The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1

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0:00 Okay, I see Bridget's in the house. Let me know when you get the mic, Bridget. Something really weird's going on. Can you hear me, Bridget? I may have to start the space over. It's not letting me bring Bridget up. Can anybody hear me? Can you hear me now, Bridget? I just tried to bring you up as co-host again. Oh, they're messing with us again.

1:33 I've seen people, just since I opened this space, there's a whole bunch of people that got dropped out. It dropped me out. Then it wouldn't let me talk. All right, let's see if Bridget can get the co-host. We can't go forward if we don't have a co-host because if it dumped me again, there we go. She's got the speaker now. Yeah, it keeps putting me out. It won't bring you up as a co-host?

2:13 It was throwing me out altogether. All right. Let me try one more time. Yeah, there's something really funky about it right now. All right. There you go. You're up as co-host now. How are you this afternoon? I'm good. Let me get us live over here on Rumble. And we're going to get this kicked off. What I may have to do is over the next few days, switch.

2:53 to having these in the morning just because there's going to be things going on in the afternoon where I wouldn't be able to have them thanks to Bridget showing up. So I'll keep you updated on that. Somebody told me about a feature where, and I know Bridget already knows about it, but when she talks about tech stuff, I kind of don't listen, honestly.

3:24 But just because I was going to look at change. I know she hates to hear that. I know there's a feature where you can look on like a dashboard and tell when the people that follow you are most online. And interestingly enough, over like 60 percent of you guys are online, like around eight o'clock in the morning and then around eight o'clock at night.

3:53 I just found that interesting. And so if we do have to move them, I will move them in the morning so that we can do the show and we don't miss keep the exposure we've been doing. OK, so having said all that, let's get to cocaine death squads in the war on terror. U.S. imperialism and the class struggle in Colombia by Oliver Villar.

4:23 Andrew Cottle. And can everybody repost the space out real quick? Thank you. Thank you. Oh, hey, Snow. So what's really interesting, and all of this timing is, I believe, by divine intervention, is the recent appearance on Tucker of the guy that's writing about the special forces at Fort Bragg.

4:53 Because obviously, JSOC and all of this stuff is ultimately wrapped into the conversation of Gladio because they work hand in hand with the CIA and not always necessarily in a good way. So I just find it fortuitous that as we walk through this journey.

5:19 That all of these real world things are happening at the exact same time that kind of reinforces we're not out in left field anywhere. So the foreword to the book is by Peter Del Scott. He starts off by saying that Columbia's history is a chronicle of violence and class warfare dating back to the Spanish era with its institutions of slavery and semi-feudal land allocation.

5:50 This book shows how in the last half century, the United States has helped to centralize and militarize the class conflict. And above all, how cocaine has come to play a central role in financing the oppression. American involvement in Colombia repression can be traced back to President Kennedy, who faced with generals intent on ousting Fidel Castro from Cuba.

6:17 authorized instead a program of anti-communist counterinsurgency throughout South America and above all, Colombia. In February 1962, a U.S. special warfare team first visited Colombia and set in motion an air of systematic centralized counter-terror, I would argue it was terror, not counter-terror, inflicted by professionally trained paramilitary units.

6:45 Fearing that Castro might soon try to export his revolution to South American continent, the special warfare experts at Fort Bragg, which again is JSOC, rushed to instruct the Colombian army in the same counterinsurgency techniques then being introduced in Vietnam. And again, I'm arguing these are not counterinsurgency, they're insurgencies. The trip report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

7:14 recommended development of a civil and military structure to perform counter-agent and counter-propaganda functions and, as necessary, execute paramilitary sabotage and or terror activities against known, quote-unquote, communist proponents. It should be backed by the United States, unquote. In the wake of the visit, a series of training teams arrived.

7:44 contributing to the Colombian Army's Plan LAZO, a comprehensive counterinsurgency plan implemented between 62 and 65. It was in response to the systematic campaign in the reinforcement of class repression rather than to any outside assistance from Castro. That FARC and ELN were first organized in 1964.

8:12 As Michael McClintock has observed, quote, the banditry of the early 60s was transformed into organized revolutionary guerrilla warfare after 65, which has continued to date. Now, notice the timing of this. So we go in and start training the what I'm referring to as the terrorists. They'll call them counterterrorism experts.

8:38 And that is the exact date you can trace the creation of the FARC. Because what you find out, as we're going to find out, the FARC rose up in resistance to the very paramilitary thing being imposed in Colombia and the setting up of the Crystal Triangle. An important ingredient in the Fort Bragg approach to counterinsurgency, as reflected in their training manuals,

9:09 was the organization of what they referred to as self-defense units and other paramilitary groups, including hunter-killer teams. The thinking and nomenclature of these field manuals were translated and cited in the Colombian Army's Counter-Guerrilla Manual. It defined the self-defense group as an organization of military nature made up of select

9:40 civilian personnel from the combat zone who are trained and equipped to carry out actions against groups of guerrillas. They function as paramilitaries, are now called in Colombia, and have been a scourge on the civilian population ever since. In the 70s, the CIA offered further training to Colombia and other Latin American police.

10:10 at its so-called bomb school at Los Farnos in Texas. And of course, we've come across that multiple times because all of the Latin American forces were brought in after the CIA overthrew the governments and taught them how to create bombs at Los Farnos. It comes up every single time. There, USAID, under CIA's so-called Office of Public Safety program,

10:42 which we've talked about at nauseam, taught a curriculum including terrorist concepts, terrorist devices, fabrication and functioning of devices, improvised triggering devices, incendiaries, and assassination weapons, a discussion of various weapons which may be used by the assassin. During congressional hearings, AID officials

11:10 admitted that the so-called bomb school offered lessons not in bomb disposal, but in bomb making. Trained terrorist counter-revolutionaries thus became assets of the Colombian state security apparatus. They were also employed by U.S. corporations. Well, that'd be a bigger shocker to everybody else but us. Anxious to protect their workforce from unionization as well as anti-union campaigns,

11:40 by Colombian suppliers to large U.S. corporations. So let's just say that again. These same forces that the CIA and special forces from Fort Bragg are training will be used to protect the corporations that are going to go in and imperialize Colombia against forces in Colombia

12:11 unionizing against them for proper working conditions. Their dual purpose, as we have learned along the way. Oil companies in particular have been part of the state-coordinated campaign against guerrillas. In June 2001, a Colombian court heard how a U.S. security firm working for Occidental Petroleum had played a fatal role in

12:39 an army raid against the FARC, directing helicopter gunships that mistakenly killed 18 civilians. So again, we have paramilitary companies that we just covered going in and killing civilians on behalf of U.S. oligarchs. Other accounts of the Colombian conflict have ignored this early U.S. input into paramilitary organizations.

13:08 and date the Army-Paramilitary Alliance from 1981, which is bullshit. That was the year in which the country's major cocaine traffickers, collaborating with the Colombian Army, established a training school for a nationwide counter-terrorist network. In Spanish, initials is MAS, but what it stands for in English is Death to Kidnappers.

13:39 And you guys remember when I was telling you on the Alpha Warrior show, one of the ways the FARC was able to sustain the resistance was by kidnapping both ranchers of the upper elite in Colombia and family members and ransoming them back to the families for money. And so MAS, literally death to kidnappers, meaning the FARC, was set up.

14:08 The traffickers put up the money and the generals contracted for Israeli and British mercenaries to come to Colombia to run the death squad school. A leading graduate was Carlos Castano. And we talked about him. We will talk about him in depth in this book. He was a notorious drug trafficker and founder of the.

14:37 A-U-C, United Self-Defense Forces of Columbia. We'll refer to them in the future as A-U-C. From the U.S.'s perspective, officially, the A-U-C was supposedly the good guys and the FARC was the bad guys. But as you will see, the A-U-C is a death squad. And the M-A-S, MAS.

15:08 were also death squads. Although the stated purpose of the network was to combat kidnapping, a preferred fundraising technique of the FARC, MAS played an overtly political role as a criminal extension of the Army. Most notably, it enabled the Army to frustrate the peace agreements negotiated with the FARC by anyone in the government. Because again, just like in Ukraine,

15:38 They do not want peace. You can't traffic drugs if you have peace. It looks a little odd. That's the whole reason why I posted what I posted this morning about the Taliban. They have to have a boogeyman if they're going to continue to perpetuate drug trafficking. So the Moss was the instigators. Anytime anybody in the government made moves to negotiate with the FARC.

16:10 They would create a false flag, demonize the FARC, and things continued as normal. This time, when President Betancur in the 1980s was trying to negotiate with the FARC, the MAS murdered over 700 FARC members who entered the constitutional political process.

16:43 as members of a political party. They called it Union Patriot. There is no sign that the Reagan administration, which disapproved of Ben Tucker and his peace plan, exerted any pressure for the military to stop the killings because the vice president was the drug trafficker, George H.W. Bush. So, of course, they're not going to.

17:14 And they don't like anybody talking peace, which, again, is where we find ourselves today, which is why understanding history puts everything in perspective. That's why they hate Trump. You're not going to have someone who seeks peace being a popular person among people who seek war. It just doesn't happen.

17:48 And understanding that there's precedent for all of this makes today seem, it makes today make a lot more sense. Okay. The AUC operated with impunity until 1989 when their activities were outlawed. But Human Rights Watch in a detailed report has documented how in 1991, the U.S. military.

18:23 and CIA personnel collaborated with the Colombian Army to institute a new system of civilian intelligence units. Despite express prohibitions in the Army's grounding document, some of these units continued to act as paramilitary and were armed, sometimes with U.S. equipment, by the Colombian Army in the name of fighting drugs.

18:52 the CIA financed new military intelligence networks there in 1991. But the new networks did little to stop drug traffickers. Instead, they incorporated illegal paramilitary groups into their ranks and strengthened existing death squads. In a new report written in the year 2000,

19:19 Human Rights Watch continued to document the involvement of senior Army commanders in the planning and execution of paramilitary massacres. According to the report, quote, evidence links half of Columbian's 18 brigade-level Army units to paramilitary activity, unquote. The report also describes a process called legalization, whereby paramilitaries being civilian,

19:49 Oh, excuse me. Paramilitaries bring civilian corpses to the army barracks and exchange them for weapons. The officers then claim that the corpses being brought to them were guerrillas killed in battle by them, even though they were brought and dropped off. The intent of these U.S.-backed strategies has been to drive the FARC out of oil-bearing...

20:21 North and Central Columbia into the Amazon region, southeast of basically the growing zone for coca. They wanted them in a remote zone that for years after 1998 was virtually conceded to it by the central government. There, the former guerrilla force became, in effect, a governing

20:50 body administering and taxing the region it controlled so again you have the cia going in and training people to dislocate indigenous people off their land for oil companies that's the bottom line of what you just said ironically the result of another u.s policy drug eradication has been in

21:18 has turned this region into a major coca-producing area, which I would contend was the whole purpose, along with stealing all their other resources. This might have been predicted when the U.S. vigorously pursued coca eradication programs in nearby Bolivia and Peru because they didn't control them. Despite the spectacular reduction in those countries, there was no large decline in

21:49 Colombia. Politically, however, the situation was very different. Coca production became concentrated in an area under the ongoing control of revolutionary force in a region where the central government could not normally operate. Thus, the end result was to validate what was earlier a phantom U.S. nightmare, narco gorillas. The term narco gorilla had been mocked by experts.

22:16 when it was coined by the Casey Bush years of the Reagan administration and shown to be deceptive rhetoric by intelligence agencies in Latin America who were themselves involved as the drug traffickers. Even when Clinton's drug czar, General Barry McCaffrey, renewed the war cry against narco-gorillas in 1997, the New York Times pointed out that the term had been publicly disputed.

22:44 by the American ambassador to Colombia, Miles Frejet. But after planned Colombia in 2000, the Pentagon was fully engaged in the quote-unquote struggle against the FARC, a struggle that Congress would support. Aid to the Colombian army, cut off by Congress in 1994 because of human rights violation, was restored in 2000 through planned Colombia.

23:14 In the resulting symbiosis between the military assistance, the FARC, and a flourishing narco economy, the CIA became more and more directly involved in drug trafficking. For example, it is not disputed that in 1993, while working for the Cali cartel, AUC leader Carlos Castano collaborated with the CIA and the Colombian police to bring down the fugitive.

23:44 drug baron Pablo Escobar. Carlos Castano and his brother were leaders of a death squad, Los Pepes, that tracked and killed members of Escobar's organization. And again, remember me telling you on Alpha's show, Escobar wasn't playing the CIA's game because he was reinvesting the profits into Colombia, and that was not allowed. Not that he wasn't a drug trafficker, because he was.

24:15 He just wasn't their drug trafficker. Okay. They did so on the basis of information that they received from the CIA. So the CIA is telling Castano who to kill and who not to kill. It was transmitted via a special squad of Colombian National Police on good terms with the Cali cartel. Now, again, let me just stop and remind you. I just saw.

24:49 The National Police at the Hemisphere School at Fort Benning, along with some of the Colombian officers, one of which walked out of the door when I was walking in. This is crazy. The U.S. Embassy had intelligence reports that, in fact, Los Pepes had been created by the Cali cartel. Yet the Los Pepes killers fraternized with at least two DEA agents and gave one of them a gold watch.

25:23 A far more dramatic involvement of the CIA was acknowledged in 1997 when General Ramon Guillen de Vela, chief of the CIA created anti-drug unit in Venezuela, was indicted in Miami for smuggling a ton of cocaine into the United States. Let me say that again. The chief of the CIA created anti-drug unit in Venezuela.

25:53 was trafficking drugs through Venezuela from Colombia for the CIA. So when they tell you it's Venezuela, you probably ought to raise an eyebrow, okay? The CIA had an agent in Venezuela, so they can always blame Venezuela. Venezuela was doing it. It wasn't us, but it was them.

26:23 According to the New York Times, quote, the CIA, over the objections of the DEA, approved the shipment of at least one ton of pure cocaine into Miami International as a way of gathering information about the Colombian drug cartels, unquote. Which is horseshit. They're in Colombia. They know all about the Colombian drug cartel. They're there.

26:51 They're helping create it. Time magazine reported that a single shipment amounted to 998 pounds following earlier ones totaling 2,000 pounds. Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes confirmed that the CIA National Guard undercover operation quickly accumulated this cocaine over a ton and a half that was smuggled from Colombia into Venezuela.

27:22 According to the Wall Street Journal, the total amount of drugs smuggled by General Gillian may have been more than 22 tons. But the U.S. never asked for Gillian's extradition from Venezuela to stand trial. And in 2007, after he was arrested in Venezuela for plotting to assassinate Venezuelan President Chavez,

27:53 His indictment was still sealed in Miami. Meanwhile, you just can't make this shit up. Meanwhile, CIA officer Mark McFarlane, whom DEA chief Bonner had also wished to indict. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. CIA officer, the DEA chief wanted to indict a CIA officer, was never indicted at all.

28:23 He just resigned. According to Time, the stated purpose of the scheme was to help out the Venezuelan generals, agents, win the confidence of Colombian drug lords, specifically the Medellin cartel. But by facilitating multi-ton shipments, the CIA was becoming part of the Colombian drug trafficking. As Peter Del Scott wrote in Drugs, Oil and War, which is a book we've already done,

28:54 This is a quote from that book. The CIA can and does point to its role in the arrest and elimination of a number of major Colombian traffickers. These arrests have not diminished the actual flow of cocaine into the U.S., which on the contrary reached a high in 2000. But they have institutionalized the relationship of law enforcement and rival cartels.

29:21 and visibly contributed to the increase in the cartel violence. The true purpose of most of these campaigns, like Plan Colombia, has not been to the hopeless ideal of eradication of drugs. It has been to alter the market share to target specific enemies and thus ensure

29:46 the drug trafficking remains under the control of the traffickers aligned with the CIA. This confirms the judgment of Senate investigator Jack Bloom a decade ago that America, instead of battling a narcotics conspiracy, has in a subtle way become part of it. A narrow focus on Columbia history, you can see the excesses of drug-financed auto defense as merely a

30:17 continuation of the rule violence that preceded Plan Lazo in the 1960s. But a broader glance at how the U.S. has intervened in other countries would see Colombia as yet another example of how the U.S., with local drug proxy forces, to increase the offensive power in ungovernable areas overseas. The best documented incidents are in Burma, Thailand,

30:47 Laos, and Afghanistan. There, the CIA developed armed and equipped proxy armies whose chief sources of financing was unambiguously drugs. Americans appear to have played a similar role in Azerbaijan, Kosovo, and other places. But even closer analogies in the drug-financed auto defense of Colombia can be found in the Brigada

31:19 Blanca of Mexico, or the Gladio units established by the U.S. in NATO countries like Turkey and Italy, which evolved in collusion with local drug mafias into systematic forces for ongoing violence against organizers, including killings. The Peristate, described by Father Javier Geraldo in Colombia,

31:47 quote, a structure that is illegal and clandestine that increasingly takes over the dirty work, the repression, unquote, is closely paralleled to the deep state of Turkey that perform the same functions there. Moreover, as Villivar and Cottle wrote in this book, most of the profits from the Colombian cocaine trade are reinvested in the United States.

32:15 not Colombia. This too is true of profits from drug trafficking worldwide, roughly 80% of which are laundered through banks of the country of drug consumption, not the country of origin. Just one U.S. bank, Wachovia, paid federal authorities $110 million in forfeitures

32:42 for transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling. It incurred a $50 million fine for failure to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine. More important, the bank was sanctioned for not monitoring the transfer of, sit down for a second, $378 billion, B with a billion.

33:12 So they laundered $378 billion and was fined $110 million. That's a pretty good return on your money, isn't it? Even in Warhamster's quick math, that's less than 1%. Okay, that sum of $378 billion.

33:42 was equivalent to one-third of Mexico's gross national product into dollar accounts. After the 2008 economic crisis, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office of Drug and Crime, reported that drug money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis. It is fair to say that American narco-capitalism committed to

34:14 dominating the petroleum resources of the world has developed a narco dependency that will be difficult to shake off. Thus, it is urgent and a priority that serious students of the U.S. as well as Columbia learn and act on the lessons of this book. So I'm going to stop there because that really does set the tone of the rest of this book and what we're going to talk about.

34:47 And kind of gives us a launch pad and a bridge from what we talked about last week on Alpha Show and where we're going to go. Peter Del Scott, awesome scholar, does a great job in kind of encapsulating what this book is going to unfold in detail.

35:18 Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. No, go ahead. And this is a common practice for them to give them, and I don't even call it a slap on the wrist, because it really isn't. Again, it's a pretty good return on your investment. If I'm going to be allowed to stay out of jail, keep doing what I'm doing, and just have to pay 10%. It's not even 1%. Or I mean 1%.

35:48 One percent. So, yeah, that's your money laundering fee. But that doesn't even capture the real evilness of this. If you go to that Consumer Financial Protection Board that Elizabeth Warren set up, they're one of the organizations that collects these fines.

36:09 The fines that are levied on these, number one, none of the officials knowingly money laundering for drug cartels have ever went to jail. They'll get some like when they prosecuted the BCCI guys in Tampa, Florida. They'll get a few of the lower rung only because they all met and was recorded. But none of the big guys ever go to jail.

36:37 their plea bargain is to not admit responsibility and pay a fine. Then you look at what the Consumer Financial Protection Board does with that money. They fund organizations that are the equivalent of a George Soros organization. And it just feeds. So even the fine works for them. That's great. That's working both ends of the system.

37:09 And that's sick. Yeah. You know, it's sick how long this has been going on and it's now not surprising. But it also puts in context, like you were talking, because didn't they just recently just shut her consumer production group down like last week? Yeah. And I didn't even, I mean, I thought that was in like part of the treasury.

37:41 Because that's where you would think or the SEC. No, no. Their offices were inside the Fed. Oh, my God. Offices were inside the Fed. And the Fed is the one that are supposedly holding banks account and not allowing them to money launder. So they had their own little puppy mill going on, hatching their little, you know, farm raised puppies.

38:14 To go off and do their work. It's really sick. It is really sick. It is really, you know, and well, and it's not the first time. It's not the first time we found where just so happens the address is exactly the same. They're operating out of the same building and recycling employees. Yes, we found that a lot. But I was and we'll talk a little bit more about it.

38:48 I was very interested in Peter Del Scott's comments about there's proof that the CIA trafficked drugs through Venezuela from Colombia and then basically turned around and accused Venezuela as connections with Castro as being the drug traffickers. Not surprising. Yeah, and we're hearing that today.

39:19 We're hearing about the accusations of Venezuela, the source of drugs being from Venezuela. And I'm not saying they're not. But I'm also saying that we have established a pattern where the CIA routes drugs through places like that. And the same guy controlling the drugs tries to assassinate Chavez. I mean, come on.

39:48 And that makes me wonder if they're not going after the dirty tricks, Department of Dirty Tricks operating outside of our government that has, you know, that may be operating out of Venezuela. But that's just my own, you know, toss a coin. We may never know. Anytime somebody accuses in our government, and I don't care who you are, good guy or bad guy. When you tell me that.

40:17 another country is doing something, my first reaction now is immediately, where's your intel from? Who is telling you that they're doing that? Because if we're making the same mistake in relying on the Central Intelligence Agency to provide us intelligence while exposing them in real time every single day since January,

40:46 of being the purveyors of created intelligence, not actual intelligence, how can you have it both ways? How can you take actions based on intelligence while at the same time you're exposing the source of the intelligence for being a bunch of fuck-ups? I don't get it. That's where there is one thing that has stuck in the back of my mind, okay?

41:14 And that is during an interview when it was talking about al-Baghdadi. And when Trump actually got on, unbeknownst to anybody, he got on an airplane, he went over, and he talked to the guys on the ground. They had to land without the air, couldn't even have their phones on, all the lights had to be out, blah, blah, blah. But that, to me, tells me...

41:43 that he has not been listening to the intel. He's going over there and he's talking to the guys who are on the ground and asking them what is actually going on. And that's encouraging because then, and again, you know, it goes back to, we've seen how many Gladio operations and all these stay behind units. A lot of times they are using local people. Now that does not mean that all of Venezuela is bad.

42:15 But they may have organized and radicalized some groups and are manipulating them. And since he is cutting off the squid, so to speak, these arms are now floundering and trying to reconstitute. And it, to me, looks like he's going over and plucking them out. But again, we may never know. But I know that...

42:46 It's not a coincidence he came in and immediately hit the Institute of Peace, the USAID. I mean, there was no pause there. You know, that was pre-planned strategic strikes. And I have to assume that the rest of this is also. Wouldn't you think? Yes. Yes. But again, when you get on television and you start telling me that you are going to do this, that or the other.

43:18 And especially if you're not Trump himself, but some member of the staff. And here's the, you know, intelligence that we're acting on. My first question is, where'd you get it? Absolutely. Absolutely. And I still don't trust. Well, I trust very few people that are beneath Trump. I just don't, you know, lesson learned the Pence effect. Well, even or the Bill Barr effect or the, you know.

43:50 Even the people that are senior leaders in the military, depending on when they served. So those of us that served through the 2000s, 2010s, up until around like 2015, everybody that served before that, the primary source of intelligence for military operations,

44:22 large military operations was originated in the CIA and then either validated or questioned in the DIA and the services intel like NSA. And as you saw with the Trump Russia, the CIA insisted this was true and Admiral Rogers as NSA eventually signed off on it.

44:52 So it is fair to say that most of the intelligence is originating at the CIA. And we have found through our studies that not only is that true, a lot of the intelligence the CIA passes off as their intelligence actually comes from Mossad and Saudi Arabia, depending on what decade you're in.

45:23 A lot of it comes from MI6. So it's not even their intelligence. It's crafted intelligence to do whatever they want to do. And if you can pass it along enough times, you can develop it to be what you want it to be. And that is very important to keep in mind. So then when you look at actions that military officers take based on

45:52 what I'm going to refer to as fake intelligence. It provides a paradox now that these guys retire and they may be in some phase of figuring out they got played. And then how do you do that as a senior officer? How do you reconcile your...

46:19 you know, commanding people in a theater where you don't bring everybody home with the fact that the government that you're serving has an element like the CIA in it that is setting you up. It's a really, really hard thing to try to put all together and process when you've been on the inside of it, because at some point you have to admit you got played.

46:48 And senior officers in the military aren't real fond of self-evaluation and admitting the fact that they got played. So there's a real reckoning coming in that regard, I think. Now, some of them knowingly did it. Some of them were part of this, and we've seen that repeatedly.

47:15 With where they go to work afterwards, the complicity in contracting, giving contracts basically illegally to certain contractors because they knew they were going to go get a job there, that type of thing. So some of them are knowingly corrupt, but the majority are not. And they will have a very difficult time reconciling all of this.

47:45 I can totally understand that. Just the other day, I was complaining to Cousin Ed about how we all got duped. I said, what, were we all freaking high when the moon landing happened and that we believed it all? Mm-hmm. Sometimes you think, and it's like, how stupid. I mean, right? And even, well, and then, you know, just keep going forward in time and you can...

48:18 I can't imagine military personnel having that aha moment very easily. No, because you don't come back with all of your friends, you know, and that's a hard pill to swallow. I can't even imagine. I can't even fathom it. Yeah, it is. It is. It is very tough. And you see that when you see these people lash out.

48:54 at people telling the truth, they're really internally struggling with they don't want it to be true. And it just so happens that they attack the truth teller as opposed to processing the information and looking at the facts. And there's going to be more of that, unfortunately.

49:23 But the truth will come out because we can't go forward without it. Right. And accountability. Right. We have to have accountability. Not just a slap on the wrist. Not just a slap on the wrist anymore. Not their less than 1% fine. Right. Right. Oh, my God. Right. I'm looking forward to the perp walks, just saying. Me too. But it's not like we're lacking on things to watch in the meantime.

49:58 Like the principal's office lineup of all the European leaders out in the hallway. Oh, my God. And the Prince of Netherlands that got caught with 32 counts, including forced counsel, right? That was Finland. Finland. Sorry, my bad. Yeah. Not that the Netherlands guy's any better, but that was Finland. Right, right.

50:26 You know, that all kind of becomes a big, squishy, you know, wibbly wobbly kind of a group over there. Well, if we could get Snow to get a microphone, he could tell us all about that. He knows all about it. He lives over in the middle of it. Right. Well, he said when when we perp walk Obama, then he said he'll come up. I'm looking forward to it. I'll probably meet Snow face to face before that happens.

50:58 Whatever. Miles, did you have something you wanted to add? Yeah, I'm glad that you brought up about how big this is and how vast it is. And then I hear so many people going, what's taking so long? I think we're on schedule. I'm not planning this, but whoever is, I mean, they have to take into so many different factors as far as.

51:27 So many different groups and how they're going to deal with the truth. So I think things are moving on on schedule, but I could be wrong, but I'm fine with what's going on right now. I hope other people are. Well, we don't have much choice. We're not in charge. Well, I understand. And that's the good thing about my Gladio glasses is you can actually see, okay, the people that are saying my opinion, it's my opinion.

51:58 They're what's taking so long. Don't have any Gladio glasses. Because if you do, you already see things are already happening. It's just they don't recognize it. Well, either that or they're part of the propaganda. Right. That is true. It's like that interview. Oh, my God. That interview that you posted. The CIA guy. I don't think the truth was in him. You don't think that.

52:35 I don't think he was capable of speaking the truth. Well, he certainly didn't speak the truth. I mean, what he said wasn't not true, but he didn't tell you. Manipulated. Yes. And that's what they are taught to do from day one. They will say things that sound like complete sentences, but it really is only like the first three words of a much longer sentence.

53:08 That they leave out the whole rest of the other stuff. And then, I mean, at first I started grabbing the notebook. I'm like, you know what? I don't have enough pages in my notebook. Because he contradicted himself along his whole story. Yes. And I'm like, boy, they wrote him a really good bio. But unfortunately with that, things generally don't line up. Like he was talking about how he was seasick. But then he went on this.

53:40 Long voyage all the way around Europe. What? Oh, my God. They just don't even lie right, you know? Yeah. Well, but now we know what to look for. I mean, again, in the past, I would have never had the audacity to listen to a CIA agent with a sense of refuting what they were saying.

54:11 I didn't ever think they were malicious towards the United States. And I didn't ever think that they would, you know, basically lie to the American people. But now that you know that that's what they're designed to do. And when you actually listen to what they're saying, as opposed to or how they're saying it, as opposed to what they're saying.

54:37 It really is driven home every single time one of them opens their mouth now. Miles, go ahead. Did you hear that Sean Ryan's hanging it up? He's not hanging it up. He's getting a new studio. Oh, so he's going to take a vacation until it's built? I don't know. Somebody said, was it Warhamster? He said that someone had sent him a comment.

55:09 was basically retiring. And then when he listened to the whole video, it was just that he was leaving his old studios for a new studio. So I don't know if he's taking a break or what. That's just what Warhamster posted. Interesting. What do you think of Sean? I don't trust him. I love some of the interviews that he does, but

55:42 Where was he at in Latin America? Yeah, he's got a history. Do you know where he was? No, go ahead. Columbia. As a contractor or in the CIA? Contractor. Contractor, okay. Makes sense. So, yeah, thanks for your participation, Sean.

56:13 Yeah, so every time I talk about these death squads and them setting up this narco-trafficking system, that was Sean Ryan. So it's really, really hard for me to listen to him not call people out when I know he knows things. Just like that Sarah Adams, that shit that she got on there and spewed all over.

56:42 He could have called her out on any number of things that I know he knows and never did. So, to me, they're... What? Sorry. Sometimes it's good, though, to listen to what narrative are they feeding. Oh, absolutely. I do it all the time. Right. And, you know, that's why I do encourage some people to listen to it. But listen to it with what you've learned.

57:13 and and take it in context then you know what narrative are they pushing what what are they trying to get ahead of what are they trying to just don't don't swallow it you know it's like i have always said you can't just read um friendly books you have to read books that are hostile to your point of view so that you can understand what the bigger picture is

57:45 And the same thing with many of these podcasts. If you don't listen to them, then you don't understand the narratives that are being pushed, as Bridget said. So one of the things that I noticed right off the bat in that very first interview that I had ever seen Sarah Adams interviewed in is her.

58:14 being focused on the Taliban. Now, again, I know a lot about the Taliban. I was at CENTCOM on 9-11. I'm not a novice to any of this. I know that it was the Taliban that became the enemy of the CIA for getting rid of their opium. I know all of this. And I also now know, thanks to the last three years, that anybody that defies the CIA will be targeted.

58:46 And so when I hear then a steady stream and she wasn't the only one. And I for like two days pointed out everybody that was posting about the Taliban. It was a concerted media op, an information warfare operation to bring the Taliban up into the public consciousness as a demonization of them. And again, I'm not pro Taliban. Do not misunderstand me.

59:14 I'm looking for targeted information warfare. And when I see it, I'm going to call it out. And the two days leading up to that appearance, it started popping up everywhere. And then that video got released and she's on there saying the same shit. And I'm like, oh, holy crap. That was a op right there.

59:40 Now she has added to that original assertion that, you know, the Taliban's bad. Now it's going to be the Taliban is behind an attack on the homeland inside the United States. And it's going to happen any minute. Pack your bags, get all your shit together. It's going to happen. When they start building operations like that, their ultimate goal is to actually have a false flag.

1:00:09 And they've laid all the seeds for you to go right back to the Taliban. Same way they laid all the seeds to bin Laden before 9-11. That didn't happen in the last couple of weeks. That happened a couple of years before that. And they laid the seeds to be able to use that as who perpetrated 9-11. The entire thing is a bold-faced lie. So now you're watching it play out in real time.

1:00:37 And whenever I see them, I'm going to point them out to you guys so that you see them too. And I just posted earlier today, it took less than five minutes to find out that like with every other one of these groups that is advocating the overthrow of a government overseas, the guy doing it is in Washington, D.C. as a lobbyist for Congress.

1:01:08 to overthrow the Taliban government in Afghanistan. And the funding is coming from here. So do they just want more opium access? I don't know. But there's an operation being ran, and it is being ran from the United States and intelligence agencies against the Taliban. For whatever that's worth, you can say, well, I'm glad they're doing it. I don't care.

1:01:37 I am here to tell you what they're doing. And if there is a false flag in the United States, and if the next words out of their mouth is it was orchestrated by the Taliban, I'm going to be the first one there with my bullshit flag saying bullshit. That's all I'm saying. Right. We're watching them in real time create the boogeyman because all these other boogeyman men have fell through. Russia Putin bad.

1:02:07 just blew up in their face during this meeting with Trump. And if Trump pulls off a peace summit, you know, this whole thing, all we're seeing them, him go around and pinprick all their balloons and all their boogeymen are deflating right in front of our eyes. So Megan new rumble says, don't take your hat off. Colonel. My phone would explode. I won't take my hat off because I was outside running around with the dogs and my.

1:02:38 whole bang area is curling up all the wrong way so don't worry mega nuke i will not blow your head up um i want one of those hats i'm telling you i love that freaking hat i've seen you wear before i love that one of my favorite hats i have the red white and blue version of this too um that's probably my all-time favorite hat but this is my second this is my beach hat i always wear this because it has the little um string

1:03:06 That you can put when we're in the boat. So it doesn't fly off your head. This is always my water hat. So. You look like one of those castaways. No. What is it? Yeah. On a three hour tour. Sorry. Every time. Yeah. All right. I would definitely be Marianne. Absolutely. Anybody else got anything? No. All right. Well.

1:03:41 Bags are packing. Bags are packed. Bags are packed. Just saying. Bags are packed. Woohoo! Road trip! All right, Miles, go ahead. Yeah, real quick on the Taliban. I still don't really know exactly what happened when we left Afghanistan, but I'm sure there were some deals made ahead of time. So, and I don't think it included the CIA.

1:04:11 Is the Taliban working with the Chinese? Well, hold up, hold up. So when we left Afghanistan, Biden was president. So we have no idea what was done and not done. A lot of those weapons that were left in Afghanistan has made their way to the black market. And there are operatives inside of Afghanistan that are pushing back against the Taliban that are still being supported by the CIA.

1:04:43 And they are stealing arms from the Taliban to sell on the black market. So that's all true. Now, as far as China goes, that's a completely different story. So we covered, Warhamster and Ghost and I covered on one of our shows that China was building a commercial zone through the middle of Pakistan.

1:05:13 Commercial Zone is part of their Belt and Road Initiative. And it was to basically free Pakistan from Western influence and make them independent. And, of course, you know, the CIA is going to go apoplectic about that, whether it was good for Pakistan or not. You can argue or you can say it's bad because it's China, whatever. But that's what was happening. And as a result of this pipeline going.

1:05:42 to the water in southern Pakistan, once the Taliban took back over the government, the Taliban for Afghanistan began three-way conversations with Pakistan and the Chinese corridor development project to tap into that. So there would be a...

1:06:12 continuation of that development project into basically downtown Afghanistan. That is simultaneously when this entire narrative of, oh my God, the Taliban's going to be the worst thing. And all of that shit popped off in the United States. That's when that Sarah interview aired. That's when I saw the rhetoric about the Taliban.

1:06:40 just hit exponential magnitude is the first article that I read about Taliban from Afghanistan sitting down with the Pakistanis and the Chinese to join this development corridor, shit went off the charts. So again, I don't think any of that is organic. I think all of that is to destabilize anything.

1:07:09 that is outside the imperialist Western control. Colonel, when that all went down, were you activated because I was watching it and it popped in my head, they're going to scrub all these videos. So I captured all those videos. What do you mean? You can't find a lot of videos that I have that I downloaded from the withdrawal. Oh. Yeah, they're gone.

1:07:42 When you asked me if I was activated, I mean, that's a military term. No, I was not activated. Well, okay. I'm sorry that I used that term. But, I mean, paying attention, were you actually focused in on what was happening at that time? Because a lot of us were. And like I said, they're going to get rid of these videos that were coming out of there. Well, it was clear to me that what happened there was on purpose.

1:08:13 Every single aspect of it was done on purpose. Now, a friend of mine that is still on active duty, so I can't use his name, knew people that were there. And I'm not talking at the lower level. And they knew who was responsible for those people getting killed. And as a matter of fact.

1:08:41 the two-star army general used to be this guy's boss um they despise him they know exactly what went down they know exactly why it went down um and it's yeah so i mean i was paying attention i i knew about some things that were happening um it was awful it was absolutely awful so but

1:09:11 Yeah, look, it was, but also I don't know if there was anything that was going on to counter some of the things that were happening. Because, I mean, obviously some videos that they were putting out is like, you know, from the ghost army. I mean, that C-17 was not real. So I don't know who put that out. Do you? I don't.

1:09:42 No. Okay. Yeah. So it was put out for a reason. They only show us certain things for a reason. So it's obvious, you know, I mean, I have, I have the video after the bombing and we were kind of picking that apart. I mean, it just looked odd to me. And then we even did a deep dive on the victims and

1:10:12 I don't understand why they were outside the wire. I mean, if you looked at who these people were, I mean, they were part of intel. They were highly educated people. So I would assume that there would be some grunts that could have been on that detail. I don't know. I'm just, maybe I'm all wrong here, but it just.

1:10:35 It just was the whole thing was weird. I know. But in a military operation, regardless of what your career field is, when you're moving and you're moving out, everybody has a logistics job. It doesn't matter if you're Intel or anything else. You all become logistics. That's the whole dynamic of being in the military. You can't say that this person has this job and they're only ever going to do that job.

1:11:04 When you are deployed, everybody is everything. You all have rifles. I mean, I was a personnel officer. I had my 9mm on me all the time. I didn't just do personnel readiness when I was over there. Our job deployed is mortuary affairs and station accountability of personnel that are, you know, in case you lost a station, you have to know everybody that's supposed to be there.

1:11:33 personnel accountability is like my wartime mission. But I was also the aid and I was also the executive officer and I was also the protocol officer. So I had like five jobs. And depending on what day it was and who was visiting, I did some jobs more than other jobs. In a deployed setting, anybody that's there does whatever needs to be done. You don't just have one job. One more question. With the amount of equipment that was over there,

1:12:03 I'm assuming it was for the Afghan army, which we knew for years was incompetent or probably bought off, whatever. I don't know exactly what was going on there, but everybody was on the take, it seems like, from the top down. But did they put any tracking devices on anything? Oh, okay.

1:12:34 that base there was humongous. There was, it was a central logistical hub for all of the operations in Afghanistan. It had a shit ton of stuff on it. And that was not the Afghan army stuff. That was ours. Okay. I'm just wondering if there was a way to track where that stuff went. That's all. Well, now,

1:13:06 You don't need a tracker, Miles. We have 24-7 satellite coverage. You can't move some of these large pieces of equipment that was sitting on that base without somebody having eyes on. The whole purpose of leaving it over there was to pilfer it into the Black Ops covert, just like they did in Vietnam, just like they did in Korea, just like they've done everywhere we're at.

1:13:36 This is a pattern. The shit was left there so that they can sell it and have weapons to traffic to generate covert funds. So, yes, we have 24-7 surveillance of every inch of the globe, practically. So is it similar to when you order 10 C-130s and only nine show up? No.

1:14:05 That's a completely different scenario. This scenario is they've all been delivered. You're just not going to take them home. And if you know you're not going to take them home and you wanted to be able to figure out if you are actually trying to discover a weapons trafficking pipeline, all you have to do is turn your satellite on. It's like having a submarine periscope with eyes on.

1:14:34 All right, I'm watching this. I can continue to watch it. And when somebody gets in it and drives it away, I'm going to track to wherever they drive it to. It's literally that simple. And if they really wanted to find out where weapons was being trafficked to, that's exactly what they would do. But they don't because they're in on it. So it's the same thing with drugs. It's not like they don't know where the drugs are being produced.

1:15:06 It's just like World War II. It's not like they didn't know where the ball bearings plants were. It's not like they didn't know where IG Farben was. They chose not to bomb it because they were going to use it afterwards. Like the weapons of mass destruction. Okay, I'm really frustrated. Thanks, Colonel. Well, you ask. I'm not going to lie to you. All right. And the irony of all of this, as AP Jonas just said,

1:15:42 Um, for those of us who are, were, were in the legitimate military and you check into a new unit, like the first day on the job, when I took command of my last unit, they have a folder for full of hand receipts for my laptop for, I had a secure thing that I had to have in my house. Um, and all of these different pieces of equipment, um, that you are given.

1:16:12 You're given a hand receipt. And there have been people depending on the level of the hand receipt value that go to jail because they can't produce what's on their hand receipt. And the irony of that when you have billions of dollars of shit left in Afghanistan and you have airmen that have literally been thrown out of the military because they can't find the shit on their hand receipt.

1:16:43 You have no idea how frustrating this is, Miles, for those of us that spent 30 years crossing every T and dotting every I to have after you step away from that to see how gross this entire thing is, how gross it is. Just like the kid on the submarine that took a picture for his mom gets thrown in Leavenworth while Hillary Clinton is selling.

1:17:11 classified shit to the chinese okay supposedly he vote broke um classification um policy by taking a picture and she's out there selling the shit and she's still walking around and he had to go to jail so those of us who have spent our lifetime in the military you could not possibly be more frustrated than we are

1:17:42 Well, I still think the counterinsurgence is going well. Thank you. Yep. All right. No more hands. So I'm going to take off and start dinner. I appreciate you guys all being here. I see Illini down there. Thanks for jumping in all along, all you guys. And I will be back tomorrow.

1:18:11 And I will probably be doing an early show tomorrow, like around 9 o'clock. Because we are going to have a visitor tomorrow called Bridget. So, yes. So, yes. So, anyway, I'll be doing it while she's on. Yeah. Yeah. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. I appreciate it. Take care. And I will see you tomorrow.

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Oliver Villar founded Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror documented ▶ 3:53

“I just found that interesting. And so if we do have to move them, I will move them in the morning so that we can do the show and we don't miss keep the exposure we've been doing. OK, so having said al…”

Andrew Cottle founded Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror documented ▶ 3:53

Peter Del Scott founded Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror documented ▶ 5:19

“That all of these real world things are happening at the exact same time that kind of reinforces we're not out in left field anywhere. So the foreword to the book is by Peter Del Scott. He starts off …”

John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro host_asserted ▶ 5:50

“This book shows how in the last half century, the United States has helped to centralize and militarize the class conflict. And above all, how cocaine has come to play a central role in financing the …”

United States trained Colombia book_quoted ▶ 6:17

“authorized instead a program of anti-communist counterinsurgency throughout South America and above all, Colombia. In February 1962, a U.S. special warfare team first visited Colombia and set in motio…”

Fort Bragg trained Colombia book_quoted ▶ 6:45

“Fearing that Castro might soon try to export his revolution to South American continent, the special warfare experts at Fort Bragg, which again is JSOC, rushed to instruct the Colombian army in the sa…”

United States funded Plan Lazo book_quoted ▶ 7:14

“recommended development of a civil and military structure to perform counter-agent and counter-propaganda functions and, as necessary, execute paramilitary sabotage and or terror activities against kn…”

USAID trained Colombia book_quoted ▶ 10:10

“at its so-called bomb school at Los Farnos in Texas. And of course, we've come across that multiple times because all of the Latin American forces were brought in after the CIA overthrew the governmen…”

Occidental Petroleum carried_out_attack FARC documented ▶ 12:11

“unionizing against them for proper working conditions. Their dual purpose, as we have learned along the way. Oil companies in particular have been part of the state-coordinated campaign against guerri…”

Carlos Castano member_of MAS book_quoted ▶ 14:08

“The traffickers put up the money and the generals contracted for Israeli and British mercenaries to come to Colombia to run the death squad school. A leading graduate was Carlos Castano. And we talked…”

Carlos Castano founded AUC book_quoted ▶ 14:08

MAS assassinated FARC book_quoted ▶ 16:10

“They would create a false flag, demonize the FARC, and things continued as normal. This time, when President Betancur in the 1980s was trying to negotiate with the FARC, the MAS murdered over 700 FARC…”

Human Rights Watch exposed Colombia documented ▶ 19:19

“Human Rights Watch continued to document the involvement of senior Army commanders in the planning and execution of paramilitary massacres. According to the report, quote, evidence links half of Colum…”

United States funded Plan Colombia documented ▶ 22:44

“by the American ambassador to Colombia, Miles Frejet. But after planned Colombia in 2000, the Pentagon was fully engaged in the quote-unquote struggle against the FARC, a struggle that Congress would …”

Los Pepes assassinated Pablo Escobar book_quoted ▶ 23:44

“drug baron Pablo Escobar. Carlos Castano and his brother were leaders of a death squad, Los Pepes, that tracked and killed members of Escobar's organization. And again, remember me telling you on Alph…”

Cali Cartel founded Los Pepes documented ▶ 24:49

“The National Police at the Hemisphere School at Fort Benning, along with some of the Colombian officers, one of which walked out of the door when I was walking in. This is crazy. The U.S. Embassy had …”

Ramon Guillen de Vela trafficked Venezuela documented ▶ 25:23

“A far more dramatic involvement of the CIA was acknowledged in 1997 when General Ramon Guillen de Vela, chief of the CIA created anti-drug unit in Venezuela, was indicted in Miami for smuggling a ton …”

Peter Del Scott founded Drugs, Oil and War documented ▶ 28:23

“He just resigned. According to Time, the stated purpose of the scheme was to help out the Venezuelan generals, agents, win the confidence of Colombian drug lords, specifically the Medellin cartel. But…”

United States founded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 31:19

“Blanca of Mexico, or the Gladio units established by the U.S. in NATO countries like Turkey and Italy, which evolved in collusion with local drug mafias into systematic forces for ongoing violence aga…”

Wells Fargo laundered_money_for Colombia documented ▶ 32:15

“not Colombia. This too is true of profits from drug trafficking worldwide, roughly 80% of which are laundered through banks of the country of drug consumption, not the country of origin. Just one U.S.…”

CIA trafficked Colombia book_quoted ▶ 38:48

“I was very interested in Peter Del Scott's comments about there's proof that the CIA trafficked drugs through Venezuela from Colombia and then basically turned around and accused Venezuela as connecti…”

CIA trafficked Venezuela book_quoted ▶ 38:48

CIA attempted_assassination_of Hugo Chavez host_asserted ▶ 39:19

“We're hearing about the accusations of Venezuela, the source of drugs being from Venezuela. And I'm not saying they're not. But I'm also saying that we have established a pattern where the CIA routes …”

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Taliban host_asserted ▶ 58:14

“being focused on the Taliban. Now, again, I know a lot about the Taliban. I was at CENTCOM on 9-11. I'm not a novice to any of this. I know that it was the Taliban that became the enemy of the CIA for…”

CIA spied_on Taliban host_asserted ▶ 58:14

CIA supplied_arms_to Taliban host_asserted ▶ 1:04:11

“Is the Taliban working with the Chinese? Well, hold up, hold up. So when we left Afghanistan, Biden was president. So we have no idea what was done and not done. A lot of those weapons that were left …”

China funded Belt and Road Initiative host_asserted ▶ 1:05:13

“Commercial Zone is part of their Belt and Road Initiative. And it was to basically free Pakistan from Western influence and make them independent. And, of course, you know, the CIA is going to go apop…”

Taliban member_of Belt and Road Initiative host_asserted ▶ 1:05:42

“to the water in southern Pakistan, once the Taliban took back over the government, the Taliban for Afghanistan began three-way conversations with Pakistan and the Chinese corridor development project …”

Afghan Army member_of Afghanistan host_asserted ▶ 1:12:03

“I'm assuming it was for the Afghan army, which we knew for years was incompetent or probably bought off, whatever. I don't know exactly what was going on there, but everybody was on the take, it seems…”

Hillary Clinton trafficked China host_asserted ▶ 1:16:43

“You have no idea how frustrating this is, Miles, for those of us that spent 30 years crossing every T and dotting every I to have after you step away from that to see how gross this entire thing is, h…”