Tosh Plumlee person
also: Plumlee, Tosh
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Claims (9)
Tosh Plumlee carried_out_attack
Operation Mongoose book_quoted
“Plumlee is named in several books and articles about the Contra affair, but is only identified by his mysterious pilot name, Tosh, T-O-S-H. In the 1982 book, The Fish is Red, he is identified, although only by his name, Robert Plumlee, and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 24:30
Tosh Plumlee exposed
Gary Hart documented
“kilos of cocaine into the United States during the 1980s Iran-Contra. He is also the guy that contacted US Senator Gary Hart and blew the whistle on that entire covert operation. And in 1991, as a quote from that, just as a reminder, accord…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 28:52
Tosh Plumlee supplied_arms_to
Contras guest_asserted
“Camerino had come to Phoenix to interview Plumlee as part of his investigation into covert Contra supply operations in Mexico. Following Plumlee's recollection of what was discussed at the meeting, and this is a quote, I had flown into the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 48:25
Tosh Plumlee carried_out_attack
Rafael Quintero guest_asserted
“was transported to the CIA-linked ranch near Veracruz, where Plumlee was ordered to intercept him. Quote, I was ordered to pick up Caro Quintero at the ranch. I didn't really know who he was at the time, but it was a CIA government-sanction…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 45:31
Tosh Plumlee member_of
CIA documented
“you know, conspiracy theory guy when his information didn't jive with the official story. But public records at Congress indicates that his testimony largely corroborated was believed by Congress. They just didn't do anything about it. Plum…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 28:22
Tosh Plumlee trafficked
CIA guest_asserted
“kilos of cocaine into the United States during the 1980s Iran-Contra. He is also the guy that contacted US Senator Gary Hart and blew the whistle on that entire covert operation. And in 1991, as a quote from that, just as a reminder, accord…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 28:52
Tosh Plumlee member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“I don't know if anyone is aware of Tosh Plumlee. He was in the CIA. He used to run drugs for them. And he became a whistleblower.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 1:06:24
Tosh Plumlee trafficked
CIA guest_asserted
“He was in the CIA. He used to run drugs for them. And he became a whistleblower.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 1:06:24
Tosh Plumlee exposed
CIA guest_asserted
“He used to run drugs for them. And he became a whistleblower.…”
▶ @Martha_Sheshan and Family fight with Federal Government @ 1:06:24
Mentions (41)
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And you can see the whole thing happen. But nothing has ever happened to them. Anyway, that was their goal there. I actually saw it. I don't know if anyone is aware of Tosh Plumlee. He was in the CIA. He used to run drugs for them. And he b…
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clicked in my head and it took me to his page. And he was talking about how they had planned on doing all this stuff. That was his intel. And they planned on doing all this stuff and blaming it on us. And it made perfect sense to me. Like w…
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smoke that allows plausible deniability of whether the CIA is involved in any of these nefarious things. But the author then goes in with the Tosh Plumlee who we've covered as well. He had been accused of everything from cashing bad checks …
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you know, conspiracy theory guy when his information didn't jive with the official story. But public records at Congress indicates that his testimony largely corroborated was believed by Congress. They just didn't do anything about it. Plum…
▶ 28:52
kilos of cocaine into the United States during the 1980s Iran-Contra. He is also the guy that contacted US Senator Gary Hart and blew the whistle on that entire covert operation. And in 1991, as a quote from that, just as a reminder, accord…
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In March of 83, Plumlee contacted Hart's Denver Senate office and met with Mr. Bill Holan of his Senate staff. During the initial meeting, Mr. Plumlee raised certain allegations concerning U.S. foreign and military policy towards Nicaragua …
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He stated that he had grave concerns that certain intelligence information about illegal arms and narcotic shipments were not being appropriately acted upon by, again, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Mr. Plumlee stated the p…
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again, intelligence agencies, were directly involved in the smuggling and distribution of drugs to raise funds for covert military operations against the government of Nicaragua. He provided Hart's staff with detailed maps and names of alle…
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was flown in for drugs, offloaded and reloaded with military equipment. Plumlee was eventually called to testify on a number of occasions behind closed doors, which of course is what you do in a republic. And then his testimony was subseque…
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Much of that we covered in Gary Webb's book, Dark Alliance. Understanding the risk of crossing the line with respects to violating his now classified truth telling, Plumlee still appeared on former Deep Cover DEA agent Mike Levin's radio sh…
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Again, U.S. intelligence agencies. It's the CIA. Quote, it's still ongoing. The reason I said that is that I hope your listeners remember that someone who has been very active in the drug war said that this stuff is still going on. Very sec…
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added weight to Plumlee's contention that the CIA and Pentagon had continued to run these drug operations. The mainstream media and the American public in general now accept the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies, specifically the CIA, ar…
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That was a statement that the author had pulled in from a long time ago. John Kerry's commission, as you know, was much earlier than that. And they were talking about Plumlee, the guy that testified there, having been a CIA pilot, about the…
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It was based in Rantoul, Kansas, but one of its subsidiary companies was at the MENA airport. And that's where he pulled in then the Plumlee testimony of having ran drugs out of MENA.…
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Be part of Mayan Jaguar or other various CIA operations. What were the unknowns to the DEA? Former CIA contract pilot Tosh Plumlee concluded that the answer to those questions were simple. The CIA's fingerprints are everywhere on this opera…
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because of compromised databases and all that stuff that we've been over. The source, another source was Tosh Plumlee, a longtime CIA operative pilot, and he later turned whistleblower. The mainstream press stories published in 2013 by Fox …
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Plumlee told the author during the course of a series of interviews that after Camarino's murder in early February 1985, that he was ordered by his CIA handlers to fly into a ranch located near Veracruz, Mexico. That ranch, Plumlee says, at…
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via arms sales to Iran to fund Nicaraguan Contras. Part of the scandal also implicates the CIA and the national security staff in narcotic and arms trafficking. Investigative Gary Webb further bolstered the claims of the U.S. government's i…
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was transported to the CIA-linked ranch near Veracruz, where Plumlee was ordered to intercept him. Quote, I was ordered to pick up Caro Quintero at the ranch. I didn't really know who he was at the time, but it was a CIA government-sanction…
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to a private airstrip located just across the Mexican border in Guatemala. Plumlee then goes on to say, I was told to take a person from point A to point B and I did it. He said, that's what I did as the CIA contract pilot. If you ask too m…
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because we know they have ranches, at least one by haul, in Costa Rica. In fact, Caro Quintero was captured in Costa Rica in April of 1985, three months after Camarino's murder. After dropping Quintero off in Guatemala,…
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Plumlee says that he assumes the narco-trafficker was flown into John Hall's ranch in Costa Rica. John Hall's ranch was protected by the CIA and used extensively by the CIA. Hall took advantage of this protection and allowed planes loaded w…
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was a major figure in the Colombian cartel and was involved in the murder of DEA agent Enrique Catamarina. Mata was extradited to the U.S. in 1988 and convicted of drug trafficking. Plumlee also had a connection to slain DEA agent Camarino.…
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Camerino had come to Phoenix to interview Plumlee as part of his investigation into covert Contra supply operations in Mexico. Following Plumlee's recollection of what was discussed at the meeting, and this is a quote, I had flown into the …
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Some weeks later, he and his pilot were kidnapped. Plumlee, during the period, was already talking to then Senator Gary Hart's office about the drug and weapons shipment. He was being ordered to carry out as part of a U.S. government-sancti…
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The following is a summary of the testimony Plumlee provided to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in August 1990. Quote, documentations provided by Mr. Plumlee and other testimony from pilots and operatives indicate Plumlee flew many b…
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Just put a bookmark on that. I conveyed what he, Plumlee, said to the Senate Subcommittee on Narcoterrorism and International Operations, then headed by Senator Kerry. According to Holan, they did validate that Tosh was saying was true. Ker…
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Valeras, as well as Jordan and Plumlee, say they believe it was likely Camerino was abducted on the orders of powerful individuals who were calling the shots in the CIA-supported Contra supply operation, individuals who ultimately reported …
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which featured Barillas, other U.S. officials, and three former Mexican federal cops, along with cartel members. The CIA and the former officer in question, Felix Rodriguez, has denied their involvement in the Camarino murder. Felix Rodrigu…
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Recordings contain information that implicates the CIA. The revelations made by Plumlee, a known CIA asset and later whistleblower, along with the information dug up by Barillas and Jordan via their DEA sources and investigation, if accurat…
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Quintero. One loose end in Plumlee's story seems to be that he insists he flew Quintero to Guatemala from a ranch in Veracruz, Mexico. Jordan and Bareilles contend that Quintero boarded a plane in Guadalajara in the wake of Camarino's murde…
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Two major documented heroin traffickers. One of the largest heroin seizures on the border was traced to one of his cousins. The Quintero Paya family is well known in that area. The flight to Costa Rica happened a week later. According to Pl…
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Brudia could identify the CIA guys behind the covert contra drug for guns operation by name. What information did he provide to Camerino? Berzello asked. I believe Kiki talked to Berita before he was murdered. And I believe Kiki interviewed…
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from the journalist. And then Plumlee reported that to his CIA handlers. And ultimately, that led to Kiki getting picked up for questioning, and they went overboard and killed him. Bareilles can only deal in speculation on that front, but i…
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federal agent who patrolled the Rio Grande area for years, former Pentagon criminal investigator Gene Wheaton, and a veteran CIA contract pilot Robert Plumlee, all have confirmed Benique's description of the purpose of the landing strip, a …
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Tosh Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot living in California, said he did not know Beneke but can confirm his claim about that particular landing strip and that it was mostly active during 82 and 83 timeframe. Plumlee said he never flew C…
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and that it was done with Israeli Mossad alongside CIA. Plumlee, who is the subject of a lengthy article that was written on April 5th, 1990 in the San Diego Reader, flew missions for the CIA and the U.S. military in Latin America from 1979…
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Plumlee is named in several books and articles about the Contra affair, but is only identified by his mysterious pilot name, Tosh, T-O-S-H. In the 1982 book, The Fish is Red, he is identified, although only by his name, Robert Plumlee, and …
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Attorney S. Cass Weiland is in the middle of an unidentified White House project in Belize, where Michener and his partners owned 700,000 acres. Huh. So they were using this money to build terror training camps in northern Belize. Plumlee s…
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county road that goes from Lajitas Highway right up to the landing strip, like where you would be taking trucks or vehicles out of. Another important factor, Plumlee said, is that the people in the isolated conservative Big Bend area, inclu…
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A West Texas law enforcement officer who spoke on the condition that his name not be used said the pits and depressions with the dirt were used to hold 55-gallon drums of aviation fuel. Plumlee said the drums were used to hold drugs as well…