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Jim Atkins person

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Jim Atkins member_of CIA documented
“where he became an advisor to Vang Pao and his clandestine army, where he had acquired a reputation playing a key role in the offensive at the Plain of Jars. By 1970, Atkins had had enough. He transferred to the Western Hemisphere and learn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 32:00
CIA appointed Jim Atkins documented
“It must have appealed to fires that Atkins had been an inspiring young person. He had gone home to West Virginia and been a state trooper and had an affinity point with Joe Fernandez, a detective sergeant with the Miami-Dade Police Departme…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 31:24
Jim Atkins member_of CIA documented
“It must have appealed to fires that Atkins had been an inspiring young person. He had gone home to West Virginia and been a state trooper and had an affinity point with Joe Fernandez, a detective sergeant with the Miami-Dade Police Departme…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 31:24
Jim Atkins member_of CIA documented
“Everybody put on their shock face. For months, the issue remained submerged. But in early 87, after the CIA reentered the battle, Claire George and Alan Fiers came down to survey the new activity. They learned of the helicopter flights. Und…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 38:02
Jim Atkins trained Contras documented
“The Nicaraguan War smelled of the same. Atkins rejected an early offer to participate, but he could not avoid temporary duty as a trainer in Honduras during the year of mining. The ensuing controversy confirmed all of his fears. Atkins join…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 33:40
Jim Atkins trained Vang Pao documented
“where he became an advisor to Vang Pao and his clandestine army, where he had acquired a reputation playing a key role in the offensive at the Plain of Jars. By 1970, Atkins had had enough. He transferred to the Western Hemisphere and learn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 32:00
Jim Atkins member_of DINA host_asserted
“Atkins had served in Santo Domingo and Pinochet's Chile. Well, that's interesting. So he's part of the DINA training and setting up the black sites and USAID's torture program. He then shows up as station chief in none other than Guyana. Is…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 32:29

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The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 31:24 It must have appealed to fires that Atkins had been an inspiring young person. He had gone home to West Virginia and been a state trooper and had an affinity point with Joe Fernandez, a detective sergeant with the Miami-Dade Police Departme…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 32:00 where he became an advisor to Vang Pao and his clandestine army, where he had acquired a reputation playing a key role in the offensive at the Plain of Jars. By 1970, Atkins had had enough. He transferred to the Western Hemisphere and learn…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 32:29 Atkins had served in Santo Domingo and Pinochet's Chile. Well, that's interesting. So he's part of the DINA training and setting up the black sites and USAID's torture program. He then shows up as station chief in none other than Guyana. Is…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 33:04 The CIA guy that got put in office by the CIA. That proved faithful. Oh yes, he was there because that's what comes next. The cult murder of visiting congressman and mass poisoning at Jonestown occurred on Atkins' watch. And the CIA was int…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 33:40 The Nicaraguan War smelled of the same. Atkins rejected an early offer to participate, but he could not avoid temporary duty as a trainer in Honduras during the year of mining. The ensuing controversy confirmed all of his fears. Atkins join…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 34:06 Jim Atkins arrived in Honduras in time to see Secord's operation establish itself, witness the increasing tenuous relationship between the U.S. and Honduras, and get the flavor of the severe restrictions of the Bolin Amendment. After just a…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 36:06 Equally dedicated, never developed the same close relationship with the Hondurans because the generals who collaborated with the U.S. during the early days were gone. Atkins fell afoul of both the Honduran sensitivities and CIA legal prohib…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 36:34 Only about 20 miles from Aquagate, the roads were so poor and the rain so bad that it would take days to reach the camps. Visiting one of them in January, Atkins found freshly dug graves of children. The victims could easily have been his k…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 37:03 But the Bolan restrictions prohibited helicopter flights within 20 miles of the border, unless they were intelligence gathering. A few months earlier, Langley had ordered Atkins to organize a rescue mission into Nicaragua, a deliberate viol…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 37:31 The mission was scrubbed, but the contradiction remained. CIA was willing to violate the law for political reasons, but not for humanitarian ones. Atkins decided to break the rules. He sent in medical supplies and his helicopters brought ou…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 38:02 Everybody put on their shock face. For months, the issue remained submerged. But in early 87, after the CIA reentered the battle, Claire George and Alan Fiers came down to survey the new activity. They learned of the helicopter flights. Und…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 38:31 and Atkins ended up hanging out with Joe Fernandez while they both learned of their fates. They received reprimands and were fired by the new CIA director, which generally means they were just going to be hired back as contract officers. Po…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 39:52 The result was Congress earmarked $3 million of new money specifically for a Contra human rights independent prosecutor that would bring the Contra commanders up on charges. Of course, Langley had his own ideas. Those were relegated to Atki…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50)
▶ 46:08 You have to go through a lot of research to find them. And I find it very interesting that we have this Atkins guy at Guyana and in the Nicaraguan. And of course, he was in Laos. That's just crazy shit. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. And…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51)
▶ 19:48 Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean they went away. That is a paperwo…