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Dark To Light: Nate Cain Tells His Story For The First Time - UncoverDC

This is an episode for the ages. For the first hour, we are honored to be joined by a brave patriot in Nate Cain, who is an FBI whistleblower that provided information about the uncoverdc.com/2019/11/22/dar…

Clinton Foundation, Uranium One and more to Michael Horowitz and the HPSCI.

Tracy Beanz has also worked at a high level on several grassroots political campaigns, including Ron Paul’s Presidential run in 2012, and most recently, the campaign for Donald Trump for President in

2016. Tracy is a frequent guest on radio and television and is a sought after speaker for rallies and conferences. She hosts the Dark to Light podcast Monday, Wednesday and Friday, found on all major podcasting platforms. In 2019, she moderated a panel on alleged Russian

interference for a national conference. In addition to being the founder and editor-in-chief at UncoverDC.com, she also sits on the board of the #WalkAway Foundation.

In 2021, the #WalkAway Foundation group's founder, Brandon Straka, a hairstylist from New York City,

was charged with and convicted of participating in the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

Soon after its founding in 2018, WalkAway received a $10,000 donation from Alex Jones and InfoWars.

The records described how Straka provided "significant information" about pro-Trump

"Stop The Steal" organizers including Ali Alexander, Amy and Kylie Kremer, and Cindy Chafian. Prosecutors said Straka provided investigators with a voicemail he had received from another Jan. 6 defendant, and that evidence was "valuable in the government's prosecution." In

another instance, the records say Straka helped identify yet another potential suspect who "was not previously identified by the FBI."

"Stop the Steal" was created by Republican political operative Roger Stone in 2016, in anticipation of potential future election losses that

could be portrayed as stolen by alleged fraud.

As a student at George Washington University in 1972, Stone invited Jeb Stuart Magruder to speak at a Young Republicans Club meeting, then asked Magruder for a job with Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President.

Although Young Republican organizations existed as early as 1856 with the founding of the New York Young Republican Club, the Young Republican National Federation was formed by George H. Olmsted at the urging of Herbert Hoover.

Shortly after his separation from active duty in

1953, Olmsted bought control of United Services Life Insurance Company, which wrote life insurance for officers of the military services. In 1955, George H. Olmsted purchased control of International Bank of Washington.

In December 1972, International Bank (IB) bought a two

thirds stake in the Mercantile Bank & Trust Company which had a bank in Freeport, Bahamas, the Mercantile Bank of Freeport, and another bank in the Cayman Islands of a similar name. These banks had been established by I. Gordon Mosvold of the Mosvold Shipping Group. In September

1976, when Mosvold resigned from Mercantile's board, he had $4.55 million in loans with Mercantile. Henry N. Conway, Jr., senior vice president of IB, stated that several loans on greatly overvalued property in Bimini and Freeport had been made by Mercatile but no terms had been

established. According to an audit by Price Waterhouse, Mercantile had transferred about $2 million in assets and liabilities just prior to IB's takeover of its $26 million to Castle Bank & Trust of Nassau, Bahamas which Paul Helliwell founded through a Panamanian shell company

through his Miami based law firm in 1962.

Olmsted was ordered to sell off Financial General by 1978. It eventually went to a group of Arab investors who were actually nominees for the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. This group changed FGB's name to First American

Bankshares, which would remain a secret subsidiary of BCCI until the latter's shutdown in 1991.

In addition to violations of lending laws, BCCI was also accused of opening accounts or laundering money for figures such as Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, Hussain Muhammad Ershad,

and Samuel Doe, and for criminal organizations such as the Medellin Cartel and Abu Nidal.

The Abu Nidal link man for the BCCI accounts was a man based in Iraq named Samir Najmeddin or Najmedeen. Throughout the 1980s, BCCI had set up millions of dollars worth of letters of

credit for Najmeddin, largely for arms deals with Iraq. Qassem later swore in an affidavit that Najmeddin was often accompanied by an American, whom Qassem subsequently identified as the financier Marc Rich.

In 1992, United States Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown became the

co-authors of a report on BCCI, which was delivered to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The BCCI scandal was one of a number of disasters that influenced thinking leading to the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA) of 1998. The report found that Clifford and his

legal/business partner Robert A. Altman had been closely involved with the bank from 1978, when they were introduced to BCCI by Bert Lance, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget, to 1991

Bert Lance was involved in deals with notable BCCI luminaries

Agha Hasan Abedi, Mochtar Riady, and Ghaith Pharaon and with BCCI's largest borrower, Ponnapula Sanjeeva Prasad, and joined with Arkansas-based power investor Jackson Stephens in facilitating BCCI's takeover of Financial General Bankshares.

Safari Club members, the BCCI, and the

United States cooperated in arming and funding the Afghan mujahideen to oppose the Soviet Union.

The creation of the Safari Club coincided with the consolidation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The BCCI served to launder money, particularly for

Saudi Arabia and the United States—whose CIA director in 1976, George H. W. Bush, had a personal account.

The United States was not a formal member of the group, but was involved to some degree, particularly through its Central Intelligence Agency. Henry Kissinger is credited

with the American strategy of supporting the Safari Club implicitly — allowing it to fulfill American objectives by proxy without risking direct responsibility.

The 1001: A Nature Trust, the contributors to which are sometimes referred to as the 1001 Club, is a financial

endowment that helps fund the World Wide Fund for Nature. It was established in 1970 by the then-head of the WWF, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, with help from Anton Rupert, a South African entrepreneur.

Most known members of the 1001 Club were "people of irreproachable

integrity, although members of the 1001 Club include a small number of disreputable individuals such as President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire and Agha Hasan Abedi, former president of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, responsible for the biggest fraud in world

financial history."

Prince Bernhard helped found the World Wildlife Fund (WWF, later renamed World Wide Fund for Nature), becoming its first president in 1961. In 1970, along with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and other associates, he established the WWF's financial

endowment "The 1001: A Nature Trust". In 1954, he was a co-founder of the international Bilderberg Group, which has met annually since then to discuss corporate globalisation and other issues concerning Europe and North America. He was forced to step down from both groups after

being involved in the Lockheed Bribery Scandal in 1976.

Paul Lional Edward Helliwell (1915 – 24 December 1976) was an American lawyer, banker, OSS official, and CIA officer. While serving in this capacity he became director of Sea Supply, Inc. and president of

Castle Bank & Trust. Helliwell was instrumental in setting up Civil Air Transport and Castle Bank & Trust, both of which were CIA proprietary companies.

Helliwell moved on to head the Secret Intelligence branch in the OSS China command. While in China, Helliwell commanded,

among others, future CIA officer E. Howard Hunt.

Helliwell continued to work as a lawyer in Miami and served as legal counsel to a Panamanian holding company that controlled a Bahamian gambling casino connected with Meyer Lansky.

In 1959, Civil Air Transport was reorganized as

Air America, which supported covert operations throughout Indochina during the Vietnam War (also known as the "Second Indochina War"), particularly in Laos.

After it pulled out of South Vietnam in 1975, there was an attempt to keep an Air America presence in Thailand. After

this fell through, Air America was dissolved on June 30, 1976. Air Asia, the company that held all of the Air America assets, was later purchased by Evergreen International Airlines.

The airline was established by Delford Smith (founder and owner) and began operations in 1960 as

Evergreen Helicopters. It acquired the operating certificate of alleged Central Intelligence Agency front company Johnson Flying Service and merged it with Intermountain Airlines (a known CIA front) from Pacific Corporation (also a CIA front) in 1975 to form

Evergreen International Airlines.

Former US Army pilot George A. Doole Jr. created Pacific Corporation, incorporated in Delaware in 1950.

As a colonel in the Air Force Reserve, Doole was called up for the Korean War in 1951, serving in the Middle East as chief of estimates for

Air Force intelligence, serving under Charles P. Cabell, who Doole had known in the Air Corps in the 1930s.
In mid-1953 Doole transferred to the CIA, recruited by Charles Cabell to oversee Civil Air Transport.

On April 23, 1953, while still an active air force officer,

Charles Cabell was appointed Deputy Director of the CIA under Allen Dulles. In 1956, along with the CIA's Richard Bissell, he flew to Bonn, to brief the West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, on the ultra-secret Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Cabell personally negotiated with

Chancellor Adenauer for permission to station the U-2 in Wiesbaden and from there to fly over the Soviet Union illegally. It was the U-2 program that allowed CIA chief Allen Dulles to sabotage the peace summit between Khrushchev and Eisenhower.

On 27 March 1952, a package

addressed to Chancellor Adenauer exploded in the Munich Police Headquarters, killing one Bavarian police officer, Karl Reichert. Investigations revealed the mastermind behind the assassination attempt was Menachem Begin, who would later become the Prime Minister of Israel. Begin

had been the commander of Irgun and at that time headed Herut and was a member of the Knesset. His goal was to put pressure on the German government and prevent the signing of the Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany, which he vehemently opposed.

In 1978 Begin,

aided by Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, came to Washington and Camp David to negotiate the Camp David Accords, leading to the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty with Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat. Before going to Washington to meet President Carter,

Begin visited Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson for his advice.

The Safari Club helped to mediate talks between Egypt and Israel, leading to Sadat's visit to Jerusalem in 1977, the Camp David Accords in 1978, and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979. This process began with a

Moroccan member of the Safari Club personally transporting a letter from Yitzhak Rabin to Sadat (and reportedly warning him of a Libyan assassination plot); this message was followed by secret talks in Morocco—supervised by King Hassan II—with Israeli general Moshe Dayan, Mossad

director Yitzhak Hofi and Egyptian intelligence agent Hassan Tuhami. Immediately after CIA Director Stansfield Turner told an Israeli delegation that the CIA would no longer provide special favors to Israel, Ted Shackley (who remained active in the Safari Club) contacted Mossad

and presented himself as their CIA contact.

Ted Shackley was forced out of the CIA by Stanfield Turner who disapproved of Shackley's involvement with former agent Edwin P. Wilson, who was under federal investigation for smuggling explosives to Libya.

In 1971, with the CIA's

knowledge and approval, Edwin P. Wilson moved to the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he worked full-time for a secret intelligence unit called the Naval Field Operations Support Group (NFOSG) or Task Force 157.

Task Force 157's top secret communications channel was used to

set up Henry A. Kissinger's secret 1971 visit to China.

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas H. Moorer confirmed yesterday that he had recommended that Task Force 157 provide the communications channel for Kissinger.

A partner with Edwin P. Wilson was another former CIA officer, Thomas G. Clines. Wilson also maintained that Major General Richard V. Secord was also a "silent partner" in this company, though Secord denied this allegation. Nonetheless, Wilson, Clines and Theodore Shackley

(another former CIA officer) were all working together with Secord in the summer of 1984 when Oliver North approached Secord to ask for help in buying arms for the Contras, a group of armed rebels then trying to overturn the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

To stay

active during retirement, Secord went into business with Albert Hakim, becoming President of Stanford Technology Trading Group Intl., also known as "The Enterprise", a company involved with arms sales to Iran during the Reagan presidency.

Between 1966–1970, during the

Vietnam War, Thomas Clines worked as Ted Shackley's deputy in charge of the CIA's secret war in Laos.

In 1972, Clines was put in charge of CIA operations in Chile, and in 1973, he helped Augusto Pinochet overthrow Chile's democratically elected president, Salvador Allende.

The

training program was the result of the "Chile Project" organized in the 1950s by the U.S. State Department, through the Point Four program, the first US program for global economic development. It was funded by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation aimed at

influencing Chilean economic thinking.

Point Four was the first global U.S. foreign aid program, yet it drew some inspiration from the nation's wartime Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA), which extended technical assistance to Latin American countries.

Nelson Rockefeller, the administrator of the OCIAA, strongly supported the establishment of Point Four in congressional hearings.

According to the US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, it was the initiative of the then legal counsel to the president Clark Clifford.

From 1982 to

1991, Clark Clifford served as chairman of First American Bankshares, which grew to become the largest bank in Washington, D.C. The bank was nominally owned by a group of Arab investors, but in order to assuage fears from the Federal Reserve, Clifford had assembled a board of

distinguished American citizens to exercise day-to-day control. In 1991, Robert M. Morgenthau, the District Attorney for New York County (coterminous with the borough of Manhattan), disclosed that his office had found evidence that BCCI secretly owned First American.