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The Sandbaggers / 1979 S02E05
"It Couldn't Happen Here"
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https://youtu.be/HTFMSMhjxZk?t=811
"Beware the quite man.
For while others speak, he watched.
And while others act, he planned.
And when they finally rest... he strikes."
Anonymous
The Sandbaggers / 2017 / S48E02
"covfefe" - Part 2 - Origins
Sandbagger One, officially seconded to work with the enigmatic American intelligence organization named The Covert Fund, begins walking back the cat regarding the plot to compromise the Republican candidate in the recent U.S. presidential election and subsequent soft coup attempt after the Republican candidate was elected.
Investigating one thread of the plot, Sandbagger One and his new partner identify a mole embedded in the office of the President's National Security Adviser who is leaking information. After successfully running a blue dye operation to reveal the mole's handler, Sandbagger One and Condor, with the assistance of the new President, stage an incident that appears to implicate the President in a bribery scandal and arrange for the mole to "discover" the crime. The mole reports to his handler and the handler then contacts the coup plotters. The President and trusted aides pretend to cover up the bribery incident, the mole reports everything to his handler, and the coup plotters hatch a plan to have a phony "whistleblower" report the bribery and cover up which will then allow operatives and corrupt politicians to open official investigations with a goal of impeaching the President.
The operation successfully reveals scores of high-ranking government officials who falsify documentary "evidence" and provide false testimony, as well as revealing the corrupt elected officials who run the sham investigations. The plan is revealed during the impeachment trial when the surveillance video, phone conversations and electronic communications incriminating the plotters from the very beginning of the operation is dramatically presented to a nation-wide audience.
As the operation winds down, Sandbagger One and his new partner from The Covert Fund, pick up another clue that convinces them that there is more to discover about the organization behind the coup plotters and they go to London to follow the trail.
Music during program credits
Mark Steyn: I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat (3:18 min/sec)
https://youtu.be/eNbmLIW8PmA
The Sandbaggers / 2017 / S48E01
"covfefe"
A young unknown policy analyst's chance at breaking into national politics fails as the Republican candidate for U.S. President he is advising drops out of the race in the early days of the primary season. His luck seems to change when out of the blue he gets an offer to become Director of the International Energy and Natural Resources Division of the London Centre of International Law Practice.
Then out of the blue, again, our young unknown policy analyst now Director of the International Energy and Natural Resouces Division of the London Centre of International Law Practice Cum Laude's luck changes when he is offered a position as an adviser to the leading Republican candidate in the still-ongoing primary campaign for U.S. president. Elated, our young unknown policy analyst lets his London employers know he will soon be leaving and about his new position on the Republican front runner's policy advisory team.
Out of the blue, once again, our young unknown policy analyst now presidential candidate adviser's luck turns completely Irish. He meets with one of the top managers at the London Centre who, while disappointed the analyst is departing the firm, wants to help the young analyst now adviser and arranges for travel, accommodations, points of contact and meetings in Rome to assist the young policy analyst of the now U.S. Republican leading presidential candidate by providing access to influential individuals with just the kind of contacts that will boost him in his role as policy adviser to the leading Republican presidential candidate.
However, all is not what it seems. The young policy analyst has been set up from the start as a living Trojan horse designed to infect the leading Republican presidential candidate, his campaign, and its staff, through meetings with compromising individuals and with individuals who will then spread official and unofficial false reports about the young policy analyst's contact and communications with the compromising individuals, and all that will later be used as justification for official covert and clandestine surveillance of the leading Republican presidential candidate and his campaign staff.
However, unknown to the puppet masters plotting to compromise the leading Republican candidate and his campaign, Sandbagger One had very early-on uncovered the plot while conducting an unrelated mission. Informing the Chief of the Sandbagger Unit, together they realize that the plot must have high-level sanction from Whitehall, Downing Street and the Circus. Using a backchannel, the Sandbaggers contact a trusted element of the U.S. Intelligence Community, which confirms not only awareness of the plot, but that individuals "at the highest level" of the U.S. Government and of the U.S. Intelligence and Law Enforcement Community (CIA / FBI / DOJ) are coordinating with foreign actors to pre-determine the outcome of the 2016 election.
The Sandbaggers are put in contact with an heretofore unknown U.S. intelligence group, known as The Covert Fund. Together they monitor and covertly manage the plot to take down the Republican candidate for president, and after that plot fails and the Republican candidate is elected, to monitor the plot to conduct a soft coup to remove the new Republican president from office.
The coup plotters never realize their plans and activities had been monitored from the very beginning and that the Sandbaggers in Britain and The Covert Fund operatives in the U.S. are only waiting for the right moment to fully expose their plot and roll up their international operation which is constantly having to reveal itself, its methods and its leadership, as the new President inexplicably is able to counter their every move.
The young policy analyst never realizes he has been used as a doubled puppet in the plot to compromise and later to impeach a sitting president from the moment he left the campaign of the candidate who dropped out early (by design)... and that on that day, when serving on the campaign of the leading Republican candidate, when one of the top presidential campaign advisers had told him to go ahead and arrange a meeting between the candidate and the Russian president, was the moment he was activated, and turned from a Trojan Horse targeting the campaign into a Pandora's Box targeting the puppet masters.
[Lead in music for the season opener of the 48th Season of The Sandbaggers]
Mark Steyn: I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat (3:18 min/sec)
https://youtu.be/eNbmLIW8PmA
The Sandbaggers / 1979 S02E05
"It Couldn't Happen Here"
(First 15 minutes)
https://youtu.be/HTFMSMhjxZk
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https://youtu.be/HTFMSMhjxZk?t=808