[R-G] FW: CIA operatives now in place in Venezuela for 'a second bite at the cherry.'

[Tim Murphy]

CIA operatives now in place in Venezuela for 'a second bite at
the cherry.'


<The Bush official in charge of the Latin American desk Otto
Reich has been holding top level meetings with strategists from
the Venezuelan political opposition in Washington D.C. who also
had meetings there last week with shadowy Venezuelan
billionaire Gustavo Cisneros and former US White House insider
Henry Kissinger.>

Walter Lippmann <walterlx at earthlink.net>:
The appearance yesterday of a "hit piece" on
Page One of the Wall Street Journal, now
reprinted in today's Miami Herald gives
more urgency to this kind of information.)
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BREAKING NEWS

VHeadline.com world exclusive: Bush 2 administration
officials again seeking to stimulate a regime change in
Venezuela -- question is no longer if, but when!

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=14775

VHeadline.com editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes:

Sources in Washington D.C. have revealed that Bush 2
administration officials are again seeking to "stimulate" a
regime change in Venezuela after a USA-backed coup d'etat
against democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez Frias
failed, when US puppet dictator Pedro Carmona Estanga moved
to dissolve parliament, the judiciary and the constitutionin one
fell swoop.

Our sources, which must remain confidential, but have been
verified, say that Venezuelan nationals, recruited on the
promise of fast-track US citizenship and benefits, have
been trained in the arts of USA terror tactics at the US
Army School of Americas-SOA, renamed 3 years ago as the
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
Cooperation-WHISC, at Fort Benning, Georgia, were relocated
to training camps at Iquitos in the northern jungles of
Peru under the direction of US Southern Command, Latin
America & Caribbean, regional HQ at Fort Buchanan, San
Juan, Puerto Rico.

SOA/WHISC commanders are said to be "smarting" over
their failure to impose a US-backed military/civilian
dictatorship in Venezuela in April 2002 when
democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez Frias was
swiftly returned to power after US-puppet dictator Pedro
Carmona Estanga dissolved parliament, the judiciary and
Venezuela's constitution in one fell swoop. Carmona Estanga
was not able to control the massive surge against him as
millions of Venezuelans took to the streets repudiating his
imposition and demanding the return of reformist Chavez
Frias.

Covert US Central Intelligence Agency operatives are
already in place in Venezuela as the SOA/WHISC prepares for
what it is calling "a second bite at the cherry." The Bush 2
official in charge of the Latin American desk Otto Reich has
been holding toplevel meetings with strategists from the
Venezuelan political opposition in Washington D.C. who also
had meetings there last week with shadowy Venezuelan
billionaire Gustavo Cisneros and former US White House
insider Henry Kissinger.

Corrupt Venezuelan Confederation of Trade Unions (CTV)
president Manuel Cova and Coordinadora Democratica (CD)
representative Timoteo Zambrano have met with senior US
State Department officials, including Reich, although both
are attempting to whitewash their visit to D.C. as simply a
round of information meetings they could equally have held
with anti-Venezuelan US Ambassador Charles S. Shapiro at
the Colinas de Valle Arriba bunker in Caracas. Cova and
Zambrano were also meeting with Organization of American
States (OAS) Secretary General, former Colombian President
Cesar Gaviria and US congressmen, including Massachussetts
Democrat Frank Barney, a member of the secretive US Select
Committee on Homeland Security, where he serves on the
Subcommittee on Infrastructure & Border Security and the
Subcommittee on Intelligence & Counterterrorism.

While, on the face of it, US State Department spokespersons
are calling on all sides in Venezuela's tumultuous electoral
process to respect established norms and procedures,
radical opposition meetings with USA-OAS Roger Noriega and
Senator Charles E. Shannon have led IC operatives in D.C.
to dig deeper into Beltway motivartors while senior diplomat
Peter DeShazo (who recently visited Caracas to speak
personally with President Chavez Frias) is seen as having a
more mediative role in conjunction with former US Ambassador
and Latin America expert John Maisto.

Meanwhile, SOA/WHISC troops are hunkered down ready to be
drafted into Venezuela as soon as opposition-inspired
violence breaks out. US Air Force and Navy contingents are
being made ready at a Southern Command base on the
Caribbean island of Aruba (Dutch Antilles) to provide
logistic and material back-up to an invasion force. A US
Navy hospital ship is also said to be on standby to sail to
a position off the Venezuela's northern coastline at first
signal of "the balloon going up."

The remaining question is no longer IF, but WHEN!

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