The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37)

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0:00 All right, we'll try it again. See if people can get in this time. We're gonna wait just a second. So we got the car back and the 68 Camaro. And John goes out there this morning with our grandson and somewhere between his friend's house and our house, he picked up a roofing nail in one of the back tires. So he had to dash out this morning to the,

0:32 Place where his son works and get the tire patched. But it's all good to go. So now we're ready for our trip this Friday. There we go. Now everybody's coming in. Okay. Yeah. So just for you guys over here on Spaces, I obviously had everything set up earlier. Save for, get my typo.

1:03 um fixed um and went to click on it and it did basically the same thing that it was doing yesterday it wouldn't let anybody join so now let me resent this um out come on in new link and then we can finally get started even though i have all this done 30 minutes ahead of time crazy people all right

1:34 So we left off yesterday with the Chilean coup and we learned that John McCone, former CIA director, is sitting on the board of ITT, which is paying to overthrow the government because Salvador Allende does not want the company ITT in Chile anymore because they're using it to spy on him and the entire country because they run the entire telegraph and telephone company in Chile.

2:02 the 60s and early 70s, which is where we're at in time frame, just so everybody can get reoriented. Okay, we're on page 406. Henry Hexter aimed a half dozen covert action projects towards shaping the Chilean election. Agency officers like Donald Winters were primary operatives. One project, a scare campaign, tried to make

2:31 Allende out to be a Stalinist. So not even just the run-of-the-mill communist, he's now going to be a Stalinist. Another aim to neutralize another party whose voters would go for Allende. This involved actual subsidies to a political group. Projects placing press and radio items were reaching 5 million people a day.

2:58 The spooks tried to separate socialists from communists in the Unidad Popular Party and to split the communists from the National Labor Confederation. And just so that you know, this is true here too. They're labeling anybody that's an actual unionist as a communist, just like they did in all the other countries. So take that for what it's worth.

3:26 Sign painting teams work the streets by night, scrolling graffiti to suggest Linde was going to be sending people to a firing squad, which of course is exactly what they did with Pinochet after they overthrow and murder Salvador Linde. They send them to black site prisons to disappear them. So they always accuse you of what they're going to do. They also slapped up posters linking him to the Soviet invasion of...

3:59 Czechoslovakia, picturing tanks in the streets of Santiago. These themes came right out of a psyops text. Allende would end religious freedom in Chile, they said. His victory would undermine the family, they accused him. Hexter made such use of his assets that they became dangerously exposed. So exposed that they would be less useful.

4:29 for other operations because they were so visible. Among the most vital resources was the Chilean paper, El Mercurio, the country's biggest daily. It's basically their version of the New York Times, published by Augustine Edwards, who owned a couple more papers and much else besides that. He was one of the oligarchs.

5:00 Long had the agency wooed it. Although details remain shrouded in secrecy, official reports indicated the CIA penetrated throughout the 60s into this newspaper. Moore joined the CIA payroll until almost everyone there was being paid by the CIA, including the editors. By the late 60s, the agency would plant news.

5:29 in the newspaper along with editorials. So in the 70s campaign, this, quote, enabled the station to generate more than one editorial per day based on CIA guidance, unquote. Material here had a multiplying effect since it influenced other papers in not only Chile, but the surrounding area. So they were basically destroying the image of the Chilean government.

5:57 Henry Kissinger convened the 40 committee on March 7th to review progress. By now, the situation did not seem so favorable. Poll data had been skewed. It's always skewed. Allende's gain had gained ground despite the best the CIA was doing. Kissinger asserts that the election now appeared so tight that no new action could make any difference.

6:23 An official CIA review in September of 2000 notes that high-level concern in the Nixon administration resulted in the development of a much more aggressive covert action initiative. The issue before the 40 committee that day, Kissinger writes, was whether to explore preventing Allende from taking office if he won. This measure, considered risky, went on hold. The CIA reports suggest otherwise. It didn't go on hold.

6:52 Evidence suggests that Chile's policy became hostage to Henry Kissinger's efforts to centralize control in the White House. Just before the 40 committee met, the security advisor complained to Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, that Secretary of State William Rogers was out to get him to sabotage all of our systems and our foreign policy.

7:22 And since the president had invited Rogers to Camp David, Nixon began talking to H.R. Holderman about a Kissinger problem. That happened the day before Kissinger convened his senior review group, the most powerful unit other than the president's meeting with the full council, to debate the results of several studies.

7:51 one on Latin America and the other on Chile specifically. The security advisor now hedged the outcome of the Chilean election and asked for a paper for Nixon's decision on a policy towards Salvador Allende. Meanwhile, Langley published a fresh national intelligence estimate. This estimate predicted that an Allende government would almost certainly recognize Cuba.

8:17 challenge U.S. interest in the hemisphere, and accelerate measures affecting U.S. multinational corporations. That's the most important one, not the others. They just use the others as window dressing. The NIE became fodder for those pushing the last-ditch anti-Allende maneuver. So you can always count on the CIA to produce an NIA, National Intelligence Estimate.

8:45 That will go hand in hand with whatever the multinational corporations want. As Washington moved ahead, the game in Chile went to the next level. On September 4th, Chilean voters gave the plurality to Salvador Allende, though his margin of victory proved too narrow so that it forced a congressional runoff. Reaction along the Potomac was instantaneous. The election had been on Friday.

9:14 Early Saturday morning, Richard Helms and TOPS officials gathered in the CIA Ops Center to follow the results. They were all in a bad mood. Kissinger summoned the 40 committee for Tuesday. In the interim, he demanded State get him Corey's advice. America's man in Santiago replied that there remained little chance to defeat Allende.

9:43 That to be caught in the act would be disastrous. That Eduardo Fry's participation was essential and unlikely in any blocking scenario. And that Washington could accommodate itself to an Allende government. He didn't seem to think it was such a big communist threat. Then a remote event intruded. On Sunday in the Middle East, Palestinians began hijacking airliners and flying them to Jordan.

10:12 Not only a major distraction, the crisis suggested a need for U.S. action elsewhere. When Kissinger heard at the 40 committee confirmed the judgment of the embassy in Santiago, Latin American oligarch Bill Brone started by agreeing with Corey's assessment, highlighting some of his points. The CIA man felt the decision not yet ripe and recommended that Corey and Hexter probe all possibilities.

10:43 of action and then report back. Discussions became heated. Director Helms expressed his views that the Chilean opposition would evaporate once Allende took office and that the Chilean quote-unquote Marxist would quickly neutralize the police and army, leaving no rallying point. Helms made no policy recommendations but gave his quote-unquote intelligence judgment. Quote, a military

11:15 group against Allende would have little success unless undertaken soon. The Pentagon nodded in agreement. To be effective, the action had to be immediate. Alex Johnson and Charlie Meyer warned that intervening against Allende's election might result in a civil war. They don't care.

11:43 Henry Kissinger and John Mitchell doubted that once Allende was in the presidency, there would be anyone capable of organizing any real counterforce against him. Ignoring the State Department's warning, Kissinger used Chile to further his drive for control and show Nixon's resolve. He ended the session by directing the Corey report immediately on the pros and cons of a coup with U.S. assistance.

12:09 Edward Corey believes that he lost credibility in the Nixon White House when he advised against adventures in Santiago. They don't take no for an answer. There existed an important counterweight to Corey, ITT. Within days of the election, ITT began reaching directly out to the White House, speaking to Kissinger's NSC staff aides for Latin America.

12:35 When the 40 committee met again on September 14th, in the face of Corey's advice, the secret war managers voted $250,000 for a campaign to influence the Chilean Congress runoff. Helms recalls the atmosphere as grouchy. In main decision, described as the Rube Goldberg gamut, an awkward and patched together mechanism that achieves an unlikely result.

13:06 would become known as Track One. Richard Nixon, a friend of Pepsi Corporation, President Donald Kendall, took a phone call from him. Kendall told Nixon that a friend, Augustin Edwards, the publisher of the New York Times variation in Chile,

13:29 wanted to talk to people in the White House. Nixon knew Edwards and needed little convincing. To him, Allende represented something like what Castro had for Kennedy. Years afterwards, in the celebrated television interview with David Frost, Nixon rationalized that the addition of Chile to Cuba would have made Latin America's a red sandwich. Again, he's not a communist.

13:58 Nixon told Edwards and Kendall to see Kissinger. Nixon does not recall specifically, but concedes it's quite possible that he told his people to see the Chilean publisher. The next morning, September 15th, Edwards and Kendall breakfast with Kissinger and John Mitchell. Edwards pleaded for help. Later, he saw Richard Helms at a downtown hotel to convey the same message.

14:24 Nixon ordered Kissinger to get Helms over to the White House that afternoon before heading to Kansas City for a speech. Nixon spoke with Helms, Kissinger, and Mitchell. The president didn't mince words. As Helms penciled notes seated to the right of Nixon's desk, the president told the CIA to take Allende down. Even if the chances were just 1 in 10, he wanted to do it.

14:55 Echoing LBJ to the CIA in Vietnam, Nixon wanted the best men full time. And he told Helms that he would give him $10 million to overthrow the Chilean government. As for Chile, the president said, make the economy scream. Nixon wanted to see, that was actually Kissinger. If I ever carried a marshal's baton in my knapsack out of the Oval Office, Helms said, that was the day.

15:25 My heart sank over this meeting because the possibility of bringing off something like this seemed to me at the time very remote. Nixon also told Helms to keep the whole project secret. Secretary Rogers and Laird, Ambassador Corey, Station Chief Hexter, all were to be kept in the dark. Now, that's not what happened, but whatever. Even at Langley, knowledge was to be restricted.

15:57 was supposed to approve all covert operations Nixon had recently affirmed would not be informed of this one. Helms thought it was the tightest clampdown he had ever experienced. Tom Karamason speculated to Senate investigators that the restrictions were designed to avoid state objections and to reflect a concern over secrecy. In a sworn statement to the same investigating committee,

16:26 Richard Nixon declared he did not recall ordering secrecy, but he conceded, it was my opinion that any effort to bring about a political defeat of Mr. Allende could succeed, only participation of the CIA was not disclosed. So that's 20 words to say, yes, I ordered the secrecy. Within 24 hours, the White House was swept up in a further distraction as the CIA reported signs that the Russians were about to open a Navy base in Cuba.

16:57 For Kissinger, Chile became just part of an autumn crisis. The last-ditch attempt to head off Allende's presidency had come down to the history of Track 2, as Tom Karamasens dubbed it, an effort that led to the death of the de facto commander of the Chilean army. The CIA knew this mission as Project F.U. Belt, B-E-L-T.

17:26 In his golden years, secret warrior David Phillips used to meet his good old buddies for lunch and dinner to chew over their exploits. Their watering hole was a good Cuban restaurant called Omega in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It's gone now. The atmosphere at those lunches differed diametrically from Phillips' reality those days in the 70s. Nine months into his touristy...

17:57 station chief in Brazil, Phillips suddenly received orders to take the next flight to D.C. and tell associates that he'd be away for several weeks for a promotion board. Phillips knew something was up, speculating it was Chile, but on his long trip, he dismissed the thought that Chile had become a crash priority. Phillips would be in charge of a task force for Project Belt.

18:25 Returning to Langley after his fateful encounter with the president, Director Helms called together senior people to develop a plan to show Nixon. Early the next morning, Helms gathered the group, including his deputy, General Robert Cushman, and his executive director, Colonel Red White. From the DO, the big guns, Cara Macenas and his associate, Cord Meyer. Bill.

18:54 Bro, Deputy Division Chief Jim Flannery, and a few subordinates. Helms told the Secret Warriors they were going to get $10 million to spend and put Cara Macenas in command. There would be a task force of the best people with Colonel White to make all necessary arrangements and Phillips as the lead ops officer. The CIA director recalls the meeting as bleak with no one holding out any hope.

19:23 for a successful plan, the only apparent avenue being a military coup. Cord Myers recalls that he and Cara Menes were stunned. We were surprised what we were being ordered to do, Myers wrote. Much as we feared an Allende presidency, the idea of a military overthrow had not occurred to us as a feasible solution. And let me just tell you how ridiculous this sounds. We did it in,

19:53 Guatemala. We did it in Brazil in the early 1960s. We've done this almost everywhere. And they're pretending like that's an unacceptable. Yeah, no. This is in the middle of Operation Condor. These guys have plans to do this all over South America. This is ridiculous. Anyway, back to the story.

20:22 Little time remained for an operation. The CIA station had been discouraging military action and would suddenly be reversing course. They knew of no Chilean officers ready to act against Allende. Helms had to meet with Kissinger again on the 18th to detail their plan. He could not just tell the security advisor that the risks were great and the action impossible. That day Langley had to march.

20:50 into the valley of death. So dramatic. When Helms saw Kissinger again, their conversation on track two was perfunctory. Rather, the national security advisor expressed himself as more concerned with economic pressure and could be brought to bear. John McCone had seen Kissinger and Helms and conveyed his corporate concerns because, you know, he's over at ITT now as the former CIA director. Kissinger's staffer, Verone Vacchi,

21:22 who also talked with ITT executives the day before, the economic pressures would feature in the 40-committee track, and they would endure long after Allende took power. The final Chilean runoff, set for October 24, 1970, loomed in Santiago. That gave the agency barely a month. Caras Menes would direct the project in liaison with the White House.

21:50 For Helms, this also offered a private channel to the State Department. Cara Menendez and William Rogers had been young lawyers together back in the day on Thomas Dewey's DA staff in the 1930s. Interesting. Cara Menendez also practiced very strict compartmentalization for keeping things and people ignorant.

22:20 thus being a good man to enforce secrecy. Dave Phillips found himself pressed into service. Barely had he gotten an ID badge with access to appropriate headquarters areas when the deputy chief Flannery pulled Phillips aside to brief him. Phillips related that he could barely believe his assignment. He and Flannery agreed that they could not buy the Chilean Congress for $25 million, much less 250.

22:49 Flannery had served with Phillips several times in the past and now led him carefully to the appropriate conclusion. Both men saw poor prospects. Phillips recounted, the odds were unacceptable and it was something that was not going to work and we were going to be burned if we got into it. Karamanes found his colleague universally agreed. The problem is Helms has marching orders, Flannery said.

23:20 Helms and his crew all testified later to intense White House pressure. As Flannery told investigators, there was just no question that we had to make the effort. Track two was very closely held at Langley. Except for Breaux, Flannery, and the Chilean branch chief, no one at the White House division needed to know. Dave Phillips fibbed about his sudden appearance, though the promotion board story must have worn thin when he slept in the building, which was quite unusual.

23:50 There was talk of running Phillips' task force directly out of Karamanene's office, but that would have been a tip-off. Instead, they put it in a small mailroom. At least it adjoined the White House Division front office. Phillips experienced ethical doubts, partly due to what he knew about Chile and Allende, but also because the secrecy forced him into false positions.

24:20 Okay, sure. I'm in the CIA and I pretend to be anybody I want anywhere in the world. I have multiple passports, but all of a sudden I've got a conscience about adopting a false story. Please. His staff mixed experienced people with some young officers. Most important of them was John J. Devine, called Jack, a former high school school teacher from Philadelphia, on his first DO assignment.

24:51 Devine converted the overnight cables from Santiago into reports for his superiors. Determined not to be completely idiotic, Phillips broke one rule early, bringing in Henry Hexter. The station chief went on record as early as September 23rd, noting strong reasons to support the Chilean military would acquiesce in Salvador Allende's presidency. Hexter warned that the

25:20 Chilean commander, General Rene Snyder, a strict constitutionalist, had firm control and would permit no interference by the military in the politics. The parameter of action was quite narrow, as Heckscher saw them, while options were limited. He was called to Washington and politely read the Riot Act. Langley instructed the station chief merely to report, not to fill his cables with arguments.

25:50 So Rene Snyder happens to be the obstacle of which they will target. Santiago's military attache, Colonel Paul Weimert, used as a go-between with Chilean officers of several factions, had to know too, and Hexter would control him. Otherwise, the 12-person station would be bypassed. Instead, Phillips mounted his emergency effort with agents sent from outside the country.

26:19 all would act as false flag agents, pretending to act for someone other than the CIA. One, Tony Sforza, had cover as a professional gambler, an Argentinian with business interests. Among the other agency exploits, Sforza had been a CIA debriefer of Fidel Castro's sister Juanita in Mexico City in the summer of 64.

26:48 Another, Bruce McMaster, masqueraded as a representative of the Ford Foundation, one of the CIA's favorites, which was a violation of CIA regulations that had been put in place when they were exposed using the National Student Association. But they don't care. None of the laws apply to them. There was two more.

27:14 Agents whose communication with Phillips ran through the undercover officer at a safe house in Santiago. Ambassador Corey left to believe that track one amounted to everything the U.S. did in Chile would eventually be furious. As the task force put its network in place, Dave Phillips crafted his operation plan. On September 27th, he sent it to Henry Hexter. The agency intended to create a coup climate.

27:48 including political, psychological, and economic warfare. ITT had already raised this aspect with Kissinger, and corporate documents mentioned a possible multi-million dollar fund for bribes and other purposes. But Phillips believed the key would be psychological warfare inside of Chile. The intent would be to create a pretext for action and pressure that would be used, and they would put pressure on President Eduardo Frei.

28:18 to either manage a coup or get out of the way. The seeds of failure are already visible in this dispatch, which began by noting, quote, we accept as hypothesis that Free will probably not move, unquote. And Free, having been the previous president, they felt was essential to any coup that they were setting up. On September 29th,

28:48 William Breaux of the White House division met with ITT executives. Corporate documents revealed that in the scandal that later surrounded this business intervention in foreign policy included the executive cable recounting Breaux's meeting with ITT's chairman. The CIA told the corporate executives that the agency had taken certain steps but wanted additional help aimed at inducing the economic collapse.

29:17 of a foreign country called Chile. Now, what's interesting about this is the kind of disconnect between, okay, the CIA is directly talking to the ITT guy. On the other side of the White House, you have the Presidential Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which is all civilians talking to the president. It's the same thing.

29:42 If those people all recommend we do covert action because we just learned that Nelson Rockefeller headed that Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board's covert action subcommittee, it's the exact same thing. Now we're supposed to pretend that it's a big deal that they're doing it one-on-one? Please. Langley's concept included having banks refuse.

30:12 to renew loans and companies drag their feet on deliveries and payments, saving banks, relocate corporate headquarters and withdrawal of technical help, economic warfare. The CIA even wanted ITT to approach other corporations on its behalf. ITT would do it. What it couldn't refuse was, hold on a second, ITT would do what it could.

30:44 but refused to recruit for Langley's economic war, except for they all talked. As Breaux met with ITT executives, E.J. Geraghty, Tom Karamacenas, phoned Chairman Harold Grennan and ranged over the same ground. McCone got updates from the ITT's people. In 1970 and 71, there would be more than three dozen CIA contacts.

31:13 with ITT. Meanwhile, the agency's false flag officers had decided that Chileans they were talking to were useless. Corey learned of the contacts and again prohibited them. The same day as the 40 committee, Kissinger ordered Corey's prohibition to be canceled. On October 7th, Phillips directed Hecater to approach the Chilean military himself. Langley's

31:43 Desperation is evidence in this cable where the task force chief demands creating some sort of acute climate, starting a rumor until it could not be disproven to try to create a pretext. The status report of a few days later noted that Hexter passing word that the U.S. would support any military move.

32:10 had heard in at least two places that there was going to be no such prospect. Ambassador Corey visited Washington at this point, meeting Nixon in the Oval Office on October 12th. Corey frankly said that nothing could prevent Allende's assuming office and that the embassy should retool for the new heir. Corey saw Kissinger's eyes bulge out. As for track one,

32:39 There were four sessions of the 40 committee in the month between mid-September and mid-October, all wrestled with the scant potential for any coup or parliamentary maneuver to not allow Allende to take office. On October 14th, the CIA told the group that no coup climate existed in Santiago. Ambassador Corey attended this session and added his agreement.

33:04 Kissinger reflected that there seems to have been little left to do. Tom Karamanenis met Nixon, Kissinger, and the National Security Council Deputy Alexander Haig six to ten times on his track two. His briefings of Nixon were uniformly negative. Investigators reported later, but they did not publish the results, that Al Haig served as the de facto manager.

33:34 for track two out of the White House. Haig says nothing at all about Chile in his memoirs. Caramene Senez's key encounter took place on October 15th, with fewer than 10 days left until the runoff in Santiago. The deputy director of operations carried a short paper in which the agency argued that a moderate U.S. stance would afford Allende a fertile atmosphere for ties to the West. You know, try to deal with him.

34:04 While a tough position would accelerate Chile's move to other places, you know, the communist. That's only logical. And in any event, a failed coup would, from a U.S. perspective, look awful. Kissinger and Haig listened to Cara Menendez, evaluated the plotter's chances of one in 20. The security advisor

34:34 reluctantly decided to instruct Langley to desist but preserve CIA assets to keep pressure on, hitting every Allende weak spot in sight now and after the 24 October, between now and 24 October. After 5 November, which was the inauguration day, and into the future, Menendez and, or excuse me, Karamenez and Phillips

35:03 translated those orders into instructions to the Santiago station. One of the Langley cables said this, quote, it is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup. It would be much preferable to have this transpire prior to 24 October, but efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond that date.

35:27 we are to continue to generate maximum pressure toward this end using every appropriate resource, unquote. Kissinger and Haig later testified that coup planning had been terminated on October 15th. Apparently not. In his memoirs, Kissinger quotes himself telling Nixon, I saw Karaman in us today. That looks hopeless. I turned it off. Nothing could be worse than an abortive coup, unquote.

35:58 Henry notes that the president agreed. The security advisor adds, quote, when I ordered coup plotting turned off on October 15th, 1970, Nixon, Haig, and I considered it to be the end of both track one and track two, unquote. Orders to preserve assets Kissinger maintains were for the clearly remote chances that action might be taken later.

36:26 This version does not comport with a declassified record. The orders were intended to produce an opportunity, not respond to one. On the ground in Santiago, Bruce McMasters and Tony Sforza were in touch with plotters headed by General Roberto Fomarambio. So was Colonel Weimert from the embassy.

36:58 Vioxx, I don't know how you say his last name, it's V-I-A-U-X, used both channels to demand money and weapons. For a time, Weimert carried riding boots stuffed with cash in the trunk of his car. On October 17th, several machine guns were sent to Santiago in a diplomatic pouch. Vioxx was to kidnap General Snyder, setting off events that would forestall the runoff vote.

37:28 He received the CIA's cease and desist order, but pressed on. And weapons, of course, I guess they're saying this order up here that they're supposed to be a coup and overthrown it, you know, every opportunity. That doesn't sound like a cease and desist letter to me. So they probably have two for the record. One that says don't do it and the other one saying do it. Meanwhile.

38:03 they're still sending money to the guy that's doing it. And the general that they picked out to get all the weapons and the money is still being cultivated. Okay, agency cables later provided to Senate investigators show continuing White House concerns over the progress, meaning they wanted it to hurry up. Instead, on April 22nd, a different group of officers, which however included some of the same people,

38:37 murdered Snyder. They assassinated the senior general in Chilean army. The assassination created a backlash in Santiago, increasing Salvador Allende's vote in the October 24th election, and Congress elected him president of Chile after they slaughtered his military chief. Kissinger

39:08 would like the public to believe that his order ended covert action in Chile, but it is false. Cara Menendez testified, quote, as far as I was concerned, what we were told to do was to continue our efforts, stay alert and do what we could to contribute to the eventual achievement of the objective and purpose of track two. I don't think it was proper to say that track two was ended, unquote.

39:34 Similarly, ITT executives discussed their follow-up with John McCone. They would take it to Kissinger in the State Department. Kissinger himself proceeded with the Chilean policy review that he had ordered in August. And that led to a Nixon decision within days of Allende's inauguration. Washington's policy had an important covert aspect. An intelligence team memo prepared for the policy review pointed out,

40:03 The United States had no real national or security interest in Chile, none. But the option papers assumed Allende's anti-American bias and that of Chilean president would establish authoritarian rule. They have no basis for that at all, none. There's nothing about Chile that has anything to do with national security, nothing.

40:38 So in the off chance that he may at some point in the future be a quote-unquote authoritarian while the U.S. government is overthrowing governments everywhere, I don't know how you get more authoritarian than that, but we're all for double standards. Demonstrating its isolation in Nixon's councils, the State Department left open the question of what U.S. objectives would be achieved in Chile.

41:15 while the Pentagon demanded that the goal be to prevent, quote, establishment of the Allende government of an authoritarian Marxist regime, prevention of the regimes falling under communist control, and prevention of the influencing the rest of Latin America. All right, so let's take that at face value. So you just knocked off the senior.

41:44 military leader in Chile. And you're concerned about authoritarian Marxist regimes? You're talking about an economic boycott and you're afraid you're going to push them into the arms of the communist? What? So these are our fears. So we're going to do everything to make those fears come true to justify the overthrow so American oligarchs continue.

42:17 to enslave the people and steal all the resources. Got it? Oh my gosh. Henry Kissinger picked right up there. His briefing for the president on November 5th declared in underlying text, quote, the election of Allende as president of Chile poses for us one of the most serious challenges ever faced in this hemisphere, unquote. Kissinger's judgment.

42:49 The risk in doing nothing outweighed those adopting a hostile strategy. Although he conceded that Allende had legitimacy and that we are strongly on record in supporting self-determination and respect for free elections. Kissinger advocated preventing Chilean's new president from consolidating his power. So we're all for democracy, but we're going to do every damn thing we can to make sure you don't get any.

43:19 He warned against a modus varende with Allende and advocated a hostile approach. Henry advised Nixon to decide that, quote, we will oppose Allende as strongly as we can, unquote, under the guise of democracy. And to make it clear that the NSC, in order to forestall a steady drift toward the totalitarian

43:51 I'm sorry, you just can't make this shit up. Nixon began the NSC meeting by asking Director Helms for an intelligence update. The CIA chief summarized the Chilean election and its political background, attributing an immobilism of those who had not opposed Allende.

44:15 to a process to which the Chilean people was softened up and conditioned for six years to accept revolutionary language, not only coming from the communists and the socialists, but generated by the ruling Christian Democrats themselves. Helms talked as if there had been no CIA political action in Chile during that time. Yeah, exactly. So the Chileans are getting ready.

44:45 to just accommodate the incoming government that they just voted for. And they don't really care. But I think they do care or they wouldn't have voted for him. Despite the fact that you had millions of dollars going in the country calling him a Stalinist. Crazy. He found that Allende knew how to achieve his aims and would move slowly against foreign investors at first.

45:16 US investment insurance could potentially cost taxpayers more than $700 million, representing the majority of the $800 million book value in the American investment in Chile at the time. I love how they say that. It could cost taxpayers more than $600 million for US investment insurance. So are we covering?

45:45 the investments for Rockefellers and ITT and all of these other people to go use cheap labor somewhere else instead of doing it here in our country? Or is it potentially going to cost those corporations that money? Helms recited a clandestine report that Allende had promised Latin revolutionaries to support them once he attained power.

46:18 clandestine report. But Helms dismissed the Cold War threat. Moscow is showing caution in dealing with any new government. In turn, the Chilean socialists will want to avoid excessive dependence on Moscow. In other words, they had no evidence of any of this, but we have to find something to put in the report.

46:44 According to records of this meeting, Kissinger then told the council that no clear choice existed, though he was certainly stated one to Richard Nixon the day before. Secretary Rogers spoke next, favoring an economic squeeze on Allende. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, quote, we have to do everything we can to hurt him and bring him down, unquote. Technical experts observed.

47:14 That declining prices for copper, which Chile depended on for 80% of their exports, would hurt. Nixon immediately ordered studies of the amount of stockpiled copper in the U.S. that it could sell off. The word destabilized used here merely in regards to copper prices eventually described Washington's overall intent towards Allende. The president himself insisted that the U.S. increase military assistance.

47:42 to the Chileans while giving Allende cold turkey on economic aid. Nixon himself said, make sure that the export-import bank and the international organizations toughen up. In other words, the U.S. is telling them to begin economic warfare on Chile to ensure

48:09 that Salvador Allende is not successful. Three days later, in Nixon's name, Henry Kissinger signed a directive that ordered the public posture of the U.S. will be correct but cool, which excludes bilateral aid and quietly brought maximum feasible influence to bear on international banks to limit any dealings with Chile at all. The U.S. would warn multinationals

48:47 In short, the U.S. would seek to maximize pressure on Allende's government. In his memoirs, Kissinger indulges in creative accounting to deny, and he does it explicitly, that Washington tried to destabilize Chile.

49:03 Kissinger asserts that what our opponents called destabilization was in fact an effort to help the institutions of civil democratic society survive Allende's pressure to destroy them. You can't make this shit up. And he insisted that there was no attempt to overthrow Allende, except there were multiple ones. Only a strategy of anticipation of Chilean elections in 1976.

49:36 Yet the word destabilized was first used not only by woolly protesters, but at the cabinet meeting table in the White House two days after his inauguration. The problem with Kissinger's comments is that the record is quite clear. The story it tells is not that one Kissinger would like you to believe. So his biography book is a complete lie and I have it.

50:07 By late November, the 40 committee had begun reviewing a covert action program designed to advance the new Nixon policy. It was quickly approved and a contingency budget assigned. On November 19th, the covert program for Chile was the top item on the 40 committee agenda. William Brough reported the program consisted of a number of political actions designed to divide and weaken Allende's government, a dozen in all.

50:35 With a budget of almost a million dollars. That was double what they had had for the election interference. So we're going to stop there for now. And we will finish. I have dinner tonight. We will finish this area tomorrow. So, crazy shit. I'm telling you. It's like everything that's officially written for all of us to look at is all lies.

51:13 And you have to go to the declassified document area to actually figure out, or books like this that have done that research to figure out what was actually going on. And they never match, ever. Warhamster? Hi. So that chapter should have been titled Hypocrisy and Lies? I mean, I just got a kick out of Cord Meyer.

51:47 who we just covered in our series, in small and key, the father of Operation Mockingbird, trying to, you know, acting shocked that we would, you know, be, do such sordid crimes. Yeah. The guy's the freaking father of Mockingbird media. Yes. I did get a kick out of that. Yeah. So again,

52:09 Every one of these books, and that's the reason why we just keep going over this material, because it gives you an illustration that you can't just read one book because that's that author's version of the truth or the facts or whatever. You have to dig into the material and know your history from like five different angles.

52:35 to be able to glean out of the books the new material that is provable. And, of course, this one gives us lots of names, as I keep saying. But you can never just read one book on a subject and think you have the gist of the subject. Yeah, that's a really good point. You also got to look at when the books are written.

53:00 Because some of this – we were writing about Watergate in 1980. You didn't have anywhere near the information we have today. Correct. And it's – I don't know if it's discernment or what have you, but I think we know – we've got more information at our fingertips if we have discernment. It's been a lot easier for us to figure out the truth than people could have done a couple decades ago. I agree. But again, most of the source material is much older. And I run into this – I find the further back history goes.

53:30 the more jaded you have to be in terms of understanding that this person was written by his understanding at the time. And perhaps, you know, it's harder to dig into the archives the older you get. But that being said, we're learning quite a bit about what we didn't know. I agree. That's kind of the common theme to all of this is that

54:01 everything that we have been taught was not true, or at least 99% of it, maybe not everything. Like I do think we know that certain dates around the founding of the revolution, or maybe when the dates of the Civil War, but the context of everything has been reworked and presented in completely different lights.

54:31 So I could be great. You mentioned the revolution. I'll give you a really good example of that. You know, let's go around the Internet today and everyone talks about the American Revolution. Oh, we were, you know, France came in there and helped us out. And the Russians were there to protect their Navy and stuff like that. But nobody talks about the Dutch. And there's an island in the Caribbean which is basically arming and funding the entire U.S. revolution. And, you know, I didn't learn that until, you know, the last few years. And I've been studying this stuff a long time. Nobody knows that the Dutch were actually our best ally.

55:01 you know in 1776 nobody knows it and it's an absolute undisputed fact so but that somehow it didn't make it into our history books and it but you do that through any point and that's a big freaking deal i think something that big that was completely missed by you know everything we were taught in school um you know think about all the smaller things that just were completely left out twisted or you know

55:24 And it does make sense based on what we were just talking about the other day about the feud between the Dutch and the English. It does make sense. Yeah, I've been actually doing, I've been doing a series, this series I'm doing with Doug, well, and you, we've been getting into that. In fact, we did that last night and the show I did with Ron on Ron's channel, we talked about it more. But yeah, it's, you got to wonder who makes the decision of what to put in the history and who doesn't.

55:52 And that's when you start thinking about the them. What don't they want us to know? Right. Yep. Amazing. Well, I was just going to add to what Warhamster said. I have a friend that's, he is Dutch. And five or six years ago, he told me something like what Warhamster just mentioned. And I didn't know anything about it. And he showed me, he had to translate and stuff, but he showed me what he was taught. And it was completely different than what we were taught.

56:23 The Dutch are awesome. I got about five Dutch friends from different walks of life, and every single one of them would be an American patriot, and they speak better English than half the people on their spaces. I absolutely love the Dutch people, but that's just me. Travis, go ahead. I just wanted to say that Dutch had an ulterior motive in being our allies. In 1656, Dutch signed an exclusive contract with Spain to...

56:56 purchased all slaves captured in North America. And the British were fighting them on that. The British were their main competitors and fought them on that all the way up to the Revolution. So it was in their best interest to be our allies against the British. That's all. Well, that's 100% correct. The Dutch and the Colonel have been going over this recently.

57:27 The Dutch and the British were fighting wars to see who's going to be the maritime power for the last century. And as we talked about a couple weeks ago, this tiny Dutch republic, the Dutch Empire, only had 2 million people, and they spread themselves so thin. And they really did themselves in with financial speculation. They securitized everything and stopped producing anything. But the big thing was they put a Dutchman on the crown in 1688, and he brought all the best ideas from the Netherlands.

57:56 And that's how England's economy was able to surpass them because they were able to industrialize before everyone else. And they were rivals for a good 200 years. So absolutely correct. They had a lot of incentive. And pretty much the Dutch became a second class power shortly after our revolution. But isn't that, I mean, that's kind of like de facto true of everything. Countries always have motives for doing things internationally.

58:26 Some of them good, generally, none of them good. But there's always a motive. Well, and that's a great point. And that makes the way I do my research a lot easier, understanding that because I always follow the money. And that's usually where you find that motive. See, that's what I... It's always economics. Yes, that's what I found out about Operation Gladio. Within six months, it became so obvious to me that...

58:55 This was all about resources. And so, you know, the standard thing is go find out who's sitting as the CIA station chief, go see who's sitting as the ambassador. And number three is go find out what US corporations are in the country and what's going on with the labor pool and the resources. Those are the three things in every one of these countries that has been targeted for overthrow.

59:25 Those three things will always line up. There will be some threat to their resources, and they will have the appropriate CIA guy and the appropriate ambassador, or they fire the one and get another one in, that's going to help orchestrate the entire thing. Yeah, I think you and I discussed that the very first time we got on the phone together. It's always done, always done for economic purposes.

59:54 Somebody wants to profit. Yes. It is never done to ensure someone has democracy. Not one time. But in every one of these cases, if you go to U.S. media, that's all that was plastered during all of these.

1:00:23 orchestrated coups is, oh, my gosh, we've got to give them help because they've got communists. They're trying to take over their government. Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank God he's gone. We saved them from communism. Yeah, sometimes it actually was communism. Sometimes it wasn't. But the bottom line is it was populism. They were trying to basically make sure the people of a country got to actually profit from their own resources. And we just can't have that.

1:00:50 Can you think of one off the top of your head that actually was communist at the time when we overthrew the government? I can think of some that were communist when we tried to, and I'm thinking mostly about East Asia, Laos, Cambodia, et cetera, and Vietnam. I mean, those were actually communist. Ho Chi Minh was. Ho Chi Minh did not start off being a communist before we started attacking him. He was not a communist.

1:01:16 He actually went to Paris with a U.S. constitution that was drafted by his former OSS officers. He was not a communist. Did we push him into the hands of the communists? Yes, we did. The same thing is with Kim's father. Kim's father was not a communist. But the attack and the foregone conclusion that we were never going to allow him to be president of a unified Korea.

1:01:48 They have no place to go but to the Soviet Union or eventually China for help. And that's what they end up being. But that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, was there one time when we went into a country to overthrow the government where they were actually a communist at that time, like Lumumba or Allende or...

1:02:18 Chetty, Jagen, none of those people were communist. You can say they were basically Scandinavian socialist. They were not communist. Table that question and let me go do some homework and see if I can find you one example. One thing I was going to say is, you know, it's interesting is one of the things the British and the Dutch both did with the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company is

1:02:43 They actually gave their corporations the ability to wage war and do all this stuff. They didn't hide behind an intel agency. Yeah. They were doing the same stuff we're doing, but they didn't try to hide it behind the way we do it. Yeah. Yeah. But you can't frame to be the superior power and all about democracy unless you hide it. They didn't pretend to not be an empire. We've been an empire and pretended we weren't the entire time.

1:03:17 No argument there at all. Yeah. So it's just like I tell everybody, at least the Democrats tell you who they are. The Republicans try to pretend to be the good guys and they're as bad as the Democrats. Stellar, go ahead. Well, back to what you guys were saying, you know, that they were, you know, like this big empire, but they didn't hide anything.

1:03:41 And we hide things now. And, you know, we try not to show that we're an empire or whatever, or like America, whatever it was. But America, I don't think, was really in control of, you know, we were, our strings were pushed by, who knows, does that make sense? Or am I wrong? Or were we always in control? Our strings have not been pushed by other people. Have we been involved with other people to,

1:04:10 help each other out on the international syndicate side? Yes. But we were not pushed into doing any of this stuff. I don't see any evidence of that. Leaving aside my opinion of the Civil War, I'll just leave that alone. The first official American empire was the Spanish-American War in 1898. Nobody pushed us into that. That was a war of choice. That was a war of conquest and territory acquisition.

1:04:42 We've never ever wavered from that since 1898. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I know. That's why I was asking. No, no. No, I appreciate that. I didn't know. Just because of all these different things that are going on, it just seems like, you know. But Stella, your point is an excellent point. And I'm glad you asked the question. Because what we are told so often.

1:05:09 is it's someone else's doings and we're just playing along or our president has been co-opted into doing something for another country. That largely is not true. We have our own seat at the international syndicate table and the people that...

1:05:36 have ran that, and to Warhamster's point, all roads lead to Rockefeller, but they certainly are not sitting at that table by themselves, has been a collective, although sometimes competitive, joint venture. I'll give you a really good example of this, and that's World War I. I'll be making the case a little bit more loudly of how it was done.

1:06:05 English banks that forced the Ottomans to the point where they had no choice but to join Germany by indebting the entire Ottoman Empire. But the one banker who profited the most from World War I was J.P. Morgan. That's no accident. He got paid a commission on every single good we sent to Europe to fight that war. And the same mortgage that happened to help create the Federal Reserve right before that. So there are no coincidences. That was a war of choice.

1:06:35 Yeah. Miss Lou? Okay, got it. Thank you. Thank you, Colonel, again, for such a wonderful space. Hey, Bridget, Stella, everybody. I just want to say that things just haven't changed a bit, ramping up to today, have they? Lies and deceit. Oh, and we're still trying to be an empire.

1:06:56 Oh, my God. Now we've got a real estate president, and I support our president, but I'm just saying we've got a guy who's used to building and real estate, and he looks at the world as like a different kind of a map to be acquired. I don't think that's what's happening, Ms. Liu. No, I think, honestly, I don't think elected officials are running the show at all. Like you said, the syndicate is still running the show. I don't think that's true. I disagree, too.

1:07:26 That the unelected officials are really running the show in this country? Do I think they're still desperately trying? Yes. Do I think they are? No. And I think that's what you see as a large disconnect and the constant attacks on the administration and the constant undermining of the officials in the administration. If the administration

1:07:53 was doing what they wanted them to do, they would have got as favorable free press as Biden and Obama did. That's not the case. And it's not the case for a reason. So I agree with the Colonel 100% on this. If you look at what Trump's geopolitical moves from a certain lens, he's dismantling the post-World War II rules-based order, the globalist, the one world government.

1:08:24 Everything he does is designed to thwart that. For them to get one world government, you have to destroy all the nation states, particularly the United States and Russia. Everything Trump is doing is dismantling that entire system, breaking up NATO and all this stuff. If you look at it from that lens, you also realize that he is the maverick who's bucking this institution of evil. And that's why I forgive him some of the gaffes. I don't like economic nationalism by any stretch. I'd rather have free markets.

1:08:54 At the end of the day, the biggest enemy to our freedom and prosperity is this rules-based order, this whole blob that's been created, the international syndicate, the blob, the shadow state, all these people working together, the EU, you name it, the UN, all this stuff. They're getting dismantled right in front of us. So if you look at things from that perspective, instead of the right versus left or –

1:09:17 Oh, I agree with that. I agree with that. Right versus left at some point is sort of a ridiculous paradigm now. But yeah, it's those who want to protect a constitutional republic versus those who would prefer to tear it down. That's how I look at it. It's those who want to have globalistic, you know, the colonel saying communism is an outdated term. And I agree with her, you know, in many senses with that. But it's those who have a different.

1:09:46 aspect of wanting power versus we are trying to preserve freedom and what we were born for. Hold on, Steller. Go ahead. I would say in a very similar way, but I don't think we've been in a constitutional republic since 1861. And I don't think that Trump, that's Trump's, you know, he wants to follow a version of the Constitution. He is more of an economic nationalist.

1:10:15 As opposed to an internationalist. And we need someone like that to stop these people. But where I want to go. The way we understand a constitutional republic. With limited government decentralization. Stuff like that. That's not Donald Trump. That's what comes afterwards. That's what we've got to work for. That's the goal. Trump is a weapon. He's the right man at the right time we hope. And if he can just basically stop the bleeding. And dismantle this rules based order. For lack of a better term.

1:10:43 then he succeeded no matter what else happens. And then it's up to us. Yes. Take it from there. Okay. Why are you so mad? Go ahead. Okay. I just wanted to jump in there because yeah, Donald Trump is the tourniquet. The doctoring will come afterwards. And if he was part of this criminal syndicate system, they wouldn't hate him so much. Yeah. And, and that's, that is basically the whole point.

1:11:12 If they weren't attacking him every single minute of every single day, I would be concerned. Good point. 100%. Go ahead, Stella. I think you guys misunderstood me. I am not in any way applying that he is part of the Internet. Okay. All right. Go ahead, Stella. All I wanted to say is what Warhamster was saying.

1:11:36 Confirm with what he's saying. He is dismantling everything. He's dismantling and blowing up the system. The old system has to go kaput. It has to be ashes. And then the new system will be built up. So to have a free market, a true free market, you have to get rid of all of these levers that Colonel Towner, Bridget, and Warhamster have been trying to connect and things like that. The system has to be broken down. Every lever.

1:12:03 Every type of funneling of money and dark pools and all that other stuff has to be exposed. And that's kind of how I look at it. Just like he was saying, you know, yes, it is getting dismantled. But in any type of thing, we've always known that when we're going from one system to the other, and those of us that were around, you know, when it switched from what it was before to the fiat system, there was, you know, ruck and roll. But they had safeguards put in to keep it going that way.

1:12:30 This whole system, there's not going to be safeguards for the deep state or international syndicate, in my personal opinion, because it is getting blown up and will be rebuilt like how Warhamster and things like that for free market trade afterwards. Got it. Ms. Liu, go ahead. I'm hoping.

1:12:48 that all of that is true. My worry is the level of corruption, which has always been around, but it seems to be ramping up so rapidly. And I'm certainly not talking about Trump's circles. I'm talking about everything else surrounding him. He's not getting a whole lot of support in D.C., which you've all seen. John Thune is just one name that comes up.

1:13:09 And so we've got a den of corruption in D.C., a den of corruption in the bureaucracy, and he's sort of like the guy with the sword and the stone, you know, trying to get it done. I agree with that. I support him. But sometimes I wonder if the people surrounding him really understand the dynamics of the Middle East. And that's what worries me, because the Middle East is very tribal, very, very...

1:13:37 What's the word? It's more than an ideology, okay? It's certainly not a religion. And I'm talking about radical Islam. And we're seeing it all over here. And we see that we have a strong enough government to really coalesce in all of the things that are...

1:13:57 happening here at home that are also reflective of what's happening overseas. And that's, I think, the frustration of a lot of people is they love Trump, but they're looking around going, hey, where's mass deportations? And agreed, Americans are impatient. He's only been in his new term for two years, but we've only got two more years and we have to get, and it's not traditional that Republicans get out in midterms. That's just a fact. An incumbent president doesn't often have a...

1:14:26 success with midterms. And he is definitely on the ballot. There's no question. So we have to get this because I believe, in my opinion, that the left is stronger than ever. Okay, let me get to the other hands and then I've got to run, guys. Renee, go ahead. Hey, good afternoon, everyone. This is for Warhamster and you, Colonel. Lately, you know, with the Red Cross coming out online and everyone sharing and great post, Colonel,

1:14:57 Expanding on the Red Cross and everything. Considering that it seems like a pattern to me, considering that the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the YMCA were kind of the origin was shortly after slavery was abolished. Would you consider that these were kind of rebranding and fronts from the international syndicate?

1:15:23 to in their, you know, going around the world, they placed all these organizations as international fronts to transition from the slavery and the looting of natural resources around the world and the maritime order and kind of like, how do I say, rebranding, creating fronts since slavery was abolished.

1:15:50 to cover their nefarious trafficking nonsense? So I don't know that I would label them substitutions for slavery. They are definitely used as intelligence fronts.

1:16:16 And you would have to go through and do some very extensive research to be able to take that to that point. Is there the opportunity that they could have been used for that? But we've seen how they do the trafficking with the refugee programs and stuff like that.

1:16:45 The YMCA and the Red Cross were not associated with those types of activities, but they did serve as when the Red Cross would go into quote unquote disaster areas or whatever, they had intelligence embedded in them to do whatever it was that they had been assigned as a mission. That goes back to the very first Red Cross.

1:17:14 mission over into Russia. It was filled with oligarchs and it was basically an intelligence gathering mission on how to exploit Russia as the Bolsheviks were taking hold. So I don't know that you could make that stretch. They definitely were fronts, but I don't know that you can make the argument that they were fronts for replacing slavery. Why are you so mad?

1:17:45 Okay, I wanted to be real quick and address Ms. Liu's concerns about something. The ramp up is a show of their panic. And I also believe that the Middle East is not as tribal as we are fed to believe. We have been fed a narrative of...

1:18:11 sunni versus shia and and alawites versus you know wasabi it's it's all of these things that are just pent up that we are fed i don't believe that they are as tribal and as split as we are led to believe that they are and hey as long as they are panicking and they are really ramping things up i know things are going in the right direction again that's reassurance for me so i've spent

1:18:41 a little bit of time over there. They are actually very tribal, but not in the way most people interpret the tribal. They have also modernized, but they're still within their tribal area. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine that's over there right now was talking about being

1:19:10 invited by this very very wealthy guy in one of the Middle East countries and he lives in one of the major cities there but he owns a home in his tribal land and anytime that he is not working he and his family goes back to their tribal

1:19:31 And he has a regular house there. He doesn't have a mansion there. He has a regular house because that's where his grounding takes place. So they're definitely tribal in that sense.

1:19:46 Now, is it the guys running on the camel to the trading post tribal? No. There has been significant modernization. Like when I was in Northern Iraq, I told you guys, the Kurdish people are culturally very tribal, but they live in big cities. They have normal lives.

1:20:10 And they have political and cultural differences. But what you see taking shape right now, which does not get any press, is the outreach of partnerships breaking out throughout all of the Middle East, where there has been longstanding feuds among the current nation states there. They're working cooperatively.

1:20:40 And that's something that has taken place since Trump's first term in working out all of these arrangements without people constantly trying to backdoor them, which has happened. So I think if you look at what's actually going on and not what's being talked about going on, I think you could see significant improvement and it's not doomsday.

1:21:10 as far as I'm concerned. You know, Colonel, I know you got to go. I do. Can someone ask that question again about the Middle East from an economic standpoint? Because I've done business with Middle Easterners and there is a difference in the culture, but my answer is going to be too long for today. So we'll do it another time. Okay. Well, we can start the show off tomorrow if you're available with that, because I'd like to hear it myself. We shall see. No promises for tomorrow. Okay.

1:21:38 All right, you guys. Take care, everybody. And I will see you tonight at 9 o'clock on Alpha Warrior Show for part two of our discussion about Lebanon. And it's going to get crazy because it's much bigger than just Lebanon. But it'll be very interesting. I've got a hall pass tonight, so if I can stay awake, I might actually be able to check it out. It'd be great to have you there. Okay.

1:22:08 So anyway, we'll see you back here tomorrow at four. Take care, everybody.

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Claims made here

Henry Hexer spied_on Salvador Allende book_quoted ▶ 2:02

“the 60s and early 70s, which is where we're at in time frame, just so everybody can get reoriented. Okay, we're on page 406. Henry Hexter aimed a half dozen covert action projects towards shaping the …”

Henry Hexer carried_out_attack 1970 Chilean Presidential Election book_quoted ▶ 2:02

CIA recruited Donald Winters book_quoted ▶ 2:02

CIA funded Popular Unity book_quoted ▶ 2:31

“Allende out to be a Stalinist. So not even just the run-of-the-mill communist, he's now going to be a Stalinist. Another aim to neutralize another party whose voters would go for Allende. This involve…”

Augustin Edwards secretly_owned El Mercurio documented ▶ 4:29

“for other operations because they were so visible. Among the most vital resources was the Chilean paper, El Mercurio, the country's biggest daily. It's basically their version of the New York Times, p…”

CIA funded El Mercurio book_quoted ▶ 5:00

“Long had the agency wooed it. Although details remain shrouded in secrecy, official reports indicated the CIA penetrated throughout the 60s into this newspaper. Moore joined the CIA payroll until almo…”

Henry Kissinger headed Committee of 40 documented ▶ 5:57

“Henry Kissinger convened the 40 committee on March 7th to review progress. By now, the situation did not seem so favorable. Poll data had been skewed. It's always skewed. Allende's gain had gained gro…”

Henry Kissinger funded Project FUBELT book_quoted ▶ 5:57

Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of Salvador Allende book_quoted ▶ 11:43

“Henry Kissinger and John Mitchell doubted that once Allende was in the presidency, there would be anyone capable of organizing any real counterforce against him. Ignoring the State Department's warnin…”

Henry Kissinger funded Project FUBELT book_quoted ▶ 11:43

Richard Nixon funded Track One book_quoted ▶ 12:35

“When the 40 committee met again on September 14th, in the face of Corey's advice, the secret war managers voted $250,000 for a campaign to influence the Chilean Congress runoff. Helms recalls the atmo…”

CIA funded Track One book_quoted ▶ 12:35

Henry Kissinger funded Track One book_quoted ▶ 12:35

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Salvador Allende book_quoted ▶ 14:24

“Nixon ordered Kissinger to get Helms over to the White House that afternoon before heading to Kansas City for a speech. Nixon spoke with Helms, Kissinger, and Mitchell. The president didn't mince word…”

Richard Nixon funded Project FUBELT book_quoted ▶ 14:55

“Echoing LBJ to the CIA in Vietnam, Nixon wanted the best men full time. And he told Helms that he would give him $10 million to overthrow the Chilean government. As for Chile, the president said, make…”

CIA covered_up Project FUBELT book_quoted ▶ 15:25

“My heart sank over this meeting because the possibility of bringing off something like this seemed to me at the time very remote. Nixon also told Helms to keep the whole project secret. Secretary Roge…”

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Salvador Allende book_quoted ▶ 15:25

David Atlee Phillips member_of Project FUBELT book_quoted ▶ 17:57

“station chief in Brazil, Phillips suddenly received orders to take the next flight to D.C. and tell associates that he'd be away for several weeks for a promotion board. Phillips knew something was up…”

CIA funded Project FUBELT book_quoted ▶ 18:54

“Bro, Deputy Division Chief Jim Flannery, and a few subordinates. Helms told the Secret Warriors they were going to get $10 million to spend and put Cara Macenas in command. There would be a task force…”

Tom Karamanenis headed Project FUBELT book_quoted ▶ 18:54

CIA covered_up Track One book_quoted ▶ 23:20

“Helms and his crew all testified later to intense White House pressure. As Flannery told investigators, there was just no question that we had to make the effort. Track two was very closely held at La…”

David Atlee Phillips recruited John J. Devine book_quoted ▶ 24:20

“Okay, sure. I'm in the CIA and I pretend to be anybody I want anywhere in the world. I have multiple passports, but all of a sudden I've got a conscience about adopting a false story. Please. His staf…”

David Atlee Phillips recruited Tony Sforza book_quoted ▶ 26:19

“all would act as false flag agents, pretending to act for someone other than the CIA. One, Tony Sforza, had cover as a professional gambler, an Argentinian with business interests. Among the other age…”

David Atlee Phillips recruited Bruce McMaster book_quoted ▶ 26:48

“Another, Bruce McMaster, masqueraded as a representative of the Ford Foundation, one of the CIA's favorites, which was a violation of CIA regulations that had been put in place when they were exposed …”

David Atlee Phillips carried_out_attack Salvador Allende book_quoted ▶ 27:14

“Agents whose communication with Phillips ran through the undercover officer at a safe house in Santiago. Ambassador Corey left to believe that track one amounted to everything the U.S. did in Chile wo…”

Henry Hexer carried_out_attack Salvador Allende book_quoted ▶ 31:13

“with ITT. Meanwhile, the agency's false flag officers had decided that Chileans they were talking to were useless. Corey learned of the contacts and again prohibited them. The same day as the 40 commi…”

Henry Kissinger funded Project FUBELT book_quoted ▶ 31:13

Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of Salvador Allende book_quoted ▶ 31:13

Richard Nixon met_with Henry Kissinger documented ▶ 32:10

“had heard in at least two places that there was going to be no such prospect. Ambassador Corey visited Washington at this point, meeting Nixon in the Oval Office on October 12th. Corey frankly said th…”

Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of Salvador Allende documented ▶ 35:03

“translated those orders into instructions to the Santiago station. One of the Langley cables said this, quote, it is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup. It would be much p…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Roberto Viaux documented ▶ 36:58

“Vioxx, I don't know how you say his last name, it's V-I-A-U-X, used both channels to demand money and weapons. For a time, Weimert carried riding boots stuffed with cash in the trunk of his car. On Oc…”

Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of Roberto Schneider documented ▶ 36:58

Roberto Viaux carried_out_attack Roberto Schneider documented ▶ 36:58

CIA funded Roberto Viaux documented ▶ 36:58

Henry Kissinger targeted_for_regime_change Salvador Allende documented ▶ 40:03

“The United States had no real national or security interest in Chile, none. But the option papers assumed Allende's anti-American bias and that of Chilean president would establish authoritarian rule.…”

Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of Salvador Allende documented ▶ 47:14

“That declining prices for copper, which Chile depended on for 80% of their exports, would hurt. Nixon immediately ordered studies of the amount of stockpiled copper in the U.S. that it could sell off.…”

Henry Kissinger targeted_for_regime_change Salvador Allende documented ▶ 48:09

“that Salvador Allende is not successful. Three days later, in Nixon's name, Henry Kissinger signed a directive that ordered the public posture of the U.S. will be correct but cool, which excludes bila…”

CIA funded Salvador Allende documented ▶ 50:35

“With a budget of almost a million dollars. That was double what they had had for the election interference. So we're going to stop there for now. And we will finish. I have dinner tonight. We will fin…”

Netherlands supplied_arms_to United States host_asserted ▶ 54:31

“So I could be great. You mentioned the revolution. I'll give you a really good example of that. You know, let's go around the Internet today and everyone talks about the American Revolution. Oh, we we…”

Netherlands funded United States host_asserted ▶ 54:31

Netherlands trafficked Spain host_asserted ▶ 56:23

“The Dutch are awesome. I got about five Dutch friends from different walks of life, and every single one of them would be an American patriot, and they speak better English than half the people on the…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change Kim Il-sung host_asserted ▶ 1:01:16

“He actually went to Paris with a U.S. constitution that was drafted by his former OSS officers. He was not a communist. Did we push him into the hands of the communists? Yes, we did. The same thing is…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change Ho Chi Minh host_asserted ▶ 1:01:16

United States carried_out_attack Spanish-American War host_asserted ▶ 1:04:10

“help each other out on the international syndicate side? Yes. But we were not pushed into doing any of this stuff. I don't see any evidence of that. Leaving aside my opinion of the Civil War, I'll jus…”

J.P. Morgan funded World War II host_asserted ▶ 1:06:05

“English banks that forced the Ottomans to the point where they had no choice but to join Germany by indebting the entire Ottoman Empire. But the one banker who profited the most from World War I was J…”

Ottoman Empire member_of West Germany host_asserted ▶ 1:06:05

American Red Cross spied_on Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 1:17:14

“mission over into Russia. It was filled with oligarchs and it was basically an intelligence gathering mission on how to exploit Russia as the Bolsheviks were taking hold. So I don't know that you coul…”