CIA Operation "Pliers" Uncovered in Venezuela

Last night CNN en Español aired the above image, which captions at the bottom "Who Killed him?" by "accident". The image of President Chavez with the caption about killing him below, which some could say subliminally incites to assassination, was a "production error" mistakenly made in the CNN en Español newsroom. The news anchor had been narrarating a story about the situation between Colombia and Venezuela and then switched to a story about an unsolved homicide but - oops - someone forgot to change the screen image and President Chavez was left with the killing statement below. Today they apologized and admitted it was a rather "unfortunate" and "regrettable" mistake. Yes, it was.

On a scarier note, an internal CIA memorandum has been obtained by Venezuelan counterintelligence from the US Embassy in Caracas that reveals a very sinister - almost fantastical, were it not true - plan to destabilize Venezuela during the coming days. The plan, titled "OPERATION PLIERS" was authored by CIA Officer Michael Middleton Steere and was addressed to CIA Director General Michael Hayden in Washington. Steere is stationed at the US Embassy in Caracas under the guise of a Regional Affairs Officer. The internal memorandum, dated November 20, 2007, references the "Advances of the Final Stage of Operation Pliers", and confirms that the operation is coordinated by the team of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) in Venezuela. The memo summarizes the different scenarios that the CIA has been working on in Venezuela for the upcoming referendum vote on December 2nd. The Electoral Scenario, as it's phrased, confirms that the voting tendencies will not change substantially before Sunday, December 2nd, and that the SI (YES) vote in favor of the constitutional reform has an advantage of about 10-13 points over the NO vote. The CIA estimates abstention around 60% and states in the memo that this voting tendency is irreversible before the elections.

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.

CIA Officer Michael Steere recommends to General Michael Hayden two different strategies to work simultaneously: Impede the referendum and refuse to recognize the results once the SI vote wins. Though these strategies appear contradictory, Steere claims that they must be implemented together precisely to encourage activities that aim toward impeding the referendum and at the same time prepare the conditions for a rejection of the results.

How is this to be done?

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.

The document confirms that psychological operations are the CIA's best and most effective weapon to date against Venezuela, and it will continue its efforts to influence international public opinion regarding President Chavez and the situation in the country.

Operation Tenaza is a very alarming plan that aims to destabilize Venezuela and overthrow (again) its legitimate and democratic (and very popularly support) president. The plan will fail, primarily because it has been discovered, but it must be denounced around the world as an unacceptable violation of Venezuela's sovereignty.

The original document in English will be available in the public sphere soon for viewing and authenticating purposes. And it also contains more information than has been revealed here.

For the full text in Spanish, see: Operación Tenaza: Informe confidencial de la CIA devela plan de saboteo al referéndum del 2 de diciembre

Source URL: http://www.chavezcode.com/2007/11/operation-pliers.html
Source URL: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2914
Printed: November 29th 2007

maybe we should borrow a page from our very own all-American CIA

vote and remain

'disappear' Chavez--out of the same old playbook

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=Chavez&btnG=Search+News

I'm going to post this same story everyday until the election. It needs to be seem that it's all a fraud!

is being ignored by the American media, just the way it happened in Venezuela at the hands of the oligarchy-owned media when they kidnapped Hugo Chavez, and maintained a complete news blackout on this shocking situation until the people could get their own equipment at the tv station which the opposition had dismantled, up and running again in time to let Venezuelans know what the hell had happened.

It was only when they finally found out the opposition had kidnapped their elected President that they could run into the streets to the Presidential Palace to demand he be brought right back where he belonged.

Here's a link to the documentary filmed by the Irish camera crew, who were all in the Palace at the very time, doing their film on Hugo Chavez, when the fools burst in with guns to kidnap him and whisk him away to a military base:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144

God only knows what the real outcome (pertaining to Chavez's own life and safety) would have been if the people had been kept totally in the dark until after these criminals plan had been successfully completed. He has said many times that the people of Venezuela saved his life.

We've seen the stories coming faster and more furiously for several weeks, during the buildup to the referendum. Anyone who doesn't see the connection by now is simply close to brain death.

As you might remember John Negroponte, Elliott Abrams, Frank Calzone, and other cretins in the Bush41 admins, used to plant propaganda in the Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald in their anti democratic campaign against the FSLN in Nicaragua. Then the RW echo chamber picked up and looped these stories all over the US "librul" media. Bush41 pardoned Elliott Abrams conviction for use of propaganda in domestic media. http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/bushgrants.htm

The last couple of weeks have been nonstop multiple front page anti Venezuelan sovereignty articles with the "dictator for life" propaganda in their print editions.

Whatayaknow. Who'da figured.

Kick and Rec.

:sarcasm:

So all is well.

They truly now don't think any more of their peasants than they do peasants elsewhere around the world.

It used to be different. We used to mean as much to our Imperial masters as their hunting dogs. No more. We are insects to the Royal Bushies, and Juden to their Bushie-Nazi followers.

as Woody Allen once pointed out, organised crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

US Involvement in Anti-Chavez Campaign Denounced

Caracas, Nov 29 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and National Assembly President Cilia Flores denounced Washington's involvement in a plot to assassinate President Hugo Chavez.

Speaking on the program Dando y Dando, broadcast on Venezolana de Television, Maduro referred to a memorandum addressed to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden, and containing a plot to prevent the constitutional referendum in Venezuela.

The document, sent by an insider in the US Embassy in Caracas, includes the details of a so-called Operation Plier to ignore the victory in the December 2 referendum to modify the Constitution.

Maduro said the text is under investigation and if the participation of a US diplomatic official is proved, he will be declared a persona non grata and will be expelled from the country for interfering in Venezuela's internal affairs.

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I would bet money that our government is funding and promoting this. I wish some country could penetrate our country and promote the American people standing for our freedoms. Chaves has his own oil, has things the way he wants them and wont go along with the elites new world order so he has to be taken down like Saddam. Iran was up but I think the American people made a fuss so now they are seeing if they can get rid of Chavez. Its disgusting to think that we are one of the evilest governments out there. At least they see that we don't want anymore wars so they will buy him out through the people or just kill him and say it was someone else.