Anyone Hear this Guest back in 2001, or early 2002?

[KnyeGuy]

I remember a really cool show with a mercenary who used the pseudonym "Gabriel" (or even the full name "Archangel Gabriel").
I'm pretty sure that's what he went by.

At any rate, he claimed to be a righteous mercenary of sorts (hence his name), only taking jobs that he viewed as just: IE, rescuing women who had fallen into the international sex slave trade, extracting political prisoners from foreign prisons, etc etc.
Obviously he would only take these jobs for a large sum of money, but also explained that alot of it went to pay for information and access to people/places.
He described some of the nasty torture tactics he'd have to use if people couldn't be bribed for intelligence info, and of course justified this by the greater goal of the mission to save innocent people.

He also talked about how his training for such inherently dangerous missions would include going into the worst neighborhoods of Chicago, looking to purposely get into fights with multiple attackers, in order to stay 'on top his game.' There would obviously be no real life threat if he just sparred in a dojo, and he needed his training to mimic the threats he faced on actual missions.
He was former military (as you'd expect) and I remember a caller challenging him on some technicalities regarding the proper execution of a sniper rifle...

Anyways, he always stood out to me as one of the best guests Art ever had on. As far as I know, he was only ever on that one time.
He was the Equalizer, Punisher, and A-Team all rolled into one (if you believe his story).

I've tried checking the internet archive of art bell's old site, but cannot find this name mentioned anywhere.
I'd really like to track this show down again, but maybe I have the guy's name wrong.

Does anyone remember this show or have it archived per chance?
It would've aired sometime around the end of 2001, or beginning to mid 2002.

Whether real or not, it made for a fascinating story, especially if you dig the aforementioned vigilantes ; )

Never heard a guest even close to him ever again.

[Curtis Loew]

I may have this wrong but  are you talking about the guy that claimed he worked for Interpol and was carrying out assassinations on their behalf?
If that's the guy you're talking about then he was outed as a fraud and they never had him back on the show.

If not I apologize. I do have a lot of the really old shows on another hard drive maybe I could find it.

[valdez]

     I remember a show about a guy who worked for interpole and his task was to kill those involved in child porn, which seemed completely cool, but after a while he began to wonder whether those assigning him his targets were being straight with him, or something like that.

[Curtis Loew]

     I remember a show about a guy who worked for interpole and his task was to kill those involved in child porn, which seemed completely cool, but after a while he began to wonder whether those assigning him his targets were being straight with him, or something like that.

Yep that's the one I'm thinking of.   Not sure if it's who Knyeguy is talking about though.
Also I think the Interpol guy may have been interviewed  by George and not Art now that I think about it.

[KnyeGuy]

Yep that's the one I'm thinking of.   Not sure if it's who Knyeguy is talking about though.
Also I think the Interpol guy may have been interviewed  by George and not Art now that I think about it.

Yeah, I remember some guy from Interpol too, and I think he was interviewed by Noory.
This isn't the individual that I'm referring too however.

If that's the guy you're talking about then he was outed as a fraud and they never had him back on the show.

If not I apologize. I do have a lot of the really old shows on another hard drive maybe I could find it.

The Interpol guy was a fraud? I don't recall hearing about that. Did Noory actually state this on air?

If you are able to track down the 'Gabriel' show I'd be grateful for sure.
As my first post mentioned, I think it was closer to the end of '01 or  the very beginning of '02, but just in case my memory is failing me, I'll broaden the scope to definitely being somewhere between June 2001 and April 2002 (when I first started listening to Art on a regular basis).

At any rate, the guy I'm talking about didn't have any affiliation with government or international agencies whatsoever. He did mercenary work strictly for private citizens/families and only when he was certain that the individuals involved were innocent; Ergo, he wasn't in it for the money at all.
I think he mentioned that people were able to contact him through mutual connections or via ambiguous ads in soldier/weapons magazines.

[Curtis Loew]

Yeah, I remember some guy from Interpol too, and I think he was interviewed by Noory.........

The Interpol guy was a fraud? I don't recall hearing about that. Did Noory actually state this on air?

If you are able to track down the 'Gabriel' show I'd be grateful for sure.
As my first post mentioned, I think it was closer to the end of '01 or  the very beginning of '02, but just in case my memory is failing me, I'll broaden the scope to definitely being somewhere between June 2001 and April 2002 (when I first started listening to Art on a regular basis).

At any rate, the guy I'm talking about didn't have any affiliation with government or international agencies whatsoever. He did mercenary work strictly for private citizens/families and only when he was certain that the individuals involved were innocent; Ergo, he wasn't in it for the money at all.
I think he mentioned that people were able to contact him through mutual connections or via ambiguous ads in soldier/weapons magazines.

Our Interpol Guy was David Race Bannon,  you can  read a  piece on him  here

I think I came into C2C  just after the time period you're talking about so I don't actually remember the Gabriel show but I remember going back and collecting all the earlier shows that I could.
I'll see what I can find for you.

PS:  I'm not sure whether Boory actually said anything on the air about Bannon or not.


Update:   The Show you're thinking of is from  2002,  whether I can actually find it or not is another matter.

[KnyeGuy]

Hey Curtis, thanks for looking btw...

How were you able to better pinpoint the show's year though? I've looked over the artbell.com archives (webarchive.org) and couldn't even  find the guy listed in any of the program schedules.

[Curtis Loew]

Hey Curtis, thanks for looking btw...

How were you able to better pinpoint the show's year though? I've looked over the artbell.com archives (webarchive.org) and couldn't even  find the guy listed in any of the program schedules.

I found it in the archives on the C2C site,   I hate going there and giving them revenue clicks.

Friday May 17th  2002.   

[KnyeGuy]

I found it in the archives on the C2C site,   I hate going there and giving them revenue clicks.

Friday May 17th  2002.   

Awesome... Thanks.
I didn't realize they logged guest info all the way back to Art (I'm sure I checked there a couple years ago)... I guess I should've checked again, but then again since I writ off C2C I haven't visited the site in ages...

[Supernormal]

I may have this wrong but  are you talking about the guy that claimed he worked for Interpol and was carrying out assassinations on their behalf?
If that's the guy you're talking about then he was outed as a fraud and they never had him back on the show.

If not I apologize. I do have a lot of the really old shows on another hard drive maybe I could find it.

With apologies to Knye Guy for being OT, that reminds me of James Casbolt, who may have been the strangest person ever to appear on the show. He claimed that he was kidnapped and programmed by British spies when he was a kid. He was trained in a secret installation that sounded like a concentration camp, and his story sounded absolutely insane, making David Icke's "V" variations sound tame by comparison. I found some material that (surprise) blew holes in his story.

[devoidzero]

I know this is quite a thread resurrection, but after seeing requests for this particular show on various forums, I've taken it upon myself to upload the entire "Gabriel" interview to Youtube.  It can be heard here: 

Art Bell Interviews "Gabriel" The Mercenary on Coast to Coast AM C2C

Enjoy.

[devoidzero]

I just realized I got the date wrong in the intro title of the video.  It was indeed May 17th as was pointed out previously.  I really don't feel the need to re-render and reupload the whole thing just to change this, but the pedant in me wanted to make sure I acknowledged this.  :

[999]

This episode with "Gabriel" is on Somewhere In Time right now. Such a bullshitting fraud.

[Juan]

The real sniper challenging him about how far a bullet would drop at a certain range, how much adjustment for a 10mph wind, etc, was just hilarious.  If I were going to be a fake guest, I think I'd anticipate needing to know that kind of information.

[Falkie2013]

It should have been obvious that the guy was a fraud.

Remember Jonny Quest and his friend and bodyguard, Race Bannon ?

Roger Race Bannon - Jonny Quest

Race Bannon Video File

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