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Claims (18)
Dionisio Suarez carried_out_attack
Orlando Letelier documented
“The Frankenstein monster that Shackley and his colleagues had helped create came home with a terrible vengeance when Virgilio Pablo Paz and Suarez, directed by an American named Michael Vernon Townley, planted a bomb in the undercarriage of…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 37:39
DINA assassinated
Orlando Letelier documented
“shared in circle in Washington, D.C. A moment later, the bomb went off. Lettier's body was torn in two pieces. The blast turned his torso completely around in the sea. Ronnie Moffitt showed no outward signs of injury, but a major artery in …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 38:36
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional assassinated
Orlando Letelier documented
“There would be murders, attempted assassinations in Costa Rica, Mexico, France, Portugal, Argentina, and on the streets of Washington, D.C., where they killed Orlando Ladier when his car blew up in September 1976, along with an American cit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 52:37
Michael Townley ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Letelier documented
“The Frankenstein monster that Shackley and his colleagues had helped create came home with a terrible vengeance when Virgilio Pablo Paz and Suarez, directed by an American named Michael Vernon Townley, planted a bomb in the undercarriage of…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 37:39
Virgilio Paz carried_out_attack
Orlando Letelier documented
“The Frankenstein monster that Shackley and his colleagues had helped create came home with a terrible vengeance when Virgilio Pablo Paz and Suarez, directed by an American named Michael Vernon Townley, planted a bomb in the undercarriage of…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 37:39
DINA assassinated
Orlando Letelier documented
“Chile's intelligence service did get involved in terrorism, and it wound up culminating with the Orlando Letelier assassination in Washington, D.C., where their intelligence agents basically came and took out a diplomat from the Allende era…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 1:05:34
Michael Townley assassinated
Orlando Letelier documented
“As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, m…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:02:20
DINA ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Letelier documented
“while Junta leader Peniche himself, according to U.S. documents, was personally responsible for the assassination. One of these shootings, that of former Chilean Christian Democrat leader Bernardo Leighton and his wife, who was left paralyz…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:02:52
Michael Townley assassinated
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“He organized two of the most infamous operations of Condor, the attempted assassination of Bernardo Leighton in Rome and the successful assassination of Orlando Lariere in Washington, D.C., which was the former Chilean ambassador that got s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 12:59
Augusto Pinochet ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Letelier documented
“Ninth, 1973, three years later, in 1976, Pinochet reached directly into the U.S. to assassinate Chilean exile Orlando Ladier, who was the former ambassador to the U.S., in a car bomb, which also killed Ronnie Moffat, who was walking beside …”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 59:48
CIA carried_out_attack
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“when actually what they were being taught is how to create bombs. No time did any of those graduates, and there's been interviews with many of them, ever be deployed on a CIA deployment to actually defuse a bomb. They had repeatedly been se…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 15:17
George H.W. Bush covered_up
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“on the streets of Washington, D.C. The cover-up was growing, and according to the Justice Department letters from Attorney General Edward Levi to George Bush, the FBI files of an investigation called Chilean Bomb. George Bush was in the mid…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 46:30
Operation Condor assassinated
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“which of course we know they didn't do. On his watch, the intelligence services of the Southern Cone nations moved strongly on Operation Condor and assassinated Orlando Latier in Washington on his watch. You know, no assassinations, well, e…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 29:51
Stefano Delle Chiaie assassinated
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“Operation Condor in Latin America saw Gladio operatives like Stefano Deliciay, Klaus Barbie, and CIA's Michael Townley orchestrate coups and assassinations, including Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C., and Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires, u…”
▶ Gladio 101 @ 8:21
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“Those people went to El Salvador. They went to Honduras. They went to Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Nicaragua. He's been everywhere. He's the guy that was standing there when they arrested Che Guevara and killed him in either…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:09:19
Edwin Wilson ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Letelier book_quoted
“There's a couple of quotes here. I don't want to read as much of this part because we've already covered this a lot. But there is a quote here that says Stanford Turner, who had taken over the director of CIA only five weeks earlier, could …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 37:19
Felix Rodriguez assassinated
Orlando Letelier host_asserted
“Felix Rodriguez, were trained murderers and how some of them, like the ones that killed the Ledier guy from Chile, who was the former ambassador to Alente, in the streets of Washington, D.C. He actually planted a car bomb and blew him up.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 30:59
Brigade 2506 assassinated
Orlando Letelier guest_asserted
“One of the Cuban exiles, I think two went to prison. They were trained Gladio people, went to Washington, D.C. and ignited a car bomb, killing him and an American citizen, his aide, in downtown Washington, D.C.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 41:17
Mentions (73)
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They were used in the plot to assassinate JFK. They have been at the heart. They were two. Two of them were convicted of bombing the former ambassador to Chile, Alende Lettier, in downtown D.C. and killed an American citizen as a result of …
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Operation Condor in Latin America saw Gladio operatives like Stefano Deliciay, Klaus Barbie, and CIA's Michael Townley orchestrate coups and assassinations, including Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C., and Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires, u…
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Felix Rodriguez, were trained murderers and how some of them, like the ones that killed the Ledier guy from Chile, who was the former ambassador to Alente, in the streets of Washington, D.C. He actually planted a car bomb and blew him up.…
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On domestic U.S. soil that we know of that would fall under the Operation Gladio umbrella, false flag attacks on the United States. I mean, other than the United States, we had Gladio operators that killed the Chilean ambassador that got st…
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of the assassination of President Allende in Chile. So Ambassador Lettier is his name. One of the Cuban exiles, I think two went to prison. They were trained Gladio people, went to Washington, D.C. and ignited a car bomb, killing him and an…
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Those people went to El Salvador. They went to Honduras. They went to Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Nicaragua. He's been everywhere. He's the guy that was standing there when they arrested Che Guevara and killed him in either…
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He reminded me that under Bush, when he was the director of the CIA, that I was not a target of any grand jury investigation. But since the time of Lettier's publicity, that I had been a constant target. And Lettier, remember, is the guy th…
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In August of 1976, the month before the Lettier bombing in Washington, D.C., Tom Clines arranged a meeting at the Tyson Corner Holiday Inn in suburban Virginia between Ed Wilson and Raymond May of a group called Scientific Communications, I…
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were also part of the CIA. In fact, Klein's knowingly set up a clandestine CIA source for a cell to a terrorist corporation, or excuse me, a terrorist country through this corporation. Furthermore, DINA, which is the Chilean Operation Condo…
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the Kurdish aircraft franchise in Southeast Asia, and he's the one responsible for building the Flying Tigers, Air America, and giving Chiang Kai-shek his air force, all using Kurdish aircraft. Small world. On September 9th, 1976, 12 days b…
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and John Harper's son were still in Libya. The Libyans would not let them leave until they got someone down there to take their place. Wilson's Libyan operation may provide the key to an enduring mystery in the Latier Cape. How, even with G…
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keep the Cuban nationalist community from being implicated in the Latier case. Was Frank Turple really a fired CIA employee who met Wilson by chance at a Christmas party? Or was Turple on assignment for Shackley and Klein? Did Turple even s…
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This episode has chilling implications on how the FBI, the Justice Department and the media may all be vulnerable to manipulation and stopping short on the Latier investigation and into allowing high ranking Cuban exiles in Miami to go with…
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and that was to try to appease Larry Barcella. He tried to give him something he desired even more than Wilson's arrest. Wilson rightly concluded from conversations with Chi Chi Quintero that Barcella wanted the most, what he wanted most wa…
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And instead of using the words anti-Castro, let's just call it what it is. This is the Cuban exile Gladio group that was embedded in the CIA in the United States. Suarez, in an almost comical event, had once tried to fire a mortar into the …
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The Frankenstein monster that Shackley and his colleagues had helped create came home with a terrible vengeance when Virgilio Pablo Paz and Suarez, directed by an American named Michael Vernon Townley, planted a bomb in the undercarriage of…
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ambassador to Washington, Orlando LaDier. LaDier was now in exile and working at the Institute for Policy Studies. On the morning of September 21st, driving to work with two American colleagues, LaDier was behind the steering wheel when Ron…
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shared in circle in Washington, D.C. A moment later, the bomb went off. Lettier's body was torn in two pieces. The blast turned his torso completely around in the sea. Ronnie Moffitt showed no outward signs of injury, but a major artery in …
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The Lettier murder could not have happened at a worse time for Shackley, Clines, and the operations directorate at the CIA. Attorney General Levi's bloodhounds set on the trail of Ambassador Corey were already pressing the CIA to produce do…
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and a handful of ITT executives, because remember they paid Nixon, seemed to be barely moving. The DCI, Bush, all stations message to the CIA during this period, on the surface, urged cooperation, but in reality, there was zero. Levi wrote …
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But weeks passed by with nothing. When answers finally came, Levi and his prosecutors seemed to be faced with a classic case of objection, excuse me, obstruction of justice. But Levi did catch the attention of the Washington establishment. …
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Clifford was one of the two lawyers that helped BCCI buy three banks inside the United States illegally. Washington insider Clark Clifford visited Deputy Attorney General Harold Tyler. He warned him that the indictment of Richard Helms woul…
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Now that the FBI opened an investigation into the Chilean ambassador's bombing and murder, Shackley believed Bush would protect him. Bush's CIA history and personal life were well known in detail by Shackley, and Shackley had continued to u…
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Bush apparently had become a captive of Shackley's and his blackmail. The details of the events preceding the Lettier and Moffitt murders demonstrated how and why. On July 26, 1976, eight weeks before the murders, the U.S. ambassador in Par…
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who, for operational reasons, needed to travel to the United States, but were going to be using Paraguayan documents. In other words, false documents. So the U.S. ambassador in Paraguay got a request from the president in Paraguay that he i…
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Ambassador George Landau considered the request extraordinary. The CIA station chief immediately notified Shackley's office. Did Shackley contact Colonel Contreras at Dena to find out why the Chileans were sneaking operatives into the U.S.?…
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The ambassador complied with the Chilean request because he was assured by the Paraguayan government that the two agents would be meeting with top CIA officials once they got to Washington, D.C. Because Landau was uncomfortable with the ent…
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After he did it? Sure. Landau's cable to the CIA went directly to George Bush, who asked Shackley to review it. Valuable time passed while Shackley sat on it. Finally, on August 4th, Bush cabled Landau that the CIA wanted nothing to do with…
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They even had the Chilean embassy notify the CIA that they had arrived in Washington. In the huge investigation that followed the murders, the CIA argued that it had done nothing to further the suspicion of Dina. But equally, and more to th…
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So this is kind of their modus operandi, if you will. This is the plausible deniability. They know exactly what's going on. They know that Chile is sneaking operatives into the United States because they do it in reverse. They do this exact…
▶ 45:04
which still allows plausible deniability. A week after the murders, Robert Shearer, S-C-H-E-R-E-R, an FBI legal attache in Latin America, cabled the CIA and the Departments of State and Justice, notifying them that he had discovered Operati…
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about CIA cooperation in the recent murder probe. But Bush did not turn over any of those files. It took the Department of Justice until 1978. 78. That's two years later. And this is all going on during the Jimmy Carter administration, by t…
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Instead, Bush defended Dena against the accusations that it had conducted the assassinations. Bush briefed Secretary of State Kissinger, telling him that he believed Dena was innocent of any role in the plot, even though, keep in mind, he k…
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on the streets of Washington, D.C. The cover-up was growing, and according to the Justice Department letters from Attorney General Edward Levi to George Bush, the FBI files of an investigation called Chilean Bomb. George Bush was in the mid…
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With his 55 appearances on Capitol Hill as a reform-minded CIA chief, the newly established Congressional Oversight Committees bought into the illusion that Bush created because they want to. The legislators no longer had the stomach for pu…
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was just part of a remarkable year in which covert operations were protected and their mistakes, in some cases, their criminality were swept under the rug. The end for now. So, again, this is so important for many different reasons. These a…
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Everything that we've investigated about Operation Condor and all of the overthrows of governments. Now, the one thing that I do want to add to this. So we're to believe, you know, that even in the worst plausible deniability, that somehow …
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I want you guys to keep in mind, and this is why having read all of these different books is so important, because we can coalesce all of the information as we read other books. Chile, as well as Paraguay, both owned crypto AG encryption eq…
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That allowed the CIA and the German BND to read every cable that was sent during Pinochet's government in Chile and in Paraguay. So the CIA not only knew about these fake passports because they were in the middle of making sure that it was …
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Especially, it's very rare that a diplomat is murdered in a foreign country. That is not a common occurrence. And in the case of the former ambassador to Chile having his car blown up with a car bomb in Washington, D.C., I can tell you, bas…
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people that we refer to as the Cuban exiles that are basically trained assassins by the CIA that were used in that operation to blow that former ambassador up. And fortunately for his assistant, who was a U.S. citizen, you had CIA trained a…
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a U.S. citizen on the streets of downtown D.C. because she happened to be walking next to the former ambassador from Chile to the U.S. who got stuck here, by the way, because we killed President Allende in Chile. So he couldn't go back to C…
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So he couldn't go back there because he was assassinating all of the former Allende administration. So he was stuck in Washington, D.C., in limbo. He was now referred to as the former ambassador. And the CIA targeted him, blew him up, and k…
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These same people, graduate of that same Texas school, had been deployed into downtown Washington, D.C. to put a bomb on a car, blow it up and kill Ambassador Leda Lara, who was President Allende's former ambassador. And they managed to sev…
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Chile's intelligence service did get involved in terrorism, and it wound up culminating with the Orlando Letelier assassination in Washington, D.C., where their intelligence agents basically came and took out a diplomat from the Allende era…
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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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Remember that he was being indicted for the murder of Ladier, the former ambassador to Chile, even though he had nothing to do with it because basically the CIA used their Cuban exiles to do it and set him up. So they were also investigatin…
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Ninth, 1973, three years later, in 1976, Pinochet reached directly into the U.S. to assassinate Chilean exile Orlando Ladier, who was the former ambassador to the U.S., in a car bomb, which also killed Ronnie Moffat, who was walking beside …
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To this shows in a half dozen break-ins that took place at the Chilean embassy in Washington in the spring and early summer of 1972, when the White House plumbers unit of Watergate fame ransacked the offices of Ambassador Orlando Ladier. Th…
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Pinochet, under the old order, begged him for the return of their husbands. One of the women, Isabelle Morel de Ladiere, wife of the former defense minister Orlando Ladiere, would see her husband again. Orlando came back almost exactly a ye…
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There would be murders, attempted assassinations in Costa Rica, Mexico, France, Portugal, Argentina, and on the streets of Washington, D.C., where they killed Orlando Ladier when his car blew up in September 1976, along with an American cit…
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The reluctance of the U.S. authorities to investigate the links between the Latier assassination and the DINA is a measure of the collusion between Washington and Chile. Condor became a terrorist network, a characterization only rendered st…
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the Organization of American States, meeting and delivered a notable weak speech about human rights because they didn't give a shit about them. In particular, there is clear evidence that Larrier's assassination could have been prevented, b…
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which of course we know they didn't do. On his watch, the intelligence services of the Southern Cone nations moved strongly on Operation Condor and assassinated Orlando Latier in Washington on his watch. You know, no assassinations, well, e…
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He organized two of the most infamous operations of Condor, the attempted assassination of Bernardo Leighton in Rome and the successful assassination of Orlando Lariere in Washington, D.C., which was the former Chilean ambassador that got s…
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That was a good example of that is the death squads in El Salvador and the Argentine AAA organization. In Latin America, the stories of drugs and death squads go hand in hand and resulted in the assassination of Orlando Lettier in Washingto…
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to the MNC, who was labeled as a fascist exile group, two of whose leaders have recently been convicted in connection with the assassination in Washington, D.C. of Orlando Lettier, the former Chilean ambassador. See how that circle comes fu…
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As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, m…
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So the DGS arrest for the same murder in Madrid, which led to the temporary arrest of Carlos Perez. In other words, the Lettier killings, horrible in itself, was only one incident of this international conspiracy. The Latin American aspect …
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that Borghese did with Guillermo Novo. They decided they liked it so much, they spent a year there working with Pinochet and the DINA and the CIA and the Office of Public Safety under USAID. Bosch himself spoke to New Times reporter Blake F…
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which was currently under investigation during the interview, he admitted setting up the murder of two Cuban diplomats in Argentina, the real Cuban government, in conjunction with Argentina's terrorist group, the AAA. Government sources tol…
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It's interesting to recall the initial charade of the U.S. intelligence agency that they put on for the U.S. press. This is a quote. On October 11th, 1976, Newsweek magazine reported that the CIA had concluded that the Chilean secret police…
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In their own words, they were. The CIA also assured the U.S. Department of Justice of this fact. A Washington Star reporter was told by FBI sources that LaDier might just as well has been killed by a leftist to create a martyr. David Binder…
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were pursuing the possibility that Mr. Latier had been assassinated by Chilean left-wing extremists as a means of disrupting U.S. relations with the military junta. No. But the biggest flood of distortion and rumors came from the former and…
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in charge of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, delivered documents from Laudier's briefcase to suggest falsely that Laudier was not only a Cuban agent, but he also worked for the Soviets. No, he didn't work for Cuba. He didn'…
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He couldn't go home because the CIA overthrew his country and left him stranded in the United States. And there was a death warrant put out for him by the DINA and Pinochet. He was trapped in the United States and the son of a bitches worke…
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for the Dinas' innocence, knowing full well that they were guilty. Those who ordered Townley's crime have not even been indicted. On the contrary, a related case against another Cuban exile for receiving heavy caliber arms, reportedly in pa…
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The murder of Salvador Allende's former foreign secretary Orlando Ladier in Washington, D.C. in September 1976 was the first time brought into the public spotlight the Condor Network. This operation had been subcontracted via Cal with the A…
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were their main tool of repression. However, the people that were part of the network that did the bomb that blew up Lettier and a U.S. American, his assistant, were from the Cuban exiles trained by the CIA. Out of the Cal meetings came a p…
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There's a couple of quotes here. I don't want to read as much of this part because we've already covered this a lot. But there is a quote here that says Stanford Turner, who had taken over the director of CIA only five weeks earlier, could …
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murder of Orlando Lettier, the former Chilean ambassador in the U.S. In September 1976, the ex-patriot Lettier, an assistant, an American citizen, had been killed while driving along Massachusetts Avenue in Washington. The ex-CIA man, accor…
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of the Libyan President Omar Gaddafi. Now, what I find most fascinating about this particular article is they're blaming Edwin Wilson. Edwin Wilson is the guy they frame for trafficking weapons to Gaddafi and throw him in jail for decades w…
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postscript of the church committee. And that came on the hills of the death of Sam Giacana and Orlando Lettier, who, as we know, was the ambassador from Chile that was assassinated by the CIA's Cuban exile group in Washington, D.C.…