 Hi everyone, this is Chichou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today is February 4th 2024 and we're doing another reading of one of our Eclipse comics trading card sets that we've bought. For today's stream we're going to begin the reading for the Iran Contra scandal trading cards. Incredibly, incredibly important event to happen in the United States of America. And these cards came out in 1988. Okay, and I followed the stuff when it was happening when I was in high school. It was televised, the whole hearings and everything was televised and because I was born in Iran and we had a lot of Iranian family friends and what not. And we knew, a lot of people knew from Iran, they knew the history and what was going on with the Iran hostage crisis and what not. We were privy or I was privy to a lot of info that many other people were not and the corporate media was spewing a lot of BS. So it was a very enlightening moment for me. I found out about the corporate propaganda very early on, especially with the Iran Contra scandal. Okay, and these are the other cards that we've gotten over the last couple of years now and we've already done the reading for the drug war trading cards. Amazing reading, amazing reading and this is the first set of trading cards that I bought from Eclipse Comics and these are all Eclipse Comics trading cards and we actually found out about these cards from a comic book reading we're doing from Eclipse Comics. It was a war comic book that we did. Okay, so as soon as we found out about that, I ended up starting to track down some of these cards and we were able to buy some of these cards in bulk and we've given some of these cards away during our yearly auctions and the playlist for these cards is available on Sensor Tube and the reading for each card and the full reading is available on all of our video sharing platforms. As is the reading that we did for the Kudeta, the assassination of John FK trading cards and this was incredibly informative as well. Brilliant artwork, brilliant artwork. There were some stuff here that I knew but a lot that I didn't and wow, wow, wow, did that go deep? Did that go deep? And for these cards, there's two sets available. This was the first set that came out or one set available with an update, right? This was the first set that came out, okay? And then Oliver Stone put out the JFK movie and after the JFK movie was put out, there was some information that was released that these cards didn't have so they went, Eclipse Comics did an updated version of this card where they made some edits and put some additional information in here and we have that set as well and we did a reading of the cards, the comparison between where they did the updates and stuff so it was pretty cool looking at the information that was being released and if these guys were putting out a card set now there would be a lot more info that could be added in there and hopefully one day the CIA files will be released because by now everyone should be aware that the CIA basically had a huge part to play if not orchestrating the assassination of JFK with the mob and some other actors, right? And we've done the reading for card number 26 for Rotten to the Core Trading Cards because it's the rookie card, Donald Trump's rookie card, right? And we've been buying this set investment-wise for me anyway, a few copies of the set and we've given away a couple of sets of this without the Donald Trump rookie card in our last yearly auction sort of Twitch appreciation celebration, people watching us on Twitch where they rack up points and we looked at the two rookie card number two and three for Donald Trump and this one as well and at some point we're going to read all of these cards okay but today Iran Contra and we're going to begin the reading here there's 36 cards in this as is the norm for all of these cards I believe they all have 36 cards so let me put these guys here and we're gonna take a look at these things we're gonna have a reading through this right that's our little intro to this let me crack this open and this thing came out let's take a look at the box okay I get it focused if there's no glare so Iran Contra trading cards right that's Ali North incredible character featuring the secret team everybody that was involved right writer Paul Brancato artist Salim Yockep and that's the same artist that the drug war trading cards that we've already read additional research research Leonard Refas editor Kathleen Runwood Euronwood distributed by Eclipse Enterprises PO Box 01099 Forestville California 95436795 US 995 Canadian let's see what this says we've got to read the fine press let's see if we can focus on this there we go much of the information these cards was developed by the Christic Institute a non-profit public interest law firm which has filed a lawsuit against key figures in the Iran Contra scandal on behalf of journalists Tony Avergan and Martha Honey for more information on this lawsuit contact the Christic Institute 1324 North Capitol Street Northwest Washington DC 20002 I wonder if these guys are still around interesting interesting and there should be 36 cards here and there's no insert in this one I had another pack as well maybe for the next reading I'll try to grab the insert from the other pack and we'll have a read through that sort of gives a little bit of info and stuff on it okay and again there's 36 cards in this right but we're going to start with card number one and go through them and the art is very unique in this is very cartoonish and considering how important this event was and you know same artists as a drug war trading cards so it's it gives it a very unique feel it gives it a very unique feel let's do this let's do this and the odds are we're going to read the first nine cards in this set and because there's 36 cards we can break that up into four live streams the previous readings we did we did 12 readings per set for the previous two live streams but I think we'll break it down into nine for this one and see where we go from there at least for this this reading okay let's give this a go gang and this set came out in 1988 okay I'm not sure if the date was on there I don't remember but it came out in 1988 so card number one the Iran Contra hearings I remember in the previous stream we talked about who this person was supposed to be I think it was his lawyer all these lawyer the joint senate here house Iran Contra hearings card number one in the summer of 1987 select committees of the senate and the house of representatives held joint public hearings into the Iran Contra affair in what could fairly be called a damage control operation the committee's focus focused the committee's focused their investigation on whether president Reagan knew that funds generated by the sale of missiles to Iran had been diverted to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels at a time when congress had forbidden government support for them and the question of where the profits from these sales actually went the important question regarding the US waging a dirty and illegal war against Nicaragua the CIA's conclusion with collusion with known drug traffickers and the involvement of vice president George Bush and his staff were largely ignored scores of witnesses ranging from spies to cabinet officials gave rousing pro contra speeches while committee members lobbed softball questions and occasionally gave pro contra acolytes acolytes of their own the star of the hearings was Oliver North a charismatic marine lieutenant colon colonel who wore an expression like a wounded hound and spoke in a voice trembling with patriotism in spite of the inadequacies of the hearings the american public got a glimpse of a secret government a group made up of mostly the retired cia and military personnel who carried out foreign policy for the white house with no accountability to congress or the public it is this secret team secret team and is its connections to the white house that is the central focus of these cards iran contra scandal trading cards text copyright 1988 paul brent brent cattle art copyright 1988 salim yucca eclipse enterprises p.o box 1099 forestville california 95436 and this is uh what took place here just to gotta give you guys a lowdown with the iran contra affair was directly related to the iranian revolution in 1978 and the hostage taking that occurred okay very much so very much so let me put these guys here so we don't accidentally card number two card number two anastasio somaza anastasio somaza somaza former nicaraguan president anastasio somaza card number two although he fancied himself and gentlemanly lat latin from manhattan nicaraguan president anastasio somaza the bay the bail the bail was like his brother and father before him a brutal corrupt dictator by the mid 1970s the somoza family owned one fourth of nicaragua's farmland controlled most of its industries and had deposed uh deposited tens of millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts the somaza family had close ties to the u.s military industrial establishment whose support enabled them to maintain a well-equipped national guard most of whose officers somo sista's were trained and educated in the united states anastasio somaza himself was a west point graduate by 1978 over 100 000 people had died in nicaragua's civil war and evidence of the atrocities committed by somoza's henchmen had become so overwhelming that the cartel administration uh administration cut off military aid and began pressuring somoza to step down on july 17 1979 as san santa nista troops uh troops were surrounding managua somoza was flown to homestead air force base in florida taking with him his family and closest friends his most trusted generals and colonels and most of the money in nicaragua's national treasury a year later anastasio somoza was gunned down in his Mercedes Benz on a street in asocia paraguay where he had been living in exa his private army with the cia's help lives on card number three enrique vermondez enrique vermondez vermondez contra commander enrique vermondez card number three followed in the coragum revolution colonel enrique vermondez who has been anesthesia somoza's military attache in washington dc relocated to guaramala via miami where he joined forces with ricardo el chino louis known as somoza's hatchet man louis was a brutal torture who was later implicated in the murder of al salvador's archbishop romero together vermondez and louis formed the september 15th legion the nucleus around which other exiled nicaraguan national guardsmen began to collect sandoval al or con godfather of the guatemalan and salvador and death squads provided safe houses for vermondez and his men and sent many of them with louis to argentina for training when the reagan administration came to power in early 1981 vermondez and the legion moved to tecu tegu segalpa tegu segalpa andures which was fast becoming the central contra center of contra activities with the help of argentina argent argentine and israeli military advisors the contra set up camps along the border and began staging terrorist strikes into nicaragua the cia convinced the leaders of the desperate contra groups to organize a united front under one command through vermondez had though vermondez had already gained a reputation for corruption his washington connection secured his position as military commander of the nicaraguan democratic forces fdn which he has held held despite repeated attempts by other contra leaders to oust him so at the time he was still there enrique look at his face enrique vermondez card number four card number four adolfo adolfo calero calero adolfo calero cook oh what's this about adolfo calero contra leader adolfo calero a graduate of notre dam and syracuse syracuse universities and a cia informant since 1963 adolfo calero was manager of coca-cola's managua branch at the time of the nicaraguan revolution he remained in nicaragua and became a vocal critic of the sandinistas in 1982 the cia asked for calero's help again he joined the political uh directorate of the fdn c card number three becoming its leader and chief spokesman the fdn's freedom fighter image was suffering due to his samo samo sistas heritage and calero who had been part of the middle-class opposition to samozas in the 1970s restored that image calero controlled the fdn's bank accounts when congress cut off military aid to the contrast he began working with oliver north as the contrast chief fundraiser and he as the chief as the contrast chief fundraiser he often spoke to privilege private groups like nepl c card number 15 and wacl c card number seven and to representatives of foreign governments such as taiwan and chili he met with enrique bermudes and other contra leaders to assess their needs provided disinformation to north and oversaw the disbursement of money and equipment to the contrast when charges were made that calero was enriching himself and other contra leaders through uh sweet heart deals north took over the fdn's bank accounts thereafter caleros two hundred thousand dollars a year's salary was paid by richard c-cord and albert hakeem's operation the enterprise c-card number 1920 calero remains remains the political leader of fdn of the 1988 that is card number four coca cola coca cola coca cola coca cola now we know washington wall streets card number five william k c mr sunflower i believe william k c is that it is this the face on card is it the sunflower from card number one we see we see we see we see we see william k c card number five focus on this little chubby cheeks cia director no no it's not the it's not the sunflower guy cia director william k c card number five william k c the architect of the contra war was a shoe dealer in securities who by 1971 had risen through the ranks of wall street lawyers to become the chairman of the securities exchange commission k c's money in connections helped propel ronald reagan who campaign he managed in 1980 to the white house c card number 36 made director of the central central intelligence agency k c lost no time in implementing the reagan doctrine the rollback of communism in march 1981 president ronald reagan authorized 19 million dollars for covert cia activities against nicaragua for the next three years k c and his overseer of central central american operations uh duan duan dui uh cal rich ran the contra war k c approved uh cal ridges plans uh to mine nicaraguan harbors and to distribute in a sat distribute in an assassination manual the discovery of these covert actions led to the boland amendments by which congress cut off military aid to the contrast k c evaded congress's intent with operation elephant herd in which the pentagon provide the cia with 12 million dollars in surplus military equipment it was k c who suggested to oliver north c card number 13 that he turned to uh richard c chord and the enterprise for help in 1984 c card number 1920 william k c was stricken with a seizure the day before he was scheduled to testify before the senate intelligence committee he died of a brain tumor several months later without having revealed any secrets k c number six casper weinberger casper weinberger secretary secretary of defense casper weinberger casper weinberger a crony of regans regans from the ladders tenure as governor of california was formerly vp and director of bechtel corporation a large defense contractor headed headed at the time by george schultz when weinberger succeeded schultz as nixon's budget director in 1972 his attacks on public spending earned him the nickname cap the knife but as regan secretary of defense from 1981 to 1987 his inflated defense budget request which got through congress in spite of outrageous overcharges helped generate record deficits congress is currently investigating these and other so-called pentagon procurement scandals in february 1981 one weinberger told each branch of the military to maintain and continue to develop its own counter terrorist capabilities the army responded by creating the special fort special operations division which in turn generated c c spray a black secret aviation unit providing clandestine air support for the cia other co covered army operations were delta yellow fruit task force 160 and intelligence support activity the army's mini cia the division spent 400 million in his first three years despite his deep involvement in covert action weinberger escaped most of the controversy surrounding the iran contra scandal at the hair hearings he was admired admired for his opposition to the iranian arms sales now retired cap the knife has become cap night having had that honor bestowed on him by the queen of england plus why isn't a horse in a night's outfit knighted by the queen knighted by the queen card number seven s s and cia john single singlab singlab john singlab os s and cia what is that w wacl on singlab look at the big ears you must have had huge ears retired army major general john singlab retired us uh major general john kirk singlab was a key player in the privatization of the contra war though his uh chairmanship of the world anti-communist league wacl that's what it is world anti-communist league on a shirt uh and its us chapter the us council for world freedom us c w f he enlisted paramilitary groups foreign governments and american conservatives in the contra cause wacl fundraising events featuring speakers such as adolfo calero c card for help to provide the contrast with weapons money and training the wacl organizations membership included latin american dictators death squad leaders and neo fascists john singlabs life long military specialty has been unconventional warfare which he defines as low intensity operation such as sabotage sabotage terrorism assassination and guerrilla warfare and non military activities such as psychological warfare economic sabotage and disinformation his activities as a head of the studies and observations group c s o g in vietnam from 1966 to 1968 serves as a model for his central american operations s o g was a counter terrorist unit which with members chosen from all black branches of the military which ran missions into north vietnam laos and cambodia singlabs involvement in central america politics began in 1980 when he supplied the brutal guatemalan and salvadoran armed forces with counter terrorist training using argentine advisors as well as former special operations colleagues wow what a nice guy this this piece of crap was look at this guy john singlabs wow wow wow card number eight kill them all let god sort them out look at this delightful dude thomas posie thomas posie who's this guy nice looking guy kill them all let god sort them out lovely lovely card number eight mercenary soldier thomas posie in july of 1983 alabama grocer thomas v posie an x marine founded the civilian military assistance cma project in december posie had organized a group of retired military personnel and alabama national guardsmen for the purpose of sending paramilitary teams to train equip and participate in military field operations against the nicaraguan sandinistas the cma received surplus military equipment from the 20th special forces unit of the us army in alabama a group whose participation in cia covert actions goes back to the bay of pigs invasion of cuba in 1961 the cma also received use of surplus aircraft which were used to transport equipment and to stage terrorist raids against nicaragua nicaragua by may of 1984 posie had sent three training teams into ronduras when two cma recruits were shot down during a raid on a military school in northern nicaragua it became clear to the media that the training teams were actually in mercenary commando units posie also provided uh security services for john sing lobs world anti-communist league and us council for world freedom c card seven through sing lob he came to know all over north and at north request he sent his troops to the contrast contrast southern front headquartered at john hall's costa rica ranch c card number 12 because it is illegal to send mercenaries into other nations posie is currently under indict indictment indictment indictment for violation of the security act i wonder what happened to this guy look at this lovely dude and what was he he was a grocer posie alabama grocer alabama grocer l r god or twitch sat chat saying he's a ghost there's no data found on him he hasn't found yet card number nine the l a panka bomber the lapica bomber identity unknown card number nine identity unknown the lapica bomber on may 30th 1984 a man posing as a danish photojournalist and using the name per anchor hansen accompanied a group of journalists to a press conference being held by contra leader even pastora in a tiny rebel enclave in necaragua called lapenka pastora also known known as commandante zero from his days as a sandanistas war hero had called the press conference to denounce the cia's plan to join his rebel forces ardee the democratic revolutionary alliance and those of the fdn 46 of whose 46 of whose 48 leaders were uh samon samon sistas hansen also known as amak galil planted his camera case near where pastora was standing rigged by ringed by journalist remarking that his camera was malfunctioning he then left the building moments later an explosion ripped through the wooden shed killing eight and seriously wounding many others the reagan administration suggested that the assassination was a basque terrorist hired by the sandanistas pastora didn't think so he blamed the attack on the cia and the u.s national security council there's evidence that galil was hired by john calls cuban uh assistance rino corva and philipa vidal c card number 10 jack terrier a member of thomas posie's cma mercenary group c card eight quoted corova as saying that galil was a mosad israeli intelligence agent he also coded vidal as stating quote we put a bomb under him pastora pastora but it didn't work because of bad timing and quote the real name nationality and current whereabouts of hasan galil are unknown number mosad i wonder if it's a same type of operation as the dancing israelis right same type of look maybe also this this little part here i'll just give you a little tidbit about afghanistan afghanistan was uh when the u.s in 1990s and uh early 2000s was it was basically ruled by a war chief stand and stuff like this and this same type of assassination took place with one of the war chief stands that was against the talabat and all indications are that the cia also assassinated that person cia and mosad also assassinated that person in the same manner by hiding a bomb in a camera of a journalist okay and i think it was the northern alliance person or something i i used to know this 20 years ago but i forgot the name and gang i know i said we'll read nine but let's continue reading reading all 12 cards for this live stream card number 10 card number 10 rino corva and flippe vidal ocean hunter rino corva and flippe vidal cia assets cia assets card number 10 rino corva and flippe vidal rino corva and flippe vidal are members of brigade 2506 veterans of an earlier cia created contra army the 1961 bay of pigs invasion force as cia man john hall's uh lieutenants c card number 12 they oversaw the recruitment of uc la's a cia acronym for unilaterally controlled latino assets for the southern front thus providing a link between miami cuban exiles and the contras they had other duties as well according to dissident contra leader eden pastora corva and vidal robbed robbed our helicopter and promoted promoted desertion desertions among uh among our comrades in order to destroy us militarily because we didn't want to be cia soldiers they have been implicated in the lapenka bombing c card number nine when joe fernandez cia chief of station in costa rica admitted in secret testimony before the iran contra commitment that some uh some of our people had a problem with drugs but we had to protect them he was referring to corvo corva and vidal corva known as the poison dwarf is a business partner of medellin cartel association associates francisco paco chains and the gabberto noes c card number 11 vidal codename morgan is a hitman who has been assist arrested seven times on gun and drug trafficking charges most recently in 1986 corva and vidal oversaw the deliveries and shipments of medellin cartel cocaine on john hall's ranch using weapons deliveries as a cover the company which fronted for the drug and gun smuggling operations was called ocean hunter and was owned by paco chains wow web know that name that's the kitty cats running them chasing each other gary web card number 11 look at this look at this what an image what a beautiful piece of art man this would be amazing blown up and put on the wall the medellin cartel uncle sam snorted it up gary web gary web look into gary web the dark alliance if you don't know what that is look it up medellin cartel card number 11 pablo eskibar and john ocha ochoa the medellin cartel colombia's pablo eskibar and george orcha are the leaders of the medellin cartel which is responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine entering the us eskibar the us eskibar known as godfather is a former car chief car thief and gun for hire who started his own organization in 1977 and is now believed to be the girl's richest criminal he provides security a 2000 man police force for the cartel orcha middle son of the notorious orcha clan once bragged of personally smuggling 4 000 pounds of cocaine a week the tremendous profits generated from the sale of cocaine in excess of three million dollars a day enabled the cartel to buy influence or protection panama's general manual noriega panama's general manual oriega to take but one example received as much as 10 million dollars a month for allowing the cartel to use panama's airports and launcher is profits through panama's banking system noriega also received 200 000 a year from the cia the medellin cartel and the cia had a relationship of convenience the cia offered airstrips radar clearance and no customs inspections the cartel provided pilots airplanes and money according to the uh ramon million according to a ramon million radrigas a convicted medellin accountant the cartel gave 10 million dollars to the contrast at the request of cia cia agent felix radrigas as a goodwill jester c card number 30 ocean hunter the cartel uh front which dealt with john hall c card number 12 through rene corova and flipe vedal c card number 10 provided 200 000 dollars a month some of which went to contrast on the southern border very web card number card number 12 john hall cia contact indiana farmer john halls 1 800 acre coastal rican ranch near the necrogwan border was to be the launching pad for the cia controlled contra southern front hall an old cia hand coordinated the efforts of brigade 2506 members c card 10 and thomas posse's soldiers of fortune c card number eight to help the coastal rican based contrast the operation was financed by free freeze paid by the medellin cartel medellin cocaine cartel for the use of his airship c card number 11 plus 10 000 a month from the national security council but john hall had a problem eden pastora leader of a rd e largest of the southern contra groups refused to subordinate himself to the cia supported f d n contra contra organization would not work with rene corva and flipe vedal whom he considered to be terrorists to hall pastora was still a santa nista hall's idea about what to do with opponents of the reagan administration central american policies was most colorfully expressed when he told a reporter that people like senator edward kennedy and john carrey would quote be lined up against the wall and shot tomorrow at sunrise and quote hall met with amac galil 22 days before the attempted assassination of eden pastora at la pin pinca c card number nine on his ranch john hall gave the orders but he didn't call the shots he carried out the plans of cia coastal rican coastal rican stations chief joe fernandez and all over north of the national security council c card number 13 john hall i remember this guy from that period he actually made the news he actually made the news his planes in the 1980s and this was card number 12 so that's 12 cards we just read from the set there's 36 cards total okay so we're gonna do two more live streams where we're gonna read 12 cards per live stream again and the next live stream we're gonna start off with card number 13 oliver north oliver north looking forward to it looking forward to it and this is the iran contra scandal cards trading cards by eclipse comics okay that came out in 1988 and i have another set of these and i want to see if it has the insert in it as well so at the beginning of next live stream we'll we'll read the insert as well because it does contain a certain amount of information that we've read from the other cards which might be worthwhile to read okay gang i hope you enjoyed that reading i'm gonna go back to the live stream and catch up with the chat and see where we're at super fun super fun