The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 12

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0:00 How are you today, Bridget S.R.? Wonderful, wonderful. And how are you? I'm wonderful. So this is the chapter where we get into some of the meat of this book. The name of this chapter is Mobsters, the Spooks and George Bush, the Palmer National Bank story. And of course, we talked about the Palmer National Bank as Stefan Helper's project. So let's dig in.

0:31 The Palmer Bank, located just three blocks from the White House, really convenient. When Palmer opened its doors in 1983, the founding chairman of the board was none other than Stefan Halper, a political operative with absolutely zero banking experience. After Halper graduated from Stanford University and attended Oxford,

1:07 He joined the Nixon White House in 1971 as a domestic policy advisor. He has no experience at all in domestic policy. He just happened to have been recruited from the CIA at Stanford and then groomed at Oxford as part of the Praetorian Guard and runs right into the Nixon White House. He stayed there during Watergate and through the Ford administration.

1:39 holding positions in the Office of Management and Budget, which controls the money for the government, and the Office of Communications, and then moved over to the Chief of Staff. When Harper first began working at the White House, his father-in-law, anyone want to guess who that is? Because I told you, it was Ray Kline, Mr. CIA himself. That is Harper's father-in-law.

2:11 He literally married the CIA. Ray Klein was the head of the State Department's Intelligence Bureau. And remember, that office is the intelligence and research part of the State Department that was occupied during the Eisenhower administration by Eleanor Dulles. So it's the belly button for the CIA into the State Department. That's where Ray Klein was.

2:41 He's the coordinator for the CIA and the State Department that basically runs USAID and all of the other State Department apparatuses that do overtly what the CIA did covertly. Klein is a leading member of the CIA's old boy network. He had joined the CIA's predecessor, the OSS, during World War II. And where was he at? He was with Paul Helliwell over in China, setting up the opium trade.

3:12 Other OSS veterans on the China front included E. Howard Hunt, who was in charge of the plumbers at the White House that ran Nixon out and shows up in the JFK and all of the other apparatus. John Singlib, who is part and parcel of this entire apparatus. John Singlib is the guy that was at the World Anti-Communist League, too.

3:43 Mitch Warbell. Warbell. Where did we find Mitch Warbell III? Do you remember him? I wrote an entire thread about him. He's the guy that was running basically a terrorist training camp outside of Fort Benning where they moved the School of Americas outside of Atlanta and was producing silencers for automatic weapons. That Mitch Warbell.

4:11 and Paul Helliwell, as we just mentioned, many of the country's fiascos that touched the CIA, including the Bay of Pigs, Watergate, Iran-Contra, have involved one or more of the China OSS veterans. No surprise to us. Klein, who was a Harvard fellow when he joined the OSS, later served as the chief of stations in Taiwan, where Chiang Kai-shek set up operation.

4:43 And in Germany, which is where the Galen organization was running the stay behind units, and worked his way up to deputy director of intelligence before joining the State Department. And of course, we know he didn't join the State Department. He stayed in the CIA. He was just sitting in a State Department desk. He then went on to serve in conservative think tanks and posed as an expert on anti-terrorism.

5:17 the guy who's responsible for the terrorism, was serving as an expert on anti-terrorism. After the Democrats took over the White House in 77, Stefan Halper went to work as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator William Roth, R-O-T-H, the earlier mentioned Republican from Delaware with ties to the future attorney of Robert Corson. Then in 1980, Halper

5:46 was named policy director of the presidential campaign of George Bush Sr. When Reagan won the nomination, he joined the Reagan-Bush team as a policy coordinator. Klein, too, worked in the Bush campaign as a top foreign policy and defense advisor. Klein boasted during the primaries that he intended to organize something like one of my old CIA staff to help Bush win. He failed.

6:18 During the 1980 campaign, Halper worked in a select group that was trying to find out what the Carter campaign was doing. On July 7th, 1983, Leslie Kelb of the New York Times reported that Halper had been in charge of the operation to gather inside information on Carter's foreign policy. Halper concentrated in particular, according to the Times article, on whether Carter's people might be able to pull off an October surprise.

6:48 in getting the American hostages in Tehran released before the election. While, meanwhile, they were working on their own October surprise to keep them locked up. The Times quoted an unnamed sources saying there was some CIA stuff coming from Halper and some agency guys were hired. One former CIA official working for Halper during the campaign was Robert Gambino.

7:16 who had headed the CIA's super secretive Office of Security. Other ex-CIA, which means they were still CIA, worked under Gambino for Halper. In May of 1984, a House subcommittee came out with a report implicating Halper as the so-called Debategate scandal became known, in which inside information from the Carter administration ended up in the Reagan campaign for use in the debate.

7:50 between the candidates. The report stated that Halper, the director of policy coordination, either received or circulated non-public information from inside the Carter campaign. You know, just like they tried to do with Trump, using Halper. Quote, I may have seen a few pages of it, but I can't confirm any particular subject or format, Halper later told the New York Times. The subcommittee report concluded that James

8:20 Baker III, who was in charge of Reagan's debate group, had obtained the Carter material from campaign manager William Casey, another Mr. CIA, who went on to become the director of the CIA. Casey denied that he had provided Baker with any Carter materials, but the subcommittee believed Baker because of cooperation by Baker's aide, Margaret.

8:50 The Times reported that Baker and David Juergen, who both served in the Bush campaign during the primaries, brought Halper on board the Reagan campaign after the Republican National Convention. When the Times attempted to contact Juergen for comment about the story on Halper's gathering Carter's inside information, Juergen didn't return phone calls.

9:22 He's currently, when this book was written, the editor of the U.S. News and World Report. You know, the CIA running the news? Yeah. Instead, they called Klein, who then called the Times to deny any CIA connection to the Bush and Reagan campaign, which, of course, is what the CIA does.

9:46 After Reagan won the 1980 election, Halper was named to a newly created position as deputy director for the State Department's Bureau of Political and Military Affairs. State Department officials said the White House and Mr. Gergen in particular had applied a great deal of pressure to create this brand new position for Stefan Halper. Less than two years later, Halper resigned his position to organize.

10:16 the Palmer National Bank. He was put on a new assignment for the CIA. One of the five other organizers of the bank was Frederick Malek, M-A-L-E-K, also a veteran of the Nixon White House. As his personnel chief, Malek compiled figures for Nixon on the number of Jewish people among top officials at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Several of these people were later transferred out of their top positions.

10:47 This came back to haunt Malik in September 1988 after George Bush named him deputy chairman of the RNC. He resigned this position after the Washington Post published a story about his earlier services for Nixon. He has, however, remained in favor with Bush, who picked him to manage the RNC in 1988 and then named him to direct an economic summit of world leaders in Houston.

11:16 During the summer of 1990, Malik is now the Bush-Quell campaign manager. Also in 1982, the same year Malik began organizing Palmer National Bank with Halper and others, Reagan named Malik a West Point graduate, Green Beret, Harvard MBA to the U.S. Postal Service's Board of Governors.

11:48 Other organizers of the bank was John Barnum, an attorney who was the general counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation from 71 to 73, and deputy secretary of that department from 74 to 77. How convenient to be in charge of the Department of Transportation in the 70s. William Kilberg, an attorney who was the solicitor of the Department of Labor from 73 to 77,

12:19 and a member of Reagan's transition team on labor, and John Nebel, K-N-E-B-E-L, an attorney who had been the Secretary of Agriculture under Ford. The only organizer not from the Washington, D.C. area was Harvey McLean, Jr. He just happened to be a real estate developer from Shreveport, Louisiana.

12:50 Shreveport, Louisiana. You mean where Herman Beebe runs the show? Yes, the mafia guy. McLean's father was in the oil business in Shreveport. And at one time, he had worked with George Bush in Zapata Offshore Oil Company, which we've already associated with being connected to Operation Gladio, training Cuban exiles. According to a former top

13:19 official at Palmer. McLean went to prep school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and then on to Harvard. He earned an MBA from the University of Virginia and then went back to Shreveport in 66. McLean and Halper met while they were both working on Bush's presidency campaign in 1980. McLean was a full-time unpaid volunteer in Alabama. Harvey took

13:52 This is a quote. Harvey told me that there was a mutual friend in Houston who introduced him to George Bush. One time, Parker said, he and McLean spent two days driving Neil Bush, the candidate's son, around Birmingham. He had just gotten out of Tulane, meaning he just graduated from college. Also working on Bush's Alabama team was Margaret Tutwiler. Tutwiler is currently

14:22 James Baker's spokesperson. McLean may also have been on Bush's finance committee, according to Fred Bush, finance director of the campaign. And in the Dallas Morning News reported, when George Bush was just another Republican looking for his party's 1980 nomination, he spent several hours talking politics with Harvey McLean at a New Orleans fundraiser.

14:53 The full-time paid staffer for Bush during the Alabama primary was Peter Monk, M-O-N-K, who had worked in the Peace Corps for Nixon, which is interesting because we've already found a few CIA people embedded in the Peace Corps. This guy was really strange. He used to talk about Nicaragua all the time. He and Harvey became good friends. Halper, too.

15:23 remembers Monk and McLean being very good friends. Monk was a highly partisan Republican, like an attack dog, Halper said. Monk married into the DuPont family. After the 1980 election, McLean moved to Dallas and Halper went to work at the State Department. The following year, Halper was going to a foreign trade conference in China.

15:51 And, quote, there was an opportunity to bring someone along with me, Halper said, who might have an interest in the area, who was sort of a friend and so on. And so I asked Harvey if he'd like to go with me. Somewhere over the Pacific, we got into a conversation about banking. Now, mind you, I'd never been a banker. This is Halper talking. I was one of these guys who had a checking account with like $71 in it.

16:21 And banks frightened me a little bit. But Harvey said, well, you got to have a good bank in Washington. Look, if you will create the bank, I'll put up the money. So McLean put up the money to start the bank, almost $3 million. But McLean didn't pull this money out of his own pocket. It really came from McLean's good friend and financier, Mafia Herman Beebe.

16:58 He arranged a loan to start the bank from Bossier Bank and Trust. So this was a mafia bank. Palmer National Bank was a mafia bank. McLean seemed an odd match for Beebe, but they were tight and close, Prosecutor Joe Cage later said. He was Beebe's boy all the way. As of the writing of this book, McLean's ex-wife's numbered three.

17:32 In the early 1980s, a Dallas magazine called McLean one of the 10 most eligible bachelors in Dallas. One thing Beebe and McLean did share was a penchant for secrecy. Halper, of all people, who locked his door at the Reagan Bush campaign office, where his own boss didn't know what he was doing half the time, said of McLean,

18:00 He practiced a form of information control more carefully and secretly than anyone I met. Dale Anderson, the former Mafia King Herman Beebe's right-hand man, remembers that the Palmer loan was very unusual. We didn't have a piece of the action, he said, meaning that Beebe didn't retain ownership.

18:26 of the bank or profit participation or even an option to buy some of the bank i don't know why we didn't have a piece i don't know why mclean went to washington either it was curious to me why anyone would go that far to own such a small bank there was a hidden agenda cage believes that bb had a hidden interest in palmer bank because he didn't do any business where he wasn't a partner

18:56 or have profit participation. I heard that he did on Palmer. There had to be some connection to Herman. Or he may have told Harvey, I've got a bank I want you to buy in D.C. and we're going to use your name. McLean did use the name of his grandmother and one of his daughters, Palmer, for the bank. In a 1985 Comptroller of the Currency report on BB, it lists

19:30 Palmer National Bank as one of 12 national banks which Beebe owned some controlling interest or influence over the bank. Beebe's loan to McLean for developments in Shreveport for homes, apartment complexes, and commercial developments made McLean one of the biggest, if not the biggest, developer in all of Shreveport. When McLean moved to Dallas, Beebe introduced him.

19:57 to his business partner, Don Dixon. It was instant love. The same year Palmer National Bank opened its doors in 1983, Dixon had his Vernon Savings and Loan lend several million dollars to McLean to buy Paris Savings and Loan in a small town called Paris, Texas, near the Oklahoma border. One of Dixon's attorney,

20:25 was quoted in the San Diego lawsuit as saying that Dixon called Paris Savings and Loan his junk bank. Paris Savings lent Dixon more than $3.5 million on an $8 million mansion Dixon was building in Rancho Santa Fe in Southern California. But Vernon came crashing down on Dixon, failing spectacularly with 96% of its loans in default before he finished the mansion.

20:55 All told, McLean and his companies borrowed over $34 million from Vernon Savings. One of his companies, Iona Development, borrowed $17 million from Beebe Controlled Continental Savings, which was owned by Beebe's frontman, Carol Kelly. In addition, McLean borrowed millions of dollars from the following savings and loans that had connections to Beebe and would later fail.

21:23 Independent American savings in Dallas, Hiawatha savings in Kansas, First South savings in Arkansas, Sandia savings in New Mexico, and San Joaquino savings in Houston. In 1989, the federal receivers for Vernon Savings, Independent Savings, and Hiawatha Savings placed McLean in involuntary bankrupt because some

21:51 $28 million he owed them on default loans on Texas real estate developments. The bankruptcy also showed he owed Continental Savings $11.7 million in unpaid loans. All in all, it appears that the taxpayers had to absorb more than $40 million in bad loans taken out by Bebe's buddy, McLean, on savings and loan bankroll by Bebe.

22:20 In addition, Paris Savings and Loan failed in 1988 and was merged with 11 other insolvent Texas savings and loan at a cost to the American taxpayers of $1.3 billion in 1980s. Meanwhile, back at Palmer National Bank, officials were making various loans to conservative Republican PACs, including a $400,000 loan.

22:49 The National Conservative Political Action Committee. Other Palmer borrowers were political action committees for U.S. Senator Robert Dole from Kansas and Jack Kemp from New York, who was serving as George Bush's secretary of housing. Weird. So they were money laundering through Palmer National Bank on quote unquote loans.

23:22 to political action committees financing politicians. This is how the CIA money launders money into politicians. Another customer at Palmer was a conservative fundraiser, Carl Spitz Chanel, who was brought to the bank, according to a former top officer, by Halper. But Halper said he couldn't remember whether he brought...

23:51 brought him or not. He did say that he had never met Spitz Chanel in his life. I wouldn't know him if I fell over him. A typical line from a CIA guy. In February 1985, Chanel established an account at Palmer for one of his foundations. It was called the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty. I love their names. This foundation used White House briefings.

24:23 and private meetings with Reagan to raise $10 million for the Contras. When Congress had banned military aid to the rebels, Chanel was the first person to plead guilty to illegal activities in the Iran-Contra scandal. He was placed on a two-year prohibition from using the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty to help Oliver North raise donations for the military weapons to the Contras.

24:51 His actual conviction was based on telling donors that their contributions were tax deductible, but they weren't. So the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty was selling weapons to basically the terrorists that were trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. That's their definition of liberty. These private donations were channeled from that foundation account at Palmer.

25:22 to an account in Switzerland used by Oliver North for Contra fundraising for arms deals in the Iran portion of the Iran-Contra. The money would go from this foundation account at Palmer to an account in another Washington bank controlled by Richard Miller's IBC consulting firm to a company called IC in the Cayman Islands.

25:50 Because, you know, every legitimate banking transaction goes through the Cayman Islands. And then on to Lake Resources account at Credit Suisse in Geneva. That account was controlled by two people, Oliver North and Richard Secord. In March of 1986, the Liberty Foundation transferred $725,000 from an account at Palmer.

26:20 to an IBC account at another Washington bank. On April 9th, IBC wired $740,000 to IC in the Caymans, which then was wired $650,000 to Lake Resources in Geneva. And you notice they use slightly different figures as if that's going to throw off the auditors. This followed a note North wrote

26:51 on April 3rd to remind Secord to send $650,000 to Lake Resource. On April 16th, Secord reported $650,000 received today as reported by the banker. The Washington Post also reported that IC sent $21,000 to the Gulf and Caribbean Foundation, which was headed by Midland Oilman William Blakemore, who

27:21 is best friends with Walter Michener and George Bush. One of the mysteries of the Iran-Contra scandal involved IC, which was drawn in the middle of Norse chart found in his White House safe, outlining how he was funding the Contra operations. The Washington Post named some of the IC principals as residents of Georgetown on Grand Cayman.

27:52 but no other information ever turned up about who they were and the company, which later changed its name to Intel Cooperation. Not like that was a CIA front or anything. Several of the principals of IC were principals of a company headed by Houston airplane operator Jim Bath, who once told a partner he worked for the CIA.

28:24 Bath was close to Jack Trotter, a Michener associate, as well as to the sons of George Bush and Lloyd Benson. One of Bath's partners was named as a supplier of aircraft to the Contra Connected Operations. Bath is also the guy that retrofitted all the aircraft for the Saudi corrupt family when they would come to the United States. They always came to Houston and Bath.

28:54 would buy aircraft and then like gold plate them, spending millions of dollars to make them flying palaces. That was Jim Bath. Jim Bath also acted as a trustee for many of the rich Saudi people that came to Texas. In addition to holding deposit accounts for the Liberty Foundation, Palmer also made a loan to the Liberty Foundation to buy office furniture.

29:24 for its D.C. office near the White House. After Chanel was implicated in the Iran-Contra, his foundation fell on hard times and moved out of their fancy offices. Tags on the furniture in the abandoned reception room read, subject to a lien of Palmer National Bank. The Liberty documents obtained by the National Security Archive show that it had four bank accounts at Palmer by the end of April 1986.

29:53 Total deposits in those accounts were about $377,000. They also had a $10,000 certificate of deposit at Palmer. On June 14, 1990, a letter to the Houston Post, Webb C. Haynes IV, Palmer's chief executive officer, claimed in an effort to downplay the close connections between Palmer and the Liberty Foundation.

30:20 that Palmer was one of the several Washington banks that maintained bank accounts for the National Endowment for Preservation of Liberty. This statement is contradicted by their own documents on file at the National Security Archive. They state that on April 30th, 1986, the only other bank that the Liberty Foundation had an account with was for $5,000 was Irving Trust and New York Bank.

30:49 These documents also show large accounts with E.F. Hutton, the stockbroker firm. That's come up a couple of times. Was E.F. Hutton money laundering for the CIA too? After his guilty plea, Chanel testified in Oliver North's trial on charges of obstructing Congress, destroying government documents and receiving illegal gratuity. Chanel, a well-known homosexual,

31:17 Died in May 1990 from pneumonia while recovering from cancer treatment in a car accident. Huh. Might want to look into that car accident. Oh, that's right. I forgot this part. He was actually ran over. That's the car accident. Not like somebody was trying to take him out for testifying against Oliver North. Palmer CEO Webb Hayes.

31:48 claimed in his letter that Palmer has never made loans to or for the benefit of the Contra rebels, which is a bold-faced lie. Besides the question of how Hayes would know the ultimate destination or benefit of every dollar lent by Palmer, the loan to the Liberty Foundation certainly benefited the Contras. A former top official at Palmer said he was there when a loan to Ecuador for military trucks was discussed.

32:16 After he raised the question of the legality of such a loan, he never heard any more about it. Yeah, we'll just not invite you to the future meetings. Halper, who was eased out of Palmer in 84 after the debate gate scandal hit, said he did not know the bank was used by Chanel to funnel money to the Contras. Another big fat lie. But he did say that he knew Oliver North and that he was a friend. He said their daughters.

32:46 took the same pony class, stuff like that. You know, nothing big. In fact, Halper is featured in the very last entry of North's White House notebooks. The entry is the last one North wrote on November 25th, 1986, the day he was fired by Reagan for his part in diverting profits from Iranian arms sales to the Contras. North entitled the entry Legal Defense Fund. Underneath the heading, North wrote,

33:15 Halper's name, along with the name of Chris Lehman, the brother of the former Secretary of Navy. When Halper was asked about it, quote, we at the time thought we might be able to help him, North, in the development of a legal defense fund. The fund got off the ground. He did develop a legal defense fund. We got trustees and put it in place, unquote.

33:45 After Halper left the board at Palmer, he was installed as chairman of the National Bank of Northern Virginia, a bank Palmer expressed interest in purchasing at one point. An attorney for this bank was J. Curtis Herge, H-E-R-G-E, who was also an attorney for the National Conservation Political Action Committee, which borrowed more than $400,000 from Halper at Palmer.

34:15 Herge was an attorney for the Nicaraguan Resistance Education Fund Foundation. It was an organization that lobbied on behalf of the Contras. And when Chanel and the Liberty Foundation got into trouble with its donations, Herge represented the organization and made statements on its behalf. At the same time that the Liberty Foundation was sending money through Palmer to the Contras, Halper's father-in-law, Ray Klein,

34:47 was advising GeoMilitech, a firm associated with retired Major General John Singleton, one of the principal leaders of private efforts for the Contras. Klein told the Joint Congressional Iran Contra Committee that the fee for his advice to GeoMilitech went to his company, SIFT Incorporated.

35:15 whose stockholders were members of his family, including a daughter who was married to Harper. Klein told the committee that he was advising GeoMilitech on selling arms to the CIA and foreign governments. Singleb, a consultant to GeoMilitech, and Barbara Studley, the head of GeoMilitech and former Miami radio show host, had earlier

35:43 arranged for the sale of $5 million in weapons to the Contras. So, GeoMilliTech is a CIA front company. One Palmer loan that benefited Beebe and some other savings and loan crooks, including Don Dixon, was a quarter of a million dollar participation Palmer purchased from Beebe's life insurance company, Savings Life. The loan was

36:13 on a 5,000 square foot beach party house overlooking the records at Salona Beach, north of Solana Beach. I forget how Warhamster told me to say that in San Diego. The very same one that involved in the lawsuit that named both Bebe and Charles Bazarian as defendants. So Palmer, the CIA bank, was involved in the purchase.

36:42 of the slutty beach house where they had crazy parties, if you're keeping up. As previously noted, Don Dixon wanted to put some distance between himself and Bebe, so Dixon had most of Bossier Bank loan on the beach house transferred to McLean Paris Savings, that tiny little savings bank in Paris, Texas.

37:08 In a deposition in the lawsuit over the beach house and the loans, McLean testified that Paris had bought 71% in the savings life loan. An affidavit by an attorney for the beach house owner stated that Palmer National Bank bought a quarter of a million dollars of a loan from savings life. So everybody had an interest in the slutty beach house.

37:35 In his letter to the Houston Post, Palmer CEO Hayes stated in an obvious attempt to distance his bank from Beebe, quote, in August 1983, when Palmer had recently opened and was seeking loans, Palmer purchased a quarter of a million dollar participation in a well-secured mortgage loan from Savings Life Insurance Company. The transaction was handled exclusively by Mr. Waters, the president of the Savings and Loans.

38:04 Savings Life. Savings Life agreed to repurchase the participation from Palmer on demand. In October 1984, Palmer was paid in full. Of course, Savings Life was totally controlled by Beebe, and the Mr. Waters referred to by Hayes is John Bennett Waters, who was also at the time the president of Beebe's AMI, which is his umbrella company that owns everything.

38:33 According to the 1985 Comptroller of the Currency report on BB, Waters had large troubled loans at several BB-controlled banks. At this time, Palmer National Bank, in the spring of 1985, McLean's Palmer stock loan at Bossier Bank and Trust was sold to San Joaquin Savings and Loan in Texas. This was just months after BB had been convicted of defrauding the small business.

39:03 administration on nursing home loans. When Art Leiser, the chief examiner for the Texas Savings and Loan Department, found out about the Palmer stock loan at San Joaquino, he blew up, saying, I called them up and chewed their ass out. What do you think you're doing? I asked them. They don't make those kinds of loans. They only make true blue home loans.

39:31 That's what the savings and loans was for. Leaser said he couldn't find out why San Joaquino, which is different from San Joaquino Savings in Houston owned by Southmark, made the loan. But an examination of the board of directors around this time showed two familiar names, Ben Rogers and Victor Rogers. This is the Victor Rogers that is the uncle.

40:00 of Victor Rogers II, who was John Riddle's law partner. Again, you just sing, it's a small world. Ben and Victor are two members of the Roger clan in Beaumont, which founded Texas State Optical Chain. The Rogers immigrated from Chicago to Beaumont in the 1920s. They changed their name from Rubenstein. That's a weird change of names.

40:32 Rogers? Rubenstein? Huh. When the Caesar Palace Casino in Las Vegas opened its doors in 1966, the biggest stockholder was Jay Sarno, who was identified in federal reports as a frontman for the Chicago mob. Not surprisingly, Jimmy Hoffa arranged a $10 million Teamster loan for Caesars. Convicted mob bookie Jerry Sarzewicz

41:00 was brought in to run the casino while the host was Elliot Paul Price, identified in Senate hearings as an associate of the New England mafia boss, Ray, I'm going to spell his last name, P-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-A. In the book, The Boardwalk Jungle, the author says the CIA and the IRS were convinced that Sorowicz and Price

41:31 had been planted in Las Vegas to protect the hidden interests of the real owner of Caesar Palace. Evidence would show that the hidden owners included Tony Arcado and Sam Giacana of the Chicago Mafia, Ray Patriera, whatever that guy's name is, Joseph Amselmo, Jerry Angliaio, and Joseph Palermo.

42:00 of the New England Mafia family, and then Tony Salerno, Jimmy Napoli, Vincent Allo, and Jerry Katina of the Genevieve family. They were all skimming millions out of Vegas. The largest stockholder in Caesar Palace was Sarno with 1,400 shares. The second largest with Nathan Jacobson with 650 shares. The third one,

42:30 and were four members of the Roger family from Beaumont, Texas. They own collectively 600 shares. In 1969, Lums, the fast food chain out of Miami, bought out the controlling interest of Caesars. Lums was headed by Clifford Perlman. He paid $48 million in cash, including $12 million in Lums' common stock.

42:58 and assumed $24 million in Teamsters Union Pension Fund loans. In 1971, the SEC tried to stop Lums from completing the purchase of Caesar Palace, alleging fraud and deceit. Some of the executives charged in the SEC action were Sarno, Sarowitz, Jacobson, Harry Wald, and Albert Facitito. The defendants

43:25 Signed a consent order, neither admitting nor denying guilt, but agreeing not to violate SEC laws in the future, which apparently is this common thing that you and I don't get. I promise I won't break the law anymore if you forgive me for breaking the law this time. That only goes to the crooks. Also in 1971, a Sarowitz aide, Jerry Gordon, was indicted along with mob

43:55 high finance Meyer Lansky for illegally skimming gambling proceeds from the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. The charges against Gordon were dropped when he turned state's evidence and he continued to work at Caesars. Caesars and Perlman then got into a great deal of hot water because their business dealings with Alvin Malnick, the earlier mentioned Miami attorney and close associate of Meyer Lansky.

44:26 In 1979, when Caesars applied for a license to operate a casino in Atlantic City, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement found that Perlman, William McElnia, and Jay Leshaw were unsuitable for licensing because, among other things, of their business dealings with Malnick. McElnia resigned from Caesars and sold his stock to Perlman.

44:56 who, after much appeals, discussions, and fighting, sold his stock back to Caesars. All during this time, Sarno first, then Perlman, allegedly controlled Caesar Palace, and the Rogers apparently maintained a presence and position in the casino. Records at the Nevada State Gambling Control Board shows that Victor Rogers was a licensed director of Caesars from 70 to 83.

45:25 Incorporation records on file with the Texas Secretary of State in 1985 shows that Victor Roger was a director of Caesars Palace. One of his fellow officers and director included Harry Wald and Albert Basito, who were charged with SEC violations along with the others. The records also showed Jerry Gordon, who was indicted with Meyer Lansky as the vice president.

45:55 Victor Rogers, the uncle, did not answer questions that the author submitted to him about his stock ownership in Caesars. A letter to me from his lawyer, George Michael Jamal, stated that the questions have no bearing on savings and loan matters. We see no reason to respond to your questions. In the 1972 book, Shadow on the Alamo, about the Sharpstown scandal in

46:23 Texas Politics and Banking, the author Harvey Katz described a 1969 swearing-in ceremony of Ben Barnes as lieutenant governor of Texas after listing all of Barnes' supporters, including Walter Michener and Robert Strauss. He stated the following, neither John Gray nor Morris Joppe were present. Both granted extraordinary favors to Barnes.

46:52 in his two campaigns, such as free use of their private airplanes. Joppy is one of the biggest construction magnets in the state. Gray is a banker from Beaumont who had intimate dealings with Walter Bichner. Among Gray's business associates were the infamous Roger Brothers, owner of Caesars Palace and Circus Circus in Los Angeles, or Las Vegas.

47:22 In a letter to the author from Victor Rogers' attorney, George Michael Jamal states, Victor Rogers had met Walter Michener Sr., who he understands is associated with Allied Bank. He has never met Junior, and he's never socialized with them. Victor Rogers has done some banking with Allied Bank. Caesars Palace was Robert Corson's favorite place to gamble in Las Vegas.

47:52 In fact, he apparently overdid it there because the casino filed a lawsuit against him for past due gambling debts and won a judgment of $92,000. Caesar was also Corson's mother's favorite place to launder cash. After Victor Rogers II, the nephew, graduated from the University of Texas and got a law degree from the University of Michigan, he moved to Houston and practiced law.

48:22 with wade kirkpatrick and john riddle this is the same john riddle the kappa sigma guy who was the business partner with corson and borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars from the savings and loans including vernon in fact dixon tried to get riddle to buy the solana beach house to pay off the paris savings loan riddle had agreed to do so but a land deal he was planning

48:50 in San Diego area to provide him with the cash fell through. In 1985, Victor Rogers II, the nephew, was half owner of Equitable Savings and Loan in Austin with J. Scott Mann, a former University of Texas football player who married the daughter of a judge, Roy Hoff Hines. He's the father of the Astrodome.

49:19 Mann bought out Rogers $6.7 million in August 1985 just before everything hit the fan. Several years later, Rogers' investment would have been worthless. Mann had participated in the 82 purchase of Jefferson Savings and Loan in McAllen. They had also bought the savings and loan from Guillermo Hernandez Cartea, one of the all-time bad boys of the Western Hemisphere.

49:52 Hernandez Cartea, a Cuban exile Bay of Pigs CIA guy, had purchased the savings and loan from Lloyd Benson's father. After he bought out Victor Rogers II, Mann merged Equitable Savings with a successor to Jefferson Savings to form Credit Banque Savings, which went on a lending spree to everybody. Ben Barnes, John Connolly.

50:22 and former Michener employee Joe McDermott. By the end of 86, Credit Blanc Savings was in deep trouble because they had laundered all of their money out the door. Mann and Barnes then went to House Speaker Jim Wright to complain about the attitude of regulators examining Credit Blanc. They just stole all of their money and they go to the D.C.

50:51 Speaker of the House and complain about the oversight to hold them accountable. Wright wrote a strong letter to Ed Gray, the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. This apparently slowed the regulators down a bit, but Cardiff Blanc was eventually declared insolvent and taken over by the feds in 88. Two years later, the FDIC filed a $76 million lawsuit against Mann and the law firm of Jones Day Rebus.

51:26 and poke, alleging fraud. Going back to San Joaquino Savings in Beaumont, where Ben and Victor Rogers, the uncle, sat on the board. When Harvey McLean transferred his Palmer National Bank stock loan from Bossier Bank to San Joaquin Savings, he picked up an extra $200,000 in cash in doing so. A letter from Victor Rogers' attorney said,

51:56 Victor Rogers does not know who made the loan to Harvey McLean. He had nothing to do with it. He does not know who arranged it or approved it. Neither Victor Rogers nor his brother Ben owned any stock in the savings loan. He was not on any committee. Victor Rogers does not know Harvey McLean, nor does he have any dealings with him. They don't know Herman Beebe either. And the San Joaquin loan was made in April of 85 and was for one year.

52:26 Shortly after it was due, the other Palmer stockholders bought McLean's stock. Some four months later, Barry Seale's old C-123 was shot down over Nicaragua. A newspaper in Lebanon wrote a story about American arms deals with Iran, and Oliver North got help from Stefan Halper for his legal defense fund. But McLean...

52:54 didn't completely abandon his business with palmer after he sold a stock his 1989 bankruptcy filing revealed that he had still still had two accounts at palmer and interest income from them of about 4 452 dollars between 87 and 88. so that's the end of that chapter that's a lot um

53:28 That's a lot. So little digging into GeoMilliTech is definitely called for because there's no way that's not a CIA front. And the Liberty Foundation, definitely a CIA front. And as you see, when one CIA front goes away, they just pop up another one, another foundation.

53:56 And all of this activity that was just described is all CIA's involvement with mafia in the savings and loan. Money laundering through casinos in Las Vegas, buying whatever you want to call that house out in San Diego that was used for sex parties and all that other crap. All of this. And it all ties.

54:27 to the savings and loan failures and funding iran contra megan go ahead thank you for another stellar x-base colonel and uh i just gotta say dear penthouse i'm an ex-cia person and you will not believe what happened to me hey don't say that

54:57 What's not even funny about that is the guy that I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, Mitch Warbill. If you look him up, they killed him. So he was obviously 100 percent CIA and he's doing all this nefarious things. He gets invited out to a party with the Hugh Hefner, all of the.

55:26 porno magazines. They have a party out there and he gets killed there. So probably not even a good joke. Yeah. These people are crazy. And the stories that we have learned in researching all of this, it literally makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Because it doesn't matter how much you help them out. When you become not useful to them anymore, they have no problem taking you out. All right.

56:05 Glad to see Stellar in the space. Stellar! Yeah, I tried to give SR back the co-host, but I don't know what happened to him. Oh, there he is. Okay. Illini? Hey, Colonel. I mean, what another... You know, there's a lot of stuff going through this chapter. And I just want a whole bunch more terrific link analysis.

56:37 I think the thing that's relevant today is still kind of relevant. It would have been really relevant, you know, five, you know, six or seven years ago, um, was the whole Stefan helper thing. Yes. So I like, I remember like vaguely from like, you know, eight years ago that, that one of the people.

57:00 who was, you know, involved with accusing Trump of being a Russian agent, was also involved with stealing Jimmy Carter's debate notes back in 1980. And he was, you know, associated with, you know, the CIA. And I think that was Stefan Halpern. The one thing that never got disclosed anywhere on CNN whatsoever is David Gergen is showing up, you know, three times a week as supposedly some Republican friendly.

57:30 Republican strategist to comment on Donald Trump. And he shows up with the Harvard Kennedy School in the background and everything and keeps talking about how horrible Trump is. None of that ever got disclosed that he was involved with Stefan Halper. Right. And that connection there, that's a journalism conflict of interest. And there should have been better disclosure from CNN on there.

57:59 Of course, you know, people in this space are kind of aware of the facts now that, you know, CNN is not necessarily a trustworthy source of news in some cases. But even the quote unquote Fox News and all of the people that supposedly was pro Donald Trump, it would have taken you five seconds to be able to research this. I mean, obviously, I wasn't doing this at the time, but no one found that. And just to your point.

58:29 For those of you who don't know, little education on the side note, Stefan Halper was working during the time that he was basically furthering the CIA's implication of Russiagate on a contract from the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment. Now, I did a long thread on the Office of Net Assessment and its history.

59:01 It's the CIA belly button, one of two, into the Pentagon. I had a friend of mine that worked in that office when I was at the Pentagon. He was a lieutenant colonel. My second boss there was an intel guy. And so this lieutenant colonel, who I got to be friends with, came in all the time talking behind closed doors to my boss. He was assigned to the Office of Net Assessment.

59:30 What was discussed in open forum was all of these crazy things overseas. And again, I'm a major. I don't know most of what they're talking about. But now I realize the significance of him working in the Office of Net Assessment because his follow-on assignment was to a classified location that I know what they did.

1:00:00 And that's deeply disturbing now because this guy was a very good friend of mine. His brother flew with the Homestead Reserve Unit F-16s. And he had an airstrike and was killed in his F-16 flying at Avon Park. Very good friend. And so now I know a whole lot more about what this guy was doing.

1:00:30 have even more questions. I'd love to talk to him again. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And thank you everyone for attending Spaces and Rumble today. I was having speaker issues earlier. That was my problem, Colonel. Okay. Anyway, looking through all of this, you have all the components. You have the banking industry. You have real estate. You have the mafia. You have...

1:01:02 the cia you have all of it i decided i would look at caesar's casino on money laundering charges and recently they've been charged with with aiding and abetting money laundering again you would think by this time no something about it no because that's the whole purpose of casinos is to la launder money for this network

1:01:32 That's their whole purpose. They're not in business for people to go enjoy gambling. Megan Newt? Give them the fine and then let them walk away. Yes, yes. No one's ever found guilty, which is why it never stops. Megan Newt, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, I'm a little curious. What are your thoughts on President Trump continuously saying the CIA this, also...

1:02:03 Rubio talking about the CIA and their dealings down in South America right now, especially with all this info that you have been presenting to the public. Do you take that as a possible baiting the CIA into doing more nefarious crap, or is it a legit?

1:02:30 So I don't think they're baiting them to do more shit because, I mean, they do a lot of shit. I think it's highlighting for people like us to go research what we do. So it's always been my assumption that President Trump highlights, just like when he says outrageous things about dead people like McCain and Rob Reiner.

1:02:59 He is doing that for people to go dig into it. And I think that's what this is. I think it's what most people refer to as an exposure. So if you go down and people that don't like Trump is doing the work Trump wants them to do. So as soon as he focuses on Venezuela, everybody goes, no, it's Colombia, like we did, because it is Colombia and Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador.

1:03:28 That brings a new level of awareness to people that pay no attention to it at all. So he has an uncanny ability to get information into this information war in a way of kind of it's like, look over here. No, it's really over here. Well, then why didn't you report that for the last 10 years?

1:03:57 or 20 years or 30 years that it's been going on. So that's what I see it as, which is why when I put my information out there, some people go, well, you're anti-Trump. No, I'm not. I'm pro-truth. And it provides me an extra level of visibility by putting the truth out there. And there hasn't been yet a time.

1:04:27 when the truth didn't matter. I mean, it does matter. And it has prompted a lot of people to go back in history and find out what, and you see it all the time. I mean, on Grayzone, they're very anti-Trump. I know that. But he still puts out good information. And as I told you, just like with Doug Valentine, you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

1:04:56 Take their good information and research and use it. You don't have to buy into the anti-Trump narrative. They're putting out a fantastic, historical, accurate narrative on how Venezuela came to have a revolution. And just as I said earlier today, their revolution in...

1:05:25 Venezuela was based on the same premise as Cuba, which is why Rubio hates them. Because his family, Rubio's family, was part of the elite in Cuba that was driven out and came to Miami. And I talked about this with a very good friend of mine who came to the United States with her parents when she was under 10. I don't know exactly what her age was. I want to say like eight, nine years old.

1:05:55 And I ask her point blank, is this research that I've been doing about what Cuba was all about, that it was a totally corrupt country, that the U.S., the mafia, the CIA was everywhere. And they were through the decades that they were there to include William Polly had bought up all of the resources of Cuba.

1:06:21 And had basically created a caste system there where the political elite that supported Batista in his corrupt government. And then you had the peasants. And her family was part of the elite family that came to Miami. And she said, absolutely, that is true. The majority of the Cuban exiles came from the elite families and their children who came over that were teenagers, young 20s.

1:06:50 all got in with the CIA in the Bay of Pigs and their Guatemala operation and went into El Salvador and helped train the death squads there. She was very open about how this whole thing unfolded, which definitely confirmed my research. And if you move over to Venezuela, the exact same thing is true.

1:07:18 Office of Public Safety, USAID, the CIA, they had created basically that same elite class in Venezuela. And it's not coincidental that after the revolution, many of that elite class, not all of them, because there's still a whole bunch of them still there. And they're the opposition to Chavez and then Maduro. But you have an entire community in the Miami area set up.

1:07:46 like little Venezuela, just like we had little Cuba. And they all want their old lifestyle back in Venezuela. And I will speak out against that. That doesn't mean that I'm not pro-Trump. I just know that history. I know that it was the CIA that set up the death camps there through the Office of Public Safety. They had a large presence there.

1:08:13 And that it was them that was rounding up the, basically, and I'm not saying Maduro's not doing it. I don't know what Maduro's doing. I went to Venezuela in 2018. I didn't see any of that. I was on Margarita Island. I went over a whole bunch of, I didn't go on every inch of Margarita Island. But I spent several days there with a guide that we knew and went all over.

1:08:40 And they're telling us that there's PLO training camps there and all the shit. I didn't see any of that. That doesn't mean that it's not there. I don't know. I didn't see it. We talked to locals quite a bit and none of them talked about anything like that. They do have a large Lebanese population on Venezuela, but not everyone that left Lebanon after Israel started attacking it.

1:09:09 has anything to do with Hamas or the PLO or anything else. They're just Lebanese that don't want to live in a war zone. So take that for whatever you want. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I did take a look at IC Intel Corporation. And that company was set up, incorporated, was set up for one purpose and one purpose only. And that was to bypass the Bolin Amendment. Yep.

1:09:44 and fund the contra the iran contra war some of the names of the donors here are are i mean hefty donors like ellen garwood barbara newington these are people that donated millions uh it just blows my mind what this company was actually set up for and once it was done once it was exposed it no longer exists it's gone right

1:10:14 But I'm sure it's gone somewhere else under a different name. And a lot of the donations to these entities are covert funded. It's not like the people are digging out of their own personal. It's kind of like Soros, you know, when you find out that he was raking in millions, if not billions of dollars from USAID. These foundations that they set up and the private donors are not necessarily donating their own private money. There are ways to get them.

1:10:43 this laundered money through real estate transactions that they then donate and in their name. And, you know, that's another form of money laundering that we need to keep in the back of our minds. Thanks for that, SR71. Megan, go ahead. Yeah, I've got one more comment about what you said.

1:11:11 Before SR-71's statement, it's really refreshing to hear other folks out there saying that it's time that we start paying attention to the other side of the fence. We think because we're patriots and on our side of the fence, we have all the answers. And I've been saying this for a very long time. For this country to finally come together and get our shit together,

1:11:41 we're going to have to start listening to the other side of the fence. Yep. They have some good ideas and, and I don't, don't put me in a puddle with them, but I'm just saying there are some smart people on the other side of that fence that are doing the work that you're talking about and that you're continuing to do. So. Right. I'm watching everybody of just, just because it's a.

1:12:09 libertarian or democrat to pass them off as yeah your your information is useless you got to get out of that mindset especially in this day and age yeah um you can't discount um the the facts as long as you can research the and you know kind of compare notes of other sources of information

1:12:35 there's a lot of information out there. And I just kind of ignore the, and when we did one of Doug Valentine's books, when we were talking about the Phoenix program, you just have to kind of ignore the judgment part of the books and stick to the facts part of the book. Because he traveled all over Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. He spent a lot of time there.

1:13:03 And we just discovered that there's a lot of CIA people who committed a lot of atrocities in other countries that decided to stay there, not in the country where the atrocities were, but a lot of them are in Thailand because Thailand was a major hub of these operations that were conducted in Laos and Vietnam. And the Thai government had stayed bought off by the CIA for decades after.

1:13:35 And, you know, he traveled over there and interviewed them. He had access to people that we don't have access to. So you have to read their material. It's firsthand accounting of and they were very honest with him about some of the things that they did. So you have to read that information if you're going to get the whole picture. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel, just to back you up on Doug Valentine.

1:14:00 Um, but what I didn't realize, you know, when, you know, we were going through the book was he actually tape recorded the conversation with the CIA agents and they're posted on archive.org. So if you're reading this stuff in this book and you're saying, this is crazy, this is pretty wild. All he's doing is basically recounting what he was told in tape conversations that, you

1:14:29 had helped him arrange initially. He was originally sort of this guy whose dad was in World War II. He had written a book on World War II. Colby thought that, you know, he was a terrific guy to kind of, you know, talk about the CIA. And he basically got all these unfiltered conversations with these agents who were in Vietnam. And the most surprising part of all this is Doug Valentine

1:14:57 foiled himself. And there's a 1986 HR document inside of the CIA where there's this personnel officer warning everyone that Doug Valentine has accumulated an alarming amount of information on the Central Intelligence Agency. These aren't Doug Valentine's documents. These aren't Doug Valentine's words. This was generated by former agents.

1:15:26 and the agency itself. Yes. And coincidentally, since you brought that up, I will remind everybody that Colby met a very untimely death that supposedly was suicide, that there's no way in hell was suicide. And there's probably a lot of reasons for that. This may in fact be one of them.

1:15:55 Um, because Doug Valentine was given unprecedented access, um, to CIA and wrote some very interesting stories. And as Illini points out, many of them, um, a lot of them are posted for people to go back and listen to. Um, he didn't make the shit up. It's out of the person's mouth. So yeah. Okay. Um, anybody else?

1:16:27 Go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel. I just want to add, I love what I'm seeing happening today and the way people are waking up. Me too. And I think part of what's really going on here that are really pissing people off is they're looking at Trump and they're saying he's not playing fair. Well, he's not playing fair. Oh, he's not playing fair. Oh, bullshit. I'm waiting for the...

1:16:57 for the that really hit the fan yeah um it's i if you had to pick a time to be alive i don't know if you could find a better time to be alive than right now um it's um it's definitely exciting to be where we are on our journey into the truth atmosphere

1:17:22 the truth matrix, as opposed to the hologram that we've been living in and watching all of this unfold. I definitely would not want to still be in the matrix right now. So anyway. Everybody's all up in arms right now about his suit against the BBC. Yeah. And I say, go for it. Yeah. Expose another one of those fake.

1:17:50 media outlets all along? Yeah, Colonel, on the subject of Colby, he's, you know, enigmatic and a curious guy for a lot of different reasons. But what I'm reminded of in the Prado's book on Colby, he was, you know, ambassador to Italy right, I believe it was right after our good friend Claire Booth Luce.

1:18:22 A.K.A. Mrs. Paint Chips. And he was, Protos writes that Colby was suspicious that, you know, sort of one faction of the CIA connected to Claire Booth Luce and Angleton were kind of going around his back. And when he already, when he was in Italy, and I believe it was in 1956 after.

1:18:53 He succeeded, clear boots loose. And so, you know, that's the same kind of issue in Italy about, you know, whether they should allow a coalition with the so-called socialists in Italy or not, that there was division on later also during JFK's administration and of which, you know, the...

1:19:20 The Montreal-based Mondial thing through the P2 Lodge was influential also in Italy. So yeah, Colby is definitely a figure that needs to be looked at for many different reasons. Yeah, so for those of you who've joined us and haven't been here from the beginning,

1:19:49 Colby was the guy after World War II that went into the Scandinavian countries and set up all of their stay behind units. That's where we first came across William Colby when we were reading Paul Williams' book. So he was also in Italy when they were kicking off Operation Gladio. And very interesting.

1:20:16 He did have some words with James Angleton, who goes on to run both the Vatican and the Israeli desk at the CIA. Angleton did. So, yeah. And you mentioned the P2 Lodge. All of that stuff was happening in Italy at that time. So he's definitely.

1:20:43 a big figure in our research for Operation Gladio. But anyway, let's see, we've got one more and then I do have to run tonight's family dinner night. So we're going to call it HKA Cup. Did you want to come up and say something? Can you hear me now? Yeah, I can hear you. Yeah.

1:21:13 I've gotten to know a bunch of these players personally over the years because I practice acupuncture and a lot of them have been patients or patients of my students. They're normal people who have a view of the world that they run it and they will take the hindmost. So they're feeling very privileged about how they came into life and they should control the societies.

1:21:43 People better get out of their way or else you're not going to be around for very long. It's an amazing system. Yes, it is. I've had four, I've had the families of four U.S. presidents as patients and patients by students. And Donald Trump's the only one who's really an honest person. He's never

1:22:12 He's not a bad guy at all. He's very genuine when he talks. And I think people don't understand the operation that is currently going on as far as exposure. And when he highlights something, he highlights it for a reason. And, yeah.

1:22:41 There's a lot of people that don't see what's happening until it's too late for them to get out of the way. If you look at his family, his children are healthy, pretty much healthy. They're not wacko, drug-addicted, self-destructive people like Rob Reiner's kid. It's not just Rob Reiner. If you look at some of these confidential families, some of the children are very disturbed.

1:23:23 Yeah. Yeah.

1:23:39 just it's a very tough thing and it can i don't need to sound like i'm sympathetic to them but it's a hell of a drama you know when your family is the business of selling drugs or prostitutes or whatever it is you need to maintain power and then your own children suffer from that and you watch them be tortured because they get caught up in that it's a hell of a thing it's quite the great drama yes it is

1:24:06 And it's not to be excused. Believe me, I don't mean to excuse you. I know what you're saying. It needs to end, though. It really needs to end. Now, you get the royal family in England. That's a criminal conspiracy going way back. And all the lords and all that royalty. You had 1% of the population suppressing 99% of the British people. They're really selling them down the river. But I would argue that our country

1:24:36 has operated under that same principle without the titles. That's the point I was about to make. Yeah. And the French aristocracy was absolutely horrible to the French people. Yeah. And brought on a vicious revolution. They were so pissed off because they'd been treated so wrong for so long. Yep. And in this country, we stand out better though. We really had a better start. And it's only really in the last hundred years that we really...

1:25:04 gone the way of criminal conspiracies taking over the free will of the people yeah and we're having our own little revolution right now and i hope we succeed me too it's a hell of a thing yep i agree one final thing about jim wright one of the things they do is look for shipwrecks i've been very involved in this for many years and jim wright personally passed the um shipwreck act that gave all the states the right

1:25:32 to own anything that's found within the coastal waters. And he did that so that his friends could benefit from it. Now, in Texas, you found a big series of wrecks up San Pedro Island. And all that trash that was found went into the hands of the Texas royalty. You know, it didn't go into museums. It didn't go into some of the public interest. The gold and silver they found wound up in private hands associated with political entities.

1:26:02 And that's why it's been plagued. There's so many shipwrecks. For example, in Florida, there's a $4 billion wreck off of near Jacksonville. It would be pretty easy to find and dig up. They're not allowing it to happen, and it could be a boon to, well, it's more than $4 billion because it was gold, so probably $8 billion now. It's not going to, the archaeological department is keeping it under their thumb, and the public interest is not being served.

1:26:32 by and large. And when it comes to medicine, that's a whole other kettle of wax. The corrections medicine is so stultifying when it comes to cancer care and so many other things. I'm very happy Bobby Kennedy is doing what he's doing. He's going to pick that up. Yes, he does. All right, guys. We're going to call it a day. And thank you for coming up and adding that.

1:27:01 Alpha Warrior is not going to have a Gladio night. He is going to cover President Trump's speech tonight. So that's been canceled. I did want to share with you briefly that I was invited on to a Zoom call last night with a man from Australia by the name of Peter Osborne.

1:27:27 And what an amazing opportunity that was. He basically, it was so funny, covered in an hour all of our research. He even had Gold Warriors as part of his presentation. And it was so refreshing. He's like a physicist. He walked through the Promise software.

1:27:56 He basically views himself as carrying on Danny Casolaro's project. He had some of his handwritten notes. He has a tremendous access to stuff that we do not. But the entire time that he was doing his presentation, I was patting all of us collectively on our backs because we did it all on our own.

1:28:24 He did have a few things. I'm still researching a couple of things that he presented that was new. But I would say 98 percent of the information he talked about BCCI, he talked about Nugent Hayen, he talked about the mafia down in.

1:28:44 Australia to include Rupert Murdoch. And again, this is all stuff over the last three years that we've presented. And it was so kind of confirming that you're listening to someone else talk about all of the research that we collectively have done here. So he spent the better part of a couple of decades doing this.

1:29:13 And he's a professor down there. And we've got our little ragtag group here. And so, again, it was just it was an amazing opportunity to listen to him. He talked about the role of Citibank in the money laundering with the CIA. So after he got done with his presentation, the I know one of the guys behind the scenes that they do this every week.

1:29:39 I've been on a couple of them and he asked me because I made a couple of notes. You guys remember me talking about A.B. Krumgaard, the guy that was actually CIA pretending to be a banker. I did a whole long article on him. He talked about him. And so, again, it was just it was awesome. And so I just kind of reiterated because some of the things because he's been in it for so long.

1:30:07 um the audience that was listening may have not gotten some of the details of how significant what he was saying was so i kind of just went behind him and added some of the details he even brought up robert sensei um and i was like ah i know him too um so it was it was very interesting to say the least so i just wanted to share that with you guys tomorrow um

1:30:34 I have, I don't know, I have not heard from Warhamster. So I don't know whether the Noom podcast is on. I will let you know as soon as I hear from him. I will be doing a podcast at two o'clock. I will send you guys the details on that. And then we will be back at four o'clock for our normal show. So tomorrow is going to be a crazy day. But I'm going to jump off here, run to dinner. You guys have a nice evening.

1:31:00 I will see you a couple of times at least, um, tomorrow. So enjoy the evening, everyone. No alpha warrior tonight. He, yeah. And I would encourage everybody to go watch his, um, at nine o'clock. He's going to cover, um, Trump's speech. I have no idea what he's going to say, but, um, if you guys, um, have the time, um, cause I know.

1:31:26 All of you guys usually show up for our 9.30 show. He's going to start a show at 9. I am not going to be part of it, though. So you guys have a nice day, nice evening, and I will see you tomorrow. Take care. Bon appetit, Colonel Towner and everyone. We love you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Stellar. Okay, let me get us off here. You guys have a nice evening. I will see you tomorrow.

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“The Palmer Bank, located just three blocks from the White House, really convenient. When Palmer opened its doors in 1983, the founding chairman of the board was none other than Stefan Halper, a politi…”

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“He joined the Nixon White House in 1971 as a domestic policy advisor. He has no experience at all in domestic policy. He just happened to have been recruited from the CIA at Stanford and then groomed …”

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“He literally married the CIA. Ray Klein was the head of the State Department's Intelligence Bureau. And remember, that office is the intelligence and research part of the State Department that was occ…”

Paul Helliwell member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 2:41

“He's the coordinator for the CIA and the State Department that basically runs USAID and all of the other State Department apparatuses that do overtly what the CIA did covertly. Klein is a leading memb…”

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“Other OSS veterans on the China front included E. Howard Hunt, who was in charge of the plumbers at the White House that ran Nixon out and shows up in the JFK and all of the other apparatus. John Sing…”

E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 3:12

Mitch Werbell operated_in CIA host_asserted ▶ 3:43

“Mitch Warbell. Warbell. Where did we find Mitch Warbell III? Do you remember him? I wrote an entire thread about him. He's the guy that was running basically a terrorist training camp outside of Fort …”

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“and Paul Helliwell, as we just mentioned, many of the country's fiascos that touched the CIA, including the Bay of Pigs, Watergate, Iran-Contra, have involved one or more of the China OSS veterans. No…”

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“was named policy director of the presidential campaign of George Bush Sr. When Reagan won the nomination, he joined the Reagan-Bush team as a policy coordinator. Klein, too, worked in the Bush campaig…”

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“in getting the American hostages in Tehran released before the election. While, meanwhile, they were working on their own October surprise to keep them locked up. The Times quoted an unnamed sources s…”

James Baker did_business_with William Casey documented ▶ 7:50

“between the candidates. The report stated that Halper, the director of policy coordination, either received or circulated non-public information from inside the Carter campaign. You know, just like th…”

Frederick Malek founded Palmer National Bank documented ▶ 10:16

“the Palmer National Bank. He was put on a new assignment for the CIA. One of the five other organizers of the bank was Frederick Malek, M-A-L-E-K, also a veteran of the Nixon White House. As his perso…”

Harvey McLean founded Palmer National Bank documented ▶ 11:48

“Other organizers of the bank was John Barnum, an attorney who was the general counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation from 71 to 73, and deputy secretary of that department from 74 to 77. How…”

Harvey McLean did_business_with George H.W. Bush documented ▶ 12:50

“Shreveport, Louisiana. You mean where Herman Beebe runs the show? Yes, the mafia guy. McLean's father was in the oil business in Shreveport. And at one time, he had worked with George Bush in Zapata O…”

Zapata Offshore Company connected_to Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 12:50

Harvey McLean financed_via Herman Beebe documented ▶ 16:21

“And banks frightened me a little bit. But Harvey said, well, you got to have a good bank in Washington. Look, if you will create the bank, I'll put up the money. So McLean put up the money to start th…”

Herman Beebe secretly_owned Palmer National Bank documented ▶ 19:30

“Palmer National Bank as one of 12 national banks which Beebe owned some controlling interest or influence over the bank. Beebe's loan to McLean for developments in Shreveport for homes, apartment comp…”

Vernon Savings financed_via Don Dixon documented ▶ 19:57

“to his business partner, Don Dixon. It was instant love. The same year Palmer National Bank opened its doors in 1983, Dixon had his Vernon Savings and Loan lend several million dollars to McLean to bu…”

Harvey McLean did_business_with Don Dixon documented ▶ 19:57

Harvey McLean borrowed_from Continental Savings documented ▶ 20:55

“All told, McLean and his companies borrowed over $34 million from Vernon Savings. One of his companies, Iona Development, borrowed $17 million from Beebe Controlled Continental Savings, which was owne…”

Continental Savings front_for Herman Beebe documented ▶ 20:55

Palmer National Bank laundered_money_for National Conservation Political Action Committee documented ▶ 22:20

“In addition, Paris Savings and Loan failed in 1988 and was merged with 11 other insolvent Texas savings and loan at a cost to the American taxpayers of $1.3 billion in 1980s. Meanwhile, back at Palmer…”

Carl Spitznagel founded National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty documented ▶ 23:51

“brought him or not. He did say that he had never met Spitz Chanel in his life. I wouldn't know him if I fell over him. A typical line from a CIA guy. In February 1985, Chanel established an account at…”

National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty financed_via Palmer National Bank documented ▶ 24:51

“His actual conviction was based on telling donors that their contributions were tax deductible, but they weren't. So the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty was selling weapons to basic…”

National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty supplied_arms_to Oliver North documented ▶ 25:50

“Because, you know, every legitimate banking transaction goes through the Cayman Islands. And then on to Lake Resources account at Credit Suisse in Geneva. That account was controlled by two people, Ol…”

IC (Cayman Islands) supplied_arms_to Gulf and Caribbean Foundation documented ▶ 26:51

“on April 3rd to remind Secord to send $650,000 to Lake Resource. On April 16th, Secord reported $650,000 received today as reported by the banker. The Washington Post also reported that IC sent $21,00…”

Jim Bath member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 27:52

“but no other information ever turned up about who they were and the company, which later changed its name to Intel Cooperation. Not like that was a CIA front or anything. Several of the principals of …”

Stefan Halper did_business_with Oliver North documented ▶ 33:15

“Halper's name, along with the name of Chris Lehman, the brother of the former Secretary of Navy. When Halper was asked about it, quote, we at the time thought we might be able to help him, North, in t…”

Stefan Halper installed National Bank of Northern Virginia documented ▶ 33:45

“After Halper left the board at Palmer, he was installed as chairman of the National Bank of Northern Virginia, a bank Palmer expressed interest in purchasing at one point. An attorney for this bank wa…”

Stefan Halper financed_via National Conservation Political Action Committee documented ▶ 33:45

J. Curtis Herge member_of National Conservation Political Action Committee documented ▶ 33:45

National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty financed_via Contras documented ▶ 34:15

“Herge was an attorney for the Nicaraguan Resistance Education Fund Foundation. It was an organization that lobbied on behalf of the Contras. And when Chanel and the Liberty Foundation got into trouble…”

Nicaraguan Resistance Education Fund Foundation did_business_with Contras documented ▶ 34:15

J. Curtis Herge member_of National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty documented ▶ 34:15

J. Curtis Herge member_of Nicaraguan Resistance Education Fund Foundation documented ▶ 34:15

John Singletary did_business_with Geomiltech documented ▶ 34:47

“was advising GeoMilitech, a firm associated with retired Major General John Singleton, one of the principal leaders of private efforts for the Contras. Klein told the Joint Congressional Iran Contra C…”

Ray Cline did_business_with Geomiltech documented ▶ 34:47

Ray Cline member_of Solari Incorporated documented ▶ 34:47

John Singletary supplied_arms_to Contras documented ▶ 35:15

“whose stockholders were members of his family, including a daughter who was married to Harper. Klein told the committee that he was advising GeoMilitech on selling arms to the CIA and foreign governme…”

Barbara Studley supplied_arms_to Contras documented ▶ 35:15

Palmer National Bank financed_via New York Life Insurance Company documented ▶ 35:43

“arranged for the sale of $5 million in weapons to the Contras. So, GeoMilliTech is a CIA front company. One Palmer loan that benefited Beebe and some other savings and loan crooks, including Don Dixon…”

Paris Savings acquired New York Life Insurance Company documented ▶ 37:08

“In a deposition in the lawsuit over the beach house and the loans, McLean testified that Paris had bought 71% in the savings life loan. An affidavit by an attorney for the beach house owner stated tha…”

John Bennett Waters headed New York Life Insurance Company documented ▶ 37:35

“In his letter to the Houston Post, Palmer CEO Hayes stated in an obvious attempt to distance his bank from Beebe, quote, in August 1983, when Palmer had recently opened and was seeking loans, Palmer p…”

Herman Beebe secretly_owned New York Life Insurance Company documented ▶ 38:04

“Savings Life. Savings Life agreed to repurchase the participation from Palmer on demand. In October 1984, Palmer was paid in full. Of course, Savings Life was totally controlled by Beebe, and the Mr. …”

San Joaquin Savings acquired Palmer National Bank documented ▶ 38:33

“According to the 1985 Comptroller of the Currency report on BB, Waters had large troubled loans at several BB-controlled banks. At this time, Palmer National Bank, in the spring of 1985, McLean's Palm…”

CIA funded ICITAP host_asserted ▶ 1:07:46

“like little Venezuela, just like we had little Cuba. And they all want their old lifestyle back in Venezuela. And I will speak out against that. That doesn't mean that I'm not pro-Trump. I just know t…”

IC Intel Corporation funded Iran-Contra affair caller_asserted ▶ 1:09:09

“has anything to do with Hamas or the PLO or anything else. They're just Lebanese that don't want to live in a war zone. So take that for whatever you want. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I did take…”

George Soros financed_via USAID caller_asserted ▶ 1:10:14

“But I'm sure it's gone somewhere else under a different name. And a lot of the donations to these entities are covert funded. It's not like the people are digging out of their own personal. It's kind …”

Doug Valentine exposed Phoenix Program host_asserted ▶ 1:12:35

“there's a lot of information out there. And I just kind of ignore the, and when we did one of Doug Valentine's books, when we were talking about the Phoenix program, you just have to kind of ignore th…”

CIA paid Thailand host_asserted ▶ 1:13:03

“And we just discovered that there's a lot of CIA people who committed a lot of atrocities in other countries that decided to stay there, not in the country where the atrocities were, but a lot of them…”

CIA operated_in Thailand host_asserted ▶ 1:13:03

Doug Valentine spied_on CIA caller_asserted ▶ 1:14:57

“foiled himself. And there's a 1986 HR document inside of the CIA where there's this personnel officer warning everyone that Doug Valentine has accumulated an alarming amount of information on the Cent…”

William Colby appointed Italy book_quoted ▶ 1:17:50

“media outlets all along? Yeah, Colonel, on the subject of Colby, he's, you know, enigmatic and a curious guy for a lot of different reasons. But what I'm reminded of in the Prado's book on Colby, he w…”

William Colby succeeded Clare Boothe Luce book_quoted ▶ 1:18:22

“A.K.A. Mrs. Paint Chips. And he was, Protos writes that Colby was suspicious that, you know, sort of one faction of the CIA connected to Claire Booth Luce and Angleton were kind of going around his ba…”

Mondial operated_in Italy host_asserted ▶ 1:19:20

“The Montreal-based Mondial thing through the P2 Lodge was influential also in Italy. So yeah, Colby is definitely a figure that needs to be looked at for many different reasons. Yeah, so for those of …”

William Colby founded Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 1:19:49

“Colby was the guy after World War II that went into the Scandinavian countries and set up all of their stay behind units. That's where we first came across William Colby when we were reading Paul Will…”

James Jesus Angleton headed CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:20:16

“He did have some words with James Angleton, who goes on to run both the Vatican and the Israeli desk at the CIA. Angleton did. So, yeah. And you mentioned the P2 Lodge. All of that stuff was happening…”

Jim Wright proposed Texas caller_asserted ▶ 1:25:04

“gone the way of criminal conspiracies taking over the free will of the people yeah and we're having our own little revolution right now and i hope we succeed me too it's a hell of a thing yep i agree …”

Citigroup laundered_money_for CIA caller_asserted ▶ 1:29:13

“And he's a professor down there. And we've got our little ragtag group here. And so, again, it was just it was an amazing opportunity to listen to him. He talked about the role of Citibank in the mone…”

A.B. Kromgaard member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:29:39

“I've been on a couple of them and he asked me because I made a couple of notes. You guys remember me talking about A.B. Krumgaard, the guy that was actually CIA pretending to be a banker. I did a whol…”