ARDE organization
also: ADAR, ARDE Contra group, Ejército Revolucionario de la Democracia, Army of National Resistance, ARDN, ARD
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FARN member_of
ARDE documented
“was also involved. But in September of that year, when the former Sandinista commander Petora announced that he was taking up arms against his old Sandinista colleagues, Farn jumped ship, leaving the FDN and officially uniting with Pastora'…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 14:55
CIA funded
ARDE documented
“At that point, it was likely that the cocaine profits from Menendez's San Francisco operations began being used to benefit ARDE. Even then, however, the CIA retained oversight. When the Chamarros switched from the FDN to the ARDE, they simp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 15:25
Mentions (15)
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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 …
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CIA records and declassified testimony of former CIA officials who oversaw the Contra program in Nicaragua confirm that the intelligence agency began receiving reports of drug trafficking from Edan Pastora's ARDE faction in late 1984. In a …
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In March of 1984, Cesar and two other contra officials who had close ties to the CIA's ARDE logistics chief, Aldolfo Chamorro, and the Air Force commander, Marcos Awando, met with a major Colombian drug trafficker named George Morales at hi…
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Another Blanton associate who came to Pastora's aid after the CIA cutoff was Nicaraguan pediatrician named Dr. Felix Sabario, who Pastora said volunteered to become his representative to the anti-communist Cuban community in southern Florid…
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This is from Pastora. Blanton and Sabario vanished from my ranks when it became clear that I was not willing to march to the CIA's tune. Blanton's interest in helping ARDE always mystified him because I knew he had been with the FDN from th…
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Eden Pastora remains the only Contra commander the U.S. has ever officially admitted was involved in the drug money. A few months after the AP story appeared, Pastora quit the Contra war and became a fisherman. The CIA linked ARDE commander…
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Fernandez confirmed to Congress in 1987 that the CIA decided to diminish Pastora's influence and raise up the statue of Chamorro. What we needed to do was put Pastora aside and at the same time enhance the organization that we were supporti…
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from friendly nations. Shortly after that, a bomb went off at an ARDE commander's jungle headquarters, Eden Pastora. During a press conference, wounding Pastora, killing and injuring a number of his ARDE militants and journalists. This thre…
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Edan Pastora's top aide at the ARDE. Quote, I say that because I knew him very well. A lot of times I went to DIA CSA in Miami. Unquote. Prado has a reason to know. In 1985, CIA cable described DIA CSA as the cover company used by the Costa…
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was also involved. But in September of that year, when the former Sandinista commander Petora announced that he was taking up arms against his old Sandinista colleagues, Farn jumped ship, leaving the FDN and officially uniting with Pastora'…
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At that point, it was likely that the cocaine profits from Menendez's San Francisco operations began being used to benefit ARDE. Even then, however, the CIA retained oversight. When the Chamarros switched from the FDN to the ARDE, they simp…
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Both Pastora and Bermudez were still reporting to the CIA. When Bermudez, like Bermudez, Pastora was put on the CIA's payroll, and he remained on the payroll to at least 1984. The merger between the Chamorro brothers and Pastora's group mad…
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but also staging operations from Costa Rica. Until 1985, only the indigenous people and the ARDC operated from Costa Rica. But then both groups kind of tried to get together. The indigenous divided internally felt that they had been used by…
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ARDE had been crippled by the attempted assassination on Pastora, plus charges that senior commanders were running drugs, which of course they were not. The CIA and FDN disliked Pastora because he wouldn't take their drug money. True, Robel…
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Without Pastora, the followers would not stay there. Any idea the FDN could step in and gain allegiance to these rebels was non-existent because they hated the FDN because those were the National Guard from the former Somoza regime. Calero …