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William Webster reprimanded
Dewey Claridge documented
“Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean they went away. That is a paperwo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 19:48
Dewey Claridge member_of
Near East and South Asian divisions documented
“For example, then chief of operations in the Near East and South Asian divisions said of Colby, quote, he betrayed his own because he didn't try, unquote. The coalescence of pro-Helms and pro-Colby factions at headquarters created a break. …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 50:02
Dewey Claridge appointed
Oliver North book_quoted
“Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 25:37
George H.W. Bush pardoned
Dewey Claridge 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
William Casey appointed
Dewey Claridge documented
“grumbly content to work through channels, but not with Nicaragua. In a notable breach of boundaries, Casey brought in Dwayne Claridge, a Middle East specialist to head the DO's Latin American division. This marked the beginning of a fateful…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 39:28
Dewey Claridge founded
Armed Resistance Democratic Force documented
“The UDN, the Legion, and other small groups needed to form an alliance. This union produced the FDN. Further meetings followed in Miami, where Argentine Colonel Jose Alas, using the name Julio Velargas, told the Nicaraguans a three-way agre…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 1:01:03
Dewey Claridge trained
Contras documented
“Claridge estimated a month and a half to implant a CIA base and logistics network with activation in two months. The CIA, Claridge, put the cost at about the same as a single F-16 fighter jet, whatever that is, millions. Diplomat Thomas End…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 55:18
Dewey Claridge headed
CIA documented
“who fled to Honduras after revelations of his past service with Somoza, began to recruit his own band of rebels. Claridge and Spott had already been to Honduras to clear the way for the CIA base and the local government's cooperation. Clari…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 4:40
Dewey Claridge member_of
CIA documented
“Station chiefs had all been in Laos running drugs, along the many, many subordinates had also done time in Laos. That Claridge found no difficulty mobilizing the requisite agency skills shows that Turner's cutbacks in the late 1970s had not…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 10:02
Dewey Claridge recruited
Eden Pastora documented
“One, Alfonso Robelo, another, E. Pastor Gomez, a C.I.A. commander. Claridge enlisted him in Acapulco in February of 1982. Pastora demanded a weapons drop in Costa Rica as a token of the C.I.A.'s sincerity. He's the guy that they eventually …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 12:00
Dewey Claridge recruited
Eden Pastora documented
“Claridge brought Pastora to Washington for a secret session with Bill Casey. The former comandante, spirited into the DCI's office by the private elevator that connects to the underground parking facility, gave the CIA chieftain his own dog…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 13:07
Dewey Claridge member_of
CIA documented
“Argentina's involvement was documented towards the end of 1982 when Hector Francis, a Battalion 601 officer in Costa Rica, gave testimony on his country's activity. In October, Claridge visited Buenos Aires one more time with Jerry Gruner, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 14:03
Dewey Claridge supplied_arms_to
Fuerza Democrática Nacional documented
“while the indigenous rebel group peaked at around 3,000. Colonel Bermudez spent much of his time at the base, Tegu, where the FDN had radio stations and a hospital. He planned a big push for the summer and fall. Operation Marathon. At Langl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 39:59
Dewey Claridge ordered
Jerry Spott documented
“by the ambassador in the CIA every single time. Leahy went on to Panama, where Dewey Claridge, making a circuit of stations, had just visited. Leahy told the chief, former CATF boss Jerry Spott, that he wanted a briefing on the Nicaraguan p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 43:24
Dewey Claridge lied_to
Patrick Leahy documented
“By 6 a.m. the next morning, Claridge stood at Leahy's hotel door. Claridge fed the senator a line on why he had denied the brief. It all hinged on Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, but obviously this had nothing to do with arms interdicti…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 44:21
Dewey Claridge visited
Eden Pastora documented
“the bush. Claridge pursued up the San Juan River, but when Pastora found out, he moved further up country. Claridge finally caught up with the ARDE leader, who complained the uniforms were too big and the supplies he really needed were not …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 45:51
Dewey Claridge ordered_assassination_of
Nicaragua book_quoted
“going to the restricted interagency group to advocate that the U.S. begin attacking selective economic targets. According to Claridge, there was no objections, including from Secretary Shultz's representative. Given the limited activity ant…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 22:37
Dewey Claridge ordered_assassination_of
Nicaragua book_quoted
“Claridge account of the mine campaign is highly suspect. The Latin chief, Claridge, puts the timing towards the end of January of 84, telling a story of how for once he arrived home with time to reflect. Claridge achieved sudden clarity. Qu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 29:54
Dewey Claridge headed
Contras documented
“Claridge was the CIA officer who headed the Contra program from 1981 to 84 and was later indicted for lying to Congress about the Iran Contra scandal. He was pardoned by President George Bush Jr. Oh, excuse me, George Bush Sr., the former C…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 9:02
George H.W. Bush pardoned
Dewey Claridge documented
“Claridge was the CIA officer who headed the Contra program from 1981 to 84 and was later indicted for lying to Congress about the Iran Contra scandal. He was pardoned by President George Bush Jr. Oh, excuse me, George Bush Sr., the former C…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 9:02
Dewey Claridge visited
Honduras book_quoted
“work. They just go through the motions. Edgar Chamorro records that Dewey Claridge came to Honduras in July and told the Contra High Command that the CIA had decided to cut off Nicaraguan's oil supplies, clearly unrelated to interdicting ar…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 22:06
William Casey appointed
Dewey Claridge book_quoted
“Casey sent Claridge to South Africa, leaving immediately after the disastrous Senate hearing on April 10th to solicit aid. But Deputy Director McMahon canceled the approach amid controversy. Instead, the South Americans were asked to help w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 8:22
Dewey Claridge had_interest_in
Libya book_quoted
“Claridge, who was a Rome station chief, had had a special interest in Libya along with Ed Wilson. One of the few remaining traditional secret operatives the agency still employed, Inman watched as Carey created a secret service within a sec…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 32:41
John McMahon removed_from_power
Dewey Claridge book_quoted
“Casey sent Claridge to South Africa, leaving immediately after the disastrous Senate hearing on April 10th to solicit aid. But Deputy Director McMahon canceled the approach amid controversy. Instead, the South Americans were asked to help w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 8:22
Mentions (88)
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Paul Williams also mentions a guy by the name of Henry Shard, S-C-H-A-R-D-T, Dewey Claridge, C-L-A-R-R-I-D-G-E, and other CIA operatives. Both of those guys were. And their role in...…
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R-A-M, Abbas, A-B-A-S, it says, who was closer than his own brother to the CIA station chief, Claridge, C-L-A-R-R-I-D-G-E, who comes into many of these coups, too, and that they were involved in an infamous May Day massacre in Turkey that h…
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CIA unspoken policy about the Contra drug dealers, the station chief concluded, was we are going to play with these guys. That was made very clear by Casey and Dewey Claridge. A good example of this policy in action was the arrangement Norw…
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Contra investigators, General Bosa Rosa, had information which he could use against us, as he had been privy to a large amount of very specific CIA information. They didn't want him talking. To get Washington's attention, Bosa Rosa's attorn…
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in the Naval Academy at the same time Oliver North is, the same time Weekly was, before he got kicked out. In September 1986, North fretted that the case would become a major headache for the administration. Quote, the problem with the Bose…
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Quote, Claridge was totally unaware that CIA had responded to a justice query on the case with the terse comment that they had no interest in the case, unquote. So in other words, they're actually implying that had they been told, the right…
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He was given a five-year sentence and assigned to a federal prison in Tallahassee, a much harsher environment, not the country club he had been promised. In North's view, that only made things worse. Quote, our major concern, Gorman North C…
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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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When he met at the San Jose airport with Perina and the CIA man, but Gomez did not speak at the second meeting. In an interview with a British television crew in 1996, former CIA official Dwayne Dewey Claridge, who we've talked about before…
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Claridge was the CIA officer who headed the Contra program from 1981 to 84 and was later indicted for lying to Congress about the Iran Contra scandal. He was pardoned by President George Bush Jr. Oh, excuse me, George Bush Sr., the former C…
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the CIA director pardoning a CIA guy who's involved in drug trafficking. In 1998, a CIA inspector general report strongly suggested that Dewey Claridge was lying once again, and it largely corroborates Cabrese's story. The CIA report confir…
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As Cabrese claimed, he was the CIA's liaison for the Contra armies in Costa Rica. More importantly, was laundering drug money during the period in which Cabrese said he was delivering the cocaine profits to the agent. So in other words, Iva…
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Altitude was too high, Corson said, and Oliver North would not give up and would not ask for reassignment. I told him it could all end only one way, but he just wouldn't give up. William Casey liked North a great deal. He quickly introduced…
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Claridge, who was a Rome station chief, had had a special interest in Libya along with Ed Wilson. One of the few remaining traditional secret operatives the agency still employed, Inman watched as Carey created a secret service within a sec…
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had him replace Bill Wells. Everywhere Turner sought to manage the colossus giant, clandestine service officer, DeWayne Claridge, never slow to criticize weakness, credits Turner while trying to transform the director of operations into the…
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grumbly content to work through channels, but not with Nicaragua. In a notable breach of boundaries, Casey brought in Dwayne Claridge, a Middle East specialist to head the DO's Latin American division. This marked the beginning of a fateful…
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like Bob Woodard, credited him with quote-unquote considerable style. The agency station chief in Rome shared that sense. If not Casey's taste, Duane Claridge favored European cut suits. A Panama hat often crowned his head. Cigars and brand…
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Also liked red wine. And before Langley went dry, had wine tasting as part of the workday. That's nice. The director encountered Dewey on one of his first trips when Casey made a tour of CIA stations. Claridge received him. The director tra…
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and one of Dewey's best friends. The Rome spy chief lobbied Casey for Wolfe to be appointed the deputy for director of operations. Instead, Casey put Claridge in there. Slated for a third year in Rome, the personnel drones first listed Clar…
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John Stein happened to be another old friend of Claridge's. They had gone through Army Reserve training together while they were CIA officers. When Stein stepped up to the deputy director of operations position, the new operations boss supp…
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who went over to the rebels, felt Dewey's charm, and witnessed his aggressiveness. Colleague Bert Dunn admired Claridge, though the two never actually served together. Dunn saw Claridge as the first real case officer that he'd ever met. In …
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not afraid to make a cold approach, the most difficult of recruitments. Now let's look at those. Nepal, where we trained the Uyghur and the Tibetans, terrorist training camp. India, where we set up those operations over there. And Turkey, w…
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He believed in calculated risk. At headquarters, Dewey had the capability of being the deputy. Until Nicaragua, he had also been very lucky. Claridge, who had departed Rome on August 1st, 1981, got there just before the quote-unquote Italia…
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At the height of Operation Gladio? In Rome? In Italy? Yeah. Where those in the clandestine service aspired to fade into a crowd, Claridge flaunted himself. As baron of the Nicaraguan War, he drove a big sports utility vehicle emblazoned wit…
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had barely met the top people in his division when Stein phoned. They were to meet the CIA director the next afternoon. Casey supplied a brief overview of the situation and told Claridge to take a month or so, produce ideas on how to make i…
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My plan is simple. I take the war to Nicaragua. Start killing them. Casey loved it. Claridge left with a mandate to draft a finding to cover the operation. Much of the work fell to the Central American Task Force Chief, Jerry Spott. Intelli…
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to Nicaragua. You're trying to get rid of the Sandinistas. When the Latin chief told his station chiefs of the project, two both Latin Americanists objected. One was Jack Devine, who had watched as the agency got into trouble in Chile doing…
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with overthrowing the Sandinistas. And that's what the narrative was and the propaganda that was put out everywhere. Ironically, there is no evidence that any Cubans were ever killed. Most likely there weren't any. Most of the pieces were i…
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Central America also used that same name. Claridge explained that the CIA would rely on the FDN and act through intermediaries. In this case, they were going to work hand in hand with Argentina. The Somocistas, the National Guard, among the…
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Claridge estimated a month and a half to implant a CIA base and logistics network with activation in two months. The CIA, Claridge, put the cost at about the same as a single F-16 fighter jet, whatever that is, millions. Diplomat Thomas End…
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had seen the CIA in action in Cambodia in 1970. You know, when we were blowing up the airport? Confident the agency, he nevertheless superimposed a diplomatic track to make it look like they were being responsible. Director Casey went to th…
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like Honduras, which bordered Nicaragua to the north. They fell in line quickly, turned a blind eye to all of the CIA efforts. Costa Rica to the south would come later. After discussions and subsequent denials with Reagan ambassador at larg…
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In November, even before the finding had been signed, Claridge took spot and two other officers to Buenos Aires to hash out the details. Argentina wanted to hear Washington say it would stay the course and the CIA would not bug out when the…
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Wrong plan. So, set up the Contras, who, according to the CIA, fought a popular Sandinista government. In Miami, conservative labor leader, Jose Francisco Cardinal, and others formed the UDN, Union Democrat Nicaragua.…
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Another group had closer ties to Somoza. The 5th of September Legion of several hundred National Guard veterans drew its name from the 1821 date of Nicaraguan's independence from Spain. The Legion, formed in May of 81, was said to be financ…
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who fled to Honduras after revelations of his past service with Somoza, began to recruit his own band of rebels. Claridge and Spott had already been to Honduras to clear the way for the CIA base and the local government's cooperation. Clari…
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base at Aquacate. Langley's local presence with the Contras at that base. Like Claridge, neither Doty nor his chief engineer spoke Spanish. They had cut their teeth in Laos. In fact, Laos veterans permeated the paramilitary staff and provid…
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One, Alfonso Robelo, another, E. Pastor Gomez, a C.I.A. commander. Claridge enlisted him in Acapulco in February of 1982. Pastora demanded a weapons drop in Costa Rica as a token of the C.I.A.'s sincerity. He's the guy that they eventually …
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To Langley, to brief Casey, the deputy director, Admiral Bobby Inman, walked in on the conversation. He thought a weapons drop to rebel troops in a friendly country was a crazy idea. But Casey approved it. The drop took place within a month…
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Claridge brought Pastora to Washington for a secret session with Bill Casey. The former comandante, spirited into the DCI's office by the private elevator that connects to the underground parking facility, gave the CIA chieftain his own dog…
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Argentina's involvement was documented towards the end of 1982 when Hector Francis, a Battalion 601 officer in Costa Rica, gave testimony on his country's activity. In October, Claridge visited Buenos Aires one more time with Jerry Gruner, …
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putting the Contras under scrutiny. At this stage, the CIA pressed for a broadened anti-Sandinista coalition. Even Claridge acknowledged that the prevalence of the Somocitas among the FDN senior leadership amounted to a negative because the…
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The FDN board selected a recent exile, Adolfo Calero, as its chairman. Calero was soon known to be the public face of the Contras. Dewey Claridge met the board a month later going to Miami with Gruner and Fernandez in tow. The FDN publicize…
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while the indigenous rebel group peaked at around 3,000. Colonel Bermudez spent much of his time at the base, Tegu, where the FDN had radio stations and a hospital. He planned a big push for the summer and fall. Operation Marathon. At Langl…
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by the ambassador in the CIA every single time. Leahy went on to Panama, where Dewey Claridge, making a circuit of stations, had just visited. Leahy told the chief, former CATF boss Jerry Spott, that he wanted a briefing on the Nicaraguan p…
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to Casey from Leahy or Simmons. Wouldn't send it. Just before the delegation had left Washington, John McMahon had pledged full CIA cooperation. And here they were, refusing to even communicate with the CIA director. Furious, Leahy threaten…
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By 6 a.m. the next morning, Claridge stood at Leahy's hotel door. Claridge fed the senator a line on why he had denied the brief. It all hinged on Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, but obviously this had nothing to do with arms interdicti…
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In an odd throwback to the Bay of Pigs, the CIA dropped Pastora rice mix and beans instead of separately. That infuriated him, but he felt positively humiliated when the CIA drops of clothing. Pastora threatened to abandon the war. In other…
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the bush. Claridge pursued up the San Juan River, but when Pastora found out, he moved further up country. Claridge finally caught up with the ARDE leader, who complained the uniforms were too big and the supplies he really needed were not …
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Pastora glared at Claridge at best he could from his lesser height, a full foot shorter than Claridge. And then the guerrilla commander abruptly pulled off his American made pants to reveal his American made undershorts. Huge shorts tailore…
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Pastora stood in front of his men, underwear flapping to his knees. Claridge tried to mollify the ARDE commander playing Santa Claus, distributing watches and radios. Pastora agreed to resume the fight, but ARDE continued to do little. Clar…
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but it remained a constant refrain throughout his association with him. These operations made, and again, to Claridge's point, these were all basically mass bought. Pastora has actual fighting men. They're not fat. They're very trim. These …
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We're on page 523 of Bill Casey's war. Even more than Afghanistan, Nicaragua became Bill Casey's war. When Reagan set the policy, Casey executed it. But for Nicaragua, Casey went to Reagan, pushing him, encouraging his worst fears. Supervis…
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Claridge added to Casey's concern, describing the way Senator Moyhan pushed at him when the CIA man went to the Hill. Director Casey resolved to bring a new broom to deal with Congress, for which he summoned Claire George, the associate dep…
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For weeks, the secret war managers refined the document. Claridge showed it to Negroponte on September 12th. The ambassador thought it was too narrow, still focused almost exclusively on interdiction. Casey explained why. He wanted nothing …
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and mining of the ports, an operation that took the secret war to a whole new level. As Dewey Claridge presents these events, Director Casey and he were equally concerned with the need to hit the Sandinistas harder. He quotes Casey, quote, …
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shipment into El Salvador using gunboats, a measure that did not strike Nicaragua. Conversely, once Claridge had the boats, they never went after arms trade. They only were attacking Nicaragua. And Claridge muddied the water by claiming the…
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The CIA came in with a poor representation and Reagan rejected the project. Like much that happened on Reagan's watch, the decision didn't stick. Policy activists always thought that they could go around the bureaucracy and frequently succe…
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had done on Afghanistan, Casey and Claridge was now doing in Nicaragua. Early in July, Casey went to Central America. With him, he took Claridge and John McMahon, the National Intelligence Officer for Latin America, John Horton, and another…
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work. They just go through the motions. Edgar Chamorro records that Dewey Claridge came to Honduras in July and told the Contra High Command that the CIA had decided to cut off Nicaraguan's oil supplies, clearly unrelated to interdicting ar…
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going to the restricted interagency group to advocate that the U.S. begin attacking selective economic targets. According to Claridge, there was no objections, including from Secretary Shultz's representative. Given the limited activity ant…
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To recap, the CIA division chief, aware that the president had recently rejected the mining plan, was proposing not only that plan, but an escalation of that plan, directly attacking the Nicaraguan economy and thought no higher approval was…
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Claridge account of the mine campaign is highly suspect. The Latin chief, Claridge, puts the timing towards the end of January of 84, telling a story of how for once he arrived home with time to reflect. Claridge achieved sudden clarity. Qu…
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The export season was coming up, and if we could block their shipping for even a short period, it would be an economic hardship to bring them around, unquote. The next morning, Claridge, alert to the political dangers, says he sent an offic…
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First off, the mines already existed. The CIA and the Navy needed time to manufacture and test the mines, and they were certainly created for a concrete purpose, not an off-the-chance, someday idea that just popped into your head. There was…
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Casey informed Congress that the CIA proposed to empty its contrafunding accounts immediately. The likely truth is that Claridge merely resolved to escalate it at that time. Also objectionable is Claridge's reading of the international law …
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to preserve peaceful shipping and notify ship owners of danger zones. According to Claridge, the convention applies only to free floating mines, which is not true. The mining aimed at a final coup d'etat for the Nicaraguan port network. On …
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Claridge realized from the background noise that Enders actually was sitting in the helicopter. Dismayed, Claridge could do nothing but cuss. Porto Sandino suffered attacks by speedboats supported by three helicopters. Claridge describes th…
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He was notorious all over town for mumbling. The standard joke at Langley was that the director had no need for a scrambler phone since his speech was constantly scrambled itself. Claire George complained to journalists that briefings upon …
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Dewey Claridge remains defiant. He claims seven separate briefings took place, implying the CIA disclosures were more than adequate. Not four of those events were part, but, sorry, four of these events were parts of the original deception. …
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People are already on record apologizing because they didn't do it, even though they didn't mean the apology. Claridge wonders why those senators did not immediately tell their colleagues a fair question, but he fails to discuss the promise…
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Blowing up ships, no big deal, especially when they're foreign ships. That can lead to an international crisis. Just normal CIA stuff. He argues that giving it special notice would have been absurd and claiming the distinction between the c…
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The last point brings back the question of whether the September 83 finding provided for CIA attacks. Director Casey himself had told the Intelligence Committee at the time that the authority no longer permitted the CIA to engage in paramil…
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which had both U.S. and international legal implications required no special mention to the overseers and no approval of higher authorities for American participation. And the question of whether it had been legal at all amounted to a side …
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disaster for the administration. Dewey Claridge disagrees with that assessment. They're psychopaths. They're literal psychopaths inside one of the most dangerous organizations in the world that is spelt CIA. Okay, almost done with that chap…
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in order for them to stay in the fight. Insofar as negotiations, which Claridge professes was always the goal, except for they turned them down every time someone suggested them. The Contradora nations had scheduled talks in Manzanillo, a W…
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Casey sent Claridge to South Africa, leaving immediately after the disastrous Senate hearing on April 10th to solicit aid. But Deputy Director McMahon canceled the approach amid controversy. Instead, the South Americans were asked to help w…
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I don't know why the author didn't include the name of it. The money was in the name of Esther Morales, wife of a lawyer friend of Aldolfo Calero, and went to the FDN account at the CIA front bank. In June came a crucial set of discussions …
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Claridge stepped up to become the DO in charge of the European area. His replacement in the Latin American division was Al Wiedemeyer. He had a lot to handle with CIA funds now being cut off. The new chief, Alan Fryer, an import from the ag…
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Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…
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He was originally refused. Right. Where does this guy get this information? The CIA never refused to help the NSC. Claridge called fires to say things were afoot and that fires had not been in briefed about. Then he advised him to collabora…
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Safe houses? In America, where you're not supposed to be? Always the back alley brawler, Casey maintained a wide range of personal contacts. Milt Bearden and Dewey Claridge, the Afghan and Central American secret war bosses, both had lines …
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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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as isolating himself rather than leading the CIA. He treated the CIA, according to her, as basically dirty laundry. Quote, he did not lead the troops or ever really try to get to know them. The TIPA station in Brussels, whose name was Richa…
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part of Iran-Contra. Webster believed Claire George, who was a friend of his, was innocent of all wrongdoing. And we established he was in the middle of it. Webster also knew that George H.W. Bush liked Dewey Claridge. Webster also knew him…
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Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean they went away. That is a paperwo…
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and president intimately involved in all of the operations to create the Mujahideen and the future terrorist, creates and mandates the CIA set up a counterterrorism cell before we actually even have terrorism. Kind of weird. Dewey Claridge …
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told Breckenridge the job had cost him among colleagues, quote, I was proud to be among those who worked in defining the terms for improved oversight and accountability, unquote. His actual job was to make sure nothing really critical got o…