The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9

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0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel. I was just finishing up the intro there. My hair's soaking wet. I just got out of the pool with my grandson. He just left, so I'm ready for a nap. Good times, man. Oh my gosh. We had some monster trucks that are like about eight inches long and about six inches tall. They're actual remote control, but he likes just... So John found them in the closet.

0:36 We had him here for his grandson like three or four years ago. And he played with those things all day long. So John, of course, had to get a TV box. We just replaced one of our TVs and built a ramp for him. And then he wanted to slide down the cardboard box that wouldn't. So we had to move outside for him to use a slide.

1:04 To run the cars down so he could come down after the cars. Oh, my gosh. Adorable. And then, of course, once you go outside, he sees the pool and you have to get in. Okay. Well, I think that'd be the same way. So I can't really blame him there. Yep. Yeah, I wasn't complaining. All right. Let's start where we left off. We were talking about the Iranian coup, ironically.

1:35 Talk about timing. This is like God's hand every time we do one of these books. All right. We started off, let's see, I'm trying to get the, I think we're in 1953. Yeah. Okay. So April 4th, Alan Dulles approved a $1 million fund that the Tehran station could use to weaken the prime minister, Mossadegh.

2:06 In Washington, the first moves came from the DAF, a unit of the Director of Operations paramilitary psychological staff, which concocted a variety of anti-Mosaddegh leaflets to be distributed throughout Iran. Planners traveled to Cyprus, where starting on May 13th, they teamed up with SIS Station Chief Darby Shire.

2:37 to compile a paper describing the operation. They finished at the end of the month. The most delicate part came when two intelligence agencies had to reveal exactly who their assets were in Iran. The British spooks were miffed that the CIA resources and money was so much greater and the agency personnel more numerous, but they sat back to allow the Americans to take the lead. Now, again, this book is kind of,

3:07 skipping a whole bunch. Nowhere in here did they talk about, we already have U.S. military army assets in the south part of Iran. We've been there for months. There's actually a MAG group, the Military Assistant Group, with CIA training, stay behind people in the lead up to this. We just skipped right over that part.

3:36 That's why it's so important that we look through this material at what people who write these books tell you and what they leave out. Because this was known, this has been known for several years as far as the information being out there. And surely if you're going to research a book, you're going to find that stuff if you're going to cover this topic. We found it.

4:08 And I'm not writing a book. Okay, moving on. Project AJAC envisioned a quasi-legal overthrow. There's literally no such thing. In which the CIA would manipulate public opinion into opposition and suborn members of the armed forces and basically the Congress, religious figures, and businessmen.

4:39 As long as we go in and pay everybody that's indigenous to the country, the terminology is quasi-legal. They're not going to do it on their own. But if we pay them to do it and we train them to do it and we organize the backup for them to do it, then somehow that makes it quasi-legal in CIA terms.

5:09 To induce the Shah to dismiss Mossadegh, a series of emissaries would proceed to Tehran to persuade him to make the appropriate decree. At that point, the agency would put the crowds into the street to back up the Shah's action and further pressure the wavering members of their Congress. The Tudor would be neutralized.

5:39 And somehow that too is quasi-legal. The CIA would work through Iranian agents developed by the British SIS plus its own people. And by its own people, I assume they mean the stay-behinds they've already trained. To support the plan, the CIA had its analysts do an intelligence estimate. Actors involved in the overthrow of Mossadegh was the name of it. It was completed on April 16th.

6:11 Wilbur and Copeland carried the Ajax paper to Beirut, where they met on 10 June with Kim Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt. He had traveled in to meet them from Washington, D.C. Senior Representative George Carroll and CIA Tehran staff. The maitre d' of the St. George Hotel.

6:39 A friend of Carol's from his OSS days in Nice gave them a quiet table and kept people away. Always helps to have friends. Roosevelt took the paper on to London with only minor changes. On his last evening in Beirut, he dined with the chief of the Lebanese security service who tried hard to find out whether Kim would be going on to Tehran.

7:10 and had Pan American hold its London flight to have more time to question Roosevelt. British government and senior SIS officials approved of the plan. Roosevelt then went to Washington, where the agency circulated the plan on June 19th. A key interagency meeting took place six days later. John Foster Dulles' major concerns were not with the covert operations.

7:41 but whether the British government would agree to oil rights with the successor regime and whether Washington would offer foreign aid in the aftermath. Ajax was approved. So again, John Foster Dulles is not interested in overthrowing a government. He's interested in the oil rights because his customer is actually Standard Oil, who walks away with a percentage.

8:10 of the oil revenue after the coup. Pay very close attention to that because it's very telling. The British government and senior SIS officials approved after the meeting. Compared, let's see, Kermit Roosevelt took charge of the CIA task force from that point on. There would be no answer to Mossadegh's plea for foreign assistance. Compared to the

8:53 period of planning approval, Ajak's execution was quick. It was the struggle for control of the armed forces and police together amounting to some 250,000 Iranians that triggered the actual Iranian coup. In the spring of 1953, Mossadegh assumed the position of defense minister of his own cabinet and moved to supplant the Shah as commander-in-chief.

9:20 He appointed his own people to head the police and the chief of staff of the army. Quite likely, these actions ticked off the Shah, who had failed to act decisively throughout the previous crisis in his determination to rid himself of Mosaddegh. In this case, the Congress refused Mosaddegh's request for extended powers, leading the premier to dissolve the parliament on July.

9:51 19th. A few days later, major street demonstrations occurred in Tehran. What was reported is those occurred by the Tudor, but that's not true. The first emissary of the CIA SIS consortium was the Shah's sister, Princess Ashraf. Unpopular in Iran, she had gone to France. Weirdly enough, isn't that where the Ayatollah was hanging out?

10:26 Two? Yes. Yes, it was. There to be contacted in mid-July by intelligence officers Darby Shire of the SIS and Stephen Meade for the CIA. The princess returned to Tehran without clearance from either the Shah or Mossadegh's government. Triggered a storm of controversy when she arrived on July 25th. The Shah refused to see her initially, but they met four days later. Ashraf.

11:00 told the Iranian chief of state that the emissary would come from London. That would be Azadullah Rashidon, one of several brothers of a wealthy Iranian shipping clan that had been on the payroll of the SIS. To prove his bona fides, Rashidonian asked the Shah to select a phrase whose words to be broadcast over the BBC.

11:31 A classic open code communication. The Shah did so and the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, duly radioed the message because they're actually controlled by the intelligence in Britain too. The Rashidunian in turn informed the Shah that there would be an American emissary.

12:00 Major General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Storm and Norman Schwarzkopf's dad, known to the Shah as a trainer of his police, the Savak, a few years earlier. He had been recruited by the CIA Iranian branch chief, John Waller, at the end of June. The general would give the Shah the same assurances as had the London's emissary, then ask him to issue.

12:32 A Furman, which is a declaration on Mosaddegh. Another ordering the army to remain loyal and a letter declaring confidence in General Fazola Zahidi. He was the CIA's, SIS's pick to be the new leader. Schwarzkopf left for Tehran through Beirut on July 21st using the cover of Around the World Tour.

13:06 He met with the Shah about 10 days later. Pavlovi still could not bring himself to do what he was being asked to do. In fact, the Shah was so frightened of surveillance that he took the American general into the palace and pulled a table into the middle of the room, and they both sat on top of the table to have the conversation. Kim Roosevelt preceded Schwarzkopf by a few days. He entered under a false identity, making a road trip from Baghdad.

13:37 Crossing the border on July 19th at a dusty frontier station manned by a barely literate guard. Roosevelt stayed with a senior CIA man whose home had a swimming pool. He lay in the sun between meetings and the CIA's operatives and the Shah. Between those meetings. At the office, the agent Joseph Goodwin laid in an inexhaustible supply of vodka.

14:08 This was spy work. To intensify tensions, the U.S. began deliberately avoiding meetings between its representatives and the Iranian government officials. Strategy of tension. Ambassador Lloyd Henderson stayed away in Salzburg, Austria. General Robert McClure, America's guru of military psychological warfare, who now headed to the Tehran military mission, cooperated with Kim Roosevelt.

14:40 Meanwhile, Roosevelt replaced Roger Goyran, G-O-I-R-A-N. He had been the station chief for a very long time in Tehran, but Roosevelt was going to take his place because he was going to orchestrate the coup. Roger had recruited quite a network, but Goyran all along had warned that the Shah would be hesitant to move against Mossadegh.

15:18 Kim Roosevelt saw him as a fanatic, a professional type with a high-pitched voice who passionately backed Mosaddegh out of a sense of guilt, or maybe just because he was actually the prime minister. They didn't trust him to pull off the coup and stay in theater. So Roosevelt also brought in Joe Goodwin. The Gorian recall was spun as an escalation of the confrontation.

15:54 with the Iranian government. He left on August 2nd. Just hours earlier, Roosevelt had met with the Shah. The palace sent a car to pick Roosevelt up, bringing him to the palace at midnight. In the dead of night, through the gates, the CIA man crouched down in the vehicle, pulling a blanket over his head. He was careful to wear indigenous clothing down to the sandals.

16:26 The meeting went well enough and became the first of a series between the CIA and the Shah, with a British agent sometimes filling in. Roosevelt assured the Shah of both Eisenhower and Churchill's personal support if he dismissed Mossadegh. They met again on August 3rd. The Shah said that he had never been an adventurer and would take no chances. He wanted more assurances from Eisenhower.

16:55 Ike made a last-minute insert into a speech that he gave in Seattle and declared that the U.S. could not stand idly by while Iran fell to communism. Reassured, the Shah still did nothing. Working with a core of just a few CIA officers, Roosevelt activated SIS agent networks and those already serving the CIA.

17:25 And this is kind of just a hint. SIS networks, it wasn't SIS networks. They were CIA stay-behinds in the South with U.S. military people there. He used SIS communications through Cyprus for cables to Washington. Mosaddegh's own scheme ran into trouble. His candidate for the police chief bragged that he had a list of all the British spies on the force.

17:55 By the next morning, the man was assassinated. We can't let that out. In desperation, Mosaddegh, a populist nationalist and no way a communist, on August 8th, opened trade talks with the Soviet Union because the U.S. and no one in Europe would deal with him. And we know from all the other coups, this is a kiss of death. Not that he wasn't going to go already, but...

18:30 You're not allowed to do that. This led to President Eisenhower's signing a finding, which basically is the authorization, not that they needed it because he had already approved it. But that's kind of like a promissory note that Mosaddegh's going away. The Shah finally signed the firmans that fired Mosaddegh.

19:04 and appointed Zahidi as premier. But here, there's some confusion as to the record. Kim Roosevelt recounts that the Shah left with Queen Soraya to a resort town on Iran's Caspian Sea without approving the decrees. The chief of the palace guard, Colonel Nasari, went after him and finally induced him to sign.

19:33 This is also the version in the CIA history, but by some accounts, Queen Sore played a crucial last minute role in stiffening the Shah's resolve. There's another account, however, that Prince Menacher Farminian, an intimate of the Iranian ruler, whose sister was

20:02 Soraya's lady-in-waiting and who the Shah customarily invited to volleyball games. One such weekend, the prince referred to as his Ben Ben Phu, referring to the French defeat by the Vietnamese. In any case, on the afternoon of Sunday, August 9th,

20:32 remembers the Shah and his intimates were enjoying tea after a volleyball game and the emperor reading a newspaper when the butler announced a visitor and the Shah said to show him in. Dressed in a dark suit, the man offered the Shah a document and the Iranian emperor asked if anyone had a pen. The prince offered his. Pavlovi signed the papers, handed back the pen,

21:02 pronounced it is a good one and told the prince his pin would be worth a lot of money. The document had been the decree appointing General Zahidi as prime minister, the stranger a CIA emissary. The prince then recalls the dinner conversation that day, clearly timing these events after the Shah's departure for the resort.

21:26 The print story may be the weavings of a courier or perhaps only part of a larger tapestry. In any case, the advanced schedules prepared by Ajax planners supported that August 14th would be the critical day. Alan Dulles and his wife, Clover, mysteriously shows up in Rome. Dulles spent the night in communications at the CIA Rome station.

21:54 hosted by station chief Jerry Miller. The Rome station for the CIA is sure a busy place. The consequences in Tehran on the day of the long-anticipated coup was not an event but a demand by the local plotters working with the CIA. They would need $5 million immediately after acting. Kim Roosevelt and Joe Goodwin, already nervous about the delays,

22:25 were also told that nothing could be done until the night of the 15th. Late in the afternoon of the action day, someone ratted out the plot. Mosaddegh's chief of staff, General Rahayi, learned of an impending announcement, the decrees that the Shah had signed, and he alerted the 1st Armored Brigade to move that night and threw a cordon of troops around Mosaddegh's house.

22:55 By then, Colonel Nasari's Imperial Guard has sent squads to arrest Mosaddegh's supporters, but they missed Rahayi, who had already gone to the headquarters. Nasari was arrested himself when he attempted to serve the decree. In the morning, Mosaddegh went on the radio to announce that there had been attempted coup, but the government retained control. General Zahidi

23:26 having fled to a hideout outside of Tehran, had put himself out of play. The general's son, Zahidi Jr., later a top aide to the Shah, stood beside the general throughout those days and denies that Zahidi was engaged in any foreign intrigue, which is a lie. Another Iranian took out an ad in the New York Times in May of 2000.

23:56 When the CIA's history of AJAC was finally opened and the newspaper published a feature article based on it. Not only does the son deny Zahidi's CIA connection, he insists no agency operation put his father into power. That in fact, if there was such an operation, it failed. The CIA history shows that on August 16th, a senior CIA officer spent much of the day.

24:22 in search of Zahidi to contact the general who hid at the estate of a friend. Kim Roosevelt collected the general from his hideaway and brought him to the home of a CIA officer in Tehran. Later, the CIA station compiled a public statement purportedly from Zahidi's base on the direct advice of this mysterious guy who now claims Zahidi had nothing to do with it. The same guy.

24:49 paid for the article in the New York Times set all those years later. The CIA's agents fabricated an interview with Zahidi as well. Donald Wilber's CIA account notes that Zahidi stayed with agency officers from August 16th on, and the Zahidi senior joined them the following morning. Mosaddegh's National Front

25:19 plus the Tudor, now began something of a competition with the CIA, the object being to convince Iranians that their side had the upper hand. The government put out press bulletins and held news conferences to insist that the plot had been broken up. Mossadegh had some success. At least one senior officer working with the CIA went to a foreign embassy to plead asylum.

25:46 believing that Ajax had failed. For its part, the agency circulated cartoons and leaflets drawn up at headquarters, organized press coverages undermining Mosaddegh's claim. For example, one newspaper publisher who had been advanced a sum of $45,000. In one case, CIA officers took two international journalists, including the New York Times.

26:19 Kenneth Love to an interview with General Zahidi. Joe Goodwin used the CIA station radio to relay a message to the Associated Press in New York that asserted that unofficial reports acknowledged that anti-Mosedec forces were armed with official decrees from the Shah firing the prime minister and appointing General Zahidi in his place. Roosevelt and the CIA officers ran around organizing the street demonstrations.

26:48 of their own against Mossadegh. Basically, it was just transporting all their pre-trained stay-behind units into the city. Street protest by Mossadegh supporters persisted. Up to 6,000 pro-Shah rioters recruited by the CIA then took to the streets as well. Again, no mention. They weren't just recruited. They were paid and trained.

27:17 Ahead of time, Eisenhower perceived Mosaddegh's failure to suppress the Tudor demonstrations as coddling communists. Well, that's at least the way they spun it here in the United States. And again, they're less than 1% of the entire population. Ambassador Henderson arrived from Beirut on the 17th. He complained to Mosaddegh, who answered by calling out the police. The next day brought lows and highs. That was a bait.

27:54 CIA headquarters cabled regrets on the failure and advised Kim Roosevelt to leave Iran for his own safety. Instead, they broke out the vodka and kept it up. London rejected continuing appeals from the SIS to permit its officers to proceed into Tehran. The Shah left the country for Rome and just so happens to check into the same hotel at exactly the same time as Alan Dulles.

28:25 Full-scale rioting broke out in Tehran on August 18th and 19th. Several hundred people died because the trained Gladio people are in town. A friendly newspaper published the text of the Shah's announcement appointing Zahidi, probably the same one that was paid. Late on the 18th at CIA headquarters,

28:55 A dispatch actually had called off Ajax and SIS dispatched a similar instruction. But Roosevelt was not going to give up. He got the Rashidian brothers and other agents to mobilize more people. Again, many of them already pre-trained for this event.

29:18 CIA officers contacted army units throughout Iran to rally them to Zahidi. That would be in addition to the stay behind people. We're going to refer to them as army units. At the end of the second day, pro-Shah tank units informed by reporter Kenneth Love of weakened guard forces at the premier's house attacked Mosaddegh.

29:49 So you have a journalist, and I'm going to use air quotes and big air quotes. You have a journalist being an intel officer on the ground conveying intelligence to the troop that is overthrowing the government. That morning, Chief of Staff Riyahi reluctantly informed Mosaddegh he no longer controlled the army. And in fact, pro-Shah troops began to appear.

30:21 all over Tehran. Throughout the afternoon, the CIA-backed forces consolidated their hold on the city. Now, the Shah returned from Italy and paraded triumphantly through the streets of Tehran. And you have to wonder, again, because there's thousands that were trained in the south, how much of the quote-unquote army were actually Iranian army people that left Mossadegh?

30:49 and affected to the CIA, and how many of the stay-behind units were wearing Army uniforms but weren't Army at all. So ended Project AJAC, the first apparent U.S. covert victory. Kim Roosevelt received personal thanks from both Churchill and Eisenhower and was awarded a medal. Aside from its direct cost of about $10 million to $20 million,

31:20 While its original budget had been $200,000, AJAC had unfolded in a fashion following a scenario, if not the precise plan. The big winners were the Shah and his henchmen, who gained absolute power, which they held for 26 years, until swept away by the Ayatollah. The U.S., by participating in the coup,

31:50 which defied their declaration of unconditional support for democracy around the globe, because they just overthrew it, supported the Shah. The U.S. also committed itself irrevocably to his regime in a way that blinded Washington later. As for the cost to American taxpayers, Eisenhower had approved $45 million as soon as Zahidi took office.

32:25 So not only did we pay to overthrow the duly elected prime minister of Iran, we paid for the dictator that we installed with our tax dollars. The flow neared a billion dollars by the end of Ike's term in 1960. The losers, of course, were the Iranian people.

32:57 who was eventually captured and placed on trial in a sham trial. Although Iranian oil production resumed in August of 1954, the former oil company's claim was never fully resolved. Actually, it was. They just continued with their original arrangement with Iran.

33:26 but had to cut in Standard Oil. So instead of them getting, I think it was 86, 14 originally, they ended up with 50 and the other went to Standard Oil. That was the payment. So we paid as much as $20 million to overthrow the government. Then we, the taxpayers, paid $45 million in foreign aid to Iran and Standard Oil.

33:55 got cut in on the profits, not the American people who paid for it. After the Iranian project, Kim Roosevelt returned to headquarters as assistant deputy director of the Directorate of Operations under Frank Wisner. He led his political action staff and supervised the component field operations, you know, where we actually interfere with all of the elections around the world, not Venezuela.

34:31 debriefing about Project Ajax to the White House, quote, if we, the CIA, are ever going to try something like this again, we must be absolutely sure that the people and army want what we want. If not, you'd better give the job to the Marines, unquote. But they didn't listen to that because we're going to do it the next year too. Roosevelt wrote,

34:59 later that John Foster Dulles did not want to hear such advice. Roosevelt was offered command of the next one as well in Guatemala. Roosevelt turned down this offer because he's going to go work for, I don't know, an oil company. As a senior officer of the DO, he became a frequent participant in meetings held to consider a new plan.

35:34 The Psychological Strategy Board, in its capacity as arbiter of America's secret war, approved the concept on August 12th, 1953. And two weeks later, PSB, the Psychological Board, gathered together to give Guatemala the next highest priority. Guatemala became the showcase for one of Alan Dulles' favorite.

36:05 See Tracy Barnes. Barnes was a lot like Frank Wisner, another of the young hires from Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn. Tracy had other social sacraments as well. Law Review at Harvard, Groton, the grooming school that Boerhamster and I talked so much about. He was a year behind Dick Bissell, Richard Bissell at Groton.

36:35 His undergraduate degree from Yale made Barnes a full-spectrum member of the CIA's Ivy League clique. He also had the good luck to marry into money. The connection with Alan Dulles came with the big war, which for Barnes was glory eternal. Commissioned and assigned to London to the U.S. Air Attaché,

37:06 Barnes strove to get into the field and transferred to Lord Monbatten, the pedophile, Special Forces Headquarters, then the OSS. He made parachute drops over Britain Air Base just for sport. He twice dropped into France to work with the French Resistance. The second time he made it to Switzerland just ahead of the Germans.

37:38 There, Alan Dulles reigned as OSS station chief. For the rest of the war, Barnes did odd jobs for Dulles, most especially helping arrange the surrender of German troops in northern Italy, where we came across Operation Sunrise. Barnes was intimately involved with that as well.

38:05 He also was involved in dangerous forays to meet undercover with Nazi officers who above ground would still be fighting the war. Again, Operation Sunrise and the beginning of Operation Gladio. The highlights was smuggling out the widow of Mussolini's foreign minister and the manuscripts of his diaries.

38:34 Dulles told others that Tracy Barnes was the bravest man he knew. And Barnes had a silver star and two French crosses to prove it. With the piece, Barnes worked for a time with the, wait for it, National Labor Relations Board. He's a spy working for an entity.

39:05 That is unions preceding Bill Colby at that institution. You know, another spy at the entity that is in charge of unions. Then came home spending three years with a Providence, Rhode Island law firm. It was Gordon Gray, who we've already talked about, who brought Barnes back to Washington in 1950.

39:41 as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Army. Gray left his position as secretary just as Barnes arrived. But Barnes stayed on under Clifford Alexander. A year later, Gray reappeared as director of the Psychological Strategy Board. He pulled Barnes in as his deputy. By then, Alan Dulles' star was rising at the CIA.

40:17 It shone so bright that Barnes sought out the CIA official soon to be its boss. Tracy could see that the strategy board led nowhere in terms of power and influence. The nation's premier Cold War agency was calling his name. Barnes moved over to the CIA a few months before the AJAC operation in Iran.

40:44 Director Dulles put Barnes in charge of a new unit at the DO. What was that unit? Oh, no big deal. Just the paramilitary and psychological operations staff. So he's there at Operation Sunrise, works with all the underground Nazis, and then at the CIA is put in charge of paramilitary activities, which just so happens to be Operation Gladio 2.

41:16 Weird! The first key meeting on Guatemala's project took place in Frank Wisner's office around Labor Day of 1953. Barnes and J.C. King of the Western Hemisphere Division went over all of the existing networks and operations in Central America. The agency already had recruited for Our Man in Guatemala.

41:50 But his position remained weak. His assets outside the country basically were none. And there was no one inside that liked him. So his plan depended entirely upon anticipating popular support. The CIA judged remote. Wisner could see huge challenges. Didn't dissuade them. The government in Guatemala.

42:24 had been elected in November of 1950 with more than half of the vote in a free election, you know, a democracy. President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman thereafter acquired even greater popularity. Peasants fully supported his reforms in agricultural and the economy. Like the Iranian affair, the Guatemalan operation had an economic angle.

42:54 They all do. This time, it wasn't Standard Oil. It was United Fruit, who also was a Sullivan and Cromwell Dulles Brothers customer. It too had used Sullivan and Cromwell. United Fruit was the largest landowner in Guatemala. They owned 550,000 acres plus a controlling share.

43:27 in the country's only railroad. They did not like the Guatemalan government's land redistribution program. Beginning in February 1953, Arbenz took back 400,000 acres of the land to give it back to the people. Now, keep in mind, this was not land that United Fruit was actually farming. They did not take back any land that had actually been planted. United Fruit

44:02 had basically gotten concessions, if you will, for the 550,000 acres and decided only to use a small portion of it, but didn't want competition. So they basically took control of all of it and wouldn't let the indigenous people farm their own land. The Guatemalans offered compensation for the 400,000, but...

44:37 United Fruit didn't want it. They just picked up the phone and called the Dulles brothers. The lawyer, Thomas Corcoran, had been a lobbyist for Civil Air Transport and also for United Fruit. Just as a reminder, Civil Air Transport is a CIA proprietary airline. Tommy the Cork, Corcoran, acted

45:12 as an intermediary now selling this scheme to the CIA. It didn't take much selling because those guys still basically worked for Sullivan and Cromwell as agents pretending to work for the U.S. government. He met with Undersecretary Walter Bedell Smith that summer. Smith already knew of CIA's efforts and had no difficulty hearing out the lobbyists.

45:40 A key difference would be that United Fruit, a principal purveyor of the charge that Arbenz constituted a communist threat to the Americas and a participant in early plots, this time wanted nothing to do with the action itself because Arbenz had nothing to do with communism. Allen Dulles became the executive agent for PB's success.

46:11 He kept in close touch with the planning through his personal assistants. Jim Hunt was Dulles' man for field operations. Tom Braden had been working as the international organizations area, which this would encompass. And by the fall, definite action was pending. Excuse me.

46:41 The plan for success embodied a September 11th paper that went to Dulles. Based on the premise that the Guatemalan army was poorly trained, indifferently equipped, and consisted of less than 7,000 troops, would function as an arbiter of the country's politics, success aimed to inundate Guatemala with propaganda.

47:13 undermining loyalty to the president. At the same time, the CIA would provide its own alternative, supposedly an independent force, under a former army officer, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armez. A CIA air force would bomb as necessary and drop leaflets, while the CIA radio station would be the purported voice of the rebels that didn't exist.

47:44 they would convey the impression that there was mass support for this movement that didn't exist. The concept envisioned the army defecting to Castillo Armas as his rebel forces entered Guatemala. In effect, the CIA's paper argued the task headed by the CIA calls for a general overall plan of combined overt and covert action.

48:16 of major proportions. The Director of Operations estimated the money necessary to be about $3 million. Dulles read the paper, as did the Deputy Director, Air Force General Charles Cabell. On September 15th, he asked Wisner for a brief memorandum to use for the Bureau of the Budget to obtain the funding.

48:44 The key conversations took place in Alan Dulles' office. In mid-afternoon on Friday, September 18th, Dulles brought together the players and concerned observers. Those present besides Dulles included General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes, Kermit Roosevelt, and J.C. King. Also on hand were Sherman Kent, the CIA senior analyst, and Hans...

49:14 The T-O-F-T-E. He had returned from Korea to become Barnes' chief of operations. Allen Dulles told the group that the basic plan sounded good and he already had discussed it with several of the people present individually. Colonel Keene offered a detailed prospectus of the success.

49:49 and what would need to happen. Commenting on CIA station in Central America, action needed to build up networks, the psychological warfare requirements, and the personnel needed to carry it all out. King advised that diplomatic measures could put pressure on Arbenz, you know, like starving the people. The group agreed to press the State Department for action. We should all be really concerned.

50:19 that there are colonels and generals involved in this, as with all of these operations. The colonel said he needed $50,000 right away. Alan Dulles said, you can have it. Washington planned to change some ambassadors in the area. You know, because the ambassadors are very, very important and part of the project, as we have discovered. For Guatemala, the CIA preferred.

50:51 an ambassador that would work well with the agency. Some also thought CIA Station Chief Birch O'Neill was way too cautious for such a covert action. So they decided that he needed to be transferred, just like we did in Iran. Criticized as too ready to accept the ambassador's dictates, objecting to the use of propaganda created elsewhere, deficient in reporting on labor and tolerating.

51:20 poor security. Those were the deficits that were cited in order to remove O'Neill. He would be replaced by John Daugherty. His call sign was Tranger, T-R-A-N-G-E-R. For Honduras, where the agency would locate some of its forward bases, including a black radio station and certain air bases,

51:49 The readiness of diplomats to work with the spooks was even more crucial. The CIA-state relationship also lay at the heart of the project where Nicaragua was concerned. There, the CIA would have both ground and air bases and needed to move in tandem with the Nicaraguan government, which at the time was Somoza, and they basically controlled him. Castillo Armez, the Guatemalan quote-unquote rebel chief,

52:19 had long been in touch with Nicaraguan leaders. General Cabell advised Dulles to double the skimpy $300,000 programmed for unexpected developments or contingencies. Dulles was fine with that too. They just rounded up the cost to a full $3 million. Then he went to the White House to ask for the money. Frank Wisner had the task of selecting the field commander for Project Success.

52:51 Once Roosevelt turned down the job, Wisner got Allen Dulles to recall Korean station chief, former Army Colonel Albert Haney, H-A-N-E-Y. Haney had set up the CIA guerrilla units in Korea. And by guerrilla units, I mean stay behind units. Do you see the contingent thing, the consistent thing across all of this? They had already set up.

53:20 the skeleton of the KCIA in Korea. They had installed basically a dictator in Korea. They had already trained up their stay-behind units in Korea. So this guy has lots of experience. Former Colonel Albert Haney. So they were going to develop a paramilitary complement for this operation in Guatemala as well.

53:56 Hans Tochte, who became a Barnes protege at the CIA, had worked under Haney in Korea. Tochte himself had recently come on board and thus could have been pulling Haney in after him. Brief in the late October, Haney accepted on the spot. Oh, gee, we get to overthrow another government. A few weeks later.

54:26 He proceeded to Opelika, Florida to begin setting up a forward base codenamed Lincoln. Haney exercised general supervision over the CIA chiefs in the nations surrounding Guatemala so that they could control all of the forces to be used in PB's success. His fake name was Jerome B. Dunbar. And at a certain point, Allen Dulles ordered,

54:57 that all cable traffic be sent to Lincoln for Dunbar rather than to headquarters and then on to Opelika. Haney had lots of problems. Many were with the CIA's own Western Hemispheric Division. Its director, like Haney, was a counterintelligence man, but from the FBI, not the Army. Within the DO,

55:25 Joseph Codwell King's division had formal control over the stations Haney needed to use. King privately thought Project Success was daffy and didn't want some task force poaching on his turf. Haney's deputy, Jacob Esterlin, proved more amenable and tried to play a buffer between the two.

55:53 Haney, soon endowed with his own nickname, Brainy Haney, also raised hackles with Tracy Barnes, who tried to be decent and civilized, where Haney threw himself around like a loose cannon. Huh, must have got that in the army. Within his own task force, Haney quickly won the ire of the psychological warfare chief, Howard Hunt.

56:24 with the two baiting each other over who drove the better car for longer and who had achieved more. Haney claimed to have been the youngest bank vice president in America. To compensate, Frank Wisner devoted much time to success, leaving a great deal of the business in the hands of Richard Helms. Allen Dulles soon decided that Al Haney had to be insulated.

56:53 and his opportunities to wrinkle everybody limited. Dulles began flying Haney up for a weekly private meeting at his house. Richard Bissell, whom Dulles had brought in as a special assistant, also found himself acting as a go-between, shuttling among Tracy Barnes, J.C. King, and Haney. Bissell soon concluded that Haney was doing a lot of the right things, he just rubbed everybody the wrong way.

57:21 More familiar with the area than Al Haney, whose experience had been in the Far East, King called in the task force chief one day to suggest a meeting with Tommy Corcoran. You know, the guy that's the lobbyist. Yeah, they had plans and weapons CIA could use. Huh, that's weird. Haney did not like the idea and was blunt about it.

57:51 If you think you can run this operation without United Fruit, King said, you're crazy. We're doing it for United Fruit. Might as well use them. Wisner and Allen Dulles, however, backed Haney and gave him a free hand. In the end, United Fruit decided not to take part in the project. Not actively. They were just behind it.

58:17 If the operation failed, the company could be grievously damaged if there was any documentation that tied them directly to it. They're the only one that benefits from it. But, you know, we just can't put anything in writing. The agency's representatives met with United Fruit officials in New York and elsewhere as the project went along. It did wish to be informed, and Corcoran provided that liaison.

58:50 So, plausible deniability? Despite United Fruit's preferences, in at least one respect, the agency carried on with its program. That is, there had already been one CIA effort aimed at Guatemala, and that one had involved United Fruit. Under a project named PB Fortune, in the wanting months of the Truman administration, CIA had passed weapons to United Fruit to...

59:21 train and equip Arbenz rebels. Yes, you heard me right. The CIA had used some of that farmland to train rebels in country, in Guatemala, under the tutelage of United Fruit. Project Fortune proved abortive, but cast the die for success. Somoza in Nicaragua, Honduran officials, and so forth,

59:55 were almost identical to what they were training up in Guatemala. The main CIA operative would have been Colonel Castillo Armez working with United Fruit. And the CIA had been meeting with him since November of 1951. You know, grooming him. Truman's Secretary of State at the time, Dean Atkinson, had objected to the whole idea. When the agency resumed the project the following summer,

1:00:27 it had changed the name to Success. So Success was just a continuation of the former operation that was being conducted on United Fruit's own area that Arbenz basically wanted to take back from them, and obviously for good reason. By early October, the Eisenhower administration had reached a final agreement on dispatching John.

1:00:59 I don't know how you say his name, P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y to Guatemala. He's going to be the coup ambassador. Whiting Willauer's name had already been entered on the list for a security clearance investigation, so he could be sent to Honduras as the ambassador there. So they're getting their team together from both the State Department and the CIA because they work in tandem.

1:01:29 Parafoy shows up in 1953. In November, the CIA task force prepared an outline that was divided into five stages. The first stage would be staffing and assessment. By then, it was well along the way. The Guatemala station had been strengthened to almost a dozen officers, with three case officers under the station chief in the embassy.

1:01:59 and to undercover officers or agents outside of it. Honduras only had a pair of DO people in place, but seven were sent from Washington, Caracas, Panama, and a couple more were awaiting approval by headquarters. Stage two provided a preliminary conditioning of the target with efforts to discredit Arbenz internationally and sow dissension at home.

1:02:27 inducing defections. Project headquarters would move to the field and cooperation agreements would be reached with Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. The initial delivery of 15 tons, tons of equipment, meaning arms, for Castillo Armas had already been prepared. Stage three to begin 75 days before the D-Day envisioned a buildup.

1:02:56 of the mission forces and continued softening of the Guatemalan target. Stage four would begin minus 25 days. CIA planners considered this crucial. Maximum economic pressure in the meantime and intense rumor campaigns were sharpening division and they would have passive sabotage.

1:03:24 and the CIA-backed paramilitary force they were training up would be ready. Stage five would be go time. The plan enumerated a sixth stage, but that was to be the initial actions by the CIA-installed successor regime. Reviewing the plans, Frank Wisner told Dulles they were vague, but this posed no difficulty since detailed plans would inevitably be added.

1:03:55 Wisners recommended that Dulles approve PB6S for execution, and Dulles did exactly that. Eisenhower completed the circle on November 11th, approving the money for the CIA operation. Allen Dulles had the agency senior leadership in his office for one of those late afternoon sessions, and he seemed to have preferred for this type of business. It was November 16th, 1953.

1:04:25 Present were General Cabell, Frank Wisner, Tracy Barnes, Kermit Roosevelt, J.C. King. Dulles worried that Eisenhower wanted quick results. The historian Richard Immerman and David Barrett have shown that the White House itself was being pressed. This is a top priority operation for the whole agency and is the most important thing that we're doing, Dulles said. Then he said.

1:04:55 I am under pressure by others to get this done. I'm going to assume that's probably Sullivan and Cromwell and United Fruit. Okay, and Eisenhower. That's going to do us for today. We're going to obviously finish up with the details of PB success and how that played out in our next podcast.

1:05:31 session. And that will take us to chapter seven, where we move to Asia. What do we got? Illini? Hey, Colonel. Yeah, the Guatemalan coup is always interesting. The good news is that by the time you get to the 90s, you know, high school kids are getting taught, you know, some of the truth about it. And at the very, it's not complete, it wasn't the complete truth. But, you know, at the very least, it contradicted what was, you know,

1:06:16 published in the New York Times back in 1950 saying that, you know, Arbenz was a communist. Right. The question that I guess I have on all of this is, you know, on Tracy Barnes, you know, Barnes isn't a, it's not a rare last name, but it's not a totally common one either. I'm wondering if, you know, the relation to Scott Barnes, who worked with Ross Perot.

1:06:46 to try to get the prisoners of war situation resolved with Vietnam, whether the two of them could be related at all. That's a good question. I'll see what I can find on that. That's actually a really good question. That would be explosive if that's true. I mean, yeah, it's not Cabot Lodge, but it's not Smith either. Right.

1:07:18 I have a question or two for you about Iran, but I think normally you want to keep the formats to first address questions about the book first. Warhamster, go ahead. Howdy. Hi. I'm really struck by what you said after our show on Friday about the timing of what we're doing on both our Friday shows and also all these book reviews in terms of what's going on geopolitically. Yep.

1:07:50 I mean, it cracks me up that we were just talking about Kermit Washington and the, you know, we did Rocky Sudarth, our last Scroll and Key alumni, with all that thing with the Middle East Institute and all that. And that's just completely, over the weekend, became, you know, about 10 times more important than it was last week. Yes. I honestly believe, Brady, that all of this is divinely inspired. I believe that with all of my heart.

1:08:18 Well, I hope you're right because the stuff we've got coming up, I hope we can get a little bit more awareness of it. This is going to be the year that we're going to, as a nation, in fact, as an international community, we're going to start really taking a look at some of the foundational institutions that have been running our world for more than a century and going back further. And I think that's where we're going next. And some really tough questions are going to be coming up. And look, I'm not a trust the plan kind of guy.

1:08:47 And I'm never crazy about American military being put in harm's way. But Donald Trump is really disrupting the global rules-based order. And I can't help, but every single thing he does, and I know there's a lot of people in our corner that don't agree with me on this one, but I see everything through a China lens. Everything he's doing is hurting a Chinese ally or depriving them of a safe port or what have you.

1:09:18 We could take that across Africa as well. It's going to be just an amazing year. I look at all these influencers or quasi-influencers basically driving the wedge through MAGA over Israel. You're either pro-Israel or anti-Israel, one or the other. If you're the wrong one, you're a traitor or what have you. That's just noise to me. I'm staying out of the fray because there's much bigger things at play. I agree.

1:09:46 100%. All along, go ahead. Yes, Carla. I just wanted to kind of emphasize, along with what Elida was saying about this Tracy Barnes guy, he is a kind of more enigmatic fella, as it were. It seems like he's very, very important in the late 50s, transitioning into...

1:10:19 Some of the folks like when Bissell is kicked out and but he he seems to I mean, at least nominally from my recollection. And I, you know, I was reading a lot trying to find out more about him, you know, about 20 years ago when I was, you know, on the JFK education forum, which does have some very, very informed individuals on it, among other things. And but it just seems like he.

1:10:48 He's a hard one to get information on. And I and because of his more, I guess, you know, domestic orientation or so they say, it just seems to be very difficult to get, you know, a lot of good information on him. So I think it would be worth some folks who are perhaps good, better with, you know, search engines and, you know, that sort of Internet research and accessing.

1:11:18 yummy secrets to just really spend some time on him um and because i think you know to some extent he might embody some of the overlap between the the folks who jfk fired versus at but we're still you know had a lot of ties both with you know boys in the woodwork foreign wise and also domestically in terms of you know especially domestic propaganda

1:11:47 I just think he's really worth spending a lot of time on. Well, if I can, in my notes, in addition to what the book said, we talked about, I really think to your point, it's probably better time spent to try to find out who his parents are. Cortland Dixon Barnes and Catherine Lansing Barney.

1:12:11 is his parents. So I wrote some notes down on my little note function here. Because when I was reading this book, the fact that he was Groton in Yale made me look up whether he was scrolling key. And there are several sources that says he was.

1:12:33 He then goes on to Harvard Law, which is this exact same track that Warhamster and I have laid out in our series. Then he goes, as we already talked about, to a Wall Street firm, Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn. And during World War II, he was in the Army Air Corps Combat Intelligence Division.

1:13:01 And he marries, let's see, he was, let's see, he married, what's it say? Oh, his second cousin was John Hay Jock Whitney, back to Warhamster's Whitney family. Colonel, I got to jump in here. What?

1:13:36 So I didn't have Barnes on my scroll and key list, but I see sources that say he is as well. But his, let's say, Catherine Lansing Barney, her mother was a Lorinda Lily Collins Whitney. Yes. But more importantly, her father was Charles Tracy Barney. He was the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company that set off the crash of 1907.

1:14:03 which I've been making the case that J.P. Morgan did specifically so they could create the predecessor of the Federal Reserve, which was known as the Aldrich Something Act, which basically allowed J.P. Morgan, when they extended that act to 1914 because the Federal Reserve wasn't in place, it allowed J.P. Morgan to become the middleman for every single transaction between the Europeans and the Allies in World War I.

1:14:32 And the United States. J.P. Morgan got to be the middleman on every single one of it. And that's her father that was the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company. The panic of 1907 set up everything to do on Jekyll Island. Yep. And he died in 1907 while the Knickerbocker Trust Company was crashing and burning. So that's the family and the Whitney's, of course. Right. And so he's related to the Whitney's.

1:14:59 And when Jock Whitney served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Barnes, who is related to him, is the CIA station chief in London. Yeah, let's tie that circle off right about there. Is that crazy? Yeah, I'm actually bummed that I didn't have him on the scrolling key list that we went through because he definitely deserved it for whatever reason.

1:15:26 I didn't have one of the two. So we definitely need to go back and add him for when we do that series of, you know, putting this all in some type of video, because that's a big one. I mean, and then, you know, his to all along point, his future operations. If you look at, you know.

1:15:51 He served as the deputy director of the Psychological Strategy Board during the Korean War. He was, let's see, what else? We just talked about the paramilitary psychological operations. So he basically brought that into the CIA.

1:16:11 He goes on to be, oh, in 54 to 56, he's the station chief of Germany, which of course is Reinhard Galen at the BND. And this entire time, he's basically operating in the CIA. So he moves from Germany, having worked with Reinhard Galen to the UK to work with his relative, who is the ambassador there.

1:16:42 And he gets assigned as the assistant deputy director of plans under Bissell. He's involved in leading the Bay of Pigs invasion. He goes on to, oh, and they make him head of CIE's domestic operations division, which means he's in charge of, you know, all of the MK Ultra and all of that other stuff that they were doing interior to the United States.

1:17:11 He's huge, like huge. And let's not forget about the Lansing part of the family connection from his mother. Yes. Because John Lansing was one of the three delegates from New York, along with Alexander Hamilton, to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. Lansing would actually leave the delegation, meaning New York didn't get a vote on that because he did not like the fact that they were.

1:17:39 going too far in amending the Articles of Confederation. But there's also another Lansing that was part of the hierarchy or the lineage of secretaries of state starting about the 1880s. So that's a big deal, the Lansing part of it as well. So, yeah, he's kind of one of the highlights, right? Yeah, like I said, I'm ticked off. He wasn't on the two lists I was using because we would have spent 30 minutes on him easily. Oh, easy. Yeah, that's huge. Okay.

1:18:10 stellar did you have your hand up i did but um it's not regarding the book so i was gonna wait till you get towards the end all right all along go ahead and then we'll go to why are you so mad yeah just um picking up on that colonel um can you hear me okay so um you know i've told everyone a million times before but i you know about how uh just following up on the whitney aspect about how jfk

1:18:44 You know, Whitney, Jock asked JFK to stay on as the ambassador, and JFK sent the snarky email, Jock Pack Jack, which, as I've said now for the 12th time, is not the way you want to address. And Robert Barron, probably. But anyway, and then again, I'm going to repeat again how Jock Whitney was the earliest editorial on the JFK set, saying, we got this.

1:19:14 And as several scholars have pointed out, he quoted from the exact same book that Alan Dulles would quote on the very first meeting of our Blessed Warren Commission, saying how, hey, here in the U.S., assassinations are always a lone nut. That was fast, Jock. Okay, Ryder, are you so mad? Go ahead.

1:19:45 Actually, I was going to ask you some questions, really not about the book, but about Iran. OK, well, we're not. Oh, I wanted to say I watched your podcast on Tommy, the reset of the Commonwealth. And you did an absolutely wonderful job. I am with Tommy, however, that you need to start throwing some shoulders, some elbows. But you did excellent. Thank you. I just like to listen to him.

1:20:12 I find the conversation very interesting. It was very interesting, very relevant for what's going on. And so is the timing of your books. I can't help but point that out either. It is like divine timing when you're giving all this information, bringing it all to light at just the perfect time. And thank you so much for doing that. I will wait until the end. Okay.

1:20:41 All right. So I think Illini, you can go. Where did he go? Oh, there he is. I'm here. Go ahead. I guess my first big question for today, because everybody is thinking about how this affects the rest of the world, is obviously going to be on the Strait of Hormuz. As you're probably aware, there's about 15 million barrels a day.

1:21:07 that passes through it. Roughly 6 million of that is from Saudi Arabia, but the Saudis have a pipeline to the Red Sea. But my question for you, Colonel, is, I guess, number one, what do you make of the fact that Lloyd's is canceling insurance for all of the shippers there? And they didn't do this in the Red Sea crisis. In the Red Sea crisis, they jacked up rates.

1:21:36 With the Strait of Hormuz, they're outright canceling everything. And my second question is, what do you think the duration of this whole conflict is going to be? I obviously have no idea what the duration is. If I had to bet, I think it's going to be very quick for all of the reasons you just articulated. But let me go back to a book.

1:22:03 And I don't have it on my table right now. You guys remember when we were doing the book that talked about how the, and I don't remember the name of the military. Do you remember we did the book about the guy in Africa that had gotten arrested and thrown in jail for trying to coup an African country? And he goes to England and sets up a...

1:22:32 It's like one of the biggest currently military, paramilitary private entity. And again, I don't remember the name off the top of my head. He was funded exclusively by Lloyd's of London. And they had almost immediately after he set his company up and it then changed names.

1:22:58 because he was associated with all the paramilitary stuff, even being funded by Lloyds of London, that he then is part of the paramilitary force to complement the CIA's paramilitary.

1:23:19 and gets all of these contracts that basically then lead into the Iraq war. And we were kind of dissecting the explosion in 2003 about all of that. So they also, in that book, talked about a false flag where Lloyd's of London was not like the only shipping insurance.

1:23:47 entity at the time. But they staged a false flag on a ship in order to then basically require everybody to insure and Lloyds of London kind of dropped their rates and they got the monopoly on this insurance deal through a false flag through this paramilitary guy. So the UK stands to lose the most.

1:24:17 if the current regime in Iran falls. So it was not surprising at all to me that that was their first thing that they did in order to try to thwart what Trump is doing. Because the UK does not want this global order to fall. Colonel, can I jump in on the Loge of London thing? Because it's actually a really important piece.

1:24:49 Sure. You go back to the 1980s when Lloyds of London raised the risk premium. They called it war risk. They actually charged an additional 0.125% of the ship's insured value. So fractional. You fast forward to 2019 when they had the tanker attacks with the U.S.-Iran tensions. They raised the rates by about half a percent to one percent of the total whole value. So not that much. What they just did this week.

1:25:19 was a raise in the rates of about 50. I'm sorry, they raised it how much? Is it saying in this article? Warhamster, they started to raise them, but if I recall correctly, they just outright said we're not insuring anything. Yes. I got a 72-hour notice of cancellation for war risk coverage. And I got to tell you, I think we probably saw more tankers damaged in those two previous events than we're going to see in this rendition.

1:25:45 Especially because the entire Iranian Navy is at the bottom of the Gulf of Oman right now, waiting for me to go scuba dive it in a couple of years. That being said, Lloyd's of London is not – that is not a rational action compared to their history. And I know a line I know is about actuarial math. The people that set rates for insurance companies are some of the best mathematicians and statisticians in the world. They understand what risk premiums are.

1:26:14 For them to act so irrationally is really outside of – out of the norm and something – I mean I'll be looking for that story every morning to see if there's anything more to it. So I'm glad that was brought up because that's a big frigging deal. And it's rational in the perspective that they want to hurt and thwart anything that is going on to bring down the global order. Well, Colonel, hang on a second though.

1:26:42 I mean, the UK does depend on oil imports. You know, they're probably the second biggest, the party that's hurt the second most by all this, besides maybe China. They don't. Illini. Their future is the global order. They don't care if they have to make their citizens scream in the interim. You're rationally thinking for people that are irrational.

1:27:13 Keir Starmer's all in on the globalist playbook. I mean, just everything he does. The sooner the Brits get rid of that guy, the better. But they are – yeah, we'll talk about this when we start getting into the Tavistock and the real philosophical underpinnings of the Fabian socialists. But these are the people that have put together, once again, the rules-based order. And the people right now in control of England, they are all in. They lost in Brexit, and they've been hanging on to dear life.

1:27:44 They're not backing Optimus from their goal of the one world government. They are all in. Go ahead, Illini. I mean, yeah, I just think it's interesting here that Lloyds of London probably has very, very good intelligence. If I recall correctly, they're within a block or two of MI6. Oh, they do. Oh, they do. And like I said, they basically own that paramilitary entity as well.

1:28:14 So they're shutting down commerce. I don't see how any of this helps them. And then on top of that, you've got Iran launching what appear to be these strikes on other Gulf countries. And then Iran is coming out and denying these attacks. Now, that's the other part that's really interesting here, I think. It does make you wonder whether there's still these British-controlled stay-behind units still functioning inside of Iran.

1:28:43 I would almost guarantee it. Again, I think it's so important that if you kind of hover outside of what we would determine rational actions to Illini's point, it's totally irrational to Warhamster's point.

1:29:10 it would be more financially beneficial to them if they just jack up the premiums, which is anytime that you see things like this that where people are acting irrational from an objective standpoint, you have to understand that there's something else that is bigger as far as an end state goal. The research that I did in how in bed,

1:29:39 the EU has been in using proxy companies to continue trading with Iran and basically propping up this government. That's not to say that some of our companies probably aren't doing that as well. I just didn't find any evidence of that. But I could find a lot of evidence of it that the EU, several of them, France, the UK, Germany.

1:30:07 Italy, we're all doing that. So they have a vested interest in maintaining and not overthrowing the current regime. And whatever is happening is toward that end. And they're going to go down fighting because Iran is crucial in the strategy of tension and the funding of international terrorism.

1:30:36 There has been so much evidence that's come out in the last two months. I actually just created a new folder about the money laundering of the elite in Iran, funneling them through Luxembourg and Switzerland into all of these trusts, which is the exact same thing that we've seen in all of these. So they're raising...

1:31:07 they're getting money that they are basically putting offshore into these entities to fund these terrorist activities. And then you have the EU basically feeding it with all of these offshore trading deals. And I would imagine at some point, we're going to see that a lot of this money is going to European actors.

1:31:36 Why are you so mad? Go ahead. Okay, I got one statement. I think Lords of London is tingling their pants a little bit right now. And another thing that I think I found interesting that I don't know, I'm just going to, I thought it was interesting that the Iranian defense system was kind of shut down, not operating at the time when some of these things were going on.

1:32:07 And another thing I wanted to ask you about is I can't remember his name. I think it was Jafar, but he was an actor in Iran recently who who was very popular with the Persian people, with the Iranians there. And they called him the Persian lion. I'm trying to figure out if I know he he's been he was.

1:32:34 There was a warrant out for he was going to be jailed, and he's not in Iran right now. I'm curious to see on your thoughts of the idea of him actually becoming the next leader of Iran due to his popularity. I have not done any research on him at all. I've seen his name mentioned a couple of times, so I can't offer an opinion on that. We don't need another actor in charge of a country as far as I'm concerned.

1:33:03 All along, go ahead. Yeah, just to briefly pick up on the point about U.S. versus British interest in the oil market in Saudi, I'm sorry, the Middle East, but also their compatibility. There's kind of both going on at various times, it seems like. I mean, I'm rereading a book that I read a while back called

1:33:33 From Arab Nationalism to OPEC by Nathan Centano. And it's a very interesting book because it's so in the 50s, he starts out like there does seem to be some conflict between the U.S. back Saudi monarchy versus Britain's. I guess it's some of the little.

1:33:57 guys there on the coast i mix up and i really shouldn't because they're obviously very very important but i think it was a uae where they were having a conflict about part of the what is today saudi arabia involving one of the oases that kind of bordered on uae it also um but on the other hand you have this the blunt fact of it is that both both the u.s and britain understand that you know

1:34:25 most of the middle eastern oil is going to europe and that is the anchor of you know the us cia nato and eu strategy so um and and another big conflict early in the 50s like the british seem to be um enjoy like working with the governments in um that they work with in encouraging like

1:34:56 state building in their own kingdoms, whereas versus the U.S. approach was to just basically let the oil company or Ramco just run it with their Rockefeller buddies and not have the government tell them how to state build inside Saudi Arabia, which resulted in Saudi Arabia getting really slushy with these massive oil revenues, but they're not really spending it on state building the way the British approach did.

1:35:25 And you could kind of see that later evolving into a lot of money to throw around and a much less developed state in the Saudi monarchy. And also with all of the political juggling within the monarchy and royal family that that represents. But there's kind of both complicity and competition that seem to be going on there. Good point. Tim, go ahead.

1:35:55 Hey, thanks. One possible explanation for Lloyd's of London's position is just the location of the Strait of Hormuz relative to Iran. There's one choke point. I'm guessing that straight's not more than 15 to 20 miles wide. And that would not require, I've actually seen a video of a lawnmower engine on a drone. Some of those guys in the Middle East are making. So you could sit.

1:36:25 on the coast of Iran with a $2,000 Marine radar that could get you, uh, within 50 feet coordinates and just clobber that straight with improvised drone, less than $5,000, you know, and, and the, the defense would be a million dollar missile shot at it. So we could turn out to be a game of logistics, but you know, and another point I'll get off, but.

1:36:54 To think that there's just one big reason for all this happening is kind of lazy. I think Iran was bypassing U.S. sanctions and selling a lot of oil to China. And so was Venezuela. So to kind of echo Warhamster's position, you know, they basically were selling their oil without using the U.S. dollar. And you know what happens to people that do that.

1:37:23 Yeah, I don't think anybody here thinks it's one reason. There's a whole bunch of reasons. But we were talking just specifically about the action that Lloyds of London took. Colonel, can I add a little bit on Lloyds of London? Sure. I don't think we've ever done the background on them, have we? I have written about them, but go ahead. Well, just...

1:37:50 For today's audience, Lois of London is not a single insurance company. It's almost like, well, it started out as a coffeehouse that was near the docks. And they had all of the, here's the key word, the intelligence on everything coming and going with shipping. And it became a consortium. The people who would actually gamble, which is what sort of speculate on these insurance contracts, they're called names. You don't really know who's backing your cargo and who isn't.

1:38:16 And their entire background is in espionage and intelligence gathering. We've always said that it was the mercantilists. The reason the British were so far ahead of the rest of Europe was this intelligence network, which they obviously inherited from Venice because it's all about what's coming and going in these ports and how you're going to get the intelligence. You're going to work with underworld figures. It's a natural connection between intelligence.

1:38:44 and the underworld and government. And they are like the middleman for that. So what they're playing, you know, obviously they're very, very well informed of what's going on. And for them, like I said, I think it's a big deal for them just to pull the plug all together, even just for three days. That'll be the first story I look up in the morning to see how that's changed. It is a big deal. Lloyds of London is some very serious players from dark, smoky rooms going back several centuries. Yes.

1:39:13 And their counterpart, just for you guys, we've talked about Cornelius Bander Starr a lot in the past. He basically did the same thing in Asia. Remember, and that's the entity that eventually becomes AIG. But when he started, basically, he did exactly the same thing.

1:39:43 um, in, um, China. Um, I mean, early on in this adventure that we've been on, um, we covered him, um, and, uh, he was there during the whole, he was intelligence. That's basically what his entire background was. Um, so yeah, thanks for bringing that up Warhamster. And that's exactly the reason why.

1:40:10 they funded that paramilitary capability. It provides them the ability. And just think about it. If you're an insurer, having advanced knowledge of where shit's gonna happen on a paramilitary piece of this is very, very important. And to the point of what Tim was saying, if-

1:40:39 The major immediate effect is choking out the EU as far as that being one of their major oil. Who knows? You could use that as leverage as well. Stellar, go ahead.

1:41:04 Well, not only is that one area, you know, the Hormuz or whatever it's called, you know, the shipping thing for like the oil. The Strait of Hormuz. Yeah. Thank you. The Strait of Hormuz. But we can't forget all the underwater cables because, you know, there's a lot of the communication, electricity cables and stuff like that in those areas as well.

1:41:26 You know, I don't know if those are like the main ones that they were talking about that also connect into Europe, but I think that there's a lot that's involved with this more so than what we're thinking, if that makes any sense.

1:41:41 Venezuela, you know, you guys mentioned like CCP, also with Iran, but Iran has a lot of, like you guys are talking about the banking and all those different types of things. I'm sure that they have a lot of the laundering ledgers and stuff with the banks from all the shenanigans and terrorist stuff, don't you think? I know Iran has, you know, their fingers in a whole lot of things. So to what extent, I don't know, but yeah.

1:42:13 All right. Anybody else have any final thoughts on that? Colonel, do you think the trade here that I mean, I'm trying to this is not the decision that I personally would have made as president. I also understand there's a lot of other stuff going on that I'm probably not aware of. Probably. I'm wondering if if maybe.

1:42:40 The explanation for what happened here is Mossad, you know, helps out the United States with intelligence, you know, with the, you know, Mexican cartel head that, you know, we ultimately engaged, you know, in a lethal form. And also they probably helped us on intelligence with Venezuela. And maybe the trade is OK, but you guys help us with Iran.

1:43:08 And Trump said, you know, OK, we're not doing anything. You know, the Ayatollah is not necessarily a nice guy. We're not necessarily doing anything bad here. We'll help him out. You know, is could that be sort of one explanation for what's going on behind the scenes here? I mean, anything's possible. I don't think that's what happened. What I see happening.

1:43:35 right now is a decapitation of all of the nefarious arms of the octopus. And if you have, if we're going to move up to the head, you have to get all of the

1:44:00 arms that can reach out and strangle you on your way up to the top. I ran obviously as one of those arms. I don't think anybody can argue that. Obviously, because there's so many things going on, you have the activity going on in Mexico, which is huge right now.

1:44:29 You have the closing down, whether it was stuff actually happening in Venezuela, the things that were going on with Venezuelan oil, even outside of the control of the Venezuelan government. There's a court case that was just, not just, but there's the accusation that

1:44:55 people that were embedded in the Venezuelan oil company had a backroom deal with the middlemen in basically selling oil, Venezuelan oil, to whoever they were selling it to at a dollar. And then those middlemen would sell it for $2 and they were using that profit.

1:45:24 to basically embezzle oil money from the Venezuelan government and siphoning it back to players that were in the oil company executive suite onshore at Venezuela, but also they were money laundering that money through Europe. And when you start...

1:45:49 kind of peeling back, and that money was being used for nefarious things. And I think that's the same thing with Iran. However the deal got made of who's supporting who, if you have intelligence that you know that Israel is going to do something and you want to get out in front of it, I could make the argument that that is what...

1:46:19 happened so that you are in control of it because you're the one that preempted what you knew intelligence-wise was going to happen already. And I think it's a way of controlling the situation as opposed to in the past, these things, if they're allowed to happen, take on a life of their own and you are not in control of the end result.

1:46:49 So if I know something is going to happen and I get out in front of it, then I'm in control of it. And I'm going to get the result I want because I'm in control of it. And I think that's where we're at. I think that's true with Mexico as well. The government of Mexico is owned. You don't get into office as...

1:47:15 obviously shown in the last election where they kill everybody that they don't control. If you're going to get ahead of that, there was some conversations behind that if you don't act, we're going to act and we're going to get the results that we want. Now, there's been arguments made that we have people in Mexico kind of helping out. I don't see.

1:47:44 any actual evidence of that. A lot of people have talked about that. But I think all of these forcing mechanisms are kind of basically cutting the tentacles off. And that's how we're going to bring down this basic world strangulation of moving towards this global order. And I just see all of these

1:48:12 things that are happening as steps towards that. I don't know if that made any sense, but that's what I envision these things doing. And you have to strangle the illicit funding. You always have to deal with the money because that's basically what gives them control and power. And if you look at all of the...

1:48:40 court cases that have recently the exposure of these massive money laundering operations. You know, they just, it escapes my brain right now, but they're all getting exposed. James Street is one of them. Citadel is another. Basically, they're just massive money laundering operations.

1:49:07 I just see all of this as steps towards the ultimate goal of exposing it all. Tim, go ahead. Oh, gosh, I almost forgot what I was going to say. I found a website or not a website, but a Promethean action. And it's a couple of women and they've been studying the English, the British Empire, you know.

1:49:41 I'm familiar with them. Yeah. They print it and they kind of echo what you're saying is that like the drug cartels of Venezuela, that's a source of money stream for the deep state. They also painted the, it's like the government that runs Iran is like the franchisee, but the remnants of

1:50:10 British Petroleum still own the oil. It's just whoever's in charge gets a piece of it like a McDonald's dealership. There are so many facets to this problem. It's hard to get your mind around it. That is true. Colonel, are you still going on with Susan Kokinda of Promethean Action Tomorrow with Tommy's podcast? Let me look at my calendar.

1:50:41 Tomorrow, we will not have... Yes, is the answer to your question. We will record that at noon. We will not have a space tomorrow. I will be going to see Lauren Daigle at the Strawberry Festival. And we are going to pre-record the book club with Ash and CanCon as soon as I get off of the...

1:51:08 the recording with Tommy. So it'll play at six, but it's not going to be live. And I'm just looking over the rest of the week. We're good on Wednesday and Thursday. And then on Friday, War Hamster and I will have our noon show and we will have our normal four o'clock.

1:51:38 I've got an interview on Saturday. I'm not sure that it's live. I think it's recorded with a guy over in the UK. But again, once that's posted, I will share that with everybody. And it probably will be this weekend before I can get back to finishing up our U2 series over on Rumble.

1:52:05 And again, just so everybody knows, I will move them over to the non-premium as soon as I'm able to do that. So anybody that wants to watch those can. That's been such an interesting history, just kind of dovetailing into all of this other stuff, because I think that's so important that we lose sight of.

1:52:32 When we're talking about all of these operations, at the same time that we're talking about in the 1950s, they're developing the U-2. They're developing the SR-71. And when you couple that with all of these other operations, understanding that they would be flying operational flights over this.

1:53:00 it brings a completely different picture to the whole thing. And remember that Pine Gap, the satellites, because while we were using the U-2 and the SR-71 for reconnaissance, they're actively building in the late 50s also Pine Gap because it went operational in 1962. So with the combination of the U-2, the SR-71 and Pine Gap, they basically have...

1:53:29 the beginnings of this global surveillance. And we have not focused a lot on that because I didn't know, obviously, the whole history of the U2 program and when it became operational, which we're kind of walking through a declassified CIA document that talks about that and documents the whole evolution of that program. And one of the most fascinating parts I found was,

1:53:58 the Air Force Research Lab that's located at Wright-Patt, when they first started flying the U-2, they talk about, and you can share this with all of your flat earth people, they talked about the horizon of, because they were flying at 70,000 feet, they did not, because weight was a huge big deal on the U-2s.

1:54:25 They didn't want to paint it because it added like 200 pounds to the airframe. So they left it basically raw metal. And they were flying at 70,000 feet. And so over the horizon where it was dark and like Florida, the U-2, if it was flying over Florida, would be seen because of how high it was up because the sun hasn't set.

1:54:54 over the horizon and can still light up the underbelly of the U-2. And so there was this astronomical rise as soon as they started test flying the U-2 in UFO sightings. And they had already arranged with the CIA that when the Pentagon got these phone calls, that they were all going to be routed to the Air Force Research Lab. And while they never confirmed,

1:55:24 obviously, that they were the U-2. The job of the people that manned the phones there was to check the classified flight schedules of the U-2. And one of the reasons why the SR-71 is black is because that would not be a problem with the reflection of the sun. And they tried eventually to paint the U-2, but it didn't work.

1:55:53 They tried several different options to cut down on the reflective glare. I haven't got to the part where any of them worked, but they did try to address that to use some special paint that Lockheed had come up with that was like a sun absorption type of thing. But again, you can't get it too hot.

1:56:16 It was one of the real dilemmas in the 50s and 60s when they were flying the U-2 while it was still classified. And I just find that very interesting, especially, again, in light of all of the discussions about UFOs and stuff like that, that at least 50% of the calls that were coming into the Air Force Research Lab was exactly correlated to the U-2. But there's two other tests.

1:56:46 planes that were also high flight reconnaissance that were being addressed in the declassified document about the U-2 doesn't address the correlation of those others with those other airframes. But I just, I find all of it very fascinating. I don't know if anybody else cares, but I find it very fascinating. Again, just the timing of all of this, that at least half of the original UFO

1:57:16 reported incidents was attributed in a classified way to the U2 and their test flights over the United States in those early years. So anyway, having said that, again, once Tommy puts that podcast out that we're going to record tomorrow, I will share it with everybody.

1:57:45 That's basically it. That's all I got. If I can get any of those premium shows in on the U2 in this week, I will. I just don't see that happening. Bridget, go ahead. And I just want to give a shout out over on Rumble. I didn't hear if you saw my text. No. Opossum Trap for $20 towards the new video, which I posted up in the nest. Oh, awesome. Thank you very much.

1:58:16 Yeah, I can get back to buying books once I get that coffer filled back up. I really appreciate that. Thank you. Oh, possum trap one. Awesome. All right, everybody. Thanks for joining us. We will continue on Wednesday at four and I will send out the video that Tommy and I do tomorrow.

1:58:44 So thanks, everybody, for joining us.

Entities here

Allen Dulles31 Iran26 United States26 Guatemala25 CIA25 Kermit Roosevelt23 Reza Pahlavi23 Mohammad Mosaddegh21 Tracy Barnes20 United Kingdom18 Tehran14 Fazlollah Zahedi14 United Fruit Company13 Lloyd's of London13 Albert Haney12 Operation PBSUCCESS12 Frank Wisner12 Inter-Services Intelligence12 U-2 program11 Dwight D. Eisenhower11 1953 Iranian coup d'état8 Jacobo Árbenz8 Operation 407 Venezuela7 J.C. King7 Honduras6 Cortland Dixon Barnes6 Carlos Castillo Armas6 Mexico4 Richard M. Bissell Jr.4 Psychological Strategy Board4 Prince Manouchehr Eghbal4 Tudeh Party4 John Hay Whitney4 China4 Korea4 Lebanon4 Italy4 Charles Cabell4 Joe Goodwin4

Claims made here

Allen Dulles funded Operation 40 book_quoted ▶ 1:35

“Talk about timing. This is like God's hand every time we do one of these books. All right. We started off, let's see, I'm trying to get the, I think we're in 1953. Yeah. Okay. So April 4th, Alan Dulle…”

Inter-Services Intelligence member_of Operation 40 book_quoted ▶ 2:06

“In Washington, the first moves came from the DAF, a unit of the Director of Operations paramilitary psychological staff, which concocted a variety of anti-Mosaddegh leaflets to be distributed througho…”

Military Assistant Group member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 3:07

“skipping a whole bunch. Nowhere in here did they talk about, we already have U.S. military army assets in the south part of Iran. We've been there for months. There's actually a MAG group, the Militar…”

CIA carried_out_attack Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted ▶ 4:08

“And I'm not writing a book. Okay, moving on. Project AJAC envisioned a quasi-legal overthrow. There's literally no such thing. In which the CIA would manipulate public opinion into opposition and subo…”

Allen Dulles funded Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 7:41

“but whether the British government would agree to oil rights with the successor regime and whether Washington would offer foreign aid in the aftermath. Ajax was approved. So again, John Foster Dulles …”

Standard Oil financed_via Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 7:41

Kermit Roosevelt headed Operation 40 book_quoted ▶ 8:10

“of the oil revenue after the coup. Pay very close attention to that because it's very telling. The British government and senior SIS officials approved after the meeting. Compared, let's see, Kermit R…”

BBC funded Operation 40 host_asserted ▶ 11:31

“A classic open code communication. The Shah did so and the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, duly radioed the message because they're actually controlled by the intelligence in Britain too. The R…”

CIA recruited Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. book_quoted ▶ 12:00

“Major General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Storm and Norman Schwarzkopf's dad, known to the Shah as a trainer of his police, the Savak, a few years earlier. He had been recruited by the CIA Iranian branch c…”

Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. trained SAVAK book_quoted ▶ 12:00

Kermit Roosevelt succeeded Roger Goyran book_quoted ▶ 14:40

“Meanwhile, Roosevelt replaced Roger Goyran, G-O-I-R-A-N. He had been the station chief for a very long time in Tehran, but Roosevelt was going to take his place because he was going to orchestrate the…”

Kermit Roosevelt reassigned Roger Goyran book_quoted ▶ 14:40

Reza Pahlavi appointed Fazlollah Zahedi book_quoted ▶ 18:30

“You're not allowed to do that. This led to President Eisenhower's signing a finding, which basically is the authorization, not that they needed it because he had already approved it. But that's kind o…”

CIA covered_up Fazlollah Zahedi book_quoted ▶ 24:49

“paid for the article in the New York Times set all those years later. The CIA's agents fabricated an interview with Zahidi as well. Donald Wilber's CIA account notes that Zahidi stayed with agency off…”

CIA recruited Operation 40 book_quoted ▶ 26:48

“of their own against Mossadegh. Basically, it was just transporting all their pre-trained stay-behind units into the city. Street protest by Mossadegh supporters persisted. Up to 6,000 pro-Shah rioter…”

Kenneth Love spied_on Mohammad Mosaddegh book_quoted ▶ 29:18

“CIA officers contacted army units throughout Iran to rally them to Zahidi. That would be in addition to the stay behind people. We're going to refer to them as army units. At the end of the second day…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower funded Reza Pahlavi book_quoted ▶ 31:50

“which defied their declaration of unconditional support for democracy around the globe, because they just overthrew it, supported the Shah. The U.S. also committed itself irrevocably to his regime in …”

CIA paid Operation 40 book_quoted ▶ 32:25

“So not only did we pay to overthrow the duly elected prime minister of Iran, we paid for the dictator that we installed with our tax dollars. The flow neared a billion dollars by the end of Ike's term…”

Kermit Roosevelt appointed Directorate of Operations book_quoted ▶ 33:55

“got cut in on the profits, not the American people who paid for it. After the Iranian project, Kim Roosevelt returned to headquarters as assistant deputy director of the Directorate of Operations unde…”

Frank Wisner headed Directorate of Operations book_quoted ▶ 33:55

Psychological Strategy Board targeted_for_regime_change Guatemala documented ▶ 35:34

“The Psychological Strategy Board, in its capacity as arbiter of America's secret war, approved the concept on August 12th, 1953. And two weeks later, PSB, the Psychological Board, gathered together to…”

Psychological Strategy Board funded Operation PBSUCCESS documented ▶ 35:34

Tracy Barnes member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 36:35

“His undergraduate degree from Yale made Barnes a full-spectrum member of the CIA's Ivy League clique. He also had the good luck to marry into money. The connection with Alan Dulles came with the big w…”

Tracy Barnes carried_out_attack Operation Sunrise host_asserted ▶ 37:38

“There, Alan Dulles reigned as OSS station chief. For the rest of the war, Barnes did odd jobs for Dulles, most especially helping arrange the surrender of German troops in northern Italy, where we cam…”

Tracy Barnes carried_out_attack Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 38:05

“He also was involved in dangerous forays to meet undercover with Nazi officers who above ground would still be fighting the war. Again, Operation Sunrise and the beginning of Operation Gladio. The hig…”

Gordon Gray recruited Tracy Barnes host_asserted ▶ 39:05

“That is unions preceding Bill Colby at that institution. You know, another spy at the entity that is in charge of unions. Then came home spending three years with a Providence, Rhode Island law firm. …”

Gordon Gray appointed Tracy Barnes host_asserted ▶ 39:41

“as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Army. Gray left his position as secretary just as Barnes arrived. But Barnes stayed on under Clifford Alexander. A year later, Gray reappeared as directo…”

Tracy Barnes member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 40:17

“It shone so bright that Barnes sought out the CIA official soon to be its boss. Tracy could see that the strategy board led nowhere in terms of power and influence. The nation's premier Cold War agenc…”

Allen Dulles appointed Tracy Barnes host_asserted ▶ 40:44

“Director Dulles put Barnes in charge of a new unit at the DO. What was that unit? Oh, no big deal. Just the paramilitary and psychological operations staff. So he's there at Operation Sunrise, works w…”

Frank Wisner carried_out_attack Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted ▶ 41:16

“Weird! The first key meeting on Guatemala's project took place in Frank Wisner's office around Labor Day of 1953. Barnes and J.C. King of the Western Hemisphere Division went over all of the existing …”

CIA recruited Carlos Castillo Armas host_asserted ▶ 41:16

United Fruit Company funded Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted ▶ 42:54

“They all do. This time, it wasn't Standard Oil. It was United Fruit, who also was a Sullivan and Cromwell Dulles Brothers customer. It too had used Sullivan and Cromwell. United Fruit was the largest …”

Thomas Corcoran funded Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted ▶ 44:37

“United Fruit didn't want it. They just picked up the phone and called the Dulles brothers. The lawyer, Thomas Corcoran, had been a lobbyist for Civil Air Transport and also for United Fruit. Just as a…”

Allen Dulles carried_out_attack Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted ▶ 45:40

“A key difference would be that United Fruit, a principal purveyor of the charge that Arbenz constituted a communist threat to the Americas and a participant in early plots, this time wanted nothing to…”

Frank Wisner appointed Albert Haney host_asserted ▶ 52:51

“Once Roosevelt turned down the job, Wisner got Allen Dulles to recall Korean station chief, former Army Colonel Albert Haney, H-A-N-E-Y. Haney had set up the CIA guerrilla units in Korea. And by guerr…”

Albert Haney carried_out_attack Operation PBSUCCESS host_asserted ▶ 54:26

“He proceeded to Opelika, Florida to begin setting up a forward base codenamed Lincoln. Haney exercised general supervision over the CIA chiefs in the nations surrounding Guatemala so that they could c…”

CIA supplied_arms_to United Fruit Company host_asserted ▶ 59:21

“train and equip Arbenz rebels. Yes, you heard me right. The CIA had used some of that farmland to train rebels in country, in Guatemala, under the tutelage of United Fruit. Project Fortune proved abor…”

CIA supplied_arms_to Carlos Castillo Armas host_asserted ▶ 1:02:27

“inducing defections. Project headquarters would move to the field and cooperation agreements would be reached with Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. The initial delivery of 15 tons, tons of equipm…”

Dwight D. Eisenhower funded Operation PBSUCCESS documented ▶ 1:03:55

“Wisners recommended that Dulles approve PB6S for execution, and Dulles did exactly that. Eisenhower completed the circle on November 11th, approving the money for the CIA operation. Allen Dulles had t…”

Cortland Dixon Barnes member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:13:01

“And he marries, let's see, he was, let's see, he married, what's it say? Oh, his second cousin was John Hay Jock Whitney, back to Warhamster's Whitney family. Colonel, I got to jump in here. What?…”

Catherine Lansing Barney member_of Whitney family host_asserted ▶ 1:13:36

“So I didn't have Barnes on my scroll and key list, but I see sources that say he is as well. But his, let's say, Catherine Lansing Barney, her mother was a Lorinda Lily Collins Whitney. Yes. But more …”

Charles Tracy Barney headed Knickerbocker Trust Company host_asserted ▶ 1:13:36

Knickerbocker Trust Company carried_out_attack Panic of 1907 host_asserted ▶ 1:13:36

J.P. Morgan financed_via World War II host_asserted ▶ 1:14:03

“which I've been making the case that J.P. Morgan did specifically so they could create the predecessor of the Federal Reserve, which was known as the Aldrich Something Act, which basically allowed J.P…”

J.P. Morgan financed_via Federal Reserve host_asserted ▶ 1:14:03

John Hay Whitney appointed United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:14:59

“And when Jock Whitney served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, Barnes, who is related to him, is the CIA station chief in London. Yeah, let's tie that circle off right about there. Is that crazy? Y…”

Cortland Dixon Barnes appointed United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:14:59

Cortland Dixon Barnes headed Psychological Strategy Board host_asserted ▶ 1:15:51

“He served as the deputy director of the Psychological Strategy Board during the Korean War. He was, let's see, what else? We just talked about the paramilitary psychological operations. So he basicall…”

Cortland Dixon Barnes worked_with Reinhard Gehlen host_asserted ▶ 1:16:11

“He goes on to be, oh, in 54 to 56, he's the station chief of Germany, which of course is Reinhard Galen at the BND. And this entire time, he's basically operating in the CIA. So he moves from Germany,…”

Cortland Dixon Barnes carried_out_attack Bay of Pigs host_asserted ▶ 1:16:42

“And he gets assigned as the assistant deputy director of plans under Bissell. He's involved in leading the Bay of Pigs invasion. He goes on to, oh, and they make him head of CIE's domestic operations …”

Cortland Dixon Barnes headed MKUltra host_asserted ▶ 1:16:42

Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission host_asserted ▶ 1:19:14

“And as several scholars have pointed out, he quoted from the exact same book that Alan Dulles would quote on the very first meeting of our Blessed Warren Commission, saying how, hey, here in the U.S.,…”

Lloyd's of London funded Iran-Iraq War host_asserted ▶ 1:23:19

“and gets all of these contracts that basically then lead into the Iraq war. And we were kind of dissecting the explosion in 2003 about all of that. So they also, in that book, talked about a false fla…”

Lloyd's of London carried_out_attack Strait of Hormuz host_asserted ▶ 1:23:47

“entity at the time. But they staged a false flag on a ship in order to then basically require everybody to insure and Lloyds of London kind of dropped their rates and they got the monopoly on this ins…”

Iran laundered_money_for Luxembourg host_asserted ▶ 1:30:36

“There has been so much evidence that's come out in the last two months. I actually just created a new folder about the money laundering of the elite in Iran, funneling them through Luxembourg and Swit…”

Iran laundered_money_for Switzerland host_asserted ▶ 1:30:36

Mossad spied_on Mexico host_asserted ▶ 1:42:40

“The explanation for what happened here is Mossad, you know, helps out the United States with intelligence, you know, with the, you know, Mexican cartel head that, you know, we ultimately engaged, you …”

Mossad spied_on Venezuela host_asserted ▶ 1:42:40

British Petroleum secretly_owned Iran guest_asserted ▶ 1:49:41

“I'm familiar with them. Yeah. They print it and they kind of echo what you're saying is that like the drug cartels of Venezuela, that's a source of money stream for the deep state. They also painted t…”

U-2 program caused UFO sightings book_quoted ▶ 1:54:54

“over the horizon and can still light up the underbelly of the U-2. And so there was this astronomical rise as soon as they started test flying the U-2 in UFO sightings. And they had already arranged w…”

Air Force Research Laboratory covered_up UFO sightings book_quoted ▶ 1:55:24

“obviously, that they were the U-2. The job of the people that manned the phones there was to check the classified flight schedules of the U-2. And one of the reasons why the SR-71 is black is because …”

U-2 program attributed_to UFO sightings book_quoted ▶ 1:57:16

“reported incidents was attributed in a classified way to the U2 and their test flights over the United States in those early years. So anyway, having said that, again, once Tommy puts that podcast out…”