CIA/Latin American Division/Caracas Station
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 CIA/Latin American Division/Caracas Station(CIA/Station)   | |
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| Headquarters | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Subpage | •CIA/Latin American Division/Caracas Station/Chief |
| The main CIA station in Venezuela. | |
The main CIA station in Venezuela, directed by the CIA/Latin American Division/Caracas Station/Chief. There are also operations led against the country from overseas,
Activities
Plenty, in coordination with official actions from Washington, like sanctions and propaganda. The Station has been continuously active in regime change operations since 2002.
- Coups and coup attempts, including in 2002, 2020 and many more.
- Drugs. In 1993, two Bolivarian National Guard generals – anti-narcotics unit chief Ramón Guillén Dávila and his successor, Orlando Hernández Villegas – were investigated for drug trafficking and related crimes. Guillén Dávila was subsequently indicted in Miami in 1996. The New York Times at the time reported that "The general was the chief of a program set up by the C.I.A. in the late 1980’s in conjunction with the Venezuelan National Guard, which sought to infiltrate Colombian gangs shipping cocaine to the United States. The C.I.A., over the objections of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a branch of the Justice Department, approved the shipment of at least one ton of nearly pure cocaine to Miami International Airport as a way of gathering information about the Colombian drug cartels."[1] His son, Thomas Guillen, Capitan of the Venezuelan National Guard, was also a CIA asset who planned to assassinate President Hugo Chávez.[2]
- Assassinations, including of President Hugo Chávez.[3] Attempted drone assassination of President Nicolás Maduro
- Torture. In Venezuela, the secret police was called DISIP, and its head and chief torturer in the 1970s was CIA agent and notorious plane bomber Luis Posada Carriles.[4] Carriles invited Orlando Bosch, another Cuban exile who was then on parole from US federal prison, to join his operations in Venezuela.
- Assets. Referring to the 1990s, "the leaders of Venezuela were paid CIA assets. I know that for a fact", said Larry Johnson, a CIA veteran.[5]
- Cyberattacks. The CIA successfully carried out a disruptive strike against President Nicolás Maduro: a cyberattack on the state-administered payroll system used to compensate members of Venezuela's military. The sabotage was part of a plan to push military officials to support Juan Guaidó.[6]
- The agency launched a covert influence campaign to spread "pro-democracy" content online in Venezuela, created a "democracy promotion" program to secretly sponsor leadership trainings, and provided support to Venezuelan NGOs and "civic groups" through USAID.[6]
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References
- ↑ Tim Weiner, Venezuelan General Indicted in C.I.A. Scheme, New York Times, 23 November 1996.
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-the-cia-trying-to-kill-venezuela-s-hugo-ch-vez/5443?pdf=5443
- ↑ https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Strange_Death_of_Hugo_Chavez
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091258/http://www.tni.org/letelier-docs/151176.htm
- ↑ https://sputnikglobe.com/20250827/us-wants-to-bring-venezuela-back-under-cia-control-1122678394.html
- ↑ a b https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cia-venezuela-maduro-regime-change-plot/
