oujiQualm
6th September 2008, 05:18
Recently I was doing some reading and learned more about a key General who was used in domestic intelligence ops during the late 1960's. William Pepper and other writers have argued that he played a key role in the government's assassination of MLK in April '68. Here is an article about Operation Lantern Spike followed by exerpts from two other books I have read.
The first is Act of State by William Pepper. A new edition just came out in April. The second is from the most amazing book called Thy Will Be Done: Nelson Rockefeller, Evangelism, and the Conquest of the Amazon in the age of Oil by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett. In this second book I discovered that General yarborough was doing very interesting things in Columbia around 1962 that were basically unauthorized by Kennedy.
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July 25, 2002
War on Terrorism or Police State?
by Rep. Cynthia McKinney
The attacks of September 11th, 2001 caused significant changes throughout our society. For our military services, this included increased force protection, greater security, and of course the deployment to and prosecution of the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Sadly, one of the first acts of our President was to waive the high deployment overtime pay of our servicemen and women who are serving on the front lines of our new War. The Navy estimates that the first year costs of this pay would equal about 40 cruise missiles. The total cost of this overtime pay may only equal about 300 cruise missiles, yet this Administration said it would cost too much to pay our young men and women what the Congress and the previous Administration had promised them.
In another ironic twist, the War on Terrorism has the potential to bring the US military into American life as never before. A Northern Command has been created to manage the military's activity within the continental United States. Operation Noble Eagle saw combat aircraft patrolling the air above major metropolitan areas, and our airports are only now being relieved of National Guard security forces. Moreover, there is a growing concern that the military will be used domestically, within our borders, with intelligence and law enforcement mandates as some now call for a review of the Posse Comitatus Act prohibitions on military activity within our country.
In the 1960s, the lines between illegal intelligence, law enforcement and military practices became blurred as Americans wanting to make America a better place for all were targeted and attacked for political beliefs and political behavior. Under the cloak of the Cold War, military intelligence was used for domestic purposes to conduct surveillance on civil rights, social equity, antiwar, and other activists. In the case of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Operation Lantern Spike involved military intelligence covertly operating a surveillance operation of the civil rights leader up to the time of his assassination. In a period of two months, recently declassified documents on Operation Lantern Spike indicate that 240 military personnel were assigned in the two months of March and April to conduct surveillance on Dr. King. The documents further reveal that 16,900 man-hours were spent on this assignment. Dr. King had done nothing more than call for black suffrage, an end to black poverty, and an end to the Vietnam War. Dr. King was the lantern of justice for America: spreading light on issues the Administration should have been addressing. On April 4, 1968, Dr. King's valuable point of light was snuffed out. The documents I have submitted for the record outline the illegal activities of the FBI and its CoIntelPro program. A 1967 memo from J. Edgar Hoover to 22 FBI field offices outlined the COINTELPRO program well: "The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, or otherwise neutralize" black activist leaders and organizations.
As a result of the Church Committee hearings, we later learned that the FBI and other government authorities were conducting black bag operations that included illegally breaking and entering private homes to collect information on individuals. FBI activities included "bad jacketing," or falsely accusing individuals of collaboration with the authorities. It included the use of paid informants to set up on false charges targeted individuals. And it resulted in the murder of some individuals. Geronimo Pratt Ji Jaga spent 27 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. And in COINTELPRO documents subsequently released, we learn that Fred Hampton was murdered in his bed while his pregnant wife slept next to him after a paid informant slipped drugs in his drink.
Needless to say, such operations were well outside the bounds of what normal citizens would believe to be the role of the military, and the Senate investigations conducted by Senator Frank Church found that to be true. Though the United States was fighting the spread of communism in the face of the Cold War, the domestic use of intelligence and military assets against its own civilians was unfortunately reminiscent of the police state built up by the Communists we were fighting.
We must be certain that the War on Terrorism does not threaten our liberties again. Amendments to H.R. 4547, the Costs of War Against Terrorism Act, that would increase the role of drug interdiction task forces to include counter intelligence, and that would increase the military intelligence's ability to conduct electronic and financial investigations, can be the first steps towards a return to the abuses of constitutional rights during the Cold War. Further, this bill includes nearly $2 billion in additional funds for intelligence accounts. When taken into account with the extra-judicial incarceration of thousands of immigration violators, the transfer of prisoners from law enforcement custody to military custody, and the consideration of a 'volunteer' terrorism tip program, America must stand up and protect itself from the threat not only of terrorism, but of a police state of its own.
There does exist a need to increase personnel pay accounts, replenish operations and maintenance accounts and replace lost equipment. The military has an appropriate role in protecting the United States from foreign threats, and should remain dedicated to preparing for those threats. Domestic uses of the military have long been prohibited for good reason, and the same should continue to apply to all military functions, especially any and all military intelligence and surveillance. Congress and the Administration must be increasingly vigilant towards the protection of and adherence to our constitutional rights and privileges. For, if we win the war on terrorism, but create a police state in the process, what have we won?
Cynthia McKinney represents Georgia's Fourth Congressional District. This is article is a reprint of her remarks before the House Armed Services Committee on H.R. 4547, The Costs of War Against Terrorism Act.
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Recently I learned some interesting things about Yarborough in Columbia during the Kennedy years. This interested me
because of what I had read in William Pepper's book An Act of State (2nd edition, April 2008) about Yarborough's involvement with the 902nd MIG which is described as present in Memphis, after flying in around 4AM on 4-4-68.
First some points from An Act of State:
* Pepper describes a relationship between the 902nd MIG and Carlos Marcello's org:
They were jointly involved in an extenisve gun running venture. Weapons stolen from army bases and
armories were delivered to the Marcello organization which arranged for their sale in Latin and South
America and elsewhere There proceeds were split equally and the 902nd used this "black" money for
covert operations. The operational link between the army and the mob was, apparently, a now deceased
20th SFG captain in New Orelans who dies in a suspicious car crash. I recalled Warren's accoud of running
guns from Camp Shelby to New Orleans where htey wre deliverd to Marcello's man Zip Chimento. I also
recalled Glenda Grabo's description of Raul and his associates picking up guns which were deliverd by water
and unloaded at Houston docks.
Downie also ties two other people tot hei activity. One was a senior Mossad agent working in South America
who acted as a senior liason to the US military and the CIA. The second was an officer of the 111th MIG
based at Frot McPherson in Georgia. Downie urged us to stay away from these individuals. (pp.76-77 Act of
State, 2nd edition)
* Earlier in the book Pepper gives this background on Yarborough:
The Eight MIG-- the 902nd-- was under the command of the army's Assistant Chief of Staff for Inteligence, who
from Demember 1966 until July 1968 was Major General William P Yarborough, the founder of units known
as the Green Berets. The MIG officers were responsible for eye to eye surveillance operations which included
audio and visual recordings of people ad events designated as targets. Dr. King was a target and throughtout
the last year of his life wa under surveillance by one or aother MIG team. Closely related to the USAINTC struture
at the time was the separate intelligence office under ACSI Yarborough.
In addition to controlling the 902nd MIG, he supervised the Counterintelligence Analysis Board (CIAB). This
analyzed a wide range of MIG-produced intelligence and forwarded reports directly tot he ACSI. The 902nd MIG
was a highly secretive organization, carrying outsome of the most sensitive assignments. Warren had always
refused to discuss the 902nd, saying anyone intereste in the "90 Deuce" should dig a deep hole.
Pepper points out that the 902nd was the only MIG that was explicitly authorized to undertake BOTH domestic and foreign ops.
Ok now lets turn to Thy Will be Done, and what it says about Yarborough earlier, when he was in Columbia in 1962:
Kennedy went to Columbia in 1962 to urge reforms. His trip was a huge media success. But Rightists in Columbia didnt want to make any reforms, instead wanting to eliminate groups of semi-autonomous peasant republics in around the Macarena Mountains.
The second event boding well for the military occurred a week after Kennedy's departure. In the town of Buga, a
a bomb exploded amid a Christmas procession; 51 people were killed, and more than 100 wounded. This was the
pretext the Pentagon needed to send top U.S. couterinsurgency experts from Fort Bragg, led by Brigadier
General William P. Yarborough, commanding general of Fort Bragg's Special Warfare center.[ here the authors
point out Yarborough's later explits working with COINTELPRO "AND THEN DEPUTY ATTORNEY GNERAL WARREN
CHRISTOPHER, AGAINST AMERICAN CIVILIANS IDENTIFITED AS 'DISSIDENT ELEMENTS' (MY EMPH.)]
Yarborough specifically targetted the civlil rights movement and the "anti-Vietnam/anti-draft movements,"
exteneding the army's intellignece gathering beyond "subversion" and "dissident groups" to "prominant persons"
who were "friendly" with "leaders of the disturbance or sympathetic with their plans"
Yarborough's team arrived in Columbia on February 2, 1962. Lleras Canargo's press censorhsip worked
smoothly. The Chief of Staff for the COlumbian army turned out the entire officer corps staffing the Columbian
Army headquarters, but no press account appeared in Bogata's newspapers. Yarborough's team next consulted
US Embasy consul Henry Dearborn, the former de facto CIA chief of station in he Dominican Republic.
Dearborn, a verteran operative in Latin America, was an old acquaintantce of the CIA's J.C. King; both had
operated in Peronist Argentina after WWII. Recently, Dearborn had been transfered to Columbia from the
Dominican Republic, where he and King engineered the CIA's delivery of weapons that were used to assassinate
dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961.
Now [in Columbia]... the focus of his attention was, however, the VII Brigade at the cattle town of Villavicencio,
gateway to the southern plains that slope gradually into the tropical Amazon basin. Here, in the department of
Meta was where the action was. Refugees from army attacks on the peasant republics had settled here and
turned to guerrilla warfare when attacked.
The VII Brigade kept most of its twenty-two outposts in this region, supplemented by many more police
outposts and a apramilitary nonuniformed cavalry, modeled after the Texas rangers and called "Rurales."
The Rurales were controlled by DAS, Colombia's secret police, and like the Rangers, were not known for
kindness to Indians...... Specifically Yarborough recommended Helio Couriers [ anyone hear much about this
weird plane that the CIA eventually gets ahold of via Summer Linguistics Institute and JAARS base in Charlotte
NC? Lots on this weird plane in this book]....
Yarborough sets up a vast interrogation and counterinsurgency network that seems to share some similarities with the
later Pheonix Program.
The Inter-American Geographic Survey would be enlisted to make aerial maps of guerrilla-affected ares. "Villages
and ares known to harbor bandits should be alleged by the government to be feeding information to the government
Polygraph teams should elicit such information as is neededfor this operation..... [much more psy war details]
It was all vintage Lansdale, to whom, after all Yarborough ultimately reported at the top of the chain of counter-
insurgency command ....
In 1962 Yarborough writes in his report on the Columbian operations:
It is the considered opinion of the survey team... that a concerted country team effort should be made now
to select civilian and military personnel for clandestine training in resistance operations in case they are needed
later. This should be done with a view toward development of a cvil and military structure for exploitation in
the event of the Colombian's internal security sytem deteriorates further......
Shortly after Cam [the leader of Wycliffe Bible Translators] signed the contract and General Yarborough's report
was read at a March meeting of the Special Group in Washington, Columbians near Villavicencio watched a long
column of army trucks bearing U.S.insignia pass through. The Column headed south, toward the Macarena
Mountains, just east of where SIL's [Summer Institute of Linguistics] base would be located. No troops ever came
out, they claimed. Explosions were heard rubling from the Macarena Moutnains, howeverer. Soon afterword the
Columbian military ruled that airspace over the mountains was off-limits for all commercial airplanes. Over the
years, reports would appear sporaically of planes being lost. Some pilots whe strayed overhead and did come out
reported seeing air runways and telecommunications antennas. In the early 1970s, the Columbian military would
deny and foreign base or presence in the Macarena. Only American strockholders of Loeb family-owned APCO
Oil Company and those who read APCO's annual reports knew better. APCO entered the Mcarena in 1967. In
1976, an APCO map showed that the Maceraena had been honeycombed with clandestine runways.
By then, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texaco, and Gulf had joined other oil companies in drilling for oil in the
Llanos. JAARS's Helio Courirers were taking off for Villavicencio from Lomalinda, the grey-misted Macarena
Mountains hovering in the distance like a Mirage. (pp. 392-395, Thy Will Be Done)
How long had this cooperative effort between the 902nd MIG and US military cover ops in Latin America extend before 1968?
Yarborough's experience on both ends of this relationship seems noteworthy.
What about Warren Christopher in 1968. If he was working with Yarborough, what about MH CHAOS connections, possibly involving a young Bill Clinton in 1968? Did Bill have an interesting precious relationship with his future Secretary of State?
The first is Act of State by William Pepper. A new edition just came out in April. The second is from the most amazing book called Thy Will Be Done: Nelson Rockefeller, Evangelism, and the Conquest of the Amazon in the age of Oil by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett. In this second book I discovered that General yarborough was doing very interesting things in Columbia around 1962 that were basically unauthorized by Kennedy.
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July 25, 2002
War on Terrorism or Police State?
by Rep. Cynthia McKinney
The attacks of September 11th, 2001 caused significant changes throughout our society. For our military services, this included increased force protection, greater security, and of course the deployment to and prosecution of the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Sadly, one of the first acts of our President was to waive the high deployment overtime pay of our servicemen and women who are serving on the front lines of our new War. The Navy estimates that the first year costs of this pay would equal about 40 cruise missiles. The total cost of this overtime pay may only equal about 300 cruise missiles, yet this Administration said it would cost too much to pay our young men and women what the Congress and the previous Administration had promised them.
In another ironic twist, the War on Terrorism has the potential to bring the US military into American life as never before. A Northern Command has been created to manage the military's activity within the continental United States. Operation Noble Eagle saw combat aircraft patrolling the air above major metropolitan areas, and our airports are only now being relieved of National Guard security forces. Moreover, there is a growing concern that the military will be used domestically, within our borders, with intelligence and law enforcement mandates as some now call for a review of the Posse Comitatus Act prohibitions on military activity within our country.
In the 1960s, the lines between illegal intelligence, law enforcement and military practices became blurred as Americans wanting to make America a better place for all were targeted and attacked for political beliefs and political behavior. Under the cloak of the Cold War, military intelligence was used for domestic purposes to conduct surveillance on civil rights, social equity, antiwar, and other activists. In the case of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Operation Lantern Spike involved military intelligence covertly operating a surveillance operation of the civil rights leader up to the time of his assassination. In a period of two months, recently declassified documents on Operation Lantern Spike indicate that 240 military personnel were assigned in the two months of March and April to conduct surveillance on Dr. King. The documents further reveal that 16,900 man-hours were spent on this assignment. Dr. King had done nothing more than call for black suffrage, an end to black poverty, and an end to the Vietnam War. Dr. King was the lantern of justice for America: spreading light on issues the Administration should have been addressing. On April 4, 1968, Dr. King's valuable point of light was snuffed out. The documents I have submitted for the record outline the illegal activities of the FBI and its CoIntelPro program. A 1967 memo from J. Edgar Hoover to 22 FBI field offices outlined the COINTELPRO program well: "The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, or otherwise neutralize" black activist leaders and organizations.
As a result of the Church Committee hearings, we later learned that the FBI and other government authorities were conducting black bag operations that included illegally breaking and entering private homes to collect information on individuals. FBI activities included "bad jacketing," or falsely accusing individuals of collaboration with the authorities. It included the use of paid informants to set up on false charges targeted individuals. And it resulted in the murder of some individuals. Geronimo Pratt Ji Jaga spent 27 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. And in COINTELPRO documents subsequently released, we learn that Fred Hampton was murdered in his bed while his pregnant wife slept next to him after a paid informant slipped drugs in his drink.
Needless to say, such operations were well outside the bounds of what normal citizens would believe to be the role of the military, and the Senate investigations conducted by Senator Frank Church found that to be true. Though the United States was fighting the spread of communism in the face of the Cold War, the domestic use of intelligence and military assets against its own civilians was unfortunately reminiscent of the police state built up by the Communists we were fighting.
We must be certain that the War on Terrorism does not threaten our liberties again. Amendments to H.R. 4547, the Costs of War Against Terrorism Act, that would increase the role of drug interdiction task forces to include counter intelligence, and that would increase the military intelligence's ability to conduct electronic and financial investigations, can be the first steps towards a return to the abuses of constitutional rights during the Cold War. Further, this bill includes nearly $2 billion in additional funds for intelligence accounts. When taken into account with the extra-judicial incarceration of thousands of immigration violators, the transfer of prisoners from law enforcement custody to military custody, and the consideration of a 'volunteer' terrorism tip program, America must stand up and protect itself from the threat not only of terrorism, but of a police state of its own.
There does exist a need to increase personnel pay accounts, replenish operations and maintenance accounts and replace lost equipment. The military has an appropriate role in protecting the United States from foreign threats, and should remain dedicated to preparing for those threats. Domestic uses of the military have long been prohibited for good reason, and the same should continue to apply to all military functions, especially any and all military intelligence and surveillance. Congress and the Administration must be increasingly vigilant towards the protection of and adherence to our constitutional rights and privileges. For, if we win the war on terrorism, but create a police state in the process, what have we won?
Cynthia McKinney represents Georgia's Fourth Congressional District. This is article is a reprint of her remarks before the House Armed Services Committee on H.R. 4547, The Costs of War Against Terrorism Act.
------
Recently I learned some interesting things about Yarborough in Columbia during the Kennedy years. This interested me
because of what I had read in William Pepper's book An Act of State (2nd edition, April 2008) about Yarborough's involvement with the 902nd MIG which is described as present in Memphis, after flying in around 4AM on 4-4-68.
First some points from An Act of State:
* Pepper describes a relationship between the 902nd MIG and Carlos Marcello's org:
They were jointly involved in an extenisve gun running venture. Weapons stolen from army bases and
armories were delivered to the Marcello organization which arranged for their sale in Latin and South
America and elsewhere There proceeds were split equally and the 902nd used this "black" money for
covert operations. The operational link between the army and the mob was, apparently, a now deceased
20th SFG captain in New Orelans who dies in a suspicious car crash. I recalled Warren's accoud of running
guns from Camp Shelby to New Orleans where htey wre deliverd to Marcello's man Zip Chimento. I also
recalled Glenda Grabo's description of Raul and his associates picking up guns which were deliverd by water
and unloaded at Houston docks.
Downie also ties two other people tot hei activity. One was a senior Mossad agent working in South America
who acted as a senior liason to the US military and the CIA. The second was an officer of the 111th MIG
based at Frot McPherson in Georgia. Downie urged us to stay away from these individuals. (pp.76-77 Act of
State, 2nd edition)
* Earlier in the book Pepper gives this background on Yarborough:
The Eight MIG-- the 902nd-- was under the command of the army's Assistant Chief of Staff for Inteligence, who
from Demember 1966 until July 1968 was Major General William P Yarborough, the founder of units known
as the Green Berets. The MIG officers were responsible for eye to eye surveillance operations which included
audio and visual recordings of people ad events designated as targets. Dr. King was a target and throughtout
the last year of his life wa under surveillance by one or aother MIG team. Closely related to the USAINTC struture
at the time was the separate intelligence office under ACSI Yarborough.
In addition to controlling the 902nd MIG, he supervised the Counterintelligence Analysis Board (CIAB). This
analyzed a wide range of MIG-produced intelligence and forwarded reports directly tot he ACSI. The 902nd MIG
was a highly secretive organization, carrying outsome of the most sensitive assignments. Warren had always
refused to discuss the 902nd, saying anyone intereste in the "90 Deuce" should dig a deep hole.
Pepper points out that the 902nd was the only MIG that was explicitly authorized to undertake BOTH domestic and foreign ops.
Ok now lets turn to Thy Will be Done, and what it says about Yarborough earlier, when he was in Columbia in 1962:
Kennedy went to Columbia in 1962 to urge reforms. His trip was a huge media success. But Rightists in Columbia didnt want to make any reforms, instead wanting to eliminate groups of semi-autonomous peasant republics in around the Macarena Mountains.
The second event boding well for the military occurred a week after Kennedy's departure. In the town of Buga, a
a bomb exploded amid a Christmas procession; 51 people were killed, and more than 100 wounded. This was the
pretext the Pentagon needed to send top U.S. couterinsurgency experts from Fort Bragg, led by Brigadier
General William P. Yarborough, commanding general of Fort Bragg's Special Warfare center.[ here the authors
point out Yarborough's later explits working with COINTELPRO "AND THEN DEPUTY ATTORNEY GNERAL WARREN
CHRISTOPHER, AGAINST AMERICAN CIVILIANS IDENTIFITED AS 'DISSIDENT ELEMENTS' (MY EMPH.)]
Yarborough specifically targetted the civlil rights movement and the "anti-Vietnam/anti-draft movements,"
exteneding the army's intellignece gathering beyond "subversion" and "dissident groups" to "prominant persons"
who were "friendly" with "leaders of the disturbance or sympathetic with their plans"
Yarborough's team arrived in Columbia on February 2, 1962. Lleras Canargo's press censorhsip worked
smoothly. The Chief of Staff for the COlumbian army turned out the entire officer corps staffing the Columbian
Army headquarters, but no press account appeared in Bogata's newspapers. Yarborough's team next consulted
US Embasy consul Henry Dearborn, the former de facto CIA chief of station in he Dominican Republic.
Dearborn, a verteran operative in Latin America, was an old acquaintantce of the CIA's J.C. King; both had
operated in Peronist Argentina after WWII. Recently, Dearborn had been transfered to Columbia from the
Dominican Republic, where he and King engineered the CIA's delivery of weapons that were used to assassinate
dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961.
Now [in Columbia]... the focus of his attention was, however, the VII Brigade at the cattle town of Villavicencio,
gateway to the southern plains that slope gradually into the tropical Amazon basin. Here, in the department of
Meta was where the action was. Refugees from army attacks on the peasant republics had settled here and
turned to guerrilla warfare when attacked.
The VII Brigade kept most of its twenty-two outposts in this region, supplemented by many more police
outposts and a apramilitary nonuniformed cavalry, modeled after the Texas rangers and called "Rurales."
The Rurales were controlled by DAS, Colombia's secret police, and like the Rangers, were not known for
kindness to Indians...... Specifically Yarborough recommended Helio Couriers [ anyone hear much about this
weird plane that the CIA eventually gets ahold of via Summer Linguistics Institute and JAARS base in Charlotte
NC? Lots on this weird plane in this book]....
Yarborough sets up a vast interrogation and counterinsurgency network that seems to share some similarities with the
later Pheonix Program.
The Inter-American Geographic Survey would be enlisted to make aerial maps of guerrilla-affected ares. "Villages
and ares known to harbor bandits should be alleged by the government to be feeding information to the government
Polygraph teams should elicit such information as is neededfor this operation..... [much more psy war details]
It was all vintage Lansdale, to whom, after all Yarborough ultimately reported at the top of the chain of counter-
insurgency command ....
In 1962 Yarborough writes in his report on the Columbian operations:
It is the considered opinion of the survey team... that a concerted country team effort should be made now
to select civilian and military personnel for clandestine training in resistance operations in case they are needed
later. This should be done with a view toward development of a cvil and military structure for exploitation in
the event of the Colombian's internal security sytem deteriorates further......
Shortly after Cam [the leader of Wycliffe Bible Translators] signed the contract and General Yarborough's report
was read at a March meeting of the Special Group in Washington, Columbians near Villavicencio watched a long
column of army trucks bearing U.S.insignia pass through. The Column headed south, toward the Macarena
Mountains, just east of where SIL's [Summer Institute of Linguistics] base would be located. No troops ever came
out, they claimed. Explosions were heard rubling from the Macarena Moutnains, howeverer. Soon afterword the
Columbian military ruled that airspace over the mountains was off-limits for all commercial airplanes. Over the
years, reports would appear sporaically of planes being lost. Some pilots whe strayed overhead and did come out
reported seeing air runways and telecommunications antennas. In the early 1970s, the Columbian military would
deny and foreign base or presence in the Macarena. Only American strockholders of Loeb family-owned APCO
Oil Company and those who read APCO's annual reports knew better. APCO entered the Mcarena in 1967. In
1976, an APCO map showed that the Maceraena had been honeycombed with clandestine runways.
By then, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texaco, and Gulf had joined other oil companies in drilling for oil in the
Llanos. JAARS's Helio Courirers were taking off for Villavicencio from Lomalinda, the grey-misted Macarena
Mountains hovering in the distance like a Mirage. (pp. 392-395, Thy Will Be Done)
How long had this cooperative effort between the 902nd MIG and US military cover ops in Latin America extend before 1968?
Yarborough's experience on both ends of this relationship seems noteworthy.
What about Warren Christopher in 1968. If he was working with Yarborough, what about MH CHAOS connections, possibly involving a young Bill Clinton in 1968? Did Bill have an interesting precious relationship with his future Secretary of State?