Ilopango place
also: Ipilopango, El Pelopango, El Pelopengo, El Opango, Alapango, ilapango
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and criminal records. He got no reply. It was, he wrote later, as if the report were going into a black hole. But in late March 1986, Castillo got his first official confirmation that he was on the right track. A cable arrived from Costa Ri…
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Excited that his investigation had finally started to bear fruit, Castillo drove to El Salvador to tell his informants that the Salvadoran narcotic police and give the Salvadoran narcotics police the good news. He now had independent confir…
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In April 1986, the CIA station chief in El Salvador sent a desperate message to the Costa Rican CIA office asking if the DEA office could back off. Hangar 4 at Ilopango was the location of the Contra operations in the El Salvadoran station.…
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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…
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stockpiled at ilapango was loaded onto salvadoran transport planes and flown south where the guns were traded for cocaine which was then flown back to the salvadoran airbase as wild as it sounds records show miranda is not the first drug tr…
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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…
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Could we ask you to please not print anything until we've talked again? Can you give me a week? I told him I'd wait for his call. When Gary returned to Sacramento, he phoned a former DEA agent, Castillo, the guy that was down in El Salvador…
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He's one of the people in the DEA sent to Guatemala to do the internal investigation of me. He said Creighton and another DEA official had ordered him to put the word alleged in his reports to Washington about the Contra drug shipments from…
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Costa Rican shrimp company North and the Cuban CIA operatives were using to funnel aid to the Contras. The second part was a story about the parallel investigation of Contra drug trafficking done in the summer of 1986 by DEA agent Castillo …
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We had DEA records saying Blanton had sent the money to the Contras far longer than we had previously reported. We had a top CIA official admitting that the agency had reports of drug trafficking at Ilopango. We had evidence of Ronald Liste…
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Still, Chamorro's fears proved justified in March of 84 when the ARDC C-47 crashed in northern Costa Rica. An unidentified Caucasian died in the crash that everyone suspected was CIA. There were confirmed CIA casualties in October of 84 whe…
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messages via this radio tower. Contra Air Commander Juan Gomez carried out the attack with a couple of planes flying out of the Salvadoran Air Base, Ilopango. Instead, Langley's project quickly morphed away from interdiction because it was …
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He told Bermudez to consider Secord's planes FDN property. At Ipilopango, Rodriguez arranged for armed guards on each flight to ensure that the planes didn't divert from their mission. In Washington, on August 8th, Rodriguez met with Donald…
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We know that emphatically is not true. One DEA agent was, and he was removed. The author then goes on to say, in the 1990s, the CIA IG looked into these reports. He could not substantiate them, but his conclusions were disputed by DEA agent…
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and persuaded him to cancel the press conference. At the very moment, North scampered to avoid a press notice that would have blown the project another way. Bob Dutton participated in what could have turned out to be another security breach…
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perpetrated on the Sandinistas in 1984. They hadn't forgotten. Joe Fernandez wired Dunton demanding damage control. North, then John Poindexter, intervened with justice to delay FBI and Customs investigation of Southern Air Transport, where…
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as the State Department. Removing that would clearly be misleading if George was to tell Congress, as he did, that the CIA knew nothing about the Contra Supply Network. When Jerry Gruner told the deputy that Joe Fernandez admitted phone rec…
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Norman Gardner Jr., one of the deputy DO's special assistants, had just debriefed the air branch officer and sat among George's entourage as he framed ignorance. George denied knowing Secord or any of the people that was associated with him…