Adolfo Calero person
also: Calero, Aldolfo Calero, FDN leader, Adolfo Calera, Aldopo Calara, Calera
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Claims (11)
Esther Morales front_for
Adolfo Calero book_quoted
“I don't know why the author didn't include the name of it. The money was in the name of Esther Morales, wife of a lawyer friend of Aldolfo Calero, and went to the FDN account at the CIA front bank. In June came a crucial set of discussions …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 9:20
Adolfo Calero funded
Contras book_quoted
“Adolfo Calero threw himself into fundraising. Cuban exiles were a major target. Restaurants and community centers in Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, became locales for Calero and others to whip up sentiment for them to write checks. But th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 26:33
Adolfo Calero provided_bridge_financing_for
Contras documented
“with any country in the region at the time, but had repeatedly invested in America's covert action programs. In the summer of 1984, North and Adolfo Calero in his office, when Oliver North asked for a bank account where money for the Contra…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 34:01
Norwin Menendez met_with
Adolfo Calero documented
“During that period, he was having meetings with CIA agent Adolfo Calera, who was part of the Contra meetings that were happening back then with the FDN. He was also driving FDN officials around Los Angeles and holding FDN functions at the T…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 26:13
Aristide Sanchez member_of
Adolfo Calero guest_asserted
“and noted that the FBI made no attempt to stop him, even though he was traveling with an FBI informant. He also told McManus the FBI had tape-recorded conversations between the former ambassador of Nicaragua in Guatemala, Mr. Fernando Sanch…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:00:31
Adolfo Calero headed
Contras documented
“Calero, the political leader of the Contras, and would handle some of the Calero's Caribbean banking activities, i.e. money laundering. By the fall of 1981, the time Blanton says Menendez recruited him to sell dope for the Contras, the DEA …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 37:14
Adolfo Calero headed
FDN documented
“Even the FDN's normally optimistic handlers in Washington began to despair. Reagan's National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane, told the FDN leader, Aldolfo Calero, in January 1985, that maybe it was time to start thinking about cutting b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 13:07
Adolfo Calero member_of
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“His wife's uncle gave him $5,000 to travel to the United States. So Blanton is totally a liar. Like Bermudez, Aristide Sanchez went on the CIA's payroll and began reporting daily to his CIA overseers. Together, Bermudez and Sanchez would be…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 27:06
Adolfo Calero member_of
FDN documented
“to various student and labor organizations under Somoza's government in Nicaragua, something we see in all of these stories. Pay the labor people to not be labor people. In early 1983, the CIA had brought Calera out of Nicaragua and install…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 43:48
CIA recruited
Adolfo Calero documented
“They, Calero had been part of the Chamber of Commerce down there. He also is the guy, remember a long time ago, we talked about this in a former chapter. He's the guy that was the distributorship for Coca-Cola down there. He also, while he …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 42:53
CIA installed
Adolfo Calero documented
“to various student and labor organizations under Somoza's government in Nicaragua, something we see in all of these stories. Pay the labor people to not be labor people. In early 1983, the CIA had brought Calera out of Nicaragua and install…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 43:48
Mentions (55)
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One former Costa Rican contra official, Leonardo Zeledon Rodriguez, told UPI in 1986 that Sanchez was caught in Costa Rica with pillows full of cocaine. Trujillo is a brother-in-law of Adolfo Calero. Both Sanchez and his wife was arrested o…
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What always bothered me about Dennis is that towards the end, I don't know what, he seemed to get disillusioned or disgusted with Calero. Dennis got disillusioned about something Sonequa was heard saying. So, of course, we covered that on F…
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Even the FDN's normally optimistic handlers in Washington began to despair. Reagan's National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane, told the FDN leader, Aldolfo Calero, in January 1985, that maybe it was time to start thinking about cutting b…
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After all the meetings that he had been in with FDN Director Adolfo Calero, Enrique Bermudez, Edgar Chamorro, and Frank Arena, the resultant scandal would likely have wiped out what little Contra support was left in Washington. It would hav…
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And then he would just smile and say, yeah, I did that. As the minutes stretched into hours, Menendez became relaxed and expansive, but he never let his guard down. Every so often, he would tell an obvious lie just to see if they were payin…
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and attorney Carlos Izaca, a son-in-law of General Menendez, the guy that died a long time ago. Acasa was the personal attorney for Calero, who had been a CIA agent before 1979's revolution and would become one of the Contra's political lea…
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During that period, he was having meetings with CIA agent Adolfo Calera, who was part of the Contra meetings that were happening back then with the FDN. He was also driving FDN officials around Los Angeles and holding FDN functions at the T…
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but without disclosing Bermuda's relationship with the CIA. CIA agent Adolfo Calero, whom the Post euphemistically described as someone, quote, who worked closely with the CIA, unquote, also admitted to the Post reporters that he had met wi…
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Supporting evidence, DEA says. The Times reported that a Senate committee investigating reports that Nicaraguan rebels and their American supporters had helped smuggle cocaine into the United States. But DEA officials says they have no evid…
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and noted that the FBI made no attempt to stop him, even though he was traveling with an FBI informant. He also told McManus the FBI had tape-recorded conversations between the former ambassador of Nicaragua in Guatemala, Mr. Fernando Sanch…
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It was determined that Norwin Menendez was a source of the cocaine. One of the men arrested in the DEA operation, Manuel Porro, would end up in Guatemala as a commander of the Legion of September 15. And the CIA would link him repeatedly to…
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Calero, the political leader of the Contras, and would handle some of the Calero's Caribbean banking activities, i.e. money laundering. By the fall of 1981, the time Blanton says Menendez recruited him to sell dope for the Contras, the DEA …
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There was an understanding among them. No one would join the Contra forces down there without my knowledge or approval. Blanton confirmed that, telling the CIA that Menendez's role in the Contra operations in California was basically a pers…
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Adolfo Calero, the former manager of Coca-Cola in Managua. He worked closely with Aristide Sanchez. Oliver North later called Sanchez the Calero's hatchet man. Though the FDN would change and merge with other groups over the years, Bermuda'…
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had been making silencers and sending them to Nicaragua for the revolution. The same informant who reported the Contra leader, Adolfo Calero, the FDN's political boss and longtime CIA agent, was definitely involved in the cocaine traffickin…
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He believed the press was cheerleading for the Sandinistas, and he fired off letter after letter after letter. In late 1983, Sinico said he had gotten a phone call from a man named Aldolfo Calero, head of the political wing of the FDN. Sini…
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We need you to be part of our PR group. Sinico formed a small organization called United Support Against Communism in the Americas. He and his friends held local meetings to publicize the plight of the Contras. Sinico said he had never met …
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They, Calero had been part of the Chamber of Commerce down there. He also is the guy, remember a long time ago, we talked about this in a former chapter. He's the guy that was the distributorship for Coca-Cola down there. He also, while he …
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He was someone the U.S. government had hoped would replace Somoza as president before the Sandinista takeover. According to former FDN director Edgar Chamorro, Calero had been working with the CIA in Nicaragua for a very long time. He serve…
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to various student and labor organizations under Somoza's government in Nicaragua, something we see in all of these stories. Pay the labor people to not be labor people. In early 1983, the CIA had brought Calera out of Nicaragua and install…
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was a familiar face of Nicaraguan rebels in the United States. Calero spoke perfect English. He was a graduate of Notre Dame. Calero and Bermudez were our main links with the CIA, Chamorro declared. They met constantly with the CIA station …
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In 1984, Calero began visiting San Francisco frequently. Ainsworth and Sinico said and would usually stay in their house while he was there doing business. Ainsworth was dismayed at the lack of political sophistication displayed by these gr…
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in America's political system that was helping. So he decided to take it upon himself to help because he had political connections everywhere. He wanted to draw attention to their cause. Why not sponsor a speaking tour and have some contra …
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active in international, quote unquote, anti-communist efforts. Ainsworth began opening doors all over San Francisco and appeared to be able to get us booked anywhere to include the Olympic Club, the Commonwealth Club, all the ritzy places.…
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with several influential business leaders and statewide Republicans. It wasn't really a fundraiser. It was more of a meal and a cocktail party. Afterwards, Calero, Ainsworth, and Sinico, and about 20 others, drove over to an Italian restaur…
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When the bill came, Ainsworth said that it had already been paid. Do you know who paid it? Menendez. Yeah, same guy. At the end of the dinner, they introduced Adolfo Calero and everyone. They had scheduled the next event, which was going to…
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So it says documents he provided was a handwritten note that he said were his talking points for one of the early meetings. Our first time meeting was highly successful, Sinoco had written down. He listed seven successes. The first was that…
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He lived in San Francisco. He didn't go to Nicaragua. Dowling later admitted that he had received $73,000 in cash and traveler's checks from Oliver North, CIA agent Adolfo Calero, and other members of North's operation between 1986 and 87 t…
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Ainsworth said that Pena was so devastated by his arrest and confessed to him his role in the Contra network. Alarmed, Ainsworth began looking into the relationship between FDN and drugs. He made inquiries in the local San Francisco Nicarag…
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and apparently everyone but me knew about it. After I broke with Calero, I found out Calero and Menendez are very good friends. Calero had admitted meeting with Menendez on at least six occasions in San Francisco, but he had portrayed them …
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The FDN board selected a recent exile, Adolfo Calero, as its chairman. Calero was soon known to be the public face of the Contras. Dewey Claridge met the board a month later going to Miami with Gruner and Fernandez in tow. The FDN publicize…
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Negroponte advocated pushing Eden Pastora hard to activate a southern front, raising the visibility of U.S. contacts with Calero, and doing more to gain the confidence of the intelligence committees in Congress, encouraging members to go to…
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Negroponte set up a meeting between the committee and Aldolfo Calero. But when television journalist Peter Collins of ABC News followed the congressional people around town, any possibility of meeting clandestinely disappeared. Ambassador N…
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authorities forced Lau to leave the country in late 1984. National Guard connections remained the Achilles heel of the Contras. Of all of the FDN directorate, Edgar Chamorro was in the best position to know the conditions in the field. Many…
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Hours every day in Europe, the U.S., and Puerto Rico generating funds. You know, talking to the drug dealers like we studied in Gary Webb's book. Calero took the CIA and the exiles as his constituency. Some directors stayed in Miami. Chamor…
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I don't know why the author didn't include the name of it. The money was in the name of Esther Morales, wife of a lawyer friend of Aldolfo Calero, and went to the FDN account at the CIA front bank. In June came a crucial set of discussions …
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never been in a better position. Political Director Adolfo Calero, after defeat of the 14 million paramilitary aid requests, said, quote, I am confident we will pull through this crisis caused by Congress, unquote. So Congress caused the cr…
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With no Contras working from Costa Rica, the Nicaraguan army could focus on Honduran borders. Unfortunately, there were still people working from Costa Rica, mainly the U.S. As the Sandinistas reinforced the north, at the end, columns were …
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Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…
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Adolfo Calero threw himself into fundraising. Cuban exiles were a major target. Restaurants and community centers in Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, became locales for Calero and others to whip up sentiment for them to write checks. But th…
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Rebel spokesperson with Calero's approval promised that within 40 days, the Contras would establish an unbroken front from the Honduran border to Costa Rica. But that kind of money stayed beyond reach. In Washington, the United Nicaraguan O…
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And the CIA front called Gray and Company actually developed their PR campaign. But Calero judged that that was too high of a price, although nothing developed. Gray employee Robert Owen became so dedicated to the cause that he put together…
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with any country in the region at the time, but had repeatedly invested in America's covert action programs. In the summer of 1984, North and Adolfo Calero in his office, when Oliver North asked for a bank account where money for the Contra…
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In July came a deposit of $1 million in UNO's favorite, followed by an equal sum at monthly intervals throughout the year. After the third deposit, Calero began to believe and they began to make plans. Seeing the president of Honduras on Au…
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like the Cuban Missile Crisis, economic sanctions, and airstrikes to destroy Sandinista's capability. But Robert Gates conceded that the hard measures he favored in this paper probably were politically unacceptable. Ya think? Adolfo Calero …
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The Cayman Islands account number he gave North also went to retired General John Singlum and Richard Secord. Singlum had been to Honduras in March, impressed by the FDN camps and their need for modern anti-aircraft weapons. Singlum would h…
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In February of 85 and again later, Reagan called the Contras our brothers. In March, he termed Calero's crew as morally equivalent to the founding fathers. And he declared that we owe them our help. Later, he spoke of a Soviet beachhead in …
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million. Truly, the Saudis at this moment permitted the Contras to maintain their strength. Beyond these connections, private sources helped Calero. A key operator was John Singlum, who now headed the World Anti-Communist League and the Uni…
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Siegleb gave Oliver North a Contra weapons wish list, which the Chanel group used for fundraising. At least John Siegleb had the contacts to bring Adolfo Calero the cheapest weapons and ammunition that could be bought. Langley was aware of …
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Soon after Boland took effect, Fires rejected North's invitation to a meeting with Calero. Bill Casey, however, continued to march to the beat of his own drum. Casey would not discuss the contra aid with friend Joe Kors, but had no hesitati…
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propelled grenades, mortars, and other equipment. The company managed to get Guatemalan end-user certificates and in December of 84 began buying arms in Portugal and Poland. Secord gave Calero the impression that weapons were being sold to …
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future shipments. Uh-huh. Infighting among arms dealers eventually sullied the White House. At a meeting with North, Secord, Singlib, and Calero to discuss anti-aircraft weapons, desperate to get SAMs, Bermudez had a Secord offer of $180,00…
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though he could not offer trainers. The deal went to Secord. When Singlib complained, North conceded that he had better prices, then went ahead and cut Singlib out of future Contra arms deals. Actions prohibited by the Boland Amendment beca…
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Colero wanted to attack El Bluff, an Atlantic port where the gunships arrived and were being assembled. He called North on a secure line on November 5th and asked the NSC aid. In addition to a political strategy for coalition with Alfonso R…
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Calero talked to North about borrowing a T-33 jet from the Honduran Air Force that could hit the port. A single plane strike would have been too limited. And Honduran cooperation was also a factor. So they dropped the plan. Okay, this is a …