Ecuador country
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Claims (4)
Philip Agee carried_out_attack
Ecuador book_quoted
“in the CIA. His successes had included bugging diplomat houses, subverting and bribing local officials, and disseminating lies, i.e. propaganda, through the Ecuadorian press. He had been rewarded with a transfer to Montevideo, which is Urug…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 9:00
Robert Weatherwax recruited
Ecuador documented
“had lately proved his worth by passing along information to the CIA station to a man called Robert Weatherwax, who had been operating there undercover as none other than a public safety advisor. Weatherwax had recruited the chief of the Ecu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 56:53
CIA funded
Ecuador book_quoted
“Next, in terms of level of Langley's involvement in Latin America in the 1960s, they were on record as being involved in political action in Bolivia and Chile. And, well, all of them. Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil, all of them. The mos…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 43:16
Philip Agee carried_out_attack
Ecuador host_asserted
“that it was the CIA that executed Che Guevara, not the Uruguayan government. And also, he said a whole bunch of other things. But we are going to pay attention to his first assignment in the CIA was to Ecuador, which he helped destabilize, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 5:28
Mentions (29)
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And many of you, if you've done any research into this, have come across the name Philip Agee. He was a CIA whistleblower. After he left the Ecuadorian embassy, he was also stationed in Uruguay. From March 1964 to 1966, his account of CIA a…
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to one of the indigenous lands or areas near the Amazon. I don't know if it was in Brazil, could have been Ecuador, but I just, that came to mind when you were talking about mercenaries, et cetera, so forth. I don't know if he was a mercena…
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origins of the Peace Corps kind of got co-opted as well. So that does kind of make sense. It also says, let's see. Yeah, so he would have seen quite a bit of that being in Ecuador in the late 60s because in the 60s when we were cooing all t…
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The BBC reported that the imperial project had spilled across the border into Ecuador, triggering fears of Columbia-ization of Ecuador. Ecuadorians feared that if Colombia became the next Vietnam, Ecuador would become the next Cambodia. A g…
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or a radical Islamic terrorist, and becomes a target. So the author goes on to say, alongside Cuba and FARC, Venezuela then became part of the axis of evil. Because you can't have anybody speaking out about U.S. imperialism in Latin America…
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could leave Colombia sandwiched between two governments that are anti-U.S., which was the case at the time. There was a U.S. military air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast. Korea had argued that Washington must let him open a military base in…
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Europe, or China. Most chemicals destined for drug laboratories enter legally through the seaports. Some come from Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. The highway between Venezuela and Colombia is a major chemical transportation route into Colo…
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with all of our satellites and intelligence and billions, if not trillions of dollars at this point that we put to use not finding the drugs. The Pentagon sought access to the bases in Colombia after Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa cance…
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Though the ICSID describes itself as an independent, depoliticalized and effective institution, it is always favoring Western financial interest. Andres Aruz, an economic and former Ecuadorian presidential candidate who narrowly lost to mul…
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Jen, a professor of clinical neurology at the National University of San Marcos, claimed a cocaine epidemic had swept through Lima fashionable neighborhoods in 1974 and spread like grass fire to peruse other major cities. Within two years, …
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Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, but there were ominous signs that it was coming to America. We do not know if coca paste had been introduced to America at that time, but pandemonium authorities have reported heavy transportation of co…
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He had 12 aliases. He had houses all over the San Francisco Bay Area. He had a mansion in Managua. Mentioned in 32 DEA investigations, some as far back as 1974. A couple of classified files from 1976. Bringing cocaine in from Colombia, Cost…
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And so if they can sponsor them and recruit them in college to join covertly or overtly the CIA, they are definitely going to do it. And they have recruiters on almost every one of those major campuses out there. I know because I well, I my…
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a fellow ambassador. In light of Emundo's murder, Norwin figured the Sandinistas probably had the same fate in mind for him, and he left Nicaragua in early June of 1979. He caught a flight to El Salvador, went to Ecuador for a while, then t…
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because that was the entire purpose. That's not a crystal ball. Others foresee that the conflict, which had already expanded into Venezuela and Ecuador, as they always do, because it's a strategy of tension and destabilization, will blend t…
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The Pentagon is also using the occasion to establish new bases in Ecuador because they always want to use a foothold in another country, saying that they're going to use it to police another country, which they never do. They use that to de…
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The increasing tide of international disapproval from Europe to Brazil has had no effect. The alienation of nearby governments, notably Ecuador and Venezuela, has not mattered either, nor have the cautious admonitions of pundits or editoria…
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That to operate, you didn't need to know anything about it. You just needed a few well-placed contacts. By August 1960, Agui heard exciting news. The branch chief of his division had approved him for an assignment in Ecuador. The CIA was ar…
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At last, in December 1960, Phil Agee and his wife were flown first class into Ecuador just in time for their Independence Day festivities. Agee's first working day was very exciting. In the evening, him and his wife joined Jim Nolan, the CI…
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that controlled all of the country's movie theaters. Every guest that night seemed to be rich and somehow related, either by blood or marriage. Agee had the chance to meet an important contact, a nephew of the country's president, and also …
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that it was the CIA that executed Che Guevara, not the Uruguayan government. And also, he said a whole bunch of other things. But we are going to pay attention to his first assignment in the CIA was to Ecuador, which he helped destabilize, …
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That's who Philip McGee is. Back to the book. In February of what would be around March 1964, Philip McGee, CIA officer from Notre Dame, had been in Washington preparing for a change of assignment. He had received two promotions while assig…
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There were also Rockefeller-controlled industries, banks, and supermarkets. Not unexpectedly, then, Rockefeller met with lots of riots in places like Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela, and Brazil. In Ecuador, the police killed six student…
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a conference for Operation Condor. The convention, a month later, created a multinational subversive campaign. Oh, he did say it, Operation Condor. And actually, Operation Condor had already started. It was kicked off in Brazil in 1963 or 4…
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Next, in terms of level of Langley's involvement in Latin America in the 1960s, they were on record as being involved in political action in Bolivia and Chile. And, well, all of them. Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil, all of them. The mos…
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DynCorp personnel were being used in missions typically reserved for U.S. special operations forces. The combat missions were not the only controversy for the company. Unsurprisingly, there are indications that at least some of the contract…
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In September of 2001, a group of peasants from Ecuador filed a lawsuit against DynCorp, alleging that the herbicides used by the company in Colombia were drifting over the border into Ecuador and destroying their crops, as well as killing t…
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So the New York Times had reported how in 1974, one major narcotic trafficker obtained a diplomatic passport from the secretary to the Bolivian president for a simple cocaine shipment. Well, that's quite a bargain. While charges against ano…
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And see if these countries ring a bell. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay. Huh. Those are all the countries we cooed. That's really weird. Mexico, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Turkey, the Phil…