Randi keeps mentioning " Otto Reich " (sp?). Who is he ? nt

[steve2470]

[SharonAnn]

1. Right-wing, Cuban American, Iran-Contra, etc. back in power

http://www.counterpunch.org/ottoreich1.html

[steve2470]

4. muchas gracias senorita ! nt

[davepc]

2. One of Regan's South America goons

He focused more on the "contra" side of Iran/Contra, but one of those faceless/nameless types given too much power with too little oversight and working in league with a corrupt administration.

[acmejack]

3. Another guy from Iran-contra era

[sintax]

5. Anti-Castro Fanatic

ultra right wing Reaganite and Special envoy to western Hemisphere

For more info go to www.rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/reich/reich.php

The dirtiest of dealers.

[steve2470]

6. link reports as not good nt

[steve2470]

7. good link here

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/reich/reich.php

[sintax]

9. bravo

thanx.

He's well manicured and short tempered ready to push the button on all those 'brown-skinned commies' isn't he? Otto has dodged many an indictment.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Otto Reich

From Right Web
Dated December 2003

Otto J. Reich
U.S. Special Envoy to the Western Hemisphere
Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation (School of the Americas): Board of Visitors
Head of Reagan's Office of Public Diplomacy



Highlights & Quotes

The Bush administration’s decision to nominate Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state for hemisphere affairs was regarded as one its more serious nomination blunders. Without putting too fine a point on it, Reich is viewed with disdain throughout much of the Americas.

An anti-Castro fanatic who was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal as a result of his work in Ronald Reagan’s Office of Public Diplomacy, the propaganda outfit that was charged with planting op-eds in newspapers that disparaged critics of the administration’s Latin American policies and lauded Contra leaders, Reich’s nomination was roundly criticized. The San Antonio Express-News opined: "Like a disturbing dream from a not-so-distant past, he floats up out of a time when Ollie North was running guns to the Nicaraguan Contras and Robert McFarlane was bearing a key, a cake, and a Bible to stiff-necked Iranian ayatollahs."

In 2002, not long after he was reappointed as special envoy to the western hemisphere, Reich was also nominated to serve on the board of the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation, better known as the School of the Americas, the U.S. Army’s training ground for Latin American dictators and world-class human rights violators, like Manuel Noriega and Argentina’s Leopoldo Galtieri. Said Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of the crusading School of the Americas Watch, of Reich’s nomination: “This only renews our conviction that this school of coups, torturers and assassins must be closed down for good.”

Read more.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Sounds more like Otto Third Reich, to me. nt

[peacetalksforall]

10. Recently present during the removal of Aristede and the coup against

Chavez of Venezuela.

Pimp for oil corporations and anything right wing.

Hates Castro.

[radwriter0555]

11. One of the Iran Contra 7 pardoned by bush as well. A crook, a gop nazi and

a bona fide BAD GUY.