Former Liberian Dictator Charles Taylor Worked for CIA

[Ed Jewett]

Former Liberian Dictator Charles Taylor Worked for CIA

January 22nd, 2012Via: Boston Herald:
When Charles G. Taylor tied bed sheets together to escape from a second-floor window at the Plymouth House of Correction on Sept. 15, 1985, he was more than a fugitive trying to avoid extradition. He was a sought-after source for American intelligence.
After a quarter-century of silence, the US government has confirmed what has long been rumored: Taylor, who would become president of Liberia and the first African leader tried for war crimes, worked with US spy agencies during his rise as one of the world's most notorious dictators.
The disclosure on the former president comes in response to a request filed by the Globe six years ago under the Freedom of Information Act. The Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's spy arm, confirmed its agents and CIA agents worked with Taylor beginning in the early 1980s.
Research Credit: ottilie
Posted in Atrocities, Covert Operations, Dictatorship

[Peter Lemkin]

No surprise to me. I thought so since he came to power and started his murderous reign of terror. Liberia is in effect owned by two American companies, and they are protected by - ta da - the CIA; they are Firestone Rubber and Liberian American-Swedish Minerals Company.

Funy [not really] how most of the World's dictators (in the 'free world' [sic] since WW2 have been American puppets or proxies!