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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 01:58 PM
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5. You remember it wasn't all that long ago when the new Peace Corps worker/Fulbright Scholar
went to Bolivia and was immediately button-holed by the U.S. Embassy, and asked if he would please make a list of addresses and pertinent information on any and all Cuban and Venezuelan workers living in the area when he ran across them, and turn it over to them.

He protested publicly, it kicked up a loud argument, the embassy denied, the young man persisted, the Bolivian government was furious, naturally, and finally the ambassador Phillip Goldberg publicly appologized and dumped it all on the shoulders of one lone employee.

More Peace Corps workers came forward and gave statements that the Embassy had made the same demands of THEM, as well.

Eventually Phillip Goldberg was expelled, but not before he conspired with the white separatists in Santa Cruz, and was followed by a local TV news crew with cameras who caught him sneaking off to meet privately with high-ranking white separatist Santa Cruz plotters AFTER 12:00 a.m., alone, in secret in a secret meeting place (or so they thought). The tv station ran the videos and exposed them.

It's all so squalid, isn't it? Jeez.
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