The man now serving as the US advisor to the Iraqi security forces, James Steele, is likewise a veteran of that period. He was the highest ranking US military officer in El Salvador in 1985, a year in which the US-backed regime killed more than 1,500 civilians and tortured many thousands more. Like Negroponte, he was implicated in the illegal conspiracy to arm and finance the contras.
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http://www.worldrevolution.org/article/1361PANAMA CITY -- The principal opposition group, Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD), on April 27 severely criticised the involvement of a US army colonel in tenders submitted to the Panamanian government for the supply of electricity.
PRD secretary-general Ernesto Perez Valladares told reporters, “It's a case of incredible immorality” that Colonel James Steele should be among the foreign companies which are trying to sell electricity to the government.
Steele led a support group during the December 1989 US invasion, during which 4000 civilians were killed and 18,000 others were left homeless.
According to Perez, Steele will try to make personal profit at the expense of the energy supply difficulties which Panama is facing. Electricity supplies have been rationed throughout the country since early April.
One foreign company has offered to sell electricity to the government-operated Hydraulic Resources and Electricity Institute at seven cents per kilowatt-hour.
Enron Citizen, whose president is Steele, has offered to provide electricity at 15 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1992/55/55p17b.htmA name that has come up recently is that of Colonel James Steele, until recently the senior U.S. military advisor in El Salvador. Steele apparently kept close tabs on the supply flights, and was usually at the airport when they left. He had been ordered to monitor the operation by Ambassador Corr. Clearly, the U.S. government was very much aware of the details behind Eugene Hasenfus' flight, despite its claims to the contrary.
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United States v. Alan D. Fiers, Jr.
The unit to which we wanted to drop in the southern quadrant of Nicaragua is in desperate need of ordnance resupply. We had planned to do a material drop from the supplies we are bringing into Ilo Pango but the units -- headed by Ramon, Lionel and Navigante cannot wait. Have therefore developed an alternative plan which Cliff has been briefed on and in which he concurs. The L-100 which flies from MSY to Aguacate on Wednesday should terminate it's NHAO mission on arrival at Aguacate. At that point it should load the supplies at Ilo Pango which -- theoretically is assembling today at Aguacate -- and take them to Ilo Pango. These items should then be transloaded to the C-123 after being properly rigged. On any night between Wednesday, Apr 9, and Friday, Apr 11 these supplies should be dropped by the C-123 in the vicinity of 11 22 15N and 84 18 00W -- SSE of Nueva Guinea. The A/C shd penetrate Nicaragua across the Atlantic Coast shouth of Monkey Point. Call signs freqs and zone marking light diagram to be provided to Ralph at Ilo Pango by the new UNO Sur operator we are taking care of. Hope we can make this happen the right way this time. If we are ever going to take the pressure off the northern front we have got to get this drop in -- quickly. Please make sure that this is retransmitted via this channel to Joe , Ralph, Sat and Steele. Owen already briefed and prepared to go w/ the L-100 out of MSY if this will help. Please advise soonest.
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THE EL SALVADOR CONNECTION. Colonel James Steele was the chief American military adviser in El Salvador and senior officer in charge of United States military operations which provided the Contras with weapons out of Ilopango airport. In December 1984, National Security adviser Gregg met with Felix Rodriguez and was given a position in El Salvador as a contra military advisor. The next month Rodriguez met with Bush to discuss the Contra job. In the summer of 1985 Rodriguez flew to Washington D.C. to meet with Gregg and Steele. According to Rodriquez's testimony before the Kerry committee in 1987, Steele was in contact with Rodriguez from September 1985 through summer 1986. A North memorandum stated that Steele made Rodriguez his deputy and allowed him to use a military car as well as a KL-43 encrption device for secure telephone conversations.
In March 1986, Steele met in Honduras with Rob Owen, North's associate directing the Contra resupply operation from bases in Costa Rica. In a memo to North after the meeting, Owen suggested stockpiling weapons for the contras in Costa Rica at "Cincinnati," a code word for the United States air base at Ilopango, El Salvador, where Steele was the American commander.
According to a crew member aboard a flight dropping supplies to the Contras in April 1986, Steele helped guide the mission. Nine days later after approximately 10 flights dropped arms and equipment to the southern front, Steele met with North, Secord and retired Colonel Richard Gadd in El Salvador. Gadd stated that Steele's role suggested that higher officials in the Pentagon may have known and participated in the resupply effort.
Mattes claimed that Steele could have testified as to whose authority that he operated in assisting the Contras during a time when the Boland Amendment was in place. Attorneys for the select committees deposed Steele in April 1987, but he was not called to the witness table.
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The rule of thumb, therefore, was to transfer responsibility on a variety of matters to the new Panamanian government and police force as soon as it was practicable to do so. Following this guidance, Colonel James Steele, who ran the MSG for Cisneros, enjoyed significant success. In January 1991, when Promote Liberity came to a formal end, the MSG was disbanded.
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