Carlos Prats person
also: General Carlos Fratz, General Pratz, Pratt's, Prats, General Carlos Prats, General Snyder, General Carlos Pratt, Pratt, Charles Carlos Prats
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Brigade Exterior assassinated
Carlos Prats documented
“Dena supplemented the intelligence units of the three armed services and created a counter-espionage unit. All of them played a central role in Pinochet's repression. Contreras quickly established a foreign operation entity called the Briga…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 44:48
DINA assassinated
Carlos Prats documented
“The Condor assassinations began in October 1974 with General Carlos Prats, the former deputy chief of staff of the Chilean army, and his wife, Cora, who were killed in a car bombing in Buenos Aires, where the couple had lived in exile. In M…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 36:42
Augusto Pinochet succeeded
Carlos Prats book_quoted
“had a good line on the general, meaning they had already established a relationship. By September of 72, Pinochet had expressed the view that Allende had lost his ability to lead. The general served as army chief of staff, and after Pratt's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 29:21
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Carlos Prats documented
“Only way to remove Pratt's would appear to be abduction or assassination, unquote, CIA agents in Santiago reported in a cable to Langley. Allante is a desperate attempt to head off the inevitable. Had begun saying military commanders in his…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:18:58
Augusto Pinochet ordered_assassination_of
Carlos Prats documented
“Charles Carlos Prats and his wife were gunned down in Buenos Aires in 1974, the guy who resigned after being intimidated that allowed Pinochet to run the army and affect the coup, because he was a witness. Nevertheless, Richard Helms was ob…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:00:12
Michael Townley assassinated
Carlos Prats 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
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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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These efforts came to premature fruition on June 29th, when a handful of officers staged a confused coup that involved tanks stopping for traffic lights as they made their way through Santiago. For the first time in 42 years, the Chilean so…
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Fratz, the army commander, suppressed it easily. Still, it had nerves on end. As military conspirators prepared to strike against Alente, they faced the same problem that they confronted three years before. The army commander, General Pratz…
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Only way to remove Pratt's would appear to be abduction or assassination, unquote, CIA agents in Santiago reported in a cable to Langley. Allante is a desperate attempt to head off the inevitable. Had begun saying military commanders in his…
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The local newspaper that was owned by the American began a campaign depicting him as a treasonable pro-communist person. One day, several hundred wives of Chilean officers encouraged by the CIA operatives convened in front of his home, supp…
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General Prats was so shaken, he asked his fellow generals for a vote of confidence. When they refused, he had no alternative but to resign. He recommended that President Alente name his deputy to replace him, and Alente followed his advice.…
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His colleagues in Chile had not. President Alente said General Prats considered him to be supremely apolitical and not ambitious. Both would pay dearly for their miscalculation. While CIA operatives in Santiago were helping to orchestrate t…
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with over $3 million expended in fiscal year 72 alone. The final act in Allente's drama began to unfold. The departure of General Prats was a DIA memo saying, quote, removed the main mitigating factor against a coup, unquote. CIA agents rep…
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The Condor assassinations began in October 1974 with General Carlos Prats, the former deputy chief of staff of the Chilean army, and his wife, Cora, who were killed in a car bombing in Buenos Aires, where the couple had lived in exile. In M…
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of 43%. Allende's own chair in the vote in 1970 had only been 36. Until 73, the armed forces remained quiet under the strict leadership of a General Carlos Pratt, P-R-A-T-T-S. The loyalist forces crushed a coup attempt that June 29th. Two m…
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Prax resigned. He was succeeded by Pinochet, who led the military coup September 11, 1973, and became chief of the ruling junta. And Salvador, they basically stormed the presidential palace and murdered him, threw bombs in there.…
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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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since they assassinated the other guy, was General Carlos Prats, P-R-A-T-S. As his political difficulties grew, Allende bought military loyalty in part by bringing Prats into his government. On June 20th, the loyalist forces crushed a coup …
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After that first attempted coup that got crushed, the CIA sent a cable mentioning that and Kissinger basically did like a tap dance. He was so happy. President Allende tried to enhance military participation in his cabinet, but the generals…
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In August, discontent serviced in the form of a demonstration outside of Pratt's home by officers' wives and Pratt resigned. And guess who was behind that? Yes, the CIA. General Augusto Penashe had helped quell the chaos in June. He is said…
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had a good line on the general, meaning they had already established a relationship. By September of 72, Pinochet had expressed the view that Allende had lost his ability to lead. The general served as army chief of staff, and after Pratt's…
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All of them went to the officer's club. They all socialized over the weekend. And everybody in the senior ranks of the military was devastated that that guy had lived among them and turned out to be such a treasonous traitor. General Carlos…
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Prats knew a setup when he saw one. The general took his wife, frowned loyal officers at a nearby Air Force base, and flew to a point near the Argentine border and escaped to freedom. In Buenos Aires, Prats began to work on a memoir to tell…
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Dena supplemented the intelligence units of the three armed services and created a counter-espionage unit. All of them played a central role in Pinochet's repression. Contreras quickly established a foreign operation entity called the Briga…
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For a time, Prats enjoyed the protection of the Argentinian authorities, but in the summer of 1974, it was withdrawn. One night that September, explosives destroyed Prats' car as it entered the garage. Mrs. Prats burned to death. The genera…
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assassinated General Prats by blowing up his car and burning his wife alive. In the summer of 75, Contreras visited the U.S. twice. On both trips, he saw Vernon Walters. That October, Contreras hosted a conference in Santiago for the heads …
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A Cuban exile terrorist group allied with MNC took credit for the shooting in a communique. Americans claimed that the attack was arranged through either Michael Townley or his wife, Mariana Calajas, working for two Chileans who were respon…