The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1

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0:00 Good afternoon, everyone. I don't see Bridget here. Let me text her and see if she's going to be in us. Oh, there she is. She's reading my mind. All right. They've already kicked me out twice, so I'm not sure what's going on. Can you hear me, Bridget? Yes, ma'am. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. All right. Let me get us going live over here on Rumble. Can everybody give us a thumbs up if they can hear us?

0:35 Because when I was down as a listener, I didn't hear anything, but you might not have been saying anything. We got 100%, so cool. Yeah, it's already kicked me out twice, so. Crazy. Today, just to set the tone for the book, this book is very in-depth.

1:00 And so a lot of it is going to be from the book itself as opposed to kind of just paraphrasing parts of it, which I normally do, only because a lot of it is stuff we've already heard in most of the other books. Some sections, if we already know it and have talked about it quite often, I just kind of skip over those pieces. But I think it's fitting, first of all, just to illustrate.

1:29 how awful our Congress is, that the foreword to this book is by none other than Congresswoman Maxine Waters. And we now know that she spent decades in Congress and did literally nothing about any of this. But I want you guys to hear in her own words what she said way back then.

1:59 Just so that you know, we're going to be using the 2014 edition. This book was originally written in 1998. So just to put that in context, obviously, that's during the Clinton administration.

2:26 George Sr.'s presidency and Reagan. And of course, most of the book we just finished on, Columbia, focused on that period and the setting up of the crystal triangle in Latin America. And by that time, we'd already had the Golden Crescent, the Golden Triangle. So the drug, the narco network was very well established. And so Gary Webb.

2:56 started putting a few inconvenient pieces together. So in the foreword to this book before Maxine Waters in the 2014 edition, a man by the name of Dan Simon, who later, he wrote in The Progressive, and he originally published

3:25 the foreword in 2004, that edition of the book. This book has been put out several times. So Dan Simons, this is his words. I began working as Gary Webb's editor on Dark Alliance, the book, in July 1997, about a year after his newspaper series of the same name broke.

3:52 So controversially in the San Jose Mercury News, as recently as one year later, earlier, Gary Webb had been one of the nation's top investigative reporters. His awards included a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and at least four other major prizes for his solo work. But by the time I met him, he had already begun the spectacular fall that ended in his quote unquote.

4:22 apparent suicide, barely seven years later at the age of 49. What would turn out to be the biggest story of his life ran as a three-day series beginning August 18, 1996. Here's how it started. Quote, for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Blood street gangs of Los Angeles.

4:48 and funneled millions of drug profits to a Latin America guerrilla army ran by the U.S. CIA, a Mercury News investigation has found, unquote. The Dark Alliance story documented a network of collusion in the 1980s that joined together the crack cocaine explosion, the Contras, and the CIA.

5:11 But it might have vanished without a trace had the paper not chosen this story to create a splash for its newly revamped website. Complete with graphics and links to the original source documents, it became arguably the world's first big internet news story. With as many as 1.3 million hits a day for many, many days. Talk Radio picked it up.

5:43 off the internet and citizen groups and media watchdogs followed. The CIA launched its own internal investigation. Gary Starr had never shown more brightly. The mainstream print media was ominously silent until October or November of 1996 when the New York Times and Washington Post and LA Times all finally picked up the story. All of three of those we know are part of Mockingbird.

6:12 But instead of launching their own investigations into whether the CIA had shielded drug traffickers, these papers went after Gary. Although they could not find a single factual error, as Gary's then editor at the Mercury News, Jerry Kepos, would write in an internal memo. Yet after that, the series was described frequently as, quote unquote, discredited. This is...

6:42 In and of itself, a CIA operation, folks. Soon the story and Gary himself were spoiled goods. Gary's editor switched sides and penned an apology distancing the paper from the series. Gary was forced out of his job, even though the body of evidence supporting Gary's account was only growing. Two years later, the CIA's internal investigation would prove to be a vindication of Gary's work.

7:12 So would another internal investigation conducted by the Department of Justice. Gary took solace in the historical significance of these findings, but shamelessly, the mainstream media press barely covered them, whereas the attacks on Gary had been page one news. Again, because we know that mainstream media is the CIA. With characteristic irony and faith,

7:41 In the facts, Gary faulted himself for not seeing sooner the depths of the CIA's complicity. Describing the aftermath in a 2002 for a book called Into the Buzzsaw, leading journalists exposed the myth of a free press. He wrote, quote, when the CIA and Justice Department finished their internal investigation two years later, the classified documents that were released showed the CIA's knowledge and involvement.

8:09 had been far greater than even I imagined. The drug ring was even bigger than I had portrayed. The agents and officials in the DEA had protected the traffickers from arrest, something I'd not been allowed to print, unquote. Gary had loved writing the Dark Alliance book. He told me he'd never had an editor before who had asked him to write longer, and it did come in long, but a gripping read throughout.

8:39 And in my opinion, one of the few truly great works of political investigative reporter to come out of that era. And a year later, when the government's own two just released investigative reports in hand, Gary and I got together every night on the phone at 9 p.m., 6 p.m. Pacific time. The minute Gary got home from his job working for the California state legislature to prepare an updated paperback edition.

9:09 It was great fun to get to work knowing that the story hadn't gone away, that it was, if anything, growing. The alternative media, to its credit, was quick to honor and embrace Gary when he began to be attacked by the mainstream media. But the nation's newspapers of record never welcomed him back into their club. Regardless of the facts, regardless of the injustice that he had uncovered and the injustice that was...

9:37 perpetrated against him personally he could never quite get over that betrayal when you're an investigative reporter armed with the truth gary webb learned the hard way the gun often fires at you gary once wrote that the dark alliance series quote it wasn't so much a conspiracy that i had outlined it was a chain reaction unquote the same could be said of what happened to gary

10:06 Now, when I reread the opening sentence of Dark Alliance series, I grasp with the wisdom or at least, let's say, the clarity of the intervening years that Gary had stumbled onto the biggest story of all of our lives, the one about the betrayal of a people by its own government. A monumental sadness remains. That's the end of his foreword to the book. Now, on to Congressman Maxine Waters.

10:37 The night I read Dark Alliance series, I was so alarmed that I literally sat straight up in bed pouring over every word. I reflected on the many meetings I had attended throughout South Central L.A. during the 1980s when I constantly asked, where are all the drugs coming from? I asked myself that night whether it was possible such a vast amount of drugs to be smuggled into any district under the noses of community leaders, police.

11:06 Sheriff's Departments, FBI, DEA, and other law enforcement agencies. I decided to investigate the allegations. I met with Ricky Ross, Alan Finster, Mike Rupert, Celerino Castillo, Jerry Guzetta, and visited the L.A. Sheriff's Department. My investigation took me to Nicaragua, where I interviewed Enrique Miranda Jamie in prison, and I met with the head of the Sandinista Intelligence, Tomas-

11:35 Bourget. I had the opportunity to question Contra leaders Aldolfo Calero and Eden Pastora in a Senate investigative hearing, which was meant to be perfunctory, until I arrived to ask questions based on the vast knowledge I had gathered in my own investigation. I forced Calero to admit that he had a relationship with the CIA through the U.S. Embassy, where he directed USAID.

12:06 funds to community groups and organizations. The time I spent investigating the allegations of Dark Alliance series led me to the undeniable conclusion that the CIA, DEA, DIA, and FBI knew about the drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles. They were either part of the trafficking or turned a blind eye to it in an effort to fund the Contra War.

12:34 I am convinced the drug money played an important role in the Contra War and the drug money was used by both sides. The saddest part of the revelation is the wrecked lives, the lost possibilities of so many people who got caught up in selling drugs, went to prison, ended up addicted, dead, and walking zombies from drugs. It may take time, but I am convinced that history is going to record

13:00 that Gary Webb wrote the truth. The establishment refused to give Gary Webb the credit he deserved. They teamed up in an effort to destroy the story and very nearly succeeded. There are a few of us to congratulate Gary for his honesty and courage. We will not let the story end until the naysayers and opponents are forced to apologize for their reckless and irresponsible attacks on Gary Webb.

13:24 The editors of the San Jose Mercury News did not have the strength to withstand the attack, so they abandoned Gary Webb, despite their knowledge that Gary was working on further documentation to substantiate the allegations of the series. He already had the documents to substantiate it. This book completely and absolutely confirms Gary Webb's devastating series. This book is the final chapter on the sordid tale and brings to light one of the worst official abuses of our nation's history.

13:54 We owe Gary Webb a debt of gratitude for his brave work. No, Maxine, I'm sorry. This book was not the final chapter because no one was ever held accountable. And it's still ongoing today. And you haven't done a damn thing about it. Not one thing. You vote to fund this apparatus every single year. So this was the last.

14:32 author's note that Gary Webb wrote. This sadly is a true story. It is based upon controversial series I wrote in the San Jose Mercury News in the summer of 1996 about the origins of the crack plague in South Central Los Angeles. Unlike other books that purported to tell the inside story of America's most futile war, Kings of Cocaine by Guy Gugliotto,

15:01 and Jeff Lean and Desperado by Elaine Shannon spring to mind, Dark Alliance was not written with the assistance, cooperation, or encouragement of the DEA or any other federal law enforcement. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Every Freedom of Information Act I request that was requested, I filed, was rejected on national security and privacy grounds.

15:28 was ignored or was responded to a document so heavily censored, they must have been the source of much hilarity down at the FOIA office. The sole exception was the National Archives and Records Administration. Dark Alliance does not propound a conspiracy theory. There is nothing theoretical about history. In this case, it is undeniable that a wildly successful conspiracy to import cocaine

15:58 existed for many years and that innumerable American citizens, most of them poor and black, paid an enormous price as a result. This book was written for them so that they may know upon what altars their communities were sacrificed. And there's a saying that says every government, excuse me, every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

16:31 That was written by I.F. Stone. That pretty much sums up the federal government. OK, so today we're not going to get to chapter one. I'll go ahead and tell you that we're going to read the prologue to the book because there's some very interesting information in it. Gary Webb started out at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

17:03 In early 1980, he was assigned to share a computer with an old man who he refers to, because he has a long Polish name, as Tom A. He says that arriving at a small daily in Kentucky, Tom A. was the epitome of a hard-boiled big city newspaper man.

17:32 The city officials he wrote about and the editors who mangled his copy, he called fucking jerks. Oh my God, that's priceless. A question prompting an affirmative response would elicit the response, fucking a tweety, instead of yes. And when his phone rang, he would say, it's the big one, before even picking up the receiver.

18:00 No matter how many times I heard that, I always laughed. The big one was the reporter's holy grail, the tip that led you from the daily morass of press conferences and cop calls to the biggest story you'd ever write, the one that would turn the rest of your career into an anti-climax. I never knew if it was cynicism or optimism that made him say it. The big one, I believed, would be like a bullet with your name on it.

18:29 You'd never hear it coming, and almost a decade later, long after Tom A., the plane dealer, and I had parted company, that's precisely what happened. It didn't even take a call. It manifested itself as a pink while-you-were-out message slip left on my desk in July 1995. Now, just for reference, 1995 is in the middle of the Clinton presidency.

19:00 And July of 1995 is the month I arrived at the Pentagon. Just put it in context. There was no message, just a woman's name and a phone number somewhere in the East Bay. I called, but there was no answer. So I put the message aside. If I had time, I'd try later. Several days later, an identical message slip appeared again. This time, the woman was home.

19:29 I saw the story you did a couple of weeks ago, she began, the one about the drug seizure laws. I thought you did a good job. Gary Webb says, thanks a lot. She was the first reader who'd called about that story. A front page piece in the San Jose News about a convicted cocaine trafficker who without any former legal training had beaten the U.S. Justice Department in court three straight times and was on the verge of flushing the government's.

20:00 multi-billion dollar asset forfeiture program down the toilet. The inmate, a lifer, had argued that losing your property and going to jail was like being punished twice for the same crime, double jeopardy. The 17 judges from the Ninth Circuit Court agreed with him.

20:19 With the prospect of setting thousands of dopers free or returning billions in seized property, the U.S. Supreme Court would later overturn two of its own rulings in order to kill off the inmate suit. You didn't just give the government side of it, she continued. The other stories I read about the case were like, oh my God, they're going to let drug dealers out of jail. Isn't that terrible? I asked what I could do for her, Gary Webb said.

20:49 My boyfriend is in this situation like that. And I thought it might be a good story for you to follow up on. What the government has done to him is unbelievable. Gary Webb says, your boyfriend? Yeah, he's in prison right now for cocaine trafficking. He's been in jail for three years. How much more time does he got? Well, that's just it. He's never been brought to trial. He's done three years already and he's never been convicted of anything.

21:21 He must have waived his speedy rights, Gary said. No, none of them have. There are about five or six guys in this same situation, and most of them are still waiting to be tried. They want to go to trial because they think it's all bullshit. Raphael keeps writing letters to the judge and the prosecutor saying, you know, try me or let me go. Raphael's your boyfriend? She says, yes, Raphael Correjigo.

21:50 He's Colombian. No, he's Nicaraguan. But he lived in the Bay Area since he was like two or something. Well, that's interesting, Gary Webb thought, but not the kind of story likely to excite my editor. Some drug dealers don't like being in jail. Big deal. What's the connection to the forfeiture story, I ask. Raphael, she explained, had been a very successful quote unquote businessman.

22:19 And the government, under the asset forfeiture program, had seized and sold his automobiles, all of his houses, all of his businesses, emptied his bank accounts, and left him without enough money to hire a lawyer. He had a court-appointed lawyer, she said, who was getting paid by the hour and didn't seem to care. Raphael had the most gorgeous house out in Lafayette, and the government sold it for next to nothing. Now, what happens if he's acquitted?

22:48 He spends three or four years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. And when he gets out, someone else is living in his house. I mean, what kind of country is this? I think it would make a good story. And let me just stop right here, because I've read several different other things, not related to Gladio at all, about this, where they sell these houses to their friends.

23:14 And so they pick whichever ones that they want to arrest based on what assets they have so that they can quote unquote auction them to their buddies. Just thought I'd throw that in. It might, I told her, if I hadn't done it half a dozen times already. Two years earlier, I had written a story for Mercury called The Forfeiture Racket.

23:39 about the police in California busting into private homes and taking furniture, televisions, Nintendo games, belt buckles, welfare checks, snow tires, and loose change under the guise of cracking down on drugs. Many times there were never charges filed or they were dropped later once the victim signed over their loot.

24:02 The series created such an outcry that California legislature had abolished the forfeiture program a few weeks later. But I knew what I would hear if I pitched the woman's story to my editors. We've already done that. She was not dissuaded. There's something about Raphael's case that I don't think you would have ever done before. One of the government's witnesses is a guy who used to work with the CIA selling drugs. Tons of it.

24:33 That got his attention. She said, yes, the CIA. He used to work for them. He's a Nicaraguan too. Raphael knows him. He can tell you. He told me the guy had admitted to bringing four tons of cocaine into the country. Four tons. And if that's what he admitted to, you can imagine what the amount really was. And now he's back working for the government again. With that, Gary Webb put his pen down.

25:04 She sounded so rational. Where did the CIA stuff come from? In 17 years of investigative reporting, I had ended up doubting the credibility of every person who ever called me with a tip about the CIA. I flashed on Eddie Johnson, a conspiracy theorist who would come bopping into the Kentucky Post newsroom every so often with an amazing tale of intrigue and corruption. Interviewing Eddie was like,

25:34 one of the rites of passages at the newspaper. Someone had invariably sent him over to the newest reporter on the staff to see how long it would take for the rookie to figure out he was crazy. Suddenly, I remembered who I was talking to. This was a cocaine dealer's girlfriend. That explained it. Oh, the CIA. Well, you're right.

26:00 I've never done any stories about the CIA. I don't run across them too often here in Sacramento. See, I mostly cover state government. You probably think I'm crazy, right? The woman said. No, no. No, I assured her. You know, it could be true. Who's to say? When it comes to the CIA, stranger things has happened. There was a short silence. How dare you treat me like I'm an idiot, she said. You don't even know me.

26:27 I work for a law firm. I've copied every single piece of paper that's ever been filed in Raphael's case, and I can document everything I'm telling you. You can ask Raphael and he can tell you himself. What's so hard of coming over and at least looking at it? That's a fair question, he said. Now, what was my answer? Because I lied and I do think you're crazy.

26:53 Or because I'm too lazy to get up and chase a story that appears to be a one in a thousand chance of being true. You said you documented all of this? Absolutely. I have all the files here at home. You're welcome to look them all over. And Raphael can tell you. In the background, I heard a child screaming. Just a minute. That's my daughter. The phone clunked down. And Gary Webb says to himself, well, that's a promising sign.

27:22 Were she a raving dope fiend, they wouldn't have let her raise an infant, which we all know not necessarily the truth, but whatever. She came back on and he asked her where she lived. She said she lived in Oakland. But Raphael's got a court date in San Francisco coming up in a couple of weeks. Why don't I meet you at the courthouse? That way you can sit in on the hearing. And if you're interested, we could get lunch afterwards. That clinched it. Now.

27:50 The worst that could happen was lunch in San Francisco in mid-July, away from the phones and the editors. And who knows? There's an off chance she could be telling the truth. Okay, fine, he said. But bring some of those records with you, okay? I can take a look at them while I'm sitting in court. She laughed and says, you don't trust me, do you? You probably get these calls a lot. And he goes, no, not many like this. Flipping on the computer.

28:17 He logged into his database, which contains full electronic versions of millions of newspapers and magazines, property records, legal filings, you name it. If you've ever been written about or done something significant in court, chances are you're in the system. Okay, let's see if this guy even exists. A message flashed on the screen. Your search has retrieved 11 documents. Display. So far, so good.

28:47 I called up the most recent one, a newspaper story that appeared a year before in the San Francisco Chronicle, and his eyes got big. Four indicted in prison breakout plot. Pleasanton inmates plan to leave in helicopter, prosecutors say. He scanned the story and said, son of a bitch. This is what the story said.

29:12 Four inmates were indicted yesterday in connection with a bold plan to escape from a federal lockup in Pleasanton using plastic explosives and a helicopter that would have taken them to a cargo ship at sea. The group was also considered killing a guard if their keepers tried to thwart the escape, prosecutors contended. Rafael Corrego, 39, of Lafayette, an alleged cocaine kingpin,

29:42 with reputed ties to Nicaraguan drug traffickers and Panamanian money launderers, was among those indicted for conspiracy to escape. The story called him a longtime drug dealer who was convicted in 1977 of cocaine trafficking in Panama. He also had served time in a U.S. prison for tax evasion. He owned several homes and commercial properties in the Bay Area.

30:09 This sure sounds like the same guy. So he kept scrolling down through the stories. The next one said, the four men were charged with planning to use C4 explosives to blow out a prison window with making a nine-inch shank that would be used to cut a guard's guts out if he tried to block their run. Once in the yard, they allegedly would be picked up by a helicopter and flown to a cargo ship.

30:39 in the Pacific. Now, C4 explosives, we learned, were the explosives that NATO uses. 100%. Yeah. The remaining stories described Cornejo's arrest and indictment in 1992, the result of an 18-month FBI investigation. Suspected drug kingpin, head of a large cocaine distribution

31:10 ring on the West Coast, alleged involved in a major cocaine pipeline that ran from Cali, Colombia, to several West Coast cities, which we just read about in our last book, which means it was under the control of the CIA because Cali was their preferred network. Importing millions of dollars worth of cocaine via San Diego and Los Angeles to the Bay Area. That's some boyfriend she's got, he thought.

31:38 The newspaper stories made him sound like Al Capone, and he wants to sit down and have a chat. That'll be the day. When I pushed open the doors to the courtroom in San Francisco a few weeks later, I found a scene like Miami Vice. To my left, a dark suited army of federal agents and prosecutors huddled around a long polished wooden table, looking grim and talking in low voices.

32:05 On the right, an array of long-haired, expensively attired defense attorneys were whispering to a group of long-haired, angry-looking Hispanics, their clients. The judge had not arrived. I had no idea what my tipster looked like, so I scanned the faces in the courtroom trying to pick her out. What would a drug kingpin's girlfriend look like? She found him. You must be Gary, she said.

32:34 I turned and in an instant, all I saw was cleavage and jewelry. She looked like she was in her mid-20s. Dark hair, bright red lipstick, long legs, short skirt, dressed to accentuate all of her positive attributes. He could barely speak. She tossed her hair and smiled, pleased to meet you. We sat down in a row of seats behind the prosecutor's table and I glanced at her again. That boyfriend of hers must be going nuts.

33:03 How did you know it was me? I asked. I was looking for someone who looked like a reporter. I saw you with your notebook. Then I knew it was you. That obvious, is it? Why don't you fill me in on who's who here? She pointed out Raphael, a short, handsome Latino man, wavy hair parted in the middle. He swiveled in his chair, looked right at us and seemed very perturbed. His girlfriend waved and he whirled back around without acknowledging her.

33:32 He doesn't look very happy. He doesn't like seeing me with other men, she said. Oh, why was he trying to break out of jail? He wasn't, she said. He was getting ready to make bail and they didn't want to let him out. So they trumped up a phony escape charge. Now, because he's under indictment for escape, he's not eligible for bail anymore.

33:55 Imagine my surprise to find out that the use of C4, which is something the government readily has available to him, would be used to set up a drug trafficker so he couldn't make bail. I'd like to say I'm shocked, but I'm not. The escape charges were in fact the product of an unsubstantiated accusation by a fellow inmate, a convicted swindler. They were later thrown out of court on grounds of prosecutorial

34:28 And Cornejo's prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hall, was referred to the Justice Department for investigation for the charges. Imagine my surprise. In the San Francisco Daily Recorder story about the misconduct charge, it was noted that, quote, it is not the first time that Hall had been under such scrutiny.

34:56 While working at the DOJ in Texas, the Office of Professional Responsibility reviewed Hall under an informant accused, when an informant accused Hall of approving drug smuggling into the United States. Hall said the office found no merit to the charge. Unquote. She pointed out Hall, a very large man with broad features. Who are the rest of those people? Gary asked.

35:27 The two men standing over there are FBI agents on the case. The woman is Hall's boss, Teresa Canepa. C-A-N-E-P-A. She's the bitch who's got it in for Raphael. As she was pointing everyone out, the FBI agents whispered to each other and then tapped Hall on the shoulder. All three turned and looked at Gary Webb. What's with them?

35:57 They probably think you're a hitman. She smiled. Oh, they just hate me. I called the cops on them once, you know. I looked at her and said, you called the cops on the FBI? Well, they were lurking around outside my house after dark. They could have been rapists or something. How was I supposed to know? I glanced back over the federal table and saw that the entire group had now turned to stare at me. I was certainly making a lot of friends.

36:27 Can you go out in the hall and talk for a minute, I asked her. We sat on a bench just outside the door. I told her I needed to get the case numbers so that I could ask for the court files. And by the way, did she bring those documents? She reached in her briefcase and brought out a stack an inch thick. I've got three banker boxes full back at home, and you're welcome to see it. But this is the stuff I was telling you about concerning the witness.

36:54 I flipped through the documents. Most of them were federal law enforcement reports, DEA, FBI 302s, every page bearing big black letters that said, may not be reproduced, property of U.S. government. At the bottom of the stack was a transcript of some sort. I pulled it out. Grand jury for the Northern District of California. Grand jury 93-5. Grand jury.

37:21 number, whatever. Reporters transcript, you know, grand juries that are supposed to be secret. Grand jury transcripts, he whistles. I'm impressed. Where'd you get these? The government turned them over during discovery. David Hall did. I heard he really got reamed out by the DEA when they heard about all the stuff he gave us. I looked through the transcripts and saw parts that had been blacked out. Who did this? That's how we got it.

37:49 Raphael's lawyer is asking for a clean copy. As you'll see, they also cut out a bunch of stuff on DEA number six. There's a hearing on his motion coming up. I skimmed the 39-page transcript. Whatever else this Blandon fellow may have been, he was pretty much the way Cornejo's girlfriend had described him. A big-time trafficker.

38:15 who dealt dope for many years, started out dealing with the Contras, a right-wing Nicaraguan, yeah, they're not right-wing, give me a break, Nicaraguan guerrilla group in Los Angeles. He'd used drug money to buy trucks and supplies for the Contras. At some point after Ronald Reagan got into power, the CIA had decided his services as a fundraiser was no longer required because they were going to take it over themselves.

38:44 But he did stay in the drug business. What made the story so compelling was that he was appearing before the grand jury as a U.S. government witness. He wasn't under investigation. And he was a drug dealer. He wasn't trying to beat a rap. He was there as a witness for the prosecution, which meant the U.S. Justice Department was vouching for him, probably because he was their drug dealer.

39:13 But who was the grand jury investigating? Every time the testimony led in that direction, words, mostly names, were blacked out. Who's the family they keep asking about? Raphael says it's Menendez. Norwin Menendez and his nephews. Have you heard of them? No. Norwin is one of the biggest traffickers on the West Coast. When Raphael got arrested.

39:41 That's who the FBI and the IRS wanted to talk to him about. Rafael had known Norwin and his nephew for years, since the 70s. The government is apparently using Blandin to get to Menendez. Inside, I heard the bailiff calling the court to order, and so we returned to the courtroom. During the hearing, I kept trying to recall where I had heard about the contra-cocaine business before. Had I read it in a book? Had I seen it on television?

40:11 It started to bother me. I believe that I had better than average knowledge of the Civil War in Nicaragua. Having religiously followed the Iran-Contra hearings on television, I would videotape them while I was at work and watched them at night, marveling the next morning at how wretchedly the newspapers were covering the story. Like most Americans, I knew the Contras had been the creation of the CIA, the darlings of the Reagan administration.

40:38 made up largely of vanquished followers of the deposed dictator, Somoza, and his brutal army, the National Guard. But drug trafficking? Surely, I thought. If there had been some concrete evidence, it would have stuck in my mind. Maybe I was confusing it with something else. During the break, I went to the restroom and bumped into none other than Assistant U.S. Attorney Hall.

41:03 Just in case he and the FBI really did think I was a hitman, I introduced myself as a reporter. Why would the Mercury News be interested in this case, he asked. You should have been here two years ago. This stuff is old. I considered tap dancing around the question. Normally, I didn't tell people what I was working on because then they didn't know what to say. But I decided to hit Paul head on and see what kind of reaction I got.

41:32 It'd probably be the last thing he'd expect. I'm not really here doing a story on this case. I'm here looking into one of the witnesses, a name by the name of Blandon. As I was pronouncing, or am I pronouncing the name correctly? Hall appeared surprised. What about him? About his selling cocaine for the Contras? Hall leaned back slightly, folded his arms, and gave him a puzzled look.

42:03 Who have you been talking to? Actually, I've been reading. And I was curious to know what you made of his testimony about selling drugs for the Contras in L.A. Did you believe him? Well, yeah, but I don't know how you could absolutely confirm it. I mean, I don't know what to tell you, he said with a slight laugh. The CIA won't tell me anything. Webb jotted down his remark. Oh, you've asked them? Yeah.

42:32 but I never heard back from him. Not that I expected to, but that's all ancient history. You're really doing a story about that? I don't know if I'm doing it at all. At this point, I'm just trying to see if there is one. Do you know where Blanton is these days? Not a clue. That couldn't be true, he thought. How could he not know? He was one of the witnesses against Raphael Cornejo. From what I heard,

43:02 He's a pretty significant witness in your case here. He didn't just disappear, did he? He's going to testify, isn't he? We're not at all certain about that, was the response. When I got back to Sacramento, I called my editor at the main office in San Jose, Dawn Garcia, and filled her in on the day's events. Dawn was a former investigative reporter herself from the San Francisco Chronicle and had been at the Mercury.

43:31 for several years. We had a good working relationship. Dawn could size up a story quickly. I read her several portions of Blanton's grand jury testimony. Weren't there some stories about that back in the 80s, she asked. See, that's what I thought. I remember hearing something about it, but I can't place it. Maybe the Iran-Contra hearings. I don't think so. I followed those things closely. I don't remember hearing anything about drug trafficking. Oh my God, how could he not?

44:01 I followed him closely and I heard all about it. Don's memory, as it turned out, was better than mine. During one part of Oliver Knorr's congressional testimony in 1987, two men from Baltimore had jumped up in the audience with a large banner reading, ask about the cocaine smuggling. The men began shouting questions. What about the cocaine dealing in the U.S.? Who's paying for it?

44:27 why don't you ask questions about the drug deliveries? As they were dragged out of the room. I remember that like it was yesterday. So what do you think? She asked, is there a story here and how long will it take to get it? I don't know. I'd like to spend a little time looking into it at least. Hell, if his testimony is true, it could be a pretty good story. The Contras were selling Coke in LA. I've never heard that one before.

44:55 She mulled it over for a moment and said, it's not like there's a lot going on in Sacramento right now. That was true. The Sunbaked City capital during the summertime was like siesta. With any luck, I was about to join the siesta people on the ocean because it wasn't going to be a story. I need to go to San Diego for a couple of days. Blanton testified that he was arrested down there in 1992 for conspiracy. So there's probably a court file somewhere.

45:24 He may be living down there for all I know. Probably the quickest way to find out is to go there. She okayed the trip. A few days later, I was in San Diego looking at microfiche in the clerk's office at the U.S. District Court. I found a Blanton case file within a few minutes. He and six others, including his wife, had been secretly indicted May 5, 1992, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

45:52 He'd been buying wholesale quantities from suppliers and reselling it to other wholesalers. Way up the food chain. According to the indictment, he'd been a trafficker for 10 years, had clients nationwide, and had bragged on tape of selling other L.A. dealers between two and four tons of cocaine. He was such a big-timer that the judge had ordered he and his wife held in jail.

46:18 in jail without bail because they posed a threat to health and the moral fiber of communities. The file contained a transcript of a detention hearing held to determine if the couple should be released on bail. Blanton's prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney L.J. O'Neill, brought out his best ammo to persuade the judge to keep them locked up. Mr. Blanton's family was so closely associated with the Somoza government

46:47 That was overthrown in 1979, O'Neill said. Blanton had been partners with Jareo Menendez in 764 kilos of cocaine that had been seized in Nicaragua for 1991. O'Neill claimed, and he also owned hotels and casinos in Nicaragua with Menendez. He had a house in Costa Rica.

47:16 He had a business in Mexico, relatives in Spain, phony addresses all over the U.S., and unlimited access to money. He's a large-scale cocaine trafficker and has been for a long time, O'Neill argued. Given the amount of cocaine he'd sold, O'Neill said, Blinton's minimum mandatory punishment was off the chart, life plus $4 million in fine, giving him plenty of incentive to flee the country.

47:44 Blanton's lawyer, Brad Brunin, confirmed the couple's close ties to Somoza and produced a photo of them at a wedding with the president and his spouse. That just showed what fine families they were, he said. Yeah, the murderous dictator. Fine family. The accusation in Nicaragua against Blanton.

48:07 Brunin argued, was politically motivated because of Mr. Blanton's activities with the Contras in the 80s. Damn, here it is again. His own lawyer saying he worked with the Contras. Brunin argued that the government had no case against his client and no right to keep him in jail without a trial. There is not the first kilogram of cocaine that has been seized in this case, Brunin said.

48:34 What you have are accusations from a series of informants, but the judge didn't see it that way and allowed, while allowing the wife to postpone, he ordered the husband held without bail. From the docket sheet, I could see that the case had never went to trial. Everyone pleaded out, starting with Blanton.

48:58 Five months after his arrest, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and charges against his wife were dropped. After that, his fugitive co-defendants were quickly arrested and pleaded guilty. But they all received extremely short sentences. One even got unsupervised probation. That's how it's done. I didn't get it. If O'Neill had such a rock-solid case against a major drug trafficking ring,

49:27 Why were they all let off so easily? People did more time for burglary. Even Blanton, the ringleader, only got 48 months, and from the docket sheet, it appeared that that was cut almost in half. As I read on, I realized Blanton was already back on the streets, totally unsupervised, no parole, free as a bird. He walked out of jail on September 19, 1994, on the arm of an INS agent, Robert

49:57 Tellez, T-E-L-L-E-Z. He'd done 28 months for a 10-year cocaine trafficking conviction. The last page of the file told me why. In a motion filed by the U.S. Attorney O'Neill, asking the court to unseal Blanton's plea deal and a couple of internal Justice Department memorandums, quote, during the course of this case, defendant Oscar Daniello Blanton.

50:25 cooperated with and rendered substantial assistance to the United States, unquote. At the government's request, his jail sentence had been secretly cut twice. O'Neill then persuaded the judge to let Blanton out of jail completely, telling the court he was needed as a full-time paid informant for the Department of Justice. Since he was undercover, O'Neill wrote, he could have very well have probation agents checking up on him.

50:56 All of this information had once been secret, I noticed, but since Blanton was going to testify in a case in Northern California, the Cornejo case, O'Neill had to have the plea agreement and all records relating it with the reduced reduction, the sentence reductions, unsealed to turn over to the defense counsel. I walked back to my hotel convinced I was on the right track.

51:27 Now there were two separate sources saying in court that Blanton was involved with Contras and had been selling large amounts of cocaine in Los Angeles. And when the government finally had a chance to put him away forever, it opened up the cell doors and let him walk away. I needed to find Blanton. I had a million questions that only he could ask. I began calling the defense attorneys involved in the 92 conspiracy case, hoping one of them knew something about him.

51:55 I struck out every call. One of the lawyers was out of town. The rest of them remembered next to nothing. It was all over so quickly I barely had time to open a file, one said. The consensus was that once Blandon flipped, his compatriots scrambled to get the best deal they could, and no one prepared for trial. Discovery had been minimal. All on purpose, by the way. But one thing wasn't clear. What had the government gotten out of the deal?

52:25 That was worth giving Blanton and his crew an easy ride. O'Neill claimed he had given information about a murder in the Bay Area. But from what I could see from the DEA and FBI interviews, he merely told the government that the man had been murdered. Not who did it, not any details about it, which had already been reported. Back in Sacramento, I did some checking on the targets of the 1994 grand jury investigation. The Menendez family.

52:53 And again, my tipster's description proved accurate, perhaps even understated. I found a 1991 story from the San Francisco Chronicle and a 1986 San Francisco Examiner piece that strongly suggested Menendez, too, had been dealing in cocaine for the Contras during the 80s. One of the stories described him as the king of cocaine in Nicaragua.

53:24 in Nicaragua. The Chronicle story mentioned that the U.S. Senate investigation had run across him in connection with the Contras and allegations of cocaine. That must have been where I heard about the Contra stuff, the congressional hearing. At the California State Library's government publication section, I scoured indexes

53:49 which catalog congressional hearings by topic and witness names. Menendez wasn't listed, but there was a series of hearings back in 87 and 88. I saw dealing with the issue of Contras and Cocaine, a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations, chaired by none other than John Kerry. And we've talked about this because this was the one related to BCCI, and that's how that bank got busted.

54:18 For the next six days, I sat with rolls of dimes and microfiche printers back in the good old days in a quiet wooded paneled library, reading and copying many of the 1,100 pages of transcripts and exhibits from the Cary committee hearings, growing more astounded every day. The committee investigators had uncovered direct links between drug dealers and the Contras. They had gotten into BCCI.

54:46 Years before anyone knew what that bank scandal was even about, they had found evidence in Manuel Noriega's involvement with drugs years before the invasion. Many of the Kerry committee witnesses, I noted, later became U.S. Justice Department witnesses against Noriega. Kerry and the staff had taken videotape depositions from Contra leaders who acknowledged receiving drug profits with the apparent knowledge of the CIA.

55:12 The drug dealers had admitted under oath giving money to the Contras and had passed polygraph tests. The pilots had admitted flying weapons down and cocaine back. Landing at, in one instance, Homestead Air Force Base, which we've read about before. The exhibits included U.S. Customs reports, FBI reports, Internal Justice Department memos. It almost knocked me out of my chair. It was all there in black and white.

55:42 Blanton's testimony about selling cocaine to the Contras in LA wasn't part of a fantasy. This could have actually happened. I called Jack Bloom, the Washington DC attorney who headed the Kerry investigation, and he confirmed that Norwin Menendez had been an early target.

56:04 But the Justice Department, he said, had stonewalled the committee's request for information, and he had finally given up trying to obtain the records, moving on to other more productive areas. There was a lot of weird stuff going on out there during that time on the West Coast. But after our experience with justice, we mainly concentrated on the cocaine coming into the East. Why is it that I can barely remember this, I said. I mean, I read the papers every day.

56:33 It wasn't in the papers, he said, for the most part. We laid it all out and we were trashed, Bloom said. I've got to tell you, there's a real problem with the press in this town. We were totally hit by the leadership of the administration and much of the congressional leadership. They simply turned around and said, these people are crazy. Their witnesses are full of shit. They're a bunch of drug dealer, drug addicts. Don't listen to them. And they dumped all over us. It came from every direction, every corner.

57:03 We were dumped on by the Iran-Contra committee. They wouldn't touch this issue with a 10-foot pole. There had to have been some reporters who followed this, I protested. Maybe I'm naive, but it seems like a huge story to me. Bloom laughed out loud. Well, it's nice to hear someone finally say that, even if it's 10 years later. But what happened was our credibility was questioned. We were personally trashed.

57:28 The administration and some people in Congress tried to make us look crazy. And to some degree, it worked. I remember having conversation with reporters, which they would say, well, the administration says this is all wrong. And I'd say, look, the guy is going to testify to XYZ. Why don't you cover the fucking hearing instead of coming to me with what the administration says? And their response would be, well, the guy was a drug dealer. Why should I do that?

57:58 And I'd say, look, the minute I find you a Lutheran minister or a priest who was on the scene when they took delivery of 600 kilos of cocaine at an airbase in Contra land, I'll put them on the stand. But until then, you take what you can get. The big paper stayed away from it all because they're all controlled by the CIA. There were two reporters, Bloom said, who pursued the Contra drug story. Robert Perry.

58:26 and Brian Barger of the AP. But they'd run into the same problems. Their stories were either trashed or ignored. There was also two reporters in Costa Rica, a New York Times stringer named Martha Honey and her husband, Tony Averin, an ABC cameraman, who had gone after the story as well. They wound up being set up.

58:51 in a phony drug charge in Costa Rica, spied on in the States by the FBI and former CIA agents, smeared and financially ruined. I know Bob Perry is still here in Washington somewhere. He did the first stories and was one of the first who seemed to know what he was doing. You might want to call him. Perry sounded slightly amused when I called him in Virginia. This is what he said to Gary Webb.

59:20 Why in the world would you want to go back into this? I told him about my discoveries of Menendez and Blanton and the later's cocaine cells in Los Angeles. I wondered if he or anyone had ever reported this. Not that I'm aware of, Perry said. We never really got into where it was going once the cocaine arrived in the U.S. Our stories dealt mainly with the Costa Rican end of it.

59:46 This is definitely a new angle. You think you can show it was being sold in L.A.? Yeah, I do, Gary said. But one of the guys has even testified to it before a grand jury. But this is an area I've never done any reporting on before. So I guess I'm looking for some guidance. Have you got any suggestions? There's a short silence and he says, how well do you get along with your editor? Fine. Why do you ask? Well.

1:00:13 When Brian and I were doing these stories, we got our brains beat out. People from the administration were calling our editors, telling them we were crazy, that our sources were no good, that we didn't know what we were talking about. The Justice Department was putting out false press releases saying there was nothing to this, that they'd investigated it and found no evidence. We were being attacked in the Washington Times. That's interesting. Who owned the Washington Times? Anyone?

1:00:44 Anyone? Reverend Moon from the KCIA World Anti-Progress League? Right. Okay. Oh, my God. The rest of the Washington Press Corps sort of poo-pooed the whole thing, and no one would touch it. So we ended up being out there all by ourselves, and eventually our editors backed away completely, and I ended up quitting the AP. It was probably the most difficult time of my career. Maybe things have changed. I don't know.

1:01:14 Gary Webb seemed not to care. Bob Perry wasn't some fringe reporter. He'd won a Polk Award for uncovering the CIA assassination manual given to the Contras. It was the first reporter to expose Oliver Norse's illegal activities. But what he just described sounded like something out of a bad dream. I told him, I don't think that would be a problem with the Mercury.

1:01:40 I've done some controversial stories before, but the editors have stood by them, and we'd won some significant awards. I felt good about the paper. One place you might try is the National Archives, Perry offered. They're in the process of declassifying Lawrence Walsh's files, and I found some pretty remarkable things over there. It's a long shot, but if I were you, I'd file a FOIA for the men you mentioned and see if anything turns up. It was a long shot.

1:02:10 But Perry's hunch paid off. My FOIA request produced several important clues, among them a 1986 FBI report about Blanton that alluded to a police raid and reported that Blanton's attorney, Brad Brunin, had called the L.A. Sheriff's Department office afterward and claimed that the CIA had winked at Blanton's activities.

1:02:35 I also obtained the 1987 FBI interview with the San Francisco Contra supporter Dennis Ainsworth. We've come across his name a couple of times, in which he told of his discovery that Norwin Menendez and a Contra leader by the name of Enrique Barundez were dealing drugs and arms. I tracked down Ainsworth and had another disconcerting conversation. You've got to be crazy, he said.

1:03:04 He tried to alert people to this 10 years ago and it ruined his life. Nobody in Washington wanted to look at this. Republican, Democrat, nobody. They wanted this story buried. And anyone who looked any deeper got buried. You're bringing up an old nightmare. You have no idea what you're touching on here, Gary. No idea at all. Gary responded, I think I've got a pretty good idea. Believe me, he said, you don't understand. I almost got killed.

1:03:32 I had friends in Central America who were killed. There was a Mexican reporter who was looking into one end of this and he wound up dead. So don't pretend that you know. If the Contras were selling drugs in L.A., don't you think people should know that? Ainsworth laughed. L.A.? Menendez was selling it all over the country. Listen, he ran the biggest distribution in the United States. It wasn't just L.A. He was national. He was totally protected.

1:04:03 I think that's the kind of thing the public needs to know about. And that's why I need your help. You know a lot more about this than I do. He was unmoved. Look, when I was trying to tell Congress, I was getting death threats. And you're asking, you know, if I'm Jewish, would I like to go back and spend another six months at Dachau? Leave this alone. Take my advice. You can go on and write a lot of other stuff and maybe win a Pulitzer Prize.

1:04:32 All you're going to be after this is over is persona non grata. Please, everyone's forgotten about this. Move on. A few days later, I got a call from Cornejo's girlfriend. My one chance to hook up with Blanton had just fallen through. He isn't going to be testifying at Raphael's trial after all, she said. Raphael's attorney won his motion.

1:04:58 to have the DEA and FBI release the uncensored files, and the U.S. attorney decided to drop him as a witness rather than do that. Can you believe that? He's the one witness they used to get the indictment against Raphael, and now they're refusing to put him on the stand. I hung up the phone in a funk. Without him, I didn't have much to go on. But there was always his boss, this Menendez fellow. Getting to him would be tougher, but it was worth a shot.

1:05:25 The girlfriend said she thought he was in jail in Nicaragua. In the Chronicle clip I found noted that he'd been arrested in 91. Maybe, I hope, the Nicaraguans locked their drug lords up longer than we did. I was put in touch with a freelance reporter in Managua, George Hodel, a Swiss journalist who spoke several languages and had covered Nicaragua during the war. He taught college journalism classes, knew his way around the Nicaraguan government, and had sources everywhere.

1:05:58 Better yet, with his Swiss-German-Spanish accent, it was like talking to Peter Lorre. I persuaded Don to hire him as a stringer, and he set off to find Menendez. Meanwhile, the San Diego attorney who had been out of town when I was looking for Blanton returned. Juanita Brooks had represented Blanton's friend and co-defendant, a Mexican millionaire named Sergio...

1:06:30 Another lawyer in her firm had defended Chapika Blanton. She knew quite a bit about both. You don't happen to know where he is these days. No, but I can tell you where he was a couple of months ago here in San Diego. Entirely by coincidence, I have a case coming up where he's the chief prosecution witness against my client. Gary Webb says, you're kidding. What case is that?

1:06:56 It's a pretty big one. Have you ever heard of someone named Freeway Ricky Ross? Indeed, I had. I'd run across him while researching the asset forfeiture series in 1993. He's one of the biggest crack dealers in LA. That's what they say, Brooks replied. He and my client and a couple of others were arrested in a DEA reverse sting last year and Blanton was the confidential informant. How did Blanton get involved with crack dealers?

1:07:26 I don't have a lot of the details because the government has been very protective of him. They refuse to give us any discovery so far. But from what I understand, Blanton used to be one of Ricky Ross's sources back in 1980. And I suppose he played off that friendship. Gary Webb's mind was racing. Blanton, the Contra fundraiser, had sold cocaine to the biggest crack dealer in South Central LA. That was too much. Are you sure about that?

1:07:56 I wouldn't want you to quote me on it, but yes, I'm pretty sure. You can always call Alan Finster, Ross's attorney, and ask him. I'm sure he knows. Finster was out, so I left a message telling him I was working on a story about Blanton and wanted to interview him. When I got back from lunch, I found a message. It said, Oscar who? My heart sunk. I suspected it was a bum lead, but I was...

1:08:24 kept keeping my fingers crossed, I should have known that would have been too perfect. I called Finster back to thank him for his time, and he asked what kind of story I was doing, and I told him it was about the Contras and cocaine. He said, I'm curious, what made you think of Oscar was a person involved in Ricky's case? I told him what Brooks had said, and he gasped. He said, he's the informant? Are you serious?

1:08:52 No wonder those bastards won't give me his name, Finster said. Forgive me, but if you only knew what kind of bullshit I've been going through to get that information from those son of a bitches. And then some reporter calls me up from San Jose and tells me, your client didn't tell you his name? He didn't know it. He only knew him as Dannello. And then he wasn't even sure that was his real name. You and Ricky need to talk.

1:09:21 I'll have him call you, and he hung up. Ross called a few hours later, and I asked him what he knew about Blanton. He said a lot. He was almost like a godfather to me. He's the one who got me going. Was he your main source? He was. Everybody I knew, I knew through him. So really, he could have been considered my only source. In a sense, he was. When was this? 1981 and 1982.

1:09:50 right when I was getting going. Damn, I thought. That was right when Blanton said he had started dealing drugs. Would you be willing to sit down and talk to me? He said, hell yeah. I'll tell you anything you want to know. At the end of September 1995, I spent a week in San Diego going through the files of the Ross case, interviewing defense attorneys and prosecutors, and listening to undercover DEA tapes. I attended discovery hearings.

1:10:18 and watched as Finster and other defense attorneys made another futile attempt to find out the details of the government's informant so they could begin preparing their defenses. Assistant U.S. Attorney O'Neill refused to provide a thing. They get what they were entitled to, he promised, 10 days before trial. See what I mean, Finster said on his way out? It's like a trial in Alice in Wonderland. I spent hours with Ross at the concur...

1:10:48 correctional center. He knew nothing of Blanton's past, I discovered. He had no idea who the Contras were or whose side they were on. To him, Donella was just a nice guy with cheap dope. What would you say if I told you that he was working for the Contras selling cocaine to help them buy weapons and supplies? Ross was amazed. They put me in jail? I'd say that was some fucked up shit. They say I sold dope.

1:11:17 But man, I know he done sold 10 times more than me. Are you being straight with me? I told him I had the documents to prove it. Ross just shook his head and looked away. He's been working for the government the whole damn time, he muttered. So that's just the beginning. We haven't even got to chapter one. Oh, my God. So the reason, again, why I've held off.

1:11:49 going over this book is, again, for most Americans who have no Gladio background, you read something like that and it's like a novel. There's no way any of that could be true. But it brings home everything that we have read that has happened all over the world. And when your government is capable of doing this kind of stuff,

1:12:21 and do everything that they can to block anyone finding out about any of it, it's dumbfounding. Like, literally dumbfounding. It's sickening. I'll tell you one better. It's not just dumbfounding. It's sickening. And then to propaganda us about little drug deals and vilifying and trying to get us to fight against each other and...

1:12:52 All the while they're doing this. They're feeding the monster, so to speak. Not so to speak. They're literally feeding the monster. That's not even figurative. Right. Right. I mean, it seems to any logical observer that any time the truth tries to come out, you know, and when you were going through about them being held with.

1:13:23 No charges. Four years? Four years. There's been two people, well, more than two, but that really stood out over the years that had the same thing happen. One of them was, oh, now my brain just went blank. She went out against Fauci. And they kept her, I believe, in prison for 10 years with no charges.

1:13:53 Because with no charges, you can't even really hire a lawyer. I mean, there's nothing to fight. And they just kept on continuing Mikevich, Judy Mikevich. Yeah. And the other ones were how many of the January 6th people were in the exact same case. So it goes to show you, again, this is just another page out of a playbook.

1:14:20 That they reuse over and over and over again because it has worked for them up until now. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's still working for them. We just know about it now. Right. And we're a very small minority. Yeah, but, you know, if anything, with the events over the last week is, you know, we may, I think you've got over 45,000 followers now, right? Yeah. That's 45,000 voices.

1:14:55 That are talking to their friends and their neighbors and their hairdressers and the people that they go to church with. And it spreads. Truth is addictive. And when you start really seeing the truth and knowing the truth, then all these pieces that over the years and decades never made sense all of a sudden make sense. Yeah, and you can see them lying in real time. Right. They try it. Especially the mainstream media.

1:15:26 Absolutely. Yeah, I agree. So did anybody else want to say anything? I don't see anybody else up as speakers. I threw Stellar Mike and Miles and all along. We got Alfred down in the thing, Renee. Okay. I did want to. It's a lot to process. I understand that.

1:16:00 But I did want to let you guys know I'm going to do a space tonight, either 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock, I haven't decided which, probably 8 o'clock, about this whole Hyundai thing. I'm so pissed off about that whole thing that I think we need to have a space to expose what's really going on there.

1:16:27 And we will have all of the articles that we'll be able to post as part of the space that shows you the history of Hyundai. Because now that those son of a bitches has went back over to South Korea and are screaming about human rights, that put me right over the edge. So we're going to do a space and expose all of it. All along. Go ahead. Hi, Carol.

1:16:58 I just wanted to since I'm sort of older, I'm 61 and I for a little bit right out of college when I need less than nothing, arguably. I did work in D.C. for a little bit. So I just think it's important that we understand, like, here's a CIA operation with clear and devastating domestic impacts. And we're seeing that.

1:17:29 You know, yeah, it's really, really difficult. There's hesitation. You know, Perry of formerly of Newsweek, who was fired over this, as I think you mentioned, was skeptical, but agreed to go forward. Right. And, you know, let's let's look at the timing of this. It's it looks Perry's information was from mid to late 80s with some references to the earlier 80s. And then.

1:17:59 You know, the story of Gary, stories of Gary Webb broke, you know, really big time. And I believe it was 1996. And that in turn, you know, caused a national media risk. What's the point here? It's like, let's contrast the media right now with a story like this directly impacting CIA. Right. Does does that, Perry, even give Gary Webb the time of day?

1:18:30 Right. In other words, maybe this is not really about, you know, personal personal things, but how deeply rooted CIA is into, you know, everything, especially media. And so I just think we sometimes need to kind of look at the historical development of the CIA's power over time. I know that a lot of people sometimes it's presented as, OK, the CIA is created in 1947. Done.

1:19:00 Like as if it's going to be, you know, always that there was no journalism about CIA. We know that's not true. Right. The big exception would be the 1970s, which is like the exception that proves the rule. Because when you look at what happened there, you know, exceptions really do prove the rule when it comes to U.S. journalism, congressional oversight of CIA. So I just think that we as we're reading about the 80s and 90s story.

1:19:29 It's really important for us to put it in, if we can, in some sort of a narrative history of the CIA and what they can and cannot get away with and when. So are you suggesting they can't get away with something? No, I guess what I'm suggesting is, you know, today, would it, you know, would Gary Webb be able to get the time of day from? I mean, Perry is now dead, right? I mean, he died of.

1:20:04 I think natural causes, I don't mean to say just anything sinister there, but he was, you know, he was unemployed, but from the big networks, he had to find his, start his own little news site. But I, you know, as time goes by and other journalists see what happened to, you know, for example, Washington Post, Larry Stern, who did some absolutely, you know, amazing articles that you're like, you look at the Washington Post in the 1970s and.

1:20:34 You're like you contrast it with today and you're like, no way this is conspiracy theory, but it's on page one of The Washington Post every day of the week. It was called the 1970s. And sure, I mean, I'm willing to not willing to say that all of the journalism was, you know, quote unquote, correct. Some of it was inevitably, you know, false, false leads. But but there was a triggered a relationship in Congress where there was oversight of CIA.

1:21:03 And sure, we know what happened to those investigations. They were manipulated by the CIA. But that doesn't mean that, you know, by looking at those moments, we can actually see how the CIA actually works. Right. So, I mean, I think CIA and media is the essence of stuff. And so often we kind of fly over it too fast. But when we can present the wider public around the proverbial water cooler, as in.

1:21:33 Yeah, historian Sterling Seagrave said Larry Stern of the Washington Post was actually killed in 1980. And then we go back and look at Larry Stern's catalog in the Washington Post. That's kind of an entryway, you know. And I think we really, to look closer and kind of slow down in our 50,000 foot view, as you sometimes say, to go down to a 10,000 foot view and kind of slow it down and see.

1:22:02 exactly what is the CIA doing vis-a-vis the media? Do we want to go ahead and say, oh, the CIA has always controlled the media? Well, that's true and false. And it's kind of also a little bit false in the sense of if we don't show concrete examples of it as vignettes that are available to the proverbial around the water cooler, like are we really kind of broadening our eyes as we might be able to?

1:22:32 To your point, I think that's why we do these books. These books are like ground zero. They provide us all of the details to be able to zoom out to the 10,000 and then the 50,000 foot. Over the course of the last three years in doing this, we've been able to identify pattern after pattern after pattern, both inside the United States and just

1:23:00 You know, basically researching what the CIA really is, not what they portend themselves to be. So are you suggesting I'm trying to get something constructive out of what you're saying? Because I guess I think we're actually doing that. We're giving you a granular detail of what they actually do on a day to day basis at the ground zero level.

1:23:29 Bringing in into context, just like the fact that The Washington Times led the charge on trying to discredit that reporter. It doesn't mean anything. And they don't elaborate in this book. If you understand who owned The Washington Times, it was basically the CIA. Right. Yeah, I'm not. Well, to be clear, it was the Kuomintang, right? And they were drug traffickers, too, who are participants in this whole network. Well, technically, it was Reverend Moon that owned South Korea.

1:24:01 Yeah. Right. Yeah. Colonel, I'm not suggesting that your shows are not doing that. That's why I listen to them, because they are doing that. So maybe maybe I was just not being clear. Try to shorten it and then leave and then try to shut my mouth. I think it's important we see that the later it is, the more CIA controls everything and that maybe.

1:24:28 We need to keep the historical evolution in mind. That's all I'm saying. OK. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. They control so much of what's made available to. I mean, it's the mainstream media. And this is one of my big frustration points. People keep referring to them as media. They're not media. It's a psychological operation.

1:24:57 That is propaganda pushers is what we should call them. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. What is it? Propaganda pushers. Well, I don't even think that's specific enough. They are. And I don't think Mockingbird is specific enough. They are psychological operations that are orchestrated by the CIA. Go ahead, Stellar.

1:25:30 I think that the CIA needs to be dismantled. I'm sorry. This whole group that was supposed to keep us safer over, you know, like to keep us informed, whatever their guise was, their costume for what they have shown to the public, you know, a long time ago, had no idea how bad the CIA was. I thought that they kept, you know, like what the FBI, what was supposed to happen is like keeping our homeland safe with, you know, on the federal side of it.

1:26:01 CIA overseas, didn't realize they just need to be gone. All of these, those types of people that cause wars, they, I mean, just like all along said, and I know that, you know, they are like worse than cancer and they are everywhere. I mean.

1:26:20 in the news, they're in corporations, they're in the, you know, doctor's offices, you know, the medical industry, the pharmaceutical, they're everywhere. I mean, is there any way to get them totally gone? Or is there a way to shift it to be where, you know, like it's supposed to be helping us, not hurting us or hurting the world and enslaving the world? Yeah. No, they need to be disbanded. Illini, go ahead. Hey, yeah, you chose a really good book.

1:26:50 And the reason for it is, I mean, the really sad truth of this book is Gary Webb is really standing on a very carefully and solidly constructed pyramid of prior reporting, going all the way back to, you know, the Kefauver Committee and, you know, the 1950s. And, you know, really where it starts is, you know, Seymour Hersh.

1:27:19 And his July 1972 front page article in the New York Times saying that the CIA is trying to hold a publication of this book by Alfred McCoy alleging drug trafficking. And basically this book with, you know, thousands and thousands of notes at the end. And then, you know, Gary Webb is talking to Robert Perry, who's written two books on this.

1:27:45 including, I think it's called either lost history or secret history and secrecy and privilege about the Bush family. But he's got, he's got, you know, thousands of notes in the back of his books too, based on all kinds of journalism, based on all kinds of articles, citing all kinds of references. You've also got Pete Bruton, you know, talking about, you know, the Bush CIA mafia links.

1:28:15 as, as, as well as some of their connections to, you know, illicit finance. Um, you've got, and then of course you've got the book compromised, uh, it's by Terry Reed where you've got the DOJ filings at the back where they're, you know, where the department of justice is alleging that these people that they admit were CIA contractors were, were, were smuggling cocaine and they got caught. And, and the witnesses are all saying, including Barry seal, um, and Terry Reed. And I think, uh,

1:28:45 One other guy, Gene, I'm trying to remember his name, but they have multiple witnesses, I'll say, that Oliver North and George Bush knew what was going on at that airport, and they were complicit too. So, like, nobody should, like, well, okay, it's healthy to be skeptical, but these guys have a lot of backup from prior reporting on this. And, you know, Gary Webb is reaching for it, and the real sad...

1:29:14 I mean, I'm not going to front run the ending of this book, but, you know, look, Gary Webb, Robert Perry, Pete Bruton, Terry Reed, those guys are heroes. And when they get to heaven, there is a special seat for that. There's a specially reserved seat at the table just for them, and they deserve it. And, you know, part of hopefully this, you know,

1:29:45 political and spiritual revolution that's going on right now is that we can kind of carry on their legacy and finish the work that they were doing and have something to hang our hats on and say they were right and not allow ourselves to get shouted down as conspiracy theorists when this ought to be plain spoken fact that it was reported in the front page of the New York Times back in 72. Right.

1:30:14 Renee, go ahead, and then we'll go to Miles. Yeah, hi. Just wanted to follow up, kind of add on to what all along was mentioning about the media. Out here in Siop Central, California, the Chandler family was big, big, big. They had hold of the L.A. Times from late 1800s until 2000.

1:30:37 And they had their fingers in all sorts of stuff out here, even the creation of the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach. So even the Black Dahlia, that whole story, I don't know if you all know anything about that story. There's theory that he's connected to that as well. So that family, and then lo and behold, we have, you know, in the Q post, Miss Rachel Chandler.

1:31:02 So anyway, yeah, I look forward to this book as well. Thank you. Just wanted to add that little media tidbit of the Chandler family. Thank you. Miles, go ahead. Good afternoon, Colonel. Media overload or information overload is a real thing. And I appreciate you and Warhamster getting us all caught up on what they were trying to hide in the past with these books. And I want to do a shout out to Ghost of Patrick Henry because...

1:31:33 He's putting a lot of hard work into looking into what's going on now. I mean, the combination of the two is keeping me positive that this is all in the right direction. So I think you'll agree that he's doing a pretty good job as far as I, you know, I don't know if, you know, he does have some, you know, opinionated stuff that he thinks is going on, but it's all really complicated. And I think it's.

1:32:02 That's for a reason. But I really appreciate you and Warhamster doing the job that you guys are doing. Thanks. Thank you. All along, go ahead. Yeah, picking up on the stuff about Los Angeles journalism, if that's not actually worn on by now, it should be. But the comments about the Chandler family are really dead on and sort of raised to the fore.

1:32:34 All cities are going to involve, like, dominant, you know, media families and whatnot. But because Los Angeles grew so fast from almost nothing, especially starting in 1915, literally, that those connections might be fewer and just more, you know, vulgar. I'm sorry. It's kind of windy here. I hope you can hear this.

1:33:03 But not really just more noticeable and perhaps visible corruption than, say, an eastern coast, you know, a few melodies like the Annenberg horse racing ride running the UPA journalism school sort of thing, you know. And hence, what's the point here? When it comes to key historical moments, like when New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

1:33:30 was assassinated by the CIA, the same organization that New York Senator Chuck Schumer covers up for and protects them from the population six ways from Sunday. That one. So when that happens, big media and a city like Los Angeles is going to coalesce real quickly. You know what I mean? And God did they. And that kind of explains one. And also, you know, of all the cities.

1:34:02 The CIA's relationship with the cops is strongest in Chicago and Los Angeles. Surprise, surprise. So it's just like that understanding of Los Angeles unique relationship with CIA is really important to remember. Well, it's not a coincidence that the LAPD had that.

1:34:25 arrangement with the CIA. And you go back to them keeping the files on all those people out there. We've tied the CIA to Los Angeles repeatedly. Alfred, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Hope you're doing well. Hey, I just had sort of a thought. You know, we were talking about how we all sort of grew up thinking that, you know, the CIA was here helping the country.

1:34:53 We saw the movies, they're the heroes, working behind the scenes, saving everybody and all this, when they're really like drug dealers and murderers. And it sort of struck me that that's kind of the epitome of the wolf in sheep's clothing. And I really wonder, you know, the connection with the Fabians. And then I started thinking about the Dulles brothers and the like. And I really wonder, these guys were just Fabians.

1:35:20 Well, they definitely are carrying out their work. Whether you can find them directly tied, they're an arm of the effort to set up the one world government. Illini, go ahead. I guess, Colonel, just as an extension from that with wolves in sheep's clothing and the fact that Washington, D.C.'s native language seems to be Lai rather than English.

1:35:50 I guess two questions for you. The one instance that I'm aware of where you can run all the facts all the way to the ground, all the way back to the witnesses, and you've got good chain of custody on it, and multiple witnesses said this happened, where there was an instance of Satanism was the Franklin scandal. I'm not aware of any others. Are you aware of any situations, number one, where these facts go to the ground, or number two, is there a way to connect Cecil Rhodes and the Roundtable groups?

1:36:20 Back to the British East India Company, which I have a feeling there's a link there somewhere, but I can't prove it. So Cynthia Chung's book probably does the best in linking the Fabian Society through Cecil Rhodes to the British East and West Indies. In her book,

1:36:50 Empire in Which the Black Sun Never Sets. We did that book over on Rumble a long time ago. And there are ties to it. They are tied, obviously, to South Africa and the destabilization of all of the countries attached to South Africa. As far as the Satan...

1:37:17 aspect of that. What's interesting to me is the connections that Liz Croken has made.

1:37:30 to all of these players, number one, since Renee just brought it up, the Chandler family, and that Maria Brabovich, or however you say her last name, with the, you know, the, whether they're actually, people will argue that the displays are, you know,

1:37:53 not real bodies of which people are around the table that there's some type of you know either pastry or whatever but they're literally looking like they're eating people very satanic in nature and that is all of LA that connects to all of the high rolling people Liz has done a wonderful job of kind of she's probably the most well versed in

1:38:23 how far out those tentacles go. But what's interesting to me, if you go all the way back to Hitler and the mysticism and the, believe me, I've read way too much of this crap. The Gnosticism, the sexual.

1:38:50 rituals to develop what they refer to as moon children conceived on particular days, delivered on particular days. It all has all of those, but has anyone ever... I don't think anybody would ever write a book about all of those connections because of exactly what happens to anybody that writes any of this stuff.

1:39:16 But the most recent exposure of that guy with all of that Satanism at the CDC was one of the most startling things to me. The guy in charge of the children's vaccine schedule is a Satanist. I mean, he broadcasts the fact that he's a Satanist. There's multiple pictures of it. And so obviously you cannot ignore that.

1:39:44 Because these people are hidden in many of the organizations that basically control us. Bridget, go ahead. Bridget, I can't hear you. I'll drop you down and bring you back up. Renee, go ahead. Yeah, Cynthia Chung also did a sub stack.

1:40:19 I don't have my hands free at the moment to post it in the purple pill, but she really goes into, I haven't seen, she goes so far back as the connection of the occult and Rome and, um, mafia and, uh, all the way back to, um, the Knights of Malta, the Dominican, um,

1:40:47 uh, the, the dominant in religious stuff and how it's all connected. And she goes into how it goes back and forth from Spain to Sicily, to Malta, to this, to that. And over history, she brings it all the way up to current date. And, um, what's interesting where I'm going with this, sorry, it's, it's so much information herself, her sub stack. I will post the link to it later when I'm steady, but, um,

1:41:15 The occult and the whole Fabian thing is connected to this because over this history and this timeline, there's Apollo worship. And the symbol of Apollo, the god Apollo, is the wolf. And it even goes through Versailles and France and Fabius Maximus.

1:41:36 The Maximilian family, the black nobility in Italy is also this Apollo worship and the wolf. And Fabius, hello Fabius Maximus, Fabian society and how it carries out in this occult and this darker side magic ritualistic thing and how she connects it to this.

1:42:01 The Mafioso, the first Mafioso based in Spain called the Gardunas and how that went in. They collaborated with Isabella and Ferdinand with the Crusades and everything. And it's fascinating. It takes you all the way to Albert Pike.

1:42:21 The Orient Lodge in Charleston and then the Mafioso Landon in New Orleans and the Knights of the Golden Circle, which is it all connects. But it's really fascinating. I will post that later for everybody. I definitely suggest everybody follow her. She does extensive research. She's brilliant. And, you know, I've talked to her. I've talked to I've appeared on Ghost and Matt's show.

1:42:50 And Matt has a private group that I've also spoken with via Zoom. Just amazing information. So thank you. All along. Go ahead. Yeah. Based on trying something you had said with what we had earlier said about Los Angeles. You know, I'm I'm probably at my least well read or just let's say I haven't read as much.

1:43:21 regarding the sort of intelligence-run mysticism and magic and whatnot. That in mind, I was reading kind of like a not very good biography of L. Ron Hubbard. And it's not like it was useless. It was pretty good chronologically. But one of the points he made was...

1:43:50 that seemed to be a pretty significant point in L. Ron Hubbard's career was when he stayed in Los Angeles at this kind of house that was set up by a kind of Los Angeles follower of Alistair Crowley, or what's his perverted name over there? Yeah.

1:44:17 It seems to have had a significant impact on him. And if you think about it, think about what the OSSCI has just coming out of World War II, a period of intense, on all sides, intense research and psychological warfare. That's where C.D. Jackson came from, and that's why he later got the War Commission. So it would be sort of interesting, given also Los Angeles is a key node in the...

1:44:46 entertainment journalism and political journalism overlap, I think that it would make good institutional sense for OSSCIA to establish some sort of centralized control over what would later seem completely arbitrary, totally weird shit, as it were. Well, we've talked about the guy, I don't remember his name off the top of my head, that was actually a CIA agent that was implanted in Hollywood.

1:45:17 He produced movies. He wrote movies. All basically put a different person's name on them. He was listed as a consultant. But they basically made CIA propaganda movies. The CIA has had someone in Hollywood for decades and decades. Yeah.

1:45:46 I mean, yeah, we know about that in Hollywood also, but I guess I wasn't clear enough specifically about the sort of kind of so-called occult linkage to intelligence and centralizing that and how it would make sense to do that in Los Angeles. Right. Because of the other links that are already there. Right. Right. It's another form of control. Bridget, go ahead. And if anyone believes that this was something in history and not current.

1:46:18 All you have to do is remember that during the COVID lockdowns, they believed that porn places, strip clubs were essential and that abortion clinics were essential health care. But you could not go in to see your family.

1:46:43 churches were not allowed to open or they were fined and persecuted at every cost. I mean, that's just the most obvious. Death and destruction and sickness is okay. And also, like, liquor stores were open, so liquor stores were open, so it's just closed. Right. Right. I mean, that's evil. That's showing you how they were trying to transform that hologram that we are in.

1:47:11 They thought they had better mind control than they actually did because they were trying to get us to accept that sexual gratification was more important than spiritual gratification. Yeah, good point. Okay, that's it for today. So I'll send out an invite in a little bit to the space tonight to go over.

1:47:43 Hyundai since I saw that. And I'll talk about the most recent post that the Trump administration made in regards to that as well. So stay tuned for that. Otherwise, I will be back here at four o'clock and we will dig into this book in earnest tomorrow. Thanks for being here, everybody.

Entities here

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Claims made here

CIA funded Contras book_quoted ▶ 4:48

“and funneled millions of drug profits to a Latin America guerrilla army ran by the U.S. CIA, a Mercury News investigation has found, unquote. The Dark Alliance story documented a network of collusion …”

Gary Webb exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 4:48

Maxine Waters exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 12:06

“funds to community groups and organizations. The time I spent investigating the allegations of Dark Alliance series led me to the undeniable conclusion that the CIA, DEA, DIA, and FBI knew about the d…”

Raphael Correjigo member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 24:02

“The series created such an outcry that California legislature had abolished the forfeiture program a few weeks later. But I knew what I would hear if I pitched the woman's story to my editors. We've a…”

Raphael Correjigo trafficked CIA book_quoted ▶ 24:33

“That got his attention. She said, yes, the CIA. He used to work for them. He's a Nicaraguan too. Raphael knows him. He can tell you. He told me the guy had admitted to bringing four tons of cocaine in…”

Gary Webb exposed Raphael Correjigo book_quoted ▶ 29:42

“with reputed ties to Nicaraguan drug traffickers and Panamanian money launderers, was among those indicted for conspiracy to escape. The story called him a longtime drug dealer who was convicted in 19…”

Daniel Blanton trafficked Contras documented ▶ 38:15

“who dealt dope for many years, started out dealing with the Contras, a right-wing Nicaraguan, yeah, they're not right-wing, give me a break, Nicaraguan guerrilla group in Los Angeles. He'd used drug m…”

Daniel Blanton member_of U.S. Department of Justice documented ▶ 50:25

“cooperated with and rendered substantial assistance to the United States, unquote. At the government's request, his jail sentence had been secretly cut twice. O'Neill then persuaded the judge to let B…”

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras documented ▶ 52:53

“And again, my tipster's description proved accurate, perhaps even understated. I found a 1991 story from the San Francisco Chronicle and a 1986 San Francisco Examiner piece that strongly suggested Men…”

Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed BCCI documented ▶ 54:18

“For the next six days, I sat with rolls of dimes and microfiche printers back in the good old days in a quiet wooded paneled library, reading and copying many of the 1,100 pages of transcripts and exh…”

Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed Contra-Cocaine Trafficking documented ▶ 54:18

Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed Manuel Noriega documented ▶ 54:46

“Years before anyone knew what that bank scandal was even about, they had found evidence in Manuel Noriega's involvement with drugs years before the invasion. Many of the Kerry committee witnesses, I n…”

U.S. Department of Justice covered_up Senate Foreign Relations Committee guest_asserted ▶ 56:04

“But the Justice Department, he said, had stonewalled the committee's request for information, and he had finally given up trying to obtain the records, moving on to other more productive areas. There …”

Iran-Contra Committee covered_up Contra-Cocaine Trafficking guest_asserted ▶ 57:03

“We were dumped on by the Iran-Contra committee. They wouldn't touch this issue with a 10-foot pole. There had to have been some reporters who followed this, I protested. Maybe I'm naive, but it seems …”

Washington Times covered_up Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 1:00:13

“When Brian and I were doing these stories, we got our brains beat out. People from the administration were calling our editors, telling them we were crazy, that our sources were no good, that we didn'…”

U.S. Department of Justice covered_up Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 1:00:13

Sun Myung Moon owned Washington Times host_asserted ▶ 1:00:44

“Anyone? Reverend Moon from the KCIA World Anti-Progress League? Right. Okay. Oh, my God. The rest of the Washington Press Corps sort of poo-pooed the whole thing, and no one would touch it. So we ende…”

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras host_asserted ▶ 1:02:35

“I also obtained the 1987 FBI interview with the San Francisco Contra supporter Dennis Ainsworth. We've come across his name a couple of times, in which he told of his discovery that Norwin Menendez an…”

Enrique Barundez trafficked Contras host_asserted ▶ 1:02:35

Norwin Menendez trafficked United States host_asserted ▶ 1:03:32

“I had friends in Central America who were killed. There was a Mexican reporter who was looking into one end of this and he wound up dead. So don't pretend that you know. If the Contras were selling dr…”

Oscar Blanton trafficked Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross host_asserted ▶ 1:07:26

“I don't have a lot of the details because the government has been very protective of him. They refuse to give us any discovery so far. But from what I understand, Blanton used to be one of Ricky Ross'…”

Oscar Blanton recruited Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross host_asserted ▶ 1:09:21

“I'll have him call you, and he hung up. Ross called a few hours later, and I asked him what he knew about Blanton. He said a lot. He was almost like a godfather to me. He's the one who got me going. W…”

Oscar Blanton trafficked Contras host_asserted ▶ 1:10:48

“correctional center. He knew nothing of Blanton's past, I discovered. He had no idea who the Contras were or whose side they were on. To him, Donella was just a nice guy with cheap dope. What would yo…”

Chandler family secretly_owned Los Angeles Times caller_asserted ▶ 1:30:14

“Renee, go ahead, and then we'll go to Miles. Yeah, hi. Just wanted to follow up, kind of add on to what all along was mentioning about the media. Out here in Siop Central, California, the Chandler fam…”

Chandler family funded Los Angeles caller_asserted ▶ 1:30:37

“And they had their fingers in all sorts of stuff out here, even the creation of the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach. So even the Black Dahlia, that whole story, I don't know if you all know anything…”

Dulles family member_of Fabian Society caller_asserted ▶ 1:34:53

“We saw the movies, they're the heroes, working behind the scenes, saving everybody and all this, when they're really like drug dealers and murderers. And it sort of struck me that that's kind of the e…”

Cynthia Chung exposed East India Company caller_asserted ▶ 1:36:20

“Back to the British East India Company, which I have a feeling there's a link there somewhere, but I can't prove it. So Cynthia Chung's book probably does the best in linking the Fabian Society throug…”

Cynthia Chung exposed Cecil Rhodes caller_asserted ▶ 1:36:20

Cynthia Chung exposed Fabian Society caller_asserted ▶ 1:36:20

Fabian Society targeted_for_regime_change South America caller_asserted ▶ 1:36:50

“Empire in Which the Black Sun Never Sets. We did that book over on Rumble a long time ago. And there are ties to it. They are tied, obviously, to South Africa and the destabilization of all of the cou…”

Liz Croken exposed Chandler family caller_asserted ▶ 1:37:30

“to all of these players, number one, since Renee just brought it up, the Chandler family, and that Maria Brabovich, or however you say her last name, with the, you know, the, whether they're actually,…”

Liz Croken exposed Maria Brabovich caller_asserted ▶ 1:37:30

Cynthia Chung exposed Knights of Malta caller_asserted ▶ 1:40:19

“I don't have my hands free at the moment to post it in the purple pill, but she really goes into, I haven't seen, she goes so far back as the connection of the occult and Rome and, um, mafia and, uh, …”

Cynthia Chung exposed Fabian Society caller_asserted ▶ 1:41:15

“The occult and the whole Fabian thing is connected to this because over this history and this timeline, there's Apollo worship. And the symbol of Apollo, the god Apollo, is the wolf. And it even goes …”

Mafia member_of Crusades caller_asserted ▶ 1:42:01

“The Mafioso, the first Mafioso based in Spain called the Gardunas and how that went in. They collaborated with Isabella and Ferdinand with the Crusades and everything. And it's fascinating. It takes y…”

L. Ron Hubbard trained Aleister Crowley host_asserted ▶ 1:43:50

“that seemed to be a pretty significant point in L. Ron Hubbard's career was when he stayed in Los Angeles at this kind of house that was set up by a kind of Los Angeles follower of Alistair Crowley, o…”