Salvadoran Armed Forces organization
also: Army, Salvadorian Army, Salvadoran Army, American military, Salvadorian military, Salvadoran officials, Salvadoran military, Salvadoran army units, Salvadoran Air Force
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El Salvadorcountry · 6CIAintelligence service · 6Contrasorganization · 5Felix Rodriguezperson · 4Marcos Aguardoperson · 4Colombiacountry · 4Enrique Miranda Jamieperson · 4San Salvadorplace · 4United Statescountry · 4Ilopango Air Baseplace · 3Juan Rafael Bustilloperson · 3Norwin Menendezperson · 3Death Squadsorganization · 3Pentagonorganization · 3Rudy Castilloperson · 3Frank Wisnerperson · 2Brigade 2506organization · 2Indiana Universityorganization · 2United States Military Academyorganization · 2Nicaraguacountry · 2Dulles International Airportplace · 2Ron Listerperson · 2Oliver Northperson · 2Nicholas Carranzaperson · 2
Claims (8)
Salvadoran Armed Forces carried_out_attack
El Mozote Massacre documented
“murder of Salvadorian citizens by these forces, unquote. What he left out was the fact that they had been trained by the U.S. to do exactly what they were doing. Two days later, but in his defense, Congress already knew that because they al…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 52:06
Marcos Aguardo member_of
Salvadoran Armed Forces documented
“accused of drug trafficking. Aguardo became a colonel in the Salvadoran Air Force, sharing all the privileges of a high-ranking military officer and was accepted into the ranks as the deputy commander of the Air Force. The flights he direct…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 47:43
Walter Grasheim supplied_arms_to
Salvadoran Armed Forces host_asserted
“Again, the death squad. He was also advising and training Salvadoran army units in long-range reconnaissance operations on behalf of the U.S. government. One of Castillo's informants, sorry about that, at Ilopengo told him Grasham was intim…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 13:44
Salvadoran Armed Forces founded
Brigade 2506 documented
“Castro's government statements pointedly feared a new larger, better equipped exile brigade. The U.S. denied such plans, but in fact, there was another exile initiative organized by the American military. It created a special Cuban voluntee…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 32:32
CIA supplied_arms_to
Salvadoran Armed Forces documented
“53,000 people. The equipment available to them flowed endlessly. When in 1982, the rebels destroyed 16 of 18 aircraft in a raid on an airport, the U.S. replaced them in a matter of weeks with 28 new aircraft.…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 42:01
CIA trained
Salvadoran Armed Forces documented
“whom we were told were guerrillas. I was trained in Panama, I told you, for nine months by the, he says something unintelligible, of the U.S. for anti-guerrilla warfare. Part of the time we were instructed about torture, unquote. Officers o…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 54:50
Francisco Garola Baseli member_of
Salvadoran Armed Forces book_quoted
“very secretive meeting with former CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters in May of 1984. According to the story, Walters was dispatched in a frantic attempt to talk the El Salvadoran president out of assassinating Thomas Pinkering, the U.S. am…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 36:26
CIA trained
Salvadoran Armed Forces host_asserted
“The administration concluded that the caucus study characterized most military aid as development aid, another money laundering opportunity, and undervalued the real cost of the hardware, even when it was properly categorized as military ai…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 40:07
Mentions (41)
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One telling result of this massive provision of weapons and training, as well as money to pay higher salaries, was the sizeable expansion of the Salvadoran armed forces and other security services. Because, again, they use them as rent-a-co…
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One telling result of this massive provision of weapons and training, as well as money to pay higher salaries, was the sizeable expansion of the Salvadoran armed forces and other security services. Because, again, they use them as rent-a-co…
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From an estimated 7,000 to 12,000 men in 1979, the Army alone jumped to more than 22,000 by 1983. So in four years, it went from 7 to 22. With an additional 11,000 civilian security forces, three years later, the total of these two forces s…
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From an estimated 7,000 to 12,000 men in 1979, the Army alone jumped to more than 22,000 by 1983. So in four years, it went from 7 to 22. With an additional 11,000 civilian security forces, three years later, the total of these two forces s…
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finding time to rape several of the teenage girls in the houses. Earlier the same month, the New York Times had published an interview with the deserter from the Salvadorian Army who described a class where severe methods of torture were de…
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Watching will make you feel like you're a man, a Salvadoran officer told the recruits, adding that they should not feel pity of anyone but that, quote, hate for those who are enemy of your country, unquote. Another Salvadoran, a former memb…
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whom we were told were guerrillas. I was trained in Panama, I told you, for nine months by the, he says something unintelligible, of the U.S. for anti-guerrilla warfare. Part of the time we were instructed about torture, unquote. Officers o…
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In August 1986, CBS television reported that three senior National Guard who had been linked to these terror death squads received training at the police academy in Phoenix. In 1984, Amnesty International reported the following, quote,…
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Regular, often daily reports identifying El Salvador's regular security and military units as responsible for the torture, quote, disappearance, unquote, and killing of noncombatant civilians from all sectors of Salvadoran society. A number…
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A former Salvadorian military official who had served at the highest level of the security police confirmed for those who may still have entertained doubts that the network of death squads had been shaped by leading Salvadorian officials an…
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The head of the Treasury Police, which has long been considered the least disciplined and most brutal of all Salvadorian security forces, had been receiving more than $90,000 a year during the previous five years from the CIA. Although some…
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Former Salvadoran Army Commando Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez, in an interview on CBS, related that he and others in his unit, the intelligence section of the Army's 1st Brigade, had acted as a clandestine death squad, that the two U.S. milita…
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who had a remarkable career with the CIA, becoming a paramilitary specialist, i.e. Operation Gladio. Among other operations he had been involved in was the execution of Sheikh Havera. In the early 1985, Rodriguez appeared in El Salvador as …
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date the Contras' use of Ilopango to September 1985 when North wrote to Rodriguez asking him to use his influence with the Salvadoran Air Force commander Juan Rafael Bustillo, a secure hangar for the Contras to use as supply flights. Rodrig…
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tightly guarded by San Salvadorian military. If he was ever going to find out the truth, he figured he needed to get on that side of the base. He went to the Salvadoran Air Force commander, Bastillo, and asked for permission, but was given …
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Girola zoom in and out of the airbase hauling drugs and carrying cash to the Bahamas and flashing credentials of the Salvadoran Air Force and the president's office. When I ran Girola's name in the computer, it popped up with 11 DEA files d…
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to the cartels of Colombia in the late 1980s, testified in 1992 that during the Nicaraguan trial, which we'll talk about later, that Norwin was selling drugs and funneling the benefits to the Contras with help from high-ranking military off…
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accused of drug trafficking. Aguardo became a colonel in the Salvadoran Air Force, sharing all the privileges of a high-ranking military officer and was accepted into the ranks as the deputy commander of the Air Force. The flights he direct…
▶ 49:47
from Colombia by the cartel pilots arrived in Costa Rica in square 25 kilo packages. It was unloaded at various airstrips, including one located on the CIA operative John Hall's farm in northern Costa Rica, where it was placed on Contra pla…
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Once it had arrived at the Salvadoran base, Miranda said, Aguardo and Menendez supervised the loading of the cocaine onto U.S.-bound aircraft owned by the Salvadoran Air Force and, on occasion, Miami-based CIA contractor Southern Air Transp…
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told him that he once took a Salvadoran Air Force bomber and leveled a warehouse full of metalene cocaine on behalf of the state-owned Cali cartel. Another time, he made plans to bomb the prison where Pablo Escobar was imprisoned. Agordo al…
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from the Salvadoran military to the Colombian cartel. A story Miranda said he doubted until a Salvadoran Air Force colonel and his associates were arrested in 1992 for selling bombs and explosives to the Colombian drug cartels. Miranda said…
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Because his investigation had the potential to, quote, unquote, destroy relationships with the Salvadoran officials that had taken so long to build, unquote. Now, keep in mind, the Salvadoran officials he's talking about is the guy running …
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He went by the name Wally. The tall bearded arms broker was a Salvadoran sales rep for Litton, L-I-T-T-O-N Corporation and other American weapon manufacturers and had a booming business selling things like night vision goggles, Steyr sniper…
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Again, the death squad. He was also advising and training Salvadoran army units in long-range reconnaissance operations on behalf of the U.S. government. One of Castillo's informants, sorry about that, at Ilopengo told him Grasham was intim…
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Though Castillo's 1986 investigation was killed, he picked up word three years later that hangar number five at Ilopango was once again being used for drug trafficking, this time by members of the Salvadoran Air Force. He opened up another …
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on the Civil War in El Salvador, you know, where we were training the death squads and then pretended they were a political party. Pena was a close friend of former CIA agent, the star of our show, Felix Rodriguez, who was overseeing Norse …
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by the name of Colonel Nicholas Carranza, head of the government's feared Treasury Police. According to one account, CIA Director Casey met personally with Carranza in the summer of 1983 and told him to knock it off or the CIA would stop pa…
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Lister, quote, led a sales team on a futile mission to Civil War-wracked El Salvador in the summer of 1982 to market surplus American arms, military equipment, and use school buses to the Salvadoran military. The trip was financed, the asso…
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were echoed by other authoritative sources to include a foreign military studies office at Fort Leavenworth, which is where the Army has their middle officer school. And it was published three months before the World Trade Center attacks. A…
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Because Bobby Knight started his career at West Point. And he spent five years there before he moved to Indiana University. And he went, he knew all of, by the time I came around, he, it had been a long time. And most of the people that he …
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The Army had ROTC there and the Air Force had ROTC at Indiana University in Bloomington. And every semester, Bobby Knight came to what was referred to as a one hour a week leadership lab. And he would sit down and talk with us and he would …
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All right. So the chief of the division within the CIA was an officer on detached service from the army. He had actually been part of it. See, that's why I don't buy this whole these people are like in the army, because while he was suppose…
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And so then after World War II, he's in the CIA again, but he's wearing an army uniform. That's why this stuff is bullshit. Desmond Fitzgerald was another former officer who had been in Burma and an advisor to the Nationalist Army. As early…
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C-O-E-T-T-E-R, had asked the Pentagon to form a staff of service representatives to help the CIA establish their paramilitary training program. Two months later, the Secretary of the Army approved the assistance to Frank Wisner's office in …
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Castro's government statements pointedly feared a new larger, better equipped exile brigade. The U.S. denied such plans, but in fact, there was another exile initiative organized by the American military. It created a special Cuban voluntee…
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had told the Mongoose meeting in October of 62 that the Pentagon had made progress. When JFK spoke to the brigade at the Orange Bowl in December, the Army's Cuba program formed his core element. What to do with the brigade figured at the EX…
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arranged the use of Salvadoran Air Force facilities to launch contra-attacks on the Nicaraguan communication center. That would be the Ipala Pango place where Felix Rodriguez was. The Aquacate base started as nothing more than a dirt airstr…
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He'd enlisted in the Army in 1945, recruited into Army's Counterintelligence Corps in 1947 because of his fluency in Polish, then assigned in September 51 to the CIA. What was this man even doing at the CIA in 1998, especially since he had …
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To an Army civilian employee, Frank Olson, he leapt out of a window to his death, unquote. The CIA seemed to love its secret prisons, its drug programs from the very start. These programs were just as disastrous for everybody involved from …
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hastily improvised operation began coming apart. This fallout left a lasting impression on the newly appointed CIA officer named Ted Shackley, who started a supercharged career at the agency as a second lieutenant, Shanghai'd from the job t…