The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3

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0:00 Hello, everyone. Are you going to get on? So I'd like to co-host. Oh, there's F-S-R. Okay, let's get him up. Let's go live over here. There he is. Okay. Bridget, co-host. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Hope everything's going well with you today.

0:33 Everything's going great. We started off the day renting a boat and going all over the lake here in Nashville. What an amazing time that was. We packed a picnic lunch, had lunch out on the water and just kind of cruised around. It was slightly overcast and we could not have picked a more perfect day. It was beautiful. Got a little bit of sun. Bridget took a couple of pictures.

1:03 We'll post pictures a little later. It was nice. OK, let's jump into the chapter two of our book. And again, we're talking about the drug trade in Colombia and the creation of the Crystal Triangle. We kind of went over a little bit of the history and how the park was created and how the AUC.

1:33 came to be. So we're going to dive a little bit deeper into that. And chapter two gives us a little bit more history because it's the transition from the golden triangle to the crystal triangle. And as you guys know, it doesn't go into a lot of detail that we already know about Shane Kyshek and the CIA and all that other stuff. The author basically just says that post-World War II,

2:05 U.S. presidents and policymakers had militarized containment in their quote-unquote anti-communist crusade. And it just happened to kind of follow the footprint of the opium fields. And it says in 1949, 85% of the world's heroin came from Shanghai in China.

2:34 and a couple of other regions. Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the National Chinese Kuantan KMT, used the profits of criminal drug syndicates to finance his campaign against mainland China. Before the Chinese Revolution, OSS, the CIA's predecessor, had forged an alliance with the Sicilian and Corsican Mafia to prevent possible

3:03 quote unquote communist uprising, even though the Soviet Union was laying in ruin, and created the strategy of tension, which meant terrorizing workers and breaking up labor unions, then blaming it on anyone that they could find that wanted to organize labor. They called them communists. This is kind of the agenda that we're very familiar with.

3:32 In pre-revolutionary China, the ruling class had relied on the KMT and secretive yet powerful criminal and drug organizations to prevent social revolution. As Mao pointed out, these organizations possessed arms and because of their backwardness could be easily turned into reactionary forces. From the middle of the 19th century, opium farms in Southeast Asia

4:01 were always connected to secret societies that flourished within the Chinese communities. During the Chinese Civil War, the U.S. formulated and maintained a strategy of integrating their intelligence operations in local criminal networks and corrupt high-ranking military officers like Chiang Kai-shek. The communist Chinese denounced opium and labeled it

4:30 a destroyer of people. By destroying the opium crops, they removed the chief source of the world's opium supply and eliminated a major source of income for the Chinese nationalists. In response to the Chinese Civil War, the Truman administration planned ways to stem the southward flow into Southeast Asia of the quote-unquote communist. Dean Rusk, an influential

4:58 Hawk and the U.S. State Department argued that America should employ whatever means necessary. Arms here, opium there, bribery, propaganda, anything that it took. Rusk advice was thus implemented through strategies of propaganda and covert actions in major drug-producing regions of the world. Golden Triangle of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, the Golden Crescent of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.

5:28 and eventually the Crystal Triangle. After the Chinese Revolution, Chinese drug lords collaborated with the American-sponsored KMT, exiled in Taiwan to coordinate the Asian heroin trade, drawing upon the support of the China lobby in the U.S., which we've covered extensively, and the KMT army, the Thai police, and the French military in Indochina.

5:54 The CIA made tactical decisions that led to covert operations with known drug trafficking organizations. And again, just as a reminder for anyone new, the CIA spent $35 million training the National Thai police and buying off the leadership in order to accommodate both seaports and airports for the transferring of drugs.

6:23 Again, this is a pattern that we see repeated, which is why the CIA is so fixated on national police, because they know if you control the national police in a country, you control everything. And you guys know that we've done a lot of time on the Office of Public Safety, which was the CIA front for training national police forces around the world.

6:49 We are going to continue that tonight on the Alpha Warrior show because Bridget and I today found another facet of the legacy of what became the from the remnants of the Office of Public Safety. Shane Kyshek's dominance of the KMT had been achieved through an alliance with opium trafficking organizations at a time when China produced seven eighths of the world's opium.

7:19 The KMT's drug connection in China was the Green Gate, and shipments of opium arrived in the U.S. through this route to include the CIA. Support for CIA activities in the Golden Triangle was based upon the preservation and restoration of the traffic in opium because they lost the fields in mainland China. Profits from narcotic smuggling were channeled into the U.S. by the China lobby.

7:49 while bribery ensured opium supply lines through Laos and Thailand. A banned book on the China lobby concluded, the evidence indicates that several prominent Americans participated and profited from these transactions. The identities of these Americans with links to the CIA was never revealed. And what's interesting about that is we found many of them, people like William Polly.

8:19 Paul Helligwell. So even though they didn't reveal them, we've been able to discover them through our research. In the early 1970s, global drug trafficking originating from the Golden Triangle increased rapidly. President Nixon responded by making drugs an international issue and initiating the war on drugs. And again, we've covered this extensively.

8:45 Nixon's war on drugs was not a war on actual drugs. It was a war on the French portion of the drug trafficking, i.e. the Corsican Mafia. And that that, quote unquote, war on drugs basically eliminated the Corsican Mafia for the most part by assassinating over 300 of the Mafia kingpins in France. And that then gave the Sicilian Mafia.

9:14 And the mafias in Italy preeminence in this drug trafficking cycle because they were under the control of the CIA. Okay. The State Department and the CIA maintain that any buyout of the Burmese opium crop would find insurgencies against the friendly government of Burma and Thailand.

9:48 CIA Director Alan Dulles described this kind of a drug diplomacy as propaganda in its simplest form, accusing the other guy of what you are doing. According to a number of DEA agents who served in Southeast Asia at the time, the hero smugglers moving the drugs were all on the CIA payroll.

10:09 The CIA's airline, Civil Air Transport, later known as Air America, flew weapons and supplies from its base in Hong Kong to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the mountain camps of Burma. 10,000 Chinese troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan were based in Burma under the direction of the CIA. Plans to invade China across Burma's northern border was prepared.

10:35 The deployment of KMT troops was important for the transportation of opium. Civil Air Transport supplied the KMT with weapons and transportation for opium, and on return flights, they brought weapons, all arranged through the Thailand secret police. The CIA provided remote airstrips and planes, and the KMT exported opium from Burma and Laos to international wholesalers.

11:06 CIA backed military coup in Thailand in 1948 had ensured the Thailand's left would be ensured that Thailand's would be. That doesn't make any sense. Anyway, that Thailand would be under the control of the CIA. So, again, another coup in 1948 and they just created the CIA the year before.

11:35 These early U.S.-sponsored covert actions in Asia coincided with the beginning of private financing on behalf of the CIA, covert financing. The World Anti-Communist League was set up by remnants of the Nazi elements with assistance from the CIA. It served as an organization for political and financial interest, as well as illicit funds from all over the world, including Iran, Greece.

12:05 Romania, were deposited into Richard Nixon's election campaign chest in the chest of other prominent politicians in the U.S. Backed by leading capitalists such as Nelson Rockefeller, the World Finance Corporation and Castle Bank, which is Paul Hellywell's bank in Miami, were established. They had links to financial general bank shares, a bank holding company in Washington, D.C.

12:33 which was eventually bought illegally by BCCI, another CIA front bank. Capital investments were encouraged from South Vietnamese, Chinese, meaning Taiwanese, Chiang Kai-shek, not China, as you and I think about it, and Thai sources, as well as other underworld connections in the U.S. Drug profits flowed into the United States to buy real estate.

12:59 and other CIA-linked businesses such as the National Bank of Miami and General Development Corporation, contributing to a boon in America and the Bahamas. In 1959, U.S. Congress Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management Field helped to discover that Miami had become the base where banks, companies, and drug traffickers linked to the CIA congregated.

13:28 The committee did not reveal the CIA's connection, however, publicly. They never do, and they never do anything about it. That's why all of these committee meetings, as far as I'm concerned, in both the Senate and the House, are a kabuki dance. It's all just for show. It's all just for show. To appease the public and pretend like they're doing something. Correct. Alfred McCoy documented in The Politics of Heroin.

13:56 that the failure to invade China in the fight against communism forced the CIA to move its covert drug operations westward. The CIA's new focus on the fight against the Vietnamese, meaning Ho Chi Minh, as opium production in Burma, Thailand, and Laos increased tenfold. Heroin distribution in Western Europe was facilitated by CIA's

14:22 intelligence connections in Palermo and Marseille, meaning the Sicilian and Corsican mafia. The U.S. inherited the drug-smuggling contacts of the French in Laos and Vietnam, which had been used during the First Indochina War. Laos, and in particular South Vietnam, where the U.S. military presence was concentrated, became an organizational base for the heroin trade from Asia to North America via

14:52 Latin America. Narcotics agents were expected to fabricate evidence against communist drug trafficking and suppress any evidence that the CIA was involved in it. So again, this is very applicable to what we're going to discover in Colombia. They have to have a boogeyman. So the FARC becomes the boogeyman, and they're going to be accused of, number one, being communist, and then, number two,

15:22 of doing the drug trafficking, which is why we have to kill all of them. It's a pattern. With the support of the CIA, the government of South Vietnam established a network of drug contacts across the Golden Triangle. A U.S. congressional investigation found that American soldiers were at great risk of becoming heroin addicts than being a combat casualty.

15:49 In the early 1970s, allegations surfaced concerning heroin being smuggled back to the U.S. and body bags of corpse of U.S. servicemen. Michael Levin, a former DEA agent stationed in Southeast Asia, claims he was warned by his superiors not to interfere in any of that operation. Harry Ameslinger, commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which is the precursor to the DEA, from 1930 to 1962,

16:19 had earlier blamed invading drug-trafficking communists. When again, we've just illustrated, it's the quote-unquote anti-communists that are actually trafficking drugs. He often depicted mainland China as a communist state heroin complex. That's actually a quote from him. So anytime that the Central Intelligence Agency is telling you,

16:52 Who's trafficking drugs? You can guarantee it's not them. An internal CIA survey revealed that 60% of the world's opium came from the Golden Triangle under the control of the CIA. With the four largest heroin labs in Laos, Burma, and Thailand, all connected, located even, next to CIA stations, and all financed by the CIA.

17:23 Rodney Stitch, a former CIA operative involved in Southeast Asia and Latin American drug operations, subsequently asserted that the Vietnam War provided the perfect cover for a massive CIA drug operation. And I've argued that's all it was. After its military failure in Indochina, the U.S. turned its attention to securing global military victories in other regions of the conflict. Central America and Afghanistan became the next. Excuse me.

17:54 The next major battlegrounds. And again, it all focuses around drugs, supposedly fighting communists, though. So we have the Soviet Afghanistan debacle in 1979, which just coincidentally coincides with the ending of the Vietnam War. And U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorized the secret backing of the smugglers of Afghan opium.

18:28 and anti-communist Mujahideen rebels in Afghanistan who were working together with the Pakistani Military Intelligence Service. Because again, I am sure they told Jimmy Carter that it was a communist issue and that the Mujahideen, which basically turns into Al-Qaeda and ISIS eventually, were the right people to back.

18:57 The Golden Crescent of Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, because again, up until 1979, Iran was under our control as well with the Shah. They were not major heroin suppliers to the U.S., and heroin was virtually unknown in Pakistan. With the support of the CIA and Saudi intelligence, Osama bin Laden had been identified as a financier in logistics.

19:29 expert for the Saudi-financed Muqtab al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization believed to be the precursor to al-Qaeda that recruited foreign fighters from all over the world, including the U.S. Actually, the Mujahideen was a precursor to al-Qaeda. The U.S., but this other organization I've researched, and they definitely were similar.

19:58 to stay behind units that Saudi Arabia used. The U.S. financed and trained the Mujahideen in CIA terrorist training camps in Egypt, which is another reason why they had to get rid of Nasser and control Egypt. And then at least one Gulf state, other Gulf state, to wage war against the Soviet Union and pro-Soviet governments in Afghanistan. And there's a lot of debate about whether or not.

20:30 They were communist at all. They definitely were talking to the Soviet Union, though, which, again, you're not allowed to do. Drugs were shipped out of out in Pakistani army trucks that brought in covert USA to Afghan guerrillas. Afghanistan became the supplier of 50 percent of the heroin consumed in the United States and 70 percent of the world's high grade heroin product.

21:00 Before the war was over, the CIA-linked BCCI was deeply enmeshed in the drug trade. Brzezinski, Carter's national security advisor, has suggested that propaganda about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and claims that Islamic fundamentalists entering Afghanistan from all over the world were the ones that were generating the opium, which again is not true.

21:29 The U.S. was drawn into Latin America in the same way that it had been drawn into the Golden Crescent as its attention turned to revolutionary movements and governments. The Cuban Revolution in 1959 was described by JFK as a spread of the Castro idea and taking matters into one's own hands. In many ways, Kennedy's response was similar to Truman's in China and Taiwan.

21:58 Kennedy administration planned to stem the spread of Castroism into Latin America by depicting the Cuban revolution as a virus that would infect other Latin American people into believing that they might too have a decent life. The CIA support for the anti-Castro Cubans who were eager to overthrow the government in Cuba extended beyond Cubans' interest in Miami and led to the reestablishment.

22:28 of a pre-Castro Cuba connection in the drug trade, which had grown to rival the CIA's other organized crime contacts. Coupled with the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Kennedy also made a major commitment to fight against the influence in the third world. This had political significance for Latin America, which became the region that experienced the greatest number

22:57 of U.S. interventions under American policy of anti-communism. As in Indochina, the anti-communist crusade was characterized by counterinsurgency, subversion, intervention, public propaganda, etc. The U.S. counterinsurgency policy implemented throughout Latin America continent failed to eliminate the peasant uprisings in Colombia. By the late 70s, the FARC numbers had grown.

23:27 Sixfold in two decades, from over 500 guerrillas concentrated in agrarian communities to some 3,000. Ongoing failures in Colombia, however, were balanced by success stories elsewhere. From the Mexican-American border to the southern tip of Argentina, anti-communist forces fought quote-unquote insurgencies and

23:55 The CIA was actively overthrowing governments with financial backing from the U.S. Latin Americans Anti-Communist Federation, which was the regional section of the World Anti-Communist League, which we went over extensively in the series that we did on the World Anti-Communist League with Alpha Warrior, embraced the CIA's strategy of using covert drug trafficking operations to fund their

24:25 Military dictatorships and other groups associated with them and criminal organizations moved in closer association, meaning annually, at the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation, which was referred to as CAL, C-A-L, because of its Spanish pronunciation. They were that organization, CAL.

24:51 was led by Argentina's military dictator, which was installed by the CIA. The World Anti-Communist League, which maintained over-contact politically and financially with the West, as well as with overseas Asian communities, which is where it started. During America's imperial adventures in the Far East and Indochina, it became a political organization and its Latin American branches, the CAL,

25:21 was prepared to coordinate its own drug trafficking operations. The Southern Cone, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, and Brazil was known as the Triangle of Death, a product of the overthrows and the installation of the military dictatorships. It also was involved in cocaine in exchange for

25:54 It became the drug network favored by the international network within Cal called the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, AAA, which aimed to make Buenos Aires a neo-fascist center. Because, of course, Argentina got the bulk of the Nazis, fascists, that came from Germany.

26:19 Both in the U.S. and its anti-communist allies feared that Bolivia, with its first female president in 1979, Lydia Goyer Tejada, of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement Party, along with politicized indigenous peasants and labor unions, was ripe for revolt. In other words, she was a nationalist and she wasn't playing their game.

26:50 In Nicaragua that same year, the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by the Sandinistas' Liberation Front, which launched agrarian reform, which pissed off United Fruit because they were going to take their land back that they had basically stolen through corrupt deals with the Somoza government. According to DEA figures in 1980, 80% of the world's cocaine came from a...

27:23 organization in Bolivia known as the South American General Motors of Cocaine. The Argentinas deployed over 200 military personnel to help coordinate the seizure of power in Bolivia, including an international band of fascist mercenaries, as well as wanted Nazi war criminals working. In other words, they imported a bunch of Gladio guys from Europe.

27:54 That's the Reader's Digest version. Michael Levine offered an insider's account of the cocaine coup that unfolded on July 17, 1980, after he became the DEA's country's attaché in Argentina and Uruguay. This is a quote from Levine. Explosions and gunfire began to echo through the surrounding hills. More men in combat fatigues and ski masks roared.

28:23 roared into Trinidad, firing at everything that moved. They broke into stores, homes, looting, and shooting. The masked thugs were not Bolivians, spoke Spanish with German, French, and Italian accents. Some, like Alfredo Mario Mingola and his men, had Argentinian accents. Their uniforms bore neither their national identification nor any markings.

28:51 although many of them wore Nazi swastikas, armbands, and insignia. The foreigners were soon joined in a frenzy by mutiny Bolivian soldiers, calling for the Bolivian Army Colonel Luis Arce Gomez to lead a national revolution. The following day, the Bolivian generals were in power, and the international support and diplomatic recognition for the military dictatorship

29:21 was secured through the World Anti-Communist League. Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, and South Africa immediately recognizes them. A victory party was held in Buenos Aires in which the U.S. was represented by NAC, N-A-T, Hamrick, H-A-M-R-I-C-K, a former business partner of the Somoza family.

29:51 and John Carbaugh. They were both world anti-communistly linked aides of Republican Senator Jesse Helms, who arranged for the Argentinian delegates to visit Reagan's White House. So we overthrow the Bolivian government with foreigners, many from Gladio units in Europe.

30:22 They're immediately recognized on the international stage. And Senator Jesse Helms gets them entrance into the White House, which is not something rare. Because we also found that Stetsco, the Nazi from Ukraine that was trained by Otto Skorzeny, also met with Ronald Reagan. And many of them were part of the world anti-communist. They were all.

30:52 part of the world anti-communistly, which is why that organization, why we covered it in such depth, because it really is one of the key networks behind it all. It should immediately set up a flag. Anytime you hear the word anti-communist. The cocaine coup crushed the Bolivian left and installed the narco-militarist in the government. The U.S. State Department eerily portrayed the coup

31:21 as a cocaine revolution and actually accused the government. And this is before Evo Morales gets there. This is before him. He's the one that gets rid of it again. But these guys, whatever her name was, Lydia, the female president, was going to do exactly what Evo Morales eventually does. She wanted Bolivia out of the cocaine business.

31:51 They couldn't have that. She was going to kick the U.S. out of Bolivia. They couldn't have that. So they rush in all of these thugs and murderers, overthrow her government. The U.S. immediately recognizes it. And then the U.S. State Department tells Americans that they got rid of the narco traffickers. When in fact they did. They were supporting the narco traffickers and they got rid of the one woman that was going to die.

32:21 Be a narco-trafficker. So, there you go. Another pattern. Jake Sells, S-A-L-E-S, a CIA pilot based in Bolivia, described what he saw as an extensive jungle-based cocaine manufacturing complex containing laboratories, heavy armaments, radio communications, and landing fields that could accommodate a modern jumbo jet. Sells stated, quote,

32:50 The Bolivians had a military industrial setup that was right out of West Point textbook. It's unbelievable, unquote. The Bolivian dictatorship became the primary source of coca for the Colombian drug cartels that formed during this period. The cartels in turn became the main distributors of cocaine into the U.S. It was the beginning of the cocaine decade of the 80s and into the 90s.

33:21 Okay. The debt crisis of the 1970s and 80s devastated the balance of payments in many Latin American countries, creating a sharp increase in unemployment and a decline in national incomes. Colombia remained immune to all of that because of cocaine. Funding the U.S. war on drugs increased and was directed to the arrest of drug traffickers and seizures of drugs and arms and equipment.

33:52 In addition, programs of crop eradication and drug law enforcement was instituted to assist Colombian police and judicial authorities. However, this expensive intervention was paralleled by an expansion in drug production, which meant that by 1983, 80% of marijuana and 75% of cocaine consumed in the U.S. was processed or originated in Colombia.

34:19 representing the consequence of the u.s war on drugs so we were funding the war on drugs we were funding the drugs dirt using the funds from the war on drugs right right it's just okay so i'm gonna say that again the entire thing was a sham there never was a war on drugs we were lied to they used our tax money to send to columbia to fund the drug trafficking that's it

34:49 You know, okay. Not that I'm saying it's good, but there is a way. Sometimes you just have to step back and say, in a way, it was brilliant. Because when they got caught with drugs. Brilliantly evil. Brilliantly, yes. When they got caught with drugs, they could say, well, we just seized them. Yes. When in actuality, they're trafficking. Correct. So it's brilliantly evil. Yes. Yes. It was the perfect cover. And then once they figured that out.

35:18 They just applied it to everything. Win or lose, no matter what. Right. They applied it to everything. During the cocaine decade, tensions also arose in relations to attempts to eradicate Colombian drug cartel leaders, such as the infamous Pablo Escobar, to the U.S. for prosecution. Funding from the U.S. War on Drugs gave Colombian military substantial aid, training, and assistance, as well as more advanced weaponry and technology. However,

35:47 Drug war critics and human rights groups in the U.S. argued that the Colombian military was using the U.S. funded arms against political opponents. Imagine that. Give me a bunch of guns and I'm going to be the one you like and I'm going to kill everybody you don't like. Right. Or anybody who opposes me. The growing economic. And that's what caught Pablo Escobar. Right.

36:15 because he didn't play their end game. He played their game. He didn't play their end game. He was competition. Easiest way to wipe out competition. He wasn't. He was playing their part all the way up to what are you going to do with your profits? He was investing his profits in, as we will find out, in Colombia. They didn't want that. They wanted the profits going to the U.S. That was his mistake, not the drugs.

36:44 He was definitely a drug trafficker. Right, right. The growing bad guy. Yeah. He was a bad guy looking out for Colombia. Yeah. He was not a bad guy that was selling out Colombians to invest in America. The growing economic power of the cocaine trade did not merely influence the Colombian political system, but it also allowed it to become virtually institutionalized within the system. At the beginning of the cocaine decade,

37:14 The nation was embroiled in its paradoxical war on drugs. The Colombian state continued to target its political opponents under the umbrella of its authority to wage war on drugs with U.S. backing. Colombia's government was empowered by Reagan's condemnation of narco-terrorism, which Colonel John

37:45 Wellenstein, a U.S. Army counterinsurgency expert, used to capitalize on a popular fear of terrorists and drug traffickers, thus mobilizing support for foreign intervention against regimes in Latin America that the CIA wanted taken out. Columbia's FARC was viewed by the Reagan-Bush White House as a Cuban-Soviet-inspired style of Marxism.

38:16 even though it had nothing to do with the Soviets or the Cubans. They just said it looked like that. You know, like Brennan's famous, it has the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. This had the hallmarks of Soviet influence. CIA Director William Casey and U.S. Ambassador to Columbia Louis Tams, T-A-M-B-S,

38:44 sought to capitalize politically on the FARC's alleged links to cocaine trade in Colombia. Their arguments about the FARC as narco-terrorists were drawn from studies by Rachel Efrenfeld, who criticized the FARC links to the Medellin cartel of Pablo Escobar. However, Colombia's cocaine industry and the circumstances of the FARC's insurgency have

39:13 a complexity far greater than what she said, because she is writing for the CIA. As a result of the cocaine's growing importance in Colombia, Pablo Escobar Graveria, a former petty thief from the outskirts of Medellin, became the most successful of the narcotics entrepreneurs. Prior to venturing into the commercialization of cocaine,

39:42 Escobar was a tombstone thief and a dealer who's in stolen vehicles. So he's a petty criminal. Coming from Medellin, he was uniquely positioned to instigate the substitution of cocaine for marijuana in Colombia's growing premier illicit export commodities. While other traffickers remained immersed in the marijuana trade, Escobar and his associates established contacts.

40:12 with coca producers in both Bolivia and Peru. The Colombian cocaine trade expanded rapidly as a result. The CAPUS, heads of large drug trafficking clans, organized meetings to centralize production, distribution, and commercialization of the drug. They're setting up an industry. As well as establish large-scale transportation systems to export.

40:43 Those who secured control of trade routes into the U.S. became cocaine monopolists. Escobar not only perfected the cocaine refining techniques, but developed ingenious schemes for distributing it. According to Trenton Parker, a former CIA operative,

41:09 The CIA set up two preliminary meetings attended by various Colombian drug dealers for the purpose of organizing their cartel. The CIA is organizing the drug cartel. He's creating them. Now you know why I say all of this stuff that's going on right now, this war on cartels, it's a war on the CIA. All the drug busts, all these major... It's a war on the CIA. So if you think nothing's happening, you're not paying attention.

41:39 All right, the first meeting occurred in early 1981 with 20 of the biggest cocaine dealers in Colombia. The second meeting was held in a hotel in Medellin in December 1981 and attended by 200 drug dealers. It established the Medellin Cartel. Each member of the cartel paid an initial $35,000 fee to fund a security force that would protect its drug operations.

42:07 A paramilitary organization called MOSS, meaning Death to Kidnappers, was also established at this meeting. Now, keep in mind, who's the kidnappers? The FARC is. So they're creating a paramilitary force against the FARC. And we're told the FARC is the drug dealers when we're actually talking to the drug dealers right now.

42:35 And they're setting up a paramilitary force to fight the kidnappers, which is the FARC. So it's crazy. All right. Moss assassinated trade unionists, civil rights activists, and peasants collaborating with the FARC. So the actual drug dealers hate the FARC, which is why the CIA propagandized us to tell us the FARC were the bad guys.

43:08 The FARC's not the bad guys in this story. I'm not saying they're good, but they're not the bad guys in this story. Or at least they didn't start it. They weren't even the bad guys. All of the trade unionists that tried to organize against the U.S. oligarchs, the mines where they were dying, where they were getting lung cancer and all this other stuff, were sought after to assassinate because they were rabble-rousers. They all went and hid with the FARC.

43:37 The peasants who had their land stolen, they were going to murder them. They went and hid with the FARC because the FARC was the only ones that protected the little guys. So the FARC becomes the enemy of the drug cartels because the FARC strikes back by kidnapping the people that intimidated all the little people. So if you killed a trade unionist and the rest of the union workers went and hid out with the FARC, they told them who killed the trade unionist leader.

44:05 And the FARC would go and kidnap that person's family and make them pay to get them back. Now, did they kill some of those people? Yes, but very rarely. And usually only if they didn't pay. Because again, these people have billions of dollars in drug money. So it wasn't like they couldn't pay. Right. And then the FARC turned around, as you're going to find out, and built cities for these peasants. So the Robin Hood. Yes. Robin Hood. Well, as a matter of fact.

44:36 You're skipping ahead. That's right. They actually refer to Pablo Escobar as Robin Hood. Repeatedly. Jeez. Yes. Okay. But he's the bad guy. But he's the bad guy. Well, he's the one they killed. Well, yeah. In addition, and this is where it gets very interesting, Israeli and British mercenaries paid with drug money, organized a death squad paramilitary school.

45:08 where Carlos Castano, the future leader of the AUS, Moss's successor organization, so Moss, the paramilitary organization, turns into the AUC, and the AUC is led by Castano. And that's the Cali cartel, eventually. Okay? And the Israeli and MI6 crowd sets up...

45:39 basically a school of Americas, in Colombia to train them how to be torturers, kidnappers, and killers. So, Colombia's state security apparatus was incorporated into the AAA international network of an Adrian Brigade. Luther Ross Walker.

46:08 R-U-S-B-A-C-H-E-R, another CIA operative, confirmed the CIA's role in establishing the Medellin cartel. He attended the two meetings in December 1981 and reported that there had been a preliminary meeting in the two meetings in December. He also attended the September meeting just before that in Colombia that established the format for the subsequent meetings. According to Rosbacher,

46:38 The meetings were initiated by the CIA to deal with a group rather than independent drug dealers. At least half a dozen former CIA, OSS, and DEA personnel gave me many hours of statements over a three-year period concerning Central and South America drug operations in which the US CIA and Israel's Mossad participated. Jeez. Testimonies by former CIA operatives Kenneth...

47:08 Bucci, B-U-C-C-H-I, and Al Martin detail covert drug operations in Latin America involving the CIA. Bucci tells of a third meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, in August of 1984, which was linked to a major covert operation called Pseudo Miranda. According to Bucci, Vice President George Bush

47:38 Mr. CIA himself and CIA Director William Casey were behind the operation. The aim was to centralize the cocaine trade in Colombia and neutralize Bolivia and Peru as rivals. A tactical commander of Pseudo Miranda, Buki attended the Zurich meeting. His mission was to find the Colombian drug lords and provide cover for their distribution routes.

48:06 For instance, one operation flew drugs from Columbia to a CIA airstrip in Texas where it would be unloaded for normal distribution. Would that be Air America or is that? It's a CIA. They don't talk about the actual company, but obviously it's a CIA front. Right. In an interview on CNN, he stated this, and I'm quoting, we could save a lot of money if the government just went to Columbia and asked.

48:36 How much for all your cocaine? It's not that farcical. The cost would be tremendous, but it would still be less than what we are spending on the war on drugs. But then we would not be able to justify giving weapons to other governments, which again, the military industrial complex behind all of this has a role in this as well. If we bought it all, the drug dealers would have the same amount of money as the people in power.

49:06 The CIA doesn't want leftist guerrillas or Pablo Escobar to have the same power as the people that they helped put in power. So there you have it. The CIA from start to finish, the U.S. government from start to finish, wants to control this. The meddling cartel systematically outmaneuvered its competition, particularly the Florida-based Cuban mafia and others involved in the trade.

49:37 By eliminating middlemen and the Cuban mafia, the Cuban exiles were running with the mafia a lot of the internal U.S. drug operation networks distribution. Now, they significantly benefited from the CIA because they were all trained by the CIA when it was coming from Southeast Asia and when it was coming from Afghanistan.

50:08 Now they're dealing in our backyard in Columbia. The Colombian people got a lot smarter because, again, they just live down south, not clear across the world. And they're thinking, hey, I can put my own people there. I don't need your cutouts. So that was the way Pablo Escobar was thinking. But the cutouts that the CIA controlled.

50:36 was giving their cuts to the CIA here too. So Pablo Escobar is stepping on some people's private parts. And see, this is so well documented. I just posted in the pill a list. It's essentially they have a list of all of the interactions with all of these cartels. Yes. And there's photographs that I posted.

51:24 The money laundering operation. He's the guy that was Chiang Kai-shek's military attache in China. We just talked about that. Paul Helliwell is also the guy that becomes the Thai consul in Miami. And Nugent and Hand are also in the picture. Nugent and Hand is the bank in Australia.

51:48 that hand ends up running off. Nugent gets assassinated in his car. That bank was primarily the money laundering bank for the Golden Triangle because Australia is just right across the water from Vietnam. BCCI starts around the same time and they're the money launderer for the Afghanistan because that bank's located.

52:12 Well, it started in Pakistan. It ends up being ran out of London. But now you see how all these connections of all these things we've been talking about all play into exactly what we're talking about right now. Yes. And George Bush in the picture with Noriega, because Noriega had been working with the CIA and the Medellin cartel. But when the Medellin cartel, Escobar, gets taken out, now Noriega is.

52:44 He becomes the main man. No, no. He becomes a liability. And that's when we invaded Panama and took him out. And this was the Sandinistas. No, that's Nicaragua. There's just too many of them. Yeah. No, we end up going in and taking out Noriega around the same time that we take out Escobar because those two work together.

53:10 With the meddling cartel. You know that picture with all the pins and the geysers. Everybody else sleeping. That's crazy. I'm telling you that. All right. Go ahead. Okay. So Escobar. Things. By eliminating the middleman. And installing his own.

53:31 that the Colombians not only improve profit margins, but also dispose of many Cuban-American informants working with the CIA and other U.S. law enforcement agencies, thereby lowering their risk. The meddling cocaine traders gained a reputation as violent thugs, whose leader, Pablo Escobar, would stop at nothing to maintain control of the market. Eventually,

53:58 mounting a military campaign against the Colombian state. By the urban poor, Escobar was viewed as a modern-day Robin Hood, an image born in the slum surrounding Medellin. In a place known as Barrio Pablo Escobar, local residents have gathered to pray for his soul in a church he built, where over 200 homes he also built can be seen from the steeple.

54:28 The poor in the barrio Pablo Escobar prefer to forget Pablo's violent reputation. Escobar's brother, Roberto, says they called him El Patron, the boss, out of respect. People began to call him that because he would supply truckloads of food to the poor. Although Escobar enjoyed popular appeal with his defiant Robin Hood image, rival narcotic traffickers from the Cali cartel

54:56 were often viewed by the poor as being corrupt and greedy. The Cali cartel, who consolidated its interest in cocaine production and trafficking through a management and marketing strategy, was seen as too close to the Colombian state. Well, they were definitely sanctioned by the government. Despite the spectacular growth of the cartels in Colombia, which the U.S. government was instrumental in creating, the primary source of raw coca and...

55:26 Cocaine paste was Bolivia. This nation held a near monopoly on coca production. 80% of the world's processed cocaine came from Bolivia from the start. Stephen Crittenden, a CIA veteran of Southeast Asia and Latin America, has reported that Bolivian Air Force flew numerous flights for the CIA distributing cocaine to the United States.

55:56 Two CIA proprietary airlines, Southern Air Transport. I knew they'd show up eventually. Evergreen International Airlines, which, by the way, is my old company. I worked for Evergreen. But you didn't. I was a maintainer in Louisville. They had the contract for U.S. maintenance. Not that I know of. Well. I just have a toolbox. Right. No drugs in my toolbox. So jealous.

56:26 I just, I look back and I wonder how much drugs was on those aircraft. Isn't that the perfect cover flying into UPS headquarters there? Because they could go all over. Right. They'd be packages. And it could go all over the United States. And would the UPS stand for them? They would never check them. It's crazy. I still say the reason why they're shutting down the automobile manufacturing in Canada and Mexico. They definitely traffic drugs in the cars. They don't. We've caught them.

56:56 Yes, I know. I've found them, you know, but they don't check the... No, they don't check the UPS packages either. Same here. Oh, my God. Distributed cocaine and covert operations involving the DEA as well. And the DEA was in on a lot of this. Colombian and Bolivian drug cartel figures landed their Cessna citations and Learjets at Marana Airport in Arizona, sanctioned by the CIA.

57:26 Marana is M-A-R-A-N-A. CIA money was flown from headquarters in McLean, Virginia, to pay their South American contacts in heavily guarded Marana Airport, sometimes using a Boeing 707 aircraft with NASA markings on it. Crittenden, who flew the planes with other CIA pilots, explained that part.

57:51 of this money paid for the drug shipments arriving in South and Central America, which would be distributed by Bolivians and Colombians. The cocaine flights came from a network of private airstrips in Bolivia via Colombia. After January 1973 ceasefire in Vietnam, the U.S. engaged in what can be described as the biggest rummage cell of spy equipment in history.

58:17 By February 1975, the CIA proprietary airline Air America held meetings over 10 days in Hong Kong with officials and senior representatives of South American republics. I know you don't watch movies, but Shelley the Kiwi posted this and I forgot all about it. Mel Gibson, again, Mel Gibson, who I swear to God this man has spent his whole life trying to reach us all with the truth, made, featured in a movie.

58:46 called air america in 1990 and it was about drug trafficking and airplanes so what's important about this part right here is what just happened in afghanistan so vietnam draws down and the cia goes in and sells off all of their shit and moves it to their next drug location so

59:17 Top secret deals were made involving the sale of large number of transport and semi-military aircraft to Latin America. Because that's where we're moving next, guys. Solomon Kalmanovich, an economist from Columbia's Central Bank, has observed that Columbia's changing political economy in the 1980s, quote, cocaine stopped the balance of payments from collapsing.

59:44 which would have pushed us into a spiral of hyperinflation, hyperdevaluation, and hyperinflation that shook most of the rest of the Latin American countries, for which the 1980s was a lost decade. The establishment of the cocaine trade in Colombia.

1:00:07 had social, economic, and political repercussions that reached beyond Colombia to other parts of the Crystal Triangle and Latin America. The role of U.S. imperialism in the global drug trade was a consequence of efforts by the U.S. to enhance its political and economic position and the global economic system. I would argue that it was to control the global economic system. In a book called America's Other War,

1:00:34 Quote, the imperial state acted to protect the interest of capital through the maintenance of an international system open to capital penetration while destroying social forces that threaten the process of global capital accumulation. And by global capital accumulation, they're talking in the hands of the oligarchs while the rest of us starve or get drunk. Drugs provided useful funding for groups where geostratical.

1:01:04 geostrategic interests were concerned. U.S. imperial adventures globally have generally occurred close to significant oil production areas. Colombia became the eighth largest supplier of oil to the U.S. in 2000, thanks to our infiltration and taking over the country.

1:01:27 At the height of the cocaine decade, the Iran-Contra scandal revealed the U.S. involvement in drug trades during the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Evidence emerged that the CIA's involvement in covert drug operations, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, was selected by the Reagan administration to coordinate the covert war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Reagan authorized covert operations through CIA Director William Casey, and North carried them out.

1:01:54 through CIA Airlines in Latin America, Southern Air Transport, and the use of private contractors linked to organized crime and money laundering. One contractor called Setco, S-E-T-C-O, Air, and we've looked into them before, owned by a Honduran drug trafficker by the name of Juan Maron Mata Valaristo, General Richard Secord,

1:02:22 a CIA veteran in Vietnam, directed both CETCO and Southern Air Transport. In other words, he was like the CEO. The second contractor was D-I-A-C-S-A. It was owned by a Bay of Pigs veteran, Alfredo Caballarero. The third was Vortex, whose vice president, Michael Palmer, was an American drug trafficker.

1:02:55 The fourth contractor was a company called, I'm not even going to try that, Seco de Pontera Naras, that was owned by another anti-Castro Cuban, Luis Rodriguez. I wonder if he's related to Felix. That's a good question. In Oliver Knorr's personal diary.

1:03:20 500 pages were devoted to detailing drug trafficking activities. 500 pages, which are now in the possession of the National Security Archives in Washington. A small select team of State Department, Defense, CIA, and NSC officials referred to as the 208 Committee or Policy Development Group. Remember, we've had the 200 Committee, the 40 Committee.

1:03:50 Every president decides the number of this committee, and it basically functions out of the National Security Council to do nefarious shit. So evidently, the Reagan administration had a 208, 208 committee. They met frequently throughout the cocaine decade. This group organized secret Contra supply missions and arms deals with Iran, with using Israel as a cutout.

1:04:18 including logistics, which is how the weapons would be shipped, creating secret warehouses to use, and which middlemen would deliver the goods to the clandestine airstrips. For many of these sensitive operations, only a few members knew of their actual existence. According to Casper Weinberger, then the U.S. SecDep, people with their own agenda were doing everything they could to put this agenda into effect.

1:04:47 The growth of cocaine production in Colombia and trade involved in the ascendancy of military-civilian regimes committed to extending the market relations with the U.S. were created. These included Argentina's military junta of 1976, Bolivia's narco-military of 1980, the Nicaraguan Contras, Manuel Noriega,

1:05:16 and the Honduran military, the Costa Rican government, and the arena party of Colonel Roberto de Opozuan of El Salvador, and later Fujimori of Peru. The CIA did not establish the Colombian drug cartels, but the CIA's role in organizing the Colombian traffickers

1:05:41 into producers, distributors, and marketing networks was vital to the trade. The traffickers acted on the U.S. government's behalf in a de facto relationship when it financially benefited them. Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel demonstrated that some of the traffickers had their own interest in participating in the drug trade. Escobar himself appeared quite opposed to U.S. involvement. Reagan administration's linked

1:06:10 the FARC insurgency to cocaine production and distribution networks when there really was no link at all. This was demonstrated in an account by a joint raid of Colombian police and the DEA in a large complex of cocaine processing labs in the Colombian jungle. Okay, and I'm going to quote from this because this is a very important piece. The Colombian police reported that they

1:06:40 They believed the snipers who fired at them at the lab, the Colombian police, were members of the FARC. They believed they were members of the FARC, the armed wing of the Colombian, quote-unquote, communist party. You know, because we have to make them communist. In the next weeks, Colombian forces found a camp that appeared to have been used by FARC guerrillas.

1:07:09 In another large lab complex, they found 300 empty ether bottles, an arsenal of weapons, and a FARC uniform. For the Reagan enthusiasts, all this was proof that the narco-terrorism marriage had been consummated, and the U.S. ambassador, Louis Tams, went so far as to suggest that the labs were somehow connected to Cuba. No evidence was presented.

1:07:41 After the raid, Tamba flew to Washington and offered a background briefing to American reporters and emphasized the presence of gorillas, even though there wasn't any. The New York Times echoed Tam's story that the Colombian police had seized a cocaine processing lab guarded by the FARC gorillas. But it wasn't guarded by the FARC gorillas.

1:08:06 Another article repeated the claim made by the Colombian military that smugglers hauled cocaine out of the country and returned with Cuban arms for insurgents. Another made-up story. Analysts of various journalist accounts and statements made by the U.S. State Department officials have since revealed that the claim that the FARC was involved in it was completely baseless. Nothing. The FARC had nothing to do with it.

1:08:37 The uniform that had been put there was staged. Kind of like an Antifa. Yes. It's like Operation Northwood. Let's just dress up like Cubans. Senator John Kerry's Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics and International Terrorism began an investigation in 86, but it barely exposed the role of the U.S. in drug trafficking at all.

1:09:06 Its work was overshadowed by an immediate feeding frenzy surrounding Iran-Contra and North, which began in 1986, almost like it was taking all of the air out of the room for the real investigation into Colombia. The subcommittee took testimony from 47 witnesses, many witnesses, some of who were convicted as drug traffickers, testified in great detail about the drug links.

1:09:35 to the Contra operations. Some were eyewitnesses or direct participants in the gun for drugs shipments to Contra bases in Central America. The final report issued in 1993 contains information about the central role of George H. W. Bush and the Office of Vice President in the Contra supply operations. The most important material is in the chapter on Donald

1:10:05 Donald Gregg was Vice President Bush's National Security Advisor, and his assistant was none other than Felix Rodriguez. Of course. These people just show up like bad pennies. Donald Gregg was a 30-year CIA veteran who became Bush's National Security Advisor in 1982. So you had the CIA, the CIA, and the CIA.

1:10:35 Bush is CIA, Greg is CIA, and Felix is CIA. Running the Iran-Contra. Of course. Out of the Vice President's office. Greg had a decades-long friendship and association with none other than Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-born CIA operative credited with tracking down Che Cabrera in none other than Bolivia. Okay. Their daughter.

1:11:07 And Greg's daughter married William Buckley's son. Yeah. And William Buckley, CIA. Right. Have you ever had any? It's all in the family. Right. It was Bush's office that deployed Rodriguez, the Central American, made arrangements for him to operate out of the military air base in El Salvador. The Greg chapter documents numerous meetings and communications between Bush, Greg, and Rodriguez.

1:11:39 and also among Oliver North and the Contra leaders. The BCCI link, which is the Pakistani bank, CIA bank, link with the CIA strengthened under President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush. Bush and CIA Director William Casey, with the assistance of British intelligence, set up BCCI's Cayman Island affiliate bank called the International Credit and Investment Corporation, ICIC.

1:12:08 The law firm involved was Bruce Campbell and Company, which acted as a registered agent for the CIA-linked Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. So it ties BCCI and Nugent Hand together. And by the way, it was confirmed in another book we did on BCCI that George H.W. Bush had an account at BCCI Bank, just FYI. Both BCCI and Nugent Hand,

1:12:39 used Price Waterhouse as auditors. Nugent Hand's president, Admiral Earl Yates, yeah, of course our Navy guy, also headed the Great American Bank of Miami, which was indicted for money laundering. When Nugent Hand collapsed, Yates became president of City National Bank, whose owner was Alberto D-U-Q-U-E, a member of the Colombian

1:13:15 narco bourgeois involved in george bush son's jebs can um in construction of downtown miami high rises again let's keep it all in the family right the reagan bush white house took off the book's approach towards money laundering throughout the cocaine decade the dea estimated that overall profits from cocaine imported into the u.s amounted to 30 billion

1:13:45 The Medellin cartel received $10 billion of that sum a year in sales, prompting Ford's magazine to place the Medellin cartel, Pablo Escobar, and Jorge Octa, his partner, on its list of the world's richest men in 1988. The cocaine decade saw the consolidation of the Colombian drug trade.

1:14:10 as a source of profit for U.S. capital via banks that were established to launder and invest drug money in legitimate U.S. corporations. The U.S. contended that it was at war with drugs and terrorists in Colombia, but in reality, the economic relationship between the U.S. imperialism and Colombian narco bourgeois permitted the cocaine production to flourish in

1:14:37 Colombia, and the cocaine market to expand within the U.S. All four multilateral oligarchs to enrich themselves and exploit Colombia. Absolutely. Can you go ask John to follow Megan? Yep. Okay, so we're going to open it up for comments for anybody that wants to chit-chat about what we just heard, because that was a lot.

1:15:12 We went all the way from World War II to Colombia in the 1980s. SR-71? Hello there, Colonel, and hello everybody in X-PACES and on Rumble, and thank you for attending today. Good to see you and Bridget together, and I can tell you're having a grand old time. We are having a great time. Anyway, in going through all of this and looking at what's going on, I did do some queries about Evergreen International and...

1:15:49 What was the other one? Southern. And it turns out Evergreen International seems to be the only airline that actually went bust. Southern Air Transport. I don't know if that's still around or not, but I didn't get much information about that place at all. Yes, they are directly connected with the CIA and what they were doing, although nothing...

1:16:18 according to what I found, ever implicated or any, shall I say, other than the scandals and other than what people think was really going on, no one was ever tried for any of that or brought to court, as far as I know. Did you find anything on that? On who got tried for what?

1:16:49 For the airline drug trafficking between South American drug trade in our South American. So there were people that did get prosecuted, but they were so far down the chain. And what happened was every time they I mean, you know, you could end up like Barry Sill in the trunk of a car. But generally speaking, they would take plea deals and.

1:17:19 generally to silence them. And they would hold the threat of additional charges to keep them quiet. And so they were brought to court, but only so far. It's like Alpha said, you can follow drug trafficking up so far, but you get to the level that involves the CIA and the entire thing will be shut down every single time. You are not going to, the only way we know what we know about the CIA.

1:17:48 Is after the fact where you have some of the agents themselves or some of the collaborators talk about it openly. And then a lot of them doesn't fare well when they do that. Like a guy, you know, he had his citizenship stripped from him when he started talking about the drugs in the Office of Public Safety and all that other stuff going on in Latin America. So there are people that are prosecuted.

1:18:17 But it is not any of the people that need to be prosecuted that are actually controlling the entire thing. No shot callers. Maybe the people that are flying the planes. And most of the time, they're doing a job. They're not necessarily the ones. It would be hard in a court, not in practical sense. It would be hard to prosecute a pilot who didn't actually have...

1:18:49 containers opened and verified that there were drugs there. Now, if you're on a shuttle from Columbia to wherever the place was in Arizona or MENA Airport, do you know you're hauling drugs? Hell yeah, you do. Barry Seale, he knew he was hauling drugs. But there's plausible deniability in some instances for the pilots. What you can't

1:19:18 get out of is the overall thing that's going on. When you step back and you scan out to the 30,000 foot look, if we're pouring tens of billions of dollars into Columbia, the production is exponentially increasing. At some point, somebody might go, what the F?

1:19:49 We're funding drug operations. We're not funding the elimination of drug operations. And to me, every one of those people need to be held accountable because you can't not know that. What's your metrics for spending billions of dollars in military aid, USAID, Office of Public Safety, and every other little shit thing that they have? Tens of billions of dollars and not at some point go.

1:20:18 What the fuck? We're getting more drugs. How about we just turn off the pipeline? Well, one of the things, okay, actually, SR-71 is, right? Southern Air Transport was sold and combined and grouped into a group called Southern Air, which, ironically, was sold also in 1999. No, I'm sorry, in 2021.

1:20:47 Three years later, and it was merged into Atlas Air. We did a research dig on these airlines. Yeah. And Atlas Air is still in operation. Yeah. Now, whether they're still doing the same thing. 100% they are. Yeah. It sure appears that way. You see what they were doing in 2006? Yeah. Amnesty International. They were part of the rendition program. Yeah. I remember us looking them up.

1:21:17 Yeah, they're 100 percent a nefarious airline. Right. They're run out of an office, if I'm not mistaken, down in Miami. And they were involved in some really nefarious. Its headquarters is up there, but they have an office in Miami that was booking some really nefarious things. Yeah. Yeah. It's. Yeah.

1:21:49 One other thing I found interesting as well, and that is the issue with Cubans supplying arms. Now, if you go take a look at Cuba, Cuba doesn't have any arms production going on, so to speak. Everything they do is maintenance of any arms that they can get their hands on. So when I hear somebody say, well, Cuba supplied the arms, it's like, wait a minute.

1:22:19 Yeah, they're going to give up the very few arms that they have that they need to fight the CIA on the island and give it to Colombia. Yeah, I don't think so. Renee. Hey, Colonel Bridget. Nice to see you ladies having a good time together. Hello, all. My question today was you brought up briefly about some petroleum found in Colombia naturally. And of course, we have to the United States.

1:22:52 you know, has their fingers in that. What is your opinion because of Venezuela being next door and being a mega center of petroleum and this whole narco state of Colombia? I mean, how entwined do you think both those countries are in the current states, you know, of their status of, you know, all this

1:23:21 All these problems and all this frozen sanctions and because didn't the Rockefellers have their fingers with Creole oil in Venezuela? Like, isn't this probably just a shifting over, you know, rebranding over and over and over again of of the United States with their fingers in that region of South America? I don't know if that's too complicated. Sorry. Venezuela's oil got.

1:23:52 confiscated by the state. They nationalized it. And that's why we've hated Venezuela ever since then, because they basically kicked us out. So it's interesting that you ask that, because everything that I found puts Venezuela at odds with everybody. They are basically in the same basket that Cuba is. They kicked out

1:24:19 Even back when Chavez was president, they allowed independent media. I was flabbergasted by that. I was told that Chavez was a dictator and, you know, controlled everything and blah, blah, blah. But he didn't. USAID was operating there. They were trying to overthrow his government while they were there. There was independent media there and they were running a campaign. Now he eventually catches on.

1:24:49 All of this is very interesting. There is a problem between Colombia and Venezuela. There's a lot of tension because Venezuela knows what Colombia is and they know it's running over the top with CIA. So they're very careful at their border in the interchange. Now, we found in the last session where.

1:25:17 Colombia was actually running, and I don't remember if it was in this book or the show that I did. I think it may have been the show last week on Alpha. Colombia was running drugs disguised as other things in shipping containers through Venezuela. And then when the CIA would intercept some of them on purpose, they would accuse Venezuela of being a narco state.

1:25:44 When in fact, the drugs actually originated from Colombia. So I really have no idea about Venezuela. But I do know that we are constantly lied to about Venezuela. Yeah, the whole, you know, location of Colombia, Venezuela, Panama is...

1:26:12 on fire now, but it seems throughout history, it's been such an important region for all these shenanigans over time that have occurred and that are still occurring. And yeah, and now we have ships approaching. So it's very interesting to see how this will all come out. Yeah. And my thing is, both with

1:26:42 Venezuela and putting, you know, a bounty on the president. And then the more recent one, Bridget and I were talking about today, putting a bounty on barbecue in Haiti. And we've done extensive research on Haiti. As a matter of fact, we're going to cover some of it tonight on the Alpha Warrior show. What you find out in Haiti is it had.

1:27:07 basically the follow-on version of the Office of Public Safety, which we're going to talk about tonight. And that entity went down and was training all of the police there, both the national police and the local police. And if you guys remember, Barbecue was a policeman. And his big bitch in life was that all the police were corrupt.

1:27:32 They were taking kickbacks. They were doing all kinds of assassinations for money under the guise of being a policeman. And he left the police force and they tried to kill him when he left the police force. And that's why he set up his little compound area called his neighborhood and created his own security forces for that neighborhood.

1:27:59 Because two different people, one kid, one guy that he mentored, and a woman that he mentored, were assassinated to try to get to him. They did it to piss him off. And the reason why he ever became a police officer was to protect and serve. And when he became a police officer and found out, that illusion was shattered. It devastated him.

1:28:26 So there's a video that a human rights group did that went down to Haiti and interviewed a whole bunch of people. And what they found out, there was actually an Air Force master sergeant that had retired down there. And they interviewed him. And he said he lived in the area that was secured by barbecue. And he was talking at length about him.

1:28:55 And that's where most of the information for the video came from, was this retired Air Force master sergeant saying that he reads U.S. media and he's sitting down there in the middle of it and they're not anything alike. They are not depicting what's actually going on. They're not depicting the corruption because they're involved in the corruption. And we'll be able to prove some of that tonight. But it's very interesting.

1:29:25 Because then my takeaway is this. You just heard DNI Gabbert say that the CIA Mockingbird media is still in existence. You are watching unfold on television every day the CIA's involvement in the coup against the president, both in 2016 and 2020. Now, as all of this unfolds.

1:29:52 Where the F are they getting the intelligence to put a bounty on barbecue? Who gave that to them? Is it the same guys that are involved in all of this other shit? I mean, at what point do you not say that the quote unquote intelligence that you're using to make international decisions isn't?

1:30:19 And I don't know if they get him here, if they were to arrest him. And are they going to let him actually tell what's really going on in Haiti? That's what I almost thought it was a protection. But you don't put a bounty on someone where they can end up dead if you want them alive. And that's where I just don't understand. Because I know, like we talked about before, Trump has been on the boots on the ground overseas.

1:30:47 so that he didn't have to rely on their intel. So them putting a bounty on the head of barbecue, but then again, it was a news article I saw. I almost want to read from the DOJ's website how it is worded. Maybe. Because... Go ahead, Renee.

1:31:11 Perhaps they're putting the bounty because they're already Maduro and barbecue already isolated and protected. And they're going to pull the rats out to capture them. Maybe just an idea. Yeah. I brought up at lunch. Yeah. Don't know. Stella. Stella in the house. I don't think she can speak. Yeah. Her mic's not on. Go ahead. SR 71. Getting back to Venezuela.

1:31:42 I do recall Hugo Chavez giving a speech at the UN talking about all of this and what was going on and actually calling Bush the devil. Right. And if anybody's interested, they can find it on C-SPAN. It's out there. That film's still out there. And now we all agree. Now we understand why. There's just...

1:32:13 Some of the animosity from certain countries to the United States. Yeah. If they pulled the same thing here, I totally would get it. So, um, McModern over on Rumble said something about containers. Yeah. The evergreen containers. He said evergreen, all those shipping containers, you can see them on 18 wheelers. Yeah. I'm not sure how much of that is the same company.

1:32:45 There were different divisions of Evergreen. I do know that the aviation part of it, they had their own aircraft, they had their own helicopters. And then they also had this ginormous maintenance facility in Arizona, which was used for various things. And they bid on maintenance contracts because we didn't actually use Evergreen aircraft. We used.

1:33:14 UPS, they were all labeled UPS, but they were cleared to go other places. So if they just stuck a UPS and they were actually owned by Evergreen. But there were about 300 of us maintenance people at Louisville working on those aircraft when they came in. They had DC-8, 747s and 727s. So you can get a shit ton of drugs on those aircraft.

1:33:44 Looked like they ceased operation the end of the year. December 31st, 2013. Yeah. So I worked for them back during this exact time period. Which is what just freaks me out every time we talk about this. Because during the height of the drug trafficking in the 80s, I worked for them from 1985 to 1987. Right in the middle of Iran-Contra.

1:34:17 And they are right in the middle of Iran-Contra. That's the craziest thing ever. It has to make you scratch your head. It does. I'd have paid a lot more attention if I'd have known anything. Which is why they don't want us to know anything, because we'd pay more attention. And notice the patterns. Damn it. Pretty crazy. It is crazy. All right. SR? Well, all I can say is with Colonel North...

1:34:52 What? The most 500 pages to the drug trade in South America. You know something's really going on. I mean, you said that and I about fell to the floor. Yeah. That's crazy. All right. Well, that's all we got. We're going to go grab some dinner before the Alpha Warrior show. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. And let's see. Tomorrow.

1:35:22 We will not have this show. We are going to have the other show. Right. As a reminder. It will also be on X and Rumble. It will be on X and Rumble. And the name of the guy, let me just give it to you one more time. William. William Ramsey Investigates. Okay. It's at 4 p.m. Eastern time. It's at 4 p.m. Central time. Central.

1:35:52 No, 5 Eastern. 5 Eastern. Okay. Don't make me do that live on camera. I was up there thinking, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. You did it. All right. Okay. Anybody else? All right. We're out of here. We're going to go grab some burgers, and we'll be back at 9.30 East Coast time, 8.30 Central time. Can I tell you? Okay. One more thing before we sign off.

1:36:24 It has been such a pleasure and honor to the person I've FaceTimed with for so many years and talk to on the phone like, oh, my God, you're not going to believe what I found to see her in person. I'm real. She is real. Honest to God. It's not a either that or it's really good. Yeah, he's Elon's not that good. No, I don't think they'll ever get that good. Anyhow.

1:36:55 Love you guys. Take care. We will see you tonight and tomorrow just on a different show. Take care.

Entities here

CIA50 United States25 Colombia25 Pablo Escobar17 China16 Bolivia16 FARC15 Cuba10 Golden Triangle10 Thailand10 Jovenel Moise9 George H.W. Bush9 Venezuela8 Argentina8 Chiang Kai-shek7 Afghanistan7 Medellin Cartel7 Laos7 USAID6 Burma6 Ronald Reagan6 Kuomintang6 World Anti-Communist League5 Evergreen International Airlines5 Mafia5 Air America5 BCCI5 Vietnam5 William Casey4 Iran-Contra affair4 Reagan administration4 Southern Air Transport4 1964 Bolivian coup d'état4 Haiti4 France4 Felix Rodriguez3 John F. Kennedy3 Sicilian Mafia3 Iran3 Mujahideen3

Claims made here

Chiang Kai-shek financed_via Sicilian Mafia host_asserted ▶ 2:34

“and a couple of other regions. Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the National Chinese Kuantan KMT, used the profits of criminal drug syndicates to finance his campaign against mainland China. Before the …”

CIA funded USAID host_asserted ▶ 6:23

“Again, this is a pattern that we see repeated, which is why the CIA is so fixated on national police, because they know if you control the national police in a country, you control everything. And you…”

CIA financed_via Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 7:19

“The KMT's drug connection in China was the Green Gate, and shipments of opium arrived in the U.S. through this route to include the CIA. Support for CIA activities in the Golden Triangle was based upo…”

China Lobby laundered_money_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 7:19

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Mafia host_asserted ▶ 8:45

“Nixon's war on drugs was not a war on actual drugs. It was a war on the French portion of the drug trafficking, i.e. the Corsican Mafia. And that that, quote unquote, war on drugs basically eliminated…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Kuomintang host_asserted ▶ 10:35

“The deployment of KMT troops was important for the transportation of opium. Civil Air Transport supplied the KMT with weapons and transportation for opium, and on return flights, they brought weapons,…”

CIA funded World Anti-Communist League host_asserted ▶ 11:35

“These early U.S.-sponsored covert actions in Asia coincided with the beginning of private financing on behalf of the CIA, covert financing. The World Anti-Communist League was set up by remnants of th…”

Paul Helwig headed Castle Bank & Trust host_asserted ▶ 12:05

“Romania, were deposited into Richard Nixon's election campaign chest in the chest of other prominent politicians in the U.S. Backed by leading capitalists such as Nelson Rockefeller, the World Finance…”

Nelson Rockefeller funded World Anti-Communist League host_asserted ▶ 12:05

BCCI front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 12:33

“which was eventually bought illegally by BCCI, another CIA front bank. Capital investments were encouraged from South Vietnamese, Chinese, meaning Taiwanese, Chiang Kai-shek, not China, as you and I t…”

Alfred McCoy exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 13:56

“that the failure to invade China in the fight against communism forced the CIA to move its covert drug operations westward. The CIA's new focus on the fight against the Vietnamese, meaning Ho Chi Minh…”

Jimmy Carter funded Mujahideen host_asserted ▶ 17:54

“The next major battlegrounds. And again, it all focuses around drugs, supposedly fighting communists, though. So we have the Soviet Afghanistan debacle in 1979, which just coincidentally coincides wit…”

Osama bin Laden financed_via Al Qaeda host_asserted ▶ 18:57

“The Golden Crescent of Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, because again, up until 1979, Iran was under our control as well with the Shah. They were not major heroin suppliers to the U.S., and heroin was…”

CIA trained Mujahideen host_asserted ▶ 19:58

“to stay behind units that Saudi Arabia used. The U.S. financed and trained the Mujahideen in CIA terrorist training camps in Egypt, which is another reason why they had to get rid of Nasser and contro…”

CIA funded Mujahideen host_asserted ▶ 19:58

John F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change Cuba host_asserted ▶ 21:58

“Kennedy administration planned to stem the spread of Castroism into Latin America by depicting the Cuban revolution as a virus that would infect other Latin American people into believing that they mi…”

CIA funded Latin American Anti-Communist League Confederation host_asserted ▶ 23:55

“The CIA was actively overthrowing governments with financial backing from the U.S. Latin Americans Anti-Communist Federation, which was the regional section of the World Anti-Communist League, which w…”

CIA installed Argentine Military host_asserted ▶ 24:51

“was led by Argentina's military dictator, which was installed by the CIA. The World Anti-Communist League, which maintained over-contact politically and financially with the West, as well as with over…”

Sandinistas overthrew Anastasio Somoza host_asserted ▶ 26:50

“In Nicaragua that same year, the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by the Sandinistas' Liberation Front, which launched agrarian reform, which pissed off United Fruit because they were go…”

Argentine Military carried_out_attack Bolivia host_asserted ▶ 27:23

“organization in Bolivia known as the South American General Motors of Cocaine. The Argentinas deployed over 200 military personnel to help coordinate the seizure of power in Bolivia, including an inte…”

Alfredo Mario Mingola carried_out_attack Bolivia book_quoted ▶ 28:23

“roared into Trinidad, firing at everything that moved. They broke into stores, homes, looting, and shooting. The masked thugs were not Bolivians, spoke Spanish with German, French, and Italian accents…”

Luis Arce Gómez installed Bolivia book_quoted ▶ 28:51

“although many of them wore Nazi swastikas, armbands, and insignia. The foreigners were soon joined in a frenzy by mutiny Bolivian soldiers, calling for the Bolivian Army Colonel Luis Arce Gomez to lea…”

Jesse Helms recruited Nat Hamrick host_asserted ▶ 29:51

“and John Carbaugh. They were both world anti-communistly linked aides of Republican Senator Jesse Helms, who arranged for the Argentinian delegates to visit Reagan's White House. So we overthrow the B…”

Jesse Helms recruited John Carbaugh host_asserted ▶ 29:51

Jesse Helms recruited Argentine Military host_asserted ▶ 29:51

Otto Skorzeny trained Yaroslav Stetsko host_asserted ▶ 30:22

“They're immediately recognized on the international stage. And Senator Jesse Helms gets them entrance into the White House, which is not something rare. Because we also found that Stetsco, the Nazi fr…”

Bolivia supplied_arms_to Colombia host_asserted ▶ 32:50

“The Bolivians had a military industrial setup that was right out of West Point textbook. It's unbelievable, unquote. The Bolivian dictatorship became the primary source of coca for the Colombian drug …”

Colombia trafficked United States host_asserted ▶ 32:50

United States funded Colombia host_asserted ▶ 33:21

“Okay. The debt crisis of the 1970s and 80s devastated the balance of payments in many Latin American countries, creating a sharp increase in unemployment and a decline in national incomes. Colombia re…”

United States laundered_money_for Colombia host_asserted ▶ 34:19

“representing the consequence of the u.s war on drugs so we were funding the war on drugs we were funding the drugs dirt using the funds from the war on drugs right right it's just okay so i'm gonna sa…”

United States supplied_arms_to Colombia host_asserted ▶ 35:18

“They just applied it to everything. Win or lose, no matter what. Right. They applied it to everything. During the cocaine decade, tensions also arose in relations to attempts to eradicate Colombian dr…”

Colombia assassinated FARC host_asserted ▶ 37:14

“The nation was embroiled in its paradoxical war on drugs. The Colombian state continued to target its political opponents under the umbrella of its authority to wage war on drugs with U.S. backing. Co…”

John Wellenstein member_of United States host_asserted ▶ 37:45

“Wellenstein, a U.S. Army counterinsurgency expert, used to capitalize on a popular fear of terrorists and drug traffickers, thus mobilizing support for foreign intervention against regimes in Latin Am…”

William Casey member_of CIA documented ▶ 38:16

“even though it had nothing to do with the Soviets or the Cubans. They just said it looked like that. You know, like Brennan's famous, it has the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. This had the hallm…”

Louis Tams member_of United States documented ▶ 38:16

Rachel Efrenfeld member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 39:13

“a complexity far greater than what she said, because she is writing for the CIA. As a result of the cocaine's growing importance in Colombia, Pablo Escobar Graveria, a former petty thief from the outs…”

Pablo Escobar member_of Medellin Cartel host_asserted ▶ 39:13

Pablo Escobar recruited Bolivia host_asserted ▶ 40:12

“with coca producers in both Bolivia and Peru. The Colombian cocaine trade expanded rapidly as a result. The CAPUS, heads of large drug trafficking clans, organized meetings to centralize production, d…”

CIA founded Medellin Cartel book_quoted ▶ 41:09

“The CIA set up two preliminary meetings attended by various Colombian drug dealers for the purpose of organizing their cartel. The CIA is organizing the drug cartel. He's creating them. Now you know w…”

Medellin Cartel founded M-19 host_asserted ▶ 42:07

“A paramilitary organization called MOSS, meaning Death to Kidnappers, was also established at this meeting. Now, keep in mind, who's the kidnappers? The FARC is. So they're creating a paramilitary for…”

M-19 assassinated FARC host_asserted ▶ 42:35

“And they're setting up a paramilitary force to fight the kidnappers, which is the FARC. So it's crazy. All right. Moss assassinated trade unionists, civil rights activists, and peasants collaborating …”

Luther Rosbacher member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 45:39

“basically a school of Americas, in Colombia to train them how to be torturers, kidnappers, and killers. So, Colombia's state security apparatus was incorporated into the AAA international network of a…”

Luther Rosbacher exposed Medellin Cartel book_quoted ▶ 46:08

“R-U-S-B-A-C-H-E-R, another CIA operative, confirmed the CIA's role in establishing the Medellin cartel. He attended the two meetings in December 1981 and reported that there had been a preliminary mee…”

Kenneth Bucci member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 46:38

“The meetings were initiated by the CIA to deal with a group rather than independent drug dealers. At least half a dozen former CIA, OSS, and DEA personnel gave me many hours of statements over a three…”

Kenneth Bucci member_of Pseudo Miranda book_quoted ▶ 47:38

“Mr. CIA himself and CIA Director William Casey were behind the operation. The aim was to centralize the cocaine trade in Colombia and neutralize Bolivia and Peru as rivals. A tactical commander of Pse…”

George H.W. Bush ordered_assassination_of Pseudo Miranda book_quoted ▶ 47:38

William Casey ordered_assassination_of Pseudo Miranda book_quoted ▶ 47:38

Medellin Cartel overthrew Mafia host_asserted ▶ 49:06

“The CIA doesn't want leftist guerrillas or Pablo Escobar to have the same power as the people that they helped put in power. So there you have it. The CIA from start to finish, the U.S. government fro…”

Paul Helliwell laundered_money_for Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted ▶ 51:24

“The money laundering operation. He's the guy that was Chiang Kai-shek's military attache in China. We just talked about that. Paul Helliwell is also the guy that becomes the Thai consul in Miami. And …”

Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for Bolivia host_asserted ▶ 51:48

“that hand ends up running off. Nugent gets assassinated in his car. That bank was primarily the money laundering bank for the Golden Triangle because Australia is just right across the water from Viet…”

Manuel Noriega member_of Medellin Cartel host_asserted ▶ 52:12

“Well, it started in Pakistan. It ends up being ran out of London. But now you see how all these connections of all these things we've been talking about all play into exactly what we're talking about …”

United States removed_from_power Manuel Noriega host_asserted ▶ 52:44

“He becomes the main man. No, no. He becomes a liability. And that's when we invaded Panama and took him out. And this was the Sandinistas. No, that's Nicaragua. There's just too many of them. Yeah. No…”

Stephen Crittenden member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 55:26

“Cocaine paste was Bolivia. This nation held a near monopoly on coca production. 80% of the world's processed cocaine came from Bolivia from the start. Stephen Crittenden, a CIA veteran of Southeast As…”

CIA trafficked United States book_quoted ▶ 55:26

CIA secretly_owned Southern Air Transport host_asserted ▶ 55:56

“Two CIA proprietary airlines, Southern Air Transport. I knew they'd show up eventually. Evergreen International Airlines, which, by the way, is my old company. I worked for Evergreen. But you didn't. …”

CIA secretly_owned Evergreen International Airlines host_asserted ▶ 55:56

CIA laundered_money_for Colombia book_quoted ▶ 57:26

“Marana is M-A-R-A-N-A. CIA money was flown from headquarters in McLean, Virginia, to pay their South American contacts in heavily guarded Marana Airport, sometimes using a Boeing 707 aircraft with NAS…”

CIA secretly_owned Air America host_asserted ▶ 58:17

“By February 1975, the CIA proprietary airline Air America held meetings over 10 days in Hong Kong with officials and senior representatives of South American republics. I know you don't watch movies, …”

Ronald Reagan ordered_assassination_of Sandinistas documented ▶ 1:01:27

“At the height of the cocaine decade, the Iran-Contra scandal revealed the U.S. involvement in drug trades during the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Evidence emerged that the CIA's involvement in covert dru…”

Oliver North member_of United States documented ▶ 1:01:27

Richard Secord headed Southern Air Transport host_asserted ▶ 1:01:54

“through CIA Airlines in Latin America, Southern Air Transport, and the use of private contractors linked to organized crime and money laundering. One contractor called Setco, S-E-T-C-O, Air, and we've…”

Richard Secord headed Setco host_asserted ▶ 1:01:54

Juan Matamoros secretly_owned Setco host_asserted ▶ 1:01:54

Michael Palmer member_of Vortex Aviation host_asserted ▶ 1:02:22

“a CIA veteran in Vietnam, directed both CETCO and Southern Air Transport. In other words, he was like the CEO. The second contractor was D-I-A-C-S-A. It was owned by a Bay of Pigs veteran, Alfredo Cab…”

Alfredo Caballero secretly_owned DIACSA host_asserted ▶ 1:02:22

Luis Rodriguez secretly_owned Seco de Pontera Naras host_asserted ▶ 1:02:55

“The fourth contractor was a company called, I'm not even going to try that, Seco de Pontera Naras, that was owned by another anti-Castro Cuban, Luis Rodriguez. I wonder if he's related to Felix. That'…”

208 Committee member_of United States host_asserted ▶ 1:03:20

“500 pages were devoted to detailing drug trafficking activities. 500 pages, which are now in the possession of the National Security Archives in Washington. A small select team of State Department, De…”

208 Committee supplied_arms_to Sandinistas host_asserted ▶ 1:03:50

“Every president decides the number of this committee, and it basically functions out of the National Security Council to do nefarious shit. So evidently, the Reagan administration had a 208, 208 commi…”

Reagan administration framed FARC host_asserted ▶ 1:06:10

“the FARC insurgency to cocaine production and distribution networks when there really was no link at all. This was demonstrated in an account by a joint raid of Colombian police and the DEA in a large…”

Louis Tams framed Cuba host_asserted ▶ 1:07:09

“In another large lab complex, they found 300 empty ether bottles, an arsenal of weapons, and a FARC uniform. For the Reagan enthusiasts, all this was proof that the narco-terrorism marriage had been c…”

Felix Rodriguez spied_on Che Guevara documented ▶ 1:10:35

“Bush is CIA, Greg is CIA, and Felix is CIA. Running the Iran-Contra. Of course. Out of the Vice President's office. Greg had a decades-long friendship and association with none other than Felix Rodrig…”

George H.W. Bush funded BCCI host_asserted ▶ 1:11:39

“and also among Oliver North and the Contra leaders. The BCCI link, which is the Pakistani bank, CIA bank, link with the CIA strengthened under President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush. Bush and…”

Bruce Campbell and Company front_for Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted ▶ 1:12:08

“The law firm involved was Bruce Campbell and Company, which acted as a registered agent for the CIA-linked Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. So it ties BCCI and Nugent Hand together. And by the way, it w…”

Earl Yates headed Great American Bank of Miami documented ▶ 1:12:39

“used Price Waterhouse as auditors. Nugent Hand's president, Admiral Earl Yates, yeah, of course our Navy guy, also headed the Great American Bank of Miami, which was indicted for money laundering. Whe…”

Alberto Duque secretly_owned Chase Manhattan Bank host_asserted ▶ 1:12:39

USAID attempted_coup_against Hugo Chavez host_asserted ▶ 1:24:19

“Even back when Chavez was president, they allowed independent media. I was flabbergasted by that. I was told that Chavez was a dictator and, you know, controlled everything and blah, blah, blah. But h…”