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The Central Intelligence Agency was in big trouble. They were being investigated by a Senate committee and their “dirty laundry” was being exposed to the world. It was the agency’s lowest point in its history and it’s very existence was being questioned.
The year was 1976 and President Gerald Ford had just nominated George H.W. Bush to be the new director of the CIA in an attempt to save the agency. This would mark a major turning point in America that nobody could have imagined at the time. This one man would shape the future of the CIA and ultimately the world, and not for the better.
According to the Miami Herald:
George H.W. Bush loved the CIA. It was “part of my heartbeat,” he once said. He was the only president who ever ran the agency, and the last president who truly believed in its Cold War code: Admit nothing, deny everything.
It was a terrible time for the nation’s spies. Bush spent much of his energies during his 11 months as director battling senators coming to the conclusion of their year-long investigation of the CIA. They uncovered the existence of assassination plots, secret wars, antidemocratic coups and mind-control experiments using LSD on unwitting human guinea pigs. Bush decried these revelations — not the facts revealed — saying “they devastated the morale of perhaps the finest group of public servants this country has.”
Bush cared more about the morale of the CIA than the fact that they were breaking the law by assassinating people, starting wars and color revolutions to topple governments along with drug experiments in order to control people. They were hiding these activities from both Congress and the American people. All of this was being exposed throughout the 1970’s and also by the Senate’s “Church Committee” that had been investigating them since 1975.
Have you noticed the CIA hasn’t stopped a single one of those things they were being investigated for?
They’ve continued to do all those things and far worse.
Bush was there to make the investigations go away, and he would ultimately be the catalyst that would lead the CIA to become the most dangerous weapon the cabal has ever controlled. But there was something very important in this ongoing war against the cabal, involving George H.W. Bush and his brief time as CIA director, that I don’t think anybody remembers. It was something that happened back in 1976, and has even played a major part recently in our war against the cabal.
What was it?
Q post 4164:
‘Shadow Government.’
The ‘Farm’ is a reference to the CIA, which was doing everything they could to elect CIA members to Congress for oversight and budget controls, thus removing the oversight powers of Congress by infiltration. The CIA was creating a “shadow government,” unaccountable to anybody. Bush himself was a Congressman for a time, and I think that helped him convince Congress to push CIA reforms back during the 1976 investigations, rather than criminal charges, which is Washington D.C’s way of sweeping things under the rug.
In that Q post, there was a link that reveals something big.
According to CIA.gov:
When Bush became DCI, he insisted upon direct access to President Ford. He usually edited the President’s Daily Brief or briefed at National Security Council meetings in order to convey CIA’s analysis directly to the President.
Ford frequently included Bush in high-level meetings. For their regular briefings, Bush brought Agency officers to meet and brief Ford, a tactic that impressed the President and contributed to the morale boost at Langley.
In 1981, Bush became President Ronald Reagan’s vice president. He brought with him a deep appreciation for the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) and read it avidly throughout his vice presidency. When Bush became the 41st President of the United States in 1989, he made a CIA briefing his first order of daily business in the Oval Office. “The reason I like to get intelligence from you folks is that I know you tell it like you see it,” he said. “You have no policy axe to grind and you are absolutely discreet.”
One of the biggest things Bush accomplished in his short time as CIA director was to get direct access to the president and for the CIA to have control over the President’s Daily Brief. An agency that would admit nothing and deny everything was now part of the president’s important daily briefings.
This was a huge deal.
It elevated the CIA within the executive branch, and has given them influence over every administration since—almost none of it for the good of the American people.
This war against the cabal has been a military operation from the beginning and there were patriots fighting the good fight in this war before Trump ever became president. The PDB that Bush had turned into a cabal tool of control over the presidency, was turned around on the enemy and used to expose their treason. It was the perfect boomerang.
How?
Have you ever heard of the name Tonya Ugoretz?
According to DNI.gov:
Tonya Ugoretz is a career FBI Intelligence Analyst currently assigned to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). She joined the government in 2001 as a Presidential Management Fellow and as an all-source analyst with the FBI’s Counterterrorism program. In 2003, she became the first analyst to serve as the FBI Director’s daily intelligence briefer. From 2008 to 2012, as a Unit Chief and then Section Chief in the Senior Executive Service, Ms. Ugoretz oversaw intelligence products and briefings for the FBI Director and the Attorney General, as well as FBI analysts’ contributions to the President’s Daily Brief. As Chief Intelligence Officer from 2010 to 2012, she also led the Bureau’s cadre of Senior National Intelligence Officers and the creation of a 24/7 Intelligence Watch.
Tonya Ugoretz played a key role in this war and nobody knows her name. She entrapped Obama and his whole administration in treason.
She’s a hero.
From Q post 1991:
Don’t miss that last part.
She inserted that “evidence” into Obama’s PDB, which created a “legal paper trail” for future investigations. Evidence of treason in the official archives.
Q often said, “How do you introduce evidence legally?”
Can you imagine the shock when Obama and Brennan read that PDB talking about Hillary’s private server giving access to China? Obama and others within his administration were using the same illegal private server to communicate with Hillary. They were using pseudonyms to hide their identity. Or so they thought.
Do you think Ms. Ugoretz didn’t already know that Obama was using the same server when she included that in his PDB?
The perfect trap.
I keep telling people that, ‘they all know what’s coming.’
When Ms. Ugoretz inserted that “evidence trail” into Obama’s PDB, he knew he was trapped, but that didn’t prevent the ‘Liar in Chief’ from lying about it publicly when asked.
According to The Federalist:
In 2015, President Obama told America he only learned that his secretary of state Hillary Clinton was illegally using a private email server to conduct public business after The New York Times published a story saying so. Today’s release of a Department of Justice inspector general report shows that was a lie.
“FBI analysts and Prosecutor 2 told us that former President Barack Obama was one of the 13 individuals with whom Clinton had direct contact using her clintonemail.com account,” the report says in a footnote on page 89. “Obama, like other high level government officials, used a pseudonym for his username on his official government email account.”
‘Admit nothing and deny everything.’
It was exposed to the public in 2015.
Guess who was behind trapping Obama and Brennan by creating the paper-trail in Obama’s PDB, which proved Hillary was selling our country’s secrets?
General Michael Flynn.
He knows where all the bodies are buried.
Q revealed the trap to us.
A portion of Q post 1981 from August 29, 2018:
Don’t miss that important question that Q asks:
If access was granted for the HRC private server(s), can you assume access was granted for the House server(s) used by the AWAN brothers?
Who would have to grant access to a private server for matters involving national security?
For both Hillary and the Awan brothers?
(More on the Awan brothers in a coming article.)
Obama was forcefully made aware of the treason in his own PDB and did nothing about it. Why? Because he would have to implicate himself. He had granted the access for the private servers and was using them, along with other high ranking members of his administration.
The perfect trap.
Obama knew Hillary was using a private server to avoid laws governing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that had exposed a lot of her husbands crimes when he was president. Obama was doing the same thing and got caught lying about it.
The Freedom of Information Act is a huge deal. I really hope you appreciate the significance of this law and how instrumental it is in giving the power back to the people. The enemy truly fears it, which is why Hillary set up the private server in the first place and why Obama tried to classify everything under state secrets or top secret to hide their treason.
That was only a portion of Q post 1981. There’s another interesting thing in that same Q post.
There was a link to a Trump tweet with an interesting connection.
Trump mentioned the FBI and named some specific people. It was discovered that two people mentioned in this Trump tweet actually talked with each other about an Obama PDB.
Guess which members of the FBI discussed a “dust up” about a PDB on the same day Flynn got fired by Obama?
According to PJ Media:
Text messages between former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and his former mistress, Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, show that Strzok and then-FBI Assistant Director William Priestap were concerned about sharing sensitive evidence with the departing Obama White House.
Barack Obama fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in April 2014, because Flynn’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal threatened the deal coming to fruition.
Other texts from the same day show Strzok and Page discussing some apparent drama involving one of Obama’s presidential daily briefings (PDB). These text messages were not released by the FBI but were made available to John Solomon back in September 2018. Solomon reports that investigators are “trying to determine whether Obama’s well-known disdain for Flynn, a career military intelligence officer, influenced the decision by the FBI leadership to reject its own agent’s recommendation to shut down a probe of Flynn in January 2017 and instead pursue an interview where agents might catch him in a lie.”
Coincidence, that they were discussing drama brought up by a PDB given to Obama on the same day Flynn got fired?
I don’t believe so.
Flynn had trapped them and now they were going to do everything they could to create fraudulent charges in order to convict him of crimes.
They failed. Now there’s panic in DC, especially from Obama.
According to Yahoo News:
Former President Barack Obama, talking privately to ex-members of his administration, said Friday that the “rule of law is at risk” in the wake of what he called an unprecedented move by the Justice Department to drop charges against former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn,” Obama said in a web talk with members of the Obama Alumni Association.
“And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places.”
Obama misstated the charge to which Flynn had previously pleaded guilty. He was charged with false statements to the FBI, not perjury. But the Justice Department, in a filing with a federal judge on Thursday, asked that the case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller be dismissed, arguing that FBI agents did not have a justifiable reason to question the then national security adviser about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak — talks FBI agents and Mueller’s prosecutors concluded he had lied about.
Obama used the term “scot-free” to describe Flynn getting away with things, and it reminds me of a relevant Q post:
What’s the biggest scandal that Q says won’t go unpunished?
Here’s the Trump post on Twitter from that Q drop:
It is much bigger than Watergate.
They tried to take down a duly elected president. Their plan to convict and disgrace General Flynn backfired too. It’s all going to be exposed, and they won’t get away scot-free. Justice is coming!
Going back to Q post 1981 …
This post raises two big questions: The intelligence community, FBI and DOJ all knew that access to the secret servers was granted by Obama.
Why no action?
Remember, at the time, the intelligence community, FBI and DOJ were all filled with corrupt Obama loyalists who were in place to prevent Hillary’s prosecution, or Obama being exposed as authorizing it. The FBI investigation into Hillary’s private server was concluded with no indictments or prosecutions. Is that the end of the story?
How do you open the door to all of it again in the future?
[Weiner]\[Huma]\[HRC] are in targeted brackets.
Why?
That is the evidence on Anthony Weiner’s laptop that exposes them all, not just Hillary. It will all be exposed in the future. Future proves past.
Why was the evidence on Weiner’s laptop in the first place?
We were told it was being used by Weiner as an insurance policy out of fear of Hillary, or as a bargaining chip to prevent prosecution.
The Hillary emails were discovered on Weiner’s laptop in late September of 2016, which forced FBI director James Comey to reopen the investigation into Hillary only weeks before the 2016 election, which torpedoed her campaign. She has never forgiven him for that.
It was perfect timing.
All planned?
According to the Daily Wire:
Within hours of the Sept. 26, 2016, search warrant, FBI technicians noticed there were 340,000 emails on the laptop between Clinton and her top aide, Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin — many of them from domain addresses such as “hillaryclinton.com” and “state.gov.”
At an FBI briefing later that week, one participant said the revelation was like “dropping a bomb in the middle of the meeting.”
But the discovery fell through the cracks because top FBI officials were “overwhelmed” by the Russia probe, Stewart wrote.
But Trump had posted something on Twitter a year earlier, that seemed very prescient, as we look back on this story.
That was way back in 2015, about a year before Hillary’s emails would be discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
Just a coincidence? Or maybe military intelligence, who captures all electronic data and knew about Weiner’s crimes with minors, had already leveraged him?
My bet is Weiner flipped long before it was exposed that he had all Hillary’s emails on his laptop, and I believe he downloaded them to cut a deal.
Trump also made an interesting statement in August of 2016 when news broke about Huma Abedin seperating from Weiner.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
“Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him,” Trump said in a statement, barely an hour after news broke of the split.
“I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information. Who knows what he learned and who he told?”
I believe this is Trump purposely trolling the enemy. He said he knows Anthony Weiner well and Hillary was careless to allow him to have access to her emails, as if Hillary knew he had access. That’s great “trolling.”
Trump said, “Who knows what he learned and who he told?”
We have everything.
Hillary could delete all her incriminating emails and destroy her Blackberry phones and none of it mattered. All the evidence was on Weiner’s laptop and that physical evidence is awaiting the time when this war enters the justice phase.
This focus on the CIA’s control over PDB’s since 1976, thanks to Bush, is to encourage you with the following: Trump and the military not only know the enemy’s tactics, but have turned those same tactics back against them.
But what was the other big thing Bush did while serving for a brief time as director of the CIA?
“Shadow government.”
Control over the president’s daily brief allowed the CIA to control information to the president and would accelerate the formation of a shadow government.
Bush “supposedly” had no previous history in the CIA before becoming director. Why did the agency name their new headquarters after him when he was only director for eleven months, and constantly lied about his connections to the CIA going back to the 1950’s.
‘Admit nothing and deny everything.’
Why would Bush lie about his long history in the CIA?
According to the New York Times:
The Nation magazine, in its current issue, quotes a memo of Nov. 29, 1963, from J. Edgar Hoover, the bureau's Director at the time, to the State Department about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In the memo, according to the magazine, Mr. Hoover stated that the bureau had briefed “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency” on the reaction of Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination.
The magazine article, written by Joseph McBride, also quoted an unidentified source ''with close connections to the intelligence community'' as saying Mr. Bush ''started working for the agency in 1960 or 1961, using his oil business as a cover for clandestine activities.''
Stephen Hart, a spokesman for the Vice President, said that he had talked to Mr. Bush about the story and that the Vice President denied any involvement with the agency before President Ford named him its Director in 1975.
''He was an oilman in the early 1960s, and in 1963 he was running for the Senate,'' Mr. Hart said.
Admit nothing and deny everything.
He sure didn’t want anybody thinking he had anything to do with President Kennedy’s assassination … that’s for sure.
The truth is, Bush had been a member of the CIA since at least the early 1950’s, and was most likely recruited right out of Yale.
His offshore oil company was called Zapata Petroleum.
What’s the history of this company?
According to Wikipedia:
The company traces its origins to Zapata Petroleum Corporation, founded in 1953 by future U.S. President George H. W. Bush, along with his business partners John Overbey, Hugh Liedtke, Bill Liedtke, and Thomas J. Devine.
According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975,[7] Zapata Petroleum began in 1953 through Bush's joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business, but who continued to work for the CIA under commercial cover. Devine would later accompany Bush to Vietnam in late 1967 as a "cleared and witting commercial asset" of the agency, acted as his informal foreign affairs advisor, and had a close relationship with him through 1975.
In 1954, Zapata Off-Shore Company was formed as a subsidiary of Zapata Oil, with Bush as president of the new company.
In 1959 Bush bought control of Zapata Off-Shore, funded with $800,000,[13] splitting Zapata Corporation into two independent companies with the Liedtkes still in control of Zapata Petroleum. But although Zapata Offshore had only a few drilling rigs, Bush set up operations also in the Gulf of Mexico, the Persian Gulf, Trinidad, Borneo, and Medellín, Colombia, and the Kuwait Shell Petroleum Development Company was among the company's clients.[1
Bush’s oil company was a CIA front company, and one of his partners, Thomas Devine, was an admitted CIA member who had gone into “private practice” for this very reason. This was back in 1953. Devine became Bush’s foreign affair advisor while he was a member of Congress. They traveled to Vietnam in 1967. That’s a key data point.
Can you remember any secret CIA operations happening at the time when Bush and Devine travelled to Vietnam? How about the secret CIA war in Laos to protect the opium trade? Or the Phoenix Program, which was a CIA death squad program targeting civilians?
I doubt their travel there during that time was a coincidence.
Zapata Offshore only had a few drilling rigs, but it set up operations in the Gulf of Mexico, the Persian Gulf, Trinidad, Borneo and Medellin, Columbia. A global operation in “very specific locations.”
Guess what all of those locations have in common? Does Medellin, Columbia ring any bells? The Medellin cartel? How about Pablo Escobar?
Literally every one of these locations would become a center for global drug trafficking, and Bush was the one behind it all. Remember, Bush took complete control of Zapata Offshore in 1959 and was setting up these locations for his business in the 1960’s.
Gulf of Mexico (Mexican cartels)
Persian Gulf (Mujahideen/Hezbollah)
Trinidad (Venezuela/Hugo Chavez)
Borneo (Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos)
Medellin, Columbia (Medellin cartel)
His perfect cover. Bush kept saying he wasn’t a member of the CIA at the time and that he was just in the oil business.
Admit nothing and deny everything.
What Bush is responsible for is the CIA global drug trafficking expansion that the entire world suffers under today. Drugs have helped fund every terrorist group and proxy war that the CIA has controlled going back to the Vietnam war.
In my last article, I asked the question:
How did Hezbollah, the largest terror organization on the planet, operate the largest drug trafficking operation in the world for decades without the public knowing about it?
They were protected by a shadow government.
Evil and corruption at the highest levels.
The shadow government began to grow when Bush became director of the CIA, and then rapidly expanded while Bush was Reagan’s Vice President.
Remember the trip that Bush took to Vietnam in 1967 as a Congressman with his CIA partner from Zapata Offshore?
What were they really doing there?
Why were we even fighting a war in Vietnam?
We’ve been told our whole lives that it was all about fighting communism.
Was it really?
Since the end of World War II, the CIA has been profiting from drug trafficking.
Have you heard of the “French Connection?” The CIA was protecting the Corsican mafia in Marseille, France who were controlling the global heroin trade at the time.
According to Wikipedia;
The French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Indochina through Turkey to France and then to the United States and Canada. The operation started in the 1930s, reached its peak in the 1960s, and was dismantled in the 1970s. It was responsible for providing the vast majority of the heroin used in the United States at the time.
The Corsican mafia and the CIA were getting their opium supplies from the Golden Triangle.
According to the Office of Justice Programs:
The Golden Triangle includes parts of Burma, China, Laos, and Thailand. It provides ideal conditions for opium cultivation, which began during the 16th and 17th centuries. Heroin became a major component of the opium trade after World War II, and the demand for heroin by United States troops during the Vietnam War helped transform the opium economy of the Golden Triangle into a large and profitable heroin economy. Drug trafficking now influences every aspect of politics in the region.
What’s the real reason we were fighting a war in Vietnam?
It’s always been about the money.
Money is the keystone, and Vietnam would be one of many wars that the CIA would fight in order to protect their drug trade and money laundering operations.
When France lost the Indochina war, the French Connection lost control of the opium supply in the Golden Triangle, and the CIA needed the U.S. military to step in to protect it.
Does anybody really believe the Gulf of Tonkin incident wasn’t a CIA operation in order to trigger a war? It worked, and we went to war.
While all the world focused on the Vietnam war and the toll it was taking on our soldiers playing out daily on national television for years, there were several things happening that weren’t getting much attention. This war put the U.S. in massive debt, increased the power of the military industrial complex and also forced us off the gold standard.
But there was something else happening that was getting no attention at the time, and it has plagued the world ever since.
The “Secret War.”
The real story that involves Bush and this shadow government was the “Secret War” being waged in Laos by the CIA. It would set a very bad precedent.
Here’s a great summary of this secret war the CIA was waging in Laos for control of the opium supply by a Summarizer tool on Brave search engine. I couldn’t say it any better:
Laos was supposed to be protected from war by the Geneva Peace Agreement that we had signed preventing any military intervention. That’s why it became the “secret war.”
Want some proof the CIA was actively participating in the opium trade in Laos?
Have you ever heard of Edgar Buell?
Who is he?
According to DrugText.org:
The most curious of this CIA triumvirate is Edgar "Pop" Buell, originally a farmer from Steuben County, Indiana. Buell first came to Laos in 1960 as an agricultural volunteer for International Voluntary Services (IVS)
He was assigned to the Plain of Jars, where the CIA was building up its secret Meo army, and became involved in the Agency's activities largely through circumstance and his own God-given anti-Communism.
As part of his effort to strengthen the Meo economy and increase the tribe's effectiveness as a military force, Buell utilized his agricultural skills to improve Meo techniques for planting and cultivating opium. "If you're gonna grow it, grow it good," Buell told the Meo.
Here’s an excerpt from a book that also mentions Edgar Buell’s trip to Laos.
According to the book “Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America’s Clandestine War in Laos” by Roger Warner:
Mr. Buell, who farms west of Edon, will be in Laos for two years. He describes his assignment as "people-to-people" work.
"I'm supposed to show them modern farming methods and at the same time a better way of life. This isn't a white collar job. I'll get my hands plenty dirty," he said.
Mr. Buell explained that farming in Laos is 150 to 300 years behind American methods. Such primitive tools as the hoe and wooden plow are used by most of the country's land tillers. Oxen and elephants do the pulling. Opium and rice are the chief exports.
The CIA had literally recruited a farmer from Indiana to go to Laos in order to help them improve the opium production.
The CIA was becoming the biggest drug trafficker in the world, and now it was willing to fight covert wars to protect that trade.
This article was focused on the history of George H.W. Bush and the CIA in order to set the table for the coming articles.
The next few articles will go deep into global drug trafficking, wars and money laundering. Its mostly focused on the Bush family. It’s way worse than you can imagine.
It will all eventually connect to Prince Al Waleed, who was Trump’s biggest threat when he became president.
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Nice work. There are so many things that happened leading into and early on in Trump’s presidency that we should probably go back and look at with the more understanding eyes we now have. Things were happening so fast back then. We missed so much.
Just when I think, I understand the depth of evil of the shadow Government, I get another shock! Thank you for this incredible article.