From: Marko Papic [mailto:
marko.papic@stratfor.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 5:15 PM
To: Fred Burton
Subject: Re: INSIGHT - VENEZUELA: CANVAS analysis
CANVAS is basically the same as OTPOR.
OTPOR (means resistance) were a group of students from Belgrade who took
down Milosevic. They were tangentially connected to U.S funding sources
like NED, Freedom House and the Albert Einstein Institute and, through
them, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S.
Department of State. BUT, the US funding sources more lached on to them
after realizing their potency than other way around.
After they toppled Milosevic, the kids who ran OTPOR grew up, got suits
and designed CANVAS - Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and
Strategies... or in other words a "export-a-revolution" group that sowed
the seeds for a NUMBER of color revolutions. (they even have a website:
Canvas – Center for Applied NonViolent Actions and Strategies) They are still hooked into U.S. funding and
basically go around the world trying to topple dictators and autocratic
governments (ones that U.S. does not like
I hooked into them in late 2007 and they have been feeding us intel on
Venezuela, Georgia, Serbia, etc. Meredith expressed interest and so I
arranged a meeting between CANVAS main guy (Srdjan Popovic) and
George/Meredith in Denver around spring 2008. The meeting went well,
George invited them to come talk to the analysts on how they run
revolutions. They have accepted and I am gaming out when to bring them
over here to Austin.