tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29801077331370750162024-03-13T00:23:52.412+01:00ARUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger788125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-36826299010723693372024-02-16T11:13:00.003+01:002024-02-16T11:13:25.834+01:00 Survival of Icelandic State Depends on Creation of Navy Capable of Force Projection Beyond Country's Territorial Waters<div style="text-align: justify;">The recent years have seen unprecedented shifts in global climate patterns, and with them, significant geopolitical ramifications. Among the nations poised to experience profound consequences, Iceland stands at a critical juncture. As the impacts of climate change escalate, the survival of the Icelandic state is inexorably linked to its ability to adapt and secure its borders. Central to this adaptation is the creation of a navy capable of force projection beyond the country's territorial waters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Iceland, renowned for its breathtaking landscapes and resilient populace, now faces an existential threat that transcends traditional security paradigms. The warming of the planet has unleashed a cascade of environmental catastrophes, and nowhere is this more evident than in the melting Arctic ice caps. As Arctic ice recedes, it opens up new maritime routes and access to previously inaccessible resources, sparking intense competition among global powers. Yet, alongside these opportunities come perilous challenges, chief among them the mass displacement of populations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvq8_sOR2MzMKffjHKEv1VuG8DYIEpG6PjksKcLG20Ad81jhFykhVKMsWM9pKvKb-Oqb2wjsWf3S_cLNxjChO9uuIO1ivlmYHYGgROfCv7X5iR1aXsEJROOhOMapWSJA9Q_JtOiutm0onZLtEAT0dOI9W36qobm7PVT5sWiuIkKMGZHe5Ng0LCAfAimhch/s882/british%20refugees.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="882" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvq8_sOR2MzMKffjHKEv1VuG8DYIEpG6PjksKcLG20Ad81jhFykhVKMsWM9pKvKb-Oqb2wjsWf3S_cLNxjChO9uuIO1ivlmYHYGgROfCv7X5iR1aXsEJROOhOMapWSJA9Q_JtOiutm0onZLtEAT0dOI9W36qobm7PVT5sWiuIkKMGZHe5Ng0LCAfAimhch/s320/british%20refugees.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The United Kingdom and Europe, Iceland's closest neighbors, are not immune to the destabilizing effects of climate change. Rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and agricultural disruptions are already driving waves of climate refugees to seek sanctuary elsewhere. Iceland, with its relatively stable climate and abundant natural resources, is an attractive destination for those fleeing environmental turmoil. However, the influx of refugees, if left unchecked, could strain Iceland's infrastructure, resources, and social cohesion to the breaking point.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To safeguard its sovereignty and maintain stability, Iceland must confront this looming crisis head-on. The establishment of a capable navy, equipped for force projection beyond territorial waters, is paramount. Such a navy would serve multiple crucial functions in the face of climate-induced migration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">First and foremost, a robust naval presence would enable Iceland to secure its maritime borders and regulate the flow of incoming refugees. By patrolling strategic sea lanes and conducting search and rescue operations, Iceland could assert control over its territorial waters and prevent unauthorized entry. Additionally, a capable navy would serve as a deterrent to potential aggressors, signaling Iceland's resolve to defend its territory and interests.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moreover, beyond immediate defense needs, a navy equipped for force projection would afford Iceland newfound strategic leverage on the global stage. As climate change reshapes geopolitical dynamics, maritime power projection is becoming increasingly vital. Iceland, with its strategic location at the nexus of North America and Europe, possesses untapped potential to influence regional security and trade routes. By investing in a capable navy, Iceland could assert itself as a responsible steward of the Arctic and a key player in shaping the future of maritime governance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Critics may argue that Iceland's historical commitment to pacifism and neutrality precludes the need for a military buildup. However, in the face of unprecedented environmental challenges, traditional notions of security must evolve. Climate change knows no borders, and the survival of the Icelandic state demands proactive measures to ensure its resilience in the face of uncertainty. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Iceland's coastline is 75% that of South Korea's, which currently has a navy of 70,000 men. It is not alarmist to presume that the threats that Iceland will face within 50 years will be comparable with threats faced by South Korea today, with enemies looking to invade its waters at any moment. There will be piracy and streams of refugees coming from the UK and mainland Europe. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Icelandic society must begin militarizing in short order, with a strategic initiative to envision the interception of millions of would-be refugees at sea on any given year of the second half of this century, if not sooner. Short of conscripting 1/7th of its population, Iceland will have to look to The French Foreign Legion for inspiration, with at least 50,000 men and women enlisted from abroad with the promise of citizenship. </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The creation of a navy capable of force projection beyond Iceland's territorial waters is not a luxury but a necessity in an era defined by climate change. As the specter of climate-induced migration looms ever larger, Iceland must assert its sovereignty and prepare for the challenges ahead. By investing in maritime defense capabilities, Iceland can safeguard its borders, protect its citizens, and position itself as a responsible steward of the Arctic. The survival of the Icelandic state depends on its ability to adapt to a changing world—and the time to act is now.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-8586058306619712052023-09-17T09:08:00.001+02:002023-09-19T08:45:35.419+02:00Water War I: Dominican Government Masses Troops on Haitian Border as Nationalist Elements Call for Action <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://presidencia.gob.do/sites/default/files/inline-images/Frontera%20permanecer%C3%A1%20cerrada%20por%20el%20tiempo%20que%20sea%20necesario.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="800" height="233" src="https://presidencia.gob.do/sites/default/files/inline-images/Frontera%20permanecer%C3%A1%20cerrada%20por%20el%20tiempo%20que%20sea%20necesario.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">President Abinader announced border is closed. <a href="https://presidencia.gob.do/noticias/presidente-abinader-anuncia-cierre-total-de-la-frontera-con-haiti-desde-este-viernes-las">Pres.RD</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">In the heart of the Caribbean, a dispute between neighboring nations is intensifying, raising concerns of what some experts are now referring to as "Water War I." The Dominican Republic and Haiti, two countries sharing the island of Hispaniola, have found themselves entangled in a bitter conflict over the canalization of the Masacre River. Recent developments underscore the complex nature of international water disputes and the potential far-reaching ramifications.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Dominican government, in a <a href="https://yosper.do/4749-la-carta-2021-claude-desvio-del-rio-masacre">letter sent</a> to President Jovenel Moise shortly before he was assassinated in 2021, made a startling admission: around two decades ago, authorities from both nations allowed for limited canalization along the Masacre River. However, the letter emphasizes that the hydric reality today is "dramatically different." This acknowledgement reveals the dynamic nature of water resources management, particularly in regions susceptible to climate change and increased water demands.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The implications of the canalization project are profound, with both countries at risk of experiencing devastating consequences. The alteration of the river's course threatens to cause flooding on both sides of the island, endangering the safety and livelihoods of countless communities. In the Dominican Republic, entire towns could face water shortages, creating a dire humanitarian crisis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moreover, the environmental toll is a significant concern. The Dominican government argues that the delicate mangrove ecosystem, reliant on the Masacre River's natural flow, could face irrevocable damage. The loss of critical mangroves could disrupt regional biodiversity for a significant part of the island. Haiti's ecosystem has already collapsed, with the country retaining less than 2% of its forests, with <a href="https://www.citizen.org/news/trees-bring-life-the-lesson-of-hispaniola-dominican-republic-v-haiti/">more than half</a> of its topsoil having washed away into the ocean. Meanwhile, the Dominican Republic enjoys more than 40% forest cover.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One unnamed government official within the Abinader administration issued a stark warning, stating that if Haiti proceeds with the canalization and the irrigation of the Maribaroux region, it could lead to a system-wide collapse of many Dominican mangroves. This chilling prediction underscores the potential for ecological catastrophe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The undeniable fact is that the Haitians destroyed the ecosystem on their side of the island, and with the canalization of the Masacre River, they now threaten to destroy the environment on our side of the island. They cross over and chop down endangered trees, setting fires in the middle of the forest to make charcoal, putting our flora and fauna in danger. The closure of the border isn't just about water, that was simply the straw that broke the camel's back," he added. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic -- now closed by land, sea, and air -- has historically been a site of contention between the two nations, and now it finds itself militarized to alarming levels. Last night, Dominican President Luis Abinader delivered an address to the nation, informing the world that he would not back down from the border closure until the Haitian government ceased all work on the canal. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, in private communications with the Dominican government, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry confessed that he would be unable to stop the work, owing largely to the fact that Haiti is now a failed state without an effective enforcement apparatus. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">President Abinader, in his national address, clarified that the Masacre River has its source in the Dominican Republic, with most of its waters flowing inside of Dominican territory, with only a few kilometers crossing over into Haiti. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Considering that the Haitian state is unwilling and unable to stop ongoing construction work on the canal, the Dominican government will likely find itself pressured by nationalist elements to launch a military incursion into Haiti, destroying the canal and potentially establishing a demilitarized zone that extends into what has been Haitian territory for more than 90 years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Haiti has no army, no powerful international backers to come to its aid. President Abinader appears firm in his commitment to keep the border closed, and this means that very soon, hunger in Haiti will increase to levels that could shock the conscience, considering that the country imports almost everything from the Dominican Republic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No one can predict exactly how the tense situation will evolve, but one thing is certain: millions of Haitians will continue suffering as the world watches with indifference. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-78679520081249623732023-08-21T23:05:00.000+02:002023-08-21T23:05:34.378+02:00A Call for Urgency: President Abinader's Inaction on the Haiti-Dominican Fence<div style="text-align: justify;">In the delicate realm of international relations, a nation's leadership is often defined by its ability to tackle challenges head-on and respond with unwavering resolve. The ongoing construction -- or rather, lack thereof -- of a fence along the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, raises serious questions about President Luis Abinader's commitment to regional security and stability. As the project's progress remains sluggish, recent developments such as the evacuation of US State Department personnel from Haiti and the presence of Kenyan observers have only served to underscore the urgency of the matter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At its core, the fence project represents a pledge by President Abinader to address the pressing issues of criminal activity, illegal immigration, and potential conflict arising from the shared border. However, the slow pace of progress on this initiative has caused alarm and prompts critical examination of his dedication to safeguarding the Dominican Republic's national security.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The decision of the US State Department to evacuate its staff from Haiti due to escalating violence sends a chilling message -- a message that demands President Abinader's prompt attention. The violence and instability in the region cannot be ignored, and they emphasize the need for swift action to complete the border fence. The international community's involvement, symbolized by the arrival of Kenyan observers to evaluate potential troop deployment, only adds to the urgency.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More alarming still is the potential for opportunistic actors to exploit the vacuum created by the incomplete fence. The specter of gang leader Cherizier or other such figures leveraging the situation to ignite conflict is a haunting possibility that must be addressed. Failure to respond robustly might inadvertently embolden these actors, with disastrous consequences for both nations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet the repercussions extend far beyond mere national security. The risk of an uncontrolled influx of refugees from Haiti is a looming crisis that cannot be ignored. The combination of Haiti's deteriorating conditions and the lack of a secure border creates a perfect storm that threatens to plunge both nations into an unparalleled refugee crisis -- one that would stretch resources, infrastructure, and social stability to the breaking point.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">President Abinader's leadership is being tested. The stalled progress on the Haiti-Dominican fence speaks volumes about his administration's approach to regional challenges. The recent developments, including the evacuation of US personnel and the presence of international observers, have amplified the urgency to an undeniable level. As we contemplate the potential for opportunistic conflict and an unprecedented refugee crisis, it becomes clear that President Abinader must grasp the gravity of the situation and respond decisively. Completion of the fence is not just a matter of national security; it is a pledge to ensure the stability, security, and well-being of both the Dominican Republic and its troubled neighbor, Haiti.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-91682191471904651672023-08-16T11:31:00.000+02:002023-08-16T11:31:59.920+02:00The Terrifying Convergence: UAPs, Element 120, and Russia's New Manhattan Project<div style="text-align: justify;">Amidst the shadow of geopolitical tensions and the specter of a second nuclear arms race, a new frontier of scientific exploration has emerged—one that hinges on the enigmatic element 120, Unbinilium. Recent disclosures have thrust Russia's ambitions to synthesize this element into the spotlight, potentially leading to the creation of the elusive "Island of Stability." This pursuit not only carries the promise of groundbreaking scientific advancements but also raises questions about its implications for military and technological domains.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The urgency surrounding Unbinilium's synthesis is palpable, with Russia's determined efforts to unravel the mysteries of superheavy elements aiming to usher in a paradigm shift in power dynamics. However, this race extends beyond laboratory confines, manifesting in the skies above. The unveiling of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) by both the United States and, potentially, Russia, has captivated global attention.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These UAPs, which defy conventional explanation, are believed to harness the power of elements from the fabled Island of Stability. Under specific conditions of radiation, one of these elements exhibits anti-gravitational effects, defying the established laws of physics. This revelation opens the door to a new era of scientific potential, prompting a reexamination of our understanding of the cosmos.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP24ePUcVBaq5g8_ZzraHdzZJmn3hwGp-SOBZ9JoIilKWGzZs7p1dmZeK-_2-9CackVzJNtKNheNBmRE9tKTChChC9YIyNZO8EEmp5aJik4dgyQWG6NwiF_naMrOsnjEeEjkcDaMdYXIqAz2niR2q_krtYB5qgspsFu0lnkEUJii7UiHjg7XylmvxORxai/s1356/islandofstability.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="1356" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP24ePUcVBaq5g8_ZzraHdzZJmn3hwGp-SOBZ9JoIilKWGzZs7p1dmZeK-_2-9CackVzJNtKNheNBmRE9tKTChChC9YIyNZO8EEmp5aJik4dgyQWG6NwiF_naMrOsnjEeEjkcDaMdYXIqAz2niR2q_krtYB5qgspsFu0lnkEUJii7UiHjg7XylmvxORxai/w400-h214/islandofstability.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The implications are staggering, encompassing fields from space exploration to national defense. If the United States and potentially Russia were to succeeded in harnessing the power of anti-gravitational propulsion through elements from the Island of Stability, the landscape of transportation and security could undergo a radical transformation. The prospect of vehicles navigating without the constraints of gravity holds the promise of reshaping interplanetary travel and strategic preparedness.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amid these scientific and technological advancements, a more enigmatic narrative emerges. Some within the intelligence community speculate that Russia has used the ongoing conflict in Ukraine as a smokescreen, covertly justifying the initiation of its own Manhattan Project. This clandestine endeavor allegedly focuses on synthesizing elements within the Island of Stability, aiming to seize an edge in the realm of superheavy elements.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Recent events lend credence to this theory. Reports emerge of Wagner Group operatives in Niger, securing valuable Uranium resources, a vital component in the synthesis of these superheavy elements. As Russia embarks on a path that could reshape the balance of global power, the connection between the Ukraine conflict, the quest for Unbinilium, and the accumulation of Uranium becomes increasingly apparent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This 21st-century Manhattan Project holds the potential to reshape the global world order, shifting the center of power to Eurasia. Should Putin succeed in his endeavor, he could very well gain the power to wield an iron fist over the entire world. The convergence of scientific innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and technological advancements could forge a new reality, one where the mastery of Unbinilium and the technology it enables might determine the course of history.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-5663507629167195422022-10-15T18:40:00.000+02:002022-10-15T18:40:16.180+02:00CIA Conducted Biological Weapons Experiments in The New York City Subway as Part of Project MK-NAOMI<div style="text-align: justify;">
Starting in 1952 and allegedly concluding in 1970, the Central Intelligence Agency undertook a highly-secretive project to develop a dart gun which could administer super-secret poisons or biological and biochemical agents, as <a href="http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/CIA%20Assassinations/Item%2009.pdf">reported by the New York Times in 1975</a>.<br />
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Former CIA Director William Colby told the US Congress that the agency's dart gun, or "nondiscernible microbioinoculator," was electrically-powered but fashioned after the Army's Colt semi-automatic pistol. </div>
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Unlike the Army's pistols, however, the CIA's dart gun was not meant to be used openly against combatants on the field of battle, but rather in crowded cities, under the cloak of secrecy, and against non-combatants.</div>
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There are reports that CIA agents involved in Project MK-NAOMI trained in using their dart guns in the New York City subway during rush hour, with commuters remaining completely unaware that an assassin was training in their midst.</div>
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Not only did the CIA use American citizens as shooting targets, the agency flooded the New York City subway with "a harmless stimulant of disease-carrying gas." According to the New York Times, the CIA was stockpiling and using these toxins even as President Richard Nixon ordered against it, showing that the agency considered itself not to be just above the law, but also the White House itself.</div>
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The Times went on to further detail that the CIA bioweapons stockpile developed as part of Project MK-NAOMI included agents which could induce tuberculosis, encephalitis, smallpox, "food poisoning that appeared to be botulism," and a diabolical list of other horrifying killers from the Middle Ages. </div>
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In 2010, United Nations forces were alleged to have accidentally dispersed cholera in Haiti, with <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/17/opinions/omalley-haiti-cholera-un/">CNN and other major news organizations calling</a> on the international body to "take responsibility" for the deadly epidemic ravaging the collapsed state. The United Nations denied involvement and has refused to compensate victims, setting a terrifying precedent for the mass dispersal of biological agents on the American continent.</div>
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Since the 1970s, carrying out experiments on US soil and with US nationals has become more legally problematic, but no such problematic restrictions exists on foreign soil, in a country without a military or stable government. Recent revelations about the weaponization of cholera have stoked suspicion in Dominican radio that the CIA is using the Haitian population as guinea pigs in the same way that the people of New York City were used.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/wikileaks-haiti-aristide-files/">United States was behind the coup</a>
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Aristide, and Washington was so adamant about maintaining a strong
presence in Haiti that it politely requested that the general in charge
of the United Nations peacekeeping force use more bullets to <a href="http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/yearman/cite_soleil.htm">subdue dissidents opposed to the removal of Mr. Aristide</a>.</div>
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The CIA is probably not experimenting with its dart gun anymore, which in the 1970s had an effective kill-range of 100 meters [330ft.] There are reports that the agency has developed a dart rifle capable of nondiscernibly microbioinoculating from exponentially longer distances, and which has been used extensively to kill covertly as part of the War on Terror.</div>
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It's no secret that the United States wanted Aristide out of Haiti, and to squash any popular mass support
movement that could see his return from exile after the 2004 coup that
ousted him from power. After Aristide's departure, the United Nations
sent a special mission to Haiti -<a href="http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/minustah/">- Minustah</a> -- in order to "restore a secure and stable environment." This generally entailed squashing pro-Aristide rebels and protesters in the impoverished Caribbean island-nation's shanty towns.</div>
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The popular uprisings led Washington to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/21/haiti-wikileaks">call</a> for "robust" action, a directive which was not well received by Minustah's Brazilian head, General Urano Teixeira da Mata Bacellar. According to the Haiti Action Committee, "Bacellar had tense meetings with UN and coup regime officials and the rightwing business elite" of Haiti just before his death, who <a href="http://www.haitiaction.net/">pressured</a> him to use UN troops to quash any pro-Aristide sentiment in Haiti.</div>
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General Bacellar, whose predecessor was replaced after voicing <a href="http://acento.com.do/2011/especiales/wikileaks/101-wikileaks-revela-opiniones-de-leonel-sobre-asuntos-haitianos/">concerns</a> about the introduction of US troops and of facing a potential war crimes trial, took over after Minustah had used tanks and artillery to squash a rebellion against the UN occupation. </div>
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The Guardian reported that General Bacellar confronted the civilian head of Minustah, informing him that he was unwilling to deploy troops for the occupation of Cite Soleil -- a destitute, densely-populated enclave in Port-au-Prince, the nation's capital. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/uns-chief-peacekeeper-is-found-dead-in-haiti-hotel-6112275.html">According</a> to The Independent, "the general had insisted that his job was to defend the Haitian constitution, but not to fight crime." </div>
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Then, just one day after Minustah's civilian head announced that UN troops would indeed occupy Cite Soleil, the "happily married man with two children he adored, and a soldier used, in
39 years of service, to pressure far worse than he had seen in his four
months in Haiti" put a gun to his mouth and committed "suicide." No one heard a shot, no casing was found, and General Bacellar was <a href="http://diariodigital.com.do/2006/01/20/interrogantes-y-dudas-sobre-la-muerte-de-bacellar/">apparently</a> in his underwear reading a book.</div>
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Shockingly, however, a classified document released by incarcerated former US Private Chelsea Manning reveals that Leonel Fernandez, the ex-President of the Dominican Republic, in a 75-minute conversation with
State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Patrick Duddy, told the US government that he believed there was a "cover-up of an assassination" in the death of General Bacellar, and that he was "firm" in his belief.</div>
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Though the meeting took place just 5 days after General Barcella's death, Secretary Duddy was firm in insisting that the General's death was a "suicide." At first, the death was classified as a "firearms
accident" by Brazilian army officials, but the verdict was changed to
"suicide" just before the meeting between the Dominican head of state and the American representative. President Fernandez, who had personally met the General, insisted that he thought suicide was unlikely for someone of Barcella's "caliber."</div>
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According to the classified document, Fernandez believed that there was in Haiti operating a "small group" killing Minustah soldiers, and that this secretive group had killed "a Canadian and a
Jordanian, and now the Brazilian General." Fernandez did not specify where he acquired this information, but said he knew of a case in which "a Brazilian Minustah member had killed a
sniper;" a troubling development in a nation where almost no civilian could afford such a weapon. </div>
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Fernandez went on to tell Secretary Duddy that Brazil's at-the-time president, Inacio Lula da Silva, had covered-up the assassination in order to prevent a domestic crisis in Brazil that could dismantle the US mission and squash Lula's aspirations for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. Secretary Duddy then informed President Fernandez that "specific circumstances of the
other assassinations in all likelihood ruled out a conspiracy."</div>
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Nonetheless, President Fernandez told the US government that during a visit to Port-au-Prince, he had acquired actionable intelligence that anti-Aristide rebel, Guy Phillippe, who "had people working
for him inside the National Palace," was actively working against certain foreign interests. During that visit to Port-au-Prince, President Fernandez' entourage was ambushed with machine gun fire, requiring a contingent of Dominican army troops and helicopters aided by Minustah forces to rescue his motorcade. </div>
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At the time, the incident was downplayed in the Dominican media, with there being few reports that Mr. Fernandez was in actual grave danger, but the truth is that situation was "very serious" and Fernandez came within inches of his life. President Fernandez told Secretary Duddy that the snipers who were carrying out assassinations would strike again, and that he had "downplayed" the incident because he feared that whoever had organized the ambush and assassination attempt wanted "chaos" and "the wholesale
persecution of Haitians in the Dominican Republic."</div>
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Pres. Fernandez bluntly told Secretary Duddy that he believed Minustah troops were not "peacekeeping" but rather "state building." Mr. Fernandez and Mr. Duddy ended their conversation by discussing the film <i>The Good Shepherd</i>, which was partly filmed in the Dominican Republic and detailed the creation of the CIA by members of Yale University's Skull & Bones secret society. In that movie, individuals under orders from the CIA throw an Angolan KGB spy who had ensnared the son of the chief of the American spy agency out of a plane, sending her to her death in the middle of a dense jungle. </div>
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In August of 2015, General José Luiz Jaborandy Júnior, the most <a href="http://elnacional.com.do/fallece-el-general-jaborandy-comandante-de-la-mision-de-la-onu-en-haiti/">recent</a> Brazilian head of Minustah, died of "natural causes" onboard a plane leaving Miami. He <a href="http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,morre-general-comandante-da-forca-de-paz-no-haiti,1753564">was</a> 57 years old.</div>
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Source: <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06SANTODOMINGO171_a.html">1 </a>[Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
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A 2005 diplomatic cable sent by US Ambassador Hans Hertell highlights the extent to which the George W. Bush administration was concerned about the government of late President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, going to such lengths as to compile profiles on Dominican citizens involved in the Bolivarian Society of the Dominican Republic, a pro-Chavez group. The cable begins by detailing that although Dominican/Venezuelan relations were cordial and former President Leonel Fernandez praised Chavez in public, Fernandez had confessed to Ambassador Hertell in private that he believed Chavez' politics were "mistaken" and "obsolete," joking to the ambassador that Chavez was "Castro with oil."</div>
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Despite President Fernandez criticizing Chavez in private with the American ambassador, it appears nonetheless that the US government remained concerned. This concern was propagated by conservative Dominicans opposed to Fernandez praising Chavez in public. The cable details that: "Conservative
political contacts warn us privately that Chavez exerts
undesirable influence on President Fernandez and will damage
U.S. interests in the Dominican Republic."</div>
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US scrutiny fell on the Dominican Republic's ambassador to Venezuela, Jose Miguel Mejia Abreu [no relation.] The cable details that Mejia Abreu was "a regular
intermediary with Chavez and the Venezuelan authorities." The use of the word "authorities" may differ from "officials," indicating that there were police matters at stake. There is a large Dominican diaspora in Venezuela, and foreign nationals naturally have the right to ask for consular assistance when arrested in a foreign country. </div>
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Beyond the fact that Ambassador Mejia Abreu interacted regularly with Chavez in matters involving the authorities, the US cable reveals that he had links to United Left, a group which the confidential document claims was defunct and that Ambassador Hertell describes as a "radical movement." Further, the US worried that Mejia Abreu enjoyed extensive contacts in North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, and China. It becomes apparent that US intelligence built a profile of the Ambassador, and the cable doesn't hide the fact that the State Department tried to determine if Mejia Abreu was of the same ideological ilk as Chavez. </div>
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Though the cable does not mention it, Mejia Abreu detailed in a 2013 <a href="http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2013/02/24/267096/miguel-mejia-con-la-izquierda-en-la-derecha">interview</a> with el Listin Diario that he was multiple times arrested in the 70s, spending at one point almost three years in prison, for membership in the MPD -- Dominican Popular Movement -- an at-the-time banned organization which had cells throughout the nation, so-called "clandestine revolutionary commands." If US intelligence was aware of Abreu Mejia's ties to the MPD, then perhaps it naturally led them to ponder if similar groups were still active on the island. And indeed, in his 2013 interview with el Listin Diario, Mr. Mejia Abreu claims that he still remains the president of United Left. </div>
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The President of the Bolivarian Society of the Dominican Republic [BSDR,] retired Army Major General Hector
Lachapelle Diaz, a private Dominican citizen, was mentioned in the US cable. The fact that the US embassy in Santo Domingo is compiling classified cables wherein individuals who have no ties to the US are mentioned, only goes to show the level of surveillance which foreign nationals have to fear when becoming involved in matters that could potentially involve/affect US interests. </div>
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The classified document highlights that although there existed no agreements for information-sharing between the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, the two nations' militaries enjoyed "close
ties at senior levels," with the at-the-time commander of the
Dominican elite military anti-terrorism unit having trained in
Venezuela. This close relationship was compounded by the fact that Venezuela is one of only four countries to post a
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The Dominican attaché to Venezuela, Brigadier General Eufemio
Torres Mejia, was under such close surveillance that US intelligence even knew with whom he socialized; Ambassador Hertell reported that Torres Mejia did "not socialize with other foreign country attachés
in Venezuela, preferring to associate almost exclusively with
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Despite his long military tenure, it is extremely difficult to find a picture of Mr. Torres Mejia. He was recently present at a pledge-of-support rally for Luis Abinader, the main political foe of his former party. Even at the rally, the man knew how to keep a low profile, despite being a guest of honor. </div>
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When it comes to foreign espionage, it is much more difficult for US intelligence services to spy on foreign leaders inside of the US. However, US laws don't apply in foreign countries; thus, a CIA agent -- who is constrained by US law from operating on US soil -- can simply follow around a senior citizen exercising democracy in his country, as is the case with Mr. Lachapelle Diaz. More worryingly, it becomes apparent that private citizens, having private conversation in settings which they believe are private, can be subjected not only to tracking on the part of the US, but that those conversations can be transcribed for posterity by the might of the US Department of State. </div>
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More worryingly, the Dominican Republic is a friendly nation to the United States, for US intelligence to spy on the social activities of Dominican military officials in their foreign capacities denotes a lack of trust that may in the end simply build more anti-Americanism than it does American goodwill.<br />
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Source: <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05SANTODOMINGO2209_a.html">Wikileaks</a> [Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
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On the 25th of December, 2008, The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/world/africa/26guinea.html">reported</a> that people in Conakry -- the capital of the West African nation of Guinea -- were "resuming their lives, playing soccer, going shopping." Just days earlier, Lansana Conté, Guinea's long-time strongman, had died from "an illness and with no publicly announced succession plans." </div>
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Soon after Conté's death, a group of junior officers swept into the scene and consolidated power into the hands of one Captain Camara. Though the coup was condemned internationally and by senior officers, the Times reported that most of the senior military personnel "seemed to have either capitulated or gone underground." From the way the Times detailed the situation, people were happy with the coup and the junior officers had previously been ferocious; thus the senior officers were afraid of them and the citizenry. </div>
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However, a classified document sent by Guinea's chargé d’affaires, Elizabeth Raspolic, to the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, detailed in September, nearly three month's before President Conté's death, that junior officers had a detailed plan in place to execute a military coup d'etat. The secret document goes on to detail that a core group of junior officers met with the US defense attaché, informing the US government of plans to "orchestrate" a coup in the "coming weeks," with the US thus becoming an accessory, supporting them by not informing their host government. </div>
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Though Captain Camara [rank mentioned as equivalent to major in Pentagon documents] did not attend the meeting with the US defense attaché, Raspolic details that he had intentions to do so, but was unable to because he was kept under constant surveillance by Guinean intelligence. </div>
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The information provided by the coup plotters to the US government was quite extensive, even their plans to close off the airport and prevent the son of President Conté, described as a major drug trafficker in the document, from resisting the assault. When the junior officers, called the 19th Promotion in other classified documents, met with the US defense attaché on the 26th of September, they still had not decided President Conté's fate. They were "divided" on whether to "ask" him to resign. </div>
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Most shockingly, the classified documents detail that the US Embassy in Conakry was kept appraised of multiple failed coups beforehand, and even of attempts by the 19th Promotion to influence members of the Red Berets, the President's security guard; men who could easily poison Conté. </div>
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On the 20th of October, embassy officials met with Thierno Balde, a youth leader who told the US that it was possible the coup plotters would wait until President Conté "dies" before "stepping in." By the end of October, the US Embassy began seeing a surge in applications for urgent-travel visas by a large number of senior military officers. Apparently the French Embassy in Conakry is kept under a certain measure of surveillance, with a contact telling the US that other senior officers were also going there to apply for visas. </div>
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In November there was silence, and then in December, just before President Conté's death, Thierno Balde told the US Embassy that he would organize a grass-roots movement, instead of trying to arrange a coup. Fortunately for Thierno Balde, the 19th Promotion, and their contacts in the Red Berets, the President mysteriously died and the coup was able to be swiftly executed without the need for a mass social uprising. </div>
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Camara would go on to rule for less than a year, with his <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-guinea-politics-idUSKBN0NW1UP20150511">legacy</a> tarnished by a massacre of more than 150 people in the capital, Conakry. Shortly after the massacre, Camara was shot in the head by his aide-de-camp, cutting short what was likely to be a long period of authoritarian rule not much different from his predecessor. Captain Camara survived the shooting that killed his bodyguard and driver, but had to go into exile for medical treatment.<br />
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Guinea, one of the world's top <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/guinea-bauxite-idUSL5N0YK4R020150529">producers</a> of bauxite, continued exporting the mineral after the coup and after Camara fled, stunting any real opposition in the international community to the political instability in the country. </div>
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Source: Wikileaks;<a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CONAKRY568_a.html"> 1</a>, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CONAKRY588_a.html">2</a>, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CONAKRY642_a.html">3</a>, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CONAKRY620_a.html">4</a>, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CONAKRY648_a.html">5, </a><a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CONAKRY739_a.html">6</a> [Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
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A series of documents leaked by former US Army Private Chelsea Manning has shed some light on the secretive Bureau of International Information Programs [IIP,] which is responsible for engaging foreign individuals in private conversation with the goal of <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/iip/">advancing</a> "U.S. policy priorities and goals." Further, the IIP is responsible for hosting "American Spaces," which are essentially foreign bases used in America's propaganda war against the world.</div>
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The IIP emerged out of the restructuring which eliminated the United States Information Agency, which itself arose after President Eisenhower <a href="http://publish.ucc.ie/boolean/2011/00/Fitzgibbon/14/en">said</a>: "Audiences would be more receptive to the American message if they were kept from
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Today there are <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/iip/amerspaces/">over</a> 700 "spaces" in nearly 170 countries around the world. According to the State Department's website, these "American Spaces" are generally located outside of cities, in places where most individuals are likely to harbor anti-US sentiment, and where US embassy officials can engage local residents.</div>
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It's unclear exactly where each "American Space" is located on the map, as is the case with US military bases -- no one <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/01/10/pentagon_military_bases_abroad/">knows</a> exactly how many there are, much less where they are all located -- but one thing is certain from US diplomatic cables: Nigeria is a hotspot of IIP activity.</div>
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A secure document sent by the US Embassy in Nigeria shortly after the attacks of September the 11th show that the United States was extremely concerned about the rise of conspiracy theories in the Nigerian Media alleging that Israel was responsible for the attacks which initiated America's War on Terror. Shortly after the attacks which destroyed the Twin Towers and damaged the Pentagon, Nigeria's Weekly Trust reported that: "4000 Israelis, tipped off by the Israeli
government, stayed away from work on September 11."</div>
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More worryingly for the US Embassy in Nigeria, the Weekly Trust had become the first <a href="http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/">paper</a> to deliver an "outright
expression of support for Bin Laden." At the time, the Trust wrote: "While we sympathize
with all nations and families that lost their members in
the WTC attack and hope that actual truth behind it will
one day be discovered, we have chosen today to side with
the Taliban and pray for the safety of Bin Laden or his
martyrdom. America has accused them unjustifiably" </div>
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Former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Howard Jeter, wrote that the United States needed to confront such allegations in the media, and recommended that: "We may need to consider how IIP can counter this
kind of disinformation." Nigerian papers tend to reflect the opinions of elites who speak English and, accordingly, this represented tremendous risk for the US when it came to its influence in the country, especially considering the fear at-the-time that oil supplies could be disrupted as part of a post-9/11 jihadi attack plot.</div>
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Five weeks after Ambassador Jeter sent his suggestion to Washington that the IIP counter 9/11 conspiracy theories, President George W. Bush delivered a speech, <a href="http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/56/statements/011110usaE.htm">proclaiming</a>: "Let us never tolerate outrageous
conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September 11th -- malicious
lies that attempt to shift blame away from the terrorists themselves, away
from the guilty." It was apparent that Ambassador Jeter's cable had been delivered and read with great concern.</div>
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Diplomatic cables sent before the invasion of Iraq make it apparent that articles in a country's local media were to be reported to the IIP if they promoted conspiracies which could affect the US invasion. A January, 2003 cable sent to the IIP from the United Arab Emirates reported on an article by Naeem Qadah in the <a href="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/">newspaper</a> Al Khaleej which was highly critical of the Middle East <a href="http://mepi.state.gov/about-faq.html">Partnership</a> Initiative, alleging that it was a "conspiracy to achieve Zionist ambitions." </div>
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By 2004, the IIP had begun to broaden its operations, with a cable sent from Nigeria relaying that "American Muslims
are effective speakers, and moderate Islamic
voices [are] necessary to counter extremists' views and
the anti-US government, anti-West conspiracy theories common
in the north. With the growth of the Internet
among journalists and easier access to wire
services, traditional US government products such as
Washington File stories are difficult to place as
the same information can be easily obtained from a
non-partisan news source."</div>
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This essentially meant that it was becoming harder to plant partisan information in the media. In February of the same year, the English-language Al-Hurra satellite channel <a href="http://www.al-bab.com/media/alhurra.htm">launched</a>, with President Bush <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/transcripts/bushtext_012004.html">proclaiming</a> in a speech: "To cut through the barriers of hateful propaganda, the Voice of America
and other broadcast services are expanding their programming in Arabic
and Persian. And soon, a new television service will begin providing
reliable news and information across the region." </div>
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Nonetheless, the launch of Al-Hurra still meant that the US needed to closely monitor the media for anti-American conspiracies. In July of 2004, the Kuwait Embassy sent the IIP a cable reporting on an article titled "<i>Locate the Beneficiary</i>" in which the columnist wrote: "America's failure in nation-building is
a success for Israel and a massive let-down for Iraq. Sabotaging
Iraq's march toward stability is Israel's doing."</div>
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In January, 2005, the Bangladesh Embassy sent the IIP a cable reporting on a columnist who'd written: "Occupiers have been trying to incite a civil war in Iraq.
Iraq's future will plunge into serious uncertainty if their
attempts succeed." Two months later, the Bengali mission sent the IIP another cable, relaying information on a columnist who opined: "[Bush] occupied Afghanistan and Iraq on
false pretexts. The United States is now mad to exert its
control over the entire Middle East. It is the Americans'
most important condition to retain its supremacy as the
number one imperialist country."</div>
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In June, 2005, the IIP received a cable from the United Arab Emirates, where a columnist wrote that there existed a conspiracy to desecrate the Koran in Guantanamo and that: "The US should also close Guantamamo and release all of the detainees, or try them before a fair court should they be guilty." </div>
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In March, 2006, a writer in the United Arab Emirates was reported to the IIP for criticizing US interference in Iraq's worsening sectarian violence: "The American Secretary of Defense unintentionally disclosed the
occupation's lie through his latest statement, when he said that
his forces would not interfere were a civil war to be waged, and
that the mission of putting out the flames of civil war would
fall on the shoulders of the Iraqi forces, while he knows very
well that these forces need more training, especially in the area
of dealing with civil wars."</div>
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In July of that year, another writer's name in the UAE was sent to the IIP for writing in response to a US <a href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2006/sc8775.doc.htm">veto</a> on behalf of Israel: "What happened yesterday in the UN Security Council demonstrates
America's efforts to ensure international impotence. Israeli
aggression is quite clear to the international community, but no
action was able to come forth to deter conflict or even condemn
Israel." </div>
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Another cable sent to the IIP a week later from the UAE and in response to the same veto castigated a writer for opining: "The current situation has revealed not only American reluctance
to deter Israeli aggression, but a full-fledged conspiracy... This gives the
slaughterer [Israeli PM] Olmert and his army a strong signal that they may
continue their aggression without fearing any repercussions."</div>
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On the 5th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, the US
Embassy in Oman sent a cable reporting: "Columnists in government-owned
'Oman' suggested that 9/11 was an
Israeli conspiracy and that the post-9/11 U.S. 'adventure' has made
the world less secure." </div>
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In March of 2007, a cable sent from Oman -- specifying even that the newspaper had a circulation of 42,000 -- forwarded the IIP an editorial which claimed: "We have repeatedly mentioned that Israel doesn't want peace, nor is
it seeking help to achieve peace. The very existence of the Israeli
government is based on the continuation and escalation of tension in
the Middle East, so it can continue to pretend to be a weak country
which needs support and help. They need to financially blackmail
other countries to survive... The Palestinians are facing a
great conspiracy against their cause." </div>
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In May of 2007, the IIP heard from the UAE Embassy: "While Cheney speaks of the liberation of fifty million
people from dictatorship, he does not mention the four million Iraqi
refugees, tens of thousands dead, hundreds of thousands wounded and
disabled and the Iraqi widows and orphans... He sees with one eye
only and therein lies the American catastrophe, stupidity or
conspiracy." </div>
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In October of 2008, the Pakistan mission relayed to the IIP: "Pashtun soil was being destabilized under a conspiracy. 'U.S.
wants to occupy the natural resources of the region and using Osama
bin Laden and Al Qaeda as tools to justify its presence in the
area." </div>
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In January, 2009, a writer's name in Pakistan was passed along to the IIP for writing: "Pakistan urgently needs to replace the 'U.S.-slave'
leadership with honest and patriotic people in order to survive the
internal strife and external conspiracies threatening its very
existence."</div>
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In May, 2009, a writer in Oman was reported to the IIP for writing in his weekly column: "Israel is the Main
Culprit Behind Piracy."</div>
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In August of 2009, the IIP got wind of an opinion <a href="http://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,a-teimosia-de-lula,415791">column</a> about US plans to establish a military base in Colombia: "President Lula was not convinced that Alvaro
Uribe and Barack Obama are not colluding in a conspiracy to
militarily conquer South America, starting with Venezuela. After
two hours of conversations with Uribe, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim
reported that President Lula was still fearful that U.S. troops may
take actions outside the Colombian territory." </div>
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And so it goes, writers around the world have to pen their words with the knowledge that US embassies are keeping close tabs on newspapers. What's striking about most of the hundreds of diplomatic cables that Abreu Report analyzed for this story is that oftentimes, people who were making very articulate comments in defense of the US were also mentioned to the IIP. </div>
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The IIP is targeting anyone who has a high media profile in their respective countries, or who has the intellectual and technological knowledge to start a website exposing US abuses. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogs.state.gov/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/contributed_images/2012_1003_techcamp_kyiv.jpg">Advancing US Policy in Ukraine</a></td></tr>
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Today, the IIP hosts multi-day, interactive workshops known as "Techcamps." From the look of Techcamps' website, which even has a Wiki section, one would barely be able to <a href="http://techcampglobal.org/clean-up-albania-techcamp-tirana-tackles-environmental-issues/">guess</a> its parent group's true intentions.</div>
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Sources: <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/01ABUJA2520_a.html">1</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03ABUDHABI112_a.html">2</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03SANAA1313_a.html">3</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04KUWAIT89_a.html">4</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04ABUJA680_a.html">5</a>,<a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04KUWAIT791_a.html"> 6</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05MUSCAT490_a.html">7</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06MUSCAT1345_a.html">8</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04KUWAIT2075_a.html">9</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05DHAKA366_a.html">10</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05DHAKA1175_a.html">11</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05ABUDHABI2574_a.html">12</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06ABUDHABI1001_a.html">13</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06ABUDHABI2997_a.html">14</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07MUSCAT286_a.html">15</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07ABUDHABI843_a.html">16</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08ISLAMABAD3231_a.html">17</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09ISLAMABAD161_a.html">18</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09MUSCAT397_a.html">19</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09SAOPAULO489_a.html">20</a> [Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
documents' classified status or automatically result in declassification
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pres. <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Ferdinand_Marcos_at_the_White_House.jpg" target="_blank">Marcos</a></td></tr>
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On Saturday, the 26th of November, 1972, the Milwaukee Journal <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19721125&id=1VwaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pSgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7405,2890985&hl=nl" target="_blank">reported </a>that a US citizen and former Vietnam veteran by the name of Edward Lehman had been apprehended for being the alleged trigger man in a "rightist conspiracy" against the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. The Journal reported that Lehman was "one of several Americans involved in the attempt to kill Marcos," with Lawrence Tractman implicated as a Hong Kong contact.</div>
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The Chicago Tribune, however, would go on to <a href="http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1972/12/16/page/52/article/tennessean-held-in-marcos-plot" target="_blank">report</a> on the 16th of December that the alleged shooter's real name was in fact August McCormick Lehman, a native of Tennessee. Further, Lawrence Tractman was identified by the Chicago Tribune as Lawrence Truckman of California.</div>
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On February, 1977 the Washington Post identified Lawrence Truckman as Lorry Tractman, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/02/11/american-sentenced-in-marcos-plot/e48950ab-957f-43c9-bfce-a7773710f1df/" target="_blank">detailed</a> that August McCormick Lehman had been sentenced to 6 years hard labor for the assassination plot, but that his treatment had been:</div>
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<i>"Unusual for a person accused of so serious a crime... allowed to marry the
daughter of an officer in Marcos' personal security forces. The wedding
was held at the presidential palace, Marcos' security chief gave the
bride away and the president himself congratulated the groom. Lehman and
his wife and baby have been living in a detention house in the
officers' section of one of Manila's military camps."</i></div>
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The next year, in 1978, the Washington Post would <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/09/22/the-philippines-imelda-marcos-awaits-the-call-to-power/6d91868e-2a86-4e4b-8df8-7d70c8a7bb5d/" target="_blank">detail</a> that Mr. Lehman had been pardoned, and that he had "expressed his loyalty to Marcos and has been set up in Manila export
business by Marcos' intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Fabian Ver." General Ver was the type of character whose own son <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/02/24/14/son-asked-general-ver-dad-did-you-kill-ninoy-0" target="_blank">suspected</a> he had killed Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr. due to his opposition to President Marcos' martial law decree. </div>
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On the 21st of September, 1972 President Marcos declared martial law and assumed emergency powers. <a href="http://www.gov.ph/featured/declaration-of-martial-law/" target="_blank">According</a> to the Philippines Official Gazette:</div>
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<i>"A week before the actual declaration of Martial Law, a number of people
had already received information that Marcos had drawn up a plan to
completely take over the government and gain absolute rule. Senator
Benigno S. Aquino Jr., during a September 13, 1972 privilege speech,
exposed what was known as “Oplan Sagittarius.” The Senator said he had
received a top-secret military plan given by Marcos himself to place
Metro Manila and outlying areas under the control of the Philippine
Constabulary as a prelude to Martial Law. Marcos was going to use a
series of bombings in Metro Manila, including the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing, as a justification for his takeover and subsequent authoritarian rule."</i></div>
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Senator Benigno Jr. was, naturally, arrested after delivering his speech and would later be assassinated in the 1980s after returning from exile. It thus behooves the mind that a brutal dictator not afraid to murder important political figures somehow decided to express sympathy for one Mr. Lehman. Who was that mystery American, and how was he able to
rehabilitate himself after attempting to assassinate a power-hungry,
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Leaked diplomatic cables from the Henry Kissinger State Department show that US Embassy officials in Manila believed that a military tribunal would have "undoubtedly little difficulty in finding Mr. Lehman guilty of conspiracy to assassinate [Marcos,]" suggesting that it was in his best interest not to press for an "early trial or release." [1]</div>
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When US Embassy officials met with General Ver in April of 1973, they worried that they had not had contact with Mr. Lehman in months, but the General told them that "failure to arrange a meeting with consul on one occasion might have been because Lehman had not wished any visitors." [2] Embassy officials would later go on to describe General Ver as "figuratively" holding the key to Lehman's cell door. [6]</div>
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The story takes an interesting turn when the month after, in May of 1973, the State Department sends a cable to the Manila Embassy asking for "reports on routine visits" with Lehman. The cable itself admits it is unusual to ask for reports on routine visits, but that there was "interest" in the case due to "special facts." [3]</div>
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Two months later, in July of 1973, the State Department sent a cable to Manila concerning Mr. Lehman, but it has been sealed under Executive Order and was not leaked along with the rest of the Kissinger cache. [4] The month after, the embassy learned that Mr. Lehman had been charged with "conspiracy," something which baffled US officials because there was no conspiracy statute in Philippine law. [5] Nonetheless, the charges seemed to not bother Mr. Lehman, and he would later go on to refuse hiring counsel. [7]</div>
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A subsequent cable, from November of 1973, informs the US Embassy in Manila that there was no basis in US law to revoke Mr. Lehman's passport and force his return to the United States. This indicates that officials in Manila wanted to forced Mr. Lehman to return to the US should he be released. [8]</div>
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By December of the same year, embassy officials visiting Mr. Lehman seemed to indicate that he would soon be freed, but by January had lost hope and felt resigned to staying in prison for a long time. [9] [10] There was no explanation given for the change in attitude, but cables sent in May, July, August, and September of 1974 indicate that something was going on at very high levels; the cables are sealed under Executive Order. [11] [12] [13] [14]</div>
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A second cable from September begins to shed light on the fact that the US government was hiding information from Mr. Lehman and his family; President Marcos met a US delegation and told them that he needed Mr. Lehman's confession to put pressure on the families of two other co-conspirators. [15]</div>
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According to a cable sent in December of 1974 by none other than Henry Kissinger himself, there was extreme "congressional interest" in the Lehman case. [16] Subsequent cables after Kissinger's message are sealed under Executive order. [17] [18] [19] [20]</div>
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After Kissinger's intervention, it becomes apparent that President Marcos was persuaded to allow US officials to talk to Mr. Lehman without the presence of Philippine guards in the visitation room. At that point, Mr. Lehman began singing like the conspiratorial canary:</div>
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<i>"In explaining his role in plot to assassinate President Marcos, Lehman told de Joya [lawyer] that he came to Philippines on June 20, 1972 to assist Larry Tractman in a scheme to extract money from former Senator Sergio Osmena Jr. He said that at no time was there any intention on his part of killing President Marcos, but that his job was to pass as a firearms expert, an area in which he claims to have no expertise. Following his arrival in Philippines he claimed to have worked on several weapons which were given to him, damaging them so they would become unusable. Although he admitted fashioning a silencer for a rifle and being flown to Osmena's ranch in Cebu [island] to test it, he informed De Joya that it was ineffective. In Lehman's discussion of his relationship with Larry Tractman, he expressed his opinion that Tractman was also being paid by President Marcos to arrange Osmena's alleged assassination plans to fail."</i> [21]</div>
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Upon telling his side of the story to Mr. De Joya and the embassy official, Mr. Lehman decided not to retain the services of Mr. De Joya because the price was too exorbitant, firing him on the spot. As soon as Mr. De Joya left the room, Mr. Lehman told the embassy official that: "De Joya had been sent by Osmena or Marcos' followers to gather additional information."</div>
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This means that the story the former Vietnam veteran told about not being a weapons expert but still having enough knowledge to prevent the armaments from functioning was a complete fabrication, something to throw De Joya off.</div>
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By May of 1975, Mr. Lehman was ready to act as state witness in exchange for a reduced sentence. During a brief court recess, he told US Embassy officials that he could "blow up" the entire government case, and feared that they "might try to kill him" in order to prevent this. [22]</div>
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When the first hearing was held, Mr. Lehman testified that he and Larry Tractman had procured a Winchester .270 rifle, and that a third American -- Pincus -- had been hired because of his mafia connections in New York. Mr. Lehman stuck to the story he had told his previous lawyer, De Joya, about not knowing of the plot to kill Marcos before landing in the Philippines, that he could not reveal the plot because a conspirator was a relative of former vice-President Lopez and that this would guarantee his death if he revealed the plot to President Marcos. [23]</div>
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The case against Lehman began to unravel at the next hearing, with former Manila Mayoral candidate Eduardo Figueras testifying that Senator Sergio Osmena Jr. and Larry Tractman were the brains behind the operation. Figueras told the court that when he and Tractman traveled to New York, they met with Sam Cummins, a US arms dealer, who convinced them to use the explosive chemical astropac during a state visit by Indonesian President Suharto, but when the explosive failed, they imported Mr. Lehman, described by Figueras as a "gunman." [24]</div>
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By June of 1975, the case against Lehman took an even worse turn, and the charges against him were elevated from "conspiracy to assassinate the president" to "rebellion." On the 9th of June, Lehman phoned the embassy twice, and told them he had seen an affidavit wherein a Philippine intelligence operative serving as witness for the state names Ambassador Henry Byroade and then-defense attache Colonel Alfred Patterson as being involved in the plot against Pres. Marco. [25]</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/henry-a-byroade/" target="_blank">Ambassadorial hitman?</a></td></tr>
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After Mr. Lehman spoke on the phone about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/03/obituaries/henry-byroade-80-ambassador-to-egypt-and-5-other-countries.html" target="_blank">Ambassador</a> Byroade and <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19690521&id=KlRPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PyQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6704,3975580&hl=nl" target="_blank">Colonel</a> Patterson, his fortune improved dramatically and astronomically. Two months later, in August of 1975, Mr. Lehman had redeemed himself, and he was getting married, in a wedding attended by General Ver. They had decided to allow him to establish a corporation to "procure automotive and equipment spare parts from the US for the Philippine government," with General Ver becoming by Philippine custom his "compadre." [26]</div>
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Ambassador Byroade, a Brigadier General by age 32, was intimately involved in the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh, the liberal Iranian leader whose fall followed decades of the US-backed dictatorship that fed the rise of the Islamic Republic. In a 1956 telegram sent to London, Amb. Byroade <a href="http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/henry-a-byroade/" target="_blank">wrote</a> regarding Mossadegh's plans to nationalize Anglo-American oil companies in Iran: "What we were trying to do really is to set up a big cartel which is contrary to American domestic economic policies, but that's what we thought the foreign affairs of the United States required."</div>
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Ambassador Byroade was on a "skiing trip" in Iran shortly before the US-installed Shah fell and the Ayatollah Khomeini rose to power with his Islamic Revolution. </div>
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The Manila embassy had a couple of more meetings with Mr. Lehman after he sang on Ambassador Byroade over the phone, in 1977 and 1978, but the diplomatic cables from those two meetings are shrouded in so much secrecy that not even their original classification is made available, only the fact that they were sent. [27] [28] After those meetings, Lehman became a ghost. </div>
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Sources: <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973MANILA04283_b.html" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973MANILA04657_b.html" target="_blank">2</a>,<a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE093592_b.html" target="_blank"> 3</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE139882_b.html" target="_blank">4</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE160312_b.html" target="_blank">5</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973MANILA09376_b.html" target="_blank">6</a>,<a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973MANILA10541_b.html" target="_blank"> 7</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE225017_b.html" target="_blank">8</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973MANILA13447_b.html" target="_blank">9</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MANILA01105_b.html" target="_blank">10</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MANILA05736_b.html" target="_blank">11</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MANILA07767_b.html" target="_blank">12</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MANILA10202_b.html" target="_blank">13</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MANILA+A-284_b.html" target="_blank">14</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MANILA10986_b.html" target="_blank">15</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE265790_b.html" target="_blank">16</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE272861_b.html" target="_blank">17</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MANILA14738_b.html" target="_blank">18</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974MANILA14860_b.html" target="_blank">19</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE278355_b.html" target="_blank">20</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975MANILA00459_b.html" target="_blank">21</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975MANILA06323_b.html" target="_blank">22</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975MANILA07227_b.html" target="_blank">23</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975MANILA07456_b.html" target="_blank">24</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975MANILA07959_b.html" target="_blank">25</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE205026_b.html" target="_blank">26</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977MANILA01661_c.html" target="_blank">27</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978MANILA02303_d.html" target="_blank">28</a> [Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
documents' classified status or automatically result in declassification
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On the 24th of December, 2009, Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez, a former lieutenant colonel in the Dominican National Police, was killed gangland-style in an upscale neighborhood of Santo Domingo, the Caribbean nation's capital.</div>
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Gonzalez' murder scandalized the nation, especially because two colonels attached to the DNCD, the Dominican Republic's drug control agency, were subsequently arrested in connection to the murder. This led to wanton suspicion in the Dominican media that Dominican security services had been infiltrated at the highest levels by elements with connections to international drug cartels; suspicions which cables leaked by former US Army Private Chelsea Manning detail to have been shared by the United States.</div>
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A cable sent from the US Embassy in Santo Domingo to Washington in February of 2005 records a conversation between the US Ambassador and at-the-time President Leonel Fernandez in which the Ambassador told Pres. Fernandez that the US had concerns about General Manuel de Jesus Florentino y Florentino, the head of the DNI, the Dominican Republic's intelligence directorate. [1]</div>
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According to the February, 2005 cable, the United States suspected that General Florentino had links to Captain
Quirino Paulino Castillo, who had previously been charged with mass drug trafficking.</div>
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General Florentino's connections to the Dominican President
were deep, as he had previously been head of Pres. Fernandez' security
detail. Though Pres. Fernandez defended General Florentino, saying he
had known him to be a law-abiding citizen, he agreed to the US Embassy's
request to have him replaced, asking for input in selecting the next
head of the country's intelligence agency.</div>
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In that same February diplomatic cable, President Fernandez admitted to the US Ambassador that Dominican military officials routinely skim "10% of resources that pass through their hands as a 'commission,'" and added that he had retired 100 generals and planned to retire a further 100, but he cautioned that he needed to move slowly because his own position could be in jeopardy if he were to challenge the military. Pres. Fernandez gave the US Ambassador the very distinct impression that he feared a military coup, or that perhaps he could end up like Lieutenant Colonel Jose Amado Gonzalez Gonzalez: executed by his own confederates. </div>
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If indeed President Fernandez was afraid of the extent to which the Dominican military, the intelligence service (DNI,) and the drug enforcement directorate (DNCD) had been infiltrated by drug traffickers, then perhaps it explains why he has been recently accused of taking money from Captain Quirino Paulino Castillo, who just last year was released from confinement in the United States. There was difficulty in sentencing Captain Paulino, especially because after his arrival back to the Dominican Republic last year he <a href="http://eldia.com.do/quirino-asegura-le-regalo-millones-de-pesos-a-leonel-y-a-la-funglode/" target="_blank">implicated President Fernandez</a> in his drug-trafficking <a href="http://www.americasquarterly.org/content/narco-trafficker-claims-he-funded-former-president-fernandez-campaign" target="_blank">conspiracy</a>.</div>
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If Captain Paulino did indeed tell the truth about funding President Fernandez' campaign to the tune of millions, then it calls into question President Fernandez' assertion that he was afraid of a military coup by his officers, and it indicates that he continued the same "programs" he inherited from his predecessor, President Mejia. In fact, it also brings into question how two colonels in the DNCD were able to learn that Lieutenant Colonel Gonzalez was scheduled to talk to the US Drug Enforcement Agency.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jose <a href="http://www.diariolibre.com/imagenes/2010/28/181745-17.jpg" target="_blank">Figueroa Agosto</a></td></tr>
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In a diplomatic cable sent in December of 2009, Lt. Col. Gonzalez is described as the chief of security of one Jose Figueroa Agosto, a convicted Puerto Rican drug trafficker who escaped US federal custody to the Dominican Republic in 1999. [2]</div>
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Figueroa Agosto was the <a href="http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2011778,00.html" target="_blank">Caribbean</a>'s El Chapo before El Chapo, a trafficker dating celebrities and with enough pull to escape even out of US federal prison. He was described by US prosecutors as being aided by corrupt Dominican officials.</div>
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The December 2009 cable details how, in an audacious phone call to one of the main radio shows in the Dominican Republic, Jose Figueroa Agosto alleged that: "DNCD officers had killed Gonzalez
in order to cover up a one million dollar bribe that Gonzalez had
paid to them to secure his freedom." Tragically for Lt. Col. Gonzalez, someone at the top was afraid of what he had to say about the escape of Figueroa Agosto, with the Dec. 2009 cable detailing that someone in the Dominican Public Ministry had "possible complicity in outing Gonzalez's
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During Mr. Figueroa Agosto's phone call to Dominican radio, he alleged that the head of DNCD operations was<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0kPBlSsmJU" target="_blank"> directly involved</a> in a massive drug trafficking conspiracy. When asked if he had contact with high-ranking members of the Dominican government, Mr. Figueroa Agosto left open the possibility that he had enjoyed contact with high-ranking members of the Dominican government.</div>
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Mr. Figueroa Agosto's refusal to deny if he had met with high-ranking Dominican officials is perhaps the best indication as to how the two DNCD colonels implicated in the death of Lt. Colonel Gonzalez learned that he was scheduled to meet with the US Drug Enforcement Agency. Either the individuals in the Dominican drug directorate were aware of who the US Drug Enforcement Agency sent to the Dominican Republic, or someone at the very top had informed the DNCD that Lt. Colonel Gonzalez was going to speak with US federal authorities, someone in the Dominican Foreign Ministry. Disconcertingly, the Foreign Ministry leads to the Presidential Palace. </div>
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Indications are the United States government feared that anyone willing to speak out against the Foreign Ministry would be taken out. And indeed, a subsequent cable sent after President Fernandez and the US Ambassador met in February of 2005 details how desperate the United States was for the Dominican Republic to agree to Captain Paulino's extradition, worrying that he could be assassinated in Dominican prison. [3]</div>
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Capt. Paulino was being kept in isolation at DNCD headquarters, a place under constant US surveillance where the list of suspects in his murder would be small, as opposed to the island's main prison. Capt. Paulino was eventually moved to the main prison, but was promptly returned to the DNCD after the island's Attorney General warned him of "credible evidence of an international
conspiracy" against him. An apparently shaken Paulino told his lawyers not to contest the prison move, indicating that the threat came from very high up.</div>
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US officials believed that Colombian drug traffickers and Dominican politicians wouldn't want to be linked to Captain Paulino if he spoke after being extradited to the US, but the indication seems to be that Figueroa Agosto was afraid that Capt. Paulino would speak against him, or perhaps give away his assets.</div>
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These assets were allegedly moved through Baninter [Dominican International Bank] with</div>
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the help of Pepe Goico, who is described by US diplomats as the "bagman" for "payments made by Ramon Baez Figueroa of the
now-failed Baninter to support the presidential travel of
President Hipolito Mejia."</div>
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Baninter bank, whose fall nearly <a href="http://noticias.lainformacion.com/economia-negocios-y-finanzas/servicios-bancarios/exbanquero-dominicano-condenado-por-quiebra-de-baninter-recupera-su-libertad_w7G4j7RQ4uNAQx6yjcA1B1/" target="_blank">precipitated</a> a calamity in the Latin American economy, was bailed out by President Mejia, nearly crippling the Dominican economy in the process. </div>
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The link between Baninter, Captain Quirino Paulino, President Mejia, and even the the Vice-President of the Senate, are established. The US believed that, given the "scale" of his operation, Capt. Paulino had to have been working "with Colombian cocaine wholesalers and bringing
the drugs across the border from Haiti, probably by
helicopter;" a helicopter which was purchased from Baninter bagman and informal Presidential Travel Manager Pepe Goico.</div>
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If there is any indication that transportation for major drug shipments was being provided by high-ranking elements within the Dominican government of President Mejia, then the fact that diplomatic cables lay out that Captain Quirino Paulino was driving a Mercedes 500 sedan "imported duty-free using an
authorization issued to Senate Vice-President Csar Matas of [President]
Mejia's Party" should help clear some doubt.</div>
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Vice-President Matas defended himself by alleging that he had "transferred the
authorization to a dealer," something which is against Dominican law. Nonetheless, Vice-President Matas was never charged with a crime, nor did he ever have to deeply explain why the biggest drug trafficker in the Dominican Republic was driving a car obtained illegally with his assistance. The head of Baninter didn't have to clarify if any of the squandered money came from massive drug trafficking, and former President Mejia ran for re-election without the implosion and bail-out of Baninter and subsequent economic crash making him an enemy of the state. </div>
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Even US diplomats acknowledge that the Dominican media failed to dig up the fact that Captain Paulino's "farms in Elias Piña were providing military outposts there with
provisions, free of charge."</div>
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It seems that in an international drug trafficking conspiracy so complex that it implicates: Colombian drug cartels; two Dominican presidential administrations; two international drug kingpins; the Vice-President of the Dominican Senate; members of the Dominican Chamber of Deputies; members of the Dominican Drug directorate; members of the Dominican intelligence agency; members of the Dominican army; and maybe possibly the CIA... only the Puerto Rican guy takes the fall for murder, and is the only one serving real prison time.</div>
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Today, everyone <a href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/cantacomopajaritofigueroaagosto-1222774/" target="_blank">except</a>
the Puerto Rican Jose Figueroa Agosto -- who will likely die before his
hundreds year sentence in US federal prison is up -- will enjoy
freedom and wealth in the tropical paradise that is the Dominican
Republic. </div>
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Sources: <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05SANTODOMINGO709_a.html" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09SANTODOMINGO1345_a.html" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05SANTODOMINGO799_a.html" target="_blank">3, </a><a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05SANTODOMINGO3177_a.html" target="_blank">4</a> [Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
documents' classified status or automatically result in declassification
of the documents.] </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-45513973699555048812022-09-11T11:30:00.002+02:002022-09-11T11:30:46.909+02:00Kissinger Cables Call Attention to Suspected CIA Corporate Hitman Deported from the Dominican Republic<div style="text-align: justify;">
In 2013, El Caribe -- one of the largest-circulation dailies in the Dominican Republic -- <a href="http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2013/04/03/fue-sacha-volman-agente-cia" target="_blank">reviewed</a> a book by Dominican <a href="http://www.libroslatinos.com/cgi-bin/libros/157902.html" target="_blank">author</a> Candido Geron -- <i>Was Sacha Volman a CIA Agent?</i> -- which focuses on the life of Romanian-born US citizen, Sacha Volman; described as "a man shrouded in mystery, legend, and speculation."</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Negotiated privatization of Trujillo's vast fortune </td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_2076976605"></span>According<span id="goog_2076976606"></span></a> to El Caribe, Mr. Geron collected dozens of letters between Sacha Volman and Norman Thomas, who was six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. </div>
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Given the nature of the Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation, there can be almost no doubt that a man who maintained constant communication with the United State's top socialist and at-the-same-time was involved with Dominican President Juan Bosch -- deposed in a 1963 right-wing coup backed by a subsequent US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 -- was either under close FBI scrutiny or a trusted government insider; a CIA agent, as Mr. Geron and other researchers have hinted. </div>
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President Juan Bosch's niece, former Vice-President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, has denied allegations that Mr. Volman was a CIA agent, but according to a cable from the Henry Kissinger State Department, Sacha Volman was an employee of Falconbridge, the company that has since the 1970s essentially taken over the Dominican mining sector, largely under the oversight of the party (PLD) founded by her late uncle. [1]</div>
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Vice-President Bosch ruled in the early 2000s, and was a mainstream politician at-the-time, but during the 1960s and 70s, when her uncle was exiled by the Joaquin Balaguer regime and backed on the ground by leftist guerrillas with suspected links to communist Cuba, the US most likely would have seen the family as radical and deemed it important to maintain a trusted agent close to the Bosch political clan.</div>
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An April, 1973 diplomatic cable -- Guerrilla Seeks Refuge in Mexican Embassy -- details how Sacha Volman was aware of movements by Dominican guerrillas, who had led an invasion of the island seeking the overthrow of the US-backed Balaguer government, and whose plans were to restore President Juan Bosch. [2] The cable details how Mr. Volman spoke with Francisco Caamaño, leader of the guerrillas, and informed US embassy officials of Caamaño's plans to go into exile in Cuba, the only place where he believed the "government couldn't kill him."</div>
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Naturally, a mining company employee who is in contact with socialist presidential candidates, leftists guerrillas, and US Embassy officials would arouse some suspicion in a country where he's a foreigner, and indeed, less than two weeks after Mr. Volman discussed guerrilla movements with embassy officials, the head of Dominican immigration showed up at his house and politely asked him to accompany him to the airport.</div>
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Volman contacted US Embassy officials twice when he learned that he was being deported without charges, but the contents of the first phone call were not released with the rest of the Henry Kissinger cables. [3] The April 29, 1973 cable details that although the Balaguer government was opaque about why it was deporting Mr. Volman, a high-ranking Dominican official informed the US unofficially that Mr. Volman had been linked to an "anti-Balaguer conspiracy" involving guerrilla leader Francisco Caamaño and co-conspirators in the Dominican Armed Forces.</div>
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In the cable, the US Embassy official speculates that Mr. Volman's expulsion was linked to President Balaguer's instructions to the National Police to protect Juan Bosch, described as a "personal friend" of Mr. Volman's. Why US Embassy officials would speculate that Mr. Volman's deportation was linked to a promise to protect Juan Bosch speaks volume to the threat that he was thought to pose by President Balaguer.</div>
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A week after Sacha Volman's deportation, President Balaguer cleaned house, removing multiple officials; among them Nicolas Silfa, who is described in a May 4, 1973 cable as being "linked in a conspiracy" with Mr. Volman. [4]</div>
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Nicolas Silfa, though part of President Balaguer's government during the 1970s, had taken <a href="http://hoy.com.do/nicolas-silfa-prominente-luchador-anti-trujillista-que-formo-parte-de-la-avanzada-del-prd-2/" target="_blank">part in the 1959 invasion</a> of the Dominican Republic, seeking the overthrow of then-dictator Rafael Trujillo, who employed Balaguer as his Vice-President. </div>
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Balaguer took power after the death of Trujillo, and in 1961, when forced by the Organization of American States to accept a mission of Dominican politicians in exile, Nicolas Silfa and Sacha Volman -- <a href="http://elnacional.com.do/el-presidente-kennedy-sacha-volman-y-el-golpe-de-estado-a-juan-bosch/" target="_blank">pretending</a> to be a New York Times reporter -- landed as part of the delegation. </div>
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In essence, Mr. Silfa had already attempted to remove Mr. Balaguer from power back when Balaguer was in the shadow of the The Goat, as the dictator was known. Mr. Silfa's removal and Mr. Volman's deportation meant that President Balaguer took the threat seriously, especially given the trio's shared history. </div>
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Nonetheless, within two months of Mr. Volman's deportation, the US Ambassador had a lengthy conversation with President Balaguer, where he offered assurances that Volman's job with Falconbridge depended on him "abstaining from political acts." [5]</div>
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President Balaguer accepted the US Ambassador's assertion that Mr. Volman was not actively supporting Francisco Caamaño or engaging in other political activities, and Mr. Volman was allowed to return to work in the island. Within a year and a half, however, Mr. Volman was back in the news, this time accused of involvement in a CIA plot against a union, <i>Central General de Trabajadores </i>(CGT.) </div>
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An October, 1974 cable relates how the head of one of the largest worker's unions in the Dominican Republic, the CGT, accused Sacha Volman and others of plotting against them. The cable complains that allegations of CIA plots against Dominican labor unions were a "standard ploy of the left," but affirms that the "present accusation takes on significance, however, because it comes at a time when Falconbridge is in fact preparing to move strongly against CGT." [6] </div>
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It seems that the head of the CGT wasn't so paranoid after all, and we can deduce from the fact that the US Embassy in Santo Domingo had foreknowledge of plans by Falconbridge to crack down on the CGT that they likely had at a bare minimum some passive involvement.</div>
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Sacha Volman may not have been directly a CIA agent, but he certainly was a corporate hitman, and for his complicity in cracking down on labor movements, he was justly <a href="http://dh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/24/dh.dht041.abstract" target="_blank">described</a> in Oxford Journals as a "key conduit for the CIA." </div>
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Last month, Abreu Report <a href="http://www.abreureport.com/2015/12/close-ally-of-dominican-president.html" target="_blank">published</a> an article -- <i>Close Ally of Dominican President Gunned Down Amid Canadian Mining Company Scandal</i> -- reporting on the death of the Mayor of Santo Domingo East. In that article, we wrote: <i> </i></div>
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<i>"In
2013, members of FALCONDO, the worker's union formed by members of the
Canadian mining conglomerate Falconbridge, accused multiple Dominican
politicians of <a href="http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2013/10/09/trabajadores-falcondo-acusan-juan-hubieres-rogelio-cruz-agresiones">attacking</a> them in an incident which resulted in one member of FALCONDO being shot. </i></div>
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<i>The
Canadian mining conglomerate has gained the ire of a large segment of
Dominican society after gaining concessions to mine gold while paying
only 3% to the state in what was seen as one of the most <a href="http://www.diariolibre.com/economia/economia-personal/falcondo-la-repblica-dominicana-recibira-us2000-millones-por-loma-miranda-PFDL589611">corrupt contracts</a> handed out by... the ruling party [PLD.]" </i><br />
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It seems that, half a century later, not much has changed in an island which has attracted countless gold-seekers since Columbus established Santo Domingo as the first European settlement in the Americas. <i> </i><br />
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Sources: <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974SANTO04454_b.html" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973SANTO01712_b.html" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973SANTO01839_b.html" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973SANTO01952_b.html" target="_blank">4</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973SANTO02648_b.html" target="_blank">5</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974SANTO04454_b.html" target="_blank">6</a> [Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
documents' classified status or automatically result in declassification
of the documents.] </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-29221700342789686572022-09-11T11:30:00.001+02:002022-09-11T11:30:36.868+02:00Leaked Cables Hint at Involvement by US Representative in Mercenary Conspiracy Against Togo<div style="text-align: justify;">
In October of 1977, the people of Lomé, Togo began to grow suspicious as security precautions meant that every white person was being stopped at multiple checkpoints, and those who could not prove their identity were detained overnight. Increased military and police protection was being placed around the US and French embassies, and Togo's president, Étienne Eyadéma, had canceled a scheduled trip to his hometown of Pya. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">President <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Gnassingbe_Eyadema_detail1_DF-SC-84-10025.jpg">Eyadema</a></td></tr>
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On the 26th of October, the president delivered a speech, proclaiming that on: "October 13, the President of the Republic [of Togo] was informed by the authorities of certain powers of the recruitment of mercenaries in their countries. The recruited mercenaries would have intervened after October 15 to overthrow the regime by [my] assassination." [1]</div>
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President Eyadéma was convinced that the plot against his life and the Republic of Togo was being hatched by neighboring Ghana, but leaked diplomatic cables indicate that the plot was most likely hatched in neutral Switzerland, in an unidentified city referred to as "Zuenullrich" that not even German intelligence could provide information on. [2]</div>
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As the United Kingdom did not enjoy a diplomatic presence in Togo, the information that weapons had already arrived in the country for use by mercenary conspirators was passed on to President Eyadéma via the US Embassy in Lomé, who could only confirm that Her Majesty's Government had made plans to prevent a flight of "British, American, Italian, and French-Canadian nationals" from taking off. [3]</div>
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President Eyadéma was fortunate that he was friends with the US Government, as other African presidents have <a href="http://www.abreureport.com/2016/01/coup-plotters-asked-for-us-government.html">not traditionally been warned</a> of coup plots being hatched in their countries. The warning and derailment by the UK government was enough to throw off the conspiracy, and on the 9th of November, Alec Hartley published an article in the Guardian -- Britons Behind Assassination Bid -- reporting that the "hit team" was composed of "three Italians, two Americans, two Canadians, and two Britons that had entered Togo in early October but had not been heard from since." US embassy officials deduced that Hartley had gotten his information from "mercenary sources." [4]</div>
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Hartley further reported that a "second wave" of mercenary forces composed of Togolese exiles was waiting in France, ready to return to the country after the assassination of President Eyadéma. </div>
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As the months passed, President Eyadéma gained what the US dubbed "hard evidence," and a March 1978 cable details US concerns about extraditing the two Americans involved in the plot against Togo. The two Americans, identified as Bleming and Clenedennen in the cable, become the subject of a lengthy discussion on the legality of their actions, with US embassy officials clarifying that it was not "illegal for US citizens to murder the President of Togo." [5]</div>
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It seems that in response to the actions of Mr. Bleming and Mr. Clenedennen, the US Senate decided to add a provision to the Criminal Code Reform Act of 1978 -- Conspiracy Against a Foreign Power -- making it a criminal offense for US citizens to take part in a conspiracy to kill a foreign head of state. The bill passed the Senate, but <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/95/s1437">died in the House</a> of Representatives, indicating that someone in the House wanted to protect Mr. Bleming and Mr. Clenedennen.</div>
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By August of the same year, the conspiracy had come fully undone, and a group of mercenaries had voluntarily turned themselves in to the government of Togo. The Togolese asked US embassy officials that they not talk to reporters, but Wikileaks has made the story available for posterity. [6]</div>
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John Banks and David Tomkins, two British nationals, reported that the conspiracy started when former Canadian Army officer, Colonel Tom Finan, was contacted by members of the Olympio family (former President of Togo assassinated in 1963.) Colonel Tom Finan then traveled to the UK and began hiring former Special Forces soldiers to help him organize a coup d'etat against Togo. </div>
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According to Banks and Tomkins, the Olympios provided the weapons, which first landed in Togo on a US-registered Constellation N-273-R, again hinting at why the House did not pass the 1978 assassination conspiracy law. </div>
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Even after the failed October, 1977 plot, Tomkins confirmed that he was still trying to assassinate the President of Togo with an Improvised Explosive Device in the middle of the road to the Presidential Palace. Tomkins said that he changed his mind about overthrowing the government because he felt he had been misled by Colonel Finan, who told him that President Eyadéma was as bad as Idi Amin.</div>
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With Tomkins' confession, the case was closed, the financing of the whole operation was attributed to the Olympios, the American plane carrying arms was lost to history, and President Eyadéma asked Tomkins for advice on improving his security, which no doubt led to him dying in 2005 as Africa's then-longest serving head of state. </div>
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Tomkins would later go on to write a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Combat-Secret-Serious-Misadventures/dp/184596389X">book</a> -- Dirty Combat: Secret Wars and Misadventures -- revealing that the whole plot came undone because two of the Special Forces conspirators got into a fight on the plane to Africa. </div>
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Tomkins detailed in his book that the airplane used to carry the weapons were purchased by Florida-registered Teshi Team International -- Colonel Finan's company -- and that the flight crew was American.<br />
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The strongest indication of involvement by someone in the House of Representatives, however, comes from Jimmy Carter's signing of Executive Order 12036. Signed a few months after the Togo misadventure, it <a href="http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/eo-12036.htm">reads</a>: "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States
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Togo only had 800 soldiers when Colonel Finan's men landed, and his failure was largely fortuitous. The Colonel's company, Teshi Team International, has since <a href="https://opencorporates.com/companies/bs/3684C">relocated</a> to the Bahamas.<br />
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Sources: <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977LOME02941_c.html">1</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977LOME02807_c.html">2</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977LOME02777_c.html">3</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977LONDON18500_c.html">4</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978STATE067995_d.html">5</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978LOME02807_d.html">6</a> [Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
documents' classified status or automatically result in declassification
of the documents.] </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-55902480368721555502022-09-11T11:30:00.000+02:002022-09-11T11:30:12.549+02:00Leaked Classified Cables: US Government Suspected Ivory Coast Leaders Engineered False-Flag Attack Before IMF Trip to Washington<div style="text-align: justify;">
On the 29th of June, 2007, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro of Ivory Coast along with his delegation and nearly two dozen journalists, were taxiing at an airport in Bouake, a large city in the West African nation, when their plane came under rocket and machine gun fire. Prime Minister Soro was unhurt in the rocket attack, with the BBC <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6253484.stm">reporting</a> at the time: "Three rockets were fired from Bouake's airport as Mr Soro's plane was landing... 'There were some injured that are being treated now at the hospital. Mr Soro is in his office working - he had no injuries. He's very fine and very alive.'"</div>
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And indeed, Prime Minister Soro was not only alive and well, it seems that he benefited quite handsomely from the attack. </div>
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Two weeks before the rocket attack on the presidential plane, Prime Minister Soro traveled to Washington to meet with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. [1]</div>
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Before traveling to Washington, Prime Minister Soro met with the US Ambassador to Ivory Coast, delivering a "matrix with a timetable" and emphasizing to the State Department official that
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US embassy officials were impressed with PM Soro, reporting back to Washington that he was "matter-of-fact and business-like." PM Soro is a businessman, but he's also a rebel, and it was through his waging of asymmetric warfare that he rose to the rank of Prime Minister, by signing an agreement with President Laurent Gbagbo two months before meeting with the US. </div>
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After traveling to Washington for days of negotiations with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, PM Soro had a layover in Belgium, where he met with EU officials. At that stage, his plot to guarantee that things went according to plan went into full overdrive.</div>
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Although the mainstream media reported that Prime Minister Soro's plane was catastrophically struck and that he came under heavy arms fire, the facts as reported by the Defense Attache to the US Embassy contradict those reports. A diplomatic cable sent the same day of the attack indicates that the US knew that "there
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According to a French embassy official, "rockets and AK-47 fire had
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rockets had not exploded." The cable from the day of the attack further goes on to detail that the "shooting had continued in Bouake [nearby city] but this may have been the
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The cable also highlights that one of PM Soro's ministers would later go on to tell the US Embassy a contradictory story, alleging that "the attack occurred while Soro and his entourage were on their way to town from the airport
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It was during this shooting and confusion that the people who were with PM Soro died, thereby indicating that they were either sacrificial lambs or opponents of his plans for a deal with the IMF and the World Bank. </div>
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And indeed, in a cable sent a few days after the attack, US embassy officials speculated that the most possible conspirators in the assassination were seated in the "presidential camp." [3]</div>
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Although US government officials are trained to quickly dismiss any conspiracy theory as outrageous before the media, the facts as laid out by their communications indicate that US embassy personnel routinely engage in conspiracy theorizing, with the US Ambassador reporting to Washington that "regardless of whether he [President Gbagbo] or someone from
his entourage was the author, it is plainly evident to most
observers that Gbagbo has been able to <i>profit handsomely</i> from
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Although the United States suspected that the attack was arranged by President Gbagbo against the "business-like" rebel leader who'd become Prime Minister, the two continued happily working together after the attack, using the panic and ensuing crackdown to solidify their objectives in securing IMF and World Bank "assistance." </div>
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Within a month of the attack against Prime Minister Soro, he and his suspected conspirator, President Gbagbo, signed what the BBC <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6921585.stm">described</a> as a "sketchy deal," putting an end to the country's five-year conflict. </div>
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Two weeks before, they<a href="https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2007/cr07312.pdf"> both had met with the IMF</a>, who expressed concern in their own documents that "the development of the financial sector has been adversely affected by the crisis."</div>
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To the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the conflict was a problem not because people were dying -- their documents describe the impact of the conflict from an emotionless, economic point of view -- but rather because banking in the West African Economic and Monetary Union was affected. </div>
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Just last month, President Gbagbo went on <a href="http://citifmonline.com/2016/01/28/laurent-gbagbo-ivory-coast-ex-leader-denies-war-crimes/">trial in The Hague</a>, in what the BBC describes as the "most high-profile case" the International Criminal Court has seen. He denies the charges of "murder, rape, attempted murder, and persecution" against him. The trial could last up to 4 years, after which period he may be acquitted and once again qualify for an IMF loan. </div>
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Sources: <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07ABIDJAN521_a.html">1</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07ABIDJAN705_a.html">2</a>, <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07ABIDJAN719_a.html">3</a> [Warning to US personnel: public disclosures of classified documents do not alter the
documents' classified status or automatically result in declassification
of the documents.]</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-29784362364215430182022-09-11T11:29:00.001+02:002022-09-11T11:29:45.003+02:00Wikileaks: US Obligates Foreign Governments to Vet Political Nominees Against NSA Database<div style="text-align: justify;">
Julian <a href="http://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-exclusive-read-julian-assanges-introduction-to-1726605781">Assange described</a> the diplomatic cables leaked by former US Army Private Chelsea Manning as "the vivisection of a living empire," as something that shows "what substance flowed from which state organ and when." </div>
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A brief analysis of these documents quickly proves Mr. Assange's assertion to be true, and a more thorough study soon yields clues as to the extent of influence exerted on foreign governments by America's ever-watchful intelligence apparatus. It was only with the release of files from the United States' signals intelligence agency by Edward Snowden that the world gained confirmation of what four-decade National Security Agency insider, William <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-whistleblower-william-binney-was-right-2013-6?IR=T">Binney, had been saying for years</a>. </div>
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Mr. Binney quit the NSA because he grew increasingly dismayed at the agency's wanton disregard for the Constitution, <a href="https://publicintelligence.net/binney-nsa-declaration/">coming to believe before resigning</a> in disgust that to them, "the individual liberties preserved in the U.S. Constitution were no longer a consideration."</div>
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Mr. Binney resigned shortly after the attacks of September the 11th, and already by then he knew of NSA plans to intercept and store all of the world's communications, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/a-visit-to-the-nsas-data-center-in-utah/416691/">utilizing a massive facility in Utah</a> to eventually crack all encrypted data. It appears that about two years after Mr. Binney retired, the United States was already using its growing databases to look into the lives of foreign politicians, often furnishing information not available even to local governments. </div>
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A<a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04SANTODOMINGO3004_a.html"> confidential cable sent from the US Embassy in Santo Domingo in 2004</a> details a meeting between the US Ambassador and the-then President-elect of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez. Mr. Fernandez, a New York-raised lawyer, detailed that he never tried cases involving narcotics offenses because he had a zero-tolerance policy in the matter.</div>
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The US Ambassador implored Mr. Fernandez, nonetheless, to "vet with U.S. databases the names of
prospective nominees for sensitive positions." It appears that Mr. Fernandez complied, and subsequent cables indicate that the United States was keeping tabs on the chief of the country's intelligence agency. </div>
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Over a decade later, and US databases have expanded astronomically, with the NSA likely making efforts to "vet" every single foreign leader with influence. Corruption is still rampant in the Dominican Republic, so it's not exactly clear if the databases have worked elsewhere, but the NSA would certainly say that their program prevents terrorism and reduces corruption, much like the KGB did in the Soviet Union. For his troubles, Mr. Binney was harassed by the government and his house was raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-85066042119389488192022-09-11T11:26:00.000+02:002022-09-11T11:26:49.461+02:00My Grandfather Told Me a Secret Before His Death: Dominican Vice-President Confided in Him that President was Killed by Psychotronic Weapon<div style="text-align: justify;">
Joaquin Balaguer, former vice-President to the dictator of the Dominican Republic and himself subsequent 12-year strongman, directly handpicked my grandfather, Ramon de la Cruz, to protect his periphery. </div>
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The town of Villa Altagracia, less than 50 miles from the Presidential Palace, was a place which required a loyal man presiding over a divinely-protected land, and in 1974 the Dominican president's faith in divine protection was "confirmed" after his helicopter was taken down right in my town, with him escaping fully unscathed. <br />
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Although the media reported the crash as being weather-related, the entire incident was in fact staged to give Balaguer an air of higher divinity. My grandfather was personally acquainted with Balaguer's campaign tactics, and he knew that just one week before the elections, "perhaps it was not providence alone which had a hand in the crash." </div>
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A diplomatic <a href="https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974SANTO01937_b.html">cable leaked to Wikileaks confirms</a> what my grandfather always told me, that the helicopter crash was faked by Balaguer, and that they had a secret meeting afterwards discussing the future creation of a militarized agency dedicated to false flag deception and mental manipulation on an industrial scale.</div>
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My grandfather kept quiet, but he broke away from Balaguer, displeased by what he had witnessed. I never knew my grandfather during his Balaguer years, I only campaigned with him when he was with the PRI, the political party led by Jacobo Majluta. </div>
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Mr. Majluta, the first Dominican president of Lebanese descent, was vice-President to Antonio Guzman, who suspiciously committed suicide just before his term in office was over. Why would Mr. Guzman, a politician successfully about to end his term in office and with a bright future ahead of him, take his own life? </div>
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Mr. Majluta confided in my grandfather that he always suspected that Mr. Guzman was not himself when he took his own life, that he seemed to at times have a look of "zombification" about him and that the President had complained of an energy which he could not see but which he felt was being directly targeted at him. </div>
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Mr. Majluta felt that this directed energy could have potentially been a weapon, and he directed agents of INFOTEP, <span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph">the Dominican government's <a href="http://www.infotep.gov.do/noticias.php?id=1547">militarized technician-training division, </a></span></span><span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph">to conduct research into psychotronic weapons. </span></span></div>
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<span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph">As the <a href="http://eldia.com.do/base-naval-en-la-saona-parte-de-la-estrategia-de-eeuu-para-el-dominio-continental/">United States continues its military expansion</a> in the Dominican Republic, I fear we may yet see more suspicious suicides. </span></span></div>
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A leaked diplomatic cable from 1973, sent from Rome, details how panicked US officials became at the publication of an <a href="https://4agosto1974.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/il-veleno-fascista-panorama-26-4-1973/">article</a> by Gianni <a href="http://charme-online.net/en/author-gianni-farneti/">Farneti</a> titled "The Fascist Poison" in the weekly Panorama, going so far as urging all embassy officials to forgo comments surrounding the article, and with instructions to denounce it as an "outrageous lie." </div>
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In that Panorama story, the neo-fascist MSI political party, the US Central Intelligence Agency, and long-time <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Bridges/e/B001KIQWMG">diplomat</a> Peter Bridges [assigned to Rome from 1966 to 1971] are linked in a conspiracy to carry out the 1969 Piazza Fontana <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jul/02/philipwillan">Bombing</a>. 88 people were injured and 16 killed during the attack. </div>
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The alarming story alleges that funds for the MSI [Italian Social Movement] were being channeled <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/4904043Z:US-us-feed-grains-council">through</a> the Feed Grains Council, which informed US officials that they had intentions to file a lawsuit against Farneti for his article, but were told by the US Embassy in Rome not to "dignify and encourage" reprinting of the article by writing "rebuttals" or taking "legal action." Instead, the Feed Grains Council was instructed to "categorically and emphatically" deny the story, to not talk to the media </div>
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Sindona -- a former financial adviser to the Catholic Church with so much pull that "Pope Paul VI <span id="goog_826108650"></span><span id="goog_826108651"></span>sought his advice on Vatican investments" -- would later go on to be convicted in the murder-for-hire of the lawyer <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/23/world/michele-sindona-jailed-italian-financier-dies-cyanide-poisoning-65-center.html?pagewanted=all">representing</a> him in what was in the 1980s the "largest bank collapse in United States history." </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-77032563039506700532022-08-10T01:30:00.001+02:002022-08-10T01:40:40.556+02:00Source: Biden Administration Discussed Possibility of Declaring Martial Law and State of Emergency Should Former President Trump be Indicted<p style="text-align: justify;">The Federal Bureau of Investigations recently raided the home of former President Donald Trump and -- as predicted during intense meetings between members of the National Security Council and high-ranking officials within the Joe Biden administration -- internet chatter concerning the possibility of a "civil war" breaking out in the United States grew astronomically.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to a source within the NSC, scenarios were discussed under which former President Trump could find himself indicted for federal crimes and sitting in a court room. In a nation that was only as polarized in the 1850s, the conversation almost naturally flowed towards the possibility of a "seditious conspiracy" taking stage in the days after a potential indictment of the previous Commander-in-Chief.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The prospect of violence breaking out as President Trump drives in his limousine to be arraigned for charges that could make it impossible for him to run for office again in 2024 was deemed to be extremely high. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The very real possibility was discussed that: "Donald Trump benefits from violence delaying his trial and preventing a conviction until the 2024 elections."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Another possibility discussed was that "a criminal conviction would render him unable to run for office again and could be seen as a 'Deep State coup by many of his supporters.'"</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Suffice to say, with a federal judge signing a warrant to raid the home of a former president, it is not imprudent to acknowledge that America has entered a new period in its history, one that could very well be marked by domestic violence "as the nation struggles against a revanchist Russia, with our unity questioned."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to documents viewed by Abreu Report, the necessity was indicated for the use of precedents established by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in the eventuality that the "Homeland may become a hot battlefield."<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Ex parte Vallandigham </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In 1864, Representative Vallandigham of Ohio argued publicly against President Lincoln, stating that the Civil War was "not being waged for the preservation of the Union," but rather "for the purpose of crushing out liberty and erecting a despotism." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Vallandigham was subjected to a military tribunal and convicted to confinement for the entire duration of the war, with the Supreme Court determining that it had no authority to review military tribunals. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">President Biden, having learned the value of arcane law during times of war, fully intends to dispense ole' style justice to anyone who pretends to hinder the trial of Donald Trump. Joseph Biden's former boss, Constitutional Lawyer Barack Obama, famously utilized World War II precedent to lend legal weight to his targeted drone assassination program. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It appears that President Biden's Justice Department is willing to pursue charges against Donald Trump, and, accordingly, they have prepared for the possibility that a low-level conflict may ignite within the United States, with arcane laws used to indefinitely detain and possibly execute anyone who speaks out against the coming crackdown,</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-85646808152748173592022-01-15T11:47:00.002+01:002022-01-15T12:07:59.989+01:00Knife-wielding Mugger Tries to Mug Dominican Soldier, is Gunned Down in Broad Daylight<p style="text-align: justify;">A trio of criminals in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo attempted to mug a Dominican soldier using a knife, in what resulted in a bloodbath in broad daylight. The incident took place on Duarte Avenue, one of the city's poorer areas, which has in recent years become the scene of frequent muggings. The residents of the area are traumatized to the extent that they're often afraid to use their cell phones in public. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Two of the muggers managed to escape the scene of the crime after the would-be victim shot one in the chest. Most muggers in the Dominican Republic use motorcycles and carry firearms, indicating that this trio was relatively new to the game. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Had the muggers succeeded in disarming the would-be victim, it is likely that they would have taken his firearm and thereafter used it to carry out more elaborate crimes. Dominican soldiers and police officers are regularly gunned down in the country, with criminals targeting them to make away with their weapons. Black market guns in the Dominican Republic usually can be sold for 500 to a 1000 US dollars.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The would-be assailant seen bleeding out in the video was wearing flip-flops, indicating that this was likely a crime of desperation. A good Samaritan tried loading him onto the back of a motorcycle to take him to a hospital, but the victim was too far gone and succumbed to his wounds. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='642' height='534' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw0Ne8qYciZQB-Va9salrcCyGRBrlsh6VOfj70Sjr_TL5BsAQylI_nTEQp6ltlLzW8JBnkxNLb0naRfbzt6dg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-64438156045364779422021-10-30T15:59:00.003+02:002021-10-30T16:02:10.178+02:00As Predicted by Abreu Report, Politician Who Promised Return to Gold Standard Found Dead After "Apparent Suicide"<p>In 2016, Reinaldo Pared Perez was believed by many to be destined to become the next president of the Dominican Republic. At the time, he decided to begin promoting the idea that the Dominican Republic, having the largest gold mine in the Americas, should return to the gold standard and free itself from the clutches of international bankers. </p><p><a href="https://www.abreureport.com/2016/07/dominican-government-plans-to-return-to.html">In 2016, we wrote</a>: "<span style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Caribbean island-nation had one of the world's most stable currencies, on parity with the US dollar, but after the US invasion of 1965, the very same characters who had been instrumental in the assassination of President Trujillo returned in the employ of foreign mining companies.</i></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Among these characters was Richard Volman, a <a href="http://www.abreureport.com/2016/01/kissinger-cables-call-attention-to.html">suspected CIA agent</a> who worked for the Canadian mining giant Falconbridge, and who was deported after coming under suspicion of orchestrating another coup against the state.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Despite being deported, Mr. Volman managed to return to the Dominican Republic, and in the decades since, Falconbridge has essentially taken over the Dominican mining sector, stripping the country barren and only paying a meager few percent profit to the government</i>." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHKRg8VbRG4B2f3a34pQlKbNtytW-yll_SZ3TMnhnLlf-RnhgADg-iMwjA7DTOMBD6_bhyphenhyphent4kLwvvuDE4CZNWNNoBztmilHlOpVsrCOoPWXIggAfkNeMPsFvYk-GpFAT269DBOcn1lrKC/s1033/Pistola-usada-por-Reinaldo-Pared-Perez-para-suicidarse.-La-misma-fue-encontrada-en-el-suelo-junto-a-su-cadaver..jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="1033" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHKRg8VbRG4B2f3a34pQlKbNtytW-yll_SZ3TMnhnLlf-RnhgADg-iMwjA7DTOMBD6_bhyphenhyphent4kLwvvuDE4CZNWNNoBztmilHlOpVsrCOoPWXIggAfkNeMPsFvYk-GpFAT269DBOcn1lrKC/s320/Pistola-usada-por-Reinaldo-Pared-Perez-para-suicidarse.-La-misma-fue-encontrada-en-el-suelo-junto-a-su-cadaver..jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gun found near his left hand, but he was a righty.</td></tr></tbody></table>In 2016, we speculated that Mr. Pared Perez would become the target of international bankers, and just this past Thursday, he was found dead in his residence, with a gun by his side, indicating "<a href="https://eldia.com.do/se-suicida-reinaldo-pared-perez-expresidente-del-senado">an apparent suicide</a>." Not following standard protocol during the death of a high-profile political figure, the Dominican coroner's office has, in less than 24 hours, released his body to be buried. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the Dominican police, Mr. Pared Perez committed suicide because he had succumbed to a mysterious cancer, and thus there was no need to conduct an extensive autopsy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Dominican police have decided to instead concentrate on the leak of his autopsy pictures, with many saying that the pictures were leaked as a message to anyone who may try going against the international bankers and the foreign mining conglomerates that dominate the Dominican Republic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXTsDNWOOt1rKeNYcy8AvN1r-w7Os0UIyzWWW8OvvIARRroEaG56tgCfs_w-ITd_8zK5DNW5MOo_5X6LbN6BS5aRDdl7rqXL6wCS5ltUFyrGqCf8KazXm7IPIduQH5bRHgTvU4p7gD2gh/s600/FIRMA3.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitXTsDNWOOt1rKeNYcy8AvN1r-w7Os0UIyzWWW8OvvIARRroEaG56tgCfs_w-ITd_8zK5DNW5MOo_5X6LbN6BS5aRDdl7rqXL6wCS5ltUFyrGqCf8KazXm7IPIduQH5bRHgTvU4p7gD2gh/s320/FIRMA3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using his right hand to write.</td></tr></tbody></table>The Dominican police found the Glock that Mr. Pared Perez used to commit suicide next to his left hand, but everything seems to indicate that he was right-handed, so it behooves common sense that he would use his left hand to commit suicide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fact that the autopsy of Mr. Pared Perez has been rushed, that there's been no mention in the mainstream media that he was right-handed but that the "suicide" gun was found next to his left hand, and that he had made powerful enemies of North American mining cartels, should raise a few eyebrows among anyone who knows how the CIA has long operated in Latin America. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-80732540315128776502020-06-10T12:02:00.000+02:002020-06-23T20:46:49.170+02:00Is It Just Police Killings that We Need to Protest?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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And, indeed, in WWII the US government executed<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-per-flash-germanspy-0520-20120520-story.html"> Hans Herbert Haupt</a>, a German-American dual-national, meaning that the Nazis could have argued that the Americans had secretly executed many more Aryan citizens. </div>
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The current protests are about more than just George Floyd, they're about confronting a government that has decided that it can spy on everyone, disregard habeas corpus, and kill anyone above the age of 16 in secret. </div>
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A tragic incident in the Dominican Republic after a teenager was killed via brutal knockout punch while engaging in a friendly bout with his friend. </div>
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The tragedy was captured on video two days ago, as 17-year-old Julio César Palmero fell to the ground and hit his head on the asphalt. </div>
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The Dominican Republic is currently imposing a curfew after 5pm as a result of the spread of COVID-19, meaning that all the participants and spectators are facing jail time due to violating social distancing restrictions. </div>
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As the <a href="https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/sucesos/jovenes-violaron-toque-de-queda-durante-pelea-de-boxeo-que-termino-en-tragedia-IE18589537?utm_source=articulos&utm_medium=te-puede-interesar&utm_campaign=related">fight involved illegal gambling</a> and a violation of the national curfew, the teen who delivered the lethal blow <a href="https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/ciudad/joven-que-mato-a-otro-durante-pelea-de-boxeo-huyo-tras-la-tragedia-FE18589873">initially panicked and fled the scene</a>. </div>
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The teen who delivered the lethal blow, also 17, was later <a href="https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/sucesos/entregan-a-la-policia-joven-mato-a-otro-de-un-punetazo-mientras-boxeaba-en-hato-mayor-DF18596005?utm_source=recomendadas&utm_medium=bloque&utm_campaign=blueconic">handed to the police by his mother</a>, Maribel Jiménez Sosa, and members of a human rights group. The teen's name is being withheld due to legal reasons. </div>
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In 2012, NOS, a large-circulation daily in the Netherlands, made some troubling revelations as to the number of people killed by El Al Flight 1862, which crashed into a large tenement building just outside of Amsterdam.</div>
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<a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/425564-20-jaar-bijlmerramp.html">According to NOS</a>, Dutch authorities reported that only 39 people were killed in the building, but later revelations now highlight that initial casualties exceeded over 400 due to the number of undocumented immigrants residing in the apartment complex. Sources believe that the Dutch government only included in its casualty list people who were registered at City Hall (Gemeente,) making a highly-organized effort to discredit any allegations that undocumented immigrants were residing in the complex. </div>
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Sources indicate that the Dutch government was very concerted in its efforts to downplay the number killed during the plane crash due to the highly-dangerous cargo being carried by the Israeli jet -- which had made a layover at Schipol Airport after departing from the United States -- because they knew that the jet's cargo would over time cause severe medical problems for thousands of people, resulting in countless lawsuits. </div>
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In 1998, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/nerve-gas-element-was-in-el-al-plane-lost-in-1992-crash.html">The New York Times made it known</a> to the world that although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the chemicals on the plane were "non-toxic" and destined to be used to test the effectiveness of "gas masks," countless "people living in the area complained of unidentified health problems, including respiratory and skin ailment."</div>
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It took 6 years and thousands of Dutch citizens developing medical problems often seen in victims of biological and chemical weapons attacks until the Dutch Health Ministry and the Israeli government finally admitted that the plane was loaded with enough dimethyl methylphosphonate to produce almost half a ton of sarin.</div>
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Haaretz also reported that the bio-agents developed at Ness Ziona have been used by the Mossad to poison the enemies of Israel, with the high-profile assassination in 1996 of Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal serving as a brutal example of Israel's willingness to use biological weapons against non-military targets.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2980107733137075016.post-42181420075474012182020-02-29T09:15:00.000+01:002020-02-29T09:15:10.734+01:00Israel's Yamam Implicated in Rash of Sniper Killings<div style="text-align: justify;">
The civil war in Syria may be one of those things that some sinister Israeli historians will say was a "blessing for Israel" because it fully legitimized its taking of the Golan Heights from Syria, with even many of the Druze residents of the Golan glad not to be in the line of fire of Syrian rebels or regime forces. The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-israel-golan-heights.html">reported</a> that as Syria "reels," Israel is fully solidifying its hold on the Golan by expanding settlements. </div>
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While some Israelis rejoice at the chaos in Syria, others look with dread towards the water, and not because of empty Hamas threats to push the "Jews to the sea." This time around, an adversary threatens to keep Jews <i>from</i> the sea. </div>
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The Israeli intelligence community is working overtime to assess the threat that the Islamic State branch in Libya is increasingly posing to the safety of Israeli shipping in the Mediterranean. According to an expert familiar with the Israeli intelligence community, Yamam agents are not only likely just closely watching the situation on the ground in Libya, but also actively attempting to prevent threats to Israeli ships. </div>
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As Abreu Reported in September of 2014 in our <a href="http://www.abreureport.com/2014/09/israels-counter-terrorism-police-to.html">article</a> --
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Although operations may be carried out on the ground by Israeli Special Forces, it is the Yamam that is tasked with undertaking undercover police work. Further, the Yamam was designed to counter the exact kind of ship kidnapping scenario that the Islamic State is planning against Israeli cruise ships, and thus individuals in Libya involved in the planning or promotion of anti-Israel plots are threatened to be systematically taken out by Yamam snipers. </div>
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The fact that the Yamam is known in Israel for its secrecy, with even the identity of
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Though it was the Mossad that would have been suspected by previous radical Jihadist organizations of involvement in every single bombing or suspicious death of a high-ranking terror operative, the Islamic State as of late is on the lookout for undercover Yamam operatives.<br />
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Although sniper attacks may indeed be the work of a "lone gunman" from Misrata, the facts on the ground are that Israel has been preparing to carry out undercover operations in Libya since it authorized the Yamam in 2014 to carry out operations abroad with impunity. </div>
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As ISIS continues solidifying its hold on the Mediterranean coastline with an eye on blowing up Israeli ships and kidnapping cruise ships full of Israelis, the Yamam will have plans for them. Barack Obama was <a href="http://www.bdlive.co.za/africa/africannews/2016/02/05/obama-under-pressure-to-send-us-troops-to-libya">pressured</a> by his aides to take military action in Libya, but the political chaos in the nation and absence of a plural government means that there's no legitimate authority to invite foreign troops.</div>
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Obama didn't want to embroil the United States in what could be perceived as yet another military intervention by US troops in a Muslim country, and the Italians and Germans are <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/report-german-bundeswehr-mulls-libyan-army-training-mission/a-18968847">merely training </a>soldiers in nearby Tunisia; an operation which, like the CIA Syrian rebel training program, will take time to put into motion and could even be an abysmal <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1fb971e360c44a8fa7fd361bbc117681/pentagon-change-training-program-syrian-rebels">failure</a>.<br />
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Israel may feel that it has no option but to take stealth action in Libya in order to protect its national security, otherwise hundreds of Israelis may end up captive on an ISIS-boarded cruise ship, a scenario that will make coronavirus look pale by comparison. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beat up for questioning Deep State. <a href="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/02/09/004A418600000258-3336798-image-a-40_1449048845842.jpg">Reuters</a></td></tr>
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<i>Was President George W. Bush in charge? </i></div>
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A White House whistleblower has informed Abreu Report that the Yale-graduated head of state was not actually in charge, and that Dick Cheney even beat him up as the former president threatened to withdraw troops from Iraq after being coerced to attack Syria.</div>
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As Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh recently <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/484191-limbaugh-dems-who-set-up-george-w-bush-to-go-to-war-with-iraq-are-now">revealed in a bombshell transmission</a>, "Bush, as a Republican, not popular with the deep state, particularly after how he was elected," highlighting the danger that shadow elements within the US government exert over the people's elected representatives.</div>
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Although the majority consensus among individuals who've researched the attacks of September the 11th is that George W. Bush was the architect responsible for <a href="https://www.ae911truth.org/">bringing down World Trade Center 7</a>, recent revelations indicate that Vice-President Dick Cheney was the one to blame for orchestrating the worst devastation to have been unleashed upon American soil.</div>
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<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-dick-cheney-became-most-powerful-vice-president-history/">According to The Nation</a>, "In early 2007, as Iraq seemed to be slipping inexorably into chaos and President George W. Bush into inescapable political purgatory, Meir Dagan, the head of the Israeli Mossad, flew to Washington, sat down in a sunlit office of the West Wing of the White House, and spread out on the coffee table before him a series of photographs showing a strange-looking building rising out of the sands in the desert of eastern Syria."</div>
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It was then that Dick Cheney set into motion events that would cascade into the Syrian Civil War, a bloodbath which has resulted in nearly half a million dead and millions more wounded and displaced. </div>
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President Bush was opposed and it resulted in Vice-President Cheney punching him in the eye and threatening to shoot him in the face, <a href="https://apnews.com/7f0bb4733ad2462b97368a0604fb8b0d">shouting in heated words</a>: "I shot a lawyer in the face and got away with it, I'll shoot you right in front of the Secret Service and get away with it!"</div>
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These revelations by Mr. Limbaugh and by the Secret Service call into question America's leadership in the world and threaten our democracy. </div>
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Although President Donald Trump has challenged the Deep State, let us not forget that he has a family and that they have already threatened to kill his relatives should his decisions endanger the economic interest of the highly-guarded, old elite. </div>
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