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Larry Barcella person

also: Barsala, Varsala, B-A-R-C-E-L-L-A, Barcella, Barthola, Barcalas

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Larry Barcella member_of U.S. Department of Justice book_quoted
“And Bridget, if you could look him up and post what you find on him. Theodore Greenberg, and you spell his last name G-R-E-E-N-B-E-R-G. He had been with the Justice Department for seven years when at the age of 33, he was brought into the E…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 12:19
Larry Barcella recruited Ernest Kaiser documented
“The Justice Department hired Kaiser to go get Wilson. Not the CIA, the Justice Department. All of Kaiser's calls to Wilson and subsequent meetings were monitored. Between August 81 and June 82, Kaiser worked his way into Wilson's world. He …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 45:05
Edwin Wilson attempted_assassination_of Larry Barcella host_asserted
“an extraordinary job to this effect. Capping the end of Wilson's prosecution became a bizarre charge that Wilson had tried to hire fellow prisoners to kill Barsala, his wife, prosecutor Carol Bruce, and other enemies. In that case, tried in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 32:51
Larry Barcella ordered_assassination_of Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“also put out a story that he was cheating the Libyans in his business deals with them. For the first time, Wilson now realizes what's going on. Ignoring the fact that Itzko getting the shipping contract instead of around the world shipping …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 29:08
Edwin Wilson recruited Larry Barcella host_asserted
“That's really significant that they knew before I ran Contra that these guys were guilty, that they had information. They were in Eatsco. At this time, they wouldn't. Why wouldn't they go ahead and prosecute? Unquote. Wilson gave Barsala hi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 39:38

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Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19
▶ 7:58 Larry Barcella, B-A-R-C-E-L-L-A, was after Wilson and that Wilson says to Shackley that he wasn't smart enough to figure out why. Wilson said that he agreed in principle to back this private intelligence operation as long as his around the …
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19
▶ 49:01 The FBI was after Turple, and that's spelled T-E-R-P-I-L. And when they raided Turple's apartment in England and got Flachter's briefcase, I don't know all of the stuff that they got on me, but there was enough material there for Larry Barc…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12
▶ 39:57 The version that the Veliverdes told prosecutors indicated that Wilson, not Turple, was the boss, which again was not true. That visit by the Veliverdes put Wilson straight in the sights of the prosecutors. To Larry Barcella and Eugene Prop…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12
▶ 40:24 was fascinated with the covert world, according to a friend and a former Washington police detective named Carl Schoffler. Shackley and Barcella as someone potentially useful, saw someone, saw Barcella as someone potentially useful to him a…
Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12
▶ 40:57 I think if the, in talking about the prosecutor, if he could have joined the CIA, he would have. Shackley spared no effort to persuade Barcella to go after his employee and quote unquote friend. When Shackley planted the idea that Wilson wa…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21
▶ 26:43 On the home front, he was being told that the companies in which he had invested simply were not making money any longer and that he could not be paid back. Klein kept lying to me. He said nothing was panning out, Wilson said. Meanwhile, as…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21
▶ 28:43 starts leaking the fact that he was working for the CIA at the same time the CIA is saying he doesn't work for them, trying to get him killed while putting people in jail for the same thing, saying someone actually works for the CIA that ac…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21
▶ 30:04 and that was to try to appease Larry Barcella. He tried to give him something he desired even more than Wilson's arrest. Wilson rightly concluded from conversations with Chi Chi Quintero that Barcella wanted the most, what he wanted most wa…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21
▶ 30:59 Wilson put Quintero on his payroll and spent over $100,000 on the search for Dianezo Suarez and Vargelio Pablo Paz Suarez, whom Varsala actually had had in custody at one time, had been allowed to be released, and the more dangerous one, Pa…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21
▶ 31:56 because they were working for the CIA. Wilson continued, quote, Quintero was working for Army Intelligence at the time, so all the time I'm sending him this information, it's going to Army Intelligence. Now, whether Barcella's getting it or…
Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21
▶ 32:23 and for the Army intelligence, but also that he was reporting to his Army intelligence, hold on, reporting to his Army intelligence control everything that he was told by Wilson. That material, in turn, was being disseminated to Shackley an…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24
▶ 16:37 Shackley understood that his feud with Inman was so popular with Congress, it would make it almost impossible for him to get through a confirmation hearing. Meanwhile, it was imperative that prosecutor Larry Barcella, B-A-R-C-E-L-L-A, conti…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 34:28 who had worked with Larry Barcella on the Wilson and LaDier case, resigned for a more profitable career in private practice. Proper was a tall, easygoing man who had made his reputation solving the LaDier case. Books about Proper, Barcella,…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 35:26 who was an alcoholic, unstable CIA man who had worked for Wilson in Libya. Investigative reporter Seymour Hirsch, who had written about McCauley's exploits, and a mysterious guest they brought in with them by the name of Ernest Kaiser. Gree…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 41:12 was determining how good a job the rogues had done at isolating Wilson from the upper echelons of the government. Allen demonstrated just how well they had done this when he said that he would have to check with Admiral Inman, who was very …
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 41:40 Barcella's request to entrap Wilson and return him to the United States. Then, on July 8th, there was a meeting that resulted in Barcella's enlisting Proper, who was one of Kaiser's attorneys, to deal with Kaiser. In conversations with Kais…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 42:09 and that he might be the answer to catching Wilson. Barsala was becoming more and more politically involved in the new administration when several original prosecutors in the Latier case had been thrown out. A key government witness describ…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 43:07 Richard Peterson, the Treasury agent assigned to Wilson's case, said that Barthola, whom he greatly admired, tended to fall in love with the intelligence types. At about the same time, Bill Casey was given a report confirming that the men a…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 44:35 Barsala, unable to get the FBI to cooperate with him, succeeded in getting permission through the White House to use Kaiser to get Wilson back in the States. The CIA had warned Barsala that Kaiser had faked his background. The colleagues in…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 45:36 Wilson was so impressed with Kaiser that he lent him $425,000 for the Florida condo scheme. Through many phone calls, all directed by Barthola and recorded by the government, Kaiser and another sometimes CIA agent, Daniel Drake, convinced W…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 49:02 International Airport. The successful end of Larry Barthola's hunt for Wilson had been celebrated by reporters and Barthola as a great victory for U.S. justice. But the story that a brilliant Barthola outsmarted a dumb Wilson did not quite …
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 49:31 found himself having to explain to other angry prosecutors why Kaiser had been allowed to defraud American citizens out of millions of dollars in a Florida condominium scheme by taking investors' money and making off with it. Barsala actual…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 50:30 in Florida for attempting to extort half a million dollars from a Tampa banker. Kaiser had assured the banker that he was operating on behalf of the Justice Department. Unfortunately for Kaiser, the FBI had persuaded the banker to wear a wi…
The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27
▶ 51:00 and wants to use Kaiser is interfering in a Florida investigation for Kaiser. On December 2nd, the day before Kaiser was to go to trial, Kaiser arranged for Daniel Drake to give him a superficial bullet wound. He implied to reporters that W…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 12:19 And Bridget, if you could look him up and post what you find on him. Theodore Greenberg, and you spell his last name G-R-E-E-N-B-E-R-G. He had been with the Justice Department for seven years when at the age of 33, he was brought into the E…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 12:47 a great prosecutor. Ironically, while Larry Barcella lost his case against Wilson in the D.C. Circuit, Greenberg succeeded in Virginia. But it was Greenberg's role in the investigation and subsequent cover-up by the Reagan administration th…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 22:10 Patrick Judge, had been a salesman in the Wilson organization. The information in the article was denied by both the Pentagon and the Egyptian government. Larry Barcella, the lead prosecutor on Wilson's case, quickly isolated Joe Judge from…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 32:20 would affect the national security of the United States and would constitute a breaking of a pledge of confidentiality between them and the Egyptian government. To protect the principles in its go from prosecution, the Justice Department ne…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 32:51 an extraordinary job to this effect. Capping the end of Wilson's prosecution became a bizarre charge that Wilson had tried to hire fellow prisoners to kill Barsala, his wife, prosecutor Carol Bruce, and other enemies. In that case, tried in…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 33:20 on June 15, 1982. Here's his quote. Mr. Wilson stated that he was going to kill Barcella. According to Mr. Wilson, the killing would be in retaliation for Barcella's role in the investigation, which had led to Mr. Wilson's indictment. Mr. W…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 34:15 was already sealed, both in the media and in the courts. In late 1983, Wilson offered to brief Barsala about Itzko, but by this time, Wilson had finally realized that his former business associates had betrayed him and was setting him up. W…
The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29
▶ 39:38 That's really significant that they knew before I ran Contra that these guys were guilty, that they had information. They were in Eatsco. At this time, they wouldn't. Why wouldn't they go ahead and prosecute? Unquote. Wilson gave Barsala hi…