Chi Chi Quintero person
also: Quintero, Quantero, Q-U-I-N-T-E-R-O, T.P. Quintero
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Claims (10)
Edwin Wilson paid
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“From Geneva, I called Clines. He didn't know anyone to teach explosive ordnance disposal. I contacted Quintero and Clines contacted Quintero as well. And he said that he could get two others to make arrangements. I arranged the financing. I…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 30:32
Carl Elmer Jenkins recruited
Chi Chi Quintero host_asserted
“Helicopters Guatemala instructed him to transport a helicopter owned by the company from New Orleans to commercial helicopters facility in Lafayette and then ship it to Guatemala along with an engine belonging to them. Jenkins had other con…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:09:09
Edwin Wilson paid
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“Wilson put Quintero on his payroll and spent over $100,000 on the search for Dianezo Suarez and Vargelio Pablo Paz Suarez, whom Varsala actually had had in custody at one time, had been allowed to be released, and the more dangerous one, Pa…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 30:59
Chi Chi Quintero member_of
United States Intelligence Agency documented
“because they were working for the CIA. Wilson continued, quote, Quintero was working for Army Intelligence at the time, so all the time I'm sending him this information, it's going to Army Intelligence. Now, whether Barcella's getting it or…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 31:56
Chi Chi Quintero spied_on
Edwin Wilson documented
“because they were working for the CIA. Wilson continued, quote, Quintero was working for Army Intelligence at the time, so all the time I'm sending him this information, it's going to Army Intelligence. Now, whether Barcella's getting it or…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 31:56
Chi Chi Quintero recruited
Rafael Villaverde book_quoted
“Ilik Ramirez Sanchez, who was better known as Carlos the Jackal. Two weeks later, Quintero was again summoned to Wilson's office from Miami. Wilson gave Quintero $30,000 in expense money and told Quintero to plan on meeting him in Europe wi…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 34:04
Edwin Wilson paid
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“Ilik Ramirez Sanchez, who was better known as Carlos the Jackal. Two weeks later, Quintero was again summoned to Wilson's office from Miami. Wilson gave Quintero $30,000 in expense money and told Quintero to plan on meeting him in Europe wi…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 34:04
Edwin Wilson recruited
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“Chichi Quintero. Chichi Quintero, Q-U-I-N-T-E-R-O. Wilson hired Quintero for the Navy at a $600 a month retainer. And this is a quote from Quintero. I had run operations in South America and Mexico. And then Wilson goes on to say that he ha…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 12:32
Edwin Wilson recruited
Chi Chi Quintero book_quoted
“In August of 1976, he had also called T.T. Quintero and asked him to come to Washington to meet with a friend concerning a business proposition. That friend was Frank Turple. The meeting took place in a parking lot near Washington National …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 33:01
Shirley Brill spied_on
Chi Chi Quintero host_asserted
“Office of Origin, Alexandria. Like Itzko, that case involving the documents Shirley Brill watched Clines and Chi Chi Quintero cut the classification codes off of all of the documentation would never be prosecuted. Wilson said, quote, there'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 39:10
Mentions (37)
▶ 12:32
Chichi Quintero. Chichi Quintero, Q-U-I-N-T-E-R-O. Wilson hired Quintero for the Navy at a $600 a month retainer. And this is a quote from Quintero. I had run operations in South America and Mexico. And then Wilson goes on to say that he ha…
▶ 13:05
and offered the Navy access to Cuba through Quintero. They were delighted. After three or four weeks, we had a man reporting from Havana Harbor on what was going on and who was doing it. Wilson reactivated another one of his agents from the…
▶ 14:38
that they basically own the Mexican president and they're conducting operations out of the Mexican president's version of the White House, where he actually lives. The information Chavez collected dovetailed into the information Quintero wa…
▶ 15:04
Once I set up operations, the Navy was still afraid I might hand all the information directly to the CIA and not them. So they were trying to compartmentalize the operation, Wilson said. The Navy's fears were well-founded, but the idea that…
▶ 15:34
basically developed his entire career. Thanks to Quintero, Clines, and Shackley, they were dining out on Wilson's and the Navy's efforts, giving Wilson little or no credit. In 1973, Clines also brought Cuban exile Felix Rodriguez to Wilson'…
▶ 16:04
that he now feared for his security. Wilson had not heard great reports about Rodriguez from Quintero. Quintero had worked with Felix Rodriguez on both Operation Mongoose and on the Phoenix program in Vietnam, but he still thought Tom Cline…
▶ 23:06
was using those names in order to set him up absolutely as possible. Clines persuaded Wilson to keep using anti-Castro Cubans in his operation, or as we call them, the Cuban gladiote. Some, like Chi-Chi Quintero and Ricardo Morales, were me…
▶ 30:32
From Geneva, I called Clines. He didn't know anyone to teach explosive ordnance disposal. I contacted Quintero and Clines contacted Quintero as well. And he said that he could get two others to make arrangements. I arranged the financing. I…
▶ 33:01
In August of 1976, he had also called T.T. Quintero and asked him to come to Washington to meet with a friend concerning a business proposition. That friend was Frank Turple. The meeting took place in a parking lot near Washington National …
▶ 33:31
Turple said that the target was among these men and that Quintero and whoever he hired would be paid $1 million for the assassination. Quintero would later tell the FBI that he agreed to handle the hit because he trusted Wilson and assumed …
▶ 34:04
Ilik Ramirez Sanchez, who was better known as Carlos the Jackal. Two weeks later, Quintero was again summoned to Wilson's office from Miami. Wilson gave Quintero $30,000 in expense money and told Quintero to plan on meeting him in Europe wi…
▶ 35:01
were waiting for the Cubans in a room at the Mediterranean Hotel. Wilson said almost nothing during the first meeting. Turple was angry when he found out that Rayol was not yet there. But Quintero assured him that he would be there. That ni…
▶ 35:31
Turple told the Cubans that they had to leave immediately for Egypt to do the killing. Quintero said he would not rush the hit. He would do it only after he had carefully worked out a plan. Quintero later told the FBI that Wilson agreed wit…
▶ 36:00
who would be very tough. The meeting turned even nastier when he told Turple that unless the assassination was done his way, there would be no assassination. He also warned Turple that if he and the Veliverdes did not return safely to the U…
▶ 37:01
Turple bragged if they wanted to make extra money, Gaddafi wanted a guy that was over in Egypt called Mahachi, M-A-H-A-S-H-I. He might even want him killed if Turple wanted the deal. I said, quote, listen, knock off all this crazy talk and …
▶ 38:01
Later that night, Quintero finally managed to get Wilson alone. Wilson told him that the CIA was not involved in either proposal, that it was all a matter of money. Quintero told Wilson that he would try to persuade the Veliverde brothers t…
▶ 38:28
He said that the Velaverde brothers had already gone back to the States and that they didn't want any part of Libya. Quintero went back to the United States as well to cover his rear because he already was a coward. He went to Clines to dis…
▶ 38:59
It was all turple. The piece of paper was given to Clines. Clines gave it to Shackley. Shackley put it in a record. CIA records indicate that on the day of the Latier bombing, September 21st, 1976, Clines wrote a memorandum about Wilson's a…
▶ 39:27
Quintero claimed that he came to Washington on September 29th to return the remaining expense money to Wilson. It was the beginning of Wilson's long fall. The Bellagherde brothers went to the Justice Department after the Latier killings and…
▶ 31:20
but that he regularly asked her about classified documents. For years, she said, I would watch Klein operate outside the law on the instructions of Shackley and get away with it. Chi Chi Quintero, who lived in Miami with his family, was a f…
▶ 35:17
Secord had for years denied anything other than operational relationship with Ed Wilson. Brill contradicts Secord's version of events. She led the FBI to evidence that Wilson bought the airplane, a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, worth severa…
▶ 39:44
After the Velaverde brothers and Quintero refused to come to Libya, they had to find a way to get Douglas Slatter and John Harper Jr. released. The Libyans had already put up $300,000 for their explosive school, and they were keeping Slatte…
▶ 34:51
H-A-K-I-M, whom she did not like. That is how she learned that Hakeem, Shackley, and Clines were doing business together long before the Iran-Contra affair. Brill described Clines' relationship with Secord and Quintero as being like blood b…
▶ 36:20
The trips, at least once a month, to Miami began in 1976 on commercial airliners. After Wilson bought the plane for Secord, Secord would fly Brill, Clines, and Quintero down for visits to Key Biscayne, condo of one of the most powerful Cuba…
▶ 44:25
Klein and Shackley were still just hanging on, but a lot of people within the CIA wanted to help because they knew that the Sandinistas were the bad guys. In fact, Wilson's notable description of the motive for helping Somoza was only a fra…
▶ 51:24
that that's exactly what the CIA and Wilson had been doing for the Savak in Iran, that they were running basically a covert intelligence operation feeding intelligence to Iran for decades. Wilson suggested that T.P. Quintero, whom Somoza ha…
▶ 16:48
Just let me go ahead and tell you that. The people funding that assassination school was the CIA, but they're not going to tell you that in a book with material from the CIA. Wilson was sending both Chi-Chi Quintero, Miami's post office bos…
▶ 30:04
and that was to try to appease Larry Barcella. He tried to give him something he desired even more than Wilson's arrest. Wilson rightly concluded from conversations with Chi Chi Quintero that Barcella wanted the most, what he wanted most wa…
▶ 30:34
that had a bomb put in his car by who? The CIA. Wilson also had a personal reason to try to find the two fugitives. If they were found and convicted, that might stop the rumors planted by Shackley that Wilson himself was behind the murders.…
▶ 30:59
Wilson put Quintero on his payroll and spent over $100,000 on the search for Dianezo Suarez and Vargelio Pablo Paz Suarez, whom Varsala actually had had in custody at one time, had been allowed to be released, and the more dangerous one, Pa…
▶ 31:56
because they were working for the CIA. Wilson continued, quote, Quintero was working for Army Intelligence at the time, so all the time I'm sending him this information, it's going to Army Intelligence. Now, whether Barcella's getting it or…
▶ 32:23
and for the Army intelligence, but also that he was reporting to his Army intelligence, hold on, reporting to his Army intelligence control everything that he was told by Wilson. That material, in turn, was being disseminated to Shackley an…
▶ 1:09:09
Helicopters Guatemala instructed him to transport a helicopter owned by the company from New Orleans to commercial helicopters facility in Lafayette and then ship it to Guatemala along with an engine belonging to them. Jenkins had other con…
▶ 1:09:38
after which Tom Clines became Quintero's case officer. Shackley and Clines boss and headed up the CIA's Miami station after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He was also involved in the CIA's use of mafia to try to assassinate Castro. Jenkins also …
▶ 1:10:44
Set up by Edwin Wilson and Klein's and employing Quintero and Shackley to sell oil drilling equipment to PIMEX. That's George Bush. George Bush was involved in PIMEX, which is the Mexican oil company. Ross said that he had never heard of AP…
▶ 1:09:32
openings that the Carter administration and the Hashimis were trying to make with the new Iranian government. Years later, Greg denied that he had any contact with any of them. He did not deny that he had contact with his old boss, Ted Shac…
▶ 39:10
Office of Origin, Alexandria. Like Itzko, that case involving the documents Shirley Brill watched Clines and Chi Chi Quintero cut the classification codes off of all of the documentation would never be prosecuted. Wilson said, quote, there'…