The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9

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0:05 Okay, let's get this party started. Let me adjust my camera here for just a second. Repost the space and then we're going to get started. We're talking about still Vietnam.

0:26 Chapter 19, the name is They Could Give a Damn About Soldiers. It starts off with a scene that is on top of a mountain in northern Laos. This mountain is being used as a communication site. It was approximately 160 miles from downtown Hanoi.

0:56 From a military perspective, it was a very important communication site. It was known to the military and the CIA as Site 85 or The Rock. And when I was an airman and junior NCO, I told you guys the story about how my maintenance squadron

1:26 would always put me in for Airman of the Month or Airman of the Quarter or Airman of the Year, whatever, because I was the only one in our squadron that had my blue uniform put together. Everybody else, the guys, were all, you know, diehard maintainers. They wore their fatigues to work every day. And other than a promotion ceremony, they never wore their blues, ever.

1:54 And they could go years with never having their blue uniform on. And part of the process is you meet a board and the board has NCOs on them for your organization, usually the group or the wing, like three or four people. And they ask you questions. And the questions all come from a manual that was called a PFE. It was a promotion fitness exam.

2:25 And when you tested for promotion for E5 and above, all of the general military questions came out of the PFE and your specific career field questions came out of the SKT, skill knowledge test. And so by the time I'd been in a few years, I had this entire book memorized. Well, except for one question out of all the boards I met that I missed.

2:55 And it still pisses me off. But one of the questions was the highest ranking Air Force person that had ever got the Medal of Honor. And in our PFE, it told the story of Chief Etchberger. He was at Site 85 and he was killed there. And the reason why he got the Medal of Honor is because

3:26 He made sure that all of the junior people got on the one helicopter that got out of that site. He is, I get chills every time I tell this story. I had his entire career at one point memorized because he was the epitome of a professional military Air Force NCO.

3:54 And he is still to this day like an icon in Air Force history. He is the one that everyone holds up as the example of what it means to be a leader. So, of course, every time I talk about Site 85, I instantly remember this hero. So we're going to talk about Site 85.

4:25 razor back ridge with one side consisting of a very steep incline that was heavily defended by thai mercenaries and mung hold on just a second john can you text him and tell him i'm on my show and i'll be off and call him when i get done it was alpha um so the other was a sheer um

5:01 cliff. So theoretically, it should have been easy to defend and fairly safe because unless you came in by aircraft, it was almost impossible to get to, almost. The top had a tidy landing strip to get the people in and out and to bring all of the communication equipment, the antennas that take on everything that they were using up there.

5:31 The tactical air navigation beacon was probably the most important piece because it's what was used by the pilots to get in and out of areas. It was a navigational beacon. And anybody that was flying up in that area used that.

5:58 And then the communication was basically spying on the North Vietnamese. So it was like sending out messages and translating them and doing that type of thing. So obviously it was a vital communication and intelligence link. And it was considered life and death as far as the radio goes for rescue missions of downed pilots.

6:28 in the northern area. For the military and the CIA, it was a critical part of the war in the north. For as long as the Americans' navigational and communication site on top of the, they're about at 6,000 feet altitude, was permitted to exist, the convoys on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and troop movements around the Plain of Jars and Hanoi

7:00 was accessible targets for American bombers. So as far as the North was concerned, it was a primary target. Site 85, as far as the outside world was concerned, didn't even exist. There was no official orders for those people to even be there. Its mission, the people, and the equipment were all classified. It was what the military and CIA called a black operation.

7:33 Built in 67 over the objections of the U.S. ambassador in Laos, the site was staffed with a handful of Air Force technicians that had been quote-unquote sheep-dipped into a civilian status. As far as the official Air Force position, they had been discharged by the Air Force and hired by Lockheed Aircraft Systems.

8:01 On a one-year contract, this reclassification conveniently sidestepped the Geneva Peace Accords in 1962 that said they weren't supposed to be in Laos. It did not, however, fool the North Vietnamese. On March 10th, 1968, North Vietnamese forces attacked the mountain. The attack was well conceived and carried out with speed and force. They fought their way.

8:30 up the inclined side of the mountain, creating a diversion. Specially trained North Vietnamese commandos, reputedly led by Soviet troops, scaled the cliffs. Small garrison was caught in a pincer movement, quickly realizing that they were vastly outnumbered and that the force of their defenders would not be able to hold out for long. The American contingent called for help.

8:59 Helicopters belonging to Air America in Laos and airborne forward air controllers called Ravens responded. The Ravens flying their light single engine Cessna circled the mountain directing fighter strikes against the advancing communist forces. Air America Hueys did their best to evacuate the friendlies, but all could not be rescued.

9:28 Of the 15 US Air Force personnel listed as manning the site, only four were located and pulled to safety. The other 11 remained accountable. And what they had done, according to the material, was when the helicopter, they couldn't even actually land where the people were. It was the chief that was actually shoving the people onto the helicopter.

9:59 As soon as the top of the mountain had been evacuated, the friendlies, Thai and Mao defenders, were ordered to destroy all of the heavy equipment, break contact, and abandon their positions. The site and its secret communication gear had to be destroyed to keep it from falling into enemy hands. American A-1 Sky Raiders, summoned to support the withdrawal,

10:27 now rolled in and delivered the bomb loads on the mountain. And I don't think this guy has the whole hit, what actually happened right there, because it's much more specific, but we'll just continue. So they started bombing it. And there were all kinds of casualties, of course, because the communists had already gotten up there. The next day, the US fighter bombers were called in from Thailand to finish the job.

11:04 Thousands of pounds of bombs rained down on the mountaintop, virtually destroying what remained of the site. As this was happening, the Hmong and Thai defenders had managed to break contact and had reached a rallying point where heads were counted. After a complete accountability, it was determined that none of the 11 Americans were there.

11:27 However, one Thai sergeant reported that he had seen three of the Air Force technicians at the site being taken prisoner and led away. Though this report was given to U.S. intelligence almost immediately and no bodies were ever recovered, the U.S. ambassador declared the 11 dead. But merely declaring a man dead doesn't make him so. CIA reports of the incident surfaced in 1978 under FOIA request.

11:56 That stated the three prisoners from Site 85 were brought to a village near the mountain by the North Vietnamese. And after parading them in front of villagers for propaganda effect, they had been taken back to a cave. They were later moved to other caves where they were guarded by North Vietnamese. But their captivity in northern Laos was apparently short-lived. In September of 1990, an Air Force captain who was traveling in Laos

12:25 while conducting research for a doctoral degree, managed to interview a former patient Lao general. The general claimed to have been involved in that attack and related the fact that three American technicians had indeed been captured and had eventually been turned over to North Vietnamese troops. The North Vietnamese, according to the general, spirited them away to North Vietnam. None of them were ever heard from again.

12:55 The Air Force losses at Site 85 were only one example of American personnel that disappeared during covert and classified operations. Other black operations, such as covert border crossing activities of the U.S. Special Forces recon and prisoner snatch teams, the Army long-range reconnaissance patrols, as well as the Marine.

13:22 Force recon scouting missions occasionally resulted in some of their members being lost and presumed captured. Other highly dangerous and clandestine activities also added to the missing in action toll. Navy SEAL teams, PBR swift boats crews, Army riverline forces, blah, blah, blah.

13:47 But it was in Laos, outside of the Republic of Vietnam, where no foreign forces were supposed to be, that Americans disappeared with the least chance of being recovered. For in Laos, no one taken prisoner ever came back. They were never looked for because they weren't supposed to be there. Laos was considered by Chinese, Soviet, and Americans to be key to Southwest Asia because of its strategic location.

14:22 Laos commanded an entire western border of North Vietnam and half the border of South Vietnam. It is also a gateway to China on your way to Cambodia and Thailand. Eisenhower considered Laos to be more important than Vietnam. In his transition briefing to President-elect Kennedy, he pointed out that if Laos fell, so would Southeast Asia.

14:52 Laos after World War II was a weak, landlocked, peaceful country that just happened to lay between much stronger warring neighbors. To the north was Burma and China, borders that meant little to mountain tribe people. And for centuries, they didn't recognize any of those borders. They just traveled around and went wherever they wanted to. The eastern border, largely drawn,

15:22 along the flow of the Mekong River, shared 1,300 miles of mountainous jungle with North and South Vietnam. And it was this border and its geographical value that brought the peaceful backward kingdom of Laos into the war. In 1953, the importance of Laos, which was at this time

15:51 under the control of French Indochina, did not escape the French because the rugged terrain of Laos, Ho Chi Minh, could move the length of Vietnam undetected and merely crossing over to the Laotian side of the Mekong River. So he goes through the whole history, which we went through, so I'm not going to bore us with that history of how

16:22 Obviously Laos was because of its proximity was very important to the whole war. And we know that the French gets kicked out and then we come in. He kind of just goes over all of that. And he talks about the politics that was happening in the capital of Laos. Again, we've went over that. So we're not going to.

16:52 spend any time on that. As the war intensified, the CIA's presence in Laos grew. Air America and the main contingent of the CIA upcountry teams quickly outgrew their small Lima site locations. And we know that they went to the Plain of Jars. We know that they built all of those little mini bases all over that area.

17:20 By 1964, the CIA had under its Air America cover, one of the largest air forces in the world. It also had under the leadership of Ving Pao, the second largest guerrilla army in Southeast Asia. Both were very expensive and none of it was authorized as far as it was all covert. It was so secret that it could not be financed through.

17:56 conventional manners and it quickly outgrew the approved black budget in the CIA so of course what are we going to do oh we're going to sell drugs so that gave birth to and it's not like it gave birth to it basically the whole reason we were there taking over from the French was to protect that opium trade I guess this guy doesn't know the history

18:25 And of course, that's commonly referred to now as the Golden Triangle because of all of those countries' borders up there. He then goes on to say the raw opium, you guys are going to love this, which was being grown in northern Laos in the Golden Triangle, was flown into the capital of Laos for processing into heroin. The facility used to process the heroin was a Coca-Cola bottling plant.

18:57 I'm sorry, a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant. Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in the heroin business? That same Pepsi-Cola that had the largest Navy post, I don't know, I think they bought like a huge chunk of the Russian decommissioned ships or Soviet decommissioned ships. Imagine them.

19:27 having their facility used for heroin. I'm shocked. He goes on to say that this buildup during the time that Richard Nixon's law firm was representing Pepsi. That's an interesting little twist. Huh. It was built shortly after Nixon's visit to Dallas for a meeting of the board of directors of Pepsi-Cola.

20:02 That happened the day before JFK was assassinated? Yeah, that same meeting. So Richard Nixon goes to Dallas the day before JFK is assassinated. And he's the lawyer for Pepsi-Cola. And Pepsi-Cola has one of their buildings being used for heroin manufacturing. That's like crazy shit.

20:34 Let's see, Bridget got kicked out. Let me get her back up here. They must be messing with us again. Yeah, that's really crazy. Another meeting occurred in which other players came together in Southeast Asia. According to sources that have only recently surfaced, a meeting took place in Saigon in which a network was established for worldwide distribution of heroin. At that meeting,

21:05 Set up by the CIA was Ted Shackley, Thomas Klein, and a couple of Vietnamese people, also a representative of the Corsican Mafia, which was probably Koenig, and Santo Traficani. Huh. That meeting, which took place in Saigon in 1968, established a division of responsibilities.

21:40 property and profits. They were going to use Air America along with the Vang Pao aircraft that we had basically sold to him, which he turned into his own company. It said they would supply the opium to the Pepsi-Cola lab in the capital of Laos. His airplanes would then fly the pure heroin to Bangkok.

22:15 Thailand, which we've already bought the police force there, where it would be divided into three lots, blah, blah, blah, Corsican, American, CIA. And the money that was made was basically shared among the criminals. The participants of the meeting are well-known government officials, i.e. Ted Shackley and Thomas Klein.

22:49 They were intimate players in JM Wave, CIA operations against Cuba, where Shackley was the Miami station chief. All weirdly enough, at the same time, JFK was assassinated as well. It goes on to say that it was Shackley and Clines that set up Operation 40, which was an organization for the Cuban exiles.

23:18 That included Felix Rodriguez, Raul Veliverde, Rafael Quintero, and one of our favorite villains, Edwin Wilson. They all worked on that. And then we would see most of them all later in the Iran-Contra drug operations. When the attention of the CIA was shifted from Cuba to Laos, Klein's and Shackley and other key Operation 40.

23:50 were transferred to that country. Shackley became chief of station in Laos. Klein's function is Shackley's deputy. Air support was arranged by none other than Richard Secord, who shows up on all of these drug operations too, as supposedly the Air Force retired expert on how to run air operations. Felix Rodriguez.

24:20 who had been a part of Operation 40 and a member of ZR Rifle, who specialized in commando sabotage and counter guerrilla operations. After his time in Laos, he would go on to hunt down Che Cavera, be involved in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, everything in Latin America. So he was their paramilitary guy.

24:50 of note during his Laotian tour is his relationship to one such bureaucrat. Rodriguez was one of the principal contacts between Donald Gregg, the national security advisor, to future, so he was working with Donald Gregg while he was in Vietnam. And then later,

25:16 In the 1980s, he's working with Donald Gregg again because Donald Gregg becomes the National Security Advisor for Vice President George H.W. Bush. And Donald Gregg had Felix Rodriguez as basically his associate to run the Contra operations. Old friends. Ted Shackley would eventually leave Laos for a promotion. In 1969, he was transferred to Saigon.

25:48 would be running part of the Operation Phoenix program, which of course was basically an assassination program. By June of 71, the heroin addiction problem in South Vietnam and among the U.S. military had gotten attention. President Nixon, realizing the media had discovered that as many as two a day

26:17 were dying in Vietnam from overdoses. So therefore, he declares his quote-unquote war on drugs, which we know was nothing of the sort. The amount of return on investment for the CIA was in the multi-millions. Some estimate that their yearly take on opium exceeded $4 billion in the 1970s. To handle this,

26:46 they of course needed a bank. And for Vietnam, we know from our other studies, that was Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. And of course, that was Francis John Nugent, an Australian attorney, and Michael John Hand, a special forces guy who had worked directly with Klein and Shackley in Vietnam. So he knows all about the drug trade.

27:19 Nguyen Han eventually set up office and affiliates in 13 separate countries, including the U.S., Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Cayman Islands, all the drug trafficking places. But we know that it was not really a bank. It was a front for CIA money laundering. They were busy moving funds all over the world. This operation lasted seven years.

27:49 When the Australian government began an investigation, Michael Hand declared the operation bankrupt and shut down the bank. But by that time, it had been determined that the drug profits from the Laotian war zone had been deposited in the Nguyen Han Bank and had been eventually laundered through multiple branches, primarily Bangkok. It had also been discovered that several other conduits for the money

28:18 had been established in one branch in Chiang Mai, Vietnam. Chiang Mai, sorry, that's Thailand, handled nothing but drug money. The only bank accounts it had was for the local drug lords. Chiang Mai is located on the edge of the triangle in Thailand, based its entire economy on the opium trade.

28:52 Incredibly, the Nguyen Han Bank at Chiang Mai had adjoining offices with the DEA, which we know that because remember when we were talking, when we read that book about Nguyen Han Bank, somebody had tried during the investigation to call the bank in Thailand and the DEA secretary answered the phone. Really makes you shake your head. In one seven-month period, the Chiang Mai branch handled...

29:23 2.6 million in deposits from six drug deals alone. According to Victor Marchetti's book, the CIA's involvement in drugs was not something that just happened to appear in or unique to Laos, which we know. Of course, it goes back to the OSS, the Sicilian Mafia, the Corsicans.

29:55 William Colby, all of that stuff. We've talked about that. We know all of that. So we're going to skip through there. But this is an interesting paragraph. The people on the ground in Laos differed in their statements concerning the official U.S. government position. The airfield operatives and the pilots, those who flew the dangerous missions carrying rice and ammunition to Vang Pao's troops and opium back to Thailand,

30:25 told a different story. Ron Rickenback, who worked for USAID and Laos from 1962 to 69, stated, I was on the airstrip. That was my job, to move in and about and go from place to place. I was in the areas where opium was trans-shipped. I personally was a witness to opium being placed on aircraft, American aircraft.

30:54 I witnessed it being taken off of smaller aircraft coming in and out. Neil Hansen, a former senior Air American pilot, confirmed Rickenback's observations from an air crew end. I've seen the sticky bricks come on board, describing the opium, and no one was challenging their right to carry it.

31:18 It was their own property. We were sort of a freebie airline in that respect. Whatever the customer carried on, we flew. Smaller planes covered the countryside. Carrying whatever was required by the quote unquote customers. Fred Platt, a former pilot for Air America, explained that it was what it meant.

31:44 to the farmer. When a farmer raised a crop of opium, what he got for that year's worth of work was not very much, but that's what his crop was. So if we were delivering food to him, we took his opium back. As the war in Laos began to take a turn for the worse, Vang Pao's army was forced to withdraw from the theater of action. It would appear that the amount of drug money required to run the war would decrease.

32:15 But that didn't happen. Through the fighting with slacking off, the flow of opium continued unabated. But where was the money going? According to Frank Turple, a CIA agent, Frank Turple is an author. He's saying that CIA agent Edwin Wilson's former business partner, who was interviewed in 1983 by a journalist,

32:48 that the operation continued long after the Americans pulled out, which of course we know it did. He also goes on to say the convenient business arrangement with the Miami mafia, Traficani, continued after the fall of Vietnam. The significance of Miami to the drug syndicate, he said, that's the base. Shackley, Clines, and Villaverde brothers, as well as Felix Rodriguez, all these people.

33:17 that I hired to terminate other people from the agency are there. They get involved in the biggest drugs going on. Who is the guy behind the scandal? Climes. Who is the boss of Climes? Shackley. Turple then addressed the flow of money. Where did the money come from? Nugent Hand. The whole GD thing has been moved down there. Climes was running drugs. Turple went on to state that the

33:49 Drug lord's percentage of the profits returned to the Golden Triangle was flown to them on board of CIA aircraft. What was on the plane? Gold, 10 million bucks at a time and gold. That plane would return loaded with new shipments of opium. Now, what do you do with all the opium? You reinvest it in your own operations, billions and billions of dollars.

34:20 The opium was carried south to Bangkok, where it was sold to drug merchants from Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Delhi. The money received was laundered through Nguyen Han. That is what didn't come to the United States. By 75, the Nguyen Han Bank Network had drawn the attention of various governments. The Australian government was investigating information that they were drug trafficking and that they were money laundering. And many Australian...

34:50 mobsters had been dealing at Nugent Hand to include, by the way, the Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch was part of the Jewish mafia in Australia banking at Nugent Hand. But the banks remained open and managed to cover their activities until 1979. At that time, more investigations began and they declared bankruptcy.

35:20 Francis John Nugent, of course, was found dead on a back road from a shotgun wound that they declared was a suicide, but it was on the actual wrong side of his body, but whatever. And the gun was neatly laid next to him as opposed to just being dropped like in the floorboard of his nice Mercedes. And of course, he had a business card on him that was from none other than William Colby.

35:52 John Michael Hand, the Special Forces guy, disappeared. But we found him in Oregon. No, Idaho. Right, Bridget? Did we find him in Idaho? I can't hear you. They've taken your microphone away. We found him in Idaho. There you go. Yeah. We found him in Idaho and he was making knives and selling them to Special Forces guys. Yeah. So he really disappeared. If Bridget and I can find him. Crazy.

36:29 The cartel didn't suffer any great setback with the closing of Nugent Hand because they were already using BCCI. They didn't need another. And there was also a new firm that was established in Honolulu, which, by the way, had one of their branches ran by a retired military flag officer. It was serving as a front for money laundering for the financial firm called BBRDW.

36:58 That stood for Bishop, Baldwin, Rinald, Dillingham, and Wong. That came into being overnight. You know, like, hey, we need something. Let's set it up. Questionable financial dealings and poorly run operations eventually brought the organization and 50 of its subsidiaries into the 50 subsidiaries that was set up overnight.

37:28 Can you say money laundering? Because I can. So the IRS gets tipped off and the scandal erupted when a 43-year-old Ronald Rewald, who had no past experience or qualifications in the financial world at all, the perfect thing that you want to have if you're going to set up a CIA front, was indicted.

37:58 But when the case finally came to trial, a really strange thing happened. Not to us, but to everybody else. A former CIA agent, and I'm going to put air quotes over former, was appointed as assistant DA for that case. Huh? Crazy. And the first thing he did was cut off all lines of questioning and evidence.

38:32 that led to the CIA. Of specific note in the evidence were documents that related to POWs and MIAs in Southeast Asia. Huh, that's crazy. BBRDW, according to several sources, had been involved with financing one and probably up to three aborted POWs

39:01 Reconnaissance and rescue missions. This is where it gets good. According to the court transcript, Chief District Judge Harold Fong, after reviewing the documents before they were sealed by the court, explained they related to highly emotional issues of POWs and MIAs. Surely we don't seal court documents for emotional reasons, do we? No, we don't.

39:33 What they actually related to were missions that were programmed to fail from the beginning. One such mission, which was to consist of a handful of Americans and Laotian missionaries who were to enter Laos by crossing the Mekong from Thailand to search for suspected Pathan Lao POW camp containing quote-unquote Caucasians, failed to leave Bangkok.

40:02 Before the personnel who believed that they were on a legitimate cross-border POW search operation could leave the city, their arms and equipment were seized by the Thai police and they were evicted from the country. You know, because they were tipped off from the CIA. Hey, don't let them guys get up there and ask any questions. Because again, we had already spent $35 million buying the Thai police. They're all basically under the control of the CIA.

40:32 Don't know whether that's true today. It certainly was true for decades. We could get in any port, sea or air, and out with anything we wanted because we owned them. We being the CIA. Another mission, which did make it into Laos, reportedly found Americans being held prisoner.

41:05 James Bo Gritz. The reconnaissance patrol he accompanied into northern Laos managed to locate a suspected POW camp being guarded by Asians in military uniform. Upon examining the camp with high-powered binoculars and cameras equipped with telephoto lenses, prisoners were spotted.

41:29 that were not only Caucasian, but were identified as Americans. The team leader, Michael Baldwin, was apparently taken aback. He explained, my God, look, there they are. And they're Caucasian. Baldwin then employed a high-powered bargain parabolic microphone to listen to the sounds of the camp. They're American. The voices that came across the listening devices were not only speaking English,

41:59 They were American. Baldwin quickly set up a compact satellite radio used by special forces and long-range recon patrols, dialing in the frequency of the CIA. Oh, bad move. Bad move. CIA station in Bangkok, he reported what they had discovered. After a few minutes, a startling message came back saying, liquidate the merchandise. What? Baldwin and Barnes were shocked. They could not believe what they had heard.

42:33 The message told them that they were supposed to use their equipment to kill American POWs. Why would they be ordered to do that? Both men refused to carry out the orders. Instead, they began to frantically snap photos as proof of what they'd seen. Surely they had mistaken the radio transmission, but there wasn't any confusion.

42:59 When Operation Grand Eagle, the patrol's codename, returned to Bangkok, the film was confiscated by the local CIA. It disappeared, never to be seen again. Barnes and Baldwin, mystified over the turn of events and disappointed that the American POWs had been left behind, renaming the mission Bend Over. Here it comes.

43:21 Barnes later discovered that the mission leader, Michael Baldwin, was in fact Jerry Daniels, a former CIA and Special Forces operative who had worked under Clines and served as Vang Pao's case officer. I am shocked that guy's not dead. Literally shocked. In a later attempt to locate American POWs in Laos, former Green Beret

43:52 James Gritz, Beau, led a three-man team into the Golden Triangle section of Burma. He had been told by a member of the National Security Council that the opium warlord named General Kuhn Sa might know of or even control some of the captured American POWs. One injection, ma'am. I'm pretty sure Beau Gritz was the one that was involved in negotiations in Ruby Ridge.

44:21 Yes, that's true. In 1983, Grits' team managed to make their way through the jungle and virgin teak forest of northern Thailand to Burma to meet with Kung Sa. What they found was that once again, the POW-MIA situation was directly linked to drug trafficking. Though Kung Sa told Grits,

44:49 That he did not have or know of any American held within the Shan state, his territory. He did want Ritz to take back to America an offer that he felt the Reagan administration could not refuse. The offer was the Shan people would reduce and within five years eliminate their opium production. If the U.S. would simply give him one-tenth of the money that was sent to Thailand to fight.

45:18 the reputed war on drugs. You know, that never left Thailand because there was really no war on drugs. He actually called out the Reagan administration for lying. There's no war on drugs because nobody's actually trying to work with him to stop producing the drugs. And he told that to an American, calling out the Reagan administration. Gritz was excited.

45:50 Though he did not succeed in gaining information about the POWs, he did manage to return home with an offer that definitely would impact the drug scene, so he thought. Kun Sa's motivation for such an offer was simple. He wanted the Shan state and its people to be recognized by the U.S. government. If this occurred, his people and his private 40,000-man army would be legitimized in the eyes of the Burmese government. Secondly, he wanted the U.S. to send a people.

46:22 Peace Corps volunteers to show the Shons how to grow other crops and for the proper equipment to be provided. If the U.S. agreed, he'd stop growing opium. Gritz returned to the U.S. and delivered the message to his contacts at the White House, NSC advisor Tom Harvey. Harvey called Gritz later and said, well done concerning his successful infiltration. When Gritz asked about the heroin deal, Harvey,

46:53 Turned cryptic. What about the 900 tons? Asked Gritz, referring to the quantity that had been shipped by this man out to the world market. 900 tons of opium. Harvey replied, Beau, there's no interest here in that. Gritz was taken aback. Tom, what do you mean no interest? Didn't President Reagan appoint Vice President Bush?

47:25 To be his top cop on drugs? Bad move, Mr. CIA. Bo, what can I tell you, he said. Bo continued to press the issue and returned to Burma to conduct a second interview. This time, he took a video camera and filmed the entire meeting. After returning to the U.S., he delivered copies of the tape to several members of the written and electronic media and to numerous congressmen and senators. But he received no coverage.

47:55 None on TV and almost total silence from Washington. Finally, when a few smaller newspapers whose circulation is outside the beltway wrote lengthy articles naming certain high government officials as conspirators, Washington finally reacted, especially when one of those accused was the Assistant Secretary of Defense. Quote, a drug lord in Burma has accused Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense.

48:25 Richard Armitage. Oh my gosh, I'm shocked. That guy shows up in almost all of our, we're gonna have to move him up to at least the top 10 Forrest Gumps of our stories. And former American officials trafficking in drugs to raise money for quote unquote anti-communist operations, which is code name for Gladio. It was in an article June 4th, 1987.

48:54 in Riverside, California newspaper written by David Hendricks. In a three-hour videotape interview smuggled out of Southeast Asia within the past week and given to Press Enterprise yesterday, Kung Sa said high-ranking American officials were involved in drug trafficking from 1965 to 1979 and continues today. I added that last part. In 79,

49:24 Five years after the Paris Peace Accords were signed and the time span since American forces had pulled out of Southeast Asia, the drug flow out of the region and the money flowed into certain clandestine bank accounts. The article went on to say, Kunsa, who says he directs an army of 40,000 attempting to form an independent nation in Burma, said Armitage controlled the finances of the alleged American.

49:53 drug operations. After the Vietnam War, Richard Armitage was a permanent trafficker to Bangkok, he said. Between 75 and 79, he was a very prominent trafficker. He was one of the embassy employees. The aide said Armitage established the Far East Trading Company. After leaving the embassy and used the company as a cover, it was a CIA front.

50:25 Armitage, previously to being appointed to the Reagan administration, had served in what program? What program? Oh, that's right. The Defense Attaché Program. The Defense Attaché Program. The ones that are used by the CIA as handlers. That program. And was assigned to the office in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

51:00 Then between 73 and 75, served as a consultant to the DOD in Washington. In 75, he became a, what? An export agency, an export agent to Bangkok. Oh, Bangkok where they're funneling all the drugs in and out? That Bangkok, yes. He was doing export and import in Bangkok and the United States. That's really weird. Then...

51:31 In 1978, guess who hired him? Senator Robert Dole. You know, the guy that wanted to be president, that Robert Dole? Yeah, that guy. Hired the drug trafficker, money launderer, Senator Robert Dole. Various offices in Washington played down the tapes, making statements ranging from, we haven't seen the tapes yet, so we can't comment, to...

52:09 These are old, it's old news. It's old news. They've been completely debunked. Old news. Regarding the old allegations, they've been looked into. They have no substance. They're debunked. Yes, yes. Way back in 1970s, they're using the same fucking talking points. It's old news.

52:40 And when it was news way back then, a couple of years ago, it was totally debunked. You just can't make this shit up. And so it went. No one wanted to address the content of the tapes or even acknowledge receiving them or viewing them. Even so, the article did drive several names home to the American people.

53:14 Ted Shackley was a central figure in the American-controlled Laotian drug business. And yes, he was. And later had been considered as a candidate to be the CIA director. He was also later discovered to be a key player, of course, in the Iranian arms for hostage deal that would expose the CIA, the NSC, and the secret underworld dealings of armed dealers. And of course, the drug piece of it.

53:47 Grits' reward was to be indicted. Not the drug traffickers, not the people that ordered the other team to be assassinated for finding American POWs. The guy that brought the evidence to the United States, Grits. Yeah, he gets arrested. He gets indicted for doing exactly what every clandestine agent working for the government has done on a routine basis.

54:18 He used a bogus passport to enter and leave Thailand. Grit's attorney, Lamond Mills, a former U.S. attorney for Nevada, told the press that if the United States government tries him, believe me, like read my lips, he won't be the only one tried. I am going to stand there and let him take the fall.

54:46 I'm not going to stand there and let him take the fall for a technical violation when all he was doing was acting for the American government and trying to find POWs. I've got three hours of videotape I'm going to use. So then the whole American public would see it because it would be on television. So, of course, they dropped the charges.

55:14 Ross Perot, who became very involved in the plight of US POWs in Indochina and their families, was named by Reagan to assist in the hunt for POWs. However, when he brought his massive assets to bear, he discovered basically what Gritz and Barnes had already discovered. The POW affair was meshed in the drug scene. Upon traveling to the White House to meet with the vice president, who Reagan had directed to lead the war on drugs, Perot felt that there was

55:43 less concern over the drug problem than he was originally led to believe. He was told by Bush, he told Bush, sorry, well, George, I go in looking for prisoners, but I find all of my time discovering the government has been involved in moving drugs around the world and involved in illegal arms deals. I can't get all of the prisoners because of the corruption of our own government. That was what Perot told Bush.

56:14 Perot was immediately removed from the position. And in a heart-rending statement made to the POW and families in 1987, he said, I have been instructed to cease and assist. You saw too much. The Pei Ocean Lao continued to hold 308 American POWs. They had stated that they wanted to negotiate and that they had tens of tens of

56:46 and that they could not understand why the Americans would not negotiate with them like they did with the Vietnamese. I found out why, Gritz said, when the war ended. The communists consolidated Laos and Cambodia, the secret teams that trafficked in drugs during the war, continued to do so, supposedly to continue their covert funding, and they went into private bank accounts, the secret team.

57:15 continued to operate regardless of who was in charge. And with a few new faces surfaced again during the Iran-Contra affair known to the media as ContraGate, but why was so much clandestine attention focused on Lao in reference to the POW and MIA? Why not on North Vietnam, who held hundreds more American prisoners than the

57:45 The answer is simple. The Vietnamese, in their consistent Asian play on words, have stated over and over, no live American POWs are there. To them, that's a factual statement because some of the Americans held inside of Vietnam, like their Korean war veterans, and have been designated as war criminals. This removes them from POW status.

58:12 Most of the American POWs have been transferred out of Vietnam where Washington investigator sends teams so they ensure that they're never found. These men have been held amid the poppy fields in Laos long enough to have intimate details of the drug trade. Should one come out, the entire affair would unravel. And for those within the government who have, for economic and political reasons, consistently stated that no live Americans exist,

58:42 If one American returnee ever was bound to exist, the whole government would fall. Followed by lengthy prison sentence, if you believe that. Sadly, the entities assigned to the task of resolving POW and MIA's issues have historically contained or answered to the very people that were responsible for leaving them there. They would not.

59:10 want the American POWs to come home again, Gritz said, because when they do, there will be an investigation as to why they were abandoned. At the time, we will uncover this secret organization and their illicit drug money and financing. The secret team would be exposed. As of 93, the cover-up in the damage control continues at the highest levels. Senator Bob Smith of the Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on POWs stated in a meeting,

59:39 On December 1st, 1992, the Select Committee meets today, one year after its first round of hearings in the POW issue to consider the fate of unaccounted for American servicemen in Vietnam conflict. These hearings have been dubbed the wrap-up hearings. Frankly, I am disturbed that we are perceived to be wrapping up this investigation when there is no...

1:00:06 When there is so much more unwrapping that we should be doing, I have found that more research we do, the more questions I have. That task was to learn everything our government knows about the fate of our missing men. Mr. Chairman, I regret to say that this committee does not yet have everything our government knows on the fate of these men.

1:00:28 For the last 19 years, we have been told by both the government and the communist governments in Southeast Asia that no American servicemen were kept back or left behind at the end of the war. Indeed, just this past August, the committee hearing, the DIA POW chief informed us, and I quote, through the debriefings at homecoming, we accounted for everybody who was known to be held in captive. That's a bold-faced lie.

1:00:56 The facts, as our government has known them, tell a different story. In my own review of MIA files, intelligence reports, and other information, I have come up with a universe of over 300 American servicemen who were last known by our government to be alive, many of them in captivity, that are still unaccounted for.

1:01:18 From the NSA, which confirms the capture of U.S. servicemen from incidents in Laos and Vietnam, where the individuals had previously been simply listed as missing by our government, these men are still unaccounted for, yet we know many of them were captured. This listing of over 300 persons is also based in part on information contained.

1:01:42 from debriefings of POWs who returned in 1973 and who reported that others were last seen or known to be alive. These men are also still unaccounted for. Incredibly, the DOD for the last 12 years has denied access by professional committee staff members to relevant portions of the debriefings, even though they have been receiving permission from the returned POWs to show them. Why on earth?

1:02:10 Would the Department of Defense refuse Congress to see those reports? We know why. When you consider the number of MIAs at the end of the war, currently 1,117, where we had no information on their fate of the individual, it is probable that even my number of over 300 is very conservative.

1:02:38 The staff also found that over 920 accounts of reported American POWs cited or said to have been detained in captive environments in Laos and Vietnam. More importantly, they found that these accounts clustered in geographic locations where, in many cases, our own intelligence agency confirmed the presence of detention facilities. In April of this year, our staff, after having plotted all of the sightings of

1:03:08 These people on a map tried to brief the members of this committee on our findings. Regrettably, the briefing did not take place in an independent and objective manner because the DIA, with the cooperation of certain members and senior staff of the committee, badgered and insulted the investigators. Some obviously did not agree with these findings, as is their right. But to this day, I remain shocked at the manner in which the investigators were treated.

1:03:38 For the record, let's be clear what those findings were. After spending over 2,000 man hours reviewing these selected reports, staff investigators concluded, and I quote, the intelligence indicates that American POWs have been alive and in captivity in Vietnam and Laos as late as 1989, and that POWs were in captivity in Cambodia.

1:04:09 as well during his presentation senator smith made some very bold statements um as late as june 1992 next to a prison in north vietnam the markings 72 ta 88 and a name are stamped out next to the prison facility and this name in the code letters ta

1:04:41 do in fact correlate specifically by name to an unaccounted for serviceman shot down in 1972, and the National Security Agency indicates this individual may have been captured during the end of the war. Then he went on to mention, on at least four occasions, the Vietnamese reportedly indicated to the U.S. through third parties and third countries that there were alive American servicemen in Vietnam and Laos.

1:05:12 who could be returned through negotiations with the U.S. These occurred in January 1977, January 1981, November 1984, and early in 1985, and then again in 89 and 90. But no one seems to have wanted to negotiate for our American servicemen. He went on, Mr. Chairman, I ask your support to immediately issue subpoenas for the documents that we have not received from the executive branch.

1:05:43 President Bush administration, including 60 boxes of intelligence reports from NSA, operational files from the CIA, the relevant portions of the debriefing reports from the returned POWs, and over 5,500, sorry, DIA intelligence reports, which our investigators say indicate POWs were alive as late as 1989. I also call on the committee, as I indicated in writing last week,

1:06:10 to immediately vote to declassify, as we are empowered to do under our authorizing legislation, all of the live sightings and hearsay reports that have been in our possession for the last six months. So Congress had them. The American people are entitled to have these reports publicly released by the Senate in a coherent fashion. Last week, I made...

1:06:37 One last appeal to the Defense Department to come to the Senate and physically declassify these reports. They denied my specific request in writing. They won't come here, so I call on this committee to do it ourselves. In conclusion, we have hundreds of questions yet to be answered, thousands of documents that this committee has not seen and that this government refuses to provide. The committee must have the will to get those documents.

1:07:06 and to get those documents answered and to get all of the information declassified. There should be no final report until this is finally accounted for. The senatorial investigation, though far from complete, ended before Christmas 1992. The POWs, if any were still alive, remained in captivity. And not one government official has ever faced trial for drug trafficking.

1:07:31 As for the feelings of the veterans that fought in Vietnam and Laos, former Green Beret Major Mark Smith, who was privy to live sighting reports through Army intelligence channels, summed it up. You're talking about people who have no feelings whatsoever about the individual soldier in the field. Their answer to all of this is to build a black wall in Washington and put their names on it to pacify you. Do you care about those soldiers? They could give a damn.

1:08:01 About the soldiers. Boom. You really can't hate these people. Enough. At all. Okay. What do we got? I know SR's got something. Oh yes ma'am I do. First of all. I was amazed that they were using gold. To buy opium. But that aside. Given everything that went on. And what. With the POWs. The MIA or POW MIAs.

1:08:48 in Vietnam alone. During that period of time, I'm of the age where everyone was wearing a POW MIA bracelet. And that you don't see from anyone nowadays that I can think of. But Bob Dole was the one who started that, by the way. He was a major contributor to trying to get the POWs and MIA people back.

1:09:21 No, he wasn't. That's what I'm telling you. See, this is what politicians do. They know none of that's ever going to come out. So they create a campaign and pretend like they care. The entire thing was a fucking fake. You know damn good and well, in the Senate, they had information that these people were alive.

1:09:53 One of those bastards could have just went to a microphone and said it. Fuck your career. There's Americans in a prison in a foreign country that went there to serve that you fucking drafted. You forced them to go over there or go to prison. And then you left their ass in that country so your drug trafficking didn't get exposed. And then that...

1:10:23 Add salt to the wound. Then you take your sorry ass up there in front of a camera and pretend like you care. Here, wear a bracelet. Sorry. This whole topic just pisses me off. I hate these bastards. Well, yes, I can say it pisses me off, too. And Bob Dole actually wore a bracelet for John McCain. Oh, make me puke. That's even worse.

1:10:58 Because when they were talking about the people jumping up and down in Congress during one of the settings, it was John McCain. John McCain is the one that created the big ruckus in the Senate about how can you keep doing this? Just let this die. He knew that there were people over there alive. He was one of the worst ones. Fuck them all. Why are you so mad? Go ahead.

1:11:31 I would ask the question, why are you so mad? But I think you're very much aware of why you're mad and everybody should be. I want to point out what you had pointed out about PepsiCo and them having a very large fleet. I believe it was 25 Soviet ships that they had purchased. And this whole thing makes me wonder what they have actually transported.

1:12:01 Yes. And so what is that? What does PepsiCo need submarines for? I mean, for cocaine. Yeah. So it makes it and I've heard rumors, cocaine, whatever, human trafficking, all sorts of stuff. So it makes me sit there and look at some of these international companies and see what they what they're really involved in.

1:12:29 Particularly PepsiCo. I mean, several. I've not come across any human trafficking with PepsiCo. I don't want to make that clear. But they have been implicated in many of the stories of this Gladio network. Specifically, they were also implicated.

1:12:57 and the soda market down there and a whole bunch of so itt um uh anaconda freeport mining and um pepsico all offered nixon money to overthrow the um salvador linda government interesting interesting now we see where i mean the gladio glass is on when it comes to all this stuff that the

1:13:24 The dots are so clear. I don't understand how people aren't making these connections yet. I can't even get people to realize USAID is a CIA front. I've only reposted that like a million times. With the amount of fraud, I mean, do they not see the fraud that has been involved in USAID? I have actually posted.

1:13:51 receipt after receipt. You go through that book about Operation Condor and USAID shipping in the generators for the black site prisons, USAID's Office of Public Safety that was teaching people how to torture, kidnap, and assassinate people. It has nothing to do with that.

1:14:12 They are intimately, they are basically a CIA front. It goes back to, forget USAID, this goes back to AID. AID was the precursor to USAID and they were doing it back then. Weren't some of their sites actually used? I mean, it is a CIA thing. They were used for all sorts of nefarious things too. So, I mean, they're set up strictly for that, just like the CIA is set up.

1:14:43 It's strictly for drug trafficking. It seems like a lot of things and and a lot of a lot of other things. But I mean, they never really worked for the American people. I mean, we don't even know what they're doing. And it just adds one more, you know, log to the fire when it comes to PepsiCo and their frickin Navy. And then and now all of their their their plants are now what opium plants, cocaine plants.

1:15:14 Are they set up? Are they just another shield? That's probably just me being overdramatic. But are they set up to do the same thing that USAID was doing? Or is it just another shield company? So, no. Now, the legitimate oligarchs, I mean, obviously, they have a product. So they're not just a front company. But what people... It tastes like crap. Yeah, well, okay.

1:15:43 What people need to understand is these international companies cannot do business without being in bed with the CIA. They can't. They have to have the intelligence. They have to have the ability to coerce government officials. That's what the CIA does. The CIA actually works for them. So they're international companies. And generally,

1:16:10 like the case with the Secret Service chick that went to work at Global Security for Coca-Cola during the Trump won administration and then comes back to be in charge of the Secret Service for Biden during Trump's assassination attempt. She led the Global Security Office for Coca-Cola. And that is generally, if you go through a roster,

1:16:37 of global security, and every one of these international oligarchs have them. The airlines all have them. Generally speaking, that's where they stash the CIA people, the intelligence people in that corporation. So they also have a global governance office, and I found some there. But it's generally in their global security office.

1:17:05 And yes, exactly. But they all have them and they have direct lines into the CIA, or at least they did. So when they need somebody taken out or whatever, that's being a pain in their butt. They just pick up the 911 that rings on some CIA guy's desk. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And I agree 100% with what you just said.

1:17:36 But on a different angle of this, they need the protection. That's the problem. If you go into any country and do what these major corporations do without protection, they'll run you out. There's no doubt in my mind. What are they doing they need to be protected from? The population that's there for what they're doing to them.

1:18:00 That's right. So if they went in there as a legitimate, if they went in there as a legitimate business and they were ensuring the prosperity of the people there, they would be heralded as heroes. True. But that's not what they're doing. Correct. We know they're Fabians and what they really want to do. Correct. Corporate. PSYOP's receipt. CIA is basically corporate intelligence assets. You're right. That's exactly what they are.

1:18:31 That's who they report to. Very good. Okay. All right. I got to go. I got to go to dinner. We are having the alpha warrior show nine o'clock and we're going to go ahead. SR. I just want to thank everybody here on rumble and on spaces and on YouTube, YouTube.

1:18:59 Yes, ma'am. And locals. I got one on locals. We have quite a few subscribers over there. I know. And I like to see it increase. It just blows my mind. I don't know why we don't have as many people show up in the chat. Well, it's at 4 o'clock. Most people are still at work. There's almost 5,000 people following us on YouTube. I was shocked.

1:19:22 The other day, because our numbers have increased so much on YouTube, I went over there. I apologize for not going over there more often. There's thousands of people following our account on YouTube. I had no idea. Yeah. So there. Okay. Anyway, we are going to talk about a very interesting subject that you guys know. I think I mentioned it the other day.

1:19:55 I decided to do things out of order again. We're going to talk about the Jasons. I'd never heard of them until the other day. It's fascinating. And I'm going to blow your mind because my mind was blown. I found some more information today. It's crazy shit what these guys have been doing. And you're going to recognize all of it. And they still are around.

1:20:26 And it's so relevant to the conversations we're having today. So make sure you join us at nine o'clock tonight. Okay, thank you, B Clef. And Tom Miller, you guys are so awesome over there. Gladio is mentioned all over the place now. I know, I know. Now we just got to get people talking about the Fabians because everybody's talking about the Democrat Socialists of America.

1:20:57 And none of these people know that they're actual Fabians. None of them. And I need you guys to go find that article, not article, it's not under articles. It's a post, but it's a fairly long post that actually goes back to the roots of the Fabian transition to America, Democrat Socialists of America. And I need you guys to repost that. And I need you to tag anybody that...

1:21:25 makes a post about democrat socialist america put that post on their post um they need to know that we have our own fabians here and until they understand number one what a fabian is and number two how lethal they are and that what's going on in america today is directly tied to the fabians they're not going to have the whole picture of what's actually going on

1:21:51 It didn't just crop up here. It is not a Soros created entity. People are retarded. Okay, so with that, I am going to close and get ready to go to dinner. Thank you guys all for being here.

Entities here

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Claims made here

Nugan Hand Bank front_for BCCI host_asserted ▶ 36:29

“The cartel didn't suffer any great setback with the closing of Nugent Hand because they were already using BCCI. They didn't need another. And there was also a new firm that was established in Honolul…”

Ronald Ray Rewald member_of Bishop Baldwin Rinaldi Dillingham and Wong host_asserted ▶ 37:28

“Can you say money laundering? Because I can. So the IRS gets tipped off and the scandal erupted when a 43-year-old Ronald Rewald, who had no past experience or qualifications in the financial world at…”

James Bo Gritz member_of Operation Eagle Claw host_asserted ▶ 41:05

“James Bo Gritz. The reconnaissance patrol he accompanied into northern Laos managed to locate a suspected POW camp being guarded by Asians in military uniform. Upon examining the camp with high-powere…”

Michael Baldwin member_of Operation Eagle Claw host_asserted ▶ 41:29

“that were not only Caucasian, but were identified as Americans. The team leader, Michael Baldwin, was apparently taken aback. He explained, my God, look, there they are. And they're Caucasian. Baldwin…”

Michael Baldwin front_for Jerry Daniels host_asserted ▶ 43:21

“Barnes later discovered that the mission leader, Michael Baldwin, was in fact Jerry Daniels, a former CIA and Special Forces operative who had worked under Clines and served as Vang Pao's case officer…”

James Bo Gritz carried_out_attack Burma host_asserted ▶ 44:21

“Yes, that's true. In 1983, Grits' team managed to make their way through the jungle and virgin teak forest of northern Thailand to Burma to meet with Kung Sa. What they found was that once again, the …”

Khamti Khamphan trafficked Burma book_quoted ▶ 48:54

“in Riverside, California newspaper written by David Hendricks. In a three-hour videotape interview smuggled out of Southeast Asia within the past week and given to Press Enterprise yesterday, Kung Sa …”

Richard Armitage trafficked Burma book_quoted ▶ 49:24

“Five years after the Paris Peace Accords were signed and the time span since American forces had pulled out of Southeast Asia, the drug flow out of the region and the money flowed into certain clandes…”

Richard Armitage founded Far East Trading Company book_quoted ▶ 49:53

“drug operations. After the Vietnam War, Richard Armitage was a permanent trafficker to Bangkok, he said. Between 75 and 79, he was a very prominent trafficker. He was one of the embassy employees. The…”

Richard Armitage member_of Defense Attaché Program host_asserted ▶ 50:25

“Armitage, previously to being appointed to the Reagan administration, had served in what program? What program? Oh, that's right. The Defense Attaché Program. The Defense Attaché Program. The ones tha…”

Robert Dollar recruited Richard Armitage host_asserted ▶ 51:31

“In 1978, guess who hired him? Senator Robert Dole. You know, the guy that wanted to be president, that Robert Dole? Yeah, that guy. Hired the drug trafficker, money launderer, Senator Robert Dole. Var…”

Ted Shackley trafficked Laos host_asserted ▶ 53:14

“Ted Shackley was a central figure in the American-controlled Laotian drug business. And yes, he was. And later had been considered as a candidate to be the CIA director. He was also later discovered t…”

Ross Perot removed_from_power Ronald Reagan host_asserted ▶ 56:14

“Perot was immediately removed from the position. And in a heart-rending statement made to the POW and families in 1987, he said, I have been instructed to cease and assist. You saw too much. The Pei O…”

Communist Party of China member_of Laos host_asserted ▶ 56:14

Bob Smith member_of Select Committee on POWs host_asserted ▶ 59:10

“want the American POWs to come home again, Gritz said, because when they do, there will be an investigation as to why they were abandoned. At the time, we will uncover this secret organization and the…”

NSA spied_on Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 1:01:18

“From the NSA, which confirms the capture of U.S. servicemen from incidents in Laos and Vietnam, where the individuals had previously been simply listed as missing by our government, these men are stil…”

PepsiCo funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 1:12:57

“and the soda market down there and a whole bunch of so itt um uh anaconda freeport mining and um pepsico all offered nixon money to overthrow the um salvador linda government interesting interesting n…”

Anaconda Mining funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 1:12:57

Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change El Salvador host_asserted ▶ 1:12:57

USAID supplied_arms_to Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 1:13:51

“receipt after receipt. You go through that book about Operation Condor and USAID shipping in the generators for the black site prisons, USAID's Office of Public Safety that was teaching people how to …”

Democrat Socialist of America front_for Fabian Society host_asserted ▶ 1:20:57

“And none of these people know that they're actual Fabians. None of them. And I need you guys to go find that article, not article, it's not under articles. It's a post, but it's a fairly long post tha…”