“The CIA’s Plans in Venezuela Are Far Advanced”

[Judi Lynn]

“The CIA’s Plans in Venezuela Are Far Advanced”
By Raúl Capote
Source: Venezuelanalysis.Com
March 26, 2014

In a recent interview in Havana, a former CIA collaborator, Cuban Raúl Capote, revealed the strategy of the CIA in Venezuelan universities to create the kind of destabilizing opposition student movement the country is currently facing. He also discusses media manipulation, and alleges that one of the U.S. diplomats that President Maduro expelled from Venezuela last September was in fact a CIA agent. The following translation and notes were made by Sabina C. Becker. Original interview in Spanish here.

Raúl Capote is a Cuban. But not just any Cuban. In his youth, he was caught up by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They offered him an infinite amount of money to conspire in Cuba. But then something unexpected for the US happened. Capote, in reality, was working for Cuban national security. From then on, he served as a double agent. Learn his story, by way of an exclusive interview with the Chávez Vive magazine, which he gave in Havana:

Q. What was the process by which you were caught up?

It started with a process of many years, several years of preparation and capture. I was leader of a Cuban student movement which, at that time, gave rise to an organization, the Saiz Brothers Cultural Association, a group of young creators, painters, writers, artists. I worked in a city in southern-central Cuba, Cienfuegos, which had characteristics of great interest to the enemy, because it was a city in which an important industrial pole was being built at the time. They were building an electrical centre, the only one in Cuba, and there were a lot of young people working on it. For that reason, it was also a city that had a lot of young engineers graduated in the Soviet Union. We’re talking of the last years of the 1980s, when there was that process called Perestroika. And many Cuban engineers, who arrived in Cuba at that time, graduated from there, were considered people who had arrived with that idea of Perestroika. For that reason, it was an interesting territory, where there were a lot of young people. And the fact that I was a youth leader of a cultural organization, which dealt with an important sector of the engineers who were interested in the arts, became of interest to the North Americans, and they began to frequent the meetings we attended. They never identified themselves as enemies, or as officials of the CIA.

Q. Were there many of them, or just always the same person?

Several. They never presented themselves as officials of the CIA, nor as people who had come to cause trouble, or anything.

Q. And who do you suppose they were?

They presented themselves as people coming to help us and our project, and who had the ability to finance it. That they had the chance to make it a reality. The proposal, as such, sounded interesting because, okay, a project in the literary world requires that you know a publisher, that you have editorial relations. It’s a very complex market. And they came in the name of publishers. What happened is that, during the process of contact with us, what they really wanted became quite evident. Because once they had made the contact, once they had begun frequenting our meetings, once they began to promise financing, then came the conditions for being financed.

Q. What conditions did they demand?

They told us: We have the ability to put the markets at your disposal, to put you on the markets of books or sculpture or movies or whatever, but we need the truth, because what we’re selling in the market, is the image of Cuba. The image of Cuba has to be a realistic one, of difficulties, of what’s going on in the country. They wanted to smear the reality of Cuba. What they were asking is that you criticize the revolution, based on anti-Cuba propaganda lines, which they provided.

Q. How big was these people’s budget?

They came with an infinite amount of money, because the source of the money, obviously, we found out over time from whence it came. For example, there was USAID, which was the big provider, the overall contractor of this budget, which channeled the money via NGOs, many of them invented just for Cuba. They were NGOs that didn’t exist, created solely for this type of job in Cuba, and we’re talking thousands and thousands of dollars. They weren’t working on small budgets. To give you an example, at one time, they offered me ten thousand dollars, just to include elements of anti-Cuba propaganda, in the novel I was writing.

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[Loudly]

1. Possible, I guess. But seems more like a smear.

A leftist opposition is trying to advance a social democratic alternative to the current authoritarian leftist power structure which has failed to deliver on its mandate to provide basic consumer goods and security against crime.

That's what's currently going on in Venezuela, to the best of my observation and belief.

A CIA-meets-counter-revolutionary right-wing cabal just seems far-fetched at this late date. A desperation bogeyman.

[Peace Patriot]

7. It's not at all far-fetched. In fact, it would floor me if there ISN'T a huge CIA...

...money and agents project in Venezuela. It's what they do--especially in countries with resources that our corporate rulers lust after, countries where the poor majority has established influence and electoral power and countries that the Pentagon wants access to, for "forwarding operating locations" and other infiltration. Venezuela is wanted as a U.S. client state for all of these reasons, and more--to destroy this example of successful socialism which has included big reductions in poverty, documented by the UN Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean, the Millennium Project and other outside entities, as well as by the people of Venezuela themselves, who keep electing chavistas, most recently in the huge chavista landslide in local elections.

People-control of the biggest crude oil reserves in the world (bigger than Saudi Arabia's, according to the USGS), socialist sharing of wealth, honest elections ("best election system in the world," according to Jimmy Carter), and government antagonism toward U.S. domination and interference in Venezuela and in the region, are intolerable to the CIA. They've been trying to overthrow the chavistas and Venezuelan democracy for over a decade. You think they're not still trying? That's nonsense!

The game plan is obvious--and similar to many, many other such game plans in Latin America and in the world, for six decades now. Some of the funding is obvious, and well-documented, in Venezuela. The CIA also has very secret, very big budgets for serving the "military-industrial complex" and their Wall Street partners, in just this way--overthrowing democratic governments using local fascist partners. (Jeez, they just did it in the Ukraine! They've done it in Honduras, recently; in Paraguay, recently; in Haiti; attempted in '02 in Venezuela; attempted in '08 in Bolivia; and in the past in Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America, and in the world, including overthrowing Iran's first democracy in the mid-1950s, and the Congo's first democracy in 1961, not to mention Indonesia--the list goes on and on and on.

The CIA in Latin America, and elsewhere, often works with local rich elites and their fascist leaders, and often infiltrates or creates student groups for their purposes. They did it when I was a student, here--they infiltrated the U.S. National Student Association, and got caught. I was a member of the National Student Association at the time, and remember it well. They destroyed that organization but I have no doubt whatever that they are fully infiltrated among student groups today, here and wherever they can get a foothold. This subtler purpose, with students, is to gain control of the more liberal end of the political spectrum, "guide" political discussion, spy on people for information, blackmail and other controls, and install leaders--in the organizations and in government office--whom they control one way or another. Why else would the CIA have infiltrated the National Student Association in the 1960s, especially considering that the movement against their genocidal war on Vietnam was student-based?

The documentation of USAID funding and "training" of rightwing student leaders in Venezuela is solid. The USAID is the public front for the CIA, by the CIA's own admission. And what might they be doing with their secret, unaccountable budgets--not to mention their ties to illicit money, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, the Miami mafia and corporate/bankster money? We know damn well what they've done in numerous other cases, recently and for many decades.

It is mindbogglingly naive to say that this is not going on. And it is utterly ridiculous to assert that the fascist leaders of the opposition and their "student" brownshirts in Venezuela are leftists and are "trying to advance a social democratic alternative"! They are nothing but thugs who are trying to regain control of Venezuela's oil by violence and disruption. That is their "alternative"--that the elite 1% rule again, and be free to rob the poor majority once again, and rake off the top of the oil money for their degraded, imported luxuries, again, while giving most of the country's oil wealth to the likes of Exxon Mobil.

THAT is the CIA's purpose in funding/training these students and others. THAT is what is "going on in Venezuela." It is very clearly a second coup attempt--or a third/fourth attempt, if the oil bosses' lockout and other fascist/CIA tactics in the mid-2000's are included.

The fascists/CIA couldn't accomplish this in 2002 or 2003/2004. They changed tactics and are now USING STUDENTS--"trained" thugs, and "trained" leaders, who have manipulated and incited other students--mostly middle- and upper-class, mostly in PRIVATE colleges--into violence and chaos. These "trained" puppets and their fascist adult puppetmasters and political mouthpieces have refused to meet with the government; have refused to dialogue; have refused to attend conferences called for peaceful discussion. They have been trashing government buildings, hurting people and barricading streets, mostly in their own neighborhoods. How does it help Venezuela to reduce street crime--by destroying bus services and government buildings, by causing traffic accidents and deaths, by shooting people? How does it help the availability of products in Venezuela to block off streets with barricades? How does it help Venezuelan democracy to torch election offices?

These are destructive activities, and the reason that rightwing leaders and student thugs won't go to peace conferences is that they don't want peace!. They want to create sufficient chaos to topple the government and seize control!

We have seen this before, time and again. And we are seeing it now. I don't think it will succeed. Venezuelans are too committed to democracy, social justice and independence, to let these bad people win by violence what they can't win at the voting booth. But, gawd, the destruction, pain and injury they are causing are awful, especially for a people who have struggled so long and so hard for a just and fair country! It is horrifying. And our hand in it--our tax dollars, our government agencies, our loss of control of our own democracy--are also horrifying and shameful.

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[SamKnause]

2. Thanks Judi.

Keep up the good work.

I look forward to your posts.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Thank you for this post. Very meaningful, and appreciated. n/t

[SamKnause]

4. You are most welcome Judi !!!

I am sick of all the lies that are spread about Venezuela.

I am sick of all the lies that are spread on this particular site.

[newfie11]

5. So am I.

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It's so common now that anytime there's a problem in South America I assume it's caused by America and the CIA.

[uncommonlink]

6. You expect us to take the word of a man who's job is to lie?

Who is very obviously hostile to the United States.
Is that what you want us to believe? Sounds like the Cubans are starting to really worry about their man in Venezuela.
The desperation around here reeks.