Timothy LaFrance person
also: LaFrance, arms maker, Tim LaFrance
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Ron Listerperson · 7Pyramid Internationalorganization · 5CIAintelligence service · 4Contrasorganization · 3U.S. State Departmentorganization · 2Nick Hsuperson · 2LA Weeklyorganization · 1Hondurascountry · 1San Salvadorplace · 1Gary Webbperson · 1Terry Reedperson · 1Christopher Mooreperson · 1
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Timothy LaFrance supplied_arms_to
Contras host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 49:33
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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 …
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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…
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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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He went down to Central America with two giant boxes full of machine guns and ammunition for the guns. Definitely the CIA. LaFrance told Hsiao that their cover story for the trip was that they were there to provide security, armor-proofing …
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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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That's where they made the weapons. You could have 50 guys working in a machine shop and nobody would know it. After the finished guns were transported to the military airstrip, they were sent to Contra camps in Honduras. We made almost all…
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difficult to corroborate some independent documentation. I mean, it's not difficult for us because this is a repeat of every other story we've ever told, but we're going to go with Gary Webb because he didn't have available all the informat…
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had his own connections to a company that was making weapons for the Contras. Tim LaFrance's story about setting up the arms factory with Ronald Lister and El Salvador bears striking similarities to one told by Terry Reed, a former Air Forc…