Dennis Ainsworth person
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Dennis Ainsworth member_of
USACA host_asserted
“I would really appreciate that. And we're going to go ahead and get started where we left off on Friday. So we were talking about Dennis Ainsworth, who was a contact in San Francisco. And the organization that we talked about on Friday out …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 0:34
Dennis Ainsworth spied_on
FDN documented
“Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 2:33
Dennis Ainsworth exposed
Oliver North documented
“Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 2:33
Dennis Ainsworth exposed
Tom Dowling documented
“Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 2:33
Dennis Ainsworth exposed
Norwin Menendez documented
“Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 2:33
Dennis Ainsworth exposed
Renato Pena documented
“Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 2:33
Dennis Ainsworth exposed
Oliver North documented
“and about North's illegal Contra support network in the U.S. and Central America. Much of the information that Ainsworth gave the FBI and later Lawrence Walsh, who, for those of you who don't know, was the quote-unquote special prosecutor, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 3:05
FBI covered_up
Dennis Ainsworth host_asserted
“He had no information to substantiate this alleged threat, they told him. Ainsworth never heard from them again. This, my friends, is what implicates all of these people. So the DEA on Friday was brushing off their own DEA agent who was on …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 4:03
Mentions (37)
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I also obtained the 1987 FBI interview with the San Francisco Contra supporter Dennis Ainsworth. We've come across his name a couple of times, in which he told of his discovery that Norwin Menendez and a Contra leader by the name of Enrique…
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He tried to alert people to this 10 years ago and it ruined his life. Nobody in Washington wanted to look at this. Republican, Democrat, nobody. They wanted this story buried. And anyone who looked any deeper got buried. You're bringing up …
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I had friends in Central America who were killed. There was a Mexican reporter who was looking into one end of this and he wound up dead. So don't pretend that you know. If the Contras were selling drugs in L.A., don't you think people shou…
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I think that's the kind of thing the public needs to know about. And that's why I need your help. You know a lot more about this than I do. He was unmoved. Look, when I was trying to tell Congress, I was getting death threats. And you're as…
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I would really appreciate that. And we're going to go ahead and get started where we left off on Friday. So we were talking about Dennis Ainsworth, who was a contact in San Francisco. And the organization that we talked about on Friday out …
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Contra supporters, goes by the initials USACA, had a president that we talked about named Don Sineco. And he said that he had never expected Menendez was involved in any criminal activities. But he did confirm that Dennis Ainsworth had bega…
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What always bothered me about Dennis is that towards the end, I don't know what, he seemed to get disillusioned or disgusted with Calero. Dennis got disillusioned about something Sonequa was heard saying. So, of course, we covered that on F…
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the organization supporting all of the Nicaraguans were involved in drug trafficking. There she is. Bring her up here. All right. So Ainsworth disillusionment caused him to quit working with the Contras and seek out the FBI. In early 1987, …
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Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…
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and about North's illegal Contra support network in the U.S. and Central America. Much of the information that Ainsworth gave the FBI and later Lawrence Walsh, who, for those of you who don't know, was the quote-unquote special prosecutor, …
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about the inner workings of the FDN and the relationships between Contra leaders and the U.S. government officials and that they were cooperating during congressional Iran-Contra investigations. In other words, tampering with witnesses. Ain…
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He had no information to substantiate this alleged threat, they told him. Ainsworth never heard from them again. This, my friends, is what implicates all of these people. So the DEA on Friday was brushing off their own DEA agent who was on …
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This is a quote. I mean, here I am a citizen. I complained to the FBI and they tell me they have no interest in the case. Then I call Walsh's people and they sent a couple of FBI guys out to talk to me and they had no interest in it. I coul…
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I thought I was part of the establishment, and all of a sudden, I was a leper. Ainsworth fled California to the East Coast, where he went into hiding. Meanwhile, the narcotics investigation had begun with the arrest of Renaldo Pena and Herr…
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That one or two corrupt narcotic officers in the DEA could hold off the entire U.S. law enforcement community. What about the FBI? What about the CIA? They all know the drugs are coming in. So according to Dennis Ainsworth, this is a quote.…
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Ainsworth is a former San Francisco area economics professor. He was protected by everyone under the sun, Ainsworth said. He had came to that conclusion in a very difficult and painful way. Ainsworth, you see, was a conservative Republican …
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He was a very staunch supporter of the Contras. He threw himself into the cause wholeheartedly as far back as 1983. He had posted, found jobs for, taken care of, donated money to all of the Nicaraguans that flocked to San Francisco. He said…
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that he was very supportive of all of the refugees. He worked with liberal churches in the San Francisco area, trying to help them all. In February 1984, Ainsworth said he saw an announcement in the San Francisco Chronicle for a seminar at …
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a Nicaraguan who had been a local coordinator for the FDN. The men chatted briefly, exchanged phone numbers, and according to at least one source, the entire meeting was paid for by Menendez. About three weeks later, Ainsworth said Benalla …
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had a house in San Francisco to meet some other Nicaraguans that maybe could help. Ainsworth found the group Pleasant consisting of middle-aged husbands and wives, most of them Nicaraguan immigrants, one of which was Anastasio Simoes, the p…
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In 1984, Calero began visiting San Francisco frequently. Ainsworth and Sinico said and would usually stay in their house while he was there doing business. Ainsworth was dismayed at the lack of political sophistication displayed by these gr…
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in America's political system that was helping. So he decided to take it upon himself to help because he had political connections everywhere. He wanted to draw attention to their cause. Why not sponsor a speaking tour and have some contra …
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was very impressed with Ainsworth's ideas and his political connections, and they voted to make him the director of their new group. As far as I knew, he was presumably very active in Republican politics. He knew senators, representatives, …
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active in international, quote unquote, anti-communist efforts. Ainsworth began opening doors all over San Francisco and appeared to be able to get us booked anywhere to include the Olympic Club, the Commonwealth Club, all the ritzy places.…
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with several influential business leaders and statewide Republicans. It wasn't really a fundraiser. It was more of a meal and a cocktail party. Afterwards, Calero, Ainsworth, and Sinico, and about 20 others, drove over to an Italian restaur…
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When the bill came, Ainsworth said that it had already been paid. Do you know who paid it? Menendez. Yeah, same guy. At the end of the dinner, they introduced Adolfo Calero and everyone. They had scheduled the next event, which was going to…
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He was like, yeah, you're not supposed to know that. After that, Menendez began attending meetings, but he always stayed in the back. He was always arriving like after the meeting started, kind of like he wants to be a shadow on the wall. A…
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anti-communist groups, that was an off-branch of the Miami ones. That's weird. Ainsworth said that he did not believe that there was a connection between Menendez and the Cubans other than a political one and a drug one. A former FDN mercen…
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He was involved on the political side of things. Again, bullshit. All right. In addition to his work with Oliver North and the San Francisco FDN, Father Dowling was also heavily involved in the San Francisco group with Ainsworth. And this i…
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humanitarian support to Nicaraguan refugees and logistical support to the Contra rallies. When Renato Pena said Menendez's nephew was arrested on cocaine trafficking, Ainsworth began suspecting that the FDN was involved in drug trafficking.…
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Ainsworth said that Pena was so devastated by his arrest and confessed to him his role in the Contra network. Alarmed, Ainsworth began looking into the relationship between FDN and drugs. He made inquiries in the local San Francisco Nicarag…
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And the word that he received back is that they were all cocaine smugglers. Ainsworth told this to the FBI. During one of Ainsworth's trips to Washington in 1985, I went to see some friends of mine and started asking some questions. One fri…
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that they are the head of a criminal organization responsible for smuggling kilo quantities of cocaine into the United States. This is DEA telling them that. The discovery left Ainsworth reeling. I had gone through the looking glass. I had …
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In September of 85, Ainsworth was contacted by U.S. Customs officials who was investigating the Nicaraguan role in a large narcotic ring extending from Miami through Texas to California. The customs agent wanted to ask Ainsworth about the F…
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and he acted frustrated at the claims of the events. Ainsworth would later tell the FBI, according to name redacted, two U.S. Customs Service officers who felt threatened and intimidated by the national security interference in legitimate n…
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The FBI report went on to say that the customs agent told Ainsworth that Menendez would have been arrested in a major drug case in 1983, except that he had been warned that he was given a warning by a redacted officer not to arrest him. Oth…
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that the FBI's file on Menendez was two feet thick. I thought this bastard should have been arrested. I assumed there would have been an outstanding warrant on this guy. I was amazed. There wasn't a single outstanding warrant on Menendez an…