The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 5

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0:00 okay welcome to today's show we are on part five of the great pretense and um how are you today bridget sr you're great outstanding colonel i am so glad that we've been on this journey um with all of the crap happening right now um it allows us to make much more sense of

0:32 what's going on than had we not been on this journey. Okay, this next- Amen. Yeah, exactly. So this next section is fairly long. I like to try to get all of the sections done in a single show. I'm not sure we're gonna get through this particular one because we're basically going through the author's rendition of

1:01 I don't know, Latin America, with all of the crap lighting up about Bolivia. It's like it was just destined to be. So anyway, we're going to talk today about what the author refers to as the Bogota connection. And he starts off with a very interesting quote from one of our favorite researchers, although we don't politically agree with him, just put that out there, Doug Valentine.

1:32 Here's a quote from an article that he wrote in Counterpunch. The director of the CIA, William Webster, formed the CIA's counter-narcotics center in 1988. Stacked by over 100 agents, it ostensibly became the springboard for the covert penetration of and paramilitary operations against top traffickers protected by high-tech security firms, lawyers, and well-armed private armies.

2:02 Counter Narcotic Center brought together, under CIA's control, every federal agency involved in the drug wars. Former CIA officer Terry Burke, then serving as a DEA Director of Operations, was allowed to send one liaison officer to the center. The center quickly showed its true colors. In late 1990, customs agents in Miami seized a ton of pure cocaine from Venezuela.

2:32 To their surprise, a Venezuelan undercover agent said the CIA had approved the delivery. DEA Administrator Robert Bonner ordered an investigation and discovered the CIA had, in fact, shipped a load from its warehouse in Venezuela. The quote-unquote controlled deliveries were managed by CIA Officer Mark McFarlane.

2:59 a veteran of the Reagan terror campaign in El Salvador. Bonner wanted to indict McFarlane, but was prevented from doing so because Venezuela was in the process of fighting off a rebellion led by Hugo Chavez, unquote. The article was published by the National Security Archives in 2008. It highlights the CIA's role in narco-trafficking,

3:30 in Colombia. It also highlights Pablo Escobar, who was killed in 1993 by members of the so-called Search Block, which was a 600-person task force comprised of Colombian police and intelligence agencies funded, trained, and supported by the CIA.

3:59 Two of the DEA agents involved in the hunt for Escobar as part of search block penned a book about their experiences. It was called Manhunters, How We Took Down Pablo Escobar. It was written by Stephen Murphy and Javier Pina. Their exploits were so sanitized and fictionalized in a Netflix.

4:28 streaming series called Narcos. From an NSA archive, quote, US espionage operations targeting top Colombian government officials in 93 provided key evidence linking the US-Colombia task force, the search block, charged with tracking down fugitive drug lord Pablo Escobar to one of Colombia's most notorious paramilitary chiefs. According to a new collection of declassified documents,

4:57 published today by the National Security Archives. The affair sparked a special CIA investigation into whether U.S. intelligence was shared with Colombian terrorists and narco-traffickers every bit as dangerous as Escobar himself. The documents revealed that the U.S. Colombian Medellin Task Force, known as Spanish Search Block, was sharing intelligence information with

5:26 paramilitary leaders in Las Pepes, which was basically peoples persecuted by Pablo Escobar, a clandestine terrorist organization that waged a bloody campaign against Colombian civilians and property associated even tangentially to Pablo. Basically, they were trying to destroy everything he had built in and around.

5:59 meddling as a warning to anybody else that operated outside their network. The drug war is supposed to have followed a very clear script. According to the official screenwriters, the U.S. justice system is pitted against corrupt players in foreign countries who are trying to flood American streets with illicit drugs. The narcotraffickers, crooked cops, and thieving politicians in the drug war are always over there.

6:28 in Latin America or in Asia, somewhere, not here. And US law enforcement and government officials are always the good guys combating the evil. But what actually happens is completely different. The author then asked, what happens when the evidence surface that turns that script on its ear?

6:56 A document he obtained as a correspondence for Knocker News makes those questions not hypothetical. In one document, the DOJ attorney Thomas Kent claims that federal agents with the DEA office in Bogota, Colombia, were the corrupt players. The information in that document also corroborated by a number of other sources that spoke directly to the author.

7:26 included former government officials, even a few insiders in the DEA. Kent's memo contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S. quote-unquote anti-narco officers, that DEA agents on the front lines of the war in Colombia are on drug traffickers' payroll, complicit in the murders of informants.

7:56 who knew too much and directly involved in helping Colombia's infamous paramilitary death squads in addition to laundering its money. Which, of course, we know that's true because we just had a former top DEA official arrested for money laundering drug money after he retired, along with Robert Sensei. Rather than being simply a few bad apples who needed to be reported to their superiors,

8:27 This basically indicted a whole slew of DEA people, not like literally, because we're not going to actually hold them accountable during this time, just documented evidence that indicted them. Everyone who becomes aware of these allegations will be forced to consider what the heck have we been doing with all of that so-called drug war money?

8:55 On December 19th, 2004, Thomas Kent, an attorney in the wiretap unit of the DOJ narcotics and dangerous drugs section, sent off a memo to his chief at the narcotic and dangerous drug section. That memo was leaked to the author. He reported on it at the time of the leak in Narco News. Law enforcement sources.

9:25 told the author that a number of other high-level officials in the DOJ and DEA soon received copies of that same memo. In it, Kent raised serious corruption allegations centering on the DEA office in Bogota. Kent says his claims are supported by a number of DEA agents in Florida, whom the agency muzzled and retaliated against if they tried to expose the corruption.

9:54 Kent also says that the DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility and elements of the DOJ and IG have worked to keep a lid on the corruption charges. According to Kent, these offices, which are supposed to serve as watchdog agencies, instead sabotaged investigations at every step. This is in Kent's memo written to his boss.

10:28 Quote, as discussed in my prior memo dated December 13th, 2004, several unrelated investigations, including a wiretap operation called Operation Snowplow, identified corrupt agents within DEA. As further discussed in my memo, OPR's handling of the investigations into the allegations has come into question and the IG investigator who was actively looking into the allegation was removed.

10:58 from the investigation. As discussed in an email, I want to speak directly with DOJ Public Integrity Section because I want to ensure that the allegations are fully investigated. As promised, I am providing you with further information on the allegations and evidence that is already on file at those offices.

11:25 Several individuals close to the prior investigations that uncovered corruption agreed to speak with me. I had a limited time frame in which to speak with them and ask questions. They were able to provide me with some of the highlights, but certainly not all of the information. Such a debriefing based on what I learned in a few hours would take days or weeks.

11:50 Having been failed by so many before and facing tremendous risk to our career and their safety and the safety of their family, they were understandably hesitant to reveal the information I requested, including the names of those directly involved in criminal activity in Bogota and inside the United States.

12:11 They agreed to reveal the names to me on the condition that I not further disseminate these for the time being. They are prepared to provide statements to public integrity section with the names and everything in the files. And then some, if called upon to do so, unquote. Why is an attorney within DOJ afraid to reveal the names of DEA whistleblowers out of fear for their lives and that of their family?

12:42 Well, we know the answer to that. Remember that all of these allegations come strictly from Kent's memo. Although law enforcement sources have corroborated much of this information, Kent wrote his memo in late 2004. Kent alleges that one of the corrupt agents in Bogota was caught on a wiretap.

13:09 Sometime in 2004, discussing criminal activity related to a paramilitary group called United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. Its Spanish initials is AUC. The group at the time was widely recognized to be involved in narco-trafficking and arms trafficking at the highest levels of the Bogota government.

13:41 various people in the Colombian military, it has fielded death squads responsible for murdering thousands of Colombians. The following is from a 2004 report prepared by Congress. Quote, the AUC targets real and perceived supporters of the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia, which is the FARC.

14:13 They also target National Liberation Army, ELN, as well as political activities, police officials, and judges. The group is known for its brutality and has killed more civilians than insurgents have killed. In 2001, the AUC killed at least 1,015 civilians compared to their reported 197 civilians killed by the FARC. And that's their reporting.

14:44 The AUC also committed over 100 massacres in 2001, a tactic it used to displace large portions of peasant populations to grow coca, unquote. Kent also said that during the wiretap, the corrupt Bogota DEA agent discusses his involvement in laundering money for the AUC.

15:14 Despite being caught on tape admitting to helping the most murderous political forces in the hemisphere today to launder the money from a narco-trafficking operation, the agent faced no punishment. In fact, Kent said the agent was promoted.

15:37 That call had been documented by the DEA and that agent is now in charge of numerous narcotics and money laundering investigations, unquote. Is it the guy that was just arrested? Kent in the memo also alleges that the DOJ officials shut down a money laundering investigation because it discovered it threatened to expose the DEA agents in Bogota. He claims that the nail in the coffin was driven in by.

16:07 DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility after it discovered that an IG agent was investigating the Bogota corruption and related money laundering. This is a quote. In June 2004, OPR and DEA, the two agencies embarrassed by the prior allegations involving the Bogota agents and likely to come under tremendous scrutiny for their own actions in response or lack thereof.

16:34 demanded that my IG case agent turn all of the investigation information over to them. Kent states in a memorandum, one week after submitting the information to OPR in the DOJ money laundering investigation, it was shut down, unquote. Kent details three other cases of alleged corruption in his memo, all involving Bogota DEA agents.

17:04 persecuting and conspiring to kill Colombian informants who threatened to unreveal their operations. The corrupt allegations involved cases launched in 1999 and 2000, but which resulted in investigations carried out for months or years. Allegation one, corrupt DEA agents in Bogota conspired to murder informants who betrayed them.

17:35 During the course of an investigation into Colombian narcotrafficking operations, a group of DEA agents in Florida had zeroed in on several targets. With the help of several Colombian informants, once the targets were identified as being part of the drug ring, they began cooperating in the Florida-based investigation. They made startling revelations concerning DEA agents in Bogota. They alleged that they had been assisted by them.

18:05 Specifically, they said that the agents provided them with information on investigations and other law enforcement activities. So the DEA is giving the people heads up that someone else other than the corrupt ones are coming to look at them so they could make sure that their operations maintained uninterrupted. So you have guys in Miami that's not part of this.

18:34 that every time they started looking into something and had informants that the DEA was heading off the targeted people in Columbia. The traffickers eventually gave the Florida agents copies of confidential DEA reports, which the Bogota agents allegedly had handed over to them. They're giving them classified information.

19:06 After the Florida agents turned these documents over to the DEA OPR and IG, one of them was put on administrative leave. While the Florida agent was out on leave, the Bogota DEA agent set up a meeting with one of the informants. As the informant left the meeting, he was killed. Other informants who also worked with the DEA group in Florida were targeted and murdered. Each murder had preceded a request.

19:39 for the identity of them from the DEA agents in Bogota, Colombia. Allegation number two, Bogota DEA agents imprisoned and possibly conspired to murder informants to prevent their travel to the U.S. A separate DEA group, also based in Florida, ran into trouble with the same DEA office in Bogota while investigating another Colombian.

20:07 narco trafficking operation. Informants tipped off the Florida agents that this drug ring had developed an ingenious method for smuggling cocaine into the United States, a method that seems to have been lifted right out of a movie script called Traffic. Specifically, the narco traffickers in Colombia were infusing acrylic with cocaine.

20:36 and shaping it into any number of commercial goods. The acrylic was then shipped to the U.S. and Europe, where during a process, the cocaine was then extracted. Informants working in the Florida DEA sent samples of the cocaine-laced acrylic to the DEA, but the agency's chemist couldn't find any cocaine in it. As a result, the Florida agents decided to have the informants come to the U.S. with a sample.

21:04 that they could walk into the DEA chemist and watch the extraction process. The agents contacted the Bogota country office to discuss the informant's planned travel and bringing cocaine out of Colombia infused in acrylic. They were advised that the best tact was for the informants to carry it out themselves. But when the informants got to the airport to leave for the U.S., they were arrested.

21:31 The DEA agent in Bogota, it turns out, had told the Colombian officials what they were doing. They locked them up and threw away the key. The Bogota agent then claimed that he had no idea that the Florida agents had requested their travel. He lied. The informants were in prison for nine months while the accusations flew back and forth and no one was allowed to talk to them.

22:01 Once it was determined that the agents in Bogota were lying, the informants were released. One of the informants was kidnapped and murdered. Allegation number three, informants outed by traffickers with ties to Bogota agents. In yet another case, the second Florida DEA group was working with an informant in Columbia who claimed to have contact with a FARC guerrilla while in prison. FARC, meaning Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia,

22:35 accused by U.S. officials as being the drug traffickers. Columbia's fine. It's all the fark. Sources told the author, the informants, is a wealthy Colombian businessman with investments in high-tech firms and ties to the narco-trafficking. The guerrilla group was supposedly interested in buying communication equipment from him.

23:03 While this investigation eventually ended up in the hands of NSA, from the beginning it appeared to be related to drug trafficking. The Florida DEA agents decided to investigate. Agents from Bogota office promised to help. One of them assuring the Florida agents that the informants released from prison could be arranged. But when the Florida agents arrived in Columbia, another Bogota DEA agent told them the informant was going to have to stay in prison.

23:32 The Bogota agent seemed obsessed with stopping the informant from working with the Florida agents and began doing everything in their power to make sure they couldn't talk to anyone down there. As the two sides argued back and forth, the informant was challenged by Bogota agents to prove his allegations. He did so by making a videotape of a conversation he had had with one of the FARC members in jail. When confronted with the actual tape,

23:59 That confirmed the informant's story. The agents in Bogota complained that what the informant and DEA group in Florida had done was illegal. What? And they would be unable to use it to get the release. The Florida agents kept trying to investigate, but Bogota agents thwarted every attempt.

24:28 Eventually, the informant was released from prison and tried to start working with the Florida agents again, but an agent from Bogota office traveled to Washington, D.C. and managed to convince the DEA main office to stop it. When the informant approached the DEA once again with information, everything came to light. Quote from Kent's memo, the Bogota agent that traveled to Washington, D.C. now claimed the informant was a pedophile.

25:01 The investigation was halted. Again, the Bogota agent was called on his claim and could not provide a single drop of evidence of the pedophile accusation. The Bogota agent then switched tactics, arguing the DEA could not work with the informant because the FARC might end up with the communication equipment. He also claimed that one of the targets of the FARC-related investigation was not involved in narco-trafficking, even though the Bogota office

25:32 had identified him as a narco-trafficker. The Bogota agent was unable to dissuade those involved in the investigation, and it finally took off with the assistance of NSA. The investigation continued until the informant was faxed a document that identified him as a DEA informant on the FARC. The document mirrored information the DEA group in Florida had provided the corrupt agents in Bogota.

26:02 In other words, someone outed the Florida group informant, making him a target, including with the FARC guerrillas. The tool used to expose him was proprietary DEA information that appeared to have come out of none other than the Bogota DEA office themselves. The DEA agent in Florida looked further into the source of that information and followed the trail to several other DEA informants.

26:31 The Florida agents then set up a wiretap and recorded conversations between their own informants and the other DEA informants who were tied to the leaked DEA information. The recordings revealed that a narcotrafficker had indeed obtained the internal DEA information that was used to expose the Florida group's informant. That person, the narcotrafficker, is also...

26:59 on the payroll of the DEA and listed as an informant. He was controlled by the Bogota office. Among other things, it was alleged that the informant, the narco-trafficker, had several agents on his payroll who provided him with classified information. The agents were believed to be both in Washington, D.C. and the Bogota office.

27:26 The tape recordings that revealed this damning information were turned over to both the DEA Office of Professional Responsibility and the DOJ, as well as both IGs. The agents in Florida's DEA office also tried to set up a sting targeting the corrupt agents in Bogota and in Washington, D.C. The meeting was called off when it was learned the agents likely knew of the trap. The informant who also

27:56 was identified as a narco-trafficker with several agents, DEA agents, on his payroll, was eventually brought to Florida to take a polygraph. Kent says that the narco-trafficker passed the lie detector test in Florida at which he was asked whether agents provided him classified information. The lie detector, measuring his reaction to that question, said he didn't lie. But the Office of Professional Responsibility in the DEA

28:28 ordered the polygrapher not to report the test. He was instructed to say the test never took place. Although the charges raised by Kent in his 2004 memo have now passed before many eyes, they still have not ever been addressed. Instead, they were buried. Kent no longer with the Washington DC based wiretap unit of the DEA.

28:58 He was transferred to Nashville, according to his records. The chief that he reported to, whom Kent had addressed the memo to, was Jody Abergin. Only months later became the chief of staff of then DEA administrator Karen Tandy. So she was promoted.

29:23 to chief of staff, and chief of staff, for those of you who don't know, is like the number three person in the DEA. You have the director, you have the deputy director, and then the chief of staff. They're the gatekeeper of everybody that gets in to see the head honchos. In addition, Kent's request to send the Bogota corruption allegations to DOJ public integrity section was denied. The memo buried until it was leaked.

29:53 to the author. The full investigation of his allegations may well prove the DEA's Bogota office was clean as a whistle, but why wouldn't they investigate? Also contained in his memo,

30:08 If we were unable to arrange for a sit down between the reporting agents and those attorneys within the DOJ who are tasked to ensure that corrupt agents and officials are held accountable, then I firmly believe that we will watch from the sidelines as the allegations play out in the courtroom or on the news or on Capitol Hill. The reporting agents have placed their trust in me. I have assured them that I will lay the issue before you with as much detail and accounting of the allegations as I can without.

30:38 revealing their names for their safety. If we can put together the public integrity section, they assured me that the other agents will come forward. Those agents have additional evidence not in the files obtained by OPR or the IG. I believe based on the representation that the new evidence will prove the corruption. The agents who reported the allegations of corruptions did so to correct wrongs committed by the members.

31:08 of the DEA and the Office of Professional Responsibility. Their attempt to do so led to retaliation. The cracks in the lid of the DEA and Office of Professional Responsibility was an attempt to put the lid back together. Weeks after the Narco News published this expose on the Kent Memo,

31:35 The author received a call from an individual claiming to have more information on the corruption in the DEA office in Bogota. He was extremely paranoid about his communications being monitored. He asked if the reporter had a burner phone. The reporter suggested meeting in person somewhere public as a precaution. As a result of that, he got spooked and ended the conversation.

32:03 The author made a note that he needed to keep a burner phone from then on. In Samana Magazine, which was a popular weekly magazine in Columbia, there was a letter to the editor that was printed on January 22nd, 2006. The letter was penned by Garrison Courtney, spokesperson for the USDA. In reaction to a story Samana published a week earlier,

32:36 That was based on Kent's expose of Kent's memo. So the DEA, so Kent, it reminds me of this letter that I, or this article that I found from James Angleton saying, debunking Gladio. So there's an expose that gets written about in Columbia and the DEA immediately comes out and pens a response. Quote,

33:06 With regard to the cover story in issue 1237, the accusations made in Kent's memo about the DEA were reviewed in 2004 when a DEA received notification of alleged misconduct and were reviewed again when the publication of the same unfounded accusations in the Narco News Bulletin.

33:29 These investigations were carried out with the highest degree of impartiality, independence, and professionalism by the DEA Office of Public Responsibility, our internal investigations, and the Office of IG at the DOJ. At no time during these reviews was any information found sustained, sustaining the accusations. The DEA demands that our personnel maintain the highest ethical standards, blah, blah, blah.

33:58 There was not a single investigation done. And anybody that made the allegations was retaliated against. Here in the press statement issued by Garrison on January 13, 2006, four days after the Narco News published the author's first story, the same guy writes this. The allegations that are reported in the Narco News bulletin are

34:31 Extremely serious. DEA's Office of Public Responsibility is investigating them. DEA will continue to ensure that we are fair and impartial. Yeah, except for they never conducted the investigation. So Garrison Courtney issued a press statement four days after the author published his article. A little more than a week later, he sent a response to Samana's.

35:09 revealing all of that information. That means in the wake of the narco news story, the DEA in fewer than nine days reviewed the extensive charges of corruption and the alleged coverup of the DEA and found no evidence. Nine days. They didn't talk to anybody. They didn't go anywhere. And in nine days, they said every single thing in that memo that was reported on.

35:40 was unfounded. Nine days. Washington, D.C. can't tie their shoe in nine days. The author goes on and says, even stranger, about this claim is that Sandalio Gonzalez, the former second-in-command of DEA's Miami Field Division, where the Bogota-related DEA corruption charges first surfaced,

36:07 was already on the record in an interview with the author indicating that the key whistleblowers involved in the memo corruption allegations had never been talked to since the publication of the article. The latest quote-unquote review that Courtney contends was carried out, the one after the published story, supposedly took place in nine days and none

36:40 of the key witnesses in the Miami office was ever talked to. The DEA Commander Gonzalez told the author, quote, the information in the memo is accurate as far as I know from my involvement in some of the cases and reflect a climate of cover-up in the executive branch, unquote. No investigation.

37:09 The DEA agent behind two of the corrupt allegations outlined in the Kent memo, the author discovered, is a whistleblower named Ed Fields. He uncovered that bit of information from other sources, including a CIA asset with detailed knowledge of the Kent memo who came forward after his initial reporting. Fields' identity also was disclosed publicly.

37:38 In 2006, in a Miami Herald Spanish affiliate, he was also later identified in U.S. court records. But at the time, all the author had was a name, his sources, a newspaper article, and the memo. And they all pointed to Fields being the agent Kent described as working with other DEA agents in Miami.

38:09 to cultivate an informant who was a major narco-trafficker then in prison in Columbia. This informant had offered to work with the DEA agents in Miami after approached by the guerrillas from the FARC. They were interested in, as we said earlier, purchasing the communications equipment. Fields was assigned to get the informant out of jail so that he could assist the DEA.

38:36 The informant being wooed by the DEA agents in Miami, the author's sources said was Jose Nelson Yurrego. He was a major player in the North Valley Cartel, narco-trafficking organization in Colombia. Yurrego might be considered a techno-geek in the narco world. He was responsible for assembling sophisticated information and technology networks.

39:07 to be used by the traffickers and to monitor when they were being surveilled. So the Miami DEA agents interested in using Yurego to set up surveillance on the FARC makes a lot of sense in light of his background. Fields and his fellow Miami DEA agents were interested in working with Yurego on comm equipment.

39:34 and a sting because it promised to give law enforcement inroads into the supposed NARC network, which we know isn't really the NARC network. It's actually the rest of Columbia. But another reason why they don't want that to happen is because they don't want anybody monitoring the FARC because then everybody would know they're not the ones actually doing the majority of the narco-trafficking.

40:03 Pointing that out to make sure everybody's staying with us. The Kent memo indicates that fields in the Miami agents work closely with Bogota DEA agents in attempting to cultivate Yurego. But that certain agents in Bogota went to great lengths to undermine him at every angle. Yurego became a well-known name in political circles in Colombia in the mid-90s when he was linked.

40:30 to allegedly providing drug money to Ernesto Samper's presidential election campaign. That was reported in Reuters. Samper survived the scandal and served as president in Colombia. So he was directly tied to the narco-trafficking and become president. If Colombian political officials were part of an official effort involving DEA agents in Bogota to prevent fields from

41:01 Cultivating Urrego as an informant, the political calculations became very intricate. They also, because they're funding the now president in Bogota, likely involved the White House as well as the CIA. No, duh. Not only were Urrego in a position to reveal intimate details about the operations of Colombian drug traffickers, their links.

41:34 to DEA agents in Columbia, but he also would have opened up a can of worms into the political narco environment in Columbia. The efforts of Fields and the fellow DEA agents in Miami to bring Urego in-house as an informant came to a abrupt end, according to the Kent memo, when someone sent a document to Urego containing confidential DEA information that revealed he was cooperating with the DEA.

42:05 Eventually, however, the NSA stepped in, allowing the surveillance operation targeting the FARC to move along. Fields, according to the author's sources, contend in court pleadings verify also that the DEA agent mentioned but not named in Kent's memo as the whistleblower who reported suspected corruption is yet another case involving the Bogota DEA office while investigating a Colombian narco.

42:37 operation informants told florida agents that this drug ring was infusing the acrylics that same allegation is laid out in court records per a ruling by the u.s court of appeals for their federal circuit relating to an appeal of a discrimination case fields filed with the federal merit systems amazing what you can find out in discrimination cases holy crap here's a quote

43:06 Fields' June 25, 2001 memorandum set forth a chronology of events related to a smuggling organization in Colombia that was molding cocaine and heroin into various household items for distribution outside the country. According to Fields, this memorandum implied that DEA agents in Bogota was aware and that informants would be boarding a plane to the U.S. in possession of cocaine, which is what we heard earlier.

43:36 And then he recounts the fact that they basically, even though they were coming to see DEA agents in Miami, they got arrested at the airport. So they had to have been given a heads up. In the wake of the informant's arrest in Columbia and after spending months in jail, they were finally released. A bullet-ridden body of the DEA informant in June of 2002 was found.

44:06 dumped on the street in front of his Bogota house. The informant who had a background as a chemist had been released from a Colombian prison in March of that year after being arrested by Colombian narco-trafficking people. Prior to his body being thrown from a car, the informant had been reported as missing.

44:31 In an effort to back up his claim about being deceived by the Bogota DEA agents, Fields agreed to take a polygraph. Fields took a polygraph test and passed. A representative of DOJ filed the allegations and found that the reporting agent, Fields, had been telling the truth. As a payback for Fields' efforts to both

44:56 Yurego and the acrylic cocaine cases, according to Kent's memo, he was targeted for retaliation. One of the agents fields who reported the corruption found himself as a target of the Office of Professional Responsibility investigation. So again, just to foot stomp this, OPR will not investigate corrupt agents. They investigate non-corrupt agents reporting

45:27 the corrupt agents, just to be clear. Fields and Kent have maintained low profiles and declined to talk to the media. The author made phone calls to the former chief of Bogota's DEA agent, Leo Aragon, to see if he could shed light on the twists and turns. Aragon had retired from the DEA in 2003 and went on to serve as high intensity drug

46:01 trafficking area program in Lake County, Indiana. They operate offices across the U.S. to administer the Office of National Drug Control policy that works with the DEA. So the guy responsible for trafficking the drugs into the United States gets a job after he retires in Indiana.

46:36 supposedly trying to fine the drugs traffickers inside the United States on the payroll of a contractor for the DEA. Do you think they want to get rid of drug trafficking? It's like homeless everything else. It's an industry. They make a lot of money from the industry. I made a note to myself.

47:12 Their drug activities make follow-on jobs for themselves. Moving on. In late 1990s, Luis Hernandez Gomez Bostamante, one of the leaders of Colombia's North Valley cartel, narco-trafficking syndicate, became a target of the DEA investigation called Operation Cali Man, which was overseen by DEA supervisor,

47:44 based in Miami. In mid-January of 2000, Gomez Bustamante attended a meeting in Panama to discuss possible cooperation with the DEA. According to one of the Miami-based DEA supervisor informants, an individual named Ramon Suarez. During the course of that meeting, Gomez Bustamante alleged that a high-level DEA agent in Bogota was on the payroll of

48:14 A corrupt Colombian national police lieutenant colonel named Danielo Gonzalez, who was eventually indicted by the Department of Justice on narco trafficking charges. And by the way, just so you guys know, when I made my visit to the hemispheric school, these are the people that I saw. Colombian national police and military being trained at Fort Benning. The informant, Suarez.

48:46 Later told DEA internal affairs investigators that the U.S. federal agent identified as Gomez Bustamante as being on the payroll of Javier Pina, who at the time was the assistant special agent in charge of the DEA station in Bogota. Years later, in 2015, Pina became well known as an inspiration behind the Netflix show Narcos.

49:18 It followed a hunt for the infamous narco-trafficker Pablo Escobar. Look over there, not at us. When questioned by DEA internal affairs investigators in 2002, Pena denied all of the charges. He did concede, however, that he had a relationship with Gonzalez dating back to the 1990s, when the Colombian and U.S. law enforcements worked together to hunt down and murder Escobar.

49:50 These remarkable revelations surfaced in a document that the author obtained from public court filings. The document also included evidence that the DEA, FBI, and CIA were cooperating covertly in Colombian's narco underworld, all using the same cooperating source, an individual by the name of Baroque Vega. DEA agents in Colombia appear to have been complicit

50:19 in protecting the secret operations. As a result, there may now be no way the U.S. government would address the alleged DEA corruptions without exposing all of them. The document that the author found as an exhibit in court pleadings was prepared by the DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility and DEA internal memos.

50:49 It is the final report of an investigation prompted by a memo written in 2000 by the chief of Bogota's DEA office, Leo Aragon. Aragon's memo and the related documents that the author found addressed to DEA chief of international operations questioned the integrity of the cooperating source, Vega, who

51:19 was overseen by the same DEA supervisor in Miami who counted Suarez as an informant. The DEA group supervisor, David Tensley, one of the whistleblowers in Kent's memo. The Araguan memo prompted an internal investigation targeting Tensley, Tensley, the whistleblower, and one of his agents, Lawrence Castillo, who was Vegas'

51:50 Handler. According to the Kent memo, the sources and other sources that spoke with the author, Erdogan wrote his accusatory memo targeting Vega not long after Tinsley had reported that DEA agents in Bogota were suspected of working with narco traffickers. Erdogan's claim in his memo that Vega

52:14 was extorting money from Colombian narco-traffickers by promising them that with the help of supposedly corrupt DEA agents and prosecutors, he could fix their cases. Erdogan also attempted to inoculate the Bogota DEA office against charges of corruption by pointing out in his memo that Vega's scheme might lead to false allegations of corruption. So in other words, they have already set up an operation.

52:44 to provide false information in case they're ever accused of wrongdoing. They already seeded the narrative. That's how awful and corrupt these people are. They had already written all the memos. They actually hired somebody to tell the Miami DEA guys that were on to them, hey, somebody might make false allegations.

53:22 So when somebody makes real allegations, oh, that's what we meant over here in this memo over here. You already have that memo, so they're fake. That's literally what they did. That setup was worked both with the FBI and the CIA. The informant, another informant, Borgonzoli, was working with the Tinsley Group.

53:56 in Cali Man, that operation, as a cooperating source in order to assure a reduced sentence for himself. Borgonzoli also was a close associate of Carlos Castano, an accused narco trafficker and at the time the leader of the Colombian murderous group, United Self-Defense Forces, AUC.

54:24 the CIA's trained paramilitary group. Sometime between 98 and early 2000, using his connections to the CIA-trained paramilitary forces, Borgonzali attempted to set up a meeting between one of Tinsley's agents, Castillo, and AUC leader, Carlos Castano. Quoting from a memo, according to Mr. Borgonzali,

54:52 He is a close associate of Castano, and because of the relationship, Castano requested Borgonzoli's assistance in arranging a meeting with Mr. Castano. Note that Mr. Castano is the leader of a paramilitary group identified as the UAUC. Mr. Castano has admitted to a series of high-profile assassinations.

55:22 including killing a Colombian presidential candidate. Mr. Borgonzoli acknowledges he delivered a letter and a copy of an email message to Castillo on behalf of Mr. Castano, which expressed his willingness to meet with a DEA agent.

55:43 The attempt to set up the meeting with Castano, who apparently was seeking to cut a deal with DEA in exchange for cooperating with the Cali Man narco investigation, didn't pan out for reasons that were not clear. For his part, Tinsley confirmed he expressed an interest in possible coordination with Mr. Castano, but denied initiating it. Tinsley reported that Special Agent Castillo's receipt of the letters from Mr. Castano was unsolicited.

56:16 The failed effort to recruit Castano is of interest because the Kent memo alleges that one of the corrupt agents from the Bogota DEA office was caught sometime in 2004 on a wiretap talking about money laundering for that same organization, the AUC. The U.S. government indicted Castano in 2002 on narco-trafficking. Two years later, Castano disappeared after a reported attempt on his life in Colombia.

56:44 His body was later found in 2006 in a shallow grave. His death ended the dark dealings that he had cultivated with the Colombian underground. Ruthless paramilitary killers, narcos, and even the CIA. In fact, it appears the CIA, Bogota DEA agent Pina, and the Colombian Lieutenant Colonel Gonzalez, and Carlos Castano all

57:14 were running across each other's path and working together on the operation to kill Pablo Escobar. Huh, isn't that interesting? And then he goes on and talks about a document that was found in the National Security Archive that offered evidence that Castillo's brother, Fidel, also a narco and paramilitary leader, was linked directly to the CIA.

57:47 Here's the memo. It's dated February 17, 2008. U.S. espionage operations targeting top Colombian government officials in 93 provided key evidence linking the U.S. Colombian task force charged with tracking down fugitive drug lord Pablo Escobar to one of Colombia's most notorious paramilitary chiefs. According to a new collection of declassified documents,

58:13 Published today by the National Security Archives, the affair sparked a special CIA investigation into whether U.S. intelligence was shared with Colombian terrorists and narco-traffickers every bit as dangerous as Pablo Escobar, which of course they did. The CIA panel aimed to compile a complete inventory of all the U.S. intelligence operation tasked with this was passed to the Pepes, which is...

58:44 the CIA's paramilitary. While the group's conclusions were not declassified, of course, the debriefing led one congressional staffer to comment that it was one of the most bizarre stories that he had ever heard, and to question why the CIA had been chosen to look into the matter rather than some other element. Why?

59:12 In other words, would the CIA be put in charge of an investigation that directly implicated the CIA itself? And of course, we all know the answer to that. For months, the U.S. intelligence had been reporting about task force links to the Pepes, their own trained paramilitary. The embassy suspected some level of cooperation between Los Pepes and the task force, the task force with the CIA.

59:41 That was reported as early as February 93, when it was reported that the Pepe's attacks would be the work of rogue policemen taking advantage of a rash of bombings to give Pablo Escobar a taste of his own medicine. The memo goes on. A secret CIA report in March of 93 found that unofficial paramilitary groups with a variety of backgrounds and motives assisting Bogota's efforts to track down Pablo Escobar.

1:00:09 Around the same time, the CIA reported that the Colombian defense minister, Rafael Pardo, was, quote, concerned that the police are providing intelligence to Los Pepes, unquote. Colombian extralegal steps against Pablo Escobar. Agency analysis provided that the president, Gavraria, demand for an intensified effort to capture Escobar may lead some subordinates to rely more heavily.

1:00:40 on Los Pepes, an extra legal means. It's an assassination squad trained by the CIA looking to assassinate Pablo Escobar. I'm going to say, by very definition, that's extra legal. The warnings were accurate. While Fidel Castano disappeared in the mid-90s and is presumed dead, which of course he was, his brother, Carlos Castano, took over.

1:01:11 Fidel's disappearance took over after his disappearance, uniting and strengthening Colombians paramilitary armies under the banner of AUC, a killing machine that vied with guerrilla groups for control of the country's drug trade and which for years met with little to no resistance from the government security forces because they were in on it as well as the CIA and

1:01:40 apparently the DEA. A third Castano brother, Vicente, allegedly murdered his brother, Carlos, and took over the entire operation. I guess that's one of the cases where blood is not thicker than water. Also, from a DEA report, DEA Miami Division Special Agent Vasquez stated between June and December

1:02:11 1999, he received a complaint from an unknown CIA personnel concerning DEA group supervisor Tinsley. According to this CIA agent, Vasquez, the DEA guy Vasquez, the information he received was vague and pertained to Tinsley's unexpected arrival in Panama, where the informant Vega

1:02:38 had offered to arrange a meeting with high-level Colombian narco-traffickers of the Cali Man operation. And the fact that he, Tensley, was somehow interfering with CIA operations. Huh. The CIA calls the DEA, who's doing the honest investigation, and says, you're interfering. Stop talking to our people in Colombia. This is our operation.

1:03:11 Yeah. Later in the report, there was a summary of an interview with a Bogota-based DEA agent named Chris Feistel. F-E-I-S-T-E-L. The CIA came up again. Group supervisor Feistel also stated that he had received information from Miami Division Special Agent Chris Jackman.

1:03:40 who had previously been assigned as a CIA agent in Colombia, that group supervisor Tinsley and special agent Castillo traveled to Cologne, Panama during June of 1999 without obtaining proper clearance. In other words, you didn't tell the CIA. Baroque Vega also has a history of working with the CIA.

1:04:10 according to court documents. An administrative law judge who ordered in 2004 that Tinsley be reinstated at DEA in the wake of his firing, related to the investigation prompted by the Araguan memo, alludes to Vega's CIA connections in his April 20th, 2004 ruling. This is a quote. Two confidential sources broke Vega.

1:04:38 and Roman Suarez were actively involved in negotiations of the surrender and cooperation of the highest level Colombian drug traffickers and fugitives in both Panama and Miami. Vega was a confidential informant of the CIA. As the appellate Tinsley put it, I'm having my agents.

1:05:04 cut him, Vega, out every chance they can. I don't want him documented. I don't want him in our case files any more than we have to. So there it is. Definitely the CIA. Vega, working for the CIA, was inserted into the legitimate DEA operation in Miami as a CIA operative to spy and find out what the DEA

1:05:37 in Miami, was finding out about the DEA and CIA in Bogota, Colombia. That's the nuts and bolts of what we just read. We'll finish this tomorrow. They never worked for us since the very beginning. They only protect their own interests. And apparently...

1:06:09 As we found out, their own interest is trafficking a shit ton of drugs into the United States and working with paramilitary forces all over the world. You know, and that's why, and I know I send you a bunch of garbage. Some of it you've already seen, some of it you haven't. But one of the things that I am astounded with is exactly how many drug seizures are being done right now.

1:06:38 It's money laundering and drugs. Right. And that is telling. It says everything if you know what we know. Right. With your Gladio glasses on, you totally understand. And then it's like you sit back with your popcorn. I'm just saying. Again, it literally changes everything.

1:07:06 with these networks, it's very easy to see the monumental, I mean, it's almost every day, if not multiple times a day in multiple cities in the United States and at ports and on the sea, that there are interdictions. And so what I want people to understand is, because it's all related,

1:07:36 The border being closed, the drug interdictions that are going on is starving this system in the United States. We've already seen where they've tried to provide alternative routes through Canada. The system in the United States, if you know what withdrawal looks like in a drug addict,

1:08:03 The people trafficking the drugs look 10 times more schizo than the drugged person because their entire capability to function is in this underbelly. Unfortunately,

1:08:27 As these people who are still inside the United States get more desperate, they're going to do more desperate things. But the system that's inside the United States, which is why it's so imperative that they pick these people up, is being starved. But also the suppliers that are outside the United States are being thwarted.

1:08:58 And as we have said many times, that lights up the entire system going up because these people survived, especially this whole middle tier. These are not the overwhelmingly wealthy people. Those people at the very, very top, they have trust set up on the man of isle. They have...

1:09:23 probably at this point, billions of dollars in offshore accounts. But that entire middle section above the network, the people that are cultivating, running the labs and doing all of that stuff in these narco countries are majorly panicked right now.

1:09:48 And because you produce all of this shit and then you have all of these people that are in these countries that have been reduced to only being able to grow coca because if they grow anything else, they are basically kicked off their land and their land stolen from them. What are they gonna do?

1:10:11 And so you have this entire downstream and upstream effect going on right now. And I think what you're going to find when all of this comes to light is that a lot of those people that are in that upper middle management with these indictments and the extraditions that are happening at the same time, they're going to turn on the upper network.

1:10:39 There will be confiscations. Some of this money is traceable. Some of it obviously is not. But I think we are on the cusp of some very big things happening. And just this one aspect of this whole cabal being brought down. And even just the record breaking.

1:11:06 We're breaking new records worldwide on how much, which shows you they're getting closer and closer to the source, my opinion. Well, it also could tell you that they're getting more and more desperate because of all of the other seizures. And it'll be a death spiral. Go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everyone for attending here on.

1:11:37 rumbling on spaces a lot of people died out of this whole deal from what i can see and here we have the dea that's doing its job doing it properly being thwarted every time we turn around and then what happens next we get 9-11 and guess what we put everything under dhs i think this is this is what they've done to try to control all aspects of it

1:12:06 No question asked. And I see it plain as day. Thank you. Good point. Good point. Good point. Border Patrol, drug enforcement. Isn't that a nice little hunky job? It's almost like the system is actually working the way it's supposed to.

1:12:29 It's working. So any system is what it does, not what they tell you it does. It is what it does. And as we pointed out for a very long time, the billions of our wealth that have been stolen from us through illegal taxation that has went to these countries that are known narco trafficking countries under the guise of a war on drugs.

1:12:59 has functioned as it was intended, just not what we were told it was intended to do. We have funded the narco-trafficking networks with our tax dollars. And equipped. And equipped. And you can see then this is like the entire...

1:13:25 pyramid of just narco and there's a different pyramid for every one of their scams but if you look at this they take billions from us to fund this overseas under the quote-unquote war on drugs then they take billions to treat drug addicts and homeless to the point where now you have states actually buying the drugs themselves and giving them to them and then

1:13:55 On top of that, you have people like we just read about that quote unquote retire from the DEA and get jobs both in the federal government, state government, and local government supposedly working on thwarting the very network they set up. And that's more billions of our dollars. Our government at every level has been run.

1:14:30 like a mafia. And we're paying quote unquote taxes, which is basically just extortion to the mafia for them to continue these operations. Now, again, I've said it many times, I believe this is exactly what's being taken down.

1:14:57 Don't run out and think you're going to be saving the world because I actually believe in everything that I am seeing that everybody that is in charge of something important in the Trump administration has already mapped all of this. They know all of this. The only people that don't know it is us. And I also think that's the reason why the spotlight has been so heavily on California lately. I sure hope Spencer Pratt gets it.

1:15:29 Because, man, that is going to be freaking awesome. I think he has taken political campaigns to a level that no one, not even the Trump administration and the Trump campaign, has ever seen before. Agreed. Agreed. It's just, it's beautiful. But I think, I think.

1:15:58 He is modeling his campaign and the co-opting of the media exactly the way Trump did. I think he has just taken it to another level, which he has to do. Because Trump's campaign was basically for the middle of America. He is campaigning in a very...

1:16:24 different environment in the city of Los Angeles. And so he had to take it to that next level. He had to be on top of every single element of the PR piece of this. And he's done it masterfully. Right. And yeah. And the guy is just, yeah, it seems to be until I see any, anything that.

1:16:55 shows otherwise, he seems to be very genuine and wholeheartedly going at it. Well, there's lessons to be learned from his campaign, from everybody. The best thing that you can do is have somebody that knows how to do AI and memes. If you're running for politics from now on, that's the new standard.

1:17:25 Oh, and it's hysterical. And with a sense of humor. I mean, a legitimate sense of humor. Right, right. And still calling it out as it is. Yeah. And not pulling his punches. Oh, he definitely doesn't. Okay. And is Renee here today? Where is she? There she is. She sent me that post from Evo Morales.

1:18:03 And again, kudos to all of us. He mentions in there, and I'm not supporting Evo Morales. I don't want people to misunderstand my post. I love using the opportunity to educate people. But, you know, four years ago, I'd never heard of Operation Condor. I didn't even know what it was. And again, I say that.

1:18:28 complete openness. I should have known what it was being in the military. But again, I've said very openly that military education is a brainwashing session. It's like a struggle session. Here's what you're going to know. Here's the approved learning agenda. And it's not going to ever implicate any of our military, CIA, FBI, or anything else because we're the good guys. And so,

1:18:59 since we've done all of our research and we know what Operation Condor is, I love the fact that we can keep up with the news in a way that most Americans can't. We understand when Evo Morales talks about Operation Condor. We know what it is. And the point that I made in my response to that is not only should Americans

1:19:27 be pissed off at our government for not telling us what it was and our involvement in it. But there's not a single person that lives in Latin America and grew up there, especially the older ones, that doesn't know what Operation Condor is and doesn't know who was responsible for it. They've even proven that, as I pointed out.

1:19:53 In a very recent, within the last 18 months, court decision in Miami, finding United Fruit slash Chiquita Banana guilty of the crimes against humanity and their involvement in the torture and death of many, many people in Latin America. Tens of thousands of people. So it's a matter of...

1:20:21 not only recorded history, but court documents about their role in Operation Condor. So again, that's why we're here. That's why we do this every day. Renee, go ahead. Hi, good afternoon, everyone. Can you hear me? Okay, great. Kind of in a weird zone. Yeah, just...

1:20:47 It seems very apropos and almost touching with what we've learned from Operation Condor and this journey with Operation Gladio. That Eva Morales spoke of Operation Condor today because, as we've learned, the whole journey of the transition from Europe to...

1:21:15 South America, a lot of it, whether it be the Nazis, some of the torture regimes, et cetera, the drugs, the cocaine stuff is based out of Bolivia. And for him and the people, the indigenous people who have gone through this again and again and again, and even before all this,

1:21:43 with the Spanish over there and extracting all the silver and all this stuff. It's kind of heartening to me to watch this unfold. And thank you so much because it just, it connects with so much of what we've learned. And for this guy who has been through it so much.

1:22:07 It's just, it's really exciting and a beautiful thing to see. It almost brought tears to my eyes when I read that he posted about Operation Condor because it's like, yay, finally, finally someone's going to speak of this, you know, and it's the right guy, in my opinion. But I have a question regarding, because of all the propaganda and nonsense, of course, when he does speak, it's kind of like the disinformation of,

1:22:37 And the blur between like Venezuela, what's going on in Cuba and now Bolivia.

1:22:43 With Morales, what would you feel in our journey of learning all the blackmail and all these coups? Because I was thinking, you know, we know a lot of their playbook and how they blackmail and all that stuff. And a lot of the people, they post really, really ugly things about him, about, oh, he's a pedo and this and that. And it kind of reminded me of our...

1:23:11 sarco sarcono and that whole thing do you find a similarity there or a parallel of that form of blackmail that they did to him or what are your thoughts please um so you just we just read in this book what was the first accusation that they um uh leveled at one of the guys that was trying to expose him that he's a pedophile that is a normal tactic for this operation

1:23:40 Because it's hideous. And if you guys read any of the Spanish translated media, the person that supposedly he had this relationship when she was underage said it never happened. That's what they're reporting. So again, I wasn't there. I don't know. But the media, general media in multiple countries,

1:24:10 in Latin America have reported that this person that he supposedly had a relationship has said repeatedly it didn't happen. So it's not like they have a person that is claiming he's a pedophile. They have no victim, but they make that allegation. And just so that you guys know, and that may be new to our journey,

1:24:39 The CIA has tried to coup Bolivia repeatedly, specifically Evo Morales. And the reason that they particularly despise Evo Morales is that when he first was elected president, he...

1:25:01 Being an indigenous person himself, unlike the hereditary European flavor of people that have normally risen to power in Latin America because of the elitist ties that they have, he is from the indigenous population of Bolivia. So that's number one. Number two, he is an enemy of the CIA.

1:25:30 The reason why initially they set their sights on overthrowing his government way back when is that he realized that the indigenous population of Bolivia, many of them made their living growing coca plants, not for cocaine, but for medicinal purposes. As we have all come to realize, a lot of...

1:26:00 natural products derived from plant-based medicinal things. And coca plants in their original form, not with the massive amount of chemical processing to turn them into cocaine, for hundreds of years was sold as tea to address a lot of medical problems.

1:26:30 And what he had decided to do is go back to before the CIA had taken control of Bolivia and allow indigenous people to grow coca along with everything else, coffee, everything, and basically have their land back from being overrun by oligarchs. And so he did what many of the other

1:27:02 elected leaders did in Latin America and tried to return their country. You know, kind of like what we were saying, we didn't want Chinese owning our farmland, kind of like that. But...

1:27:15 Most of the oligarchs that had controlled these areas, and especially the CIA that was controlling a large swath of Bolivia for actual coca plants for cocaine, was very unhappy with his reforms. And so he basically told the indigenous people.

1:27:34 You can grow the coca plants, but we're basically kicking the DEA out. We're kicking the CIA out. We're kicking USAID out. And we're going to basically seal our borders. We're not going to allow the Colombians to come over and steal your coca or control your coca crops. If you want to grow that, fine. Make it into your teas, do whatever you want with it. It's not illegal anymore. That just was like the kiss of death.

1:28:03 And they immediately started using, as they did with Nicaragua, setting up the attack camps all around the border to launch operations inside of Bolivia to destabilize that country. And they've been successful in overthrowing the government in Bolivia before. So I just find it all fascinating. Those are all historical facts. Again,

1:28:33 I'm not pro Evo Morales. I'm not anti Evo Morales. I think the people in Bolivia need to be able to decide who they want leading their country without involvement from the United States. As I've pointed out routinely, that in every aspect, every charge that is leveled at any country,

1:29:00 by the U.S. government, to include right now, unfortunately. Again, just from a historical perspective, there's no merit to the arguments that are being made. None. Not when you zoom out to the 30,000 foot look. Have we ever traded with communist countries? We traded with the Soviet Union. We trade with China every day. As a matter of fact,

1:29:28 Most of the large corporations in America put all of their manufacturing capability in China. It's communist. So we obviously don't have a problem dealing with communist countries. We don't have a problem dealing with dictatorships. We traded with Chile after we installed a dictator there. We traded with Nicaragua when Samosa was in charge. So we don't really have a problem with that either.

1:29:55 We don't have a problem in dealing with Saudi Arabia, which is a dictatorial monarchy. So we don't actually have a problem trading with people like that at all. So then explain to me why we have a problem dealing with Cuba and why we have done what we have done as far as economically blockaded that, politically attacked it, militarily attacked it repeatedly.

1:30:24 And people will go, well, it's a communist government. All right, let's just buy that for five seconds. Okay, so is China. You don't have a problem dealing with communists. So what is it about Cuba? Well, it's in our backyard and they kill people and they're really, really bad. Okay, well, you don't have a problem killing people either. As a result of you overthrowing over 90 countries, we've counted at least 10 million dead. You really don't have a problem killing people.

1:30:55 But I'm just looking at it from an apolitical perspective, and none of those arguments hold any water with me whatsoever. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I just wanted to thank Renee for pointing out that article because it was good. I did watch that. But the other thing that people might not be aware of is Narco News is still active today, believe it or not.

1:31:29 And so if you really want to know some of this stuff that's going on there, there's your source. One of them anyway. They are one of the few that I have. And it depends on who's writing the articles. Obviously, that's kind of a thing. They are definitely a source that I use for the narco piece of this because you can get a perspective.

1:31:55 From them, you're not going to find in mainstream media because mainstream media is controlled by the CIA and they're not going to report on things that are not flattering to the CIA. Renee, go ahead. Thank you, SR, and you're welcome. I wanted to also point out or share because I have been following Ivo Morales, his Twitter.

1:32:26 page or whatever and it seems he's particularly throwing Argentina under the bus and I kind of kind of found that interesting because you know in the whole setup with a lot of whether it be Nazis or

1:32:44 The OAS guys or the veterans from Indochina or all that stuff kind of seems like happened there. So seems like a coincidence, interesting coincidence, how he's kind of pointing the finger at them, don't you think? Yes, from a historical perspective.

1:33:03 They've certainly, I mean, for those of you who don't know, Argentina during Operation Condor was a lightning rod. If you go way back into our research, you find that obviously the rat line into South America, Argentina was a focal point. They housed a lot of the...

1:33:31 Nazis in Argentina. And interestingly enough, the P2 Masonic Lodge, which was the apparatus that embodied Operation Gladio in Italy to the tune when it was revealed over 800 of the high ranking people to include Americans.

1:33:57 were part of the P2 Masonic Lodge. And again, don't say, oh my God, it's the Masons. It had nothing to do with actual masonry and I'm not commenting good or bad on real authentic masonry. This particular lodge was set up to be a secret society within a secret society that housed the ability to have meetings under

1:34:26 the nose of the people in Italy to arrange Operation Gladio operations internal to Italy. Were there other organizations like this throughout Europe? Yes. I'm going to talk specifically about the P2 Lodge because there was a branch of the P2 Lodge in Argentina. Lucio Galli, the Graham Puba,

1:34:56 of the P2 Masonic Lodge, the guy that actually ran it for Operation Gladio in Italy, traveled routinely to Argentina. Now you can say that had to do with Nazis because a lot of Nazis were hidden in safe houses by the CIA in Italy on their way to Argentina.

1:35:26 So there is a direct correlation to Operation Gladio, Operation Condor, and Argentina was one of the roots of that entire thing. And then, of course, we know that Pope Francis was in Argentina as the Archbishop during the Operation Condor timeframe.

1:35:54 actually turned over some of the priests that were pleading with Francis when he was in Argentina to condemn Operation Condor and the killings of dissidents that were standing up against this murderous regime in Argentina. So the priests that were basically

1:36:23 speaking out against this mass murder kill list, black sites that had been set up, the torture regime. Argentina is the country that was taking people up in helicopters and dropping them out in the ocean, not dead, but drugged and letting them be eaten by sharks. So there has been some really bad things associated.

1:36:51 with Argentina. So yes, I find it interesting that Evo Morales is pointing to Argentina. Okay, trip down memory lane. All right, everyone, that's it for today. So thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. And we'll be back tomorrow. Let me make sure I have a couple of appointments.

1:37:31 Yeah, so I will be on Nino Rodriguez's show tomorrow at 1130. And then, of course, we have the Alpha Warrior show tomorrow at nine o'clock. And I will be Thursday. We won't have a show just as a heads up. No four o'clock show on Thursday.

1:38:02 I will be recording a show at 5 p.m. with Crypto Rich. So there's that. And then Friday is our noon show with Warhamster and our normal four o'clock. So no four o'clock show on Thursday. Okay, that's it. See you guys tomorrow at four o'clock sharp. Take care, everybody.

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Javier Pina member_of DEA book_quoted ▶ 3:59

Search Block spied_on Las Pepes book_quoted ▶ 4:57

“published today by the National Security Archives. The affair sparked a special CIA investigation into whether U.S. intelligence was shared with Colombian terrorists and narco-traffickers every bit as…”

Thomas Kent exposed DEA book_quoted ▶ 7:26

“included former government officials, even a few insiders in the DEA. Kent's memo contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S. quote-unquote anti-narco officers, that DEA age…”

Office of Professional Responsibility covered_up DEA book_quoted ▶ 9:54

“Kent also says that the DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility and elements of the DOJ and IG have worked to keep a lid on the corruption charges. According to Kent, these offices, which are supp…”

AUC assassinated FARC book_quoted ▶ 13:41

“various people in the Colombian military, it has fielded death squads responsible for murdering thousands of Colombians. The following is from a 2004 report prepared by Congress. Quote, the AUC target…”

AUC assassinated Libyan National Army book_quoted ▶ 14:13

“They also target National Liberation Army, ELN, as well as political activities, police officials, and judges. The group is known for its brutality and has killed more civilians than insurgents have k…”

DEA laundered_money_for AUC book_quoted ▶ 14:44

“The AUC also committed over 100 massacres in 2001, a tactic it used to displace large portions of peasant populations to grow coca, unquote. Kent also said that during the wiretap, the corrupt Bogota …”

Jody Abergin member_of DEA book_quoted ▶ 28:58

“He was transferred to Nashville, according to his records. The chief that he reported to, whom Kent had addressed the memo to, was Jody Abergin. Only months later became the chief of staff of then DEA…”

Karen Tandy headed DEA book_quoted ▶ 28:58

Garrison Courtney member_of U.S. Department of Agriculture book_quoted ▶ 32:03

“The author made a note that he needed to keep a burner phone from then on. In Samana Magazine, which was a popular weekly magazine in Columbia, there was a letter to the editor that was printed on Jan…”

James Jesus Angleton exposed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 32:36

“That was based on Kent's expose of Kent's memo. So the DEA, so Kent, it reminds me of this letter that I, or this article that I found from James Angleton saying, debunking Gladio. So there's an expos…”

Garrison Courtney covered_up Thomas Kent host_asserted ▶ 35:09

“revealing all of that information. That means in the wake of the narco news story, the DEA in fewer than nine days reviewed the extensive charges of corruption and the alleged coverup of the DEA and f…”

Jose Nelson Yurrego member_of North Valley Cartel book_quoted ▶ 38:36

“The informant being wooed by the DEA agents in Miami, the author's sources said was Jose Nelson Yurrego. He was a major player in the North Valley Cartel, narco-trafficking organization in Colombia. Y…”

Jose Nelson Yurrego financed_via Ernesto Samper book_quoted ▶ 40:03

“Pointing that out to make sure everybody's staying with us. The Kent memo indicates that fields in the Miami agents work closely with Bogota DEA agents in attempting to cultivate Yurego. But that cert…”

Luis Hernandez Gomez Bostamante spied_on Danielo Gonzalez book_quoted ▶ 47:44

“based in Miami. In mid-January of 2000, Gomez Bustamante attended a meeting in Panama to discuss possible cooperation with the DEA. According to one of the Miami-based DEA supervisor informants, an in…”

Javier Pina covered_up Pablo Escobar book_quoted ▶ 49:18

“It followed a hunt for the infamous narco-trafficker Pablo Escobar. Look over there, not at us. When questioned by DEA internal affairs investigators in 2002, Pena denied all of the charges. He did co…”

Leo Aragon exposed Baroque Vega book_quoted ▶ 50:49

“It is the final report of an investigation prompted by a memo written in 2000 by the chief of Bogota's DEA office, Leo Aragon. Aragon's memo and the related documents that the author found addressed t…”

Leo Aragon covered_up David Tensley book_quoted ▶ 51:19

“was overseen by the same DEA supervisor in Miami who counted Suarez as an informant. The DEA group supervisor, David Tensley, one of the whistleblowers in Kent's memo. The Araguan memo prompted an int…”

Leo Aragon exposed Baroque Vega book_quoted ▶ 51:50

“Handler. According to the Kent memo, the sources and other sources that spoke with the author, Erdogan wrote his accusatory memo targeting Vega not long after Tinsley had reported that DEA agents in B…”

Baroque Vega laundered_money_for AUC book_quoted ▶ 52:14

“was extorting money from Colombian narco-traffickers by promising them that with the help of supposedly corrupt DEA agents and prosecutors, he could fix their cases. Erdogan also attempted to inoculat…”

Borgonzoli member_of AUC book_quoted ▶ 53:56

“in Cali Man, that operation, as a cooperating source in order to assure a reduced sentence for himself. Borgonzoli also was a close associate of Carlos Castano, an accused narco trafficker and at the …”

Borgonzoli recruited Carlos Castano book_quoted ▶ 54:24

“the CIA's trained paramilitary group. Sometime between 98 and early 2000, using his connections to the CIA-trained paramilitary forces, Borgonzali attempted to set up a meeting between one of Tinsley'…”

Carlos Castano assassinated Gavraria book_quoted ▶ 55:22

“including killing a Colombian presidential candidate. Mr. Borgonzoli acknowledges he delivered a letter and a copy of an email message to Castillo on behalf of Mr. Castano, which expressed his willing…”

Carlos Castano laundered_money_for AUC book_quoted ▶ 56:16

“The failed effort to recruit Castano is of interest because the Kent memo alleges that one of the corrupt agents from the Bogota DEA office was caught sometime in 2004 on a wiretap talking about money…”

Rafael Pardo spied_on Los Pepes book_quoted ▶ 1:00:09

“Around the same time, the CIA reported that the Colombian defense minister, Rafael Pardo, was, quote, concerned that the police are providing intelligence to Los Pepes, unquote. Colombian extralegal s…”

Vicente Castano assassinated Carlos Castano book_quoted ▶ 1:01:40

“apparently the DEA. A third Castano brother, Vicente, allegedly murdered his brother, Carlos, and took over the entire operation. I guess that's one of the cases where blood is not thicker than water.…”

United States installed Chile host_asserted ▶ 1:29:28

“Most of the large corporations in America put all of their manufacturing capability in China. It's communist. So we obviously don't have a problem dealing with communist countries. We don't have a pro…”

P2 Masonic Lodge front_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:33:31

“Nazis in Argentina. And interestingly enough, the P2 Masonic Lodge, which was the apparatus that embodied Operation Gladio in Italy to the tune when it was revealed over 800 of the high ranking people…”

Licio Gelli member_of P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted ▶ 1:34:26

“the nose of the people in Italy to arrange Operation Gladio operations internal to Italy. Were there other organizations like this throughout Europe? Yes. I'm going to talk specifically about the P2 L…”

P2 Masonic Lodge member_of Argentina host_asserted ▶ 1:34:26

Licio Gelli headed P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted ▶ 1:34:56

“of the P2 Masonic Lodge, the guy that actually ran it for Operation Gladio in Italy, traveled routinely to Argentina. Now you can say that had to do with Nazis because a lot of Nazis were hidden in sa…”

Pope Francis covered_up Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:35:54

“actually turned over some of the priests that were pleading with Francis when he was in Argentina to condemn Operation Condor and the killings of dissidents that were standing up against this murderou…”