Nunez person
also: Nunes, Nunez
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Rob Owensperson · 6CIAintelligence service · 5Shrimp Companyorganization · 5National Security Councilorganization · 3Francesco Chainsperson · 3Philip Vidalperson · 2Costa Ricacountry · 2Joseph Fernandezperson · 2Fernando Gabeiraperson · 1Boland Amendmentsorganization · 1U.S. Customs Serviceorganization · 1Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Officeorganization · 1Iran-Contra affairevent · 1Felipe Vidalperson · 1Miamiplace · 1Ocean Hunterorganization · 1Louis DuPartperson · 1John Hallperson · 1
Claims (7)
Rob Owens recruited
Nunez documented
“The people that were involved in Ocean Hunter in Costa Rica were ones that had been helpful to the cause. Owen testified in 1988 civil deposition. He identified those helpful souls as Frank Chains, the Miami Cuban who had been reported to t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 53:42
Nunez member_of
CIA documented
“may have been because its Costa Rican manager, Nunez, was a CIA agent himself. John Hall, the CIA's Costa Rican liaison for the Contras, confirmed in an interview that Nunez was working with the agency as an intelligence source, and in a 19…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 58:21
CIA recruited
Nunez host_asserted
“Most of the strange activity was occurring with the knowledge and apparent approval of CIA Station Chief Fernando and other CIA agents in Costa Rica. So they basically embedded this guy into the Costa Rican drug operations so they could get…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:04:02
CIA spied_on
Nunez documented
“shed light on that question when CIA interrogated him in March of 1987 about allegations that he had been dealing drugs in Costa Rica through a shrimp company. Thanks to a DEA seizure, the CIA already knew that Nunez's partner in the firm w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:04:29
Nunez member_of
National Security Council documented
“Nunes revealed that since 85, he had engaged in a clandestine relationship with the NSC. Nunes refused to elaborate on the nature of these actions, but indicated it was difficult to answer questions relating to the involvement in narcotic t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:04:53
CIA covered_up
Nunez documented
“Nunes revealed that since 85, he had engaged in a clandestine relationship with the NSC. Nunes refused to elaborate on the nature of these actions, but indicated it was difficult to answer questions relating to the involvement in narcotic t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:04:53
CIA shielded
Nunez documented
“It shielded both Nunes and Vidal from criminal investigation into drug trafficking and money laundering. At various times, the CIA told U.S. Customs and DEA that it had no information on any of it. The CIA's Directorate of Operation, which …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:07:15
Mentions (17)
▶ 53:42
The people that were involved in Ocean Hunter in Costa Rica were ones that had been helpful to the cause. Owen testified in 1988 civil deposition. He identified those helpful souls as Frank Chains, the Miami Cuban who had been reported to t…
▶ 55:30
in only 1986. Quote, we needed an account in Miami that the State Department money could be deposited to. There were consistent financial transactions between Miami and Costa Rica between Frank, Chans, and Nunez. They had been helpful and s…
▶ 56:29
Of $4.4 million that went into the account, less than a million dollars could be tracked. And much of that was for payoffs of Honduran military officials. The rest was traced to offshore banks and then disappeared. Owen insisted that the tr…
▶ 56:57
U.S. intelligence sources were involved in Costa Rica to provide a check and balance on this, he said. They would be knowledgeable. They knew the lay of the ground. I thought it important and appropriate to talk with them, Owens testified. …
▶ 58:21
may have been because its Costa Rican manager, Nunez, was a CIA agent himself. John Hall, the CIA's Costa Rican liaison for the Contras, confirmed in an interview that Nunez was working with the agency as an intelligence source, and in a 19…
▶ 58:50
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…
▶ 1:01:12
What has been had taken place and the people are now out. He said five small boats were being constructed and a safe house in Costa Rica had been rented on a river which flows into the ocean. Nunez, a Cuban who was in the shrimping business…
▶ 1:01:40
He is willing to have Americans come work for him undercover to advise on the operation. If we can get two shrimp boats, Nunes is willing to front a shrimping operation on the Atlantic coast as well. These boats can be used as motherships. …
▶ 1:02:36
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…
▶ 1:03:08
with supposedly anti-drug agencies, both in America and Costa Rica. Nunes got to be known by our authorities as a collaborator of the DEA and other police bodies. This was said in a Costa Rican prosecutor's report in 1989. Adding that the C…
▶ 1:03:38
Department of Narcotics provided funds and vehicles for anti-drug units and went out on raids with them, though his effectiveness was somewhat questionable. The report said he blew a four-month investigation of a Colombian drug ring by maki…
▶ 1:04:02
Most of the strange activity was occurring with the knowledge and apparent approval of CIA Station Chief Fernando and other CIA agents in Costa Rica. So they basically embedded this guy into the Costa Rican drug operations so they could get…
▶ 1:04:29
shed light on that question when CIA interrogated him in March of 1987 about allegations that he had been dealing drugs in Costa Rica through a shrimp company. Thanks to a DEA seizure, the CIA already knew that Nunez's partner in the firm w…
▶ 1:04:53
Nunes revealed that since 85, he had engaged in a clandestine relationship with the NSC. Nunes refused to elaborate on the nature of these actions, but indicated it was difficult to answer questions relating to the involvement in narcotic t…
▶ 1:05:20
The agency's position is not to get involved in this matter and to turn it over to others because it had nothing to do with the agency, but with the National Security Council, but with the National Security Council. That came from former CI…
▶ 1:06:17
who ran the Contra project at the time, confirmed that Nunes' questioning was stopped because of the NSC connection and the possibility that it could be somehow connected to North, otherwise known as the Iran-Contra affair. The CIA made the…
▶ 1:07:15
It shielded both Nunes and Vidal from criminal investigation into drug trafficking and money laundering. At various times, the CIA told U.S. Customs and DEA that it had no information on any of it. The CIA's Directorate of Operation, which …