CIA Attempt To Interfere In Venezuela's Referendum Exposed

Officer Steere emphasizes the importance and success of the public relations and propaganda campaign that the CIA has been funding with more than $8 million during the past month - funds that the CIA confirms are transfered through the USAID contracted company, Development Alternatives, Inc., which set up operations in June 2002 to run the USAID Office for Transition Initiatives that funds and advises opposition NGOs and political parties in Venezuela. The CIA memo specifically refers to these propaganda initiatives as "psychological operations" (PSYOPS), that include contracting polling companies to create fraudulent polls that show the NO vote with an advantage over the SI vote, which is false. The CIA also confirms in the memo that it is working with international press agencies to distort the data and information about the referendum, and that it coordinates in Venezuela with a team of journalists and media organized and directed by the President of Globovision, Alberto Federico Ravell. ... In the memo, the CIA proposes the following tactics and actions: * Take the streets and protest with violent, disruptive actions across the nation * Generate a climate of ungovernability * Provoke a general uprising in a substantial part of the population * Engage in a "plan to implode" the voting centers on election day by encouraging opposition voters to "VOTE and REMAIN" in their centers to agitate others * Start to release data during the early hours of the afternoon on Sunday that favor the NO vote (in clear violation of election regulations) * Coordinate these activities with Ravell & Globovision and international press agencies Coordinate with ex-militar officers and coupsters Pena Esclusa and Guyon Cellis - this will be done by the Military Attache for Defense and Army at the US Embassy in Caracas, Office of Defense, Attack and Operations (DAO) To encourage rejection of the results, the CIA proposes: * Creating an acceptance in the public opinion that the NO vote will win for sure * Using polling companies contracted by the CIA * Criticize and discredit the National Elections Council * Generate a sensation of fraud * Use a team of experts from the universities that will talk about how the data from the Electoral Registry has been manipulated and will build distrust in the voting system The CIA memo also talks about: * Isolating Chavez in the international community * Trying to achieve unity amongst the opposition * Seek an aliance between those abstentionists and those who will vote "NO" * Sustain firmly the propaganda against Chavez * Execute military actions to support the opposition mobilizations and propagandistic occupations * Finalize the operative preparations on the US military bases in Curacao and Colombia to provide support to actions in Venezuela * Control a part of the country during the next 72-120 hours * Encourage a military rebellion inside the National Guard forces and other components Those involved in these actions as detailed in the CIA memo are: * The CIA Office in Venezuela - Office of Regional Affairs, and Officer Michael Steere * US Embassy in Venezuela, Ambassador Patrick Duddy * Office of Defense, Attack and Operations (DAO) at the US Embassy in Caracas and Military Attache Richard Nazario Venezuelan Political Parties: * Comando Nacional de la Resistencia * Accion Democratica * Primero Justicia * Bandera Roja Media: * Alberto Federico Ravell & Globovision * Interamerican Press Society (IAPA) or SIP in Spanish * International Press Agencies Venezuelans: * Pena Esclusa * Guyon Cellis * Dean of the Simon Bolivar University, Rudolph Benjamin Podolski * Dean of the Andres Bello Catholic University, Ugalde * Students: Yon Goicochea, Juan Mejias, Ronel Gaglio, Gabriel Gallo, Ricardo Sanchez Operation Tenaza has the objective of encouraging an armed insurrection in Venezuela against the government of President Chavez that will justify an intervention of US forces, stationed on the military bases nearby in Curacao and Colombia. The Operation mentions two countries in code: as Blue and Green. These refer to Curacao and Colombia, where the US has operative, active and equipped bases that have been reinforced over the past year and a half in anticipation of a conflict with Venezuela. ... http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2914

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