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Claims (48)
Elliot Abrams worked_for
Daniel Patrick Moynihan documented
“What's most interesting about that, obviously, is the London School of Economics because of the connection with people who come out of there being intricately involved in CIA activity as well as overall Operation Gladio activity. He clerked…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:11:42
Donald Trump appointed
Elliot Abrams documented
“a turn of events that culminated with Washington's recognition of Guido just two months following his Troika of Tyranny tirade. The neocon takeover of U.S.-Latin American policy was solidified with the immediate aftermath of Guido's January…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 22:32
Elliot Abrams covered_up
Iran-Contra affair documented
“Described by Bolton as an old friend, Abrams was best known for his lead role in the Iran-Contra affair of the early 1980s, where he directed Washington's dirty war against the fighters in Central America as a senior State Department offici…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 23:02
George H.W. Bush pardoned
Elliot Abrams documented
“from Congress. Though George H.W. Bush pardoned him the following year, Abrams would go on to serve in Bush Jr.'s national security team and orchestrate a failed military coup against Chavez in April 2002, just weeks following the U.S. pres…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 23:34
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Iran-Contra affair documented
“later on was overturned due to technicalities of his trial. Abram was a central figure in Iran-Contra where Reagan officials illegally sold arms to Iran and diverted funds to the Nicaraguan Contras fighting the Sandinista government in defi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:17:29
Elliot Abrams member_of
United States documented
“who is formulating proposals for President Trump during his first administration, massaging intel and feeding him what it is that he wants him to know. And that's why I wanted to spend a few minutes going over Elliott Abrams. Anybody could …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:17:07
Elliot Abrams financed_via
Contras documented
“As Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, Abrams facilitated $10 million in Swiss bank transfers to the Contras and misled Congress about U.S. involvement. In 1991, under investigation, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:17:52
George H.W. Bush pardoned
Elliot Abrams documented
“by George H.W. Bush, Mr. CIA himself, in 1992, never expressing remorse for anything he did. He later called his prosecutors miserable, filthy bastards, even though all of his, the weapons, the money laundering, all of that stuff ended up c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:18:20
George H.W. Bush pardoned
Elliot Abrams documented
“of those types of things, because they were guilty of them, would actually add teeth to them. In the end, everyone Walsh charged was convicted, with the exception of a single CIA officer whose case was dismissed on national security grounds…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 59:42
Elliot Abrams member_of
Ethics and Public Policy Center documented
“And he focused on Latin America policy in that job. After leaving government, he joined the Ethics and Public Policy Center and became a senior director at the, or a senior fellow at the CFR, where he remains today. And now he's involved in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:13:14
Elliot Abrams member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“And the fact that Elliott Abrams was actually convicted of nefarious shit during Iran-Contra, him being one of the lead guys that Bolton used in this is very nefarious as well.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:29:26
Elliot Abrams appointed
Ronald Reagan documented
“Moynihan. Abrams entered Republican, so he staffs for the Democrats and works for Republicans as well. That's why we say it's two wings of the same bird. He goes to work for President Reagan in the 80s as the Assistant Secretary of State fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:12:12
Elliot Abrams worked_for
Henry Jackson documented
“What's most interesting about that, obviously, is the London School of Economics because of the connection with people who come out of there being intricately involved in CIA activity as well as overall Operation Gladio activity. He clerked…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:11:42
John Bolton hired
Elliot Abrams host_asserted
“And that's why I thought it was so important. And I still, I'm dumbfounded on how Abram, Elliott Abrams even managed to get, I mean, I know that Bolton hired him. And Bolton, of course, was involved in Iran-Contra as well. So, but I honestl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 48:46
Elliot Abrams targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“was not only ungrateful for Elliott Abrams' charity, but had deported a foreign journalist for the crime of asking a tough question. When Anya decided her trip was over on February 26th and her partner were leaving Caracas Airport, they not…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 40:12
Elliot Abrams attempted_assassination_of
Jorge Arreaza guest_asserted
“We hate socialism and we have to destroy the government. So in a way, it's actually better that they're operating in the open, according to their foreign minister. So the night before our interview, the AP reported that during Ariza's trip …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 50:29
Elliot Abrams recruited
Jorge Arreaza book_quoted
“With a surreal Cold War mentality, he first approached my team, talking about Elliott Abrams, to ask that we turn against our government and facilitate President Maduro's exit. So Elliott Abrams is in New York trying to convince this guy to…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 13:31
Elliot Abrams attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“from Congress. Though George H.W. Bush pardoned him the following year, Abrams would go on to serve in Bush Jr.'s national security team and orchestrate a failed military coup against Chavez in April 2002, just weeks following the U.S. pres…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 23:34
Elliot Abrams exposed
CLAP host_asserted
“Venezuela's food crisis would almost certainly have been much worse. The U.S. government's obsession with CLAP further underscored its success. In February of 2019, the U.S.'s envoy to Venezuela, remember Elliott Abram, that guy, the guy th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 9:04
Elliot Abrams ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab book_quoted
“Mike Pompeo wrote that Trump's Venezuelan envoy and Iran-Contra crook, Elliott Abrams, first briefed him on the plot days before it went into effect. According to Pompeo, Abrams informed him that some clever drug enforcement agency folks ha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 39:12
Elliot Abrams ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab documented
“Particularly, Abrams had pushed for the ship's deployment out of fear the US would lose an unusual opportunity to punish Mr. Maduro. That was in the New York Times. If Saab's detention lingered on, Abrams and his cronies claimed that withou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 42:12
Mark Esper asserted
Elliot Abrams book_quoted
“Esper detailed a slew of wild theories that Abrams and his colleagues floated about Saab. This is a quote of one of them. Maduro persuaded President Putin and Russian special forces to spring Saab from jail. Russian mercenaries in Libya wer…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 43:08
Elliot Abrams ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“And Abrams is like his right hand man. Right. Absolute douchebag is douchebag and a half. Yeah. So where do you get the real information from? Well, and not that I trust Bill Barr either. No. Yeah. I mean, it was Bill Barr's attorneys that …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:07:57
Elliot Abrams member_of
United States book_quoted
“Mosati massacre in El Salvador spoke on behalf of the Trump administration. So you guys may remember in the book we just did by Gary Webb, he mentioned Elliott Abrams several times because Elliott Abrams and John Bolton, who was also mentio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 12:30
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Iran-Contra affair book_quoted
“us to break all diplomatic ties with Washington. In the immediate aftermath, I participated in several meetings with U.S. officials in New York, during which Elliot Abram, and we're going to go over him in a minute. Elliot Abram's name keep…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 12:00
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Qasem Soleimani documented
“for Iran, Abrams helped dismantle the 2015 JCPOA, proposing maximum pressure sanctions that devastated Iran's economy and civilian population, leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths, according to UN reports. He also backed covert operations…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:19:52
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“organization. The fake organization that was quote-unquote non-governmental humanitarian to hide the fact that the CIA was embedded in the State Department helping the Contras. That was one aspect of his role in the Iran-Contra. Also, he wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:38
Elliot Abrams worked_with
Oliver North host_asserted
“Working with Oliver North. On the. On the. Weapons. Trafficking. With Iran. So. I just wanted to. Go over a couple of things. Because do you know where we find. Elliot Abrams. In 2019. We find him.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 2:08
Elliot Abrams appointed
Donald Trump documented
“as a part of the Trump administration under Mike Pompeo as the special representative for Iran. We also found him as a special representative to Venezuela during the Trump administration's first term. And why is that important? Because that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 2:38
Elliot Abrams pardoned
George H.W. Bush documented
“100% a neocon, was in the Council of Foreign Relations. And he was eventually found guilty of false testimony during the Iran-Contra scandal and was pardoned by none other than George H.W. Bush. Because, of course, he's intimately involved …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 4:06
Elliot Abrams member_of
Project for the New American Century documented
“He was a member of PNAC, the Project for a New American Century, which outlined all of the Arab Spring stuff and basically just a coup factory guy. So it's crazy. You, of course, would not be at all surprised, given all of the stuff that we…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 4:34
Elliot Abrams educated_at
Harvard University documented
“He was a member of PNAC, the Project for a New American Century, which outlined all of the Arab Spring stuff and basically just a coup factory guy. So it's crazy. You, of course, would not be at all surprised, given all of the stuff that we…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 4:34
Elliot Abrams educated_at
London School of Economics documented
“He was a member of PNAC, the Project for a New American Century, which outlined all of the Arab Spring stuff and basically just a coup factory guy. So it's crazy. You, of course, would not be at all surprised, given all of the stuff that we…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 4:34
Elliot Abrams attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:28:09
George H.W. Bush pardoned
Elliot Abrams book_quoted
“On Christmas Eve of 1992, Bush suddenly pardoned a series of figures, including Weinberger, George, Dewey, Claridge, Elliott Abrams, Robert McFarlane, and Alan Fiers. That marked the end of a season of inquiries. So every single person that…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 30:00
Elliot Abrams member_of
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“of knowing who Max Gomez really was. Yet they all knew it was Felix Rodriguez. He also denied any knowledge about the operation at Ilopango. Elliott Abrams, who testified for state, also claimed no knowledge or assistance to Secord and said…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 20:22
Elliot Abrams appointed
Rob Owens documented
“But North kept pushing. Doomling said North had Contra leaders write letters demanding Owens hire. He lobbied Doomling's superior at the State Department, Assistant Secretary Elliott Abrams, a fervent Contra supporter. After one stormy meet…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 43:24
Elliot Abrams pardoned
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“Because there's literally no explanation other than that on how you would hire an ex-convict. Yes, he was pardoned. I know that. But he was pardoned by the guy running it, George H.W. Bush. So I just wanted to say that. Well, could it be be…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 49:15
Elliot Abrams member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“He advised multiple Republican campaigns, served in think tanks supporting Republicans. Under George W. Bush, Abrams returned to the National Security Council, where Operation Gladio is ran out of, as the senior director for, quote unquote,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:13:40
Elliot Abrams removed_from_power
Mark Garlasco documented
“Nicaragua and the surrounding area, for that matter. In the Bush National Security Council, Abrams pushed for the 2003 Iraq invasion, co-authoring a memo that exaggerated the weapons of mass destruction and ignored intelligence to the contr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:18:50
Elliot Abrams involved_in
JCPOA documented
“for Iran, Abrams helped dismantle the 2015 JCPOA, proposing maximum pressure sanctions that devastated Iran's economy and civilian population, leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths, according to UN reports. He also backed covert operations…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:19:52
Elliot Abrams defended
El Salvador host_asserted
“He was intimately involved in defending the death squad leader in El Salvador under the guise of human rights. He had a knock down, drag out fight with the actual human rights commission in his support of the El Salvadoran government that w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 6:01
Elliot Abrams supplied_arms_to
Venezuela host_asserted
“And he was actively involved in this entire effort. So they had every right to believe that this was more than just about aid. In anticipation of the U.S. move, Venezuelan's government set up a blockade consisting of oil tankers and shippin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 4:39
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Assassination of Orlando Letelier guest_asserted
“But unfortunately, if that's the case, it had real world implications for a whole lot of countries, one of which is Venezuela, as we're going to see. Go ahead, Elanai. Hey, Colonel. Two things. First off, I did a little bit of background re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:18:06
Elliot Abrams funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“He was instrumental in using the Freedom House and the Freedom House funding, along with the International Republican Institute, the Republican piece of the National Endowment for Democracy, in funding the unrest in Venezuela during the fir…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 8:56
Elliot Abrams ordered_assassination_of
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Serving as a crucial figure overseeing a scheme from his post on Bush Jr.'s national security team was none other than Elliott Abrams, the same guy that John Bolton used in 2019 to do the exact same thing. The guy just keeps coming back. Do…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 33:05
Elliot Abrams attempted_coup_against
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“within the Bush II administration when this operation was playing out. John Negroponte, who prior to taking over the post as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, served as the DNI, and Elliott Abrams, who served as the Deputy National Security A…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 12 @ 5:55
Elliot Abrams paid
Samuel Moncada guest_asserted
“to live in the U.S., green cards, and places at universities for their children if they would just leave Venezuela and Maduro. Following the interview, Ariza grabbed his suitcase and hurried off to catch his flight back to Caracas. A member…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 40:29
Mentions (114)
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Elliott Abrams, who at the time was the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, saw fit to attack Aristide while praising the Haitian government in a letter to Time magazine during the election campaign. The Catholic priest…
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Episode that I have researched would be El Salvador and the Atlacatl Battalion and the training in the School of Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. That particular episode in the early 80s with support from the States, but people like Ellio…
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us to break all diplomatic ties with Washington. In the immediate aftermath, I participated in several meetings with U.S. officials in New York, during which Elliot Abram, and we're going to go over him in a minute. Elliot Abram's name keep…
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Mosati massacre in El Salvador spoke on behalf of the Trump administration. So you guys may remember in the book we just did by Gary Webb, he mentioned Elliott Abrams several times because Elliott Abrams and John Bolton, who was also mentio…
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With a surreal Cold War mentality, he first approached my team, talking about Elliott Abrams, to ask that we turn against our government and facilitate President Maduro's exit. So Elliott Abrams is in New York trying to convince this guy to…
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when his miscalculations were more apparent and the U.S. was attempting to force an incursion into my country's territory under the cover of humanitarian aid shipment, which we're going to get to in one of the chapters. It's very interestin…
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During a meeting in February, Abrams warned us that life in Venezuela would become unbearable, predicting that our electricity, fuel, and food would soon run out. And I'm sure Illini recognizes that rhetoric because that's exactly what they…
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Washington's policy of maximum pressure was and still is destined for failure because it lacks one key element. It never truly considered what the people of Venezuela wanted. The Abrams, Boltons, and Pompeos of the world could never grasp t…
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Yeah. Interesting head scratcher there. So I mentioned to you guys when we were going through the preface there about Elliot Abrams. Now, Elliot Abrams is going to be featured several times in this book. So I want to read to you guys who El…
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that in the back of your mind every time his name comes up. He is a cohort of John Bolton. Elliott Abrams, born in 1948, an attorney, a diplomat, and quote-unquote foreign policy expert, known for his neocon views and long career in nationa…
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He's the son of an immigration lawyer. He grew up in a Jewish family and attended the progressive Little Red Schoolhouse in Manhattan. He earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard. He studied at the London School of Economics and came back …
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What's most interesting about that, obviously, is the London School of Economics because of the connection with people who come out of there being intricately involved in CIA activity as well as overall Operation Gladio activity. He clerked…
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Moynihan. Abrams entered Republican, so he staffs for the Democrats and works for Republicans as well. That's why we say it's two wings of the same bird. He goes to work for President Reagan in the 80s as the Assistant Secretary of State fo…
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was the office that was overseeing USAID-type things for the State Department. Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. That is going to make you laugh in just a minute. He was also the Assistant Secretary for Inter-Am…
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And he focused on Latin America policy in that job. After leaving government, he joined the Ethics and Public Policy Center and became a senior director at the, or a senior fellow at the CFR, where he remains today. And now he's involved in…
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He advised multiple Republican campaigns, served in think tanks supporting Republicans. Under George W. Bush, Abrams returned to the National Security Council, where Operation Gladio is ran out of, as the senior director for, quote unquote,…
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He was involved, that was from 2001 to 2005, you know, when we're running the, we're going to overthrow seven governments in five years, according to General Welch. There he was focused on Middle East policy, including the Iraq War and the …
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He served as the special representative for Venezuela and then went on to serve as the special representative for Iran. Both things effed up. Overseeing maximum pressure sanction campaigns on both of them. Okay, here's the nefarious things …
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As Assistant Secretary for Human Rights, Abrams defended the Reagan administration's support for El Salvador's military junta during their civil war, where they had death squads roaming around killing thousands of people. In 81, he downplay…
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massacre where Salvadorian troops killed over 800 civilians, including children, in a U.S.-backed operation. Abrams claims the reports were quote-unquote not credible, except they found all the dead bodies. He then turned around and said an…
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even though later declassified U.S. embassy cables confirmed all of it. However, his stance helped secured U.S. aid totaling $6 billion overall going to El Salvador as they murdered their own citizens. Ultimately, it is estimated that over …
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And all of those trained killers end up being MS-13's initial cadre that came into the United States. Abrams, from 82 to 83, Abrams lobbied against sanctions for the Guatemalan dictator Mont, M-O-N-T-T, who oversaw the genocide of over 200,…
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In a 1982 memo, Abrams urged the State Department to ignore reports of mass killing, calling them all quote-unquote exaggerated, and praising Mont as a reformer. This paved the way for $300 million of our taxpayer money in U.S. military aid…
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later on was overturned due to technicalities of his trial. Abram was a central figure in Iran-Contra where Reagan officials illegally sold arms to Iran and diverted funds to the Nicaraguan Contras fighting the Sandinista government in defi…
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As Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, Abrams facilitated $10 million in Swiss bank transfers to the Contras and misled Congress about U.S. involvement. In 1991, under investigation, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts o…
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by George H.W. Bush, Mr. CIA himself, in 1992, never expressing remorse for anything he did. He later called his prosecutors miserable, filthy bastards, even though all of his, the weapons, the money laundering, all of that stuff ended up c…
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Nicaragua and the surrounding area, for that matter. In the Bush National Security Council, Abrams pushed for the 2003 Iraq invasion, co-authoring a memo that exaggerated the weapons of mass destruction and ignored intelligence to the contr…
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for criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza amid accusations of suppressing dissent on Israeli policy. Abrams supported the 2007 surge but faced backlash for supporting the black site torture. Imagine that. From 2017 to 21, Trump's special rep…
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for Iran, Abrams helped dismantle the 2015 JCPOA, proposing maximum pressure sanctions that devastated Iran's economy and civilian population, leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths, according to UN reports. He also backed covert operations…
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assassination of Soleimani. And then we're going to get into his role in the Venezuelan coup in upcoming chapters. But I thought it necessary that I kind of give you a background of who Elliott Abrams is. And he's in the first Trump adminis…
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Serving as a crucial figure overseeing a scheme from his post on Bush Jr.'s national security team was none other than Elliott Abrams, the same guy that John Bolton used in 2019 to do the exact same thing. The guy just keeps coming back. Do…
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to this day, as far as we know, is still in exile. Bolivia has been trying to get him back into the country to try him. But evidently, that's not going to happen. As for Elliott Abrams, that guy has been involved in so much, what do I want …
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Twitter at the time, talking up the impending regime change in Venezuela, seemingly disconnected from the whole thing as if she's not in direct relation to the coup machine itself. She was packaging all of the information John Bolton and El…
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during a talk before the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston, a foreign policy gathering funded by none other than the petroleum industry. During the meeting, Haasman detailed his vision for the morning after the regime change in Carac…
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What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…
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do a coup by force. He didn't even deny it or downplay it or try to tout it as organic. He literally said in an interview, and I forget which interview it was, but he said, yeah, this is our sphere of influence. We're going to take control.…
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And the fact that Elliott Abrams was actually convicted of nefarious shit during Iran-Contra, him being one of the lead guys that Bolton used in this is very nefarious as well.…
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who is formulating proposals for President Trump during his first administration, massaging intel and feeding him what it is that he wants him to know. And that's why I wanted to spend a few minutes going over Elliott Abrams. Anybody could …
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Deep State himself. And so there's a lot of people that think that those people were brought into the Trump administration so that they could monitor their communications. And there's a legitimate reason to think that to map out their netwo…
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But unfortunately, if that's the case, it had real world implications for a whole lot of countries, one of which is Venezuela, as we're going to see. Go ahead, Elanai. Hey, Colonel. Two things. First off, I did a little bit of background re…
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Venezuela's food crisis would almost certainly have been much worse. The U.S. government's obsession with CLAP further underscored its success. In February of 2019, the U.S.'s envoy to Venezuela, remember Elliott Abram, that guy, the guy th…
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Mike Pompeo wrote that Trump's Venezuelan envoy and Iran-Contra crook, Elliott Abrams, first briefed him on the plot days before it went into effect. According to Pompeo, Abrams informed him that some clever drug enforcement agency folks ha…
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the Atlantic to Cape Verde. Though no former war had been declared upon Cape Verde, Hawks embedded within Trump's administration had dispatched the ship to increase pressure on Cape Verde to extradite Sopp. Their ploy was exposed in Decembe…
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Particularly, Abrams had pushed for the ship's deployment out of fear the US would lose an unusual opportunity to punish Mr. Maduro. That was in the New York Times. If Saab's detention lingered on, Abrams and his cronies claimed that withou…
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to invade Cape Verde and break him out of prison. According to then U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the paranoia allegations was just one of several unsubstantiated rumors that Abrams circulated throughout the media about the diplomat. I…
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a special plane to fly to Cape Verde to repatriate Saab, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops were preparing the rescue mission, unquote. That's what Abrams was floating around Washington, D.C. during this time. Just as their weapons of m…
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We already know Pompeo's a bad guy. We know Abrams a bad guy. And John Bolton was involved in all of this. OK, that was that was kind of going to be my question. Yeah. So it is completely possible because they did it to JFK, too, to feed fa…
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pointed out the whole rumor mill that was going on throughout the State Department, the CIA with their mouthpieces in the media of all of these threats that they were going to break Saab out of jail any day had literally no intelligence beh…
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be rammed across the Venezuelan border by U.S. military. Fears the cargo contained more than just charity were underscored by the fact that Elliot Abrams, Mr. Iran-Contra convict, who had previously weaponized humanitarian aid, you know, li…
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walk around, inspect the food and government subsidized items, including bread, fresh fruit, vegetables, blah, blah, blah. For Abrams, Bolton and Mnuchin and other in Washington, this clap market not only diminished the desired impact of th…
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working on behalf of corporate America. Though his interview with Maduro did not air for several months, Ramos' hyperbolic tale of repression and near captivity in the palace set the tone for international media in Venezuela as they braced …
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And that's why I thought it was so important. And I still, I'm dumbfounded on how Abram, Elliott Abrams even managed to get, I mean, I know that Bolton hired him. And Bolton, of course, was involved in Iran-Contra as well. So, but I honestl…
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Because there's literally no explanation other than that on how you would hire an ex-convict. Yes, he was pardoned. I know that. But he was pardoned by the guy running it, George H.W. Bush. So I just wanted to say that. Well, could it be be…
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Venezuela is going to enter a period of suffering no nation in our hemisphere has confronted in modern history, unquote. Rubio said that before a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing on Venezuela that featured Elliott Abrams, the c…
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whatever their denomination was because it wasn't in dollars, contract to repair Venezuela's refinery and was reportedly preparing to revamp the country's largest refining plant. Iran's firm announced plans to restore Venezuela's electrical…
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We hate socialism and we have to destroy the government. So in a way, it's actually better that they're operating in the open, according to their foreign minister. So the night before our interview, the AP reported that during Ariza's trip …
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said, okay, now do business. So he hires in John Bolton, he hires in Elliott Abrams and Mike Pompeo, and they go right back to doing what they were doing, regime change. Only the doors are open now. And everybody can see that they're doing …
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in this administration. They are like things in a barrio. To illustrate their behavior, Ariza informed me that U.S. officials had previously attempted to bribe him and his colleagues into defecting from Venezuela. He claimed that Elliott Ab…
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by people in President Trump's administration that were criminals like John Bolton and Elliott Abrams doing it to Venezuela while we're watching it having happened here. That to me was just like mind blowing. And that's why you can't just a…
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Obviously, there were several people, Mike Pence, John Bolton and Elliott Abrams, that knew exactly what was going on because several of them were working with the game playing of overthrowing a government. So very interesting. Anyway, agai…
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To illustrate the point, she cited a report from the Center of Economic and Policy Research think tank published a few days earlier, which found that U.S. sanctions contributed to thousands of excess deaths in Venezuela between 2017 and 18 …
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a turn of events that culminated with Washington's recognition of Guido just two months following his Troika of Tyranny tirade. The neocon takeover of U.S.-Latin American policy was solidified with the immediate aftermath of Guido's January…
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Described by Bolton as an old friend, Abrams was best known for his lead role in the Iran-Contra affair of the early 1980s, where he directed Washington's dirty war against the fighters in Central America as a senior State Department offici…
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from Congress. Though George H.W. Bush pardoned him the following year, Abrams would go on to serve in Bush Jr.'s national security team and orchestrate a failed military coup against Chavez in April 2002, just weeks following the U.S. pres…
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But North kept pushing. Doomling said North had Contra leaders write letters demanding Owens hire. He lobbied Doomling's superior at the State Department, Assistant Secretary Elliott Abrams, a fervent Contra supporter. After one stormy meet…
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That meant I was hiring him. Owen was given a $50,000 contract as a quote-unquote facilitator, a job that mystified Doomling's aide, Chris Arcos. Arcos testified that no one was sure what, in fact, Rob Owens could do or bring to the office.…
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The minutes from a November 1985 meeting show that for some reason, Abrams and North was extremely concerned about the fallout if someone discovered Owen's involvement in the office, and they began working on a cover story to explain his pr…
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Unquote. That's what North wrote to Poindexter. Quote, Gorman North, Claridge, Revel, a CIA official, Stephen Trott and Elliott Abrams will cabal quietly in the morning to look at options, pardon, clemency, deportation, reduced sentence. Ob…
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memory about someone so that when we do the show tomorrow, you will be able to put all the pieces together. We have talked about Elliot Abrams. We talked about him three different times in the material we've covered so far. He was the guy w…
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organization. The fake organization that was quote-unquote non-governmental humanitarian to hide the fact that the CIA was embedded in the State Department helping the Contras. That was one aspect of his role in the Iran-Contra. Also, he wa…
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Working with Oliver North. On the. On the. Weapons. Trafficking. With Iran. So. I just wanted to. Go over a couple of things. Because do you know where we find. Elliot Abrams. In 2019. We find him.…
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as a part of the Trump administration under Mike Pompeo as the special representative for Iran. We also found him as a special representative to Venezuela during the Trump administration's first term. And why is that important? Because that…
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The CIA, either knowing or either Trump knew or he didn't know that we tried to coup Maduro and stick Guaido in Venezuela as the quote unquote recognized president. And what's interesting about that is this guy's got like a crap ton of bagg…
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Number one, he was a Democrat up until Jimmy Carter, and he didn't like the fact that Jimmy Carter was using humanitarian aid to not aid all of the military dictators in South America. So that's evidently what he specializes in, is propping…
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100% a neocon, was in the Council of Foreign Relations. And he was eventually found guilty of false testimony during the Iran-Contra scandal and was pardoned by none other than George H.W. Bush. Because, of course, he's intimately involved …
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He was a member of PNAC, the Project for a New American Century, which outlined all of the Arab Spring stuff and basically just a coup factory guy. So it's crazy. You, of course, would not be at all surprised, given all of the stuff that we…
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Which, of course, he didn't go under an Oxford scholarship, but it's to the same place. And then he comes back and gets his law degree from Harvard as well. And there was an effort once he had established himself as a liar to even pull his …
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actually support President Trump as opposed to this guy who was basically trying to undermine him. And you also find him intimately involved in quote unquote human rights initiatives, both in the State Department and other. But his idea of …
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He was intimately involved in defending the death squad leader in El Salvador under the guise of human rights. He had a knock down, drag out fight with the actual human rights commission in his support of the El Salvadoran government that w…
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The number of people dead in El Salvador in a particular city, say, and there's no way that many people were killed. Not only were that many people killed, there were actually more people killed in surrounding areas. All of that eventually …
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And you have to ask yourself, how the hell did he end up in the Trump administration? How that happened? Because it's crazy. Now, obviously, Mike Pompeo played a huge role in his appointment to be the quote unquote special representative of…
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It's literally crazy. He also got involved in a thing called Vandenberg Coalition in 2021, which was named after an American politician and senator from Michigan by the name of Arthur Vandenberg.…
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As I understand it, there's Vandenberg Foundation and money that's associated with that. And the Vandenberg Foundation was instrumental to funding part of the creation of NATO, along with the Rockefeller Foundation, which we know was the in…
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just screams Operation Gladio. And he has been, oh, and he's a good friend of Marco Rubio's too, which will come out later. But what I just found about this guy is he was working, you know, we've been covering the Freedom House the last cou…
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He was instrumental in using the Freedom House and the Freedom House funding, along with the International Republican Institute, the Republican piece of the National Endowment for Democracy, in funding the unrest in Venezuela during the fir…
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I'm going to cover that in depth tomorrow on The Office Show. But I just texted Alpha, holy shit, you'll never believe that I found the Freedom House in Venezuela during the 2019 attempted coup by Mike Pompeo. So I surprised myself even as …
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of the White House. The briefing will be on President Reagan's legislative initiative to support the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, i.e. the Contras. The president is attending. Donald Reagan, White House Chief of Staff, Elliott Abrams, Under…
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funders for the CIA operation of the Contras. The letter goes on. Remarks from Linda Chavez, deputy assistant to the president for public liaison, and a Central American overview by Elliott Abrams. At 3.15 p.m., President Reagan addresses t…
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The joining of these two operations was made public by November 25, 1986, when Attorney General Meese announced that the Justice Department officials had discovered that some of the proceeds from the Iranian arms sales had been diverted to …
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of those types of things, because they were guilty of them, would actually add teeth to them. In the end, everyone Walsh charged was convicted, with the exception of a single CIA officer whose case was dismissed on national security grounds…
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The policy fights in 83 had neutralized Reagan's crisis pre-planning group as a Nicaraguan secret war command. Central America policy fell to the restricted interagency group of senior officials. North represented the NSC at these meetings,…
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a restricted RIG, RIG. The existence of this core group is disputed by Abrams, the purported chairman, though he admits its meetings took place. But the RIG figured widely in sworn testimony before Congress, a special prosecutor, and federa…
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Briefings for their donors. President Reagan appeared twice to meet the donors, the private donors of a covert war. On one occasion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Reagan's appearance came neatly sandwiched between talks by Elliot…
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funding Contras to overthrow a democratically elected government, you're acting like Adolf Hitler. Elliott Abrams critiqued the storyboards for Chanel's TV ad. Chanel's consumed 35% or more of the donations on overhead for propaganda. Ronal…
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Oliver North and McFarland, sending other NSC staff members Gaston Segor. That brought UNO two donations of a million dollars each. Singlab would have gone for more, save the intervention of Elliott Abrams. The general's highly publicized p…
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who supposedly was handcuffed by the Boland Amendment for intelligence and technical support. When diplomacy became necessary, North and Fires could sway Elliott Abrams at the rig group, but both the Contras and benefactors had their own ag…
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Enable a U.S. blockade and force Managua to fold. Elliott Abrams, RIG, actually discussed this theme as well. But the Pentagon and CIA both said it was nonsense. North nonetheless used the plan to solicit donations from donors. North busily…
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For the most part, San Jose had been willing to wink at the contra activities, making arrests and seizures in the most egregious cases. Still, Costa Rica's official position remained neutral. Allowing land to be used was an act of commissio…
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From the beginning, there was a security breach just waiting to happen. This secret airstrip could be seen from the air by planes using the standard air approach into the Capitol's airport. A security breach did occur. The instigator was El…
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not a word about the plantation. Abrams finally asked, what about that airfield? Both Abrams and Tams saw the CIA station chief turn colors. He thought he was going to have a coronary attack. Fernandez took Abrams aside, indicating his offi…
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had to reach from humanitarian aid to a new program. Saudi Arabia had been a generous donor, but had exhausted its interest. Top floor in radio parlance of Bill Cooper's crews cast about for alternatives, as did private benefactors. John Si…
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Schultz had come a long way since September of 85 when referring to North, he had instructed Abrams to monitor Oliver North. Now Schultz was ready to go out and ask for money. Interestingly enough, this episode goes entirely unmentioned in …
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quote unquote, dictators and those dependent on USAID, which was like just about everybody. Abrams wanted donors to be oil magnets so that they had cash and wasn't going to be transferring money that could be tracked. He went to the Assista…
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The original idea was to have George Shultz make the approach to the Sultan during a visit. Extensive conversations among Shultz and Topps' advisors on the Secretary's plane across the Pacific convinced him to speak with the U.S. Ambassador…
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Abrams contacted a high Brunei official in London. They went for a walk. Abrams began with his standard Central American speech, a talk that he had given a hundred times, then turned to the need of a bridging aid. The Sultan's emissary aske…
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Abrams handed him a three-by-five card with a typed bank account number on it. The assistant secretary's file card would later get diplomatic embarrassment. Abrams had gotten the bank numbers from both Alan Fiers at the CIA and Oliver North…
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In Geneva, Abrams used Oliver's number, but Norse's secretary had inadvertently transposed two digits when typing them. The Sultan of Brunei deposited $10 million on August 19th. When Brunei asked Washington to confirm that, the U.S. proved…
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This may have been what led North to put Lake Resources account number on the file card for Elliott Abrams for the Brunei caper. So court again raised the issue of intelligence support from the agency. So we're going to stop right there. Is…
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He was someone that was referred to as a neutralist. On September 3rd, police seized the plantation airstrip and blocked its runway. North soon learned that the Costa Ricans planned a news conference to reveal the base. He spoke to Elliott …
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told the Sandinistas his plane belonged to the CIA. In Washington, it was like an explosion. The Reagan administration circled the wagons. Elliott Abrams' office tried to attribute the plane operation to General Singlem and claimed the U.S.…
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of knowing who Max Gomez really was. Yet they all knew it was Felix Rodriguez. He also denied any knowledge about the operation at Ilopango. Elliott Abrams, who testified for state, also claimed no knowledge or assistance to Secord and said…
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At the Senate Intelligence Committee on December 3rd, George declared that he had learned of Richard Secord only after the fact. In a post-Hawk ass-covering attempt on December 5th, the CIA General Counsel issued an opinion claiming that wh…
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On Christmas Eve of 1992, Bush suddenly pardoned a series of figures, including Weinberger, George, Dewey, Claridge, Elliott Abrams, Robert McFarlane, and Alan Fiers. That marked the end of a season of inquiries. So every single person that…
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within the Bush II administration when this operation was playing out. John Negroponte, who prior to taking over the post as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, served as the DNI, and Elliott Abrams, who served as the Deputy National Security A…