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Manuel Contreras person

also: Manuel Jose Contreras Sepulveda, Contreras, Colonel Contreras, Colonel Manuel Quintero's Sepulveda

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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
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
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

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Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9
▶ 32:49 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
▶ 33:19 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…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9
▶ 42:35 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.?…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9
▶ 44:06 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38)
▶ 44:17 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38)
▶ 44:48 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38)
▶ 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,…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38)
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38)
▶ 50:25 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 …