José Daniel Contreras person
also: Arnoldo Alemán, Calero, Aldolfo Calero, Bermudez
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José Daniel Contreras member_of
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“Quote, it is clear that there is a network of drug trafficking through the Contras. And it goes right up to Calero, Aldolfo Calero and Enrique Bermudez. And we have people who will testify and who have unquote. But the idea of diving into s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 33:38
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▶ 33:38
Quote, it is clear that there is a network of drug trafficking through the Contras. And it goes right up to Calero, Aldolfo Calero and Enrique Bermudez. And we have people who will testify and who have unquote. But the idea of diving into s…
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had another major front page story in the Examiner, exposing Norwin Menendez's cocaine trafficking network and his involvement with the Contras in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Rosenfeld reported on Menendez's meeting with CIA agents Enriq…
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whom the CIA describes as playing a major role in the Contra movement. The CIA contact with the Chamarros began in 1982. Most of 82, Farns served as the southern branch of the CIA's Contra force. The FDN, the other element of it, ran by the…
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At that point, it was likely that the cocaine profits from Menendez's San Francisco operations began being used to benefit ARDE. Even then, however, the CIA retained oversight. When the Chamarros switched from the FDN to the ARDE, they simp…
▶ 15:54
Both Pastora and Bermudez were still reporting to the CIA. When Bermudez, like Bermudez, Pastora was put on the CIA's payroll, and he remained on the payroll to at least 1984. The merger between the Chamorro brothers and Pastora's group mad…
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As former Sandinistas, they hated the National Guard that made up the FDN. Pastora frequently outraged his CIA handlers by making public complaints about his allies to the North, once referring to them as criminal mummies and guerrillas. Be…
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Defense lawyers had to get a court order to force the Justice Department to reveal that the 1981 searches targeting Herrero Menendez and Julio Bermudez had even occurred. After the lawyers got the files, they accused the FBI of serious misr…