The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8

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0:00 Hello, SR. I got the note that Bridget's not going to be joining us today. Well, afternoon, Colonel. Hopefully things are going well for you today. It is. Let me get us live over here on Rumble so we can get going. I would normally skip chapters like this one, but it introduces a very important character in the story.

0:34 I'm going to paraphrase the beginning of it to say that this one's focused on Robert Corson, the former son-in-law of Michener's daughter, Paula. So he was a troublemaker growing up. He was a bully, got thrown out of public school, ends up at a Roman Catholic school where he was on the boxing team.

1:03 basically tore the living crap out of anybody he boxed. So that's important to the story because that's how this bully attitude is what drew him into criminality and the mafia figures. He became notorious for that type of behavior.

1:36 It goes on and talks about his father, who basically was an absentee father. It says that he was a narcotics smuggler and that he ended up in the country of Belize, of all places. And the mom who had Corson was pregnant when she was 15 years old.

2:14 Her name is Billie Jean Banks. And throughout this story, she's going to be referred to as BJ. So she ends up, according to some accounts, being married as many times as eight different times. So one of her husbands, of course, is this Corson drug smuggling guy, which is how she met her.

2:52 next husband, and that wasn't her first husband, by the way, she meets her next husband, Schumacher, who was a Las Vegas gambler, and ends up, according to all accounts, she was beautiful, had a gorgeous body, so she never had problems finding a man. So she ends up with William Garman. He's an occidental chemical executive.

3:24 that lived in Desert Springs, California. She would later on go on to divorce him as well. But that name stuck. So she's referred to as BJ Garvin. And she gained national notoriety in October 1989 when she became the first person in the country to be publicly banned for life from the savings and loan industry. The next year, her sister's son,

3:55 Roy Daly became the first owner of the Houston Savings and Loan to be convicted for fraud. So while she may have been banned, she had lots of family members, to include Corson, that was intimately involved. BJ was a director of her son's Vision Bonk Savings in Kingsville, Texas, which also went bankrupt in March of 1989.

4:26 Under the thrift bailout legislation that was passed that year, the names of all persons sanctioned by the federal regulatory agencies were to be made public. BJ Garman was the first. But the newspaper and wire services didn't know who they had. So some of the news accounts stated it was a he instead of a she. They would have had better luck looking for her.

5:00 in the Las Vegas area, where around that time, she was laundering tens of thousands of dollars in cash through gambling casinos. Even though some of the allegations by the Fed against her were criminal in nature, BJ Garman may never see the inside of a jail because according to one of her former employees, it is likely that she doesn't know how to read. It might be impossible to prove that she knew anything about what she was signing.

5:31 Back in 1964, Corson was 17 and chasing after a 16-year-old girl. His mother had found her and was pushing her son towards her. She was all he could talk about during the summer. Just after he turned 18 and just before Christmas in 64, Corson dropped out of 12th grade and ran off with a girl. At least that's how the girl's father described it.

6:04 However, one person close to the girl's father said they may have eloped, but it was a marriage arranged by the girl's father and Corson's father, either his real one or the adopted one. It didn't matter because they were both involved with the CIA. One of Corson's high school classmates, who would later become a Texas savings and loan examiner, said that to elope, Corson had either stolen his mother's

6:35 $10,000 real estate commission check or forged her name to the check and cashed it. Corson took the 16-year-old girl, he was 18, to Mexico across the Rio Grande from Mercedes, Texas. They moved to Nevada where the girl's father found them several months later and brought them back to Houston. That was Paula, Walter Michener's daughter.

7:04 After Michener tracked down Paula and Corson living in Nevada in early 1965, several months after they had eloped to Mexico, he brought them back to Houston, where Corson was put into the real estate business by his mother and Michener. There is little in the public record regarding Corson from that time until his divorce from Paula in 1976. One of his friends said he bounced around a bit.

7:33 and at one time even had a job at Michener's Bank. In a deposition he gave in 1984 and a lawsuit against him, Corson testified that he had a high school education. He also noted that it was from Kerr Naval Academy in past Christiane, Mississippi. The problem with that is there is no such thing. Okay, next he testified that he enrolled there.

8:09 at the Baptist College and stayed for about six weeks. There's also no Baptist College at the time in past Christiane, Mississippi. Then Corson continued, quote, worked in the produce business for a while. I had my own company, unquote. He didn't give the name of it. Then he said that he got into a company

8:39 as part owner called Schumacher and Corson. That apparently was from 1968 to 70. Schumacher was one of his mom's married names. In early 1970s, Corson was in a real estate partnership with John Agger and Roy Daly. Daly is his first cousin, who would later have the distinction of being the first owner of a failed savings and loan in Houston,

9:12 to be convicted of fraud. By the time Corson got divorced, it was just he and Daly and the company called Dale, D-A-I-L, Core. Their property holdings were not significant, but it included 50% of the Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center that we talked about earlier. The other half was owned by TMC Funding, which was Michener's group.

9:44 So 1970, I'm not even sure if he's still married to Paula at this point. The divorce itself appeared to be bitter. Paula filed in, oh, there it is. They filed in 76. So yes, they were still married. She alleged in the divorce paperwork that he beat her. They were granted a divorce in 76. Six weeks later, Paula married Conway Cook III.

10:17 and stayed married less than a year. While she was married to Cook, Paula filed two actions against Corson. First, she asked the judge to hold Corson in contempt of court for pushing and shoving her. Then she asked for his parental rights to their three children be terminated because he was doing drugs. Even though they divorced, that did not stop Michener from doing business with Corson. Michener and Corson

10:49 Both tried to keep their association secret afterwards, especially because Michener was doing business with a man that his daughter had accused of beating him, of beating her. That might not make any sense to people unless you understand that there is a direct connection between the CIA, the mafia, and these two people. So they continued doing business together. Michener's relationship with the CIA and the intel community

11:28 at large, goes way back, perhaps as early as the 1950s. In 1952, Michener bought his first property called La Jitas, a little hole in the wall on the Rio Grande, just west of Big Bend National Park in far west Texas. Now, he's from Houston. And remember, far west Texas is where all of the landing strips are for the CIA drug running. It is an isolated area.

11:59 Michener started out with 26,000 acres and eventually bought the entire town. About the only living thing around the area in 1952 were a few ranchers, prospectors, and an occasional tourist or two. They would go up to Presidio or Big Ben, but there were a lot of smugglers in the area. Lajitas is one of the outposts used by General...

12:33 Black Jack Pershing in his pursuit of Poncho Velo. Michener said he wanted to restore the area into an Old West town and make it the Palm Springs of Texas. He put a restaurant in, a hotel, and a few other tourist traps, as well as a nine-hole golf course. That was generally used as overnight stays for drug smugglers and weapon smugglers, not really a tourist town.

13:06 The biggest business in the area was narcotics trafficking. Some of it came across the Rio Grande on foot, some on truck, and some by airplane. One of the landing strips used for this was about 12 miles northeast of Lajitas. That came from Hakeem Jackson, a Texas rancher who patrols the entire area. He says the runway

13:37 was a lot longer than even most commercial airports. It was 4,000 feet long and 200 feet wide. That's because it was built to accommodate C-130 cargo for the CIA. Although Michener doesn't own that particular land where that airstrip is, he owns property to the south and to the west of it.

14:10 CIA contract pilots and law enforcement officers have said he controlled the landing strip. Michener and former Atlantic Richfield chairman Robert Anderson own more than 200,000 acres to the west of the landing strip. The eastern boundary of their land was about three miles from the strip. Anderson's father was a leading oil and gas banker and one of the first to lend money.

14:40 on oil in the ground. At First National Bank of Chicago, which also happens to be dual-hatted as one of the favorite lending institutions of the CIA. It was a big mafia bank as well. In 1986, after Anderson retired from Atlantic Richfield, he joined in an oil and gas partnership with Walter Tiny Rowland, a British industrialist who owns

15:12 Loho PLC. That stands for London Rhodesia. Rowland is a close associate of Adan Khashoggi, the famous weapons dealer, who had approached Rowland to help in the bridge financing of the Iranian arms for hostage deal. In an interview, y'all ain't going to believe this, with none other than the Washington Times, which is owned by Reverend Moon.

15:41 who is also part of the CIA network, Khashoggi stated that Rowland apparently has a special relationship with the CIA, as does many of the oil and gas people. May of 1992, a U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control began an investigation into the 1991 transactions between Rowland's low row...

16:13 and Libya, including a possible joint venture with the U.S., with Khashoggi acting as a middleman for the deal. Since 1986, the U.S. government had barred U.S. companies for dealing with Libyan-owned or controlled entities, so they just find a cutout. Loro, second biggest shareholder, is a U.S.-based Fidelity Management.

16:42 Roland's connections to the Reagan administration are impressive. In June of 1981, his pilot was arrested in Houston for illegal possession of and importation of AK-47 rifles while flying Roland and his wife to Acapulco. Roland was quick to let the arresting customs agent know that he was a personal friend of none other than Alexander Haig.

17:09 who was at the time the Secretary of State and intimately involved in the Iran-Contra affair. When questioned about the landing strip, Michener, who knows the area like the back of his hand, disclaimed any knowledge of it. He pretended it didn't even exist. When he was described to exactly where it was at, he began talking about it as if it was just another landing strip that was miles away from his property.

17:41 Three. And he controlled it. The actual owner of the land was a widow, Eve Nichols, who lived in Florida, who had never set foot on the site and didn't even know there was a landing strip that had been built on her property. When a relative was hunting in the area and saw it and told her, she said that whoever built it did so without her knowledge. Richard Beneke, first.

18:11 told the author about the landing strip. Benecke, a controversial Portland, Oregon, arms dealer and real estate manager who says he worked for the CIA for 18 years, was acquitted in federal court in Portland in 1990 on charges of making a false statement about working for the CIA, which kind of means that he did. A West Texas law enforcement officer and longtime

18:43 federal agent who patrolled the Rio Grande area for years, former Pentagon criminal investigator Gene Wheaton, and a veteran CIA contract pilot Robert Plumlee, all have confirmed Benique's description of the purpose of the landing strip, a CIA transshipment point for guns and drugs into Latin America. Both of the law enforcement officials asked that their names not be used at the time.

19:13 This book was written several years later for fear they'd lose their jobs. The author was able to locate the landing strip using aerial photographs and a map that Beneke drew at his desk in his Portland home. That's how well he knew the area because he had been in and out of it so many times. The strip and its location and orientation coincided exactly as he had drawn it on the map.

19:42 not have attained the location from a map or from the FAA because it was not a registered map. And at the time, we didn't have GPS or this new mapping software. Baneki's credibility is a controversial matter among reporters and government investigators who have dealt with him. Some say that everything he told them checks out.

20:11 Others like Jack Bloom and author Mark Hasenball says some is and some isn't, and it's hard to tell the difference. The jurors in Beneke's trial in Portland believe Beneke over the witnesses from the CIA, Secret Service, and Donald Gregg. And you remember Donald Gregg. Donald Gregg was the guy that was running Iran-Contra as the national security advisor for...

20:41 Vice President George Bush in the 80s. He went to that trial and the jury didn't believe him. The jury took a vote on each of the five counts and acquitted him. And it wasn't a question of the jury feeling that the government had simply not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury foreman told the reporters that the jury believed everything he said. There's no doubt.

21:14 that he is frustrating to deal with. Because as you see, most of these people don't ever tell the truth the first time. It was only after the author confirmed Beneke's description of the landing strip outside of Lajitas and its use that I gave any credence to anything he said. Reporters have to distinguish between what he knows from his personal experience and what he knows from what someone else has told him.

21:45 Beneke was one of the first people to talk publicly about the October surprise, the trips that members of the Reagan team made in order to cut a deal with the Iranians to hold the American hostages until after the election. So, of course, the government does not want this guy to have any credibility because he knows too much. The October surprise is a controversial subject. But after that.

22:20 Beneke was exposed in a story in the Village Voice as having lied about his presence in Paris during the alleged meetings. But who did they rely on to prove him a liar? A CIA agent. Yeah. So, supposedly, Frank Snepp, Mr. CIA himself, acknowledged that a lot of Beneke's information was good, but just not this one.

22:58 Benake said that he flew into Texas landing strip in the early 1980s with some Colombian and Panamanian associates of the Medellin drug cartel. He said they told him the landing strip was Walter Michener's. This was in 82 or 83. And that it was straight agency, meaning the CIA's operation. And it was a guns for drug operation. There was also paramilitary training happening at that location.

23:29 Tosh Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot living in California, said he did not know Beneke but can confirm his claim about that particular landing strip and that it was mostly active during 82 and 83 timeframe. Plumlee said he never flew C-130s into that strip, but we were familiar with the operation. The paramilitary training there, according to Plumlee, was the beginning of the mercenary training.

23:58 and that it was done with Israeli Mossad alongside CIA. Plumlee, who is the subject of a lengthy article that was written on April 5th, 1990 in the San Diego Reader, flew missions for the CIA and the U.S. military in Latin America from 1979 to 86. He said he carried men and equipment, sometimes returning to the U.S. with drugs.

24:30 Plumlee is named in several books and articles about the Contra affair, but is only identified by his mysterious pilot name, Tosh, T-O-S-H. In the 1982 book, The Fish is Red, he is identified, although only by his name, Robert Plumlee, and not by his nickname, and quoted as a CIA contract pilot who flew in the CIA Operation Mongoose missions against Fidel Castro.

25:00 in the early 1960s. Some of the weapons going through the Strip were shipped to the Colombian drug cartels as well as the Contras. You have to keep your drug traffickers armed. According to Menakee, the guns came from the United States and went to Martin McCoy Warehouse in Honduras. Some went to Panama. He also said he supposed that some went to the Contras.

25:34 Ron Martin, a Miami gun dealer, and James McCoy, the former military attache at the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua and a friend of Somoza, were partners in an arms company that supplied weapons to the Contras, first for the CIA and then after the Boland Amendment for the Oliver Norse Enterprise.

26:02 They and their so-called arms supermarket in Honduras are mentioned frequently in Norse White House diaries. According to Meneke, from 83 to 85, Martin and Robert Corson were partners in a casino in the Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco and part of Spain. And what did we find out about the Canary Islands in our Operation Gladio?

26:32 Spain was using the Canary Islands for Operation Gladio and their aquatic training for sea operations conducted on the Canary Islands where we find Martin and Robert Corson all at the same time. That was going on in the 1980s. In a 1987 divorce proceeding in

27:07 Miami, Martin's wife alleged that he owned a Hi-Li Fontan in Spain. Benake also said that in mid-1990s, Martin borrowed money from Michener's bank to buy guns for Chile. Mid-1970s, where's Illini? What was happening in the mid-1970s in Chile?

27:33 Oh, that would just be after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in 1973 when we were arming Pinochet's shock troops and teaching them how to torture, kidnap, and murder people. Okay, there were several mortgages filed by Allied Bank, Michener's bank, in the property records in Miami that are secured by property outside of Houston. Now, Miami is their money laundering bank, so that makes sense.

28:10 They also included loans for thoroughbred foals in Kentucky and some in France. An independent indication that these people run in the same circles lies in Oliver Knorr's White House diaries. In one entry, Martin is linked to Miami businessman Sergio Brull, B-R-U-L-L, in a gun steal. In another entry, Brull, along with Corson's

28:40 Attorney S. Cass Weiland is in the middle of an unidentified White House project in Belize, where Michener and his partners owned 700,000 acres. Huh. So they were using this money to build terror training camps in northern Belize. Plumlee said that the Lajitas area, where the airstrip is,

29:10 was a good place for guns and drug transshipment because it was wide open and remote and flat. There is good truck transportation and it's easy to get across the Rio Grande. Even though this airstrip is literally out in the middle of range, free range for cattle, there was a very well, relatively speaking, maintained

29:46 county road that goes from Lajitas Highway right up to the landing strip, like where you would be taking trucks or vehicles out of. Another important factor, Plumlee said, is that the people in the isolated conservative Big Bend area, including law enforcement, would be cooperative with the CIA, particularly if they thought the operation was national security, which of course they were told it was.

30:20 Almost all of the people in the area that the author contacted either said they knew nothing about the landing strip or gave conflicting stories about when it was constructed and what it was used for. A former Texas ranger who patrolled the area said that he knew little about the strip, but that in early 1980s, it was in excellent condition. Several days later, he called back to say that he could assure me he had never seen anything happening there, though.

30:49 It was just a landing strip with a well-maintained county road to nowhere. Nothing happening there. A physical inspection of the area indicates otherwise. There were holes, depression, piles of dirt, cleared areas, and little roads on both sides of the strip. Also on both sides of the strip, running parallel to it, were deep tire tracks. The tracks are in...

31:20 pairs closely spaced like tractor-trailer trucks. They appeared to, in another area, they appeared to form like what would be landing tires for aircraft, especially heavy ones, like well-worn ruts. Other experts on landing strips said they could also be tracks from loading machines used to offload aircraft.

31:57 A West Texas law enforcement officer who spoke on the condition that his name not be used said the pits and depressions with the dirt were used to hold 55-gallon drums of aviation fuel. Plumlee said the drums were used to hold drugs as well as fuel, and we've seen them in the boats coming to not the United States. There was always a DEA question about what was being put in those drums.

32:28 When asked about C-130 flights into the landing strip, several local residents volunteered that it was not long enough to accommodate a C-130. However, that is absolutely not true. They have jet packs on C-130s for short runway takeoff, and they also have special equipment on it to stop on a dime. I know because I've been on one landing on a very short.

32:59 airstrip where I thought we were going to run off the end, and we did not. And it was very short. Kenneth Kloss, the manager of the airport at Alpine, a nearby town, said the landing strip is in the flight path of a low-level training route for C-130s outside of San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston. He said that on occasion, he'd be flying down a canyon taking pictures and suddenly find himself nose-to-nose with a C-130.

33:30 During the Contra affair, we had lots of C-130 activity in the air, he said. And then after it was over, it all slacked off. It didn't stop, but it got a lot less busy. Hakeem Jackson, a local Texas rancher, acknowledged that C-130 low-level training routes would be a good cover for contraband smuggling stuff in with C-130s.

34:03 He said, every now and then we'd see a C-130. They were all olive drab. So you never knew if they were Army or CIA. Now, let me just tell you, military aircraft is very distinguishable because they have the squadron, the base. They're very distinguishable. The CIA C-130s are not. They have no insignia on them at all.

34:33 You would definitely know, and there wasn't any C-130 bases around there. The training bases around there did not have C-130s, and that's primarily what the Air Force had around there, like at Lubbock and Del Rio. Those are all training bases. Michener and several area law enforcement officials said they thought the landing strip had been built by a rancher.

35:04 Eastern 200 feet of the strip does lay on land once owned by a Corpus Christi real estate development firm, which had been cutting up its ranch into smaller parcels and selling to investors. Officials of the company deny anything to do with the strip, particularly after being told that most of it lies on land owned by a Florida widow. That's interesting. Houston real estate investor Jack Modesik.

35:36 who had backed Ed Baker, the con man, allegedly burned to death in his Jaguar, had done business with Howard Pulver, headed the company that owned the ranch. So they're all connected to the mafia. Modestic, who is noted for teaching a popular adult Sunday school at the same church that all these other people go to, and whose father was in the oil business with Joseph Kennedy,

36:08 denied any knowledge of the landing strip. He is quoted as saying, there wasn't any strip around there that I knew about. Mosaset Company didn't buy the property around the landing strip until the 70s, but they owned it when it was being used by the CIA. Mosaset said, my involvement with the whole company ceased back in the 70s. However, in May of 81,

36:43 As company president, he signed a lease of a promissory note from the Pulver Group on a Houston condominium. Reminded of that, he said, oh, right, right, right. Yeah, I did have it back then. Published reports indicate that he was the president of the ranch company in the mid-1970s. And William McNair, who became president of the company after he left, said he severed

37:13 his relationship with the company in 75, and then came back in 1980, just before all the shit happened with Iran Contract. The author determined that the Big Bend area construction contractor, Sonny Stilwell, actually built the landing strip in 1975, while Mosissette was still there. Stilwell said he built it for a Houston man, but couldn't remember his name, but definitely said it was not Michener.

37:43 Stilwell said the Houston man and his partners were in the area trying to mine low-grade coal to make fertilizer. However, a local real estate man who identified Stilwell as the landing strip builder said the owners in the area was getting fill dirt for road construction, not mining equipment. Stilwell also said he never used the strip to fly into.

38:13 Ask about gun shipments into it. And he says, yeah, there was a bunch of that. They also had set up some kind of a hunting camp with high powered rifles, machine guns, shooting things up, you know, like a terrorist training camp. He said he couldn't remember who those people were though. So wait a minute, you're building a landing strip and you're watching people in a terrorist training camp.

38:43 And you have no idea who they are. Okay. Gene Wheaton, a former Pentagon criminal investigator, claims the landing strip was part of a nationwide private secret operation that trafficked guns and drugs to Central American mercenaries and created hitmen in the United States. Wheaton's name comes up a number of times in Oliver Norse diaries. At one time, he was apparently...

39:14 trying to work with Norse group and was going to arrange a delivery of some of the small planes. At a later date in the diary, he discusses as having a falling out with retired General Richard Secord, who headed up Norse resupply efforts for the Nicaraguan Contras. Wheaton said he was asked by North and Secord to participate in their secret operation. He said he declined.

39:43 when he found out the possible connections to drug smuggling. Later, he worked as a paid investigator for the Christic Institute, which sued a number of CIA-connected people, including Richard Secord, for their alleged involvement in the bombing in Nicaragua, where a Contra leader, Eden Pastora, was targeted and several journalists killed and injured. And remember, Eden Pastora...

40:11 They put a hit out on him because he was the good Contra that had all of the really good guys working for him, not the corrupt Somoza guys that came out of Nicaragua and was put over in all of the surrounding areas like Costa Rica. They were the guys that were lazy and were sucking up all the money from the CIA. Even Pastora had all the good fighters, but he refused to have anything to do and wanted none of the money that had to do with drugs.

40:41 And he wouldn't let his men, the real good guys, I mean, efficient, not like morally good, wouldn't let any of his good fighters fight with the corrupt former Samosan terrorist. So the CIA wanted him dead so they could steal all his men. The Christicks have lost most of their court fights in the lawsuit. A multimillion dollar judgment was rendered against them.

41:12 for even filing them. An IRS investigation into the nonprofit status of the organization was initiated as punishment. It appears the IRS is trying to place the tax liability of the contributions to the Christicks on the organization itself rather than the individuals. So they buried the one and only entity in the United States that tried to investigate Iran-Contra. Just a normal, everyday CIA operation.

41:43 Whedon said the landing strip near La Jeta was tied into another landing strip about 60 miles to the northeast on the Iron Mountain Ranch outside of Marathon, owned by Midland Oilman William Blakemore II. That guy was one of President George Bush's closest friends and a huge...

42:13 Contra supporter. Wheaton said the Iron Mountain Ranch was used as a transshipment point as well for guns and drugs and also as a paramilitary training base. What the heck, Texas? Remember in our previous CIA research, we found on the southeast edge of Texas,

42:43 is where they were doing all of the explosive trainings for the Cuban exiles that they were, they had C4 and everything. They were bringing in Latin American people from Operation Condor in the late 60s and 70s into this location as part of School of Americas down in Panama and teaching them how to blow shit up. All of this is going on in Texas. A West Texas law enforcement officer who works in the area confirmed.

43:16 They were performing paramilitary training there. They referred to him as UCLA's, the CIA's term for unilateral controlled Latin assets. They even had a name for him with an acronym. Blake Moore would not confirm the use of his ranch for paramilitary training or transshipment of guns. This is his quote. I have all kinds of relationships with the Army and the Air Force, but nothing on the illegal side.

43:51 Ask if he did anything for the CIA. He said, if I had, I obviously couldn't tell you. I have been associated with all branches of the military, some of it confidential. And of course, we know that the CIA uses the military contracting system to do that all the time. Remember our research into Otto Skorzeny, where they were using the Air Force logistics at the Pentagon to issue contracts for constructing bases in Spain?

44:22 which was under a fascist dictatorship at the time. And they were issuing the contracts for excessively overpriced because they were skimming money off the contracts to pay Otto Skorzeny for his training of Operation Gladio terrorists throughout Europe that were used for domestic terrorism in Europe by European governments, killing their own people. So this just kind of fits right the mold.

44:54 About the same time Michener was buying land around La Jitas in 1952, he and a partner, a lumberman by the name of Joe Youngs, Y-O-U-N-C-E, from North Carolina, bought two paper mills in Honduras, according to Michener. Michener said he traded his interest in the mills in 1954 to Dallas oilman Clint

45:22 Murchison Jr. for land. The times and place are intriguing. It was in 1952 that the CIA and United Fruit began to discuss seriously overthrowing Arbenz government in Guatemala. This included a visit and speech in Houston about Guatemala by United Fruit representatives. CIA training of rebel forces was done in Honduras and a CIA-led attack in 1954.

45:53 came from Honduras. So the implication is that they were training these people, some of them here, for a coup of Guatemala. CIA training for the coup was also done in Nicaragua with the Somoza government's approval. Michener acknowledged that he had met with Somoza when he was working in Latin America and did construction work.

46:33 What is a small-time, 30-year sewer contractor from Houston doing purchasing paper mills in Honduras and hobnobbing with the dictator Somoza of Nicaragua at the same time he's buying 26,000 acres on the border of Mexico? At that time in the early 50s, Michener was virtually a nobody. In 1952,

47:03 All he had was a tractor and two dump trucks. He was paving parking lots. That had to be fronting for something because he was getting lots of money. In a subsequent interview, Michener altered his story. He said it was not two paper mills, but a peckerwood sawmill in a small town outside of some Spanish name. I'll spell it.

47:35 T-E-G-U-C-I-G-A-L-P-A. I'm not even going to try to pronounce that. He also said he was partners with Houston attorney named Holman in addition to Younts. He also said he didn't invest any money. When asked about CIA activities in Honduras at the time, he replied, oh yeah, no, I never got involved with any of that stuff. But they were down there in Honduras.

48:05 Michener also added that his original investment in La Jitas and his partners with the Houston developer named Louis Tira, also with three other people. Michener then claimed that in 1952, he was doing about $25 million worth of business with his tractor and two trucks. When told that other people who knew him said he had nothing, he said, oh, no, no, I was beyond that. I had a lot of stuff then.

48:37 He did, but it wasn't from legitimate businesses. Michener's dealings with Clint Murchison Jr. in Honduras is also curious. Both Clint Sr. and his son were close to Carlos Marcelo, the mafia guy, and the CIA. The father had business interests in Haiti, and one of his employees who looked after these interests was none other than...

49:09 George DeMorgentile, Morgan Shield, sorry. You know, the CIA guy that Alan Dulles used as the main witness in the JFK assassination? That's St. George. That's interesting. CIA agent. Okay, you guys, you're not even going to believe this. Robert Cincy, the guy I just did the entire article on and talked about at length on Alpha Warrior Show.

49:48 is in this book too. CIA agent Robert Cincy testified in federal court in Washington, D.C. in 1987 that he worked with Clint Jr. on a CIA project in Sierra Leone to try to replace secret satellite tracking stations in Liberia. The CIA was concerned that it would lose valuable tracking stations

50:16 as a result of a military coup in 1980 by Sergeant Samuel Doe. The CIA also used Farhad Azizma and his Global International Airways to take Doe on a round trip around the world to curry favor with the new military dictator so that it could keep its tracking stations in Liberia.

50:46 Another CIA tie to Murchison and his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corp in Santa Monica, California. A journalist, Mary Frichter, said Murchison was a director of the company with Robert Nichols. Who's Robert Nichols? Oh, not really important. He's just an arms dealer and CIA asset. He also worked with Robert Mayhew.

51:16 Who's Robert Mayhew? We've talked about him a lot. He's the guy that was the right hand of Howard Hughes and was basically the CIA handler for Howard Hughes. He worked as the go-between between CIA, Mafia, and also attempted to use Costa Nostra members to assassinate Fidel Castro.

51:52 and her co-author reported in their book, Inside Job, that they were told by an informant that First Intercontinental Development was a proprietary for CIA activities abroad. As previously noted, in early 1980s, Murchison Jr. joined forces with Saudi Arabia financier and weapons dealer Aiden Khashoggi to try to buy

52:23 a 20-acre track of vacant land near the Galleria in Houston. That partnership split up in 1985, just days before Khashoggi put up $1 million to ship the first Iranian arms to Iran via Israel. So they sold all of this investment, guys. All of it is CIA dirty money.

52:52 These people are just fronts for this whole thing. So you sell a piece of property, you use the money, and you buy arms, you ship them overseas. Khashoggi also sold a track to Mainland Savings for a profit of a sweet $12 million. Also in 1986, Vision Bonk Savings, owned by Michener's ex-son-in-law, Robert Corson, made a loan to Belgium American Investments and Trading Company.

53:26 a Dallas-based company with affiliates in tax havens in the Netherlands, Attili's, to buy a piece of property in Dallas for Murchison's bankrupt estate from it. Herman Beebe also had, he's the mafia guy, also had a number of relationships with Clint Jr. Murchison was a big borrower from Beebe's bankrolled institutions. One of Beebe's top employees, Lou Ferris,

53:59 Left AMI, that's the umbrella company for BB, in 1973 and went to work for Clint Jr. and became his closest business associate. So he's mafia, CIA asset, doing business with Clint Mertenson Jr. Clint Jr. and Ferris borrowed $1.7 million from state savings and loan in Lubbock, Texas. It was a thrift owned by Tyrell Baker.

54:32 with financing from the mafia Herman Beebe. Barker went to federal prison for fraud at his savings and loan, the one we were just talking about. Ferris, Merchantson, and their companies also borrowed more than $10 million from InterWest Savings in Fort Worth, which lent money to other Beebe associates and was involved in a daisy chain lending scheme with several of Beebe's institutions.

55:03 including one transaction involving Bebe's partner, Albert Previtt, that began with Allied Bank, which is Michener's bank. This is all money laundering. Murchison eventually became directly involved in the financial industry. He purchased a bank, the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Bank, with financing arranged from Herman Bebe and the National Bank of Commerce in Dallas.

55:36 The Dallas Morning News reported that Beebe actually controlled Merchantson's bank and that the loans were passed back and forth between the banks and Beebe's Bossier Bank and Trust. Merchantson also borrowed $20 million from First South Savings in Little Rock, Arkansas, another dirty savings and loan that failed in 1986. It was also lent $16 million to Mike Adkinson.

56:03 who borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from these institutions connected to both Michener and Beebe. And we'll talk a little bit more about that later because that involves the $200 million land deal in Florida with the DuPonts. After Michener finished his business in Honduras, he severed his ties with his partner, Pat Harris, and established the Michener company by himself. He then took up with Houston home builder, Howard Terry, with whom he was still doing business.

56:35 Michener and Terry bought their first bank, First National Bank of San Antonio, for a million dollars in 1959. In 1962, they bought Continental Bank, which would be the foundation for Michener's banking empire, from a Texas oilman, Michael Holbody. That began a spree of bank buying and land development for Michener. That's where he created what is referred to as Houston Suite.

57:12 8F. That was in Lamar Hotel in downtown Houston, where the most powerful people in Houston met to play cards, drink, gossip, and decide what deals they were going to do. Michener was the youngest member of the group at the time and the last to join. In 8F, there were the Brown brothers, George and Herman, financial backers of LBJ, who owned the giant construction company.

57:42 that we all now affectionately call Brown and Root. Brown and Root of the military industrial complex, Brown and Root. In bed with the CIA, the mafia, and all of the people in the failed savings and loan debacle. Gus Wortham, an insurance king at AIG. And where did AIG come from? Oh, the CIA. The AIG.

58:13 was Star Insurance over in Asia prior to World War II. It is later Star Insurance transforms into AIG and it's connected to the mafia and the CIA. There was also Jesse Jones, Mr. Houston, a lumberman, banker, and publisher of the Houston Chronicle in bed with the CIA and the mafia.

58:45 He also headed Reconstruction Finance Corp for FDR. Isn't that sweet? It's such a small club. Judge James Elkins, who founded the law firm Vinson & Elkins and First City Bank in Houston. Occasionally, Oveta Culp Hobby, who was married to Texas Governor William Hobby, and Hobby Airport is named after him. They also owned...

59:18 The Houston Post. That's how you get the CIA control of media. Michener was especially close to Judge Elkins. Michener said he borrowed his first $1 million from Elkins in 1950s. And from then on, they maintained a close relationship with First City Bank and Vinson and Elkins, the law firm. He borrowed tens of millions of dollars from First City.

59:48 to finance his real estate development activities and used Vincent and Elkins for legal representation. When the Herman Hospital estate scandal broke with Michener's only son in the middle of it, Vincent and Elkins was brought in for damage control. There is a company outside of Washington, D.C. that's called Parvus Company, P-A-R-V-U-S. It was established in 1984 and made up almost exclusively of

1:00:17 retired CIA officials, and other intelligence and military people. Its stated purpose is to provide its clients with special response to information needs at home and abroad, security threats and vulnerability, problems with political, business, and security crisis, requirements for discreet assistance in protecting business interests overseas. One might parlay that into, if you need a Gladio unit somewhere, these are your guys to call.

1:00:47 because it gives the CIA plausible deniability, even though they're actually running this as a front company. Harvest's advisory board reads like the hoo-hoo of the American Intelligence Corporation, including Chairman Richard Helms, James Lear, who was the director of security for the NSA, and Lieutenant General James Williams, former director of DIA. So you've got all your bases covered.

1:01:19 Parvis was also named by former Pentagon investigator Gene Wheaton and former CIA officer Bruce Hemings as being a CIA proprietary. There is one advisory director, though, who sticks out like a sore thumb because there is no ostensible ties to him that ties to him. He is Theodore Dimitri, who is listed in Parvis's literature as merely an attorney in Houston. In fact, Dimitri.

1:01:50 was a partner at Vinson & Elkins. His specialty was maritime law. The only time Dimitri has ever appeared in articles in the Houston Post was as an attorney for SEDCO, S-E-D-C-O, former Texas Governor Bill Clements Oil Company, when it was involved in litigation about an oil spill.

1:02:17 Michener by himself didn't really belong to the 8F group in the 1950s. He belonged later. In 1985, he was voted on to the Texas Business Hall of Fame along with Gus Wortham and Dallas mega developer Tramwell Crow. There were many other men in Houston who were not members, who were much richer, smarter, and more powerful. But Michener plus the CIA plus the mafia was how you got a ticket into the room.

1:02:49 That's the end of the chapter. So with that one, we tied a whole bunch of our former studies in to show you that the failed savings in loan is nothing other than another CIA operation. SR, are you there? Yes, ma'am. I'm here. I'm sorry. That's okay. I thought I gave you a heart attack.

1:03:28 Oh, you didn't give me a heart attack. Sort of some of the stuff I just found on Sweet AF. I'll post it in the pill. Let's just put it that way. But I'm sitting here listening to what's going on here and all these people. Billie Jean Garman herself is a character in a hat. She wasn't.

1:03:59 Indicted or sentenced. Until she was 72 years old. When they finally caught her in Utah. In Utah. Why does Utah keep coming up? That's a good question. Her son. Died of an overdose. In a motel room. The day before he's supposed to. Appear for trial. Isn't that weird? That's interesting. She was sentenced.

1:04:31 to, I think, eight years in prison or six years in prison and a $96 million fine. Of course, she didn't pay the fine, but it took them that long just to get to her. Well, kind of. I mean, obviously, yeah, they could have got to her a lot sooner, but, you know, at some point they get forced into having to take action.

1:05:03 Because the information becomes overwhelming and people demand it at some point. But yeah, there's a lot more on her, which is why I went ahead and went into some detail about her early life so that you can put it in context. She shows up quite a bit in the next few chapters. Yeah, it's crazy. I don't doubt that she's going to show up a lot more.

1:05:33 She doesn't get away to live 80 some odd years old before she passes away and not keep in the game. Yeah, and they have a very strange relationship. I mean, like kind of what we would refer to today as like the beta male with his mommy. You're going to see that throughout the rest of this book. It's a very weird, weird relationship for the bully. So anyway.

1:06:05 I just found all of that very, very interesting. We've set the stage for where they're doing the operations in West Texas, the focal point of Houston. And now you guys can understand when I was researching Sensei, having already read this book, the fact that I found that company in Jacksonville, whose registered agent was in Houston, my antennas immediately went up because then I had confirmed.

1:06:34 Even before I found Sensei's wife involved in the whole thing, I had confirmed what I knew to be true, that Sensei was still actively involved in this whole operation. And his indictment along with the DEA guy this past week is very, very interesting. Because again, most people will not get or understand the significance.

1:07:03 of Robert Sensei being picked up. He has history through all of this nefarious shit. And I just see a cleaning operation that most people will not appreciate. They have no clue what's going on on the underneath side because they don't know who any of these people are. Us in our small little group knows who all of these people are and the importance of getting them off the streets.

1:07:34 So while everybody else is out there screaming no accountability, we know the exact opposite is happening in real life because we put the hard work into researching this entire network. One of the things I found about Suite 8F, Colonel, that got me was it was leased by George Brown, who is a co-founder of the construction firm Brown & Root. Yep.

1:08:06 which later became part of all things Halliburton. Yep. And that's where Dick Cheney comes in. And now you know why. Yeah. And now you know why Dick Cheney's in the club. Yep. Absolutely. And if you do the research on Brown and Root, it'll blow your mind. They are basically another, and I'm not saying they're not a legitimate business, but they embedded CIA people because they are an international construction company.

1:08:43 provided the perfect cover for CIA to gain intelligence all over the world about the capacity, about the capabilities of foreign governments, where they were spending their money. Because when you're a Brown and Maroot and eventually Halliburton executive, you travel the world. You talk to all of the people of consequence in

1:09:10 the companies or the countries goings on. So they provide vital intelligence and you go into their favorite word label to use of this office is global security. Because of course, if you have a large construction site in a foreign country, you have to have security for the site while you're there. Those are generally staffed with CIA active agents, not assets, active agents.

1:09:40 And they are in there to do the snooping under the guise of working for an international conglomerate. That's another pattern that I've noticed. Go ahead, SR. We do have a question over on Rumble. Okay, what is it? From Misbehaving Irishman. What is the question?

1:10:16 He wants to know, are you ever going to get into the bush compound in Paraguay that's on top of an aquifer? It's got to be the ultimate bolt hole. So we've actually talked about that a lot, actually. When we first did our Around the World tour and we were talking about Operation Condor, when we got to Iroquois and Paraguay,

1:10:45 we discovered the Paraguay ranch that was there. And the co-located Unification Church, which is like three times as big as the one the Bush daughter bought in Paraguay. As equally, if not more interesting to me.

1:11:12 was the Unification Church being down there. That's Reverend Moon. His entire organization, he has, that church owns a weapons manufacturing plant in South Korea. So it's crazy, the connection. They teach their church members, they have like a covert element of the Unification Church that are paramilitary that form their basic gladio structure in South Korea.

1:11:41 Their operation down there in the northern area of Paraguay sits adjacent to the property that the Bush daughter bought in Paraguay. And yes, according to the research that we did back then, there are landing strips. It does appear to be something very similar to what they set up in Texas, which of course is where Bush.

1:12:07 lived for a while and George Bush lived there for a long while, still lives there. So they basically kind of mimic the operation that we just described in Paraguay. For those of you who has joined us in the last several months and weren't around during that time, yeah, we've talked a lot about that. Let's see, Dawn wanted a mic. What you got, Dawn? Dawn, did you have a question?

1:12:49 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. My mic was off. I've been listening for a while, but I didn't catch what book you guys are referring to. The name of the book that we're reading is the Mafia CIA and George Bush. Mafia CIA. Okay. Oh, that's okay. That's what's in the title. Yeah. Sorry about that. I wasn't sure if that was the name of the book or not. Yes, it is. You're doing an excellent job. Thank you very much. Thank you, Dawn. Renee, go ahead. Okay.

1:13:18 Hey, everybody. Hey, Colonel. Regarding landing strips, how easy is it within a state, you know, it sounds like Texas has an abundance of private landing strips, you know, with all these cattle ranchers, oil families, yada, yada, and how much...

1:13:44 Is it a state thing or a national thing of monitoring what goes in and out of these landing strips, private landing strips? So it's like a dual authority. I mean, if the feds actually cared about drug trafficking, they'd be all over this. They don't. It's not that SOUTHCOM does not track these aircraft out of Latin America.

1:14:13 As I have said many, many times, the satellite capability of monitoring this is there. They just have to want to use it. And then you have to get the agencies like the DEA and ATF, which we know is dirty, to actually act on the information. Because in all of these COCOMs, especially Southcom and now Northcom,

1:14:41 Because it deals with Homeland America, they have, like at CENTCOM, we had an FBI and a CIA guy attached to CENTCOM. It's not that they don't know this information. It's they're not going to act on the information that they know because they're actively involved in it, as just was illustrated with the arrest of the DEA guy.

1:15:08 supposedly in charge of money laundering that was money laundering. So there's a federal role in it. But even if the feds didn't want to do anything, the state has complete authority to do anything that they want to do to stage a bus. They could have used the Texas Rangers. Then you have to ask yourself why they didn't. Well, I just explained to you that half of these people are related.

1:15:36 to the people that end up, I mean, for God's sake, they had George Bush as their fucking governor. And he was all in it. His brother was the banker guy down in Venezuela that was money laundering for him. So you have to actually want to do something, but you have a dual authority there. The feds can bust anybody anywhere for bringing drugs into the country. They just don't, or they didn't. And the same is true with the state.

1:16:05 But if your entire state is corrupt, then, and it doesn't matter if it's run by Republicans or Democrats, as we've all acknowledged, they're all the same. They're all in on it. Does that answer your question? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. I mean, it makes one wonder how much longer Dallas Airport will have the name Dulles on it after all this goes down. I have said that repeatedly. I don't know why.

1:16:37 That still is named Dulles Airport. I have no idea. Those two brothers and their sister, which no one ever talks about, Eleanor, who ran the belly button in the State Department for the CIA into the State Department while one brother was the Secretary of State and the other brother was the CIA. She was the belly button between the two. No one ever talks about her. That airport is emblematic of...

1:17:06 All of Operation Gladio in a nutshell. Yeah. You're so mad. Go ahead. I wanted to talk a little bit more on the private air airports or airlines or private flight lines. OK, it's really also not that hard to fly things in and and do whatever. I mean, you can pay anybody off.

1:17:38 And some of them literally do not. I don't know how to put this. I think that it's really easy to turn off transponders if you know what you're doing. That's what I'm telling you. That doesn't matter anymore. The technology that we have, we still can see these airplanes. It's a matter of if the state's corrupt or not. And I absolutely think that there are still a lot of things going on in small airports.

1:18:07 And certain places in the south that are at least being watched for now. And I still see a lot. The small airports around southern Florida, although this book does not talk about them, are just as active, was just as active during this time frame that we're talking about as the ones in Texas. Apalaca, all of those down there.

1:18:34 Because you had the Cuban exiles and they were flying in from Columbia directly into the United States in southern Florida and passing off the drugs to the Cuban exile network that got them to the mafia that got them out on the streets. So absolutely. But at this point, I'm probably going to say something that that's probably going to bite me in the butt later. But I think that people need to look in some small places in Alabama.

1:19:02 Alabama is one of the worst. What book was it that we were reading? That was Gary Webb's book that talked about the guy that came set up shop next to the neighbors and the FBI all was hanging out at the neighbors because he was building an airstrip. Yes, Alabama is just as bad. Louisiana is bad.

1:19:23 That's where we found that David Ferrari. They go in and they hide out in the Civil Air Patrol squadrons around the United States at small airports under the guise of teaching youth how to fly.

1:19:38 they're flying these operations out of these small airports. And it's not just in the South, by the way. Go to Rickenbacker Airport in Ohio. That's where Les Wexner was flying jumbo jets of shit to Asia and all over. Arms, weapons out of these.

1:19:58 the customs gave them their own customs they didn't even have to go through normal customs clearance to fly international so all you have to do is buy off the customs guy that's assigned to your customs and you know they're going to sign you a dirty customs guy that's already on the payroll and you're flying shit in and out of the country um with every type of approval that you need yep and i've seen the same stuff in montana too so it's

1:20:27 It's like anywhere that they can get away with it, they will. Yep, absolutely. All right. And that's, again, I know I keep saying this, but that's why it's so important to go through all of these books collectively so that we have all of this data that even if you suspect one of the authors may be off on a limb somewhere, you can verify the information because it coalesces around another book that we've read. So you can quickly identify.

1:21:00 the outliers or add a new piece to the puzzle as we did with this with Belize. And I just think what we're doing right now is so important in laying that map out and understanding what is going on today. And that's the reason why I don't ever get depressed. I don't ever get caught up in all the emotional garbage that goes on every day because I see clearly

1:21:29 exactly what's happening because we have this foundation of knowledge and facts about what the network looks like and can see it being disassembled in real time. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. If anything, this book is giving new meaning to the slogan, don't mess with Texas. I don't know. I think we need to mess with Texas. I also want to bring up the interview that you did with TPC.

1:21:59 I don't know if anybody else here has watched that interview or that YouTube session, but it is excellent. You'll come away with a different way of thinking. I certainly did.

1:22:16 concerning today's digital warriors. Yeah, thank you. I really appreciated that. Yeah, Tommy Podcast. Those are some big brain guys. And I'm honored to be on with them. They are very, very good at what they do. Blaine Holt, who is the Brigadier General that's on there with us and EM.

1:22:40 They're just amazing people. And I'm honored that they invited me on. Our next one will be in January. We're going to make that a regular kind of brainstorming session with the four of us. So yeah, thank you for saying that, SR. I really enjoyed it. Renee, go ahead.

1:23:01 Yes, thank you. I caught it as well and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've watched the two of them that you are on so far. But my question was, I was a little confused. Is it a recording or it's live? Because when you said it was on at 10. Yeah, it's a recording.

1:23:19 Uh, okay. Yeah. That was my looking all over the live for live and I was confused. I couldn't find it. That was my mistake. Um, I didn't realize, cause again, this was only our second one. He actually records them and then shortly after that post them once he's able to put all of his stuff on it. Um, so yeah, we record them over zoom and then, um, he posts them almost immediately. Some of the interviews I've done like with, um, Oh, what was the lady's name?

1:23:49 She waited several days to post them. So everybody does it differently. Some are live. So I've set up a few more. One's in January. Obviously, people, through my appearance on Redacted, after the last show that I was on, I've been on there. That was the third time this week that I've been on.

1:24:14 I said that wrong. I've been on Redacted three times. One was a long form interview and then I had made an appearance one other time. And then this week I was on there. And every time that happens, I do have someone new seeing that for the first time and will reach out and ask to have me on a radio show or something. And it was funny, you guys, if you haven't watched the Alpha Warrior show last night, that...

1:24:42 Ken Kahn was busy doing something at work or at his house doing research or whatever. And he just had redacted on in the background. And he was like, hey, I know that voice. You know, because that was kind of a short notice request for me to come on and talk. And so it was kind of funny. He texted me. He's like, hey, I just saw you on redacted. So that was kind of funny. But anyway, Alicia, go ahead.

1:25:13 Hi. Yeah, thank you for letting me speak. I just had a question. So a couple of locations in this chapter really piqued my interest, and I haven't been following y'all very long. I actually just noticed I was reading this book, and I actually already happen to be reading it myself. Awesome. And I was able to open it up and follow along. Lubbock and Galveston in particular I find intriguing, like the connection back to the 30s mafia there.

1:25:42 And and and I don't know if you said the person's name that is quoted here, but that he says, I don't know what's the mafia. I never. What is that? I've never seen the word mafia used, though. That's the first I've ever heard the word mafia, which, you know, they're lying.

1:25:59 Yeah, I know for a fact he's lying. Because I've been to that area. My grandparents used to hang out there a lot back in the day. And my grandmother, when she was older, she knew all of this stuff. And she was very good at two-shoes. It was an open secret. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's like, of course he's lying. And I find it very concerning that that...

1:26:27 the person who said that is, is very active in our government right now. And is, is, is, you know, he's, he's, you know, representing us as a, as a foreign dignitary right now in another country. And at the same time that that's happening, there's a big push for, for gambling to come back to Texas right now. And a lot of money has been poured into it. And I hadn't realized that this was a fight that they'd already fought, fought like back, you know, in the sixties.

1:26:55 So it's almost like deja vu in a little ways. And so I was curious if you had any more insight into that ring of things, that area, and also the Lubbock connection I find very interesting as well. There's been a lot of politics in Texas, and again, more open secrets and all that. There's been a lot of division in Texas politics, especially in the Republican Party, because...

1:27:25 of very similar escapades as what we're reading in this chapter, but with a whole new set of people that I am now wondering if there's a connection. Well, they're probably children of these people.

1:27:39 Could very well be true. And I'm having to rethink, like, well, my connections throughout life. But I'm just curious if you had any insight on those areas beyond this or if there's any other. Galveston is more of a place where these people lived as opposed to where they did operations. Houston is the one that comes up the most often in my research. Not that Galveston.

1:28:06 I know that they have a lot of big houses there and I find a lot of them living in that area. I don't find a lot of them actually doing meeting and business deals. Most of those in all of the research I've done is conducted in Houston. And I don't know if it's because they just generically say Houston as opposed to Galveston, but because of the close proximity. As far as Lubbock goes, what I have been greatly disturbed.

1:28:35 of in all of these research projects that I've done on this particular topic is the use of Air Force bases. And for those of you who don't know, Lubbock used to have Reese Air Force Base. And before they started creating all of these private strips for landing, a lot of the operational aspects of this was done

1:29:01 on military bases. You guys have heard me say many times in these stories of them flying into Homestead Air Force Base down in Miami. And that's generally because the Air Force bases are kind of located just outside of town. And of course, because of the security and anybody that shows up with a federal badge is going to be given deference so that they were able to operate on active.

1:29:26 air force bases and you know we did the chat the show with alpha about the guard guys um bringing their drug aircraft actually onto the guard base and doing repairs on them at government expense they were fueling these drugs um uh planes

1:29:48 That was under that family. Their names escape me right now, but it was a brother of five that was originally from Mexico that one of them had become a colonel in a very high position on a drug task force for the state of Texas. And they were actually using military vehicles to move drugs around. So yeah, lots of crazy crap.

1:30:11 But it wouldn't surprise me. I had a friend, like my best friend, from my first duty station. His follow-on after we were instructors together in Illinois was Lubbock. So I went down there a couple of times. I don't know a lot about that area, but that wouldn't surprise me at all because of that base that was down there, that there wasn't a lot of this nefarious stuff going on down there as well. Anybody else got anything?

1:30:48 Oh, and sorry, I got kicked out for a second, but thank you for that. Sure. It's making a lot of dots connect to my brain. Yep. There's a lot of patterns out there. And once you see them that we have, since you're new, I'll tell you this. We have a saying here that, because I do this all under the banner of Operation Gladio, although not all of it is specifically Operation Gladio.

1:31:15 We talk about wearing our Gladio glasses because once you understand these operations and how they are conducted, you can't not see the patterns. And so we all now have Gladio glasses on full time now. We see everything through that lens and it really does make the world make a lot more sense once you understand what's going on.

1:31:41 And that none of the operations that has happened prior to, because a lot of them was still happening during Trump's first term because he didn't have control of all of the agencies. Obviously, shutting USAID down helps tremendously in lassoing in this monster.

1:32:03 But there's still a lot of nefarious things. I still think there's a lot of nefarious people in the CIA. Do I believe Ratcliffe is one of them? No, I do not. And I think there's a lot of... But in the past, what has happened, and you just saw it with this, there are proprietary companies that the CIA has set up and has used for decades that even when people...

1:32:28 quote unquote, retire from the CIA, they can still be on this illicit payroll because they have what probably at this point amounts to trillions of dollars in offshore bank accounts to pay people to continue these operations, even though they're no longer checking in every day at Langley. And I think that starting in 2017 and throughout the period when Trump was not in office,

1:32:53 There was a lot of effort put into tracking all of these networks. Do I think they're going to get them all? I hope so. But I think they're going to get enough of them that once the heads get chopped off, the rooting out of the underbelly of the organizations that have been set up and mapped, because everything that they've ever set up to track us is tracking them now.

1:33:19 And that's why I'm very optimistic about the ability that they are able to map all of this. And just the picking up of this DEA guy, it just, and Sensei, again, it just is like a shot in the arm of vitamin C to me because it tells me that they have in fact mapped these things out. So I'm very optimistic.

1:33:49 And one last question, sorry, but the landing strips idea, you mentioned El Paso. Do you think that there was about a year ago, a major cartel's child was arrested at one such landing strip, kind of in the middle of nowhere, like very similar description to what this is. Yes, yes. You think that was connected to this? Yes, I do. Okay, thank you. Absolutely.

1:34:18 And again, you take all of those things that just appear in one blip in a news cycle. For us, it's not a blip in a news cycle. It's a no that's been taken out. For everybody else who doesn't see the big picture, it's easy to get lost in all of the news cycles.

1:34:41 And we try to stay at the 30,000 foot look and see all of the checkers on the board. And they are definitely getting taken off the board. Well, I will say, I told Pete y'all were covering his book and he was so shocked. He was like, what? People are reading my book? So just.

1:35:03 Good stuff. Well, I hope we're doing it justice. As a matter of fact, at the end of this, we talked about that with Illini. I would love to have him and do a show with him. I can try. He is very, how do I put this? Not an isolationist, but he's very humble. We'll put it that way. Last time I asked, he said that he put all of his knowledge in that book. And I was like, no, you did not. I know you did not.

1:35:33 Because he's got a wealth of knowledge and just how he tracked everything down. Well, since he knows about Robert Sensei, I would love for him to watch the show I did last night with Alpha Warrior. I would love for him to see the work that he's done being picked up by people like me and carried to the next level. I think it would...

1:35:59 be kind of a shot in the arm for him. Um, because if people like him had not done all of this work, we would still be in the dark. Oh yeah. I, and I, you know, I, he tried to teach me all this like 10 years ago and I was just much too young to, to understand. Like I was still trying to, no, I don't want to learn anything bad about the bushes. Like just so, you know, still young and innocent, you know? And so I called him the other day. I was like, you're right. I should have paid attention. I'm sorry.

1:36:30 Yep. We should have all paid attention. But I'll reach out to you and see if I can cook some out. And I'll send the link to your show from yesterday. Yeah, it probably wouldn't be until January because I think it's probably going to take us. I mean, I know everybody's busy with the holidays. It's probably going to take us another week or so to get through the book. And then, you know, I would love to be able to let everybody.

1:36:58 um thank him in person um to be able to um know that his work is being carried on and used by all of us now to see all of the pieces he's gonna love that because he always hoped that someone would so yep good days thank you you're welcome all right guys we're gonna um close up shop today i will see you back tomorrow and um let me

1:37:28 Check my calendar. It's been so busy. All right, so I am doing a radio show that I just put on the schedule. If I figure out all of it, it's a live radio show. If I find out where it's being played and on what forum, I will shoot it out in a post. It's at 10.30 tomorrow morning. I've never been on that radio show, so that'll be a new one. And then our four o'clock show tomorrow.

1:37:59 So I will see you guys tomorrow at either 1030 or four o'clock, whichever. Thank you guys for being here. Have a nice evening.

Entities here

CIA28 Robert Corson19 Walter Mischer15 Richard Benenke13 William Michener13 Houston10 Operation Gladio10 Texas10 Clint Murchison9 Lajitas7 United States7 Tosh Plumlee7 George H.W. Bush7 Ron Martin6 Billie Jean Banks6 Lubbock6 Drug Trafficking Operations6 Tiny Rowland5 Adnan Khashoggi5 Rio Grande do Sul5 Herman Beebe5 Gene Wheaton5 Paula Michener5 Robert Sensi5 Suite 8F Group4 Allied Bank4 Brown and Root4 Vinson & Elkins4 Oliver North4 Miami4 Florida4 Robert Cinci4 Iran-Contra3 Galveston3 Loho PLC3 Las Vegas3 Spain3 Christic Institute3 DEA3 Colombia3

Claims made here

Billie Jean Banks married Robert Corson book_quoted ▶ 2:14

“Her name is Billie Jean Banks. And throughout this story, she's going to be referred to as BJ. So she ends up, according to some accounts, being married as many times as eight different times. So one …”

Robert Corson married Paula Michener book_quoted ▶ 5:31

“Back in 1964, Corson was 17 and chasing after a 16-year-old girl. His mother had found her and was pushing her son towards her. She was all he could talk about during the summer. Just after he turned …”

Walter Mischer funded Robert Corson book_quoted ▶ 7:04

“After Michener tracked down Paula and Corson living in Nevada in early 1965, several months after they had eloped to Mexico, he brought them back to Houston, where Corson was put into the real estate …”

Walter Mischer secretly_owned Lajitas book_quoted ▶ 11:59

“Michener started out with 26,000 acres and eventually bought the entire town. About the only living thing around the area in 1952 were a few ranchers, prospectors, and an occasional tourist or two. Th…”

Robert Anderson member_of Atlantic Richfield Company book_quoted ▶ 14:10

“CIA contract pilots and law enforcement officers have said he controlled the landing strip. Michener and former Atlantic Richfield chairman Robert Anderson own more than 200,000 acres to the west of t…”

Robert Anderson member_of First National Bank of Chicago book_quoted ▶ 14:40

“on oil in the ground. At First National Bank of Chicago, which also happens to be dual-hatted as one of the favorite lending institutions of the CIA. It was a big mafia bank as well. In 1986, after An…”

Tiny Rowland member_of Loho PLC book_quoted ▶ 14:40

Adnan Khashoggi provided_bridge_financing_for Iran hostage crisis book_quoted ▶ 15:12

“Loho PLC. That stands for London Rhodesia. Rowland is a close associate of Adan Khashoggi, the famous weapons dealer, who had approached Rowland to help in the bridge financing of the Iranian arms for…”

Tiny Rowland member_of Reagan administration book_quoted ▶ 16:42

“Roland's connections to the Reagan administration are impressive. In June of 1981, his pilot was arrested in Houston for illegal possession of and importation of AK-47 rifles while flying Roland and h…”

Richard Benenke exposed October Surprise 1980 book_quoted ▶ 21:45

“Beneke was one of the first people to talk publicly about the October surprise, the trips that members of the Reagan team made in order to cut a deal with the Iranians to hold the American hostages un…”

Richard Benenke spied_on Lajitas book_quoted ▶ 22:58

“Benake said that he flew into Texas landing strip in the early 1980s with some Colombian and Panamanian associates of the Medellin drug cartel. He said they told him the landing strip was Walter Miche…”

Tosh Plumlee carried_out_attack Operation Mongoose book_quoted ▶ 24:30

“Plumlee is named in several books and articles about the Contra affair, but is only identified by his mysterious pilot name, Tosh, T-O-S-H. In the 1982 book, The Fish is Red, he is identified, althoug…”

Ron Martin supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted ▶ 25:34

“Ron Martin, a Miami gun dealer, and James McCoy, the former military attache at the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua and a friend of Somoza, were partners in an arms company that supplied weapons to the Cont…”

Robert Corson member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 26:32

“Spain was using the Canary Islands for Operation Gladio and their aquatic training for sea operations conducted on the Canary Islands where we find Martin and Robert Corson all at the same time. That …”

Ron Martin member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 26:32

Ron Martin financed_via Allied Bank book_quoted ▶ 27:07

“Miami, Martin's wife alleged that he owned a Hi-Li Fontan in Spain. Benake also said that in mid-1990s, Martin borrowed money from Michener's bank to buy guns for Chile. Mid-1970s, where's Illini? Wha…”

Walter Mischer secretly_owned Belize book_quoted ▶ 28:40

“Attorney S. Cass Weiland is in the middle of an unidentified White House project in Belize, where Michener and his partners owned 700,000 acres. Huh. So they were using this money to build terror trai…”

Jack Modesik member_of Corpus Christi real estate development firm book_quoted ▶ 35:04

“Eastern 200 feet of the strip does lay on land once owned by a Corpus Christi real estate development firm, which had been cutting up its ranch into smaller parcels and selling to investors. Officials…”

Mosaset Company owned William Michener host_asserted ▶ 36:08

“denied any knowledge of the landing strip. He is quoted as saying, there wasn't any strip around there that I knew about. Mosaset Company didn't buy the property around the landing strip until the 70s…”

William McNair succeeded William Michener host_asserted ▶ 36:43

“As company president, he signed a lease of a promissory note from the Pulver Group on a Houston condominium. Reminded of that, he said, oh, right, right, right. Yeah, I did have it back then. Publishe…”

William Michener headed Mosaset Company host_asserted ▶ 36:43

Sonny Stilwell carried_out_attack Iron Mountain Ranch book_quoted ▶ 37:13

“his relationship with the company in 75, and then came back in 1980, just before all the shit happened with Iran Contract. The author determined that the Big Bend area construction contractor, Sonny S…”

Gene Wheaton member_of Oliver North host_asserted ▶ 38:43

“And you have no idea who they are. Okay. Gene Wheaton, a former Pentagon criminal investigator, claims the landing strip was part of a nationwide private secret operation that trafficked guns and drug…”

Gene Wheaton spied_on Iron Mountain Ranch host_asserted ▶ 38:43

Oliver North recruited Gene Wheaton host_asserted ▶ 39:14

“trying to work with Norse group and was going to arrange a delivery of some of the small planes. At a later date in the diary, he discusses as having a falling out with retired General Richard Secord,…”

Richard Secord headed Oliver North host_asserted ▶ 39:14

Christic Institute exposed Richard Secord host_asserted ▶ 39:43

“when he found out the possible connections to drug smuggling. Later, he worked as a paid investigator for the Christic Institute, which sued a number of CIA-connected people, including Richard Secord,…”

CIA ordered_assassination_of Eden Pastora host_asserted ▶ 40:41

“And he wouldn't let his men, the real good guys, I mean, efficient, not like morally good, wouldn't let any of his good fighters fight with the corrupt former Samosan terrorist. So the CIA wanted him …”

William Blakemore owned Iron Mountain Ranch host_asserted ▶ 41:43

“Whedon said the landing strip near La Jeta was tied into another landing strip about 60 miles to the northeast on the Iron Mountain Ranch outside of Marathon, owned by Midland Oilman William Blakemore…”

CIA trained Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 44:22

“which was under a fascist dictatorship at the time. And they were issuing the contracts for excessively overpriced because they were skimming money off the contracts to pay Otto Skorzeny for his train…”

William Michener member_of Joe Youngs host_asserted ▶ 44:54

“About the same time Michener was buying land around La Jitas in 1952, he and a partner, a lumberman by the name of Joe Youngs, Y-O-U-N-C-E, from North Carolina, bought two paper mills in Honduras, acc…”

William Michener traded_network_to Clint Murchison host_asserted ▶ 44:54

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Jacobo Árbenz host_asserted ▶ 45:22

“Murchison Jr. for land. The times and place are intriguing. It was in 1952 that the CIA and United Fruit began to discuss seriously overthrowing Arbenz government in Guatemala. This included a visit a…”

William Michener member_of Anastasio Somoza host_asserted ▶ 45:53

“came from Honduras. So the implication is that they were training these people, some of them here, for a coup of Guatemala. CIA training for the coup was also done in Nicaragua with the Somoza governm…”

William Michener member_of Ned Holman host_asserted ▶ 47:35

“T-E-G-U-C-I-G-A-L-P-A. I'm not even going to try to pronounce that. He also said he was partners with Houston attorney named Holman in addition to Younts. He also said he didn't invest any money. When…”

William Michener member_of Louis Tira host_asserted ▶ 48:05

“Michener also added that his original investment in La Jitas and his partners with the Houston developer named Louis Tira, also with three other people. Michener then claimed that in 1952, he was doin…”

Clint Murchison member_of Carlos Marcello host_asserted ▶ 48:37

“He did, but it wasn't from legitimate businesses. Michener's dealings with Clint Murchison Jr. in Honduras is also curious. Both Clint Sr. and his son were close to Carlos Marcelo, the mafia guy, and …”

George de Mohrenschildt member_of Clint Murchison host_asserted ▶ 48:37

Allen Dulles recruited George de Mohrenschildt host_asserted ▶ 49:09

“George DeMorgentile, Morgan Shield, sorry. You know, the CIA guy that Alan Dulles used as the main witness in the JFK assassination? That's St. George. That's interesting. CIA agent. Okay, you guys, y…”

Robert Cinci member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 49:48

“is in this book too. CIA agent Robert Cincy testified in federal court in Washington, D.C. in 1987 that he worked with Clint Jr. on a CIA project in Sierra Leone to try to replace secret satellite tra…”

Robert Cinci member_of Clint Murchison host_asserted ▶ 49:48

CIA paid Farhad Azima host_asserted ▶ 50:16

“as a result of a military coup in 1980 by Sergeant Samuel Doe. The CIA also used Farhad Azizma and his Global International Airways to take Doe on a round trip around the world to curry favor with the…”

Clint Murchison member_of First Intercontinental Development Corp host_asserted ▶ 50:46

“Another CIA tie to Murchison and his connection to First Intercontinental Development Corp in Santa Monica, California. A journalist, Mary Frichter, said Murchison was a director of the company with R…”

Robert Maheu attempted_assassination_of Fidel Castro host_asserted ▶ 51:16

“Who's Robert Mayhew? We've talked about him a lot. He's the guy that was the right hand of Howard Hughes and was basically the CIA handler for Howard Hughes. He worked as the go-between between CIA, M…”

Robert Maheu member_of Howard Hughes host_asserted ▶ 51:16

Clint Murchison member_of Adnan Khashoggi host_asserted ▶ 51:52

“and her co-author reported in their book, Inside Job, that they were told by an informant that First Intercontinental Development was a proprietary for CIA activities abroad. As previously noted, in e…”

First Intercontinental Development Corp front_for CIA book_quoted ▶ 51:52

Adnan Khashoggi paid Mainland Savings host_asserted ▶ 52:52

“These people are just fronts for this whole thing. So you sell a piece of property, you use the money, and you buy arms, you ship them overseas. Khashoggi also sold a track to Mainland Savings for a p…”

Vision Banc Savings financed_via Belgium American Investments and Trading Company host_asserted ▶ 52:52

Clint Murchison member_of Herman Beebe host_asserted ▶ 53:26

“a Dallas-based company with affiliates in tax havens in the Netherlands, Attili's, to buy a piece of property in Dallas for Murchison's bankrupt estate from it. Herman Beebe also had, he's the mafia g…”

Clint Murchison financed_via Austin Savings and Loan host_asserted ▶ 53:59

“Left AMI, that's the umbrella company for BB, in 1973 and went to work for Clint Jr. and became his closest business associate. So he's mafia, CIA asset, doing business with Clint Mertenson Jr. Clint …”

Lou Ferris member_of Clint Murchison host_asserted ▶ 53:59

Tyrell Barker owned Austin Savings and Loan host_asserted ▶ 53:59

Clint Murchison financed_via InterWest Savings host_asserted ▶ 54:32

“with financing from the mafia Herman Beebe. Barker went to federal prison for fraud at his savings and loan, the one we were just talking about. Ferris, Merchantson, and their companies also borrowed …”

Herman Beebe financed_via Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Bank host_asserted ▶ 55:03

“including one transaction involving Bebe's partner, Albert Previtt, that began with Allied Bank, which is Michener's bank. This is all money laundering. Murchison eventually became directly involved i…”

Clint Murchison financed_via Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Bank host_asserted ▶ 55:03

Herman Beebe controlled Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Bank host_asserted ▶ 55:36

“The Dallas Morning News reported that Beebe actually controlled Merchantson's bank and that the loans were passed back and forth between the banks and Beebe's Bossier Bank and Trust. Merchantson also …”

Clint Murchison financed_via First South Savings host_asserted ▶ 55:36

First South Savings financed_via Mike Adkinson host_asserted ▶ 55:36

William Michener member_of Howard Terry host_asserted ▶ 56:03

“who borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from these institutions connected to both Michener and Beebe. And we'll talk a little bit more about that later because that involves the $200 million land…”

William Michener member_of Pat Harris host_asserted ▶ 56:03

William Michener owned Continental National Bank host_asserted ▶ 56:35

“Michener and Terry bought their first bank, First National Bank of San Antonio, for a million dollars in 1959. In 1962, they bought Continental Bank, which would be the foundation for Michener's banki…”

William Michener owned First National Bank of San Antonio host_asserted ▶ 56:35

George Brown member_of Suite 8F Group host_asserted ▶ 57:12

“8F. That was in Lamar Hotel in downtown Houston, where the most powerful people in Houston met to play cards, drink, gossip, and decide what deals they were going to do. Michener was the youngest memb…”

William Michener member_of Suite 8F Group host_asserted ▶ 57:12

United States Central Command spied_on Drug Trafficking Operations host_asserted ▶ 1:13:44

“Is it a state thing or a national thing of monitoring what goes in and out of these landing strips, private landing strips? So it's like a dual authority. I mean, if the feds actually cared about drug…”

DEA covered_up Drug Trafficking Operations host_asserted ▶ 1:14:13

“As I have said many, many times, the satellite capability of monitoring this is there. They just have to want to use it. And then you have to get the agencies like the DEA and ATF, which we know is di…”

George H.W. Bush funded Drug Trafficking Operations host_asserted ▶ 1:15:36

“to the people that end up, I mean, for God's sake, they had George Bush as their fucking governor. And he was all in it. His brother was the banker guy down in Venezuela that was money laundering for …”

Eleanor Bush member_of U.S. State Department host_asserted ▶ 1:16:37

“That still is named Dulles Airport. I have no idea. Those two brothers and their sister, which no one ever talks about, Eleanor, who ran the belly button in the State Department for the CIA into the S…”

Eleanor Bush member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:16:37

Operation Gladio front_for Drug Trafficking Operations host_asserted ▶ 1:17:06

“All of Operation Gladio in a nutshell. Yeah. You're so mad. Go ahead. I wanted to talk a little bit more on the private air airports or airlines or private flight lines. OK, it's really also not that …”

David Ferrie member_of Air America host_asserted ▶ 1:19:23

“That's where we found that David Ferrari. They go in and they hide out in the Civil Air Patrol squadrons around the United States at small airports under the guise of teaching youth how to fly.…”

Les Wexner trafficked Drug Trafficking Operations host_asserted ▶ 1:19:38

“they're flying these operations out of these small airports. And it's not just in the South, by the way. Go to Rickenbacker Airport in Ohio. That's where Les Wexner was flying jumbo jets of shit to As…”

CIA funded Drug Trafficking Operations host_asserted ▶ 1:32:03

“But there's still a lot of nefarious things. I still think there's a lot of nefarious people in the CIA. Do I believe Ratcliffe is one of them? No, I do not. And I think there's a lot of... But in the…”