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Claims (12)
Joe Kelso spied_on
Drug Enforcement Administration host_asserted
“Mr. CIA himself. Kelso said his witnesses claim the CIA was involved in the operation of a drug lab at a contra base near northern, it was, I don't know how you say the name of the city, but it was in northern Costa Rica. So it was my probl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:02
Drug Enforcement Administration covered_up
Joe Kelso documented
“release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 36:07
Oliver North recruited
Drug Enforcement Administration guest_asserted
“release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 36:07
James Kibble member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“I mean, they were doing activities that were way beyond the scope of DEA. Those were clearly covert activities. That was her statement. One of these double-duty DEA agents was James Kibble, a Madrid-based agent who visited jailed Medellín c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 36:33
Robert Neves member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“The target of Kelso's investigation, DEA Robert Neves, went on to have a long and illustrious career at the DEA, rising to great heights. He became the head of cocaine investigations in Washington. Then he became the chief of all the major …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 59:14
Joe Kelso spied_on
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“According to the Iran-Contra Committee Minority Report, Kelso and Caldwell told Customs that the DEA agents in Costa Rica knew the location of the drug labs and had been paid to conceal the locations of narcotics. Kelso said he gave Kotchen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 42:31
CIA recruited
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“um good friend douglas valentine you know in when you mention the dea connections to cia i think it's in his second book i don't i can't whether it's strength of the will for strength of the pack where he talks about those 12 you know so-ca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 1:05:43
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“Costa Rican prosecutors report had a strange experience with one of Neve's men, Sandy Gonzalez, the DEA agent who had yelled at the L.A. detective Tom Gordon about not talking on the phone through Nicaragua. Quote, information from the exis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 33:43
Joe Kelso spied_on
Drug Enforcement Administration guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
Sandra Smith member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration host_asserted
“This is Operation Gladio. This is 1948 and on. We know they do this. In Paul Williams' book, we outline the entire pipeline of them doing this. Megha, go ahead. Not only that, Colonel, but you have one lone DEA agent by the name of Sandra S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:04:27
Drug Enforcement Administration reassigned
Sandra Smith host_asserted
“is shut that woman up. Reassign her. Give her another job. She's too smart for this. Go ahead, Mega. Colonel, I have got to say, listening to your X-Spaces and your Rumbles and your Operation Gladio that you've been running with Alpha is li…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:04:58
Drug Enforcement Administration funded
Contras host_asserted
“These particular Contras were in fact involved in narcotics and were smuggling them, period. That was his statement. One of Kelso's witnesses was Warren Trece, T-R-E-E-C-E, the deputy director of the narcotics department of the Costa Rican …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 33:14
Mentions (42)
▶ 33:43
Costa Rican prosecutors report had a strange experience with one of Neve's men, Sandy Gonzalez, the DEA agent who had yelled at the L.A. detective Tom Gordon about not talking on the phone through Nicaragua. Quote, information from the exis…
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were transmitted by Tracy to an official of the DEA with the surname of Gonzalez in Costa Rica, but they were not investigated on account of the leak of information from that same agent. So anytime the DEA guys got someone caught on to what…
▶ 34:41
a route being flown so that they could get out before they got caught. And that's according to the Costa Rican police. Gonzalez and Neves were never charged with a crime, either in Costa Rica or the United States, and the allegations were n…
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which was rather unbelievable considering that some DEA records concerning Kelso were made available to the Iran-Contra investigators in 1987, so they lied. The DEA would not allow Gonzalez to be interviewed, and Neves refused to answer any…
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strongly believes that the DEA agents stationed in Costa Rica during the Contra War were not what they appeared. Quote, in my opinion, both Neves and Sandy Gonzalez were connected with the CIA. There is no doubt, she insisted, you aren't go…
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release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…
▶ 36:33
I mean, they were doing activities that were way beyond the scope of DEA. Those were clearly covert activities. That was her statement. One of these double-duty DEA agents was James Kibble, a Madrid-based agent who visited jailed Medellín c…
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implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking. According to a 1987 story in The Nation, Kibble was one of the select group of DEA operatives who conducted secret missions for Oliver North and the National Security Council. On October 24, 19…
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Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…
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and some personal papers of DEA agents, including the radio code names. A customs agent familiar with the case said Kelso stole Agent Neves' briefcase from his car. In an interview with the Jack Webb, Kelso denied this. At the end of July 1…
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two gentlemen by phone that they had uncovered a counterfeit ring in Costa Rica, and there was other information that the informants wanted to provide, but they did not feel comfortable doing it over the phone. The other information Rosenbl…
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The Customs Service, quote, coordinated with Secret Service as well as our Customs Attaché in Panama, who is responsible also for the country of Costa Rica. Arrangements were made for one of New Orleans agents to travel to Miami down to Cos…
▶ 42:31
According to the Iran-Contra Committee Minority Report, Kelso and Caldwell told Customs that the DEA agents in Costa Rica knew the location of the drug labs and had been paid to conceal the locations of narcotics. Kelso said he gave Kotchen…
▶ 43:01
relatively inexperienced, became nervous, insisting that he had to report the information to the DEA attache in Costa Rica at the embassy, the very person that was being accused of the wrongdoing. Kelso couldn't believe his ears. If he had …
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To qualify or disqualify it would be stupid, Kelso testified, because if he was doing it, he would normally head over and do something to protect himself so that no one could touch him. Kelso said Kotchenberger had explicit orders not to sa…
▶ 43:58
that it was a waste of time, get back on the airplane, and immediately take the documentation out of town. The agent's response, Kelso said, was, wow, that's not State Department policy. I can't do that. I'm going to get in trouble. Kotchen…
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sat down with the DEA personnel and related, summarized everything that had been told. Iran-Contra lawyer Pam Naughton, who questioned Rosenblatt, was incredulous. Did they do that on your instruction, she asked? Or was that their own idea …
▶ 44:56
Rosenblatt insisted that it was their idea. They didn't do that on my instructions. I didn't even know about it until after they came back. He agreed one may believe it not prudent to tell the very same office that the allegations were made…
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How standard is it that you get accusations about the DEA dealing drugs? How standard is that? The next day when Kelso and Brian Caldwell were lounging in their rooms in the hotel in San Jose, the DEA called the Costa Rican National Narcoti…
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The DEA has been tipped off. Kelso's got the goods on him. So they call the Costa Rican police to go arrest Kelso. Kelso said they came stomping in there and demanding to see Caldwell and the stuff. And he saw a couple rolled up maps and he…
▶ 46:28
started confiscating everything in the room, tried to take our notebooks, my briefcase, everything, Kelso said. Kelso and Codwell was hustled off to a construction warehouse owned by the Costa Rican Electric Company, where they were shoved …
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He then said, get in the effing car. So we go there and we go down to the Costa Rican National Police main office, right up to the director's office. Soon, Kelso said, DEA agent Neves comes in and he starts screaming, I'm going to blow your…
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Puerto Rican, and that that's the key word that makes him trip off, okay? He goes psychotic. He goes bananas, Kelso said. Neves told him, you are a dead SOB. And he's actually saying out the words. I'm just not going to say them. He also sa…
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Kelso's story was confirmed by the Costa Rican police officers that were present at the incident. According to Costa Rican newspaper, which asked Neves about Kelso in 1986, Neves did not even disguise his anger then about the fact that the …
▶ 50:53
the one guy that I should contact. There's a real problem here. I think the DEA people are trying to kill me. I'm convinced that they were involved in the narcotics trafficking and looking the other way. I don't know who else to turn to. Pa…
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which Rosanello never released or publicly admitted. A defendant in the Frogman case had made 51 phone calls to the FDN office in San Francisco. A secret 1987 DEA report states, noting that one of the confidential informants had met with th…
▶ 1:04:27
This is Operation Gladio. This is 1948 and on. We know they do this. In Paul Williams' book, we outline the entire pipeline of them doing this. Megha, go ahead. Not only that, Colonel, but you have one lone DEA agent by the name of Sandra S…
▶ 51:25
raising money, obviously. The Miami crack market didn't really take off until political exiles from Jamaica moved in, which is why I went through Jamaica last night with Alpha, because this part fascinated me. The intelligence division of t…
▶ 56:39
Eventually, the DEA said that Jamaican traffickers in the U.S. evolved into a nationwide cocaine and crack disposition or distribution. The political leanings of Miami and South Central major cocaine suppliers were not known to the lower le…
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David Castillo's fate after exposing the CIA-supported Iran-Contra air arms for drugs smuggling operation in Central America certainly was not enhanced by powerful forces within the standing U.S. bureaucracy. This is the guy that we learned…
▶ 39:46
His future with the DEA, however, was cut short after he exposed what he saw as corrupt operations in Central America being undertaken through the sponsorship of another federal agency and the White House. That's at Il Pango in El Salvador.…
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El Salvador. Those airport hangars, Castillo discovered, were serving as weapons in narcotic trans-shipment sites for funding and arming the U.S.-backed Contras. That was prohibited by the Boeing Amendment. From that moment forward, Castill…
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Gonzalez, who retired after a long career in the DEA, his last post as the head of the agency's El Paso, Texas field office. Gonzalez told the author, quote, they ruined his reputation over the stuff that happened in El Salvador and he beca…
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Ilopango airport operations eventually drew CIA interference. Castillo said with the CIA taking over control of his key informant. Castillo continued his investigation. So the guy that's helping him get around, showing him all the ins and o…
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That seems weird. Like they should all work for the same government, except for that we know they don't. So Castillo continued his, thank you, investigation. And the DEA, he was sending his information up the DEA chain. And what was coming …
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and it gets sealed and buried. Wow. Castillo subsequently, after a 12-year career, retired from the DEA, but he has remained outspoken advocate against the DEA and even authored a book about his life and experiences called Powder Burns. Yea…
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Even if we assume the government, the prosecutor, did everything by the book, his Castillo's lawyer still seems to have opened himself up to allegations of ineffective assistant counsel. Weird how those things just mysteriously happen aroun…
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Prior to falling out of grace and being arrested in the wake of the U.S. military invasion by George H.W. Bush, Mr. Drug Man CIA himself, while president in Panama in 1989, there was, in 1987, then DEA Administrator Jack Lawn penned a lette…
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After Noriega was indicted by the US, Congress and Justice Department officials accused DEA of giving the pandemonium dictator a free pass on his narco-trafficking activities during the period they were using him to help make cases against …
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um good friend douglas valentine you know in when you mention the dea connections to cia i think it's in his second book i don't i can't whether it's strength of the will for strength of the pack where he talks about those 12 you know so-ca…
▶ 1:06:13
The Bureau of Narcotics is closing and being replaced by the new Virginal DEA, which is re-virginated right from the start with the Dirty Dozen from the Phoenix program. So that tells you how Chase, the new DEA, which is supposed to purify …
▶ 1:06:43
Yep. Good point. And, you know, that's just like the, we talked about in someone else's book that was talked about as well, that special CIA cell inside of the DEA. That was one of our very early books. Trying to remember which one that was…