"A Nation Betrayed"
A Public Lecture
in
St. Mary's Cathedral,
San Francisco, California
by
Lieutenant Colonel James "Bo" Gritz
(U.S. Army-Retired)
June 1, 1990
(An Unofficial Transcript)
Introduction by a member of
The Committee for Open Government
There are many people still coming in. So we're going to wait
just a few minutes, and please help yourself to coffee while
you're waiting.
I'd like to ask everyone to please be seated. We're going to get
started.
Good evening everyone, and welcome to our public lecture with
Retired Colonel James Gritz [rhymes with "nights"]. Tonight's
lecture is sponsored by a local volunteer group. We call
ourselves The Committee for Open Government. Our Group supports
the work of the Christic Institute.
The Christic Institute is a national, non-profit, inter-faith
center for law and public policy. They have a Washington, D.C.
headquarters, and a local office here in San Francisco. Since
its founding in 1980, the Christic Institute has won some of the
most celebrated public interest law suits of this decade. One
that is especially well known is the case against Kerr-McGee
Nuclear Power Company that was won for the family of Karen
Silkwood. It is to benefit the work of the Christic Institute in
maintaining our freedoms, and the form of constitutional
government in the United States, that we sponsored this benefit
tonight and asked Colonel Gritz to join us.
Right now, just to give you a sense of what the Christic
Institute is doing, they're advancing a federal civil suit on
behalf of two U.S. journalists. The journalists are named Tony
Avirgan and Martha Honey. Tony Avirgan was a victim of a bomb
blast in 1984 while he was attending a press conference in La
Penca, Nicaragua. Tony Avirgan and his wife Martha Honey
investigated that bombing, as have others, and the evidence
revealed that the La Penca press conference was bombed in an
attempt to assassinate the anti-Sandinista leader Eden Pastora.
Pastora, just prior to this press conference, had refused to go
along with a plan to organize the Contras, which was set forth by
a covert team of U.S. military and intelligence agents.
Full examination of the circumstances of the La Penca bombing
identified a pattern of criminal activity conducted by the secret
operations team. Some of their exploits include political
assassinations and trading guns for crack cocaine to finance the
Contras.
The Christic Institute's La Penca law suit was filed six months
before the Iran-Contra scandal broke nationwide. And their
findings have been reinforced not only by the Iran-Contra
investigation, but also by a report that was released by a
committee to the U.S. Senate (it's the Subcommittee on Foreign
Relations) and also by a recent criminal probe of the La Penca
bombing that was done by the Costa Rican government.
These reports really are clear indictments that the White House
war on drugs is a sham, and that cocaine pouring onto American
streets from Central America, while this covert team is waging an
illegal war with the Contras against Nicaragua, is not just a
mere coincidence.
While coming at his evidence of the covert network from quite a
different perspective than those of us who might be labelled
progressives, liberals, or "peaceniks," Colonel Gritz has come to
some of the same conclusions as the Christic Institute
investigators. Colonel Gritz began his military career in 1957
and served in many high-level intelligence missions. He has been
decorated 62 times for valor in combat, and was 8 times behind
Communist lines in Asia in search of prisoners of war. Colonel
Gritz's military career inspired Hollywood to tell his story in
the movies "Rambo" and "Uncommon Valor."
Colonel Gritz has aptly titled his lecture tonight "A Nation
Betrayed." On the cover of his informative and controversial
book, for which tonight's lecture is so named, he states, and I
quote,
"While on a White House sanctioned mission to verify the
presence of U.S. prisoners of war being held in the secret
camp of General Khun Sa, the heroin overlord of Burma's
Golden Triangle, the identities of the world's largest
purchasers of opium and heroin were revealed to me. After
30 years of military service in covert operations, I knew
these men well. They are the past and present top officials
of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Central
Intelligence Agency."
Please help me to welcome Colonel "Bo" Gritz.
[Colonel Gritz begins his lecture:]
Well, it's a great credit to you that this is Friday night, in
San Francisco, one of the beautiful cities of our nation, and you
aren't at home watching the Simpsons, or Wheel of Fortune, or
something on an equal intellectual level as that. You're not
even there watching "The 7 O'Clock News" with Peter Jennings and
Dan Rather, et al. What you're getting here is certainly not
"The 7 O'Clock News," because I'm going to tell you the truth
about what's going on in the nation as I have lived it today.
A lot of you come from different walks of life, different
dimensions than I do. My entire life, from the time I was 18
years old, has been spent in the uniform of the United States. I
started out as a youngster not wanting to do anything but wear
that uniform, and I have worn it with great pride, and I have
done many things, a lot of them wrong. But, nonetheless, I have
done what my nation thought was right at the time, at least
that's what they told me.
Now, it is like coming from a dimension that you've never been a
part of. Not too many of you out there have probably been
involved in honest-to-God covert operations within the United
States government. Most of my life has been spent doing that.
So, it's like I step from a fourth dimension into your life. I
don't know much about what you've been doing either. And what I
have done is to share my experiences with you, so you have a more
clear understanding about what is going on in the real world.
And you are beginning to share your experiences with me, so that
I can get caught up to speed on what's been going on here also,
because it is honestly like a blind man feeling the elephant. I
have been at one particular part of that beast's anatomy, feeling
and saying this is what the world is. And you have been at your
own particular station. Together, I think, as Americans we don't
need to be Republic or Democrat, or right or left, or liberal or
conservative. That is what the beast would have us be, is
divided.
But, if we can just be Americans for a change, I have great
confidence that we don't need to flee this land of great
blessings but, if we will stand firm, and be hard like woodpecker
lips, that in the end we'll win. I have to believe that,
otherwise you'd need to bury me, because there wouldn't be
anything left for this warrior to continue life for.
This is the greatest nation on the face of the earth. There are
not boat loads of Americans headed for the Soviet Union. And so,
no matter what our ills are, and they are many and great today,
nonetheless, we still have the one alternative that everyone who
is not here would want to be here to share, and that is liberty
like no other group of human beings has known it in the history
of time that we have record of.
Now, what we have going on today is very simply something that
most of you have engaged in. How many of you here have ever
played poker, any kind, strip poker, stud poker, one-eyed Jack,
whatever? You know that, in a poker game, the object of the game
is for one person to end up with all the chips. And that's
what's been going on, on a global basis, for many years, far
beyond our lifetimes.
If you will simply look back at history, you can see that there
are global poker players who have discovered some of the secrets
of winning this game. What is exciting about our lifetime is
that we are here to witness what could be the end of the game
because, as you know, when somebody ends up with all the chips,
it means all the rest have none. And then you have to stop the
game. The chips have to be somehow redistributed, if the game is
to go on. Well, I have great faith that we're going to win, but
we're not going to win unless we change what we're doing right
now.
I have been called by the media "a one-man government wrecking
machine." And I am guilty. I fully intend, if needs be, to take
the government apart. I don't know how to put it back together.
But, I will take it apart for you, and I'm after it right now.
I have faith that, among 240 million Americans, there are those
out there, some of them here tonight, who do have good ideas.
I'm going to share some of the ideas that some of these people
have given me, because we will need to put the government back
together again, and restore OUR government in place of THE
government, because we hear a lot of people complaining about THE
government today, and it's a very proper term. It is not our
government as we were given that government by our forefathers
under the Constitution. And it's easy to prove: there are only
two kinds of government in the entire world, and one of them is a
government that we know as a republic.
Now, a true republic means that there is law, and that men are
accountable to the law of the land, and no one is exempt. It
means even the highest in the government must be accountable
under law. Now, if you don't have law and accountability, all of
the rest, you can call it a theocracy, like the Ayatoilet had;
you can call it fascism; you can call it a monarchy, like the
Shah. Well, the Shah of Iran, he was a good monarch, but a
better of example is the King of Saudi Arabia. He doesn't have a
parliament to tell him what to do. You can label it anything you
want to, a dictatorship, but it comes down to one word, and that
is tyranny.
You either have accountability under law, in the form that we
know as a republic, or you can group about fifteen other labels
over here under tyranny, which means "deniability." Nobody has
to account if you are a tyrant, if you are a dictator. You don't
care what the people think. There is no accountability. You
simply use plausible denial for national security purpose[s].
And that is what we have today, and the proof is public record.
Poindexter, guilty. Ollie North, guilty. Secord, guilty. Hakim
is guilty. And of course Casey, never tried, didn't know
anything as head of the CIA. Ronald Reagan, never tried,
honestly didn't know anything. And George Bush didn't know
anything either; never tried yet.
But, George Bush, I think, would consider it a great insult, and
he must be biting his lip, when he has to say, "I didn't know
anything," a man who was head of the CIA under Gerald Ford, a man
who was Vice President for 8 years as the "czar" (their term, not
mine) in the war on drugs, a man who is now President of the
United States and doesn't know anything. It isn't a very good
testimony for someone who would lead the greatest nation on the
face of the earth.
Tonight I think we're going to find out a lot more about what
George Bush does know, about what's going on. And, more than
just complaining about it, I want tonight to offer some
solutions, because we fully intend to start the second American
Revolution, and we're going to do it. We're going to fire the
first shots in Las Vegas on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th of July.
We're pooling together what we call pro-American groups from all
over the United States at a convention that we have labelled
"Freedom Call '90."
We are going to stop squabbling about the things we don't agree
on, and we're going to focus instead on the major problems facing
this nation, and the solutions, and the things that we will agree
on. And then, as a unified body (something that the beast fears
more than anything else, a unified America), we'll take 2,400
splinter groups, because that's how many we've identified, 2,400
separate pro-American groups. Not a one of them has a voice loud
enough to be heard in Washington, and all of our arms are too
short unless we do it collectively to get our arms around this
problem. But, if we can just get together.
Now, the convention will be to define the problems and the
solutions. You know as well as I do, as soon as people left Las
Vegas and got back home and put on their slave clothing and went
back to work, they would probably forget; their energies would
be drained. So we have a method (I'll describe it later) that is
going to network, coordinate, communicate, so that none of you
who are part of this second revolution will be alone in any
battle that you may fight, and that, collectively, we will
restore our birthright as Americans.
Now, we have this one hill to take, and that is Capitol Hill.
I'll certainly be there to help you take it. But, you know as
well as I do that the reason you don't run for politics is
because you don't want to get dirty wallowing with the hogs. I
have made a statement. I didn't know what to do. I am a leader
who tries to lead by example. I can honestly say that there
isn't anything (and some of the troops that have been under my
command would verify this, I think) there isn't anything that I
have ordered them to do that I hadn't done with them or done
first of all.
And, in this case, I didn't know how we were to get good people
into politics. And so, not knowing what that ground is like, I
undertook a campaign two years ago, with three months left to go,
by throwing my hat in the political ring as a candidate for the
U.S. Congress in Nevada, District 1; had no endorsement of any
party. I was a registered Republican, so I entered as a
Republican. But having no endorsement, I was an indicted felon.
I had only three months. I had no campaign manager. I had
nothing literally that anyone would consider a winning equation,
and damned near won the election.
It shows you that, if good people who are not professional
politicians, will come out of the woodwork (you may have to draft
them) that there is an alternative to the one-party system that
we have here in America today. At least the Soviet Union admits
it -- they have one party. But, you know, I voted for Wallace
one time; you might have too. I was in Vietnam. I don't know
where you were when I voted for Wallace. But, he was running
against Nixon and Humphrey, and he said something that is true
today. There's not a dime's worth of difference between a
Democrat or a Republican. And you know it's true. And we're
finding that third parties really don't work too well either, so
I'm not advocating a third party.
As I have mentioned in the beginning, we are going to take the
government apart, because it is not working right now, and we'll
put it back together. We will probably have to use conventional
party lines because, the truth is, the Libertarians will get out
there and beat the drum; the Populists will do this; and
you['ve] got all kinds of parties, but they don't carry any
constituency with them.
So, if we're going to really make a dent, if we're going to make
a difference (and we have to do it fairly soon, as I'll hopefully
outline for you in the next hour), we're going to probably have
to do it along conventional lines. And again, I don't have all
the answers, but I am going to share some of the answers I do
have and as a result of "Freedom Call '90" in Las Vegas. And,
by the way, you're all invited.
It's interesting, we made a talk in Seattle, Washington, about a
month ago. It was on Saturday. When we got back to Las Vegas, a
travel agent called on Monday and said that she was booking 200
people from Seattle to "Freedom Call '90" as a result of that one
talk. I know we're going to have standing room only, if only for
the feds that will be there to keep an eye on us going. You can
imagine getting all of these different groups together. We're
going to have folks that are in direct opposition to each other,
and that's OK because, if we will just be Americans for a change,
we will walk in lockstep to do something that is to the good of
this entire nation.
And so, I have started that off by telling you that I think the
problem is that we're engaged in a global poker game. The good
news is, it's exciting nowadays because we're about to see the
ending of that game; or the redistribution of the chips of the
game will go on.
When you read history, and I haven't been an historian ... My
life in Special Operations has been like trying to paint a moving
train. I barely have time to keep up with what's happening now
in my own life, let alone read about what's gone on before. But,
in Special Forces, we are students, and history is very important
because what's past is prologue. And normally who writes history
is writing the future. And it all depends, of course, on who's
writing it, as far as what happened.
But, when you read history, and you read between the lines, you
can see that there have been individuals that have emerged, that
have become global poker players. One of them is a man by the
name of Rothschild. He discovered a long time ago that, if you
can finance the both sides of a war, and have no allegiance to
anyone, there's tremendous profit in that and, if you can keep
stirring this thing up, then you can literally make fortunes and
gain tremendous power.
And so, some time ago, there was an interesting coup. We look at
the Queen of England and say, well, she's British. Baloney!
She's not. The House of Windsor is a German descendant. And
very simply there was the Prince of Orange, as he was known, and
they pulled a coup and put the Orange family in from Holland in
England, and then they changed the name to Windsor. But, up
until the American Revolution, the British really had no soldiers
of their own. It was interesting because the House of Windsor,
which was the German descendant family, would rent the soldiers
from the family of Hess in Germany; and these rented mercenaries
commanded tremendous wages. The House of Hess got this.
And so what was really happening was: you had a head of state in
England that used no British men of war, but instead hired German
mercenaries, and paid their own families for the hiring. And one
way that they got money, interestingly enough (and it's not
something that George Bush invented), came from the opium trade
out of the East India Company that Great Britain is famous for.
And so, when you look at drugs today, and you look at big money
and international banking and this global poker game, it comes
down to really just a few players. There's not a lot of
[players]. You're not a player; I'm not a player. Unless your
name is Rockefeller and you are a famous person and known in New
York and you're here and I don't see you, then you're not really
a player.
But there are probably a dozen, maybe fifteen, players, including
some Orientals now, that the Trilateral Commission has promoted
(of course, the economics of Japan, Europe, and America). And so,
we now have some of the greatest wealth in the world accumulating
in the Orient. These poker players, very simply, have it in mind
to win the game, and we are simply pawns in their service.
Now, when you look at the Third World nations (let's discuss them
for just a minute, the emerging nations), you could almost call
it the Third World War, not meaning that it's World War III.
But, it is a war against the Third World to simply keep these
people producing export goods for America, or for the
international bankers.
I have had some unique experiences, and that's what I really want
to share with you. I am not here to give you my own philosophy
on what's wrong with the world. But, what I am here to do is to
sort of link these things together, and then share with you my
own personal experience.
I commanded Special Forces in Latin America, [at] the same time
George Bush was head of the CIA. For me, it was 1975 thru 1977.
During that period of time, I saw a couple of things happening
that I think are important today.
Number one is, we saw Manuel Noriega, who was not the dictator.
Omar Torrijos was the dictator then, and Manuel was a real gutsy
guy who was his intelligence officer. Manuel Noriega had ties to
Fidel Castro; he was a Communist. He also was sabotaging some
of the installations in the Panama Canal.
In addition to that, and [of] major import, I thought, was that
Manuel Noriega was becoming the major distributor, the king pin,
for cocaine coming out of Central America and going into the
United States. They were using the Panama Canal and the gates
were wide open, and they opened in 1976.
Now (I'm not proud to say so, it was just simply my job) we
targeted Manuel Noriega, and then I made a recommendation that we
eliminate him with extreme prejudice. In the vernacular, it
means that we take him out, we assassinate him. We could have
done that without missing a coffee break.
Now, to you it may seem horrifying that we, a military
organization in Central America, would even contemplate
assassinating another officer like Manuel Noriega, who was an
official of Panama. But, in the game, remember, I'm from a
different dimension, and I've been behind the veil of covert
operations, while you've been out here. I'm simply relating to
you what goes on.
The way we play the game is, if you are a drug smuggler hurting
our country, and you are also a Communist, which we are trying to
fight, and stem the tide of Communism in those days ... Now, of
course, we find out that it's all OK. Gorbachev is man of the
decade. He may even run against George Bush. It would probably
be a better alternative than Dukakis.
But, when you see that you have Pineapple Face that is a
deterrent to all that, as a soldier, I was interpreting as our
national objectives in Central America, then my way of projecting
force is to take him out. We could do that. We could no longer
have Manuel Noriega as a player. Would that mean that the game
would stop? No, somebody else might take it over, but we would
at least have won a battle there.
Now, to my surprise, I received a visit from the chief of
intelligence, and he could have sent me a radiogram (an encoded
message) but he didn't. I got shot in the back of the head in
Vietnam. The bullet bounced off. I am hard-headed. That proves
it. He knew me fairly well. I think he might have thought,
well, Bo will go ahead and do it anyway and just say he didn't
get the message. So, he came to Panama and he told me summarily,
quote, "You keep your hands off of Manuel Noriega. He has
immense value at the highest levels."
Now, what the hell does that mean? "Immense value at the highest
levels." A man who is literally opening the gates of the Panama
Canal, flooding the United States with cocaine, which, if you'll
look back, that is when America got hard hit with cocaine and has
ever since. And he has immense values?
And so, when I pressed the General to find out precisely what
these values were, and to who[m] they were a value, he said,
"Well, Bo, one is, he informs us about what Castro is doing."
Who cares about the little bearded man with the cigar anymore?
Standard Oil pays Fidel Castro almost $800 million a year for
royalty rights pumping petroleum out of Angola. It more than
pays for the Marxist effort in Angola, and gives Castro a lot of
jingle in his pocket to spread around Central America. So I knew
that that wasn't a major thing. Our own companies are helping
Castro.
And so then he said, "Well Bo, he's going to inform us about how
the negotiations for the turnover of the Panama Canal are going
to go." We were giving the Panama Canal away. Why did we need
to be informed about how the negotiations were going to go? None
of it made any sense.
But, as a good soldier in those days, you know, I simply came to
attention, and said, "Yes, sir, Manuel Noriega will have free
rein. We won't touch him." And we did not. We created a
Frankenstein in Manuel Noriega. George Bush was paying him more
than the President of the United States to be a CIA retainer.
Now, if any of you have any covert operations experience, I wish
you'd be courageous tonight and relate to me during the question-
and-answer period, anyone that you have ever known that has
gotten that much money from the CIA -- $200,000 a year to be a
retainer. I don't think that the people that sold the atomic
bomb secrets got that much money. I don't know of any other
agent that's gotten that much money straight across the board as
an agency retainer. It's just not heard of. But Manuel Noriega
was, and for what purpose?
Well, in 1976, I didn't understand it. But, there was something
else going on.
The second point I want to make to you is this: We were
preparing to put a new canal in Nicaragua; now, that I knew very
well of. Jimmy Carter had arranged to give away the Panama
Canal, because the Panama Canal is obsolete.
You see, the way this game works is that we have tremendous
foundations -- the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation,
the Rockefeller Foundation. We have these think tank groups,
like Rand Corporation. These tremendous foundations fund these
think tanks. The think tanks look at all aspects, but mainly
economic, and they see what needs to happen in the years to come
if big business is to continue. And then they make reports, and
the reports come down to people like the Bilderberg Group, the
Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Then the decisions are made at this level as to what the nation
will do.
The President is underneath these people. And, in the case of
Jimmy Carter, I think that it's provable that Rockefeller
literally picked him out of the peanut patch and made him a
President, for the purpose of expediting things that needed to be
done, in accordance with these think tank groups.
Now, one of the things that needed to be done is, the Panama
Canal had to be phased out, because super tankers were soon to
come in. I don't know the year that super tankers arrived, but I
know in 1977, when I was there in Panama, we had plans to shift
our efforts into constructing a new canal in Nicaragua. But,
first of all, we had to pass off the old one. Otherwise, there
wouldn't be an excuse for exploiting because, how were we going
to get Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan River away from the
Nicaraguans and the Costa Ricans?
Well, Teddy Roosevelt had a pretty good answer in how we got the
Panama Canal, because there wasn't Panama. But in 1900, they
decided we're going to put a canal in. We sent the USS Nashville
down, that stood offshore. We sponsored a coup, and it was
convenient that the State Department was on hand when Colombia
said, "OK, you got it. We're going to give you Panama." And
then Panama said, "And in all perpetuity, we give you an area for
your canal." So, that's how we got the Panama Canal. It was
acceptable in those days. It was simply called "gunboat
diplomacy."
Now, we didn't know exactly, as far as the studies that I had
access to, how we were going to get Nicaragua because, you see,
the Panama Canal cannot be enlarged any more. Lake Gatun is the
controlling factor for the Panama Canal and Lake Gatun comes off
the Chagres River and is at its maximum capacity. You can't make
it any bigger; so the canal can't be widened; so there is no
super tanker going to transit the Panama Canal.
Now, the think tank guys also saw that Japan was going to need
access to iron ore out of the Amazon basin, and Japan would need
access to our East Coast. This meant super canal somewhere.
Lake Nicaragua was perfect. It's 90 feet above sea level. It's
a tremendously large lake, the largest lake in Latin America. It
is a natural lake, which is the only fresh water lake to have
killer sharks and barracuda in it.
The reason that it has killer sharks is because this area is
located right along the Ring of Fire, the geological Ring of
Fire. There are tremendous earthquakes. You think we got
troubles here. Managua, you read about it all the time, it gets
tremendous shake-up. And in the years gone past, there was an
earthquake that literally lifted Lake Nicaragua out of the ocean,
capturing all of the water life that was there and, over the
generations, it has adapted as the salt water turned to a fresh
water environment. And now, literally, you have killer sharks in
Lake Nicaragua. It is 90 feet above sea level. It makes a
perfect Lake Gatun for a super canal. The San Juan River is
beautiful.
It isn't without precedent that we picked Nicaragua for the new
canal. Back in 1847, when did you discover gold here? OK, in
'49. In 1849, (I said I wasn't an historian, but history is
important, so I may miss a little, but shooting back that far,
we're getting pretty close) you discovered gold out here in
California. The people in New York wanted it. It was "non-habit
forming" to come across Indian territory to get it.
And so, there was a man named Vanderbilt, and Vanderbilt had a
steam line in New York. And so, it was real simple. Vanderbilt
used his steam line and he put New Yorkers aboard a luxury liner,
and they went right on around and they stopped at the
Nicaragua/Costa Rican border, the San Juan River, which is the
border, and they steamed up the border to Lake Nicaragua, across
Lake Nicaragua. And then there's about a 17-mile spit of land
that separates the Pacific Ocean from what would then be the
Atlantic Ocean.
And so they got off the steamer, rode in a stage coach along what
was known as the Vanderbilt Road. The pilings of that dock are
still there today. It's going to be wonderful when I tell you
about what's going to happen there. They then would get off the
stage, get on another steam liner, and go right on around to San
Francisco. And that is how the gold was transferred, the miners
this way, and the gold came back the same way. Well, that was
1849 and it was called the Vanderbilt Road. I don't know what
they're going to name the new canal. But it ought to be, maybe,
the Vanderbilt Road, the New Vanderbilt Road, because we are
going to dig it.
Now, if you read the newspaper in 1986, you'll see where the
Soviet Union had surveyed Nicaragua and the San Juan River, which
is the border, a mutual border for a while between Costa Rica and
Nicaragua, to make their own canal. But they couldn't do it. It
is just too big of a project to do using conventional methods.
And so, Japan went in, and they surveyed it; so, it's been well
surveyed because we had already surveyed it.
But we can do it, and they can't. And the way we're going to do
it is by using nuclear demolitions. Now, this should be of
interest to you because California was going to be the target for
a test, and it never came off. I can't imagine why! Maybe
there's too many green people, not meaning EBE's, but Greenpeace
people that raised hell over it.
But back when, remember? I like Ike. I was a lieutenant when
Ike was there. It was a good thing to like Ike. That's why I
became a Republican in those days. Ike started a program called
"Nukes for Peace." And just north of Las Vegas (I live now about
50 miles southwest. I try to get just as far southwest as I can
and still have a habitable area.) but north at Yucca Mountain is
where they did all of the "sedan," it was called, the sedan tests
to try and clean up the nukes.
Now, I'm a chemical, biological, and radiological warfare
officer, qualified and sent to school and certified. When the
fireball does not touch the ground of a nuclear explosion, there
is no contamination. You will die from heat and blast before
you'll ever die from radiation. But, when the fireball touches
the ground, you now have big problems, because the half-life of
plutonium is like 25,000 years. That's a long time to wait. And
the half-life means that, in that period of time, it'll be half
as much radiation as was there before. When you put something
under the ground that is nuclear, and you set it off, you have
denied the enemy, for all time and eternity, that area, because
it is permanently damaged.
Now, what's happened is, the engineers north of Las Vegas at
Yucca Mountain have been experimenting, since Ike gave them
permission to start Nukes for Peace, in how to clean up the bomb,
so that we could use nuclear demolitions in order to do mammoth
land moving, that we couldn't otherwise use conventional methods
on, like the new canal in Nicaragua.
Here's an interesting thing. I wish I had a blackboard, because
I would diagram it for you. But I'll run thru it real quick so
you'll understand it, because I think it's important. First of
all, you survey everything, because the density of the soil
depends on how deep you bury the charges. Some of the charges
will be buried as deep as 2,000 feet, some of them only a hundred
and fifty feet, because of the density of the soil all along the
area. There is 17 miles that must be cleared; that 17 miles
opens onto Lake Nicaragua and the Atlantic Ocean.
Now, if you put all the charges in line, there will be more than
200 atomic demolitions the way the plan is right now, and you
fire them individually, you can imagine what you get. You get a
lot of holes with all kinds of debris, that you would then have
to go in with conventional methods and try to organize and make a
canal out of. And you might as well have just done it from
scratch, I think. You'd be better off than having all this
debris and these many holes.
But, how many of you here are demolitionists or have any
experience with demolition? Good. Then hear me out on this, and
see if this is not correct. There is a synergism of 30% that is
achieved if you use what we call "row charging." If you take all
of the demolitions at once, and you fire them all at once, then
you have, literally, instead of having individual holes, the
synergism gives you an overlapping of about 30%. You literally
have a canal there. And the physics are such that it, honestly,
takes the debris at the end of the canal, that would normally be
blown out, and even curves it around, so literally you have a
bank that is ready-built, along with the canal; in the flash of
an eye wink, just one push of a button, 200 separate charges, a
total of over 250 megatons, 250 million tons equivalent of TNT,
will create a new canal.
Now, that sounds very efficient to people in Washington, D.C.
But, they do not belong to the Greenpeace organization, I don't
believe. The idea is, the way you clean this thing up, the way I
understand it is, that when you have the explosion under the
ground, you have contaminated earth. If you put it too deep in
the hole, then what happens is, all the dirt goes straight up and
basically comes straight back down, filling the hole again. So,
you didn't accomplish anything, except you loosened up a bunch of
stuff. If you put it too shallow, you get a tremendously wide
blast, a radius, but a very narrow hole. You haven't done
anything there, plus you contaminate a lot of area.
If you'll do it just right, if you bury it just right, then when
it explodes, the contaminated earth will come up, come back down,
be partially covered with non-contaminated soil that wasn't a
part of the explosion, and then you have your canal built. And
so, this thing has been very carefully surveyed to do that.
There is only one thing that I can see that might go wrong, and
that is, Mother Nature may decide to do more than burp over this
issue. This is on the Ring of Fire. And Lake Nicaragua was
created by that cataclysmic earthquake. What happens when we
fire 250 million tons of TNT all at one time in that vulnerable
area? It's going to be another Chernobyl, I think, where they
say, "Well, gosh, we were trying to do something right, and it
just went wrong." But, I don't think you're honestly ever going
to get a chance to vote. We are going to do that. That is
already the plan. And now the only problem is, we['ve] got to
get into Nicaragua to do it.
Well, it started out OK, because we had Somoza. He was a friend.
But, it wasn't working out with Somoza. And so, I'm not saying
that the CIA created Danny Ortega and the Sandinista. But, what
I am saying is, there was a lot of applause at Langley when the
Sandinista took over and Somoza was deposed, because now we had a
confrontational scenario. It was built exactly the way Teddy
Roosevelt might have constructed it.
Now we had, only in modern terms, we had the tremendous tentacles
of Communism, Marxism, that would stretch out and wrap around and
strangle the free world, didn't we? That's exactly what was
presented to us by the President, Ronald Reagan.
Jimmy Carter did his job. He set it up and we transferred the
canal over. Now we had the reason to get into Nicaragua. The
problem was, the Nicaraguans weren't willing to give it to us,
and so creating a scenario where you have built-in confrontation.
We don't need to tell anybody.
Now, we run our steel helmets and flak jackets on 19-year-old
kids in there. We fight this war to cut the tentacles of
Communism before it strangles New Orleans. And, when we've won,
maybe they will give us, in all perpetuity, this stretch of land
we need, which is much more considerable. We only have ten miles
in Panama, five miles on each side of the canal. But we're going
to need 50 miles in Nicaragua for this stretch of the super canal
that's going to be built. And so, it was perfect.
One problem: the damned liberal U.S. Congress said no. We could
not go in with military force into Nicaragua and help the Contra
to stomp out the hated Sandinista. Congress said no. But did we
do it anyway? We did. It is public record.
And now, Lawrence E. Walsh, the independent prosecutor, 76 years
old, Republican, has released the fact that there are more than
550 entries in Ollie North's personal notes and diary relating to
the fact that illegal narcotics were used in funding the Contras.
And the illegal narcotics came right into this country (most of
them) and has helped to overdose America.
And we didn't really win, did we? because we tried to do this,
but it wasn't working out at all. As a matter of fact, Iran-
Contra really interrupted it. And so, what have we done instead?
Well, everybody cheered when the new president won. I say
"everybody"; almost everybody cheered. But, do you know that
the new president of Nicaragua, one, of course was backed by the
United States Central Intelligence Agency, and for good reason?
Her dad, I'm sorry, the grandfather, President Chamorro, in 1916
signed a treaty with the United States, giving permission to put
a canal thru Nicaragua. And now, Chamorro is president as the
granddaughter, and I'm glad that we don't have to send 19-year-
olds in there. But that was a military scenario that was always
available.
And I believe that the entire war on drugs, very simply, was a
stage that was set in order to facilitate a military take-over of
Nicaragua, if that's what it required, because the time is run
out. The think tanks have made their report. The powerful poker
playing families in the world have decided. A new canal, for
economic purposes, will be built in Nicaragua, and it's going to
be now. I think Ronald Reagan had that mission. But, he wasn't
successful. We['ve] got to admit he should have been given an
Oscar for his performance. He begged you.
How many of you, be courageous now, gave to the freedom fighters?
Come on. I didn't give any, but I know some of you must have.
You know, I know all the guys that were involved in the Contra
support. I worked for them. If you'll read my book, one of the
best efficiency reports I ever got was given by one of the king
pins in that whole affair. What we did was criminal. We
couldn't get the U.S. Congress to OK money from taxpayers to go
into Nicaragua, and so we collected money from good citizens of
America on the voice of the President, and Ollie North, and all
kinds of money-raising schemes.
We didn't take that money and give it to the Contra. We took
that money and we gave it to a man named Erich von Marbod, who
was a cohort of Ed Wilson, along with Dick Secord. I know them
all well. Erick is a protege of Kissinger and Schlesinger, very
high in the CIA. They had to resign from government office when
Ed Wilson was put in prison for 52 years, because they were in
cahoots with Ed Wilson in arming Qaddafi with tons of munitions
and a state-of-the-art missile system. And so, when it came to
light, Ed Wilson was put to jail, and both Secord and von Marbod
had to resign.
Now, von Marbod went to Zurich and worked for Carlucci's company,
Sears World. The money came from you (meaning the American
public), went there, was given to the Israelis. The Israelis
bought weapons from the Soviet Bloc. You can get a machine gun
for $145, with three magazines, a bayonet, and a cleaning rod.
An M-16, which is an equivalent weapon, would cost $400 here in
America. So, you can see why we're dealing with the Communists.
We paid the Communists. It came thru Israel so it would be
covered. And then we sold the weapons to the Contra. The Contra
do not have shoes for their feet, let alone money to pay at an
almost 300% profit, when we sold the weapons to them that we had
bought from the Soviet Union.
Now, there's a lady that I know named Barbara Studley. She has a
beautiful house in Potomac, Maryland. She is a close friend of
General Jack Singlaub. Barbara Studley was the go-between, and
some of those profits dropped off there, obviously, because she's
driving a Maserati, and her house is well equipped with antique
furniture and silk dresses. But, that money then bought those
arms. Those arms were sold to the Contra. The drug cartel was
more than happy to pick up the tab.
There was just one small caveat. When the CIA planes from
Southern Air, carrying 26,000 pounds of munitions (which we've
got on the video tape documented), land and unload, don't let
them dead-head back empty. We'll load them full of drugs and
send them back to the USA. Why would the CIA, why would any
American, agree to allow a replacement, ounce for ounce, pound
for pound, of drugs for arms, to come back into the United
States?
Well, you've got to go back just a little bit with me to Mr.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. The younger people in here will recognize
him by that name, Mr. FBI, the literal conscience of America, J.
Edgar Hoover; J. Edgar Hoover, who transcended many presidents.
I think he had something on most of them. They couldn't get rid
of him, so J. Edgar stayed as our top cop.
J. Edgar Hoover made a statement. He said, "We don't care about
people who use heroin, because they are un-American and mainly in
the black ghetto." This gave the CIA license from the conscience
of America, J. Edgar Hoover, to deal in illegal narcotics. Now,
I think that heroin was a thing that J. Edgar, of course,
objected to greatly. I don't believe J. Edgar used heroin. But,
I think it's also been translated to mean cocaine, and marijuana,
and any other kind of illegal drug, because that's what's
happened.
In Southeast Asia, I have to tell you, how many of you are
Vietnam veterans that were there? Good. Then you will bear
witness to this. There are as many bomb holes in Laos and
Cambodia as there is in Vietnam. But, the U.S. Congress said no.
The damned liberal U.S. Congress said no when we wanted to expand
the war into Laos and Cambodia.
Now, we had a real need. I commanded an Army of Cambodians.
General William C. Westmoreland selected me as "the" American
soldier. And in his book, he's got a nice photograph of Major
"Bo" Gritz with his "Bo's". My army of CamBOdians were paid by
the CIA. And the war was fought in Laos and Cambodia for good
reason. The enemy was cheating.
There is a backbone of mountains, like the Sierra Nevada's, that
separates Vietnam from Laos and Cambodia. It's known as the
Anammite Mountain chain. The enemy was sending its manpower and
materiel out of the north, on the other side of the Anammite
backbone, down thru Laos and Cambodia, and then back into South
Vietnam, and it was King's "X" for them. We couldn't touch them.
That was unfair. We called it the Ho Chi Minh trail. We really
needed to get in there. And as a substitute high school teacher,
I can get almost every one of my high school government and
history students, in honors classes usually, to agree that it
would be all right to violate what Congress said we shouldn't do
and go on in there.
And then, how do we pay for it, if the U.S. Congress is not going
to pay for it? Well, the CIA had an airline. It was called
what? Air America, better known (Who's a vet here again?)
better known as what? Air Opium. Literally, Air America was a
joke in the GI's in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. We called Air
America Air Opium, because that's what they did. Now, they flew
a lot of pigs and rice. They flew a lot of special operations.
But, they flew one hell of a lot of dope also. And we paid for
the secret war, in part, thru drugs.
And, if you will look back at America, America became overdosed
during the 60's and the 70's. Now, I graduated from school in
1957, and I'm here to tell you, I don't think there was one
student in my graduating class that had anything to do with
illegal narcotics. We would have stomped you in the gutter.
That was just our mind set about dope.
But, how many of you graduated from school after, say, 1964 in
here? All right now, was there anybody in your graduating class
that was on dope? And now, today, I just came back from Alaska
about two months ago and I have the statistics for 1989. 75% of
the entire population, the high school population of Alaska, had
been offered, physically offered, illegal narcotics. 60% admit
that they partook of those illegal narcotics.
Now, Alaska is a state that isn't in the mainstream of the drug
traffic. And so, it's a conservative state. 60% of the 9th,
10th, 11th and 12th grades admit that they took drugs. And Nancy
Reagan, before she left the White House, said that 90% of the
graduating class in 1988 had at least experimented with illegal
narcotics. Where is the dope coming from?
The dope is coming, simply, thru corridors that have been blessed
by elements within the federal government. General Khun Sa, when
I first met with him and doubted his story that American agents
were the chief handlers, traffickers, negotiators of heroin
coming out of the Golden Triangle, and he asked me a simple
question. He said, "How would I move (In 1986 it was only 600
tons; this year it's 3,000 tons.) 600 tons of opiates on
horseback from this secret base to the free world, if it weren't
for badges and credentials and official aircraft?"
Now, if you've got a better answer than what he gave me, I want
to hear it. Because right outside, on the Burma border, at a
place called Mai Hong Song, Thailand, is a full blown air base.
There is absolutely no reason, because there's really no town.
There's a little village there at Mai Hong Song. It's right on
the border of Burma. And Khun Sa says that his mules in those
days, (now it's 10-ton trucks), but in those days his mules
carried the opium down to the Thai border, loaded it on 10-ton
Thai military vehicles. It was driven to the Mai Hong Song air
base, put aboard official aircraft, and flown then to Bangkok,
and to Singapore, and to Hong Kong, and to ports around the
world.
And, in 1986, it was 600 tons, in '87 it was 900 tons, in '88 it
was 1,200 tons, in '89 it was 2,200 tons, and this year DEA says
it's going to go up to approximately 3,000 tons of opiates.
Business is booming in the Golden Triangle and in the area of
opium and heroin.
George Bush did not declare war on anything coming out of Asia.
You remember his 6 September declaration? He pointed right at
Latin America and he said, "We're declaring war on drugs." Then
he said that war was going to be declared on the users. "We're
going to get down to those users!"
He was talking about, because he identified it -- crack cocaine
was his major focus. Crack cocaine. If you don't know very much
about it, let me enlighten you a little bit because, as part of
my own education, I have gotten with law-enforcement people and
tried to come up to speed on this. Crack, when you take it, I
have been told by people, sends you to heaven. I hope my
definition of heaven's a little different. But, you go straight
up, and you're only up there like 15 or 20 minutes. And then you
come down, and that's the problem, because the crash is so
depressive that users have a suicidal tendency. And this is not
good for business. So, in order to flatten out that crash, they
are lacing the cocaine with heroin, and that is what crack is all
about. They're putting heroin with cocaine.
When you look at it, 3,000 tons of opiates coming out of the
Golden Triangle, most of it into America, when it was only 600
tons in 1986, it shows that there is a tremendous correlation
between what's happening with cocaine and what's happening with
heroin.
Do we care about people who use heroin? Are they un-American?
Are they mainly in the black ghetto? We better damn well care,
because it's down to the third grade, if you haven't looked
recently.
What I'm trying to portray to you here is something that may be
hard for you to understand. If you are an Ollie North, and I
have been given these kinds of missions, so I have some empathy
for him, if you are Ollie North and you are told, "We don't want
to know how you do it, Colonel. Just do it!" I've had that kind
of a mission: "Don't tell us. We don't want to know." Because
they know you're going to have to break all rules of land
warfare. Then Ollie North accepts that commission and off he
goes, and it includes lying to the U.S. Congress.
You won't find very many officers today that will stand up and
applaud Ollie North for what he did. We took the same oath. We
raised our hand to the square, and we swore to defend this nation
against enemies foreign and domestic. We did not swear to lie to
what represents you, the people, in the form of Congress. We did
not swear to shred documents that would cover up the wrongdoing
of our bosses. That is misplaced loyalty and duty, and certainly
has no honor to it.
You gotta be close to Washington. You cannot sit here in San
Francisco and look out over the ocean and see all this beauty and
try to relate to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon is purposefully,
I believe, five-sided, five stories, five interconnecting rings,
up and down, in and out, around and around, without getting
anywhere. That's the truth, and it is very much.
Listen, I've been there. If you look on the cover of the book,
on these photographs, I have what I call a brassiere. A
brassiere shows two badges down here [points to chest]. One of
them is Army General Staff. There are about 200 officers that
are awarded the Army General Staff badge because they are on the
Army General Staff. And the other is for the office of the
Secretary of Defense. I was the Chief of Congressional Relations
in the office of the Secretary of Defense. So, I know what the
hell I'm talking about.
You get caught in this vortex. I hate to give this analogy, but
it's true and I think it's appropriate. It's like flushing the
stool. You see everything going around and around, faster and
faster, and then you can't see for manure. And that's what
happens in Washington, D.C. It really does. You get moving
around in these rapid circles and, suddenly, what is real, what
is conscionable, what is rational, makes no difference any more.
We don't want to know how you did it. Just do it, and if it
means using illegal narcotics, then do it! Because who[m] is it
attacking?
Fawn Hall may have used cocaine, but I don't think Ollie North
did. I don't think Poindexter did. MacValium tried to kill
himself. At least he had some honor. He saw, when he had lied,
and when he had disgraced his uniform, because he was an officer
also, he suddenly saw the disgrace he had brought, and he tried
to kill himself. It's too bad that the National Security Council
chief doesn't even know how to do that right. And he took
valium, which only puts you to sleep, and unfortunately he wrote
a note. And so when he came to, all the people were standing
there and he was in trouble.
But, here you've got these kinds of people doing these kinds of
things, they think that what they're doing is right at the time.
They really do. They aren't using narcotics. And who[m] is it
attacking? In their own mind set, it is attacking the trash, the
un-Americans. Remember what J. Edgar Hoover said. I wasn't the
one who said it. "And in the black ghettos, let's get rid of
them."
Now, let's jump for just a moment to something that just popped
into mind, and that's AIDS. We are hearing more and more about
it. It's an incredible thing. And again, like I said, I was a
what we call "CBR" -- chemical, biological, and radiological
warfare officer. We have bugs, there's no question that we have
an arsenal of germs to use during selected periods of warfare.
We kill sheep in Montana. Anybody remember that? We lied about
it, of course. You're never going to tell the truth when you've
done something that is wrong. At least the Army, meaning the
government, hasn't chose[n] to do so in all these decades. But
yet, in the end, what happened? They found out we were using
nerve gas and we killed a bunch of these sheep.
AIDS virus, I think, can be proven and, if you will look at the
Strecker ... as a matter of fact, I am going to ask Dr. Strecker
to be at the convention to personally give you his presentation.
Dr. Strecker is a virologist. He is well qualified. He simply
states that AIDS did not come from green monkeys; that when you
look at what the AIDS virus consists of, it is a leukemia from
cattle and it is brain rot from sheep. And you put these
diseases together and you come up with the AIDS virus.
The AIDS virus has 9,000 matching pairs, which means 9,000 to the
sixth power. That's the number of variations of virus you can
contract under AIDS. Do we even have a calculator that will
figure out how many that is?
So, what Strecker is saying is, there is no vaccine that you can
be vaccinated with, that would prevent the AIDS virus, because
there are so many possible combinations. But, he then tracks it
very clearly. It came from sheep and from cattle. It was put
together by men and then it was sent with the World Health
Organization to Africa, where they engaged in a program of
inoculation for small pox.
There were three major AIDS breakouts: one in Africa, one in
Brazil, and one in Haiti. Interestingly enough, there were
15,000 Haitians that were part of the World Health Organization
program in Africa that received the virus. And, in Brazil, the
World Health Organization also had an inoculation series there.
And so, it's very strange that, what Strecker says is a man-made
virus, would suddenly appear wherever the World Health
Organization is doing good. And, we had another outbreak, of
course, and we figured that it came from New York City because
there was a hepatitis inoculation that was being given.
Right here in San Francisco, I don't know whether you know this
or not, I want to bring you, I want to enlighten you on what your
government, "the" government does. If you lived here back in the
'50's, you were sprayed. The Navy had a ship that went off
shore. The idea was to prove that San Francisco was vulnerable
to a biological attack during war, and so they attacked you. And
they proved, when they had a tremendous outbreak then (it was
their measure) that the average citizen inhaled 5,000 units of
this particular disease that was being dispersed. And almost all
of San Francisco came down with it. So, the government does use
test modules to find out what the effect is.
Now, last year, I wouldn't have been near[ly] this paranoid, but
I have come out to share my experiences with you, and you frankly
have scared the hell out of me by sharing your experiences with
me. And there are all kinds of things, like Global 2000, that
rear a really ugly head, that talk to the fact that the basic
population of the world has to be limited by the year 2000. And
then, when you look at what the AIDS virus is doing, and they
tell you that it is not spreadable by mosquitos.
Well, Strecker says, "Isn't that interesting? If the mosquito
cannot spread AIDS virus, then why don't we simply find out the
filtering process the mosquito has, and then we wouldn't spread
any AIDS virus thru our changing of blood?" The mosquito,
according to Strecker, does carry the AIDS virus, which means it
is not just a local homosexual problem, or an occasional drug
usage problem, or when you have a transfusion, some people pick
up AIDS virus.
And Strecker has some bad news. Another guy I'll invite to the
Freedom Call '90, under our health care section, will be a man
who has a solution for this thing. Interestingly enough, there
was a man named Rife that Strecker identifies, a long time ago.
Rife invented a microscope that could see the virus. And then he
generated a radio wave that would cause a certain frequency
vibration that would cause the virus to destroy itself. And Rife
of course was run out of business real fast.
Well, there's another gentleman now that has a product that he
has put thru the protocol of the Food and Drug Administration as
a cure for AIDS and for cancer. It is a chemical that does the
same thing. It causes an electrical property change so that you
get the same vibration that Rife gave using a radio wave, and it
destroys the cell. It destroys the virus.
Now, this guy is saying that he's being absolutely stonewalled.
They have tested it. He has all the documents in three
universities, 30,000 animal tests, 15,000 human tests. And it is
effective. So, I'll invite him there so you can hear what these
gentlemen have to say.
What I'm saying is that the government has a problem, and that
is, it has been deceiving you for a long time, for what I think
is a very selfish purpose. And that is, somebody's going to win
all the chips. And that's what the whole idea is here.
I don't believe in global coincidence myself. Global coincidence
has to be planned. Magnificently, marvelously, miraculously, the
Soviet Bloc crumbles literally before our face, in just a heart
beat. One day it's there, solid as the rock of Gibraltar, and
the next day it is crumbling. And isn't it interesting that it
is crumbling just before the European economic market is going to
come into fruition in 1992? Now, I think that the Soviet Bloc
will be very conveniently absorbed into the economic community of
Europe. And are we going to have a chance to vote?
Well, I had dinner with the Speaker of the House Foley, and with
the Majority Leader Gephardt. Both of those gentlemen admit that
we are in serious, big-time economic problems. Now, AIDS is one
thing, and dope is one thing, and crime is one thing, but our
economic problems eclipse all of them. And they all admit it,
but not one of these distinguished gentlemen ... Haig is not
number 3, but Foley is, and Foley fully admits that he has no
solution to our economic problem.
Here is what happened just the other day. Sam Nunn is head of
the Armed Services Committee. He made a speech. It appeared not
in the "L.A. Times," or the front page, which it should have, but
it appeared in "Aviation Weekly." In the speech, Sam Nunn quoted
a man by the name of [Charles A.] Bowsher, who is the accounting
general, the Comptroller General of the United States. And
Bowsher simply states that if we do not change our course, that
within the next four years, the national debt will exceed $5
trillion, and the interest will be more than $350 billion every
year. Our defense budget isn't near[ly] that much. The point
that Sam Nunn was making is that it's a good thing we got
Glasnost, because we won't have any money for defense. We will
be consumed just trying to pay the interest on the national debt.
Now, let me explain something to you, because a lot of people,
for some reason, don't seem to see the forest for the trees. And
this is what I've learned, having come out from behind the veil.
And then I'll get back to my own personal experience. But, I
think this is very key to understand. If you were going to win
all the chips in this global poker game, you would have to break
the back of the United States.
Now, the people who rented German soldiers to England, the people
who started the Central Bank of England, the people who started
the Central Bank in Germany, these are people who are becoming
rich, super rich, because they found that you could just
manufacture money to pay for wars. You just go ahead and make
money, and you'd lend it to the government. You didn't have to
have gold to back it up. Well, it was Alexander Hamilton that
wanted to start the Central Bank in the United States, and it was
Thomas Jefferson that opposed it. But we did it anyway.
The fact is that (can you imagine this?) we've got to break the
back of the United States economically. Otherwise, we can't win
all the chips.
Let's go thru a little war gaming, like we do in the Pentagon.
Let's say that the ideal solution is this. First of all, we
create a banking consortium -- private individual banks. Now,
we give permission for the Treasury to mint money. Every dollar
that is minted, we'll have interest owed to us; [it] won't cost
us a penny to mint the money. But, we will lend it to the United
States government. They will owe us an interest. There won't be
one dollar printed, ever, that won't have debt money attached to
it. How do you ever pay off the debt?
It is a built-in, guaranteed bankruptcy. If you do not print any
debt-free money, you could never pay off the principal, because
there isn't any debt-free money to even pay the damned interest,
let alone the principal. And so, can you imagine someone buying
that scheme?
Well, in 1913, that's precisely what we did, and on top of it,
they had to have some way to pay the interest. Now, if they're
going to manufacture whatever amount of money they determine
should be printed, and then that goes to the federal government
to spend, and interest is owed to them, how are they ever going
to get paid? They are paid thru the IRS. Your taxes pay them.
Now, it's interesting that two things happened in 1913. The
Federal Reserve was created. The Federal Reserve is no more
federal than the federal laundry or the federal restaurant, or
any other federal type organization like that. It is a group of
privately owned banks, and you know who comes down to the one
major bank? The one major bank is the same guy that we've been
talking about all alone here, the same guy from Germany that had
a great idea. And then we've got a few other big players, like
Rockefeller.
When it comes right down to it, the major banks in the Federal
Reserve are located in New York City. The rest of them are just,
sort of, subscriber banks. They give permission to print money.
Every dollar that is printed, we owe them, a private banking
corporation, the interest and the principal. We can never pay
it. It is a built-in, guaranteed way to cause bankruptcy. It
had to happen, if they were going to win all the chips.
And we are looking at some of the last hands today, because it
took from 1776 to 1982 to get one trillion dollars in debt. But
do you know, since 1982, we now owe three trillion dollars? and
in the next four years, it'll be five trillion, if the interest
rates go down? That's what Bowsher is betting that will happen,
and putting his computation on. And the interest will be more
than is collected in the taxes. The interest will be $350
billion and more, just the interest.
And so, do you see where we're going? We must have some changes.
Now, one of the things that we're is proposing is this. It
sounds really radical. And we've given it to Foley and we've
given it to Gephardt. As a matter of fact, we've sent it to
Bush. But you've got to understand that our President is a past
member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral
Commission. They aren't even bashful about telling you that this
is a one-world economic effort. And debtors cannot be choosers.
I think when 1992 comes around, and we have the European Common
Market a reality, the Soviet Bloc absorbed, that we will be
shortly behind. And along with that comes a lot, an awfully lot
of restrictions, a lot of these, the cashless society ... It's
interesting.
I'll give you some headlines. They should have been headlines.
Maybe we should get a little group of papers together called
"Should Have Been Headlines." But, this was in the "New York
Times," March 31st. It said, "Our Congressional leaders are
today considering the adoption of a national identity card."
Now, the national identity card is supposed to help you safeguard
your job from an illegal alien.
But, the national identity card is also used for many other
things. There is a company in Dallas, Texas, in the Metroplex,
that's experimenting right now. They have a card that's made up;
it would be your national identity card, with your bar code on
it. You set it in the windshield of your car, and the toll gates
are all automatically operated and your bank account is
automatically debited. That way, you don't have to wait in line
to throw money, and it's being praised as a major step forward in
the cashless society.
A lot of these things are coming now together. It is an exciting
time in our life. The idea of the convention is to identify what
we feel are the major problems, and then, on the other hand, to
identify what we believe are the major solutions, and then all go
out there and do something about it.
Now, I told you that I would discuss what I think is a solution.
We're going to offer a computer bulletin board network as a
result of this convention. Anyone who's at the convention,
anyone that wants to be a subscriber, can. The computer bulletin
board would do this. All you would have to have is a personal
computer, or access to one. You go to that personal computer and
you call up the Center for Action, and there is the menu.
Let's say that you had just been dinged by the IRS to bring all
of your records in on Monday, and you didn't know whether you
wanted to do that or not, or what your rights are. You could
pull up the Center for Action bulletin board, and you'd see under
Income Tax, you punch that on that menu, and now you have the
income tax. There's all the input that people from around the
United States are putting into the bulletin board every day. And
there's documents and other kinds of stuff.
You may write on there, "Help! San Francisco. Tracy. I've been
told to bring all my documents, Monday, to the IRS. Help!" And
somebody in Florida, or Rhode Island, or Salt Lake City, or
Seattle will probably write back and say, "Tracy, in SFO, this is
Marcy, or Murray, in Salt Lake City. Here's exactly what you do.
U.S. Code number 1-0-something-something gives you exactly this
right. You do not have to produce any documentation."
And what it means is that you're never going to be alone with any
of your problems again. When you have access to millions of
Americans who have experience, because some of them are beating
the system now, it means that you'll have access to the
experience of these people. I think it's going to catch on like
a raging fire. (I think, all of a sudden, our computer is going
to get AIDS.) We're going to have a lot of virus problems. But,
I am determined that we are going to beat it. We're going to
keep the network open so that we can keep everybody pulled
together.
We passed a resolution in the State of Alaska that calls
Thornburg, I believe, to indict General Khun Sa. And I am,
again, about to be indicted, if they have their way about it.
The resolution was .... Now Alaska is our biggest state, but it
only has 500,000 people, and most of them are vets, I think.
They have the largest per capita of veterans of any other state
in the Union. The vets told me, "Bo, we want to attack. We want
to do something." So, we got a resolution together, and the day
before it was going to be voted on, the resolution was to require
the U.S. Congress to investigate Khun Sa's proposal. Khun Sa's
proposal is, "I will eradicate the opium, and I will reveal every
U.S. Government official who has been my best customer for more
than 20 years."
Now, the day before that resolution was to be voted on in the
Alaska Legislature, Thornburg indicted Khun Sa. And I think he
thought he would stop the resolution. But, we had only one
dissenting vote. Alaska passed that resolution.
What happens when California passes it, and Washington, and
Arizona, and Nevada, and we start working eastward? Congress is
going to have to, at some point, say, "We are going to have to
investigate." And then what happens? I've been with Khun Sa on
four separate occasions. I know that he can't pick my friends
for me. But this guy, I believe, is earnest.
I'll answer your questions in just a moment maybe why I believe
that, because it's about time for a question-and-answer period.
But, can you imagine? that if Khun Sa were to come out and do as
he said, it would blow the lid off of this rat's nest. We could
get our prisoners of war home while they're still alive. We have
human sewage right now blocking the bureaucracy. We could win
the war on drugs. We could expose a lot of what's going wrong,
which I believe includes this AIDS virus, and put a stop to it,
before we lose this poker game.
And so, very simply, as I see it, we as Americans have a
responsibility under the Declaration of Independence. It says,
very clearly, that the responsibility is ours, the people, to
safeguard the birthright that we gained, and that we must be
vigilant.
Now, we're going to take Capitol Hill. We're not going to take
it using bullets and bayonets and bombs this time. I think we
can take it using the very weapons that are being used against
us. I really do.
By the way, don't expect to hear anything from Noriega or Khun
Sa. When you are an indicted felon (I know this because they did
this to me), when you're indicted as a felon, the CIPA, the
Classified Information Procedures Act, now suddenly falls over
you. You cannot make any statement that might prejudice national
security. And so, you'll notice that Manuel Noriega said, "I
have George Bush by the cajones." He said that about three
months before they indicted him. Do you think they indicted
Manuel Noriega because he is a drug lord? No!
We were going to turn over the canal in 1990. We had to get
Pineapple Face out of there and put our own people in, to make
sure that canal keeps running right, for economic purposes, until
we get the new one going in Nicaragua.
Now, Thornburg has indicted Khun Sa because it looks like we're
getting close to a resolution that would require Congress to
investigate. As a matter of fact, Sam Nunn has already said he
is going to investigate. If we can just give him the push he
needs to make sure it's not a "square filler," that he really
looks, then we will win this thing. And, I have that kind of
faith, and I hope that you do too.
As a matter of fact, I know as AmerICANs, the last four letters
in the word American, that we can, and that we will, that we must
win this thing. And that's an order, by the way.
Now, let's take a break, if you will. The video tapes that I
have available show Khun Sa indicting these Americans in the
jungle. It also shows the Nicaraguan problems, the CIA pilots
flying the drugs over there and bringing the drugs back after
they've flown arms into Nicaragua for the Contra. And it talks
to what I think are some of the major problems, [e.g.] the drug
problem. There is a tape back there called "Winning the War on
Drugs."
I was indicted. I was told that, if I did not erase and forget
everything I'd learned, I would serve 15 years as a felon. They
tried to get me for training Afghans. I'm guilty. I trained
Afghans. But the grand jury, and by the way, not one patriot
could ever be tried for a crime if a grand jury wouldn't indict.
But, most grand juries are led by the nose by the U.S. attorney,
because there isn't any other side. There's only his side.
Hearsay is even admissible in a grand jury. But, the grand jury
found no true bill, because it was obvious the Statement
Department had set up the training for the Afghans.
Now, those are Mujahadeen over there, not dogs that we were
training. A woman one time said, "Bo, how come Special Forces
are involved in animal training?" And it took me about ten
seconds to realize she was talking about the guys wearing turbans
that I knew as Afghans, only they're Mujahadeen.
Then they tried to indict me for the Neutrality Act here in
California. I am guilty. I always said I was guilty. My lawyer
kept saying, "Bo, please stop saying that." But it is true. I
have been ten times behind enemy lines since 1982. Not once did
I ask permission, so I was guilty. But, the FBI testified I was
a government agent working for the National Security Council's
ISA. So, the U.S. Attorney for California said, "I ain't
touching it." And so he would not indict.
In Nevada, they did indict me, for misuse of a passport. It is a
weeny charge. Jane Fonda misused a passport. Ollie North and
MacValium had Irish passports when they went into Iran for the
illegal drug deals. 30 years of covert operations and they're
going to indict me for using a false passport? I am guilty, and
I said it on television and the newspapers. I am guilty. I've
had false passports most of my adult life. And, I was happy they
did indict me, because it meant I could put the government on
trial. The only reason I was being indicted is because I
wouldn't cover up government drug involvement. I had proof that
I had been sent by the White House to Burma. And, they knew the
passport I was operating on.
I was going to put them on trial and then prove that the reason
our prisoners weren't home is because the bureaucrats responsible
have been involved in drug smuggling, and would be revealed at
any investigation about what took so long on bringing our POWs
home.
But, you know something, 19 witnesses came against me, and the
day that I got up, in uniform, to take the stand, the judge
ordered the jury to acquit me. It was never intended for me to
say one word. When I said, "Your honor," my lawyer said, "Sit
down, Bo! You have won!" But it wasn't a victory, because the
government never got tried. I just got acquitted. And the judge
put his gavel down and said, "Colonel Gritz, you will not say one
word in this court room."
But you know what Bill Maddox, U.S. Attorney for the State of
Nevada, did? He said it all for me. He walked right out there
(this was straight from God, I think) and he said, before three
news cameras, when they asked him, "Why did you pursue,
personally, as the U.S. Attorney and your chief deputy?", who
turned out to be Country Joe and Fish's road show manager, an
acid rock group guy, and they shipped him out immediately. That
was the first casualty. Then an assistant resigned. They sent
him out.
The U.S. Attorney said, "George Bush called me on the phone and
told me to get Bo Gritz." And when a reporter said, "Are you
denying that? Is that what you're saying?" Old Maddox stood
right there, stony faced, and said, "No. What I'm saying is,
George Bush called me on the phone and told me to get Bo Gritz."
I sent a copy of that to Thornburg and to Bush, with a little
note that says, "You may have done wrong. And if you didn't,
you['ve] got trouble, because the U.S. Attorney in Nevada is
lying about you." Bill Maddox lost his job. So, right now the
number 4 man in Nevada is the U.S. Attorney. He's happy.
But, the State Department has just declared war on me again. I
was in Washington, D.C. this last weekend for Memorial Day, and a
State Department investigator I've known for a jillion years
almost, it seems like, came up to me and said, "Bo, shred
everything you've got that is in any way false identification,
because the State Department has declared war on you, because you
will not stop doing what we asked you to, and that is, talking
about government drug involvement."
And so, when I came back from Washington, Maddox now is gone, of
course, but (Pocker is his name) Pocker has now sequestered a new
grand jury to meet on the seventh of June for more charges that
they're going to try to drum up. It means we're doing something
right. If you don't get a reaction from the beast, it means
you're not doing something. But, when you can get that beast to
react, it means you've got him somewhere where it's hurting. So,
that's exciting news.
I've done a lot of things wrong, folks, but not one thing that I
wouldn't be willing to stand up and tell in full before you as a
jury of my peers. And if you think I did wrong, because that's
what the government told me to do, I'm happy to go to prison.
But, we thought we were doing right at the time, even though it
turned out to be wrong.
Now, that is what I wanted to tell you. Let's take a break, make
the tapes and books available. I'll be glad to personalize them.
We've got to be out of here ... [end of 90-minute tape].
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