THIS IS BIG - Correa says CIA Controls Part of Its Intelligence Agencies

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Ecuador says CIA controls part of its intelligence
Sat Apr 5, 2008 2:53pm EDT
By Alonso Soto

QUITO, April 5 (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist president on Saturday accused the CIA of controlling many of his country's spy agencies and said it had shared Ecuadorean intelligence with U.S. ally Colombia during last month's regional crisis.

"Many of our intelligence agencies have been taken over by the CIA," Rafael Correa said during his weekly radio show. "Through the CIA, information found here was passed to Colombia to improve their position" in the dispute.

Ecuador broke off diplomatic ties with Bogota after Colombian forces attacked a rebel camp inside Ecuadorean territory, killing a top guerrilla leader and more than 20 other people.

The bombing raid raised the specter of war after Ecuador and Venezuela briefly sent troops to their borders with Colombia. Nerves quickly calmed during a regional meeting.

But the recent confirmation that an Ecuadorean died in the March 1 raid has renewed tensions between the neighbors.

Correa charged the United States with financing some officers in the Ecuadorean spy agencies and said reforms to the Andean country's intelligence were needed.

A close ally of U.S. foe Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Correa said he hoped the diplomatic spat would be over soon, but warned of legal actions against Colombia for the killing of the Ecuadorean citizen who was in the rebel camp.

Correa added that Ecuador's decision on to sue Colombia in international court over Colombia's anti-drug spraying along its border was in retaliation for the raid.

The suit filed on Monday has again strained relations between the neighbors who share a 400-mile (600 km) border often crossed by rebels fighting a four-decade war against the Colombian government.

Correa, whose popularity has rebounded for his handling of the dispute, is a critic of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.

He has said U.S. President George W. Bush was worse than Satan and once vowed to cut off his arm before renewing a lease that allows U.S. troops to use a key anti-drug air base. (Reporting by Alonso Soto; Editing by Xavier Briand)




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[Judi Lynn]

1. I hope he finds the people in his own government, and pitches them. Why should they work for a

foreign government? I don't think that's the way to approach a job correctly.

He has every right be be hopping mad, considering US forces appear to have gotten information they shared with Colombia, and together they ran operations on Ecuador without even dignifying it with a word to Ecuador's President. It was a deliberate act AGAINST the people's elected President, and to the people themselves.

[struggle4progress]

2. (Recast, adds U.S. Embassy reaction and details)

... Correa has fired a top intelligence officer ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN05430302

[Judi Lynn]

3. Can you believe these corporate media bastards? This clown is only following the model

they ALL use: collecting grievances against left-wing leaders!

He's like a stupid child tattling on someone. He rushes out to tell us that Correa called _Bush "worse than Satan," which is not true. Correa said that Chavez's comparison of _Bush to Satan was an insult to Satan. Then he glued on Correa "vowed to cut off his own arm before renewing a lease...." BALONEY. He never VOWED to cut off his arm. How childish of the writer. How transparent, how petty, how downright s-t-u-p-i-d.

It would make a maggot gag.

You have to notice they do it to all the leftist leaders: start their story, then as soon as they blurt out the new information, they run off and get the list of grudges they're holding against the guy which grows week by week. I'm surprised we're not hearing stuff like they gave someone a dirty look, or swore. There is a perpetual recitation of grudges in every article you get from these idiots when they "report" on liberals, leftists or anyone to the left of Dick Cheney.

Ecuador doesn't need traitors working in the government, putting U.S. interests ahead of Ecuador's. I hope Correa can sniff out all the CIA clowns and pitch them.