The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued

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0:00 Okay, so we are going to start a couple minutes early so I can just fangirl about my new car for two minutes. Let me get my rumble stream going live here. So my hubby just got back from the DMV, got tags for it. It's cool just in time to go to my family dinner so I can show it off.

0:33 I just sent a picture to my best friend up in Virginia, who has been my best friend for, I don't know, since 1987 when I met her. And she was like, oh my gosh, because she went through all of that crap with me. And she knows the significance of that car. So we were just like totally spazzing out just to...

1:02 A little bit ago. So anyway, for those of you who may not know and are tuning in for the first time, I just got a replica of my very first brand new car. Mine was a 1989 Toyota Supra, white with white wheels. And my husband just flew up to New York and bought me a 1990 turbo version.

1:30 of the same car so it just got delivered today you can go look on my profile and see the picture of it with me hugging it um best husband ever just saying i am in seventh heaven i'm just saying so you guys can imagine um the excitement in my life getting this which is kind of like the it's kind of bookends um if you will

1:59 I was starting on I was I just got commissioned a second lieutenant, which was the reward of going to school for like eight years at night and then two years full time on a ROTC scholarship. That was my present to myself. And it just so happens that I get the car back when they're announcing closing, basically buying everybody out and closing the CIA, which I've been working on for like the last two years nonstop.

2:28 So it's kind of like history repeating itself in a weird ass way. I mean, when I was talking to my husband about it today, I'm like totally freaking out, realizing for me the significance of two of the things that I put the most effort in in my entire life, which was getting my degree and the last two years of like 14 hours a day doing nothing but exposing the CIA. So perfect bookends to both represent.

2:57 Both of them being represented with the Toyota Supra. So anyway, blah, blah, blah, blah for everybody else who's here to get back to the book. All right. So we're on chapter 16. And just if you're new, we go through about an hour lesson from the book. And then we open it up for mics and everybody can either talk about the book or talk about something that happened in the news today.

3:26 And bring it FYI, I did not get the update. So for those of you who are new, we have to because something on X interferes with our spaces. Haven't experienced it in any other person's space, except for the first time I was on the pond with Trump, Frog and Stellar. But oftentimes the audio glitches.

3:54 And we've tried everything. We've done it here. We've done it away. We've done it on Wi-Fi, off Wi-Fi. I've done it on different phones. It is consistent every time I create a space that they're going to fuck with the sound of it. So whatever. We also do a live stream this on my Rumble channel called The Colonel's Corner. And so you guys. And I'm putting it down below and up in the pill. Okay. Or up in the nest. Thank you.

4:23 And so you guys can just click on that and hear the audio if you want to listen, but then stay on the app in order to be able to ask questions and stuff at the end. FYI, I wish they'd stop it, but whatever. OK, so we were just talking about the Frank Church and Pike's commission exposing the CIA and.

4:54 We are up to the what the African piece of the pie, because we were talking about some of the other the family jewels and that type of exposure. So this starts with the covert action in Africa being carried out, even while the investigations in Washington were ongoing, meaning during the church commission, while they're exposing the coups, the assassinations and everything else in the pike.

5:26 The CIA didn't call a halt to any of it. They're actually over in Africa doing the same thing. The African adventure, generally speaking, was called Operation Feature. You know, like Latin America was called Operation Condor. Operation Feature. Like the earlier efforts in the Congo, Feature was intended to change the apparent flow of events in the African colonies.

5:56 that were calling for independence. The primary target for the U.S., although this was going on in other soon-to-be former colonies throughout Europe, was the Portuguese colony of Angola. That's the one during this period of time that we're getting involved in. And it just so happens that it's the country that is south of the Congo.

6:25 that we overthrew in 1961. And it now, during this period of time when the story is being told, has they changed the name when they installed the CIA stooge to be in charge of it to Zaire. Okay, the Angola affair really began in Portugal, a colonial power. In April 1974, a leftist military coup that overthrew a longstanding dictatorship.

6:57 Portugal had been waging a counter-surgency warfare against an indigenous independence movement in Angola, as well as other African colonies. The new Portuguese government had no stomach for this warfare. Now, if you guys remember, when we went over the Portugal piece of Operation Gladio, that's where the agenda press element of Operation Gladio resided.

7:25 And remember that both Portugal, which was, by the way, a member of NATO, even though there was a dictator in charge, it was not a democracy. And Spain both had dictators. Spain was not allowed in. Portugal was. But they put a huge chunk of Operation Gladio stuff in Portugal. Maybe that's the reason why they let them in. So Portugal had announced its withdrawal from Africa. Angola would become independent.

7:54 And the Portuguese decided on November 11th, 1975, that this was going to happen. Until Independence Day, under an agreement with Portuguese negotiated with three rebel movements in January 1975, there would be a coalition government. Angola was a classic case of colonial underdevelopment, which is the way they left all of the colonies, the former colonies in Africa, because they didn't want them to be a success.

8:23 What they were going to do immediately after they quote unquote gave them their freedom is they were going to sabotage them in lots of different ways, primarily economically, but also militarily with basically stay behind units embedded in different facets of the country because not all of the colonial people left. And so they're going to sabotage them and continue to steal their resources. And oh, by the way.

8:50 All of the concessions that these European countries had to include the United States in these countries continued. And for the most part, if the new country decided they wanted to renegotiate the concessions and get a better deal for the indigenous people that, you know, in the case of the Congo, had been a colony for 350 years, no education, no health care, no nothing. It was a setup so they could continue to steal from them.

9:19 They were very destabilized. And what parts weren't destabilized, they were going to destabilize. So the independence movement was in name only. They still continued to be economic prisoners to the West. So the situation was complicated by the fact that few of the Portuguese settlers intended to stay on past independence. Each of the rebel groups had built its own armed forces and political organizations.

9:50 And the three groups were left to fight it out among themselves. The groups were tribally based. So the political competition had ethnic aspects as well. And let me just add here that oftentimes the colonial powers, when they colonized these countries, they would take a large tribe, maybe the largest tribe, and they would subjugate it.

10:18 to a much smaller tribe. And of course, the smaller tribe was smaller because basically the larger tribe that had been in charge before it became a colony had dominated that area. And so there's lots of hard feelings. So the minority tribe would be brought into the government, and the French was notorious for doing this, and empowered with the European military.

10:46 to abuse the majority tribe in some of the most god-awful massacres you can ever imagine. Because again, these go back centuries, these feuds. And so when the Europeans moved out of this country and basically just left it, you have sometimes century-old rivalries of the minority tribe.

11:16 That had been beating up on the majority tribe and dad just left. And when dad left, the majority is going to win. It's just a matter of how many dead bodies are going to be laying around when that happens. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, acronym MPLA, the National Front for Liberation of Angola, which was FNLA, and the National Union.

11:45 for the total independence of Angola, UNITA, U-N-I-T-A. All basically had very similar political philosophies and all had accepted money and weapons from different countries. And the author refers to many of those countries that they got weapons from as quote-unquote communist countries, meaning the USSR. But again,

12:14 This is in the past. So when they had, over the period of time, fought against the Portuguese, which, again, is part of NATO, do you think they could buy weapons from any NATO organization? No, they could not. So where else are they going to get weapons except from the Soviet Union, who gladly sold them weapons just to sell weapons? Not because they were trying to turn them communist.

12:42 They're trying to sell weapons. So basically, all of them, the only way, because they were all fighting against Portuguese at one point, had at this time communist weapons, which, of course, you can already see what's going to happen. We're going to label them communist, except for the one we like, and they're not going to be a communist, just the other ones.

13:15 Mbundu, M-B-U-N-D-U tribe. And it was set up in 1956 as part of the whole African freedom movement, which, of course, included people like Lumumba during that time before they killed him. It had the best political organization and was an offshoot of what this guy calls the Communist Party.

13:44 It was not communist. As a matter of fact, all of the leaders of the MPLA had been educated in the European schools. So if they produce communists, that's about as communist as they got, these guys got. And they were the only one of the three tribes that was educated in the West and could actually have the skills to run the country. So guess which one we're not going to like?

14:08 That one, because that one would do a good job and make their country a success. And what they don't want to have happen is they don't want any of these countries to be successful because what they want to do is continue this mantra of, and I've heard even people in the military say this, there's no blacks in Africa that are good leaders. So they kill the good ones so they can keep that mantra up.

14:37 All right, the FNLA was made up of the Bakongo tribe. Of about 700,000, more than half of them had fled to Zaire early in the anti-Portuguese war because they had already fought their war. Holden Roberto, an educated Christian of peasant stock, had founded FNLA in 1954. Roberto's chief lieutenant was Jonas.

15:07 Sevembi broke away from the FNLA in 1966 to form his own organization called UNITA. And those people were called Ovimbundo, which was the largest tribe of two million of whom inhibited the plateaus in southern Angola area. The groups had waged parallel wars against the Portuguese.

15:43 but were not allied. Except for the Cold War, Angola would have reached independence without anyone taking much notice. During the period of the revolution, the CIA had played both sides, as they always do. They had funded Holden Roberto as an intelligence source because, of course, the CIA wants to pick who's going to be in charge when they're done. While selling the Portuguese B-26 bombers and permitting them

16:13 to use CIA-trained Cuban exile pilots that were trained by the CIA in Miami to fly those planes. So you have the CIA actually participating in the fight in order to take over the revolution, just like what they did with Cuba and Castro.

16:43 They want to manipulate the outcome. When the Portuguese coup occurred, the CIA formed a special task force, but its purpose was to influence the events in Portugal, not Angola. Both, actually. The connection with Roberto had been maintained, but FNLA's main support came from the People's Republic of China.

17:09 which was arming Roberto's troops and training them in Zaire. With a unit of over 100 military advisors in camp, that Joseph Mobatu had permitted Roberto to establish. All right, so let's take this for just a second. So the, hold on just a second.

17:42 I need to check something real quick. It's interesting how each side of this kind of, what's the word, on opposite sides here, right? So you have the U.S. basically starts off funding both sides.

18:21 And PRC ends up having a favorite side. And the MPLA began receiving supplies from the Soviet Union because, again, the U.S. in the end, I mean, I'll just tell you the bottom line up front. At the end, the U.S. ends up siding with UNITA. And the reason they do is because UNITA.

18:49 has that their eventual leader is, depending on which book you read, related to the guy that they installed in the Congo. And I told you that the Congo is next door. And so they end up basically with the territory bordering the Congo, which just so happens to be the province called Katanga.

19:17 where all of, not all, but a large portion of the Congo's resources is in. So you end up with the, we are controlling through the CIA, the Congo. You have Katanga, where all the resources are, which is on the border with Angola. And then you have the force that the CIA is going to end.

19:50 eventually end up supporting against the more better governed group, the MPLA, only because that is going to provide them with an avenue to steal resources from the Congo being on the border. That was what it's all about. They would be able to, and they're doing it right now, by the way, as we speak, they are

20:18 stealing resources from the Congo through Rwanda. And this has been the case for decades and decades and decades. It is another, obviously, very rich country that has been sabotaged repeatedly and stolen from in a variety of different ways. Okay, so back to the book.

20:49 I just want to kind of put it in perspective. Within days of the Angolan agreement on a coalition government, the 40 committee, remember that's the NSC coup machine, had a recommendation to increase the subsidies to Holden Roberto by $300,000. In other words, we're going to buy them, but rejected initiatives to supply money to the others.

21:21 President Ford quickly confirmed the decision, and with the additional aid, Roberto took a very hard line and in February ordered his FNLA troops to attack MPLA Padre that was in the capital. In one instance in early March, 50 unarmed MPLA activists were gunned down in cold blood. At this junction,

21:50 the Soviets took a hand in assuming aid for, or resuming aid for the MPLA, which they had previously terminated in 1973. The assistance included airlift of weapons. The MPLA had long maintained friendly relationships with the Soviets, and the Soviet airlift was followed by the dispatch of Cuban advisors, because they also

22:19 rang up Castro. The Soviet bloc aid seemed to make Angola a Cold War battlefield in the eyes of Washington, which is exactly what they want. They push these people into position for this exact same thing to happen repeatedly. The Soviet bloc aid seemed to make, sorry, the Interagency Task Force was then formed under Nathaniel Davis, a newly appointed Assistant Secretary for African Affairs.

22:49 Davis, according to his own account, had already advised Kissinger about a covert support in Angola. UNITA had been receiving some supplies from the Chinese since 1974 and also had ties to Mao Zedong. Davis warned the U.S. would have to reckon with disclosure.

23:17 about this arrangement and argued at most we would be in a position to commit limited resources which would only buy marginal influence. The recommendation of the national security group chaired by Davis was against intervention. Instead, the group held out for a diplomatic effort for a political settlement. This reflected a basic understanding that Angola was an African problem.

23:46 not a Cold War problem. But again, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Military intervention carried a high risk of exposure with the possibility of negative effects across Africa. It offered only limited results and potentially contributed to increased involvement by the Soviet Union in other countries there. According to the Pike Committee,

24:13 which studied the Angola covert operation in detail, the Davis Group recommendation was removed from their report at the direction of the National Security Council and presented to the NSC as merely one policy option, the others being to do nothing or to make a substantial intervention. June 13th report of the interagency group was thus used to frame the frame game.

24:42 a choice for President Ford, who, of course, opted for intervention. Action then returned to the 40 committee, dominated in 1975 by none other than Henry Kissinger. Meeting on July 14th, a special group directed the CIA to create a covert action program within 48 hours. Operation feature was the result. Although the evidence is not clear, which means it was to appear.

25:12 It appears that the top leadership at Langley may have opposed this intervention. They never do. Because this, for them, is resources which the oligarch, the international syndicate, desperately wants. The CIA came back to warn of a risk of exposure and estimated the price tag to be $100 million. That was not within their current budget. Nonetheless, the 40 committee gave the go-ahead and approved the initial

25:42 $14 million as the first payment. The CIA, which had advised against track two in Chile and the Kurdish operation, was again given marching orders. And again, that's all bullshit, by the way, for which it was lukewarm. They're never lukewarm because this is all about servicing the oligarch. One reason, Bill.

26:08 Colby, William Colby, might have been lukewarm was that he probably knew the difficulties involved. Langley simply was not prepared. The African division was the smallest in the agency and had it hands full with some 50 nations. James Pott, who had replaced Lawrence Devlin as the division chief, Devlin was the guy that was involved in Lumumba's, was paradoxically one of the strongest advocates for Operation Feature.

26:35 On the other hand, the special ops group of paramilitary experts had been reduced under Schlesinger and also lacked recent African experience. Feature was being ordered just a few months after the final denouncement in Vietnam, where the CIA had basically been exposed as whatever you want to call it. It was a debacle.

27:03 Operation feature went forward as a very high priority. This is Angola people. The operation was so urgent, in fact, that the first plane load of weapons was on its way to the FNLA via Zaire, or the Congo, before Langley even formed the task force. By August 9th, two more loads of plane on C-141 transports was shipped.

27:33 The Angola task force was a little different from the usual CIA arrangements. Appointed as chief was John Stockwell, a 12-year agency veteran and old African hand who had also served in Southeast Asia, because we ran across him a few times. Stockwell, the agency's equivalent of a colonel, was relatively junior for this type of a job, which was a slot normally reserved for...

28:01 a civilian general officer equivalent. Judging from Stockwell's account of Operation Feature, it was then run by Potts, the division chief, rather than directly by William Nelson, which it would have been under normal procedures. Jim Potts and his assistants and Stockwell labored to prepare detailed plans right up to the last minute. William Colby carried them to the 40 committee meeting on August 8th, where the planning received top-level approval.

28:31 Nathaniel Davis resigned when he learned that the Angola effort was going to proceed despite his objections. CIA principals gathered in the director of operations office for a review of the plans and the interagency working group. When Potts' deputy suggested that the moment had come to determine exactly how involved the CIA would become, the deputy director for operations, William Nelson, spoke up. Gentlemen.

29:02 We've been given a job to do. Let's not sit around wringing our hands. John Stockwell was then dispatched on a two-week fact-finding mission to Zaire, or Congo, in Angola. He visited both Roberto and Savimbi. It emerged that Savimbi was by far the most credible opponent for the MPLA.

29:29 which in July had succeeded in driving both the other factions out of the capital. On August 20th, while Stockdale was observing the FNLA and UNITA, President Ford authorized an additional $10 million for the project. Now notice that they didn't even bother to talk to MPLA. It was a foregone conclusion that the only faction in Angola that could make it a successful country

29:58 was going to be attacked. By the time Stockwell reappeared at Langley, Operation Feature was already in motion. Mobato was critical of the operation since CIA arms shipments were technically supposed to replace Zaire's arsenal, while Mobato forwarded weapons from his own army to Holden Roberto. And again, we see this over and over and over again. The CIA, so Mobato is a CIA stooge, okay?

30:29 So by this point, since 61, his weapons are outdated. So the CIA is going to keep him satisfied by taking all of the weapons that they're supposed to be sending to Angola and send to Zaire slash Congo. And then they're going to take his weapons and give them to the used weapons to Angola.

30:58 But nobody that's in the funding stream knows anything about this. This is weapons trafficking and they do it all the time. And if you recall, when we were talking about using Pakistan with the Afghanistan, that's exactly what they did. They took the money and instead of buying new weapons, they were buying it from like old Soviet stockpiles and pocketing the rest of the money to buy weapons for other adventures.

31:27 It's just it's crazy the amount of weapons trafficking that goes on. OK. Relations with FNLA and Mubato were handled by the chief of station. The chief of station in Angola dealt with UNITA. So they're going to have two chief of stations working on this. The one that was in Zaire, which was Mubato's.

31:57 they're going to operate with one faction of this civil war. And the station chief that's actually in Angola is going to work with UNITA. The Americans acquired two swift boats for FNLA and solved a quandary of how to get an air force by the simple expedience of offering a reward for would-be defectors.

32:25 who brought airplanes in with them. Eight assorted light planes were contracted, commandeered, and diverted. The swift boats, 140 trucks, 300 radios, and 70 mortars sailed from Charlestown for Africa on August 30th aboard a freighter called American Champion. Operation

32:48 feature deliveries to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and 17,000 rifles. Zaire shipments to UNITA and FNLA, however, included no APCs, armored personnel carriers, only 7,000 automatic rifles, and more than 12,000 M1 .30 caliber carbines. Mubato

33:17 successfully used the opportunity to rearm his forces. And when Holden Roberto's troops failed to show any strike power at all, Mubato was willing to commit two of his paracommando battalions and a detachment of 10 hand-hard armored cars in return for more CIA arms for his army. Not only the Americans had gotten themselves involved, China continued to provide assistance as well.

33:47 To the same forces the CIA's arming at this point, the FNLA. Even more ominous for South Africa, both through its armed forces and its intelligence services, the Bureau of State Security, called BOSS, B-O-S-S. After BOSS quietly provided money and arms and training to UNITA, South Africa escalated in the summer of 1975, committing a unit of armored cars, logistics, and these forces provided...

34:18 spearheaded in a UNINA offensive that was the most successful military action taken against the MPLA. Now, what this book, if I recall correctly, because it's been a while since I read this chapter, does not tell you, and almost no book tells you, is that the weapons that came from South Africa, because Congress has funded none of this, so they had to hide where the weapons came from.

34:46 So they were sending aid to Israel. Israel was the weapons procurer, whether it was their own weapons or buying it back with our foreign aid from us, whatever. They were shipping the arms to South Africa and South Africa was taking the arms into Angola. So these arms did not come from South Africa.

35:12 Stockwell's account remains the African division chief's pots entertained thoughts of even wider cooperation with the South African military. Any such thoughts were stifled by opposition from the State Department. Bold-faced lie. The diplomats upheld the Kennedy's administration's armed embargo on South Africa, which is why they used Israel, and squashed suggestions for major collaboration.

35:39 The diplomats were proved right in the fall when journalists in Africa confirmed the presence of South African troops in UNITA because we're sending weapons in with them. There was an instant wave of public revulsion towards the Western supported factions in Angola that dealt Operation Features political action component a blow, which is why they hid it and used Israel.

36:04 Ironically, one of the diplomats closely questioning CIA's plans for Angola was Frank Wisner Jr., the son of the legendary Frank Wisner, who had done so much to establish this entire covert network. Another cautious diplomat was Edward Mulcahy, state's representative on the Interagency Implementation Committee group.

36:30 who quietly threatened to resign in protest if POTS went ahead with certain measures with the South Africans. On the grounds in Angola, the South Africans were good fighters. Their operation under code name Zulu provided strong backing for UNITA and also easily occupied certain hydroelectric facilities that furnished power to South Africa in Nambia. Savembe proved to have the strongest momentum.

37:01 Captivating speaker and inspiring leader, Sevembi led a competent political organization that had grassroots. Much of Roberto's support, in contrast, resided in the refugee camps in the Congo slash Zaire. With the South Africans of the Zulu force, UNITA regained much of the province that they were occupying at the time and threatened the important port of Lobito.

37:32 and Bengala Railroad, one of Angola's few major transport systems. Thus threatened, the MPLA turned to the Soviet and Cuban countries. Moscow increased the scale of its shipments, allowing the MPLA troops to introduce potent one to two millimeter rockets during the summer and fall. Another shipment of Cuban advisors

37:59 And upon independence, the MPLA government asked Cuba for major assistance. By then, there were 2,600 Cubans in Angola, but an emergency airlift and sea lift apparently called Carlotta. Cuban regular units were introduced in large numbers. About 5,000 in December.

38:24 It's estimated up to 15,000 by the spring of 1976. Soviet aid was estimated at $100 million by December of 1975 and four times that amount by March. Weapons sent in early 1976 included T-54 tanks and MiG jet fighters. The Soviets had always had the capacity for a large flow, but had delayed intervention until it was deemed necessary.

38:53 These developments had been anticipated in the original June Interagency Intervention Study and had now come to pass. Again, another proxy war. In the northern Angola area, the FNLA failed to capture the isolated enclave of Cabinda. That was the seat of the nation's oil production. Cuban units with MPLA forces then began to push back the FNLA.

39:22 Holden Roberto tried to raise a mercenary force to stiffen his army. Roberto offered a million dollars for a parachute regiment. Soldiers of Fortune John Banks was given an advance on this money to recruit in England. In the U.S., the recruiter was David Floyd Buffkin, a former pilot and California dust cropper who was variously reported to have received money from either Roberto or the CIA directly.

39:52 Mercenary recruiting used the grapevine plus ads in newspapers. Bufkin also appeared on television and advertised in Soldier of Fortune magazine. Roberto's parachute regiment ultimately received 140 British and seven American recruits, some with no military experience, some as volunteers for non-combat duty only. 23 arrived too late and were sent home. Another group was rejected as unsuitable.

40:21 The CIA had a parallel effort going to recruit mercenaries in Portugal, which, by the way, is Operation Gladio. This yielded about 300 men who were sent to the FNLA. Through French intelligence, which also contributed ammunition for helicopters and its own agents, again, Gladio assassins, the CIA made contact with longtime soldier of fortune Robert Denard, D-E-N-A-R-D.

40:50 who recruited 20 mercenaries for UNITA. Another 40 were sent to UNITA by BOSS. Instructions supposedly prohibiting Americans from working inside Angola were disregarded by an Army mobile training team at FNLA headquarters in Ambriz and by CIA communications instructors and observers of both the FNLA and UNITA. Again, they don't give a shit. They ignore whatever Congress says.

41:20 The worsening situation was viewed with alarm in Washington. By late November, Langley prepared a memo with options for the 40 committee featuring programs costing $30 million. Then another one at $60 million and another one at $100 million. Department Assistant Secretary Mulcahy personally carried the option papers to Kissinger before he left on a 10-day diplomatic mission.

41:48 Later, McCahey was unable to tell the interagency working group just what Kissinger had decided. He read it, McCahey reported. Then he grunted and walked out of the office. The working group was reduced to trying to figure out what a positive sound that McCahey said, because he just basically grunted.

42:18 Ultimately, from that moment, they decided not to allow the CIA advisors into combat. President Ford approved another $7 million in military aid, and any further money would have to have come from Congress, which we know is a lie because they have their own slush fund. In the year of intelligence, Congress was no longer a rubber stamp.

42:44 It also knew a lot more about Operation Feature than it had about earlier operations because of the new reporting requirement. In an amendment to the foreign aid bill that year, Senator Harold Hughes and Congressman Leo Ryan, one of our favorites because the CIA assassinates him.

43:07 successfully sponsored legislation to require reporting of significant covert operations to relevant committees in Congress, which is why they hated him. In practice, this worked out to eight committees and 163 members and their senior staff. In commenting on the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, President Ford again focused on the dangers of leaks rather than the advantages of oversight. In any case, because of the Hughes-Ryan

43:35 amendment, Congress was informed about Operation Feature. In particular, Senator Dick Clark, a Democrat from Iowa, was briefed by William Colby on the Angola program shortly before a fact-finding trip to Africa in August of 1975. The senator was a chairman for the African Affairs Subcommittee and Foreign Relations Panel and was suspicious of the intentions behind Feature.

44:02 The information Clark gathered on his visit led him to suspect the United States collusion with South Africa because that's exactly what they were doing. He returned determined to do something about it. The revelation of the issue to the public was delayed for a time by the secret classification of William Colby's CIA briefings. Congressmen swore not to reveal what they had learned in the 35 briefings of the DCI from 75 to 76.

44:28 Press revelations of the South African involvement opened up the issue. In early December, Senator Clark proposed legislation terminating all aid for Angola. It was just at this time that the executive branch was coming to Congress to ask for the Angolan money. At this critical moment, the cover of Operation Feature disintegrated. The first press revelation on Feature appeared in the Washington Post, then the New York Times, because they have to frame it.

44:57 Even afterwards in his congressional appearances, William Colby continued to maintain that no CIA weapons were going directly to the guerrillas and that no Americans were involved inside of Angola, which was a bold-faced lie. The government subterfuge was revealed by a coincidence. On December 5th, diplomat Ed Mulcahy was late to a hearing at Senator Clark's subcommittee. The CIA witness

45:26 Deputy Director of Operations William Nelson went up first and admitted the truth about the U.S. involvement. Bill Nelson was a William Colby protege. As the Director of Central Intelligence had suddenly been called in by President Ford about a month before and asked for his resignation, William Nelson probably feared that his own days were numbered at the CIA.

45:59 In any case, when Mulcahy arrived late and began to testify, he laid out the agreed upon version that minimized U.S. actions. Senator Clark confronted Mulcahy with Nelson's testimony, trapping the administration in a lie. The predictable result was legislation to terminate all covert actions in Angola. The Clark Amendment technically prohibited expenditures of CIA funds in Angola.

46:26 except for intelligence gathering as well as reprogramming of funds from one government account to another. The amendment also precluded Pentagon funding of Operation Feature, stealing the fate of the program. The Clark Amendment passed the Senate 54-22 on December 19, 1975. Two days later, there was another provocation article on the front page of the New York Times. This time, it was Seymour Hearst with the details of Feature plus a story.

46:55 of Ambassador Davis's resignation. Dick Clark Amendment passed the House of Representatives in January 1976, as Kissinger failed in Moscow to inject the Angola issue into a superpower meetings on arm control. The legislation was signed into law February 9th, 1976, and President Ford, with misgivings, signed it anyway.

47:22 For the first time, a covert action had been halted by congressional order. The last calamity was reserved for the FNLA mercenaries. Generally an undisciplined lot, the mercenaries were also self-styled colonels and an enlisted veteran of the real British parachute regiment who called himself Costa, I don't know how you say his last name, Georgigou, the man.

47:52 was unbalanced in the opinion of many of the mercenaries that worked alongside of him. The FNLA mercenary campaign was cut, was basically notorious for their murder and rampaging across Angola, culminating in a military-style execution of more than a dozen of the soldiers of fortune by their own comrades for alleged desertion and misconduct. They killed each other.

48:22 Other mercenaries were killed on patrol against the Cubans and MPLA. Among the latter was a real paramilitary expert who had been well regarded by officers at Langley, a guy by the name of George Bacon III, a Green Beret who had served in the Vietnam Military Advisory Command and had gone on a tour for the CIA with the Hmong in Laos.

48:51 He used an agency codename Kayak during this operation. Bacon had received an intelligence medal for his work in Laos and got further CIA training, but quit in disgust at what he perceived as an American betrayal of South Vietnam. Bacon was a cowboy in the CIA tradition and had been enthusiastic about going to Angola.

49:18 The demise of the mercenaries came when a big patrol was captured by the Angolans. This group included Giorgio and three Americans. In the capital, the Angolan MPLA government tried the mercenaries. The self-styled colonel, American Daniel Gerhardt, and two others were condemned to death. Three soldiers of fortune got sentences of 30 years. Three got sentences of 24 years.

49:45 Three more got 16 years, including Americans Gustavo Grillo, a Marine veteran of Battle of the Who, and Gary Acker, who was also a Vietnam veteran. Subsequently, the State Department barely acknowledged the status of any of these American prisoners and provided no assistance to their family to secure their release. Grillo and Acker were finally released in a 1982 prisoner exchange between Angola,

50:15 and South Africa. Surviving mercenaries voiced plenty of complaints about their CIA severance pay. Mubato simply pocketed final CIA payments given to him for Roberto and Savembe. The South Africans continued to play with UNITA to destabilize Angola. Thoroughly disillusioned, the CIA officer John Stockwell resigned and went public with the details of the Angola adventure.

50:43 With this fiasco so recently revealed, it is not so surprising that Senator Church would have such strong remarks on covert operations. And by the way, that's a lie about South Africans continuing to play.

51:12 South Africa. And it was a lot of the Gladio. We covered this when we were doing our around the world tour. So much so that NATO set up bases along the northern border of South Africa as, quote unquote, stay behind units, basically. And they provided the weapons and training and money for these. One of which, which was the largest one with these humongous warehouses full of weapons, was set up.

51:41 and designated under the WWF as a national park so that the WWF contracted the people to provide park rangers, I'm putting them in air quotes, because what they were were basically Gladio-style assassin snipers, and if anybody came in the areas of the quote-unquote national park where the weapons were, they were murdered.

52:12 These events of the year of intelligence touched off a struggle to regulate the intelligence agencies, and it has ebbed and flowed ever since. Quote, unquote, oversight is the name of the game, a game that the executive branch basically tries to avoid. The legislators on Capitol Hill first moved to create reporting requirements through the Hughes-Ryan Act and then strengthened the monitoring process by replacing the secret.

52:40 CIA subcommittees with permanent select intelligence committees. And then they just compromised them. So it wasn't like we got a whole lot out of that. But they tried. Oversight did not mean the end of covert actions. On February 15th, 1976, days after President Ford signed the Clark Amendment into law, a month after replacing the dismissed William Colby as DCI, George Bush refused to say whether

53:09 the U.S. aid to Angola had halted. During the Ford administration, there was also covert actions in Portugal and reportedly in Madagascar where an American ambassador who had been a career CIA officer was expelled following a puzzling series of musical chair military coups, i.e. Operation Gladio. Oversight simply meant that such operations were reported to Congress and backed by a presidential finding.

53:40 That justified the action, which is where you get to the point where if you want a finding, you just call the guy a communist. And then remember, they added terrorists. So you had your choice. You could label him a communist or a terrorist and you still got to kill him. The huge Ryan specified that all significance or anticipated actions by the CIA were not for intelligence gathering purposes. Hold on.

54:09 covered ones that were not for intelligence gathering purposes. The executive branch tried to limit oversight as much as possible, especially where covert operations were concerned. A detailed explanation of this position in which the CIA construed the statutory basis for its activities was furnished in the House Intelligence Committee by CIA Special Counsel Mitchell Rogovin, R-O-G-O-V-I-N, in December 1975.

54:37 The legal argument was that the intelligence agencies were within its inherent powers of the president, that they had been conducted by the president long before the CIA was created. That is, in fact, true, and thus did not represent any attempt to assert new powers for the presidency. Still not supposed to happen. So this is the old, I've always done it this way.

55:05 And we're going to continue to do it that way. Rogovin also referred to, quote, such other functions, unquote, provision in the 1947 National Security Act and argued that Congress had never objected to intelligence practices before and had even approved them in budgets.

55:26 These arguments by the CIA were undercut, however, by the legal opinions of the CIA General Counsel that was rendered on several occasions since 1947. Congressional committees obtained a copy of the paper prepared in 1974 for the General Counsel's office, which took much of the same position as the General Counsel Lawrence Houston that we talked about earlier.

55:52 basically saying the National Security Act, quote unquote, functions language restricted itself to intelligence gathering. Extending it to covert operations strained the meaning of the law. The paper noted that the covert operations were an implementation of policy, a power shared by Congress and the president under the Constitution. What they're saying and has always been true is the covert operations the CIA has engaged in has never been constitutional and never been legal.

56:24 Paradoxically, by setting down reporting requirements for covert operations, the huge Ryan Amendment could be construed to have authorized them in the name of Congress. Much of 1976 passed while Congress set up the machinery for the intelligence oversight. Legislation containing intelligence charters was considered during the Carter administration in 78 and 80, but never made it to Congress.

56:51 Meanwhile, feelings favored regulatory action on intelligence peaked in Congress during the middle of the years of the Carter administration. When charters were considered at hearings, the vast majority of the CIA officials testified against excessive restrictions of covert actions. Witnesses at the various hearings, such as George Bush, John McCone, Richard Helms, Bill Colby, E. Henry Noakes, Richard Bissell.

57:20 Tom Karamasin, David Atlee Phillips, and General Richard Stilwell, all advised against any regulatory oversight. Outpacing a slow-moving Congress, the executive was quick to seize the initiative on intelligence reform, and in 1976, President Ford signed Executive Order 11905, the first public regulations ever to describe the function of intelligence and restrictions on it.

57:49 Ford's executive order prohibited assassination, a reiteration of internal directives Colby issued in 1973. It replaced the 40 committee with a panel called the Operations Advisory Group, placing covert action decisions in the hands of a cabinet-level officer rather than their deputies. The attorney general continued as a member while the director of OMB was added as an observer.

58:16 Covert operations were defined as those intended to further the U.S. policies abroad. Jimmy Carter continued the practice of intelligence regulations through his executive order 12036, which he signed in 1978. Assassinations continued to be prohibited. The covert action decision-making body became a special coordination committee.

58:44 of the National Security Council with essentially the same memberships. Covert actions were described somewhat more narrowly as conducted abroad in support of national foreign policy objectives. Now, the fact that you have to stay conducted abroad should tell you everything. Typically, activities approved by the decision-making machinery during the period included the provisions of special communication equipment for personal security,

59:13 to presidents of Egypt and Sudan, and anti-Cuban propaganda campaigns to be conducted in the Horn of Africa. And guess what that special communications equipment would have been? Crypto AG. The Carter administration proved to have no great appetite for covert action, thus postponing the day of reckoning between congressional oversight and the executive power. President Carter nevertheless defended executive primacy in covert actions.

59:42 He supported legislation in 1980 to reduce the CIA reporting to the two specialized intelligence committees of Congress. Carter also made use of a gambit first resorted to by Kissinger and Ford, blanket presidential findings issued to the intelligence committees justifying the advance of all covert operations concerning terrorism, narcotics, and counterintelligence. From the oversight standpoint,

1:00:11 The danger was that other areas would then be included in presidential findings. As in many times during the years of the White House, President Carter was frustrated with his first selection as the director of intel. He originally chose Theodore Sorensen, but Sorensen had to withdraw after his nomination ran into monumental congressional opposition. Next, Carter named Admiral Stanford Turner.

1:00:38 a naval officer who had held top commands in Italy. Turner and the president were classmates from Annapolis. Though forced by regulations to retire from the Navy in order to accept Carter's offer, Turner took the DCI job and went to Langley. The outsider among the tribes at Langley, Turner was not popular in the CIA despite being a naval director. Any chance he had of being accepted by the CIA evaporated when the manpower reductions Turner was obliged to make.

1:01:08 As a result of budget limits. It had much more to do than budget limits because basically he fired the entire covert action area. And that's something that obviously this author is not interested in actually depicting that for what it really was. Jimmy Carter was very disgusted when he found out that they were actually committing assassinations and basically wanted to do away with all of the covert stuff, which is why they ended up with.

1:01:36 the Halloween massacre and largely gutted the covert operations. So the book goes on and talks a little bit about the Halloween massacre. And it says still Turner strongly resisted any suggestion that he needed to notify Congress ahead of time.

1:02:08 Turner advocated restricting the reporting requirements to intelligence committees and adopting strict guidelines from the executive branch about leaks. Most of the Congress yielded to its Oversight Act of 1980 that was passed. And by 1980, the pendulum had swung from restraining the rogue element to unleashing it.

1:02:36 Which, of course, we see the election of Reagan and that pendulum is going to swing completely the other direction. Which, again, goes back to the whole adage that I say all the time. You can't have what is commonly referred to as situational ethics. You can't have situational principles. You can't.

1:02:58 It's either right or it's wrong. And it's that way for all administrations, not just some, because you're going to be followed eventually by someone you don't necessarily like and they're going to have the same powers. So you have to decide whether something's constitutional or not and then stick with it. Also, it says that international events accounted for a large part of the swing. And this is what I found most interesting about this book.

1:03:28 It said now you've got the CIA in a vice grip right in 1979. The whole house had fell in. You've got the pike. You've got the church. You've got Jimmy Carter basically gutting the covert. And then what happens? And we know now that the CIA was involved in the fall of Iran, just like they were back in 1953. So it looks.

1:03:59 Very suspicious that and that's what caused me to dig more into the Shah, because I had always thought that the Ayatollah coming to power was kind of a rebel group within Iran, basically overthrowing the CIA stooge. I've now learned better that most of all of this stuff is controlled and the Ayatollah.

1:04:29 was as much a part of this chessboard as the Shah, because the Shah had become grossly unpopular in Iran. Instead of losing Iran, they kind of come up with a middle, what they were considering a compromise of it being, and although it was presented as a very extreme here in our media,

1:04:56 From an intelligence and control standpoint, it was extreme in Iran. Don't get me wrong. But it was not from a CIA controlled perspective. And you find that later on when we're dealing with Iran on multiple occasions. Supposedly the bad one is not under our control. While we're arming Iraq, we're also arming Iran during the 1980s in the Iran-Iraq war.

1:05:25 Remember, again, weapon traffic trafficked through Israel missiles into Iran. That was just one of many of the examples there. And you guys know about, it was a U.S. retired general officer that went over there, Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., that set up the Sabacc. All of this stuff, their national police very much had a very close relationship with CIA.

1:05:55 So nothing, again, is as what it seemed in our history. So having said that, weird that the Shah of Iran happened. You get the hostage situation, and it was the hostage situation that was used in order to bring the October surprise because they held on to him until Ronald Reagan won to sabotage Jimmy Carter. I don't know whether he would have won or not, but he wasn't going to be allowed to win.

1:06:23 And then you have the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which also was a setup with this fake communist group that the CIA basically had created and convinced the Soviet Union was under attack inside of Afghanistan and they needed to come help them. And Kissinger was on the record as saying that he was going to give the Soviet Union their own Vietnam. The rise in terrorism.

1:06:50 on which Carter administration took a hard line, all of that began. So anytime they need, if they're going to get the vice squeezed on them, the terror events are going to increase. So be advised because the vice just got squeezed shut. This ended the post-Vietnam re-entrenchment of special forces, which resulted in a force of only 3,600 in three groups, all deployed in the United States with detachments in Europe and the Far East.

1:07:21 one battalion in Panama. Reserve and National Guard units had assumed the bulk of the special warfare capability with manpower of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to build up that entire force. Imagine that. So with the support of the Chief of Staff, General Edward Meyer, and despite opposition from officers faving a more traditional role for special forces, the Army formed two elite commando units called the

1:07:52 Blue Light and Delta. These initiatives against terrorism received special attention and support from Brzezinski, President Carter's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. The second development that elicited a covert action response from the U.S. was the fall of the Shah. Within what follows, policymakers and intelligence analysts in Washington either refused to recognize the growing vulnerability of the Shah.

1:08:21 or could not agree on what to do. They already knew what they were going to do. So then the author goes on and talks about that. We've already talked about it. So I'm going to kind of leave that there. That's basically gets us through chapter 16. The next chapter is chapter 17 called the new wave covert actions. And then.

1:08:53 It's this chapter and then kind of the conclusion chapter. So we've got two more to do or maybe just this one. No, it's just this one. We got one more chapter. Nope, two. I'll figure it out. I thought there was two. There is. The last one is called President's Policies and Paramilitary Options, which kind of gives us an overview of most of what we've done. So that one will be fast. But anyway, we can open it up.

1:09:24 Where did Bridget go? She keeps running out on me. I know she's not running out on me. I'm just joking. What's going on? I'm under attack. I'm under attack. Sometimes I feel like sending up SOS signals. I got thrown out. Oh, my God. All right. Involuntarily ejected. There you go. All right.

1:10:02 What's going on, everybody? Loving your car. Thank you. Me too. Me too. I see Stellar and Frog and lots of good people down there. Yeah, put on the mic. I don't know if they're just not in a place to take it. Frog come up. What's up, people? Hey, what's up with you? Nothing, just enjoying the sheer meltdown. They've even got Hakeem.

1:10:41 The nightmare, not the dream, if you follow basketball. Akeem the Nightmare, Jeffries, completely melting down that we're stealing money. The projection is so beautiful to witness right now. It really is. I mean, I'm so excited. I'm doing a space tonight. I'm going to be talking about that stuff. Trump's going to the Super Bowl, a.k.a. some of all fears. Like, there's, can it get any better?

1:11:08 He's not going to take the Gaza Strip. He just is letting Netanyahu know that if you do anything, I'll just go ahead and stop giving you money and you guys won't be able to do shit. And watching people melt down about that, it's beautiful. I think it's separating people with cognitive dissonance or not. And just really quickly, like I know that what you're saying is true about, you know, sovereign wealth fund and the government shouldn't be in the business in the private sector, right?

1:11:39 I just think that we need to change. I don't know how that's going to go. So when I was saying that, I'm playing devil's advocate with you. We need to go back to the Constitution. Go ahead. So I think the sovereign wealth fund from a government's perspective. So let me just tell you, a friend of mine is working on basically doing something like that for Florida because Florida has a surplus. When you run a budget surplus as a government,

1:12:07 there's one of two things going on. Now, Florida has a very unique situation, obviously, because we're constantly hit with hurricanes. So having a surplus to be able to help out the... But basically, if you look at a sovereign wealth fund of a government, you're saying two things. One is that you want a...

1:12:34 I don't want to use the word slush fund because that's been used for the whole CIA bullshit. You want a reserve. But what that also means, which is number two, is you've overtaxed people to create it, generally speaking. Now, that's the beauty of what Trump has done. If the sovereign wealth fund is a repository for tariffs in which you're going to maintain the...

1:13:04 things that we collectively have decided is within the purview of the federal government, like an interstate commerce system called ROADS, like the interstate system. The Constitution says the federal government has the responsibility for the defense of the nation, foreign affairs, and commerce, both interstate commerce and inter-country commerce, right?

1:13:32 There are things the government has a responsibility to do. They also do the census and that kind of thing. So if you collectively say it's going to be and it's going to be a small bucket and the sovereign wealth fund does things within that bucket, that's fine. I have no problem with that. What I have a real problem with is it being in the business of competing with. And we got into the.

1:14:00 side comment about the whole TikTok thing, because once you get the federal government involved in an actual business, you have put your fingers on the scale and tilted it against competition because nobody can compete with the government. And that's kind of my whole thing. I don't have a problem with the sovereign wealth fund as a thing. Does that make sense?

1:14:26 Yes. So what I was going to say, and, you know, you catch me after I'm coming out to a long day at work and hurting a bunch of retarded cats. And yes, we can say retarded again. Now the retards out of the White House that, you know, we privatized banking. The government took over banking. It took over auto like Chevy. I mean, GM and companies like that. If he's saying, hey, take.

1:14:54 The excess profits they've been gripping off of people, I'm all for that. They took over part of the health care system as well. So if they're getting it from what the government was already taking from other people and giving it back to the people, I'm for that. Because they have been stealing from us. And I think that's where he's going with that. I think he wants to give us our money back. In fact, I know he is. They're going to recreate the Treasury and shut down the Federal Reserve.

1:15:23 I have a feeling we will be compensated for 112 years of theft. That's my feeling. I'm sure we would all love that, as long as you get all the illegals out first. Oh, yeah. I say get the fuck out right now. I know. I agree. I know. I know. And hi, Bridget. It's good to see you. Hi, SR. Hi, Stellar and everybody else. It's fun to show love to my friends. You're next, Bridget. Okay, so one of the things...

1:15:55 And I was just kind of lunch panting off what Froggy just said. If you remember, one of the executive orders that he signed on the very first day was designating that the cartels were a terrorist organization, of which it just so happens that it has also been revealed that USAID had a signed contract with these cartels.

1:16:21 And it just so happens in that particular executive order are significant laws having to do with assets and having to do with liquidating those assets. So my opinion, based on an informed, fairly informed opinion, excuse me, is this all going to come back around? And yes, it is going to end up in, you had to have aid.

1:16:53 quantitative place to put it in order to right otherwise it goes it's going to get swallowed back up inside of our government and you'll never see any of it you know you'll just so anyway that yeah well technically it would go to the treasury and the treasury already has the ability to hold on to surplus but

1:17:17 He's actually designating something, obviously, called the Sovereign Wealth Fund because we've already had the ability to hold surpluses. But obviously, until you get rid of the Fed, you need a place to be able to deal with that. And I'm sure eventually the Sovereign Wealth Fund will be a part of a reconstituted treasury absent the Federal Reserve and their bullshit. SR71?

1:17:48 Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending. And congrats on the new car, by the way. Thank you. But I'm going to drop back to our book here just for a moment. And what I'm looking at here and what I'm hearing, he doesn't say much about Kissinger. And Kissinger was involved in a lot of this shit strictly because of copper. The other thing I wanted to...

1:18:18 to step back at is you say they had their hands full and 50 other nations at the point and yet in 24 hours they deliver all kinds of weapons. It blows my mind. But they had just finished the Vietnam War, right? So they've been weapons trafficking for the better part of the last 15 years at that point.

1:18:42 They got warehouses upon warehouses upon warehouses. As a matter of fact, one of those warehouses was just outside of San Antonio. And I mean, it was like multiple football fields full of weapons. So, yeah, they definitely had weapons. I did want to mention that Maker Sarge over on Rumble said that the blue light part of the Delta, when we were talking about them setting both of them up, was kind of the precursor to actual Delta.

1:19:12 So now that we just basically have Delta. So I wanted to share that with you guys. Let's see. Trumpfrog, did you have something else? Yeah, I just wanted to say that if it's true, and hi, Cousinette, if it's true that USAID had entities involved with the cartel, taxpayers paid for that money if we get that money back, could that be one of the things that...

1:19:42 They do, because if they're going to do a golden age and he's going to make Americans rich again, not just through taking away our taxes, that's not enough. That may be another way, because we paid for all this stuff they've been making money off of. I'm just thinking that maybe that may be a way that he's going to give us some of our money back. Well, paid for it in more than one way, obviously, you know, through the selling of heroin on the streets and the bodies that ended up in the morgue as a result of that.

1:20:13 And then all of the bullshit setups of African-Americans and those lifelong jail prison sentences. If you begin to dissect the evil that has gone on as a result of all of this, it gets overwhelming some days when you look at the second and third order effects, not just...

1:20:42 the theft of our wealth um but the lives lost the the imprisonment um and all of that it's just it's it's monumental um opportunity cost is what you yeah um southern go ahead um just want to let you know pan bondi just froze all the money going into sanctuary cities

1:21:06 And she's given all the ICE and all the people that have been deputized to be able to go in there. And if anybody pushes back, you're going to jail. That's governors, mayors, whatever. So that's good news. Something just popped across. X Doge has people in the Medicare agency, and they're finding for Medicare, Medicaid, a lot of fraud. A lot of fraud. Duh.

1:21:36 Oh, God, thank God they're finally in there. But he must have multiple teams on the ground doing this. It's pretty insane. Well, it's just pretty insane. You don't even have to have plenty of teams. Not that I'm saying he does not have the data. So as long as he has. So the one thing that has.

1:22:02 protected this network forever is the IRS has always refused to provide social security numbers to any other government entity for them to do audits. All you have to do is run one report because there is a special section for non-citizens in the social security thing. And you can find out who's all on Medicaid and Medicare. You can find out

1:22:31 all kinds of information just by taking existing databases and running them together and collating the information. And that's why they built the stovepipes to not allow that. But obviously, if you have AI, it takes five minutes. So, yeah. Yeah, they don't have access to individuals. What they're trying to do is that, yeah, they don't have to.

1:22:57 It looks like some of this is the private insurers because Medicare and Medicaid negotiate for that. Same thing with Obamacare. Obamacare, we're going to find a ton of fraud. We're going to find a lot of fraud there. And the BS they did and the insane cost of it as well, which was the long-term intent anyway. To break some of those. Yeah, break the system. Break the system.

1:23:25 But in terms of the sovereign, I was trying to hear you. I'm in Western North Carolina. We're still having some issues. But it was confirmed Monday that not one penny has been spent by our state to help us. They've been sitting on $100 million. That's crazy. It's fraud. So this has to be done.

1:23:57 How they could have done that is just beyond me. Well, how they get away with it, and you guys are all sitting in North Carolina and not at your state capitol. Well, yeah. In North Carolina, I'm not talking about the people that were affected, everybody else. The entire state of North Carolina needs to do what the tractors did and the truckers did in Canada. They need to do what the farmers did in Europe.

1:24:23 They need to go down and they need to shut down your Capitol until your fucking governor does his job. I just can't believe that this does not happen here. It drives me nuts. It's we're stunned by it. The problem is Eastern North Carolina, Western North Carolina is bright red, except for Asheville, the middle of the state, which are your larger cities, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, et cetera.

1:24:51 They're Democrats because these are all the newbies that moved in and we were going through an election. So September was the hurricane. October, we found that FEMA had been fully funded, but Mayorkas said, we don't have any money. I know all of this. I'm just saying. But the bottom line is. Get out of their comfort zone and get in the street. Yeah. And then Cooper.

1:25:16 Governor, who was going out of office in December, vetoed the bill in the midnight hour after they'd been working on it. Josh Stein is elected. He gets embarrassed on national TV because he said, oh, no, I've been here five times. Yeah.

1:25:32 one dollar show me where you spent one dollar and they finally fessed up to it so i know trump is doing something on the back end but trump has put a ton of money into our area and things are finally getting taken care of people need to get involved well yeah

1:25:49 Yeah, because, well, I focused on one thing because I knew I could do well at that, and that was fundraising so I could get people in hotels. So I worked on short-term, keep people out of snow and ice, basically. I know. This is not directed at you. Oh, I know. I know. I know. I know. I just had somebody just go down my throat today, and I'm just sitting there going, my husband and I work 24-7. We're driving, you know.

1:26:18 Whatever we had to do, we had to do. And we're exhausted. Everybody needs to be exhausted. Yeah, everybody. But, yeah, it's also showed us that there's things that we have to do locally. And those are things we're understanding now. Yep. Because I'm not going to let people go through this again. This was. It's crazy. It's humane. Yes, it is.

1:26:42 And it was the Democrats' decisions, if that tells you anything. And we are done. We are done. We are done with their silliness. But anyway, the sovereign thing, can you just run through that again? Because I missed half of it. I'm so sorry. I'm just saying that the sovereign fund is basically like a savings account. And you have, if you've cut people's...

1:27:07 Income tax, and we're not actually paying income tax, and what's going into the savings account, if you will, after the deficit is paid off or canceled or whatever ends up happening, you use those for the three things in the Constitution that the government is authorized to do, which is interstate and inter-country commerce, so like the interstate systems and stuff like that, bridges and that kind of thing.

1:27:34 And you also use them for the defense. And you also use it for not foreign aid, but to enable foreign policy. Those are the three things in the Constitution that the federal government is supposed to be doing.

1:27:47 And so if you have a sovereign wealth fund, I don't know if you guys know the state of the military bases and stuff like that. They've starved them. They no longer have, for the most part, base housing. They've gotten rid of all of their hospital systems. They farmed all of that shit out to local providers. They've destroyed all of the cohesiveness of our military. And so there's plenty of things that need to be invested in.

1:28:16 But a sovereign wealth fund is like a savings account. The only downside of that, if you were actually paying taxes, like in the state of Florida, I made the comment, we've got like $8 billion. That just means that the state of Florida overtaxed us by $8 billion. So it's nice that you have a surplus and you have, and of course we have hurricanes and they use that money for those things. So you need some kind of a savings account, but that also indicates that you've overtaxed your people.

1:28:45 And so that's kind of the downside of it, that you can actually provide more of the people's wealth back to them if you, you know, by cutting their taxes. And DeSantis, to his credit, has done a lot of that.

1:29:05 basically reduced, he added, well, it was on a referendum, but it was one of his things that he wanted done, added a property tax reduction for first responders and teachers to incentivize people going into those career fields. And he has done a lot of that in, you know, targeted ways, but because we don't pay a state tax here, that surplus was generated by

1:29:32 hotels and gas tax and stuff like that, that basically the tourists pay for the state of Florida. Well, because we're trying to figure out how in the context of that, is that a way we can help in Western North Carolina? Because what's happening right now is people can't pay their property taxes.

1:29:53 They've lost their job, everything, and the state and the county has said, no, you've got to pay. They're already chunking $4 million out of the schools and all this because we're not paying property. Well, I am, but others can't pay property tax. They're going to lose their homes, and these are a lot of seniors. And again, that's something that should be, yeah. That's what we're fighting now, trying to understand so that we can mobilize better with some lawyers. Okay. Thank you so much, Carmen.

1:30:22 Sure. Miles, go ahead. Good evening, Colonel. So this is just my opinion. People have been talking about the sovereign wealth fund, but with different words. And I never thought that those other words were going to happen. But I think what's going to happen with the sovereign wealth fund, it's going to be profit sharing. And they're going to cut you a check for all the money that we're making in the golden age.

1:30:54 Well, that's what Alaska does with the oil, right? Other countries have done it too. Qaddafi did it. But I'm just saying here, Alaska does that every year. Correct. And I think we'll get to the point that we'll have lots of money and it's like profit sharing. They'll cut you a check at the end of the year. Yeah, that's what USAA does because it's a nonprofit insurance company and you have a subscriber savings account.

1:31:22 And based on the amount of premiums you pay during the year, every December right before Christmas, they put a big chunk of money. I mean, for me, I've been there over 30, like almost 40 years. So mine's up to like $700. If they make money from the premiums so you have a low risk year in the insurance business, as far as payout goes, you get a huge...

1:31:48 what I consider huge. I consider any money back on my insurance, huge deposit right before Christmas back in your checking account, which, you know, is, is a great thing because it is a nonprofit entity, which is basically what governments are. Carrie, go ahead. Hey, that's really interesting about USAA. I didn't know that. Yeah. So a couple of things. One is that,

1:32:19 There was a trucker caravan in America and they drove across the country and they were going to Washington, D.C. And they were blocked on the road. And I don't know exactly what entity blocked them, but they were not allowed to enter D.C.

1:32:48 And it was after the Canadian. It was sort of to piggyback on the Canadian. Right. And the other thing is, you know, the Hegelian dialectic thing. Yeah. So people, I find people don't really understand that at all. Like, and I get lost myself, even though I'm aware of it. And.

1:33:16 I just want to know if there, and I think that's part of, you know, the Shah and the Ayatollah. So I am wondering if we have some specific data on the ties of the CIA to the Ayatollah. Thank you. Sure. We talked about it when we were talking about Iran.

1:33:46 I'll take a note on that because it comes up in a bunch of different books, anecdotally. So I will take a note of that. Am I mistaken or is there some weird Catholic connection to him? Am I losing my mind? I don't know what you were referring to about weird Catholic connection, but.

1:34:16 Whether he has a Catholic connection. I don't know off the top of my head. Yeah, maybe I don't. I'll research it too. Benjamin, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. Hi, everybody. Something I was wondering, we were talking about land. Trump addressed the whole China issue with them owning a bunch of land here in America.

1:34:43 I've been looking into things like State Street, Black Rock, Vanguard, and how they own so many different homes and so much land here in America. I'm wondering if part of the plan is once they come to realize, once all the proof comes out about the practices of all these different corporations and things, are they going to take that land back and use that to sell back to the American people?

1:35:10 Well, obviously, if they're found complicit in any of the nefarious activity, which you know they are, they would be part of the syndicate or the RICO kind of action that would then make all of their assets up for grabs.

1:35:37 If they are found complicit in any of the stuff that is going on, that most definitely would happen. Miles, go ahead. Yeah, we're probably all aware of what happened yesterday when Trump met with Bibi. Now, Gordon came out, ghost of base Patrick Henry. He knows so much about this stuff, but he's still speculating like we all are because we don't know what the plans are.

1:36:08 But, guys, don't listen to a lot of these spaces because they're just picking one issue and putting it out there to divide us. We have to realize that Trump knows what he's doing. They're saying that, oh, he's going to have boots on the ground and all this other stuff, which is just ridiculous. We're not even going to pay for what's happening over there.

1:36:35 And if you pay attention to what, you know, he did with the executive order with the U.N., this is going to be a temporary thing. And he's a president for peace. He's trying to, you know, sort out and get rid of the syndicate of criminals. So don't don't fall prey to these other pieces to say on the other information that they really haven't done a lot of research on. Thanks, Colonel. Sure.

1:37:05 SR-71. Thank you, Colonel. Given all this stuff that's coming out now, specifically with all the money that's been splashing around and all the people now who are hollering and screaming because their crop is being drained, I'm waiting on the big number to drop, which is tying this all back to Battelle.

1:37:37 That's what we're going to find. And you did an excellent job on explaining that. So we'll see where this goes. But I think there's a bigger honeypot out there. So there's a couple. Actually, the other one that I found. Let's see if I can find that one real quick. The other one that I found that we're going to talk about tonight.

1:38:06 Has to do with. Hold on just a second. So much. Let's see. Hold on just a second. I'll find it. I was working on those in between of baby naps today. Let me find the name of the company because we're going to talk about it tonight. The D.A.I. D.A.I.

1:38:41 is the name of the corporation, DAI Global. It's crazy shit. Development Alternatives Incorporated. Just so you guys can have a heads up, I'll be doing the Alpha Warrior show tonight at 930, and this is what we're going to talk about. It is another one of those.

1:39:11 monster big $5 billion last year in profit or revenue, sorry. And basically, they're like a sole source provider to USAID. That's what they do. So basically, it's 100% a subsidiary of the CIA.

1:39:42 Even me, you know, I found a few shockers in here, and we're going to talk about it tonight. So it's an endless pit of bullshit. And, of course, you can find, if you dig into this organization, you find the British version of it. You're going to find the EU version of it.

1:40:10 they're all in on this together, just like they are Operation Gladio. Because this organization, DAI, was used to carry out Operation Gladio activity. And one of the things that you're going to find, I'll give you guys a sneak peek, because I'm going to have to go in just a couple of minutes, because tonight's my dinner night. But when they get exposed in one country,

1:40:39 because they have that informal network of talking to other countries, within a few days of them being revealed to be who they are in one country, the assets that they have in another country gets murdered. And what I find staggering about that is that you have the CIA telling us that we can't have

1:41:08 the information on something from 75 years ago or, you know, 50 years ago because of sources and methods. And yet they get outed in a country and exposed for using fronts and their assets in the field get murdered as a result of that. And no one in the United States has told anything about it. But we're going to talk about it tonight. Tim, did you come up because you wanted to say something? Yeah, thanks for having me.

1:41:39 I've changed my whole outlook. I'm through projecting. I read something today where we've been living through the Truman Show. I thought we had an idea of what was going on, but after the last few days, I'm going to agree with that. There's not been a shred of honesty in anything out of our government in a long time.

1:42:06 No, it took me about my first month of looking into Operation Gladio to realize we live in a hologram. Yep. So I'm done projecting. I'm buckled up. I'm ready for a ride. Okay. I'm prepared, but I'm just done thinking, second guessing. I do know we got the right people in charge. So it's time to disconnect and watch the show. And it's a fabulous show.

1:42:32 That's all I had to say. Thank you for the Gladio glasses. I mean, I mean, that's kind of like looking through the Gladio glasses show me that I really don't know anything. Thank you. Appreciate that. Guru, I see you up here. What do you got to say? Nothing. He's just up here for the ride. All right. Probably so the sound works better for him. But anyway. All right.

1:43:08 I'm going to go ahead and close down. Cousin Ed, did you have anything you wanted to add? I see you come up. Can you hear me? I can. Oh, no way. Yeah. So have you guys, I had a hard time getting in and sometimes I just give up. I'm sorry. Have you all talked about the whole Gaza thing? At the beginning a little bit. Okay. Did you have something you wanted to say?

1:43:41 Well, one of the things I want to remind everybody of is the Gaza marine gas fields, which are located right off the coast of Gaza. Gaza is actually extremely wealthy. Palestine has all of the assets. They have the oil, they have all the gas, and they are worth trillions of dollars. So it's going to be, and nobody can say anybody's forgotten about that.

1:44:11 So it's going to be very interesting to see exactly which direction this goes in. But if Palestine is given the opportunity to nationalize those gas fields, they're going to be able to rebuild. And they're going to be able to buy Israel and get their own damn land back. And that's one of the reasons why Hamas was installed.

1:44:34 Because Yasser Arafat wanted to nationalize those gas fields. They actually had contracts with British Gas. And it was Tony Blair that decided that he was going to cancel the lease contracts. And Israel was going to act as custodian, in quotations. And a court actually overthrew that in England, I believe.

1:45:03 Because the contract was made through Palestine and BNG. To my knowledge, BNG still has that contract. So it's going to be very interesting to see what happens in the near future because Palestine, again, is extremely wealthy. It may look like a big old shit pile, but it really has a lot of money at its disposal if they can get to those fields. Good to know. All right.

1:45:36 Everybody, we are going to take off. Thank you for being here. I will be on the Alpha Warrior show tonight at 930 talking about USAID. Hope to see you guys there. And we will be. Let's see what's going on on Thursday. I have the rescheduled. Hold on. Let's see. Oh, my goodness.

1:46:07 Thursday, I have the Warhamster podcast at noon. I have a new podcast that I'm doing for the first time at three with a guy by the name of Jay Scott. So I will be moving our four o'clock to a little later. It's probably going to start around five or 530, just FYI. But we will have it because I want to get finished with this book.

1:46:38 And then on Saturday, um, we, let's see, let me get to Saturday. Oh crap. What is wrong with this thing? Hold on. I'm gonna have to do it on my phone. My computer's like froze up. Um, Saturday I am at 11 o'clock doing the interview. We tried to do like six months ago with the USS Liberty.

1:47:10 survivor, Phil. And that is going to be on my Rumble channel at 11 a.m. Now, I know you guys have watched him on multiple different venues. There is no one that knows the information that I know, and I don't know everything about the USS Liberty. That's not what I'm saying. I know some things because of Operation Gladio.

1:47:39 That no one has ever talked to Phil about. And so I ask his media guy to make sure that he's aware of what I'm going to talk about. And that has to do with the crypto AG aspect of it. It has to do with the B-52s. It has to do with all of that stuff that we have found as a result of researching Operation Gladio about the fact that they were set up from the.

1:48:09 movement of the 75,000 troops out of Egypt down to Yemen and how that all unfolded, as well as something that was recently revealed just within the last few years, and that's the mass graves in Egypt that happened the day before the liberty was taken out. I don't know, because I've not talked to Phil, whether he knows all of that stuff, and I want to get his reaction to the information.

1:48:37 And obviously give him the information about all of that stuff that we found doing our special into the USS Liberty and that dig that we did. So I am very, very excited about it. All of the work was done by Cousin It and Bridget initially. However, when I reached out after they'd gotten all the contact information and stuff, I even talked to one of them, the one that lives on Polly Island, about coming on the show.

1:49:07 none of them returned any of my phone calls, my emails, nothing. So I did exchange, I did call one of them, the one that lives on Pauley Island when I was up in North Carolina. And he basically never called me back, never set up anything. So when his media person reached out the other day, we were ecstatic. So please, Bridget did.

1:49:34 A meme for us to advertise. Please once we post that. Share it with everybody. Because this is going to be. A very very interesting show. Unlike any that they've had. And he's done hundreds. So anyway. I'm very excited about that. So anyway. That's it. See you guys at 930. Take care. Thanks for being here. I really really appreciate it.

1:50:04 And I'm going to take a picture of me driving my car and I will post it later because I'm taking it to dinner. Yeah. Yeah. So excited. All right. Thanks, guys. Talk to you later.

Entities here

CIA38 Angola25 FNLA19 William Colby16 MPLA16 Congo16 UNITA15 South Africa14 Gerald Ford11 Holden Roberto11 Operation Gladio11 Jimmy Carter10 Soviet Union9 Portugal9 Henry Kissinger8 Iran8 Mobutu Sese Seko7 Operation IA Feature7 John Stockwell6 Committee of 406 Nathaniel Davis6 Cuba6 Reza Pahlavi5 Dick Clark5 Jonas Savimbi5 USS Liberty incident5 Israel5 Edward Mulcahy5 USAID4 Palestine4 Stansfield Turner4 Philip Graham4 China4 Ayatollah Khomeini4 Clark Amendment4 DAI Global4 Pujo Committee3 George H.W. Bush3 James Potts3 North Atlantic Treaty Organization3

Claims made here

CIA carried_out_attack Angola book_quoted ▶ 5:26

“The CIA didn't call a halt to any of it. They're actually over in Africa doing the same thing. The African adventure, generally speaking, was called Operation Feature. You know, like Latin America was…”

Aginter Press member_of Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 6:57

“Portugal had been waging a counter-surgency warfare against an indigenous independence movement in Angola, as well as other African colonies. The new Portuguese government had no stomach for this warf…”

Portugal member_of North Atlantic Treaty Organization book_quoted ▶ 7:25

“And remember that both Portugal, which was, by the way, a member of NATO, even though there was a dictator in charge, it was not a democracy. And Spain both had dictators. Spain was not allowed in. Po…”

CIA funded Holden Roberto book_quoted ▶ 15:43

“but were not allied. Except for the Cold War, Angola would have reached independence without anyone taking much notice. During the period of the revolution, the CIA had played both sides, as they alwa…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Portugal book_quoted ▶ 16:13

“to use CIA-trained Cuban exile pilots that were trained by the CIA in Miami to fly those planes. So you have the CIA actually participating in the fight in order to take over the revolution, just like…”

China supplied_arms_to Holden Roberto book_quoted ▶ 16:43

“They want to manipulate the outcome. When the Portuguese coup occurred, the CIA formed a special task force, but its purpose was to influence the events in Portugal, not Angola. Both, actually. The co…”

Mobutu Sese Seko funded Holden Roberto book_quoted ▶ 17:09

“which was arming Roberto's troops and training them in Zaire. With a unit of over 100 military advisors in camp, that Joseph Mobatu had permitted Roberto to establish. All right, so let's take this fo…”

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to MPLA book_quoted ▶ 18:21

“And PRC ends up having a favorite side. And the MPLA began receiving supplies from the Soviet Union because, again, the U.S. in the end, I mean, I'll just tell you the bottom line up front. At the end…”

Committee of 40 funded Holden Roberto book_quoted ▶ 20:49

“I just want to kind of put it in perspective. Within days of the Angolan agreement on a coalition government, the 40 committee, remember that's the NSC coup machine, had a recommendation to increase t…”

Holden Roberto ordered_assassination_of MPLA book_quoted ▶ 21:21

“President Ford quickly confirmed the decision, and with the additional aid, Roberto took a very hard line and in February ordered his FNLA troops to attack MPLA Padre that was in the capital. In one i…”

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to MPLA book_quoted ▶ 21:50

“the Soviets took a hand in assuming aid for, or resuming aid for the MPLA, which they had previously terminated in 1973. The assistance included airlift of weapons. The MPLA had long maintained friend…”

Cuba supplied_arms_to MPLA book_quoted ▶ 21:50

China supplied_arms_to UNITA book_quoted ▶ 22:49

“Davis, according to his own account, had already advised Kissinger about a covert support in Angola. UNITA had been receiving some supplies from the Chinese since 1974 and also had ties to Mao Zedong.…”

National Security Council covered_up Nathaniel Davis book_quoted ▶ 24:13

“which studied the Angola covert operation in detail, the Davis Group recommendation was removed from their report at the direction of the National Security Council and presented to the NSC as merely o…”

Committee of 40 funded Operation IA Feature book_quoted ▶ 24:42

“a choice for President Ford, who, of course, opted for intervention. Action then returned to the 40 committee, dominated in 1975 by none other than Henry Kissinger. Meeting on July 14th, a special gro…”

Committee of 40 funded CIA book_quoted ▶ 25:12

“It appears that the top leadership at Langley may have opposed this intervention. They never do. Because this, for them, is resources which the oligarch, the international syndicate, desperately wants…”

CIA supplied_arms_to FNLA book_quoted ▶ 27:03

“Operation feature went forward as a very high priority. This is Angola people. The operation was so urgent, in fact, that the first plane load of weapons was on its way to the FNLA via Zaire, or the C…”

James Potts headed Operation IA Feature book_quoted ▶ 28:01

“a civilian general officer equivalent. Judging from Stockwell's account of Operation Feature, it was then run by Potts, the division chief, rather than directly by William Nelson, which it would have …”

Nathaniel Davis removed_from_power Interagency Task Force book_quoted ▶ 28:31

“Nathaniel Davis resigned when he learned that the Angola effort was going to proceed despite his objections. CIA principals gathered in the director of operations office for a review of the plans and …”

Gerald Ford funded Operation IA Feature book_quoted ▶ 29:29

“which in July had succeeded in driving both the other factions out of the capital. On August 20th, while Stockdale was observing the FNLA and UNITA, President Ford authorized an additional $10 million…”

CIA trafficked Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted ▶ 29:58

“was going to be attacked. By the time Stockwell reappeared at Langley, Operation Feature was already in motion. Mobato was critical of the operation since CIA arms shipments were technically supposed …”

Mobutu Sese Seko supplied_arms_to FNLA book_quoted ▶ 32:48

“feature deliveries to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and 17,000 rifles. Zaire shipments to UNITA and FNLA, however, included no APCs, armored personnel carriers, only 7,00…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted ▶ 32:48

Mobutu Sese Seko supplied_arms_to UNITA book_quoted ▶ 32:48

Mobutu Sese Seko carried_out_attack MPLA book_quoted ▶ 33:17

“successfully used the opportunity to rearm his forces. And when Holden Roberto's troops failed to show any strike power at all, Mubato was willing to commit two of his paracommando battalions and a de…”

BOSS funded UNITA host_asserted ▶ 33:47

“To the same forces the CIA's arming at this point, the FNLA. Even more ominous for South Africa, both through its armed forces and its intelligence services, the Bureau of State Security, called BOSS,…”

Israel supplied_arms_to South Africa host_asserted ▶ 34:46

“So they were sending aid to Israel. Israel was the weapons procurer, whether it was their own weapons or buying it back with our foreign aid from us, whatever. They were shipping the arms to South Afr…”

South Africa supplied_arms_to UNITA host_asserted ▶ 34:46

South Africa carried_out_attack UNITA host_asserted ▶ 36:30

“who quietly threatened to resign in protest if POTS went ahead with certain measures with the South Africans. On the grounds in Angola, the South Africans were good fighters. Their operation under cod…”

Holden Roberto headed FNLA host_asserted ▶ 37:01

“Captivating speaker and inspiring leader, Sevembi led a competent political organization that had grassroots. Much of Roberto's support, in contrast, resided in the refugee camps in the Congo slash Za…”

Jonas Savimbi headed UNITA host_asserted ▶ 37:01

Soviet Union supplied_arms_to MPLA host_asserted ▶ 37:32

“and Bengala Railroad, one of Angola's few major transport systems. Thus threatened, the MPLA turned to the Soviet and Cuban countries. Moscow increased the scale of its shipments, allowing the MPLA tr…”

Cuba supplied_arms_to MPLA host_asserted ▶ 37:59

“And upon independence, the MPLA government asked Cuba for major assistance. By then, there were 2,600 Cubans in Angola, but an emergency airlift and sea lift apparently called Carlotta. Cuban regular …”

CIA recruited David Buffkin host_asserted ▶ 39:22

“Holden Roberto tried to raise a mercenary force to stiffen his army. Roberto offered a million dollars for a parachute regiment. Soldiers of Fortune John Banks was given an advance on this money to re…”

Holden Roberto paid John Banks host_asserted ▶ 39:22

CIA recruited Bob Denard host_asserted ▶ 40:21

“The CIA had a parallel effort going to recruit mercenaries in Portugal, which, by the way, is Operation Gladio. This yielded about 300 men who were sent to the FNLA. Through French intelligence, which…”

CIA recruited FNLA host_asserted ▶ 40:21

BOSS recruited UNITA host_asserted ▶ 40:50

“who recruited 20 mercenaries for UNITA. Another 40 were sent to UNITA by BOSS. Instructions supposedly prohibiting Americans from working inside Angola were disregarded by an Army mobile training team…”

CIA trained FNLA host_asserted ▶ 40:50

Edward Mulcahy member_of Committee of 40 host_asserted ▶ 41:20

“The worsening situation was viewed with alarm in Washington. By late November, Langley prepared a memo with options for the 40 committee featuring programs costing $30 million. Then another one at $60…”

Gerald Ford funded FNLA host_asserted ▶ 42:18

“Ultimately, from that moment, they decided not to allow the CIA advisors into combat. President Ford approved another $7 million in military aid, and any further money would have to have come from Con…”

Harold Hughes founded Hughes-Ryan Amendment host_asserted ▶ 43:07

“successfully sponsored legislation to require reporting of significant covert operations to relevant committees in Congress, which is why they hated him. In practice, this worked out to eight committe…”

Leo Ryan founded Hughes-Ryan Amendment host_asserted ▶ 43:07

William Colby member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 43:35

“amendment, Congress was informed about Operation Feature. In particular, Senator Dick Clark, a Democrat from Iowa, was briefed by William Colby on the Angola program shortly before a fact-finding trip…”

Dick Clark founded Clark Amendment host_asserted ▶ 44:28

“Press revelations of the South African involvement opened up the issue. In early December, Senator Clark proposed legislation terminating all aid for Angola. It was just at this time that the executiv…”

William Earl Nelson member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 45:26

“Deputy Director of Operations William Nelson went up first and admitted the truth about the U.S. involvement. Bill Nelson was a William Colby protege. As the Director of Central Intelligence had sudde…”

Gerald Ford removed_from_power William Colby host_asserted ▶ 45:26

Dick Clark founded Clark Amendment host_asserted ▶ 45:59

“In any case, when Mulcahy arrived late and began to testify, he laid out the agreed upon version that minimized U.S. actions. Senator Clark confronted Mulcahy with Nelson's testimony, trapping the adm…”

Gerald Ford funded FNLA host_asserted ▶ 46:55

“of Ambassador Davis's resignation. Dick Clark Amendment passed the House of Representatives in January 1976, as Kissinger failed in Moscow to inject the Angola issue into a superpower meetings on arm …”

Costa Georgiou member_of FNLA host_asserted ▶ 47:22

“For the first time, a covert action had been halted by congressional order. The last calamity was reserved for the FNLA mercenaries. Generally an undisciplined lot, the mercenaries were also self-styl…”

George Bacon III member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 48:22

“Other mercenaries were killed on patrol against the Cubans and MPLA. Among the latter was a real paramilitary expert who had been well regarded by officers at Langley, a guy by the name of George Baco…”

MPLA overthrew Costa Georgiou host_asserted ▶ 49:18

“The demise of the mercenaries came when a big patrol was captured by the Angolans. This group included Giorgio and three Americans. In the capital, the Angolan MPLA government tried the mercenaries. T…”

Mobutu Sese Seko laundered_money_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 50:15

“and South Africa. Surviving mercenaries voiced plenty of complaints about their CIA severance pay. Mubato simply pocketed final CIA payments given to him for Roberto and Savembe. The South Africans co…”

John Stockwell exposed CIA host_asserted ▶ 50:15

North Atlantic Treaty Organization funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 51:12

“South Africa. And it was a lot of the Gladio. We covered this when we were doing our around the world tour. So much so that NATO set up bases along the northern border of South Africa as, quote unquot…”

George H.W. Bush succeeded William Colby host_asserted ▶ 52:40

“CIA subcommittees with permanent select intelligence committees. And then they just compromised them. So it wasn't like we got a whole lot out of that. But they tried. Oversight did not mean the end o…”

Gerald Ford founded Executive Order 12036 host_asserted ▶ 57:20

“Tom Karamasin, David Atlee Phillips, and General Richard Stilwell, all advised against any regulatory oversight. Outpacing a slow-moving Congress, the executive was quick to seize the initiative on in…”

Jimmy Carter founded Executive Order 12036 host_asserted ▶ 58:16

“Covert operations were defined as those intended to further the U.S. policies abroad. Jimmy Carter continued the practice of intelligence regulations through his executive order 12036, which he signed…”

Jimmy Carter appointed Stansfield Turner host_asserted ▶ 1:00:11

“The danger was that other areas would then be included in presidential findings. As in many times during the years of the White House, President Carter was frustrated with his first selection as the d…”

Stansfield Turner removed_from_power CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:01:08

“As a result of budget limits. It had much more to do than budget limits because basically he fired the entire covert action area. And that's something that obviously this author is not interested in a…”

CIA carried_out_attack Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:03:28

“It said now you've got the CIA in a vice grip right in 1979. The whole house had fell in. You've got the pike. You've got the church. You've got Jimmy Carter basically gutting the covert. And then wha…”

Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. founded SAVAK host_asserted ▶ 1:05:25

“Remember, again, weapon traffic trafficked through Israel missiles into Iran. That was just one of many of the examples there. And you guys know about, it was a U.S. retired general officer that went …”

Israel trafficked Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:05:25

Henry Kissinger targeted_for_regime_change Soviet Union documented ▶ 1:06:23

“And then you have the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which also was a setup with this fake communist group that the CIA basically had created and convinced the Soviet Union was under attack inside of…”

United Wa State Army founded Delta Force documented ▶ 1:07:21

“one battalion in Panama. Reserve and National Guard units had assumed the bulk of the special warfare capability with manpower of 5,800. Anti-terrorism provided a new rationale to build up that entire…”

United Wa State Army founded Blue Light documented ▶ 1:07:21

Zbigniew Brzezinski funded Delta Force documented ▶ 1:07:52

“Blue Light and Delta. These initiatives against terrorism received special attention and support from Brzezinski, President Carter's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. The second develop…”

USAID financed_via Mexican Drug Cartels host_asserted ▶ 1:15:55

“And I was just kind of lunch panting off what Froggy just said. If you remember, one of the executive orders that he signed on the very first day was designating that the cartels were a terrorist orga…”

DAI Global carried_out_attack Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:40:10

“they're all in on this together, just like they are Operation Gladio. Because this organization, DAI, was used to carry out Operation Gladio activity. And one of the things that you're going to find, …”

Israel installed Hamas caller_asserted ▶ 1:44:11

“So it's going to be very interesting to see exactly which direction this goes in. But if Palestine is given the opportunity to nationalize those gas fields, they're going to be able to rebuild. And th…”

Tony Blair installed Hamas caller_asserted ▶ 1:44:11

British SAS financed_via Palestine caller_asserted ▶ 1:44:34

“Because Yasser Arafat wanted to nationalize those gas fields. They actually had contracts with British Gas. And it was Tony Blair that decided that he was going to cancel the lease contracts. And Isra…”

Tony Blair removed_from_power Yasser Arafat caller_asserted ▶ 1:44:34