The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 a

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0:00 And a good afternoon to everyone. Hello, hello, hello. Hello. All right. I got Rumble up and going. So we're going to jump in because today's a short day. So I want to make sure we get this out of the way. And then open it up for Q&A for a few minutes. And then I'll bug on out of here. Okay.

0:33 We will most likely not get this entire chapter done, but basically it provides an overview of public, private, and covert political power, which kind of dovetails off of the last book that we read about parapolitics as opposed to paramilitary. Peter Dale Scott wrote another book called The War Conspiracy.

1:00 points out that he examined forces that helped lead the U.S. into Vietnam in that book. Many of the factors that he pointed out involved not only deceptions, but repeated interference with lines of authority, civilian control, and even the law. For this reason, he grouped them together under the term war conspiracy.

1:28 As he made it clear that he wasn't pointing to a single group of guilty plotters, it was easy to begin to point out who some of the plotters were. Like all of the following chapters in the rest of this book, he had written a story.

1:54 in New York Times about heroin reaching the U.S. from labs in Laos under the control of the Royal Laotian Army. Thus, it discusses the relationship between oil lobbying and U.S. foreign policy, but it was silent about the drug trafficking that we all know to be associated with it all.

2:19 In terms of what we know now, the analysis in this chapter is limited to deception and manipulation by lower officials, whereas in many key manipulations, like the Gulf of Tonkin, we can now see the controlling hands of the White House. However, I believe that in broad outline, both facts and analysis presented

2:45 is still worth looking at. So what he's saying is he's going to highlight something that he wrote before a lot of the information was known, and he just wants to kind of go over it as opposed to rewriting the whole thing. So consider the unauthorized activity in Taiwan of Admiral Charles M. Cook in 1950.

3:14 headed a private military mission for which his ally, who would that be? William Pauley, tried but failed in 1949 to secure from the Secretary of State Atchison the authority he had secured earlier for Chenault's Flying Tigers during World War II. In this expansion of the U.S. involvement by the China lobby, of which Cook was connected, Cook was also supported by other influential circles.

3:46 The firm set up the mission Commerce International China, which that's actually the name of like a company. It was a subsidiary of William Donovan's World Commerce Corporation. Okay. A firm that was backed by leading capitalists like Nelson Rockefeller with its own agenda for promoting capitalism in post-war era.

4:22 The firm was ran by S.G., or Sonny Fasoulis, F-A-S-S-O-U-L-I-S, which we've come across before. Let me bring SR-71 up, who for a few years later would be indicted in connection with manipulation of securities by none other than organized crime figures. Fasoulis was apparently picked for the job by Colonel Williams.

4:55 Presumably, Colonel Garland Williams, who performed many intelligence functions through his work at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics with all kinds of Texas oil people in the background of all of these moves. What is instructive is that is the way official reluctance was overcome by those with influential connections backed by influential.

5:27 financial interest with an intelligence officer serving as a go-between. As he recounted in his book, The Author, with only minimal corrections, I have not even deleted the book's reoccurring appeals for congressional or judicial redress, although such appeals would appear to have far less chance today than they did back in 1970 in these

5:55 The next five chapters of this book, he presents the information of all of the themes that the book's about, drugs, oil, and war. In the two decades after 1950, the year the Korean War and the China lobby began, there was never a genuine U.S. de-escalation in Southeast Asia.

6:22 Every apparent de-escalation of the fighting, such as Vietnam in 1954 and Laos in 61, was balanced by an escalation, often unnoticed at the time, whose long-range result increased America's war effort. In 1954, for example, America's direct involvement in the First Indochina War was limited to a few dozen Air Force planes and pilots on loan, quote-unquote, on loan, to Chenault's

6:51 Airline Civil Air Transport, meaning CIA, plus 200 Air Force technicians to service them. Though Dulles, Radford, and Nixon failed to implement their proposals for U.S. airstrikes and troop intervention, Dulles was able to substitute for the discarded plan an immediate intervention proposal for creating the CETO, the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization,

7:21 soon became a cover for U.S. quote-unquote limited war games in Southeast Asia, which in turn grew into the first covert U.S. military involvement in Laos in 1959, which then began the start of the Second Indochina War. In early 1961, Kennedy resisted energetic pressures from his Joint Chiefs to invade Laos openly with 60,000 soldiers.

7:50 empowered if necessary to use tactical nuclear weapons, and we've covered this before. Nixon also conferred with Kennedy and again urged at the least a commitment of American air power. Unwilling with his limited reserves to initiate major operational simultaneously in Laos and Cuba, Kennedy settled for a political solution in Laos, beginning with a ceasefire that went into effect May of 1961.

8:19 Two days later, Rusk and Kennedy announced the first of a series of measures to strengthen U.S. military commitment in South Vietnam. The timing suggests that the advocates of a showdown with China in one country had been placated by a quid pro quo of buildup in another.

8:40 In like manner, the final conclusion of the 1962 Geneva Agreements on Laos came only after the U.S. had satisfied Asian and domestic hawks by its first commitment of U.S. combat troops in Thailand. In 1968, finally, we now know that the de-escalation announced by President Johnson in March and October in the form of

9:08 stopping bombing of North Vietnam was misleading. In fact, the same planes were simply diverted from North Vietnam to Laos. The overall level of bombing, far from decreasing, actually increased. Unhappily, one has to conclude that up to 1970, there was simply no precedent for a genuine U.S. de-escalation in Southeast Asia, though it was illusionary appearances that kept reoccurring.

9:36 The Cambodian and Laotian adventures under Nixon were only more proof. For anyone who still needed it, the U.S. crisis in Southeast Asia was only the outward manifestation of a crisis of government at home. The author has attempted to outline a hidden history of these U.S. escalations in Southeast Asia by focusing on key crises.

10:08 that helped bring escalation about. Let's see. The initial false picture is of a peace-loving America reluctantly drawn into Asia through a series of responses to various acts of aggression by socialist countries, such as the massive North Vietnamese invasion of Laos in 1959, an impending invasion of Thailand in 1962, an unprovoked attack on two U.S. destroyers in 1964,

10:40 an imminent invasion of the South from Cambodia in 1970. These episodes will not be properly understood until they have been seen in their context as part of a process or syndrome. The repeated use of intelligence agencies and their allies to prepare the conditions for escalation. This covert preparation through provocation and deceit is the process at the risk of oversimplifying it.

11:08 that the author calls a war conspiracy. A second false picture of the same U.S. escalations was found even among elements of the U.S. peace movement. According to many, the U.S. involvement arose accidentally through a series of quote-unquote mistakes. The distorted claims of aggression to which the U.S. responded arose through mistakes of perception on our part.

11:40 to be attributed to American naivete or anti-communist paranoia, to failures of communication or command and control procedures, or clumsiness of bureaucracies and the difficulties of handling the vast amounts of information they had to deal with. Every one of these incidences are now attributed to a breakdown in intelligence and all of the rest of the excuses or quote-unquote mistakes.

12:07 that was initially trotted out to placate everybody were all lies. But as we shall see, it was precisely the activity of U.S. intelligence personnel, including those responsible for covert or special operations, that repeatedly gave rise to the false perceptions in Washington. It would appear that the very apparatus that should have relayed objective intelligence instead

12:34 manufactured false pretexts for unilateral US aggression, in every one of the critical escalations mentioned, as well as in other episodes for which we have little room to talk about in this book, US intelligence personnel were chiefly responsible for the escalation of our involvement. And as I said today, I find it completely unacceptable.

13:02 That we have the vantage of history and still can't see this happening today. Who are they telling you your enemies are? Who are they telling you who your friends are? Whatever they say, they're lying about. And yet, still today, people believe what they're saying. I find it incredible. Actually, frustrating.

13:34 Going on, to correct this picture of accidental or quote-unquote mistaken involvement, the author spoke of war conspiracy, and by that he meant the sustained resort to collusion and conspiracy, unauthorized provocation and fraud by U.S. personnel, particularly those of the intelligence community, in order to sustain or increase a military commitment. I was aware that the total picture is more complex.

14:06 than any particular phrase or a narrative, and that there are other factors that are not so covert also contributing to a war conspiracy. There are CIA manipulations, there's censorship, there's intervention. The war conspiracy is to be seen as a general syndrome, not as the work of a single private entity.

14:34 nor is it necessary to think that war was always the intention. On the contrary, both the personnel and the concerns of war conspiracy changed widely over the years. Until the late 1960s, this change was continuously in the direction of total militarization. In the 1950s, our concealed involvement was mostly restricted to a few enterprising individuals like General Chennault and his private airline. Excuse me.

15:04 Civil Air Transport, now known as Air America, or flamboyant CIA operatives like Colonel Lansdell or Robert Campbell James, a cousin of the Ciccone oil president, B.B. Jennings. That's a new name. I have a star by that. I did not go back and look at him. In the 1960s,

15:33 The picture was militarized. CIA field operatives were supplemented or supplanted by a special forces element, while the labors of military electronic intelligence personnel contributed to the soon-to-be-involved full-scale U.S. ground and air war.

15:56 By 1970, the once aggressive CIA seemed to include some of the stronger voices for peace within the administration, while the war camps seemed to be located chiefly within the military intelligence. In other words, the conspiracy might be seen as a continuing process on a model of a vital living entity that just simply relies on different components. And keep in mind,

16:24 During all of this, we have to remember that we can be given the false impression that other people are involved when, in fact, we know, like in the case of, quote, unquote, Colonel Lansdell. Colonel Lansdell was never actually working in the military for the mission of the military. He was 100 percent recruited as part of an intelligence ops wearing a uniform.

16:53 And that's something that we have to keep in the back of our minds. Even when one can talk of U.S. imperialism in Southeast Asia, the specific objectives of this imperialism seems to have varied widely. In the early 1950s, it was a desire to secure stocks of scarce war material like Tunsin that figured high on the list. There was also rubber plantations over there and all kinds of other stuff.

17:25 And that figured largely in our covert backing of Chiang Kai-shek's guerrillas in southern China, then Burma, then Taiwan through Chennault's airline. Later, the same airline seems to have been used in Laos as part of a new U.S. occupation with the technology of a covert limited war. By 1971, the U.S. intervention in Asia was backed by prospects of

17:55 quick-term profits from investments in the region, particularly oil and, of course, the drugs. After late 1968, offshore drilling activity in Southeast Asia doubled. There were predictions that the area might soon emerge as one of the most active drilling areas. In 1970, nearly all of South China Sea floor north of Java and Sumatra was...

18:25 allocated in concessions to the international oil companies, with the exception of a particularly promising area off the coast of Cambodia and South Vietnam, where offshore drilling had also begun. Despite the apparent diversity of groups and interests of these phases of US involvement, the story reveals a latent continuity underlying all of them. Take, for example, the private law firm of Thomas G. Corcoran.

18:55 who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, the insurance interest of Asia's CV Star, who was also from the OSS, and United Fruit, and was said by fortune to maintain the finest intelligence service in Washington.

19:24 Very early on, for those of you who've come around lately, it's probably worth going back and reiterating this part right here, because this is critical. Thomas Corcoran, C-O-R-C-O-R-A-N, was a pivotal player back then. And you guys have heard me talk on the Thursday show.

19:51 about the law firms, obviously Sullivan and Cromwell, where the Dulles brothers were. But the law firms play heavily in the CIA's ability to create all of these fake companies, money launder, and all of that stuff.

20:12 And it's very interesting that this guy, because remember, Paul Hellywell is a lawyer, too. And he was doing all the stuff down in Miami, the fake Castle Bank, setting up the World Commerce Corporation. He's the one that helped William Polly with the franchise for Curtis Aircraft. So it's interesting that Thomas Corcoran was involved in.

20:42 The Flying Tigers, which become a lot of those airplanes, become part of the Civil Air Transport, then Air America. And he was also, for those of you who have not, again, been with us, CB Star, S-T-A-R-R. His insurance company eventually becomes AIG. He's like the founder, the originator.

21:12 through a couple of macernations of AIG. And of course, we all know what happened to AIG. It does exactly what everything does that's basically fake. And a money laundering operation for the CIA, like Enron, they all do the exact same thing.

21:29 And most people don't understand how close these things are associated with the CIA so that when they go bankrupt, everybody thinks, oh, it's a one-off thing. It's not. They're all connected. It's another way to money launder. And then, of course, United Fruit. United Fruit primarily used Sullivan and Cromwell where the Dulles brothers were. So here's a quote. Most of his clients, talking about Corcoran.

21:58 are companies with national interests, and he has a choice clientele in that field. It includes United Fruit, American International Underwriters Corp., which was part of CB Star's interest in Asia, General Claire Chenault's Civil Air Transport. In late 1951, Corcoran, for example, was working his intelligence service overtime.

22:25 keeping up with American policy on Iran. Why would that matter in 1951? Because we go in and overthrow it in 1953. What the State Department did in this affair would be a guide to what might or might not do to one of his clients, United Fruit, from being thrown out of Guatemala, which, of course, we took what we did.

22:54 in Iran, and we did it in Guatemala. And they were both basically the same thing. It was a company, in the case of Iran, BP, from the UK, that got kicked out, and Guatemala kicked United Fruit out. And they just gather the wagons and go in and over to throw the governments. After the successful CIA coup in Iran of Mosaddegh,

23:24 Chanel's partner, Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, went from civil air transport to be the U.S. ambassador in Honduras, which, of course, is right next door and where they launched all the operations for Guatemala from, where he helped United Fruit officials and the CIA overthrow Arbenz in Guatemala. Miguel Fuentes, an anti-communist who later succeeded the CIA's

23:55 Castillo Armas, as president of Guatemala, tells how a retired executive of United Fruit tried to recruit him for the coup and how, when in office, a Washington law firm told him, we had financed the liberation movement, quote unquote, of Castillo Armas, who had committed himself to certain payments. On his death, he still owed.

24:23 $1.8 million, and as they considered me to be his heir, they held me responsible for the payment. In 1960, while Willauer, a United Fruit official, and Civil Air Transport pilots were participating in the CIA's preparation for the Bay of Pigs, Chenault Airlines Civil Air Transport, soon to be known as Air America, took part in the CIA's overthrow.

24:53 of Suvanna Bauma in Laos, and it later served as part of an infrastructure for the CIA's secret Laotian war. Previously, one of the principal U.S. financial interests in Indochina was the Camparne Franco Americano Assurance of Saigon, owned by Corcoran's client, C.V. Starr and Company.

25:24 whose president by 1960 was Corcoran's law firm partner, William Youngman. But after 1950, Corcoran also represented some of the oil companies that since 1963 expressed more and more interest in offshore drilling in the South China Sea. One of these was Tenneco Corporation, which already held two concessions in the Gulf of Siam.

25:53 between Thailand and Cambodia. They had acquired further interest in concessions in frontier petroleum near Singapore. Thus, on a functional and operational level, diverse intelligence operations such as Guatemala and Laos and diverse overseas economic interests such as bananas and insurance and oil all revealed to be part of one continuous story. At least through 1968, Corcoran's law partners,

26:24 Ernst Cuneo, and you spell his last name, C-U-N-E-O, who also happened to have been in the OSS, Robert Amory, A-M-O-R-Y, ex-CIA, and James Rowe, R-O-W-E, one of Lyndon Johnson's early advisors, along with Corcoran himself, continue to keep closely in touch with Asian developments through both the CIA and the White House.

26:54 Furthermore, the apparently diverse economic interest who chose to be represented by Corcoran's firm, like United Fruit, Civil Air Transport, and CV Star, turned out on closer examination to be less differentiated than the usual pluralistic models of American society would have us think. Robert Lehman, L-E-H-M-A-N, for example, was one of the...

27:21 was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for all of the Indochina operations. And at least two Pan Am officials associated with Chenault, Gordon Tweedy and John S. Woodbridge,

27:50 were also involved in CV Star's worldwide insurance operations. The private influence of Corcoran's law firm on U.S. policy appears to have been good reason why in 1957, Fortune would report that Robert Lehman's family, investment firm of Lehman Brothers, yeah, that guy, also involved in international oil operations.

28:15 had experienced by 1957 the greatest post-war growth of any Wall Street house and was the biggest profit makers many believe the biggest. Now, I just want to say here real quick that what we're describing, what I just described, is the exact same thing as the East and West Indies companies of the British Empire, of the Dutch Empire.

28:44 They're the exact same thing. These law firms are extensions of this international syndicate, just as the CIA is, in which they go around and destroy countries in order to steal all of their resources. In other words, powerful economic interests have from the onset

29:16 been behind the covert instrumentalities such as civil air transport. The simple fact of their hidden association with these efforts does not of itself prove that to what extent the U.S. involvements were motivated by hope of private profit. I would disagree with that. This is a complex question and the reader will have to decide for themselves whether to call the civil air transport or Air America.

29:46 a private cover for the instrumentation of public policy. Yeah, I don't see that at this point. I mean, I understand he wrote this a long time ago. Unequivocally, it is a front. Let's see. One cannot talk here narrowly of quote unquote private U.S. interests. We shall see the nationalist Chinese capital often said to derive from the Song family, S-O-O-N-G.

30:18 helped to pay for the total Air America operation, just as the Nationalist Chinese pilots and personnel helped to man its planes. That's true, but they did that with opium that the CIA is providing the network for them to get rich off of. So again, it's a distinction without a difference. The story became more complex in 1960 as it began to be militarized and intensified.

30:48 After 1959, private economic motives for staying in Indochina were reinforced by bureaucratic motives, the latter sometimes at variance with the former. The U.S. intervention involved far more than the operations of a single agency or a paramilitary airline. Air America, which had lost its monopoly on covert air operations in 1960, was no longer the central U.S. intelligence enterprise.

31:15 Southeast Asia, combining private wealth with public authority. In the 1960s, its wealth and importance was surpassed by those of an industrial specializing in intelligence technology such as ITEK, the CIA-linked electronics firm, and Ling Timco Vote, which supplied

31:44 the super secret electronic equipment for electronic intelligence operation, such as was on the Maddox in Pueblo. Personnel of these intelligence industries were often intimately concerned in preparations for, and occasionally even went on missions that were basically overseas. There were many other ways in which private companies supplied covers, personnel,

32:13 and infrastructure for intelligence operations. Once again, however, this picture of public-private relationship is not as pluralistic as it first appears. Underlying both the military intelligence operations in the 60s and the civilian intelligence operations of the 50s, we find the same financial interest. As only one example of this continuing financial base of U.S. involvement,

32:41 The author cites the fact that Harper Woodward, Harper Woodward, who served in the 1950s as a director of civil air transport, continues in 1970 to serve as a director of ITEK. This was not just because Woodward specialized in offering services to the CIA. He was where he was as a quote unquote associate.

33:09 of Lawrence Rockefeller, a member of the family whose oil and financial interest had the concessions for the oil in Southeast Asia. It is assuredly no coincidence that Nelson Rockefeller helped sound the alarm on the scarce raw resources. And that's the point I was trying to make in that post the other day. Lawrence was the guy, as part of the family, you know, they were brothers.

33:39 And they were all given areas of expertise. Nelson Rockefeller's expertise was Latin America. Lawrence, according to this book that I read, specialized more in the Southeast Asia. And that's not to say they didn't talk every day. Obviously, they're brothers. Okay. Lawrence headed the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Panel 2.

34:12 which first offered a public blueprint for limited war spending in 1957. Nor that the Rockefellers or Ciccone Mobile hosted DM and TIE officials in America in the 1950s. John D. Rockefeller III, Asian Society, another one of those money laundering operations, supplied a forum in 1963 for Ciccone Mobile employee.

34:42 who, in the company of several spokesmen with intelligence background, called publicly for the overt U.S. intervention in Vietnam affairs that began a year later after the assassination of Dim and JFK. That should be a big foot stomper. Robert Lehman of Lehman Brothers and the Rockefellers, Wall Street financiers, were personally financially involved in the whole range of economic interests to be served by Vietnam.

35:13 James Rockefeller, a cousin, was also a fellow director with Lehman of Pan Am Airlines. In the face of such pervasive economic interest in the background of military or of intelligence operations, particularly those contributing to the Vietnam War, one is tempted to retreat into the thought that U.S. involvement to, let's see,

35:45 that you might come to the conclusion that acceptance of it is inevitable and unopposed. In the introduction to an essay that Gabriel Kolko wrote, he called it a central reality that, quote, a ruling class makes its policies operate through a pervasive business-defined consensus.

36:15 To understand this essential fact is also to reject conspiratorial theories, unquote. From such arguments, it is all too easy to conclude that the rest of us do not have the means or institution to oppose this upper class. But it is certain that Kalko underestimated the contradictions underlying the U.S. policy in Vietnam.

36:42 For example, when he stated that despite the almost paranoid belief of the French representation that the OSS was working against France, the OSS only helped consolidate Washington's support for France. They were unanimous in believing that Ho was a communist. An Institute of Pacific Relation article by OSS veteran George Sheldon in 1946

37:10 spoke favorably of the Viet Minh, and that's the people of the North, and critically of the French atrocities in the post-war period. It observed that Ho Chi Minh was formally elected by a vast majority in an election of January 1946 and added that neutral observers, including Americans, testified that the election was conducted in an efficient and orderly fashion and that the overwhelming popularity of President Ho was undeniable. It is true.

37:40 That such surprising candor from intelligence officers became much rarer after the persecution of the Institute of Pacific Relations. But that successful campaign by the China lobby in which Owen Lattimore was defended by top Washington lawyers Thurman, Arnold, and Abe Fortes was only one of the many signs of the air contradictions.

38:13 and struggle between powerful American factions. Now, let me just add, because they kind of just briefly talked about that, there was a lot written that because they had originally put quote-unquote China in charge of the northern sector of Vietnam, like...

38:37 The Soviet Union was put in charge of the northern sector of Korea in the immediate aftermath of the World War II in order to get the Japanese out. We had the southern sector of Korea and the Brits had the southern sector of Vietnam. Well, we were told unequivocally that we were only to be there to get the Japanese out of both places and then they were supposed to hold elections and then we all come home.

39:05 We both know that we all know that that's not what happened. So the U.S. was not going to let during their assessment of what was going on in Vietnam based on Chiang being in the north. And again, they're looking for a way to put Chiang on the flank of China.

39:34 Chiang to be able to continually fight Mao and take China back. It's very clear. You can read that all day long. So, you know, originally there was an attempt to do that as a result of the, and this is before the Korean War, okay? They realized that Ho is so popular that, and the people love him.

40:01 because he fought so hard to get the Japanese out of Vietnam. And so their only hope of keeping Vietnam in order to be able to control the drug trade, because that's what this is all about, was to reinsert the French in the South and allow them to keep agitating away strategy of tension to Ho Chi Minh. And so...

40:30 That was kind of like a temporary solution. Then they're going to pull all of their efforts into Korea. They did the whole stay behinds in the north, the aggravation. They attack to basically at the agitation of the stay behinds into the south. Now, the U.S. uses that as the excuse to run north. They go up and go over the Chinese border, get pushed all the way back down.

40:59 to the DMZ that currently exists today. So that's kind of that in a nutshell. And when they realized that they weren't going to be able to sit Chiang Kai-shek in North Korea, their eyes went back to Vietnam because again, they're looking for a place to put him and he's got to be in close proximity to China. So now they're going to

41:28 actively, because you just heard that there was rumors about this. It wasn't just rumors. When we were doing the research for Vietnam, it was very clear that the U.S., in some very weird ways, helped the French not stay there. And I'm not talking about overt arming of Ho Chi Minh or anything like that.

41:57 But the lobbyists were very clear that this was not going to be a long-term arrangement for the French. They were going to be going one way or the other. So I just wanted to reemphasize that it was a much bigger deal. They thought for a while, because again, keep in mind, at the time, the French Corsican Mafia is in France.

42:26 and have the best refinery for drugs. So they're not going to piss the French off directly until they take out the Corsican Mafia and move it all to Sicily. So you have two pipelines coming out of Southeast Asia. One that is primarily, at least initially, managed by the French going to the Corsican Mafia stronghold. The second, through Chiang Kai-shek,

42:56 is coming into Sicily and then on to Cuba and into the United States. So you and basically the kind of the unofficial was the Corsican mafia is taking care of all of Europe. The CIA and their mafia buddies are taking care of the United States and all things west of that.

43:21 And so that's kind of the breakdown of how that whole thing worked. We just have a little bit more in. If a single minded class explanation of U.S. policy was adequate, then there would have been no need for intelligence conspiracies. No Laos invasion fraud in 1959. No second Gulf of Tonkin incident in 64.

43:47 American forces would simply have moved into Laos and Vietnam as nakedly and as arrogant as the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia. It may be that we shall see such naked U.S. aggression in the future, but PAS suggests that they have to have a pretense. There are legal restrictions on collusive aggressive activity. The U.S. Criminal Code sections 956 through 60.

44:18 For example, forbids conspiracies to injure the property of any foreign state, hiring or retaining a person within the United States for enlistment in any foreign military service, and the fund furnishing of money for any military enterprise against a territory of any foreign state. These laws were violated at least six times in the course of our covert interactions in Southeast Asia with respects to Taiwan, Vietnam, Burma.

44:48 Indonesia, and Laos. In all cases, a pretext of legality was supplied by the same friction, the U.S. military officers and the CIA, along with private military companies. This legal cover was first devised by President Roosevelt for the Chennault Flying Tigers in 1941, but he secretly authorized it.

45:14 by an unlisted executive order that was written on April 15, 1941. It would appear that in late April 1953, when U.S. Air Force planes and pilots were loaned to Chennault Civil Air Transport for the use by the French in Indochina, this procedure was again authorized at the highest levels. Thus, U.S. involvement in the First Indochina War was covert.

45:42 but was not conspiratorial. No private individuals had plotted against the authority of the U.S. government. The legal picture was different in 1950 when Admiral Charles Cook, C-O-O-K-E, as head of a private military advisory group for Chiang Kai-shek government on Taiwan, was employed by a firm known as CIC, Commerce International China.

46:13 Cook himself later complained that he sought but failed to obtain any presidential authorization for his plans. In the case of Tonkin and Pueblo incidences, there were indications in these remarkable similar scenarios that US authorities were presented by intelligence agencies with impeachable evidence of enemy aggression in the form of alleged collaborative.

46:41 of enemy orders, which were so distorted as possible and obvious frauds. Similar misrepresentation of intercepts contributed to the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. To some, it may seem meaningless to dwell on such isolated examples of conspiracy to break the law.

47:10 The true barbarism of war is to be found elsewhere, not only in isolated massacres such as Malay, but generally in the systematic air war that became central to the so-called Vietnamization program. One can write a whole book about the Vietnam War that focuses on technical illegalities while remaining silent about the larger crimes of napalm and generations of refugees and genocide.

47:40 Undoubtedly, such crimes are, in human terms, far more serious than those that are the subject of this book. But they already amplify the exposed, although your exposure did not seem to have been, it doesn't seem to be meaningful in any way because no one is ever held accountable.

48:13 revelations, chilling as they were, exposed only those who were responsible for carrying out a war, not those who were responsible for starting it. The aim of the book that he's writing here was exposure at the higher level so that people can understand how the process starts, how it operates in the interim, and then the fallout of it as it goes along. So there, we did it, and we did it in less than an hour. All right, let's open up.

48:53 Bridget? You know, it just is funny how often, you know, we're reading over the same, even though it's different books, talking about different events and we're bringing up the same people over and over and over again. You know, like with the civil air and civil air transport. Can't talk today. Again, you know, they're like.

49:23 They remind me of cockroaches. As soon as you stamp them out, they just scatter and reorganize somewhere else. True. True. Yeah. What was your biggest shock when you were reading this book in particular or up to so far? Not necessarily any shock as far as I do. Again, I like the fact, which is why I went ahead and decided.

49:52 to do this book next i like the combination because one of the things we talk a lot about the paramilitary pieces of gladio because of course that's it um that's what the whole thing is about but the the international syndicate um we only get glimpses of it and i thought this guy did a really good job of showing

50:19 Not only the International Syndicate and some of the people and their companies like the Corcorans and this iTech company. And I have some written up about the iTech, which I'll publish later. I didn't want to publish it before we got to that part in the book. But I did a little bit more research on it. But that was a new company. I'd never heard of it until I read this book. And that's what I'm telling you guys. One of the most fascinating things about this is.

50:49 No one author has captured all of this. And that's why I feel compelled to bring all of these different books to you guys so you can see all of the different facets of it. He also does a really good job of telling you why they're there. Like he was just talking about the oil.

51:11 And the other resources that were in Vietnam. Most people never associate Vietnam with the other resources. It's always just the drugs. But there were other resources there. Like I said, they had huge rubber plantations. And primarily that's why the French was originally there. The drug thing came later. So just a really, really good job of bringing out.

51:41 And the relationship that he painted there between CB Star, United Fruit. And those are all names that we've heard of. One name we don't hear of a lot is the Lehman Brothers. He did a good job of tying them in with the Claire Chenault group. So that's been my takeaway from this book.

52:04 Um, the, the inclusion of Rockefeller, a lot of people, um, stay away from them. Um, so again, I love the fact that he names names and that I can bring them to you guys. Um, good book. Good choice. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. All along. Go ahead. Oh yeah. Colonel, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you fine. Okay. So, um, yeah, I agree. I like the emphasis on Corker on Tommy the Cork today. Um,

52:34 He's such a critical figure, I think, in terms of like, because as you already said, he's so connected with different types of journalism people, political background people like Rockefeller, political foreground people like Rockefeller and Whitney's Senator Lehman, and the international mining connections of that whole crew.

53:03 probably have read one of these books about, there's an author who wrote two books about Corcoran. One is called Tommy the Cork and the other is called Peddling Influence. I can't, I read one of them ages ago, but whichever one I'm sure is going to, I really, really recommend it because, you know, one of the most misunderstood periods and key kind of CIA camouflaged periods in history, in my opinion, is that whole

53:32 like transition period between 1945 and 1948, when the CIA is, you know, they had already in many ways twisted the New Deal. Now, we might disagree on to what extent they had to twist it, but that's fine. But the New Deal had already been transformed under FDR into, you know.

53:54 what some folks call military Keynesianism, right? Just, or, right. Am I military industrial congressional complex, right? Right. Not rocket science, but like how they, how they went about doing that in terms of the corporate aspect of, you know, chain changing from new deal into military Keynesianism and just cold war brainwash CIA brainwashing of everyone is, is.

54:22 fogged over a lot because that's where you need the fog. And so that's why I think reading up on Tommy the Cork is so important because he's such a key transition figure from FDR into the Cold War. Yeah, I have that book. I think I didn't actually read the entire book, but I did go through it kind of like speed reading it, not in my normal fashion. And I don't disagree with you. He is a pivotal.

54:52 I did want to I have one of the notes on this chapter highlighted because, again, I tell you guys I go through all the notes because that's where the real juicy stuff is. The one New York Times article that I mentioned at the beginning of the lesson.

55:09 That was from June 6, 1971. Here's what the author says about it. According to the story, CIA agents had identified at least 21 opium refineries in border areas of Laos, Burma, Thailand that provided constant flow of heroin to American troops in Vietnam. The labs protected in Laos by the Royal Laotian Armed Forces had grown until white heroin rated 96% pure.

55:39 turned up in the Pacific Coast cities of the United States as well as in Vietnam. Alfred McCoy reveals that the CIA leaked the story after the first bulk shipments of Laotian heroin were intercepted in Europe and the United States in April 1971.

55:59 And that was revealed by Alfred McCoy, who wrote the book, The Politics of Heroin, CIA's Complicity in the Global War Trade. And I have that book. That book is referenced in quite a few of these Operation Gladio books that talks about the drug piece of the whole thing. One other one that I had noted or had marked is it says it is indicative of Corcoran's deep involvement.

56:26 in covert CIA activities such as civil air transport, that throughout the 1950s, his Washington law firm of Corcoran and Youngman was not listed in the Martins Del Hubble law directory. In contrast, Desmond Fitzgerald, the CIA officer in Indochina with whom civil air transport worked, was listed in Martins Del Hubble under the cover of a private practice.

56:54 Yet we know that in practice, Fitzgerald spent many of the ensuing years in Vietnam or elsewhere in Asia. And so basically Corcoran was hiding in plain sight. I just thought both of those were fascinating. OK, Colonel, sorry for interrupting, but you mentioned that Fitzgerald is, as you know, he's also another extremely.

57:19 fascinating guy because in 1962, he moves from, as you know, Southeast Asian CIA to Western Hemisphere CIA, where he's in a key transition role to allow some of Nelson Rockefeller's Cubans to play here and others not to. And also his daughter, of course, is on the editorial board of the key left gatekeeping magazine, The Nation. We know how the CIA loves to control their left, so it never does anything effective.

57:50 Exactly. Thank you. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, there's something that I often forget about. And I was just reminded because there's a deal now with the Russians that they can have insurance for their ships. That was part of the deal yesterday, I guess, or the day before.

58:20 And that is shipping lanes and control of the shipping lanes. And there's a monopoly, from my understanding, of the City of London on insurance for shipping. So I always forget that when they're making a war in these places that that is at play. And the other...

58:48 thing I wanted to ask you was, have you read Guns, Germs, and Steel? No. It's kind of interesting. Maybe when you get some free time. Yeah. Thanks, Carrie. I'm sure that's going to be right around the corner. So here's a footnote. I used to say this on almost every one of our initial podcasts.

59:18 There are three things that the international syndicate members all had, and they all had all three things. They owned a bank, they owned an insurance company, and they were in a particular specialty industry, like steel, aluminum, shipping, or whatever. Every single one of them owned a bank, owned an insurance company.

59:46 and specialized in an industry, whether it was railroads or whatever. And that's critically important because you have to control all three of those things in order to do this bullshit. You have to be able to get money at the drop of a hat. Every single thing that is controlled as far as insurance goes to burn down entire cities or whatever.

1:00:13 You have to be able to control the insurance companies because they sit on a shit ton of money and they leverage that money in order to do all of these things. So there's multiple reasons why they all owned an insurance company. And then, of course, they all pretend. And I say this in a very facetious way because I don't believe that any of these people are ever got to where they.

1:00:43 got as far as billionaire status in any industry without the collusion of this entire apparatus. And in order to join that billionaire club, as we've talked routinely, they had to set up a foundation. And that foundation is then used by this syndicate in order to fund these operations.

1:01:13 Too much of the use of these foundations, whether it's the Rockefeller, the Carnegie, any of those, Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, it's all part of the same thing. And that money all finds its way back into Gladio operations. So that's just another pattern that we've come across. All right. Anybody else? I don't see any hands. Oh, SR. Go ahead, SR.

1:01:48 Thank you, Colonel. And thank everyone for attending today. We really appreciate it. And those on Rumble as well. If you hit the thumbs up, we love it. If the Colonel hit a million, we want more. That's all I got to tell you. Yeah. Go ahead. Colonel, you mentioned the three things and a song just popped into my head. 16 Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford just popped into my head when you said that. It was like...

1:02:16 What? Yeah, okay. I own the company. I own the bank. I own the resources. That's exactly right. That's funny. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Okay. Let's see. Guru? Guru's in and has his hand up. Oh, go ahead, Guru.

1:02:39 I can't see the scene. Thanks, Bridget. And, yes, great. You know, thanks for your co-hosts and everyone. You know, I come in here and, you know, they throw me a mic so I can stay in here. Otherwise, I just get whacked out, Colonel. And, yeah, so thanks for your space once again. Look, off topic, Colonel, I've got that contact number. I'm just wondering whether you and me might just change phone numbers or something in the background. Sure.

1:03:02 have a chat about lining that up. Whether you want to do it on a live stream, whether you want, we want to do it on a space, you know what I mean? And, and, um, so anyway, that's all I wanted to say at the moment. Yeah. DM me and I'll send you my number. Okay. Thanks. Bye. Bye. All right, guys. Um, we're going to call it a day early. I don't think we've ever got out of here this early. Um, but definitely will be, um, helpful, um, for the rest of the evening. I will be on Apple warrior show and you guys.

1:03:32 This could be the one time in almost a year now, I need to go back and find out when the first one was, that Alf and I are going to disagree on something. Because we're talking about Yemen. And I know he has been very outspoken about Yemen. And I disagree on his position on Yemen. And so we're going to present the facts about Yemen. And there could be some fireworks.

1:04:02 Just saying. But I'm telling you guys this for a reason. In all honesty, I love Alpha Warrior. I love him like a brother. I don't have any brothers. He is an awesome guy. We have not agreed on everything. We generally do. And this I know he feels very passionate about.

1:04:33 There is no part of anything that I have uncovered that I won't strongly defend in front of anyone, even if it means pissing that person off, which, you know, if people aren't rude or whatever, I'm not going to be rude. I'm going to present the information that I have. And I'm not saying that that's going to happen with Alpha, but I would risk that.

1:05:03 I think the truth is that important. I am not going to back down, nor am I going to keep information that I know to be true. And I know there are people that disagree. But every time that I have had in the one guy that comes in occasionally about Nicaragua, we have made it very clear that people can live.

1:05:33 in a situation and not know that the situation is going on. Because the one thing that the CIA is very, very good at is control of the narrative in these countries. And they own all of the media. They control all of the media. If they don't, they kill them.

1:05:57 And we've come across that repeatedly, where they have killed reporters, they have killed people that own unfriendly media, and they prop up to the tune of billions of dollars the friendly media. So it is completely possible to live in a country. Every fucking American lives in a country that had no clue what their government was doing.

1:06:23 For decades, for a century, you guys had no idea what your government was doing. And yet, every single time somebody will get on here and go, that's not possible. They had to be bad guys. No, I'm telling you they were good guys. That's not possible. I was there. I was there. And I'm like, okay, I've lived here. I didn't know my government sucked either. Sorry.

1:06:50 So that's kind of the thing that I'm most passionate about. And I'm just going to keep saying it until people finally realize we've all been lied to. We're all in this together. Miles, go ahead. I didn't think I was going to get out here that early. I was just going to say that, Colonel. Think we're going to let you out of here early? I'm going to leave early, so it doesn't matter.

1:07:18 Well, I'm just noticing on this app the assets that were deployed to push SignalGate, and they're all around us. Now, there's a lot of controversy about this, obviously, but I think this was a shiny object and also an exposure operation, too, because I definitely looked into the people that owned Signal.

1:07:46 that came from WhatsApp. And, you know, they're deploying their assets to first, you know, attack Trump and his new admin, but also to CYA mode because they're being exposed. Thanks, Colonel. Sir? SR-71. Thank you, Colonel. Just so you know, your first show with Alpha Warrior was Fed 13 and 24. Hold on.

1:08:16 10, 13, 24? February 13th. February. Oh, shit. We're already over a year. Yes, ma'am. Holy crap. How did I not know that? Well, you know now, Colonel. I can dig it up. Thank you. But anyway, concerning Signal and what's going on with Signal and Signalgate right now.

1:08:43 I'm looking at this from a totally different perspective and saying, I believe what the administration is doing right now with Signal is saying, guess what? We're getting rid of Signal and we're going some other route. So while everybody wants to complain about Signal, I listened to Warner and everything he had to say. And my answer was, yeah, I hear you complaining, but what's the solution? Not one.

1:09:15 Not one word of a solution out of that man's mouth. So I'm still waiting for it all to fall down. Yeah. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, you know what, Colonel? I am wrong sometimes. I really am. I am wrong. And Alpha is wrong. And that's okay. He can be wrong. Well, I'm not going to say he's wrong.

1:09:47 He doesn't know the history. Once he knows the history, if he still wants to say that the U.S. should be attacking Yemen, that's fine. That's his opinion. That has nothing to do with the facts. What I'm going to do tonight is I'm going to lay out the facts.

1:10:12 He can have an opinion based on the facts. But and, you know, obviously, from my perspective, I don't know what happened to Bridget. But from my perspective, Yemen doesn't look any different than all of the rest of the countries that we have went in and did things to. And so I'm just going to present the information. I had dug all this up.

1:10:42 A while back, I found a few other things and we'll just have a very lively conversation about it. And if at the end of the day, because, you know, there's always going to be hawks. There's always going to be people that despite all of that information that you give them is going to want to go kill people. And the CIA wants people who are patriotic and.

1:11:12 protective of our military to jump up and down and say, anybody that shoots at us has to die. They bank on that. That's what they banked on on 9-11. And unfortunately, the story is much bigger than that. And putting 9-11 aside, when you...

1:11:36 are constantly, as we've discovered, going around the world exploiting people. And it's being done under the name of our government because they stuck the CIA under our government. And the CIA has been looked to to provide false intelligence repeatedly, which we just talked about in this lesson today. They do it on purpose to manipulate the situation and manipulate us accordingly. And so...

1:12:06 I'm done being manipulated and I want to let everybody know that the story is not always going to be the same. There may be some country that's absolutely bad. And if that's the case and I do the research and I bear it out, I will say that. But that's not the case with Yemen. And I'm looking forward to making that case tonight and then we'll talk about it tomorrow.

1:12:37 Did you hear that Tulsi said Iran doesn't want a nuclear weapon? And I believe that. Iran is no different than the Soviet Union, not with regards to nuclear weapons, but in the past. Iran has been the whipping boy or the boogeyman, just like the Soviet Union was before. Just because...

1:13:07 You have isolated a country that you're pissed off at, meaning NATO, the West, like Yemen. And you have cut them off from the World Bank. You guys know the story. We cover it every single day on here. They cut them off from the IMF. They cut them off from the World Bank. They cut them off from everybody. And in doing so, because they simply wanted the Saudis out of the northern area and they wanted the Brits out of Aden.

1:13:37 That's all they wanted. Get the hell out of my country. Let us alone. And if they're having a civil war inside of Yemen, who gives a shit? It's Yemen. Let them fight. But when the Saudis came in from the north and the Brits wouldn't leave out of Aden, then they were like, yeah, no, we want you guys out of here. We went in and overthrew their government again.

1:14:06 When you do that and you've cut them off economically and politically, and the only person that will trade with them is Iran, you can't turn around and say they're an Iran proxy. You can't. They are dealing with Iran out of survival. Iran doesn't even like them. They don't like Iran. There's plenty of documentation to prove that. But they have to survive.

1:14:32 And the ability to survive is trade. Miles, go ahead. Colonel, you can only cry wolf so many times. So, you know, living this life that I have and, you know, paying attention to current events, they've been telling us for the last 20 years that, well, within six months, Iran's going to have a nuclear weapon. Like, stop already. You know, how many times can you cry wolf? Yep. Yep.

1:15:04 I agree. Tim, go ahead. Then Tim's the last one. I'm leaving. Go ahead. Hey, Colonel Towner. You got to be gentle on Alpha. I got to what? You got to be gentle with him. Oh, bullshit. I think he's been, you know, he's been bamboozled just like the rest of us. You know, there's always got to be a boogeyman. The Cold War wore out. And then we all jumped on the war on terror. We spent.

1:15:37 20-plus years fighting dudes in pajamas and flip-flops and AK-47s. And we funded every day like it was a Normandy invasion. And we enlisted a lot of people in that effort that got paid. You know, it's all volunteer force, all volunteer thing. And during that time, and I call it uniform, uniform worship. You know, and I'm going to.

1:16:08 Do a comparable to my father. My dad retired command sergeant major. And he's one of the guys that hit the end of the Second World War, Second World War, all of Korea and a front third of Vietnam. And he had zero. He just didn't talk about it. There was nothing. And after the Vietnam War, you know, they had some, you know, protests and all. Some people getting activated about it. But then I think when they fired up.

1:16:38 The war on terrorism, because, you know, here we got a new boogeyman. We got to keep it going. They did a really good job of keeping the premise of the war and tapped on the patriotic strings of everybody and, you know, fighting for freedom and democracy and all this. And a lot of guys got wrapped up in it. I know. Now, I live on the back gate of Fort Stewart here in Georgia. And I grew up in Hinesville. My dad met my mom when it was Camp Stewart. She was local.

1:17:08 And then they went off and had an illustrious career in the military. But I can't tell you the amount of guys that did four years maybe and then get some kind of extended medical disability check for the, you know, 40-year-old, 50-year-old dudes running around with a PTSD complaint or claim that park in the handicapped spots at the grocery store and get out and walk in the store.

1:17:39 So I was going to be he's still going to be of the opinion that that war was righteous and he was doing the right thing. And he's never going to be able to disconnect from the Yemen thing where I know he recognizes how Iraq and Afghanistan and all stuff is bullshit. And the other part of this, Tim, just so that you know, half of what Alpha says.

1:18:04 is he don't actually believe he does it in order to evoke responses out of people so he can gauge where those people are on certain issues. So that's why I say that tongue in cheek. He may or may not agree with me and we're fine either way. I just want you guys to recognize I would not for the continuity of staying on the Alpha Warrior show, even though I love him to death, not.

1:18:34 address the fact that what he is saying isn't right. So we decided collectively, him and I, that we would do it publicly. I haven't talked to him about Yemen at all behind the scenes because I think it's important to have controversial adult conversations in a respectful manner.

1:18:55 So people can pattern off of that and and not the bullshit stuff that happens on some of these spaces where people talk over you and say awful things about people. And that's what we're going to do tonight. So I just want everybody to tune in and see how that all works out. That's all I'm going to say. Well, if anybody on the planet can have that conversation with him, it's going to be you. Thank you. I wish I could. I wish I could get you in my hometown.

1:19:25 Man, you bring up anything controversial about the whole. Like I said, there's there's a bunch of guys and they've even got a motorcycle club. And if you say anything controversial about it, it's like, you know, you don't what you don't support the troops kind of thing. So hang in there. Good luck. That's the benefit of me having retired as a colonel. I was one of the troops.

1:19:48 I have had this conversation. It is a hard conversation to have with veterans, probably more so than anybody. But I have an approach that I use. I've done a lot of public speaking in the local area down here in Central Florida in some of these over 55 communities. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be doing one, I think, next Wednesday. And in doing that,

1:20:16 You they're primarily all veterans. You do have to be very respectful of the the way they're going to take it. But I do have a particular approach that I use. And in ones that I've been to three or four times, they do know because I've had people, you know, like, oh, my gosh, yeah, I was at this part. And you're what you just said was absolutely right. And so it does kind of start flowing after a while.

1:20:47 But it is a shock to their initial system. I recognize that. But where's Fort Stewart at in Georgia? It's right, it's the coast of Georgia. Hinesville is the hometown. It's just south of Savannah. It's the largest military association in Mississippi. I was just in Savannah. You should have had me over there. Gosh, I wish I would have known. I live just south of Savannah. You drove right if you came up.

1:21:16 95, you went right through Richmond Hill. It was the first exit. Oh, I know where Richmond Hill is. Oh, shit. Are you kidding me? Hold on. Richmond Hill. I'm going to look real quick. I live on the Geechee River, right up from Fort McAllister Marina. Okay. Boy, I wish I'd have known. I even got a hookup. You could have parked your RV here. All right. Well, I'm going to tell you the name of the place where I parked my RV. I don't know if you've ever heard of Harvest Host.

1:21:45 Yes, I got a big moniker. We've been doing it. I got 15 years in it. Okay, so we stayed at Richmond Hill. Hold on. There is an RV that's just to the west of the interstate there. On 204. I thought it was 25.

1:22:12 Creek fire, campfire, something like that. Yes, that's where we stayed. That just opened up a couple years ago. You're 10 miles from me. Gosh, I wish I'd known. Yeah, that's where we stayed. But on down south of there, there is a veterans-owned brew house for harvest hoes just south of there. In Darien? Huh? In Darien, the town of Darien?

1:22:42 Oh, I'll have it tomorrow. So come back tomorrow. But I look for ones that are set up with that are ran by veterans. But he he has a brewery that's just literally the interstate. You get off the interstate and like if you're headed south, you get off the interstate, do a U-turn on the frontage road. There's a whole bunch of industrial things there like an art. I know exactly what you're talking about. OK.

1:23:11 So that brewery there that's owned by that veteran, he lets people harvest produce in the back of his place. We've stayed there probably four or five times. I know exactly where you're at. That's five miles from me. You drove by a McDonald's and love truck stop when you turned in there, right? Yes. Yes. Yes. I know exactly where it's at. Yes. All right. Well, the next time I'm up there, I will give you a heads up.

1:23:40 get a bunch of your friends together and we'll have a conversation. That would be fantastic. I'm not kidding. We go out there all the time. That's oh man. You just made my whole day girl. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Did you go to Mrs. Wilkes restaurant when you were there? Like I told you in Savannah, I went to, um, a really fancy restaurant that, um, with my sister.

1:24:08 And then we went to Paula Deen's in Savannah and some other restaurant. But I don't get to pick the restaurants when we go. There was like 15 of us. And most of the time I was in the RV doing research. And so they pick all the places that we go. I kind of just veg out and be one of the crowd when we go on those camping trips.

1:24:38 Because I'm usually prepping for the shows and stuff like that. So, yeah, I don't pick restaurants. I didn't even pick the restaurant I went to. My sister was up there, too, on Wednesday night. So we did our Wednesday night family dinner up in Savannah. And she picked something that's right downtown, like on the public little square where all of the...

1:25:02 All I saw the whole time I was in the restaurant, I'm not going to lie to you guys, you know, I don't eat candy anymore. But my dad, when he was a truck driver, came through Georgia all the time and would bring me pralines because I love, love, love pralines. Patty's truck stop just on the way in on 75 into Florida had the best pralines anyone had ever made. I don't know where they got them from. That truck stop's not there anymore. But anyway.

1:25:31 The whole time I sat in that restaurant across this little open, they have like a road that's closed off. It's just foot traffic in the downtown area. That's River Street. Okay, River Street. The whole time I was sitting in the restaurant, I was sitting in across the little walkway was a candy store with like the donut sign that says hot pralines on it. And it was flashing at me. And I told my husband.

1:26:00 Yeah, I told my husband this was the stupidest idea. Who the hell picked this restaurant? That thing is just like beckoning to me to come over there and get a praline. But I did not do it. What's a praline? Oh, my God. A praline. It's P-R-A-L-I-N-E. Praline. Girl, if you don't know what a praline is.

1:26:24 Save your soul. You need to find out what one is. Get online. Buy one. It needs to come from Georgia. They make the best. I know Texas thinks they have good pralines. Georgia has the best because I'm a praline expert. Anyway. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. I got to run. See you, Carol. Thank you. All right. Tonight, Alpha Warrior 930. Be there.

Entities here

Air America22 Thomas Corcoran18 Claire Chennault11 United Fruit Company9 The War Conspiracy8 Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr6 Peter Del Scott5 Ho Chi Minh5 Chiang Kai-shek5 Charles M. Cook4 Flying Tigers4 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état4 Allen Dulles3 Franklin D. Roosevelt3 Robert Lehman3 John F. Kennedy3 Pan American World Airways3 Richard Nixon3 Desmond Fitzgerald3 Shearson Lehman Brothers3 Nelson Rockefeller3 Alfred McCoy2 1953 Iranian coup d'état2 Institute of Pacific Relations2 Ciccone Mobile2 Gabriel Kolko2 Garland Williams2 ITEK2 World Commerce Corporation2 Sullivan & Cromwell2 Bank of International Commerce2 China Lobby2 American International Group2 William Pawley2 Harper Woodward2 Whiting Willauer2 Carlos Castillo Armas2 Laurance Rockefeller2 International Telephone and Telegraph1 William J. Donovan1

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Peter Del Scott founded The War Conspiracy documented ▶ 0:33

“We will most likely not get this entire chapter done, but basically it provides an overview of public, private, and covert political power, which kind of dovetails off of the last book that we read ab…”

Charles M. Cook headed Bank of International Commerce book_quoted ▶ 3:14

“headed a private military mission for which his ally, who would that be? William Pauley, tried but failed in 1949 to secure from the Secretary of State Atchison the authority he had secured earlier fo…”

Bank of International Commerce front_for World Commerce Corporation book_quoted ▶ 3:46

“The firm set up the mission Commerce International China, which that's actually the name of like a company. It was a subsidiary of William Donovan's World Commerce Corporation. Okay. A firm that was b…”

Nelson Rockefeller funded World Commerce Corporation book_quoted ▶ 3:46

Garland Williams recruited Sonny Fasoulis book_quoted ▶ 4:22

“The firm was ran by S.G., or Sonny Fasoulis, F-A-S-S-O-U-L-I-S, which we've come across before. Let me bring SR-71 up, who for a few years later would be indicted in connection with manipulation of se…”

Sonny Fasoulis headed Bank of International Commerce book_quoted ▶ 4:22

Garland Williams member_of Bureau of Narcotics book_quoted ▶ 4:55

“Presumably, Colonel Garland Williams, who performed many intelligence functions through his work at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics with all kinds of Texas oil people in the background of all of these…”

Allen Dulles founded Southeast Asia Treaty Organization book_quoted ▶ 6:51

“Airline Civil Air Transport, meaning CIA, plus 200 Air Force technicians to service them. Though Dulles, Radford, and Nixon failed to implement their proposals for U.S. airstrikes and troop interventi…”

Thomas Corcoran founded Flying Tigers book_quoted ▶ 18:55

“who organized both Chenault's Flying Tigers and the Civil Air Transport. In the early 1950s, Corcoran represented the CAT, the insurance interest of Asia's CV Star, who was also from the OSS, and Unit…”

Thomas Corcoran founded Air America book_quoted ▶ 18:55

Thomas Corcoran member_of Sullivan & Cromwell book_quoted ▶ 21:29

“And most people don't understand how close these things are associated with the CIA so that when they go bankrupt, everybody thinks, oh, it's a one-off thing. It's not. They're all connected. It's ano…”

Whiting Willauer member_of Air America book_quoted ▶ 23:24

“Chanel's partner, Whiting Willauer, W-I-L-L-A-U-E-R, went from civil air transport to be the U.S. ambassador in Honduras, which, of course, is right next door and where they launched all the operation…”

Sullivan & Cromwell financed_via Carlos Castillo Armas book_quoted ▶ 23:55

“Castillo Armas, as president of Guatemala, tells how a retired executive of United Fruit tried to recruit him for the coup and how, when in office, a Washington law firm told him, we had financed the …”

United Fruit Company recruited Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes book_quoted ▶ 23:55

Air America carried_out_attack Souvanna Phouma book_quoted ▶ 24:23

“$1.8 million, and as they considered me to be his heir, they held me responsible for the payment. In 1960, while Willauer, a United Fruit official, and Civil Air Transport pilots were participating in…”

Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr secretly_owned Compagnie Franco-Américaine d'Assurances book_quoted ▶ 24:53

“of Suvanna Bauma in Laos, and it later served as part of an infrastructure for the CIA's secret Laotian war. Previously, one of the principal U.S. financial interests in Indochina was the Camparne Fra…”

William Youngman headed Compagnie Franco-Américaine d'Assurances book_quoted ▶ 25:24

“whose president by 1960 was Corcoran's law firm partner, William Youngman. But after 1950, Corcoran also represented some of the oil companies that since 1963 expressed more and more interest in offsh…”

Robert Lehman member_of Pan American World Airways book_quoted ▶ 27:21

“was for years a director of both United Fruit and Pan Am Airlines, another CIA favorite, which after supplying the operating cadre for civil air transport, went on to profit directly as the backup for…”

Robert Lehman member_of United Fruit Company book_quoted ▶ 27:21

Harper Woodward member_of ITEK book_quoted ▶ 32:41

“The author cites the fact that Harper Woodward, Harper Woodward, who served in the 1950s as a director of civil air transport, continues in 1970 to serve as a director of ITEK. This was not just becau…”

Harper Woodward member_of Air America book_quoted ▶ 32:41

Laurance Rockefeller headed Rockefeller Brothers Fund book_quoted ▶ 33:39

“And they were all given areas of expertise. Nelson Rockefeller's expertise was Latin America. Lawrence, according to this book that I read, specialized more in the Southeast Asia. And that's not to sa…”

John D. Rockefeller funded Ciccone Mobile host_asserted ▶ 34:12

“which first offered a public blueprint for limited war spending in 1957. Nor that the Rockefellers or Ciccone Mobile hosted DM and TIE officials in America in the 1950s. John D. Rockefeller III, Asian…”

Robert Lehman member_of Shearson Lehman Brothers host_asserted ▶ 34:42

“who, in the company of several spokesmen with intelligence background, called publicly for the overt U.S. intervention in Vietnam affairs that began a year later after the assassination of Dim and JFK…”

James Rockefeller member_of Pan American World Airways host_asserted ▶ 35:13

“James Rockefeller, a cousin, was also a fellow director with Lehman of Pan Am Airlines. In the face of such pervasive economic interest in the background of military or of intelligence operations, par…”

James Rockefeller member_of Shearson Lehman Brothers host_asserted ▶ 35:13

Abe Fortas defended Owen Lattimore book_quoted ▶ 37:40

“That such surprising candor from intelligence officers became much rarer after the persecution of the Institute of Pacific Relations. But that successful campaign by the China lobby in which Owen Latt…”

Thurman Arnold defended Owen Lattimore book_quoted ▶ 37:40

Franklin D. Roosevelt founded Flying Tigers book_quoted ▶ 44:48

“Indonesia, and Laos. In all cases, a pretext of legality was supplied by the same friction, the U.S. military officers and the CIA, along with private military companies. This legal cover was first de…”

Charles M. Cook headed Air America book_quoted ▶ 45:42

“but was not conspiratorial. No private individuals had plotted against the authority of the U.S. government. The legal picture was different in 1950 when Admiral Charles Cook, C-O-O-K-E, as head of a …”

Charles M. Cook member_of Bank of International Commerce book_quoted ▶ 45:42

Desmond Fitzgerald worked_with Air America book_quoted ▶ 56:26

“in covert CIA activities such as civil air transport, that throughout the 1950s, his Washington law firm of Corcoran and Youngman was not listed in the Martins Del Hubble law directory. In contrast, D…”

Thomas Corcoran member_of Corcoran and Youngman book_quoted ▶ 56:26