FBI, CIA helped Plan Venezuelan Prosecutors Murder

FBI, CIA helped Plan Venezuelan Prosecutors Murder
Monday, 14 November 2005, 11:43 am
Press Release: Venezuelanalysis.com
FBI and CIA identified as helping Plan

Venezuelan Prosecutor's Murder


By: Alessandro Parma -

http://venezuelanalysis.com/


Caracas, November, 9 2005 �

A key witness in

the Danilo Anderson murder trial, Giovani Jose

Vasquez De Armas, has identified FBI and CIA

agents as being involved in the preparations to

assassinate the Venezuelan State Prosecutor.

Speaking on behalf of Vasquez De Armas, the

Attorney General's office said that those

planning the killing, "all discussed the plan

with the help of the FBI and CIA."

Danilo Anderson was a Venezuela Prosecutor

killed by a car bomb in Caracas on November 18,

2004. He was murdered while investigating those

who were involved in leading and organizing the

April 2002 coup that briefly overthrew

President Chavez and abolished the constitution

and the National Assembly. Vasquez De Armas, a

member of Colombia's right wing paramilitary

group called the United Self-Defense Forces of

Colombia (AUC) has said that he was in charge

of logistics for the plot to kill Danilo

Anderson.

According to the Attorney General, Vasquez De

Armas said that during a meeting in Darien,

Panama, on September 4 and 6, 2003, an FBI

Officer called "Pesquera" and a CIA agent

called "Morrinson," attended a meeting along

with two of the plot's alleged organizers,

Patricia Poleo and Salvador Romani, as well as

two of those who actually did the killing,

Rolando and Otoniel Guevera.

An official from the Attorney General's office,

speaking on behalf of Vasquez De Armas, said

that in Panama the FBI and the plotting

Venezuelans agreed, "to take out Chavez and the

Government." He said, "the meeting's final

objective was to kill President Chavez and the

Attorney General." Vasquez De Armas said it was

at the next meeting in the town of Maracaibo,

Venezuela on March 3 and 4, 2004, that a

"dramatic change" of target took place. At this

meeting, attended, amongst others, by Retired

General Eugenio A�ez N��ez, "They decided

definitely to change the objective and chose

Danilo Anderson as the victim."
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As yet the FBI or CIA have not responded to

these further allegations of their involvement

in plots to kill Venezuelan officials. The

FBI's most recent position has been to offer

assistance with extraditing to Venezuela other

Venezuelans suspected of participating in the

plot.

Three Venezuelan's from the same family,

Rolando, Otoniel, and Juan Batista Guevera were

arrested shortly after the murder for planting

and detonating the bomb that killed Anderson.

Those alleged of planning and ordering the

assassination include a retired Venezuelan

general, an anti-Cuban militant, and two

leading opposition figures.

Retired General Eugenio A�ez N��ez and

anti-Cuban activist Salvador Roman� were

arrested over the weekend. Nelson Mezerhane, a

businessman involved in the oppositional TV

station Globovisi�n, and Patricia Poleo, a

leading opposition journalist have not been

captured by the police and are currently in

hiding.

According to Vasquez De Armas, he was sent by

the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia to

help provide operational support for the

bombing after the plotters came to the

organization for help. The Public Ministry said

he and his family are currently under the

witness protection program as they fear for the

lives. This is why the Ministry says he cannot

appear openly to discuss his testimony.

The defense lawyers for General A�ez and Mr.

Romani have claimed that the testimony of one

Colombian paramilitary is not enough to

prosecute their clients. The Judge in charge of

the case, Alejandra Rivas Aliendres, said that

Vasquez De Armas's testimony was not the only

one and that the charges were based upon, "12

separate pieces of evidence."
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