The Colonels Corner - Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 1

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0:00 Good afternoon, Bridget. Can you hear me? There you go. Talk to me. Talk to me, Goose. There we go. Okay. Okay, now I finally got it to open, but we'll see if I can turn it off. Okay. I'm going to go live over here on Rumble. It is great to be home. Let me just say that.

0:37 Totally excited to spend last night with my grandbaby. So life's good. All right. If I could just get my calendar straightened back out. One of the challenges of moving around and scheduling things in different time zones means when you get home and you thought you were doing it exactly the right way to find out that the entire thing screwed up.

1:09 Got to love electronics in the middle of cussing them out. OK, so for there's SR 71. Let me get him up here as co-host once. OK, so I had a completely different plan on what book we were going to do today. However, the best plan only left as long as the.

1:40 first round of engagement. I had ordered a book a long time ago called Hidden Terrors, which is the book we're going to do. I had been unable to get it until recently. You guys remember me talking almost incessantly about the Office of Public Safety and how it was housed in USAID. This book is going to lay bare.

2:11 confess, I only started reading it yesterday and changed up the entire schedule as a result of it. So this is going to be a combination of a live book reading and dig at the same time. I will get ahead of us at some point, but the first chapter to me in our dive into Operation Gladio lays so much bear in it.

2:41 takes in the names in this first chapter is like totally crazy. So that's what we're going to talk about today. But I do want to start with this. I made the mistake of opening up my iPad so that I could do some queries as we go through this first chapter. And the very first thing on the top of the list is a post.

3:14 by Data Republican, who I applaud. Warhamster and I have featured her post on some of our secret society and our live digs with Ghost of Base Patrick Henry. This is not a slam against her, so I want to preface it that way. Jack Posabeck, who I have my own issues with, made a post on

3:36 X today saying, reminder, Karen Bass is an actual communist who was trained by a Marxist brigade by the Castro regime. I have established all of the reasons why that's bullshit, but let's just go with it for a second. Data Republican responds to that post by saying, I'm going to keep repeating this until people understand this.

4:02 Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and communist, but she got elevated to the vice chair of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power for the U.S. government. Actually, the National Endowment for Democracy is a CIA front. And I've talked ad nauseum about the four aspects of the National Endowment for Democracy established by Ronald Reagan's presidency that has the NDI.

4:29 the National Democratic Institute, the IRI, ran by John McCain primarily, the International Republican Institute. It also has a U.S. Chamber of Commerce slush fund and a union slush fund. So all of those are part of this. And I have no idea. There we go. My video wasn't coming through on Rumble. Sorry about that.

4:57 All right. So National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front. Back in the day when Karen Bass was supposedly this Castro operative, she was traveling from the United States to Cuba. Do you know how you travel outside the United States? You do that with visas. Do you know who can stop that travel? The State Department. Do you know who issues these visas? The State Department.

5:26 So are you telling me that someone was traveling back and forth to Cuba outside of CIA and State Department control? No, you're not. You're not going to tell me that because that's a bold faced lie. And they were sending people into Cuba. And you can have it one of two ways. I have made the I have asked the question about.

5:59 Establishing Castro, which we know was brought to power by the CIA as the boogeyman in order to initiate Operation Condor in South America. You have to have a boogeyman to do that. And as we went through Operation Condor and the revelations that in each and every case, the CIA.

6:28 used, oh my God, we can't have another Castro in the Western Hemisphere as the excuse for overthrowing every government minus the couple in Latin America. So the thought that she was freely traveling to a communist country outside of CIA and State Department's knowledge is garbage. So it is very likely that

7:00 she was either spying on Castro for the State Department and the CIA, or that there was an ultimate plan for Karen Bass that involved the CIA and the State Department. So again, that's why understanding Operation Gladio is so important to everything that is going on today. So I just, I want to leave that there.

7:32 And I just want everyone to recognize that our audience is light years ahead of everyone else understanding everything that's going on today. Because if you don't understand it, a lot of what's going on today doesn't make any sense at all. And you don't develop a Karen Bath outside of this operation. You just don't, especially with the ties that she has.

8:01 And she is not going to become the vice chair of the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front outside of the CIA, saying that's who we want to be in that position. So there you have it. All right. Transitioning to the book. Now, this book is written in a style that I hate because I'm a chronological person. This book, and I will indicate.

8:32 As we go through the first chapter, and I'm not even sure it's very long chapters, so I won't I don't know that we'll get through the first chapter in the first sitting of this book. I will try. But I want everyone to understand that there is a shifting of when this book was written and talking about the initial subject of the book, which is Dan Meteorome.

9:02 Who do we know Dan Meterone to be? Dan Meterone was the guy that went down to Uruguay as an employee of USAID's Office of Public Safety. He was instrumental in teaching the national police in Uruguay after the CIA coup and installation of a dictator how to torture.

9:33 kidnap and disappear people. That's what his job was down there. And he was eventually captured by the indigenous freedom fighters fighting back against the CIA's occupation there and their occupation government. And he was killed. And the storyline skips back to his previous history.

10:05 the revelations of his death after he was kidnapped by the indigenous freedom fighters down there so the the skipping back and forth is a little confusing as the book does that i will let you know so just bear with me and that is one of my frustrations i would rather they just take the whole book chronologically explain to us what his um background was

10:30 And then go into the actual kidnapping. But the book is not written that way. So you'll just have to bear with me. All right. So it starts off with his body being brought back to his hometown, Richmond, Indiana. And I didn't realize this until reading this book. My husband and I actually drove through Richmond, Indiana. Richmond, Indiana is.

11:01 In kind of the southeastern quadrant of Indiana. Now, you guys know I'm originally from Indiana. We used to go up there all the time. My last time up there visiting my relatives, we came back in our motorhome through Richmond, Indiana. And we stopped just outside of Richmond and kind of drove through the town. And again, I didn't realize any of this, even though I've talked about Richmond, Indiana and Dan Mitterrand for.

11:31 two years now, because I have pictures of the downtown area. The architecture, the old big houses in the downtown area is absolutely beautiful. We even looked at real estate up there because at the time when we went through there, it was dirt cheap. It was several years ago. So anyway, that was just kind of a newsflash for me.

12:01 It says that President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon sent a commemorative wreath, both large and patriotic, with red carnations, white chrysanthemums, and blue cornflowers. The city officials greeted that as a tribute from the chief executive, whose precedent over all others, and they put it at the head of his coffin. The wreath.

12:30 There was another wreath from the Secretary of State. Now, that's a lot from some guy that supposedly was down in the bowels of the Office of Public Safety. And again, he was killed in a foreign government. But we have lots of people that are killed working for the CIA that gets none of this. So that's a lot. Around Richmond, Indiana, people were still stunned.

13:03 by the calamity in Uruguay. Only three days had passed since the news of Dan's murder first reached them, and now, as though by miracle, his body was back from South America and on display in the lobby of a new municipal building. Hundreds, thousands of men and women who had known Dan were lining up, many with their children to pay their last respects. On reaching the head of the line, however, the mourners found that they could not see the body.

13:33 The Iroquoian government had tried to demonstrate its profound regret by returning Dan's body sealed in a beautifully carved antique coffin. But Henrietta, the widow, asked for another casket, something that had been made at home. Dan's brother, Ray, who wanted very much to oblige her, went to the funeral directors and spoke to them about his sister-in-law's wishes.

14:02 While the morticians agreed to make the change, they requested that someone from the family be present when the old coffin was unsealed. Ray asked his older brother, Dominic, to be the witness, but Dominic refused. So it was Ray who stood by, dreading the ordeal, as they pried open the lid. Inside was yet another coffin, this one made of metal.

14:33 casket maker for a coffin. Richmond had been one of the centers of the coffin industry for a very long time. They also needed a hacksaw to try to saw open the metal casket that was sealed inside of the wooden casket. All the while, they were warning Ray that because his brother's body had not been embalmed, the opening of the inner box

15:01 would be extremely disagreeable. Reluctantly, Ray took the information back to Henrietta. Everyone had always called her Hank. Today, though, she looked tensed and drawn and was bearing up remarkably well under all that had unfolded. She listened to Ray's explanation and said that they should just forget about the whole thing. Meanwhile, late word had come from Geneva, Switzerland, that father, Robert Minton,

15:30 was on his way home and would arrive in time to conduct the funeral. Robert Minton was the local Catholic priest. The family had never doubted that if they could reach him, he would be there. Dan's murder had also brought Ray back early from a vacation. There was an isolated upstate cabin at Lake Chapman that they had used as a getaway.

16:00 Like many bachelors, Ray turned on his radio each morning and listened to the news. However, that morning he had had the morning the news came in. He had had a flat tire that distracted him. Afterward, he wondered why no one at the gas station at the crossroads had told him the news. Either they had not heard it or they had not yet connected it with Ray.

16:33 He had bought this cabin only a few months earlier and had been urging his brothers to make the cabin their retreat as well. Dom could come up on his days off from work as a greenskeeper, and Dan would relax there when he came home on leave from his government job down in South America. So he'd only had it for a couple of months, but Dan had already came home and used it. Around Richmond,

16:59 Men who did not know the brothers very well said that both their temperaments and looks, Ray, who was 42 in the summer of 1970, was a lot like Dan, who was eight years older than Ray. To Ray, such a claim would have been sacrilege. He never made it for himself. He was just pleased that when Dan came back home, he looked over Ray's wardrobe and

17:25 Sometimes he would take items from it, but Ray loved that because he loved his big brother. After he fixed his flat tire, he headed back to the cabin. He was sorry to think that this was the last day of July and his vacation was almost halfway over. Possibly, he did not guess that there were people in Richmond who had asked one another why Ray Mitterrand needed a vacation, but Ray deemed a job.

17:56 What Ray deemed a job stuck to them as nothing more than a paid hobby. Early Monday morning, Ray loaded up his station wagon with sports equipment and set off cruising around Wayne County. And I'll save you the details, but basically he was a sporting goods salesman. So people didn't take Ray's job seriously because literally all he did was go to different high schools and colleges selling sporting equipment.

18:29 In his job, it meant that Ray basically knew everyone. And if you guys know anything about Indiana, sports is everything, especially baseball and basketball. In the last year, his black hair had gone a little bit gray. His body was getting thicker, but his smile just beamed.

18:57 Ray did not have a telephone at the cabin, but as he pulled into the yard, he found his neighbors waiting to flag him down. His sister Rosemary had called long distance from Richmond. Ray first thought of his mother, who was 77, and she basically had been put in a home by that time. Ray said something to the neighbors about his mother, but they reassured him that was not the problem.

19:24 The message had specifically said there was no emergency and for Ray not to worry, but that he needed to call Richmond right away. Ray got through to Rosemary. She asked him, you haven't heard from Dan? As she spoke, Rosemary was dazed. She had first received a call from Dom's wife passing along that a man from the State Department had called. Rosemary could not believe it.

19:51 So she called Washington herself for confirmation. For the moment, Ray was still more curious than alarmed. No, I haven't heard a thing. The neighbor then said, Dan's been kidnapped. Usually the drive south to Richmond took him three hours. However, he got home faster than three hours. Before Ray got there, a clerk had taken a call.

20:19 from a radio station in one of the biggest cities near Richmond, Indianapolis, and others from as close as Dayton, Ohio. The newsman had reported that Dan had been murdered, but he had already retracted the story by the time Ray got home. Not that Ray would have believed it anyway, but then Ray knew very little about his brother's life since Dan had resigned as the Richmond's chief of police.

20:48 He knew that Dan had been in Uruguay these past 13 months advising the country's police force. Now it appeared that a band of thugs in the capital city of Montevideo had kidnapped Dan that morning on his way to work. Ray began trading information with the newsman who called for background material on the brother, Dan. Until today, Ray had never realized how many reporters there were in the world.

21:17 And between taking calls from New York and Chicago and other places, he was trying to help the local boys put together their story. Their local paper was called Palladium Item. As the radio bombardment went on through the afternoon, Ray got accustomed to hearing the family's name mispronounced. They were calling the name Mitteroni as opposed to Mitterone. Ray learned.

21:49 that his brother's abductors called themselves the Tupamaros, another name strange to his ear. In his entire life, Ray could remember meeting only one Iroquoian, and that was just about a year ago. A clean-cut, well-dressed fellow, suit and tie in the middle of an Indian summer, had come into Kessler's, which is where he worked, and he called himself Billy Rial.

22:17 R-I-A-L. He was visiting his sister, Rial explained. She had married a teacher from Centerville down the road. She had heard that Ray's brother was working in Montevago and Rial wanted to leave his address. The next time Ray wrote, he should tell his brother that he would be welcome anytime to stop by. Ray thought again about their mother at the nursing home.

22:48 He didn't want her to know any of this. Their father, Joseph Mitterrand, had been born in a village in Bresacchia, which was 60 miles southeast of Naples. He had gone through fifth grade before being sent out to work in the vineyards. And his father's name was Joseph Mitterrand. They had been planning a trip to the United States.

23:21 When he first thought of coming to the United States, he wanted to move to California and continue his working in the vineyards. But a visit from a relative in Indiana said that they had a blossoming railroad industry and that he probably should explore working for the railroad, which could lead to long-term more profitability than just being an agricultural worker.

23:51 in California. Later, he sent for his wife, Maria, who arrived in New York, 28 years old, with a daughter, Anna, and a younger son, Dominic, and a baby. That baby is Dan. The Meterones changed the baby's name to Daniel Anthony Meterone. Over her

24:21 The years, Maria was pregnant 14 times. That's Dan's mother. Eight children were miscarried. The other six lived. Although she had left a twin sister in Italy, Maria had never shown any interest in returning home. Economic considerations had dictated where Joseph Mitterrand family would settle. Their new life in Indiana was far removed from anything in Italy.

24:54 The community of Richmond, Indiana, had been settled in 1805 by soldiers of George Rogers Clark, the Revolutionary General and brother of the Northwest Explorer Clark. But it was a band of Quakers who gave the town its distinct character by establishing Richmond. In Richmond, the Friends Boarding School, later called Earl Ham College.

25:25 After the Quakers, it was the German immigrants that came to Richmond. Eighty years later, when the Italians began to arrive in force, they found the banks and department stores in the hands of the Germans. But the land itself was hospitable. From New York to the Rocky Mountains, the U.S. had annexed a vast plain capable of feeding a nation, if necessary, the world.

25:56 Indiana was one of those states. It was marked by its rich soil, yet the same sweeping horizon that made life fruitful for the farmers could prove less nourishing for the spirit. And it goes on to talk about how basically it was a breadbasket. And Father Robert Minton was sent there to create a Catholic parish.

26:24 In his younger years, he had traveled the world. As he surveyed Indiana's limitless vista, he asked himself whether any man who had seen a mountain or a sea would ever be happy there. Not only could this ocean of solid land leave a man feeling strangled, but the newcomer who had grown up in gentler climate would find the weather horrible because it was very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter.

26:59 Other Native daughters and sons rejected that lifelong challenge of living in Indiana and left Indiana behind. People that were from Richmond in that area included Irene Dunn, Carol Lombard, Clifton Webb, Cole Porter from nearby cities. For those who stayed behind, the isolation

27:33 was intolerable. Writing about the time that the Mitterrands arrived in Richmond, Irvin Cobb poked fun at the enthusiasm for which Hoosiers were embracing the Ku Klux Klan. Cobb claimed that the Klan had swept the state like a hurricane. Richmond called itself the City of Roses, a botanist,

28:02 E. Gurney Hill had built 30 acres of hothouses and sent fresh roses around the country. But even half a million rose bushes near the city limits didn't brighten Richmond. One mayor pointed out in a slogan, Richmond the beautiful. Most people just grimaced. Given the weariness of the new neighbors, Italian immigrants tended to group together.

28:32 near the railroad tracks on the north side of Richmond. Joseph Mitterrand's children grew up in a section called Goosetown. Sixty years ago, a settlement's name could be both fond and derisive. Besides Goosetown, there was also nearby areas called Needmore and Lick Skillet.

29:00 That's what they called kind of basically what we would refer to as the slums. Richmond's blacks also lived in Goosetown, but south of where the Mitterrand settled. There was more of them than there were Italians, but everyone was polite. Each Sunday on their way to 5 a.m. Mass, Ray Mitterrand and his mother passed groups of black men who were left over from the Saturday night.

29:29 They gave Ray no cause to be nervous and actually greeted them on their way to church. The Mitterrand's first house in the local neighborhood had tar paper roofs. They were all either gray or green. The house could scarcely stand the winters. But the elder Mitterrand's feeling for nature and warm colors survived the strabismus. Maria, the mom.

30:00 planted their entire yard in flowers. And the dad, who had came over from Italy, rented a nearby lot so they had a huge big area to grow fresh vegetables. Ray's temperament tended to be bitterness. Joseph Mitterrand, the dad, preferred to spend time in his garden. And while all of the boys in this family were very athletic,

30:32 His dad never went to any of their games, but they did have a clubhouse. Nearby, they started a thing called the Italian Club. Joseph Mitterrand went there every Saturday and again on Sunday after Mass. There were fellow Italian immigrants, all speaking Italian. The boys began to hang around this club when they were old enough.

31:04 They all became members. With the club and the family talk at home, they all grew up speaking Italian. The clubhouse was just one room with a small bar in the back. There was a basement downstairs. The Italian club members worked late. They were all from big families. They would see each other at funerals and all kinds of Italian holidays.

31:34 So everyone basically knew each other. Okay. And one of the big employers in Richmond at the time was none other than International Harvester. Now, where have we found International Harvester? We found International Harvester in the middle of all of the coups of Latin America. Because if you go back and read the Nelson Rockefeller biography.

32:07 you find out that he was one of the people leading the efforts for big ag in all of Latin America. And again, I think whoever wrote this book has no idea of Operation Condor or anything else. And so the revelation that all of these people, especially the Italians, in Richmond, Indiana,

32:37 were employees of International Harvester is huge. That to me was like a bombshell. And his dad, Joseph Meterone, worked at International Harvester as opposed to the railroad in Richmond, Indiana. Okay, to fulfill the promise that the Meterones had for their young children, they sent them to school to learn.

33:14 English, some Italian children came out still talking a bit louder and with their hands, which is a natural Italian thing to do. With Dan Meterone, the transformation seemed painless. He spent his first eight years at St. Mary's, which was a Catholic school. Then he went to the local high school where he was featured prominently in football.

33:48 He was very well-dressed while he was there, and most people made fun of his meticulous way. He made sure that his pants were ironed, his shirt was ironed. I don't know too many people that went to high school that cared about their clothes being ironed, but Dan was one of them. So, Dan's one tangible reward from his high school yearbook was our tall, dark, and handsome football hero. That was noted of Dan.

34:25 Dan tended to take over for his father raising the younger children, to include Ray. Because, again, Ray was eight years younger than Dan. And he also was very disciplinarian to the younger children. And the book goes on to basically say that Ray would be disciplined.

34:58 significantly, like spankings and everything, by Dan. He was the disciplinarian in the family, not the dad and not the mom. When the high school days came to an end, Dan may have given a thought to college. He had been only an average student, but very disciplined. Some of his classmates were headed off to Indiana University, but instead,

35:26 Dan also followed in his father's footsteps and went to work at none other than International Harvester. A year goes by. Anyone might have predicted that Dan was firmly launched on a path to mirror his father's. Dan would marry an Italian girl from the neighborhood. He would work at a machine shop. This is just what they were saying was going to become of him. But his future proved very different.

35:58 A new year brought World War II, and in Richmond, as throughout the country, men flocked to enlist. A Hoosier named Ross Lockridge Jr. spoke for generations of those men in a novel that was set in mythical Raintree County, Indiana. One of the male characters, Lockridge, wrote,

36:25 was bounded by a box, the country inside of a box, the state inside of a box called the city. And basically went on to talk about how escaping that was affording all of the people from the Midwest at a chance to go out and do greater things. And they described, the author described several of the people and what they did.

36:57 where many of them came back heroes that came back. Later years, when Dan felt cheated because he didn't get to go abroad, he was left here in the United States. Years later, when he was sent to Latin America, he said that his belated duty overseas might make up for missing actions during World War II. He served his time at a naval base in Michigan.

37:27 He had worked his way to the verge of a promotion to chief when peace was declared, and along the way he had been assigned a sergeant of the guard. It was his first taste of patrolling, and he took to the duty naturally. Growing up in a stern Italian home had prepared him for the discipline. Now government directives, not simply a personal need, demanded that he follow the rules.

37:53 and attention to detail both in his dress and grooming. In the nearby town in Michigan, he also met his wife. He asked Henrietta Lind, L-I-N-D, to marry him, and she accepted. The marriage took place in Richmond, and she converted to Catholicism. In Goosetown, opinion divided over Hank Mitterrand, and again, that's her nickname.

38:27 and hometown girls who had fancied Dan could be excused a touch of malice. But she was a serious girl, and Dan, for his surface pleasantry, was a very sober man. Hank worshipped her new husband. The Protestant gentry around the town granted that much, even when later they would scorn her obedience to her new adopted church, the Catholic Church.

38:55 And many joked about her having as many kids as a cat has kittens. A cruel observation, but there were truth in it. 11 months after the wedding, Hank produced the first child, which was a daughter. By the time the war ended 18 months later, she was pregnant with another. The pattern held over the next 20 years until Hank had nine children.

39:22 When he was discharged from the Navy, Dan had, for the moment, no better thought than to return to International Harvester. He moved his new family into his parents' wood grain house. By then, they had escaped the railroad tracks and had moved to a new house near a park. On the first day of December 1945, Dan went to police headquarters and filled out an application to join the police department.

39:52 Kind of a funny part. One of the top lines asked for the candidate's political affiliation. Dan wrote Democrat. Later, like most patrolmen, he changed his registration to Republican. But just as he had shielded his parents from learning that Hank had been born outside their faith, he also kept that news from his father. Seeing his son don a police uniform had brought Joseph Mitterrand great pride.

40:19 In the style of the day, the form also asked some very other, very bold questions, like whether you were white or collared. Dan checked white. They also asked if you could read. Dan checked yes. They also asked if you could write. Dan checked yes to that, too. He listed his past employments and the names of his two children, his Italian birthplace, and...

40:56 The fact that he had a earlier ailment, which was an internal hernia. He was hired, accepted as one of Richmond's finest. The police forces in Indiana might be notoriously underpaid, and they were at the time. Those drawbacks could not stop him from going out on the street every day and doing his best.

41:24 He would treat the police as an extension of his Navy duty. He was partnered with a very easygoing cop named Orville Conyers, C-O-N-Y-E-R-S. Conyers was destined never to be called by his Christian name. His nickname was Red because of the color of his hair. He was five years older than Dan, and they rode around in the same squad car for the first couple of years.

41:58 By big city standards, their duty was undemanding. They booked drunk drivers, breaking and entering, and those types of things. They were also the dog warden. For Red, their most dangerous calls were the times when they would be sent out to family squabbles. And it goes on and describes some of those.

42:25 It was the era of easy GI mortgages for $6,500 bungalows and hamburger at three pounds for a dollar. Yet Red and Dan found it hard to raise their families on their $180 per month. So they moonlighted. During their off-duty hours, they would basically guard different places. They also...

42:52 loaded things onto the railroad yards. They also cultivated private patrons like the manager of the local Sears, which I thought was very interesting since we've already tied the guy that owns Sears to the private intelligence network that was being used back in those days to spy on people and give information to the newly formed CIA and also to the FBI.

43:24 That may or may not mean anything. I just think it's weird. He would do odd jobs for the manager at Sears, like washing their cars, waxing their cars. In the days following, and then this is where they break and go back to his being captured in Uruguay. So break, break from his past. The days following the kidnapping kept Ray feverishly excited.

44:00 Ray's his brother. In deference to the throngs of television cameras and photographers, Ray wore a suit every day as opposed to his normal sports attire when he was out selling sports gear. The family had expected Dan to dress up but not Ray. Years ago, Ray had come home wearing a Stetson and his mother had mistaken him for Dan. Now, he was temporarily out of his sports clothes and into a suit.

44:29 The mom kept asking him when he would go visit, had they heard from Dan? And Ray would lie to her and basically say, yeah, we just heard from him the other day. It pained Ray to lie to his mother, but until he had more details, he didn't want to tell her. For Ray and the rest of the family, it was a time of helplessness. The two Pereiros had announced that they would free the kidnapped victims, Dan and the Brazilian vice consul.

44:59 only after the Uruguayan government had released the 150 political prisoners that they had captured from the local freedom fighters. From the news accounts, Washington and Brazil were each pressing Uruguay to make the trade. But the president down there, a man by the name of Jorge Palseco Arico, A-R-E-C-O, was stubborn.

45:27 He was quoted as saying he would never negotiate with the criminals. Yet there were hopeful signs. Representatives of the Vatican in Uruguay was trying to start negotiations to free Dan. Ray also received a call from a man who identified himself as Cesar Bernal, B-E-R-N-A-L. Bernal said that he had been an associate of Dan's in Uruguay, and he spoke lightly about the two Pereros.

45:56 After spending four years in Monteviego, he knew them like a book, he said, and they were not bad people. That was the phrase Ray remembered, not bad people. In addition, the newspaper sometimes recounted the fate of other kidnapped victims, particularly in Brazil, where the U.S. ambassador had been seized and sequestered until the Brazilian government agreed to exactly the sort of swap.

46:25 the Tuporeros were demanding. That ambassador, his name Charles Burke Elbrick, had been released with nothing worse than a bruise on his head. The family knew that Dan's condition had to be more serious than that. Wire services reported that he had been shot during his capture. A communique from the Tuporeros said the bullet had passed through his upper right chest and out his armpit.

46:52 The State Department spokesman protested that by not getting Dan to a hospital, they had magnified the inhumanity of the act, but the Tuporero bulletin had been couched in medical language and specified that no vital organs had been damaged and that he was not suffering discomfort. When the local paper commented on Dan's kidnapping, it was unbelievable. It was one of the rare times Andrew

47:24 Cesare, let me spell that guy's name because he comes up again, C-E-C-E-R-E, could agree with an editorial. Unlike the Mitterrand boys, Cesare had chosen to live in Richmond. He had not been raised in Goosetown. Perhaps that was why he, among the Italian-American community, had been the one to challenge Richmond's old-line politics.

47:53 He was an outgoing person and starred in many of the local theaters. Ciceri had graduated from law school at the University of Michigan. He served in the Marines and had settled in Richmond in 1949, which is kind of odd, like really, really odd. The Italians accepted him readily.

48:19 He was invited to the clubhouse at the North End where he played cards and met all of the Italians, especially young Dan Mitterrand. But the powerful men, the wealthy and conservative leadership of the town, were not interested in one more ambitious young Italian who had forsaken his native Pittsburgh to move to Richmond. Pittsburgh again.

48:52 After two years of practicing law and being recalled back into the Marine Corps, Cesare came back to Richmond in 1953 in a fighting mood. By then, he knew who ran the town. There was a short list of people. A Mr. Hill from Hill Floral Products. He was involved in the big rose industry. McGuire.

49:20 of the law firm Dill-McGuire-Lont, L-O-N-T-Z, and they sold, and that group also owned the local telephone company who had sold it to General Telephone, so they had money. Rudolph Leeds, L-E-E-D-S, who published the local paper, those men were shopping for a public official that they could hire.

49:52 as a caretaker for their estate. Of the qualities that they viewed in a public servant, an independent mind ranked at the bottom. In other words, they were the town elites and they were looking for someone they could control that would manage Richmond in the way in which they wanted it managed. But they wanted to stay behind the veil. When Andy Ciceri made his assault,

50:22 The occupant of the mayor's office was a guy by the name of Lester Meadows. He was the local barber. In 1955, Mayor Meadows announced that he would be laying down the burdens of public office, and the downtown businessman chose a florist as their candidate. Sestieri, who had become a city chairman of the Democrat Party, saw his chance and encouraged the Democrats to pick.

50:51 For a second time, Roland Cutter, an insurance man from a family that was old and respectable and wanted to make a strong showing against Meadows. Meadows had or excuse me, Cutter had ran against Meadows four years earlier. Cesare knew that the Democrats had to overcome years of Republican rule around Rudy Leeds.

51:23 local newspaper, very few employees had the courage on election day to ask for a Democrat ballot. They voted Republican or they stayed home. In the hearts of policemen like Dan Mederone, might be with the New Democrat Coalition, but when Ciceri thought about it, all he assumed was that the late presidential election, Dan had voted for Eisenhower over Stevenson.

51:50 This year, Cesare's coalition took hold. The school teachers joined, i.e. the local unions. Labor was showing an unexpected militancy at the International Harvester Plan. Organizers for the UAW were all ready to challenge the anti-labor policies, which had guaranteed years that no strikes would be allowed by the use of the cops.

52:20 Three days before the election, the sitting mayor made labor the central issue. He endorsed the entire Republican's slate on the grounds that none of the Republican candidates were obligated in such a way as to prevent them from preserving law and order when and if the labor disputes arise. The candor, the candor, together with the series organization efforts.

52:49 led the Democrats to a rare victory that even the local newspaper called smashing. Cutter beat the Republican candidate by nearly a two to one margin. To reward Ciceri, the new mayor appointed him city attorney. So Ciceri got the mayor elected and the mayor appointed Ciceri his attorney.

53:19 Sometime later, an old-timer cornered Ciceri and asked him how it could happen that foreigners came in and took over the town. By the time Andy Ciceri was not offended, he laughed and said, there's been such a void in Richmond that even somebody like me look good. That definitely is happening today. Other times, speaking before a civics group,

53:47 The new city attorney tried to explain what he felt about being part of a minority. The United States was a colossus, Ciceri would say. It had great biceps, bulging thighs, but he would add, it was we Italians who gave it a big heart. Now, we're going to flash back. A week had passed with no yielding on either side for Dan's brothers and sisters. It was becoming...

54:17 Harder to believe that this horror could end with his being restored to them. News accounts made it sound as though the Uruguayan government was putting hundreds of suspects in jail. But the president went on refusing to free the original 150 Tuporero prisoners, and only their release could save Dan. In Richmond, they had proof that Dan himself wanted the U.S. to act on his behalf. The editors from the local newspaper called Ray,

54:47 and he went to the newsroom to inspect a fax that had come over the wire. It was a note from Dan to his wife, Hank. Ray looked it over and verified that the handwriting was, in fact, Dan's. The note had been found after a tupperero called a newspaper reporter in Montevideo and told him to look around the toilet of a bar in the center of city. There, taped to the tank, he found the message.

55:16 And basically that message was then passed to Richmond. It read, Dear Henrietta, I am recovering from the wound I received when I was taken. Please tell the ambassador to do everything possible to liberate me as soon as possible. I have been and am still being interrogated deeply about the AID program and the police. I send my love to you and the children.

55:46 Love you, Dan. So again, this verifies that Dan was working for the Office of Public Safety under the USAID. In view of that appeal, the Wire story speculated that the president in Iroquois would now declare a general amnesty for the political prisoners. But another day passed and still the Iroquoian government did nothing. In Richmond, Ray and his family grew, their nerves grew raw.

56:18 There was, however, a worse effect to the delay. The kidnappers were giving signs that their patients were running out. In a note delivered to a local radio station in Uruguay, the Tuporeros said that they would wait until midnight Friday, August 7th, for the authorities to announce the release of their comrades. If no official announcement was made, they would kill Dan. The Associated Press reported,

56:44 that it was not clear whether the last sentence constituted a threat. I'm pretty sure it was a threat. By the weekend, there was a feeling throughout Richmond that events in Iroquois were out of control. A new note from the two Pereros accused Dan of being a spy for the U.S. If the family had not been so apprehensive, that far-fetched charge might have left them indignant. The message continued, quote, He is representative of a power.

57:13 that had massacred entire populations in Vietnam, Santo Domingo, and other places, unquote, which is absolutely true. Then came the explicit threat the family had been dreading. Unless the Uruguayan government agreed to release its prisoners, Dan would be killed on Sunday. The deadline came and went. No prisoners were released. The two Pereros issued no further communique.

57:40 At about 4.30 a.m. Monday, Ray's telephone rang in his apartment. It was a UPI reporter from Indianapolis. He had spoken with Ray on Sunday, and Ray had asked him to call back the minute they got any news. The reporter said, we just heard they found his body in the north part of Monteviego. Ray asked if it had been confirmed. He said, not yet. Do you want to make a statement? Maybe it wasn't true, Ray thought.

58:11 Maybe it's just propaganda. Maybe they killed someone else. He told the reporter he had nothing to say. Ten minutes later, a call came from David Dennis, the congressman in Ray's district. Have you heard about Dan? Well, Ray said, it wasn't confirmed. The congressman said, I'm confirming it, Ray. So, break, break, back to the past.

58:39 With good reason, Roland Cutter believed that he had launched Dan Mitterrand on a career that would end at St. Catholic's Cemetery. Until the past week, the part he had played was a matter of pride to him. In some puzzlement, he had watched Dan use the helping hand of Cutter that was extended to him to be a cop. Cutter's grandfather had come to Richmond from Germany in the past century.

59:10 Henry Cutter had spoken no English, but he learned the names of different foods and opened a grocery store. Roland Cutter had inherited a burglar's face to which he had added a mustache. After Indiana State, that's where he went to school, he returned to Richmond and settled into an insurance business. Isn't that weird how it's always the same industries? Cutter was one of those men, the parish priest, Father Minton.

59:40 was another who admired the way Italians over on the north end raised their children. For years, Cutter had seen Dan around town, always neat, well-behaved, well-dressed. In recent years, two Italians had won seats on the city council, and they had proven to be patriotic. In 1955, when Andy Ciceri's coalition put Cutter in office, the new mayor prided himself on being politically naive.

1:00:09 And he would say that he did not know a precinct from a bale of hay. A week or two after the election, Cutter was down on the Indiana University campus visiting his son at the Delta Epsilon house. And it was weighing on him that he would soon have to name a new fire chief and police chief. Although it was Sunday, the new mayor went to the university's School of Public Police Administration.

1:00:38 Now, the School of Police Administration, just so that you guys know, is where the CIA embedded itself to create all of the Office of Public Safety people that they would eventually hire into USAID under the Office of Public Safety. That was the same at Michigan State, where they hired the people and they embedded the CIA agents to go and create the Phoenix program.

1:01:07 But this is at Indiana University. He found the director in his office and appealed to him. How do you go about picking a police chief? The director thought Cutter was joking. In Indiana, chiefs of police were prime patronage jobs. Until wealthy men ran out of nephews, there would be no need to ask a university's help in filling that post. But see all the patronage.

1:01:35 People in Richmond were Republicans and they just installed their first Democrat. So where do you go? When he was convinced that Cutter was serious, the director dispatched a team of researchers to Richmond. The mayor rented a hotel room and the university staff called every member of the force to the room for aptitude tests. Some men grumbled about the test because they seemed completely out of whack with police work.

1:02:05 But he continued to support the mysterious method counting on it to produce a very model of a modern police chief. Now, again, you're talking about an entity that were coughing up people for use in USAID Office of Public Safety. This is crazy. The team first gave Cutter advice about the kind of chief he did not want.

1:02:35 You're not looking for the brave cop. They kept repeating that. You're not looking for the brave cop. You don't want to name a great hero because the job is administrative. Then, after all the suspense and to a reaction from the other cops that ranged from surprise to outrage, the team nominated a young juvenile officer.

1:03:04 who barely had 10 years experience on the force. Major Cutter appointed him immediately. The new chief was no hero, nor did he pretend to be. He was, however, the first scientifically selected professional chief of police Richmond had ever had. He would be able to vindicate the mayor's faith in the process that chose him. Yet, Roland Cutter

1:03:33 could never help but think of his chief fondly as little Danny Meterone, the Italian boy from Goosetown. So this, one of the things that during our research in the Office of Public Safety that kept coming up repeatedly as we looked into Dan Meterone's past is how did he ever get to be police chief? Because again, he was one of the most junior people to,

1:04:03 Be on that police force in Richmond. It made no sense at all. Now it makes perfect sense. And I found it in this crazy book. OK, break, break. OK, so we're back to the future. After the strange official silence while Dan was alive, his murder seemed to have triggered a thousand fax machines into Washington, D.C. The public officials were queuing up to denounce the.

1:04:37 Some of them even remembered to send condolences to the Mitterrand family. The two highest ranking responses did not come from men from the buildings. The White House said today, began an Associated Press account, the kidnap murder of U.S. official Dan Mitterrand in Uruguay is despicable act that will be condemned by men of decency and honor everywhere.

1:05:06 The Vatican, in an unsigned article on the front page of their newspaper, condemned crimes attempted in the name of fanatical ideologues. Pope Paul VI, a day earlier, had called political kidnappings vile. The political figure to speak at the greatest length on the killing was House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan.

1:05:38 That's crazy. Although the murder had led some voices to suggest that the U.S. should not be engaged in these activities that had taken Dan to Uruguay, Ford took the murder as proof of how important it was for the U.S. to persevere in these missions. Again, this is the Office of Public Safety under USAID, which is a CIA front.

1:06:05 going into foreign countries, training the national police to be terrorists. And Gerald Ford in the House said that we should persevere in these missions. Ford also expressed confidence that the Uruguayan government had done all in its power to obtain Dan's release. In fact, they had done nothing. On the U.S. side, Ford singled out for special commendation Dan's boss.

1:06:40 Byron Engel, the director of the Office of Public Safety. So he is praising the guy in charge of the program to create terrorists. Louis Gibbs owed his job to Dan Mitterrand. Okay, so we're jumping back in the past. Sorry.

1:07:05 Lewis Gibbs owed his job to Dan Mederone, and he realized on a day like this much more. Gibbs had applied to the police force six times, and each time he had left his political affiliation blank. Someone in the department didn't like that, and six times Gibbs had been rejected. In April 1956, he applied for a seventh time.

1:07:34 The new chief summoned him to his office. Mitterrand's doubts about the young applicant were not political, only economic. He had been working as a meat cutter. Gibbs made $9,000 a year, which was even more than Mitterrand was making as the chief of police. Mitterrand asked him, are you sure you want to join the force? You're making more than me. After the seventh application,

1:08:01 Gibbs was sure his application was approved. Until Mitterrand took office, experienced officers in Richmond had trained their new colleagues in a casual apprentice. The rookie would get in the back seat with two veterans and ride around. It was basically OJT. But weirdly, Dan Mitterrand changed that. They were going to use a modern process to train cops. Mitterrand himself had overcome.

1:08:34 to him being the chief of police by going off and attending an FBI training in Washington, D.C. When he got back home, he suddenly had a new interest in arranging training with the very same people that had selected him at the university, at Indiana University.

1:09:05 They were going to set up a six-week training course to train all the new officers in Richmond. After his training, Gibbs found that life for patrolmen under the new chief was rigorous. From the start, the older men had not liked Mitterrand, but then they had been passed over for his job. Gibbs granted that the chief was tough. There was only one way to do things, his way.

1:09:35 Mitterrand was quoted as saying, the door swings in and it swings out. You either play the game or you don't play at all. Later, the police started to negotiate their contracts through the Fraternal Order of Police, and an offending officer was guaranteed a formal hearing. Although in his day, Mitterrand held absolute power over the police and generally made his own decision.

1:10:10 patrolling with a partner who outranked him, a sergeant, when they captured a man who had held up a gas station. And it goes on to describe this, and basically, Mitterrand said that you, in one way, did the right thing, but in another thing, you should have been listening to your chain of command. Although in those days, most Richmond cops carried a blackjack, Mitterrand,

1:10:44 dissuaded people like young Gibbs from taking one out on his beat. You don't need it. You're young. Use your own strength, he said. Most of the time, the patrolmen, especially those the chief had hired, did not worry about displeasing him. They had come to understand and basically did what they were told. One experience Gibbs would never forget occurred at 2 a.m. on a rainy night.

1:11:14 It basically goes on to describe that Mitterrand had used a room to basically call all the cops in that were on duty and check their uniforms to make sure they look good. It just so happens that it was a rainy night and he didn't care. That's how militant he was about the police force.

1:11:47 Mitterrand knew the respectable people of the town were looking to him for action. He went to Mayor Cutter and said, I may make some people mad, but I can clean up things. The mayor gave him the go-ahead. Over the next weeks, the police would roust teenagers who were out after curfew and basically busted them for curfew.

1:12:18 Ray's first, okay, and then it flips again back to the future. Ray's, his brother's first impulse after Dan's murder had been to fly to Uruguay and help bring Hank and the youngest children home. And this is the first time that I've read in any of the books that I've read about Dan Muterone that he actually had his family in Uruguay.

1:12:45 Now, keep in mind, we haven't even got to the part, but Dan Meterone was using the basement of a building to torture people. This is the guy that was using homeless people and handicapped people in the basement of a building to teach the national police where to collect or where to place electric clips onto body parts.

1:13:16 to get the most pain and leave the least evidence that they were being tortured. And he had his family with him while he was doing it. Dan's four oldest daughters and sons were all living around Washington, D.C. Does anybody find that weird? Here's a guy that's the chief of police in Richmond and goes off to do work in foreign countries.

1:13:50 and his four oldest kids are all living in Washington, D.C. They were flown to Uruguay to accompany their father's body and the rest of the family back to the U.S. The Air Force jet carrying the family landed on a Wednesday morning, August 12th, at the nearest jet strip to Richmond, which was Cox Municipal Airport in Dayton, Ohio.

1:14:21 City officials had planned to have Dan's body lay in state all day Thursday. But Hank, who had endured the tension for nearly two weeks, wanted the speediest end possible. The honor guard, 40 airmen from right pat, used a hydraulic lift to bring the body down from the cargo hatch. Because again, it's a casket within a casket and the inner casket is metal.

1:14:50 which is really weird. Traveling at a 45-mile-an-hour police-escorted ride back into Richmond, state troopers from Indiana and Ohio joined the entourage. The procession pulled into the funeral home, where for two hours Hank received Dan's family and friends, and part of the time John, her youngest, sat in her lap.

1:15:18 Hank had boarded a plane in Uruguay wearing a coat and sunglasses. By 1 p.m., Dan's body was laying in state at the new municipal building. Red Conyers was outside the building with a police guard that lowered the flag to half staff. For six hours and 15 minutes, Dan's coffin lay on display. According to the local paper, 9,000 people came to pay tribute.

1:15:52 An expression of grief unmatched in Richmond history. The pastor of the local Presbyterian chief was among those who stopped by, and he told of the day Dan had come to address the youth service. Quote, at the time, Roman Catholic and Protestant relations were not very cordial, the pastor said, but I told him he was welcome to sit in on our service. Dan said, give me a hymn book.

1:16:20 And he sang along with everyone else. On Tuesday morning, the homage and the public mourning reached their climax. Shortly before 10 a.m., Secretary of State William Rogers and his wife arrived at the Holy Family Parish along with the Uruguayan ambassador. Richard Nixon sent his son-in-law, David Eisenhower. Yes, that's...

1:16:49 the son of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who Nixon was the vice president for. A few minutes later, the family arrived at the church with 500 other worshipers, along with the dignitaries, and Father Minton gave the service. Father Robert Minton stood two inches over six feet tall. The priest had decided that, well, I'll...

1:17:19 Skip that part. This just is talking about the height of people in the local town. Father Minton did not mean to be patronizing, and he exempted men like Dan Meterone, who was shorter than he was, but still basically said, we're all good Italians. Father Minton had founded the Holy Family Parish 17 years earlier when he arrived in Richmond. The town had felt strange to him.

1:17:52 He had been a chaplain. You're never going to guess where he was a chaplain. He was a chaplain in China during World War II. You know where the OSS was getting in bed with Chiang Kai-shek. Yeah. Yeah. That's where the guy came from. And he ends up somehow mysteriously in Richmond, Indiana. No.

1:18:24 And they didn't even have a parish. He created it. And it just so happens that's where Dan Mitterrand comes from. Weird. And oh, by the way, Dan Mitterrand graduated from elementary school at one of the local parishes. So I don't guess they had an actual Catholic church, but they had a Catholic school when Ray was going to school.

1:19:00 So, it says the people of his parish were much like Ray, simple and unspoiled. I don't know about the unspoiled. I think torturing people is kind of spoiled. But among the 500 families at the Holy Family Church, there was only one professional man, a dentist. Dan, however, had been different. Dan had his faults, including a quick anger.

1:19:28 But when he spoke before service clubs and the local chamber of commerce, he left behind an impression of competence and almost a spellbinding way. Once, it was before Dan became chief, when he was still a juvenile officer, he told a church group that the U.S. was like a big jigsaw puzzle. Basically, he said that you put all the pieces together and you turn it over, and it was the youth of America.

1:19:59 When Dan left Richmond, his first destination was none other than Brazil. Now, what was going on in Brazil during that time? Oh, that's right. We were overthrowing that government, too. So I think that's probably a good place to leave it, because we went on well past the time.

1:20:36 This is a crazy book. This is a crazy book. And it does fill in a lot of holes that I had in this meter on story. So a lot of holes. But we're almost done with chapter one. And then we'll roll into chapter two tomorrow. This is just I'm sorry. This is crazy. So let's open it up.

1:21:08 SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel, and welcome back. I'm sure everybody's glad you're back. Thank you. And thank you, everybody, for attending here today and those on Rumbles as well. I'm wondering if Dan Mitterrand had anything to do or any knowledge of the Catholic Church and the Inquisition, given where he went with all of this. I don't know. It just sort of blows my mind. I don't know.

1:21:39 I just think it's interesting, as many people have pointed out along the way, that the Catholic Church does seem interwoven into so much of what we've discovered. So, anyway, anybody else have anything? Well, the fact that there's just so much to unpack in what you've unloaded today. Like the kids all living in...

1:22:14 Washington, D.C., the pastor coming from China. I mean, it's patterns, patterns, patterns, patterns. My Gladio glasses were fogging up as you were going through all this stuff. It's just incredible. I agree. And again, just because I'm kind of doing this on the fly, I am going to go back tonight.

1:22:41 And I'm going to look up several of these people. And I do want to look into the people that we could tie to meet our own because I'm sure there's an obituary. I just didn't have time to do any of that. When I was reading this book last night, after I got home, I just had my mind was blown again.

1:23:06 Again, we know that happens often when you dive into these books because it lays out things that, and I found this book in a reference on one of the articles that I had done a long thread on. It had four different books. I ordered all four books, but I just started reading this one.

1:23:32 It's crazy. Illini, did you have something you wanted to add? Hey, Colonel. You know, I don't know. I haven't bought the book. I think I'm going to order it. And I don't want to jump ahead here. But you take a look at the background here. And you take a look at how Dan Mitrione got into his position as this police chief. And you take a look at the people who put him there.

1:24:03 And I'm not sure we're ever going to find out how he exactly how he goes from from being this police chief to, you know, moving his family to to Ira Gray and thinking that all of his behavior in the country, which is, you know, really horrific, is is normal. But I think it's interesting here that.

1:24:29 These people at Indiana University, they put him through this six-week training program. They promote him to police chief. And they get him his job. And there's a certain betrayal blindness that happens with that. Or sort of a Milgram experiment authority going on in this guy's head. That these people know what we're supposed to be doing and how they get ahead as part of the police.

1:24:58 It wouldn't be a shocker for them to start training him and for them to start, you know, influencing what he's doing and eventually how he shows up, you know, in Brazil, in Uruguay. And of course, these guys, of course, have all these connections to the Office of Public Safety. And I wonder if that might have really been what happened behind the scenes. I don't know. So let me be clear. So he, Dan Meterone, was selected by Indiana University.

1:25:29 But he was sent to the FBI for training. After he returns from the FBI, he throws all of the training out the window that had gone on for decades in Richmond. And it was Dan that arranged with Indiana University to begin training all of his new hires for six week training at Indiana University at their.

1:26:00 police administration school there. So Dan didn't go to the six weeks. He went to an FBI school, which we know are basically hand in hand with the CIA, although they have their rivalries and all that other crap. We know that there are CIA embeds at the FBI. So those are his mentors.

1:26:22 Those are his mentors. Those are the people he sees as helping him to get this job as the Richmond police chief at the age of like, what, 28, 30 or something like that. They're the people he sees as giving his career to go ahead. They're the people he trusts. And if they want to put him through some sort of a training program, and the training program gets a little bit weird sometimes, he's probably going to accept it. Well, he owes them. Yes.

1:26:52 And the fact that not only did this school at Indiana University select him to be the police chief, completely throwing everything out of the window of norms within a police department. He gets trained by the FBI, comes back and throws.

1:27:18 all the other norms on the OJT out the window and allows every one of his officers, and I'll use the word, to be indoctrinated by this same entity that selected him. It's like he's offering up the new hires to the omnipresent authority of Indiana University's school that selected him. And maybe that was the...

1:27:45 Hey, we're going to select you to be this if you allow us to experiment with all of your younger new hires into our six week training program, because we, along with other Office of Public Safety CIA fronts at universities, i.e. Michigan State, are going to be using not only you.

1:28:10 but these new hires that we indoctrinate into this program for overseas assignments. And that's exactly what we saw happen at Michigan State, where they founded the entity that became the overarching authority under the Office of Public Safety in Vietnam to set up the Phoenix program. I think it's...

1:28:37 I think it's more terrifyingly innocent than that. He takes his family off to Uruguay. And what that signals is he thinks this is normal. He thinks that what he's doing out there is normal, is standard practice. He's just following his training.

1:28:55 Whatever they gave him, you know, whatever his buddies at the FBI taught him was normal for policing in Latin America. He's doing it. He thinks it's normal. He thinks his kids are safe there. And things are just kind of rolling along blithely. That's my guess as to what's going through his head. That's scary. There's something scary about human nature. It is. It is very scary. But also.

1:29:21 He could have, like you said, assumed that he was safe there because there were people all over the world doing exactly the same thing at the same time. I mean, we were doing this in Vietnam. We did this in Brazil. We did this in Chile. So this is not something that they viewed as. I lost some of that, Colonel.

1:30:06 Thank you. I'll step down. I just think I agree with you that he doesn't think this is unusual and that is even more terrifying. But I also know that it's not unusual for people in USAID, which by the way are embedded in the embassy staff and given basically the same protection from local

1:30:35 prosecution. So there's kind of an inherent safety mechanism for these people to be deployed overseas to do this nefarious business because they are technically within the embassy staff as far as protection goes. And it isn't, as we're going to find out, all that unusual that they bring their family with them. I mean, after all, the series that we're doing on Alpha Warriors shows that

1:31:05 The Sobtero group, to include Obama's mom, had no problem at all bringing her daughter and her son to Indonesia while they're overthrowing the government there and basically setting up the exact same thing in Indonesia during the coup there. So sometimes it gives them almost a cover of them being perfectly normal because.

1:31:32 After all, they have their family there, right? So they can't be doing anything nefarious. Because who would bring their family to do something nefarious like murder people or torture them? So it's almost like a built-in cover as well. SR71? Thank you, Colonel. I have two observations here that sort of got me some thoughts jumbling around in my head. First of all, in the book, we're talking about a scenario where

1:32:05 Six times he applied to the police force and wasn't accepted due to nonpolitical affiliation. No, that's another guy. That's another. Oh, that was another guy. Yeah, that was. Yeah. I'm sorry. I misunderstood that. Yeah, that was one of his. That was the guy that he he was the first recruit that was sent over to Indiana University to.

1:32:29 work there to go through the six-week training. That was not Mitterrand himself. Now that makes sense. Yeah, that was one of his new hires. My bad. Yeah, that was the guy by the name of Lewis Gibbs that had done the six-time application, seven-time charm. Warhamster, go ahead. Hey, how you doing? Welcome home. Good, thank you.

1:32:59 So I was listening along in the background for most of this, and it's been a while since I really looked into Mitrione, so I used a couple different AIs, including Grok, just put his name in Mitrione just to remind myself of the background. And you know how Grok always lists you some articles and some posts on Twitter that mention the name and stuff like that? Well, the eight it gave me, I think five of the eight, came from some character named SR711966.

1:33:30 So I got a kick out of that. SR-71 is being used as a source by Supergrok. Yeah, because he posts all of their like biographies and stuff. And we've talked about this guy for so many of our revelations, especially when we were covering Operation Condor in South America, because he came up repeatedly. I love that. It cracks me up a little bit because.

1:33:58 It shows you how much we can actually influence AI-generated results. And that's a good thing. With AI pretty much taking over the world, every time I get a woke answer and stuff like that, I correct the AI, especially if it's on a topic I know quite a bit about. And I think something we need to be actively engaged in is influencing these things because the best example I can give you is Google's AI decided to buy the cesspool known as Reddit.

1:34:27 to teach us AI. It's got exclusive rights to it. So it's going to have an AI. It's going to be more woke than anybody we've ever met. And that's a terrible business decision, but we do have the ability to influence. Thank you for pointing that out. And I absolutely agree with you, which is one of the reasons why we do this space and why SR71 is such a great addition to the team, because as we talk, he posts things. So people who want to do additional research can do it.

1:34:58 I just, I absolutely love, and Bridget does it as well. It is also why I do long threads. People ask me, why do you do that? Because I want the information there. I want the information available for not only all of us, but for the AI tools as well. Thank you for pointing that out, Warhamster. That's awesome. All right. Anybody else got anything? All right. That's going to do it for today.

1:35:32 Again, I posted earlier the schedule for tonight. We are going to do two different spaces. And one of them starts at 8 o'clock. And sometime after I get off here, I'll repost Jen's announcement of that space. And then we will also be doing a space at 930. And I'll post that.

1:35:57 Is that Eastern time, Pacific time or standard time? That's Eastern time. Now that I have all that straightened out. Yeah. So I couldn't help. I couldn't help. I saw your post and I was right there with you. Oh, my gosh. It is so crazy going through. And today when I was looking at my watch, I was like, all right. So, oh, I'm at Eastern time again. I don't have to worry about translating that anymore. Yeah.

1:36:28 For the last month, I've had to, every time I look at a clock, do calculations in my head. Like if I'm calling my daughter on the East Coast or if I'm calling my friends or trying to get something to Alpha or whatever, it's just a mess when you change time zones. And you're doing it constantly when you're on RV trips. And the Apple calendar wasn't helping me out at all.

1:36:54 And I'm sure it was user error. I'm not blaming Apple at all. But anyway, people don't believe me when I tell them that I'm IT challenged. I am definitely IT challenged. So what I can do is read books and discover patterns now that I have my Gladio glasses on. So anyway, thank you guys as always for being here and being part of this journey. I can't.

1:37:23 Thank you all enough. Again, so much information comes to me from you guys, and I can't thank you enough for, and as Warhamster just pointed out, SR-71 and Bridget's role in all of this is instrumental to, and...

1:37:45 everyone else that provides information. Illini does a lot of things in DMs with me. Warhamster and I obviously talk all the time. I can't thank you guys enough for being on this journey with me. It definitely makes all of this feel like a joint effort. I just, I really, really can't express enough how thankful I am for all of you being here. So anyway, not much.

1:38:14 I'm going to go ahead and jump off here so I can get dinner and be ready for our next spaces. Take care, everybody. I will see you tomorrow at four o'clock for a continuation of this journey. See you then.

Entities here

Richmond, Indiana27 Uruguay25 Daniel Anthony Meterone25 Dan Mitrione25 USAID22 Ray Meterone21 Dan Mitterrand19 Richmond Police Department18 Indiana University15 Kidnapping and murder of Dan Mitterrand14 United States13 Tupamaros11 Andrew Cesare11 Joseph Meterone10 Roland Cutter10 Ray Mitrione8 Lewis Gibbs7 Karen Bass6 International Harvester6 FBI6 Robert Minton5 Operation Gladio5 U.S. State Department5 Brazil5 Montevideo5 Henrietta Lind5 Holy Family Parish4 Maria Meterone4 National Endowment for Democracy4 Hank Mitrione4 Dominic Meterone4 Fidel Castro4 World War II3 Washington, D.C.3 Gerald Ford3 Vietnam3 Henrietta Meterone3 CIA2 China2 International Republican Institute2

Claims made here

Ronald Reagan founded National Endowment for Democracy host_asserted ▶ 4:02

“Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and communist, but she got elevated to the vice chair of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power for the U.S. government. Act…”

Karen Bass member_of National Endowment for Democracy host_asserted ▶ 4:02

John McCain headed International Republican Institute host_asserted ▶ 4:29

“the National Democratic Institute, the IRI, ran by John McCain primarily, the International Republican Institute. It also has a U.S. Chamber of Commerce slush fund and a union slush fund. So all of th…”

Daniel Anthony Meterone member_of USAID book_quoted ▶ 9:02

“Who do we know Dan Meterone to be? Dan Meterone was the guy that went down to Uruguay as an employee of USAID's Office of Public Safety. He was instrumental in teaching the national police in Uruguay …”

Daniel Anthony Meterone trained Tupamaros book_quoted ▶ 9:02

Tupamaros assassinated Daniel Anthony Meterone book_quoted ▶ 9:33

“kidnap and disappear people. That's what his job was down there. And he was eventually captured by the indigenous freedom fighters fighting back against the CIA's occupation there and their occupation…”

Richard Nixon funded Daniel Anthony Meterone book_quoted ▶ 12:01

“It says that President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon sent a commemorative wreath, both large and patriotic, with red carnations, white chrysanthemums, and blue cornflowers. The city officials greeted that…”

George Rogers Clark founded Richmond, Indiana book_quoted ▶ 24:54

“The community of Richmond, Indiana, had been settled in 1805 by soldiers of George Rogers Clark, the Revolutionary General and brother of the Northwest Explorer Clark. But it was a band of Quakers who…”

Irvin Cobb exposed Alabama Ku Klux Klan book_quoted ▶ 27:33

“was intolerable. Writing about the time that the Mitterrands arrived in Richmond, Irvin Cobb poked fun at the enthusiasm for which Hoosiers were embracing the Ku Klux Klan. Cobb claimed that the Klan …”

E. Gurney Hill founded Richmond, Indiana book_quoted ▶ 28:02

“E. Gurney Hill had built 30 acres of hothouses and sent fresh roses around the country. But even half a million rose bushes near the city limits didn't brighten Richmond. One mayor pointed out in a sl…”

Joseph Meterone member_of Italian Club book_quoted ▶ 30:32

“His dad never went to any of their games, but they did have a clubhouse. Nearby, they started a thing called the Italian Club. Joseph Mitterrand went there every Saturday and again on Sunday after Mas…”

Ray Meterone member_of Italian Club book_quoted ▶ 30:32

Nelson Rockefeller funded International Harvester host_asserted ▶ 31:34

“So everyone basically knew each other. Okay. And one of the big employers in Richmond at the time was none other than International Harvester. Now, where have we found International Harvester? We foun…”

Joseph Meterone member_of International Harvester book_quoted ▶ 32:37

“were employees of International Harvester is huge. That to me was like a bombshell. And his dad, Joseph Meterone, worked at International Harvester as opposed to the railroad in Richmond, Indiana. Oka…”

Daniel Anthony Meterone member_of St. Mary's book_quoted ▶ 33:14

“English, some Italian children came out still talking a bit louder and with their hands, which is a natural Italian thing to do. With Dan Meterone, the transformation seemed painless. He spent his fir…”

Dan Mitterrand worked_for International Harvester documented ▶ 35:26

“Dan also followed in his father's footsteps and went to work at none other than International Harvester. A year goes by. Anyone might have predicted that Dan was firmly launched on a path to mirror hi…”

Dan Mitterrand married Henrietta Lind documented ▶ 37:53

“and attention to detail both in his dress and grooming. In the nearby town in Michigan, he also met his wife. He asked Henrietta Lind, L-I-N-D, to marry him, and she accepted. The marriage took place …”

Dan Mitterrand joined Richmond Police Department documented ▶ 39:22

“When he was discharged from the Navy, Dan had, for the moment, no better thought than to return to International Harvester. He moved his new family into his parents' wood grain house. By then, they ha…”

Dan Mitterrand kidnapped_by Tupamaros documented ▶ 44:29

“The mom kept asking him when he would go visit, had they heard from Dan? And Ray would lie to her and basically say, yeah, we just heard from him the other day. It pained Ray to lie to his mother, but…”

Jorge Pacheco Areco refused_to_negotiate_with Tupamaros documented ▶ 45:27

“He was quoted as saying he would never negotiate with the criminals. Yet there were hopeful signs. Representatives of the Vatican in Uruguay was trying to start negotiations to free Dan. Ray also rece…”

Charles Burke Elbrick kidnapped_by Tupamaros documented ▶ 46:25

“the Tuporeros were demanding. That ambassador, his name Charles Burke Elbrick, had been released with nothing worse than a bruise on his head. The family knew that Dan's condition had to be more serio…”

Andrew Cesare appointed_by Roland Cutter documented ▶ 52:49

“led the Democrats to a rare victory that even the local newspaper called smashing. Cutter beat the Republican candidate by nearly a two to one margin. To reward Ciceri, the new mayor appointed him cit…”

Dan Mitterrand worked_for USAID host_asserted ▶ 55:46

“Love you, Dan. So again, this verifies that Dan was working for the Office of Public Safety under the USAID. In view of that appeal, the Wire story speculated that the president in Iroquois would now …”

CIA embedded_in Indiana University host_asserted ▶ 1:00:38

“Now, the School of Police Administration, just so that you guys know, is where the CIA embedded itself to create all of the Office of Public Safety people that they would eventually hire into USAID un…”

Roland Cutter appointed Dan Mitterrand documented ▶ 1:03:04

“who barely had 10 years experience on the force. Major Cutter appointed him immediately. The new chief was no hero, nor did he pretend to be. He was, however, the first scientifically selected profess…”

Dan Mitterrand killed_by Tupamaros documented ▶ 1:04:37

“Some of them even remembered to send condolences to the Mitterrand family. The two highest ranking responses did not come from men from the buildings. The White House said today, began an Associated P…”

USAID front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:05:38

“That's crazy. Although the murder had led some voices to suggest that the U.S. should not be engaged in these activities that had taken Dan to Uruguay, Ford took the murder as proof of how important i…”

Gerald Ford commended Byron Engle documented ▶ 1:06:05

“going into foreign countries, training the national police to be terrorists. And Gerald Ford in the House said that we should persevere in these missions. Ford also expressed confidence that the Urugu…”

Lewis Gibbs owed_job_to Dan Mitterrand documented ▶ 1:07:05

“Lewis Gibbs owed his job to Dan Mederone, and he realized on a day like this much more. Gibbs had applied to the police force six times, and each time he had left his political affiliation blank. Some…”

Dan Mitrione headed Richmond Police Department book_quoted ▶ 1:07:34

“The new chief summoned him to his office. Mitterrand's doubts about the young applicant were not political, only economic. He had been working as a meat cutter. Gibbs made $9,000 a year, which was eve…”

Dan Mitrione trained Lewis Gibbs book_quoted ▶ 1:08:01

“Gibbs was sure his application was approved. Until Mitterrand took office, experienced officers in Richmond had trained their new colleagues in a casual apprentice. The rookie would get in the back se…”

Dan Mitrione appointed Indiana University book_quoted ▶ 1:08:34

“to him being the chief of police by going off and attending an FBI training in Washington, D.C. When he got back home, he suddenly had a new interest in arranging training with the very same people th…”

Dan Mitrione trained FBI book_quoted ▶ 1:08:34

Indiana University trained Richmond Police Department book_quoted ▶ 1:09:05

“They were going to set up a six-week training course to train all the new officers in Richmond. After his training, Gibbs found that life for patrolmen under the new chief was rigorous. From the start…”

Dan Mitrione funded Richmond Police Department book_quoted ▶ 1:09:35

“Mitterrand was quoted as saying, the door swings in and it swings out. You either play the game or you don't play at all. Later, the police started to negotiate their contracts through the Fraternal O…”

Dan Mitrione carried_out_attack Richmond Police Department book_quoted ▶ 1:11:47

“Mitterrand knew the respectable people of the town were looking to him for action. He went to Mayor Cutter and said, I may make some people mad, but I can clean up things. The mayor gave him the go-ah…”

Dan Mitrione carried_out_attack Uruguay book_quoted ▶ 1:12:45

“Now, keep in mind, we haven't even got to the part, but Dan Meterone was using the basement of a building to torture people. This is the guy that was using homeless people and handicapped people in th…”

Dan Mitrione member_of Holy Family Parish book_quoted ▶ 1:15:52

“An expression of grief unmatched in Richmond history. The pastor of the local Presbyterian chief was among those who stopped by, and he told of the day Dan had come to address the youth service. Quote…”

Robert Minton founded Holy Family Parish book_quoted ▶ 1:17:19

“Skip that part. This just is talking about the height of people in the local town. Father Minton did not mean to be patronizing, and he exempted men like Dan Meterone, who was shorter than he was, but…”

Indiana University trained Dan Mitrione host_asserted ▶ 1:24:29

“These people at Indiana University, they put him through this six-week training program. They promote him to police chief. And they get him his job. And there's a certain betrayal blindness that happe…”

FBI trained Dan Mitrione host_asserted ▶ 1:25:29

“But he was sent to the FBI for training. After he returns from the FBI, he throws all of the training out the window that had gone on for decades in Richmond. And it was Dan that arranged with Indiana…”

Dan Mitrione trained Richmond Police Department host_asserted ▶ 1:25:29

Michigan State University front_for USAID host_asserted ▶ 1:27:45

“Hey, we're going to select you to be this if you allow us to experiment with all of your younger new hires into our six week training program, because we, along with other Office of Public Safety CIA …”

Michigan State University founded Phoenix Program host_asserted ▶ 1:28:10

“but these new hires that we indoctrinate into this program for overseas assignments. And that's exactly what we saw happen at Michigan State, where they founded the entity that became the overarching …”

Sobrero Group carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 1:31:05

“The Sobtero group, to include Obama's mom, had no problem at all bringing her daughter and her son to Indonesia while they're overthrowing the government there and basically setting up the exact same …”