The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1)

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0:00 Oh, good afternoon, everyone. I'm Colonel Roxanne Towner Watkins, and I have with me today War Hamster, or Brady. Welcome, Brady. Thanks for having me. We are very, very excited to bring you what we envision on being a series for the next few weeks on Thursday of, again, the next few weeks.

0:33 About the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI, or the nickname? The Bank of Crooks and Criminals. Crooks and Criminals. Corruption and crime. You can kind of come up with a whole bunch of different scenarios. But go ahead and bring up your Time Magazine cover because I think it pretty much says it in a nutshell.

1:03 And we'll bring that on the screen because I think it's going to set the pace. And I did, while he's bringing that up, I want to mention the book that I got quite a few of my notes. Obviously, BCCI comes up in much of Operation Gladio, and I'll explain why in a second. But the Outlaw Bank, A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI by Jonathan Beatty and S.C. Gwen. They were time riders.

1:33 and here is one of their covers this is the world's sleaziest bank and i could not agree more and it is apropos if you look at the paramilitary guy standing out in front because it could easily have been called the operation gladio bank um because if you recall the os the

2:00 concept of Operation Gladio is the wagon wheel with the drug smuggling, human smuggling, and weapon smuggling. And in many cases, BCCI, from the time that it was created in 1972 until the time that it was basically disassembled and moved back into Pakistan, because it is still an existing bank today, but only in Pakistan.

2:29 It is no longer an international bank. I don't know that you could conclude that it is not still in the corruption business, but it is not an international entity any longer. And a lot of that is how we're going to start the series off and talking about the prosecution of this bank. And then we'll get into a little bit more of the history and the people involved and some of that.

2:57 So I wanted to let you know that whenever you have cash driven industry, which is drugs, weapons, and prostitution slash human trafficking, slavery, modern day slavery.

3:15 You have to have a banking system and you have to basically own that banking system in order to ensure that they don't generate SARS reports and all of those other types of mechanisms that kind of throw up all the red flags. And BCCI, along with other ones that we've talked about, Nugent Hand and the Vatican Bank, were all used to facilitate that type of industry. Do you have anything else you wanted to add with that?

3:45 Well, I like the subtitle of the Time Magazine article, and it basically describes everything you just said in one paragraph. It says exclusive how the BCCI became a one stop shopping center for criminals and spies and how the U.S. is trying to cover up its involvement. And I think that just sums up what really what that's our syllabus for today. Correct. And I do think it's very interesting. Kind of my big.

4:16 And I like doing the bottom line up front. My big takeaway from this is apparently all of the dictators that we've been identifying that were installed by the CIA, one of the requirements for accepting the dictatorship and being installed was creating a bank account at BCCI. You know, Noriega, Saddam Hussein, all of these people, they all banked at BCCI.

4:46 One of the, yeah, one of the big ones was Marcos of the Philippines. Correct. And I mean, that's basically very convenient when you're money laundering. It does. And BCCI ties into so many other stories we've talked about. I mean, everything from, you know, Operation Gladio, Iran Contra. It just, it shows up everywhere for about a 15 year period. Okay. So.

5:11 I want to introduce to you some people. We have, as I mentioned, the authors of this book were Time Magazine writers, Beatty and Gwen. And they had a man come talk to them whose last name was Bloom, B-L-U-M. He was a lawyer working for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

5:40 investigating for John Kerry's committee into basically drug trafficking, money laundering, and et cetera. And those types of investigations take a lot of effort. He also served as the counsel to Frank Church's commission when it was going on.

6:10 which obviously exposed a bunch of the CIA misdeeds. So this isn't just a nobody. He also was involved in exposing Lockheed's bribery scandals in paying off the Japanese officials for buying Lockheed.

6:28 And his investigation led to the gelling of Tanaka, who was the prime minister of Japan. He also did an investigation for the Senate that led to the abdication of the Queen of Netherlands. He was involved in the investigation into ITT's involvement in the Chilean coup.

6:49 This is somebody of significance in understanding how Operation Gladio worked, because I just described to you at least two of their operations in his resume. And it also is interesting to note that his investigations and the Kerry Commission led to the foreign corrupt practices law. And during these hearings,

7:19 CIA director Richard Helms was required to testify in closed session in which he lied and was later indicted for perjury. So this at the time was a big, big deal. So I find a bit of irony to the fact that the reporters who really led the public investigation of this work for Time magazine. The irony is the person who founded Time magazine was Harry Lutz, who.

7:47 was an alumni of Skull and Bones. And we're going to bring up Skull and Bones again later today. And I just sort of want to lay the table. We need to do at least one or two shows just on Skull and Bones. And I'm ready for that whenever you are. But there's a little irony to have a Skull and Bones alumni be involved from the investigative side on this. So what I have noticed in this book is, to some degree, not as much as others that I've read,

8:17 which is why I'm using it, there is still some limited hangout there. And that to me is what you really, you really have to know the subject before you can read these books so that you can see where the limited hangout is. They are very careful in exposing BCCI to not incriminate the CIA. Oh, very much so. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's one of the, that's what their main article from that time magazine was.

8:46 how they slow walked it, how they covered it up. And that's what Jack Bloom was telling these Time reporters. Yes. Well, but I'm even talking about the Times reporters. They wrote this book. In this book, they are very hesitant to lay at the foot of the CIA their dastardly deeds. Not that they don't mention it, but it's very well finessed.

9:13 So that if you are not aware of Operation Gladio, you are not going to be able to ferret that out of the information that they provide in this book. The breadcrumbs are definitely there. I mean, they'll talk about Khashoggi and he was an arms dealer who worked directly with the CIA and the money was transacted through BCCI. Correct. So you have a direct connection. Correct. I just find it interesting the way that they parse the words in here.

9:43 Most importantly, I think the Washington Post used BCCI because they were at the Washington, D.C. bank owned by BCCI, their bank account. So they were actually using BCCI as a banking conduit. The Washington Post was. Which is not surprising because the bank that BCCI would go on to purchase.

10:15 uh first american bank shares illegally they're not allowed foreigners were not allowed to own american banks uh was the biggest uh bank in the dc metro area so it's not a shock that that connection happened and most of the congress people had bank accounts there so a lot of people alleged that one of the reasons why it was targeted is because it gave them access for blackmailing purposes to congressional bank accounts

10:43 So they could see and monitor where they were spending their money. OK, so Bloom gets picked up in 1986 to 87 or excuse me, 86 to 88 to be an investigator on John Kerry's committee for drugs, contra and money laundering. That was basically the agenda that it was set. And when.

11:11 Bloom first meets with Beatty out in California to talk about the BCCI. He mentions his knowledge that he gained from the Cary Commission. He also mentions that he only refers to him as Blanton, who was a Panama diplomat that worked for General Noriega and was an aide to Noriega.

11:39 also served as his general counsel, had testified in a closed session of Congress about BCCI's role and the fact that Noriega had his bank account for his quote-unquote CIA drug networking payouts at BCCI. So that was all captured, according to Bloom, in the Kerry Commission. And this,

12:09 all led to the revealing that BCCI had a branch in Miami and it ends up getting busted for money laundering, drug trafficking, et cetera, in Tampa. And I assume you want to say a few things about that. You want to tell them about how they got busted? Yeah, I just want to take a step back a little bit. I don't think we really explained the origins of BCCI and we can do that in about a minute.

12:39 And take it to there. This is founded in 1972 by a Pakistani. I've got his name right here. It's one of those names that's hard to remember. Aga Khan Abedi. And it's founded in 1972. It was supposed to be a Muslim World Bank, but it's incorporated Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands. Its main home of banking was in London. And we're going to come back to London here in a second because it's got a big connection. They have an interest in three U.S. banks, which they were not allowed to do.

13:10 They were laundering money for, as you say, drug lords, dictators, you name it, intelligence agencies, criminal underworld, human traffickers, drug traffickers. That was their business. And obviously they got involved in Florida. So let me pass the baton to you. I think you probably know, since you were there, you probably know the Florida story a little bit better than I do. I just know they were raided in 1990 and got a small fine, but I'm going to jump ahead of you. Okay.

13:39 The Florida angle is very interesting because how they got... So there was a big investigation going on with the customs and the IRS, and there were many different elements to the investigation. So they're having...

14:05 uh the i'm trying to get all of it together the agents that were doing the investigation were down in the miami area and they fake a wedding among the two agents that are pretending to be uh money launder drug trafficker that whole thing so they're all undercover and they fake a wedding and they're gonna get married up in tampa which for those of you who don't know tampa was a big

14:33 There were like the number two site for the Trapacani group. That all happened out of Tampa. That's where Meyer Lansky was living for about 25 years. Yeah. So Tampa is only number two to Miami when it comes to this type of activity. So they fake a wedding up in Tampa. And during the bachelor party, the day before the wedding is going to happen, they're all busted.

15:03 So, one of the actual guy that was the bachelor that was getting married, of course, is one of the investigators, and so was the female, the bride-to-be. And so, they end up, during the bachelor party, arresting all of the BCCI employees.

15:32 And they actually even got some of the drug traffickers on that bus. So it wasn't just about the BCCI. But not a lot happens because William Vaughn Robb, R-A-A-B, he was the customs chief during this whole operation. And he said of all the time that he had spent in the customs office.

15:58 That it was the most important money laundering bust that had ever occurred in the entire United States history. But that DOJ allowed minor plea bargainings and slaps on the wrist as far as both he and Bloom was concerned. And that both of them said that they believed that it was fixed. And this is a quote from him. BCCI is a global criminal.

16:30 That's from the customs officer in charge of the investigation. I found a fun quote from Von Robb where he basically confirmed that it was Gates who would become the head of the CIA two years later, Robert Gates. He's the one who called it the bank of crooks and criminals. Yes, that's true. Von Robb's an interesting character. He knew all the players. He was definitely neck deep in the whole thing.

17:00 And very disgruntled as a result of, as was Bloom. So Bloom obviously wanted BCCI investigated under the Kerry Commission. And basically, towards the tail end, after all of this happens and they get their little fish, not only is BCCI still allowed to operate in the state of Florida.

17:28 Even though Florida tried to get them. Sorry about that. That's okay. Remember to turn off the ringer during shows. One of the questions I had for you, Brady, is this, because this is going to be relevant as we go on through this. One of the other parties that is protected extensively in this book by the Time writers is the Fed.

17:58 I want your personal opinion, professional opinion, having been a Wall Street banker. Is there any way that all of this happened and the Fed not know about it? No, it's a yes and no question. And the timing of when this happens, interesting. You know, BCCI is founded in 1972. That's about the exact same time period that Nixon takes us off the gold standard.

18:25 We'd had the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944, which basically took the world's reserve currency from the British pound to the US dollar. And what it basically meant is all currencies could be converted into dollars, and the dollar had a fixed rate of exchange with gold at $35 an ounce. What had happened in the late 60s, early 70s, some countries, specifically France, started saying, we want to redeem our dollars for gold.

18:53 As the story goes, it turns out we might not have had all that gold. Nixon arbitrarily takes us off the gold standard and currencies start to refloat. What that creates is the golden age of what's known as the city of London. That's the banking sector in London where, you know, even today they recognize they've they welcome all the Russian oligarch money, et cetera. That's what they've done. It's the bank and mafia connections go back decades and decades.

19:21 But the reason they were doing business in dollars in London is the Federal Reserve would not have the jurisdiction because it was outside the U.S. shores. And the British regulators would not have regulation because it was being traded in U.S. dollars. That's why BCCI set up that most of their banking went through London. It's because of that background scenario. So there was a little bit of opaqueness to what they were doing based because of the city of London. That being said, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury regulates.

19:50 every single bank in America. And we've already talked about how BCCI illegally owned more than three banks, the Independence Bank of Encino, California, the National Bank of Georgia, and of course, the first American bank shares in DC. So yeah, the answer is yes. They knew what was going on. Were they dissuaded from investigating? I think is probably the more important question. The answer is apparently yes. Okay.

20:17 Yeah, because that becomes very clear. This book is an apology tour for the Fed not acting earlier. And that is one of the things that comes out very clear, which is why I think in many cases, while they give you a lot of detail and facts, it is a very limited hangout, both for the CIA and the Fed, which is expected when you're dealing with time for the reasons you already pointed out.

20:45 Yeah. Well, okay. So should we talk about the John Kerry connection? Okay. We're going to get to that. Okay. Let's go through just a little bit more of the setting up of Bloom. So Bloom starts asking all of these questions and he finds out that they're in New York while he's on the commission. He's finding out they're in New York.

21:11 They had shares bought in banks in San Francisco, in Los Angeles, Houston. As you said, they owned a bank in Florida. And there were other shares bought in banks, not only just the one in Miami, which was Centrust, but Tampa and Boca Raton as well. So they're definitely branching out. So Bloom's is getting very concerned at this point.

21:41 And he gets a call from an executive at BCCI who had left the bank while, and Bloom is still on the Senate investigative staff when he gets this phone call. So he had basically taken all of the transcripts and subpoenaed documents and files down to talk to this banker who was talking.

22:10 that wanted to talk to him and basically spill his guts. So BCCI in Miami was their branch for all of the activities in South America. So that's what this guy who was the BCCI banker. And in all of the documents that I find, he's referred to as witness A.

22:37 Witness A says that the bank had set up all types of illicit transactions, both money laundering for drugs, weapons, human trafficking, everything. And that there are over 3,000, that number is stunning, 3,000 high net worth criminal entities banking at BCCI. 3,000.

23:06 It's interesting. The reason they picked Florida as a kind of a hotshot spot, it's twofold, I think. First of all, it's coming at the tail end of the 80s where the cocaine cowboys come out of South America. That was the trafficking center. But it was also a big center for the savings. We just had deregulation in savings and loans. The S&L business had totally changed. The deregulation changed the ownership structures for a bank.

23:33 used to have to have 300 or 400 common stockholders in a bank and they moved it to one and they stopped really scrutinizing who that would be and snl's really um specialized in giving real estate loans mortgage loans to middle america this is really a perfect setup for money laundering uh you bring in dirty money into a bank you lend it uh to to buy real estate and then sell it later comes out the other end clean interestingly interestingly enough the uh

24:03 What is it? The National Association of Realtors, the NAR, has been lobbying for decades to ensure that they do not have any kind of know your customer or anti money laundering rules for real estate transactions. If you're selling stocks and bonds, you've got to know your customer and you've got to take you got to do all kinds of AML forms for foreign money. That is not the case in real estate. They've had an exemption by our government for, I think, four decades now. And of course, that's their number one place to money launder.

24:33 And so what's interesting about that in my research of Operation Gladio is all of the oil guys that were behind the JFK assassination, they're involved in so much of Operation Gladio and the intrigue in the Middle East, blah, blah, blah. What you find is the savings and loan fiasco, the melting down of that industry, they almost served like the predicate.

25:02 for bcci because what i have read as it relates to the money laundering aspect of operation gladio is that these savings in loans were used so they were issuing large amounts of uncollateralized loans to themselves and i'm just going to make this up if you had a savings in loan in arkansas and this actually happened there was a savings but i'm not going to use the right numbers

25:32 There was a savings and loan in Arkansas, one in Dallas and one in Houston. If you took all of the board of directors, they basically were a group of about 30 people all in the oil industry. And they just like divided up 10, 10 and 10. And then these 10 through and the guy that was the president of this bank was one of the guys on this bank.

25:58 and the guy that was the president of this bank was on the board of directors of this bank so they shared these 30 people and not only in the top management of the banks but also on the board of directors and then what they did was they loaned out like 10 million at a time in real estate loans to each other and they were all uncollateralized and as a result

26:26 It's going a little deeper than that. This brings in one of my favorite characters of this period. He's called Walter Misher, and he's a big land developer out of Texas. He owns Allied Bank. It's the third largest bank in Houston. All kinds of connections to organized crime. He's one of the political power brokers of Texas, the big oil. He's really close to LBJ. Well, his kids actually went to school with the Bush children. He was also close with Carlos Mochelo, who's the New Orleans mafia boss. And, of course, we know how New Orleans fits into this story.

26:58 A couple of fun things out of there. Neil Bush, the Bush kid they don't talk too much about, he was partners in this by a guy by the name of Stephen Halper. And his father, whose father was Ray Klein, her father-in-law, who was one of the CIA's founding members. Halper was also the last entry in Oliver North's White House diaries. Stephen Halper, the name Stephen Halper sounds familiar. Of course, he was at the very heart.

27:26 of the Trump Russia. Yeah, Russia. Another fun little connection with Neil Bush. He was friends with a family of John Hinckley Jr., who's the guy who shot President Reagan. Correct. If there's no connection there, okay. I don't believe in coincidence when it comes to all these connections.

27:45 And that's the fascinating part of this. When you start doing this research, you like you pick up this rock and there's like 30 worms under it. And so I wanted to explain that since we brought up the savings and loan. It is as if that BCCI was yet another because that's exactly what you find.

28:06 they were doing in all of these multiple banks. Theirs is a little bit more intricate, but they were issuing uncollateralized loans. And in the case of the savings and loans, what would happen is that once they issued out all of this money and they folded or collapsed, whatever,

28:31 They all had their money and they didn't have to pay it back because there was no collateral associated with the money. So it is just like a large theft of wealth going on here. And the people that got taken to the cleaners were the normal mom and pop middle class America that had just so happened to have picked that bank to bank at because their money was gone. And it was in the hands of multimillionaires. And so.

28:59 Yeah, billions of dollars was disappeared during that scandal. That's one of the very first videos I ever did was talking about the Bush and Clinton crime families and their whole connection to the savings and loans. So that's near and dear to my heart. And you mentioned the no collateral loans because BCCI, this came out in the testimony, they would have a credit committee that made secret loan approvals. And there's no criteria, you know, let's show me your W-2s and your 1099s. They didn't do that. And who are they lending money to? Oh, themselves.

29:28 One of the big investors in BCCI was a Middle East royal family relative. He's a big shareholder. And he got what was called a non-performing loan. And when we say non-performing, it means they were never making any payments. Just give them the money and never collect. And that was happening on an international scale by BCCI, but on a domestic American with the SNLs. And yeah, they're connected as all heck. Okay. So then we get back.

29:58 The Columbian Bank, which is a branch of BCCI, was set up for drug and money laundering. You also had one in Panama. And in walks a guy by the name, from Bloom's perspective, a guy by the name of Amjad Awan. Now, what I have not done, and I have tried, I have done a lot of research into the Awan brothers that came here as part of the...

30:27 First thing that popped into my head when you said Awan. Yeah, so Amjad Awan is another witness that worked with Bloom to expose, but he worked for BCCI. And I would bet, because he's from Pakistan, and I would bet that somehow he's related to the Awan brothers, but I haven't found that thread yet. So all of you researchers out there, you're more than welcome to go look for that.

30:56 And that's, we're talking about the Awan brothers who worked for Debbie Washerman Schultz. Debbie Washerman. And what state is she from again? Florida. Oh, go figure. I was living in Miami where her district is. Yeah. When we seized, we seized, the government seized the Awan brothers laptop, but we've never seen the contents of that. And they have managed to somehow, they're living back in Pakistan as far as I understand.

31:23 Pakistan. Isn't that where BCCI is from? I'm sure it's just a coincidence. I'm sure. Okay. So he was Noriega's personal banker in Miami, by the way, Awan was. So you've got Bloom who asked Kerry Commission for subpoena of power over the four banks. And that kept getting put off and put off. And so Awan was targeted.

31:52 in Tampa for the money laundering case, which they, the one we were just talking about that they busted, that operation was called C-Chase. So Awan tells Bloom that BCCI secretly owns First American Bank. He was the first one that tipped Bloom off to the fact that BCCI owned First American Bank in Washington, D.C.

32:21 And basically at the time, First American Bank was an $11 billion bank. Bloom gets a sworn statement from Awan in October 1988. Now this is important for a lot of different reasons. 1988 is October, is the month before the election in 88, right? And what was that election? That was Reagan going out.

32:52 and George H.W. Bush coming in, right? Got it. So the OJ arrests Awan and pulls the plug on basically looking into this, and he doesn't have a trial until 15 months later. BCCI will not comply with any of the subpoenas that the Senate issues as part of Bloom's investigation.

33:22 And in walks BCCI lawyers Clark Clifford and Robert Altman. They appear as the attorneys for BCCI. Now, I know you're going to want to say something about them. And it also turns out that they were functioning as the U.S. branch in Washington, D.C.'s president.

33:52 So they're the lawyer and the president for the bank that was criminally bought. Yeah. Well, the question we need probably need to tell everyone is who was Clark Clifford? He's not a household name, but he should be because he used to be the secretary of defense of the United States of America. So. So let me just get this straight.

34:11 And Mike Benz just did a blockbuster show the other day where he showed that Rumsfeld was the drug guy at Gilead who becomes the Secretary of Defense. Now we have another money launderer that becomes the Secretary of Defense. So it makes you wonder what's going on at the Secretary of Defense's office. But do you have some other things you want to say about Clark Clifford? No, that's just a snapshot. I mean, it's just.

34:37 You mentioned Mike Benz. He's just a fantastic source of information. He's got to be the best researcher going. You know, he talks about the blob, which is the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department all working together to do what you call Operation Gladio type operations all over the world to topple foreign governments. That's our foreign policy. And who's it dictated by? Multinational corporate interests and quite often the underworld. And we know the connection to.

35:06 the mafia and various mafias around the world to intelligence agencies goes back to World War II and Operation Underworld. So all those connections. And you're going to see the same people from the same cliques and the same clubs to go in and out of government and private sector back and forth, be the CEO or chairman of a company, then they go back into government service. And they're the same people always that are rotating in and out of the State Department. And it doesn't matter if you've got a Republican.

35:36 or Democrat president, with very few exceptions since World War II, our foreign policy and these shenanigans that we pull on other countries, they don't change depending on right versus left, Republican versus Democrat. No, two wings of the same bird. So let's just give people a little bit of meat here so that they can understand the connections here. Clark Clifford.

36:00 worked in the Truman administration, the JFK administration, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, and the Jimmy Carter administration. He was one of the most well-placed Democrat party bosses that has ever been created. And as you said, he is not a household name and he should be. He definitely is in Democrat circles. He was like the guy to come bend the knee to back in the day. So he held.

36:29 the White House counsel job from 1946 to 1950. That was during the Truman administration. And what's key for us in my research is that was the very creation of Operation Gladio. That is when all of the units and the agreements and all of that stuff was being signed with NATO in creating. And he would have been privy.

36:56 to all of the communications that occurred at the truman level and truman definitely knew all about it yeah he would have helped he would have helped author the national security act of 1947 which basically gave us the cia so correct um he was also the chairman of the president's intelligence advisory board from 1963 to 68 so that he served in johnson's administration as

37:27 the chairman, the head guy of the intelligence. And that guy sits on the NSC staff when they're doing all of their special actions as it related to covert actions. And this would have been during the time where they're overthrowing the Indonesian head of state and doing all of the coups in the aftermath of the Lumumba assassination throughout the rest of Africa.

37:55 They were busy in preparing what would become the Angola mess later on. All of this stuff would have been under his purview and in his job jar as the Intelligence Advisory Board chairman. And then in the immediate aftermath of him serving as that in 1968, he moves over for one year as the Secretary of Defense until 1969.

38:25 So he is at the heart of Operation Gladio, the setting up of the drug networks, the setting up of the weapons networks, the weapons network that was going on during the Vietnam and the skimming off at the top of those. All of that stuff would have been going on while he's in the White House. That's why he's critical to the setting up in 1972 of the BCCI.

38:53 The connections are fascinating. And it shows the different power cartels that we have in this country that run internationally. You've got the military industrial complex, which Clifford probably comes from. You've got the oil tycoons, which basically out of Houston, which would be the Bush family connections. You have the Wall Street cartel, the banking cartel. Of course, you're going to have various other ones. We have the drug cartels and we've got the big agro and all that. But you just see them all working together.

39:22 and placing their people in these, I guess, musical chair positions of power going from one place to another. And you can almost use Wikipedia. Just look at these people's bios. And if you have the Gladio background knowledge and just say, okay, I see where this is going. And I left out a fun little tidbit on our friend. Sorry, I'm going to blank on the name. I was just talking about him.

39:52 Yeah, now I was talking to the guy I was talking about before, Misher. Walter Misher also had bought a bunch of real estate in Hondura to buy Honduran paper mills, allegedly. He ended up selling them to Clint Merkelson Jr., who would sell them to the CIA. And that was the United Fruit and Dulles II in Guatemala. So that's all documented that that happened. And, of course, he bought a bunch of land where all the drug planes were landing during Iran-Contra. So that's our guy Misher.

40:22 So it's a connection from the oil side. Oh, I remember that guy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I didn't get it. I had his name pronounced something else in my head just because of the way it's spelled. Yeah, I'm very familiar with that guy. The guys he was connected to, just to show you some of the power brokers involved, Lloyd Benson, who was the power broker in Democratic politics for two decades, a guy by the name of Orrin Hatch.

40:49 the saintly senator from utah that everyone loved and of course former secretary of state james baker is involved in that as well among others that's crazy and of course james baker makes an appearance in the carlisle fiasco with the carlisle group and the bushes and all of those oh yeah okay so i just wanted to give um a couple of words on robert altman so robert altman is basically clark clifford's protege

41:21 So he basically gets a job working for Clark Clifford in the immediate aftermath of the him, you know, graduating from law school and stuff. So he's kind of scarfed up right away. And he also had a partner, Christopher Weaver, that was involved in media, you know, like all CIA assets are.

41:52 they were in the business of creating video games, which I found completely crazy since, you know, that I believe that whole industry is like music industry and used as a propaganda tool. Exactly where I was going with it. Probably brainwashing as well. Okay. So he also was a television producer and had other, you know,

42:20 interest in doing stuff like that. So he becomes a partner in the law firm of Clark Clifford and basically becomes his assistant. And everywhere that you see Clark Clifford in the BCCI story, Robert Altman is right behind him and definitely has all the credentials that you would think of a CIA asset himself. Okay. So in walks, now we're still talking about Bloom.

42:49 And in walks another witness, and we're going to refer to him as Witness B. If you do any research into BCCI, in some documents, they made up a nickname for him. And his nickname was Ali Mirza, M-I-R-Z-A. But that is a nickname. That is not his real name. Because what he was, the information he begins to provide to this whole.

43:16 um carry commission and all of the um uh research that was being done at the time into bcci the in so many meetings between um baby and gwen and bloom everybody's looking at each other and and we'll get to morgan thou a little bit more with his investigator moscow um in a minute but everybody in every meeting that talks about this guy's looking at each other going they're going to kill them they're going to kill them

43:44 because of the information that he begins to provide um so witness b tells that bcci had shut down the carry commission that they were solely responsible they being basically the ccia behind the bcci for shutting down the carry commission and that they also was responsible

44:09 for the DOJ not furthering the investigation after the Tampa, Florida bust. And when I went back and then, of course, as soon as I see something like this, and I just say this for other junior researchers out there, as soon as I hear that, I want to know immediately who was in charge of the Senate. Because if you're going to shut down a Senate commission, you have to go to the top, right?

44:38 You go to the top, you find George H.W. Bush as the Senate leader because he was the sitting VP at the time. You also find the number two guy, Strom Thurmond. Now, I don't know if you guys know anything about Strom Thurmond, but let me just tell you just a tad about Strom Thurmond. Strom Thurmond, another well-placed South Carolina Republican like we know that we have today.

45:07 That's compromised. Also, for my audience, remember William Polly? Strom Thurmond is from the exact same area where William Polly was from. And William Polly is a huge guy in Operation Gladio. Flying Tiger, right? He founded the, he funded, is a better word to say. He had the Curtis aircraft.

45:34 franchise in Southeast Asia. So he produced all of the aircraft over there to equip not only the Flying Tigers, but he produced all of the Chiang Kai-shek aircraft that ends up being the Taiwanese Air Force. He is singly responsible for their shipping industry and getting that all set up for them. And we know that that was used for drugs to and fro.

46:03 He also used his personal yacht for an invasion of Cuba in one of the assassination attempts on Castro. I have that in my notes, too. This ties in the Green Gang, which was the biggest organized crime in China, who were the world's biggest opium dealers until Mao Zedong kicked them out. Some of them would go to Taiwan, but a lot of them in the opium business all went to the Golden Triangle.

46:32 Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan. And where has the CIA been neck deep in operations since the 1960s? The Golden Triangle. Yep. And so you had William Polly owned sugar plantations on Cuba. He owned the airline in Cuba and he owned all of the busing transportation in Cuba, which tells you that he was knee deep in every mafia operation inside of Cuba.

47:01 when Batista was president. So he had a vested interest in getting Castro out of there. So you keep mentioning that the investigation was stonewalled. And the best example that I can give you is, you know, we've spent the last 45 minutes talking about all these connections and all these big amounts of money that are going through BCCI and subsidiaries. The total fine levied on BCCI in that whole investigation was $15 million. That's it.

47:30 And just local bankers in Florida went to jail. Nobody else. It stopped there. It was completely cordoned off from going any higher. So I did want to add that there was so much to blackmail Strong Thurman about. Strong Thurman was one of the, and that's what this is all really about. You know, who knows this stuff about people that comes out much later?

47:59 Strong Thurman was one of the biggest racists ever to sit in the Senate. And he was a he was against the Civil Rights Act. He was against the Voting Rights Act. But did you know that he had an illegitimate black child? I don't think I have that. No. He had at 22 had sex with a 15 year old daughter of.

48:29 house servant of his parents she had a child and it did not come out that she was his child until 2003 when he died he paid for her college it wasn't even contested that he was the father of the child and I just point that out because I want people to understand these are the types of people that are in positions of power over you

48:58 They have no ethics and no morals. And because of that, they have potential for being blackmailed out the yin yang. And yet this guy could have had that type of an issue used to blackmail him because he was responsible for shutting down Kerry's commission ultimately. Well, you know, it's interesting. The question is, was John Kerry actually trying to do a real investigation at the time? And I'm going to bring up.

49:28 A question mark on that. Do you want me to go into those connections now? Well, let's go ahead with the rest of the leadership and then we'll come back to that one. The majority leader was Bob Dole. And I know you have a story about because I have a personal connection to Bob Dole. His wife was when I was deployed in 1991, which again is around this same time. His wife was in charge of the Red Cross at the time. I actually met her.

49:58 Slept in the same room with her when we were deployed to northern Iraq. And I have a picture of the room. I'm not sure that I have a picture of her and I together. But do you have a comment about that? Yeah, well, what do we know about the Red Cross? It's basically been a, well, all kinds of things. It's been an intelligence operation. It's a way of going into foreign countries, enemy territory.

50:28 pretending to be a non-government organization, but actually being another tool of the CIA and State Department. That goes back to World War I. And it's funny that you brought up the Red Cross because the investigator out of New York, a U.S. attorney, was a guy by the name of Robert Morgenthau. And he's got a fascinating history. He thinks the money laundering was much bigger than Tampa. He was right. He shared a bunch of info with the Federal Reserve Board.

50:57 which he brought up earlier, and it was just shut down. They weren't interested in his information. He was actually trying to do a legitimate investigation. He's got an interesting background. His grandfather was a guy by the name of Henry Morgan Fowle, who was really good friends, a big donor to Woodrow Wilson, was the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I, did a lot of work on the Armenian genocide, and he's one of the...

51:26 He actually opposed the Jewish homeland in Israel, and he was an Ashkenazi Jew. But when he got out of serving with the government, he became the head of the American Red Cross. His son, Henry Morgenthau Jr., was another really interesting guy. He was the U.S. Treasury Secretary for almost the entire term of FDR. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal.

51:54 Social Security, which is going bankrupt. That's a Morgenthau plan. He had a big role of financing the U.S. in World War II. He's the one who put together the Lend-Lease program for Europe. He's the one who supported China. And they put something together called the Morgenthau plan, which was a proposal to completely weaken Germany by removing all industrial capabilities after World War II because they were worried about Germany rearming themselves and creating World War III.

52:20 The Hoover investigation actually concluded the Morgenthau plan wouldn't have worked and over 25 million Germans would have starved to death. And just one more interesting side note, convicted Soviet spy or suspected Soviet spy, Harry Dexter, was like his right hand man and helped draft the Morgenthau plan. But all kinds of interesting. One last connection. One last connection. He married a woman called Eleanor Lehman, whose father was the founder of Lehman Brothers. Whoa. What the heck?

52:51 Small world. That's crazy. Okay. So, wow, that was a lot. That's mind blowing, actually. It's crazy. The connections never stop. I mean, it's like a spider web. And so I just want to add one thing for the Red Cross thing, because probably some people's going to note this, especially ones that's followed me.

53:21 Red Cross actually goes back a little bit before World War I because that was talked about in Antony Sutton's book about the Bolshevik Revolution. Absolutely. One of the missions that went to Russia in the immediate aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution in the early 1900s was a Red Cross mission.

53:48 except for there was only like five doctors out of 30 people and the five doctors came back 30 days later and the rest of the people are the ones that were part of the international syndicate that was mapping out russia for railroads and general electric to come in and electrify it and all of that industrial expansion that these all of the industrialists were paid for with the czar's gold was done

54:16 under the guise of a Red Cross mission. So people need to understand that the Red Cross has not ever actually been about anything to do with medicine. It has been 100% a cutout for CIA operations. And before that, the International Syndicate as it existed back then. Yeah, it's probably the very first of those NGOs. And now we know that it's just, you know, anytime you see an NGO and look at their funding, they're getting all of it or most of it.

54:45 from USAID, which is basically the state departments. That's the legal side of Operation Gladio, is the state department funneling money to NGOs. What was interesting about the Red Cross and the Bolsheviks is we know there was American and British bankers who financed the Bolsheviks. Well, the British agents could go in there under the real names because England had a treaty with Russia, they had an alliance. America did not, so we sent our agents in under the guise of the Red Cross.

55:14 I think that was the very first time I heard about the Red Cross doing this kind of thing was reading that book. And they just keep popping up all over the place. Yes, they do. So Bloom tells, and let me just one last thing to close that loop. I just think it's interesting that Dole would have been in the leadership of the Senate while his wife's in charge of the Red Cross slash CIA all at the time that BCCI is on the hot seat.

55:43 hilarious okay um so bloom tells witness b to call the tampa customs office because he's going out of business so his funding's been cut they're closing the commission down um and witness b still you know he wants to get his so he puts him in touch with the customs office in tampa but he says he still wants to meet with bloom

56:09 He trusts Bloom in the information. So Bloom flies down to Miami. But he contacts the custom guys and all of the good people that had been working really hard that were disappointed in what the Justice Department ended up doing with the small fine. I mean, I don't think any of the prison sentences were longer than a year of the group that they had busted in Tampa.

56:36 it was it was just like the nuremberg and everything else it was all so but they got their bust and they went on about business so they the customs guys and the um u.s district attorneys that were disgusted with the dog's lack of evidence or lack of pursuit they put together a team

57:02 that goes and they get the room next door to the room that bloom's going to meet with this guy in and they wire the room up so the entire thing's taped and it's like three eight hour days worth of tapes that they get from this guy and this guy just like blabs everything about bcci everything that he knows about the banking and the banking set up in south america meetings that he had been to blah blah blah so um he in this tape

57:31 And they don't go into too much of it in the book, but he talked about all of the politicians in the United States that had been bought off. And I mean, he named names and they're on the tapes. He identified who owned the DC bank, who owned the Georgia bank, the independence bank, send trust that was down in Miami. He told all about how they put the deal together. So.

58:00 Bloom brings back witness A to be taped in the same format. So now they've got the three days worth of tapes of witness B. So he calls in witness A to come into the same setup here that we've got set up in the hotel. And he gets him all on record. So Altman eventually gets to witness B. And witness B is telling him.

58:30 Kind of a little white lie that he has been approached and asked questions. Altman instructs him to shred everything that he has and get the hell out of the United States. That was his lawyer's recommendation to a guy who's basically saying that he committed crimes. He's telling him to shred paper and get out.

58:54 which by the way if you look into nugent hand that's exactly what they did too um as soon as they knew that people were on to them they had like the iran contra shredding party of oliver north and then you know nugent gets killed but han gets the hell out of dodge he goes on the run um he probably had the same attorneys um and so they said to the regulators that there was no bcci involvement

59:22 They deny everything. And this is when Witness B ends up telling Bloom that Clifford is operating as basically the lawyer of First American Bank, as well as being the chairman of the board and that Altman is the president of the DC Bank too.

59:53 Clifford tells the regulators when he's asked that some of the same investors were in BCCI and First American, but he swears, which is what gets him in trouble, that BCCI has no role in the management of any of the U.S. They just happen as a matter of coincidence to have overlapping board members.

1:00:25 Just a coincidence. Yeah. So we got all this evidence laid out. A rookie prosecutor can build a case on this, and yet it goes no further than Florida. And I bring back the question, John Kerry, you know, he's running the Senate investigation. Well, first of all, the thing that you know about John Kerry is he's an alumni in 1966 of Skull and Bones. Well, where's the Department of Justice in all this? Turns out the guy leading that prosecution is a character we've heard of before by the name of Robert Mueller.

1:00:56 who would become the head of the FBI one week before 9-11. And then he would lead the investigation into 9-11 and came up with results that are not quite as believable as they'd like us to think. Interesting connection between Carey and Bob Mueller. Turns out that about an hour from where I'm sitting right here in Concord, New Hampshire, Bob Mueller and John Carey were high school classmates and lacrosse teammates in high school. They've known each other since they were teenagers.

1:01:24 One of them would rise to become a Democrat president, presidential candidate and now secretary of state. And the other one would become the head of the FBI. So those are the kind of connections. They both knew that they were looking at the same thing. Information is getting stonewalled. And it's just a classic example of insiders failing upwards. And John.

1:01:49 excuse me, Robert Mueller worked with James Baker, who you've already introduced, while he was the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. So that's the position he had while all of this BCCI cases or lack of cases case was being set up. During that same tenure,

1:02:19 Don't you find it interesting that he was in charge of the prosecution of Manuel Noriega, who also was a BCCI customer that went a little rogue on them and wanted to set up his own side job of running drugs to compete with the CIA drug networks? And it was only then that he gets prosecuted by the United States under the guise of Robert Mueller? Oh.

1:02:48 And one other connection. He was also in charge of the Pan Am Flight 103 crash investigation, which we have looked into and know that that was another setup for them to try to take out Gaddafi. And one more Bob Mueller little point of interest is he was the guy who ran the prosecution against John Gotti, the family boss of the Gambino crime family. Oh, and what did they deal with?

1:03:20 money laundering drugs. Yeah. Go ahead. No, I was just going to say, you just can't make this stuff up. The overlap is amazing actually in so many different ways. Okay. So let me, let me get to my next note. So I had a question and I'd like your honest opinion. Was Clark,

1:03:54 Clifford and Altman using BCCI or was BCCI using them? Yes, that's the answer. Both. I think that's it's one hand washing the other. These public servants, you know, they don't make that much money in government. They've got to move to the private sector to be able to make their millions. So I think Clark's reward for all of his service was being put as the head of the bank in D.C.

1:04:25 And that's a reward. You know, he may not have even known that much about banking, but that's, you know, he put him on the board. He was the chairman. That's his reward for public service. And so let me also point out, since we talked about this briefly in the savings and loan fiasco, that the quote unquote shareholders at BCCI weren't actually shareholders.

1:04:51 Because on the books, once we get to the audit part, which we will in probably an upcoming show, but the auditors, of course, are my favorite company, Pricewaterhouse, because every bank, New Japan, Castle Bank, Pricewaterhouse is basically an intelligence services that go in and stamp, you're a fine bank. And even if the bank crashes the next day, Pricewaterhouse can be.

1:05:19 counted on to not look at anything that's nefarious in any bank. So if your audit has been done by Pricewaterhouse, it's not worth the paper it's written on. But having said that, it was later proven using an audit of Pricewaterhouse, a part that was not released publicly, that in every case, the shareholders that were on paper

1:05:49 actually didn't put any money or invest anything into the bank at all. They were given a loan for the exact amount of money of shares that they bought. And then the shares were held by BCCI as collateral for the loans. Did you know that? Partially. I understand the structure. It's fascinating.

1:06:18 that the bank was actually able to stay semi-solvent as long as it was. And the only thing I can guess is they were getting exorbitant fees on some of the services they were providing. So let me tell you how they did it, because that came out too. That came out because what Abedi had been allowed to do in the Middle East, one of them, and I'm sure you're right, they did charge, I think their fee was 15% on weapon sales that they quote unquote financed.

1:06:48 And they didn't technically finance them. It was, for example, if Iran wanted the illegal missiles, like in the Iran-Contra arrangement, the Iranian government put funds on deposit at BCCI, and then those would be transferred because those weapons went through Israel. That money would be transferred.

1:07:12 and divide it up along the way because part of it because they charged too much part of it went into ali north's account in switzerland part of it went into israel because we snuck those missiles in through israel into iran israel was the weapons money or middleman for those missiles as well as aiden uh khashoggi that you pointed out and another iranian so there was a lot of fingers in the pie but they

1:07:40 So all of those transactions create what you guys call float. But they had even a bigger scam going. All of the Middle Eastern countries are in the middle of rapid growth in the 70s and 80s. So they have workers from every other foreign country, but millions of them out of Pakistan go to work in Abu Dhabi, go to work in Saudi, go to work in...

1:08:07 some of the other UAEs, Kuwait, all of those, right? So what happens when that occurs? We've saw it here with the Mexican migrant workers, even the legal ones, right? They all send remittance back. Well, that creates a float in the system. So they're paid in cash, generally, and all of those millions of workers from Pakistan

1:08:35 are going to use a Pakistani bank in these foreign countries to remit their money back to their families in Pakistan. And so Abedi was using that float, which happened to be billions of dollars every day, as his quote-unquote capital. It's fascinating. And again, we have this information now. They had it then.

1:09:07 It's not, you know, why was it not investigated? They didn't want to. And the people, you know, and of course, they're all going to hide behind, oh, national security. We can't tell you. This is classified. That's how they've been getting with their dirty tricks since 1947. And they definitely use national security. Yeah, it's just a big thing they can hide behind. And, you know, that's why we get redacted. You can FOIA all this information and it's going to be 95% redacted. And they're going to always say, oh, but we blame it on national security. We can't tell you.

1:09:36 And stuff never gets declassified. Everyone's dead by the time it does. And the operatives, the government operatives that we talked about, like John Kerry and Bob Mueller, they get rewarded. They've shown that they can be trusted. They're willing to play the game. And that's how they fail upwards. And that's who runs our government. This is the technocratic state and the people on top of it. So in the story, we get into Jimmy Carter coming into office.

1:10:07 best buddy who owns a bank called First American in Georgia was the Jimmy Carter's OMB, the Office of Management and Budget Director. His name's Bert Lance. So Bert Lance owns the bank. The bank's not doing well and he really wants to sell it. And what I found extremely fascinating is the connection of Jimmy Carter and BCCI.

1:10:39 Yeah, Carter would receive an $8 million campaign donation from them. And flying around on their jet. Did you know they bought Air Force Two? No, I did not. They bought Air Force Two as a company jet and basically gave it to Carter to fly around the world. They also donated tens of millions of dollars to his version of the Clinton Foundation. Jimmy Carter had a very similar.

1:11:08 if not identical foundation set up that BCCI was money laundering money into for him to personally use while he's flying around on their jet all over the world. That's it. It's interesting because I just read recently that when Carter came into office, the deep state or whatever we want to call the cabal in military intelligence complex, the blob, they actually didn't like Carter.

1:11:38 Carter's foreign policies were going to really restrict their activities. And it did because he tied foreign aid to human rights. And he's the one that cut off the Contras. He said that their murdering of people in Nicaragua did not warrant giving them foreign aid. And he cut them off. He fired. That was the midnight massacre at the CIA. He fired a thousand CIA officers. He was not well liked at all. You almost.

1:12:05 see this as the blackmail setup of Carter because this bank in Georgia that BCCI ends up with held the mortgage to Carter's family peanut business. So once they bought that bank, they had him buy the private parts, right? It's fascinating stuff. It's not quite the image of Carter that the media has portrayed for the last 50 years.

1:12:37 Right. Innocent, good old boy, peanut farmer. Yeah. And so and he may have been. I do believe that the international syndicate. I mean, that's why he didn't get a second term. And that's why they helped Reagan do the October surprise and keeping the Iranian prisoners a little or the hostages a little longer and blah, blah, blah. They definitely wanted Carter out. But I do think that they exerted a tremendous amount of pressure on Carter.

1:13:08 And I think once he figured out that he wasn't going to win, he took him for whatever he could. And that's what formed the foundation. One of the things I mentioned earlier is that the shadow state, the shadow government, whatever your term is, the criminal syndicate, that which controls U.S. foreign policy, they've had control of just about every president, whether Republican or Democrat.

1:13:37 With a few exceptions. And the three exceptions I like to cite are, of course, JFK. And we know what happened to him. Then you had Jimmy Carter. And you just discussed why they didn't like him. But who he ran against when he won in 76 was Gerald Ford. And, of course, his VP was Nelson Rockefeller. Interesting thing about Gerald Ford is he sat on the Warren Commission that investigated Dulles' assassination. That was Ford.

1:14:06 Of course, the third president we've had was a gentleman by the name of Donald J. Trump that these people didn't like. But that's three in a 62 year period or 64 years. We've had three presidents that were not controlled or controllable by these assets. Yeah. And people like to throw Nixon in there. But Nixon was definitely part of the group. I think he fell out of favor. Yeah. And I think that I've always thought that was the Vietnam poll out that did that to him.

1:14:35 He had just won one of the biggest landslide elections in history in 72. He had beaten Rockefeller again in 68. And we know the Rockefellers are very much at the top of the food chain when it comes to these multinational corporations and organizations. Yeah, I've always thought the same thing. Interesting thing about Nixon is the guy who led the Watergate break-in, and I'm just now drawing a blank on his name, was also in, I'll get it in a second here, I'll look it up, was also,

1:15:05 in cuba in the bay of pigs it was also in dallas on the day and the week that jfk was shot same guy cia operative he was one of the operation phoenix guys okay well let's just talk about that for a second because that definitely um we know all of half of the people that were a part of the watergate um break-in were cuban exiles and that's a nice name to cover up the fact that they were operation gladio inside the united states

1:15:34 Because that's the same Cuban exiles that blew up former ambassador to Chile, Ambassador Larrier, in the streets of downtown D.C. They put a car bomb in his car and it blew up and killed an American and him. They were used multiple times inside the United States for terror acts. They were found in Angola. They were found in Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica.

1:16:02 they were a deployable cell of terrorists and those same people felix rodriguez being one of them um which we found in the iran contra he was the number three guy working iran contra um underneath of bush and his national security advisor donald gregg um donald gregg hired felix rodriguez to run uh the iran contra from the vp's office so yeah dirty dirty dirty

1:16:32 E. Howard Hunt is the gentleman's name. He was the CIA leader at the Bay of Pigs. Yeah. And like you said, he shows up over in Vietnam. Yep. He's one of those people who's been in a lot of interesting places at some interesting times. He's been present on just about every Operation Gladio for about a 30-year period of time. Yeah, he's like the Forrest Gump of intelligence. That's hilarious.

1:17:03 By the way, E. Howard Hunt confessed to all this on his deathbed. Yes. Absolutely. Okay. So we've got Jimmy Carter's role in it. And you've already covered the fact that Agha Hassan Abedi was the founder in 1972. And I love his bleeding heart story about how he wanted to just help the poor people of the third world.

1:17:34 Excuse me. That was the story that kept getting told over and over again about what a great bank BCCI was because it was going to afford all of the third world countries. And yet the primary victim of BCCI was third world countries. And the people that had accounts, every time they closed down one of them for fraud, they lost all of their money.

1:18:01 I was just thinking to myself, we know today that Pakistan is a CIA and Pentagon hotspot. All of the Pakistani generals train over here in America with the Pentagon. We've had a lot of control over their foreign policy and their government for quite some time. That's why there was a color revolution that ousted Khan, Imran Khan.

1:18:25 Khan was just ousted, but we had Boutro before that. We've assassinated several of their prime ministers that we don't like. Well, it brings up one of the early origins that ran through Pakistan is when we were funding the arms to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, that was going through Pakistan and BCCI. So the CIA was working with them all the way back then. That's documented. Well, my question, I guess, really is when did Pakistan really become a U.S. intelligence asset?

1:18:55 How far back? Pakistan. And I've done a lot of research on this particular subject. So thank you for setting that up. Unplanned. In the post-World War II, you can look at every single created out of whole cloth country. Pakistan being one of them. Pakistan didn't exist until post-World War II. Taiwan. Carved out of India, right? And.

1:19:23 uh partly out of afghanistan so they basically just took and carved this up but did you also know because i didn't know this and shame on me for not knowing this did you know that there was at post-world war ii a west pakistan which is what we know as pakistan today but they had set up in east pakistan to basically sandwich india in between two hostile forces because if you understand why we fought world war ii

1:19:52 which was to create the strategy of tension afterwards in order to allow these military industrial complex conflicts to create all of the chaos all over the world, to include Israel, Pakistan, Taiwan. Every hotspot that we have today was created post-World War II and has been used since then.

1:20:17 to instigate a perpetual war machine in order to control all of us and steal our wealth. That's the premise of Operation Gladio in a nutshell. And so then you have to go back and look at where they all are. So in Pakistan, they created West Pakistan, but there's this tiny little thing on the east side of India that they also called Pakistan, which sandwiched India in between of it. And do you know what?

1:20:46 East Pakistan is now today. If you tell me it's Azerbaijan, is it Bangladesh? Yes. It's fascinating you bring that up because we've been talking for the last few weeks. We need to do a sit rep on the recent color revolution in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, all of the above. And if you look at a map, they were all surrounding India. One of my research buddies, Ethan, shout out to you, buddy.

1:21:13 He's been feeding me a lot of information on Azerbaijan and stuff like that, articles. So he's done a lot of the deep digging on this. But he's got a theory that they're doing that to surround India. Why? Why is Modi in so much trouble? Well, A, he's meeting with Putin and he's basically not going along. You're not allowed to do that. So I've got a fast. I found a fascinating blurb the other day. Let me just pull that up real quick. Come on. I got it right here. Out of the blue. This is the last week.

1:21:42 India recalls its high commissioner and other diplomats from Canada. Canadian police accused the Indian government of criminal activity in the country. Says the Indian government is conducting illegal intelligence gathering activities in Canada through agents and is involved in murders and violence. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner, Mike Durham, has said. So India is being isolated to some degree from its Western trading partners, etc. It's fascinating from an economic standpoint.

1:22:13 If you look around the world, every single country had a post-World War II baby boom, pretty much all of them, where the population exploded. There were only two places where they had what's called an echo boom, because the following generation, I'm Gen X, were a much smaller generation than the baby boomers. Well, America had an echo boom, which we now call the millennials. The only other major country that had an echo boom was India. Their population will continue to grow. They will surpass China in the next few years.

1:22:40 China's population is going to be diminishing because of the one child policy. It's going to devastate them. This comes at a time when China has been expanding their debt for the last 15 years at a rate even faster than the United States. And you can't have a dwindling population supporting a retiring population with a massive debt problem. It does not work. China does not have the option of immigration because of the most xenophobic people on the planet. And that is creating an awful lot of geopolitical tensions is this population ticking time bomb that is going on.

1:23:10 So India is something we need to take a really deep look at. You know, they're surrounded by a nuclear adversary. Yeah. And I think, again, it goes back to the strategy of tension. That is how they manipulate everybody. So I thought you would find that interesting.

1:23:32 East Pakistan is now Bangladesh. And of course, they just did a coup there. And by the way, War Hamster, I know everybody in my audience admonished you verbally talking to the screen when you use the word color revolution because we don't use that word or words because that's the CIA talking points to get away from the use of the word coup. Because if you actually use the word coup, people look up CIA coup and they'll find 80 of them.

1:24:01 If you use color revolution, you only find the ones that they've done since like 2004. Yeah, 2003 is the first one I have. I use that term for anything post 2003, but I will accept my admonishment on your channel. And understand that that's what they do. They control our words so we can't find our history. And so I have decided to peacefully non-comply with their word manipulation.

1:24:28 Right. I still use the word gay. I still use the other words that we're not allowed to use. But anyway, I just it's funny because every every time I do a show and I have a guest on, they use the word color revolution. There's like 50 comments. It's not a color revolution because I have said that like a million times. So I just had to make a joke out of it in acknowledgement of all of the people that have been listening to me for so long.

1:24:56 Yeah, they're running out of colors, by the way, in the last 20 years. They've had to call one of them the Maidan Revolution, and now they don't even use the term anymore. I think they just ran out of colors on the spectrum. The first one, of course, being the Rose Revolution, which is how we got involved in Ukraine in the first place. But that's not the show. I just got a link that says they're having trouble on the Twitter end of our stream. I was just broadcasting it.

1:25:26 live over there and for some reason they're having a problem with it um sorry about that guys um i don't know what that is all about but um anyway okay we probably need to i obviously we can talk about this for days but i did want to at least in this initial session get to um let's see

1:25:57 The rest of the founding that I had, and that was Clifford, the attorney slash president slash chairman, Clark Clifford, ends up talking to Senator Claiborne Peel. And Claiborne Peel, who's a Democrat, is in charge of the Foreign Relations Committee during this time.

1:26:27 And I did want to bring up real quick this guy because it's fascinating. Hold on. Let me find where he's at. Claiborne Peel. I thought I had him already open, but I don't see him on here. All right. Here he is. I've never heard of this guy, so I'm all ears. All right. Well, this is very interesting because I want to tell you who his stepdad is.

1:26:59 So Claiborne Peel was born in 1918. So he's an old guy. He is a descendant from Senator William Claiborne. And he has one of those very similar, like going back to the 1600s kind of Northeastern pedigree.

1:27:28 And he was born in New York City. He was a senator from Rhode Island, which of course we know that's where Newport, all the money people are at. His parents divorced early and his mother remarried a guy by the name of Hugo Kohler, K-O-E-H-L-E-R. Now, if you pull him up, now this is the guy that raised Peele.

1:27:59 He was a U.S. Navy commander and secret agent, as well as a socialite. So following World War I, he served as the Office of Naval Intelligence and also served in the State Department as an operative. So he's basically like the pre-OSS guy. He was in Russia during the Civil War.

1:28:24 He later served as a naval attache to Poland. And there was a rumor that he was the illegitimate illegitimate son of the crown prince of Austria. So he has a very interesting background on all of his. And I mean, he was part of the Kohler's grandfather was part of the Hesch.

1:28:54 in Germany. And I mean, he, that guy goes back. So this is the guy that raises Peel. I'm reading, I just pulled him up and I'm reading a blurb that says, is revealed to be the Archduke Jonathan Salvatore of Austria, son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and a member of the Imperial Austrian Habsburg family. Yes.

1:29:20 That's that's I was going to talk about Northeastern Blue Bloods. That's going all the way back to royal family type stuff. Yes. So this is the guy that Clifford uses inside of the Senate. And you also see that Peel ends up he's in oil. He is going back to his actual real father who.

1:29:47 ends up being a ambassador to Portugal and Hungary. And so this guy has got like international syndicate written all over him, right? So I like doing the research to put into context, just like you do, whenever these people use people to their agenda, you have to always look into those people. So it was Peel.

1:30:17 that granted BCCI the 30-day delay in subpoena information so that all of the BCCI information came into the Senate after the investigator left. After Bloom was gone and his contract expired, all of BCCI information came into the Senate because of Peel. Some fascinating connections.

1:30:51 Yeah. Okay. That rabbit trail is brand new to me. So I'm going to have some fun on that one. And as you mentioned earlier, the fact that they got fined $14 million as a result of that investigation was nothing. But then you have to, like you say, bring that to current day. Talk to us a little bit about the TD.

1:31:19 money laundering fine that just happened? Well, I can tell you a lot about that because I'm indirectly, I'm actually given a deposition to U.S. attorneys on a case that's related to it. But TD Bank was basically a giant money laundering bank. And the way modern money laundering works is you take dirty money and you try to funnel it into this country through whatever bank. And you try to invest it in a legitimate business.

1:31:47 whether it be real estate, anything else operating, but you have to do it through someone who's clean, friends and family. So that's how they wash their hands of it. It comes out the other end clean. They usually do this with shell companies or silent partners. There's all kinds of tax fraud that goes along with it because you're distributing income. Quite often they do it as a 1099 contract, although you have no contract and where it should be being distributed as a qualified dividend.

1:32:14 The fascinating thing about this TD Bank is they're getting fined about $1.9 billion, which sounds like a whole heck of a lot of money. If you go back to 2008, the presidential election was Obama versus McCain. And I remember this vividly because I was working for a Wall Street bank at the time, Citibank. And Obama was going about, it's almost exactly 16 years ago to the day. It was like 16 years ago last week. Obama's trailing by a few points in the polls to McCain on a Thursday, Friday.

1:32:44 All of a sudden, that Friday after market closed, Lehman Brothers goes bankrupt over that weekend. Obama halts his campaign efforts and flies back into Wall Street and meets with all the banks. He wakes up Monday morning and he's about five points ahead in the polls. My conjecture has always been a deal was cut. You'll notice that once Obama did win the election, they had an awful lot of evidence against the banks.

1:33:14 What happened is, first of all, the banks, nobody, no great major banker above a certain rank went to jail, period. The Bank of International Settlements even came into America's court system and said, you can't prosecute these people. We're going to claim them, these records as our own. And as we know, the Bank of International Settlements has complete immunity in every single country where they operate. You can't even subpoena their records. They're not subject to immigration rules if you work for a bank in international settlements. So that's why we've got no justice there.

1:33:43 The interesting part is all these millions and billions of dollars of fines the banks paid did not go back into the treasury coffers. They are redistributed to certain favored NGOs and charities that the administration wants them to go to. That is how we're funding, a big part of how we're funding the U.S. government is all of these quasi-government agencies who do all the dirty work that the government can't do for themselves. It's the exact same scheme domestically that the USAID.

1:34:13 uses internationally. Correct. And that slush fund is used, as you say, into the NGOs. And we know that, and I've done several, the American Security Council. I mean, you can go down the list of the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation are used as CIA cutouts to move money around in order to fund.

1:34:43 whether it's the initiatives of the National Endowment for Democracy, the USAID, all being, I refer to them all as CIA fronts because they are working an agenda that is in concert with what the CIA wants to do, either in overthrowing governments or creating the strategy of tension or whatever. Yeah, and the beautiful thing about it is they hide it behind what's called a tax-free foundation.

1:35:13 where you put your generational wealth inside of this tax shelter and 100 years later it's still not being taxed yet you're getting all the benefits from it you can be the head of a tax-free foundation and draw salaries about five percent of assets for the rest of your life that's every single that's annually every single year that's the drawdown you'll see with like a charitable foundation you know it's usually in the five percent ballpark and i think it's statutory limited to five percent but if you talk about a billion dollar foundation

1:35:41 just back of the napkin math, that's living off 50 million a year. And it's pretty much guaranteed. They don't have a whole lot of financial worries, the beneficiaries of these foundations. And they absolutely are the ones who sit at the head of the table that are determining who becomes our Secretary of State, who becomes the head of the CIA, who are going to be the ambassadors. Why are the ambassadors always big campaign donors? Well, there you have it. They want to buy that political power and prestige.

1:36:07 And I've come to realize when I've been doing this research is when you go back into the history of who these people are, I always like to look at what they did then and who they're doing it with now. So I was dumbfounded at the number of rags to riches stories. You know, some guy buys a little sailboat.

1:36:31 off the coast of New Jersey and ferries people over to New York. And three years later, he's got an entire fleet and he's a shipping magnet. I don't believe those stories. Just like I don't believe Zuckerberg created Facebook in his garage. And because I don't believe those things, I compare those rags to riches stories.

1:36:56 with the current ones. And I say kind of in a tongue in cheek manner, oh, my God, look, we found another rag to riches guy. And in doing that, it almost appears to me, and this is complete speculation on my part, that there are people and almost every one of them come even back in the 1930s came from divorced parents or a parent where one had died. Some

1:37:25 traumatic effect of a child from that circumstance, and they strike it rich, blah, blah, blah. And so when you start noticing these patterns, all of them end up with a foundation. And it makes me question whether or not these foundations were a requirement.

1:37:49 And so now I move forward to BCCI and I look at and I say, remember when we overthrew all of these governments and we installed a dictator, did we require them all to set up an account at BCCI so that we made that money laundering capability? If you look at the, as you pointed out, the generational wealth in these foundations, if these people were basically

1:38:18 used as these heads of companies and said you can live off of the proceeds of the foundation but we are going to use the foundation you are going to have you're setting your you're going to sell your soul to the satan but you're going to set your family up forever in a life of luxury by doing that and oh by the way that money that you're sitting on

1:38:45 We are going to use for nefarious things. And we're going to put all of our people on the foundational boards, which if you go back and you look at the overlap of the people that are part of the international syndicate and who sits on all of those boards, it's remarkable. It's like a 99% match. And so you have these people in the international syndicate funding, and then you have these CIA people actually doing.

1:39:14 And then the CIA people mysteriously end up because they're all lawyers and kids of doctors and everything else. When they former, you know, they retire, they end up on the boards of these foundations. Yeah. And it seems that they all go to the same handful of colleges and they're all in the same kind of private groups. And it basically it's the blue bloods. There's a historian in Brian McClanahan who describes these people as Yankees. And I love the way he describes it.

1:39:45 There's good Yankees, and I'm not just bashing on people from the Northeast. I happen to live in New Hampshire currently, so I'm not. But the Yankees, these blue-blood people, they were the progressives of the late 1800s. These are the Fabian socialists. These are the Rockefellers. These are the generational wealth that brought the British class system over to America. And we do have royalty in this country. There are people who are above the law. You know the son of somebody. Even in small-town America, you're the son of whoever.

1:40:14 The kingmaker of the county is you get pulled over by the cops, they're going to take you home. They're not going to write you up for DUI. That's always been the case that we have an extra class of people. And it's not supposed to be that way in America, but it is. There's a, shoot, I've got the book over on the shelf. There's a book called Superclass. And I should remember the guy's name, but he worked for about two or three decades for, I want to say it was Brzezinski.

1:40:40 and basically he talked about the ruling families of the world, and he says basically you've got about 6,000 ruling families around the world. They're not all in America. They're not all in Europe. These are the players, and they will send their representatives to the United Nations to cut those deals. But it's pretty fascinating. This is a deep stater himself, obviously a 1970s liberal, but he actually told a lot of truths in that book. I should remember his name. My apologies. I'll have it ready for us next show. Okay.

1:41:11 And so probably in closing, I just want to finish this line. Florida does end up shutting down BCCI branches and made them liquidate all of their interest in the other Florida banks. They were not allowed to bank in Florida anymore. And Awan was found guilty of money laundering.

1:41:34 No one in the DOJ, the IRS, or anybody else asked him any follow-on questions. And that's kind of my segue back to the TD story is they have a money laundering story of if their fine is $2 billion, the amount of money they laundered is probably in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

1:42:01 I think they even talked about what they actually made in the indictment on the money laundering, and it isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to what they made. So this is not even a slap on the wrist. This is maybe stubbing their toe. And nowhere, just as in BCCI, is there indictments on who generated the money to be laundered. I cannot tell you.

1:42:31 how pissed off I get that this is like charging the hooker for having sex and not the Johns, right? That's kind of the analogy when you hold a bank responsible for money laundering, but not the creators of the money being laundered and using illicit activity crimes to generate the money.

1:42:56 They'll get some of the downstream operators, but there will be a limit to how far it goes, just like with BCCI. There will be a limit to how high up the food chain they're allowed to investigate. But the funny part is, you've got the FBI, you've got the IRS, and you've got Treasury doing these investigations. You basically have the government investigating, three branches of the government investigating one of its other branches, because we know the CIA is at the heart of a lot, or at least connected.

1:43:27 Some of this, you know, some of the money laundering is just, you know, probably 100 percent pure organized crime, but you're never 100 percent pure organized crime. There's always an intelligence aspect to it as well. So we have the government investigating itself. I wonder how that's going to turn out the same way. Well, and that's that kind of segues into the criticalness of this election, because potentially if Trump is elected, it turns out completely different than it ever has in the past.

1:43:56 Yeah, well, that's why you're going to see the greatest, biggest temper tantrum in the history of mankind on November the 6th if Trump pulls this off. I track all the polls and the betting markets on a weekly basis. And I have never seen a gap in the betting markets happen like it has in the past week as Trump is pulling ways now by like 16 points in the betting markets. Crossing my fingers, you know, because we know that the elections are not quite as, shall we say.

1:44:26 predictable as they ought to be, but it's starting to look good. But I had dinner with Brian Cates last night and his mantra, which you have to, you can't find fault in it. It's too big to cheat. 16% is too big to cheat. Yeah. Who is it? Seth Kessel estimates to the most they can do is manufacture 3%.

1:44:54 maybe as much as 5% in any given state. But I've worked a lot with a lot of election integrity groups around the country. One of my tech guys, we were trying to float. We have the ability to create a database of every voter registration in America. We weren't able to raise the capital for that project in time, so we didn't launch it this time. But I've spoken to a lot of these groups. Compared to 2020, we have a lot more eyes on the prize. We know a lot more about how elections are manipulated.

1:45:23 We've had groups all over the country cleaning voter rolls, and that really matters. When Biden issued Executive Order 14019 in 2021, it basically mandated that every single government agency start registering voters. And that's not what the government's supposed to do. But the question I've been asking on air and off for more than three years, who's the Department of Health and Human Services or the DHS? Who are they registering to vote?

1:45:51 Who's the FBI registering to vote? Every single government agency had to be involved in voter registration. So we know the voter rolls are where any kind of manipulation is going to start, but we've done a much better job than we did in 2020. It's going to be not as good as it could have been. A lot of states tightened up some of their voter rolls. There's only going to be half the amount of mail-in votes. So it is going to be a lot harder to manipulate a total. I'm not going to get into the electronic machines. That's someone else's bailiwick.

1:46:21 I do think we have a pretty good chance of getting a much more fair election than we did in 2020 with less shenanigans. I agree. I agree. Okay. Do you have any closing comments? No. I'm going to post this video 24 hours later. I'll let it run on your channel for now. You can find this and my other stuff on, go to Rumble and just type in Warspace Hamster. Right down here on the screen is my Twitter, or I should say X account is at war underscore hamster 1776.

1:46:53 And you can also get me on true social at war underscore hamster. And if you guys are not following him, you are really missing out. Definitely need to follow him. My go to guy on anything that's banking finance. And that's why I thought because BCCI kind of cuts the baby in half here between the banking and the international syndicate slash Operation Gladio.

1:47:18 um that this was a perfect um topic and we are going to try to do this at a regularly scheduled time for the next couple of um thursdays so that we can get this story out because as you saw today the relevance to what's going on today is in every step of it whether it's the corruption in the doj the corruption in the fbi the um cia's involvement the banking uh money laundering

1:47:48 The fact that we're talking about Pakistan, and I did want to go back and just kind of cross that T. I don't think I finished my thought on the fact that Pakistan being created after World War II was 100% a manipulated state that was ran by the CIA. The intelligence agency in setting up the ISI inside of Pakistan and our fully funding

1:48:17 basically the entire state of Pakistan. UK did it a little bit, but that was kind of the UK was behind India. We were behind Pakistan kind of shell game that they played in making sure that they created enough turmoil between them with Operation Gladio style chaos along their borders, all orchestrated that justified the creation.

1:48:45 of nuclear capability on both sides well what that gave the cia is nuclear capability because they basically own pakistan and always have it it was not coincidental that that's where um bin laden was hanging out and and if you think about that for two seconds

1:49:04 The CIA basically owns the ISI. They train them, as you pointed out. All of the Pakistani generals were trained by the U.S. military. And so it ought to be very odd that bin Laden was right under everybody's noses, if you actually think about it for two seconds. But of course...

1:49:29 They use the ISI, as you said. We've talked about it. We talked about Afghanistan and the fact that there was this fake communist movement inside of Afghanistan. We overthrew the royal family in Afghanistan in a coup. We baited the Russians into.

1:49:50 we being the CIA baited the Russians into Afghanistan and attacking them by sending a whole bunch of false information saying that there's this little wanting cell of communists in there and they need help. And we actually sent Mujahideen up to pick a fight with them. So there was just all kinds of operations that were done and they were largely done using Pakistan.

1:50:20 So the fact that BCCI mysteriously appears in Pakistan is not coincidental. Very good. If anybody wants to prep before our next show, there's a miniseries on Amazon Prime called The Mafia and Banks. It's three one-hour skips. It gives you more background information on that at a high level. It is definitely worth the three hours if you want to give your money to Jeff Bezos.

1:50:49 No, it's actually worth watching. So that'll be a good primer. I'll be bringing some of that information when we get together next week. Awesome. All right. We're going to call it today. Thank you for being here today. Thanks for having me. See you guys later. See you next week.

Entities here

BCCI40 Operation Gladio18 Jack Blum16 Pakistan15 Clark Clifford15 Charles Bloom11 John Kerry10 Jimmy Carter9 Witness B (Ali Mirza)9 American Red Cross9 India7 CIA7 United States6 Robert Mueller6 Awan brothers6 The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI6 Claiborne Pell6 First American Bank6 Manuel Noriega5 Robert Altman5 George H.W. Bush4 Henry Morgenthau Jr.4 Tampa4 Richard Nixon4 Federal Reserve4 Miami4 William J. Polk4 Skull and Bones3 William Vaughn Robb3 Witness A3 Kerry Commission3 Agha Hasan Abedi3 Israel3 Strom Thurmond3 TD Bank3 London3 Jonathan Beaty3 Washington, D.C.3 Houston3 USAID3

Claims made here

BCCI front_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:33

“and here is one of their covers this is the world's sleaziest bank and i could not agree more and it is apropos if you look at the paramilitary guy standing out in front because it could easily have b…”

BCCI laundered_money_for Saddam Hussein host_asserted ▶ 4:16

“And I like doing the bottom line up front. My big takeaway from this is apparently all of the dictators that we've been identifying that were installed by the CIA, one of the requirements for acceptin…”

BCCI laundered_money_for Ferdinand Marcos host_asserted ▶ 4:46

“One of the, yeah, one of the big ones was Marcos of the Philippines. Correct. And I mean, that's basically very convenient when you're money laundering. It does. And BCCI ties into so many other stori…”

Jack Blum member_of Senate Foreign Relations Committee documented ▶ 5:11

“I want to introduce to you some people. We have, as I mentioned, the authors of this book were Time Magazine writers, Beatty and Gwen. And they had a man come talk to them whose last name was Bloom, B…”

Jack Blum member_of Church Committee documented ▶ 5:40

“investigating for John Kerry's committee into basically drug trafficking, money laundering, and et cetera. And those types of investigations take a lot of effort. He also served as the counsel to Fran…”

Jack Blum exposed Lockheed Corporation documented ▶ 6:10

“which obviously exposed a bunch of the CIA misdeeds. So this isn't just a nobody. He also was involved in exposing Lockheed's bribery scandals in paying off the Japanese officials for buying Lockheed.…”

Henry Luce founded Skull and Bones host_asserted ▶ 7:19

“CIA director Richard Helms was required to testify in closed session in which he lied and was later indicted for perjury. So this at the time was a big, big deal. So I find a bit of irony to the fact …”

BCCI financed_via The Washington Post book_quoted ▶ 9:43

“Most importantly, I think the Washington Post used BCCI because they were at the Washington, D.C. bank owned by BCCI, their bank account. So they were actually using BCCI as a banking conduit. The Was…”

BCCI secretly_owned First American Bank documented ▶ 10:15

“uh first american bank shares illegally they're not allowed foreigners were not allowed to own american banks uh was the biggest uh bank in the dc metro area so it's not a shock that that connection h…”

Blanton Winship member_of Manuel Noriega book_quoted ▶ 11:11

“Bloom first meets with Beatty out in California to talk about the BCCI. He mentions his knowledge that he gained from the Cary Commission. He also mentions that he only refers to him as Blanton, who w…”

BCCI laundered_money_for Manuel Noriega book_quoted ▶ 11:39

“also served as his general counsel, had testified in a closed session of Congress about BCCI's role and the fact that Noriega had his bank account for his quote-unquote CIA drug networking payouts at …”

Agha Khan III founded BCCI documented ▶ 12:39

“And take it to there. This is founded in 1972 by a Pakistani. I've got his name right here. It's one of those names that's hard to remember. Aga Khan Abedi. And it's founded in 1972. It was supposed t…”

BCCI laundered_money_for Trafficante crime family host_asserted ▶ 14:33

“There were like the number two site for the Trapacani group. That all happened out of Tampa. That's where Meyer Lansky was living for about 25 years. Yeah. So Tampa is only number two to Miami when it…”

William Vaughn Robb exposed BCCI documented ▶ 15:32

“And they actually even got some of the drug traffickers on that bus. So it wasn't just about the BCCI. But not a lot happens because William Vaughn Robb, R-A-A-B, he was the customs chief during this …”

BCCI secretly_owned National Bank of Georgia documented ▶ 19:50

“every single bank in America. And we've already talked about how BCCI illegally owned more than three banks, the Independence Bank of Encino, California, the National Bank of Georgia, and of course, t…”

BCCI secretly_owned Independence Bank of Encino documented ▶ 19:50

Witness A member_of BCCI book_quoted ▶ 22:10

“that wanted to talk to him and basically spill his guts. So BCCI in Miami was their branch for all of the activities in South America. So that's what this guy who was the BCCI banker. And in all of th…”

Walter Mischer headed Allied Bank host_asserted ▶ 26:26

“It's going a little deeper than that. This brings in one of my favorite characters of this period. He's called Walter Misher, and he's a big land developer out of Texas. He owns Allied Bank. It's the …”

Neil Bush member_of Stephen Halper host_asserted ▶ 26:58

“A couple of fun things out of there. Neil Bush, the Bush kid they don't talk too much about, he was partners in this by a guy by the name of Stephen Halper. And his father, whose father was Ray Klein,…”

John Hinckley Jr. attempted_assassination_of Ronald Reagan documented ▶ 27:26

“of the Trump Russia. Yeah, Russia. Another fun little connection with Neil Bush. He was friends with a family of John Hinckley Jr., who's the guy who shot President Reagan. Correct. If there's no conn…”

Amjad Awan member_of BCCI book_quoted ▶ 30:27

“First thing that popped into my head when you said Awan. Yeah, so Amjad Awan is another witness that worked with Bloom to expose, but he worked for BCCI. And I would bet, because he's from Pakistan, a…”

Awan brothers member_of Debbie Wasserman Schultz host_asserted ▶ 30:56

“And that's, we're talking about the Awan brothers who worked for Debbie Washerman Schultz. Debbie Washerman. And what state is she from again? Florida. Oh, go figure. I was living in Miami where her d…”

Awan brothers member_of Manuel Noriega host_asserted ▶ 31:23

“Pakistan. Isn't that where BCCI is from? I'm sure it's just a coincidence. I'm sure. Okay. So he was Noriega's personal banker in Miami, by the way, Awan was. So you've got Bloom who asked Kerry Commi…”

Charles Bloom funded Kerry Commission host_asserted ▶ 31:23

BCCI secretly_owned First American Bank host_asserted ▶ 31:52

“in Tampa for the money laundering case, which they, the one we were just talking about that they busted, that operation was called C-Chase. So Awan tells Bloom that BCCI secretly owns First American B…”

George H.W. Bush removed_from_power Awan brothers host_asserted ▶ 32:52

“and George H.W. Bush coming in, right? Got it. So the OJ arrests Awan and pulls the plug on basically looking into this, and he doesn't have a trial until 15 months later. BCCI will not comply with an…”

Clark Clifford headed BCCI host_asserted ▶ 33:22

“And in walks BCCI lawyers Clark Clifford and Robert Altman. They appear as the attorneys for BCCI. Now, I know you're going to want to say something about them. And it also turns out that they were fu…”

Clark Clifford funded BCCI host_asserted ▶ 38:25

“So he is at the heart of Operation Gladio, the setting up of the drug networks, the setting up of the weapons networks, the weapons network that was going on during the Vietnam and the skimming off at…”

Walter Mischer sold Clint Murchison host_asserted ▶ 39:52

“Yeah, now I was talking to the guy I was talking about before, Misher. Walter Misher also had bought a bunch of real estate in Hondura to buy Honduran paper mills, allegedly. He ended up selling them …”

Robert Altman member_of Clark Clifford host_asserted ▶ 40:49

“the saintly senator from utah that everyone loved and of course former secretary of state james baker is involved in that as well among others that's crazy and of course james baker makes an appearanc…”

BCCI covered_up Kerry Commission host_asserted ▶ 43:44

“because of the information that he begins to provide um so witness b tells that bcci had shut down the carry commission that they were solely responsible they being basically the ccia behind the bcci …”

George H.W. Bush covered_up Kerry Commission host_asserted ▶ 44:38

“You go to the top, you find George H.W. Bush as the Senate leader because he was the sitting VP at the time. You also find the number two guy, Strom Thurmond. Now, I don't know if you guys know anythi…”

William J. Polk funded Flying Tigers host_asserted ▶ 45:34

“franchise in Southeast Asia. So he produced all of the aircraft over there to equip not only the Flying Tigers, but he produced all of the Chiang Kai-shek aircraft that ends up being the Taiwanese Air…”

William J. Polk supplied_arms_to Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 45:34

Green Gang trafficked Golden Triangle host_asserted ▶ 46:03

“He also used his personal yacht for an invasion of Cuba in one of the assassination attempts on Castro. I have that in my notes, too. This ties in the Green Gang, which was the biggest organized crime…”

William J. Polk carried_out_attack Fidel Castro host_asserted ▶ 46:03

Strom Thurmond covered_up Kerry Commission host_asserted ▶ 48:58

“They have no ethics and no morals. And because of that, they have potential for being blackmailed out the yin yang. And yet this guy could have had that type of an issue used to blackmail him because …”

Henry Morgenthau Jr. headed American Red Cross documented ▶ 51:26

“He actually opposed the Jewish homeland in Israel, and he was an Ashkenazi Jew. But when he got out of serving with the government, he became the head of the American Red Cross. His son, Henry Morgent…”

Henry Morgenthau Jr. funded Morgenthau Plan documented ▶ 51:54

“Social Security, which is going bankrupt. That's a Morgenthau plan. He had a big role of financing the U.S. in World War II. He's the one who put together the Lend-Lease program for Europe. He's the o…”

Harry Dexter White member_of Henry Morgenthau Jr. host_asserted ▶ 52:20

“The Hoover investigation actually concluded the Morgenthau plan wouldn't have worked and over 25 million Germans would have starved to death. And just one more interesting side note, convicted Soviet …”

USAID funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 54:45

“from USAID, which is basically the state departments. That's the legal side of Operation Gladio, is the state department funneling money to NGOs. What was interesting about the Red Cross and the Bolsh…”

Robert Altman covered_up Witness B (Ali Mirza) host_asserted ▶ 58:30

“Kind of a little white lie that he has been approached and asked questions. Altman instructs him to shred everything that he has and get the hell out of the United States. That was his lawyer's recomm…”

Clark Clifford headed First American Bank host_asserted ▶ 59:22

“They deny everything. And this is when Witness B ends up telling Bloom that Clifford is operating as basically the lawyer of First American Bank, as well as being the chairman of the board and that Al…”

Robert Altman headed First American Bank host_asserted ▶ 59:22

John Kerry member_of Skull and Bones documented ▶ 1:00:25

“Just a coincidence. Yeah. So we got all this evidence laid out. A rookie prosecutor can build a case on this, and yet it goes no further than Florida. And I bring back the question, John Kerry, you kn…”

Robert Mueller member_of John Kerry host_asserted ▶ 1:00:56

“who would become the head of the FBI one week before 9-11. And then he would lead the investigation into 9-11 and came up with results that are not quite as believable as they'd like us to think. Inte…”

Robert Mueller worked_with James Baker host_asserted ▶ 1:01:49

“excuse me, Robert Mueller worked with James Baker, who you've already introduced, while he was the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. So that's the position he had while all of…”

Robert Mueller prosecuted Manuel Noriega host_asserted ▶ 1:02:19

“Don't you find it interesting that he was in charge of the prosecution of Manuel Noriega, who also was a BCCI customer that went a little rogue on them and wanted to set up his own side job of running…”

Manuel Noriega member_of BCCI host_asserted ▶ 1:02:19

John Gotti Jr. member_of Gambino crime family host_asserted ▶ 1:02:48

“And one other connection. He was also in charge of the Pan Am Flight 103 crash investigation, which we have looked into and know that that was another setup for them to try to take out Gaddafi. And on…”

Robert Mueller prosecuted John Gotti Jr. host_asserted ▶ 1:02:48

Clark Clifford headed BCCI host_asserted ▶ 1:03:54

“Clifford and Altman using BCCI or was BCCI using them? Yes, that's the answer. Both. I think that's it's one hand washing the other. These public servants, you know, they don't make that much money in…”

PricewaterhouseCoopers audited BCCI host_asserted ▶ 1:04:51

“Because on the books, once we get to the audit part, which we will in probably an upcoming show, but the auditors, of course, are my favorite company, Pricewaterhouse, because every bank, New Japan, C…”

BCCI financed_via Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:06:48

“And they didn't technically finance them. It was, for example, if Iran wanted the illegal missiles, like in the Iran-Contra arrangement, the Iranian government put funds on deposit at BCCI, and then t…”

BCCI laundered_money_for Adnan Khashoggi host_asserted ▶ 1:07:12

“and divide it up along the way because part of it because they charged too much part of it went into ali north's account in switzerland part of it went into israel because we snuck those missiles in t…”

Israel supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:07:12

BCCI supplied_arms_to Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:07:12

BCCI funded Jimmy Carter host_asserted ▶ 1:10:39

“Yeah, Carter would receive an $8 million campaign donation from them. And flying around on their jet. Did you know they bought Air Force Two? No, I did not. They bought Air Force Two as a company jet …”

BCCI laundered_money_for Jimmy Carter host_asserted ▶ 1:11:08

“if not identical foundation set up that BCCI was money laundering money into for him to personally use while he's flying around on their jet all over the world. That's it. It's interesting because I j…”

Jimmy Carter removed_from_power CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:11:38

“Carter's foreign policies were going to really restrict their activities. And it did because he tied foreign aid to human rights. And he's the one that cut off the Contras. He said that their murderin…”

BCCI financed_via First American Bank host_asserted ▶ 1:12:05

“see this as the blackmail setup of Carter because this bank in Georgia that BCCI ends up with held the mortgage to Carter's family peanut business. So once they bought that bank, they had him buy the …”

Donald Gregg recruited Felix Rodriguez host_asserted ▶ 1:16:02

“they were a deployable cell of terrorists and those same people felix rodriguez being one of them um which we found in the iran contra he was the number three guy working iran contra um underneath of …”

E. Howard Hunt member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:16:32

“E. Howard Hunt is the gentleman's name. He was the CIA leader at the Bay of Pigs. Yeah. And like you said, he shows up over in Vietnam. Yep. He's one of those people who's been in a lot of interesting…”

E. Howard Hunt member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:16:32

Agha Hasan Abedi founded BCCI host_asserted ▶ 1:17:03

“By the way, E. Howard Hunt confessed to all this on his deathbed. Yes. Absolutely. Okay. So we've got Jimmy Carter's role in it. And you've already covered the fact that Agha Hassan Abedi was the foun…”

CIA funded Pakistan host_asserted ▶ 1:18:01

“I was just thinking to myself, we know today that Pakistan is a CIA and Pentagon hotspot. All of the Pakistani generals train over here in America with the Pentagon. We've had a lot of control over th…”

Hugo Kohler member_of Office of Current Intelligence host_asserted ▶ 1:27:59

“He was a U.S. Navy commander and secret agent, as well as a socialite. So following World War I, he served as the Office of Naval Intelligence and also served in the State Department as an operative. …”

Hugo Kohler member_of Habsburg family host_asserted ▶ 1:28:54

“in Germany. And I mean, he, that guy goes back. So this is the guy that raises Peel. I'm reading, I just pulled him up and I'm reading a blurb that says, is revealed to be the Archduke Jonathan Salvat…”

Claiborne Pell protected BCCI host_asserted ▶ 1:30:17

“that granted BCCI the 30-day delay in subpoena information so that all of the BCCI information came into the Senate after the investigator left. After Bloom was gone and his contract expired, all of B…”

Barack Obama met_with Citigroup host_asserted ▶ 1:32:44

“All of a sudden, that Friday after market closed, Lehman Brothers goes bankrupt over that weekend. Obama halts his campaign efforts and flies back into Wall Street and meets with all the banks. He wak…”