Alberto Sicilia Falcon person
also: Alberto Cecilia Falcon, Cecilia, Cecilia Falcon, Falcon, Sicilia Falcon
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Claims (6)
Alberto Sicilia Falcon trained
CIA book_quoted
“The author takes a look at some of these people. Alberto Cecilia Falcon, the leader of the Sicilian Falcons, is not a Mexican at all. He was born in Cuba. His family left the island immediately after Castro's takeover, and they became Cuban…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 24:17
Alberto Sicilia Falcon funded
Operation Condor book_quoted
“On the 2nd of July, 1975, Falcon was arrested. In the interrogation, he claimed that he was an agent of the CIA and that his drug ring had been set up on orders by the agency. Part of his profits would go towards the purchase of weapons and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 30:29
Alberto Sicilia Falcon did_business_with
Sam Giancana book_quoted
“who they learned often met with and conversed by telephone with a mystery man just south of Mexico City. When a lemonade bottle bearing the man's fingerprints was sent to the FBI, the Bureau informed Mexican authorities that the man was Sam…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 27:59
Alberto Sicilia Falcon operated_in
Tijuana book_quoted
“Where in record time, just like overnight in a snap of the finger, he was able to set up an entire heroin and marijuana, primarily marijuana. He did do some heroin, according to Syntac. But yeah, and entrenched himself in Tijuana. According…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 25:23
Alberto Sicilia Falcon member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“The author takes a look at some of these people. Alberto Cecilia Falcon, the leader of the Sicilian Falcons, is not a Mexican at all. He was born in Cuba. His family left the island immediately after Castro's takeover, and they became Cuban…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 24:17
J. Edgar Hoover funded
Alberto Sicilia Falcon book_quoted
“to the U.S. legal attache praises the detonation of a strategic and effective bombing campaign in Mexico City. The wave of night machine gunnings was ongoing. How would Hoover know all about that? Besides Escobar's attitude, another reason …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 33:04
Mentions (17)
▶ 23:42
prominent families at the time. The Herreras, the Macinas, the Romeros, the Fabalas, and Sicilia Falcon, the guy that we know, that we've talked about, who is a human exile CIA guy, the Valenzuelas, and the Avelas Quinteros. So,…
▶ 24:17
The author takes a look at some of these people. Alberto Cecilia Falcon, the leader of the Sicilian Falcons, is not a Mexican at all. He was born in Cuba. His family left the island immediately after Castro's takeover, and they became Cuban…
▶ 24:47
as part of Operation 40. From there, his trail runs dry for a few years as he's off gallivanting around doing CIA missions. According to Mexican police, he was in Chile helping overthrow the government and murder Salvador Allende, the democ…
▶ 25:23
Where in record time, just like overnight in a snap of the finger, he was able to set up an entire heroin and marijuana, primarily marijuana. He did do some heroin, according to Syntac. But yeah, and entrenched himself in Tijuana. According…
▶ 25:54
At least 1,600 people. He associated and provided narcotics for film stars and international businessmen. He resided in Tijuana primarily, but he did have a house in San Diego. Heroin was transported to San Diego from a warehouse near his T…
▶ 26:27
Marijuana from a processing plant in Mexicali was sent to a U.S. distribution center in Coronado Keys. In late 1973, one of Cecilia Falcon's truckers was stopped on his way back to Mexico. The truck was loaded with weapons destined to the C…
▶ 27:28
until early 1975, when the government of the then President Echeverria discovered that Falcon's weapons shipments went to groups in Mexico as well. He said, external forces are attempting to destabilize our country in a public speech in 197…
▶ 27:59
who they learned often met with and conversed by telephone with a mystery man just south of Mexico City. When a lemonade bottle bearing the man's fingerprints was sent to the FBI, the Bureau informed Mexican authorities that the man was Sam…
▶ 29:30
did all of the investigative work and worked with the Mexican government that led to Falcon's being exposed and his eventual arrest. It was that small, tiny little unit called Syntac that did all of that. Falcon was allowed to operate in th…
▶ 30:00
in Mexico and San Diego. It was not until Syntac spent years gathering all of the evidence and provided it to the Mexican government that he was actually then investigated in Mexico. And the entire time he was operating with CIA cover, CIA …
▶ 30:29
On the 2nd of July, 1975, Falcon was arrested. In the interrogation, he claimed that he was an agent of the CIA and that his drug ring had been set up on orders by the agency. Part of his profits would go towards the purchase of weapons and…
▶ 30:59
and the destabilization of quote-unquote undesirable governments. If that's true, and it is true, by the way, that was all proven by Syntac, U.S. heroin addicts were footing the bill for clandestine paramilitary operations and terror campai…
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two Swiss bank books that contained $260 million. The strange testimony of Falcon did not end with his confession. His family's heroin and arms shipments continued. And on April 1976, he and three of his lieutenants escaped from the prison.…
▶ 32:03
into the home of one of their accomplices. Unfortunately for them, they were recaptured a few days later. And Falcon, fearing for his life at the hands of the CIA, requested a transfer to another prison and additional security. The Mexican …
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the inauguration of the new president, quote, the new government is not interested in publicity regarding the Falcon case. It will quietly extradite him to the U.S. as soon as the new extradition agreement between the two countries comes in…
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was brought before a Miami federal court on charges of conspiracy to smuggle 50,000 pounds of marijuana a month from Colombia to the United States. He and several co-conspirators had allegedly hatched the plot in the summer of 1975, just wh…
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while the other desperately tried to reveal it. We know what happened to them. They got stuck in broom closets or fired. During all of this, you had the operations of people like Cecilia Falcon going on. Had it not been for Syntac, it would…