The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3

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0:00 Hey, guys. Hope everybody's having a great day today. Can I brag for a second that it's 84 degrees here? Yes, you have my permission to brag. Oh, my God. I'm so excited. I just love, love, love it. I've spent the whole day outside. I possibly might even have got a sunburn. And I'm loving it. I was working in my garden. It's only 76 here. Yeah. Missouri's kind of weird like that.

0:31 That's hilarious. Starting tomorrow is supposed to get 30 mile an hour winds, so we're back to garbage. But, hey, I'll take it, you know? That's right. Your dogs are probably loving it. Oh, yeah. I mean, it is so cute. They're just off the charts, you know? Having fun, grabbing the frisbee, wanting to play ball. Cool. Yeah. All right.

0:57 So we're going to get started. As you guys know, the first part of the show is the lesson out of the book. And then we open it up and we have a gab fest for the second half of the show. So hopefully you can stick around for that. Let me hit go live over here on Rumble and get that started.

1:27 All right. So as you know, just based on Operation Gladio and all that we know about it, that the oil is the primary resource. The International Syndicate seems to be after, although there's lots of them as far as the and just industrial minerals and stuff like that. And that in order to secure.

1:58 The operational control, they sell drugs so they can do covert operations like Operation Gladio in order to secure their monopoly on the resources. And when the covert operations aren't enough, then we go to war to protect the drug trade, the oil, whatever it is that they're seeking. So on with the story.

2:29 American Afghan policy from 1979 to 91 was dominated by propaganda that was fed to us about Iran being the big boogeyman in the Middle East. Brzezinski, President Carter's national security advisor, was spreading the fear that the Soviet Union was going to bust out of the Soviet Union and come down through the Iranian.

2:58 oil fields, and still all of the shit in the Middle East. So they were constantly, if you go back and look, and I actually did check some of the resources that the author was using, like a Newsweek article, wrote, this is the title of it, Control of Afghanistan would put the Russians within 350 miles of the Arabian Sea.

3:27 the oil lifeline of the West and Japan. So, as you can see, this is just more fear-mongering. And as we know, in the 80s, when the CIA entices the Soviet Union into Afghanistan using a false flag, that then perpetuates their already set-up narrative that Russia was on the move.

3:56 So that's what they do. And that's exactly what you see happening in Ukraine. So they build up the fact that Russia is the aggressor. And then they set the circumstances to make Russia come into Ukraine because they're killing ethnic Russians. And then they go, see, I told you so. They're the aggressor. When they would have never done that, had you not been slaughtering ethnic Russian people. It's a perpetual lie machine.

4:24 that manipulates and creates psyops for us to fall for in order to support these regime change destabilization efforts. Brzezinski would later write how the Soviet invasion precipitated a large-scale buildup of the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf because that's what it was designed to do. Because remember that

4:51 This is all about them making money off of the military industrial complex. So you get a whole bunch of Middle East oil countries that's going to exponentially increase their military supplies. And on top of that, anytime you're shipping weapons, weapons never get in totality to their end destination.

5:18 Because they use these pipelines of shipping weapons to harvest, skim, whatever word you want to use, weapons off of these shipments in order to put on the black market and sell to their terrorists. That's part of this entire marketing loop, if you will, on how this operates. And remember, we learned from going over Edwin Wilson's story.

5:47 that all of the shipping companies that the military industrial complex uses are all CIA proprietary organizations that they control. So they are making money off of the bullshit that they are creating. You have to understand how that whole life cycle works. Okay. This took the form of a...

6:16 Carter Doctrine that was published in January 1980, quote, an attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interest of the United States. So they've already set up the narrative because what they're going to do next is they're going to have someone attack that region.

6:41 This replaced the Nixon doctrine of relying on regional superpowers to maintain order, which had collapsed in the region with the fall of the Shah in Iran, which the CIA in the U.S. controlled. Seen from this perspective, Brzezinski's concern about Afghanistan was rendered urgent because of the power vacuum created by the fall of the Shah after the earlier British withdrawal from the...

7:09 Persian Gulf. And they didn't actually withdraw. They were kicked out. They were kicked out of almost all of the countries to include Iran when they tried to overthrow Mosaddegh in 1953. They later got back in when they reinstalled the Shah and overthrew Mosaddegh. So the U.S. did for the British. And of course, they were kicked out of the Egypt.

7:36 because of the whole Suez Canal and the fact that they were trying to kill Nasser. This concern is quite compatible with Brzezinski's later candid admission that he intended by settling in Afghanistan in 1979, before the Soviet invasion, precisely to induce Soviet intervention. The more concerned one was about the Soviet push south through Iran,

8:03 from a purely geographical perspective, the easier route to the Gulf, the more attractive it seemed that the alternative of tying the Soviets down in Afghanistan would be a better idea. Plus, Brzezinski's on record saying that he wanted to treat the Soviet Union to their own Vietnam, which is exactly what they did. But his argument for a Eurasia

8:29 geostrategy, Brzezinski is quite clear that what makes the region of Central Asia geopolitically significant is above all its importance as a potential economic prize. An enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves in the location in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.

8:54 Brzezinski noted that these oil and gas reserves will become even more important as the world demand increases. Many others have emphasized the strategic importance of these Central Asian energy reserves to the U.S. Speaking of Azerbaijan in 1997, President Clinton said the following, quote, In a world of growing energy demand, our nation cannot afford to rely on any single region

9:23 for our energy supplies. By working closely with Azerbaijan to tap the Caspian resources, we not only help Azerbaijan prosper, but we also help diversify our energy supply and strengthen our nation's security, unquote. They actually weren't interested in any of that. They were interested because the Azerbaijan pipeline from Baku actually went through Russia and Russia got royalties off of that.

9:52 What they were interested in doing is rerouting that pipeline, which they eventually did. And they used the instability of the Soviet Union and their aggression, quote unquote aggression, into Afghanistan as the justification for rerouting that pipeline, cutting off a source of funding for the Soviet Union and now Russia.

10:20 What's interesting about all of this was the routing around, basically cutting off Russia, both of the countries that used to be former Soviet in Central Asia, but also all around Europe. Their idea is to isolate Russia and destabilize it because they want a regime change there. His remarks, Brzezinski's, had echoed

10:54 were echoed by other authoritative sources to include a foreign military studies office at Fort Leavenworth, which is where the Army has their middle officer school. And it was published three months before the World Trade Center attacks. And I'm going to quote it. The Caspian Sea appears to be sitting on yet another sea of hydrocarbons.

11:22 Western oilmen flocking to the area have signed multi-billion dollar deals. U.S. firms are well represented in the negotiations, and where U.S. business goes, U.S. national interests follow. The presence of these oil reserves and the possibility of their export raises new strategic concerns for the U.S. and other Western industrial powers. As oil companies build pipelines from the Caucasus,

11:51 and Central Asia to supply Japan and the West, these strategic concerns gain military implications. The uninterrupted supply of oil to global markets will continue to be a factor in international stability. Now, let me explain something that we found out in this years-long study. The oil and the natural gas in Azerbaijan is not new, right?

12:18 We first came across Azerbaijan as this major crossroads and strategically important place to the international syndicate when we discovered, looking into the JFK assassination, that Alan Dulles first met George de Morgenschild in Azerbaijan, in Baku. George was like 10 years old at the time. His dad...

12:47 worked for a Swedish oil company, basically the Nobels. And he was arranging the sale of the oil field that the Nobels owned in Azerbaijan to a Sullivan and Cromwell Rockefeller entity that Alan Dulles represented. So Alan Dulles was over there to buy the oil field.

13:17 and met George, did the deal with George's dad and met George and then became friends of the family for decades after that. And it just so happens, like if you ever believed in coincidences, that George DeMorganshield is the star witness for Alan Dulles in the investigation or Senate hearings into JFK's assassination.

13:47 I, on the other hand, don't believe in any coincidences and believe the entire thing was set up and that it was a hit job with at least two OAS agents being part of Operation Gladio involved in the hit. So, moving on. This is not new. Other authors have made it clear that oil is an underlying U.S. concern in Afghanistan today. And let me make one more point before we move on.

14:19 The entire time the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union, we were getting oil out of Azerbaijan and Rockefellers was profiting off of it. This entire line of, oh, my God, it's coming from Azerbaijan and the Soviet Union may somehow cut us off and there's all of a sudden instability is, again, all bullshit. We were getting oil out of Baku, Azerbaijan for decades.

14:46 during the Soviet Union and never had a problem with it. The NSC energy expert, Sheila Heslin, told Congress in 1997 that U.S. policy in Central Asia was in, quote, to, in essence, break Russia's monopoly control over the transportation of oil and gas from that region, and frankly, to promote Western energy security through diversification of supply.

15:15 In other words, we're there to piss off Russia. And they didn't have a monopoly on the supply. The actual pipeline that went through there transited Russia, but it transited a whole bunch of other countries as well. The same double goal of retrieval and denial in reiteration one year later by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. This is about...

15:45 America's energy security, which depends on diversification. How about using our own? Isn't that diversified enough? No, we don't want to use our own because we want to use the quote unquote scarcity of oil to justify regime change and the forever wars. American oil companies, to include Unical, have since 1995 been united in a private.

16:15 Foreign Oil Companies Group, that's the name of it, Foreign Oil Companies Group, to lobby Washington for an active U.S. policy to promote their interest in the Caspian Basin. In other words, they want protection for their racket. Their meeting with Stella Heslin in the summer of 1995 was followed shortly by the creation of an interagency governmental committee to formulate U.S. policy towards the Caspian.

16:47 The conspicuous influence of petroleum money in the administration of oilmen George W. Bush and Dick Cheney was hardly less under their predecessors. A former CIA officer complained about the influence of the oil lobby during the Clinton administration. This is a quote. Hessling's sole job, it seemed, was to carry water for the exclusive club known as the Foreign Oil Companies Group.

17:14 a cover for a cartel of major petroleum companies doing business in the Caspian. Another thing I learned was that Heslin wasn't soloing. Her boss, National Security Advisor Deputy Sandy Berger, headed the Interagency Committee on the Caspian Oil Policy, which made him, in effect, the government's ambassador to the cartel, and Berger wasn't a disinterested player.

17:42 He held at least $90,000 worth of stock in Amoco, probably the most influential member of the cartel. The deeper I got, the more Caspian oil money I found sloshing around Washington, D.C., unquote. In the same period the U.S. interest in Afghanistan surged, Afghanistan became the world's major heroin supply. Indeed, one might have thought.

18:09 When the United States attacked Afghanistan in October 2001, it would be proclaimed as another chapter in the U.S. war on drugs. Both bin Laden and the Taliban had been named abroad as financed from drug traffic. Well, that makes sense because bin Laden was on the CIA's payroll, but not so much the Taliban. The Taliban had actually tried to eradicate opium, but whatever.

18:36 Russia submitted a detailed report on this and other aspects of the Taliban to the UN National Security Council in March 2001. But the U.S., according to Jane's intelligence review, chose not to act on any of the information. Instead, there was a virtual embargo in the U.S. on this aspect of bin Laden's al-Qaeda network that was being reported in France, England and Canada.

19:05 that the Al Qaeda itself was basically funded by drug trafficking, which, of course, is exactly what the CIA does to fund their Gladio cells, of which Al Qaeda was one of them. And I wish during all of this time, somebody would have been able to figure out that correlation. It would have made all of this a lot easier for us. And yet, as of September 2001,

19:35 The author could find only one sentence on this topic in a U.S. paper. It was buried deep in the middle of a long story in the L.A. Times. Quote, CIA officials say the underground network frequently crosses into gangsterism. One official cites ample evidence that bin Laden's group uses profits from drug trade to finance its campaign. Followers also have been tied to bank robberies, holdups.

20:03 credit card fraud, and other crimes, unquote, all of which is attributable to the CIA, of which bin Laden was part of. Gradually, the reason for U.S. silence became clear. We were about to use the Northern Alliance, which had just trebled opium production in their area that they controlled as a drug proxy to defeat the Taliban, which had just enforced a total opium ban. Get it?

20:36 CIA collaboration with and support for the Islamists, like bin Laden, date back to at least 1971, when the CIA joined Saudi intelligence in backing the Muslim Brotherhood, which was created by the UK, and its allies in the worldwide campaign against, quote-unquote, communism.

20:58 During the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, bin Laden became the financier and logistics expert in Afghanistan for the Saudi-backed Office of Services, an organization that, through the Muslim Brotherhood, recruited foreign volunteers from all over the world, including the United States. Actually, they tried to make them.

21:28 Because bin Laden is basically working for the CIA. They are using this as a rallying cry to create the follow-on terror boogeyman. And the Soviet Union provided that impetus by going into Afghanistan. And then there's this collection of jihadists.

21:57 which are actually just paid assassins of the CIA, not unlike the death squads in Latin America. And all of this falls in place because there was a lot of people in the 1980s, especially from the midpoint on, that had already saw all of the cracks in the Soviet Union and they knew that it was going to fall apart. So they were scrambling around to find another boogeyman in order to continue this perpetual covert war machine.

22:27 Called Operation Gladio and radical Islamic terrorism was going to be the next boogeyman. OK, there are repeated allegations that the CIA directly or through intermediaries assisted with recruiting for this Al Qaeda network. Well, of course they did. It's their network. Simon Reeves also heard from a retired CIA officer that U.S.

23:01 emissaries in Pakistan met directly with bin Laden and that it was bin Laden acting on the advice of his friends in Saudi who first suggested the Mujahideen should be given Stinger missiles. French and Italian newspapers alleged a contact between bin Laden and the CIA officer as late as July of 2001. Now, keep in mind, September, supposedly, he took down the towers.

23:31 The CIA is still working with him in July of 2001. Documented. So, again, every bit of this is terrorism on demand from these assholes in order to pass legislation, take away our rights, and control resources. It is striking that in an impressive way.

23:57 focus on bin Laden. No newspaper, to my knowledge, quoted from his 1999 biography by Yosef Bodansky, director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism. This is a quote. An up-and-coming venue for Islamist fun is a combination of the former Soviet states of Central Asia with Germany and East Europe.

24:26 Why is that significant? Germany and East Europe and Central Asia. That's where a whole bunch of the Nazis lived after World War II. Access to this seemingly unrelated group of states was made possible through bin Laden's building a relationship with the Russian mafia, more like the Soviet Union mafia. This connection

24:54 is becoming extremely important with the vast expansion of the Afghan drug trade. As the sums of money available from the drug trade have increased, bin Laden and the mafia have established yet another complex money laundering operation. These funds are used to finance the Taliban movement and a host of Islamist terrorist operations. Bin Laden makes a commission on the transaction, which is laundered by the Russian mafia,

25:24 in countries other than Russia and Afghanistan. Now, keep in mind, this is bin Laden's biography, which is a CIA agent. So, of course, he's going to blame the Russian mafia. Whether or not that's true, I don't know. But we know emphatically that the CIA controls all drug networks. They have for the last 70 years. So this could be planted misinformation, blaming, but.

25:53 I say that only to follow it with this. If you go and look at the players in Russia in the late 80s and early 90s that were working with William Browder and Edmund Safra to sell out under privatization all of the resources of Russia until they got caught.

26:21 and Sergei Magnitsky got assassinated, that put an end to their stealing all of Russia's resources by the West. There were mafia-type people that would be willing to sell out their country because they were doing it with Bill Browder and Safra. So you could come down on either side of that argument, but my...

26:52 My job is to give you both sides of that. Were there mafia type people in the 80s in the Soviet Union? Absolutely. But all of the Soviet Union, not just Russia, and they were disloyal to their fellow Russians in the fact that they were selling them out as the Soviet Union crumbled.

27:16 to the likes of Bill Browder and the hermitage fund that he ran with Safra's money. So just be aware that both of those things are possibilities. Why in this situation did the U.S. and its dutiful media not document that this war and the drug aspect of it in the media? Because the CIA controls the media.

27:48 The primary U.S. target at first was not bin Laden, but the Taliban, who by 2001 had already responded to U.S. and U.N. demands that they halt the opium cultivation, which they did. The ban imposed by the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, in July 2000 resulted in 70% of the world's illicit opium production wiped out overnight.

28:19 The drug proxy allies were the Northern Alliance who responded to the Taliban ban by increasing their output. But they were working with the CIA and the Taliban were not as pliable, if you will, to the CIA. So they wanted to turn them off and turn on the other people.

28:45 The U.S. was not waging a war on drugs, in short, but a war helped buy drugs. It is true that the previous Northern Alliance had controlled less than 5% of the opium traffic compared to the Taliban's 80%, but even before the onset of the U.S. bombing, that was changing. In October 2001, it was reported that while poppy cultivation was almost totally disappearing,

29:11 from the areas of Afghanistan under Taliban control, a rising tide of narcotics, both opium and heroin, was being refined and flowing out of the northern area of Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance. The subsequent article in the London Observer attributed this shift in supply to the ban by the Taliban.

29:33 During the ban, the only source of poppy production was territory held by the Northern Alliance. It tripled in production. In the high valleys, an area controlled by troops loyal to the former President Rabbani, the number of acres planted last year jumped from 2,000 to 6,000. Alliance fields accounted for 83% of the total Afghan production of 185.

30:03 tons of opium during the ban. Now that the alliance had captured the rich poppy growing areas, the production was going to skyrocket even more. In short, the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001 was accompanied by restoration of opium for the world market, a creation of what happened with the earlier U.S. intervention in 79 and 80.

30:32 And before that, with the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. And we can conclude once again that the Brookings Institution expert wrote that the U.S. intervention in 79 and 80, quote, drug control eventually became subordinated to larger strategic goals. Actually, it was actually part of the goal. So that's crazy. As in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

31:04 or Laos in the 1960s. Our principal proxy in 2001 and 2002 during the Afghan war was a dominant element in regional drug traffic. In Colombia also, we were fighting a war supposedly on drugs, but in fact financed by drugs. There was a drug proxy, the corrupt Colombia army, and its even more corrupt paramilitary auxiliaries.

31:33 In 2001, Colombian government sources estimated that 40% of Colombian cocaine exports were controlled by paramilitary warlords and their trafficking allies that had been set up by the CIA. Meanwhile, the amount controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the FARC, which was the target of our war on drugs, was estimated to be less than 2%.

32:03 So just so that you guys as a refresher, because I know we have a lot of new people. The whole Columbia thing was like everything else. You have the drug traffickers and you have the U.S. oil companies that are backing the CIA and their drug traffickers because they're all in this together. And there's lots of oil in Columbia, by the way. And they went in.

32:32 Also, United Fruit was there and all kinds of other Rockefeller oil fruit ventures. They went in and did what they did in all of Latin America. They're going to create an elite group of people. And they do that by putting a lot of money out. And they buy off government officials.

32:56 to do land deals that basically steal the land from the farmers and give it to this designated elite group of people. And the elite group of people are going to be the ones growing the opium. And they're going to try to enslave the people who used to own the land to farm the opium. Well, guess what? Those people don't like to do that. And they get pissed off.

33:25 Well, they form their own paramilitary. Well, in order to combat the legitimate landowners and their rebellion against the CIA coming in with the oil companies and basically disrupting everything and changing everything and enslaving them, the CIA goes in and creates their own paramilitary gladio forces. Now you have one paramilitary group.

33:56 That is not organic. And they are the actual insurgents into that country. They are fighting the indigenous paramilitary that are more like a militia that gather together to repel the invaders. But what our government did, both to the military that relies on CIA intelligence, they said,

34:26 That the good people that were just protecting their land and wanted their land back and basically formed their own militia, they are saying that they're the insurgents. But they fucking own the country. It's their country. They're not insurgents. They're the native people of the place. So then they say they're insurgents. So the U.S. creates these counterinsurgency forces.

34:55 Bladio, military, whatever, to go in and kill the indigenous people that just want their shit back. This is the same story that's repeated over and over and over again. People who lived in Colombia because their media was co-opted by this entire thing were all brainwashed to believe.

35:19 Because a lot of them that lived in the city didn't actually know these people that were out in the militias in the countryside. And that's the reason why they have to own. That's why USAID goes in. One of the first things they do is buy up all the media or create their own and start brainwashing the population. There are people who have lived through this entire thing and have no idea that the militia are actually the good guys and the CIA is hiding behind.

35:46 these Gladio operators that are out there assassinating. Because every time one of the militia people are killed, they were deemed as a communist or something else. And any time that one of the CIA operatives or the actual Gladio people were murdered by the militia, it's the communists killed them. So we're going to have to beep up security, whatever.

36:13 And we need to get our head wrapped around that literally everything about our history is asked backwards. So just a little tutorial there, because when you when we go through the rest of this, it's going to make a lot more sense. OK. All right. The oil aspect of the Colombian conflict was also very conspicuous. The origins of the current U.S. presence in Colombia can be traced back to 1984.

36:48 one year after the discovery by Occidental Oil of the billion-barrel Kenyo Limon oil field in 1983. A concerted U.S. propaganda campaign was mounted in 1984 against alleged drug trafficking by conspiracy involving Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Colombia narco-guerrillas,

37:18 and traffickers in the Medellin, notably Carlos Lader and Pablo Escobar. So let's break that down. The Nicaraguan Sandinistas are the good guys. They were not trafficking drugs. The narco guerrillas are the militia that I just described to you. They're not trafficking drugs, 2%. And most of that was because they were co-located.

37:48 with farms, and it was the only way they could feed their family. And the traffickers in the Medellin and with Pablo Escobar, they all worked for the CIA. This campaign distorted the truth in two respects. It falsely implicated the FARC, and it rewrote history in the references to the Medellin cartel and its competitors, the Cali.

38:18 who were closer to the army and national security apparatus than they ever were to the narco-gorillas. But it led to national security decision directives of 1986 and 1989 that created the U.S. military presence in Colombia, and it was all directed out of South Com. Consider also the pattern of drugs and oil that emerged in Southeast Asia following the victory of the Chinese Revolution.

38:49 and the exile of the KMT army to Taiwan. The U.S. drug proxies in Laos, including the Hmong, the Laotians, and former KMT armies were all major drug traffickers. The KMT army were also principal agents in building up the Laotian drug production from an estimated 50 tons to 150 tons in a little over 10 years.

39:19 Oil, especially the offshore oil deposits in the South China Sea, helps explain the general U.S. interest in Southeast Asia. They had everything. They had rubber trees for the rubber plantations for Goodyear and Goodrich. There were so many resources in Vietnam. So in the speeches of Americans like Nixon, who defended or lobbied for an increased U.S. presence in Southeast Asia,

39:49 The U.S. presence in Vietnam and a part of CETO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, before it was defined as a shield protecting anti-communist forces in Indonesia. One of the most industrious lobbyists was William Henderson, who was simultaneously an officer in the American Friends of Vietnam.

40:19 and an advisor on the international affairs of Socony Mobile Oil, who was a major oil investor in Vietnam. Imagine that. And all of these American friends of wherever, those are all basically CIA fronts. They use, just again for the new people, these American friends of Vietnam basically...

40:49 collect the immigrant population in America. And they pretend to represent them as lobby firms in Washington, D.C. Actually, they don't do anything of the sort. They use this as a CIA front to get in contact with...

41:07 former residents of countries that they're going to do operations in, and they convince them that it's in their best interest if they want to be citizens or get their green card or whatever. They literally bribe them, both with money and perks, to be interpreters for CIA front companies that are going to be put back into that country, like in Vietnam. When they went back into Vietnam, they were in...

41:33 the 50s and 60s, they use the immigrant population through these great sounding organizations as interpreters and as spies. They pay them to go back to their indigenous country and live there and rat everybody out. So the fact that this guy was a part of that organization and then also an advisor to an oil company, not surprising.

42:01 The 1970 U.S. incursion into Cambodia followed aerial surveys of Cambodia offshore waters by Navy planes following the Union Oil of California, now UNICAL, established in Thailand by 1963, who had acquired a concession for all of the Cambodian oil, both onshore and offshore. So again, we went in and killed millions.

42:31 in Cambodia. Millions with Pol Pot. By overthrowing their government, installing Pol Pot, millions died for oil. Okay, when the CIA began its covert involvement in Burma in 1950s, local opium production was in the order of 80 tons a year. Ten years later, thanks to the KMT warlords, Chiang Kai-shek,

43:01 Supported by the CIA and Civil Air Transport later turned into Air America, the region produced 400 tons. I can't even imagine 400 tons. It went from 80 in 10 years to 400 tons. That's crazy. During the Vietnam War, production at one time reached 1,000 tons.

43:29 200 tons a year. That's freaking nuts. By 1971, there were also seven heroin labs in the region, one of which close to the forward CIA base in Ban Hoi Se in Laos. It was estimated that they produced 3.6 tons of heroin a year. Now,

43:58 Not only does that feed the black market heroin mafia ran distribution, it also feeds big pharma. With the wanting of the Vietnam War, opium production in the Golden Triangle had also declined. In the case of Laos, it plummeted from 200 tons in 1975 to 30 tons in 1984. Heroin consumption in the U.S. also declined, although the decline in

44:30 Laotian production had been attributed to a drought, a related factor was clearly the increase in cultivation in the so-called Golden Crescent, which had moved basically to Afghanistan. And they increased theirs from 400 to 1,200. They basically kind of just reversed roles.

44:53 This coincided with the number of political developments in the region, including the increase in Pakistani support for Afghan resistance movements, because Pakistan was involved in all of this. Their ISI is the one that got all of the CIA money to put into Afghanistan during the Soviet conflict. And they were skimming money off of that. They built the heroin processing labs.

45:19 on the Pakistani side, so they controlled a lot of the flow. The decline in the U.S. heroin consumption also occurred in the context of an increase in other areas, notably Europe and Australia. In the case of Australia, the first major drug imports were financed by none other than Nugent Hand Bank. It was organized by veterans of U.S. Special Forces and CIA in Laos. We found out, as you guys know, that

45:50 Michael Hand, CIA guy, fellow veteran, and then the board members and the branch managers were, in most cases, retired general officers. It's crazy the amount of military that they had. And it doesn't seem the other owner, besides the CIA guy, was a lawyer. It doesn't seem to.

46:18 have any bankers in the entire banking business because they weren't banking, they were money laundering. The bank combined drug financing with arms deals and support for CIA covert operations in areas related to Africa. The Australian surge occurred just as Richard Nixon created the war on drugs.

46:48 which we know wasn't a war on drugs. It was a war on the CIA's competition of drugs. The U.S. military intervention in Colombia has also been accomplished as predicted in 1991 by a dramatic increase in coca production. These boosts are cumulative and up to now, not permanently.

47:18 reversible. The U.S. Bureau of Narcotics reported in 1970 that the illicit opium production at that time was between 1,250 and 1,400 tons, more than half of it coming from the Golden Triangle of Burma, Laos, and Thailand, which before World War II accounted for just over 47 tons. By 1999, the UN put the opium production of Afghanistan alone.

47:48 at 4,600 tons, or 70% of the world's crop. The strengthening of the global narcotic traffic has fueled other smuggling and related criminal activities, leading to the consolidation of an international criminal trade. The Chinese triads, the Japanese Zazuza, the Russian gangs, and the Mafia of Italy, the Mafia of America,

48:18 and Columbia have now combined into a worldwide criminal consortium that had continued to grow exponentially. Delegates to a global crime conference in November of 1994 were informed that organized crime generated $750 billion a year. Many of these illicit dollars ended up

48:45 in markets institution and businessmen, as well as politicians' back pocket. Writing in 1997 of his experience in exposing BCCI, Senator John Kerry concluded that today globalized crime can rob the U.S. not only of our money, but also of our way of life. We can take his words as prophecy now fulfilled. Although al-Qaeda and the Taliban might appear on the surface to exemplify a clash,

49:12 Their activities were paid for, as noted above, by heroin and coordinated by the CIA. At the height of the Vietnam War, with inflation threatening to wreck the domestic program for a great society, Lyndon Johnson relaxed the import quota system that had been introduced by Eisenhower to protect domestic U.S. oil production. This increased U.S. vulnerability pressure by OPEC oil.

49:42 Yay, Lyndon B. Johnson. The US handled the quadrupling of oil prices in the 70s by arranging a secret agreement with the Saudis to recycle petrodollars back into the US economy. The first of these deals assured a special and ongoing Saudi stake in the health of the US dollar. The second secured...

50:05 continuing Saudi support for the pricing of all OPEC oil in dollars. These two deals assured the U.S. economy would not be impoverished by OPEC's oil price hike. The heaviest burden would be borne instead by the economies of less developed countries. From these developments emerged a twin phenomenon, underlying 9-11, the U.S. unilateralism, on the other hand, and...

50:35 the global third world indebtedness on the other. The secret deals increased U.S.-Saudi interdependence at the expense of international stability and has been the basis of the U.S. prosperity since World War II. They also increased Saudi's leverage on U.S. policy. It was seen in 1979 with the sale of F-15 fighter planes to Saudi against strong Israeli opposition.

51:03 In particular, they explained why George Bush moved so swiftly in 1990 to counter the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to U.S. Saudi security in the Gulf. The threat was not just that the U.S. itself would lose oil from the Gulf, against which it was partially insured by a redundant supply from other sources. A bigger threat was that Saddam

51:31 would become the dominant power in the Persian Gulf, directly controlling 20% of OPEC production and 25% of the world oil reserve. The U.S.-Saudi deals also increased U.S. dependence on oil and drug-funded Arabian assets, such as BCCI.

51:50 which in the 1980s became a chief paymaster for the anti-Soviet Afghan Mujahideen and even ran arms directly from Karachi. And it says the failure of the U.S. government to investigate and prosecute BCCI reflected not only the extent to which they were in bed with BCCI, but also U.S. economic dependency on the petro and narco dollars.

52:18 As a former NSC economist commented, Treasury Secretary James Baker didn't pursue BCCI because he thought a prosecution of the bank would damage the U.S. reputation as a safe haven for capital flight and overseas investments. That's horseshit. He didn't invest.

52:38 investigate BCCI because it was a CIA laundering operation that was making them rich because James Baker was part of the Carlyle Group along with George H.W. Bush and the Saudis had part ownership in the Carlyle Group and they were making bank off of all of the wars. So the more the military industrial complex generated military items, the richer they got.

53:06 Because Carlyle Group, if they didn't own the company right out, owned significant percentages of stock in all of the military industrial complexes. So they set themselves up with a private equity firm that for every war they create, they get richer. That's literally what they were doing. So that's probably a good place to stop.

53:38 And we will start there tomorrow. The next thing is going to be the wars, basically talking a little bit more about the international drug trade and how that all falls into place. Go ahead, Bridget. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. That's fine. I got to think, while you're going through all this, okay, you know they make up Boogeyman.

54:09 And then when that boogeyman runs its course, they have to renew a new boogeyman. And we've watched this in our studies over and over and over again. And all of a sudden it just hit me because they say the easiest way to get a rumor started is deny it. Okay, whatever it is that you want to become a rumor. Do you remember when Barack Obama, the big all over the headlines, all over the news, would not say Islamic?

54:40 or domestic Islamic terrorism or something along those lines. Right. It's like that was the moment they began that campaign. I am convinced of it because that was the intention. That was, you know, for by him coming out and not saying a word and the media then having their script to run with it in order to propagate.

55:09 the Islamic terrorist. They had to have a name for the new boogeyman. Well, that adds to it, but the boogeyman was created well before Barack Obama. It was created in 1991 during the Iraq war. That was long before Barack Obama was even thought of as a political contact. But I understand your point. And what they do do in a propaganda campaign like...

55:39 Obama when he decided that it wasn't ISIS anymore, it's ISIL. His deflection, which to your point of these terms are a repetitive way of putting things in people's brains. So by denying it, which is your point, it gets talked about a lot more. And it's a way of programming people to

56:07 except the fact that it is and what it is, as opposed to questioning why it's even there in the first place. Exactly, exactly. Well, like I said, a renewing or refreshing of an old boogeyman. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. SR71? Thank you, Colonel. I want to tell everyone thank you for attending. Thank those people in our Rumble channel as well.

56:39 But what's amazing here that's getting to me about this book, Colonel, is everything you've mentioned in this book so far, they have gone through the timeline that we have already covered. Every bit of it. Yours in much more detail, though, to say the very least. And it only goes to show that had I read this book first, I would have never have gotten the true picture. Correct.

57:09 Ida said, okay, this happened, that happened, this happened, that happened, but never connected the dots with it. Correct. And I think that's a blessing for all of us here in your series. So thank you, Colonel. Thank you for bringing that up. Because, again, this is a point, and thank you for setting that up, SR-71. We didn't even coordinate that. This is a point that I've made repeatedly. There are...

57:37 a ton of books that I read before I ever knew anything about Operation Gladio. I have went back and reread several of those books. They are completely different books if you understand Operation Gladio. Now, the thing that this book does probably better than any of the rest is the interlacing of the oil aspect to what we already know.

58:04 And while we have looked when we did our around the world tours, I actually looked into what people's countries natural resources were, because that's always why we do this. So we did discover, as SR 71 points out, that oil was involved. This is one of the only books that have woven the drug aspect along with the oil aspect and what we call Operation Gladio. He just refers to as a war.

58:33 Because most of those wars are covertly done, not overtly done, and have elements of Operation Gladio in them leading up to an actual armed war like we had in Afghanistan and in Iraq. There's a lot of Operation Gladio that goes on before that ever gets a full-blown war. And that goes right along with what we read yesterday.

59:02 about the national security memorandums that Brzezinski came up with that says, we would much prefer to do covert wars funded by black ops, opium, drug sales, and avoid the war altogether. They want to keep these things separate, but they like having the military as a backup when they are not able to do covertly what they really want to get done. Carrie, go ahead.

59:33 Yeah, Colonel, first I just want to say that, and then I have a question. I just want to say that Islamic terrorist and terrorist ideas are extremely, extremely old. So my question is, I'm running into this thing, maybe it's just my brain, how it works, I don't know. But the strategy of...

1:00:04 Do you have any tactics that I could use to not be a part of that? I don't even know what your question is. My question is, so when I'm talking to people or yelling at someone on Twitter and I'm diametrically opposed.

1:00:36 To what they're saying. I don't. Want to come at it. From. Being like a helper. Of the international syndicate. And Operation Gladio. I don't want to feed. Their strategy of tension. But I don't really know. What else. The only thing you can do. On social media. Is give them facts. Because.

1:01:06 facts, if you're talking to a rational person, levels the playing field on an emotional perspective. Unfortunately, most of the people that you encounter that are outside of the emotional realm that would fit your definition of strategy of tension there are not actual

1:01:35 level-headed people. They are either bots or they are people that are trying to farm engagement. And you have to walk away from those kinds of people after you list the facts as it relates to whatever they're saying that's stupid. As I have said many times, what you say online is not just read to the person you're addressing. It's read by

1:02:05 Hundreds, if not thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people that watch that interplay, that exchange of ideas. And so you have to take five minutes and put the facts out there. If they respond emotionally, stupid, psychotic, you just block them and move on. You don't play into their emotional bullshit.

1:02:33 they come back and give you counter facts, then you can, you know, have a dialogue with them that everybody's going to be better off as a result of. Thank you. That's really good advice. I just end up calling them all kinds of names like fucker. Yes, I know. I've read some of your posts. War Hamster, how are you doing? Hey, Colonel, how are you? Good. You know, you said something, I tuned in about 20 minutes in, but it's something I think I've heard you say before.

1:03:12 You mentioned the United Fruit Company and you mentioned in the same context with the Rockefellers. Now, I have done a ton on the United Fruit Company and Banana Republics, and I've never made that direct connection, although I do say all roads lead to the Rockefellers. So I'm wondering where you got that connection. Or did I hear that wrong? You did not hear it wrong. They are connected. And I will.

1:03:36 Look through my books. I have the source that basically says that through the there was an American fruit company and a Boston that they were the majority shareholder, although I think they only ended up with 40 percent. But the other parts of it was obviously much smaller than 40 percent.

1:04:04 And it was not a commonly known fact. But I can't remember if it was in one of the Sullivan. I've got that Sullivan and Cromwell, the law book that they wrote. But I do have the source that it was a Rockefeller company. Yeah, I appreciate it. I've always tied it closer to the DuPonts and a couple of other families that would end up aligning with the Rockefellers later on.

1:04:31 But what you said doesn't shock me. I just had never sourced that. So if you find it, I'd love to hear it. I'd love to read it. Yeah. And as a matter of fact, the company, was it in New Orleans? Yes. Yeah. That was tied very closely to it. There was some drama associated with that one as well. So, yeah, I'll find out where that's at.

1:04:58 Yeah, they're all tied into the shipbuilding and everything like that. We've been over that. You know, I did a whole video on the United Fruit Company. Again, that's why I said, because I did not make the connection, although it doesn't come as a shock. Yeah. Nothing about this is shocking anymore, right? If they did something honest, it would be shocking. Yeah. And I was surprised.

1:05:21 about the Boston Fruit Company and its shipping, the actual ships that it owned and how they tied in to a lot of CIA activity as well. That really did surprise me. But anyway. Well, it makes perfect sense. I mean, that just ties into why they did the Panama Canal. I mean, it completely all ties together. It saved them a boatload of money.

1:05:55 Yeah. All right. Stellar, I see you there. What's going on? Stellar in the house. Stellar in the house. Oh, my gosh. I'm such an idiot. I was in an accident the other day and totaled my car. Oh, no. Oh, my. No. Okay. So I was. Well, I'll go into that another time.

1:06:17 I ran into a pole and if it would have been a couple of inches over, I don't think I'd be here right now. So that's, they put a pole in a state park. Yellow in the middle is where they have the two lines and they put a yellow metal pole up there, but the road was more narrow and they had a ditch on the other side and they had the orange cones there. It was, sun was going down, but yeah. So I told out my car, so I bought a new one.

1:06:46 What'd you buy? Do you really want to know? I do. I bought a Maserati. Holy shit, girlfriend. Oh my God. Is real estate that good out there?

1:07:02 I didn't buy a brand new one because they go down too fast, but I found one that was like two years old. It has already depreciated 65%. So I got $130,000 or $120,000 car for probably about $35,000. And I still have the manufacturer's warranty. There you go, girl. Good for you. That's awesome. I mean, not the accident part, just the car part.

1:07:31 I really want my Esther back. That's what I called her. My Mercedes was called Esther. And I am very glad that you were not injured or not gravely injured, I should say. The airbags didn't even pull up. That metal bar was huge. It was a thick one. I didn't even see it. That's the thing that's so bizarre is I never saw it. You know, all the warning signs were for the ditch that they had because they're putting one of those metal strips in so that they can pop your tires.

1:08:00 And so they were putting that in. And so you can see the orange on the other side, the narrow, the road lane was really narrow. There was no emergency line thing. So it's not like you can scoot over to the right, you know, but I didn't even see the pole because they put it in between the two. They had two yellow lines. And so, yeah. And so I literally, I ran over the freaking pole and my car was so heavy that it.

1:08:25 Dented it. They removed it from what Trey said today. There is no pole there anymore. I guess they realize that there's a problem. You probably ought to sue them. Okay. So also it must be a thing about Las Vegas because when they had guard out there last weekend, Red Pill 78 got married out there and they had a wreck too. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Why didn't he call me to marry him? I'm a freaking officiant. I'm joking.

1:08:55 Yeah, that's what I was doing. I just married someone out there and I was on my way back home because I sold a house because I am doing real estate. Yeah, real estate is starting to pick up. So I've got a couple listings. I'm still I sell home warranties. That's my real job. But for whatever reason, I'm doing better with real estate now. So I don't know. Cool. My clients are using my home warranty. So I guess in some respects, it's doing OK because there you go.

1:09:27 What did you say, Bridget? Nothing like multitasking, you know. Multitasking. Multitasking. Yep. Dangers of multitasking. I agree. All right. Do we have anything else anybody wants to say? I've got a bookshelf coming together. Cool. I'm ready for it. I've got, I don't even want to show anybody the piles of books. So my bookshelf that Bridget bought me is.

1:10:03 I'm going to do it for five seconds so you guys can go back and look at the video. But if you look, this is my desk of the books that will not fit in the bookshelf that I just got from Bridget. There's like 30 books here. So I definitely need my second shelf. And then once I have that, I can make my...

1:10:34 studio out there look a little better. We'll do some videos from out there. Well, it's a two-step finish, and luckily the first part went on perfectly. It's sanded down. I'm ready for the second part, which goes on tomorrow. Yay! Go ahead, SR71. Thank you, Colonel. Excuse me. I just want to add to Warhamster's comment concerning

1:11:06 money being the root of it all. When you get to that point, if people here haven't been following the Colonel and War Hamster series on Skull and Bones, I'd highly recommend you listen to the last one that just came out. Some very good twist in there concerning our political environment and what's going on today. And I thought it was very good, Colonel.

1:11:35 Thank you. Thank you. It is a lot of fun doing it. I have to say. And for me, we do not talk anything about who he's going to bring up. And we go through like today. He told me it was going to be the Buckley's like 30 minutes before the show. So me, you guys can see as soon as I get the text, I go running across the yard.

1:12:04 I go into my studio where Bridget's bookcase is and I start pulling off. And I told him before we started, I start pulling off the books that I think based on because there's so many of them now that I've read that it would have talked about William Buckley because of his role. Like, I know that he was involved in the.

1:12:31 the JFK thing from the E. Howard Hunt that they were both in Mexico and I'd read about the Godfather part. And so I'm looking through all the ones that I think it's in and he's not in any of those. For example, the World Anti-Communist League, the part that I read about that, he went to meetings of the World Anti-Communist League and I pulled off the book about Inside the League that we went through.

1:12:55 He's nowhere even mentioned in that book. That's why I tell you guys, we could not ever do this if I just read five or six books. You have to have read all of these 80 different books to come at it from all of these different angles and get all of this different information. So what's interesting is I grabbed the books that I thought he would be in. And do you think he was in the books that I thought? No.

1:13:21 I had to go back out there and he was in books like The Great Heroin Coup. I'm like, what the hell? And then, you know, of course, you heard what I was saying on the show about it. Yeah, it was just kind of one of those funny stories that he ends up showing up in all of these other aspects of.

1:13:44 literally on the peripheral of so many different things. Just fascinating. And I didn't know he had two other brothers. I knew he was Skull and Bones just because I've read a lot about him. But I find the shows as fascinating as everybody else does. And weirdly enough, they completely cross over into Gladio like a million times in a show. So lots of fun. Did you want to say anything, Warhamster?

1:14:12 I thought the hidden character was really, really great. So anyone who wants to find out what's going on, go listen to that. Yeah. Did you want to say anything about that, Warhamster? Yeah, I appreciate the kind words and always thank you for watching and listening. What's a lot of fun for me is if you watch how I'm doing the presentation, I'll pause, strategic pauses, you know, about 20 times during the show because I know I just...

1:14:42 queued up something that the Colonel is just going to knock out of the ballpark because it's, you know, I've watched so much of, you know, a lot of us have heard her speak so much and, you know, it's just every single time my research points, I go, okay, I'm going to, that's going to be a pause. So in my notes, I actually have like a bunch of dot, dot, dots to remember to pause because it just queues her up perfectly because there is just so much crossover between the stuff that I've researched and stuff she has. Yeah. Just, I love doing shows with you.

1:15:12 Sunshine, go ahead. I was just going to say, you know, you reading over these 80 books, you know, on this subject, I don't know how you run and find the books so quickly, you know, remembering what's in each one of them. I mean, your brain has got to be amazing the way you...

1:15:38 I can't even think the word now. See, I'm crazy. But forget it. Just the way you have it all memorized and know exactly which book to go to and, you know, which one says this and which one says that and who's in this one and who's in it. It amazes me. Well, fortunately for me, the way my brain works is.

1:16:12 I'm going to share something very personal with you guys. I make fun of my two sisters all the time. They're like compulsive about cleaning and organization. And I make fun of them all the time. I'm not compulsive about any of that kind of stuff. I'm compulsive about learning. So when I...

1:16:37 come across something that I don't understand. And I pride myself on kind of having a wide range of information, which literally goes from aircraft maintenance to economics. Okay, so I have a broad background. But when I get...

1:16:59 a hold of something, I'm like a dog with a bone. I'm not going to let go of it. And that has been true about every aspect of learning for me. I'm not like that about anything else. I'm pretty much laid back. I don't give a crap. But about learning and when I find something that I feel has been hidden from me and I can't figure out why, again, I'm persistent. I'm not going to let it go.

1:17:28 That's obviously monopolized a lot of my time over the last couple of years, only because I get motivated by the realization that so much of our history has been stolen from us. And as a result, we have.

1:17:51 I mean, even me personally, the things that I sacrificed during the time that I was in the military, you know, birthdays away from my kids, trips, missed graduations and stuff like that. You gladly do when you think you're doing it for the better of your country. But when you find out that they basically spit in your face, that kind of pisses me off.

1:18:17 I have a completely different motivation than most people would that have just come across this and are kind of nonchalantly, you know, buying a few books to learn about it. That's not me at all. So you guys are seeing my one and only, not probably not my one and only, my biggest kind of compulsive, whatever that.

1:18:47 Whatever that is that I laugh at my sisters about. Well, I'm giving you flowers for your compulsion because, you know, without that, none of us would know what we know now. Thank you. Thank you, Sunshine. Yeah, I knew immediately that, and Bridget was back at the very beginning, I knew immediately that as soon as I found it, that I had to share it.

1:19:17 I and I knew that I had been prepared for that by being an instructor for four years in the military to put things together in a fashion that makes sense to people like normal everyday language, not the way some of these other people talk, just conceptually putting it out there so people can understand it. And then once I dug into it and I found that so much of it kind of.

1:19:45 um, overlapped my career, it was almost like, um, and, and I told, I was very honest with Bridget and those guys, um, that I felt the fact that I had, um, been in the military, that I had achieved the rank of Colonel to be our spokesman of the group that we had back then, that it would, it would ring, um, truer.

1:20:13 It would come across with more credibility. But, you know, that comes at a cost as well because we couldn't afford to be wrong about anything either. So you had to double check, triple check. We've not gotten every single thing.

1:20:31 correct. There has been things once or twice that we've had to delete because they were not. Even though we source them in a book and other things, we find out that it's not exactly the way it appeared, which goes back to checking the credibility of all of these authors. So we did have some learning experiences along the way.

1:20:53 But it has been a labor of love, obviously. I want to share with everybody what our real history is so that we can all be informed citizens. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel. I just want to say that I'm really happy that Stellar is okay. And I love Stellar. And the other thing is you're a genius, Colonel. Just face it.

1:21:27 I'm not a genius. I think you're a genius. I put you in that space. And the other thing is, I think you might need to build another level to your shed. We're not building any more levels. The shed's fine. I just need another shelf. So far. Is your birthday coming up? My birthday's in April.

1:21:58 I should all know when my birthday is. When is my birthday? Oh, my God. I don't know. April 19th. Huh? Isn't it April 19th? Yes. Because they didn't kill everybody. Come on, guys. I've only said that a million times. That's Waco. That's the Oklahoma bombing. They love killing people on April 19th. It's some window into a 10-day period of satanic bullshit.

1:22:28 It pisses me off that that's my birthday, but it is. Oh my gosh, that's so funny. And yes, you are a genius because you also, and you're probably an artist too, like everyone else in here, because we all notice pattern recognition. We have the pattern recognition when it goes off. But yes, Colonel Towner, you are a genius. All of you guys are. Yeah, well, I don't consider myself a genius. I do consider myself able to recognize patterns. And that is what helped me initially.

1:22:59 in discovering Operation Gladio and the concept steps. And this is just taking everybody else's information. I didn't find, I didn't create any of this information. I am collating other people's information into a usable format to present to you guys. The real geniuses are people like Antony Sutton and Paul Williams and Danielle Ganser and...

1:23:27 I'm going to begrudgingly put Doug Ballantyne in that category too, who did all the legwork. They flew all over the world. Professor Polgrain with his research in Indonesia. Those guys spent years of their lives doing the research. It is a lot easier for me to sit back in my comfortable house or lay it in my pool and read these books.

1:23:52 collate them into meaningful presentations for you guys and recognize the patterns from all of them.

1:24:03 I appreciate you guys' sentiments. I love all of you. You guys know that. I consider us all a family at this point. But all I am doing is being a conduit for a bunch of very, very smart people that have spent years and thousands of miles traveling to get this information for us firsthand. But I do think that your tax dollars paid for me to learn.

1:24:32 how to collate this information, present it to you guys in a user-friendly way. And it's just my way of being able to pay you guys back. So anyway, enough of that sappy crap. All right. Wait, wait one second. But Colonel, you traveled all over the world too. I know, but I didn't. You collated too. Some other.

1:24:55 idiot wouldn't put any of this together. So I do that part of it to be able to collate all of the different people's because that is a very interesting part of this. Just like I said, inside the league, the guys that wrote that book did yeoman's work, but the fact that

1:25:18 You have a guy like William F. Buckley at, and they had access to the rosters because that book is full of who attended what meeting and when in order to give the broad brush of who all was affiliated to have someone like William F. Buckley, who was CIA at.

1:25:40 world anti-communist league meeting and not bring that up is just kind of like, what the hell? So those types of things I do think are important that you have to have multiple books to be able to do that. And because not everybody's going to find every thread. And then unless they republish the book, they're not going to be able to update the information in there. So it does do a lot of good.

1:26:09 Because we're looking at books, you know, back that some of the books were written in the 1960s, some of them in the 70s, some of them in the 80s and 90s, and then some, you know, as recently as within the last 10 years. So it does give us a broad brush of information that we're able to look at and put all the pieces together. But again.

1:26:33 Half of this information, half of these books sitting here came from you guys and books that you had read. You guys in DM send me pictures of screenshots of pages of books. And then you give me the title so that I know whether or not I want to buy them so I can do some research on them. And a lot of the information came from you guys. So I'm just the big mouth that gets to talk all the time.

1:27:02 Colonel, can I add to something you just said? You just talked about some of the books are in the 70s, some of the 80s, some of the 90s. Well, I've been reading these type of books probably since the late 80s, early 90s. And I think one of the things we've all found is that 30 years ago, we had some pieces of the puzzle, and then someone else will discover a few more pieces. And then a few more 20 years later, and all of a sudden you go back to what you'd read 20 years prior.

1:27:30 And it makes more sense because you have more pieces of the puzzle. And that's the beauty of the day and age we live in today. You know, what I always call Gutenberg 2.0, this incredible enlightenment. We've got access to so much information that we never had before. And now we've got this gigantic community of people that can share information and group source it. And it's so much easier. You know, let's say we had 20 or 30 percent of the puzzle and could maybe guess what the rest of it was 20 years ago.

1:27:58 Now we can draw the entire mosaic, and it's a beautiful thing. I enjoy it. Every single day when I pull myself away from work and just start doing research, it's like, aha, I thought something like that was true 20 years ago, and now I know it is. And speaking of that, all of the declass that has happened between then and now, there is a lot of information out there that they did not have available that we do. Yeah, FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act has been a beautiful thing.

1:28:27 It really, it really has. I mean, they may stone, they stonewall so much and they over classify everything. So if they release a thousand pages, we get 20 pages of information, but that's 20 pages we didn't have before. And somebody is going to put the pieces together. Yep. Agree with all of that. All right, guys, we're out of here. Oh, Sunstein, go ahead. I was just going to say one more thing about, I mean, your, your books and stuff.

1:28:52 Um, I obviously, you know, I've read some of the books that you've suggested to me and everything, and I still have a pile of them to read, but for others that are down below and Warhamster, you too, um, you guys would be wonderful for you guys to put a thread together of, you know, books for people to, you know, suggestions for people to, you know, purchase for themselves, for their own collections, for their own studies, you know?

1:29:23 So I agree with you and I have been meeting and I'm going to promise you that as soon as I get off of here, I'm going to carry the stack of books that I just stole out of my bookcase out there back out to my cottage studio. And I'm going to take a picture of the bookcase so that you guys can see all of the books. You can see what the names of all of them are. I have them.

1:29:50 The top shelf of the bookcase is like my number one books. And I have like the top five or six over on the far right-hand side in its own little cubby because of the beautiful work that Bridget did on the bookcase. And then the rest of them, other than the top shelf, are just in alphabetical order by the author. I will add to that.

1:30:18 On the shelf, once I get that, the rest of the books, there are some books that are in there that were just not necessarily books that I would recommend, but books that I read to flush out other topics that I came across that I didn't understand. But you'll see the entire collection in the photograph.

1:30:46 minus the ones that I haven't read that I still have in the house here, only because I don't want to recommend them until I've read them and I know whether or not I can trust the author. I'm very picky about that. So I'm going to walk out. I will post that picture in a few minutes. All right, we're out of here. Thank you all for being here. I really appreciate it. And I will see you tomorrow at four o'clock. Oh, no, I won't. Hold on.

1:31:20 Tomorrow we're traveling. So I will probably, if I can get away while we have the baby tomorrow morning to do a show, I will do it. Otherwise, it's going to be after we stop for the evening on our way up. We're going to stay just north of Jacksonville on our way to Savannah. So it will not be at four o'clock tomorrow. So I'm just telling you ahead of time. Sorry about that.

1:31:48 Worst case scenario, we'll do it on Saturday, but I think I'll be able to squeeze it in tomorrow. All right. Thanks, everybody, for being here.

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Afghanistan25 United States25 CIA20 Soviet Union17 Operation Gladio15 Osama bin Laden14 Vietnam11 Zbigniew Brzezinski9 Colombia9 Taliban9 Laos8 Saudi Arabia8 Central Asia7 Iran6 Azerbaijan6 Rockefeller6 Caspian Sea6 United Fruit Company6 Taliban opium ban5 Northern Alliance5 BCCI5 Al Qaeda4 George H.W. Bush4 Persian Gulf4 War on Drugs4 OPEC4 FARC4 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan3 U.S. intervention in Afghanistan (2001)3 Sheila Heslin3 Foreign Oil Companies Group3 Russian Mafia3 Richard Nixon3 Barack Obama3 United Kingdom3 Allen Dulles3 George de Mohrenschildt3 Baku oil fields3 Robert Kennedy assassination3 Middle East3

Claims made here

Zbigniew Brzezinski appointed Jimmy Carter documented ▶ 2:29

“American Afghan policy from 1979 to 91 was dominated by propaganda that was fed to us about Iran being the big boogeyman in the Middle East. Brzezinski, President Carter's national security advisor, w…”

Zbigniew Brzezinski ordered_assassination_of Soviet Union book_quoted ▶ 8:03

“from a purely geographical perspective, the easier route to the Gulf, the more attractive it seemed that the alternative of tying the Soviets down in Afghanistan would be a better idea. Plus, Brzezins…”

Allen Dulles member_of Sullivan & Cromwell host_asserted ▶ 12:47

“worked for a Swedish oil company, basically the Nobels. And he was arranging the sale of the oil field that the Nobels owned in Azerbaijan to a Sullivan and Cromwell Rockefeller entity that Alan Dulle…”

George de Mohrenschildt exposed Allen Dulles documented ▶ 13:17

“and met George, did the deal with George's dad and met George and then became friends of the family for decades after that. And it just so happens, like if you ever believed in coincidences, that Geor…”

Allen Dulles spied_on George de Mohrenschildt host_asserted ▶ 13:17

Sandy Berger headed Interagency Committee on the Caspian Oil Policy documented ▶ 17:14

“a cover for a cartel of major petroleum companies doing business in the Caspian. Another thing I learned was that Heslin wasn't soloing. Her boss, National Security Advisor Deputy Sandy Berger, headed…”

United Kingdom founded Muslim Brotherhood host_asserted ▶ 20:36

“CIA collaboration with and support for the Islamists, like bin Laden, date back to at least 1971, when the CIA joined Saudi intelligence in backing the Muslim Brotherhood, which was created by the UK,…”

Bill Browder laundered_money_for Russian Mafia host_asserted ▶ 25:53

“I say that only to follow it with this. If you go and look at the players in Russia in the late 80s and early 90s that were working with William Browder and Edmund Safra to sell out under privatizatio…”

Edmond Safra laundered_money_for Russian Mafia host_asserted ▶ 25:53

CIA founded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 33:25

“Well, they form their own paramilitary. Well, in order to combat the legitimate landowners and their rebellion against the CIA coming in with the oil companies and basically disrupting everything and …”

Operation Gladio carried_out_attack Colombia host_asserted ▶ 34:55

“Bladio, military, whatever, to go in and kill the indigenous people that just want their shit back. This is the same story that's repeated over and over and over again. People who lived in Colombia be…”

USAID funded Colombia host_asserted ▶ 35:19

“Because a lot of them that lived in the city didn't actually know these people that were out in the militias in the countryside. And that's the reason why they have to own. That's why USAID goes in. O…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change Sandinistas host_asserted ▶ 36:48

“one year after the discovery by Occidental Oil of the billion-barrel Kenyo Limon oil field in 1983. A concerted U.S. propaganda campaign was mounted in 1984 against alleged drug trafficking by conspir…”

Occidental Petroleum funded Cienaga-Limon Oil Field documented ▶ 36:48

Pablo Escobar member_of Medellin Cartel documented ▶ 37:18

“and traffickers in the Medellin, notably Carlos Lader and Pablo Escobar. So let's break that down. The Nicaraguan Sandinistas are the good guys. They were not trafficking drugs. The narco guerrillas a…”

CIA recruited Pablo Escobar host_asserted ▶ 37:48

“with farms, and it was the only way they could feed their family. And the traffickers in the Medellin and with Pablo Escobar, they all worked for the CIA. This campaign distorted the truth in two resp…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change FARC host_asserted ▶ 37:48

Kuomintang trafficked Laos host_asserted ▶ 38:49

“and the exile of the KMT army to Taiwan. The U.S. drug proxies in Laos, including the Hmong, the Laotians, and former KMT armies were all major drug traffickers. The KMT army were also principal agent…”

William Henderson member_of American Friends of Vietnam documented ▶ 39:49

“The U.S. presence in Vietnam and a part of CETO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, before it was defined as a shield protecting anti-communist forces in Indonesia. One of the most industrious lo…”

William Henderson member_of Socony Mobil Oil documented ▶ 40:19

“and an advisor on the international affairs of Socony Mobile Oil, who was a major oil investor in Vietnam. Imagine that. And all of these American friends of wherever, those are all basically CIA fron…”

American Friends of Vietnam front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 40:19

CIA recruited United States host_asserted ▶ 41:07

“former residents of countries that they're going to do operations in, and they convince them that it's in their best interest if they want to be citizens or get their green card or whatever. They lite…”

Union Oil Company of California funded Cambodia documented ▶ 42:01

“The 1970 U.S. incursion into Cambodia followed aerial surveys of Cambodia offshore waters by Navy planes following the Union Oil of California, now UNICAL, established in Thailand by 1963, who had acq…”

United States installed Pol Pot host_asserted ▶ 42:31

“in Cambodia. Millions with Pol Pot. By overthrowing their government, installing Pol Pot, millions died for oil. Okay, when the CIA began its covert involvement in Burma in 1950s, local opium producti…”

CIA supported Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 42:31

CIA supported Kuomintang host_asserted ▶ 43:01

“Supported by the CIA and Civil Air Transport later turned into Air America, the region produced 400 tons. I can't even imagine 400 tons. It went from 80 in 10 years to 400 tons. That's crazy. During t…”

Nugan Hand Bank financed_via Australia host_asserted ▶ 45:19

“on the Pakistani side, so they controlled a lot of the flow. The decline in the U.S. heroin consumption also occurred in the context of an increase in other areas, notably Europe and Australia. In the…”

Michael Hand member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 45:50

“Michael Hand, CIA guy, fellow veteran, and then the board members and the branch managers were, in most cases, retired general officers. It's crazy the amount of military that they had. And it doesn't…”

Richard Nixon founded United States host_asserted ▶ 46:18

“have any bankers in the entire banking business because they weren't banking, they were money laundering. The bank combined drug financing with arms deals and support for CIA covert operations in area…”

Nugan Hand Bank front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 46:18

John Kerry exposed BCCI documented ▶ 48:45

“in markets institution and businessmen, as well as politicians' back pocket. Writing in 1997 of his experience in exposing BCCI, Senator John Kerry concluded that today globalized crime can rob the U.…”

CIA funded Al Qaeda host_asserted ▶ 49:12

“Their activities were paid for, as noted above, by heroin and coordinated by the CIA. At the height of the Vietnam War, with inflation threatening to wreck the domestic program for a great society, Ly…”

CIA funded Taliban host_asserted ▶ 49:12

Lyndon B. Johnson removed_from_power United States documented ▶ 49:12

United States funded Saudi Arabia host_asserted ▶ 49:42

“Yay, Lyndon B. Johnson. The US handled the quadrupling of oil prices in the 70s by arranging a secret agreement with the Saudis to recycle petrodollars back into the US economy. The first of these dea…”

George H.W. Bush targeted_for_regime_change Saddam Hussein documented ▶ 51:03

“In particular, they explained why George Bush moved so swiftly in 1990 to counter the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to U.S. Saudi security in the Gulf. The threat was not just that the U.S. itself wo…”

BCCI funded Afghanistan documented ▶ 51:50

“which in the 1980s became a chief paymaster for the anti-Soviet Afghan Mujahideen and even ran arms directly from Karachi. And it says the failure of the U.S. government to investigate and prosecute B…”

James Baker covered_up BCCI host_asserted ▶ 52:18

“As a former NSC economist commented, Treasury Secretary James Baker didn't pursue BCCI because he thought a prosecution of the bank would damage the U.S. reputation as a safe haven for capital flight …”

BCCI front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 52:38

“investigate BCCI because it was a CIA laundering operation that was making them rich because James Baker was part of the Carlyle Group along with George H.W. Bush and the Saudis had part ownership in …”

James Baker member_of Carlyle Group documented ▶ 52:38

George H.W. Bush member_of Carlyle Group documented ▶ 52:38

Saudi Arabia secretly_owned Carlyle Group host_asserted ▶ 52:38

Carlyle Group funded United States host_asserted ▶ 53:06

“Because Carlyle Group, if they didn't own the company right out, owned significant percentages of stock in all of the military industrial complexes. So they set themselves up with a private equity fir…”

Zbigniew Brzezinski founded United States host_asserted ▶ 59:02

“about the national security memorandums that Brzezinski came up with that says, we would much prefer to do covert wars funded by black ops, opium, drug sales, and avoid the war altogether. They want t…”

Rockefeller secretly_owned United Fruit Company host_asserted ▶ 1:03:36

“Look through my books. I have the source that basically says that through the there was an American fruit company and a Boston that they were the majority shareholder, although I think they only ended…”

United Fruit Company front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:05:21

“about the Boston Fruit Company and its shipping, the actual ships that it owned and how they tied in to a lot of CIA activity as well. That really did surprise me. But anyway. Well, it makes perfect s…”

William F. Buckley member_of World Anti-Communist League book_quoted ▶ 1:12:31

“the JFK thing from the E. Howard Hunt that they were both in Mexico and I'd read about the Godfather part. And so I'm looking through all the ones that I think it's in and he's not in any of those. Fo…”

John Polgreen spied_on Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 1:23:27

“I'm going to begrudgingly put Doug Ballantyne in that category too, who did all the legwork. They flew all over the world. Professor Polgrain with his research in Indonesia. Those guys spent years of …”