroes of the coup. By the time he was carried back to the palace in the royal limousine, past the dutiful thrones in the street, the Shah had convinced himself that he was a man of destiny instead of just another creature.

34:46 of the CIA. The Shah is living in a dream world, Henderson remarked later. He seems to think his restoration was due entirely to his popularity. He knew better. Dulles would look back on the coup in Iran as one of the two greatest triumphs of his CIA career, along with the regime change he engineered in Guatemala the following year.

35:11 This was the sort of daring high wire act that gave him the biggest professional thrill, and it left him with a taste for more. Dulles imagined himself as a character in a spy novel. Kim Kermit Roosevelt told CIA Middle East hand Miles Copeland that the spymaster wouldn't be able to restrain himself or us. If the opportunity arose anywhere else to repeat this, Alan...

35:39 would give his left you-know-what, well, let's just say index finger, Roosevelt said, if he could go somewhere in the field and engineer the coup himself. Dulles' handiwork could also be seen in the compliant U.S. press covering the regime change. News reports on the coup avoided looking into the CIA's deep involvement. Newsweek gave Dulles' appearance

36:06 At the hotel, a curious wink and a nod, but then quickly moved on. Amid the hubbub of Mosaddegh's fall, noted the magazine, the CIA director suddenly was spotted in the hotel. But no one paid attention to him, they said. Dulles not only persuaded his high place friends in the press to throw a cloak over the CIA operation, he convinced them to share his.

36:35 exuberance over its success. A Washington Post editorial saw the overturning of the Iran's democratic government as a, quote, cause to rejoice, unquote. The New York Times took a similar line, calling Mossadegh a rabid, self-seeking nationalist.

37:05 The U.S. press even avoided using awkward words like coup, preferring to describe it as a CIA-engineered operation of a popular uprising or nation's revolt, none of which were true. If Dulles carefully concealed the CIA's role from the American public, he made sure that the Shah was made fully aware of the debt that he owed the CIA. U.S. National Security Forces

37:35 would continue to prop the Shah up for the next 25 years, encouraging excesses. According to Jesse Leaf, who served for a time as the CIA's chief analyst on Iran, said, but the agency's contempt for the man on the peacock throne only grew in time. Leaf found himself basically a hollow man, a straw man, and a pipsqueak.

38:08 Who else would allow that to happen to their country except for a dirty, rotten scoundrel? But the hollow man proved very useful for Western interests, including those of the Dulles brothers and their clients. Now, the book says former clients, but they weren't former clients. Under the new agreement with the major oil companies orchestrated by the Shah a few months after the coup, Iran's oil industry was denationalized.

38:37 Once again, the country's natural treasure was handed over to foreign corporations, with 40% of the spoil now going to Standard Oil through their subsidiaries. Kim Roosevelt was among those who cashed in on the coup. Where did he go? He went to Gulf Oil, which had a small stake in it as well. He took charge of the company's relations with foreign governments, including the Iranian regime.

39:10 which they say he left the CIA, but he did not. He was just embedded in a big oligarch company. Later, he became an international consultant representing the Shah in serving as a middleman for weapons manufacturing, doing business with Iran. The Shah remained deeply loyal to his CIA friends, once toasting Roosevelt at a palace ceremony as one of the powerful forces.

39:41 To whom he owed the throne, almost completely. The Iran coup had an intoxicating effect on the Eisenhower administration, the CIA, and the State Department. Quote, it was a day that should never have ended, unquote. It carried with it a sense of excitement, of satisfaction, and jubilation that it is doubtful whether any other can come up to it.

40:12 So our government was celebrating the overthrow of the first and only democratically elected government in Iran. The president summoned the now mythic Roosevelt to the White House to make a special presentation on his coup in Iran. A spellbound Eisenhower later said that it was more like listening to a dime novel than a government briefing.

40:42 When Roosevelt looked over at the Secretary of State midway through his presentation, Foster was leaning back leisurely in his chair, and it appeared for a moment that he might have been dozing. But then Roosevelt realized that Foster's eyes were gleaming. He seemed to be purring like a cat. But what for Washington was a tale of daring do-right, for Iran was a disaster.

41:12 The country's fledging democracy was dismantled. The members of the oppositional parties and press were rounded up and driven underground. With the CIA's strong encouragement, the Shah unleashed his secret police organization, First the Second Bureau, and in 1957, the infamous SAVAK, in a ruthless campaign to root out quote-unquote subversion, meaning anybody that was loyal to the actual country.

41:41 and had ever touched Mosaddegh or any of his efforts. The Tudor party bore the brunt. With CIA assistance, the Shah's U.S.-trained security forces tracked down over 4,000 party members from 53 to 57. And by the way, that 4,000 number, I've looked this up. In CIA cables prior to the coup, it was estimated that the Tudor party

42:11 was 4,000 people. So they literally rounded up all of them. They were subjected to primitive torture methods, whippings, beatings, smashing chairs on their head, breaking fingers. A few were subjected to being hung from hooks. At least 11 died from their torture, most from brain hemorrhaging, while dozens more were executed.

42:41 The regime grew alarmed when reports began circulating about the condemned prisoners' heroism, but they had gone to their deaths singing defiant songs and denouncing the Shah. It was reported that the firing squad bullets often missed their targets, either through nervousness or avoidance, and that officers had to dispatch the prisoners with pistol shots. The regime was forced to clamp a tighter lid

43:07 on executions out of fear of the prisoner's show of bravado that was impressing large segments of the people. All hope for change was ripped from the hearts of the Iranian people, replaced by poisonous seeds from a bitter fruit, growing slowly over the next two decades. The Shah ultimately reaped what he had sown, driven into final exile in 1979 by a revolt led by the country's Islamic imams.

43:40 The only oppositional sector of Iranian society not crushed by the Pahlavi regime. The American and Iranians are still paying for the day that should have never ended. Now, I would argue, and a lot of people, much more scholarly than I have, has convincingly argued that this was all by design. It was not.

44:13 It was not an accident that the Shah didn't clamp down on the clerics. As a matter of fact, we know that Khomeini was in France when he made his infamous return in 1979. And there's a lot of convincing arguments that that was just another controlled.

44:43 change of government. Because one of the most telling things is the SAVAK, the Major General Norman Schwarzkopf created terrorist organization unleashed on the citizens of Iran and trained by MI6, CIA and Mossad during those 20 years was left intact. It was just renamed, like literally left intact for the mullahs to use.

45:14 And of course, the convenience of sabotaging Jimmy Carter's administration after he had fired all of the CIA covert people like Kermit and all of them. So just keep that. I'm not saying that that's exactly true. There's convincing arguments out there that says it is. I certainly wouldn't put it past them. They've done it in other cases. So just keep that in the back of your mind.

45:42 After the arrest of Mosaddegh, he was put on trial for treason. He responded by telling the court that his real crime was that he resisted imperialism. The U.S. Embassy fretted that the trial was a serious blunder since it reinforced the popular leader's demigod status and his mystical hold over the public.

46:02 fearing that executing him would only make him a martyr. The regime sentenced him to three years of solitary confinement and then banished him to a rural village 60 miles north of Tehran, where he was under house arrest for the rest of his life. When he died nine years later at 84, the Shah blocked efforts to organize a public funeral. Even in death, Mosaddegh was taunted by the U.S. press when a wire story

46:28 from the AP portrayed him as an iron dictator who had terrorized his enemies and brought the country to economic chaos. Bastards. The ambulance carrying his body from the hospital in Tehran to his home went unnoticed by news. One news item said, in the downtown bazaar, crowds went about their shopping for the Persian New Year instead of paying homage.

47:01 to their previous prime minister. The Shah refused Mosaddegh's final request to be buried in the main Tehran cemetery alongside the bodies of his supporters that had been killed during the insurrection. Instead, he was buried underneath his own sitting room near a mantelpiece where a picture of Gandhi was displayed in his home. The Eisenhower Dulles heir of Pax Americana

47:31 enforced by terror. The administration ensured U.S. post-war global dominance by threatening enemies with nuclear annihilation or with coups and assassinations. It was an empire on the cheap, a product of Ike's desire to avoid another large-scale shooting war, as well as imperial burdens that had bankrupted Great Britain.

47:53 By leveraging the U.S. military near monopoly on nuclear firepower, the president hoped to make war an unthinkable proposition for any and all American adversaries. And by utilizing the CIA's covert actions, the commander-in-chief aimed to render it unnecessary for the Marines to go crashing ashore. Dwight Eisenhower himself put a persona of being a peace-loving warrior.

48:21 Though he never experienced combat firsthand, a gap in his military resume that he sorely regretted through much of his career, Eisenhower saw more than his share of the effects of war touring the battlefields after World War I and commanding the troops in Europe after World War II.

48:50 As the Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower acutely felt the sacrifice that he was asking of thousands of young men under his leadership, while the general and his staff prepared to dispatch waves of soldiers onto the beaches of Normandy in June of 1944, over 10,000 of whom were killed, he suffered stomach pains, soaring blood pressure. He was as nervous as I had ever seen him.

49:21 wartime secretary later said. Eisenhower also felt the enormous responsibility of sitting in the Oval Office at the dawn of a new era in which science had given U.S. leaders the ability to destroy virtually all life on planet. But while privately dealing with the gravity of the moment, he publicly adopted a disturbingly nonchalant attitude about new weapons of mass destruction. Eisenhower's biographer, Evan Thomas,

49:51 later called his nuclear brinksmanship, Ike's Bluff, a bold strategy to keep the world at peace by threatening total war. There was a perverse logic to the Eisenhower-Dulles policy of massive retaliation, but by reserving the right to use nuclear weapons anytime, anyplace the U.S. interests were threatened, the administration kept the world in a state of perpetual anxiety.

50:16 As the Soviet Union began narrowing the nuclear weapons gap in the 50s, the planet was held hostage by growing tension between the two superpowers, the U.S. and the USSR, like two scorpions in a bottle. Did Eisenhower really believe that nuclear explosives were just another conventional military tool, as he indicated at a March 1955 press conference when asked if he might consider using them during a confrontation with China?

50:46 over two tiny obscure islands in the Formosa Strait. You know, Taiwan. I see no reason why they shouldn't be used just exactly as you would use a bullet or anything else, Eisenhower said. Did he realize that nuclear war would be unthinkable? As he noted in his diary the following year, soon after declaring his candidacy for a second term.

51:18 The problem is not man against man or nation against nation. It's man against war, he would later say. Eisenhower seemed to revel in the terrible uncertainty that he created, seeing it as a way to intimidate enemies and keep them off balance. After the president's nuclear bullet statement, the White House press secretary, Jim Haggerty, nervously asked his boss how he planned to handle follow-up questions about the atomic bomb option.

51:47 Ike smiled and said, don't worry, Jim. If that question comes up, I'll just confuse them. The problem with Eisenhower's strategy was that by keeping Washington in a constant state of high alert, he empowered the most militant voices in his administration, including the Dulles brothers and Pentagon hardliners like Admiral Arthur Radford and Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who taking their commander in chief at his word, continually agitated.

52:18 for cataclysmic confrontation with the Soviet Union. Eisenhower once said that he feared his own boys in the military more than he did a sneak attack from the Soviets. Eisenhower would also say, hold on, let me find Bridget. Eisenhower would also go on to say,

52:49 that the Soviet Union had suffered so devastatingly during World War II that they would be deeply reluctant to risk World War III. Confirming what I've said all along, that the Soviet Union, despite all of the anti-communist crap that was used to justify Gladio, was ridiculous. It was an excuse. The president did not think any of his nuclear commanders would go rogue.

53:23 But he knew that the constant Pentagon pressure for bigger doomsday arsenals produced equally strong temptation to use the weapons, particularly while the U.S. was still enjoying a clear margin of nuclear superiority. Eisenhower might have been certain of his ability to rein in the senior military, but his chronic health problems made his control of the war apparatus seem questionable at times.

53:53 Eisenhower, who wrestled with high blood pressure, suffered a heart attack in September 1955 that was more serious than they let on. He was not able to return to the Oval Office until January, from September until January. At 65, Eisenhower debated whether he should seek re-election. His heart specialist advised,

54:18 that there was a 50-50 chance that he'd die during a second term. That was kept secret. Nine months after his heart attack, Eisenhower was operated on for a painful bowel obstruction and remained in the hospital for three weeks. In November of 57, the president suffered a mild stroke in the Oval Office, which affected his speech and caused severe headaches for weeks. During Eisenhower's periods of

54:47 incapacitation, it was John Foster and Vice President Nixon, the Dulles brothers' acolyte, who moved into the presidential power vacuum. Neither man was known for his sense of moderation. From the beginning of the administration, Secretary of State Dulles argued that the U.S. must overcome the taboo against using nuclear weapons.

55:12 In February of 1953, the National Security Council meeting just three weeks into Eisenhower's presidency, Foster raised what he called the moral problem that hovered over all nuclear decisions. He was not referring to the profound question of mass slaughter and human survival. He meant the moral revulsion against doomsday weapons that prevented policymakers from using them. Foster pushed Eisenhower to consider using ultimate weapons during

55:41 one crisis after another, including the climatic stages of the Korean War in 1953. The final French stand in Vietnam, he encouraged their use there too. The battle of nerves with China over the islands of Kwamei and Matsu that same year. And in 1958, confrontation with the Soviets over Berlin.

56:12 all of which he thought Eisenhower should have used nuclear weapons. At various hair-raising moments of these crises, Eisenhower seemed poised to take Foster's advice. He was only dissuaded by an alarmed opposition of allied leaders. John Foster Dulles was the exemplar of Mill's crackpot realism. He was a wise guy who, in sober and solemn tones, advocated positions

56:42 that were the height of madness. Quote, we are at a curious juncture in history of human insanity, Mills wrote in his book called The Causes of World War III. He talked about the growing fever for a final conflict. Quote, in the name of realism, men are quite mad and precisely what they call utopian is now the condition of human survival, unquote.

57:15 Utopian action by which Mills meant active diplomacy among superpowers, a ban on nuclear weapons testing, a moratorium on the production of extermination weapons, scientific and cultural exchanges, and free travel between East and West was actually realistic sound and common sense, he wrote. In contrast, practical actions are now the actions of madmen and idiots. And yet these men decide. These men are honored.

57:44 each in their closed up nation as the wise and responsible leaders of our time who are doing the best they can under trying circumstances. Foster seemed to have a chilling remote perspective on what it meant to drop a nuclear bomb. When the French garrison at Ben Ben Phu was on the verge of collapse, he offered to give them two atom bombs to French foreign minister. The French official was deeply shaken by the offer. He responded,

58:14 Without having to do much thinking on the subject, he pointed out to Foster that if those drums are dropped near Den Ben Phu, our side will suffer as much as the enemy. Likewise, during the Formosan Strait crisis, Foster was surprised to learn that the precision nuclear bombing of Chinese targets that he was advocating would kill 10 million civilians. Still,

58:43 It didn't bother him because he was just wanting to punish the Chinese. Mills noted that like the Nazis before them, the national security leaders rationally planning for nuclear holocaust was characterized by moral insensitivity. Official violence had become so bureaucrat, so accepted by the bureaucracy that in official men, there is no more human shock.

59:13 Mills believed that humanity would continue to teeter on the brink of external void until Eisenhower's Secretary of State, whom he accused of murderous rigidity, was replaced by a diplomat who was serious about the prospects of peace. The death in March of 1953 of Joseph Stalin, the moloch of Soviet brutality and despair, offered the Eisenhower.

59:41 administration an opportunity to redefine U.S. relationships with Moscow. The Kremlin's new leaders began the process of de-Stalinization, but Foster continued to counsel a hard line against the Soviets, interpreting any sign of the Cold War thawing in Moscow as evidence that a tough U.S. line was working. The Secretary of State even sternly cautioned Eisenhower not to smile at a Soviet official or shake hands with them.

1:00:11 at the Geneva summit in 1955. This proved difficult for Ike, observed Stuart Alsop, since his whole instinct was to smile and be friendly. And then he'd kind of draw back remembering what Foster had told him. Khrushchev, the canny and down-to-earth political survivor who was emerging from the Kremlin as the Kremlin's top Soviet leader,

1:00:41 closely observed the personal dynamics between Eisenhower and the Secretary of State in Geneva and concluded that it was not Eisenhower in charge, it was John Foster Dulles. He was later quoted, I watched Dulles making notes with a pencil, tearing them out of a pad, folding them up and giving them to the president. Khrushchev later wrote, Eisenhower would pick up these sheets of paper, unfold them, read them before making a decision.

1:01:12 on any matter. He followed this routine conscientiously like a schoolboy taking his lead from the teacher. It was difficult to imagine how a chief of state could allow himself to lose face like that in front of delegates from the other countries. It certainly appeared that Eisenhower was letting Dulles do the thinking for him.

1:01:36 Before jumping on the Eisenhower bandwagon in 1952, the Dulles brothers calculated that he would not make a strong president. But Ike's malleability offered its own advantages in their eyes. The Secretary of State, Foster, succeeded in undermining or deflecting every tentative step that the president wanted to make for detente with the Soviet Union. In August of 1955, following the Geneva Summit,

1:02:04 Foster sent out a long cable to all diplomatic mission chiefs around the world, warning that the free world must not let down its guard despite the air of goodwill coming out of the conference. Geneva has certainly created problems for the free nations, he wrote. For eight years, they have been held together, largely cemented on the compound fear, basically, of the Soviet Union.

1:02:31 Now that fear is diminishing and moral demarcation is somewhat blurred. The free world must not relax its vigilance. He dismissed the post-Stalin Soviet peace efforts as a classic communist maneuver. Hold on just a second. Let me make sure I get my computer plugged in. Okay.

1:03:10 In 1958, five years into the process of de-Stalinization, Khrushchev was understandably deeply puzzled and frustrated by Washington's failure to diplomatically engage with them. The main obstacle to peace, he concluded, was John Foster Dulles. Foster's staunch resistance to making peace with the Soviets did not reflect a perverse contrariness or extreme anti-communism, nor did it suggest his true assessment of the Soviet threat.

1:03:40 His belligerence was strategic. As he was revealing, Cable stated, this militant sense of alert was the cement that held the Western alliance together. They had to have a boogeyman. If their boogeyman was gone and they hadn't created another one, how would they be able to control? As Mills pointed out, the continual...

1:04:08 preparation for war was also the main factor holding together America's power elite. They wouldn't be able to go into all of these other countries under the guise of the communist boogeyman if the communist boogeyman went away. Another author stated it this way, war is the health of the state. Foster, who always acted in the interest of the American establishment, meaning the international syndicate,

1:04:43 understood this. It was the permanent war fever that empowered the country's political and military hierarchies and enriched the increasingly militarized corporate sector. It was the very lifeblood of the ruling group's existence, even if in the atomic age, it threatened humanity. All right, we're going to stop there. So there you have it. Another wonderful chapter of

1:05:20 defining the international syndicate, how it works, and isn't it weird? And I had talked about this with someone else. I see Warhamster down there. When you read a book like this and you don't know anything about Operation Gladio, you would not have picked up the critical elements of them actually creating stay-behind units in Iran.

1:05:49 And not only this book, but I told you in the book, The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, he was intimately involved in the planning with Kermit Roosevelt of the Iran coup. And he talks about it a lot. I mean, he goes into detail about the names of the...

1:06:11 tribal area in the South that they actually, and he talks about the fact that they created a military advisory group. So we had U.S. military in Southern Iran training the stay behind guys used in the coup. And again, this is something that if you don't understand Gladio, when you read these books, you completely gloss over as not being like a big, big deal.

1:06:38 When, in fact, it's a big, big deal because it keeps coming up in every one of these coups. It's crazy. Bridget? Boy, that's one of the things that I, you just, please forgive the background noise. I'm out running air. It couldn't be avoided. So, but the patterns, the patterns that we've patterned through all of this. It is literally, I used to, honest to God, believe there is a football playbook.

1:07:10 looking binder behind Klaus Schwab's favorite desk. And they actually go through, well, we'll use this. We'll use this. Well, that book's not located in Klaus Schwab. He's just one of the forward-facing people. Well, just like, well, I guess that was my point. Just like a quarterback would have a copy of the same book. He's not the play caller.

1:07:39 But he has to go to the book for when they say, okay, do this, do that. Yeah, I envision, so just from my military background, if you go to the plans directorate in any combatant command or in a major command staff, you walk into this room that is filled with shelves of books.

1:08:10 that are all classified. And they're basically plans on certain scenarios. If this country does, so you'll, at least at CENTCOM, they were organized by country. If this scenario happens, pick up, you know, volume C. If this scenario happens, pick up volume E. And basically you have,

1:08:40 the outline to start with, because obviously there's a logistics tell, there's a, how do you get the people there and all of those things. And there's annexes of this plan. And that's what I envision sitting at NATO and sitting at all of these intelligence agencies in their planning area. They have, you know, like 10 volumes of coups and

1:09:09 The first coup could be using the stay-behind units in this manner or using the foot soldiers with these NGOs, the interface of USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy. What all do you have to do two years out if we want to overthrow that government? And what can we do to...

1:09:37 Close that window down to 12 months or six months. What piece of this plan do you not do in order to still effectively be able to overthrow the government on a timeline that is being dictated to you by higher up? And so they just pick one of those volumes. I mean, we just saw in the last couple of days, they're accusing Iran of using chemical weapons, which is.

1:10:04 in the plan that they were using for Syria. And you start seeing all of these similar tactics on the propaganda piece of it because every one of these plans in the intelligence area has a propaganda annex on what all false flags can you use and what the stated effect of those false flags through propaganda.

1:10:33 do for you. And so you're really looking at a plan, multiple ones that are sitting on a shelf and they tend to use a lot of the same tactics throughout these, which as to Bridget's point is the patterns that we observe and how you know who's orchestrating them. All along, go ahead.

1:11:11 Yeah, Colonel, can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. I think you're dead on here in the sense that, you know, there are these kind of regional planning standard operating procedure plans, you know, for like, let's say, the one that I find most interesting and note how rarely it's mentioned because there was.

1:11:38 As part of that standard, I forget the name of the plan. I should really not forget it, but I do right now. But, you know, the standard plan for Southeast Asia circa 1958 to 1960 that JFK changed in 1961 by 1961 involved the use of nuclear weapons. Right. Yeah. And that is something that was removed by JFK.

1:12:08 And I think that that is something that's very, very, very rarely mentioned because for one thing, it completely qualifies how you perceive the all important. And Carl, you and I might disagree on this and that's fine. But in my opinion, the number one objective of U.S. propagandists right now is separating the idea of the JFK assassination from the actual result of.

1:12:37 what we call the Vietnam war, because what, what we, the public gets is the Vietnam war is some sense that there was like at the time of JFK is just that things were set in stone, blah, blah, blah. It's, it's simply one 80, the opposite of what was actually happened because JFK had not, when you look at his removal of the nukes from the standard operating procedure plan for, um, of the military that was done through,

1:13:07 The NSC coordinated at a critical time by Nelson Rockefeller and Kissinger. And this is the other thing I know I'm babbling on here for a sec, but I think it's another reason it's not emphasized is because, you know, Nelson Rockefeller in 1955, I've blathered on too much about this, but, you know, he was the coordinator of the operations coordinating board, succeeding C.D. Jackson, you know, major league.

1:13:37 important ms as it were during the jfk assassination and so he had some leeway in terms of coordinating post-approval plans of the nsc to the all nine executive agencies and at the same time kissinger was writing his nuclear book which if people actually look you know i i have not read the book but i've seen you know um there's great descriptions of it in colby and dennett and also in

1:14:06 the volume one of Reich's essential Nelson Rockefeller biography, where it's made clear that, you know, Kissinger is, this is much closer to the nuclear first strike MFs, you know, from the actual JFK administration than we are led to believe. And, you know, the media constantly calls Nelson Rockefeller a liberal Republican, which is based on one event.

1:14:35 at the San Francisco Cow Palace, and we know how, you know, racists used to hide shit in U.S. history all the time, right? So on that basis, the propaganda is that Nelson Rocco was some sort of, like, you know, borderline fucking socialist or whatever. Nothing is further from the truth. He was way closer to, you know, the general mad dogs of Strategic Air Command than we are led to believe.

1:15:03 It's a massive propaganda campaign to completely obfuscate Nelson Rockefeller between 1955 and 1964, 5, 6, whichever one you want. So I don't disagree with anything you said. And I think that single act of him taking that off the table is what pissed off all of the senior military people, to include Lyman Lemitsker, who played a critical role in the assassination that no one ever talks about.

1:15:35 Curtis LeMay and all of those generals, Curtis LeMay is the guy you're talking about that was in charge of SAC at the time, the Strategic Air Command, which would have been the general delivering the nuclear weapons. They were rabid Dulles acolytes. They openly talked about the use of military strikes all the time.

1:16:00 in real history, not the history we're fed in Air War College or any approved military education. I was shocked when I started doing this research at how rabid they were about the use of nuclear weapons as a first strike. And so I absolutely agree with everything that you said, that that would have genuinely pissed off every single one of them. Go ahead. Yeah, Colonel.

1:16:31 The nuclear first strike stuff is so critical, you know, and it's not a coincidence that they were making Dr. Strangelove and the movie, you know, the one with Henry Ford set in Omaha, right? Where Strategic Air Command is. Right. What am I talking about? Oh, God.

1:17:01 But it's another major Hollywood production, right? And think about everything else that was going on in Hollywood within the Frankenheimer movie, you know, where JFK let them use the White House in order to make a warning about a right-wing military coup. That was, you know, JFK was in production of that movie in a quite literal sense trying to warn the public that the national security state, a.k.a.

1:17:31 the boys in the permanent woodwork are overtaken. This is overtaking. That's what he was doing with that Frankenheimer movie. And then you see these other two, you know, movies coming out in 63. And then today you look at, at how these movies are described, even by, especially by the lip quote, liberal press, which now is Dick Cheney, I guess. And it's your life, you know, one 800, what the fuck? It's so.

1:17:58 It's like Orwellian isn't even a good enough word. It needs to be herniated or something. It's just the propaganda word is just unreal. I agree. I'm sorry. I'm blathering on. Okay. All right. I agree. Why are you so mad? Go ahead. I just wanted to say, again, great, great episode. Great reading.

1:18:24 I'm so impressed. It seems like it's divine timing when it comes to the information that you are bringing to light. I've been, you know, I had walked around over and off it in Nebraska thinking about this stuff for a long time and to hear it finally coming to light in such perfect timing and in the perfect atmosphere. It's just, it's a...

1:18:53 I feel extremely blessed to be alive during this period of time. And I appreciate all that you're doing. Continue, you and Bridget, keep up the good work. It is absolutely, it's amazing. And thank you so much. You're welcome. And I have to tell you, I didn't get to Offutt Air Force Base until much later in my career. And you, I got a feeling when I,

1:19:22 was driving around. I mean, it's nostalgia. I certainly was not awake. I was still on active duty. There is a nostalgia associated with Offit for those of us who have been in the military. The brainwashing that goes on.

1:19:46 And the ominous nature of that base was drilled into our heads. I mean, I've been to the missile fields. One of my best friends started off his career as a missile operator. And you've just heard so many stories about the operations of Strategic Air Command. And so for those of you who don't know, in the military,

1:20:15 there has been major shifts of power in the Air Force, I should say. There's been major shifts of power. And in the 60s and 70s, including up until kind of the, I would say the early 80s, Strategic Air Command was the hub of the Air Force. I mean, it was the nerve center. It was the Strategic Air Command.

1:20:44 commander was like on high. Once we got into the late 70s, early 80s, the shift became more towards air combat command, where all of the fighters are located. And you will go very long lengths of time.

1:21:13 When you do not have a...

1:21:16 It used to be called TAC, Tactical Air Command, when you didn't have one of those generals in charge. But the Strategic Air Command, when it was at its heyday, basically ran the Air Force. And so those are kind of the legends of the Air Force that you are taught in professional military education. It centers during that period of time on those people.

1:21:46 They're projected not for who they really are because one of the things that they drive into the lexicon is that all of these general officers were very circumspect in their viewpoints of the use of nuclear weapons. That the Air Force has always been.

1:22:13 that's like the last thing you ever want to do. And that, the non-proliferation, that's always basically been the policy. And so when you find out reading real history that that's not the case, it's quite eye-opening for someone who was drenched in that indoctrination process. Renee, go ahead.

1:22:42 Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Yeah, I just wanted to piggyback on what all along and Bridget were saying of the recognition of patterns, especially in this chapter. Early on, you were talking about the hydroelectric dams, and that brought to mind of how the World Bank

1:23:09 you know, set up their plan all over the world and what they would do. And I've brought up the worldarchives.com. You can go look up and see those patterns in real time and the documents of how they would go into countries, create unrest, and they would say, oh, they'd talk about the boogeyman, whether it be the Nazis or the communists.

1:23:35 And they'll say, well, we'll protect you and we will help your population and we'll help you with business and loans and blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, they'd rug pull them eventually and coup them and set up all their operations in there. I mean, in the 50s, that's when what we had was a Guatemala and Paraguay were couped.

1:23:58 Yeah, you can see parallels of what was going on, Iran, and then kind of in our hemisphere of setting stuff up. And the Rockefellers, following what All Along was saying, were in Brazil, in South America, in Latin America a lot during that time, setting up all their stuff pre-coup with the World Bank.

1:24:26 the big agriculture and the ranches and all this stuff. Yeah, totally see the playbook now and envisioning parallel systems working at the same time, doubling down, tripling down all over the world. All along. Go ahead. Yeah, Colonel.

1:24:50 I was very interested in what you had just said about the change in the structure of the Air Force. Not the structure, just the emphasis on the different – go ahead. Right. So, yeah, because the reason I was thinking about this is because a while back I read a couple, three books maybe about –

1:25:14 Like, looking at the question of, you know, the military-industrial-congressional complex, and we all know how and why that critical C word was taken out, because think about it. I mean, if you really think about that, it has profound implications, I mean, for every, you know, ostensibly for the populist, for populism against the CIA and whether that's possible or not. And it's, you know, we're educated so that it's not.

1:25:42 But basically, the congressional oversight of, you know, the new national security state was like structured so that it would have very, very strong ties to military contractors from the different regions of the country. You know, it was thought up regionally how this was going to be broken up with the actual military contractors and not strictly military, but also, you know, related corporations, whether they be mining corporations.

1:26:13 whatnot, tied into Congress in order to control it. And then after the JFK assassination, you get this radical uptick in imperialism, basically. I mean, of course there was imperialism in the 50s under Eisenhower. We all know about them and we hear about the flashpoints, but the point is that they were kind of flashpoints. In other words, there was...

1:26:42 I'm not saying that people in the military industrial congressional complex believe in any of FDR's four points, but FDR's four points were still to some degree in the population, even though nobody was allowed to articulate them. So that was frozen over between 47 and then JFK starts reigniting that part of the Democrats. And that's when someone's going to get shot. And so when you think of the Air Force shifting into tech,

1:27:14 a tactical fighter mode. It's like you're now at a much more expanded empire after, you know, permanent installations in Iran, et cetera, et cetera. And all around the world, it's a, it's a new love, higher level of, you know, what some historians call super imperialism. And so you're going to be the ability to fight two or three wars at the same time. It becomes a higher priority than this centralized sack situation. After the U S expanded imperialism.

1:27:42 Following the JFK assassination, which was in a real way limiting the expansion of imperialism, you know, whether it be in Israel, whether it be Saudi Arabia, whether it be, well, different policy for Egypt, Indonesia, Congo. It was an international mining coup that happened in Dallas. And that's what JFK was preventing. Yeah, it is interesting when you span out to the 30,000 foot look.

1:28:13 You're right about the, that's something that I noticed even while I was on active duty is the military industrial complex was a very interesting setup. And the congressional members that represent the major military industrial complex companies are,

1:28:42 the powerhouses in Congress. And there's a direct correlation to that for that reason. We noticed that if you wanted to get anything done in the military, you always worked with the congressional members that had either

1:29:05 large like California back in the day, not the current California, obviously. But when California had more military bases than any other state. And as a result of that, those congressional members and senators had big sway on Capitol Hill, especially for the military. And the same was true with Georgia because Lockheed's there. And

1:29:32 It's not coincidental that a lot of the military bills that created different benefits in the military are all put forth from those particular states. There is definitely a lockstep between them. So, Warhamster, did you have anything you wanted to add before I close up? No, really good timing. Big shout out to All Along for those comments.

1:30:04 When I listened to that entire chapter that you read, I kept thinking over and over again about Yankees and Cowboys. This entire move to the South and California, which, of course, two places I spent most of my life, and watched that happen around. In retrospect, all the defense contractors, all the lobbyist money, it's the university funding. It's crystal clear, and as we've talked about.

1:30:32 Yeah, the Yankees obviously infiltrated the South, the Southwest, you know, George Bush, all that stuff. We don't need to go into the Halliburton conversation again. That whole hour I was listening to that, I'm thinking Yankees-Cowboys. Yeah. Yeah, and your whole audience knows it. I don't need to go into detail on that. They know the Yankees-Cowboys story, right? Yes. Okay. The only other thing I had to say is...

1:30:54 All roads lead to the Rockefellers. And you named in an hour, I believe, six Skull and Bones and three Skrull and Q members. They're always there. Yeah. Funny how that works. Yeah. They're always there. And that's a very interesting point because there's a direct correlation to...

1:31:22 these operations and the monopoly of resources around the world to secret societies. Yeah, I think it was about probably five years ago, and I see Ron Partains here in the audience. Ron and I used to talk about this stuff all the time. When I started screaming about Sullivan and Cromwell, because they were everywhere, and then we see that these secret societies, it's the same darn thing. Yeah. Pattern recognition, I apologize.

1:31:50 Pattern recognition is so critical. And I do think that is kind of the one, if I had to pick one thing to say that Operation Gladio has done for me, it is pattern recognition. And it allows us to see things today much more clearly than, and it allows us to stay outside the matrix. It is so easy today with all of the

1:32:19 you know, AI pictures and people posting pictures like the one today where somebody, that Mario weirdo guy, posts a picture saying it's in Iran when it was actually from Minnesota. And to me, the irony of that is when the fuck did Minnesota get to look like Iran in the middle of a regime change? I mean, if you sit and think about that for two seconds, that's like mind-blowing.

1:32:49 That you have a picture taken years ago in the United States that can be alleged to look like a regime overthrow in a foreign country. That's like, what in the world? We can't trust anything we see online anymore. I can't get over that. I mean, I've thought about that all day because you posted it this morning. I'm like, that's dumbfounding to me.

1:33:23 That you have operations going on in the United States that people don't even recognize is an attempted overthrow of our government to the point where you can use the photo as an attempted overthrow of another country. A lot of people didn't even realize it. That's just mind blowing to me. Renee, go ahead. Tomorrow, do you have the second or the.

1:33:53 Excuse me, the show with CanCon and Ash? Yes. And that's at 6 p.m. East Coast time? Yes. Okay. I wanted to share, I don't know if anyone will have interest. I kind of have interest, and I thought maybe some of you would as well, that tomorrow the Covert Action magazine is having a broadcast, I guess a live.

1:34:23 um show you can buy a ticket to and um with some whistleblowers so there's going to be like and if you all don't know the covert action magazine um was the uh periodical that philip ag started many years ago and then it kind of went out of uh seeing and then his son and some other people brought it back online so i don't know i i

1:34:53 Some of the things they post seem maybe not in the direction of what we're thinking, but they're definitely promoting whistleblowers and what his father, who was a major whistleblower, went through being a former CIA and then kind of changing direction. So I put it all in the purple pill anyway, and if you all want to look and have a look, see, or maybe...

1:35:22 Watch it tomorrow. It's there. Thank you. All along. Go ahead. Yeah. Based on what you just said about the photographs of Minneapolis and Iran, you know, these hugely different places, you know, going being floated out there and it seems to be floating when it shouldn't be. It just reminds us, you know, that, you know.

1:35:55 It's important to remember, like, when did the Internet get reached, say, above 50 percent? You know, whether that was in 1999 or 2004 or three, whatever. It doesn't matter. But it's like it kind of does matter in the sense of how long it's been since then. Because if everybody has spent their entire life post with nothing in common, you know, post Internet cable synergy, then you're talking about a.

1:36:23 the body politic is in a, in effect becomes a swamp that the state can just wade through, you know, with, without even pulling their boots up too high, you know, because the media like coalitions have been so broken down at a level, even before politics at the level of media and media ecology, as in, you know, the fake left can say this so long as it lies worse than ever about that quid pro quo. Right. Then, you know, that's really important to think of how long into like,

1:36:52 full-time internet we are, because that's a key facet of, you know, what we're seeing now, the complete breakdown of any, of anything except, you know, corporate power. Yeah. True fact. Okay. Where did Bridget go? Oh, she got kicked down again. I just wanted to see if she had anything she wanted to add before we close up today. Stellar, how are you doing?

1:37:36 Oh, I can't hear you. You were breaking up. All right. I guess Bridget's otherwise occupied. Go ahead, Stellar. Try it again. Nope. They're not going to let her talk either. Oh, X. Oh, my gosh. So frustrating. Okay. Let me, Stellar, I'm going to remove you from co-host so you can at least talk.

1:38:16 I don't know what they're doing. Starling's a bit busy trying to help the Iranian people communicate right now. Okay. Go ahead, Stellar. Freaking Elon, man. As soon as I tried to undo the thing, I couldn't undo it. So I was like, that's okay. You know, the more that you talk about all these different books, and then now I hear other people talk about, oh, Eisenhower or this or this, and it's like...

1:38:46 you know, they think that these other people are good. It's like, Oh my gosh, cringe, cringe, you know, just because it's been so infiltrated for so long and it's insane and they suck. And I'm thankful that, you know, hopefully that all of this funding and all that crap will be done and go silver. Yeah. Silver is going crazy. Bridget, did you have anything? I mean, just, you know,

1:39:17 I encourage everybody when they are looking at all of the things that is going on in Minnesota, remember the strategy of vengeance. They are trying to incite something. This is straight out of the playbook, my opinion. Yeah, I agree. I agree. All right. We're going to sign off. Thank you guys for being here. I appreciate it. And we will be back tomorrow at four o'clock. We do have the CanCon.

1:39:47 book club at six tomorrow. So you guys definitely want to tune in for that for the rest of our stolen elections book. It gets crazier every chapter I read in that book. But anyway, I will see you guys tomorrow at four o'clock. Take care.

Entities here

Allen Dulles41 Mohammad Mosaddegh32 Dwight D. Eisenhower25 Reza Pahlavi25 Iran22 1953 Iranian coup d'état18 Kermit Roosevelt17 CIA15 Soviet Union10 Rome9 Tehran9 Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari9 Hotel Excelsior8 Strategic Air Command7 Nelson Rockefeller7 C. Wright Mills6 Overseas Consultants5 Anglo-Iranian Oil Company5 Robert Kennedy assassination5 Tudeh Party5 Sullivan & Cromwell5 United States4 Lloyd Henderson4 Geneva4 Clare Boothe Luce4 Standard Oil4 Minnesota4 Henry Luce4 Operation Gladio3 Frank Wisner3 Nikita Khrushchev3 Henry Kissinger3 China3 France3 Bank for International Settlements2 Offutt Air Force Base2 Licio Gelli2 Dien Bien Phu2 Front Nationale2 Los Angeles2

Claims made here

Reza Pahlavi member_of Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari documented ▶ 1:09

“the 33-year-old Shah of Iran and his glamorous 21-year-old wife. They were swept into the lobby of the Hotel Excellier in Rome's fashionable Via Veneto. The young royal couple cut a striking image.…”

Allen Dulles spied_on Reza Pahlavi host_asserted ▶ 4:21

“the Persian industrialist who owned the fourth floor suite to make it available to the royal couple was keeping the Shah under careful care. The Iranian monarchs found their accommodations to their li…”

Licio Gelli headed P2 Masonic Lodge documented ▶ 4:53

“also had become a favorite rendezvous point for espionage agents from around the world, as well as Italian men of mystery, including Lucio Galli, the leader of Propaganda Du. The conspiratorial Masoni…”

Mohammad Mosaddegh targeted_for_regime_change Anglo-Iranian Oil Company documented ▶ 7:01

“were led and financed by the CIA and the final act to a covert drama aimed at overthrowing the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restoring the Shah. Mossadegh …”

Allen Dulles funded Overseas Consultants documented ▶ 10:22

“Foster argued that the case had national security implications and it quietly disappeared, leaving Big Oil unscathed. Furthermore, Allen Dulles had a business history with the Shah in 1949 while still…”

Allen Dulles recruited Kermit Roosevelt documented ▶ 21:25

“And again, that's because they don't work for the U.S. government. They work for the oligarchs. And once the brothers fixed the administration on its course, they were confident they had the right man…”

Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack 1953 Iranian coup d'état documented ▶ 22:25

“What does that sound like? That sounds exactly like stay-behind units under the guise of a commercial deal, Overseas Consultants Inc., which Kermit was buried in, in order to set up stay-behind units …”

Lloyd Henderson ordered_assassination_of Mohammad Mosaddegh host_asserted ▶ 24:54

“which he claimed had even threatened the U.S. embassy and assaulted his chauffeur, all of which is bullshit. Henderson warned the prime minister if he didn't restore order, the U.S. would have to evac…”

Henry Luce member_of Clare Boothe Luce documented ▶ 29:56

“Henry Luce's wife. While Clover entertained herself at the hotel, Dulles, who was rumored to be sexually involved with Claire Booth Luce, spent the afternoon together watching his forces overthrow a c…”

Allen Dulles installed Reza Pahlavi documented ▶ 31:50

“find echoes in a later generation's embrace of American exceptionalism mesh neatly with that of Dulles brothers. But while Luce could only preach about the historic imperative of American power, Alan …”

Allen Dulles carried_out_attack 1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted ▶ 34:46

“of the CIA. The Shah is living in a dream world, Henderson remarked later. He seems to think his restoration was due entirely to his popularity. He knew better. Dulles would look back on the coup in I…”

Reza Pahlavi installed Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted ▶ 34:46

CIA funded 1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted ▶ 35:39

“would give his left you-know-what, well, let's just say index finger, Roosevelt said, if he could go somewhere in the field and engineer the coup himself. Dulles' handiwork could also be seen in the c…”

Reza Pahlavi overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted ▶ 36:06

“At the hotel, a curious wink and a nod, but then quickly moved on. Amid the hubbub of Mosaddegh's fall, noted the magazine, the CIA director suddenly was spotted in the hotel. But no one paid attentio…”

Standard Oil financed_via Reza Pahlavi book_quoted ▶ 38:08

“Who else would allow that to happen to their country except for a dirty, rotten scoundrel? But the hollow man proved very useful for Western interests, including those of the Dulles brothers and their…”

Kermit Roosevelt member_of Gulf Oil book_quoted ▶ 38:37

“Once again, the country's natural treasure was handed over to foreign corporations, with 40% of the spoil now going to Standard Oil through their subsidiaries. Kim Roosevelt was among those who cashed…”

Reza Pahlavi founded SAVAK book_quoted ▶ 41:12

“The country's fledging democracy was dismantled. The members of the oppositional parties and press were rounded up and driven underground. With the CIA's strong encouragement, the Shah unleashed his s…”

CIA trained Tudeh Party book_quoted ▶ 41:41

“and had ever touched Mosaddegh or any of his efforts. The Tudor party bore the brunt. With CIA assistance, the Shah's U.S.-trained security forces tracked down over 4,000 party members from 53 to 57. …”

Reza Pahlavi ordered_assassination_of Tudeh Party book_quoted ▶ 41:41

Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew Reza Pahlavi book_quoted ▶ 43:07

“on executions out of fear of the prisoner's show of bravado that was impressing large segments of the people. All hope for change was ripped from the hearts of the Iranian people, replaced by poisonou…”

Mossad trained SAVAK host_asserted ▶ 44:43

“change of government. Because one of the most telling things is the SAVAK, the Major General Norman Schwarzkopf created terrorist organization unleashed on the citizens of Iran and trained by MI6, CIA…”

CIA trained SAVAK host_asserted ▶ 44:43

Allen Dulles headed National Security Council book_quoted ▶ 55:12

“In February of 1953, the National Security Council meeting just three weeks into Eisenhower's presidency, Foster raised what he called the moral problem that hovered over all nuclear decisions. He was…”

Allen Dulles spied_on Soviet Union book_quoted ▶ 59:41

“administration an opportunity to redefine U.S. relationships with Moscow. The Kremlin's new leaders began the process of de-Stalinization, but Foster continued to counsel a hard line against the Sovie…”

Nikita Khrushchev succeeded Joseph Stalin book_quoted ▶ 1:00:11

“at the Geneva summit in 1955. This proved difficult for Ike, observed Stuart Alsop, since his whole instinct was to smile and be friendly. And then he'd kind of draw back remembering what Foster had t…”

Kermit Roosevelt carried_out_attack 1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted ▶ 1:05:49

“And not only this book, but I told you in the book, The Determined Spy about Frank Wisner, he was intimately involved in the planning with Kermit Roosevelt of the Iran coup. And he talks about it a lo…”

Frank Wisner carried_out_attack 1953 Iranian coup d'état book_quoted ▶ 1:05:49

Nelson Rockefeller succeeded C.D. Jackson host_asserted ▶ 1:13:07

“The NSC coordinated at a critical time by Nelson Rockefeller and Kissinger. And this is the other thing I know I'm babbling on here for a sec, but I think it's another reason it's not emphasized is be…”

Lyman Lemnitzer member_of Strategic Air Command host_asserted ▶ 1:15:03

“It's a massive propaganda campaign to completely obfuscate Nelson Rockefeller between 1955 and 1964, 5, 6, whichever one you want. So I don't disagree with anything you said. And I think that single a…”

Curtis LeMay headed Strategic Air Command host_asserted ▶ 1:15:35

“Curtis LeMay and all of those generals, Curtis LeMay is the guy you're talking about that was in charge of SAC at the time, the Strategic Air Command, which would have been the general delivering the …”

Bank for International Settlements carried_out_attack Guatemala host_asserted ▶ 1:23:35

“And they'll say, well, we'll protect you and we will help your population and we'll help you with business and loans and blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, they'd rug pull them eventually and coup …”

Bank for International Settlements carried_out_attack Paraguay host_asserted ▶ 1:23:35

Rockefeller funded Brazil host_asserted ▶ 1:23:58

“Yeah, you can see parallels of what was going on, Iran, and then kind of in our hemisphere of setting stuff up. And the Rockefellers, following what All Along was saying, were in Brazil, in South Amer…”

Philip Agee founded Covert Action Information Bulletin host_asserted ▶ 1:34:23

“um show you can buy a ticket to and um with some whistleblowers so there's going to be like and if you all don't know the covert action magazine um was the uh periodical that philip ag started many ye…”