Operation Tropic operation
also: TRAX, Tract, Tropic
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Operation Tropic operated_from
Guatemala documented
“The activities there and the operational name of the compound in Guatemala, the increased activities at that plantation, and the close cooperation of U.S. officials in Guatemala and Panama made official connections impossible to deny. By la…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 18:50
Tad Szulc exposed
Operation Tropic documented
“in Costa Rica, was covering an OAS conference. He learned of the CIA project from his Cuban friends. Dissuaded from writing a story, again, once he checked with the State Department, he stayed interested, started asking questions. On Octobe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 19:21
Ronald Hilton exposed
Operation Tropic documented
“political types that revealed Tract's existence up on the plantation where they're training future guerrillas. This was picked up by the Hispanic American Report, a regional studies newsletter that was written by Ronald Hilton of Stanford U…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 19:51
Mentions (4)
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Meanwhile, separate programs to aid the Manchurian guerrillas, not loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, continued under the CIA. This operation was known as Tropic. That's what the Civil Air Transport pilots called it. They used CAT, Civil Air Transpo…
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Meanwhile, with growing numbers of, that's operational security, by the way, you're supposed to be masking the fact that you're doing this kind of stuff, especially if it's a covert operation. The growing number of exiles and trainers, the …
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in Costa Rica, was covering an OAS conference. He learned of the CIA project from his Cuban friends. Dissuaded from writing a story, again, once he checked with the State Department, he stayed interested, started asking questions. On Octobe…
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Lines of communication ran to camp tracks, Miami and Cuba. Howard Hunt had a claim to use agents as political operatives rather than spies. Yeah, they're both the same thing. At the headquarters in D.C., they had its call as well. When the …