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Claims (35)
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights member_of
Organization of American States documented
document
“The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the O.A.S reports 'grievous violations of human rights in Chile'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.212
United States member_of
Organization of American States documented
document
“The contrast between covert action in Chile during the sixties and seventies with the responsibility of the United States under the Organization of American States and the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress could not be more graphic…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.10
Richard Nixon proposed
Organization of American States documented
“Nixon was upset. He demanded the OAS action and wanted immediate economic sanctions. We have to make people hate him. A few days later, a large group met at the State Department to look at other economic measures. OAS approval remained prob…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 36:11
National Security Council proposed
Organization of American States documented
“The board favored economic warfare, eliminating subsidies on Cuban sugar. Further, Washington should convince the Organization of American States, the OAS, to cast Cuba as a hemispheric problem. It's an oligarch problem. It's not a hemisphe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 18 @ 17:54
Organization of American States exposed
2018 Venezuelan presidential election documented
“In a May 21st statement titled, quote, the day after the farce, unquote, OAS Secretary General Luis Imago declared his organization would follow Washington's lead and reject Maduro's reelection, vowing to continue struggling for the end of …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:10:05
Organization of American States carried_out_attack
Venezuela book_quoted
“The U.S. turned the Organization of American States into a main tool of its diplomatic aggression against Venezuela. Following the initiation of Washington's coup, the OAS took the extreme act of invoking the Rio Treaty, an outdated militar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 10:04
Organization of American States affiliated_with
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“The Organization of American Satellite States or American States came up much earlier, a few years ago, with its affiliation with the World Anti-Communist League, WACL, and the Gladio operations.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 1:31
Organization of American States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela documented
“Moncato unease was not unfounded. In the months following, the OAS voted to invoke an Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, a regional agreement similar to NATO's Mutual Defense Pact, against Venezuela, declaring the country a thr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 45:00
Craig Roberts exposed
Organization of American States book_quoted
“research, as we're going to find out over the next few days as we go through his book, you're going to see the role that they played in the assassination of JFK as well. There were multiple assassination teams in Dallas that day. None of th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone, A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza Part 1 @ 1:22:28
Luis Almagro headed
Organization of American States documented
“Jose Pepe, I'm not even going to try to say his name, Muhaka, the OAS Secretary General, received support from progressive regional governments during his initial bid to lead the OAS in 2015. After emerging victorious, however, Almagro aban…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 12:35
United States funded
Organization of American States documented
“Government before the OAS, meaning Guidos. Established in 1948, the OAS was partial to U.S. policy by design when Washington supplying between 50 and 60 percent of its annual budget. Another common denominator like U.N. or NATO or anything …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 18:16
Venezuela removed_from_power
Organization of American States documented
“Delcy Rodriguez announced Venezuela's exit from the group in April of 2017, citing OAS vocal support for the riots that was another coup attempt by USAID. While making the announcement, Rodriguez noted that OAS withdrawal process took two y…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 22:43
United States funded
Organization of American States book_quoted
“The U.S. turned the Organization of American States into a main tool of its diplomatic aggression against Venezuela. Following the initiation of Washington's coup, the OAS took the extreme act of invoking the Rio Treaty, an outdated militar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 10:04
Organization of American States member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Algeria, they went to all of the airports throughout the entire country and occupied the airport so nobody could land there. So there was a real struggle going on in France during that time. And the OAS, that organization, and the 11th Shoc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 3 @ 1:01:12
Organization of American States carried_out_attack
Assassination attempts on Charles de Gaulle host_asserted
“had over 30 attempts on his life while he was president of France. And the OAS, their French assassins, were trying to assassinate their president. And generally what happens is that the assassinations done in a particular country is contra…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone, A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza Part 1 @ 1:21:03
Organization of American States operated_in
Dallas host_asserted
“trained assassin teams that they deploy all over the world to do assassinations and other nefarious things, but primarily assassinations. The French OAS had at least three, we documented French trained OAS assassins in Dallas that came in s…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone, A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza Part 1 @ 1:20:02
Organization of American States carried_out_attack
Kennedy murder host_asserted
“research, as we're going to find out over the next few days as we go through his book, you're going to see the role that they played in the assassination of JFK as well. There were multiple assassination teams in Dallas that day. None of th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone, A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza Part 1 @ 1:22:28
Lucien Conein member_of
Organization of American States host_asserted
“He was in charge of the embedded CIA presence in the newly formed DEA with an assassin squad. So, yeah, for decades, he is a central player in this entire thing. He knew everybody in the French OAS, their Gladio program, as well as a lot of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 6 @ 55:10
Mercury Public Affairs member_of
Organization of American States book_quoted
“And the PPP is a political organization inside of Guyana. And this is basically a CIA cutout, Mercury LLC, interfering in an election in Guyana again. We've already, when we covered Guyana, told you that the CIA did this repeatedly. Corresp…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 29:15
Organization of American States affiliated_with
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“The Organization of American Satellite States or American States came up much earlier, a few years ago, with its affiliation with the World Anti-Communist League, WACL, and the Gladio operations.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 1:31
Maurice Corson member_of
Organization of American States documented
“Theological Seminary after studying at the University of Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1955. In 64, Corson had become the president of the Religious Education Society in Seattle. So he stayed there until 66. Then he began working for th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 14 @ 31:57
Fidel Castro called
Organization of American States documented
“Fidel Castro famously called it the Yankee Ministry of Colonies. Even so, the OAS support for Guaido was hampered by rules enshrined in its founding charter, which established two decision-making bodies tasked with codifying the organizatio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 18:13
United States funded
Organization of American States documented
“His government before the OAS, meaning Guaido's. Established in 1948, the OAS was partial to U.S. policy by design when Washington supplying between 50 and 60 percent of its annual budget. Another common denominator like U.N. or NATO or any…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 17:39
Mercury Public Affairs liaisoned_with
Organization of American States book_quoted
“is a political organization inside of Guyana. And this is basically a CIA cutout, Mercury LLC, interfering in an election in Guyana again. We've already, when we covered Guyana, told you that the CIA did this repeatedly. Correspondence has …”
▶ Operation Gladio - LYBIA PART 2 @ 29:47
Luis Almagro headed
Organization of American States documented
“as perhaps the most loyal servant of Washington. Having served as the foreign minister of Uruguay under Jose Pepe, I'm not even going to try to say his name, Muhaka, the OAS Secretary General received support from progressive regional gover…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 11:48
Carlos Trujillo convened
Organization of American States documented
“In accordance with OAS rules, Trujillo instead launched a personal campaign to force Tari's recognition through the organization on its own terms. As soon as the U.S. took over as chair of the OAS Permanent Council in April of 2019, Trujill…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 20:07
Organization of American States accepted
Gustavo Tarre documented
“You, Mr. Chairman, do not have that power, unquote. Unfazed by Morin's intervention, Trujillo moved the meeting along without acknowledging her comments. Minutes later, a simple majority of present OAS permanent council representatives vote…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 25:26
Carlos Trujillo headed
Organization of American States documented
“Lacking the votes needed to rubber stamp his authority in accordance with OAS rules, Trujillo instead launched a personal campaign to force Tari's recognition through the organization on its own terms. As soon as the U.S. took over as chair…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 20:39
Organization of American States installed
Gustavo Tarre documented
“Unfazed by Marin's intervention, Trujillo moved the meeting along without acknowledging her comments. Minutes later, a simple majority of present OAS permanent council representatives voted to accept Tari by a margin of 19 to 6. Six other c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 26:07
Organization of American States member_of
United States host_asserted
“All of the NATO, basically, is what you're saying, and the OAS under the control of the United States. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's what happens when you have imperialistic powers of control over other countries. And they orchestrate that c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 46:15
CIA funded
Organization of American States host_asserted
“that the CIA, and the CIA is the one that offered that contract, by the way, they are the ones that the CIA worked with through NATO, because these were all what was referred to as NATO secret armies. They were all trained by the same peopl…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 3 @ 1:01:41
Nelson Rockefeller involved_in
Organization of American States host_asserted
“He was critical in the development of the OAS in a way that the Organization of American States could still be very pliable and controlled by the U.S. and, again, independent of largely the South American population. And it's kind of intere…”
▶ Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan @ 1:25:08
Organization of American States involved_with
World Anti-Communist League host_asserted
“remains in poverty. So, not a happy story. The next chapter is going to deal with the role of the Organization of American States, the OAS, which we know had gotten involved with the World Anti-Communist League and all kinds of nefarious th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 55:19
Organization of American States member_of
United States government guest_asserted
“The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, most members of the European Union, the Organization of American States, all of these viewed Guido as legitimate. All of the NATO, basically, is what you're saying, and the OAS under the contro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 11 @ 46:19
Organization of American States member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“the intelligence apparatus via the CETO, NATO, and the OAC, whatever it is, OAS in the Latin America Organization of American States to orchestrate this plunder. It's really that simple. MC, go ahead.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund @ 1:09:06
Mentions (66)
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Seattle, and the Organization of American States control spheres of influence. A cultural reference from the television program Get Smart illustrates the strategy. Chaos, bad actors, enables control, good actors. The intent is for society t…
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He was critical in the development of the OAS in a way that the Organization of American States could still be very pliable and controlled by the U.S. and, again, independent of largely the South American population. And it's kind of intere…
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between Fox and Paz. That was something they disagreed on. Paz had been directly opposed to American policy and voted against Cuba's being exposed, their expulsion from the Organization of American States in 1962.…
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deep dives, know that the organization, the OAS, which is the organization throughout the Americas that is fraught with fraud, and they're basically a front for the CIA. They do whatever the U.S. wants to do, and they'll intimidate everybod…
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where State A could ask State B to invade State C in the absence of any aggression to A or B. In Washington, the State Department lawyers worked overtime trying to figure out a legal way in which they could do this invasion. They went over …
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It says that the CIA and its army was advancing its territory and the CIA planes are overhead bombing the country. That was an observation that was made. Leaders of Guatemala tried everyone, the UN, the Organization of American States, whic…
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to expel Cuba from the Organization of American States in 1963. So they wanted Dolbier, regardless of how many people die in the process, to be on their side when the vote occurred. When the Haitian leader died in 1971, the American ambassa…
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Despite a campaign marred by terror and intimidation, nearly 1,000 UN observers and the Organization of American States observed that it was basically a fair election in which Aristide was victorious with a 67.5% vote, which is huge. People…
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with members of the OAS, and that's the Organization of Americas, and that is also a CIA cutout, and the U.S. government to vouch for the PPP while using excuses such as Guyana is near Venezuela. So they are basically saying that...…
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I don't know if we actually did a show on it, but basically it had a leader and the CIA did not want that leader to be in charge. And they sent teams in. They did surveys as a way of identifying people who would rise up against the.…
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the intelligence apparatus via the CETO, NATO, and the OAC, whatever it is, OAS in the Latin America Organization of American States to orchestrate this plunder. It's really that simple. MC, go ahead.…
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The U.S. turned the Organization of American States into a main tool of its diplomatic aggression against Venezuela. Following the initiation of Washington's coup, the OAS took the extreme act of invoking the Rio Treaty, an outdated militar…
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To accept a representative of a coup government in contravention of its own charter has rendered the OAS useless within the modern international system. Washington's Venezuela coup policy has not only damaged the credibility of groups like …
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Remember, the OAS recognized the fake officials as being the real officials. And they're now occupying the Venezuelan embassy with a fake government. And international bodies are now dealing with all of these fake people to include the $150…
▶ 46:19
The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, most members of the European Union, the Organization of American States, all of these viewed Guido as legitimate. All of the NATO, basically, is what you're saying, and the OAS under the contro…
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appointing ambassadors and officials to key international capitals to steal their resources. Guaido's ability to take control of Venezuela's foreign bank accounts, diplomatic compounds, and seats before institutions like the Organization of…
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Today's so-called election in Venezuela is an insult to democracy, said Nikki Haley on Twitter. It's time for Maduro to go, she said. Though the EU and the Organization of American States, OAS, had previously declined invitations from the C…
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In a May 21st statement titled, quote, the day after the farce, unquote, OAS Secretary General Luis Imago declared his organization would follow Washington's lead and reject Maduro's reelection, vowing to continue struggling for the end of …
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These actions for the OAS basically delegitimized their existence in South America and Latin America because they have been now outed as a partisan U.S. mouthpiece. It destroyed their credibility. And that's unfortunate because they had don…
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and Venezuelan opposition they sponsored. And the OAS set the stage for Washington's January 2019 recognition of Juan Guaido, a virtually unknown opposition lawmaker as Venezuela's president. As we will see, the fantasy of Guaido's presiden…
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anti-Chavista OAS Secretary General Luis Algarmo to call for an investigation into Rojas and Barrero, declaring there is no democratization possible under a darkness of corrupt acts. Sensing growing political insecurity, Guaido attempted to…
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remains in poverty. So, not a happy story. The next chapter is going to deal with the role of the Organization of American States, the OAS, which we know had gotten involved with the World Anti-Communist League and all kinds of nefarious th…
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Can you add SRA as a co-host as well? I just did. Okay, great. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, we're going to go ahead and get started. As I said yesterday, this Chapter 7 talks about the Organization of American States, OAS. And if y…
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unit in France. They were also referred to as OAS. So just for clarification, the Organization of American Satellite States or American States came up much earlier a few years ago with its affiliation with the World Anti-Communist League, W…
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Gladio operations throughout Latin America. So we have talked about this organization before. Basically, it functions somewhat as a non-military type NATO organization, like the OCN.…
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in the months following his self-declared presidency. By April, his project was losing momentum, a reality most clearly reflected by the U.N.'s continued recognition of the Maduro government. Before taking Guaido's, his quote-unquote admini…
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A former Honduran government minister once wondered aloud, what happened to Luis Almagro? What did the U.S. government have on the OAS secretary general that made him so eager to act as perhaps the most loyal servant of Washington? Having s…
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Jose Pepe, I'm not even going to try to say his name, Muhaka, the OAS Secretary General, received support from progressive regional governments during his initial bid to lead the OAS in 2015. After emerging victorious, however, Almagro aban…
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and used his position as the Secretary General to issue a denunciation of any government that was opposed by the U.S. State Department. Critics accused Almagro of providing the OAS with a progressive face as it advanced Washington's positio…
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more holistic view of the organization, noting that its power does not lie in the Secretary General's office. Almagro has unfortunately put himself in a situation in which he gets blamed for a lot because he talks too much, Sir Ronald Sande…
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According to Ambassador Sanders, who had represented Antigua in Bermuda before the OAS since 2015, though the charge that Almagro dictated the organization's agenda is a popular opinion, it just isn't true. The OAS is its member states, the…
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He insisted that OAS policy was not set by the Secretary General, but by the representatives of the 34 member states. Such a comprehensive evaluation of OAS's function did not let Washington off the hook for its effort to subjugate regional…
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Almagro's OAS directly coincided with several U.S.-backed regime change campaigns. In years preceding President Obama's rise, the U.S. foreign policy was largely focused on carrying out President George Bush's war on terror in the Middle Ea…
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Government before the OAS, meaning Guidos. Established in 1948, the OAS was partial to U.S. policy by design when Washington supplying between 50 and 60 percent of its annual budget. Another common denominator like U.N. or NATO or anything …
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Fidel Castro famously called it the Yankee Ministry of Colonies. Even so, the OAS support for Guaido was hampered by rules enshrined in its founding charter, which established two decision-making bodies tasked with codifying the organizatio…
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and met in D.C. on a regular basis to debate and vote on OAS affairs. Isn't that weird that the OAS with 30-some countries would meet in Washington, D.C.? Yet its charter defined the General Assembly, a yearly summit of member states, forei…
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tasked with dictating major policy decisions, including changes to its structure. This meant that according to OAS rules, the group could not alter its structure and accept Tari as Venezuela's representative without the approval of its Gene…
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Guaido's star was not only fading with each passing day, but OAS rules stipulated that its General Assembly required support from two-thirds of its member to approve a resolution. Though Washington had successfully pressured a few dozen all…
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Lacking the votes needed to rubber stamp his authority in accordance with OAS rules, Trujillo instead launched a personal campaign to force Tari's recognition through the organization on its own terms. As soon as the U.S. took over as chair…
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to debate a resolution that would install Tari as Venezuela's representative before the body. Anya, the author of the book, attended the April 9th session, aware that Trujillo's success was entirely dependent on his colleagues' willingness …
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According to its charter, the OAS had been established by member states to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence. Accepting Tari, the r…
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This reality was not lost on all member states. While arguing against the resolution to receive Tari, Ambassador Sanders of Antigua and Bermuda asserted in international law and practice, such recognition is based on the test of who is in c…
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Because Guaido controlled no government ministries and exercised no authority in Venezuela, Sanders argued that accepting his OAS representative was tantamount to ignoring the essential test of international law. Tarek's entry was further c…
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Delcy Rodriguez announced Venezuela's exit from the group in April of 2017, citing OAS vocal support for the riots that was another coup attempt by USAID. While making the announcement, Rodriguez noted that OAS withdrawal process took two y…
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happened to perfectly coincide with Washington's April 2019 attempt to install Tari as the country's legitimate representative. So they're actually technically not in OAS. At the same time, they're trying to force a Venezuelan representativ…
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That's it in a nutshell. None of those concerns troubled the U.S. representatives, which pressed ahead with a vote on Tari's recognition by pushing Tari's acceptance onto the permanent council, a body that required the approval of a simple …
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brought to, but they couldn't wait because if they waited for the General Assembly, then Venezuela would not technically completely be out of the OAS. So it was imperative that this be brought in April when they still were technically not i…
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It appeared that many of the allegations of cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment during the course of the National Guard's operations against the Sandinistas were well-founded, but others were diluted. But when the Inter-American Commis…
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that was prickliest for the CIA was the creation of the United Nations in 1945 and the creation of the O.A., the Organization of American States, you know, kind of a regional group that the CIA was concerned could have, you know, formed a p…
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um uh he bought up like all of their grocery stores um and oh by the way the um organization of um the oas in um…
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that you mentioned eventually does get infiltrated and controlled because that's part of the organization that allowed the World Anti-Communist League to basically saturate all of Latin America as well. So it started off with a good mission…
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the political acumen to build a bridge to the different coalitions. When Ernesto Che Cavera went to Uruguay for a conference of the Organization of American States, Quadros invited him to stop in Brazil. At the conference in a sea resort in…
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trained assassin teams that they deploy all over the world to do assassinations and other nefarious things, but primarily assassinations. The French OAS had at least three, we documented French trained OAS assassins in Dallas that came in s…
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had over 30 attempts on his life while he was president of France. And the OAS, their French assassins, were trying to assassinate their president. And generally what happens is that the assassinations done in a particular country is contra…
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And I'm recalling this from memory. If I recall correctly, he was having a conversation with another one of the OAS agents, which are their Gladio in France. And he was trying to recruit this other guy to tell him about the contract. And it…
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Algeria, they went to all of the airports throughout the entire country and occupied the airport so nobody could land there. So there was a real struggle going on in France during that time. And the OAS, that organization, and the 11th Shoc…
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The Guatemalans arrested an individual who was the principal link between Castillo Armas and the supposed internal opposition. This internal front happened to be notional, essentially non-existent, but the agent network was real. The Arbenz…
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but the CIA at large. Two of the cables had been from CIA headquarters, the rest from Haney. Fortunately for the secret warriors, the leak did not reach the ears of the Guatemalan government. It was hushed up almost immediately. The big att…
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In the Cuba discussion, the National Security Council Planning Board saw no clear prospect for good relations with Castro. The board favored economic warfare, eliminating subsidies on Cuban sugar. Further, Washington should convince the Org…
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Nixon was upset. He demanded the OAS action and wanted immediate economic sanctions. We have to make people hate him. A few days later, a large group met at the State Department to look at other economic measures. OAS approval remained prob…
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pushing to isolate Cuba in that organization might harm regional allies. Arguments about support for right-wing versus left-wing dictators, because they've already installed dictators in Latin America overthrowing their governments and we'r…
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There were lots of leaks, according to the author, during the Eisenhower administration. The repeated recasting of the operation and the OAS, which is the Organization of American States, that combined organization that represents the Weste…
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In July, he dramatically reduced the quota for Cuban sugar after amendment of the law permitted such revision. In other words, they're orchestrating an economic war against Cuba because he can't get the OAS.…
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On the skimpy air side of the project, his experience with civil air transport was illustrative to the meeting. The leaders of the secret war gathered again on January 3rd, 1961 to discuss progress as well as the rupture of diplomatic relat…
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Declassified documents show that the U.S. officially aware of the operations. As Condor proceeded, the CIA learned a great deal more from the sources in participating countries, and it never intervened to stop any of it because they were pa…
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He was in charge of the embedded CIA presence in the newly formed DEA with an assassin squad. So, yeah, for decades, he is a central player in this entire thing. He knew everybody in the French OAS, their Gladio program, as well as a lot of…