Alan Rayol Rudd person
also: Rudd, Budd
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while they themselves are doing it. Another report of Colombian cocaine being traded for U.S. weapons surfaced fewer than two years later during a 1988 debriefing of a Colombian trafficker turned government informant, Alan Rayol Rudd, who w…
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In February of 1988, memo marked sensitive, Assistant U.S. Attorney Walter Furry told his boss that Rudd is a very articulate individual and there has been no indication to date that he has not been totally candid. In a real sense, his life…
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into the United States. Rudd told the officials that in the spring of 1987, he'd met in Medellin, Colombia, with cartel boss Pablo Escobar to arrange a drug deal in the course of their conversation at Escobar's home. Rudd said the cocaine l…
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began ranting about Bush and his South Florida drug task force, which was making the cartel's delivery to Miami more difficult. Escobar then stated that Bush is a traitor who used to deal with us, but now doesn't want to. Rudd told the fede…
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which resulted in planes similar to C-130s, but smaller, with guns to the cartels in Colombia. According to Budd, Escobar stated that the cartel then offloaded the guns, put cocaine on board the planes, and the cocaine was taken to the U.S.…
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The guns were delivered and sold to the Contras in Nicaragua and to the cartels. Escobar, Rudd said, explained that it was a swap of cocaine for drugs or for guns. Rudd has stated that while Escobar did not say the CIA was involved in the e…
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being unloaded in Colombia, but he claimed to have a picture of Bush posing with meddling cartel leader Jorge Oca in front of suitcases full of money. After Escobar talked about the photograph, Rudd said that the photograph was not genuine …
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photoshopped in order to try to discredit it. In response, Escobar stated that the photograph was genuine. It would stand up to any test of its authenticity. Escobar stated that the photo would be made public at the appropriate time. Rudd i…
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By 1993, Escobar was dead. Well, that's what happens when you try to blackmail somebody like Bush. Purely coincidence. I'm sure it had nothing to do with Bush. Absolutely. Rudd's story is very similar to one told by a Miami FBI informant, W…