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Ray Blanton trafficked Contras documented
“$60,000, he scoffed. You can raise that in an afternoon. According to another unnamed source, the Times quoted, Blanton and Menendez were making only $15,000 a kilo. Unmentioned was Blanton's testimony that he had sold 200 to 300 kilos for …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 52:46
Ray Blanton recruited Ron Lister book_quoted
“Ricky Ross confirmed that Blanton had an uncanny ability to accurately predict upcoming police raids, but said he was never able to explain his clairvoyance. The Torres brother told Gazzetta that Blanton was working with the Laguna Beach po…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 35:21
Ron Lister trafficked Ray Blanton book_quoted
“Ronnie transports 100 kilos of cocaine to the black market and has transported millions of dollars to Miami for Blanton. Once Blanton's cash arrived in Florida, the brothers reported a relative of Blanton, Orlando Morello, would launder it …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 35:50
Orlando Morello laundered_money_for Ray Blanton book_quoted
“Ronnie transports 100 kilos of cocaine to the black market and has transported millions of dollars to Miami for Blanton. Once Blanton's cash arrived in Florida, the brothers reported a relative of Blanton, Orlando Morello, would launder it …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 35:50

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MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
▶ 1:03:12 Louis Stokes was chairman of the Select Committee on Assassinations. He calls Ray Blanton, who was the governor of the state at the time. Reverend Frotroy was a part of that conversation and said he was the one who encouraged Stokes to call…
MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses
▶ 1:03:42 Blanton goes over there in a helicopter and had to chase the FBI away. They didn't want to go at first. He told them he would put them in the same cell with James Earl Ray if they did it. The telephone call to the sheriff, like get out ther…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 34:53 as informant. Gazzetta said the brothers told him that Blanton had a lot of inside information in law enforcement activities as people that were working with him. And they warned him to be extremely careful about releasing any information t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 35:21 Ricky Ross confirmed that Blanton had an uncanny ability to accurately predict upcoming police raids, but said he was never able to explain his clairvoyance. The Torres brother told Gazzetta that Blanton was working with the Laguna Beach po…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15
▶ 35:50 Ronnie transports 100 kilos of cocaine to the black market and has transported millions of dollars to Miami for Blanton. Once Blanton's cash arrived in Florida, the brothers reported a relative of Blanton, Orlando Morello, would launder it …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 32:32 was over a million. People in Japan, Bosnia, Germany, and Denmark all emailed him. Meanwhile, we continued advancing the story. I teamed up with Pamela Kramer, the Mercury's reporter in Los Angeles, and we wrote several stories about the 19…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 32:57 which showed that the police had several informants telling them the drug money was going to the Contras. Our sources provide us with case file numbers and supposedly non-existent investigatory files at the L.A. County Sheriff's Office. And…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 39:06 notorious for the CIA's authorship, that would set the stage for the attacks to follow. It falsely claimed that the series made a radically charged allegation that the CIA's army of Contras deliberately targeted black communities in an effo…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 39:37 Profits were sent to the Contras. The Post quoted unnamed law enforcement officials as saying Blanton sold $30,000 to $60,000 worth of cocaine, which is a bold-faced lie. The story also drove right through the window that O'Neill had opened…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 40:03 There is no connection between the Contras and African-American drug dealers because Blanton said he had stopped sending money to the Contras by the time he met Ross. No mention was made of the DEA reports, the Sheriff Department's affidavi…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 48:33 Pincus' big scoop was completely bullshit. The LA Times and the New York Times struck next. On October 20th, 1996, both ran stories attacking my reporting in the series. They took the same tact as the Washington Post, admitting that the bas…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 49:02 These two newspapers of record claim Blanton and Menendez hadn't had official positions with the Contras. Another lie. Drug money had been sent, but not millions. It was only in the tens of thousands, according to, quote, unnamed sources. A…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 51:21 The next day, the LA Times absolved the CIA of any involvement with Blanton and Menendez. Its authoritative sources was a former CIA director, Robert Gates, former CIA official, Vincent Castorero, and current CIA director, John Deutsch. All…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 52:18 And the story conceded, quote, the allegations that some elements of CIA-sponsored Contra Army cooperated with drug traffickers has been well-documented for years. You know, old news. But the story dismissed the idea that millions went to t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 52:46 $60,000, he scoffed. You can raise that in an afternoon. According to another unnamed source, the Times quoted, Blanton and Menendez were making only $15,000 a kilo. Unmentioned was Blanton's testimony that he had sold 200 to 300 kilos for …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 53:15 to the Contras. Using the Times' own profit figures, that would mean between $3 and $4.5 million went to the Contras just from Blanton's sales. And that didn't include the money from Menendez in San Francisco. Lost in the debate over whethe…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24
▶ 53:46 the idea that a reasonable, accurate number could ever be found in an illicit drug trade. No solid, this is a quote, no solid evidence has emerged that either Menendez or Blanton contributed any money to the rebels after 1984. The story dec…