Aristide Sanchez person
also: FDN director, Sanchez, Aristide Sanchez
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Claims (5)
Aristide Sanchez member_of
Adolfo Calero guest_asserted
“and noted that the FBI made no attempt to stop him, even though he was traveling with an FBI informant. He also told McManus the FBI had tape-recorded conversations between the former ambassador of Nicaragua in Guatemala, Mr. Fernando Sanch…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:00:31
CIA appointed
Aristide Sanchez host_asserted
“were all approved by the CIA. That's in his affidavit. As luck would have it, the CIA selected another one of Norwin Menendez's friends to assist Bermudez in running the FDN. His name was Aristides Sanchez. He was also a wealthy landowner w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 25:40
Aristide Sanchez member_of
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“His wife's uncle gave him $5,000 to travel to the United States. So Blanton is totally a liar. Like Bermudez, Aristide Sanchez went on the CIA's payroll and began reporting daily to his CIA overseers. Together, Bermudez and Sanchez would be…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 27:06
Oliver North exposed
Aristide Sanchez host_asserted
“Adolfo Calero, the former manager of Coca-Cola in Managua. He worked closely with Aristide Sanchez. Oliver North later called Sanchez the Calero's hatchet man. Though the FDN would change and merge with other groups over the years, Bermuda'…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 27:37
Aristide Sanchez supplied_arms_to
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“thanks largely to the backing of the CIA. Sanchez became one of the Contra's top political and military strategists, plotting logistics, buying supplies, and delivering the weapons, wrote in the Miami Herald in 1993's obituary. Throughout t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 28:09
Mentions (13)
▶ 51:16
Yeah, that too. His partner in one of them was FDN director Aristides Sanchez's brother, Troil, a former CIA pilot that was identified in 1982 as a supplier to Menendez's operation in San Francisco. He was one of the pilots flying the drugs…
▶ 56:37
Sanchez told CIA inspectors that while Menendez was living in Costa Rica, he was dealing drugs for the Contras, an activity that seemed starkly at odds with the main function of a DEA informant. Even Menendez's handler, Sandy Gonzalez, susp…
▶ 1:00:31
and noted that the FBI made no attempt to stop him, even though he was traveling with an FBI informant. He also told McManus the FBI had tape-recorded conversations between the former ambassador of Nicaragua in Guatemala, Mr. Fernando Sanch…
▶ 25:40
were all approved by the CIA. That's in his affidavit. As luck would have it, the CIA selected another one of Norwin Menendez's friends to assist Bermudez in running the FDN. His name was Aristides Sanchez. He was also a wealthy landowner w…
▶ 26:11
after Edmundo Menendez was assassinated. And we went over his assassination in the last chapter. Another Sanchez brother, Troilo, had been one of Norwin's friends and business partners in Managua. And yet another brother, Enrique, was partn…
▶ 27:06
His wife's uncle gave him $5,000 to travel to the United States. So Blanton is totally a liar. Like Bermudez, Aristide Sanchez went on the CIA's payroll and began reporting daily to his CIA overseers. Together, Bermudez and Sanchez would be…
▶ 27:37
Adolfo Calero, the former manager of Coca-Cola in Managua. He worked closely with Aristide Sanchez. Oliver North later called Sanchez the Calero's hatchet man. Though the FDN would change and merge with other groups over the years, Bermuda'…
▶ 28:09
thanks largely to the backing of the CIA. Sanchez became one of the Contra's top political and military strategists, plotting logistics, buying supplies, and delivering the weapons, wrote in the Miami Herald in 1993's obituary. Throughout t…
▶ 28:39
And Norwin Menendez explained that when he was having to deliver weapons and supplies to the FDN, I dealt directly with Bermudez and occasionally his assistant, Sanchez. He was a good friend of mine, he said. By November of 81, the Contra p…
▶ 1:00:23
Horatio Petrera Venuza, a drug dealer and gambler, and Troilo Sanchez Herfosio. He was a playboy, brother of the FDN leader Aristide and Fernando Sanchez. Fernando Sanchez.…
▶ 1:10:48
which was Norwin Menendez, Costa Rica drug broker. Cabraza was taking, now he was making $50,000 a month. He was taking $50,000 a month to the Contras Miami office. He often would give the money directly to the FDN leader, Sanchez, the brot…
▶ 1:11:21
Aristide Sanchez died in 1993. He was still working on behalf of the Contras at the time of his death, according to his obituary. Cabraza told the CIA that he never specifically told Aristide Sanchez that the money came from drug proceeds, …
▶ 17:53
They were only shipping things like beans and rice to the base camps, but they were billing the CIA full rations. Several accounts, including Dillon's, paint a picture of a massive corruption inside of the FDN perpetuated by Bermudez and hi…