The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 12

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0:00 OK, if everybody could repost the space out, I'd greatly appreciate it. We're going to try to get started on time. I've got like two more shows to do this afternoon and we already did the Secret Society one morning. So a little busy getting all the material together. Oh, there's Bridget. All right. Let me bring her up so we can get started.

0:28 So I do want to give you the latest. I've been kind of working behind the scenes with my neighbor to get exposure. So you guys know that basically the deal was that my neighbors, there's three in the D.C. gulag being held hostage. There was. One got released.

0:57 And the other two are the two that got drug around all over the state of Florida for two years and finally had had enough of that because they were using those two as bait to catch the other one. And so they cut their ankle bracelets off and left. And so what happened?

1:27 So what happened was the one that had just left, they all three finally get arrested like last year on the anniversary of January 6th. They staged this big production, raided the entire ranch, like, you know, 50 cops, whatever, or FBI agents. And so they've been held with no trial this entire time.

1:59 So the last one was the first one that got out. The other two that are being held, the DC jail and the DC U.S. attorney was telling them that the other two were not getting released because there were pending charges of failure to show up at a court date.

2:29 Cutting your bracelets off. And those were not covered in the pardon because those are not January 6th related, which of course they are. The entire thing is January 6th related. So their attorney had been pushing back against that. They were trying to work with Governor DeSantis, even though it's like federal charges for him to weigh in.

2:57 And let them know that the state was not going to do anything. And they wanted a letter signed by Governor DeSantis, which is why I asked you guys to weigh in on it. About five minutes ago, I heard that Governor DeSantis was going to sign it. So that he had signed it. Let me just change that. All right. Then.

3:31 They were going to take that letter and present it to the prosecutor and the judge in D.C. And it says, so once the judge grants the motion, they should be releasing them. The next text, which I just got as we were going live on the air, says.

3:55 So Olivia's attorney just called and said the judge had granted the motion and they will be processing them out that it's actually happening. They're going to be released. So obviously to me, and I shared this with my girlfriend, please be braced for disappointment because the psychological operations of this elation and depression is part of their MO.

4:28 But I hope that that actually comes to fruition. So we're going to be playing Coast of Tension. I told her we'll be on the air for about two hours. If she hears that Olivia is released to please let me know. So anyway, that's that. And I was going to share with you. Hold on just a second. I want to make sure.

5:03 So it's Joey or Joseph Hutchinson and Olivia Pollack that is still inside. So we're waiting on them. And I did want to share something with you guys. This family, I don't know if you guys have watched any of the live production a couple of nights ago. And last night, there's somebody said.

5:28 It was an older gentleman that's health had been affected. And I'm like, wait a minute, he's my age, which is Olivia's dad. And this has aged him. We all went to school together. So it has been a horrific experience on them. They have, as a matter of fact, the next time I go out, I'm going to take a picture. They have this ginormous granite rock at the end of their driveway.

5:57 And they have a light that shines on it with a flag that they put out there after their house was raided. It's actually, I hate using the word compound, but it really is a compound. Mary's parents built like a homestead. There's probably 20 acres there. It's just across a little lake from my house.

6:27 So there's Mary and her husband and kids live there. And the grandma lives there. And all of the brothers and sisters live there of Mary. So it's a family compound and just an amazing family. And you guys can hear he does a lot of the singing of church songs and praying.

6:55 with that group that's out there in front of the D.C. jail. So definitely God-fearing, Southern-raised, wonderful, wonderful people. And they've been that their whole life. I mean, if you ever hear, hopefully I can get Mary on my show because I would love for her. The first anniversary of January 6th, I held a

7:23 a ceremony at the Veterans Park in downtown Lakeland here for her and her family to honor them. And a girlfriend of mine that was running for mayor came and spoke. The newspaper was there interviewing people. Mary's mom and Mary was there and a couple of other relatives. And Brian Cates was in town.

7:49 At that time, that's when I first met Brian. So I drug him down there to the ceremony as well. And just again, this just it rips at my heartstrings only because, you know, this is supposedly the country that I was willing to die for. And there are a bunch of thugs doing shit like this. So having said all of that, I want to read to you.

8:20 what Mary sent to me a couple of days ago. Did you see the live feed where someone was asking Johnny, that's the one that got let out, how long it had been since he had seen his sister and whether or not they had seen each other on the inside of the DC jail. And he told the story of how he got blessed in the prison because Olivia was asked to paint a mural.

8:44 And she decided to paint the timeline of history on one of the walls in or near the cafeteria. Now, Olivia, very young, I mean, early 20s, when all this shit was going on, she owned her own painting company. She had a painting van that she had bought. She had remodeled it into like a camper van and was living in it on the property.

9:13 very entrepreneurial, very talented. And so she was going all over rich people's houses in the local area because we're hometown public's headquarters here. So there's a lot of money here. And she was painting people's houses and she's a beautifully talented painter. And these people have just, again, tried to destroy her life and her soul, but they can't get her soul.

9:40 So she goes on to say they were going to get her some help to do it, like from the outside. And she said, really, to get it done in a timely manner, she knew two guys in the jail that had helped her paint before. Just anybody would not be helpful to her. So she asked for her brother and Joey, and it got approved. So the three of them.

10:09 worked on this mural inside the jail. One of the teachers had made a film of the entire project of her painting all of this. So Mary's saying, I would love to see it. And I think if I can get a picture of it, I'm sure we will be able to get a picture at some point. I will definitely bring it to the show. This is the kind of people these people are. She's just, like I said.

10:40 She has a heart made of gold. Mary does. And everybody in her family is just like that. Her mom. Oh, my God. The Southern accent is like over the top cool. Mary's is too. But her mom's even better. Just absolutely love them to death. So please keep them in their prayers. They're definitely going to need it to rebuild their lives. And we'll just pray that they get out today.

11:11 Because I know the family will be over the moon. And I'm going to move on before I start crying. So, all right. Chapter 12, Cold War and Counterinsurgencies. The Cuban operations represented a peak for a certain kind of paramilitary action. The frantic air of the planning area of the CIA in the early days of the CIA were gone. Their passing symbolized...

11:41 perhaps the 1961 retirement of Frank Wisner, who had grown weary of increasingly ceremonial job, because remember, he got basically fired and they moved him over to London. Paramilitary plans in Wisner's era had frequently involved grand schemes carried out in foreign governments. Kennedy administration had basically put the kibosh on that.

12:10 The failures in Cuba contributed to a change of emphasis, and yet the shift was in the wind before the first parties of frogmen stepped ashore at Giron. It was propelled by the alteration in views held at the top. President Kennedy had responded to an argument about military strategy when he developed his interest in guerrilla warfare.

12:37 But this interest would have important implications for CIA operations and for the balance between the CIA and military paramilitary operations. Sustained by Kennedy's support and given greater responsibility after the failure in Cuba, the military moved quickly to expand its special forces warfare capability. National security policy during the Eisenhower administration had combined an active paramilitary campaign waged by the CIA.

13:06 with a new-look military policy that was radical in a different way. Ike's military policy rested upon the enormous power of nuclear weapons, the assumption that future wars would be nuclear, and a strong desire to maintain the strength of the American economy, which Eisenhower felt could not be preserved over the long haul in the face of large military budgets.

13:35 Rigid ceilings had been placed on defense spending. With the atomic forces emphasized, the ceilings required reductions somewhere in the military, and these cuts could only come from the area of conventional forces. Eisenhower's period therefore witnessed manpower reductions in the Army and Marine Corps. There was substantial opposition to the Eisenhower policy, not the least of which was from the Army.

14:05 From one of the chiefs of staff resigned over this very issue in 1955. With some notable exceptions, the Army generals also opposed the new look policy. But the president carefully kept the Navy and the Air Force satisfied and appointed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who supported him. The Army argued in isolation through much of the Eisenhower administration. Now, this is a big deal because.

14:34 After World War II, with the advent of all of the focus on strategic defense with nuclear weapons, the preponderance of that capability, of course, from East, and just so that you guys know, strategic is like hitting someone from a distance, like using the Navy ships to launch cruise missiles or nuclear armed.

15:06 The same thing with B-52s, which can at that time, I mean, still today, be equipped with nuclear weapons. And so to be able to use that threat posture, you don't have to have as many ground pounding forces in your inventory because that's not what he was believing was going to be the future of warfare. And so the.

15:37 rivalry between the services you can't even imagine. If you've never been in the Pentagon, you cannot even imagine. It is like the craziest thing, especially around budget. I worked on some of the last budgets that were ever approved in the 90s because basically Congress stopped doing their job after that.

16:05 divisiveness between the services. And of course, again, at that time, air power was just coming. We just set up the Air Force. And so people were taking a fresh look at all of that stuff. And so this would have been a monumental shift. And that's the whole, and quite frankly, depending on whose biography you read, that's the whole reason the Army wanted to hang on to the Air Force is because they knew.

16:35 That if it was created as a separate service, that the future was bleak for the army. There was substantial. OK, so the CIA was the one shop with an interest in common with the army. Limited war. Paramilitary operations were limited war with possible contingencies for employment of conventional forces should things go awry.

17:07 As early as 1955, the CIA had commissioned a detailed study called Project Brushfire of the political, psychological, economic, sociological factors that led to peripheral wars, which are basically wars fought on the edges or paramilitary operations. The study was conducted by a research institute called the Center for International Studies.

17:35 That's basically another CIA front. Under an economist called Max Milliken, he worked at MIT, another organization that strangely has CIA ties. Brushfire was one among a continuing series of contractors doing research reports for the CIA. On his copy of an information memo regarding Brushfire, Eisenhower's Joint Chiefs Chairman commented,

18:07 I think the answers to the causes of war are so plain that it's a waste of money to do the study. The CIA wanted to be involved in early 1958 when Eisenhower himself ordered an interagency policy review on limited war versus full-scale war. Then, John Foster Dulles thought to discourage his brother Allen from participating, saying that the CIA should be concerned with the intelligence questions, not the operational ones. Yeah, right.

18:38 Allen Dulles allowed himself to be mollified by the promise that the CIA would still be allowed to get into operational aspects after the report was written. While further limited war studies were done, the CIA did participate in them. Its interests were hardly known outside of the government, while Army officials trumpeted their opposition to the new look to whoever would listen.

19:02 The most prominent Army spokesperson was Chief of Staff General Max Taylor. Specifically, Taylor asserted that the strategy of massive nuclear retaliation could not counter brushfire wars and that the U.S. should adopt a strategy of flexible response to be able to conduct conflict at any level. At the CIA, where paramilitary action was conceived as a rung on the ladder of conflict, they were undoubtedly

19:32 cheering him on. The most important individual affected by this limited war debate of the 1950s was John Fitzgerald Kennedy, then a senator from Massachusetts. Kennedy clearly aligned himself with the opponents of the new look. In the early stages of his presidential campaign in October 1959, Kennedy gave a speech at Lake Charles, Louisiana, quote, our nuclear power cannot deter communist aggression.

20:00 which is too limited to justify atomic war. It cannot protect uncommitted nations against a communist takeover using local or guerrilla forces. It cannot be used to so-called brushfire peripheral wars, unquote. JFK's vision was different from the military's, however. The army thought of a limited war as something like Korea, a familiar type of conflict on a less major scale. The young president

20:28 was more impressed with guerrilla warfare and its antidote, the tactics of counterinsurgencies. On February 1, 1961, at one of his National Security Council meetings, JFK ordered the National Security Bureaucracy to examine putting more emphasis on the development of counter-guerrilla forces. Kennedy's intention was to

20:51 reiterate one of the first National Security Action Memorandums of his administration, which was NSAM National Security Action Memorandum 3, issued only two days later. As the instruments to effect change within the military, JFK selected Mack Taylor. Taylor came to the Kennedy administration after a brief engagement.

21:20 as president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, which was then in its final stages of construction. This employment seemed to make Taylor even more attractive to JFK. Here was a general who was cultured, who had written a book, and who could stand up against Eisenhower's military policy. Moreover, Taylor was a World War II hero, a paratrooper who had participated in several major assaults.

21:49 being airdropped into different locations. Later, he had been the last wartime commander of the US 8th Army in Korea, as well as a superintendent at West Point. Having adopted the flexible response argument, Kennedy could not help but be impressed with the man. As Taylor recalls, within a few days of the inauguration, he refused an offer to be the ambassador to France. His family had moved too many times during his career, and he didn't want to move again.

22:20 Taylor himself had just signed a five-year contract at the Lincoln Center. He remained for the moment in New York, where he read confused reports about the Bay of Pigs. Two days after the fall of Garonne, President Kennedy called and personally asked Taylor to head the inquiry into the Bay of Pigs. The general began commuting to Washington. Several times during the course of the investigation,

22:44 Robert Kennedy privately talked with Taylor about serving in the administration. He continued to resist, but softened to Robert Kennedy's wit and his skill as a negotiator. Taylor paid Bobby Kennedy the compliment of saying that he would have made his unit the Elite 101st Airborne during the big war. As the investigation neared its end,

23:17 Bobby Kennedy told the general that the president was going to replace Allen Dulles at the CIA and offered Taylor the job. While still considering the offer in June of 1961, Mack Taylor helicoptered to Gettysburg with Allen Dulles to brief Dwight Eisenhower on the results of the Bay of Pigs. The last time the general had seen Eisenhower, the two were bitterly divided over defense policy and service budgets.

23:46 Max wondered if he should ask Dulles to test the waters ahead of him. Allen was in no position to do favors that day. He himself had been in the woodshed with the former president over the botched Bay of Pigs. Neither man needed to have worry because Ike was extremely cordial. Eisenhower disagreed with a few points and complained in particular about Kennedy's dismantling of the 541 group machinery.

24:10 But one of the main recommendations of the Taylor report was to establish just such an entity with the report called Strategic Resource Group. General Taylor returned to Washington where he declined the offer to serve as DCI, yet he did not escape from intelligence. President Kennedy immediately offered Taylor a position in the White House as his special military representative.

24:38 Only three days after Taylor's visit to Gettysburg, Kennedy signed a charter letter appointing Taylor to advise and assist on military matters, which was basically an intelligence function at that point. With these general duties, Kennedy in fact put Taylor in charge of the National Security Council Special Group. Early ad hoc procedures were formalized by a directive drafted by Taylor.

25:07 which JFK approved on January 18, 1962. This established the special group called the CI for counterinsurgency to formulate plans subject to the president's approval. Military men who worked on Operation Mongoose remembered that Taylor insisted on action as strongly as Bobby Kennedy. General Maxwell Taylor had been a paratrooper. In the Army at the time, paratroopers were thought of not only as military elite,

25:36 But as thoroughly modern, flexible officers, they had like a kind of the macho airborne model. Mack Taylor was not the typical officer. The more conventional army officers were the men who throughout the 50s tried to undermine the development of the special forces.

26:03 The 10th Special Forces Group had been placed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, since June of 1952. In September of 1953, it was supplemented by the 77th Special Forces Group, which remained in the U.S. while 782 men of the 10th were deployed to West Germany, where they had been ever since occupying a former German army base.

26:33 early expansion coincided with the repatriation of Korean War veterans. Subsequently, Special Forces expansion slowed to a snail's pace as ancient army generals preserved their conventional units as best they could. Because again, this is a threat.

26:57 Any new missionaries coming in will be done so at the detriment of the ones that are already there. And it's like when they set up Special Operations Command, SOCOM, at MacDill, the Marines pushed back because it required each of the services to identify who their special forces people were.

27:25 And so, of course, the Air Force, we have Air Force Special Operations Command, which is AFSOC, which is at Hurlburt Field in the panhandle of Florida. They're the gunships, the specially retrofitted helicopters that do black ops kind of activity. And what's interesting is that the Air Force ones are very readily identifiable.

27:52 The navies are the SEALs and stuff like that, very easily identifiable. The Army tried to do, in some point, part what the Marines did, but the Marines were successful in doing it. The Marines said that they don't have special forces. All of their Marines are the same. They're all combat ready to the same standard, and that's never going to change. The problem with that was when they stood up Special Operations Command, it came with money.

28:21 And the money was to be used to equip any additional training requirements or hardware requirements. So in other words, the Air Force by C-130s, the special operations unit at Hurlburt Field fly.

28:44 AC-130s, which are gunships, and they also have MC-130s with refueling capabilities. Most C-130s, other than theirs, none of them have refueling capability where they can refuel helicopters, like Army helicopters and Air Force helicopters. And so that's a very special...

29:06 equipment package that goes on a standard 130. So in the Air Force budget, they budget for the 130. And then SOCOM goes to Congress and says in a separate line item, I need this amount of money to retrofit Air Force hardware to make it mission ready for me. And that is true with like Fort Bragg, those the special forces.

29:34 Delta, Green Berets, any special equipment that is not standard issued in the Army comes from funding from SOCOM. And so this, again, just makes this rivalry stand out even more. All right. So progress continued, but a big step was the deployment of the 10th Group to Germany.

30:03 Their special forces team planned for partisan campaigns in Eastern Europe. And those go along with the ones we've already talked about and begin to show that they could do in NATO military maneuvers, special forces type activity. And this is perfect because this is at the time where they're creating Operation Gladio and they need to interweave.

30:30 the capability of these people to do these covert missions. At home in 1956 maneuver, special forces troops caused enormous disruption to other teams, even penetrating the opponent's tactical command and control radio networks. Detachments were sent to foreign nations to train their armies while a permanent presence was established in the Far East with provisional teams having been sent to Hawaii in 56 and Okinawa in 57.

31:01 This provisional detachment became the nucleus of the first special forces group established on Okinawa in June of 1957. Men from special forces conducted certain missions into Laos as early as 59 and were included in the assistance command of South Vietnam in May of 1960. At that point, they were training Vietnamese at the invitation of the CIA-installed President Diem.

31:31 A special forces group was an interesting organization as military units were concerned. One component was an administrative base that served the needs of all the teams. Technically, it was called an operational detachment. From group headquarters, a C team provided intelligence and control support for all of the region of a particular country, while the B teams would do the same within the region.

32:01 A classic field unit was an A-team at the lowest level, small units of Americans who could command and advise larger irregular formations. To perform technical and medical services and furnish support, the A-team had a wide range of skill experts, for which Special Forces recruited experienced officers and NCOs out of the existing Army.

32:28 Originally authorized for two officers plus 13 NGOs per team, many operational detachments were down to eight or even six in the lean years of the 50. Cross-training was expected in order for them to function. The notion of special forces command levels for regions and countries with A-teams for the field forces was clearly oriented towards organizing resistance to an enemy.

32:53 Because of the expertise of the 18 members, however, these units were also well-suited to train friendly forces and to command friendly irregular units within a friendly territory. By adopting these counterinsurgency methods, special forces at last had found a role that was going to sustain it through the Vietnam War. This was not evident at first. There was a wave of disillusionment among the special forces, as at the CIA.

33:23 After Eisenhower took no action in response to the Hungarian revolt, the unconventional warfare experts were also smarting from an encounter with the army bureaucracy, which banned the wearing of special forces headgear, the green beret. Dedication at a value attributed in a special forces man, but a man had to have a good deal of it to stay in special forces at the time because they were being derided by mother army.

33:49 By 1960, Special Forces Group had increased threefold, but still totaled only about 2,000 men. This was fewer than the number of personnel spaces the Army had allocated in a 1952 decision. Good fortune came to the Special Forces with the election of JFK. Within days of JFK's inauguration, Walt Rostow, R-O-S-T-O-W, was questioning the adequacy of the Army's training against guerrilla warfare.

34:19 Special Forces was already adopting counterinsurgency courses at Fort Bragg. They emphasized economical, social, political, and psychological origins of war. Special Forces seemed to be on top of the subject. Kennedy was impressed. A few months later, Rostow was at Fort Bragg to address the students of the Special Warfare Center in a speech clearly cleared by Kennedy.

34:47 Rostow had completed his own inquiry, which JFK encouraged, and found that the core of the Special Forces was estimated to be only a few hundred men. Just two weeks before JFK's inauguration, Khrushchev had declared the Soviets support for war of national liberation. Now it seemed important for a global struggle. Rostow's speech placed guerrilla warfare in the context of the global underdevelopment, a sort of crisis of modernization.

35:17 that could be exploited. Also, Rostow commended the students for reading Lenin, Guevara, and Mao. He insisted that guerrilla wars had been fought long before the Russian Revolution. Guerrilla warfare, Rostow said, is not a form of military or psychological magic created by communism.

35:38 Rather, we confront it in guerrilla warfare in the underdeveloped areas, a systematic attempt by the communists to impose a serious disease on those societies, attempting to transition to modernization. Let me say that again. So he's telling a bunch of gung-ho special forces that the communists was a disease that was being imposed on societies.

36:11 Trying to transition to modernization. Let that sink in for just a second. So when we went and overthrew Allende, who was a democratically elected president and called him a communist, it was not communism that was preventing Chile from being modern.

36:37 They were already modern. As a matter of fact, Allende had already created a computer system that he was using for the efficiency of the government. They were already a modern place. They just didn't want to be subordinate to the United States. So this is the psychological garbage that is being input into special forces to brainwash them into believing

37:09 That every time you say the word communist, there's someone that has to be killed. Special Forces was perceived in Washington to have done just that. Rasto was back at Fort Bragg in late 1961, this time accompanying JFK on his own tour of the Special Warfare Center. And by the way, it now has his name, which I think is just ironic since it was the CIA who is.

37:41 Has a very large presence on Bragg that helped assassinate him. Its commander at the time was Brigadier General William Yardborough. Took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the Green Beret. The president came and saw, spoke supportive words, and helped quietly from the White House as Special Forces was given new impetus. On April 11, 1962, the president released an official message to the Army.

38:10 The message called the Green Beret a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, and a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. Henceforth, Special Forces would be called Green Berets, and there would be an official relation governing the size, a regulation governing the size and color of the Green Beret and how they would to be worn. By the beginning of the Kennedy administration, there also flowed a rapid expansion of Special Forces. By March 1961, the Army had doubled the number of units.

38:40 The different groups would specialize geographically. The 10th group covered Europe. The 1st, Asia. The 8th, Latin America. The 3rd and 6th were planned for Africa in the Middle East. The 77th Special Forces Group was redesignated the 7th, authorized strength doubled to 1,500 men per group, including 36 A-team, 9 B-teams, and 3 C-teams.

39:08 Psychological warfare units were also increased in early 1965 to three battalions and two companies plus detachment. By June 30, 1964, the actual strength of the warfare forces was at 11,343. In Germany, the 10th Special Forces Group retained its mission of infiltrating Soviet bloc. The theater war plan, called O-Plan 10-1, according to revelations in the British press, provided

39:39 in 1962 for six subversive activities and 49 guerrilla warfare zones throughout Eastern Europe, where the 10th group would be dispersed. Its A-teams were each credited with the ability to mobilize one 500-man partisan battalion every month for a total field force of 74,000 within six months. That was an estimate. In its focus on

40:10 Get this, behind the lines wartime activity, you know, like stay behind units. The 10th Special Forces Group became an exception within the Special Forces. Green berets working in other areas of the world concentrated more on questions of counterinsurgency and military assistance. The future looked bright. For the first time in U.S. history, the Army spokesman

40:39 In an informational publication, quote, this guerrilla organizing and psychological warfare capability has been made available before it is needed. Through it, the Army now has one more weapon which can be applied with discrimination in any kind of warfare, unquote. There were Air Force Special Forces, too. These provided support like airlift in the form of.

41:07 The Air Force called its approach to special forces air commandos. Each unit had actually been formed and used in Burma in World War II. I think my husband just came home. They had been responsible for supporting the OSF agents. Hold on a second. Sorry about that. Okay. Let's see where we're at.

42:19 So the air commandos were eclipsed by Eisenhower's budget-conscious Air Force. Faced with expensive bombers and missile programs in the adjustment to the nuclear age, there was little interest in counterinsurgency. Same thing I was telling you about the Army. The tactical air commanders were preoccupied with their transition to the sleek, new, sexy, fast jets.

42:50 Even the air transport commanders had bigger ticket items like the C-130 or the C-141 at the time. Despite all the obstacles, a start was made in the late 1950s with the formation of a secret organization within the service. The Air Force was galvanized by the advent of JFK.

43:14 So in March 1961, responding to JFK's instruction that each of the services examine how best to meet the counterinsurgency mission, the U.S. Air Force headquarter ordered at the time called Tactical Air Command to create an experimental counterinsurgency unit or air commandos. Very soon afterwards, on April 19th, or excuse me, April 14th, 1961, I'm like, hold on, that's my birthday.

43:44 April 14th is actually my sister's birthday. The Air Force activated the 4400 Combat Crew Training Squadron under Colonel Benjamin King at Eglin Air Force Base. The unit based its planes at Hurlburt. Initially, there were 16 C-47s, 8 B-26s, and 8 T-28 Texans. Those are trainers. Propeller-driven training aircraft.

44:13 that had been converted to carry bombs and rockets and machine guns. It had been nicknamed Jungle Jim. It had 124 officers, 228 airmen, with a dual mission of training indigenous air crew and participating in combat. And by that, they mean anybody that the CIA drug in that they needed to have trained, like the Cuban exiles. Meanwhile,

44:43 For top-secret airlift missions over longer distance, Military Airlift Command, which used to be called MAC, now it's called AMC, established special e-flights in certain ones of its C-130 squadrons. The unit for the Far East, for example, was e-flight of the 21st Troop Carrier Squadron on Okinawa. It had been formed in 1961.

45:08 When necessary, these planes would be loaned to the CIA and flown by agency contracts. So these are planes that your tax dollars paid for. In April 1962, the Air Force dispensed of the euphemisms and reactivated the 1st Air Commando Squadron, a formation that traced its lineage back to Burma in 1944, which of course was used to support Chiang Kai-shek.

45:34 The squadron was later expanded to a wing supplemented by more combat crew and a combat support group and special air warfare school at Eglin. All of these capabilities were controlled by the Special Warfare Division at the Pentagon. It was subordinate to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations. The original Jungle Gym unit had been sent into action in Southeast Asia.

46:04 There were also changes in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Office of Special Operations. The Office of Special Operations got abolished after the Bay of Pigs, although some of its representatives, like Ed Lansdale, had consistently raised objections to Operation Pluto, the Joint Chiefs were apportioned some of the blame for the failure. McNamara was none too happy with any of it.

46:33 Graves Erskine had run a tight ship, but perhaps there was just too much work for a single office to handle. At the time, the Office of Special Operations was truly an intelligence focal point. Not only did it handle liaison on covert operations, but everything else from military personnel for detached service to cover arrangements to the Pentagon participation in reconnaissance satellite development.

47:02 and everything else. McNamara had advised that he did not really need a special assistant for these matters. In a sudden move the day after the defeat at the Bay of Pigs, the Office of Special Operations were reassigned other military tasks. According to some officers at the same time, there were fears that the Office of Special Operations, that Lansdell might succeed in taking over as special assistant of this function.

47:32 After all, Lansdell was already the deputy to Graves Earthen and one of the foremost proponents of counterinsurgency. But there were questions as to whether he had enough knowledge about satellites and some of the other technical issues to serve in that capacity. The Office of Special Operation Officers need not worry. When the office was abolished, its technical responsibilities was assigned by McNamara.

47:59 to the Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Deception responsibilities went to a special planning office on the Navy staff, and Lansdell retained a small staff to handle special activities only. Some credit Erston with accomplishing this division of task. In any case, Lansdell didn't succeed to the Office of Special Operations Empire. Rather,

48:27 What finally emerged was a new office of special assistance to the counterinsurgency and special activities, which has a different name today, but it's still the same thing. A major general had been the head of the special operations area of the Pentagon, and now another Marine was assigned to run the special activities area. Perhaps the Marine Corps gave the post to an officer who had served in the South Pacific.

48:58 with JFK, and that happened to be Major General Victor Krulik. His assistant was Colonel Hawkins. Both maintained that they were skeptical of covert operations like Mongoose. Despite the Cuban setbacks, the CIA retained solid and growing capability for paramilitary actions. Interagency cooperation with the military was now regulated by a Pentagon CIA memorandum.

49:27 Directorate of Plans remained the largest component of the CIA, a thousand stronger than when Ike had taken, basically was in charge. Accounting for 54% of the agency's budget, it had field stations in Africa that increased by 55% from 1959 to 63, while personnel in the Western Hemisphere increased 40% from 61 to 65.

49:56 which is when they were doing the Brazil overthrow. Dick Bissell was an enthusiastic champion of the counterinsurgency as well. He led the 1961 summer study that included Walt Rostow, but his sins were too many and he passed on. His replacement was Richard Helms, a professional and a man. And of course, he ends up as part of the CIA.

50:27 Um, let's see. He also had presided over the peak of the secret war, the years that the Kennedy administration, um, and then on into the Nixon. Helms was one of the few senior officers untouched by the Bay of Pigs through chief of operations. Um, though he was the chief of operations for DP, DDP, the plans area, Wisners and later Bissell second in command. Helms.

50:57 attended few of the VEA PIGS sessions, so it basically didn't, like, blow back on him. Starting out as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant, Holmes successfully served in the OSF and then in the CIA. His specialty was Central European espionage, which is going to fit in great with the fact that 10th Special Forces Group is set up over there to infiltrate with their stay-behind units.

51:26 When Helms took over the planning function, it was expanded, but was still having lots of problems. CIA General Counsel Larry Houston noted for the record his opinion regarding the legal basis for Cold War activities. The CIA's own lawyers admitted that there was no statutory authority for any agency to conduct any type of activities like that.

51:52 Houston added that there was no explicit prohibition either, but they had. And that's not the way our Constitution works. If you don't have the authority, you can't do it. The examining of the language of the 1947 law, the CIA lawyer specifically conceded its failure to cover paramilitary operations. The clause that read such other duties and functions in the act was explicitly tied to intelligence.

52:22 and not operational missions. Houston's conclusion was, therefore, the executive branch under the direction of the president was acting without specific statutory authorization, and the CIA was an agent selected for their conduct. Everything they do is illegal. Defending the government's conduct in these paramilitary operations, the CIA general counsel was reduced to arguing.

52:50 It can be said that Congress as a whole knows that the money is appropriated to the CIA and knows generally what they're doing with it. To this extent, we can say that we have congressional approval for these activities. That was his quote. So according to the CIA's own legal staff, there was no constitutional authority for paramilitary operations. There was no specific authorization. There was only a weak argument that Congress had approved money.

53:18 And it's worth noting that the parallel argument that Congress had in effect approved a declaration of war by appropriating money for the Vietnam was later ruled invalid. Just because you fund it doesn't mean you're allowed to do it. Harry Houston believed that it was for the administration to decide the nature and extent of these types of operations. He constantly was.

53:46 telling Bobby Kennedy and Max Taylor that they needed to do something about that. And the NSC special group approved 163 covert operations between January 61 and 63, compared to 104 approved in the previous eight years of the Eisenhower administration. That's crazy.

54:13 There was an internal audit later found in 1961 to 62, the special group considered only about 16% of the covert operations actually initiated by the United States, which means the rest of them were part of NATO. Helms had another difficulty in the autonomy enjoyed by the CIA stations that were being cut back. The degree of control an ambassador should have over CIA operations in their country.

54:43 The experiences of Chester Bowles in India, William Stiball in Burma, and John Allison in Indonesia highlighted the difficulties. After an interagency study in 1958, Eisenhower gave the CIA virtual total autonomy with instructions that the ambassador had nothing to do with intelligence. This policy was reversed by Kennedy when the State Department's official out...

55:12 Alexis Johnson drafted a letter above presidential signatures to ambassadors dispatched in a cable in May in 1961. Kennedy's letter established country teams. CIA and other departments would sit on embassy senior councils, but the ambassador was the authority. Yet John Kenneth Galbraith's troubles with the CIA in India showed that the state authority still had a long way to go. A third problem for the new.

55:41 CIA chief was managing the hidden compartments of what was fast becoming an intelligence empire. The covers and contacts of the staff to include journalism, broadcasting, businesses, and academic. They were in all of them in the United States where they're not allowed to operate. Within the Pentagon itself, there were between 700 and a thousand quote unquote units that supported or provided cover for the CIA.

56:11 within the Pentagon. They ranged from post office box to telephones to full-scale formations of men and equipment. Even elsewhere in the CIA, by 1961, there were about a thousand more employees working to support the plans area than there had been at the beginning of the Dulles era. A headache

56:42 was the array of CIA proprietaries, meaning other companies, fake companies. When John McCone succeeded Alan Dulles in November 1961, preparations were already in place for the latest addition. What became a complex web of insurance and investment companies formed in the Domestic Operation Division to handle contract agents and survivor benefits arising

57:12 from things like the Cuba operation. When there was civil air transport reorganized, then there was the civil air transport that reorganized in 1959 after the aviation laws changed by the Taiwan government. The CIA incorporated a holding company in Delaware called Pacific Corporation to act as a corporate headquarters in Washington,

57:45 with field offices in Taiwan. The CIA Airlift Force was renamed Air America, an ostensibly private charter firm, but basically was a CIA front company. Massive maintenance facilities were built on Taiwan, and they were spun off into a subsidiary firm called Air Asia. Both subsidiaries performed contract work for the United States government.

58:14 Civil Air Transport remained on Taiwan as a Chinese domestic airline with the Pacific Corporation holding residual interest. This proprietary group was nothing if not massive. Pacific Corporation employed 20,000 people. Air America alone had 5,600 and up to 8,000 support staff. They owned or operated 167 aircraft.

58:44 This is what William Polly was setting up over there. Much smaller but still significant was Southern Air Transport, which grew large enough to have a semi-autonomous corporation division for the Atlantic and the Pacific. This company both owned and leased DC-6 Prop four-engine transports, Boeing 727 jets, and civilian version of the C-130 aircraft. Southern Air Transport soon won a $3.7 million Air Force contract.

59:14 to move cargo and passengers on inter-island routes in the Far East. So you see how that works? The CIA gets to set up a fake airline. Then the fake airline gets Air Force contracts to fly missions so that they're actually making us pay for it. Not even kidding. Managing the far-flung companies, including many more than the ones mentioned here,

59:44 constituted a huge task. The CIA used a combination of interlocking boards of directors and agency personnel working undercover in the companies. On February 5th, 1963, the DCI ordered establishment of an executive committee for air proprietary operations to oversee at least part of the hidden empire that was called XCOM AIR, E-X-C-O-M-A-I-R.

1:00:15 was chaired by Lawrence Houston and included representatives of the plans area and the comptroller's office. Houston had already, in the summer of 1954, headed a management study for all of the air companies and argued in 1956 that the CAT should be retained as a contingency asset when the special group considered liquidating it. McCone, who was the...

1:00:44 DCI at the time, was a California businessman. He made no pretense at micromanagement of the CIA. Such experts as Houston and Richard Helms knew their jobs. The general counsel and the plans department and other component chiefs were given a relatively free hand, even more so than they had been under Allen Dulles. In his turn as the plans area,

1:01:12 Though he had endeavored to emphasize espionage, Helms recognized the increased interest in counterinsurgency and encouraged plans efforts in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, where all the coups happened. By the mid-1960s, Helms had almost as many people working in the plans as in the entire State Department, and it constituted more than a third of the CIA's personnel. Former CIA officers estimated that about 1,800

1:01:42 covert action officers served in the Plans area, and 4,800 officers were assigned to the area's division, of which Far East was the largest, with about 1,500, and Africa with the smallest.

1:02:46 One illustration of how the system worked when the military and CIA cooperated is provided by a tragic page from the history of Africa, the arrival of the independence of the former colony, Belgium, Congo, today the nation of Zaire. And so we're going to get into that one, but we're already at the one hour mark, so I'm going to save that.

1:03:15 And Bridget, if you'll take over for just a second, I've got to run out for just a second and I'll be right back. Yes, ma'am. I'm on it. I'm going to start throwing mics out there. You better grab them. Froggy, want to know if you're still comfy and got popcorn brewing? And boy, I don't know if anybody has seen. I just got.

1:03:49 Been kind of had my head in the computer today with all the video stuff that I've been working on for the colonel. But if anybody's seen any of the executive orders that John Ratcliffe was confirmed by the Senate and that President Trump has pardoned the pro-life activists jailed by the Biden regime for peacefully protesting the abortion clinic. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm sure getting used to this all winning.

1:04:19 part. How are you doing there, sir? Oh, I'm doing fine, Bridget. Thank you very much. And thank you all for attending today. President Trump also signed an executive order to release all of the classified documentation on JFK and Martin Luther King. And RFK. And RFK, yes ma'am. So that's a big one today as well. Thank you. Yeah.

1:04:50 That'll keep us busy for a little bit. That's just, well, and supposedly that is just going to be, you know, like all the files that are marked JFK, MLK, et cetera. There's been rumor that they will be continuing to scan through all of the documents now with their AI capabilities to find those that may be mislabeled. So I'm really looking forward to it. Well.

1:05:20 The beauty of what we've done here is we are probably, as a body, one of the most prepared to read those documents and understand what they're saying. Isn't that true? I mean, sometimes it just can't be coincidence that it all seems to be coming together. And there is a mass awakening. Now, I don't know how many.

1:05:52 What am I saying? Non-woke people that you all have contact with. But the anger, I had to remind my husband the other day, because the anger that's going to come out of the leftist type people, I believe is confusing because they're breaking through the lie. You know, when they pardoned Fauci, people are now questioning the shot that they took because they trusted him.

1:06:24 You know, there's a lot of anger that's going to come out with that, my opinion. Yeah. And the same with the JFK files and the same with MLK files and the same with all this stuff. There's going to be a lot of anger, you know. Yeah. Molly, go ahead. Can you hear me today? Yeah, I can hear you. Oh, goody. With all the recent discussions of the January 6th prisoners, I find myself wanting to go back.

1:06:57 and find the places where you talk so much about the School of the Americas, and then it got shut down and moved to one of our military bases, didn't it? Fort Benning in Georgia. Okay, Fort Benning. I'm writing that down. And so is it reality that a lot of these so-called prison guards and so-called police officers actually have been trained in this?

1:07:26 manner to be a bunch of assholes. So technically the only thing that I have found is that they began having ICE and Border Patrol go to the school at Fort Benning. Not like the Capitol Police. That doesn't mean they haven't been. I just have not found that. But you have to understand that if

1:07:59 Our government has went around the world and set up paramilitary capability all over the world. And in conjunction with the paramilitary, installed a dictator. And in addition to installing the dictator, sent training cadre like the war bull, the third guy that also was down there just outside the gates at Fort Benning.

1:08:29 Around the world, Dan Mederoni, the former chief of police at Richmond, Indiana, those people went around, General Schwarzkopf's dad, General Schwarzkopf, creating and training and equipping national police forces all over the world, the Savak and Iran, to...

1:08:59 disappear people, to torture people, to kidnap people. And if our country leadership was doing this everywhere else, we'd have to be stupid idiots to think that they were not doing it here. So I am 100% convinced that there are everything that I just read to you. And that's why I...

1:09:32 You know, I could summarize some of this stuff, but I want you to know the details. I want you to understand the level of depravity that they have built around us. They created units of people to go do this. Now, granted, they were lied to and they were told that, you know, supposedly these people were communist or whatever. Now they're, you know, they're told that they're terrorists.

1:10:01 to get them to justify the killing. But when you go into a country like Chile and you train an entire police force to torture people, and it has been done so many times that it is now our company policy. You know, if you have a rogue guy and he does this one time in a corporation, you can fire that guy and it's no big deal.

1:10:31 We did it over 90 times. And that's not an accident. That's the policy. And so if that's our policy as a country, isn't it not our policy as a country? And why would they not do it here? Because these are the same people that we thought would never have hostages in a D.C. jail either, which they do. And so.

1:10:57 It really requires you to go back like we did and start looking at everything that's ever happened here. Oklahoma was bullshit. Ruby Ridge was bullshit. Waco was bullshit. All of that stuff, the weather underground stuff, all of that was bullshit. Did it happen? Sure it did. It happened on purpose and it happened as part of a government funded terror campaign. The whole Cuban exiles blowing up the guy in D.C., Latier. All of that stuff happened.

1:11:26 Inside the United States by the same government that was doing it outside the United States. That's our 71. Thank you, Colonel. I just want to make a quick observation here about this particular chapter, which is basically setting up the entire organization and how this thing was run. But I find it kind of ironic that we're talking about counterinsurgency when we're the insurgents. Thank you. OK, so you're harping on like my.

1:11:57 My kind of my biggest takeaway of all of this. So, again, words matter. So I explained to you guys and we've got a lot of new people. Someone explain it again. Insurgencies is where you have a you could call the people coming across the border insurgents. Right. We're the indigenous people and we have insurgents coming across the border. Now, in warfare, you would create.

1:12:26 counterinsurgent forces to combat the insurgent forces. So that's kind of the use of the terminology. Now, in a country, not the United States, and let's use the country of the Congo. In the Congo, you had Lumumba, who was the democratically elected prime minister.

1:12:56 You had his military. When they overthrew his government, they being the CIA, overthrew his government, all of his supporters immediately got labeled as insurgents. Let that sit there for just a second. The indigenous people were being called insurgents. No, I live here. I'm not an insurgent.

1:13:27 I want my prime minister back that I elected. I'm not an insurgent. But in order to sell to the American people are going over there and murdering Lumumba, we called his indigenous supporters insurgents so that our guys was the good guys going over and being the counter insurgency. And that that those words matter because you you you.

1:13:58 propagandize or brainwash people into believing that we're countering an insurgency that's going on in that country. In other words, we're going to save them. But them are the people that we're messing with. We're murdering the indigenous people that are fighting back against us who are the insurgents. So in other words,

1:14:22 We call ourselves counterinsurgencies when we are the insurgents and attacking these people in their own countries. And that's huge. It's a big fucking lie. Gary, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. I was just talking to my one of my best friends. She's 90. She's from Italy. And I was talking to her about Operation Gladio there.

1:14:52 And she was saying, just as an aside, she was saying that Sicily was really, really bad. And she's from a small village. Her brothers were insane. The whole country went insane around that time that the CIA couped there. And she said most people wanted to be communist. She left shortly after that, but I just wanted to tell you about that.

1:15:21 And I wanted to ask you, the reason I know about Operation Gladio being adjudicated there recently is because of you, but I don't know that much information about that. And I would love if you could cover that because maybe it's an inroad for us as well to get this stuff.

1:15:50 at least more talked about in general to push it into the courts. I don't know, but I would like to know about that. The other thing is, thank you so much for mentioning Cybersyn. It's one of my favorite things in the world that Alinde was doing there. So brilliant. And it was the cutting edge of technology. So for them to say that is just beyond...

1:16:19 It's psychotic. I mean, it's just totally sociopathic for them to say that. And the other thing is that Trump said that, sorry to go on and on, but Trump said that not all of the files will be revealed. He tweeted that. I saw that. So I don't know what that means. But my takeaway was that they were keeping some. But I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong.

1:16:49 Um, okay. I just got an update. Olivia has been taken down to processing center. So that's usually a step right before they come out. So keep your prayers up guys. So, oh gosh, I pray for the family that that is true. Um, I, I hope somebody has the rest of them been released. I'm sorry. I was, I, I had to,

1:17:22 get off the internet before I like started killing people. Have the rest of the people been released? No, I have not. I was preparing for the show earlier and the show in a little bit and the show after that. So I have not been on the news. I've just been getting updates from Mary about the two that are from here. Okay. So, so just Olivia, she's still waiting to hear about the, because there's two boys too, right? One boy has already been released. Oh, okay. Oh, good. Yeah.

1:17:53 So Olivia and hold on a second. She just sent me a link for YouTube. Let me see what it comes up and says. Oh, it's the most recent. You know, there's somebody out there live videoing all the time. So I've got the sound turned off. I'll just watch that and see if we can see her coming out while we're still on here. Oh, cool.

1:18:24 Are you going to share it with the rest of the class or did you already do that? Share what? The link. Hold on. I have to open the whole thing up. Well, don't bounce yourself out. I'm doing it on my computer. Oh, okay. I'll send it to Bridget and she can post it. Yeah, she's better. Don't send it to me. I've been trying to catch up on everything.

1:19:02 And that's why I was running through a lot of the headlines earlier. Yeah, I'll leave it up. But it looks like they are slow rolling them out. They are. But they're just. Oh, it wasn't even that they would fight. Yeah, they were even slow rolling. You know what they did? That first group like two nights ago. There's all of the crowd. You know, they pushed them back, pushed them back, pushed them back and was being real assholes about the whole thing.

1:19:32 And then let's see. Then once they did that, they took the ones they I think they let two out and it was late at night. They they have front doors. There's like 50 people out there. How many people are out there? And those assholes took them out the back down two streets and dropped them on a corner. They wouldn't even allow them to walk out the front fucking doors.

1:20:06 Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Now, did I hear correctly that the marshals, U.S. marshals, had to go in and start releasing people? They didn't start releasing people. These people are there under the authority of the U.S. marshals. So because it's a federal thing and they decided to have the jurisdiction. So normally, if you commit a federal crime.

1:20:33 You are arrested in your hometown and you're taken, like in our case, to Tampa. You are booked in the federal facilities there and you are tried, prosecuted, whatever, by the local U.S. attorney. These son of a bitches all decided that they're going to bring all of these people to D.C. because they wanted those fucking stupid, crooked judges to convict them all. And this has all been prearranged. So they drug everybody in the United States to D.C.

1:21:02 Well, they don't have any fucking federal jails in D.C. So the U.S. Marshals issued a contract with the D.C. jail to house these people in the D.C. jail under a U.S. Marshals contract. So on Monday, when the pardon got signed, the U.S. Marshals could walk their ass over there and open the door and let them all out.

1:21:33 But you know where that guy was? He was in the fucking Caribbean on vacation. Oh, my God. Well, you don't know if that was planned. I don't know if what was planned. The guy being on vacation in the Caribbean, but it should. They knew that there was going to be a pardon signed. That was well known. It was planned. That asshole went on vacation to make this harder.

1:22:07 I'm going to say okay, but I don't know. People buy their plane tickets six months in advance. Not if you're on a government dime. He went down there. We're paying for it. Oh, no, that's different. Who are we paying for his fucking vacation? And his security. We have like five people around him. Are you kidding me? Oh, I just, all right. No more internetting for me today.

1:22:37 And by the way, he has a deputy. He has to because of the job that he has. The other person would have had to have been on the orders with the authority to do certain things that have to be done immediately. If you're out of pocket, we call them series. That's why I don't understand why they didn't go. I thought that they had gone in. So did they or didn't they? Like what's today? Thursday, Wednesday, they went over there.

1:23:06 But they didn't get any of them out. Well, but that's what I don't understand. They could have got them all out. I know. That's what I don't understand. So how is that allowed to continue? Because it just did. I still think the best answer is to take the very same people that are perpetrating all this difficulty, the ones knowingly and intentionally doing it, need to be put in the same prison in the general population. Oh.

1:23:38 I don't know. Solitary confinement might be better. Okay. Prison is too good for them. All right. On the same note, did you see they pulled a few people's detail, security detail? It was. Yes. First one was John Bolton. The second one was for Mike Pompeo.

1:24:15 I actually heard that the Secret Service woke Bolton up at like midnight the day that they were leaving to say bye-bye. It really is kind of funny. Now, the other thing, the one thing I did get to watch, if anybody didn't, I'll brief, just on the brief part of it, was Trump's speech to Davos today. He phoned in and did answer a few phone calls. That was awesome.

1:24:45 It really was because he absolutely threw in their face. We're done with the climate hoax. It was nothing to begin with. Y'all complained it was going to, the world was going to end in 12 years. And how are we doing now? And absolutely just ripped the bandaid right off. I mean, it really was. It really was amazing. My opinion. Okay. I just got another text. The guard.

1:25:14 was already going to let Joey, who is the other, there's three of them. So one's out, Joey and Olivia's Dylan. The guard was already going to let Joey go out and ask if he wanted to wait for Olivia's paperwork to be finished. And Joey said he was waiting for Olivia. So I guess they're both going to come out together. Oh, well, that's nice. Praise the Lord. Yes. Thank God. Well, they're not out yet. So fingers crossed. Everybody say a collective prayer.

1:25:45 So my favorite part about the conference at the WEF was Trump actually smacked down Bank of America. What's his name? And he basically told them that he knows that they are not giving loans to conservative businesses and they should really look into that. I mean, it was public humiliation.

1:26:15 So it was really kind of cool. Well, it really was. The only thing that would have made that better is if he would have outed them for all their money laundering. No, but he definitely, I mean. I know. He implied it. Yeah. You can't show your hand, you know. The only thing that would have made it better is if he had outed them for the money laundering. I didn't say he had to. I'm saying it would have made it better for me.

1:26:49 Because I can't wait for that part to come out. Oh, me neither. Because Bank of America is awful. Do you see all the libtards out there blaming Trump for the price of eggs now? Paying no attention to the biolab in Georgia, releasing avian flu and poisoning all of our birds and animals? They're blaming Trump for the price of eggs. Well, he's been there for three days. It's okay. I saw out in Vegas, they actually had an egg shortage.

1:27:23 The thing was empty. Yeah. And this is all psychological torture. Not for nothing. You know? Yeah. They're absolutely right. They had, like, almost no eggs left. And it was over $7 for a dozen eggs, organic eggs. Well, I bought chickens. How are the chickens, by the way? They're awesome. I think they're cold.

1:27:58 We put a heat-generating light bulb out in their coop. So instead of just hanging on the bar, they're actually in their coop for the first time. Yeah, I mean, even the dogs here are cold. It's supposed to get to be 28 degrees tonight. So I can see where the chickens would be cold. And they just keep doing this. They're going to get my tomato plants yet.

1:28:28 It just keeps creeping down a little bit, a little bit, a little bit. Do you have, do you have straw packed in the straw packed in there? No, I have, I have chicken coop shavings though. Okay. So I know, I know it's going to sound gross, but in the winter, do not get rid of the old stuff, put fresh stuff on top of it.

1:28:58 And the reason being is that it composts underneath and it actually generates heat. Right. So every time we clean the chicken coop out, all of the flooring, the shavings all go into the compost pile, which then goes into the garden. I have all raised garden beds. So I've got a real. And what's weird is the seeds that are in there.

1:29:25 that either they don't eat or whatever comes out the other end, I guess, all start growing and I pull them out and give them to the chickens as fresh greens. So I have this whole ecosystem going on here. It's quite crazy, actually. Chicken tender. I'm the chicken tender. You're going to have to move to Alaska. Yeah, that's never going to happen. They're inverting everything. So Alaska is going to be hot. I don't care. I'm not going to Alaska.

1:29:59 I'm fine where I'm at. The smoked salmon is phenomenal. Yes. I was stationed with a guy at the Pentagon that had his his kids were in high school. So he was a C-130 pilot. And so he worked in the office across from mine the last two years I was there. So his kids were like 17, 16 and 17. So they stayed in Alaska with a neighbor on base and finished their high school.

1:30:31 And they would ship like once every couple of weeks, fresh smoked salmon from Alaska. And he would bring it into the office on Friday. And just in case y'all didn't know, here's the little behind the scenes. Every Friday afternoon at noon, if you were stationed at the Pentagon, at least in the area where I worked, everybody had like a drawer of their death that was like a bar. And whatever you brought in, you took out at noon.

1:30:59 On Friday, because we didn't have an officer's club. That's what normally in the afternoon, like around three o'clock, everybody would go over to the officer's club every Friday afternoon. Well, we didn't have an officer's club at the Pentagon. The officer club happened to be your office in your desk drawer. And so on Friday afternoon, when that was the time to hang out and goof off.

1:31:23 He would break out that smoked salmon, which I'd never had like literally overnighted fresh salmon out of Alaska. It was crazy good. Isn't it delicious? Yes. It is amazing. You know what's even more amazing is when you're up there and the natives take it out of the smokehouse. Oh, and it's still warm from the smokehouse. Yeah. That's just amazing. Yeah. Nothing like smoked salmon, that's for sure.

1:31:57 All right. I want a smokehouse. I have a smoker. I don't have a smokehouse. I could see you making one, Carrie. I'm making a lot of things, but I would like a sauna and a smokehouse. I'm making greenhouse. Cool. All right. So I'm going to jump off here and get ready for my next show and grab some dinner in the meantime.

1:32:36 So, let's go over that schedule. Tonight, I will be on the podcast called The Daily 302. There's a flyer going out. I reposted it. I'll repost it again when we get off. And then at 9 o'clock, I'll be on SITREP with Alpha and CanCon. So, I hope to see you guys there.

1:33:04 Oh my God. I love those. Except for the, I love it when you're on the, I just have such a natural energy. Yes. I love those guys to death. Um, they are so much fun. So what's funny is the, the difference in alpha between our show where, you know, basically, um, he's kind of playing, um, B to my A, but on that show,

1:33:34 Um, the energy is completely different and he's like crazy. Um, both before and after the show, he's just crazy. Um, you know, he's, he's much more refined and, um, scholarly on, um, the Wednesday night, but it's kind of like, let your hair down on, um, sit rep. So I, I love being on there, um, and watching the two of them.

1:34:03 They're hilarious. Oh, my God. Cane time can just crack me up. It goes on a rampage on Alpha. But, you know, people who've never been in the military, that's the atmosphere in every military office is watching those two go at each other.

1:34:28 Um, that's the camaraderie and the, um, like brotherhood, if you will, um, of what it's like being in the military. Um, it's just such a cool thing. Um, or at least it used to be. Anyway. All right, guys, I'm going to jump off here. Thank you. Um, great show. Um, and, um, I posted the video out there, so keep your eyes peeled.

1:34:57 Obviously, I'm going to be screaming if she gets out and I will post something about that. So take care. See you guys soon.

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“As early as 1955, the CIA had commissioned a detailed study called Project Brushfire of the political, psychological, economic, sociological factors that led to peripheral wars, which are basically wa…”

Maxwell D. Taylor member_of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts book_quoted ▶ 20:51

“reiterate one of the first National Security Action Memorandums of his administration, which was NSAM National Security Action Memorandum 3, issued only two days later. As the instruments to effect ch…”

Maxwell D. Taylor member_of West Point book_quoted ▶ 21:49

“being airdropped into different locations. Later, he had been the last wartime commander of the US 8th Army in Korea, as well as a superintendent at West Point. Having adopted the flexible response ar…”

John F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Bay of Pigs book_quoted ▶ 22:20

“Taylor himself had just signed a five-year contract at the Lincoln Center. He remained for the moment in New York, where he read confused reports about the Bay of Pigs. Two days after the fall of Garo…”

Maxwell D. Taylor member_of United Wa State Army book_quoted ▶ 22:44

“Robert Kennedy privately talked with Taylor about serving in the administration. He continued to resist, but softened to Robert Kennedy's wit and his skill as a negotiator. Taylor paid Bobby Kennedy t…”

Maxwell D. Taylor member_of United Wa State Army book_quoted ▶ 23:46

“Max wondered if he should ask Dulles to test the waters ahead of him. Allen was in no position to do favors that day. He himself had been in the woodshed with the former president over the botched Bay…”

Maxwell D. Taylor member_of United Wa State Army book_quoted ▶ 24:10

“But one of the main recommendations of the Taylor report was to establish just such an entity with the report called Strategic Resource Group. General Taylor returned to Washington where he declined t…”

John F. Kennedy appointed Maxwell D. Taylor book_quoted ▶ 24:10

Maxwell D. Taylor member_of United Wa State Army book_quoted ▶ 24:38

“Only three days after Taylor's visit to Gettysburg, Kennedy signed a charter letter appointing Taylor to advise and assist on military matters, which was basically an intelligence function at that poi…”

John F. Kennedy appointed Maxwell D. Taylor book_quoted ▶ 24:38

Maxwell D. Taylor member_of United Wa State Army book_quoted ▶ 25:07

“which JFK approved on January 18, 1962. This established the special group called the CI for counterinsurgency to formulate plans subject to the president's approval. Military men who worked on Operat…”

Maxwell D. Taylor member_of United Wa State Army book_quoted ▶ 25:36

“But as thoroughly modern, flexible officers, they had like a kind of the macho airborne model. Mack Taylor was not the typical officer. The more conventional army officers were the men who throughout …”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 26:03

“The 10th Special Forces Group had been placed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, since June of 1952. In September of 1953, it was supplemented by the 77th Special Forces Group, which remained in the U.S. …”

20th Special Forces Group member_of Fort Bragg book_quoted ▶ 26:03

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 26:33

“early expansion coincided with the repatriation of Korean War veterans. Subsequently, Special Forces expansion slowed to a snail's pace as ancient army generals preserved their conventional units as b…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 26:57

“Any new missionaries coming in will be done so at the detriment of the ones that are already there. And it's like when they set up Special Operations Command, SOCOM, at MacDill, the Marines pushed bac…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 27:25

“And so, of course, the Air Force, we have Air Force Special Operations Command, which is AFSOC, which is at Hurlburt Field in the panhandle of Florida. They're the gunships, the specially retrofitted …”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 27:52

“The navies are the SEALs and stuff like that, very easily identifiable. The Army tried to do, in some point, part what the Marines did, but the Marines were successful in doing it. The Marines said th…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 28:21

“And the money was to be used to equip any additional training requirements or hardware requirements. So in other words, the Air Force by C-130s, the special operations unit at Hurlburt Field fly.…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 28:44

“AC-130s, which are gunships, and they also have MC-130s with refueling capabilities. Most C-130s, other than theirs, none of them have refueling capability where they can refuel helicopters, like Army…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 29:06

“equipment package that goes on a standard 130. So in the Air Force budget, they budget for the 130. And then SOCOM goes to Congress and says in a separate line item, I need this amount of money to ret…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 29:34

“Delta, Green Berets, any special equipment that is not standard issued in the Army comes from funding from SOCOM. And so this, again, just makes this rivalry stand out even more. All right. So progres…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 30:03

“Their special forces team planned for partisan campaigns in Eastern Europe. And those go along with the ones we've already talked about and begin to show that they could do in NATO military maneuvers,…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 30:30

“the capability of these people to do these covert missions. At home in 1956 maneuver, special forces troops caused enormous disruption to other teams, even penetrating the opponent's tactical command …”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 31:01

“This provisional detachment became the nucleus of the first special forces group established on Okinawa in June of 1957. Men from special forces conducted certain missions into Laos as early as 59 and…”

20th Special Forces Group member_of West Germany book_quoted ▶ 31:31

“A special forces group was an interesting organization as military units were concerned. One component was an administrative base that served the needs of all the teams. Technically, it was called an …”

Maxwell D. Taylor recruited United Wa State Army book_quoted ▶ 32:01

“A classic field unit was an A-team at the lowest level, small units of Americans who could command and advise larger irregular formations. To perform technical and medical services and furnish support…”

John F. Kennedy appointed Walt Rostow documented ▶ 33:49

“By 1960, Special Forces Group had increased threefold, but still totaled only about 2,000 men. This was fewer than the number of personnel spaces the Army had allocated in a 1952 decision. Good fortun…”

Walt Rostow addressed United States Armed Forces documented ▶ 34:19

“Special Forces was already adopting counterinsurgency courses at Fort Bragg. They emphasized economical, social, political, and psychological origins of war. Special Forces seemed to be on top of the …”

John F. Kennedy supported United States Armed Forces documented ▶ 37:41

“Has a very large presence on Bragg that helped assassinate him. Its commander at the time was Brigadier General William Yardborough. Took a calculated risk and greeted Kennedy wearing the Green Beret.…”

John F. Kennedy ordered United States Armed Forces documented ▶ 37:41

William Yarborough headed United States Armed Forces documented ▶ 37:41

United States Armed Forces specialized_in Africa documented ▶ 38:40

“The different groups would specialize geographically. The 10th group covered Europe. The 1st, Asia. The 8th, Latin America. The 3rd and 6th were planned for Africa in the Middle East. The 77th Special…”

United States Armed Forces specialized_in France documented ▶ 38:40

United States Armed Forces specialized_in South Africa documented ▶ 38:40

United States Armed Forces specialized_in Middle East documented ▶ 38:40

United States Armed Forces planned_infiltration_of Eastern Europe documented ▶ 39:08

“Psychological warfare units were also increased in early 1965 to three battalions and two companies plus detachment. By June 30, 1964, the actual strength of the warfare forces was at 11,343. In Germa…”

Edward Lansdale objected_to Operation Pluto documented ▶ 46:04

“There were also changes in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under the Office of Special Operations. The Office of Special Operations got abolished after the Bay of Pigs, although some of its rep…”

Robert F. Kennedy reassigned Special Operations Group documented ▶ 47:02

“and everything else. McNamara had advised that he did not really need a special assistant for these matters. In a sudden move the day after the defeat at the Bay of Pigs, the Office of Special Operati…”

Victor Krulak skeptical_of Operation Mongoose documented ▶ 48:58

“with JFK, and that happened to be Major General Victor Krulik. His assistant was Colonel Hawkins. Both maintained that they were skeptical of covert operations like Mongoose. Despite the Cuban setback…”

Richard Helms headed CIA Directorate of Plans documented ▶ 50:27

“Um, let's see. He also had presided over the peak of the secret war, the years that the Kennedy administration, um, and then on into the Nixon. Helms was one of the few senior officers untouched by th…”

Lawrence Houston stated CIA documented ▶ 51:26

“When Helms took over the planning function, it was expanded, but was still having lots of problems. CIA General Counsel Larry Houston noted for the record his opinion regarding the legal basis for Col…”

John McCone succeeded Allen Dulles documented ▶ 56:42

“was the array of CIA proprietaries, meaning other companies, fake companies. When John McCone succeeded Alan Dulles in November 1961, preparations were already in place for the latest addition. What b…”

CIA incorporated Pacific Corporation documented ▶ 57:12

“from things like the Cuba operation. When there was civil air transport reorganized, then there was the civil air transport that reorganized in 1959 after the aviation laws changed by the Taiwan gover…”

Pacific Corporation front_for Air America documented ▶ 57:45

“with field offices in Taiwan. The CIA Airlift Force was renamed Air America, an ostensibly private charter firm, but basically was a CIA front company. Massive maintenance facilities were built on Tai…”

Southern Air Transport won_contract_from U.S. Air Force documented ▶ 58:44

“This is what William Polly was setting up over there. Much smaller but still significant was Southern Air Transport, which grew large enough to have a semi-autonomous corporation division for the Atla…”

CIA established XCOM AIR documented ▶ 59:44

“constituted a huge task. The CIA used a combination of interlocking boards of directors and agency personnel working undercover in the companies. On February 5th, 1963, the DCI ordered establishment o…”

Lawrence Houston chaired XCOM AIR documented ▶ 1:00:15

“was chaired by Lawrence Houston and included representatives of the plans area and the comptroller's office. Houston had already, in the summer of 1954, headed a management study for all of the air co…”

School of the Americas located_in Fort Benning host_asserted ▶ 1:06:57

“and find the places where you talk so much about the School of the Americas, and then it got shut down and moved to one of our military bases, didn't it? Fort Benning in Georgia. Okay, Fort Benning. I…”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection trained School of the Americas host_asserted ▶ 1:07:26

“manner to be a bunch of assholes. So technically the only thing that I have found is that they began having ICE and Border Patrol go to the school at Fort Benning. Not like the Capitol Police. That do…”