Robert Neves person
also: Neves, DEA Costa Rican attache, Agent Neves
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Claims (7)
Craig Creighton succeeded
Robert Neves book_quoted
“Creighton was going to be his replacement. So they knew Neves was going to be outed by Gary Webb. So he, all of a sudden, after having told Creighton what he knew, resigned. And Creighton is now going to take his job. I never spoke to Creig…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 20:32
Robert Neves member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“The target of Kelso's investigation, DEA Robert Neves, went on to have a long and illustrious career at the DEA, rising to great heights. He became the head of cocaine investigations in Washington. Then he became the chief of all the major …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 59:14
Robert Neves attempted_assassination_of
Joe Kelso guest_asserted
“Puerto Rican, and that that's the key word that makes him trip off, okay? He goes psychotic. He goes bananas, Kelso said. Neves told him, you are a dead SOB. And he's actually saying out the words. I'm just not going to say them. He also sa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 47:28
Robert Neves covered_up
Joe Kelso guest_asserted
“The DEA has been tipped off. Kelso's got the goods on him. So they call the Costa Rican police to go arrest Kelso. Kelso said they came stomping in there and demanding to see Caldwell and the stuff. And he saw a couple rolled up maps and he…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 45:56
Robert Neves member_of
Guardian Technologies documented
“serving as the chief of DEA's international division, which means that he was the guy that was thwarting all of the investigations into the entire international drug trade, not just the Contra, Nicaragua, Costa Rica links. Dirty, dirty, dir…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 59:41
Joe Kelso spied_on
Robert Neves guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
Robert Neves member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“strongly believes that the DEA agents stationed in Costa Rica during the Contra War were not what they appeared. Quote, in my opinion, both Neves and Sandy Gonzalez were connected with the CIA. There is no doubt, she insisted, you aren't go…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 35:38
Mentions (27)
▶ 4:51
Lawn replied, no, sir, I am not. The DEA's position, said Lawn, and his aide, David Westrick, was that there was no credible evidence to support the allegations. The DEA officer in Costa Rica who was questioned by the carry committee, Rober…
▶ 5:20
throughout the entire time of the 1980s. Menendez's appearance in Costa Rica also coincided with the time when his drug network was rendered leaderless, accidentally disrupted by a Costa Rican police investigation. In May of 1984,…
▶ 44:46
Menendez said that he also met with the DEA Costa Rican attache Robert Neves, N-I-E-V-E-S, in late 1985, again concerning the Camarena case. Menendez delivered Neves as desperate for information Norwin supposedly had on the crime, but he wo…
▶ 15:38
And San Jose was quickly relayed back to the CIA headquarters in Langley, which was informed that Hugo Spadafora had made quote-unquote vague allegations to DEA that Gonzalez, Manuel Noriega, and other Contra leaders were engaged in drug tr…
▶ 16:04
met Spadafora twice, and Spadafora had promised that he would provide evidence of drug trafficking by Gonzalez. If Neves needed a way to confirm the doctor's explosive claims, he had just the man to do it. His deep cover informant, none oth…
▶ 18:01
He strenuously denied any involvement in the death, but Spadafora's family remains convinced Gonzalez played a major role. I mean, he's on tape planning it. Though Noriega apparently felt the information Spadafora possessed was important en…
▶ 18:32
and said that he did nothing with the information the doctor risked his life to bring him. Since Noriega's drug dealing was the official reason the United States invaded Panama four years later, Neves' perverse inaction is astonishing, but …
▶ 19:59
did not try to contact me again. And the only thing that I asked was for protection for myself and my family. And at that time, I had no problems with the American justice system, unquote. Judging from the DEA's response to a freedom of inf…
▶ 30:16
Some Costa Ricans that were hired there had been manufacturing passports for a long time and selling them. Where have we heard that story before? Kelso said he forwarded a report to the FBI and they turned around and shut the embassy down f…
▶ 30:46
Kind of double-hatted as a CIA guy. And Norwin Menendez's control agent had been taking cocaine from seizures made in Costa Rica's narcotic police. Kelso said the allegations were largely conjecture, but he confided them to the Department o…
▶ 31:48
saying six witnesses, current and former Costa Rican and American government officials, were willing to testify that the DEA agents were skimming cocaine from drug seizures, taking counterfeit money, sanitizing intelligence reports to Washi…
▶ 33:43
Costa Rican prosecutors report had a strange experience with one of Neve's men, Sandy Gonzalez, the DEA agent who had yelled at the L.A. detective Tom Gordon about not talking on the phone through Nicaragua. Quote, information from the exis…
▶ 34:41
a route being flown so that they could get out before they got caught. And that's according to the Costa Rican police. Gonzalez and Neves were never charged with a crime, either in Costa Rica or the United States, and the allegations were n…
▶ 35:38
strongly believes that the DEA agents stationed in Costa Rica during the Contra War were not what they appeared. Quote, in my opinion, both Neves and Sandy Gonzalez were connected with the CIA. There is no doubt, she insisted, you aren't go…
▶ 38:07
Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…
▶ 40:01
and some personal papers of DEA agents, including the radio code names. A customs agent familiar with the case said Kelso stole Agent Neves' briefcase from his car. In an interview with the Jack Webb, Kelso denied this. At the end of July 1…
▶ 43:30
To qualify or disqualify it would be stupid, Kelso testified, because if he was doing it, he would normally head over and do something to protect himself so that no one could touch him. Kelso said Kotchenberger had explicit orders not to sa…
▶ 46:58
He then said, get in the effing car. So we go there and we go down to the Costa Rican National Police main office, right up to the director's office. Soon, Kelso said, DEA agent Neves comes in and he starts screaming, I'm going to blow your…
▶ 47:28
Puerto Rican, and that that's the key word that makes him trip off, okay? He goes psychotic. He goes bananas, Kelso said. Neves told him, you are a dead SOB. And he's actually saying out the words. I'm just not going to say them. He also sa…
▶ 47:58
Kelso's story was confirmed by the Costa Rican police officers that were present at the incident. According to Costa Rican newspaper, which asked Neves about Kelso in 1986, Neves did not even disguise his anger then about the fact that the …
▶ 49:27
ran to the Costa Rican narcotic investigator Warren Tracy's house and hid out. The next day, Neves called him there and ordered him back to the embassy. Kelso refused to go, and Neves told him he would be at Tracy's house in five minutes. I…
▶ 52:45
He tries to get up and he hit me again, knocking me right back to the ground. Paul watched this parade from his porch. It was very, very obvious attempt to get him to resist so they could shoot him. The colonel kept running up, pointing his…
▶ 59:14
The target of Kelso's investigation, DEA Robert Neves, went on to have a long and illustrious career at the DEA, rising to great heights. He became the head of cocaine investigations in Washington. Then he became the chief of all the major …
▶ 59:41
serving as the chief of DEA's international division, which means that he was the guy that was thwarting all of the investigations into the entire international drug trade, not just the Contra, Nicaragua, Costa Rica links. Dirty, dirty, dir…
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called Guardian Technologies. And guess who owned that? Lieutenant Colonel Fricking North. And the guy that ran the CIA office in Costa Rica, none other than Joe Fernandez. So this bastard ordered the death of an American, wanted to kill hi…
▶ 19:57
Gary was told he no longer works in the office. I was told that he was transferred to Washington, D.C. He was now head of the International Division. He was working there under Robert Neves, Norwin Menendez's old control officer, who had un…
▶ 20:32
Creighton was going to be his replacement. So they knew Neves was going to be outed by Gary Webb. So he, all of a sudden, after having told Creighton what he knew, resigned. And Creighton is now going to take his job. I never spoke to Creig…