Opelika, Florida place
also: Apalaca, Opelika, Opelika. Florida
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Albert Haney headed
Opelika, Florida host_asserted
“Since there was going to definitely be a paramilitary aspect to Guatemala, he was the perfect person. So, again, how are these people in the military leading all of these CIA operations if they're actually in the military? Because that does…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 34:30
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CIA training location that people suspect was basically like a terrorist training camp like Opelika down in Miami. So all very interesting. Well, to add on that, I forgot to mention is that during that time, we were still selling oil to Chi…
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was a training area and a hiding place for Contra soldiers. It was where the Legion of September 15 gathered before its raid on the Argentina radio station, which we read about several chapters back. After they dropped off arms, Morales and…
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These people are supposed to work for the CIA. Those people are supposed to have, you know, everything under control. So the people tell George, do it in Apalaca. Nothing will happen if the plane arrives in Apalaca. And he was asked, and yo…
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Since there was going to definitely be a paramilitary aspect to Guatemala, he was the perfect person. So, again, how are these people in the military leading all of these CIA operations if they're actually in the military? Because that does…
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The air cargo firm had four acres of property in Florida, owned one C-46 aircraft and leased another. Planes and crews from Air America, which had just been given birth to out of the ashes of the civil air transport, arrived to beef up the …
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was lying down and lying up for reasons that I don't yet totally understand. Lying up and down, Richard Bissell. Almost immediately, the bombing cover story began to unravel. The exile planes from Nicaragua reached Florida as planned. One l…
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Theodore Shackley's JM Wave had 112 exiles on board from the beginning. In addition, it had 40 CIA officers and 39 more co-located at Opelika. At any given time, there was a dozen or more special forces training exile commandos. Bob Moore a…
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a dozen buildings at Opelika alone, over 100 leased vehicles, several thousand Cuban agents, Cuban exiles, and more than 600 American employees. The Mongoose planners wanted real resources, the use of Air Force bombing ranges for demolition…
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He proceeded to Opelika, Florida to begin setting up a forward base codenamed Lincoln. Haney exercised general supervision over the CIA chiefs in the nations surrounding Guatemala so that they could control all of the forces to be used in P…
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that all cable traffic be sent to Lincoln for Dunbar rather than to headquarters and then on to Opelika. Haney had lots of problems. Many were with the CIA's own Western Hemispheric Division. Its director, like Haney, was a counterintellige…