The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14

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1:40 All right, let's try that. So he said that it made it hard to find out who was part of this fascist movement because they were camouflaging themselves as communist, which we already know. It was never really ever about fighting communism. He said when General Joaquin Zetento, Anya,

2:11 Bolivia's ambassador to France was shot down in Paris in May of 1976. A caller to the police claimed that Che Cavera and his brigade had murdered him to avenge the capture of Che in Bolivia. An eyewitness claimed to have recognized the assailant as an infamous left-wing terrorist by the name of Carlos.

2:42 One month later, it was written and reported that the assassin had been part of a Madrid Consulate Hotel group where they hung out and were part of a Bolivian intelligence agent by the name of Savatra and three terrorists from

3:15 The Skorzeny Paladin Company. Oh, so it was a Gladio hit. Also, inspection of Zenteno Aña's politics revealed his opposition to Bolivian President Banzer and allegiance to ex-President Torres, whose murder in Argentina followed shortly after Zenteno.

3:47 Then it was the turn of former Chilean, former minister Orlando Letier to be murdered by Chilean and Cuban terror, Cuban exile terrorists, let's be clear, in Washington. Soon after which the establishment, U.S. press, i.e. the CIA, cited CIA and FBI sources, said, hey, it's the communists in Chile that did that.

4:18 But it wasn't. In connection with these assassinations, it's appropriate to quote a report entitled Latin America Murder, Inc. Quote, a still classified staff report on questionable foreign intelligence operations in the U.S. prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations shed some new light.

4:47 on cooperation in security matters between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, i.e. Operation Condor. It doesn't say that, though. According to the Senate report, which has been leaked to the press in the U.S., the joint operation is known as Condor. The Senate report mentioned a three-phase

5:17 Operation Condor, which involved the formation of special teams to carry out sanctions, including the assassination of enemies of its constituent governments. And by enemies, it means patriots in the country that doesn't want to live under the CIA-installed dictator. And the CIA was extra helpful to their installed dictators because they left.

5:48 kill list on who the dissidents were to make sure you get them all. And then they supplemented by at least half the Office of Public Safety under the guise of USAID and set up black site prisons, torture techniques, trained all of the national police and National Guard on how to do that, how to kidnap people, torture them.

6:18 turn in other neighbors you know the phoenix program in south america it goes on the best known killing of this type was the bomb attack on orlando ledier in september of 1976 in washington condor's role in this emerged during the testimony of fbi agent bob shearer who investigated the case and gave evidence at the trial of michael townley

6:48 He testified to the use of Condor as a channel by which the Chilean DINA, thanks to the CIA, Chief General Manuel Contreras, tried to get U.S. visas for two of the agents involved. An impressive list of murders may now be laid at the door of Operation Condor. These include the killings of General Carlos Prats of Chile, Juan...

7:20 Jose Torres of Bolivia in Argentina, Uruguayan politicians Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, Zalmer Michellini, also in Argentina, Bolivia's General Joaquim Zenteno Aña, and Uruguay's Colonel Ramon Trabal in Paris.

7:50 and the attempted assassination of Chilean Senator Bernardo Leighton. Now, that's one of about 100,000, or however many, a handful of 100,000. The Senate report disclosed that Condor had considered establishing its own operational base in Miami. Well, it actually had one, they just don't know it, in 1974. But according to the report,

8:21 This was headed off by a CIA protest through regular intelligence channels. And if you believe that, I can sell you swampland in Florida. In this case, the CIA informed the Chilean DINA of the U.S.'s displeasure and no Miami station was opened. That's the biggest load of horse crap there is. The Miami station, that was there.

8:51 is overseeing all operations in Latin America. The CIA had infiltrated every aspect of the DINA, the National Police, the National Guard. They owned a freaking large media company in Chile, the equivalent of the New York Times. Now, technically speaking, they didn't need.

9:24 rear headquarters, although they did because Crypto AG and all of the other IBM, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, all of those had to be funneled and maintained out of somewhere. And that was Miami. All of the coordination, who they were sending to School of Americas, all of that stuff was ran out of Miami to insult us with the thought that the CIA protested

9:55 through regular intelligence channels is a crock of crap. They led this entire operation. Good grief. According to the Senate report, the FBI concluded early in its investigation that the latter year assassination, that the murder might have been carried out as a phase of Operation Condor. Good on you.

10:28 So if the FBI knew about Operation Condor, what did they do about it? Do you remember reading any articles in the 70s and 80s about Operation Condor? Was that on the front page of any newspaper? No? No. Presumably, third phase will now go into the lexicon of euphemisms alongside the CIA's

10:56 terminate with extreme prejudice instead of assassinate. The fact that the operation was known to the United States at least five years ago makes no sense of its shock surprise at the time of Vladimir's death. Yeah. Yeah, we know about it because we're running it. And we're running it with recruits from the FBI school.

11:27 Every single one of the people that I researched that was in the Office of Public Safety as a former police had all attended the FBI Academy, which is where, while they're a police officer, which is where they were being recruited from. Sure, they knew about it. The advent of democracy in Spain was fought bitterly by the international fascist. At least 70...

11:55 lives fell victim to the struggle within the first half of 1977. Well, you have like half of the freaking Nazis that left Germany and their children there by now. You allowed Otto Skorzeny to run an international assassin team out of Spain. If you think they're going to give that up very easily, you've got another thing coming. On January 24th, fascist arms with machine pistols stormed

12:27 A midtown Madrid attorney's office and opened fire on 12 lawyers who had defended what they viewed as, quote unquote, leftists. Since the lawyers were killed, the rest were seriously in six of the lawyers were killed. The rest were seriously injured over the last over the next.

12:54 Three days after that assassination, right-wing terrorists murdered four others, two of them students, which led to the arrest of Carlos Perez, the Cuban exile associated with Argentina's AAA. They're Gladio. Gladio, Gladio, Gladio. On 22 February 1977, Madrid police discovered a factory where Italian Ordine Nuovo, New Order,

13:27 Gladio, fascist, had manufactured handguns. The building had been rented from an order of nuns, the Catholic Church. And Otto Skorzeny's good friend, Moreno Sanchez Cobisa, name was on the rent contract.

14:02 a Catholic facility to manufacture guns in. And that comes up many times in the Opus Dei investigations during this timeframe. A lot of that clique in Europe was all associated with this too, which is another order of the Catholic Church. Following the discovery, the police investigated.

14:35 a bank box in the name of italian fascist kingpin ilio masagrande in it they found a small fortune oh gold bars you mean like the ones they were leaving in gladio stashes and 10 million dollars that was linked to a bank robbery

15:05 That was masterminded by a French Gladio guy from OAS, Albert Spagari. This led to the roundup of many Spanish fascist slash Gladio guys. Stefano Delachey, Marco Pazan, Aladore Pomor, and a whole bunch of others. Spanish authorities, however, were pressured by the Italian.

15:37 Local protectors and the terrorists were all released. Because remember, this is still back in the 70s. They're still hiding all of this shit from us. We've got all of these people killing our citizens. So let's arrest them. Ring, ring. Hey, let them assassins go. We've spent good money training them and we're using them all over the world. We cannot afford to have them locked up.

16:11 huh, Masa Grande and Gatano Orlando went to Paraguay where they were arrested in December of 1977 and released within days by the dictator Strassner. And then they just lived there. I'm sure they were fine. And I'm sure they didn't have anything to do with the Office of Public Safety or USAID or CIA or any of Operation Condor. Because there's like an open,

16:45 exchange of assassins between Latin America and Europe back and forth. In August of 77, the Spanish AAA stole jewels worth $20 million from a cathedral. The police recovered most of the jewels when several terrorists were stopped at the Portuguese border.

17:11 I wonder if they called a ginger press and said, hey, I'm bringing my stash over for you guys to hide. That same month, international fascist, Italian, Spanish, Argentine and Cuban exiles, meaning the U.S. CIA guys, had terrorist contingencies that were represented where? Oh, there was just this little meeting over in this little island called Taiwan of this.

17:44 organization called the World Anti-Communist League. So all of the terrorists get together and have a convention in an organization called the World Anti-Communist League, while at the same time, they're pretending to be communists to commit assassinations. No big deal. In April of 78, the parties behind International Fascist formed an umbrella organization. It was called

18:16 euro right as a response to an entity called euro communism. They probably created that one too, but whatever. Picky, picky, picky. Charter members included Italian fascist party members, Spain fascist party members.

18:42 and they list a whole bunch of them they're not ones of names that come up very often belgium was there greece was there in may one of those people attending the euro right showed up at a wacko meeting world anti-communist league in washington dc 27 june 1978 euro right

19:14 had another meeting in paris and july 18th its leader met in madrid with latin american fascist the primary one was from argentina because they seem to have taken the lead on condor in many respects they definitely were the most gruesome they're the ones that had aircraft that they dropped people out that had been drugged and not yet dead

19:49 in the middle of the ocean to disappear them in addition to all the other horrific um assassination plots its representative at the april 79 wackle assembly in paraguay was one of those fascist members as well and finally in 79 several euro right members you'll never guess what they got elected to

20:24 The European Parliament. What? Yeah, a whole bunch of them, actually. The springboard was the Miami CIA office, largest one in the world at the time. And, of course, it springboarded this whole collective. But it wasn't ran out of there. It definitely was not ran out of there, according to the CIA. They also.

21:02 had the cover organization World Service, and that was based in Miami. Not Condor, definitely not Condor, but everything that was about Condor was definitely in Miami. I'm sorry, this is just so ridiculous. So one of the people told the author that the front in Miami employed people known

21:38 to be associated with the Jinter Press, which is Portugal's Operation Gladio. It also says the niece bank robber, Albert Spagari, was in Miami right before the bank robbery and was in touch with the CIA then, definitely not at the Operation Condor Center that doesn't exist, and got in contact with the CIA after the bank robbery. Ten months later,

22:10 Money and gold stolen from the bank were in the safe deposit box of Italian Gladio operators in Spain. And it also says that Paladin agent K flew to Miami before their theft of the Mirage millions. Huh. Do you think that...

22:43 No, the CIA wasn't behind all those bank robberies, were they? Also, a gentra press people were in Spain and Michael Townley and other DINA agents all love to visit Miami, not to do any planning because that's definitely not done in Miami. Huh. So did they just change the name out in front of JM Wave to be JM Condor? Because that's.

23:22 exactly what it appears that happened and of course the author notes that the home of cia fronts like c supply corporation double check corporation zenith technical enterprises gibraltar steamship corporation vanguard services and it's a very long list all headquartered in miami all front companies for the cia

23:50 doing narco-trafficking, assassinations, and all that wonderful stuff. So definitely could not have a headquarters there. All right. His postscript to the book. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The current talk of Paris, right before the book went to print, is the cover-up of the investigation of the Christmas 1976 murder of Prince Jean D.

24:25 Broglie, a former French cabinet member and co-founder of his brother-in-law, President d'Estaing Republican Party. When he left the government in 67, de Broglie plunged into the shadowy export-import business, choosing as his associates narcotics traffickers and arms traffickers.

24:55 Following a five-day investigation, then Interior Minister Mikhail Poniatowski fingered two members of the OAS, Gladio and France, underground, who were later released for lack of evidence, or they're vital to the mission. Poniatowski's lame attempt to minimize the president's embarrassment is now being compared to the Ben Barca affair.

25:29 and cover-up, which is not to imply that the sensational deja vu is a monopoly of France. One needn't be an apologist for Russia's involvement in Afghanistan to see the history repeat itself in CIA support for the side financing the opium. Yes, but if you notice that, you're a communist sympathizer. By the time the agency admitted supplying arms to the Afghan insurgents, it had long been known

26:03 That the same group supported themselves from drug trafficking. As reported earlier, quote, feudal landlords whose buildings are threatened with confiscation by the government are bringing the produce of their poppy crops to Pakistan and use the proceeds to buy rifles, explosives, and other weapons. Pakistani arms merchants report that their new customers come in daily.

26:33 with heroin so they can get guns. And this is a much better arrangement if they're going to bring the heroin to you than having to actually go and get it. Really cuts down on cost. Guns for drugs, the same scenario in Laos, Burma, Latin America, blah, blah, blah. In the New York Times, Afghani rebel leader Syed Ahmed Galani

27:04 was described as an aristocrat tied to former King Zayr Shah and owner of their local car dealership in Kabul. Not a, not a narco trafficker. He's a businessman. He owns a car dealership. You mean like the car dealerships that was owned in LA that was trafficking all the narcotics? Yeah, same thing.

27:37 His ancestral holdings confiscated. He was then unwritten by the Saudis. Ghilani's followers, reports Counterspy magazine, are for the most part tribesmen, harvesters of opium. Not long after the major dislocation began, tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan were replacing Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle as the major source.

28:09 of opium for Western Europe and beginning to ship it to the United States. That was the whole purpose. This was reported prior to the Russian invasion. It was a cover-up. It was reported by none other than DEA Director Peter Benzinger. He added that the Afghani police were vigorously combating the narcotics traffic. Okay. Yeah.

28:42 Thanks to their Russian advisors and the decrease, they had a decrease in corruption. So the Russians were there actually trying to help. So we just went to war with them. Most of the European, the Europe's heroin was arriving in West Germany from Turkey. The Turkish fascist party and their gray wolves, i.e. Gladio, was trafficking opium and buying drugs.

29:13 Or buying guns, sorry. As in Afghanistan, Iran's problem, too, have been a shot in the arm for the drug trade. That this is not taken lightly by the Ayatollahs was shown by a recent firing squad execution in Tehran of 20 drug traffickers. Americans, meanwhile, have been learning. And again, this is back in the 70s. Well, it'd be in the 80s at this point. Let me check that. When did this book?

29:46 get published uh 1980. so they had just taken over and weirdly enough they're executing drug traffickers what that's crazy america's meanwhile have been learning about a quarter century of cia teamwork with gestapo nazis i don't know that we actually learned that but okay the shah's secret police savak which had long been operating as

30:20 of force inside of Afghanistan, weirdly enough, in the drug industry. Oh, that's right. That was created by the CIA and MI6. What am I thinking? Among the more notable developments was one evoked by April 1980 trial in Wilmington, Delaware of SAVAK agent, Siroc Bantara.

30:47 cousin of Iran's last prime minister under the Shah and son of Savak's founder, on charges of selling heroin to federal agents. One week before the trial was to open, former CIA agent Donald Densalia, who had met Bakhtar while working for Savak, threatened to reveal the names of 7,500 CIA agents.

31:17 Hostages in Iran included unless the charges against him were dropped. So the CIA is saying don't prosecute him unless you want to lose the entire... I would have taken that in a heartbeat. I'd have let him have all of the names. Holy shit. Wow. When Bakhtar was found guilty...

31:54 And sentenced to 15 years in prison, Donsalia gave a list of names to the Wilmington News Journal, which chose not to print them. Of course not. The same newspaper reported, however, that Bakhtar and his two co-defendants were among a group of Iranian intelligence operatives who resorted to the smuggling of heroin to finance a

32:23 quote unquote see there's always a good reason why you want to send drugs all over the world we were going to fight back we're going to fight back with that money yeah a member of the and keep in mind this is 1980. yeah that's not what you were doing there wasn't a counter-revolution because there hadn't even been a revolution yet it had just happened or was in the middle of happening however you want to

33:00 Because after they actually did the revolution, there were many factions in that revolution. The religious zealous obviously started killing all their competition, but they definitely used that competition to get rid of the Shah. It wasn't as clean. It's like the Russian revolution where you had several different factions inside.

33:25 But of course, the Western oligarchs got behind the Bolsheviks and screwed all the rest of the Russians. A member of the State Department Italian or Iranian task force confirmed the Iranian aristocracy cashed the local currency into heroin. Yeah, under the Shah. Furthermore, DEA sources acknowledge that until shortly before the Shah's departure, all Sivak drug arrests.

34:00 were automatically dropped. All SAVAK drug arrests were never prosecuted. The SAVAK was ran by MI6 and the CIA. It was the exact same thing as the DINA and every other horrible, torturous, and yes, it was set up by USAID, Office of Public Safety, and trained by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf.

34:34 Not a single drug case was ever prosecuted under the SABAC because it's a little difficult when the CIA is running both to prosecute over here one of their people over here. It's not going to happen. In August of 79, two Cuban exiles and a Turkish-American owner of a Manhattan restaurant

35:05 restaurant was arrested selling four pounds of middle eastern heroin to an undercover agent prompting the times nicholas gage to speculate that the latino drug dealers were in business with turkish suppliers five months later dea regional director john fallon reported that 48 of all heroin confiscated in new york could be traced back to the middle east

35:35 like the Savak that's selling it under the guise of the CIA. In late February, Attorney General Benjamin Kabaletti targeted Baltimore, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington for enforcements to halt the flood of high-grade heroin from Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. I actually could have just shortened that up and said from the CIA.

36:02 The DEA reported a combined 1979 harvest of 1,600 tons, 10 times the figure for the Golden Triangle, and 100 times the amount ever contemplated, approximated coming out of Mexico. But your government back in the 70s was telling you it's all coming from Mexico. As noted earlier, drug trade realignments of this magnitude.

36:32 are paralleled by realignment of the underworld 12 july 1979 gangland slot slayings in brooklyn of carmine galanti might have been connected to the fight for the control of east coast heroin trade galante was the reported boss of the new york banano crime family which according to a 1978

36:59 New York Police Department report controls a large majority of the heroin shipped from Canada to the U.S. On March 21, 1980, a day after appearing before the New Jersey State Commission on Investigations, Angelo Bruno, reputed capo of the Philadelphia Southern New Jersey crime organization, was shot to death in front of his home. Speculations as to why included mafia squabbling.

37:30 over half a billion dollars worth of industry growth in the Atlantis City gambling area and control over that racket, which Bruno reportedly refused to share with any other interested parties. Philadelphia police, however, felt Bruno's killing might have been related to his reported aversion to dealing in narcotics.

38:00 That'll definitely get you killed in the mob. Coincidentally, three days before Bruno's murder, two Gambino cousins had been arrested in their Cherry Hill, New Jersey restaurant on charges of conspiring to smuggle $10 million worth of heroin into New York. Two of the Gambino clan, who federal law enforcement officials say ran 200 Southern New York pizza joints,

38:32 employing illegal aliens, had allegedly masterminded the smuggling of 90 pounds of heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan by way of Milan. What makes their case more intriguing is that the Gambino connection to the powerful Milan financier was Mikhail Sedona, God's banker to the Vatican, mafia who they assassinated.

39:05 by poisoning his coffee. Sedona was convicted in New York in late March, so it's right around the same time, where he had looted $45 million from Franklin National Bank. Huh. On August 2nd, 1979, three weeks after the assassination in Milan of the lawyer chosen to liquidate Sedona's bankruptcy,

39:41 And one month before the scheduled opening of his New York trial, Sedona disappeared, supposedly kidnapped by the leftists. He actually faked his own kidnapping. It didn't work out for him. Sedona's fortunes suffered another setback when Italian and U.S. agents established that he had arranged his own disappearing act. As to Sedona, his co-defendant in the U.S., Carlo Bordani,

40:13 repeatedly told the Italian magazine Panorama that Michele Sedona was and still is one of the mafia's bankers, the route through which organized crime passes across the Atlantic. Back in 67, Interpol had asked the Italian police if they could verify that he and others were involved in illicit movement of narcotics between Italy and the U.S. and possibly European countries.

40:40 The response from Interpol was absolutely not. Sedona's connections to the presidential administration of Richard Nixon, right up there with Robert Vesco, are more firmly established. Sedona's Italian banks were investment partners with Continental Illinois Bank. Where's the line I when I need them? Headed by David Kennedy, Nixon's first treasury secretary.

41:12 and director of Fasco International, Sedona's Luxembourg-based holding company. So let me get this straight. Continental Illinois Bank was the bank that was caught up in the whole savings and loan fiasco. And when Marcinkus, Archbishop Marcinkus, was the lead...

41:46 Bishop in Chicago. He banked there. And when he got selected to run the bank at the Vatican that's money laundering for the intelligence agencies, narcotic networks, where did they send him for his one week, here's how banking works? Continental Illinois, the bank that was money laundering. And it was ran at that time by David Kennedy.

42:23 David Kennedy, who is money laundering and teaching the new Vatican Bank Archbishop how to do this whole network and hide all this money. That guy running that bank was Richard Nixon's Secretary of Treasury. He also was in business with what...

42:54 This is literally Sedona's nickname, God's banker. All of the money the Vatican was laundering, hundreds of billions of dollars got so big that the Vatican just at the Vatican Bank couldn't do it. They set up like 23 shell companies in the Caribbean, all over Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, so they could launder all of this money. It was so much money.

43:24 It exceeded the capability of laundering at the Vatican Bank. That guy was in business with Kennedy at the Continental Illinois Bank. And that guy becomes the Secretary of Treasury. Holy moly. Sedona's interests were represented in the U.S. by Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander. That's the law firm.

43:56 of nixon's attorney general john mitchell john mitchell worked at the law firm representing the mafia god's banker of the vatican yeah so you got the treasury guy on one end and you got the ag on the other end what do you think's gonna happen oh nixon's the same guy that ran the fake drug war yeah that turned all of the shit over to the cia yeah that nixon

44:33 In Italy, Sedona orchestrated the efforts of the fascist deputy Luigi Turgi to garner Italian support for the Nixon election campaign. I don't know why we need Italian support, but whatever. Sedona offered $1 million to the creep, which is the reelection campaign for Richard Nixon's treasurer, Maurice Stans. They said they didn't take it.

45:04 But just in case you're wondering, tonight we're going to talk about Castle Bank again in relation to another intelligence organization most people's never heard of. And wouldn't you know that in that research, Castle Bank, along with the Pritzker family, their largest depositor, had an account for Richard Milhouse Nixon.

45:35 So anytime, and there's lots of times when you research this, people allegedly gave Nixon money and people said they didn't. Well, they may have actually given him money and it just be kept on deposit at Castle Bank. And for those of you who don't know, Castle Bank was a CIA front bank in the Bahamas set up by none other than Paul Helliwell, who set up.

46:02 the entire narcotics trafficking network with william polly and a whole bunch of other people claire chanel in southeast asia it's all related while sedona was out vescoing robert vesco himself the cia was exploiting sedona's political sympathies and connections in italy they didn't need him they created him

46:33 According to the House of Representatives Pike report on CIA activities, Sedona was a key channel for millions distributed by the agency to their Gladio program in Italy and affiliated organizations and political candidates so they can interfere in yet another election. Part of the payoff held finance the fascist coup in December of 1970. Another portion was allocated to the fascist strategy of tension, i.e. Gladio.

47:02 Why don't they use that word? In which the Italian intelligence officers and fascists conspired to do bombings and blame it on the communist. A key figure in the 69 bombing and the 1970 coup attempt was none other than Stefano Delasche. As we go to print, we find confirmation of his role in 1975 attempted assassination on Bernardo Leighton in Rome.

47:33 In John Dingus and Saul Landau's penetrating book, Assassination on Embassy Row, Delachey had been contacted for the hit by Michael Townley of the Chilean Dina and Virgisio Paz in Miami and Union City, New Jersey-based Cuban exile movement. So there you go. It's all connected. All right.

48:04 That's it. We got about 10 minutes for questions and answers. And then I got to run. That's the end of the book. And it was quite a scandalous book in itself, wasn't it? It definitely was. It's so fun reading these books now that we know what we're actually reading about. That might just be me, though. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I want to thank everyone for being here on.

48:38 YouTube grumbling and spaces. This book has been an eye opener and a game changer in names of people who are involved in crap they shouldn't be involved in. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. So just so that you know, I know Donnie Vision just asked a question. There is the book that I've been reading, Spooks.

49:07 that goes along almost parallel with this book there is a couple of chapters in that book i'm not going to do the whole book because it'd be completely redundant at this point since we just did this book um but there are a couple of chapters that over the next couple of days we're going to go through um because they shed some light on a lot of things number one i didn't know and number two it might actually explain richard nixon

49:37 There's a lot of information in there about Richard Nixon. I found the organization we're going to talk about tonight on Alpha Show, both of those organizations, the 3i slash 5i that we talked about last, and the Intertel organization, both of those came out of that book.

50:07 done a lot more research than just this book, but I just finished the book last night. So I do want to take, since we're in this vein in this time period, that opportunity to kind of double up that information, reinforce the information. It's not anything that's covered in this book.

50:31 But it does go into some behind the scenes with Richard Nixon that may clear up some questions that we have about him. So, SR, go ahead. I guess Richard Nixon's tapes didn't do us justice in what's going on, really. But it is interesting that they gave us a big hint of what was going on. Well, most people that I talk to anyway.

51:02 are completely clueless of Nixon's role during the Eisenhower administration in Iran and Guatemala and Indonesia. They have no clue. They don't even associate the two together at all. And then once you tell them that and you start going through the coups that happened during his administration, like Chile, they, again, have no clue. They're like, how does that play in?

51:30 obviously somebody's paying him to do this. Somebody owns him to do this. And I put out a post earlier today. I honestly think, I'm more convinced now than ever, I'll just say it that way, that the entire operation may have been arranged. I'm just going to say that.

51:57 I do believe that you have to step back from these situations and look at what the overall results of these things are. And what you find out is that you could not have had Nixon in the White House as deeply involved in all of this shit that you're going to find out he is and the whole coup thing we already know about.

52:29 But what happened in 1975 when they were doing all of the investigation into the CIA? I believe, honestly, that the arrangement was you dig as much as you want on the CIA and leave my name out of it and I'll bow out. You botch this Watergate thing, do whatever it is that you want to do. I'm out. You pardon me. I'm good. And oh, by the way.

52:56 They pardoned him for everything in his administration, not just Watergate. All of the coups, all of the money laundering, all of the everything. And you're going to see he was knee deep in all of it. And none of that came out during the investigation into the CIA. They buried it. And he was up to his eyeballs in it. So that's my speculation at this point. Why are you so mad? Go ahead. Then I got to run.

53:29 You keep asking a very important question. There are so many books out there that have like piece and parcel of Operation Gladio, but they never come right out and say Gladio. Nope. Is there, I mean, do you think it's because they don't know about Gladio or do you think it's in some cases to where they're just, they don't want to say it? So any book. You're involved in saying it?

53:57 Any book, well, yes, there's a huge fear because somebody can go do their own research. That's the fear now. But this book was written in 1980. There was no such thing known as Operation Gladio. The name of the Italian program, Operation Gladio, part of a greater strategy of tension going on was not known by anyone. They didn't know it had a name.

54:23 Basically, at that point, they were called stay behind units. And even then, if they even knew about that concept, it was something that was excused because it was, quote unquote, anti-communist. And they were only there as a preparatory stage in case they all got overran by the Soviet Union, which was ludicrous on its surface. But whatever.

54:46 We can say that now. We didn't live during that time. I'll give him that grace. But the entire operation was set up for domestic terrorism from the get-go. And until the 2nd of August 1990, it didn't have a name other than stay-behind units. On the 2nd of August 1990 was the first time someone said,

55:17 there is a thing called operation gladio so to your point anything after that it is that's published that talks all around it and never mentions it is done on purpose because you cannot research any part of this and not come up with it so anyway i mean if i can find it people who are paid to do this can find it that's all i'm going to say

55:49 All right. Thanks for being here, everybody. I will see you tonight. Oh, new time tonight. Alpha wanted to do it at 830. So we're going to start at 830. You don't want to miss it. Take care, everybody. See you guys.

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Operation Gladio13 Michele Sindona13 Miami10 Richard Nixon10 Spain9 Operation Condor9 Iran8 Argentina7 Chile7 New York City7 DINA6 Bolivia5 Afghanistan5 Italy5 SAVAK5 Paris4 Washington, D.C.4 David Kennedy4 ICITAP4 Madrid4 Cuba4 Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company4 Paraguay3 USAID3 Stefano Delle Chiaie3 Philadelphia3 Aginter Press3 Joaquin Zenteno Aña3 Milan3 Otto Skorzeny3 Michael Townley3 Euro-Right3 World Anti-Communist League2 Bernardo Leighton2 Orlando Letelier2 Strategy of tension2 Robert Vesco2 France2 Catholic Church2 Castle Bank & Trust2

Claims made here

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez carried_out_attack Joaquin Zenteno Aña host_asserted ▶ 2:11

“Bolivia's ambassador to France was shot down in Paris in May of 1976. A caller to the police claimed that Che Cavera and his brigade had murdered him to avenge the capture of Che in Bolivia. An eyewit…”

SAVAK member_of Skorzeny Paladin Company host_asserted ▶ 2:42

“One month later, it was written and reported that the assassin had been part of a Madrid Consulate Hotel group where they hung out and were part of a Bolivian intelligence agent by the name of Savatra…”

Joaquin Zenteno Aña relationship_with Juan José Torres documented ▶ 3:15

“The Skorzeny Paladin Company. Oh, so it was a Gladio hit. Also, inspection of Zenteno Aña's politics revealed his opposition to Bolivian President Banzer and allegiance to ex-President Torres, whose m…”

Joaquin Zenteno Aña relationship_with Hugo Banzer documented ▶ 3:15

Operation Condor member_of Paraguay documented ▶ 4:47

“on cooperation in security matters between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, i.e. Operation Condor. It doesn't say that, though. According to the Senate report, which has been …”

Operation Condor member_of Argentina documented ▶ 4:47

Operation Condor member_of Uruguay documented ▶ 4:47

Operation Condor member_of Bolivia documented ▶ 4:47

Operation Condor member_of Brazil documented ▶ 4:47

Operation Condor member_of Chile documented ▶ 4:47

Bob Shearer exposed Operation Condor documented ▶ 6:18

“turn in other neighbors you know the phoenix program in south america it goes on the best known killing of this type was the bomb attack on orlando ledier in september of 1976 in washington condor's r…”

DINA headed Manuel Contreras documented ▶ 6:48

“He testified to the use of Condor as a channel by which the Chilean DINA, thanks to the CIA, Chief General Manuel Contreras, tried to get U.S. visas for two of the agents involved. An impressive list …”

Operation Condor assassinated Carlos Prats documented ▶ 6:48

Operation Condor assassinated Juan José Torres documented ▶ 7:20

“Jose Torres of Bolivia in Argentina, Uruguayan politicians Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, Zalmer Michellini, also in Argentina, Bolivia's General Joaquim Zenteno Aña, and Uruguay's Colonel Ramon Trabal in Par…”

Operation Condor assassinated Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz documented ▶ 7:20

Operation Condor assassinated Salmerón Michellini documented ▶ 7:20

Operation Condor assassinated Ramón Trabal documented ▶ 7:20

Operation Condor assassinated Joaquin Zenteno Aña documented ▶ 7:20

Operation Condor attempted_assassination_of Bernardo Leighton documented ▶ 7:50

“and the attempted assassination of Chilean Senator Bernardo Leighton. Now, that's one of about 100,000, or however many, a handful of 100,000. The Senate report disclosed that Condor had considered es…”

Otto Skorzeny headed Skorzeny Paladin Company host_asserted ▶ 11:55

“lives fell victim to the struggle within the first half of 1977. Well, you have like half of the freaking Nazis that left Germany and their children there by now. You allowed Otto Skorzeny to run an i…”

Ordine Nuovo member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 12:54

“Three days after that assassination, right-wing terrorists murdered four others, two of them students, which led to the arrest of Carlos Perez, the Cuban exile associated with Argentina's AAA. They're…”

Moreno Sánchez Cobisa relationship_with Otto Skorzeny documented ▶ 13:27

“Gladio, fascist, had manufactured handguns. The building had been rented from an order of nuns, the Catholic Church. And Otto Skorzeny's good friend, Moreno Sanchez Cobisa, name was on the rent contra…”

Ilio Masagrande member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 14:35

“a bank box in the name of italian fascist kingpin ilio masagrande in it they found a small fortune oh gold bars you mean like the ones they were leaving in gladio stashes and 10 million dollars that w…”

Stefano Delle Chiaie member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 15:05

“That was masterminded by a French Gladio guy from OAS, Albert Spagari. This led to the roundup of many Spanish fascist slash Gladio guys. Stefano Delachey, Marco Pazan, Aladore Pomor, and a whole bunc…”

Alfredo Stroessner pardoned Ilio Masagrande documented ▶ 16:11

“huh, Masa Grande and Gatano Orlando went to Paraguay where they were arrested in December of 1977 and released within days by the dictator Strassner. And then they just lived there. I'm sure they were…”

Alfredo Stroessner pardoned Gatano Orlando documented ▶ 16:11

Alianza Anticomunista Argentina carried_out_attack Spain documented ▶ 16:45

“exchange of assassins between Latin America and Europe back and forth. In August of 77, the Spanish AAA stole jewels worth $20 million from a cathedral. The police recovered most of the jewels when se…”

Euro-Right member_of Greece documented ▶ 18:16

“euro right as a response to an entity called euro communism. They probably created that one too, but whatever. Picky, picky, picky. Charter members included Italian fascist party members, Spain fascis…”

Euro-Right member_of Belgium documented ▶ 18:16

World Anti-Communist League member_of Euro-Right host_asserted ▶ 18:42

“and they list a whole bunch of them they're not ones of names that come up very often belgium was there greece was there in may one of those people attending the euro right showed up at a wacko meetin…”

Aginter Press member_of Operation Gladio documented ▶ 21:38

“to be associated with the Jinter Press, which is Portugal's Operation Gladio. It also says the niece bank robber, Albert Spagari, was in Miami right before the bank robbery and was in touch with the C…”

Prince Jean de Broglie relationship_with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing documented ▶ 24:25

“Broglie, a former French cabinet member and co-founder of his brother-in-law, President d'Estaing Republican Party. When he left the government in 67, de Broglie plunged into the shadowy export-import…”

Syed Ahmed Gailani relationship_with Zahir Shah documented ▶ 27:04

“was described as an aristocrat tied to former King Zayr Shah and owner of their local car dealership in Kabul. Not a, not a narco trafficker. He's a businessman. He owns a car dealership. You mean lik…”

Syed Ahmed Gailani lived_in Kabul documented ▶ 27:04

Grey Wolves member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 28:42

“Thanks to their Russian advisors and the decrease, they had a decrease in corruption. So the Russians were there actually trying to help. So we just went to war with them. Most of the European, the Eu…”

SAVAK funded Iran host_asserted ▶ 29:46

“get published uh 1980. so they had just taken over and weirdly enough they're executing drug traffickers what that's crazy america's meanwhile have been learning about a quarter century of cia teamwor…”

Yves Guérin-Sérac member_of SAVAK documented ▶ 30:47

“cousin of Iran's last prime minister under the Shah and son of Savak's founder, on charges of selling heroin to federal agents. One week before the trial was to open, former CIA agent Donald Densalia,…”

Donald DeSanctis relationship_with Yves Guérin-Sérac documented ▶ 30:47

SAVAK trafficked Iran documented ▶ 31:54

“And sentenced to 15 years in prison, Donsalia gave a list of names to the Wilmington News Journal, which chose not to print them. Of course not. The same newspaper reported, however, that Bakhtar and …”

Michele Sindona did_business_with Robert Vesco host_asserted ▶ 40:40

“The response from Interpol was absolutely not. Sedona's connections to the presidential administration of Richard Nixon, right up there with Robert Vesco, are more firmly established. Sedona's Italian…”

David Kennedy appointed Richard Nixon documented ▶ 40:40

David Kennedy headed Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company host_asserted ▶ 40:40

Michele Sindona did_business_with Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company host_asserted ▶ 40:40

Michele Sindona founded FASCI International host_asserted ▶ 41:12

“and director of Fasco International, Sedona's Luxembourg-based holding company. So let me get this straight. Continental Illinois Bank was the bank that was caught up in the whole savings and loan fia…”

Marcinkus did_business_with Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company host_asserted ▶ 41:46

“Bishop in Chicago. He banked there. And when he got selected to run the bank at the Vatican that's money laundering for the intelligence agencies, narcotic networks, where did they send him for his on…”

Marcinkus headed Catholic Church host_asserted ▶ 41:46

David Kennedy taught_at Marcinkus host_asserted ▶ 42:23

“David Kennedy, who is money laundering and teaching the new Vatican Bank Archbishop how to do this whole network and hide all this money. That guy running that bank was Richard Nixon's Secretary of Tr…”

Michele Sindona did_business_with Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander host_asserted ▶ 43:24

“It exceeded the capability of laundering at the Vatican Bank. That guy was in business with Kennedy at the Continental Illinois Bank. And that guy becomes the Secretary of Treasury. Holy moly. Sedona'…”

John Mitchell member_of Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander host_asserted ▶ 43:56

“of nixon's attorney general john mitchell john mitchell worked at the law firm representing the mafia god's banker of the vatican yeah so you got the treasury guy on one end and you got the ag on the …”

Luigi Turgi carried_out_attack Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 44:33

“In Italy, Sedona orchestrated the efforts of the fascist deputy Luigi Turgi to garner Italian support for the Nixon election campaign. I don't know why we need Italian support, but whatever. Sedona of…”

Michele Sindona funded Luigi Turgi host_asserted ▶ 44:33

Paul Helliwell founded Castle Bank & Trust host_asserted ▶ 45:35

“So anytime, and there's lots of times when you research this, people allegedly gave Nixon money and people said they didn't. Well, they may have actually given him money and it just be kept on deposit…”

Paul Helliwell trafficked William Polk host_asserted ▶ 46:02

“the entire narcotics trafficking network with william polly and a whole bunch of other people claire chanel in southeast asia it's all related while sedona was out vescoing robert vesco himself the ci…”

Michele Sindona funded 1970 Italian Coup Attempt book_quoted ▶ 46:33

“According to the House of Representatives Pike report on CIA activities, Sedona was a key channel for millions distributed by the agency to their Gladio program in Italy and affiliated organizations a…”

Michele Sindona funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 46:33

Stefano Delle Chiaie carried_out_attack 1970 Italian Coup Attempt book_quoted ▶ 47:02

“Why don't they use that word? In which the Italian intelligence officers and fascists conspired to do bombings and blame it on the communist. A key figure in the 69 bombing and the 1970 coup attempt w…”

Stefano Delle Chiaie carried_out_attack 1969 Bologna Bombing book_quoted ▶ 47:02

Stefano Delle Chiaie attempted_assassination_of Bernardo Leighton book_quoted ▶ 47:02

Michael Townley ordered_assassination_of Bernardo Leighton book_quoted ▶ 47:33

“In John Dingus and Saul Landau's penetrating book, Assassination on Embassy Row, Delachey had been contacted for the hit by Michael Townley of the Chilean Dina and Virgisio Paz in Miami and Union City…”

Virgilio Paz ordered_assassination_of Bernardo Leighton book_quoted ▶ 47:33