Trish Regan analyzes 80,000 declassified JFK files, arguing they prove media collusion with the government to hide the truth, citing Gary Underhill's CIA memo and Samuel Cummings' Interarms ties. She connects these claims to the Wuhan lab origin theory and the Trump assassination attempt, asserting cover-ups protected foreign intelligence or averted World War III. Regan highlights the 2013 Smith-Mundt Act modernization, claiming it enabled taxpayer-funded propaganda from USAID and the CIA to influence outlets like the New York Times ($50 million) and Politico ($34.3 million), suggesting current file releases aim to restore trust after decades of alleged deception. [Automatically generated summary]
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Massive Transparency Finally Arrives00:06:54
This is huge, okay?
I cannot underscore what a massive, massive deal this is that we are finally getting the transparency that we deserve.
What, 62 years later?
Ladies and gentlemen, I know the mainstream media wants you to think that there's nothing to see here, and the New York Times kind of suggesting that this is a nothing burger.
This is not a nothing burger, and how dare they say that, considering they're going to make their way through some 60,000 plus pages that have already been released, plus there's an additional 20 some odd thousand.
Pages coming today.
Heck, you know, they're actually going to have to do a little reading for a change.
Imagine that.
Journalists not being spoon fed.
There are talking points.
They're actually going to have to do their jobs.
And that's exactly what we've been doing here on The Trish Regan Show.
And we have one page out of thousands right now that we really, I feel, you need to pay attention to.
So we're going to get to all that on this extremely important day.
Welcome to the program.
It is good to have you here.
Yes, the JFK files have been released.
The media is trying to say, nothing there.
Nothing there.
You know, you don't need to pay attention to this.
It's just a nothing burger.
I was looking at the headlines coming to the New York Times last night, and they were sort of saying the same kind of thing.
And it's like, guys, how can you say that you haven't read through all of it?
It is going to take time.
At 7 p.m. last night, we got 32,000 pages.
10 30 p.m., there was another drop of 31,400 pages.
And what are we getting today?
More.
Okay, more, more, more.
And Donald Trump has promised they're not going to overanalyze this.
They're not actually going to spoon feed the talking points to the reporters.
People are actually going to have to do their job, but they can because you know what?
Every citizen in the world right now has access to this stuff.
Think about that.
Think about how amazing this is.
They're all in the National Archives.
He promised this would happen.
Indeed, it did.
Have you seen what was in the files?
Have you read them?
I've heard about them.
Was there an executive summary that's applied to you as president?
No, I'm not doing summaries.
You'll write your own summaries.
It's many pages.
Is it 80,000 pages?
Approximately 80,000 pages.
So it's a lot of stuff.
And you'll make your own determination.
And that's the way it should be.
Honestly, that's what's changed.
And in making our own determination, I think we found some very interesting elements.
Good to have you guys all here.
Spirit filled.
Great to see you back on.
On the show.
I appreciate your generosity.
Yes, we have a lot of information to get through today.
This is massive.
This is just a huge dump.
And I've been up all night reading, and I'm not going to get through it, of course, all of it.
But there's one page in particular I do want to get to.
More on that in a moment.
But first, just how amazing this is.
Tulsi Gabbard tweeting out today President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency.
Today, per his direction, previously redacted JFK assassination files are now being released to the public.
With no redactions, promises made, promises kept.
Go to archives.gov.
JFK.
Wow.
I mean, so here's the page.
Here's the page that matters, you guys.
This is what you want to pay attention to.
And it has a little something to do with a gentleman by the name of Gary Underhill who was saying to some of his friends, very close friends, that he knew this was going to happen.
So, first of all, let's back up for a second.
And then, by the way, he was.
Found dead in his apartment like six months later, and it was allegedly a suicide, a bunch of shots to the back of the head.
So that doesn't really add up.
And we've got some new information related to who Gary Underhill was connected with that I want to walk you through.
But let's just go back for a moment.
This has been previously reported out a little bit before.
Here, for example, you're seeing a Newsweek report on Gary Underhill.
People have talked about him.
What's new, I'm going to get to in this section, is that.
He had some acquaintances that were concerning.
I mean, concerning, especially now given what has come out about them.
But anyway, Gary Underhill, his full name was John Garrett Underhill.
He had worked in military intelligence during World War II before becoming one of the CIA's sort of people, although he was not really one of the people, right?
So he was one of the unpeople, meaning that he performed, per the release memo, special assignments for the agency.
And he also, interestingly, worked as a photojournalist.
For Life magazine between 1938 and 1942.
That's actually going to be important a little bit later in the program because I want to share with you some perspective on how that working as a photojournalist, et cetera, may have then influenced some of the other things that were happening during the 1960s, et cetera.
But this is Gary Underhill, okay?
And the reason he's kind of of importance right here is because he was on intimate terms with a number of high ranking CIA officials.
And he's the guy who basically attributed Kennedy's death to a CIA clique, which was carrying on a lucrative racket in gun running, narcotics, and other contraband and manipulating political intrigue to serve its own ends, according to the memo.
So basically, what this is suggesting is somehow the CIA may have been running some kind of op that was making the mafia, you know, blush.
Here's the memo.
Okay, so this is the one that I think is really just interesting to focus in on.
According to this, the day after the assassination, Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry.
Late in the evening, he showed up at the home of friends in New Jersey.
He was very agitated.
A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided to these friends in New Jersey, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country.
Less than six months later, Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment.
The coroner ruled it a suicide.
J. Garrett Underhill had been an intelligence agent, as I just explained to you, during World War II and was a recognized authority on limited warfare and small arms.
A researcher and writer on military affairs, he was on a first name basis with many of the top brass in the Pentagon.
He was also on intimate terms with a number of high ranking CIA officials.
He was one of the agencies on people.
Wuhan China Cover-Up Parallels00:12:14
This is, again, this is something that has been reported out before, who performed special assignments.
At one time, he had been a friend of Samuel Cummings.
Remember that name, you guys, Samuel Cummings, of Inter Armco, the arms broker that numbers among its customers the CIA and ironically Klein's Sporting Goods of Chicago, from whence the mail order, Karen Co, allegedly, was purchased by Oswald.
Okay.
Why is.
Cummings.
Now, a name I said you need to remember.
This is connected back to Gary.
And what has come out now, and what we're learning, is that Samuel George Cummings operated that weapon company, Interarms, which Underhill believed was somehow associated with the murder.
So he was saying that this was going to happen and the CIA was going to do it.
And he thought that Interarms, which he had worked with, was actually going to be the company that did it.
Well, Cummings actually was.
Was well known, right, at the time for operating this interarms and interarm co, armed dealerships that supplied the CIA with weapons.
However, now this memo is telling us something new the interarms and interarm co were initially owned by the CIA, which hired Cummings as a chief agent before he took over those companies.
So again, now it's getting at maybe there was some kind of weapons gang going on, and maybe this weapons gang, which had been found out.
By JFK was going to be exposed and they wanted to prevent that.
That's one of the theories.
We're going to talk about some others, okay?
Because, you know, I just got to say, it's going to be a lot of reading and it's going to take time.
But these are some of the biggies and this is what I want to highlight because there's no way you should ever be saying that this is a nothing burger.
This is massive.
And if nothing else, what it's going to tell us is that sometimes the cover up, I mean, not that it could be worse than the crime, but it certainly led to a lot of speculation, a lot of distrust in the government for the last 60 some odd years, right?
Because they weren't willing to say the truth.
I mean, same exact thing happened with COVID.
Oh, it never came from that wet lab.
Forgive me, it never came from the lab in Wuhan, China.
And they sat there with a straight face and tried to perpetuate that narrative.
And you had everyone up until recently saying exactly that, that it somehow came from this wet market, which made no sense.
We knew they were doing the research on that particular virus in Wuhan, China.
And by the way, we were funding it via these many tentacles and arms, USAID and all these other things, right, that we use and NGOs.
We're going to get to all of that because this is coming out.
This is getting exposed.
And so we covered something up.
Maybe we covered up that we had a hand in it.
Maybe we covered up that we knew Lee Harvey Oswald was a.
Person of interest.
We knew he had gone down to Mexico City.
We knew he'd spent time in Russia.
We knew he was married to a Soviet.
We knew all of this stuff.
We knew that he was effectively an enemy of capitalism and an enemy of the United States.
And yet we sat on it and did nothing.
And maybe they were trying to cover up that.
More on that in a moment.
But again, back to Cummings.
Here, this memo states that the CIA did actually own this inter-arms before Cummings came into it and bought it in 1958.
So the question is: was he somehow.
Was he somehow related to this assassination?
Again, going back to the really important memo, this is what Gary Underhill believed.
And this is what he was telling his friends.
And so, how is it that the guy winds up with some 12 shots to the head, right?
And it's declared a suicide six months later?
That's a really serious question that we need answers to.
And, you know, maybe they are in these files, but.
I just got to say that sometimes when you try and cover things up like this for 60 some odd years, you wind up with more problems.
And I go back to the example of Wuhan, China.
I go back to Anthony Fauci.
I go back to the fact that I knew in February of 2020, through good sources connected to the State Department and China, et cetera, that there was a lab in Wuhan, China that it was believed this thing was released from.
And they didn't think it was deliberate, but it was some kind of mistake.
And then you weren't allowed to talk about it.
And then one day, a reporter, I think it was a Fox News reporter, maybe in May of 2020, asked President Trump that.
And he said, yes, I've seen some intelligence alluding to that.
And the media went bonkers.
Absolutely, positively bonkers because, you see, the media was basically one in one with Deep State, the CIA, the FBI, God knows it's USAID.
They were getting money over it.
For goodness sakes, the New York Times, nearly $30 million.
And they suddenly, like, just attacked him.
And attacked that narrative and it got totally shut down.
So, when you think about that, when you think about even the reality that we knew that Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania was clearly an issue and people were talking about it, heck, you get people in the crowd that were pointing up at the guy on the roof, right?
And nobody was moving, nobody was doing anything.
Maybe it was just pure incompetence.
Maybe these people just completely suck at their jobs.
They are trying to cover up for that after the fact, or maybe there's something else.
You understand why people are left when you cover things up asking questions, right?
Because they couldn't access his social media records, et cetera.
That all got shut down, the body immediately criminated, et cetera, et cetera.
And so there's some hallmarks there, whether you're looking at Wuhan, whether you're looking at the assassination attempt on President Trump, or whether you're looking at the JFK assassination files that cause you to ask more questions.
And sometimes, as I say, the cover up, certainly in the case of The Wuhan virus, the cover up was sort of worse, right?
Like if they had just admitted the truth from the beginning and allowed everybody to report it out, but they wouldn't even allow you to talk about it.
And that's an issue.
Like that is, and so it's the same kind of thing that we're seeing right here.
And what I want to get to, guys, is actually something really important because the CIA has been doing this for years and it got worse beginning in 2012.
You see, they've had sort of the leeway, the financial ability to do all this all over the world since 1948.
And then in 2012, Obama sort of turned this psychop, if you would, right?
The information stream on us here in the United States.
And so that I find incredibly troubling.
And getting back to this idea that maybe sometimes the cover up is actually the real problem, right?
That's the issue that we need to be worried about, whether it be Butler, Pennsylvania, and we're left with a ton of questions because they won't give us any information, whether it be Wuhan, China.
Again, we don't have the information.
Or heck, whether it's Hunter Biden's laptop and they're sitting there saying, no, it's hardly, hardly, hardly Hunter.
It's just the Russians and it's Rudy Giuliani, like their fault.
No, it actually was Hunter Biden's laptop, which was being investigated by the FBI.
So you got to wonder, I mean, what was it that they were worried about back then?
Maybe they were worried that if in fact it was the Cubans, we should have known that, right?
Because we did have a ton of intelligence on Lee Harvey Oswald.
We knew that he had gone to Mexico City looking for a visa for Cuba.
There was a ton of stuff that we knew.
We knew he had spent time in the USSR.
We knew that he actually had connections and actually trained as an armsman over there.
We knew a lot.
And yet somehow this still happened.
So is this an effort to cover up because our team looks like idiots?
Or is it that maybe we knew this was coming and we just didn't do anything about it?
So once again, we look like idiots.
There was a desire to see this happen because of Samuel Cummings and what Gary Underhill were talking about.
There's a lot of questions there.
And were they worried that this was going to be World War III?
If they came out and they told the public, you know, actually the Cubans are responsible for this and we missed it, or the Russians are responsible for this and we missed it, did they think that we were going to have World War III on our hands?
It again reminds me of the Wuhan China situation.
Like, why couldn't you say that China screwed up, that it was the responsibility of the lab?
It wasn't until November of 2020 when the Wall Street Journal reported out what so many of us were already hearing, but you couldn't get out there at the time, right?
You would just get immediately shut down.
That there had been some people that had fallen ill in November, December of 2019 in Wuhan, China, that had worked at the lab.
That was all information that should have been fed to the public immediately.
And then finally, the Wall Street Journal comes out with it, and Biden sort of had nowhere to hide.
And then eventually, you had this commission.
And eventually, the Department of Energy came out and said, Oh, yeah, it came from Wuhan, China.
And then you had the State Department coming out saying, Yeah, it came from Wuhan, China.
CIA held on for dear life.
Not the CIA, though.
It wasn't until just recently that the CIA admitted, Uh huh, it came from Wuhan, China.
So why is that?
Why, why, why?
Why were they trying to run some psychop on us?
Well, this is what they've done, right?
This is what they've done for years.
And it started not just with what happened, it had already been in effect, effectively, since the 1940s.
I have so much to bring you on this.
This is a huge day.
I didn't get a lot of sleep.
I'm doing a lot of reading.
I'm sure you are too.
And this is the way it needs to be, right?
We actually have to be able to look at everything.
With clear eyes and be able to know stuff.
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I actually feel better, but yet simultaneously I'm a little bit nervous.
Somebody said to me this morning, you know, I wonder if the release of these files that Donald Trump was so adamant to get out has anything to do with him sending a warning.
Like, you know, you guys, like, It's all out in the open.
So if you try any funny business and you don't know what's going through his head about what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, still, but you can suspect, right?
What would be going through your head if that happened to you?
What would be going through your wife's head?
What would be going through your family's head?
I think we know what he's worried about.
And so this is his way of saying, yeah, you know, times are changing and we're going to get all this information out there.
So be on alert.
Think about this.
Protecting Secrets Overseas00:08:37
They were trying to protect something.
Maybe it was the agencies, maybe they were trying to protect us from World War.
Three, I'm not really entirely sure what it was, but I do know this.
There was something that they put into place around 1948 called the Smith Munt Act.
And it came about during the Cold War because they wanted to control the flow of information.
They realized how valuable information was.
And of course, we had a leg up on everybody because this is the United States of America.
We had all this creativity and we were really great at tech.
So we had radio.
And then, of course, TV and Hollywood, et cetera.
And so we were able to basically put out our message.
All over the world to control the narrative.
The US government poured a ton of money and a ton of resources into this through this Smith Munt Act.
And they had Voice of America and Radio for Europe, the UK was involved in this too.
But here's the important thing here's the important thing it did not allow that information to be turned back onto the US.
And that's what has since changed.
So, just think about that for a second.
So, any of the spin that they were pushing overseas, that spin was not actually pushed in the U.S. media.
That was pushed by U.S. media funded entities overseas.
They weren't turning it back on U.S. citizens.
They had this kind of Chinese wall, fun intended, to not allow for that.
Mike Bence, who used to be an official at the State Department and is now totally committed to this freedom of information and it's sort of his massive platform, he was on Joe Rogan's show.
And he just talked about this, and I think it's really, really important to think about this because guess what, guys?
It changed under Obama.
It changed in 2013 or 2012, okay?
They came up with a modernization of this, which lifted the domestic ban on US government produced media.
They could then allow for these NGOs and USAID to be paying US media organizations who could then turn and manipulate the story to US audiences.
So then the US gets sucked into this giant psychop, right?
I mean, and that explains a lot, I think, since 2013.
And, you know, Donald Trump comes on the scene in 2016, and they put the whole thing into high gear.
With Russia, Russia, Russia?
And on it goes.
All right, I want to go to Mike Bentz because this is important.
Remember, Mike Bentz used to be an official of the State Department.
Now he's devoted his career, his life to making sure that everybody gets this information out.
Listen to him here.
This is important.
The Smith Munt Act, 1948.
Here's Mike.
What was done then under Obama was the effective repeal of it.
It was called the Smith Munt Modernization Act.
But the modernization got rid of the whole purpose of it, the firewall.
Because at the time, the.
Media and media control was seen as the linchpin crux of winning the Cold War, piping in pro US media influence so that, because everything moved after World War II from kinetic warfare and military occupation.
We used to militarily occupy the Philippines, for example, after we won the Spanish American War, but that was banned under international law, territorial acquisition by military force in 1948.
So we had to win elections and we had to influence the passage of.
Laws in foreign countries by having an apparatus inside those countries that influenced the hearts and minds of people, which influenced who they voted for, which then determined the government.
So you had to move towards political vassalage rather than military occupation.
And what the Smith Munt Act did is simultaneous with the creation of this in 1948, Congress recognized the Frankensteinian monster they were creating by authorizing a covert, permanent Department of Dirty Tricks, and this is their phrase, not mine, to do this cloak and dagger, to infiltrate and co-op the universities, the unions, the media, the politicians, the judges, the whole swarm army, what I have been calling for a long time the USAID Truman Show,
because these people in these foreign countries have no idea how many of the things they interact with that are effectively a movie set being constructed by the U.S. State Department and its sister influencer.
Okay?
He's onto something, right?
So we had to control the political situations overseas.
So what did we do?
We put in media operations to influence the culture, to be able to therefore influence whoever was being elected.
And we had a lot of influence on this.
The scary thing is that, again, and we're going to get back to this in a second, we turned it on ourselves.
Obama.
Thank you very much, Obama.
Man, 2013 National Defense Authorization Act lifted the domestic ban on U.S. government-produced media, allowing such content to be available to U.S. audiences.
At the time, people were really concerned that basically this was going to turn into the propaganda machine that we had all over the world coming back to bite us in the you-know-what.
And sure enough, it did.
It did.
So here's more of Mike.
Credit to him and Joe for having him on.
Joe Rogan, Mike Benz talking about this issue.
Listen.
To make any media narrative go viral in any country on earth.
Because of the suite of CIA proprietary media functions and its distribution network, especially when the US had first mover advantage in radio and print.
It's basically the US and UK were the only games in town, really, in having robust radio, film, TV, and print media.
So the Smith Munt said, okay, you can do that abroad.
You can plant fake news stories in France.
You can have propaganda blare into Africa or Western Europe or Central Asia.
But that can't come home.
You can't psyop our own people with your propaganda organ abroad.
Because the whole point of authorizing this is that we get cheaper gas, we get import export markets, we get a high standard of living.
Because if a foreign government doesn't want to give up its resources or allow a U.S. military base or allow joint partnerships or exports of goods or U.S. multinational corporations to operate there, then the American people suffer economically.
So it was always designed.
To say, listen, you can do this dirty stuff abroad, but it can't come home.
Okay.
So it couldn't come home.
But sure enough, like it did eventually.
You know, I just wonder when you think about all of this being in place, was there something that they were doing abroad, right?
Some kind of.
It's one of the theories out there that somehow the CIA was involved or looked the other way if the Cubans were involved or Russia, whatever.
And there's evidence in there that.
We kind of knew that JFK was a target, and yet we're looking the other way.
And you also wonder what kind of operation they were doing overseas since they were allowed to have this dirty bag of tricks, their words, as Mike said, not ours, that they could put into play overseas.
They just couldn't turn it on ourselves.
And that's sort of where we are today now because it's been turned and unleashed onto ourselves.
Let's go to his explanation.
This is one more little clip I just got to show you because it's so important when we think.
About how we have been played and played over and over and over again.
We're up against a much actually deeper, darker problem with this USAID scandal.
And as people will see increasingly, the scandals that will break open at the Pentagon and the State Department, which is that we have a Smith Munt problem for funding and operations.
It's not just propaganda.
The blob, our foreign policy establishment, can fund groups that effectively.
Work with prosecutors domestically, or that work at media, sort of dual use.
We give them foreign grants to do media propaganda abroad, but they operate here.
Deeper Darkness Than Propaganda00:03:30
Or social media censorship to coerce foreign countries to pass foreign censorship laws that explicitly and are intended to attack U.S. social media companies and in U.S. peer to peer speech.
So we need that protection.
If we're going to keep this function at all, we need a hard firewall and absolute grotesque penalties for any violation.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
We absolutely do.
Because what has happened?
What has happened?
I mean, it's like they say it's night and we say it's day.
And they're like, no, no, no, no, it's night.
You know, up is down, down is up.
And you're not ever given the truth.
Joe Biden's biggest frustration with his administration was that he didn't control information enough.
Think about that.
He did not control information enough.
I'm like, buddy, for goodness sakes.
You had the entire world right on speed dial for your parroting of talking points.
I mean, there was this one the other day, right, where we saw the Democrats with their little talking points, it was crazy.
There were three of them out at first.
Remember this?
I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one.
That ain't true.
That's what you just heard since day one.
Donald Trump's presidency prices are not down, they're up.
Inflation is getting worse, not better.
The prices of gross, it was literally the same exact script, and then it was five.
Seriously?
I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one.
That ain't true, as we just heard.
The same day, Donald Trump's president's prices are not down, they're up.
The prices are not down, they're up.
The prices of gross eggs of essentials is not getting better.
Inflation is getting worse.
It's getting worse.
Meanwhile, Dodge has done nothing for you.
Instead, he's talking about it.
Inflation is getting worse.
The prices of gross gas, eggs of ascension.
It's not getting better, it's getting worse.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has done nothing for lower costs for you.
Instead, he's part of a violent crime.
He's absolutely right.
He's all in some sense.
He's letting me get a sense.
He's letting me get a sense.
But just one more time.
I won't even show you the next.
They were like different iterations.
One of my producers kept showing me, he's like, oh my God, there's more, there's more, there's more.
Okay.
Before you knew it, you had 22 Democrats with the exact same talking points, the exact same script.
It's like the CIA op that we're talking about, right?
That Mike Benz is saying.
Like they get a narrative and then they just push it out.
But nowadays, people are smarter because they can immediately show you where it's coming from.
In this case, well, we don't actually know who it's coming from, interestingly enough, but the Democrats are all saying the exact same thing.
I win, I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one.
You get my point.
Okay, so now we're talking about the ability.
To take taxpayer money and feed it to various arms of the CIA and any kind of ops now that are under the jurisdiction of whoever's in charge.
This is what Obama made happen.
Okay, so 2013, they start putting this stuff, so it's only been around, you know, 12 years or so.
Obama's CIA Funding Machine00:12:30
But if you think about the craziness over the last 12 years and how we keep saying, but, but, and they're like, nope, nope, shut it down, shut it down, shut it down.
Now, I think it's all coming out.
And I think Mike is right when he says, you got to have a firewall because otherwise, you're using taxpayer funds to create propaganda, which is then being turned on us.
And boy, are they angry.
They're so angry that this is getting exposed.
Everything's getting exposed.
I mean, they're so angry that, you know, we know that a good percentage of the budget for.
The BBC, for example, comes from USAID, US taxpayers.
We know that the New York Times is getting millions and millions of dollars.
We know that Politico during 2024 was getting $8.2 million, charging $10,000 per account that they were giving to government employees that they said you just had to have.
They try and disguise it along the way.
Okay, we're going to give you a Politico subscription for $10,000 a year.
But what is this other than just manipulating, as Mike said, the media here and today?
And now they can't really do it.
And they don't know what to think now.
They're just going to say that this is because of Trump and he's somehow a dictator.
I mean, think about what they were saying in the U.S. media.
I would sometimes be like, you got to be kidding me.
Listening to Morning Joe and The View and the Disney actors and the whole lot of them, right?
They're on the payroll.
I mean, effectively, what we've learned is that this particular act that Obama modernized allowed for money to be exchanged to bankroll NGOs, political organizations, universities, so that they could have an effect on the public opinion back here at home.
And now it's all coming undone.
So Hillary Clinton was out in Germany today, and oh, she's freaking out.
She's totally, totally, totally.
Totally freaking out.
Why?
Oh, the whole system is coming apart.
So now she's going on the attack.
Can I just say, like, you don't do that, right?
You're on international soil.
First of all, what she's saying is ridiculous, but you certainly don't do that when you're going overseas.
Let's watch this one together.
It is horrifying.
It is wrong, but nonetheless, it's Hillary.
There's no way to sugarcoat it, there's no way to explain it away.
Autocracy is on the march, and we now have a government in the United States.
that has thrown in its lot with the autocrats, which has made a choice to support those who wage war, not peace,
who has given enormous power to the men who control the information flow in our world, who have all pledged allegiance to the continuation of algorithms that not only addict us, But poison us with hatred and fear.
So don't forget, the whole idea of the modernization of that act was to somehow prevent those algorithms, right, from quote unquote taking over.
This is what they use as their justification so that they can pour tons and tons and tons of money into all these other ventures in order to influence not just public opinion around the world, but of course, public opinion right here at home.
So, I think it's all related, guys.
And what you're seeing today is Donald Trump coming forward with Tulsi Gabbard and so many others now that are doing this release, and they don't even have the talking points, right?
Donald Trump's saying, no, you know, we don't have any executive summary.
It's up to you guys.
Like, here it is.
Go for it.
It's all going to be out there.
So, yes, the reporters actually have to do their jobs and they have to do the reading, which is why, yes, it was a late night for me and an early morning for me as we tried to figure out what is of note here.
To me, just in my initial reaction, in addition to the memo I just showed you from the under Gary Underhill situation, I just think it's really important to think about how they were trying to control the narrative, even back then.
And sometimes when you try and control that, you actually destroy all the trust, any trust you had, gone, absolutely positively gone.
And what we've seen is that trust has been eroded because, yes, you did have Elon Musk.
You can call them whatever you want to call them, Hillary.
We had Elon Musk out there exposing all this.
We know now, I mean, hey, the BBC admitted it, that a big, giant portion of its funding came from this quote unquote international charity, including USAID.
We know that there was 34.3 million coming into Politico from all these different government agencies.
Remember, Politico was the one that they placed that letter in, the 51X spooks, that wanted you to know there was no way in HELL that that laptop was anything other than Russian disinformation.
They put the letter in Politico, of course, because, you know, it's a client.
In the New York Times, for me, I was talking 30 million earlier, it's 50 million.
You get the Associated Press getting 19.5 million in government contracts.
Including a $619,000 grant from the Department of State.
And interestingly, what do you know?
The funding spikes during an election year.
Here's the graphic from Politico.
Take a peek.
I mean, 2024, look at all the money going in, for goodness sakes.
You mean to tell me we need that many $10,000 a year subscriptions to Politico?
I don't think so.
No, you didn't need that, okay?
$10,000 a year, 236 subscriptions.
No, we didn't need that.
Reuters was getting money too.
$9 million from the State Department, Department of Defense for active social engineering defense and large scale social deception.
Okay, so you would say, oh, well, that's what we do, right?
Like, that's the CIA in action.
It's trying to influence worldwide opinion so we can have an effect on all these different governments, et cetera.
Better to do this than wage war.
Except that we've now turned this, thank you very much, Obama, on to ourselves.
This has now been unleashed onto the U.S. through the Modernization Act, the Smith Munt Modernization Act of 2012.
So it lifted the domestic ban on U.S. government produced media, allowing such content to be made available to American audiences.
Supporters argued, you know what, this changed.
We have to do it.
We have to do it because, you know, how else are we going to control the rise of misinformation on the internet?
You can have foreigners producing stuff all of a sudden.
Easily accessed, so we need to make sure we are putting our view out there to our people.
Well, okay.
But you see, when you're the ones in office and you're trying to completely control, tightly control that narrative, it turns very quickly into propaganda.
And when you lie and you lie and you lie some more, people say, no, thank you.
And that's exactly what happened in this election.
There was a new study that just came out.
Yesterday, in fact, by a Democrat run data organization that showed if actually more Democrats had come out to vote, Donald Trump would have won by an even larger margin because people were so freaking sick of everything.
You know, you're supposed to welcome everybody in.
You know, we don't really have a problem on the border.
We just want to, you know, be one happy, open society.
And yet all these communities were being overwhelmed with growing violence and growing economic challenges.
And it turns out, well, you know, if you actually had tried, you might have been able to shut that down just like Donald Trump has.
In a few months, it's dropped by 99,000.
Again, go back to this last point by Mike Bence, who is making his entire passion right now all about making sure truth comes out.
Here he is with Joe Rogan.
We're up against a much actually deeper, darker problem with this USAID scandal, and as people will see increasingly, the scandals that will break open at the Pentagon and the State Department, which is that we have a Smith Munt problem for funding and operations.
It's not just propaganda.
The blob, our foreign policy establishment, can fund groups that effectively work with prosecutors domestically or that work at media, sort of dual use.
We give them foreign grants to do media propaganda abroad, but they operate here.
Or social media censorship, to coerce foreign countries to pass foreign censorship laws that explicitly and are intended to attack U.S. social media companies and in U.S. peer to peer speech.
So we need that protection.
If we're going to keep this function at all, we need a hard firewall and absolute grotesque penalties for any violation.
Okay.
That kind of feels like a no brainer to me.
And I think that this declassification of all the JFK files is the first step in the right direction to getting this transparency, which is so desperately needed.
You can't really have a functioning society without some faith in the government.
But when the government lies to you over and over and over again, and they keep getting caught lying to you, you start to lose that faith.
And so, how do you restore that?
You do things like what we're seeing today.
You put it all out there and say, hey, you know what?
We're not even going to give you an executive summary.
We don't have our people from the CIA on speed dial spouting little talking points in the New York Times.
No, no, no.
We're just going to put it out there and let you guys run with it and you find what you can find because we are all about telling the truth.
And that goes a long way, a really long way towards reestablishing the very trust and faith that you need in this government in order for your institutions to succeed.
You cannot sit.
There and lie to people, and they lied for 60 some odd years.
We still don't entirely know the truth, but go back to the major memo.
Okay, what did Gary Underhill know?
He knew something, and he told people, he told his friends, according to this memo, he told his friends in New Jersey that he believed the CIA was responsible for this, and it all related back to Sam Cummings, who was running a weapons group that JFK.
Had found, and you know, suddenly Underhill winds up dead six months later.
Well, was this just a coincidence, or is it because they wanted to get rid of him again?
I think sometimes the cover up is the real problem here.
It was either stupidity, could have been negligence, it could have been, you know, they didn't want anybody to hear about the foreigners who were attacking us because that would have led to World War III.
But the effort that went into protecting everyone.
That's what eventually was the undoing.
And so we saw a lot of discouragement in the faith of the U.S. government, our institutions, and that has continued on and on to the point where we now, today, ladies and gentlemen, have very little faith in anything because of what we have seen transpire over the last eight to ten years.
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And just coincidentally, it goes with the modernization of the Smith-Mundt Act, which allowed for All of this money being poured into overseas organizations to influence opinion to then be turned right back on us.
Think about that.
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We have, as I said, so much reading to do and so much more to get to on this story.
But I leave you with this thought today.
You know what?
We need trust, we need faith, and we just went a whole long ways towards reestablishing that by allowing the public.
To actually see what is going on.
So, I congratulate Donald Trump and the entire team for this one.
And I'll do some more reading and be back to you tomorrow.
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