Roberto Liberto person
also: Mr. Liberto, Roberto, longtime CIA agent Roberto, CIA sidekick, spooky associate
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“and was a federal informant used by the government. So he gave the statement of how this contract was put out by Baldwin on James Earl Ray's life. Ms. Ferguson testified to it in her affidavit. You've heard a good deal of it, how the defend…”
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and was a federal informant used by the government. So he gave the statement of how this contract was put out by Baldwin on James Earl Ray's life. Ms. Ferguson testified to it in her affidavit. You've heard a good deal of it, how the defend…
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which he did and the money and eventually a rifle to hold. And he was told about the planning sessions in his cafe. And he was told about a rifle from the shooter, taking the rifle from the shooter, one that was still smoking. He said, take…
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which is ridiculous because they already had all the information they were protecting him. On December 21st, without waiting for DEA approval, Menendez and his new partner, longtime CIA agent Roberto, left Costa Rica and flew to the U.S. Of…
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if they delve too deeply into Blanton's drug ring. Again, they already know they helped set it up. Soon after the new year, a series of strange meetings took place in Los Angeles between Blanton Menendez, the CIA agent Roberto, and a top FD…
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Torres was a brother of Jacinto and Edgar, the two guys that are part of Blanton's drug trafficking network. So there's a third Torres brother. Roberto later reported back to the DEA on those meetings and his debriefing reports must have ch…
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want to know about drug trafficking, but only for their own purposes and not necessarily to assist law enforcement agencies. The CIA knows all about it because they set it up. Torres told Roberto that CIA representatives are aware of his dr…
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Quote, Blanton was keeping a low profile and may have turned over cocaine distribution to a black group in South Los Angeles to the Torres brothers. The DEA report said, describing Blanton's sales to blacks as half his trade. Blanton appare…
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that he was particularly angry that he didn't get a chance to debrief Menendez and had only last-minute notice that he could speak to the CIA agent, Roberto. The Justice Department IG reported this. Supposedly outraged, Auckland shot a cabl…
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In San Francisco, FBI agent Gordon Gibler read the cable and was surprised that the DEA had not shared that information with the FBI. A few days later, the San Francisco FBI issued arrest warrants for Roberto and Menendez, you know, now tha…
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that that was all after they knew they were gone. Other DEA offices also began wondering what the hell their Costa Rica comrades were up to. The San Francisco office cabled Costa Rica complaining that it had no idea who was being targeted b…
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was sent to DEA headquarters in Washington, inquiring, quote, whether an indictment of Menendez by the San Francisco FBI will result in a national security problem with other agencies, unquote. In other words, mother may I. It must have cau…
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It was once again up to the Riverside agents, Auckland and Shretner, though their investigation had been burned, undermined, compromised, and backstabbed at every step. They still thought they had a few options. For instance, they had Menen…
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If he was supposed to be working for the DEA, they wanted him back on the job. In March 1987, Tom Shretner called DEA agent Gonzalez in Costa Rica and told him to send Roberto back to California to infiltrate the Blanton organization again.…
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Roberto wouldn't come to California without Menendez, and Menendez wouldn't come back as long as the FBI was looking for him. Gonzalez told Schretner that he was so exasperated with Menendez, he had already gotten rid of him as an informant…
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for several more months. In May, federal prosecutor Crossan Anderson called Gonzalez in Costa Rica and told him to get Mr. CIA to California so he could answer questions. Gonzalez replied that he didn't think Roberto would come, but promise…
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as in the other drug source of cocaine. Only after months of pressure from the DEA headquarters did Roberto finally agree to come to LA and meet with Shretner and Auckland. According to Auckland, the operative quickly made it clear that he …
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After these debriefings on July 17th, 1987, Croson Anderson pulled the plug on the task force investigation. It had lasted less than seven months and had accomplished nothing except for to provide cover for Menendez and a CIA associate to v…
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who had just got there from Europe. Like Norwin, the CIA man was in Costa Rica posing as an informant for the DEA. Agent Gonzalez told Justice Department inspectors in 1997 that Menendez's CIA sidekick, whom the drug lord introduced to othe…
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Why a CIA agent with a long background in Europe surfaced in Costa Rica to be teamed up with the largest drug smuggler is not addressed in any version of the Department of Defense's IG report. The declassified CIA IG report never even menti…
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Later events would suggest that Menendez and Roberto were investigating, in air quotes, drug trafficking, were not investigating drug trafficking at all. They were participating in it. And the best evidence is that the first drug ring Menen…