Renato Pena person
also: Renato Pina, Renaldo Pena, Pena, Ronaldo Pena, Ronaldo Pena Cabrera
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Claims (3)
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
Laisla Balderas paid
Renato Pena host_asserted
“I would have been interested in taking him out of jail because he would have had me by the tail, Menendez said. Isn't that logical? That Herrero's bail had been paid by Danielle Blanton's sister, Laisla Balderas, who had bailed out Pena, he…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 8:02
Renato Pena member_of
FDN documented
“at an FDN meeting and served as an official representative to their political organization in California from 1982 to 84. After that, he said, he was appointed as a military representative of the FDN in San Francisco, in part because Menend…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 1:01:18
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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…
▶ 5:08
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…
▶ 6:07
His decision to plead guilty and rat out Uncle Norwin could hardly be considered a surprise. Like Pena, Herrera-Menezes was debriefed by the DEA and he too implicated the Contras in Norwin's drug sales, confirming that his uncle had direct …
▶ 8:02
I would have been interested in taking him out of jail because he would have had me by the tail, Menendez said. Isn't that logical? That Herrero's bail had been paid by Danielle Blanton's sister, Laisla Balderas, who had bailed out Pena, he…
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And a few days later, another cable arrived at Langley with additional details. The attendees at the meeting would include representatives from the FDN, the UDN, and several unidentified U.S. citizens. The CIA cable reported it identified R…
▶ 1:00:47
who would represent the FDN at the Costa Rica meeting. Ronaldo Pena Cabrera was one of Norwin Menendez's San Francisco drug dealers and a friend of Dennis Ainsworth. Pena was dating Danielle Blanton's sister, Leza, and was a top official in…
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at an FDN meeting and served as an official representative to their political organization in California from 1982 to 84. After that, he said, he was appointed as a military representative of the FDN in San Francisco, in part because Menend…
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to his nephew, the guy that got arrested, Hario, who was in charge of the distribution of the family's cocaine to their dealer network. Soon, the young Contra found himself hauling cash and drugs up and down the freeway in California. Pena …
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for Menendez drug trafficking organization, the CIA inspector general reported. Each time, he says, he carried anywhere approximately a million dollars to Los Angeles and returned to San Francisco with eight kilos of cocaine. Pena said that…
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When the information about Renato Pena's involvement in the upcoming Costa Rican meeting was relayed back to Langley, CIA headquarters immediately ordered the Domestic Collections Division to halt any further investigation, allegedly becaus…
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This was during October 1982 that the FDN leaders met with Menendez in LA and San Francisco. The CIA inspector general's report is silent about what, if anything, the agency did next. Pena told CIA inspectors that the unnamed U.S. religious…
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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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When the Congress cut off the aid in 1983, these guys had nowhere else to go and they wanted to get the country back. Agents found a kilo of cocaine in the trunk of Pena's car at an apartment that belonged to Menendez's nephew, maintained i…
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Hand-to-hand sales to DEA agents and kilos in his car, Pena pleaded guilty to one count of possession of cocaine with intent to sell in 1985. He also agreed to help the government prosecute the Menendez nephew and was given a two-year sente…
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was nothing short of astonishing, which is probably why they remain sealed for the next 15 years. When debriefed by the DEA in early 1980s, Pena said that the CIA was allowing the Contras to fly drugs into the United States, sell them, and …
▶ 1:08:03
He told the DEA intelligence analyst that Menendez was indeed working for the FDN and had been using drug money to buy weapons for the Contra. He also vouched for Renata Pena's credibility. Renata Pena worked for the nephew Menendez and ran…