COPY AGENT AND SERVANT OF THE CIA
Published at: 17/07/2024 09:00 PM
(ALMARGEN, second half of February 1971)
- From 1969 to 1974, Richard Nixon and Rafael Caldera established a series of cooperation agreements to declare Venezuela territory free of communists through “pacification policies”. One of the instruments was the Peace Corps, which operated across the continent with the mission of “neutralizing” revolutionary insurgent cadres or capturing them as agents and spies.
- Thus, COPEI was another of the tentacular arms at the command of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Venezuela.
- COPEI, in 1970, ratified an agreement with the CIA, through the “Peace Corps”, which operated in Venezuela since 1961 and were responsible, among other crimes, for the introduction of the consumption of certain drugs manufactured in the laboratories of the North American agency, in different juvenile settings in the country.
- The complaint was published in El Nacional by the American journalist Drew Pearson in his column “Washington Carousel”, on June 4, 1969, a few months after Rafael Caldera took office.
- This happened when Joe Blatchford, a CIA agent, was appointed head of the Peace Corps in the country and, simultaneously, the Venezuelan Alfredo J. Pérez, educated in the United States, was appointed director general of these same instruments **** for Latin America.
- FUNDACOMÚN was the local façade or showcase for managing CIA infiltration and covert operations.
- Not only did COPEI serve as a cover for the CIA in the country, but also senior leaders of the IFEDEC (Institute for Christian Democratic Educational Education of America). ****The funding for the training and recruitment courses for these agents came from the North American agency and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. These resources were used to carry out underground operations in Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama).
- They were slavish CIA agents in Venezuela:
- Aristides Calvani, Enrique Mendoza, Edmundo González Urrutia and Leopoldo Castillo.
- Another publication has been recruited and funded full-time by the agency: Américo Martín, Rafael Poleo, Salvador Romani, Patricia Poleo, Fausto Masó, Teodoro Petkoff, Gabriel Puerta Aponte, Ángela Zago, Gumersindo Torres, Pompeyo Márquez, Manuel Caballero and Ramón Escobar Salom; the last one was master of ceremonies and coordinator of Henry Kissinger's visit to Venezuela (source: The CIA in Venezuela, author: José Sant Roz).
Mazo News Team