The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final)

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0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel. Good afternoon, Bridget. How are you? Good, good. Can't complain. And you? I'm doing awesome. Whatever you do, I just hit live over on Rumble. Whatever you do, do not go to Rumble today. Oh. Because you're going to die. I am literally sitting in paradise. Oh, no. The view is amazing.

0:32 I hate you. I know. I know. Anybody that goes to Rumble will hate me. But it couldn't happen to a better person. I'm just saying. Thank you. It pays to have friends that can afford beach houses. That's all I'm going to say. Amen. Amen. Yep. Crazy. Okay.

1:04 So this is the last show on Dark Alliance. We're going to go over the epilogue and then we'll open it up. So it'll be a short show today. We've got dinner tonight and we will start next week with our Venezuela book called The Corporate Coup. So it's going to be exciting.

1:33 Lots of people talking about Venezuela that aren't very informed. OK, but that's why we're here. All right. So let's go ahead and get started. Let me know if SR comes in. A few days after Gary Webb's resignation was announced, the CIA leaked the conclusion of an, quote unquote, investigation.

2:03 to the Los Angeles Times and, weirdly enough, the Mercury News. Supposedly, having conducted an exhaustive probe from unnamed sources, it had absolved itself from any wrongdoing. Anyone surprised? No. The reporters had no idea what the report actually said because that wasn't released. None of the officials...

2:36 who had leaked the results with no details. Just, hey, we didn't do anything. We did an investigation of ourselves and we didn't do anything. Don't you wish you had that luxury when it came to traffic tickets or stealing or murder that you got to investigate your own crimes? Yeah. Okay. So they dutifully reported their quote unquote leaked document.

3:07 that said there was no evidence the CIA knew anything about Daniel Blanton, Norwin Menendez, or freeway Ricky Ross. Gary Webb said, I tried to imagine what the reaction would have been had those same reporters gone to their editors with unnamed sources citing unobtainable results claiming the CIA was involved in drug trafficking. Journalistic standards can be wonderfully...

3:37 flexible when necessary. A month later, with the Washington press corps on a scavenger hunt for a dressed stain with President Clinton's semen, the classified version of the CIA report was officially released. It showed that the CIA had known exactly what Norwin Menendez was doing and had directly intervened in the Frogman case to prevent the public from learning.

4:04 the relationship between the CIA assets and cocaine traffickers. Naturally, those details went largely unreported. But CIA Director George Tenet was quoted extensively saying that the damage to the CIA's reputation may never be fully reversed. Quote, the allegations made have left an indelible impression in many American minds that the CIA was somehow responsible for the drugs in our inner city.

4:34 Unquote. Still, it was hard to avoid the impression after CIA Inspector General Fred Hitz, H-I-T-Z, appeared before the House Intelligence Committee in March of 1998 to update Congress on the progress of their continued internal investigation. Quote, let me be frank about what we are finding, the IG said.

4:57 There are instances where the CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have been engaged in drug trafficking activity, unquote. The lawmakers fidgeted. Quote, did any of the allegations involving trafficking in the United States, asked Congressman Norman Dix of Washington. Yes, was the answer.

5:27 And what it was asked had been the CIA's legal responsibility when it learned of this. The issue, the IG said, had a rather odd history. The period of 1982 to 95 was one in which there was no official requirement to report on allegations of drug trafficking with respect to non-employees of the agency. They were defined to include agents, assets.

5:55 non-staff employees. There had been a secret agreement to that effect hammered out between the CIA and U.S. Attorney General William French Smith in 1982. A murmur began coursing through the room as his admission sunk in. No wonder the U.S. government could blithely insist they had no evidence of contra-CIA drug trafficking for 13 years.

6:24 The entire time this was going on, that Blanton and Menendez had began selling cocaine in L.A. for the Contras, the CIA and Justice Department had an agreement to not address it. In essence, the CIA wouldn't tell the Justice Department and the Justice Department wouldn't ask. According to the CIA's IG report,

6:52 The agreement had its roots in something called Executive Order 12333, which Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1981. The same week he authorized the CIA's Operation Contra. Reagan's order served as his administration's rules on the conduct of U.S. intelligence agencies around the world. The new rules would be the same as the Carter administration's old rules, with one glaring extent.

7:23 There was a difference in how crimes committed by spies would be reported. There was to be a new procedure for the first time. The I.G. for the CIA noted the rules, quote, required the head of the intelligence agency and the attorney general to agree to agree on crimes reporting procedure. Unquote. In effect, the CIA now had a veto power on anything the Justice Department.

7:53 might propose. In early 1982, CIA Director William Casey and Attorney General William French Smith inked a formal memorandum of understanding that spelled out which spy crimes were to be reported to the Justice Department. It was the same as the Carter administration, but again, with one or two big differences. First, crimes committed by people acting for

8:20 An intelligence agency no longer needed to be reported to the Justice Department, like the monkey with the blind hands over his eyes, his mouth, and his ears. Only card-carrying CIA officers were covered by the requirement. Then, in case there was any doubt left, drug offenses were removed from the list of crimes that they were required to report altogether.

8:48 So, for example, if a cocaine dealer acted for the CIA, was acting for the CIA, was involved in drug trafficking, no one needed to know. The two CIA lawyers behind those rule changes insisted they did not occur through incompetence or neglect. They were carefully and precisely crafted.

9:17 The CIA attorney who negotiated the changes told the CIA IG that the issue of narcotics violations were thoroughly discussed between the Department of Justice and the CIA. Someone at DOJ became uncomfortable at the prospect of the memorandum of understanding, which not including any mention of narcotics. Daniel Silver, the CIA attorney who drafted the agreement.

9:46 said the language was thoroughly coordinated with the DOJ. The negotiations over the Memorandum of Understanding involved the competing interests of DOJ and CIA, Silver said. The DOJ's interest was to establish procedures while the CIA's interest was to ensure it protected CIA quote-unquote national security equities. Because it's a national security

10:16 need to drug Americans. As is now clear, the CIA's interests carry the day. So how did ignoring drug crimes by secret agents protect the CIA's national security equities? CIA lawyer Mikalka explained, quote, CIA did not want to be involved in law enforcement issues, unquote.

10:43 IF Magazine editor Robert Perry, who remains one of the few journalists exploring the CIA's drug issue, believes that Casey-French agreement smacks of premeditation. It was signed just as the CIA was getting into both the Contra project and the conflict in Afghanistan. He notes, and he noted, and it opened one very narrow legal loophole that effectively protected narcotics traffickers.

11:13 working on behalf of intelligence agencies. That could only have been done for one purpose, Perry argued. They were anticipating what eventually happened. They knew drugs were going to be sold. That, of course, the CIA denies. The admission that there had been a secret deal between the CIA and the Just Say No administration to overlook agency-related drug crimes

11:40 elicited mostly yawns from the news media. The Washington Post stuck the story deep inside the paper further back than they had buried the findings of the Kerry Committee Senate investigation in 1980s, which officially disclosed the Contra drug trafficking. The LA Times reported nothing. A notable exception to this trend was the New York Times.

12:07 which was leaked a few of the conclusions of the CIA's then classified investigation into the Contra drug dealing by Inspector General Fred Hitz. On July 17, 1998, it reported on its front page that the agency had been working with a dozen of suspected drug traffickers during the Nicaraguan conflict and the CIA higher-ups all knew about it.

12:35 Quote, the new study has found that the agency's decision to keep those paid agents or to continue dealing with them in some less formal relationship was made by the top officials at the headquarters, unquote, according to The Times. But unlike most New York Times front page exclusives, the CIA story was not slavishly snapped up by local TV networks or national media.

13:03 Once again, the LA Times found nothing newsworthy about it, and the Washington Post concurred. The release three months later of Hitt's 400-page report, filled with horrifying details of the CIA's collusion with drug traffickers, money launderers, and drug pilots, was treated as old news, despite the fact that most of the information had never been reported. Incredibly enough, the San Jose Mercury News decided that the report

13:32 actually exonerated the CIA and proved that no top CIA official was aware of the contra-trafficking, even though it said exactly the opposite. The lack of any visible public outrage to the CIA's confession that it had worked cheek to cheek with more than 50 suspected drug traffickers may have emboldened some of the CIA veterans of that time. A few months later, in December 1998,

14:00 When former pandemonium dictator Manuel Noriega appealed for a reduction in his 40-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering in early 1999, he came armed with influential witnesses. Donald Winters, the former chief of the CIA operations in Panama, Winters told Noriega's judge that the convicted doper

14:25 had performed valuable work for the U.S. government in Central America during the 80s and should give him a break. Though federal prosecutors called him an international drug trafficker and money launderer of unequaled proportions, Winters offered a much kinder description of him. Noriega brokered deals with South American leaders, acted as a liaison to Cuba's Fidel Castro,

14:49 provided details on guerrilla and terrorist activities, and even gave the former Shah of Iran a safe haven. There were specific instances when the U.S. government worked through General Noriega. There were major, major considerations, unquote, according to Winters. The former U.S. ambassador to Panama, Arthur Davis, testified that Noriega did a lot of good work for the U.S., but also for the people of Panama.

15:18 Noriega's judge apparently agreed, so in March of 1999, his jail sentence was slashed from 40 years to 10, making eligible for parole in less than a year. No one explained why, if Noriega had been such a great and valuable friend to the U.S., it had been necessary to invade his country, haul him to the U.S. in chains, killing scores of American soldiers and Panamanian citizens in the process.

15:45 Two weeks later, civil rights attorneys in Oakland and L.A. filed a class action suit against the CIA and the Department of Justice, charging that the secret 1982 agreement between CIA Director William Casey and the Attorney General William French Smith was illegal and led to policies protecting rather than stopping drug traffickers in crack cocaine.

16:10 Filed on behalf of the residents of half a dozen inner city neighborhoods ravaged by crack, the lawsuit argued that the agreement interfered with law enforcement efforts to thwart the importation of crack cocaine. As a result, the plaintiffs declared their neighborhoods gradually became unlivable, dangerous, impoverished, and inadequately supported by social services. Legal experts gave the suit little chance of success.

16:37 as the Christic Institute found out in 1986 when it brought its historical civil racketeering case against the CIA operatives running the Contra War in Costa Rica. The federal courts can be brutal when you try to fight it. One of the questions I have been asked many times since the story broke is this. Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may be,

17:07 is always the same. Not much, not now. And certainly not until the American public and its congressional representatives regain control of the CIA and shred the curtain of secrecy that keeps us from discovering these crimes until it's too late. Perhaps when the government officials who presided over these outrageous activity and their apologists and cheerleaders are buried with them, future historians can finally call these men to account.

17:37 for the miseries they cause. Even if that's all that ever happens, it will be fitting and just because the favorable judgment of history is ultimately what they crave. That's it. So he was completely exonerated in everything he said. And even as it was coming out finally, that everything he said was absolutely true. The Mercury News still did not have the courage.

18:11 to back him up. It's crazy how they will destroy people's reputation, lives, etc., etc. And then in hindsight, oh yeah, never mind. You were right. Yeah. Yep. I mean, they'll never get that reputation back. They'll never get... I mean, to some extent, Gary Webb is an exception to the rule, as are several other of these journalists that went against Green.

18:46 fought back, and published the truth no matter what. Safety be damned. Yeah. And supposedly, just so that you guys know, on December 10, 2004, Gary Webb died at the age of 49 in his Carmichael, California home, supposedly from two gunshots to the head that they ruled a suicide.

19:18 Of course they did. Yeah. I'm sorry, but you can't shoot yourself twice in the head. Not generally. You know, the second shot is always hard to make, I imagine. Yeah. And by that time, his wife, who had stuck with him through all of that, had divorced him as well. So he literally lost everything to include his life. And then they killed him. Yeah. I mean, that's just...

19:59 You know, and unfortunately, he doesn't go on to know that his legacy lived on and that it made a difference. Well, has it? We still have the CIA and they're still doing the same thing. We just know about it now. Yeah, but I think, you know, I don't know. Maybe I'm maybe having delusion, but I think with his story and just like with my brain just blanked out.

20:32 Operation Gladio author Paul Williams. You know, it gives other journalists courage to try, you know, and push back. But then again, you know, I mean, look at Danny Casolaro. I mean, Danny, you know, there's so many, so many that have been suicide or mysterious deaths.

21:05 In so many of these cases, you know. In just about one of them. Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, boy, wouldn't that be a book to publish? Yeah. Well. Right before they come and take you out. Yeah. I'm not publishing that book. I'll talk about it all day long on my podcast. Right. I'm not publishing that book. Right. It's interesting that you bring up.

21:38 Danny Kosseleric, because to me, the entity that he had labeled the octopus is exactly this. And of course, he, like Gary Webb, was working on real time information about the network, which was definitely.

22:06 they didn't want to have exposed. So there's lots of similarities between the two. Of course, they're not the only ones, but they're kind of like the go-to names to illustrate the point that it's very detrimental to your health if you want to expose the CIA. Amen. And even Marie Brussels.

22:38 I think I said that right. May. Died under. May. That's it. May. Spontaneous. You know. Yeah. Yeah. So. But. What's interesting to me. Is. We are living. This. Right now. It doesn't seem to matter. How.

23:14 evidence that you throw out there that points to the CIA and their machinations behind the scenes. No one wants to talk about them. You guys saw my response to General Flynn. And I understand that there's disinformation that is put out there. But the

23:43 calling for the overthrow of Venezuela as the world's largest narco trafficker. They're not even in the top five people, not even in the top five. It doesn't mean I like Maduro. I don't. I don't like what I read in the news about him or that I have read in books about him.

24:12 I understand, having read the corporate coup, that a lot of the information that is shared about him is in many cases flat out false. But it doesn't make me a pro-Maduro person to point out that every single thing they say about Venezuela is provably not true. The cartel de la Sol was not set up.

24:42 by anyone in Venezuela. It's a production of the CIA. The majority of the drugs coming through Venezuela may or may not be with the knowledge of the government because they had infiltrated the National Guard to do the drug run. They had set up, as we've disclosed over the last few weeks, of exposing the Freedom House.

25:13 The Freedom House was actively involved in Venezuela for years. The International Republican Institute that John McCain ran was actively involved funding this Mercado chick and Guaido that John Bolton wanted to regime change. So if you want to tell me that John Bolton is a bad guy, and he is, then...

25:42 How would you not concede that the operation that he was conducting could not have anything to do with the benefit of America? But he was the one behind the Guaido. Oh, my God, it's a bad election. And he's really the president and telling Trump to recognize him as a president that no one else did because they all knew it was a CIA coup.

26:07 And oh, by the way, we've got a Green Beret guy facing, he's already been indicted, facing a trial for being paid by what we have to know is the CIA to go in with a team and take out Maduro. He's going to go to jail, chances are, for having done something that he was told by the government needed to be done.

26:37 and was paid to do it. That's not okay. It's not okay when it was done to any other person. It wasn't okay when the UK was involved with the planning to overthrow Trump. We need to take a principled look at things and not just say, depending on who's in the White House, if something's good or bad. That's what the Democrats do. Everything about open borders and everything else is great.

27:09 When they're running it, they don't want any laws enforced or whatever. And when a Republican gets in, then they don't want any of the laws enforced. They don't want a closed border. You can't have situational ethics. It literally is the death of a country. Things have to be black and white. It's either the law or it's not the law. If you don't like the law, change it. If you can't change it, then you have to live with it.

27:37 That's how the country runs. You don't get to selectively enforce whatever law you want to. And one day it's okay for me to go to a school board meeting. And because we've changed president, now I can't go to a school board meeting and say what I want to say. That's the death of a country. That's how third world governments work.

27:59 I'm taking a principled stand. I'm saying I do not think the United States has the authority to overthrow governments. I actually don't think that it's a good idea to conduct economic warfare with a foreign country when it results in the starving of the people that are involved. The whole purpose of having a...

28:23 multi-thousand person State Department is for you to have diplomacy with countries that you agree with and that you don't agree with so that you never have to get to economic warfare, political warfare, or military warfare. And when you get to those things, you have failed. You have failed to be able to have an adult conversation with someone that you can

28:50 Trade with, even if you don't agree with the type of government that's running it. So despite all of the efforts of the CIA spending hundreds of millions of your tax dollars, somehow we ended up with Maduro. Was that a wise investment? No. How long? Go ahead. Yeah. You're talking about the literal.

29:26 function of diplomacy over here with the State Department and kind of what it's supposed to be doing, right? And, I mean, if we look at it historically, I mean, when was the last president who actually, you know, tried to do that and go against, you know, the CIA aspect of the State Department, which, as he correctly stated, you know, is a big part of the State Department because the CIA literally came from the Riga

29:56 within the State Department and Wall Street. And it's like JFK, obviously. I mean, he's saying, you know, with all of these enemies of Wall Street and the CIA, he's refusing to automatically assume that they are going to be enemies. He's daring to talk to the enemy again, not just in the Soviet Union, not just in Sukarno, not just in Congo, all around the world.

30:23 And even, you know, especially in Cuba, literally the moment of his assassination, he offended his own diplomat, the French journalist, Gene Daniels. He talked directly with Fidel Castro because he knows that he cannot trust the CIA. And, you know, he's Gene Daniels literally, you know, making that new detente with Castro at the moment of his assassination. And yet.

30:54 That's no fly zone, not just for the big media, but for the fake leftist that is not at all left, but rather protect the big media by doing everything possible to fragment any counter narrative if it actually threatens legacy media. Yes, I agree with that. What happened to Bridget? She got booted again. All right. You're back. Yeah.

31:43 Sometimes apparently I must be living right because they kick me out. That's crazy. Go ahead, Renee. Hey there, everyone. Happy Friday. Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't just trying to recognize a pattern here before. Remember when the week before Trump went in?

32:15 to North Korea. Wasn't he like blowing smoke on the news that he was going to do all this terrible stuff with, um, oh, good grief. Leader of North Korea, please. Kim. Yes. Kim Jong-un. Wasn't he kind of like, um,

32:37 bullying and saying, you know, he puts up this facade and we all think it's going one direction and the next week he was over there shaking hands with him. Yeah, talking about his buttons, if it actually works. Yes, exactly, exactly. And so I keep... You're cutting out, Renee. We had...

33:06 Well, no, I think it was this past May, Maduro was over in Russia. He went to their big event. And then last year, before Venezuela's election, Russia was over there flexing all in that, you know, by Cuba and in the waters over there. So, and he has an alliance with Assad in Syria.

33:35 you know, all the guys that were the boogeymen collectively, Iran, et cetera, so forth. So I don't know. I'm just hoping and fingers crossed that there's going to be a switch-o, change-o, and this is an operation to then shed the light on Colombia and stuff. Because it's so bloody confusing. And as we learned yesterday with the chapter you read of how the media is just,

34:05 flips everything around, doesn't allow the truth. The information war we're in is thriving and going strong. It's a perfect reiteration. That is exactly why we have to know the truth. We have to have principled positions.

34:33 You said it perfectly. We don't get whipped around the axle by the media. We don't get whipped around by the post, regardless of who they're from. I almost view this as a test to find out if enough Americans are aware of.

35:02 what's really going on in the world. If you throw out a piece of meat and the observant people notice that the meat is not fit to eat, while everybody else is rabidly running to the meat and fighting over it, I think, I view it as a test.

35:31 I'm not changing my principled position on the information that I know to be factual, that is well researched and sourced. So I don't get whipped around by this. I state the facts and I'm not going to agree with someone who is whipping people up into frenzied misinformation or disinformation because I know the truth.

36:00 And I was on Nino Rodriguez's show earlier today and I, you know, his going in position was, yeah, but they're dealing with Russia and China. And I said, why is that? This happens every single time. Go back to any of the coups that the CIA orchestrated. They cut everybody off economically. They cut them off politically and they cut them off in.

36:30 Every since militarily, they stopped trading with them. And it forces the government to go to near peer sources in order to feed their population, to arm themselves against what they know to be an imminent attack, whether it's covert or overt. So every single time we walk down this road, it has the exact same results.

37:00 You are pushing people into what we have been taught to view as enemy camps, China and Russia. Well, if you're doing that, how about you stop doing that? Do you know why Venezuela, who was our biggest trading partner in that area, stopped dealing with us? Because we cut them off.

37:25 decided that we were not going to trade with them. We decided that we were going to sanction every asset they had around the world. If you can't put, and I said this earlier, if you can't put your big girl panties on and deal with somebody as one nation state to another nation state, and you drive them into the arms of your enemy, you can't complain that they're in the arms of the enemy because you caused it.

37:55 makes no sense to me and we're 90 countries into this and the exact same thing happens every single time how about you stop doing it if you don't like it why are you go ahead okay I'm about to say something and I know I'm going to get so much slack on this because I always do when I say this okay

38:25 everybody brings up you know Putin's so scary he's KGB he's former KGB and all this other stuff um he he has a degree in in economics he and I believe he also I think he has a PhD in economics and I and he's a lawyer okay he he he's got I I fear his uh

38:49 pocket protector more than i fear his assassination of capabilities okay and and then on top of that i'm gonna say this about xi jinping um the ccp killed his father okay he he had a very strong relationship with his dad and the deep state of china killed him okay so

39:19 Those are the two things I'm going to take it for what it is. OK, I know I'll probably get some weird comments and people saying crap about me. But I'm just saying, like you said, we are being fed a line when it comes to these people. We don't know the facts about these people. We don't know what their true intentions are. And I'm not going to say anything other than that.

39:48 We just don't know. But I mean, I have, you know, I've done some research. I do not fear Putin. I don't think he wants to sit there and take over Ukraine and create a greater Russia, like everybody is saying. And as far as Xi Jinping, I've seen some movements in China to where, I mean, he's working really hard.

40:15 against the deep state there there are certain people there i mean i'm still i'm surprised he's still alive honestly so i'll just leave that at that acknowledging that every country has a deep state the environment in which putin rose to the presidency was a cia um infested um oligarch takeover of the

40:44 assets in russia and he disassembled their apparatus he implemented a version of farah and if you go back and you do any of the research you hear everyone in the united states

41:03 claiming that it was the end of a democracy. It was the end of the experiment in Russia for them to transition to a democracy. The whole sky was falling just because he refused to allow USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy and all of the other apparatuses that the CIA hides behind to come into Russia without registering. He didn't say they couldn't come in.

41:30 They couldn't come in without registering. And you see that play over in Georgia. You saw that play out in Hungary. You saw that happen in Venezuela. And every single time that the countries stand up for themselves and their sovereignty, they're attacked. Renee, go ahead. There you go.

41:56 There you go. Thank you. Thank you for pointing that out. So as far as us fearing China and Putin, that's been indoctrinated into us. Is that a reality? No. Go ahead, Renee. Yeah, thank you. Bringing China up, I found a hit upon something today, pretty interesting that relates to China and Colombia. When we went over.

42:25 in the chapter with, it's William Pauly, right? William Pauly and the Flying Tigers and Shanghai Sheck. Yes. When we were over way back when, did you ever bring up a guy by the name of Lachlan Curry? Does that ring a bell? Because I was digging because I am...

42:53 a strong advocate with you and the whole beef industry, US beef thing. So I've been digging in the Rockefellers and the cattle ranching in Brazil and following the money and stuff. And during that process, this guy, Grok brought up a guy's name, Lachlan Curry. And then I started investigating and I don't think Grok is right. But anyway, it led me to Columbia. And apparently at the time, well, back in World War II,

43:23 Lachlan Curry was an economist for FDR. And, you know, it's an interesting journey, but he's like a Canadian who became American, who was, as I mentioned, the economist for FDR. And then he went over to China for FDR and was hobnobbing around with Shanghai Shaq and his wife. And there's pictures of it and everything.

43:53 Okay, so cut to then he comes back to the United States. I just landed on this today, so I don't know all the dirt. But then all of a sudden he's back in the United States, and then he's working as the economist. He goes to Colombia, and he's setting up the whole financial thing in Colombia.

44:16 This cat went to Harvard. He went to the London School of Economics. You know, he's got all the, he hits all the bells, basically. But then he was somehow like caught spying or espionage. Then he gets kicked out of the United States. So he ends up living in Columbia and working out their whole banking system connected to the World Bank. Hello, Rockefellers.

44:43 and ended up dying there so but if i'm not mistaken he went to columbia as part of the world bank ah okay yeah i don't know but i was just like oh my gosh this guy absolutely has to be i mean what a kawankidank that he's over there with shanghai shek probably learning a little bit about the tricks of the trade maybe in the opium world and then he's over in columbia maybe

45:11 Giving some tips on the drug world. You never know. But I just found that pretty fascinating and thought I'd share since she brought up China. Yeah, he was in. Yeah, I have a few notes on him from when we were looking at Columbia during our world tour. He also was an aide.

45:38 to the chair of the Federal Reserve, which is where he got his, quote unquote, banking street creds from. So he was also, I think, yeah, even Wikipedia has this part. I'm looking at my notes with Wikipedia that he.

46:02 drafted what became the Banking Act of 1935. And you've heard Ward Hamster talk about how disastrous that was. And yeah, so he's been someone like William Polly, great example, that has operated behind the scenes with all of the credentials of the deep state. Yeah, so.

46:37 Yeah, very interesting that he had that relationship. So he would have been working hand in hand with, yeah, right here it says Claire Chenault. And yeah, he was intimately involved in the heroin trade at the time.

47:07 then he happens to be in Colombia much later on as part of the setting up of what's going to be eventually the cocaine trade. So, yeah, I don't think that's probably a coincidence. Yeah.

47:35 Great observation. Yeah, because it says he was actively involved in their government through the 80s, which is when they set up the crystal triangle. So, yeah. Thanks for bringing that up, Renee. Pleasure. It was on the on the quest of the cows and not the cocaine. Well, and so that's an interesting dynamic, though, isn't it? Because.

48:04 We understand why they do what they do. It's for the resources. So obviously in Brazil, the resources were largely agricultural. And that's why Nelson Rockefeller was down there. But they had other things, the Amazon and stuff like that. But it's always about the resources. And it just so happens that.

48:29 Colombia has many resources they coveted. They wanted the oil, they wanted the coca plants, and any place that they can set up covert operations for drugs, they're going to do that so that they can fund their covert operations and put this money in nefarious places.

48:54 in order for them to do whatever it is they do with it. Buy illicit arms, human trafficking, and all of those things that are primarily done in cash transactions. And the drugs fund a lot of it. Once you understand their operation, you trip over them in every research project you do. That's been the...

49:24 common denominator for all of these. And you will come across the same people, which is why I try as much as I can to put all of my notes electronically so I can just go on my computer and do a name search and come up every time I've seen these people in our research projects. Because you do stumble over the same people routinely. Okay.

49:56 Anybody else got any closing thoughts? I think this has been one of the most interesting, detailed books we've done that took us, I mean, obviously we spent months on the Golden Triangle and the heroine, and we spent months talking about

50:24 The Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey nexus to drugs. And this, I think, is one of the best books that illustrated from our perspective of looking at Operation Gladio and the drug trafficking aspects of it to.

50:50 reveal that in the one that we had just done about Columbia, the mechanisms of how that operation works and the complicitness. That's what I think this one does better than any of the other ones is it shows you it isn't just the CIA in the United States. It's the DOJ. It's the FBI. It's the DEA. It's the customs people. It's the immigration people.

51:20 They could not have done all of this without all of them being implicated. And God bless Gary Webb for doing all of the hard work that illustrates that this is an all-of-government approach with our deep state that corresponds with the deep state in every other country to orchestrate the destruction of our country.

51:49 And that's exactly what they've been doing. They've been destroying America year after year after year. And the very first president in my lifetime, and as far back as World War II that we've covered extensively, you have a president that is attacking them at the heart of what they do.

52:15 You just you can't understand history and not be excited about the time that we're living in, that we have a fighter in the White House. That does not mean that he is able to immediately rid all of these infested federal agencies.

52:36 of the rot that's inside of it. There's still a deep state element in each and every one of those organizations. And you see that played out every day. But at this point, it's impossible if you have a functioning brain not to see the rot. And I think that's different than any, because they don't control the media anymore. We have alternative media.

53:04 And I think that's why this is so different. And I'm just glad that we're all part of it. And obviously we couldn't do it without all of you and your additional research to add to the, because Bridget and I don't have any more time in the day. We literally could not do what we're doing without you.

53:31 Thank you again for being here. I know I get nauseated at saying that, but, or you guys probably think I'm overdoing that, but I am not. We literally could not do this without you. So keep the reposting. So this last week that we've been concluding this book, they've totally throttled my account again. It had broken.

53:59 free the week before. But I don't know what they're doing with the algorithms, but it like crashed this week. So keep up the good fight. Repost the information that you guys think is valuable for your own audiences to see. And we're going to keep trudging ahead. I appreciate it. Now, I do want to say this. I think it's hilarious. This is the one time.

54:29 where people should have been on rumble and we have the lowest number on rumble that we've ever had probably in like two years so um you guys are missing well i have an answer on this one okay even though i did post the link up in the pill on the megatron uh you accidentally ran it under your profile instead of the colonel's corner oh so it doesn't send out yeah i'll fix it after the show

54:59 Well, and put it where it needs to be and then it'll send out the alert. But I wonder why. I don't know. Every now and then it does that. And it's like so it doesn't send out the notifiers to everybody. Y'all are going to have a thrill when you see the setting that I'm sitting in. It is absolutely beautiful. It is this.

55:28 This guy's house is right on a canal that leads out to the Gulf of Mexico. Like literally the Gulf is like four houses down. So beautiful, beautiful setting. I'll take some pictures because he actually owns two houses here. The other house is even more amazing. And the views are of the Sunshine Skyway out off of his back deck.

55:55 I'll definitely post some pictures later on about that. Anyway, all right, we're going to enjoy our weekend here. Much needed weekend away from all the craziness. So you guys have a nice weekend. We will be back on Monday and that should be the normal four o'clock show. And then the rest of the week, we'll probably have our normal Monday and Tuesday.

56:23 And then I will try to squeeze in some evening shows while I'm on the road. But I'm not going to make any promises. Okay. Take care, everybody.

Entities here

CIA25 United States16 Lachlan Currie12 Colombia10 Venezuela9 China7 Soviet Union7 Gary Webb7 Operation Gladio6 U.S. Department of Justice5 Manuel Noriega4 San Jose Mercury News4 Nicolás Maduro4 Donald Winters3 Norwin Menendez3 Donald Trump3 Los Angeles Times3 William French Smith3 The New York Times3 Chiang Kai-shek3 William Casey3 Fred Hitz3 Cuba3 Panama3 Juan Guaidó2 Fidel Castro2 U.S. State Department2 Iran2 Brazil2 Bank for International Settlements2 World War II2 Rockefeller Foundation2 Wall Street2 The Washington Post2 Corporate Coup2 Korea2 Danny Casolaro2 Kim Jong-il2 Daniel Blanton2 Daniel Silver2

Claims made here

CIA covered_up Daniel Blanton documented ▶ 3:37

“flexible when necessary. A month later, with the Washington press corps on a scavenger hunt for a dressed stain with President Clinton's semen, the classified version of the CIA report was officially …”

CIA covered_up Norwin Menendez documented ▶ 3:37

CIA covered_up Operation Gladio documented ▶ 4:57

“There are instances where the CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have been engaged in drug t…”

CIA recruited Norwin Menendez documented ▶ 6:24

“The entire time this was going on, that Blanton and Menendez had began selling cocaine in L.A. for the Contras, the CIA and Justice Department had an agreement to not address it. In essence, the CIA w…”

CIA recruited Daniel Blanton documented ▶ 6:24

CIA funded Operation Gladio documented ▶ 6:52

“The agreement had its roots in something called Executive Order 12333, which Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1981. The same week he authorized the CIA's Operation Contra. Reagan's order served as his…”

Ronald Reagan funded Operation Gladio documented ▶ 6:52

William Casey headed CIA documented ▶ 7:53

“might propose. In early 1982, CIA Director William Casey and Attorney General William French Smith inked a formal memorandum of understanding that spelled out which spy crimes were to be reported to t…”

William French Smith headed U.S. Department of Justice documented ▶ 7:53

CIA covered_up Manuel Noriega documented ▶ 14:25

“had performed valuable work for the U.S. government in Central America during the 80s and should give him a break. Though federal prosecutors called him an international drug trafficker and money laun…”

Manuel Noriega spied_on Fidel Castro documented ▶ 14:25

CIA recruited Manuel Noriega documented ▶ 14:49

“provided details on guerrilla and terrorist activities, and even gave the former Shah of Iran a safe haven. There were specific instances when the U.S. government worked through General Noriega. There…”

CIA funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 20:32

“Operation Gladio author Paul Williams. You know, it gives other journalists courage to try, you know, and push back. But then again, you know, I mean, look at Danny Casolaro. I mean, Danny, you know, …”

CIA targeted_for_regime_change Venezuela host_asserted ▶ 23:43

“calling for the overthrow of Venezuela as the world's largest narco trafficker. They're not even in the top five people, not even in the top five. It doesn't mean I like Maduro. I don't. I don't like …”

John McCain headed International Republican Institute host_asserted ▶ 25:13

“The Freedom House was actively involved in Venezuela for years. The International Republican Institute that John McCain ran was actively involved funding this Mercado chick and Guaido that John Bolton…”

International Republican Institute funded Juan Guaidó host_asserted ▶ 25:13

CIA funded Juan Guaidó host_asserted ▶ 25:42

“How would you not concede that the operation that he was conducting could not have anything to do with the benefit of America? But he was the one behind the Guaido. Oh, my God, it's a bad election. An…”

Lachlan Currie worked_for Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 43:23

“Lachlan Curry was an economist for FDR. And, you know, it's an interesting journey, but he's like a Canadian who became American, who was, as I mentioned, the economist for FDR. And then he went over …”

Lachlan Currie worked_for Bank for International Settlements host_asserted ▶ 44:43

“and ended up dying there so but if i'm not mistaken he went to columbia as part of the world bank ah okay yeah i don't know but i was just like oh my gosh this guy absolutely has to be i mean what a k…”

Lachlan Currie worked_for Federal Reserve host_asserted ▶ 45:38

“to the chair of the Federal Reserve, which is where he got his, quote unquote, banking street creds from. So he was also, I think, yeah, even Wikipedia has this part. I'm looking at my notes with Wiki…”

Nelson Rockefeller operated_in Brazil host_asserted ▶ 48:04

“We understand why they do what they do. It's for the resources. So obviously in Brazil, the resources were largely agricultural. And that's why Nelson Rockefeller was down there. But they had other th…”