Joseph Fernandez person
also: Joe Fernandez, Fernandez, Fernando, Political Action Chief Joe Fernandez, CIA's Contra station chief
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Claims (12)
CIA covered_up
Joseph Fernandez book_quoted
“The CIA discovered as early as April 86 that Joe Fernandez supported Norse operation, but the agency took no steps to bring this back to the attention of the oversight bodies. Again, only a month earlier, the agency's analysts had produced …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 32:45
Joseph Fernandez supplied_arms_to
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“from the CIA that's not involved. Station Chief Joe Fernandez had been involved since March of 85. Fernandez now used his KL-45 to report the success of the L-100 deliveries to the Southern Front. Ambassador Tams knew that Fernandez had the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 38:42
Joseph Fernandez funded
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“Some of this might be permitted by the 1985 Intelligence Authorization Act, which allowed cooperation with the Contras. But Fernandez went well beyond that to the point of basically supplying all the support to include weapons into the Cont…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 39:36
Joseph Fernandez member_of
The Enterprise book_quoted
“but eventually gave him the fuel anyway because Joe Fernandez stepped in. Relations between Felix Rodriguez and the Enterprise was very rocky. Rodriguez asked what had happened to the Salvadoran end-user certificates for the missiles, only …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 6:11
Joseph Fernandez approved
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare documented
“Joe Fernandez and about a dozen other DO officers all approved the manual. No one objected. They supposedly, when they were asked, deleted some shit. But not the assassinations? Not the martyr piece? What the hell was in it if that's what w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 37:07
William Casey reprimanded
Joseph Fernandez documented
“The Intelligence Oversight Board pretended to do an investigation. Again, Casey's methods were called into question. Casey escaped the heat by reprimanding a half dozen officers, including Chief of Base Doty and Political Action Chief Joe F…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 38:33
Lawrence Walsh ordered_assassination_of
Joseph Fernandez documented
“who was later forced to resign from the CIA for his illegal involvement in the Contras. Fernandez was indicted by Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but the charges were dropped when the U.S. attorney, Richard Thunberg, refused to decla…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 38:32
Joe Kelso spied_on
Joseph Fernandez guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
Joseph Fernandez covered_up
Eden Pastora documented
“And the chief of the Central American Task Force wanted the declassified hearing transcripts that they wanted. That's according to declassified hearing transcripts. Quote, I objected to it in cable traffic in person and it was deemed necess…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 31:48
Joseph Fernandez spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“like we're still pretending that the CIA works for the State Department. Ha ha! The other nodes on the net were Norse NSC office, Secord, GAD, Calero, Southern Air Transport, Rafael Quintero, and Felix Rodriguez. Fernandez subsequently prov…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 39:10
Joseph Fernandez spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Felix also got work crews to fix up his house, and the embassy expedited paperwork for Felix Quintero. From the CIA came the vital cooperation of Joe Fernandez, who sent his drop zone list through Quintero. The degree of CIA involvement hel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 59:29
Joseph Fernandez member_of
CIA documented
“Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 38:07
Mentions (56)
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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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When it came time to dispose of him, Pastora said, the CIA leaked the information that he was getting help from drug dealers, both to drain his support in the U.S. and to make him the fall guy for the cocaine trafficking being done by the C…
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Fernandez disputed Astor's claim. We attempted to diminish his influence by showing other political leaders that he was irresponsible and so forth, but never did we ever use narcotics or even the rumor of narcotics trafficking or anything l…
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In congressional testimony, former Costa Rican liaison chief, excuse me, station chief Joe Fernandez and fires once ordered him to use two suspected drug trafficking in a still secret CIA operation involving the Contras. Quote, for politica…
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And the chief of the Central American Task Force wanted the declassified hearing transcripts that they wanted. That's according to declassified hearing transcripts. Quote, I objected to it in cable traffic in person and it was deemed necess…
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So basically, they're describing setting up Pastora because he wouldn't play ball with the CIA. He was also asked by Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. But in your mind, it went beyond allegations, didn't it? Fernandez said, yes, sir. Redacte…
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Cesar and Chamorro quickly joined forces with his remaining army at the behest of the CIA. Pastor's claim of a CIA plot becomes even more believable when one considers who the agency selected to replace him. Chamorro, his arch enemy, who ha…
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was creating a very difficult situation. The CIA station chief, Joe Fernandez, was reported to Langley. They said that they were catching flack from both Costa Rican government and the U.S. ambassador to get those people under control. And …
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CIA officer Fernandez testified that the last time I remember Chamorro being inside of Nicaragua was 1983 when he crossed the border and was attacked. And if you can imagine a guard post, a guard house, 30 meters or 30 yards inside of Nicar…
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on the side and dialed me in Washington DC headquarters asking for them to attack the guard shack with mortars. So help me God, Fernandez said. And I asked him, where the hell are you calling from? And he said, from the guard post at whatev…
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Fernandez went on to say this was no joke. He called our outside line. The lawmakers were apparently so amused by Fernando's story that none of them thought to ask why the CIA continued to train and finance these clowns. But Chamorro and co…
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If Menendez wanted to help the Reagan administration, he'd come to the right place. The U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica was the nerve center for all of their covert operations in the Contra War. And these included a number of illegal C…
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I saw that happen in other ways in other places with other agencies. FIRE's boss at the CIA was Claire George. And he echoed, I suffer from the bureaucrat's disease that when people call me and say I am calling from the White House for the …
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Quote, to a GS-15, this guy talks to God, right? Unquote. Fernandez said of North during a secret congressional hearing in 1987, quote, obviously I knew where he worked in the executive office building. He got tremendous access. I mean, Nor…
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trusted courier in Central America, zigzagging through the war zone for Ali, listening to concerns of the Contras. Owen's work had drawn rave reviews from the CIA contacts. That man has all the attributes that we want in our officers, Ferna…
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Owen, in 1989, court testimony admitted that there was probably there was a possibility that I might have gone with the CIA on contract. Yeah, just a possibility. But because Owen was a private citizen, Fernandez said he couldn't legally se…
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Oh, my gosh. Rob Owen's mission was to serve as the CIA's unofficial liaison to drug traffickers and other undesirables who were helping the Contras in Costa Rica, people who were too dirty for the CIA to deal with directly. He was going to…
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Fernandez testified that he testified that they were leery of these people because Bob Owen had an entree with them. And now, thanks to his humanitarian office job at the State Department, he had official entree because he was now basically…
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In addition to distributing State Department money to the Costa Ricas, Nunes was also permitting the shrimp company to be used by Oliver North and the CIA station chief, Fernandez, as a cover for a secret maritime operation that they were r…
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by April 1986, and would soon be running several trips a week. So, obviously, they got the boats. Curiously, the Iran-Contra investigations barely looked at this clandestine operation, which was a clear violation of the Boland Amendment, si…
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Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…
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who was later forced to resign from the CIA for his illegal involvement in the Contras. Fernandez was indicted by Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but the charges were dropped when the U.S. attorney, Richard Thunberg, refused to decla…
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called Guardian Technologies. And guess who owned that? Lieutenant Colonel Fricking North. And the guy that ran the CIA office in Costa Rica, none other than Joe Fernandez. So this bastard ordered the death of an American, wanted to kill hi…
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never spent a day in jail, and when he retires from being a dirty DEA agent, he gets rewarded by the guy he was actually working for, CIA, Joe Fernandez, and Lieutenant Colonel North. That's the end of that story. Bridget got dropped again.…
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were responsible for Central America and their jobs involved keeping in touch with the Department of Defense and other government agencies to determine what U.S. assistance programs would work. One of those programs appeared to have been th…
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Exile leader Edgar Chamorro met with the chief gruner and his head of political operations, Joseph Fernandez, to plan a sort of Congress of perhaps about 20 Nicaraguans, in which Bermudez would merely be one voice. In early December, a new …
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The FDN board selected a recent exile, Adolfo Calero, as its chairman. Calero was soon known to be the public face of the Contras. Dewey Claridge met the board a month later going to Miami with Gruner and Fernandez in tow. The FDN publicize…
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Joe Fernandez and about a dozen other DO officers all approved the manual. No one objected. They supposedly, when they were asked, deleted some shit. But not the assassinations? Not the martyr piece? What the hell was in it if that's what w…
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The Intelligence Oversight Board pretended to do an investigation. Again, Casey's methods were called into question. Casey escaped the heat by reprimanding a half dozen officers, including Chief of Base Doty and Political Action Chief Joe F…
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The Nicaraguan operation, Tom Gilligan, who thought Reagan had bullied Congress into supporting the project and Congress had set rules designed to make it fail, opted instead for a less prestigious slot as an agency recruiter in New England…
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despite his reprimand for the Contra Psychological Warfare Manual, got the call to Costa Rica as station chief. So the guy responsible for the Psychological Warfare Manual talking about all kinds of shit, to include torture, is going to get…
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Again, Robert Hall is, that's where the DEA agent group is going to be working out of the CIA office for him. And they're running Contra out of Costa Rica. Fernandez was a stickler for detail on the political action beat. He had made sure e…
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Fernandez had seven kids. Gilligan ran into him in a church parking lot one Sunday. Gilligan wondered why Fernandez would jump into the quagmire, especially since Joe had already served his time. Gilligan recalls, quote, because he said tha…
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had talked to Oliver North, purporting to speak for the RIG. North gave Tams the task of getting the Southern Front moving again. Elliott Abrams gave no such order, according to the author, nor did Secretary Shultz in his written instructio…
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From the beginning, there was a security breach just waiting to happen. This secret airstrip could be seen from the air by planes using the standard air approach into the Capitol's airport. A security breach did occur. The instigator was El…
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not a word about the plantation. Abrams finally asked, what about that airfield? Both Abrams and Tams saw the CIA station chief turn colors. He thought he was going to have a coronary attack. Fernandez took Abrams aside, indicating his offi…
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North told Secord that fires seem to have found religion. Secord heard rumors that Casey had come down hard on the task force chief. Secord wanted regular updates on the Sandinista troop movements and air defenses. Casey's reply has not bee…
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that enabled North to communicate privately with them. Again, that's CIA. Those are their devices. Rafael Quintero told Fernandez the sophisticated coding devices produced were actually contracted by the NSA for deployable units for the CIA…
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The CIA discovered as early as April 86 that Joe Fernandez supported Norse operation, but the agency took no steps to bring this back to the attention of the oversight bodies. Again, only a month earlier, the agency's analysts had produced …
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once found the Contras in decline, except they weren't. Oh, the Contras, yes, they were. That April, when incoming division chief Jerry Gruner came through Central America to familiarize himself with the players and problems, Joe Fernandez …
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A month later, when he raised the same issue at a regional session, Fiers knew nothing about the links, and Gruner apparently had not mentioned it to him. B.S. On May 28th, Fiers cabled Fernandez that Langley approved advice, communications…
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from the CIA that's not involved. Station Chief Joe Fernandez had been involved since March of 85. Fernandez now used his KL-45 to report the success of the L-100 deliveries to the Southern Front. Ambassador Tams knew that Fernandez had the…
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like we're still pretending that the CIA works for the State Department. Ha ha! The other nodes on the net were Norse NSC office, Secord, GAD, Calero, Southern Air Transport, Rafael Quintero, and Felix Rodriguez. Fernandez subsequently prov…
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Some of this might be permitted by the 1985 Intelligence Authorization Act, which allowed cooperation with the Contras. But Fernandez went well beyond that to the point of basically supplying all the support to include weapons into the Cont…
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KL-43 message to North, in which he reported the L-100 drop, another drop for the indigenous people, and a dispatch of new Contra recruits forwarded with, quote, all remaining cached lethal material, unquote. You know, like they're setting …
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and intervened several times when Dutton's people were locked out of the airfield. Still allowed Felix Rodriguez access to the encryption machines provided him a military car and advisory group identification. He also made him a deputy in n…
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May 21st, Quintero informed Dutton that the CIA officers were saying that they could not talk to Secord's people at all. That applied to Bill Cooper's crew and presumably enjoined CIA Joe Fernandez from helping. Secord went to North, who fo…
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my old company, to check out other aircraft that they could quote-unquote borrow. Cooper's crew also made their first successful airdrop to the southern front with Buzz Sawyer flying that aircraft. The C-7 had such a short range that after …
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Telephone calls between San Salvador and Washington complemented every active flight program. Drop zones remained elusive. But in August, Fernandez managed another mission to the Southern Front. Again, the aircraft landed at San Jose, where…
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As part of that visit, Dutton went along on a supply flight, another abortive mission that found no one. It was rainy. The ceiling was barely 1,500 feet. The plane searched for an hour. And by the KL-43, the encrypted device, on September 9…
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perpetrated on the Sandinistas in 1984. They hadn't forgotten. Joe Fernandez wired Dunton demanding damage control. North, then John Poindexter, intervened with justice to delay FBI and Customs investigation of Southern Air Transport, where…
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as the State Department. Removing that would clearly be misleading if George was to tell Congress, as he did, that the CIA knew nothing about the Contra Supply Network. When Jerry Gruner told the deputy that Joe Fernandez admitted phone rec…
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It must have appealed to fires that Atkins had been an inspiring young person. He had gone home to West Virginia and been a state trooper and had an affinity point with Joe Fernandez, a detective sergeant with the Miami-Dade Police Departme…
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where he became an advisor to Vang Pao and his clandestine army, where he had acquired a reputation playing a key role in the offensive at the Plain of Jars. By 1970, Atkins had had enough. He transferred to the Western Hemisphere and learn…
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and Atkins ended up hanging out with Joe Fernandez while they both learned of their fates. They received reprimands and were fired by the new CIA director, which generally means they were just going to be hired back as contract officers. Po…
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Webster then decided to reprimand Claridge and drop him a grade. Both retired, but he fired Alan Fiers and secured resignments from Jim Adkins and Joe Fernandez. Now, again, as a reminder, that doesn't mean they went away. That is a paperwo…