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5 min readIn the immediate aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, as the official story solidified around a lone gunman in a hotel room, independent investigator John Cullen (a pen name) was watching from Thailand and saw something that didn't add up. He noticed helicopters in the footage that appeared to be flying the wrong way, below regulated altitudes, with their transponders off. That initial anomaly launched him into a nine-year investigation that now extends to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and it has led him to a deeply uncomfortable conclusion: the Pentagon’s most sensitive surveillance aircraft appear to have been present at the scene of the crime in ways that the official narrative cannot explain.
The Hades Plane and the Charlie Kirk Assassination
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:04) **Introduction & Anonymity** - Host Bret Weinstein introduces John Cullen, a pseudonymous investigator, and explains why he is making an exception to his usual rule against anonymous guests.
- 2 (03:23) **Why a Pen Name?** - Cullen explains his use of a "nom de plume" as a deliberate choice to keep the focus on the evidence, not his credentials.
- 3 (09:59) **The COVID Anomaly & The Oracle Map** - Cullen describes discovering the Johns Hopkins COVID map showed almost no deaths in China, a fact he considers a major whistleblower moment.
- 4 (13:30) **The Deep State & Internal Battles** - Weinstein and Cullen debate the possibility that Cullen could be a deep state asset, and whether that would automatically invalidate his findings.
- 5 (23:08) **The Hades Spy Plane at Charlie Kirk's Assassination** - Cullen presents the core anomaly: a Pentagon-owned Hades surveillance plane performed a suspicious low-altitude maneuver near the UVU campus on the day Charlie Kirk was killed.
- 6 (34:37) **The Puzzle of Drone Recovery** - The hosts discuss the difficulty of the Hades plane retrieving drones in flight, with Weinstein finding deployment plausible but recovery highly improbable.
- 7 (44:49) **The Sister Ship & The Ocean Dump** - Cullen reveals that the sister Hades plane was in St. George the next evening when Tyler Robinson surrendered, performing the same low-altitude maneuver near the sheriff's station.
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Show Notes
Bret Weinstein speaks with John Cullen on the subject of the unanswered questions surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
Find John Cullen on X at https://x.com/I_Am_JohnCullen and on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/cw/IAMJOHNCULLEN.
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Mentioned on this episode:
- Was Charlie Kirk Killed With a Drone? Viva Frei and Jimmy Dore on DarkHorse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO76X9CFhUI
- How Many Shooters? John Cullen on the Trump Assassination Attempt (July 2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKuo2qW6uE
- Multiple Shooters? John Cullen & Clay Martin (TPC #1,538): https://rumble.com/v592bhg-multiple-shooters-john-cullen-and-clay-martin-tpc-1538.html
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Can You Trust a Man With a Pen Name?
00:01:39 Tyler Robinson, Acting Alone?
00:03:42 Sponsor: Lovebird Cereal
00:05:33 Why John Cullen Is Irrelevant
00:22:10 Sponsor: Mars Men
00:23:07 A Pentagon Spy Plane at UVU
00:32:24 Back 25 Minutes After the Shot
00:57:31 The Drones Nobody Wants to Explain
01:10:42 Bird of Prey: A Rifle That Flies
01:17:55 The Round Left on the Roof
01:37:34 Why Was There No Exit Wound?
01:43:27 Butler and the Spiral of Silence
01:50:42 Wouldn't Someone Have Seen It?
01:59:37 Las Vegas: No Shots From the Window
02:05:31 Was the Real Target MBS?
02:19:47 Three Women, a Minivan, 24 Guns
02:27:35 Flushing Out the Crown Prince
02:39:46 Who Broke the Window?
02:47:01 The Deadliest Gunman in History?
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