Shrimp Company organization
also: the shrimp company
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Rob Owensperson · 5Nunezperson · 5Ramon Millian Rodriguezperson · 4Medellin Cartelorganization · 4Ocean Hunterorganization · 3CIAintelligence service · 3Felipe Vidalperson · 3Francesco Velez Sainzperson · 2John Kerryperson · 2Francesco Chainsperson · 2Carrascoperson · 1Oliver Northperson · 1Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Officeorganization · 1Joseph Fernandezperson · 1John Hallperson · 1Edwin Rodriguezperson · 1
Claims (3)
Medellin Cartel financed_via
Shrimp Company documented
“when he and $5 million in cash were taken off a Learjet bound for Panama. The shrimp company, he testified, was one of the interlocking chain of companies he'd created to launder all of the cash that was pouring in into the cartel's coppers…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 47:51
Carrasco exposed
Shrimp Company documented
“As a U.S. government witness, Carrasco testified that the shrimp company was being used by the Contras during the war as a front to bring cocaine into the United States and finance their war effort. To make sure I understand, this is a ques…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 52:11
Felipe Vidal member_of
Shrimp Company documented
“and to gather intelligence. These boats could be acquired by the U.S. government, Vidal wrote, noting that existing connections with high-ranking officials in the DEA would facilitate the purchase of the boats. The cost of these boats with …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 59:46
Mentions (21)
▶ 46:26
to be directly over the drug traffickers that Fernandez and the CIA couldn't be seen with because of congressional oversight. He was assigned to monitor the contract with Costa Rican shrimp company called, I'm not even going to try to prono…
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that the shrimp companies in Latin America was critical for contraband coming into the United States. This consisted of a small fleet of fishing boats based in the Pacific Coast village of Pantorinas. And as an import company in Miami, Ocea…
▶ 47:22
In reality, however, it was a firm owned and operated by Cuban-American drug traffickers, meaning ocean hunters and the shrimp company. The conclusion was based partly on congressional testimony of former Medellin cartel accountant Ramon Mi…
▶ 47:51
when he and $5 million in cash were taken off a Learjet bound for Panama. The shrimp company, he testified, was one of the interlocking chain of companies he'd created to launder all of the cash that was pouring in into the cartel's coppers…
▶ 48:21
clean and ready to go in a bank. In 1982, the shrimp company was taken over by a group of major Miami-based drug dealers. Quote, were payments or arrangements made by which the Contras would receive money through the shrimp company? Unquote…
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I, through my intermediaries, made it possible. Was any of the money that you provided the shrimp company traceable to drugs or drug-related transactions, Carey asked? No, sir. Why was that? Because we were experts at what we do. Millian, a…
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But Calero is hardly a credible source when it comes to Contra fundraising. He denied for many years that the Contras ever got any money from the CIA or worked with Oliver North, which we know always lies. The FBI first picked up word of th…
▶ 52:11
As a U.S. government witness, Carrasco testified that the shrimp company was being used by the Contras during the war as a front to bring cocaine into the United States and finance their war effort. To make sure I understand, this is a ques…
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It did, the pilot said. So how could a company started by the Medellin cartel and used as a front to run drug into America ever wind up with a contract from the U.S. Department of State Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office? Yes, they c…
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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…
▶ 54:07
who was suspected by Interpol of being a drug trafficker as well as a CIA operative. Another man involved in the shrimp company was exiled Nicaraguan lawyer Francesco Velez Sainz. He was a CIA asset who claimed that $36,000 that police seiz…
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And from like 10 chapters ago, the frogman thing where they found the money in the drawer beside the bed and somebody claimed it was for the Contras and they had to give it back. This is the same guy, by the way. Same guy. Just shows up in …
▶ 55:00
notarized affidavits submitted by the shrimp company to obtain payment from the State Department. Owen claimed the shrimp company was used mainly for an international bank account, serving as one of the several Central American brokers for …
▶ 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…
▶ 56:00
to the shrimp company, bank records showed, was wired out in a never explained transfers to banks, where? Israel and South Korea. Yep. Oh boy. When the USGAO audited the Nicaraguan humanitarian account, broker's account, it was unable to tr…
▶ 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…
▶ 57:51
testified that the FBI never answered his letters of inquiry. So it is fair to say then that you were the one that suggested these gentlemen be utilized. No one was asked during a deposition. It is fair to say in consultation with U.S. inte…
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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…
▶ 59:18
devised a plan for a small, professionally managed rebel naval force that would serve as a supply line for the Contras, an intelligence gathering operation, and a transportation unit to infiltrate into Nicaraguan's mainland areas. Fidel rec…
▶ 59:46
and to gather intelligence. These boats could be acquired by the U.S. government, Vidal wrote, noting that existing connections with high-ranking officials in the DEA would facilitate the purchase of the boats. The cost of these boats with …