Juan Osvaldo Cruz
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| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Walsh School of Foreign Service • School of Advanced International Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Center for Strategic and International Studies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CIA spook who was Chief of Station in several Latin American countries before becoming Chief of the Latin American Division
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Juan Osvaldo Cruz is a CIA spook who was Chief of Station in several Latin American countries before becoming Chief of the Latin American Division.[1][2]
Education
Cruz holds a BA from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, an MA in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and additional courses from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He also studied at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.[3]
Career
During his CIA career he was posted in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil.[3] He was [Chief of Station]] in Colombia, Brazil[4], and maybe others.
He has experience in counterinsurgency, "counterproliferation" of narcotics, covert action, and covert influence operations".[5]
He was the handler two Venezuelan opposition figures who were seeking to create a private regime change operation, Jorge Betancourt and Lester Toledo.[6]
Western Hemisphere affairs
From 2017 to 2019, Cruz worked with the National Security Council as the special assistant to the president and senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs. "He drove interagency decisionmaking processes for the region and worked with international partners to foster shared understanding of key issues. He was instrumental in defining the administration’s approach to Venezuela (multiple coup attempts), the administration's Cuba policy, and furthering the overall Western Hemisphere strategy.[3]
References
- ↑ https://www.elpais.com.co/mundo/juan-cruz-veterano-de-la-cia-sera-encargado-de-latinoamerica-en-la-casa-blanca.html
- ↑ https://vandenbergcoalition.org/experts/juan-cruz/
- ↑ a b c https://www.csis.org/people/juan-cruz
- ↑ https://pcb.org.br/portal2/4891
- ↑ https://ihe.catholic.edu/event/the-humanity-of-espionage/#:~:text=Scotty%20Skotzko%20served%2040%20years,%2C%20Iraq%2C%20Qatar%20and%20Afghanistan.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZkpOZXeJGQ at 27 minutes
