{"id":397836,"date":"2019-03-02T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-we-learn-from-the-archives\/"},"modified":"2019-03-02T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T09:55:09","slug":"what-we-learn-from-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-we-learn-from-the-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Learn From the Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2017, then-U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Mike Pompeo said<\/a>: \u201cwe are very hopeful that there can be a [political] transition in Venezuela and we the CIA is doing its best to understand the dynamic there [sic], so that we can communicate to our State Department and to others.\u201d CIA monitoring of the political situation and interference in Venezuela is, of course, nothing new. Back in April 2002, just days before the coup that temporarily ousted President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, a Senior Executive Intelligence Brief anticipated <\/a>the removal of Ch\u00e1vez by the Venezuelan military.<\/p>\n

With the current crisis in Venezuela intensifying, thanks in no small part to the U.S. intelligence apparatus, it is worth examining the CIA\u2019s declassified and partly-declassified Venezuela archives. The archives include memos, briefing notes, and reports from the Agency itself, as well as from the National Intelligence Estimate. The records on Venezuela date back to the founding of the CIA in the late-1940s. With the exception of more recent records obtained under Freedom of Information Act requests, many of them filed<\/a> by Eva Golinger, the records dry up in the 1980s. Those released so far reveal much about the deeply entrenched attitudes of Cold War planners.<\/p>\n

The CIA records reveal that: 1) The main U.S. interest in Venezuela from the 1940s until at least the \u201880s is not just oil but the Venezuela\u2019s role in the region as a symbol of the success…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair In 2017, then-U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Mike Pompeo said: \u201cwe are very hopeful that there can be a [political] transition in Venezuela and we the CIA is doing its best to understand the dynamic there [sic], so that we can communicate to our State Department and to others.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}