The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9

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0:00 Okay. I have no video over there on Rumble at all. So we're just going to go with it. All right. We're on chapter seven, but show nine of this particular book. And the book is Twilight of the Shadow Government by Kevin Shipp, who was the CIA officer that the CIA tried to kill.

0:23 He's talked about all kinds of things that we've exposed of the CIA, which obviously gives it firsthand confirmation. So we're going to dive right in. Many Americans are aware of the fact that our intelligence agencies have had alliances in the past with organized crime, as they did with the CIA's campaign against Castro. The answer seems to be, at least in the beginning, that the mob.

0:51 tricked our intelligence agencies into an alliance, which is bullshit. Whether our intelligence agencies later learned of these deceptions and took action or perhaps marveled at the skill of the mob false flag is unknown. And that's unequivocally not true. We know for a fact, and obviously he's not read Paul Williams' book because he has the actual details of how

1:20 the CIA worked in Southeast Asia to set up the drug operations and specifically use the mafia for local distribution to include having Santo Traficana over to Southeast Asia as well as other mafia dons. And in the 70s, it was Richard Nixon that worked with the French government to...

1:47 eliminate the Corsican Mafia, ensuring that the CIA's preferred mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, got sole distribution of drugs not only into Europe, but also into the United States. So, no, they weren't tricked into anything. It's a well-established fact that by the 1940s, the Mafia had infiltrated labor unions and controlled many of the major ports, chief among the effort to control New York docks.

2:18 was Lucky Luciano and his longtime friend and accomplice Meyer Lansky. One of the best books on this is Operation Gladio by Paul Williams. He says this. But then how does he not say what Paul Williams also revealed in that book, which is that the mafia working as far back with Chiang Kai-shek or the CIA was behind the setup of the drug network.

2:48 I just find that laughable. During Prohibition, Luciano and Lansky gained control of the New York docks and longshoremen unions by means of muscle and blood and ran all kinds of contraband, liquor from Canada and other things. So he goes on to describe several of the

3:21 things from Paul Williams' book, which we've already done, so we're not going to go into details on that. But he does talk about the fact that Lucky Luciano was involved in the whole Sicilian mafia family. He goes on to say, well, what is less well known is that Italy, Mussolini, had nearly eliminated the power of the Sicilian mafia, starting

3:48 with his rule in the country in 1922. Not just the Mafia, but the Masonic Lodges as well. Though failing in Italy, the Mafia was a powerful entity in the United States. And then he goes on and talks about Dewey and putting Luciano in prison for prostitution. And then about the attack on Pearl Harbor. And he talks about the false flag that was in the New York Harbor that got them

4:19 dealing with Luciano and how the Navy intelligence was working on security at the New York docks. But the USS Normandy, a French ship, had been docked there. It gets set on fire and they use that as the impetus to start talking directly with lucky Luciano in prison. And then they make the deal that.

4:49 hey, if you help us invade Italy with your mafia dons in Sicily, then we'll let you out of prison at the end of World War II as long as you won't fight deportation and we send you back to Italy. So that was all worked out. That's the Reader's Digest version of like three of the pages here. So it goes on to say that, let's see.

5:22 The Amazon trucks here. Let's see. All right. That's the invasion into Sicily. And then he gets to the part. Well, and while the mafia was assisted in the defeat of the Axis powers, another threat loomed in Europe, Stalin and the communists. But a plan had already been developed by a man called Colonel Paul Helliwell, who was serving in China during and after the Second World War.

5:57 as chief of special operations for the OSS. And from the book Operation Gladio, he has a quote. Within Kunming, a town within the South China province of Yunnan, highly well-observed Chiang Kai-shek leader KMT sold opium to Chinese addicts. And he goes on and tells the whole story of how the CIA figured out how to pay for their covert operations. And then...

6:26 Comes back here and says, let me, I have to quote this because I find this fascinating. We don't know whether our intelligence agencies were deceived and were basically taken advantage of by the mafia. That's such a ridiculous statement after he goes on and says how integral the CIA was.

6:57 to enabling the mafia to be the distribution nodes of the drugs. Crazy. Okay. One of the misconceptions held by many people is to believe that the CIA's creation in 1947 is the date to which we should look when things started to diverge from American ideals. That would be a mistake. One must look further back to the actions of men who ran the OSS in World War II, men like Alan Dulles.

7:29 and what they did in the war and actually what they did well before the war, as well as the development of a drugs for weapons program to understand the CIA was a vehicle for which these programs would be implemented. In other words, the OSS had come up with a plan and the CIA would be how they got those things done. For the conflict in China between the nationalists and communists, the drugs for weapons program needed a delivery system.

7:59 and some soon-to-be infamous names would be in charge of setting them all up. From Paul Williams' book, Operation Gladio, the following quote, By the close of World War II, Helliwell and a number of fellow intelligence officers, to include E. Howard Hunt of Watergate fame, Lucien Koenig, a former member of the French Foreign Legion with strong ties to the Corsican Mafia, he's the guy that actually

8:28 helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the founder of the Flying Tigers, which led to the creation of the Civil Air Transport, which then led to the creation of Air America, who had surplus aircraft.

8:55 including C-47s and C-46s. The Civil Air Transport Fleet transported weapons to a contingency force of KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's paramilitary forces, in Burma. The planes were then loaded with drugs for the return trip to China. The pilots who flew those Bush-type aircraft were a motley group of men, often serving as agents in go-betweens with the

9:25 Chinese nationalist guerrillas and opium buyers. Some of them were even former Nazis. Other parts of the band of expatriates that emerges in countries following any war. Halliwell and his compatriots had created a model for trafficking in drugs that would result in the formation of Air America, the CIA fleet of aircraft that transported opiates.

9:55 and cocaine during and after the Vietnam conflict. Once you begin to see the pattern, you can't unsee it. Hi, Bridget. How does one fight Mao's communist forces in China? Sell opium to addicts in China in order to get money to buy guns and ammunition for the nationalists. How do you raise extra money to support the CIA in Vietnam? You sell opiates from Burma.

10:24 part of the so-called Golden Triangle. How do you raise extra money for the Contras in Nicaragua? Pull this off the shelf, figure out who your new drug suppliers are and how to get the drugs transported and you're in business. And I would argue they didn't pull anything off the shelf. It's never stopped. It's important to realize that the CIA did not become corrupt. It was corrupt from birth, made that way by men who founded the agency.

10:53 It was a Frankenstein monster into which Alan Dulles and his collaborators implanted a diseased brain. Okay. He goes on to say, using Asian-grown drugs, Italian gangsters, and customers in American inner cities was only part of the plan to, quote-unquote, fight communism. They only needed two more elements to complete the picture.

11:23 Nazis and Ivy Leaguers. Both would be delivered by Alan Dulles. Alan Dulles might be one of the greatest unindicted traitors in the history of America. One of the most authoritative books on Dulles called The Devil's Chessboard, Alan Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbert. It's worth noting that Alan Dulles and his brother, John Foster Dulles,

11:51 were the elite of New York's financial world, and yet managed to worm their way into the administration of FDR, even though they considered him a traitor to his class. John Foster Dulles would be Eisenhower's Secretary of State, but it was in World War II with Allen serving as the OSS in Switzerland that he entered the spy game. In Switzerland, Dulles wasn't serving his president.

12:20 who demanded unconditional surrender from the Nazi regime, but pursuing his own foreign policy. A negotiated peace with Germany, with Hitler gone, of course, but with somebody easier to manage at top. You know, someone like Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS. As recounted in Devil's Chessboard, quote, there was nothing undercover about Allen Dulles' wartime exploits in Switzerland. Afterwards, he made...

12:50 much of his espionage adventures with a sympathetic press and then equally credulous biographers, dutifully repeating his tales. But in truth, there was little daring involved for a very simple reason. Dulles was more in step with many Nazi leaders than he was with FDR. Dulles not only enjoyed a professional and social familiarity with many members of the Third Reich elite,

13:18 that predated the war, he shared many of these men's post-war goals. While serving in his Swiss outpost, oh my gosh, the picture just came back. Dulles might have been encircled by Nazi forces, but he was also surrounded by old friends. While Dulles had originally been slated to go to London on behalf of the USS, he argued with

13:45 while Bill Donovan, head of the intelligence agency, that he should go to Bern, Switzerland, as it was the financial capital of the war. The small mountain nation promised neutrality to both sides, but actively profited from both sides. Dulles knew many of the central players in the secretive Swiss financial area because he and his brother had worked with them as clients and business partners for years.

14:14 Sullivan & Cromwell, the Dulles Brothers Wall Street law firm, was at the center of an intricate international network of banks, investment firms, and industrial conglomerates that rebuilt Germany after World War I. Bachter, the law firm's top executive, grew skilled at structuring complex merry-go-round transactions that funneled massive U.S. investments into German industrial giants like I.B. Farben and Krupp Steel.

14:43 The profits generated by these investments then flowed to France and Britain in the form of war reparations, and then back into the U.S. to pay off the war loans. The view of Dulles seems to have been that Nazism and the destruction of World War II shouldn't come between good friends, especially when the business prospects were so good. Conflicts come and go, but commerce is eternal.

15:10 Perhaps it's unfair in retrospect to say, but Foster Dulles couldn't seem to separate himself from his old German law partner, Gebhard Westrich. And when Westrich tastelessly threw a party at the Waldorf Astoria in June of 1940 to celebrate Germany's defeat of France, Foster defended Westrich, saying that he had a high regard for his integrity.

15:39 But even three years into the war, Alan Dulles was looking for a way to close out the war on terms favorable to Germany. After the Casablanca Conference in July 1943, Roosevelt's declaration that Germany must surrender unconditionally, Dulles met with two friends, Prince Maximilian Egon von Hollenloh, often called the Nazi prince.

16:08 and Royal Tyler, a wealthy Boston Globe trotter. Bostonian, sorry. Quote, now Dulles and Holenlo and their mutual friend, Royal Tyler, were gathered amicably around the OSS man's fireplace. Dulles broke the ice by recalling old times with Prince Max in Vienna and New York.

16:37 Then the men quickly got down to business, trying to determine whether a real politic deal could be struck between Germany and the U.S. that would take Hitler out of the equation but leave the Reich largely intact. As they spun out their visions of post-World Europe, there was much common ground. Dulles and Hollenloh clearly saw the Soviet Union as the enemy, with a strong Germany as the bastion against the Bolsheviks and the Slavic menace.

17:07 The two old friends also agreed that there were probably no room for Jewish people in post-war Europe and certainly should not return to positions of power, unquote. This was not how the American people who were fighting and dying on the battlefield viewed the end of the war. But Dulles was more than happy to entertain an alliance with the worst of Hitler's Nazi hierarchy to include SS leader Heinrich Himmler.

17:38 Quote, the fireplace meeting was in fact a double betrayal, Dulles of FDR and the Nazi princes of Adolf Hitler. Hovering over each other was the presence of Heinrich Himmler. He was the Reich's second most powerful man, and he dared to think that he could become number one. With his weak chin, caterpillar mustache, and beady eyes glazing out from behind wire-rimmed glasses.

18:08 Himmler looked like an icon of the master race or a bank clerk, unquote. So during the war, even despite warnings from Washington, Dulles kept trying to find a way to conclude a separate peace with the worst of the Nazi regime. But at this time, Dulles did not have the power to defy the president.

18:37 Dulles would seem to learn the lesson that politics was too important to leave to politicians, even ones like FDR, who would seek to thwart his own plans for shaping the world to his liking. And as much as Dulles held out hope for an alliance with Himmler, the SS chief seems to do the same for Dulles until the end as well. Now, again, it is my firm belief.

19:05 that this is what happened. They did work out a deal. And that's how all of the Nazis got dispersed all over the world and how the rat lines came to be. There was an agreement here, and I'm reading another book that goes into it in a much better, more detailed way of just how behind the scenes.

19:34 Not just all of us know, and I corrected many people you guys know, about the whole Nuenberg trials. It's even worse than we know. There was a man, and I'm not going to recall his name off the top of my head, that worked in the State Department as the senior legal advisor on everything to do with after World War II legal procedures.

20:03 Greenberg or something like that. That man, they created a commission that was meeting in London. There was a man by the last name of Pell, P-E-L-L, that FDR chose. It was a very close friend of FDR's to go represent the United States in London. This guy in the State Department did everything he could to sabotage that man. Everything.

20:30 Finally, he basically gets him fired because the State Department did not want anybody held accountable for the war crimes. Especially, and this was this guy's big sticking point, if a country, and let's just say Germany, was to assassinate, you know, genocide millions of their own people.

21:01 This guy's legal opinion was there was nothing another country could do about that. Nothing. It was a country dealing with their own citizens. Now, if he was to go do that in another country, then he's guilty of war crimes, according to this guy's logic. But you can kill as many people in your own country if they're your own citizens and during a war.

21:27 There's nothing any international body can do to you as a result of that, which is weird considering where we're at now and all of the different, you know, we'll just go drone you even if you're an American citizen in a foreign country. So we kind of went like total berserk. But the book describes how basically.

21:56 The military, no matter what treaty was signed, what agreement was made with the Soviet Union, the U.S. and London plotted to not do it repeatedly. I'm on number five right now. The fifth agreement where they met somewhere and all collectively agreed we're going to do this certain thing this way. And then behind the scenes, based on declassified.

22:26 cables now, America and London did every single thing they could to not do what they had promised the Soviet Union they were going to do. And if you guys recall, if you go back and you read anything that was written during about this time, it was the Soviet Union that kept calling out the West saying, you're not keeping your word. You're not keeping your word. You're not keeping your word. Well, guess what? We didn't keep our word.

22:56 And we didn't keep our word with NATO. We didn't keep our word with anything. We are notorious in these dealings for meeting with people saying we're going to do something and never doing it. That's the reason why they hate Trump. Because if Trump says he's going to do something, damn sure he's going to do it. Nobody's going to stand in his way. And that totally messes their head up because they've never done that ever. OK, so.

23:26 In September 1945, President Truman abolished the OSS as a separate spy agency and placed what remained under the War Department, first calling it the Strategic Services Unit. A few months later, designating it a National Intelligence Authority and then calling it the Central Intelligence Unit. And then eventually in 47, it became the CIA. And it says true to wild Bill.

23:57 vision, the new agency was exempt from disclosure of its organization function, officials, titles, salaries, and number of people employed. Even its solicitation and distribution of funds was to be concealed from congressional and judicial scrutiny. And when you are concealed from congressional and judicial scrutiny, you are a government of your own. You are no longer a part of the actual government.

24:28 This DIA was definitely not set up by anybody with the slightest understanding of how completely screwed up and twisted people can get in the absence of any oversight. While Bill Donovan and his gang had just pulled off one of the greatest heists in history, that of our American government. Never let a crisis go to waste is the expression that should be applied here.

24:51 President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street bankers, lawyers, members of the national news media, and Ivy League scholars. The new recruits included Desmond Fitzgerald, Tracy Barnes, Tommy the Court Corcoran, Harvard-trained lawyers,

25:21 Robert Bissell, a Yale economist, William F. Buckley Jr., a Yale graduate and son of the prominent founder of National Review and good friend of Ronald Reagan, and one of the most influential conservatives of the 1980s. Philip Graham, a Harvard graduate and future owner of the Washington Post, William Colby, a graduate of Princeton and Columbia Law, and Richard Mellon Gape, the principal heir to the

25:51 Mellon Banking Oil and Aluminum Futures. And we see that guy in quite a few of the Operation Gladio coups. Well, all of them actually, but this Richard Mellon scape, I mean, he got involved in drugs and everything. It was just a real weird story. I posted about it on X. The names of many on this list may be unfamiliar to you, not to us. When one considers that William F. Buckley

26:20 who to many on the right is the epitome of a polished intellectual conservative with as many books and prominent magazine, National Review, as well as Philip Graham, who became the owner of the Washington Post, occupying a similar position on the left, one can see how the CIA quickly gained its influence over the American political debate because you have the left and the right, their controlled opposition.

26:46 You'll forgive me, but I have to spend a little time on William F. Buckley. As for the decades, he was portrayed as an eminent, independent, conservative voice, the founder of National Review and the host of the longtime running firing line, which ran from 66 to 99. As such, I rarely trust as much as I rarely trust a CIA employee to tell the truth.

27:15 I quote from one of Buckley's own articles published in March of 2007 in the L.A. Times entitled My Friend E. Howard Hunt. I'll let you judge whether he's telling the truth. Quote, I met E. Howard Hunt soon after arriving in Mexico City in 1951. I was a deep cover agent for the CIA deep covering.

27:41 Deep cover describing I was given to understand a category whose members were told to take extreme care not to permit on any grounds suspicion that one was in service to the CIA. The rule was, perhaps it's different now, that on arriving at one's target post, one was informed which single human being in the city.

28:04 knew that you were CIA. That person would tell you what to do and for what duration your service was needed in that city. He would answer such questions as you wish to put to him and would concern himself with all aspects of your life. The man I was told to report to by someone whose real name I did not know was E. Howard Hunt. He ostensibly was working in the U.S. Embassy as a cultural affairs advisor.

28:33 if I remember correctly, unquote. I think that part of Buckley's article is true. But from that point on, he starts to tell lies and engage in misdirection. He says he never did much for Hunt, aside from translating a book by a defector from the Communist Party in Peru, and that he quit the agency in 52. Then he starts laying what I believe to be a complete false trail. Quote, our friendship was firm, and Howard,

29:04 came several times to Stanford, Connecticut, where my wife and I camped down and visited. I never knew, he was very discreet, what he was up to, but assumed correctly that he was continuing his work in the CIA. I was greatly moved by Dorothy's message to me that she and Howard were joining the Catholic Communion, and they asked me to serve as a godfather for their children, which he did. Years passed without my seeing Howard.

29:33 But then came the Watergate scandal, in which Howard was accused of masterminding the break-in of the Democrat Party headquarters, among other things, and was ultimately convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, and that dreadful accident over Midway Airport in Chicago that killed Dorothy, his wife, in 1972. I learned of this while watching television with my wife, and it was through the television that I also learned that she had named me...

30:01 a personal representative of her estate, in the event of her demise. Sure, sure, you didn't know any of that. Buckley wants us to believe he left the agency in 52, but decades later, he's still so close to Hunt that he ends up the godfather of his children and an estate representative for his wife. That strains credibility. And what about the dreadful accident?

30:29 at Midway Airport in Chicago on December 8, 1972, which also took the lives of 42 other passengers. Testifying about the activities of the CIA does seem to have a dreadful consequence, like dying in plane crashes, being shot in your home by a burglar like Sam Giacono, or being found floating in a 55-gallon drum like Johnny Roselli.

30:56 It seems to have happened at the worst possible time in Hunt's life, as his wife was carrying hush money for the Watergate burglars. From an article in the Washington Post commemorating the 50th anniversary of the fatal crash, Dorothy Hunt was the spouse of one of the Watergate ringleaders, former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt. Hunt was also under indictment in D.C. facing a trial with his co-defendants.

31:26 That was scheduled to begin the second week of January 1973. Dorothy was later identified as a pay mistress of hush money to the Watergate defendants and their family to keep the burglars from cooperating with authorities and testifying at the trial. Investigators combed through the wreckage and found a packet of $100 bills totaling $10,000 in a purse belonging to Dorothy Hunt. It must have had...

31:56 Passports wrapped around the purse. That purse and the money survived? Huh. I'm sure it was tucked in a passport somewhere. It also... Oh my God, you're killing me. I just want to say. It was also discovered that she had taken out $225,000 flight insurance policy at Washington National Airport before departing.

32:27 I suspect if you were E. Howard Hunt, the death of your wife in a suspicious plane crash as she's carrying hush money to pay off your fellow conspirators is almost enough to make one suspect another conspiracy of which Howard was completely in the dark, especially when there were certain statements made after the crash which have still not been answered after all these years. Like the Washington Post article explained, quote,

32:55 50 years later, it is still unclear whether there was foul play as the National Transportation Safety Board characterized the speculation in the downing of United 553. The NTSB ruled the crash an accident due to pilot error, which of course they always do. The Cook County Coroner's Office, which was initially described one of the first class passenger fatalities as resulting from an explosive force.

33:25 and another in the coach section as blast injuries with severe burns. Later confessed that there was a bad choice and clarified that the victims had all died from a high energy impact. He must have got a visit too, unquote. We have an official report that the plane crashed because of pilot error.

33:51 But we also have statements from the coroner's office. Was the high energy impact a bomb or was it meant to refer to the plane hitting the ground? I guess it could cover both so that one might say it's a truth and a lie. However, I read Buckley's 2007 confession of coming down in the idea as coming down in the idea it was a planned attack.

34:19 That terrible event came at a high point in the Watergate affair. Then I had a phone call from Howard with whom I hadn't been in touch for several years. He startled me by telling me that he intended to disclose to me everything he knew about the Watergate affair, including much that he said had not yet been revealed to congressional investigators. What especially arrested me

34:46 was his saying that his dedication to the project had included a hypothetical agreement to contrive the assassination of syndicated muckraker Jack Anderson if the high command at the Nixon White House thought it was necessary. I also remember his King surprised that the White House hadn't exercised itself to protect and free him.

35:11 and his collaborators arrested in the connection of the Watergate Enterprise. He simply could not understand how this happened. Near the end of his life, Buckley would die less than a year later in February 2008. Was Buckley trying to get some measure of justice for Dorothy Hunt? As I've said before, I've always believed people want to tell the truth, no matter how terrible the truth is. While Buckley seemed to still be withholding some facts,

35:41 such as his claim to have left the agency in 51, he still reveals some remarkable information. It's almost in passing that he let slip the hypothetical agreement to kill columnist Jack Anderson if his articles came too close to the truth. And why might the White House not protect Hunt? Perhaps Nixon worried that even though Hunt was working for the re-election campaign,

36:08 The fact that he was also CIA meant that he was far from being on the team. In the end, neither Hunt nor Buckley understood for whom they were truly working and what agenda was being pursued. I don't agree with that. I think they all knew. But I think it's important for readers to understand the examples like William Buckley are emblematic of the idea that media disinformation efforts like Mockingbird were part of how the agency operated from the very beginning.

36:38 However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the summer of 1947, the terms of the working relationship between the CIA and mafia were ironed out by Frank Wisner and Angleton. Meyer Lansky and Helliwell had worked in tandem to handle the financial aspects of the narcotic venture,

37:08 through a company called General Development Corporation. It was a shell company in Miami. We've talked about it many times. Angleton would handle any legal disputes between the mob and the CIA through New York lawyer Mario Brod, B-R-O-D. The 200 kilos of heroin for the test run would come in from Italy.

37:38 one of their pharmaceutical companies. The product would be shipped by Sicilian mob in crates of oranges. And we know all about our oranges now. The drugs would then be shipped to New York for distribution in jazz clubs of New York and specifically Harlem and black people. It's a mistake in understanding to think

38:04 CIA was founded with noble intentions, but there were rogue elements over time that would sully even their bad name. The truth is the CIA was founded as a criminal enterprise with some of the worst in the world's criminal element. The CIA was selling drugs to inner cities to finance anti-communist crusades in Europe, particularly Italy.

38:33 And the CIA, along with other organized crime partners, would infiltrate urban police departments as well to keep things under control. In other words, investigate who we want to investigate and let alone the bigger guys that we don't want investigated that would lead directly back to us. When one understands a system that's in place, a lot of history makes more sense.

39:01 Many have questioned why the FBI, under its legacy founder J. Edgar Hoover, never went out. Some claim it was because the mob had a compromising picture of Hoover in a dress or possessed blackmail information over him being a homosexual. Personally, I think those stories are a distraction meant to make you laugh for a moment, then not consider the darker implications. Hoover couldn't move against organized crime because the CIA was in business with them.

39:35 The CIA's funding mechanism was in place now. What was the goal? It was to fund an effort called Operation Gladio, a stay-behind network of personnel and ammunition in Western Europe, designed to conduct guerrilla warfare against unsuspecting Soviet invasion or communist takeover by elements supported and directed by Moscow. Probably the most authentic book on the subject is NATO's Secret Army by Daniel Ganser.

40:07 The book was published in 2005, and the author freely acknowledges that many documents were still classified, but there were already abundant information released, obviously because of the Italian investigation. And he's quoting from the foreword in his book, quote, the executive agents in the creation of the stay-behind units were the CIA of the United States and the Secret Intelligence Services, SIS or MI6, of the UK.

40:38 Other major actors included security services in a number of European countries. In all cases, identical techniques were used. The intelligence services made an effort to establish distinct networks for spying on occupiers that is for espionage and for sabotage or subverting an enemy occupation. To establish the networks, the CIA and other recruited individuals willing to participate in these dangerous activities.

41:06 often allowing such initial or chief agents to recruit additional sub-agents. Intelligence services provided some training, caches of arms, ammunition, radio equipment, and other items for their network. They set up regular channels for communication. The degree of cooperation in some cases ranged up to conduct of exercises with military units and paramilitary forces.

41:33 The number of recruits for the secret armies ranged from dozens in some nations to thousands in others. That's what drug sales in Harlem and other black communities by the CIA and the mob were purchasing in Western Europe and in the United States. They stay behind secret army to be used in case of Soviet invasion. However, since the Soviets never invaded, they oftentimes use them for other purposes. The existence of these secret gladio.

42:04 was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War. The information about some of these parts came to light in 1990. Retired CIA officer Thomas Polgar confirmed after the discovery of secret armies in Western Europe that they were coordinated by a sort of unconventional warfare planning group linked to NATO. This was also confirmed by the German press.

42:31 which highlighted that this secretive department of NATO had, during the entire Cold War, remained under the dominance of the United States. The mission of the secret armies are coordinated by the Special Forces Section in a strictly secured wing of NATO headquarters. The German press said, a gray steel door, which opens as a bank vault, only though a specific number of combinations.

43:01 prohibits any trespassing to the unauthorized. This sounds like some paranoid left-wing fantasy of the 1970s, and yet you can read scholarly accounts of this program. They just won't get much coverage in the mainstream media. Boy, don't I know that! While original copies of the secret anti-communist NATO protocols remain classified,

43:28 Speculation concerning their content have continued to increase after the discoveries of the secret anti-communist day behind armies. U.S. journalist Arthur Rouse, in his Gladio article, claimed a, quote, a secret clause in the NATO agreement in 1949 required that before a nation could join, it must have already established a national security authority.

43:57 to fight communism through clandestine citizen cadres, unquote. Italian expert on secret service and covert action, Giuseppe Di Lutez, found that when becoming a NATO member in 49, Italy signed not only the Atlantic Pact, but also secret protocols which provided for the creation of an organization charged with guaranteeing

44:27 Italy's internal alignment with the Western bloc by any means necessary, even if the electorate wanted something different. The CIA was setting itself up as a institution which was higher than the democracy in which it was supposed to serve. The people of Europe were not to be trusted. Is it any wonder that if this was the underlying philosophy of the CIA regarding Europe,

44:57 that it was only a matter of time before it came here. It came here at the same time, sorry. The CIA may have believed it was setting up these protocols as a measure of last resort, but it was a step that only led to tyranny. Once you cross that line of taking away freedom, it becomes a slippery slope. Sometimes it's instructive to have incidents which may, for a moment, reveal the true architecture of the world.

45:28 In the West, we've been led to believe that the freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, freedom to pursue happiness in ways that make the most sense to us, provided that we don't harm others. We do this because we believe that we are the sovereign rulers in our system of government, constrained by laws, of course, but otherwise free men and women.

45:54 However, when one considers the powerful agency like the CIA seeks to control what you think, what actions you take, what their desirable ends are, and are even willing to go so far as to stage what Ted Shackley called paramilitary action, which may require the use of phony political groups and the use of political violence, we begin to see the invisible chains that have been placed around our neck.

46:22 retired middle-ranking CIA officers were more outspoken about the secrets of the Cold War and illegal operations of the CIA, among them Thomas Polgar, who had retired in 81 after 30 years in the CIA and in 91 testified against the nomination of Robert Gates as director of the CIA because the latter had covered up the Iran-Contra scandal. When questioned about the secret Gladio armies in Europe,

46:51 Polgar explained with an implicit reference to the CPC and the ACC, the CPC is the Clandestine Planning Committee and the ACC is the Allied Clandestine Committee, which we've talked about often, that the Stay Behind programs were coordinated by a sort of unconventional warfare planning group linked to NATO.

47:16 In the secret headquarters, the chiefs of the National Secret Armies would meet every couple of months and in different capitals. It's well known by experts in the addiction field that the only way to break negative behavior is by making a radical commitment to the truth. Yeah, good luck with that. It should be noted, though, that in 1990 interview, Turner was still protecting the dark secrets.

47:45 of the CIA and in doing so forever tarnished his legacy. And let's see. Journalist Arthur Roust, formerly of the staff of the Washington Post, in an essay on Gladio said, the lessons of Gladio, as long as the U.S. public remains ignorant of this dark chapter of U.S. foreign relations, the agencies responsible for it will face little pressure to correct their ways.

48:18 The U.S. will await a real national debate on the means and the ends and the cost of our national security policy. This book was an attempt to create just such a national debate on actions. Well, welcome to the party. So that's a good place to stop because he goes back into talking more about. So.

48:50 I think that's a good place to make a break for today. Let me mark my place and we'll open it up for. Oh, and I have some news. So I have been wanting to get Paul Williams back on our podcast and he has agreed. We're working out on a date right now. So we are going to I'm just interested.

49:24 Obviously, he's an expert on the Catholic Church, so I would love his take on what's going on with that. He also is an expert on foreign policy, so I'd like to have his take on Trump's first 100 days in office and just to kind of catch up on some of our Gladio history with him. So be ready for that to happen.

49:53 OK, so Warhamster and I was going to do a show tonight, but he just texted me like right now and said that he is not going to be able to make it tonight. So that's the one we're going to do on the Vatican Bank. So that will be postponed. And so there's that.

50:24 Tomorrow at 7, I will be doing News Treason Dave show again. I'm really looking forward to that. That's at 7 p.m. tomorrow. And then on Wednesday, I don't even know how I'm going to get through Wednesday. We have our show here.

50:53 I'm skipping my family dinner. I'm going to speak at a conservative club meeting here in the local area at 630. Then at eight o'clock, we are going to have a spaces with a bell. And then at 930, I'll be on the Afro warrior show. And hopefully I still have a voice at that point. So, and then Thursday, Thursday at noon, we will be doing the secret societies.

51:23 And sometime on Friday, I will be doing the Vatican Bank show with him. But we now have to work out a new time. Nothing like a full basket. Yeah. Anyway. What's up? So do you think that this gentleman who wrote the book was completely aware of everything that was going on?

52:01 I mean, it seems like he's kind of lightly brushing over some things, especially with the history. Well, again, I think he's trying to tell his story, not the complete story like we do. So he's not going to be able to. I mean, the book's already, you know, probably 250, 300 pages. So he's not going to be able to put everything in it. I think he does a very good overview of how all of the pieces lay together.

52:34 He said more about Operation Gladio than any other CIA officer I've ever... I've not found anyone else that talks more about it. Like, by name, using all the right terms. Good point. Good point. Kudos to him. Again, I would love to be able to talk to him. I have not found out a way to be able to get a hold of him.

53:00 He's on X, and I DMed him, but I didn't hear anything from him. So he may not have his DMs on. But anyway, Miles, go ahead. I'm not seeing any other people with a speaker. No one wants to talk today. So it's so interesting going through this journey with Gladio glasses on. So you'll, like, say a name from the past. I'm like, oh, my God. And then.

53:29 I remember watching that person. And then I remember watching that show. And just like Get Smart, you know, now we can relate to the titles of the show, Firing Line. And I'm thinking, oh, yeah, that was us in the middle of these conservatives and liberals. And they were just, you know, shooting at our brains, trying to control us. Yeah. And it's so funny that we think.

53:58 completely different on how the propaganda was targeted at us back in the day where we just like oh this is kind of a cool show you know they're not brainwashing me right um go lafayette over on rumble said lawyers like the dullest brothers set these things up to avoid discovery i've been digging into solomon and cromwell solomon and cromwell is like this big gaping big hole

54:24 and were basically just one of the major go-tos for oligarchs to protect their interests overseas. They did everything. They're like the modern day law firms like Covington and those types that the Clintons were using. Sullivan and Cromwell is still around. They still do the same thing. They specialize in protecting.

54:56 So very, very interesting dig into their history. So what's about Pat Buchanan? I don't know. His name is actually came up in a couple of weird ways. When I was looking into some of the.

55:22 nefarious things that the Protestant side of the house, because again, I like to share the attributions around if it's applicable. And you have the crowds that it's all the Jesuits or it's all the Jewish people or it's all this or that. I've read so much about just the normal Catholic church.

55:50 um that i began looking into some of the and the book um nelson rockefeller's book i will be done is the one that kind of keyed me in on this because he used protestant missionaries all over the world to do nefarious things um so

56:10 I ran into wasn't Pat Robinson, who is the other guy, one of the others down in when I was reading the book Nugent Hand about the bank. They had a faulty criminal real estate Ponzi scheme going on down there. And one of the.

56:33 I mean, very well known. I can't think of who it was off the top of my head. But like one of the evangelists that is on television all the time or was Jerry Falwell. I don't remember. And I don't want to say without and the books out in the studio. So I don't I don't know. But it was a very, very, very well known guy. And he went his name to this effort to sell this shit in America.

57:03 And it was a Ponzi scheme and everybody knew it was a Ponzi scheme. And the implication for him specifically was the documentation, because obviously he was a foreigner every time he went to Australia. And the documentation of why he was there and who he was going to see was not just affiliated with that real estate entity. It was also some of the.

57:32 mafia people that were involved in the distribution of drugs that Nugent Ham was bringing into the country. And so it definitely just wasn't like, hey, I'm too stupid and I don't know. He actually knew what he was doing. So I look at all of them with side eye now. Not going to lie. All of them. You almost have to at this point. So all I can say is that when I die, if they're in heaven,

58:09 they went through the needle of an eye because every single one of them that has large congregations is a target. And if they stand against being targeted, they will have lots of crowns in heaven. Just saying. Because a lot of them do not stand against the targeting and get involved in the corruption. And they're not going to be in heaven. So that's the clear way we will know.

58:42 I thought of a dark joke a couple episodes ago about the Bushes and the funeral. The note that they all got is that St. Peter let Papa Bush in heaven, and the whole family went, oh, my God, how did that happen? Yeah, he's not in heaven. I'm sorry. Yeah, he's below hell, as a matter of fact.

59:12 If my understanding of the Bible is correct, he's not even in hell. He's below hell. That guy was walking evil. So, anyway, anybody else got anything? We can wrap this up in record time today. Anybody want to talk about anything else going on today? Obviously, lots of Trump news.

59:47 all that whatnot. I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you said. Yeah, with the, okay, Pakistan's attacking India, and then one recognizes, you know, then all of a sudden, we're going to end up in World War III, and then all of a sudden, oh, no, never mind, we've got to settle, we're done. Kevin sounded pretty quick to me. Well,

1:00:21 And I've talked to a couple of my friends and they have kind of confirmed for me that the attack into Pakistan was knocking out paramilitary training facilities that had still been being used. They also, as we well know, all of the drug refineries, whatever you call them.

1:00:49 pharmaceutical, whatever, for the opium coming out of Afghanistan was all in Pakistan as well. And what I was told is there were very specific targets hit and that they coincided with known paramilitary training camps. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean what I would want it to mean in that they're taking out international

1:01:18 terrorist training, it could mean specifically that the stay behind capability of Pakistan that they had been using in India to do false flags was taken out. And maybe their dual use facilities that they do, you know, the paramilitary for their own and it wasn't ones ran by the CIA or whatever. But I had a very good.

1:01:45 confirmation that those were the targets, which is very interesting that if there's a false flag done in Kashmir to try to pull India into a war and India takes out the capability to do future false flags, then we're all better off. Southern, go ahead. Just a quick note.

1:02:14 When you said that law firm, Solomon and Cromwell, it clicked in memory. I just pulled it up. Trump actually used them because Trump was having a hard time getting very high-level, a large or great legal lawyers for what he needed. He kind of got boycotted all over the place. But Solomon and Cromwell took a shot to work with him.

1:02:42 they really took a hit from the Democrats. But they saw Trump as he would have influence and would be moving forward, so they saw that as good strategy. It wasn't whether they liked him or not. It was enough to say, yeah, we're not liking the love of the Democrats 100%, and we're a 150-year-old firm, so yeah, we can take a PR hit for a short term. I just find that interesting. Well, I would imagine,

1:03:11 That, because they're guilty as hell in all of this shit. I would imagine that there was a deal made. Oh my God, 100%. There was a massive quid pro quo. Yeah. But, you know, and as corrupt as they are, when they work with John Foster Dulles, they really ended up shaping our U.S. foreign policy. How much do you want to bet that they gave information to Trump? I'm sorry, what?

1:03:44 How much you want to bet they gave information to Trump? A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Because they can do that with dead clients. One hundred percent. That's something I learned in some of my research. And I'm like, because it's like the FBI. They have supposedly a timeline and then they redact documents and stuff when it's illegal.

1:04:17 Then again, what we get is still redacted docs off the archive side. But I just, it's, I don't know, maybe I'm naive. I've spent my entire life in the medical industry and I understand the fraud there. I know how to tippy toe around it. So I'm not part of it. So I can manage because I have one goal, solutions for unmet patient needs. And that's how I built my company.

1:04:45 So I'm very clear about my lines in the sand. But I just find it astonishing how much corruption and how much double dealing and lack of care are we the people. It is astonishing to me that at the end of the war with Hitler, our government sat down and go, well, how can we move these people around, these top horrible people?

1:05:16 Have them on our team. And better yet, let's put them in the colleges so they can start corrupting our young people. Our country has a lot of problems. And I am now seeing more and more how strong Trump is standing up against this legacy, this lifetime of our country corruption.

1:05:42 I don't know how he's doing it. I don't understand in his head how he takes it every day. But he made a comment one day, as we all know, the attempted assassination where it hit his ear. And he actually changed when he was going to start talk about that chart.

1:06:06 He does it near the end of the speech, but all of a sudden, you know how Trump is, he flips on a dime to do stuff because he's controlling the mic. Time after that, he was talking to Hannity and he goes, he goes, I think I have an extra gene. When people push me hard, I want to fight harder. And I will stand up and fight harder. I believe him.

1:06:35 But I don't know where it came from. But his parents sent him to military school because he's a little bit of a bully. But God bless that bully gene. Because we need it right now. All right. I find this absolutely hilarious. AP Jonas over on Rumble says, I bought land in Florida from General Devection in 1969. Well, congratulations, because you were involved in money laundering.

1:07:05 Because what they did was they would park dirty money, they would pay cash, their dirty drug money, in Florida real estate, and they would leave it there for a certain period of time, and then they would sell it in order to clean the money up. So congratulations, you were in on a CIA deal unknowingly. Miles, go ahead. Colonel, I get a lot of pushback on my educated opinion on a lot of things.

1:07:36 One of my opinions is that there was like 100,000 targets. You can't hit all the targets, but you can pick the main targets that need to be hit to control the situation. I think that this was done. And a lot of these things, as we're seeing them roll these things out, and some weeks it's a lot and some weeks it's not.

1:08:06 that a lot of these things, the deals have already been made, and they're just rolling this stuff out. And all the other stuff that we see on the ground, the day-to-day news, the small stuff, those are the other 100,000 targets that couldn't have been addressed. But I think the main things have already been dealt with. They've been hammered out, and they're just going to start rolling them out. I could be completely wrong, but that's the way.

1:08:36 that I've been looking at things over the years. Thanks, Colonel. Thank you. Yeah, and let's touch real briefly on this whole Air Force One Qatari. What I read earlier this morning is Qatari had ordered two 747 decked out aircraft. And they...

1:09:03 was taking delivery of theirs while Air Force One obviously is still now, you know, five years off because Boeing can't get their shit straight. And Qatar, Qatar, however you want to say it, offered those aircraft to Donald Trump as a use for Air Force One. And, you know, everybody like.

1:09:32 is screaming, oh my God, they're a booby trap, they're bugged or whatever, which is in and of itself hilarious. Like we don't have the ability to x-ray aircraft, go over them with bug technology, all of that stuff, which we do have. And so I find it laughable that

1:10:00 they're making a big deal of this. They're making such a big, and they keep saying they're giving it to Trump. They're not giving it to Trump. It would be transferred to the Air Force. It would be in an Air Force squadron at Andrews Air Force Base. It does not, nor would it ever belong to Trump. It would be donated, you know, kind of like the Statue of Liberty was donated to America. I guess we should return that too. Miles, go ahead.

1:10:30 Well, to expand on that, during a Boeing 757 run when they were on the seminal line, it was taking them three months to make a 747. So now that it's taken like years and years and years, I realize that it has to be retrofitted for the president. A lot of stuff has to be put on there. But you would think, look, I think this is political. Boeing doesn't want to deal with Trump.

1:10:58 And if, you know, Obama wanted it and said, well, I'll pay whatever you want, then, yeah, it would have been done like probably in a year. Well, Obama is the one that started the whole thing. That's when the 747 contract was let, was under Obama. Trump didn't do any of this. Trump renegotiated it because it was taking too long and it cost too much. So that's the irony of the whole thing. And by the way.

1:11:28 A lot of the presidential-specific equipment is put on by the military, not by Boeing, because even though Boeing has classified facilities, there are some specific systems that are on that aircraft that are proprietary.

1:11:58 and are done separately from anybody else. So, and those would be done the same way that they're always done by those specific entities if they were to get these aircraft. So, Southern? I kind of had a different thought on that. I thought it was, yes, the Qatar planes would be done. I think one's been done since February.

1:12:32 where Trump has been waiting forever. And I remember when Trump talked about the price was way too high, wasn't done under him, and he renegotiated the price. He's on camera saying that. I took this as we've already been paying in for these planes, and it just puts Trump to the top of the line to get his planes, where Qatar was willing to wait later to get their planes. But we've already spent a lot of tax dollars.

1:13:02 on those planes. So I, I just found that interesting that, but Chuck Schumer's out screaming that Trump is a premium foreign influencer and it's a bribe. Bottom line, it's not a bribe. Yeah. And that's to your point, that's a different way of saying what I just said.

1:13:25 Yeah, I just want to be clear that money has transferred. The aircraft had not been delivered to Qatar. It's not actually Qatar giving us the aircraft. We are taking aircraft that was bought by Qatar, and Qatar will get the aircraft that was supposedly going to be Air Force One later on. Right. Or something to that effect. So, yeah.

1:13:54 But the bottom line, it wasn't here. We have this plane. We're going to gift it to the president of the United States. No, that's the CIA talking point. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I've been defending today, trying to get people to see. But the bottom line is Trump saw it as it's actually costing us even less money. So this is good. Yeah. So, you know, Trump, he loves a deal. He loves a deal. But the bottom line is.

1:14:21 I don't think this is going to be a big issue media wise. It'll just have a 48 hour window and it'll go away. But it's just stunning to me that this was done from Obama. Yeah.

1:14:33 My question would be, what the heck is wrong with this company that can't deliver on a timely basis? Shouldn't we use somebody else? I think we need competition in the market and cut out these government contracts where you have to compete more, not be in bed with. So we can get a better return on time, price, and good product. But bravo, what's happening with Trump and Scott.

1:14:57 beset with China. Stock markets, very happy. Democrats are miserable. And I'm there for it all. Yep. Miles, go ahead. Did you hear Trump's golf analogy about the plane? So there was a golf pro that he won a lot of golf tournaments. I can't remember his name right now. Maybe Ron will help me out on the name. But he said, yeah, if you're in a tournament and

1:15:27 you're playing in a tournament and the other golfer is going to give you the putt. Let's say it's like a two foot putt. And he just gives it to you. You take it and you say, thank you very much. And you go to the next tee. And he said, this is what's happening with Qatar. They're giving this to us. You say, thank you very much. And you move on because on that two foot putt, let's say you miss. And now you're playing, you know, with a group of guys, you miss that putt.

1:15:56 And you didn't just take it as a gift and move on to the next T. You're going to get an argument. So it was a great analogy. And I think we need to make Boeing great again. I mean, they were great once before. We can do it again. I think Trump wants to do that. And he didn't take an Airbus. Thank God he didn't take the Airbus. Thank you. Yeah. Ron, go ahead. You're thinking of Lee Trevino.

1:16:25 But anyway, somebody was talking about the aircraft industry and that we need more aerospace companies. I mean, if you go back and you look at World War II, we had shit. We had like 10 at minimum. But what they've done over the years is they've all just kind of come together. You've got Grumman.

1:16:55 Grumman came together with Lockheed or, I'm sorry, with Northrop. You have Boeing and McDonnell Douglas came together. I mean, really, you only have three major aircraft manufacturers out there. And Boeing has been having all kinds of problems with their domestic fleet, specifically with the 737 MAX.

1:17:25 But, you know, if there's already planes, I'm kind of coming in late to this discussion, so I'm probably missing a few things. But, you know, Boeing, they're not even making 747s anymore. If I understand it correctly, the 747 has been...

1:17:49 They're no longer building them. If they're going to do anything, they have to retrofit aircraft that are already or airframes that are already in existence. Am I right on that, Colonel? Basically. Yeah, that's what I thought. And there's no way in hell they're going to take an A380. No way. So they're just not going to do that. But anyway.

1:18:17 I wanted to discuss the aerospace industry. I mean, most of the aerospace stuff is now going into missiles and things like that because aviation is almost becoming no longer, it's no longer needed to be a man. It's going to be all either AI or drones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So.

1:18:46 I mean, which is still ridiculous, though. Other than the fighters, most of the Air Force aircraft is modified people, you know, passenger aircraft. The KC-10s is a tanker, but it's on a DC-10 body. So there is still a huge need.

1:19:12 For aircraft, for people to fly around in and to do other missions. The only exception to that would be in the fighter arena. If you think that, you know, it's wise to go with almost an exclusive drone Air Force, which I personally do not believe that's the case. I agree with you.

1:19:42 Yeah, so there's so many aspects to that, but it's not unlike anything else. What has been going on for the last 100 years in every aspect of our economy? People who have brilliant, innovative ideas are murdered. Existing companies.

1:20:13 are merged together sometimes, many times through hostile takeovers. And we end up where we are today with all of these companies in industries that are classified as, quote unquote, too big to fail. And that's just a nice way of saying they now have a monopoly. There is now a cartel.

1:20:41 in charge of what's supposed to be a capitalist market. And everyone needs to understand that's where we're at today. That's what has gone on over the last 50 years in banking, in aircraft manufacturing, in pharmaceuticals. Any competition that comes in, if they're truly life-changing,

1:21:09 technology, the person will be assassinated. The technology will be suffocated so that we drone on into this monotonous way of doing business. Meanwhile, these oligarchs in the international syndicate that we talk about every day has bought up all of the smaller entities. Now they're all too big to fail and they can do whatever the hell they want. So, Miles, go ahead.

1:21:39 Yeah, stay with the aircraft for a second here. So when I was a kid, because my dad liked it, I built model airplanes. I mean, I built all of them. And I had them hanging from my ceiling. And one of my all-time favorite planes, and it always will be, will be the C-47. I don't know if you saw on your timeline, but it came on my timeline. There was a lake jump out of a C-47.

1:22:09 with um army rangers and it was really funny um one guy it was kind of windy and he wound up in the tree but everybody else landed in the lake and this one guy swam up to a boat and they they gave him a beer so it was really funny to watch that video but um yeah i had all those model airplanes hanging from my ceiling and until i found out it was more fun hanging out with girls yeah i spent a lot of time making those

1:22:37 Yeah, that'll do it for you. Southern, go ahead. Southern. I don't know if we lost Southern. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what happened to her. Maybe she got a phone call. All right, guys, we're at almost 530. If we don't have anything else, I'm going to go ahead and close up shop.

1:23:17 Colonel, I'm going to send you a message. I'm going to text you. And it's a video that was done by Eyes Wide Open. And in this one particular video, he's talking about the merging of the CIA and the mafia. And towards the last 20 minutes, he talks about how the failures of the CIA in the late 50s, early 60s, why they...

1:23:46 We're deliberate. And I've watched it two or three times. I'm still trying to get some of that information. But if you have an opportunity tomorrow or the next day or even offline to discuss that, because it's something that fascinated me. I'd never even considered anything along those lines. But I just wanted to let you know that expect something from me. Okay. All right. Thanks, everybody.

1:24:17 for being here today. And like I said, I'll be back tomorrow at four o'clock and then I will be on News Trees and Dave's show at seven. So see you then. Take care.

Entities here

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Claims made here

CIA trafficked Mafia book_quoted ▶ 1:20

“the CIA worked in Southeast Asia to set up the drug operations and specifically use the mafia for local distribution to include having Santo Traficana over to Southeast Asia as well as other mafia don…”

Lucky Luciano member_of Mafia book_quoted ▶ 2:18

“was Lucky Luciano and his longtime friend and accomplice Meyer Lansky. One of the best books on this is Operation Gladio by Paul Williams. He says this. But then how does he not say what Paul Williams…”

CIA funded Kuomintang book_quoted ▶ 2:18

Thomas Dewey removed_from_power Lucky Luciano book_quoted ▶ 3:48

“with his rule in the country in 1922. Not just the Mafia, but the Masonic Lodges as well. Though failing in Italy, the Mafia was a powerful entity in the United States. And then he goes on and talks a…”

CIA recruited Lucky Luciano book_quoted ▶ 4:19

“dealing with Luciano and how the Navy intelligence was working on security at the New York docks. But the USS Normandy, a French ship, had been docked there. It gets set on fire and they use that as t…”

Paul Helliwell headed Office of Strategic Services book_quoted ▶ 5:22

“The Amazon trucks here. Let's see. All right. That's the invasion into Sicily. And then he gets to the part. Well, and while the mafia was assisted in the defeat of the Axis powers, another threat loo…”

Chiang Kai-shek trafficked Kuomintang book_quoted ▶ 5:57

“as chief of special operations for the OSS. And from the book Operation Gladio, he has a quote. Within Kunming, a town within the South China province of Yunnan, highly well-observed Chiang Kai-shek l…”

Paul Helliwell funded Kuomintang book_quoted ▶ 5:57

Allen Dulles headed Office of Strategic Services book_quoted ▶ 6:57

“to enabling the mafia to be the distribution nodes of the drugs. Crazy. Okay. One of the misconceptions held by many people is to believe that the CIA's creation in 1947 is the date to which we should…”

Lucien Conein member_of French Foreign Legion book_quoted ▶ 7:59

“and some soon-to-be infamous names would be in charge of setting them all up. From Paul Williams' book, Operation Gladio, the following quote, By the close of World War II, Helliwell and a number of f…”

Flying Tigers succeeded Air America book_quoted ▶ 8:28

“helped the CIA wipe out the entire Corsican mafia. Tommy the Cork Corcoran, a lawyer serving in the Strategic Service Unit, Lieutenant General Claire Chennault, the military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek…”

Claire Chennault founded Flying Tigers book_quoted ▶ 8:28

Air America trafficked Kuomintang book_quoted ▶ 8:55

“including C-47s and C-46s. The Civil Air Transport Fleet transported weapons to a contingency force of KMT, Chiang Kai-shek's paramilitary forces, in Burma. The planes were then loaded with drugs for …”

Air America supplied_arms_to Kuomintang book_quoted ▶ 8:55

Paul Helliwell founded Air America book_quoted ▶ 9:25

“Chinese nationalist guerrillas and opium buyers. Some of them were even former Nazis. Other parts of the band of expatriates that emerges in countries following any war. Halliwell and his compatriots …”

Air America trafficked CIA book_quoted ▶ 9:25

CIA funded Kuomintang book_quoted ▶ 9:55

“and cocaine during and after the Vietnam conflict. Once you begin to see the pattern, you can't unsee it. Hi, Bridget. How does one fight Mao's communist forces in China? Sell opium to addicts in Chin…”

Allen Dulles spied_on West Germany book_quoted ▶ 12:20

“who demanded unconditional surrender from the Nazi regime, but pursuing his own foreign policy. A negotiated peace with Germany, with Hitler gone, of course, but with somebody easier to manage at top.…”

Allen Dulles traded_network_to Heinrich Himmler book_quoted ▶ 13:18

“that predated the war, he shared many of these men's post-war goals. While serving in his Swiss outpost, oh my gosh, the picture just came back. Dulles might have been encircled by Nazi forces, but he…”

Allen Dulles traded_network_to Averell Harriman book_quoted ▶ 16:08

“and Royal Tyler, a wealthy Boston Globe trotter. Bostonian, sorry. Quote, now Dulles and Holenlo and their mutual friend, Royal Tyler, were gathered amicably around the OSS man's fireplace. Dulles bro…”

Allen Dulles traded_network_to Maximilian Egon von Hohenlohe book_quoted ▶ 16:37

“Then the men quickly got down to business, trying to determine whether a real politic deal could be struck between Germany and the U.S. that would take Hitler out of the equation but leave the Reich l…”

Allen Dulles traded_network_to Heinrich Himmler book_quoted ▶ 17:07

“The two old friends also agreed that there were probably no room for Jewish people in post-war Europe and certainly should not return to positions of power, unquote. This was not how the American peop…”

Harry S. Truman removed_from_power Office of Strategic Services book_quoted ▶ 23:26

“In September 1945, President Truman abolished the OSS as a separate spy agency and placed what remained under the War Department, first calling it the Strategic Services Unit. A few months later, desi…”

Harry S. Truman appointed Allen Dulles book_quoted ▶ 24:51

“President Truman authorized Dulles to supervise the organization of the new agency. In keeping the OSS protocol, Dulles recruited almost exclusively from the elite millionaire businessmen, Wall Street…”

Allen Dulles recruited William Colby book_quoted ▶ 24:51

Allen Dulles recruited William F. Buckley book_quoted ▶ 24:51

Allen Dulles recruited Philip Graham book_quoted ▶ 24:51

Allen Dulles recruited Richard Mellon Scaife book_quoted ▶ 25:21

“Robert Bissell, a Yale economist, William F. Buckley Jr., a Yale graduate and son of the prominent founder of National Review and good friend of Ronald Reagan, and one of the most influential conserva…”

William F. Buckley member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 27:15

“I quote from one of Buckley's own articles published in March of 2007 in the L.A. Times entitled My Friend E. Howard Hunt. I'll let you judge whether he's telling the truth. Quote, I met E. Howard Hun…”

E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 28:04

“knew that you were CIA. That person would tell you what to do and for what duration your service was needed in that city. He would answer such questions as you wish to put to him and would concern him…”

E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack Watergate scandal book_quoted ▶ 29:33

“But then came the Watergate scandal, in which Howard was accused of masterminding the break-in of the Democrat Party headquarters, among other things, and was ultimately convicted of burglary, conspir…”

Dorothy Hunt carried_out_attack Watergate scandal documented ▶ 31:26

“That was scheduled to begin the second week of January 1973. Dorothy was later identified as a pay mistress of hush money to the Watergate defendants and their family to keep the burglars from coopera…”

Dorothy Hunt financed_via Crash of United Airlines Flight 553 documented ▶ 31:26

Dorothy Hunt funded Crash of United Airlines Flight 553 documented ▶ 31:56

“Passports wrapped around the purse. That purse and the money survived? Huh. I'm sure it was tucked in a passport somewhere. It also... Oh my God, you're killing me. I just want to say. It was also dis…”

National Transportation Safety Board covered_up Crash of United Airlines Flight 553 host_asserted ▶ 32:55

“50 years later, it is still unclear whether there was foul play as the National Transportation Safety Board characterized the speculation in the downing of United 553. The NTSB ruled the crash an acci…”

Cook County Coroner's Office covered_up Crash of United Airlines Flight 553 host_asserted ▶ 33:25

“and another in the coach section as blast injuries with severe burns. Later confessed that there was a bad choice and clarified that the victims had all died from a high energy impact. He must have go…”

William F. Buckley exposed E. Howard Hunt book_quoted ▶ 33:51

“But we also have statements from the coroner's office. Was the high energy impact a bomb or was it meant to refer to the plane hitting the ground? I guess it could cover both so that one might say it'…”

E. Howard Hunt ordered_assassination_of Jack Anderson book_quoted ▶ 34:19

“That terrible event came at a high point in the Watergate affair. Then I had a phone call from Howard with whom I hadn't been in touch for several years. He startled me by telling me that he intended …”

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Jack Anderson book_quoted ▶ 34:46

“was his saying that his dedication to the project had included a hypothetical agreement to contrive the assassination of syndicated muckraker Jack Anderson if the high command at the Nixon White House…”

Frank Wisner recruited Meyer Lansky book_quoted ▶ 36:38

“However, aside from media relations, the agency had an initial, much more pressing problem, money. And this is where he goes back and starts talking about Paul Helliwell again and saying, during the s…”

James Jesus Angleton recruited Meyer Lansky book_quoted ▶ 36:38

Paul Helliwell trafficked General Development Corporation book_quoted ▶ 36:38

Meyer Lansky trafficked General Development Corporation book_quoted ▶ 36:38

James Jesus Angleton funded Mario Brod book_quoted ▶ 37:08

“through a company called General Development Corporation. It was a shell company in Miami. We've talked about it many times. Angleton would handle any legal disputes between the mob and the CIA throug…”

CIA trafficked Harlem book_quoted ▶ 37:38

“one of their pharmaceutical companies. The product would be shipped by Sicilian mob in crates of oranges. And we know all about our oranges now. The drugs would then be shipped to New York for distrib…”

CIA funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 38:04

“CIA was founded with noble intentions, but there were rogue elements over time that would sully even their bad name. The truth is the CIA was founded as a criminal enterprise with some of the worst in…”

CIA funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 39:35

“The CIA's funding mechanism was in place now. What was the goal? It was to fund an effort called Operation Gladio, a stay-behind network of personnel and ammunition in Western Europe, designed to cond…”

Inter-Services Intelligence funded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 40:07

“The book was published in 2005, and the author freely acknowledges that many documents were still classified, but there were already abundant information released, obviously because of the Italian inv…”

CIA recruited Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 40:38

“Other major actors included security services in a number of European countries. In all cases, identical techniques were used. The intelligence services made an effort to establish distinct networks f…”

Thomas Polgar exposed Operation Gladio documented ▶ 42:04

“was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War. The information about some of these parts came to light in 1990. Retired CIA officer Thomas Polgar confirmed after the discovery of secret …”

North Atlantic Treaty Organization funded Operation Gladio documented ▶ 42:04

Arthur Rouse exposed Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 43:28

“Speculation concerning their content have continued to increase after the discoveries of the secret anti-communist day behind armies. U.S. journalist Arthur Rouse, in his Gladio article, claimed a, qu…”

Giuseppe Di Lutez exposed Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 43:57

“to fight communism through clandestine citizen cadres, unquote. Italian expert on secret service and covert action, Giuseppe Di Lutez, found that when becoming a NATO member in 49, Italy signed not on…”

Ted Shackley carried_out_attack Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 45:54

“However, when one considers the powerful agency like the CIA seeks to control what you think, what actions you take, what their desirable ends are, and are even willing to go so far as to stage what T…”

Robert Gates covered_up Iran-Contra affair documented ▶ 46:22

“retired middle-ranking CIA officers were more outspoken about the secrets of the Cold War and illegal operations of the CIA, among them Thomas Polgar, who had retired in 81 after 30 years in the CIA a…”

Thomas Polgar exposed Robert Gates documented ▶ 46:22

Allied Clandestine Committee funded Operation Gladio documented ▶ 46:51

“Polgar explained with an implicit reference to the CPC and the ACC, the CPC is the Clandestine Planning Committee and the ACC is the Allied Clandestine Committee, which we've talked about often, that …”

Nelson Rockefeller recruited Nugan Hand Bank caller_asserted ▶ 55:50

“um that i began looking into some of the and the book um nelson rockefeller's book i will be done is the one that kind of keyed me in on this because he used protestant missionaries all over the world…”

Nugan Hand Bank trafficked Australia caller_asserted ▶ 57:03

“And it was a Ponzi scheme and everybody knew it was a Ponzi scheme. And the implication for him specifically was the documentation, because obviously he was a foreigner every time he went to Australia…”

Jerry Falwell trafficked Nugan Hand Bank caller_asserted ▶ 57:32

“mafia people that were involved in the distribution of drugs that Nugent Ham was bringing into the country. And so it definitely just wasn't like, hey, I'm too stupid and I don't know. He actually kne…”

Solomon & Cromwell funded Donald Trump caller_asserted ▶ 1:02:14

“When you said that law firm, Solomon and Cromwell, it clicked in memory. I just pulled it up. Trump actually used them because Trump was having a hard time getting very high-level, a large or great le…”

Solomon & Cromwell funded Allen Dulles caller_asserted ▶ 1:03:11

“That, because they're guilty as hell in all of this shit. I would imagine that there was a deal made. Oh my God, 100%. There was a massive quid pro quo. Yeah. But, you know, and as corrupt as they are…”

Qatar supplied_arms_to Donald Trump host_asserted ▶ 1:09:03

“was taking delivery of theirs while Air Force One obviously is still now, you know, five years off because Boeing can't get their shit straight. And Qatar, Qatar, however you want to say it, offered t…”

Barack Obama funded Boeing host_asserted ▶ 1:10:58

“And if, you know, Obama wanted it and said, well, I'll pay whatever you want, then, yeah, it would have been done like probably in a year. Well, Obama is the one that started the whole thing. That's w…”

Grumman merged_with Northrop Grumman host_asserted ▶ 1:16:55

“Grumman came together with Lockheed or, I'm sorry, with Northrop. You have Boeing and McDonnell Douglas came together. I mean, really, you only have three major aircraft manufacturers out there. And B…”

Boeing merged_with McDonnell Douglas host_asserted ▶ 1:16:55