Avelas person
also: Avella, Aviles
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Claims (5)
CIA covered_up
Avelas documented
“would not press the issue of the Costa Rican deposition. As the matter stands now, a CIA cable said, CIA equities are fully protected. That was actually the quote. CIA equities are fully protected. So the CIA intervened in a legal proceedin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 48:06
Avelas member_of
Forces Armadas Nacionales de Resistencia Nicaragüense documented
“Strickland told the Costa Rican station to look into whether the Contras were dealing drugs, but warned no action other than discreet inquiries should be undertaken without headquarters approval. What the CIA found was censored from the rep…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 53:54
Avelas member_of
Contras documented
“could have serious implications on the anti-Sandinista activities in Costa Rica and elsewhere, unquote. The CIA headquarters discovered that Avelas was indeed a contra official and had attended the August 1982 conference in Miami, where he …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 42:51
Avelas member_of
Contras documented
“and a member of the board of directors of the Contra organization, Avella's role as director of the Contra's support group office in San Jose, and their formal claim of drug-tainted money. Case could be made that the CIA funds are being div…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 53:00
CIA recruited
Avelas documented
“in connection with the prosecution of the cocaine trafficking case. So, how did the CIA know what was going on inside that courtroom? The station chief told Langley that, let's see, both men were also, the two men involved, were CIA assets.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 41:50
Mentions (8)
▶ 31:43
had also helped set up the Committee of Defense of Democracy in Nicaragua, a CIA front in San Jose, Costa Rica, with money from Venezuelan sources. The other letter was also written by Avelas, together with businessman Rapacoli, on behalf o…
▶ 34:41
quickly scrawled his signature on the order, sealing the Contra letters and the other papers Iverson had submitted. Iverson had requested secrecy order to keep the U.S. government from discovering the documents, which he felt would expose A…
▶ 42:51
could have serious implications on the anti-Sandinista activities in Costa Rica and elsewhere, unquote. The CIA headquarters discovered that Avelas was indeed a contra official and had attended the August 1982 conference in Miami, where he …
▶ 53:00
and a member of the board of directors of the Contra organization, Avella's role as director of the Contra's support group office in San Jose, and their formal claim of drug-tainted money. Case could be made that the CIA funds are being div…
▶ 53:25
And Capicoli and Avelas could prove most damaging, especially if any relationship, no matter how induced, were to continue. As long as Capicoli and Avelas continue to play any role in the anti-Sandinista movement, any public disclosure of t…
▶ 53:54
Strickland told the Costa Rican station to look into whether the Contras were dealing drugs, but warned no action other than discreet inquiries should be undertaken without headquarters approval. What the CIA found was censored from the rep…
▶ 54:24
In 1988, State Department biography of Vincente Rapicoli identified him as the secretary of the Contra's political division. Incredibly, the 1998 CIA IG's report that contained all of the cables claimed Aviles and Rapicoli really hadn't wor…
▶ 55:20
In October 1984, the federal government returned the $36,000 to Avelas and Zavala. And not a moment too soon, eight days after the check was issued, the U.S. Congress, outraged by the disclosure that the CIA and the Contras…