David Castillo person
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CIA covered_up
David Castillo book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 41:49
David Castillo exposed
CIA book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 38:48
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▶ 38:48
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…
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Castillo was a Vietnam Army veteran earning a bronze star and a former detective sergeant in Edenburg Police Department in Texas. He later served with the USDA, participating in dangerous undercover investigations. He found himself thrust i…
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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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uncovered damning evidence of wrongdoing being carried out by the CIA and the White House National Security Council. Through San Antonio, Texas, Native and National Counterterrorism Coordinator, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and other CIA…
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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…
▶ 41:49
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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Quote, I even testified before a grand jury about all this stuff in the middle of the 1990s, Castillo said. They did not want to hear it. They sealed my testimony for national security, unquote. Think about that. Let that sink in. You tell …
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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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He was ultimately convicted and given a 37-month sentence for violating federal firearm regulations. He was a self-proclaimed gun enthusiast who frequented gun shows, concedes that he did sell some legally purchased guns absent the proper f…
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And he vehemently denies that any of those guns ever got to Mexico, nor is there any convincing evidence to the contrary. So the government can do that in Fast and Furious, but the guy they're targeting sells a gun he's not supposed to sell…
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The author wrote about Castillo's gun case for Narco News, and this is a quote from the article. Among the latest revelations in the case is the fact that Castillo was being represented by a lawyer who was in the process of having his bar l…
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On top of that, this same lawyer's son was facing serious gun charges in another federal court in Texas at the same time he was representing Castillo. Those facts on their own is a huge conflict of interest for that attorney in handling Cas…
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In the back of his mind, the lawyer had to be worrying about his own future and that of his son. Should he run afoul of the prosecutor in Castillo's case, according to the attorneys and law enforcement who spoke with Narco News, they had it…
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Everything in the case was tainted by the lawyer trying to get out from under things, particularly in relationship to his son. A civil rights defense attorney, Reber Bolt, who serves as a co-legal director for the ACLU in New Mexico, said h…