#contras

[victusinveritas]

[welele]

Old but gold.

[emma-dennehy-presents]

Walker 1987

Touching on both William Walker's filibusters of the 1850s and the US's military's "exercises" in Nicaragua during the 1980s, the film seems especially poignant and timely for a watch/rewatch right now. Current US intervention in nations like Venezuela and Argentina are the beginning of tales we all know too well.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Now the outlines of the imperialist strategy start to become clear. U.S. and Turkey (NATO) reorganize, rearm and rebrand the Syrian contras for a blitzkrieg attack. Israel's unrelenting attacks on Lebanon all autumn disrupted Hezbollah's ability to aid Syria as it had in the past. Syria, worn down by 13 years of war and sanctions, is vulnerable.

The result: Syria dismembered, the flow of material aid to the Palestinian people and resistance disrupted as winter famine looms, the Resistance Axis weakened.

In the long run, the Empire won't win. But for now, the fall of the Syrian Arab Republic is a serious blow not only to the peoples of the region, but to all the movements and countries resisting imperialism worldwide.

- redguard

[mariposaoculta]

Si en la lista de pros y contras, el lado de los contras desde un inicio lo haces más grande ¿es necesario hacerla?

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

CIA, Moonies versus Sandinistas

Indiana Gazette  August 16, 1984

by Jack Anderson

WASHINGTON – In the Central American hinterlands, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the CIA’s operatives from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s disciples. They appear to be working in harness against the communist-tainted Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.

This troubles at least one Pentagon analyst, now stationed in Korea, who has warned the White House that the CIA-Moonie connection could cause possible political damage to President Reagan’s re-election campaign.

The analyst’s unofficial memo, titled “Potential Problems,” has been slipped to my associate Donald Goldberg.

“Current Moonie involvement with government officials, contractors and grantees (in Central America) could create a major scandal,” the memo warns. “If their activities and role become public knowledge, it will unite both the left and the right in attacking the administration.”

The memo continues: “If efforts are not taken to stop their growing influence and weed out current Moonie involvement in government, the president stands a good chance of being portrayed in the media as a poor, naive incompetent who is strong on ideology and weak on common sense. …

“The likelihood of a reporter or a Democratic staff member piecing the total picture together is too great to be neglected. Any thought that this festering problem will go away if ignored is foolish.”

The “total picture” of Moon’s activities in Latin America is not clear. But there is no doubt that the Korean Messiah – now in prison for income tax evasion [and forgery and perjury] – has established a solid presence in the region, with ties to right-wing groups and U.S.-supported guerrillas.

My associate John Lee Anderson reports from Central America that CAUSA international, Moon’s political front, has representatives working in programs that help the CIA in its “contra” war against the Sandinista government.

CAUSA maintains a publicity office in Tegucigalpa, the Hondoran capital, but its principal activities are in the field. CAUSA provides cash and other aid to Hondoran-based Nicaraguan contras and Hondoran right-wing political groups. Many anti-Sandinista guerrillas wear red CAUSA T-shirts with a map of the world on them.

But CAUSA and its affiliate, the Refugee Relief Freedom Foundation, provide more than T-shirts to rebel groups. They also funnel supplies to refugee families in and near contra camps and pay for trips by rebel leaders to the United States.

One contra leader, Fernando “El Negro” Chamorro, told my associate that as early as 1981, CAUSA representatives sent him on an all-expenses paid trip to the United States to try to unify the Nicaraguan exile groups.

The airlift of supplies to the rebels by Moon’s Unification Church has escalated since congress cut off CIA funding for the contras. The administration has been attempting to “privatize” its war against the Sandinistas and is apparently willing to work with Moon’s people.

Footnote: A Unification Church spokesman denied that the church is engaged in any but religious activities in Central America.

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Sun Myung Moon organization activities in Central & South America

1. Introduction 2. ‘Illegal Aliens Joining Moonies’ – The Pittsburg Press 3. Moon’s ‘Cause’ Takes Aim At Communism in the Americas – Washington Post 4. Moon in Latin America: Building the Bases of a World Organisation – Guardian 5. Guatemala 6. Nicaragua 7. Honduras 8. Costa Rica 9. Bolivia 10. Uruguay 11. Paraguay 12. Brazil

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The Unification Church and the KCIA – ‘Privatizing’ covert action: the case of the UC

“The UC is truly anti-Christian” and produces “a species of material and spiritual slavery.” Catholic Bishops in Honduras

Sun Myung Moon’s Drug Paradise

Emperor of the Universe video transcript and link

Robert Parry’s investigations into Sun Myung Moon

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FBI and other reports on Sun Myung Moon

Contents 1. FBI Report (San Francisco office) on the UC / FFWPU, September 1975 2. “The Moonies: Government Files Trace Church from Sex Cult to Korean CIA”
 by James Coates, Chicago Tribune, Monday, March 27, 1978 3. “The pull of Sun Moon” by Berkeley Rice,  New York Magazine, May 30, 1976 4. Sun Myung Moon and Takeru Kamiyama jailed in 1984 for US tax crimes 5. The Moon Organization Academic Network by Daniel Junas,  Fall 1991 6. “The Moonies – What Rev. Moon teaches the young”
 by Harry V. Martin and David Caul, Napa Sentinel, March-April 3, 1992 

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[todaysdocument]

Demonstrators rally outside Hurlburt Field during a protest against the training of Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Approximately 300 people participated in the protest on 12/13/1986

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008

Image description: A crowd of people stand behind a rope barricade. Signs visible include “Contras out of Florida” and “Contras are contrary to U.S. values.” Two people hold large American flags. In the background, a man holds a sign that reads “Pro-Contra.”