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Claims (19)
Enrique Miranda Jamie spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“And he confirmed that Miranda was the person who was sending guns to the El Salvadoran death squads. He also confirmed that Miranda sold himself to the CIA and provided the agency with intelligence on Sandinista leaders. The CIA refused to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 36:51
CIA recruited
Enrique Miranda Jamie host_asserted
“That would prove to be his undoing. A slippery character who was a lifelong Sandinista, Enrique Miranda, had been a paid CIA informant between 84 and 85, spying on his comrades and peeking into shipping crates to keep the agency apprised of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 34:33
Enrique Miranda Jamie member_of
Bureau of Special Operations host_asserted
“He says that he was one of two CIA operatives working inside the Sandinista Ministry of Interior in a super secret dirty tricks unit called the Bureau of Special Operations, which was funded by the CIA. In addition to having extensive polit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 35:00
Enrique Miranda Jamie supplied_arms_to
El Salvadoran death squads host_asserted
“And he confirmed that Miranda was the person who was sending guns to the El Salvadoran death squads. He also confirmed that Miranda sold himself to the CIA and provided the agency with intelligence on Sandinista leaders. The CIA refused to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 36:51
Norwin Menendez recruited
Enrique Miranda Jamie host_asserted
“And he confirmed that Miranda was the person who was sending guns to the El Salvadoran death squads. He also confirmed that Miranda sold himself to the CIA and provided the agency with intelligence on Sandinista leaders. The CIA refused to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 36:51
Enrique Miranda Jamie trafficked
Norwin Menendez host_asserted
“to serve as his emissary to the Colombians, primarily the cartel of Bogota. Posing as Norwin's nephew, Miranda said he arranged drug shipments, plotted the routes, and handed the cash deliveries back and forth. While Menendez negotiated pri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 37:20
Norwin Menendez financed_via
Enrique Miranda Jamie host_asserted
“to serve as his emissary to the Colombians, primarily the cartel of Bogota. Posing as Norwin's nephew, Miranda said he arranged drug shipments, plotted the routes, and handed the cash deliveries back and forth. While Menendez negotiated pri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 37:20
Enrique Miranda Jamie trafficked
Ibis Hernandez host_asserted
“She was part of a special guard running the revolution that attacked the National Guard building. They were the worst missions, suicidal ones, but she could fight. I think every man who met her fell in love with her. Certainly, Miranda had.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:02:52
Roger Mayorga spied_on
Enrique Miranda Jamie host_asserted
“Miranda was a different story. Mayorga dropped by Ivis's house and asked her mother, who knew nothing about their arrest, if he could talk to Ivis. Her daughter, she said, was in Mexico receiving medical treatment at the suggestion of her b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:03:50
Enrique Miranda Jamie trafficked
Frank Virgil host_asserted
“He was very nervous and denied everything. At that point, I decided to focus our investigation on him. Miranda unwittingly led the police to Frank Virgil, the former advertising man who allegedly dealt cocaine with Blanton in Los Angeles in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:04:17
Norwin Menendez recruited
Enrique Miranda Jamie documented
“Even though the Sandinistas were no longer running the government, they still controlled the country's military and national police. If they caught him dealing cocaine, he would be at the mercy of his old enemies. To cover his bets, Norwin …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 34:03
Enrique Miranda Jamie ordered_assassination_of
Norwin Menendez book_quoted
“having been moved to a prison in the city of Granada after Menendez hired someone to kill him. He had already had put in a request at the Nicaraguan Ministry of Interior to arrange an interview, George said. I think we can speak to both of …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 24:58
U.S. State Department covered_up
Enrique Miranda Jamie book_quoted
“Though Miranda had been in the State Department's computer as a convicted drug trafficker in 1992 and was ineligible for any visa, the State Department claimed two simultaneous computer failures that day resulted in him quote-unquote errone…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 27:45
Enrique Miranda Jamie member_of
Contras book_quoted
“been among the founders of the Contras. And he said Menendez's chief aide, Enrique Miranda, had admitted at trial that Menendez sold cocaine for the Contras, flying it out of the airbase in El Salvador into military airfields in Texas. In s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 23:59
Enrique Miranda Jamie member_of
Ron Lister guest_asserted
“A week later, George called with more good news. Enrique Miranda, the former Menendez aide who had escaped a year earlier, had been found in Miami and tossed on a plane to Nicaragua. George had visited him in prison. Miranda started talking…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:04:52
Enrique Miranda Jamie spied_on
CIA guest_asserted
“A week later, George called with more good news. Enrique Miranda, the former Menendez aide who had escaped a year earlier, had been found in Miami and tossed on a plane to Nicaragua. George had visited him in prison. Miranda started talking…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:04:52
Enrique Miranda Jamie member_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“That would prove to be his undoing. A slippery character who was a lifelong Sandinista, Enrique Miranda, had been a paid CIA informant between 84 and 85, spying on his comrades and peeking into shipping crates to keep the agency apprised of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 34:33
Enrique Miranda Jamie carried_out_attack
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Sandinista arms from Panama to revolutionary groups throughout Central America, and that he had helped the Sandinistas design a sting of secret arms caches in and around Managua, which basically amounted to CIA stay-behind units. They had s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 35:31
Norwin Menendez paid
Enrique Miranda Jamie documented
“Miranda was given a seven-year sentence. A few days after the trial, Nicaraguan prison authorities reported that Menendez had paid a deranged inmate $10,000 to knife Miranda in revenge for his damning testimony. Menendez denied it, but Mira…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:27:08
Mentions (43)
▶ 1:25:59
I think 1,000 kilo shipments were not unheard of that scale because all of a sudden they seem to have unlimited sources of supply. According to former Menendez aide Enrique Miranda, Menendez drug-laden airplanes were flying out of military …
▶ 45:46
The official alarm was easily understood. Not only was someone like Carlos Armador strolling freely in and out of CIA-run hangars, but there was a host of other contra-traffickers milling around, including none other than Norwin Menendez, E…
▶ 46:14
to the cartels of Colombia in the late 1980s, testified in 1992 that during the Nicaraguan trial, which we'll talk about later, that Norwin was selling drugs and funneling the benefits to the Contras with help from high-ranking military off…
▶ 48:13
and then redirected to the United States. Many of them were sent to United States Air Force bases in Texas. In interviews, Miranda and the former Nicaraguan anti-drug czar, Roger Mayorga, who arrested Miranda, said that the U.S. Air Base wa…
▶ 49:20
We deactivated Carswell as an active duty base and changed it to a reserve base. And therefore, we just destroyed all the records. Miranda, a former Sandinistan intelligence officer who became a double agent for the CIA during the Contra Wa…
▶ 49:47
from Colombia by the cartel pilots arrived in Costa Rica in square 25 kilo packages. It was unloaded at various airstrips, including one located on the CIA operative John Hall's farm in northern Costa Rica, where it was placed on Contra pla…
▶ 50:15
Once it had arrived at the Salvadoran base, Miranda said, Aguardo and Menendez supervised the loading of the cocaine onto U.S.-bound aircraft owned by the Salvadoran Air Force and, on occasion, Miami-based CIA contractor Southern Air Transp…
▶ 51:19
and money, according to a DEA report. Southern Air, of course, was owned by the CIA. Miranda testified that he met CIA pilot Aguardo for dinner at Menendez's mansion in Managua in 1991, where Aguardo regaled them with tales of flying for th…
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from the Salvadoran military to the Colombian cartel. A story Miranda said he doubted until a Salvadoran Air Force colonel and his associates were arrested in 1992 for selling bombs and explosives to the Colombian drug cartels. Miranda said…
▶ 34:03
Even though the Sandinistas were no longer running the government, they still controlled the country's military and national police. If they caught him dealing cocaine, he would be at the mercy of his old enemies. To cover his bets, Norwin …
▶ 34:33
That would prove to be his undoing. A slippery character who was a lifelong Sandinista, Enrique Miranda, had been a paid CIA informant between 84 and 85, spying on his comrades and peeking into shipping crates to keep the agency apprised of…
▶ 35:00
He says that he was one of two CIA operatives working inside the Sandinista Ministry of Interior in a super secret dirty tricks unit called the Bureau of Special Operations, which was funded by the CIA. In addition to having extensive polit…
▶ 35:31
Sandinista arms from Panama to revolutionary groups throughout Central America, and that he had helped the Sandinistas design a sting of secret arms caches in and around Managua, which basically amounted to CIA stay-behind units. They had s…
▶ 36:22
Not only did he know most of the smuggling routes through the country, but had places to hide cocaine for the people who wanted to traffic it. In interviews with Nicaraguan police in 1991, Menendez corroborated many of the details of Mirand…
▶ 36:51
And he confirmed that Miranda was the person who was sending guns to the El Salvadoran death squads. He also confirmed that Miranda sold himself to the CIA and provided the agency with intelligence on Sandinista leaders. The CIA refused to …
▶ 37:20
to serve as his emissary to the Colombians, primarily the cartel of Bogota. Posing as Norwin's nephew, Miranda said he arranged drug shipments, plotted the routes, and handed the cash deliveries back and forth. While Menendez negotiated pri…
▶ 37:49
arranged for the cocaine transportation from Nicaragua to the United States. Most of the cocaine they were shipping, Miranda said, was being sold in Los Angeles through Menendez's brother, Luis Enrique, who was later convicted in Nicaragua …
▶ 1:02:52
She was part of a special guard running the revolution that attacked the National Guard building. They were the worst missions, suicidal ones, but she could fight. I think every man who met her fell in love with her. Certainly, Miranda had.…
▶ 1:03:50
Miranda was a different story. Mayorga dropped by Ivis's house and asked her mother, who knew nothing about their arrest, if he could talk to Ivis. Her daughter, she said, was in Mexico receiving medical treatment at the suggestion of her b…
▶ 1:04:17
He was very nervous and denied everything. At that point, I decided to focus our investigation on him. Miranda unwittingly led the police to Frank Virgil, the former advertising man who allegedly dealt cocaine with Blanton in Los Angeles in…
▶ 1:05:47
You're not going to believe this. Plan to operate fishing boats to export seafood to Taiwan. Nothing screams drug trafficking like fishing boats, especially going to Taiwan. Miranda was also seen making trips to a hotel in the hills overloo…
▶ 1:06:44
of Norwin Menendez. The Chamorro government had recently returned it to Norwin Menendez. That's crazy. Mayorga surmised that Miranda was working for Menendez and Frank Virgil and that he suspected they were plotting to use the fishing compa…
▶ 1:10:46
Norwin's engineers in the act of welding cocaine filled PVC pipes into the frames of an auto transport trailer. A couple of Mercedes were already in the process of being altered to include 130 kilos of cocaine. In the bedroom of Miranda's m…
▶ 1:12:28
In an interview, he denied knowing how Menendez would be using the trailer, although Miranda said that he was present when Aguardo and Menendez discussed using it to traffic drugs. Menendez's drug bust was major news in Central America. It …
▶ 1:18:15
with Menendez, and they were going to set up the police department and the national police as accomplices in drug trafficking to rid the new Nicaraguan government of the holdovers from the Sandinista government. That's crazy shit. So, armed…
▶ 1:18:41
He reminded him of his earlier denials regarding his girlfriend and Miranda admitted having abused his relationship with her. He then asked me why the police had stopped her. How did they find out? It was your boss, Mayorga said. Norwin, he…
▶ 1:19:06
Miranda repaid it in kind. He started talking. He used Norwin's cooperation with the DEA to get Miranda to cooperate with us. Combining the information provided by Miranda, Valerio, and Menendez, the Nicaraguan police pieced together a pict…
▶ 1:21:23
Both the State Department and the Department of Defense, the CIA report revealed, were monitoring Menendez's movements at the time. Those reports included reference to a trip to Colombia by Menendez and Miranda in September 91 and to the gr…
▶ 1:23:16
Had Menendez been successful, the Sandinistas would have loudly been denounced as drug dealers by the Bush administration, which already had a history of invading Latin American countries ran by people they didn't like. At Norwin's trial in…
▶ 1:23:37
Explaining Norwin's relationship with the DEA, the Contras, the drug flights from El Salvador to Texas, the meetings with CIA pilot Aguardo and CIA agent Enrique Bermudez, the FDN's former military commander, meaning the Contras. Quote, Nor…
▶ 1:27:08
Miranda was given a seven-year sentence. A few days after the trial, Nicaraguan prison authorities reported that Menendez had paid a deranged inmate $10,000 to knife Miranda in revenge for his damning testimony. Menendez denied it, but Mira…
▶ 23:59
been among the founders of the Contras. And he said Menendez's chief aide, Enrique Miranda, had admitted at trial that Menendez sold cocaine for the Contras, flying it out of the airbase in El Salvador into military airfields in Texas. In s…
▶ 24:28
It was part of his defense that the Sandinistas persecuted him because of his work for the Contras. I told him my conversation with the DEA and suggested that we might want to get Menendez quickly before someone else did. He agreed and told…
▶ 24:58
having been moved to a prison in the city of Granada after Menendez hired someone to kill him. He had already had put in a request at the Nicaraguan Ministry of Interior to arrange an interview, George said. I think we can speak to both of …
▶ 25:27
Had been running interference for Gary with the other editors until I got somewhat nailed down all of this information. But it seems pretty solid. We need to get to Menendez before the DEA does. So if you want to go ahead and set up intervi…
▶ 25:57
He waited a week, then hopped in his car and drove to the prison where Miranda was being held. A nervous prison official informed him that Miranda was not available. Why not, George asked. Well, the official stammered out, unfortunately, he…
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Because Miranda had been a model inmate and was almost at the end of his sentence. So does anybody believe he escaped with a death warrant on his head? Astounded, George drove to the police station to see how the manhunt for the notorious t…
▶ 26:57
George's discovery was front page news in all of Managua's papers. An official investigation was launched. He supposedly escaped the same day I made the interview request, George said. My sources tell me he's in Miami and they say the DEA i…
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George's sources would later prove to have been well informed. Miranda was captured a little over a year later in December 1996 in Miami, where he was living with his wife. It emerged that he had gained entry with the help of a visa from th…
▶ 27:45
Though Miranda had been in the State Department's computer as a convicted drug trafficker in 1992 and was ineligible for any visa, the State Department claimed two simultaneous computer failures that day resulted in him quote-unquote errone…
▶ 28:12
put on the DEA's payroll as an informant soon after he got to Miami and was sent to Central and South America to do casework for the DEA. The DEA never bothered to inform the Nicaraguan authorities that it was harboring their fugitive. But …
▶ 1:04:52
A week later, George called with more good news. Enrique Miranda, the former Menendez aide who had escaped a year earlier, had been found in Miami and tossed on a plane to Nicaragua. George had visited him in prison. Miranda started talking…
▶ 1:05:21
I could have kissed him, Gary Webb said. In January of 1997, I sent first drafts of four follow-up stories to Dawn, written as a two-day series. The first part dealt with Menendez's DEA connections and his Costa Rican operation, along with …