Armed Resistance Democratic Force organization
also: Democratic Nicaragua, ARDA
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Claims (2)
Dewey Claridge founded
Armed Resistance Democratic Force documented
“The UDN, the Legion, and other small groups needed to form an alliance. This union produced the FDN. Further meetings followed in Miami, where Argentine Colonel Jose Alas, using the name Julio Velargas, told the Nicaraguans a three-way agre…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 1:01:03
Enrique Bermudez member_of
Armed Resistance Democratic Force documented
“Enrique Bermudez, a 47-year-old colonel from the former National Guard and founder of the 15th September Legion, initially served as second-in-command of the FDN forces. A Sandinista spokesman noted at the time that Bermudez was a clean rec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 1:02:05
Mentions (12)
▶ 47:17
So he had to die. Okay, the CIA's project was to use what they refer to as the FDN and they had to throw in Democratic Nicaragua. That's what the D and the N stands for. They didn't have a democracy. They had a military dictator named Somoz…
▶ 54:08
with overthrowing the Sandinistas. And that's what the narrative was and the propaganda that was put out everywhere. Ironically, there is no evidence that any Cubans were ever killed. Most likely there weren't any. Most of the pieces were i…
▶ 54:47
Central America also used that same name. Claridge explained that the CIA would rely on the FDN and act through intermediaries. In this case, they were going to work hand in hand with Argentina. The Somocistas, the National Guard, among the…
▶ 56:17
Via a national security decision directive, he signed on November 23rd, following with a presidential finding on December 1st. The plan allowed the CIA to recruit a force of 500, possibly to be supplemented by another 1,000 Contras, beginni…
▶ 1:01:03
The UDN, the Legion, and other small groups needed to form an alliance. This union produced the FDN. Further meetings followed in Miami, where Argentine Colonel Jose Alas, using the name Julio Velargas, told the Nicaraguans a three-way agre…
▶ 1:02:05
Enrique Bermudez, a 47-year-old colonel from the former National Guard and founder of the 15th September Legion, initially served as second-in-command of the FDN forces. A Sandinista spokesman noted at the time that Bermudez was a clean rec…
▶ 2:41
You wait until 1984 to do that. Shouldn't you have had that right away? And shouldn't you have attempted that at the beginning? So shouldn't that still be your position? No. So the NSC, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, were intende…
▶ 3:14
had the one anti-Sandinista group with revolutionary credentials comparable to the Sandinistas. The ARDA facilities in Costa Rica included a radio station, a factory for making uniforms, several warehouses, and a fleet of about 150 vehicles…
▶ 3:38
That Costa Rica guarded its neutrality in the Nicaraguan War and made some efforts to enforce it. Minimum efforts. Because that's where John Hollis got his ranch and they're flying drugs and weapons through his ranch. And his ranch is in Co…
▶ 4:49
They floated the story that Pastora's associates were involved in a drug running scheme. And that was the excuse for supposedly the CIA severing the relationship with Pastora. But again, that's a lie. Pastora refused to do anything with the…
▶ 5:52
Both the FDN and the Sandinistas had motive for the assassination. So did the CIA. By the time Pastora had recovered, ARDE had lost steam. Then Pastora again fell victim, this time to injury, suffered in a helicopter crash. Because again, h…
▶ 24:40
Kind of like the logic used by the Cuban exiles blaming JFK for their fuck up. But I digress. In fact, there had been a disaster and it had nothing to do with Congress. Langley cashed in all of his chips for a high-risk operation. The disaf…