Sebastian Gonzalez person
also: Gonzalez, retired DEA commander, Gonzalez, Gatchin Gonzalez
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Claims (8)
Sebastian Gonzalez trafficked
CIA documented
“According to a handwritten note on the CIA cable, Brother Winston was barking up the right tree. Quote, if the truth be told, we had reason to believe that Gonzalez had been involved in drugs for about a year and a half ago, for as long as …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 22:53
Sebastian Gonzalez member_of
Contras documented
“Gonzalez had worked for the CIA since 1983 as the Panamanian quartermaster for all Costa Rican Contra armies, supplying supplies and deliveries from Noriega's armed forces because they were using Noriega as a drop-off point to supply the Co…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 11:11
Sebastian Gonzalez supplied_arms_to
Contras documented
“Gonzalez had worked for the CIA since 1983 as the Panamanian quartermaster for all Costa Rican Contra armies, supplying supplies and deliveries from Noriega's armed forces because they were using Noriega as a drop-off point to supply the Co…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 11:11
Norwin Menendez trafficked
Sebastian Gonzalez documented
“The CIA knows a lot of these crooks. I mean, the CIA knows. As it turned out, Swenson was right. A 1998 CIA inspector general report confirmed that as early as 1984, the agency had information tying Menendez to a drug and arms network in Co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 16:02
Manuel Noriega provided_bridge_financing_for
Sebastian Gonzalez documented
“Having recently fled Costa Rica after he and the FARN's logistics chief were caught with 600 grams of cocaine in a house in Costa Rica. Gonzalez was overheard calling Pereira from his hideout in Panama, where he had been living under the pr…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 10:39
Sebastian Gonzalez ordered_assassination_of
Hugo Spadafora documented
“Now he's surrounded because he comes over here. He's finished, Gonzalez said. Yes, Perino replied. If he shows up over there, you'll get him. The district attorney in the Pandemanian province where Spadafora was murdered ordered Gonzalez ar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 17:34
Norwin Menendez trafficked
Sebastian Gonzalez documented
“this Sebastian Gonzalez Mendetta in Costa Rica. It was reported that Menendez owned a restaurant, because they all do, in which Gonzalez might have had a financial interest. According to the cable, Menendez, Gonzalez, and Munkle were all we…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 12:12
Sebastian Gonzalez carried_out_attack
Teofilo Watson host_asserted
“I had agreed or made a plan with Mr. Watson to steal the drugs, Carlton said. Carlton suspected that the Costa Rican Contra leader, Sebastian Gonzalez, and his strange M3 Contra group had done Watson in, leading him into an ambush at an air…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 12:30
Mentions (21)
▶ 9:39
the chief logistics guy, and the personal assistants of the commander, Shamaro, Guillermo Bolt, a CIA-trained Contra pilot who flew for Edan Pastora's ARDE Contra group, and Sebastian Gonzalez, the man in charge of the Panamanian logistics …
▶ 10:10
During one conversation, a caller mentioned that Gonzalez was building a cocaine processing lab in Panama and hinted that he was kicking back $25 million a month to Panamanian authorities to do business there. Pereira's wiretaps were an int…
▶ 10:39
Having recently fled Costa Rica after he and the FARN's logistics chief were caught with 600 grams of cocaine in a house in Costa Rica. Gonzalez was overheard calling Pereira from his hideout in Panama, where he had been living under the pr…
▶ 11:11
Gonzalez had worked for the CIA since 1983 as the Panamanian quartermaster for all Costa Rican Contra armies, supplying supplies and deliveries from Noriega's armed forces because they were using Noriega as a drop-off point to supply the Co…
▶ 11:40
to the Contras. According to a 1998 CIA report, Norwin Menendez was known to be involved in drug trafficking activities of Gonzalez. In a 1984 cable from the Costa Rican CIA station to Langley, Menendez said there was another trafficker, Tu…
▶ 12:12
this Sebastian Gonzalez Mendetta in Costa Rica. It was reported that Menendez owned a restaurant, because they all do, in which Gonzalez might have had a financial interest. According to the cable, Menendez, Gonzalez, and Munkle were all we…
▶ 14:44
Perera never served a day of his sentence. He was released on bail and disappeared. Menendez said his friend was chopped into tiny bits in Guatemala a few years later when he became embroiled in a dispute over a drug debt. The Costa Rican g…
▶ 15:05
and Torrio Sanchez might have been expected to put a crimp in the cocaine trafficking in that small nation. After all, Costa Rica's biggest dealer, Pereira, was out of business. Gonzalez was on the run, and their supplier, Norwin Menendez, …
▶ 16:02
The CIA knows a lot of these crooks. I mean, the CIA knows. As it turned out, Swenson was right. A 1998 CIA inspector general report confirmed that as early as 1984, the agency had information tying Menendez to a drug and arms network in Co…
▶ 12:30
I had agreed or made a plan with Mr. Watson to steal the drugs, Carlton said. Carlton suspected that the Costa Rican Contra leader, Sebastian Gonzalez, and his strange M3 Contra group had done Watson in, leading him into an ambush at an air…
▶ 14:49
gave Spadafora the names of other pilots involved and the dates of specific drug flights through Costa Rica. He also implicated Noriega's high school buddy, Gatchin Gonzalez, who was then hiding out in Panama from a Costa Rican cocaine indi…
▶ 15:38
And San Jose was quickly relayed back to the CIA headquarters in Langley, which was informed that Hugo Spadafora had made quote-unquote vague allegations to DEA that Gonzalez, Manuel Noriega, and other Contra leaders were engaged in drug tr…
▶ 16:04
met Spadafora twice, and Spadafora had promised that he would provide evidence of drug trafficking by Gonzalez. If Neves needed a way to confirm the doctor's explosive claims, he had just the man to do it. His deep cover informant, none oth…
▶ 16:34
that Spadafora was trying to unmask, Gonzalez. Somehow, Menendez's lieutenants got wind that Spadafora was planning, and they began devising a counterattack. During their investigation of Menendez's aide, Horacio Perina, the Costa Rican pol…
▶ 17:04
So they're eavesdropping and listening to them plotting this guy's murder. Costa Rican newspaper obtained copies of the tapes and printed transcripts. One ploy Gonzalez and Perina battled around was paying a witness in one of the provinces …
▶ 17:34
Now he's surrounded because he comes over here. He's finished, Gonzalez said. Yes, Perino replied. If he shows up over there, you'll get him. The district attorney in the Pandemanian province where Spadafora was murdered ordered Gonzalez ar…
▶ 18:01
He strenuously denied any involvement in the death, but Spadafora's family remains convinced Gonzalez played a major role. I mean, he's on tape planning it. Though Noriega apparently felt the information Spadafora possessed was important en…
▶ 22:25
A month after Spadafora's killing, Noriega's men contacted the CIA and asked for help in diffusing an effort by family members of the slain rebel to implicate Noriega in drug trafficking. The CIA cable discussed putting Gonzalez on a popula…
▶ 22:53
According to a handwritten note on the CIA cable, Brother Winston was barking up the right tree. Quote, if the truth be told, we had reason to believe that Gonzalez had been involved in drugs for about a year and a half ago, for as long as …
▶ 23:23
Gonzalez's drug dealings as far back as October 1983, after Spadafora had informed him that Noriega was smuggling drugs with the Contras and that Gonzalez was involved. The agent said his CIA supervisor simply replied that CIA had heard som…
▶ 23:51
The good doctor had the bad luck of being murdered at a potentially inconvenient time. It was in no one's interest right then, Noriega's or the U.S. government, to delve too deeply into the crime for fear that it would expose the apparent c…