[progchat_action] CIA agents killed in Afghanistan worked for "contractor" active in Venez & Cuba
Steven Robinson
active in Venezuela, Cuba
By Eva Gollinger Postcards from the Revolution Thursday, December
31, 2009
At least eight U.S. citizens were killed on a CIA operations base
in Afghanistan this past Wednesday, December 30. A suicide bomber
infiltrated Forward Operating Base Chapman located in the eastern
province of Khost, which was a CIA center of operations and
surveillance. Official sources in Washington have confirmed that
the eight dead were all civilian employees and CIA contractors.
Fifteen days ago, five U.S. citizens working for a U.S. government
contractor, Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), were also killed
in an explosion at the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID) office in Gardez. That same day, another bomb exploded
outside the DAI offices in Kabul, although no serious injuries
resulted.
The December 15 incident received little attention, although it
occurred just days after the detention of a DAI employee in Cuba,
accused of subversion and distribution of illegal materials to
counterrevolutionary groups. President and CEO of DAI, Jim Boomgard,
issued a declaration on December 14 regarding the detention of a
subcontractor from his company in Cuba, confirming that, "the
detained individual was an employee of a program subcontractor,
which was implementing a competitively issued subcontract to assist
Cuban civil society organizations." The statement also emphasized
the "new program" DAI is managing for the U.S. government in Cuba,
the "Cuba Democracy and Contingency Planning Program". DAI was
awarded a $40 million USD contract in 2008 to help the U.S. government
"support the peaceful activities of a broad range of nonviolent
organizations through competitively awarded grants and subcontracts"
in Cuba.
On December 15, DAI published a press release mourning "project
personnel killed in Afghanistan". "DAI is deeply saddened to report
the deaths of five staff associated with our projects in AfghanistanOn
December 15, five employees of DAI's security subcontractor were
killed by an explosion in the Gardez office of the Local Governance
and Community Development (LGCD) Program, a USAID project implemented
by DAI."
DAI also runs a program in Khost where the December 30 suicide
bombing occurred, although it has yet to be confirmed if the eight
U.S. citizens killed were working for the major U.S. government
contractor. From the operations base in Khost, the CIA remotely
controls its selective assassination program against alleged Al
Qaeda members in Pakistan and Afghanistan using drone (Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles) Predator planes. A high-level USAID official
confirmed two weeks ago that the CIA uses USAID's name to issue
contracts and funding to third parties in order to provide cover
for clandestine operations. The official, a veteran of the U.S.
government agency, stated that the CIA issues such contracts without
USAID's full knowledge.
Since June 2002, USAID has maintained an Office for Transition
Initiatives (OTI) in Venezuela, through which it has channeled more
than $50 million USD to groups and individuals opposed to President
Hugo Chavez. The same contractor active in Afghanistan and connected
with the CIA, Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), was awarded a
multi-million dollar budget from USAID in Venezuela to "assist civil
society and the transition to democracy". More than two thousand
documents partially declassified from USAID regarding the agency's
activities in Venezuela reveal the relationship between DAI and
sectors of the Venezuelan opposition that have actively been involved
in coup d'etats, violent demonstrations and other destabilization
attempts against President Chavez.
In Bolivia, USAID was expelled this year from two municipalities,
Chapare and El Alto, after being accused of interventionism. In
September 2009, President Evo Morales announced the termination of
an official agreement with USAID allowing its operations in Bolivia,
based on substantial evidence documenting the agency's funding of
violent separtist groups seeking to destabilize the country.
In 2005, USAID was also expelled from Eritrea and accused of being
a "neo-colonialist" agency. Ethiopia, Russia and Belarus have ordered
the expulsion of USAID and its contractors during the last five
years.
Development Alternatives, Inc. is one of the largest U.S. government
contractors in the world. The company, with headquarters in Bethesda,
MD, presently has a $50 million contract with USAID for operations
in Afghanistan.
In Latin America, DAI has operations and field offices in Bolivia,
Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti,
Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
This year, USAID/DAI's budget in Venezuela nears $15 million USD
and its programs are oriented towards strengthening opposition
parties, candidates and campaigns for the 2010 legislative elections.
Just two weeks ago, President Chavez also denounced the illegal
presence of U.S. drone planes in Venezuelan airspace.
http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/12/cia-agents-assassinated-in-afghanistan.html
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