Ron Lippert person
also: Lippert, Lippard
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Claims (4)
Ron Lippert supplied_arms_to
Cuba guest_asserted
“My interview with Lippert, jailed for 10 years by Fidel Castro for flying explosives into Cuba for the agency, solved one of the final mysteries of the Southern Front. How CIA operative John Hall, that's the guy that had the big ranch in Co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:09:32
Ron Lippert covered_up
John Hall guest_asserted
“Bill Casey's friend and Oliver North's liaison for the Contras had escaped from Costa Rica after he was indicted there for drug trafficking in 1989. After being thrown in jail, Hall was let out on bail for health reasons and vanished. The D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:09:53
Ron Lippert worked_for
CIA documented
“Lippard, a Canadian who flew for the CIA in early 1960s until his imprisonment by Cuban intelligence agents in 1963 for espionage, so he was involved in the Cuban exile community and CIA as well, said that the most I was able to find out fr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:16:50
Ron Lippert member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“My interview with Lippert, jailed for 10 years by Fidel Castro for flying explosives into Cuba for the agency, solved one of the final mysteries of the Southern Front. How CIA operative John Hall, that's the guy that had the big ranch in Co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:09:32
Mentions (14)
▶ 1:15:54
The pilot of that unlucky DC-4, former CIA contract pilot Robert Lippert, said in an interview that neither his trip nor his crew were involved in drugs, though the plane had been involved with drug trafficking flights before he acquired it…
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while Vortex was hauling, quote-unquote, humanitarian aid for the Contras. Those flights were piloted by Vortex's own crew, Lippert said. He knew one of the flights wound up in Columbia because he got a call from the FAA in Miami asking wha…
▶ 1:16:50
Lippard, a Canadian who flew for the CIA in early 1960s until his imprisonment by Cuban intelligence agents in 1963 for espionage, so he was involved in the Cuban exile community and CIA as well, said that the most I was able to find out fr…
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And that, aside from Costa Rica, its itinerary had included a stop in Panama in Mexico after it left Colombia. Another contra flight, Lippard's plane came back with a unexpected 12 and a half hours of excess flying time on it. Palmer told h…
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In his testimony to the Iran-Contra Committee, Rob Owen confirmed that the airplane was involved in an unexplained, embarrassing situation in Costa Rica. That's when I decided some real strange shit was happening, Lippert said. It came back…
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I'll buy the damn plane from you. Palmer, who the CIA admits was working as an agency subcontractor at this point, arranged to buy Lippert's DC-4 through some associates of his, a Cuban lawyer from Miami named Jose Insua and an aircraft com…
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After the cell, Lippert said the DC-4 was used to airdrop explosives off the coast of Cuba. Then, a month later, he signed the installment sales papers. It was seized in Mexico with 2,500 pounds of marijuana on board. A story in the Mexican…
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known to have been operating for a long time using large aircraft to transport arms southbound and bring back drugs northbound. Lippert never got the plane back, nor was he ever paid for it. The company that issued the letters of credit tha…
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As Lippert aptly observed in 1997, Jose Insua, a drug dealer, said he's hanging around a company, Vortex, with the State Department contractor, Michael Cepedis, and a drug dealer, and he issues two letters of credit for planes that are used…
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The problem I had with that story, she told me, is that no one knows what really happened back in those years because no one is looking at it. Their crack story never appeared. With that settled, I plunged back into the investigation. In Ma…
▶ 1:09:32
My interview with Lippert, jailed for 10 years by Fidel Castro for flying explosives into Cuba for the agency, solved one of the final mysteries of the Southern Front. How CIA operative John Hall, that's the guy that had the big ranch in Co…
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Bill Casey's friend and Oliver North's liaison for the Contras had escaped from Costa Rica after he was indicted there for drug trafficking in 1989. After being thrown in jail, Hall was let out on bail for health reasons and vanished. The D…
▶ 1:10:22
and then shuttling Hall to Miami, where Hall hid in an apartment of a Cuban CIA operative and suspected drug dealer, Dagoberto Nunez, who had helped North in the CIA in Costa Rica, the DEA officer who had recruited Lippard for the escape fl…
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Hall confirmed Lippert's story, as did Anthony Rasbuto, a former DEA inspector who'd investigated Perez's role in Hall's escape. Rasbuto believed Perez set up Hall's escape on his own initiative without official DEA sanction, but Hall dispu…