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Edward Chamorro admitted
Fuerza Democrática Nacional documented
“asked Chamorro about the FDN's assassinations. Knowing the troops often mulled over murders and other atrocities, the propaganda chief admitted that there had been some excesses. Human rights criticisms resulted. Contras grumbled about Cham…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 35:08
Edward Chamorro removed_from_power
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare documented
“2,000 printed copies of psychological operations arrived in his office. The FDN propagandists caught the reference to hiring criminals and to killing their own leadership. Upset, he locked up the manuals and hired two boys to razor cut the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 37:39
Edward Chamorro exposed
CIA book_quoted
“Former FDN director Edgar Chamorro claimed that the CIA advisors prepped them for their press conferences and told them to deny they had received any money from the U.S. government. It was particularly important that we deny having met with…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 33:30
Mentions (24)
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After all the meetings that he had been in with FDN Director Adolfo Calero, Enrique Bermudez, Edgar Chamorro, and Frank Arena, the resultant scandal would likely have wiped out what little Contra support was left in Washington. It would hav…
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The CIA agent, who was the head of the Contra's political directorate, denied that the two cocaine traffickers had any official positions with the Contras. But Calera confirmed that Menendez had come to Honduras to meet with Bermudez and ha…
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The Contras and wrote in 1991, quote, the American planners never seem to grasp the simple fact that the Nicaraguans hated the National Guard and would never support an insurgency directed by ex-guardsmen, unquote. So it's just crazy. The C…
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Edgar Chamorro in an affidavit filed in the World Court in The Hague in 1985. Chamorro, a former advertising executive and distant relative of the Farn-Chamorro brothers, said that the CIA paid for the meeting, rented the building, and draf…
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Former FDN director Edgar Chamorro claimed that the CIA advisors prepped them for their press conferences and told them to deny they had received any money from the U.S. government. It was particularly important that we deny having met with…
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grew much more active. Menendez's role with the FDN became much more public. Former FDN director Edgar Chamorro told the San Francisco Examiner in 1986 that he and another director, Frank Arana, flew to San Francisco in October of 82 to sel…
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He was someone the U.S. government had hoped would replace Somoza as president before the Sandinista takeover. According to former FDN director Edgar Chamorro, Calero had been working with the CIA in Nicaragua for a very long time. He serve…
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was a familiar face of Nicaraguan rebels in the United States. Calero spoke perfect English. He was a graduate of Notre Dame. Calero and Bermudez were our main links with the CIA, Chamorro declared. They met constantly with the CIA station …
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Exile leader Edgar Chamorro met with the chief gruner and his head of political operations, Joseph Fernandez, to plan a sort of Congress of perhaps about 20 Nicaraguans, in which Bermudez would merely be one voice. In early December, a new …
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at a Miami press conference. Chamorro became FDN's public relations director, but all the exiles were primed first by CIA officers in a hotel room. In other words, they independently talked to them all and then pretended like it was a unila…
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had become the unquestioned commander. Any remaining doubt concerning whether he would act independently was gone. In Honduras, the CIA-minted FDN board did not have the presence to exert any control. They made just one visit to the camp as…
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authorities forced Lau to leave the country in late 1984. National Guard connections remained the Achilles heel of the Contras. Of all of the FDN directorate, Edgar Chamorro was in the best position to know the conditions in the field. Many…
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Hours every day in Europe, the U.S., and Puerto Rico generating funds. You know, talking to the drug dealers like we studied in Gary Webb's book. Calero took the CIA and the exiles as his constituency. Some directors stayed in Miami. Chamor…
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There he wrote the releases and organized the visits of journalists to the FDN camps. Soon his office alone was spending $2,000 a month to improve the Contra's image. One of Chamorro's projects began the drafting of a manual called the Blue…
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asked Chamorro about the FDN's assassinations. Knowing the troops often mulled over murders and other atrocities, the propaganda chief admitted that there had been some excesses. Human rights criticisms resulted. Contras grumbled about Cham…
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Joe Fernandez and about a dozen other DO officers all approved the manual. No one objected. They supposedly, when they were asked, deleted some shit. But not the assassinations? Not the martyr piece? What the hell was in it if that's what w…
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2,000 printed copies of psychological operations arrived in his office. The FDN propagandists caught the reference to hiring criminals and to killing their own leadership. Upset, he locked up the manuals and hired two boys to razor cut the …
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admitted that it may well do classified missions in Central America. All CIA proprietaries. The FDN also received two old C-47 transports and at least one went to ARDE. Edgar Chamorro was…
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Still, Chamorro's fears proved justified in March of 84 when the ARDC C-47 crashed in northern Costa Rica. An unidentified Caucasian died in the crash that everyone suspected was CIA. There were confirmed CIA casualties in October of 84 whe…
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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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Managua radio denounced the mines for the first time. Edgar Chamorro recalls being waken up by a CIA officer at two in the morning a couple of nights later. John Mallett, deputy chief of station in Tegu, handed Chamorro a press release the …
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Lugansk hit a mine, wounding five sailors. In the scramble to contain this flap, CIA John Mallett told the FDN leader Chamorro to deny the Contra's mines could have caused the damage, giving the statement substance necessarily forced an end…
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an NSC CIA political action unit housed within the State Department. It's a CIA front. The court accepted those materials into evidence, but the American offering did not overcome the testimony of witnesses like Contra leader Edgar Chamorro…
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Again, Robert Hall is, that's where the DEA agent group is going to be working out of the CIA office for him. And they're running Contra out of Costa Rica. Fernandez was a stickler for detail on the political action beat. He had made sure e…