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More Gamarra quotes; his university and the CIA
Submitted March 13, 2005 - 1:53 am by Andrew Grice (not verified)I can't verify which ones went into the hard copy New York Times, but a quick search reveals four Juan Forero stories in a row quoting Eduardo Gamarra.
March 7
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/international/am
ericas/07cnd-bolivia.html
March 8 (to be fair, a quote from the 7th is recycled in this one)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/international/am
ericas/08bolivia.html
March 9
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/business/worldbu
siness/09trade.html?pagewanted=2
March 10
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/international/am
ericas/10bolivia.html
Plus Forero quoted him in his story on China's interest in Venezuelan oil earlier this month. I'd have to pay to read that story on the NYT.com site, so here's a version off Taipai Times.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005
/03/06/2003225714
Marcela Sanchez also quotes him in her March 10 Washington Post column. (online only?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A249
29-2005Mar10.html
Quite a popular fellow to quote these days, huh? But wait, there's more!
Hal Weitzman in Financial Times.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b00c511c-90d3-11d9-9980-0
0000e2511c8.html
And that's just the recent easily found quotations. If we go back further, we'll find him saying all sorts of little gems such as this from a Reuters piece on Colombia Feb 18.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11543507
.htm
"The average Colombian appears to have told President Uribe they want him to deal with the issue of security first," Gamarra said. "Trying to fight poverty has been postponed."
But hey, that's not just any south Florida slime pit he hails from. That's Florida International University. And what kind of institution is Florida International University? Let's see if FIU themselves offer us a hint with their press release from just a few days ago:
http://news.fiu.edu/releases/2005/03-09_ia.htm
MIAMI, Fla. (March 9, 2005) - A consortium of intelligence gathering agencies in Washington, D.C., has selected Florida International University to lead in the development of academic programs that will produce well trained and more diverse intelligence analysts.
The grant that the U.S. Intelligence Community awarded to the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Policy and Citizenship Studies at FIU's Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies (TCS), is part of an initiative seeking to diversify the ranks of its different agencies. The U.S. Intelligence Community is a consortium of agencies 14 agencies such as the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. Coast Guard; CIA; Department of Treasury; FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security, among others.
"What we proposed is not very different from classes already offered here and at every university," said Ralph Clem, TCS's director and a professor of international relations. "It's subjects and skills such as political science, geography, statistical analysis and foreign languages. The program would coordinate all these subjects and add others to produce graduates who are competitive for jobs in Washington, D.C."
The grant gives FIU $750,000 for the 18-month pilot program, which could then be renewed over four years for a total of up to $3 million.
FIU was one of only four universities selected for the pilot phase of the U.S. Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence program. The others were: Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Clark-Atlanta University, which are participating as a consortium; Tennessee State University, and Trinity College in Washington, D.C.
Readers wanting to know more about the CIA and "intelligence community"s latest programs on U.S. campuses would do well to read David Price's new article on CounterPunch. "Exposing the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program: The CIA's Campus Spies". From that article:
In a decade and a half of Freedom of Information Act research I have read too many FBI reports of students detailing the deviant political views of their professors (These range from the hilarious: As anthropologist Norman Humphrey was reported to have called President Eisenhower a "duckbilled nincompoop"; to the Dadaist: Wherein former Miss America, Marilyn van Derbur, reported that sociologist Howard Higman mocked J. Edgar Hoover in class; to the chilling: As when the FBI arranged for a graduate student to guide topics of "informal" conversation with anthropologist Gene Weltfish that were later the focus an inquiry by Joseph McCarthy) to not mention the certainty that these PRSIP students are also secretly compiling dossiers on their professors and fellow students. Of course I would be remiss to not mention that students are the only ones sneaking the CIA onto our campuses. There are also unknown thousands of university professors who periodically work with and for the CIA--in 1988 CIA spokeswoman Sharon Foster bragged that the CIA then secretly employed enough university professors "to staff a large university." Most experts estimate that this presence has grown since 2001.
Read the whole thing at:
http://counterpunch.org/price03122005.html