CIA presence in Chile to monitor Venezuelan recall is denied
The director of Chile's investigation police, Arturo Herrera,
denied that the CIA deputy director is in the Latin American
country to monitor the presidential recall referendum in Venezuela.
"When such a high-rank official arrives in Chile we are supposed
to be informed. And we have not received any communiqué
about the presence either of the director or the deputy director
of the CIA," Herrera told journalists as quoted by AP.
The reports on an alleged action that the agency would launch
against President Hugo Chávez if he wins the recall vote
was published by Spanish daily El Mundo, which said that the
coordinator of operations in Chile would be CIA deputy director
William Spencer, who supposedly convened the agency's officials
in other Latin American countries to meet in Santiago.
Herrera also said he has not been informed on the alleged plan
by the CIA against Chávez.
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