Marcos Aguardo person
also: Marcos Aguardo, Aguardo, Agordo, former CIA pilot
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Claims (6)
Marcos Aguardo supplied_arms_to
Norwin Menendez documented
“The auto transport trailer Menendez's men were busy stuffing cocaine into had just been purchased for $125,000 in El Salvador from none other than former CIA pilot Marcos Aguardo. Aguardo, who had helped run the secret Contra airbase at Ilo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:12:02
Marcos Aguardo trafficked
Contras documented
“moved to El Apengo permanently, working as an aide to a high-ranking Salvadoran commander. The pilot, who had been instrumental in arranging the Contra's 1984 arms and drug deals with the Colombian trafficker, George Morales, was no longer …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 47:14
Marcos Aguardo member_of
Salvadoran Armed Forces documented
“accused of drug trafficking. Aguardo became a colonel in the Salvadoran Air Force, sharing all the privileges of a high-ranking military officer and was accepted into the ranks as the deputy commander of the Air Force. The flights he direct…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 47:43
Marcos Aguardo trafficked
United States documented
“accused of drug trafficking. Aguardo became a colonel in the Salvadoran Air Force, sharing all the privileges of a high-ranking military officer and was accepted into the ranks as the deputy commander of the Air Force. The flights he direct…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 47:43
Marcos Aguardo trafficked
Cali Cartel guest_asserted
“told him that he once took a Salvadoran Air Force bomber and leveled a warehouse full of metalene cocaine on behalf of the state-owned Cali cartel. Another time, he made plans to bomb the prison where Pablo Escobar was imprisoned. Agordo al…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 51:47
Marcos Aguardo supplied_arms_to
Cali Cartel guest_asserted
“told him that he once took a Salvadoran Air Force bomber and leveled a warehouse full of metalene cocaine on behalf of the state-owned Cali cartel. Another time, he made plans to bomb the prison where Pablo Escobar was imprisoned. Agordo al…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 51:47
Mentions (12)
▶ 19:56
He greased the skids with Bustillo and eventually became the overseer of Norse Contra resupply operations at the El Salvador base. The Contras had been using El Opango with General Bustillo's blessing since 1983, when Norwin Menendez's frie…
▶ 20:57
by his real name, Luis Carrillas. The names are crazy. With men like Luis Carrillas, and he went by Posada, because you know how they do the middle name instead of the last name? Luis Posada Pasilas. So the rest of the book will refer to hi…
▶ 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…
▶ 46:43
and a Nicaraguan pilot by the name of Marcos Aguardo. Aguardo was the chief pilot for the Contra Forces in Costa Rica. He was identified in 1987 congressional testimony as a CIA agent. Soon after North set up the resupply operation at the a…
▶ 47:14
moved to El Apengo permanently, working as an aide to a high-ranking Salvadoran commander. The pilot, who had been instrumental in arranging the Contra's 1984 arms and drug deals with the Colombian trafficker, George Morales, was no longer …
▶ 47:43
accused of drug trafficking. Aguardo became a colonel in the Salvadoran Air Force, sharing all the privileges of a high-ranking military officer and was accepted into the ranks as the deputy commander of the Air Force. The flights he direct…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 51:47
told him that he once took a Salvadoran Air Force bomber and leveled a warehouse full of metalene cocaine on behalf of the state-owned Cali cartel. Another time, he made plans to bomb the prison where Pablo Escobar was imprisoned. Agordo al…
▶ 1:12:02
The auto transport trailer Menendez's men were busy stuffing cocaine into had just been purchased for $125,000 in El Salvador from none other than former CIA pilot Marcos Aguardo. Aguardo, who had helped run the secret Contra airbase at Ilo…
▶ 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 …
▶ 1:23:37
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…