Negroponte, Servant of the Empire, Rises to the Top
by Matthew Rothschild
If you wink at torture, if you don't mind mass slaughter, if lying is
of no concern to you, you can go far in this world.
Just ask John Negroponte.
He served as a political officer in Saigon from 1964 to 1968, and then
he headed up the Vietnam desk at the National Security Council from
1971 to 1973. During that decade of time, the Johnson-Nixon war was
killing two to three million Vietnamese, along with 58,000 U.S.
soldiers.
But Negroponte did not want the war to end. In fact, as an aide to
Henry Kissinger at the Paris Peace Talks, he urged Kissinger not to
come to terms so readily.
A decade later in Central America, Negroponte essentially ran the
illegal Contra War against Nicaragua from his post as U.S. ambassador
to Honduras.
This war cost the lives of some 30,000 people.
An inescapable feature of U.S.-Central America policy in the 1980s was
sup****t for torturers. Here, Negroponte did his part.
In particular, he knew about and sup****ted Battalion 316, the Honduran
intelligence unit, trained by the CIA that killed at least 184 people.
One of those was the former secretary to Archbishop Oscar Romero of El
Salvador, himself the victim of a CIA-funded death squad in 1980. The
secretary, who fled to Honduras, was abducted by Battalion 316, and
they threw her from a helicopter to her death.
In 1995, the Baltimore Sun ran a prizewinning series on Battalion 316.
It concluded that Negroponte knew about the tortures and murders and
covered them up. Under his direct supervision, the embassy prepared
re****ts to Congress that never mentioned the brutality of the Honduran
military, the Sun re****ted. This omission allowed Honduras to keep
getting U.S. funding.
"I do not believe that death squads were operating in Honduras,"
Negroponte testified before Congress in 2001.
Oscar Reyes begs to differ. He was living in Honduras at the time.
"On July 8, 1982, some military people went to our home, ransacked
it, detained us, and brought us to the torture house," he told me
last year. "There were a lot of people being tortured that night. You
could hear the screaming. They used electrical shock on my body and my
genitals, and they hanged me by my hands and were hitting me almost all
night long. Then they put me in front of a tree and gave me a fake
execution. . . . On my wife, they used electrical shock in her vagina.
It was so bad that she had permanent damage to her ovaries, and she had
to have a hysterectomy." (See "America's Amnesia," The
Progressive, July 2004.)
http://www.progressive.org/july04/roth0704.html
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the whole article is here:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0219-28.htm
It was: Published on Saturday, February 19, 2005 by The Progressive
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The USA's puppet leaders are insane. If the dark truth about the Iraqi
invasion and many high profile U.S. politicians were made public - they
would be outraged and kicked out of office and probably imprisoned.
These horribly ugly godless, bastards think that because their
ancestors, (most of whom were morbidly cruel and greedy biggots) have
gotten away with equally wicked crap, that they can too. It is time
for crazy and corrupt american politician puppets to get the hell out
the way. It is time for peace. It is time to end political corruption,
poverty, and the massive propaganda system that misleads the American
public. The controllers of the puppets, that tiny clique of
billionaires that some call the 'ruling elite' will soon fall. More of
the people have to speak truth to power. Spread the truth - that will
set us free! This earth has plenty for everyone, as long as nobody gets
too greedy. We are now living in historic times, these are the last
days of corrupt politicians, corrupt news media, of war, and of
poverty. Those will soon be relics of our past, but it will take a lot
of work, so if your mind is open and if you can see through the smoke
and mirrors - please do what you can to help us move towards a place of
sanity.
Wegona Befree
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