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"Of particular significance was the bank’s involvement in the Iran-contra affair, a major scandal during the Reagan administration that involved illegally selli
by Khelavaster 4y ago
"Of particular significance was the bank’s involvement in the Iran-contra affair, a major scandal during the Reagan administration that involved illegally selling arms to Iran to finance right-wing guerillas in Nicaragua."
MIT Media Lab was founded by Nick Negroponte, the brother of the US's Nicaraguan-rebel-supporting ambassador to Honduras at the time John Negroponte.
The Securities & Exchange Commission's chairman, Gary Gensler, has also been an MIT Media Lab & Economics crypto-economist professor since 2018.
MIT's department head of economics, Glen Ellison, is the father of Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison.
Small world..
John Negroponte's well-known for covering up Nicaraguan & Honduran death squads, serving as ambassador to Iraq through the false Senate 2004 Iraqi WMD Intelligence report, and rising to Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Secretary of State by the end of G.W. Bush's presidency.
Sources:
https://www.media.mit.edu/people/gensler/overview/ https://www.media.mit.edu/people/gensler/overview/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Ellison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte
"Ambassador to Honduras (1981–1985)
Assistant Secretary for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries (1985–1989)
Ambassador to Mexico (1989–1993)
Ambassador to the UN (2001–2004)
Ambassador to Iraq (2004–2005)
Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007)
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2007–2009)"
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7468275 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7468275 : "Papers Illustrate Negroponte's Contra Role"
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/28/killing-asylum-how-decades-of-u-s-policy-ravaged-central-america/ https://theintercept.com/2018/11/28/killing-asylum-how-decad... : "The History of John Negroponte and the Contra Death Squads in Nicaragua"
- sasattack 4y agogood catch that bank was a top financial asset for the cia and mi5.
- throwayyy479087 4y agoThe Negropontes were the founders of the One Laptop Per Child Project. Kind of makes you wonder about ulterior motives...
- AlanYx 4y agoJohn Negroponte wasn't a founder of the OLPC project. His only involvement IIRC was in helping Nick negotiate the Intel partnership for OLPC.
- mikeburgersburg 4y agoFascinating, thanks for this information. Amazing how entangled everything is…