US Coup Planned for Venezuela?
 
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:27:56 -0600 (CST)

The New York Times had a news article about Venezuela in Thursday's
edition, but it was about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez saying he
would cut diplomatic ties with neighboring Colombia. There wasn't a
word about a memo from a CIA operative in Caracas to CIA Director
General Michael Hayden, uncovered yesterday, outlining a plan for
interfering with a Venezuelan referendum set for Dec. 2, and laying
out the steps for instigating and backing a coup.

The plot, called "Operation Pliers," and laid out in the letter to
Hayden by an undercover operative named Michael Steele, who reportedly
works in the US Embassy as a "regional affairs officer," was
intercepted by Venezuelan intelligence and released publicly on state
TV yesterday.

Even more darkly, the letter calls for initiating "military actions"
to support opposition mobilizations and strategic building
occupations, involving US military bases in neighboring Curacao and
Colombia to provide support, and even taking control of parts of
Venezuela in the days after the referendum, while encouraging a
"military rebellion" inside the Venezuelan National Guard. 

The CIA communication has been reported in articles filed by the
Associated Press, but the Times and other major US news organizations
have not mentioned it .

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11311

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