Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional organization
also: DINA
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Claims (10)
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional assassinated
Orlando Letelier documented
“There would be murders, attempted assassinations in Costa Rica, Mexico, France, Portugal, Argentina, and on the streets of Washington, D.C., where they killed Orlando Ladier when his car blew up in September 1976, along with an American cit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 52:37
Michael Townley member_of
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional book_quoted
“of the final stages to the Allende government was basically one bomb attack per hour in the final week every day. At least 24 bomb attacks every day for a week. No doubt the PL had a part in this campaign. Michael Vernon Townley, the DINA c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 32:11
Augusto Pinochet sold_to
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional host_asserted
“lieutenants running drugs to pay for death squads and all of the other covert operations it sounds just like gladio and finally the author learned that dictator pinochet assumed control of chile's cart uh cocaine trade then turned it over t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 46:28
Michael Townley member_of
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional host_asserted
“None other than Stefano Del Ciesi, who was from Italy, an Operation Gladio operative. Kloss Barbie, SS officer. And Michael Townley from CIA made Adina officer to ensure the continuity between the two. Condor's assassination squads that kil…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 1:01:29
Manuel Contreras member_of
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional host_asserted
“Mesa's Interior Intelligence Chief. Major Manuel Contreras from Chile attended the School of Americas in 64. He graduated from the Political Warfare Cadre in 69. And he returned and created Pinochet's and became one of the first directors f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 56:35
Jose Martinez member_of
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional host_asserted
“graduated the School of Americas in 65 and went to the political warfare cadre in 1967. He became the DINA operations chief as part of Operation Condor. Captain Hugo Barrera from Bolivia graduated the School of Americas in 66. Two years lat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 56:03
Josio Min Zen member_of
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional host_asserted
“You understand that New Order was one of the segments of Operation Gladio inside of Italy. They also, some of these political warfare graduates, show up in Latin America as part of Operation Condor. Lieutenant Colonel Josio Min Zen, a 1960 …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 52:21
CIA trained
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional host_asserted
“While they're murdering and rounding up people and putting them in black site prisons. They're on the CIA payroll. Just absolutely crazy. A special CIA team would stay on in Santiago training Nadina. Yes, the CIA trained them to torture, ki…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 49:46
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional recruited
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“actively recruited Italian fascist terrorists from their Gladio program as well. So Chile was all open. It was like, give me some Portugal guys, give me some French guys, give me some Italian guys. And that is how we tied Operation Condor t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 29:08
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional operated_in
Chile book_quoted
“of equipment because they were standing up the dina that was going to be using that to round up all kinds of people in chile so the author then goes on and says that morrissey's quote-unquote incompetence was probably since he had only a fe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 5 @ 4:26
Mentions (14)
▶ 44:17
ultimately creating a secret police called the DINA, thanks to USAID and the Office of Public Safety, because we've covered this extensively, along with the CIA. Colonel Manuel Quintero's Sepulveda, conceived as a Chilean version of the CIA…
▶ 44:48
Dena supplemented the intelligence units of the three armed services and created a counter-espionage unit. All of them played a central role in Pinochet's repression. Contreras quickly established a foreign operation entity called the Briga…
▶ 51:35
We're all part of it. And as we have said in many other shows, this exact same apparatus to include a DINA version was set up in other South American countries to include Venezuela. They just don't formally recognize it as part of Operation…
▶ 53:09
The reluctance of the U.S. authorities to investigate the links between the Latier assassination and the DINA is a measure of the collusion between Washington and Chile. Condor became a terrorist network, a characterization only rendered st…
▶ 3:54
I got Mike on the phone and he said, oh, well, that's old stuff in the lab and it doesn't work anymore. Do you have another reliable source for this information or this product? The letter was dated July 26, 1974, which is interesting becau…
▶ 28:37
significant use out of the French OAS, their Operation Gladio people as well. What's more, the military officers from Chile who had been personally trained by OAS as well. So it's kind of like keeping it all in the family. As far as strateg…
▶ 29:08
actively recruited Italian fascist terrorists from their Gladio program as well. So Chile was all open. It was like, give me some Portugal guys, give me some French guys, give me some Italian guys. And that is how we tied Operation Condor t…
▶ 32:11
of the final stages to the Allende government was basically one bomb attack per hour in the final week every day. At least 24 bomb attacks every day for a week. No doubt the PL had a part in this campaign. Michael Vernon Townley, the DINA c…
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organization in 1975 100 anti-castro cubans joined with their european fascist in the army for the liberation of portugal elp from neighboring spain the elp corps comprised a gentor press meaning escladio along with oas personnel…
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Coru's headquarters was in Miami, with the largest CIA station ever assembled. Originally, it sustained a tight collaboration with the CIA and the Chilean Junta, secret police, i.e. DINA. According to former Cuban exile CIA agent Manuel de …
▶ 1:08:04
DINA's actions with CORU and provided funding, advisors, and explosives. And we know this to be true because we've looked up the explosive training center that was located in Texas, just north of the Mexican border. The head of DINA's Miami…
▶ 1:08:33
was a terrorist organization that was trained and funded by the CIA under USAID's Office of Public Safety. They have a detachment in Miami. Isn't that convenient? That was supposedly headed by Eduardo Sepulveda, the Chilean attache in Miami…
▶ 1:17:55
When he returned to Argentina, Perón brought with him López Rega as an advisor. He welded great influence over both the president and his wife. He also imported a whole slew of former, well, not former, current members of Otto Skorzeny's cr…
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As this terror campaign struck Europe, Davis became a U.S. ambassador in Switzerland. By coincidence, not, Dina's chief of foreign operations, Pedro Ewing, set up an office not too far from him. The Southern Europeans then protested repeate…