The Colonel’s corner president’s secret war chapter 11

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0:00 Okay. Good afternoon, everybody. Please post the space out so everybody knows that it's going on. And we're going to go ahead and get started. I've got to get my rumble feed up and running real quick. So it's been quite the crazy beginning to all of this.

0:30 I am still waiting on news from my neighbor for the release of her two nephews and niece. Are they in D.C.? I was going to ask you this. They are in D.C. Gulag. Okay. And I don't know if you guys clicked on that link that I posted yesterday.

1:01 I will say this at the beginning of this. I don't want to spend too much time on it during this part. I'll talk about it again at the end. Because hopefully we'll get an update between now and then. But I'll talk about it for a second while I'm setting up the Rumble feed. Her brother and sister-in-law and one other family member, another male, are up there.

1:32 to bring them home. And there was obviously a whole bunch of people up there to pick up their loved ones. And someone walked out of the jail cell in civilian clothes. So people thought that it was one of the J-6ers. And so several of the people that were milling around on the

2:00 opposite side of the street on the sidewalk area where the camera is posted, or at least was posted yesterday, walked over to greet them or see who it was. And when that happened, the jail sent a bunch of their thugs out, like, I mean,

2:27 A bunch of them, like there's probably over 50 of them out there at one point. And so you can see them. Hold on just a second. Let this thing start up. You can see them pile out and they begin confronting the people. And several of them show up with bikes. You know how they use the bikes to like cattle fences to push people back with.

3:00 And they were very confrontational. The people were basically all singing Christian songs and milling around. And so they pushed them back off of the like plaza area in front of the D.C. jail. Then when they got that far, they paused and then they pushed them off the sidewalk, which.

3:29 Anybody can walk on the sidewalk, but I guess you're not allowed to do that in D.C. Using these bicycles so that they're basically left with either standing in the road or going back to the other side on that sidewalk. And so they stay there for a few minutes and then they come across the street and prop and just basically lay their bicycles against the row of cars that were parked parallel parked along the side of the road.

3:58 making sure that no one now can even cross the street. So eventually, they bring those bicycles through the cars and start pushing people back off the other side of the sidewalk. They are looking for confrontation with people, which again goes back to the Phoenix program. These people have been trained.

4:25 to do this bullshit. They've been trained to antagonize people so they can arrest you and torture you by putting you in solitary confinement and all of these other versions of both psychological and physical torture. These are not normal cops. They're assholes. And something needs to be done about them. These people do not deserve to be wearing a...

4:55 a badge at all. So I do have their names. And again, like I said, I'll share all of that at the end because I'm going to make a post with the mom's post that she sent earlier of them on the floor in the D.C. jail this morning that was taken.

5:24 These kids, and I call them kids, I mean they're adults, they're part of it. I don't know if you've seen the videos of every night they sing the national anthem. These are the kids. These are part of that group. There's like a group of 20 of them that stand in the jail inside the gulag that Ashley Babbitt's mom had kind of adopted them. And they like...

5:52 park cars on the outside and shine the lights into the cell areas and blare the music and blah, blah, blah. So my neighbors, and again, she's not the mom of the three kids. Those are her niece and nephews. Her and I went to high school, but we went to elementary school, junior high and high school together. She is any person that you will ever meet.

6:20 She is the nicest, sweetest, has that Southern draw. Her mom is an angel. And the year after all of this happened, I hosted at the Veterans Park downtown Lakeland a vigil on the anniversary of 1-6. They had sent out this massive request for people who had

6:48 J6ers from their community that had been taken to host vigils. Well, they sent candles and a whole bunch of programs to hang out, hand out. And so I agreed to host one. And we had a reporter there. Brian Cates happened to be. That was when I met Brian Cates. He was in for the Sidney Powell meeting in the town next door. So he went to the vigil with me.

7:18 And, you know, we had a great turnout. Mary, my friend, the aunt, spoke. Her mom spoke and I spoke. And one of the ladies that was running for mayor that year was also there and spoke. And so it's just, again, I can't believe we're living through this.

7:44 This is so far from anything that anyone would have ever imagined would be happening in the United States of America until you do what we've done and go back and look at what we've done all over the world. And you realize we probably were very lucky for it to have taken this long to get to this point because they've done for the last 50 years, they've done this all over the world. So it was.

8:14 truly just a matter of time. And, you know, obviously they got to that time. So, all right, let me get to our material today, which is basically the second part of the Cuba story. And it's a lot, so I'm not sure we'll get through all of it, but we'll give it the yeoman's try here. Okay. And again, this is...

8:42 I think it's important in the context of these books, although some of this material is material that we've covered before, by going through it in the eyes of another author, it adds, number one, more detail to it, and it reinforces in our memory the information. So, oh, and somebody just said, oh, I love your hat. Thank you. I have my red, white, and blue studded.

9:11 rhinestone hat on today because it is rainy outside. And when that happens, my hair grows by about five inches. It's starting to snow here. Yeah, I don't want to hear that. It snowed in Austin. My daughter sent me pictures. It started snowing at like midnight. And I told her last night, if it snows in the middle of the night and you happen to see it, do not text me because I'll be pissed.

9:38 Until they get two inches in Pensacola. Yeah. So anyway, yeah. So not so much the cold I don't really care about, but the rain makes my hair grow exponentially. All right. So we're going to jump in. So we're at President Kennedy's quote unquote new frontier offered a fresh vision of America's role.

10:10 and policies. And he basically came in wanting to question everything, not unlike Trump. But, you know, there's certain things that are off limits to the deep state anyway. Though the president, meaning JFK, dismantled much of the NSD structure created by Eisenhower, there were a lot of...

10:42 He made no change at the CIA. The secret war continued with the difference in the mechanisms established to control it that happened to temporarily disappear when JFK took office. And that was probably by design.

11:09 You'll see the continuities in the operations that both administrations carried out in Southeast Asia. But the most obvious continuity was in Cuba. And this guy has a slightly different. So we're just going to go through what he says and then we'll talk about it. That disaster decisively demonstrated the fallacy of abolishing controls over the intelligence community without abolishing the intelligence community. I think I could say the whole problem.

11:40 Problems with the Cuban exile force seem to grow daily. Besides discussions in the Miami and Havana newspapers, the revelations in the New York Times, where they talked about camp tracks, T-R-A-X, officials at CIA expressed concern that the Pentagon was still dragging its feet with respect to cooperation. Without special forces trainers, they believed that the Cubans would not be ready by late 1961.

12:09 The exiles themselves posed the biggest problem. At the training camp, the Cuban pilots resented the handling of air ops and being excluded from the base's social club that they only allowed the Americans. You know, it's nothing like if you're going to adopt a bunch of people and tell them that you're going to run them as basically suicide pilots to discriminate against them and allowing them to come into the officers club.

12:40 Oh, my God. You just can't even make that shit up. A number of them staged a strike. So you've got the pilots that are going to be flying the bombing mission striking because they can't have access to the social club. At Camp Tract, the Cubans also resented their living conditions compared to those of the American trainers. So the American trainers lived up at the big house on the plantation.

13:12 But the Cubans were in the dormitories, even though they were still trainers and still pilots. The Cubans attempted to elect their own leaders and the Americans. Bull crap that we've seen in many of the other operations. So the situation got so bad that Jose San Roman.

13:50 the Americans' candidate for the top command, resigned the post to re-enlist as a private. He went from commander to the bottom of the heap. During the crisis, the Americans asked the Cubans to turn in their weapons because they were afraid of them. Some 230 of the exiles, including the entire 2nd and 3rd Battalion, also tried to resign, and 100 of them remained adamant even after a solution to the crisis was patched together.

14:18 E. Howard Hunt and several of the other political leaders flew to the base to smooth over the differences. For the moment, the crisis passed, but the troops clearly had sent a message and were not happy. Meanwhile, the Cubans suffered their first training casualty. He was named Carlos Rodriguez Santana. He died falling off the side of a mountain during training.

14:49 In memory of him, the Cubans adopted the unit designation Brigade 2506 because he was recruit number 2506. Stan Roman remained in command of a force that eventually totaled about 1,400. The brigade was organized into six small battalions and heavy weapons groups. The men of the 1st Battalion were trained as paratroopers. Those of the 4th constituted a small armor force.

15:19 with five tanks plus trucks that mounted .50 caliber machine guns. The weapons unit contained 4.2-inch mortars, 3.5-inch bazookas, and 57- and 75-millimeter recoilless rifles. The battalions ranged in strength from 167 to 185 men, some with a little fewer.

15:41 was also a commando force of 168 men intended to make a diversion at another landing place in Cuba. Richard Bissell expected to be able to send reinforcements into Brigade 2506 Beachhead once the invasion began. An additional 300 recruits gathered in the Miami area, of whom some 162 actually would be moved to the Central American base.

16:09 For training, a total reinforcement available later was about 500 outside of the original group. They had arms for 4,000. Finally, there was an exile air force that was under the command of Major Manuel Villafano. The air group numbered about 150 Cubans with an equal number of Americans, both the air crew and in support roles.

16:38 The combat element consisted of 16 B-26 bombers, air transport units of C-46s and C-54s. They also had, let's see, the secrecy around Operation Pluto had began to diminish because people were finding stuff out.

17:07 By January 27th of 1961, the issue of Time magazine photographed a Cuban rebel aircraft sitting on the ground at the plantation. In Washington, on the day the Time photo appeared, President Kennedy attached his first full-scale presentation, or he had his first full-scale presentation on the Cuba project.

17:32 During the presidential campaign, JFK had twice been briefed by Alan Dulles on international matters, including the Cuban situation, but Kennedy had not been privy to the covert plan because Kennedy had not been witting on Operation Pluto. There had been a flap in late October within the Richard Nixon entourage. Kennedy declared in a speech that the U.S. would train

18:01 and aid Cuban freedom fighters against Castro. Not only was this precisely what was being done under Pluto, but the freedom fighters was exactly what the exiles were being called in Ike's secret council. And so if you guys remember, we talked about this before, that Nixon didn't talk about it at all during his campaign because it was classified.

18:28 Somebody had leaked the information to JFK, and so he basically was claiming credit for something that Nixon was already doing under President Eisenhower, but couldn't say because it was classified. Kennedy did not know of the actual operation, just the part that was leaked to him. It says the reference in his speech by his speechwriter, Richard Goodwin.

18:59 was like the revelation and Nixon was really pissed off about it. Pluto was first broached with JFK when Alan Dulles and Bissell had visited him at his Palm Beach residency after the election by name. Bissell briefly outlined the plans after which the

19:25 Dulles took JFK into the back garden for a private conversation. We believe that it was to secure his approval to continue with it. Although the substance of that is unknown, shortly after E. Howard Hunt learned from Tracy Barnes that JFK had been, that he had given the go-ahead to continue Pluto.

19:51 While the West Palm Beach discussion had been general and exploratory, the White House meeting on January 27th was specific and detailed. It focused not so much on the conventional invasion plan as a comparison of the options with six alternatives, including economic warfare and brigade and blockade. An intelligence report from the Office of National Estimates, remember that's the manufactured lie department of the CIA.

20:19 They manufacture the estimate to say whatever they want it to say, which also had been kept in ignorance of Pluto, concluded that Castro was successfully consolidating his power. The new president ordered a increase of political action and overflights by the CIA, a review of CIA plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in preparation of an anti-Castro propaganda plan by the State Department that would be implemented.

20:49 throughout Latin America. Though the president's initial orders seemed restrained, Kennedy proceeded to rob himself of all of the machine that Eisenhower had created to exercise close control. The oversight device of the 5412 group was superseded by meetings at which JFK himself attended. More than ever before, business was transacted directly with the new NSD staff.

21:19 Yet Kennedy showed little interest in consulting Ike's White House staff secretary, Andrew Goodpaster, who had most of the relevant information at his fingertips. Kennedy also abolished the presidential's board of consultants on foreign intelligence activities, the mechanism specifically intended for intelligence oversight. Finally, in an action that had special impact on coordination for Operation Pluto.

21:48 On April 8th, the state and CIA group headed by Whiting Willauer and Tracy Barnes was deleted. In this fashion, President Kennedy satisfied his desire for direct leadership, eliminating all the different levels of approval at the NSC that he felt would stifle access to him and information about clandestine affairs.

22:17 The new president did not see was there were what the intelligence community viewed as meaning to those different layers. JFK would have no interagency staff senior enough to get things done on their own and no council of officials to provide a second opinion. Events now began to move swiftly towards the disastrous conclusion.

22:44 A few days after Kennedy's orders, the Joint Chiefs of Staff was officially briefed on the CIA's plan for the conventional invasion. This provided for a landing on the south coast near the town of Trinidad and Escambray Mountains. The Joint Chiefs' official opinion after a few days of study was tendered on the paper numbered Joint Chiefs of Staff Memo 57-61.

23:12 and titled Military Evaluation of CIA Paramilitary Plan-Cuba. The 17 conclusions in the paper indicated continuing divisions of opinion regarding Pluto. On one hand, the military judged that the airdrop could be successful, but it would take several days for Castro to assemble a large enough force against the landing, and that despite its shortcomings, the CIA plan had a fair chance of success. On the other hand, they observed that the Cuban army

23:42 could eventually reduce the beachhead. Now, this is absolutely diabolically different than the last book, last two books, actually, that we read. And they actually had source documents that the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not give them, like it was in the 20 and below percent chance of any of this working, just FYI.

24:06 The military's warning about the beachhead implied that a rapid breakout from the landing site was necessary, but the CIA's own view contained in the January 4th report called Policy Decisions Required for Conductive Strike Operations Against the Government of Cuba was quite the opposite. Brigade 2506 should try to survive the beachhead and not break out until the time was opportune.

24:35 or the U.S. intervened openly. And by that means, they're trying to stage basically a false flag that would necessitate the U.S. military, which Kennedy made very, very clear. And even to Eisenhower's credit, he said the same thing, that the U.S. military would not at all be used, period, dot, not going to happen.

25:02 So whatever you do, you got to do on your own. But what they do is they do that and then they get Americans killed and then they go, oh, well, you know, maybe we'll send in the military at that point. So the CIA's political action specialist had planned to fly in the Cuban politicians to form a provisional government as part of this whole thing so they could plant the flag and pretend that there was an alternative.

25:32 government there like we've seen them do so many other times. The conflicting views of the military and the CIA were not reconcilable. President Kennedy now lacked other opinions. American intervention was clearly a sensitive matter. CIA paramilitary officers understood the necessity for disabling the Cuban Navy and Air Force that could intercept their landing party.

26:00 Although a fairly extensive program of exile airstrikes had been called on, it was known in advance that Castro possessed fighter jets. The exiles had no comparable aircraft. Support by American jets was the most obvious form of intervention that could take place, and it had been mentioned many times, but it was not going to be allowed.

26:25 On February 9th, clarification was sought by Admiral Robert Dennison, commander of the Navy's Atlantic Fleet, at a discussion with Kennedy that says, am I likely to be involved in a bailout? Kennedy emphatically said no. If there were any problems, the exiles would fade into the hitherland. American forces would not be used. The next day, Dennison received a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Our buddy, General Lyman Lemonsker.

26:54 defining the scope of and restrictions of the U.S. Navy support for the invasion. By mid-February, it was apparent that Operation Pluto could not make the planned invasion date of March 5th. The operation was delayed for a month. The Guatemalans had to be asked to accommodate the force for an extra month. The military took advantage of the extra time to dispatch three colonels on an inspection tour of the two locations, one where the

27:23 ground forces were and the other where the Air Force was. Their assessment was that the brigade seemed to be in good shape, but that the odds against surviving a surprise they put at 17 to 3. I don't know where you get those odds. The air evaluation stated that one Castro plane with a .50 caliber machine gun could sink most, if not all, of the invasion fleet as it arrived. So if surprise was not achieved, it would be an immediate failure.

27:53 How could the president interpret the conflicting reports that reached him? He turned to Alan Dulles one day in the Oval Office and questioned him. Alan Dulles alluded to his own discussion with Eisenhower on the eve of the Guatemalan project called Operation Success. I stood right here at Ike's desk, he said, and I told him I was certain a Guatemalan operation would succeed. And Mr. President, the prospects for this plan are even better than they were for that one.

28:22 Even though that one was a mess, too. This one will be an even bigger mess. Despite his doubts, Kennedy sought the opinion of the NSD chief, George Bundy, who we just talked about last week on Warhamster and I's program. Now kept looking for ways to make Pluto work at a full dress presentation of the Trinidad plan by Bissell on Arch.

28:52 March 11th, the president rejected this kind of spectacular invasion and asked for an alternative, but nevertheless then approved the National Security Action Memorandum 31 that approved the invasion. Over the next few days, a flurry of activity happened and produced a new plan for the landing around the Bay of Pigs, about 80 miles west of Trinidad. And actually, this had nothing to do with the White House. If you guys recall from the other

29:22 book that we've studied, this was a military recommendation based on the access of opposing forces and the likely success of a landing party. You can see that some of these books try to, not that Kennedy was not involved at all, because he certainly was, but they try very aggressively to pin a lot more responsibility on Kennedy than

29:51 Should have been placed on him, although he's ultimately 100 percent responsible for it. I just pay close attention to who they're attributing what to over the next few days. With all of that going on at the White House, you have the paramilitary planners were able to present a separate Bay of Pigs option to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

30:27 They met on March 15th. Later that day, both options were outlined for JFK. The president rejected Trinidad again as a World War II assault operation unsuitable for paramilitary planning. He also directed the Bay of Pigs plan itself to be reoriented to provide for a night as opposed to a dawn landing. Again, there was no one to tell the president that the U.S. had never carried out a nighttime invasion.

30:57 And what's what's interesting about this is they act like Kennedy had no experience at any of this when, in fact, he did. Anyway, the president was supportive of his paramilitary force. He thought the military approved, but was not aware of how little they actually had to do with the plans. There was some voices in opposition to Pluto, notably.

31:31 Arthur Schlesinger, then a Latin American policy advisor and court historian, Chester Bowles, the undersecretary of state for the new administration, Truman's former secretary of state, Dean Atkinson, and JFK's Senate colleague, William Fulbright. But their warnings were dismissed by the president. One important issue that remained to be considered was the image of the U.S. in the world opinion.

32:02 Plausible deniability was necessary for covert actions, but that was gone because Kennedy was now being briefed personally. So, excuse me, there was going to be a debate in the UN. Kennedy had appointed Adlai Stevenson as his ambassador to the UN and felt like he was the appropriate person that had the gravitas to work on the world stage.

32:37 Kennedy ordered author Schlesinger to brief the ambassador together with the CIA and State Department people. Unfortunately, Schlesinger arrived late for the meeting in Stevenson Suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on April 8th. So Tracy Barnes, the CIA man on the team, carried out most of the briefing. Steeped in the agency's need-to-know tradition, Barnes provided only

33:02 overviews with very little detail that enabled the ambassador to play his role effectively. Barnes was probably encouraged by the ambassador's reaction. Stevenson's doubted that Kennedy had thought through the problem in approving this invasion. Within days of the effect of Tracy Barnes, inadequate description of what was going to take place became very apparent.

33:29 Meanwhile, the implementation of Pluto was accelerating. Two final postponements resulted in an invasion set for April 17th. On April 1st, Admiral Dennison got his basic marching orders in a Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum. The Navy could reinforce Guantanamo in case Castro moved against it and provide a task force built around the carrier Essex that could

33:57 furnish air cover if required. The destroyers Eaton and Murray, with their superior navigational equipment, could convey the invasion fleet from a rendezvous point into the Bay of Pigs, while the amphibious ship San Marcos carried landing craft for the Cubans with their vehicles and some supplies. A submarine would carry out a diversion at another point on the Cuban coast.

34:25 Denison's major task force was instructed to avoid overt association with the Cuban exiles at all costs. The invasion itself was not mounted from Guatemala, but from a port in Nicaragua, codenamed Trampoline. Can't make this shit up. The rebel navy began to assemble there at the beginning of April, starting with the CIA's two...

34:57 LCIs called the Blagger and Barbara J. Five merchant ships from the Garcia shipping company had also been chartered. And remember, the Garcia shipping company is the company that we learned in the other book that was stationed in New Orleans. That was the only shipping company left leaving America that was going down to Cuba and basically doing the sugar runs and spying for the CIA.

35:28 So they had been hired to charter the CIA's Brigade 2506. On April 10th, the exile force began to move from tracks to other bases towards the trampoline designated location, where there was a base force of 316 people, including 159 Americans, that assisted in loading.

35:53 The first ship sailed on April 11th, the fastest vessels on the 13th. And the next day, Tracy Barnes and a senior paramilitary guy went to New York to inform the Cuban exile politicians, which, if you recall in the other book, they basically kidnapped because they weren't allowed to talk to anyone about anything from that point forward without the approval or a script from the CIA.

36:21 but supposedly they're going to be the new government. President Kenney was still reserving his final decision and had the option to cancel Pluto up to 24 hours prior to it, to the landing. Although the military man sent down to observe loading operations reported back that the situation was chaos and the shipping inadequate, the president's qualms were resolved by another cable from a Marine colonel.

36:51 This is what it read. My observations have increased my confidence in the ability of this force to accomplish not only initial combat missions, but also the ultimate objective, the overthrow of Castro. The brigade and battalion commanders now know all the details of the plan and are very enthusiastic. These officers are young, vigorous, intelligent, and motivated with a fanatical urge to begin battle.

37:20 They just weren't allowed in the clubs. They say they know their people and believe that after they inflict serious damage upon the opposition forces that they will melt away from Castro and I share their confidence. The brigade is more heavily armed and better equipped in many respects than even U.S. infantry units because they got all the money they want to spend on it.

37:47 The men have received more firing experience than U.S. troops would normally receive. I was impressed with the serious attitude of the men. The president gave the go-ahead after he received that. Wouldn't you love to know the name of the Marine colonel and whatever happened to him? I would. The crucial first action of Clouto was the effort to destroy

38:14 the Cuban Air Force. If Castro's airplanes were not eliminated, they would pose a threat. So they had, in their estimates based on U-2 flights, saw that Castro had six B-29 bombers, four T-33 jet trainers modified to be fighters, and two to four British Sea Fury fighters. Principal bases were at Havana and Santiago.

38:45 Under the plan, a surprise air attack was scheduled for two days before the invasion, and any of Castro's planes remaining would be bombed at dawn following the landing. That was the plan. It was hoped to conceal the exiles' hand in the bombing by claiming that they had been bombed by pilots that were basically stealing Castro's planes.

39:15 and flying them. And before they got to the United States, they did a bombing run over their former aircraft on the ground. That was the story anyway. To this end, the CIA acquired two extra B-26 bombers whose mission were simply just to fly from Nicaragua to Florida, where the pilots were going to tell everybody this cover story.

39:43 The real strike would be conducted by 11 bombers that would hit six Cuban air bases. Bombing and strafing of the airfields was successful as far as it went. The exiled planes achieved surprise. About half of the Air Force was destroyed. But almost immediately, the plans started unraveling because the CIA cover story fell apart, which was what we learned in the other books.

40:12 The exiled planes detailed for this purpose reached Florida as planned. One landed at Opelika and the other at Miami International Airport, where its pilot, Mario Zuniga, recited the prearranged story as a disaffected Cuban air crew member. His B-26 was photographed by the press and almost immediately sent to the UN. The pictures clearly showed.

40:42 There were Cuban markings on there, which the CIA had thoughtfully painted on there from their U2 photos. Adlai Stevenson exhibited them in a debate and used them as the basis for a strong statement denying any American complicity in the operation. But the photos actually showed a little too much. The Miami B-26 had one of the special nose-coned assemblies with machine guns, which the Cubans.

41:12 As an enterprising reporter discovered that the Miami bomber's machine guns were taped up and thus could not have fired, it also strained credibility that a bunch of the spontaneous defectors could have launched a coordinated strike that appeared simultaneously over several different bases, but apparently there were only like two of them.

41:42 according to the news. So how did the two of them do all of that? Because they didn't have a lot of weapons on board. So lots of questions. And as we discovered in the last time we covered this, the literally in real time, just like today, it would be like, you know how within 24 hours of the New Orleans thing, where they show the photo of the

42:13 chick walking through and, you know, the home of the supposed guy that ran everybody over. Their stories don't hold water anymore. Well, that's what happened with this story. And within 24 hours, so they're not even going to get to the next bombing run, everybody in America, all of the papers, the UPI, the AP, they're running it, the stories that

42:41 This was not a Cuban plane. It was not Cuba that bombed a Cuban actually from the island that day that bombed his fellow, you know, Cuban aircraft. So there's lots of problems. And Adlai Stevens was pissed. So he realized that Tracy Barnes had basically set him up.

43:11 He's pissed. It's kind of if we would have ever believed that kind of like the whole briefing of weapons of mass destruction in real time, that if you could have like squeeze that stuff together. Although I think Colin Powell was in on the whole scam. But, you know, it's like briefing something of that magnitude only to find out within a few hours that everything that just came out of your mouth, the boldface lie.

43:43 President Kennedy was embarrassed at the turn of events. He determined to send McGeorge Bundy to New York to give a full account to Stevenson, but could do little about the next portion of the CIA plan. A diversionary landing was scheduled for the province that night and the last minute canceling had already passed. This diversion, however, failed on its own accord. The Garcia shipping line, La Plata, had been carrying 168 men.

44:13 of a group under the command of Nino Diaz, who was supposed to make Castro think theirs was the real invasion. The week before, the team was specially trained. Exiles that were supposed to guide the men to the beach had been wiped out in an accident with a hand grenade. The new group detailed for this mission approached the shore 30 miles east of Guantanamo, only to see Cuban troops guarding the beach.

44:41 a rocky one that had a very complicated landing. Another try the next night also failed. Heavy seas were to blame. Meanwhile, Colonel Stanley Beerly at the CIA's Air Ops Center was laying the groundwork for a follow-up airstrike to neutralize the remaining Air Force. Beerly and his assistants were selecting targets from the U-2 photographs when fate would have it in the deputy CIA director.

45:11 General Charles Cabell intervened. Cabell was in charge that weekend because Alan Dulles, as part of the cover story, went to give a speech in Puerto Rico. Cabell learned of the latest bombing plan and asked if it had been approved. He was clearly aware of the administration's embarrassment at the UN and the fact that the original air plan was plausible deniability and that was gone now.

45:41 barely tried to tell Cabell that everything was fine. But Cabell wanted to check with Secretary of State Dean Rust. Within a few minutes, McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rust, called in to report that the president had decided no further airstrikes could be launched because if they did, they would emphatically know that the U.S. was behind it because they had already been outed.

46:13 And the next plausible potential way of doing it was if they could land the Brigade 2506 on to Cuba successfully, they could then say that those people had stolen the aircraft because they had pilots among them. That was kind of going to be like the backup cover story. But until a successful landing happened, there would be no other launching of aircraft.

46:42 So at this point, Richard Bissell was called in and he and Cabell appealed directly to Rusk, who rejected their arguments. Both the CIA officials, all of them actually, protested vigorously and now basically tell lies to American people, as we saw Felix Rodriguez do on Tucker Carlson's show, that they despised and hate Kennedy.

47:06 Because it was Kennedy's decision not to do the second air operation because they're too stupid and fucked it up the first time. They didn't disguise the aircraft properly. They took pictures and gave it to the U.N. where everybody at the U.N. could see that they were U.S. aircraft and not Cuban aircraft. So they blew their own story but blamed it all on JFK. I want to make that perfectly clear. JFK had nothing to do with their stupid story falling apart.

47:35 They're too stupid to plan a covert operation and then blame JFK for being a novice. At this point, Richard Bissell was called, oh, let's see. All right, so moving on. Now it was all up to Brigade 2506. The fleet of four ships and two landing craft arrived at the Bay of Pigs area on schedule, except for three large landing craft with the vehicles and four for personnel, all brought by the U.S. amphibious ship,

48:07 The Cubans were dependent on small fiberglass boats with outboard motors. These would be slow in arriving. At least the beaches were marked against orders that no Americans were to be directly involved. Rip Robertson and Grayston Lynch led frogmen teams onto the shore to do this. So they were involved even though they were ordered to not be involved.

48:33 The parachute drop of the 1st Battalion was successful. These men took up positions to block Castro's reinforcement near Covadonga, the sugar plantation in, let's see, the main landing occurred at a resort area, Giron, G-I-R-O-N, called Blue Beach, where the CIA's experienced photo interpreters had failed to detect.

49:02 the offshore reefs. In fact, an agency man even repeated the observations of exiles who had vacationed there who knew there were reefs there. You know, don't pay attention to the indigenous people. We know better because we got photos that can't see the damn reefs. Don found most of the Cubans ashore, but with far less than the planned 72 tons of supplies. In addition, the invasion fleet, which was to have

49:32 was still in place off the beaches. That was when Castro's Air Force made its contribution. Two strikes at 6.30 and 9 a.m. Sea Flurry aircraft sank the ships Houston and the Rio Escondido. The former

49:53 still containing many of the supplies and 130 men of the 5th Battalion. The survivors had to swim ashore without equipment into the salt marshes of Zapata Peninsula. Across the bay from the brigade's position, Rio Escondido went down with the brigade's communication van and aviation fuel intended for the airstrip. One major landing point was Playa Larga, called Red Beach.

50:22 at the head of the Bay of Pigs and almost 30 miles by road from Gateron. There, the troops of the 2nd Battalion got ashore in good order. The Brigade 2506 impaired communications, however, it was hours before Red Beach was able to get in touch with the exiled commander who went by the name Pepe, San Roman, at Gateron. The battalion at Playa Larga

50:51 was in good position to move north and reinforce the paratroopers that landed near a place called Central Australia, but they got no orders to do so. By the time Stan Roman had established radio contact, yet another CIA error had become very apparent. One of the big assumptions throughout the planning was that Castro would need days to react to the landing. Exile officers

51:19 Why would you even make that as an assumption? That is so stupid. He's a dictator. He just orders people to do shit. Why would anybody think it would take days? They had specifically been told just before embarkation that there would be no resistant forces at the Bay of Pigs and that the Cuban force would require.

51:50 at least two to three days to mount any significant opposition. Bistel and other planners repeatedly used this estimate, yet their confidence in it was striking, given their complete ignorance of any conditions on the ground in Cuba. Admiral Dennison, in his own planning, had submitted a list of 90 specific questions on Castro forces and 29 on the Cuban resistance as early as December. Less than a dozen was ever answered. But yet we were told.

52:24 that he could make a favorable assessment of the plan and say that there was a high likelihood that it would succeed when not a fucking, what, 20% of his questions was even answered? That's why you know that that guy did not say that it was likely to succeed because it wasn't. The paramilitary, let's see, at the time of the first invasion scare in December, the Cuban army,

52:56 Mobilization orders had created great confusion. Repeated subsequent scares created a highly efficient system. And I have to say this again for people who may just be joining us. Castro had a shit ton of spies in Miami. He knew ahead of time every single time the CIA. This is not the first time the CIA has tried to do this. All right. This is just the current time they're trying to do it. And every single time they tried.

53:27 Their operations were thwarted. So you would have thought at some point they'd have thought, huh, maybe we have some spies in Miami. Because they did. All right. So there was large forces, including armor, to be deployed against the Exile Brigade the very first day. Almost like they had a spy. By early on the second day, April 18th,

54:00 The exiles had been driven back from the Central Australian designated place and also the Playa Larga place, and the Cuban tanks were moving down the road to Guarón. The paratroop roadblocks near Covadonga on the opposite flank of the bridgehead were also in retreat. Yet another mistake estimate on the part of the Directorate of Plans was that the large number of Cubans that would join,

54:30 Brigade 2506, you know, from the local community because supposedly they hated Castro. Yeah, that didn't pan out either. Apparently that was completely misrepresented. So there were a few people and basically the only thing that they could provide as far as assistance was.

55:06 They sabotage a couple of Woolworth stores in Hershey's Sugar Mill warehouse on the island as kind of like diversionary things. Castro's police arrested everybody that was involved in that. Brigade 2506 had no real chance. On the second day, Pepe sent Roman troops.

55:39 were driven back on all fronts. The Cuban pilots of the Air Force were also demoralized after losing two of their planes on the initial day. To shore them up, Bissell now authorized combat missions by the American contract crews, the other pilots, like the Alabama Guard pilots that are down there, supposedly as trainers. The biggest success of April 18th was a strike against Castro's column advancing

56:09 from Playa Larga. But the nine sorties carried out that day and night, each of which could spend only about 20 minutes over the Bay of Pigs, was severely limited. In addition, two American air crew were shot down by Castro's jet, and we lost four American Air National Guard, but they were not on guard status or federal status, but they were killed.

56:38 as contractors to the CIA, but they were contracted in such a way as the CIA to never acknowledge they were actually flying their missions. On the third day, April 19th, they loved that day. Brigade 2506 had virtually exhausted all of its ammunition. The ships of the invasion fleet carrying the supplies had become demoralized and scattered. They had rounded up

57:07 They were rounded up by Denison's naval vessel with their CIA commanders. But amid the frantic appeals from Pepe San Roman and the CIA chain of command, President Kennedy came closer than ever to intervention. There was intermittent overflights by American jets on Wednesday and the 19th, the destroyers.

57:34 closed in toward the shore with orders to take the survivors out. 22 more survived a sailboat odyssey to land in Mexico. The remnants of the Brigade 2506, including San Roman political advisor Roman Artine and Anito Oliva, who had been the combat commanders, scattered into the swamps and were rounded up one by one by Castro forces.

58:03 ending in a total of 1,214 brigade soldiers being captured and themselves suffered about 1,700 dead and over 2,000 wounded.

58:16 At one of the numerous Washington discussions of how to limit damage caused by the defeat, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were amazed to hear Bissell say, after all of the talk of how an uprising was going to overthrow Castro, that the brigade was not prepared to switch to guerrilla-style fighting. President Kennedy finally conceded, raising his hand up, saying, we're already in it up to here.

58:43 Two persons with a special interest in the outcome of the Cuban operation were Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man who had lost the 1960 election. Nixon was planning a foreign policy address in Chicago and had arranged for a CIA briefing through Kennedy. Alan Dulles was to make the presentation at Nixon's home in Washington on April 19th. That evening, Dulles appeared an hour and a half late. Dulles was nervous and shaken.

59:12 Asked if he wanted to drink, Allen said, I certainly would. I really need one. This was the worst day of my life. When Nixon asked what was wrong, Dulles blurted out, everything is lost. The Cuban invasion is a total failure. In a rush, Dulles sketched the latest developments in Cuba and blamed Kennedy's nervous aides for getting JFK to make compromises with the plan, like dropping the airstrike.

59:39 And again, that's not what happened. I just told you what happened. Dulles is trying to blame Kennedy for his own mistakes. I should have told him, said Dulles, that we must not fail. Alan Dulles stared at the floor. I came close to doing so, but I didn't. It was the greatest mistake of my life. Nixon heard President Kennedy's version directly in a phone call.

1:00:07 in an afternoon meeting at the White House. Allen Dulles faced the music with Eisenhower on Friday, April 21st. Eisenhower was conciliatory and tried to reassure Allen Dulles. The briefing was a prelude to the weekend, which the Eisenhowers had been invited to spend with JFK at Camp David. The next day, Eisenhower and Mamie Eisenhower helicoptered over from Gettysburg.

1:00:37 anticipating a social visit. But JFK opened with business and walked the former president over to a terrace at the Aspen Lodge. President Kenney did not quibble over the CIA's responsibility in the fiasco. Quote, the chief apparent cause of failure, JFK told Ike, were gaps in our intelligence, plus what may have been some errors in shiploading timing and tactics. Unquote. By their own accounts,

1:01:09 Nixon and Eisenhower encouraged Kennedy in his moment of disaster to pursue Castro. Richard Nixon advised the president to find a proper legal cover and then go in against Castro. Eisenhower told Kennedy that he would support anything that had as an objective to prevent the quote-unquote communist entry and solidification of bases.

1:01:38 in Western Hemisphere, unquote. Neither the old administration nor the new one appeared to understand the American hostility was having precisely the wrong effect on Cuba, driving Castro right into the arms of Russians, which of course is what happened in every single one of these cases. They boycott them, but that then provides them the impetus to label him a communist, because at this point he's still not a communist.

1:02:06 He's just getting attacked all the time. Six weeks later, Ike was given a detailed account of the Bay of Pigs by his business partner. Let me say this again, because this is incredible. Six weeks later, Dwight D. Eisenhower was given a detailed account of the Bay of Pigs by his business friend and partner, William.

1:02:38 Hawley, who had received the information from one of the Brigade 2506's escapees. Hawley also recounted that he had learned of meetings at the White House during the invasion, because they talk all the time. In an allusion to JFK's 1956 book, Profiles in Courage, Eisenhower wrote in his diary that if true,

1:03:08 This story could be called a profile in timidity and indecision. Eisenhower then stilled up these notes and in an accompanying map in an envelope that was only opened some years later by archivists working on his papers. Isn't that amazing? I found that like mind boggling. So we're going to stop there. We'll finish the chapter tomorrow.

1:03:41 But Polly, again, makes another appearance. It's the same people, same trick, man, doing round and round and round. These are evil dudes. Yeah. I mean, he's obviously part of the CIA. And, you know, again, he's given all of those businesses down in Cuba. For those of you who've not followed this story.

1:04:17 He owned sugar plantations in Cuba, William Polly, that is. He owned the bus transportation for the entire island. He owned the airline flying in and out, the only airline flying in and out of Cuba. And this was during the heyday of Cuba when all of the mafia was coming in and out. So he is basically the infrastructure guy for the mafia in Cuba. He owned lots of stuff there.

1:04:46 And he was part of the apparatus that created the elite among the Cuban population, like Grease and Palms, that allowed the kids to be prostituted into the casinos and for them to basically pay dirt wages and treat the people doing the sugar plantations, you know, pennies on the dollar for labor. He was, you know, a facilitator.

1:05:16 and worked directly with the CIA. He is also the guy that we learned in Southeast Asia that had the aircraft franchise that equipped Chiang Kai-shek with both his Navy and his Air Force when they decided they were going to adopt him as their opium king in Southeast Asia. So he hops all over. And then he later on becomes an ambassador, as many of the CIA operatives, like the business side of it, do.

1:05:44 And he just so happens to be in a whole bunch of Latin American countries when they're being cued. So they definitely got their money worth out of him. And oh, the other book we learned about his using his own personal yacht later on to stage a landing onto Cuba as well. So Miles, go ahead. Good afternoon, Colonel.

1:06:14 You bring up Magic City again. I talked about this series that only had two seasons. And they said that they had to stop production because it was so expensive. And the production was excellent as far as the movie value of it. But I think there was more because I was watching towards the end. They were exposing too much about the Mafia back in the 50s in this series.

1:06:43 But maybe they were right. The production value was too expensive. I just wanted to let you know, because we had talked about this before, that I was going to run a special ops on somebody, and I delayed this operation for two reasons. I needed more information, more intel, and I wanted for this person not to be under duress.

1:07:12 And because they're not under duress anymore because of the verdict or, you know, the decision that was made out in California, then I was waiting for also some supplies for the special ops. And now that I have my MRAs, I'm going to run this special ops on this person. I think you know what I'm talking about. I have no idea what you're talking about, Miles.

1:07:43 Well, it has something to do with women that make sandwiches or alphas that make sandwiches. Remember that op that I was going to run on this person? I don't remember the op. I just remember that. Well, I'm going to punk them. Okay. All right. Well, that's fine. I was just using different military technology. Okay. All right. Now, this thing about I find really frustrating with this whole series is that we're learning so much.

1:08:12 That when I get in discussions with other people that don't know what we're talking about, that we get into arguments. And I just don't even want to talk about it because they don't know what we know. And their history is the old corrupted history that they're sourcing. And it goes into religion too much. So I just want to get away from that.

1:08:41 And because they're always picking on certain religions because we know that that was a plan to divide and conquer, but they don't understand that. And my last statement here or question, do you know who Phil Haney was? Yes. Do you think that he was a good guy? I don't know. Okay. It would require me to go back and look now that I know more.

1:09:11 And I don't mind doing that. As a matter of fact, that's often been the case is, you know, through somebody asking me something like you just did that then has me go back and look. I find out I, you know, have a completely different understanding. But I do want to say something. I would encourage you to.

1:09:40 have those conversations as frustrating as they are, especially when they're in an open forum, because you're having the conversation not necessarily for the person that you're actually talking to. You're having it for all of the people that are listening as well. And so there are going to be people that are going to, on the peripheral, hear you say something that's going to make something else click for them that they were already thinking.

1:10:08 And, you know, the mentioning of a book, whether it's Operation Gladio or NATO's Secret Armies or whatever, as a place to start is very, very important in the awakening process. And as you can tell, there are people that I believe they're either.

1:10:35 I'm trying to look for the right word because the first word that comes to my mind, assholes. So I'm just going to go with it. They're either assholes and they don't understand what being on a mission of disclosure of a particular operation is. Or they are on purpose trying to send me shit that is completely off topic. And when you don't talk about it.

1:11:01 They are like, oh, that's the one thing you don't want to talk about, which goes right into your comment about the religions. I have made it a mission. And it's not because I don't know about all of this other stuff. But by couching our project under the guise of Operation Gladio, what you clearly see happening is.

1:11:34 the exposure of many different religions under the umbrella of Operation Gladio, because these people have infiltrated literally every aspect of the world and our lives. And so it's the ability to work those things into the conversation.

1:11:58 under the umbrella of exposing Operation Gladio. And for the people that come in and they want you to focus on what their pet project is or their preconceived idea, the only thing that I have to say to them is they're ignorant. They are ignorant as to the extent of the other infiltration projects.

1:12:26 And now we all know enough to poke holes in their arguments. When someone tries to tell you that it's all this religion or that religion, you can just run around the horn. Who was it that were killing all of the indigenous Indians using translators in Latin America?

1:12:48 Oh, that was the Protestants who were killing all of the Vietnamese or running psychological, not killing them, running psychological operations on the Vietnamese and participated in the mass migration, forced migration through psychological operations of over a million.

1:13:09 Northern Vietnamese into the South and then use them as part of the Phoenix program, both murdering them and using them to rat on the nationalists in the South. That was the Catholic Church. And who ran the rat lines? The Catholic Church. So you can run around the horn of all of the exposure that we have done. And you realize that the funding of both sides of the war.

1:13:38 by the Jewish religion people who, by the way, are not even practicing Jews. They're not. They are people who claim the Jewish religion as a shield, but are not practicing Jewish people. And so if you equally hit all of them and you say, OK, so these are, you know.

1:14:06 And of course, you've got the corruption of the Islamic religion with the CIA using them as paid off radical Islamic terrorists. You can make the argument around the entire horn, because if you go back to the research project that I did on Zionism and you have the what was the guy called in Jerusalem that.

1:14:36 The English. Oh, shoot. What did they call him? Basically, he was the senior religious leader on the Muslim side that he basically was bought and paid for by the British and set up to work with the Jewish Haagen-Dazs, which was a terrorist organization. And they the two of them orchestrated basically.

1:15:01 prior to Gladio, Gladio operations, false flags against each other, citizens in order to stimulate the chaos in order for preparation of the World War II conclusion and then the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. Colonel, I agree with you 100%. This is a bridge too far.

1:15:30 at this time for these people. I disagree. Because I can say this in 10 minutes and say that every single one of these religions have been infiltrated by a group of evil people. And they are being used to... You have one small slice of the pie and you're fixated on it. But if you could zoom out to 20,000 feet, there is a much bigger pie that...

1:15:58 shows all of this going on. And it's important, even if they hate you for the rest of your life, you've planted a seed. And I think it's important to do that so that everybody understands that we're all in this together. And that's how I conclude every time I talk to somebody about this. It isn't your religion or my religion. We don't even need to know what each other's religions are.

1:16:23 What we need to know is there is a group of people that are attacking us using our religion to separate us. And that needs to stop. Look, Colonel, at my age, I don't have any more fucks to give. So I don't I'm not worried about it. OK. All right. SR 71. Thank you, Colonel. I have three three deals here. I'm surprised the book doesn't mention.

1:16:55 Operation Pluto was changed to Operation Zapata. And I also have a question here from Turalura. She wants to know, or he wants to know, how or why there was confusion over the time zone from those higher up. And the final thing I want to talk about is where did...

1:17:27 Castro get all that American hardware from? What do you mean, American hardware? He had planes. He had definitely had an army there. So the question now becomes is, where did all that come from? Well, remember that he took over from Batista, who we put in place. Thank you. I missed that point.

1:17:54 Just like in the past, we supply both sides of every war. While Batista was still in charge of the island, the CIA was not only supplying, and the U.S. in general, openly supplying Batista with weaponry because of their role in the drug network. Because you've got to remember the timing. So we've already set up Cuba as the drug from Sicily.

1:18:24 They brought the drugs into Cuba. They cut them and then they shipped them up to New York and Miami. So that's already in place. So you got to have an army if you're going to have drugs to be able to protect your stashes. So there is a lot of government, U.S. government military hardware on the island of Cuba to protect the CIA's drug running operation. So that's number one.

1:18:54 Very, very important as far as the timing. So now that we've decided that it's critical to protect Cuba, Batista, through some shenanigans, there's some doubt among the CIA people. And they also know that there's a resistance movement that is growing in Cuba. So they want to co-opt the resistance. So they have CIA agents that.

1:19:24 are deployed to the mountain areas of Cuba where they know that the rebellion is forming. Now, they don't know that they're CIA agents necessarily. Eventually, they do. And they begin aiding and training the resistance, which is the Castro brothers and Che Guevara. They're teaching them how to do explosions and explosives.

1:19:53 They're teaching them how to do terror tactics and all kinds of stuff because they want to co-opt them because they don't want to lose their drug staging place no matter who wins. Because they've realized at this point that as long as you just like with Saddam Hussein, as long as you own whoever's going to come to power, you're fine. So you play both sides against the middle. So in the hotel where Castro was.

1:20:21 set up after the rebellion, um, was successful and he's now in charge, there was a CIA, um, a quote unquote advisor in the, in, on the same floor with him. So he, just like with, um, Ho Chi Minh and, um, uh, um, him and North Korea, they all had their own, um, you know, at that time it was OSS.

1:20:47 But, you know, and the same thing with Shane Kyshek. All of these guys have their own advisors until they piss them off. And when they realized that they couldn't own Castro, that's when they turned on him. He was not going to sell out the mission that he was on, regardless of whether you like the mission or not. He was not going to compromise and allow the CIA to control him.

1:21:15 Then he became the mortal enemy. And there's a whole nother line of thinking that I kind of adopted along the way. Knowing now what I know about how Castro came to power with the CIA's assistance that and the fact that supposedly they tried to kill him a million times and never were successful. And these are the same people that can kill anybody anywhere and by all kinds of means that we don't even know about.

1:21:44 It's always been intriguing to me to consider an alternative course of action in that they never really actually were against Cuba or Castro, but they needed to craft a quote unquote communist. And believe me, I don't believe everybody was in on this, but it's awful convenient that you have 90 miles off the coast of Florida, a communist president.

1:22:13 That in every single coup that happened, you know, like 30 of them after that in Latin America, the words every single time we explored any of them was, oh, my God, we can't have another Cuba. And it just served to clean cut of a purpose of a justification of installing dictators all over the world because we can't have another Cuba.

1:22:41 I definitely have kept that as an as an open possibility that there's kind of probably something in the middle that's more true at the end of the day. And hopefully through declassification, we'll know what that answer is. But even if they didn't openly create it, it served a useful purpose for them. Kathy, go ahead. Hi. Good afternoon, Colonel.

1:23:13 Hi, I wanted to just kind of pick your brain for a second. I keep hearing over and over again that Operation Condor was something that was most likely being run from inside our country. And I don't know enough about that. And so I was wondering if that's a true and correct way of thinking.

1:23:43 And do I just go on to maybe like your your homepage and search like Operation Condor or what would you suggest? So I have one more. I have one more question. OK, so Operation Condor is another name for Operation Gladio. The only difference in them is that Condor specifically referred to Latin America. They're in any paramilitary sense. There is no difference. As a matter of fact.

1:24:11 they actually exchanged a lot of the trainers' money and paramilitary tactics and manuals from the European Gladio apparatus to include Otto Skorzeny. I mean, he made trips to South America to set up Condor. The interchanging of the people and the tactics, I call it a cousin.

1:24:41 It was all ran by NATO and CIA, all of it. I just used the, there were so many in Latin America, like the entire South America and Central America, except for two, British Guyana and Belize, which are already captured by the Brits. So you really don't need to coup them. They own them and control them and appoint their leadership. So, you know, why coup them?

1:25:11 Everything else was couped and there was a dictator installed in every single other place by this same operation. So that's Condor. That's the name. But it is the exact same thing that was used in Europe under a generic label of Gladio. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah, I feel you. OK, so I'll just keep going then.

1:25:37 The other thing was I've been watching some C-SPAN hearings today, and I've always been a pretty big fan of Johnny Ratcliffe, who's up for the head of the CIA. Right. And so he's up there. And I am, you know, I can feel like I'm going to be brokenhearted again on this one, too. I know he's just been a lot up there just talking about.

1:26:05 how he's going to keep FISA and how he's, you know, willing to work across the aisle and blah, blah, blah. And I just wanted to know your personal feelings or professional or really what you got. Like, what, how do you, how do you, what do you think about him? I'm going to be cautiously optimistic. His role, he was out of, out of all of the input.

1:26:31 of corrupt intelligence officials when he was the dni for trump towards the end during covid he was the only person that told the truth he said that it did not come from a wet market and there was a much bigger story here than it being from china he was the only one that told the truth um so he was also intimately involved in the exposure with devin nunez and cash patel

1:27:00 on the whole Russiagate thing at the very beginning. So there's a lot of things up front that are going to be camouflage for what they're actually going to do. So do not get caught up in the small talk that is happening right now in order to get them in place. Do not fall in that trap. There's going to be a...

1:27:30 bunch of small talk that happens right now that will have no bearing on what they're actually going to do when they get into the job. And so I don't trust any of them. I say that all the time. But I am very cautiously optimistic where he is concerned only because he has demonstrated the fortitude.

1:28:00 to stand up against the swamp on more than one occasion. Apollonia, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel Bridget and Cousin Ed. This is almost like a question. I do talk to a lot of the Cuban community, and I started about a year ago speaking to them, and they enlightened me about communism and just the day-to-day life and how.

1:28:31 It is. So, you know, I appreciate that. But this year, I figure, you know, it's time for to have the bigger conversations. And we started as somebody I was questioning, how do I like the new president? And what are the things that he didn't do on his first term that would have been better? Veterans was one of my biggest pet pet.

1:28:53 And sending our young men to die overseas over this endless wars, which I automatically got resistant and I wasn't understanding. They say, well, in America, people sign and volunteer. So if they volunteer to die overseas, that's on them. And basically, very strongly, that's their mindset. But in communist country, your children are taken to war and not even asked.

1:29:22 And so I took a step back and opened my mouth with the CIA and the barrage of, I was called an outright communist because they say you better be careful because that is the first thing they take from you, your patriotism, and they begin to teach you to hate your country. And I realized that I'm dealing with a very traumatized group in general.

1:29:52 And it's so you know what I'm saying is spiritually they've been beaten down over. So I can forgive that. But it's going to be impossible to to have conversation with some groups. I mean, one, I'm not a patriot and then I'm a communist. And it's like, you know, darn, if you're doing darn, if you don't. So I'm learning by because I never trust my government since I was a little girl. I didn't have words. Now I'm beginning to understand the words in the history.

1:30:22 And, you know, I don't want to be accused that, oh, my God, you listen to this person. So, no, this is ideology. They already have. But now there's proof. So what do you do when you just shut your mouth? You learn, but you never teach anybody or never have the conversation because they're not going to be receptive because there's so much psychological damage to Americans. You know? Yeah, I know.

1:30:47 What I do is I take it outside of whatever. So if you're talking to a Cuban community, take it outside of that community and ask them about what happened in Chile or what happened in Argentina. And get yourself familiar enough by going back and listening to that link on my profile about one particular country. Just pick one where you know Condor or Gladio happened in.

1:31:17 And get yourself familiar with it. And so you ask them, after you are able to articulate, you know, in a short, not a long, lengthy lecture, that you had a guy like Allende that was very patriotic, had all of this vision of where he wanted to take his country. He was democratically elected. Everybody loved him.

1:31:46 During the election process, the U.S.-owned newspaper came unglued, you know, basically attacking him. They assassinated his friend and basically what we would consider a four-star general in charge of the army there because he was a strident Allende supporter. So it'd be like taking out the Joint Chiefs of Staff that had supported.

1:32:15 or said something positive about Trump during an election campaign. And then they weren't able to not get him elected by the people. And because they're a parliamentary system, he had to be confirmed by the Senate. They went about trying to buy the senators. Well, they couldn't buy enough senators. And these are U.S. corporations, the precursor to AT&T, PepsiCo, and the mining company. I did that. And it was like,

1:32:44 I was like half hung, and they just pulled the string harder. When I even tried to mention Chile, the barrage, and there was one person that came and questioned me, and I went at it with them, and I realized that they have their enemy in their group, but they can't see it because they've been so long in it that they have not.

1:33:11 It is like a very sick stock syndrome. And after so many generations, I just don't think they're able and they have not been let go because they're still being controlled by the same people. I realized this person is running this show, highly intelligent. He knows what I'm talking, but he's going to challenge me. And when I spoke after a minute, he became very quiet. He realized somebody's awake in the room.

1:33:41 And it almost puts a little fear on you to try to speak. So I'm going to stay away. But that is so critical for the next generations in this country. There is a million in Florida, the highest concentration out of Cuba.

1:33:57 everywhere united kingdom everywhere and they might persuade the elections locally one way or the other but if that virus is not taken care of it is just again having the enemy within our

1:34:12 Not even our chores, like in-house. So I don't know. I just wanted to, it blew my mind. So let me also address your, since you're not military, let me address the voluntary military thing that you, so you'll have an answer when they talk about that. The U.S. adopted an all-volunteer military. That is correct. But the military and...

1:34:41 What we are willing to die for is based on intelligence provided by the CIA. And in every case, the CIA creates their own intelligence to feed into a propaganda machine that then pulls on the heartstrings and the patriotic nature of Americans in general in order to

1:35:11 psychologically manipulate them into quote unquote dying for their country. So, and I watched it actually happen in real time. I didn't know it was happening at the time, but going back and looking at all my three years at U.S. Central Command after 9-11, I had no idea what was going on around me, but replaying staff meetings that I sat through.

1:35:36 and what organizations they were from, what they said and how they... I lived through one of, and personally experienced, one of the most diabolical evil things that I could never, ever believe had I not experienced myself. The intelligence...

1:36:04 that was given to the military on the background of what happened on 9-11 was 1,000% wrong. And it was, I mean, on purpose wrong. And they did it in order to evoke the response in order, obviously, to sell more military and end up with a bunch more dead bodies. But the fact that...

1:36:33 people were psychologically conditioned to believe that our country was under attack, just like, you know, happened in World War II. Of course, the way people are brought up in America to love their country, they're going to be willing to die for it. But if you told those same soldiers, airmen, Marines, that, you know,

1:37:04 Those people, however you think 9-11 happened, all of those people were on the payroll of the CIA and they did this in order to get us into a war in the Middle East so that they could do whatever they're doing in the Middle East, build pipelines and all that other shit. If you ask one fucking person in the military if they're willing to die for that shit, they're going to unequivocally tell you no. So the All Volunteer Force is a...

1:37:29 a non-starter as far as I'm concerned. The all-volunteer force is because our country is under threat. When the CIA makes that shit up because they actually work for the defense industry and not for America, fuck that. That's what I got to say about that. Carrie, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. I heard that Trump reinstated Cuba's terrorist state. I didn't know what you said. Reinstated what? Cuba.

1:38:03 as a terrorist state, re-designated them. Because Biden had ended that. Okay. And do you know what business Eisenhower was in with Paul Lee? I do not. How can they write that in the book and then they're just relying, I guess. He wasn't in business with them.

1:38:38 You think? No, he could have been. The writer. He could have been in business with him. But there's no, we don't know anything about that. I know the businesses that Pauly was in. I don't know which of those he may have shared with Eisenhower. I mean, you know, the Eisenhower afterwards was very involved in the military industrial complex that he supposedly didn't like.

1:39:09 And so he could have been sitting on board, you know, all kinds of different things. They could have been in something like, but I don't know for a fact what that was. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, I just want to, I guess, reiterate that I think it's real important to remember not just who, but when.

1:39:41 And again, when JFK came into the White House, it was 1961 to 63, late 1963. And so these are the years when the CIA is, you know, 13 to 16 years old. Hey, all along, all along, the background is so loud, you're almost not even able to be heard. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, I think maybe I'll save my labor commentary for tomorrow then. Okay, yeah.

1:40:10 Because we're going to finish the rest of the chapter, so we'll still be there. It's very distracting to try to understand what you're saying with all of the commotion in the background. Sorry about that. Kathy, go ahead. Oops, hi. Okay, so thank you for your comments on Johnny Radcliffe. I guess what I really need to do is just concentrate on what they do and not on what they say, especially with the CIA.

1:40:43 stuff. My other question to you was, Trump had just recently reinstated, I think it was right around 8,000 soldiers and with back pay. And I thought that was a really hopeful move. And I wanted to find out, because you're more ears to the ground and, you know, kind of took the temperature on if you think that any one of them would be willing to even come back after

1:41:11 Being so, you know, devastated from everything they had to go through from that whole, you know, not taking the job thing. Well, some of them were very close to retirement and they could come back and file their retirement paperwork and not have to actually serve. So I think anybody that is being offered three years of back pay.

1:41:35 and three years of credit towards whatever, even if they went into civil service, like at the post office, that time served matters. So they're basically handing you that check. And what you have to do is go back. It's going to be a very interesting, anybody that knows anything about the military, and I did HR, I thought about this a million times. I would love to be the project officer for that because there's so many nuances to all of it.

1:42:05 That I think there are people in both the personnel centers and at the Department of Defense that will fuck it all up because they do even on a good day. And this is going to be very controversial for them because it's going to be like shoving shit down their throat. But if so, people on the enlisted side, they serve under contract.

1:42:33 Their contracts would have expired during some of this time. So there's going to be some very out of the box thinking that needs to happen. And then are they going to make them by renewing their contract stay for an excessive amount of time post this time? Or will they give them a limited contract that will take them through their retirement?

1:42:58 and allow them to be on active duty for like the next 60 days in order to fill out retirement paperwork. And of course, if you get a patriot in charge of the project, you're going to do everything that you can within your ability for those who want to come back, collect the money and the time served, retire. But if there's assholes in charge of it, what they're going to try to push through is that, no, if you come back and, you know,

1:43:27 Are you going to pay them to travel to a base? Are you going to allow them to go to the base nearest them to process this paperwork? There's so much shit involved in this that most people don't have any idea how complicated someone could make it. And again, screw these people again. So I hope that someone has thought this through. But I do believe.

1:43:55 I hope every single one of them goes gets their money and the time credit, because it will be very valuable to them potentially later on. Because, again, what about the people that got injured? What if someone got in a car accident between the time that they were thrown off of active duty and the time that they're going back? So now they're not even qualified for military service anymore. I'm telling you how big this is.

1:44:25 I've ran through just about every scenario over the last three years because that's what I did for 22 years on the officer side of being a commander and then 10 years of being nothing but an HR specialist as an officer running entire big shops and squadrons and groups of people that do this. So there's a lot to it.

1:44:50 I pray every day as I solve the problems in my head when I lay down at night about, oh, my God, did they think about this? So I do think I hope every one of them goes back. I hope they don't make it impossible for them to do. And the other thing that I would say is those are the people that they in my Air Force, they would have a gold star next to them and they would be the only people that I would promote.

1:45:19 The people that stood up and took the shit and wasn't going to be intimidated by an illegal order. Those are the only people that in 10 years should be in charge of the military. If I was in charge. Tim, go ahead. Hey, Colonel, I got good news. You're you're you're you're succeeding. Are you familiar with a guy named Ian Carroll? He's a web. Yeah. A younger web influencer.

1:45:51 I think he did a CIA thing. He's done a few. I'm sorry? He's done a few, but he doesn't do it as well as he should. I like him. I don't want to be a distractor. But he has covered quite a few CIA. He doesn't know Gladio, though. And without the context, he's kind of screwing it up, in my opinion. Well, you know, you're...

1:46:22 You're a tough act to follow, but, you know, he's got a pretty good reach with the younger generation. No, he has a great reach. And I think if he actually understood the context, he would be, I don't, obviously, I'm not saying that he's not doing a good job. I think he needs the 30,000 foot. He does a whole bunch of stuff at the 500 feet level. You know, he talked about Laurel Canyon. He talked about this. He talked about that.

1:46:51 But if he actually understood the 50,000 foot look to be able to, the way he would articulate it would be a little different so that he could, he would be doing a jigsaw puzzle. Right now, all he is doing is finding a piece of a puzzle and then he's finding another piece of a puzzle and he doesn't know it's a thousand piece puzzle. So he's just doing little pieces of it as opposed to, and I'm not saying that,

1:47:21 Any of that's bad. It's all good for exposure purposes. But I think if he actually got to see the lid of the puzzle and knew what the entire thing looked like, he would be able to interweave the pieces that he is putting together to say, oh, shit, these five things just created the tree on the puzzle. Or these five stories created the lake. And these five stories created the house. You know what I mean? So I think he could do.

1:47:51 A million times more in exposure because his dial is so awesome. He's an excellent digger. I would love to be able to talk to him for 30 minutes. That was that was my only point. You're right, Tim. He does an excellent job. Well, you know, he's moving in the right direction. He is.

1:48:19 Anyway, I thought it was good news. That's all I have for you. It is good news. God bless him because he has a huge freaking audience. That's our 71. Thank you, Colonel. I'll add to what you said. I remember when I first dropped into your Rumble channel and I was hooked.

1:48:45 Geez, we didn't know this. And you were very clear about what you were doing and saying, I know we're talking about ancient history here, folks, but I'm going through this first. Otherwise, you'll not understand. Absolutely correct. And I applaud you for it. Thank you. So Cousin It just found an article that I'm going to work on tonight and get it out, hopefully to post it.

1:49:16 So, tonight, that will blow y'all socks off. God bless her for finding it. Because not any of the information in there, you would have read it and skipped, you know, okay, yeah, that's nice. You know, we've got, you know, another drug dealer, another arms dealer, another whatever. And that kind of, Tim, is my point. If you would have read this article and not known about Operation Gladio.

1:49:42 You would not have even given it a second thought. You'd have went, you know, isolated deal. Guy got, you know, like our arms dealer, Edwin Wilson. If you would have lived back during that time and he would have got caught shipping weapons to, I don't know, Libya, you know, like where he was. And you would have went, OK, that's nice. But if you knew that.

1:50:09 All of this weapons trafficking, especially the covert weapons trafficking, is tied to Gladio and tied to the drug cartel and tied to X, Y, and Z. You're like, oh, son of a bitch, that's another piece to the puzzle. But you have to actually know it's a puzzle. So what Cousin It found that we're going to work on tonight was a modern day piece of the puzzle. And you're going to go, holy shit, because.

1:50:34 There were activities as late as 2018 involving this guy and he ties to some of the other stuff that we've talked about. But we now know that and we can put a story out that ties all of those pieces together because we know what the end puzzle looks like. So, yeah, thank you, SR71. Carrie, go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to say that Ian is from retail.

1:51:05 investors, GME, and that's a whole big, huge thing. And he's doing like really well considering, you know, that was his end point. But I think we can do some sort of like outreach to him. I think I have in the past, but if more people could do some outreach to him so that he can get the bigger picture, that would be amazing.

1:51:33 Thank you, Carrie. That's a very good idea. So we can have a call to action that you guys can post on his comments area that he needs to contact me. I would love, again, to spend a short amount of time tying the big bow on to what he's doing so that he realizes.

1:52:03 the much bigger picture that he's painting a little at a time. Molly, go ahead. I can't hear you, Molly. I can just barely hear you. I don't know if you need to put the phone closer. Can you hear me now? I can hear you better. Okay, well, I was just going to suggest everybody post under Ian's things that he needs to contact Colonel Towner, but you guys already said it.

1:52:42 Everybody needs to push on that one. About the CIA and Operation Gladio. Put those two words, because that will pique his attention. Yeah, thank you, Molly. Great idea. Our minds think alike. Okay, so my dinner just arrived. I saw my husband run out and grabbed it.

1:53:12 I'm going to jump off of here. Trump Frog, I saw you earlier with your hand up. Did you have something that you wanted to throw in there? Because your hand's not showing us up now. Yeah, I wanted to comment on what Kathy said, and I get the concern. Don't listen, and you were spot on. Don't listen to what these guys have to say to get their job. Think of it like anyone who's ever interviewed somebody, and they'll say whatever they need to do.

1:53:39 to get into a position, because John Ratcliffe was a boss, like you said, during Russia, Russia, during COVID. Like, he has no fear. They know what their assignment is. If Trump is the commander-in-chief and you're working for the boss, we know what he wants to do. So I don't think there's any concern about the FISA 702 warrants or any of those things. They're going to deal with that.

1:54:06 Because they're concealing information, which there is an executive order about the election, concealing information and intel that is no longer allowed. So I think they're just setting up the table. So I just really wanted to add that and that you answered that perfectly. You stole my answer. That's what I was going to tell her. A hundred percent, because I've been saying it to so many people that have been bringing it up. And I'm like, look, do you literally think they're going to say, oh, no, we're not going to do that anymore. We're going to do this.

1:54:36 You don't play your hand. You just don't. So I want to say hi to Bridget and Cousin It and you. And love the space. It's been a great space today. So God bless. I've just been running around seeing clients. Thank you. Appreciate that. All right, everybody. Stay tuned. Hopefully I'll get the third installment of our series out that I was working on this morning. I've got two parts to it.

1:55:03 um out i'm working on the third one and then we will get that other one that cousinette found um that's like literally kind of rock star material as far as i'm concerned um bridget cousinette did you guys have anything else you wanted to throw in there real quick um i can't go ahead no you first okay another anti-biblical with you know we talked about we've talked about in the past how it

1:55:36 infiltrated not just the Catholic religion but all religions and the thing that came out today with at the National Prayer Service where the the bishop went after Trump in the middle of the service is just another disgusting display that we've been saying it's not just the Catholic Church it is all churches it is all organized religions and this isn't an accident they've done it

1:56:05 So that they can control you. With the propaganda. Just like they've controlled you in the past. With propaganda through the news. Anyway. Thank you. I can't find my long underwear. And I'm pissed. I love it. I really am. I'm so annoyed. It's cold. You do not have a big space. What do you mean you can't find it? I know that's the problem. That's the problem.

1:56:43 I swear to God, this old age stuff, it's really for the birds. I have no idea what the hell is going on. And I have no idea why I'm in Florida in any fucking long underwear. I'm in Vegas. It was 25 degrees and felt like five degrees. And I can tell you it was fucking cold. Oh, it was negative. It was negative three this morning. I don't want to hear it. All right, Bridget, you won. Yeah.

1:57:15 Okay, fair enough. I'll give it to you. Go find your long underwear. So, I'm trying to make a point here that the woman from Massachusetts, right, is living in Florida wanting long underwear. I know. He wants his long underwear, too. I found those. So, I did find all his coats. It's snowing and sleeting tonight.

1:57:51 And not for nothing, if the dog gets up and has to pee in the middle of the night, which of course he will because of shitty weather, I'm going to hide my underwear. That's why my dog has a pee pad because I'm not getting up in the middle of the night for a dog. Sorry. My dog is 70 pounds. I don't want that kind of pee pad in my house. Oh, my God. Be like a little people. Anyway. Crate them. That's it. Crate them and buy wool.

1:58:23 Anyway, we're good. I do have him in a crate. My dog ate through the damn crate. He literally ate through the crate. Crate him. I came home and he was collapsed inside a crate. All right, guys. Be here tomorrow, 4 o'clock. And tomorrow, what is it? It's Wednesday. Yay. It's Alpha Warrior Day. All right. Take care, everybody.

Entities here

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Claims made here

Adlai Stevenson II spied_on John F. Kennedy host_asserted ▶ 33:02

“overviews with very little detail that enabled the ambassador to play his role effectively. Barnes was probably encouraged by the ambassador's reaction. Stevenson's doubted that Kennedy had thought th…”

Admiral Dennison member_of Joint Chiefs of Staff documented ▶ 33:29

“Meanwhile, the implementation of Pluto was accelerating. Two final postponements resulted in an invasion set for April 17th. On April 1st, Admiral Dennison got his basic marching orders in a Joint Chi…”

Garcia Shipping Company spied_on Cuba book_quoted ▶ 34:57

“LCIs called the Blagger and Barbara J. Five merchant ships from the Garcia shipping company had also been chartered. And remember, the Garcia shipping company is the company that we learned in the oth…”

John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Fidel Castro documented ▶ 36:51

“This is what it read. My observations have increased my confidence in the ability of this force to accomplish not only initial combat missions, but also the ultimate objective, the overthrow of Castro…”

Mario Zuniga member_of Brigade 2506 documented ▶ 40:12

“The exiled planes detailed for this purpose reached Florida as planned. One landed at Opelika and the other at Miami International Airport, where its pilot, Mario Zuniga, recited the prearranged story…”

John F. Kennedy removed_from_power Fidel Castro documented ▶ 45:41

“barely tried to tell Cabell that everything was fine. But Cabell wanted to check with Secretary of State Dean Rust. Within a few minutes, McGeorge Bundy, alerted by Rust, called in to report that the …”

Fidel Castro carried_out_attack Brigade 2506 documented ▶ 49:32

“was still in place off the beaches. That was when Castro's Air Force made its contribution. Two strikes at 6.30 and 9 a.m. Sea Flurry aircraft sank the ships Houston and the Rio Escondido. The former…”

Richard M. Bissell Jr. funded Brigade 2506 documented ▶ 55:39

“were driven back on all fronts. The Cuban pilots of the Air Force were also demoralized after losing two of their planes on the initial day. To shore them up, Bissell now authorized combat missions by…”

Fidel Castro removed_from_power Brigade 2506 documented ▶ 57:34

“closed in toward the shore with orders to take the survivors out. 22 more survived a sailboat odyssey to land in Mexico. The remnants of the Brigade 2506, including San Roman political advisor Roman A…”

Allen Dulles covered_up Operation Pluto documented ▶ 59:12

“Asked if he wanted to drink, Allen said, I certainly would. I really need one. This was the worst day of my life. When Nixon asked what was wrong, Dulles blurted out, everything is lost. The Cuban inv…”

William Pawley member_of Dwight D. Eisenhower documented ▶ 1:02:06

“He's just getting attacked all the time. Six weeks later, Ike was given a detailed account of the Bay of Pigs by his business partner. Let me say this again, because this is incredible. Six weeks late…”

William Pawley secretly_owned Cuba host_asserted ▶ 1:04:17

“He owned sugar plantations in Cuba, William Polly, that is. He owned the bus transportation for the entire island. He owned the airline flying in and out, the only airline flying in and out of Cuba. A…”

Catholic Church carried_out_attack Vietnam host_asserted ▶ 1:12:48

“Oh, that was the Protestants who were killing all of the Vietnamese or running psychological, not killing them, running psychological operations on the Vietnamese and participated in the mass migratio…”

Catholic Church headed Phoenix Program host_asserted ▶ 1:13:09

“Northern Vietnamese into the South and then use them as part of the Phoenix program, both murdering them and using them to rat on the nationalists in the South. That was the Catholic Church. And who r…”

United Kingdom funded Irgun host_asserted ▶ 1:14:36

“The English. Oh, shoot. What did they call him? Basically, he was the senior religious leader on the Muslim side that he basically was bought and paid for by the British and set up to work with the Je…”

United Kingdom funded Israel host_asserted ▶ 1:15:01

“prior to Gladio, Gladio operations, false flags against each other, citizens in order to stimulate the chaos in order for preparation of the World War II conclusion and then the creation of the Jewish…”

Otto Skorzeny trained Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:24:11

“they actually exchanged a lot of the trainers' money and paramilitary tactics and manuals from the European Gladio apparatus to include Otto Skorzeny. I mean, he made trips to South America to set up …”

NATO funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:24:41

“It was all ran by NATO and CIA, all of it. I just used the, there were so many in Latin America, like the entire South America and Central America, except for two, British Guyana and Belize, which are…”

Donald Trump appointed John Ratcliffe host_asserted ▶ 1:26:31

“of corrupt intelligence officials when he was the dni for trump towards the end during covid he was the only person that told the truth he said that it did not come from a wet market and there was a m…”

PepsiCo funded Salvador Allende host_asserted ▶ 1:32:15

“or said something positive about Trump during an election campaign. And then they weren't able to not get him elected by the people. And because they're a parliamentary system, he had to be confirmed …”

Donald Trump installed Cuba caller_asserted ▶ 1:37:29

“a non-starter as far as I'm concerned. The all-volunteer force is because our country is under threat. When the CIA makes that shit up because they actually work for the defense industry and not for A…”

Joe Biden removed_from_power Cuba host_asserted ▶ 1:38:03

“as a terrorist state, re-designated them. Because Biden had ended that. Okay. And do you know what business Eisenhower was in with Paul Lee? I do not. How can they write that in the book and then they…”

Edwin Wilson trafficked Libya host_asserted ▶ 1:49:42

“You would not have even given it a second thought. You'd have went, you know, isolated deal. Guy got, you know, like our arms dealer, Edwin Wilson. If you would have lived back during that time and he…”