The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101

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0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel. Good afternoon. So I have a confession to make. Okay. I left my book at home. Oh, snap. So what's going on? The last two days I've lost my phone. I have two laptops. I, this morning, couldn't find the second laptop. And the funny part of the whole story.

0:33 is that I'm always going behind my husband finding stuff that he misplaces. He found my laptop. He found my phone. Oh, that's funny. So about a half an hour ago, I was looking around for my book because I put it on top of my laptops, but then I couldn't carry the whole stack of stuff out to the RV. I probably just left it on the kitchen table.

1:03 told him i said okay rover oh that's funny but the book's not here luckily in 400 square feet there's not a whole bunch of places to look it's not like my house um so anyway um we're not going to do corporate coup today but um i had an article that i've been holding on to

1:31 Because it kind of ties, it goes back in time a long time ago. But it kind of ties some pieces together for us. So I'm going to do the article. Because the people, you know, we've talked a lot about this didn't start after World War II. That it had been going on a long time. To include the drugs, actually.

2:01 You know, there was a lot of opium going around before the post-World War II. We just captured it all nefariously after that. Can you add SR as a co-host as well? Sure. Thank you, ma'am. So I want to talk about this article. This article.

2:29 Well, I can't look and see who the author is in this Reader's Digest version. I'll do that at the end. Okay. It goes back and it starts talking about how after the turn, as we, in the early 1900s, you saw a lot of things come together. The outlawing of narcotic drugs, because like I said,

3:00 Opium had been a medication for a very long time, and it is the foundation of some of our most potent prescription narcotics. So it wasn't always illegal. And we know with making alcohol illegal, what that did, all it does is create a black market, almost like that's the whole purpose of it.

3:30 During the alcohol prohibition, all of the criminals made buck on all of the illicit activity over because there was a time difference between Canada doing it and ours prohibition. And so basically that's how the Brockmans made their big empire was bootlegging whiskey across.

3:59 the border. And that's where Pritzker and a whole bunch of other people made bank on the illicit bootlegging. So this all kind of ties together. And I kind of wanted to paint that picture that the outlawing of opium corresponds with the Rockefeller takeover of the medical.

4:26 industry with the AMA and all of that other stuff and the certification of medical schools and the taking over of the medical schools. That's all tied together. So this article starts off talking about civic institutions like public education were required to sanctify the policy of drugs is bad, like all drugs.

4:54 Security bureaucracies were established to ensure citizenry conformed to the state ideology. Secret services, both public and private, were likewise established supposedly to protect our interests. And there was a book written. Well, there's lots of books written. I'll name a few of them as we go through this article.

5:20 That explains the economic foundation of the war on drugs and the reasons behind the regulation of medical, pharmaceutical, and drug manufacturing industries. Suffice it to say that by 1943, the nations of the quote-unquote free world were relying on America for opium derivatives under the guardianship of Harry Engslinger, the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

5:49 which is the precursor to modern-day DEA. Narcotic drugs are a strategic resource, and when Engslinger learned that Peru had built a cocaine factory, he and the Board of Economic Warfare confiscated its products before it could be sold to anyone else. In another instance, Engslinger and his counterpart at the State Department prevented a drug manufacturer in Argentina from selling drugs to Germany.

6:20 And of course, that was just at the end of World War II. At the same time, according to Douglas Clark Kinder and William Walker III, who wrote an article called Stable Force in the Storm, Harry J. Engslinger and the United States Narcotic Policy, 1930 to 1962. Engslinger permitted an American company to ship drugs.

6:48 despite receiving intelligence reports that French authorities were permitting opiate smuggling into and out of China and collaborating with Japanese drug traffickers. Federal law enforcement's relationship with espionage establishment matured with the creation of the CIA, whose predecessor was the OSS. Prior to World War II, the FBN was the government's agency.

7:16 that conducted covert operations at home and abroad. As a result, OSS chief William Donovan asked Engslinger to provide seasoned FBN agents to help organize the OSS and train its agents to work undercover in hostile nations. The relationship expanded during the war when FBN executives and agents worked with OSS scientists in domestic truth drug experiences.

7:47 The extra-legal nature of the relationship continued after the war, when the CIA decided to test LSD on unsuspecting American citizens. FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses where the experiments were being conducted. The relationship was formalized overseas in 1951 when Agent Charlie Saragusa opened an office in Rome. Wow! Rome, again.

8:17 and began to develop the FBN's foreign operations, because that's the hotbed of Operation Gladio and the stay-behinds at the same time. In the 1950s, FBN agents posted overseas spent half of their time doing quote-unquote favors or missions for the CIA, such as investigating diversions of strategic materials going on along the border of the Soviet Union.

8:47 A handful of FBN agents were actually recruited into the CIA while maintaining their FBN credentials. Kind of that merging of the two because CIA embeds themselves in FBN and FBN embeds themselves in the CIA. Officially, FBN agents set limits. Saragusa, for example, claimed to object when the CIA asked him to create controlled delivery.

9:17 into the United States as a way, what the CIA told him he was going to be doing, is we're going to traffic drugs into the U.S., but under the guise of finding their networks, which isn't what they were doing at all. Saragusa also said the FBN could never knowingly allow two pounds of heroin to be delivered into the U.S. and be pushed to mafia customers in New York City, even

9:44 If in the long run, it would seize a bigger haul. A couple of the books that talk about this is called The Strength of the Wolf, The Secret History of America's War on Drugs. And another one is called The Strength of the Pack, The Personalities, Politics, and Espionage Intrigues That Shaped the DEA. And in 1960, when the CIA asked him to recruit assassins from his stable of underworld contacts,

10:14 Saragusa again claimed to have refused. There's some dispute of whether he refused or not. But drug traffickers, including most prominently Santo Traficano Jr., were soon participating in CIA attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. As the dominant partner in the relationship, the CIA exploited its affinity with the FBN, like the CIA FBN agent Robert DeFau.

10:45 explained, quote, narcotic agents melt covert operations. We pose as members of the narcotic trade. The big difference is that we were in foreign countries legally and through our police and intelligence sources, we could check out just about anyone or anything. Not only that, we were operational. So the CIA jumped into our stirrups. In other words, into our organization.

11:10 jumping into the FBN for the CIA deniability because they can always blame it on them, not the CIA, which in turn also offered them impunity because the DEA or the FBN was there legally. To ensure the CIA's criminal activities were not revealed, narcotic agents were organized militarily within an involatile chain of command, highly indoctrinated. They blindly obeyed.

11:41 based on a need to know. This institutionalized ignorance sustained the illusion of righteousness in the name of national security. As FBN agent Martin Pira explained, quote, most FBN agents were corrupted by the lure of the underworld. They thought they could check their morality at the door, go out and lie, cheat and steal, and then come back and retrieve it. But you can't. In fact,

12:09 If you're successful because you lie, cheat, and steal, those things will become tools to use in your own bureaucracies, unquote, which goes to explain a lot about why our institutions are corrupted. Institutionalized corruption began at headquarters, where FBN executives provided cover for CIA assets engaged in drug trafficking. In 1966, Agent John Evans was assigned as an assistant to Chief

12:39 Enforcement officer John Enright, quote, and that's when I got to see what the CIA was doing, Evans said. Quote, I saw a report on the KMT saying they were the biggest drug dealers in the world and that the CIA was underwriting them. Air America was transporting tons of KMT opium. I took the report to Enright. He said, leave it here.

13:10 Forget about it, unquote. So, interesting. Communications that the CIA knew all along, KMT was the, and by KMT, I mean Chiang Kai-shek, the biggest drug dealer in the world. Other things came to my attention, Evans said. That proved that the CIA contributed to the drug use in America. We were in constant conflict with the CIA because it was hiding its budget in hours.

13:43 and because CIA people were smuggling drugs into the U.S. We weren't allowed to tell, and that fostered corruption within the FBN. Heroin smuggled by CIA people into the United States was channeled by mafia distributors primarily into the Black communities. Local narcotics agents then targeted disenfranchised Blacks as an easy way of preserving the source of

14:15 because they never went up the chain, as Alpha and I have talked repeatedly. We didn't need a search warrant, explains New Orleans Narcotic Officer Clarence Garuso. It allowed us to meet our quota, and it was ongoing. If I find dope on a black man, I can put him in jail for a few days. He's got no money for a lawyer, and the courts are ready to convict. There's no expectation on the jury's part that we even have to make a case. So it looks like you're fighting a war on drugs.

14:44 But you're not. So rather than go cold turkey, the addict becomes an informant, which means I can make more cases in the neighborhood, which is all we're interested in, is making our quota. We don't care about Carlos Marcelo or the mafia. City cops have no interest in who's bringing in the dope. That's the job of federal agents who basically are in on the tape, too.

15:14 The establishment's privileges have always been equated to national security, and FBM executives dutifully preserve the social order. Not until 1968, when the civil rights reforms were imposed upon government bureaucracies, where Black FBM agents allowed to become supervisors and be promoted into management. The war on drugs is largely a projection.

15:45 of the bureaucracy and its covert allies. Blanket immunity from prosecution for turning these policies into practice engenders a belief among bureaucrats that they are above the law, which fosters more corruption. The FBI agents, for example, routinely would create a crime by breaking and entering, planning evidence, using illegal wiretaps, and falsifying reports.

16:19 They tampered with heroin, transferred it to informants for sale, and even murdered other agents who threatened to expose them. Which is exactly what we found in Gary Webb's book with those cops that were skimming the drugs and the money off of things that they collected. All of this was secretly known to the highest levels of government. And in 1965, the Treasury Department launched a corruption investigation into the FBN. It was headed by...

16:53 Andrew Tartalino, the investigation ended in 1968 with the resignation of 32 agents and the indictment of five. That same year, the FBN was reconstructed in the Department of Justice and became the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the BNDD. So just like with all of the other things that we've seen, when you find the corruption, you just create a new organization and voila, it's gone.

17:23 arrest a few people. Richard Nixon was elected president based on a vow to restore law and order in America. To prove that it intended to keep that promise, the White House in 1969 launched Operation Intercept along the Mexican border. This massive stop and search operation so badly damaged relations with Mexico, however, that Henry Kissinger, the NSA, National Security Advisor,

17:53 formed a committee on narcotics called the Heroin Committee to coordinate drug policies. The Heroin Committee was composed of cabinet members represented by their deputies. James Ludlam represented CIA Director Richard Helms, a member of the CIA's counterintelligence staff. Ludlam had been the CIA liaison to the FBN in 1962. You know.

18:20 The guy that was inserting the CIA into the FBN, he's going to represent the CIA on the committee that's going to look into what the CIA was doing. How convenient. When Kissinger set up the heroin committee, Ludlam recalled, quote, the CIA certainly didn't take it seriously because drug control wasn't part of their mission, unquote. It sure wasn't. Well, that's not true. They actually were in control of it, supplying it.

18:51 Indeed, as John Evans pointed out, the government was aware the CIA for years had sanctioned heroin traffic from the Golden Triangle of Bermuda, Thailand and Laos into South Vietnam as a way of rewarding top foreign officials in advancing U.S. policies. This reality presented the Nixon White House with a dilemma.

19:16 Given the addiction among U.S. troops in Vietnam was soaring, the massive amounts of Southeast Asian heroin being smuggled into the U.S. for use by middle class was on the verge of a revolution. Nixon's response was to make drug law enforcement part of the CIA's mission. That's convenient. Although reluctant to betray the CIA's clients in South Vietnam, Helms told Ludlam, we're going to break their rice bowls.

19:45 This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, passed the names of the complicit military officers to the White House. But as Dick recalled, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker called a meeting in Saigon at which the CIA station chief, none other than Ted Shackley, appeared and explained that this was a delicate balance.

20:13 What he said, in effect, was that no one was willing to do anything. Meanwhile, to protect the global network of drug trafficking, the CIA began infiltrating the BNDD and commandeering its internal security, intelligence, and foreign operations branch. This massive reorganization required the placement of CIA officers at several influential positions inside of the drug law enforcement agency. CIA officer

20:42 Paul Van Marks, for example, was assigned as the U.S. ambassador to France, assistant on narcotics. From this vantage point, Van Marks ensured the BNDD conspiracy cases against European traffickers did not compromise CIA operations or their assets. Van Marks also vetted potential BNDD assets to make sure they weren't going to expose the CIA. And don't forget.

21:12 It was during this time during the Nixon administration where they were coordinating the elimination of the Corsican mafia so that they could switch it down to the Sicilian mafia so the CIA could broaden their control. FBN never had more than 16 agents stationed overseas, but Nixon dramatically increased funding for BNDD and hundreds of agents were stationed abroad, which increased the CIA's presence within their ranks.

21:45 BNDD agents immediately felt the impact of the CIA's involvement in drug law enforcement operations within the United States. Operation Eagle was a flashpoint. Launched in 1970, Eagle targeted anti-Castro Cubans smuggling cocaine from Latin America to the Traficani organization in Florida. Of the dozens of traffickers arrested in June, many were found to be members of Operation 40.

22:13 a CIA terror organization active in the U.S., the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico. The revelation that CIA drug smuggling assets were operating inside the United States led to the assignment of CIA officers as counterparts to mid-level BNDD enforcement officials, including Latin America Division Chief Jerry Strickler. Like Van Marks in France, these CIA officers served to protect CIA assets.

22:42 from exposure. Many Cuban exiles arrested in Operation Eagle were indeed hired by the BNDD and sent throughout Latin America. They got fantastic intelligence, but many were secretly working for the CIA, feeding the BNDD what the CIA wanted them to know. By 1970, the BNDD director Inger...

23:11 Ingersoll's inspection staff had gathered enough evidence to warrant the investigation of dozens of corrupt FBN agents who had risen to management positions in the BNDD. But Ingersoll could not investigate his top managers while simultaneously investigating drug traffickers. So he asked the CIA director Helms for help. Nothing like the fox in the hen house.

23:41 19 CIA officers infiltrated into the BNDD, ostensibly to spy on corrupt BNDD officials. According to BNDD's chief inspector, Patrick Fuller, a corporation engaged in law enforcement hired three CIA officers posing as private businessmen to do the contact and interview work. CIA recruiter Jerry Soule, a former Operations 40,

24:11 case officer primarily selected officers whose career had been stalled due to gradual reduction in forces in Southeast Asia. Those hired were put through the BNDD's training course and assigned to spy on particular regional directors. No records were kept and some participants have never been identified. Charles Guttensol was a typical two-fold torpedo. Prior to his recruitment into the BNDD,

24:41 Guttensold had spent two years at the CIA base in Laos, which had been a major heroin transit point. Fuller said that when we communicated, I was to be known as Leo Adams for Los Angeles, Guttensold said. He was to be Walter DeCarlo for Washington, D.C. Guttensold's cover, however, was blown before he got to Los Angeles. Someone at headquarters was talking and everyone knew.

25:11 About a month after I arrived, one of the agents said to me, I hear that Pat Fuller signed your credentials. Twofold, which existed at least until 1974, was deemed by the Rockefeller Commission, and that's another joke, to have violated the 1947 Act, which prohibits the CIA's participation in law enforcement activities. It also, as shall be discussed, served as a cover for clandestine CIA operations. No kidding.

25:41 The Nixon White House blamed the BNDD's failure to stop international drug trafficking on its underdeveloped intelligence capability, a situation that opened the door for even more CIA infiltration. That's so convenient. In late 1970, CIA Director Helms arranged for his recently retired chief of intelligence.

26:07 E. Drexel Godfrey to review BNDD's intelligence procedures. Among other things, Godfrey recommended that the BNDD create regional intelligence units and an office of strategic intelligence. The regional offices were to be up and running within a year with CIA officers assigned as analysts, prompting the BNDD agents to review the regional.

26:36 intelligence units with suspicion. The major strategic intelligence office that they all reported to was harder to implement. Given its arcane function as a tool to help managers formulate plans and strategies, the chief director, John Warner, explained we needed to understand the political climate in Thailand in order to address the problem.

27:04 We needed to know what kind of protection the Thai police were affording the traffickers. Well, we could have told them they were being paid by the CIA, $35 million. Organizing the Strategic Intelligence Office then eventually falls to CIA officers Adrian Swain and Tom Tripati, both of whom were recruited into the BNDD. In April 1971,

27:35 They accompanied Ingersoll to Saigon, where Station Chief Ted Shackley briefed them. Through his CIA contacts, Swain obtained maps of drug smuggling maps in Southeast Asia. Upon their return to the U.S., Swain and Tripati expressed frustration that the CIA had access to literally their entire operation.

27:59 Seeking a way to circumvent the CIA, they recommended the creation of a special operations or strategic operations staff that would function on its own outside the CIA. Those operations would rely on longer-range deep penetration clandestine assets to do that. The White House approved the plan, and in May of 1971,

28:26 Kissinger presented a $120 million drug control proposal, of which $50 million was earmarked for this special operations. Three weeks later, Nixon declared his war on drugs, at which point Congress responded with funding of the Strategic Intelligence Office and authorization for an extra legal operation. The Strategic Intelligence Office Director Warner was given a seat on the U.S.

28:56 intelligence board and could obtain raw intelligence from the CIA, which isn't going to help him because it's all lies. But in return, they were compelled to adopt CIA security procedures. A CIA officer established the file room and computer system of which they're going to have a back door and know everything that they're doing. So they didn't accomplish anything. Active duty CIA officers were assigned.

29:27 to the Strategic Intel Office as desk officers for Europe in the Middle East, Far East, and Latin America, where all of the drugs are being created. Tripati liaisoned with the CIA on matters of mutual interest and the covert collection of narcotics intelligence outside of the routine BNDD channels. As part of his operational plan, codenamed Medusa, Tripati proposed that the agents hire

29:58 foreign nationals to blow up contraband planes while they were refueling at clandestine airstrips. Another proposal called for ambushing traffickers in America and taking their drugs and money. The creation of the Strategic Intelligence Office coincided with the assignment of CIA officer Lucien Koenig. And remember who he is. He's the French guy that was the Corsican mafia guy in Vietnam.

30:30 that converts over to the CIA. So they're going to assign this guy who ran the drug trafficking in Laos and Vietnam into the BND organization that supposedly was created to keep the CIA out of their shit. Following along yet? As a member of the OSS, he had parachuted into France to form resistance cells that included Corsican gangsters.

31:01 i.e. the beginning of their stay-behind units. As a CIA officer, Koenig in 1954 was assigned to Vietnam, and we already know all that. Historian Alfred McCoy has alleged that Koenig arranged a truce between the CIA and drug traffickers in Saigon. The truce, according to McCoy, allowed the Corsicans to traffic as long as they were in contact with the CIA. The truce also...

31:31 had the Corsicans gaining free passage into Marseilles' heroin labs. Koenig denied McCoy's allegation, but of course we know they're all true. It's impossible to know, according to this article author who was telling the truth, but we know because we've read multiple books, all of which have documented this. The White House hired Koenig as their expert.

32:02 on drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. He was assigned as a consultant on the Far East Asian desk of the BNDD's Strategic Intelligence Office. So he's the fox in the henhouse again. He is also the guy that gave the information to Nixon for his quote-unquote war on drugs to take down the Corsican mafia.

32:29 which, as we've said repeatedly, pushes all of the heroin processing down into Sicily. So that basically, there is one other part of this that I wanted to. The CIA formed a unilateral drug unit in its operational division under Seymour Bolton, spelt B-O-L-T-E-N, known as the Special Assistant to the Director for the Coordination of Narcotics.

32:59 narcotic trafficking, not anti-narcotic trafficking, just to be clear. Bolton directed the CIA's division and station chiefs, and in doing so, he worked closely with Ted Shackley, you know, the guy supplying it all, who in 1972 was appointed to head the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division when they decided that they're going to create the Crystal Triangle, because the Golden Triangle has now fallen out of favor. Bolton and Shackley worked together.

33:32 post-World War II in Germany. They also worked together in the Cuban exile community in Miami during the Bay of Pigs. Later, it was said that Bolton screwed us, according to the BNDD's Latin American division chief, and so did Shackley. Well, no kidding. They're the Fox. You put them in the hen house.

34:05 The rest of this kind of just goes on and tells us all of the stuff that we already know. But it goes on and talks about like in 72, Helms told BNDD director Inglesol that the CIA had prepared files on supposed drug traffickers and that they would help with the operational stuff.

34:34 It goes on to note that no one big was ever arrested. No actual networks were taken down. They constantly were hitting like the mid-level and below traffickers during this time to produce quote unquote results, but never eliminate the problem. So I just kind of wanted to.

35:03 I've had this article set aside for a while just to show you how nefarious this is and how embedded in other organizations besides the CIA these activities are. They've literally infiltrated themselves everywhere to include our political class. They're literally everywhere. And that's the reason why whatever's going on today.

35:31 I don't get discouraged because of how big the octopus is. It's going to take time to take it down. And you cannot think that the people trying to take this entire network down has not read all of this stuff and understand how nefarious it is. The fact that we're just learning this doesn't mean they don't already know it. So, Bridget, are you still with us?

36:04 She's going hunting. She found another buck that she wants. So she may or may not be talking. She may or may not be in a tree stand. All right, SR, what you got? Oh, I'm finding a whole bunch of stuff, Colonel. Amazing how Shackley shows up everywhere you go. Everywhere. It doesn't matter. This cat is something else.

36:37 But given all of that, given what's going on here, and we look at the transitions we have gone through up to this point concerning narcotics problems in the U.S., all we're doing is getting renames and renames of organizations that completely do the same thing. Yes. Yes. It's unbelievable.

37:07 Every one of those organizations have been infiltrated with the CIA. And even if they don't infiltrate it, the CIA will come in and seal stuff with the label national security so that it can never be used in court. Mega, go ahead. Colonel, again, thank you for all this phenomenal information that you continue to speak out on a regular and consistent basis.

37:38 You're welcome. Do you see any difference from yesterday's CIA to today's first question? Not yet. What's interesting to me is, do I think John Radcliffe is doing the best he can? Yes. He has declassified some very important stuff, but he's one guy.

38:08 He only has a handful of patriots inside of the CIA helping because the majority of them understand the existential threat of revealing their secrets for the longevity of the organization, which I hope is very short. So he doesn't have a lot to work with. You know, he's a guy, all of their information.

38:36 is kept in computer systems, you have to have somebody willing to use those computer systems for the good. They too have a lot of old hard copy files. It would take a whole team of us to go in there with the knowledge that we have to be able to go through those paper files and find the relevant information. Not all of their stuff has been made.

39:08 So it's a monumental undertaking. Okay. And then the second question I have is, do you think this is on the agenda of the current administration to finally put the final nail in the coffin of the CIA and eliminate the Bureau, period? That's, you know, it's kind of like the USAID funding.

39:37 And once somebody finally pulled the trigger and said, we're done, it's over, we've seen a massive shift in how things were being handled and not being handled because they weren't being funded anymore. What are your thoughts on that? I have said this from about six months into this three-year journey. We cannot go forward as a country with the CIA. We just simply can't.

40:07 It needs to be burned to the ground. My thing, day one, January 20th, if I'm somewhere close in there, I posted that the CIA director that was named John Radcliffe needs to get the only key to the building, lock the door, detonate it, put a for sale sign up and walk away.

40:37 That's the only way we proceed. And do I think that's on the agenda? Yeah, because the tentacles that they hid behind are all being snapped off. USAID, the Institute of Peace, all of those tentacles are being chopped off. I'm still waiting for the National Endowment for Democracy to be closed. It has to be closed. It has to be unfunded completely and it has to be chopped off.

41:10 Lock, stock and barrel. And as you go around chopping off all of the legs of the octopus, then the only thing left is the octopus itself. And it has to go away. We cannot survive as a country with the CIA in existence. As I've explained, their tentacles are in the FBI.

41:34 Their tentacles are in the DEA. Their tentacles are in the DOJ, in the State Department. They are literally everywhere. They're in local police departments. We found them all over LAPD and even the county sheriff out there. They're literally everywhere. SR? Oh, and now they're going to be in the governor's mansion in Virginia, too. Absolutely. Not too happy about that, Colonel.

42:14 Given what we know now up to this point, for anybody that's been following Colonel Towner and the rest of this group, you know the KMT was the very start of all of this. As far as breaking drugs into the United States and everywhere else to fund Operation Gladys. Post-World War II. That's why it was done. Yeah, post-World War II. Yes. Yes, absolutely.

42:47 With their leader, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek. Oh, and don't forget, we'll rename an island Formosa to Taiwan and say, ah, you can work there. We even set them up shop. We gave them a Navy. We gave them an Air Force. And we were off running. Then we moved from the Golden Triangle to the Golden Crescent to the Crystal Triangle.

43:21 Has anyone ever contacted you from the administration on Operation Gladio and any of the CIA operatives and what crap they're doing? I mean, I know they have a pretty good beat on what's been going on, but seems to me like if they had a adequate ambassador from the public side doing something and.

43:52 Putting bugs in their ear? I know, Lux. I know it's funny, but still, the whole point is, has anybody contacted you that you're willing to speak of? Let me put it to you that way. I can tell you guys. I'm not going to hide secrets from you guys, and I wouldn't talk to anybody that made me either. No, not only that, but very few. I mean, Redacted is the only larger platform that has ever even asked me to discuss this.

44:21 It is very difficult for anybody to have the courage to speak out about the CIA. Very, very few. S.R., go ahead. I'm sorry, Colonel. Let Megan go, and then I'll add on to what's going on. I think Megan just talked. I was going to also say, Redacted, I mean, you've been on with Alpha.

44:56 And then on I think you were on with Josh Reed as well. And, you know, those two are getting comms from the administration. Right. So I do. I do not believe that Alpha is. I mean, I've talked to Alpha is the one that keeps telling me because of the topics we talk about that I'm connected to him. He constantly.

45:21 has how do you come up with the topic and then something happens in that area and i told him i said it's just in everything that i have done is divinely inspired it is not based on anything else i do not talk to alpha about any of the material um all of the material that's presented on alpha show is my material um and yes i've been on um josh's show i've been on probably

45:51 40 shows by now. Um, I was just talking about the, the larger shows, the largest show I've ever done. I've been on JJ Carroll's show. Um, the largest show I've ever done was redacted. Um, and I have an open door to go there anytime to talk about anything, um, that I want. I have their, um, uh, their numbers so I could call them on the phone if I want. Um, the,

46:21 And it's not even just the avoiding of something that is obviously very relevant to today that is kind of curious. And I know I've said this to you guys repeatedly, but you could never say it enough. The fact that after the very first time I was ever on a sizable audience.

46:50 At the very beginning, this is like two and a half years ago, when Trumpfrog, who usually has a couple of thousand people on his, he used to do a regular Monday night, the pond show, the night that I came on, the very next day, Jack Posebeck on his show mentions Operation Gladio for the first time ever and immediately debunks it and says it's nothing, it's no big deal.

47:18 It happened a long time ago. It went away in the 1990s and then went on Alex Jones the very next day and said the exact same thing. So there are people that know about it and they are purposely not talking about it. And you can't talk about what's going on today without talking about Operation Gladio and how these operations are actually done. As you guys know.

47:46 It puts everything in context. It brings for all of those people that I meet on. I gave a lecture at a local conservative meeting that had probably about 50 people attending. And when I laid out the underpinnings of Operation Gladio and put all the pieces together for them for like.

48:11 30 minutes, 45 minutes afterwards, they kept coming up to me going, oh my God, now everything makes sense. That's the very thing they don't want you to do. They don't want you to be able to make sense of all of these different pieces that are floating out there. As long as they can just talk about this and harp on this, and then they can talk about this over here as if it's a completely separate subject and harp on that a little bit.

48:37 But if you can put all of the pieces together and see the big picture, you're dangerous. And they don't want you to know that. Well, like I said, thank you for being a voice out in the darkness. You're reaching a lot more people than you would like to believe you are. I think we're just looking for somebody that is ready to take the reins and actually choke the shit out of this damn organization. Well.

49:07 So thank you again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm definitely willing to do that. I feel like I've done that already. Just to the people that are here. So just so that you guys know, next Wednesday at noon, there is a podcast called the Underground Podcast. The guys over in the UAE. And I went through.

49:37 um probably about six months of his podcast when he invited me on to um his show and um he's talked to some very um high level people on his show and um it's going to be a very interesting um interview and he records it so um whenever he publishes it i will let you guys know

50:09 S.R., go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I just wanted to add to something that Megan was talking about. When you mentioned ambassadors, one of the first things that happens when a nation really gets upset with the U.S., they toss the ambassadors out. Right. And the reason is, if you got an ambassador in your country, you got the CIA there.

50:40 It ain't working any other way. That's true. So that's the way to get rid of the CIA. That's what happens in these nations. And then we go and, oh, my. All right. Now it's time for sanctions. Now it's time for this. Now it's time for that. Oh, you're communist and everything else. That's how all this starts. Yeah. Thank you. Sure. You don't necessarily get rid of the CIA just by tossing the ambassador.

51:10 They have their minions, you know, in the old days prior to the closing of USAID. They were there in the form of a crap ton of NGOs as well. And the CIA is embedded in our transnational corporations as well. So if you have, and that's why a lot of the countries have closed.

51:39 uh their economies from some of the larger franchises um of the united states because they all know they know that um the cia poses as you know ibm directors um google executives the in the place you find them all we found them embedded in pepsico where the um chick went that was um in charge of the uh

52:09 Secret Service when Trump came in and then immediately comes back out when Biden was installed. They call it global security. If you go and look at some of the directories of these transnational corporations, they have an office that sounds something like global security.

52:34 Now, you would think off the top of your head, well, of course, they have to have a security office if they've got places, especially airlines, guys, especially airlines. If they've got people living, you know, or staying overnight, in the case of pilots all over the world, that they have to have security people to ensure their safety. That just makes sense. So it also makes sense that the CIA is going to embed themselves in that very thing to be able to infiltrate.

53:04 countries and move about freely under the guise of being a transnational corporation employee, when in fact they're not. They are CIA. They are to gain access to intelligence. And, you know, if it was not a nefarious organization, that wouldn't be bad because it would be good for us if we're just collecting intel. But that's not what we're doing.

53:30 Most of those transnational corporations do that to collect intel to transfer into cohort operations that secure their presence in those foreign countries to expand their market, to take down competitors or whatever. So, again, collecting foreign intelligence is not a bad thing.

53:54 Acting on that collected intelligence on behalf of transnational corporations and not American citizens is what makes it bad. And that's why my suggestion has always been the only intelligence that capability the United States should have should be for the protection of the citizens, not transnational corporations. Go ahead, SR.

54:23 Thank you, Colonel. And like I said, I want to thank everybody here today. What you're talking about today is very relevant to what's happening here in the U.S. as well. Regardless of whether people know it, I just heard today of Oregon that just got tagged with gun running and drugs as well. Another takedown for this administration.

54:53 So we're working on it. We're doing something about it. Yep, it's a piece at a time, but we're getting there. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Well, in every piece, every major piece, and that was a major piece that you're talking about. I read that this morning that happened in Oregon. That was not a small operation. You put pressure on the next level up. They rely on those cells that they've set up in America in order to protect.

55:23 the lower echelon of drug trafficking with their caches of weapons and stuff like that, just like out of Gladio. As you take down those cells, that puts pressure on the guy above them in order to find different outlets. When you're doing it on the fly, you become sloppy.

55:48 They have entrenched themselves into and well-trained people to operate in regional areas. And when you take that down, if they're going to continue to operate in that area, they're going to have to put a team together to do that and bring other people. So now you've got movement. All of those pieces become.

56:14 monitorable, if that's even a word, where you can track and surveil what's going on, where they're coming from, and that type of thing. So you just start, and that's what interdicting these boats are doing. It is putting pressure on the people up channel of the trafficking because

56:38 You guys, when we were reading Gary Webb's book, you remember what happened when the pilot who lost the plane and then he lost another plane full of cocaine. Well, they're going to come looking for their money. And when things like that happen, they make mistakes. And you can find people by that activity.

57:03 And so every one of those boats, regardless of the amount of drugs that they're trafficking, backs up the people above them and it starves the people below them from having the drugs accessible to keep the money flowing. And every one of them is, it's like the Jenga tower. It's a piece out of it.

57:30 When you have enough pieces out of the tower, it falls. And that's what you're watching happening. I understood this operation was like two years in the making that went on with that, Colonel. And just on a side note, given what's going on in Jamaica, you haven't heard a single word about Jamaica out of this administration, or I haven't, unless I'm being deaf to it. Well.

58:02 It's horrible what happened to them as far as the hurricane. Understand that our perspective in Operation Gladio Jamaica was one of the key nodes. Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Trinidad are names that I've come across repeatedly as being way stations of cocaine into the United States. I'm going to say that Jamaica.

58:31 is not one right now. And Jamaica is the one that had, what did they call them? We learned the word for them in Gary Webb's book. They had a different word. They don't call them cartels, but they were all in, they were primarily in New York City and the New York area, New Jersey and that area. They called them posses. They called them posses after the West. That's what they called them.

59:05 And I'm going to say that they're going to be out of commission for a while. So anybody else got anything? All right. Well, wish Bridget luck and that she brings herself home another buck. And the gun girl. And you guys take care. We will do another show. I do have one other article that I've been holding.

59:41 You guys don't want to miss the show tonight, 9.30. Alpha and I together for the very first time ever in a year and a half of doing all of these shows in the same room doing Operation Gladio tonight at 9.30. So I'm really looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to seeing him again. He stood me up in Washington, D.C., but I'll forgive him for that. So if we don't have anything else, you guys have a nice evening.

1:00:12 And I'm going to enjoy the sunset over the water here in Cocoa Beach. And I will be with you guys tonight at 9.30 and tomorrow at 4 again. Take care.

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Claims made here

Harry Anslinger headed Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 5:20

“That explains the economic foundation of the war on drugs and the reasons behind the regulation of medical, pharmaceutical, and drug manufacturing industries. Suffice it to say that by 1943, the natio…”

Harry Anslinger covered_up Peru book_quoted ▶ 5:49

“which is the precursor to modern-day DEA. Narcotic drugs are a strategic resource, and when Engslinger learned that Peru had built a cocaine factory, he and the Board of Economic Warfare confiscated i…”

Harry Anslinger covered_up Argentina book_quoted ▶ 5:49

Harry Anslinger covered_up China book_quoted ▶ 6:48

“despite receiving intelligence reports that French authorities were permitting opiate smuggling into and out of China and collaborating with Japanese drug traffickers. Federal law enforcement's relati…”

William J. Donovan recruited Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 7:16

“that conducted covert operations at home and abroad. As a result, OSS chief William Donovan asked Engslinger to provide seasoned FBN agents to help organize the OSS and train its agents to work underc…”

Charles Saragusa member_of Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 7:47

“The extra-legal nature of the relationship continued after the war, when the CIA decided to test LSD on unsuspecting American citizens. FBN agents were chosen to operate the safe houses where the expe…”

Robert DeFau member_of Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 10:45

“explained, quote, narcotic agents melt covert operations. We pose as members of the narcotic trade. The big difference is that we were in foreign countries legally and through our police and intellige…”

John Evans member_of Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 12:09

“If you're successful because you lie, cheat, and steal, those things will become tools to use in your own bureaucracies, unquote, which goes to explain a lot about why our institutions are corrupted. …”

John Enright headed Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 12:09

Andrew Tartalino headed Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 16:19

“They tampered with heroin, transferred it to informants for sale, and even murdered other agents who threatened to expose them. Which is exactly what we found in Gary Webb's book with those cops that …”

Bureau of Narcotics succeeded Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 16:53

“Andrew Tartalino, the investigation ended in 1968 with the resignation of 32 agents and the indictment of five. That same year, the FBN was reconstructed in the Department of Justice and became the Bu…”

Richard Nixon carried_out_attack Operation Intercept book_quoted ▶ 17:23

“arrest a few people. Richard Nixon was elected president based on a vow to restore law and order in America. To prove that it intended to keep that promise, the White House in 1969 launched Operation …”

Henry Kissinger founded Heroin Committee book_quoted ▶ 17:53

“formed a committee on narcotics called the Heroin Committee to coordinate drug policies. The Heroin Committee was composed of cabinet members represented by their deputies. James Ludlam represented CI…”

James Ludlam member_of Heroin Committee book_quoted ▶ 17:53

James Ludlam member_of Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 17:53

Fred Dick member_of Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 19:45

“This betrayal occurred incrementally. Fred Dick, the BNDD agent assigned to Saigon, passed the names of the complicit military officers to the White House. But as Dick recalled, Ambassador Ellsworth B…”

Jerry Strickler member_of Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 22:13

“a CIA terror organization active in the U.S., the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico. The revelation that CIA drug smuggling assets were operating inside the United States led to the ass…”

Inger Ingersoll headed Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 23:11

“Ingersoll's inspection staff had gathered enough evidence to warrant the investigation of dozens of corrupt FBN agents who had risen to management positions in the BNDD. But Ingersoll could not invest…”

Patrick Fuller headed Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 23:41

“19 CIA officers infiltrated into the BNDD, ostensibly to spy on corrupt BNDD officials. According to BNDD's chief inspector, Patrick Fuller, a corporation engaged in law enforcement hired three CIA of…”

Charles Guttensol member_of Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted ▶ 24:11

“case officer primarily selected officers whose career had been stalled due to gradual reduction in forces in Southeast Asia. Those hired were put through the BNDD's training course and assigned to spy…”

William J. Bolton worked_with Ted Shackley host_asserted ▶ 32:59

“narcotic trafficking, not anti-narcotic trafficking, just to be clear. Bolton directed the CIA's division and station chiefs, and in doing so, he worked closely with Ted Shackley, you know, the guy su…”

William J. Bolton worked_with Ted Shackley host_asserted ▶ 33:32

“post-World War II in Germany. They also worked together in the Cuban exile community in Miami during the Bay of Pigs. Later, it was said that Bolton screwed us, according to the BNDD's Latin American …”

William Colby informed Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs host_asserted ▶ 34:05

“The rest of this kind of just goes on and tells us all of the stuff that we already know. But it goes on and talks about like in 72, Helms told BNDD director Inglesol that the CIA had prepared files o…”

Jamaica was_node_for Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 58:02

“It's horrible what happened to them as far as the hurricane. Understand that our perspective in Operation Gladio Jamaica was one of the key nodes. Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Trinidad are names th…”