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  1. ♪ (Intro Music) ♪
  2.  
  3. Welcome. This is
  4. James Corbett of CorbettReport.com.
  5.  
  6. It is the 30th of January, 2013
  7. here in Japan;
  8.  
  9. and today I'm joined on the line
  10. from the United States
  11.  
  12. by BoilingFrogsPost.com founder
  13. and editor Sibel Edmonds,
  14.  
  15. our good friend who has been
  16. on this podcast many times before.
  17.  
  18. So Sibel, thank you so much
  19. for taking the time today.
  20.  
  21. Sure.
  22.  
  23. This is gonna be a very,
  24. very interesting interview.
  25.  
  26. I've been looking forward to this...
  27.  
  28. to this interview.
  29.  
  30. Me, too. But it is a bit overwhelming.
  31. It's almost intimidating,
  32.  
  33. because the topic we're talking about
  34. is so large, so vast,
  35.  
  36. involves so many characters that
  37.  
  38. a lot of the audience probably
  39. won't be familiar with,
  40.  
  41. that it's a bit daunting to know
  42. where to even begin with this.
  43.  
  44. So I guess we should explain
  45.  
  46. that we're picking up from a conversation
  47. that I had with Tom Secker
  48.  
  49. a week or two ago on The Corbett Report
  50.  
  51. talking about Gladio and the
  52. history of Operation Gladio,
  53.  
  54. the NATO stay-behind operation.
  55.  
  56. So people who want more on the details
  57. of Gladio itself and its history
  58.  
  59. as a historical entity in Europe might
  60. want to check out that conversation.
  61.  
  62. But today we're going to be picking
  63. up from that to talk about
  64.  
  65. specifically how Gladio unfolded,
  66.  
  67. and morphed into
  68.  
  69. what it currently is in Turkey.
  70.  
  71. And how it's operating...
  72.  
  73. -- well, how it's basically morphed
  74. into a different type of operation,
  75.  
  76. but is using a lot of the same strategies
  77. and methods to continue...
  78.  
  79. -- well, moving into different areas
  80.  
  81. such as false-flag terrorism
  82. in the Islamic terrorism context,
  83.  
  84. and also drug-running.
  85.  
  86. It's, again, a huge subject to tackle.
  87.  
  88. So perhaps we should start
  89.  
  90. by talking about the way
  91.  
  92. that the NATO stay-behind
  93. Gladio operation
  94.  
  95. was transported to Turkey,
  96.  
  97. and they way that it originally
  98. started there, as a ultranationalist --
  99.  
  100. or, a way to puppeteer the
  101. ultranationalists
  102.  
  103. in their terrorist movement.
  104.  
  105. Sure. One slight correction,
  106.  
  107. and that is:
  108.  
  109. the field of operation for Gladio,
  110.  
  111. well, is pretty much global,
  112.  
  113. with a large concentration...
  114.  
  115. -- main concentration in the last,
  116. I would say, 15, 16 years --
  117.  
  118. Central Asia, Caucasus,
  119. and the Balkans.
  120.  
  121. And it started with the Balkans.
  122.  
  123. So the field of operation actually
  124. has nothing to do with Turkey itself.
  125.  
  126. There is really nothing;
  127. because Turkey is where the powers
  128.  
  129. -- that being NATO, US,
  130. United Kingdom --
  131.  
  132. where they want
  133. -- these countries want -- to be.
  134.  
  135. That's for Turkey.
  136.  
  137. So the fields of operation
  138.  
  139. are basically Central Asia...
  140.  
  141. -- the former Soviet bloc
  142. space, basically.
  143.  
  144. And the operations control centers...
  145.  
  146. of course, the main one,
  147.  
  148. the top layer being in the United States,
  149.  
  150. with major arteries connecting it
  151.  
  152. to United Kingdom; to Britain.
  153.  
  154. And you have Belgium;
  155.  
  156. and then you have Turkey.
  157.  
  158. So -- being in, maybe, the primary;
  159.  
  160. then the secondary;
  161.  
  162. and then the third layer being in Turkey
  163.  
  164. via Turkish actors there: both military
  165.  
  166. -- not nearly as much any longer --
  167.  
  168. but also by very large...
  169.  
  170. what they refer to as
  171.  
  172. the "Islamic factions,"
  173.  
  174. several different Islamic factions.
  175.  
  176. Well, I stand happily
  177. corrected on that point.
  178.  
  179. And you're right to bring that out:
  180. Of course the field of operations
  181.  
  182. is all over that Central Asia/Caucasus
  183. region. And we have talked about this
  184.  
  185. a little bit in some of our previous
  186. conversations. But today, let's hone in
  187.  
  188. on some of the characters and people
  189. who have been connected to this.
  190.  
  191. And there are lots of things to talk about.
  192. I'm not sure where you want to start,
  193.  
  194. but there are, of course, operations like
  195. the Grey Wolves
  196.  
  197. and others that have been
  198. in Turkey for decades;
  199.  
  200. that have done this type of
  201. operation in the past,
  202.  
  203. and characters like Abdullah Çatlı
  204.  
  205. who has been involved in this
  206.  
  207. and who has been all over
  208.  
  209. in a very interesting life
  210.  
  211. that ended in the Susurluk scandal
  212. in 1996
  213.  
  214. -- in quite an interesting fashion. I'm
  215. not sure where you want to start
  216.  
  217. that story, but perhaps you could paint a
  218. picture for the listeners about how this
  219.  
  220. really developed, and where it went
  221. up until that point in the mid-1990s.
  222.  
  223. Sure.
  224.  
  225. Turkey always was the most important
  226. center, country,
  227.  
  228. in all this, Gladio operations,
  229.  
  230. before the fall of the Soviet Union.
  231.  
  232. It's interesting because when I go
  233.  
  234. and read what's available
  235.  
  236. to public online
  237.  
  238. -- which is very, very little on Gladio:
  239. that's why I was ecstatic
  240.  
  241. when you had your interview on Gladio
  242. a week ago --
  243.  
  244. and what you see
  245.  
  246. is usually things like Italy.
  247.  
  248. It's, like, Gladio and Italy
  249.  
  250. and how it unfolded,
  251.  
  252. how it was disbanded,
  253.  
  254. et cetera, et cetera.
  255.  
  256. But you don't see much on Turkey,
  257.  
  258. and Turkey was the most important,
  259.  
  260. the most important
  261.  
  262. operations center for Gladio.
  263.  
  264. And obviously, it's because of,
  265.  
  266. A. Its geographic location:
  267.  
  268. Just take a look at Turkey on the map.
  269.  
  270. And if you're looking
  271.  
  272. for that period of time
  273.  
  274. before the fall of the Soviet Union,
  275.  
  276. from the Black Sea it goes eastern:
  277.  
  278. you're looking at all the former
  279. Soviet blocs in there.
  280.  
  281. And then, again, its position
  282.  
  283. within the Middle East,
  284.  
  285. and the other side
  286. being connected to Europe.
  287.  
  288. So Turkey always had the most position
  289.  
  290. within this Gladio operation
  291.  
  292. until... before the fall of
  293. the Soviet Union.
  294.  
  295. And that you don't see.
  296.  
  297. There are very few articles
  298.  
  299. written out there scattered.
  300.  
  301. There's one good one by
  302. Le Monde [Diplomatique]
  303.  
  304. which was concentrating mainly
  305.  
  306. on the actors you just mentioned:
  307.  
  308. Abdullah Çatlı and Susurluk incident.
  309.  
  310. And you have couple of authors
  311.  
  312. in Switzerland and in England
  313. who have written about this.
  314.  
  315. Nothing: nothing here,
  316. in the United States, on that.
  317.  
  318. So, I'll give you a little bit of history,
  319.  
  320. because you covered a lot of this
  321.  
  322. with your previous guest.
  323.  
  324. But this history is going to
  325. concentrate more
  326.  
  327. on the character that we're
  328. gonna be talking about
  329.  
  330. and the Turkish side on this:
  331.  
  332. Gladio operations,
  333.  
  334. until the fall of the Soviet Union.
  335.  
  336. And in Turkey,
  337.  
  338. there were two prime groups
  339.  
  340. that were working within Gladio network
  341.  
  342. and carrying out
  343.  
  344. some of the most important operations:
  345.  
  346. in Western Europe;
  347.  
  348. in Northern Europe;
  349.  
  350. and mainly in Eastern Bloc.
  351.  
  352. And that was:
  353.  
  354. 1. The formal, official Turkish military.
  355.  
  356. And that is made up:
  357.  
  358. both Turkish military
  359.  
  360. and the Turkish military intelligence,
  361.  
  362. directly connected to NATO, Brussels,
  363.  
  364. and within the Gladio operations.
  365.  
  366. But then, beneath the military
  367.  
  368. -- Turkish official military --
  369.  
  370. you had the paramilitary force.
  371.  
  372. Who were these people?
  373.  
  374. And that's very, very interesting.
  375. These people...
  376.  
  377. Again, you look at some of the articles,
  378. and people talking about it:
  379.  
  380. Yeah, they are saying,
  381. "They are ultranationalists."
  382.  
  383. But what kind of jobs did they have?
  384.  
  385. Who were these people who were
  386. recruited by Turkish military,
  387.  
  388. trained, and absorbed into NATO's...
  389.  
  390. -- US/NATO's --
  391.  
  392. Gladio operations?
  393.  
  394. Well, a lot of these people, actually:
  395. in 1980s, they were in jail.
  396.  
  397. They had positions that were...
  398.  
  399. the best way to describe them
  400.  
  401. would be the Godfathers in Turkey.
  402.  
  403. "Babas."
  404.  
  405. That's how they refer to them in Turkey:
  406.  
  407. the babas, which means the Godfathers.
  408.  
  409. They were the top people
  410.  
  411. who ran blackmail,
  412.  
  413. heroin operations.
  414.  
  415. And even back then, it was...
  416.  
  417. Turkey has always been
  418.  
  419. the most important artery
  420.  
  421. in moving heroin into Europe,
  422.  
  423. whether it came
  424.  
  425. through the borders through Iran,
  426.  
  427. or it came via some Kurdish factions
  428.  
  429. coming through Iraq...
  430.  
  431. So Turkey has always been important.
  432.  
  433. And these babas ran...
  434.  
  435. -- and military did, too.
  436. Turkish military did, too --
  437.  
  438. But they were also ultranationalists;
  439.  
  440. but they were
  441. secularist ultranationalists.
  442.  
  443. They put Atatürk...
  444.  
  445. -- the father of Turkey,
  446. the father of modern Turkey --
  447.  
  448. in, basically, the place of God.
  449.  
  450. And of course
  451.  
  452. Atatürk advocated secularism
  453.  
  454. -- forced secularism.
  455.  
  456. And I have to emphasize this:
  457. forced secularism.
  458.  
  459. And these guys,
  460.  
  461. even when I was growing up in Turkey,
  462.  
  463. they were very easy to identify.
  464.  
  465. They usually wore this mustache
  466.  
  467. that really resembled the
  468. Hitler mustache,
  469.  
  470. and they had salutes that were like...
  471.  
  472. for Grey Wolves, that was like this:
  473.  
  474. And their babas were in jail.
  475.  
  476. And these guys had informants all over:
  477.  
  478. not only in Turkey, but in elsewhere.
  479.  
  480. So, as part of Gladio's plan,
  481.  
  482. Turkish military, Turkish police,
  483. Turkish intelligence forces:
  484.  
  485. they took all these notorious...
  486.  
  487. -- I mean, these are psychopaths,
  488. sociopaths!
  489.  
  490. these people are mass-murderers --
  491.  
  492. they took them out of those prisons.
  493.  
  494. And they said, "You know what?"
  495.  
  496. "Now you are going to..."
  497.  
  498. "-- with your skills, with what you do,
  499. with what you know --"
  500.  
  501. "you are going to serve the State."
  502.  
  503. And that is Turkey,
  504.  
  505. and the Great Turkishness.
  506.  
  507. And Great Turkishness is also being
  508. protected by the West, because,
  509.  
  510. "The Communist is out there:"
  511. "They're gonna take us over."
  512.  
  513. "Then we have these issues with
  514. the Kurdish people..."
  515.  
  516. "And meanwhile, you can also
  517. fill out your own pockets."
  518.  
  519. "You can still be big; you can still
  520. be Godfather,"
  521.  
  522. "but your main role..."
  523.  
  524. " -- and this is why we are releasing you,
  525. bringing you out -- is going to be"
  526.  
  527. "serving us for all these operations"
  528.  
  529. So these guys were removed,
  530.  
  531. they were sent to various centers,
  532. including in Brussels.
  533.  
  534. And they received training,
  535. both via Turkish military,
  536.  
  537. via US-NATO forces...
  538.  
  539. And they were given
  540. diplomatic passports.
  541.  
  542. Not only Turkish passports,
  543.  
  544. but passports from various countries.
  545.  
  546. And they still moved...
  547.  
  548. worked in the area
  549. where you move heroin;
  550.  
  551. but also weapons smuggling,
  552.  
  553. mass murders,
  554. a lot of false flag attacks.
  555.  
  556. Not only inside Turkey,
  557.  
  558. but in other countries as well.
  559.  
  560. And again, your guest
  561. talked about some of these:
  562.  
  563. the assassination attempts, the Pope,
  564. et cetera, et cetera.
  565.  
  566. And they also filled out
  567. their own pockets.
  568.  
  569. So, these were the characters.
  570.  
  571. Now, it's very interesting:
  572.  
  573. You'd say...
  574. -- or, a lot of people would say --
  575.  
  576. "Well, this was before:"
  577.  
  578. "during Communism."
  579.  
  580. "And we also did things with mujahideens"
  581.  
  582. "and Bin Laden in Afghanistan."
  583.  
  584. And, also:
  585.  
  586. "It deals a lot with Turkish politics,"
  587.  
  588. "so why should that interest people
  589. here in the United States?"
  590.  
  591. And... because this is as much
  592.  
  593. as they know, or they read, or they hear.
  594.  
  595. So, what happens after the fall
  596. of the Soviet Union?
  597.  
  598. Well, the character you just mentioned,
  599.  
  600. Abdullah Çatlı:
  601.  
  602. he's one of the main foot-soldiers,
  603.  
  604. one of the main commandos
  605.  
  606. under the military
  607.  
  608. -- which is Turkish military --
  609.  
  610. ...which is under NATO and
  611. the United States.
  612.  
  613. One of the most notorious figures.
  614.  
  615. I mean, this guy was responsible
  616.  
  617. in and outside Turkey
  618.  
  619. of tens of thousands of murders.
  620.  
  621. Bombs...
  622.  
  623. -- in some cases they would just
  624.  
  625. storm a house with medical
  626. students in Turkey
  627.  
  628. and they would cut everybody's heads.
  629.  
  630. And those people were accused of
  631.  
  632. advocating for socialism or communism.
  633.  
  634. This guy,
  635.  
  636. he actually ends up
  637.  
  638. on the list of most wanted...
  639.  
  640. -- INTERPOL's most wanted list, OK? --
  641.  
  642. for various reasons.
  643.  
  644. Murders...
  645.  
  646. international murders,
  647. not only murders in Turkey.
  648.  
  649. We are looking at INTERPOL's
  650. most wanted, right?
  651.  
  652. Heroin smuggling, weapons smuggling...
  653.  
  654. So he's on the top ten most wanted people;
  655.  
  656. and this is post-Soviet Union.
  657.  
  658. And he ends up in a jail,
  659.  
  660. in a high-security prison in Switzerland.
  661.  
  662. He gets arrested during one of his
  663. movement's operations.
  664.  
  665. And when you look at
  666.  
  667. some of the reporting on this guy
  668.  
  669. -- including the newspapers, or the
  670. articles written on the Grey Wolves --
  671.  
  672. it says: while he was in this
  673.  
  674. high-security prison in Switzerland
  675.  
  676. -- this is Abdullah Çatlı --
  677.  
  678. he escaped.
  679.  
  680. He actually escaped
  681.  
  682. by support of helicopter.
  683.  
  684. So you're in a high-security prison
  685.  
  686. in Switzerland
  687.  
  688. and you mysteriously escape
  689.  
  690. via helicopter.
  691.  
  692. And some more detailed stories
  693.  
  694. from very few reporters
  695.  
  696. who followed up and wrote on this:
  697.  
  698. and that was a NATO-owned helicopter!
  699.  
  700. I mean, this really sounds
  701. like a movie plot,
  702.  
  703. something that Hollywood would make.
  704.  
  705. And so, yeah:
  706.  
  707. this is the most wanted INTERPOL guy.
  708.  
  709. It gets even stranger:
  710.  
  711. Same guy,
  712.  
  713. while still wanted after he escapes
  714.  
  715. -- NATO helicopter from high-security
  716. Swiss prison --
  717.  
  718. he mysteriously ends up in England.
  719.  
  720. In London. OK?
  721.  
  722. And again, mysteriously,
  723.  
  724. in 1989, the government
  725.  
  726. -- UK government --
  727.  
  728. grants him citizenship!
  729.  
  730. Hah!
  731.  
  732. It's not even one year
  733. since he enters the UK.
  734.  
  735. He is still the most wanted
  736. on INTERPOL's list.
  737.  
  738. And then, within a year after that,
  739.  
  740. this same guy, Abdullah Çatlı,
  741.  
  742. flies over, comes to the United States
  743. -- and this is around 1990, 1991 --
  744.  
  745. comes to Chicago,
  746.  
  747. and is mysteriously given
  748.  
  749. an American passport!
  750.  
  751. -- an American Green Card;
  752. this is not passport yet --
  753.  
  754. And during all this time,
  755.  
  756. he is among the top ten most wanted
  757. people by INTERPOL.
  758.  
  759. Now, the first question people
  760. should ask...
  761.  
  762. -- especially those who say,
  763.  
  764. "Ah, this is about some..."
  765.  
  766. "during Cold War and Communism,"
  767.  
  768. "and it's Turkish internal politics..." :
  769.  
  770. Why the most wanted guy by Interpol
  771.  
  772. -- a notorious murderer, drug-runner --
  773.  
  774. ends up in England
  775.  
  776. of all the places,
  777.  
  778. and gets a citizenship?
  779.  
  780. Why he comes to the United States
  781.  
  782. and is given another citizenship?
  783.  
  784. So, that's the first questions
  785.  
  786. listeners should be asking.
  787.  
  788. And, why Chicago is where he settles?
  789. -- and that's where he settles.
  790.  
  791. And when he settles there,
  792.  
  793. he has dozens
  794.  
  795. of entries and exits from Chicago.
  796.  
  797. And after the Susurluk scandal,
  798.  
  799. -- which, I'm gonna get into it --
  800.  
  801. it basically comes out,
  802.  
  803. with all those investigations
  804. they had in Turkey
  805.  
  806. that from Chicago,
  807.  
  808. he carried out all these operations
  809.  
  810. in Central Asia, Caucasus,
  811.  
  812. Eastern Europe,
  813.  
  814. Xinjiang province of China.
  815.  
  816. So he kept flying...
  817.  
  818. -- while he's still most wanted
  819. by INTERPOL.
  820.  
  821. We don't know how and why
  822. he got all those citizenships
  823.  
  824. while he's most wanted,
  825.  
  826. and why he carried
  827.  
  828. four or five diplomatic passports.
  829.  
  830. Nobody gets into those questions.
  831.  
  832. And these diplomatic passports
  833.  
  834. are not, only, given to him
  835.  
  836. by government of Turkey.
  837.  
  838. So he... one of his trips...
  839. -- again, this is very well-documented --
  840.  
  841. This is not conspiracy theory.
  842.  
  843. This is not some Top Secret
  844.  
  845. classified documents any longer,
  846.  
  847. because this stuff all came out
  848.  
  849. during this...
  850.  
  851. after this scandal in Turkey.
  852.  
  853. So he...
  854.  
  855. in 1996, 1995,
  856.  
  857. he is the one
  858.  
  859. who goes to Azerbaijan from Chicago.
  860.  
  861. Via Turkey: goes to Azerbaijan.
  862.  
  863. With a team of several people,
  864.  
  865. less than a dozen,
  866.  
  867. he carries out this
  868.  
  869. attempted assassination
  870.  
  871. against Aliyev.
  872.  
  873. This is the Aliyev Senior,
  874.  
  875. before his son became
  876.  
  877. the President of Azerbaijan.
  878.  
  879. And it was meant to be an "attempted,"
  880.  
  881. that would not succeed.
  882.  
  883. Because if you look at Azerbaijan's
  884.  
  885. position during that same time,
  886.  
  887. 1994 to 1996,
  888.  
  889. before this assassination attempt,
  890.  
  891. you would see that Aliyev
  892.  
  893. was still siding with Russia.
  894.  
  895. It was still the old loyalties:
  896.  
  897. the old loyalties of,
  898.  
  899. "We were part of the Soviet Union,"
  900.  
  901. "and we are still siding with Russia."
  902.  
  903. Now, this is when the United States,
  904. -- the West --
  905.  
  906. was trying by its proxy, Turkey...
  907.  
  908. -- Why Turkey? They speak Turkish.
  909.  
  910. What language do they speak in these
  911. countries, including Azerbaijan?
  912.  
  913. Turkish.
  914.  
  915. They are Muslim:
  916.  
  917. What's the religion in Azerbaijan
  918.  
  919. and all these ex-Soviet blocs?
  920.  
  921. Muslims.
  922.  
  923. So: this was the ideal proxy
  924.  
  925. to go grab countries
  926.  
  927. like Tajikistan,
  928.  
  929. and Kyrgyzstan
  930.  
  931. and Azerbaijan,
  932.  
  933. and say, "OK: Say bye-bye to Russia."
  934.  
  935. "We want you to be one of us." Right?
  936.  
  937. Well, of course, Russia
  938.  
  939. was doing its part from the other side.
  940.  
  941. So during this period
  942.  
  943. when this assassination
  944. attempt occurred,
  945.  
  946. Aliyev Senior
  947.  
  948. -- the President in Azerbaijan --
  949.  
  950. still was loyal to Russia.
  951.  
  952. And all these different attempts
  953.  
  954. to move him to the other side
  955.  
  956. had not been successful,
  957.  
  958. so they moved to plans
  959.  
  960. that included assassination attempt,
  961.  
  962. paired up with blackmails.
  963.  
  964. Because, again: during this time,
  965.  
  966. the doors, the borders were open
  967.  
  968. in Azerbaijan.
  969.  
  970. A lot of these Turkish babas,
  971.  
  972. Godfathers,
  973.  
  974. moved in there,
  975.  
  976. and they opened really lavish,
  977. interesting casinos.
  978.  
  979. You'd say, "Casinos? Azerbaijan?"
  980.  
  981. Yeah!
  982.  
  983. And, guess what?
  984.  
  985. Several of Aliyev's family
  986.  
  987. were given advance offerings
  988.  
  989. in these casinos,
  990.  
  991. and they collected a lot of debt,
  992.  
  993. -- and this is people very close to
  994. Aliyev Senior.
  995.  
  996. And they started getting death threats,
  997. saying, "Well, if you don't pay off"
  998.  
  999. "these millions-and-millions dollars of
  1000. debt in your casino gambling debt,"
  1001.  
  1002. "we're gonna take you out."
  1003.  
  1004. Then comes the assassination attempt.
  1005.  
  1006. So, again: if people were to go
  1007. and look at the records
  1008.  
  1009. on this assassination attempt on Aliyev,
  1010.  
  1011. they would see Abdullah Çatlı's name.
  1012.  
  1013. They would see that Aliyev
  1014. came out and said,
  1015.  
  1016. "The people responsible for this"
  1017.  
  1018. "were NATO/US via Turkey."
  1019.  
  1020. And the Turkish President calling
  1021.  
  1022. and saying, "No, these were the thugs,"
  1023.  
  1024. "the mafia people: they have
  1025. nothing to do with us!"
  1026.  
  1027. -- all these denials.
  1028.  
  1029. Whatever happened, is...
  1030.  
  1031. Aliyev very quickly switched position
  1032.  
  1033. after this assassination attempt, OK?
  1034.  
  1035. You fast-forward, look at Azerbaijan:
  1036.  
  1037. Since 1996,
  1038.  
  1039. Azerbaijan's been the closest ally
  1040.  
  1041. of the United States and NATO.
  1042.  
  1043. In fact, they are becoming
  1044. a NATO member.
  1045.  
  1046. For the last eight years, NATO has been
  1047. there with a base, training them.
  1048.  
  1049. They've been passing the tests.
  1050.  
  1051. They went from purchasing
  1052.  
  1053. something like $25 million worth
  1054. of weapons from the United States,
  1055.  
  1056. today to something like $4...
  1057. three-and-a-half, $4 billions of...
  1058.  
  1059. four billion dollars of US weapons.
  1060.  
  1061. So: success! Gladio was successful.
  1062.  
  1063. It was... who carried it out?
  1064.  
  1065. Abdullah Çatlı.
  1066.  
  1067. After he finished, he just shook his hand
  1068.  
  1069. and said, "OK, mission accomplished."
  1070.  
  1071. Came back again to Chicago.
  1072.  
  1073. Now, I'm going to open a parenthesis
  1074. here and say, remember:
  1075.  
  1076. for the past 11, 12 years,
  1077.  
  1078. I've been talking about the center
  1079.  
  1080. of all these operations
  1081.  
  1082. that have to do with my
  1083. state secrets privilege,
  1084.  
  1085. and people involved,
  1086.  
  1087. was in Chicago.
  1088.  
  1089. I have been saying "Chicago"
  1090. so many times!
  1091.  
  1092. So I don't believe anyone is...
  1093.  
  1094. -- at least not your listeners, or mine --
  1095.  
  1096. who haven't heard this:
  1097.  
  1098. me saying, "Chicago, Chicago."
  1099.  
  1100. So: he went back to Chicago.
  1101.  
  1102. This was one of his trips.
  1103.  
  1104. His other trips included
  1105.  
  1106. going from the other side,
  1107.  
  1108. through the Pacific:
  1109.  
  1110. going to China.
  1111.  
  1112. And then, from there,
  1113.  
  1114. going to this area, Xinjiang.
  1115.  
  1116. This is extremely important.
  1117.  
  1118. Again, Xinjiang: Muslim population.
  1119.  
  1120. And they are referred to...
  1121.  
  1122. -- in Turkey, they don't call them
  1123. Xinjiang.
  1124.  
  1125. It's "[East] Turkestan,"
  1126.  
  1127. [East] Turkestan.
  1128. They speak Turkic dialect.
  1129.  
  1130. Guess what?
  1131.  
  1132. "Up there? A great place!"
  1133.  
  1134. "Imagine, they get their independence: "
  1135.  
  1136. "We can have our little mini base there!"
  1137.  
  1138. "You know how close we are to China?"
  1139.  
  1140. I mean, on one hand you can say,
  1141. "Yeah, there's Taiwan out there."
  1142.  
  1143. Well, this is going to be even
  1144. more important than Taiwan!
  1145.  
  1146. And then, look again:
  1147.  
  1148. the other important strategic location
  1149.  
  1150. for Xinjiang
  1151.  
  1152. -- for [East] Turkestan,
  1153. a.k.a. Uyghuristan --
  1154.  
  1155. You look out there: you see Pakistan;
  1156. you see Afghanistan.
  1157.  
  1158. This is a very important region.
  1159.  
  1160. This has been a very important
  1161. region, prize,
  1162.  
  1163. for the United States, for the West.
  1164.  
  1165. We've been...
  1166.  
  1167. We've been doing a lot of things there.
  1168.  
  1169. Every time you hear...
  1170.  
  1171. -- at least when I was working there,
  1172.  
  1173. during this period that
  1174.  
  1175. FBI was investigating these...
  1176.  
  1177. -- not operations there, but people here:
  1178.  
  1179. the criminals in the US,
  1180.  
  1181. who carried out the operations there.
  1182.  
  1183. Those terrorist attacks:
  1184.  
  1185. they were orchestrated
  1186.  
  1187. from a long distance.
  1188.  
  1189. You go to Turkey;
  1190.  
  1191. Then, from Turkey, you go to Brussels;
  1192.  
  1193. to England;
  1194.  
  1195. and then you go to the United States.
  1196.  
  1197. So, all the orchestration:
  1198.  
  1199. it's not some minorities or some Muslims
  1200. get together, suddenly they go and...
  1201.  
  1202. It doesn't happen.
  1203.  
  1204. It didn't happen that way,
  1205.  
  1206. at least during that period.
  1207.  
  1208. And this guy from Chicago
  1209.  
  1210. was sent to go and organize,
  1211.  
  1212. carry out a couple of terrorism,
  1213.  
  1214. uprising events:
  1215.  
  1216. turn around,
  1217.  
  1218. back to Chicago again.
  1219.  
  1220. Back to Chicago again.
  1221.  
  1222. So: NATO,
  1223.  
  1224. the Gladio operation,
  1225.  
  1226. via Turkish military,
  1227. and Turkish
  1228.  
  1229. Godfather-ultranationalist-criminal-thug
  1230. paramilitary
  1231.  
  1232. continued until around 1996.
  1233.  
  1234. Towards the period...
  1235.  
  1236. -- like, 1994 to 1996 --
  1237.  
  1238. the decision-makers,
  1239.  
  1240. -- the top layers of NATO, the US...
  1241.  
  1242. -- what we usually refer to as
  1243. "shadow government," "the powers" --
  1244.  
  1245. they were having this debate.
  1246.  
  1247. They were having this...
  1248. two options in front of them.
  1249.  
  1250. Two plans: which one is better?
  1251.  
  1252. One is what they did
  1253.  
  1254. before the fall of the Soviet Union:
  1255.  
  1256. and that was using ultranationalism
  1257.  
  1258. -- fascism, OK? --
  1259.  
  1260. against the Soviet Union;
  1261.  
  1262. against Communism.
  1263.  
  1264. Versus, what they have already seen
  1265.  
  1266. as a very successful, successful plan:
  1267.  
  1268. 1. They saw it in Afghanistan
  1269.  
  1270. with the mujahideens, Bin Laden group.
  1271.  
  1272. But then, recently...
  1273.  
  1274. -- and this is 1994, 1995, 1996 --
  1275.  
  1276. they were seeing its use
  1277. again and again:
  1278.  
  1279. in the Balkans,
  1280.  
  1281. in the Kosovo region,
  1282.  
  1283. in Bosnia.
  1284.  
  1285. And this is when we have
  1286. all these mujahideen:
  1287.  
  1288. Bin Laden, Zawahiri...
  1289. -- think about it, you know? --
  1290.  
  1291. factions from Egypt,
  1292. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan:
  1293.  
  1294. bringing them to Turkey.
  1295.  
  1296. Train them; bring them over there.
  1297.  
  1298. It was, like:
  1299.  
  1300. "You know, these ultranationalists:
  1301. they haven't been very productive."
  1302.  
  1303. "And we think the mujahideen
  1304. Islamist factions"
  1305.  
  1306. "are gonna much more useful"
  1307.  
  1308. "in our main objective of taking over: "
  1309.  
  1310. "having more of these ex-Soviet blocs
  1311. on our side."
  1312.  
  1313. OK? "On our side."
  1314.  
  1315. So this is...
  1316. during this, sometimes we use them;
  1317.  
  1318. sometimes we use the fascist
  1319. Godfather ultranationalists.
  1320.  
  1321. But then, in nineteen... end of 1996,
  1322.  
  1323. Abdullah Çatlı -- the man we've been
  1324. talking about; the thug, who went through
  1325.  
  1326. Xinjiang and all this stuff --
  1327. he comes to Turkey for another mission
  1328.  
  1329. that he was gonna go and implement.
  1330.  
  1331. However: while he's in Turkey,
  1332.  
  1333. together with some beauty queen
  1334.  
  1335. and a few other colleagues...
  1336.  
  1337. they are in Turkey,
  1338.  
  1339. they are traveling in this black Mercedes,
  1340.  
  1341. and they have a car crash, and...
  1342.  
  1343. they die.
  1344.  
  1345. Everyone in the car -- except one guy --
  1346. dies. Right?
  1347.  
  1348. Well, before the Turkish police
  1349. or military
  1350.  
  1351. got to the bodies,
  1352.  
  1353. the local police
  1354.  
  1355. -- that wouldn't know anything about
  1356. who were these people --
  1357.  
  1358. and the local journalists
  1359.  
  1360. got to the scene.
  1361.  
  1362. And, lo and behold:
  1363.  
  1364. here is the world's most wanted man,
  1365.  
  1366. Abdullah Çatlı, the great Godfather,
  1367.  
  1368. with all his diplomatic passports
  1369. with him.
  1370.  
  1371. But, not only that:
  1372.  
  1373. together with him,
  1374.  
  1375. you have the Chief of Police of Turkey.
  1376.  
  1377. I mean, the top police guy.
  1378.  
  1379. You have incredibly important
  1380. legit political figures.
  1381.  
  1382. It was like, "WTF, woman!"
  1383.  
  1384. "What are they doing in the car
  1385. with this guy?" -- Died.
  1386.  
  1387. Basically, this was...
  1388.  
  1389. well, in Turkey,
  1390.  
  1391. -- even though it had been leaked
  1392. in little bits and pieces --
  1393.  
  1394. it was this huge exposure
  1395.  
  1396. of the thugs
  1397.  
  1398. -- criminal, ultranationalist fascists --
  1399.  
  1400. actually working with -- and for --
  1401.  
  1402. the Turkish government.
  1403. And for right now, I'm gonna keep it...
  1404.  
  1405. "Turkish government:"
  1406.  
  1407. that is, the Turkish military;
  1408.  
  1409. the Turkish...
  1410. the legit Turkish institutions, right?
  1411.  
  1412. So, all the drug-running they were doing,
  1413.  
  1414. they were all controlled
  1415.  
  1416. and managed by the state.
  1417.  
  1418. And all the killings, the terrorisms
  1419.  
  1420. that they're found responsible for:
  1421.  
  1422. again, they were executed for the state.
  1423.  
  1424. This was huge in Turkey.
  1425.  
  1426. It caused an uproar.
  1427.  
  1428. A lot of documents started leaking.
  1429.  
  1430. Just like "9/11 Commission,"
  1431.  
  1432. there was this huge commission
  1433.  
  1434. established in Turkey.
  1435.  
  1436. Nobody talked about anything else
  1437.  
  1438. but this Susurluk... they called it
  1439. "Susurluk Scandal"
  1440.  
  1441. because the car accident
  1442.  
  1443. took place in Susurluk.
  1444.  
  1445. Now:
  1446.  
  1447. there was this fear by the West
  1448.  
  1449. -- and this is the United States,
  1450. the Europeans --
  1451.  
  1452. like, "Uh-Oh!"
  1453.  
  1454. "Now, we know that a lot of these
  1455. commission members,"
  1456.  
  1457. "they are like ours: Thomas Kean, and..."
  1458.  
  1459. "but:"
  1460.  
  1461. "some of them...
  1462. -- or, by default -- "
  1463.  
  1464. "a lot of other"
  1465. -- excuse my language --
  1466.  
  1467. "crap may come out"
  1468.  
  1469. "about our roles, the stuff we did."
  1470.  
  1471. "We" being the ultimate bosses.
  1472.  
  1473. And guess what happened?
  1474.  
  1475. One of the Turkish Gladio
  1476. handlers in Turkey
  1477.  
  1478. was an ambassador,
  1479.  
  1480. United States Ambassador in Turkey
  1481. at the time.
  1482.  
  1483. This guy was Ambassador from 1992
  1484.  
  1485. until the Susurluk scandal:
  1486.  
  1487. no other guy than Marc Grossman:
  1488. the guy... I have been saying
  1489.  
  1490. for the past five [years],
  1491. "You've got to look at Marc Grossman."
  1492.  
  1493. So, with this fear that a lot of secrets
  1494. -- state secrets -- were going to get out
  1495.  
  1496. during this: investigations, and
  1497. journalists digging in...
  1498.  
  1499. -- some people were leaking;
  1500. some people were talking --
  1501.  
  1502. the United States right away
  1503. got their man out of Turkey:
  1504.  
  1505. Marc Grossman.
  1506.  
  1507. No reason cited.
  1508.  
  1509. He still had another one-and-a-half,
  1510. two years left.
  1511.  
  1512. No reason cited.
  1513.  
  1514. Guess who else was pulled?
  1515.  
  1516. Another guy who was handling
  1517. the Operation Gladio,
  1518.  
  1519. the Turkish militants
  1520.  
  1521. in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
  1522.  
  1523. This man, his name:
  1524.  
  1525. -- at the time, a Major --
  1526.  
  1527. Major Douglas Dickerson.
  1528.  
  1529. This is the man...
  1530.  
  1531. -- if you have read my book;
  1532. if you know my case --
  1533.  
  1534. was the one who was married
  1535.  
  1536. to this spy in the FBI.
  1537.  
  1538. Major Douglas Dickerson:
  1539.  
  1540. he still had one-and-a-half years left.
  1541.  
  1542. He was working for Marc Grossman
  1543. in Ankara.
  1544.  
  1545. His main task under NATO
  1546.  
  1547. was operations...
  1548.  
  1549. Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan:
  1550. There were three or four countries,
  1551.  
  1552. that he directed the Turkish paramilitary
  1553. Gladio operations in those countries.
  1554.  
  1555. Lo and behold: the same man
  1556.  
  1557. -- this is documented --
  1558.  
  1559. he is pulled off of his position
  1560.  
  1561. and immediately sent to a base
  1562. in Germany
  1563.  
  1564. -- this is American military base --
  1565. and from there to Brussels.
  1566.  
  1567. Hah! This is interesting!
  1568.  
  1569. Now, these characters
  1570.  
  1571. -- that've been talked about in my case
  1572. for 12 years --
  1573.  
  1574. were there in 1997.
  1575.  
  1576. Susurluk happens: they were pulled out.
  1577.  
  1578. So was the top military man...
  1579.  
  1580. -- and this was the top man
  1581. for the Turkish
  1582.  
  1583. so-called "counterterrorism"
  1584. operations commando --
  1585.  
  1586. was sent on a mission
  1587.  
  1588. to Washington, DC Turkish Embassy.
  1589. -- and again, this is documented --
  1590.  
  1591. Right after Susurluk, they had
  1592. to get him out.
  1593.  
  1594. He was a chief guy in the military
  1595.  
  1596. overseeing these thugs and
  1597. these operations;
  1598.  
  1599. these false terror, false flag operations.
  1600.  
  1601. Not only in Turkey:
  1602.  
  1603. Central Asia, Caucasus.
  1604.  
  1605. A lot of Chechen operations;
  1606.  
  1607. Eastern Europe.
  1608.  
  1609. So, he was pulled.
  1610.  
  1611. He was sent to Washington, DC.
  1612.  
  1613. He never went back.
  1614.  
  1615. Again, nobody cited any reason.
  1616.  
  1617. They took all these important figures:
  1618.  
  1619. they took them to Brussels,
  1620.  
  1621. and they took them to Washington, DC.
  1622.  
  1623. And...
  1624.  
  1625. then it was
  1626.  
  1627. the decision-making time
  1628.  
  1629. for the "top guys in the world..."
  1630.  
  1631. -- For NATO, US, UK --
  1632.  
  1633. saying:
  1634.  
  1635. "Too much exposure."
  1636.  
  1637. "This chapter is closed."
  1638.  
  1639. "Gladio is not closed: "
  1640.  
  1641. "We are going to Plan B,"
  1642.  
  1643. "Gladio Plan B operations..."
  1644.  
  1645. "which... we have already prepared
  1646. for it some, to some extent."
  1647.  
  1648. "And that is: "
  1649.  
  1650. "we are not gonna use paramilitary;"
  1651.  
  1652. "we're gonna use Islamist factions."
  1653.  
  1654. "Who? a.k.a. mujahideens."
  1655.  
  1656. "a.k.a. al-Qaeda."
  1657.  
  1658. (Sibel): So... this is, again...
  1659. (James): OK, let's... so...
  1660.  
  1661. Just think about Bosnia.
  1662.  
  1663. OK, that's an incredible amount of
  1664. information; so just to be
  1665.  
  1666. absolutely clear: I think it is clear
  1667. that you're saying that the Susurluk
  1668.  
  1669. scandal and what happened to Çatlı
  1670. was not -- that was not something they
  1671.  
  1672. wanted to happen; that was not
  1673. something that was planned: He was not
  1674.  
  1675. taken out of the picture, but it was as a
  1676. as a result of his death that they
  1677.  
  1678. switched to Plan B. They weren't going
  1679. to switch to Plan B until that happened?
  1680.  
  1681. Nobody knows the answer to that,
  1682.  
  1683. because there are so many
  1684.  
  1685. questions surrounding this accident.
  1686.  
  1687. First of all, how this guy, unscratched,
  1688. walked out of the car, OK?
  1689.  
  1690. And there were also some questions
  1691. about -- that they may have been,
  1692.  
  1693. actually, dead before the accident.
  1694. Because there was this autopsy report
  1695.  
  1696. that their heads, a few of them,
  1697. were broken -- before the crash.
  1698.  
  1699. So, nobody knows who's responsible.
  1700.  
  1701. Was that staged? If so, which faction?
  1702.  
  1703. Is it something that...
  1704. OK, the top guy said,
  1705.  
  1706. "We want to eventually
  1707. eliminate these guys,"
  1708.  
  1709. "because they are in some ways out
  1710. of control: we want to go to Plan B?"
  1711.  
  1712. Was it someone else? We don't know.
  1713.  
  1714. And to this day...
  1715.  
  1716. you know how we scream about 9/11?
  1717.  
  1718. Well, in Turkey, since 1996,
  1719.  
  1720. people have been screaming "Susurluk."
  1721.  
  1722. Instead of "9/11" they say "Susurluk,"
  1723.  
  1724. because a lot of stuff
  1725. -- whether it's the Deep State... --
  1726.  
  1727. a lot of questions still remain
  1728.  
  1729. unanswered about it, and
  1730. that's one of them.
  1731.  
  1732. And that is: was it an accident?
  1733.  
  1734. We don't know. Nobody knows.
  1735.  
  1736. Were any of the other babas
  1737.  
  1738. similarly rubbed out
  1739.  
  1740. in interesting incidents?
  1741.  
  1742. One interesting character
  1743.  
  1744. who was, again, a huge figure, and...
  1745.  
  1746. -- we used to have a little summer
  1747. cottage, my husband and I, because
  1748.  
  1749. we went to Turkey every year
  1750. before all this,
  1751.  
  1752. FBI things, happened; whistleblowing.
  1753.  
  1754. And in this little, small
  1755. fishing-village city
  1756.  
  1757. -- which is now very fashionable; it
  1758. wasn't back then when we got it --
  1759.  
  1760. but, one of the babas had a few
  1761. hotels and casinos there.
  1762.  
  1763. While, actually, we were there
  1764.  
  1765. -- I was in Turkey, and this is
  1766. 1999, 1998 --
  1767.  
  1768. he was assassinated, during
  1769. the daylight.
  1770.  
  1771. A lot of these Gladio babas were being
  1772. taken out. And in some cases,
  1773.  
  1774. they would get some other babas
  1775. [to] take out some other babas.
  1776.  
  1777. So, Godfather against Godfather.
  1778.  
  1779. Who was managing one Godfather against...?
  1780.  
  1781. But, a lot of them were taken out.
  1782.  
  1783. And again, now, this is when
  1784.  
  1785. we completely went to Plan B...
  1786.  
  1787. --"we:" United States, NATO --
  1788.  
  1789. and said, "We're gonna use mujahideen."
  1790.  
  1791. What happened to the ultranationalist
  1792. fascist guys? For a while...
  1793.  
  1794. some of the main ones were taken out;
  1795. some of the other ones were left alone.
  1796.  
  1797. They stayed rogue for a while,
  1798.  
  1799. tried to have their own thing.
  1800.  
  1801. It's like, "United States kind of
  1802. turned... is turning its back to us."
  1803.  
  1804. "We were [backed?]... And the
  1805. same thing is true with the state."
  1806.  
  1807. So things, for a while, were
  1808. kind of murky.
  1809.  
  1810. Then came the current Turkish regime,
  1811.  
  1812. the Islamic government in Turkey.
  1813.  
  1814. It's very interesting, because
  1815.  
  1816. in the United States, a lot
  1817. of things came up,
  1818.  
  1819. writings saying US was kind of worried
  1820.  
  1821. about this Islamic government in Turkey:
  1822.  
  1823. "What is gonna happen in Turkey?"
  1824.  
  1825. "Are they gonna end up being
  1826. another Iran?"
  1827.  
  1828. Et cetera, et cetera.
  1829.  
  1830. It was... it's so interesting:
  1831.  
  1832. it's like using reverse
  1833. psychology with people.
  1834.  
  1835. And you get to see that a lot
  1836. in the Middle East.
  1837.  
  1838. And that is... let's say US wants
  1839.  
  1840. to install a puppet regime there.
  1841.  
  1842. One of the first things that has to happen,
  1843.  
  1844. there needs to be this illusion
  1845.  
  1846. that US is worried about this regime
  1847.  
  1848. and that this regime is tough
  1849. on US or Israel
  1850.  
  1851. to get the support of the majority;
  1852.  
  1853. to be legitimized.
  1854.  
  1855. So in many cases, that's actually a tactic.
  1856.  
  1857. It's like, you write there,
  1858. you say you're concerned,
  1859.  
  1860. when this is your first choice:
  1861.  
  1862. this is what you want for Turkey.
  1863.  
  1864. -- "This is," being, US wanting
  1865. this government in Turkey. --
  1866.  
  1867. Since they went to Plan B,
  1868.  
  1869. that was always the plan.
  1870.  
  1871. It's like, "We want this so-called"
  1872.  
  1873. "'moderate Islamic' government there."
  1874.  
  1875. Now, after Çatlı's death,
  1876.  
  1877. when we completely...
  1878.  
  1879. the Gladio went to Plan B mode
  1880. for Central Asia/Caucasus
  1881.  
  1882. -- via Islam.
  1883.  
  1884. And these Islamic factions,
  1885.  
  1886. they already had a candidate
  1887. in mind, a leader.
  1888.  
  1889. And this man was this preacher,
  1890.  
  1891. this symbol of fanatic Islam in Turkey.
  1892.  
  1893. Now, they no longer call them fanatic.
  1894.  
  1895. Because he's supported by the US,
  1896.  
  1897. we call him a "moderate" Islamist.
  1898.  
  1899. And his name is Fethullah Gülen.
  1900.  
  1901. Now, Fethullah Gülen was preaching
  1902.  
  1903. in Turkey during these 1990s
  1904.  
  1905. against the secular government:
  1906.  
  1907. "In Turkey, we need to have a
  1908. government that reflects, more, people's"
  1909.  
  1910. "value: which is Islam. We have to go
  1911. back to our roots." It was a different
  1912.  
  1913. form of ultranationalists:
  1914. ultranationalists were like,
  1915.  
  1916. "We don't want to be part of the EU;
  1917. we want Turkish culture."
  1918.  
  1919. "In fact, all these Central Asian
  1920. countries there:"
  1921.  
  1922. "we want to get together with them,"
  1923.  
  1924. "take over them,"
  1925.  
  1926. "and make this great Turkic Republic."
  1927.  
  1928. Now, this preacher Fethullah Gülen
  1929. said the same thing;
  1930.  
  1931. but he didn't say "nation;"
  1932. he said "Islam..."
  1933.  
  1934. -- but the Turkish way of Islam --
  1935.  
  1936. together with Turkish language:
  1937.  
  1938. "We need to go and get"
  1939.  
  1940. "our other brothers in Central Asia,"
  1941.  
  1942. "Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan,"
  1943.  
  1944. "bring them together,"
  1945.  
  1946. "and be one great Islamic Turkey."
  1947.  
  1948. "-- Not fanatic, you know?"
  1949.  
  1950. "Moderate, Turkish way of Islamic..."
  1951.  
  1952. -- whatever is the
  1953. "Turkish way of Islamic."
  1954.  
  1955. Now, the military regime in Turkey
  1956.  
  1957. hated this guy, so he was wanted.
  1958. There were already some trials.
  1959.  
  1960. They wanted to put him in jail, OK?
  1961.  
  1962. He was going through all this period.
  1963.  
  1964. Accident happens: and he's wanted.
  1965.  
  1966. He's actually declared criminal,
  1967.  
  1968. terrorist,anti-secularist
  1969.  
  1970. by the Turkish government.
  1971.  
  1972. Yet, mysteriously, after Susurluk incident,
  1973.  
  1974. this guy, Fethullah Gülen,
  1975.  
  1976. - in a private Gulfstream --
  1977.  
  1978. ends up in the United States of America;
  1979.  
  1980. lands here in Washington, DC.
  1981.  
  1982. Hah! Why the United States?
  1983.  
  1984. "This is a great Turkic Republic,
  1985. Islamic..."
  1986.  
  1987. why are you coming to US?
  1988.  
  1989. He hasn't left the United States since.
  1990.  
  1991. This is since 1997.
  1992.  
  1993. First he was in Washington, DC area.
  1994.  
  1995. They gave him a lavish house
  1996.  
  1997. and let him set up his organization,
  1998.  
  1999. "Islamic" organization.
  2000.  
  2001. Currently, it's valued somewhere
  2002. above $20 billion dollars.
  2003.  
  2004. It's the
  2005. largest Islamic organization in the world,
  2006.  
  2007. headquartered in the United States. OK?
  2008.  
  2009. And I'm gonna come back again -- if we
  2010. have time -- to this character.
  2011.  
  2012. But he's here in Washington, DC area
  2013.  
  2014. and Pennsylvania.
  2015.  
  2016. Who is his next neighbor?
  2017.  
  2018. His next neighbor... [laughs]
  2019.  
  2020. This is... I'm laughing.
  2021.  
  2022. It's because nobody ever touches
  2023. these issues:
  2024.  
  2025. -- because they are told not to,
  2026. as far as mainstream media goes;
  2027.  
  2028. as far as alternative media goes,
  2029. it's like,
  2030.  
  2031. "Man, dude! This is so complicated!
  2032. I can't get into that."
  2033.  
  2034. Next to him is this guy called
  2035. Yusuf Turani.
  2036.  
  2037. Now, this is the guy
  2038.  
  2039. who used to be in Xinjiang...
  2040.  
  2041. -- Uyghuristan; Turkestan in China --
  2042.  
  2043. He was taken out of there;
  2044.  
  2045. he lived for a while in Turkey,
  2046.  
  2047. then he was...
  2048. he came to the United States.
  2049.  
  2050. He was given citizenship.
  2051.  
  2052. And the State Department brought him,
  2053.  
  2054. and they had a meeting
  2055.  
  2056. -- and this is in 1997 --
  2057.  
  2058. and they declared independent country
  2059.  
  2060. of [East] Turkestan
  2061.  
  2062. with the President of [East] Turkestan
  2063. in absentia.
  2064.  
  2065. Like, nobody knows this, right?
  2066.  
  2067. So you declare a country and a
  2068. President in a meeting,
  2069.  
  2070. at an oval table in the State Department.
  2071.  
  2072. We say, "We are declaring Xinjiang
  2073. [East] Turkestan;"
  2074.  
  2075. "and here is the President."
  2076.  
  2077. Now, he swears... his oath of office
  2078. is taken
  2079.  
  2080. inside the building, in the
  2081. State Department,
  2082.  
  2083. in Washington, DC, in 1997.
  2084.  
  2085. Well, he's part of the same
  2086. Gladio Plan B network, OK?
  2087.  
  2088. So through him...
  2089.  
  2090. -- because he's the leader in absentia,
  2091. president in absentia of this country that
  2092.  
  2093. really doesn't exist except in the eyes of
  2094. the United States: [East] Turkestan --
  2095.  
  2096. so, he was part of Plan B
  2097.  
  2098. and still is part of Plan B,
  2099.  
  2100. heading and carrying out operations;
  2101.  
  2102. through his people and network [that]
  2103. goes down in Xinjiang Province of China
  2104.  
  2105. Now, between 1997,
  2106.  
  2107. after he moved to the United States,
  2108.  
  2109. this guy...
  2110.  
  2111. -- this preacher Fethullah Gülen, right? --
  2112.  
  2113. opened up 350 mosques and madrasas
  2114.  
  2115. in Central Asia and Caucasus.
  2116.  
  2117. 350, James -- in four years!
  2118.  
  2119. Nobody knows where the money's
  2120. coming from.
  2121.  
  2122. He says, "These are donations
  2123. from good-hearted Turkish people."
  2124.  
  2125. [laughs] That, it means...
  2126. -- let's take a look at it. If...
  2127.  
  2128. We don't even get that much... we don't
  2129. even collect that much tax in Turkey!
  2130.  
  2131. Even the government is unable, by force,
  2132. to collect that much tax.
  2133.  
  2134. So, we've got these $20 billion
  2135. dollars of net worth.
  2136.  
  2137. So, 350 mosques and madrasas.
  2138.  
  2139. But because he preaches modern Islam
  2140.  
  2141. -- you know, not the fanatic Islam --
  2142.  
  2143. he advocates teaching English
  2144. to all his students,
  2145.  
  2146. pupils in the madrasas.
  2147.  
  2148. These are boys with Qu'ran,
  2149. and they go like...
  2150.  
  2151. but they have to learn English.
  2152.  
  2153. And for the teaching of English
  2154.  
  2155. for his organizations that he owns,
  2156.  
  2157. -- these mosques and madrasas --
  2158.  
  2159. he needs to send English teachers
  2160.  
  2161. to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
  2162.  
  2163. and et cetera, right?
  2164.  
  2165. But for some reason, hundreds of
  2166.  
  2167. these English teachers that went
  2168. -- have been going --
  2169.  
  2170. from the United States to these countries
  2171.  
  2172. -- Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, et cetera --
  2173.  
  2174. they all have diplomatic passports!
  2175.  
  2176. Now, you taught English.
  2177.  
  2178. Were you given diplomatic passports
  2179.  
  2180. to teach English in Japan?
  2181.  
  2182. (James): [laughs]
  2183. (Sibel): No? [laughs]
  2184.  
  2185. This... again, people will say,
  2186. "Oh, this is some allegation." No!
  2187.  
  2188. And this is why I have had
  2189. articles trans--...
  2190.  
  2191. I have translated articles...
  2192.  
  2193. -- mainstream media in Europe
  2194. and in Turkey --
  2195.  
  2196. and it's there!
  2197.  
  2198. It's already been proven.
  2199.  
  2200. And they -- United States, the
  2201. State Department -- is not denying.
  2202.  
  2203. They are saying, "Because those
  2204. countries are backwards and dangerous,
  2205.  
  2206. "they need diplomatic protections."
  2207.  
  2208. Well,hah!
  2209.  
  2210. Anyhow, Plan B Gladio operations:
  2211.  
  2212. These are... I'm giving the examples
  2213.  
  2214. of what Plan B has been about.
  2215.  
  2216. And this was when we...
  2217.  
  2218. -- the United States, NATO --
  2219.  
  2220. started really closely working
  2221.  
  2222. with Bin Laden and Zawahiri.
  2223.  
  2224. And... again, from what we knew
  2225. in the FBI
  2226.  
  2227. with some of the trips that Zawahiri took,
  2228.  
  2229. the meetings with the high-level Turkish
  2230. people in Turkey,
  2231.  
  2232. several trips that Zawahiri took
  2233.  
  2234. and went to Azerbaijan between
  2235. 1997 and 2001.
  2236.  
  2237. And while in Azerbaijan
  2238.  
  2239. he met with a lot of US officials.
  2240.  
  2241. It was sponsored,
  2242.  
  2243. and it held the meetings
  2244.  
  2245. in Turkish Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan
  2246.  
  2247. with Zawahiri
  2248.  
  2249. Prince Bandar was there...
  2250.  
  2251. A lot of the stuff that we got:
  2252.  
  2253. I mean, Bin Laden seemed to be
  2254. number two:
  2255.  
  2256. It was all Zawahiri.
  2257.  
  2258. Believe me or not, it was
  2259. Ayman Zawahiri.
  2260.  
  2261. It was Zawahiri that came to Turkey
  2262.  
  2263. and then went from Turkey
  2264.  
  2265. to Albania, to Kosovo...
  2266.  
  2267. So, anyhow: we...
  2268.  
  2269. -- United States, together with Turkey:
  2270. Turkish military, faction of it --
  2271.  
  2272. started working very closely in
  2273. these countries
  2274.  
  2275. with Ayman Zawahiri,
  2276.  
  2277. Bin Laden,
  2278.  
  2279. Prince Bandar.
  2280.  
  2281. Lots of meetings took place,
  2282.  
  2283. and a lot of it was coordinated
  2284.  
  2285. via the Turkish proxy.
  2286.  
  2287. Well, these Turkish proxies
  2288.  
  2289. were being investigated by the FBI;
  2290.  
  2291. -- not for that reason;
  2292. for other reasons --
  2293.  
  2294. But inadvertently, we were getting
  2295.  
  2296. this information through the
  2297. recordings of...
  2298.  
  2299. whether it is, hypothetically speaking,
  2300.  
  2301. Turkish military being wiretapped,
  2302.  
  2303. or if it's a Turkish military attaché;
  2304.  
  2305. diplomatic institutions;
  2306.  
  2307. other various front organizations.
  2308.  
  2309. So, let's say you were...
  2310.  
  2311. via FISA, you were monitoring it
  2312.  
  2313. -- "you" being the FBI --
  2314.  
  2315. for... to see if there is
  2316.  
  2317. some espionage activities, et cetera.
  2318.  
  2319. But while you are monitoring them,
  2320.  
  2321. you are coming with mother-lodes
  2322.  
  2323. of information that has to do...
  2324. it's like, "Huh?" -- you know?
  2325.  
  2326. And another interesting thing
  2327.  
  2328. that I have to mention here is:
  2329.  
  2330. -- and nobody has ever
  2331. mentioned this in public --
  2332.  
  2333. Now, in the FBI, every single country
  2334.  
  2335. -- every single country except four --
  2336.  
  2337. were wiretapped, were monitored
  2338. under FISA.
  2339.  
  2340. And by this I mean
  2341.  
  2342. all their diplomatic arms.
  2343.  
  2344. Let's say, if it's a German embassy
  2345.  
  2346. and a German military attaché
  2347.  
  2348. in Washington, DC -- under FISA
  2349.  
  2350. Four countries... four countries...
  2351.  
  2352. Except four countries:
  2353.  
  2354. Four countries were exempt.
  2355.  
  2356. They could not be monitored
  2357.  
  2358. by the FBI under FISA,
  2359.  
  2360. -- that could be used in espionage
  2361. and even criminal activities.
  2362.  
  2363. You want to have a guess?
  2364.  
  2365. (James): Can I take a stab at it? I'm...
  2366. (Sibel): What countries?
  2367.  
  2368. (Sibel): A lot of people would say Israel.
  2369. It's not.
  2370.  
  2371. (James): It's not Israel?
  2372.  
  2373. (Sibel): OK, I'll help you...
  2374. (James): I guess Turkey is on that list...
  2375.  
  2376. (Sibel): Yep. It was, until I went...
  2377. I started the official Turkish division
  2378.  
  2379. (Sibel): for the FBI.
  2380. (James): Right
  2381.  
  2382. Prior to my employment with the FBI,
  2383.  
  2384. the Pentagon sent this
  2385. Lieutenant Colonel woman.
  2386.  
  2387. She was a Turkish-American woman;
  2388.  
  2389. NATO, Pentagon liaison.
  2390.  
  2391. They would send her every two or
  2392. three months
  2393.  
  2394. to come and randomly translate
  2395.  
  2396. certain things for the FBI.
  2397.  
  2398. Because certain things were
  2399. being recorded;
  2400.  
  2401. but FBI couldn't have an official division,
  2402.  
  2403. meaning they could never investigate
  2404.  
  2405. criminally or for espionage.
  2406.  
  2407. Turkey is one. All right: three more.
  2408.  
  2409. Oh no. [laughs] Well...
  2410.  
  2411. If it's going to play into what's happening
  2412. in Central Asia and the Caucasus,
  2413.  
  2414. it would have to be, perhaps, Pakistan?
  2415.  
  2416. No. We had a pretty good division
  2417. on Pakistan.
  2418.  
  2419. Because, you see, this included...
  2420.  
  2421. that's why I gave the example
  2422. of Germany:
  2423.  
  2424. because this included
  2425. European countries, too.
  2426.  
  2427. It was Turkey, Azerbaijan,
  2428. United Kingdom...
  2429.  
  2430. -- you would think, "English! What?" --
  2431. United Kingdom is exempt,
  2432.  
  2433. and for a reason. And
  2434. that reason... well...
  2435.  
  2436. and the fourth one is Belgium.
  2437.  
  2438. Nobody in the FBI is allowed...
  2439.  
  2440. because there are too much
  2441. sensitive stuff going on with Belgium
  2442.  
  2443. So these are the four.
  2444. No, Israel, we had a huge division;
  2445.  
  2446. and FBI was extremely frustrated.
  2447.  
  2448. They hated how investigations
  2449.  
  2450. were being stopped, et cetera.
  2451.  
  2452. But they... we had a huge division
  2453. there on Israel. [chuckles]
  2454.  
  2455. And we had so much crap on Israel;
  2456.  
  2457. they had huge amounts.
  2458.  
  2459. Unfortunately, it could never be used,
  2460. but they never... they still collect.
  2461.  
  2462. But no, not Israel. But it would be
  2463.  
  2464. Turkey, Azerbaijan, and UK, and
  2465. Belgium. And again, as I said...
  2466.  
  2467. -- the artery, at the beginning
  2468. of this interview --
  2469.  
  2470. it was United States, Belgium,
  2471. England, Turkey.
  2472.  
  2473. And... so, anyhow: Fethullah Gülen
  2474. still is here,
  2475.  
  2476. he's still in Turkey [sic], he has this
  2477. huge castle built in Pennsylvania.
  2478.  
  2479. We have... he has opened...
  2480.  
  2481. (James): Sorry... I just...
  2482. (Sibel): Yes.
  2483.  
  2484. Before we go on with that, I just want to
  2485. spell that out for the audience out there
  2486.  
  2487. in case they don't know. Of course, one
  2488. of the implications of this:
  2489.  
  2490. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, in
  2491. Belgium. This is the head of NATO itself.
  2492.  
  2493. So again, just to spell that out for people
  2494.  
  2495. in case they didn't quite get
  2496. the implication of that.
  2497.  
  2498. Correct, absolutely.
  2499.  
  2500. And during the Susurluk
  2501. investigation, the...
  2502.  
  2503. some of the documents that
  2504. became public:
  2505.  
  2506. a special office in Pentagon
  2507.  
  2508. that was responsible for all this Gladio
  2509.  
  2510. -- false flag, false terrorism --
  2511. operations.
  2512.  
  2513. It... the exact division
  2514.  
  2515. was spelled out in documents.
  2516.  
  2517. I mean, they had a major office.
  2518.  
  2519. There is a major division
  2520. that oversees that.
  2521.  
  2522. And as I said, they work with
  2523. these thugs and criminals.
  2524.  
  2525. And the fact that
  2526.  
  2527. -- as people write
  2528. and talk about it --
  2529.  
  2530. it was not dismantled and just left there
  2531.  
  2532. after the end of the Soviet Union,
  2533.  
  2534. after the fall of the Soviet Union.
  2535.  
  2536. It went... it went forward
  2537. with the operations,
  2538.  
  2539. and in 1997 it went to Plan B.
  2540.  
  2541. And this is why, again,
  2542.  
  2543. [unintelligible] it's very interesting,
  2544.  
  2545. because during this three,
  2546. four years' period,
  2547.  
  2548. there were dozens and dozens
  2549. of joint operations
  2550.  
  2551. with individuals like Ayman Zawahiri
  2552. and...
  2553.  
  2554. -- meaning that, it was never called
  2555. "al-Qaeda;"
  2556.  
  2557. It was "mujahideen, headed by..."
  2558.  
  2559. And again, it's very interesting.
  2560.  
  2561. When, lately, these leaders [of] these
  2562. regimes we topple in these countries,
  2563.  
  2564. they are... they end up dead
  2565.  
  2566. so they cannot talk,
  2567.  
  2568. or they end up sick with heart attacks.
  2569. They can't talk, really, have trials.
  2570.  
  2571. We saw it with Gaddafi.
  2572.  
  2573. But again, one of the things
  2574. that took place
  2575.  
  2576. -- and again, Turkey behind the scenes
  2577. played a major role together with US --
  2578.  
  2579. was we in the United States
  2580. asked Mubarak
  2581.  
  2582. to release some of the top
  2583. fundamental[ist]
  2584.  
  2585. anti-regime figures from prison
  2586. in the 1990s.
  2587.  
  2588. And they came to Turkey,
  2589.  
  2590. and they became part of this movement.
  2591.  
  2592. When I say "anti-regime," it would be...
  2593.  
  2594. Mubarak had to release
  2595.  
  2596. some fundamental[ist]s who were
  2597. anti-Mubarak!
  2598.  
  2599. And... because the higher powers told him
  2600.  
  2601. that, "We need these people in Turkey,
  2602. and we have tasks for them."
  2603.  
  2604. You take a look and see
  2605.  
  2606. how many times he's been released,
  2607.  
  2608. people like Zawahiri.
  2609.  
  2610. Anyhow, we had these,
  2611.  
  2612. and then, 9/11 happened.
  2613.  
  2614. And this is when...
  2615.  
  2616. I kept saying -- these organizations,
  2617. OK? -- these things come together.
  2618.  
  2619. And people... people say, "Whoa! what
  2620. does it have to do with Turkey?"
  2621.  
  2622. "Turkey's an ally!"
  2623.  
  2624. Well, it would be crazy for someone
  2625. to come out and say,
  2626.  
  2627. "You know, you look at NATO..." [chuckles]
  2628.  
  2629. or, "A certain arm of NATO..."
  2630.  
  2631. Nobody would listen to this person.
  2632.  
  2633. Think about it!
  2634.  
  2635. A President -- ex-President of Italy --
  2636.  
  2637. can come out publicly
  2638.  
  2639. and talk about Gladio,
  2640.  
  2641. and talk about some of the operatives,
  2642.  
  2643. and talk about 9/11,
  2644.  
  2645. and it's not even mentioned!
  2646.  
  2647. How could two or three agents from the
  2648. FBI...
  2649.  
  2650. you get a couple of people in Pentagon...
  2651. if they were to come out...
  2652.  
  2653. and they were to come out
  2654. and tell people...
  2655.  
  2656. Let's say they are fearless, OK?
  2657.  
  2658. They say, "Execute me, put me in jail."
  2659.  
  2660. "I'm gonna tell the Americans
  2661. exactly what I know."
  2662.  
  2663. People would say, "He's crazy,"
  2664. or, "She's crazy."
  2665.  
  2666. They...
  2667. -- Americans, a lot of people in Europe --
  2668.  
  2669. they would not be willing to
  2670. digest information -- to them -- that big.
  2671.  
  2672. But the answer, yet, is so simple.
  2673.  
  2674. Well, let's spell this out for people.
  2675.  
  2676. Because you've talked about the
  2677. Plan A of Gladio
  2678.  
  2679. -- which is more, I think, what people
  2680. understand Gladio to have been,
  2681.  
  2682. talking about the ultranationalists --
  2683.  
  2684. But moving into the Plan B era
  2685.  
  2686. with the Islamization of the Central Asia
  2687. and Caucasus,
  2688.  
  2689. and working with people like Zawahiri:
  2690.  
  2691. I guess the question a lot of
  2692. people have is,
  2693.  
  2694. how is this Gladio?
  2695.  
  2696. Gladio was the stay-behind
  2697.  
  2698. to counter the Soviet threat.
  2699.  
  2700. So the idea is, well,
  2701.  
  2702. after the Soviet threat is gone,
  2703.  
  2704. what is Gladio's purpose?
  2705.  
  2706. So I guess the question is,
  2707. well, what is Plan B?
  2708.  
  2709. What is it actually attempting to achieve?
  2710. I think we've gotten
  2711.  
  2712. some indication with that: for example,
  2713. the Azerbaijani example,
  2714.  
  2715. trying to move the Azerbaijani
  2716. government into the US stable.
  2717.  
  2718. But are there other examples?
  2719. How is this actually being used?
  2720.  
  2721. And what is its purpose at this point?
  2722.  
  2723. OK, First, the fact that
  2724.  
  2725. even though the term
  2726. "stay behind" applies,
  2727.  
  2728. they are ex--... they're very proactive.
  2729.  
  2730. This is... think about this:
  2731.  
  2732. A lot of people say, "OK, Cold War, then,
  2733. was over, in 1991."
  2734.  
  2735. Cold War was never over.
  2736.  
  2737. It is not... it still continues.
  2738.  
  2739. Thewar over resources continues.
  2740.  
  2741. Not only that it did not end in 1990,
  2742.  
  2743. it actually accelerated, OK?
  2744.  
  2745. A lot of emphasis, attention today
  2746. is on Middle East.
  2747.  
  2748. Why? Middle East oil, right?
  2749.  
  2750. In less than a couple of decades,
  2751.  
  2752. the next Middle East we're
  2753. gonna be seeing
  2754.  
  2755. is going to be Central Asia.
  2756.  
  2757. Much worse, much bloodier,
  2758.  
  2759. with much worse ethnic divisions.
  2760.  
  2761. Divisiveness and conflicts there.
  2762.  
  2763. Because the amount of
  2764. natural resources they have
  2765.  
  2766. -- whether it's in oil, or gas,
  2767. or minerals --
  2768.  
  2769. it's... because it's towards the end of it,
  2770. what we see in Middle East.
  2771.  
  2772. they are almost done with...
  2773.  
  2774. OK: you still have the unexplored regions
  2775.  
  2776. within the Caspian Basin;
  2777.  
  2778. you still have Iran, yeah.
  2779.  
  2780. But the ultimate prize
  2781.  
  2782. has always been
  2783.  
  2784. Central Asia and Caucasus.
  2785.  
  2786. If you go back to Brzezinski,
  2787.  
  2788. if you go back to the old doctrine,
  2789.  
  2790. you would see that
  2791. it's that Eurasia,
  2792.  
  2793. It's not... Middle East is the past.
  2794.  
  2795. It's over: it's the finished chapter.
  2796.  
  2797. A lot... they like what they are seeing:
  2798.  
  2799. people -- we -- are stuck by watching,
  2800.  
  2801. observing Middle East,
  2802.  
  2803. and nobody's paying attention
  2804. what is happening,
  2805.  
  2806. how the countries are being set up
  2807.  
  2808. in Central Asia and Caucasus.
  2809.  
  2810. How we are already setting up
  2811.  
  2812. the religious factions there.
  2813.  
  2814. How we are setting up
  2815.  
  2816. the ethnic conflicts there.
  2817.  
  2818. You need to do this pre-preparation
  2819.  
  2820. for the coming assault
  2821. that's going for it.
  2822.  
  2823. It doesn't happen overnight, you know?
  2824.  
  2825. People are looking... Mubarak!
  2826.  
  2827. I remember, 1980, 1981:
  2828.  
  2829. I remember how it was discussed
  2830. in Iran, in Turkey,
  2831.  
  2832. of who killed Anwar Sadat?
  2833.  
  2834. It was... the biggest thing was,
  2835. it was Mubarak.
  2836.  
  2837. Who wanted Mubarak to implement that?
  2838.  
  2839. It was alwaysthe United States.
  2840.  
  2841. So... but today it's like,
  2842.  
  2843. "Oh yeah, this big bad guy Mubarak,
  2844. he's in jail."
  2845.  
  2846. It's... they don't know the context.
  2847.  
  2848. They are currently -- people --
  2849. missing the context
  2850.  
  2851. of what we are doing.
  2852.  
  2853. 9/11 happens, OK? 9/11 happens.
  2854.  
  2855. We say -- our government says --
  2856. "Our partners did it!"
  2857.  
  2858. "While we were working with them,
  2859. carrying [out] joint operations"
  2860.  
  2861. "all over the place in Central Asia
  2862. and Caucasus,"
  2863.  
  2864. "they turned around and
  2865. they did this to us!"
  2866.  
  2867. It's... as I said: I said it
  2868. seems complicated,
  2869.  
  2870. it's too big to digest;
  2871. yet it's extremely simple.
  2872.  
  2873. And simplicity doesn't matter:
  2874.  
  2875. p eople don't want to digest,
  2876.  
  2877. no matter how simple it is.
  2878.  
  2879. Our partners...
  2880.  
  2881. -- look, we are partnering up in Syria:
  2882. it's nothing --
  2883.  
  2884. I'm talking about real partnership.
  2885.  
  2886. Operations carried out over resources,
  2887.  
  2888. trying to get these ex-Soviet blocs
  2889. on our side
  2890.  
  2891. so they won't be on Russia's side.
  2892.  
  2893. So they won't be on China's side.
  2894.  
  2895. Because, hey: "Communist China."
  2896.  
  2897. "Muslims should side with America,
  2898. because Islam works in our benefit."
  2899.  
  2900. "What do we have to get these people
  2901. through our proxy, Turkish NATO?"
  2902.  
  2903. Islam!
  2904.  
  2905. As long as they become fanatics,
  2906.  
  2907. as long as they're attached to Islam,
  2908. they're gonna say pooh-pooh
  2909.  
  2910. to China and Russia.
  2911. They're gonna side with us.
  2912.  
  2913. What happened in Afghanistan?
  2914.  
  2915. It was Islam. It's always been.
  2916.  
  2917. It's been the oldest trick for the UK.
  2918. It's been the number one big game:
  2919.  
  2920. it's played in the name of religion.
  2921.  
  2922. You use Islam to get what you want!
  2923.  
  2924. And I'm just amazed. I'm opening
  2925. newspapers...
  2926.  
  2927. I don't actually open newspapers
  2928. anymore.
  2929.  
  2930. I open them on my computer.
  2931. But I still do this motion.
  2932.  
  2933. I don't buy newspapers;
  2934.  
  2935. but, count: how many times
  2936.  
  2937. do you see the word "Islam"
  2938. and "Islamists?"
  2939.  
  2940. "Islamists carried out this;
  2941. Islamists did that;"
  2942.  
  2943. "Islamists... and this Islamist faction;
  2944. Islamists..."
  2945.  
  2946. If you look at some of the conflicts
  2947. with India and Pakistan, you don't see,
  2948.  
  2949. "Buddhists! Buddhists did that!" "The
  2950. Buddhists..." You don't see,
  2951.  
  2952. "Buddhists did this." It's a particular
  2953. group; but it's Islamists!
  2954.  
  2955. (James): Absolutely right.
  2956. (Sibel): So... but these Islamists...
  2957.  
  2958. I mean, we see the absolute
  2959. Islamization of the area
  2960.  
  2961. and the 350 madrasas
  2962.  
  2963. that Gülen has put into that region.
  2964.  
  2965. And with the English teachers being
  2966. sent over with diplomatic passports,
  2967.  
  2968. it all lines up exactly as you're saying.
  2969.  
  2970. But there's another huge piece
  2971. of this puzzle
  2972.  
  2973. that we haven't even touched on yet,
  2974. and that's the drug-running:
  2975.  
  2976. which, of course, is absolutely central
  2977. to a lot of the geostrategy of the region.
  2978.  
  2979. And of course, Turkey:
  2980. absolutely important
  2981.  
  2982. in terms of smuggling
  2983. for the heroin routes.
  2984.  
  2985. A lot of money rests on this.
  2986.  
  2987. This is such a huge backbone of the
  2988. international economy. And of course,
  2989.  
  2990. that's one of the things that we're not
  2991. allowed to ever talk about
  2992.  
  2993. or broach in the mainstream media,
  2994.  
  2995. because it is so central
  2996. to what's happening there.
  2997.  
  2998. So how does this fit in? Who are the
  2999. main players, and where do they fit
  3000.  
  3001. into this network that's been created?
  3002.  
  3003. Sure. First of all,
  3004.  
  3005. I have to first say: I know
  3006. the information I know
  3007.  
  3008. both through the work I did during a
  3009. short period of time with the FBI
  3010.  
  3011. that involved the top Turkish operators
  3012. and movements of heroin
  3013.  
  3014. -- and this is before 9/11 until
  3015. a few months after 9/11 --
  3016.  
  3017. but also my own research;
  3018.  
  3019. but also my own contacts and
  3020. sources in Turkey.
  3021.  
  3022. But as far as my work during my work
  3023. with the FBI goes
  3024.  
  3025. and the information that by default we
  3026. gathered, because some of these
  3027.  
  3028. Turkish actors under investigations who
  3029. were being monitored,
  3030.  
  3031. they were the major players with
  3032. bringing in heroin.
  3033.  
  3034. And it was, again, done
  3035. -- believe me or not --
  3036.  
  3037. it's like, "OK, Turkey, Eastern Europe:"
  3038. Nobody ever mentions the role
  3039.  
  3040. and the strategic importance of Brussels!
  3041. Brussels is extremely important in the
  3042.  
  3043. transportation and in the distribution of
  3044. heroin, but nobody would
  3045.  
  3046. want to think about... [scoffs] "Brussels?
  3047. European country? Belgium?"
  3048.  
  3049. "It just doesn't fit."
  3050.  
  3051. "We need to find countries
  3052. like Pakistan and Turkey:"
  3053.  
  3054. "Yeah, Midnight Express!
  3055. That makes sense."
  3056.  
  3057. " But UK? Belgium? That's not...
  3058. that doesn't."
  3059.  
  3060. But one false information that
  3061. is being put [out]
  3062.  
  3063. -- that I have to correct here --
  3064.  
  3065. by people is: "Taliban ended the opium
  3066. production, the poppies production,"
  3067.  
  3068. and that after 9/11 it started.
  3069.  
  3070. Of course, after 9/11 it went from
  3071. $5 billion worth,
  3072.  
  3073. or $1 billion dollar worth, to $50,
  3074. $100 billion:
  3075.  
  3076. increased tremendously.
  3077.  
  3078. But they never ceased producing.
  3079.  
  3080. And I know this first-hand;
  3081.  
  3082. and I know this through my work
  3083. with the FBI.
  3084.  
  3085. It is a known thing: they still did.
  3086.  
  3087. It was nothing like to this extent,
  3088.  
  3089. to the scale that it is today,
  3090.  
  3091. the production of the opium and heroin;
  3092.  
  3093. but it was there.
  3094.  
  3095. However, until 9/11,
  3096.  
  3097. the majority of that operation
  3098.  
  3099. -- and again, it was nothing compared
  3100. to what it is today --
  3101.  
  3102. the biggest share was actually
  3103. carried out...
  3104.  
  3105. -- both operations, taking it
  3106. to the labs --
  3107.  
  3108. by the Russians.
  3109.  
  3110. If I were to throw a number,
  3111.  
  3112. I would say it was... 70 to 80 percent
  3113.  
  3114. was under Russian control in 1990s.
  3115.  
  3116. It was Russian mafiya,
  3117.  
  3118. certain Russian military elements,
  3119.  
  3120. certain Russian intelligence elements.
  3121.  
  3122. they created, they had a lot of network
  3123. put in place,
  3124.  
  3125. even after they got out of Afghanistan,
  3126.  
  3127. and they continued that.
  3128.  
  3129. And something around...
  3130. -- again, don't quote me on the number --
  3131.  
  3132. if I were to throw a number, I would say
  3133. somewhere around 20 percent
  3134.  
  3135. was being smuggled through porous
  3136. borders region into Iran,
  3137.  
  3138. from Iran into Turkey,
  3139.  
  3140. some of them through Turkey...
  3141.  
  3142. Kurdish couriers into Iraq,
  3143.  
  3144. from Iraq to Turkey
  3145.  
  3146. where the lab processed it.
  3147.  
  3148. But, it was 20 to 80.
  3149.  
  3150. Now, that turned completely opposite
  3151. after 9/11.
  3152.  
  3153. We, the West, via Turkey...
  3154.  
  3155. -- Albanians and Turks --
  3156.  
  3157. the West became...
  3158.  
  3159. -- and this is the number one actor at
  3160. the top, being NATO --
  3161.  
  3162. the biggest shareholder,
  3163.  
  3164. the top people in this operation
  3165.  
  3166. that now you are seeing
  3167.  
  3168. $50, $100, $500 billion: pick your number.
  3169.  
  3170. And the Russians' share decreased,
  3171. and decreased,
  3172.  
  3173. and decreased, and decreased
  3174. -- to almost nothing.
  3175.  
  3176. I mean, they still have some,
  3177.  
  3178. there are some Russian...
  3179. but it's nothing.
  3180.  
  3181. And that's why, again, this was...
  3182.  
  3183. this is fact,
  3184. this is solid data pouring in:
  3185.  
  3186. who were the actors, how much of the
  3187. share it was, and how much it is now.
  3188.  
  3189. This is why I wonder sometimes why
  3190. Russia screams and says,
  3191.  
  3192. "All this heroin comes into Russia, and
  3193. we want to be part of this"
  3194.  
  3195. "eradication program that has increased
  3196. the poppy production into..."
  3197.  
  3198. whatever, $50 billion. I guess
  3199. we call it, now, "eradication,"
  3200.  
  3201. increasing the production.
  3202. I'm like, "maybe it's a code language!"
  3203.  
  3204. Russia says, "We want in on this!"
  3205.  
  3206. And maybe to pacify Russia we say,
  3207.  
  3208. "Yeah, we are eradicating, and the
  3209. production is going up."
  3210.  
  3211. "Come, we'll give you another 10 percent."
  3212.  
  3213. "Help us 'eradicate.'"
  3214.  
  3215. In quotes: "eradicate" poppies.
  3216.  
  3217. So, that's for the heroin portion of it.
  3218.  
  3219. And while we are at this,
  3220.  
  3221. on this topic of Russia...
  3222.  
  3223. -- and I want to mention this,
  3224. and I find this mind-boggling --
  3225.  
  3226. the... our operations
  3227.  
  3228. -- Gladio operations; US, NATO via
  3229. these Turkish paramilitary groups...
  3230.  
  3231. and later via the Islamist groups --
  3232.  
  3233. a lot of it had to do with
  3234.  
  3235. what we were doing with the Chechens
  3236.  
  3237. and the Chechen movement
  3238. in the Chechnya
  3239.  
  3240. carrying out terror attacks in Russia.
  3241.  
  3242. A lot of it within Russian borders.
  3243.  
  3244. Now... then we're going
  3245. to get into Ergenekon.
  3246.  
  3247. And I don't know how much
  3248. time we have;
  3249.  
  3250. it may be part two for this interview.
  3251.  
  3252. Because a lot of these former
  3253.  
  3254. ultranationalist fascist militaries
  3255.  
  3256. who used to fight Russia
  3257.  
  3258. or counter the Soviets on Gladio's side,
  3259.  
  3260. after they were, basically, thrown out,
  3261.  
  3262. started being assassinated.
  3263.  
  3264. They were thrown out by NATO
  3265. and they lost their protection;
  3266.  
  3267. and these are the military fascists
  3268. in Turkey. The ones who survived,
  3269.  
  3270. they had to get themselves to Russia.
  3271. And they defected to Russia.
  3272.  
  3273. They went and they sought political
  3274. asylums. You will see
  3275.  
  3276. several Turkish generals who've been
  3277. in Russia in the past three or four years.
  3278.  
  3279. With all the trials against the
  3280. Turkish generals,
  3281.  
  3282. Ergenekon in Turkey,
  3283.  
  3284. and with some of these people
  3285.  
  3286. being assassinated mysteriously,
  3287.  
  3288. including some of the
  3289. paramilitary groups.
  3290.  
  3291. In order to defect, in order to get the
  3292. asylum; in order to settle
  3293.  
  3294. and get the Russian
  3295. government's protection,
  3296.  
  3297. of course, they have to give
  3298.  
  3299. -- I'm sure, I'm certain --
  3300.  
  3301. a lot of information
  3302.  
  3303. to the Russian government and to FSB.
  3304. And even in late 1990s, as they were
  3305.  
  3306. -- the Russian forces there --
  3307. as they were capturing and killing
  3308.  
  3309. some of these terrorists
  3310. -- their terrorists --
  3311.  
  3312. they were confiscating passports
  3313.  
  3314. -- diplomatic passports, Turkish
  3315. passports --
  3316.  
  3317. from so-called "Chechens"
  3318. who'd either received training in Turkey
  3319.  
  3320. or actually these were part of the
  3321. Turkish military/paramilitary groups
  3322.  
  3323. fighting and leading Chechens inside
  3324. Russia to carry out terror attacks.
  3325.  
  3326. And the mystery remains that:
  3327.  
  3328. why Russia has remained so quiet
  3329. and silent on this?
  3330.  
  3331. And what is the game there? Or is this
  3332. actually a game-changer? I don't know.
  3333.  
  3334. (James): And that's an extremely
  3335. important point in all of this
  3336. (Sibel): I don't know the answer.
  3337.  
  3338. Because this goes right into this
  3339. geostrategy surrounding the greater
  3340.  
  3341. conflict that's going on right now.
  3342. This, of course, touches on China
  3343.  
  3344. -- with [East] Turkestan, or Xinjiang --
  3345.  
  3346. and Russia and its share in the heroin
  3347. trade. This goes right to the heart
  3348.  
  3349. of that greater geopolitical conflict we
  3350. see shaping up. So I certainly hope
  3351.  
  3352. that we can get a second part of this
  3353. interview, because this is absolutely,
  3354.  
  3355. truly fascinating stuff; but we've already
  3356. been talking for an hour, and we've laid
  3357.  
  3358. a lot of information out on the table
  3359. already today. So perhaps we can have
  3360.  
  3361. a second part to this interview; and if
  3362. there are listeners out there
  3363.  
  3364. with some questions or comments
  3365. that they want to make,
  3366.  
  3367. they can send that to me, and
  3368. I will bring that
  3369.  
  3370. into our second conversation on this.
  3371. But for now, thinking about
  3372.  
  3373. what we've talked about so far:
  3374. -- we've covered, again, a lot of ground --
  3375.  
  3376. Is there anything you'd like to say
  3377. to sort of wrap up
  3378.  
  3379. what we've talked about today,
  3380. or the situation...
  3381.  
  3382. Yes
  3383.  
  3384. ...that some of these actors are in today,
  3385. like Fethullah Gülen?
  3386.  
  3387. Yeah. One last thing I have...
  3388. and I'm gonna get into those,
  3389.  
  3390. -- because they get to be
  3391. really deep topics --
  3392.  
  3393. on our next... during our next interviews.
  3394. But I have been asked by some sources,
  3395.  
  3396. some people, to go to Russia to meet
  3397. with some of these people
  3398.  
  3399. And I know that there are people
  3400.  
  3401. -- both in Turkey, but also in Russia --
  3402.  
  3403. who have some very important documents,
  3404.  
  3405. and they have some very
  3406. important information
  3407.  
  3408. that they have tried to get to me
  3409. in person, but they can't.
  3410.  
  3411. Now I know, hopefully,
  3412.  
  3413. that some of this will get to them,
  3414.  
  3415. and it would be good for them to know
  3416.  
  3417. that there are people,
  3418.  
  3419. there are journalists outside
  3420. the United States,
  3421.  
  3422. outside me that they can trust
  3423.  
  3424. and they can contact.
  3425. They can be interviewed.
  3426.  
  3427. If they don't wish to be interviewed,
  3428. they can send information.
  3429.  
  3430. There are ways. You can do it through
  3431. encrypted way
  3432.  
  3433. -- I don't know how much you can
  3434. trust that --
  3435.  
  3436. but... or documents can come
  3437. through "6-7-7-7-8-10 STOP"
  3438.  
  3439. But I want them to know that it is good
  3440. to have other sources
  3441.  
  3442. outside the US who are
  3443. tackling these issues;
  3444.  
  3445. and they can reach out
  3446.  
  3447. to journalists like James Corbett
  3448.  
  3449. -- and knowing that this information
  3450. would get out.
  3451.  
  3452. And again, those people in Russia:
  3453.  
  3454. I hope some of you are watching this,
  3455.  
  3456. and I hope some of you will help us
  3457.  
  3458. to peel off more layers of this operation.
  3459.  
  3460. Absolutely. Well, again, we've talked
  3461. about so much already today,
  3462.  
  3463. and there's a lot of information
  3464. for people to digest.
  3465.  
  3466. So I will include in the links,
  3467.  
  3468. in the show notes for this interview,
  3469.  
  3470. some of the links to some of the articles
  3471. that you've written on Boiling Frogs Post
  3472.  
  3473. surrounding some of these topics, and
  3474. some of the other articles that other
  3475.  
  3476. people have written, so that people can
  3477. start delving into this in a little bit more,
  3478.  
  3479. deeper detail. And I will be putting out
  3480. a podcast episode that will encapsulate
  3481.  
  3482. at least some of what we've
  3483. talked about today
  3484.  
  3485. -- and with Tom Secker last week --
  3486.  
  3487. this Friday. So people can look
  3488. forward to that.
  3489.  
  3490. On that note, I think we will wrap this
  3491. conversation up here.
  3492.  
  3493. Again, we have been talking for
  3494. quite a while already.
  3495.  
  3496. So Sibel, thank you so much
  3497. for laying this out for us today,
  3498.  
  3499. and I'm very much looking forward
  3500. to our next conversation.
  3501.  
  3502. And thank you for tackling this,
  3503.  
  3504. this topic, which is extremely important.
  3505.  
  3506. In my prelude, I called it the "master key"
  3507.  
  3508. to understanding a lot of things,
  3509. including 9/11.
  3510.  
  3511. and I'm glad you're holding that key.
  3512.  
  3513. Thank you.
  3514.  
  3515. Thank you.
  3516.  
  3517. ♪ (Music) ♪
  3518.  
  3519. (James [voice-over]): This video is
  3520. brought to you
  3521.  
  3522. by the subscribers of
  3523. BoilingFrogsPost.com.
  3524.  
  3525. For more information on this
  3526. and other topics,
  3527.  
  3528. please go to BoilingFrogsPost.com.
  3529.  
  3530. For more information and commentary
  3531. from James Corbett,
  3532.  
  3533. please go to CorbettReport.com.
  3534.  
  3535. [Captions by "Adjuvant"]
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