Re: FWD: [surgelocal] Colombian, Peruvian papers suggest CIA helped

gunder frnk adds a histrical but contemporary  footnote, that helps to
make his report more credible:

It has now been revealed in connection with the 40th anniversary review of
the Bay of Pgs invasion, that  shortly before that the CIA  asked the British 
government to prohibit the sale of British fighter planes to Cuba with the
specific purpose to oblige the Cubans to buy Russian ones instead in
order to use closer Cuban-Soviet especiallzy military relations as a
pretext & justification for a more belligerent US polocy and practice
against Cuba.
How many other such CIA schemes have thre been in between these tow, that
is the early 1960sin Cuba  and the late 199os in Peru-Colombia ones?
 


On Sun, 13 May 2001, ssherman wrote:

> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:52:03 -0400
> From: ssherman <ssherman@gborocollege.edu>
> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> Subject: FWD: [surgelocal] Colombian,
>      Peruvian papers suggest CIA helped inflame Colombia's war
> 
> Thought people might find this interesting.
> 
> Steve Sherman
> 
> 
> DID PERU'S CORRUPT EX-SPY CHIEF WORK WITH HIS C.I.A. SUPPORTERS TO FAN THE
> DEADLY FLAMES OF WAR IN COLOMBIA?  SO SAYS REPORT...
> 
> The following report suggests that the former spy-chief of Peru, Vladimiro
> Montesinos, and good ally of then-US drug 'czar' Barry McCaffrey, had a
> purpose in selling small arms to Colombia's main leftist rebel
> force:  inflame the war for his CIA allies so that the US could then
> justify intensified military intervention through Plan Colombia and other
> regional activities.  So far the CIA connections are rather tenuous though
> suggestive.
> - Jeff S.
> 
> From _El Espectador_, Colombia, 13 May 2001 (partial translation):
> www.elespectador.com
> 
> -------------------------
> A game with many players
> - Bogota/Lima
> 
> The contraband operation of Peruvian weapons to the FARC guerrillas had an
> additional purpose beyond fortifying the guerrillas:  generate an
> escalation of fighting that would justify foreign military intervention,
> due to the destablization of southern Colombia.
> 
> That is the content of two videos of the strongman of Peruvian
> intelligence, Vladimiro Montesinos, filmed by himself, and that became
> known after his escaping the fall of president Alberto Fujimori.
> 
> On August 21st of last year, Montesinos and Fujimori appeared in public in
> a press conference to announce the dismantling of an international
> arms-trafficking network which began in Jordan and ended in the Colombian
> jungle of Vichada.
> 
> In the two following days it was discovered that the international arms
> trafficking network was directing by the same Montesinos, that the rest of
> the protagonists of this operation to buy 50,000 AK-47 rifles were close
> associates of the Servicio de Inteligencia del Peru, SIN (National
> Intelligence Service of Peru), and that in four airdrops they had already
> delivered 10,000 arms to one FARC front in the border between the states
> of Vichada and Guainia.
> 
> But the later reconstruction of the events which surrounded this gigantic
> arms trafficking operation, and that essentially is due to the Peruvian
> journalist Angel Paez, of the daily _La Republica_ in Lima, seeded new
> inquiries.
> 
> Montesinos and the Jordanian arms-sales operator, Sarkis Soghanaglian
> Kupelian, have admitted close connections with the CIA, and it was this
> same agency that delivered the arms-sales contract to the SIN chief,  Rear
> Admiral Humberto Rozas Bonucelli.
> 
> In two videotaped conversations, Montesinos verified that for October of
> 1999 there had been prepared a military invasion of Colombia, that had
> been generated by the escalation of the internal conflict in the boder
> between Ecuador and Peru.  According to his version, the armies of the
> neighboring countries occupied themselves with blocking the retreat of the
> guerrillas toward those countries.
> 
> Montesinos said to Genaro Delgado Parker, owner of the Global Television
> network, that a meeting directed by then-president Fujimori in the
> Interamerican Defense Institute (Colegio Interarmericano de Defensa) on
> February 4th, 1999, had been "coordinated by the Americans" and that this
> framed the project as a demonstration for the world that the Colombian
> conflict was a threat to the entire sub-region.
> 
> An investigation begun by the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad,
> DAS (Administrative Department of Security), in Colombia, rooted in the
> seizure from the guerrillas of various rifles whose series corresponded to
> the Peruvian army, brought to light the operation, and the spectacularity
> of the press conference during which Fujimori and Montesinos unveiled the
> presumed arms-trafficking operation ended with a governmental regime
> initiated ten years earlier in Peru.
> 
> ..
> 
> Soghanaglian, 72 years old, is a reputed arms dealer who had participated
> in operations to ["apertrechar", couldn't find] Argentina during the
> Malvinas war, to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, and in the process of
> arming the Nicaraguan Contras.  Born in Turkey, he grew up in Lebanon and
> for 20 years has lived in the US.  Currently he faces trial in Miami for
> conspiracy to defraud a US banker.
> 
> After the meeting [in 1998 in Amman to negotiate the sale], Soghanaglian
> said that he consulted with a CIA agent in Amman about the sale of the
> 50,000 arms, and the agent said to him that there wasn't any problem,
> seeing as how the war with Ecuador [and Peru] had been concluded for four
> months.  Tim Golden, of _The New York Times_, spoke with an ex-agent of
> the agency, who confirmed that conversation.
> 
> ..
> But the seizure of Peruvian-series arms brought in the DAS and ended in
> the dismantling of the project.  In a declaration before a Lima judge,
> Rozas [jefe del SIN] said that in the ten first days of August of 2000,
> copies of the arms-sales contracts were sent to him "by personnel from a
> national intelligence service of a friendly American country... three
> people arrived with this document."
> ..
> 
> Quote from transcribed interview, in full in the original article:
> 
> 1999: Montesinos interviewed by Global TV:
> 
> Montesinos:
> So, the only alternative the Americans have to solve the Colombian problem
> is an invasion, that they're going to do this year.
> 
> They're preparing themselves a half million Marine infantrymen to invade
> Colombia and they asked of us that the President [Fujimori] made the
> declarations because they aren't able to say so themselves.  So, the
> President made his declarations in the Colegio Interamericano.
> 
> 
> 
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