Rudy Castillo person
also: Castillo, the good DEA guy, Castillo's investigation
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Claims (5)
Edwin Corr covered_up
Rudy Castillo host_asserted
“He's sending all of his information to Edwin Corr, the ambassador. He was sending regular reports. And Corr later said that he thought that Castillo was a very professional and good agent and had no reason to doubt anything that he was tell…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 9:17
Lawrence Walsh covered_up
Rudy Castillo host_asserted
“outside his purview. And he also stated that he knew Senator John Kerry's Senate subcommittee was investigating it. But it appears that Walsh's office never passed the Rudd memo to John Kerry. Castillo's investigation, that's the good DEA g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 6:47
CIA covered_up
Rudy Castillo host_asserted
“was helpful and had been informant for the CIA. And soon after he put Castillo on Grasham's trail, fingering him as the head of smuggling operations, the CIA basically took over the entire thing. Castillo's boss, Robert Stia, S-T-I-A, said,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 16:16
DEA removed_from_power
Rudy Castillo host_asserted
“back-channel cable to the State Department requesting an internal DEA review of Castillo's allegation. The DEA, he said, informed him that a lot of Castillo's information was inaccurate. What he's seeing with his own eyes, that's inaccurate…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 10:15
DEA covered_up
Rudy Castillo host_asserted
“by the DEA. He spent the next five years fending off accusations that he had gotten too close to Central American informants and accepted improper gifts, inappropriately handled firearms, and a number of other administrative failures. Casti…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 18:45
Mentions (24)
▶ 6:47
outside his purview. And he also stated that he knew Senator John Kerry's Senate subcommittee was investigating it. But it appears that Walsh's office never passed the Rudd memo to John Kerry. Castillo's investigation, that's the good DEA g…
▶ 7:17
thanks to the activities of the American ambassador to El Salvador, Edwin Corr, C-O-R-R, to whom Castillo was regularly reporting. Corr... Excuse me, Colonel, if I can interrupt for a second. Sure. They're having sound issues over on Rumble…
▶ 8:13
They did what they thought was appropriate. Meanwhile, John Kerry is investigating all of this stuff in another Kabuki committee hearing. And the DOJ is sending everything to Walsh, but he's not sending it to John Kerry. So it's a big botto…
▶ 9:17
He's sending all of his information to Edwin Corr, the ambassador. He was sending regular reports. And Corr later said that he thought that Castillo was a very professional and good agent and had no reason to doubt anything that he was tell…
▶ 9:47
Because his investigation had the potential to, quote, unquote, destroy relationships with the Salvadoran officials that had taken so long to build, unquote. Now, keep in mind, the Salvadoran officials he's talking about is the guy running …
▶ 10:15
back-channel cable to the State Department requesting an internal DEA review of Castillo's allegation. The DEA, he said, informed him that a lot of Castillo's information was inaccurate. What he's seeing with his own eyes, that's inaccurate…
▶ 10:44
The headstrong agent continued to snoop around the airport and make allegations until the ambassador was personally forced to take matters into his own hands. Port said that he ordered Castillo to stop the quote unquote witch hunt and warne…
▶ 11:14
He's saying things he's seeing with his own eyes. They're telling him he's not seeing what he's seeing with his own eyes. Just what was false about the allegation Castillo was investigating was not clear. Indeed, his information had been co…
▶ 11:46
was less a request for him to investigate it than it was a cover for the DEA office in Costa Rica in case there was ever an investigation. So they can say they said it, they just didn't want him to actually investigate it. Since Castillo ha…
▶ 12:14
BEF, the top DEA official in the country where the drug flights were originating. If, as Menendez's aide Miranda claims, the Ilopango operation was part of Menendez's drug pipeline into the United States, Castillo's probe might have raised …
▶ 12:44
Denied access to the military side of Ilopango, Castillo settled on another tactic. He would hit an off-base location linked to the operation. He and his informants zeroed in on a likely suspect, a New York weapons dealer and U.S. military …
▶ 13:44
Again, the death squad. He was also advising and training Salvadoran army units in long-range reconnaissance operations on behalf of the U.S. government. One of Castillo's informants, sorry about that, at Ilopengo told him Grasham was intim…
▶ 14:16
And Castillo claims that DEA computers turned up several references to him as a suspected drug trafficker, as well as weapons trafficking. On September 1st, 1986, Salvadoran police working with Castillo's raided Grasham's elegant hillside h…
▶ 14:46
Some of the rooms in the home had munition explosives piled up to the ceiling, including automatic weapons, M-16s, hand grenades, and C-4 explosives, which are the exact same components in most Gladio stashes. Castillo later told the FBI th…
▶ 15:15
Castillo showed Grasham's U.S. Embassy ID to interviewers. Grasham, who says the weapons were legally his, strenuously denied he had anything to do with the Contras or drugs, and believes Castillo was duped by his informants, whom he says w…
▶ 15:46
The person who claimed I was a drug trafficker was on the payroll of the CIA, as most drug traffickers are that we found. I've never been involved with drugs, even though it was in its file. The marijuana found at his house, he said, probab…
▶ 16:16
was helpful and had been informant for the CIA. And soon after he put Castillo on Grasham's trail, fingering him as the head of smuggling operations, the CIA basically took over the entire thing. Castillo's boss, Robert Stia, S-T-I-A, said,…
▶ 16:48
He was asked by the CIA station chief in El Salvador to relinquish use of several different informants. The station chief had explained that the CIA had established an informant network before the new Castillo DEA had showed up and wanted t…
▶ 17:16
Though Castillo's 1986 investigation was killed, he picked up word three years later that hangar number five at Ilopango was once again being used for drug trafficking, this time by members of the Salvadoran Air Force. He opened up another …
▶ 17:44
He had a reputation, this is a quote, reputation as a man who is always digging things up, unquote. That was actually a quote in the DOJ's IG report. What do you have DEA agents for in a foreign country if they're not supposed to be digging…
▶ 18:14
when Castillo asked how he was supposed to investigate drug trafficking allegations if he couldn't go anywhere near it. A CIA officer told Castillo that it was not necessary because the CIA had taken over the case. The CIA station chief ass…
▶ 18:45
by the DEA. He spent the next five years fending off accusations that he had gotten too close to Central American informants and accepted improper gifts, inappropriately handled firearms, and a number of other administrative failures. Casti…
▶ 19:14
In his 1994 memoirs, he blamed the fallout because of his investigation at Ilo Pango. The DEA declined to respond to any of the accusations he made, and in its response to Afoya, it claimed it had no reports from Castillo about drug traffic…
▶ 19:44
And what was said about Castillo and the air base over the years, it was a lie. The Justice Department IG had no trouble locating the agent's reports and quoting from them liberally. The squashing of Castillo's investigation ended any offic…