The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 5

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0:00 me that they basically they don't have any dirt it's all limestone whatever topsoil is like brought in when they build a house other than that it's limestone so the shit just runs forever and accumulates in the wash i think i was i was telling you about the between me and the base the house that i had built out there there was this huge overpass and it's like 25 feet down and it's

0:30 like a dry riverbed i'm like what the hell why would you not just run the road down in there um why would you go to the expense and for like months i probably seven months i'm just driving over this overpass and funny enough there's a little picnic area around there and it the underneath of the overpass has like a million bats hanging off of it and so it was always kind of a fun place to go and watch them

0:59 do batty things. And the first time we got a significant rainfall in San Antonio, I'm on my way to work and the water is like six inches below the bridge and running. I'm like, what the hell? Where did that come from? And that's, that's just normal. They, that's the way they live out there. It's crazy. Right. Totally crazy.

1:29 All right, we're on chapter seven. We're talking today. Now, remember when we talked like in the first chapter, Christian David's kind of fake name or call sign, whatever you want to call it, is Beau Sergei. So if you hear me saying that, that is Christian David. I try to translate it, but I don't get every single one of them. So the title of chapter seven is.

1:58 Beau Georges or Christian David. Scourge of the Partisans. Okay, picking up where we left off yesterday. The murder of Police Lieutenant Gallibert caused a major sensation in France. Despite what seemed to be an all-out manhunt, Christian David, aided by his friends, eluded his colleagues in the anti-gangster

2:29 squad he was just biding his time at one of his old haunts which just happened to be a whorehouse owned by one of the gurini clan he frequented their club nearby reportedly one of the gurini brothers at first favored delivering his body to the police but powerful forces intervened as mafia bosses were persuaded to help christian david

3:04 flee France. Who would want him safely out of France? One day in March of 1966, a car picked him up at one of the clubs and drove him to a Guarini post on the outskirts of Marseille. In early May, David sent word to Simone Monduet, one of his Parisian mistresses.

3:35 asking her to fly down there with a bundle of money. From Marseilles, David's friend, Francisco Orsani, drove her to a restaurant in Tenise. There she handed him the cash and said, see you later. Later that month, David was driven to Italy, where he boarded a ship bound for Latin America.

4:07 A lot of the criminals like hanging out in Latin America. A new career in the shadows awaited him. Christian David had with him from Marseille a letter of introduction to a former French mafia king and Gestapo collaborator, Auguste Record, R-I-C-O-R-D. He was a mobster that was organizing

4:38 the narcotics trade, heroin specifically, from Marseille to Argentina, Paraguay, and into the United States. Record's organization welcomed him with open arms and soon moved him into the highest ranks. Also part of his reception committee were his friends,

5:14 and acquaintances from the French CIA, better known as SDECE, and his former teammates at the SAC, all involved in the heroin network, just like our CIA. His arrival coincided with a powerful French diplomatic offensive in Latin America, with the U.S. wading into a quagmire.

5:42 In their old stomping grounds, Vietnam, and otherwise preoccupied, there was a lot of interest in switching up their network. They were also moving into Africa. One of the examples was a notorious Colonel Roger Barbarote, who was France's ambassador to Uruguay.

6:19 And another counterpart, Dominique Ponciard. It's man in Bolivia. So they do the same thing we do. They use their ambassadors to help out their intelligence organization control countries for narcotics trafficking. It's actually a model for all of NATO organizations, as we found out.

6:48 If anyone stands for cloak and daggers, it was those two. They had names strung up all over Latin America and had been involved in many sensitive espionage scandals. Foucault's men moved where they saw the greatest openings, supporting the dictators in this region.

7:23 that the CIA was only too happy to help install after their coups. The two of them, those two ambassadors, offered to help these dictators break the back of the resistance in those countries, much like the CIA was actively engaged in doing as well through USAID's Office of Public Safety. What they needed men without scruples, men like Christian David.

8:00 On arrival in Argentina, David met with Franco's Giapi. He is somebody that we ran across in Operation Gladio before. He was wanted in France for two murders. Giapi, also known as Big Lips, not even going to ask why, had worked for the Guarini mob and was on excellent terms.

8:32 with all of the politicians and the militants in Argentina. He was also a top member of the RECORD organization. The RECORD network was divided into four teams. They operated independently and out of separate headquarters. RECORD himself ran the main team from Paraguay and oversaw the entire operation.

9:05 Nicolai led another team. Orsini and Bonjour, let's see, ran the third one. Lucien Sarté and Andre Condamine ran the fourth one. Other important names were

9:38 The only one I've ran across of the ones that he talks about here is Claude Andre Pasto, but there's a few others. It was called Murder Inc. in French. Nearly all of them had already been sentenced to death in France for being part of Gladio and murders and all that other stuff that they do. Baroni, besides belonging to a gang, had teamed up with Art Swindles.

10:11 with CIA agent Legros and his forger to create quite a scandal down there. Pasto had similar interest. In December of 1968, Enrico Pasigli, a weapon smuggler friend of Christian David's, was murdered in Rome. Almost simultaneously, Thierry de Bonnet

10:42 Another close associate of the CIA agent, Legros, died in what was termed a very mysterious auto crash. Italian police suspected Pasto of both killings. They just happened to coincide on a trip that he made to those specific areas. Almost like he's an assassin, part of Murder, Inc.

11:16 Record's network operated freely because its members helped the military dictatorship with their kidnapping, torture, and disappearing of rebels in their countries who wanted their government back. While he was helping intelligence groups infiltrate guerrilla movements, and they weren't guerrillas, they were patriots fighting to take their country back.

11:47 Christian David found new customers for his arms trafficking network. He made major arms deals, primarily in Chile and Argentina. Through those connections, Chiapi secured David an Argentine passport. The name on his passport was Carlos Eduardo Devereux Bagere.

12:21 David then went on secret missions for French intelligence out of South America. His first assignment was to infiltrate Douglas Bravo's Venezuelan urban revolutionaries. That led nowhere. In early 67, Bravo was expelled from the Venezuelan political party and police smashed his organization. Once relocated in the hills,

12:53 Bravo was unapproachable. He was very leery of everyone. Following that false start in Venezuela, David flew to Mexico and he met two African agents. They handed him a contract to eliminate African politicians. It's not clear whom he was murdering for or whether or not it succeeded. But he was in Africa.

13:26 for several months. And murder was a task he was very efficient at. Upon returning to Latin America, he rejoined Record in Paraguay before ending up in Argentina. In late 67, David, using his alias, managed to infiltrate the FAL, one of the most active resistance groups.

13:56 in argentina between 1967 and 71. and all of this stuff we're describing here is basically the preliminary and full-on operation condor of basically overturning all those governments and installing dictatorships and afterwards then creating if you guys remember operation condor they created kill list um they used um crypto ag

14:24 They used Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs computer system from IBM to automate their kill list and share them with the other Condor countries where they could trace these dissidents and murder them cross-border. That all is going on, and David is a part of all of it. Among other actions, he kidnapped Auguste Record's close friend and Paraguay consul in Argentina.

14:56 a man by the name of waldemar sanchez relying on his experience with death david soon became an fal's arm instructor and ingratiated himself with the members in the end he made off with all of their files and cash box of over 250 000 while fleeing he allegedly killed the fal leader and a lookout he headed with his

15:25 prize to Central America. Eventually, the SDECE made a deal for the papers with the Argentine government, which led to the arrest of several of the resistance forces and the death by torture of at least one, probably a whole lot more, because there were tens of thousands of people that were killed in Argentina. Argentina is the one that would take drugged people up an aircraft and throwing

15:59 throw him out in the ocean. Soon afterwards, David went to Uruguay, where the French ambassador was Roger Barot, the same guy who four years later would be associated with the French connection heroin affair that also involved Christian David. In May of 1968,

16:30 Two of his accomplices were unexpectedly rushed home to Paris to help quell French student unrest, forcing Foucault to put his plans for Latin America on hold. You see how interchangeable these Gladio operators are? They can operate in Africa, they can operate in South America, and they can be called home to work for their government doing domestic terrorism. After 68,

17:02 Christian David was more or less a free agent. While remaining in close contact, he also took an assignment for security police and political death squads in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, and for the CIA. In Montevideo, he reconnected with his mistress, Teresa, who just happened to be a member of the Tupamaras,

17:36 That's the name of the resistance force in Uruguay. Through her, Christian David infiltrated Latin America's best organized resistance, the Tupamaros. Uruguay's president, Arrico, had already begun a determined struggle against the resistance, assisting his police and armed forces with a squad of CIA agents.

18:07 expert at torture and anti-guerrilla warfare. Two of those agents were Dan Mederone and Claude Fry. Dan Mederone is there under the sheep-dipped cover of USAID Office of Public Safety. He also was earlier in Brazil. Those two people, Dan Mederone and Claude Fry, were captured.

18:39 by the Tupomaris because they were responsible for not only teaching the Iroquois how to torture, kidnap, and assassinate, they were in rooms when it was being done, and the Tupomaris hated them, so they kidnapped them. Mitterrand was given the death penalty by a people's court, while Fry suffered a heart attack and was released.

19:13 Christian David appears at first glance to have done more for President Arrico than the entire conventional CIA team. Not really, but he was a nice addition. Also assisting him was Jacques Fercotte, full-time man in Uruguay, Roger Barot. Oh, in Roger Barot's absence was the John Batista Listeroni.

19:43 who became David's go-between for the Iroquois government. He fooled the legendary Tupomaro leader, Raul Sendik. After robbing a bank, the guerrillas handed Christian David $400,000 to buy weapons. He then flew off as if to complete the deal to Foucault's personal fiefdom and beehive of weapons trade, the African.

20:16 of Gabon, which, interestingly enough, is right next to the Congo and Katanga, where weapons are flowing through there like, I don't know, like love bugs in Florida during love bug season. They were everywhere because the CIA was actively engaged in operations all throughout that area. Weapons were everywhere.

20:50 While he was away, the resistance somehow learned, not of his escapades in Argentina, but of his role in Ben Burka affair. They decided to set a trap for him. Once back in Uruguay, Christian David smelled trouble and rushed to the security police, who soon arrested 150 Tupamaris in the strongest blow they were dealt. It was a handsome feather in the cap of President Ariko.

21:21 For his troubles, David was reportedly given $200,000 in addition to the $400,000 he had already stolen. Plus, he was given an Uruguayan diplomatic passport in a new name, Eduardo Davaru. The passport made David the heir apparent to Auguste Record. With it, he traveled freely to the U.S., Europe,

21:52 all over, working on his narcotics network. There's also somewhat unbelievable story about David's departure from Uruguay. In the transit hall of the Capitol's airport, a stewardess reportedly brought him a package, suspecting a bomb. He had the stewardess open it herself. She screamed when he did, because the head of his mistress, Teresa,

22:23 was in the box. It was his departing gift from the Tupomaris. President Arrico's glee was short-lived. Within two years, nearly all of the resistance David had sent to prison had escaped. In March of 71, 38 Tupomari women fled through a tunnel from the jail. The president was pissed.

22:55 As the police, they were sure the men locked up in the prison had similar plans. Within weeks, they felt vindicated. A river sewage outlet had been discovered. In that passage, there was frog gear. The escape by the Tupomaris had apparently been foiled, at least on the men's side. Jokingly, the warden told the press that the Tupomaris' maps of the sewers

23:28 was better than the city's. Using it, the police had discovered electric drills and other tools to aid in the escape. The authorities, taking no chances, reinforced surveillance of the prison with tanks and police dogs as President Ariko looked towards the approaching October election. If Sendik and his tupamaris slipped away,

24:00 he'd be finished. At 4 a.m. on 6 September 1971, Billy Ryle, a prison neighbor, phoned the prison to announce a group of inmates had just run through his house. Yeah, tell us another one, they said on the phone. Nobody runs off from our prison. But Ryle insisted, and the watchman decided to check it out. Everything's quiet, was the response. The watchman told Ryle off.

24:31 for trying to make fools of the authorities. One hour later, his tune changed. An entire prison wing had escaped. The police dashed off to Raul's house. There they found 106 prison uniforms. There was a 100-yard tunnel that ran from the basement of Raul's home below the garden, the street, the prison wall, to the yard, to the building.

25:05 that they occupied. Their escape had taken nine hours. According to Rayol, his house had been overrun by partisans who held his family hostage, equipped with walkie-talkies. He said they treated us very well. The authorities were helpless laughingstocks. Arico lost the presidency to an equally incompetent Juan Marie Bordaberry.

25:38 By that time, Christian David was long gone. Chapter eight, the old man in Paraguay. Auguste Record and his gang of narcotics traffickers was riding high. When they were joined by Christian David in the latter half of the 60s, each year they transported hundreds of kilos into the U.S. market. And without noticeable losses,

26:13 Its street value, depending on who you talk to, was approximately $2 billion. At the end of World War II, Record flew from France, fled from France, sorry, and a death sentence for working with the Nazis. Yes, another Nazi running Gladio operations in South America. Huh, that's so weird. By the end of the second year,

26:47 Three of his companions in exile had been murdered. In 1947, Record arrived in Buenos Aires with a different name, Lucian Gargales. They loved that name, Lucian, I noticed. Some say that he had pocketed millions during the war. What's certain is that he opened an exclusive restaurant in Argentina at the close of the 50s and soon had a chain of restaurants and hotels throughout Argentina.

27:20 Paraguay, and Bolivia, which of course is narcotics trifecta. Each of them had the same name, Paris Nice. They also carried the Eiffel Tower as an emblem. The hotels evolved into high-class brothels. They're never going to get very far away from vice. He had set up by this time a very large, extensive

27:54 narcotics trafficking network. At the start of the 60s, Record moved his headquarters from Buenos Aires to Paraguay. There he felt at home among many, many Nazis that were also hanging out in Paraguay. They had found a safe haven under Stroessner, the guy that was in charge of Paraguay.

28:29 We probably should add right now this little nugget. Paraguay is where there was like a 400,000 acre narcotics ranch owned by Reverend Moon and the Moonies. And right next to that was a much smaller but very large ranch that was in the Bush family in Paraguay.

28:59 Record also regained contact with an old acquaintance, then residing in Bolivia, Kloss Barbie, one of the most notorious Nazis in all of South America. He was referred to as the Killer of Lyon. Record had much in common with Barbie. He was using the alias Kloss Altman. Since the

29:37 Disclosure of Barbie's whereabouts, French and German authorities alike had thought sought in vain his extradition, which is laughable, actually, because remind me again who Germany, while they're supposedly seeking his extradition, had in charge of their CIA called the BND. Oh, that's right. Nazi Reinhard Galen.

30:09 So you're telling me those guys were trying to extradite a fellow Nazi? Yeah. Save that for someone who doesn't know real history. Chapter 9. Opium, the raw material, was extracted from the poppy harvest by the Turks, who either converted it themselves to morphine base or sent it to refineries in Syria and Lebanon.

30:36 Essentially, all morphine base made in Turkish opium went to Marseille heroin laboratories. Until around 1966, it went by sea. But the Marseille Harbor was too easily patrolled. And so in 1966, around 70% of it had to travel through Bulgaria, Yugoslavia to Munich.

31:04 For the first half of this century, most Marseille heroin was sent to Tangier, Morocco, the main embarkation point for drugs bound for the U.S. Now you know why Morocco is so important. Tangier eventually gave way to such European ports as Barcelona, Lisbon, and Antwerp, in addition to the amount of heroin that they flew by air.

31:37 At the close of the 60s, there began what was first resembled a routine adjustment in the narcotics traffic. As time would show, this one involved a colossal upheaval. It might have been better described as a political coup, yet a coup that apparently went unnoticed, as its source lay shifted in international politics and friction between the CIA,

32:07 and their French counterparts in the SDECE. In the U.S., during the first presidential administration of Richard Nixon, he began cracking down on the Turkish opium. While it slowed the delivery of the morphine base, the Corsicans then had other sources to tap. They had long been connected to the mafia.

32:35 and Southeast Asia, thanks to their time in Vietnam and Laos. They organized the production of enormous quantities of opium in Burma, Laos, and Thailand, commonly referred to as the Golden Triangle. The sale of harvested opium is in the hands of well-organized tribes, some of it still reaching at this time over the border into southern China.

33:11 which is why the U.S. was so interested in being on the border of southern China. Hundreds of these migrated to other areas like Burma, we know with the Chiang Kai-shek group, where they resisted assimilation and control by local people. Chapter 10, The Pursuit of the Corsicans Begins. With George Papadu,

33:44 As elected president in France in 1969, improvement of the Franco-American relations was high on his agenda. In early 1970, he flew to Washington, where he met President Nixon, and on several occasions publicly cautioned against the U.S. withdrawal from Europe. He appointed Alexandre de Marcincus, uh, Marcincus.

34:16 head of the SDECE, and told him to clean it up. He responded by firing 815 men throughout the intelligence agency. He then chose Colonel Paul Ferrer, who used the alias Florinaire, as his right-hand man. They began a reorganization. Pompidou himself despised several long-time espionage.

34:48 figures, primarily for their role in a smear campaign that had been run against him under Charles de Gaulle. They had circulated propaganda that had his wife in the company of a film star, actually the film star's bodyguard, Stefan Markovic.

35:23 who had been murdered in 1968, and in compromising positions with men and women alike. Names that turned up repeatedly throughout the scandal were primarily SDECE agents. One of them, Sinanak, had been promoted and had supported the presidential candidacy of Charles de Gaulle's son.

36:02 but he refused being nominated to run. Barbarote, who had returned from Uruguay in 68 to help smother the May student insurrection, directed the Bureau, which was a front for Foucault's secret financial transactions. Pompidou had to watch his step while eliminating these powerful enemies because most of them enjoyed the support.

36:33 of a large section of the de gaulle party still with u.s help he used the next couple of years to choke off the most of them the sdce was ordered to cooperate with the cia the sac was also gutted that opened the way to then attack the corsican mafia furcott himself was too formidable to take on

37:08 with a frontal approach. His economic power and influence among politicians and these secret agents was way too big. Pompidou instead struck at the gangsters and the more shadier elements of the SDECE through their wallets.

37:35 One subject Pompidou had discussed with Nixon on his U.S. tour was a quote-unquote war on drugs. Nixon had described the dimensions of the problem and asked for Pompidou's assistance in stopping the heroin flow out of Marseille. Not stopping the heroin flow, just the heroin flow out of Marseille. That suited Pompidou perfectly, reducing the Corsican Mafia's profits.

38:05 would help him reach his end goal of cutting off funding for the terrorist network that they were using to fund. On 18 October 1970, a Cessna four-seater landed at Miami International. It was registered in Argentina. The plane was one of hundreds of Paraguayan planes that were smuggling goods to and from 80 landing strips in Florida.

38:39 U.S. Customs agents had been tipped off that the plane would be worth inspecting, emerged from hiding as the pilot crawled out of the cockpit. He screamed, no bandito. But he was just that, as the agents discovered three cases containing 45 kilos of heroin in the tail of the aircraft. To save his skin, Biachi, the name of the pilot,

39:11 agreed to cooperate. He continued on his normal route, but with agents now on his tail. First, he met with his Miami contact, Felix Becker. Then, Becker and a third man, Aaron Moravich, flew to New York to meet Pierre Gahot of the Record Network, and finally visited several U.S. wholesalers. On October 27th,

39:42 The heroin deal was closed and Gahal was able to fly to Paraguay with the money. But before he could depart, agents moved in and caught six men in their net. The catch was better than expected. Biachi shot off at the mouth like a machine gun to the wide-eyed custom agents. And he exposed Record's narco network. In the ensuing four months, stacks of proof was assembled against Record.

40:12 Finally, in March of 1971, the U.S. demanded his extradition, but a military plane dispatched to Paraguay for the gangster Kingpin return was empty. The Paraguayan president, Strassner, had decided that Record, if he was imprisoned, it would be in Paraguay. Record was then set up in a very comfortable cell containing a very luxurious bed.

40:43 radio, TV, and was allowed guests day or night. So in other words, they created a hotel room in a jail. Waiters brought in his food from his own restaurant, and he continued to manage his network out of a jail cell. Stroessner only capitulated in the summer of 1972 when the U.S. threatened to cut off aid. Now, why wouldn't they do that right at the beginning? On September 3rd,

41:17 Record was extradited. The man who put the pressure on Strassner was none other than Henry Kissinger. According to an international spook, Luis Gonzalez Mata, himself a party to the affair, the pressure began in 1968, a year in which one of Kissinger's friends also happened to be in Paraguay on a weapons deal. The man was CIA agent Legros.

41:48 This same Forrest Gump guy that shows up in all of these stories. He was integrated as basically a double agent into the record network. The case of Roger French Connection Deloitte involved the greatest international fireworks and was recreated in print and on screen. On 5 April 1971, a U.S. Customs agent discovered

42:21 89 packets of heroin hidden in a Volkswagen van on board the Atlantic Cognac, a freighter docked in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. It contained 45 kilos of white gold. Deloitte was arrested the same day when he came for the car. Under interrogation, he claimed that he was working for the SDECE.

42:53 that at this time was working very closely with the CIA, keep that in mind, and that his journey with the heroin had been ordered by a colonel out of the SDECE. Furthermore, he had been instructed to contact SDECE agent Donald McNabb, who was working in the French consulate in New York. While that was sensational in itself, the scandal was far greater.

43:23 What really inflamed the Americans was that they had agreed with French authorities to cooperate against narcotic trafficking, and a key link was the supposedly reorganized and cooperative SDECE. Oh, darn. If Deloitte's story was true, then the SDECE had not only broken the agreement, it had also pulled the rug out from under Pompidou. The French defense minister

43:54 under whose auspices the SDECE operated, officially denounced this claim as fabricated. While he admitted that Deloitte had earlier taken an occasional assignment, he insisted he's no longer in their employ. The Americans subjected him to two lie detector tests. He passed both of them. Prosecutor

44:20 Herbert Stern's request to interrogate him was then refused. What? What? You don't want somebody outside your network questioning the guy who just said that he's working with French intelligence, importing heroin into the United States? That's weird. Huh. As for the French, their three-day investigation

44:55 absolved him of any crimes, the guy that's in the SDCE. At this point, Deloitte's past becomes of interest. He began working for French intelligence immediately after the war. His first assignment was keeping tabs on the Greek election. Wow. Do you mean the election that we were interfering with in Greece? Yes, that same one.

45:25 So he's working with the CIA in Greece. While Deloitte remained with the SDECE, his buddy, who was his supervisor at the time, was Colonel Roger Burbot. They shuttled about various jobs according to the needs of what would appear more like NATO stay-behind jobs than anything for the government. They were reunited in Algeria.

46:02 with Deloitte, an agent, and Barot, the leader of the Black Commandos. They again crossed paths in Central African Republic, where Barot was serving as the French ambassador. Wow. The intelligence guy became an ambassador? And then once he was ambassador, he immediately hired Deloitte. And then Deloitte...

46:38 chose to marry Barbarote's secretary at the embassy. In the fall of 68, Deloitte and Barbarote went on a mysterious trip to Cuba, 1968 to Cuba, during which Deloitte was approached by SDECE and asked to become an agent on the island of Cuba.

47:08 He agreed and remained in service for nearly a year, after which he and Barbarote journeyed once again back to Africa. In late 69, Deloitte suddenly contacted the SDECE, a colonel for Nair, to demand back pay and request reinstatement. Both requests were filed.

47:41 statement, Barot surprisingly told Radio Luxembourg that he believed the operation had been led by Paris SDECE figures seeking to do away with both Deloitte and his past. In other words, in other words, they were offering him up. The Americans evidently believed Deloitte and Barbaro more than they had the defense minister.

48:09 For a crime punishable by 20 years imprisonment, Deloitte got off with five. At the close of 1972, a new chapter was added to Deloitte's saga. Claude Pasto of Christian David's Latin American organization was arrested and began to sing for the CIA and U.S. narcotic officers.

48:38 Pasto claimed David had ordered him to New York at the beginning of 71. In April of 71, he was supposed to have met Deloitte at the hotel to discuss his delivery that he was arrested making. Pasto said he met Deloitte as planned and that the two agreed on a delivery the following evening.

49:09 with good reason, didn't appear, Pasto got scared and returned to Latin America. It's also possible that these forces were aware of the Nixon-Papadeau narcotics agreement and saw their own financial stake in jeopardy. So was it part of the network or were they operating outside now the formal network?

49:44 Who knows? On July 5th, 1971, a Paris court sentenced two men to five years imprisonment for trafficking narcotics. They were Mikel Victor Mertz, 51, and Anceli Seccini. He was 49. Considering that since 1960, they had smuggled more than $3 billion in street values worth of heroin.

50:19 to the U.S., their sentences seemed to be mild. Five years. Their trials would never have taken place had the French authorities not been under intense American pressure due to the Deloitte expose. Since 1961, in fact, U.S. authorities had known that Mertz and his partner were smuggling large quantities into their country. Several times the U.S. had asked French to act.

50:49 but to no avail. They were very special reasons for the French resistance. Merz had been drafted into the German army. Two years later, he deserted and joined the French resistance. He still liked the Germans. Merz soon became an underground legend. His squad became famous for its daring

51:19 And Mertz himself had killed 20 Gestapo agents, freeing 400 prisoners and escaping four different times from imprisonment. In 1945, Charles de Gaulle awarded him a Legion of Honor. Mertz was considered a hero in France. In 1960, while in the employ of SDECE, Mertz began smuggling heroin from France to the U.S.

51:52 with his buddy, who was a Merseye gangster. The SDECE sent him on a spy mission to infiltrate the OAS in Algeria during their Algerian Civil War OAS, trying to keep it a colony that period. On July 14th, SDECE chiefs had notified that Mertz had important information. He was brought before

52:24 for Carte himself. He informed him that the OAS was planning to blow up the president's car on a bridge, which de Gaulle was driven each day. Mertz then returned to his camp. So he, like many others, was acting as an infiltrator. So he had helped pre-warn Charles de Gaulle of an assassination attempt and

53:00 added to his already heroic reputation in France. On 12 January 1962, he shipped an automobile to New York loaded with 100 kilos of heroin. The procedure he followed was a standard one. A sheet metal worker opened the chassis, placed the heroin beyond the scrutiny of customs officials, and re-welded plates. The car was then sent to the U.S. under a fictitious name.

53:29 picked up by a man with forged passports, and then distributed. Over the next eight or nine years, Mertz and his partner operated this, creating a huge fortune. Through the years, both him and his partner had been of great service to the government going on special spy missions. That explained their reluctance to prosecute him. Despite his five-year sentence,

54:01 His partner was deemed too ill for imprisonment and remained a free man. Mertz first began serving his prison time in 1972, but was secretly released almost immediately. That seems to be a very standard procedure with these guys.

54:28 a few more pages to this chapter we're going to stop right there because we're going to introduce a couple of new players and then talk briefly about the lab and then we're going to go back to Christian David's capture in Brazil and we will do that on Monday so that's a lot and it's weird how all of the things that we learned that were going on in Europe with

55:01 and all of those people and the disbursement of the Nazis going to Latin America, this actually explores the networks that were being set up and how they mirror all of the other networks with a lot more granular detail of how they were operating and under whose purview they were operating.

55:29 Basically, all of these people had a dual use. They were assassins. They were participants in maintaining all of the CIA's dictatorships in South America through brutality and stealing the money and infiltrating their organizations. And their side hustle was narcotics trafficking. And everybody was fine with that.

56:01 You can just see it. And we've already covered a lot of them that were doing the same thing. And then there's the overlap of many of the CIA people that were in Southeast Asia all end up in Latin America, too. And they're working with the same people that they were networked, not just in South America, but in Europe. Same intelligence agencies, all of that.

56:29 It's a worldwide. And now you guys know when we first started getting into this, why we came up with the word international syndicate. Because it is a syndicate. It's like a mafia. And it's international. And they use the same operatives to make all of this work. And the part that is much less well documented is the corporate. And some books are better than others.

56:58 the corporations that benefit from all of this. Because as we well know, this organization is basically overthrowing countries for the benefit of these oligarchs. And then using that as an excuse to set up these secret police, these black site prisons, and wholesale torture and kill anybody that rebels against them.

57:28 as long as the CIA-installed dictator is operating in that country. And the fact that they do these narcotics on the side, it's kind of like the perfect setup for them. They're doing the mercenary work for both corporations and dictators while...

57:58 using that same network, which is all criminals, to traffic narcotics. It's a win-win for them. It's disgusting, but you can kind of see how it all overlaps. Did you have anything you wanted to add, Bridget? Okay, I'm going to have to duck out real quick because I can't hear you. I hate that when X does that. Okay, I'm back. No, I can hear you. Okay, there we go. Okay, now can you hear me? Yep.

59:00 Okay, great. I was trying to deal with a spammer over on Rumble. For some reason, it will... Anyway, it just glitches. You know, they keep messing with us, messing with us. Did you get them out? Yeah, I think so. We have a lot of new people, so it's always kind of hard to figure out exactly. And it's bizarre how...

59:36 Anyway, it's just been crazy. But how do they actually accidentally release that many prisoners? Okay, hold on. You need to get that Trump loves Jeffrey guy out of there. Yeah, that's what I'm working on. Okay. User forever. There we go. Okay. All right, go ahead. Anyway, so how do they exactly accidentally let go of half of the...

1:00:12 What is it, half of the prison? Well, they didn't lose half of the prison. They lost the, are you talking about the prison break? That was the two Pamaris that had basically escaped, that they had helped, Christian David had helped in prison. They basically dug tunnels and snuck out. He's still there, Bridget.

1:00:44 Yep, I saw it. He's got apparently a backup ID. Okay, we'll get him out. Yep, working on it. My rumble glitches and it sometimes will not let me, but I'm trying. It'll go eventually unglitch. Just give me a second. I don't know why. I used to be able to do that on mine with those little dots, but I can't do it on mine. See, that's what I have issues with.

1:01:14 And I would think since I'm the host, I should be able to do that. But it only says pin and unpin. It won't let me get them out. Right. That's kind of what I'm fighting to. Or it'll allow me to highlight their name, but it won't actually allow me to get rid of them. But, you know, they wouldn't be screaming unless we were actually being effective. So kind of a backhanded compliment. Yeah. And Mayor Sarge pointed out in a DM.

1:01:43 to me that someone has created a rumble account that says my same title but it says details and they stole our little gladioglasses emblem and is making retarded comments on our post and i don't see anywhere on rumble where you can um like contact somebody to um report a duplicate duplicate or whatever account either so that's some

1:02:11 else we're gonna have to figure out yes ma'am um but anyway all right so all along did you want to say something not no not yet i'll probably think of something eventually okay all right well um yeah so anyway very interesting um kind of the highlight of um this section thus far

1:02:49 is the special meeting that Pompadour had with Nixon and their decision, because Pompadour doesn't like these elements that are de Gaulle's loyalists in his SDECE. So he's using the narcotics thing as an excuse to purge the de Gaulle's out of the government. And at the same time,

1:03:17 using intelligence from the CIA because they didn't like de Gaulle either. And then in exchange, obviously, because the proof's in the pudding, is that they get rid of the Marseille mafia and push all of the narcotic refinement into the CIA-controlled network. So that's kind of the nuts and bolts of...

1:03:45 what we're talking about in this particular chapter. He doesn't describe it as well as other books do, but that's not the focus of his book. The focus of his book is to dig into the Ben Barca affair, Christian David and his pivotal role and a guy that most people's never heard of.

1:04:14 and kind of highlight this entire network. So anyway, that's what we got. Guru. Oh my gosh. I haven't seen him in forever. Dude, where have you been? I need my Australia dose. Get up here. And there's health, wealth, abundance. Yay. Awesome. How are you, health? Go ahead.

1:04:51 How you doing, ma'am? I'm awesome. How are you? I'm good. It's good to see you. I just wanted to come up and say hi. I support you. That's all. I've been trying to get to you and just been missing you. I want to let you know how much I appreciate you. That's all. Thank you. And thank you for being here. No problem. God bless you. I appreciate everything you do. Thank you. All right, Guru. The stage is yours. Good night, Colonel. Good night, Bridget.

1:05:21 uh people hello um yeah missed everyone look i as you know guys i um you know got a bit crook there and um feeling a bit of a journey actually getting back on recovery and um yeah i went away from all the wi-fi and that pretty heavily you know and turned everything off um anyway yeah so from that i yeah got a bit of a long story but he's uh we've got a long story going on right now guys we got um

1:05:52 You know, very despicable things going on. It could be a quick rundown on where we are in Australia. And it's ludicrous the way it's going on. But, you know, we now had... And look, we've got to remember this is all deception, guys, and this is all, you know, pre-planned, by design. We know all this. The Colonel teaches about this every day. This is all well done, well documented.

1:06:21 And what they're doing now here in Australia is they've actually made a precedent and they used some, let's say, socialist Nazis, who probably aren't, they're just white Australia guys who feel that they have a right to defend their country, you know. And what those guys done was got on to...

1:06:46 some other people that I used to be involved with, but I sort of stepped out right out of the way because I could see what was happening. And me and Kazza from our show, we just sat back and watched this go down. We predicted it. We put a thing out. There's a thing on my Twitter about, you know, what's happening in Australia. You can have a quick look at that. And we put that out probably a year, year and a half ago. And so what they've done is they've actually stopped that party.

1:07:15 from actually being registered. They had 2,000 members within about six months or so, registered a political party, and the political party was outlawed on what? Anti-Semitism and hate speech. So gone. So everyone moved over to a place or a thing called One Nation here in Australia, which is Pauline Hanson. I don't know whether you know about her.

1:07:41 As far as I'm concerned, they're all paid by the elites and they're all on the same course. But she's always been against immigration, mass immigration, etc. Is she the one that is guru? Guru. Guru. What I'll do is I'll tag somebody that is an extremist to One Nation and I'll disband their party. Now, that's how far they're going in Australia.

1:08:08 To actually stop the uprising of the people. Guru. It's actually incredible. They are making it that hard. Like, I've been sued lately, guys. I got sued for nearly half a million dollars. I'm serious. I've had the judgment, and I'm in a pearl. That's another thing I've been doing, Colonel. You know what I mean? They're after us all. You know, I believe the cancer I got was government-induced. You know, now I know Cliff High.

1:08:37 believes that the government gave him the same cancer as what I got, which was SCC, very aggressive cancer. I let half my jawbone taken out, guys. Oh, my gosh. I believe in the natural way, but what happened was this started to go on naturally. I went out and alive and said to everyone, look at this, guys, you can heal all this stuff naturally. Within two weeks, guys, the cancer had just gone ballistic. So, yeah, this is a very evil war that we're in out here.

1:09:06 Again, Australia is being scared into silence and beaten down by the system that is actually put there to protect us. So in a nutshell, Colonel, we're not doing too well over here. We're hoping that, yeah, Trump, by the look of the last couple of days, that's very, very comforting to anyone who's in the know about what could be going on in the background, et cetera.

1:09:35 I'm just hoping that the good Lord does have his hand on it and that we are moving somewhere. Look, everyone's starting to wake up in Australia. The problem is they're feared into not reacting. And this is how the cabal work. We all know it. They work on fear and they love it. Why? Because the human genome doesn't like fear. We don't know how to handle fear.

1:10:01 Hey, guru. And one thing, if I've got to say to anyone, lose your fear, guys. Find God, lose fear. That was something I used to say on my show all the time. I haven't done this show for a while now, Colonel. You know, I just sort of pulled out due to my health. But also some very remarkable things were happening over here, and that was every time I did go on to social media, I found more and more people who just sounded like me and Kaz for the last seven years.

1:10:30 I've seen this explosion of people on the internet that are actually coming out now and saying what we used to get called absolute tinfoil hat wearing idiots for. So it's all happening. But yeah, Australia is not in a very good position at all, Colonel. So I'll let you come back if you'd like to. But yeah, great to see everyone. Is that political party, the One Nation, is that the female that inherited a whole bunch of money and was trying to stand up against everybody?

1:11:01 Her family is like a well-to-do family. Bridget, can you... Well, that would explain why you didn't hear me. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me? I'm doing fine. Yes, I know. It's been a minute. I'm actually in BJ's right now.

1:11:56 Give me some sardines. That's it. And see you guys. Love myself and Carol. Can you hear me now? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So just real quick, I wanted to ask Guru, is the One Nation Party the one that the female that inherited a whole bunch of money, she was from a wealthy family?

1:12:23 and um that she was standing up against all of the tyranny down there well that's sort of half right she has been standing up against the tyranny she's been put in jail um early on the piece that was organized by the political movement over here no she didn't have money from her own family she actually had a fish and chip shop and she sold fish and chips she was a single mum oh um

1:12:49 Yeah, and she has come from the heart. But now she's got Gina Reinhart on her side. She's actually in Italy at the moment with Gina in some higher class posh, which is, you know, going over a whole new pole. And I've got no problem about that. My problem is Gina Reinhart is just another, you know, elite, you know, billionaire.

1:13:11 But that's the one I'm talking about. I thought it was the actual political official, but she has somebody that's supporting her that has lots of money. Yeah, a money magnate called. That's right. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I knew it was a woman and I knew she was in mining because another friend of mine that had done some computer stuff for me is in Australia as well. And he is part of her.

1:13:40 the one nation political movement. And I knew there was, there was a billionaire in there somewhere. Well, they always are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I was just trying to track how that all played out. Well, I'm sorry to hear about your medical issues guru. And I wish,

1:14:10 obviously send lots of prayers um uh thank you to you um and i'm i'm glad you're back on um we definitely miss our uh australian update no problem i'll um i'll try and get back with more a little bit involved yeah now i'm sort of back into it a little bit you know i'm not going to do the show but definitely going to be hanging around yeah talking and just conveying what's happening in australia to people that um are interested in it you know we're all the same

1:14:39 every Western nation, as you know, as all your audience would know. So yeah, we just stand up guys, find God, lose fear and head to the battlefield because that's where we are. Yep. We're definitely on the battlefield. That's for sure. Okay. We don't have anything else. We're going to call it a day. You guys have a nice weekend and we will rejoin on Monday at four o'clock.

1:15:10 Thank you all for being here. Thank you. Thank you. Guru. I'll take care. Woo. Okay. I got to do another. I think I have two more raids to do. So let's figure out what we're going to do. Um, uh, let's see. Oh, my buddy. Ghost is. Let's do. Um, okay. Let's see if I.

1:15:53 Figure this out again. All right. Nope. Don't let me use him. All right. Let's go find out if it's because he hasn't been on. Looks like that was not live. Although it says live on it. Go figure. Okay. Let's look at who else. Let's see if it says on Badlands live. Nope.

1:16:57 I don't see any of them. Live sticker on them. That's weird. All right, guys. You're going to have to help me find one. Find two. Who else can we do? Recognize any of these people. Who can we do? You all live. Oh, there's Red Pill. Says his is live. Let's try that one. Have a nice weekend.

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Christian David funded RICORD book_quoted ▶ 4:07

“A lot of the criminals like hanging out in Latin America. A new career in the shadows awaited him. Christian David had with him from Marseille a letter of introduction to a former French mafia king an…”

SDECE member_of Christian David book_quoted ▶ 4:38

“the narcotics trade, heroin specifically, from Marseille to Argentina, Paraguay, and into the United States. Record's organization welcomed him with open arms and soon moved him into the highest ranks…”

Roger Barrot appointed France book_quoted ▶ 5:42

“In their old stomping grounds, Vietnam, and otherwise preoccupied, there was a lot of interest in switching up their network. They were also moving into Africa. One of the examples was a notorious Col…”

Dominique Ponchardier operated_in Bolivia book_quoted ▶ 6:19

“And another counterpart, Dominique Ponciard. It's man in Bolivia. So they do the same thing we do. They use their ambassadors to help out their intelligence organization control countries for narcotic…”

Franco Giapi did_business_with Gurini Clan book_quoted ▶ 8:00

“On arrival in Argentina, David met with Franco's Giapi. He is somebody that we ran across in Operation Gladio before. He was wanted in France for two murders. Giapi, also known as Big Lips, not even g…”

Auguste Ricord headed RICORD book_quoted ▶ 8:32

“with all of the politicians and the militants in Argentina. He was also a top member of the RECORD organization. The RECORD network was divided into four teams. They operated independently and out of …”

Franco Giapi member_of RICORD book_quoted ▶ 8:32

Christian David infiltrated Douglas Bravo book_quoted ▶ 12:21

“David then went on secret missions for French intelligence out of South America. His first assignment was to infiltrate Douglas Bravo's Venezuelan urban revolutionaries. That led nowhere. In early 67,…”

Christian David infiltrated Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación book_quoted ▶ 13:26

“for several months. And murder was a task he was very efficient at. Upon returning to Latin America, he rejoined Record in Paraguay before ending up in Argentina. In late 67, David, using his alias, m…”

Christian David kidnapped Waldemar Sanchez book_quoted ▶ 14:24

“They used Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs computer system from IBM to automate their kill list and share them with the other Condor countries where they could trace these dissidents and murder them cr…”

SDECE did_business_with Argentina book_quoted ▶ 15:25

“prize to Central America. Eventually, the SDECE made a deal for the papers with the Argentine government, which led to the arrest of several of the resistance forces and the death by torture of at lea…”

Christian David infiltrated Tupamaros book_quoted ▶ 17:36

“That's the name of the resistance force in Uruguay. Through her, Christian David infiltrated Latin America's best organized resistance, the Tupamaros. Uruguay's president, Arrico, had already begun a …”

Tupamaros captured Claude Fry book_quoted ▶ 18:07

“expert at torture and anti-guerrilla warfare. Two of those agents were Dan Mederone and Claude Fry. Dan Mederone is there under the sheep-dipped cover of USAID Office of Public Safety. He also was ear…”

Tupamaros captured Dan Mitrione book_quoted ▶ 18:07

CIA trained Dan Mitrione book_quoted ▶ 18:07

Christian David stole_from Tupamaros book_quoted ▶ 19:43

“who became David's go-between for the Iroquois government. He fooled the legendary Tupomaro leader, Raul Sendik. After robbing a bank, the guerrillas handed Christian David $400,000 to buy weapons. He…”

Christian David assassinated Teresa book_quoted ▶ 21:52

“all over, working on his narcotics network. There's also somewhat unbelievable story about David's departure from Uruguay. In the transit hall of the Capitol's airport, a stewardess reportedly brought…”

Auguste Ricord fled_from France book_quoted ▶ 26:13

“Its street value, depending on who you talk to, was approximately $2 billion. At the end of World War II, Record flew from France, fled from France, sorry, and a death sentence for working with the Na…”

Auguste Ricord operated_in Paraguay book_quoted ▶ 27:54

“narcotics trafficking network. At the start of the 60s, Record moved his headquarters from Buenos Aires to Paraguay. There he felt at home among many, many Nazis that were also hanging out in Paraguay…”

Auguste Ricord did_business_with Klaus Barbie book_quoted ▶ 28:59

“Record also regained contact with an old acquaintance, then residing in Bolivia, Kloss Barbie, one of the most notorious Nazis in all of South America. He was referred to as the Killer of Lyon. Record…”

Georges Pompidou appointed Alexander de Marenches book_quoted ▶ 33:44

“As elected president in France in 1969, improvement of the Franco-American relations was high on his agenda. In early 1970, he flew to Washington, where he met President Nixon, and on several occasion…”

Alexander de Marenches appointed Paul Féry book_quoted ▶ 34:16

“head of the SDECE, and told him to clean it up. He responded by firing 815 men throughout the intelligence agency. He then chose Colonel Paul Ferrer, who used the alias Florinaire, as his right-hand m…”

Georges Pompidou did_business_with Richard Nixon book_quoted ▶ 37:35

“One subject Pompidou had discussed with Nixon on his U.S. tour was a quote-unquote war on drugs. Nixon had described the dimensions of the problem and asked for Pompidou's assistance in stopping the h…”

Biachi exposed RICORD documented ▶ 39:42

“The heroin deal was closed and Gahal was able to fly to Paraguay with the money. But before he could depart, agents moved in and caught six men in their net. The catch was better than expected. Biachi…”

Alfredo Stroessner protected Auguste Ricord documented ▶ 40:12

“Finally, in March of 1971, the U.S. demanded his extradition, but a military plane dispatched to Paraguay for the gangster Kingpin return was empty. The Paraguayan president, Strassner, had decided th…”

United States ordered_assassination_of Auguste Ricord documented ▶ 40:12

United States targeted_for_regime_change Alfredo Stroessner host_asserted ▶ 40:43

“radio, TV, and was allowed guests day or night. So in other words, they created a hotel room in a jail. Waiters brought in his food from his own restaurant, and he continued to manage his network out …”

Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of Alfredo Stroessner host_asserted ▶ 41:17

“Record was extradited. The man who put the pressure on Strassner was none other than Henry Kissinger. According to an international spook, Luis Gonzalez Mata, himself a party to the affair, the pressu…”

Roger Degaulles member_of SDECE host_asserted ▶ 42:21

“89 packets of heroin hidden in a Volkswagen van on board the Atlantic Cognac, a freighter docked in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. It contained 45 kilos of white gold. Deloitte was arrested the same day …”

Roger Degaulles member_of SDECE host_asserted ▶ 44:55

“absolved him of any crimes, the guy that's in the SDCE. At this point, Deloitte's past becomes of interest. He began working for French intelligence immediately after the war. His first assignment was…”

Roger Degaulles did_business_with Roger Barrot host_asserted ▶ 45:25

“So he's working with the CIA in Greece. While Deloitte remained with the SDECE, his buddy, who was his supervisor at the time, was Colonel Roger Burbot. They shuttled about various jobs according to t…”

Roger Barrot recruited Roger Degaulles host_asserted ▶ 46:02

“with Deloitte, an agent, and Barot, the leader of the Black Commandos. They again crossed paths in Central African Republic, where Barot was serving as the French ambassador. Wow. The intelligence guy…”

Roger Barrot headed Black Commandos host_asserted ▶ 46:02

Roger Degaulles married Roger Barrot host_asserted ▶ 46:38

“chose to marry Barbarote's secretary at the embassy. In the fall of 68, Deloitte and Barbarote went on a mysterious trip to Cuba, 1968 to Cuba, during which Deloitte was approached by SDECE and asked …”

SDECE recruited Roger Degaulles host_asserted ▶ 46:38

Roger Degaulles member_of SDECE host_asserted ▶ 47:08

“He agreed and remained in service for nearly a year, after which he and Barbarote journeyed once again back to Africa. In late 69, Deloitte suddenly contacted the SDECE, a colonel for Nair, to demand …”

SDECE ordered_assassination_of Roger Degaulles host_asserted ▶ 47:41

“statement, Barot surprisingly told Radio Luxembourg that he believed the operation had been led by Paris SDECE figures seeking to do away with both Deloitte and his past. In other words, in other word…”

Christian David ordered_assassination_of Claude Andre Pasto host_asserted ▶ 48:38

“Pasto claimed David had ordered him to New York at the beginning of 71. In April of 71, he was supposed to have met Deloitte at the hotel to discuss his delivery that he was arrested making. Pasto sai…”

Michel Victor Mertz member_of French Resistance host_asserted ▶ 50:49

“but to no avail. They were very special reasons for the French resistance. Merz had been drafted into the German army. Two years later, he deserted and joined the French resistance. He still liked the…”

Michel Victor Mertz assassinated Gestapo host_asserted ▶ 51:19

“And Mertz himself had killed 20 Gestapo agents, freeing 400 prisoners and escaping four different times from imprisonment. In 1945, Charles de Gaulle awarded him a Legion of Honor. Mertz was considere…”

Charles de Gaulle pardoned Michel Victor Mertz host_asserted ▶ 51:19

Michel Victor Mertz member_of SDECE host_asserted ▶ 51:19

Michel Victor Mertz exposed Charles de Gaulle host_asserted ▶ 52:24

“for Carte himself. He informed him that the OAS was planning to blow up the president's car on a bridge, which de Gaulle was driven each day. Mertz then returned to his camp. So he, like many others, …”

Georges Pompidou removed_from_power SDECE host_asserted ▶ 1:02:49

“is the special meeting that Pompadour had with Nixon and their decision, because Pompadour doesn't like these elements that are de Gaulle's loyalists in his SDECE. So he's using the narcotics thing as…”

Georges Pompidou did_business_with Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 1:02:49