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Lopez Portillo person

also: Portillo

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Mexicocountry · 5Jorge Díaz Serranoperson · 4George H.W. Bushperson · 2Robert Crowleyperson · 1PEMEXorganization · 1

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Lopez Portillo appointed Jorge Díaz Serrano book_quoted
“Lopez Portillo appointed his boyhood friend, Diaz Serrano, as head of Pemex. So Lopez Portillo remained in office until 82. The following year, Diaz Serrano was charged in a kickback scheme that was, and he was eventually convicted of defra…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 42:13

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Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 39:16 Diaz Serrano would become key to the CIA spy ring at the heart of the Mexican power structure. The operation was still going on when Bush became vice president in 1981. Robert Crowley, who worked with Bush when he became director of the CIA…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 39:46 were creatures of the CIA. They basically worked for the CIA in Mexico. We nurtured them along and created their rise to power. What Bush was doing through his business relationship was basically paying them for the CIA. The CIA's hope was …
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 40:15 They are basically growing. They planted a seed and they're growing and watering with our money. These politicians and other corrupt politicians in other countries to groom them to be placed through their cheating into the senior leadership…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 40:44 transplanted, watered, and grown. Lopez Portillo assumed the presidency just like the plan in 1976 when Bush became the CIA director. The ascendancy of Portillo to the Mexican presidency gave the CIA a connection to the president. In additi…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 42:13 Lopez Portillo appointed his boyhood friend, Diaz Serrano, as head of Pemex. So Lopez Portillo remained in office until 82. The following year, Diaz Serrano was charged in a kickback scheme that was, and he was eventually convicted of defra…