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Hillary Clinton is repeating the methodology of the Iran/Contra affair, using “black” funds to finance the operation to ensure President Correa is not re-elected.

I had two excellent sources for the news that the US/UK strategy against Julian Assange was to ensure the defeat of President Correa in Presidential elections next spring, and then have him expelled from the Ecuadorean Embassy. One source was within the UK civil service and one in Washington. Both had direct, personal access to the information I described. Both told me in the knowledge I would publish it.

Of course Assange is not the only reason Clinton wants rid of Correa; but it adds spice and urgency.

We now have completely independent evidence from Chile that this CIA operation exists, from journalists who were investigating a smuggling operation involving 300 kg per month of cocaine, organised by the Chilean army and security services.

The links to US intelligence emerged after an anonymous source from the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia (ANI) told Panoramas News that the smuggling of 300 kilos of cocaine was in fact a highly sensitive CIA/DEA operation that would help to raise money to topple the government of Ecuador. The operation is similar to the one carried out by the Agency in Central America during the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980’s, the source said.

A few days ago I published information I had received that Patricio Mery Bell, the director of the news programme which broke the story, had been lured to a meeting with a young lady “informant” who had worked with CIA-backed anti-Cuban groups in Miami. She had then accused him of sexual assault (does any of that scenario sound familiar?) He was arrested and his materials had been confiscated. However I took the article down after jst a few minutes because I had received the information in emails from sources I did not know previously, and was unsure it could stand up. It does now appear that this is indeed true.

My Washigton informant had told me, as I published, that the funds for the anti-Correa operation were not from the CIA budget but from secret funds controlled by the Pentagon. This could not be done by CIA funds because, perhaps surprisingly, for the CIA to operate in this way is a crime in the United States.

Whether my informant knew or suspected that the “secret Pentagon funds” were drug money I do not know. They did not mention narcotics.

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  • Dreoilin

    @Mary
    Thanks for the confirmation about Michael. It’s always good to know that I wasn’t dreaming. (If it’s something I’ve seen online I have it in my History.)

    Appalling news about the escalation in the use of drones. Is there NOBODY in the world with an authoritative voice who will stand up and challenge the USA on this?? Do other countries stay silent because they will shortly be using these horrors themselves?

    @Ben
    Glenn has a sense of humour alright. Did you not read him when he wrote something like,
    “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family of this drone which was shot at by the Iranians”?

    And this next is from Fox News:

    “Israel considers resumption of Gaza assassinations”
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/13/israel-considers-resumption-gaza-assassinations/

    “Defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential discussions, said the assassination of Hamas leaders is shaping up as the preferred response to the stepped-up rocket fire.”

    + blah blah blah blah, quoting Iraelis, and
    “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told foreign ambassadors during a visit to Ashkelon, a southern city that has been battered by Gaza rockets, that Israel would defend itself.”

    Israel will defend itself. Israel is always only defending itself.

    I like the quote from the Mondoweiss article
    Yousef Munayyer:

    “[I]t is the Israelis and not the Palestinians who, through their capacity to actually inflict high casualties with their projectiles, control escalation in cross border dynamics.”

  • John Goss

    Phil W. False Flag maybe. There are almost as many Israelis as Palestinians in Palestine. And the Israelis have been preparing schoolchildren for months to get used to the idea of staying in bomb-shelters (though I think that was to do with their proposed attack on Iran. It is hard to know what to believe any more, all the incessant lying that goes on.

  • Dreoilin

    “Netanyahu said that Israel is not expected to undertake significant military action in Gaza at this stage, or to renew assassinations of Gaza militants.”

    Thanks Tech. Good to hear that.
    I’ll post it on Twitter. Some people worried about another Cast Lead …

  • technicolour

    Dreoilin, of course they would be. Who knows where the disinfo is coming from? Who knows if the drumbangers for violence and misery, fronted by Fox, will be successful? Sick sick psycho sick…

  • Jay

    Dreolin.

    Are they morons because they read the sun or because they have read the sun?

    I read through the paper of a friends today, and I can tell you it left me feeling somewhat moronic.

  • Habbabkuk

    Yes, it’s been a good day for British justice. I do not, of course, refer to the decision to free Abu Q. (seven years in the nick, no charges ever brought despite the extensive nature of anti-terrorism legislation, freed but subject to wide-ranging restrictive conditions…etc…), but rather to the court decision regarding Margaret Moran (found to have fiddled a few tens of thousands of public money but who will not be found guilty for medical reasons, who will accordingly have no criminal record and who will apparently be treated at home by pyschiatrists).

    Trebles all round!

  • doug scorgie

    I am at a loss here. Margaret Moran was found guilty of massive fraud on the taxpayer by a jury in the crown court; but, despite the damning verdict she will not be punished after a judge ruled she was too depressed to stand trial. But there was a trial; was there not; and a guilty verdict? Can someone explain that to me?

    I can understand that she may be clinically depressed, who wouldn’t be after being caught defrauding the taxpayer of £50,000? I can understand that a custodial sentence may not be appropriate here for a person suffering mental illness.

    But I would argue that the vast majority of welfare benefit cheats are also suffering serious depressive illness but do they get any sympathy from the judiciary? Or do they go to jail?

    Benefit cheats (and I am not defending their behavior) suffer from low esteem through unemployment; depressive illness; drug addiction or alcoholism on top of the stigma of being portrayed in the media as low-life parasites: and that’s before they go to court!

    Was there a sympathetic magistrate or judge during the trials against rioters in Tottenham in 2011? Did any of the people charged with offences during the riots offer, in mitigation, that they were clinical depressives on medication? Were they spared jail?

    If Margaret Moran was suffering from serious depression, at the time of her crimes, then that would be genuine grounds in mitigation of her fraudulent expenses claims. However, it seems that her depression only appeared after she was caught.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Conflict

    Dreoilin,

    ‘Science from Israel – FOR HUMANITY’

    Yasser Arafat was murdered by Polonium 210. A urine stain in his underwear registered a level of 180 millibecquerels of Polonium-210, more than 20 times the dose to kill an average human being. Further tests on Arafat’s remains will confirm the finding.

    The success of a nuclear artillery shells to deliver the calculated yield rather than a ‘fizzle’ is something called a neutron initiator made from Polonium 210 and Beryllium. Israel in producing her own nuclear shells therefore had a requirement to manufacture and test the Alpha emitter, radioactive Polonium.

    After fifty years under wraps, Asia Ramberg and others reported work on Polonium and directed neutrons were carried out at the Weizmann Institute laboratory. He reported traces of polonium 210 were found on the hands of an Israeli physicist , Prof. Dror Sadeh, a leading scientist researching radioactive materials. The Israeli authorities did not admit to a leak and the accident was cloaked in deep secrecy while the lab was hermetically sealed for several months. Sadeh subsequent premature death and the connections to his nuclear work were covered up. Interestingly a month after the lab closed, Yohathan Ramberg, a physics student died of leukemia. A few years later, Prof. Yehuda Wolfson, Sadeh’s direct supervisor, also died, and Prof. Amos de Shalit, the department’s director, died of cancer at age 43.

    The safety of humans has no place in the void that is Israel’s weapons of mass destruction cauldron. Our arms and minds are twisted and peddled by the dark reality of hideous consequences of an Israel threatened, a can of worms too mind-blowing to oppose, yet challenge we must and soon.

  • Chris2

    More about Ecuador, the coming election and the United States (I almost failed the spam test!!)

    by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog
    November 12th, 2012

    Adrian Elcuj Miranda, a judge in Buenos Aires, has ordered the seizure of Chevron’s assets in Argentina, to force the company to pay a $19 billion penalty for polluting the Amazon in Ecuador. The plaintiffs are seeking similar legal action in Brazil, Canada, Colombia and other countries.

    Chevron – a Northern California-based oil and gas company – merged with another company named Texaco in 2001 whose actions are the basis of the lawsuit. Between 1964 and 1992 Texaco admitted to dumping more than 16 billion gallons of toxic “water of formation” into the streams and rivers of the Ecuadorean Amazon that were used by local inhabitants for their drinking water sickening indigenous tribespeople and farmers.

    Some 900 open-air toxic waste pits still dot the area, where approximately 9,000 people are expected to contract cancer unless it is cleaned up, according to a study by Dr. Daniel Rourke, former of the Rand Corporation.

    An initial lawsuit was filed by Ecuador’s indigenous communities in 1993. At the time the company asked for a trial in Ecuador to avoid a U.S. court battle. A second lawsuit was filed in 2003 by Fajardo and Luis Manza on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadoreans.

    In 2011 the Ecuadorean courts ruled against Chevron and ordered the company to pay $18.2 billion in damages, which was increased to $19 billion this past July. Chevron appealed the judgement but the Ecuadorean appellate court ruled against the company on January 3, 2012.

    Chevron is now trying a multitude of ways to defeat the ruling such as appealing the Ecuadorean fine in U.S. courts. “The Ecuador judgment is a product of bribery, fraud, and it is illegitimate … We do not believe that the Ecuador judgment is enforceable in any court that observes the rule of law,” the company said in a statement.

    Unfortunately for the company, U.S. courts have not been very sympathetic so far, presumably since the company argued that it wanted the case to be heard in Ecuador in the first place. Last month the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal to block the Ecuadorean judgement.

    The company has also attempted to have the judgement thrown out by a secret arbitration panel under a provision in the U.S. Ecuador Bi-Lateral Trade. The Permanent Court of Arbitration under the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in the Hague will begin hearings on the dispute later this month.

    Chevron has also filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against the plaintiffs for fraud, which will be heard in October 2013. The company has even created a special website, named “The Amazon Post” to documents its allegations.

  • Kempe

    Problems with the Polonium 210 theory are that even the laboratory that tested Arafat’s clothing agreed that his reported symptoms did not match those of Polonium poisoning. The sample was also taken seven and a half years after he died, Polonium has a radiological half life of 138 days and a biological half life of 30 to 50 days meaning that it would’ve been phenomenally radioactive at the time it was administered. Difficult to handle without specialist equipment and liable to have poisoned anybody else he came into contact with.

    Further tests on the body might resolve the issue but what happened to the AIDS theory?

  • Venceremos

    “Makes me wonder whether the brown stuff is about to hit the spinning blades on their drug operations in South America.”

    My thoughts were slightly different–in fact the opposite. The CIA f****d up during the recent Venezuelan elections. The CIA bosses were furious about it. They resolved to not let it happen again in Ecuador. The budget was tripled funded by drugs etc.

    Could that be reason why all this sexual nonsense has surfaced? That is, Caesar–sorry–Petreaus is being pensioned off because he is incompetent and they want someone who will do the job properly in Ecuador.

  • Habbabkuk

    @ Doug Scourgie : certainly a case of deux poids, deux mesures. Another example is the use of the law against individual Muslims of low standing who post offensive material on the internet and its non-use against (high-standing) hate-spreaders like Melanie Philips.

    Trebles all round!

  • John Goss

    Mark Golding, 13 Nov 1.33 am. I don’t doubt that Israel is being supplied with satellite coordinates from US sources regarding Syrian defence batteries since Israel is bankrolling (a bankrupt) US. And as this blog post shows the CIA is funding the attempted overthrow of President Correa, with dirty drug money, as it did against the Sandanistas in Nicaragua. The United States is both bully and coward (operating drones that kill innocents all over Asia and the Middle East). My big fear is that there might be an assassination attempt on Rafael Correa, as there was on Martin Luther King, as there was on Kennedy. Only when countries stop believing in the dollar will there be any progress. I feel sorry then for ordinary US citizens who will be left to clean up the mess. But, believe me, the collapse of the US empire is coming, and it may not be long. China and Russia are building up their gold reserves and dumping dollars. Herald the day when the rest of the world dumps the false god.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/central-banks-are-acquiring-gold-dumping-us-dollars/22672

  • Komodo

    O/T, sorry –
    Anyone else having trouble submitting comments? Seems to happen with included links, and may have something to do with an undefined variable referring to a Shockwave Flash object.

  • Komodo

    Don’t think Fox fanned any flames, Think he just wanted a piece of the sales action. The SL gov’t, with some prodding from the US had decided on a little bit of ethnic cleansing long before Foxy showed up. However, Bell Pottinger (with whom he was in competition to some extent) was the official Sri Lankan spin/lobbying agency, and definitely intended that world media coverage would be indifferent or favourable. It probably leaned on the UN suits comfortably reclining in Colombo while their field workers agonised about pulling out.

  • Mary

    His partiality was displayed here
    Liam Fox (Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, Defence; Woodspring, Conservative)
    9.28pm http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-11-23d.262.3&s=sri+lanka+speaker%3A10213#g366.1

    …Mike Gapes talked about Sri Lanka. He knows of my long involvement in Sri Lanka. Twelve years ago I negotiated an early part of the peace negotiations there. Victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is something that we should all celebrate. It is also something that many of us did not think possible. There is no doubt that Sri Lanka is at a crossroads. It has a wonderful opportunity to take a new direction. In short, Sri Lanka has to choose whether it wants to be Burma or Singapore. Sri Lanka can take the correct route at this crossroads only by having a one Sri Lanka policy, by having a reconstruction that is ethically based, not ethnically based, and by recognising that every citizen has to be judged by the value that they bring to the new Sri Lanka, not by any previous measurements of where they come from, nor by race or religion. As members of the European Union, we have to be careful not to lecture too much or give too few incentives in a country that is beginning to move very much in the right direction.
    /..

  • Komodo

    It wasn’t displayed in any meaningful attempt to recognise “…. that every citizen has to be judged by the value that they bring to the new Sri Lanka, not by any previous measurements of where they come from, nor by race or religion.”

    Fox is all mouth.

  • Mary

    Letter To The Editor, Camden New Journal

    Dear Sir

    re Blair’s visit to UCL. PROTEST AT GOWER STREET

    Sara Wood and Michael Culver joined the Stop the War and Blair War Crimes Foundation protest at University College London in Gower Street on Tuesday 13th November when UCL invited Blair to headline a “Building an Ethos of Resilience”, [see CNJ 8 November ‘Fury over Blair’s uni event’].

    Some 200 people including Bruce Kent and the student union leader of SOAS protested against a university of such high repute having any dealings with the ex prime Minister who, they said, had lied us into the Iraq War with devastating consequences.

    This rehabilitation of Blair, they claimed, runs contrary to the views of those wishing to uphold the 1947 Geneva Conventions IV and the rule of International Law relating to such things as torture and the use of depleted uranium weapons. UCL, they argued, should bear in mind that Archbishop Desmond Tutu has recently called for Blair to be tried at the Hague, and Leading Attorneys in Kuala Lumpur have recently condemned Blair in absentia as a war criminal.

    Bruce Kent the peace activist spoke of the vital necessity of upholding International Law. Stop the War presented UCL and the Vice Chancellor of London University with a petition signed by 3,000 people. The Blair War Crimes Petition has 8,000 signatures signed by such eminent people as Noam Chomski, John Pilger, Ken Loach and Derek Jacobi and which is at present lodged with The Director of Public Prosecutions for his consideration.

    Yours sincerely,

    Nicholas Wood

  • Rob

    Mr. Murray, Thank you for your courage and honesty in coming forward with this information. You are one of a few in a unique position to have this knowledge as part of the diplomatic community and one of the few willing to speak. I have the utmost respect and immensely enjoyed reading your articles and books over the past few years. Please continue your good work and I hope you prevail in your endeavors.

    I have found a lot of information about the connections between drugs and covert action here:

    FEDS, INFORMANTS FINGER U.S. GOVERNMENT AS DRUG TRAFFICKER
    http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=163286

    Best wishes, Rob Smith

  • Mary

    Komodo You presumably mean sales of weapons and not printed business cards.

    He is not ‘all mouth’. He is in fact very dangerous as Craig has demonstrated.

  • Komodo

    I would reply in detail if this damned comment form worked properly…I’ll try upgrading the browser, but I think there is something in the script it doesn’t like. Developed recently.
    Whatever Fox was doing in SL, Mary, you can be fairly certain is being done by a Government minister right now somewhere else. Like Cameron in the Gulf recently… Foxy’s not exceptional, and he’s not tremendously bright, either.

  • Komodo

    Not tremendously bright:

    “In October 2012, the Commons Speaker blocked the release of data showing which MPs were renting their homes to other MPs for financial gain. However, a study of parliamentary records was published in the Daily Telegraph.[61] The study showed that Liam Fox receives rental income from his London home while simultaneously claiming rental income from the taxpayer to live at another residence.” (Wikipedia -“Liam Fox”)

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