The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6

auto-scroll word highlight ▶ Rumble @ here

Transcript

0:10 Okay, let's get this party started. I just got out of the pool with my grandson. Okay, it's hot out there today, like super hot. All right, we're on chapter 12. Welcome, Illini. It's great to see you back. All right.

0:39 We're going to talk a little bit about the Gulf War syndrome today. And if all of the other chapters of this book didn't make you mad, this one's going to make you mad. And of course, it's within our lifetime. So the author starts out with the Marines poised to breach the Iraqi army's trench system.

1:13 and minefields in southern Kuwait. He described it as a scene in hell, that they moved up the smoke field area from all of the oil wells. It was pitch dark. And of course, they were trying to do an end run around the entrapped Republican Guard division.

1:45 The lieutenant colonel that was in charge of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division recalled it being a horrible scene that sent chills up his back. It was a combination of a sandstorm of biblical proportions that, in his mind, looked like the end of the world, like a hellscape. He said that they were between the Iraqi main defense and

2:15 the Republican Guard. But you could barely see anyone. It said another battalion commander, this one, another Marine, remembered feeling like he was atop his command vehicle across the Kuwaiti border into the smoke and flames, entrenched in darkness. He said that it felt very evil, like the devil was present.

2:45 He said there was like a demonic presence in the area, like a foreboding aurora. He said it began slowly when the first problem surfaced and began getting world's attention later in 1992. Members of 2 Indiana.

3:10 Army Reserve units began showing symptoms of something terrible wrong with their physical condition. They reported they began having headaches, memory loss, bleeding gums, skin lesions, rashes, hair loss, muscle ache, and extreme fatigue. Over the next several months, more and more Gulf War veterans began arriving at various medical

3:39 institutions complaining of the same thing. Since then, over 20,000 veterans have complained of strange physical disabilities and over 7,000 of them have died from what was dubbed Gulf War Syndrome. But the Pentagon's official steadfastly denied they had ever been exposed to anything. Until late 96, there was simply

4:11 No such thing as a Gulf War disease. And further, it was adamantly denied there had been any chemical or biological weapons used on either side. But the strange disease-like symptoms persisted. There were too many incidents of very similar conditions that were being reported to doctors all over the United States.

4:43 for it to remain in the dark. Then the worst thing started happening. Veteran spouses started having babies that were deformed in far excess of the regular population. According to Dr. Alan Cantrell Jr., a medical researcher and author,

5:12 Veterans claimed that one-third of Gulf War babies had been born with abnormalities. That was 10 times the normal rate. Dr. Francis Wachman, an environmental pediatrician, stated that the syndrome could be passed on, creating an infant with immune systems that doesn't function normally. Eventually, theories began to inform that caused

5:42 this strange epidemic to appear to have originated from the Gulf War. Most of these theories centered around three schools of thoughts. First, there was those that supported what became known as multiple chemical sensitivity, referred to as MCS. MCS is defined as an allergic reaction to chemical agents that can range from household chemicals to various forms of plastic and petrochemicals.

6:13 To support that theory, Dr. William Johnson of the Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia, told a congressional subcommittee that soldiers worked 12 hours a day spraying CARC in poorly ventilated tents and obviously inhaled quite a bit of it.

6:39 result in coughing fits, according to the veterans that were involved in it. Dr. Charles Henshaw Jr., president of the American Academic of Environmental Medicine, analyzed data on 25 Gulf War veterans who had been exposed to low levels of various petrochemicals and stated all but one showed signs of MCS. The second theory concerned depleted uranium.

7:08 which was used in tanks and artillery shells. 30-millimeter A-10 cannon rounds and armor plating on tanks. According to the Army, more than 4,200 depleted uranium rounds were fired during the war, and the anti-tank cannons of the A-10 fired thousands more. When fired against armor, much of the round

7:39 shatters into a radioactive dust. According to experts, that can cause problems similar to heavy metal poisoning. The army maintains that no soldiers are believed to have ingested dangerous amounts of depleted uranium and that none have tested high in uranium levels in their bodies. That's a bold-faced lie. I can tell you that I was never tested for heavy metal exposure and I was there.

8:09 And when I finally found a natural doctor that actually did the test, I had extremely high levels of heavy metals. I had to go through a seven-month weekly IV procedure to get the fucking things out of my body. The third theory is the most plausible. It addresses chemical and biological weapons.

8:33 which were available to both sides during the war. It also addresses the preventative medicines given to our soldiers and Marines, often against their wishes to counteract such agents. Also airmen, by the way. In 1993, two U.S. Navy Seabees from the 24th Naval Construction Battalion in Columbus, Georgia, testified before an armed forces.

9:01 Senate subcommittee that their unit was hit with chemical weapons on January 20th, 1991. They also testified that everyone knew it and that they were all ordered to keep it quiet. Their statements were backed by other reports from multinational forces that did not keep it quiet. And the Pentagon had to do some backpedaling while they retreated to plan future damage control.

9:27 One report came from a Czechoslovakian chemical detection unit that detected mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin. Oh, like the sarin gas that they had been experimenting with at Fort Detrick from the Nazis? Yeah, that same sarin gas. These agents were discovered after Allied airstrikes hit Iraqi munition arsenals and ammo dumps.

9:57 The Czechs later reported that 10 of their soldiers from the detection unit later began suffering from mysterious ailments. That was extremely familiar and comparable to what they labeled Gulf War Syndrome. In other sectors, the British had also detected chemicals, and the U.S. forces had numerous instances of chemical alerts going off.

10:28 unnamed Pentagon spokesman simply dismissed the latter as defective equipment. Yeah, that's when I was telling you guys we would get those alerts to don our chem gear, MOPS. So they were obviously detecting it because we had to put the equipment on. And they didn't not have us put the equipment on if they actually thought they were false alerts. In other sectors,

11:04 The French forces on February 4th, 1991, 13 days after the Czech and British had reported biological indications, chemical fallout was being detected throughout Iraq. This was just after General Schwarzkopf announced that the Allied forces had attacked 18 chemical and 10 biological warfare.

11:34 facilities. We bombed chemical and biological facilities? Yes, we did. The German newspaper Frankfurter reported that Allied raids had caused the release of toxic chemicals that were killing scores of civilians and that Michael Saylor of the Ecological Institute in Germany told the paper that sections of Iraq would remain polluted and unusable for years.

12:06 Contrary to the Pentagon stance, a report issued in September of 1993 by the staff of Senator Donald Regal, a Democrat from Michigan, and the Center for Disease Control, affirmed that Iraqi Scud missiles capable of carrying biological and chemical agents landed near an ammunition supply unit stationed on the Saudi-Kuwait border.

12:33 And since the war, 85 of the unit's 110 members have exhibited Gulf War symptoms. Many of them were diagnosed as being debilitated, like unable to function normal life processes as a result. Soldiers of this unit were warned not to mention the missile attack to anyone.

13:00 The second missile struck near a Navy CB unit where the members were instructed not to talk about it. This begs to answer the question of what the officers of those units already knew about the missiles prior to impact. How did they know to tell these people to be quiet about it? Normally, receiving incoming fire would simply be a basis for a harmless war story.

13:29 But that was not the case with these particular missiles. For the Army, the cover-up of what really happened began early. When the first indication surfaced with the Indiana Reservists that something was wrong with our Persian Gulf returnees, the Pentagon immediately concluded that there was simply suffering from stress, probably due to readjustment to civilian life. I'm sorry they weren't gone that long. One Indiana Reservist countered,

13:59 When people were coming back from Vietnam, wringling Agent Orange out of their clothes, they were told they were under stress too. The Army took almost 20 years to settle that one. So I don't think we have a real good record of letting troops know what's really going on. That is in fact true. One victim that definitely was not under stress was Indiana Congressman Steve Beyer.

14:29 who developed respiratory symptoms and repeated bouts of influenza and kidney problems after returning from the Gulf War. He is also afflicted with prostate infections, spastic, colon, and multiple allergies. These symptoms, plus more, have surfaced in the Alabama Reserve Unit, which experienced a two-thirds Gulf War syndrome rate among its members. One of the reservists, William Kay,

15:00 blames his sickness on the Iraqi Scud missile that hit near his unit, which he believes was loaded with chemical or biological or both agents. The military takes credit for doing its best to protect against these things, but one of the methods consisted of a series of injections of drugs that were thought to counter these, you know, like vaccines. The problem is that these drugs had not ever

15:32 been proven effective or even safe. I know because I got them. The Los Angeles Times reported on May 10th that experimental and unproved vaccines and drugs were given to all military personnel that went to the Gulf War. And again, that's true. I have a shot record full of it. They also reported that these vaccines were prescribed to protect

16:03 Soldiers against anthrax and nerve disease called myothenia gravis. It was also hoped that these drugs would prove effective against biological and warfare agents. But in an effort to protect the health and lives of uniformed personnel in the U.S. military may have inadvertently done more damage than good.

16:30 It did not matter to the military hierarchy whether or not the soldiers and sailors in the Gulf consented to be guinea pigs for untested vaccines. They simply were ordered to line up and take their shots. When some refused, they were forced to submit to the injections. One Army Reserve doctor, Dr. Yolando Hewitt Vaughn,

16:53 protested that it was her duty under Nuremberg not to vaccinate personnel with experimental vaccines without their consent. The Army's answer was to court-martial the doctor. Where a military judge ignored the considerations of international law and medical ethics, he sentenced the mother of three to 30 months in prison for refusing to experiment on military people. Soldiers who refuse the vaccines

17:24 were given them either forcibly or discharged. One female reservist reported after her return that she had been held down and injected. When her second shot came due a few weeks later, someone came up behind her and injected her. One soldier refused to buckle under the Army's weight and filed a lawsuit against the government regarding unethical and unlawful use of the people as guinea pigs in medical experiments without their informed consent.

17:55 When the case went to court, the U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Harris dismissed the lawsuit, citing the necessity of military to protect the health of its troops. Sound familiar? It should. The fact that vaccines and drugs were untested and unapproved by the FDA was irrelevant to the judge. By 94, even members of Congress began to take note that it appeared a significant problem was spreading.

18:26 through the population. In a staff report prepared by the Senate Committee for Veterans Affairs, it outlined its findings as follows. For at least 50 years, DOD has intentionally exposed military personnel to potentially dangerous substance, often in secret. The DOD has repeatedly failed to comply with required ethical standards when using human subjects in military research during war or threat of war.

18:56 DOD incorrectly claims that since their goal was treatment, the use of investigational drugs in the Persian Gulf War was not researched. The DOD used investigational drugs in the Gulf War in ways that were not effective. The DOD did not know whether pridostimide bromide would be safe for use by U.S. troops.

19:26 in the Persian Gulf War. When U.S. troops were sent to the Persian Gulf in 1994, DOD still did not have proof that this substance was safe for use as an antidote. They used it anyway. Pyridostrin mine may be more dangerous in combination with pesticides and other exposure. That was something else that you were injected with.

19:52 The safety of the botulism vaccine was not established prior to the Persian Gulf War, but we had to take it anyway. Records of anthrax vaccinations are not suitable to evaluate its safety. Army regulations exempt informed consent for volunteers for medical military research.

20:19 DOD and the VA have repeatedly failed to provide information and medical follow-up to those who participated in military research and was ordered to take investigational drugs. The federal government has failed to support scientific studies that provide information about the reproductive problems experienced by veterans who were intentionally exposed to potential dangerous substance.

20:45 The federal government has failed to support scientific studies that provide timely information for compensation decisions regarding military personnel that were harmed. Not only do they not do those studies, they refused for years and years and years to even classify it as service-related. Participation in military research is rarely included in military medical records.

21:16 making it impossible to support a VA claim for service-connected disabilities. They have it in your shot record. They just don't acknowledge it. DOD has demonstrated a pattern of misrepresenting the danger of various military exposures, and it continues today. That was in a Senate congressional hearing in its findings, and they did nothing about it.

21:48 They didn't mandate any of that stuff happen. They didn't fund any of that stuff. And today, today, there is a pending legislation in front of Congress right now, because for those of you who don't know, there's a process that when you file for, if you're medically retired, which I was, and the rating is above.

22:18 the earned retirement so for example if you're 85 disabled when they medically retire you but you only have earned 60 and there's a calculation that says that of your military potential retirement they will up it to 75 which is the max but that difference from 60 to 75 is offset

22:48 buy your VA benefit. You don't get your full VA benefit. And for most of those people who were very junior, they didn't get any of their military retirement, even though they were medically retired because the VA is tax-free and you opt then because it's tax-free for it. So you'll get your full VA based on a rating system that initially didn't even recognize this as being rateable.

23:18 So if they say you're 50% rated over here, then you get an offset of your military retirement to the point where some people didn't get any military retirement at all. And there's legislation pending right now to fix that. But every time it gets rewritten, they add less of that benefit back. It is one of the most horrific things.

23:46 They will nickel and dime people they have experimented on and injured in service to their country while they're spending hundreds of billions of dollars funding illegal immigrants. You really cannot be more pissed off at congressional members than their treatment of military veterans. You just can't. This pyridoctrine mine bromide, PB.

24:19 we're going to call it PB, is a drug often prescribed to victims of, why do they use these words? Myasthenia gravis, a degenerative nerve disease. According to medical sources, PB has been shown in animal experiments to provide some protection against somon nerve gas.

24:44 Because of this, the military administered PB to almost all of the personnel stationed in the Gulf. Yes, they did. The Air Force personnel reported serious side effects from the drug. Pilots reported impaired breathing, blurred vision, short-term memory loss, and decreased stamina. And it was not until later that it was discovered that PB actually increased the effects of nerve gases. Yes.

25:14 It's actually worse for you. And they made us take it. And then those of us who have like degenerative nerve damage, they don't even want to rate you for it. Life Magazine reported in an article about the Gulf War syndrome that Czech and British governments say their troops detected both kinds of gas, presumably released during allied bombing of Iraqi chemical plants.

25:49 Veterans advocate Paul Sullivan recently obtained 11 pages of secret Defense Department logs revealing U.S. chemical alarms went off repeatedly during the war. Yes, they did. I know that personally. Pentagon spokesmen blame those alarms on faulty equipment. And note that there had been no reports of massive, massive. So they have to qualify it. It sounds like the CIA talking. Massive.

26:20 Gas deaths. You don't need massive death gas. You need a tiny little bit that affects you long term. They always use these bullshit words to qualify everything they say. Former congressional investigator Jim Twitt speculates that gases were blown straight upwards, then settled miles away as fallout.

26:52 He says Iraqis were suffering health conditions similar to what we're seeing in our veterans. Ironically, much of Iraq's chemical arsenal was made by US companies, of which face a class action lawsuit by 2,000 ailing vets. The people that need to be sued are the ones that sold it to the Iraqis in the 1980s during the Reagan administration while they were selling missiles.

27:23 to Iraq or to Iran. There is much more to the story regarding U.S. participation in arming Iraqis with biological and chemical weapons. What few investigators note concerning the background of this topic is the collusion of certain U.S. government officials with the chief arms buyer for Saddam Hussein. A mystery man named Ihsan, is I-H-S-A-N,

27:54 Barbati, B-A-R-B-O-U-T-I. He was Saddam Hussein's chief architect on many interesting projects. First, he owned an engineering company in Frankfurt, Germany. He had a $552 million contract to build airfields in Iraq. At about the same time, he designed

28:23 Qaddafi's German-built chemical weapons plant in Libya. Huh, that's weird. Oh, and just so that we keep the record straight, we paid Otto Skorzeny to build the airfields in Spain for the US Air Force. I'm sure there's no similarities at all since we're talking about this guy doing business in Germany and German-built.

28:58 chemical weapons plants in Libya. He was also buying various businesses in the U.S. capable of producing war material. Barbadi invested in two companies in the U.S., Pipeline Recovery Systems in Dallas, Texas, which made anti-corrosive chemical that coats and preserves pipes.

29:31 such as those used in nuclear reactors. Huh. And product ingredient technology of Boca Raton, Florida. It makes food flavorings. Barbadi also attempted to buy an Oklahoma City company called TK-7, which had formulas that would extend the range of jet aircraft and liquid fuel missiles, like the Scud missile.

30:04 That deal fell through at the beginning of Operation Desert Storm when Iraq invaded Kuwait and Iraqi assets were frozen in the U.S., but not before many other items of concern had already exited the country due to underground smuggling. Kind of like the underground smuggling of the nuclear triggers that the CIA was arranging out of the port of Houston.

30:35 Kind of that kind of underground smuggling. Product ingredient technology made cherry flavoring, which used ferric ferrocyanide. You just can't even make this shit up. Cyanide in red food flavoring. A chemical that used to manufacture hydrogen cyanide. And we let a foreigner buy it.

31:08 from Iraq working for Saddam Hussein. That particular hydrogen cyanide is capable of penetrating gas masks. But make sure, I'm sorry, but make sure you put that paper mask on. This is the chemical used against the Kurds in Northern Iraq when Saddam Hussein bombarded the village, killing all the men, women, and children.

31:41 That is that village that's on the top of that mountain that I described for you guys a long time ago that we helicoptered into. There is a village. The top of the mountain looks like it was perfectly sawed off by God and plopped a village down on top of it. There's one way in and one way out to the top of the mountain. It's a beautiful vista when you're up there. Looking around, you can see for...

32:10 hundreds of miles, beautiful city. In the town hall, the entire building is lined with pictures of the aftermath of that poison gas attack. And there was a, in the main road of the village town,

32:39 It's kind of indented where they would turn the water on on one end and the kids would be out in the middle of the road during the day playing in the water. And that was the particular time that they gassed that entire town. And the babies are laying dead in the middle of the road, the moms dead. There were a few men, but most of the men were working. But it was primarily...

33:08 Women and children in those photos dead in the middle of the main street of that village. So anybody that says that Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical weapons is lying. But I think that was on purpose during Gulf War II to pretend that he had yellow cake.

33:41 So anytime now, when you try to have a weapons of mass destruction conversation with anybody about Iraq, they're like, well, they either had them or they didn't. That is not the case. They definitely had them. They had them during Desert Storm. They used them on their own population. They came from the United States. The yellow cake fake story was not true.

34:13 And whether or not they had any leftover that we didn't bomb during Desert Storm, who the hell knows? But I think the merging of those two stories were done on purpose so that they can say, no, they definitely didn't have them. Or yes, they did have them. And of course, we know that it was proven to be a lie that they didn't have Yellow Cake, the precursor for nuclear weapons.

34:44 but they definitely had chemical and biological ingredients and used them. According to a Nightline broadcast, the New Orleans exporter, who was a business associate of none other than Richard Secord, assisted Barbati with exporting the products. Barbati, according to the broadcast, met with Secord in Florida on several occasions.

35:17 And phone records show that several calls were placed to Barbadi's office to Secord's private number in McLean, Virginia. Now, again, Richard Secord is the same guy that was arranging the missile cells with Oliver North via Israel to Iran at exactly the same time to support the Contras. That same Richard Secord, best buddy.

35:50 of George H.W. Bush and George Bush and worked in the Reagan administration. That Richard Secord. Secord was reported to have been in business with James Tully and Jack Brennan, a former aide to Richard Nixon, who were involved in a $181 million business deal to supply uniforms to the Iraqi army.

36:22 which they contracted through Nicolae Crocercu from Romania prior to his execution. The partners in the particular deal were former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and Sarkis Saganalian, S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L.

36:52 I-A-N, a Turkish born citizen who had been Saddam Hussein's leading arms procurer. It was, I'm gonna call him Sog. I don't know how to pronounce his last name. The Turkey guy who introduced super cannon builder, Gerald Bull to the Iraqis who later sold 103 military helicopters to Iraq illegally was caught and served six years in prison.

37:23 Now, a long time ago, probably two and a half years ago, we talked about Gerald Bull. He had designed this like supersonic cannon capability. And if I remember correctly, it didn't actually ever work properly, but he was a big guy in the whole weapons cells suspiciously.

37:52 always around CIA operations. Barbadi managed to secretly remove more than 2,000 gallons of that ferrocyanide from the Florida plant and ship it to Iraq. It was also reported that Barbadi bought from high-level American sources biological weapons. You know, like those people in the CIA that does all of those crazy arms deals.

38:25 like Richard Secord. It is now maintained by experts that the Gulf War Syndrome investigation that a biological weapons laboratory in Houston supplied Barbadi with basic bacilli and virus cultures from which biological warfare agents could be manufactured. Houston again.

38:54 Houston's a very busy place. What would follow suit to the fact that Barbati designed the Libyan pharmaceutical, in parentheses, or air quotes, plant in Libya and had met with former Nazi scientist, Volker Weisheimer. I'm telling you, you can't turn around in these stories without...

39:30 hitting a Nazi. He recruited former Nazi scientists to work in Libya and Iraq. Nazi scientists that the CIA saved instead of sending them to Nuremberg helped develop biological and chemical weapons with ingredients supplied by the United States in a quote-unquote pharmaceutical lab in Libya.

40:05 These are the same scientists, by the way, that were brought into the United States. Barbadi was part of a CIA operation to improve relations with Saddam Hussein by supplying his armed forces with special weapons. Yes, at the heart of all of this, like we always know, is the CIA.

40:34 This was done under the guise of providing Iraq with agricultural loan guarantees. With the U.S., through arms dealers like Secord, funneled millions of dollars of biological and chemical weapons technology to Iraq, thanks originally to the Nazis.

40:57 These business maneuverings were handled through the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation and the loans channeled through an Atlanta branch of Banco Nazionale Lavaro in Italy. And where did we find them? Oh, and all of the BCCI and Gladio and everything else. Yes, that same bank. One of CIA's favorite banks.

41:28 were responsible for funneling these loans. Again, you cannot make this up. This enterprise was later dubbed Iraq Gate. Barbadi allegedly died in London of a heart attack. Sure, and I'm sure it had nothing to do with the heart attack gun the CIA uses in 1990. But if this story didn't get any more weird,

42:02 That was actually the second time that he supposedly died because he faked his own death in 1969. His grave in London is covered by a huge concrete monument and is registered as a Muslim holy ground and cannot be disturbed. So who the hell knows if he actually even died? Barbadi's corpse cannot be exhumed for identification.

42:33 The bottom line is that all of these technology transfers concerned the highest levels of government, including the CIA. Key individuals from the White House on down knew about all of these cells to Iraq, but were not concerned as long as the weapons were being used against the Iranians. And if you don't think the Iranians know all of this, you're crazy. They know that the U.S. government gave Iraqi Saddam Hussein

43:02 chemical weapons to use on the Iranians. They know it. And you wonder why they scream death to America. I'm sure it has nothing to do with that at all. It's just that damn Muslim faith that they have. It was not until the Gulf War that we began to face our own weapons and any deep investigation into how Saddam Hussein got them would expose too many politicians and bureaucrats.

43:37 Still, the government continued to deny the Gulf War syndrome existed. In an AP article titled, No Mystery Ailment Found in Gulf War Veterans, a study says, the author wrote, quote, a study of more than 10,000 veterans and family members suffering from post-Persian Gulf medical problems found no evidence of any unique disease or disorder.

44:06 The Pentagon's top medical official said Tuesday. They lied. The study turned up instances of back pain, headaches, alcoholism, depression, and other ailments, but no mystery ailment. They were dropping dead. Large percentages of particular units were dropping dead, and they found no commonality, said the Pentagon.

44:36 The article went on to note that according to Dr. Stephen Joseph, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health, we do not find a single or unique illness responsible for a large or even significant portion of the illness. Rather, we find multiple illnesses with overlapping symptoms and causes.

44:57 He goes on, Tuesday's announcements marked the first categorical rejection of the Department of Defense of the existence of unknown malady stemming from the 1990-91 war. Dr. Joseph concluded that the Defense Department researchers found not a single mystery illness. Mystery illness. There's no fucking mystery. They were subjected to chemical and biological warfare. That's not a mystery.

45:26 Again, the qualifying words are always very important in these statements. They found nothing unique to Gulf War illnesses, but rather a combination of symptoms and illnesses that you would particularly expect to find in a population that had been exposed to these kinds of stresses. Kiss my butt. In 1995, the mounting evidence and public outcry began to draw political blood.

45:56 On November 6th, an article in the Air Force Times titled Raids May Have Released Iraqi Nerve Gas pulled the curtains back on the fact that the Pentagon was beginning to weaken in their denials that anything unusual had occurred. The article stated that the Pentagon is investigating whether allied bombings of Iraqi chemical weapon depots inadvertently exposed U.S. troops to nerve gas. It most certainly did.

46:23 The investigation, however, does not change the Department of Defense position that U.S. forces were not exposed to chemical or biological weapons. Whether through scud attacks or inadvertent releases from Allied bombings, said Air Force Colonel Ed Konigberg, a doctor who directs the department's Persian Gulf Veterans Illness Investigation Team. So they already have their conclusion. Even if we find that happened, it didn't have any effect on anybody.

46:56 Again, you just can't hate these people enough. The exposure being investigated occurred in late January 1991 when the Czechoslovakia experts in chemical warfare detected the traces of sarin gas in areas occupied by the Allied forces. Still, the cover-up continued with the government spokesperson espousing other theories for causes, like sand fleas, which is really interesting given the fact that we

47:27 know from Unit 731 and the Nazis that they were infecting fleas with the sarin gas. So fleas, really? They think we're all stupid. The Department of Defense was beginning to waver. It was still not ready. While they were wavering, they were still not ready to admit that something had happened to active duty service members.

48:02 that would cause this type of illness. Veterans organizations involved in exposing the truth fought an uphill battle with the government. Author Wilson, who is the executive director of the DAV, wrote that the Pentagon had shown an absolute reluctance to openly discuss the concerns with the DAV. It is also a complete mystery why we haven't had an answer to a strongly worded letter. Oh, not a strongly worded letter.

48:31 that we wrote on the subject to Secretary Aspen. Following World War II, the Korean War, and especially the Vietnam War, didn't we hear the same words from our government as we fought to find the truth and struggled to rebuild our lives? Only later in these cases, 20 years after the fact, did we learn about the quote-unquote mystery illnesses that the military had been subjected to.

49:02 Mr. Wilson summed up in his article in the DAV magazine, quote, remember that during and after World War II, the Department of Defense concluded that there was no significant long-term health effects from the mustard gas or the atomic radiation test they performed on unsuspecting soldiers and sailors, unquote. Remember that in late 1950 and the 60s, the Department of Defense concluded that there was no significant long-term health effects for soldiers and airmen.

49:32 That had been given powerful doses of LSD. And of course, it just continues. He gives a few more examples. As time passed, the government became more nervous about the failure of the damage control to sweep the issue under the carpet. CBS newsman Ed Bradley interviewed Undersecretary of Defense John Deutch, who later became director of the CIA under Clinton.

50:03 In 1995, it was obvious a few nerves were struck. The line of questioning centered around were Americans exposed to chemical, biological, and radiological weapons during the Persian Gulf War? Deutsch denied any such events ever occurred. But as the questions became increasingly tougher and more pointed, Deutsch began to sweat and showed nervousness. His eyes began to shift rapidly between Bradley and the camera, and he attempted to fend each question off.

50:32 Finally, Bradley asked if there was any possibility that biological weapons or chemical weapons might have been used, and Deutsch simply dodged and evaded the question. The interview was aired on March 12, 1995. Two doctors have relentlessly continued research on the Gulf War syndrome. Garth Nicholson and his wife Nancy Nicholson have isolated laboratory-engineered microorganism

51:01 known as mycoplasma fermentans. And it says that it would explain most of what is known about the Gulf War syndrome. Garth Nicholson is a professor and chairman of Department of Tumor Biology at the world's largest cancer facility at the University of Texas in Houston. Of course, ironically, that's where...

51:34 was shipping the biological weapons out of. His wife is the president of the Rodin Foundation for Biomedical Research in Houston. They published more than 400 scientific papers that served as references and edited 13 scientific and medical journals. They said that they had found this in...

52:05 this very unusual DNA sequence in most of the Desert Storm veterans. It says that this microorganism was probably illegally developed and tested in the United States, then illegally sold and transferred to Iraq during the Gulf War. Another weaponized microplasma. They said that the microorganism

52:42 wouldn't be a major cover-up that had been constructed by the Clinton administration. But of course, it started before that with the George H. W. Bush administration. In a letter written to a former Army chaplain, Colonel James Ammerman of Dallas, Nicholson wrote, we have possibly uncovered one of the messiest controversies and cover-up since Watergate.

53:14 The heat of the fire of the public sentiment continued to burn until August 19th, 1969, when AP published an article called The Pentagon Admits Chemical Weapons Reached Soldiers. In the article, the Pentagon finally admitted that it knew as far back as November 1991, November 1991, that chemical weapons had been stored at an Iraqi ammunition depot and that U.S. troops had demolished just months earlier.

53:44 The Pentagon and other, we didn't demolish it, we bombed it and we spread that shit everywhere. The Pentagon and other government agencies aware of the presence of chemical weapons at the ammunition storage facility didn't realize in 1991, however, American troops had been there, spokesman Captain Doubleday said. So a November 1991 intelligence report indicating the presence of chemical shells.

54:12 At that location, including one described as leaking, essentially was filed away and covered up, classified with national security stamp on it. Something else that was not mentioned by the government was the fact that the engineering unit, 37 Engineer Battalion, demolished the facility with explosives sending clouds of chemical agents in the air. They knew.

54:43 It was a chemical weapons depot. The CIA had intelligence that it was a chemical weapons depot and they blew it up. The clouds basically went everywhere. It wasn't until much later when home videos taken by the engineers showed the shells in Bunker 73 to be 122 millimeter chemical rockets that the munitions were positively identified.

55:18 A further twist is that a chemical officer told the engineers that he detected nerve agent sarin, but the officers in charge of the soldiers told them not to don their chemical protective units and gas masks. The chemical officer, Dan Tlepsky, ignored the order and put their mop gear on. He put his on, did not follow orders.

55:47 He's the only guy in his entire unit that doesn't have the Gulf War syndrome. Another break in the case was a New York Times report that an intelligence memo had circulated in 1991 concerning the event and routing marks showed that it had traveled not only to the Pentagon, but also the White House State Department and CIA. Even when the UN weapons inspector teams reported the US that the...

56:20 37th engineers had blown up the bunker with chemical weapons inside. It was dismissed because it was thought that the Iraqis were feeding the UN disinformation. That's a lie. They knew it was true. They knew exactly, according to Richard Secord, who was working for the CIA, that they had shipped chemical weapons there. They knew. On September 3rd, 1996,

56:49 More information came out when the AP released an article part of the log of Gulf War data missing. In an article called Gulf Watch, a Gulf veterans watchdog group discovered the log pages were mysteriously missing from a diary kept for General Schwarzkopf that covered the dates in question regarding the ammunition dump demolition.

57:18 Entries are missing from 4 March to 11 March, the week the troops and engineers spent examining the ammunition dump and blowing it up. Several gaps exist in the 36 pages of logs that were declassified and turned over to Golf Watch. Exposing the cover-up at this late date will have little effect for those who have suffered through the denial, like many wars before it.

57:50 So that's the end of that chapter. Oh my gosh. Again, you guys understand this particular chapter is very personal. It's crazy. Okay. Illini, how have you been? Hey, Colonel. I've been well. I've been dealing with a whole, I've been jumping through a whole bunch of hoops with computer hardware.

58:38 And the irony is that I've been playing around with so many GPUs that I figured out how to build a retrieval augmented generator, which may help, you know, build a search engine related stuff for Gladio. You're going to make me a dangerous person, are you? Well, right now, what I'm discovering is that these 27 billion parameter models, as opposed to Gemini.

59:07 which has trillions of parameters, aren't all that dangerous, aren't all that capable in terms of complex reasoning and research. But if we get the right model and we get the right search model, I may very well be giving you a different kind of website at the end of this. Cool.

59:34 And that's what you're using for your work as well, right? I'm doing a whole... Well, I'm a retired colonel, but... You're retired, correct. I mean, your hobby. My hobby was related to cryptocurrency mining. And now what I'm doing is I'm repurposing all the GPUs for a project like this. And yeah, it's...

1:00:04 So it's interesting to try to get it off of, you know, chat GPT and you'll excuse me, the different, you know, commercial models, you know, and trying to get to, you know, more uncensored research models. So, yeah, we'll see. Yeah.

1:00:28 I'm sure you are going to want to talk to Warhamster because Warhamster is working on something very similar to that. Right, Warhamster? Yeah, I'll jump in on that one. Hey, Illini. We definitely have to get you on a call with my business partner. We've been basically training research agents. As you know, you've got the cutting-edge, very expensive compute AIs out there.

1:00:57 But everything they do is completely free within like 60 days. And so we've been basically shopping everything and training our agent, you know, basically a lot of it from the shows that I do. Basically, so it understands the Constitution. It understands, you know, where the bias in media is and is able to scrape news articles with that in touch. We've got, I mean, I just got to get you on the phone. It'll be a pretty fun conversation. And I would understand almost half of what you guys talk about.

1:01:28 Are you guys doing model fine-tuning, Warhamster, or are you guys trying to build a research agent? We're building a research agent. Okay. That's what I want, and the output's really important to me, and I've shown a couple examples. The colonel's seen some of the samples, and it's pretty good. It's almost ready to go. In fact, I'm a little ticked off. They were supposed to give me a demo today, and it didn't happen. But that's how it works with the tech guys.

1:01:59 And, yeah, it's just, I mean, I told them, I gave them a laundry list of about eight pages of what I wanted my output to look like. And then I started feeding it my biases and filters, if you will, and what to look out for. So, for example, like I caught about two-thirds of the colonel's presentation today because my wife was reading me an article about her.

1:02:25 Here in Portsmouth, there's a bunch of big Juneteenth celebrations. We wanted to make sure to avoid them. So we'll train the agent to understand to filter out articles talking about Juneteenth because we think it's ridiculous. And it's getting pretty good at it. So I don't know. Like I said, it's not a conversation for you to have with me. It's a conversation to have with my partner. He's the guy. But we'll make that happen here in the near future. All right. Cool stuff. Okay.

1:02:56 Let me flip over here to the Rumble chat. Donnie Vision, I've been exposed to it all. I'm beginning to think I have too, unfortunately. Not all of it, but certainly not as much as some of our special forces guys. I found it very interesting how the bank overlapped too.

1:03:27 with this. I mean, they use the same banks, but it's so crazy to be reading a story of this investigator into the Gulf War syndrome and the selling of chemical and biological ingredients out of the United States and find the same bank that

1:03:58 we have found in other stories of Operation Gladio. And that's really kind of one of those underlying aspects of all of the research that we do and how you know that the same elements in the U.S. government, they didn't even have to use Richard Secord. I could have told you that just by the use of that bank.

1:04:25 And that's why this research is so critically important because you find all of the commonalities. So again, if you get to another story and they're using all of the same elements, you don't even have to know every piece of the story. You know that with like a 90% probability that you're dealing with the same people, the same network. And that's critically important. All along, go ahead. All along?

1:05:03 Hello, Colonel. I just wanted to bring up related to the yellow cake aspect and that you mentioned earlier, which I haven't read about this in about a billion years. So and I know I've made the point that I'm about to make a point if it is a point earlier. How's that for a precursor? No, just kidding. Sort of what I'm trying to say is, OK.

1:05:30 Remember how the yellow cake aspect of the chemical weapons was sort of side marketed as, you know, flame gate? Yeah. And I was always kind of suspicious about, you know, how the short and long of that narrative was that, you know, the CIA was not responsible for what W. Bush and Dick Cheney did in Iraq.

1:06:03 I'm very suspicious of that narrative that somehow the CIA was dissident in regard to the invasion of Iraq. But it always seemed to me that Plaingate kind of – there seemed something very fishy about it, about the Plaingate narrative. And it seemed to be intended to absolve CIA from the wider Iraq quote.

1:06:33 or it may have been a success for certain other people in industry. And just one last comment. I found a very interesting quote about Rummel, the Nelson Rockefeller guy who both you and Warhamster are kind of interested in. I think he's a very pivotal guy in terms of Cold War fuckery involving U.S. academia. And I just dropped it on your...

1:07:01 If you get a chance. It's kind of off topic. But anyway, thanks for a great show. Sure. Thank you. Warhamster, go ahead. Yeah, hey, all along I was just reading on X that Rumble thing. I'll read through it in detail later. But thanks for the tag on that. So, Colonel, one of the things I found interesting is a lot of these chemical systems and stuff like that, a lot of them were put in place, of course, by the Cold Warriors during the glorious Reagan Bush years.

1:07:33 I think it would be fun to put together a timeline of when a lot of this stuff was initiated. Obviously, you know, we can trace some of it back all the way back to 1947 or before, but they really seemed to ramp up the bio-warfare stuff in the 80s. And that's where that all got funded during these, especially the glory years of the 80s. So, yeah, this book, and I know you haven't been here for all of them, but this book actually chronically, whatever,

1:08:03 goes from World War II, Unit 731, and the scientists involved in that, and the particular scientists, it names them, that came over from Germany that went to Fort Detrick and to the Air Force Aeromedical that was working on all of those heinous experiments.

1:08:29 And it brings it all the way through these different events. And just as you saw with this, you still had a Nazi scientist working in Libya to continue that work. And we already know that they were at Fort Detrick and all of the other places in the United States. This all comes from those.

1:08:58 people and the mentality of using human subjects for experiments. The fact that they don't have concentration camps that are visible doesn't mean that they don't view the United States military as a concentration camp that is fair game for them to do their biological and chemical experiments on.

1:09:28 because they have done it during every conflict. Well, I'll take it further than that. They don't regard civilian populations in general. Civilian populations are very high regard either. I mean, it's one thing to be doing all their experimentation down in Africa and stuff like that, but they launched COVID on the whole frigging world. Yes. And then we're starting to, you know, we're getting some more stuff to trickle out over, you know, what they were actually doing with the swine flu and stuff like that. I think they issued a whole bunch of swine flu vaccines when there was actually zero.

1:09:58 Confirmed victim? Yeah. Zero. Zero. It was nothing but a press release that got people to put experimental stuff in their bodies. So, you know, you have to describe this stuff. You know, we talk about them being transhumanist or, you know, technocratic and stuff like that, trying to make themselves a new God and stuff like that. But this is demonic. This is unhuman. Yes. You cannot do this to another human being and look at yourself in the mirror if you have a soul. Correct. I agree.

1:10:27 I don't like them very much. I hate them. Anyway, I hate them. Alon, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, regarding the chemical and biological weapons research, and you're kind of alluding here, I think, to the whole Gladio mixing operation that occurred in Franco's Spain.

1:10:59 You know, where the whole international cartel, you know, to some degree, first mix it up and then spread out from Zionist Israel to South Africa. And it just, you know, quickly reminded me what you were just commenting on is the, you know, the anthrax guy who they said did the anthrax letters. You know, he had worked. And so, you know, that just.

1:11:31 Given the South African intelligence, you know, mixture into that whole syndicate cartel milieu that, you know, we saw coming from the same place, it's perhaps noteworthy. So you're saying that the guy that was accused of selling those letters or sending those letters was from South Africa? No, I don't think he was from South Africa. According to the government narrative, he was from...

1:12:02 He worked at Camp Detrick, later turned Fort Detrick. But, I mean, when he was there, it would have been Fort Detrick. When Frank Olson was there, it was still called Camp Detrick. Maryland, you know, the always chatty state of Maryland. But how did South Africa get in there? Didn't you say South Africa? Okay, yeah. Because a large part of the story is that he was, the mainstream press reported on him, Stephen.

1:12:31 Hatfield? Is that something like Stephen Hatfield? That he had worked in South Africa at biological weapons institutions in South Africa. Yeah, that's the part that I remembered. Because for those of you who don't know, South Africa had one of the most heinous

1:12:57 biological and chemical warfare that they used on blacks throughout the country. And the entire program was ran by the South African prime minister's personal doctor. He was in charge of the entire program. And they experimented on blacks all the time. And I'm talking like Nazi experimentation on them.

1:13:25 with chemical and biological weapons so that piece that all along just provided is critical to the story and of course at the time South Africa was basically part of not like technically but part of the UK Commonwealth they basically ran everything the Milner kindergarten folks were still in charge of all the governments they

1:13:53 It was basically a UK colony for lack of a better term. And so they were working hand in hand with MI6 on those experiments. Critical piece to the puzzle. Okay, well, if that's all we got, I just wanna thank everybody for being here. I appreciate it. And may they all rot in hell. That's what I got to say about all of them.

1:14:28 I was going to see how did everyone enjoy our little economic show earlier today, our Keynes versus Hayek. I don't know. Is there anybody in here that saw it? I don't know. I haven't had a chance to read the comments on either of our pages yet and stuff like that. Personally, I thought I had a great time with it, but I mean, I've obviously been chomping at it. You're biased. Yeah, I mean, this is kind of like, you know.

1:14:55 candy to a baby to me. That was a fun subject though. But I'm glad it kind of fit in with our timeline and we got to do it. Yeah. I think the cherry on top was the boxing video at the end. Doesn't get any better than that. That was such a great find. Yeah, I'm going to have to go through that channel and see what else that guy does. It was well produced. It was. Whoever did it knew what he was talking about. We can probably find some more material.

1:15:23 Yeah, I've already followed and subscribed. Awesome. All right, so thanks everybody for being here. I will be on, I don't know how it's being broadcast. I have an email that was sent to me this morning with some instructions, but they're hosting a day-long conference in Hawaii tomorrow with a whole bunch of people that have specialty.

1:15:52 items that the general population doesn't know about. It's called something conspiracy. And I was invited to do an hour long presentation on Operation Gladio. So I will be on there. I will post later the website where you can go to watch it and what time slot, East Coast time that it is.

1:16:21 I have that coming up tomorrow. We will not be doing a Tommy podcast this weekend. That's postponed to next weekend. And that's about it. I will be doing another installment on Sunday with Ben Keller. And we're going through chronologically all of the different Operation Gladio things that were happening post-World War II, kind of just doing.

1:16:49 a new timeline of all of the overthrows of government. So he usually posts those on Monday. So if you're not following him, please go follow him. He's doing a great job of collecting all of that information. So thanks everybody for being here. Have a great weekend.

1:17:12 I know I say this every weekend and most of the times I get too busy, but I do plan on doing a couple of premiere shows or premium shows so we can get that locked up for this month over on Rumble. So you guys take care. Have a nice weekend.

Entities here

Iran29 United States25 Gulf War 199123 Department of Defense21 Gulf War Syndrome13 Saddam Hussein7 Richard Secord7 Operation Gladio6 South Africa6 Adnan Khashoggi6 Houston5 Ihsan Barbali5 U.S. Army5 United Kingdom5 Kuwait4 Libya4 Fort Detrick4 Army Reserve3 West Germany3 World War II3 Ed Bradley3 Bruce Edwards Ivins3 British Air Forces3 George H.W. Bush3 Garth Nicholson3 U.S. Marine Corps3 37th Engineer Battalion3 Spain2 Product Ingredient Technology2 Unit 7312 U.S. Air Force2 Gerald Bull2 London2 Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.2 Dallas2 Bill Clinton2 John Deutch2 Georgia2 Edwin Wilson2 U.S. Navy2

Claims made here

U.S. Marine Corps fought_in Gulf War 1991 book_quoted ▶ 0:39

“We're going to talk a little bit about the Gulf War syndrome today. And if all of the other chapters of this book didn't make you mad, this one's going to make you mad. And of course, it's within our …”

19th Infantry Division fought_in Gulf War 1991 book_quoted ▶ 1:45

“The lieutenant colonel that was in charge of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division recalled it being a horrible scene that sent chills up his back. It was a combination of a sandstorm of biblical proportions…”

Army Reserve suffered_from Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 3:10

“Army Reserve units began showing symptoms of something terrible wrong with their physical condition. They reported they began having headaches, memory loss, bleeding gums, skin lesions, rashes, hair l…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 3:39

“institutions complaining of the same thing. Since then, over 20,000 veterans have complained of strange physical disabilities and over 7,000 of them have died from what was dubbed Gulf War Syndrome. B…”

Francis Wachman stated Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 5:12

“Veterans claimed that one-third of Gulf War babies had been born with abnormalities. That was 10 times the normal rate. Dr. Francis Wachman, an environmental pediatrician, stated that the syndrome cou…”

Alan Cantrell Jr. stated Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 5:12

William Johnson testified_before Department of Defense book_quoted ▶ 6:13

“To support that theory, Dr. William Johnson of the Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia, told a congressional subcommittee that soldiers worked 12 hours a day spraying C…”

Charles Henshaw Jr. analyzed_data_on Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 6:39

“result in coughing fits, according to the veterans that were involved in it. Dr. Charles Henshaw Jr., president of the American Academic of Environmental Medicine, analyzed data on 25 Gulf War veteran…”

24th Naval Construction Battalion testified_about Gulf War 1991 book_quoted ▶ 8:33

“which were available to both sides during the war. It also addresses the preventative medicines given to our soldiers and Marines, often against their wishes to counteract such agents. Also airmen, by…”

Czechoslovakian chemical detection unit detected Iran book_quoted ▶ 9:27

“One report came from a Czechoslovakian chemical detection unit that detected mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin. Oh, like the sarin gas that they had been experimenting with at Fort Detrick from th…”

British Air Forces detected Iran book_quoted ▶ 9:57

“The Czechs later reported that 10 of their soldiers from the detection unit later began suffering from mysterious ailments. That was extremely familiar and comparable to what they labeled Gulf War Syn…”

Czechoslovakian chemical detection unit suffered_from Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 9:57

Department of Defense denied Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 10:28

“unnamed Pentagon spokesman simply dismissed the latter as defective equipment. Yeah, that's when I was telling you guys we would get those alerts to don our chem gear, MOPS. So they were obviously det…”

French Forces detected Iran book_quoted ▶ 11:04

“The French forces on February 4th, 1991, 13 days after the Czech and British had reported biological indications, chemical fallout was being detected throughout Iraq. This was just after General Schwa…”

Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. announced Gulf War 1991 book_quoted ▶ 11:04

Michael Saylor stated Iran book_quoted ▶ 11:34

“facilities. We bombed chemical and biological facilities? Yes, we did. The German newspaper Frankfurter reported that Allied raids had caused the release of toxic chemicals that were killing scores of…”

Donald Riegle issued_report_on Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 12:06

“Contrary to the Pentagon stance, a report issued in September of 1993 by the staff of Senator Donald Regal, a Democrat from Michigan, and the Center for Disease Control, affirmed that Iraqi Scud missi…”

Center for Disease Control issued_report_on Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 12:06

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 13:29

“But that was not the case with these particular missiles. For the Army, the cover-up of what really happened began early. When the first indication surfaced with the Indiana Reservists that something …”

Steve Beyer suffered_from Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 13:59

“When people were coming back from Vietnam, wringling Agent Orange out of their clothes, they were told they were under stress too. The Army took almost 20 years to settle that one. So I don't think we…”

William Kay blamed Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 15:00

“blames his sickness on the Iraqi Scud missile that hit near his unit, which he believes was loaded with chemical or biological or both agents. The military takes credit for doing its best to protect a…”

U.S. Army court-martialed Yolando Hewitt Vaughn book_quoted ▶ 16:53

“protested that it was her duty under Nuremberg not to vaccinate personnel with experimental vaccines without their consent. The Army's answer was to court-martial the doctor. Where a military judge ig…”

Yolando Hewitt Vaughn protested U.S. Army book_quoted ▶ 16:53

U.S. Army sentenced Yolando Hewitt Vaughn book_quoted ▶ 16:53

Stanley Harris dismissed Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 17:55

“When the case went to court, the U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Harris dismissed the lawsuit, citing the necessity of military to protect the health of its troops. Sound familiar? It should. The fa…”

Department of Defense exposed Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 18:26

“through the population. In a staff report prepared by the Senate Committee for Veterans Affairs, it outlined its findings as follows. For at least 50 years, DOD has intentionally exposed military pers…”

Department of Defense funded Gulf War 1991 book_quoted ▶ 18:26

Department of Defense failed_to_prove_safety_of Gulf War 1991 book_quoted ▶ 18:56

“DOD incorrectly claims that since their goal was treatment, the use of investigational drugs in the Persian Gulf War was not researched. The DOD used investigational drugs in the Gulf War in ways that…”

Department of Defense used Gulf War 1991 book_quoted ▶ 18:56

Department of Defense failed_to_prove_safety_of Gulf War 1991 book_quoted ▶ 19:52

“The safety of the botulism vaccine was not established prior to the Persian Gulf War, but we had to take it anyway. Records of anthrax vaccinations are not suitable to evaluate its safety. Army regula…”

Department of Defense failed_to_provide_follow_up Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 20:19

“DOD and the VA have repeatedly failed to provide information and medical follow-up to those who participated in military research and was ordered to take investigational drugs. The federal government …”

Department of Defense misrepresented_danger_of Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 21:16

“making it impossible to support a VA claim for service-connected disabilities. They have it in your shot record. They just don't acknowledge it. DOD has demonstrated a pattern of misrepresenting the d…”

U.S. Army administered Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 24:44

“Because of this, the military administered PB to almost all of the personnel stationed in the Gulf. Yes, they did. The Air Force personnel reported serious side effects from the drug. Pilots reported …”

U.S. Air Force reported_side_effects_from Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 24:44

Paul Sullivan obtained Department of Defense book_quoted ▶ 25:49

“Veterans advocate Paul Sullivan recently obtained 11 pages of secret Defense Department logs revealing U.S. chemical alarms went off repeatedly during the war. Yes, they did. I know that personally. P…”

Department of Defense denied Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 25:49

Jim Twitt speculated Gulf War Syndrome book_quoted ▶ 26:20

“Gas deaths. You don't need massive death gas. You need a tiny little bit that affects you long term. They always use these bullshit words to qualify everything they say. Former congressional investiga…”

United States sold_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 26:52

“He says Iraqis were suffering health conditions similar to what we're seeing in our veterans. Ironically, much of Iraq's chemical arsenal was made by US companies, of which face a class action lawsuit…”

Ihsan Barbali worked_for Saddam Hussein book_quoted ▶ 27:54

“Barbati, B-A-R-B-O-U-T-I. He was Saddam Hussein's chief architect on many interesting projects. First, he owned an engineering company in Frankfurt, Germany. He had a $552 million contract to build ai…”

Ihsan Barbali designed Libya book_quoted ▶ 28:23

“Qaddafi's German-built chemical weapons plant in Libya. Huh, that's weird. Oh, and just so that we keep the record straight, we paid Otto Skorzeny to build the airfields in Spain for the US Air Force.…”

Otto Skorzeny built Spain host_asserted ▶ 28:23

Ihsan Barbali founded Pipeline Recovery Systems book_quoted ▶ 28:58

“chemical weapons plants in Libya. He was also buying various businesses in the U.S. capable of producing war material. Barbadi invested in two companies in the U.S., Pipeline Recovery Systems in Dalla…”

Ihsan Barbali founded Product Ingredient Technology book_quoted ▶ 29:31

“such as those used in nuclear reactors. Huh. And product ingredient technology of Boca Raton, Florida. It makes food flavorings. Barbadi also attempted to buy an Oklahoma City company called TK-7, whi…”

Saddam Hussein used Kurdistan host_asserted ▶ 31:08

“from Iraq working for Saddam Hussein. That particular hydrogen cyanide is capable of penetrating gas masks. But make sure, I'm sorry, but make sure you put that paper mask on. This is the chemical use…”

Richard Secord assisted Ihsan Barbali book_quoted ▶ 34:44

“but they definitely had chemical and biological ingredients and used them. According to a Nightline broadcast, the New Orleans exporter, who was a business associate of none other than Richard Secord,…”

Richard Secord met_with Ihsan Barbali book_quoted ▶ 34:44

Richard Secord collaborated_with Oliver North host_asserted ▶ 35:17

“And phone records show that several calls were placed to Barbadi's office to Secord's private number in McLean, Virginia. Now, again, Richard Secord is the same guy that was arranging the missile cell…”

James J. Brennan supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 35:50

“of George H.W. Bush and George Bush and worked in the Reagan administration. That Richard Secord. Secord was reported to have been in business with James Tully and Jack Brennan, a former aide to Richa…”

James J. Brennan member_of Richard Nixon documented ▶ 35:50

Richard Secord funded Iran host_asserted ▶ 35:50

James Tully supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 35:50

Nicolae Ceaușescu supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 36:22

“which they contracted through Nicolae Crocercu from Romania prior to his execution. The partners in the particular deal were former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and Sarkis Saganalian, S-O-G-H-A…”

Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 36:22

John Mitchell supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 36:22

Gerald Bull supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 36:52

“I-A-N, a Turkish born citizen who had been Saddam Hussein's leading arms procurer. It was, I'm gonna call him Sog. I don't know how to pronounce his last name. The Turkey guy who introduced super cann…”

Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 36:52

Adnan Khashoggi supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 37:52

“always around CIA operations. Barbadi managed to secretly remove more than 2,000 gallons of that ferrocyanide from the Florida plant and ship it to Iraq. It was also reported that Barbadi bought from …”

Adnan Khashoggi recruited Volker Weissheimer host_asserted ▶ 38:54

“Houston's a very busy place. What would follow suit to the fact that Barbati designed the Libyan pharmaceutical, in parentheses, or air quotes, plant in Libya and had met with former Nazi scientist, V…”

Richard Secord supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 40:34

“This was done under the guise of providing Iraq with agricultural loan guarantees. With the U.S., through arms dealers like Secord, funneled millions of dollars of biological and chemical weapons tech…”

Banco Nacional de Lavoro financed_via Iran host_asserted ▶ 40:57

“These business maneuverings were handled through the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation and the loans channeled through an Atlanta branch of Banco Nazionale Lavaro in Italy. And …”

BCCI financed_via Iran host_asserted ▶ 40:57

Operation Gladio financed_via BCCI host_asserted ▶ 40:57

Commercial Credit Corporation financed_via Iran host_asserted ▶ 40:57

United States supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 42:33

“The bottom line is that all of these technology transfers concerned the highest levels of government, including the CIA. Key individuals from the White House on down knew about all of these cells to I…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 43:37

“Still, the government continued to deny the Gulf War syndrome existed. In an AP article titled, No Mystery Ailment Found in Gulf War Veterans, a study says, the author wrote, quote, a study of more th…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 44:06

“The Pentagon's top medical official said Tuesday. They lied. The study turned up instances of back pain, headaches, alcoholism, depression, and other ailments, but no mystery ailment. They were droppi…”

Stephen Joseph member_of Department of Defense documented ▶ 44:36

“The article went on to note that according to Dr. Stephen Joseph, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health, we do not find a single or unique illness responsible for a large or even significant porti…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome documented ▶ 44:57

“He goes on, Tuesday's announcements marked the first categorical rejection of the Department of Defense of the existence of unknown malady stemming from the 1990-91 war. Dr. Joseph concluded that the …”

Ed Konigberg member_of Department of Defense documented ▶ 46:23

“The investigation, however, does not change the Department of Defense position that U.S. forces were not exposed to chemical or biological weapons. Whether through scud attacks or inadvertent releases…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome documented ▶ 46:23

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 46:56

“Again, you just can't hate these people enough. The exposure being investigated occurred in late January 1991 when the Czechoslovakia experts in chemical warfare detected the traces of sarin gas in ar…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 48:02

“that would cause this type of illness. Veterans organizations involved in exposing the truth fought an uphill battle with the government. Author Wilson, who is the executive director of the DAV, wrote…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 49:02

“Mr. Wilson summed up in his article in the DAV magazine, quote, remember that during and after World War II, the Department of Defense concluded that there was no significant long-term health effects …”

John Deutch covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 50:03

“In 1995, it was obvious a few nerves were struck. The line of questioning centered around were Americans exposed to chemical, biological, and radiological weapons during the Persian Gulf War? Deutsch …”

Garth Nicholson exposed Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 50:32

“Finally, Bradley asked if there was any possibility that biological weapons or chemical weapons might have been used, and Deutsch simply dodged and evaded the question. The interview was aired on Marc…”

Garth Nicholson member_of University of Texas documented ▶ 51:01

“known as mycoplasma fermentans. And it says that it would explain most of what is known about the Gulf War syndrome. Garth Nicholson is a professor and chairman of Department of Tumor Biology at the w…”

Nancy Nicholson member_of Rodin Foundation for Biomedical Research documented ▶ 51:34

“was shipping the biological weapons out of. His wife is the president of the Rodin Foundation for Biomedical Research in Houston. They published more than 400 scientific papers that served as referenc…”

Garth Nicholson exposed Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 52:42

“wouldn't be a major cover-up that had been constructed by the Clinton administration. But of course, it started before that with the George H. W. Bush administration. In a letter written to a former A…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome documented ▶ 53:14

“The heat of the fire of the public sentiment continued to burn until August 19th, 1969, when AP published an article called The Pentagon Admits Chemical Weapons Reached Soldiers. In the article, the P…”

Department of Defense covered_up Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 53:44

“The Pentagon and other, we didn't demolish it, we bombed it and we spread that shit everywhere. The Pentagon and other government agencies aware of the presence of chemical weapons at the ammunition s…”

37th Engineer Battalion carried_out_attack Iran host_asserted ▶ 54:12

“At that location, including one described as leaking, essentially was filed away and covered up, classified with national security stamp on it. Something else that was not mentioned by the government …”

Dan Tlepsky exposed Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 55:18

“A further twist is that a chemical officer told the engineers that he detected nerve agent sarin, but the officers in charge of the soldiers told them not to don their chemical protective units and ga…”

Gulf Watch exposed Gulf War Syndrome host_asserted ▶ 56:49

“More information came out when the AP released an article part of the log of Gulf War data missing. In an article called Gulf Watch, a Gulf veterans watchdog group discovered the log pages were myster…”

Operation Gladio financed_via Banco Nacional de Lavoro host_asserted ▶ 1:03:58

“we have found in other stories of Operation Gladio. And that's really kind of one of those underlying aspects of all of the research that we do and how you know that the same elements in the U.S. gove…”

Unit 731 recruited Volker Weissheimer host_asserted ▶ 1:08:03

“goes from World War II, Unit 731, and the scientists involved in that, and the particular scientists, it names them, that came over from Germany that went to Fort Detrick and to the Air Force Aeromedi…”

Operation Gladio carried_out_attack Spain host_asserted ▶ 1:10:27

“I don't like them very much. I hate them. Anyway, I hate them. Alon, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, regarding the chemical and biological weapons research, and you're kind of alluding here, I think, to the …”

Frank Olson worked_at Fort Detrick host_asserted ▶ 1:12:02

“He worked at Camp Detrick, later turned Fort Detrick. But, I mean, when he was there, it would have been Fort Detrick. When Frank Olson was there, it was still called Camp Detrick. Maryland, you know,…”

Bruce Edwards Ivins worked_at Fort Detrick host_asserted ▶ 1:12:02

Stephen Hatfield worked_at South Africa host_asserted ▶ 1:12:31

“Hatfield? Is that something like Stephen Hatfield? That he had worked in South Africa at biological weapons institutions in South Africa. Yeah, that's the part that I remembered. Because for those of …”

Milner Kindergarten headed South Africa host_asserted ▶ 1:13:25

“with chemical and biological weapons so that piece that all along just provided is critical to the story and of course at the time South Africa was basically part of not like technically but part of t…”