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Explora el fascinante mundo de la CIA en el documental "La Noche: Temática CIA, De una Guerra a Otra". En este análisis profundo, desvelamos las operaciones encubiertas que han marcado la historia militar, desde la Guerra Fría hasta los conflictos modernos. Conocerás los secretos del espionaje y las intervenciones de la CIA en conflictos bélicos como la guerra de Vietnam y la guerra de Irak. Este documental no solo es informativo, sino que también te ofrece una mirada educativa y reflexiva sobre el papel de la CIA en la historia contemporánea. Acompáñanos en este viaje a través del tiempo y descubre cómo las decisiones de la CIA han influido en el curso de las guerras.
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00:00The CIA is a bastard son who came to the mutilated world.
00:09It has never overcome the trauma of its birth.
00:30I will keep America moving forward, always moving forward, for a better America, for
00:45an endless dream and a thousand points of light.
00:49This is my mission and I will complete it.
00:54The ideology of the whole country could be summarized in these words.
00:58Why worry?
01:00Let's enjoy life and make money.
01:03The problems of the planet have disappeared, the Cold War is over.
01:08When the Soviet Union fell, we immediately understood that the world would destabilize,
01:14it would be much more agitated, and it would be more difficult to control than in the relatively
01:19structured period of the Cold War.
01:22Robert Gates, who was quite competent, ended up being a prisoner of the system.
01:26According to him, there had always been a single enemy, the Soviet Union.
01:30The CIA, like the United States and the West, felt triumphant, had won the Cold War, and
01:38as a result, they lowered the guard.
01:40But then the enemy came from the other side.
01:43We had been fighting for more than 40 years against a dragon, the Soviet Union, and when
01:48it was defeated, we were in the middle of a jungle full of poisonous snakes, much more
01:53difficult to fight than the dragon.
01:55Those snakes were called Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Islamic terrorism.
02:02We were obviously adjusting to the idea that the Cold War was over when Saddam and Iraq
02:07invaded Kuwait.
02:09At that time I was assigned to Baghdad as responsible for the embassy in Baghdad.
02:14We had received several reports that Saddam was threatening Kuwait.
02:20At the end of July 1990, the CIA and the secret services alerted the Bush administration.
02:26The invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein was imminent.
02:29The photos taken by satellite indicated the massive presence of Iraqi invasion forces
02:34on the Kuwaiti border.
02:36Saddam sent his troops and all his logistics to Kuwait.
02:40It could be seen through the images obtained by satellites.
02:43They had the best electronic systems to intercept communications.
02:47However, they did not have the intelligence necessary to understand Saddam.
02:52Although there were clear signs in front of our eyes, such as the movements of troops
02:57or the long caravans of tank trucks or supplies, Saddam's intentions were still ambiguous.
03:05The CIA had followed very carefully the deployment of the armed forces
03:09and the preparations for the invasion, so it was very well informed.
03:13When we called Washington to inform them that Saddam was placing all his troops
03:18along the border, they always answered the same thing.
03:21We all know Saddam, he's just having fun scaring Kuwait, that's all.
03:26And I remind you that the White House was in the hands of the Republicans.
03:30They trusted the leaders of the area, Iraqis, Jordanians and others, who told them
03:37Saddam would never invade an Islamic country, a friendly country.
03:44All those heads of state assured President Bush that Saddam would never invade Kuwait,
03:49that he was just a lighthouse to raise the price of oil.
03:53Mubarak told us, and King Hussein of Jordan, even the Emir of Kuwait told us.
03:59We followed the advice of the members of the Arab League, who were our friends.
04:04They clearly asked us not to do anything.
04:07And the United States took it literally.
04:11So the attack against Kuwait was a real surprise to everybody.
04:16But that doesn't mean that we couldn't have done much more to stop it.
04:21In the last 18 hours, the signs were indisputable.
04:2512 hours before the invasion, Richard Kerr, who was my adjunct, warned the deputies in the crisis cabinet
04:33that according to CIA information, Saddam Hussein was going to invade Kuwait within the next 12 or 24 hours.
04:43I don't remember whether I informed William Webster or not.
04:47The one I did inform was the president.
04:50The distance between what Washington refused to admit and the reality was immense.
04:55I was there and I saw the fighting, but they didn't believe it.
04:59I shouted on the phone via satellite, I'm not crazy, I'm seeing it.
05:03The attack has begun, I see the tanks.
05:05And they, RKR, because we don't see anything.
05:10On August 2, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait.
05:14In the Pentagon, nobody had taken seriously the warnings of the CIA agents located along the border.
05:20They even forgot to inform the main informant, Robert Gates.
05:25I was on vacation.
05:27I was with my family on the shore of a river near Washington,
05:31when a relative of my wife came to eat with us.
05:34She looked at me and said,
05:36I'm surprised to see you still here.
05:38I asked her what she was talking about.
05:40She said, the invasion.
05:42But what invasion are you talking about?
05:44She replied, Iraq has invaded Kuwait.
05:46The CNN are very skilled at getting news.
05:49Saddam invaded Kuwait on August 2.
05:53I was with him on the 6th for an hour and a half.
05:56He proposed to me something that we could qualify as a deal, in general terms.
06:01You allow me to annex Kuwait,
06:04and I guarantee you the supply of oil indefinitely and at a reasonable price.
06:09This will be the power that dominates the northern part of the Gulf.
06:14The interview was a little cold.
06:16I had not slept for four days.
06:20I made him a counteroffer that was summarized in two words.
06:24Evacuate Kuwait.
06:26The strategy against this army will be simple, very simple.
06:30First isolate them and then kill them.
06:33The Gulf War was brief.
06:35Saddam Hussein saw how his army fell in a few days.
06:38He was about to solve a crucial question.
06:40Should the storm operation of the desert be maintained while Saddam was still in power?
06:44The CIA wanted him to entrust the mission to eliminate Saddam Hussein.
06:48But President Bush refused.
06:50Before the first shot was fired,
06:53we had already decided that overthrowing the regime would not be one of our goals.
06:58If our goal had been the overthrow of Saddam Hussein,
07:02I do not think we could have formed the coalition.
07:05In fact, I'm sure that everything would have gone to waste.
07:08And then there were the practical problems.
07:10Saddam was not going to sit in his viewpoint and wait for the 24th Division to come and stop him.
07:17If Saddam had died,
07:19next to all the soldiers who died in that war,
07:23no one would have shed a single tear.
07:28If Saddam had been shot by chance,
07:31what a pity.
07:33But there were limits,
07:35very strict limits on what could be done or not to cause the death of a foreign head of state.
07:40Every night we lit a candle and prayed that Saddam was in one of the bunkers we were bombing.
07:46Although we knew perfectly well that he was sleeping in a school,
07:50in a hospital or in a mosque,
07:52because he knew that we would never bomb those places.
07:54They could not deal with him.
07:56In January 1993, Bill Clinton settled in the Oval Office.
08:01He had won the elections to George Bush, who could not get his second term.
08:05Dear compatriots, I want to build a bridge to the 21st century,
08:09so that we continue to be the country with the most powerful defense,
08:13so that our foreign policy proclaims the values of our country and the rest of the nations.
08:21Very soon, Bill Clinton expressed his disinterest for the secret services,
08:25the list of failures and errors of appreciation of the CIA,
08:28Bahía de Cochinos, the arrival of Khomeini and the integrals to power,
08:32the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets,
08:34the occupation of Kuwait by Iraq,
08:36the fall of the Berlin Wall,
08:38and the end of the Soviet Union.
08:40He had tainted the image of the agency.
08:42Clinton began to think that the list was too long,
08:44so he dismissed all the CIA advisers in the White House.
08:50When Clinton was elected,
08:52the CIA immediately sent two of its officials to inform him of our latest operations around the world.
08:58Clinton dismissed them.
09:00He told them to disappear, I do not care.
09:02He refused to see them.
09:04It is regrettable, but the worst thing is that the CIA quickly learned
09:08that the man for whom we had to work, the president,
09:11hated what we did,
09:13and even refused to read our reports.
09:17As soon as he arrived at the White House,
09:19Clinton chose James Bullsey, a perfect stranger,
09:22to assume the direction of the CIA.
09:24We will have to change some things.
09:27Before Clinton appointed me director of the CIA,
09:30at the beginning of his presidency,
09:32I had no relationship with the CIA or espionage.
09:35The president sent me to call,
09:37but we barely talked about the role of the CIA.
09:39He preferred to talk about our youth in Arkansas and Oklahoma,
09:42where we both grew up.
09:45Clinton had an atrocious fear of the secret services.
09:50He had grown up in the 1960s,
09:52when everyone had fun putting the secret services as a rag.
10:00Without a doubt, that was the cause of this kind of animosity
10:03that he felt towards everything related to espionage or security issues.
10:09He never understood what we were doing and what kind of things we could provide for him.
10:13Other presidents were passionate about the hidden world,
10:16which represented the secret services and clandestine operations.
10:20In my opinion, there are several factors
10:22that can explain the reasons for the disinterest of President Clinton.
10:26First of all, the Cold War was over,
10:28and the clandestine operations that his predecessors liked so much
10:32no longer had a reason to be.
10:34In addition, the CIA and the secret services had to adapt to the new situation.
10:39His decisions, and especially the lack of interest and support he showed,
10:42contributed to weaken us,
10:44and were the cause of all the problems that awaited us, that's for sure.
10:48If the CIA president can never interview the president,
10:52he can't do anything, because the CIA depends on the White House.
10:55In two years, we met twice.
10:57So much so that when in the fall of 1994,
11:00a Cessna plane crashed against the grass of the White House,
11:04the joke with which the whole Clinton team laughed was,
11:08I'm sure it was Woolsey who was trying to see the president.
11:11The truth is that at that time the joke was not very funny to me,
11:14but over time I realized that it described perfectly the situation I was experiencing.
11:18The president had no desire to listen to me.
11:21He was not interested in anything that was related to the secret services.
11:28Clinton never met with Woolsey, or almost never.
11:31He did not listen to his advice, nor did he listen to the CIA.
11:34He was interested in other things.
11:37Clinton wanted to find out about the gossips.
11:40He wanted to know, for example, who the French president was sleeping with.
11:45He was more interested in extra-marital relations than our work.
11:51Monica Lewinsky saw Bill Clinton more often than Jim Woolsey.
11:56Because Woolsey was always wrong.
11:58His information was always false.
12:01Clinton stopped reading the CIA secret reports.
12:04I would say that the New York Times was better informed than the CIA.
12:07Ask Woolsey what he thinks of all this.
12:10I do not think I have failed.
12:13It simply cost me to establish a normal work relationship with the president.
12:18If he had wanted, he would have had many opportunities to see me.
12:22I spent time asking for a meeting.
12:24I thought it was the most honest.
12:26I was a little naive.
12:28Woolsey basically lacked authority.
12:31He did not have the personality or the strength of character that he had to have.
12:35And even less a perception of our work that would allow him to go see the president to tell him ...
12:40Listen, there are some dramatic events on the horizon.
12:44And if you ignore them, you can say goodbye to the place that can occupy in history.
12:48Woolsey is the only one responsible for ignoring him.
12:51I felt like I was the eternal messenger bearer of bad news.
12:55The water party is on duty.
13:02On February 26, 1993, just a month after Bill Clinton's arrival at the White House,
13:07the explosion of a bomb truck parked in the parking lot of the World Trade Center in New York
13:12caused six deaths and a billion injuries.
13:15For the first time in its history, the United States suffered a terrorist attack on its territory.
13:19The CIA and the FBI were mutually blamed for the weakness of the secret services.
13:24The FBI had no competence if the operation had been carried out abroad,
13:29which was the field of action reserved for the CIA.
13:32The CIA, for its part, remembered that it was forbidden to investigate or operate on the territory of the United States.
13:38It is evident that we should have taken it as a warning.
13:4315,000 Americans were about to die in the first attack against one of the towers of the World Trade Center.
13:49They were only saved because the explosive charge was misplaced.
13:56The first attack was a real warning and we did not take it into account.
14:00The war had begun years ago, but no one wanted to admit it.
14:04The first attack against the World Trade Center was a call for attention, but no one paid attention.
14:09Muslim extremists recruited members in Washington since the 1970s.
14:14We were very naive about the determination of these groups to attack us deadly.
14:23We should have watched much more than we did.
14:29After the first attack against the World Trade Center,
14:32they filled an entire room with documents in Arabic about the attack they had gathered.
14:38But they did not translate any of those papers.
14:41There was only one person who spoke Arabic in the offices of the FBI in New York.
14:47Anyway, he did not want to translate them.
14:49They did not have money for that and he did not want to waste his time translating some documents.
14:54He was too important to do that.
14:56Secondly, they did not have money to pay for a private translator.
15:00And thirdly, they thought that the documents did not have much interest.
15:04The FBI has the same technique for years.
15:08They like to watch, to observe the suspects for a long time.
15:14Because the more they observe them, the more they know about what they are plotting,
15:17and the more possibilities they have to detain the largest number of people.
15:21So they prefer to wait and wait.
15:23In the case of the World Trade Center attack in 1993, without a doubt they waited too long.
15:29Because the FBI does not understand anything.
15:32And it considers that any incipient information is not credible.
15:35It seems to me delirious, amazing.
15:39And I do not say this to defend the CIA,
15:41because they also failed their attempts to infiltrate the terrorist networks around the world.
15:46But in the case of the World Trade Center, the FBI lost everything for a single reason.
15:51As they are naive and arrogant bureaucrats, they did not take it seriously.
15:56But above all, it was the case of Ames that accentuated the war that the CIA and the FBI maintained for years.
16:02Aldrich Ames, Director of the CIA Counterespionage Service,
16:05was suspected of being a top of the Soviet secret services since 1985.
16:10Ames would be responsible for the elimination of 130 CIA agents,
16:14and the death of another 10 executed by the KGB.
16:18Rick Ames was a failure.
16:20He should not have taken his place, nor should he have had access to him.
16:24They should have caught him before.
16:26Aldrich Ames was an agent known for his extraordinary incompetence.
16:32And for being an alcoholic who had exceeded all known norms in terms of alcoholism.
16:39And the secret services paid the price.
16:42Ames was an alcoholic who worked in an alcoholic agency.
16:45They put him in charge of the Soviet counterespionage service.
16:50The person responsible for the Soviet counterespionage was a failure, an incompetent and a drunk.
16:58After this, it is useless to look for the cause of death of the secret services.
17:05The CIA's internal security carried out a first unsuccessful investigation, and the case was filed.
17:10For the American government, this espionage case was the most serious in the history of the United States.
17:15And he decided to entrust the investigation to the FBI, which reopened the case and unmasked Aldrich Ames a few months later.
17:22It was a defeat for the CIA, and a brilliant victory for the FBI.
17:28We could not find anything, although we did not work in collaboration with the FBI.
17:33They did not come to any conclusion.
17:36They examined over and over again the same old papers without getting anywhere.
17:41They needed to advance in the investigation.
17:44And then the FBI, which is the only one that can investigate American citizens within the country,
17:50took the report of the investigation, reopened the case, and finally cornered him.
17:56The FBI got inside the CIA, and this disgusting espionage case made us all suspicious.
18:04The relations between the CIA and the FBI had become unsustainable, horrible.
18:09They used the Ames case as an excuse, and they said that there were hundreds of Russian moles inside the CIA,
18:14and that they were going to unmask them all, and then they investigated the CIA.
18:20The CIA suffered a lot with this matter.
18:23It suffered irreversible damage.
18:27The arrest of Ames was the grace shot.
18:30It meant the death of the CIA as I had known it.
18:34We were in 1994.
18:37People thought that the CIA was no longer necessary.
18:40The Cold War had ended, and no one had ever heard of Bin Laden.
18:46In 1995, the investigation of the World Trade Center attack led to the Al-Qaeda organization and to Osama Bin Laden,
18:53a Saudi born in Riyadh.
18:55Nicknamed the banker of the Holy War, his fortune was estimated in 2 billion dollars.
19:00The Washington Post revealed the close relationship that linked him to the royal family of Saudi Arabia,
19:04and told how he was recruited, trained and armed by the CIA during the war in Afghanistan.
19:09At that time, he benefited from the total support of the Americans and Saudi Arabia,
19:14which had provided him with the means he aspired to.
19:19The Americans spent many years without realizing that the royal family of Saudi Arabia,
19:25financed terrorism, in exchange for some internal stability.
19:32When Clinton abandoned the presidency, he already knew that the royal family financed Bin Laden.
19:37He had evidence.
19:39Both parties, Democrat and Republican, decided to tolerate a state-funded terrorism,
19:46because the Saudis had the oil.
19:50For this only reason we close our eyes.
19:52No investigation was done on Saudi Arabia, nor questions about human rights.
19:57There they are still stabbing women.
19:59Have you heard any protest here?
20:02What we have unleashed with this policy of supporting a repressive regime,
20:08giving them all the money necessary to exhaust the vital forces of Saudi Arabia,
20:15in fact, has only served to feed the Islamic revolution.
20:21I think that there was a geostrategic error of the first order.
20:25We allow ourselves to become unethical and stupid over oil.
20:31If we had taken the risk of provoking a revolution in Saudi Arabia,
20:35the production of oil would have fallen by 25%,
20:38the barrel would have risen to $150,
20:41and the United States would have collapsed.
20:45We had to keep a close eye on the royal family,
20:48because we were paralyzed by the idea of oil being cut off.
20:55The political leaders, the following presidents,
20:58closed their eyes to a Petro-monarchy,
21:01which applied the laws of the Koran to the letter,
21:04but which had paid the United States the $55 million that cost the Gulf War.
21:09The powerful American oil groups distributed the royal favors
21:13and a $150 billion cake a year.
21:16Several members of the Saudi Arabian Company's board of directors are American.
21:29And a lot of the people responsible for foreign policy in the United States
21:33depend economically on the royal family.
21:36We just have to get used to the idea that their luck is tied to American oil companies.
21:41They receive the money in cash or in the form of shares.
21:45For example, it is unquestionable the position that Exxon is currently occupying in Saudi Arabia.
21:50They buy the politicians,
21:53and then they provide them with information so that all the decisions they make
21:56favor the companies that are looting the country.
22:00When they retire and leave their jobs,
22:03many diplomats go to work in Saudi Arabia or other Gulf countries.
22:08I believe that if at the end of their career they decide to work for an oil company,
22:13it should be forbidden for them to occupy a position in the Middle East.
22:18A well-known and complacent politician in Saudi Arabia
22:21can fly to Riyadh and earn a million dollars just by giving a speech.
22:25When Bill Clinton says something nice about Saudi Arabia,
22:28remember that they pay him to give speeches there.
22:31That's the way it works.
22:33Many people leave the White House to work as Saudi bank consultants.
22:37The influence of oil over American policy is enormous.
22:43That is at the heart of all of this.
22:46Petroleum lobbies or pressure groups,
22:49and I know it's hard to understand,
22:51have much more power than the CIA.
22:53In Washington, there is a hierarchy.
22:56If the oil is here, the CIA is here, below.
23:00Then there is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
23:03then the pressure groups of the companies,
23:05then the consultants, the oil, the White House,
23:08and finally the Congress.
23:10Robert Baer discovered by pure chance
23:12how in the White House, the oil lobbies
23:15helped Bill Clinton finance the campaign
23:17for re-election to the presidency of the United States.
23:20One day he ran into Roger Tanrash,
23:22director of several oil companies,
23:24invited to a barbeque with the president
23:26for the modest amount of $300,000
23:28that went into the box of the Democratic Party.
23:31I watched this Lebanese man put money in.
23:34And Don Sauer offered him a list of services.
23:38A private meeting with the president,
23:40a night in the Lincoln Bedroom,
23:42a night in the Lincoln Bedroom,
23:44a ride on an Air Force One,
23:46a tea with the president,
23:48cuff links, everything was for sale.
23:51There was a list with the prices.
23:53It was a real catalog.
23:54I thought he was lying.
23:56Before he finished his first term,
23:58Clinton understood the weight
24:00that he had in oil and Wall Street.
24:02The only thing I blame myself for
24:04is that I was so stupid
24:05for not having realized before
24:07how the system works.
24:09I started sending reports
24:11about the financing of the campaign.
24:13But of course, the CIA can not spy on the Americans.
24:16So imagine if it's about
24:18the president of the United States.
24:20I transmitted to my director
24:22the information about the president.
24:24They were simply terrified.
24:26But the CIA paid me to tell the truth,
24:29and I was not going to stop.
24:31I do not care about politics,
24:33but what I was telling was true.
24:35I made a very important decision
24:37when I started writing reports
24:39about the president of the United States.
24:41I had never done something like this in the CIA before.
24:44I knew it, but I continued
24:46and decided to go to Congress
24:48to tell them what happened.
24:50Before I had to talk to someone
24:52about all this,
24:54with a friend who worked in Congress,
24:56who, by the way, was found dead
24:58some time later in a motel room
25:00with his head blown off
25:02and a rifle by his side.
25:04But we'll talk about that another time.
25:06Baer decided to put his finger on the nail
25:08and testify before Congress
25:10to describe the weight of the pressure groups
25:12in American political life
25:14and the election of the president,
25:16The day I went to testify
25:18about the funding of the campaign
25:20before the grand jury,
25:22some thieves were in my apartment,
25:24although they did not steal anything.
25:26The members of the grand jury
25:28did not even want to address
25:30the issue of the funding of the campaign,
25:32nothing, not a word.
25:34And every time I tried to say something
25:36about how the system worked,
25:38the prosecutor cut me off
25:40threatening me with a condescending tone.
25:42He asked for an interruption of the session
25:44just once the funding of the election campaign,
25:46the court will expel him
25:48and we will send him to jail.
25:50The system had gone crazy,
25:52completely crazy.
25:54When they realized
25:56they were not going to get me to shut up,
25:58they deflected the investigation
26:00towards me.
26:02It was pure intimidation
26:04worthy of a police state
26:06and it was happening in the CIA offices.
26:08Then the medical expert came
26:10and said he needed a psychiatric report.
26:12I told him to go to hell,
26:14that I was not going to undergo
26:16any psychiatric exam.
26:18It was as if we were with Stalin.
26:20They make you pass an exam,
26:22they send you to a psychiatrist
26:24they have under control
26:26and they can do whatever they want.
26:28They can intern you in St. Elizabeth,
26:30fire you, send you home, whatever.
26:32So I told them,
26:34very well, let's leave it.
26:36I knew I had nothing to reproach me.
26:38I had discovered from the outside
26:40how the system worked.
26:44And I understood that it was time
26:46to leave.
26:52Bob Baer resigned
26:54and was awarded the prestigious medal
26:56that crowns an exemplary career
26:58at the service of the CIA.
27:02If the law had allowed it,
27:04the CIA would have blown up my house
27:06with me inside.
27:09The CIA located Bin Laden in Sudan,
27:11where he had settled.
27:13Bill Clinton did not want to drop
27:15in the middle of the election campaign
27:17the presidential order Gerald Ford,
27:19which for 20 years banned all murder.
27:21But in February 1996,
27:23he signed a top secret mission order
27:25authorizing the CIA to use all the means
27:27necessary to weaken the Al Qaeda network
27:29and Bin Laden.
27:31Sincerely, if they had been able
27:33to assassinate Bin Laden,
27:35they would have done it.
27:37They did not find him.
27:39Clinton wanted Osama Bin Laden dead,
27:41but the CIA could not find him.
27:44A month later, in March 1996,
27:46the government of Khartoum,
27:48under the pressure of the UN,
27:50decided to expel Osama Bin Laden
27:52and his secret army of 10,000 men.
27:54They proposed to the Saudis to give it to him,
27:56but the royal family rejected the offer.
27:58Then the Sudanese made the same
28:00Bill Clinton offer.
28:02The United States and the Saudi government
28:04warned the Sudanese.
28:06Bin Laden poses a problem for us.
28:08And the Sudanese, who tried with all their strength
28:10to improve relations with Saudi Arabia
28:12and the United States,
28:14they said, okay, what do you want?
28:16Do you want us to give it to him?
28:18The Saudis replied,
28:20we do not want to know anything about him.
28:22They did not want Bin Laden to come back
28:24with them, they just wanted him to disappear.
28:26The Sudanese proposed to Saudi Arabia
28:28to extradite Bin Laden
28:30to be imprisoned.
28:32They could only expel him
28:34from one Muslim country
28:36to another Muslim country.
28:38So that in 1996
28:40he could have been in jail.
28:42The Sudanese desperately
28:44tried to negotiate
28:46with the United States.
28:48Then the Sudanese
28:50told the American government
28:52that they would give it to them.
28:54But the Americans told them not to do it
28:56because they could not incriminate him.
28:58They could not accuse him of any crime.
29:00So they could not accept it.
29:02That's exactly what happened.
29:04We needed a reason to incriminate him,
29:06a complaint,
29:08some concrete accusations.
29:10And in 1996 we did not have any evidence
29:12to allow his extradition to the United States
29:14to be judged.
29:16The United States did not put any pressure
29:18on Saudi Arabia to accept
29:20Bin Laden's extradition.
29:22I know exactly where they were
29:24and I know what they said.
29:26If it's going to cause you problems,
29:28don't do it.
29:30That's what they said.
29:32And the Sudanese sent him to Afghanistan.
29:34And we know how the story goes.
29:40The American government decided
29:42to reinforce the antiterrorist cell,
29:44give it a new boost
29:46by joining elements of the FBI and the CIA,
29:48two enemy agencies
29:50within the same service.
29:52To do this, he proposed to join
29:54the ranks of the CIA
29:56Dale Watson,
29:58a former FBI agent.
30:04When I said what was the job,
30:06they said they were going to need
30:08someone to join the CIA.
30:10And I said, well, for your information,
30:12I don't know those people,
30:14and I don't like them,
30:16and I'm not going to go out there.
30:18And they insisted, and they were going out there.
30:20In a certain way, they forced me to do it.
30:22We were joking about what later
30:24we called hostage exchange program,
30:26where people were forced
30:28by the FBI
30:30to work at the CIA,
30:32and at the same time,
30:34that conversation went out
30:36to the FBI,
30:38and they were told,
30:40one of you guys are going over
30:42to the FBI,
30:44and they replied,
30:46I don't know this is true,
30:48and we don't like those people,
30:50and we don't want to go over there.
30:52Because FBI speaks
30:54about subduing the CIA.
30:56They talk about the paramilitary
30:58case officers in CIA
31:00as knuckleheads,
31:02or they're goons or something, you know?
31:04So that's how the cooperation
31:06between the CIA,
31:08the FBI,
31:10and the anti-terrorist struggle began.
31:24The Clinton administration chose to accept the attacks as minor attacks,
31:26that did not require
31:28an important reaction
31:30from the CIA.
31:32The CIA,
31:34with a budget of several
31:36thousands of millions of dollars,
31:38could not predict
31:40any of the two attacks.
31:42And even less the one in Yemen,
31:44in October 2000,
31:46a month before the presidential elections.
31:48In the suicide attack
31:50at the port of Aden
31:52that did not require
31:54an important reaction from the CIA.
31:56Those are things out there,
31:58they want this over here,
32:00but it's not right here in this country.
32:02So there was a policy,
32:04unfortunately,
32:06which is,
32:08it's okay that there were not many victims,
32:10don't kill any of them,
32:12but do all of this.
32:14History will reveal
32:16the failure of the Clinton administration
32:18to really get down
32:20In the presidential elections of 2000,
32:22George Bush, governor of Texas,
32:24won against all odds
32:26and by a narrow margin
32:28the race to the White House.
32:30He came to power eight years
32:32after his father did.
32:34His rival, Vice President Gore,
32:36bowed to the election of the ballot box
32:38not to infuse discredit
32:40on the American electoral system.
32:50Bush rejected everything
32:52that was complex and all nuances
32:54and ended up convincing
32:56a lot of people,
32:58both here and abroad,
33:00that he was misinformed.
33:02I don't think he had the experience
33:04in foreign policy
33:06to do this on his own,
33:08or the intellectual capacity
33:10to do it on his own.
33:12His inexperience
33:14and his lack of seriousness
33:16facing the complexity
33:18of foreign policy
33:20led him to simplify everything.
33:24When you have a president
33:26who was a mediocre student
33:28and who knows almost nothing
33:30about the problems of the planet,
33:32he has all the papers
33:34to go to disaster.
33:36I would like to thank my father,
33:38the most honest man I know.
33:40During all my life,
33:42it has cost me to believe
33:44that such a sweet man
33:46could be so strong.
33:48Dad,
33:50I am proud to be your son.
33:52George Bush,
33:54father,
33:56before being director of the CIA
33:58and president of the United States,
34:00had created in 1960
34:02the Zapata Company,
34:04an oil company that,
34:06despite being tiny,
34:08could exploit some drilling areas
34:10in Kuwait.
34:12This is how George Bush,
34:14father, made his fortune.
34:16His son followed his advice
34:18and in 1979 he founded
34:20his own oil company in Texas,
34:22Arbusto Energy.
34:24It had a disastrous management,
34:26but Salim Bin Laden,
34:28brother of Osama,
34:30saved it from bankruptcy
34:32by buying much of the shares
34:34at a very high price.
34:36His son received from the oil group
34:38Harkin Energy $120,000 per year
34:40as a consultant.
34:42A quarter of the company was Saudi
34:44and the lawyer of the company
34:46was James Baker,
34:48former Secretary of State
34:50with Bush, father.
34:52Listen,
34:54former president George Bush
34:56clearly said that our strategic interest
34:58was to declare war on Saddam.
35:00What does that mean?
35:02The only strategic interest
35:04in the Gulf is oil.
35:06The Secretary of State Baker
35:08said to him,
35:10this has only one name,
35:12oil.
35:14George Bush made a fortune
35:16by selling all of his shares
35:18for $1,000,000.
35:20Shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
35:22An investigation was opened
35:24to find out if there had been
35:26a crime of information
35:28privileged by his father,
35:30who at that time was president,
35:32as his father, the former president
35:34and the Vice President of the United States
35:36made a fortune doing business
35:38with oil only thanks to their
35:40relations with the royal family.
35:42People did not know that the government
35:44in which he had trusted to end the crime
35:46was closely linked to the criminals.
35:48I can assure you that it would not
35:50have been negotiated with the Taliban
35:52if Unical and Enron had not demanded
35:54and had not financed
35:56the Bush campaign.
35:58Seeing how this government behaves,
36:00the government had just missed
36:02the Clinton era.
36:04They are crazy.
36:06The Bush family
36:08maintains very solid relations
36:10with criminals.
36:12Dick Cheney also has links
36:14with criminals.
36:16It is a real mafia.
36:18In 1989,
36:20George Bush's son was
36:22in the board of directors of the Carlyle group,
36:24a position that he retained until 1994
36:26and never declared his income.
36:28This gigantic company
36:30worked mainly for defense.
36:32Missiles, planes, cars ...
36:3416 billion dollars in assets.
36:36George Bush's father
36:38was still one of Carlyle's pillars.
36:40The board of directors was
36:42formed by a first-rate power group
36:44capable of influencing all
36:46political decisions.
36:48Each of the members had a capital
36:50of 200 million dollars.
36:52The Carlyle group was led by Frank Carlucci,
36:54former director of the CIA
36:56and defense minister with Reagan.
36:58The next day of his election,
37:00George Bush's son signed with the Carlyle group
37:02an arms contract
37:04of 12 billion dollars,
37:06in a new system of artillery,
37:08against the opinion of all the experts
37:10of the Pentagon, who considered it inappropriate.
37:14Probably the Carlyle group
37:16has direct access to everything the CIA
37:18knows about the rest of the world.
37:22He does not have to give accounts to anyone.
37:24There are no shareholders.
37:26It serves as coverage
37:28to a very effective information service.
37:30When you are in front of Carlucci,
37:32you are in front of the center of American power.
37:34Carlucci can call anyone from the CIA
37:36and talk to him face to face.
37:38His wife, Marsha,
37:40worked in a large management.
37:42His job was to camouflage
37:44the secret budget of the CIA
37:46within the budget of the Defense Department.
37:48Everything was in the family.
37:50There are many accusations
37:52against our, let's call it,
37:54political firm.
37:56But nobody can cite
37:58not a single case of political pressure
38:00in which we are involved.
38:02Not a single time
38:04in which we have tried to use our influence.
38:06We do not want to exert
38:08any political influence.
38:10We buy and sell companies.
38:12That's how we earn our salary.
38:14They intervene in secret operations.
38:16They smuggle black money through the Carlyle group.
38:18George Bush is involved in the business.
38:20Even Colin Powell is involved.
38:22Jim Baker, John Mayer,
38:24Arthur Levitsky,
38:26are top-notch personalities.
38:28But they are also very skillful people
38:30for business.
38:32So they are involved in business.
38:34I think it would be interesting
38:36that the public would pay more attention
38:38to the origin of their fortunes.
38:40The Carlyle group
38:42is very settled in Saudi Arabia,
38:44of course.
38:46It is estimated that the Bin Laden family,
38:48for example,
38:50invested in one of the Carlyle funds
38:52in London.
38:54So there are very strong connections.
38:56Undoubtedly, it is a kind of
38:58privileged information transmission
39:00between the United States
39:02and Saudi Arabia,
39:04specifically with the Bush family.
39:06It was a very modest investment.
39:08One or two million dollars, I think.
39:10We recovered our funds
39:12and, of course,
39:14we were not dealing
39:16with Osama Bin Laden,
39:18as is evident.
39:20Since his arrival in the White House,
39:22George Bush was warned by the CIA
39:24that Bin Laden was threatening
39:26the United States directly.
39:28Two months later, in March 2001,
39:30a government commission published
39:32a report of 150 pages
39:34that ended with these words.
39:36It seems likely an attack
39:38against American citizens
39:40on American soil,
39:42because our nation does not have
39:44any tool capable of fighting it.
39:46There were a number of us
39:48who, since the mid-90s,
39:50we had been warning
39:52that terrorists
39:54used weapons of mass destruction
39:56on American soil
39:58and we should be prepared.
40:02Several commissions had emphasized
40:04that there was going to be
40:06a large-scale terrorist attack.
40:08Tremendous.
40:10It was virtually inevitable.
40:12The CIA was screaming,
40:14the United States
40:16is going to have an attack
40:18on their territory.
40:20We received a huge amount of information
40:22about terrorist threats,
40:24about terrorist plans,
40:26about the fact that something important
40:28was going to happen.
40:30We thought there would be
40:32more attacks in New York
40:34and, not to mention the World Trade Center attack
40:36in 1993, there was that plot
40:38to arrive 12 planes in line
40:40in 1995,
40:42another that planned to crash
40:44a plane against the headquarters of the CIA,
40:46and an attack planned against
40:48the Los Angeles airport
40:50on New Year's Eve 1999.
40:52There was a plan that consisted
40:54of attacking the headquarters of the CIA in Langley
40:56and, of course, all those threats
40:58regularly launched by a suicide attack
41:00against the White House and the Capitol.
41:04We were absolutely convinced
41:06that America was going to be attacked.
41:08We measured the seriousness of the situation
41:10and we prepared for it.
41:12Unfortunately, all the politicians
41:14who listened to us decisively
41:16did not do anything.
41:18In fact,
41:20the whole country was asleep.
41:22The fight between the CIA
41:24and the FBI did not cease,
41:26although the threats were increasingly precise.
41:28There was still rivalry
41:30and information retention.
41:32The FBI chief warned his agents
41:34not to share any information
41:36with the CIA.
41:38Apparently, there were some mistakes,
41:40such as the lack of exchange
41:42of information between the services.
41:44It was not that we wanted to hide
41:46the information, it was that we did not have
41:48the necessary means to
41:50transmit it to the CIA.
41:52They did not communicate
41:54with each other, their computers
41:56were not connected to each other,
41:58their agents did not train together
42:00and they refused to work together.
42:02If the agent received information,
42:04he tended to keep it.
42:06They did not trust each other.
42:08It is not that they competed with each other,
42:10it is that each agency had a different mission
42:12and a different mentality.
42:14It was war.
42:16A war that spread
42:18to the entire counter-espionage.
42:20In February 2001,
42:22Israel warned the CIA that some terrorists
42:24were going to hack one or two
42:26airliners to use them as weapons.
42:28King Abdallah of Jordan,
42:30President Mubarak and the Chancellor
42:32Gerard Schroeder,
42:34transmitted the same information to the Pentagon.
42:36Soon there will be an attack
42:38on American soil,
42:40in which some planes will be involved.
42:42Islamic extremists
42:44had been training for years
42:46to deflect an airliner
42:48in an old device tied to the ground
42:50that we had been able to observe
42:52in the photos taken by our satellites.
42:54They trained in groups of four or five
42:56to take control of a plane
42:58using razor blades.
43:00In 1998,
43:02an email was sent to the CIA
43:04about Khaled Sheikh Mohammed
43:06talking about aircraft deflections
43:08and the false names he used
43:10in his trips to Europe.
43:12They never answered me.
43:14Several people from the Arab countries
43:16attended flight classes,
43:18but curiously they were not interested
43:20in learning to land.
43:22A detail that should have been
43:24investigated.
43:26He is learning to fly a plane
43:28and he tells his instructor
43:30that he only wants to learn
43:32how to turn right and left?
43:34Frankly, it's nonsense.
43:38We received several clues
43:40that were not seriously examined.
43:42A young man came to the FBI office
43:44in Newark, New Jersey
43:46a year before September 11.
43:50He told the FBI
43:52that he had had knowledge
43:54that he planned to use planes
43:56to crash them against the World Trade Center.
43:58The FBI could not verify
44:00any element of this story
44:02and they did not take it into account.
44:04Instead of taking it seriously
44:06and trying to understand
44:08what they ignored,
44:10instead of discovering
44:12what the CIA did not want to tell them.
44:14They probably thought
44:16that these air pirates
44:18were planning the simple
44:20flight of a plane
44:22that what they planned
44:24was to use the plane as a bomb,
44:26as a missile.
44:28So they preferred to wait
44:30and wait
44:32until it was too late.
44:34Exactly the same happened
44:36with the information about
44:38Zakaria Moussaoui.
44:40On August 24, the French secret services,
44:42the DST, Direction of Territorial Surveillance,
44:44sent a document to the representative
44:46of the FBI in Paris
44:48that showed that Moussaoui
44:50had trained in Afghanistan
44:52in a camp controlled
44:54by Bin Laden.
44:56They also knew that in Europe
44:58he had been related
45:00to some leaders
45:02or members of Al Qaeda
45:04and they gave the names
45:06to the United States.
45:08Can you believe that this document
45:10never reached the FBI agents
45:12in Minneapolis,
45:14where Moussaoui was?
45:16They not only prevented
45:18the FBI agents from
45:20transmitting their own information,
45:22the man in charge of the FBI
45:24in Minneapolis
45:26was like a prince, a king,
45:28a baron.
45:30And he only sent
45:32to the headquarters of Washington
45:34what he wanted to send.
45:36At a given moment,
45:38the FBI decided that the elements
45:40that the French had transmitted
45:42about Moussaoui were insufficient
45:44to carry out additional investigations,
45:46including telephone calls.
45:48The French transmitted
45:50information to the United States
45:52and the answer was that it was
45:54of no interest.
45:56They did not listen.
45:58Everyone is sorry.
46:00It was the FBI's fault.
46:02The CIA was to blame.
46:04But if the entire team of the president
46:06says, we don't want to know
46:08what's behind all this,
46:10we don't want problems,
46:12we don't want to hear about it,
46:14the real mistake
46:16was not to allow the CIA
46:18to investigate
46:20in Saudi Arabia.
46:22They told us
46:24that the Saudis
46:26were our friends
46:28and that we were not
46:30spies on them.
46:32The king sent the message,
46:34he didn't want to know anything.
46:36I'm talking about King George W. Bush
46:38and the king's advisor,
46:40Dick Cheney.
46:42But the reality is
46:44they did not let our intelligence
46:46forces do their job.
46:48Maybe, and I say maybe,
46:50if they had let the CIA
46:52do its business,
46:54the attack on September 11
46:56might have stopped.
46:58Five years after
47:00leaving the CIA,
47:02Robert Baer decided
47:04to restore contact
47:06with the groups
47:08he had infiltrated
47:10in the Gulf.
47:12He was aware of his plans.
47:14When I resigned
47:16from the CIA,
47:18I went to Beirut
47:20and they told me
47:22that Khaled Sheikh Mohammed
47:24was planning
47:26the attack
47:28on the World Trade Center.
47:30It was the old cell
47:32of Ransay Youssef.
47:34In August 2001,
47:36he told the president
47:38that he was planning
47:40an attack in the United States.
47:42I knew the CIA
47:44wouldn't listen to me.
47:46They decided
47:48nothing was going to happen.
47:50This is the way it works.
47:52They're bureaucrats.
47:54They don't want to hear
47:56from the outside.
47:58We failed to thoroughly examine
48:00all the documents
48:02and understand
48:04that they were going
48:06to attack the World Trade Center.
48:08The truth is
48:10that nothing was done
48:12correctly in this center.
48:14You know,
48:16providing all the means
48:18to inept people
48:20is like pouring oil
48:22over the fire.
48:24That's what happened.
48:26Everyone speaks
48:28as if it were
48:30an extraordinary operation
48:32of great complexity,
48:34to set up a structure
48:36like that.
48:38We missed no time.
49:04A school in Sarasota.
49:06At 8 hours and 47 minutes,
49:08while the president jokes
49:10with the children,
49:12his advisor receives a call.
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