Venezuelan covert op against LA Times

The American Thinker ^ | Dec. 21, 2004 | A.M. Mora y Leon

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If the U.S. embassy in Caracas began a campaign to flood a local Venezuelan newspaper critical of the USA with negative mail - openly using Venezuelans themselves as their agents - we'd never hear the end of it as a CIA 'covert' operation. And the deceptive concept is as distasteful as it is unthinkable.

But that's what the activist hand of Hugo Chavez in the United States is doing now. The Venezuelan Information Office, which is financed by the government of Venezuela, yesterday announced the targeting of the Los Angeles Times because of its honest, eloquent "A Little Fidel In Caracas" editorial Saturday, exposing the truth of what's going on in the increasingly communized country, whose democratic institutions are in collapse.

It's not just the Chavez regime's open solicitation of U.S. citizens to write letters to the major newspaper that's so unseemly. It's the Chavez regime's offering American citizens help to write them, to put the actual words in their mouths. And this is to falsely give the Los Angeles Times editorial board the impression that this is some sort of spontaneous grassroots effort that has sprung up to get their 'truth' out, instead of an effort of a small group of paid government agents spreading government propaganda originating in Caracas.

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Be sure to go here, to Alexandra Beech's Web site to see the full text of Chavez's communist diktat to these useful idiots.

http://www.sixthrepublic.com/pages/1/index.htm

It's a must-read. They are trying to influence us through covert means.

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