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- ♪ (Intro Music) ♪
- Welcome. This is
- James Corbett of CorbettReport.com.
- It is the 30th of January, 2013
- here in Japan;
- and today I'm joined on the line
- from the United States
- by BoilingFrogsPost.com founder
- and editor Sibel Edmonds,
- our good friend who has been
- on this podcast many times before.
- So Sibel, thank you so much
- for taking the time today.
- Sure.
- This is gonna be a very,
- very interesting interview.
- I've been looking forward to this...
- to this interview.
- Me, too. But it is a bit overwhelming.
- It's almost intimidating,
- because the topic we're talking about
- is so large, so vast,
- involves so many characters that
- a lot of the audience probably
- won't be familiar with,
- that it's a bit daunting to know
- where to even begin with this.
- So I guess we should explain
- that we're picking up from a conversation
- that I had with Tom Secker
- a week or two ago on The Corbett Report
- talking about Gladio and the
- history of Operation Gladio,
- the NATO stay-behind operation.
- So people who want more on the details
- of Gladio itself and its history
- as a historical entity in Europe might
- want to check out that conversation.
- But today we're going to be picking
- up from that to talk about
- specifically how Gladio unfolded,
- and morphed into
- what it currently is in Turkey.
- And how it's operating...
- -- well, how it's basically morphed
- into a different type of operation,
- but is using a lot of the same strategies
- and methods to continue...
- -- well, moving into different areas
- such as false-flag terrorism
- in the Islamic terrorism context,
- and also drug-running.
- It's, again, a huge subject to tackle.
- So perhaps we should start
- by talking about the way
- that the NATO stay-behind
- Gladio operation
- was transported to Turkey,
- and they way that it originally
- started there, as a ultranationalist --
- or, a way to puppeteer the
- ultranationalists
- in their terrorist movement.
- Sure. One slight correction,
- and that is:
- the field of operation for Gladio,
- well, is pretty much global,
- with a large concentration...
- -- main concentration in the last,
- I would say, 15, 16 years --
- Central Asia, Caucasus,
- and the Balkans.
- And it started with the Balkans.
- So the field of operation actually
- has nothing to do with Turkey itself.
- There is really nothing;
- because Turkey is where the powers
- -- that being NATO, US,
- United Kingdom --
- where they want
- -- these countries want -- to be.
- That's for Turkey.
- So the fields of operation
- are basically Central Asia...
- -- the former Soviet bloc
- space, basically.
- And the operations control centers...
- of course, the main one,
- the top layer being in the United States,
- with major arteries connecting it
- to United Kingdom; to Britain.
- And you have Belgium;
- and then you have Turkey.
- So -- being in, maybe, the primary;
- then the secondary;
- and then the third layer being in Turkey
- via Turkish actors there: both military
- -- not nearly as much any longer --
- but also by very large...
- what they refer to as
- the "Islamic factions,"
- several different Islamic factions.
- Well, I stand happily
- corrected on that point.
- And you're right to bring that out:
- Of course the field of operations
- is all over that Central Asia/Caucasus
- region. And we have talked about this
- a little bit in some of our previous
- conversations. But today, let's hone in
- on some of the characters and people
- who have been connected to this.
- And there are lots of things to talk about.
- I'm not sure where you want to start,
- but there are, of course, operations like
- the Grey Wolves
- and others that have been
- in Turkey for decades;
- that have done this type of
- operation in the past,
- and characters like Abdullah Çatlı
- who has been involved in this
- and who has been all over
- in a very interesting life
- that ended in the Susurluk scandal
- in 1996
- -- in quite an interesting fashion. I'm
- not sure where you want to start
- that story, but perhaps you could paint a
- picture for the listeners about how this
- really developed, and where it went
- up until that point in the mid-1990s.
- Sure.
- Turkey always was the most important
- center, country,
- in all this, Gladio operations,
- before the fall of the Soviet Union.
- It's interesting because when I go
- and read what's available
- to public online
- -- which is very, very little on Gladio:
- that's why I was ecstatic
- when you had your interview on Gladio
- a week ago --
- and what you see
- is usually things like Italy.
- It's, like, Gladio and Italy
- and how it unfolded,
- how it was disbanded,
- et cetera, et cetera.
- But you don't see much on Turkey,
- and Turkey was the most important,
- the most important
- operations center for Gladio.
- And obviously, it's because of,
- A. Its geographic location:
- Just take a look at Turkey on the map.
- And if you're looking
- for that period of time
- before the fall of the Soviet Union,
- from the Black Sea it goes eastern:
- you're looking at all the former
- Soviet blocs in there.
- And then, again, its position
- within the Middle East,
- and the other side
- being connected to Europe.
- So Turkey always had the most position
- within this Gladio operation
- until... before the fall of
- the Soviet Union.
- And that you don't see.
- There are very few articles
- written out there scattered.
- There's one good one by
- Le Monde [Diplomatique]
- which was concentrating mainly
- on the actors you just mentioned:
- Abdullah Çatlı and Susurluk incident.
- And you have couple of authors
- in Switzerland and in England
- who have written about this.
- Nothing: nothing here,
- in the United States, on that.
- So, I'll give you a little bit of history,
- because you covered a lot of this
- with your previous guest.
- But this history is going to
- concentrate more
- on the character that we're
- gonna be talking about
- and the Turkish side on this:
- Gladio operations,
- until the fall of the Soviet Union.
- And in Turkey,
- there were two prime groups
- that were working within Gladio network
- and carrying out
- some of the most important operations:
- in Western Europe;
- in Northern Europe;
- and mainly in Eastern Bloc.
- And that was:
- 1. The formal, official Turkish military.
- And that is made up:
- both Turkish military
- and the Turkish military intelligence,
- directly connected to NATO, Brussels,
- and within the Gladio operations.
- But then, beneath the military
- -- Turkish official military --
- you had the paramilitary force.
- Who were these people?
- And that's very, very interesting.
- These people...
- Again, you look at some of the articles,
- and people talking about it:
- Yeah, they are saying,
- "They are ultranationalists."
- But what kind of jobs did they have?
- Who were these people who were
- recruited by Turkish military,
- trained, and absorbed into NATO's...
- -- US/NATO's --
- Gladio operations?
- Well, a lot of these people, actually:
- in 1980s, they were in jail.
- They had positions that were...
- the best way to describe them
- would be the Godfathers in Turkey.
- "Babas."
- That's how they refer to them in Turkey:
- the babas, which means the Godfathers.
- They were the top people
- who ran blackmail,
- heroin operations.
- And even back then, it was...
- Turkey has always been
- the most important artery
- in moving heroin into Europe,
- whether it came
- through the borders through Iran,
- or it came via some Kurdish factions
- coming through Iraq...
- So Turkey has always been important.
- And these babas ran...
- -- and military did, too.
- Turkish military did, too --
- But they were also ultranationalists;
- but they were
- secularist ultranationalists.
- They put Atatürk...
- -- the father of Turkey,
- the father of modern Turkey --
- in, basically, the place of God.
- And of course
- Atatürk advocated secularism
- -- forced secularism.
- And I have to emphasize this:
- forced secularism.
- And these guys,
- even when I was growing up in Turkey,
- they were very easy to identify.
- They usually wore this mustache
- that really resembled the
- Hitler mustache,
- and they had salutes that were like...
- for Grey Wolves, that was like this:
- And their babas were in jail.
- And these guys had informants all over:
- not only in Turkey, but in elsewhere.
- So, as part of Gladio's plan,
- Turkish military, Turkish police,
- Turkish intelligence forces:
- they took all these notorious...
- -- I mean, these are psychopaths,
- sociopaths!
- these people are mass-murderers --
- they took them out of those prisons.
- And they said, "You know what?"
- "Now you are going to..."
- "-- with your skills, with what you do,
- with what you know --"
- "you are going to serve the State."
- And that is Turkey,
- and the Great Turkishness.
- And Great Turkishness is also being
- protected by the West, because,
- "The Communist is out there:"
- "They're gonna take us over."
- "Then we have these issues with
- the Kurdish people..."
- "And meanwhile, you can also
- fill out your own pockets."
- "You can still be big; you can still
- be Godfather,"
- "but your main role..."
- " -- and this is why we are releasing you,
- bringing you out -- is going to be"
- "serving us for all these operations"
- So these guys were removed,
- they were sent to various centers,
- including in Brussels.
- And they received training,
- both via Turkish military,
- via US-NATO forces...
- And they were given
- diplomatic passports.
- Not only Turkish passports,
- but passports from various countries.
- And they still moved...
- worked in the area
- where you move heroin;
- but also weapons smuggling,
- mass murders,
- a lot of false flag attacks.
- Not only inside Turkey,
- but in other countries as well.
- And again, your guest
- talked about some of these:
- the assassination attempts, the Pope,
- et cetera, et cetera.
- And they also filled out
- their own pockets.
- So, these were the characters.
- Now, it's very interesting:
- You'd say...
- -- or, a lot of people would say --
- "Well, this was before:"
- "during Communism."
- "And we also did things with mujahideens"
- "and Bin Laden in Afghanistan."
- And, also:
- "It deals a lot with Turkish politics,"
- "so why should that interest people
- here in the United States?"
- And... because this is as much
- as they know, or they read, or they hear.
- So, what happens after the fall
- of the Soviet Union?
- Well, the character you just mentioned,
- Abdullah Çatlı:
- he's one of the main foot-soldiers,
- one of the main commandos
- under the military
- -- which is Turkish military --
- ...which is under NATO and
- the United States.
- One of the most notorious figures.
- I mean, this guy was responsible
- in and outside Turkey
- of tens of thousands of murders.
- Bombs...
- -- in some cases they would just
- storm a house with medical
- students in Turkey
- and they would cut everybody's heads.
- And those people were accused of
- advocating for socialism or communism.
- This guy,
- he actually ends up
- on the list of most wanted...
- -- INTERPOL's most wanted list, OK? --
- for various reasons.
- Murders...
- international murders,
- not only murders in Turkey.
- We are looking at INTERPOL's
- most wanted, right?
- Heroin smuggling, weapons smuggling...
- So he's on the top ten most wanted people;
- and this is post-Soviet Union.
- And he ends up in a jail,
- in a high-security prison in Switzerland.
- He gets arrested during one of his
- movement's operations.
- And when you look at
- some of the reporting on this guy
- -- including the newspapers, or the
- articles written on the Grey Wolves --
- it says: while he was in this
- high-security prison in Switzerland
- -- this is Abdullah Çatlı --
- he escaped.
- He actually escaped
- by support of helicopter.
- So you're in a high-security prison
- in Switzerland
- and you mysteriously escape
- via helicopter.
- And some more detailed stories
- from very few reporters
- who followed up and wrote on this:
- and that was a NATO-owned helicopter!
- I mean, this really sounds
- like a movie plot,
- something that Hollywood would make.
- And so, yeah:
- this is the most wanted INTERPOL guy.
- It gets even stranger:
- Same guy,
- while still wanted after he escapes
- -- NATO helicopter from high-security
- Swiss prison --
- he mysteriously ends up in England.
- In London. OK?
- And again, mysteriously,
- in 1989, the government
- -- UK government --
- grants him citizenship!
- Hah!
- It's not even one year
- since he enters the UK.
- He is still the most wanted
- on INTERPOL's list.
- And then, within a year after that,
- this same guy, Abdullah Çatlı,
- flies over, comes to the United States
- -- and this is around 1990, 1991 --
- comes to Chicago,
- and is mysteriously given
- an American passport!
- -- an American Green Card;
- this is not passport yet --
- And during all this time,
- he is among the top ten most wanted
- people by INTERPOL.
- Now, the first question people
- should ask...
- -- especially those who say,
- "Ah, this is about some..."
- "during Cold War and Communism,"
- "and it's Turkish internal politics..." :
- Why the most wanted guy by Interpol
- -- a notorious murderer, drug-runner --
- ends up in England
- of all the places,
- and gets a citizenship?
- Why he comes to the United States
- and is given another citizenship?
- So, that's the first questions
- listeners should be asking.
- And, why Chicago is where he settles?
- -- and that's where he settles.
- And when he settles there,
- he has dozens
- of entries and exits from Chicago.
- And after the Susurluk scandal,
- -- which, I'm gonna get into it --
- it basically comes out,
- with all those investigations
- they had in Turkey
- that from Chicago,
- he carried out all these operations
- in Central Asia, Caucasus,
- Eastern Europe,
- Xinjiang province of China.
- So he kept flying...
- -- while he's still most wanted
- by INTERPOL.
- We don't know how and why
- he got all those citizenships
- while he's most wanted,
- and why he carried
- four or five diplomatic passports.
- Nobody gets into those questions.
- And these diplomatic passports
- are not, only, given to him
- by government of Turkey.
- So he... one of his trips...
- -- again, this is very well-documented --
- This is not conspiracy theory.
- This is not some Top Secret
- classified documents any longer,
- because this stuff all came out
- during this...
- after this scandal in Turkey.
- So he...
- in 1996, 1995,
- he is the one
- who goes to Azerbaijan from Chicago.
- Via Turkey: goes to Azerbaijan.
- With a team of several people,
- less than a dozen,
- he carries out this
- attempted assassination
- against Aliyev.
- This is the Aliyev Senior,
- before his son became
- the President of Azerbaijan.
- And it was meant to be an "attempted,"
- that would not succeed.
- Because if you look at Azerbaijan's
- position during that same time,
- 1994 to 1996,
- before this assassination attempt,
- you would see that Aliyev
- was still siding with Russia.
- It was still the old loyalties:
- the old loyalties of,
- "We were part of the Soviet Union,"
- "and we are still siding with Russia."
- Now, this is when the United States,
- -- the West --
- was trying by its proxy, Turkey...
- -- Why Turkey? They speak Turkish.
- What language do they speak in these
- countries, including Azerbaijan?
- Turkish.
- They are Muslim:
- What's the religion in Azerbaijan
- and all these ex-Soviet blocs?
- Muslims.
- So: this was the ideal proxy
- to go grab countries
- like Tajikistan,
- and Kyrgyzstan
- and Azerbaijan,
- and say, "OK: Say bye-bye to Russia."
- "We want you to be one of us." Right?
- Well, of course, Russia
- was doing its part from the other side.
- So during this period
- when this assassination
- attempt occurred,
- Aliyev Senior
- -- the President in Azerbaijan --
- still was loyal to Russia.
- And all these different attempts
- to move him to the other side
- had not been successful,
- so they moved to plans
- that included assassination attempt,
- paired up with blackmails.
- Because, again: during this time,
- the doors, the borders were open
- in Azerbaijan.
- A lot of these Turkish babas,
- Godfathers,
- moved in there,
- and they opened really lavish,
- interesting casinos.
- You'd say, "Casinos? Azerbaijan?"
- Yeah!
- And, guess what?
- Several of Aliyev's family
- were given advance offerings
- in these casinos,
- and they collected a lot of debt,
- -- and this is people very close to
- Aliyev Senior.
- And they started getting death threats,
- saying, "Well, if you don't pay off"
- "these millions-and-millions dollars of
- debt in your casino gambling debt,"
- "we're gonna take you out."
- Then comes the assassination attempt.
- So, again: if people were to go
- and look at the records
- on this assassination attempt on Aliyev,
- they would see Abdullah Çatlı's name.
- They would see that Aliyev
- came out and said,
- "The people responsible for this"
- "were NATO/US via Turkey."
- And the Turkish President calling
- and saying, "No, these were the thugs,"
- "the mafia people: they have
- nothing to do with us!"
- -- all these denials.
- Whatever happened, is...
- Aliyev very quickly switched position
- after this assassination attempt, OK?
- You fast-forward, look at Azerbaijan:
- Since 1996,
- Azerbaijan's been the closest ally
- of the United States and NATO.
- In fact, they are becoming
- a NATO member.
- For the last eight years, NATO has been
- there with a base, training them.
- They've been passing the tests.
- They went from purchasing
- something like $25 million worth
- of weapons from the United States,
- today to something like $4...
- three-and-a-half, $4 billions of...
- four billion dollars of US weapons.
- So: success! Gladio was successful.
- It was... who carried it out?
- Abdullah Çatlı.
- After he finished, he just shook his hand
- and said, "OK, mission accomplished."
- Came back again to Chicago.
- Now, I'm going to open a parenthesis
- here and say, remember:
- for the past 11, 12 years,
- I've been talking about the center
- of all these operations
- that have to do with my
- state secrets privilege,
- and people involved,
- was in Chicago.
- I have been saying "Chicago"
- so many times!
- So I don't believe anyone is...
- -- at least not your listeners, or mine --
- who haven't heard this:
- me saying, "Chicago, Chicago."
- So: he went back to Chicago.
- This was one of his trips.
- His other trips included
- going from the other side,
- through the Pacific:
- going to China.
- And then, from there,
- going to this area, Xinjiang.
- This is extremely important.
- Again, Xinjiang: Muslim population.
- And they are referred to...
- -- in Turkey, they don't call them
- Xinjiang.
- It's "[East] Turkestan,"
- [East] Turkestan.
- They speak Turkic dialect.
- Guess what?
- "Up there? A great place!"
- "Imagine, they get their independence: "
- "We can have our little mini base there!"
- "You know how close we are to China?"
- I mean, on one hand you can say,
- "Yeah, there's Taiwan out there."
- Well, this is going to be even
- more important than Taiwan!
- And then, look again:
- the other important strategic location
- for Xinjiang
- -- for [East] Turkestan,
- a.k.a. Uyghuristan --
- You look out there: you see Pakistan;
- you see Afghanistan.
- This is a very important region.
- This has been a very important
- region, prize,
- for the United States, for the West.
- We've been...
- We've been doing a lot of things there.
- Every time you hear...
- -- at least when I was working there,
- during this period that
- FBI was investigating these...
- -- not operations there, but people here:
- the criminals in the US,
- who carried out the operations there.
- Those terrorist attacks:
- they were orchestrated
- from a long distance.
- You go to Turkey;
- Then, from Turkey, you go to Brussels;
- to England;
- and then you go to the United States.
- So, all the orchestration:
- it's not some minorities or some Muslims
- get together, suddenly they go and...
- It doesn't happen.
- It didn't happen that way,
- at least during that period.
- And this guy from Chicago
- was sent to go and organize,
- carry out a couple of terrorism,
- uprising events:
- turn around,
- back to Chicago again.
- Back to Chicago again.
- So: NATO,
- the Gladio operation,
- via Turkish military,
- and Turkish
- Godfather-ultranationalist-criminal-thug
- paramilitary
- continued until around 1996.
- Towards the period...
- -- like, 1994 to 1996 --
- the decision-makers,
- -- the top layers of NATO, the US...
- -- what we usually refer to as
- "shadow government," "the powers" --
- they were having this debate.
- They were having this...
- two options in front of them.
- Two plans: which one is better?
- One is what they did
- before the fall of the Soviet Union:
- and that was using ultranationalism
- -- fascism, OK? --
- against the Soviet Union;
- against Communism.
- Versus, what they have already seen
- as a very successful, successful plan:
- 1. They saw it in Afghanistan
- with the mujahideens, Bin Laden group.
- But then, recently...
- -- and this is 1994, 1995, 1996 --
- they were seeing its use
- again and again:
- in the Balkans,
- in the Kosovo region,
- in Bosnia.
- And this is when we have
- all these mujahideen:
- Bin Laden, Zawahiri...
- -- think about it, you know? --
- factions from Egypt,
- Saudi Arabia, Pakistan:
- bringing them to Turkey.
- Train them; bring them over there.
- It was, like:
- "You know, these ultranationalists:
- they haven't been very productive."
- "And we think the mujahideen
- Islamist factions"
- "are gonna much more useful"
- "in our main objective of taking over: "
- "having more of these ex-Soviet blocs
- on our side."
- OK? "On our side."
- So this is...
- during this, sometimes we use them;
- sometimes we use the fascist
- Godfather ultranationalists.
- But then, in nineteen... end of 1996,
- Abdullah Çatlı -- the man we've been
- talking about; the thug, who went through
- Xinjiang and all this stuff --
- he comes to Turkey for another mission
- that he was gonna go and implement.
- However: while he's in Turkey,
- together with some beauty queen
- and a few other colleagues...
- they are in Turkey,
- they are traveling in this black Mercedes,
- and they have a car crash, and...
- they die.
- Everyone in the car -- except one guy --
- dies. Right?
- Well, before the Turkish police
- or military
- got to the bodies,
- the local police
- -- that wouldn't know anything about
- who were these people --
- and the local journalists
- got to the scene.
- And, lo and behold:
- here is the world's most wanted man,
- Abdullah Çatlı, the great Godfather,
- with all his diplomatic passports
- with him.
- But, not only that:
- together with him,
- you have the Chief of Police of Turkey.
- I mean, the top police guy.
- You have incredibly important
- legit political figures.
- It was like, "WTF, woman!"
- "What are they doing in the car
- with this guy?" -- Died.
- Basically, this was...
- well, in Turkey,
- -- even though it had been leaked
- in little bits and pieces --
- it was this huge exposure
- of the thugs
- -- criminal, ultranationalist fascists --
- actually working with -- and for --
- the Turkish government.
- And for right now, I'm gonna keep it...
- "Turkish government:"
- that is, the Turkish military;
- the Turkish...
- the legit Turkish institutions, right?
- So, all the drug-running they were doing,
- they were all controlled
- and managed by the state.
- And all the killings, the terrorisms
- that they're found responsible for:
- again, they were executed for the state.
- This was huge in Turkey.
- It caused an uproar.
- A lot of documents started leaking.
- Just like "9/11 Commission,"
- there was this huge commission
- established in Turkey.
- Nobody talked about anything else
- but this Susurluk... they called it
- "Susurluk Scandal"
- because the car accident
- took place in Susurluk.
- Now:
- there was this fear by the West
- -- and this is the United States,
- the Europeans --
- like, "Uh-Oh!"
- "Now, we know that a lot of these
- commission members,"
- "they are like ours: Thomas Kean, and..."
- "but:"
- "some of them...
- -- or, by default -- "
- "a lot of other"
- -- excuse my language --
- "crap may come out"
- "about our roles, the stuff we did."
- "We" being the ultimate bosses.
- And guess what happened?
- One of the Turkish Gladio
- handlers in Turkey
- was an ambassador,
- United States Ambassador in Turkey
- at the time.
- This guy was Ambassador from 1992
- until the Susurluk scandal:
- no other guy than Marc Grossman:
- the guy... I have been saying
- for the past five [years],
- "You've got to look at Marc Grossman."
- So, with this fear that a lot of secrets
- -- state secrets -- were going to get out
- during this: investigations, and
- journalists digging in...
- -- some people were leaking;
- some people were talking --
- the United States right away
- got their man out of Turkey:
- Marc Grossman.
- No reason cited.
- He still had another one-and-a-half,
- two years left.
- No reason cited.
- Guess who else was pulled?
- Another guy who was handling
- the Operation Gladio,
- the Turkish militants
- in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
- This man, his name:
- -- at the time, a Major --
- Major Douglas Dickerson.
- This is the man...
- -- if you have read my book;
- if you know my case --
- was the one who was married
- to this spy in the FBI.
- Major Douglas Dickerson:
- he still had one-and-a-half years left.
- He was working for Marc Grossman
- in Ankara.
- His main task under NATO
- was operations...
- Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan:
- There were three or four countries,
- that he directed the Turkish paramilitary
- Gladio operations in those countries.
- Lo and behold: the same man
- -- this is documented --
- he is pulled off of his position
- and immediately sent to a base
- in Germany
- -- this is American military base --
- and from there to Brussels.
- Hah! This is interesting!
- Now, these characters
- -- that've been talked about in my case
- for 12 years --
- were there in 1997.
- Susurluk happens: they were pulled out.
- So was the top military man...
- -- and this was the top man
- for the Turkish
- so-called "counterterrorism"
- operations commando --
- was sent on a mission
- to Washington, DC Turkish Embassy.
- -- and again, this is documented --
- Right after Susurluk, they had
- to get him out.
- He was a chief guy in the military
- overseeing these thugs and
- these operations;
- these false terror, false flag operations.
- Not only in Turkey:
- Central Asia, Caucasus.
- A lot of Chechen operations;
- Eastern Europe.
- So, he was pulled.
- He was sent to Washington, DC.
- He never went back.
- Again, nobody cited any reason.
- They took all these important figures:
- they took them to Brussels,
- and they took them to Washington, DC.
- And...
- then it was
- the decision-making time
- for the "top guys in the world..."
- -- For NATO, US, UK --
- saying:
- "Too much exposure."
- "This chapter is closed."
- "Gladio is not closed: "
- "We are going to Plan B,"
- "Gladio Plan B operations..."
- "which... we have already prepared
- for it some, to some extent."
- "And that is: "
- "we are not gonna use paramilitary;"
- "we're gonna use Islamist factions."
- "Who? a.k.a. mujahideens."
- "a.k.a. al-Qaeda."
- (Sibel): So... this is, again...
- (James): OK, let's... so...
- Just think about Bosnia.
- OK, that's an incredible amount of
- information; so just to be
- absolutely clear: I think it is clear
- that you're saying that the Susurluk
- scandal and what happened to Çatlı
- was not -- that was not something they
- wanted to happen; that was not
- something that was planned: He was not
- taken out of the picture, but it was as a
- as a result of his death that they
- switched to Plan B. They weren't going
- to switch to Plan B until that happened?
- Nobody knows the answer to that,
- because there are so many
- questions surrounding this accident.
- First of all, how this guy, unscratched,
- walked out of the car, OK?
- And there were also some questions
- about -- that they may have been,
- actually, dead before the accident.
- Because there was this autopsy report
- that their heads, a few of them,
- were broken -- before the crash.
- So, nobody knows who's responsible.
- Was that staged? If so, which faction?
- Is it something that...
- OK, the top guy said,
- "We want to eventually
- eliminate these guys,"
- "because they are in some ways out
- of control: we want to go to Plan B?"
- Was it someone else? We don't know.
- And to this day...
- you know how we scream about 9/11?
- Well, in Turkey, since 1996,
- people have been screaming "Susurluk."
- Instead of "9/11" they say "Susurluk,"
- because a lot of stuff
- -- whether it's the Deep State... --
- a lot of questions still remain
- unanswered about it, and
- that's one of them.
- And that is: was it an accident?
- We don't know. Nobody knows.
- Were any of the other babas
- similarly rubbed out
- in interesting incidents?
- One interesting character
- who was, again, a huge figure, and...
- -- we used to have a little summer
- cottage, my husband and I, because
- we went to Turkey every year
- before all this,
- FBI things, happened; whistleblowing.
- And in this little, small
- fishing-village city
- -- which is now very fashionable; it
- wasn't back then when we got it --
- but, one of the babas had a few
- hotels and casinos there.
- While, actually, we were there
- -- I was in Turkey, and this is
- 1999, 1998 --
- he was assassinated, during
- the daylight.
- A lot of these Gladio babas were being
- taken out. And in some cases,
- they would get some other babas
- [to] take out some other babas.
- So, Godfather against Godfather.
- Who was managing one Godfather against...?
- But, a lot of them were taken out.
- And again, now, this is when
- we completely went to Plan B...
- --"we:" United States, NATO --
- and said, "We're gonna use mujahideen."
- What happened to the ultranationalist
- fascist guys? For a while...
- some of the main ones were taken out;
- some of the other ones were left alone.
- They stayed rogue for a while,
- tried to have their own thing.
- It's like, "United States kind of
- turned... is turning its back to us."
- "We were [backed?]... And the
- same thing is true with the state."
- So things, for a while, were
- kind of murky.
- Then came the current Turkish regime,
- the Islamic government in Turkey.
- It's very interesting, because
- in the United States, a lot
- of things came up,
- writings saying US was kind of worried
- about this Islamic government in Turkey:
- "What is gonna happen in Turkey?"
- "Are they gonna end up being
- another Iran?"
- Et cetera, et cetera.
- It was... it's so interesting:
- it's like using reverse
- psychology with people.
- And you get to see that a lot
- in the Middle East.
- And that is... let's say US wants
- to install a puppet regime there.
- One of the first things that has to happen,
- there needs to be this illusion
- that US is worried about this regime
- and that this regime is tough
- on US or Israel
- to get the support of the majority;
- to be legitimized.
- So in many cases, that's actually a tactic.
- It's like, you write there,
- you say you're concerned,
- when this is your first choice:
- this is what you want for Turkey.
- -- "This is," being, US wanting
- this government in Turkey. --
- Since they went to Plan B,
- that was always the plan.
- It's like, "We want this so-called"
- "'moderate Islamic' government there."
- Now, after Çatlı's death,
- when we completely...
- the Gladio went to Plan B mode
- for Central Asia/Caucasus
- -- via Islam.
- And these Islamic factions,
- they already had a candidate
- in mind, a leader.
- And this man was this preacher,
- this symbol of fanatic Islam in Turkey.
- Now, they no longer call them fanatic.
- Because he's supported by the US,
- we call him a "moderate" Islamist.
- And his name is Fethullah Gülen.
- Now, Fethullah Gülen was preaching
- in Turkey during these 1990s
- against the secular government:
- "In Turkey, we need to have a
- government that reflects, more, people's"
- "value: which is Islam. We have to go
- back to our roots." It was a different
- form of ultranationalists:
- ultranationalists were like,
- "We don't want to be part of the EU;
- we want Turkish culture."
- "In fact, all these Central Asian
- countries there:"
- "we want to get together with them,"
- "take over them,"
- "and make this great Turkic Republic."
- Now, this preacher Fethullah Gülen
- said the same thing;
- but he didn't say "nation;"
- he said "Islam..."
- -- but the Turkish way of Islam --
- together with Turkish language:
- "We need to go and get"
- "our other brothers in Central Asia,"
- "Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan,"
- "bring them together,"
- "and be one great Islamic Turkey."
- "-- Not fanatic, you know?"
- "Moderate, Turkish way of Islamic..."
- -- whatever is the
- "Turkish way of Islamic."
- Now, the military regime in Turkey
- hated this guy, so he was wanted.
- There were already some trials.
- They wanted to put him in jail, OK?
- He was going through all this period.
- Accident happens: and he's wanted.
- He's actually declared criminal,
- terrorist,anti-secularist
- by the Turkish government.
- Yet, mysteriously, after Susurluk incident,
- this guy, Fethullah Gülen,
- - in a private Gulfstream --
- ends up in the United States of America;
- lands here in Washington, DC.
- Hah! Why the United States?
- "This is a great Turkic Republic,
- Islamic..."
- why are you coming to US?
- He hasn't left the United States since.
- This is since 1997.
- First he was in Washington, DC area.
- They gave him a lavish house
- and let him set up his organization,
- "Islamic" organization.
- Currently, it's valued somewhere
- above $20 billion dollars.
- It's the
- largest Islamic organization in the world,
- headquartered in the United States. OK?
- And I'm gonna come back again -- if we
- have time -- to this character.
- But he's here in Washington, DC area
- and Pennsylvania.
- Who is his next neighbor?
- His next neighbor... [laughs]
- This is... I'm laughing.
- It's because nobody ever touches
- these issues:
- -- because they are told not to,
- as far as mainstream media goes;
- as far as alternative media goes,
- it's like,
- "Man, dude! This is so complicated!
- I can't get into that."
- Next to him is this guy called
- Yusuf Turani.
- Now, this is the guy
- who used to be in Xinjiang...
- -- Uyghuristan; Turkestan in China --
- He was taken out of there;
- he lived for a while in Turkey,
- then he was...
- he came to the United States.
- He was given citizenship.
- And the State Department brought him,
- and they had a meeting
- -- and this is in 1997 --
- and they declared independent country
- of [East] Turkestan
- with the President of [East] Turkestan
- in absentia.
- Like, nobody knows this, right?
- So you declare a country and a
- President in a meeting,
- at an oval table in the State Department.
- We say, "We are declaring Xinjiang
- [East] Turkestan;"
- "and here is the President."
- Now, he swears... his oath of office
- is taken
- inside the building, in the
- State Department,
- in Washington, DC, in 1997.
- Well, he's part of the same
- Gladio Plan B network, OK?
- So through him...
- -- because he's the leader in absentia,
- president in absentia of this country that
- really doesn't exist except in the eyes of
- the United States: [East] Turkestan --
- so, he was part of Plan B
- and still is part of Plan B,
- heading and carrying out operations;
- through his people and network [that]
- goes down in Xinjiang Province of China
- Now, between 1997,
- after he moved to the United States,
- this guy...
- -- this preacher Fethullah Gülen, right? --
- opened up 350 mosques and madrasas
- in Central Asia and Caucasus.
- 350, James -- in four years!
- Nobody knows where the money's
- coming from.
- He says, "These are donations
- from good-hearted Turkish people."
- [laughs] That, it means...
- -- let's take a look at it. If...
- We don't even get that much... we don't
- even collect that much tax in Turkey!
- Even the government is unable, by force,
- to collect that much tax.
- So, we've got these $20 billion
- dollars of net worth.
- So, 350 mosques and madrasas.
- But because he preaches modern Islam
- -- you know, not the fanatic Islam --
- he advocates teaching English
- to all his students,
- pupils in the madrasas.
- These are boys with Qu'ran,
- and they go like...
- but they have to learn English.
- And for the teaching of English
- for his organizations that he owns,
- -- these mosques and madrasas --
- he needs to send English teachers
- to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
- and et cetera, right?
- But for some reason, hundreds of
- these English teachers that went
- -- have been going --
- from the United States to these countries
- -- Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, et cetera --
- they all have diplomatic passports!
- Now, you taught English.
- Were you given diplomatic passports
- to teach English in Japan?
- (James): [laughs]
- (Sibel): No? [laughs]
- This... again, people will say,
- "Oh, this is some allegation." No!
- And this is why I have had
- articles trans--...
- I have translated articles...
- -- mainstream media in Europe
- and in Turkey --
- and it's there!
- It's already been proven.
- And they -- United States, the
- State Department -- is not denying.
- They are saying, "Because those
- countries are backwards and dangerous,
- "they need diplomatic protections."
- Well,hah!
- Anyhow, Plan B Gladio operations:
- These are... I'm giving the examples
- of what Plan B has been about.
- And this was when we...
- -- the United States, NATO --
- started really closely working
- with Bin Laden and Zawahiri.
- And... again, from what we knew
- in the FBI
- with some of the trips that Zawahiri took,
- the meetings with the high-level Turkish
- people in Turkey,
- several trips that Zawahiri took
- and went to Azerbaijan between
- 1997 and 2001.
- And while in Azerbaijan
- he met with a lot of US officials.
- It was sponsored,
- and it held the meetings
- in Turkish Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan
- with Zawahiri
- Prince Bandar was there...
- A lot of the stuff that we got:
- I mean, Bin Laden seemed to be
- number two:
- It was all Zawahiri.
- Believe me or not, it was
- Ayman Zawahiri.
- It was Zawahiri that came to Turkey
- and then went from Turkey
- to Albania, to Kosovo...
- So, anyhow: we...
- -- United States, together with Turkey:
- Turkish military, faction of it --
- started working very closely in
- these countries
- with Ayman Zawahiri,
- Bin Laden,
- Prince Bandar.
- Lots of meetings took place,
- and a lot of it was coordinated
- via the Turkish proxy.
- Well, these Turkish proxies
- were being investigated by the FBI;
- -- not for that reason;
- for other reasons --
- But inadvertently, we were getting
- this information through the
- recordings of...
- whether it is, hypothetically speaking,
- Turkish military being wiretapped,
- or if it's a Turkish military attaché;
- diplomatic institutions;
- other various front organizations.
- So, let's say you were...
- via FISA, you were monitoring it
- -- "you" being the FBI --
- for... to see if there is
- some espionage activities, et cetera.
- But while you are monitoring them,
- you are coming with mother-lodes
- of information that has to do...
- it's like, "Huh?" -- you know?
- And another interesting thing
- that I have to mention here is:
- -- and nobody has ever
- mentioned this in public --
- Now, in the FBI, every single country
- -- every single country except four --
- were wiretapped, were monitored
- under FISA.
- And by this I mean
- all their diplomatic arms.
- Let's say, if it's a German embassy
- and a German military attaché
- in Washington, DC -- under FISA
- Four countries... four countries...
- Except four countries:
- Four countries were exempt.
- They could not be monitored
- by the FBI under FISA,
- -- that could be used in espionage
- and even criminal activities.
- You want to have a guess?
- (James): Can I take a stab at it? I'm...
- (Sibel): What countries?
- (Sibel): A lot of people would say Israel.
- It's not.
- (James): It's not Israel?
- (Sibel): OK, I'll help you...
- (James): I guess Turkey is on that list...
- (Sibel): Yep. It was, until I went...
- I started the official Turkish division
- (Sibel): for the FBI.
- (James): Right
- Prior to my employment with the FBI,
- the Pentagon sent this
- Lieutenant Colonel woman.
- She was a Turkish-American woman;
- NATO, Pentagon liaison.
- They would send her every two or
- three months
- to come and randomly translate
- certain things for the FBI.
- Because certain things were
- being recorded;
- but FBI couldn't have an official division,
- meaning they could never investigate
- criminally or for espionage.
- Turkey is one. All right: three more.
- Oh no. [laughs] Well...
- If it's going to play into what's happening
- in Central Asia and the Caucasus,
- it would have to be, perhaps, Pakistan?
- No. We had a pretty good division
- on Pakistan.
- Because, you see, this included...
- that's why I gave the example
- of Germany:
- because this included
- European countries, too.
- It was Turkey, Azerbaijan,
- United Kingdom...
- -- you would think, "English! What?" --
- United Kingdom is exempt,
- and for a reason. And
- that reason... well...
- and the fourth one is Belgium.
- Nobody in the FBI is allowed...
- because there are too much
- sensitive stuff going on with Belgium
- So these are the four.
- No, Israel, we had a huge division;
- and FBI was extremely frustrated.
- They hated how investigations
- were being stopped, et cetera.
- But they... we had a huge division
- there on Israel. [chuckles]
- And we had so much crap on Israel;
- they had huge amounts.
- Unfortunately, it could never be used,
- but they never... they still collect.
- But no, not Israel. But it would be
- Turkey, Azerbaijan, and UK, and
- Belgium. And again, as I said...
- -- the artery, at the beginning
- of this interview --
- it was United States, Belgium,
- England, Turkey.
- And... so, anyhow: Fethullah Gülen
- still is here,
- he's still in Turkey [sic], he has this
- huge castle built in Pennsylvania.
- We have... he has opened...
- (James): Sorry... I just...
- (Sibel): Yes.
- Before we go on with that, I just want to
- spell that out for the audience out there
- in case they don't know. Of course, one
- of the implications of this:
- NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, in
- Belgium. This is the head of NATO itself.
- So again, just to spell that out for people
- in case they didn't quite get
- the implication of that.
- Correct, absolutely.
- And during the Susurluk
- investigation, the...
- some of the documents that
- became public:
- a special office in Pentagon
- that was responsible for all this Gladio
- -- false flag, false terrorism --
- operations.
- It... the exact division
- was spelled out in documents.
- I mean, they had a major office.
- There is a major division
- that oversees that.
- And as I said, they work with
- these thugs and criminals.
- And the fact that
- -- as people write
- and talk about it --
- it was not dismantled and just left there
- after the end of the Soviet Union,
- after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- It went... it went forward
- with the operations,
- and in 1997 it went to Plan B.
- And this is why, again,
- [unintelligible] it's very interesting,
- because during this three,
- four years' period,
- there were dozens and dozens
- of joint operations
- with individuals like Ayman Zawahiri
- and...
- -- meaning that, it was never called
- "al-Qaeda;"
- It was "mujahideen, headed by..."
- And again, it's very interesting.
- When, lately, these leaders [of] these
- regimes we topple in these countries,
- they are... they end up dead
- so they cannot talk,
- or they end up sick with heart attacks.
- They can't talk, really, have trials.
- We saw it with Gaddafi.
- But again, one of the things
- that took place
- -- and again, Turkey behind the scenes
- played a major role together with US --
- was we in the United States
- asked Mubarak
- to release some of the top
- fundamental[ist]
- anti-regime figures from prison
- in the 1990s.
- And they came to Turkey,
- and they became part of this movement.
- When I say "anti-regime," it would be...
- Mubarak had to release
- some fundamental[ist]s who were
- anti-Mubarak!
- And... because the higher powers told him
- that, "We need these people in Turkey,
- and we have tasks for them."
- You take a look and see
- how many times he's been released,
- people like Zawahiri.
- Anyhow, we had these,
- and then, 9/11 happened.
- And this is when...
- I kept saying -- these organizations,
- OK? -- these things come together.
- And people... people say, "Whoa! what
- does it have to do with Turkey?"
- "Turkey's an ally!"
- Well, it would be crazy for someone
- to come out and say,
- "You know, you look at NATO..." [chuckles]
- or, "A certain arm of NATO..."
- Nobody would listen to this person.
- Think about it!
- A President -- ex-President of Italy --
- can come out publicly
- and talk about Gladio,
- and talk about some of the operatives,
- and talk about 9/11,
- and it's not even mentioned!
- How could two or three agents from the
- FBI...
- you get a couple of people in Pentagon...
- if they were to come out...
- and they were to come out
- and tell people...
- Let's say they are fearless, OK?
- They say, "Execute me, put me in jail."
- "I'm gonna tell the Americans
- exactly what I know."
- People would say, "He's crazy,"
- or, "She's crazy."
- They...
- -- Americans, a lot of people in Europe --
- they would not be willing to
- digest information -- to them -- that big.
- But the answer, yet, is so simple.
- Well, let's spell this out for people.
- Because you've talked about the
- Plan A of Gladio
- -- which is more, I think, what people
- understand Gladio to have been,
- talking about the ultranationalists --
- But moving into the Plan B era
- with the Islamization of the Central Asia
- and Caucasus,
- and working with people like Zawahiri:
- I guess the question a lot of
- people have is,
- how is this Gladio?
- Gladio was the stay-behind
- to counter the Soviet threat.
- So the idea is, well,
- after the Soviet threat is gone,
- what is Gladio's purpose?
- So I guess the question is,
- well, what is Plan B?
- What is it actually attempting to achieve?
- I think we've gotten
- some indication with that: for example,
- the Azerbaijani example,
- trying to move the Azerbaijani
- government into the US stable.
- But are there other examples?
- How is this actually being used?
- And what is its purpose at this point?
- OK, First, the fact that
- even though the term
- "stay behind" applies,
- they are ex--... they're very proactive.
- This is... think about this:
- A lot of people say, "OK, Cold War, then,
- was over, in 1991."
- Cold War was never over.
- It is not... it still continues.
- Thewar over resources continues.
- Not only that it did not end in 1990,
- it actually accelerated, OK?
- A lot of emphasis, attention today
- is on Middle East.
- Why? Middle East oil, right?
- In less than a couple of decades,
- the next Middle East we're
- gonna be seeing
- is going to be Central Asia.
- Much worse, much bloodier,
- with much worse ethnic divisions.
- Divisiveness and conflicts there.
- Because the amount of
- natural resources they have
- -- whether it's in oil, or gas,
- or minerals --
- it's... because it's towards the end of it,
- what we see in Middle East.
- they are almost done with...
- OK: you still have the unexplored regions
- within the Caspian Basin;
- you still have Iran, yeah.
- But the ultimate prize
- has always been
- Central Asia and Caucasus.
- If you go back to Brzezinski,
- if you go back to the old doctrine,
- you would see that
- it's that Eurasia,
- It's not... Middle East is the past.
- It's over: it's the finished chapter.
- A lot... they like what they are seeing:
- people -- we -- are stuck by watching,
- observing Middle East,
- and nobody's paying attention
- what is happening,
- how the countries are being set up
- in Central Asia and Caucasus.
- How we are already setting up
- the religious factions there.
- How we are setting up
- the ethnic conflicts there.
- You need to do this pre-preparation
- for the coming assault
- that's going for it.
- It doesn't happen overnight, you know?
- People are looking... Mubarak!
- I remember, 1980, 1981:
- I remember how it was discussed
- in Iran, in Turkey,
- of who killed Anwar Sadat?
- It was... the biggest thing was,
- it was Mubarak.
- Who wanted Mubarak to implement that?
- It was alwaysthe United States.
- So... but today it's like,
- "Oh yeah, this big bad guy Mubarak,
- he's in jail."
- It's... they don't know the context.
- They are currently -- people --
- missing the context
- of what we are doing.
- 9/11 happens, OK? 9/11 happens.
- We say -- our government says --
- "Our partners did it!"
- "While we were working with them,
- carrying [out] joint operations"
- "all over the place in Central Asia
- and Caucasus,"
- "they turned around and
- they did this to us!"
- It's... as I said: I said it
- seems complicated,
- it's too big to digest;
- yet it's extremely simple.
- And simplicity doesn't matter:
- p eople don't want to digest,
- no matter how simple it is.
- Our partners...
- -- look, we are partnering up in Syria:
- it's nothing --
- I'm talking about real partnership.
- Operations carried out over resources,
- trying to get these ex-Soviet blocs
- on our side
- so they won't be on Russia's side.
- So they won't be on China's side.
- Because, hey: "Communist China."
- "Muslims should side with America,
- because Islam works in our benefit."
- "What do we have to get these people
- through our proxy, Turkish NATO?"
- Islam!
- As long as they become fanatics,
- as long as they're attached to Islam,
- they're gonna say pooh-pooh
- to China and Russia.
- They're gonna side with us.
- What happened in Afghanistan?
- It was Islam. It's always been.
- It's been the oldest trick for the UK.
- It's been the number one big game:
- it's played in the name of religion.
- You use Islam to get what you want!
- And I'm just amazed. I'm opening
- newspapers...
- I don't actually open newspapers
- anymore.
- I open them on my computer.
- But I still do this motion.
- I don't buy newspapers;
- but, count: how many times
- do you see the word "Islam"
- and "Islamists?"
- "Islamists carried out this;
- Islamists did that;"
- "Islamists... and this Islamist faction;
- Islamists..."
- If you look at some of the conflicts
- with India and Pakistan, you don't see,
- "Buddhists! Buddhists did that!" "The
- Buddhists..." You don't see,
- "Buddhists did this." It's a particular
- group; but it's Islamists!
- (James): Absolutely right.
- (Sibel): So... but these Islamists...
- I mean, we see the absolute
- Islamization of the area
- and the 350 madrasas
- that Gülen has put into that region.
- And with the English teachers being
- sent over with diplomatic passports,
- it all lines up exactly as you're saying.
- But there's another huge piece
- of this puzzle
- that we haven't even touched on yet,
- and that's the drug-running:
- which, of course, is absolutely central
- to a lot of the geostrategy of the region.
- And of course, Turkey:
- absolutely important
- in terms of smuggling
- for the heroin routes.
- A lot of money rests on this.
- This is such a huge backbone of the
- international economy. And of course,
- that's one of the things that we're not
- allowed to ever talk about
- or broach in the mainstream media,
- because it is so central
- to what's happening there.
- So how does this fit in? Who are the
- main players, and where do they fit
- into this network that's been created?
- Sure. First of all,
- I have to first say: I know
- the information I know
- both through the work I did during a
- short period of time with the FBI
- that involved the top Turkish operators
- and movements of heroin
- -- and this is before 9/11 until
- a few months after 9/11 --
- but also my own research;
- but also my own contacts and
- sources in Turkey.
- But as far as my work during my work
- with the FBI goes
- and the information that by default we
- gathered, because some of these
- Turkish actors under investigations who
- were being monitored,
- they were the major players with
- bringing in heroin.
- And it was, again, done
- -- believe me or not --
- it's like, "OK, Turkey, Eastern Europe:"
- Nobody ever mentions the role
- and the strategic importance of Brussels!
- Brussels is extremely important in the
- transportation and in the distribution of
- heroin, but nobody would
- want to think about... [scoffs] "Brussels?
- European country? Belgium?"
- "It just doesn't fit."
- "We need to find countries
- like Pakistan and Turkey:"
- "Yeah, Midnight Express!
- That makes sense."
- " But UK? Belgium? That's not...
- that doesn't."
- But one false information that
- is being put [out]
- -- that I have to correct here --
- by people is: "Taliban ended the opium
- production, the poppies production,"
- and that after 9/11 it started.
- Of course, after 9/11 it went from
- $5 billion worth,
- or $1 billion dollar worth, to $50,
- $100 billion:
- increased tremendously.
- But they never ceased producing.
- And I know this first-hand;
- and I know this through my work
- with the FBI.
- It is a known thing: they still did.
- It was nothing like to this extent,
- to the scale that it is today,
- the production of the opium and heroin;
- but it was there.
- However, until 9/11,
- the majority of that operation
- -- and again, it was nothing compared
- to what it is today --
- the biggest share was actually
- carried out...
- -- both operations, taking it
- to the labs --
- by the Russians.
- If I were to throw a number,
- I would say it was... 70 to 80 percent
- was under Russian control in 1990s.
- It was Russian mafiya,
- certain Russian military elements,
- certain Russian intelligence elements.
- they created, they had a lot of network
- put in place,
- even after they got out of Afghanistan,
- and they continued that.
- And something around...
- -- again, don't quote me on the number --
- if I were to throw a number, I would say
- somewhere around 20 percent
- was being smuggled through porous
- borders region into Iran,
- from Iran into Turkey,
- some of them through Turkey...
- Kurdish couriers into Iraq,
- from Iraq to Turkey
- where the lab processed it.
- But, it was 20 to 80.
- Now, that turned completely opposite
- after 9/11.
- We, the West, via Turkey...
- -- Albanians and Turks --
- the West became...
- -- and this is the number one actor at
- the top, being NATO --
- the biggest shareholder,
- the top people in this operation
- that now you are seeing
- $50, $100, $500 billion: pick your number.
- And the Russians' share decreased,
- and decreased,
- and decreased, and decreased
- -- to almost nothing.
- I mean, they still have some,
- there are some Russian...
- but it's nothing.
- And that's why, again, this was...
- this is fact,
- this is solid data pouring in:
- who were the actors, how much of the
- share it was, and how much it is now.
- This is why I wonder sometimes why
- Russia screams and says,
- "All this heroin comes into Russia, and
- we want to be part of this"
- "eradication program that has increased
- the poppy production into..."
- whatever, $50 billion. I guess
- we call it, now, "eradication,"
- increasing the production.
- I'm like, "maybe it's a code language!"
- Russia says, "We want in on this!"
- And maybe to pacify Russia we say,
- "Yeah, we are eradicating, and the
- production is going up."
- "Come, we'll give you another 10 percent."
- "Help us 'eradicate.'"
- In quotes: "eradicate" poppies.
- So, that's for the heroin portion of it.
- And while we are at this,
- on this topic of Russia...
- -- and I want to mention this,
- and I find this mind-boggling --
- the... our operations
- -- Gladio operations; US, NATO via
- these Turkish paramilitary groups...
- and later via the Islamist groups --
- a lot of it had to do with
- what we were doing with the Chechens
- and the Chechen movement
- in the Chechnya
- carrying out terror attacks in Russia.
- A lot of it within Russian borders.
- Now... then we're going
- to get into Ergenekon.
- And I don't know how much
- time we have;
- it may be part two for this interview.
- Because a lot of these former
- ultranationalist fascist militaries
- who used to fight Russia
- or counter the Soviets on Gladio's side,
- after they were, basically, thrown out,
- started being assassinated.
- They were thrown out by NATO
- and they lost their protection;
- and these are the military fascists
- in Turkey. The ones who survived,
- they had to get themselves to Russia.
- And they defected to Russia.
- They went and they sought political
- asylums. You will see
- several Turkish generals who've been
- in Russia in the past three or four years.
- With all the trials against the
- Turkish generals,
- Ergenekon in Turkey,
- and with some of these people
- being assassinated mysteriously,
- including some of the
- paramilitary groups.
- In order to defect, in order to get the
- asylum; in order to settle
- and get the Russian
- government's protection,
- of course, they have to give
- -- I'm sure, I'm certain --
- a lot of information
- to the Russian government and to FSB.
- And even in late 1990s, as they were
- -- the Russian forces there --
- as they were capturing and killing
- some of these terrorists
- -- their terrorists --
- they were confiscating passports
- -- diplomatic passports, Turkish
- passports --
- from so-called "Chechens"
- who'd either received training in Turkey
- or actually these were part of the
- Turkish military/paramilitary groups
- fighting and leading Chechens inside
- Russia to carry out terror attacks.
- And the mystery remains that:
- why Russia has remained so quiet
- and silent on this?
- And what is the game there? Or is this
- actually a game-changer? I don't know.
- (James): And that's an extremely
- important point in all of this
- (Sibel): I don't know the answer.
- Because this goes right into this
- geostrategy surrounding the greater
- conflict that's going on right now.
- This, of course, touches on China
- -- with [East] Turkestan, or Xinjiang --
- and Russia and its share in the heroin
- trade. This goes right to the heart
- of that greater geopolitical conflict we
- see shaping up. So I certainly hope
- that we can get a second part of this
- interview, because this is absolutely,
- truly fascinating stuff; but we've already
- been talking for an hour, and we've laid
- a lot of information out on the table
- already today. So perhaps we can have
- a second part to this interview; and if
- there are listeners out there
- with some questions or comments
- that they want to make,
- they can send that to me, and
- I will bring that
- into our second conversation on this.
- But for now, thinking about
- what we've talked about so far:
- -- we've covered, again, a lot of ground --
- Is there anything you'd like to say
- to sort of wrap up
- what we've talked about today,
- or the situation...
- Yes
- ...that some of these actors are in today,
- like Fethullah Gülen?
- Yeah. One last thing I have...
- and I'm gonna get into those,
- -- because they get to be
- really deep topics --
- on our next... during our next interviews.
- But I have been asked by some sources,
- some people, to go to Russia to meet
- with some of these people
- And I know that there are people
- -- both in Turkey, but also in Russia --
- who have some very important documents,
- and they have some very
- important information
- that they have tried to get to me
- in person, but they can't.
- Now I know, hopefully,
- that some of this will get to them,
- and it would be good for them to know
- that there are people,
- there are journalists outside
- the United States,
- outside me that they can trust
- and they can contact.
- They can be interviewed.
- If they don't wish to be interviewed,
- they can send information.
- There are ways. You can do it through
- encrypted way
- -- I don't know how much you can
- trust that --
- but... or documents can come
- through "6-7-7-7-8-10 STOP"
- But I want them to know that it is good
- to have other sources
- outside the US who are
- tackling these issues;
- and they can reach out
- to journalists like James Corbett
- -- and knowing that this information
- would get out.
- And again, those people in Russia:
- I hope some of you are watching this,
- and I hope some of you will help us
- to peel off more layers of this operation.
- Absolutely. Well, again, we've talked
- about so much already today,
- and there's a lot of information
- for people to digest.
- So I will include in the links,
- in the show notes for this interview,
- some of the links to some of the articles
- that you've written on Boiling Frogs Post
- surrounding some of these topics, and
- some of the other articles that other
- people have written, so that people can
- start delving into this in a little bit more,
- deeper detail. And I will be putting out
- a podcast episode that will encapsulate
- at least some of what we've
- talked about today
- -- and with Tom Secker last week --
- this Friday. So people can look
- forward to that.
- On that note, I think we will wrap this
- conversation up here.
- Again, we have been talking for
- quite a while already.
- So Sibel, thank you so much
- for laying this out for us today,
- and I'm very much looking forward
- to our next conversation.
- And thank you for tackling this,
- this topic, which is extremely important.
- In my prelude, I called it the "master key"
- to understanding a lot of things,
- including 9/11.
- and I'm glad you're holding that key.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
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