San José place
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Costa Rican Office of Investigations raided the San Jose home of Menendez's business partner, Trulio and Sanchez, whom they suspected as moving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine every month. According to newspaper reports, S…
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He's a pretty significant witness in your case here. He didn't just disappear, did he? He's going to testify, isn't he? We're not at all certain about that, was the response. When I got back to Sacramento, I called my editor at the main off…
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No wonder those bastards won't give me his name, Finster said. Forgive me, but if you only knew what kind of bullshit I've been going through to get that information from those son of a bitches. And then some reporter calls me up from San J…
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when a confidential informant was debriefed at the U.S. Embassy in San Jose and reported that Menendez was in charge of a major trafficking ring. Six months later, DEA learned that a small cocaine shipment destined for Menendez had been sei…
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At the time, Norwin's brother, Jamie Sr., owned a large money-changing business in San Jose. Norwin also had a couple of legitimate business funds that were very useful in laundering cash. Number one on the list, a restaurant. And that rest…
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arrested or expelled. And there were lots of Nicaraguans, normal Nicaraguans, that lived there that was deported for other infractions, not nearly as significant as Menendez's. Perhaps the strongest indicator of his true function is that so…
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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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When he was finished, Carlton said, Spadafora announced, I am going to have a bomb explode in Panama. I am going to set it off with all the information that I have. Spadafora hurried back to Costa Rica and began sharing his discoveries with…
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in San Jose, Costa Rica. When he checked to see who was paying the storage bills, he learned that it was the owners of the shrimp company, the cocaine-dealing CIA threat, that was helping Oliver North funnel U.S. government money to the Con…
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frequenting a bar in San Jose across from the headquarters of a political group known as Costa Rica Libre. To hear Kelso tell it, the bar was like something out of Casablanca. It was where most of the upper echelon of Costa Rica hung out. T…
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How standard is it that you get accusations about the DEA dealing drugs? How standard is that? The next day when Kelso and Brian Caldwell were lounging in their rooms in the hotel in San Jose, the DEA called the Costa Rican National Narcoti…
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Arias took Kelso up in the jungle and dropped him off and then returned to San Jose to pick up weapons in one of the presidential security cars. Kelso said he had been instructed by his handlers to rendezvous on the CIA operative John Hall'…
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In the dead of night, Tracy and Minolte drove Kelso north to Hall's well-guarded compound and dropped him off with a dentist friend of Hall's where he spent the night. The dentist drove Kelso to Hall's ranch the next day. Rob Owens later re…
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San Francisco. He collected cocaine from hotel rooms all over the Bay Area and sold them to customers in Alabama, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Jose, and San Francisco. At least two of Blanton's biggest customers, Mike Smith in LA and Reggi…
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and were trying to infiltrate the Nicaraguan National Police. Mayorga went to see his boss, Nicaraguan National Police Commander Rene Vivas, who shared his concerns. Checking with sources in Costa Rica, they learned that Menendez and Villar…
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While there has long been solid but ignored evidence of a CIA contra cocaine connection, no one has ever asked the question, where did all the cocaine come from? Now we know. He met with his editor, Don, and managing editor, David Yarnold, …
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And finally, Kepos wrote, the experts were unanimous in saying that the Contras had not played a major role in the crack trade and that the series had oversimplified how crack had become a problem. Strangely, Kepos had borrowed conclusions …
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It was a very one-sided discussion. Reading from a prepared statement, Cepos told me that my editors had lost faith in me and I needed closer supervision, which I couldn't get in Sacramento. I needed to regain their faith and their trust, a…
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would be an act of defiance. Reluctantly, I went, spending July and August in the Supantino Bureau under protest. I was assigned such pressing matters of the death of a police horse. To the chagrin of my editors, who were under orders to ke…
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Peckham granted the defense motion to fly to Costa Rica for the purpose of taking depositions of the two people that signed the letter. Six days later, the Costa Rican CIA station fired off a cable to Langley to warn that a federal prosecut…
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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…
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Jamie Menendez Sr. ends up getting murdered in 1990 in the offices of his money-changing business called FRECERSA in San Jose, Costa Rica. That was the hazard of being a Menendez. So it's not surprising that Maritza Menendez and her childre…
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England because of the boarding of the ships. Well, then the CIA bombed and sank a British merchant ship. This ship was called Spring Fjord, which had sailed from Pacific port of San Jose and Samosa feared the vessel carried gasoline to Gua…
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my old company, to check out other aircraft that they could quote-unquote borrow. Cooper's crew also made their first successful airdrop to the southern front with Buzz Sawyer flying that aircraft. The C-7 had such a short range that after …
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Telephone calls between San Salvador and Washington complemented every active flight program. Drop zones remained elusive. But in August, Fernandez managed another mission to the Southern Front. Again, the aircraft landed at San Jose, where…