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.
More on Lord Guthrie. A letter to him in 2007 about his comments on the Israeli war in 1967 from Alan Hart who was a TV journalist on ITN. Interesting about Guthrie’s Rothshild connection. That was news.
‘All that and more being so, I was astonished to hear you this morning, on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme shortly after 0835, make (forgive the Americanisation) a colossally wrong statement. You were giving your thoughts on the need, sometimes, for pre-emptive war; and about the events of June 1967 you said ? I quote verbatim – the following:
“I think there are examples of, er, pre-emptive war which are rather good. I think in 1967, though the United Nations condemned Israel, Israel was quite right to actually attack before it was attacked, because if it had been attacked, Israel would have disappeared.”
The truth of the time was that the Arabs were not intending to attack. And Israel’s political and military leaders knew that.’
http://www.alanhart.net/open-letter-to-general-the-lord-guthrie/
Iran shot at but missed a US unmanned drone on 8th November.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said the drone was about 16 miles off the Iranian coast when the Russian-made SU-25 Frog foot warplane intercepted it and opened fire. He said it was the first time an unmanned U.S. aircraft was shot at in international airspace over the Gulf.
It now appears that the drone in question was on a spying mission over Kharg Island which belongs to Iran and is, as it happens, 16 miles off the Iranian coast. The island provides a sea port for the export of oil and extends Iranian territorial claims into the Persian Gulf oil fields. So the US drone was not it seems in international airspace as claimed. See Press TV.
According to you, the USA “cooperated” with drug smugglers to smuggle “mostly humanitarian goods” Michal into Nicaragua. What??? That has to be a joke. The USA actively supported fascist troops (the ‘Contras’ – the dictator, Somoza’s gang) who raped nuns, including American nuns, in Nicaragua and who murdered health staff and civilians on a systemic terrorist basis. It’s incredible, somewhat amusing and most certainly not very convincing that you are attempting to deny the historical record as a means of attempting to discredit the ontological basis for this new evidence.
But if you feel tired (since my arguments am so “tiresome” for you) and simply want to continue to believe in the tooth fairy, manifest destiny and apple pie, then that’s up to you.
This is the beginning of a major potential news scoop.
Goran…? Whatever happened to Goran, one wonders, aloud.
On the day he stood with head bowed at the Cenotaph, he seems to suggesting another Libya MkII. There is even talk of humanitarian aid going in. That was the preliminary to the attack on Libya.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9669129/David-Cameron-surprises-allies-with-suggestion-of-arming-Syrian-rebels.html#
Earlier he was arrogantly offering Assad a safe passage out. How can he be stopped?
His friends in Tel Aviv are up to their old tricks too in the Golan Heights (stolen from Syria remember) having just had some more practice on the Palestinians in Gaza where there are now six fewer souls alive. {http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20288263#}
Lusting for more war. Syria is the current target. Iran is the prize.
Now instead of Goran, attacking Assange, we have Michal, also with a wacky sense of humour, effectively denying (and thus, endorsing) US attacks on Ecuador. Well, we certainly could do with some laughs! Would you like to mount the boards, Michal – music hall, or perhaps vaudeville? This is more like Stan ‘n’ Ollie, than ‘Ollie North’.
According to Michal, the USA worked with – oh, sorry, “cooperated with” drug smugglers to smuggle “mostly humanitarian goods” into Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Wow. Just, wow.
@Mary
The 1967 Moshe Dayan land grab was planned YEARS in advance right from the 1963 murder of JFK by Mossad. In preparation LBJ sent more arms to Israel in 1966 than in the ENTIRE 17 years since the 1948. The USS Liberty incident was in fact a “private” arrangement with POTUS LBJ outside normal US military channels (akin to the Bush/Cheney’s Barksdale), to give cause for invoking the full might of the US.
[Mod/Jon: references to people’s Jewishness as an explanation for their shady behaviour will be edited, as here – several words deleted]
There are now tweets saying that the Mail on Sunday article attacking Messham was written by Johann Hari. WTF?
https://twitter.com/HLSpaghetti/status/267712665965719552
RT News
It seems that British policy has now shifted from trying to support and organize the disparate rebel groups to considering full-blown military action.
“The situation this winter I think may deteriorate and may well provoke calls to intervene in a limited way,” General Richards told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.
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@Mary
Indeed, from Taiwan, the BBC site is peppered with ads.
Here is the one currently adorning the sidebar of the homepage.
http://www.ubs.com/2/e/wmcapabilities/en/wmcapabilities/apac/en/investmentsolutions.html?campID=Display-WMCap2012-APAC-EN-BBC-Homepage-HalfPage-KennedyV2-Flash
Inside pages carry contextual ads from Google. Seems their database knows I am involved in higher ed.
Likewise, the BBC World is relentlessly pro-business.
@Michal
Thank goodness you keep returning to throw the light of reason on this thread. What a public service you are performing. Bravo!
MD
I am afraid you are quite wrong. The CIA works within a framework of “Tasking” by, chiefly, the State Department. It can’t just decide which countries it wants to target willy nilly.
@guest
“The SNP are NOT going to be the change Scotland needs…”
You think Scotland needs change but you think the SNP cannot be the authors of this change? Explain (a) why you think Scotland needs change and (b) who you view as best placed to deliver the change you envisage.
PS: Please don’t quote from The Glasgow Herald. It makes it awfully difficult to take you seriously.
@michal
Keep posting. You have no idea how much you reassure us.
Blimey O’Reilly! Can we all have some? They are laughing in our faces.
Director general pay-off revealed
Former BBC director general George Entwistle will receive one year’s salary, worth £450,000, as part of a pay-off deal, according to the BBC Trust. (BBC website)
£450,000 divided by 54 (days in office) = £8333.33 recurring per day
Not this hunk Suhayl?
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6434/4894a.jpg
🙂
Wonder if the ‘usual suspects’ are still around passing on their vast experience of drug-funded black-ops across the Globe. The ghosts of Allen Dulles, James Angleton, Ted Shackley, Richard Armitage, Oliver North and Admiral Poindexter still walk the corridors of Langley and the Pentagon! Their inheritors, the rabid neo-con warrior class of Perle, Boulton, Feith, Dokheim, Khalizad, Petraeus, Panetta et al., are still using the tried-and-trusted methods first spawned by the 1947 National Security Act, the formation of the OSS and the consequent ‘extra-judicial’ activities of the shiny new CIA. What a wonderful, brave new world they brought us in 1947; of course Michal will be SO proud of their achievements!
Correction to the pay off. Tomorrow’s Torygraph is saying it is £1.3m when his accrued pension is added in.
The skids are under Patten too judging from press comments. After all Entwistle was his chosen one.
Yes, Craig. Sometimes a lower-level advisor (NSC) is given a directive without specific path to the desired goal because the President doesn’t want to know all the ingredients found in his hot dog.
Case in point; Iran/Contra.
“I’m up to my keister with these leaks” RWR
Israel fires into Syria. UK general warns of intervention within months. Syrian opposition forms united front.
Now that Obama is safely back in the White House, the pressure on Syria is again being ratcheted up. Best not to mention what’s going on in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait. It’s the wrong sort of rebellion in these places.
Yes, we can (continue the war on terror as sold to us by a better salesman than George W Bush)
Sorry, I remembered that quote wrong…..He said it in 1983
(Research 1st, then post)
Suhayl Saadi
11 Nov, 2012 – 7:22 pm
It is interesting you keep throwing at me so many materials as if you were a great scholar on the issue, but can’t make sense of this one. Yes, the USA paid 800k to smuggle into Nicaragua mostly humanitarian goods using drug smugglers. See, when you’re running a guerilla, you need to find your way over borders and a way to illegaly distribute goods within the country. Surprisingly, even nun raping murderers and their support base need bandages, medicine, food and the like. I am not making this up, this has been the finding of a senate investigation headed by John Kerry and you can see it for yourself in one of the links that Ben posted earlier on up there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US
Had the CIA been involved in not only selling weapons to Iranians in order to buy money for Contras that were put into anathema by the congress, why exactly should the senate investigation miss the aspect of drugs? The truth is, it didn’t, it was said the Contras did deal drugs. But CIA wasn’t involved in that simply.
And the thing is that the aspect of Contras being pariahs and congress prohibiting funding isn’t present in the case of Ecuador. Go by the Occam’s razor, there’s no need for CIA to be smuggling drugs with Chileans. That’s just nonsense based on a single anonymous source.
@ Vronsky
Well I am not surprised you feel strong reassurance, that is, I take it, one of the reasons why people participate in circlejerks.
Michal;
Ever heard of Chip Tatum?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/TATUM/tatum.html
Today’s incident on the Golan, well spoken Guest, it is exactly as you say, shooting at Syria from Syrian soil, effectively an occupied zone which should be under UN control, not Israel, has been used to add an extras dimension to the already shady conflict that is raging.
These provocations by Netanyahu and Barak are threatening to be the last pieces in the provocation and incitement puzzle.
Was Petreus axed because he was digging into the Benghazi embassy hit? was he gettin’ in the way of another tax siphoning, lucrative war? He is a potential whistle blower, but he’s on a pension and a half and shan’t bother, although most generals write autobiographies when they retire, his would be one to read.
Obama has a small window of opportunity were he can shuffle the pack without much questions being asked of him as then president who just has extended his leadership, but is he in charge?,should he make some wise decisions? curtailing the turkeys wings before he gets too boisterous? and take some of his food away, the bird’s far too fat and about to attack the flock, uncontrollable though.
Netanyahu will blackmail Obama into a war, cause he’s of the same mindset than the industrial military oligarchs operating on wall street. Bring on glacial melt! it would rub out the two most malignant hearts of hydra.
BTW; Chip Tatum disappeared in 1998, and was found on a Panama beachhead in 2007, with no face.
BCCI,,,I forgot about that. They had to launder somewhere.
“– The Iran-contra affair may be only part of a broader and previously undisclosed pattern of illegal activities by intelligence agencies during the tenure of Ronald Reagan and his CIA chief William Casey. Sources close to the unfolding investigation of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International told TIME that U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, maintained secret accounts with the globe-girdling financial empire, which has been accused of laundering billions of dollars in drug money, financing illegal arms deals and engaging in other crimes.
The discovery of the CIA’s dealings with B.C.C.I. raises a deeply disturbing question: Did the agency hijack the foreign policy of the U.S. and in the process involve itself in one of the most audacious criminal enterprises in history?”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,157496,00.html#ixzz2BxNbjyKy
Meantime, Garzon has reiterated that Julian is ready to stand trial in Sweden provided there are guarantees against onward extradition to the US. I was sorry to hear about his health vulnerability.
Hang in there Julian, people go through good and bad periods–its part of the Dance of the Universe. You’ll get through this.
Ben Franklin
11 Nov, 2012 – 10:24 pm
No I haven’t heard of Tatum until now, but let me tell you: if a man can be debunked in a 10 minute google search, it’s pretty disappointing. But also kind of rewarding, because if I can straight out point out that he doesn’t appear on any POW lists despite his claims and that his supposed paperwork is inconsistent with his claims (DD-214 he scanned is complete rubbish due to discrepancies in time served, not to mention it is a 1st July 79 form while he claims to have resigned in 78) it saves up a lot of time. Now on top of that, you yourself here posted that president may not want to be directly involved in sensitive stuff – now how do the papers supposedly signed by George H. W. with an unusual signature giving him complete amnesty look like to you in the light of that?
Here’s where I pulled this from. If you’re interested in the man further, you may confirm this on your own: http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?s=fcaeb543016cbf42d8c4456225f87fe6&p=8202829&postcount=4
I wonder if the anonymous intelligence source working for Chilean secret service that this journalist has apparently contacted is just as trustworthy as mr. Tatum? We can’t know! But boy, Craig Murray devoted an entire post to the ginormous CIA-Chilean joint drug smuggling conspiracy, so it looks like we’re in for fun.
Michal, are you trying to be funny?
You cite some forum post as evidence that you, personally, have ‘debunked Tatum’?
Curious and curioser.
Give me a minute and I will link to a forum posting stating that you are a fool, thereby proving…
There then follows a logical fallacy, i.e., because one person may have been untrustworthy, it follows naturally that another person is likely to be / to have been untrustworthy. Sorry, it doesn’t quite work like that out in the real world.
No kingfelix, it’s not evidence that I personally debunked tatum. The forum post is not an evidence in itself either. I am just listing that for the sake of integrity, to show, on the contrary, that I have not “personally debunked Tatum”.
This is all however irrelevant.
Also pointing out the possibility that if one man is untrustworthy, another man may be untrustworthy, is not a fallacy. It would be if I were to claim it “naturally follows” but I make no such claim. Instead, I point out that it is very well possible and that those who enthusiastically embraced Craig’s post should perhaps reflect on how easy it is to be a fake yet famous “whistleblower”.
How easy it is for an efficiently selective writer to argue that his clients shit don’t stink, in the slightest – and the smell is coming from people like….
Nobel Prize winning activist playwright Harold Pinter testified on the United States relationship with the Contras – where Michal is conviced the CIA where not guilty of accusations of trafficking drugs with the Contras and instead refers to “mostly humanitarian supplys”
Sorry but stop feeding Michal y’all.
Troll fuckwit.
Same tone,semantic thrust as Ken/Larry From St Louis et al.
Dennis Wheatley cried “Mocatta!” in a disproportionate ordering.
Michal-get to fuck,as we say in Glasgow,you bawbag.
Michal,
Fuck off somewhere else where we can’t see through your nonsense,please?
You’re really embarrassing yourself now,hasbara troll.