they bagged my head with a black bag, handcuffed me, put
me in the van and started screaming at me in Russ
terry gately. A minister from texas went to care son,
before the Russian invasion to visit his girlfriend and
do volunteer work, experienced firsthand the abuses by
Russian authorities in occupied areas of Ukraine
exposed in a new report from Human Rights Watch and
also a newly declassified assessment from the U.S.S.
Director of National Intelligence. They document
Russia's arbitrary detention of civilians and of
torturing individuals in so called filtration camps. U.S.
Intelligence has identified 18 such facilities. The
Russians used to decide whom descend to Russia in many
cases for imprisonment. The Russians occupied Care Son
so fast in the first days of the lore. If you could
escape, I just happened to be in the one place that the
Russians took on the first day. If I would have been
anywhere else, I would have said, oh there's a war.
Well I gotta go. But that didn't happen. Gailey
recorded photos and video of an increasingly terrifying
life under Russian occupation just walking through like
it's a normal day. I know you had to hear that you
can't use your debit card anywhere because now they'
saying all this is part of Russia, the way Russia does
things when they occupy they let you know it's theirs
right from the get go. And then they they're like a
like a python, it wraps itself around you and as you
exhale a little bit, it gets tighter. In fact Russian
intelligence agents grabbed him off the street one day
for questioning, throwing a bag over his head. I'm a 63
year old. Nobody. I mean really search everything a
me. You'll find out nothing because I am nothing. They
let me go after three hours and said I had to make
three videos. You're doing propaganda videos. Yeah,
it's on the internet. They said I had to make three
videos and I agreed and they let me go. They agreed to
take me to the american embassy in Moscow safely. At
that point, us embassy staff in Ukraine had long since
evacuated but he says the State Department was
following his case. The State Department the next day
called me and said under no circumstances whatsoev
Do you do that unless they force you Do you understan
I mean they were adamant heating the State Depar
advice. He told the Russians he didn't want to go to
Russia and finally decided to escape. Carson his escape
was orchestrated by a group of american soldiers who
had led rescues in Afghanistan and then in Ukraine, we
knew Terry was radioactive. He had been arrested a few
times. So to get someone like Terry out. Do you have to
work with the Russians So work with the Russians is the
wrong way of saying it. Work against the Russians and
play chess against the Russians is more accurate brian
Stern who heads the volunteer Rescue group project.
Dynamo told Gately to get on a specific bus that would
take him to safety. The bus driver will know you the
password is white Mercedes. We have people on the bus
that you don't know about, but they'll take it from
there. But he says over 50 Russian checkpoints sto
between him and freedom. Every time they saw I was in
America but this time they took me off the bus kept me
there, looked through my phone and I'm a licensed to
carry instructor for the state texas. So I got a lot
of gun pictures. They swore up and down that I came to
Ukraine to train people to use guns. The Russians took
them to a local prison similar to the filtration camps
Many are facing Gately said he was tortured by not
being allowed to sleep for more than three days Every
15 minutes they came in and said No Sleep. He says he
heard the screams of other prisoners who he thought
were being tortured. Then suddenly that explanation,
The Russians let him go abandoning him on the street
outside Kherson took off the bag and there was a guy
standing there and he goes, you want to go to zappa
rosacea And I'm like I sure do. From the evacuees
perspective, these random thing just seem to happen or
whatever and really everything is for a reason. Stern
won't say how exactly he arranged for gately to get to
safety and returned to the U.S. But gately was
fortunate untold Ukrainians and even some americans who
disappeared are still missing. Mhm. That newly
declassified U.S. Intelligence assessment offers an
education why the State Department was so adamant that
Terry not go to Russia to refuse if he could and he
fortunately was able to. That's because they say that
people who are being taken to Russia Ukraine has been
taken to Russia. Some of them are ending up as far as
the border with north Korea. Chance.