Bush Orders More CIA Activity in Venezuela

[Robbien]

During a briefing before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence, current CIA chief General Michael V. Hayden revealed President George W. Bush had requested his agency “pay more attention” to the activities of President Hugo Chávez and his government in Venezuela.

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During the January 18, 2007 intelligence briefing in the House of Representatives, Republican congressman Darrell Issa requested that Negroponte and CIA Director Hayden speak about how the United States is handling the “Chávez phenomenon” and whether or not the intelligence specialists could guarantee that Venezuela will not become a “serious threat in our own hemisphere.” Intelligence czar Negroponte responded that Venezuela “is probably the second country in the hemisphere where we have concentrated the majority of our intelligence and analysis efforts.” According to Negroponte’s comments, Cuba maintains its position as the “top” intelligence priority of the United States Government in this region.

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Negroponte did not comment on how many millions upon millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars were being used to undermine Venezuela’s re-elected President. Through the congressionally-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the State Department’s United States Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. taxpayers pour more than $7 million of their dollars into funding Venezuela’s undemocratic and unpopular opposition movement each year.

Since 2001, almost 50 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars have been authorized by Congress and distributed through the NED and the USAID to fund a very unsuccessful coalition of anti-Chávez political parties, NGOs, private media groups, labor unions and business associations, to aid in their efforts to oust Venezuela’s democratically elected and majority supported government.

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This funding does not include the millions that have been authorized by the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA, and the Pentagon to aid intelligence activities and covert action in Venezuela. Per CIA director Hayden’s revelation that under “President Bush’s instructions, we have increased our work in Venezuela,” it is clear the U.S. government views Venezuela as a major focus of attention and a threat to U.S. foreign policy in the region.


http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2196

[itsmesgd]

1. Note to Hugo Chavez:

Now would be a great time to take a vacation or find some look-a-likes. Watch your back, let other people taste your food before you eat it, and never start your own car. Our #1 oil man, the chimp and his boss, dick, dont like competition.
Be careful.

[demnan]

2. And also Hugo

stop making friends with the likes of Joe Kennedy and sending our senior citizens cheap oil. The devils in the White House don't like that.

[endarkenment]

3. Chavez figures that they have tried everything else

so the fourth attempt at getting rid of him will be assasination.

The bolivarian movement is larger than one man and will survive even if we add this crime to the long list of crimes we have committed.

[EFerrari]

4. WTF "work" do you have in VENEZUELA? THUGS!

:mad:

[Imagevision]

5. Didn't the 7-11 people vote out using CITGO for a gas supplier??

it hasn't seem to take effect yet here in southwest Fla.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Venezuela's real crime: Hand-counting 55% of the vote, cuz they don't

trust the voting machines.

Know how much WE hand-count of OUR votes, as a check on the voting machine totals?

0% to 1%, depending on the stranglehold that rightwing Bushite electronic voting corporations, Diebold and ES&S, have on local election officials and legislators.

Bush has no legitimacy. Chavez does. That is Chavez's and Venezuela's crime.


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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1901

(--article on what it was like in the barrios of Caracas in the '06 election; contains the 55% stat.)

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Poll: Venezuelans Have Highest Regard for Their Democracy
Wednesday, Dec 20, 2006
By: Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2179

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And, of course, their other crime is they have a lot of oil, which the PEOPLE of Venezuela are determined will benefit THEIR country, especially its millions of poor, ravaged by decades of fascist policy. To Bush, Cheney, Rice, Negroponte and Co., it is a crime to benefit the poor, most especially with oil profits.

[TZ]

7. Oil and threat

Well they do produce an awful lot of oil. With Chavez bad mouthing the US I am sure the next thing that we will be fed is that Chavez is trying to get WMD's.Either that or the CIA is trying to dig up a connection to 9/11...and they are a lot less miliararily ready than Iran...:nuke:

[Unperson]

8. Where is the largest Venezuelan community in the U.S.?

That is where you will find a lot of CIA activity as well. Case officers soliciting expats. Also interrogating new immigrants from Vennezuela. Just like right now I'll bet dollars to donuts that Detroit is a hotbed of activity for info and operatives concerning Iraq. Detroit being the largest Iraqi population in the U.S.