The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5

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0:00 Can you hear me, Bridget? Yes, ma'am. How are you? Good. How are you? Oh, pretty good. Pretty good. One of them days, you know it. You get all the weed eating done and then the weed eater stops. Well, that's better than the alternative that it stops before you get it all done. Well, that's the problem. I got like everything done except for like about a 15 foot stretch. And it's like, oh, I have to get this finished.

0:33 That's when you break out the scissors. There you go. Well, we have a backup. We come prepared. Worst case scenario. How are you doing? Great. My neighbor used to laugh at me because I used to get out in my front yard. I have huge oak trees and pull out the little baby acorn oaks out of my yard, just kind of scooting around.

0:59 In the yard? Yes. She's like, I can't believe you're doing that. So, anyway. How's the gladiolus, by the way? Huh? How are your gladiolus, by the way? Oh, I do need to put an updated picture out. I do not have any blooms yet, but they are steadily growing. So. Woohoo! That's awesome. Exactly.

1:28 Did notice some really odd stuff going on on the spaces here. So it's going to be interesting to see how this session goes. But anyway, if you guys would repost the space, I'd appreciate it. I'm going to go ahead and go over here and go live on Rumble so we can get started. Okay, we are on part five.

2:05 We left off on Friday with the next section that's going to focus on Philip Agee. And I thought Philip Agee, A-G-E-E, is a CIA, he was a CIA agent, that after he figured out what being a CIA agent was all about, decided he didn't want to be a CIA agent. And I don't know if you guys have...

2:33 heard anything about him. What I want to do is share with you a little bit about his background because I find it quite interesting. He's written a couple of books. He is also the guy that started the Covert Action Information Bulletin, which I've used a lot of their material in investigating the CIA. And he spent a lot of time

3:00 tattling on the CIA. Of course, they needed to be tattled on. But I find it interesting, just a couple of aspects. So I'm going to go over his career real briefly before we begin the part five of the actual book. So it says that he was born in Tacoma, Florida, which I've never even heard of. So I had to look it up. Tacoma, Florida is...

3:26 a very small town just south of Gainesville, which is where the University of Florida is, for those of you who don't know. It also says that he grew up, not necessarily with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he didn't grow up on the wrong side of the tracks. He went to Notre Dame. He also graduated from

3:54 The Tampa's Jesuit Jesuit high school, which is where my girlfriend's sons went. This is a very exclusive school, by the way. Their sports program is top notch. He joined the he went to the University of Florida's College of Law and he joined the Air Force. He was in the Air Force from 1957 to 1960. And he was recruited basically.

4:25 Out of the service. Now, some people have suggested he was at Notre Dame and was kind of guided through his career, but that's neither here nor there. But that kind of gives you the background for his way of thinking. Also, he was involved not just in Uruguay, but he was also involved.

4:58 in the 1965 overthrow of the Dominican Republic. And of course, during that coup, they accused the nationalist president of being a communist, which we see is kind of a common denominator with most of these operations. And he also said out loud,

5:28 that it was the CIA that executed Che Guevara, not the Uruguayan government. And also, he said a whole bunch of other things. But we are going to pay attention to his first assignment in the CIA was to Ecuador, which he helped destabilize, then Uruguay, and then Mexico.

5:56 Now, what I find very interesting after he basically spilled his guts about when he wrote the book Inside the Company, a CIA diary, he was basically excommunicated from the country. The Nixon administration basically canceled his passport and wouldn't let him come home. And he ended up going initially to the UK, which basically deported him from there.

6:26 He went to the Netherlands. They deported him. He went to France, West Germany, and Italy, and they all deported him. He eventually ends up in Cuba, which was the only country basically that would allow him to live. It wasn't his first choice. It basically became his only choice. His citizenship was later, and oh, by the way, the person that was doing all of that was George H.W. Bush.

6:57 both as CIA director and as the president. He basically accused Agee of the murder of Richard Welch, who was the CIA operative that was assassinated. And I've talked about this quite often. He was assassinated by the CIA, not Agee. Agee had nothing to do with his assassination.

7:25 He was assassinated to get Congress to stop investigating the CIA. Because his assassination happened right after the revelations of the family jewels in the mid-1970s. So, FYI. And also, not outside of their character, when Philip McGee died,

7:58 Ask his widow to send his papers to the Robert Wagner Labor Archives. Well, it just so happens that the CIA intercepted those papers, rifled through them, took everything out that they wanted, and then shipped on the rest of whatever they didn't want to the archives.

8:28 That's who Philip McGee is. Back to the book. In February of what would be around March 1964, Philip McGee, CIA officer from Notre Dame, had been in Washington preparing for a change of assignment. He had received two promotions while assigned to Ecuador, which rose him to the proximate rank of a captain.

9:00 in the CIA. His successes had included bugging diplomat houses, subverting and bribing local officials, and disseminating lies, i.e. propaganda, through the Ecuadorian press. He had been rewarded with a transfer to Montevideo, which is Uruguay. During his stopover in Washington, Agee spent the night in McLean, Virginia, at the house of the chief of the Brazil

9:32 branch of the CIA's Western Hemispheric Division. The chief, Jim Nolan, briefed DeGee on Brazil, the most serious problem the U.S. was facing in Latin America. One pressing concern for the Brazilian parliamentary investigation into the CIA's corruption in the 1962 election through IBAD and ADEP.

10:00 The CIA had spent as much as $20 million, and everyone involved at the U.S. Embassy from Lincoln-Gordon Down was worried about the incriminating evidence if it was made public. A scandal was averted only by three lucky developments. Five of the nine members of the investigating committee was themselves receiving CIA funds. Three of the banks involved, First National City Bank,

10:30 the Bank of Boston, and the Royal Bank of Canada refused to reveal all of their foreign sources of money deposited in the IBAD and ADEP accounts. And best of all, President Gouliard, still hoping to get along with Washington, saw to it that the final report was laundered. The offices of both IBAD and ADEP were closed, but to the disappointment,

10:59 Of many, no detailed indictment of the foreign agents who had broken Brazilian election law was supplied. So again, in all of this disclosure that we have come across, the CIA has perfected election interference over and over and over again. To think that they do not interfere in U.S. elections.

11:29 is ridiculous. They interfere in every election that they feel would hamper their ability to operate. And I did want to share, let me get this up real quick. First National City Bank, hold on just a second, I've got this open.

12:01 If you look into their history, they have a very interesting history because it's tied to Rockefellers. The Bank of Boston is where United Fruit, another organization, company tied to Rockefellers and many other John McCloy, all of those people.

12:31 So you can see that the money laundering done to CIA fronts is through this network of preferred banks that all benefit from the CIA operations. Throughout the spring of 1964, a Pentagon specialist on Brazil was astounded at the impatience of liberal Democrats around Washington who kept nagging at him.

12:58 When will your army people finally get going? But the Kennedy years had already proven that distinguished liberals given authority overseas could surmount their domestic principles. For example, as early as 1961, John Kenneth Galbraith had urged President Kennedy to undercut President Diem in South Vietnam and prepare the way for a more efficient regime headed by the army. They loved their dictators.

13:28 The embattled Goliath tried to hang on to the presidency with his only weapon, the support of the people. He scheduled a series of public addresses to reassure the population that the rumors of his tyrannical ambitions were false, because that was the purpose of IBAD and ADEP and the $20 million were to propagandize the Brazilians.

13:57 create rumor mills that it was actually Goliath that was the dictator, kind of like what they're doing to Trump right now. They scream that he's the dictator. The propaganda all comes out that while he's not administering his government as a dictator, we just have to keep saying it over and over again because we're going to use that propaganda.

14:26 to justify the actions of basically overthrowing the government and actually installing a dictator. Again, it's patterns. We see this over and over again. The president's brother-in-law tried to buttress Goliath's position by announcing the formation of a thing called the Groups of Eleven. These groups would be armed, and should any military attempt at a coup, they would be prepared to resist it.

15:00 Ferdinand Gabriela, the former police reporter for one of the newspapers, had come to Rio to work for a newspaper published by Leonel Brazola. Fernando joined one of the groups of 11 and saw at once that the movement was a bluff. If a coup comes, each cell was told to resist. But how? With what? They lacked training. They lacked equipment.

15:28 It was basically analogous to a peasant league that had no training. The groups of 11 were basically a joke, ineffective. He had heard later that Gordon had cited them as one more excuse for a military takeover. He marveled at the ambassador's ambition. When Gordon first arrived in Brazil, Fernando

15:56 and his friends had underestimated him. Now he was at the center of a plot to overthrow the government of the fifth largest nation in the world. The opposition papers attacked the coming rally as perilous to public order. Gee, that sounds familiar.

16:33 In real anonymous colors, we're spreading the message. Don't go to the communist meeting. In other words, your president is a communist. Out of Washington came news of the creation of a business group for Latin America. A business group for Latin America. You'll never believe who was on the business group for Latin America. David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, presided over.

17:02 37 executives of corporations like Standard Oil, United Fruit, U.S. Steel, Ford Motor Company, DuPont, among many others. The group could not be official, nor was it seeking any publicity. Rather than involve itself with USAID projects, it would attempt to deal with the continent's political troubles.

17:33 personally. Late in January 1964, members had met at the White House with President Johnson. AID director David Bell and Johnson's Latin American coordinator Thomas Mann, who was part of the Alliance for Progress that had been set up by Kennedy, all were at the meeting. The businessmen reported being received with a warm welcome.

18:04 warmer than they had ever received from JFK. In the press, Goliath's enemies were now finding it ominous that he had chosen Friday the 13th for his rally. Congress adjourned on March 7th and would reconvene on the 15th. And the possibility existed that the president planned to declare a state of siege and keep Congress closed. That was a rumor and that was the propaganda. He never intended to do that.

18:37 Okay, there was also lots of discussion about minimum wage and other labor reforms, which of course would be detrimental to the oligarchs in Washington, D.C. Gouliard was floating new proposals requiring corporations to make loans in order to expand credit for workers, pegging rentals on apartments to the level of minimum wage.

19:05 launching an inquiry into all government-controlled businesses. He had also signed a decree compelling manufacturers to add a line of shoes and fabrics priced low enough for the poor to afford. Carlos Lozada, now the governor of the state that included Rio, protested that the result would be a uniform look like the women in Russia. Choosing colors at will,

19:33 is the right of a democracy, he said. Everyone seemed to understand that a battle was looming. A spokesperson for Rio's industrial center proposed to train families on the use of arms since the state alone was not going to be able to defend them against the communist. There's no communist. Other reports noted that Goliad intended to speak from a very grandstand where Vargas, one of the predecessors,

20:03 had proclaimed his dictatorship. Again, drawing the analogy. At last, the evening of March 13th arrived. Brazola spoke first and attacked the Brazilian Congress as a do-nothing Congress. Goliart's signing of the land reform was the hallmark of the event. Besides taking...

20:34 that were next to railroads and irrigation dams, which kind of was like no man's land anyway. The bill applied to holdings of 500 hectares or more, but only if the land had not been in use. Again, this is a reoccurring thing too, because remember that the oligarchs in the U.S. bought or appropriated through nefarious means.

21:03 large swaths of land in Latin America and didn't do anything with it. They held it so they couldn't have any competitors locally. He also announced plans to take over the last seven private oil refineries all Brazilian owned, which had not yet been brought under federal control. In his speech, Gouliard reached out to his opponents, observing that General MacArthur had carried out

21:32 More radical distribution of land in Japan after World War II than anything that he planned. Watching the address on television, Lincoln Gordon was irate. First of all, these oil takeovers might not be legal. Secondly, the man standing directly behind Goliart was Darcy Rabario, the former rector of Brazilian University, head of Goliart's domestic policy advisors.

22:06 And according to Gordon, a very dangerous man. Ribeiro had amassed a number of black marks, according to the U.S. embassy. He had attacked what was labeled the privileged ones, which, of course, is U.S. oligarchs and their favorite in the elite. The other, let's see, he had also announced that while he himself had no intentions of joining.

22:41 any of the political parties, it should once again be legal. All parties should be legalized to include the Communist Party, which at the time was not legal. But, you know, we've got all these communists running around, even though you're not allowed to be. There is no such thing in Brazil at the time of the Communist Party. Now, there he was standing behind Goliath. It was perfectly obvious to Gordon that Rubario had

23:13 even written the president's speech, although he had no proof of that. That was going to be his new assertion. Gordon was flying to Washington for consultations over the weekend. He decided that the situation had finally become untenable. Vernon Walters wired a report to the Pentagon and the SECDEF, Robert McNamara, and McNamara called in his advisors to include senior analysts from DIA.

23:44 with good contact in Brazil. McNamara was not debating the merits of a military coup against a civilian president. He was convinced that it had to happen. It was not important what they called themselves. He was convinced that they were communists and had to go. McNamara was worried, however, that Goliath had already

24:13 Gordon superverted the military, having packed it with so many of his supporters that the military would not be able to rise up against him. Gordon had recently coined another new phrase called over mining the government. You know, appointing people that was going to implement his agenda. Kind of like what we're experiencing right now with the rising up of objectionable.

24:42 propaganda against everyone that Trump appoints. Again, they've done this for decades. They're experts at it. McNamara, they even make up terms. McNamara's only other misgiving seemed to concern the success of the coup. Six months earlier, the U.S. had collaborated with the anti-DM forces in South Vietnam to bring down a civilian government and substitute it with a military dictator.

25:12 The first and regrettable choice had been the hulking, uneasy General Big Min, who was popular with his people, but not necessarily somebody that they wanted to get behind. It took a second small coup three months later to transfer power to their favorite, Nguyen Khan. In Brazil, that particular problem would not arise.

25:43 Walters had remained extremely close to Huberto Caslaro Branco, B-R-A-N-C-O, who would head up the proposed coup. But would it succeed? McNamara's analysts at the Department of Defense assured him that it would definitely succeed. The secretary then turned to General Joe Carroll for guidance.

26:11 The U.S. did not want to be seen openly involved in the coup. McNamara said, yes, it's ideal to happen, but I'm getting gloomy reports. It was decided that the Brazilian military should succeed as planned. Tentative arrangements were made for secret help if that became necessary, i.e. clandestine arms drops by air, tankers docked,

26:43 nearby with U.S. oil if the quote-unquote communists succeeded in seizing Petrobras. Petrobras is actually owned by the government that they're trying to coup, but somehow it's supposed to be seized by the government that actually owns it that they're trying to overthrow. There was even a contingency plan in the unlikely event that the Russians made a move.

27:14 They weren't even interested. They had said repeatedly during this process they were not going to intervene. They thought that the democratically elected president of Brazil was fine. And they had no contact with the quote unquote underground communist movement. And later declassified State Department cables actually demonstrated that.

27:47 A Chilean journalist later reported another commitment. During his stopover in Rio in early March, General Andrews O'Meara, the commander of U.S. South Com, had promised to fly paratroopers out of Panama's zone and drop them into any pockets of resistance should they occur. So the military had a contingency plan to get involved.

28:17 in the worst case scenario. In Brazil, the generals themselves were getting jittery as the time drew near. What if officers found themselves with no flight-worthy aircraft because none of the enlisted people in the Army and in the Air Force at the time was interested because they all thought they lived in a caste system too. They weren't interested in overthrowing the government that represented the working people.

28:47 the generals were getting nervous. The generals believed that the civil war they were planning would drag on for three months or longer. But they believed their assurances from Gordon and their U.S. contacts that if that happened, the U.S. would get involved. The week of the coup saw a huge march against Goliad organized by IPES. In Sao Paulo, tens of thousands of people walked from

29:45 One big cathedral called the March of the Family with God for Freedom. Now, we're going to install a dictator, but we're going to have a march for family with God for freedom. The march installed with a manifesto of San Paolo women on behalf of Christianity and democracy in the middle of the coup to.

30:18 uproot the democracy and install a dictator. Not every Christian joined in. The Archbishop of Sao Paulo forbade his bishops to join the march because he said it was being organized by McCann Erickson. Let me spell that for you. M-C-C-A-N-N-E-R-I-C-K-S-O-N. And do you know who that is? That's a U.S. advertising agency.

30:48 And where do we find them throughout all of these coups? Well, obviously, they're a CIA front, just like the Lansdale came from the advertising agency in San Francisco before the CIA scooped him up and used him all over Asia. Yeah, that same thing. The advertising agencies that were used like Gray and several other ones from both New York and Washington, D.C.

31:16 fronts for the CIA. Yeah, just like that. But the rumors kept engulfing Goliath. On March 22nd, Goliath was forced to assure the public that he was not planning to alter the Constitution or extend his term because that was the allegation. He was going to suspend Congress, do away with Constitution, which required him only to have one term because he was the dictator. On March 23rd,

31:51 Boy, does that sound familiar. On March 23rd, when Gordon returned from Washington, Goliath's days were nearing their end, but he had one last feather. He asked Brazola to become president of the Brazilian Labor Party, perhaps hoping to bank his fire with responsibility. Brazola's faction was to form a front with the country's workers and students to retain mining concessions.

32:20 for Brazilians, not U.S. oligarchs. Also, he wanted to put, to control all foreign aid, that sounds familiar, nationalize any foreign banks that were owned in Brazil, forbid foreign-owned insurance companies in Brazil, and to help the copy exports not be...

32:52 controlled by U.S. oligarchs. The conservatives responded by announcing an immense rally in Rio on April the 2nd. That was also the target date the military had chosen for their coup. By the night of March 27th, Vernon Walters was able to remove any doubt that Castillo Branco was

33:20 and assure the State Department that the general was firmly committed to the overthrow. It was now clear that General Castillo Branco finally accepted leadership of forces determined to resist. On a March 13th meeting, there was a response to the God and Freedom March.

33:50 The president was spending the Easter holidays, the president being Gouliard, the Easter holidays at his ranch. Gordon had also been a bit upset that Gouliard was so clearly preferred fishing and hunting with his sons than being president, which again is not true. In Gouliard's absence, 30 sailors had been arrested for making political statements and 300 Marines were dispatched to arrest protesters.

34:21 Upon his return from the ranch, Gouliard set the sailors free. They marched through the streets shouting, long live Django. To the senior military men, it verged on mutiny. The unrepentant Gouliard met on the night of March 30th with a party of more enlisted men and used the forum to attack the international oil cartel, the greedy owners of apartment houses.

34:51 mainly U.S. oligarchs, and dishonored tradesmen in the foreign drug manufacturers. What? Dang, that sounds so familiar. Those were the interests Gouillard said, like Vargas and Cuatros before him, were financing the campaign against him, and he wasn't wrong. What happened on Monday night? Early the next day,

35:19 That happened on Monday night. Early the next day, Gordon, the ambassador, Vernon Walter, CIA, and Gordon Main, the deputy chief of mission for the CIA, gathered in the ambassador's office. The Army generals were unwilling to wait another day. At 9.30 a.m. Tuesday, March 31st, 1964, the U.S. Embassy got word from an Army contact the balloon is up.

35:47 The generals marched their troops down Minas Gervais to join what surely would be a bloody war. Some units of enlisted men were told that they were headed to Rio to secure the city against Goliad's enemies. In other words, they lied to them. And they said they were protecting Goliad while they were overthrowing him because they knew the enlisted people would not play along.

36:15 In Washington, an array of top representatives of the U.S. government were edgy. The March 31st telecon to Gordon came from Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, the General of the Army Maxwell Taylor, General Andrew Amaro, CIA Director John McCone, George Ball, Thomas Mann, and Special Presidential Assistant Ralph Dungan.

36:45 The message granted that such an opportunity might not reoccur, but urged the embassy to get the U.S. government out in front of a losing cause. In other words, we need plausible deniability. The telecom also posed some belated questions.

37:10 Kind of actually important, like who are the possible civilians who might lay claim to the presidency? Kind of a CYA session. The final question removed any possible misconceptions about which side the U.S. government had chosen. Quote, would it be necessary for the U.S. to mount large material program to assure success of the takeover? Unquote.

37:37 Later, top-secret communiques from the Joint Chiefs of Staff indicated how much the Pentagon was relying on Gordon and his staff to direct the U.S. role in the coup. One message stated that a 110-ton package of arms and ammunition was being sent to McGuire Air Force Base pending Gordon's determination whether or not the Brazilian military or police required it.

38:02 In addition, a carrier task force was continuing towards the South Atlantic, awaiting Gordon's word for ports of call to demonstrate naval power, which of course we've seen in so many of these things. You know, have the U.S. Navy off the coast visible just in case the government thinks that they can overwhelm or survive. They know this is a warning. And of course,

38:29 Brazil at the time had their own intelligence and would know about all of these things happening. That night, March 31st, Gordon called on Kubitschek for all of the accusations of corruption and the indisputable inflation during his regime. Kubitschek remained a popular politician. Now that Goliart was on his way out, Gordon wanted Kubitschek to lobby with the Brazilian Congress to give an appearance of legality.

38:59 of the new regime that the U.S. was going to pick. An hour before midnight, the same night, General Kruel, K-R-U-E-L, the most reluctant of the coup makers, finally joined with his colleagues. He had held out longer than any of the rest. He was actually afraid that, should they succeed, he would be arrested. If Goliath knew the U.S. government was not seamless,

39:27 If he appreciated the deep division between the speeches of Kennedy and Johnson in supporting social reform and resistance and the U.S. business community intelligence services and the Pentagon and police advisors, he may have assumed that a president in Washington spoke for a stronger audience. On the night of March 31st, Gouliart learned otherwise.

39:56 Betta Court of Venezuela once tried to convince Che Guevara that the U.S. had two faces, one that could look repressive and imperialistic. The other face was friendly and devoted to social justice. Che Guevara corrected him and said, no, they only have one face, and that's repression. On March 1st, as the coup became general knowledge,

40:24 Gordon worried about securing the embassy. It's a little late for that. Situated only a couple of blocks from a very large square in front of an opera house, it could not be protected completely. Gordon remembered hearing that when Quadros resigned, a crowd hurling rocks had broken out several of the windows on the lower floors. So Gordon ordered all of the blinds drawn against any snipers that may be in the popping.

40:56 He ordered all of the air conditioners turned off as well because they were afraid if a fire was set on the lower floors that it would be recycled through the air conditioning vents. The ambassador had sent home most of the staff and prepared to await reports from the battlefield. With a handful of men, he called the executive action group. In his stifling hot office on the eighth floor,

41:24 P.S. The ninth floor, which is almost always the case, not necessarily nine, but the top floor was reserved for CIA and the 10th floor had the CIA communication equipment in it. Gordon ordered the documents be sent up to those three floors and he posted the embassy's full complement of 20 Marines to guard them. There was no battle, however. Some students masked to protest the coup.

41:58 But that was basically it. There was a couple of students shot during the night and killed when students began to amass at some of the common facilities in the downtown area. At the main Air Force base in Rio, Santa Cruz, the enlisted men, having heard early reports of the coup, seized the base and put their officers under arrest. The chief of the Air Force General Headquarters was rumored to sympathize.

42:31 with the Goliath forces. One officer, Major Brigadier Francisco Textiera, said, release the officers and wait and see. Carlos Maragalla, a former deputy in the parliament and a leader of Goliath-friendly forces, ordered Textiera to bomb the columns coming down

43:07 That was basically part of the coup. Taxiero refused to take such orders and said it would have to have come from the president himself. So they did nothing. One of the things that came out of this was there was actually documentation that was later discovered that Khrushchev, who was in charge of the Soviet Union at the time,

43:40 had went on record saying they didn't want to have anything to do with Brazil. They didn't want to finance it. And they knew that any engagement in Brazil would pit them against the U.S. And it wasn't a battle they wanted to fight, despite them saying that the whole communists were behind all of this. Gulliard met with Brazola, who tried to persuade him to stand and fight.

44:10 Their argument was long and loud, and finally, Brazola accused his brother-in-law of being a coward. The president said, no, I do not want to be responsible for bloodshed among Brazilians. For Carlos Lazarda, the coup meant a great opportunity. Under the law, Vice President Mazzilli could serve 120 days. Then, given Washington's preference for a civilian frontman,

44:40 The military would need someone as a front to complete Goliad's term. Kubitschek would never take the job. Constitutionally, the interim term would bar him from seeking a full term later. But the U.S. embassy had allowed Lusarda to understand that he would be the natural choice. Taking to the airwaves, Lusarda gave one of his most impassioned speeches.

45:09 He ringed his palace with garbage trucks and urged everyone hearing his voice to rush there and join the barricades against the supporters of Gouliard, you know, the actual president. At the U.S. Embassy, all of the Ambassador Gordon's team would know on the afternoon of April 1st came from the runners that they had sent out into the streets that the siege was ended. It had lasted.

45:40 90 minutes. Everyone in the room was aware of the historic moment that had passed. They looked to the ambassador to provide a phrase like, you know, congratulations, all of that stuff. All the ambassador responded with was turn back on the air conditioner. There was one more nervous day for Gordon, but by the nightfall of April 2nd, it was clear that the military had Brazil completely under its control and President Johnson immediately

46:12 sent a wire to the new government congratulating them from saving the country from communism. If that's not a crock of crap, I don't know what is. When Gordon returned to Washington, he found the prevailing mood jubilant. Everyone wanted to share in the credit. William Daughtery Jr., the director of AIFLD, did his boasting in a radio.

46:45 What happened in Brazil didn't just happen. It was planned. It was planned months in advance. Many of the trade union leaders, some of whom were actually trained in our institute, were involved in the revolution to overthrow the Gouillard regime. This is a CIA front acknowledging that they were training the people that overthrew a democratically elected government. They loved it. They reveled in it.

47:16 In their responses to Thomas Mann's testimony, which was before Congress, the congressman appeared willing to give Mann and his colleagues at the State Department a healthy measure of credit. Representative Wayne Hayes, a Democrat from Ohio, called the quick approval of the coup the best thing that had happened in Latin America policy in a long time.

47:50 General O'Meara reminded congressmen of the record in Latin America since JFK had been elected president. In nine instances, military juntas had replaced elected governments. But the general was not pointing a critical finger at that. The coming to power of Branco's government in Brazil last April, the general said, saved that country from an immediate dictatorship.

48:19 which could only have been followed by communist domination. You know, we're going to overthrow democracy from a fake communist threat and install a military dictator to save democracy. Congressman Harold Gross of an Iowan Republican inquired, is it a dictatorship today? General O'Mara replied, no, even though it was.

48:49 While in Washington, and that's just the same thing that I will remind you that General MacArthur did in his testimony in front of Congress about Taiwan. He said that it was a democracy when they were bayonetting Formosans in the street in front of the U.S. Embassy on the island of Formosa by Chiang Kai-shek's KMT military. But according to MacArthur in congressional testimony.

49:19 It too was a democracy. While in Washington, Ambassador Gordon ran into Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, and he was reported, at least according to Gouliard, to say, or sorry, according to Gordon, he said, well, Gouliard got what was coming to him. Too bad he didn't follow the advice we gave him when I was down there. Whether or not that's true, I don't know. That was according to Gordon. Gordon's a known liar.

49:52 So you can take that for what it's worth. And that's the end of chapter three. And we will not start a new chapter today that we're going to end it right there. So anyway, that's it. So yet another overthrow of a democratically elected country. Yeah, I mean, it just seems like there is no end. Yeah.

50:33 They truly do use the same playbook over and over and over again, don't they? I mean, it just seems like one after another of each of their, like when these countries democratically elect someone that they don't like, then they just make it sound like he's a communist and then overthrow them. Right? Yes.

50:57 And it's similar to what we're experiencing right now. Only their favorite word to use now is Nazi. And so they throw that around as a legitimate, according to them, a legitimate critique of President Trump. But the tactic is exactly the same all along. All right. Colonel, I got about nine things to say. I remember two of them.

51:29 So you mentioned the guy Thomas Mann, and he is a really important dude to just check out. We lost a guy who later who later becomes head of the Alliance for Progress under Lyndon Johnson. You're coming and going all along. Hello. Can you hear me better? I can hear you now, but.

52:15 Bridget, can you take him down and bring him back up? Hold on, hold on just a second. All along, we're going to take you down and bring you back up because you keep cutting in and out. And I want to hear what you got to say. Okay. Okay. Well, there, then. All right. Bring him back up when you get changed. I threw the mic to him. Okay. All right. Thank you, guys. So what about current news? There really doesn't seem to be.

52:58 A whole lot going on over the weekend. Aside from the whole scene, Bongino, CIA, FBI, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, just a little bit. I think he's back up again. Okay. He's giving up. I just threw it to him again. All along, request the mic and it should bring you right back up. He may be having trouble today. You did say when you opened the space, something was weird. Yeah.

53:40 There were people being dropped out of the space like used to happen all the time. Good times. Yeah. I think that there's a lot of exposure of people that we thought were part of the movement. And you can see them how they're helping to separate. In my opinion, you know, I think that there's people, you know, being exposed for a lot of this stuff.

54:08 A lot of people that go into the different rooms are exposing themselves, in my personal opinion. So I think there's a lot of exposure going on. Where did all along go? Come back up here all along. He's there as a listener. Yeah, I don't know what happened to him. Maybe check to see if there was an update. I don't know. Yeah. All right. Anybody else got anything? Miles, how are you doing? Mic check.

54:49 Yep, I can hear you. Oh, okay. I'm at the FEMA camp up in central Minnesota. Coverage is not too good. Actually, at the dog park, the brand-new dog park we paid for, the coverage, they give dogs more coverage on their devices than humans. So I'm glad you can hear me for the time being. Yeah, on the 4th of July, my air went out.

55:20 on my unit here or my rig, but I'm dealing with it. Look, it's Minnesota guys. Don't worry about me. Um, on Wednesday, it's going to be raining all days. I'll be fine. I got, I do. Yeah. I do have sympathy for people's AC going out in Minnesota than I do in Florida. Just saying. And I have even less. I have even less. I'm in Las Vegas. I'm in the oven here. So you guys.

55:52 All right. All along. Let's try this again. OK, Colonel, can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah. OK. OK. I'm sorry for that. Basically, I wanted to mention a couple of points. Thomas Mann, this guy you mentioned earlier, is really a key guy to look at in depth. As you probably know, he was in the ambassador's office or I forget CIA, but I think ambassador in Mexico City. And he's just like.

56:24 very, very important in terms of the JFK assassination, in terms of the question of whether or not Oswald was in Mexico City, and the intense manipulation involving both the Mexican and U.S. governments around that whole Mexico City aspect of the JFK assassination. And I know Jefferson Morley, the former Washington Post reporter who has been in charge, has been writing on the

56:52 The revelations in the Washington Post today, if anyone has not seen the article in the Washington Post today, it's kind of a, you know, ground sort of a groundbreaking article when it comes in terms of seeing, you know, the establishment media actually saying some true shit, as it were. And again, it's not it's not so much that it's new and different for what we know already, but more like, you know.

57:20 how they're playing this establishment, how the establishment media is playing this as if they had always been on the side of truth when we know that's bullshit. I mean, for example, the biggest revelation, you know, was they issued, you know, on the weekend of July 4th at the very beginning of the weekend when they knew, of course, everyone's on a three-day weekend and it's not going to be shared as much. As you know, they literally think this way. And the other thing I just wanted to say is,

57:49 In dealing with the year 1964, it's really kind of a key year because the Johnson administration was very, very conscious of trying to appear as though there were not significant policy changes in foreign policy until Johnson could get reelected in November of 64.

58:17 That was an extreme, extreme conscious effort at all levels of government after the CIA coup of 1963. Right. Yep. And although we know, of course, that these policy differences had been extremely clear from as early as 61, when Johnson, you know, according to Professor John Newman in his second edition called JFK in Vietnam. I mean, Johnson is already.

58:46 linking through his military attache Burris, B-U-R-R-I-S, I believe this is spelling, different military, you know, body counts for the battles in Vietnam as early as then JFK was receiving. So they were literally receiving different body counts about Vietnam, JFK versus LBJ and LBJ connected into the CIA's version of narrative.

59:14 And, you know, LBJ goes to Vietnam in 1961. He's already like making his own policy with CIA. It's a truly amazing stuff in John Newman's book, JFK and Vietnam, second edition. I strongly recommend everybody read that. And so the other thing I wanted to say is, you know, I think it's highly noteworthy that, as you pointed out, that, you know, USAID was, you know, established by JFK.

59:43 these plans were um initially you know alliance for progress plans which were boycotted by capital basically as you in fact showed in that aj lingus excerpt about how you know they basically made their own little separate what dc washington dc business roundtable for brazil how charitable of them and this is above u.s voters above sure tell above brazilian voters

1:00:13 It's just 1-800-INTERNATIONAL-OLIGARCHY-CARTEL over here. And it's so extremely illuminating. And let's see. Lastly, I just wanted to say that in terms of A.J. Langute's comment regarding JFK and Vietnam, okay, in my opinion, it's kind of in contrast with the historians who have written since.

1:00:42 1998, when all of the new documents were released after the AARB assassination records review board was passed by Congress, which was an arduous process, releasing 6 million new documents, not pages, but, you know, documents. You know, historians have gone 180 on the question of whether JFK was getting out of Vietnam. But my point is that A.J. Langute's book written in 1978.

1:01:10 is kind of typical in the following sense. You have a kind of, you might say, leftist, left view of U.S. foreign policy in A.J. Lenguth, and yet look at where he still seems to be kind of in some ways echoing the David Halberstam official CIA best and the brightest take on Vietnam, which we now know is deeply...

1:01:39 deeply deeply flawed and yet that book was so so popular and it's very interesting that note where you know your establishment democrats and their controlled left both agree hot damn vietnam that's not an accident because we cannot we're not allowed to see the connection between the growth of the vietnam war and the jfk assassination because that is too explosive

1:02:08 And certainly the CIA knows how to, you know, utilize local anesthetic propaganda, by which I mean the fake loud to neutralize that possibility and make sure those two antenna of the electric eel never meet because that's just too volatile. We are not allowed to see that the Vietnam Memorial is a result of political assassinations, not to mention the six million dead in Southeast Asia. That's absolutely forbidden, especially.

1:02:37 And most of the lies are needed there where on the left lies are going to be where they're needed, as you know. Yeah, absolutely. OK, so since you brought it up, I already had the tab open. Let me talk about Thomas Mann for a second. Very interesting. And of course, Bridget will find no surprise at all that he went to Baylor University and Baylor Law.

1:03:09 Oh, my God. Always wake up. Always. Yeah. So he tried to get in the Navy during World War II, but wasn't allowed. So he joined the diplomatic service of the Department of State in 1942 and went to Montevideo in Uruguay. And what was he doing there? He was sent there to, quote, unquote, investigate Nazi shipping.

1:03:39 Well, he must have really sucked at that because he was basically put in charge of that for the entire South American area, which we know was the reception of the rat lines from Nazi Germany. So he wasn't there to prevent Nazi shipping. He was there to accommodate Nazi shipping.

1:04:09 I have to point out that he sought military assistance from Latin America for the Korean War, basically promoting the fact that, hey, we've been here for you in Latin America. You need to be there for us as we go and do imperialism and basically ensure the division of the Korean Peninsula for the next 80 years.

1:04:39 Also, it says that in 1952, Mann was welcomed into the Eisenhower administration with a memo that he had wrote and how there was no way that they could allow communists to take over Latin America because of their strategic resources. And it was absolutely in the utmost security.

1:05:08 that we prevent that from happening. So already the, you know, Cuba, and again, or communists, again, this is not within five years of the aftermath, seven years of the aftermath of World War II, where we know that at that particular time, the spread of communism in Latin America, chances were nil. They did not have the

1:05:36 manpower nor the industrial base to do this. In Guatemala, it says that he attended the inauguration of Arbenz Guzman, who they absolutely hated. And while he was there at his inauguration, the democratically elected president of Guatemala, he pronounced that he was a communist.

1:06:05 He had no supporting documentation, no evidence whatsoever, but Guzman had already, Arbenz had already made it well known that he was in support of taking on United Fruit. Man opposed Arbenz land reform, which was basically United Fruit, fearing that Guatemala would become a test case for the other nations in Latin America,

1:06:37 who were basically imperialist colonies of U.S. oligarchs. So, of course, Guatemala was the coup that happened right after the Iranian coup in 1953 that basically overthrew Arbenz Guzman and installed a fascist dictator. Mann was recalled from Greece to go to Guatemala.

1:07:06 and he established Norman Armour as the U.S. ambassador and sought to support the new military dictatorship of Castillo Armas. So Mann is deciding who's going to be in charge of ambassadors in their newly created military dictatorships. He was basically, as a result of him

1:07:36 Being involved in the overthrow of the Guatemalan government, given basically veto power over any Guatemalan policy after a new oil law was proposed in Guatemala, he basically said no. And Armas said that unless man agreed, he couldn't do it. So they're literally controlling the foreign countries out of the State Department.

1:08:08 It goes on to say in September of 1957, Mann moved to Washington, D.C. to become the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, which means economic warfare, just for those of you watching. Trans-American economic problems were throughout Latin America. And at the time, you had Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.

1:08:33 who has direct ties to United Fruit, Sullivan and Cromwell, and all of the oligarchs who had business in Latin America. At the time, Vice President Nixon traveled, and I don't know if you guys have heard about this, but it's actually funny. I looked up a couple of articles. When Vice President Nixon traveled throughout Latin America on like a tour, he was greeted by mobs of people.

1:08:59 Because they all knew that the United States was overthrowing their governments and they hated us for that. Mann also was responsible for the Inter-American Development Bank, which we've come across multiple times in Operation Gladio as basically a funding source because many make that an analogous to the Marshall Plan in Europe after World War II that we know.

1:09:29 had money siphoned off of it for Operation Gladio. And there are lots of ties of the Inter-American Development Bank to Operation Condor in Latin America. So he's behind that as well. During the Kennedy administration, man, weirdly enough, leaves right before the Bay of Pigs and ends up as the ambassador to Mexico, as all along pointed out.

1:09:59 And just so happens to be there when all of the shenanigans of the JFK assassination happened, as was just pointed out. LBJ reappoints Mann back to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and he also made him in charge of USAID. So imagine this.

1:10:27 We all know the USAID is the CIA front. Imagine being the economic arm of the CIA while at the same time sitting as the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs while Operation Condor is running wild all over Latin America. So the same guy that's creating Operation Condor in the State Department.

1:10:53 is in charge of all the money funding Operation Condor in Latin America. So just let that hang out. He's also very famous for the Mann Doctrine. And Mann, in 1964, gave a secret speech to U.S. officials that laid out the administration's policy for Latin America.

1:11:19 He didn't even mention the newly created Alliance for Progress because JFK created that and Lyndon B. Johnson didn't basically want to have anything to do with that. That wasn't his policy. Mann's policy called for, quote, non-intervention against dictators if they were friendly to U.S. business interests. But he wanted intervention against, they labeled communists.

1:11:49 because it was anti-American business. So you see how that works? As long as we label you a communist, you're anti-American business. And we're very much in front of, we're very much in support of any dictator as long as they accommodate our oligarchs.

1:12:16 Mann supported the military overthrow of a democratically elected government in Brazil, as we pointed out. He assisted this takeover directly by diverting USAID money to Brazil, away from Goliath's actual government and into the hands of the coup plotters. In Chile,

1:12:44 Mann ordered an intensive and coordinated campaign in favor of Eduardo Free against Salvador Allende in the 1964 elections. So he was involved in that one as well. Now, that was the first time that Allende ran for president and he was not elected. Largely due, at least in part.

1:13:10 to the CIA's intervention to successfully make sure he did not. It said that Mann had authored a 10-point plan to ensure Allende did not get elected. Threats of economic retaliation against Chile if they elected Allende. CIA and U.S. Information Agency, another CIA front.

1:13:37 Production and dissemination of propaganda against Allende. $70 million in emergency loans to prop up the economy and reduce unemployment before the election to make Salvador Allende less appealing. Secret contact with U.S. government and businesses, with Chilean businesses, military, police, clergy, trade unions, and the Masonic Lodge.

1:14:04 for the purpose of opposing Allende. The efforts were successful in 1964, but not successful in 1970. He was involved in Panama during a period of Panamanian wanting.

1:14:29 The Panama Canal Treaty actually negotiated because, remember, Panama never signed the original treaty. So Johnson finally agreed to begin renegotiating that. He was involved in Bolivia during their destabilization efforts. Mann also commented on the fact that in the Dominican Republic, which, by the way, we cooed them as well.

1:14:58 Mann labeled democratically elected Juan Bosch a communist. Oh my gosh, I'm shocked. And supported the U.S. invasion in 1965. Mann personally insisted on the production of a cable which would describe danger to American citizens in the Dominican Republic. At the same time, he pressured the military government to crack down on Santo Domingo.

1:15:25 In quote unquote insurgents, you know, actually people that didn't want to live under a U.S. imposed military dictator. Those people. So, yeah, he's a very bad dude. I agree with you all along. One hundred percent. Go ahead. Yeah, I think he is a very bad dude. And he kind of here in some ways reminds me of like what we see in this period of like 60 to 70.

1:15:56 60 through 1980, if you will, is that kind of you have an ostensible kind of government with the three branches kind of doing their thing. And yet you have the CIA through the State Department sort of working kind of like I'm not sure if it's the right metaphor, but kind of lysosomes.

1:16:22 or that part of the cell that is designed to break down the old order so that a new order may rise up. And we kind of see that happening in the international trademarks, right? Which are, you know, the CIA is sponsoring in New Orleans, Dallas, New York City with the World Trade Center, etc. It's kind of like they're introducing this corporate emphasis, corporate internationalism.

1:16:48 damned if you do, damned if you don't, even while the older policy is still in place and just allowing it to spread like a cancer through the rest of the government as time passes. And then at the same time, we see that in Mexico City, the CIA is definitely working with a very unique situation that they have there with Thomas Mann to undermine the ostensible policy of

1:17:18 earlier under JFK to a big switch where the policy is going through the governors and direct investment to Latin America and not through the national government of Brazil. And that policy was boycotted by the U.S. businessmen, as you pointed out. And it kind of reminds me of another sort of domestic structure in which, you know, you look at how the CIA handled

1:17:48 um the assassination of mlk and you look at lyndon johnson's somewhat unique relationship with the governor of tennessee and it's like it's formerly we have a policy called federalism where the states are doing their own thing as it were as we teach the school children that's 100 of the population if it's not the truth that could matter and yet we see um lbj working with his

1:18:13 Floor manager in 1960 at Los Angeles was the governor of Tennessee. And boy, did LBJ and CIA work very well with that particular state government to manipulate the MLK trial and manipulate and conclude the framing of James Earl Ray for not assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King.

1:18:38 We see, you know, kind of the uses of these special relationships in a given embassy and international politics or in a given state to sort of undermine the ostensible formal structure of like domestically federalism. And in short, yeah, I urge everyone to read this new book called The Deep State Assassination of MLK.

1:19:02 And I think I wrote you about it earlier, but it's basically written by a sixth generation Tennessean. And if you want to see the CIA go right from federal government to state government, you know, in a way that you've never seen before, the sixth generation Tennessean is the one to show us how that's done. I mean, he's got two judges dying with James Earl Ray's case on their table and next on their docket.

1:19:32 And when you see these judicial state deaths, you're understanding it could well be a federal affair. Yeah, right. Benjamin, how are you today? I'm doing good. How are you ladies doing? I'm doing great. I haven't seen you in a long time. Yeah, I took, I don't know, about a three, four week hiatus. Got away. A lot going on with the family and the kids. Summertime. Wanted to, you know. Absolutely.

1:20:03 while i'm here i'll just say i for all those that you know just coming across colonel for the first time maybe like she is the real deal her and the rest of the ladies on her team they've been doing a lot of good stuff and letting a lot of people know what's been going on for a very long time you know and a lot of these actors they haven't been held accountable over the years hold on baby hold on

1:20:29 And a lot of these bad actors haven't been held accountable over the years. So that's to let you know that those types of people are still calling the shots. And what's going on, just real quick, I absolutely believe a military operation is going on. And here's the reason why. Trump let us all know that treason was committed. The Supreme Court upheld a decision recently that...

1:20:58 you know, gives him the authorization to be able to use the military if there's a threat against America. So a lot of these things that are playing out, you know, is smoke and mirrors. Like Trump was telling us, you know, he said, you don't tell the enemy your plans. So that lets you know that a lot of things that you see aren't really real. Like, for instance, I absolutely believe that Elon is still helping Trump. And I'll end there. Great to hear you guys. Thank you.

1:21:31 Okay. And with that, I hear it raining outside. Normally my Starlink doesn't work as well while it's raining. So probably need to wrap this up. And we will be back tomorrow at four o'clock to continue with our book into chapter four. Go ahead, Stellar.

1:21:57 Major just asked to come up and I know that they always have really good stuff. And I agree with Benjamin and with Bridget and stuff like that. Dark Maga, you know, he's exposing, you know, the silliness within and stuff like that. I agree with you, Benjamin, too. I think that there's so many different operations going on. And again, like what Ben was saying, Colonel Towner, you and Bridget and SR and Warhamster and Cousinet and all of you guys are just amazing.

1:22:27 amazing on showing us so much stuff. And that's another thing is as people are talking about these different operations and people, you know, whether it's through Dulles or other ones, it's like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, you guys need to, you got to follow Dr. or I call you Dr. Colonel Towner, because, you know, a lot of this stuff, you know, that you've been talking about and educating us on all this time has truly been very much a part of what is going on.

1:22:56 I tried to tell him it's not going to work. Now you are. Now here you are. All right. We can hear you. Go ahead. All right. I didn't hear the end of what Seller said. Because, again, my service will go in and out with the storm here. Mager, did you have something you wanted to bring up? Yes. The situation evolving in Spain right now. There was an old Spaniard that was severely beaten by a Muslim mob.

1:23:30 or a gang or something, and there's a severe backlash to that, rioting and burning of a mosque and whatnot. And it's sure starting to sound like the classic playbook of Gladio or the Albert Einstein Institute trying to start a revolution. The question is, who are they trying to put in charge now, I guess, or do they just want a fascist state put in charge? Do you have any thoughts or comments on that?

1:23:54 Well, we know unequivocally that if they're behind it, they want a fascist state. So that's been proven, you know, over and over and over again. I am monitoring that. I don't know the details of it. Just what I have read so far. And I do think the 48 to 72 hour rule is a good thing. I know that there was community notes on one of the videos saying that that was actually not the current.

1:24:24 mosque that was being set on fire, that that was from something that had happened a couple of years ago. So again, it's just very good to kind of let those news headlines kind of play themselves out for about 48 hours before we figure out what's actually going on. I did want to credit Donnie Vision over on Rumble with saying that she thought

1:24:52 The name Coup Plotters was a good punk rock band. And I don't disagree with you, Donnie Vision, because probably one of the funniest things when my middle daughter started helping me edit stuff over on Substack, I had written about Operation Northwood.

1:25:15 As soon as I told her that there was an article there for her to look over, she picks up the phone and she goes, mom, did you know, because she's a lead guitarist in a band and they do alternative rock. She says, mom, did you know that there's a band called Operation Northwood? And I said, no, but you're going to find out reading that article what it was named after. So there is such a crossover.

1:25:44 between all of this stuff and culture both with video games hollywood and all of this stuff that it is kind of mind-blowing um so anyway thanks for that um suggestion um donny vision all right guys i'm gonna go ahead and call it a day um before i actually do lose the internet you guys take care and um i will see you tomorrow at four

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Philip Agee founded Covert Action Information Bulletin host_asserted ▶ 2:33

“heard anything about him. What I want to do is share with you a little bit about his background because I find it quite interesting. He's written a couple of books. He is also the guy that started the…”

Philip Agee carried_out_attack Uruguay host_asserted ▶ 4:25

“Out of the service. Now, some people have suggested he was at Notre Dame and was kind of guided through his career, but that's neither here nor there. But that kind of gives you the background for his…”

Philip Agee carried_out_attack Dominican Republic host_asserted ▶ 4:58

“in the 1965 overthrow of the Dominican Republic. And of course, during that coup, they accused the nationalist president of being a communist, which we see is kind of a common denominator with most of…”

Philip Agee carried_out_attack Ecuador host_asserted ▶ 5:28

“that it was the CIA that executed Che Guevara, not the Uruguayan government. And also, he said a whole bunch of other things. But we are going to pay attention to his first assignment in the CIA was t…”

Philip Agee carried_out_attack Mexico host_asserted ▶ 5:28

George H.W. Bush removed_from_power Philip Agee host_asserted ▶ 6:26

“He went to the Netherlands. They deported him. He went to France, West Germany, and Italy, and they all deported him. He eventually ends up in Cuba, which was the only country basically that would all…”

Philip Agee carried_out_attack Ecuador book_quoted ▶ 9:00

“in the CIA. His successes had included bugging diplomat houses, subverting and bribing local officials, and disseminating lies, i.e. propaganda, through the Ecuadorian press. He had been rewarded with…”

John Kenneth Galbraith targeted_for_regime_change Ngô Đình Diệm book_quoted ▶ 12:58

“When will your army people finally get going? But the Kennedy years had already proven that distinguished liberals given authority overseas could surmount their domestic principles. For example, as ea…”

Lincoln Gordon targeted_for_regime_change João Goulart book_quoted ▶ 15:56

“and his friends had underestimated him. Now he was at the center of a plot to overthrow the government of the fifth largest nation in the world. The opposition papers attacked the coming rally as peri…”

David Rockefeller member_of Business Group for Latin America book_quoted ▶ 16:33

“In real anonymous colors, we're spreading the message. Don't go to the communist meeting. In other words, your president is a communist. Out of Washington came news of the creation of a business group…”

Robert F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change João Goulart book_quoted ▶ 23:44

“with good contact in Brazil. McNamara was not debating the merits of a military coup against a civilian president. He was convinced that it had to happen. It was not important what they called themsel…”

Nguyen Thanh succeeded General Big Min book_quoted ▶ 25:12

“The first and regrettable choice had been the hulking, uneasy General Big Min, who was popular with his people, but not necessarily somebody that they wanted to get behind. It took a second small coup…”

Vernon Walters recruited Huberto Castelo Branco book_quoted ▶ 25:43

“Walters had remained extremely close to Huberto Caslaro Branco, B-R-A-N-C-O, who would head up the proposed coup. But would it succeed? McNamara's analysts at the Department of Defense assured him tha…”

Andrews O'Meara supplied_arms_to Huberto Castelo Branco book_quoted ▶ 27:47

“A Chilean journalist later reported another commitment. During his stopover in Rio in early March, General Andrews O'Meara, the commander of U.S. South Com, had promised to fly paratroopers out of Pan…”

Huberto Castelo Branco overthrew João Goulart book_quoted ▶ 33:20

“and assure the State Department that the general was firmly committed to the overthrow. It was now clear that General Castillo Branco finally accepted leadership of forces determined to resist. On a M…”

John McCone headed CIA documented ▶ 36:15

“In Washington, an array of top representatives of the U.S. government were edgy. The March 31st telecon to Gordon came from Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, the General of the Army Maxwell Taylor, General …”

Lincoln Gordon recruited Juscelino Kubitschek documented ▶ 38:29

“Brazil at the time had their own intelligence and would know about all of these things happening. That night, March 31st, Gordon called on Kubitschek for all of the accusations of corruption and the i…”

Henrique Lott member_of Brazil documented ▶ 38:59

“of the new regime that the U.S. was going to pick. An hour before midnight, the same night, General Kruel, K-R-U-E-L, the most reluctant of the coup makers, finally joined with his colleagues. He had …”

Nikita Khrushchev covered_up Soviet Union documented ▶ 43:40

“had went on record saying they didn't want to have anything to do with Brazil. They didn't want to finance it. And they knew that any engagement in Brazil would pit them against the U.S. And it wasn't…”

Auro de Moura Andrade framed João Goulart documented ▶ 44:10

“Their argument was long and loud, and finally, Brazola accused his brother-in-law of being a coward. The president said, no, I do not want to be responsible for bloodshed among Brazilians. For Carlos …”

Aarão Reis installed Brazil documented ▶ 44:40

“The military would need someone as a front to complete Goliad's term. Kubitschek would never take the job. Constitutionally, the interim term would bar him from seeking a full term later. But the U.S.…”

William Doughtery Jr. headed Anti-Communist Education Center documented ▶ 46:12

“sent a wire to the new government congratulating them from saving the country from communism. If that's not a crock of crap, I don't know what is. When Gordon returned to Washington, he found the prev…”

Lyndon B. Johnson funded Huberto Castelo Branco documented ▶ 46:12

Anti-Communist Education Center trained Brazil documented ▶ 46:45

“What happened in Brazil didn't just happen. It was planned. It was planned months in advance. Many of the trade union leaders, some of whom were actually trained in our institute, were involved in the…”

Andrew Goodpaster covered_up Brazil documented ▶ 48:19

“which could only have been followed by communist domination. You know, we're going to overthrow democracy from a fake communist threat and install a military dictator to save democracy. Congressman Ha…”

Douglas MacArthur covered_up China documented ▶ 48:49

“While in Washington, and that's just the same thing that I will remind you that General MacArthur did in his testimony in front of Congress about Taiwan. He said that it was a democracy when they were…”

Robert F. Kennedy covered_up João Goulart guest_asserted ▶ 49:19

“It too was a democracy. While in Washington, Ambassador Gordon ran into Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, and he was reported, at least according to Gouliard, to say, or sorry, according to Gordon…”

Thomas Massie member_of Baylor University documented ▶ 1:02:37

“And most of the lies are needed there where on the left lies are going to be where they're needed, as you know. Yeah, absolutely. OK, so since you brought it up, I already had the tab open. Let me tal…”

Thomas Massie spied_on Uruguay documented ▶ 1:03:09

“Oh, my God. Always wake up. Always. Yeah. So he tried to get in the Navy during World War II, but wasn't allowed. So he joined the diplomatic service of the Department of State in 1942 and went to Mon…”

Thomas Massie member_of Dwight D. Eisenhower documented ▶ 1:04:39

“Also, it says that in 1952, Mann was welcomed into the Eisenhower administration with a memo that he had wrote and how there was no way that they could allow communists to take over Latin America beca…”

Thomas Massie framed Jacobo Árbenz documented ▶ 1:05:36

“manpower nor the industrial base to do this. In Guatemala, it says that he attended the inauguration of Arbenz Guzman, who they absolutely hated. And while he was there at his inauguration, the democr…”

Thomas Massie overthrew Guatemala documented ▶ 1:07:06

“and he established Norman Armour as the U.S. ambassador and sought to support the new military dictatorship of Castillo Armas. So Mann is deciding who's going to be in charge of ambassadors in their n…”

Thomas Massie appointed Norman Armour documented ▶ 1:07:06

Thomas Massie member_of Allen Dulles documented ▶ 1:08:08

“It goes on to say in September of 1957, Mann moved to Washington, D.C. to become the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, which means economic warfare, just for those of you watching. Tr…”

Thomas Massie funded Inter-American Development Bank documented ▶ 1:08:59

“Because they all knew that the United States was overthrowing their governments and they hated us for that. Mann also was responsible for the Inter-American Development Bank, which we've come across m…”

Inter-American Development Bank funded Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 1:08:59

Inter-American Development Bank funded Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 1:09:29

“had money siphoned off of it for Operation Gladio. And there are lots of ties of the Inter-American Development Bank to Operation Condor in Latin America. So he's behind that as well. During the Kenne…”

Thomas Massie member_of Lyndon B. Johnson documented ▶ 1:09:59

“And just so happens to be there when all of the shenanigans of the JFK assassination happened, as was just pointed out. LBJ reappoints Mann back to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American …”

Thomas Massie headed USAID documented ▶ 1:09:59

Thomas Massie member_of Operation Gladio guest_asserted ▶ 1:10:27

“We all know the USAID is the CIA front. Imagine being the economic arm of the CIA while at the same time sitting as the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs while Operation Condor i…”

USAID front_for CIA guest_asserted ▶ 1:10:27

Thomas Massie founded Mann Doctrine host_asserted ▶ 1:10:53

“is in charge of all the money funding Operation Condor in Latin America. So just let that hang out. He's also very famous for the Mann Doctrine. And Mann, in 1964, gave a secret speech to U.S. officia…”

Thomas Massie funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:10:53

Thomas Massie supported Brazil host_asserted ▶ 1:12:16

“Mann supported the military overthrow of a democratically elected government in Brazil, as we pointed out. He assisted this takeover directly by diverting USAID money to Brazil, away from Goliath's ac…”

Thomas Massie overbilled_or_diverted USAID host_asserted ▶ 1:12:16

Thomas Massie carried_out_attack Salvador Allende host_asserted ▶ 1:12:44

“Mann ordered an intensive and coordinated campaign in favor of Eduardo Free against Salvador Allende in the 1964 elections. So he was involved in that one as well. Now, that was the first time that Al…”

Thomas Massie funded Chile host_asserted ▶ 1:13:37

“Production and dissemination of propaganda against Allende. $70 million in emergency loans to prop up the economy and reduce unemployment before the election to make Salvador Allende less appealing. S…”

Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Thomas Massie host_asserted ▶ 1:14:29

“The Panama Canal Treaty actually negotiated because, remember, Panama never signed the original treaty. So Johnson finally agreed to begin renegotiating that. He was involved in Bolivia during their d…”

Thomas Massie supported Dominican Republic host_asserted ▶ 1:14:58

“Mann labeled democratically elected Juan Bosch a communist. Oh my gosh, I'm shocked. And supported the U.S. invasion in 1965. Mann personally insisted on the production of a cable which would describe…”

Thomas Massie framed Juan Bosch host_asserted ▶ 1:14:58

Lyndon B. Johnson covered_up Martin Luther King Jr. host_asserted ▶ 1:18:13

“Floor manager in 1960 at Los Angeles was the governor of Tennessee. And boy, did LBJ and CIA work very well with that particular state government to manipulate the MLK trial and manipulate and conclud…”