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Hello and welcome, I’m
Gina Shakespeare
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Today on the show:
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Are the Migrant Caravans Part of Larger
Plan to undermine the United States.
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Just before we get underway,
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This video is written by Brad Johnson,
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a retired CIA operations officer
and a former chief of station.
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He is also president of Americans
for Intelligence Reform.
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Views expressed in this video are
the opinions of the author
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and do not necessarily reflect
the views of The Epoch Times.
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Recently, Vice President Mike
Pence said that
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Honduran President Juan Orlando
Hernandez told him the caravan
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“was organized by leftist groups in
Honduras financed by Venezuela
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and sent north to challenge our sovereignty
and challenge our border.”
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In the days following that revelation,
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additional supporting details
and evidence were reported
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by the left-leaning
Wall Street Journal,
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the conservative Heritage Foundation,
and others that confirm Venezuela’s involvement.
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Venezuela has a long and well-documented history
of antagonism towards the United States,
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and has declared itself a
member of an “axis of unity,”
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working with Iran, Cuba, and others,
against “U.S. imperialism.”
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In fact, Iranian intelligence
and military officers
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are embedded in Venezuela’s
equivalent organizations,
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and not just in low-level
support positions,
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but also in higher-level
positions of authority.
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The same and more can be said about the highly
professional intelligence agency of Cuba,
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which has long been a thorn in
the side of the United States.
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Next up, Death by a Thousand Cuts
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Venezuela, in conjunction
with its friends and supporters,
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has implemented a strategy of asymmetrical warfare in an attempt to attack the United States,
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since they lack the military
capability to inflict a direct defeat.
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Asymmetrical warfare is the
new modern term,
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with a mildly convoluted definition,
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for an ancient concept made
well-known by the Chinese.
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You may have heard about it.
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It’s remembered from history as “death
by a thousand cuts;”
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that is, inflict damage whenever and
however you can to weaken your enemy,
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to the point where they can
ultimately be defeated.
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These columns of illegal migrants are
purposely designed and implemented
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to inflict damage to the United States
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and undermine U.S. sovereignty,
while avoiding direct conflict.
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They were likely conceived
and financed by Iran,
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then implemented by Venezuela working
closely with the Cubans and Nicaraguans
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to sow political division
and chaos in the United States
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and absorb resources at
little expense to them.
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To make this work,
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there is close cooperation and coordination
with transnational criminal organizations,
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such as narco-traffickers
and gangs,
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which are active particularly
throughout Mexico
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and who are very strong near Mexico’s
shared border with the United States,
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which I’m sure you are very aware of.
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Next up, An Alliance.
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Less well-known and understood
is the Bolivarian Alliance,
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better known by its acronym from
Spanish as Alianza Bolivariana or ALBA.
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ALBA was founded by Venezuela
and Cuba in 2004
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and is an association of leftist
governments in Latin America
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and the Caribbean that also cooperate
on economic and propaganda efforts
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with like-minded governments
in the region.
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They are supported by Iran,
China, and Russia,
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who all share the United States
as their common foe.
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ALBA operates extensively and
almost entirely unopposed,
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and its underlying strategy
remains constant,
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which is to damage and ultimately destroy
the United States using asymmetrical warfare.
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As a retired CIA career intelligence
operations officer Brad Johnson,
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who authored the story,
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can assure everyone that the
intelligence services
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of Iran, Russia, China, Cuba, and Venezuela,
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as well as the trained intelligence
personnel from all terrorist groups
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and any others who have access,
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consider this migrant column an irresistible opportunity
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to infiltrate people into the United States.
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As you may have heard,
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the Guatemalan president reported that about
100 people arrested out of the column
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marching towards the United
States have links to terrorism,
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including the ISIS terrorist group.
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Former CIA Director and current
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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has warned publicly just
how dangerous Venezuela is
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and that the threat needs
to be taken seriously.
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As a professional in the
intelligence world,
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Brad Johnson understands that
the United States has enemies
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and that cooperation exists
between terrorist groups,
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transnational criminal groups, and
hostile foreign governments.
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It is the way of things.
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And in closing today,
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we find ourselves in the predicament where
the liberal Democratic Party leadership
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and the liberal mainstream media seemingly operate in agreement with the activities of these forces,
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who intend to damage and
ultimately destroy America.
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That’s all the time we have today,
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thank you very much for watching,
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please be sure to leave your
comments in the section below.
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What did you think about this episode?
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I’d love to know your opinion
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and also I really you got time last week
to watch the 2 part series on Spygate.
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I know we went into a lot of
details and it was very long,
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but I believe it was covered
systematically from a to z
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and had a lot of details that weren’t necessarily
being covered by mainstream media.
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So be sure to check out those episodes if
you haven’t watched it already.
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From all of us at Declassified,
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