Sandra Smith person
also: Smith, lone DEA agent
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Claims (4)
Sandra Smith exposed
Contras host_asserted
“From L.A. at the San Francisco airport and drive to the house in the earlier chapters. The DEA agent, Smith, gut feeling about Menendez's drug ring was right on target. She discovered the first direct evidence of the Contra drug pipeline in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 40:24
Sandra Smith member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration host_asserted
“This is Operation Gladio. This is 1948 and on. We know they do this. In Paul Williams' book, we outline the entire pipeline of them doing this. Megha, go ahead. Not only that, Colonel, but you have one lone DEA agent by the name of Sandra S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:04:27
Drug Enforcement Administration reassigned
Sandra Smith host_asserted
“is shut that woman up. Reassign her. Give her another job. She's too smart for this. Go ahead, Mega. Colonel, I have got to say, listening to your X-Spaces and your Rumbles and your Operation Gladio that you've been running with Alpha is li…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:04:58
CIA covered_up
Sandra Smith host_asserted
“is shut that woman up. Reassign her. Give her another job. She's too smart for this. Go ahead, Mega. Colonel, I have got to say, listening to your X-Spaces and your Rumbles and your Operation Gladio that you've been running with Alpha is li…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:04:58
Mentions (10)
▶ 37:40
The DEA had developed information over the past several years that the Menendez family had been involved in smuggling and distribution of cocaine in San Francisco. Stated an affidavit signed by a DEA agent, Sandra Smith. Smith, who was one …
▶ 38:08
was the only thing that I ever worked on in all the time I worked there. In that business, if you have people coming in from Nicaragua bringing cocaine and the rumor was they were taking guns back, that's an interesting combination. Startin…
▶ 38:32
the string on the Menez family, putting together the comings and goings. She said Menez was living in a gorgeous house in Burlingham, a ritzy suburb of San Francisco. Periodically, she and a customs agent would stake the house out, sitting …
▶ 39:27
Another nephew, Roger Menendez, was arrested with 20 pounds of cocaine. That's a crap load of cocaine. And more than $8,000 on his body. That same month, Omar got busted again with a quarter pound of cocaine. By mid-1981, Sandra had put tog…
▶ 41:49
The cops followed, observing him stop to pick up another man, Jose Herrera, before heading to L.A.'s airport. The duo bought two one-way tickets to San Francisco and got there at 3.40 when DEA agent Smith picked up their surveillance. Smith…
▶ 44:05
Convinced the family was a major trafficking organization, Smith said she asked her supervisor if she could work the case full time. The answer was not encouraging. He said, well, that sounds like a good idea. Who would run it? She laughed …
▶ 44:35
Once again, the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office declined to pursue the case against Norwin or his nephew, and the file was closed. Smith said she never worked the Menendez family again. They had me assigned to do other things, like Hel…
▶ 39:55
Most of the money he made from cocaine sales, Blanton said, was turned over to Menendez. He just kept a little pocket change, you know, to pay rent. The cash deliveries to the Contras for selling the cocaine in the United States was being h…
▶ 40:24
From L.A. at the San Francisco airport and drive to the house in the earlier chapters. The DEA agent, Smith, gut feeling about Menendez's drug ring was right on target. She discovered the first direct evidence of the Contra drug pipeline in…
▶ 1:04:27
This is Operation Gladio. This is 1948 and on. We know they do this. In Paul Williams' book, we outline the entire pipeline of them doing this. Megha, go ahead. Not only that, Colonel, but you have one lone DEA agent by the name of Sandra S…