The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13

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0:00 Bridget, can you hear me? Yes, ma'am. Okay. I'm not sure how good this is going to work. There's a storm going through here right now. And I've already been kicked out twice. Oh, geez. We're going to try it, though. And I'm storming. It's storming here, too. So, yep. The clouds were the craziest looking clouds I've ever seen. They had like daggers out of the bottom of the clouds that reached almost to the ground.

0:31 That's weird. It was the weirdest front I've ever seen. But I did get to see a 130 takeoff when we were coming around the bend to the RV park. So we pulled over and I filmed the takeoff. I just posted that video. So freaking cool. Very cool. Yep. Hey, everybody, repost the space, please. Repost the space. And I'll hop over on Rumble and make sure it's up and running.

1:02 Okay. Yeah, I just got that one turned on. And I have to start off by telling everybody kind of a backstory to this whole research project. Now, I've told you guys often that when I was at Air War College, which is at Maxwell Air Force Base, which is where I'm at right now, I did.

1:30 lived in the library during the day doing research because we had like a million papers to write. And my area was Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. And so a lot of research into that area. And obviously other broader issues were in play at the time. And so did research into those.

1:57 And again, my frustration with this whole thing is that I didn't know anything about stay behind units, although they were used in the Philippines and in Vietnam. But depending on who you're reading, whether or not they call it that. But the technique was used. And in many authors, they do use those words. I just didn't recognize them. At least that's what I thought.

2:26 I was talking to General Quast recently, who was the Air University, which is over all of the professional military education in the Air Force. He was the commander here. And I told him I one of the looking back moments was was that information in the library and I just missed it. I it was very frustrating to me. I think I'm a fairly decent researcher and I was.

2:55 dumbfounded on how I could have missed that. So one of my missions on our way out to Texas was to stop by here and visit the Air University Library, which I did today. And I got the research assistant because they're gone for the summer here. And I got the research assistant there to work with me in using their data. I should have access to the database as a graduate of here, but

3:25 They are very restrictive of that. So anyway, I had her log in and she started using the search engine. And so I typed in both stay behind units, stay behind, and then Gladio. I want to let you guys know that the only available resource on stay behind or the words Operation Gladio.

3:52 was Paul Williams' book, which of course was not published until 2015. And it's not even in the library. It just lists it as a reference if you search on those two subjects. So I was like, phew, I didn't miss it. Then we were looking at other things that they had in the library in these little coveted areas.

4:22 I'm not even lying. So you guys, I have to go back in time. You know that Operation Gladio was first acknowledged publicly on August 2nd, 1990. So you're not going to find it weird that the following year, because there's all kinds of questions being asked. There's all kinds of articles being written in Europe about.

4:48 Operation Gladio and what were all of the other countries over there's programs called. So there were two articles that they list, and it was the only two articles about anything to do with Gladio. And you couldn't even put Operation Gladio. It had to just say Gladio. One of those articles was written in Defense and Diplomacy, which is a periodic magazine that I think comes out bimonthly.

5:16 And it's dated May, June 1991. So it's announced in August of 1990. And so about nine months later, a guy by the name of James M. Dorsey wrote an article. And it's called Night of the Short Swords. It's on two pages in there. They didn't have that one available. But the very next article.

5:46 or the very next magazine that came out, is dated July, August 1991. And do you know who has an article in there? Theodore Shackley. Ted Shackley. The godfather of Operation Gladio. And you're never going to guess what the name of that article is. Debunking Gladio. Debunking Gladio. Of course it is.

6:18 Of course it is. Oh, my God. So I told the lady she asked me if I wanted a copy of it. And I said, of course, I want a copy of it because they had that edition in. And so I put it down and I promised myself I wasn't going to read it. We're going to read it together. So I'm going to read the article right now. Conspiracy theories abound these days. If one sips an espresso on the Via Veneto in.

6:47 it is clear the P2 affair is still a topic of discussion among the connoisseurs. The lunch bunch on K Street in Washington is buzzing these days about a 1980s October surprise, which, because it did not take place, cost Jimmy Carter his reelection bid. So you see what he did? He is putting Operation Gladio in the same sentence.

7:17 with a October surprise that he's going to smear both of them as conspiracy theories. And I haven't even read the rest of the article. I already know what he's doing. When the media tries to turn these types of rumors into print, the stories are generally liberally sprinkled with such legal disclaimers as believed to have, reported to have,

7:45 and the all-encompassing allegedly. Fortunately, American sense of what is right tends to keep this genre of political activism within bounds. Now, how did he know that that's what they do? Because that's what the CIA tells them to do. Occasionally, however, even the finest systems that are designed to filter out the rubbish that should not get inked are defeated.

8:15 In fact, that is what happened in the May-June 1990 issue of Defense and Diplomacy, specifically the article of the night of short search. So he's calling out the guy that actually exposed Operation Gladio. Oh, my God, that's hilarious. As a resort, let's make the record clear.

8:41 First, although I had a 28-year career in the CIA, I was never stationed in Rome or any other part of Italy. Thus, contrary to the article's claim, I was never the CIA Deputy Rome Chief of Station. Secondly, I never met Lucio Gelli. He's the Grand Mason of the P2 Lodge. All I know about him is what I have read in the media. In short,

9:11 I could not have, nor did I, introduce General Alexander Haig to Gailey. Last but not least, I had nothing to do with P2 or Gladio. If, in fact, that was a U.S. government codename for a statewide operation. Oh, my God. This is hilarious.

9:37 What I do know is history and intelligence doctrine. In view of that, let's retrospectively look at Europe as it was in 1948. Economically, it was in shambles. Militarily, it was under the threat of the Red Army, always the communist boogeyman that didn't exist. Because again, in the aftermath of the war, over 25 million people had been killed.

10:07 To put Europe back on its feet economically, America implemented the Marshall Plan, which he doesn't tell us, I'm going to guess, funded Gladio, to defend it against the Red Army. Washington inspired NATO's birth. And to give NATO a chance to function effectively, every threatened country was seeded with networks of agents who were prepared to stay behind.

10:37 in the event their country was overrun. So he's saying there's Gladio without any Gladio. In order to harass occupation forces and provide NATO commanders with intelligence, these tasks were, for the most part, carried out with the knowledge and assistance of our European allies. For the most part. Okay.

11:04 American congratulates itself these days that we won the Cold War. But what this really means is that Europe and America face down the threat of a hot one. No, they didn't. And credit for this belongs not just to NATO, but to the Marshall Plan. And in no small part to the stay behind networks that dotted the European landscape. Without knowing anything specific about stay behind operations in Italy.

11:33 A clinical dissection of what is overtly known suggests that they were all well managed, because he has no personal knowledge of any of it, for the simple reason that they were able to remain secret for over 40 years. One of the other, excuse me, one, the other hand, that doesn't even make, I think that's supposed to say on the other hand.

12:00 The possibility that some stay-behind weapon caches may have ended up in criminal hands does not surprise me. But y'all train the criminals. Whenever you have an accumulation of military supply, be it automatic rifles, explosives, and weapon-grade plutonium, weapon-grade plutonium? What the hell? You can be sure of having criminal terrorists and bandit regimes

12:31 bent on stealing it, all too often with the assistance of the people assigned to guard it. There are bad apples in every barrel. Y'all, the entire thing was a bad apple. Conventional military organizations are able to sort through their barrels and discard the bad fruit. This is what judge advocate generals are for. No, that's what the commanders are for.

13:01 Clandestine forces don't enjoy this luxury. The best they are able to do is prevent rot from spreading. This is why they organize themselves on the cellular system. That the only sniff of rot, the only suggestion of corruption in the entire European stay-behind system appears to be coming from one country seems to me to be evidence of success, not failure.

13:33 I'm sorry. There's only one country that dared talk about it out loud. That doesn't mean the rot wasn't everywhere. That's so funny. Let's see. And I use the word suggestion advisedly because a suggestion is all we have so far. This topic clearly needs a more scholarly treatment than it received in The Night of the Short Swords.

14:04 For the sake of justice to the heroic men and women of the European Stay Behind Network, and yes, to the rogues as well, because we love our rogues, I hope that one will be undertaken. Well, thank God there was Danielle Ganser and Paul Williams that eventually got around to that some 15-odd years later. But 25 years in Paul Williams' case.

14:34 So that is hysterical. I couldn't believe that I found an article by Ted Shackley and that literally the name of it is debunking Gladio. So I just had to share that with you guys. But now I've got to go find this other guy's article. I don't know if I can go back there and ask them to do an interlibrary transfer so I can get it. But I'll figure that out on Monday.

15:04 Can I just say something real quick? It reminds me of how they give awards to themselves. Yes. You know, he's bragging without bragging. He's bragging. I mean, it's like, well, it was a really well organized if it did exist. Oh, they're just obnoxious, aren't they? Yes. Yes, they are. Look, Colonel, I mean, hearing you read it, this sounds uncharacteristic for Ted Shackley.

15:34 Like, if you've read his memoirs, you go to the Chilean episode, or you go to some of these different false flag incidents, and you basically encounter this... You run into this stone wall. You're hoping that in his memoirs, Shackley might come clean on certain things. I mean, same thing with Helms. It's really behind the classified wall. It's part of it. But...

16:04 part of also but but but here it seems like shagley got caught flat fluid or something like that it feels it reads like he's on the defensive yes very much so i agree with that assessment 100 these these two guys you know they've probably done a lot of you know what kevin ship has done which is you know training you know new members of the agency and everything else and if anything you know that they've taught people

16:30 how to operate undercover all the time. They've taught people how to sell a lie. Shackley just comes off weak here. I couldn't agree more. I agree with everything you just said. And let me just, for the record, say that Shackley did spend time in Italy. And see, this is the problem. And you have to know how to read this.

17:00 So maybe Shackley was not the CIA station chief, but he uses the misinformation of, hey, he was the CIA station chief when maybe all he was doing, and that's not to say it wasn't significant, was running their Gladio program as a liaison for the CIA. He wasn't technically the CIA station chief, but that's how they start discrediting people.

17:28 they will find this one little thing in there that is not true. And then they build upon that one little thing that isn't true to discredit the entire article. And that's why having Illini around is so critical to this effort because he's the guy that dots the T's or crosses the T's and dots the I for me and always keeps up with that. No, here's the source. Here's the source. And that's critical.

17:58 when you're trying to establish something that you know is going to immediately be attacked every single time you talk about it. So, yeah. I'm just looking. There's like, I don't know, 10 pages on Yandex of just searching the word Shackley in Italy. So, I mean, obviously, Shackley was in Italy. Shackley.

18:29 And it's specifically talking about, as a matter of fact, this one specifically says, the name of it is Le Circle and the Struggle for the European Continent. It said, this is a quote. I'm not going to read out of the actual article because it's long. But basically it says, it was Ted Shackley, director of all covert operations of the CIA in Italy in the 1970s. So there you have it.

18:58 He was in charge of Operation Gladio, at least in Italy, if not all of maybe southern Europe. So maybe he wasn't the station chief, but he definitely was in Italy and he was definitely involved in Operation Gladio. So I just wanted to share that with y'all. OK, so you've got him basically making an omissive misrepresentation here, too, which is kind of the other thing where you've kind of caught him on us.

19:28 He's denying that he was ever the station chief. He doesn't acknowledge that he was in Italy. You had to track that down for him, even though he's no longer here. He didn't disclose that, which would probably kind of be... Normally, if you were a deponent, that would be something you would probably want to have to disclose when you got asked that question. Correct. Absolutely. So, also,

20:03 There's an article on Exploring Real History that basically does kind of a synopsis of Paul Williams' book. And it says that while Ted Shackley was a CIA operative who set up the heroin trade in Southeast Asia, he also played a role in the attempted assassination of John Paul II.

20:33 which we know was a Gladio operation because they used Turkish gray wolves to do the hit. So again, more material facts that came out of Paul Williams' book. So yeah, he without a doubt was involved in Operation Gladio.

21:01 Great point, Illini. The fact that this came out in the very, so understand the lead time for doing these journals like this. They will have articles months in advance ready to go. Now, the July-August journal that was going to come out of defense and diplomacy had already been basically drafted by the time.

21:31 the May-June one comes out, right? So they have things like in a pipeline. So not only did this have to be written on the fly, it had to bump something else out of the next edition. That's how important debunking this Dorsey article was to them. Because again, I'm familiar with how these periodicals get published.

22:01 We had a guy that did this actually come and talk to us because they published these with our War College papers in them. And he was explaining to us how the whole process works. And there is a significant leave time. So the fact that within, you know, 45 days, this was written and inserted.

22:27 Bump something else out of the magazine in order for it to be printed. I think Illini's assessment of being caught flat footed is a very accurate statement. So that's crazy. And I'm glad we got to read it together because I got to laugh. All right. That is hysterical. Oh, my God. Now, do you think he was just trying to discredit the truth? That was the main purpose? Yes.

23:02 So obviously, let's see what he touched on. He touched on the fact that he had nothing to do with Italy, which is a lie. He also touched on the fact that he didn't have anything to do with Alexander Haig or Geli meeting, which I think is critical. Given the role that Geli played, who was the, like I said, the P2 Grand Master, orchestrating at least all of Operation Gladio in Italy.

23:31 but also in Argentina, because remember, they had a second lodge there, a second P2 lodge in Argentina, which is where Operation Condor gets launched from. So it's very interesting that if Alexander Hegg met Gelley, it would definitely be Ted Shackley that introduced him because he was running the CIA part of Operation Gladio.

23:59 I also find it very interesting that he comments on the Marshall Plan because, again, the Marshall Plan is the initial seed money to start Operation Gladio. He also talks about the caches and suggests that very well-hidden caches are just going to pop up and be accessible to people who aren't cleared to have access to them when, in fact,

24:25 If you guys remember when we were doing a round-the-world tour, when we got to the Netherlands, we found out that not only they were so well hidden and protected, that it was like decades in the future where they were building something, and then in a park where they were putting a monument or something like that, that they actually dug up some of these caches. So no, they were not casually found. Go ahead, Illini.

24:54 One other thing with the Marshall Plan is, I just got through Nixon's memoirs, or at least parts of it, and there's an interesting page where he was with the Herdner Committee that basically underwrote the Marshall Plan, and they went out and visited. And what he specifically mentions in there is that they got on a cargo plane and they flew up into the mountains in Italy and in Greece and met with people who were fighting, you know, communist guerrillas. That's thing number one.

25:25 Thing number two is that he was in Trieste when there was a bombing right next to the communist headquarters, and they tried to blame it on the communists. So Nixon comes out of a hotel window, he's watching the communists march by and give some salute to the communist headquarters, and right then and there there's a bombing, and that must have been the communists.

25:58 It's part of his 1947 trip to Trieste, to Italy, to Greece as part of the Herdner Committee. It's in his memoirs, page 50 and 51, I believe. Okay, so let me add something to that. So Nixon is vice president. Do you think that it's a coincidence that the vice president of the United States goes to visit a country that has a Gladio attack while he's there?

26:29 If you do, let me introduce you to John McCain, who happens to be in Maidan Square when there's a Gladio operation going on there. So, no, he didn't just happen to be there when they're conducting an operation. Nixon and Eisenhower were involved in setting up Operation Gladio in every sense of the word, both economically.

26:58 financially, militarily, in every way they were responsible as far as the U.S. is concerned. And then that would have been at the same time when the Brits were basically trying to set up their own person in Greece, but the not communist, the Greek citizens who did not want

27:26 to be ruled by Britain. They wanted their country back. They had just been occupied by a bunch of Nazis. And then there were the Soviets. The British wanted control of Greece. And they basically were getting their butt kicked and asked the U.S. to come in and settle down the nationalists who didn't want to be part of NATO. That's what Nixon would have been.

27:58 during that time. So did you say in the 40s or 50s? Because he doesn't... This was 1947. Okay. The Herder Committee was... Okay. Yeah, that's before... Technically, it's before the CIA and Gladio, but it's right on the cusp of that, and it's got all the same characters involved, I would imagine. Okay. So that's before he becomes vice president. Yes. That's when he's in the House, I think.

28:27 He got put on the committee, I think, by the speaker or whoever, or the Republican leader at the time. That's actually really interesting. How does a member of Congress, which of course is what John McCain was, right? So another member of Congress just so happens to show up for a Gladio operation? They all went out.

28:58 It was the entire committee, both Democrats and Republicans, and Nixon describes how they went out there, you know, I'm not sure if it was the USS United States, but it was kind of, it was an American ship, it was an American steamship that they went out on, and he describes getting off of it and all of its comforts of being in the United States and then going into, you know,

29:28 and just seeing how bombed out and difficult the situation was. Yeah, that's very interesting. I will send you, I will send you, at the very least, I'll send you those pages. Yeah. And maybe I'll try to, yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Look at what just recently happened with Mike Pompeo in Ukraine. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Same trick, same stat, same playbook.

30:05 Yep. Point well taken. OK, so anybody else got anything? We are saving what's going on in Iran and Israel. If you guys watch the show today with War Hamster until the three of us can get together and have a discussion, because I think it'd be more meaningful for everyone and not kind of.

30:42 rehash everything several times so we're gonna on sunday at eight o'clock eastern time have a podcast with war hamster myself and goes to base patrick henry to talk about what's going on so a sit rep a sit rep yeah you guys do well together and i love that you all have different angles that you're looking at the same situation correct yeah

31:20 Very interesting. Oh, so here, Illini, Richard Nixon's political career prior to his inauguration in 1969 began in 1946 when he became a freshman congressman. In 1947, Nixon was selected to join the Harder Committee with a mandate of observing and evaluating the devastation in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War. The report by the committee.

31:51 later became the basis for the Marshall Plan, thus providing aid to the devastated nations of Europe. There you go. Holy crap. So Nixon was instrumental in setting up the Marshall Plan, which becomes instrumental in funding Operation Gladio. And then lo and behold, five years later, straight from being a freshman congressman, he winds up on the vice presidential ticket.

32:27 Yeah, I'm sure that's just a coincidence. That's crazy crap. Well, and then goes on to be president. Who knew Operation Gladio was such a good launching pad for someone? Because, I mean, literally, it almost makes him part of the CIA. So let me write this document that's going to fund this organization that we're going to hand off to the CIA.

33:02 And oh, by the way, when I get to be vice president, we're going to use it to kill foreign leaders. And then when I become president, I'm going to use it some more, like in Chile, and then it's going to get used on me. Well, it contextualizes his involvement with the Bay of Pigs. Like, we would look at this today and be like, why is the vice president, you know, involved in the secret national security committee to, you know, invade, to run a coup in Cuba?

33:32 Like, wouldn't that be sort of more of a CIA thing? Like, shouldn't we have the professionals of the Pentagon and the CIA handling that? Well, his involvement with this Herdner Committee and his involvement actually visiting, you know, some of the people, you know, some of the anti-communist folks who are fighting the guerrillas in Europe, it contextualizes all that and it helps it make more sense. It does.

33:58 It definitely does. And Nixon, like I have said to you guys many times, is an enigma that kind of I mean, maybe he's the Saddam Hussein of the United States where he's useful until he's not. Or Batista, he's useful until he's not. So all along. Go ahead. Personally, I know you've mentioned in the past, but we've all read it, you know, various books here and there about how.

34:30 you know the east coast faction uh that was the initial core of the cia around you know dewey prescott bush john foster dulles you know were the initial contributors in a big way to congressman nixon's first campaign in 1946 so i think there's something you know

34:59 There is obviously from the very beginning something very special about, you know, Richard Milhouse Nixon from the very, very beginning and his relationship with what would become the CIA. That's a good point. That's a good point. And speaking of which, I mean, Colonel, I know that you are not really a movie person. And I understand that's, you know, it's definitely important to not mix up fact and fiction.

35:27 We can, as historians, use movies as indicative of certain esprit de temps or whatever, the spirit of the times or whatever. And so I think that people who watch this particular, who are listening to your show, would be very, very interested in this movie called State of the Union.

35:55 It's actually by Capra, the famous director Capra, whose movies are always very politically interesting. And it's about, it's basically about the 19, it came out in 1948, which is, you know, a year after CIA formed. But it's, Spencer Tracy plays this, this kid. It shows the, but, you know.

36:24 We remember how, you know, in 1948, the Dewey campaign lost, surprisingly, sort of, because they didn't have any support in the Midwest and, to some extent, the West. And it's like the character played by Spencer Tracy in this movie perfectly predicts the creation of Eisenhower. You know, the movie comes out in 1948, and it's just...

36:51 It's about the media creation of a new candidate from scratch, basically in order to win support in the Midwest. It directly addresses the real-time divisions in the Republican Party of weakness in the Midwest because they were not sufficiently interventionist. But enough on that. It's just a fascinating movie to watch. It's called State of the Union.

37:23 And it has Spencer Tracy in it. Amazing, amazing predictive movie about Eisenhower being created. And it really kind of shows the climate from which the CIA is forming. And there's pure psychological warfare. It really captures the PSYOP aspect that was so, so prevalent in 1948. It's almost amazing that this movie was made. And it is significant that it was made by Capra, who's always kind of got his finger on the pulse of...

37:53 of things. The other thing I just wanted to say is just how strange it is right now in terms of the paralysis of the United States right now. The political paralysis in response to the events in the Middle East that could literally create World War III. It just reminds me of an old saying I heard.

38:20 What did the ants say to the centipede? How can you walk with all those legs? And the centipede could never walk again. It's almost as though our media system has deliberately paralyzed the entire country with media operations of division to divide and inject paralysis.

38:48 into the centipede that is the multiple coalitions of the united states yeah it's just it's nothing but psychological warfare non-stop to create divisions i mean we even see this like the government is so unpopular that they even had to create a a division between alon and trump so that you know a certain section of the centipede would not get too big and able to communicate with itself it's just it's

39:18 It's just an amazing thing right now, what has been done with media to cripple the centipede that is the American body politic. And it's just, especially I think with the Israel, with the Zionist being used at the forefront of the attack of the CIA in the Middle East. It's just, the use of Zionism.

39:46 You know, in the psychotic aggression of the Zionists in Israel and their genocide in Gaza has been used, you know, in such a way as to, you know, at the same time, all of these state these insane statements about Israel alone, assassinating JFK, RFK and now even MLK. These these threads are getting huge.

40:16 It's like stunning algorithms. It's like Wonder Bread from Heaven over here. The ease at which these threads say, now, okay, the Jews had killed MLK. It's like, on the one hand, there's obvious, legitimate reason for anger at Israel for their psychotic genocide. But at the same time, all of this other shit is being tagged along to it in its wake in a very deliberate effort.

40:46 And it's all adding up to a means of paralysis. And we're making gerbils and Jesus weep, one from jealousy. Yeah, I agree. So y'all are not going to believe what I just failed. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. So first of all, let me just say in response to all along.

41:17 But Eisenhower was part of the West Point Mafia. Just I'm going to lay that out there. There's a lot of bad things that's come out of the West Point Mafia. So I'm going to leave that there. But I've got to read this to you guys. I was just looking because I wanted to check. I thought he was. I thought I remembered him being a West Point person because that was something I was compiling all of the West Point people. But I was looking down through the rest of the.

41:47 Wikipedia article on him and it started talking about his wife, Mamie. It's talking about how much she loved decorating the White House and she would put out Halloween decorations and she would decorate it for Christmas and her attempts to decorate the White House was complicated because of federal funding and many of her changes depended on private donations. She dedicated

42:17 Much time to flower arrangements in the White House. Guess what was her favorite flower? Gladiolus. Oh, my God, that's so funny. Not even kidding. That's hysterical. Okay. What else we got? A.P. Jonas? Yeah, as a member of the West Point Mafia, I just thought I'd comment from the class of 68.

42:58 Just look at General Haig was one of the officers around West Point when I was there. And I know he's one of your favorites, Colonel. He's second only to Lyman Lemonsker. Yeah, at his West Point registry, the things at West Point. He went to Notre Dame for two years before he could get into West Point. And he was the senior military advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger. Yep.

43:26 during the Nixon, so he picked up some vibes from Kissinger, and then he was Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs. Nixon promoted him to a four-star general and the Army's vice chief of staff. He was Nixon's personal emissary to negotiate the Vietnam ceasefire and the return of the U.S. prisoners of war. Then Ford appointed him, but he was instrumental in overthrowing Nixon. He didn't.

43:54 He didn't put that in his West Point resume. But it's interesting, the things that these people went through, and he ended up with, he ran for president a couple times, and then ended up with Interneuron Pharmaceutical Incorporated and MGM Grand and the American Board of Trustees of the A.F. Burns Fellowship, which is probably some kind of weird thing also. But that's from the West Point Mafia, my fellow fraternity.

44:23 Brothers and sisters. Yeah, it's amazing. And I mean, Annapolis has the same thing. You got Poindexter, McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North and Webb all out of the same basic couple of years at Annapolis. And they all go on to Iran Contra fame and many other things. But that's kind of where it all culminated. So, yeah, it's it's.

44:52 It's dumbfounding how on one hand, all of these bad apples come from the military. And yet the American people somehow separates all of these senior military officers being in very nefarious positions to, you know, still as patriotic as we are. And the more I dig into Gladio and again, two and a half years ago, I knew none of this. I didn't know that.

45:22 Almost the entire upper echelon of Nugent Hand Bank was senior retired general officers. And they all seem to end up in finance for some reason with no finance background at all or banking or whatever, which, as it turns out, is at all of these money laundering bases. So they're not really in banking. They're in weapons and Operation Gladio, drug traffic and stuff like that.

45:51 All of that comes with cash. And so you have to have an apparatus and want more respectable way than to put a respected military general in these positions. So they believe that they're above reproach as a result of that. But the good news is they didn't learn that at West Point. The most they learned was how to run a football pool. Yeah, but there had to be something going on there.

46:19 Yeah, you're right. One of the books about West Wing was called America's Power for Eternity. Yeah. Well, and it could be, you know, psychologically, people that are able to withstand the rigor of going through a military academy because it is the hardest way to get your commission in the military, bar none.

46:44 I'm a ROTC grad. I was just explaining to my husband that you have the academy grads, the ROTC grads, and then the officer training school grads. And they kind of fill in the cracks of not producing enough academy and ROTC grads. They're kind of like the third tier of the hierarchy and not from a quality standpoint. That's not what I'm talking about.

47:10 If the academy is supposed to produce 1,000 officers every year and we need 2,000, and that particular ROTC class is only going to give you 500, then your ROTC or your OTS class has to produce 500 officers that year for you to meet your recruiting goals for your officer corps sessions every year. So they literally are the third tier.

47:38 of accessions because the other two have much longer pipelines. An officer training school for the Air Force is only 90 days. I don't know if it's still 90 days, but it was. They call them 90 day. Well, thank God they had that mixture, though. As you know, just being from one of those groups could pollute things. Oh, heck yeah. Yeah. And obviously, but the point I was trying to make is when you spend four or five years

48:09 In an academy, you come out psychologically as a different person than spending those same four years on the campus of like Indiana University for myself. And you don't come out with the same regimented.

48:31 drill, follow this, do that kind of mentality. And even less so at officer training school. So you psychologically are a different person. And somebody has done a lot of research and figured out that those people, for whatever reason, are more amenable to some of these more nefarious things because they show up more often than does other officers.

49:00 They go for the tougher merit badges. They go for the tough. Touche. I think they're absolutely right. Because, of course, as you said, Haig is another one. And I don't think you could find somebody more corrupted than Haig. And he's another West Point Mafia guy. Might have been those two years at Notre Dame. You broke up. What did you say? Oh, it might have been those two years at Notre Dame.

49:36 The combination of the Notre Dame and West Point. Yeah. That's very rare, isn't it? Yes, it is. Like really, really rare. I don't know that I know of anybody that's ever transferred into an academy. Did he only stay at the academy two years then? No, you have to do all four years no matter where you come from. Yeah, that's what I thought. It's like a prison. Everybody's got to do the same sentence.

50:05 So he had two years and then spent four years. Yeah, that's really weird. Glutton for punishment. Yeah, because I mean, most people are they do like a year at the prep school, like at the Air Force Academy. But I've never heard of anybody transferring in with the two years already. Yeah, that's weird. OK, well, Peg is weird. So that just makes sense then. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Stellar, go ahead.

50:37 I was just going to say, it is very interesting, Notre Dame and then West Point. And I had actually, you know, I heard you guys talk about like the mafia stuff within the West Point and the military schools and stuff like that. And I guess, you know, it would be completely, completely feasible and stuff like that.

50:57 And just wanted to say, again, thank you for opening my eyes to Operation Gladio and all the little shenanigans of everything that they're doing, because everything you can see completely about what is going on. And it just seems like a lot of the stuff that you've talked about, I'm going into like other space, not spaces, but what do you call like posts and things like that. And a lot of the stuff that you guys have been sharing for over a year, year and a half now, people are just starting to see it, but they still don't.

51:27 Equate it to Operation Gladio playbook stuff. Yeah. Yeah. There is definitely, thanks to all of you, a lot more people talking about it. And a lot more people, even if they don't use the name of it, understand more about what's going on because of stuff that you guys have shared. So, yeah, it's a big deal. Absolutely a big deal.

51:57 So, well, even like your School of Americas that you were talking about, like with how like some of these, you know, militant leaders that are overthrow, how they got trained in these, you know, CIA, whatever it is, coup schools, we'll just call them the coup schools, you know, but you can see these ties. And then watching, you know, again, you know, as they're trying to bump up, you know, Summer of Love 2.0, you can see a lot of the same players from Summer of Love.

52:26 You know, the 1.0, which means they've been tracked and everything and they know the little minions. But it's, you know, a lot of the same tactics, even the words that they use are stuff from back, you know, World War II time, Nazi times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And to be clear, just to continue the conversation, the School of Americas were actually an army school that the CIA assisted in the curriculum of. So they basically kind of.

52:56 decided who was going to be sent to the schools from these foreign countries but it was the army that did the you know the people that are um disciples of the west point west point mafia um that the school of america was ran by the army um the manual that was set up was an army manual for it um so yeah wonder if peg had anything to do with that

53:29 You know, there are these people that were put into the media, like, you know, how like you call them the TV generals. Is that what you called them?

53:39 At one time, before they come on or whatever, they talk about their accolades. If they're in their uniform, they have all these things on them. I was one of those brain-dead people that thought that these people were true heroes in saving these other countries from communism and trying to give them the opportunities that we have here in the U.S.

54:02 We've been funding it. And then I saw a post. I think it was from Il Donato Trumpo. And it was like, you know, the Iranian drones that are coming in or bombs are coming in. And then you've got Israel stuff going out. And Stephanie says, you know, this is the U.S. tax dollars fighting each other or something like that. I just started laughing. I mean, I'm not meaning to be laughing, but it was kind of funny. No, that's exactly right. Funding both sides of every war. And we're paying for it.

54:32 Yeah, that's exactly right. All right. Just praying that people stay away because of the false flags that I feel. This just feels like it's on steroids. I mean, here even in Las Vegas, I mean, Metro came and swooped up on those jerks and stuff like that the other night. But in preparation, because you guys know that I do weddings and stuff, and they have the wedding bureau license downtown, and that's where all that chaos is going off.

55:03 Well, they've closed it down, like, for this weekend and stuff. So Vegas isn't anticipating crazy stuff happening here like other places. So our corrupt governor has not called the National Guard yet. But you did come out and say, yeah, that's not going to happen here. Well, it was kind of interesting because on TikTok, they had TikTok live streamers. And they were letting them get away with stuff.

55:33 to a certain extent, and then later it seemed like they got their balls on. And so when people were heckling them, they literally went over and started arresting them and stuff. But the attorneys are here in town. I mean, they're all set up. They've bussed in thousands of people. I don't know where these people are coming from, to be honest with you, but they're bussing them in. We are doing ICE raids because about a week or two ago, he did state that Metro will be working with ICE.

55:59 And then a couple days later is when we had that thing that happened. I guess they were doing their test runs and stuff. So we'll see what happens. But, no, the National Guard has not been called up. But I did notice that they had just metropolitan police departments, but they had the SWAT. The tanks were out. It was freaking awesome. You know, I just wish that our governor would let us do like what.

56:21 your governor is doing in Florida. And I wish that our sheriffs here would have press conferences similar to the sheriff. Is it Broward? Broward. Broward. Broward. Broward. Thank you. Yeah. Amazing. We need to have more sheriffs like him. So I noticed he was stealing Grady Judd's graveyard dead phrase, too, that we will shoot you graveyard dead. That is a Grady Judd.

56:50 famous saying. I don't know what's the difference between dead and graveyard dead is, but there is obviously a difference. According to Grady Judd, it's according to how many bullets are in you when they run out because they don't stop shooting until then. And yes, in Florida, if you are in the roadway, not in a crosswalk, trying to stop a car, you will be considered roadkill.

57:21 They are not playing. So everybody, you know, try to avoid those areas. I know people are going to go there and stuff, but try to avoid the areas as much as you can, because, you know, January 6th was a false flag. Trump was letting us know about it. You know, everyone was. We all knew. And this seems like they're trying to get us out there.

57:44 to help and things like that, or, you know, we'll end up getting in trouble by, you know, we don't want to be mistaken because they're going to dress like they're patriots. They're going to be wearing American flags. They're going to look like they're, you know, America first people, but they're really not. And so just be very, very careful. If you can just avoid the area and let the military, let the professionals do what they need to do. In my personal opinion, I could be wrong. No, I mean, everybody's going to do what they, you know, decide is best for them.

58:13 It's definitely important to know your surroundings, know where you're at. And, you know, because you have to be prepared. And that's the beauty of doing what we've done for the last couple of years is we're very familiar with what false flags look like and how they're done. Not that I'm encouraging anybody to go out and look for them.

58:44 But it is better to understand what they look like. So if you find yourself around something like that that's happening, it is much easier to maneuver if you can recognize those signs. And so I was just looking. Yeah, they're going to have one tomorrow in Montgomery, Alabama, downtown.

59:13 at the Department of Archives and History. Oh, how apropos to have that in Montgomery, Alabama with the history that they've had here. Holy crap. Anyway. Also, you know how they're talking about like that Chris, whatever her name is, from Walmart or whatever. They're not the only organizers. McDonald's is doing the same thing. So I don't know if you guys noticed a few days ago before the Grimace's birthday, they were saying help, da-da-da-da-da.

59:41 Well, they wanted you to go into their website and then put in your contact information. They were also recruiting. So if your social media looked like you were a woke person, like with blue hair screaming uncontrollably, then more than likely you would be diverted to one area. Regular people would be diverted for the...

1:00:03 actual true whatever their birthday party um thing was that they were trying to um build up and stuff but they were recruiting through mcdonald's by the way you guys there's a lot of different places that's interesting yep always happen to be on the lookout that's for sure

1:00:19 Well, it just reminds me. I'm sorry. No, you got to go. Probably. I'll say this one last thing. It just seems like it's building up to how like you guys are talking about the different coups in the different places, you know, to have the military and, you know, how to lock it down or whatever to, you know, to get people to stop or quell it or whatever. And here I see that they're trying to, you know, the deep state, if you want to call them the international syndicates, the ones that are behind the curtains, in my personal opinion, they're trying to boost or get.

1:00:48 as much people and regular people, like people that are, you know, regular people that would normally not get involved in it because, you know, I just feel that if they, you know, the Democrats or, you know, even the rhinos, you know, the ones that are really pushing for this war with Israel and Iran. But those people, in my personal opinion, I see them as trying to cause as much strife here, not that they would ever do it because Donald Trump would never let it happen.

1:01:16 But, you know, cause whatever, strive to have the UN come in. And that was what I was always fearful. But I'm so thankful that there's so many more people aware and awake, and especially from what you've been teaching us to be aware of and things like that, and seeing the coincidences that are not coincidences, if that makes sense. Yeah, no, that's perfect. So thank you. So Shelly over on Rumble says, I just love the mobile shows. It's really moving forward. SR is going to be pissed he missed today.

1:01:45 Oh, thank you, Shelly. You just made my day. Yeah, for those of you not watching, I am in my mobile command post, i.e. my RV, for our road trip. So we're going to be broadcasting from a couple of different locations. Hopefully, our next stop is Barksdale Air Force Base, and hopefully I'm going to get some video of a B-52 taken off for you guys. That's home of our...

1:02:14 Well, at least one of the homes of our B-52 fleets. And it's fun hanging out there for that reason. And we are going to be staying on base there as well. So I'm very excited about that. I have a couple of friends in the area there all along. Go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, what is even less accountable than Keynes? In my opinion, the CIA of right now, I mean, because.

1:02:47 You know, every kid in the country in October, September, from New York to California, has this common denominator of king's bad because unaccountable power, right? And, like, kids hadn't started, you know, cutting schools in maybe September yet. So that's a common denominator that everyone, that's, you know, that's something that propagandists think about.

1:03:14 They're like trying to resonate with something that everybody, quote unquote, knows, you know. Hence the Democratic propagandists with this, you know, really dangerously anachronistic no kings rally, you know, as if, you know, kings were the only form of unaccountable power. When the Democrats themselves, the reason I go after the Democrats more than the Republicans, we know that the CIA started with the Republicans.

1:03:43 Republicans are basically entirely CIA, just as the Democrats are. But the Democrats are much more, you know, lens friendly, camera friendly for CIA. They pretend to be for the very people that they use to victimize that are the worst off as a result of their policies. Yeah. Can you repeat that? So that's the thing.

1:04:16 There's kind of a dual thing going on here. On one hand, you have the Republicans who, you know, overview wise, people associate with big business and, you know, the rich and famous, whatever, not like Hollywood stuff, but, you know, the oligarchs. That's what it's all about. Capitalism.

1:04:40 stakeholder capitalism, but capitalism. And they're the people that are just going to destroy all of the poor people. They don't care about race. They don't care about anything. They're just all in it for themselves. And then, on the other hand, you have the Democrats. And literally, that is the truth about much of the elite in the GOP. They don't try to hide it. The Democrats, on the other hand,

1:05:07 are always telling you they're for the union, they're for the workers, they're for the minorities. But in reality, the very people that make up, like the Pelosi's and the Schumer's and all of those, that make up the Democrat Party, and I'm talking about even on up into the oligarch status, the Bezos, all of them throughout the world.

1:05:33 They utilize minority people as slave labor. They bust up every stinking union in the entire world if it's going to cut a penny off of their profits. They don't give a damn about anybody but them. And so that's the point that he's making. On the other hand,

1:05:59 There's also another kind of interesting angle where the Democrats will, other than the fact that they're pretending to care about the underling people, they will tell you out front they're for abortion. They will tell you out front that it's supporting BLM or whatever, some racist, reverse racism, whatever you want to call it.

1:06:27 They're upfront about all of that. They love murdering babies. They're happy to say it. They love mutilating children. They are happy to say that. The Republicans, on the other hand, are supportive of all of that, but they want to hide all of it. They pretend like they don't care about any of that stuff, but they fund it and they fund it over and over again. And when it's pointed out, they do nothing to unfund it.

1:06:58 So, you have this kind of, again, you can make the kind of funnies about the two wings of the same bird. But in different, they literally are a sadomasochist perfect union of each other. They have decided long ago that you're going to be this and I'm going to be that. And they're a yin and yang on every issue.

1:07:26 And they choose which part of it that they're going to not be honest about. The Democrats are not honest about actually abusing minorities and throwing minorities under the bus. But they're very much proud of the fact that they kill children. On the other hand, the GOP is very proud of their affiliations with the oligarchs and they will hide.

1:07:53 The fact that they're funding the abortion and funding the gender mutilation by pointing at the other guy over there. So it's really a sick system when you start looking at it like that. Yeah, I just to follow up on that, Colonel, I think it's just what has to be done in my opinion is the 1968 RFK campaign is the best possible, you know.

1:08:25 kryptonite you can use against today's CIA Democrats because it is everything that they claim to be for and yet it focuses on just how 180 opposite today's Democrats are from those assassinated by the CIA. You know, you had people like Cesar Chavez in that campaign and today, I mean, look at the division, how both parties are using

1:08:53 you know, immigration and racial differences to divide the working class. It's just like, okay, well, when the Democrats were uniting the working class across racial barriers more than at any other point in U.S. history, all three leaders were assassinated by the CIA, and now the Democrats respond to the State of the Union address with CIA slotkin, and half of the fucking Senate is CIA. That has to be confronted.

1:09:24 directly. And, you know, go with the bodies. Those are not about three or four assassinations. They had the coalition that they pretend to represent activated, right? Not just watching TV, but activated. And look what happened. To me, that's too educational to just ignore. And that's why it's the most censored event, not even close, in all U.S. history.

1:09:57 I'm starving. Stellar, go ahead. Well, about the name, I found it to be very interesting. So, you know, it's almost like the corporate oligarchies all over the world who want to rule the world and they're, you know, they're ups above. So when they say no kings, if you think about it, since we're all sovereign, technically we're all kings and queens, we're sovereign. So when they said no kings, I looked at it as, you know, it's against the people, not just Trump. Does that make sense?

1:10:29 Yeah. Yeah, that's an interesting take. Oh, what a crazy world we live in. But I definitely see the exposure that is occurring based on the events as they happen. There's so many more people awake than we've ever had in the country. And one of the good things is as

1:10:57 has been noted many times, the generation that is under 50 will never, ever go back. So they know that their days are numbered. There's too many people and there's too much information out there. And I think that's all good for all of us. But anyway, thanks for being here. Glad we got the show in Sunday night at eight o'clock.

1:11:27 Eastern time, we will be with Warhamster on that D-Life TV thing. If you didn't get the link, he will post it probably tomorrow. But also it's in our video we did earlier today about the secret societies. He actually opens up and gives you like in the first five minutes of the show, the place to go to get, excuse me, that podcast. So anyway.

1:11:58 I don't know if I'll be doing any other shows until Sunday, but then hopefully we'll be back here on Monday at our normal time. Thanks for being here.

Entities here

Operation Gladio30 Richard Nixon15 Ted Shackley14 Italy11 Democratic Party8 United States7 West Point Mafia6 P2 Masonic Lodge5 Marshall Plan5 Republican Party5 Alexander Haig5 Dwight D. Eisenhower4 Heroin Committee4 Paul L. Williams4 Greece3 North Atlantic Treaty Organization3 Licio Gelli3 Defense and Diplomacy3 State of the Union3 John McCain3 School of the Americas3 Nixon's memoirs2 United Kingdom2 James M. Dorsey2 Thomas Dewey2 Henry Kissinger2 Trieste2 Chile2 Frank Capra2 Spencer Tracy2 Albert Webster1 Lyman Lemnitzer1 Pope John Paul II1 Grey Wolves1 Nugan Hand Bank1 Bay of Pigs1 Cuba1 Gerald Ford1 Oliver North1 John Poindexter1

Claims made here

Ted Shackley covered_up Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 5:46

“or the very next magazine that came out, is dated July, August 1991. And do you know who has an article in there? Theodore Shackley. Ted Shackley. The godfather of Operation Gladio. And you're never g…”

James M. Dorsey exposed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 8:15

“In fact, that is what happened in the May-June 1990 issue of Defense and Diplomacy, specifically the article of the night of short search. So he's calling out the guy that actually exposed Operation G…”

Marshall Plan funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 10:07

“To put Europe back on its feet economically, America implemented the Marshall Plan, which he doesn't tell us, I'm going to guess, funded Gladio, to defend it against the Red Army. Washington inspired …”

Ted Shackley spied_on Italy book_quoted ▶ 18:29

“And it's specifically talking about, as a matter of fact, this one specifically says, the name of it is Le Circle and the Struggle for the European Continent. It said, this is a quote. I'm not going t…”

Ted Shackley headed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 18:58

“He was in charge of Operation Gladio, at least in Italy, if not all of maybe southern Europe. So maybe he wasn't the station chief, but he definitely was in Italy and he was definitely involved in Ope…”

Ted Shackley ordered_assassination_of Pope John Paul II book_quoted ▶ 20:03

“There's an article on Exploring Real History that basically does kind of a synopsis of Paul Williams' book. And it says that while Ted Shackley was a CIA operative who set up the heroin trade in South…”

Grey Wolves carried_out_attack Pope John Paul II host_asserted ▶ 20:33

“which we know was a Gladio operation because they used Turkish gray wolves to do the hit. So again, more material facts that came out of Paul Williams' book. So yeah, he without a doubt was involved i…”

Licio Gelli headed P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted ▶ 23:02

“So obviously, let's see what he touched on. He touched on the fact that he had nothing to do with Italy, which is a lie. He also touched on the fact that he didn't have anything to do with Alexander H…”

Ted Shackley introduced Alexander Haig host_asserted ▶ 23:31

“but also in Argentina, because remember, they had a second lodge there, a second P2 lodge in Argentina, which is where Operation Condor gets launched from. So it's very interesting that if Alexander H…”

Ted Shackley introduced Licio Gelli host_asserted ▶ 23:31

P2 Masonic Lodge funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 23:31

Dwight D. Eisenhower funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 26:29

“If you do, let me introduce you to John McCain, who happens to be in Maidan Square when there's a Gladio operation going on there. So, no, he didn't just happen to be there when they're conducting an …”

Richard Nixon funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 26:29

United States supplied_arms_to Greece host_asserted ▶ 27:26

“to be ruled by Britain. They wanted their country back. They had just been occupied by a bunch of Nazis. And then there were the Soviets. The British wanted control of Greece. And they basically were …”

United Kingdom targeted_for_regime_change Greece host_asserted ▶ 27:26

Richard Nixon member_of Heroin Committee documented ▶ 31:20

“Very interesting. Oh, so here, Illini, Richard Nixon's political career prior to his inauguration in 1969 began in 1946 when he became a freshman congressman. In 1947, Nixon was selected to join the H…”

Heroin Committee funded Marshall Plan documented ▶ 31:51

“later became the basis for the Marshall Plan, thus providing aid to the devastated nations of Europe. There you go. Holy crap. So Nixon was instrumental in setting up the Marshall Plan, which becomes …”

Marshall Plan funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 31:51

Allen Dulles funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 34:30

“you know the east coast faction uh that was the initial core of the cia around you know dewey prescott bush john foster dulles you know were the initial contributors in a big way to congressman nixon'…”

Prescott Bush funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 34:30

Dwight D. Eisenhower member_of West Point Mafia host_asserted ▶ 41:17

“But Eisenhower was part of the West Point Mafia. Just I'm going to lay that out there. There's a lot of bad things that's come out of the West Point Mafia. So I'm going to leave that there. But I've g…”

Alexander Haig succeeded Henry Kissinger host_asserted ▶ 43:26

“during the Nixon, so he picked up some vibes from Kissinger, and then he was Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs. Nixon promoted him to a four-star general and the Army's vice chief…”

Gerald Ford appointed Alexander Haig documented ▶ 43:26

Alexander Haig removed_from_power Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 43:26

Richard Nixon appointed Alexander Haig documented ▶ 43:26

John Poindexter member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 44:23

“Brothers and sisters. Yeah, it's amazing. And I mean, Annapolis has the same thing. You got Poindexter, McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North and Webb all out of the same basic couple of years at Annapolis.…”

John McCain member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 44:23

Oliver North member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 44:23

Albert Webster member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 44:23

Robert McFarlane member_of Iran-Contra affair host_asserted ▶ 44:23

West Point Mafia front_for Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted ▶ 45:22

“Almost the entire upper echelon of Nugent Hand Bank was senior retired general officers. And they all seem to end up in finance for some reason with no finance background at all or banking or whatever…”

Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 45:22

Alexander Haig member_of West Point Mafia host_asserted ▶ 49:00

“They go for the tougher merit badges. They go for the tough. Touche. I think they're absolutely right. Because, of course, as you said, Haig is another one. And I don't think you could find somebody m…”

Cesar Chavez member_of 1968 United States presidential election host_asserted ▶ 1:08:25

“kryptonite you can use against today's CIA Democrats because it is everything that they claim to be for and yet it focuses on just how 180 opposite today's Democrats are from those assassinated by the…”