The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7

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0:00 Wait a few seconds and let me know if it comes back. Sounds good. I will. Oh, my gosh. All right. So for those of you who will see this later on Rumble, I apologize for the technical difficulties. Rumble, something's going on with Rumble right now. Every time I tried to start the video, it froze. It would not go. It wouldn't let me go to YouTube. It wouldn't let me go to locals.

0:28 I apologize for that. Yep. You just showed back up. OK, sure. So we're talking about a aircraft that crashed in 2003 and everything about it was suspect. Two people were killed. Three other people were kidnapped, supposedly by the FARC. There's a rescue done about five years later of Colombians and these three Northrop Grumman CIA contractors.

0:58 And the author is saying that the actual aircraft being brought down was suspicious. Okay, so they say that the DEA had reason to believe that at the time of the plane crash, the coordinates of these flights, and we've already heard this earlier in this book, we've heard it in other books, that the DEA was leaking to...

1:25 the Colombian military, national police, and eventually to the drug traffickers where all of their flights were going. So they could move stuff, they could hide, they could do whatever. So his sources are saying that the location of that aircraft was leaked through black channels and used to target and shoot down this aircraft.

1:57 Originally, the U.S. and Colombian government said the contractor's plane crashed because of engine failure. However, the FARC claims they shot the plane down. To the FARC, these aerial spying missions over the territory were a threat to their life. That's because if FARC troops' locations were identified, the Colombian military and the narco-terrorist police trained by the CIA would come get them.

2:30 The American contractors, by engaging in a spying mission for the Colombian government, simply inserted themselves into a civil war. The result, the FARC had an incentive to shoot down the aircraft. There's lots of other things that can happen in this scenario as well, especially if there's somebody on board that's a good guy that has been communicating with the good guys in Miami.

3:02 logical that someone else, and the FARC, by the way, claimed credit for doing a lot of things they didn't actually do because it made them look more prestigious to their clientele, the people that they were trying to protect and bolstering their notches. So anything's actually possible, but the fact that they wouldn't go and investigate is really suspicious.

3:29 In 2003, DEA polygraph specialists hooked his machine up to a Colombian narco-trafficker who also worked as an informant for the DEA Bogota office. The narco-trafficker informant status, however, was a two-way street. It seems, given his DEA handlers in Bogota also apparently did work for him, according to Kent.

3:54 The DOJ document details the alleged corrupt roles played by U.S. law enforcement in the Bogota connection. Among the allegations is that the narcotrafficker who took the lie detector test had several agents on his payroll. One of the revelations that the author obtained was supporting the theory that the contractor's spy plane was shot down because there was foreknowledge.

4:24 of where it was going to be flying. In fact, the polygraph report indicates the narco-trafficker informant hooked up to the lie detector machine confirmed that the flight coordinates was leaked to Colombian narco-terrorist, not the FARC. Narco-traffickers knew a day in advance with coordinates when DEA and Columbia National Police

4:56 were going to fumigate coca fields. That allowed the coca farmers under the CIA slash Colombian authority to go out and take out the coca plants overnight and then they could use them later. We learned that in a couple other books too. As part of the effort to investigate the theory advanced by the DEA sources concerning the plane crash,

5:27 The author attempted to contact one of the family members of the hostage. The hostage at the time were still held captive by the FARC. The author was hoping to determine if the families were aware of the allegations in the Kent memo. Shortly after he made a phone call to one of them trying to contact them, FBI agent Joe Dieter of the

5:56 Bureau's Miami division contacted the author and confirmed that there was an active FBI investigation into the hostages and that he is one of the agents involved in the investigation. He claimed not to be aware of any of this information about the DEA leaking the known whereabouts of these plane routes to the narco traffickers. Sure, buddy.

6:26 Dieters might not have been aware of it, given that other reporting in Narco News, you know, they read that thing like the back of their book to know what they know about them. Come on, not buying it. Sandalio Gonzalez, prior to becoming an associate special agent in charge of the DEA Miami office, served as a chief of the South American section of DEA.

6:53 in the Office of International Operations from 95 to 98. He's very familiar with the DEA operations. Gonzalez is very upfront about his assessment of whether the U.S. Embassy leaks led to the downing of the aircraft. His comments were, quote, it is a possibility that the coordinates were leaked out of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota. We'll never really know unless there is a full-fledged investigation. Congress has to look at it.

7:25 As representatives of the people, they have to know if this is, in fact, what happened. We are hearing this stuff, that information is being leaked out of the U.S. Embassy from very credible sources, unquote. So why didn't anybody ever look into it? Did they get a phone call? Chapter 20, CIA operative sues.

7:51 Key figure in exposing all of this information filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit in early 2007 that promised to be quite embarrassing for the government. Filed in U.S. federal court in Washington, D.C., Baroque Vega, a longtime CIA asset, claims that the U.S. owes him $28 million for services for his work with the Colombian narco trafficking.

8:23 From the lawsuit filed September 21st, 2007, in or about 1996-97, Vega became a documented confidential informant for the U.S. government, specifically two federal law enforcement agencies, the FBI and later the DEA. Mr. Vega was not a traditional informant and his methodology was anything but parochial. Mr. Vega engineered a planned program that

8:53 proved to be innovative and very successful. Mr. Vega would play and later, in fact, did play the role of a broker between Colombian drug traffickers, some then unknown, others unidentified, to U.S. law enforcement, others already identified by their real names or nicknames.

9:18 By U.S. law enforcement and others already indicted for drug trafficking or money laundering charges in various federal districts in the United States. So he was like the go between guy. Vega's plan, as explained in his pleadings, described an elaborate U.S. government sanction extortion scheme. Vega, at great damage to himself, approached Colombian narco traffickers and convinced them.

9:48 to negotiate their criminal exposure with the U.S. government rather than waiting to be indicted or arrested and extradited. In other words, make preemptive plea deals and we'll leave you in place. American lawyers to the Colombian targets, the lawyers would then get retained and then take over as legal representatives for the Colombian targets and further deal with the U.S. law enforcement.

10:19 the prosecutors to work out deals with these targets. It allowed them to sell drugs with no possible chance of getting indicted because they had already pled. A particular U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida became the coordinator and recruiter for this effort.

10:42 Vega claims in the litigation that as part of this extortion scheme, FBI and DEA agents would initially meet with the Colombian narcotrafficking targets in Panama for introductions, eventually debriefing, and finally to work out the details of these proposed plea deals. There were many of these types meetings in Panama over several years.

11:10 The planned program was extremely successful. Who wouldn't want to do it? It gives you carte blanche to be a narco-trafficker. All in all, Vega convinced and successfully recruited 114 to enter this plea deal program. At least 25 of them were fugitives at the time, already indicted. Vega's remarkable claim in his litigation must have set

11:45 against a larger context of corruption allegations that were occurring. Vega was very involved in some of the U.S. law enforcement operations mentioned in the Kent memo. Those particular operations between 1997 and 2000 and sought to snare narco-traffickers with the infamous North Valley cartel.

12:14 that had taken over for Medellin and Cali. Vega claims that corrupt U.S. agents are part of the Bogota connection and seriously compromised his role as a government asset in a number of his informants within the Colombian narco network because a lot of them ended up getting assassinated. Vega also contends that he had intimate knowledge of the alleged corruption in the Kemp memo.

12:44 Vega now appears to be forcing both the government and the compliant agenda-setting media to confront this head-on. From Vega's lawsuit, quote,

13:14 in other investigations, prosecutions, and it became a domino effect. The varying degrees of these targets had to forfeit cash, real estate, jewelry, which goes to the people that are doing this. And according to Mr. Vega, seeks a $250,000 payment.

13:41 For each of the 114 cases, that was basically his cut of making these deals and getting these people in to these plea agreements. Of course, that amounts to almost $30 million if you times it times 114 cases. That would be a lot of money, our money, actually.

14:10 And by engaging Vega in the legal battle, the US government took risk and basically exposed him and all of these other people. Vega, for his part, appears quite ready to play this game of roulette with the US government or he wouldn't have brought the lawsuit. Following.

14:34 all of this, the author provides us with a list of some, let's see, 19, 26, 32 names of drug traffickers that was listed in Vega's lawsuit. Carlos Ramon Zapata was one of them. Attorney Roberto Uribe was another.

15:07 Those are the names that I recognized right away. Vega's lawsuit was dismissed by the judge on June 12, 2008, prior to discovery. Didn't want to hear it. It was dismissed on a technicality, the failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. The statute cited in Vega's lawsuit.

15:33 authorizes compensation under enumerated circumstances to individuals who provide information concerning violations of customs and navigation laws. The statute does not authorize compensation for information of turning in narcotic people. The cover-up of the Kent memo continued. If the Bogota Connections was advancing U.S. interests in the region, such as the fortunes of the right,

16:04 the paramilitary forces and complicit politicians enlisted with the CIA and the narcotraffickers, all was still going well. They basically had a get out jail free card. Chapter 21, State Department Cable. Baroque Vega kicked a hornet's nest in the land of his birth by appearing

16:33 on a major Colombian radio program in late 2010 and accusing a prominent businessman of being a narco-trafficker and subsequently writing a letter to the businessman that became public in which he also called out the alleged corrupt members of the Colombian National Police. Not that they're not corrupt, just they're not pointed out. Vega, in an interview,

17:00 that the author did with him for Narco News, conceded that the radio show is likely a major contributing factor to his name being invoked. In November 25th, 2009, in a State Department cable sent from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia to the Secretary of State's office in D.C., as well as the CIA, DEA, and DOD were on distribution for this cable. Quote,

17:29 Smear campaign against Naranjo. General Oscar Naranjo, director of the Colombian National Police, said Baroque Vega, a drug trafficker who had served time in the U.S. and now resided in Miami, was conspiring with Don Mario and other extradited.

17:56 United Self-Defense Forces, UAC paramilitaries, to build a fake case against him. He said that a number of his officers had reported being approached by these individuals seeking dirt. He thought some smear was inevitable, and he said he would share the information he had with U.S. law enforcement. Clearly, the description of Vega as a drug trafficker seems a bit off.

18:25 Given Vega was employed by multiple U.S. law enforcement agencies, surely we wouldn't hire a known drug trafficker. And Vega serving time in the U.S., that too is misleading. Vega's only conviction in the courts was on a misdemeanor charge for filing a late tax return in 1990s. A charge he claims was for retaliation.

18:56 when he got crosswise with a DEA agent. As far as his alleged conspiracy with Don Mario, Vega told me in an interview, meaning the author, I know his name, but he is one of my enemies who wanted to kill me. I never met him. Vega contends the individual identified in the U.S. State Department cable as being the target of a smear campaign is part of the corruption.

19:27 Well, naturally, because he's in the National Police. You don't survive there unless you are corrupt, especially at this time. All the traffickers that were surrendering and talking to the U.S. government while Vega was working on it spoke of the Colombian National Police corruption, especially Colonel Daniello Gonzalez and Oscar. I know Texas Annie told me how to pronounce this, but I'm not going to get it right.

19:59 Narajo, then head of intelligence for the National Police. Vega was very involved in the several U.S. law enforcement operations in 99 and 2000 that sought to snare the narco-traffickers of the North Valley cartel. The Bogota connection was revealed in a series of government documents that was uncovered by the author, including an internal U.S. Defense Department memo, which we've already talked about.

20:29 the Kent memo. Um, and he goes on to talk about how, uh, Gonzalez had laid out an entire backbone of the devil's triangle, naming names, including corrupt us law enforcement officers in the DEA, us customs and inside of the, um, Columbia police. So more, um,

21:00 Information about lawsuits and that type of thing. Court cases going nowhere. Just hide everything in them. The next part is cocaine planes. And this part talks about the author. It's around 2008.

21:32 He basically was writing this book and he had an incident. He had pulled into a taco place in San Antonio, Texas. And they were basically, it says they were sitting in the car, eating and drinking their beverage.

22:06 And the hood of his car was in the center of a U-turn lane. The balance of the vehicle was still overhanging the approach lane as he waited for the car ahead of him to clear the intersection. Just as he starts to pull out to make his turn, there's this god-awful metal crunching noise.

22:36 They're hit. And he says, I saw nothing other than a bulky late model SUV out of the corner of my eye that hit us and then ran. The driver had raced down an empty approach lane reaching peak speed just as he plowed into his car, crushing the driver's side rear passenger door because

23:03 He was aiming for where he was stopped at and he had just started going. So he barely missed the author of the book, the Narco News reporter. He has his two sons in the car with him. So the SUV basically continues on and he tells the story that

23:32 The San Antonio police detective happened to be driving past the scene and saw the hit and run occur. She told the driver to his house not far away and spied his huge SUV in the driveway. She returned to report what she had found to the police at the scene. I recall her saying to me that it looked like the driver hit my car intentionally because she witnessed it. The driver, knowing he was made, returned to the scene of the crime.

24:01 expecting, I suspect, that he could talk his way out of whatever was going to happen. The cops were still there questioning the author and the detective's wife about the accident that was in the other car. My son said he was pretty sure the driver in his 30s had switched the license plates on his SUV before returning to the scene. That seemed odd.

24:30 I never really made sense of it, other than maybe the original plates were expired or phony, or the driver thought an alternate set of plates would somehow fool the cops. After running the driver's name, the cops discovered that they had outstanding warrants. No talking his way out of anything. Years later, in San Antonio, while covering a money laundering story for his normal newspaper,

24:58 The newsroom that he worked in was sprayed with bullets. He says, I've even had a gun held to my head while pursuing a story about violent muggings in a Milwaukee neighborhood. There were threats to blow his head off. In Juarez, Mexico, after visiting several known mass graves in 2008 with a filmmaker and a driver in the city,

25:31 They were tailed by Mexican cops down a desolate canyon road passing an area where his fellow cops were. They were trying to stop him, and they didn't stop, but they got back to the city. At the time, Juarez was thick with blood from street gangs, and the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels

26:03 feuding with each other. He says, maybe it's these moments when I'm doing these types of stories that makes him hesitate to do them. He said in 2005, while chasing a narco trafficking story for Narco News involving an ICE informant participating in mass murder in Juarez, he was even more paranoid.

26:31 The ICE agents made threatening visits to his house. Not the criminals, the ICE agents. They came to where he worked at the newspaper. They were attempting to make him reveal his sources so they could kill him. Then there was a DOJ threat via the courts to seize my computer. Before that, in 2003, when they made an effort to suppress.

27:05 him getting public court records. But those prior threats targeted my job and my livelihood, not his life. Digging into the role of intelligence agencies in the drug world had a different risk level. At the Times, he said, I did ask a good law enforcement source about my concerns, and he said, you're not paranoid. If they're after you,

27:36 They'll get you. He thought about that for a long time. So he moves on. That's his personal part. And he starts talking about a Gulfstream II aircraft that had crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula outside of Cancun, Mexico in the fall of 2007. The jet was hauling some four tons of cocaine.

28:10 At a time. Now, this is we talked about this in the book we just finished. This is a story that comes up several times. Some reports allege the plane had previously been used between 2003 and 2005 by the CIA for several infamous U.S. terrorist camps travel. The fact that the ownership of the aircraft apparently switched hands twice within a week.

28:45 Before the crash, helping to obscure its ownership only fueled more controversy. Shortly after the jet crashed, the author uncovered a piece of evidence that was certain to deepen the mystery surrounding the crash. The tail number was N987SA. It's now affixed in the lexicon of CIA.

29:13 fact relates to an individual by the name of Greg Smith. He was identified in a McClatchy Washington Bureau report on the Gulfstream 2's crash. Quote, a bill of sale obtained by McClatchy newspapers indicates that the Florida pilot Clyde O'Connor bought the plane on September 16th, eight days before it went down in the Yucatan jungle.

29:41 Another Florida pilot, identified by his license number and signature as Greg Smith, also signed the document, but his relationship to O'Connor is not detailed, unquote. So, what's that all about? There needs to be a review of the timeline of the Gulf Stream 2. The plane took off from Fort Lauderdale's

30:11 executive airport headed for Toluca, outside Mexico City, on September 18, 2007. It crashed, what is that, six days later near Cancun. After departing Colombia, Mexican publications, which was reporting on the story from the start, provided

30:41 Some 30 articles reported that the jet was headed to an airport in Cancun, but arrived shortly after a work shift change. The security people on the new work shift did not authorize the Gulf Stream to land. So it flew to an airport in the Yucatan capital, Merida, which also would not authorize it to land. The jet remained stranded in the air until it ran out of fuel, was forced into an emergency landing in the hills.

31:11 in a nearby town. Mexican authorities apprehended one of the pilots on board a couple of days later, about three miles away. Four days later, they apprehended a man alleged to be the co-pilot and they had questioned why none of the helicopters or other high-tech equipment was able to find these guys. Also, an important part of this story is the ownership tale of the jet itself.

31:41 McClatchy reported that a Florida-based company called Donna Blue Aircraft, that's a weird name, which is supposedly owned by two Brazilian men, acquired the Gulfstream II from a company connected to a New York real estate developer, William Achenbaum. The deal was allegedly cut in August 2007. Donna Blue Aircraft then flipped the jet to its new owner.

32:10 for a payment of $2 million on September 16, 2007. That's where Greg Smith comes into the picture as one of the co-signers on the bill of sale drafted by Donna Blue for the Gulfstream. Smith is not exactly a unique name, so it turns out that

32:36 He ran across the trail of at least one Greg Smith who has plenty of experience flying in South Florida and in Latin America. That's where broke Vega comes back in. The FBI, DEA, CIA asset. So he would be in a position to know what's going on and what the potential source of the four tons of cocaine were that were found on the aircraft.

33:09 grow very well in Mexico. According to Vega, he had traveled between South Florida and South America via a private jet on at least 30 different recruiting trips with different FBI agents and DEA agents, as well as CIA. Vega claims the main pilot for all of those flights was Greg Smith. Quote,

33:38 Well, originally, I met Greg Smith. We needed a pilot, a very trustful pilot, someone that could get us to bring in the Colombian drug traffickers to surrender for their little secret backroom plea deals. Then the FBI recommended to get in touch with Smith because they used him. Oh, also, U.S. Customs used him. Oh, and Homeland Security.

34:10 Used him. Yeah. Yeah, they all used him. Greg Smith. So when Vega was asked if federal agents were on board this, he said, oh, yes. Yeah. They flew with us all the time. The FBI and DEA were each running their own separate operations at the time. And the FBI also was involved in some of the confidential source recruiting trips to Latin America. A judge's ruling in another legal case involving Vega, in fact, backs up this claim.

34:43 It says the CIA involvement in one flight in 1999 that departed from Panama for Florida involved Vega, federal agents, and an indicted Colombian narco trafficker. So that proves that what Vega was saying about that part is true. And then Vega goes on to say that the Smith guy was oftentimes their, if not all the time, their pilots. In the same legal pleadings,

35:12 There's a mention of another aircraft. And this one I've come across several times. Arrow Group Jets. In the lawsuit, quote, on or about November 17th, 1999, the appellate, a DEA supervisor, received an invoice from Arrow Jet.

35:29 Aero Group jets in the amount of $23,000. And that's for that aircraft in that previous story that they told him he had to charter the jet because it was the only way to get the guy safely out of Columbia. And then they turned around and used that chartered jet as a charge once the DEA guy in Miami, the good guy, tried to turn them all in. They used that.

35:57 contracted flight of saying he basically wasted that money so that's all part of that story it would seem the real question now is whether greg smith who allegedly signed the paperwork in the purchase of the crash golf stream as reported by mcclatchy is the same greg smith that's a pilot for the cea dea dhs ice whatever another reporter

36:26 claims to have already interviewed the right Mr. Smith, but by his own admission, it was through a third party. So he didn't. So yet another reporter with a Florida Weekly also claimed to have interviewed a Mr. Smith related to this. And when this author contacted the individual, he stressed that the reporter had gotten the wrong man.

36:56 I was falsely written up and they named my country, my company. Greg Smith said he owned Global Jet Solutions of Pembroke Pines, Florida. There's probably three or four of us, Greg Smith's running around in South Florida in aviation, but it's not my name on the bill of sale. This Smith who says his middle initial is J adds that he has hired an attorney to clear up this matter.

37:27 but the author obtained a copy of the 2007 document that contains the signature that belongs to Greg Smith of Global Jet Solutions. That signature does appear to be different than the signature of the Greg Smith contained in the annual report for Aero Group Jets, which is the one we're interested in. Now, before anyone jumps to any conclusions, it's important to point out that every crashed plane has its own

37:58 Story, especially when they crashed in Mexico and Latin America, they usually have a drug story. The Gulfstream 2 jet crash landing in Yucatan might simply be a drug smuggling gone bad. Or it's possible that it was under surveillance as part of a government operation and they couldn't let it land because they knew it had drugs on it and there were somebody waiting for it there. So they waived them off.

38:32 As for Vega, the several former law enforcement officials that he interviewed had the notion that the Gulf Stream 2 was part of a U.S. government-sanctioned controlled delivery and that it was part of some CIA that had been compromised, so they weren't going to let it land. They waived it off. At least one law enforcement source with experience working in Latin America did say,

39:04 I wouldn't put anything past those guys, meaning the CIA. Though Vega's assertions to date have basically been proven out correct. Here's a quote from Vega. I believe more it could be a run.

39:29 by narco-traffickers because a controlled delivery is very easy. A controlled delivery would make the plane land. Remember how close the Florida Keys are to the Yucatan Peninsula or any airport in Miami. And if it's a controlled delivery by your government, the plane could land just basically anywhere or at least land in one place until they call the agents to clear up the whole thing if somebody's there waiting for them.

39:57 Again, in terms of the allegations that it's a CIA black operation, it may or may not be because they have landed. He even includes Guantanamo as a place where they land and that they land in the Keys. And then, of course, they land in Miami. The author says there's also other possible explanations, generally all tied to nefarious things.

40:29 He says it is not to be ignored in the case of the Gulfstream 2 jet crash in Mexico that the flight allegedly left Rio Negro, Colombia, just outside Medellin, where it managed to avoid the nation's customs and law enforcement scrutiny. How to get out of there? Loaded up with 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons.

40:57 Allegations of U.S. law enforcement corruption, such as those that surfaced in Bogota connection in the Kent memo, leads us to believe that this is a fairly common occurrence of aircraft leaving Columbia with narcotics on it. So what exactly is the DEA doing down there? Customs officials denied that.

41:25 Rodney Matthews, who was a known smuggler, was allowed to smuggle drugs into the country, which was an allegation he made to ABC Primetime News in 1998. Mark Conrad, who at the time headed the U.S. Customs Internal Affairs Office, said that they had in fact worked with Rodney Matthews on...

41:52 importing narcotics into the US. The reason is there's a great deal of pressure on agents in the field to make cases. So they just bring it in and stage fake arrests and set people up. Yeah, that's basically what they were saying. So you just can't make this shit up.

42:19 Yeah, we're going to have a controlled delivery so we can have a few controlled arrests, slap a few people on the wrist, and call it a day. Isn't that nice? That's absolutely crazy. It's bonkers. Just, you know, they need to be buried under nuclear waste, I'm telling you. Yep. Yep, I agree. I agree. But we'll go on with the...

42:57 paper trail of the aircraft next week. Cause it's actually a very interesting story and emblematic of how these things work. And we're going to get to see a whole lot of other defense contractors involved in this. And what's weird is they don't have to do this, but they do. They seem to always use the same tail numbers, which is kind of,

43:27 dumb for people that aren't dumb, but whatever. It allows us to track them a little better. All right, guys, that's it. I don't see anybody coming up. I know everybody's got a great weekend planned for Memorial Day. I wish you guys all the best. If you guys did not watch the show Warhamster and I did today, you're going to definitely want to watch it. Also,

44:04 Let me check the date. I pre-recorded a show with Ghost of Base Patrick Henry. And other than Warhamster, he's my favorite guy to do a show with. The pre-recorded show is his series called The Book of Trump. And it airs Monday at 7.30 p.m.

44:30 I am going to try to be in the comments during the airing of the show. I'll have the volume off because I don't like listening to myself. But I think you will enjoy it. It's about Kissinger and all of his machinations with Gladio over the span of time and just the fact that he's a Pilgrim Society guy implementing Fabian shit.

44:55 um and so it's just a very interesting conversation and of course uh gordon ghost is one of the other people besides war hamster that i can actually have these conversations with because they've read as much about this stuff as i have so i thoroughly enjoyed it um the show um it's about an hour and a half long and um it will be on monday night at 7 30. okay there's also um

45:25 a show that I recorded yesterday that if it's not out already with Crypto Rich, with another fellow UK lady that used to live in South Africa and is an African expert as far as what's going on. She had a very interesting take on some material that we've covered.

45:53 She was very, very well-spoken, very knowledgeable. And we basically spent most of the time talking about things that were going on in Africa. If you're interested in that, I will repost it on my space whenever I see him get finished with it. So next week, on Sunday, we will be recording another installment with Ben Kelleran.

46:23 Um, I have a podcast with Charles Robert, Robert Robinson on Tuesday morning. And, um, I will be on Tommy's podcast Thursday morning. And then of course, we're hamster, um, on noon, our normal four o'clock. Um, I don't see any conflicts next week with all of those. And then alpha warrior at nine o'clock on Wednesday.

46:50 to continue our deep dive into Permadex. So anyway, everybody have a nice weekend. Take care. Okay, back over here. You guys have a nice weekend.

Entities here

Baroque Vega25 Columbia25 Greg Smith11 Vega Lawsuit9 Gulfstream II Crash9 Miami8 Hit and Run on Author7 2003 Colombia Plane Crash7 Colombian National Police7 Mexico City6 Yucatan Peninsula5 U.S. Customs Service5 FARC5 Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez4 Bogotá4 U.S. State Department4 Narco News4 Cancun3 San Antonio3 Arrow Group Jets3 Ciudad Juarez3 CIA3 Gulfstream 2 jet crash in Mexico3 Don Mario2 Oscar Naranjo2 Donna Blue Aircraft2 North Valley Cartel2 McClatchy Newspapers2 Washington, D.C.2 The Narco State2 Global Jet Solutions2 Panama Canal2 Roy C. Matthews2 Clyde O'Connor2 Joe Dieter2 Florida2 Merida1 The Book of Trump1 Milwaukee1 Carlos Ramon Zapata1

Claims made here

FARC carried_out_attack 2003 Colombia Plane Crash host_asserted ▶ 1:57

“Originally, the U.S. and Colombian government said the contractor's plane crashed because of engine failure. However, the FARC claims they shot the plane down. To the FARC, these aerial spying mission…”

Baroque Vega recruited North Valley Cartel book_quoted ▶ 11:10

“The planned program was extremely successful. Who wouldn't want to do it? It gives you carte blanche to be a narco-trafficker. All in all, Vega convinced and successfully recruited 114 to enter this p…”

North Valley Cartel succeeded Medellin Cartel book_quoted ▶ 12:14

“that had taken over for Medellin and Cali. Vega claims that corrupt U.S. agents are part of the Bogota connection and seriously compromised his role as a government asset in a number of his informants…”

North Valley Cartel succeeded Cali Cartel book_quoted ▶ 12:14

Oscar Naranjo headed Colombian National Police documented ▶ 17:29

“Smear campaign against Naranjo. General Oscar Naranjo, director of the Colombian National Police, said Baroque Vega, a drug trafficker who had served time in the U.S. and now resided in Miami, was con…”

Baroque Vega framed Oscar Naranjo book_quoted ▶ 17:29

Baroque Vega member_of AUC host_asserted ▶ 17:29

Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez exposed Colombian National Police book_quoted ▶ 20:29

“the Kent memo. Um, and he goes on to talk about how, uh, Gonzalez had laid out an entire backbone of the devil's triangle, naming names, including corrupt us law enforcement officers in the DEA, us cu…”

Clyde O'Connor secretly_owned Gulfstream II Crash documented ▶ 29:13

“fact relates to an individual by the name of Greg Smith. He was identified in a McClatchy Washington Bureau report on the Gulfstream 2's crash. Quote, a bill of sale obtained by McClatchy newspapers i…”

Greg Smith member_of Gulfstream II Crash documented ▶ 29:41

“Another Florida pilot, identified by his license number and signature as Greg Smith, also signed the document, but his relationship to O'Connor is not detailed, unquote. So, what's that all about? The…”

Donna Blue Aircraft secretly_owned Gulfstream II Crash documented ▶ 31:41

“McClatchy reported that a Florida-based company called Donna Blue Aircraft, that's a weird name, which is supposedly owned by two Brazilian men, acquired the Gulfstream II from a company connected to …”

William Achenbaum secretly_owned Gulfstream II Crash documented ▶ 31:41

Greg Smith member_of Baroque Vega book_quoted ▶ 33:09

“grow very well in Mexico. According to Vega, he had traveled between South Florida and South America via a private jet on at least 30 different recruiting trips with different FBI agents and DEA agent…”

Greg Smith member_of Global Jet Solutions guest_asserted ▶ 36:56

“I was falsely written up and they named my country, my company. Greg Smith said he owned Global Jet Solutions of Pembroke Pines, Florida. There's probably three or four of us, Greg Smith's running aro…”

CIA carried_out_attack Gulfstream 2 jet crash in Mexico speculative ▶ 38:32

“As for Vega, the several former law enforcement officials that he interviewed had the notion that the Gulf Stream 2 was part of a U.S. government-sanctioned controlled delivery and that it was part of…”

Roy C. Matthews trafficked U.S. Customs Service documented ▶ 41:25

“Rodney Matthews, who was a known smuggler, was allowed to smuggle drugs into the country, which was an allegation he made to ABC Primetime News in 1998. Mark Conrad, who at the time headed the U.S. Cu…”

Henry Kissinger member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 44:30

“I am going to try to be in the comments during the airing of the show. I'll have the volume off because I don't like listening to myself. But I think you will enjoy it. It's about Kissinger and all of…”

Henry Kissinger funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 44:30