Georgetown place
also: Georgetown District, Q Street
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And also, VBI officers were trained by CIA and FBI. And where did they do that training? Oh, you know, in the United States at the Georgetown University. And that was for like the higher ups. So the VBI is basically one of the major foundat…
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standing in the middle of the streets at Caracas where no one showed up, Carlos Vecchio marched down the 13th Street in Washington, D.C., upscale Georgetown District, prepared for a coup of his own in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Guaido. …
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The country's embassy in Washington, D.C. represented Vecchio's ultimate prize. Situated on Georgetown's scenic Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Diplomatic Command and Control Center was officially vacated on April 21st when Washington kicked…
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and that agents of the receiving state may not enter them except with the consent of the head of the mission. In other words, authorities in Washington could not enter the Venezuelan U.S. Embassy without permission from the Maduro's governm…
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The carnival-like atmosphere at the embassy came to an abrupt halt on April 30th, the day of Guaido's failed military revolt. In coordination with his coup regime effort to ignite an insurrection in Caracas, Vecchio summoned their supporter…
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Though Vecchio did not disclose the content of his reply, the State Department apparently found it worthy of a full-ride scholarship to study English and tax law in Georgetown University, which, of course, is a favorite CIA recruiting groun…
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Walking through the Georgetown evening with Willie Morris, he was perplexed to hear Dulles erupt at the mere mention of Kennedy's name. But there was a reason for that. Nearly two years after JFK's assassination, Kennedy still disturbed Dul…
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Conclusion, Dulles seemed to be a very tragic man. He soon began meeting with a surprising array of CIA officers, men from the top rungs of the agency, as well as agents in the field. They paraded in and out of the Brick Manor located on Q …
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His day calendar was filled with yet more meetings at his favorite retreat, the Alibi Club and the Metropolitan Club, where he dined with the same generals and national security wise men with whom he had done business on a daily basis as if…
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Most embassy officials felt that the doctor was practicing more diplomacy than medicine. Elbrick went home as his doctors in Georgetown was examining. He suffered a stroke, which is really convenient. Once he recovered, he was not going bac…
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was shelved when President Kennedy ordered the State Department to send a survey mission to Guyana to prepare for quote-unquote technical assistance. But Kennedy took no action on any of the initiatives that had been presented to him. One m…
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In early 1962, the CIA had no station in Georgetown and lacked direct contact with Jagen's opponent, Forbes Burnham. That's not true. The CIA was already there operating just undercover because Forbes Burnham was already on their payroll. H…
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had no armed forces to draw into the game. And Jagen's popularity remained such that even after the Georgetown riots, no possibility existed for armed resistance, which in any case, the British army would fight. The broad strategy was evide…
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This study looked at the Georgetown riots and concluded that racial conflict was likely to continue and be the basic factor in Guyana politics. That offered the DO operators the obvious ability to exploit. They created it, and now we're goi…
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There's no evidence that they were actually involved in it. I'm sorry, explain that to me again. Okay, McCabe had been in Georgetown during the 1962 riots, but we didn't find anything. Those who wondered about his lack of union background w…
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We don't want to hear it. It's like the deaf, dumb, and blind monkeys. The analysts were deemed not to have a need to know about what they were doing. The chief analyst, Deputy Director Robert Amore Jr., went to many of the same Georgetown …
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Having gone unanswered, Jagen called in the American consul in Georgetown to say that he had seen Washington shift to a policy of Jagen must go. The prime minister warned that his ouster would lead to a takeover by extremists. Saddling the …
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If Great Britain resumed direct control, there would be more scope for the new party. On December 6th, Mac Bundy convened Helms and others and determined to put pressure on British and Canadian diplomats on the direct rule question. It fail…
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Five to 10 houses were burning every day and 60 people had died. American diplomats in Georgetown believed that even troops could not now end the violence. No matter what I try to do, Jagen told the U.S. Consular Delmar Carlson on May 25th,…
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might conceivably cool down the security problem, but they didn't want it cooled down. Washington rejected the approach in early July of meeting with him, having a conversation, because they've already made up their mind. In Georgetown, Car…
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Desmond Fitzgerald, sitting in the agency, continued the discussion. Bundy pressed for a contingency paper on measures if Jagen won. The CIA drafted a paper not long after, and Bundy discussed it with Helms and the State Department on Septe…
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The U.S. consul in Georgetown reported that to Bundy and Helms and Tyler's group on September 11th that he had tried to forge relations with Burnham but could not. Quote, Burnham is a racist and probably anti-white. Remember slights and rep…
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Senior officials remained upbeat like they do on all of these coups, even ones that stand no chance of success. Burnham's campaign buttons produced in the U.S. and doubtlessly paid for by the CIA were appearing everywhere in Georgetown. Gor…
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and 15,000 others were forced from their homes because they were burnt to the ground. The December elections did not turn out as advertised. Jagen had won 47% of the vote, more than either the Americans or the British expected. Burnham trai…
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firm. Frank won the trust of Trujillo, who made him his bodyguard during state visits to Europe and the U.S. Mayhew's agency was also given a lucrative contract to upgrade his security in the Dominican Republic. Frank liked to play tennis w…
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Bob Mayhew fit the profile of an FBI gumshoe more than a CIA spook. He was eager to please his audience, but his eyes could go suddenly dead and his jaw could become grimly set. He came from humble beginnings of a devout Catholic French-Can…
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He referred to himself as the postmaster. He also wiretapped bedrooms of CIA officials. It was his job to be suspicious of everybody. He was keeping a treasure trove of sensitive files and photos locked in his vault. Each morning at the CIA…
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rare intellects and characters that allowed him to lead a live field with contradictions. He easily passed back and forth between Washington's overworld and the criminal underworld. He was a sort of man who could crossbreed a new orchid, co…
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If Dulles used his Kennedy briefings to win points with the Democrat nominee, he also used these private sessions to gain inside information for the Nixon camp. On a Saturday evening in September of 1960, Robert Kennedy, his brother's notor…
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Kennedy later explained to author Schlesinger that considering his slim margin of victory, he didn't feel he had sufficient political capital to uproot Washington pillars like Hoover and Dulles. Jettisoning the national icons, as Schlesinge…
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Richard Bissell Jr., a Groton, Yale-educated chief of clandestine operations for the CIA. Bissell, a popular member of the Georgetown set, had managed to survive the political fallout of the U2 disaster, even though he was in charge of it. …
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He used his post to identify prospects for CIA recruitment, the student's body's best and brightest, which is still done today. Dulles could be assured that Mac Bundy in the White House and his brother Bill moving to Kennedy's Defense Depar…
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had to drop him off. And Dulles was overheard saying he'd just take a taxi home. But of course, one of his buddies that was there decided they'd take him home. Retired at home in Georgetown, the old spymasters' mood did not lift as Kennedy …
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Or so he thought. But it soon became clear that the Dulles dynasty was not entirely dismantled. In truth, the Kennedy purge had left the ranks of Dulles loyalists at the CIA largely untouched, like Angleton and Helms. They continued to call…
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They collaborated with him on plans for books and projects. They continued to kneel before Alan Dulles as their commander and kiss his ring. Dulles began to emerge from his refuge ready for action. By mid-January of 62, the retired, in air …
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but was actually more concerned with the morality of the CIA. I can make that a very short segment. They have none. Chancellor spoke with Dulles in his Georgetown study where the retired spymaster, and I should put air quotes around retired…
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obviously undermined his own testimony about Oswald as a crazy lunatic who killed the president, DeMorganschild was put in an awkward position to clarify. After DeMorganschild concluded their Warren Commission ordeal, they were invited by J…
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After finishing the book, Dulles came down with the flu and was confined to bed by Christmas Eve. It had settled in his chest, turned to pneumonia. He was taken to Georgetown University Hospital, and he struggled to recover, rallying at one…
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Woodward, sorry. And he starts with, in 1987, the director of the CIA, the legendary William Casey, was in power. And they were in the throes of the Iran-Contra scandal. And he was assigned to a protective detail, keeping a 24-hour watch ov…