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green for victory

(591 posts)
4. intelligence operatives from before LBJ
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 07:39 AM
Apr 2013

like Operation 40

Operation 40 was a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored undercover operation in the early 1960s, which was active in the United States and the Caribbean (including Cuba), Central America, and Mexico. It was approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in March 1960, after the January 1959 Cuban Revolution, and was presided over by Vice-president Richard Nixon.

The group included Frank Sturgis (who would later become one of the Watergate burglars); Felix Rodriguez (a CIA officer who later was involved in the capture and summary execution of Che Guevara); Luis Posada Carriles (held in the US in 2010 on charges of illegal immigration, he is demanded by Venezuela for his key role in the execution of the 1976 Cubana Flight 455 bombing); Orlando Bosch (founder of the counterrevolutionary Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, that organized the 1976 murder of Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier); Rafael 'Chi Chi' Quintero; Virgilio Paz Romero; Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz; Bernard Barker;

Porter Goss; and Barry Seal. Members took part in the April 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion directed against the government of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Operation 40 had 86 employees in 1961, of which 37 were trained as case officers.


Porter with OP 40 in '63: (second from left-sitting next to Barry Seal- Remember Barry? Found with his head blown off and GHWB's personal phone # in his trunk)



Porter in 2001: Co author of the Patriot act and co-chair of the first "investigation" into 911:



Mr. Goss had breakfast the morning of 911 with Mahmud Ahmed --the money man behind Mohammed Atta (per FBI)-- the hijacker of flight 77.

Isn't that interesting.
Eisenhower and the POWS in the German Camps at the very end of the war, very odd. graham4anything Apr 2013 #1
And your point is? n/t MadHound Apr 2013 #2
Following your notation on bottom-It needs to go back to Eisenhower, nice guy he wasn't. graham4anything Apr 2013 #3
He's just a disruptor. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #5
intelligence operatives from before LBJ green for victory Apr 2013 #4
What does this have to do with "war crimes," the subject of the OP? AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #6
Well if the US Government allowed/encouraged 9/11 that would be a crime of some sort el_bryanto Apr 2013 #7
What? Does post #4 mention "the US Government allowed/encouraged 9/11"? AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #8
Indirectly, yes. el_bryanto Apr 2013 #9
Considering that if you give $100 to a Mosque that happens to be on a watch list... green for victory Apr 2013 #15
Is the article incorrect? Did Porter Goss have lunch with Mahmud Ahmed? sabrina 1 Apr 2013 #16
Well - again - I don't believe the linkages add up to very much el_bryanto Apr 2013 #17
I didn't say anything about linkages. Has DU decided that news, facts, are not facts?? Or that some sabrina 1 Apr 2013 #18
OK. Cards on the table - I sort of agree that there could be more open discussion el_bryanto Apr 2013 #19
Well, I wasn't talking about DU. I was talking about the general censorship of US Media. sabrina 1 Apr 2013 #20
maybe re read the OP green for victory Apr 2013 #13
We are not supposed to be talking like this. zeemike Apr 2013 #10
The OP title is bogus. ProSense Apr 2013 #11
Gee I wonder why we can't get gun control support from those in charge.... midnight Apr 2013 #12
"US war crimes probably dates back to LBJ, if not further." bhikkhu Apr 2013 #14
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