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Claims (30)
Felix Rodriguez assassinated
Che Guevara book_quoted
“the grave-robbing anti-Castro Cuban who had tracked and helped murder Che Cavera in Bolivia in 1967 and was taken Che's wristwatch as a trophy because it was a Rolex. In early 1971, the three CIA officers located the guerrilla hideout. To p…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 19:31
René Barrientos Ortuño ordered_assassination_of
Che Guevara documented
“200 years. They just don't believe you. They've lost all hope. And Shea coming to try to help them in Bolivia, he saw the same look that he saw when he was in the Congo trying to help those people against the Gladio operations of Otto Skorz…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 55:07
Che Guevara member_of
Guatemala host_asserted
“He's helping fight off the CIA. He's 25 years old at the time, and his name is Che Guevara. Guevara, who had been living in Guatemala since 1953, when they basically started this last phase, had tried to spark armed resistance to help Arben…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 1:02:07
Felix Rodriguez assassinated
Che Guevara host_asserted
“He left Cuba once he realized that Castro wasn't going to follow through on all of the promises that he had made either. And there's a reason why the Felix Rodriguez was standing in the room. And if you listen, if you know anything about th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 1:09:13
Felix Rodriguez assassinated
Che Guevara host_asserted
“A CIA assassin, okay? He was deployed all over the world. I'm sorry, we don't interrupt. No, he killed Che Guevara. Okay, but we don't interrupt, all right? I can say what I want. You don't get to tell me what to do. Oh, I'm afraid I do. Du…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 1:10:33
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Che Guevara host_asserted
“in 1964, caused suspicion because they did. And there were reports of CIA action against Che Guevara in Bolivia. Again, true. More concrete charges from Bolivian cabinet minister Antonio Argandas soon gave form to Chilean shadowy fears. The…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36) @ 46:14
Che Guevara appointed
Cuba book_quoted
“Freeport Sulphur began searching for new nickel deposits because they got kicked out of Cuba. And ironically enough, when Cuba nationalized the nickel refinery, they put Shea Cavera in charge of it. I got a chuckle out of that. Freeport lin…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 14:22
Felix Rodriguez assassinated
Che Guevara host_asserted
“Felix Rodriguez. Oh, yes, he was in El Salvador, too. And he was also involved with the overthrow of Nicaragua, setting that same thing up. And he had been a PRU advisor in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And that guy, as you guys know, he …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 41:02
Che Guevara carried_out_attack
La Cabaña Fortress documented
“He got the news seven hours after Batista fled. Che Guevara immediately ordered a march forward. His force arrived in Havana the next morning. He drove directly to the La Cabana Fortress, whose garrison of 15,000 men dwarfed Che's small M26…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 42:34
Allen Dulles attempted_assassination_of
Che Guevara documented
“February 17th, and it became the first one he presented to Eisenhower. Direct action to eliminate Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Dulles met with the president and Gordon Gray. Accompanied by aides, Dulles went armed with schematic drawings o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (19) @ 10:05
Che Guevara member_of
Simba Rebellion book_quoted
“Fidel promised that he would continue preparations while Che Cavera did his tour. Che traveled through Eastern Europe to Algeria and Tanzania, where he connected with the Simbas. These are the resistant fighters. The Congolese were embarras…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 34:51
CIA assassinated
Che Guevara book_quoted
“interviewed by Tucker. And he not only lied throughout the entire interview, but he told the story of how he was present when the CIA found Che Guevara and executed him. And of course, he doesn't go into detail and said, you know, oh, you k…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 27:21
Che Guevara overthrew
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“who had installed the government that was allowing all of this debasing to go on, also was funding Castro. And they sent actual CIA paramilitary people into those mountains to arm them and to train them to be snipers. So when this revolutio…”
▶ Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964 @ 58:54
CIA produced_analysis_of
Che Guevara book_quoted
“to push back against the CIA and their preferred military dictator. Slow to appreciate the emerging differences between Fidel and Che Guevara, the CIA produced an analysis of economic policy disputes between the two in the fall of 1965, whe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 16:26
CIA asserted
Che Guevara book_quoted
“personally directing Bolivian guerrilla activities and has been physically present with the guerrillas, unquote. But a DIA report stated that Che Guevara had recently been executed in Cuba. As of mid-July, the embassy itself remained uncert…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 24:31
Richard Goodwin spied_on
Che Guevara book_quoted
“Goodwin, the whole iteration of this was that Goodwin had actually met with Che Guevara. According to Goodwin, Che Guevara warned him that there would be either a leftist revolution or a rightist coup leading to leftist takeover, and that t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 25:21
Felix Rodriguez spied_on
Che Guevara documented
“Bush is CIA, Greg is CIA, and Felix is CIA. Running the Iran-Contra. Of course. Out of the Vice President's office. Greg had a decades-long friendship and association with none other than Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-born CIA operative credited…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:10:35
Desmond Fitzgerald asserted
Che Guevara book_quoted
“caught the flavor of the dispute, but the agency wouldn't accept it. There were other Che Cavera sightings too, resulting in Langley's determination to get him at all costs. But not everyone believed. As late as May 1967, Desmond Fitzgerald…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 16:56
Che Guevara arrived_in
Bolivia book_quoted
“in the Dominican Republic. Despite Fitzgerald's observation to Ambassador Douglas Henderson, the CIA's secret war against Che Guevara came to a head in Bolivia. And in 1967, Che had arrived in the country late the preceding year, heavily di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 17:29
Che Guevara used_passport_of
Uruguay book_quoted
“in the Dominican Republic. Despite Fitzgerald's observation to Ambassador Douglas Henderson, the CIA's secret war against Che Guevara came to a head in Bolivia. And in 1967, Che had arrived in the country late the preceding year, heavily di…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 17:29
Walt Rostow asserted
Che Guevara book_quoted
“Meanwhile, the Washington merry-go-round continued. On May 11th, Walt Rostow told LBJ that based on Debray's interrogations, that Shea Cavera could actually be in Bolivia and not dead at all. Quote, as the intelligence community with the pa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 23:38
Bolivian 2nd Ranger Battalion captured
Che Guevara book_quoted
“completed training the Bolivian 2nd Rangers, which took the field in mid-September. After about 10 days, they caught Che Guevara's band near a village. The CIA's Felix Rodriguez joined the Rangers to provide tactical advice. I'm sure that's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 28:02
Jaime Terán assassinated
Che Guevara book_quoted
“Rodriguez passed the order along. Sergeant Jamie Teran did the deed. Now, again, there's a lot of controversy about all of this. The CIA wanted Sheikha Vera dead more than anybody. And Felix Rodriguez more than anybody. Later, the Bolivians…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 30:26
CIA trained
Che Guevara host_asserted
“In the 40s and early 50s? I have never seen any evidence that he was on the payroll. What I have seen is that the CIA had agents in the hills, in the mountains, in Cuba, training both Castro and his brother and Che Guevara.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:53:33
CIA covered_up
Che Guevara host_asserted
“The agency was ever inventive, but always trying to present unfavorable press information on Shea Calvera. And as a matter of fact, I read one article that basically said they had a dedicated person that did nothing but plant these stories …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 44:57
CIA trained
Che Guevara host_asserted
“Castro, Raul and Che Guevara all were trained in the mountains by CIA people. When Castro won the revolution in the hotel where he originally set up his soon to be administration on the same floor was his CIA handler.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 5 @ 1:19:34
United States trained
Che Guevara host_asserted
“rose up and overthrew Batista. And you have yet again, and believe me, I am not a Castro apologist, but the United States actually aided and trained and set up Gladio training camps to teach people, to include Che Guevara, how to fight in t…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 55:48
E. Howard Hunt carried_out_attack
Che Guevara host_asserted
“chief justice officials. And what does it say about the management of the FBI? That during his brief tenure as FBI director, L. Boyden Gray destroyed a CIA file on one of the Watergate burglars, E. Howard Hunt, probably one of the most noto…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 35:44
Che Guevara carried_out_attack
Congo host_asserted
“when it was believed that Che Guevara was in Zaire helping the insurgents, because he showed up every time the CIA tries to coup a country, helping the actual freedom fighters while the Americans are the insurgents. At one point, Station Ch…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 12 continued @ 33:27
Che Guevara removed_from_power
Cuba host_asserted
“He left Cuba once he realized that Castro wasn't going to follow through on all of the promises that he had made either. And there's a reason why the Felix Rodriguez was standing in the room. And if you listen, if you know anything about th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 1:09:13
Mentions (114)
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For the majority of the Cuban exiles, that is absolutely a fable. The CIA installed Batista in Cuba and they also went into the mountains. Literally CIA agents went into the mountains and trained the Castro brothers along with Che Cabrera a…
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rose up and overthrew Batista. And you have yet again, and believe me, I am not a Castro apologist, but the United States actually aided and trained and set up Gladio training camps to teach people, to include Che Guevara, how to fight in t…
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parties received lesser sums. Our goddess, our Judas, was an admitted agent of the CIA. In 1968, he gave the world Che Guevara's diary, claiming that the agency had pushed him too hard. Also revealed that Gulf Oil donated $200,000 to Barrio…
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And in response, miraculously, Gulf Oil got the oil concessions for Bolivia. Imagine that. In the two years following the disappearance of Che Guevara from public view, in early 1965, rumors had placed him at different times in the Dominica…
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China, Vietnam, and even New York, always plotting, quote, always plotting revolution with some menacing and bunch of desperados, unquote, which we know is exactly the opposite. You cannot like Shea Cavera for his participation in death squ…
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using Gladio operations throughout Central and South America. Those are just facts. And both things can be true at the same time. Word also had it that he had gone mad and was confined to an insane asylum or that he was imprisoned or execut…
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The agency was ever inventive, but always trying to present unfavorable press information on Shea Calvera. And as a matter of fact, I read one article that basically said they had a dedicated person that did nothing but plant these stories …
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In many of the communities in Central and South America was a Robin Hood. He was a trained doctor. He provided medical services to many of the injured people that were injured by our Gladio operations. And he went and added leadership recom…
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ways to thwart the CIA's working in all these places. And so he was very well thought of. So it, and he was in so many different countries because we were in so many different countries. It became a full-time job just planting these bad sto…
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Okay, let's see. When evidence began popping up in early 1967 that Shea was leading guerrillas in the mountains of Bolivia, there was understandable skepticism among the agency officials. Nonetheless, obsessed as the CIA was with tracking h…
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advisory positions in his ministry. So let me clarify what we just read. The Cuban exiles are CIA operators from the Miami station that are down there as intelligence operators that are going to be embedded in the Bolivian government to try…
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That was deployed by the CIA to do what I'm about ready to tell you about. This kind of investigation contributed more to the locating of Cabrera than did the CIA's assortment of torture and all of the other stuff. What is clear, or the tor…
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the single most critical. It is literally like the, what is the one, the sword in the stone? Yeah, it's like that to them. Shea's guerrilla movement never amounted to much of a threat. He was just there helping the miners protect themselves…
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Barely more than 50 men or women at any one time. And it had been already reduced to less than half that number when they captured Shea. So there's literally no reason to have all of this shit down there. The inhabitants of this region, wro…
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200 years. They just don't believe you. They've lost all hope. And Shea coming to try to help them in Bolivia, he saw the same look that he saw when he was in the Congo trying to help those people against the Gladio operations of Otto Skorz…
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prevented him from becoming the object of a clemency campaign. And despite objections, yeah, I'm going to put this in quotations, objections of the CIA men who clung to the hope that Carvera would eventually talk openly about his adventures…
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that Che Guevara is captured in 67, and then in 69, the guy that knows all about CIA's involvement in Che Guevara's capture and his execution, and let me tell you, since he's not going to tell you how they executed him, on Tucker Carlson's …
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Had a bullet hole in it. Because he reflectively. Like was trying to deflect the bullet. Like he put his arm in front of it. That's not what they did at all. They shot him. Upwards of. I'm just going to say. I don't remember the exact numbe…
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aiding and abetting both Che Guevara and Castro was to install Castro in Cuba so that they could use Castro as the boogeyman to overthrow all the rest of the governments. Because if they cut off, he's now the Soviet representative in the We…
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who had installed the government that was allowing all of this debasing to go on, also was funding Castro. And they sent actual CIA paramilitary people into those mountains to arm them and to train them to be snipers. So when this revolutio…
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And unfortunately for Bout, he was on the opposite side of the CIA trying to help the indigenous people, much like Che Cavera. So at least he didn't end up like Che Cavera. And then, of course, he got his name Sanction Buster because he's t…
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female genital mutilization and polygamy and forced marriages, blah, blah, blah. I mean, he really was trying to turn the country around. As a matter of fact, interestingly enough, they called him the Che Guevara of Africa because he very m…
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Kampari thwarted attempts to investigate the circumstances of the death, including repeated calls for his body to be exhumed. As I stated earlier, Sankara was called the African Sheikha Vera, and he oversaw huge increases in health and educ…
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But even Castillo Armas, that's the CIA guy, refused to agree with Dulles' wishes on this particular point because he himself had sought asylum in an embassy. One of those who sought asylum in the Argentine embassy, this is a really interes…
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He's helping fight off the CIA. He's 25 years old at the time, and his name is Che Guevara. Guevara, who had been living in Guatemala since 1953, when they basically started this last phase, had tried to spark armed resistance to help Arben…
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Guevara's experience in Guatemala had a profound effect on his political consciousness and his future. His first wife, who was married to him at the time, said this. This is a quote. Up to that point, he used to say he was merely a sniper, …
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Freeport Sulphur began searching for new nickel deposits because they got kicked out of Cuba. And ironically enough, when Cuba nationalized the nickel refinery, they put Shea Cavera in charge of it. I got a chuckle out of that. Freeport lin…
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And unfortunately for them, they didn't get much better with Omar Gaddafi. I just think they thought they were going to get better. And that that happened a couple of different times where they I mean, it happened with Cuba. Right. They tra…
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taken the approach, gosh, I'm trying to think of an analogy, but he's basically taking on almost a Che Guevara aspect, where Che Guevara throughout South America, Latin America in general, kept showing up everywhere the CIA did to overthrow…
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Those people went to El Salvador. They went to Honduras. They went to Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Nicaragua. He's been everywhere. He's the guy that was standing there when they arrested Che Guevara and killed him in either…
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interviewed by Tucker. And he not only lied throughout the entire interview, but he told the story of how he was present when the CIA found Che Guevara and executed him. And of course, he doesn't go into detail and said, you know, oh, you k…
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Che Guevara by starting at his feet and basically shooting him all the way up his body to include his arms. You will notice if you ever go back and listen to that Tucker interview that Felix Rodriguez said he was shot in his arms and he jus…
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Felix Rodriguez. Oh, yes, he was in El Salvador, too. And he was also involved with the overthrow of Nicaragua, setting that same thing up. And he had been a PRU advisor in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And that guy, as you guys know, he …
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I started here because this, I could, I could have read some very similar story to what I just read that happened in Cuba when the OSS slash CIA went in to train Castro and Shea Cavera in the mountains of Cuba when they were preparing to ta…
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Enders says, our main job was to keep rockets from raining on Saigon. And he went on to explain that he and Greg identified the hunted and hunted the Liberation Army guerrillas with the assistance of, and he makes an appearance in every sto…
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and somewhat contain and control the boogeyman, they can't use the boogeyman to do their dastardly deeds. And I have come to appreciate this model more after doing all this research. And I'll just give you one other example. Cuba. Cuba was …
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when they need to be replaced because there's too much backlash because they're basically a dictator and oppress the indigenous people of these different countries, which was the case with Batista. So he became so unpopular that the movemen…
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And yes, the CIA was involved in the initial training of the Castro brothers in Chekhov era up in the mountains. As the revolution unfolds, the successful revolution, and Batista is deposed, in walks the Fidel Castro, and as has been the ca…
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The tracking down of Che Cabrera by the CIA in 1967 was a classic case of covert intelligence operations using drug trafficking, a Bolivian counter-narcotics unit, and the FBN, which later became the DEA. In the 21st century, American count…
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Bush is CIA, Greg is CIA, and Felix is CIA. Running the Iran-Contra. Of course. Out of the Vice President's office. Greg had a decades-long friendship and association with none other than Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-born CIA operative credited…
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In the 40s and early 50s? I have never seen any evidence that he was on the payroll. What I have seen is that the CIA had agents in the hills, in the mountains, in Cuba, training both Castro and his brother and Che Guevara.…
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A CIA assassin, okay? He was deployed all over the world. I'm sorry, we don't interrupt. No, he killed Che Guevara. Okay, but we don't interrupt, all right? I can say what I want. You don't get to tell me what to do. Oh, I'm afraid I do. Du…
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the political acumen to build a bridge to the different coalitions. When Ernesto Che Cavera went to Uruguay for a conference of the Organization of American States, Quadros invited him to stop in Brazil. At the conference in a sea resort in…
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Goodwin, the whole iteration of this was that Goodwin had actually met with Che Guevara. According to Goodwin, Che Guevara warned him that there would be either a leftist revolution or a rightist coup leading to leftist takeover, and that t…
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Writing two years before the election of Salvador Allende in Chile, Goodwin added, none of this has come to pass. Well, they're not going to ever allow that through any opportunity that they have because they destabilize countries first and…
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to Goodwin, according to him, including a promise to pay for U.S. property in Cuba that had been expropriated. It was not an intractable foe of the U.S. who left the conference and stopped in Brazil. So Che Guevara was there to offer an oli…
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and a message to JFK. During Che Guevara's visit, Quadros confirmed his grown-up independent policy by presenting Che Guevara with Brazil's highest award for foreigners. In Che Guevara's life, it may have been only a minor honor, but to Car…
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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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Betta Court of Venezuela once tried to convince Che Guevara that the U.S. had two faces, one that could look repressive and imperialistic. The other face was friendly and devoted to social justice. Che Guevara corrected him and said, no, th…
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As he spoke of Ho, hard to believe. As revolutionary ideas, they had been startling for, they had been around for 25 years. Yet, here was a veteran U.S. diplomat eager to probe and debate them as though Mao had never lived, that Shea didn't…
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Hold on just a second. Let me see if I can find it on my grok history, because it's going to knock your socks off. All right. Okay, here it is. Let's go look at his dad's history and when it happened. Okay, 1965 to 67, his dad's in Bolivia.…
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are deployed to the mountain areas of Cuba where they know that the rebellion is forming. Now, they don't know that they're CIA agents necessarily. Eventually, they do. And they begin aiding and training the resistance, which is the Castro …
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this CIA agent that had been in the mountains training and equipping Castro, his brother, and Che Guevara, when they were successful, this CIA is still basically talking with him, and he makes it very clear he's not going to get bought, and…
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when it was believed that Che Guevara was in Zaire helping the insurgents, because he showed up every time the CIA tries to coup a country, helping the actual freedom fighters while the Americans are the insurgents. At one point, Station Ch…
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That's what you get for your investment in intelligence. Despite the fact that we already have documented evidence that the CIA was embedded in the mountains with the Castro and Che Guevara. Eisenhower's mind influenced by Florida businessm…
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At first, didn't believe him. At that moment, the M26 unit closest to Havana, a column of Santa Clara under Argentine Shea Cavera, was 150 miles away. They still had a lot of fighting to do, but Batista wasn't going to hang around. Shea was…
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He got the news seven hours after Batista fled. Che Guevara immediately ordered a march forward. His force arrived in Havana the next morning. He drove directly to the La Cabana Fortress, whose garrison of 15,000 men dwarfed Che's small M26…
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In the fall of 1959, which is probably why Fidel Castro knew all about what was going on, because he was a lawyer. He was not like this hobo guy that just got pissed off. And Che Guevara was a doctor. They were not uneducated people. They k…
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February 17th, and it became the first one he presented to Eisenhower. Direct action to eliminate Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Dulles met with the president and Gordon Gray. Accompanied by aides, Dulles went armed with schematic drawings o…
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taking Tracy Barnes' suggestion for deliberations of his task force. Goodwin then had an uncanny encounter with Shea Cavera at a Latin American conference in Uruguay that summer, at which Shea had thanked the Kennedy man for the Bay of Pigs…
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Thanks for pushing the Cuban government into the hands of the Russians and consolidating his power by attacking them. No wonder they hate Che Guevara. That's damn, that's bold. That's very bold. Goodwin went on writing, the beauty of such a…
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working out of Albertville, died in a head-on collision with a Congolese army truck. Meanwhile, Che Caveras shows up. Fidel Castro had convinced Che to make Africa a way station on his quest to carry on an independent, non-colonial crusade …
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Fidel promised that he would continue preparations while Che Cavera did his tour. Che traveled through Eastern Europe to Algeria and Tanzania, where he connected with the Simbas. These are the resistant fighters. The Congolese were embarras…
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In classic Congolese style, Laurent Kambila, a Simba leader of the 1960s, would rule the Republic of the Congo, as he renamed it back to its original name, for several years at the end of the century. The agency continued to face off with F…
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expedition, Castro sent another column under Jorge Risque to Congo-Brazilville, the nation on the opposite bank of the Congo River from Mubato's Zaire, and a former French colony. The 250 Cubans under that force had multiple purposes. They …
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The doctors in the unit organized the first vaccination campaign ever carried out in that country. Another aim, continuing in revolutionary solidarity, was to train fighters for groups in Angola, where an independence movement fought Portug…
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had been there for months after leaving the Congo. There, he turned his diaries into a narrative seeking to understand what had gone wrong. He stayed there until early 1966 when a top officer came to give Che Guevara the latest assessment o…
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reading about how in Africa, the CIA was operating over there and kept finding Cubans and Che Guevara helping the indigenous people try to fight back against the CIA operations in countries over there. So that, and again, we're in the late …
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and a fraudulent election to indicate that they now have a quote-unquote democracy. Meanwhile, the CIA is flooding them with millions of dollars. All of this action kept Jerry Drahler very busy. It is fair to say that by this time, the CIA …
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to push back against the CIA and their preferred military dictator. Slow to appreciate the emerging differences between Fidel and Che Guevara, the CIA produced an analysis of economic policy disputes between the two in the fall of 1965, whe…
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caught the flavor of the dispute, but the agency wouldn't accept it. There were other Che Cavera sightings too, resulting in Langley's determination to get him at all costs. But not everyone believed. As late as May 1967, Desmond Fitzgerald…
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in the Dominican Republic. Despite Fitzgerald's observation to Ambassador Douglas Henderson, the CIA's secret war against Che Guevara came to a head in Bolivia. And in 1967, Che had arrived in the country late the preceding year, heavily di…
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Che Guevara chose badly in establishing this identity. Yes, Bolivia featured great poverty. Yes, the country suffered from adverse economic conditions. Its 10 exports, the main cash inflow, were greatly affected by global prices. And yes, t…
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But all that failed to translate into readiness for revolution. Three major weaknesses crippled Che Guevara's efforts. First, in planting his guerrilla band in the countryside, Che Guevara never forged links with dissidents in the cities. S…
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and afraid to engage. Che Guevara's Bolivian diaries repeatedly note peasants were terrified, terrorized, because of what the government was doing to them. Tactical errors abound too. Che Guevara knew much less about the wilderness where he…
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variantos remained ignorant of the threat. Vague rumors floated around the capital of partisans in the jungle. The CIA station under John Tilton perked up among the first to believe the tales of Cuban people being there, including Che Gueva…
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Warnings from Langley, it was hard to convince anybody in the local area. Through the first half of 1967, Che Guevara's small band of about 60 men feared hunger more than Bolivian troops, and their attacks succeeded. Toward the end of March…
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Barrientos called in Ambassador Henderson and handed him a request for U.S. supplies. On April 28th, the Bolivian military signed an agreement with the U.S. mission to permit a special forces mobile training team to train the Bolivian 2nd R…
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When two Bolivian deserted Che Guevara's band of rebels, giving the army details on his unit. And on April 20th, when security services picked up a French journalist, Regis Debray, and an American photographer named George Roth. This incide…
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provided data. So they captured a journalist and a photographer and tortured them for information. CIA officers were present during the torture. A mysterious woman, Tania, T-A-N-I-A, reported as an East German, Russian, and Cuban agent or…
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A revolutionary groupie had originally conveyed Debray to Shea and stayed on the Shea Caveras within their group. Debray, a Frenchman and revolutionary theorist, later wrote at length about Shea Caveras' activities in Bolivia. And something…
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of who betrayed Che Guevara. In the mythology that surrounded these events, Debray, Debray's Bolivian lawyer, Castro, Cuban agents, and Bolivia deserters have all been charged with betrayal, similar to theories that surrounded other events.…
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Meanwhile, the Washington merry-go-round continued. On May 11th, Walt Rostow told LBJ that based on Debray's interrogations, that Shea Cavera could actually be in Bolivia and not dead at all. Quote, as the intelligence community with the pa…
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On May 25th, CIA cables added that Castro could open a new front where the borders of Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil met. Days later, Rostow pitched his note to Johnson as if Che Guevara had actually been in Bolivia, but may have left already. T…
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personally directing Bolivian guerrilla activities and has been physically present with the guerrillas, unquote. But a DIA report stated that Che Guevara had recently been executed in Cuba. As of mid-July, the embassy itself remained uncert…
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A special assistant to Richard Helms records that his chief was another who did not credit the Che Cavera Bolivian thesis. Despite Helms and Fitzgerald's doubts, Bill Breaux ordered some special operations division people sent to the Capito…
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to concentrate on Che Guevara. Tilton, who had been a case officer to two Latin American countries, realized the need to genuflect to Bolivian attitudes about arrogant Americans, and all three members would be Cuban contract agents, i.e. Cu…
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Che Guevara's base camp. There they found photos of Che Guevara in his Bolivian disguise. When examined closely, several features resembled Che Guevara and a couple of smudged fingerprints clenched the case. Captured documents identified ot…
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not just in Bolivia, but in Washington. Desmond Fitzgerald had collapsed playing tennis and died. Tom Karamanis succeeded in leadership to the DO. It fell to him to take the news to Helms. Although Helms still refused to believe it, he coul…
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Another Forrest Gump moment. In early August, Felix Rodriguez and Gustavo Valdado arrived in Bolivia and began their special mission, joined by a third Cuban exile agent. They met with Interior Secretary Antonio Argundas, who gave them cove…
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At the end of the month came a true Bolivian victory. A mountain battle where Che Cavera's band was caught and lost a third of its forces. Rodriguez and a Bolivian officer question Che Cavera's aid. Question meaning tortured and interrogate…
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completed training the Bolivian 2nd Rangers, which took the field in mid-September. After about 10 days, they caught Che Guevara's band near a village. The CIA's Felix Rodriguez joined the Rangers to provide tactical advice. I'm sure that's…
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Once established in the White House, President Kennedy gave substance to the initiative and sent a delegation to the Inter-American Gathering in Uruguay. This same conference became the setting for the confrontation already recounted betwee…
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Revelation of Project Camelot illustrated the problem. A Pentagon social science research effort, Camelot tried to identify factors that could be exploited in counterinsurgency. It triggered instant dispute when first uncovered in Chile. Ev…
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burst into the public in 1972 with leaked ITT documents. Opposition from both Ray Warren and Nathaniel Davis forced Shackley to cancel a planned trip to Santiago. The Cuban DGI had a good station in Chile under Juan Maraditero Ibanez.…
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named Che Calvera, who had come to Guatemala to help. Bolden Arbenz's experience in progressive democracy was amongst those who implored the besieged president to arm the people when Arbenz's army officers began to melt around him under the…
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His dream of national liberation was backed up with guns. Castro and his equally charismatic comrade, Che Cavera, made it clear from the start that they would not share the fate of Arbenz in Guatemala. They would fight fire with fire. Che w…
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and went up against United Fruit and the CIA. Shea would let her write, I am not Christ or a philanthropist. He wrote that in a letter to his mother when basically she was asking what the heck he was doing. I fight for the things I believe …
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To avoid Arben's fate, Castro and Cavera would do everything he had not. Put the hardcore thugs of the old regime up against a wall, run the CIA agents out of the country, purge the armed forces, and mobilize the Cuban people. By militarizi…
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Castro's blood on his hands after all, or Rayol Castro, or Che Guevara. It was the beginning of a long U.S. intelligence campaign to kill the Cuban leader, stretching over several presidencies and involving untold numbers of accomplices, in…
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that the Congo had for the same reason we went in and murdered Patrice Lumumba. And the Cubans were actually fighting for the good guys. And that blew me away. But you find that same thing throughout South America with Che Guevara. All of t…
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he was fighting with the people that were opposing the CIA and the international syndicate taking over their country's time. And again, I'm not saying he's a good guy, but I am saying that the history that we were taught of him and what he …
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That's why when you write these books and you don't understand Operation Gladio, you say stupid things like that. Then his assertion is that because of lack of human intelligence, we didn't see the revolution coming. That's horseshit. Not o…
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and Vietnam. And then he went to work for Klein's again in the late 70s as his representative for Latin American arms sales businesses. He's a Cuban exile. He's a member of Brigade 2506. It was Rodriguez who tracked down Che Guevara in Boli…
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who had been a part of Operation 40 and a member of ZR Rifle, who specialized in commando sabotage and counter guerrilla operations. After his time in Laos, he would go on to hunt down Che Cavera, be involved in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Hond…
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Brian, Kate, repost a lot of my stuff. And he uses a lot of my information in preparing his work because we talk all the time. I mean, we're constantly, as a matter of fact, him and Dwayne came over yesterday because we're going to be gone …
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They were just blown away. They had never heard, because Brian made a comment about how bad Shea Calvera was. And I said, was he really bad? And he's like, well, of course he was. And so I explained to him, not saying he's good, but not say…
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He left Cuba once he realized that Castro wasn't going to follow through on all of the promises that he had made either. And there's a reason why the Felix Rodriguez was standing in the room. And if you listen, if you know anything about th…
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demonstrably just the most horrible thing in the world. I like what you said about Ernesto Guevara because I don't like him. I would have killed him myself. But, you know, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's left. That's why I neve…
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who Felix Rodriguez was. So, of course, when I read this in this book, when I was preparing for this book review, I was like, holy crap. Rodriguez was a young Cuban at the time when Fidel Castro took over in Cuba, was part of the Bay of Pig…
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chief justice officials. And what does it say about the management of the FBI? That during his brief tenure as FBI director, L. Boyden Gray destroyed a CIA file on one of the Watergate burglars, E. Howard Hunt, probably one of the most noto…
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Castro, Raul and Che Guevara all were trained in the mountains by CIA people. When Castro won the revolution in the hotel where he originally set up his soon to be administration on the same floor was his CIA handler.…
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The population got very agitated with Batista and they knew that he was going to get overthrown. So they kind of hedged their bets. They go in and they find a couple of strong leaders, one of which was Castro. And so the CIA actually went i…
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And Che Guevara was a doctor. These were not poor people. They saw what was happening to the normal Cuban under these overlords that these international syndicate people from the United States. And that's not even counting the mafia and the…