Manuel Contreras person
also: Colonel Contreras, Colonel Manuel Quintero's Sepulveda, Contreras, General Manuel Contreras, Manuel Jose Contreras Sepulveda
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Claims (7)
Political Warfare Cadre Academy trained
Manuel Contreras host_asserted
“Mesa's Interior Intelligence Chief. Major Manuel Contreras from Chile attended the School of Americas in 64. He graduated from the Political Warfare Cadre in 69. And he returned and created Pinochet's and became one of the first directors f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 56:35
Manuel Contreras headed
DINA host_asserted
“National Police Force and its hard as nails leader, Manuel Jose Contreras Sepulveda. They were all CIA surrogates. Contreras was actually welcomed by CIA Deputy Director General, Military General Vernon Walters in a series of secret meeting…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 32:49
Manuel Contreras member_of
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional host_asserted
“Mesa's Interior Intelligence Chief. Major Manuel Contreras from Chile attended the School of Americas in 64. He graduated from the Political Warfare Cadre in 69. And he returned and created Pinochet's and became one of the first directors f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 56:35
DINA headed
Manuel Contreras documented
“He testified to the use of Condor as a channel by which the Chilean DINA, thanks to the CIA, Chief General Manuel Contreras, tried to get U.S. visas for two of the agents involved. An impressive list of murders may now be laid at the door o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 6:48
School of the Americas trained
Manuel Contreras host_asserted
“Mesa's Interior Intelligence Chief. Major Manuel Contreras from Chile attended the School of Americas in 64. He graduated from the Political Warfare Cadre in 69. And he returned and created Pinochet's and became one of the first directors f…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 56:35
CIA recruited
Manuel Contreras documented
“to Chile on foreign threats. That's rich. They are the foreign threat to the Chilean people. A new station chief came. Stuart Burton went on picnics with Colonel Contreras and within a year had recruited him as a CIA source. In other words,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 49:10
Vernon Walters recruited
Manuel Contreras host_asserted
“National Police Force and its hard as nails leader, Manuel Jose Contreras Sepulveda. They were all CIA surrogates. Contreras was actually welcomed by CIA Deputy Director General, Military General Vernon Walters in a series of secret meeting…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 32:49
Mentions (10)
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National Police Force and its hard as nails leader, Manuel Jose Contreras Sepulveda. They were all CIA surrogates. Contreras was actually welcomed by CIA Deputy Director General, Military General Vernon Walters in a series of secret meeting…
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While in the U.S., Contreras traveled to Miami to meet the Cuban exile leaders and all of the former CIA agents, including Wilson's associate, Quintero and Felix Rodriguez. Tom Clines made some of the arrangements for the Miami meeting. The…
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Ambassador George Landau considered the request extraordinary. The CIA station chief immediately notified Shackley's office. Did Shackley contact Colonel Contreras at Dena to find out why the Chileans were sneaking operatives into the U.S.?…
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They even had the Chilean embassy notify the CIA that they had arrived in Washington. In the huge investigation that followed the murders, the CIA argued that it had done nothing to further the suspicion of Dina. But equally, and more to th…
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ultimately creating a secret police called the DINA, thanks to USAID and the Office of Public Safety, because we've covered this extensively, along with the CIA. Colonel Manuel Quintero's Sepulveda, conceived as a Chilean version of the CIA…
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Dena supplemented the intelligence units of the three armed services and created a counter-espionage unit. All of them played a central role in Pinochet's repression. Contreras quickly established a foreign operation entity called the Briga…
▶ 49:10
to Chile on foreign threats. That's rich. They are the foreign threat to the Chilean people. A new station chief came. Stuart Burton went on picnics with Colonel Contreras and within a year had recruited him as a CIA source. In other words,…
▶ 49:46
While they're murdering and rounding up people and putting them in black site prisons. They're on the CIA payroll. Just absolutely crazy. A special CIA team would stay on in Santiago training Nadina. Yes, the CIA trained them to torture, ki…
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assassinated General Prats by blowing up his car and burning his wife alive. In the summer of 75, Contreras visited the U.S. twice. On both trips, he saw Vernon Walters. That October, Contreras hosted a conference in Santiago for the heads …
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turn in other neighbors you know the phoenix program in south america it goes on the best known killing of this type was the bomb attack on orlando ledier in september of 1976 in washington condor's role in this emerged during the testimony…