IS THE NEW INTELLIGENCE CZAR AN AGENT OF SATAN?

Why, yes, he is. But don't just take my word that John Negroponte is evil personified. Read these essays.

From CounterPunch:

Negroponte: a Resume of Death
Squads, Deceptions and Bribery

Negroponte's stint in Honduras was filled with chicanery and deception. As a result of the immensely compromised record he compiled there, rather than being rewarded with this new and elevated position, he should be facing proceedings concerning the role he played in the numerous human rights violations that occurred during his Honduran watch ­ nearly 300 dissidents "disappeared." Affidavits and testimony by Honduran survivors have reported on his involvement in sanctioning, protecting or covering up these death squads. Also, during the time Negroponte spent at the Tegucigalpa embassy, millions of dollars in bribes were paid to corrupt Honduran officials to allow room for the U.S.-backed contras to stage attacks on the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua.

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Also from CounterPunch:

Scum Also Rises

Negroponte, currently the U.S. ambassador to Iraq and, unofficially, the head of the U.S. occupation of that country, is a career foreign service officer on paper, but in fact a veteran CIA operative responsible for some of the blackest crimes of murder and torture in Central America during that region's dark days of civil war, revolution and counter-revolution in the late 20th Century.

As U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981-85, Negroponte played a key role in organizing the military repression in that poorest of Latin American countries, and in creating and running the so-called Contra's, the U.S-organized military operation to undermine and overthrow the elected Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

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There's a really nice scene in Oliver Stone's 1995 film Nixon where the soon to resign President, played by Anthony Hopkins, meets with CIA Director Richard Helms, played by Sam Waterston, to discuss whether he will stay on as spook-in-chief. I don't really remember the specifics of the conversation--there was clearly some sort of power play going on--but one shot from the scene resonates strongly in my memory.

For a very brief instant, while Nixon is speaking, the camera cuts away to a reaction shot of Helms: for this quick shot only, Helms' eyes are pitch black, no white, no color at all, just deep dark black. The throwaway ideological point Stone makes here is that Helms is evil. Not evil as an adjective, but evil as a noun. Satanically evil.

Indeed, it's really not overreaching at all to say that Helms, who died in 2002, was evil. Helms got the ball rolling on the overthrow and murder of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected leader of Chile, which means that, even though he was no longer in charge at the time of the coup, the former CIA Director bore no small responsibility for the bloodbath unleashed by the man who replaced Allende, ruthless military dictator Augusto Pinochet--most of the left-leaning political opposition, thousands of innocent human beings, were viciously murdered by Pinochet's CIA supported troops. And that's just one of Helms' crimes against humanity, among many.

The point here is that Negroponte is in the same category as Helms. So is Bush, for that matter, but his appointment of the veteran spook from America's black wars of the 80s sheds quite a bit of light on what the White House has in mind for US "intelligence" activities in the new millenium.

God, this crap makes me sick.

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