Convicted Israeli trainer of Colombia paramilitaries claims CIA ties
Convicted Israeli trainer of Colombia paramilitaries claims CIA ties
Nov 17, 2014 posted by Joel Gillin
Israeli mercenary Yair Klein, convicted in Colombia of training paramilitary forces, has claimed he was contracted by the CIA to train Colombians for a coup detat in Panama, according the El Espectador newspaper.
Klein, who was tried in absentia in 2001 and sentenced to ten years for providing military training to paramilitary group AUC, claims that the CIA hired him to train Colombians on the Caribbean island of Antigua in the 1980s to overthrow the Panamanian government.
The operation, Klein says, was canceled one week before it was supposed to occur, and the US military invaded Panama less than a year later and deposed then-President Manuel Noriega.
After the change of plans, Klein said he proposed that he use the arms intended for the coup which he claims came to Antigua through the CIA to create a private security training college, a request he says was denied.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/cia-convicted-israeli-paramilitary-trainer-cia-ties/