The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter

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0:00 Okay, everyone. It is almost Christmas. So. Yay. I know. Merry Christmas Eve Eve. Yes. Merry Christmas Eve Eve. We are going to finish up our Prelude to Terror. And at some point, we will come back. I'm not sure.

0:31 what we will be doing on Thursday and Friday of this week. So we're just going to leave that open for now. Or even what the subject is, whether we're going to start another book or what we're going to do, but. By the way, I'm going to have a house full of family tomorrow. So I will not. Yeah. We're not going to be here tomorrow. We're not doing anything tomorrow or obviously on Christmas. Okay. Thank you. Sure. I'm going to real quick set up our rumble.

1:02 So that's done. So give me just a second while I do that. I do want to talk for just a second before we get into the book so that we're not distracted about a couple of things. So let's get this going. And if everybody could repost the space, that'd be great.

1:54 I'd appreciate it. Yeah. All right. Hold on just one second. Had to run, go grab my glasses. All right. So push the go live button and we are ready to rumble. So the first things first. One of the things that I've tried to drive home is that we cannot afford.

2:50 any longer to have situational ethics. And what do I mean by situational ethics? That means that your ethics and your principles are dependent. They're not etched in stone. They're dependent upon whatever way the wind's blowing today. So we have uncovered the ugly

3:22 history of our country in it taking over, annihilating, murdering, stealing other people's shit. And one of the things that we have all learned, and I'm not talking just about us in our little group. I'm talking about as a country that

3:48 Any time, whether it was Iraq or Afghanistan, everybody says after the fact, oh, my God, that was a mistake. Well, why are those same people when Trump comes up and says, oh, hey, I think we ought to take over the Panama Canal? You know what? I don't care if he's joking. I don't care if he's trolling people. The people who have situational ethics clap like.

4:21 They don't say, hey, I don't think that's a great idea. And if he is trying to troll somebody out there in a foreign policy standpoint, we collectively as Americans should all stand up, even if he's trolling them and go, no, that's not okay. And I saw that Ezra Cohen guy that supposedly liked this smart guy that everybody liked.

4:51 talking about re-invoking the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine is what Operation Condor sat on top of. The Monroe Doctrine says that the United States can go into any Latin America country for whatever reasons for saying, oh my God, I think there's too many Chinese people that live in your country. So you are a security threat. Oh my God, there's too many, oh, communists.

5:20 Oh, your president you just elected is a communist, so we're going to murder him. That was the entire basis of the Monroe Doctrine. So they justified cooing governments, installing dictators, and murdering hundreds of thousands of people in the aftermath based on the Monroe Doctrine. That's not okay. It's not okay then, it's not okay today, and it's not going to be okay tomorrow.

5:50 Because I don't have situational ethics. I have one standard, and I don't want my government murdering people. I don't want my government deciding what other countries do with their resources. I don't want my government, and I sure as hell don't want my children dying on a foreign battlefield for some stinking canal. Sorry, I don't.

6:17 I'll work more hours. I'll pay higher prices if we have to sail around South America. Okay? No more dying. No more Monroe Doctrine. No more Operation Condor. And no more sending our military to a foreign country that is not threatening us. And I'm not talking about an economic threat. I'm talking about a military threat.

6:45 Because if you are a politician and you decided to get into the political ring, then you can use politics and foreign diplomacy. Supposedly, we have a president-elect who prides himself on making deals. Then make a fucking deal. And the deal is not sending military people to confiscate a canal that doesn't belong to you. Sorry. All right. So now I got that off my chest.

7:15 To our book for our last chapter. This one's going to take a little bit of time, but we're going to plow through it. All right. So all of the stuff that we talked about in this book, the last chapter is called the legacy, which is what did all of that crap that we just talked about? All of the weapons trafficking, all of the.

7:46 It's primarily weapons trafficking, but this same apparatus was used for the drug trafficking. The same banks were used, the Iran-Contra, all of that stuff. What was the legacy of basically the private intelligence network that we just talked about for the last several days? The private intelligence network, originally inspired by Paul Helliwell, created...

8:15 in part by Edwin Wilson and taken over by Ted Shackley and his associates became the model for future major covert operations in the U.S. That is a true statement. And by the time George Sr. became president, many of the players had carried the intelligence water for their president. And those same people and their heir apparent would be in place.

8:46 for Bush Jr. for his Iraq and Afghanistan adventures. Meanwhile, the character of the U.S. frontmen were changing. The new operatives came in new forms with new covers, such as think tanks being used instead of foundations or in addition to foundations. The Reagan Revolution had offered new alliances around the world that had come to dominate.

9:16 the U.S. intelligence business. The Ivy League, Wall Street, old boy network had morphed into a high stake private enterprise empire that Edwin Wilson had created and Shackley and Clines had taken over. In 1986, a guy by the name of David Belfield, who also was called Dawad, D-A-W-U-D,

9:47 Salah Hudin, and I'll spell that last name, S-A-L-A-H-U-D-D-I-N, was finding that life in his Tehran, that life in Tehran as a newspaper editor who carried out occasional intelligence missions for many different people was not as satisfying as he thought. Salah Hudin

10:15 began to realize that the murder he had committed for Islam and his subsequent life in the first holy Islamic state had not brought him peace. Quote, Iran was full of corruption and I traveled the world to other places like China, Libya, Malaysia. It was not much different.

10:43 None of this weakened my faith in Islam, just in the politicians who exploited it, he said. So Salahuddin's mentor at the time was the guy that we talked about before, Ramadan, M-A-M-A-D-A-N. And he also had been traveling around the world between Asia and making stops in Arizona, which I thought was very interesting.

11:13 And he also was recruiting Muslim fighters to go to Afghanistan and fight with bin Laden and the Mujahideen that the CIA had set up. Ramadan told Salahuddin that he should join them as well. He warned Salahuddin that the Pakistani, Saudi, and Americans were exploiting Muslim tribesmen by using them as surrogates in the war with the Soviet Union.

11:46 Quote, but he still had hopes that a true Islamic state could be established in Afghanistan. Unquote. The desire for me to go was initiated by reading all of the dispatches coming out of Afghanistan, all of the horror stories and the realization that being there would be humanly and spiritually much more fruitful than being a newspaper editor. And I just want to point out that the fact that he's the newspaper.

12:17 editor in the supposedly Islamic regime of Iran, but he's very friendly with the West and the CIA is a very big hint as to what was going on in Iran. To be accepted in Afghanistan, he hid his American heritage by telling people that he was originally from South Africa. I entered

12:47 Afghanistan as a member of the resistance on December 12, 1986, and except for a period of some two weeks in the January of 87, was there until May of 1988, so about a year and a half. I received no prior military training before crossing the border and did not receive any while there except for occasional fighting, which has a way of bringing home some lessons. It turns out that the education I got

13:18 from the Afghans far exceeded any contribution I made to their cause. Though war is hell, you learn things when facing death. Ironically, Salahuddin, a fugitive from the U.S., was now fighting against the Soviets with the CIA-supported, quote-unquote, freedom fighters. Salahuddin made it clear that Saeed Ramadan had sent him.

13:45 Dr. Ramadan seemed to know every facet of the recruitment scheme and all of the different elements that were recruiting inside of Afghanistan, almost like he was part of the network. The same leadership that promulgated the Safari Club, the Saudi Royals, also strongly funded and supported the Islamic Development Bank, began in 1973, the Islamic Development Bank.

14:14 now had 55 member states with Saudi dominating the entire thing and providing 27% of the bank's funding. Now, keep in mind, this is the year after they set up BCCI. It was set up in 72. And again, keep in mind, you have to have two banks to money launder, a minimum of two banks. As a comparison, Egypt contributed about 10% and Pakistan only...

14:45 contributed 3% of the capital in the Islamic Development Bank. It was through this bank's scientific and economic development efforts that huge amounts of money was funneled into Pakistan and into the hands of A.Q. Khan and his now infamous nuclear bomb building syndicate. The effort that began prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and that President Carter's national security advisor warned

15:14 was a serious effort to build the first Islamic bomb was deliberately ignored by Carter in order to secure Saudi and Pakistani cooperation in Afghanistan. Like almost everything about the Soviet effort, the Reagan administration expanded on it. The CIA directly assisted the Pakistani nuclear effort by allowing Pakistani nationals to procure hardware in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

15:44 And remember, BCCI was funding that. There was nothing more important than propping up a free Afghanistan, which was not free at all. One of the things I did was to try to get the Afghan king, then living in exile in Italy, to come back to Afghanistan, Tom Klein said, which is really weird because they're the ones that overthrew him to begin with. I was trying to do my part in keeping Afghanistan in our column.

16:18 They were already in your column. You are not kidding anybody. Shackley was working with the royal families in the Gulf, and they were all contributing financial support to everybody in Afghanistan fighting. Klein conceded that the off-the-books intelligence operation had melted into an Afghan war effort. We worked for those who were helping the U.S. the most. The Saudis worked very closely with us.

16:48 Clines recalled that the guy by the name of Bernard Houghton, H-O-U-G-H-T-O-N, and where did we find him? We found him as the number three guy at the Nugent Hand Bank. He just so happened to be in Saudi Arabia until it went bankrupt, which if I recall right, it was like in the 90s. Saudi Arabia, let's see, he played a major role in keeping Prince Turkay.

17:19 T-U-R-K-I, and the Saudis' intelligence area up to speed on what was going on. What many people do not know was that the Safari Club had made a deal with Pakistan at the expense of the Afghan people. The Safari Club was run by the Saudis and the U.S. It was us two. Bush was big in the Safari Club. It was a club to serve their purposes through the CIA.

17:49 Shackley and Wilson were not members. Only nations could belong. Shackley and Wilson were men who served the club in exchange for power, influence, and money. Pakistani intelligence would handle all of the money going in to facilitate the proxy war in Afghanistan. That meant that hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. and Saudi were being ran through Pakistan with zero accountability.

18:17 Sounds almost like Ukraine, doesn't it? Unfortunately, Crowley said, the Pakistanis knew exactly where their cut of the money was to go. Where the money went was into the Islamic nuclear weapons program. During the early 1990s, the British customs began looking closely at the U.S. Pakistani nuclear network. One of their top agents was an Arabic-speaking Muslim who traveled the world tracking down a QAnon network.

18:50 The British soon learned that the U.S. had no interest in shutting it down. The Muslim custom agent, whose identity was protected, was actually confronted by Khan in Dubai. The agent had traced a number of Khan's front companies. The agent testified in a trial involving associates of Khan's and the father of the Pakistani bomb, confronted the Muslim customs agency and called him a traitor to Muslim people.

19:19 for uncovering the nuclear, the illicit nuclear network. A top French intelligence official who asked that his name be withheld described the U.S.-Pakistani cover-up of the Han network as having an important precedent, just as the U.S. allowed Israelis to develop the nuclear weapon with technology from France.

19:48 The U.S. had allowed Pakistan to be Saudi Arabia's proxy. So basically, you have the U.S. and the U.K. facilitating two new nuclear powers while at the same time professing to be anti-proliferation of nuclear and spending billions of dollars of our tax money.

20:17 on the efforts to ensure there was not massive proliferations. They are actually secretly arming people behind our backs. Okay, it would almost be safe to conclude that since we're the ones that prompted the Soviet invasion by faking and lying to the Soviets that there was this massive communist presence in Afghanistan, which there were not, and that it was being

20:55 decimated. So the Soviet Union took the bait and came into Afghanistan to rescue the supposed communist. That's the story we're told anyway. Well, that's not the story you're officially told. That's what all of this research has revealed, that it basically was a false flag that baited the Soviets in to give them their Vietnam. And if that's the case,

21:26 Did they do that for the reason of shuffling all of this money, just like the whole thing with baiting the Soviet or the Russians into Ukraine by decimating eastern Donbass after we cued that government? That's like way too many patterns there. So we cued Ukraine. We put stay-behind units all along the Donbass region. We launched attacks into the Donbass region, bait the...

21:57 in, and then we massively money launder into Ukraine, and weapons show up in a whole lot of other places, which exactly mirrors our first Afghanistan. But at that point, we bait the Soviet Union's into Afghanistan, and

22:28 we start funneling billions of money into Pakistan for Afghanistan, which they use to develop a nuclear weapon. So is Ukraine developing something that we need to know about, like the biological weapons? Is that still being done? Were those labs taken out? Is it a weapons laundering operation? Because you see the two of them mirror each other.

22:59 And that's the reason why I found this book to be incredibly important, even though there's a couple of flaws in it. It does point out some very interesting patterns and what was going on inside of the CIA. A senior source in the British government who asked not to be identified confirmed that Khan ran the network and that parts of the nuclear weapons program came from the United States.

23:28 Khan's daughter was attending school in England and was being tutored. And the ends of the facts is dealing with logistics for her education. Khan would sometimes write in his own hand items that he needed for the nuclear program. Pakistani's quest for nuclear weapons had begun from 15 years earlier. Shortly after taking office in 1972, Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto

23:57 expressed his determination to develop a nuclear capacity. His purpose was for two reasons. To offset the inherent threat posed by Pakistan's much larger neighbor, India, and to make his country a leader in the Islamic world. And again, Pakistan is a made-up country, primarily operated by the CIA.

24:29 After India detonated their first atomic weapon along the Pakistani border in 1974, Boutreau pushed his nuclear program into high gear. And it talks a little bit about that. It says that Saudi, Libya, China all had pledged to help. By 1976, when George Bush served as the CIA director, the U.S. intelligence reported.

24:59 and a secret CIA report on Pakistan that Pakistan had engaged in a crash course to produce a nuclear weapon. By 1979, while awaiting execution following his overthrow, Boutros wrote in his memoirs that his goal as prime minister had been to put the Islamic civilization on an equal footing with the Christian and Jewish and Hindu civilizations by creating a full nuclear capability for the Islamic world.

25:27 The man who overthrew Boutros was a guy by the name of General Mohammed Zia Haq. He carried on that effort, and in April 1979, when President Zia refused to halt work on the Islamic bomb, Jimmy Carter cut off all economic aid to Pakistan. Just eight months later, however, following the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan, Carter struck the ultimate...

25:55 bargain in order to win Zia's approval for using Pakistan as a base of operations for the Mujahideen. So it's almost as if when Carter cut them off, did they stage the Afghan false flag for the Soviet Union as a reason to turn back on the flow of money and equipment to the Afghans? Questions, questions, questions. Zia's future

26:28 further improved following the 1980 election of Reagan and his former correspondent, Bush Sr. With the covert U.S. war in Afghanistan, the Pakistani dictator gained significant advantage and used it.

26:46 In the winning large economic and military aid packages for his country, he extracted a promise from the Reagan-Bush administration that there would be no U.S. interference in Pakistan's internal affairs. That meant no complaints when Zia became a dictator and began killing people or any further work on the nuclear weapon. In 1983, a secret State Department memo revealed that there was an

27:16 Unambiguous evidence that Pakistan was actively pursuing nuclear weapons and that China was providing help for them. At this time, the U.S. law prohibited any assistance going to countries seeking nuclear weapons. The Reagan-Bush administration just ignored it. They argued that cutting off aid to Pakistan would harm U.S. natural interest. Really? Isn't that bizarre?

27:44 So it's in U.S. natural interest to have another nuclear country as an Islamic country. In 1980, Congressman Charlie Wilson, the former Ed Wilson associate, was acting in concert with the CIA, repeatedly blocking congressional efforts to halt American funding going into Pakistan and supporting their nuclear weapon.

28:15 research and creation. Wilson went so far as to tell Zia, Mr. President, as far as I'm concerned, you can make all the bombs you want, unquote. Zia privately assured the congressman that Pakistan's nuclear weapon program was for peaceful reasons only and that they would never buy or build a delivery system. Zia was worshipped by the Mujahideen.

28:45 In Afghanistan, his ISI, which is their intelligence guys, were taking what the Afghan figured was a 60% cut on all money that was sent to Pakistan, stayed in Pakistan, never made it to the Afghanistan fighters from the CIA. So the CIA was paying Pakistan to create a nuclear weapon. This allowed them to create training camps.

29:16 Harbor, Afghanistan, refugees, blah, blah, blah. The Iranians did nothing that the CIA could establish that resembled anything like what was going on in Pakistan at that time. Zia continued to deceive the U.S. about his nuclear weapons ambition, only the delivery part. But they knew that that was a lie. Come on.

29:47 In the end of 1980, he flatly told the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Vernon Walters, who, by the way, is CIA too, that Pakistan was not building a bomb, which they knew they were because they were providing the equipment for it. When the senior State Department official later confronted him about the misrepresentation, Zia told them it was permissible to lie in Islam.

30:14 By 1985, the Saudi family had succeeded in drawing the U.S. into the Islamic internal wars. Over the years, the Wahhabi sect, a radical form of Western Islam, had increasingly caused the high-living royal family political problems at home. To deal with this, the royal family gave the Wahhabi leaders free reign and paid lip service to their diatribe against the West in Israel.

30:43 But after the fall of the peacock throne in Iran, religious divisions surfaced within the royal family, contributing to a divided Saudi foreign policy. On one hand, the Saudis supported a secular Saddam Hussein against Iran. And with the other, they dispatched Osama bin Laden and other members of the Saudi intel network to the most radical Islamic elements fighting to secure control of Afghanistan.

31:12 The anti-communist Reagan-Bush policymakers focused only on the goal of weakening the Soviet Union at all cost. This effort by the Saudi Reagan-Casey Bush to destabilize the Soviet Union through the war in Afghanistan carried a huge price. A number of Afghan lives were lost. Hundreds of millions of dollars, turns out billions, hundreds of billions of dollars were wasted.

31:41 The same BCCI bank accounts being used to fund the Afghan resistance were also being used to fund the Pakistani nuclear bomb program. And that was identified in a Senate report during the investigation into BCCI. The Reagan-Bush policy violated both American law and international nonproliferation treaties. But this type of violation was not unprecedented. The U.S. allowed covert aid to Israel.

32:12 to help their nuclear program as well in the 1950s and 60s. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson had given James Angleton permission to assist Israel in further developing its nuclear program. Now, the Reagan administration was leveling the playing field with the Saudis and Pakistan, allowing Pakistan to develop a weapon but not deploy it.

32:40 like a workable compromise the Saudis had argued to the Reagan administration. A memorandum from Brzezinski to President Carter suggested how the Soviet Union could be trapped in Afghanistan. It warned that the price of luring the Soviets into Afghanistan, told you, might include abandoning efforts to stop

33:09 nuclear proliferation in Pakistan. It was the whole purpose. Just six years later, the Reagan Bush team played a huge role in making that happen. In the mid-1980s, so much money was flowing into Pakistan and its intelligence function via the CIA that it did not have a handle on what it was all being used for. A guy by the name of Melvin Goodman.

33:40 a former CIA analyst in the Soviet Union, said they were funding the wrong Islamic groups. And he's also quoted as saying, and had little idea where the money was going or how it was being spent. Sarkis, who profited from providing arms to this secret aid program, put it more bluntly, quote, as in Iraq, the U.S. did not want to get his hands dirty, so the Saudis' money and the U.S. money was handled by the ISI.

34:09 in Pakistan. I can tell you that more than three quarters of the money was skimmed off the top. What went to buy weapons for the Afghan fighters was peanuts, unquote. And keep in mind, they also were using that money to buy hand-me-down Soviet weapons. According to Sarkis, the funds were first laundered through BCCI accounts before they were distributed to the ISI. And then they went back into

34:40 the BCCI, into accounts ran by AQ Khan. Khan's network was controlled by the Saudis. The Saudis were in on every major deal with Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Malaysia. After two decades of silence on Pakistani nuclear proliferation network, the CIA went public in 2004, taking credit for uncovering the network.

35:09 that the MFers created. So they look like the hero of uncovering intelligence when they've been facilitating it the entire time. AQ Khan's bizarre confession, apology, and subsequent pardon. There was never any real authorization for these activities by the government, Khan said. I take full responsibility for my actions.

35:39 The CIA claimed that it had successfully exposed the nuclear efforts that they, in fact, were responsible for. The truth of how much the CIA and private intel networks knew in the 80s and what was the actual role is suggested by a pair of criminal cases, one in London and one in Houston.

36:03 In each case, the defendant received a very kind treatment from authorities who allowed the Nuclear Proliferation Network to continue operating. In 1984, a federal agent arrested Nazar Ahmad Vaid. His first name is N-A-Z-I-R. He was a 33-year-old Pakistani who attempted to smuggle out of Houston.

36:30 50 high-speed electronic switches used to trigger nuclear bombs. At the time of the arrest, U.S. Customs agents seized several letters directly linking him to S.A. Butt, B-U-T-T, the director of Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission. Butt was already well known to U.S. and European arms control officials as the key operative in Pakistan's successful attempt in Europe.

36:58 in the 1970s to obtain technology and resources for the enrichment of uranium and reprocessing of plutonium. Vaid reportedly offered to pay for the switches in gold later determined to have been supplied by BCCI. U.S. federal officials, however, never informed the prosecutors that the letters connected to Vaid, the Pakistani bomb program. Instead,

37:28 A very special deal got worked out. I bet. Bayid ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of illegal attempting to export the switches known as Krytron. Krytron. K-R-Y-T-R-O-N-S. Without a license. U.S. District Judge James DeAndra, D-E-A-N-D-A, sentenced Bayid to five years.

37:58 probation. At Vahid's sentencing, both the judge and the prosecutor agreed that Vahid was not a foreign agent. Deandra described him as a businessman, trying to expedite what he thought was a business deal. Just three weeks later, Biad was deported. According to the reporter Seymour Hirsch, Arnold Raphael, who served as a U.S. ambassador to Pakistan,

38:30 later revealed that there had been a fix on the Viad case and that the CIA had arranged to handle all of it. Because his conviction in deportation, Viad was prohibited from ever returning to the U.S. His name appears on a U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Custom Enforcement, ICE, database as banned individuals. Nonetheless, according to ICE spokesman,

38:58 Viyad has entered the country more than half a dozen times during the past several years by simply dropping his last name and becoming Nasser Ahmed. Viyad fraudulently obtained multiple visas from the ambassador's office in Pakistan to re-enter the U.S. on multiple times.

39:29 September 11, 2001, Bayid had established in Texas a string of companies with foreign affiliations. Three in particular stand out. On July 22, 2002, Bayid used his name, Nasser Ahmed, and his brothers, Mohamed, I must spell it, I-Q-B-A-L, Bayid, incorporated a company called Najud Trading.

39:58 N-A-J-O-O-D Trading, Inc. And another one, Idafa Investment, Inc. The sole shareholder in Najood's is a company of the same name based in Dubai, UAE, which is where the guy who did all of the money behind BCCI is, too. The Emirates

40:27 are known to have been used in transshipments in the Khan Network for all of the nuclear paraphernalia. The Dubai company identifies itself as being engaged in, among other things, building service material trading, construction material, roofing material, and accessories. The directors of the Texas company are Nazir Ahmed,

40:58 and Ahmed Ali, whose addresses are the same as that of the Dubai parent company. The sole shareholder in Edipa Investments is an Islamic investment firm of the same name in Mumbai, India. The website for the parent company identifies it as a broad-based investment advisory and management firm that operates Quranic principles.

41:29 The founder of the Indian company is listed as Asra Abdul Haq, H-A-Q. One of the directors of the Texas company is Asra Abdulik Mohammadi. The others are Muhammad Asri. All of it is the same name, just spelled weird ways. The Indian company website provides a link to Islamic Quest,

42:03 an organization established to present the correct position of Islam to non-Islamic people. The contact person for Islamic Quest is listed as the same guy. Mohamed Vaid signed the incorporation papers for both companies on the same day, July 19, 2002, and before the same notary. On the same day and before the same notary,

42:33 Nasr Ahmed signed the incorporation papers for yet another company. This company was called MEC, all capital letters, Enterprises USA Inc. The signature above those words are Nasr Ahmed, and it simply reads V.A.T., V.A.I.D. The sole shareholder of MEC Engineering Works of Basalabad, Pakistan.

43:03 MEC Engineering is a metal machining and manufacturing company. Its many functions, as listed on the website, is tanks, vessels, and shells, like armament shells. It also has a pharmaceutical machinery and equipment. It also deals in wastewater treatment. Sounds awful nuclear to me. Pipeline construction. And the owners of MEC Engineering.

43:33 are Abdullah Kwavi Qureshi and Abdul Majid Qureshi. The directors of the Texas subsidiary, MEC Enterprises, is the Nazir Ahmed guy. As recently revealed, Khan's middleman, BSA Tahir, T-A-H-I-R, helped establish a subsidiary in Malaysia.

44:05 that dealt with metal machining, which you would need for high-speed centrifuges to enrich uranium. The parts were transhipped to Dubai as a front company and to end users like Libya, but all made their way to Pakistan. The first known U.S. company that the Biads set up following Nasser's deportation

44:31 was a company called F-I-N-A-T-R-A, Finatra Communications. That company was incorporated by a third person in Houston. In 1996, the shareholders was Mohamed Viyad and Nasser Ahmed. Both were listed as residents of Houston. In 1999, the Viyads changed the name of the company to

45:00 Finatra Group of Companies. Nasser Viyad also operates a branch of Finatra in Pakistan. In 1997, in a magazine, it referred to Viyad as the chief executive for Viyad Cyber Cafe in Karachi, which reported its first establishment in Pakistan. The parent of the cyber cafe is the Finatra Group of Companies. It is based in Karachi.

45:30 Finatra group controls several businesses, including web hosting and energy generation companies, cell phones, rental agencies, prepaid calling cards, blah, blah, blah. So basically, all of these businesses could be useful in intelligence services or terrorist networks.

45:55 In 2004, the U.S. Customs was planning to detain Viad on his next trip to the U.S. after being warned by a reporter that Viad was traveling frequently between the two countries. In 2004, a U.S. Customs agent told Viad's son that there would be a detention order put out on his father, so they warned him. According to the ICE spokesman, Viad's last left the U.S. on

46:24 November 1st, 2002. More than one CIA source said that Viyad is a CIA asset and was doing all of this to ensure all of those front companies, it was later rumored, were CIA front companies in order to help Pakistan acquire all of the nuclear material that they needed. George W. Bush administration expressed a shock in the fact that the

46:53 Pakistan declared they had a bomb. And it was the same Bush administration that just two weeks after the terrorist attack on September 11th, 19, 2011, September 11th, 2001, lifted the sanctions that had been imposed by the Clinton administration on Pakistan because of their nuclear weapons activity. Bush change was to win.

47:24 Islamabad's assistance in the new Afghan war, this time called the war on terrorism. This is also the same administration that publicly at least accepted A.Q. Khan's absurd confession that he was responsible personally and it had nothing to do with the Pakistani government because it was a dictator, you see, and he could actually do the entire nuclear program under the dictator and the dictator never know.

47:52 So it was just him that did that because the dictator had nothing to do with it. Even though it dealt with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, that poor Khan guy was able to do all of that with the dictator, never able to find out. Said no one ever. The fact that the U.S. had protected the Islamic bomb program also emerged in the Edwin Wilson's case.

48:22 During the time Wilson was a fugitive, the former CIA front man sent the Reagan administration and the CIA detailed information of the Libyan nuclear program. The memorandum went from Wilson in Libya through his attorneys to Ted Shackley, who was trying to set him up, and the National Security Advisor. Well, Wilson also later said that he never asked or questioned about what he learned.

48:49 And he was never asked anything about it during his trial about the Libyan nuclear program. On August 17th, 1988, not long after the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphael, R-A-P-H-E-L, revealed the CIA's intervention in the 1985 Vyad case to Seymour Hersh, the ambassador attended a demonstration of the new

49:15 American Abram tank as part of a group led by President Zia. The Abrams demonstration was not successful. The tank missed its target 10 out of 10 times. After lunch, Zia prayed to Mecca and then boarded his plane called Pakistan 1. It happened to be an American produced C-130B model Hercules transport. Seated next to him on the flight back to Islamabad was General

49:45 Tatar Abdur Rahman, who was head of their intelligence, who had worked exclusively with the CIA and knew all of the CIA's secrets in Pakistan. He was the second most powerful man in Pakistan, other than Zia. Zia and Rahman basically ran everything in Pakistan. They dealt exclusively with the CIA.

50:15 Money laundered all of their money, took their 50 to 60 percent, depending on who you talk to. They were the guy. Ambassador Raphael and the U.S. General Herbert Wassam, W-A-S-S-O-M, who ran the huge military aid Pakistan, was also on the plane. So they knew all of the dirty secrets as well. Ten minutes after taking off.

50:48 The plane exploded in midair. Everyone aboard died. The main suspect in arranging the disaster was, of course, blamed on Boutros, which B-H-U-T-T-O, which was a family member of the former prime minister that was overthrown when Zia was installed as the dictator.

51:20 He was also the son of the former prime minister. Another suspect was, of course, someone from the Soviet Union, which nobody believes. Everyone that was in theater believed that that plane exploding was the CIA getting rid of all of the people that had evidence of them basically creating the Pakistani nuclear program.

51:51 In 1989, an article by Edward J. Epstein offered a disturbing argument that the U.S. was not unhappy to see Zia go and had no great interest in finding out who was responsible. The plane crash took place not long after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Reagan administration, although it had done nothing to shut down Pakistan's nuclear effort, was uneasy about how Zia

52:19 was going to use it. The U.S. felt that they had less and less control over Zia since he had actually achieved the nuclear program. Imagine that. So, in other words, he had to go. And they had to get someone in that they could control. So it just so happens that the U.S. could foresee an alternative to Zia's dictatorship, because remember I told you, they always have the next guy in line.

52:49 So they killed him off and an elected, quote unquote elected, Harvard educated Benazir Boutro was basically given the nod. The new American ambassador, Robert Oakley, was sent since they had to assassinate the former guy. How'd you like to take that job? So supposedly they made the job of.

53:21 or made the decision on all of the next people coming in before the plane crash was even dealt with. So it goes on. I'm going to kind of skim over the rest of this, but that kind of gives you the gist of what was going on. In 1994, concrete proof emerged of Saudi's backing of the Islamic bomb. That year, a senior...

53:50 Saudi diplomat Mohammed Khaloui defected to the U.S., bringing with him documents showing that Riyadh had been financing the Pakistani bomb program in the 70s through BCCI. Also, in the fall of 2003, little-noticed news accounts reported a secret agreement whereby Saudi Arabia would provide Pakistan with cheap oil in exchange for nuclear weapons technology.

54:18 By one account, the deal called for Pakistan to base nuclear weapons on Saudi soil. The Saudis reportedly sought the weapons as a hedge against the growing threat from Iran. In other words, to defend against an Iranian threat based on Pakistani technology that both Riyadh and Tehran had helped bankroll. The Saudis sought their own nuclear deterrent based on that same technology. Crazy.

54:49 Crazy, crazy. So after September 11th, the U.S. and Britain found themselves in need of Pakistani assistance in the war on terror. So in October 2001, there was a guy by the name of S-I-D-D-I-Q-U-I who had been actually convicted.

55:24 in a U.S. court. And they suddenly changed his sentence to suspend his sentence. And basically, they came up with the story that he didn't know anything about his involvement in the nuclear program, that he had basically been fooled by Khan and didn't realize what he was doing. Again, not even believable. And then...

55:54 It goes on to say it was bin Laden's idea to move some of the charitable operations to the territory of the next target in the war, the United States, for bin Laden, whose late father and older brother had been close to the Bush family in the events of 1991, would change everything. George Bush's biggest contribution to the private intelligence network was his ability to appeal to people who could finance efforts. Among those were the high-flying Texas businessmen, bankers, and developers.

56:24 The new partners in the crimes of patriots, as the New York Journal reporter Jonathan Quintney called it, included both Republicans and Democrats. It goes on to say that the banking scandals that happened in the United States were largely thought of as a way to money launder.

56:57 You have to understand that those banking scandals that happen like the savings and loan and all of that at the end of the 80s. Basically, what we have found out is that a lot of these people with these faint businesses were put on the boards of all of the local savings and loans. And then they would have an overlaying network and stay between Houston, Dallas and maybe San Antonio. And I'm just making this up.

57:29 but this is how they did it. You would have Texas businessmen that five of them would sit on the board of the Houston one, five different ones would sit on the board of Dallas and five different ones. So there's a total of 15 of them. Then the Houston bank would make massive millions, tens of millions of dollars of unsecured loans to the directors of the other savings and loans.

57:58 And then the Dallas Savings and Loan would make unsecured loans to the directors of the other two. And then San Antonio did the same thing. And so basically, they milked all of the money out of the savings and loans in non-secured loans. Now, all of the money, all of the assets in these banks were gone. So the banks are going to file bankruptcy. They're going to go out of business. It's going to devastate all of the normal people who had their money in it. But those guys all...

58:28 had now money that was put into this covert network to do things for the CIA. And most of those people involved were acting as agents of the CIA, fleecing the American people out of their money. So that all happened in the 80s. And it says,

58:54 The Reagan administration delayed the bailout until after Bush was elected in 1988. This raised the cost of the bailout from $20 billion to $1.4 trillion. So we not only got our personal savings stolen, they took $1.4 trillion of our taxes and bailed themselves out.

59:22 So the banking scandals were not limited to the U.S. In Jordan in the early 80s, a wealthy American educated expat Iraqi had gone into banking business with the permission of King Hussein's brother, Crown Prince Hassan. Ahmed Chalabi, C-H-A-L-A-B-I, operated Petra Bank, P-E-T-R-A.

59:46 which moved large amounts of money into secret networks and did business with both Israel and Iran. Like BCCI and the savings and loan fraud, the Petra Bank would collapse several years later. It's just like Nugent Hand. I looked at it briefly. Chalabi would get help from members of the Jordanian royal family in escaping a 22-year jail sentence for 31 counts of fraud and theft.

1:00:16 for participating in the banking scandal that nearly bankrupted the entire royal family of Jordan. The collapse of PetroBank was the canary in the coal mine. It should have been a warning to the entire house of cards underpinning BCCI. But as of the mid-80s, the Secret Intelligence Network was steadily expanding its partnership with Saudi Arabia, linking Kamal Adom, who was their chief of intel,

1:00:46 BCCI with their domestic institutions. The clearest example was the effort of Robert Altman and Clark Clifford, who you guys who've watched our series on the BCCI Bank with Warhamster, and I will remember those names, to help Kamal Adem take over First American Bank in Washington, D.C. But smaller operations was also underway. In February of 85, Carl Chanel.

1:01:11 A fire-breathing conservative fundraiser opened an account at Palmer National Bank in Washington, D.C. for a 501c3 foundation called the National Endowment for Preservation of Liberty. Chanel then went to wealthy Republicans and raised money to buy weapons for the Contras in order to get around the Boland Amendment. Oilman William

1:01:38 a friend of Vice President Bush's from Midland, Texas, sent a check for $21,000 to Gulf and Caribbean Foundation, another pro-Contra entity that had an account at Palmer. The common traits in these institutions were their attempt to buy favor by moving intelligence funding and by loaning money to politicians.

1:02:02 Palmer made loans to the political action committees of many GOP luminaries like Robert Dahl, Jack Kemp. They also made $400,000 loans to some of them. The Bush network was also prospered from the relationship with Saudi Arabia. The Saudi royal family perfected the process of taking care of family members of American politicians. Prince Bandar

1:02:29 was the young new Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C. in 83. He and his family had known the Bushes for years. And as an ambassador was seemingly bottomless expense account, he did a lot with the Safari Club. The oil boom in the 70s and the massive amounts of cash going into the family Gulf Royals made Arabs a familiar sight at all of the best hotels.

1:02:58 in both Washington, D.C. and Texas. Houston became the epicenter of this relationship. Sons of two of the most important families in Saudi, Salam bin Laden and Khalid bin Mahfouz, M-A-H-F-O-U-Z, came to Texas to do business. In 1979, James R. Bath, B-A-T-H,

1:03:29 I've read about him in so many books, was much more than a well-connected Houston dealmaker. When he invested $25,000 in George H.W.'s oil company, Arbusto Energy, in 1980, Bath, who had known the younger Bush since the two of them served together in the Texas National Guard in the early 1970s, pumped another. Y'all even. Bye.

1:03:57 Bye, baby. I love you. Bye-bye, baby. Grandbaby's leaving. With almost no success in the oil fields. By that time, James Bath made his investment in Arbusto. Two things about the younger Bush had become clear. He had a serious substance abuse, according to the CIA agents, and he had trouble remembering who had invested in his deals.

1:04:28 while he eventually acknowledged to having a drinking problem. Bush never did get business relationships profitable. When asked about the investments by Bath, Bush initially denied even having any deals with them, which was weird since they were in the Air National Guard together and had known each other for decades. There had been some speculation that Bath's investment in our...

1:04:56 Brusco were made on behalf of Salam bin Laden and Khalid bin Mufsad. And actually, that's more than proven. In the book that I initially did on my sub stack called House of Saad, House of Bush, Bath is one of the primary people in

1:05:22 He's the pivot point between those two families. Bath had a business in Houston where he took planes that had been decommissioned from particular airlines and transformed them into multi-million dollar luxury jets for the Islamic jet-setting Gulf rich people.

1:05:51 He did that and made millions and millions of dollars. That was kind of his big thing, in addition to being a CIA asset. And so there's a lot more detail between those people. For example, it says, besides those two people, Bath had ties of many other wealthy and powerful people.

1:06:20 He got started in the real estate business in 73 by forming a partnership with Lan L-A-N Benson, who was Lloyd Benson's son. In 1978, Bath became a shareholder and director of Main Bank Houston. Other investors in Main Bank were John Conley, BCCI frontman Galeth Paran, and Khalid Bid Mufsad.

1:06:49 Bach had acknowledged being slightly acquainted with Bush Sr. And according to Craig Unger, it was Bush Jr. that introduced Bach to his father. And Bach was a longtime associate of James Baker. So they all knew each other. Yeah, so here's the price of one of those jets. $10 million was leased to...

1:07:19 A Dubai National Oil Company, one of the ones that BAC did up real fancy, $10 million. And he didn't buy it. It was leased for $10 million. That one was controlled by the UAE. And keep in mind, the UAE is the one that was providing money to BCCI and basically controlling it.

1:07:44 And the same guy in the UAE that was the owner of BCCI, basically because he financially supported it, was the one that controlled that oil company that leased the plane from Bath. So it's just one big cesspool of these people in bed with each other. It also says that while...

1:08:11 Let's see. There was also claim that Bath was a front guy for the CIA business operations. A confidential CIA source confirms that Bath has had a long history with the CIA, including employment with Summit Aviation, a firm owned by the DuPont family that did extensive contract work with the CIA. According to a CIA official, quote, Bath had been involved with the agency front companies for years, unquote.

1:08:41 Again, this is coming from CIA people. Bath originally denied White's assertion, saying that he was not a part of the CIA. He told Time Magazine in 1991. He later offered a much different response, saying there's all sorts of degrees of civilian participation with the CIA. It runs a whole spectrum of companies, maybe passing on relevant data. And so he's basically...

1:09:09 after the fact, hedging his bet because he knows that he definitely was. Bass connections also extended to the Israelis and directly into private intelligence networks. He had a long relationship with Al Swimmer, S-D-H-W-I-M-M-E-R, an American-born arms dealer and close aide and associate of Shimon Peres's. Peres is credited with building

1:09:38 Israel's defense industries, the huge government-controlled defense entity. That's actually the name of it, Defense Industries. That's the name of a company. Shimon was absolutely necessary to arms deals with Iran, Sarkis was quoted as saying. That's why he played a major role in the tow anti-tank missile deal between the U.S., Israel, and Iran.

1:10:06 While his father was vice president, George W. Bush developed a direct connection to the Saudis. In 86, the Dallas-based Harkin Oil and Gas, later called Harkin Energy, stepped in to rescue Bush's failing oil company. Bush received a $600,000 payment in the deal. He also had a seat on the Harkin's board in a consulting contract worth $50,000 to $120,000 a year.

1:10:38 Among, that's a payoff. Harkin's investors was George Soros and Alan Cuasa, Q-U-A-S-H-A, son of William Howard Cuasa, a Filipino attorney who had direct ties to Nugent Hand Bank. That's what I'm telling you. They were paying off Bush way back when. Bush Jr.

1:11:07 In 1988, a Saudi business mogul, Abdullah Taha Baish, purchased an 11% stake in Harkin through the Netherlands Antilles Shell Company called TRACO, T-R-A-C-O, International. Shortly after Baish's investment, Harkin landed a lucrative deal with a tiny Persian Gulf emirate of Bahrain.

1:11:40 The deal gave Harkin exclusive exploration, development, and production, transportation, and marketing rights to almost all of Bahrain's oil and gas reserves. It was a major coup for a very unprofitable, unknown company. The territory covered by the pact lies sandwiched between the world's largest oil field off the shore of Saudi and one of the largest gas fields off the shore of Qatar.

1:12:09 At the time the deal was announced, the oil industry analysis marveled at how this virtually anonymous, unknown company with no previous international drilling at all could have landed a contract like that. It has since been reported that Sheikh Khalifa, the prime minister of Bahrain and the brother of the emir, played a key role in selecting Harkin for the job. Khalifa.

1:12:38 was a shareholder in BCCI, and BCCI frontman Khalid Faryon was a close business associate of Bakra's as well. Unfortunately for the young Bush, Harkin was unable to strike oil off the coast of Bahrain. Bakish also had close ties to Khalid bin Musab.

1:13:11 After returning to Saudi Arabia in the 70s, he became head of the largest, he's basically the guy that owned the federal bank there, or he didn't own it, he was in charge of it. So he was a very, very rich man. He also set up his own foundation with a $20 million endowment.

1:13:41 board of directors of many different boards in a 1996 CIA report on Islamic NGO connections and terrorism. It said that his foundation helped fund Egyptian Mujahideen battalions in Bosnia, according to foreign government sources. And those are the ones that basically was used by the CIA to create the problem in Bosnia that would created that air war that NATO used to break up.

1:14:12 Yugoslavia, all connected. In October 2001, the U.S. Treasury Department branded one of the Saudi businessmen named Yassin Qadi, K-A-D-I, as a global terrorist and froze all of his assets. In announcing the designation, Treasury specifically cited Qadi's role as head of the Islamic Charity Foundation that

1:14:40 the guy that was involved in BCCI and everything else, but they conveniently forgot that their guy was also the creator of that foundation. So they obviously just wanted to get one guy and not the guy. So by 1989, the new Bush administration, and again, this is Bush senior.

1:15:08 was settling in, events outpaced the intelligence community's ability to deal with them, and the victory in Afghanistan came just before the complete and total collapse of the Soviet Union, blah, blah, blah. The CIA had failed in its most important mission, which supposedly was to keep intel on the Soviet Union, and yet they didn't know that it was going to fail, weirdly enough, because they're not an intelligence agency.

1:15:36 The same actually happened with the peacock throne in Iran with the Shah. They obviously didn't foresee that as well. It says CIA officials were blind to all of the Saudi benefactors and everything that they were doing, which is basically how they missed all of their quote unquote intelligence thing is because they were actually in bed with them, helping them create them and not.

1:16:07 looking for intelligence, they were actually creating the intelligence that led to the disasters. Among other problems with using a private intelligence network is the benefits of counterintelligence is not available. And if your private network is essentially funded by other countries, you are flouting with basic tenets of intelligence in that you trust no one.

1:16:32 including your allies the purpose of counterintelligence is to test the veracity of your sources but if you're actually getting them from the sources then you can't test them and that according to these guys is kind of what their big takeaway in this book is is that outsourcing but

1:16:55 To me, the flaw in that logic is that you actually think they're doing intel and they were never doing intel. They were actually doing covert operations. And I think that's kind of one of the limb facts in this book is these three CIA officials never actually acknowledge. And maybe, I don't know, maybe they didn't get it. Maybe they think that the covert.

1:17:24 actions was a byproduct instead of it actually being the product because we definitely know it was the product and there wasn't any missing of any of it um so one last point because this was kind of a reoccurring theme through the whole book when george bush became president in 1989 he did not make ted shackley

1:17:50 the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, who had gone from the FBI to the CIA in the wake of Bill Casey's death, which happened on May 6, 1987. The Iran-Contra scandal, Gates, a career CIA man, was much more timid than Bill Casey.

1:18:19 and much closer to George Bush in temperament. Like Bush, Gates was very much an agency cheerleader. That meant that the CIA had no clear oversight and that their money would continue to be diverted to unauthorized activities and they would be using the Akan model again and again in order to

1:18:51 conduct operations. And it says Bush had survived the Iran-Contra scandal to win the election, but the BCCI banking network was coming unglued. Complicating that problem was the savings and loan crisis in the U.S., which was engulfing business and political friends of Bush's and even his own son, Neal. While the BCCI time bomb was ticking away, another of Bush's old off-the-books operation was about to blow up as well. And that was Saddam Hussein.

1:19:21 because then it talks about, obviously, what happened with Saddam Hussein, and it goes on and talks a little bit about that. It says Ted Shackley died in December 2002. In his own way, he got away with setting up Ed Wilson. Shackley left behind an autobiography, which is scheduled to be published in 2005.

1:19:50 I didn't even bother reading it because according to everybody, all of the reviews, there's basically nothing in it that's not written in the books that I already have. There was no, you know, big nuggets, if you will, in his biography. And so anyway, that's basically it for the book. It reveals, obviously.

1:20:19 Quite a bit. And it puts together a lot of the pieces that some of the other books didn't. So overall, it's a great book. Like I said, with all of these books, there are a few things that you have to keep tongue in cheek. But overall, a great book. And again, the name of the book, Prelude to Terror by Joseph Trento. Go ahead, Bridget.

1:20:53 You know, there's sometimes when you come across some of the names and they stand out. Okay. And as much as the one, the bath guy, you could write, again, you could write a book on him all on his own. That Al Swimmer. Okay. I just want to read just one tiny excerpt if you don't mind. No, not at all. Go ahead. Okay. From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Okay. So this is a Jewish article. Now.

1:21:23 This shows you the uniparty in this tiny little article. Al Swimmer, 83, advised U.S. presidents it never seemed to matter that he was a felon convicted for his role in smuggling airplanes to Israel as it fought its war of independence. Again, you have to keep in mind this is a Jewish, so they're kind of planning it one way. Now, half a century after his conviction, Swimmer has been exonerated.

1:21:54 As an advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Simone Perez, in the mid-1980s, Al Swimmer traveled to the United States often and met with Presidents Reagan and Bush. He served as an intermediary between the United States and Iran in the Arms for Hostage scandal. It never seemed a matter that he was a U.S. felon convicted for his role in smuggling airplanes from the United States to Israel.

1:22:24 as opposed to War of Independence in 1948, air quotes there. Now, half a century after his conviction, Swimmer has been exonerated by one of the many pardons granted by President Clinton on his last day in office. So you see, he met with Reagan. He was friends with Bush. He met and did a lot, even after he was convicted as a felon. And then...

1:22:52 Bush or Clinton comes along and just gives him a sleeping pardon. Anyway, it goes on to say that I appreciate, said the 80 year old three year old swimmer who lives in Israel and holds dual American and Israeli citizenship. You know, there's just not enough words to say how disgusting this is. You know, anyway, it's been in the top.

1:23:23 If anybody wants to read any more on it, there's, of course, quite a bit more. But you have to always see this whenever it's in an Israeli newspaper or any kind of, like, you can read CNN articles and get things out of them so long as you look at them through your Gladio glasses and kind of see the skewing sometimes that they like to do.

1:23:48 If you go and read just even his wiki thing, I looked him up when I was doing the research for this book. But this will give you an idea. So he actually worked for Lockheed and we know Lockheed. And this was back in 1939 was obviously skunk works in with. And even though the CIA was not in existence at the time, the.

1:24:17 The apparatchik that created the CIA was very much in existence and Lockheed has played a key role in all of it. And it says that he was an engineer, but also had his own pilot license. And it says during World War II, he worked for TWA. Now, TWA has had some dealings with intelligence efforts.

1:24:44 And the U.S. Air Transport Command is basically at Scott Air Force Base. It's called MAC now, Military Airlift Command. It says during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, he basically became what is referred to as a Maha, which was a group of people that did not live in Palestine, but were volunteering with...

1:25:13 Israeli forces in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. And that basically from outside of Palestine was helping Israel create the state of Israel. And it says he used his World War II experience to smuggle, he stole 30 aircraft by

1:25:41 Flying them, even though it was against the law, there was an arms embargo into Israel. We were not supposed to be involved in that at all. So it says he recruited World War II veterans to take these 30 aircraft and they flew all kinds of different routes.

1:26:05 through the Azores, which is Portugal, and Portugal was a dictatorship at the time, into Czechoslovakia and then into Israel. And that Israel then used those aircraft to bomb residential neighborhoods of the people that lived in Palestine at the time. And just indiscriminately killed a whole bunch of people.

1:26:35 in neighborhoods as a result of him acquiring these unauthorized illegal aircraft. And it says that, you know, he was convicted of violating U.S. Neutrality Acts, not his crimes against humanity or anything else. And then, like you said, he was pardoned by Bush or by Clinton, which shows you, as you appropriately pointed out,

1:27:06 that it's a uniparty thing. It really doesn't matter. And it says also that he returned to Israel and established an aircraft company for commercial and military purposes and did that for Ben-Gurion.

1:27:28 in the 1950s, who was prime minister at the time. And he created a company called Israel Aerospace Industries in Israel. And it basically was a state-owned company, but Swimmer is the guy that created it. His company, when he retired, was valued at over $1 billion in 1988.

1:28:00 So it's crazy, the people that you find in these stories. So, Matt, go ahead. I think some others have their hands up before me. I see Jillian. Matt, just go ahead, and I'll call on Jillian next. Thanks. Okay. I was just trying to be courteous to the other hands. That's fine. But first of all, Colonel, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.

1:28:35 Hope you enjoy it, as we all will. I will. But second, once you see how all these people are connected together, it's not just the domestic uniparty here. It's all the foreign countries where RCI meddles in them to launder money, resources, anything they can get their hands on.

1:29:04 To make sure they keep control of it and not the people who were actually in those countries. Because we all know if any of them ever knew the truth, if any leader rises to power who knows what the CIA is doing, they're going to take them out as they've done time and time and time and time again. But I don't know about you, Colonel, but with this kind of truth getting out.

1:29:34 Maybe I'm too optimistic here, but I think their days are numbered as to how long they're going to keep doing this because they can't keep it up forever. I don't think they will be able to keep it up forever. I think obviously it's not something that you can talk about in public, but I definitely think with the selection of Radcliffe as the director of the CIA and the people that have been placed in the other positions that they are creating.

1:30:02 a ring around the intelligence apparatchik and are going to slowly cut off all of the heads of the Hydra. So I definitely think that's going to happen. Jillian, go ahead. Hey, Colonel Bridget at Trump Frog. Just a couple of questions. I wanted to clarify if I heard you right, Colonel. You said that our CIA basically.

1:30:32 created Pakistan? So here's my no. The CIA didn't create it, but the CIA basically runs it. So after World War II, several things were set up. So the CIA wasn't technically set up until like 1947, 48.

1:30:58 Boundaries of all of these newly created countries after World War Two was done at the behest primarily of the US and the UK being the big seats at the table. Obviously, Russia was there or the Soviet Union was there as well. But the the delineation. So Pakistan did not exist prior to.

1:31:24 World War II. If you go back and you look at a 1930s map, it'll show you Afghanistan and it'll show you India. There's no Pakistan. Okay. Post-World War II, up pops a brand new country called Pakistan. The same thing with Taiwan. That was an island called Formosa, which everyone recognized as part of China. But after World War II, on every map, you now see it identified as Taiwan.

1:31:53 It's not Taiwan. It's never been Taiwan. It's Formosa. But for some reason, we all just play along and pretend like it's called Taiwan because they made it up out of whole cloth. This was done with basically all of the Middle East. You know, it used to be Persia. Then it became Iran. Bethesda was now Iraq. Jordan was not ever Jordan.

1:32:21 After World War Two, it was trans Jordan and that basically you had Palestine and all of that territory was all given to under British supervision to basically cut it into and create a Palestine and a country called Israel, which they did not do. And they created Jordan and never designated it as the land for Palestinians. And then they created Israel and kind of.

1:32:49 You know, with Gaza on one end and the West Bank and all that. And then you've got Syria up top because the whole purpose in doing all of that. These people knew at the time that they were going to be using stay behind Operation Gladio people to manipulate everybody and create terrorism all over the world. So they knew this ahead of time as they're sitting down at the table.

1:33:14 They already know that they're all going to set up their own respective intelligence functions. They all know how they're going to use them because they've already met with Reinhard Galen. They know all about the stay behind units that they can be used for domestic terror events, blah, blah, blah. They know all of this. And so what they need in perpetuity is fault lines. They need boundaries where.

1:33:41 People are going to be at each other's throat all the time. So if I'm going to draw those boundaries, if you go back to a 1930 map, you'll see Kurdistan. Well, they completely abolished that country and divided it up into four countries. They gave Turkey the northern part. They give Syria the western part. They give Iraq the southern part. They give Iran the eastern part. And so now you've got Kurdish people.

1:34:09 who none of those four countries like, and you put them all in there. So you're always going to perpetually have a fault line where all you have to do is run a false flag like Turkey did all the time. Turkey dressed up as Kurds, killed their own people, and then launched attacks on the Kurds to kill them for supposedly killing the Turkish people, but it was the Turkish people that killed their own people dressed up as Kurds.

1:34:38 This has happened all over the world. And we have been facilitating along with MI6 and the German BND and NATO in general. We've been facilitating all of that. It's horrible. It is horrible. And Osama bin Laden knew Bush's family. They were big time family. The bin Laden family, bin Laden's dad was really good friends with Bush senior. Yeah, they they had known each other for decades.

1:35:10 Wow. And he probably hid out in Pakistan. I never have heard Brian Gamble talk anymore about that, but they were wondering if Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan the whole time we were looking for him. Well, what most people didn't know either is that behind the scenes, there were a lot of dealings with Iran, just as what we were just talking about.

1:35:38 He could have been hiding out in Iran. He could have been hiding out in Pakistan. But he was protected by the CIA. I'm not convinced at all that he was killed on that mission. Right. So, again, all of this shit has been done to create narratives where you have no idea what is true and what isn't true. Exactly. And it's our government that's lying to us about all of it. It's horrible. Yeah.

1:36:09 Carrie, go ahead. Thank you. Sure. Hey, Colonel. Yeah, you brought up about the bio labs. So long ago, the Russians were complaining. I saw video footage long ago about them complaining about these labs that they wanted in the former Eastern Bloc. They wanted inspected.

1:36:40 And they, you know, brought it to the U.N. and shit. And they would arrive. I saw a video of them arriving and they weren't allowed in to inspect. They're like, no, you can't. You're not allowed in. And which is totally against international law. But anyway, when I put it in the pill, I went to look it up to see if I could find anything about that.

1:37:10 Because I'm sure, you know, the one that I saw, that was just one of many. And there's this whole, you know, lie about the whole thing. That's what I hit first. And then I just went to the NATO page and looked up what their preventative is. And it's a whole big, like, scamorama.

1:37:38 They had a little note on there that Ukraine was allowed as a non-NATO country to be involved in their whole preventative bioweapons, all of that. 2010. 2010. Oof.

1:38:04 Yeah, Ukraine, because of it being a former Soviet Union from the very beginning of 1991, was always treated as a location that had chemical and bioweapons facilities. And so back in 1991, at the fall of the Soviet Union, the deal was that we put together a group.

1:38:32 That was supposed to go in and secure all of those locations, get rid of all the shit and call it a day. Kind of like Ukraine was told they had to get rid of all their nuclear weapons. And so that's what we were all told was happening. Well, if you fast forward to the late 2000s, like 2008 in that time frame.

1:38:57 All of those bio labs were still there. And as a matter of fact, you had new ones. The U.S. had went into places like Ukraine and Georgia under Senator Lugar and set up new ones. And supposedly we were told that that was being done in order to to come up with things that we because they were already out there, supposedly.

1:39:27 that we needed to have protection against them being used. And that was supposedly the logic for making more of them. But then what got revealed is that it wasn't just about protecting people. They were actually making new viruses. They were making new bioweapons.

1:39:57 the vaccine or whatever it is that supposedly the antidote to the shit that they just created. And so they've now got labs all over doing this shit that they're not even allowed to do and was sold to us originally as a temporary mission to basically go in and safely dispose of all of the shit they already had.

1:40:22 We're so far down that line, it's not even funny. And our tax dollars should not be setting up bioweapons labs in other countries. I mean, it's just another one of those horseshit, dumb, crappy things that our government is doing in our name that is not constitutional. It should have never been done. And no one's doing a damn thing about it. Abel, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. Thank you for the mic.

1:40:55 I have a question that's not related exactly to the book you were reading, but it's related to just all that's going on right now with Iran and Syria. President Trump said Turkey is the key when he was speaking about Syria. And I've been sitting in some spaces listening to Iranian spaces. They want Pahlavi back.

1:41:22 and Syrians who seem to be mixed bags. Some were pro-Assad and some were completely the opposite. So that's very interesting. But I wondered, so if Turkey is the key to what's going on here, what are your thoughts of how that's all going to work together? Thank you. Sure.

1:41:52 That's like probably three spaces right there. If Turkey, for lots of different reasons, is the whole reason that Turkey is in NATO is because they are a gateway. You know, having been the last caliph in the Ottoman Empire gave them.

1:42:22 a certain amount of prestige and status from that perspective. They were always heralded as fierce fighters. They were very respected. But Turkey was set up as another one of those, I won't call it a fake country, but in many respects, because it was prior.

1:42:51 Previously, the Ottoman Empire, another one of those man-made countries post-World War II, the way their current boundaries are. And as a result of that, they ended up with the largest NATO military funded by us. The only other NATO country that has a bigger military than they do is us. Their military at one time.

1:43:21 You could put all of the other NATO countries together and you wouldn't have a military as big as Turkey. And they also, as a result of all of that funding and focus on military might, had the largest stay behind Operation Gladio Force with over 600 at one point stay behind units.

1:43:48 Which, again, if you go back to the standard creation of them, can have anywhere from 10 to 15 people per cell. That's a lot of paramilitary assassins that were trained and have been utilized all over the world. Again, just keep in mind that it was one of their trained assassins that shot John Paul II at the Vatican. So they deploy all over.

1:44:16 If you look at the playing both sides of the Islamic coin that Turkey has done with one foot in the West and one foot in the Islamic Arabic world, but at the same time kind of hedging both of the Shia, Sunni, Arabic, Islam.

1:44:45 communities, they become in many respects a key to the future because there's so much wrapped up in Turkey. And also the fact that they have entree into all of the Arabic organizations.

1:45:15 And that's why you find they have such a big presence right now in Syria. And they've not been part of the solution in Syria as far as leaving Syria alone. They were one of the big instigators. And they are the biggest instigator in northern Iraq in their perpetual...

1:45:46 attacking the Kurdish people that live in the border towns inside of Turkey as well as the Kurdish people that live in Iraq. They're constantly agitating them. So I find Turkey to be an enigma. You have the Gulen guy that's up in Pennsylvania, former Turkish guy.

1:46:16 And no matter what we read about him, he is definitely Operation Gladio. He is training people at that ranch location, whatever camp, whatever you want to call it in Pennsylvania. The neighbors have complained for decades about bombs going off, hearing machine gun fire firing. And that's in Pennsylvania, in our backyard. And he's a Turkish guy.

1:46:43 Some people believe that he was part of the effort that tried to take Erdogan out. And even that whole thing was very unique. In the past, when any Turkish leader did something that the U.S. didn't like, the U.S. just activated the generals who are all trained in the United States to overthrow their government. They've overthrown their government several times.

1:47:09 And they do it at the behest of the CIA slash US. And they tried that with Erdogan. And he said, yeah, that ain't going to work. And basically killed a bunch of the guys that were responsible for it. And so Turkey is a very interesting enigma. Well, and there's even more on Turkey that I wanted to ask you, but I don't know how deep you want to go into that.

1:47:42 specific thing. But I had read this may be a complete segue that's way too far. But if you like the idea of talking about it, here it is. Lindsay Lohan went to Turkey. She said that she was invited by Erdogan. And there are pictures of her with Erdogan. And it's all about Syrian refugees. And she talks to

1:48:12 A little girl, maybe she's seven years old, supposedly a little Syrian refugee who supposedly has a Twitter account. And then out there is a video of her on the street somewhere trying to, people think, capture these children from these people walking down the streets. Very odd, very, very strange. And it's just so weird. I thought I'd throw it out there. I've been asking people what they think of it.

1:48:41 How odd is that and does it fit into what's going on with the capturing of the children? Thank you. So, I mean, what you just described is basically what's being uncovered in Guatemala right now. Keep in mind that this entire operation is done to destabilized countries, which generates weapon trafficking.

1:49:10 facilitates drug trafficking, but generates human trafficking. And so every country that is destabilized by the United States government and the CIA, it generates humans to be trafficked into their networks. And unfortunately, one of the primary targets is the children. And so I don't have any ability to

1:49:40 That anyone else doesn't already have to research into those networks. And obviously not any of my background doesn't kind of lend itself to that. And there's so many people that does such great work on that. But every single thing that we have uncovered.

1:50:07 leads to that conclusion. They traffic little kids out of every single one of these countries, just like in Vietnam, you had the airplanes full of children being taken from Vietnam at the end. So that is, in fact, one of the many and probably the most horrendous aspects of regime change. It happens every single time. And that's why I started off the show saying,

1:50:36 I don't give a crap who says it. I want it to stop. I don't want us taking anything that's not ours. I want us to put our big boy pants on and negotiate deals as adults that does not include taking shit that doesn't belong to us. So anyway, anybody else got any comments, questions?

1:51:15 If not... I saw Froggy does have you scheduled for a space tonight at 8.15 my time. So it'd be like, what, 7.15 your time? Okay. Or, you know... No. No. Backwards. Yeah. So... Froggy has a space scheduled. How about that? Okay. Yeah. I threw him the mic, but... Okay. Yeah, I tried to, too. Hopefully it's not too late.

1:51:45 He needs to stop moving them back. I'm not getting any younger, Froggy. He's going to start hearing a little bit of silence and snoring during the show. Oh, my gosh. Apothecary was talking yesterday. I was in one of her subscribers' faces, and she was saying how whenever she'd be talking, people would hear snoring in the background, and it would be her dog. Well.

1:52:11 That's a good excuse. So I'm going to say that if that ever happens, Bridget, it's my dog. Remember that line. It's my dog. No way. Oh, and it's 815 Eastern Standard Time. I just looked it up. Okay. All right. And then we will not have any formal spaces tomorrow or on Christmas. And we will do something on Thursday. If I do something, it will be Friday.

1:52:43 four o'clock. And I do believe that, hold on, let me look real quick. I do believe that Warhamster said he was going to go ahead and do a Thursday noon. He wanted to keep that spot going. Yes, we are going to be live at noon on Thursday, continuing with our Secret Society podcast.

1:53:13 So that will be the next one after Froggies tonight. All right. So take care. If I don't talk to any of you between now and Wednesday, please have a very Merry Christmas. And hopefully we will catch up again after Christmas. Merry Christmas, y'all. Thank you. Talk to you later.

Entities here

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Claims made here

Saeed Ramadan recruited David Belfield book_quoted ▶ 11:13

“And he also was recruiting Muslim fighters to go to Afghanistan and fight with bin Laden and the Mujahideen that the CIA had set up. Ramadan told Salahuddin that he should join them as well. He warned…”

David Belfield member_of Mujahideen book_quoted ▶ 12:47

“Afghanistan as a member of the resistance on December 12, 1986, and except for a period of some two weeks in the January of 87, was there until May of 1988, so about a year and a half. I received no p…”

CIA funded Mujahideen book_quoted ▶ 13:18

“from the Afghans far exceeded any contribution I made to their cause. Though war is hell, you learn things when facing death. Ironically, Salahuddin, a fugitive from the U.S., was now fighting against…”

Saudi Arabia funded Islamic Development Bank book_quoted ▶ 14:14

“now had 55 member states with Saudi dominating the entire thing and providing 27% of the bank's funding. Now, keep in mind, this is the year after they set up BCCI. It was set up in 72. And again, kee…”

Islamic Development Bank financed_via A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 14:45

“contributed 3% of the capital in the Islamic Development Bank. It was through this bank's scientific and economic development efforts that huge amounts of money was funneled into Pakistan and into the…”

Jimmy Carter covered_up A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 14:45

CIA supplied_arms_to Pakistan book_quoted ▶ 15:14

“was a serious effort to build the first Islamic bomb was deliberately ignored by Carter in order to secure Saudi and Pakistani cooperation in Afghanistan. Like almost everything about the Soviet effor…”

BCCI financed_via A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 15:44

“And remember, BCCI was funding that. There was nothing more important than propping up a free Afghanistan, which was not free at all. One of the things I did was to try to get the Afghan king, then li…”

George H.W. Bush member_of Safari Club book_quoted ▶ 17:19

“T-U-R-K-I, and the Saudis' intelligence area up to speed on what was going on. What many people do not know was that the Safari Club had made a deal with Pakistan at the expense of the Afghan people. …”

Safari Club funded Mujahideen book_quoted ▶ 17:19

Edwin Wilson member_of Safari Club book_quoted ▶ 17:49

“Shackley and Wilson were not members. Only nations could belong. Shackley and Wilson were men who served the club in exchange for power, influence, and money. Pakistani intelligence would handle all o…”

Ted Shackley member_of Safari Club book_quoted ▶ 17:49

British customs spied_on A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 18:17

“Sounds almost like Ukraine, doesn't it? Unfortunately, Crowley said, the Pakistanis knew exactly where their cut of the money was to go. Where the money went was into the Islamic nuclear weapons progr…”

Inter-Services Intelligence laundered_money_for A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 18:17

United States covered_up A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 19:19

“for uncovering the nuclear, the illicit nuclear network. A top French intelligence official who asked that his name be withheld described the U.S.-Pakistani cover-up of the Han network as having an im…”

United States supplied_arms_to Pakistan book_quoted ▶ 19:48

“The U.S. had allowed Pakistan to be Saudi Arabia's proxy. So basically, you have the U.S. and the U.K. facilitating two new nuclear powers while at the same time professing to be anti-proliferation of…”

Jimmy Carter funded Mujahideen book_quoted ▶ 25:27

“The man who overthrew Boutros was a guy by the name of General Mohammed Zia Haq. He carried on that effort, and in April 1979, when President Zia refused to halt work on the Islamic bomb, Jimmy Carter…”

Jimmy Carter removed_from_power Pakistan book_quoted ▶ 25:27

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Zulfikar Ali Bhutto book_quoted ▶ 25:27

Ronald Reagan funded Pakistan book_quoted ▶ 26:28

“further improved following the 1980 election of Reagan and his former correspondent, Bush Sr. With the covert U.S. war in Afghanistan, the Pakistani dictator gained significant advantage and used it.…”

Ronald Reagan covered_up A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 27:16

“Unambiguous evidence that Pakistan was actively pursuing nuclear weapons and that China was providing help for them. At this time, the U.S. law prohibited any assistance going to countries seeking nuc…”

Charles E. Wilson funded Pakistan book_quoted ▶ 27:44

“So it's in U.S. natural interest to have another nuclear country as an Islamic country. In 1980, Congressman Charlie Wilson, the former Ed Wilson associate, was acting in concert with the CIA, repeate…”

Charles E. Wilson covered_up A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 28:15

“research and creation. Wilson went so far as to tell Zia, Mr. President, as far as I'm concerned, you can make all the bombs you want, unquote. Zia privately assured the congressman that Pakistan's nu…”

Inter-Services Intelligence laundered_money_for Mujahideen book_quoted ▶ 28:45

“In Afghanistan, his ISI, which is their intelligence guys, were taking what the Afghan figured was a 60% cut on all money that was sent to Pakistan, stayed in Pakistan, never made it to the Afghanista…”

CIA funded Pakistan book_quoted ▶ 28:45

Saudi Arabia funded Osama bin Laden book_quoted ▶ 30:43

“But after the fall of the peacock throne in Iran, religious divisions surfaced within the royal family, contributing to a divided Saudi foreign policy. On one hand, the Saudis supported a secular Sadd…”

Saudi Arabia funded Mujahideen book_quoted ▶ 30:43

BCCI financed_via A.Q. Khan documented ▶ 31:41

“The same BCCI bank accounts being used to fund the Afghan resistance were also being used to fund the Pakistani nuclear bomb program. And that was identified in a Senate report during the investigatio…”

BCCI financed_via Mujahideen documented ▶ 31:41

Lyndon B. Johnson supplied_arms_to Israel book_quoted ▶ 32:12

“to help their nuclear program as well in the 1950s and 60s. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson had given James Angleton permission to assist Israel in further developing its nuclear program. Now, the Reagan admi…”

United States supplied_arms_to Israel book_quoted ▶ 32:12

James Jesus Angleton supplied_arms_to Israel book_quoted ▶ 32:12

Zbigniew Brzezinski covered_up A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 32:40

“like a workable compromise the Saudis had argued to the Reagan administration. A memorandum from Brzezinski to President Carter suggested how the Soviet Union could be trapped in Afghanistan. It warne…”

Inter-Services Intelligence laundered_money_for Mujahideen book_quoted ▶ 33:40

“a former CIA analyst in the Soviet Union, said they were funding the wrong Islamic groups. And he's also quoted as saying, and had little idea where the money was going or how it was being spent. Sark…”

BCCI financed_via A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 34:09

“in Pakistan. I can tell you that more than three quarters of the money was skimmed off the top. What went to buy weapons for the Afghan fighters was peanuts, unquote. And keep in mind, they also were …”

BCCI laundered_money_for Inter-Services Intelligence book_quoted ▶ 34:09

CIA exposed A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 34:40

“the BCCI, into accounts ran by AQ Khan. Khan's network was controlled by the Saudis. The Saudis were in on every major deal with Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Malaysia. After two decades of silence on…”

Saudi Arabia controlled A.Q. Khan book_quoted ▶ 34:40

CIA covered_up A.Q. Khan host_asserted ▶ 35:39

“The CIA claimed that it had successfully exposed the nuclear efforts that they, in fact, were responsible for. The truth of how much the CIA and private intel networks knew in the 80s and what was the…”

Nazar Ahmad Vaid member_of Atomic Energy Commission documented ▶ 36:30

“50 high-speed electronic switches used to trigger nuclear bombs. At the time of the arrest, U.S. Customs agents seized several letters directly linking him to S.A. Butt, B-U-T-T, the director of Pakis…”

BCCI financed_via Nazar Ahmad Vaid documented ▶ 36:58

“in the 1970s to obtain technology and resources for the enrichment of uranium and reprocessing of plutonium. Vaid reportedly offered to pay for the switches in gold later determined to have been suppl…”

James DeAndra pardoned Nazar Ahmad Vaid documented ▶ 37:28

“A very special deal got worked out. I bet. Bayid ultimately pleaded guilty to one count of illegal attempting to export the switches known as Krytron. Krytron. K-R-Y-T-R-O-N-S. Without a license. U.S.…”

Arnold Raphael exposed CIA book_quoted ▶ 38:30

“later revealed that there had been a fix on the Viad case and that the CIA had arranged to handle all of it. Because his conviction in deportation, Viad was prohibited from ever returning to the U.S. …”

Nazar Ahmad Vaid founded Najud Trading documented ▶ 39:29

“September 11, 2001, Bayid had established in Texas a string of companies with foreign affiliations. Three in particular stand out. On July 22, 2002, Bayid used his name, Nasser Ahmed, and his brothers…”

Najud Trading front_for BCCI host_asserted ▶ 39:58

“N-A-J-O-O-D Trading, Inc. And another one, Idafa Investment, Inc. The sole shareholder in Najood's is a company of the same name based in Dubai, UAE, which is where the guy who did all of the money be…”

Nazar Ahmad Vaid founded MEC Enterprises USA Inc. documented ▶ 42:33

“Nasr Ahmed signed the incorporation papers for yet another company. This company was called MEC, all capital letters, Enterprises USA Inc. The signature above those words are Nasr Ahmed, and it simply…”

BSA Tahir founded MEC Enterprises USA Inc. documented ▶ 43:33

“are Abdullah Kwavi Qureshi and Abdul Majid Qureshi. The directors of the Texas subsidiary, MEC Enterprises, is the Nazir Ahmed guy. As recently revealed, Khan's middleman, BSA Tahir, T-A-H-I-R, helped…”

Nazar Ahmad Vaid founded Finatra Communications documented ▶ 44:05

“that dealt with metal machining, which you would need for high-speed centrifuges to enrich uranium. The parts were transhipped to Dubai as a front company and to end users like Libya, but all made the…”

CIA recruited Nazar Ahmad Vaid host_asserted ▶ 46:24

“November 1st, 2002. More than one CIA source said that Viyad is a CIA asset and was doing all of this to ensure all of those front companies, it was later rumored, were CIA front companies in order to…”

George H.W. Bush pardoned A.Q. Khan host_asserted ▶ 47:24

“Islamabad's assistance in the new Afghan war, this time called the war on terrorism. This is also the same administration that publicly at least accepted A.Q. Khan's absurd confession that he was resp…”

Edwin Wilson spied_on Libya documented ▶ 48:22

“During the time Wilson was a fugitive, the former CIA front man sent the Reagan administration and the CIA detailed information of the Libyan nuclear program. The memorandum went from Wilson in Libya …”

CIA covered_up Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq host_asserted ▶ 51:20

“He was also the son of the former prime minister. Another suspect was, of course, someone from the Soviet Union, which nobody believes. Everyone that was in theater believed that that plane exploding …”

CIA overthrew Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq host_asserted ▶ 52:49

“So they killed him off and an elected, quote unquote elected, Harvard educated Benazir Boutro was basically given the nod. The new American ambassador, Robert Oakley, was sent since they had to assass…”

Saudi Arabia financed_via Pakistan documented ▶ 53:50

“Saudi diplomat Mohammed Khaloui defected to the U.S., bringing with him documents showing that Riyadh had been financing the Pakistani bomb program in the 70s through BCCI. Also, in the fall of 2003, …”

Saudi Arabia traded_network_to Pakistan documented ▶ 53:50

Ahmad Chalabi founded Petra Bank documented ▶ 59:22

“So the banking scandals were not limited to the U.S. In Jordan in the early 80s, a wealthy American educated expat Iraqi had gone into banking business with the permission of King Hussein's brother, C…”

Petra Bank laundered_money_for Iran documented ▶ 59:46

“which moved large amounts of money into secret networks and did business with both Israel and Iran. Like BCCI and the savings and loan fraud, the Petra Bank would collapse several years later. It's ju…”

Petra Bank laundered_money_for Israel documented ▶ 59:46

Clark Clifford recruited Kamal Adham documented ▶ 1:00:46

“BCCI with their domestic institutions. The clearest example was the effort of Robert Altman and Clark Clifford, who you guys who've watched our series on the BCCI Bank with Warhamster, and I will reme…”

Robert Altman recruited Kamal Adham documented ▶ 1:00:46

Carl Chanel funded Contras documented ▶ 1:01:11

“A fire-breathing conservative fundraiser opened an account at Palmer National Bank in Washington, D.C. for a 501c3 foundation called the National Endowment for Preservation of Liberty. Chanel then wen…”

William Mellon Hitchcock funded Gulf and Caribbean Foundation documented ▶ 1:01:38

“a friend of Vice President Bush's from Midland, Texas, sent a check for $21,000 to Gulf and Caribbean Foundation, another pro-Contra entity that had an account at Palmer. The common traits in these in…”

Palmer National Bank financed_via Jack Kemp documented ▶ 1:02:02

“Palmer made loans to the political action committees of many GOP luminaries like Robert Dahl, Jack Kemp. They also made $400,000 loans to some of them. The Bush network was also prospered from the rel…”

Palmer National Bank financed_via Robert Dahl documented ▶ 1:02:02

Jim Bath financed_via Arbusto Energy documented ▶ 1:03:29

“I've read about him in so many books, was much more than a well-connected Houston dealmaker. When he invested $25,000 in George H.W.'s oil company, Arbusto Energy, in 1980, Bath, who had known the you…”

Jim Bath member_of Main Bank Houston documented ▶ 1:06:20

“He got started in the real estate business in 73 by forming a partnership with Lan L-A-N Benson, who was Lloyd Benson's son. In 1978, Bath became a shareholder and director of Main Bank Houston. Other…”

Jim Bath member_of Summit Aviation book_quoted ▶ 1:08:11

“Let's see. There was also claim that Bath was a front guy for the CIA business operations. A confidential CIA source confirms that Bath has had a long history with the CIA, including employment with S…”

Jim Bath front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:08:11

Jim Bath member_of Adolf Al Schwimmer documented ▶ 1:09:09

“after the fact, hedging his bet because he knows that he definitely was. Bass connections also extended to the Israelis and directly into private intelligence networks. He had a long relationship with…”

Adolf Al Schwimmer member_of Shimon Peres documented ▶ 1:09:09

Shimon Peres headed United Defense Industries documented ▶ 1:09:38

“Israel's defense industries, the huge government-controlled defense entity. That's actually the name of it, Defense Industries. That's the name of a company. Shimon was absolutely necessary to arms de…”

Harkin Oil and Gas financed_via George H.W. Bush documented ▶ 1:10:06

“While his father was vice president, George W. Bush developed a direct connection to the Saudis. In 86, the Dallas-based Harkin Oil and Gas, later called Harkin Energy, stepped in to rescue Bush's fai…”

Alan Quasha funded Harkin Oil and Gas host_asserted ▶ 1:10:38

“Among, that's a payoff. Harkin's investors was George Soros and Alan Cuasa, Q-U-A-S-H-A, son of William Howard Cuasa, a Filipino attorney who had direct ties to Nugent Hand Bank. That's what I'm telli…”

George Soros funded Harkin Oil and Gas host_asserted ▶ 1:10:38

William Howard Taft member_of Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted ▶ 1:10:38

Tyco International front_for Abdullah Taha Baish host_asserted ▶ 1:11:07

“In 1988, a Saudi business mogul, Abdullah Taha Baish, purchased an 11% stake in Harkin through the Netherlands Antilles Shell Company called TRACO, T-R-A-C-O, International. Shortly after Baish's inve…”

Abdullah Taha Baish funded Harkin Oil and Gas host_asserted ▶ 1:11:07

Harkin Oil and Gas carried_out_attack Bahrain host_asserted ▶ 1:11:07

Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa appointed Harkin Oil and Gas host_asserted ▶ 1:12:09

“At the time the deal was announced, the oil industry analysis marveled at how this virtually anonymous, unknown company with no previous international drilling at all could have landed a contract like…”

Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa member_of BCCI host_asserted ▶ 1:12:38

“was a shareholder in BCCI, and BCCI frontman Khalid Faryon was a close business associate of Bakra's as well. Unfortunately for the young Bush, Harkin was unable to strike oil off the coast of Bahrain…”

Khalid Faryon member_of BCCI host_asserted ▶ 1:12:38

Khalid bin Musa'id funded Islamic Charity Foundation host_asserted ▶ 1:13:11

“After returning to Saudi Arabia in the 70s, he became head of the largest, he's basically the guy that owned the federal bank there, or he didn't own it, he was in charge of it. So he was a very, very…”

U.S. Treasury Department covered_up Yasin Qadi host_asserted ▶ 1:14:40

“the guy that was involved in BCCI and everything else, but they conveniently forgot that their guy was also the creator of that foundation. So they obviously just wanted to get one guy and not the guy…”

William Webster succeeded William Casey documented ▶ 1:17:50

“the Director of Intelligence. Shackley's connection to Ed Wilson and his involvement in Iran-Contra had spelled doom on his chances of being the DCI. He named Robert Gates to replace William Webster, …”

George H.W. Bush appointed Robert Gates documented ▶ 1:17:50

Robert Gates succeeded William Webster documented ▶ 1:17:50

Ted Shackley framed Edwin Wilson host_asserted ▶ 1:19:21

“because then it talks about, obviously, what happened with Saddam Hussein, and it goes on and talks a little bit about that. It says Ted Shackley died in December 2002. In his own way, he got away wit…”

Adolf Al Schwimmer supplied_arms_to Israel documented ▶ 1:21:23

“This shows you the uniparty in this tiny little article. Al Swimmer, 83, advised U.S. presidents it never seemed to matter that he was a felon convicted for his role in smuggling airplanes to Israel a…”

Bill Clinton pardoned Adolf Al Schwimmer documented ▶ 1:22:24

“as opposed to War of Independence in 1948, air quotes there. Now, half a century after his conviction, Swimmer has been exonerated by one of the many pardons granted by President Clinton on his last d…”

Adolf Al Schwimmer member_of Lockheed host_asserted ▶ 1:23:48

“If you go and read just even his wiki thing, I looked him up when I was doing the research for this book. But this will give you an idea. So he actually worked for Lockheed and we know Lockheed. And t…”

Adolf Al Schwimmer founded Israel Aerospace Industries host_asserted ▶ 1:27:28

“in the 1950s, who was prime minister at the time. And he created a company called Israel Aerospace Industries in Israel. And it basically was a state-owned company, but Swimmer is the guy that created…”

U.S. Treasury Department funded Ukraine host_asserted ▶ 1:38:57

“All of those bio labs were still there. And as a matter of fact, you had new ones. The U.S. had went into places like Ukraine and Georgia under Senator Lugar and set up new ones. And supposedly we wer…”

Turkey member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:43:21

“You could put all of the other NATO countries together and you wouldn't have a military as big as Turkey. And they also, as a result of all of that funding and focus on military might, had the largest…”

United States attempted_coup_against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan host_asserted ▶ 1:46:43

“Some people believe that he was part of the effort that tried to take Erdogan out. And even that whole thing was very unique. In the past, when any Turkish leader did something that the U.S. didn't li…”

United States overthrew Turkey host_asserted ▶ 1:46:43

CIA attempted_coup_against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan host_asserted ▶ 1:47:09

“And they do it at the behest of the CIA slash US. And they tried that with Erdogan. And he said, yeah, that ain't going to work. And basically killed a bunch of the guys that were responsible for it. …”