The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1

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0:00 Hello, hello, hello. Bridget, I didn't get to see what you were texting me about. I was busy writing threads. What was you texting me about? I saw that. Hang on. One of them is just really, really funny. And the other one is the FBI arrested ringleader of the 764. The thing that doesn't exist? Yes. Yes. Cool. Yeah.

0:28 So, and Pam Bondi has said they are in the process of dismantling the entire sadistic child, blah, blah, blah, you know. Cool. Yeah. Well, and that's interesting because it's international. And I wonder how far they're going to go before they find out that there's CIA instigation behind it. Or USAID funding. Or USAID funding. We've got so many to pick from.

0:59 Right. Or any D or yeah. You know, every other. Right. Yeah. You know, it may end up intersection intersecting with those. Yeah. What's that Freudian slip there? Right. Right. Right. Right. Okay. So you guys, I'm a little disconcerted right now. I'm not going to lie. We are going to start the book, but I want you guys to experience with me.

1:31 What happens to me when I stumble across another one of these? You just got really quiet. Like something's over the mic. Okay. Can you hear me better now? Yes, much better. Thank you. Okay. So I just stumbled across another one of those Grand Canyon size. Oh, my God. You know how back in the day when Obama.

2:00 Said that he was going to create a civilian force that was as well funded and trained as the military. Do you remember that? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I found it. And it's going to take me a hot minute to be able to digest what it is I just found. However.

2:31 I do want to say this. There's lots of the two things that I found. Before you dive in, did you go live on Rumble? Because it's still doing the intro. Okay. No, I did not. Thank you for the reminder. I just want everybody to share in this. Oh, my gosh.

2:55 And so, again, just so that you guys know, I know you feel the same way when I reveal something to you. I want you to know that I feel exactly the same thing when I find it. It's so disconcerting. But I did want to, and this has got lots of names of companies, which I know that we all support naming who these bastards are.

3:26 I found it very interesting that there's a whole section in here on how they were going to mobilize the kids, the youth, and how they have integrated some common themes that run through all of the communities as a way to communicate things like,

3:56 Crime Stoppers, International, those types of things. And a couple of the people even correlate it to the CIA as the driving force behind it. So definitely lots to look into. And I'm also looking in one place where it named a few of the think tanks. And although I don't consider it a think tank, one of them.

4:28 is, well, more than one, is military affiliated. So it's just an incredible find. And so, so crazy. I mean, it mentions the Council of Foreign Relations, Brookings Institute, all of the ones that we know about in a way in which

4:55 And they hook it to the UN and how it was going to be used throughout the international community. It is not just a U.S. based initiative, but it's crazy. And I did not need one more thing to work on, but I can't ignore this. This is just absolutely crazy.

5:24 It even mentions Barack Obama serving as the first U.S. president to chair the U.N. Security Council in 2008 in a speech. But he wouldn't have been president then in 2008. He ran in 2008. So I don't know if they're correlating those two things, that maybe once he was president, he was the first chair.

5:53 In the same sentence, they're talking about a speech that he made in 2008, which says that that's the one where he said about the we need a national security force that's as well funded, a civilian national security force that's as well funded as our military. So I think they had a run on sentence there. But anyway, there's a lot of organizations mentioned.

6:20 And I need to go through them just to verify that this is all true. But I just wanted to give you guys a heads up that I stumbled into another hole. Okay, so we are going to, and this book is going to go faster than normal. There's not a lot of, there's a lot of details in here that we don't need to know for our purpose.

6:51 you know, a lot about his family and his family history and stuff like that. We don't necessarily need to know that stuff in order to make the case, which the case that this book is going to make.

7:08 is that the CIA is as bad as all of us imagine. And I got a lot of side eyes when I first started making the comment that the CIA will kill their own agents in order to facilitate for the better good of the organization, in their opinion, of course. I don't think killing people in your own organizations for the good of anybody, just to be clear.

7:35 they are willing to sacrifice some of their own. So that's the reason why I thought this book was amazing, because one of the people that they tried to sacrifice lived to tell about it. So I definitely wanted to share that so that you guys, again, as Illini is always looking for the real evidence to be able to

8:04 present to people that is quantifiable. This is this guy's story in his own words. So if you look at the beginning of the book, he begins in the introduction, the first chapter or the name of the introduction is labeled the Empire of Lies. And it talks about just that.

8:32 that he was a 17-year employee of the CIA. He had worked in all four directorates of the agency. And he says that the concept of the deep state, a cabal of intelligence actors lying to the American people to generate a string of low-grade military conflicts for the benefit of defense contractors, seemed like a paranoid fantasy to him while he was inside the agency.

9:03 And he goes on to say that things started looking a little different to him when he began to realize that not only was the CIA in Google and Facebook and Instagram, but they had spent a lot of time gathering people's information and producing propaganda.

9:30 in his mind ever for use in the United States, it was always to get the bad guys in foreign countries or so he thought. And that was kind of at the same time that all of this crap was happening to him. He's starting to look around and he's seeing a whole lot of things through basically very different glasses. And he is the guy that I told you.

9:59 towards the end of the book actually does talk about Operation Gladio. So as he went through his awakening process, he did his own research and it dovetails with our research, which again, I found fascinating. So I would love, love, love to actually get to talk to this guy. And I am definitely trying to make that happen.

10:29 He mentions in June of 2022, an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation published an article listing 10 stories it believes showed a consistent pattern of misinformation from mainstream media. And I'm not going to go through them all, but a couple of them that he mentions was the Michael Brown, the Steele dossier, and it keeps on going. So what he saw was a.

10:57 common thread where they push population towards violence by instigating events inside. And he recognized that as a tactic that the CIA uses in foreign countries. So he also lists COVID-19 as one of those events. Chapter one is labeled The Lives of Bob Woodard.

11:28 Woodward, sorry. And he starts with, in 1987, the director of the CIA, the legendary William Casey, was in power. And they were in the throes of the Iran-Contra scandal. And he was assigned to a protective detail, keeping a 24-hour watch over the director in his Georgetown University hospital.

11:58 He said that his father was brought to Washington, D.C. from Utah to work for the CIA when he was much younger. And he didn't even know that his dad worked for the CIA until he was told in 1985 when he applied and joined the CIA. So he grew up in a family. His dad was CIA.

12:27 He eventually applies and we'll get to that part. But he didn't think he would ever get accepted because he had kind of a crazy teen, young 20 college experience. And he didn't even know his dad worked at the CIA. So it says that he applied to the agency in 1984. And again, like I said.

12:56 He didn't think he was going to get in, but he had a close friend who also was with the agency. That is the one guy that convinced him that he needed to apply, which he did. And several months go by and he eventually gets selected to be in the CIA. Now, what's interesting.

13:24 Is he goes into a lot of detail, which, again, is not relevant for us about his initial briefings because he ends up being a briefer at the actual CIA headquarters as far as training. And that'll be relevant. So I just want to cover it at the beginning without all of the details.

13:45 how he went through all of these presentations. And, of course, during the orientation, they're telling you what a great organization it is, how they do all of these noble, wonderful things and save the world. And later on, when he becomes one of those briefers, after having all of this experience, it starts dawning on him, how do those people get up there and lie to all of these new people coming in when they know that's not true? So, anyway.

14:15 He says that Casey was an intimidating figure, a legendary intelligence operative from World War II. He also was Reagan's 1980 campaign manager. Now, you guys know that we were just, I think I just posted my days are like going in together. But I just went through a whole William Casey thing about.

14:44 his involvement, having been Reagan's campaign manager, and then becoming the CIA director and how all of that went down. And basically it was William Casey that did the October surprise. He laid out the entire thing, which is in a book, another book that I just finished. That was the...

15:10 Den of Spies. And we'll get to that next, which is one of the reasons why I bought that book because of this book. So it just keeps going. Okay. So it becomes important that he spent all of this time with William Casey while he's sick. So he was there like night and day.

15:38 As one of his personal bodyguards, basically, while he was in the hospital, because, of course, if you're the CIA director and you're in the hospital, you're going to have security. So he got to know his wife and basically established a very close relationship with his family. So he goes on to say that I don't think it's an understatement.

16:10 that for much of his career he has been regarded as, he's talking about Bob Woodward, one of our most respected journalists, starting with the work he and Carl Bernstein did for the Washington Post investigating the Watergate scandal with Richard Nixon. However, there's considerable evidence to suggest Woodward cannot be trusted. He may have actually been an intelligence agent.

16:37 which I 100% believe he was. It says Woodward is likely to have been the most successful disinformation agent on behalf of intelligence agencies in American history. And this is coming from a CIA agent. It also says that he took a close look at Woodward's own website so that he could figure out how he describes himself.

17:06 On his website, it has sections. One says College in the Navy. Woodward was born to Jane and Alfred Woodward in Geneva, Illinois, in March 26, 1943. He enrolled at Yale University in 1961 in Navy ROTC and studied history and English. He received his bachelor's degree and did a five-year tour in the Navy. The Washington Post.

17:34 After being discharged as a lieutenant in, let's see, 1970, Woodward considered attending law school, but applied for a job as a reporter for the Washington Post. Harry Rosenfeld, the Metropolitan editor, gave him a two-week trial that he failed. After a year at the Montgomery Sentinel, a weekly Washington, D.C. suburb paper

18:05 Woodward was hired at the Post in September 1971. Watergate and all the president's men. In 1972, the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein at the Post was regularly denounced by the Nixon re-election campaign, Republican leaders in the White House. The Washington press secretary, Ron Ziegler, announced the reporting as heresy, innuendo, and guilt by association.

18:35 So again, we are supposed to believe somebody that's worked at the Washington Post for a year gets this story. Remember, this is Woodward's own account as his rise to success. He enrolls at Yale, a prime recruiting ground for intelligence agencies. This is his words, the CIA guy's words. He studies history in English.

19:04 the better to understand people and their motivation. On a ROTC scholarship, what he fails to mention is how high he made it in the Navy, becoming a briefer for Alexander Haig, who would become the chief of staff in the Nixon White House. Just as the Watergate scandal began to swirl, Haig would also serve in the...

19:34 Reagan White House as Secretary of State. Now think about that for five seconds. This guy, and again, I have to invoke my military experience here. So it is not unusual for a junior person to brief a general, except

20:06 The only people that do that are on a regular basis, which this implies it was like a regular briefing, are intelligence people. People who work in the field of intelligence. So let me describe a scene for you. At CENTCOM, we had area expertise intelligence agencies. And at the staff meeting, when the general, the COCOM, the four star.

20:34 wanted a specific focus of that meeting to be on, say, Kenya or Saudi or anything in the CENTCOM AOR. The briefer is generally what we would call a captain. They call it a lieutenant in the Navy. An O3 that has spent the last five to seven to eight years in that area of expertise.

21:03 It is not someone with less than five years, generally speaking, that's going to have any area of expertise, ability in any area of the world to be a routine briefer to that person. So somewhere in the middle of five to 10 years, having gotten their feet wet a couple of different times, because normally you would go to an intelligence,

21:33 um course you're also going to go to a language even if you're a fluent language speaker um there are some credentialing processes that you have to go through but here you have this very very junior person in the navy having graduated from yale where they recruit people to being quote unquote military but really working for the cia um briefing

22:02 on a regular basis, General Alexander Haig. So that's just nuts. That's nuts. So, and of course, Haig is there in the middle of the Nixon fiasco, and he's in the middle of the Reagan fiasco. Both fiascos orchestrated Iran-Contra and Watergate by the CIA. Just trying to keep up here. Okay.

22:34 He is also the guy that stands up and says, I'm in charge at the White House because of his quote unquote chief of staff duties in 1981 when Reagan was shot. Haig's relationship with Reagan was rocky and he ends up resigning in 1982. And he may have only been there to get the shot off. You just never know with these people.

23:05 In a 2019 book about Haig, a guy by the name of Ray Locker, twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, as well as being an editor at USA Today, detailed Woodward-Haig's relationship, and I'm quoting, he, Woodward,

23:23 gave no indication in his column that he had known Haig since his days as a young Navy lieutenant delivering messages to Haig at the National Security Council for his boss, Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations and then the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Woodward also mentioned nothing about his cover-up for another former commander, Wielander,

23:53 Seven years earlier, Woodward's articles for the Post about the spy ring also failed to include that he had worked for both Moore and Wielander. Why would Woodward be interested in concealing that as a Navy member, that he had worked at the National Security Council, which again is very odd for that junior of a person.

24:19 the future chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the future White House Chief of Staff. Obviously, that would have something to do with credibility when he's writing and he never mentioned it. That seems like unparalleled access to the most powerful men in the country, yet he never mentions it, which then, of course, skews his objectivity when he's reporting on issues relating to any of that.

24:49 Doesn't it seem that if Haig and Woodward were being honest, they might have mentioned their relationship to the White House press secretary? Are we genuinely supposed to believe that the chief of staff of the White House, under siege by a very specific reporter, wouldn't think to mention that the reporter in question once reported to him? Really, really weird. In what world does hiding this relationship comport to the rules of objective journalism?

25:20 Despite what Haig's associate at State and elsewhere noted as a very close relationship with Woodward, neither Haig nor Woodward could get their story straight about when they first met. They both deny what others, like Melvin Laird and Moore, confirmed that Woodward and Haig knew each other while Woodward served in the Navy. Haig said,

25:47 that he did not meet Woodward until he and Bernstein showed up at Haig's home in September 1974, while Woodward put the date somewhere around 73. Given Woodward's long service on Haig's behalf as a journalist covering up spy rings, hiding Woodward's relationship with the top military officers, masking Haig's identity as a source in all the men.

26:13 president's men and writing a helpful column to push Haig over a bump in the Foreign Relations Committee during their protests, the close relationship between Haig and Woodward that Clark noted at state was no accident and no recent occurrence, unquote. If the 1970s were supposed to be the golden age of journalism because of people like Bob Woodward, then we've got problems.

26:40 In light of the revelations of Woodward's close connections to the intelligence communities, perhaps his blockbuster revelations should be viewed with your Gladio glasses on. I just added that part. Six months later, on May 1st, 1973, Ziegler reversed himself and said,

27:02 I would apologize to the Post and I would apologize to Mr. Woodward and Bernstein. They have vigorously pursued this story and deserve the credit and are receiving the credit. Subsequently, the investigations of the Senate Watergate Committee and the House Judicial Committee and Watergate Special Prosecutor showed that Woodward Bernstein reporting had been accurate and perhaps understated the scope and depth of the criminality.

27:28 Over 40 people went to jail because of Watergate investigations, including Nixon's top White House aide, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Nixon's main attorneys, former Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney. The Senate report follows and supports.

27:55 Much of the reporting of Bernstein and Woodward on the Watergate break-in cover up Nixon White House in the 1972 re-election campaign espionage, sabotage, and fundraising. The question, which later researchers would ask, is whether Watergate's scandal was an inside job designed to bring down the Nixon's presidency, which had won the greatest landslide re-election victory in American history at that time.

28:21 Nixon had successfully wound down the Vietnam War, had integrated schools, had even founded the EPA. Key pieces of evidence in support of this belief show that four of the five Watergate burglars were former CIA agents. The Woodward's famous anonymous deep throat source was later revealed to be the FBI Mark Felt, who had been passed over to lead the organization by none other than Richard Nixon.

28:52 And this was a quote out of Encyclopedia Britannica. Early on the June 17th, 1972, police apprehended five burglars at the office of the D.C. Watergate complex. It was later claimed that they were looking for evidence of a Democratic ring of call girls who were being supplied to politicians. Four of them formerly had been active in the CIA activities against Fidel Castro. Those are the Cuban exiles that we've talked about often.

29:23 Only three of the four were Cuban heritage. The fifth, James McCord, was the security chief of the Committee to Re-elect the President, later popularly known as CREEP, which was presided over by John Mitchell, Nixon's former attorney general. The arrests were reported in the next morning's Washington Post, written by Alfred Lewis, Carl Bernstein, and Bob Woodward.

29:53 to roving. So he, at the time, had very little publications in the Washington Post. He had basically covered local Virginia politics and Woodward was still obviously very new and hadn't written a whole lot.

30:19 It goes on to say that it would only be after the hearings led by Senator Frank Church in 1975 that most Americans got a glimpse into the covert actions of the CIA, including the manipulation of foreign elections, the corruption of American journalists, the assassination of political figures. Much attention has been focused over the past decades on getting to the bottom of the possible CIA involvement in the JFK assassination in 63 as well.

30:48 But perhaps similar attention should be focused on whether or not a nonviolent coup happened to Nixon. Obviously, his penance for secrecy and paranoia didn't help him. It may also be shocking to realize that after Nixon's resignation, this cleared the way for Gerald Ford to become president. And then, of course, we know Nelson Rockefeller became his vice president.

31:18 As a congressman, Ford had served on the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination, concluding that he was killed, obviously, by the magic bullet concept. When one genuinely looks at the facts of this period of Americans' history, one comes to realize it was a relatively small group of powerful men circulating at some very top governmental positions that was controlling it all.

31:47 You had things like, you know, the anonymous source of Deep Throat that was leaking all of this information out. This guy, Kevin Shipp, the CIA guy, says, I was a young man living in D.C. at the time that the Deep Throat things were happening. From the History Channel website article titled, How Deep Throat Took Down Nixon from the Inside the FBI, quote,

32:15 Former FBI Director William Mark Felt, age 91, broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in June 2005 that he was Deep Throat, the anonymous government source who also leaked crucial information to The Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, which helped take down Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal. Throughout the 1972 election and beyond, Deep Throat fed Woodward's

32:42 and Bernstein, a steady flow of information that exposed Nixon's knowledge of the scandal. The idea to break into the Democratic National Committee office and tap their phones was the brainchild of G. Gordon Liddy, former CIA agent, finance counsel for the Committee of the Re-election of the President. He took his plan to White House counsel John Dean and Attorney General John Mitchell, who approved a smaller

33:10 scale version of the idea, unquote. One might question how a relatively junior reporter like Bob Woodward got a story like that. It doesn't sound like Woodward was your typical journalist. And perhaps it's worth getting a little more information about Mark Felt, the number two guy in the FBI. Also on a History Channel article, Kevin Shipp says, in 1978, Felt was indicted.

33:41 for ordering FBI agents to search the homes of the Weather Underground members and other groups without a warrant. He was found guilty in 1980 and pardoned by Reagan in 81, which I don't know if anybody knew that until I read this book. I did not know that. J. Edgar Hoover's culture of corruption, surveillance, and blackmail was some of the darkest days of the FBI. How much was the FBI running interference for the CIA?

34:12 And you have to ask yourself that today because none of these people were ever held accountable. And this is the same shit that we've experienced the last 10 years. He also puts another quote in. In February 1973, Nixon appointed Gary Gray, sorry, L. Patrick Gray, permanent FBI director. His tenure was short, however, when he was forced to resign after it came to light that he had destroyed a file.

34:44 on CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, one of Liddy's Watergate co-conspirators. Gray then recommended Felt for the job, but Nixon and his chief of staff, Alexander Haig, were concerned Felt was leaking information to the press and chose William Ruckelhaus instead. Felt and Ruckelhaus had a strained relationship. In June, Ruckelhaus directed

35:13 directly accused Felt of leaking information to the New York Times, Felt resigned and ended his 31-year career at the FBI. Mark Felt was prosecuted and convicted of violating the civil rights of Americans, and yet for those who know his role as Deep Throat, they likely don't know about this part of his career. Felt was suspected of breaking the law by his co-workers and yet never copped to the crime.

35:44 chief justice officials. And what does it say about the management of the FBI? That during his brief tenure as FBI director, L. Boyden Gray destroyed a CIA file on one of the Watergate burglars, E. Howard Hunt, probably one of the most notorious figures in CIA history, active not only in the Bay of Pigs invasion, but the CIA-assisted murder of Cuban revolutionary Che Cabrera.

36:12 in Bolivia and long suspected of playing a major role in the assassination of JFK. Did Bob Woodward ever investigate those allegations? No, he did not, because he too is on the payroll of the CIA. Woodward's first book with Bernstein, All the President's Men, became a number one bestseller in the spring before Nixon resigned in 1974.

36:41 In 1976, there was a music or excuse me, a movie version of it. And he goes on to say that there became a rift between Bernstein and Woodward because Woodward got portrayed as Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed Bernstein. And they weren't OK with that. At the time, Seymour Hearst was arguably the most important journalist in America, having won a.

37:08 Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for reporting on the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, in which 25 U.S. Army officers and enlisted men killed more than 500 unarmed civilians. How is it that Woodward, a junior reporter at the Washington Post, was able to scoop Hirsch? Probably by having the White House Chief of Staff, Haig, and a number two guy felt at the FBI who had alleged ties to the CIA.

37:38 in his back pocket. But this begs the question of whether the reporting was journalism or a CIA op. As the author has mentioned, in 1987, he was assigned to the CIA William director's staff as a protective agent for the CIA director while he lay terminally ill from cancer in the George Washington Hospital. In the book, From the Company of Shadows,

38:11 This is a quote. As Casey lay dying in the hospital, death threats from radicals and bizarre individuals convinced he was controlling the globe continued to come into the CIA. And that's the reason why they had the round the clock security. Several letters claimed Casey should die for his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.

38:36 Most disturbing was the fact that Ayatollah Khomeini had placed a price on Casey's head. The author goes on to say that Bob Woodward would claim in his book, Veil, The Secret Wars of the CIA from 81 to 87, that he was able to penetrate the CIA security cordon at George Washington Hospital and interview the director and obtain a few final devastating admissions for him.

39:05 The author here, Kevin Shipp, one of the assigned detallees to those securities, said that's a bold-faced lie. And why does he know it's a lie? Because Casey couldn't speak. And supposedly, this was kind of done through, you know, nodding of head or whatever. But he said Casey was so incapacitated at this point that he couldn't speak.

39:34 He goes on and talks. He has some excerpts of Woodward's book here, and it goes back and forth. Not a lot of it is relevant to the overall story. It's the details to basically say, and there are a lot of details, that Casey could not have communicated with Woodward.

40:03 And basically the entire part of that story is a lie. So that's very interesting information that we need to be knowledgeable in basically evaluating whether or not Woodward has any validity at all. And in my opinion, he does not. So, which then makes you question everything, right?

40:34 Everything that Woodward has ever written, both in books and as a quote unquote journalist slash reporter, he's a bold faced liar. So I do want to put one other quote here. Casey's widow, Sophia, in an article in the Los Angeles Times in 1987, it said, Sophia Casey said that when Woodward, the Washington Post assistant manager, editor,

41:07 attempted to visit her husband, the guards stopped him before he ever entered the room. She goes on to say that he was partially paralyzed and he couldn't move his tongue. It said he was, she's the one that said he was unable to converse with anyone. So, and he was on a lot of painkillers. He was basically out of it. So it's not like he was writing notes either. Okay. So.

41:39 That's very, very important. And it also establishes this guy's kind of bona fides as far as talking about with some type of authority about Bill Casey because he worked very closely with him. And that's going to become relevant as we go on with this story. So anyway.

42:12 Question. Sure. And this may come from someone in the audience. From what I understand, actually, you know, it just hit me right as you finished up because I read this portion before. But am I wrong? When they do brain surgery, they don't give you anesthesia and they don't. There is no pain because the brain doesn't have pain receptors. Oh, I don't know about that. But cutting your head.

42:48 would because i know right i mean you have to have some uh painkillers and i i only know this for this reason i had a staff sergeant working for me in italy that was in a car accident and somebody broadsided him and though the glass it was a european car not like our kind of glass slashed a big um slit just above his ear in the side of his head

43:14 So in order to get into your brain, obviously you got to go through your skin. And they took him to the local Brindisi hospital and sewed him up without anesthesia because they have socialized medicine there. And unless you have lots of money and can speak Italian and say you're going to pay for that and basically pay up front, they're not going to give it to you. And so the interpreter did not get down there fast enough and they sewed his head up. And oh, my God, he I don't even want to tell you.

43:43 He just was like over the top dying. And, you know, we had to go. It's a whole long story. But anyway, yeah. Bridget and Colonel Towner, they only need a local if you're talking about the top part, like where the scalp is. They need a local for the soft tissue, but for the skull itself, no. And a lot of times when they do the surgeries like that, they want the person conscious because they're testing it.

44:10 to make sure that things work right. Sorry. I don't want them to do that in my head, but whatever. You do what you have to. Okay. So Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein kind of gets on the outs because of some personal back and forth. And then in October, 1977, Carl Bernstein published.

44:35 article in the Rolling Stone magazine called The CIA and the Media. It would reveal a massive influence operation by the intelligence agency to deceive the public during the Cold War shortly after the formation of the CIA. In 1953, this is a quote, Joseph Alsop, A-L-S-O-P, which we've talked about before, then one of America's leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go

45:04 because he was asked by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by newspapers. He went on the request of the CIA, unquote. When this information was first released to the public in 75, as a result of the investigation by Senator Frank Church, it shocked America. The public thought they understood that there was a basic compact between the press and the government.

45:34 But the CIA had rigged the game from the inception. The public thought they were getting independent information gathered by unbiased journalists and a code of ethic that would prevent them from being part of a propaganda campaign. America was learning, at least for the important issues of the day, the intelligence community was shaping the information they were receiving.

46:04 like being mushrooms in a basement. Here's a quote. Alsop was one of the more than 400 American journalists who in the past 25 years have secretly carried out assignments for the CIA, according to documents on file at the CIA headquarters. Some of the journalist relationships with the agencies were tacit. Some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation, and overlap. Journalists provided a wide range of clandestine services from simple

46:34 simple intelligence gathering to serve as a go-between with spies in communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staff. Some of the journalists won Pulitzer Prizes. Now, unquote. So here's where I say every single time that we're ever told.

46:56 Like the Khashoggi guy was a journalist. The guy that was arrested in Russia was a journalist. If they say they're a journalist, the very first thing your gut reaction needs to be bullshit. Bullshit. So they don't arrest journalists. They arrest CIA agents pretending to be journalists. Okay. So he goes on to talk about the CIA operation called Project Mockingbird.

47:28 And this is a quote from this Bernstein, still going off on this article. During the 1976 investigation of the CIA, the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Frank Church, the dimensions of the agency's involvement became apparent to several members of the panel, as well as two or three investigators on the staff. But top officials of the CIA, including former directors William Colby,

47:54 and George H.W. Bush, Reagan's two-term vice president, U.S. president, and father of U.S. President George W. Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately misrepresent the scope of the activities in its final report. Unquote. Again, I have said repeatedly, if anybody suggests they're going to have a committee, your response needs to be bullshit.

48:24 because every committee they've ever had to do in any way look at corruption has all been bullshit. When one is trying to wrestle with the question of who really runs our country, consider how George H.W. Bush was able to lie to the church committee in 76, become Reagan's vice president in 80, serve as president in 89, and maneuver his son into the presidency as well.

48:55 It also he goes on to say that independent media are really well, that media that claims to be independent mainstream media are actually secret propagandas for the government. Here's another quote from Bernstein's article. Within the CIA, journalist operatives were accorded elite status.

49:32 Unquote.

49:45 The CIA was basically a creation of graduates from the Ivy League schools of America, like Yale, where Bob Woodward went and would continue to be fertile recruiting grounds for decades to come, which kind of just goes into Warhamster and I's Secret Society series. So it goes on to say, after the church committee, did all of this stop or did it continue?

50:14 And it says, if it continued, was it underground? It has been said that one of the best ways to keep a secret is pretend to tell it. And that's the whole limited hangout. That's what so many people are doing right now. They tell you part of the story. They don't tell you all of the story. On March 14, 2016, Barack Obama brought it back from the supposed realm of the dead.

50:45 That's when he signed Executive Order 13721, developing an integrated global engagement center to support worldwide counterterrorism communication activities directed abroad and revoking Executive Order 13584. This action was supposedly necessary to counter the jihadist beheading videos of the quote-unquote ISIL, but it's ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and other violent Islamic groups.

51:14 Which, by the way, he doesn't say, but we all know, was created, trained, and funded by the CIA. Weird how that happens. We create this shit so that we can create these executive orders to counteract the shit that we just created, which basically screws all of us. Quote, recognizing the need for innovation and new approaches to counter the messaging and

51:40 diminished the influence of ISIL, al-Qaeda, and other violent extremists abroad, and in order to protect the vital interests of the United States, while also recognizing the importance of protections of freedom of expression, including those under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the U.S. and international human rights obligations, blah, blah, blah, unquote. The arrangement basically allowed a propaganda machine to begin.

52:11 or continue under official executive order. As many have claimed, the intelligence agencies did not expect Trump to win, and they saw him as an existential threat to their survival who needed to be eliminated. In the lame duck period, the Obama administration and his allies in the Senate, Republican Ron Portman of Ohio and Democrat Chris Murphy from Connecticut proudly announced on December 23rd,

52:40 In a press release, a dramatic change to the mission of the Global Engagement Center. U.S. Senator Rob Portman, a Republican, and Chris Murphy, a Democrat, today announced that their Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act legislation designed to help American allies counter foreign government propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations had been signed into law in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.

53:10 The bipartisan bill, which was introduced by Senators Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from our enemies by establishing an interagency center housed at the State Department to coordinate and synchronize counter propaganda throughout the United States government. To support these efforts, the bill also created a giant program for NGOs, think tanks,

53:39 civil society and other experts outside the government who are engaged in counter propaganda related work. So they're just, unquote, they're just announcing to you that they set up a propaganda machine and it's an all of government arrangement. That was, of course, just in time for President Trump to take office. And the State Department was going to be where they were going to wage the propaganda war. And of course, that's when Trump kept.

54:10 talking about all of the fake news because he basically knew what exactly what they were doing. And it says the global engagement center is best viewed as the new and improved version of project mockingbird. And that is absolutely true. Okay. Let's see. Um, this guy's chapters are very, very long and it is Wednesday. So I am going to leave that.

54:44 That's a good place to stop. And I'm going to mark my place here. And we can open up for a few minutes of questions. And then I'm going to take off a little early today. You have Alfred tonight? I do. I gotcha. Okay. And by the way, Bob Woodward, what is your skull and crossbones? Nothing to see there.

55:17 Skull and bones. Skull and bones. Okay. First of all, for KC surgery, they probably did not do, after they did the craniotomy, they would probably have not done the awake procedure with pain management because it was a life-saving procedure. So the procedure was over five hours.

55:46 So I don't believe they did the awake part. This was just to remove the tumor. My husband went through something similar where it would affect the left side of your body mobility and speech, but also swallowing. There's the muscle like, oops, it went down the wrong windpipe when you drink fluids or something. There's a muscle that closes the flap so it doesn't go into your lungs.

56:15 It's an interesting weak muscle that is trained by the brain. My husband went through all of that. They did three drill holes in. Okay, Southern. Okay. We don't need the whole medical procedure. Okay. The bottom line. I'm sorry. I live in medical. I forget how this sounds when I say it out loud to other people. I'm sorry. That's okay.

56:38 Yeah, my neurosurgeon was a little surprised at my calmness. Yeah. But anyway, but the bottom line is, I don't think they did an awake part of that procedure. He would have been so hopped up on pain meds, he wouldn't know what planet he was on after the procedure. And secondly, the GEC was just shut down by Marco Rubio and Trump. Correct.

57:06 uh 50 million dollars had been allocated and they shut it down this past week yep because it was done to take down trump yep uh it was done for nefarious reasons period yep

57:21 Yeah. And it doesn't just operate in the United States. They use that organization to do things in Georgia and in Slovakia and everywhere else that they've done destabilization. So, yeah. Ron, go ahead. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, you know, looking at this from a 100000 foot view or satellite view, it just feels like, you know, everything that.

57:47 We were told as we were growing up in the United States that, oh, we were the beacon of freedom and the Soviet Union was all this tyrannical and they had Pravda and all this other stuff. And it's like, you know, looking at it now, it's like we were the exact same thing with just this charade of freedom. It's just, you know, I mean, my mind is just blown.

58:14 And I've made this point several times and people take offense, which I don't give a shit about. If I say this about the Soviet Union, I say this about China as well. If you're going to say I can only have one child or if you're going to say I can't do this or that, if you tell me what the rules are and I am in this country, you're going to obey the rules.

58:43 is actually the worst part of all of this, is our government was telling us a completely false story while building a cage around us that is much more restrictive than any of these other countries, while we were being fed pablum, thinking everything was...

59:10 hunky-dory because we're building all of this other shit to keep um all of these other really bad guys out unbeknownst to us at the same time they were turning it inward on us and we never noticed yeah and and you know uh you know the if you look at hegel the hegelian dialectic

59:31 These other countries that were totalitarian, they didn't need a Hegelian dialectic to do anything. No, they were honest about it. They said they were communists. They're going to run a communist government. And here's what the rules are. Just abide by the rules. Exactly. If you can get out, you get out. But at least you knew what the rules are. Here, we don't know what the rules are. Look at what happened on January 6th. We were told we had.

1:00:00 freedom of assembly. We were told that we had freedom of speech. And we got some guy in jail for writing a meme. We got another lady in jail for saving election fraud. And we had Roger Stone arrested and sent to jail. All of this shit is happening here, not in a foreign country. And General Flynn.

1:00:27 And I'll you know what? I've never really made this public and I'm not going to make a lot of it public. But I will tell you that my house was raided. I was there and my house was raided. There you go. So. All right. SR 71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And as always, thank everybody for attending this. This this book sounds like it's going to be a barn burner. But what I can say out of what.

1:00:56 We've just covered today. I lived through it. I was 17 years old when all this stuff went down. Of course, I didn't give it the attention at that time. I should have been giving it now that I look back on my wasted youth. But you wouldn't have known. They lied to you. Exactly. And when you talk about Russia, when you talk about China, you talk about these things. Of course, you get the news snippets. Oh, we got a defector from China.

1:01:27 Oh, they won't let people leave. Oh, they don't. They don't do this and they don't do that. You swallowed it hook, line and sinker. I know I did. Yeah. It just to see now from evidence that's clearly presented that everything you have been told and I have been told was a flat out lie. And let me just add to what you just said, SR 71, because it needs to be said often.

1:02:00 There's a lot of people that are in the middle 20s who have never not had access to a cell phone. They've never not had access to the Internet. And they're livid that the quote unquote boomer population has destroyed America. And you hear them mouthing off about that bullshit all the time. They have no idea what it was like to live in America.

1:02:28 In the 1960s. In the late 1950s. And have. It was literally like you lived in an insane asylum. And every single thing. That was brought in. Was sanitized. In order to be able to provide it to you. Whether it was the media. The government. Your local officials. Whatever. You were spoon fed. A steady diet.

1:02:58 of bullshit. And did you want to believe that your country was honorable and good? Yes. But the way you form that opinion is through government schools that propagandized you, media that propagandized you. And the only outside information that most people had was the set of encyclopedias if your family had enough money to even buy one.

1:03:29 So that is something that we have to deal with, but they just don't get it. Miles, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. I'm always looking for a silver lining. And I knew some of this stuff, not everything. But when COVID hit 2020 and then after that, we were on these spaces and everybody's going, what happened? What happened? I went.

1:04:00 Guys, they turn the temperature up on the frog, and they jump the shark. This is a good thing. And everybody was like, what do you mean? This is totally bad. I went, no, no, this is a good thing. I've been waiting for them to do this forever because they had the temperature really low on us, on the frog. So I do have a question for you. How many books are we up to at this point? What do you mean?

1:04:32 That we're reading, that you've gotten and you're reading. Well, I'm well over 100 now, but I don't know how many that I've actually done book reviews on. I haven't counted them, but... Okay, so my question is, do you have an address that we can send donations to for...

1:04:57 The Colonel Towner Watkins Latio Library, because we're going to have to open up a library. So the best way to do that is to go to my sub stack and donate there. There is, I know on my profile on here, they won't ever approve me for subscriptions. I applied. It's been now like two years. It just says pending. And everybody says, oh, I can help you. And nobody does.

1:05:26 If you if you are interested in doing that, you can go to on the top of my profile. There's a little like dollar sign thing beside my avatar and you can just click on that. It's set up. I don't I'm not very good at that.

1:05:45 And if you would like to do that, that's the whole reason that we set up the store as well. I obviously pay my daughter a percentage of the sales of the store. And at least that way, I feel like you guys are getting something for your money. And then we have a little bit of markup just to start paying me back for this. But yeah, either way, you get a nice, cool coffee cup or a coin or a T-shirt.

1:06:13 You know, you're more than welcome to do that as well if you are so inclined. But thank you for asking that, Miles. Southern, go ahead. You know, I am a baby boomer. I'm 68. And I it just when you look back at history now, I mean, the first president I remember is John F.K. And I know exactly where I was when I saw it. And it was on black and white TV.

1:06:47 Our government did that. The people above have been dictating to us for a very, very, very long time. This has been done slowly, done with purpose, and they've learned quickly what works, what doesn't work. I mean, Colonel, just look at Gladio, for example. They never have to change their playbook because it works, because they understand human behavior.

1:07:18 and how to deal with groups of people and the outliers. Like all these protesters today or the Tesla takedown, they're being paid. Do you know that AOC and Bernie that are doing these rallies and talking about 30,000 people being there? Well, Tony Segurga actually came up with how to coordinate the cell phones off towers and let you know where they're at.

1:07:47 Most of those people, those rallies are being paid and being bussed in. But what's more terrifying is they're paid to go protest. They're paid to go knock on doors. They're paid. The Democrats pay them. They are workers for the Democrat Party and they're all on board. And that's why they win. And they don't care if they're lying because they bought into this incredible psyop.

1:08:16 And they've drank the Kool-Aid. And I remember reading something about George Orwell, loved his books. But the thing that always stuck in my head is it will always get the young women. Who is the loudest voices in the Democrat Party today? Young liberal women. And they're so emotionally driven. They have no facts. They have no policy. They have nothing. You can't even have a conversation with them.

1:08:44 And that terrifies me because these girls went and got hysterectomy so they wouldn't have children because Trump was going to win the presidency. This is how out of bounds this is. They don't even realize they're fully manipulated. They want less children. They want to manage third party country people because they're used to communism. So that is the craziness we're living in. If we had not had Trump.

1:09:13 and he survived, we would not know half of this stuff's going on. I had already figured out some stuff from medical about the NGOs because the numbers never made sense. I'll give you another one. Meals on wheels. The government has an NGO that they put the money into. Guess what? Very little gets to people.

1:09:36 It's done more by donations in state and local governments. But we put a lot of our tax dollars in there to pay for nice offices and somebody's big salary. These NGOs, the way they got the laws to work, they created a double-edged sword because you cannot step out of the NGO and go, oh, my bad, because now you're going to go to prison. So they're holding them hostage as well inside those NGOs.

1:10:05 I step back and go, this was freaking brilliant. You can get these super wealthy people and you get the third, fourth generation down the road. A lot of times they're not that bright and they're sucked into these NGOs that can never come out publicly and say what's wrong with them because they're going to be held accountable.

1:10:24 Brilliant what they've done. But with Trump, Trump knew about USAID. He tried to take it. He'd only get 35% of their budget cut when he was president's first term. And he went there day one. Why? Because it was funding for the illegal immigrants. That's why we were able to shut down the borders. All of a sudden, nobody's showing up. Gee, I wonder why. The money flow was gone. Remember, he did it the best way. Pause for 90 days. Funding.

1:10:54 Yep. That's all he needed to show. Yep. Thanks. All along. Go ahead. All along. I don't know. Maybe he's on break. Ron, go ahead. Yeah. You know what? No disrespect, but if these women are having hysterectomies, that actually gives me a sense of relief.

1:11:23 I don't have to worry about their descendants. Just, you know, just put it on the table there. But but that wasn't really what I wanted to say. I just was like, hey, but I'm with you, Ron. I'm with you. A hundred percent. So the but, you know, you talk about the how these people are bussed in. You know, the whole thing was Charlottesville.

1:11:44 When you had all that, you know, when the thing that I guess Trump said, oh, there was some very fine people there. There was five buses that showed up that day and both the pro and the anti protesters came in on the same buses. So, I mean, this is this is a practice that they have been implementing. And I'm quite certain that the same thing happened up in, you know, up in D.C.

1:12:13 Not D.C., but for George Floyd up in Minnesota. Yeah. 100%. 100%. 100%. And, you know, I don't want to go off on a – I just want to connect a couple of points here. You remember –

1:12:29 And how the media uses manipulation, because I think it bears on this conversation. You know, on July 5th of 2016, Comey comes out and tells everybody the world of what Hillary did. Well, on July 6th, all of a sudden, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling are shot. On July 7th, now the next thing you know, you've got BLM riots. And by that Friday...

1:12:54 You've got a Dallas police station shot up, and now nobody's talking anything about what Hillary did with her cell phone and her emails. Everybody's talking about race relations and five police officers shot. So the media is an extraordinarily powerful tool to alter and change public perception and the narrative that goes on. And I know I'm preaching to the choir, to this group, but it's bad.

1:13:23 I agree. Miles, go ahead. Well, now that we have our Gladio glasses on and you're talking about Meals on Wheels, this really irritated me a long time ago before Gladio, just because of the stupid ditty song that they had. But has anybody done any research into cars for kids? Not that I know of.

1:13:53 I think we should. Miles, you and I, let's, let's talk offline. Let's talk about that. All right. Thanks. Did I hit a nerve or did I come up with something? Cause look, these things just pop into your head and like just the, the wordage cars for kids. And are you saying like automobiles? Yeah, you can donate your car and they sell it. And then they use that money for some kids program.

1:14:23 Allegedly. Allegedly. It's the same thing with boats and, you know, RVs and stuff like that. They have all kinds of different nonprofits that allow you to donate a certain item. And then there's like a racket behind it that, you know, are like the whole used car.

1:14:42 kind of thing for the cars and they have their players that they're going to use to recycle those cars and then some amount of money eventually gets to it. It's just a really easy way to start skimming things off because it's going to touch a lot of people and then at the end of the day very little money gets to the actual end of the charity. That's the same thing with Make-A-Wish. The Make-A-Wish thing

1:15:09 Um, while they do some good things, the amount of money that is thrown around, my, um, really good friend was running the one out in, um, um, Northern Nevada in the Reno area and he resigned. He was so disgusted with, um, the politics and all of the stuff that was going on inside that quote unquote charity, um, that it, it was disgusting. Um, so that's true about a lot of them.

1:15:37 That's kind of like Red Cross, Colonel. Yeah, we're not going to get to the right. Red Cross is rotten to the core. SR-71, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. That's pretty much what I was going to say. Ron pretty much tagged it. But the bottom line is when you look at these charities, specifically ones that are sponsored for international support.

1:16:03 Like the Jews are dying on TV and you got to send money and support $40, support them for two weeks or whatever the case is. I don't pay attention to any of that. Same goes for the animals, same, that kind of stuff. Anybody who pays attention to that at this point, I think is, they're being misdirected. If they really want to help, there are the local shelters.

1:16:34 Well, I mean, and to your point, SR 71, we have a program here in my hometown called Visti, which is volunteers in service to the elderly. And they do the whole meal delivery. Every penny that I donate to anybody goes to a local. I don't do any national charities at all. We have a Christian ministry here called Lighthouse Ministry that.

1:17:02 provides room and board for people to go through detox and battered women. We have another charity here that takes care of battered women. My husband and I volunteered to renovate one of the houses that they bought neighboring their current.

1:17:20 a campus that had been left to them in a will, but it was dilapidated and that's kind of what we do. So we went in and basically we got local vendors to donate all of the stuff. And I kind of just was in charge of picking out the design and coordinating everybody getting in and doing their stuff. We ended up doing most of the stuff, but we did get all of the stuff donated. But those are the types of things that you,

1:17:50 Again, it's that local focus that we all need to be involved in. A lot of people feel, and I may hurt somebody's feelings, but I don't care. A lot of people are lazy. They just want to write a check and make themselves feel good. It really takes time.

1:18:14 to get involved in your local community. We have a heritage society here, a historical heritage society in a small little town outside of the bigger town. And that town is named after my husband's great-great-grandmother. And his dad was an electrical.

1:18:36 contractor. He's an electrical contractor. They built the building out there and wired it. He was just out there a couple of weekends ago. They were getting ready for a big event, fixing some of the stuff that they needed to have fixed. And that's what you have to do. You have to get involved in your local area because when shit hits the fan, knowing the people that you meet in your local area while you're doing things in the local area,

1:19:06 is how you're going to survive. If the power goes off or whatever, you got to know people. The way you get to know people is getting out in your community and interacting with the people. And one of the most rewarding things is to do it in service to people that have needs way more than your needs. So Southern, go ahead. And then we're going to call it a day.

1:19:31 Yeah, just we went through Hurricane Helene. I live here in Western North Carolina. And everybody was screaming that FEMA wasn't doing anything. FEMA got money, but they gave it to suppliers. Those suppliers did not fulfill them because the only, did you know under NGOs, you're only accountable for 10% actually going out? Now think about that one. So we got nothing.

1:19:59 But we just got $1.2 billion. It happened in September of 2024. We're just now really getting federal funding at $1.2 billion. Do you know how we got through it? Local charities.

1:20:12 churches. People came here. Miners from West Virginia came and helped rebuild a road back out of Chimney Rock so people could actually go get their medications or groceries. People were standing on the street handing out money because we couldn't go to banks. Banks had no power. So you had to pay for everything in cash. But Samaritan's Purse is from here. They were first on the ground.

1:20:37 And we fought hard and I raised money. We sat there and just pounded phones and I used X. And people that I just barely had gotten to know on X got trucks full of, what do you need, Pat? We need a lot of water. We have no water. We're desperate for water. We need diapers. We need food that can be easily eaten where they don't have a hot stove, but we can do fires.

1:21:03 What we found is we got zero support from really our government because guess what Western North Carolina is? Bright red. They had a Democrat governor who was doing everything to say you can't build back. We've had kids come here for spring break to help build back homes for our seniors. Please donate locally.

1:21:26 By getting involved in your communities, we can impact elections as well. And there's nothing better than getting out there, roll up your sleeves and helping people. Even the stuff we went through was nothing compared to what others went through. We just felt blessed with the least amount of problems we had. But what mattered is we got out there and nobody asked what party you're in or who you were. It's how can we help?

1:21:53 And that is something we need back in our communities. And this is a great way. Volunteer. I agree. Yep. All right. Thanks for everybody for being here. Appreciate you guys. And yeah, this book's going to kick, but it is going to be an eye opener for you. Okay. Colonel, the Colonel, I try to say this as much as I can. We need to soak all of this up guys, because now we can,

1:22:24 prove it. We can prove it. And that's always been the problem. So Colonel, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Providing you sources. That's what we do. No problem. All right. So take care, everybody. Thanks, Colonel.

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Claims made here

William Casey headed CIA documented ▶ 11:28

“Woodward, sorry. And he starts with, in 1987, the director of the CIA, the legendary William Casey, was in power. And they were in the throes of the Iran-Contra scandal. And he was assigned to a prote…”

William Casey member_of CIA documented ▶ 11:28

Bob Woodward member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 16:10

“that for much of his career he has been regarded as, he's talking about Bob Woodward, one of our most respected journalists, starting with the work he and Carl Bernstein did for the Washington Post in…”

Bob Woodward member_of U.S. Navy book_quoted ▶ 17:06

“On his website, it has sections. One says College in the Navy. Woodward was born to Jane and Alfred Woodward in Geneva, Illinois, in March 26, 1943. He enrolled at Yale University in 1961 in Navy ROTC…”

Bob Woodward member_of Yale University book_quoted ▶ 17:06

Harry Rosenfeld appointed Bob Woodward book_quoted ▶ 17:34

“After being discharged as a lieutenant in, let's see, 1970, Woodward considered attending law school, but applied for a job as a reporter for the Washington Post. Harry Rosenfeld, the Metropolitan edi…”

Bob Woodward member_of Montgomery Sentinel book_quoted ▶ 17:34

Bob Woodward member_of The Washington Post book_quoted ▶ 18:05

“Woodward was hired at the Post in September 1971. Watergate and all the president's men. In 1972, the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein at the Post was regularly denounced by the Nixon re-election c…”

Alexander Haig headed Washington, D.C. documented ▶ 19:04

“the better to understand people and their motivation. On a ROTC scholarship, what he fails to mention is how high he made it in the Navy, becoming a briefer for Alexander Haig, who would become the ch…”

Alexander Haig member_of Washington, D.C. documented ▶ 19:04

CIA covered_up Iran-Contra affair book_quoted ▶ 22:02

“on a regular basis, General Alexander Haig. So that's just nuts. That's nuts. So, and of course, Haig is there in the middle of the Nixon fiasco, and he's in the middle of the Reagan fiasco. Both fias…”

CIA covered_up Watergate scandal book_quoted ▶ 22:02

Thomas Moorer member_of U.S. Navy documented ▶ 23:23

“gave no indication in his column that he had known Haig since his days as a young Navy lieutenant delivering messages to Haig at the National Security Council for his boss, Admiral Thomas Moorer, the …”

Thomas Moorer headed U.S. Navy documented ▶ 23:23

Bob Woodward spied_on Alexander Haig book_quoted ▶ 23:23

Bob Woodward member_of National Security Council book_quoted ▶ 23:23

Bob Woodward spied_on Thomas Moorer book_quoted ▶ 23:53

“Seven years earlier, Woodward's articles for the Post about the spy ring also failed to include that he had worked for both Moore and Wielander. Why would Woodward be interested in concealing that as …”

Bob Woodward spied_on Wielander book_quoted ▶ 23:53

Melvin Laird exposed Bob Woodward book_quoted ▶ 25:20

“Despite what Haig's associate at State and elsewhere noted as a very close relationship with Woodward, neither Haig nor Woodward could get their story straight about when they first met. They both den…”

Thomas Moorer exposed Bob Woodward book_quoted ▶ 25:20

House Judiciary Committee exposed Watergate scandal documented ▶ 27:02

“I would apologize to the Post and I would apologize to Mr. Woodward and Bernstein. They have vigorously pursued this story and deserve the credit and are receiving the credit. Subsequently, the invest…”

Ron Ziegler exposed Watergate scandal documented ▶ 27:02

Senate Watergate Committee exposed Watergate scandal documented ▶ 27:02

John Dean member_of Washington, D.C. documented ▶ 27:28

“Over 40 people went to jail because of Watergate investigations, including Nixon's top White House aide, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Nixon's main attorneys, former Attorney General John Mit…”

John Ehrlichman member_of Washington, D.C. documented ▶ 27:28

H.R. Haldeman member_of Washington, D.C. documented ▶ 27:28

Herbert Kalmbach member_of Washington, D.C. documented ▶ 27:28

John Mitchell member_of Washington, D.C. documented ▶ 27:28

Richard Nixon removed_from_power Mark Felt documented ▶ 28:21

“Nixon had successfully wound down the Vietnam War, had integrated schools, had even founded the EPA. Key pieces of evidence in support of this belief show that four of the five Watergate burglars were…”

CIA carried_out_attack Fidel Castro documented ▶ 28:52

“And this was a quote out of Encyclopedia Britannica. Early on the June 17th, 1972, police apprehended five burglars at the office of the D.C. Watergate complex. It was later claimed that they were loo…”

John Mitchell headed Committee to Re-elect the President documented ▶ 29:23

“Only three of the four were Cuban heritage. The fifth, James McCord, was the security chief of the Committee to Re-elect the President, later popularly known as CREEP, which was presided over by John …”

James McCord member_of Committee to Re-elect the President documented ▶ 29:23

Frank Church exposed CIA documented ▶ 30:19

“It goes on to say that it would only be after the hearings led by Senator Frank Church in 1975 that most Americans got a glimpse into the covert actions of the CIA, including the manipulation of forei…”

CIA covered_up Robert Kennedy assassination speculative ▶ 30:19

Gerald Ford succeeded Richard Nixon documented ▶ 30:48

“But perhaps similar attention should be focused on whether or not a nonviolent coup happened to Nixon. Obviously, his penance for secrecy and paranoia didn't help him. It may also be shocking to reali…”

Nelson Rockefeller appointed Gerald Ford documented ▶ 30:48

Warren Commission covered_up Robert Kennedy assassination documented ▶ 31:18

“As a congressman, Ford had served on the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination, concluding that he was killed, obviously, by the magic bullet concept. When one genuinely looks at t…”

Mark Felt exposed Watergate scandal documented ▶ 32:15

“Former FBI Director William Mark Felt, age 91, broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in June 2005 that he was Deep Throat, the anonymous government source who also leaked crucial information to The …”

G. Gordon Liddy carried_out_attack 1972 Democratic National Committee break-in documented ▶ 32:42

“and Bernstein, a steady flow of information that exposed Nixon's knowledge of the scandal. The idea to break into the Democratic National Committee office and tap their phones was the brainchild of G.…”

G. Gordon Liddy member_of CIA documented ▶ 32:42

John Mitchell ordered_assassination_of 1972 Democratic National Committee break-in documented ▶ 32:42

Mark Felt ordered_assassination_of Weather Underground documented ▶ 33:41

“for ordering FBI agents to search the homes of the Weather Underground members and other groups without a warrant. He was found guilty in 1980 and pardoned by Reagan in 81, which I don't know if anybo…”

Ronald Reagan pardoned Mark Felt documented ▶ 33:41

Richard Nixon appointed L. Patrick Gray documented ▶ 34:12

“And you have to ask yourself that today because none of these people were ever held accountable. And this is the same shit that we've experienced the last 10 years. He also puts another quote in. In F…”

L. Patrick Gray covered_up E. Howard Hunt documented ▶ 34:12

L. Patrick Gray recommended Mark Felt documented ▶ 34:44

“on CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, one of Liddy's Watergate co-conspirators. Gray then recommended Felt for the job, but Nixon and his chief of staff, Alexander Haig, were concerned Felt was leaking infor…”

William Ruckelshaus spied_on Mark Felt documented ▶ 35:13

“directly accused Felt of leaking information to the New York Times, Felt resigned and ended his 31-year career at the FBI. Mark Felt was prosecuted and convicted of violating the civil rights of Ameri…”

E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack Che Guevara host_asserted ▶ 35:44

“chief justice officials. And what does it say about the management of the FBI? That during his brief tenure as FBI director, L. Boyden Gray destroyed a CIA file on one of the Watergate burglars, E. Ho…”

Bob Woodward founded All the President's Men documented ▶ 36:12

“in Bolivia and long suspected of playing a major role in the assassination of JFK. Did Bob Woodward ever investigate those allegations? No, he did not, because he too is on the payroll of the CIA. Woo…”

Seymour Hersh exposed My Lai Massacre documented ▶ 36:41

“In 1976, there was a music or excuse me, a movie version of it. And he goes on to say that there became a rift between Bernstein and Woodward because Woodward got portrayed as Robert Redford and Dusti…”

Bob Woodward member_of The Washington Post documented ▶ 37:08

“Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for reporting on the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, in which 25 U.S. Army officers and enlisted men killed more than 500 unarmed civilians. How is it that Woodward, a junior report…”

Bob Woodward spied_on William Casey book_quoted ▶ 38:36

“Most disturbing was the fact that Ayatollah Khomeini had placed a price on Casey's head. The author goes on to say that Bob Woodward would claim in his book, Veil, The Secret Wars of the CIA from 81 t…”

Ayatollah Khomeini ordered_assassination_of William Casey book_quoted ▶ 38:36

Kevin Shipp exposed Bob Woodward book_quoted ▶ 39:05

“The author here, Kevin Shipp, one of the assigned detallees to those securities, said that's a bold-faced lie. And why does he know it's a lie? Because Casey couldn't speak. And supposedly, this was k…”

Sophia Casey exposed Bob Woodward book_quoted ▶ 41:07

“attempted to visit her husband, the guards stopped him before he ever entered the room. She goes on to say that he was partially paralyzed and he couldn't move his tongue. It said he was, she's the on…”

William Colby covered_up U.S. Congress book_quoted ▶ 47:54

“and George H.W. Bush, Reagan's two-term vice president, U.S. president, and father of U.S. President George W. Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately…”

George H.W. Bush covered_up U.S. Congress book_quoted ▶ 47:54

Barack Obama funded Global Engagement Center documented ▶ 50:14

“And it says, if it continued, was it underground? It has been said that one of the best ways to keep a secret is pretend to tell it. And that's the whole limited hangout. That's what so many people ar…”

Rob Portman funded Global Engagement Center documented ▶ 52:40

“In a press release, a dramatic change to the mission of the Global Engagement Center. U.S. Senator Rob Portman, a Republican, and Chris Murphy, a Democrat, today announced that their Countering Disinf…”

Chris Murphy funded Global Engagement Center documented ▶ 52:40

Global Engagement Center front_for Operation Mockingbird host_asserted ▶ 54:10

“talking about all of the fake news because he basically knew what exactly what they were doing. And it says the global engagement center is best viewed as the new and improved version of project mocki…”

Donald Trump removed_from_power Global Engagement Center host_asserted ▶ 56:38

“Yeah, my neurosurgeon was a little surprised at my calmness. Yeah. But anyway, but the bottom line is, I don't think they did an awake part of that procedure. He would have been so hopped up on pain m…”

Marco Rubio removed_from_power Global Engagement Center host_asserted ▶ 56:38