First lady Michelle Obama awards Argo the Academy Award for best
picture: Does this somehow legitimize the arrest of U.S. filmmaker
Timothy Tracy for seeking to overthrow the Venezuela government?
Timothy Hallet Tracy: Filmmakers, Spies
and Imperial First Ladies (Aporrea, Venezuela)
"The Venezuelan right and the president of the United
States himself, are trying to downplay the incident, calling the possibility
that Timothy H. Tracy might be a U.S. spy 'absurd' and even 'ridiculous.' ... I'm
not going to speculate on whether the guy is a filmmaker or a shoemaker. An
intelligence agent (in other words, a spy) doesn't need to have, written out in
his CV, a course in professional spying certified by the CIA or Mossad. ... On the other hand, with President Obama trying
to 'ridicule' the matter, the last Oscar ceremony comes to mind, when the first
lady of the Yankee empire herself - Michelle Obama - announced the winning film."
Argo: Is this a story that substantiates charges against Timothy Hallet Tracy, a U.S. filmmaker accused of the Venezuela government with seeking the toppling of President Nicolas Maduro?
The
detention of Timothy Hallet
Tracy for spying and subversion has generated quite a stir. The supposed documentary filmmaker of U.S.
origin has been in our country for a few months. According to information
released April 25 by People's Power Minister for Internal Relations, Peace and
Justice Miguel Rodríguez Torres, during that time, intelligence
units of the Bolivarian Revolution carried out monitoring activities as part of
operation "April Connection," which resulted in the capture of the man
known as El Gringo.
Minister
Torres subsequently announced that Tracy used his role as a documentary filmmaker
as a "front" for undertaking activities associated with so-called
“Operation Sovereignty.” It was a plan of social and political agitation and
destabilization promoted at the time (or still) by Venezuelan opposition
members of a clearly fascist orientation. It was a plan that counts among its
costs many Venezuelan lives. As a Venezuelan patriot and a Bolivarian, I should
trust our law enforcement and intelligence agencies - that their
investigations will determine the true adventures of "El Gringo" in
Venezuela.
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Worldmeets.US
The
Venezuelan right and the president of the United States himself, Barack Obama,
are trying to downplay the incident, calling the possibility that Timothy H.
Tracy might be a U.S. spy "absurd" and even "ridiculous."
Moreover, a group of Venezuelan filmmakers, some perhaps gullible, others I
believe not, have
produced a puny open letter, through which they want to demand that the national
government release El Gringo. They claim he is “in all respects, a filmmaker
exercising his freedom to create an audiovisual production.” They intend to
wrap themselves in the flag of the frequently prostituted freedom of speech,
used ad nauseam to justify acts of
conspiratorial and destabilizing propaganda in our country.
[Editor's
Note: In an interview with NoticiasTelemundoduring his visit to Costa Rica last week, President
Obama said of the case against Timothy Hallet
Tracy, "This U.S. citizen who apparently has been detained, we will handle
(it) like ... every situation where we get a U.S. citizen who gets into some
sort of legal tangle in a foreign country. ... The notion that this individual
is some spy is ridiculous. We've seen some of this rhetoric occasionally come
out of Venezuela."]
Under
these circumstances, I'm not going to speculate on whether the guy is a
filmmaker or a shoemaker. An intelligence agent (in other words, a spy) doesn’t
need to have, written out in his CV, a course in professional spying certified
by the CIA or Mossad. Oh, no. Such people are agents
- period. Every country has its spies, and intelligence or counterintelligence
agents. The point is that these days in Venezuela, the Bolivarian National
Intelligence Service serves the interests of the people and offers no support to
foreign agencies seeking to embezzle the nation or assassinate Venezuelans, as
used to happen in the times of PuntoFijo Pact democracy and cooperation with School of the
Americas.
On
the other hand, with President Obama trying to “ridicule” the matter, the last
Oscar ceremony comes to mind, when the first lady of the Yankee empire herself -
Michelle Obama - announced the winning film. It was based on a actual events in
which Tony Mendez, a renowned
CIA intelligence agent, posed as a movie producer in order to infiltrate Iran
amid the burgeoning Islamic Revolution - it was 1979. I'm sure that at that
moment, if Mendez had been caught by the Iranian people, President Jimmy Carter
would have considered charges of spying against him “ridiculous.” I am also
quite sure that if Argo - the name of
the 2013 Oscar-winning film that Michelle so bombastically announced - was a
ridiculous story, the imperialist first lady would never have given the film
her imprimatur on the movie industry show.
