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Tom Karamanenis headed
Project FUBELT book_quoted
“Bro, Deputy Division Chief Jim Flannery, and a few subordinates. Helms told the Secret Warriors they were going to get $10 million to spend and put Cara Macenas in command. There would be a task force of the best people with Colonel White t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 18:54
Tom Karamanenis succeeded
Desmond Fitzgerald book_quoted
“not just in Bolivia, but in Washington. Desmond Fitzgerald had collapsed playing tennis and died. Tom Karamanis succeeded in leadership to the DO. It fell to him to take the news to Helms. Although Helms still refused to believe it, he coul…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 26:32
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choose who was going to be that new person. For the DO boss, the selection was between Helms' longtime associate, Thomas Karaminis, and Desmond Fitzgerald. When Desmond Fitzgerald saw what had happened, he marched into Helms' office to bid …
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not just in Bolivia, but in Washington. Desmond Fitzgerald had collapsed playing tennis and died. Tom Karamanis succeeded in leadership to the DO. It fell to him to take the news to Helms. Although Helms still refused to believe it, he coul…
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was supposed to approve all covert operations Nixon had recently affirmed would not be informed of this one. Helms thought it was the tightest clampdown he had ever experienced. Tom Karamason speculated to Senate investigators that the rest…
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For Kissinger, Chile became just part of an autumn crisis. The last-ditch attempt to head off Allende's presidency had come down to the history of Track 2, as Tom Karamasens dubbed it, an effort that led to the death of the de facto command…
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Returning to Langley after his fateful encounter with the president, Director Helms called together senior people to develop a plan to show Nixon. Early the next morning, Helms gathered the group, including his deputy, General Robert Cushma…
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Bro, Deputy Division Chief Jim Flannery, and a few subordinates. Helms told the Secret Warriors they were going to get $10 million to spend and put Cara Macenas in command. There would be a task force of the best people with Colonel White t…
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for a successful plan, the only apparent avenue being a military coup. Cord Myers recalls that he and Cara Menes were stunned. We were surprised what we were being ordered to do, Myers wrote. Much as we feared an Allende presidency, the ide…
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who also talked with ITT executives the day before, the economic pressures would feature in the 40-committee track, and they would endure long after Allende took power. The final Chilean runoff, set for October 24, 1970, loomed in Santiago.…
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For Helms, this also offered a private channel to the State Department. Cara Menendez and William Rogers had been young lawyers together back in the day on Thomas Dewey's DA staff in the 1930s. Interesting. Cara Menendez also practiced very…
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Flannery had served with Phillips several times in the past and now led him carefully to the appropriate conclusion. Both men saw poor prospects. Phillips recounted, the odds were unacceptable and it was something that was not going to work…
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Helms and his crew all testified later to intense White House pressure. As Flannery told investigators, there was just no question that we had to make the effort. Track two was very closely held at Langley. Except for Breaux, Flannery, and …
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but refused to recruit for Langley's economic war, except for they all talked. As Breaux met with ITT executives, E.J. Geraghty, Tom Karamacenas, phoned Chairman Harold Grennan and ranged over the same ground. McCone got updates from the IT…
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Kissinger reflected that there seems to have been little left to do. Tom Karamanenis met Nixon, Kissinger, and the National Security Council Deputy Alexander Haig six to ten times on his track two. His briefings of Nixon were uniformly nega…
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for track two out of the White House. Haig says nothing at all about Chile in his memoirs. Caramene Senez's key encounter took place on October 15th, with fewer than 10 days left until the runoff in Santiago. The deputy director of operatio…
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While a tough position would accelerate Chile's move to other places, you know, the communist. That's only logical. And in any event, a failed coup would, from a U.S. perspective, look awful. Kissinger and Haig listened to Cara Menendez, ev…
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reluctantly decided to instruct Langley to desist but preserve CIA assets to keep pressure on, hitting every Allende weak spot in sight now and after the 24 October, between now and 24 October. After 5 November, which was the inauguration d…
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would like the public to believe that his order ended covert action in Chile, but it is false. Cara Menendez testified, quote, as far as I was concerned, what we were told to do was to continue our efforts, stay alert and do what we could t…
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William Colby, Dick Bissell, Tom Karamanenis, David Ackley Phillips, and General Richard Stilwell. You know, all the guys deeply up to their eyeballs in covert operations don't want you to stop them. Outpacing Congress, the White House sees…