Carlos Lehder person
also: Carlos Leder, Leder, Menendez, Carlos Lader, L-E-H-D-E-R
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Claims (5)
Richard Gorge indicted
Carlos Lehder book_quoted
“would bury the Contra Support drug case linked the Nicaraguan Sandinistas to drug trafficking by bringing the first of two indictments against Leder and Escobar and a Sandinistan official. For this, he relied on the testimony and controvers…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 17:46
Carlos Lehder betrayed by
Pablo Escobar book_quoted
“who was accused of links both to the revolutionary M-19 movement and to Fidel Castro, because they all have to be a communist. In February 1987, Leder was captured and extradited to the U.S., having been betrayed by Escobar in connection wi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 19:30
Carlos Lehder founded
National Student Movement host_asserted
“Meanwhile, the Medellin cartel co-founder, Carlos Lader, established a political party called the National Latin Movement, MLN. The party's ideology opposed imperialism, communism, neocolonialism, and Zionism. Its aims included the national…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 27:51
CIA covered_up
Carlos Lehder book_quoted
“Every time that he was coming up to finding some of these people that like Blanton and Menendez, they were coded in the system as informants.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 1:22:19
Carlos Lehder laundered_money_for
Medellin Cartel host_asserted
“The $40 million was reportedly the proceeds of drug trafficking by the Colombian Medellin dope cartel co-founder Carlos Leder, L-E-H-D-E-R. According to an outspoken drug enforcement agent, Leder is the private business partner of the Bush …”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 1:06:14
Mentions (23)
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The $40 million was reportedly the proceeds of drug trafficking by the Colombian Medellin dope cartel co-founder Carlos Leder, L-E-H-D-E-R. According to an outspoken drug enforcement agent, Leder is the private business partner of the Bush …
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a farm down in Paraguay that's massive next to the farm that was massive owned by the Moonies, which is the KCIA. Although extradited to the U.S., prosecuted and given a 55-year prison term, later disappeared from the federal prison system.…
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Meanwhile, the Medellin cartel co-founder, Carlos Lader, established a political party called the National Latin Movement, MLN. The party's ideology opposed imperialism, communism, neocolonialism, and Zionism. Its aims included the national…
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munitions manufacturing company of both military arms and ammunition in Colombia. And it's exported throughout all of Latin America to the death squads. So yeah, they didn't like them very much. Escobar donated 5,000 toys every Christmas to…
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One of the government's star witnesses, former Medellin cartel transportation boss Carlos Lader, confirmed under oath that the cartel had given the Contras $10 million, just as Millian had testified. Lader said he arranged the donation hims…
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Escobar and his Colombian pals, Jorge Oca, which we talked about in our last book, and Carlos Lader, were then firmly in control of the Miami cocaine market, having wrestled it from the Colombian Americans after a long-running cocaine war. …
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The Federal Reserve in Miami and the one in L.A. had the largest amounts of cash of any of the Federal Reserve networks. Miami was convenient. The Colombians could blend in with the large Hispanic population and move through the city unnoti…
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Set up shop in the Bahamas, buying an island where drug planes flew in and out of Cuba and they could land and refuel and wait for the night to fly into the U.S. Lader's transportation system worked well and gave the Medellin cartel its fir…
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In the small world of international cocaine smuggling, Menendez was one of the original pioneers. Back when the Medellin kingpin Carlos Lader was still just a car thief sitting in a cell in Danbury, Connecticut's federal prison, Menendez wa…
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is his supplier. And there's a whole echelon. He gets to Blanton. He doesn't start off with Blanton. And I'll give you a couple of those data points. So let me get to that part. There's also a part in here that talks about Carlos Leder.…
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L-E-H-D-E-R, who, if you guys recall when we were doing the Columbia book, he was in the meddling cartel. And he basically, they go through a short little part about how they came into the United States, as we well know, to create their own…
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affected U.S. drug policy overall and particularly in Colombia. A concerted U.S. propaganda campaign was mounted in 1984 against alleged drug trafficking by a conspiracy involving Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Colombian narco-guerrillas, and traf…
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would bury the Contra Support drug case linked the Nicaraguan Sandinistas to drug trafficking by bringing the first of two indictments against Leder and Escobar and a Sandinistan official. For this, he relied on the testimony and controvers…
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Thus, the indictments named, in addition to five traffickers in the Medellin cartel, Pablo Escobar and Carlos Leder, it also named Federico Vaughn, an alleged assistant to Thomas Borge.…
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because they were going to break the bad news the next day that the Reagan administration was behind the whole damn thing. Nothing like manipulating the press or anything like that. After DEA Administrator Lon, L-A-W-N, himself expressed do…
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who was accused of links both to the revolutionary M-19 movement and to Fidel Castro, because they all have to be a communist. In February 1987, Leder was captured and extradited to the U.S., having been betrayed by Escobar in connection wi…
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that we're going to find a connection to the CIA guy that had those gold bars in his house, and Menendez, who was arrested with gold bars in his house. Now, what better way to bribe, pay off, whatever, congressional members?…
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than with a stash of gold bars. I mean, how weird is that that Menendez was caught with gold bars and this CIA guy just out of the blue? And I love the fact that these people are making hay out of the fact that he made up all of the shit ab…
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He has a very interesting story. The CIA was not supplying him directly. They were using the guys that we just talked about, Blanton and Menendez. Blanton was the L.A. guy. Menendez was the San Francisco guy.…
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Colombian-Bolivian cocaine was coming into the United States, both through Texas and Miami, and they were shuttling it out to Los Angeles, to Blanton in Los Angeles. Blanton eventually becomes Ricky's direct. There was some cutouts in betwe…
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elites from Nicaragua. And when the Sandinistas overthrew the CIA-backed Samosan government, they do this all the time. They export all of the corrupt oligarchs and people that have been on their payroll.…
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How he was basically pulled into this whole thing because they had one of the distributors in San Francisco that had been held for years without charges in jail in San Francisco. And his girlfriend had contacted Gary Webb. And it was throug…
▶ 1:22:19
Every time that he was coming up to finding some of these people that like Blanton and Menendez, they were coded in the system as informants.…