"... The drug dealing CIA... None of that's true." Really?? Iran Contra? Barry Seal?? The amount of people from the agency that come on this show and run cover for them is crazy.
He lost all credibility with me when he said the CIA is not working with cartels and terrorists. Either he is flat out lying or is naive and I don’t believe for a second that he is stupid or gullible.
Yeah, I knew this was going to be a tough listen within the first 10 minutes, but after hearing that I just had to stop taking him seriously in any respect.
at 39:29 his facial charatceristics change. Notice the lack of eye contact, stuttering, and teary eyes. This tells me He knows more or is holding out on something. Remember these guys are professional in deception.
“Political espionage is a way of life in America. Everybody in the business knows it, accepts it and engages in it. It’s part of the game.” John Buckley (former FBI) Senate Investigation into Watergate 1973
For a spy who’s supposedly the best of the best, this guy failed miserably at seeing his own agency for what it is. They exploited him and he doesn’t even know it.
Man, this podcast (as interesting as it is) sure likes to let the feds use them as their mouthpiece. Everything you hear in this episode should be taken only as "This is what the CIA wants me to think about, and how it wants me to think about it."
It's obviously about the CIA from a CIA employees perspective. I don't expect to hear the agency's dirty laundry. If you can't understand that, and have your expectations set to a realistic level, the problem is you. If I want to hear about the wrong doings, and other stuff about the agency I will look elsewhere for that very reason. You have to understand what perspective you will be getting, and use it as just one of many sources to educate yourself in a more rounded way.
3 letter agencies are highly compartmentalized. Just because he was in the CIA doesn’t mean he is going to be aware of everything the agency is doing. He apparently is not adding that fact into his thoughts about what the agency did or did not do.
This is not a podcast guest; this is CIA on a press tour. Same with that Andrew Bustamante guy, who has been on every podcast lately. Talks a lot about how Epstein killed himself.
A guy like this starts off with all my respect based off where he came from and how he came up. To me he exemplifies people who claim to be guided by wholesome patriotic principled beliefs until those beliefs get in the way but as quick as they are to point out perceived evils they seem hopelessly incapable or unwilling to see their own.
I've seen this guy before on podcasts and he says alot of things that are proveably untrue and says many other things that just gave me a feeling of doubt about him. I just started it and he's saying Cuban rebels we're only second to the Nazis in deaths. Mao is said to have killed 40-80 mil, Stalin 7 mil, Pol Pot 3 mil. To name a few. In 1960 (when he was 10) Cuba pop was 7.1 mil. Just my observation of him
I get that too, also him wanted to join the Vietnam war... he won't say anything negative about our country because obviously he was cia. Also, it seem he did alot of things for our country because he felt he owed the favor in return of coming here from Cuba.
In October 2013, two former DEA agents and a pilot who allegedly flew for the CIA claimed to the Mexican journal Proceso and to the US network Fox News that the CIA had been "complicit" in the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985 and that Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia had played a role.
That was my first thought. The CIA said, "well get out there and remind the American people that we save the world from commies and terrorists every single day!"
The Agency literally brainwashed their agents- I know a few closely and am amazed at how effective the brainwashing is on them- literally robs them of the ability to see the truth around them or makes it effortless to lie about not being aware to those closest to them.
Man, in Vietnam, the Pararescuers were fearless! And don't leave out the pilots and crew chiefs and door gunners. We lost so many of those dedicated, honorable men !
45:50 "you crossed the border you just paid a coyote now that makes you legal" literally describing what he did to become a citizen through the freedom flights but proceeds to criticize immigrants who didnt come here "legally"
@@Geovanni___ dice el it takes years and money pero literalmente la unica razon que se hizo cuidadano fue por la circumstancia de los freedom flights y la dictadura es mas si no fuera por la dictadura no hubiera sido ciudadano
Bro it seems like you didn't listen to him properly.He said he came here as a kid and it is pretty much what happens for immigrant kids even now. The people who he is actually criticizing are those grown ups who don't do what his parents did. His parents literally waited in a communist country that had ample motive to hang them.
@@marka9261 I suggest you research what's happening with David Grusch who was tasked with reporting to Congress on UAPs. In 2022, Grusch filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General so that he could share classified information with the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In July 2022 the ICIG found his complaint to be "credible and urgent". If you have to file an ICIG complaint to share information with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, does that sound like oversight to you?
I was in Central America in 85-86 flying for a govt contractor and Ric was a legend as was Felix Rodriguez. As for Eugene Hassenfus? He was a rat that sung like a canary when captured.
I gave you a thumbs up because you are correct. "Felix Rodriguez aka Max Gomez" should have gone to prison. Kiki's death was a direct result of protecting the drug trade.
@TEP hey remember that time the FBI had to lead an investigation to root out double agents in the CIA? I wonder how many there are now. FBI, state department and many other agencies have double socialist double agents
UNBELIEVABLE BU!! $H!T! **KNOW THIS The people at the top, the ones sitting with the [Have Mores] knew exactly where Bin Ladin was the entire time! They waited for the last plane out (with the Bin Ladins) on board, before they shut down the planes. Then, they practically gave him an armed escort out of the mountains into Pakistan. Shrek the retired Seargent Major talks about how he and a select handful got to shoot/fire nearly one of everything we have in our arsenal. Including the MOAB! As they/we were flexing, shooting off all our bottle rockets into the valley, Bin Ladin and his entourage quietly and safely stepped out the back door, as the world watched. He practically had an army guard his six as he went through the chain of safe houses! Special measures were taken to make sure he and his peeps got out safely. The Bush/Cheney regime had agreements in place, that as long as they held office, or had hands on the controls Bin Ladin would not be harmed! I'm sure this will be erased, and it sickens me to know where this "free" country is headed. The only thing that sets us apart from N Korea is... Our propaganda machine has better funding and the producers have much better scripts [world-class writers]! FOR GOD'S SAKE PEOPLE, THEY ARE NOW OPENLY SUPPORTING THE FIGHTING ON ALL SIDES OF THE FENCE. NOW WHATS NEXT? Doom and gloom for sure! When putin called it and pointed out that ISIS was fighting in Syria with American weapons and bullets, right about the time they left the Taliban, better armed than most 3rd world countries. American Contractors the maintain and service the fleet they were handed, before we left. (Ukraine is buying Russian gas) we have been caught red-handed funneling resources to Russia through Egypt. And that's just the crap or the scraps of info they leave laying around. Why are we in ukraine? Follow the money train! What did they say, ALL ROADS LEAD TO TO ROME! **WAKE UP PEOPLE, IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE!**
Could you imagine being able to go from mowing lawns, saving your money while having child and a wife and being able to save enough to buy a house. That’s almost impossible today in Toronto Canada where I’m from. Wow. Times were different
Laugh out loud but no, it's just us Millennials and not wanting to work hard. That shit kills me when I hear about relatives or older family members talking about literally just working a part-time job over summer and buying their first car outright in cash... and it was like a ten-year-old car for less than $500, not no Model T.... LOL nowadays you can work an entire summer AKA 3 months part-time at minimum wage and be lucky to break 1500 bucks after taxes. You can't buy a total POS with no AC for that amount of money nowadays... But those Baby Boomers and they're $20,000 houses... $5,000 new cars... 1 ¢ candy... just work harder for the same exact basic things us Millennials one day dream of...lmao
@TEP the moment you only look for data/information that confirms your already held belief/viewpoint is the moment you stop growing. (not that I think the CIA's hands are clean in the drug trade for a moment)
There is no such thing of a x cia agent... They are always loyal to the agency.. they will support the cia with any lie they want said.and follow any narrative
Less than 1 min in this dude completely discredited himself 😂 bro the cia literally drugged dumb tricks in the haight ashbury area… also they were def involved in jfk death
Roberto Clemente played baseball for The Pittsburgh Pirates, where I was born. I remember when we got the news that he died in a plane crash bringing food to help the people after the earthquake. I was a young teen and I remember that the people in Pittsburgh were devastated hearing the news. He so was beloved! He was such a good man. There was a bridge near our stadium and I believe that it was named after him. I moved out of state but I will never forget his contribution to the Pittsburgh people and The Pittsburgh Pirates. I still cry about what happened to him. Just your guest mentioning his name, takes me back like it was yesterday.
CIA was running opium through Laos and Cambodia when we were only "supposed" to be in Vietnam. Just because he might not have personally done it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
@@luisanaya9327 just look at His Face when he's talking about Felix and kiki he looks fucking weird obviously lying like he just got put on the spot Felix probably told him everything or he .ight of be involved himself
@@noelespinoza6624 yup started studdering up a storm caro quintero throws shade at him in a song he had made in the 90s " no fui yo fue un extranjero" something along those lines
Just a point to clarify. He says he came into this country legally and he is correct but he only came into this country because of the US Cuban immigration political policy against Castro. Nothing else. He was not a gifted kid or anything. It was all about policy. So, it would be very easy for anybody who falls under that policy to say "I came into this country legally". Also Felix Rodriguez is from Cuba and falls into the same immigration/political policy. He really sounds like he still part of the agency. The facts he lists and explain and the way he justify actions taken. Agent Bustamante , on the contrary; was well balanced and honest to a point. In the end; I try not to judge things that happened 40 yrs ago with today's standards.
"none of that is true"... >googles operation midnight climax. >googles mk ultra >googles operation mongoose >googles the bay of pigs >googles Project QKHILLTOP >googles Project BLUEBIRD >googles Project ARTICHOKE
Keep going. Google Operations Gladio, Phoenix, Cyclone, Condor. All programs to create or coopt organized crime groups to facilitate political and economic terror/assassinations
Koncrete needs to do better in vetting his guests or at least scrutinize the stories their telling. Ask lots of questions before the interview and then fact check and verify if not you look like another quack.
Should have asked about all the allegations about him doing hits for organized crime figures from his youth after becoming a PJ and paramilitary came up in few court cases in 70s
2:21:46 the moment where an unsuspecting citizen discloses a major asset and the consequential response from someone with his ears to the street. As someone that has worked near to these people before, you broke his balls and made him regret the last 2 hours 21 minutes and 46 seconds of the interview at this point.
the way he says theres no eyes in north korea, lol what a joke and this guy lies so much both to others and himself that he thinks hes better at it than he is.....
He opened up with they dont honey pot and that its bullshit that congress doesnt know what the CIA is up too, i laughed and knew i had to stop listening 😂
I found out about the SAD (SAC) part of the CIA when I was about 14-15yo and thought what I solidly feel now after this podcast. That’s the most epic career on this planet per my teenager thoughts back then. This is top 3 if not the best interview I’ve ever heard with a grain of salt, thank you!
In October 2013, two former DEA agents and a pilot who allegedly flew for the CIA claimed to the Mexican journal Proceso and to the US network Fox News that the CIA had been "complicit" in the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985 and that Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia had played a role.
Great video interview. I'm 58 and am still having trouble keeping up with all these names. Could you throw some photos of these guys up as they get mentioned to assist us old guys? Lol
2:29:30.....the GS 14 FBI agent was Ed Goetz. Only a few FBI agents worked at Alec Station, Mark Rossini, Doug Miller, Margert Gillespie, and Ed Goetz. They were from John O Neill's I-49 unit. Also, the CIA most certainly with held information intentionally from the FBI. For example, a cable came in March 2000 about two Al Qaeda operatives, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, whom the CIA had been monitoring, with assistance from NSA, who had dual US visas and coming to the United States from a high level Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia. Doug Miller read this cable, and drafted a central intelligence report (CIR) to warn FBI HQ about their arrival. However, they needed approval for the Deputy Chief of Alec Station, Tom Wilshire to get the CIR approved. Wilshire told his lead analyst involved in monitoring an Al Qaeda communications hub in Yemen, Michelle Anne Casey, to hold off per Wilshire. The CIR was never sent. Rossini went to inquire to Casey about why the CIR was never sent, according to Rossini, Casey told him "It is not an FBI matter, if we want to share the information with the FBI we will let you know." This information was never shared with the FBI until August 21st 2001. By then it was much too late, and the FBI opened an intelligence file on al-Mihdhar but couldnt find him. So Ric Prado is not being fully truthful here in regards to CIA mishandling the al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi case. They intentionally with held this information from the FBI and even committed perjury before the 9/11 Commission because DCI George Tenet, told the commission nobody read the cable Over 55 CIA officers and analysts read that cable and never told anyone from FBI, State Department or the National Security Counsel Also, Prado is stating the CIA is not allowed to operate inside the United States This is true. Yet, the latest Donald Canestraro document, from the Office of Military Commissions, state that CIA and Saudi intelligence were running an illegal covert operation monitoring al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi inside the United States
Great comment, just saw that story.... crazy! CIA has become impossible to hold accountable. They literally run propaganda in our own country and don't care enough to hide it. Any narrative they want to disseminate goes like this (probably slight oversimplification): 1) someone within the CIA tells a reporter situation X might be true. 2) reporter writes story about situation X per source from the inside 3) CIA uses story as evidence for situation X 4) continue feedback loop until there is enough evidence to justify whatever the fuck it is they want to do
So he was involved in tracking down bin laden..... Did he know he was sending the seals to their death? The largest single day casualty of the war, they were shot down with a stinger stolen from a Saudi country, trafficked thru Benghazi. (we know from tracing the serial #) To hide the fact bin laden was swapped last minute with a double at the Pakistani safe house. This is why head of cia John Brennan, Obama, etc had a Muslim burial at sea ... there's no such thing Here is the full story, allegedly his double was disposed of in pieces over the Hindu Kush mountains Skip the first 5 min and u will see Alan parrot explain to the Noe family why their son died in Benghazi. It is all connected go figure th-cam.com/video/pQ9EwSKeg8Y/w-d-xo.html
They planned it entirely a splinter cell in the CIA.... His hands clearly aren't clean which may be why he's not outright admitting everything..... But he prob did agree to testify against whomever faced court martials hence how we all know this info and he's free to speak today like this My personal opinion
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As children we went to the Saturday matinee, it was either the cowboys in white hats against the native Americans or the cowboys in white hats against the land barons stealing land from the poor farmers and ranchers. As a teenager and military brat, I grew up in the far east and Turkey. As an adult I went to university, joined the Peace Corps, learned to speak Spanish and then lived more than 30 years in Central and South America. I visited every country in Central America and South America and lived and worked in many. Ric Prado appears sincere, but he is as out of touch with reality as those cowboys wearing white hats in a Saturday matinee. I always wondered why CIA were called "the white shoe boys?" Now I know. My suggestion, in fairness, is to interview a Native American and a land baron, but that's not going to happen, is it? It never happened in a Saturday matinee. I watched and waited, are podcasts different? I'll be watching and waiting.
Suppose your blissfully unaware if the corrupt Gov is using your channel as a mis & disinformation platform, but anyone who "used" to be in the CIA, is more than likely, not "ex-CIA"
what an amazing story of his life!! and you did so good asking great questions and really showing that you cared!! great interview!! His story really touched my heart!! thanks!
please keep interviewing cia agents and ask them for more life advice and just all of that! questions on everything like you do on this one. thanks for your stuff bro! we're all really impresseed! love from texas & virgina!
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” - William Casey Director of the C.I.A. at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan
def respect Ric for his past and dedication to the US. although, i would expect our "agencies" mouths water over individuals like Ric. capable of sending these no questions asked people to senseless self inflicted terrible scenarios-
Yeah, I lived in a orphanage, so poor we lived 5 deep in an efficiency apartment, air force para-rescue, fireman/medic, joined the CIA, college degree, lived in the jungle for three years, eventually became a deputy director for CIA... oh wait.... I forgot one thing, I delivered 2 babies. Slacker!
Just at the beginning of this conversation, I wish the young people of America knew how good they have it, and would educate themselves on what communism does to a country. There are so many great things about USA , but some( not all) youngsters these days take that for granted. This man, Ric Prada has a lot to teach. Take note. I thank you for your story.
@@barrybarnes96 You are sadly mistaken. There are lots of Trotskyite Communists just in New York City. Rahm Emmanuel, was the Communist mayor of Chicago. There are a LOT of Commie-Marxists here. The guy who runs Blackrock is
It always makes me laugh when I hear a Cuban born immigrant talk about immigration. especially when they start talking about the great American melting pot. Miami is about as diverse as salt lake City Utah. 😂
Speaking of being an American. My family has been in America since probably around the Carolina's being established. I had a great+++ uncle who as a Major in the Civil War. My family is very pro American. And this guy is a real old school American. People like him are the only immigrants we need in this country.
As a Cuban born, I feel proud in the words of Mister Ric Prado, thanks for speaking truth about Cuba. And thanks to the Koncrete platform for introducing this important topic.
And what about all the shit these guys do that makes us LESS safe? They fucked up everything they ever touched and this guys acting like we owe them some debt of gratitude.
"... The drug dealing CIA... None of that's true." Really?? Iran Contra? Barry Seal?? The amount of people from the agency that come on this show and run cover for them is crazy.
Shawn Ryan had a guy on yesterday who is a cia shill too.
Definitely planned
I caught that too.
Yeah people in the CIA on their own accord went into the drug game, not the CIA in of its self.
@@EmazingGuitaronce CIA, always CIA…
freeway ricky proved it on court he was supplied by them to flood mainly black suburbs so they let him out of jail for that
He lost all credibility with me when he said the CIA is not working with cartels and terrorists. Either he is flat out lying or is naive and I don’t believe for a second that he is stupid or gullible.
Of course he knows lol how could he not
lying is one of the skill sets developed at The Farm.
CIA teaches BullShit 101
Yeah, I knew this was going to be a tough listen within the first 10 minutes, but after hearing that I just had to stop taking him seriously in any respect.
at 39:29 his facial charatceristics change. Notice the lack of eye contact, stuttering, and teary eyes. This tells me He knows more or is holding out on something. Remember these guys are professional in deception.
Ex-CIA Director Mike Pompeo: "we lied, we cheated, we stole".
“Political espionage is a way of life in America. Everybody in the business knows it, accepts it and engages in it. It’s part of the game.” John Buckley (former FBI) Senate Investigation into Watergate 1973
Kill, steal, destroy... Now; where have I heard that job description? Hmmm ?
And Pompeo was one of the biggest and constant liars, surpassed only by Trump and Barr!
For a spy who’s supposedly the best of the best, this guy failed miserably at seeing his own agency for what it is. They exploited him and he doesn’t even know it.
Man, this podcast (as interesting as it is) sure likes to let the feds use them as their mouthpiece. Everything you hear in this episode should be taken only as "This is what the CIA wants me to think about, and how it wants me to think about it."
or why isnt that guy on death row?
This was straight up propaganda 😂
Yeah I had to tune out almost immediately, can’t stand these company men all parroting the same agendas
It's obviously about the CIA from a CIA employees perspective. I don't expect to hear the agency's dirty laundry. If you can't understand that, and have your expectations set to a realistic level, the problem is you. If I want to hear about the wrong doings, and other stuff about the agency I will look elsewhere for that very reason. You have to understand what perspective you will be getting, and use it as just one of many sources to educate yourself in a more rounded way.
@@williamallen7836 if you insist on gobbling up all that propaganda, please chew with your mouth shut.
How can this guy deny his agency’s involvement in the drug trade when there’s been overwhelming evidence that proves otherwise
Exactly what I was coming to say The US GOV. prolly wasn’t sellin the dope buh they damn sure turned they heads to them sellin it
Because was one of those low level guys who never knew and never questioned anything. Or he's just a dirty lying bastard
I said the same. multiple incidents. multiple times proven in court
He drank the whole container of the agency’s kool-aid
Confirmation bias on the people digging up info.
3 letter agencies are highly compartmentalized. Just because he was in the CIA doesn’t mean he is going to be aware of everything the agency is doing. He apparently is not adding that fact into his thoughts about what the agency did or did not do.
I'm not in any 3 letter agency, and I know what he's saying is BS. He knows the CIA is crooked AF. Don't be naive.
@@labmonkey5336 Who is apologetic?
This is not a podcast guest; this is CIA on a press tour. Same with that Andrew Bustamante guy, who has been on every podcast lately. Talks a lot about how Epstein killed himself.
@@aaizner847the OP.
@@brandonburns5365 ... ... hhhoww..?
I’m a minute in & he’s just said CIA dealing drugs is fantasy?
Lmao. They don't deal drugs. They just confiscate them from bad guys and then safely redistribute them for money.
yeah... hit on that too!!
Right? Everyone knows that's a lie. When Reagan shut down the Contra funding, the CIA got into the drug running business.
People in the CIA, not the CIA itself
@@EmazingGuitar that runs contrary to everything we know. It was organised top to bottom. It cost Gary Webb his life.,
A guy like this starts off with all my respect based off where he came from and how he came up. To me he exemplifies people who claim to be guided by wholesome patriotic principled beliefs until those beliefs get in the way but as quick as they are to point out perceived evils they seem hopelessly incapable or unwilling to see their own.
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Bùllßĥit PURÈ.
CIA you need to be a sociopath it's a requirement.
Well Put
I've seen this guy before on podcasts and he says alot of things that are proveably untrue and says many other things that just gave me a feeling of doubt about him. I just started it and he's saying Cuban rebels we're only second to the Nazis in deaths. Mao is said to have killed 40-80 mil, Stalin 7 mil, Pol Pot 3 mil. To name a few. In 1960 (when he was 10) Cuba pop was 7.1 mil. Just my observation of him
I get that too, also him wanted to join the Vietnam war... he won't say anything negative about our country because obviously he was cia. Also, it seem he did alot of things for our country because he felt he owed the favor in return of coming here from Cuba.
@@rudymedina4508 *is cia
I feel like he reflects well what kind of information was flying around at the time to keep americans motivated
During WWII Russia lost 25 million to Germany and China lost 20 million to Japan.
Better story is about some Russian spy. In two different podcasts, two different guys was named the same and was telling the same story...
In October 2013, two former DEA agents and a pilot who allegedly flew for the CIA claimed to the Mexican journal Proceso and to the US network Fox News that the CIA had been "complicit" in the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985 and that Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia had played a role.
Yup that's where I knew this interview is total Bs. Fraud
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RIP Kiki. Seemed like a stand up guy.
@@AJ1990. He is and if the above is even true - but please suggest to anyone wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt to burn it.
Amazon video has a special that goes through the whole story, "Narcos"
This interview is the CIA countering John Kiriakou’s interview on this pod
You can even feel John censoring himself quite a few times
Both are lying sociopaths and John a severe dunning Kruger smug dick aswell
That was my first thought. The CIA said, "well get out there and remind the American people that we save the world from commies and terrorists every single day!"
Yah I don’t think imma waste time watching this guy lmao.
You know how they do 🙄
The CIA absolutely dealt drugs.
CIA guys NEVER talk smack about the agency...always "proud"
Save for save for John Kirakau, but he went to prison for being a whistleblower
Ever hear of Kevin Shipp?
The Agency literally brainwashed their agents- I know a few closely and am amazed at how effective the brainwashing is on them- literally robs them of the ability to see the truth around them or makes it effortless to lie about not being aware to those closest to them.
Their complicit. What else can they do?
Man, in Vietnam, the Pararescuers were fearless! And don't leave out the pilots and crew chiefs and door gunners. We lost so many of those dedicated, honorable men !
45:50 "you crossed the border you just paid a coyote now that makes you legal" literally describing what he did to become a citizen through the freedom flights but proceeds to criticize immigrants who didnt come here "legally"
Se mamo el wey, doble moral.
Haci hablan y piensan muchos cubanos. Es un asco por k al final del día el gabacho nos miran igual a todos. Este wey a estado dormido todo su vida
@@Geovanni___ dice el it takes years and money pero literalmente la unica razon que se hizo cuidadano fue por la circumstancia de los freedom flights y la dictadura es mas si no fuera por la dictadura no hubiera sido ciudadano
Bro it seems like you didn't listen to him properly.He said he came here as a kid and it is pretty much what happens for immigrant kids even now.
The people who he is actually criticizing are those grown ups who don't do what his parents did. His parents literally waited in a communist country that had ample motive to hang them.
Our country accepted refuges from Cuba if they could get out and make it to America and claim political refuge
"CIA doing stuff Congress doesn't know about isn't true"
Guy ruined his credibility in the first 5 minutes.
I was done after that.
You just ruined your credibility with your ignorance !
You're spot on.
@@marka9261ok spook 😂
@@marka9261 I suggest you research what's happening with David Grusch who was tasked with reporting to Congress on UAPs. In 2022, Grusch filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General so that he could share classified information with the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In July 2022 the ICIG found his complaint to be "credible and urgent". If you have to file an ICIG complaint to share information with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, does that sound like oversight to you?
He didn’t even make it to the 2nd minute 😂
This guy is walking that company line 😂
I was in Central America in 85-86 flying for a govt contractor and Ric was a legend as was Felix Rodriguez. As for Eugene Hassenfus? He was a rat that sung like a canary when captured.
Dude says the Cia doesn't have to follow laws if ordered by president nd Danny follows with " tell me about your childhood"
Danial is a duffer.
danny isn't retarded.
I'm glad I've studied these topics for decades -- AND that I read the perspicacious comments before wasting my time listening to this.
(Thanks folks!)
2:26 The person he mentions Billy Waugh, his life, career and story is nothing short but incredible.
Stopped watching after he said they don’t run drugs lmao 😂
Same
same here
Why would they say " we run drugs".
That's like a rapist saying.....
" I am 100% a rapist".
Never happen.
same omg lmao
Exactly what I just did 😂😂😂😂😂
CIA is part of KiKis's death, and it wasn't Felix being considered as an informant.
and part of JFK's death & behind the Nazi regime ....and .....and ....much more
That’s how the cartels we’re basically made
I gave you a thumbs up because you are correct. "Felix Rodriguez aka Max Gomez" should have gone to prison. Kiki's death was a direct result of protecting the drug trade.
This ..,
What proof do you have of this? Sounds like you’re and unhinged schizophrenic.
In the first 5 minutes when he said the drug running never happened, I love this podcast but not even wasting my time on this one.
The interview ain't even started and this mf already lying. That's how you know he is CIA. 🤣
So why is he saying the cia never ran drugs??? Had he forgot it’s been laid out in pen and paper saying they were?
Proven time and time again
CIA currently isn't doing squat. We are out here fighting the culture war and they are listening to our phone conversations
LOL
Shit qt this point they are the ones putting the shit out that were fighting in the culture war!!!!!!
@TEP hey remember that time the FBI had to lead an investigation to root out double agents in the CIA? I wonder how many there are now. FBI, state department and many other agencies have double socialist double agents
@TEP yep overtime
You lost me at “the drug dealing honey trap CIA, none of that is true.” Come on, no no…come on.
UNBELIEVABLE BU!! $H!T! **KNOW THIS The people at the top, the ones sitting with the [Have Mores] knew exactly where Bin Ladin was the entire time! They waited for the last plane out (with the Bin Ladins) on board, before they shut down the planes. Then, they practically gave him an armed escort out of the mountains into Pakistan. Shrek the retired Seargent Major talks about how he and a select handful got to shoot/fire nearly one of everything we have in our arsenal. Including the MOAB! As they/we were flexing, shooting off all our bottle rockets into the valley, Bin Ladin and his entourage quietly and safely stepped out the back door, as the world watched. He practically had an army guard his six as he went through the chain of safe houses! Special measures were taken to make sure he and his peeps got out safely.
The Bush/Cheney regime had agreements in place, that as long as they held office, or had hands on the controls Bin Ladin would not be harmed!
I'm sure this will be erased, and it sickens me to know where this "free" country is headed. The only thing that sets us apart from N Korea is... Our propaganda machine has better funding and the producers have much better scripts [world-class writers]!
FOR GOD'S SAKE PEOPLE, THEY ARE NOW OPENLY SUPPORTING THE FIGHTING ON ALL SIDES OF THE FENCE. NOW WHATS NEXT?
Doom and gloom for sure! When putin called it and pointed out that ISIS was fighting in Syria with American weapons and bullets, right about the time they left the Taliban, better armed than most 3rd world countries. American Contractors the maintain and service the fleet they were handed, before we left.
(Ukraine is buying Russian gas) we have been caught red-handed funneling resources to Russia through Egypt. And that's just the crap or the scraps of info they leave laying around. Why are we in ukraine?
Follow the money train! What did they say, ALL ROADS LEAD TO TO ROME!
**WAKE UP PEOPLE, IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE!**
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Bustamante said “all of that absolutely takes place”.
The CIA and FBI need to have a boxing match. Who will win?
It'll be a tie. That said, they can sword fight for the tie-breaker.
Mike Tyson
The CIA WOULD WIN ...THEY WOULD HIRE A CIA AGENT TO REPLACE THE FBI AGENT AND THROW THE MATCH 😂
the CIA, the FBI are a bunch of pencil pusher NERDS
Israel 😊
iykyk
Could you imagine being able to go from mowing lawns, saving your money while having child and a wife and being able to save enough to buy a house. That’s almost impossible today in Toronto Canada where I’m from. Wow. Times were different
Used to be like that in the US too. Today no way
Getting a house in Toronto today would be the dream
Laugh out loud but no, it's just us Millennials and not wanting to work hard.
That shit kills me when I hear about relatives or older family members talking about literally just working a part-time job over summer and buying their first car outright in cash... and it was like a ten-year-old car for less than $500, not no Model T.... LOL nowadays you can work an entire summer AKA 3 months part-time at minimum wage and be lucky to break 1500 bucks after taxes. You can't buy a total POS with no AC for that amount of money nowadays...
But those Baby Boomers and they're $20,000 houses... $5,000 new cars... 1 ¢ candy... just work harder for the same exact basic things us Millennials one day dream of...lmao
to be fair it did take him an entire 2 years /s
thats how they think. “it was possible when i did it. i bought a house making $2 an hour, therefore you arent working hard enough. america is great!”
WTF is he talking about CIA not selling drugs?! Am I crazy?
1 thing i learned about cia ppl is they always standup for the agency no matter what retired or employed, cant trust there words.
@TEP the moment you only look for data/information that confirms your already held belief/viewpoint is the moment you stop growing.
(not that I think the CIA's hands are clean in the drug trade for a moment)
Once your a cia agent even if you retire your still w the agency.. he will lie for the company
There is no such thing of a x cia agent... They are always loyal to the agency.. they will support the cia with any lie they want said.and follow any narrative
He's full of Shit
He started the interview with "thats absolutely not true" about the agency dealing drugs 😂😂😂 byeeee 🖐️
Exactly. Everything this clown said after blatantly lying just minutes into this interview is moot. How can you trust anything he says?
Less than 1 min in this dude completely discredited himself 😂 bro the cia literally drugged dumb tricks in the haight ashbury area… also they were def involved in jfk death
Yes
Charlie Manson was one of their graduates out of the clinic
Roberto Clemente played baseball for The Pittsburgh Pirates, where I was born. I remember when we got the news that he died in a plane crash bringing food to help the people after the earthquake. I was a young teen and I remember that the people in Pittsburgh were devastated hearing the news. He so was beloved! He was such a good man. There was a bridge near our stadium and I believe that it was named after him. I moved out of state but I will never forget his contribution to the Pittsburgh people and The Pittsburgh Pirates. I still cry about what happened to him. Just your guest mentioning his name, takes me back like it was yesterday.
This dude glows harder than Hiroshima Nagasaki and Chernobyl put together. This guy is a certified CIAN, card in wallet.
you a glowie
What does CIAN stand for?
@@Tyler-vw9bh AbG6u86t4bA
@john cash Lol yeah it does.... But OP means "CIA N-Word" ala our Lord and Savior Terry Davis.
@@Tyler-vw9bh "CIA N-Word" it's a... It's a whole thing. A meme. A joke. All started by Jesus Christ himself Terry Davis.
CIA was running opium through Laos and Cambodia when we were only "supposed" to be in Vietnam. Just because he might not have personally done it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Agree ...😮
39:45 when he's talking about Felix his right eye is literally glowing first time I've seen that on a konkret podcast
Kiki was killed because he was going to blow the lid on the cartel dealings "Hmm ive heard those rumors but they dont add up"
@@luisanaya9327 just look at His Face when he's talking about Felix and kiki he looks fucking weird obviously lying like he just got put on the spot Felix probably told him everything or he .ight of be involved himself
@@noelespinoza6624 yup started studdering up a storm caro quintero throws shade at him in a song he had made in the 90s " no fui yo fue un extranjero" something along those lines
This is a terrific interview. Ric Prado is the real thing. It’s a long interview but worth every second of your time.
Great interview. Keep up the great work
Just a point to clarify. He says he came into this country legally and he is correct but he only came into this country because of the US Cuban immigration political policy against Castro. Nothing else. He was not a gifted kid or anything. It was all about policy. So, it would be very easy for anybody who falls under that policy to say "I came into this country legally".
Also Felix Rodriguez is from Cuba and falls into the same immigration/political policy.
He really sounds like he still part of the agency. The facts he lists and explain and the way he justify actions taken.
Agent Bustamante , on the contrary; was well balanced and honest to a point.
In the end; I try not to judge things that happened 40 yrs ago with today's standards.
Really nice guy, and I listened to your interview with him, despite his sugar coating the CIA. Appreciate his patriotism and service. ❤👍🏽
Means youre an idiot!
"none of that is true"... >googles operation midnight climax. >googles mk ultra >googles operation mongoose >googles the bay of pigs >googles Project QKHILLTOP >googles Project BLUEBIRD >googles Project ARTICHOKE
Keep going. Google Operations Gladio, Phoenix, Cyclone, Condor. All programs to create or coopt organized crime groups to facilitate political and economic terror/assassinations
Thanks for this podcast. As a Brit, I found it really fascinating regarding recent American history
Koncrete needs to do better in vetting his guests or at least scrutinize the stories their telling.
Ask lots of questions before the interview and then fact check and verify if not you look like another quack.
Every commando, every operator thinks they are the deadliest with the highest body count
i am the deadliest
They call me Rambo, Texas Ranger.
@@SkidSteerer They call me farmer Jay in Tennessee
@blueberry you are so very wrong momma never did no college.
John Wayne Gacy with a pension
I bought and read the book, but hearing him tell the stories with additional details is so much better!
Should have asked about all the allegations about him doing hits for organized crime figures from his youth after becoming a PJ and paramilitary came up in few court cases in 70s
John roberts
What city or state was this?
He really was a hit man for a Cuban mob in Florida, even while working for CIA
@@ZackAbusharifwhaat ? Gtfoh ...you sound like a propaganda painting false narrative! And if he was he was under cover
@@ZackAbusharif allegedly he did a hit with Ricky prado they killed the stef son of Meyer lansky
2:21:46 the moment where an unsuspecting citizen discloses a major asset and the consequential response from someone with his ears to the street. As someone that has worked near to these people before, you broke his balls and made him regret the last 2 hours 21 minutes and 46 seconds of the interview at this point.
the way he says theres no eyes in north korea, lol what a joke and this guy lies so much both to others and himself that he thinks hes better at it than he is.....
He opened up with they dont honey pot and that its bullshit that congress doesnt know what the CIA is up too, i laughed and knew i had to stop listening 😂
This guy was a manager for KFC and spent most of his shift reading spy novels and James bond movies
I found out about the SAD (SAC) part of the CIA when I was about 14-15yo and thought what I solidly feel now after this podcast. That’s the most epic career on this planet per my teenager thoughts back then. This is top 3 if not the best interview I’ve ever heard with a grain of salt, thank you!
Hello and good damn
In October 2013, two former DEA agents and a pilot who allegedly flew for the CIA claimed to the Mexican journal Proceso and to the US network Fox News that the CIA had been "complicit" in the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985 and that Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia had played a role.
Don’t be fooled by the Hollywood BS, the Agency kills their own. No Honor it that.
How old are you now ?
@@markminter3960 working on 42
Great video interview. I'm 58 and am still having trouble keeping up with all these names. Could you throw some photos of these guys up as they get mentioned to assist us old guys? Lol
2:29:30.....the GS 14 FBI agent was Ed Goetz. Only a few FBI agents worked at Alec Station, Mark Rossini, Doug Miller, Margert Gillespie, and Ed Goetz. They were from John O Neill's I-49 unit. Also, the CIA most certainly with held information intentionally from the FBI. For example, a cable came in March 2000 about two Al Qaeda operatives, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, whom the CIA had been monitoring, with assistance from NSA, who had dual US visas and coming to the United States from a high level Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia. Doug Miller read this cable, and drafted a central intelligence report (CIR) to warn FBI HQ about their arrival.
However, they needed approval for the Deputy Chief of Alec Station, Tom Wilshire to get the CIR approved. Wilshire told his lead analyst involved in monitoring an Al Qaeda communications hub in Yemen, Michelle Anne Casey, to hold off per Wilshire. The CIR was never sent. Rossini went to inquire to Casey about why the CIR was never sent, according to Rossini, Casey told him "It is not an FBI matter, if we want to share the information with the FBI we will let you know." This information was never shared with the FBI until August 21st 2001. By then it was much too late, and the FBI opened an intelligence file on al-Mihdhar but couldnt find him.
So Ric Prado is not being fully truthful here in regards to CIA mishandling the al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi case. They intentionally with held this information from the FBI and even committed perjury before the 9/11 Commission because DCI George Tenet, told the commission nobody read the cable Over 55 CIA officers and analysts read that cable and never told anyone from FBI, State Department or the National Security Counsel
Also, Prado is stating the CIA is not allowed to operate inside the United States This is true. Yet, the latest Donald Canestraro document, from the Office of Military Commissions, state that CIA and Saudi intelligence were running an illegal covert operation monitoring al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi inside the United States
Great comment, just saw that story.... crazy! CIA has become impossible to hold accountable. They literally run propaganda in our own country and don't care enough to hide it. Any narrative they want to disseminate goes like this (probably slight oversimplification): 1) someone within the CIA tells a reporter situation X might be true. 2) reporter writes story about situation X per source from the inside 3) CIA uses story as evidence for situation X 4) continue feedback loop until there is enough evidence to justify whatever the fuck it is they want to do
There was a reply to your comment that was deleted or I just can’t see it why?
@@jacobpalomino96 Did you see my comment?
So he was involved in tracking down bin laden.....
Did he know he was sending the seals to their death?
The largest single day casualty of the war, they were shot down with a stinger stolen from a Saudi country, trafficked thru Benghazi. (we know from tracing the serial #)
To hide the fact bin laden was swapped last minute with a double at the Pakistani safe house.
This is why head of cia John Brennan, Obama, etc had a Muslim burial at sea
... there's no such thing
Here is the full story, allegedly his double was disposed of in pieces over the Hindu Kush mountains
Skip the first 5 min and u will see Alan parrot explain to the Noe family why their son died in Benghazi.
It is all connected go figure
th-cam.com/video/pQ9EwSKeg8Y/w-d-xo.html
They planned it entirely a splinter cell in the CIA.... His hands clearly aren't clean which may be why he's not outright admitting everything.....
But he prob did agree to testify against whomever faced court martials hence how we all know this info and he's free to speak today like this
My personal opinion
im sorry but he lost me at 1:25 when he says the CIA isnt involved in drug trade or honeypots lmfao
CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS PODCAST TO DROP! CIA OPERATIONS & CONSPIRACY THEORIES ALWAYS KEEP PEOPLE INTRIGUED! KEEP UP THE GOOD INTERVIEWS & HARD WORK DANNY!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👀🍿🥤
As children we went to the Saturday matinee, it was either the cowboys in white hats against the native Americans or the cowboys in white hats against the land barons stealing land from the poor farmers and ranchers. As a teenager and military brat, I grew up in the far east and Turkey. As an adult I went to university, joined the Peace Corps, learned to speak Spanish and then lived more than 30 years in Central and South America. I visited every country in Central America and South America and lived and worked in many.
Ric Prado appears sincere, but he is as out of touch with reality as those cowboys wearing white hats in a Saturday matinee. I always wondered why CIA were called "the white shoe boys?" Now I know.
My suggestion, in fairness, is to interview a Native American and a land baron, but that's not going to happen, is it? It never happened in a Saturday matinee. I watched and waited, are podcasts different? I'll be watching and waiting.
Thank you Ric Prado, for your service.
Fascinating! These interviews are phenomenal!
8:26 - “The Cuban revolutionaries killed more people- second only to the Nazis, I guess”.
😂
The first CIA guy in history who never heard of Stalin 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Funny he didn't mention how many people his agency has murdered and how many democratically elected presidents they've overthrowen
2:05 oh look, he contradicted himself about making deals
did he just say the CIA follow the "rules"? WTF
This dude is talking about sleeping soundly in our beds? Thanks for telling us some fairytales before I fall asleep.
I'm not stating he's deliberately lying, nonetheless - he's lying
So Ric Prado was the deadliest CIA Assassin... Hold my coat Ric 😄
You have alot of CIA guests. Makes a guy wonder.....hard
Suppose your blissfully unaware if the corrupt Gov is using your channel as a mis & disinformation platform, but anyone who "used" to be in the CIA, is more than likely, not "ex-CIA"
Him & his 2 neeka's is wild 🤣🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ 1:18:43
Danny's laugh tho
what an amazing story of his life!! and you did so good asking great questions and really showing that you cared!! great interview!! His story really touched my heart!! thanks!
Half of it is fake
That guy is the main reason why I will vote for RFKjr. The CIA needs to die .
I wonder what he thinks of John Kiriyakou.
He was making the comparison between people coming into this country legally or illegally….”O I know my neighbor runs an AirBnB”
CIA officer tells the truth. Yeah...sure.
Amazing interview!! I ordered the book while I watched the interview.
2 mins in and I’m question his truth.
I heard Danny wanting to laugh when he says “niccas”. Lol😂
Who killed jfk!?!
Larry
His wife was fed up with him fucking around on her. Get Jackie pilled and it all becomes crystal clear.
Interesting great interview.. thank you!
I would never trust a current CIA/FBI agent and I absolutely would never trust a former one!!!🤠
Cool story bro, nobody cares.
Say it again for the people in the back. OP I agree with you sentiment.
@@thordoo3047 umm everyone cares like literally everyone. You live under a rock?
Complete idiots in the replies lol
No such thing as a former one 🫡
“I coped with my childhood trauma really well.” lol… so says the CIAs top assassin.
please keep interviewing cia agents and ask them for more life advice and just all of that!
questions on everything like you do on this one. thanks for your stuff bro! we're all really impresseed!
love from texas & virgina!
CIA is full of liars and manipulators. Go fall in love with a turd, you will be happier. CIA are liars
39:42 the broken eye contact says a lot.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” - William Casey Director of the C.I.A. at an early February 1981 meeting of the newly elected President Reagan
A CIA apologist, blind to any discrediting of the CIA.I'll give him credit as just naive not nefarious.
“Cowboys” have a “moral high ground”??! Lmfao holy shit
def respect Ric for his past and dedication to the US. although, i would expect our "agencies" mouths water over individuals like Ric. capable of sending these no questions asked people to senseless self inflicted terrible scenarios-
He's on here saying the CIA had nothing to do with the drug trade when it has even been confirmed in congressional hearings.
Honey traps aren't real? Damn it! CIA application withdrawn.
Danny is incredibly underrated
Yeah he's still doing counterintelligence 😂 we don't run drugs, I mean they don't. 😮 😂
What an amazing story... and a great perspective... truly a great human being
Drink that KoolAid 😂
Message I keep getting from the federales is Crime Always Pays!!😂
Yeah, I lived in a orphanage, so poor we lived 5 deep in an efficiency apartment, air force para-rescue, fireman/medic, joined the CIA, college degree, lived in the jungle for three years, eventually became a deputy director for CIA... oh wait.... I forgot one thing, I delivered 2 babies. Slacker!
Just at the beginning of this conversation, I wish the young people of America knew how good they have it, and would educate themselves on what communism does to a country. There are so many great things about USA , but some( not all) youngsters these days take that for granted. This man, Ric Prada has a lot to teach. Take note. I thank you for your story.
Every actual communist in America wouldn't fill one Walmart parking lot.
shut up
@@barrybarnes96 You are sadly mistaken. There are lots of Trotskyite Communists just in New York City. Rahm Emmanuel, was the Communist mayor of Chicago. There are a LOT of Commie-Marxists here. The guy who runs Blackrock is
@@barrybarnes96wrong...our government alone is full of them.
@@seamikki6510 Tell us about your Qanon theory while you're at it Seamikki6510 ...lol.
There were tapes of the Cubano from CIA! Hey Felix, Rafa and Felix said hello 👋 Viva Mexico, Cabrone! 😂😂😂
It always makes me laugh when I hear a Cuban born immigrant talk about immigration. especially when they start talking about the great American melting pot. Miami is about as diverse as salt lake City Utah. 😂
I had enough when he said they don't sell drugs.
Speaking of being an American. My family has been in America since probably around the Carolina's being established. I had a great+++ uncle who as a Major in the Civil War. My family is very pro American. And this guy is a real old school American. People like him are the only immigrants we need in this country.
As a Cuban born, I feel proud in the words of Mister Ric Prado, thanks for speaking truth about Cuba. And thanks to the Koncrete platform for introducing this important topic.
Me too !!! Stopped at 3:30 goof ball bull patty melt !!!
Thank you for the people who do this work. God bless them all.
The CIA is largely responsible for every war since WW2 and directly responsible for the amount of narcotics in our country right now.
And what about all the shit these guys do that makes us LESS safe? They fucked up everything they ever touched and this guys acting like we owe them some debt of gratitude.