Assassination of Orlando Letelier event
also: blow that former ambassador up, blow up, Lettier bombing, Latier bombing, Latier murders, Latier Cape, Ladier's assassination, Latier's, Larrier's assassination, murder of Orlando Lettier, Lettier's bombing
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CIA covered_up
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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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 53:09
Elliot Abrams involved_in
Assassination of Orlando Letelier guest_asserted
“But unfortunately, if that's the case, it had real world implications for a whole lot of countries, one of which is Venezuela, as we're going to see. Go ahead, Elanai. Hey, Colonel. Two things. First off, I did a little bit of background re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:18:06
DINA carried_out_attack
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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…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 25:08
Mentions (17)
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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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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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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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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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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…