The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1

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0:00 Yeah, I just went live over there. Okay. The YouTube doesn't like me playing our video because I'm using somebody else's song. So I have to figure out how somebody complained about it. I have to figure out how to play the video and then add YouTube.

0:31 I know you can do that. I just don't know how. Cool. So anyway. That'd be cool. So much stuff happening. So much stuff happening. Right. So we're not going to get into that at the beginning anyway. But I am going to say up front, the people posting about people that are arrested's race is.

1:07 like sending me over the top. And only because I dealt with this for the 22 years that I was on active duty as an officer, starting out as personnel, you guys know that. One of the very first things I noticed was how Hispanic people are coded as white in the personnel system. And I was like, that's weird. Well, it wasn't just Hispanic people. It's basically everybody except for

1:36 Asian Pacific, Native American, and Alaskans and blacks. Because there was only like five categories, whites, blacks, Asian, Pacific Islander people, Asian, and Native Americans and Alaskans. Those are the legal categories of race. Under the category of race, you can,

2:06 Like if you're Asian American, you can then say I'm Japanese or I'm Chinese or whatever, Korean, but those are not races. Those are ethnicities or ethnic categories. And under white, there's several ethnic categories, Hispanic being one of them. That's been the law for decades. It was recently passed a recharacterization where they added several.

2:36 to include Hispanic as a race category. But the law actually says it's not mandatory to report that way until 2029. And so if you guys know anything about government, they don't do anything until the last minute. Same thing with the real IDs and all of that stuff. So they're not going to change that. They're not going to spend the money to change their reporting systems until it's like,

3:06 the day before it's mandatory. That's just the way the government works. And so people that are going on, that one guy has an entire freaking account that that's all he does is go find those things and post it. It's ridiculous. And anybody that continues to post that after they know that's not the case, that's not how the system works is retarded.

3:36 and I'm not saying I like it, I don't, but if you go look, if that same person was in the military, they'd be coded as white too, because it's a government system, so everything about it is messed up, I acknowledge that, I identified it like 30 years ago, but it is what the system is, and saying that people are

4:03 miscategorizing people and stuff like that. It's just nonsense. And I don't understand why people do that, especially after they know. Clickbait. I guess. I guess they find something that works and run with it, even though it's fake news for the most part. Okay. So I have had this book on my stack to do forever. And we're going to do it. It's not a big book.

4:33 It's got a lot of information in it, but it's not a big book. And my all time, other than Paul Williams, of course, my all time favorite in this research project is Peter Del Scott. And in the second edition of The Great Heroin Coup, Peter Del Scott wrote the foreword. It's probably all we're going to get done today, but it's definitely worth reading.

5:01 Because this man is a brainiac when it comes to this topic. And so I want to go through it. Because I have posted a lot from this book already. Some of the people that follow most of my work is going to recognize a lot of it. But he kind of provides the perfect entree with this updated foreword.

5:30 And as I always do when we start a new book, this book was originally released in 1980 when Henrik Kruger first wrote it and Jerry Meldon. But Henrik was the original author. Meldon helped him update it in 2015. So I have the 2015.

5:58 version of it, which included Peter Del Scott's foreword. So he starts off with the story of Christian David. And if you guys never looked into his story, it's fascinating. He was an international narcotics trafficker used by the CIA, among others, a lot of others. And

6:33 Peter Del Scott describes his story as fascinating. He says that it tells us the larger, less documented version of history, which is what our whole show is about. He characterizes it as the secret collaboration of government intelligence services and their parallel police throughout the world. Use of criminals.

7:04 particularly narco-traffickers, for political counter-subversion. He goes on to say that this book is critical to understanding how the CIA operates, and it can be seen through Christian David's political intrigues in countries like France and Iroquois. The America's Role

7:41 in Christian David's career has never before, to Peter Del Scott's knowledge, been revealed to the country. Hendrick Kruger was able to expand the story and show how it was applicable not only to the CIA, but to Watergate and, at the time in 2015, current counterinsurgency tactics. The censorship

8:13 of David's story in the U.S. and the media's resistance to it says much about all of the topics that we've covered, especially Operation Gladio. He gives the example that in June of 1973, Le Monde, I don't know if it's Le Monde, but that's the New York Times equivalent in France.

8:44 charged that the breakup of the RICORD, R-I-C-O-R-D, French Drug Network in Latin America, which had included David's arrest and extradition to the U.S., was the result of a close mafia police narcotics bureau collaboration in the U.S. The result of that collaboration, according to the French newspaper, was to shatter.

9:15 the Corsicans' influence in the worldwide narcotics traffic, which of course we've talked about many times on the show, and to create a virtual monopoly of the U.S.'s CIA and the Italian mafia connection through figures like Santo Trafficani. The newspaper went on to say many details of which have since been corroborated.

9:49 but never covered in the U.S. Peter Del Scott goes on to say that if the Washington Post and New York Times, then supposedly the exposers of Watergate had picked up any of these stories, like the one in the French newspaper, then the history of Watergate would have been documented completely differently. The history of Nixon's involvement in Watergate is intertwined with his personal involvement.

10:19 in the quote-unquote war on drugs. Nixon's declaration in June of 1971 of his war on heroin promptly led to the creation of the Watergate White House plumbers with their Cuban exile members and even hit squads with the avowed purpose of tackling

10:49 the international narcotics traffic, which of course we know they didn't do. Among those White House narcotics supposedly sleuths was Liddy Hunt, Sturgis, and Bernard Barker. Those are all names made famous during the Watergate scandal. He says that many authors

11:26 suggested that Nixon's war on heroin was part of his grand design to develop a new super drug agency under the direct control of the White House. And it was supposed to have a mission of an investigative arm for domestic surveillance. Huh. Under the guise of drugs, which we knew was being trafficked in here by the CIA,

11:57 Organization? Yeah, bigger government for a crisis that they created. It was reported Nixon's decision in June of 1971 to provide $100 million in aid to end the opium production in Turkey, a country which, according to CIA estimates, only produced 3% to 8%.

12:36 of the illicit opium. That's weird. Of all of the sources of opium you had to choose from, you're gonna target Turkey? Where the gray wolves are? Yeah. And basically we paid for the entire military infrastructure to include their intelligence service in Turkey. So they were basically under our command and control in the 1970s. Why would they need more money?

13:10 Because we were actually running all of that. We trained all of their military in American schools. We had Turkish students in my school in the 1980s. At that time, perhaps 80% of the opium was known to be harvested in the Golden Triangle of Laos, Burma, and Thailand.

13:52 You know, all the places we were, that we weren't supposed to be. That's crazy. And also, the Shah of Iran, who became one of Nixon's closest foreign allies, had just announced resumption of Iranian opium production. What? Yeah. Yeah. They, at that time, had said that they were going to dedicate over 20,000.

14:26 hectares of opium, which was about 50% bigger than Turkey. And who was in control of Iran back then? Oh, the Sabak that the CIA set up and the Shah that we installed. Yeah, same people. In the publication, The New Republic noted that only a month later,

14:56 Nixon's decision to shut down the supply of Turkish opium was likely to do no more than drive the industry further east, meaning Afghanistan. An even more cynical view of Nixon's action, Scott points out, is to see it as a direct attack on the French Corsican networks, which relied almost exclusively on Turkey.

15:28 as their supply hub. Because, of course, the French Corsican mafia had basically been dethroned out of the Golden Triangle and had looked for alternative sources. Although there were still some being funneled through them because they had, at the time, in the early 70s, the highest grade opium, the number four heroin that could be produced.

15:58 But the CIA was quickly trying to copy that down in Sicily. So the French newspaper Le Monde said that the French Corsican mafia was being deliberately forced out of the international drug trade as a result. And that would result in a Mafia Police Narcotics Bureau collaboration.

16:35 And they explicitly said that it was the U.S. Sicilian mafia which closed down the Turkish opium production. Which again, I have to keep saying this, does the CIA and the U.S. government have the ability to shut down opium supplies in Turkey for 100 million? Then why wasn't it shut down in Laos? Why wasn't it shut down in Burma?

17:08 Why wasn't it shut down in Thailand? Why wasn't the cocaine network shut down in Colombia if they have the ability to do that? You know, just a few logical questions. So Kruger in this book suggests that it was just closing down one of the CIA's rivals. Such a possibility, Scott says, seems less remote when we recall the rivalry.

17:43 which had grown up in the 1960s between the De Gaulle intelligence services and the CIA. You know, during the time they tried to kill him over 30 times. Lamond had no difficulty spelling out the American side of this, even though the CIA activities of Traficani, the alleged heir to the Luciano network, were not known at the time.

18:14 When he originally published this book, this is a quote instructed by his own experience of collaboration with the American intelligence services. Lucky Luciano used to recommend to his honorable correspondents scattered from Beirut to Tangier via Ankara and Marseille to operate as he had done.

18:42 It was in this way that drug dealers and couriers served as informants to the British MI6 and to the American CIA and to the French SDECE and to the Galen organization, even the Italian SIFAR, which are all of the collective intelligence agencies. On the French side, the Le Mans article went on saying,

19:14 that other sources they had learned about had at least two members of the competing record network, Christian David and Mikel Nicolai, who were former members of the SAC in France, the parallel police who had been used to assassinate members of the OAS on behalf of de Gaulle.

19:47 Though the SAC, David and Nikolai, had come into contact with the SDECE as well, meaning they basically played both sides of the turmoil going on in France. One of the themes outlined in this book, according to Scott, was the remarkable shift from the Corsican mafia to the Sicilian.

20:19 and Mexican mafia as it relates to heroin, rather than to eliminate the trade and to use Cuban exiles and Santo Traficani's mafia under the operational arm of the CIA, well known by the Nixon White House. This is another quote from the book that we're going to cover. It was needless to say, not a willful conspiracy.

20:56 of all of the above, but we can assert with reasonable certainty that the CIA, Traficani, and other mafia, certain Southeast Asians, and some people in the White House, had to have known. Kruger goes on to tell the story, the motivation between the alleged heroin coup were primarily political, to break the power of France.

21:24 which by the 1970s was so distasteful to the pro-American successor, Pompidou, as it was to Nixon, to replace it with an alternative controlled power base. In Kruger's analysis, it was not so much a struggle between French and American intelligence agencies. It was a struggle between old and new leadership. The power of the Pompidou

21:58 the new president in France, and of Nixon in the United States had created unprecedented tensions and suspicions between the two presidents and their intelligence agency. So Nixon's desire to use the war on heroin as a pretext for a super new agency under White House control, almost like he was cutting the CIA out, which is interesting since they cooned him.

22:28 right so he goes on to say that um the use of well peter dale scott recommended um at least two books that were published in the united states obviously based on u.s government sources discussed the arrest of david at length without mentioning either that he had worked for

23:05 the French intelligence agency, or that he had confessed to involvement in the 1965 assassination of Moroccan Mehdi Ben Barka. And we'll go into him during this book. The Barka murder was one of the major unsolved French intelligence assassination scandals of the 1960s. The first book to mention David's confession was

23:38 the Newsday's newspaper series, The Heroin Trail. The Newsday team also told how they had received a call from the U.S. Embassy in Paris stating that earlier promises of French and American cooperation with the investigation would only be kept if they agreed to submit our manuscript to both governments in advance so that it could be edited. They refused.

24:10 Even in The Heroin Trail, which deserved a Pulitzer Prize, it states only that David's confession to participating in a plot to murder Ben Berka, a Moroccan lured to France under false pretenses by the French Italian, excuse me, French intelligence agency. Before Kruger's book, one had to go

24:40 to books published in England or France to learn that it was not de Gaulle who wanted Ben Berka killed, quite the contrary, but some other government or government's intelligence agencies. The leading suspect was the CIA. An Oxford historian, Phillips Williams, wrote in 1969, and this is a quote, here one point is absolutely clear. The Gaullist

25:12 meaning Charles de Gaulle, government, not only had no interest in Ben Berka's death, but had every interest in his survival. Ben Berka was an anti-American third world nationalist leader with a lively admiration for General Charles de Gaulle and had been received at the palace sometime before, a natural ally for Gaullist policy.

25:41 Thus, any official French contrivance could have only come from a section of the state machine that was acting contrary to the president's desire, unquote. And of course, we know that's exactly the whole Operation Gladio revelation is these intelligence agencies or elements within them do not work for the respective head of state.

26:14 Philip Williams, the Oxford historian, himself then suggests two possible hypotheses, which are both compatible with each other and close to what Kruger believes is true. One, much favored, especially among de Gaullist, was collaboration with the CIA to eliminate the organizer of the Havana Tri-Continental Congress.

26:46 which was being organized by Ben Berka. And I'll just stop right here because this is exactly what happened with Indonesian President Sukarno. When you organize international organizations that go against the imperialist aims of the Western oligarchs, you put yourself in the crosshairs of them. Philip Williams goes on.

27:18 Another was the French intelligence were obliging either to Moroccan intelligence as such, or the Moroccan intelligence chief, whom Williams described elsewhere as too pro-American for the De Gaullist, in a personal vendetta against Ben Berka in return for services rendered in the past. He goes on to say that there were some

27:48 French intelligence officers who were violently opposed to Charles de Gaulle policy towards the United States, especially in intelligence matters. It is clear from now, from the now celebrated revelations of a former French intelligence agent, Pierre Thirold de Josly, who was ousted from the French intelligence because

28:17 he was a double agent for the CIA, unquote. In other words, the Oxford expert a decade ago had already explored Kruger's hypothesis that disloyal elements in the De Gaulle cabinet and intelligence agencies acting at the behest of the CIA had Ben Berka killed. And again, they leave out NATO's role in the secret armies, but it's a collaborative.

28:48 effort, is what they're saying. The first serious study of Ben Berka's mystery to be published in America is this book. Peter Del Scott goes on to say that Kruger's book is also the first in America, to his knowledge, to explore further the Newsday reports that David, an adventurer recruited into the French Secret Service.

29:24 for terrorist activities, meaning their Gladio program. Assassinated a number of African officials and in Latin America, infiltrated the Uruguayan Tupomaro guerrillas and identified several of them to be assassinated for the CIA propped up police there. This has been confirmed that David's work for the French and...

29:56 Uruguayan secret service in penetrating and turning over two pomoros for which he was equipped with a diplomatic passport, a diplomatic passport to insert a trained assassin into Uruguay, which we've covered before. But interesting diplomatic passport to insert assassins into a foreign country.

30:33 Kruger supplies the details of the arms transactions by which David was able to penetrate to the very heart of the Tupomaro organization. And once again, Kruger, who points out that David's service against the Tupomaros were part of an effort coordinated by the CIA police advisor, none other than Dan Nidorone. Yeah, Nidorone.

31:00 The guy that was a retired Richmond, Indiana police chief that was well known to be working for USAID's Office of Public Safety and training the National Police Force in Iroquois to kidnap, torture, and assassinate Tupamaros, who were the indigenous people that was rebelling against a CIA-controlled government.

31:31 in Iroquois. He goes on to say it's the same meter on that New York Times reporter A.J. Languth arranged for the Iroquoian police to obtain superior electric torture needles through U.S. diplomatic pouches. So for those of you who are new, they were shipping through U.S. State Department diplomatic pouches, electrical leads during

32:02 to use during the torture sessions to hook people up to USAID generators to torture them. David's successful penetration of the Tupomaros, and before that, the Argentine counterpart, all of this is Operation Condor, helps explain why so many U.S. and French intelligence agents have been helped by official provision of an invaluable

32:33 diplomatic passport to become important elements of the international arms and narco traffic. The two traffics are frequently interrelated according to the Le Mans article and can help pay for each other as we found out during the Iran-Contra. It's a well-worn pattern. It was also well connected

33:02 to the criminal smuggler that David was able to persuade the Argentine and Uruguayan rebellion, I call them freedom fighters, leadership that he would procure arms for them. That was his in. He had an arms network that he could help them with. It was also after providing small arms to the Tupamaros that David became their trainer.

33:35 an advisor in the weapons, and then turned around and turned them in for having the weapons and the training that he provided on behalf of the CIA. When you consider that the bulk of the world's small arms traffic is dominated by the world intelligence agencies, that whole Praetorian Guard network, and that the single largest wholesaler

34:07 is the CIA-linked multinational Inter-Armco, which was founded by a CIA agent called Samuel Cummings. You can then see that it is difficult to rely on weapons as a major revolutionary asset without becoming dependent on the same people that are trying to kill you. Meanwhile,

34:37 on the side of the police repressive apparatus, it's difficult to remain in sustained contact with the enormously lucrative narcotics traffic, particularly in countries where bribery is part of the political culture without becoming partly or wholly corrupted by it, which every country that is involved in it is washed with CIA.

35:06 So the New York Times had reported how in 1974, one major narcotic trafficker obtained a diplomatic passport from the secretary to the Bolivian president for a simple cocaine shipment. Well, that's quite a bargain. While charges against another in Ecuador were dismissed at the order of the Ecuadorian minister of the interior.

35:37 You will also see this phenomenon as an intelligence immunity has become a reoccurring feature of justice inside the United States, even in major narcotic cases. Because as we've discovered, you can only go so far up a chain of narcotics trafficking before you hit the CIA. And then everything you're doing is sealed. And even if they're going to

36:08 offer up a low-level dealer, the pre-trial arrangement is set so that you are not allowed to use the term CIA in any capacity during the trial. And the judge will agree to that under the stamp of national security. So he goes on to say that it was Kruger's thesis that the CIA, even after it had been

36:39 decided to eliminate the record network of which David formed a part of, they were unwilling to destroy the international drug connections which allowed its agents to gather intelligence about insurgency movements through the tactics of selling them arms. This, at the same time, was financed by the Organization of Counter-Revolutionary Death Squads, or what Kruger and Scott refers to as Parallel Police.

37:13 That was a good example of that is the death squads in El Salvador and the Argentine AAA organization. In Latin America, the stories of drugs and death squads go hand in hand and resulted in the assassination of Orlando Lettier in Washington by people affiliated with the Cuban exiles.

37:48 That was a car bomb in Washington, D.C. that killed the former Chilean ambassador and an American who was serving as his aide, sanctioned by the CIA in America. To support his argument that the traffic once dominated by record was simply redirected to Cuban exiles under the control of the CIA in concert with Santo Trafficani,

38:19 Kruger then points to an extraordinary story of Alberto Sicilian Falcon. Now you guys are going to remember that guy's name because when we did the book, that thousand page book, if you recall, we didn't do the book because it would take us like six months to get through that book. But I gave you guys basically, and I talked about it on the Alpha Warrior show, there was a thousand page book that I read. It was over a thousand pages.

38:48 That talked about during this timeframe in the late 60s and early 70s, this CENTAC, C-E-N-T-A-C organization that was set up with investigators that traveled all over the world to investigate the narco trafficking. And they found and finally arrested this Alberto Cecilia Falcon in Mexico.

39:20 And that was like the middle chunk of the book, this guy's network. It was crazy. He was living in Tijuana and operating out of Southern California, but he had assets all over the United States funneling all kinds of drugs, every kind of drug into the United States and come to find out that he was part of the CIA network.

39:49 So in this book, they document how Cecilia, a 29-year-old, not Mexican, Cuban exile from Miami, emerged as the ringleader of the Mexican connection. So Cecilia Falcon was not Mexican. She was part of the CIA's Miami Cuban exile group.

40:25 that they planted in Mexico so they could say the drugs were coming from Mexico. And it was all documented in that massive book. Every single detail, the people he talked to, the DEA that he worked with, the FBI that he worked with, all connected to the CIA. And that group found when they were investigating the suppliers of his,

40:57 narco network that you could go so high on each one of them that they targeted during their five or six years of existence until you ran into the CIA and you were told to stop. So this was set up, according to Kruger, to fill the void of the record network. Lucien Sarte, a top record lieutenant, was shot and killed by authorities in Mexico.

41:34 on April 27th, 1972. After being located there by U.S. agents, the New Sicilia Network, according to the DEA chief, Peter Benzinger, was operating by May of 1972 and had revenues reliably established in the hundreds of millions of dollars until his arrest in July of 1975.

42:03 And that arrest was a direct result of Syntac, not the rest of the billions of dollars we spend on the anti-drug network. A little group with a handful of people traveling all over the world doing real work. They were so effective in what they did that it scared the shit out of the CIA and they knew enough people to get them disbanded. Lucien.

42:35 Sarté. That name's going to come up again, so remember that one. Once again, it was virtually impossible to find an extensive treatment in the U.S. press of the mysterious Alberto Cecilia Falcon, even though his arrest led to no less than 104 indictments. 73 of his operations people

43:07 were inside the United States. And there's almost no coverage of it. The German magazine, Der Spiegel, wrote articles about it. And you can learn that Cecilia told the Mexican authorities who arrested him that he was a CIA agent, not asset, agent. And that he had been trained at Fort Jackson

43:44 CIA Cuban exiles for guerrilla activity against Cuba. Yes, that type of Cuban exile. Our own Gladio. He also said that he had worked in Chile against the government during the coup in 1973 of Salvador Allende. Those are his words reported in a German magazine, not here.

44:26 He also, according to Mexican police, spoke of a special deal with the CIA. The U.S. government would turn a blind eye to all of his heroin shipments while his organization supplied CIA weapons to terrorist groups. He's another Iran-Contra, guys. His job was to sell heroin in the United States and buy weapons and send them to Latin America.

44:57 And you've never heard of him unless you've watched our show. The DEA Chief Bensinger was quite circumspect in his testimony about Falcon, merely calling him, wait for it, a Cuban national. What the hell? No, no, he was not a Cuban national. You see how they do that? How they call every person that comes to America?

45:38 a Russian that speaks Russian language, even though they may be from Tajikistan or Kazakhstan. Yeah, no, no. He was not a Cuban national. He was a Cuban exile under the control of the CIA. And he went even further. He then said, it's quite possible. And when the DEA chief is telling you something's possible, you know that whatever's going to come out of his mouth is a lie.

46:10 It's quite possible he was involved in revolutionary activity. No, he definitely was. It's not possible. He was. But by labeling him a Cuban national, he's insinuating that his revolutionary activity in Latin America was being done on behalf of the Cuban government, not the CIA. So of course,

46:48 If you just listen to him, your logical conclusion was that he was a Castro agent. Cecilia was a Cuban exile that came to Mexico from Miami where he had links to the Cuban exile community and had personally negotiated for manufacturing rights to a nine millimeter machine pistol known as the M4.

47:22 100. And where did we hear about the, or excuse me, M10? Where did we hear about the M10? Would that be Mitch Warbell? Well, Peter Del Scott, of course, knows. So he goes on to tell us, Arabellum was a Miami-based arms sales firm set up by soldier of fortune, Gary.

47:54 Patrick Hemmings, and headed by Cuban exile Anselmo Allegro IV, whose father was best friends with Batista in Cuba, the best friend of the CIA in Cuba, not a Cuban Castro ally at all. Arabellum, the name of the company.

48:29 in Miami, in turn, was sales representative for Hemings' friend, none other than Mitch Warbell III. Hemings sold Mitch Warbell's products. Mitch Warbell, just in case you guys' memory isn't quite as good as some, is a white Russian. White?

49:06 Russian? Yes. Another big friend of the CIA is, like George DeMorganshield, white Russians. Warbell was also employed by the OSS in China, the China Theater. He roamed around a lot of places in Asia during World War II for the OSS, and then he came home and started

49:41 a small arms manufacturing capability, and he created basically a terrorist training camp outside of Fort Benning, Georgia, and he moonlighted for the CIA. He also worked very closely with the DEA and was involved in all of their drugs for armed deals. He eventually was indicted for some of his activities, but weirdly enough, somebody put in a good word for him.

50:17 And he was acquitted. The government's case failed after the chief government witness, Kenneth Bernstein, oh my gosh, ended up killed in a plane crash. I wish I was making up that, but I'm not. Yeah, imagine that. The critical guy that's gonna put CIA asset Mitch Warbell

50:52 in jail just before the trial gets killed in a plane crash. So he's acquitted because we don't have a witness anymore. Another client interested in producing the Ingram M10 machine pistol in Latin America under the license of Warbell was none other than Robert Vesco, the international fugitive and major.

51:30 Nixon campaign donor, Robert Vesco. He shows up in so many of our stories. Other European journalists, Kruger notes that the same 9mm automatic pistol, better known after its inventor as the Ingram M10, was found in February 1977.

51:59 Among the effects of the Italian fascist Luigi Contutelli of Ordine Nuovo, New Order, a component of Operation Gladio in Italy, who had used it in the July 1976 political murder of a judge in Italy named Accorso.

52:34 So Mitch Warbell's manufacturing assassination guns? Yes. Yes, he was. Its presence among his personal effects was considered especially significant because the M10 manufactured by Warbell's company, Military Armaments Corporation, was supposed to only be delivered to intelligence services. Huh.

53:04 Oh, that's right. Let's see. Spain's intelligence services was in bed with Otto Skorzeny, who trained all of the Italian Gladio people. That makes perfect sense. Every cell of the M10 required a special permit from the munitions control branch. And where is that located? At the U.S. State Department. According to the Spanish Minister of Interior, Contutales,

53:39 Ingram M10 had been modified in a clandestine arms factory in Madrid. You know where Otto Skorzeny is hanging out at this time. There was a raid of that particular location. And that's how they found out that they were modifying them in Madrid, Spain. Arrested in connection with that raid were six Italian leaders.

54:13 of the new order, and Mario Sanchez Covista, the leader of a Spanish terrorist group called the Guerrillas of Christ the King, GCR, which was another element of Gladio in Spain. They had assassinated a number of Spanish activists on the eve of Spain's first general election after the death of Franco.

54:42 Little Gladio guys running all over the place, specially equipped with all kinds of fancy guns, courtesy of Mitch Orbel, the white Russian. According to a detailed study by French journalist Laurent, the two chief advisors to Sanchez Covista, the Italian Stefano Dallasche, and none other than Frenchman Yves-Garin Serac.

55:16 two of our most famous Gladio operators. They escaped arrest, of course. All but one of the arrests were released three months later. The reason for the leniency, according to Laurent, was that the GCR had served as a parallel police unit of the Spanish-Italian service.

55:42 was basically a terrorist network operating inside of Spain on behalf of the Spanish government, just like all of the rest of the Gladio elements throughout NATO. We wouldn't want to put them on trial. The Sanchez-Covisa episode had international overtones, and a number of newspapers, even the New York Times, mentioned speculation that the GCR might be functioning in coordination.

56:16 with what they designated as fascist international. Hmm, you mean like the one talked about in the Madrid circular? Yes, that same one. That Otto Skorzeny was intimately involved in? Yes, that same one. Notions that this was true gained credence when Spanish police discovered among the GCR's assets, three gold and...

56:48 Indigates, which had been stolen the preceding summer by a group of French OAS veterans in a spectacular $10 million robbery in Nice. The leader of this well-organized group was Albert Spangari. Oh, oh, that Spangari. He's a veteran of OAS assassination attempts on Charles de Gaulle.

57:20 So as you can see, this entire book is revolving around Operation Gladio, even though they're not using the term. When Spengari was captured by the French police in October of 76, the British press service Reuters noted reports from police sources that he had links to an international organization with members in Italy, Lebanon, Britain, and elsewhere.

57:50 Oh, you mean like Gladio? Yes, yes, that network. His international, Spangari's international dealings acquired an even more intriguing dimension when it was revealed in September of 76 after a robbery, Spangari had flown to Miami and offered his services as a mercenary to the CIA and bragged about his robbery.

58:22 of the Nice where the gold was sold. Huh, that's crazy. But weirdly enough, because of this brouhaha going on between France and the US, they decided that they would turn that information over to the FBI, which led to his arrest. After 37 hours of non-cooperation, Spengari suddenly admitted to his role in the Nice robbery. According to Le Monde,

58:57 This was part of a negotiated deal with the French police. Spengari would plead guilty to the $10 million robbery and escape indictment on a still more serious charge of arms trafficking. Spengari gained acceptance of this proposal after saying the name of an important person in the Ministry of Interior, sometime participant in the cabinet, Mikel Panatat.

59:27 Towski, who for various reasons was aware of all of this going on and was involved in it. So as soon as he started naming names, they offered him a deal. Five months later in March of 77, Spangari escaped by jumping through the second window of a, this is just crazy, of a prison and landed on the roof of a moving truck.

1:00:02 Meanwhile, in the French weekly, it was revealed that he had been in contact in 1976 with a gang in Rome called the Marseille clan, who in turn was close to Contotelli, the guy we were just talking about, who had been accused of the murder of the judge. Again, all gladio, all under the auspices of NATO.

1:00:34 Kruger then points out CIA trained Cubans and their new patrons from the intelligence services and parallel police of Chile and Argentina were also directly in touch with this fascist international organization, meaning Gladio being ran by Galen and Otto Skorzeny and the intelligence services. He also points out in Argentine.

1:01:13 Jorge Czarski and a Cuban exile, not Castro Cuban, Carlos Perez, was arrested in January of 77 in connection with one of the murders organized by the Spanish GCR. Carlos Perez is of particular interest to U.S. readers because he was Madrid's representative,

1:01:42 to the MNC, who was labeled as a fascist exile group, two of whose leaders have recently been convicted in connection with the assassination in Washington, D.C. of Orlando Lettier, the former Chilean ambassador. See how that circle comes full circle? All of this.

1:02:20 As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, meaning the group that the CIA supported under Pinochet's DINA, initiated Lettier's murder.

1:02:52 while Junta leader Peniche himself, according to U.S. documents, was personally responsible for the assassination. One of these shootings, that of former Chilean Christian Democrat leader Bernardo Leighton and his wife, who was left paralyzed for life, took place in Rome, Italy. Hotbed of Operation Gladio. Zero.

1:03:23 A Cuban exile terrorist group allied with MNC took credit for the shooting in a communique. Americans claimed that the attack was arranged through either Michael Townley or his wife, Mariana Calajas, working for two Chileans who were responsible for the murder of General Snyder during the coup, the CIA coup.

1:03:55 European journalists added that the terrorists in Rome were connected to a former mercenary group once based in Lisbon. And we all know the name of that one, a gentra press. They're just assassins for hire, guys. That's what they do. They blow shit up. They kill people. That's the basics of Operation Gladio. The more particularly to...

1:04:27 Agenter Press Italian correspondent Stefano Dallasche, both Agenter Press and the Townsleys had collaborated in the 1973 Chilean coup group that was paid for by the CIA, while Dallasche and his friend, the Italian fascist Prince Valero Borghese, had visited the Penasche in Chile.

1:04:58 in 1974. And Prince Borghese is the black prince of Italy that was part of the whole Operation Gladio as confirmed in the P2 Masonic Lodge names that was eventually released in 1990. Delachey had already came to attention as the Italian attached senior advisor to the GCR in Spain.

1:05:29 meaning Otto Skorzeny, along with Yves Guérin-Serrat, who was the former leader of a gentry press, meaning the entire Gladio network in Portugal. And he also was a veteran of the OAS in France, thanks to Otto Skorzeny. It's important to recall that Delachey and Guérin-Serrat escaped because of their relationship to the Spanish DGS.

1:06:12 So the DGS arrest for the same murder in Madrid, which led to the temporary arrest of Carlos Perez. In other words, the Lettier killings, horrible in itself, was only one incident of this international conspiracy. The Latin American aspect of the larger story has already been told in the U.S., the creation of the International Cuban Exile Terrorist Network at service.

1:06:41 of dictatorships in Brazil and Nicaragua under Somoza in exchange for payments for arms and money from the CIA. Letier's killing had been traced back to the creation of a Cuban exile umbrella organization called CORU, C-O-R-U, in the Dominican Republic. Who does the Dominican Republic share an island with?

1:07:15 They had terrorist training camps in the Dominican Republic, and they were used to destabilize Haiti any time the Haitians voted for the wrong people. The island was crawling with these people. In June of 1976, under the leadership of the Cuban exile terrorist Orlando Bosch, who had visited Chile right about the same time,

1:07:48 that Borghese did with Guillermo Novo. They decided they liked it so much, they spent a year there working with Pinochet and the DINA and the CIA and the Office of Public Safety under USAID. Bosch himself spoke to New Times reporter Blake Fleetwood about his activities while declining to talk about the Lettier killing.

1:08:21 which was currently under investigation during the interview, he admitted setting up the murder of two Cuban diplomats in Argentina, the real Cuban government, in conjunction with Argentina's terrorist group, the AAA. Government sources told Sol Landau of the Transnational Institute in Washington that the meeting that was attended by U.S. government informant

1:08:53 broke down into workshops for the planning of specific crimes, including the murder of Latier and the October 1976 bombing of the Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, including an entire youth fencing team. Bosch returned from that meeting to Venezuela at the invitation he maintains of the Venezuelan intelligence group because he had

1:09:24 an identification card of belonging to that group where the bomb was placed in Venezuela on the airplane's ride back to Cuba. And at that time, Venezuela was crawling with Office of Public Safety people.

1:09:43 They had all of the same setups. It's never been classified as an Operation Condor country, but it had the exact same infrastructure to include the two National Guard chiefs that they called Cartel de la Sol because of the emblems on their uniform on the payroll of the CIA. Whoa, given the scope of the network of this government-assisted terror group.

1:10:15 It's interesting to recall the initial charade of the U.S. intelligence agency that they put on for the U.S. press. This is a quote. On October 11th, 1976, Newsweek magazine reported that the CIA had concluded that the Chilean secret police were not involved in the Orlando Latier murder, assassination. But I just told you.

1:10:45 In their own words, they were. The CIA also assured the U.S. Department of Justice of this fact. A Washington Star reporter was told by FBI sources that LaDier might just as well has been killed by a leftist to create a martyr. David Binder of the New York Times reported on 12 October 1976 that the intelligence officials

1:11:19 were pursuing the possibility that Mr. Latier had been assassinated by Chilean left-wing extremists as a means of disrupting U.S. relations with the military junta. No. But the biggest flood of distortion and rumors came from the former and retired FBI and CIA officials, which we have now come to expect. Members of such groups

1:11:50 as the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, headed at the time by none other than David Phillips. Incidentally, he headed the CIA's Latin America Covert Action Department at the time of the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup. He was intimately involved in the overthrow of a foreign government and the assassination of Salvador Allende. That same guy.

1:12:20 in charge of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, delivered documents from Laudier's briefcase to suggest falsely that Laudier was not only a Cuban agent, but he also worked for the Soviets. No, he didn't work for Cuba. He didn't work for the Soviets.

1:12:52 He couldn't go home because the CIA overthrew his country and left him stranded in the United States. And there was a death warrant put out for him by the DINA and Pinochet. He was trapped in the United States and the son of a bitches worked with the CIA to come up here and assassinate him. He wasn't even safe on the streets of Washington, D.C. Thanks to the CIA.

1:13:27 After pressure from LaDier's U.S. associates and journalist, LaDier's principal assassin, Michael Townley, received a 10-year sentence. And then he was transferred into the Witness Protection Program. What? Yes. Yeah. For some reason, the CIA continued to withhold relevant information from the Justice Department. At the same time, it publicly advocated.

1:14:05 for the Dinas' innocence, knowing full well that they were guilty. Those who ordered Townley's crime have not even been indicted. On the contrary, a related case against another Cuban exile for receiving heavy caliber arms, reportedly in part for payment of the Latier murder, was unsuccessful.

1:14:35 largely it was charged because the CIA helped throw the case. A congressional committee had just released a bill which responds in part to mounting pressure to unleash the CIA. Thus, Kruger's books is urgent and timely. It lifted the bell on the global networks of the para-fascist terrorists who were so frequent to plot and murder with impunity.

1:15:08 thanks to their relationships and services to the intelligence agencies of the so-called free world. In short, it tells the story which our media has systematically failed to tell. That's crazy. So, we're going to tell the story by going through this book. Anybody got anything? A whole lot of tomfoolery. Go ahead. It's just...

1:15:52 The same people doing the same things in another country and immortalize need to be buried underneath nuclear waste and taught in every public school. Mandatory reading before anyone graduates and is able to vote in any meaningful election, my opinion. I couldn't agree more. Our country would be a different country if our real history was taught in school.

1:16:22 All of it. The good, the bad, the ugly. So, crazy. Stellar, did you want to say something? We got Warhamster and Ron on deck. Okay. I don't see any hands. Warhamster, did you want to say something? Go ahead. Sure. I got a couple thoughts. Happy Monday, everyone. You know, it's funny. I caught most of your reading today. And it's one of the points you've hammered home over and over again, how the DEA.

1:17:03 has a tendency just to look the other way or when they're not absolutely complicit right you know that's i haven't talked a ton about my um professional background but when i was working for the wall street banks i did enough international business that i had augmented anti-money laundering training um where they would go through the things to look for the patterns that you would see you know every time you had dollar amounts of a certain amount and i'm telling you they could see they had that kind of

1:17:32 They could see everything going through with these transactions. Right. Even back in the 60s and 70s. And it is 100% impossible that this happened without the financial authorities being complicit in the whole cover-up. 100% impossible. It just could not have been done. Even someone like me who was not C-suite level would have noticed it. Sorry.

1:18:03 that implicates an awful lot of the establishment in D.C. And Wall Street, to be honest with you. And Wall Street. Now, go ahead. Because you've got innocent people. I mean, supposedly innocent people. Compliance officers, their entire job is to go through every transaction and look for red flags. And believe me, if I can see them, they can, because that's what they do full time. So, which means they go down the hall.

1:18:30 to whoever their manager is and say, hey, this looks suspicious and they get warned off and they're going to live with that and look in the mirror and like what they know. I mean, that's why I left Wall Street because I couldn't look in the mirror because I knew what was going on. I mean, to get that many people to be complicit, I mean, our society might be sicker than any of us actually suspect, but it's been going on a long time. It has been going on a very long time. Ron, go ahead.

1:19:01 Wasn't the first SEC chair Joe Kennedy? Or wasn't the first SEC head Joe Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy, JFK's dad? I think that's the case, but whatever. I mean, this has been going on with AI.

1:19:19 They can do – I mean, it essentially accelerates so many things and whatnot. But I wanted to address something, Cornel, that you were talking about because I came in really, really early and you were talking about – I don't think this has anything to do with the book, but it really interested me because you were talking about like –

1:19:39 racial, like how the races are divided. And was that something to do with the book, or did I just catch you on a conversation of something else? No, it had nothing to do with the book. And yes, Joseph Kennedy was the first SEC chair. So what I was talking about is there's this phenomenon going on on X. It started several months ago.

1:20:04 With that guy, the younger guy that posts out of North Carolina all the time when he was looking at police reports and seeing people's race as white. And from, well, I mean, decades ago, the racial categories was set up as basically five categories. It was white, black, Asian, Asian Pacific, and like,

1:20:33 well, six, Native Americans and Alaskans. And the reason I know that is because when I became a personnel officer in the late 1980s, I thought that was crazy because in personnel, in the military, and this is true of every government database, it doesn't matter if you're a policeman, if you're in social security, it doesn't matter, the loan applications, whatever. If it hits a federal system,

1:21:01 the crime statistics, anything that hits a federal system has to use those specific categories of race. You don't get a choice. The next category down is ethnic. And you can then further delineate, but that's optional. If I go into the military and I'm Hispanic, the only choice I have for race is white. Now I can answer the second category of

1:21:32 ethnic subclass, which can be Hispanic. And there's a whole list of them under white. But you don't get a choice. And that was discovered as, especially since they flooded the United States with all of these foreigners.

1:21:52 to not be specific enough. And I think it was in 2024, the law was changed and they added like five more categories of which Hispanic is one of them. But they made it like they do everything else, like the real ID card. They made it not mandatory until 2029. And anybody that's ever done anything in government knows that they're not gonna do a damn thing until the day before it's mandatory. So even if a locality,

1:22:22 was to use a new system. If they went out and bought a new or redesigned, reprogrammed their data system, the federal system hasn't started using that new category and won't until 2029. And so there's just people galore now that are feigning outrage despite the fact that every time I see one,

1:22:52 I just post on there the facts that that is the current system, whether you like it or not. That's the current system. If a Hispanic or an Indian is arrested, they're going to show up as white. Go ahead.

1:23:19 So all of this goes way, way, way, way back to like the 1600s. Because we are predominantly British influenced. We don't necessarily have aristocracy here. But the people who made their money here modeled their system kind of about the British aristocracy. And they kept it extraordinarily binary simply for control purposes in this country. And the one opportunity they had to...

1:23:47 to really go in and, like, decentralize all that was in reconstruction post-Civil War. And actually what they did was they only went in and they reaffirmed the binary. I mean, the things that you're talking about, it was just white or colored. That was it. And I don't remember exactly what year that that came into being, but I want to say it was, like, probably the 30s or 40s, maybe even the 50s.

1:24:15 until until the those you cut out ron i don't know what happened go ahead more hamster well you know it's interesting i saw you on x talking about this subject a few times um because it's hot on your list of topics uh hold a little bit of your fire we can jump ahead with our pilgrim because there's a pilgrim very much that's on our list that would be about three weeks away but we can fast forward him to friday and um

1:24:48 touch on this subject a little bit because it's very tangent to what you're talking about. Tangential, I mean. So I think we need to accelerate somebody who's more recent onto the Friday show. Just because it's... It's timely. Yeah, I'm not going to give away more than that because you're already giving away half the show. But if you want to hold a little bit of your fire this week, I think we can really have some fun on Friday. I'll talk to you about it offline. Okay.

1:25:17 It all ties into the same overall theme we've been talking about. Yeah, it's just, but I don't understand in today's day and age, if you get outraged about something, do you not just go research it before you open your mouth? I don't understand the mentality, the whole quote unquote truth movement.

1:25:39 is to go do research. It isn't to just fly off the handle and start saying retarded stuff online. You can ask Grok. Grok gives you a complete list and the timeline on when it's changing. The part that infuriates me is we know that the FBI has been using these ridiculous race categorizations.

1:26:08 is to paint a false picture and send resources after the quote-unquote white supremacist movement and completely ignore a lot of other problematic issues coming from other directions. And that's where it becomes criminal and a big freaking deal. Yeah, but the outrage already occurred and they already passed the law to change it. And anybody that is doing that online today,

1:26:38 And they're not telling you that background story, I just think is disingenuous. And I haven't looked it up. My question is, who proposed to pass the law and ensure that it wouldn't go into effect of 2029? To me, that's an administrative fix that should have been switched yesterday. Why was it delayed?

1:26:56 That's my question. But that is the normal process and I'm not making excuses for it. So if you go back to when they passed the real ID, it was like five years later because of the budget constraints on, and I'm not justifying, I think it's retarded that it's gone on this long, but in order to get the money in the program and raise it in order to buy a new,

1:27:27 capability or reprogram it depending on what you have. I know from a personnel standpoint, whenever the Congress would change other laws, and I just found out a couple of days ago, they've outsourced our entire personnel system in the Air Force to the fucking Halliburton, Kellogg, Brown and Root.

1:27:52 retards who totally just screwed up an enlisted promotion release. In the Air Force, when they would change the law, like they did a massive change of officer promotions, which required our entire personnel system to have to be reprogrammed. It took us about four years to do it because what you have to do is you have to design the program outside of the actual personnel system. The actual personnel system has to continue.

1:28:20 continue to operate. Then you have to basically redesign it. And then you have to take the current personnel system, extract it, and it's huge, you know, because it contains everybody in it. And then you have to run this new program inserted into the current personnel system. And almost every time it breaks, multiple times, and you refine the program.

1:28:49 so that it will run inside of it. Yeah, that's because even inside of a single department, you've got like five different versions of 1975 IBM computers running this stuff, and they've never been integrated in any way, shape, or form. What you're talking about is one of the greatest examples of why government sucks at everything. It will always be inefficient. That's why it needs to stay out of everything. Do you remember those exposing...

1:29:16 When they're trying to, when someone retires from government service in like six months because they got these bunkers in Colorado. It wasn't in Colorado, but yes, I remember. Yeah, these like file, you know, 50-yard high stacks of file cabinets. Yes. I mean, that's our government. I mean, Doge could have fixed all this and is fixing some of it. Well, Doge did fix that part. But how many, you know, if the government gets efficient.

1:29:42 How many people are going to get laid off with their lifetime pensions and have to, you know, all that kind of stuff? It's the government mafia, you know, protecting itself. The bureaucracy is designed to be inefficient because it's a job protection racket. And, you know, what have we been talking about with government versus the people? That's what it is. It's a status system. And I don't know. I don't know if anyone's got the balls. Not even Trump's been able to address that 100%. But it's ridiculous. Like, they could have turned.

1:30:11 that issue, the race thing over to Doge, and it would have been fixed by private actors within a month and implemented properly. I don't disagree with anything that you said. The problem that you have, which is why we should have a small federal government, to your point, is that the interfacing of all of the state and local computer systems to the federal system just exacerbates that times a million.

1:30:42 And that's why I'm just answering that question. That's why Congress, when they change monumental things, they give themselves that window of transition. And again, there's an actual explanation for it. Is it wrong? Yes. Should it have been fixed a long time ago? Yes.

1:31:09 But to feign outrage for posting shit ignorantly is just beyond the pale to me. Yeah, without knowing the background, your point's valid on that. I mean, and you called out some pretty decent sized accounts today. So good job. Hopefully they turned around and did the homework and took it in the right way. You know, there's an argument to be made that centralizing one system efficiently without going through the ridiculous government bidding process creates a vulnerability break into that system.

1:31:37 When you have, you know, 100 different systems, you know, they say it's harder to get in and hack the whole system. But no, you just created 100 points of vulnerability. That's naive in not understanding how hacking and networking works. A centralized system could be guarded, you know, fewer points of egress to the system. And that's how, if I were, you know, and I'm definitely no systems engineer, and I know that. You know, you limit the systems, you know, the available egress points.

1:32:04 And you have better security. And they're doing just the opposite. And it's on purpose for many reasons. Yes. A lot of it has to do with the government contract. I wanted to throw something else out here, a little bit of news today. Guys, I'd love to hear your thoughts and just get this conversation going because we're going to be hearing more about it. But Japan has announced that they are going to, for the first time since World War II, implement a central intelligence agency. And I find that fascinating.

1:32:35 Yes, I find it fascinating too. I want to know who they're going to be working with, what systems. I have a lot of questions and details. I think it's something we all need to keep an eye on. And if anybody hears any scuttlebutt about that, any articles, DM me immediately. I'm all over the story. I want to follow this one super close. Please. Yeah, it is very interesting. Now, again, if we're going to the sovereign,

1:33:04 model of countries, because obviously Japan has been tied to the hip of the CIA, as was Korea for the longest time. Primarily still is South Korea, that is. It does bode well for them taking their own responsibility for their own intelligence capability. But as we have known throughout this entire

1:33:34 several years of research, the fact that a country is developing a central intelligence agency is kind of contrary to where I think we all need to be. Intelligence gathering should only be done in support of military missions and capability because they

1:34:03 in every single instance that we've researched. They've all been used for nefarious power projection, not for the defense of your country. Yeah, that's why Japan, jumping into this, yeah, of course they've had their own form of intelligence. They're not stupid. Well, their intelligence has been done by the...

1:34:32 the corrupt elements of the Japanese, the Yusaka or whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah. That's been their element of intelligence. And that's like the mafia being your source of intelligence. Yeah, you're always going to have the underworld connection. They also have the corporate intelligence, which they've always been great at. Yes. But to now make it a central intelligence agency.

1:35:01 Brings it back into the government, which, given their current administration, I'm less pessimistic than I would otherwise be. But it is certainly worth watching. I mean, just a reminder to everybody, Japan is now, for the first time since World War II, actually starting to arm itself. And we know exactly what they're worried about. And that's right across the sea of Japan in China. Right. It's definitely, we're early to this story, but let's keep an eye on it and get in front of it.

1:35:31 Yep. I agree. Ron, go ahead. I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. You said you couldn't hear me. I did a little bit of digging. Those four, the five categories, that came in 1977. Yes, I know. Right? So until 1977, it was just black or white. That was it. That was it. And anyway, I just...

1:35:58 Because I've been working on a project that talks about a lot of this stuff. And so you were kind of – I don't know. It just piqued my interest when you were saying that. So I don't mean to be off topic. No, that's fine. It is an item of interest for me. I think I find it reprehensible that it took until 1977 for that to happen, though. I guess. But when you have a primarily –

1:36:28 homogenous group um and people are are used to that and then in the you start importing all of these people which you know came about in the especially in the 1990s um but even in the 1980s um you start importing all of these other people um from around the world um it

1:36:56 And I think for the longest time, the delineation was less of a major thing. But now, because of the narratives and the propaganda that is created based on those statistics, there has to be a greater delineation of those types of things.

1:37:25 the um as one of you guys pointed out the narrative away from the government of being able to skew that information well the way i understand it is the reason that they kept it as binary as they did is because as soon as they undid the binary it would it would be like they'd have it would create a bureaucratic nightmare to go back all to go back a generation and then

1:37:53 and then decipher, well, which one is which one? Who gets this property? Who gets this property? What race were you? And then you have to go back another generation and another generation, and it just keeps going, and you just create this bottleneck of bureaucratic crap that people have to deal with. And that's why I say that it could have been fixed under Reconstruction, but the people who were in charge of Reconstruction were actually even...

1:38:22 more sadistic and more racist than what they claim the people in the South were. But anyway, I'm going to digress on that and I'll just leave it alone. Okay. James, did you want to say something about what we've talked about? Yeah, I was just, you know, I find it interesting that Japan is looking to developing their own CIA because Sweden recently,

1:38:57 gave the mission to former Prime Minister Carl Bildt, which I think has been a member of the Rand Corporation, to investigate the intelligence capabilities of Sweden. And his report basically framed the idea that Sweden should have their own CIA.

1:39:24 And the cooperation, well, the cooperation between Sweden and Japan, and I think through Wallenberg and other families, has been quite close over the years. So the Swedish doesn't want to rely on the Wallenbergs anymore for intelligence? Well, basically they're saying, well, the Carl Bildt report is saying that

1:39:51 We shouldn't rely on the military intelligence or the National Security Service. We should have our own CIA. Yeah. James, I hope you're paying attention. I hope you're watching on Friday because we will be mentioning Ireland. That'll be part of Friday's show. Great. I will be on. Thank you. Look forward to it, brother. Me too. Airblood, did you want to add anything? Yes, Colonel. When you mentioned

1:40:29 The Mafia as Intelligence. I'm reading right now Ghosts of Sicily. Have you read that? I have that book. I have not read it. We actually did use The Mafia for intelligence. Our naval intelligence agents actually courted the mob. Sure did. Yeah. So I thought that interesting. It's a great book. Well, you know, that goes back to...

1:40:57 World War II when the naval intelligence was courting Lucy Luciano. And yeah. Correct. I have read now five books in a row on the mafia tentacles. And it becomes readily apparent that the model of our government and

1:41:24 the oligarchs is basically just replicating the way the mafia works. As far as monopolies go, coercing people into particular arrangements as far as what you're allowed to buy and what you're not allowed to buy, which is what Warhamster and I were just talking about on how all of the post-World War I

1:41:52 restoration of Europe was funneled through particular people. The same thing post-World War II. It is a mafia model. It is? Yeah. It is. After reading this book, I'm like, yeah, okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. True. Thank you. Yeah. And I honestly think that's what made, because in our

1:42:17 hypothesis that the CIA is the Praetorian Guard of the oligarchs and that it was basically put in place to allow their exploitation worldwide of resources and people. That's a mafia model. And their bankers and lawyers made up the OSS and the CIA.

1:42:40 And so you just have a perpetuation. And of course, if you go back to both the CIA model and the mafia model, they have particular attorneys that are their defense attorneys. And they have their hit squads. And they have their hit squads. Yeah, it is that model. You can't not see it. Exactly. Ron, go ahead.

1:43:08 Colonel, I don't know if you remember this, but remember when I subsidized that the 18th Amendment was essentially created to form organized crime within the United States? Because prior to that, it was just the only real criminal activity, organized criminal activity was gambling and prostitution. And when they made alcohol.

1:43:34 That created essentially what we know as the mafia in the United States today. And then, of course, that got expanded into the into drugs and whatnot. So it's just but I mean, with the 18th Amendment, it was you saw an explosion of government law enforcement. And that ultimately got once they did once the once they, you know, repealed that amendment.

1:44:02 None of those people, it was like Elliot Ness, once Elliot Ness got done doing his thing, then he was now responsible for going and checking gun tags for the NFA. So, I mean, they just kept them all, they kept them all, and they just repurposed them throughout the government. But the government has never been, I mean, it just exploded during the progressive era. Right. All along, go ahead. Well, yeah.

1:44:36 Everyone's, you know, rightfully criticizing, you know, the intense collection as our government has become progressively more kind of bureaucratized and as more and more, you know, agency, if you will, it's like concentrated among unelected bureaucracies. And I think it's kind of, as we realize that, it's, you know, it's not fashionable sometimes to...

1:45:04 look at Congress and remember, hey, this was supposed to be, you know, the Democratic agreement of mixed government. And I think it's very easy to become, you know, just kind of fascinated with the rot, the intense rot of the legislative branch. But I think it's really significant that

1:45:35 Like there's very little commentary on, you know, just how rotten the legislative branch is, you know, over time. And then, well, it's just kind of assumed like it's like always been this rotten. But, you know, there was a book called The Dead Branch written 30 years ago about our beloved legislative branch here. Right. And and now, you know, we're seeing a situation in which.

1:46:03 It's like, you know, the letter WTF are applying for early retirement from our typewriter keyboards over here. You know, with these, with Graham, what to McCaul, he may or may not be dead. And, you know, with the Democrats who do nothing but remain silent. So they're reelected again and again. And it just seems like there's almost an effort to make us forget.

1:46:33 that this was supposed to be the most democratic ingredient of the government. And meanwhile, the other two ingredients of our mixed government, you know, the judicial was supposed to be the aristocratic and the executive was supposed to be the monarchical. Those are just, you know, sailing along unchallenged. It's supposed to be the legislature that's checking and balancing these unchecked bureaucracies.

1:47:01 It's deader than ever. It keeps getting somehow deader, which is a word that is going to have to be invented fairly soon. And it's what I guess what I'm trying to say is I feel like our media and our society is failing to, you know, really recognize that the truly significant level of our dead branch, because, you know, it goes hand in hand with the death of the media. Right. And I guess that.

1:47:28 If there's any sense in there, God bless me, or I guess I need supplemental blessing. Sorry. Anyway, interesting show. Thank you. More hamster, go ahead. I just wanted to address Ron's comment about prohibition leading to organized crime. I think that was a consequence of it, but we've got to go back into the history of the temperance movement, which goes back to the 1820s and 30s. These are the same people that would...

1:47:58 It starts over in England, comes, jumps across the Atlantic, just like the Fabian, stuff like that. It was introduced during the quote-unquote progressive era of Woodrow Wilson in the 1910s. Yeah, there's a lot to this. I mean, if you understand that the government socialism or the Fabian socialism is pro-mafia, pro-organized crime, they run hand-in-hand, then Ron's conspiracy theory is correct. I personally think it's more organic, to be quite honest.

1:48:28 Well, I'll go into this in a lot more depth than otherwise, but it had a lot to do with the fact that women got sick of their men coming home drunk in the 1800s. And this is also part of the women vote. All that stuff came together, and it was a lot more organic. But if you look at the champions of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which was formed by a guy named Francis Willard, and they were part of the Anti-Saloon League, and I think that's 1890s.

1:48:59 you start seeing some interesting connections to some of our other heroes that became part of the progressive movement. So it's all tied together. I think what Ron was noticing is more of an effect than a cause, but I give a gigantic asterisk that there's an open question there. Fair enough? Yeah. Ron, go ahead. Yeah, well, forgive me if I...

1:49:24 tried to make it sound like that was the express purpose of the Volstead Act. I agree with you, Warham, that it was cause and effect, but I don't discount the people who were putting it together.

1:49:42 potentially saw the benefits of growing the government if this took place. But I don't believe that that was the express purpose of it. I think actually some of it had to do with Rockefeller and...

1:49:57 um, an oil and Ford and trying to make sure that the oil was used over alcohol for propulsion. I mean, there's a lot of different things in there. And, and to your point, there's also the temperance thing as well. And, and just one quick thing is I think, cause I was looking up the book, that, that book, the, what the, the book that I think is, I don't think it was the dead branch. I think it's the broken branch. Is that, is that sound right? I don't know. Oh, maybe it's, maybe that's it.

1:50:26 Yeah, because I was just looking for it, and what I found was the broken branch. Anyway, not to be an ass, just to be specific in the event that anybody wanted to look it up. Yeah. Okay, guys. James, go ahead, and then I'm going to run, grab some dinner. Go ahead. Okay, sorry for keeping you from dinner. No, that's okay. I was just, you know, the propulsion.

1:50:55 where oil was chosen. Have you considered also pharma into that equation? I mean, like part of the oil and petroleum products. Because, yeah, pharma is, I mean, if you're looking at like the 1900s up till today, it's maybe...

1:51:20 equivalent to the oil industry. James, I 100% promise you that when we get to the Rockefellers in the next several weeks, we're going to go into that exact subject in an incredible amount of depth. So you are 100% spot on. This is my favorite subject almost on the entire planet. And so I absolutely guarantee we're going to rip Big Pharma apart. And that is absolutely, absolutely part of the story. Thank you. Okay. Looking forward to it.

1:51:52 Oh, so much to do, so little time. Okay, guys, thanks for being here today for a lively discussion. I appreciate it. And we will, so I do have a few schedule changes. Let me just go through them real quick. Tomorrow, we're going to do an out of sequence

1:52:22 podcast with Tommy's podcast. Tomorrow it will be recorded at noon and released later that day. At four o'clock, I have a taping with Crypto Rich, who's over in London. And so I'm going to push our show back to seven o'clock tomorrow evening for everyone.

1:52:47 And then we will be back on our normal schedule on Wednesday. So I just wanted to put that out there. And then we'll talk about the rest of the week on Wednesday. So just a schedule change tomorrow. Our four o'clock will be at seven o'clock. And there will be a couple of shows released from Tommy's podcast and from Crypto Rich over the next couple of days that are prerecorded.

1:53:16 So that's it. Thanks everybody for being here. Appreciate it. Take care.

Entities here

France18 Christian David16 Operation Gladio14 Orlando Letelier12 Peter Del Scott12 Mafia12 Mitch Werbell11 Henrik Kruger10 Cecilia Falcon10 Charles de Gaulle8 Mehdi Ben Barka8 Richard Nixon8 Albert Spangari6 Guerrillas of Christ the King6 Turkey6 Japan6 Stefano Dallaglio5 Tupamaros5 Michael Townley5 Phillips Williams5 Augusto Pinochet5 Santo Trafficante Jr.4 Mario Sanchez Covista4 Otto Skorzeny4 Uruguay4 Watergate scandal4 Prohibition4 Orlando Bosch3 DINA3 Luigi Contutelli3 Madrid3 Italian Mafia3 Aginter Press3 1973 Chilean coup d'état3 Julio Valerio Borghese3 RICORD3 Lucien Sarte3 SDECE2 Burma2 Association of Former Intelligence Officers2

Claims made here

Peter Del Scott wrote_foreword_for The Great Heroin Coup documented ▶ 4:33

“It's got a lot of information in it, but it's not a big book. And my all time, other than Paul Williams, of course, my all time favorite in this research project is Peter Del Scott. And in the second …”

Henrik Kruger authored The Great Heroin Coup documented ▶ 5:30

“And as I always do when we start a new book, this book was originally released in 1980 when Henrik Kruger first wrote it and Jerry Meldon. But Henrik was the original author. Meldon helped him update …”

Jerry Meldon updated The Great Heroin Coup documented ▶ 5:30

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Mehdi Ben Barka book_quoted ▶ 10:19

“in the quote-unquote war on drugs. Nixon's declaration in June of 1971 of his war on heroin promptly led to the creation of the Watergate White House plumbers with their Cuban exile members and even h…”

Richard Nixon funded Turkey book_quoted ▶ 11:57

“Organization? Yeah, bigger government for a crisis that they created. It was reported Nixon's decision in June of 1971 to provide $100 million in aid to end the opium production in Turkey, a country w…”

Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change Mafia book_quoted ▶ 14:56

“Nixon's decision to shut down the supply of Turkish opium was likely to do no more than drive the industry further east, meaning Afghanistan. An even more cynical view of Nixon's action, Scott points …”

Christian David member_of Strategic Air Command book_quoted ▶ 19:14

“that other sources they had learned about had at least two members of the competing record network, Christian David and Mikel Nicolai, who were former members of the SAC in France, the parallel police…”

Christian David recruited SDECE book_quoted ▶ 28:48

“effort, is what they're saying. The first serious study of Ben Berka's mystery to be published in America is this book. Peter Del Scott goes on to say that Kruger's book is also the first in America, …”

Christian David assassinated Tupamaros book_quoted ▶ 29:24

“for terrorist activities, meaning their Gladio program. Assassinated a number of African officials and in Latin America, infiltrated the Uruguayan Tupomaro guerrillas and identified several of them to…”

Dan Nidorone trained Uruguay book_quoted ▶ 30:33

“Kruger supplies the details of the arms transactions by which David was able to penetrate to the very heart of the Tupomaro organization. And once again, Kruger, who points out that David's service ag…”

A.J. Langguth reported_on Uruguay book_quoted ▶ 31:31

“in Iroquois. He goes on to say it's the same meter on that New York Times reporter A.J. Languth arranged for the Iroquoian police to obtain superior electric torture needles through U.S. diplomatic po…”

Cecilia Falcon carried_out_attack 1973 Chilean coup d'état book_quoted ▶ 43:44

“CIA Cuban exiles for guerrilla activity against Cuba. Yes, that type of Cuban exile. Our own Gladio. He also said that he had worked in Chile against the government during the coup in 1973 of Salvador…”

Mitch Werbell supplied_arms_to Luigi Contutelli book_quoted ▶ 51:30

“Nixon campaign donor, Robert Vesco. He shows up in so many of our stories. Other European journalists, Kruger notes that the same 9mm automatic pistol, better known after its inventor as the Ingram M1…”

Luigi Contutelli assassinated Accorso book_quoted ▶ 51:59

“Among the effects of the Italian fascist Luigi Contutelli of Ordine Nuovo, New Order, a component of Operation Gladio in Italy, who had used it in the July 1976 political murder of a judge in Italy na…”

Luigi Contutelli member_of Ordine Nuovo book_quoted ▶ 51:59

Otto Skorzeny trained Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 53:04

“Oh, that's right. Let's see. Spain's intelligence services was in bed with Otto Skorzeny, who trained all of the Italian Gladio people. That makes perfect sense. Every cell of the M10 required a speci…”

Guerrillas of Christ the King member_of Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 54:13

“of the new order, and Mario Sanchez Covista, the leader of a Spanish terrorist group called the Guerrillas of Christ the King, GCR, which was another element of Gladio in Spain. They had assassinated …”

Mario Sanchez Covista headed Guerrillas of Christ the King book_quoted ▶ 54:13

Yves Guérin-Sérac member_of Guerrillas of Christ the King book_quoted ▶ 54:42

“Little Gladio guys running all over the place, specially equipped with all kinds of fancy guns, courtesy of Mitch Orbel, the white Russian. According to a detailed study by French journalist Laurent, …”

Stefano Dallaglio member_of Guerrillas of Christ the King book_quoted ▶ 54:42

Albert Spangari member_of Marseille Clan book_quoted ▶ 1:00:02

“Meanwhile, in the French weekly, it was revealed that he had been in contact in 1976 with a gang in Rome called the Marseille clan, who in turn was close to Contotelli, the guy we were just talking ab…”

Marseille Clan member_of Luigi Contutelli book_quoted ▶ 1:00:02

Michael Townley member_of DINA documented ▶ 1:02:20

“As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban e…”

Michael Townley assassinated Orlando Letelier documented ▶ 1:02:20

DINA ordered_assassination_of Orlando Letelier documented ▶ 1:02:52

“while Junta leader Peniche himself, according to U.S. documents, was personally responsible for the assassination. One of these shootings, that of former Chilean Christian Democrat leader Bernardo Lei…”

Stefano Dallaglio member_of Aginter Press book_quoted ▶ 1:04:27

“Agenter Press Italian correspondent Stefano Dallasche, both Agenter Press and the Townsleys had collaborated in the 1973 Chilean coup group that was paid for by the CIA, while Dallasche and his friend…”

Aginter Press carried_out_attack 1973 Chilean coup d'état book_quoted ▶ 1:04:27

Julio Valerio Borghese member_of Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 1:04:58

“in 1974. And Prince Borghese is the black prince of Italy that was part of the whole Operation Gladio as confirmed in the P2 Masonic Lodge names that was eventually released in 1990. Delachey had alre…”

Yves Guérin-Sérac headed Aginter Press book_quoted ▶ 1:05:29

“meaning Otto Skorzeny, along with Yves Guérin-Serrat, who was the former leader of a gentry press, meaning the entire Gladio network in Portugal. And he also was a veteran of the OAS in France, thanks…”

Orlando Bosch member_of CORU book_quoted ▶ 1:06:41

“of dictatorships in Brazil and Nicaragua under Somoza in exchange for payments for arms and money from the CIA. Letier's killing had been traced back to the creation of a Cuban exile umbrella organiza…”

David Atlee Phillips headed Association of Former Intelligence Officers book_quoted ▶ 1:11:50

“as the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, headed at the time by none other than David Phillips. Incidentally, he headed the CIA's Latin America Covert Action Department at the time of the Se…”

Carl Bildt member_of RAND Corporation guest_asserted ▶ 1:38:57

“gave the mission to former Prime Minister Carl Bildt, which I think has been a member of the Rand Corporation, to investigate the intelligence capabilities of Sweden. And his report basically framed t…”

Carl Bildt exposed Sweden guest_asserted ▶ 1:38:57

Wallenberg family front_for Sweden guest_asserted ▶ 1:39:24

“And the cooperation, well, the cooperation between Sweden and Japan, and I think through Wallenberg and other families, has been quite close over the years. So the Swedish doesn't want to rely on the …”

Office of Naval Intelligence recruited Mafia guest_asserted ▶ 1:40:29

“The Mafia as Intelligence. I'm reading right now Ghosts of Sicily. Have you read that? I have that book. I have not read it. We actually did use The Mafia for intelligence. Our naval intelligence agen…”

Office of Naval Intelligence recruited Lucky Luciano guest_asserted ▶ 1:40:57

“World War II when the naval intelligence was courting Lucy Luciano. And yeah. Correct. I have read now five books in a row on the mafia tentacles. And it becomes readily apparent that the model of our…”

Prohibition funded Mafia guest_asserted ▶ 1:43:08

“Colonel, I don't know if you remember this, but remember when I subsidized that the 18th Amendment was essentially created to form organized crime within the United States? Because prior to that, it w…”

Elliot Ness member_of Mafia guest_asserted ▶ 1:44:02

“None of those people, it was like Elliot Ness, once Elliot Ness got done doing his thing, then he was now responsible for going and checking gun tags for the NFA. So, I mean, they just kept them all, …”

Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union guest_asserted ▶ 1:48:28

“Well, I'll go into this in a lot more depth than otherwise, but it had a lot to do with the fact that women got sick of their men coming home drunk in the 1800s. And this is also part of the women vot…”

Women's Christian Temperance Union member_of Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League guest_asserted ▶ 1:48:28