 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today, today, we're going to continue our reading of the Iran-Contra scandal trading cards put out by Clips Comics in 19... what was the date on this? 19... 19... that's not the one. 19... 19... where's the date? Oh, it doesn't have the date here. Hold on. We'll take a look at this. 1988. 1988. The Iran contract. 1988. Okay. So we're going to continue our reading. We read cards number one to twelve here. Okay. In the last stream, last week. And we're going to continue the reading and we're going to read cards number 13 to 24. Okay. And these cards came out of this box which I have open, right? And when I cracked open this box, I realized a little insert that's usually in the box in all the trading cards that we've had, we've done the reading for from Eclipse Commons because they put out a whole bunch of political trading cards and some music and sports. The insert wasn't in there. So I grabbed another deck that I have. I believe I have three decks of these. Okay, if I recall correctly, I've been buying a whole bunch lately. Eclipse Comics trading cards and I've sort of losing track of the handful that I have or the few that I have. So I checked this one and it has the insert there. So I want to take a look at this insert. That way we've read the insert of all the cards. Okay, and then we'll start reading these. And this insert doesn't look like it has anything in the back of it, right? Usually all the inserts so far have had a front and a back with a little intro of what these cards are about. And these ones are one of the earlier sets that Eclipse Comics put out. I'm not sure which one would be the earliest. I think 1988 was the earliest. So this could have been the first set they ever put out. I actually have to look into that. Because a lot of the other cards that we're reading have been 89, 92, 93, and around their early 90s. So maybe they upgraded it because they were putting out more cards and they had a list of all the different cards they had. So let's have a read through this. The insert for this. Other current event items from Eclipse Books, PO Box, 1099 Forestville, California, not 540. 836, Brought to Light, 895, an 80-page full-color graphic documentary that reveals 30 years of covert action. Wow, drug-running-in-arms deals that robbed America and betrayed the Constitution based on the Christic Institute's explosive investigation. It's like a television documentary you carry around in your pocket and without the usual network censorship. Whoa, Jonathan Marshall, the Iran-Contra connection. What? Okay, this is the first time we're seeing this bit of info. I don't remember seeing this one. Brought to Light, full color graphic documentary. I need to remember to remember to maybe track that down. El Salvador, a house divided, a 40-page factual black-and-white comic book. Real War Stories, a 48-page color comic book about the military. $2. Now, just to give you guys a recap, we found out about all of the Eclipse Comics trading cards from the Real War Stories number two that we read and in the back they had an advertisement for the JFK cards and I don't know if the drug war trading cards were in there, too. They had the JFK cards and something else and we were like, whoa, what's this? And after doing a little bit of research, I found out Eclipse Comics put out a whole bunch of trading cards, historical trading cards, and that's how we got into this, went down this rabbit hole of collecting all these comics. All these comics, all these cars where I've spent over a thousand dollars US getting our hands on some of these cards and where we've put out a few hours of reading cards and we're going to continue to do so, okay? And it was a great comic book reading, by the way, great comic book reading. It actually, I believe, also had the general Wesley Snipes War is a Racket, right? Farewell to the Gipper. 160 pages of biting cartoons by Dan O'Neill. Bush League Trading Cards, cool. We got that as well. We got the Bush League Trading Cards. Run to the Core, New York City Political Scandal Trading Cards. We have those as well and they came out in 1989, I believe, and this is 88, so this is advertising something that's coming out next year, I guess, and Run to the Core has the rookie card for Donald Trump that we're reading for. Friendly Dictators Trading Cards. We have those as well. Additional Sets of Iran Contra Scandal Trading Cards. Nice, nice. Please add $1.50 postage per order, total, and close-blop. Now, if you were a collectible investor type of person, this price right here, Run to the Core, Run to the Core, New York City's Political Scandal Trading Cards for $9.95, would have been an amazing investment. One of the best investments you could have made in your life if you bought these in 1988, 1989, because with the Donald Trump rookie card graded at $10, that's selling for around $1,000 U.S., graded at $9, selling anywhere between on the cheap side, $400 on the expensive type to around $6.50 U.S., and the odds are it's gonna go higher. Okay, so that's the insert for the Iran Contra Trading Cards. Salutations to everyone that's joining us right now. We've got Gulen, SensorTube, Eric, Shostead on SensorTube. So I'm gonna put this guy aside there. I'm gonna take the box we have here and put it over here as well, because we're gonna put the cars back where they belong, and we've got a bunch of people that joined us on Twitch as well, ZOM01. Thank you very much for redeeming the points, and I'm gonna get back into reading these cards, or get into reading these cards. Okay, gang? And I will most likely hold off uploading the individual cards until we've done all the readings, and then because I'm sort of editing these on the side and loading them up, but I still have them as private, and we'll make them go public, each card, all the sets back to back, so it'll probably take us about two weeks to upload all of these cards, all of these cards as individual readings, and as a three-sets that we're going to do. Okay? Now that we've got our little recap, intro, reading the insert done, let's get into continuing reading the individual cards. Card number 13. Oliver North. Oliver North. The antagonist, I guess you could call him. Right. Of the Iran Contra affair. The Patsy, maybe. The main note that everything went through, or almost everything went through. Right. Card number 13. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. The Vietnam veteran and Naval War college graduate joined the National Security Council staff at the White House in 1981, self-motivated and religiously anti-communist. North fit right in to the increased operational role envisioned for the NSC by the Reagan team. When Robert Bud McFarland became National Security Advisor in late 1983, C-card number 28, he handed North the Contra account, passing on instructions from President Reagan to keep the Contras alive, quote, in body and in soul, and quote. North went to great lengths to perform this, his duties, according to Noriega's aid, Jose Blando North, Jose Blando North had two meetings with Panama's strongman Manuel Noriega in 1985, even though Washington knew Noriega was involved in the international drug trade. Blandin alleges North pledged to help obtain U.S. aid to ease Panama's foreign debt crisis and lined up a PR firm called IBC C-card number 15 to improve Noriega's sagging public image. In return, Noriega promised to help in setting up two contra-training camps in Panama. A look at Albert Hakim's records, C-card number 20, shatters North's public image as a selfless patriot. Of 16.1 million in profits from missile sales to Iran, only 3.8 million have found its way to the Contras. Although he had less expensive arms suppliers, North steered most contra-business to the enterprise at inflated prices, North himself skimmed at least $20,000 in contra-fund for his personal use, and in 1988 he was indicted for defrauding the U.S. government. And again we're going to read the little bottom text, Iran Contra scandal, trading cars, text, 1988 copyright, 1988, Paul Brancato, art copyright, 1988, Salim Yucca, Eclipse Enterprises, PO Box 1099, Forestville, California, 95436. Oliver North. Look at those puppy eyes, right? And I wonder if this is all the North's rookie card. Would be cool, we should look into it. C-card number 14, C-card number 14, Robert Owen, Money Man, Robert Owen, Robert Owen, look at the mafia hat. State Department Contractor, Robert Owen, Robert Orm, former legislative aide to Indiana Senator, now Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Dan Quill, was recruited by N-C-N-S-C staffer, Oliver North, CIA Hand, John Hall, whom he had first met in Quill's office in 1983, and Contra leader Adolfo Calero, C-card number 13, 12, and 4. For the crucial role of liaison between individuals who were aiding the Contras, once on the Contras FDN payroll, Owen, known as the Courier, took up his new job as North bagman with zeal, acting as North eyes and ears, who reported on the military and financial needs of the Contras and their helpers, and delivered money, travelers checks, maps, encryption devices, and instructions to them. In 1985, with help from Calero and North, Owen's new company, IDEA, which he operated out of his home, was given a $50,000 State Department contract to deliver humanitarian aid to the Contras. Through Owen's influence, some of this State Department money was awarded to Air Match, a covert Pentagon operation, and some to Ocean Hunter, a Mendelian cocaine cartel operation with ties to the CIA's John Hall, C-cards 10, 11, and 12. Despite the fact that his patriotic zeal had entangled him with international drug traffickers and criminals, Owen expressed deep regard for Oliver North, the man who had recruited him. This was evidenced by his reading to the Iran Contra Committee from a poem written by John Hall, quote, the knowledge that on this troubled earth, there still walks men like all the North. In our lifetime, you have given us a legend, end quote, Robert Owen, Robert Owen, a bunch of fanatics, a poem about this guy. Let's read these two things together. Oops, let's read these things, these words together. Okay, what do we got? What do we got? While we look at Ollie North's face, the puppy eyes looking gleefully into the sky, right, quote, the knowledge that on this troubled earth, there still walk men like Ollie North. In our lifetime, you have given us a legend, a legend indeed, a legend indeed. Card number 15, card number 15. Let's check this out. In EPL, Presidents Contrathon, Contrathon was special guest Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, Carl Spitz channel, card number 15, Contra fundraiser, Carl Spitz channel. In 1985, Carl Spitz channel, Chanel channel, and his associate Richard Miller began to raise money for the Contras from wealthy American conservatives. For this purpose, they created a network of tax exempt foundations with innocent sounding names such as the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty and EPL and International Business Communication, IBC, the standard fund raising session, the one two punch began with a slide presentation by Oliver North, which portrayed the Contras as virtuous, but poorly equipped freedom fighters, battling the godless Sandinistas Marxist Leninists. Then Chanel would conclude the event by detailing the specific needs of the Contras, including military needs, and would arrange White House briefings for contributors who sometimes got to meet the President if the donation was large enough. Chanel and Miller were not very efficient fundraisers. Large amounts of money were used to lease expensive offices, rent limousines, throw lavish parties, and pay high salaries to themselves and others. Of the 10 million dollars they raised, only 4.7 million went to the Contras. One million was used for pro-Contra publicity and advertisements in Contra aid swing vote districts. In 1987, Chanel and Miller were convicted of defrauding the IRS, using tax-exempt monies for illegal contributions of lethal, lethal aid to the Contras. Some of the peons getting thrown to the wolves. Carl Spitz. Carl Spitz. Let's look at Ollie's face. Look at this. Look at that big smile on the gap in his teeth. I bet he could whistle like that. That Heligoth posting that this dude died in 1990. Two years after these cars came out. Very cool. Very cool. I wonder if we got into a little plane and was flying somewhere. Card number 16. Card number 16. Joseph Coors. Joseph Coors. Adults. Joseph Coors. This is a Coors people. Beer magnet. Joseph Coors. Joseph Coors, president of Coors Brewing Company, is a member of Reagan's kitchen cabinet. Having joined that body in 1980, an enthusiastic anti-communist, Coors was a keystone of the Contra support system put together by the White House. His donation of $65,000 to NEPL, C-card number 15, used to purchase a small plane, was but a fraction of the overall support he gave to the Contra cause. Profits from the sale of Coors beer have funded many of the non-governmental institutions that promoted and sustained the Contra war. These include the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, Citizens for America, a grassroots lobby, and John Sing Labs, U.S. Council for World Freedom, the American chapter of WACLCard number 7. The kitchen cabinet is a group of millionaires who have financed the Ronald Reagan's political career from the governorship of California to the White House. This group has profited greatly from Reagan's pro-business policies. Its members include Holmes, Tuttle of Ford and Rexell, A.C. Rubble, Chairman of Union Oil, Henry Salvatore Oil Developer, Justin Dart of Darkcraft, Leonard Firestone of Firestone Tyron Rubber, Taft Schlupper of MCA Inc., and William French Smith, Reagan's former Attorney General. Other wealthy conservatives who contributed to the Contra contrasts through NEPL include Barbara Nyungton, $2,865,025, Ellen Garwood, $2,518,135 and Nelson Bunker Hunt, $484,500. The Coors Company. Who is this dude? Adolf Cole. Coors. Joseph Coors. Joseph Coors. Cart number 17. King Fahad. Oh, the Saudis are in. Amacontra 2. King Fahad. I believe it's Saudi, if I'm thinking about the right person. Yeah, that's him. Saudi Arabian monarch, Fahad bin Abt Aziz. Saudi Arabia's King Fahad is one of 45 sons of Ibn Saud who founded the modern state of Saudi Arabia in 1932. The Bedouin king was the largest single contributor to the Contras. Congressional investigators traced the total of 33.6 million that passed through Adolf Calero's FDN bank account. Of that amount, 32 million was received from Saudi Arabia. It was a small price to pay for continued U.S. military support for his regime. Fahad gave many times that amount to the Afghan Mujahideen, another U.S.-backed anti-communist force. The man who opened the doors to the Mullahs was General Richard Seacourt. Seacourt number 19. As the head of the Pentagon's foreign military sales program from 1978 to 1981, Seacourt oversaw sales of billions of dollars in military equipment to the nations of the Middle East. In 1981, Seacourt and Oliver North, Seacourt number 13 successfully lobbied Congress to support the 8.5 billionth sale of AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia over the stiff objection of the Israeli lobby, thus assuring King Fahad's support of the Contras. King Fahad is the world's second richest monarch with a personal fortune estimated at 20 billion. The world's wealthiest monarch is the Sultan of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich country near Brunei. Although his personal wealth is estimated at 25 billion, the Sultan gave the Contras a mere 10 million. Saudi Arabia steps in. Elliott Abrams. Elliott Abrams, card number 18. Card number 18. Elliott Abrams. Shult in the background. Assistant Secretary of State. Elliott Abrams, card number 18. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, was previously in charge of the Reagan Administration's Human Rights Program. In testimony before Congressional Committee, he implied that support for the Contra war against Nicaragua was part of the Administration's Human Rights policies. Abrams has lied to Congress repeatedly. He misrepresented his role in soliciting a contribution for the Contras from the Sultan of Brunei, C-card number 17, when the Hassan Fuss Flight was shot down, C-card number 29. Abrams testified to a House subcommittee that the US government was not involved in anyway, and later he helped concoct a story laying the blame on General John Singla, C-card number 7. A few months prior to this, he had helped win 20 million dollars in emergency aid to Honduras by greatly exaggerating claims of Nicaraguan incursions into Honduran territory. Abrams actions form a pattern of disinformation that characterizes the Reagan Administration as a whole and George Schultz's State Department in particular. From the beginning, the Administration lied about its intentions in Nicaragua, claiming that his covert actions were intended to cut off arms shipments from Nicaragua to El Salvador, when in fact they were creating an invasion force. Abrams went on to lead the Administration's highly publicized but unsuccessful drive to remove Panama's drug dealing general Manuel Nicaragua from power. Elliot Abrams. Card number 19. Richard C-Cord. USA. Richard C-Cord. Look at that salute. Let's get that salute nicely focused. We'll get him like this. Card number 19. Retired Air Force Major General Richard C-Cord. Retired Air Force Major General Richard V C-Cord's specialty is aerial logistics. He learned his trade in Southern Asia from 1963 to 1968, flying over 285 combat missions. As the airwind commander for the CIA's secret war in Laos, he was in charge of all tactical air operations. In 1983, C-Cord resigned under a cloud because of his involvement with Thomas Klein's C-Cord number 22 and Edwin Wilson, the renegade CIA officer who was convicted of selling arms to Libya. Soon C-Cord teamed up with his old friend Albert Hakim, C-Cord number 20 and started the enterprise, which was part business empire, arms deals, and part military and security operations, covert welfare and intelligence. C-Cord began working for Oliver North, C-Cord number 13, and the National Security Council 1984 at the behest of CIA Director William Casey, C-Cord number 5. Casey called the general a man who got things done. Within two years, the enterprise had five airplanes, two pilots, pilots on contract, two airfields, a boat, a stockpile of guns and military equipment, and numerous shell companies and secret bank accounts, all for the purpose of conducting covert military action for the NSC. The enterprise realized the profit of $16,100,000 on the sale of missiles to Ayatollahomeini. Out of this, C-Cord, Hakim, and Klein's each took an equal share of $2.2 million as their personal cut. In 1988, C-Cord was indicted for defrauding the U.S. governments. Iran kicks in here with weapons, right? Richard C. Gord. That's a $2.2 million salute right there. Thank you very much. And the planes and the guns and the airfields and the party. C-Cord number 20. Look at this guy. Albert Hakim with his love-on tattoo for Ali. Look at that. On his little belly button. Albert Hakim. Look at him. She innocent-looking face. That too. Isn't that cute? Who is he? C-Cord number 20. Arms merchants. Albert Hakim. In 1978, Iranian expatriate businessman Albert Hakim obtained contracts from Bakhtal Corporation, a large defense contractor then headed by George Saltz and Casper Weinberger. C-Cord number 6. The same year, Theodore Shackley, C-Cord number 24, introduced Hakim to Richard C. Gord. C-Cord number 19 in Iran. C-Cord was then in charge of U.S. arms sales to the Shah and Hakim had contacts in the Iranian military and in the Shah's secret police, Savak. The huge desperate disparity between what the Pentagon charged and what the Iranians were willing to pay enabled Hakim and allegedly C-Cord to make fortunes by skimming profits of these arms sales. After C-Cord resigned from the military, Hakim became his partner. He was the financial wizard behind the enterprise, a nongovernmental profit-making operation which aided the Reagan administration's covert foreign policies. The tangled web of shell companies and offshore bank accounts that Hakim created and controlled for the enterprise was designed as C-Cord admitted to confuse anyone who might start poking around. For instance, when congressional investigators poked into the B for belly button account, Hakim explained that he had set up his $200,000 trust for Oliver North's family out of respect to North whose radiation of patriotic love immediately penetrated to my system. This is inconsistent with Hakim's admission that he was only in it for the money. In 1988, Albert Hakim was indicted for defrauding the US government. Card number 21, The Enterprise Richard Gad and Robert Dutton, The Enterprise or Enterprise. Card number 21, Career Air Force Officers Richard Gad and Robert Dutton. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Richard Gad retired in September 1982 after 20 years of service in covert operations. A career transport pilot, Gad had recently served as liaison between Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, home of unconventional warfare. Gad had learned from friends in the Army Special Operations Division, C-Cord number six, that the Army needed the black commercial transport ability. Passing up a promotion to full colonel, Gad retired and formed Samarko, which specialized in providing the Pentagon and CIA with clandestine air transport. He arranged to rent planes and hire pirates through Southern Air Transport, a CIA proprietary when Richard C-Cord's Enterprise began his Contra resupply operation in 1985. C-Cord number 20, Second C-Cord, turned to Gad to manage daily logistics. Gad supervised the construction of the secret Santa Elena airstrip in Costa Rica, C-Cord number 23. In early 1986, C-Cord, citing the five P's, pissed poor performers for no prior planning, replaced Gad with retired Air Force Colonel Robert Dutton, Gad's former superior officer. Dutton has served under C-Cord in Iran, selling weapons to the Shah and again in 1980, Iran hostage rescue mission. A cable sent by Dutton from Central America to all over North provided a lighter, lighter moment during the Iran Contra hearing, quote, sent font, can't survive on milk and cookies, end quotes. C-Cord number 22, Thomas Klein. Thomas Klein, ex CIA agent and arms merchant, Thomas Klein, card number 22. Thomas Gregor Klein's first met Richard C-Cord, C-Cord number 19, during the secret war in Laos. Klein's, as CIA base chief and long tang, supervised the creation of a secret army of Hamung tribesmen to fight the Communist Pathet Lao, Lao forces. The Hamung were traditionally opium growers with the CIA's help. General Wang Pao, leader of the Hung army, became a major supplier of opium. C-Cord's air wing flew tactical raids against the Pathet Lao, Lao, which also had the effect of destroying Von Pao's competition. Air America, the CIA's airline, transported the opium from Laos to Thailand. The CIA's secret Laotian operations were partially financed by opium profits. Klein's and C-Cord's team, up again in the Middle East during the mid-1970s, the Pentagon awarded Klein's company EATSCO, a contract worth over one billion dollars to chip arms to Egypt. According to renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson, C-Cord who had helped to secure the contract was also a silent partner in EATSCO. As with Theodore Shackley, C-Cord number 24, this blatant conflict of interest led to C-Cord's early retirement from the military. Klein's pleaded guilty in 1983 to overcharging the Pentagon eight million dollars for which he paid fines of one hundred and ten thousand dollars. In 1984, C-Cord brought Klein's into the enterprise, C-Cord's number 1920, an excerpt in the small weapons and expert in the small weapons market. Klein's brokered the enterprise's European deals involving purchases and transportation of arms for the Contras. C-Cord number 22, Thomas Klein's and Haluk God's posting that Klein's was the only Iran Contra defendant to have served a prison sentence. That's why he doesn't look too happy maybe. The belly button dude didn't serve any time I guess. C-Cord number 23 was this guy, Rafael Chichi Quintero. Rafael Chichi Quintero. Is he Cuban? Is that Castro though? I think he's not a chicho. He's a chichi. C-I veteran. Rafael Chichi Quintero, C-Cord number 23. Rafael Chichi Quintero, C-I veteran once said that if he were granted immunity and compelled to testify about past actions, it would be the biggest scandal ever to hit the United States. An explosives expert and sniper, Quintero got his early training as a member of the C-IA's Operation 40 assassination unit, also called the shooter team. This elite group, born of secret collaboration between agents of the C-IA, the mafia, and Richard Nixon, was formed to assassinate Fidel and Raul Castro and Che Guevara. Led for many years by E. Howard Hunt, the shooter team was part of an advance unit that was left stranded in Cuba after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Quintero escaped from Cuba and returned to Miami, where he began working under then C-IA agent, Thomas Clines, C-Card number 22. This work included engaging in C-IA covert operations in southern Asia, Iran, and Central America. After Clines joined the enterprise, C-Card number 19, Rafael Quintero handled the offloading and distribution of weapons shipments to the Contras under Clines' direction. When John Hall's wrench, C-Card number 12, began to attract attention from Costa Rican authorities, the enterprise built a new secret airstrip at Santa Alina, Costa Rica, with help from the State Department's Elliot Abrams, C-Card number 18, Robert Owens, C-Card number 14, and Louis Thames, then U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Quintero, whom C-Cord called my man, managed supply operations from this new airstrip, which was used for the shipment of guns and drugs. C-Card number 24, Theodore Shackley, looks like an erasure head from Dick Tracy comics. Theodore Shackley, former C-I-A agent, Theodore Shackley, C-Card number 24, known as the Blonde Ghost. Theodore G. Shackley played a central role in the formation of the secret team. After the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, Shackley became C-I-A station chief in Miami. There, he directed operation mongus conducting sabotage and assassination raids on Cuba. His deputy, Thomas Klein, C-Card number 22, helped supervise E. Howard Hunt's shooter team. C-Card number 23, From 1966 to 1968, Shackley was station chief in Laos, where he directed Richard C. Cord's air wing, C-Card number 20. Shackley and Klein's were transferred to Saigon in 1969, where for four years, Shackley directed Operation Phoenix. During those years, the program designed to neutralize communist sympathizers claimed the lives of 40,000 civilians. One of Shackley's subordinates at this time was Donald Greg, C-Card number 31. Shackley's next to last C-I-A post was as commander of worldwide covert operations, working under George Bush from 1976 to 1977, C-Card number 32. Theodore Shackley retired from the C-I-A in 1979, and he served on the transition team, which planned Ronald Reagan's entry into the White House. His involvement in covert operations did not end with his retirement, however. Having previously introduced Richard C. Cord to Albert Hakim, C-Card number 19 and 20, he served as a consultant to the enterprise until its apparent demise. In 1984, he took part in the Manutra Gorbenfar plan to trade arms for hostage C-I-A agent William Buckley, C-Card number 25 and 26. Recently, Shackley has been a lecturer on unconventional warfare. 40,000 civilians. 40,000 civilians. Let's look at his eyes. 40,000 civilians murdered. And how the god says this piece of shit died in 1975 of cancer. Theodore Shackley. That's C-Card number 20. Gang. That's 24 cards. We got 12 cards to read in the next live stream of the Iran Contra scandal. Crazy informative. As I mentioned before, you could probably do a bachelor's thesis on one or two of these and do a master's thesis or a bachelor's thesis on one of these cards, master's thesis on two or three of them, and a PhD on this whole deck. We'll continue the reading most likely next week. The Iran Contra scandal trading cards. The secret team. That's where the secret team's coming in.