THE NATURE OF CIA IN VENEZUELA - PHILLIP AGEE

Philip Agee is interviewed by Jonah Gindin – Venezuelanalysis.com

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Philip Agee is a former CIA operative who left the agency in 1967
The book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, was an instant best-seller
In 1978
began publishing the Covert Operations Information Bulletin (now Covert Action Quarterly), as part of a strategy of “guerilla journalism” aimed at destabilizing the CIA and exposing their operations.
Agee sees a more cynical US strategy in Venezuela
Building on the work of scholar William I. Robinson on US intervention in Nicaragua throughout the 1980s
CIA’s strategy of “democracy promotion” is in full-force in Venezuela
a series of foundations
funding
private consulting firm
by the
(USAID)
Roger Noriega recently reaffirmed
goal the unification of Venezuela’s splintered opposition
these techniques, through the CIA, through AID, through the State Department
the National Endowment for Democracy, all follow a certain pattern
uniting the opposition
creating a civic movement
penetration and manipulation of political parties, trade unions, youth and student movements