Massagrande, Elio

Dans le schéma de Paul Latinus :





Dossogne est celui qui a organisé la fuite de Jean Bultot. Il devait donc connaître Clemente Graziani et Elio Massagrande.

JMP est Jean-Marie Le Pen ... dont le garde du corps a été Dominique Elurin ... qui a dû bien connaître Elio Massagrande au Paraguay.

La question qui se pose de plus en plus est le rôle de Bernard Mercier et de La Vega.

Il faut aussi noter qu'un des proches de Jean-Marie Le Pen au Front National était Jean-Pierre Stirbois, qui connaissait bien Aginter Press.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Stirbois

(...)  Close to Aginter Press, he was condemned to a suspended one-year jail sentence after the discovery of arms and equipment for the production of explosives in his basement  (...)

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L'Orchestre noir: Enquête sur les réseaux néo-fascistes
Frédéric LAURENT

Dans le document du département d'Etat, il est aussi question de Miro Barešić.

Voir :

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Miro_Bare%C5%A1i%C4%87

(...)  In Madrid, the two men came in contact with the then-Ambassador of Paraguay to Spain, Rodney Elpidio Acevedo, and were given papers to move to Paraguay  (...)  Barešić obtained a Paraguayan passport under a false name, his new identity in Paraguay was "Toni Šarić". Under that name he joined the Paraguay armed forces and rose to the rank of captain  (...)

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https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/world/paraguay-accepts-terrorist-and-stir-is-minor.html

Paraguay Accepts Terrorist and Stir Is Minor

Dec. 27, 1987

In a country with a record for providing refuge to fugitive Nazis, ousted dictators and prominent drug traffickers, the arrival of a well-known former Croatian terrorist here this month caused only a minor stir.

One opposition leader, Domingo Laino, complained that ''once again the Government offers protection to persons with lamental moral antecedents,'' while a church publication noted that Paraguay receives undesirable outcasts the way some countries accept atomic waste. The Government of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner cited exclusively humanitarian reasons for granting permanent residence to the Croatian militant and convicted assassin, Miro Baresic, upon his release from prison in Sweden in early December.

To some foreign diplomats, the Baresic case is fundamentally different from other cases involving infamous residents of Paraguay, among them the Nazi murderer Josef Mengele, who lived here in the 1950's, the ousted Nicaraguan dictator, Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was himself killed here in 1980, and the heroin kingpin, Joseph August Ricorde, who died here in 1985.

In these cases, the Paraguayan dictatorship provided a safe haven for men fleeing from their past. But in the Baresic case, according to diplomats, Paraguayan officials have been shown to have actively collaborated with a Croatian anti-Communist terrorist group known as Ustashi, which literally means ''insurgent'' in Croatian.

The movement, which dates back to the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, is dedicated to freeing Croatia - one of Yugoslavia's republics - from Communist control and includes among its tactics the assassination of Yugoslav diplomats and attacks on Yugoslav diplomatic missions.

Mr. Baresic first gained notoriety in 1971 when he and five other Croatians were convicted of killing Yugoslavia's Ambassador to Stockholm, Vladimir Rolovic. The next year, Ustashi militants hijacked an SAS airliner and obtained the freedom for their colleagues.

In Madrid, the Croatians somehow made contact with Paraguay's Ambassador, Rodney Elpidio Acevedo, who had since been promoted to Deputy Foreign Minister, and were given papers to travel to Asuncion. Here the authorities provided them with Paraguayan passports under false names.

For several years, Mr. Baresic, now in his late 30's, taught martial arts at Paraguay's main military college and he was given the rank of captain in the Paraguayan army. Ustashi terrorists also established an operating base here and in 1976 they mistakenly killed Uruguay's Ambassador to Asuncion, Carlos Abdala, when they were planning to kill a visiting Yugoslav official. One Croatian was subsequently jailed.

In 1977, Mr. Baresic appeared in Washington working as a driver and bodyguard to Ambassador Mario Lopez Escobar, under the name of Tony Favik. After United States officials discovered his true identity following a traffic incident in which he claimed diplomatic immunity, however, Mr. Baresic returned to Asuncion.

Sur Dominique Erulin


Les plastiqueurs
Frédéric charpier
(2018)

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/05/02/strage-di-bologna-chiesto-il-processo-per-lex-nar-gilberto-cavallini/3557695/

Strage di Bologna, chiesto il processo per l’ex Nar Gilberto Cavallini

2 MAGGIO 2017

(traduction d'un extrait)

Paolo Bolognesi, président de l'association des familles des victimes, l'a défini comme "un travail long et approfondi de recherche et d'analyse croisée de milliers de pages d'actes judiciaires de procès pour actes de massacre et de terrorisme depuis 1974".

Parmi les nouveautés du dossier, la découverte, parmi les actes du procès bis du massacre d'Italicus, "d'une correspondance qui prouve l'hospitalité donnée en 1984 au Paraguay par le leader d'O.N. Elio Massagrande à Licio Gelli et l'intérêt pour une rencontre avec Gelli manifesté, à cette occasion, par Paolo Marchetti et Rita Stimamiglio, les mêmes personnes qui ont accueilli, en janvier-février 1981 à Padoue, Fioravanti,

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MARCHETTI Paolo, STIMAMIGLIO Rita et MANFRIN Angelo, étaient membres ou sympathisants de Ordine Nuovo ;

- en 1974, MARCHETTI a été soupçonné de reconstituer le parti fasciste, en militant d'abord dans Ordine Nuovo, puis dans le groupe ANNO ZERO ;

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(traduction)

Le même Interpol a intéressé le Ministère de la Justice et les Parquets des Cours d'Appel de Rome, Milan et Florence, en relation avec la demande officielle d'extradition déjà transmise en 1983 aux Autorités paraguayennes pour les fugitifs Massagrande Elio et Graziani Clemente, et leur a également proposé l'opportunité - compte tenu des autres indications contenues dans les lettres de Marchetti à Narducci - d'initier, par voie diplomatique, une demande formelle d'extradition de Licio Gelli aux autorités paraguayennes, étant donné qu'Interpol d'Assuncion, plusieurs fois impliqué par voie télégraphique, avec des références à la diffusion internationale des recherches précédentes, n'a jamais donné de réponse.

La Questura (préfecture de police) à l'adresse est priée, selon sa propre compétence, de signaler ce qui précède aux organes judiciaires qui poursuivent les fugitifs Gelli, Massagrande et Graziani et de fournir des informations actualisées concernant Bricchi, Marchetti et Stimamiglio.

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- acte transmis par la division 2 - fiche n. 235/4"/04 de la division 1" du 18.9.1984, concernant la transmission à la division 2" de documentation reçue d'UCIGOS concernant des lettres et un agenda appartenant tous deux à l'ordinoviste véronais Paolo MARCHETTI, marié à Rita STIMAMIGLIO - anciennement mariée à Giuseppe FISANOTTI et sœur de Giampaolo STIMAMIGLIO - saisis par la police allemande chez l'oncle de MARCHETTI, Francesco NARDUCCI, dans le cadre d'une enquête relative à un vol d'œuvres d'art perpétré contre la "National Gallery" d'Oslo. Une affaire dans laquelle était également impliqué BRICCHI Claudio, par le passé sympathisant de gauche et membre de l'association "Ananda Marga", à laquelle M. et Mme MARCHETTI s'étaient adressés. Dans l'une des lettres confisquées, datée du 14 juin 1984, MARCHETTI écrit, entre autres, qu'il a été au Paraguay où il a rencontré Elio MASSAGRANDE, qui est "très bien introduit dans l'armée et travaille aussi pour le gouvernement" et qu'à Asuncyon "il y a aussi Clemente GRAZIANI et récemment Elio nous a dit que Licio Gelli y vit aussi". (voir les actes relatifs à la 2e division) ;

Key Defense Intelligence Agency report on Condor, "Special Operations Forces".
Chile Declassification Project, State Department website.

Ce document est reproduit dans le livre Predatory States de J. Patrice McSherry.


https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=Condor,%20%22Department%20of%20Defense%20Intelligence%20information%20report%22&beginDate=19760101&endDate=19770101&publishedBeginDate=&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=











Voir

https://foia.state.gov/Search/Search.aspx

Paraguay : colonel Guanes

https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=Paraguay,%20Guanes&beginDate=19790101&endDate=19870101&publishedBeginDate=&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=




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https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=(Paraguay,%20Guanes)%20AND%20(Leigh,%20Landau)&beginDate=19790101&endDate=19870101








(traduction)

Cela se fonde sur le fait que Fernandez ment lorsqu'il dit que M. Guanes l'a informé que le colonel Leigh était le chef de la CIA au Paraguay, tandis que Manuel Contreras dit que M. Guanes l'a informé que le chef de la CIA était l'ambassadeur Landau : pour sa part, M. Guanes, comme l'exprime la déclaration sous serment qu'il a faite devant Robert W. Schezzer, agent spécial du F.B.I. (document A, fs. 50 du dossier N°1 des documents), il nie avoir dit à Contreras que l'ambassadeur Landau était le chef de la CIA pour toute l'Amérique du Sud ;

https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=(Paraguay,%20Guanes)%20AND%20(WACL)&beginDate=19790101&endDate=19870101






http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?query=WACL&docId=ead%2Fasu%2Frudd.xml&chunk.id=0

Eldon Dean Rudd was born to Charles B. and Edna (Price) Rudd at Camp Verde, Arizona in 1920. He married Ann Merritt in 1944 and the couple had two daughters, Carolyn and Katherine. Eldon Rudd earned his B.A. from Arizona State College in 1947 and his J.D. from the University of Arizona in 1949.

Rudd served as a pilot in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946 as and a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1950 to 1970. He sat on the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, Arizona from 1972 until his election to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican in 1976. After retiring from Congress in 1987, Rudd worked with the law firm of Shimmel, Hill, Bishop and Gruender of Phoenix in addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Railroad and on the Board of Directors of the Salt River Project (1988-2002). Rudd was also a member of the American, Arizona, and Maricopa Bar Associations and authored World Communism: Threat to Freedom (Regnery Gateway, 1987). Eldon Rudd died in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 8, 2002 and is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery in Phoenix.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldon_Rudd

A staunch anticommunist, Rudd was a tireless supporter of US anticommunist efforts in Central and South America, and he was the last American to visit with Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was killed by Sandinista forces.

During the 1980 presidential election, Rudd, with help from FBI colleagues with access to security officials at the White House, allegedly obtained debate preparation documents prepared for President Jimmy Carter for his election debates against Republican nominee Ronald Reagan and provided the so-called "Carter debate papers" to the Reagan presidential campaign in the Debategate scandal.


https://www.amazon.com/World-Communism-Threat-Freedom-Eldon-Rudd/dp/0895267837

Eldon Dean Rudd connaissait très probablement John K. Singlaub ( c'est le cas si l'on en croit https://medium.com/@toddbrendanfahey/headhunting-character-assassination-and-assorted-nasty-deeds-ac6cd238caf0 ) et ce dernier était proche de Robert Close.

Par ailleurs, Eldon Dean Rudd a rencontré Benito Guanes et a au minimum entendu parler de Elio Massagrande (vu son implication dans la WACL du Paraguay).

A propos de John K. Singlaub :

https://liberty.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17184coll12/id/52631/rec/5

1982-12-29 Letter from John Singlaub





et de Eldon Rudd

https://liberty.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17184coll12/id/10397/rec/2

Sur Benito Guanes

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91-00901R000700060054-9.pdf





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https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00130R000600010226-9.pdf

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978ASUNCI00310_d.html





https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979SANTIA01954_e.html




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https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979SANTIA01866_e.html





https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1978SANTIA04562_d.html





https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979ASUNCI03705_e.html

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979ASUNCI03112_e.html

https://www.cairn.info/revue-bulletin-de-l-institut-pierre-renouvin1-2008-1-page-129.htm

Les services de sécurité paraguayens dans le système Condor, 1974-1982

Enfin, directement sous les ordres de l’État-major général des forces armées (ESMAGENFA), le « Deuxième Bureau », commandé par le colonel Benito Guanes Serrano, était le service de renseignement de l’Armée. Au moment du plan Condor, le Département II était le principal lien entre l’appareil répressif paraguayen et celui des pays voisins. Il sollicitait auprès des services de police des informations pour les pays voisins ou, au contraire, transmettait des renseignements venus de ces pays. Cet organe, représentation du Condor au Paraguay, était, dans la pratique, supérieur à presque tout l’appareil répressif, car détenteur des informations et renseignements vitaux pour la sécurité du pays.

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Repris dans :

https://www.cairn.info/revue-vingtieme-siecle-revue-d-histoire-2010-1-page-33.htm

Le Paraguay, un nid du « Condor »

La dictature du général Stroessner, la répression et le système Condor

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Search Request No 23-76, July 6, 1976

This document, a request for intelligence from other Condor nations, provides further evidence of how the Condor nations collaborated. In this case, the Chief of the Second Department [Intelligence] of the Paraguayan Army Chiefs of Staff, Benito Guanes Serrano, issued a search request addressed among others to Condor 1 and SIE  (Argentine Army Intelligence Service - Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejército) requesting information about a guerrilla movement in Paraguay that has been detected by the Argentine Intelligence

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB239d/PDF/19760706%20Pedido%20de%20busqueda%20No%2023-76.pdf




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Report, April 9, 1977

This interrogation report was sent by the chief of the Investigations Department, Pastor Coronel, to his superior, Director of Political Affairs, Alberto Cantero, and reveals how agents from three different Southern Cone nations participated as a "team." It is a “summary of activities carried out by the working team that gathered on the 5, 6 and 7 of this month, composed of Colonel Benito Guanes [Chief of Department II – military intelligence], and Lieutenant Colonel Galo Escobar from Department II of the Army Chiefs of Staff [Paraguay]; First Lieutenant Angel Spada and Sergeant Juan Carlos Camicha, from military Area 234 [Argentina]; Jose Montenegro and Alejandro Stada from SIDE [State Intelligence Service], both from Argentina and Major Carlos Calcagno from the Army Intelligence Service in Uruguay.”

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB239d/PDF/19770409%20Elevar%20Informe.pdf




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Report, May 16, 1977

This report records the secret rendition of the five prisoners from Paraguay to Argentina. Investigations Chief Pastor Coronel writes to Director Cantero that  “On this date, at 16:34 hours, in a twin-engine plane of the Argentine Navy, registration number 5-7-30 – 0653, flown by Lieutenant Commander [Capitán de Corbeta] José Abdala, the following detainees traveled to Buenos Aires (Argentina),: Gustavo Edison Inzaurralde (Uruguayan), Nelson Rodolfo Santana Scotto (Uruguayan),  Jose Nell (Argentine), Alejandro Jose Logoluso (Argentine) y Dora Marta Landi Gil (Argentine). These people were handed over through this office, in the presence of  Colonel don Benito Guanes and Commander [Capitán de Fragata] Lázaro Sosa, to First Lieutenant Jose Montenegro and Juan Manuel Berret, both from SIDE [State Intelligence Service - Argentina].”

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB239d/PDF/19770409%20Elevar%20Informe.pdf

Sur George W. Landau (ambassadeur au Paraguay de 1972 à 1977 puis au Chili de 1977 à 1982)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Landau

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1980/06/29/the-unresolved-questions-in-the-letelier-case/f70e1f2a-159f-492d-9a2a-a1f74d6d3430/

The Unresolved Questions in the Letelier Case

John Dinges   June 29, 1980

COOPERATION with "friendly" intelligence agencies was the established practice of U.S. embassies and the CIA abroad, and that included granting visas to known agents to conduct intelligence missions in the United States. But something about the request Ambassador George W. Landau received in late July 1976 from a Paraguayan government official in Asuncion aroused his suspicions.

The official, a top aide to Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, assured Landau that Chilean President Augusto Pinochet himself was asking for a favor. The official said he needed visas immediately for two Chilean Army officers using Paraguayan passports to travel from Asuncion to Washington on an intelligence mission. The mission, he said, had been cleared with the CIA station in Santiago and the two men would be in touch with CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters in Washington.

Ambassador Landau, according to his later testimony, issued the visas for the two men the next morning. But his suspicions led him to take two precautions: He had the agents' false Paraguayan passports photographed, and he sent the photographs to CIA headquarters with a full account of the affair -- just in case the Chilean agents were lying about why they were going to Washington.

Landau's action was the first brush by a U.S. official with Chile's secret operations leading up to the assassination of Orlando Letelier six weeks later. In the weeks preceding the assassination of the leftist former ambassador and foreign minister, a flurry of cables and official communications went back and forth between the U.S. Embassy in Asuncion, the State Department, the CIA and the Immigration and Naturalization Service concerning the two Chilean agents, whose real identities -- not learned until almost two years later -- were Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez, the Chilean secret police agents who led the operation to kill Letelier.

CIA Director George Bush and his deputy, Gen. Walters, were among those who personally received and acted on Landau's warning. The ambassador's cable, sent via a top secret State Department "back channel," went first to the office of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

All that raises a series of disturbing questions. U.S. officials at the highest levels knew in advance about Chile's undercover mission in Washington and possessed photos and passports information. Was that information sufficient foreknowledge to have prevented the murders? Once the assassination occurred, was the information turned over immediately to the FBI by the persons and agencies possessing it?

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https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979SANTIA03568_e.html




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https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1979CARACA04724_e.html




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Voir aussi

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91-00901R000700060100-7.pdf

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https://www.afsa.org/sites/default/files/flipping_book/0913/24/index.html

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00845R000100170003-6.pdf






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Vernon Walters mérite que l'on s'y intéresse.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Walters

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Dans les années 1960, Vernon Walters fut attaché militaire en France, en Italie et au Brésil. En 1961, il proposa même une intervention militaire américaine en Italie, si le parti socialiste italien participait au gouvernement italien

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Le président Nixon nomma Vernon Walters en tant que directeur adjoint de la CIA en 1972 à 1976.

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https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKwatersV.htm

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From 1981 to 1985, Walters was ambassador at large in the Ronald Reagan administration, visiting more than 100 countries.

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Vernon Walters et l'Italie


Autobiografia di una repubblica: le radici dell'Italia attuale
Guido Crainz




(traduction)

Pour leur part, les documents américains offrent des aperçus significatifs de l'impulsion donnée par les Etats-Unis à l'action anticommuniste. Elle a été particulièrement amère pendant la guerre de Corée, mais s'est poursuivie également pendant les années Kennedy, en raison de la présence de larges secteurs de l'administration qui contredisaient et entravaient les nouvelles orientations. Nous en arrivons ainsi à la réunion qui a eu lieu à l'ambassade de Rome en novembre 1961, au cours de laquelle l'attaché militaire Vernon Walters a avancé l'hypothèse d'une intervention militaire des États-Unis en cas de participation des socialistes au gouvernement". En d'autres termes, nous arrivons à la phase dans laquelle "la structure clandestine "Stay Behind" pour l'Italie, et en particulier l'organisation Gladio", commence à prendre "consistance et opérativité". Les conséquences à court et à long terme de la "démocratie protégée" de ces années ne peuvent être sous-estimées, ainsi que d'une dépendance à l'égard des États-Unis qui a souvent renoncé à des marges d'autonomie, même si de telles marges étaient possibles.

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/altjean-claudeorangefr/blog/050119/george-hw-bush-trafic-d-armes-crimes-de-guerre-genocide

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/12/01/george-h-w-bush-the-cia-and-a-case-of-state-sponsored-terrorism/

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In a 21-page report to Congress on Sept. 18, 2000, the CIA officially acknowledged for the first time that the mastermind of the terrorist attack, Chilean intelligence chief Manuel Contreras, was a paid asset of the CIA.

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https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/chile/index.html

CIA Activities in Chile

September 18, 2000

Summary of Response to Questions

Overview of Covert Actions.
Support for Coup in 1970
Awareness of Coup Plotting in 1973
Knowledge of Human Rights Violations
Liaison with Chilean Security Services
Propaganda in Support of Pinochet Regime
Knowledge of "Operation Condor"
Internal Qualms
Historical Context

The "Assassination" of President Salvador Allende

The Schneider Assassination
Early Allende Presidency
US Business Involvement
Accession of General Augusto Pinochet to the Presidency

Violations of Human Rights Committed by Officers or Covert Agents and Employees of the CIA

Relationship with Contreras
Intelligence Reporting
Death/Disappearance of US Citizens

5 messages en 10 ans, remarque déplacée.

Selon un témoignage, Elio Massagrande était impliqué dans le trafic de drogue (par avions) au Paraguay.

Selon un autre témoignage, c'était aussi le cas de Paul Vanden Boeynants (il faut relire les articles de Hilde Geens).

Si Paul Vanden Boeynants était un acteur important du trafic de drogue avec le Paraguay, il devait avoir des contacts en Europe aussi pour la distribution. Il a nié connaître Albert Gillet...

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https://www.jstor.org/

The Forgotten Relationship: United States-Paraguay Relations, 1937-89

Frank O. Mora
Journal of Contemporary History
Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul., 1998), pp. 451-473







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https://apnews.com/article/022edd54cb98880870d2d760cd1de83e

Paraguay Arrests Six Accused of Shipping Cocaine Disguised As Soap

August 19, 1987

(...)  three hundred cases of Paraguayan soap were opened Friday by customs agents in Brussels, Belgium, who found 253 pounds of cocaine in the shipment. (...)  West German citizen Erich Bunte was taken into custody on smuggling charges by Belgian officials when he tried to pick up the shipment at Brussels. (...)

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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-14-mn-1671-story.html

APRIL 14, 1989

(...)  Investigators identified the mastermind as the son of a Paraguayan military officer close to then-President Alfredo Stroessner. (...)

The Paraguayan case also raised the specter of the kind of official protection that had long been whispered about in the social circles of Asuncion and publicly attacked by former U.S. Ambassador Clyde Taylor.

The alleged ringleader--said to have frequently flown a small plane from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, with shipments of cocaine--was identified as Roberto Paredes, the son of senior air force Col. Adolfo Paredes, a close friend of Stroessner, who fell from power in a coup in February.

The cocaine was allegedly stored in the elder Paredes’ small airline’s hangar at the Asuncion airport. During the inquiry, the father removed a safe from his son’s house that investigators believe might have contained key evidence. The empty safe was found in the family’s airline hangar. Roberto Paredes is in hiding, and the case is pending.

Other recent cases underline Paraguay’s transit role:

-- West German businessman Erich Bunte, a Paraguayan resident with a history of fraud convictions over two decades, was arrested in Brussels in August, 1987, along with a Paraguayan associate, and accused of shipping 115 kilograms of cocaine hidden in hollowed-out coconut soap bars. Bunte accused former Interior Minister Sabino Montanaro of involvement.

-- Roberto Gallucci, a daring pilot for the “French Connection” heroin trafficking ring in the late 1960s, was killed in late 1987 when his small plane crashed into a mountain in Argentina. The wreckage was surrounded by white powder--about 200 kilograms of cocaine. Gallucci, a Brazilian living in Paraguay, was flying south to Chile, not a conventional drug trafficking path. But he apparently was en route to Miami via Chile, Peru, Panama and Jamaica.

The man who overthrew Stroessner on Feb. 3, his second in command, Gen. Andres Rodriguez, has denied accusations that he too had protected drug smuggling in the past. After taking power, Rodriguez immediately vowed that Paraguay would reclaim its good name by coming down hard on drug trafficking. One of his first official acts was to approve the aerial spraying of marijuana fields in the north of the country, which began early this month with U.S. help.  (...)

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https://twitter.com/guarani1943?lang=fr

https://www.bendevannijvel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2288

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RNARD2021"]5 messages en 10 ans, remarque déplacée.[/quote]

pas vraiment, non.....mais 18333 messages, çà saoule à force

Si Gelli, Strauss et Stroessner se connaissaient directement, comme cela semble avoir été le cas, leur implication et celle de Elio Massagrande / Clemente Graziani / Jean Bultot (Bouhouche, etc) devient claire ... de même que le lien avec le schéma de Paul Latinus.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ohne-murren-a-a47078bb-0002-0001-0000-000013513313

STAATSBESUCHE

Ohne Murren

CSU-Chef Strauß hat der Regierung den Besuch des südamerikanischen Diktators Stroessner eingebrockt. Außenminister und Bundespräsident distanzieren sich.

24.03.1985, 13.00 Uhr • aus DER SPIEGEL 13/1985

(traduction)

Le leader de la CSU, M. Strauss, a provoqué la visite du dictateur sud-américain Stroessner. Le ministre des Affaires étrangères et le président fédéral prennent leurs distances.

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Le fauteur de troubles, dans ce cas aussi, est Franz Josef Strauß. Avec l'inquiétant "Institut für deutschparaguayische Beziehungen zur Wirtschafts- und Kulturförderung GmbH" (Institut des relations germano-paraguayennes pour la promotion de l'économie et de la culture), le Premier ministre bavarois s'est chargé de l'invitation d'État protocolaire de Stroessner, né en Allemagne.

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