Topo or double agent ?: Doubts about Cristopher Figuera, the former head of SEBIN referred to as traitor by Nicolás Maduro

Despite the accusation of Nicolás Maduro, there is no one among those who know the division of the army, General Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera, who believes him capable of being the operator of the military action of April 30 in Caracas, when Juan Guaidó launched what he called the final phase of "Operation Freedom"This officer has always enjoyed the privileges of soldiers belonging to the coup attempt of 4 February 1992, led by Hugo Chávez and other commanders. That's what led him to be an aide-de-camp to the leader of the revolution of the time for 12 years.

This was number 88 of the 1989 promotion "Division of General Cornelio Muñoz", from which 168 officer cadets graduated and whose main lieutenant is now the General Division, Carlos Gilberto Pulido Rojas, director of the militia media of the Central Strategic Integral Defense (Redi) region.

Manuel Cristopher was also not an eminent officer in command or in the performance of key functions in military life. One of the characteristics that gives military leaders leadership, relevance and prestige is the promotion by merit, the exercise of their natural orders, even more when they work in border areas. But Cristopher Figuera did not leave Caracas. Although he studied in Cuba and Belarus.

That was his loyalty to Chávez Frías which allowed him to be at Casa Militar, where he also studied for university degrees. Thus, besides having a degree in military sciences and arts, he obtained two master's degrees, one in 2007 in administrative sciences at Simón Rodríguez National Experimental University and another in 2008 in sciences. and military arts at the Army Superior School of War, and then in 2015 he obtained the Ph.D. in Security of the Nation from the Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela.

General Cristopher, born in Punta de Mata, Monagas State, earned a diploma in teacher training at the School of Army Warfare in 2008. And four specializations: two related to the transgenic in virtual mode, another to personal protection at the School of Personal Security in Cuba (2008) who, in Venezuela, deserved it as a graduate after landing a university job. And a specialization in badytical information work at the Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus (year 2009).

When Nicolás Maduro came to power, from January 2014 to July 2017, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Directorate of Military Counter-Intelligence (DGCIM), with Major General Iván Hernández Dala at the helm. direction of this agency, which, since September 2015, serves as head of the presidential guard of honor, that is to say the House of the army in charge of the security of the President of the Republic and his family , so that the real decision-making power of the DGCIM fell on Manuel Cristopherwho counted with the full support of Cuban advisers in the agency.

The video in which Cristopher Figuera explains his reasons for giving up SEBIN and leaving the country after 30A

He is under the command of Christopher who is installed, by Colonel Rafael Franco Quintero, in this intelligence agency the darkest structure of physical and psychological torture against military detainees suspected of conspiracy, convert the basements of the DGCIM into real concentration camps, negating the human condition of the detainee and creating a network with guards, military tribunals and military public defenders to deny the rights of detained officers. Colonel Franco Quintero had the support of Major Gramko Arteaga and two men loyal to Christopher, Major General Ramón Agustín Balza Liota, Director of Operations and Director of Counterintelligence, and Colonel Carlos Enrique Terán Hurtado, Deputy Director of l & # 39; badistance. Special investigations and techniques under the orders of G / D. Wuilman Nabor Hernández Aquino.

A general, whose name I allow to keep for obvious reasons, says that Manuel Cristopher, being Deputy Director of the Military Counterintelligence, "was in charge of automating the DGCIM's information register with a management system, by a company where he was the negotiator and also influenced that he got the project without corresponding offer in accordance with the current legislation of Venezuela. "

He adds to his weapons companion that "Cristopher has built a network of subordinates occupying key positions, committing crimes under his protection. extortion of persons under investigation, torture of detainees and preparation of fraudulent files who damaged the career of valuable military professionals ".

Upon leaving the Dgcim, he was appointed director of the Strategic Center for Security and Protection of the Fatherland (Cesspa)from July 2017 to October 2018; although it is claimed that it is the body responsible for the unification of information on security, defense, intelligence, internal order and the external relations, the truth is that it was created to justify acts of censorship of information, particularly by the media and journalists. In reality, it is a gray charge, which is limited to censor.

From there he is named as director of SEBIN. General Hernández Dala, who appreciates him very much and considers him a defender of the Revolution, proposes him as the ideal man in the service of Nicolás Maduro and the key figure to face the track left by the general Gustavo González López, unconditional man from Diosdado Cabello and that's precisely why he made the relay more difficult because they uprooted the president of the National Constituent Assembly, his greatest instrument of power.

Since joining the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, Cristopher has sought to contrast the exercise developed by Gonzalez Lopez. So he began by opening the doors to those who had exit tickets, ordered a rigorous medical examination to find out under what conditions there were each of the detainees, both those of El Helicoide and those of the Plaza Venezuela.

It was he who ordered the arrest of Juan Guaidósince then, several officials have been detained in Dgcim. He was also ordered to stop Roberto Marrero, head of the office of the president of the National Assembly.

Three senior officers discover him

General Christopher is divorced and has 3 children from the first marriage and one from the second. His eldest son is in Venezuela without a pbadport. His second son is studying in Russia and his third daughter is on vacation in Cuba and has a return ticket to Venezuela yesterday, May 11, 2019.
Reviews on Cristopher Figuera are found. The only coincidence is that it is trendy Procuban. A senior official describes him as "fairly diligent, good reader, good oratory, true to his bosses, suspicious of his environment, good academic level, excellent physical condition, tries to fall well, is jovial, extrovert, calculating and fearful"

Some do not consider it febreristas 4F. "He did not participate directly in the events of February 4. However, he was related and was the subject of an investigation, but he was never able to prove what For more than four years, he has kept the parents of President Hugo Chávez. "

An army comrade who does not believe himself capable of 30A architect, says this to illustrate who is the former head of SEBIN "he himself denounced his ex-wife for hate crime; When a person on Instagram posted a photo of them at a mbad, the lady said that she was not already his wife, but that she was one of them other. Cristopher denounced her for inciting hatred and reunited her children and told them that her mother "he had to pay for the crime committed"Her mother and sisters in Punta de Mata have police calls at home."

Another senior official, whom we can not identify either, totally excludes this general from being at the head of 30A, "does not have the conditions to organize such a show. Yes, he was part of Chávez's fraternity. His greatest merit was to be Golpista. No one who is part of the 4F has reached the levels of the military house and enjoys the support of General Hernández Dala. The truth is that the only thing that is clear about Christopher is that he released Leopoldo López because he was ordered to take him back to Ramo Verde, nothing more, because he did not even do it with other prisoners more relevant from the military point of view. "He describes him as" very malicious. Nothing to do with this humble person who appears in the video talking about sports and double standards. It was a bad companion. "

A general thinks that although it is true that Cristopher authorized the participation of SEBIN members in the events of 30A and the release of Leopoldo López from his house arrest, "his statements through statements in which he demonstrates his loyalty to Nicolás Maduro leave open the badysis and interpretation of his motivations to participate in this movement, that this not only failed, but that far from weakening Maduro and those who control the power with him, allowed them to carry out a new cleansing of the Venezuelan Armed Forces and a wave of general political persecution in Venezuela. "

"Far from generating the trust and credibility of active and retired military professionals, Cristopher Figuera generates a sense of helplessness due to the halo of impunity that allows him to be seen as a hero and savior of the Nation, after ordering and protecting the commission of Crimes Against Humanity and Administrative Corruption, taking advantage of its position in the usurper government of Nicolás Maduro ".

It is important to underline that there are enough indications to think of the performance of the former head of SEBIN as double agent 30A. He said that the release of Leopoldo López could be achieved without his participation. "The arrests you are currently making against civilian and military politicians can be considered a purgebecause their participation has not even been determined and it does not matter. "

In his opinion "knowing that the action was not intended to put an end to the usurpation or to stop it, he" is committed "to execute it, but leaving the country indicates previous preparation"He wonders why, if he knew that Vladimir Padrino López and Iván Hernández Dala had not given any demonstration, he was executing," he explained. , so it seems that he is acting in favor of Nicolás or the original Chavismo thesis ".

And the most powerful thing for this high official is that Manuel Cristopher "did not express support for President Guaido. That is to say that he is in favor of a change of government that is not precisely the interim government. "

Another senior officer consulted said that the former Sebin chief knew him years ago "and I thought him quack, of those who try to look beautiful and who believe they are right in everything." Without military vocabulary, but endowed with an emotional intelligence to involve anyone person. "

I ask him if he considers with the talent to mount an operation like 30A. "I think he has the talent to hide his true intentions and to try to impose his criteria. This puts you at ease at your side. I think he's very talented at deceiving anyone. "I insist to ask him if he has as much ability to organize an operation to overthrow Maduro and respond immediately:"no, no He has the ability to cheat, but not to plan. Look, the greatest skill of a soldier is to plan and that is why the focus is on teaching procedures for preparing operations. He does not have much ability for this. same could end up being a double agent"

"This operation at 30A was very complex and I suspect that Manuel Cristopher was only part of the equation that was supposed to release the political prisoners from SEBIN and the DGCIM, but he did not do it either, he did not even have a plan B to save his friends, that is to say he left his troops in peace. Perhaps because he has advanced action, we have not seen the most important element of the operation Freedom, the unit of maneuver"