Raul Vega person
also: Vega
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Claims (3)
Daniel Blanton trafficked
Raul Vega host_asserted
“He would be three for three. In late December 1991, special LAPD strike force arrested him and two other men on charges of money laundering and conspiracy after they caught him with $14,000 and a small amount of cocaine in his pocket. Blant…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 59:01
Raul Vega recruited
CIA host_asserted
“The guy we've been talking about through the whole last part of this book, Vega. So Vega leased the Hawker jet used for his U.S. government-sanctioned narco-trafficking recruiting missions in Colombia in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was le…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 4:03
Arrow Group Jets front_for
Raul Vega host_asserted
“The guy we've been talking about through the whole last part of this book, Vega. So Vega leased the Hawker jet used for his U.S. government-sanctioned narco-trafficking recruiting missions in Colombia in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was le…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 4:03
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▶ 59:01
He would be three for three. In late December 1991, special LAPD strike force arrested him and two other men on charges of money laundering and conspiracy after they caught him with $14,000 and a small amount of cocaine in his pocket. Blant…
▶ 59:32
who we read about at the beginning of the story. In Vega's apartment, police found $350,000 in cash, a miraculous amount for a man who claimed to be a warehouse worker. Then the LAPD got a call from the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego a…
▶ 38:37
Blandon was unable to unload the cocaine that Menendez kept dumping on him. Torres stated that Blandon and the others only sold a few ounces down in the San Diego area. They gave the rest of the cocaine to a guy by the name of Raul Vega, wh…
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was given to Perea and the FDN logistics officer by the name of Vega, who lived in Honduras. He assumed the money was being used to buy food and clothing for the newly formed Contra Gorillas. So, as you can see, this is crazy. I'm going to …
▶ 4:03
The guy we've been talking about through the whole last part of this book, Vega. So Vega leased the Hawker jet used for his U.S. government-sanctioned narco-trafficking recruiting missions in Colombia in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was le…
▶ 4:36
that had been used for narco-trafficking from its Florida owner, a company called Lone Star Aviation. Smith, through Arrow Group Jets, served only a chartering service for that jet. He didn't hold title to it. However, about a month prior t…
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Jet was essentially stolen out from under him, despite having put a $250,000 deposit to purchase the jet. Documents filed with the FAA include both a lease purchase contract for the Hawker, allegedly signed by Vega, as well as a lease termi…
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At the author's request, he had the handwriting analyzed. And there were several documents that had his signature that he said, in fact, that he had signed. So all of those documents were given. Vega says that there was an original document…
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purchase and not a termination agreement. One of the law enforcement people concluded that all of the signatures belonged to Vega, while the other guy said that there appeared to be enough differences in the two that Vega said that he didn'…
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Vega claims that after he was released from jail in the summer of 2000, he attempted to catch up with the Hawker jet, hoping to clean up the loose ends. He contends, however, that an FBI agent contacted him and ordered him to stay away from…
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was an active participant in moving the Hawker jet around these shell companies. Vega says, in that regard, this is too coincidental for all these same players to be involved in all of the same aircraft. Smith and his partner O'Connor purch…
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he is also the previous owner of the Hawker that was moved around five different times. The co-owner of the Gulfstream II jet, Greg Smith, owned the Florida company Aero Group Jets that leased the Hawker to the CIA, Vega. Smith also served …
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which said it planned to use the aircraft to transport security people to mining operations or to overthrow a government. After the plane was sold the logo, but before the FAA had updated the records, Dotson said it was seized in Zimbabwe. …
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who is the one that was responsible for number one, deciding it was going to be behind closed doors and number two, deciding it was going to be classified afterwards. So the methods and the sponsors of the covert actions remain in the shado…
▶ 34:12
on the largest oil field reserves in the world, unquote. So of course, they had already staged at least one coup attempt and were actively working on others. So very interesting. Then he goes on and talks about asking Vega about that premis…
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Barack Vega, a longtime CIA asset in the 90s and early 2000s, helped to broker cooperating source deals on behalf of U.S. law enforcement agencies with dozens of major Colombian narco traffickers. When the author interviewed him, Vega descr…