Murder of Hugo Spadafora event
also: Spadafora's murder, the killing, the doctor's gruesome death, murder of Dr. Hugo Spadaforto
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Manuel Noriegaperson · 8Hugo Spadaforaperson · 7Costa Ricacountry · 7Panamacountry · 6CIAintelligence service · 5Sebastian Gonzalezperson · 5Manfred Hoffmanperson · 2Reagan administrationorganization · 2Jose Blantonperson · 2Robert Nevesperson · 2Horacio Perinaperson · 2DEAintelligence service · 2Nicholas Barlettaperson · 1Gustavo Gaviriaperson · 1Richard Lugarperson · 1John Poindexterperson · 1The New York Timesorganization · 1Norman Baileyperson · 1Senate Foreign Relations Committeeorganization · 1Fuerza Democrática Nacionalorganization · 1Indiacountry · 1
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CIA covered_up
Murder of Hugo Spadafora documented
“helped Noriega plant false media reports about who actually killed Spadafora. Jose Blanton, then Noriega's consul general in New York, told Congress that he and Noriega discussed Spadafora's murder a few weeks after the body was found durin…”
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Mentions (13)
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Nicholas Barletta announced an immediate investigation into his murder. It was to be one of Barletta's last official acts. A few weeks later, he was forced to resign by Manuel Noriega, the commander of the country's military. And the promis…
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by a Panamanian court in 1993. The New York Times in June of 1986 story that first exposed Noriega as a drug dealer and money launderer cited Spadafore's murder as an example of why U.S. government officials were growing tired of the tyrant…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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did not try to contact me again. And the only thing that I asked was for protection for myself and my family. And at that time, I had no problems with the American justice system, unquote. Judging from the DEA's response to a freedom of inf…
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helped Noriega plant false media reports about who actually killed Spadafora. Jose Blanton, then Noriega's consul general in New York, told Congress that he and Noriega discussed Spadafora's murder a few weeks after the body was found durin…
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Especially, he was interested in the developments regarding a witness by the name of Hoffman. It was a witness of German origin who appeared on Panamanian television saying that he knew who had killed Spadafora and publicly said that Spadaf…
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was a witness who was created by Noriega, and he was obtained through the CIA operating in Costa Rica. Blanton testified to this. He is a specialist in electronics, and he worked for the CIA. Blanton describes the episode as an absurd farce…
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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…
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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…
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Billions of dollars in $50 and $100 bills, money that Bailey concluded had come from criminal activities. Bailey set off on a quest to persuade Reagan administration to distance itself from Noriega, pressing his reports into the hands of Re…
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At the request of the Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, Perry gave the committee a list of areas that needed investigation, among them the murder of Dr. Hugo Spadaforto by Contras engaged in drug smuggl…