Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined Page #8

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or care about the real

issues that are out there.

Well I think this is just

one more piece of evidence

of the degree to which the

media, supposedly the watchdogs,

has become the gatekeeper of the system.

Mainstream media are first of all,

nearly all of them, corporations,

nearly all of them now,

publicly held, part of the whole

Wall Street financial system that

they're supposed to report about

objectively, but they can't.

They... Right now, in October of

of the biggest banks in New York and

saying that the recession is over.

Of course there are a few problems,

like foreclosures are going on,

unemployment is rising. All of this

is affecting the American people,

but it's not affecting the financial

elite who also control the media.

Bernays successfully

identified the invisible empire,

which controlled the minds of men.

So as the populace is

mesmerized and hypnotized

by powerful behind-the-scenes forces,

as they are distracted by

the latest celebrity scandal,

the newest cell phone, and

their favorite sports team,

this network disguises itself,

remaining in the shadows.

Despite the elite

utilizing Bernays' methods,

in conjunction with the military

industrial complex they had erected,

a modern arm of this

organization was exposed,

in what came to be known

as the Iran-Contra scandal.

Essentially, black operations were

not only caught dealing arms illegally

and supporting South American dictators,

but also smuggling drugs

into the United States.

Iran-Contra was really the

merging of two different programs.

The first one was support for the Contras

who were, let's face it, a

force of terrorists in Nicaragua

trying to overthrow the

Sandinista government.

They were being secretly

supported by the CIA

and at the bottom of the

whole thing was drugs.

Iron-Contra was openly exposed

by massive network coverage.

How was it that in three years

a network Washington set up

to run arms to the Contras wound

up running cocaine into this country

for the most vicious

drug cartel in the world?

At the same time we were supposed

to be fighting a war against drugs.

But by the same token I also

smuggled my share of weapons

in exchange for those illegal substances,

with the full knowledge and

assistance of both the DEA and CIA.

Betzner says that in 1983 he flew

weapons from Florida to El Salvador,

and drugs from Colombia to

the Bahamas on the way back.

In 1984, he says, he flew twice

from Florida to Costa Rica and back.

We could bring back our own

cargo and they would arrange it,

or we could bring back their cargo without

ever having to worry about interception,

arrest, anything like this; that

everything was taken care of.

- What kinda cargo were you talking about?

- Drugs!

Tolliver says he had two

meetings with this man:

CIA veteran Raphael Quintero.

Then, in March of 1986, he says

he flew fourteen tons of weapons

down to Honduras, to this Contra

resupply base set up by the CIA.

We take off from Tegucigalpa,

Honduras and we leave.

- To?

- South Florida.

- Where in South Florida?

- We landed at Homestead.

- Homestead?

- Air Force Base.

This is the plane Tolliver says he used.

The plane traces to a company that

had a State Department contract

to fly humanitarian

supplies to the Contras.

In addition to that, three dozen

sources confirm the basic scheme.

We can now report that long

before that operation began,

there was another operation to

provide guns for the Contras,

which was also against the law.

In this operation, Americans and Israelis

provided arms to the Contras

and then the same network

smuggled drugs into the United States.

The operation was launched in spring

of 1983 at Washington's request

with at least twenty million

dollars of Israeli government money,

later reimbursed, we're told,

from US covered operations funds.

For about five years, people

were flying arms into Iran,

and most of them came from Israel.

The Israelis purchased the weapons

from Poland and Czechoslovakia,

and began shipping them

secretly from Yugoslavia

to Bolivia and then to Panama.

The Israeli liaison man there

was this man:
Michael Harari,

until recently a close

aid to Panama's strong man,

General Manuel Noriega.

You'd bring the ship into Colombia.

You would load drugs aboard it,

and you would bring those

drugs back to Panama with you.

But bringing that stuff into the

United States, that was something else.

I've never been so thoroughly

disgusted with myself in my life.

This network would also be

involved in the October Surprise.

We really can't understand

that unless we understand

the so-called October

Surprise in the 1980 election,

which is, I think, unquestionably

Republicans, including

William Casey who later became

Reagan's head of the CIA,

negotiated with the Iranians for

them not to release the hostages

which were being held in Iran to

Carter, but to wait until the...

Carter was defeated and

the Republicans were in.

That is what actually happened,

that the hostages were only released

on the day that Carter left

office and Reagan came in.

Unbelievably, this same network

would even be linked to

the BCCI banking scandal

by journalist Danny Casolaro.

Casolaro was probing a

conspiracy he called the Octopus.

Which involved the Iranian hostage

crisis, the Iran-Contra affair,

with, believe it or not, all

funds channeled through BCCI,

the international bank charged with

everything from money laundering to fraud.

BCCI:
it's a shadowy international bank

linked to terrorists,

drug runners and dictators.

Little was known about BCCI until

in Tampa, in October of 1988,

on charges of laundering...

drug money

for Colombian cocaine bosses.

The BCCI men were convicted

and the bank itself pleaded guilty.

But for some reason

the bank was allowed...

to continue to operate

all over the world.

There were indications

that some of the reluctance...

to prosecute this bank stem for the...

from the favors it did.

For?

The favors it did

for intelligence services everywhere.

Too many secrets

of too many countries,

too many prominent people,

too many hands-on,

and that makes it desirable that

this entire affair be forgotten.

It began to become clear that

the global traffic of drugs

were funding violent dictators, rigging

elections, supporting the arms trade,

and enforcing the assassination

of anyone who got in the way.

Casolaro was found dead for his

efforts in exposing this network.

His death, of course, ruled a suicide.

He was meeting a source in West Virginia.

He was about to discover all.

Instead, his body was

discovered in a hotel room,

with 12 slashes in his wrist.

But when the local

authorities ruled it suicide,

the family said, No way.

The housekeeper had taken

calls threatening his life.

And I pick it up, telephone. I say hello.

And he say to me, You son

of a b*tch, you's dead.

Casolaro would not be the only person

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