Manuel Artime person
also: Manuel Francisco Artime, Manuel R. Time, Artime
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Claims (11)
Manuel Artime member_of
MRR book_quoted
“In November 59, Dr. Manuel Francisco Artime and other military men organized one anti-Castro group. A month later, Rogelio Gonzalez Corso, Hegnino Nino Diaz, and others created another umbrella organization called MRR.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 10:02
Manuel Artime carried_out_attack
Cuba documented
“Luis Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, offered his cooperation. Manuel Artime and other prominent exiles completed their arrangements. They set up shop near a town in Nicaragua. They soon began bombing Cuba. Langley sent Jake Esserling to Pa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 48:30
Anastasio Somoza funded
Manuel Artime documented
“Luis Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, offered his cooperation. Manuel Artime and other prominent exiles completed their arrangements. They set up shop near a town in Nicaragua. They soon began bombing Cuba. Langley sent Jake Esserling to Pa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 48:30
CIA funded
Manuel Artime documented
“So again, they're passing them off as independent, but they're directly tethered to the CIA and their oversight and their funding. Public speculation of CIA involvement ran high. The public was right. Langley had assigned Henry Hechner as a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 49:01
Tom Clines supplied_arms_to
Manuel Artime book_quoted
“had any intentions of giving Wilson that business. Wilson believed that Somoza simply decided that the CIA connection was not enough to keep him in power. In fact, working through Dr. Artemi, Klein took over the operation, apparently never …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 52:23
Manuel Artime spied_on
CIA book_quoted
“and other various parts of the world on retainer because that's the Gladio guys. These Cubans would help him get his government back if he was to ever be overthrown. So they have assassins on retainer living in the United States being train…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 42:53
CIA trained
Manuel Artime book_quoted
“The CIA tried to invent or fabricate opposition inside Cuba while there was already a growing resistant movement. Rafael Quintero recalls being asked by the CIA in March of 1960, how many Cubans were actively against Castro? He put the numb…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 15:35
CIA recruited
Manuel Artime book_quoted
“They were told to set up a dozen infiltration teams to link up with Cuban resistance. Colonel Hawkins now got orders to form a larger conventional armed unit to back up the teams. On August 22nd, the lead group of infiltration trainees from…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 46:24
Anastasio Somoza paid
Manuel Artime book_quoted
“and Miami doctor by the name of Manuel Artemi, A-R-T-E-M-I, who had the export contracts for all Nicaraguan beef. It's all about the resources. Wilson explained that this was a payoff from samosa to the Cubans because Artemi kept about 100 …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 42:22
Manuel Artime carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“They haven't even talked about, and I forget in this book if they do, because there's still a little bit more about Cuba here. But our time, he was a terrorist. He's the one that blew up that airplane that had the fencing team on it that le…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 1:00:16
Manuel Artime spied_on
Sandinistas book_quoted
“Artemi was and had always been a Castro intelligence agent and that he was helping Castro regime take control this is bullshit of the Sandinista revolution this is total horseshit this is the CIA trying to legitimize what they're about to d…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 43:24
Mentions (16)
▶ 41:52
in Nicaragua. He provided a great deal of help for the anti-Castro operations. So in the early 60s, when a revolt threatened to topple the elder Somoza's regime, the anti-Castro Cubans were brought in to help. In 1978, Clines asked Wilson t…
▶ 42:22
and Miami doctor by the name of Manuel Artemi, A-R-T-E-M-I, who had the export contracts for all Nicaraguan beef. It's all about the resources. Wilson explained that this was a payoff from samosa to the Cubans because Artemi kept about 100 …
▶ 42:53
and other various parts of the world on retainer because that's the Gladio guys. These Cubans would help him get his government back if he was to ever be overthrown. So they have assassins on retainer living in the United States being train…
▶ 52:23
had any intentions of giving Wilson that business. Wilson believed that Somoza simply decided that the CIA connection was not enough to keep him in power. In fact, working through Dr. Artemi, Klein took over the operation, apparently never …
▶ 8:06
50 men went back into the Sierra Matras under Manuel Artime, a former Batista military commander who had sided with Castro, styling themselves as the commandos rurales. They taught reading to illiterate peasants.…
▶ 10:02
In November 59, Dr. Manuel Francisco Artime and other military men organized one anti-Castro group. A month later, Rogelio Gonzalez Corso, Hegnino Nino Diaz, and others created another umbrella organization called MRR.…
▶ 12:35
Always was complaining about the shortage of recruits. Soon turned up in Miami to make cause with the exiles. Our Times Underground dissipated after his letter of resignation appeared on the front page of the Havana newspaper. Our Time went…
▶ 15:35
The CIA tried to invent or fabricate opposition inside Cuba while there was already a growing resistant movement. Rafael Quintero recalls being asked by the CIA in March of 1960, how many Cubans were actively against Castro? He put the numb…
▶ 46:24
They were told to set up a dozen infiltration teams to link up with Cuban resistance. Colonel Hawkins now got orders to form a larger conventional armed unit to back up the teams. On August 22nd, the lead group of infiltration trainees from…
▶ 47:29
from RFK. Then he received orders to stand down. But the Exile Brigade notion did not disappear. In fact, the really novel feature of the June decision was to switch to a stance of backing autonomous raids. In other words, plausible deniabi…
▶ 47:58
He was a prime mover at invigorating the brigade. He became the centerpiece. He wanted to be based in Central America and stage raids into Cuba. This would have been the Bay of Pigs all over again, with the exiles supposedly calling the sho…
▶ 48:30
Luis Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, offered his cooperation. Manuel Artime and other prominent exiles completed their arrangements. They set up shop near a town in Nicaragua. They soon began bombing Cuba. Langley sent Jake Esserling to Pa…
▶ 49:01
So again, they're passing them off as independent, but they're directly tethered to the CIA and their oversight and their funding. Public speculation of CIA involvement ran high. The public was right. Langley had assigned Henry Hechner as a…
▶ 49:34
often accompanied by Quintero, usually in the U.S., though not in Miami. Another indication of CIA support was what happened when our time in Quintero tried to recruit Felix Rodriguez for their communications. They promised him a demonstrat…
▶ 50:31
had gotten permission to pull together all the Cubans in the army and create a combat unit in the army of Cuban exiles. The press had already connected RFK to our time and others in the operation. Bobby suggested floating so many rumors tha…
▶ 1:00:16
They haven't even talked about, and I forget in this book if they do, because there's still a little bit more about Cuba here. But our time, he was a terrorist. He's the one that blew up that airplane that had the fencing team on it that le…