Envoy denies allegations about CIA in Venezuela (Otto REICH)

[Say_What]

Anytime Herr REICH is denying something, there's a 99.99% chance that it's a lie. He's a former propaganda minister for keeerist's sake!

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CARACAS, Venezuela - A top U.S. envoy dismissed allegations Tuesday that Washington was helping opposition groups topple Venezuela's leftist president.

Otto Reich, White House special envoy for Latin America, told local Union Radio that "it is totally ridiculous" to think that U.S. agents are involved in any such effort.

http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/101503/usn_envoydenies.shtml

[Tempest]

1. Have him explain what he was doing in Venezuela during the coup attempt

That should cause him to age a few years.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Otto Reich, lying?

(snip) April 20, 2002

A Coup Signed by Otto Reich
By Jean-Guy Allard

His fingerprints are all over the perimeter of the crime. The disgraceful disinformation campaign carried out by the private Venezuelan media; the siege of the Cuban embassy in Caracas; the false resignation of President Chavez and his alleged plea for asylum in Cuba: everything bears the stamp of Otto Reich.

The former top official in the Reagan regime, buddy of the most fanatical anti-Cuba terrorists and now--incredibly-- the number one man for Latin America in the U.S. administration, he has personally and clearly masterminded the subversive plans that have just failed in Caracas.

Recruited by the CIA while he was still in the university, Reich was a specialist in deception during the Reagan administration. Reagan's vice president, George Bush was a former operative and then head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

From his Office of Public Diplomacy, Reich covered up all the dirtiest operations of the war in Nicaragua, circulating false information through the media. (snip)

(snip) When the narco-contra scandal--poorly named the Iran-Contra scandal-- blew open with the discovery of drug trafficking operations managed by Cuban-American terrorists Felix Rodriguez and Luis Posada Carriles, Reagan was forced to remove him from the White House. (snip/...)

http://www.counterpunch.org/allard0420.html

[IndianaGreen]

3. Strange having a Cuban American with a German name...

Otto Reich is a known criminal and liar.

[gratuitous]

4. Check Greg Palast's reporting on this guy

Otto Reich is lower than a snake's belly in Death Valley. The attempted coup last year (was it only last year?) in Venezuela was a spectacular fuck-up of the first order, and had Reich's ham-handed hoof prints all over it.

Reich seriously needs to spend some time in the dock at The Hague, and some quality time behind bars at someplace like Spandau.

[Say_What]

5. Otto Reich Named to Board for US Army's School of the Americas

From CounterPunch May 2002

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Otto Reich has been named to the Board of Visitors at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as the School of the Americas (SOA). The WHISC's charter requires a Board of Visitors to monitor the school, to ensure that the curriculum emphasize "human rights, the rule of law, due process, civilian control of the military, and the role of the military in a democratic society". Reich has a history of aiding coups and known terrorists.

..."It's a new name, but the same shame,"said Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch, "They prove this point by putting Otto Reich on this rubber stamp board."

Reich first gained notoriety throughout Latin America and among US human rights groups for his role as head of the Office of Public Diplomacy during the Reagan administration. This office launched an anti-Sandinista propaganda campaign, illegally designed to influence the American public to embrace the administration?s agenda for Central America. Later, as US ambassador to Venezuela, Reich used his office to help Orlando Bosch, a known terrorist, get into the US. Bosch was convicted of firing a bazooka at a freighter in Miami, and accused of bombing a Cuban jet, killing 73 people. Despite this record the current Bush administration nominated Reich for Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. In this capacity Reich admittedly advised Pedro Carmona<the businessman who seized the presidency<during the failed coup in Venezuela last month. Also he met with generals who planned the coup in the months leading up to the coup (some of whom were trained at the SOA).

"This only renews our conviction that this school of coups, torturers and assassins must be closed down for good,"said Bourgeoi

http://www.counterpunch.org/reich0503.html

[goforit]

6. Sounds like Herr Reich has been quite busy after all!!!

He's the first to defend the Bushie maffia?

He must be the leader of the Bushie maffia!

Who needs Tennent when ya got Reich the Head of the
Bush Sr.'s Underground CIA!!!!....The Dark CIA!!!