Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez person
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Claims (8)
U.S. Department of Justice paid
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez documented
“In Tensley's case, a judge ordered the DEA to put him back on the job with back pay plus interest. Gonzalez also was eventually victorious in his lawsuit, where the documentations related to Calumian and Vega investigation was filed as evid…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 7:45
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez member_of
DEA documented
“Fired off his memo about the Vega extortion scheme, Gonzalez also was made a target of the ensuing criminal investigation launched by Tensley, Castillo, and Gonzalez's immediate subordinate, Special Agent in Charge Ernesto Perez. Gonzalez w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 3:42
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez reassigned
Bolivia book_quoted
“for several more months. In May, federal prosecutor Crossan Anderson called Gonzalez in Costa Rica and told him to get Mr. CIA to California so he could answer questions. Gonzalez replied that he didn't think Roberto would come, but promise…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 29:43
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“Costa Rican prosecutors report had a strange experience with one of Neve's men, Sandy Gonzalez, the DEA agent who had yelled at the L.A. detective Tom Gordon about not talking on the phone through Nicaragua. Quote, information from the exis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 33:43
Joe Kelso spied_on
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
David Tensley ordered_assassination_of
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez guest_asserted
“Fired off his memo about the Vega extortion scheme, Gonzalez also was made a target of the ensuing criminal investigation launched by Tensley, Castillo, and Gonzalez's immediate subordinate, Special Agent in Charge Ernesto Perez. Gonzalez w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 3:42
David Tensley removed_from_power
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez guest_asserted
“involved in the disappearance of 10 kilos of cocaine. After he began pushing for an investigation into the missing cocaine, Gonzalez found himself the target of a series of actions of his supervisors that he claims was designed to intimidat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 6 @ 5:08
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez exposed
Colombian National Police book_quoted
“the Kent memo. Um, and he goes on to talk about how, uh, Gonzalez had laid out an entire backbone of the devil's triangle, naming names, including corrupt us law enforcement officers in the DEA, us customs and inside of the, um, Columbia po…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 7 @ 20:29
Mentions (48)
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If the Costa Rican government, which was becoming increasingly hostile to the Contras, started poking around, it wouldn't take long to discover that the drug kingpin's special relationship with the U.S. embassy would be exposed. Menendez's …
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The newspaper, Gonzalez complained, had said Menendez was being investigated by the Costa Rican government and the publicity and the specter of deportation that Menendez was afraid of. He was considering going underground, Gonzalez warned, …
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If he was supposed to be working for the DEA, they wanted him back on the job. In March 1987, Tom Shretner called DEA agent Gonzalez in Costa Rica and told him to send Roberto back to California to infiltrate the Blanton organization again.…
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Roberto wouldn't come to California without Menendez, and Menendez wouldn't come back as long as the FBI was looking for him. Gonzalez told Schretner that he was so exasperated with Menendez, he had already gotten rid of him as an informant…
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for several more months. In May, federal prosecutor Crossan Anderson called Gonzalez in Costa Rica and told him to get Mr. CIA to California so he could answer questions. Gonzalez replied that he didn't think Roberto would come, but promise…
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and the DEA may have been the only U.S. government agency in Costa Rica to have availed itself to the drug kingpin services. To hear the DEA tell it, Menendez simply walked into the U.S. embassy in Costa Rica one day, unsolicited, and annou…
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to faithfully record the official reasons behind his life-altering decision. His desire to clear up a minor problem he had with the IRS, his decision to terminate his involvement in drug trafficking, his desire to help the present administr…
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The CIA's Contra station chief was Joseph Fernandez. He was so heavily involved in the illegal Contra operations that he would be fired and indicted eventually for his participation. But there were other reasons to doubt Agent Gonzalez's st…
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whose demise at the hands of Mexican traffickers made him a hero to narcotic agents. Menendez claims he provided information that helped U.S. authorities capture one of the Mexican drug lords involved, Rafael Quintero, at a mansion outside …
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Contra office in California was a Sandinista sympathizer. Even more suspicious is the fact that DEA made no official record for at least a year that Menendez was one of their informants. The drug kingpin's name didn't show up in any DEA dat…
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by saying that the trafficker initially refused to sign a DEA informant registration. Gonzalez admitted that it was unusual, but allowed because Menendez's background and his potential. In truth, it was because Menendez was wanted by the FB…
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The idea of a DEA-CIA swapping agents and providing cover for each other is not hard to believe. The agencies had adjoining offices in the U.S. Embassy in San Jose. DEA agents assigned to Costa Rica in the 80s told Justice of having a great…
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Sanchez told CIA inspectors that while Menendez was living in Costa Rica, he was dealing drugs for the Contras, an activity that seemed starkly at odds with the main function of a DEA informant. Even Menendez's handler, Sandy Gonzalez, susp…
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who had just got there from Europe. Like Norwin, the CIA man was in Costa Rica posing as an informant for the DEA. Agent Gonzalez told Justice Department inspectors in 1997 that Menendez's CIA sidekick, whom the drug lord introduced to othe…
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The DEA agent, Gonzalez, told the Justice Department that, quote, planned to use Menendez only to introduce other informants into Bland's organization, unquote, reportedly because he thought Menendez would be difficult to control. But now, …
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cry. Gordon called up Ronald Lister's file next. It was short and sweet. He was an ex-policeman who was under an active DEA investigation. The case was so active, he noticed, that Lister's file was less than a month old. But all of the deta…
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DEA agent Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez, U.S. Embassy, Costa Rica. The name of the agent who owned Blanton. Something didn't add up. Lister lived in Orange County. Blanton lived in San Bernardino County. Why would a Costa Rican DEA agent have the…
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Agent Gonzalez to find out what was going on. The reaction he got was memorable. Gonzalez goes through the ceiling, Gordon said. He starts screaming on the phone line that the phone lines are going through Nicaragua and he shouldn't be call…
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Now the detective was really baffled. So what if the phone lines went through Nicaragua? They probably went through a lot of places. What was the big deal? Gordon didn't hear from Gonzalez for five days. And when the DEA agent finally calle…
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Local DEA agent will let you read the info. Sandy cannot talk on the phone because all the lines run through Nicaragua. Sandy asked that you don't mention anything in your search warrant affidavit. There's those Nicaraguan phone lines again…
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have been burned. It hadn't even started. The case was still sitting on the top of his desk. Nobody had done anything except run a couple of computer checks and no one besides Gary Gussetta and now the DEA even knew about the majors working…
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Costa Rican prosecutors report had a strange experience with one of Neve's men, Sandy Gonzalez, the DEA agent who had yelled at the L.A. detective Tom Gordon about not talking on the phone through Nicaragua. Quote, information from the exis…
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were transmitted by Tracy to an official of the DEA with the surname of Gonzalez in Costa Rica, but they were not investigated on account of the leak of information from that same agent. So anytime the DEA guys got someone caught on to what…
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a route being flown so that they could get out before they got caught. And that's according to the Costa Rican police. Gonzalez and Neves were never charged with a crime, either in Costa Rica or the United States, and the allegations were n…
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strongly believes that the DEA agents stationed in Costa Rica during the Contra War were not what they appeared. Quote, in my opinion, both Neves and Sandy Gonzalez were connected with the CIA. There is no doubt, she insisted, you aren't go…
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Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…
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It says that he did exactly what the Costa Rican DEA agent Sandy Gonzalez said not to do. He drove down to the L.A. County Municipal Court before a judge and applied for a warrant to search all of the Nicaraguan drug operation that was goin…
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And the word that he received back is that they were all cocaine smugglers. Ainsworth told this to the FBI. During one of Ainsworth's trips to Washington in 1985, I went to see some friends of mine and started asking some questions. One fri…
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Gonzalez from San Jose, Costa Rica, told of the results of a debriefing of a confidential informant. Ainsworth's heart sank as he read it. The informant related that Menendez Costasero, Edmundo's younger brother, was presently residing in S…
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was unfounded. Nine days. Washington, D.C. can't tie their shoe in nine days. The author goes on and says, even stranger, about this claim is that Sandalio Gonzalez, the former second-in-command of DEA's Miami Field Division, where the Bogo…
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of the key witnesses in the Miami office was ever talked to. The DEA Commander Gonzalez told the author, quote, the information in the memo is accurate as far as I know from my involvement in some of the cases and reflect a climate of cover…
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All are included as exhibits in the litigation file. And it was in a court case in Miami with Sadalio Gonzalez, which was a former high-ranking supervisor in the DEA Miami office. He happened to be Tensley's supervisor. After Bogota, DEA Ch…
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Fired off his memo about the Vega extortion scheme, Gonzalez also was made a target of the ensuing criminal investigation launched by Tensley, Castillo, and Gonzalez's immediate subordinate, Special Agent in Charge Ernesto Perez. Gonzalez w…
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at the time of the Cali Man operation, but was far up the chain from Tensley, so he wasn't mentioned in this memo. Gonzalez was targeted in a criminal probe, he claims, in retaliation for raising questions about what was going on. Quote, he…
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The case that Gonzalez says made the DEA ticked off at him involved a large quantity of cocaine that turned up missing following a November 98 search of a suburban Miami house by the DEA Miami-Dade police. In the aftermath of the search, th…
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involved in the disappearance of 10 kilos of cocaine. After he began pushing for an investigation into the missing cocaine, Gonzalez found himself the target of a series of actions of his supervisors that he claims was designed to intimidat…
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He ultimately ended up in a federal court in Miami as a result. In addition to suffering retaliation and harassment, Gonzalez says in his lawsuit in January of 2001, he was transferred involuntarily to the outpost at El Paso, Texas, which i…
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Or don't. The criminal investigation launched in the wake of Aragorn's memo targeting Gonzalez, Perez, Tensley, and Casillo went nowhere. That's because Vega's extortion scheme was not a criminal plot, but actually turned out to be part of …
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that he claimed. At any rate, when he was brought up on tax charges, the government found only $1.5 million in his bank account. Where'd the rest of it go? After the criminal probe in the Vega case was shut down, the DEA, Office of Professi…
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the investigation into the operation went nowhere. The internal investigation led to agents Tensley and Castillo being suspended and later fired by the DEA. After a very long multi-year fight, they had to reinstate them in 2004. So they wer…
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In Tensley's case, a judge ordered the DEA to put him back on the job with back pay plus interest. Gonzalez also was eventually victorious in his lawsuit, where the documentations related to Calumian and Vega investigation was filed as evid…
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to settle that case. So there's no downside for them. They can fire people at will and then use our tax dollars when they eventually lose in court if somebody's lucky enough to be able to prove what they're saying is true. Gonzalez was tran…
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There was also an incident while he was in El Paso where a U.S. attorney in San Antonio, Johnny Sutton, and a DEA administrator, Karen Tandy, conspired against him as well. That cover-up was hatched after Gonzalez sent a memo to his counter…
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played in allowing a dozen people to be tortured and murdered in a Mexican border town of Cuenadad, Juarez. The drug war tragedy has since become known as the House of Death. Chapter 17, The Devil's Cartel. Baroque Vega had been working as …
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Dieters might not have been aware of it, given that other reporting in Narco News, you know, they read that thing like the back of their book to know what they know about them. Come on, not buying it. Sandalio Gonzalez, prior to becoming an…
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in the Office of International Operations from 95 to 98. He's very familiar with the DEA operations. Gonzalez is very upfront about his assessment of whether the U.S. Embassy leaks led to the downing of the aircraft. His comments were, quot…
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Well, naturally, because he's in the National Police. You don't survive there unless you are corrupt, especially at this time. All the traffickers that were surrendering and talking to the U.S. government while Vega was working on it spoke …
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the Kent memo. Um, and he goes on to talk about how, uh, Gonzalez had laid out an entire backbone of the devil's triangle, naming names, including corrupt us law enforcement officers in the DEA, us customs and inside of the, um, Columbia po…