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The National Security Archive
... Operation Condor Cable Suggests US Role. Operation Desert Storm Ten
Years
After. The US and the Chinese Nuclear Program 1960-64. More News . . . ...
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Operation Condor
... CIA Cable, [Brazil's Role in Operation Condor], Excerpt, August 12,
1976,
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Chile: 16,000 Secret Documents Declassified
... requests for organizational support and training from the CIA. CIA
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CIA Acknowledges Ties to Pinochet's Repression
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Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup in Chile
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US-Chile Documents
... FBI, Operation Condor Cable, September 28, 1976: This cable, written by
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News and Highlights
... 2001/03/06 Operation Condor Cable suggests US role. 2001/03/02 Public
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/fedpage/administration/A17169-
2001Apr14.html
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Subject: [ASDnet] Otto Reich: The Wrong Choice for Latin America


> In a message dated 4/9/01 12:34:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> BerrigaF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> <<
>  To:    Friends and Colleagues of the Arms Trade Resource Center
>
>  From:  Frida Berrigan, Michelle Ciarrocca, Bill Hartung and Dena
>  Montague
>
>  RE:          ATRC Update
>
>  Because of the urgency involved in the timing of his nomination to
>  serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, we are
>  sending out this special update on Otto J. Reich, in advance of our next
>  scheduled ATRC Update. Congress is in recess until after Easter, but
>  this week is a good time to register your concern with your district
>  offices.
>
>
>  OTTO J. REICH: BAD FOR LATIN AMERICA
>
>  George W. Bush has chosen Otto J. Reich as Assistant Secretary of State
>  for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
>
>  On the surface Reich is perfect for the job. His resume is impeccable.
>  He has a long record of public service and extensive experience in Latin
>  America. From 1981 to 1983, Reich worked with U.S. AID, in charge of
>  economic assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. Then, as a
>  Special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1983 to 1986, he
>  established and managed the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin
>  America. He spent the next three years as Ambassador to Venezuela.  In
>  1991 to 1992, Reich served as the Deputy U.S. Representative to the UN
>  Human Rights Commission in Geneva.  Moving back into the private sector,
>  he established RMA International, a lobbying firm, and is currently a
>  Director of the Center for a Free Cuba; a Trustee of Freedom House; and
>  Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Americas Program and
>  Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
>
>  But, a deeper look reveals that he is perfect for the job only if Bush
>  wants to push U.S.-Latin American relations back into the murky pool of
>  the Reagan era-- the Contra Wars, the demonization of Castro and a blank
>  check for U.S. intervention.
>
>  When Reich ran the so-called Office of Public Diplomacy, his definition
>  of diplomacy was telling lies and sending guns. In 1987, the General
>  Accounting Office concluded that Reich had engaged in "prohibited covert
>  propaganda activities" against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua
>  while promoting the cause of the Contra rebels. In its first year alone,
>  the office "booked more than 1,500 speaking engagements, including
>  radio, television and editorial board interviews; published three books
>  on Nicaragua; distributed material to 1,600 college libraries, 520
>  political science professors, 122 editorial writers and 107 religious
>  organizations," according to their own report.
>
>  One example of the work of the Office of Public Diplomacy was an ad
>  placed in newspapers around the country that showed a young man with a
>  machine gun beneath the headline, "53 cents per day supports a freedom
>  fighter." The ad, paid for by the College Republicans, featured a letter
>  from a "Nicaraguan counter communist, a Contra, a freedom fighter," who
>  wrote, "I have taken up arms against the Soviet Empire and its satellite
>  government in Nicaragua and I need your help" and included a tear sheet
>  to send money to "Send Democracy Around the World and Save the Contras."
>
>
>  Reich also spent a lot of time meeting with members of the press. In a
>  memo to President Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz recounts
>  Reich's response to a CBS two part documentary on the Salvadoran
>  guerrillas called "Behind Rebel Lines." Shultz described the documentary
>  as presenting an "unfavorable" and "deceptive image" that was "favorable
>  to the guerrillas and distorting of U.S. and El Salvadoran government
>  goals and tactics" in the days leading up to the March 25, 1984
>  Salvadoran elections. Reich met with the producers and Washington Bureau
>  Chief of CBS to tell them "they are not illustrating to the American
>  people an accurate picture of what is happening in Central America."
>
>  Reich, a Cuban-American whose family fled when Castro came to power has
>  been described as suffering from "doctrinal sclerosis." An ardent
>  anti-Communist, he compared playing baseball in Cuba to "playing soccer
>  in Auschwitz."
>
>  Reich would return to the State Department from a position as the
>  president of an Arlington, VA based lobbying firm, RMA International,
>  whose clients include liquor, tobacco and arms firms. Reich lobbies on
>  behalf of F-16s sales to Chile for Lockheed Martin. Reich, the architect
>  of the regressive 1998 Helms-Burton act, has also been rewarded with a
>  $600,000 consulting fee by his client Barcardi-Martini, which can sue
>  its competitors for doing business in Cuba under Helms-Burton.
>
>  Otto Reich, in his capacity as Co-Chair of the Center for Strategic and
>  International Studies Americas Forum, recently released a report
>  outlining Presidential Priorities and Opportunities in the Americas.
>  This collection of free trade prognostications lays out U.S. policy
>  towards Latin America. While it claims to be envisioning the coming
>  "Century of the Americas" it is basically a reassertion of the Monroe
>  Doctrine. And in the State Department, Reich will be well placed to
>  carry it out.
>
>  George W. Bush has emphasized relations with Latin America, our
>  "neighbors to the South." He drove that home by choosing Mexico as the
>  site of his first international trip as President. In the last decade
>  U.S. Cuban relations have enjoyed a considerable warming, and with a
>  billion dollars in military aid to Colombia, Latin America is back on
>  the front burner. This is a dangerous time for Cold War jingoism. As the
>  Center for International Policy has noted, "Reich is the wrong man, with
>  the wrong instincts, pursuing the wrong interests, at the wrong time."
>
>
>  FOR MORE INFORMATION
>
>  Center for International Policy Talking Points:
>  http://www.ciponline.org/talking%20points_Otto%20Reich%20nomination.htm
>
>  National Security Archive's Public Diplomacy and Covert Propaganda: The
>  Declassified Record of Ambassador Otto J. Reich
>  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/
>
>  The Western Hemisphere: An American Policy Priority. Presidential
>  Priorities and Opportunities in the Americas, a report from the Americas
>  Forum, January 8, 2001. Co-Chaired by Senior Associate Otto J. Reich.
>  http://www.csis.org/americas/pubs/westhem_amerpolicy.pdf
>
>  Frida Berrigan
>  Research Associate,
>  World Policy Institute
>  66 Fifth Ave., 9th Floor
>  New York, NY 10011
>  ph 212.229.5808 x112
>  fax 212.229.5579

Yo, Jason, where wuz this? I hope not The Nation.
Argung in terms of "the best interests" of the U.S. bizness community
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/
(Public Diplomacy and Covert Propaganda: The Otto Reich File)
  Makes lifting sanctions on Cuba look like a more clever
counter-revolutionary stategy.
Michael Pugliese

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>
> The Otto Reich Nomination
>
> · This shadow dance of corporate and non-profit interests and
> activities, may be lucrative for Reich and his corporate clients, but it
> does not benefit either the U.S. business community or the American
> people. Indeed, by advancing ends that exclusively benefit his client,
> Reich has sold out the broad interest of U.S. business leaders in
> securing an orderly world business environment, particularly as regards
> the protection of
> copyrights and trademarks. As a case in point, Cuba is now retaliating
> for Bacardi's attack against the Cuban rum brand Havana Club, by
> threatening to manufacture and market not only Bacardi rum and but also
> other U.S. trademarked products, such as pharmaceuticals. Thus again
> U.S. business interests have been injured by the distorted policy
> initiatives of Otto Reich and the Miami lobby.
>
> · In addition to lobbying for Bacardi, Reich has represented the
> British-American Tobacco Company. He also assisted the Lockheed
> Corporation in its attempt to sell F-16 fighter planes to Chile,
> breaking a 20-year policy of U.S. restraint in keeping high-tech
> military equipment out of Latin America.
>
> In conclusion, the confirmation of a nominee aligned with the hard-line
> faction in Southern Florida would send a deeply alienating message to
> our Latin neighbors, telling them that under the Bush administration, an
> anachronistic grudge match with Cuba remains the over-riding U.S.
> priority.
>
> With U.S.-Latin American relations poised at a fork in the road between
> an improving region-wide, trade-based relationship, and an escalating
> American military engagement in Colombia, Reich is the wrong man, with
> the wrong instincts, pursuing the wrong interests, at the wrong time.
>
> Reich's confirmation as assistant secretary of state would jeopardize
> the Bush administration's opportunity for bipartisan foreign policy in
> the hemisphere. Giving this important hemispheric post to an political
> appointee known far and wide as a one-issue zealot could send a
> disheartening message to professionals in the U.S. Foreign Service.
> Reich is a divider, not a uniter, and the policies he pushes are bound
> to be polarizing, at home and abroad.