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also: LA, South Central, South Central LA, South Central Los Angeles, South Central Market, East LA, City of Wrong Angel, Long Angel

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Claims (8)

Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross funded Los Angeles documented
“Field likes uniforms for local teams. He bought turntables and sound equipment for young rap artists and supplied eggs for Easter egg hunts. He paid for new pews and air conditioning for his mom's church. He sponsored a semi-pro football te…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 38:56
Los Angeles Police Department carried_out_attack Los Angeles host_asserted
“but it was enough to prompt an embarrassed LAPD to launch raids on several dozen rock houses shortly afterwards, with tragic results. On December 13th, a diversionary explosion, the cops set off during a raid on West 60th Street. Rock house…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 44:51
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross financed_via Los Angeles host_asserted
“Blanton agreed that Ross was being diluted with cash. Those times they were using two and three machines and they were counting day and night. To hide it all, Ross followed Blanton's advice and started investing in real estate, buying house…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 42:28
Bloods member_of Los Angeles documented
“The higher profits, coupled with the increased pressure from local police, have prompted the Los Angeles gangs to extend their territory far beyond the neighborhood. Within the past three to four years, members of the Crips and Bloods have …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 52:29
Crips member_of Los Angeles documented
“The higher profits, coupled with the increased pressure from local police, have prompted the Los Angeles gangs to extend their territory far beyond the neighborhood. Within the past three to four years, members of the Crips and Bloods have …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 52:29
Gary Powers died_in Los Angeles host_asserted
“Mr. Gary Francis Powers, who survived the U2 incident, is shot down. And again, those are flying around 60,000 feet where the sky becomes the undecided vote, whether black or blue. Same Gary Francis Powers is shot down from a traffic helico…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 6 @ 1:54:39
Daniel Blanton trafficked Los Angeles documented
“In 1982, towards the end, Blanton's cocaine trafficking business in Los Angeles exploded almost overnight. It appears he went from receiving a little one or two kilo package that could be tucked away in a lunchbox to conducting multimillion…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 30:22
Chandler family funded Los Angeles caller_asserted
“And they had their fingers in all sorts of stuff out here, even the creation of the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach. So even the Black Dahlia, that whole story, I don't know if you all know anything about that story. There's theory that h…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 1:30:37

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Operation Gladio-British Guiana (Guyana) 1953-1964
▶ 51:27 And they moved down there because they were essentially like, quote, thrown out of California. They were being exposed in California. But they bought the property in 1973. And the whole drinking of the Kool-Aid, which we know is garbage, wa…
Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984
▶ 40:17 This would lead the Soviet Union to not send their Olympic team to Los Angeles, which is basically what the U.S. did when the Soviet Union was in Afghanistan. So they just basically returned the favor.…
Operation Gladio - Liberia
▶ 1:47:14 deride the war protests, the legitimate ones that were happening, and to discredit them by the CIA. They basically created the entire Los Angeles music industry at that point. And they used CIA kids and senior military kids to create those …
Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb
▶ 36:48 and a group of other generals during the Clinton administration that had found out quite a bit of what was going on with the Korea gate and him, uh, basically channeling our military technology to China via some people out in California in …
Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb
▶ 1:07:21 into the American Civil War. And you had the Tsar send his fleet to LA, to California and to New York. And he parked his fleet there and he sent messages to Paris and to London saying, if you interfere in the American Civil War, we will des…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societys 2025-05-29
▶ 37:25 All right. More on Larry Fink. Where's he come from? Do you know where he's from? I don't. He's a California boy. Went to UCLA and UCLA MBA business school. It was a California guy. He was not connected, but he's a hustler and he's smart. A…
Operation Gladio meets Secret Societys 2025-05-29
▶ 47:05 And it's the largest real estate deal in history at the time. Of course, this defaulted. All the BlackRock clients lost money, including CalPERS, to the tune of $500 million. The California pension plan? Yeah, lost $500 million thanks to Bl…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 1:45:36 Those people that are chosen to be in charge of those companies, they didn't create the companies. They are being given the opportunity, the funding and everything else, just as I explained. George Bush didn't create any of them damn compan…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 1:46:06 In every genre, that's true. It isn't just rap music. It was all of them. It was rock and roll. It was every one of them. They were all controlled. And the music industry venues was set up by mobsters. The musicians themselves, when it firs…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 1:46:35 The musicians, every single one of them, without fail, had a military parent or a CIA parent. They just picked kids, threw them out there in their late teens, early 20s, and said, here, you're going to play a guitar, you're going to be in t…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2
▶ 1:47:03 They choreographed the creation of hippies. They designed their hair, their clothes, everything. It was all a big show. Why LA? Why do it in LA? Why do it in LA? Yes, as opposed to some other city like New York or D.C. or some other urban c…
Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15
▶ 40:09 introduced Wilson to a California explosive exporter named Jerome Brower, B-R-O-W-E-R. Unfortunately for Wilson, there were two things he didn't know about Brower. One was that Brower took shortcuts on U.S. customs regulations, and the othe…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
▶ 43:25 And I mean, he's a defense contractor. They were shipping this shit all over the world for the assassins as part of Operation Gladio. And I highly suggest SR-71, if you wouldn't mind posting his Wikipedia page on how he actually was poisone…
Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 2
▶ 27:56 While on a fundraising trip to Los Angeles, Liedman experienced a political conversion. At the behest of his employer, he met Eleanor Lipper, a Russian exile who had just published a book documenting 11 years that she spent in a gulag camp.…
Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet
▶ 2:13:45 I'm far away from what I was going to comment on, and so I just let it there. But I do want to mention I had a very, very similar journey to, I didn't see the name of the lady that spoke just now. I also live in California. I live in Los An…
Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program
▶ 1:43:48 you know, that we are very aware of and that a lot of people don't think that we're aware, but we are. And we're fighting on all fronts. And as far as the human trafficking, I'm trying to figure out why, you know, number one, California is …
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 34:39 Well, and when you go and start looking back at their efforts to move the gamblings on the Indian reservations where the U.S. has no jurisdiction, it goes right along with that whole thought process. Yeah, I mean, it's but it's true. It's c…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 35:10 They basically are kingmakers in California politics. I happen to know the lawyer who represents a bunch of those casinos in Southern California. He's a libertarian, a good guy. That's where I met him, in libertarian party politics way back…
Secret Societies Skull and Bones
▶ 35:40 There's a lot of money filters from the casinos to Sacramento. Yes. And that's why they love it. It's a kickback scheme. What isn't? All right. Let's go to William Payne Whitney. Okay. Skull and Bones, 1898. So that's four or five so far. I…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 3:08 We're on Chapter 20 of Dark Alliance, and we left off with the total debacle that had occurred on one of the largest busts that could have ever happened in Los Angeles to actually address the influx of cocaine.…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 3:08 We're on Chapter 20 of Dark Alliance, and we left off with the total debacle that had occurred on one of the largest busts that could have ever happened in Los Angeles to actually address the influx of cocaine.…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 7:26 Despite the overall failure of the raids and the departure of the majors, FBI agent Douglas Auckland and DEA agent Tom Shretner kept working. If they couldn't get their respective agencies to help them investigate the Nicaraguan drug ring, …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 8:49 asking the IRS to supply agents to help out on the case. As you know, Anderson wrote, this is a narcotics investigation involving FBI, DEA, and Los Angeles Sheriff Department units in Riverside and Whittier, California. It's a sensitive mat…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 11:15 When Auckland finally got to Lister, he asked him point blank if he was involved in training of Contras. Lister denied knowing anything about North, clammed up and, quote, requested that an unidentified representative of another agency be p…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 14:00 If the Costa Rican government, which was becoming increasingly hostile to the Contras, started poking around, it wouldn't take long to discover that the drug kingpin's special relationship with the U.S. embassy would be exposed. Menendez's …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 16:14 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…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 17:16 said that his brothers, Edgar and Pacito, were distributing up to 1,000 kilograms of cocaine on a monthly basis in Los Angeles. According to Torres, Menendez, and Blanton, Torres was the head of the West Coast branch of the FDN, meaning the…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 18:48 Some of the income had gone into numbered bank accounts in Europe and Panama. The major's raids, Torres reported proudly, had not interfered with any of their cocaine trafficking to the black neighborhoods in Los Angeles. They had merely ca…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 19:13 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…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 19:13 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…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 20:38 The FBI agent had been investigating and sent him back to Costa Rica, all without letting him know. Auckland was staking out Blanton's auto dealerships at the time of the meeting, and he watched for eight straight days as an unidentified ma…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 25:02 It didn't take a week for Rosanello's office to reject the FBI agent's proposal. Menendez would not be prosecuted. The agents were told so long as Blanton's investigation is still underway in Los Angeles, that wasn't going to happen. Rosane…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 30:12 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 …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 32:09 Without the assistance, further efforts will not be worthwhile, unquote. Auckland was frustrated with the case, he told the Justice Department. He was glad to get rid of it. He was not getting sufficient help from the FBI in Los Angeles, Mi…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 33:06 The DEA hired him back as an informant and began issuing him visas to the United States. At the height of the American public's outrage over the Iran-Contra scandal, the criminal investigation involving Contra cocaine sales in Los Angeles w…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 33:37 for another 10 years. In 1996, when Gary Webb began looking into the 1986 raids, the Sheriff Department officials would initially deny that they had ever occurred. Because remember, they purged all the records. If the Blanton investigation …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 33:37 for another 10 years. In 1996, when Gary Webb began looking into the 1986 raids, the Sheriff Department officials would initially deny that they had ever occurred. Because remember, they purged all the records. If the Blanton investigation …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 34:08 In order to make a dent in the crack cocaine there, they were going to have to shut him down. But then Ricky Ross was a major dealer and he was affecting South Central Los Angeles. He was supplying most of the dope in the region. We were he…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 34:08 In order to make a dent in the crack cocaine there, they were going to have to shut him down. But then Ricky Ross was a major dealer and he was affecting South Central Los Angeles. He was supplying most of the dope in the region. We were he…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 35:07 is all colluding together to make all of the Joe Biden drug penalties much stiffer. So if we arrest these guys, we're going to put them away for decades. No one's going to be able to talk to them. And we can still protect the actual distrib…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 35:39 joined forces creating a Freeway Rick Task Force. It was one of the few times in the history of L.A. law enforcement that a single man was the subject of an entire task force. Ricky Ross is a 7-4 Hoover Crip, this is a quote, whose success …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 40:44 In keeping with Sobel's personal motto, march or die, all five task force detectives were put on full-time cash overtime so they could keep up 24-hour surveillance of everything. For task force detective Steve Pollack, who had been working …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 45:05 the gist of what we're talking about. Daniel Blanton's reassurance to Ross that nothing would change, the Nicaraguan had already made up his mind to get out of Los Angeles. The raids on his home and other locations, his bonus cover, and his…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 46:06 was tying up loose ends and transferring cash for him so he could buy a house. So he's fine, you know, because he's protected by the CIA and FBI and DEA. But all hell's breaking loose in Los Angeles. Blanton would testify later, I was prepa…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 46:35 And I wasn't necessarily going to leave it. In other words, despite the fact that the LAPD, L.A. Sheriff's Department, FBI, DEA, CIA, DIA, and IRS was now fully aware of Blanton's cocaine reign, the only thing that changed was the man at th…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 49:46 Though he was arrested, Sandino somehow managed to wiggle out of custody, like so many of them do, and the DEA issued a fugitive warrant for his capture. When Los Angeles detective Tom Gordon ran across Sandino's name in the drug database s…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 50:13 Months after fleeing Virginia, Sandino showed up in Los Angeles just in time to take over Danielle Blanton's business, another known government-protected drug dealer. After Blanton moved, Ross said, he would call him in Miami time to time, …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 50:45 with the Nicaraguan operation in Los Angeles well after he moved to Miami. By then, Ross said the cocaine business was losing some of its allure. His friends and mentor, Danielle Blanton, was 3,000 miles away. He owned about $5 million wort…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20
▶ 51:44 had gotten addicted to cocaine. It was now personally affecting him. By early 1987, the LA crack market had become so saturated and so much gang activity was accompanying it that they were going outside of Los Angeles, all over the country,…
The Colonels Corner-CIA_FBN Drug Trafficking 101
▶ 24:41 Guttensold had spent two years at the CIA base in Laos, which had been a major heroin transit point. Fuller said that when we communicated, I was to be known as Leo Adams for Los Angeles, Guttensold said. He was to be Walter DeCarlo for Was…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9
▶ 13:32 Locations for cocaine laboratories and money laundering centers. The Reagan Bush White House was instrumental in what the author refers to as regionalization. Officials in the enforcement section of Treasury monitored sharp increases of cap…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9
▶ 14:59 William Bennett, the first director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the position that came about. Sorry, somebody's at the front door. Hey, stop it. He was became he became known as the drug czar. He followed Bush's lead by i…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9
▶ 25:47 had been repelled by drug gangs, just like in Los Angeles. Multi-tons of cocaine are headed to Europe, and poor African countries have experienced a boom in trafficking and drug use. The shift to Europe came as a result of the saturated U.S…
The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 9
▶ 27:46 By the late 1990s, it had fallen to $200. According to the DEA, the street price of a gram of cocaine in 2005 was $20. In New York, $30. In Los Angeles, $100. In Denver, $125. In the cocaine decade, a pure gram of cocaine sold for $600 in t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 31:10 ring on the West Coast, alleged involved in a major cocaine pipeline that ran from Cali, Colombia, to several West Coast cities, which we just read about in our last book, which means it was under the control of the CIA because Cali was the…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 38:15 who dealt dope for many years, started out dealing with the Contras, a right-wing Nicaraguan, yeah, they're not right-wing, give me a break, Nicaraguan guerrilla group in Los Angeles. He'd used drug money to buy trucks and supplies for the …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 41:32 It'd probably be the last thing he'd expect. I'm not really here doing a story on this case. I'm here looking into one of the witnesses, a name by the name of Blandon. As I was pronouncing, or am I pronouncing the name correctly? Hall appea…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 43:02 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…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 51:27 Now there were two separate sources saying in court that Blanton was involved with Contras and had been selling large amounts of cocaine in Los Angeles. And when the government finally had a chance to put him away forever, it opened up the …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 51:55 I struck out every call. One of the lawyers was out of town. The rest of them remembered next to nothing. It was all over so quickly I barely had time to open a file, one said. The consensus was that once Blandon flipped, his compatriots sc…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 59:20 Why in the world would you want to go back into this? I told him about my discoveries of Menendez and Blanton and the later's cocaine cells in Los Angeles. I wondered if he or anyone had ever reported this. Not that I'm aware of, Perry said…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 59:46 This is definitely a new angle. You think you can show it was being sold in L.A.? Yeah, I do, Gary said. But one of the guys has even testified to it before a grand jury. But this is an area I've never done any reporting on before. So I gue…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:03:32 I had friends in Central America who were killed. There was a Mexican reporter who was looking into one end of this and he wound up dead. So don't pretend that you know. If the Contras were selling drugs in L.A., don't you think people shou…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:06:56 It's a pretty big one. Have you ever heard of someone named Freeway Ricky Ross? Indeed, I had. I'd run across him while researching the asset forfeiture series in 1993. He's one of the biggest crack dealers in LA. That's what they say, Broo…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:07:26 I don't have a lot of the details because the government has been very protective of him. They refuse to give us any discovery so far. But from what I understand, Blanton used to be one of Ricky Ross's sources back in 1980. And I suppose he…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:30:37 And they had their fingers in all sorts of stuff out here, even the creation of the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach. So even the Black Dahlia, that whole story, I don't know if you all know anything about that story. There's theory that h…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:30:37 And they had their fingers in all sorts of stuff out here, even the creation of the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach. So even the Black Dahlia, that whole story, I don't know if you all know anything about that story. There's theory that h…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:32:02 That's for a reason. But I really appreciate you and Warhamster doing the job that you guys are doing. Thanks. Thank you. All along, go ahead. Yeah, picking up on the stuff about Los Angeles journalism, if that's not actually worn on by now…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:32:34 All cities are going to involve, like, dominant, you know, media families and whatnot. But because Los Angeles grew so fast from almost nothing, especially starting in 1915, literally, that those connections might be fewer and just more, yo…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:33:30 was assassinated by the CIA, the same organization that New York Senator Chuck Schumer covers up for and protects them from the population six ways from Sunday. That one. So when that happens, big media and a city like Los Angeles is going …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:34:02 The CIA's relationship with the cops is strongest in Chicago and Los Angeles. Surprise, surprise. So it's just like that understanding of Los Angeles unique relationship with CIA is really important to remember. Well, it's not a coincidence…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:37:53 not real bodies of which people are around the table that there's some type of you know either pastry or whatever but they're literally looking like they're eating people very satanic in nature and that is all of LA that connects to all of …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:43:21 regarding the sort of intelligence-run mysticism and magic and whatnot. That in mind, I was reading kind of like a not very good biography of L. Ron Hubbard. And it's not like it was useless. It was pretty good chronologically. But one of t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:43:50 that seemed to be a pretty significant point in L. Ron Hubbard's career was when he stayed in Los Angeles at this kind of house that was set up by a kind of Los Angeles follower of Alistair Crowley, or what's his perverted name over there? …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:44:17 It seems to have had a significant impact on him. And if you think about it, think about what the OSSCI has just coming out of World War II, a period of intense, on all sides, intense research and psychological warfare. That's where C.D. Ja…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:44:46 entertainment journalism and political journalism overlap, I think that it would make good institutional sense for OSSCIA to establish some sort of centralized control over what would later seem completely arbitrary, totally weird shit, as …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1
▶ 1:45:46 I mean, yeah, we know about that in Hollywood also, but I guess I wasn't clear enough specifically about the sort of kind of so-called occult linkage to intelligence and centralizing that and how it would make sense to do that in Los Angele…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2
▶ 33:42 Siegel, who'd been researching cocaine use in the L.A. area since the 1970s, was a well-known drug expert and had something of a media darling. He had become something of a media darling, already with a good quote for reporters wanting an i…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2
▶ 34:03 Siegel had started a pioneering research project in 1975 by taking out newspaper ads seeking long-term cocaine users. L.A. being L.A., he got plenty of responses. He selected 99 cocaine users, mostly young males, and proposed keeping in tou…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2
▶ 35:53 which was given a choice between smoking lettuce or cocaine, clearly preferred Coke. So when Siegel read Jerry's report about cocaine smoking epidemic in South America, he realized the Peruvians was wrong about one thing. The habit wasn't c…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2
▶ 46:17 They wanted me to do a scientific paper about cocaine smoking, but not to tell anyone how it was done. I tried to explain that people already knew how it was done. That's why there was a problem. In 1982, Raul Jerry came to the United State…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 17:27 meant that Menendez could have led the police and the press to Daniello Blanton's Blooming Enterprise in South Central Los Angeles. Blanton was dumping a small mountain of cocaine into L.A.'s black neighborhoods every week, as well as provi…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 18:26 in 1984 and awarded his political asylum request and gave him a green card. Now, again, everybody involved in this knows what's going on. Border, Customs, DEA, everybody. He's not blacked. Nothing. They give him a green card for piling coca…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 19:56 I have some 300 DEA reports regarding Mr. Blanton, and the reports relate to activities between approximately 1981 and May of 92. In early 1984, while Blanton's asylum application was under review at State Department, the DEA learned from a…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 25:31 He was the chief supplier to the largest minority owned business in the area. Again, it was drugs. So when Blanton basically didn't want to be making the trips out to South Central and he really didn't want Ricky hanging around his house an…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 27:40 The lot paid taxes on the $4,000 at a cheaper rate than what you could have paid for laundering money through a bank. And suddenly, the $2,000 in drug profits had a legitimate pedigree. Now that Danilo was a suburbanite with businesses to r…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 31:11 Ross had other players who came around, usually offering him deals, but no one could meet Blanton's prices. A new supplier could turn out to be a fly-by-night or a snitch. Daniello, on the other hand, was his friend, his protector. Ricky Ro…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 41:04 on many occasions. If Ricky Ross was going through 150 kilos of cocaine every week, and as Ross said, the figure is a reasonable average. It means he was selling enough to put a staggering 3 million doses of crack on LA streets every seven …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 41:31 about $6 million a week in cash from the profits of the young dealer. Sometimes we'd spend $4 million or $5 million in a week with the guy, Blanton said. Blanton said that Ross was using an apartment in South Central as a counting house whe…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 42:28 Blanton agreed that Ross was being diluted with cash. Those times they were using two and three machines and they were counting day and night. To hide it all, Ross followed Blanton's advice and started investing in real estate, buying house…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 42:58 There was so much cash and so much crack flying around South Central that even the mainstream media had started to notice. On November 25, 1984, one day before the DEA arrested Herrero Menendez and Rialto Pena in San Francisco, the first st…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 43:30 stations, the reporter said several of them mentioned this flood of cocaine that they were seeing in the ghetto areas. He hit the streets, knocked on some doors, and confirmed what the officers told me, and then some. There was, he discover…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 43:56 And no one except the neighborhood newspapers had written a single word about it. A headline, South Central Cocaine Cells Explode into $25 Rocks, was his title of his article. Police say hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young men, most of th…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 44:24 The reporter described the rock house phenomenon and the multitude of street corner deals. He quoted police as saying that they were several hundred rock houses in South Central Los Angeles at the time. His story accurately predicted that t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 44:51 but it was enough to prompt an embarrassed LAPD to launch raids on several dozen rock houses shortly afterwards, with tragic results. On December 13th, a diversionary explosion, the cops set off during a raid on West 60th Street. Rock house…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 47:14 which is totally bizarre. It would be another year before the East Coast papers would begin reporting on crack. This timing coincided with the drug's belated arrival in New York City. Crack first came to the attention in the New York field …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 48:14 The original reporter, Ferrello's story, also prompted the first scientific look at the early L.A. crack market. It was done by USC sociologist Markham Klein and Cheryl Maxson in early 85. Their preliminary findings, published in a small re…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 48:43 in large part because of the proliferation of cocaine rocks and rock houses, with certain refinements constitutes a new technology and organization for cocaine distribution. The study said that estimates on the number of rock houses in Sout…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 49:13 but could be as many as a thousand. Some rock houses were even being franchised, they found. Gang involvement is connected to every part of the distribution network. One thing they were unable to explain was why crack was found only in LA b…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10
▶ 49:40 Cocaine is found widely in the black community in Los Angeles, but it is almost totally absent from the Hispanic area. The explanation for this seemed obvious once Danilo Blanton's Rick Ross partnership is factored in. There was no market u…
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▶ 50:08 The sociologist said the distribution system seemed custom made for black gang centers like Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Chicago. They also said there is absolutely nothing inherent in this distribution technology, nor in the Los Ang…
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▶ 51:58 Then the sociologist said the U.S. General Accounting Office in a 1989 report echoed the conclusion, quote, in the early 1980s, the gangs began selling crack cocaine without within a matter of years. The lucrative crack market changed black…
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▶ 52:29 The higher profits, coupled with the increased pressure from local police, have prompted the Los Angeles gangs to extend their territory far beyond the neighborhood. Within the past three to four years, members of the Crips and Bloods have …
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▶ 52:58 Arizona, Virginia, and Maryland. The GAO report noted that Washington, D.C. crack ring in 1989 was distributing 440 pounds of cocaine every week, which illustrates the nationwide impact of the Los Angeles crack explosion. Much of the cocain…
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▶ 53:28 from Los Angeles. The report included a map of the United States showing ominous black errors emanating from LA and stretching as far east as New York City. All of the cities where crack had been found, Miami for some reason, wasn't among t…
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▶ 55:01 Freeway Rick was a dealer's dealer. By the time the market exploded in 1984, Ross already was dealing directly with the Colombian cartels who supplied him from 50 to 100 kilos a day. Los Angeles Times stated in 1994, with that, Ross was abl…
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▶ 1:21:40 This is the passion of mine because you're talking about basically L.A. and this is home for me. So this whole thing really, really resonates with me, this whole topic of the Gary Webb thing. And they're right. South Central Los Angeles was…
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▶ 1:21:58 And when L.A. was really growing at first, back in the 30s, South Central was the premier place. That was it. Everybody wanted to be there. And when World War II started, we had the great migration of a lot of the black people from the sout…
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▶ 35:28 for a variety of police agencies. In May of 1992, the FBI, DEA, IRS, and the Los Angeles Police Department sat the Torreses down in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles and grilled them about Menendez and Danielle O'Blanton. Menendez w…
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▶ 37:01 their own estimates dramatically. According to a 1996 LA Sheriff's report, the two brothers told police they heard that Blanton sold 10,000 kilos of cocaine mostly to South Central Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area during a two-yea…
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▶ 37:30 Daniela Blanton was the biggest dealer in L.A. for about two years, the Torres brothers said. The U.S. officials were even more generous in their appraisal. Mr. Blanton is considered to be the largest Nicaraguan cocaine dealer in the United…
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▶ 37:58 O'Neill had been monitoring the activities of Blanton and his associates since the 1980s. The other guy by the name of Jones, Charles Jones, he was a DEA case agent, said they had been watching Blanton since the 90s. Becoming the biggest de…
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▶ 1:00:31 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…
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▶ 33:34 On the morning of February 1985, a white T-39 Sabre Liner jet took off from John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, with Garola and three other men, Cuban Americans, aboard. It stopped briefly in Kingsville, Texas, to refuel. It wa…
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▶ 34:03 of U.S. Custom Service agents welding search arrests, search warrants. The agents had been tracking the men since the month before when they were spotted in the same plane leaving Orange County for Florida. In mid-flight, they had suspiciou…
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▶ 37:26 identified him as a special advisor to the Salvadoran Assembly. He was also carrying credentials from the Salvadoran Attorney General's office. Since Garola was using an Orange County airport as his departure point, it is possible that the …
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▶ 1:10:39 As I've been harping for the last several days, having found out that this judge up in Oregon was in the drug task force in Los Angeles in the 80s when all of this stuff was going on, her entire office refused to bring charges, no matter ho…
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▶ 20:14 At the same time the contra drug pipeline in El Salvador was being hastily covered back up, police officers thousands of miles away in L.A. was starting to pry the cover off of it again. As one of them sadly remarked 10 years later, they ha…
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▶ 22:16 And he was a one man investigation stop that had impressive results. In November of 1985, he'd been the subject of a glowing piece in the L.A. Times for his work in taking down a large Colombian trafficking ring. Some of his fellow officers…
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▶ 25:53 as much as a million dollars in the bank, Guzetta said. The federal agents approached Guzetta and asked him if he wouldn't mind helping because one of the banks was in the city of Vell. Guzetta began talking to the depositors, which was eas…