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contrarianna
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posted 28 November 2007 12:00 PM

"November 28, 2007
COUNTERPUNCH EXCLUSIVE!
Counterattack as Fateful Referendum Looms
CIA Venezuela Destabilization Memo Surfaces
By JAMES PETRAS
On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which will influence the referendum this Sunday, December 2, 2007.
The memo sent by an embassy official, Michael Middleton Steere, was addressed to the Director of Central Intelligence, Michael Hayden. The memo was entitled 'Advancing to the Last Phase of Operation Pincer' and updates the activity by a CIA unit with the acronym 'HUMINT' (Human Intelligence) which is engaged in clandestine action to destabilize the forth-coming referendum and coordinate the civil military overthrow of the elected Chavez government...."
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Free_Radical
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posted 28 November 2007 12:07 PM

quote:
Originally posted by contrarianna:
On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations . . .

Sounds a lot like how a new Bin Laden message always manages to surface whenever it is convenient for the U.S. government to remind people of their particular bogeyman.

. . . and now cue the clamouring response about how when Chavez does it, it is completely different

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contrarianna
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posted 28 November 2007 12:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Free_Radical:

Sounds a lot like how a new Bin Laden message always manages to surface whenever it is convenient for the U.S. government to remind people of their particular bogeyman.
. . . and now cue the clamouring response about how when Chavez does it, it is completely different

1)Most of the bin Laden messages have been first released through non-US sources. Whether or not they have also served US fear-mongering interests at home does not mean they are not real. The actual text of these messages are generally under-reported or mis-reported in the West.

2)Likewise, that there is political advantage in Chavez releasing this memo does not mean it is not real. The nature of the details, in my view, make it unlikely to be a fake.

The difference is that the original source of the CIA memo would probably not want it disseminated.

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Fidel
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posted 28 November 2007 01:20 PM

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A decisive vote for 'Sí' will not end US military and political destabilization campaigns but it will certainly undermine and demoralize their collaborators. On December 2, 2007 the Venezuelans have a rendezvous with history.

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Left Turn
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posted 28 November 2007 01:55 PM

The Venezuelan government knows about the planned coup. The Venezuelan people know about the planned coup. Hopefully the CIA's latest attempt at a coup will be defeated, just as the 2002 coup was defeated. If the government can't defeat the coup attempt, I would expect massive demonstrations on behalf of the Venezuelan people to try and defeat it. The Venezuelan people are among the most politically engaged on our planet, and I would not expect them to just roll over and tolerate this.

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