Quito’s Police: CIA breeding ground

Quito’s Police: CIA breeding ground
Posted on September 30, 2010

“I applied and was accepted at the Escuela superior de policía de Quito, and studied there from September 1992 to August 1995.”

Guy Philippe, speaking to Peter Hallward
about his background prior to leading an armed insurgency that
contributed to the removal of Haiti’s elected president, Jean Bertrand
Aristide.

Report Confirmed: U.S. Intelligence Thoroughly Penetrated the Ecuadoran Police – español
By Jean-Guy Allard
Translation: Machetera

The uprising by putschist elements of the Ecuadoran police against
President Rafael Correa confirms an alarming report about the
infiltration of the Ecuadoran police by U.S. intelligence services
released in 2008, which indicated that many members of the police corps
developed a “dependency” on the U.S. Embassy.

The report made clear that the Ecuadoran Police “maintain informal
economic dependence on the United States, to pay for informants,
training, equipment and operations.”

The systematic use of corruption techniques by the CIA in order to
acquire the “goodwill” of police officers was described and denounced on
many occasions by the ex-CIA agent Philip Agee who, before leaving the
agency’s ranks, was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Quito.

In his official report, distributed at the end of October 2008, the
Ecuadoran Defense Minister Javier Ponce revealed how U.S. diplomats
dedicated themselves to the corruption of the police as well as officers
from the armed forces.

In confirmation, the leadership of the Ecuadoran police then
announced that it would sanction any of its agents who collaborated with
the United States, while the U.S. Embassy claimed “transparency” in its
support of Ecuador.

“We work with the Ecuadoran government, with the military, with the
Police, on objectives that are very important for security,” said the
U.S. Ambassador in Quito, Heather Hodges.

However, the diplomat told journalists that she would not comment “on intelligence matters.”

For her part, the public affairs officer, Marta Youth, categorically
refused to comment on the Ecuadoran government’s denunciations, which
included complaints about CIA participation in an operation with
Colombia that led to a military attack by the Colombian military against
FARC guerrillas on Ecuadoran territory on March 1st of that year.

The head of Army intelligence, Mario Pazmiño, had been removed for concealing information related to the attack on the FARC.

In recent months, U.S. officials have appeared in Ecuador under the
pretext of extending relations between Ecuador and the United States.
Arturo Valenzuela, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western
Hemisphere Affairs, repeatedly visited President Correa, leading up to a
visit from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Valenzuela was accompanied by Todd Stern, “Climate Change Envoy,” also known for his CIA ties.

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