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kylejack
01-22-2012, 12:05 PM
Taylor furthermore claims the CIA helped to spring him from a maximum security prison in Boston in 1985.


US authorities say former Liberian leader Charles Taylor worked for its intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the Boston Globe reports.

The revelation comes in response to a Freedom of Information request by the newspaper.

A Globe reporter told the BBC this is the first official confirmation of long-held reports of a relationship between US intelligence and Mr Taylor.

Mr Taylor is awaiting a verdict on his trial for alleged war crimes.

Rumours of CIA ties were fuelled in July 2009 when Mr Taylor himself told his trial, at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague, that US agents had helped him escape from a maximum security prison in Boston in 1985.

The CIA at the time denied such claims as "completely absurd".

But now the Defence Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's spy arm, has disclosed that its agents - and those of the CIA - did later use Mr Taylor as an informant, the Globe reports.

Globe reporter Bryan Bender told the BBC's Network Africa programme that Pentagon officials refused to give details on exactly what role Mr Taylor played, citing national security.

But they did confirm that Mr Taylor first started working with US intelligence in the 1980s, the period when he rose to become one of the world's most notorious warlords, Mr Bender says.

Mr Taylor was later elected Liberia's president.

He has been accused of arming and controlling the RUF rebels in neighbouring Sierra Leone during a 10-year campaign of terror conducted largely against civilians.

If convicted, Mr Taylor would serve a prison sentence in the UK.

He denies charges of murder, rape and using child soldiers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16627628

oyarde
01-23-2012, 09:49 AM
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Peace&Freedom
01-23-2012, 10:39 AM
Why should anybody be surprised? Many or most "world leaders" of the last generation have been either outright CIA assets, or informants who cooperated with Western intelligence operations to push them into power. One of the things the establishment fears from a President Paul is the opening of the files, to make this government transparent again. The sheer amount of shocking revelations about all the coups, assassinations, black ops, false flags and puppet leaders the US empire has installed around the globe would serve the same purpose as auditing the Fed would---it would make most Americans call for an end to it.

PatriotOne
01-23-2012, 10:58 AM
Whoa. This guy is all kinds of interesting:

According to a 2 June 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot,[10] Taylor had extensive business dealings with American televangelist Pat Robertson during the civil war. According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside.

According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the Commonwealth of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to his new mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. The subsequent investigation by the Commonwealth of Virginia concluded that Robertson diverted his ministry's donations to the Liberian diamond-mining operation, but Attorney General of Virginia Mark Earley blocked any potential prosecution against Robertson, as the relief supplies were also sent