De victor Jara à Guantanamo : la même CIA (33)

(2) "A month later, Erik Prince, the company’s owner and a former Navy SEAL, flew to Afghanistan as part of the original twenty-man Blackwater contingent. Blackwater worked for the CIA at its station in Kabul as well as in Shkin, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where they operated out of a mud fortress known as the Alamo. It was the beginning of a long relationship between Blackwater, Prince and the CIA."

(3) "An eyewitness, who previously worked as an RAF electronic warfare expert, said that as the plane – a CASA-212 Aviocar Flight #N964BW – taxied to a stop on the runway it was met by a US military Humvee. The vehicle contained four US security policemen armed with M16 assault rifles, who accompanied the camouflaged crew to the airport terminal."

(4) "The intelligence service commissioned Blackwater and its subsidiaries to transport terror suspects from Guantanamo to interrogations at secret prison camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. The paper identifies aircraft movements and unveils how the flights were disguised. The memo says : "The CIA hired Blackwater to conduct extraordinary renditions". And : "Blackwater flew the rendition targets from Fort Perry and Cuba to Kandahar, Afghanistan." The company appears to provide air services to the CIA – flight records show that its N964BW has made at least two trips to the agency’s Camp Peary training facility, N963BW went there in March and April 2009 and N962BW went there in May 2006. Another plane it owns, N968BW, flew from Washington Dulles International Airport to Camp Peary on March 13, 2007."

(5) "According to the NTSB report, the aircraft deviated from the normal route almost immediately after take-off because none of the crew were familiar with the route they were flying. According to the cockpit voice recorder, approximately 14 minutes into the flight, the Blackwater captain said, "I hope I’m going into the right valley." The first officer responded, "This one or that one." The captain stated, "I’m just gunna go up this one." Later in the flight, the flight mechanic observed, "We don’t normally go this route . " The NTSB report found that the captain and first officer were "behaving unprofessionally and were deliberately flying the nonstandard route low though the valley for ’fun.""’ According to the cockpit voice recorder, the first officer told the captain, "You’re an x-wing fighter star wars man." The captain responded, "You’re [expletive] right. This is fun." He also stated, "Itraordinary day that you can actually get down...and do some [expletive] like this."During the flight, the captain and first officer discussed what would be the most appropriate sound track to their flight. The captain proposed "Phillip Glass or somethin’ suitablenew age’y." The first officer disagreed : "No. We gotta have butt rock. That’s the only way togo. Quiet Riot, Twisted sister..."

(6) "What the agency was doing with Blackwater scares the hell out of me,” said Jack Rice, a former CIA field operator who worked for the directorate of operations, which runs covert paramilitary activities for the CIA. “When the agency actually cedes all oversight and power to a private organization, an organization like Blackwater, most importantly they lose control and don’t understand what’s going on,” Rice told The Nation". 

 (7) “Erik Prince operated at the highest and most secret level of the government. Clearly Prince was more trusted than the US Congress because Vice President Cheney made the decision not to brief Congress. This shows that there was absolutely no space whatsoever between the Bushadministration and Blackwater.”

(8) “Prince hires [former CIA counterrorism director] Cofer Black,” explained Scahill, “Buzzy Krongard, Robert Richard — former deputy director of the CIA — Enrique Rick Prado — a veteran of the CIA paramilitary division — to run his own private CIA, called Total Intelligence Solutions, which works simultaneously for the US government and foreign governments.”

 (9) "Meanwhile, there’s talk at the agency that Blackwater is also aggressively recruiting Jose Rodriguez, the CIA’s current top spy as director of the National Clandestine Service. Rodriguez has a number of former agency friends at Blackwater, most notably Rick Prado, with whom he served in Latin America and who is now Blackwater’s Vice President of Special Programs".

(10) "The memo by the two sources gets more specific. Source A names five people who were allegedly involved in the development of assassination teams, including a man who left Blackwater in mid-2005 and last worked as the head of the Blackwater’s OGA division. The acronym stands for "Other Government Agencies," which included the connection to the CIA. The other men on the source’s list are a former member of Blackwater’s paratrooper unit, an employee of Blackwater Security Consulting who, according to the memo, was designated as a "hit man" within the unit and Alvin Bernard Krongard, the most senior employee on the list, who the source claims was responsible for assembling the teams. "Krongard set up the teams," the paper claims".