The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12

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0:00 I am going to post this on X real quick. And then we'll get started. What a crazy day. So we are headed to, obviously, mobile command post time. Headed to Nashville for the 4th of July to meet a bunch of friends there. And we're on the road a couple of hours. And I'm sitting on the couch reading. My husband's driving.

0:43 And the thing you never want to hear somebody say, hey, do you smell something burning? No, no, I don't smell anything burning. I might have said something. I don't know if I did. So I walked up and you could definitely smell something. So we're thinking it was the generator. So, which by the way, runs the air conditioning.

1:17 And it's like 100. So we pull over and it's definitely the generator, which we're not going to turn back on. And the problem is that the roof generators, while you're driving, runs off of the generator. The dash air conditioner, when you're in a large motorhome, doesn't do.

1:46 do jack squat so it's hot and the problem is this is like a house you're going 70 miles down the interstate with the windows open it's blowing everywhere because you don't normally do that oh my gosh so anyway it was crazy like crazy crazy

2:17 I don't know why no one's over on X. Did you guys try to get on over in X, those of you that are here? That's weird. Now it's not even showing my space, so maybe it didn't even work. Oh, there it goes. Okay. I guess nobody's used to our 8 o'clock show.

2:49 time for the next couple of nights so let me just text Bridget and see if she's gonna pop in um changing it up on everybody um but anyway okay we're gonna go ahead and do the show with or without them all right so the Medusa Files by Craig Roberts we are on part five um

3:27 Guns, Drugs, and Politicians called The Enterprise. So crazy. This book's been crazy so far. I've learned a lot of stuff. Some of the stuff I thought I knew, but he adds a lot of very interesting details for us. So there's Bridget. All right.

4:04 He brings this chapter called The Enterprise. He starts talking about the 1980s. And, you know, supposedly that Ronald Reagan was going to be the not Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was the bad guy. He's the guy that fired almost the entire covert operation section of the CIA that was.

4:33 running death squads and stuff like that. Why would you do that? And overthrowing countries. How dare him do that? And he predicated all foreign aid based on a leader's foreign human rights. So if you're a dictator that the CIA installed in South America and you're killing your people, you're not going to get any foreign aid. How dare him say that?

5:05 That all obviously got overturned when Reagan came in because we want to have death squads and we want to have training camps and drug operations and all that other shit. And we definitely love our CIA-installed military dictators killing their own people. So why not just pay them American taxpayer dollars to support them to do that? Oh, and yeah, my hair looks like a rat's nest because...

5:35 We were driving down the road at 70 miles an hour with the windows open. So I forgot to mention that part. Anyway, back to the story. So then, you know, we did Grenada. The one excuse where the guy may have actually been a communist that we overthrew. Definitely a socialist. May have been a communist. That is, in all of the 90 coups we've looked at, the only one that even came close.

6:07 to having an actual communist, even though we were told every single one of them was a communist, hands down communist. So War Hamster and Brady had to find one that may have been one. And Grenada was it. You know, that tiny little island that didn't mean a whole lot of anything to anybody except for the fact that we needed to overthrow it because we were actually using, well, we, I don't mean we, I mean the CIA was using it as a weapons.

6:37 Drug trafficking. We can't have a communist screw that up. So, had to get him out. And then, of course, Beirut. He goes into that. And, you know, I had no idea until we started doing this research project years ago. The real truth about Beirut. I thought it was just a bunch of crazy Iranians that blew up our Marines. That's not how that went at all.

7:08 And now that we know that most of the quote unquote Iranians were not actually Iranians, it was very interesting to go back and reread all of the actual history that got reported, not just the news things that were used to brainwash us, that the government of Israel had intelligence that there was a large ban being modified.

7:38 to house a very large bomb. And Israel's informant told Israel that it was to kill Americans. Israel, by the way, didn't bother to tell anybody that. They, throughout the entire quote-unquote UN operation that was not UN at all, they would send these carefully worded, hey,

8:05 Be on the lookout. Hey, with nothing specific in it, even though they had very specific, actionable intelligence, that a bunch of Americans were going to get blown up. And I also covered the fact that in the lead up to this, that the Israelis had been harassing the Marines routinely.

8:32 coming at them with guns, rolling tanks into their area. Just a perpetual harassment campaign had been lodged against the Marines. And it got so bad that the Marine Corps commander on the ground ran it up. So they ran it up the operational chain, which is the UN and nobody gave a shit. So he reached back to the Pentagon to talk to the commandant.

9:01 of the Marine Corps. And the commandant of the Marine Corps went to Caspar Weinberger and said, hey, you need to handle this. Look at what's going on. It's Israel actually harassing the U.S. You need to get a handle on that. Tell them to stop it. Well, Caspar Weinberger didn't do anything about it. So, very unusual thing happens. Normally, the four-star generals

9:28 don't have enough guts to put shit in writing. That was not the case with the Marine Corps Commandant. He wrote a very nasty letter that you can find on the internet to Caspar Weinberger saying that it was a total disgrace what Israel was doing right before a bomb that they knew about blew up and killed almost 300 Marines that Israel knew about the entire time and when asked after it happened.

9:58 Why they did not provide that actionable intelligence to the United States. Their answer was very simple. They didn't want to burn their informant. One guy, 300 Americans. Not even a question when it came to Israel's decision. Best ally, informant. They made their choice. So then the author goes on to mention.

10:30 the 1980s Afghanistan crazy mess where of course it was about opium we all know that we basically baited in the Russians into Afghanistan to give them their Vietnam and instead of the hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer dollars being spent by the CIA in Afghanistan we decided we weren't going to do that.

11:00 We thought it was a lot smarter to give hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to a foreign intelligence agency called the ISI in Pakistan and let them decide who gets the money, supposedly in Afghanistan. So what happens almost right off the bat, instead of the CIA mandating

11:28 that this money is used to buy American weapons to provide to the Mujahideen that supposedly were supporting. They allow the ISI to go to Bulgaria and former Soviet or current Soviet weapons suppliers because Bulgaria was providing weapons to everybody and the Soviet Union knew that and bought really old stock Soviet weapons.

11:59 to then provide to the Afghanistans. So you had the Soviet Union with more modern weapons fighting against weapons they'd used 20 years ago, their own weapons in the hands of the Afghanistan. So Vietnam it was, and obviously went on for years so they could bilk all that money out of us. And we later found out that, fight them.

12:29 bit of that money was siphoned off by the ISI to fund their nuclear program as well. So yeah, we bought that too. And oh, by the way, then they later on sell it to Iran. Yeah, so in a way, everything circles back around to us. We fund all of this shit. And this all happened under Reagan, all of it. Afghanistan, Beirut, Grenada.

13:01 But the coup d'etat of the Reagan administration was Nicaragua, of course, because it's going to involve not just Nicaragua, it's going to involve Iran. And again, weirdly enough, you have Israel as the middleman into Iran selling missiles, at least three different caches of missiles.

13:33 were sold to iran using israel as the middle person by the cia so again here we are all these years later all they did was reverse engineer those missiles and keep producing them long after we made those sales to them and of course because we sold all of our weapons to the shah they had f4s they had all of the different time um at the beginning all of the

14:04 modern weapons that we had was in the shah's arsenal which then meant that the ayatollah had them and we sold them a shit ton of weapons then they were all used against us and our military so again it's us on both sides it just seems to be a reoccurring pattern so of course he spends a lot of time um on nicaragua we've covered nicaragua quite a bit

14:36 I'm going to kind of breeze through this part. But for those of you who don't know, like most of the rest of the South America countries, you had Somoza, who was in charge, had basically a CIA stooge, major narcotics trafficker, terrorist.

15:02 was killing his own citizens that tried to do anything about the corruption. Their National Guard, all trained at School of America's and the whole nine yards, just like all the rest of the National Police down there in South America during that time. So eventually, the Sandinistas overpower the Somoza government and kick them out.

15:30 We later found out that Somoza, because he was such a favorite of the CIA, is given permission to live in just outside of Houston, Texas. A lot of big spread there. Houston, Texas. Yeah. In the 1980s during Iran-Contra. That's interesting because we read that book called the CIA.

16:00 the mafia, and George H.W. Bush. And weirdly enough, it centered around Houston. And it was about money laundering from the savings and loans with all of those that failed because they were money laundering for the CIA, drug money, and lending bullshit loans and all kinds of other nefarious shit. They were money laundering is the bottom line. A lot of that was centered around Houston too.

16:28 That's so weird. And oh, that's right. We were using Samosa's favorite guys to do the cocaine networks out in LA and San Francisco, right? So that's really weird. Did we just bring Samosa's network to the United States and kind of implant it over the Cuban exiles that were already running the drug?

16:58 trafficking here. We're having dog logistic problems here. Okay, so that's what this bar is called because the apparatus that Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North set up was referred to as the Enterprise. And because they were busy trying to rehire all of the covert ops guys that Jimmy Carter had

17:30 fired, they had, for the time being with Carter in office, had set up a separate entity to house all those displaced covert operators. So there was one already functioning. They try to, in most books, make it sound like this enterprise thing was some brand new off-the-shelf thing. It really wasn't. They have had a parallel intelligence agency.

17:59 running for a very long time. But during this phase of the operation, in most books, it's referred to as the Enterprise. So he talks about William Casey having taken over from Admiral Stanford Turner, Stanfield Turner, as the DCI.

18:28 Of course, William Casey's a great replacement since he's one of those diehard Dulles buddies from back in the day. So it was worthy of his CIA. Two countries, Nicaragua, where the quote unquote socialist or communist, depending on who's writing, because...

19:01 They have to qualify. It's not just bad enough to be a Sandinista. Movement under Daniel Ortega had come to power after overthrowing Somoza in 1979. And the other country of significant note at this time is El Salvador, where what we're told was leftist guerrillas attacking.

19:30 the U.S. supported government. Well, what was that U.S. supported government doing? Oh, that's right. They were creating death squads and killing all their people, which eventually turned into MS-13. So I find it very interesting the use of the word guerrillas as referred to the indigenous El Salvadorans that didn't like the idea their government was creating death squads to kill them. How is that a guerrilla?

19:59 That's like a freedom fighter. That's like a rebel trying to retake their country. No, no, no. That's a gorilla. And the U.S.-supported government that is creating death squads, killing all their people, they're the good guys. They're going to be the guys we fund, of course. Silly person. Okay. And I've explained a million times why they have to call the good guys the gorillas, because...

20:30 They call them insurgents. Guerrillas are insurgents. And we're not allowed to be insurgents. We have to be the counterinsurgents. So there has to be an insurgency or we can't have counterinsurgency. All of our special forces and the CIA and all, they're all trained. They're only allowed to do counterinsurgency. So there has to be an insurgency. But the insurgency is the people that live in the country. They're not insurgents at all.

20:58 They actually live there. They're being killed, but they're guerrilla insurgents. Okay, so, and then, of course, comes the normal psychological operation. Noriega was another Castro, and we absolutely can't have two Castros in the same hemisphere.

21:27 Maybe one per hemisphere. I don't know what the rule is, but evidently it's not two. So can't have Ortega. We already got ours. We've met our quota. Okay. So Reagan was determined that he was going to have to do something to take care of this. What's it going to be? Well, we're going to set up a group.

22:02 That eventually becomes called the contrast. And we've talked about this in several of these books. It's a goat rope, to put it mildly. But it's a goat rope that every one of the agencies in the United States was part of. The Customs and Border Patrol, the DEA, the CIA.

22:32 the FBI were all in on this operation of having narcotics flood the United States and using that money to pay for off-book operations because the contrafunding officially was on again, off again so many times that it couldn't be relied upon for dependability.

22:59 One of the schemes that they cooked up was to sell missiles through Israel to Iran and use the profit through Swiss bank accounts to buy weapons for the Contras, which was technically at the time they were doing it against the law because you weren't allowed to be an American official providing arms.

23:33 Congress had told them no. And to prove the point that the CIA doesn't work for Congress, they didn't care. They just continued to do it anyway. So all of the people that we've reviewed in this book, how all of the people in Vietnam, well, guess what? They all have a reunion with the Contras too. All the same.

24:04 They've just moved from crisis to crisis to crisis to crisis. All of their own making, of course. So the first up to bat was Major General, again, another CIA guy, sheep dipping in the military, John Singlet. John Singlet was 100% a CIA officer, but somehow he was always carried on the military books.

24:33 starting off as an OSS veteran, then transferring to the CIA. And of course, we saw him in the drug operations in Taiwan, billed as China, of course. He was in the stay-behind setup in Korea. And he and E. Howard Hunt,

25:04 Paul Helliwell, the Castle Bank guy that bought all the land for Walt Disney. Yeah, him. And at one time, he supposedly was a Colonel, too. Lucien Koenig. And this guy finds Mitch Warbell again. Technically, Mitch Warbell III, I think it was. And according to the Wall Street Journal, OSS payments at a...

25:36 they're talking about a former operation, consisted of five pounds of opium. One of Singlum's teammates, Lucien Koenig, went on to be the CIA's liaison with the Corsican Mafia. And he's talking a lot earlier, like in the early 1950s. During the Vietnam War, Singlum directed clandestine infiltration of secret.

26:04 Recon and prisoner snatch teams in Laos, in Cambodia. Cambodia, well, Laos too. The places we weren't even supposed to be. That's where he was. And another sheep dipped CIA guy, Major General Richard Secord. And it goes through, we know him. He did all the air operations for Air America.

26:33 And the military combined. He was like the. Big guru. Of air operations. So. Okay. Then it says. Within two years. The funds. Had also provided the enterprise. With numerous shell companies. That's another favorite thing. They love to do. Is set up shell companies. They had.

27:09 that they had procured. They had airplanes. They had contract pilots. They had boats and lots and lots of guns, ammunition, and all kinds of other military equipment. We also know they had lots of comm equipment so that they could make sure their aircraft avoided capture. Said Secord.

27:37 was also credited with finding funds from the Saudi Arabia government. Because back then, the Saudi Arabia government was in bed with the Bushes and everybody else. George H.W. Bush, Jim Baker, all of those guys. Okay, so it's a party. We weren't invited. Key purchases included an AWACS.

28:12 aircraft for a drug operation. Theodore Shackley was the head of the former Castro. He had worked with Shackley and Richard Helms and Laos. He's all involved. And of course, he had a huge role in the Phoenix program, creating death lists, hunting people down, killing them, torturing them, all that kind of crap. Thomas Clines was involved.

28:45 And another guy from the past that we talked about. And of course, our Boris Gump, Felix Rodriguez, Donald Gregg from Vietnam and all those other places. Casey, he goes all the way back to OSS. He's been on all of these operations. And then a new guy, a new guy, weirdly enough, that shows up in all of my.

29:14 1980 Savings and Loans Failure Books. Like I'm reading another one called The Inside Job. So I read the Mafia, CIA, and George H.W. Bush, which was about the Texas one. I just finished one called Belly Up, which was about the Oklahoma ones and the continental one in Illinois. And this one called The Inside Job is primarily

29:42 about ones in California, but includes handfuls of other ones to include a lot of the overlap from the other two books. And this guy shows up in all of those books. His name's Albert Hakim, H-A-K-I-M. He's an Iranian born business partner of Sikord. And his earlier Tehran days,

30:10 managed a private supply network for the Contras under Norse supervision. Supply meaning weapons. For this, he used his Saudi and Iranian oil money profits deposited in Switzerland for the secret enterprise. A host of other less significant people included many in the Reagan White House.

30:43 That's crazy. So what Albert Hakeem was doing was the money laundering. He was getting these brokered loans. So you put bad money in, but you get to say who gets to be loaned the money. And Hakeem, weirdly enough, is standing at the bank teller of many different money laundering savings and loans with his handout, getting money to...

31:12 wander it into the weapons trafficking area. Oh, and he also was involved in buying aircraft. Can't forget that. Oh, and he was also good friends with Adon Khashoggi. Yeah. Adon Khashoggi's name comes up in every one of these. They were bilking.

31:38 The American taxpayer, because we ended up paying the bill, according to this book, it was even more. We were up to $200 billion by some of the other books' estimate. This book says it's even higher than that. But whatever it was, it's a shit ton of money. And yes, we were funding that too. So it's not bad enough the CIA just money launders people who buy drugs.

32:09 No, no. We have to actually facilitate the money that they're going to bilk out of these savings and loans through their money laundering. So we're not only just paying for the drugs, we're actually paying for them to money launder too. Yes, we literally pay for everything. It's crazy, like in the whole world. It's crazy. All right, so.

32:44 He then goes on and talks about how the initial funding, you know, was about 60 million and they had about 150 CIA operatives and trainers involved in it and how they were using things like the Argentine.

33:15 Confederation Anti-Communist Latino, CAL. And we ran across CAL when we were researching the World Anti-Communist League. CAL was a subsidiary of the World Anti-Communist League, which was basically a front for Operation Gladio. So weirdly enough, there it is. Wow. So by 1980, CAL was plotting.

33:47 and had been working in Argentina with bankrolling cocaine drug lords. And they worked hand in hand to install a new Bolivian dictator. So then he goes on to say, once they had their Bolivia guy in place,

34:23 Two of the Argentine officers involved in the action were not actually from Argentina at all, but were wanted Italian terrorists. Stefano Dallasche? Yes, Mr. Operation Gladio himself. And Pulini. Oh, an Italian Operations Gladio guy.

34:53 Is way over in South America overthrowing Bolivia? Yeah, yeah, but they weren't the star of the show. Kloss Barbie was there. An original, no kidding Nazi. Where Operation Gladio came from, of course, with the stay behind units. But very rarely do you get an account where you have a living, breathing Nazi with a...

35:27 Primarily Portuguese, but Italian Gladio operator and an Italian Gladio operator halfway around the world overthrowing a government in Bolivia for this international syndicate. But there you have it. Bolivia goes down in history as being one of those operations. But don't you dare even say a good thing about Ivo Morales because that's a bad guy.

35:57 Not this guy that the CIA installed with Nazis and Gladio operators, which are basically killers. This guy's great. And we're going to support him. But don't you dare be one of the guys that we don't like because we're not going to support you. That's just absolutely mind-numbingly crazy to me.

36:31 the anti-communist i.e nazi operation to identify locate and exterminate exterminate priest that was um not doing what they wanted to do yes catholic priest they if you um fell out of favor in the catholic church under this actually supporting the poor people

37:04 And not the oppressive governments that were being installed all over South America. If you actually supported the people and opposed them, you were considered a quote unquote leftist priest. Because you didn't agree with murdering people who disagreed with their country's installed leadership by the CIA. So, weirdly enough, you have...

37:35 operations gladio mr delishay and klaus barbie setting up hit list of catholic priests not just in bolivia either in several countries we know that they did that in argentina we read about the two that they captured and tortured under pope francis's archbishop tour there and he never said a word

38:04 about his own priest being kidnapped and tortured. Not one word. Delachey met with, quote unquote, major Roberto de Osbrusa, who was the El Salvador designated CIA guy in charge that set up all the death squads. And they met.

38:42 at a Cal conference in Argentina in September of 1980. This meeting produced an agreement to send arms and money to El Salvador so he could set up his death squads. Yay! Many of the main thrust of these types meetings

39:10 which were attended by all of the CIA assigned dictators and their senior leadership, was to export what was referred to as the Argentine solution. What was that? Oh, desk wads. That was the Argentine solution. Remember, it is Argentina that had the low altitude descent.

39:43 way of uh dealing with dissidents where they drug them still alive throw them in the aircraft and fly fly them out in the middle of the ocean and just drop them yeah yeah that's the kind of conferences we're talking about the argentine solution huh the first targets was going to be guatemala but that country would only serve

40:16 As a jumping off point for similar operations in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Literally all of Central America. Because they've already scooped up South America. Moving north. And now they're here. They screwed up all of those. Pushed all those people here. And now they're here. Knocking on our door.

40:47 Because we didn't know any of this was going on, thanks to our media and our government. Now they're here. So there's another book called the Iran-Contra Connection. The driving force behind these movements was not the Argentine government, but an international partnership that had developed between the Italian.

41:21 An Argentine secret organization called the P2 Masonic Lodge. Propaganda Due. Which tonight we're going to do another hour of those articles after we get done here. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't a coincidence that they were connected. And by the way, that is the Operation Gladio connection as well.

41:48 It's just weird they don't ever seem to figure that part out. The P2 Lodge had been identified by the Italian government as a fascist organization. No kidding. Literal Nazis. They were considered part of the infamous quote-unquote Illuminati by some. Actually, it was black nobility with the Prince Borghese.

42:21 I think they like throwing around the word Illuminati so they can associate that with a conspiracy theory when there's a much simpler way of referring to him. He was black nobility. He's referred to as black nobility in every historical document. And he was very much part of the Nazi operation, Mussolini's operation in Italy and Operation Gladio.

42:53 Okay. He goes on to talk about how P2 had strong links to the CIA, because of course it did, and politicians. Under Richard Nixon, the CIA allocated $10 million of quote-unquote covert uns, which do not require accountability for the

43:29 elections in 1972. Oh, you mean like we did in 1947? Yes, we're back in 1972 doing the exact same thing. The funds went through Ambrosiano Bank and Mikhail Sedona, God's banker, mafia guy, and the Italian intelligence chief Vito Marcelli. They were

44:02 P2 members. It should also be noted that Sedona American investments were handled by Continental Illinois Bank, headed by Richard Nixon's Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and a legal representative of the U.S. law firm of Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell.

44:35 Again, what's really funny about this is that the book that I read, Belly Up, was all about Illinois, the Continental Illinois Bank, like literally all about it. And Penn Square down in Oklahoma, it was the preponderance of the book. And I don't know if we've really covered this,

45:07 So I kind of have talked about this a few times about how all of these banks were owned by bad guys. And the banks then would put all of the bad guys on each other's boards of directors. And so they would just loan each other cross loan money. They would buy the same piece of property and sell it back and forth until the value was like about.

45:32 a hundred times more than what it was. They would roll over the loans to include what interest you didn't pay last year into the new loan. And all of these shenanigans throughout all of the 1980s, thanks to the Congress and the Reagan administration loosening the strings of all of the savings and loan restrictions under deregulation.

46:01 which just opened the door to all of these nefarious things. But one of the most interesting things, because I didn't know anything about this, having not ever been in banking, is that once they would do these loans, they would basically sell a significant part of the loan to Continental Illinois, like an upstream bank.

46:32 And so if the loan was for $10 million, they'd sell like $8 million of it. And it looked like new business to them. The savings and loan had new business for making the loan. So this was all considered like, you know, this is great business. We're making everybody look good, except for no one ever had any intention of ever paying the loan back. And then you had the...

47:01 loan brokers that were peddling all of the mafia controlled pensions into these banks and under the brokered loan arrangement and then dictating who those loans got made to so if I deposited 10 million in your bank I got to tell you who you would loan my money to and of course it was all of their buddies and their fake companies it would be really interesting after

47:30 reading these three books and all of these fake companies that they had to set up in order to do this whole laundering operation. I would be willing to guess that there is a large amount of companies on the books in America that aren't real. I mean, every one of these guys had like a hundred front companies. They weren't real. They didn't have anybody working at them. They were a name.

48:01 with an EIC number, if that's actually what it is, EIN, sorry, EIN number. They didn't do any business. They didn't have anybody working for them. They were just an entity that could be a signatory on a loan. And all of these fake entities got tons and tons and tons of loans. And that's crazy.

48:32 And nobody was looking, you know, because deregulation. If we're going to deregulate banks, then we don't need as many regulators, right? Because there's not going to be anything to look at. Except deregulation led to an explosion of banks. So if you're going to have hundreds of new banks, you might want to have...

49:01 a few more regulators, even if you were not regulating them to the same extent, because they're still passing billions and billions of dollars through their banks. But no, no. And some of these banks, they would go from like a $50 million, because they were hometown savings and loan. They go from a $50 million.

49:31 asset portfolio to $1 billion. One of them did in Texas. $50 million to $1 billion in like less than three years. And no one suspected anything until everybody they were doing. It was Vernon.

50:05 Vernon is the name of it. Until everybody that they were doing business with that were much smaller started to fail. And one by one by one. And as the regulators are looking at it, they're like, yeah, they all have one bank in common. We probably need to go look at it. And they finally did. And I'm telling you.

50:34 So the book we read from Pete Bruton, it's the best book I've read about it. It was the most detailed, connecting it to the CIA, connecting it to Belize. You guys went through the book with me, so you know. It was a very good book. But the part he left out was very interesting as well. According to the other two books, there was a whole nother...

51:03 um element of this money laundering operation that went on and again we're money laundering for the contrast to the this book's point he doesn't go into all of that but since i'm reading these other books at the same time it's kind of very interesting um because at the end of the day that's what the whole thing was about um the mafia the cia and george hw bush um so there was a lot of

51:33 big parties. They all had to have a fleet of aircraft. So we were in the middle of a huge, big drug operation. And every one of these banks seems to have a fleet of aircraft. Vernon had like seven aircraft and it was a stinking tiny little town in Texas. And they moved their office to Dallas. That should have been an alarm bells everywhere.

52:02 Vernon was a tiny little town, but that tiny little town Savings and Loan Bank has an office in its own building in downtown Dallas. Not even Fort Worth, Dallas. Not Arlington, Dallas. So they like to have parties and they had parties everywhere because they owned yachts. There's a yacht in the Potomac River.

52:33 that all the congressmen used to party on. And they all had hookers at every single party. At the beginning of the book, they're talking about the one bank in California was not burdened, but it was talking about them doing business with them. And they have a big party at a casino in Las Vegas.

53:04 and all of the bank executives are there for a meeting. They adjourn, and they say there's like an after meeting, like a cocktail party for all the executives, and this whole slate of women walk in, and they're there like five minutes, and every one of them takes their clothes off and does nefarious shit with all of the bank executives there.

53:31 And the one house that we read about in Pete Bruton's book in Southern California, they were talking about having weekend parties there every weekend. So the Vernon Banks guy flies to California every weekend in one of his fleet of jets from Dallas every weekend. And they have a weekend party at his house. And he's had three different houses. And he doesn't sell the one that he had. It's used for business.

54:02 but he keeps upgrading his house. He's building his third house right now in the book. And these house parties that they have, they actually, one of the guys was arrested and convicted for providing prostitutes for these parties. And I just read about one of the Christmas parties that they had in Dallas, the Vernon Bank guys, and they had prostitutes there too.

54:33 Apparently, they had prostitutes a lot. And they flew them all over to different parties. It's kind of like the Junior League without all the other crap, Jeffrey Epstein. Because that's what they would use for the prostitutes that they would have on that boat, the yacht in D.C. where they had all these parties. They'd have fundraisers for politicians all the time. Republicans and Democrats.

55:04 And there were lots of nefarious things that go on at these parties. And then, of course, they would always rub their chin and say, darn, that would be bad if that got out. You might want to just vote for, because at the time, the guy that is the insurance, not insurance guy, the guy that was the regulator.

55:35 was trying to reel back some of this money authority for the savings and loans. And everybody's fighting them. Donald Reagan, Reagan's Treasury Secretary, the first thing he says to the guy when he was nominated by one of the associations to fill this role of like the regulator for the savings and loan.

56:05 He called him in his office. He asked him one question. You're going to be a team player, right? This is the Secretary of Treasury of the United States asking the regulator who just got the job, you're going to be a team player, right? Well, of course, he had no idea what the team was. His name's Ed Gray. He came from Southern California. He wasn't a team player.

56:38 He didn't think stealing American taxpayers' money was a good thing. And Donald Reagan hated this man. He hated him for trying to rein in this crazy shit that was set up during the Reagan administration. And they all knew it. They're all complicit in it. And there's quotes of them in court documents putting

57:08 Tremendous stress on Ed Gray for not being a team player, meaning steal more shit from us team. So it's crazy. But anyway, there's not a lot of additional information in this book related to stuff that we didn't already know.

57:41 And I don't like doing the massive repeats of stuff because we've covered most of this stuff in depth. There was one part here where it says the Shah, with his insatiable appetite for modern weaponry, became their next client. In 1974, Iran spent 14%. Yeah. Yeah.

58:14 So they had spent from the beginning of like 1974, started at like $4.2 billion. Then they got up to $17 billion in weapons that we gave to the Ayatollah. Yeah. Also, this was interesting.

58:52 The largest of the benefactors, because we always like to name names here, was Lyndon Johnson's old supporter, Brown and Root. That goes on to be Halliburton. Yeah, those guys. It should be mentioned that Brown and Root received enormous contracts from Vietnam.

59:26 Among others, in Iran, Brown and Root managed to get an $8 billion contract to build a new port facility without the annoyance of competitive bidding. No competitive bidding. Sole source. You just do it. That harbor port.

59:57 was to become the main Iranian naval base for a fleet of vessels to be built by Lytton Industries. That port is C-H-A-H-B-A-H-A-R. Rockwell International IBEX project had been discussed.

1:00:27 had a role in it as well. One of the generals, that was the Shaw's brother-in-law, helped win approval of a $500 million project. Other companies were Bell Helicopter, among others. So, very interesting. All right. That's going to do us for tonight. Okay.

1:01:13 Wasn't that fond recently? Donny Vision asked over on, I'm sure it was. I wouldn't be surprised at all. It was built by American companies. Yeah. We piled weapons and Humvees in Iraq, pulled back and the ISIS moved in. Then the $85 billion of weapons in Kabul pull out. Yeah. That's Maker Sarge over on Rumble.

1:01:44 Literally, we pay for everything. And then... You're muted, ma'am. Oh, Colonel. I can't hear the Colonel. I can't hear her. I know. Colonel, you're muted. Might be glitching. And she'll be back in just a moment. Yep, it looks like the host is having connectivity issues. How are you doing, Moneypenny? I'm good, thank you. I love these spaces. The Colonel is brilliant. And it always...

1:02:35 As an investigative researcher, it gives me more things to go down rabbit holes, which is good. But also it's bad because I want to know the answers to things. But she gets everybody's mind racing. And she makes us all question reality, who we can trust. And quite clearly, we can't trust much of government and big corporates. And I'm sure I'm telling people that already know all this.

1:03:05 It makes me more frustrated. Obviously, I'm British, for those of you that are listening that don't know me. And my background is, well, financial services, media, that sort of stuff. So she hit me nail on the head. There you are, Colonel. Yeah, they decided to cut me off. We couldn't hear you. I'll stop so you can explain what you said for the last five minutes. Oh, God. When did it cut me off?

1:03:34 About five minutes ago. Yeah, right as you were finishing up. Right as you finished up, then immediately it just flipped. You were muted and something was going on. Well, I asked if you had anything to say. And when you didn't talk, then I knew it was them screwing up our space again. So I just had to get out of X and then come back in. So I was done. Okay, well.

1:04:02 I I'll repeat all the amazing things. Colonel, you give me rabbit holes to dive down that I thought I'd dive down many times, but I have to go back down them with your inspiration. I love the stuff you do. But, you know, my background particularly is investigating financial fraud. I used to work as an economist for an American bank based in London, Chase Manhattan. So money laundering, financial regulation. Don't laugh. Did you not know that?

1:04:32 Now, I did not know that it was Chase. I think you had mentioned that you had worked in banking before. But yeah, obviously, Chase has some very nefarious history. As a matter of fact, they're in this book. They're in the book called Inside Job. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. Well, it's JP Morgan Chase now, isn't it?

1:04:56 You know, I started off as an economist, but I did a lot of financial regulation because of the different regulatory changes that were going on in the city of London and stuff. And so financial fraud, regulation, all that stuff I love. And of course, when the Epstein files came out, I went down so many rabbit holes, but I also managed ahead of any other media, I'm very proud to say.

1:05:22 I discovered Epstein's shell companies. You were talking about loads of companies that exist that don't do anything. They're called shell companies. He had many of them, some in the British Virgin Islands, some in the American Virgin Islands. He had special dispensation on taxes and stuff. He was money laundering loads of money for J.P. Morgan, Rothschilds and others, Bank of America and others. And I discovered he was the central linchpin.

1:05:52 In the American part of the world's largest financial scandal, which was one MDB in Malaysia that took place at about the same time that MH370 disappeared with a guy called J-Lo.

1:06:08 who, God, was absurdly wealthy and spending lots of money, and nobody knew until I discovered it, Epstein was moving all this money around for them through his shell companies, through J.P. Morgan, through Rothschilds, whatever. And I've put the post in the pill so people can see it.

1:06:24 But also you touched on, you know, all the Cuba, Nicaragua, guns, missiles, whatever. And it reminded me of that brilliant movie, which I've also put, if anybody hasn't watched it, American Made is this fantastic movie, Tom Cruise. It's based on all the factual dodgy dealings that went on. Have you seen it, Colonel? Yes. I've seen quite a few movies with Tom Cruise in them, but nothing else.

1:06:50 That's only because it's a confession. You do like short men though. No, no, no, no, no. That has nothing to do with it. It is a thing between me and my daughters. I am a big Top Gun fan. And so it is kind of like a family tradition that if Tom Cruise produces a movie, we go see it together. And so it's really not Tom Cruise.

1:07:20 In any real respects, he's kind of creepy, but he's a great actor. And it's, like I said, it's built into the family. They grew up on Top Gun and it's part of our tradition. I won't go into that. But look, you mentioned a guy called Albert Hakim. And while you were talking, I did some deep diving and found some really dirty stuff.

1:07:47 Basically, there was a company called Stanford Technology Trading Group International, which I think you may have mentioned. So this dodgy guy, Albert Hakim and Richard Secord, who was U.S. military, had set up this dodgy holding shell company. And effectively, you know, long story short, securitously.

1:08:09 Iran was getting some very advanced weapons courtesy of the CIA, moving money into Swiss bank accounts that eventually ended up.

1:08:18 procuring weapons that the U.S. were effectively selling that went via Swiss accounts and a connection with South Korea and China, giving Iran weapons that actually led to their refinement of nuclear isotopes, which no doubt have helped Iran get in the position they're in today. Correct. Oh, there you go. Correct. They did it both ways. They did it through that company, but they also did it through Pakistan.

1:08:48 Oh yeah, I found that. I found loads of Pakistan stuff. Yeah, if you recall, when we read Pete Bruton's book, he talked about the three Pakistanis being arrested at the port of Houston, leaving nuclear triggers. Three nuclear triggers, and the Pakistanis were initially arrested, but let go and allowed to leave the country.

1:09:18 Without the triggers. Yeah, it's kind of ironic that Pakistan is the place where they're, you know, intermediating between Iran and the U.S. now. Isn't that weird? Yeah. Made a major role in them getting nuclear capability. And it's almost, you get the feeling, I mean, at least I do. I'm not going to talk for anybody else. But I get the feeling that Trump is like that.

1:09:47 bully guy that takes somebody's face and shoves it into whatever mess they made and then pushes really hard on it. Oh, poor little Vance. Poor little J.D. Vance. That's probably why he looks so bruised and battered. I just, I think all of the different, it's like using Cutter. Cutter had been corrupt for a very, very long time. And now, for whatever reason,

1:10:18 There's been a different deal made. And there is a lot of focus on Qatar to the point where Trump signed that executive order. And Qatar had always been used by Israel to money launder. That's how they were getting money to Hamas and everything. And so what does Trump do? He works a different deal. And then he signs an executive order that says if anybody touches Qatar, they're touching the United States and you're going to be in trouble.

1:10:47 So almost to enact a shield around them in order to have them stay on now what hopefully is the right side of history. It's like one by one, he's plucking all of these tools that have been used over the course of the last 40 years for destabilization off the table and putting in other deals that...

1:11:14 I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but it has to be something because he's making these deals. So anyway, I find it all very interesting. According to Tucker Carlson, Trump has been hypnotized. He is under deep hypnosis with a mind-cutting weapon, and that's why he is helping Netanyahu. That's another story. Yes. As a matter of fact,

1:11:45 Every single thing that has happened in the last 18 months has exposed Netanyahu to be a very evil guy. And it is the moves like the Trump exposing that he targeted Soleimani and supposedly during his first administration that Bibi was all on board right up until it came to.

1:12:09 time to pull the trigger. And then he was like, yeah, we should not probably take him out. Why? He's in charge of all this terror. You've been saying that forever. Yeah, yeah, but I don't think we ought to take him out. So then that makes you wonder, was he doing all of that terror as a ally of Israel?

1:12:29 And it was just Operation Gladio destabilization. And that's exactly what I think it was. I think that's what all of this is. I don't think anything that we're seeing in the world is what it appears to be. We already know, we've proven unequivocally for the last four years, that every time somebody is made out to be an enemy, they end up being controlled by the very people telling you they're the enemy. Every time.

1:12:58 The Red Brigade in Italy was the communist until we found out that the Red Brigade in Italy was actually controlled by the Operation Gladio people. So every single time we are told there's a boogeyman, it isn't actually the boogeyman that we're told it to be. It is the same thing with the Soviet Union. You go back and look in time, and the West created that. We funded it, and then we did business with them.

1:13:28 How can they then be the biggest boogeyman in the world? And we're killing all these people, millions of people all over the world to prevent it from happening while we're feeding it. It's just like crazy shit. Same thing with Iran. Craziest Ayatollahs in the whole world. Then why are you feeding them? Because of course we were. So I just don't believe anything anymore about who the good guys and bad guys are.

1:13:58 I do see a complete really pushing people's face in some of the messes they've made. And honestly, I think that's what's happening with Israel right now. There has never been more people realize Israel for what it truly is, the government, than in the last 18 months. And I know it's through kind of a roundabout way, but it is getting done.

1:14:26 and it needs to be done. Well, thank you. Just never stop doing what you're doing, because I do believe you're a good guy, and I think I'm right on that one. Well, I'm definitely in it for the right reasons. I don't have any ability to...

1:14:49 technically be a good guy or a bad guy. I don't know anybody to be a good person or a bad person as far as that concerned, but I definitely am in it for the right reasons because they pissed me off by using me and my health for nefarious reasons. And I will continue what I'm doing until I feel like adequate accountability has happened.

1:15:17 We haven't even got started on that. Well, thank you. Keep on doing it. Thank you very much. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you. All right. All right, guys, we're going to jump off here. I'm going to do another article over on my premium thing on Rumble because here we are again at the end of the month and I still don't have it done. I hate that. I always have intentions of doing it and then I get lost in one of these crazy books.

1:15:47 Don't get those hours out, but I have until tomorrow at midnight. So come hell or high water, we'll get it done. So take care, everybody.

Entities here

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Claims made here

Israel covered_up 1983 Beirut barracks bombing host_asserted ▶ 7:38

“to house a very large bomb. And Israel's informant told Israel that it was to kill Americans. Israel, by the way, didn't bother to tell anybody that. They, throughout the entire quote-unquote UN opera…”

Caspar Weinberger failed_to_act Israel host_asserted ▶ 9:01

“of the Marine Corps. And the commandant of the Marine Corps went to Caspar Weinberger and said, hey, you need to handle this. Look at what's going on. It's Israel actually harassing the U.S. You need …”

Israel supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 13:33

“were sold to iran using israel as the middle person by the cia so again here we are all these years later all they did was reverse engineer those missiles and keep producing them long after we made th…”

Sandinistas overthrew Anastasio Somoza host_asserted ▶ 15:02

“was killing his own citizens that tried to do anything about the corruption. Their National Guard, all trained at School of America's and the whole nine yards, just like all the rest of the National P…”

Oliver North headed The Enterprise host_asserted ▶ 16:58

“trafficking here. We're having dog logistic problems here. Okay, so that's what this bar is called because the apparatus that Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North set up was referred to as the Enterprise. …”

William Casey succeeded Stansfield Turner host_asserted ▶ 17:59

“running for a very long time. But during this phase of the operation, in most books, it's referred to as the Enterprise. So he talks about William Casey having taken over from Admiral Stanford Turner,…”

Sandinistas overthrew Anastasio Somoza host_asserted ▶ 19:01

“They have to qualify. It's not just bad enough to be a Sandinista. Movement under Daniel Ortega had come to power after overthrowing Somoza in 1979. And the other country of significant note at this t…”

Lucien Conein spied_on Mafia host_asserted ▶ 25:36

“they're talking about a former operation, consisted of five pounds of opium. One of Singlum's teammates, Lucien Koenig, went on to be the CIA's liaison with the Corsican Mafia. And he's talking a lot …”

Richard Secord funded The Enterprise host_asserted ▶ 27:37

“was also credited with finding funds from the Saudi Arabia government. Because back then, the Saudi Arabia government was in bed with the Bushes and everybody else. George H.W. Bush, Jim Baker, all of…”

Albert Hakim laundered_money_for The Enterprise host_asserted ▶ 30:43

“That's crazy. So what Albert Hakeem was doing was the money laundering. He was getting these brokered loans. So you put bad money in, but you get to say who gets to be loaned the money. And Hakeem, we…”

Pulini member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 34:23

“Two of the Argentine officers involved in the action were not actually from Argentina at all, but were wanted Italian terrorists. Stefano Dallasche? Yes, Mr. Operation Gladio himself. And Pulini. Oh, …”

Stefano Delle Chiaie member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 34:23

Klaus Barbie member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 34:53

“Is way over in South America overthrowing Bolivia? Yeah, yeah, but they weren't the star of the show. Kloss Barbie was there. An original, no kidding Nazi. Where Operation Gladio came from, of course,…”

Stefano Delle Chiaie supplied_arms_to Roberto D'Aubuisson host_asserted ▶ 38:42

“at a Cal conference in Argentina in September of 1980. This meeting produced an agreement to send arms and money to El Salvador so he could set up his death squads. Yay! Many of the main thrust of the…”

P2 Masonic Lodge front_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 41:21

“An Argentine secret organization called the P2 Masonic Lodge. Propaganda Due. Which tonight we're going to do another hour of those articles after we get done here. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't a coincidence…”

Vito Marcucci member_of P2 Masonic Lodge book_quoted ▶ 43:29

“elections in 1972. Oh, you mean like we did in 1947? Yes, we're back in 1972 doing the exact same thing. The funds went through Ambrosiano Bank and Mikhail Sedona, God's banker, mafia guy, and the Ita…”

Michele Sindona member_of P2 Masonic Lodge book_quoted ▶ 43:29

Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company headed David Rockefeller book_quoted ▶ 44:02

“P2 members. It should also be noted that Sedona American investments were handled by Continental Illinois Bank, headed by Richard Nixon's Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and a legal representative of…”

Donald Regan appointed Edwin Gray book_quoted ▶ 55:35

“was trying to reel back some of this money authority for the savings and loans. And everybody's fighting them. Donald Reagan, Reagan's Treasury Secretary, the first thing he says to the guy when he wa…”

Reza Pahlavi supplied_arms_to Iran book_quoted ▶ 58:14

“So they had spent from the beginning of like 1974, started at like $4.2 billion. Then they got up to $17 billion in weapons that we gave to the Ayatollah. Yeah. Also, this was interesting.…”

Brown and Root succeeded Halliburton book_quoted ▶ 58:52

“The largest of the benefactors, because we always like to name names here, was Lyndon Johnson's old supporter, Brown and Root. That goes on to be Halliburton. Yeah, those guys. It should be mentioned …”

Brown and Root funded Chabahar book_quoted ▶ 59:26

“Among others, in Iran, Brown and Root managed to get an $8 billion contract to build a new port facility without the annoyance of competitive bidding. No competitive bidding. Sole source. You just do …”

Albert Hakim founded Stanford Technology Trading Group International guest_asserted ▶ 1:07:47

“Basically, there was a company called Stanford Technology Trading Group International, which I think you may have mentioned. So this dodgy guy, Albert Hakim and Richard Secord, who was U.S. military, …”

Richard Secord founded Stanford Technology Trading Group International guest_asserted ▶ 1:07:47

Stanford Technology Trading Group International supplied_arms_to Iran guest_asserted ▶ 1:08:09

“Iran was getting some very advanced weapons courtesy of the CIA, moving money into Swiss bank accounts that eventually ended up.…”

Pakistan supplied_arms_to Iran guest_asserted ▶ 1:08:18

“procuring weapons that the U.S. were effectively selling that went via Swiss accounts and a connection with South Korea and China, giving Iran weapons that actually led to their refinement of nuclear …”

Operation Gladio covered_up Red Brigades host_asserted ▶ 1:12:58

“The Red Brigade in Italy was the communist until we found out that the Red Brigade in Italy was actually controlled by the Operation Gladio people. So every single time we are told there's a boogeyman…”