The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32

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0:00 Okay, everybody. I did. If you guys would repost this face out, I'd really appreciate it. I need to get my rumble thing set up real quick. And Isabella is not going to be able to make it. She had to run to Key West from Miami with her husband at short notice. So she is going to call me tomorrow and we will reschedule her.

0:29 Oh, goodness gracious. So many things going on. Right? I just want to take a breath. Come on. I just want to take one breath without everything. It's coming in fast. The dam is broken and things are changing fast. Aren't they? Yeah. Yes, they are. Okay. Hey, Froggy Frog. How's it going? Hey, what's up? How are you? Happy Friday.

1:04 Yay! I know, right? Yeah, it seems... I don't know. It doesn't seem like Friday to me for some reason. That's because Christmas is only a few days away. Not to be spoiler alert. I know. It's been a month. It's been a total month. I'm telling you, the chaos has begun. Yeah. So, I don't... I don't...

1:42 I don't even know how to say this without sounding stupid, but I don't go out without my husband very often. And whenever we do go out, he always drives. So he's over helping a friend of ours with some electrical work. And so he has our truck, which is what I prefer to drive. So I told him, I said, okay, well, I'll take the, we have a Corvette. And so.

2:09 It's a 93, 40th anniversary car that just, and he's like, so, you know, there's a lot of traffic out there because it's Christmas. And he's like, so something about, he didn't say be careful, but something along those lines, because there's a lot of weirdos out there. And I said, well, you know, that car doesn't drive slow. So I can at least be able to dodge people on the road.

2:42 That's the thing. My Hemi doesn't drive slow either. Don't know what to tell you. Get out the way. It idles at like 20 miles an hour. There's no way you can drive that car slow. Anyway, I made it there and back. That's all I can say. Sounds like fun to me. That's all I'm saying. Oh, wait a minute. Speaking of, Indiana does have football tonight. Indiana plays Notre Dame.

3:11 And I'm rooting for the Hoosiers. Let's go, baby. Yeah. Indiana had a fabulous record this year. But they allowed some West Coast people into the Big Ten, which I think was a tragedy. It was a mistake for the Big Ten, that's for sure. Don't do it. Don't let those ducks mop in. You know, and I...

3:38 Not because it was Oregon or any of the rest of them. I just hate the fact that they destroyed all of the, like, the Pac-10, the Big Ten. Why didn't they just make a new one instead of screwing up all of that? It's because you want to hear something really funny about that? Yeah. The UFC wanted to go to Pac-12 because of Oregon. Because Oregon recruits all the people on the West Coast. And you can actually look it up yourself and research it.

4:09 They said they wanted the Big Ten to go to UCLA as long as they didn't take Oregon. That was a two-year in advance deal. The Big Ten took Oregon, and the USC is an absolute joke now. So we laugh about that a lot. I'm really heartbroken that Pac-12 broke up, but it is what it is. Yeah, I hate that they messed with all of the traditional things where they could have just...

4:38 added to it and added conferences, but instead of adding ones and allowing them to have their own traditions, they just destroy everything. That's what I say about the whole trying to destroy our culture. They, in every single way, have, they just keep effing with shit. Pisses me off, but nice. Enough about that. The people in the back 12 feel the same way. I mean, Oregon gets more exposure in the Big Ten.

5:14 Yeah. Okay. So we're going to get on with our chapter and we will get Isabella back on as quickly as we can. So let's get started because there's some, is Cousin It in here? No.

5:34 Bridget, if you could ask her when we open it up, when we get done with, we're just going to do one chapter today. If you will text her and ask if she'll come in. I want her to talk about what she was just texting about. Can you hear me, Bridget? We can't hear you. I'm going to put you down and bring you back up. Let me get her back up here as co-host. Try that. Try now, Bridget. Okay. Yeah, I will absolutely send her a message. All right. Thank you.

6:24 All right. So Chapter 32 is called The Shakedown. It starts in Los Angeles in December 1982 with Sorkis. And you guys remember he has the long, crazy last name S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N. So Hanalian. But his first name is Sorkis. And that's what we Sorkis, which is what we've been calling him since I can pronounce that.

6:53 So anyway, 1982, just a year into, well, it's about two years into Reagan's administration, was supervising the culmination of his first big U.S. deal for Iraq. 60 Hughes Defender helicopters, 60 helicopters were being loaded onto cargo planes. Then a guy by the name of Jack Reel, R-E-E-L, who was president of Hughes, which is the helicopter manufacturer.

7:22 came down to the tarmac from his office with a concerned look. Sarkis remembers being in a great mood until Real told him that there was a problem with the export licenses for the helicopters. He reminded Real that the price had included the export license, but Real said the White House was now involved and he needed to go meet with someone who could straighten things out. Real provided his car and driver for a meeting that would take

7:51 Sarkis to the heart of a private network. Jack Real's driver took Sarkis to the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel. That is when I met Nixon's friend, Jack Brennan and Gene Boyer, B-O-Y-E-R. Sarkis said that Boyer had been in charge of the presidential logistics office in the Nixon White House.

8:16 Brennan, the ex-Marine who had befriended the young Robert McFarlane, was co-founder with the fellow ex-Marine James Tully of a company called Global Consultants International, GCI. Brennan was a tough guy type who had been Nixon's Marine aide in the White House. When Nixon resigned, Brennan stayed with him as an aide in San Clemente.

8:43 After six months, he retired from the Marines and became Nixon's chief of staff. When Brennan and Tully started Global Consultants in the 1970s, they made full use of Nixon's connections. Nixon wrote letters for them to foreign leaders, and his disgraced Attorney General John Mitchell sat on their board at Global Consultants. In the Reagan White House, their key connection was McFarlane.

9:12 By that time, he was the deputy national security advisor. When Sarkis arrived at Newport Beach Marriott, Brennan told him that it was global consultants that had arranged for Hugh's export license and that the firm needed to be paid before the helicopter was released. It was to be a fee of a million dollars. Sarkis was furious.

9:40 I never was told about Brennan or any of his friends. I told him neither I nor the Iraqis had that kind of cash and that the money all went into the weapons and shipping. I told Brennan that if he helped the Iraqis, there would be plenty of opportunities for him to make business in the future. Tony Carter said what Sarkis began to realize is that he was being shaken down.

10:07 If he did not deliver the product to Iraq, he would lose all credibility. But to get the product, he now had to let Brennan and whoever else was in bed with him inside the tent of the weapons deals. McFarlane later confirmed through his lawyer that Brennan did call his office on the end-user certificates and that he agreed to make a call to the Commerce Department to get the paperwork approved. But Sarkis was not willing to wait for that phone call.

10:36 He returned to Hughes and told company executives to finish loading the planes, and he began the marathon flight to get the choppers to Iraq. A few months later, Brennan went to Paris, where Sarkis paid him $92,000 instead of the million dollars. Sarkis also took Brennan into Iraq several times. Brennan said it was clear that Sarkis had the Iraqis' attention.

11:03 Over the next few months, Sarkis became a fixture in Iraq. He set up his operations next to the presidential palace downtown's airport and in the old Iraqi Airways crew quarters. It was now being used for distinguished visitors. Sarkis' employees nicknamed the high-security facility the House of a Thousand Microphones.

11:32 stocked the bar and the restaurant. He persuaded his friend, the defense minister, to install a large screen television in the bar and to detach several cooks from the army to do duty. He had around-the-clock use of chauffeured Mercedes. Brennan kept pushing him on ideas for business deals in which Global Consultant International could participate, but Sarkis kept telling Brennan,

12:03 to let the Iraqis get to know him first. Because the Iraqis were having problems modifying their long-range artillery, Sarkis contacted the ballistics expert in the world, the best one, the guy by the name of Gerald Bull, G-E-R-A-L-D, and his last name is B-U-L-L. After clearing it with the U.S. authorities, Sarkis brought Bull, a convicted felon,

12:35 For what? Arms trafficking. To Baghdad. Bull went to work and actually had former colleagues run computations on supercomputers in the Army Research Lab at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland to ensure Iraq's ballistic missile program improved. But despite Bull's strong reputation, Sarkis was uncomfortable with either his progress as well as his truthfulness.

13:06 I guess that's what you get when you deal with convicted felons. Defense Minister Kerala warned Sarkis that Bull had had several meetings with Hassan Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and enforcer. Bull was trying to sell Kamal on a scheme to construct a giant gun that would lob a chemical or nuclear warhead into Israel. Sarkis then discovered that Bull

13:34 had made no progress on the job that he had been hired to do, which was modifying the artillery. Instead, he had spent the millions of dollars the defense ministry had given him to modify Scud missiles with new extended second stages and on a secret super gun project. Considering that Iraq was at risk,

13:58 of losing a war with Iran because it did not have enough conventional artillery to stave off a massive human wave attack, this was unacceptable. Sarkis confronted Bull. I told him that he was playing a very dangerous game, going around the defense minister to deal with Kamal to get him killed. He thought I was threatening him. For such a brilliant man, he was very stupid. Sarkis fired Bull.

14:24 and removed him from Iraq. Hassan Kamal was furious when he found out, and Sarkis' friend Krala felt the pressure. Meanwhile, Saddam's tailor, the guy that started the whole thing, and go-between, was pressing Sarkis for his commission. Sarkis explained that the Iraqi government paid the companies, and they in turn paid him. Then he would pay Krala.

14:56 He used the opportunity to get Brennan off his back. I told Herrett I was working with some very influential people in the U.S. That included a company whose contacts were President Richard Nixon. That got his attention. Pouring on his charm, Sarkis said that the group of Republican businessmen had helped him arrange for the first shipments of helicopters, and now they wanted to do serious business with Iraq.

15:24 involving replacement of their entire Iraqi uniforms. Sarkis played to the tailor's ego. I told him that he could design the new uniforms and that this deal would cement relationships with the Reagan administration. The warming of U.S. and Iraqi relationships had two tracks, increased personal business contacts with administration and an official off-the-books attempt to help the failing war effort.

15:52 Sarkis understood that U.S. authorities did not want to be publicly associated with the murderous regime. Some of Hassan Kamal's cleanup operations for Saddam had Kerry's CIA staff concerned. Shortly after Saddam's predecessor, President Ali Bar, was murdered in 1982, a number of executions took place in Saddam's own cabinet. Look at all the government. Look.

16:20 all of the governments understood that Saddam is the French, the Russians, and the Germans, Sarkis said. They all sent full diplomatic representation. The U.S. wanted clean hands, so they made theirs all unofficial. Sarkis was at the vortex of a secret policy and not everyone was happy about it. Some of the CIA officials considered him not to be on their team. They overlooked these misgivings because Sarkis had persuaded,

16:51 to allow the Eastern Bloc war materials to transship through Iraq to the anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan. In other words, they were using Iraq as a shipping place. The irony of Saudi Arabia's paying Saddam to fight Muslim fundamentalists in Iran while helping them in Afghanistan was not lost on Sarkis. Hassan Kamal put his intelligence service on

17:20 surveillance of Sarkis and his family on a 24-hour basis. He did the same with Kraywala. He was convinced we were both U.S. spies, but they were clumsy and we found out about it, Sarkis said. As much as Hassan Kamal came to detest Sarkis, the U.S. was too valuable and a secret partner to make any moves against him. However, as Tony Carter recalls, quote,

17:50 I was worried that some people in Washington was working directly with Kamal. Sarkis dismissed my concerns at the time. I warned him that the U.S. had used him to open the door. Once he did that, he would not be needed. Sarkis believed that if he got Iraq, that he would be able to be the power broker there as well, unquote. Unfortunately for Sarkis, major companies he bought into

18:19 he brought into Iraq, were late in paying him. The lack of cash flow caused him to miss delivery dates. In the process of handling hundreds of millions of dollars in arms sales, Sarkis made mistakes at a time when Hassan Kamal's agents were trying to prove that he was swindling Iraq. He wasn't, but Kamal was able to make an argument that he was, and when he failed to deliver a $7 million metal airplane hangar as promised,

18:48 The heat got turned up. But just as Hassan was going to move against Sarkis, the American embassy sent word that President Reagan was dispatching a personal friend as an envoy to see Saddam Hussein. Two days before Christmas in 1983, Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Baghdad.

19:10 Sarkis successfully took a large share of credit for the visit. Rumsfeld was so taken by Saddam's anti-communist stand that he recommended that the Reagan administration make a deeper investment into Iraq. Iraq was thrilled. In January 1984, Aidan Krala

19:32 called Sarkis in Miami and told him that the president had approved a $500 million purchase of new uniforms for Iraq. Jack Brennan and some of his partners and Global Consultant International arrived at Sarkis' Pan Aviation office at the southwest corner of the Miami airport. Sarkis' operations was still conducted from a trailer, but rising behind the trailer was a new hangar for Pan Aviation. Sarkis...

20:02 Brennan and others took off for Baghdad in Sarkis' personal 727. The mood was festive until Jack Brennan discovered that Sarkis had allowed a CNN documentary crew aboard. Brennan, who had had too much to drink, challenged the CNN reporter and told him that under no circumstances could he interview or photograph anyone on the plane. The reporter ignored Brennan and the crew kept shooting.

20:28 When Brennan complained to Sarkis, the arms dealer grew angry and said, are you afraid they will find out about Nixon and Agnew? Relax, my friend. When the plane stopped for refueling in Greenland, Sarkis asked the CNN correspondent to come with him as he walked across the freezing tarmac to pay the landing fee. He leaned over to the reporter and said, make sure you get everyone's picture. A few years from now, they might deny this ever happened.

20:56 At the hotel in Geneva, Sarkis' suite became a waiting room for everyone trying to sell something to Iraq. The bizarre-like atmosphere vanished when Sarkis received an emergency call from Krayola. The largest Iranian human wave attack of the war was underway, a front along the front that was 60 miles wide.

21:22 was almost white when he got off the phone. The uniform deal was the last thing on his mind as he made calls to get munitions shipped in a hurry. After a week in Geneva, Sarkis gathered his guests for a midnight takeoff for Baghdad. As the plane was nearly ready to take off, Sarkis added four new passengers. Their baggage consisted of large steel cases that were loaded into the belly of the aircraft.

21:49 The CIA was sending spy satellite downloading equipment to help Iraq counter the Iranian offensive. The plane refueled in Athens. And at dawn, the plane landed. Let's see. The plane moved from Turkish airspace into Iraq. And then there was an ominous radio call. Expedite your landing. Please expedite your landing. This is Baghdad Tower. The 720.

22:19 American pilot responded by saying, and how do you expect us to do that? The landing at Baghdad turned out to be uneventful, but the unloading was not routine. The four CIA technicians and their equipment was first off the aircraft. Half a dozen armed Iraqi Republican guards surrounded the aircraft as the remaining passengers were whisked onto buses to the house of a thousand microphones. At the defense ministry, Jack Brennan and Ahmed

22:53 H-A-B-B-O-U-S-S, William Phelan, P-H-E-L-A-N, and Sarkis began their final negotiations on the uniform deal. In the middle of the negotiations, Sarkis and the CNN crew left Baghdad for the war front just north of Basra. By the time they returned a week later, the human wave attack had been turned back.

23:17 Sarkis successfully concluded the negotiations and the Iraqis believed by giving this large contract to Americans that the relationship had warmed up. Unfortunately, Mitchell and Brennan had other ideas. Global consultants decided that making the uniforms in Tennessee as planned was too expensive and would cut down on their profits. Mitchell and Brennan, on Nixon's suggestion, decided to use Romania for a better price.

23:47 Nixon wrote to his old Cold War friend, brutal communist dictator, Nikolai Kusuku, I am pleased to learn that Pan East International and its associates, Colonel John Brennan and Honorable John Mitchell, both who served my administration, are working with your Ministry of Light Industries. I trust that this relationship

24:12 which involves production of military uniforms, will be a successful and long-lasting one. I can assure you that Colonel Brennan and former Attorney General John Mitchell will be responsible and constructive in working with your representatives, unquote. Saddam Hussein relations with the Bush-Reagan administration did indeed warm to the point where Sarkis even flew a physician to Baghdad to treat both Saddam Hussein and Karela.

24:41 But the very fact that the war was going better for Iraq led global consultants to increase the pressure on Sarkis. Mitchell wrote him in August 1985 demanding a 2% fee on the $27 million Hughes helicopter contract. For Sarkis, finding ways to help Iraq pay for weapons became his major responsibility. Kamal Adom came to the rescue when he used BCCI to launder.

25:11 $4.7 billion in U.S. agricultural credits, which according to the House Banking Committee report, U.S. officials allowed Iraq to trade with other countries in exchange for cash to pay for weapons. Well, we don't, at least in this case, we don't think it was drugs. When the Romanian maid uniforms finally arrived, and so understand what we're talking about here.

25:41 These were jobs for Americans that Nixon just offloaded to Romania so that they could get a bigger cut. When the Romanians made uniforms finally arrived the following spring, Sarkis phone rang. The head of the Iraqi procurement was calling me. The uniforms had arrived and were made out of heavy wool. I'm going to let that sink in for just a second. Heavy wool. In northern Iraq, while I was there,

26:15 In January through July, it was 120 degrees almost every day. Heavy wool. This guy was so scared that he thought he was going to be shot. Sarkis got a phone call on his farm near Basra, and he was warned that the uniform deal was a disaster and had damaged all of them. Carter watched as his boss did more and more favors for the U.S. intelligence.

26:50 And this Carter is spelled K-H-A-R-T-E-R from previous chapters. Equipment was shipped and pan-aviation planes without export permits were used with the informal approval of customs. Carter said that I was worried about this, but Sarkis said it was not a problem. Carter also advised Sarkis to pay something to the tailor who had

27:20 was still demanding commissions on some of the earlier deals. He just refused to pay him. He would not even consider it. I think he thought it was a shakedown. In 1987, Sarkis learned that Hassan Kamal had brought Jerry Bull back into the country, the criminal, behind Aiden Crayola's back. When Aiden asked me what Bull could be doing,

27:53 I told him whatever it was, it was not real, Sarkis said. Crayola showed Sarkis some CIA satellite pictures of the project. The photographs look like a ski lift under construction. Sarkis said, I told Kamal that there was a lot of money being thrown away and that his super cannon would not work.

28:19 By 1988, Sarkis understood that things were changing in Iraq and that he was being sued by Mitchell and Brennan for lost commissions on the uniform deal. Hassan Kamal had begun, with the CIA's cooperation, to bring rivals like Chilean cluster bomb maker Carlos Cardion into Iraq. Sarkis fought the Brennan-Mitchell lawsuit. What he did not see coming

28:47 was that the administration had gotten what they wanted out of him, that they had full access to Iraq. And Iraq, meanwhile, owed Sarkis close to $60 million by 1988. The final blow came in a trip to Baghdad in 1988. We came in and everything was a little different, Tony Carter said. We just were not as helpful or they were not as helpful or friendly. The cars disappeared. The easy access disappeared.

29:15 I later learned that Herod Keabalian, the tailor, orchestrated it all. He told me years later that they were all laughing at us as we went from ministry to ministry trying to stop the inevitable. It was too late for Sarkis to pay him. They took Sarkis to the airport and put him on a plane, and before he left, they warned him never come back. Sarkis's enemy, Hassan Kamal, had won.

29:42 and had begun working directly with the Bush operation. That's Vice President Bush. But the CIA's main hope for the change in Iraq was not Kamal, but Kraywalla. The popular defense minister, King Jordan, had kept in constant contact with Kraywalla and thought that he would make an excellent post-Saddam leader for Iraq because they were using Saddam as well. They use everybody. And when they're done using you, they'll put you in jail or kill you.

30:12 Apparently, that is exactly what Saddam feared because he finds out that they want Kerala as his replacement. With the war against Iran going well and the U.S. now firmly in his pocket, Saddam gave the order and Kamal made certain it was carried out. That's his son-in-law. The defense minister's helicopter just blew up on May 23rd, 1989.

30:43 Cruella was dead. Sarkis did not understand that his falling out with Brennan Mitchell and Nixon would have a profound effect on the Reagan-Bush team and their impression of him as well. A guy by the name of Gerald Richman, his longtime Miami lawyer, warned him that events were turning ugly. In 1989, now this is a year into Bush's administration,

31:14 or the first year of it. One of his FBI friends told him that he was under a serious U.S. Customs investigation for illegal arms shipment. He would also come under IRS investigation for taxes owed on the commissions that he never received. Sarkis had become close to a guy by the name of Admiral Daniel Murphy, who had been Vice President Bush's chief of staff before the 1988 campaign and had

31:44 George Bush had asked Robert Gray to hire Murphy as his chief of staff. Gray did and made him the head. OK, so hold on. Admiral Daniel Murphy is serving as vice president's chief of staff. Now, remember, Robert Gray is the Gray PR. He worked at Hill and Knowlton. He had the four house in downtown D.C. That's Robert Gray.

32:17 So George Bush, when he leaves as vice president, asked Robert Gray to hire Murphy into his PR firm, which Gray did. They made him in charge of the Gray and Company's international division. When Sarkis contacted Gray, contacted Murphy at Gray's company, Murphy explained to him that he had been pushed out of his job with Bush.

32:48 Because Bush political people, including his wife, felt that his history of procuring women for Bush and his ties to people like Sarkis could cause political problems. So he was hiding out at Gray's company. Sarkis reported that Murphy said they got rid of two of us before the 88 campaign.

33:15 me and George's girlfriend by the name of Jennifer Fitzgerald. What he told me was that he could not help him because he wasn't in a position to do that because he himself was kind of on ice. He gave Sarkis the advice to hire a good attorney because he knew that people wanted to put Sarkis in jail like they had done Edwin Wilson.

33:43 Sarkis gradually learned that the Bush administration was turning the Iran-Iraq war into a CIA operation. Carlos Cardion was, hold on just a second, and Carlos Cardion is from Chile. Remember the one that they overthrew and killed Allende and put Pinochet in? So Carlos Cardion and his CIA handlers essentially took over Sarkis' role.

34:14 Unfortunately for the Iraqis, the Bush administration began to play games. For the Battle of Al-Fah in southern Iraq, the CIA gave the Iraqis old satellite images, which caused them to place their forces in the wrong place. The losses were horrendous, Sarkis said. What should have been an easy battle ended up costing Saddam Hussein the war. Later, King Hussein told me that he believed the CIA was trying to get Iran and Iraq to destroy each other.

34:44 and up to that point, Iraq was doing too well in the war, and it needed to be evened back out. Saddam and his forces used poison gas against the Iranians in subsequent battles, with the full knowledge of the United States, who had been assisting them with all of their weapons. In 1990, the Bush administration had grown concerned that Sarkis was talking to investigative reporters

35:10 about all of the secret relationships that they had with the Iraqis. Ted Koppel's nightline had formed a special unit called Project X to examine Bush's role in Iraq. Bush's National Security Council, in turn, formed a special task force to make sure that the depth of the relationship with Saddam Hussein was kept secret. Meanwhile, Democrat Congressman

35:35 Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, forged ahead with an investigation into how the agricultural aid had been used to purchase weapons using BCCI. Around the world, Kamal Adom's house of cards at BCCI was on the verge of collapse. Sarkis now knew through his own sources that almost all of the financing of his Iraqi deals had been done

36:03 through various branches of BCCI. That Congressman Gonzalez was investigating all of this. Sarkis also learned that the close relationship between Gerald Bull and Hassan Kamal had fallen apart when Bull's super gun project failed to produce any results. Bull was removed from Iraq and told never to come back again.

36:33 Sarkis and other arms dealers who dealt with Israel were told about the super gun in great detail. Sarkis is coy when he's asked if he handed the information over to Israel. If you're asking me if I fingered Bull to the Israelis, the answer is no, I did not have to. Kamal made sure that they had the information and they took care of him. On March 1990, Gerald Bull was gunned down outside of his apartment in Belgium.

37:02 Sarkis had been tipped off that the U.S. Customs Service was after him. I knew that the CIA's instructions to call certain customs men to approve shipments could be a problem. Tony had warned me, and I had seen these customs guys lie in the past. Sarkis knew more about the Iraqi operations, including Bush's personal involvement as vice president, than anyone else. He, like Ed Wilson, had to be neutralized. In 1991, James McAdam,

37:31 The third, the acting U.S. attorney in Miami, gave Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Tarbee, T-A-R-B-E, the Sarkis investigation. In mid-1991, Sarkis was indicted for conspiracy, along with two others, for supposedly illegally exporting a missile and other banned hardware to Iraq. The thing that made this charge unlikely is that the weapon Sarkis was accused of taking into Iraq did not, in fact,

38:01 would not have, in fact, fit in the cargo bay of his 727. Any doubt Sarkis had that his enemy was the Bush White House vanished when he learned that Bush's candidate for the new U.S. attorney in Miami was arms dealer Carlos Cardion's personal lawyer, the guy who took over the racket in Iraq from Sarkis.

38:29 Just before Sarkis' trial was to begin, Jack Brennan became the deputy chief of staff for the Bush White House. Sarkis and his lawyers believed that Brennan's appointment sent a message to the Bush-appointed judge that the president had a personal interest in the case. Brennan suddenly appeared on the prosecution's witness list to testify against Sarkis.

38:53 The case took a bizarre twist in November 1991 when Sarkis received a fax from one of his contacts in the Soviet Union. Sarkis had done a lot of business with the Soviet Union and had organized a major airlift for earthquake relief to Armenia. His old contacts always let him know when desirable arms became available. Now he was being offered small nuclear weapons out of a Soviet arsenal.

39:21 So I called the FBI and tried to make arrangements to meet. The idea would be for me to set up a meeting with the brokers for the weapons. Is that not just smack of a setup? Sark's friends in the FBI told him that any meeting would have to be cleared. Weeks went by with no word. And then Roger Wheeler, an FBI agent in charge of the North Miami Beach office, received an unprecedented letter from Prosecutor Susan Tarby denying the FBI's request to see.

39:51 Sarkis. Tarby insisted that before the FBI could interview Sarkis that he would have to plead guilty to all charges and agree not to appeal. Sarkis's lawyer responded by telling Tarby that Sarkis was willing to provide the FBI information which relates to foreign intelligence and terrorist activity, but she would not relent. Sarkis was eventually convicted of conspiracy even though his fellow defendants in the trial were acquitted. He received a six-year sentence.

40:22 For Sarkis, his conversations with the media about Iraq and George H.W.'s role in building up Saddam Hussein and his inflammatory interviews concerning Bush's involvement with the narcotic trafficking of Manuel Noriega grew Washington's wrath.

40:42 Ironically, 12 years after the assistant prosecutor in Miami refused to let the FBI interview him about the attempted sale of nuclear material from the Soviet Union, the FBI would travel to Jordan to meet with Sarkis and resume the nuclear investigation. It turns out that the information Sarkis possessed led directly to A.Q. Khan's nuclear black market that was ran by

41:10 the GID and ISI, in Pakistan. Sarkis, in 1991's revelations, might have exposed the fact that Khan's network in Pakistan was fully known to the CIA, because it was. But in 1991, if Sarkis had any doubt that the Bush administration wanted him silenced, that it ended when he was first assigned after his conviction,

41:40 to the roughest prison in Angolia, Louisiana. When the media began requesting interviews, they were told that Sarkis was unavailable because he was in transit. To keep the media from Sarkis, he was then transferred to a prison in a tiny town called Defoniak Springs, Florida.

42:01 Meanwhile, in Washington, Congressman Henry Gonzalez, who was in charge of the House Banking Committee, was learning more details about the Bush White House attempts to cover the tracks in Iraq. National Security Council documents show that in April 1991, a special White House task force was formed to help control information and documents regarding the U.S.-Iraq policies prior to August 2, 1990. And what is...

42:34 August 2nd, 1990. Oh, that would be the date that Saddam Hussein went into Kuwait. That's the day I got to Rome. That's the day Operation Gladio got exposed. That's crazy. That's crazy. Nicholas Brostow, a specialist assistant and legal advisor to George H.W., prepared a memo for top officials in the administration, including White House counsel,

43:05 C. Boyden Gray, and Assistant Attorney General Matthew Luttig, L-U-T-T-I-G. The memo was prepared in reaction to congressional and press wanting information and documents about the policy in Iraq. The group doing the review became known as the Rostow Gang, R-O-S-T-O-W.

43:31 It was a sign to cover up embarrassing and potential illegal activities of everybody in the U.S.-Iraq relationship, except, of course, Sarkis. Gonzalez exposed instances in 1990 and 1991 when the Bush Commerce Department altered records in its database to make military items sold to Iraq look like civilian items. Gonzalez also accused Attorney General Richard Thornburg of

44:03 obstructing a northern district of georgia grand jury in 1990 when it was ready to indict the u.s branch of banca nacional del labaro for its role in laundering the agricultural credits for saddam hussein's illegal purchase of arms and keep in mind this is the that same bank did bank banking with the um

44:32 BCCI branch that had been bought outside of Atlanta, Georgia as well. And in September 1990, Gonzalez received a private letter from the Attorney General urging him to stop investigating and doing his constitutional duty because he was interfering in national security with their famous rubber stamp.

44:56 Gonzalez later learned from documents provided by Sarkis and others that the Bush administration had contrived the agricultural credit trade. When the media stories began to refer to Gonzalez's probe as Iraqgate, the administration moved Sarkis from Defuniac Springs to the Miami Federal Corrections Institution, where he finally got to meet with the FBI.

45:21 In May 1992, Jack Brennan and his colleagues lost their lawsuit against Sarkis over the uniform deal in Iraq. Sarkis told federal authorities that Brennan's connections extended beyond Bush. He revealed that Brennan and Bush's national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, had formed a company called International Six, S-I-X, which hoped to do business in Iraq as well.

45:51 Nixon, Reagan, and Bush officials had tried to use their connections in Iraq to personally benefit off of war and the death of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern. When Sarkis was no longer useful to these officials, he told the FBI they decided to replace me. Scowcroft acknowledged to the FBI that he was involved in International Six, but he was unable to provide any further details.

46:20 Well, he was able, he just refused. While Sarkis was in prison, he was frequently denied prescription medication. This often occurred right after he had given a television interview. In one such interview with Box Productions, Sarkis revealed that Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, had participated in many of the deals to include a classified night vision goggle device that had begun being shipped to Iran.

46:49 This interview resulted in Parliament's ordering an investigation. George H.W. defeat in the polls in 1992 was followed by a remarkable series of legal events. Sarkis, then in the same federal facility in Miami that held Manuel Noriego, began disappearing from the prison for hours a day.

47:11 It turned out that the arms dealer had reached out to Secret Service and had begun assisting a Treasury Department investigation into a flood of counterfeit $100 bills coming into the U.S. from the Middle East. Sargis helped trace the bills to various terrorist groups in Lebanon, according to the Department of Treasury. In 1995, Sargis was released early in return for his cooperation.

47:38 He returned to Jordan to visit his old friend, King Hussein. The Clinton administration sent two Secret Service agents with him to Amman because they were afraid that Hezbollah would be responsible, that was responsible for the bills and would kill him en route.

47:57 Sarkis decided to get back into business, this time in Paris. He knew that he could never trust the U.S. government again and that he would no longer play the role of middleman in the U.S. Sarkis started back in business with his fortune serious depleted from his stay in prison, not to mention a $54 million IRS tax lien. The freedom he had enjoyed was gone. He had a formal minder in Paris and a French police official.

48:26 that shadowed him everywhere. Sarkis was set up in an apartment and, quote, every middleman needs a government and my new government was France, he said, unquote. As he was making a deal during the Paris air show a few months later, his modest return to business turned into a brief but grand partnership with the French. His handlers and the French intel moved him into one of the nicest buildings in Paris.

48:53 His new apartment became, like the old one, in Geneva, a center of international intrigue. In September 1995, he turned a shimmering cancer benefit at Versailles honoring Shimon Peres into a Sarkis has returned soiree. French fashion models escorted hundreds of guests from the concert in an opera house through the halls of mirrors into the Hall of Battles for dinner. The French

49:25 think that the Israeli security team protecting Shimon is incompetent, Sarkis says. They have taken over. He sat near Perez, hundreds of feet away from the angry Israeli security team. Now, I got to tell you guys something about Versailles. I don't know if anybody's ever been there, but Versailles has, if you walk up to the front of it, it goes really far back, but then it has wings off the right and left.

49:55 So when you walk in, you have the the hall, the battle hall. And the way the whole palace is set up is when someone come to the front to be to see the king, they had to go through the battle hall and the scenes are painted on the ceiling of and these big.

50:22 tapestry-like paintings are on the walls all the way down. And it's a very long hall. All the way down the hall. And that was used to intimidate people. And then when you got to the back where you could look out over the gardens, you turned left and they had the Hall of Mirrors all along the back end of it. And at the end of the Hall of Mirrors was a big throne for the king. And there were battle scenes on the ceiling.

50:49 In the Hall of Mirrors. So, supposedly, by the time you got to the king, you were intimidated enough because you saw all the blood and guts of all of the supposed fierce French fighting. And it was like a psychological intimidation factor to ever go to see the king. So, just wanted to let y'all know. Oh, and another funny story. If you go down the wing that goes off to the right, halfway down, there's a chapel.

51:18 And the tour guide told us that the king came in and sat on the top level of the chapel. And whoever his mistress of the day was, was sat between him on the first floor and the priest so that he got to watch her the whole time instead of actually paying attention to the priest. Just a little inside baseball there. So Sarkis had many friends in French intelligence.

51:49 Bush's role in Iraq. One of his best sources was a high-level French customs official. His name was Jacques Bardu, B-A-R-D-U. Bardu was tasked with money laundering investigations when he helped lead the July 1991 raid on the Paris branch of BCCI. Bardu discovered some remarkable bank records in the French branch of the BCCI.

52:19 Over a June 1996 lunch in Paris, which Sarkis witnessed, the soft-spoken French bureaucrat said, quote, we discovered a number of interesting accounts at the Paris branch. One of those accounts had the name George Bush with $5 million on deposit, unquote. Bardot said that he had immediately notified Mikel Karasi.

52:48 a top minister to President Mitterrand. Within a few hours, the material from the raid was ordered sent to the office of Mr. Chargé. The president's assistant ordered me to turn the material over to the U.S. Treasury attaché at the American embassy. Chargé, a former minister of Mitterrand's socialist government, a longtime member of the French Senate, confirmed Bardot's version of these events. What Bardot did not confirm was that George Bush

53:19 which George Bush, the account, belonged to. Sarkis knew that the Bush family and the Saudis had continued their efforts to put him out of business. I allied with the French because I had to be with a government in order to be able to stand up to them. At about that same time, an American by the name of Nick Bunick, B-U-N-I-C-K, came to Sarkis through

53:49 a Brussels attorney by the name of André Boufflot, and he offered to finance arms deals. Bunek bragged that he had advised Bush when the Bush was the CIA director and claimed that he helped Bush and the CIA move money around the world. Sarkis was skeptical. He had Bunek investigated and discovered that he was persuading people to borrow money from him.

54:21 by showing them an album of pictures taken with the Bush family, which included both Bushes. Sarkis was so upset by Brunek's closeness to the Bushes that he refused to have anything to do with them. Lawyers and others who did get involved with Brunek later described his activities as completely fraudulent. In addition to moving money from the private intelligence network,

54:48 Brunek signed a million-dollar contract with Simons and Schuster to chronicle his true-life experience communicating with seven-foot-tall angels. I know it's hard to believe, he said, but I've conversed with all of the apostles, too. A friend of Sarkis's by the name of Anton Bedrosian, B-E-D-R-O-S-S-I-A-N,

55:16 had excellent relationships with the Saudi royal family. He, too, had been an associate of Kamal Adem, who died in 1999 in Cairo, and of Adem's nephew, Prince Turki, T-U-R-K-I. In June 1996, the entire upper crust of the Saudi establishment was in Paris for a huge ground show of fourths that alternates.

55:47 alternates every other year with the Paris air show. This time, the Saudis had a mess on their hands. Bin Laden was making threats against his homeland, and intelligence reports indicated that both Hezbollah and al-Qaeda would soon take action inside of Saudi. Death threats were actually coming in on private fax machines. The defense minister reached out to Sarkis through Bedrosian.

56:13 to purchase several thousand armored cars to patrol the borders. In June 1996, Building 131 of Khobar Tower's U.S. Air Force facilities in Saudi Arabia was bombed. 19 airmen were killed and 372 were wounded. As Sarkis negotiated on behalf of the Saudis, a series of informal secret meetings was taking place.

56:41 A decision was made about how to deal with bin Laden and the increasing power of al-Qaeda. The sources of this information are Sarkis, his top aides, and French intelligence. According to the sources who were in attendance, a payoff plan was proposed. The Islamic welfare charities that bin Laden had already been using would be used to step up funding of al-Qaeda.

57:10 al-Qaeda operations around the world in exchange for bin Laden not to attack Saudi Arabia. The same Islamic groupings that the CIA had encouraged to set up a mosque in the U.S. in order to recruit young African men into the Muslim religion would be used against the U.S. As Sarkis learned of these meetings, he passed on information to his friends in the French intelligence who started bugging the hotel rooms. They learned,

57:40 That a decision had been. On the web for a series of. Secret. I must have activated Siri. That's hilarious. That's totally something I would do. Sorry. Or somebody's playing with my computer. Either one. All right. So. Sarkis. Okay. So he's talking to the French. They're going to bug all the hotel rooms. They learned that a decision had been made to pay off. Osama bin Laden.

58:15 And as far as the armored car deal goes, it was to make Clinton think that they were doing something. They never had any intentions of actually buying them because there was no external threat. All of this came from inside of Saudi Arabia. The French were doing a lot of business with China. And in 1997, Sarkis became their point man on a very secret and special project with the U.S. shot.

58:43 After the U.S. shot down an Iranian passenger jet in Iranian territorial waters, Iran decided it needed a serious anti-ship defense system and went to China for help. China was developing a series of anti-ship missiles sophisticated enough that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had become very concerned. The U.S. Navy had yet to develop a defense against them.

59:10 And so, of course, 97 is going to be towards the end of Clinton's administration. The CIA's intelligence indicated that the Iranians had several dozen of these cruise missiles for testing. Any hope that Sarkis had of avoiding further dealings with the U.S. ended in the spring of 97, when M. Ping, P-I-N-G, of the Chinese government, owned company that made the missiles visited Sarkis.

59:39 and asked him to consider marketing the missiles for the Chinese. As an incentive, Ping brought the blueprints for the yacht that was being built for the president of China to use during the ceremony turning Hong Kong back over to China. Mr. Sarkis, the yacht is yours as a bonus if you join us, Ping told the arms dealer. Ping brought details on the missiles, which could be launched from small boats, helicopters, or trucks. A French company called

1:00:09 Labinal, L-A-B-I-N-A-L. He told Sarkis had made the turbo pumps for the C-802s in Midland, Texas. France and China had entered into a secret partnership to produce hundreds for the missiles in Iran. In fact, he said the Iranians already had hundreds, not dozens, of the missiles. But there were problems. Iran's current arms broker,

1:00:37 was a suspected Syrian terrorist by the name of Mansar al-Qasr. The French said that they would rather deal with Sarkis. Sarkis was so worried about the approach from Chinese that he risked his relationship with them and with the French by allowing a reporter to sit in on the meetings with the Chinese representative.

1:00:58 Afterwards, he asked the reporter to deliver copies of the missile specifications and other key documents to U.S. naval officers, who was an expert on nonproliferation. The documents were accompanied by a message from Sarkis. I would be willing to get a copy of the C-802 system for the U.S. through the Jordanians. The officer went to his U.S. counterparts.

1:01:20 who told him that only the CIA could authorize this kind of an operation. When the matter was turned over to the CIA, the covert operations officer wanted nothing to do with Sarkis. They were also not happy that a reporter had been used in the communications. But neither excuse told the full story, which was that the CIA did not engage in direct operations. Bullshit. Instead, in this case,

1:01:48 They used one of their front companies, Vector Microwave, to procure copies. The only problem was that the key players in Vector Microwave were under criminal investigation. The head of Vector Microwave fled the country to avoid grand jury. The Navy officials were furious. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had already concluded that sufficient C-802s had been given.

1:02:14 and that Iran's effective naval control of the Persian Gulf was assured, without a sample of the C-802, the Navy could not defend against it. The Navy never did get the sample missiles, and Iran controls the Gulf. Meanwhile, Sarkis' exposure of the, and that's why I say, guys, I'm sorry, I got to interrupt here, but that's why I say the CIA is not an intel entity. It's just not.

1:02:44 Every single time that they could have saved lives, they didn't. They know all of the shit and they've never once actually did anything that a legitimate intelligence agency would do. Instead, they plan assassinations and they plan false flags and they do all this shit and they don't need a front company to do it, although they do use them. But they do all of this shit. They just are not interested in intelligence.

1:03:14 to defend America. Okay. Sarkis' exposure of the French led the Clinton administration to make an overture to the French government on five different occasions about the role of its companies in supplying turbopumps to China. Sarkis began to lose the trust of the French sponsors. His assistant was uncomfortable about informing on him to the French authorities and was fired.

1:03:46 In her place, Sarkis' contact with the French authorities installed a Palestinian woman. Cut off from the French, Sarkis began to look for an alternative source of income. His connections in Jordan urged him to assist the U.S. on arms deals with the head of the Peruvian intelligence, a guy by the name of Vadimero Montanaz, the CIA's man in Lima.

1:04:14 Sarkis agreed to broker Peru's purchase from Jordan with U.S. money of 50,000 AK-47 rifles to be used to fight the quote-unquote rebels in Colombia. They were not rebels. They were people who wanted their country back from the CIA. Sarkis and Monteseros met at a yacht club in Lima in 1999. Monteseros thanked the arms dealer for his role.

1:04:44 A year later, Sarkis was slowly rebuilding his business in Jordan when he came home to the U.S. for Christmas. He was arrested by customs again and charged with bank fraud involving a counterfeit cashier's check on a Southern California bank. Sarkis found himself back in government custody just weeks before the Bush family once again took control of the government, this time Bush Jr.

1:05:15 Sarkis was moved to Los Angeles, where he remained jailed until he was told that the National Security News Service that his Peruvian arms dealer had not gone as planned. The arms had, in fact, been diverted by Monteseros to the FARC rebels. The weapons I sold went to Peruvian government, he said in an interview. None went to anyone in Colombia.

1:05:41 Whatever the Peruvians did with them after I sold them to them is on them. Sarkis's allegations of an elaborate double-cross raised serious questions about U.S. agencies' close ties to spy chiefs. To make matters worse, the CIA was involved in preparing a high-level budget anti-drug package known as Plan Colombia. Sarkis's knowledge of the Peruvian deal made him too controversial for the new Bush administration to want to keep in custody.

1:06:11 Then the opposition newspaper in Peru, the La Republica, carried a story that brought down the government. President Fujimori fled to Japan and Montesineros was eventually incarcerated. At that point, the Justice Department worked out a plea bargain on the bank fraud charges and Sarkis was freed again. Sarkis returned to Jordan, where he conducted less lethal business than he had done in the past.

1:06:41 He continued to assist the FBI and other U.S. agencies on terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation. In 2004, his health worsened and he sought advice on returning home. After Sarkis was assured that he would face no legal hurdles in coming home, his son Garo met him in Paris and escorted him to his house in Miami over protests from the Justice Department officials that he had been working with who met him on his arrival to Miami.

1:07:09 Local Homeland Security officials arrested him again. So the moral of the story is never, ever, ever, ever, never trust the U.S. government on any issue of any kind. Amen. Yeah. All right. So we've got just a couple, like the closing chapter, which we will do.

1:07:43 on Monday. And again, we will not have a show on Tuesday or Wednesday. So, open it up. Did Cousin It ever join us? I know she was in the middle of something at the time, but I think she was planning on coming back. Okay. I just sent her a message. Okay. So, you know how that goes, life? Just like I accidentally, when I repost, when I post the link.

1:08:15 to the stuff that you're talking about, it's right next to, of course, on my tiny little iPhone. There's a tiny little microphone. So if you accidentally hear me saying something to the dog, that's why I'm doing multitask. So just as we were going on the air, she said that there had been a car bomb in Germany at the Christmas market. So I wanted her to come on.

1:08:42 And tell us what she had been able to find. So she was busy working on that. So anybody else have anything else? She said she was here, but I don't know. I don't see her. I'm sure she'll come on. Yeah, that's fine. Let's see. Miles. And Miles, did you want to say something?

1:09:28 Well, I've been busy prepping for this weekend. But, yeah, I just want to tell you that even though I love you, I've accepted this responsibility and burden that now when I do spaces and Gladio comes up, I'm the expert. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not the expert. Colonel Towner is.

1:09:56 And then people say, well, compared to everybody else, you're like an expert. So thanks a lot, Colonel. Sure. Bridget, whatever this one is pending a request right here with a blank circle. If you go to that account, there's nothing there. They're not following anybody. They're not doing anything. And it's got a warning on it. So do whatever you need to do to get rid of that one. Andy, go ahead. I will try. Hey, Colonel Towner. Hi. I'm Bridget. How's everything?

1:10:29 It's great. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I was just listening and it's funny when you were talking about Rumsfeld going out over there and meeting with Saddam and commenting that he's anti-communist and then all that story about the uniforms and they end up...

1:10:53 Not sending it to Made in USA, but they sent it to a communist country at the time, which Ceausescu was a brutal communist leader there in Romania. It's just crazy how consistent they were in their ideas. Yeah, they're not anti-communist at all. That's a code word for fascist. So they're fascist and they're fine with dealing with communists as long as they're making money and not the American people.

1:11:20 Yeah, the irony. Thank you, Andy. I should have said that as well. And thank you for bringing that up. That's why you guys are all here. You're all very, very smart and add so much to this conversation. And yeah, absolutely. Great point.

1:11:40 Taking business that could have enriched Americans over to an actual communist party while they're labeling the guy that's behind all of this shit as an anti-communist. You just don't get any more rich than that. Bridget, go ahead. Oh, go ahead. Did you have a follow up? No, no. The other comment I would have made, you know, like in, you know, how you said they made it with thick wool, which is probably more expensive than other things.

1:12:10 than cotton, I guess. But all that negotiating and time to talk about this deal and they don't really talk about the actual important thing about needing to meet a hot climate. Anyways, it just boggles my mind. Yeah, because they're all in it for a buck and they don't give a shit about their end product. That's absolutely true. Bridget, go ahead. Okay, the little blank bubble was, doesn't it?

1:12:42 I'm really not sure. There she is. Hang on. Let me try again. Something happened because for the first time she came in, she must have had to leave and come back because it's just so to literally blink space. That was not her. It actually said something on the bottom of it when you, well, at least when I went to it and said it was acting weird. Well, no, I'm just teasing. Hang on. Is she coming up?

1:13:20 I threw the mic, but I don't know if she can. Okay. All right. Bradley, did you want to say something? Sure. Go ahead. Yeah, my other account is xgladiotrooper, and I've been having memory dumps for the last two months because of what the CIA was doing to me. Okay. We lost him, Bridget. Yeah, hang on. Maybe he'll come back up.

1:14:24 So anyway. Okay. So she tried to come up, but apparently couldn't. So go ahead and I guess just describe what. Did she give you a reference or anything? I couldn't find anything. So I don't know where she was getting her information from. I'm going to try and find. She said she posted it on her page. So I'm going to try that. Okay. All righty.

1:14:59 While we're waiting on Bridget to find that, I did want to mention that I had lunch today with a fellow retired colonel who was my deputy when I was assigned to U.S. CENTCOM. And she's been a dear friend of mine ever since. So she has agreed to come on a show that we're going to do probably sometime in January.

1:15:29 Um, that will give you a little more insight into a lot of the stuff that we worked on together after, um, 9-11. So, um, that's going to be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to that. So, um, I don't know. Okay. It was a terrorist attack at a Germany Christmas fair. Um, I just stuck it up in the pill.

1:16:04 I am having some technical issues. Okay. Terrorist attack at Magdeburg at Christmas Fair. The driver mowed down people injuring 80, killing at least two. Prime Minister Rainier Hazelhoff said the scene of the suspect, supposedly there is a bomb in the trunk, and he's from, quote, Saudi Arabia. Because why wouldn't he be?

1:16:36 Okay. I assume since the people over there don't have guns that that guy that was holding them was a cop. Yeah, I see all the rest of them there. Okay. So, yeah, she put a cousin. It put the video up for everybody to see. So you guys can do with that whatever you want. You know, basically another.

1:17:05 false flag in order to increase the tension. And I think that, I think there's going to be more of this over the next 30 days. So obviously everyone needs to keep their head on a swivel whenever they're out in public and just make sure that you have situational awareness and keep your eyes open. So anyway.

1:17:38 Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. If we don't have any other questions. Oh, there's Molly. Let's bring Molly up. Go ahead, Molly. Go ahead, Molly. Can you hear me? I can. Oh, goody. Okay. I still feel like I am somewhat ignorant and naive on all of this stuff. So when I respond to a post of yours and I ask a question.

1:18:18 I literally am asking a question. Am I catching on correctly? But you don't answer the question. You just hit the like. Is it relatively safe to assume that 99% of these terrorist acts are not organic in any way, shape, or form, but they are actually being produced by the CIA and NATO?

1:18:48 Okay, so Molly, if you're going to ask me a question like that that's going to require me to type for 30 minutes, I'm just going to hit the like button. I am here five days a week. You can come in here and ask me a question that I can answer in five minutes and not have to type for 30 minutes. So, yes, it is safe to assume that most of the terror attacks, as a matter of fact, every terror attack that we've looked into,

1:19:16 is 100% not organic. That is not to say that 100% of them aren't, but we have looked into quite a few of them, and every single one of them can be traced back to someone associated with intelligence, whether it's our intelligence, the Pakistani intelligence, the KCIA, the German BND, or whatever.

1:19:45 I mean, we're into if you count all of the ones that like Paul Williams and Danielle Gansler, you're well over 100 of mass casualty events, all orchestrated by the government and their intelligence officials. And none of them were organic. They do that. It is below. Oh, I'm sorry. That's OK. They do that as part of the strategy of tension in order to get.

1:20:13 people in their countries fearful and when people are fearful psychologically they can be manipulated they can be um intimidated into agreeing with things like the patriot act and giving up our um rights and stuff like that and that's why they do it but it's like this is blowing my mind daily and my mind is still going oh my gosh how can this be real oh my gosh how can this be real

1:20:45 And it's like happening 10 times a day. So that, welcome to our world. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You know, once you see the patterns, your brain automatically starts picking them up. And that's why they suppress everything that we do, because they don't want you to see the pattern. And that's why the people that do talk about this.

1:21:12 Talk about it in such a generic way that it's impossible for you to see the pattern. Oh, yes. Yes. That really is an important point. Ever since I started listening to you, I try to amplify that thing that you say about correct terms because you are connecting dots on information. And a lot of it is information we have run across for you. Yes. We just didn't know how to connect it. Correct.

1:21:39 So if you go to any of the PSYOP schools or informational warfare classes, the very first thing you're told is to corrupt the language because then people can't communicate. And when they do communicate, it's perceived different ways. And I just talked about this at lunch. So one of the new things that we discovered is how the.

1:22:04 labor unions had been utilized internationally completely different than labor unions here. And so if I was to go internationally and I talk about a labor union, I'm going to talk about it in a frame of reference that I have, which is that they're good, supposedly, right? That they do represent the workers, you know, and they have their whole mantra. Yeah, we got rid of child labor and all this other shit. All right.

1:22:33 So that's our frame of reference for labor unions. But if you live in Chile or Nicaragua or Honduras or Guatemala, that's not your understanding of a labor union. Because if you lived in any of those other countries, the labor unions were giving a slush fund when the National Endowment for Democracy was created in like 1983.

1:22:58 And even before that, they were doing this. They set up a Labor International Academy Institute in Washington, D.C. And basically it was a CIA front.

1:23:11 for the international syndicate. And so what they did in places like Chile, when the labor unions started organizing the workers in the copper mines there of Freeport against Freeport to increase their wages, this labor international thing with our tax dollars deployed down there. And basically they either kill anybody that's an effective labor union or

1:23:40 They orchestrate terror events and blame it on the labor union to jeopardize and disassociate the labor unions. And they label them all communist. And we own most of the media down there as well. The oligarchs do. And so then they print all of this communist bullshit in the newspaper and say all of the labor unions down there, if they're effective at all in getting a decent wage for the workers, they're all communist. And so if you...

1:24:09 If you talk about terms and you talk about, you know, like the frame of reference when you use a particular term, you have to be very cognizant of what that all means. And that's the reason why I could have used all of those terms like a gender press and gray wolf and Gladio and all of the different terms that were used. But they did that on purpose.

1:24:35 in order for someone that lived in Portugal not to know that they were talking about the same organization in Italy that was blowing their citizens up, which the gray wolves in Turkey, that same organization. And then, you know, they call the Azov Battalion in Ukraine. They're all the same thing.

1:24:53 They are all Operation Gladio units. And so one of the very first things that we struggled with is the terminology on how we were going to go about explaining this entire massive network to people to get you to understand. And so the one thing you have to say up front is.

1:25:13 Yes, we generically call it Operation Gladio. Was it called Operation Gladio on every single? No, but everybody knows what Gladio is. And that's why even when I'm referring to Operation Condor in South America, I always refer to it as the cousin of Operation Gladio because everybody knows that knows anything about this. They know what Gladio is. And if I have anything to do about it, everybody's going to know about Gladio and Condor and all the rest of them.

1:25:43 Miles, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel, for educating me. Sure. God bless you. Sure. Come up and ask for a thing. I want you to comment, and I'll like it, but then come up and ask me anyway. Oh, I was just kind of teasing you. I know. I am, too. Miles, go ahead. So, Colonel, when I'm trying to explain to people and educate people on Gladio, don't tell your husband that it's very simple. I go.

1:26:17 Chaos, control, get smart. And when I explain that to them, then you can see in their eyes they're starting to get it. But don't tell him that I'm using that. Why? Because he came up with it. I know. I love it. Didn't he copyright that? No. I'm just kidding. I like actually.

1:26:40 My husband knows that he kind of is the no nonsense Reader's Digest version. I'll give you the long answer, but he does a very good job of kind of cutting to the chase when we're talking to people in public. And it is kind of funny how he puts those things in perspective. So, yeah, we hear you. What the hell?

1:27:11 Yeah. Honest to God. You know what? I'm not so sure it's on my end. I think it's on the Spaces side of things. Maybe. What she's saying is actually what you guys didn't, or we were DMing or texting back and forth. Because she came in and out actually about four or five times. And she would be here and then still be here, actually. I would send her a mic and within split seconds she would, poof, disappear.

1:27:43 But she says, no, I'm still here. But her icon was gone. So, I mean, it's bizarre. I'm a figment of your imagination. She's literally being ghosted. Okay. Yeah, it's kind of cool. All right, Andy, go ahead. Yeah, I was, you know, bringing up that chaos and control. Again, I know you've been naming it the International Syndicate.

1:28:14 And what comes to my mind is, I understand you don't watch too many movies, but John Wick, you know, how they never really do in that film show you who's actually at the top. You see a lot of the top people that, you know, that are, you know, calling shots and John Wick is going around trying to, you know, get revenge for losing his dog or whatever.

1:28:41 Is there anything more you know that in terms of the international syndicate, like where does this go? Like how, you know, I know it's all over, but is it like several groups, you know, Bilderberg and all this stuff, or is it just, yeah, I don't know if you have any inkling on where, how far it goes or where it leads to. So I think there's a general consensus that you have a.

1:29:07 top level and a mid-level. And all of the things, all of the common names that people, that many people believe are the syndicate, like the Soroses and, you know, the Swabs and the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, it appears that that is not the top level. They are a level of the oligarchs that have from, you know, the last,

1:29:37 couple of hundred years, served as the front to a much more consolidated elite of a very small number. And the, I don't think, because again,

1:29:58 The actual ties, other than what we have disclosed that have been researched and connected as far as banking accounts and stuff like that, if you don't have access to investigative tools, you would spend your whole life and you may come up with a single name. And that's the reason why we decided to collectively label them so we could spend our time on.

1:30:26 noticing how the operations happen because they began to happen in patterns that I thought was very important for everybody to understand what they are so you can understand that our government has been corrupted. And to me, that was kind of like the starting point for our mission. Without access to those specific investigative tools, there's no way we can identify who they are.

1:30:55 Do I think like, and that's the reason why I agreed to do that show with Warhamster about the secret societies. Do I believe that they are connected through things like Skull and Bones? Absolutely. But that is not the top level again. If you know their name, then the only one that I think we kind of got a peek into, and that was kind of a weird way, was the Wallenbergs. The Wallenbergs is not a normal...

1:31:23 Rothschild or Rockefeller family they are a much older and I think elevated family that has their fingers in literally everything so I think of that and they have the motto to be without being seen I think there are more of them at that level but

1:31:50 Again, I don't spend a lot of time because I can't do anything about them. I can help everybody recognize how we're being manipulated so we can stop being manipulated. And that's kind of where I decided to spend my time. Yeah, I agree. I think that's very effective because when you alert people and they see those signs and then, you know, like.

1:32:14 Just they're talking about bird flu now and all this stuff and say, do not comply and all this. I think that's very effective as more and more people get to know about that. And in the end, really, I think these people will out themselves, you know, just from desperation as their tricks don't work anymore. Yeah, I agree with that. Sarah, go ahead. Hi, Colonel Lady Space. So I dropped my notebook. Sorry.

1:32:47 So I've seen some posts and I was curious whether the disarm program is part of the Gladio program or are they different? Thank you. Say that again, Sarah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So I've seen some posts. Let me slow down.

1:33:20 Is the disarm program part of the Gladio program or are they separate? Are they two sides of what they're trying to do to us? You mean like taking our guns disarmament? So I guess there's some sort of cognitive.

1:33:58 thing they're trying to do to us. I'm sorry, I don't know what to call it. You mean like a psychological operation? Correct, yes. I guess. Part of the Five Eyes? Sorry, the 5G warfare they're trying to do to us.

1:34:32 Basically, fifth generation warfare is the information and psychological attack or war effort to, and it has many different facets. You know, obviously censorship is one of them. Another one is putting out false information as if it's true and putting out and keeping

1:35:02 true information away from us. And so in that respect, you could say that because Operation Gladio is done as a covert means of control. And so from that perspective, you could put it into that jar. Generally speaking, it's more along the lines, and I'll just give you an example.

1:35:32 When you know that there is a proper term for something, and I'm just going to, my mind's blank right now, but if you knew that something was blue and you kept telling everybody that it's green, although you know it's blue, and pretty soon, because everything else that you tell people is true,

1:36:01 except for that, then some people are going to start believing you in you saying that. And so when you are trying to move people away from the truth, you do it in a very gradual way. And so as not to confront that where you can unequivocally be proven wrong.

1:36:29 They do it in a way in which you almost don't even notice that it's occurred. And probably one of the best examples of that is what I posted about earlier this morning. When Elon Musk reposted that very articulate guy talking about the budget process, or he was actually talking about the CR and what was all in it and all of that stuff. It's on my timeline earlier this morning. It actually ignored to me.

1:37:00 The big issue. Yeah, everything he said about the current situation is true. But the elephant is on over here in the corner and it wasn't even mentioned in this quote unquote articulate video. And that is the fact that the last time Congress actually did their fucking job was in 1996. And I was at the Pentagon. It was my job to do a portion of the budget for the Air Force.

1:37:28 That budget was the last budget ever passed. And their job is every two years to pass a budget. There was an amendment that was done if you needed, in the inside jargon, it was called a POM, a P-O-M, Programming Operational Memorandum.

1:37:54 something to that effect. And you did one, which turned into a budget as it went to the president, and then it went to Congress for approval. The next year, you only did that every two years. The next year, we did what was called an APOM. And the only reason you did that is if you had money in one appropriation, like military pay, and for some reason you didn't need all of that money in that account.

1:38:19 And you needed to request it be moved to like A10s because maybe you had one crash and you need a little bit more money for repairs or whatever. You could then move that money in the alternating year, but you couldn't do any programmatic changes at all. So that process.

1:38:36 Up until 1996, went off with fairly out of hitch. Sometimes it was a little late, but it happened. You know, they closed the government down and got it passed and blah, blah, blah. Well, starting in 96, for the next 10 years until 2006, instead of it being done as an entire package for the entire administration, the defense piece went over. Then the health and human service piece went over. And then the commerce piece went over.

1:39:04 For the next 10 years, they piece milled it. And then after 2006, we've never had another budget. Congress has three fucking jobs. Three. Make laws, control the currency, and pass the budget to fund the government. Right? So 1913, they gave away their job with the currency. In 2006, they stopped doing their job with the budget. And now all they do is pass it.

1:39:34 unconstitutional laws that restrict our freedom and violate the Constitution. And and by the way, then insult us on top of all of that with a pay raise for not doing their fucking job. So I just like went ballistic. I'm like in and a new football stadium. Let's not forget the new football stadium. Oh, and they don't have to have Obamacare either. They get to have their own private health care. But the point is that they're not doing their job.

1:40:03 And the way they got away with not doing their job was an incremental change. And they just keep creeping. So the continuing resolution is a continuing resolution to the last budget they passed in 2006. Now, I also put a chart with that post that said we were $5 trillion in debt doing it the old way. And since 2006 until today, we went from $5 trillion.

1:40:33 to $35-36 trillion. And you know why? Because when you do a budget, you have to find an offset. You actually have to pay for it. So that $5 trillion in debt had to do with the war that we didn't need to fight because of the fucking CIA. And as a result of that, and they had already started the momentum,

1:41:00 They just keep that going and keep increasing the debt on us by not doing their job. So somebody needs to do a video of the actual problem and it has nothing to do with the current CR. It has everything to do with them not doing their job for the last 20 years. Miles, go ahead. Yeah, this is for Andy because of his question. So Andy, do you remember when

1:41:32 The accident in East Palestine happened. Do you remember that? Okay. Yeah, I do. I do. All right. So when we started doing research on that, it goes back to the Pesour family that bought most of the rail lines when they were being built. And they're still in control of the rail lines. So they were looking for cheaper help and hired Chinese people and people that didn't know what they're doing.

1:42:03 I used to have a good friend that was an engineer. But these families, you have to do a lot of deep dives on some of these families because they don't want the spotlight whatsoever. So when the colonel was talking about the takedown of the mafia in Italy, if you look at a lot of these families, they have Italian names and the ones that are important.

1:42:31 They don't want the spotlight on them. If you want to learn more about this, go on to Substack. And this is a good start with the history part of it. It's called Prussiagate. And read Prussiagate, and that'll explain a lot of who these people are, where they came from, and the banking system that we're still under. So I just wanted to point that out. Thanks, Colonel. Sure. Okay.

1:43:04 Oh, Colonel, can I say one more thing? I sent you a DM. You know, I talked to Grok. I think you like that, what Grok put out there. And I think that will change if we wait like three months and ask Grok to do something else. I think the artwork will be different as more data is in there. And I wanted to ask you, like, now.

1:43:29 When you see these bands and you buy their T-shirts, they have the tour cities on the back. Now, would it be over the top to actually on the back of the T-shirt to have all the different countries that were affected by Operation Gladio? Already in the works. Okay. I'm glad I could help with that. Thanks. So, yeah, my daughter is.

1:44:00 Working on that and that was one of the I think that one's going to be number two. We hopefully will have number one done here fairly soon. But we just approved the the logo, if you will. But anyway, we had approved the logo a while back, just getting it into an image that they can use on.

1:44:32 So what was I going to say? Oh, was it Sarah? Is Sarah still up here? Yes. Sarah, were you the one that did the superhero? Nope. That was me. No, no. Somebody DM'd me one. It wasn't you. Was it you? Superhero. I, I can't remember that. Okay. Yeah. Somebody DM'd me one too, Bridget. Oh, honey.

1:45:06 Somebody else was thinking like I was. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they had Grok do it. That's what I did. Yeah. That was pretty funny. It was neat. Yeah. Yeah, somebody else had done that as well. I guess he got it off of the red, white, and blue Camaro that I'm standing in front of, which made it even more funny. He's getting better. I mean, I've been...

1:45:39 And okay, since you brought up Grok, I just want something, I want to mention something real quick, because this was the other day when that bill went through. You know how sometimes you connect dots, because one of the things we are training our brains to do is pick up on patterns and pick up on events that are happening. And when that bill came through, all of a sudden I started putting pieces together.

1:46:09 As I was trying to explain what was going on to my husband. Now, it just so happens that Elon Musk bought the platform that gave us free or attempted. What happened to you, Bridget? Oh, I think they'll be here. Can you hear me? I hear her. I hear you. I can't hear her. I told you it's this space. All right. Hold on. Let me get out. Crazy. Oh, there you're back. I can hear you now. Okay.

1:46:46 Okay. They're messing with the colonel now instead of the listeners. Right. Someone bought a space, bought Twitter, and is attempting to, or it's definitely more free speech than it was. Otherwise, well, doesn't it? Probably most of us would not be here anymore. We'd already have our accounts suspended. But then he went the next step, and they opened up Grog.

1:47:19 And just so happens that just a few weeks ago, he opened Grok up to anyone, not just the premium subscribers. Then he went on to encourage people to use Grok, to get familiar with Grok. And then it wasn't but, what, a week ago when he said, you know, in fact, Grok can actually take complex bills and documents and...

1:47:50 shrink them down into easily bite-sized pieces. When you see that it just so happened, all of this happened right before a 1,500-page bill came out, and one of the first things a lot of people on X did was grab for grots and have it dissect that bill into pieces that we could do what we have never been able to do before, and that is...

1:48:18 look at what was in that within 48 hours and because of that sleep freeze beat anyway it just is truly a diabolical amazing how he i have to say that was orchestrated there is no way that anybody is that lucky okay um yeah i i don't know obviously we have to work within the system

1:48:56 Right. And that's always gone so well for me. I've got a lot of experience at doing it. But that's why you're a colonel. And I'm just the bitchy voice at the other side going, yes, ma'am. So, yeah, that's crazy. All right.

1:49:30 So does anybody else have anything that they want to talk about? Otherwise, we're going to call it a night. I've got some fun stuff on the killers of the Russian general. They've had their day in court. They've actually admitted to everything. They rented a car to broadcast the murder to Ukraine.

1:49:58 So they could be assured of getting paid, of course. They are currently sitting in prison and their court date is in February. I believe they said February 15th, maybe. Oh, and Zelensky wanted to give 500 million rubles or whatever their currency is.

1:50:26 To Slovakia, to have Slovakia vote them into NATO. So I thought that was kind of fun. Oh, a quick update on Turkey. Turkey is actually hollering at Israel now for going into Syria. Okay, a minute. Pot, meat, kettle. So Ukraine is using our money to buy their NATO membership? Okay. Yes. Yep. They sure are. That's, yep.

1:50:57 That's the way I read it. Turkey is mad at Israel for going into Syria as Turkey sits in Syria. Yes. Okay. Yes. Okay. Right? Yeah. Right? Fun. Oh, slimy little bastard. And then he sits there in front of, they have like a G8 or something for the Middle Eastern countries. And there he is, Erdogan, handshaking with the president of Azerbaijan.

1:51:27 who he just sponsored to go, of course, join their little club. You know, it's like, oh, thank you for the pipelines. Yep, we'll be moving right through Syria anytime soon. And yep, they're one big happy family. And he's there with the big, you know, Cheshire grin like nobody knows. But yeah, I thought it was hysterical that how he's now going off about how Syria should be a free country and Israel has no business doing what they're doing.

1:51:56 So I don't know what his game is. I really don't. But I mean, that takes some real brass cojones. Yep. All right. Andy, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to, I know it's not on this topic, but something came up yesterday. There's someone interested in, you know, stuff happening up in Canada.

1:52:22 With Trudeau making a fool of himself, as always, losing the finance minister and everyone calling, we need an election here. But it looks like probably in the new year, things are getting closer. Who knows if it's going to happen, but things are heating up here for that possibly happening in the new year. But one thing a lot of our neighbors to the south are...

1:52:49 You know, starting to get interested because Trudeau is so popular and what, you know, the other opposition and I've seen comments on, you know, the conservative government as Pierre Polyev being, you know, for Canadian patriots. But really, if you really look at who has been backing Canadians, like through the trucker convoy and...

1:53:17 And, you know, other things with all the lockdowns and, you know, sort of vouching for the people. It's a guy called Maxime Bernier, who's, he actually came out of the Conservative Party, but started his own party because of, you know, what happened to him in terms of whatever, you know, like politics isn't always clean. And so he started the People's Party of Canada. So I would say most of,

1:53:46 Canadians that are, you know, awake and patriotic and are backing the PPC, the People's Party of Canada. And although, you know, everybody wants to get rid of Trudeau, it looks like, you know, it's going to happen easily because people are, you know, he's just making himself look worse and worse. So there's a lot of room for the PPC to come and act as a...

1:54:14 you know, to try and keep the conservative government, who will likely win, but to keep them at, you know, in line. And I'm going to be announcing soon that I've been accepted as a candidate for the PPC. So, you know, just to be transparent, you know, but I...

1:54:37 I did support the Conservative, but after things that I've seen and I couldn't really support Pierre, that's why I went to the PPC and just wanted to make that clear to people here. So anyways, thanks. Well, I'm glad you're getting involved because there definitely needs to be some change in Canada. And you kind of serve as our go-to guy in keeping us updated on what's going on there. And I appreciate that.

1:55:07 Thank you for the mic. No problem. Anytime. Carrie? Yeah, so about Turkey. Turkey is basically, I don't know what the term is in the Army or whatever, or the Air Force, but it's like a land bridge in between the East and the West. So it makes sense that he would have to straddle.

1:55:38 uh those but uh i just wanted to say that um uh what's her name the german no the head of europe uh now um the german woman she just went there von der leyen she just went there and um she gave him a bunch of money and he gave her a bunch of demands so um one of his demands is that they

1:56:10 get like a Schengen so they can travel, visa-free travel to Europe. And she gave him a bunch of money. And he always wanted that, what's it called, colonel border? Like a thick border between him and Syria. I don't remember what it's called. A DMZ?

1:56:42 I don't know what that is, Colonel. You're talking. The demilitarized zone where you have like an area that no one can go in. Yeah. And it's kind of a lie because that's just where the Kurds are. So he just wants to. Yes. He wants to displace them. That's correct. I think he'd like to kill them. Well, that's what I mean by displace. Like get rid of them. Not like move them. He just gets rid of them.

1:57:14 Yeah, but if he gets rid of them, who who's his enemy now? So it's one of those catch 22s. Yeah, I'm sure he's not thinking about that. But anyway. All right. So we're out of here. Six o'clock. Thanks, everybody, for being here. We will be back on Monday at four o'clock. I will see you then. Take care. Have a nice weekend, everybody.

Entities here

Iran38 Sarkis Soghanalian33 Adnan Khashoggi25 George H.W. Bush21 James J. Brennan20 Hassan Kamal18 France16 Saddam Hussein13 Ahmed Khaled al-Rawi10 Richard Nixon9 Gerald Bull9 Jordan8 China7 Operation Gladio7 Baghdad7 John Mitchell6 Saudi Royal Family6 Paris6 Henry Gonzalez6 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan5 Mafia5 Peru5 BCCI5 Tony Kharter5 Consultants International5 Romania5 Vadimero Montanaz4 Iran-Iraq War4 Syria4 U.S. Navy4 Susan Tarbee4 Nick Bunick4 Turkey4 Canada4 Herod Keabalian4 Chile4 Daniel J. Murphy4 Osama bin Laden4 Al Qaeda3 Hughes Aircraft Company3

Claims made here

Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to Iran book_quoted ▶ 6:53

“So anyway, 1982, just a year into, well, it's about two years into Reagan's administration, was supervising the culmination of his first big U.S. deal for Iraq. 60 Hughes Defender helicopters, 60 heli…”

James Tully founded Consultants International book_quoted ▶ 8:16

“Brennan, the ex-Marine who had befriended the young Robert McFarlane, was co-founder with the fellow ex-Marine James Tully of a company called Global Consultants International, GCI. Brennan was a toug…”

James J. Brennan founded Consultants International book_quoted ▶ 8:16

Consultants International front_for Richard Nixon book_quoted ▶ 8:43

“After six months, he retired from the Marines and became Nixon's chief of staff. When Brennan and Tully started Global Consultants in the 1970s, they made full use of Nixon's connections. Nixon wrote …”

James J. Brennan paid Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted ▶ 10:36

“He returned to Hughes and told company executives to finish loading the planes, and he began the marathon flight to get the choppers to Iraq. A few months later, Brennan went to Paris, where Sarkis pa…”

Sarkis Soghanalian paid James J. Brennan book_quoted ▶ 10:36

Sarkis Soghanalian recruited Gerald Bull book_quoted ▶ 12:03

“to let the Iraqis get to know him first. Because the Iraqis were having problems modifying their long-range artillery, Sarkis contacted the ballistics expert in the world, the best one, the guy by the…”

Gerald Bull traded_network_to Hassan Kamal book_quoted ▶ 13:06

“I guess that's what you get when you deal with convicted felons. Defense Minister Kerala warned Sarkis that Bull had had several meetings with Hassan Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and enforcer. B…”

James J. Brennan ordered_assassination_of Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted ▶ 13:58

“of losing a war with Iran because it did not have enough conventional artillery to stave off a massive human wave attack, this was unacceptable. Sarkis confronted Bull. I told him that he was playing …”

Sarkis Soghanalian removed_from_power Gerald Bull book_quoted ▶ 14:24

“and removed him from Iraq. Hassan Kamal was furious when he found out, and Sarkis' friend Krala felt the pressure. Meanwhile, Saddam's tailor, the guy that started the whole thing, and go-between, was…”

Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to Afghanistan book_quoted ▶ 16:51

“to allow the Eastern Bloc war materials to transship through Iraq to the anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan. In other words, they were using Iraq as a shipping place. The irony of Saudi Arabi…”

Donald Rumsfeld appointed Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted ▶ 19:10

“Sarkis successfully took a large share of credit for the visit. Rumsfeld was so taken by Saddam's anti-communist stand that he recommended that the Reagan administration make a deeper investment into …”

Consultants International financed_via Romania book_quoted ▶ 23:17

“Sarkis successfully concluded the negotiations and the Iraqis believed by giving this large contract to Americans that the relationship had warmed up. Unfortunately, Mitchell and Brennan had other ide…”

Richard Nixon funded Consultants International book_quoted ▶ 23:47

“Nixon wrote to his old Cold War friend, brutal communist dictator, Nikolai Kusuku, I am pleased to learn that Pan East International and its associates, Colonel John Brennan and Honorable John Mitchel…”

Sarkis Soghanalian laundered_money_for Iran book_quoted ▶ 25:11

“$4.7 billion in U.S. agricultural credits, which according to the House Banking Committee report, U.S. officials allowed Iraq to trade with other countries in exchange for cash to pay for weapons. Wel…”

Sarkis Soghanalian recruited Carlos Cardon book_quoted ▶ 28:19

“By 1988, Sarkis understood that things were changing in Iraq and that he was being sued by Mitchell and Brennan for lost commissions on the uniform deal. Hassan Kamal had begun, with the CIA's coopera…”

Saddam Hussein ordered_assassination_of Ahmed Khaled al-Rawi book_quoted ▶ 30:12

“Apparently, that is exactly what Saddam feared because he finds out that they want Kerala as his replacement. With the war against Iran going well and the U.S. now firmly in his pocket, Saddam gave th…”

Hassan Kamal carried_out_attack Ahmed Khaled al-Rawi book_quoted ▶ 30:12

George H.W. Bush recruited Daniel J. Murphy host_asserted ▶ 31:44

“George Bush had asked Robert Gray to hire Murphy as his chief of staff. Gray did and made him the head. OK, so hold on. Admiral Daniel Murphy is serving as vice president's chief of staff. Now, rememb…”

George H.W. Bush ordered_assassination_of Adnan Khashoggi host_asserted ▶ 37:02

“Sarkis had been tipped off that the U.S. Customs Service was after him. I knew that the CIA's instructions to call certain customs men to approve shipments could be a problem. Tony had warned me, and …”

Henry Gonzalez exposed George H.W. Bush host_asserted ▶ 43:31

“It was a sign to cover up embarrassing and potential illegal activities of everybody in the U.S.-Iraq relationship, except, of course, Sarkis. Gonzalez exposed instances in 1990 and 1991 when the Bush…”

Banco Nacional de Lavoro laundered_money_for Saddam Hussein host_asserted ▶ 44:03

“obstructing a northern district of georgia grand jury in 1990 when it was ready to indict the u.s branch of banca nacional del labaro for its role in laundering the agricultural credits for saddam hus…”

James J. Brennan founded Situationist International host_asserted ▶ 45:21

“In May 1992, Jack Brennan and his colleagues lost their lawsuit against Sarkis over the uniform deal in Iraq. Sarkis told federal authorities that Brennan's connections extended beyond Bush. He reveal…”

Brent Scowcroft founded Situationist International host_asserted ▶ 45:21

Mark Thatcher trafficked Iran host_asserted ▶ 46:20

“Well, he was able, he just refused. While Sarkis was in prison, he was frequently denied prescription medication. This often occurred right after he had given a television interview. In one such inter…”

George H.W. Bush secretly_owned BCCI host_asserted ▶ 52:19

“Over a June 1996 lunch in Paris, which Sarkis witnessed, the soft-spoken French bureaucrat said, quote, we discovered a number of interesting accounts at the Paris branch. One of those accounts had th…”

Saudi Royal Family funded Al Qaeda host_asserted ▶ 56:41

“A decision was made about how to deal with bin Laden and the increasing power of al-Qaeda. The sources of this information are Sarkis, his top aides, and French intelligence. According to the sources …”

Adnan Khashoggi spied_on Osama bin Laden host_asserted ▶ 57:10

“al-Qaeda operations around the world in exchange for bin Laden not to attack Saudi Arabia. The same Islamic groupings that the CIA had encouraged to set up a mosque in the U.S. in order to recruit you…”

China supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:00:09

“Labinal, L-A-B-I-N-A-L. He told Sarkis had made the turbo pumps for the C-802s in Midland, Texas. France and China had entered into a secret partnership to produce hundreds for the missiles in Iran. I…”

France supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:00:09

Carter Administration targeted_for_regime_change France host_asserted ▶ 1:03:14

“to defend America. Okay. Sarkis' exposure of the French led the Clinton administration to make an overture to the French government on five different occasions about the role of its companies in suppl…”

Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to Peru host_asserted ▶ 1:04:14

“Sarkis agreed to broker Peru's purchase from Jordan with U.S. money of 50,000 AK-47 rifles to be used to fight the quote-unquote rebels in Colombia. They were not rebels. They were people who wanted t…”

Vadimero Montanaz supplied_arms_to FARC host_asserted ▶ 1:05:15

“Sarkis was moved to Los Angeles, where he remained jailed until he was told that the National Security News Service that his Peruvian arms dealer had not gone as planned. The arms had, in fact, been d…”

Alberto Fujimori removed_from_power Peru host_asserted ▶ 1:06:11

“Then the opposition newspaper in Peru, the La Republica, carried a story that brought down the government. President Fujimori fled to Japan and Montesineros was eventually incarcerated. At that point,…”

National Endowment for Democracy funded Labor International Academy Institute host_asserted ▶ 1:22:33

“So that's our frame of reference for labor unions. But if you live in Chile or Nicaragua or Honduras or Guatemala, that's not your understanding of a labor union. Because if you lived in any of those …”

Labor International Academy Institute front_for Mafia host_asserted ▶ 1:22:58

“And even before that, they were doing this. They set up a Labor International Academy Institute in Washington, D.C. And basically it was a CIA front.…”

Labor International Academy Institute carried_out_attack Chile host_asserted ▶ 1:23:11

“for the international syndicate. And so what they did in places like Chile, when the labor unions started organizing the workers in the copper mines there of Freeport against Freeport to increase thei…”

Grey Wolves member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:24:53

“They are all Operation Gladio units. And so one of the very first things that we struggled with is the terminology on how we were going to go about explaining this entire massive network to people to …”

Azov Battalion member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:24:53

Wallenberg family member_of Mafia host_asserted ▶ 1:31:23

“Rothschild or Rockefeller family they are a much older and I think elevated family that has their fingers in literally everything so I think of that and they have the motto to be without being seen I …”

Ukraine paid Slovakia host_asserted ▶ 1:49:58

“So they could be assured of getting paid, of course. They are currently sitting in prison and their court date is in February. I believe they said February 15th, maybe. Oh, and Zelensky wanted to give…”

Turkey targeted_for_regime_change Syria host_asserted ▶ 1:50:26

“To Slovakia, to have Slovakia vote them into NATO. So I thought that was kind of fun. Oh, a quick update on Turkey. Turkey is actually hollering at Israel now for going into Syria. Okay, a minute. Pot…”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan funded Azerbaijan host_asserted ▶ 1:51:27

“who he just sponsored to go, of course, join their little club. You know, it's like, oh, thank you for the pipelines. Yep, we'll be moving right through Syria anytime soon. And yep, they're one big ha…”

Ursula von der Leyen paid Recep Tayyip Erdoğan host_asserted ▶ 1:55:38

“uh those but uh i just wanted to say that um uh what's her name the german no the head of europe uh now um the german woman she just went there von der leyen she just went there and um she gave him a …”