Chuck Jones person
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of El Salvador, Colombia, Italy, and Iran. He knew intelligence operatives, weapon smugglers, the whole thing. He knew Norwin Menendez. He knew Daniel O'Blanton, everybody. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mesa, in a 1997 interview with the CIA insp…
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But if lives were in danger, I'd certainly be willing to hear them out. On October 19, 1995, I walked into a room full of DEA agents in National City's regional office in San Diego. Two of the agents I recognized from court and reading thei…
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That's pretty well been established. Your informant was one of the men who was doing it. Creighton gave Jones a side look and said, I can tell you that I have never, ever heard anything about Blanton being involved in that. Not once. His on…
▶ 13:39
Creighton said, referring to the other two DEA agents. If it had happened, they would know about it. I could not quite believe what I was hearing. What kind of scam was this? Have you ever asked him about it? I asked Jones. I've already sai…
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He testified to it under oath before a grand jury. You're telling me that you don't know that? Jones threw up his hands. Oh, listen, he understands English pretty well, but sometimes he gets confused. And if you ask him a question the wrong…
▶ 14:37
Jones' face and forehead was red. His voice started to get louder. You're telling me that he testified that he sold cocaine for the Contras in the country? He sold it in this country? Gary Webb says, that's exactly what I'm telling you. You…
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Put him on a witness stand, Jones yelled. You'd have to be insane. They'd have to be total idiots. They didn't put him on the witness stand, I reminded him. They yanked him at the last minute. That's because the judge ordered them to turn o…
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If it comes out that he is in any way connected to the DEA, it would seriously compromise our investigations. I said I thought it was important to the story, which prompted another outburst from Jones. Quote, even after we just told you, yo…
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Gary Webb interrupted him. I've got three kids and I don't know how that has anything to do with this. So you screw up an investigation we've been working on for a long time just so you could have a story. Is that it? Jones demanded. You th…
▶ 17:05
So in five months, everyone in the world is going to know he's a DEA informant. Hell, if they want to know now, all they have to do is go down to the courthouse and look it up, like I did. So that's one problem I'm having with all of this. …
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cooperated Hassan's statement in a sealed search warrant affidavit. Filed in May of 1992, DEA agent Chuck Jones wrote, quote, Blanton fled Nicaragua after Somoza regime was deposed. Blanton had been a cocaine trafficker in Nicaragua prior t…
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Since 1982, Blanton had been a cocaine trafficker in the United States, unquote. That's actually in an affidavit. At the time, Jones made that statement. He was Blanton's case agent. Four years later, though, when defense attorneys accused …
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Agent Jones would suddenly remember that it wasn't Blanton he'd been referring to when he prepared that affidavit. No, no. He later claimed he'd confused Blanton's background with Menendez. Regardless of when Blanton's career as a cocaine t…