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Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.02,0:00:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Prof. Tjeerd Andringa) All right, people:\Nwelcome.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.00,0:00:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to this fourth lecture \Nin a series on resources.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.81,0:00:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we have a speaker \Nfrom Japan, James Corbett.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.60,0:00:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James Corbett is well-known \Namong some circles,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.09,0:00:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I am actually a little bit interested\Nin who of you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.24,0:01:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,already knew James Corbett \Nand his work before: before this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.25,0:01:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, that is about... wow: that's \Nmore than half, I would say.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.83,0:01:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, so the other half basically \Ncomes for the topic,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.29,0:01:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of for James Corbett.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.93,0:01:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, for those people, I think it's useful\Nthat I explain a little bit
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.28,0:01:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what type of journalist \NJames Corbett is.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.94,0:01:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he does: he calls himself an \Nopen source journalist,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.42,0:01:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so basically he looks at all the available\Ninformation and then he synthesizes it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.00,0:01:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you could also call that\Nopen source intelligence.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.54,0:01:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is, basically, a one-man \Nintelligence agency
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.68,0:01:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who integrates information \Nfrom pretty much any source
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.03,0:01:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then comes up with a narrative\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.81,0:01:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is usually a story\Nthat is very easy to understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.90,0:01:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, not so easy to understand, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.43,0:02:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it {\i1}helps{\i0} you to understand \Nhow the world might be working.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.32,0:02:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.54,0:02:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for, I think, for many other people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.06,0:02:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listening to his media \N-- especially his podcasts --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.09,0:02:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is extremely empowering.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.70,0:02:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You learn things that you would \Nnot normally learn
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.85,0:02:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the regular, mainstream media.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.58,0:02:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is kind of special,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.23,0:02:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for that reason \Nwe have invited him tonight here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.64,0:02:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I think I shouldn't talk too much, \Nand let James do the talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.72,0:02:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James, please.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.25,0:02:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sustained applause, cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.78,0:02:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(distant voice) All right.\N(laughter) All right.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.29,0:02:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(James) OK. So, thank you very much.\NThank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.50,0:03:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, thank you, Tjeerd \Nfor the lovely introduction,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.38,0:03:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thank you for \Nsetting the ball in motion
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.15,0:03:03.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me to come here to Groningen.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.49,0:03:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I appreciate that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.68,0:03:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let me also thank Studium Generale\Nand their Dutch hospitality
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.48,0:03:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I've been shown so far on this trip.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.44,0:03:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I very much appreciate it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.99,0:03:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, lastly but not leastly,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.10,0:03:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thank you to all of you \Nfor showing up tonight.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.11,0:03:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really do appreciate you coming here\Nfor this lecture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.48,0:03:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as you can see, of course, \Nthis is a lecture entitled:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.56,0:03:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}The Secret War: \NGladio and the Battle for Eurasia{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.22,0:03:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why don't we start by talking about\Nwhat we're going to talk about,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.38,0:03:33.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,namely: Central Asia is one of the regions\Nthat we'll be talking about tonight.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.76,0:03:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Central Asia is a vast \Nexpanse of the map
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.97,0:03:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose defining characteristic is \Nits ability to defy characterization.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.58,0:03:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stretching from the shores \Nof the Caspian Sea on the west side
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.87,0:03:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the border of China in the east,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.75,0:03:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from Iran and Pakistan’s doorstep \Nin the south
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.37,0:03:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Russia’s in the north,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.07,0:03:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it encompasses everything \Nfrom the snow-capped slopes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.22,0:03:56.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.96,0:04:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the remarkable “Door to Hell” \Nin Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.04,0:04:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- which, if it is not on your list \Nof things to see before you die,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.09,0:04:06.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you should put it on that list --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.15,0:04:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the sprawling grasslands \Nof the Kazakh Steppe.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.20,0:04:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And settled by migrants from the Persian,\NTurkic, Chinese and Slavic civilizations,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.95,0:04:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its inhabitants speak Kyrgyz, Kazakh, \NRussian, Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.71,0:04:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and include Muslims, Christians, \NBuddhists, Hindus and assorted others.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.78,0:04:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The much smaller Caucasus region,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.48,0:04:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a narrow land bridge sandwiched between\Nthe Black and Caspian seas,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.46,0:04:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is equally diverse.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.06,0:04:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, the region contains \Nover 50 ethnic groups
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.65,0:04:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is home to three \Nlocal language families...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.26,0:04:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- which is something \Nthat linguists still puzzle over
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.23,0:04:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is very fascinating \Nin and of itself --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.36,0:04:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and there are several dozen languages\Nspoken in the region,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.03,0:04:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the obscure \NBohtan Neo-Aramaic tongue,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.21,0:04:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has less than 500 native speakers,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.29,0:05:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the more widely-spoken Azerbaijani \Nand Armenian languages.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.39,0:05:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But despite the rich culture\Nand the history of the region,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.94,0:05:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is still completely off \Nthe radar screens
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.06,0:05:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of most of the general public.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.50,0:05:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Tajikistan," “Abkhazia,"\Nand “Astrakhan Oblast"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.08,0:05:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are hardly names to conjure by \Nin the popular imagination, after all.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.03,0:05:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the fact that those names \N{\i1}do not{\i0} resonate with us
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.61,0:05:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is perhaps something that is \Npart of a grander strategy
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.94,0:05:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're going to talk about tonight. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.66,0:05:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those names that {\i1}do{\i0} resonate with us
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.45,0:05:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tend to be the names that we have seen\N
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.06,0:05:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in various media stories in the West.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.23,0:05:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, Dagestan equates to\N“The Boston Bombing"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.04,0:05:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the minds of most Americans,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.28,0:05:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Chechnya might be familiar \Nto Europeans
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.56,0:05:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as “that place that Russia \Nis at war with.”
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.95,0:05:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But just because these -stans,\Nand Oblasts,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.29,0:05:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and autonomous republics \Nand autonomous regions in this area
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.35,0:06:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not resonate with the general public,\Nfor the most part,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.50,0:06:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not mean that they are not important\Nsquares on the global chessboard.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.73,0:06:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just because they may not be \Non the radar of the general public
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.99,0:06:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not mean they are not on the radar
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.14,0:06:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of some of the most powerful players \Nin global geopolitics.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.26,0:06:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as evidence of that,\NI present to you
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.94,0:06:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United States-Azerbaijan\NChamber of Commerce,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.89,0:06:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which sounds about as important \Nto global geopolitics
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.94,0:06:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the Groningen Chamber of Commerce.\N(laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.04,0:06:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when you actually look at some of\Nthe current and former advisors,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.63,0:06:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,directors, and board members\Nof this organization,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.74,0:06:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you encounter some of the richest and most\Npowerful players in global geopolitics.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.99,0:06:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, former Vice President \Nof the United States, Dick Cheney;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.65,0:06:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James Baker III, a Bush family advisor,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.87,0:06:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and{\i0} his son, James Baker IV,\Nfor those of you keeping track at home;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.90,0:06:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Henry Kissinger, of course; \N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.70,0:07:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brent Scowcroft; Richard Armitage \Nof the US State Department,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.99,0:07:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perennial Washington insider \Nand former National Security Advisor,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.50,0:07:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.08,0:07:11.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with many, many others\Nthat are, I think, worth checking into.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.03,0:07:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the question becomes: \NWhat is it that these people...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.13,0:07:19.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- some of the most influential people
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.23,0:07:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the field of global geopolitics \Nover the past 50 years --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.38,0:07:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...know about this region \Nthat the general public doesn’t?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.88,0:07:29.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think there are\Nat least two answers to that question.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.49,0:07:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first answer is \Nthe old real estate adage:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.53,0:07:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Location, location, location!"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.74,0:07:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The region’s key location in the backyard
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.58,0:07:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of some of the key players and powers \Nof the Eurasian landmass,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.06,0:07:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Russia and China foremost amongst them,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.62,0:07:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has made it a geostrategic prize\Nstretching back thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.33,0:07:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dominated at different times \Nand in varying degrees
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.77,0:07:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Persian empires, Chinese dynasties,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.33,0:07:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mongol invaders and Soviet forces,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.83,0:07:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the region has a rich history \Nof being acted {\i1}upon{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.37,0:08:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a relatively short history as \Na geopolitical actor in its own right.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.05,0:08:06.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its position has long made it \Na key transport route,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.54,0:08:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Han Dynasty’s Silk Road
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.23,0:08:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connecting China to Persia \Nthousands of years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.94,0:08:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the current attempt by Xi Jinping
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.71,0:08:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a New Silk Road \Nof the 21st Century
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.60,0:08:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that includes connecting China \Nto Turkey and beyond,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.42,0:08:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,straight through the heart\Nof this region.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.80,0:08:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But more important even than \Nits location and strategic value
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.50,0:08:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the region’s vast, \Nlargely untapped resources.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.82,0:08:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The oil and gas fields of the Caspian Sea\Nregion are particularly sought-after,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.74,0:08:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,containing the third-largest reserves\Nof any fields on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.94,0:08:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Azerbaijan in the Caucasus \Nand Kazakhstan in Central Asia
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.35,0:08:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both have direct access \Nto Caspian Sea oil,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.32,0:08:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan\Nproviding ample gas reserves.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.59,0:08:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dream of a Trans-Caspian pipeline \Nhas been in the works for years now
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.12,0:09:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to transport Central Asian reserves \Nacross the Southern Caucasus
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.20,0:09:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the so-called “BTC” pipeline
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.13,0:09:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,funneling the energy \Nthrough Azerbaijan and Georgia
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.62,0:09:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Turkey, and then off to Europe:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.88,0:09:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has been equally prized as a way \Nfor Europe to find an alternative
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.52,0:09:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Russia’s increasingly-threatening\Nstranglehold over energy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.02,0:09:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as Gazprom.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.11,0:09:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The region also contains strategically\Nimportant deposits of uranium,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.49,0:09:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as industrially useful minerals
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.37,0:09:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as copper, manganese, tungsten, \Nzinc, et cetera.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.15,0:09:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also gold: don't discount gold.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.22,0:09:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another equally important \N-- although seldom acknowledged --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.07,0:09:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resource in this region revolves
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.73,0:09:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the extensive opium trade,\Nespecially in Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.56,0:09:41.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Afghan opium trade is \Nestimated to bring in
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.95,0:09:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as $200 billion annually,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.32,0:09:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accounting for as much as 92% \Nof the world supply.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.100,0:09:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we shall see, control of this region
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.01,0:09:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involves domination of the \Nespecially lucrative business
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.26,0:10:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of the attendant economic benefits\Nthat result from from this connection.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.84,0:10:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The importance of a long-term \NUS presence in the region
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.45,0:10:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to establish Western dominance \Nover this location and its resources
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.59,0:10:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is no secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.83,0:10:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it has been written about
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.49,0:10:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extensively and repeatedly,\Ntime and again,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.50,0:10:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the think tanks that typically \Nserve as the mouthpiece
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.72,0:10:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for NATO’s foreign policy interests.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.06,0:10:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Case Exhibit Number One:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.33,0:10:27.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take, for example a 1992 analysis \Nof the region
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.41,0:10:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from RAND’s National Defense Research\NInstitute entitled,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.46,0:10:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Central Asia: The New Geopolitics,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.00,0:10:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was written shortly after \Nthe collapse of the Soviet Union
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.58,0:10:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while the newly-independent \Nrepublics of the region
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.76,0:10:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were still orienting themselves to \Ntheir new geopolitical reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.39,0:10:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was penned by Graham Fuller, \Na former CIA station chief in Kabul
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.45,0:10:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose name will come up again\Nlater in our study:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.87,0:10:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so keep that face and that name in mind. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.40,0:10:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wrote: “It is primarily Central Asia’s\Nstrategic geopolitical location
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.84,0:11:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- truly at the continent’s center --
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.80,0:11:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the broadly undesirable course \Nof events that could emerge
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.50,0:11:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the region were to drift \Ntoward instability,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.74,0:11:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that constitute the primary American\Ninterest (in the region).[…]
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.64,0:11:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thus, given the potential
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.92,0:11:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for untoward developments in the region\N{\i1}for Western interests,{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.44,0:11:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,modest hands-on American influence\Nin the region is desirable.” .
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.18,0:11:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hmm
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.80,0:11:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This “modest hands on American influence”\Ngained momentum, and by 2004,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.87,0:11:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had an article published in the\N{\i1}Cambridge Review of International Affairs{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.35,0:11:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called “The United States \Nand Central Asia: In the Steppes to Stay?”
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.96,0:11:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Svante E. Cornell of the \NCentral Asia-Caucasus Institute
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.57,0:11:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,raising some of the key reasons for\Nincreasing US involvement in the region:
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.95,0:11:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“As US engagement in Central Asia \Nbecomes more permanent,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.50,0:11:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will increasingly become a factor \Nin both regional politics
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.75,0:11:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the domestic politics of \Nthe several Central Asian countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.55,0:11:58.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That role raises a host of questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.51,0:12:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chief among them is how regional powers\Nsuch as Russia and China
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.46,0:12:04.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will react to the US presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.85,0:12:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A second concerns the implications
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.68,0:12:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both for the political development \Namong the region’s states
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.87,0:12:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the future of radical Islam.”
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.17,0:12:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also, in 2011, the Project 2049 Institute,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.85,0:12:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which includes Zbigniew Brzezinski’s \N{\i1}son{\i0} on its Board of Directors,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.03,0:12:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,published a document proclaiming
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.78,0:12:29.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“An Agenda For the Future of\NU.S. – Central Asia Relations”
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.09,0:12:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which contains this interesting passage:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.62,0:12:34.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“U.S. policymakers have been careful \Nto avoid the metaphor
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.81,0:12:37.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a 'Great Game' in Central Asia.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.41,0:12:39.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet it has been often invoked by others,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.81,0:12:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not least by observers in Moscow, Beijing,\Nand other neighboring powers.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.89,0:12:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The U.S. must continue \Nto reject this metaphor,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.27,0:12:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for such notions are based \Non flawed assumptions
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.58,0:12:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fraught with risks \Nfor the United States."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.17,0:12:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Intereresting.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.46,0:12:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is this “Great Game” \N
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.69,0:13:03.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the think tanks\Nlike the Project 2049 Institute
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.99,0:13:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are so eager to avoid comparisons to?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.17,0:13:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The 'Great Game' refers \Nto the struggle for supremacy
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.80,0:13:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the British and the Russians\Nin the Central Asia region,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.82,0:13:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primarily in the 19th Century.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.56,0:13:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Game broadly took place
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.84,0:13:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the signing of the \NRusso-Persian Treaty of 1813
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.25,0:13:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until the Anglo-Russian \Nconvention of 1907,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.17,0:13:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but although the term was coined \Nin the early 19th century
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.94,0:13:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it didn’t hit the popular imagination
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.22,0:13:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until Rudyard Kipling’s {\i1}Kim{\i0}\Nwas published in 1901.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.76,0:13:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was three years after that, in 1904,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.34,0:13:39.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that {\i1}The Geographical Journal{\i0}\Npublished an article
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.31,0:13:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that articulated the {\i1}reasons{\i0}\Nthese great powers
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.79,0:13:45.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were engaged in the struggle \Nfor this piece of the globe.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.44,0:13:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The article was called \N“The Geographical Pivot of History,”
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.72,0:13:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was written by \NSir Halford John Mackinder PC,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.12,0:13:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- don't forget the PC.\N"Privy Council:" very important! --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.02,0:14:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Director of the \NLondon School of Economics
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.22,0:14:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was founded by the Fabian Society
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.21,0:14:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and folded into the heart \Nof the British establishment
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.80,0:14:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the University of London in 1900.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.61,0:14:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just as an example of that,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.16,0:14:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cornerstone of the Old Building \Non Houghton Street
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.80,0:14:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was laid by King George V himself,\Ninterestingly.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.69,0:14:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mackinder is considered the father\Nof the study of geopolitics,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.26,0:14:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and {\i1}The Geographical Pivot of History{\i0}\Nis the document
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.56,0:14:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is often said to be \Nthe founding document of geopolitics,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.52,0:14:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and constitutes the first formulation
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.82,0:14:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what would come to be Mackinder's \N"Heartland Theory."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.10,0:14:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This theory states that the division of\Nwhat Mackinder called the “World Island”
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.93,0:14:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into inherently divided isolated areas
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.86,0:14:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the principle by which we could\Nunderstand the evolution of history
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.87,0:14:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the future of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.36,0:14:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each of these areas had\Nits own part to play
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.02,0:14:49.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the unfolding of that history,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.59,0:14:53.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the area he called the “Heartland”\Nof the central Eurasian landmass
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.49,0:14:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being the pivot point \Nfrom which a civilization
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.13,0:14:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could derive the geopolitical \Nand economic leverage
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.22,0:15:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with which to dominate \Nthe world as a whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.08,0:15:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was summarized in a famous dictum\N
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.63,0:15:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from his 1919 work,\N{\i1}Democratic Ideals and Reality{\i0}:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.94,0:15:10.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Who rules East Europe\Ncommands the Heartland;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.17,0:15:13.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who rules the Heartland\Ncommands the World-Island;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.15,0:15:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who rules the World-Island\Ncommands the World.”
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.86,0:15:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking at the map of what Mackinder\Nhad in mind for the Heartland,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.03,0:15:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s apparent that the “heart” \Nof this Heartland
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.15,0:15:25.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is indeed the Central Asia-\NCaucasus region.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.93,0:15:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what Russia and Britain were \Nso intent
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.37,0:15:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on wresting from each other's control
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.95,0:15:32.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the 19th century Great Game:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.49,0:15:34.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,control of the region from which
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.63,0:15:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the building of a world empire \Nwould be possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.98,0:15:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is why the Project 2049 Institute\N
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.57,0:15:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the other mouthpieces \Nfor the Establishment in the US,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.93,0:15:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NATO, foreign policy interests,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.59,0:15:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to downplay this idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.14,0:15:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don’t {\i1}under any circumstances{\i0}\Nwant you to think about the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.07,0:15:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the US and its NATO allies \Nare building regional domination
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.38,0:16:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a part of the globe from which \Nthey plan to project world dominance.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.34,0:16:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But fast-forward to 1997.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.84,0:16:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in that year, our old friend\NZbigniew Brzezinski released his book,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.17,0:16:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy\Nand its Geostrategic Imperatives{\i0}:
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.21,0:16:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because, evidently, \NZbigniew Brzezinski was not so shy
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.02,0:16:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about proclaiming the quest \Nfor world domination.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.15,0:16:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He also did not mince his words\Nabout the Eurasian Heartland
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.22,0:16:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how important it {\i1}is{\i0}\Nto America's “global primacy":
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.79,0:16:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“For America, \Nthe chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.54,0:16:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For half a millennium, world affairs were\Ndominated by Eurasian powers and peoples
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.07,0:16:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who fought with one another\Nfor regional domination
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.08,0:16:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reached out for global power.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.60,0:16:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now a non-Eurasian power \Nis preeminent in Eurasia
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.42,0:16:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- and America’s global primacy \Nis directly dependent
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.64,0:16:48.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on how long and how effectively
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.17,0:16:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its preponderance \Non the Eurasian continent is sustained."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.62,0:16:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He goes on to refine \NMackinder’s “Heartland” notion
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.98,0:17:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down to a specific area that he calls \Nthe Eurasian Balkans.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.39,0:17:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this area is precisely the \NCentral Asia-Caucasus region.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.21,0:17:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He explains its importance thusly:
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.07,0:17:11.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The Eurasian Balkans,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.26,0:17:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,astride the inevitably emerging \Ntransportation network
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.08,0:17:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meant to link more directly
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.46,0:17:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eurasia’s richest and most industrious \Nwestern and eastern extremities,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.11,0:17:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are also geopolitically significant.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.77,0:17:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moreover, they are of importance
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.57,0:17:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the standpoint of security \Nand historical ambitions
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.52,0:17:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to at least three of their most immediate \Nand more powerful neighbors,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.62,0:17:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,namely, Russia, Turkey, and Iran,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.75,0:17:36.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with China also signaling an increasing\Npolitical interest in the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.35,0:17:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Eurasian Balkans are \Ninfinitely more important
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.95,0:17:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a potential economic prize:
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.85,0:17:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an enormous concentration \Nof natural gas and oil reserves
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.58,0:17:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is located in the region,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.28,0:17:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in addition to important minerals, \Nincluding gold."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.79,0:17:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The use of the metaphor of the Balkans is\Ndoubly evocative for students of history;
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.62,0:18:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it represents not only the strife \Nand ethnic conflict
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.13,0:18:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we saw in the “Balkanization” \Nof Yugoslavia
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.35,0:18:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end of the 20th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.98,0:18:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also the powder-keg of tensions\Nthat ignited the First World War
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.31,0:18:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the beginning of the 20th century.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.21,0:18:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Subsequently, Brzezinski predicted that\Nthe first great war of the 21st century
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.64,0:18:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would take place \Nin this Eurasian Balkans region,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.05,0:18:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lo and behold: four years after \N{\i1}The Grand Chessboard{\i0} was published,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.90,0:18:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first great war of the 21st Century\Nwas being waged in Afghanistan
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.76,0:18:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the United States and its NATO allies.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.86,0:18:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meet the New Great Game, \Nsame as the Old Great Game.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.05,0:18:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This time, it's NATO against China, Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.86,0:18:39.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what might loosely be termed \Na "resistance bloc,"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.17,0:18:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the idea is almost the same:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.30,0:18:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dominate Central Asia-Caucasus
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.47,0:18:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and use it as pivot point \Nto dominate the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.07,0:18:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Old and the New Great Game \Nare similar in many ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.72,0:18:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Old Great Game sprang \Nfrom the British fears
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.00,0:18:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Russian incursion into Central Asia\Nwould threaten
Dialogue: 0,0:18:56.81,0:19:02.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to topple their hold over the crown jewel\Nof the British Empire: India.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.11,0:19:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New Great Game springs from the fear
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.10,0:19:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Russian and/or Chinese dominance \Nover Central Asia and the Caucasus
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.61,0:19:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would prevent NATO from achieving \Nits goal of “full spectrum dominance.”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.59,0:19:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Old Great Game involved the\NBritish invasion of Afghanistan in 1838
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.11,0:19:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in attempt to install a puppet regime.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.76,0:19:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New Great Game involved \Nthe NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.100,0:19:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in attempt to install a puppet regime.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.38,0:19:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Old Great Game relied heavily \Non espionage, spycraft and subterfuge
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.16,0:19:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to undermine Russia’s sway \Nover the Heartland;
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.70,0:19:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as we shall see, the New Great Game \Nalso heavily relies on covert means
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.12,0:19:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to undermine Russian and Chinese \Ninfluence in the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.53,0:19:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To understand the way that subterfuge is\Nbeing used in the New Great Game today,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.58,0:19:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must first understand\Nan important clandestine operation
Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.42,0:19:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is commonly known\Nas “Operation Gladio."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.07,0:20:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In very brief and rough terms, \N“Operation Gladio" was a NATO plan
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.52,0:20:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to use “stay-behind” paramilitary armies
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.17,0:20:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to counter a potential Soviet invasion\Nof Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.34,0:20:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although this is the way \Nthat “Operation Gladio”
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.68,0:20:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is commonly understood \Namongst the general public,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.64,0:20:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost every piece of that description \Nis technically incorrect.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.31,0:20:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Firstly “Operation Gladio” was not \Na name for the overall program,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.08,0:20:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which involved 12 NATO member nations
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.05,0:20:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, \NGreece, Italy, Luxembourg,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.90,0:20:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, \NSpain and Turkey --
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.34,0:20:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and four neutral countries
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.04,0:20:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- Austria, Finland, Sweden \Nand Switzerland --
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.38,0:20:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the program Operation Gladio \Nreferred {\i1}specifically{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.31,0:20:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to its most famous incarnation in Italy.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.70,0:20:46.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Belgium the operation \Nwas codenamed “SDRA-8.”
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.09,0:20:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sweden had its “Projekt-26.”
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.72,0:20:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Greece it was...\N-- apologies to Greek speakers --
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.47,0:20:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lochos Oreinon Katadromon”\N(Λόχος Ορεινών Καταδρομών)
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.60,0:21:01.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and here in the Netherlands \Nit was “GIIIC” later rebranded as “G7.”
Dialogue: 0,0:21:01.47,0:21:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thankfully, for those of us\Nwho have problems
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.63,0:21:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying "I" three times in a row.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.32,0:21:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Secondly, the operation was not\Ninherently a NATO one.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.51,0:21:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was first coordinated in 1948\Nby a trans-Atlantic body based in France
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.52,0:21:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as the “Western Union \NClandestine Committee.”
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.95,0:21:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the creation of NATO in 1949
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.08,0:21:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the body was folded\Ninto the organization’s
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.98,0:21:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Supreme Headquarters \NAllied Powers Europe (SHAPE)
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.37,0:21:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and under the revised name of the \NClandestine Planning Committee.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.33,0:21:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The plan’s origins stretch back, \Narguably, even further,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.47,0:21:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the creation of MI6’s \N“Section D” in Britain:
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.61,0:21:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a ramshackle group of recruits\Nfrom England’s North Sea coast
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.39,0:21:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would commit sabotage \Nand guerrilla warfare
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.77,0:21:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the event of a Nazi invasion \Nof the British Isles.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.52,0:21:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The central role of the CIA’s \N“Office of Policy Coordination”
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.13,0:22:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Special Operations Branch of MI6\Nin establishing the operation,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.61,0:22:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as the training \Nof stay-behind forces
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.96,0:22:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alongside British SAS units \Nat Fort Monckton
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.44,0:22:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and American Special Forces at \Nthe infamous School of the Americas,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.47,0:22:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needs also to be stressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.30,0:22:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thirdly, although the individual\Nstay-behind programs
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.10,0:22:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were organized in Europe,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.42,0:22:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the scope of their operations\Nwere not limited to Europe
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.73,0:22:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and strayed far from any supposed mandate\Nto prepare for a Soviet invasion.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.71,0:22:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we shall see, “Gladio” operations\Nincluded -- and {\i1}include{\i0} --
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.74,0:22:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything from drug running \Nand money laundering
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.90,0:22:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to terror attacks \Nand political assassinations.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.44,0:22:39.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I won't get into the specifics
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.100,0:22:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how these stay-behind units operated\Nin the various countries
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.29,0:22:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the various incidents\Nthat they participated in.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:46.03,0:22:48.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If any part of the “Gladio" story\Nis well-known,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.100,0:22:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- and I hope it is --
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.07,0:22:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if any part is well known, \Nit is the operations in Europe
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.19,0:22:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their role the events \Nof Italy’s “Years of Lead.”
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.87,0:22:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These topics have been covered \Nin great detail
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.99,0:23:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by very capable writers, filmmakers,\Nhistorians, researchers, documentarians...
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.42,0:23:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I’ll refer you to some of the most\Nvaluable English-language resources
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.50,0:23:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the overall program,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.24,0:23:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including Alan Francovich’s \Ngroundbreaking documentary,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.91,0:23:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- that you can't really see very well\Nin that picture --
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.78,0:23:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Gladio: The Ring Masters{\i0};
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.72,0:23:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daniele Ganser’s seminal work,\N{\i1}NATO’s Secret Armies{\i0};
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.73,0:23:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Richard Cottrell’s {\i1}Gladio: NATO’s Dagger\N at the Heart of Europe{\i0},
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.16,0:23:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the various resources available \Nat sites like Operation-Gladio.net.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.02,0:23:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What {\i1}is{\i0} important for our study {\i1}today{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.05,0:23:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the strategic doctrine employed \Nby Gladio operatives
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.79,0:23:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as the “strategy of tension."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.34,0:23:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This doctrine involves the creation,\Nencouragement or exacerbation
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.56,0:23:50.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of political, religious, ethnic \Nor other forms of conflict
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.45,0:23:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to incite fear in a population\Nand manipulate public opinion.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.31,0:23:58.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An oft-cited example \Nof the strategy of tension
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.65,0:24:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the “Years of Lead” in Italy
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.64,0:24:03.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that rocked that nation with \Na wave of terrorist atrocities,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.49,0:24:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the 1969 bombing \Nof the Piazza Fontana
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.92,0:24:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Bologna railway station \Nbombing of 1980.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.17,0:24:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The story of the links \Nbetween NATO Gladio operations
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.07,0:24:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the various paramilitary groups
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.80,0:24:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose bombings, kidnappings and\Nassassinations terrorized a nation
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.12,0:24:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a fascinating one, \Nbut far too detailed for today’s study.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.30,0:24:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The takeaway point is that \Nthe national psychosis
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.96,0:24:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caused by spectacular terror attacks
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.42,0:24:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be used to turn public opinion \Nagainst certain groups
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.66,0:24:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make actions that were formerly\Npolitically {\i1}inconceivable{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.18,0:24:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,virtually {\i1}inevitable.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.04,0:24:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It isn't difficult to see how this strategy\N
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.37,0:24:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be used in some form in a region \Nas linguistically, ethnically,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.99,0:24:50.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,culturally and religiously diverse\Nand divisive
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.31,0:24:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.22,0:24:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indeed, as Brzezinski points out
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.48,0:24:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in regards to his \N“Eurasian Balkans” concept:
Dialogue: 0,0:24:57.66,0:25:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Every one of \N[the Eurasian Balkans] countries
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.14,0:25:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suffers from serious \Ninternal difficulties,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.77,0:25:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of them have frontiers
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.61,0:25:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are either the object \Nof claims by neighbors
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.80,0:25:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or are zones of ethnic resentment,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.60,0:25:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,few are nationally homogeneous,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.49,0:25:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some are {\i1}already{\i0} embroiled
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.31,0:25:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in territorial, ethnic, \Nor religious violence.”
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.78,0:25:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With regards to the Central Asia-Caucasus\Nregion in particular,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.26,0:25:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gladio operations in Turkey \Nare of primary importance.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.93,0:25:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Noting that the Turkish Gladio \Noperations\N
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.58,0:25:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relied on cooperation with \Nthe nationalistic,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.96,0:25:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,racist, baldly expansionist\NPan-Turkism movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.91,0:25:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daniele Ganser describes \Nthe Turkish secret army
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.36,0:25:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as “more violent than that of any other\Nstay-behind in Western Europe."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.71,0:25:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He describes the origin\Nof the Turkish stay-behind,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.11,0:25:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as “Counter-Guerrilla,” thusly:
Dialogue: 0,0:25:49.05,0:25:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Under the headline \N‘The Origins of “Gladio” in Turkey’
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.44,0:25:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Paris-based {\i1}Intelligence Newsletter{\i0}\N
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.43,0:25:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reported in 1990\Nthat they had obtained
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.60,0:26:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the recently declassified \Noriginal strategy documents
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.87,0:26:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,engendering the Western European \N"stay-behind" or "Gladio" network:
Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.91,0:26:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,US Army General Staff’s Top-Secret
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.17,0:26:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,March 28, 1949 \NOverall Strategic Concepts.’
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.61,0:26:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In an adjoining document,\NJSPC 891/6, section ‘Tab B,’
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.88,0:26:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a specific reference is made to Turkey
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.20,0:26:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,highlighting how the Pan-Turkism movement
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.12,0:26:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be exploited strategically \Nby the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.54,0:26:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turkey, according to \Nthe Pentagon document,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.64,0:26:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an ‘extremely favourable territory \Nfor the establishment
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.00,0:26:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of both guerrilla units \Nand Secret Army Reserves.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.76,0:26:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Politically the Turks are strongly \Nnationalistic and anti-Communistic,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:38.65,0:26:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the presence of the Red Army in Turks
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.69,0:26:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will cause national feeling to run high.’
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.10,0:26:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Intelligence Newsletter{\i0}\Nthereafter correctly related
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.18,0:26:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Turkish secret army \Ncalled Counter-Guerrilla
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.98,0:26:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was run by the Special Warfare Department\Nand consisted of five branches:
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.59,0:26:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,‘Training Group, including interrogation \Nand psychological warfare techniques;
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.82,0:27:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Special Unit, specialised since 1984 \Nin anti-Kurd operations,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.75,0:27:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Special Section, special operations \Nin Cyprus;
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.57,0:27:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coordination Group, also called \Nthe Third Bureau;
Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.16,0:27:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Administrative Section.’"
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.78,0:27:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The violent atrocities committed \Nby Counter-Guerrilla
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.39,0:27:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are beyond the scope \Nof {\i1}this{\i0} investigation,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.48,0:27:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they include a September 1955\N‘false flag’ bombing
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.98,0:27:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a key Turkish target in Greece
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.42,0:27:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was blamed on the Greek police,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.99,0:27:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,participation in three military coups \Nagainst Turkey’s own government,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.01,0:27:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the torture of political opponents \Nin the torture villa of Erenköy,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.56,0:27:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and assorted robberies, assassinations,\Nkidnappings, sabotage,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.81,0:27:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other terrorist activities.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.63,0:27:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the vicious Turkish \Nnationalist movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.81,0:27:50.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with its interest in uniting \Nall of the Turkish people
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.39,0:27:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into one Pan-Turkic nation,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.82,0:27:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NATO found a convenient ally in its quest
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.76,0:27:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to counter Soviet influence \Nin the Caucasus region
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.42,0:28:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to gain a toehold \Nin the Eurasian Balkans.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.65,0:28:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to understand \Nhow this alliance operated,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.88,0:28:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let’s examine one particular person \Nwho has been identified
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.17,0:28:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as one of the top Turkish \N“Gladiators”: Abdullah Çatlı.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:13.34,0:28:17.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably the single most famous \Nmembers of the Counter-Guerrilla,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.22,0:28:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Abdullah Çatlı’s remarkable \Nand highly improbable career
Dialogue: 0,0:28:21.00,0:28:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tells a story of assassinations, \Nterror attacks,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.37,0:28:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drug running, \Ndaring prison escapes
Dialogue: 0,0:28:26.78,0:28:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and international intrigue \Noutrageous enough
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.93,0:28:34.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make even the most imaginative \NHollywood script writer blush.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.10,0:28:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beginning as a petty street thug \Nwith the nationalist movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.38,0:28:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Çatlı rose through the ranks \Nto become a brutal enforcer
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.42,0:28:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the dreaded Grey Wolves \N“youth organization”
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.50,0:28:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connected to the Turkish Gladio movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.62,0:28:50.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 1978 he had become the second \Nin command of the organization
Dialogue: 0,0:28:50.15,0:28:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a top Counter-Guerrilla operative,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.48,0:28:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,implicated in multiple \Nhigh-profile assassinations,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:55.45,0:28:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including the murder of Abdi İpekçi
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.09,0:29:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the country’s most well-known \Nnewspaper editor.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.30,0:29:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forced underground \Nby his growing notoriety,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.41,0:29:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Çatlı became an important \Ninternational Gladiator,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.42,0:29:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,participating in the 1981 \Nassassination attempt of the Pope.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.55,0:29:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He traveled with Italian Gladiator\NStefano Della Chiaie
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.64,0:29:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Latin America and Miami in 1982
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.26,0:29:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then headed to France \Nwhere he planned the bombing
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.75,0:29:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Armenian Genocide Memorial \Nat Alfortville,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:23.19,0:29:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the failed assassination attempt\Nagainst activist Ara Toranian.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.12,0:29:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1984 it seemed that \Nthe long arm of the law
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.64,0:29:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had finally caught up with him.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.32,0:29:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paid by his Turkish intelligence \Nhandlers in heroin,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.96,0:29:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Çatlı was arrested in Paris \Nfor drug trafficking
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.60,0:29:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sentenced to seven \Nyears imprisonment.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.37,0:29:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 1988 he was sent to Switzerland, \Nwhere he also wanted for drug trafficking,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.85,0:29:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in March 1990 he was \Nsprung from prison
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.09,0:29:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a nearly unbelievable prison break \Nthat involved the use of a helicopter.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.30,0:30:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Le Monde Diplomatique,{\i0} in an explosive\Nreport in 1998 on the Turkish Deep State,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.67,0:30:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,referred vaguely to the\N“mysterious forces"
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.22,0:30:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who helped him to escape,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.82,0:30:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but others have specifically identified \Nthe escape helicopter
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.08,0:30:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a NATO vehicle.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.42,0:30:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In subsequent years,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.42,0:30:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while still an international fugitive\Non INTERPOL’s “Most Wanted" list
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.53,0:30:23.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wanted by authorities of multiple\Ncountries for a series of crimes,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:23.30,0:30:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Çatlı returned to Turkey
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.62,0:30:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where he was recruited by the police \Nfor “special missions"
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.39,0:30:31.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and entered and exited the United Kingdom\Nand the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.37,0:30:34.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with complete impunity.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.24,0:30:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}This{\i0} is the character profile \Nof an Operation Gladio gladiator.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.34,0:30:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hope we can realize \Nthat when we see
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.39,0:30:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this type of remarkable, amazing, \Nunbelievable career
Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.07,0:30:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of someone who is consistently, \Nat every turn,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:48.93,0:30:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,able to evade every type \Nof police authority,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:51.47,0:30:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every type of law of the land,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.23,0:30:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every type of Constitutional rule\Nwherever he travels,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.46,0:30:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is {\i1}always{\i0} protected \Nand {\i1}always{\i0} busted out,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.88,0:31:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we understand that there is \Na Deep State
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.58,0:31:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is working to lay the groundwork
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.51,0:31:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to prepare the way \Nfor someone like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.67,0:31:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is a {\i1}confirmed{\i0} Gladio operative\Nwho had a {\i1}really{\i0} remarkable career.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.55,0:31:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So keep that in mind as we proceed\Nwith our analysis tonight.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.81,0:31:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Returning to the question \Nof Gladio interference
Dialogue: 0,0:31:18.92,0:31:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Central Asia-Caucasus \Narea of operations,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.95,0:31:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one lowlight from Çatlı’s ignoble career\Nis particularly instructive.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.81,0:31:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1995 Çatlı participated \Nin a planned coup attempt
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.04,0:31:34.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against Azerbaijani president \NHelmar [sic: Heydar] Aliyev,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.31,0:31:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the father of the country’s \Ncurrent president.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.27,0:31:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The planned assassination failed,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.12,0:31:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Çatlı, as usual,\Nwas not caught or brought to justice
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.05,0:31:44.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for his participation in the scheme.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.84,0:31:48.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But while the assassination itself \Ndid not result in the death of Aliyev,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.88,0:31:53.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it did have a desirable effect\Nfor NATO’s designs on the South Caucasus.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.41,0:31:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From that point on, Azerbaijan began \Nto leave the diplomatic orbit
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.54,0:31:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of its old Soviet-era Russian masters
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.96,0:32:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and has since become a staunchly \NWestern-oriented nation
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.48,0:32:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an all-star roster of power players \Non its US-Azerbaijani Chamber of Commerce
Dialogue: 0,0:32:09.26,0:32:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ongoing relations with Chevron, \NTexaco, BP, Pennzoil,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.55,0:32:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and every other major oil conglomerate\Nyou can think of.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.59,0:32:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, the country has been \Na NATO partner
Dialogue: 0,0:32:19.77,0:32:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and prospective member of the alliance\Nfor several years now,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.34,0:32:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a potentially important NATO ally \Nright in Russia’s backyard,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.01,0:32:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one with access to the prized \NCaspian oil and gas field reserves,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.46,0:32:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and{\i0} the pipelines that will help\Nto transport that out of there.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.47,0:32:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all careers, no matter how remarkable,\Ncome to an end,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.48,0:32:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the end of Abdullah Çatlı’s career
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.16,0:32:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was, perhaps fittingly, almost as amazing \Nas his career itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.21,0:32:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At approximately 7:25 PM \Non the evening of November 3, 1996,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.00,0:32:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Mercedes 600 SEL crashed into a truck
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.15,0:33:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,near the Northwestern Turkish \Ntown of Susurluk,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:01.12,0:33:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,killing three of the four passengers.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.96,0:33:06.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this was no ordinary car crash.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.55,0:33:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among the dead: a senior police chief, \Na former beauty queen, and Abdullah Çatlı.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:13.27,0:33:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The survivor: a Turkish MP who came away\Nwith a fractured skull and a broken leg.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.44,0:33:23.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A 1998 {\i1}LA Times{\i0} report on the crash\Ndescribed the scene this way:
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.38,0:33:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Strewn amid the roadside wreckage
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.13,0:33:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was evidence of Çatlı’s collusion \Nwith the Turkish secret service.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.35,0:33:33.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along with several handguns, silencers,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.75,0:33:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cache of narcotics and \Na government-approved weapons permit,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:38.24,0:33:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Çatlı was carrying six photo ID cards, \Neach with a different name,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.17,0:33:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and special diplomatic credentials\Nissued by Turkish authorities."
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.84,0:33:53.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The importance of this car crash\Nto the course of Turkish politics
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.99,0:33:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is difficult to overstate.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.72,0:34:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many, it conclusively confirmed\Nthe “deep state" connections
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.35,0:34:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between terrorists like Çatlı and \Nthe upper reaches of government power
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.93,0:34:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that many had long believed existed.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.85,0:34:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The resulting scandal led to a series\Nof investigations and reports,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.77,0:34:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as arrests, convictions,\Nresignations, reforms,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.87,0:34:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,promotions, and the death \Nof several Susurluk investigators
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.68,0:34:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in car crashes that mysteriously resembled\Nthe Susurluk crash itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.53,0:34:25.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And according to at least one \NFBI whistleblower,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.89,0:34:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Susurluk marks the beginning \Nof a transition
Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.50,0:34:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the original Gladio operations \Nusing ultranationalist operatives
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.94,0:34:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a Gladio “Plan B” \Ninvolving Islamic terrorism
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.94,0:34:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the conduit for \Nthe strategy of tension.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:41.02,0:34:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whistleblower in question \Nis Sibel Edmonds,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:43.39,0:34:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hired by the FBI to work as a translator\Nin the Washington Field Office
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.78,0:34:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the wake of 9/11.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.90,0:34:50.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She worked with agents \Naround the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.93,0:34:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping to translate \Nintercepted communications
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.37,0:34:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a number of counterintelligence cases,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:55.93,0:34:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including Agent Joel Roberts \Nin the Chicago Field Office
Dialogue: 0,0:34:59.32,0:35:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose targets included Abdullah Çatlı \Nand some of his Gladio associates.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:04.21,0:35:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While there, one of the translators \Nshe was working with was Jan Dickerson,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.20,0:35:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had worked for both \Nthe American Turkish Council
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.84,0:35:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Assembly of Turkish \NAmerican Associations,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.50,0:35:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organizations that the FBI \Npublicly confirmed
Dialogue: 0,0:35:20.03,0:35:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were targets of FBI \Ncounterintelligence operations.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:23.90,0:35:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her husband, Douglas Dickerson, \Nwas a Major in the US Air Force
Dialogue: 0,0:35:27.52,0:35:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had served in Ankara \Nworking on weapons procurement
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.15,0:35:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Pentagon in \Nthe Central Asia region.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.82,0:35:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In December 2001, the Dickersons \Nvisited Edmonds and her husband
Dialogue: 0,0:35:39.47,0:35:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at their home in Alexandria, Virginia,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:42.27,0:35:44.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and attempted to recruit them \Ninto a Turkish spying ring
Dialogue: 0,0:35:44.95,0:35:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had penetrated the FBI, \Nthe Pentagon and the State Department.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:49.53,0:35:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She refused, and her complaints \Nabout the Dickersons
Dialogue: 0,0:35:52.46,0:35:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their involvement \Nwith Turkish lobbying groups
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.51,0:35:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eventually led to her firing.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:57.19,0:35:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After years of fighting this dismissal
Dialogue: 0,0:35:59.64,0:36:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and attempting to go on record \Nwith her knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:02.80,0:36:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first through official FBI channels and\Nthen through the court system,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:06.00,0:36:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the FBI was eventually forced to admit \Nthat her claims had “some basis in fact,"
Dialogue: 0,0:36:11.72,0:36:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a judgment later bolstered
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.23,0:36:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a Department of Justice\NInspector General report
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.46,0:36:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that concluded, "Many of Edmonds’s core\Nallegations relating to the co-workers
Dialogue: 0,0:36:20.29,0:36:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were supported by either documentary\Nevidence or witnesses other than Edmonds"
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.17,0:36:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and noting that “the evidence clearly\Ncorroborated Edmonds’s allegations"
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.86,0:36:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Jan Dickerson’s work problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.70,0:36:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite all of this, a little-known \Nevidentiary rule
Dialogue: 0,0:36:36.29,0:36:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as the “State Secrets Privilege"
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.96,0:36:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was invoked by the Justice Department \Nto remove her First Amendment rights
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.29,0:36:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and prevent her from going on record \Nabout many of the specifics of her case.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:46.44,0:36:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This led to her being labeled
Dialogue: 0,0:36:47.84,0:36:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“the most gagged person \Nin American history"
Dialogue: 0,0:36:50.56,0:36:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:53.68,0:36:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Edmonds paints the story of\Nthe FBI’s counterintelligence operations
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.40,0:37:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against a Gladio network that had contacts\Nand operatives in the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.94,0:37:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but protection from powerful \NWashington players
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.92,0:37:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like some of those on the board\Nof the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
Dialogue: 0,0:37:08.44,0:37:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and similar organizations.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.88,0:37:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the turning point at Susurluk,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.29,0:37:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these operations started to focus\Non Islamic terrorists and radicals,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.11,0:37:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who presumably could equally well be used\Nto maintain a strategy of tension
Dialogue: 0,0:37:21.64,0:37:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and help accomplish foreign policy goals\Nin Central Asia and the Caucasus region.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.32,0:37:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, it's important to look at \Nsome of the careers of some of those
Dialogue: 0,0:37:30.50,0:37:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have been identified as part\Nof this “Gladio B" plan,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:34.60,0:37:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to better understand \Nwhether or not they are, in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:38.87,0:37:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what has been claimed about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:41.73,0:37:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, we have to note that,\Nunlike in the case of Abdullah Çatlı,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.28,0:37:47.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have no official, independent\Nconfirmations
Dialogue: 0,0:37:47.91,0:37:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the existence of the Gladio B operation\Nor its various operatives.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.59,0:37:56.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we are relying on information \Nin the public record
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.21,0:37:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which corroborates Edmonds' claims
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.94,0:38:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and paints a vivid picture \Nof the intersection
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.33,0:38:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between Muslim extremists, drug runners,\Nterrorists and money launderers
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.04,0:38:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the upper levels \Nof the US State Department,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:06.42,0:38:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pentagon and NATO.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:09.12,0:38:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One such person is Fethullah Gülen, \Na Turkish imam
Dialogue: 0,0:38:12.11,0:38:14.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who fled political prosecution in Turkey
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.41,0:38:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for advocating that an Islamic state \Nreplace the existing Turkish government.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:19.10,0:38:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interestingly, he fled \Nto the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.10,0:38:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eventually settling in Pennsylvania.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.27,0:38:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He then set up an educational foundation,\Nthe “Gülen Movement"
Dialogue: 0,0:38:28.22,0:38:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and within four years \Nhad opened up 350 {\i1}madrasas{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.66,0:38:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Central Asia-Caucasus region.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:34.36,0:38:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His network would go on to include \NIslamic schools in over 140 countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.68,0:38:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an estimated net worth \Nof over $20 billion.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:42.83,0:38:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In January 2001 a Turkish prosecutor, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:38:46.80,0:38:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,citing an Ankara University report whose\Nauthor was subsequently assassinated,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:51.22,0:38:55.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,claimed that “there is a link\Nbetween Gülen and the CIA"
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.05,0:38:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which included Agency help \Nin securing passports
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.44,0:39:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the school’s English teachers\Nin the Central Asia-Caucasus region.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.26,0:39:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This claim was bolstered by former Turkish\NIntelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gündeş,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.74,0:39:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose memoirs revealed\Nthat 130 of these “English teachers”
Dialogue: 0,0:39:12.04,0:39:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- in Kygyzstan and Uzbekistan alone --
Dialogue: 0,0:39:14.62,0:39:16.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were actually CIA operatives,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.77,0:39:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,issued special diplomatic passports
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.76,0:39:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under a program codenamed\N“Friendship Bridge."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:24.40,0:39:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interestingly, the {\i1}Washington Post{\i0}\Nattempted to deny the allegations
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.04,0:39:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by seeking comment from Graham Fuller,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.09,0:39:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who you might remember \Nas the author
Dialogue: 0,0:39:32.83,0:39:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the {\i1}Central Asia: The New Geopolitics{\i0}\Nreport that we referred to earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.45,0:39:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuller was a former CIA \NStation Chief in Kabul
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.86,0:39:45.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who claimed that the idea of a \NCIA-Gülen connection was “improbable”
Dialogue: 0,0:39:45.53,0:39:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite admitting he has,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.06,0:39:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“absolutely no concrete personal knowledge\Nwhatsoever about this." (laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.32,0:39:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even more interestingly... \N-- talk about non-denial denials!
Dialogue: 0,0:39:57.43,0:40:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even more interestingly, Fuller himself \Nwrote a letter of reference for Gülen
Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.78,0:40:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was used in Gülen’s \Nongoing legal battle
Dialogue: 0,0:40:04.37,0:40:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over his immigration status in the US.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.07,0:40:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The remarkable rise of this imam
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.46,0:40:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no particular background \Nor accomplishments
Dialogue: 0,0:40:13.43,0:40:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become the head
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.43,0:40:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a multi-billion dollar \NIslamic school network
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.69,0:40:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,operated from a secret compound \Nin Pennsylvania
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.37,0:40:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that appears to be working with the CIA
Dialogue: 0,0:40:21.54,0:40:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the highly sensitive \NCentral Asia-Caucasus region
Dialogue: 0,0:40:24.28,0:40:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,appears to fit in line with what we know \Nabout the “deep state” actors
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.21,0:40:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this covert battle for influence
Dialogue: 0,0:40:29.90,0:40:34.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this highly prized square \Nof the chessboard.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:34.77,0:40:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another extremely interesting figure \Nis Yasin al-Qadi.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.49,0:40:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was an alleged financier \Nof Islamic terror
Dialogue: 0,0:40:40.94,0:40:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was the subject of \Nan intensive investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.37,0:40:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by FBI Agent Robert Wright.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:46.32,0:40:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wright’s investigation, \Ncodenamed “Vulgar Betrayal,”
Dialogue: 0,0:40:49.54,0:40:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discovered evidence \Nthat implicated Al-Qadi
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.91,0:40:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a terrorist financing ring \Ncentered in Chicago
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.06,0:40:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that linked to the 1998 \NAfrican Embassy Bombings,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.27,0:41:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when he proposed \Na criminal investigation,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:01.23,0:41:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his supervisor flew into a rage, \Nyelling:
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.82,0:41:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“You will not {\i1}open{\i0}\Ncriminal investigations!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.13,0:41:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I forbid {\i1}any{\i0} of you!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:10.11,0:41:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You {\i1}will not{\i0} open criminal investigations
Dialogue: 0,0:41:12.94,0:41:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against {\i1}any{\i0} of these \Nintelligence subjects."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:17.16,0:41:20.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wright was taken off the Vulgar Betrayal\Ninvestigation one year later
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.65,0:41:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the investigation itself \Nwas shut down the following year.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.68,0:41:28.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1999 and 2000, the UN \Nplaced sanctions on al-Qadi
Dialogue: 0,0:41:28.67,0:41:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was identified \Nin UN Security Council resolutions
Dialogue: 0,0:41:31.98,0:41:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a suspected associate of al-Qaeda.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.61,0:41:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time, al-Qadi was also \Na key investor
Dialogue: 0,0:41:39.38,0:41:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a company called Ptech,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:41.09,0:41:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which marketed “enterprise \Narchitecture software"
Dialogue: 0,0:41:43.92,0:41:46.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,designed to provide complete\N"god’s-eye view"
Dialogue: 0,0:41:46.59,0:41:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an organization’s structure,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.35,0:41:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from transactions, systems and processes
Dialogue: 0,0:41:51.31,0:41:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to inventory, transactions and personnel.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:55.23,0:41:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Ptech’s client list included
Dialogue: 0,0:41:57.13,0:42:00.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of the most sensitive databases\Nin the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.69,0:42:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including the Defense Advanced Research \NProjects Agency, DARPA, in the Pentagon;
Dialogue: 0,0:42:07.07,0:42:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the FBI; the Secret Service; \Nthe White House,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:09.73,0:42:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Navy, the Air Force, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.53,0:42:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the FAA \N-- the Federal Aviation Administration --
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.53,0:42:16.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and NATO.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.94,0:42:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to Ptech’s own business plan,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.74,0:42:23.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the company had a contract \Nto work on modeling the FAA’s:
Dialogue: 0,0:42:23.39,0:42:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“network management, \Nnetwork security,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.06,0:42:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,configuration management,\Nfault management,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.81,0:42:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,performance management,\Napplication administration,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.19,0:42:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,network accounting management, \Nand user help desk operations"
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.95,0:42:41.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was operative on the morning of 9/11\N-- and FAA's "failure."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:41.88,0:42:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After 9/11, Ptech’s offices {\i1}were{\i0} raided,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:44.97,0:42:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the company’s CEO and CFO \Nwere eventually indicted,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.64,0:42:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Yasin al-Qadi was placed \Non a special terrorist finance watchlist
Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.62,0:42:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the US Treasury Department.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.89,0:43:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite being watchlisted \Nby both the UN Security Council
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.07,0:43:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}and{\i0} US Treasury Department,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:02.24,0:43:06.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,al-Qadi continued to operate \Ninternationally with an Albanian passport,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.86,0:43:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spending time in Turkey.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.98,0:43:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has since been revealed \Nto have engaged in numerous meetings
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.69,0:43:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with then-Turkish Prime Minister \NRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
Dialogue: 0,0:43:16.54,0:43:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Turkish Intelligence Chief,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:18.48,0:43:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and earlier this year, the ex-Istanbul \Npolice chief revealed
Dialogue: 0,0:43:21.73,0:43:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Erdoğan had helped al-Qadi \Nto enter the country several times
Dialogue: 0,0:43:25.36,0:43:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite being banned by the Cabinet.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:28.22,0:43:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for those who are wondering, yes: \Nthis is actual surveillance footage
Dialogue: 0,0:43:32.43,0:43:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of al-Qadi meeting with Erdoğan,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:35.01,0:43:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Prime Minister of Turkey at the time,\Nin 2012
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.12,0:43:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another figure of importance \N
Dialogue: 0,0:43:43.53,0:43:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose name comes up\Nin connection with this investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:43:46.19,0:43:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is Ayman Al-Zawahiri, formerly \NBin Laden’s right hand man
Dialogue: 0,0:43:50.26,0:43:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the current nominal leader \Nof the al-Qaeda organization.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:54.32,0:43:56.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to Edmonds,\Nhe appeared as a figure
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.86,0:44:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in several FBI counterterrorism \Ninvestigations in the 1990s,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.65,0:44:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turning up in Turkey, Albania, \NKosovo, {\i1}and{\i0} Azerbaijan.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:06.34,0:44:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He traveled to the Balkans \Nin the mid 1990s,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:08.76,0:44:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that makes sense \Ngiven al-Qaeda involvement
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.99,0:44:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the so-called Yugoslav Wars,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:13.12,0:44:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but his involvement \Nin Turkey and Azerbaijan
Dialogue: 0,0:44:15.75,0:44:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is of particular relevance to this study.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.92,0:44:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Edmonds claims that he worked \Nwith the Turkish arm of NATO
Dialogue: 0,0:44:24.49,0:44:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and NATO {\i1}itself{\i0} during this period,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.04,0:44:30.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meeting several times \Nwith US military attachés
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.29,0:44:35.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Baku, Azerbaijan,\Nin the 1997-1998 window.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.29,0:44:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are numerous such leads and clues\Nin this investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:44:41.06,0:44:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that point to... oh, sorry. One more:
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.91,0:44:47.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other tantalizing connections \Npresent themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.19,0:44:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in figures like Hüseyin Baybaşin,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.83,0:44:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,known as “Europe’s Pablo Escobar"\Nfor his heroin operations
Dialogue: 0,0:44:53.68,0:44:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smuggling heroin to the UK.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:57.03,0:45:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After his imprisonment here \Nin The Netherlands for drug smuggling,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:00.50,0:45:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he contacted Edmonds with details \Nabout Turkish NATO involvement
Dialogue: 0,0:45:04.11,0:45:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the drug smuggling operations \Nhe had been a part of.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:07.22,0:45:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are numerous such leads, connections
Dialogue: 0,0:45:09.34,0:45:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and clues in this investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:45:10.92,0:45:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that point to a deep tie \Nbetween NATO and US covert operations
Dialogue: 0,0:45:16.12,0:45:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this important area of the globe.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.66,0:45:21.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what does it all {\i1}mean?{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:45:22.73,0:45:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would be a satisfying conclusion \Nto this investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:45:27.04,0:45:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to present to you definitive \Nproof, documents or testimony
Dialogue: 0,0:45:30.02,0:45:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,positively linking the increasingly deadly\Nterror attacks
Dialogue: 0,0:45:33.56,0:45:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and incidents taking place \Nin the Central Asia-Caucasus region
Dialogue: 0,0:45:36.97,0:45:41.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a Gladio “Plan B" group \Nbeing directed by NATO and the Pentagon.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:41.99,0:45:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything that we have seen today \Nhas demonstrated that:
Dialogue: 0,0:45:44.46,0:45:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A. There are vital strategic interests\Nfor the US and its allies
Dialogue: 0,0:45:49.30,0:45:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Central Asia-Caucasus region
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.99,0:45:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that make it a prime target \Nfor covert operations;
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.98,0:45:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,B. Such “strategy of tension” operations \Nhave been conducted in the past
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.68,0:46:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by people we {\i1}definitively know{\i0}\Nwere linked to NATO’s covert army; and
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.100,0:46:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,C. That there are a number \Nof influential people
Dialogue: 0,0:46:07.56,0:46:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,operating in and around the region
Dialogue: 0,0:46:09.83,0:46:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in close cooperation \Nwith the Turkish deep state,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.66,0:46:16.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American intelligence, \Nthe Pentagon, and NATO
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.19,0:46:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who seem to be involved with \Nongoing operations {\i1}today{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:46:19.58,0:46:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,related to the fostering of \Nreligious extremism in the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:24.25,0:46:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I say, it would be satisfying\Nto conclude definitively
Dialogue: 0,0:46:28.59,0:46:33.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that A, B, or C persons\Nwere connected to X, Y, or Z events,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:33.79,0:46:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but obviously that isn't possible\Nat this time.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:37.06,0:46:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very {\i1}nature{\i0} of these \Ncovert operations
Dialogue: 0,0:46:39.57,0:46:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means that, without \Nsome explosive new evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:46:42.12,0:46:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or surprising new testimony \Nfrom other whistleblowers,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.09,0:46:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is unlikely that Gladio B \Nwill be revealed
Dialogue: 0,0:46:48.01,0:46:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the way the original \NGladio operations were...
Dialogue: 0,0:46:51.38,0:46:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- another fascinating story that we {\i1}could{\i0}\Nget into; but it would take too much time.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:57.87,0:46:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This does not mean, however, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.22,0:47:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are completely powerless\Nto {\i1}identify{\i0} these operations
Dialogue: 0,0:47:02.56,0:47:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}or{\i0} to counteract the psychological effects
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.80,0:47:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they are aimed at producing\Nin the public.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:08.83,0:47:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The characters, events and storyline\Npainted in this presentation
Dialogue: 0,0:47:12.51,0:47:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are almost completely available \Nin the public record
Dialogue: 0,0:47:15.07,0:47:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through news reports, \Ngovernment investigations,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.09,0:47:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think tank documents,\Ncourt filings,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:20.19,0:47:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interviews, and \Ndozens of other sources.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:23.16,0:47:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those parts of the story that \Ncannot be independently verified,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:26.30,0:47:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like some of Edmonds’ claims,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:27.84,0:47:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be {\i1}corroborated{\i0} by the sources \Nin the public record.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:31.61,0:47:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The task of piecing these bits \Nof the puzzle together
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.26,0:47:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a nearly overwhelming one,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:36.45,0:47:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it can be accomplished \Nby a concerted effort
Dialogue: 0,0:47:39.76,0:47:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by an informed and motivated public.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.98,0:47:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the principle \Nof “open source investigation"
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.85,0:47:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I am attempting to further \Nwith my work at CorbettReport.com.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:49.49,0:47:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And next week this lecture will be \Npublished to my website
Dialogue: 0,0:47:52.28,0:47:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with a hyperlinked transcript
Dialogue: 0,0:47:54.09,0:47:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sourcing every single document\Nin this report
Dialogue: 0,0:47:57.15,0:48:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other evidence used \Nin the creation of this presentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.91,0:48:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From that point, the public is encouraged \Nto use that source information
Dialogue: 0,0:48:05.39,0:48:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to begin investigating \N{\i1}other{\i0} aspects of this case
Dialogue: 0,0:48:08.32,0:48:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to see how this narrative \Nmeshes or clashes
Dialogue: 0,0:48:11.01,0:48:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with other pieces of evidence \Nin the public record.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:14.08,0:48:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Members of the {\i1}Corbett Report{\i0}\Ncommunity are, of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:16.68,0:48:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invited to participate \Nin this investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.87,0:48:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by logging on to the website
Dialogue: 0,0:48:20.36,0:48:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and posting their own comments, \Nanalysis, links and replies
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.20,0:48:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the posting on CorbettReport.com.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:28.01,0:48:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This task is critical because,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:30.35,0:48:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the quest to control the resources\Nof the Central Asia-Caucasus region,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:34.54,0:48:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a strategy of tension {\i1}is being employed.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:48:39.46,0:48:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see a nearly daily parade \Nof terror attacks
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.82,0:48:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Northern Caucasus region\Non Russia’s doorstep
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.96,0:48:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the “New Silk Road” area \Nof Chinese interest.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:48.68,0:48:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just this month, the head of the\NCollective Security Treaty Organization
Dialogue: 0,0:48:52.65,0:48:55.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- often seen as a counterbalance \Norganization to NATO --
Dialogue: 0,0:48:55.100,0:48:57.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,claimed that instability in the region
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.100,0:49:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was being deliberately \Nfostered by the West,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:00.44,0:49:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,citing a disproportionate increase \Nin US Embassy staff
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.59,0:49:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and influx of Western-backed NGOs \Ninto the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:07.76,0:49:13.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“The West crudely interferes in \Nthe internal affairs of other governments,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:13.15,0:49:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to manipulate public opinion,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:14.90,0:49:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,economically and financially affecting the\Ngovernment and population," he said.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.67,0:49:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If this is, indeed, the case,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:22.86,0:49:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then one of the key ways \Nto counteract this effect
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.13,0:49:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to simply retain our skepticism
Dialogue: 0,0:49:28.28,0:49:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to spectacular \Nterror attacks in the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.26,0:49:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With an increased awareness \Nof covert operations,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:35.12,0:49:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,false flag attacks,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:36.37,0:49:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other acknowledged instruments \Nof terror in the strategy of tension,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:40.34,0:49:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we thereby disarm the effectiveness \Nof these tools.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.03,0:49:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The psychological manipulation that \Nthese geopolitical machinations rely on
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.64,0:49:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is only possible if the public \Nis kept in fear and ignorance,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.71,0:49:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the answer to that can only be\Nunderstanding and openness.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:57.63,0:49:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with that,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.60,0:50:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thank you for your time and attention \Nduring this very detailed lecture,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:01.60,0:50:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I look forward to your questions.\NThank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:04.08,0:50:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:50:14.31,0:50:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello, friends. James Corbett here,\Nback in the sunny climes of Western Japan.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.74,0:50:19.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you appreciated that presentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:19.77,0:50:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the culmination \Nof what has, so far,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.94,0:50:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been almost two years' worth \Nof investigation into Gladio B,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.88,0:50:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going back to early last year, \Nwhen we, of course, conducted
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.76,0:50:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that original Gladio B interview series \Nwith Sibel Edmonds.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:32.83,0:50:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you haven't checked out that series yet,\Nand if you are interested in Gladio B,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.46,0:50:38.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of course, that interview series\Nis the gold mine
Dialogue: 0,0:50:38.89,0:50:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of information that you should check out.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:41.08,0:50:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, the link will be in this video\Nso you can go check that out.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:44.65,0:50:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the transcript of that \Nhas recently been provided
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.75,0:50:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by an anonymous {\i1}Corbett Report{\i0} user,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.78,0:50:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so thanks to that person, we now have\Nthe transcript of that series.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:53.98,0:50:56.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An extremely valuable resource for those
Dialogue: 0,0:50:56.49,0:50:59.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are looking to get more\Ninto this information.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:59.14,0:51:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you {\i1}do{\i0} realize how important\Nthis information is,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.33,0:51:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you {\i1}do realize{\i0} that,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.61,0:51:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if this operation is \Nas it is being portrayed in this lecture,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.33,0:51:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it {\i1}really is{\i0} one of the most important \Ngeopolitical operations
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.80,0:51:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ongoing in the world today,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:15.00,0:51:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you might realize how {\i1}uncomfortable{\i0}\Nit is for {\i1}me{\i0} to be in the position
Dialogue: 0,0:51:19.67,0:51:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of realizing that I am one of \Nonly a handful of people {\i1}in the world{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:51:24.66,0:51:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has ever talked about this
Dialogue: 0,0:51:26.36,0:51:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who is investigating it\Nat the moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:29.16,0:51:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I certainly hope\Nthat you'll do your part
Dialogue: 0,0:51:31.44,0:51:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help pitch in with that investigation.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:33.48,0:51:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I say, we {\i1}do{\i0} need more people\Nposting links, vetting sources,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.97,0:51:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about this information, \Nanalyzing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.67,0:51:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, if you're a {\i1}Corbett Report{\i0}\Nmember, please sign in to the website
Dialogue: 0,0:51:42.76,0:51:45.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and start leaving your comments\Non this post.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.29,0:51:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But also, in any way you can, \Nto help spread this information:
Dialogue: 0,0:51:49.06,0:51:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of course, greatly appreciated.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:51.20,0:51:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the more people who are \Nthinking about this, talking about this,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:54.98,0:51:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the better it will be for everyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.71,0:52:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trust me: you don't want to leave it\Nin the hands of a {\i1}few{\i0} people.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:00.06,0:52:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want this information\Nto spread far and wide.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.04,0:52:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So once again, please start \Nhelping out with that
Dialogue: 0,0:52:05.55,0:52:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in any way that you can help\Nspread this information.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:08.33,0:52:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once again, obviously, \Nthis entire investigation
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.93,0:52:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything that I do \Nis brought to you by you guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:15.80,0:52:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I do appreciate your... \N{\i1}all{\i0} of your support:
Dialogue: 0,0:52:18.12,0:52:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether that be {\i1}moral{\i0} support,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.09,0:52:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether that be the support \Nof helping to spread the information,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:23.06,0:52:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether that be monetary support\N-- which of course, I {\i1}also{\i0} need.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:26.14,0:52:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on that note, \Nsince it is December of 2014
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.96,0:52:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're approaching Christmas,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:30.76,0:52:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the month of December, \NI am doing a 20%-off DVD discount
Dialogue: 0,0:52:34.72,0:52:37.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for any DVD at the {\i1}Corbett Report{\i0} shop.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:37.95,0:52:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once again, you can go there\Nand take a look at all of the DVDs:
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.64,0:52:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Data DVDs, the Video Archives,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.98,0:52:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last Word DVDs, {\i1}Century of Enslavement{\i0}:
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.32,0:52:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All DVDs 20% off.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:47.52,0:52:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just enter the coupon code "XMAS" \Nat checkout,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:51.80,0:52:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'll get 20% off your DVD purchase.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:54.15,0:52:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes it even cheaper and easier \Nfor you guys to get these DVDs,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:58.91,0:53:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give them out as gifts \Nor however you want to distribute them.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:02.14,0:53:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, you are free \Nto make copies of them
Dialogue: 0,0:53:04.58,0:53:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hand them out that way as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.90,0:53:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let's get this information out\Nto as many people as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:09.94,0:53:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once again, I do thank you all\Nfor your support,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:11.89,0:53:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you {\i1}did{\i0} enjoy this presentation,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.05,0:53:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should note that there is going to be \Na posting of the audio only:
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.89,0:53:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Q&A after the presentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.48,0:53:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll be posting the audio of that\Nup on the website
Dialogue: 0,0:53:22.72,0:53:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the next couple of days.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:23.84,0:53:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you'll stick around for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:25.27,0:53:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you again for all your support.,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:27.18,0:53:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm looking forward to talking to you \Nagain real soon.
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