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What a day to have you in here, buddy.

>> Kid in a candy shop. We hacked the

government. We hacked the government's

files, evident. I mean, this is We have

three and a half million files that it

feels like we should not have. It would

have been great to have had seven years

ago in 2019 when this was being

litigated, but it's an incredible moment

of transparency for how the world works,

how governments interact with the

private sector and funds, and it's just

really cool to be a part of it.

>> What was the holdup? What was the

because it seemed like there was a lot

of people that did not want these files

released.

>> Yeah, I thought about this a lot.

What we have access to now are internal

documents from the Justice Department

and the FBI that are normally even

though they're not classified, they are

part of a criminal investigation and so

they're not normally disclosable to the

public. Um, it could be the case that it

kind of required a congressional bill to

force this out. Like when you if if

there's a internal investigation and

it's not a part of a court document

that's entered into evidence,

you can't just foyer the Justice

Department to get dirt on your political

enemies because you think that they

might be involved in something.

Now, I don't know if it could have been

done through an executive order around

Epstein transparency around the time of

the first binders. Certainly, it looked

like there was friction between the

president and Thomas Massie over this

issue. Um, but I don't I don't know the

details of what went down there, but the

fact is the bill passed 427 to1 in the

House.

>> Who's the one?

My recollection is that it was Randy

Fine, but I might be wrong on that. So,

I don't want to smear.

>> There was one person or imply anything

unduly.

>> They didn't want it released because

they thought it would compromise the

victims, right?

>> Uh,

>> at one point in time at least.

>> Yeah. I

I don't know what the what the

rationale, you know, is. And because I

don't recall off hand who the one is, uh

I don't want to lean on that too much,

but uh the fact is is nobody wanted to

be on the other side of this. I can't

think of anything that both Republicans

and Democrats voted on 427 to1 and oh

sorry, Klay Higgins, sorry, apologies to

Randy. Fine. Uh yeah. So

um there was the

I mean there was obviously friction

because this implicates everybody

Republicans and Democrats uh Americans

and a dozen different foreign countries

uh heads of major hedge funds and

multinational corporations donors to all

political parties major university and

science institutions.

Uh I mean

almost every major player in world

affairs was

in some way

either either involved in or adjacent to

this network or the network tried to

reach out to them because they were

influential. And so, you know, there was

kind of a mutually assured destruction

around the Epstein hot potato for a

decade now, which is that, you know, out

of power, the Republicans said, "Oh, the

Democrats are don't want to disclose

this because of the Clintons." And then

the Trump administration gets into power

and there's a very slow, you know,

reaction to the kind of disclosures that

culminated in what happened this week.

And so you had the Democrats saying,

"Oh, they're not disclosing it because

of, you know, Trump world and his

associates." Meanwhile, they controlled

the Justice Department and the FBI for

four years and didn't release any. Uh,

so, you know, it it took a moment like

this. And what's what's really

interesting about it is this bill only

compelled the disclosure this law that

passed in Congress only compelled the

disclosure of

Justice Department originated files.

Justice Department by extension FBI is

the investigative arm of the Justice

Department. It does not compel CIA

originated files.

And uh one of the coolest moments of

transparency we had last year in 2025

was when Tulsi Gabbard as the you know

ODNI as the head of director of C of

national intelligence in charge of the

whole intelligence community spearheaded

the uh JFK files release and we got

basically fully unredacted

documents. Now, I know there's contest

over how complete they are, but the fact

is is it was hundreds of thousands of

files that had never been seen before or

unredacted versions of documents that

had been fully or partially redacted for

decades. The only reason that we have

JFK JFK files at all is because in 1992,

Congress passed a bill to force the CIA

to start turning over documents. The

law, I believe, was called the JFK

Records Collection Act.

And it forced by law the uh the CIA to

establish this independent

presidential assassination review board

that would review documents for

declassification and compel uh you know

on the basis of that independent body

given all of the intelligence intrigue

around Epstein and the fact that it is

in my view physically impossible over

Epstein's 40-year career career in

intelligence adjacent work that there

was that there's not Epstein files that

are CIA originated and we actually

you know I I saw this in the files that

were just released Jeffrey Epstein

himself twice foyed that's the Freedom

of Information Act

uh which which is a law that I think

came around in 1966 which allows any US

citizen and to ask any government agency

for all public records that it has about

anything. There are certain things that

get blocked in that this is there were a

lot of foyer fights about co uh you know

Fouchy famously there's this exchange

where um you know one of the folks in

Fouchy world says that uh they learned

cool tricks from the foyer lady about

how to get around requests but the fact

is you can foyer the CIA for records. uh

because it that foyer forces the CIA to

give you declassified

or unclassified records and if it's

classified it'll issue a glowar

>> we cannot confirm or deny the you know

and the existence or non-existence of

you know classified information.

>> Can we before we get any further the JFK

stuff I never heard anything about it. I

mean I know the files came out but there

was no big revelations. There was no was

was there anything that came out of that

that was significant?

>> I thought it was huge. I I learned a

>> I guess people

are looking at the JFK files. Most

people are looking at it for clues as to

who killed JFK. And I know that there

are many researchers who specialize in

the JFK assassination

um that have sharpened their theories I

suppose on the basis of it in a useful

way for for whatever it's worth. Uh for

me I

you know was never expecting to see a

CIA document saying uh you know I James

Jesus Angleton authorized the

assassination of of uh president of the

United States. Uh but the fact is is

what it revealed were all of these

tangential and ancillary documents that

showed the structure of intelligence

work at a very fine and detailed level.

The kind of revelations that really only

come around once in a generation.

There's a there's a video online by

Michael Paranti who's a CIA

whistleblower around the time of the

Iran Contra hearings in the 1980s

and he says pay attention to these

hearings. This may be the last time for

another 20, 30, 40 years that you ever

get an inside look at the at the

detailed

minutia of a covert operation because

all this was being blasted on a

congressional jumbotron with hearings

and formal congressional investigations

and public testimony. And

there's I sort of look at the JFK files

released like that. We got a very

detailed look at everything that was

happening around effectively operation

mongoose. Uh the because

>> can you refresh my memory? What was

mongoose again?

>> Yeah. So, so we h so there was operation

mongoose and operation condor which were

which were related to the

nominally what you'll read is that they

were related to the attempts by the CIA

to for Mongoose for example to uh

destabilize the government of Cuba in

order to induce a regime change but

because those efforts proved

unsuccessful they regionalized the

conflict to uh do countercommunism work

effectively

uh throughout all of Latin America, the

Caribbean, South America, and uh

Operation Condor was effectively a kind

of counter counterinsurgency strategy to

stop the rise of left-wing Marxist

groups who were trying to throw off the

yoke of American imperialism, so to

speak, as they put it. And so you had a

a massive CIA operation to try to tilt

the internal politics of

basically every country south of the

border. And we got incredibly just deta

I'll give you an example of one

declassified document that's really

wild. Uh there there's one document that

uh is a CIA file with instructions to uh

delete all physical copies of the

document at the end that describes how

the agency had internally authorized an

attempt to assassinate,

you know, Castro by working through

the Meer Lansky syndicate and hiring two

hitmen

uh that were in Miami and then had but

had contacts with the Cuban exile

community liaison within Cuba. And so

this was a this was a formal agency file

that described how a CIA case officer

made contact with people from the mob

organized crime uh with offers of pay

payoffs with very detailed logistics.

You can find this I did a whole video on

it on my the like ex subscriber thing.

I'll I'll you know uh put it on the top

of my social media. But the but it also

describes a really interesting

Jeffrey Epstein like

uh figure Robert Mayhew was a CIA asset.

the J the JFK files.

They describe how they got uh they

sponsored a a movie

to simulate I believe it was the

president of Indonesia

uh having an affair with a blonde woman.

They filmed a

basically like a porno that would uh and

create and to create a tape. And they

had very they describe how they set up

the the room to make it look like it was

I think in in the presidential palace or

some hotel room that was would have been

in in uh in that country in order to

create what's effectively a sexual

blackmail tape that could then be uh

leaked to the press in order to

discredit the president. And you know,

you look at these in formal agency files

and on the one hand you go, okay, that

was the 1960s. That was the that was the

early 1960s. That was before there was

any oversight on the CIA at all. It

wasn't until the Church Committee

hearings in 1975, 1976 that we even had

congressional oversight of the CIA.

There was no Senate Intelligence

Committee. There was no House

Intelligence Committee at the time. And

at that point, assassinations had not

been outlawed. I mean, the CI was

allowed to assassinate people. There

there's since been a ban on that. So,

you go, okay, that's 60 years ago. Uh,

but the fact is they did it. The fact is

is that is within the array of options

that folks in covert operations saw as

on the table.

>> Working with the mob.

>> Working with the mob. Now, but that goes

back a long time. I I found it totally

unsurprising. It's one of these things.

It's just kind of the general theme.

It's shocked but not surprised. You

know, it's like, "Holy crap, they they

put this in writing.

What are we doing here, guys?"

But you're like, "But I'm not surprised

they did it because I know they were

doing all these other things." The fact

is is the CIA was working with the mob

before there was a CIA.

before it was done by the CIA, uh work

with, for example, the the Italian mob

was was done through the Department of

War in the n really starting in the

1930s

and then especially in the 1940s because

they were the central intelligence

agency. Well, at the time it was the OSS

in the 1940s, but it would become the

CIA. the one of their main logistical

points of contact and allies for the

resistance against Mussolini in Italy.

Mussolini was cracking down both on the

Vatican church and on the Italian mafia.

And so, uh, there were strange bed

fellas. There's a great book on this by

Paul Williams. I think it was published

in 2017. It's called Operation Gladadio,

the CIA, the Vatican, and the mob. And

it's I I recommend this book to everyone

because it's a really really detailed

academic

deep dive on this nexus between a

religious institution, an intelligence

agency,

uh an illegal organized crime syndicate

that does all manner of black ops. And

it especially focuses on the funding

relationship. In fact, this just came

out and this sort of gets to the utility

of these documents. There's an

incredible

document that just was released this

week where Larry Summers, who was the

head of the US Treasury, so not only was

he the head of Harvard University and

the and the head of the American money

system, um,

but he he says to he's trying to explain

to Jeffrey Epstein kind of the the

politics of what's happening in the

Vatican. And what he says to him is that

what's what's actually most important

going on right now is what's happening

with the Vatican bank, which is kind of

the uh the deep politics of the Vatican.

And you know, I saw this email and I

just, you know, laughed and did a

little, you know, twirly thing in my in

my chair because it's it's totally

unsurprising if you read, you know, that

book Operation Gladadio that I that I

mentioned,

it it traces 80 years of this because

the the Vatican Bank was the first

offshore bank before offshore banking

even existed.

It was util there was an alliance with

the Vatican bank during World War II

itself with our department of war and

with organized crime outfits at least

according to the evidence that I find

persuasive in this book and that uh

appears to be validated by Italian court

documents in the 1990s when all this was

litigated. Incidentally that was when

the mob was really prosecuted for the

first time.

But effectively what happened was is you

had strange bedfellows. You had the

United States who wanted to get rid of

Mussolini. You had the Vatican who

wanted to get rid of Mussolini. And you

had organized crime who wanted to get

rid of Mussolini. And because organized

crime is very deep in the logistics and

unions. They control the ports, they

control the the streets, they control

safe houses. Um, and if they have allies

in a bank, they are able to launder

money effectively in order to do black

market, you know, type trade.

And if you have for example the support

of the US government to facilitate that

that and there's protection offered to

those organized crime groups what what

you end up having having is effectively

state sponsored a a state sponsored

mafia with an untouchable bank. And at

the time the vat because and Larry

Summers explains this to to Jeffrey

Epstein in very simple terms which is

which is yeah here you go the most

important change in the Vatican may not

be Pope Benedict son retirement but

change in leadership of the Institute

for Works of Religion the bank the

Vatican's bank because the Vatican's

status as a sovereign country it's

exempt from transparency rules of not

only Italy but of the European Union.

This status allows its elite clients to

evade any scrutiny in their money

transfers. Last May, Vatican Bank

president was fired after Italian

authorities opened an investigation into

a far-flung bri bribery scheme. and he

goes through this, but what's what's

important here is the British when we

think of offshore banking now, it's it's

usually associated with

>> Cayman Islands,

>> Cayman Islands, you know, Jersey, man,

uh, Panama, uh, you know, but well,

Panama is sort of a different story, but

it it's usually associated with these

kind of small island countries that are

formerly, you know, kind of their own

territory, their own sort of sovereign

territory. You also see this within the

United States in

Indian Native American reservations with

these kind of autonomous zones that can

be shielded from certain kinds of um you

know public disclosures that a typical

finance institution

>> that's going on with Native American

banks.

>> Well, yeah. This this was actually part

of

>> is that connected to the casinos because

they have a lot of money from the

casinos.

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>> Yeah.

>> Wow.

>> Yeah. In fact, if you watch The Octopus

Murders, which I think was HBO or

Netflix or or one of those,

>> it's great. I haven't seen it, but I

It's awesome.

>> It's fantastic. And you know, it it it

goes through how this was used

effectively by the NSA during the

promise software scandal and the Iran

Contra scandal of the 1980s where you

had basically the NSA and then the US

government uh running money laundering

effectively through you know casinos on

uh on Native American sovereign

territory. But the fact is is in the

1940s, the Vatican Bank was really the

only game in town. This traces back at

the CIA level to a lawyer named Paul Hel

who was kind of the the architect of of

money laundering for for the CIA. And it

it didn't even start in well really

started with the the attempt to try to

stop Mao in the 1930s and 1940s.

Um there was there were the opium wars

in the 1830s where

effectively the British Empire

and you know the East India trading

company were making ungodly amounts of

money by selling opium to China. They

would grow the opium on the golden

crescent or India and then they would

sell it to China with a huge customer

base which would bring in huge amounts

of revenues to the British crown. Uh and

then there were two opium wars that were

fought in the 1830s

and 50s I believe around then or and the

opium wars were China's attempt to stop

the import of opium into China because

it had a huge by that point uh opium

addiction problem. Opium dens in China

were a massive issue within the country.

They tried to ban it and the British

crown pried open the narcotics market

through a military conquest of parts of

China. That's how Britain got control of

Hong Kong, which remains a major narco

narot trafficking site connected to

Jeffrey Epstein in very weird ways. I'll

just sidebar that. Uh but Mao rose to

power to re you know uh in the name of

his public campaign was about rejecting

the century of humiliation between the

1830s and the 1930s to support Shanghai

uh and the Quuoman Tang the Chinese

nationalists against the Chinese

communists. The war department couldn't

get enough congressional allocations

taxpayer money to support that. So they

had to find some way to finance the

forces that are now effectively Taiwan

because when they ultimately lost they

fled to the island of Formosa which is

now Taiwan. But they they financed that

initially, the war department, the the

Chinese nationalists through the

narcotics trade through the basically

the narcotics cultivated in the Golden

Triangle. And these operations continued

in Cambodia and Laos and were a big part

of the JFK

expansion of of covert operations to

this day in Fort Bragg. The you know the

special operations training center is

called the JFK.

This was a massive expansion of small

wars, covert action instead of big

military action. So it was mostly

spearheaded by CIA rather than DoD or

Department of War. But what happened was

is Paul Hawwell in in order to

be able to traffic illegal narcotics

created a bunch of these CIA banking

structures. One's called Castle Bank and

Trust uh in the Cayman Islands. Another

one hand in Australia. Uh and when you

have that, you know, friendly bank

that's protected, then you can move

drugs. This is this overworld underworld

alliance between intelligence and

organized crime because basically every

intelligence operation

is is a I don't want to say every, but

at the operational level, it's a crime.

It's an act of uh sabotage. It's an act

of subversion. It's an act of

obstruction. It's an act of illegal

surveillance. So, uh, in order to do a

illegal crime,

uh, you don't want to do it yourself

because then your fingerprints are on

the gun. But if you know people who do

illegal crimes for a living in an

organized way and have experience in

doing it, that allows you to be a very

useful extension and it gets justified

in the name of national security. The

illegal narcotics trade set up by Paul

Hawwell, who would go on to be the main

lawyer for Disney and set up Disney

World in Orlando. You can look all this

up. You can pull up Paul Hawwell's

Wikipedia or you can look at the history

of Disney or you can pull up Castle Bank

and Trust. You can put any one of these

up on screen. This is all fully

declassified. Uh and so they then took

that model to South South America and

Latin America and the Caribbean during

Operation Condor, Operation Mongoose.

And this is part of what gave r gave

rise to the Iran Contra that spawned

Jeffrey Epstein, which was the CIA got

busted running a the same thing it did

in in 1940s China, which was a drugs for

cash for guns operation. You cultivate,

you can't get enough money in USAD. You

know, in the 1940s, USAD didn't even

exist.

You You can't get enough money from US

taxpayer dollars. You can't get enough

money from private donors who will draft

off of the regime change for their own

profit. So, how do you get how do you

get your resistance rebels enough money?

It's that usually comes down to black

market trade, whether that's diamonds in

Africa, whether that's illegal mining

activities in South America, or whether

that's narcotics. And it's the the best

things to use for this kind of covert

financing are small fungeable physical

materials that can be converted into

large sums of cash. Uh you know, for

example, like a truck full of cocaine

can fund an army. Uh you know, a truck

full of copper can't. And so you had

this state sanctioned drug trade, this

state sanctioned illegal weapons

logistics apparatus, and the state

sanctioned money laundering apparatus

that started in the 1940s

and was utilized throughout the entirety

of of the cold war. the on on the mafia

side in the night

operation gladadio was this stay behind

network is what they what they said

basically these were um right-wing

groups many or some of which uh were

kind of Nazi adjacent who hated

communism and so even though we fought

against the Nazis in Mussolini and

Hitler in World War II there was a

utility to

preserving a certain homegrown domestic

network that really hated communism to

assist us on the ground in the war

against communism. And what you saw was

in Operation Gladadio, this was a

NATOwide

covert

network uh alliance of networks, a

network of networks that in basically

every one of the NATO countries there

was a cell or a number of cluster cells

that were set up in order to covertly

influence the domestic politics of the

country. And if you look at the members

of these cluster cells, there's some of

the,

you know, like Sylvio Berlescone was a

part of the the so-called P2 lounge uh

that was that came up in the operation

gladiopiles when the Italian government

uh basically put put all this on trial

in the 1990s. And that structure is

still used by intelligence today. If if

you go to my X feed and you look up uh

for example

Annapplebomb and the thread that I did

on the integrity initiative, if you just

put integrity initiative and I can I can

show you what these cluster cells look

like. Uh and it's it's a it's

fascinating to look at the

organizational structure of it. But I

guess what I'm what I'm getting to here

is with

with the mob and the Vatican at the at

that time that was the only game in town

for offshore banking if you wanted to

have a bank that had no oversight

whatsoever. When the British lost the

Suez Canal in 1957

and basically had to give up their

empire, this is during

decolonialization.

the the British Empire transitioned from

a physical empire to a financial empire

and moved heavily into offshore banking.

That's how you got these kind of you

know BVI British Virgin Islands Cayman

Islands you know Jersey man all these

kind of British offshore banking hubs

and with London as the capital of

international finance you you the

British Empire was was effectively able

to maintain a comparable level of

imperial vassal state control without

having physical troops or or physical

territorial control. And so the Vatican

Bank has lost a lot of its um rank, I

would say, in the international finance

system since the 1940s because the

market's so saturated now with offshore

banking hubs. But that explains what's

happening in this Larry Summers Jeffrey

Epstein exchange.

One of the weirder things about these

files is there's some stuff in there

that you go, okay, one thing that we

know happens is when something is true,

a bunch of stuff gets attached to it

that's both not true and also

preposterous that allows you to sort of

dismiss all of it together. There's a

lot of people thought about that with

Pizzagate and there's some stuff that I

saw online that was like George W. Bush

was like involved in ritual sacrifice or

you know things things along those lines

like killing babies and eating people

and wild [ __ ]

>> Yeah.

>> What do you think that stuff is?

>> I don't know. I I don't

>> Do you think it really occurs?

>> What I'll say is

this is a bad week to be a total

pizzagate deniialist. you had you you

would feel a lot more comfortable about

it a week ago than you would this week.

I don't particularly

focus or I don't want to say care. I

don't I don't my knowledge set on it is

a lot more limited on it because I don't

think it's a central crux of um

political influence. Uh, I don't know if

it's kind of almost a inside joke in a

certain way. Jeffrey Epstein himself in

these emails is unbelievably trolly. You

know, he'll he'll say things that are

the kind of, you know, [ __ ] posts you,

you say to a buddy or your, you know,

your brother or something that uh, you

don't mean, you know, it's tongue cheek.

But you if if you were a cynical out to

get you person who somehow obtained that

text message, you'd say, "Oh, look, he

said it." And so, so there's a lot of

that going on. But the fact is is I have

seen some I've seen a lot of images

shared uh around the time period of when

Pizzagate was popping off in 2016 that

all I'll say is it doesn't it doesn't

look good or easily explainable. At the

same time, a lot of those screenshots I

have not, you know, for for most of

these for the things I've posted about

or that I'm talking about here, I've

gone to the Justice Department file.

I've looked up the file number.

confirmed whether or not the screenshot

is actually what it is. For those I have

not yet. Uh but I I would not

I wouldn't feel totally confident saying

there's no there there. But that's

that's about as far as as I can go on

that.

>> When you say images, what are you

talking about?

>> Well, there's a lot of you know, if you

look up pizza, for example, it's just as

a keyword search, you'll see or cheese

or something. Um,

it looks like, you know, in the in the

DOJ

database for these new files, uh, you'll

see a lot of things of people talking

about pizza in a way that

>> it seems like a code.

>> It's kind of impossible to

>> to imagine

>> to do to a pizza. That's about Okay.

>> You know what I mean? Uh but I don't to

me there's so much real world provable

things in there and also so many kind of

more real world implications

of allegations that are made in the

files that kind of

uh you know should be explained. Uh,

like a common mistake that I see going

around on social media this week is

people, it kind of gets the reason that

the FBI

and the president was arguing that these

files shouldn't be released in the first

place, which is that people would take

things out of context and wildly uh, you

know, and think things are true that are

not because they're baseless allegations

made by, you know, some anonymous

tipster and but because it's in an FBI

file, people will think it's true. Now,

I don't think that's a reason not to

release these. I'm extremely glad these

were released.

What I'm saying is is I've seen that

phenomenon, you know, run away and and

some of this I know is

kind of uh baseless in terms of the

factual evidence because some of the

people

one of the confidential human sources

for example that is cited you know the

first day of the drop there was this

kind of bombshell claim uh in the I

think this is probably the most viral

post the first day of the DOJ release

which was a confidential human source.

CHS means of FBI informant

uh who the FBI internal memo describes

how this confidential human source

reported that Alan Dersitz was a MSAD

agent and after every meeting he goes

back and tells his FB his MSAD handlers

you know what what they talked about and

you go oh my god it's an FBI

confidential human source the FBI

wouldn't you know pay an informant

unless they found them credible for this

sort of thing. On the very next page of

the files, it says President Trump, I'm

paraphrasing, you can pull this up if

you if you want. Um, you know, President

Trump is controlled by the government of

Israel and they have I forget if he says

they have blackmail or something to this

effect. Now, I don't know whether either

of those things are true or not. I don't

know what you know any more than anybody

else who's done research on this.

Certainly there's a lot of overlap

between Duritz and the Israeli

government and high level Israeli

officials. So in that sense if that were

to be reported I don't know that it

would be the

who knows about whether that's true or

not. It's but it plays into a kind of

confirmation bias that a lot of people

have. And so when you see that in an FBI

file the first thing your instinct is if

you're you know if that's your

journalism beat is to is to write all

about it and get millions of views. And

same thing, there's a MAGA civil war

right now that's happening over issues

around Israel. It's, you know, you say,

"Oh my god, it's been proven. The FBI

knows that." Well, uh, Ken Silva, who's

a journalist, shortly after that

published, uh, a tweet containing a file

that had much less engagement where he

said, "Actually, I I actually have a

copy of this document." Again, I'm

paraphrasing here. Uh where it matches

that document file number. It's got the

same text and it looks like the that

confidential human source is Chuck

Johnson. Now, I saw that and I went, "Oh

my god." Because one morning I woke up

to a text from that very person saying,

"This is about 2 years ago. I'd never

met him, never talked to him, don't have

his number. Somehow he got mine and

messaged me on Signal to turn myself in

because I'm going to prison. He then

proceeded to look up um my exwife and

make allegations that I was a MSAD agent

because she was a uh she was a a

prostitute from a from a foreign country

and involved in all these, you know,

MSAD black ops type things. Now, he

didn't get the name right. He found a a

different person with a similar spelling

that uh you know was I guess busted for

prostitution or something and then makes

these giant claims on social media that

uh you know I had been like married to a

foreign spy prostitute or something.

Then he goes on to message someone he

thinks is my donor and threaten them to

cut off funds because if he doesn't then

I've made the intelligence community

very angry and they have deputized him

to tell the person he thought was my

donor that the intelligence services of

the United States of America will crush

the businesses of someone he thought was

my donor if he doesn't cut off the funs

he thought that person was giving to me.

Okay, this is that confidential human

source or at least according to the

reporting of of Ken Silva. uh

that the level of things that are untrue

about that uh

combined with the fact that this very

person is going around

uh saying that not he's not just an FBI

informant but that he actually can

direct the intelligence agencies of the

United States to crush someone's private

practice if they don't change the you

know

discretionary

donations

to someone like that's the person you're

saying

that person's

uh you know comments to a FBI

officer or you know uh task force prove

these claims about Duritz and Trump.

I mean that's that's ridiculous. I I

know firsthand that there's zero

credibility to those claims. Now, they

may be true or not, but the fact is is,

you know, there's there's a lot of

context to to all of these.

What is just because it's said in an FBI

file does not make it true. We learned

that lesson in Russia gate. We learned

that lesson with the steel dossier. Uh

but you know that I think that same sort

of caution and prudence should be

applied with these uh and I think

ultimately the truth wins out on these

things. It just you know takes longer

than you might want to.

It's so

tangled. You know, the whole thing is

just I think everybody who looks at it

realizes this is a rabbit hole that just

goes to the center of the earth and

there's so many people involved in that.

What do you Here's here's the big

question that people ask. If there was a

Jeffrey Epstein and it seems like all

these things he was involved in, is

there a Jeffrey Epstein right now that

we don't know about?

>> There's a million of them.

>> A million of I mean this is why this is

why I I find the con this you know this

is not the core of what I focus on. Um

but I find it re a really interesting

field of study because it helps

understand so many other US government

institutions and the relationship

between government and private business.

Jeffrey Epstein is

part of a class of what are effectively

professional fixers.

And this is this is a a kind of class of

professional who sits

not really within a particular

government or private sector institution

but in the kind of sticky layer between

them that connects them all. And

I would say that for example people like

Mark Rich, Bruce Rapaort, uh and I can

go through all these figures and who

they are. Robert Mayhew and these types

um are just good case studies in how the

intelligence world the business

community uh you know uses like let's

take an example of Bruce Rapaort and and

this is a you can pull up on screen if

uh if you want there's a great article I

think it's called uh I think it's from

1988 or 1991 it's called uh intrigue in

high places, oil pipeline, Iraq,

uh, and then just Bruce Rapaort, it's RA

P. Yeah, here you go. Uh, pipeline deal

intrigue in high places. And I I'll

describe what what happens here in a

second. In fact, there's a great YouTube

video on this as well. Uh if you look up

uh Bruce just on on YouTube uh Bruce

Rapaort 1988 there's a great kind of

couple minute summary of all this but

effectively what happened was

and let me start this by just Jeffrey

Epstein got to Bear Sterns in 1966

I'm sorry 1976

and then worked there until 1980.

Sorry, just because you have on screen

maybe

>> may maybe maybe I'll go through this

first and then I'll do the Jeff because

the Jeffrey Epstein connections. So what

happened here was you had the Iran Iraq

war from 1980 to 1988

and Henry Kissinger had a really great

quote about this because he asked what

is the US government strategy on this

because it's very convoluted

and you know why are we why are we

giving

weapons to Iran when the Iranian

revolution just happened in 1979

that

you know overthrew what was a US

governmentfriendly

government that was partially installed

by the CIA in 1953.

We're we've now declared an

international arms embargo on them. You

know, we're we're basically at war with

the Ayatollah. Why are we why are we

giving them weapons and helping them uh

you know, defeat Iraq? And you know, the

issue was is we were also in a kind of

uh

war over regional hedgeimonyy and oil

with with Iraq.

And so Henry Kissinger's quote was, "I

my only wish is that both sides would

lose, could lose." And so what happened

was is because we didn't want Iraq to

take over Iran and become effectively

bigger than Saudi Arabia in the region,

we were we were funding the and and

giving weapons to Iran to try to fend

off the much bigger Iraqi army. And then

at at a certain point in this uh we we

began to back Iraq. We went back and

forth supporting Iran Iraq. And so the

this Iraq because of the embargos on it

wanted to build a pipeline to get its

oil out and it was going to pass through

Jordan and it was going to abut against

the border of Israel. and a major

CIA contractor and CIA connected private

business called Becttel. Highly highly

influential

company. Uh there's been many many many

books written on Becttel. Some of uh and

Becttel is alive and well today. If

there was a saga for example around the

Stanford internet observatory if around

the censorship industrial complex when I

when I visited the Stanford internet

observatory and I went to the courtyard

courtyard is sponsored by Becttel. It's

I think it's called the Becttel

courtyard. Uh and but but what happened

was is

the

Becktel was promised by Iraq a billion

dollar contract in in 198 you know 80s

money for constructing this pipeline

and the Central Intelligence Agency and

the White House National Security

Council both for geostrategic reasons

wanted this pipeline built. The problem

was is they were afraid the Israeli

government was going to sabotage the

pipeline because Iraq was

very hostile to Israel and there was a

lot of tension between the Iraqi

government and the Israeli government

and they were afraid that if Becttel got

this contract and built this pipeline

that Israel would some s you know these

pipelines are very fragile and all it

because it passes close to it it's very

possible that that would that would

happen. It would destroy both the CIA's

goal and the private profiteer Becktel's

goal.

So, how do you solve that problem? Well,

what what the CIA did is

what the what the National Security

Council, which is the inter agency that

the CIA reports to, did is they engaged

a private fixer named Bruce Rapaort, who

was a Swiss billionaire with close ties

to the Israeli government to back

channel with the Israeli government,

some sort of secret agreement that would

guarantee

that they would not sabotage the

pipeline and because the attorney

general of the United States now again

think about this as well as I'm saying

this think about Jeffrey Epstein and

think about the character of Bill Barr

for example who started his career for

seven years at the CIA was highly

involved in the CI's Iran Contra and

then was attorney general

both in the 1990s during the Epstein

connected BCCI scandal and the you know

when Jeffrey Epstein killed himself or

or whatever happened to him. What so

what what happens is is is

Bruce Rapaort does indeed use his

contacts with the Israeli government to

uh strike an agreement that then allows

uh the pro would allow the project to be

green lit. But it triggers a special

prosecutor's investigation of the

attorney general himself, Ed Me, because

he one of his friends

was alleged to be in on the deal. So

they they argued that effectively there

were that they that through Bruce

Rapaort, the attorney general, was

striking a secret agreement with Israel

to profit himself

uh a massive conflict of interest.

And what what ended up happening is

Bruce Rapaort Rapaort stepped forward

and said, "No, no, no. It wasn't to

profit the the terms weren't to profit

the friend. It was the the terms we

secretly reached with Israel is that

they were going to get like a 30% cut on

the revenue of the pipeline and that's

what secured the buyin." But the fact is

is Bruce Rapaort was not

uh

this. Now the other part of this is that

the National Security Council told the

basically the overseas development arm

of of the US government, former US

government agency

to uh to put American taxpayer funds to

help subsidize the pipeline that the

Becttel pipeline

and that government agency did not want

to put up something like $400 million of

taxpayer funds on it because they

thought Bruce Rapaort was a very shady

Epstein-like figure who had all sorts of

sorted, you know, details about his own

past.

So that government agency queried the

CIA for all records about Bruce Rapaort

and the CIA gave them a limited hangout.

They said, "Oh, you know, we only have a

few documents that are responsive to it

and no red flags." As it turned out,

what the special prosecutor compelled

from the CIA is that they they had a

whole dirty dossier on Bruce Rapaort.

And if they had given that to to the US

government agency, there wouldn't there

couldn't have been support for the

pipeline. Now, after all this scandal,

the pipeline ended up not being built.

But the the point is is here you have a

the same type of person as Jeffrey

Epstein, the same regions and countries

that are, you know, involved in a

significant part of the Epstein saga.

You have the same structure of the

intelligence community, private

businesses and, you know, back channel

deals with government officials. But

because uh

there was no 2011 file on Bruce Rapaort,

he was not formerly a CIA asset. He was

he was what you know what's called a a

liaison, a a contact, a facilitator, a

friend of the station. Doesn't work for

the CI. He's got his own hedge fund.

He's got his own, you know, basically

finance. You know, he'll invest in

commodities or foreign exchange or

private portfolio companies.

But sometimes he'll work with the CIA,

sometimes he won't. Depends on whether

it's good for him.

And in this case, he thought it was good

for him to to take this. Who knows what

cut he himself got on it. But the fact

is is

here here you have the same type of oper

you have every layer of this from the

justice department to the CIA to the

private financeers to the to the private

companies to real world geopolitical

action and this appears in in my view of

it to be exactly the model that Jeffrey

Epstein uh himself replicated and and

was on parallel track with for his whole

career. career, you know, he's and and I

can I can get into that, but but does

that make sense in terms of like the

this type of figure exists in basically

in every country, in every industry? Uh,

and you know, they're not all as

prominent as Epstein, but I would argue

people like Mark Rich and at the time

Bruce Rapaort kind of were. They don't

all have, you know, these child sex

trafficking type things. This is the

thing is like what he was connected

with. It makes me wonder like if he

didn't have that sick thing where he

liked underage girls like if he'd never

gotten arrested which was what 2008 or

something. What when did he initially

get arrested?

>> Uh 2006 but but he he was the plea deal

was 2008. Yeah. So, if that hadn't

happened, like if you just got a guy

who's getting of age prostitutes,

we probably never hear about this.

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can imagine very easily

why because Epstein was involved in

fraudulent financial activities his

entire career. Uh he was under SEC

investigation

at Bayer Sterns in 1980 when he was uh

involved in a deal I think it was St.

Joe's Mineral Company which is um owned

by serums which is you know owned by the

the Bronin family.

uh he he got in trouble with the SEC at

that time. He then as soon as he got in

trouble, he left Beer Sterns and went

out on his own, but then worked

effectively at Beer Sterns off the book

for the next decade according to his own

testimony. He had a continuous

relationship with Beer Sterns for, you

know, I think he said 31 years. It was

basically from the moment, you know,

from from the 1970s,

1976 until 2007208 when Beer Sterns

collapsed while Jeffrey Epste was in

jail.

Um, but then Jeffrey Epstein in it

appears to me almost impossible that

Jeffrey Epste was not working on BCCI

pipeline deals while he was at Beer

Sterns. BC Bear Sterns was one of the

was one of the three biggest

uh clearing houses for for BCCI

transactions. BCCI is the Bank of Credit

and Commerce International. Sometimes

people call it the Bank of Crooks and

Criminals International. Uh it's it's

it's a incredible saga of CIA banking

gone wrong. It's it's a bank that was

started in Pakistan in 1972

and then grew to be the CIA's main way

to covertly back the mujaheden against

the the Russians during the cold war.

So, we backed Osama bin Laden, the CIA.

We backed the uh you know Islamic

mujaheden, the the radicals who became

al-Qaeda and ISIS

uh with billions of dollars of CIA and

MI6 and Israeli and Saudi facilitated

um you know co-support and financial uh

funds uh in order to do a cold war

operation just like we talked about with

Strange Bed Fellows. uh you know get uh

backing right-wing organized crime to

stop left-wing communism. We did the

same thing in Afghanistan

uh through you know these the Pakistan

Afghanistan border to run covertly run

guns to the mujaheden. In fact you can

there's a great YouTube video that I

always like to play so that you can see

it for yourself. Uh it's it's really

short. You can look up 1979 Zabnu

Brazinski dropping out of a helicopter

to tell the mujahedin that uh both God

and the United States government is on

their side. And the reason this clip I I

always think is so fun to play is

because this was the very moment in 1979

that Jeffrey Epstein appears to have

been uh involved in the BCCI financing

of this very operation. So if you if you

turn the volume up and you start at the

beginning

>> America's road

US national security adviser Bjinski

flew to Pakistan to set about rallying

resistance. He wanted to arm the

mujahedin without revealing America's

role

on the Afghan border near the Kaiba

pass. He urged the soldiers of God to

redouble their efforts.

>> We know of their deep belief in God and

we are confident that their struggle

will succeed.

You know, that land over there is yours.

You'll go back to it one day because

your fight will prevail and you'll have

your homes and your mosques back again

because your cause is right and God is

on your side.

>> Now, that is

that is the National Security Adviser of

the United States of America. The

national security adviser is the highest

post in the cabinet. It is the person

the president talks to every day. All

intelligence,

war, military and statecraftraft goes

through the national security adviser

that is the numero uno.

And he personally in 1979, you know,

this didn't come out until years later,

but we were covertly doing this. So to

do a covert operation, and this is why I

focus on the money side of Epstein from

the 1970s to present because

the money in any covert operation is the

most essential part. It's the only thing

that is irreplaceable and that if you

don't have it, everything goes away. You

lose one person, find another one. Uh

you uh you know, you lose one

uh you know, logistics hub can create

another one with money. You lose money,

you lose everything. You lose your

ability to pay your informants. You lose

your ability to bribe government

officials. You lose your ability to uh

you know win the support of local

institutions. You we lost Vietnam

not really so much because we lost you

know to at the the kinetic war level but

because we lost the ability to fund it

because it got defunded. So we we

literally couldn't do it anymore.

And the there's another great clip just

to show how sophisticated CI

moneyaundering was even by the 1960s.

Sorry, I'll I'll stop doing this after,

you know, running around clip to clip

after this or I'll I'll chill on it. But

if you if you go to my exount, you can

also find this on YouTube. Um there's a

great I believe it was CBS uh in in the

1960s. It's called in the pay uh I think

it's called in the pay of the CIA or in

the uh it's but if you type in CI

moneyaundering you'll see this this

great clip about how sophisticated CI

moneyaundering was already by the 1950s

and60s

and the

that because everything the CIA does has

to be laundered. It's a spy agency. If

it writes a check,

if it doesn't conceal

the origins of the money, gigs up. So

everything that is CIA has to move

through some sort of moneyaundering

mechanism.

Well, you know, to to kind of I guess

uh borrow a phrase from from the

president, somebody's doing the

moneyaundering.

You need a you need outside contacts who

do not work at the agency or necessarily

for the agency to facilitate that

moneyaundering

and that was done through for example

the Pakistanis with the BCCI as well as

contacts in in London. That is what I

believe Jeffrey Epstein was doing his

entire career after that. From Towers

Financial to his tenure with Lesie

Wexner uh to kind of the way I think

that he helped model the Clinton

Foundation itself with the Clintons in

the early 2000s uh and his expertise in

that I think is is what made him useful.

really not. Well, it's more the the

connections of I guess uh you know

donors and billionaires around him that

made him the most useful. But the fact

is is he specialized when he went out on

his own formally. He leaves Bear Sterns

in 1981 and starts a one-man group

called Intercontinental Assets Group out

of his New York City apartment. He's not

even 30 years old. right away he gets

big level clients like Adnan Kosigible

who is the uh at the time was alleged to

be the world's richest man. He was the

Saudi arms dealer and to give an

impression of how significant this

figure was in the uh weapons trade. He

was he he earned more in commissions

from Loheed Martin uh Boeing and I think

one of the other big military

contractors than every other commissions

agent in the entire world combined.

That's why you know there were rumors

that he was the world's richest man. He

in fact we actually had legislation

passed because of how influential he

was. He was the one who in 1983

uh flew to the National Security Council

to the White House um to

orchestrate the Iran Contra affair. He

was the Saudi middleman

uh that

was part of this operation where the

United States uh used the Saudi

middleman Adnan Kosigible to uh run guns

to Israeli contacts to smuggle into Iran

to fight off the Iraqis. I know it's a

bit of a long sequence, but effectively

you can think of it as United States and

Israel with Saudi Arabia in the middle.

Now, Adnan Kosigible was one of the

major clients of the CIA's BCCI Bank,

and he was the host of the CIA's

offshore operation that was created in

1976 called the Safari Club. Uh, in in

1975, 1976 when the CIA started getting

handcuffs put on it with the Church

Committee hearings.

Jeffrey Epstein starts his career at

Beer Sterns in 1976, the very moment of

the biggest shakeup of the CIA in CIA

history. At at that moment, the Church

Committee hearings were ongoing and the

public was seeing,

you know, uh, Colby and Angleton holding

up a heart attack gun. Uh, you know, how

the CIA can kill someone and make it

look like they died organically of a

heart attack. Operation Chaos had just

broke about the CIA funding student

groups on American college campuses.

COINTEL broke. Uh MK Ultra broke. It was

one House of Horrors after another on

everybody's TV that only had three news

stations.

And so Democrats were completely fired

up about getting rid of the CIA or

putting massive handcuffs on it, which

is which is what they did. They created

effectively what's now the Senate and

House Intelligence Committee. So there's

oversight of the CIA by the the People's

Representatives. The um the first year

Carter was in office in 1977 went

through the what was called the

Halloween massacre, fired 30% of all CIA

operations

uh personnel. They massively cut

funding.

And so in response to this, you had a

set of stakeholders who wanted that CIA

dirty work to still be doable, but they

didn't have the legal authorization to

run it out of the CIA. So what they did

is they took the same group of

international partners that they had

been that the CIA had been working with,

that includes Saudi Arabia, Israel, the

UK, France, at the time, Iran, because

this was before the 1979 Iranian

revolution. They were all a part of this

thing called the Safari Club which got

its name from the uh Mount Safari. It

was basically a resort club in Kenya

which was the main hub just like

Colombia for example is kind of the main

was the main US government hub for

logistics. It was kind of a foothold for

our ability to do work in Venezuela or

Guatemala or Nicaragua or Brazil. In

Africa, Kenya was our main stronghold.

And so but Anak Kosogi ran that this was

basically a 78 country joint covert

operations intelligence

network and it was informal. It wasn't

technically the CIA. Uh and it was set

up in you can pull the Wikipedia for

this actually just so you don't need to

take my word for it. Like literally the

sanitized Wikipedia will will tell you

everything that I'm I'm saying here. And

it ended up that network ended up

becoming one of the main

Yeah. Yeah. So if you start at the top,

you'll see that that there it is on the

right. The fire club. It was a covert

alliance of intelligence services formed

in 1976 that ran clandestine operations

in Africa. Now what they're leaving out

here is that it was also Asia played a

huge role in Pakistan and uh Afghanistan

and the like. But these were all these

different countries

attempt to offset the restrictions that

the Democrats had put on the CIA. When

Reagan gets back to power in 1981,

you still have these handcuffs on the on

the CIA. You still have the the

Democrats controlling the House of

Representatives. The Democrats

did, you know, so there was an

international arms embargo. First of

all, in 1979, the Iranian revolution

happens and it's blamed on the CIA being

cut back. The CIA helped install the Sha

in 1953.

They argued that if Jimmy Carter hadn't

destroyed the CIA, we would still have

Iran as a friendly country. We could

have stopped this. We could have nipped

it in the bud. We could have had people

on the ground. It's Jimmy Carter's fault

that he that he cut the CI that we're in

this disaster with the world's third

largest reserve of of oil and gas and

this hugely geostrategic

country now being an enemy of America

rather than a friend. The the so an

international arms embargo was put on

Iran, but then Iraq threatened to invade

it and we didn't want Iraq to take it

over. So we had to get we had to do

something illegal if we wanted to help

Iran. And it was against international

law to give them weapons. But if we

didn't give them weapons, it was

perceived massive geostrategic

geopolitical earthquake that we'd live

with for centuries.

So you had to do one illegal action with

with the gun running. And then there was

a inner party dispute. The Democrats at

that time uh the majority did not want

to do

intervention in Nicaragua. Uh there was

a imparty power uh called the the

Sandinista government and there was a a

rebel faction called the Contras and

Republican donors and stakeholders had

had interests in Nicaragua and wanted to

help the Contras overthrow the

Sandinista government.

But there was a party dispute. Democrat

donors didn't profit from that and they

at the time had a fairly robust

anti-imperialism kind of mindset and

were sick of CIA regime change in by the

early 1980s after everything that was

disclosed in just the previous years. So

Republicans wanted to overthrow the

Nicaraguan governments. Democrats

didn't. Democrats had a House majority

and they passed something called the

Bolan Amendment which forbade any US

government funds from going to support

the Contras. So this put the the

Republicans in a pickle. By the way,

this is what's happening kind of today

around Ukraine. If you flip the parties,

100% of Democrats vote for Ukraine

funding. The Republican party is split

about it. This is the inverse of that

was happening in the early 1980s. 100%

of Republicans wanted to fund the

Contras against what they called the

Soviet aligned uh Sandinistas

and the Democrats were split but but

they successfully pass this bull

amendment. So the CIA was in a pickle.

How do you run guns to Iran when it's

against international law? And how do

you fund the Contras when it's illegal

to spend US government money to fund

them? And uh so what they came up with

is effectively the structure I think

it's the most useful structure for

understanding

uh American statecraft and intelligence

activity to this day. What what they

came up with is what they called a

structure called the enterprise which

the CI director Bill Casey referred to

as a private self-sustained

offtheshelf

standalone entity that did not exist

within the US government but ex but was

instead it comprised

the money came from outside fixers

who would then effectively channel donor

money and black market trade

to fund the contras.

So the money didn't come from US

taxpayers. It didn't come from US aid.

It didn't come from an allocation from

the US Department of War or or foreign

assistance from the Department of State.

As it turned out, the money came from,

you know, cocaine and uh and a couple of

other things. But uh you know that this

was the you know the famous

>> freeway Ricky Ross.

>> Yeah. Gary Webb, you know, John Kerry.

>> Uh and

the the this was the soup that Jeffrey

Epstein was was coming up in. And you

know funny story related to this is that

the the main airline used to transport

the drugs and guns in the drugs for cash

for guns operation

was a CI proprietary airline called

Southern Air Transport.

Uh, Southern Air Transport was

was the proprietary CIA airliner,

meaning it was owned and operated

exclusively by the Central Intelligence

Agency.

And it was the, you know, the airliner

that all these aircraft went uh moved

through.

Iran Contra was basically the early

1980s up until like the mid late 1980s.

in 19 it was it was based in Miami.

In 1994,

Southern Air Transport, the CIA

proprietary airline, which in the

intervening time was spun out to not be

owned by the CIA, but rather to be owned

by someone who had worked for the CIA.

Uh,

at the time it was owned by the CIA. So,

you know, pretty thin layer there. But

it moved from Miami to Columbus, Ohio,

primarily to service the Limited.

>> Oh, I know all about this, Joe.

>> I have I have a I have a video on this.

And in fact,

>> look over it, Jamie, because he's

obsessed.

>> Yeah. In fact,

>> he's obsessed with Patel.

>> Yeah, I probably told you about this 5

years ago.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. Okay. Well, there's a great

article, I think, uh, Spook Air

>> and, um,

>> you know, on this, but

>> how many roads lead back to Ohio? Uh

most most if not all.

>> What is what is this connection with

Ohio?

Well, Ohio was, you know, if you

remember kind of the origins of of

organized crime in the United States

really goes back to the prohibition era

when you had

this Midwestern

mafia syndicate around Cincinnati and

then it moved into Dayton and Columbus

and adjacent to Chicago and this whole

sort of hub.

around prohibition and then prohibition

was 1920 to 1933.

When prohibition ended, all these

networks went from black market alcohol

to black market drugs because it was no

longer black market. They no longer had

a business smuggling alcohol. So they

they moved into the narcotic space.

>> Which ones? Which which narcotics?

>> Well, uh it was primarily opium in the

1930s. This was part of

>> opium

>> really.

>> Well, yeah. If you because in the 1930s

was when you had as you know as we

discussed the department of wars

alliance with Changhai

and the and the Quuoman Tang the Chinese

nationalists the the supply for

you know uh

the supply for heroin for example or you

know opium it comes from Asia comes from

the golden crescent the golden triangle

and the way this logistics chain moved

was are CIA war departmentbacked

rebel groups in Asia. They sat

territorially on the Golden Triangle.

They would cultivate the opium. They

would

basically fly it out on military

aircraft. uh it went to Europe for

processing in

uh you know France was one of the main

uh you know this is this kind of French

connection saga which again Jeffrey

Epstein is weirdly connected to and I

can tell you about that if you're

interested and then it would go to the

basically Italian mafia folks

for the trans shipment and you had the

Italian mafia controlled docks and ports

in the United States and New York and

New Jersey And you had, you know, CIA

protected Italian mafia groups in

southern Italy, which at the time were

national security protected because they

were our allies against the communists.

And so you had this this drug trade to

support foreign policy imperatives. And

you you can do that you can run that

exercise with pretty much every drug on

planet Earth at this point. And it makes

it very difficult to stop the drug trade

because by stopping the drug trade, you

are you're running up against something

that your own government considers

a perhaps unfortunate but necessary

logistics hub.

>> Do you think that's happening right now

with Mexico?

>> Yeah.

>> Whoa.

>> Well, I mean, think about this. Fast and

Furious.

>> Yeah.

>> Wasn't that long ago?

>> The Fast and Furious story is [ __ ]

bananas. Tell it to people that don't

know because just the idea that they

proposed this and implemented it is so

[ __ ] crazy.

>> Yeah. Well, so this was a scandal during

the Obama administration. Eric Holder

was the attorney general of the United

States. He had to step down because he

was held in contempt of Congress for

jumping on the grenade and not turning

over the Fast and Furious files. Um,

Earth to Congress, note to Congress, who

wants to be a hero, by the way. Um, you

can do the same thing with the Epstein

bill with the Fast and Furious files.

Uh, I think everybody in this war on

drugs that, you know, we're so gung-ho

about, we just captured the president of

Venezuela over drugs. It would be

awfully nice if you compelled the

Justice Department and FBI to turn over

the Justice Department and FBI run Fast

and Furious files. But what happened was

is and I believe this had inter agency

approval, meaning the the White House

signed off on it, the Central

Intelligence Agency signed off on it,

the Department of Defense signed off on

it, the State Department signed off on

it, the FBI and ATF signed off on it.

This was a gununning operation to send

guns to the Sinaloa cartel to uh to have

them be able to successfully win a narco

drug war against the Losas cartel. The

Lozus cartel was pilfering oil

pipelines. Remember, Mexico, the oil

wealth of the United States is vastly

disproportionately concentrated in

Texas,

in West Texas and southern Texas where

it shares oil fields with Mexico.

Effectively, those oil fields go into

Mexico is replete with oil and there are

many partnerships between United States

oil companies and the Mexican government

uh PEMX and and all the different, you

know, kind of private private lines and

this is a big point of geopolitical

contention. But the fact is is one of

the things that organized crime groups

do in order to get money for their own

syndicate because they've got

effectively military control of a

territory is if a pipeline runs through

that territory, they can simply cut open

the pipeline and steal the oil. This is

for example what you know was happening

with our CIA backed uh rebel groups in

Syria. We're taking the oil. I mean, we

would literally, you know, our our

spunky moderate rebels would, you know,

literally cut open Syrian pipelines and

take the oil. And this was one of the

ways to support it, you know, you can

support it with drugs, you can support

it with black market oil. And by the

way, I while I'm on the topic,

uh if you if you pull up and I have this

on my my ex, if you type in uh Institute

uh Institute for Peace or in uh just

type in Institute Peace Drugs,

the the the US government, the US

Institute for Peace

told the Taliban not to shut down the

drug trade after they took power in

2022. They said it would have a

devastating

uh you know negative impact on the econ

you know the local economy if they

didn't keep growing what was then you

know 90 95%

of the well yeah if you well I think

click the next image

uh wait next image

yeah here you go so this is this is a

you know we give the US Institute of

Peace at the time we gave them $55

million a year the US Institute of Peace

was created by active Congress. This

headline is wild. The Taliban successful

opium ban is bad for Afghans and the

world.

>> Yes.

>> Right.

Right. So,

>> wow.

>> Now, remember just about,

you know, um

the Taliban had just taken back power.

That happened in the, you know, in the

early Biden administration. The Taliban,

if folks recall,

cut. So we the CIA was help and and the

US military as well as their allies and

with regional allies were cultivating

the opium on the golden crescent

for a noble cause to win the cold war

against the evil Soviets to this was a

big part of the funding for the muja

and this was one of the big scandals

that ended up enveloping BCCI the CIA's

bank because it was the way because it

was non-compliant with any banking

regulations. It all moved offshore.

The drug money the the drug logistics

chain that the CIA built for the

mujaheden then moved through the drugs

money laundering chain at the CIA bank.

And this apparatus had scaled for 20

years by the by the late 1990s when the

Taliban like the Chinese wanted to shut

it down when the Taliban took power in

the 1990s.

And they did that. They cut the OPM down

to effectively zero in 1999. And this is

all open source in two. And then you

know we we invade Afghanistan and

you know uh 2001 2003

uh it becomes a US military occupied

zone and it goes from 0% of the world's

heroin to 95% of the of the world's

heroin all under US military occupation.

In fact, we installed their dictator

um you know who whose brother was uh was

the main drug kingpin of the whole

country. It's and some of this moved

through um some of this moved through

the

cold war CIA backed uh uh Turkish

Greywolves outfit. And uh there's a

funny quote I think in the Michael

Hastings article on uh

Stanley Mcrist where Stanley Mcrist's

team refers to u Hameid Carzi's funny

little hat that he wore. Hamid Carzi was

the CIA installed uh you know strongman

uh after we we took over Afghanistan. He

referred to his hat as the Greywolf's

vagina. I mean the basically saying like

this is the you know the drug logistics

orifice. But leaving that aside, what

what I'm what I'm getting to is is you

you have this this banking network.

You have all these logistics chains.

Jeffrey Epstein

his first 10 when his comeup is made

through this through this whole network.

It turns out that Bear Sterns, you

opened a trading desk with to to clear

BCCI transactions in 197 1978.

Um Jeffrey Epstein's mentor, the person

who who actually recruited him to apply

to Bear Sterns was a guy named Ace

Greenberg. Ace Greenberg then was a

senior executive at the time and then I

think in 1978 or 1979

he becomes CEO so the head of Beer

Sterns. So Jeff and he sets Jeffrey

Epstein up with his daughter. So Jeffrey

Epstein is a is a young kid. People

wonder how did Jeffrey Epste make

partner at Beer Sterns so fast? Well,

there's a couple explanations. You know,

one is the guy who brought him into the

firm quickly became CEO thereafter.

and Jeffrey Epstein was dating his

daughter. The New York Times actually

reported this about a month and a half

ago uh by getting the insider testimony

of a dozen people who worked at who

worked at Bear Sterns at the time. And

so, you know, he's dating the boss's

daughter, but also Ace Greenberg as the

CEO

would have to approve all of these

transactions and it looks like was

involved in, you know, these these

clearing house activities. What happened

was is uh Bear Sterns cleared

about $13 billion worth of BCCI

transactions. And it looks like these

transactions were involved in the very

same Adnan Kosigible, so Saudi and Doug

Lease, who was a British arms dealer

that Jeffrey Epstein was flying to

London to meet with and working with all