Carlos Cabraza person
also: Cabrese, Caprese, Cabraza, Capriza, Carlos
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▶ 7:11
Gary Webb is describing information that informants was relaying to the CIA sometime after this all happened. So again, all of this is in CIA records where they claim that they don't know anything about their own drug trafficking. These are…
▶ 7:40
Cabrese told CIA investigators that in April or May of 1982, he had a meeting at the San Jose Hotel. Well, where Perina and Sanchez introduced him to a man he had never seen before. The man called himself Ivan Gomez and told Cabrese that he…
▶ 8:10
So this is actually a CIA agent, Ivan Gomez, the agency's man in Costa Rica. Gomez said that he was there to, quote, to ensure that the profits from the cocaine went to the Contras and not into someone's pocket, unquote. Caprese saw the CIA…
▶ 10:32
Gomez had been a former Venezuelan military officer, admitted during CIA polygraph tests in 1987 that in March or April of 1982, he had been involved in laundering funds for drug dealers, but he claimed the dopers were relatives. Since Cabr…
▶ 11:01
The polygraph examiner apparently did not ask the CIA director about laundering cash for the Contras. Despite Gomez's admissions, the CIA inspector general dismissed Cabrese's story as an invention, suggesting that the trafficker could not …
▶ 11:31
Dream Up, the alias actually used by a CIA agent stationed in Costa Rica, describing his role with exact precision and pinpointing to within 30 days of the time that the agent admits laundering the drug money. A former CIA asset who had inf…
▶ 13:28
Gomez told the CIA inspectors he'd never met Caprese or other traffickers. He's involved in drug trafficking. He just didn't meet any traffickers. Based on Caprese's statement and historical record from the early days of the Contra conflict…
▶ 16:54
as being a Sandinista mole. Okay, Caprese and his contra-money flights to Costa Rica continued throughout 1982. They were interrupted near the end of that year when Pereira was arrested in Florida. Caprese said that the FBI informant Donald…
▶ 17:52
and would have anywhere between $80,000 and $100,000 in cash to deliver to the Contras. Alba called U.S. Customs the next day. Pereira was arrested in Miami, boarding an Air Florida flight to Costa Rica. The agents found $70,000 cash, which…
▶ 18:51
Perea called Caprese and told him that he had been set up and needed money. Caprese replied about that. Herrera, his nephew, is giving him money. Actually, that's one of the Menendez crew out in San Francisco. Then something happened. Perea…
▶ 19:27
He returned to Costa Rica and immediately resumed drug trafficking, which the FBI learned while monitoring a call from Pereira to Cabrera. Cabrera, sorry. Here's what the phone call said. Fine was completed. No probation, no prison. Horatio…
▶ 25:05
The freighters were found in Houston the following year, busted with $18 million worth of cocaine behind a steel wall. The shipping line was partly owned by the Colombian government. They are a narco state and still are today. The hammer fe…
▶ 25:31
At 7 a.m. on February 15th, federal agents and local police raided 14 locations in San Francisco, including Cabraza's house and Zavala's apartment, scooping up everyone. The haul included the Colombian supplier of Alvaro Carvajal Minota, Ca…
▶ 28:19
Defense lawyers had to get a court order to force the Justice Department to reveal that the 1981 searches targeting Herrero Menendez and Julio Bermudez had even occurred. After the lawyers got the files, they accused the FBI of serious misr…
▶ 28:48
From the government's point of view, either distributing cocaine obtained from some of the principals in this case or supplying it to them. The records, they argued, revealed that there was a direct and ongoing connection between Menendez's…
▶ 30:16
They are contributing economically to the Contras, unquote. It would take another three years before an American journalist made the connection. Zavala complained to the court that similar stories had appeared in Spanish-language press in C…
▶ 30:46
was unable to raise after getting a look at the evidence the FBI had compiled against him. His attorney advised him to cut a deal with the government and testify against Savala, which he did. A year later, shortly before his trial was to be…