Pyramid International organization
also: Pyramid, Pyramid International Security Consultants, Lister's company, Blanton's company
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Claims (4)
Pyramid International front_for
CIA host_asserted
“of the LA Weekly said in 1996 and 97, arms maker Timothy LaFrance described Pyramid International as a private vendor the CIA used for things they couldn't do. LaFrance, whose handiwork is so highly regarded that he has created custom-made …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 49:03
Ron Lister member_of
Pyramid International documented
“responsible for collecting military-related foreign intelligence. It was heavily involved in the Contra War and in the Civil War in El Salvador. The detectives were confused. DIA? Had Lister said Weakley was with the CIA? What the hell was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 40:48
Pyramid International supplied_arms_to
El Salvador documented
“responsible for collecting military-related foreign intelligence. It was heavily involved in the Contra War and in the Civil War in El Salvador. The detectives were confused. DIA? Had Lister said Weakley was with the CIA? What the hell was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 40:48
Richard Wilker member_of
Pyramid International documented
“as an ex-CIA agent. Wilker appears as the technical director on Pyramid International's proposal of the security project to the Sandinista government. The biography section of the proposal boasts that the company had technicians with Centra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 18:01
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▶ 40:48
responsible for collecting military-related foreign intelligence. It was heavily involved in the Contra War and in the Civil War in El Salvador. The detectives were confused. DIA? Had Lister said Weakley was with the CIA? What the hell was …
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made to the government of El Salvador in 1982, they knew they were in unfamiliar territory. They'd never ran into drug dealers who did business with heads of state. Detective Juarez, who also translated the bulky document from Spanish to En…
▶ 39:49
in Los Angeles. Since Moore didn't speak Spanish, the man served as his guide and interpreter. They flew down to this air base that the French were building. Kind of like NATO, Gladio shit going on. I had to take pictures of it, Moore said.…
▶ 41:52
with the death squad leader, Moore said, and both appeared to have some role in the award of the security contract. Lister, in an interview with police, said that Moore was a good kid who had gone down to El Salvador to take pictures of a p…
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In September 83, Lister and Blanton's company, Pyramid International, came under FBI scrutiny for the Neutrality Act, which allegedly involved the sell of weapons to El Salvador and the loan of money from Saudi Arabia to the Salvadoran gove…
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had spoken of obtaining night vision goggles from Lister in 1982, which the drug lord planned to sell to the Salvadoran government. Menendez intended to use the proceeds of the night vision goggles to aid the Contras. In October 1982, Pyram…
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A man linked to one human rights organization to death squads activity. From a human rights organization, he was linked to the death squads and the slaughter of hundreds of peasants in a village. Pyramid's proposal, which Los Angeles police…
▶ 46:03
Or a government document? Yeah, just like that. Because drug dealers don't have a confidential stamp, just in case you guys don't know. It was entitled, Technical Proposal for an Urgent Project to Implement an Integral Security System for t…
▶ 46:30
That's that Abruzzese guy. It was a thick report and described Pyramid as a unique consulting firm dedicated to the maintenance of freedom, independence, and free enterprise, especially drugs and weapons. The company only served clients wit…
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Pyramid International Security Consultants would, quote, assist the new government in its goals to combat the tyrannical forces of the left side, promoted and assisted by the current government of Nicaragua, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. So, …
▶ 47:59
at key military and industrial installations. Lister later explained the document was a proposal to the current government of El Salvador to implement the program to assist them with security operations. But one of Lister's associates at th…
▶ 48:30
directed by the CIA, which would make sense why they have a CIA confidential document outlining the program. I'm just assuming it's a CIA document. The company's real mission in El Salvador, he said, was to set up a weapons manufacturing fa…
▶ 49:03
of the LA Weekly said in 1996 and 97, arms maker Timothy LaFrance described Pyramid International as a private vendor the CIA used for things they couldn't do. LaFrance, whose handiwork is so highly regarded that he has created custom-made …
▶ 49:33
He said he accompanied Lister to El Salvador at least twice and was involved as a weapons specialist in helping to set up facilities to make pistols for the Contras. Among a series of nameless biographies attached to Pyramid's proposal to t…
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Former office manager Chris Moore confirmed that one of Lister's friends, and I can't recall his name, was an arms maker in San Diego, talking, of course, about LaFrance. LaFrance, who makes and modifies exotic automatic weapons for militar…
▶ 50:31
Lister's consulting company had friends in high places. Why, do you ask? Because when he applied in Pyramid's name for a State Department permit to take high-powered weapons out of the United States, it came back in two days. He said it nor…
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But the real purpose, LaFrance said, was to set up an operation in El Salvador that would allow us to get around U.S. laws to supply guns to the Contras. It was much easier to build the weapons down there because then you didn't have to wor…
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as an ex-CIA agent. Wilker appears as the technical director on Pyramid International's proposal of the security project to the Sandinista government. The biography section of the proposal boasts that the company had technicians with Centra…
▶ 19:30
John Vanderwerker, who once employed Wilker as a salesman, said he knew Lister and Wilker were involved in some business activities in El Salvador. It was kind of touchy as far as getting in and out of that country. He did not elaborate. Co…
▶ 19:59
the Indian reservation we talked about yesterday. Pyramid was eventually tossed out of El Salvador at the urging of the U.S. Army, which took over the weapons plant that he and Pyramid had started, LaFrance said. Lister dismisses any sugges…
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at the Orange County Company, meaning Pyramid, which is probably the guy we were talking about yesterday. I can't remember his name, but Ron was always running off to meetings with him. Ron said the guy was a former deputy director of opera…