Santos was "in bed" with a lot of folks. What I have been curious about for many years is WHY, if he was in bed with Castro, did Castro's people 'hold him hostage' in Cuba in the mid 40's? What could have prompted that? There was a rescue mission planned to retrieve him and one of his cohorts from a military facility where they were being held, with plans to take out those guarding them of course -- but the mission was interrupted by the US government (who had initiated it and assisted in the planning). A relative was involved in this "mission...but never answered this question. WHAT could have prompted them to bail out? Other than Castro learning about it, or the gov being ticked off with Santos for collaborating with Fidel -- if that were true -- I haven't been able to come up with any answers. And WHAT would they have been in bed together on that would have upset the gov so much they'd bail out and risk his life? Do you think the 'hostage' thing could have been a hoax? So many of the participants are now deceased, and the ones who are alive are still witholding information (considering their lives and those of their families had been threatened, witholding info is understandable). I doubt it was a hoax, although things could have certainly gone so wrong that they'd have had to bail for reasons of National Security. <wink> Anyone got any ideas? On Monday, October 23, 2000 12:33 AM, Brian Downing Quig [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: This is to be expected in the war profits business. Yes, the CIA contracted with the Mob because they did not want to use their own for through aways as the assassination plot was discovered at the last possible moment. I am glad someone besides me sees it that way. One part of the Gary Webb book DARK ALLIANCE gave Frank Kelso's account of a bar in Costa Rico where those of the 2 waring factions used to drink together between battles. And the battles are not with each other but against the non combatants. More than 90% of the casualities in these low intensity conflicts are non combatants. The military conflict is just an excuse to use massive brutality against pesants so that they will leave their ancestrial land. Nothing will end the incessant warefare on this planet other than a sober understanding that all sides are being financed by the same war profiteers. Brian Downing Quig Dan Russell wrote: > This sort of goes to my point about money being the basis of military power, > and prohibition artificially making drug dealing the basis of military > power. That is, when you look at the FARC arms import system, as revealed > by the Montesinos scandal, you see the same m.o. employed by Castro with > Trafficante, or Alberto Sicilia Falcon, a CIA-Cuban, who armed any and all > throughout Latin America, right, left or outlaw. In fact I wouldn't be in > the least surprised to learn that Fidel was in bed with the "CIA's" > Montesinos - he was in bed with Trafficante - that's why Trafficante's own > very expert hit teams always missed - as Scott Breckinridge, the CIA's > analyst of this, concluded. There simply is no way around the power of > money. The vast coca plantations owned by the Colombia army's financiers > are never touched by those antidrug CIA cropdusters. > > A childhood friend of mine, now a journalist who has lived in Colombia for > the past 20 years, wrote to me, 10/99, ""A friend of mine, who works for > national parks, just came back from the zone which the government handed > over to the guerrilla to realize the peace negotiations. I have been reading > a lot of newspaper reports about their terrorist rule there. What my friend > tells me is that there is a kind of tense calm. What people are really > worried about is that if the guerrilla withdraw, the place will be shot up > by the paramilitaries, which happens all the time, just these random > slaughters of civilians in zones controlled by the guerrilla (and vice > versa) on the theory that if you are not with us, you are against us. But > the interesting thing is this: just outside > this zone is another town, only about fifteen miles away, where the > paramilitaries are gathering and waiting to strike. But the paramilitaries > rarely have groups of more than 200 armed men, where the guerrilla have > thousands in this demilitarized zone. So what the hell is going on? Although > the two are supposedly bitter enemies, you rarely hear of a combat between > the paras and the guerrilla. This is just to give you some idea of how weird > the situation is." > Dan Russell > www.drugwar.com > www.kalyx.com -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> <FONT COLOR="#000099">eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/16/_/475667/_/972291396/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
