Peru's jailed ex-spy chief sentenced

[Judi Lynn]

Saturday, May 13, 2006 · Last updated 6:14 p.m. PT

Peru's jailed ex-spy chief sentenced

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LIMA, Peru -- Peru's jailed ex-intelligence chief has been sentenced to 10 more years in prison and fined $15.2 million after pleading guilty to charges of illicit enrichment, his attorney said Saturday.

Vladimiro Montesinos, was sentenced late Friday at the maximum security naval base prison, where he has been held since 2001 arrest, attorney Estela Valdivia said. He has been serving a 15-year sentence for various corruption convictions.

Under ex-President Alberto Fujimori, Montesinos ran a web of corruption that eventually toppled the former leader's 10-year regime in 2000 after the release of one of hundreds videos - recorded by Montesinos - in which he appeared bribing elite Peruvians or offering to fix their legal problems in exchange for favors.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Peru_Spy_Chief.html

CIA Gave at Least $10 Million To Peru's Ex-Spymaster Montesinos



By Angel Paez

(Web Posted June 28, 2001) The Central Intelligence Agency gave ex-Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos at least $10 million in cash over the last decade, as well as high-tech surveillance equipment that he used against his political opponents, the Center for Public Integrity has learned.

Montesinos, who now faces trial on murder, arms and drug trafficking charges, among others, had founded and personally controlled a counter-drug unit within Peru's National Intelligence Service, known by its Spanish acronym SIN.

It was to that Narcotics Intelligence Division, known as DIN, that the CIA directed at least $10 million in cash payments from 1990 until September 2000, U.S. officials told the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Most of the money was to have financed intelligence activities in the drug war, though officials acknowledged a small part was for antiterrorist activities.

The CIA knew the money was going directly to Montesinos and had receipts for the payments, the sources said. "It was an agency-to-agency relationship," said one U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity in Lima, the capital, "with Vladimiro Montesinos as the intermediary. . . . Montesinos had the money under his control."

The new information on Montesinos is part of an extensive soon-to-be-released report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on U.S. aid to Latin America. The material on Montesinos is based on multiple interviews with U.S. and Peruvian officials.
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http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/news/cia-gave-10million-spymaster-montesinos.htm



Vladimiro Montesinos

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Peru news of new archeological site discovery by professor from the University of Missouri:

Celestial Find at Ancient Andes Site
The discovery in Peru of a 4,200-year-old temple and observatory pushes back estimates of the rise of an advanced culture in the Americas.
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writer
May 14, 2006

Archeologists working high in the Peruvian Andes have discovered the oldest known celestial observatory in the Americas — a 4,200-year-old structure marking the summer and winter solstices that is as old as the stone pillars of Stonehenge.

The observatory was built on the top of a 33-foot-tall pyramid with precise alignments and sightlines that provide an astronomical calendar for agriculture, archeologist Robert Benfer of the University of Missouri said.
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Benfer and archeologist Bernardino Ojeda of Peru's National Agrarian University have been working at Buena Vista for four years. The site contains ruins dating from 10,000 years ago to well into the ceramic era in the first millennium BC.

The large pyramid and a temple occupy about 2 acres near the center of the site. Radiocarbon dating of cotton and burned twigs found in the temple's offering pit place its use at about 2200 BC.

That is about 400 years after the first pyramid was built in Egypt and about the same time that the peoples who would become the Greeks were settling into the Mediterranean region.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-observatory14may14,0,3343915.story?coll=la-home-headlines



Professor shares Andean discovery
His team unearthed a 4,000-year-old temple.
By RYAN B. SCHREIBER

April 25, 2006

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/print.php?ID=19585

[arcos]

1. Good, I hope he rots in jail.... nt

[acmavm]

2. Okay, two comments here. 1) He is responsible for the deaths of a lot

of people. Guys like him (and Posada Carilles, etc.) deserve tit for tat.

2) The temple that these archeologists discovered sounds fascinating. What I wonder is why people don't learn from previous great civilizations in history? The rise and fall of same. Idiots that we are. The reasons are still the same. It appears that humans are the one species that can never be trained to be housebroke.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. What a wonderful charge! "Illicit enrichment". Could we have

some of that in our penal codes, please.