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US Admits African War Crimes Suspect Charles Taylor Was CIA Agent by konami001: 11:36am On Sep 30, 2013
And if you don't know.... NOW YOU KNOW!

By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
Ever since his 2006 arrest for war crimes, Liberia’s former President, Charles Taylor, has consistently claimed that he was an agent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Now declassified US government documents have officially confirmed that Taylor was indeed an agent of the CIA and the US Defense Intelligence Agency for several decades. The 63-year-old, who ruled his West African homeland from 1997 to 2003, is currently being tried at the United Nations Court in The Hague on multiple counts of civilian murders, rapes, and deploying underage soldiers during a brutal civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. Rumors that Taylor was being protected by Washington started surfacing in 2003, after he left Liberia and was given protection in US-allied Nigeria, despite his indictment by the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone. In July 2009, intelNews reported Taylor’s claim that his 1985 “escape” from the Plymouth County maximum security Correctional Facility in Massachusetts, which allowed him to return to Liberia and take over the country through a military coup, took place with US government assistance. His persistent claims led The Boston Globe newspaper to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which has resulted in the declassification of nearly 50 separate documents covering “several decades” of Taylor’s work for the CIA and the DIA. The documents confirm that both agencies employed Taylor as an agent beginning in the early 1980s, long before he became Liberia’s ruler. But the FOIA release does not contain details of Taylor’s work for US intelligence, in an alleged effort to “protect intelligence sources and methods” and so as not to “harm national security”, according to The Boston Globe. The paper quotes several legal experts involved in Taylor’s UN trial, including Allan White, formerly an investigator with the US Department of Defense, who helped author the UN’s indictment against Taylor. White told The Globe that the revelations “reinforced suspicions he had for years” and that they “might explain why some US officials seemed reluctant to use their influence to bring Taylor to justice sooner”. The paper notes that Taylor, who is the first African leader to be tried for war crimes, must have been able to provide the United States with intelligence on Libya and the Soviet Union during the closing stages of the Cold War and into the 1990s. The Liberian former President’s lawyer, Courtenay Griffiths QC, was reportedly contacted by The Globe but did not respond.

http://intelnews.org/2012/01/19/01-911/
Re: US Admits African War Crimes Suspect Charles Taylor Was CIA Agent by Nobody: 11:37am On Sep 30, 2013
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Re: US Admits African War Crimes Suspect Charles Taylor Was CIA Agent by grafikii: 11:51am On Sep 30, 2013
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Re: US Admits African War Crimes Suspect Charles Taylor Was CIA Agent by Emperor007: 11:55am On Sep 30, 2013
Hmmmm, wonders shall never end.




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Re: US Admits African War Crimes Suspect Charles Taylor Was CIA Agent by Horus(m): 11:57am On Sep 30, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq7EL-8rVg0

US authorities say former Liberian leader Charles Taylor worked
for its intelligence agencies, including the CIA
Re: US Admits African War Crimes Suspect Charles Taylor Was CIA Agent by Nobody: 12:02pm On Sep 30, 2013
SMH
Sometimes the US security agents turn out to be bad people around the world.
Re: US Admits African War Crimes Suspect Charles Taylor Was CIA Agent by Nobody: 12:12pm On Sep 30, 2013
"the United States has no friends, only interests"
.....Henry Kissinger

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