Frogman Case event
also: Frogman files, cocaine trafficking case, biggest cocaine bust in California's history
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Claims (4)
CIA covered_up
Frogman Case documented
“would not press the issue of the Costa Rican deposition. As the matter stands now, a CIA cable said, CIA equities are fully protected. That was actually the quote. CIA equities are fully protected. So the CIA intervened in a legal proceedin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 48:06
CIA covered_up
Frogman Case documented
“had dropped anti-ship mines in the Nicaraguan harbor, cut off all CIA funding for the Contras. Despite the CIA's effort to keep Contra involvement in the so-called Frogman case from becoming public, some of the truth got out when Carlos Cab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 55:38
Seth Rosenfeld exposed
Frogman Case documented
“They won't do it. They didn't want to respond. They didn't want to provide any information. But some information trickled out anyway, and it got awfully close to exposing the Norwin Menendez-Daniello Blanton drug operation. In the spring of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 37:35
Oliver North covered_up
Frogman Case documented
“and Rosanello got into a screaming match over the phone. On October 15th, 1986, the controversy over the Frogman files reached Oliver North's ears. 46 boxes of transcripts of Frogman case North wrote in his diary. Justice never provided. Th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 46:34
Mentions (7)
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That have also surfaced regarding the drug smuggling operations involving sprint boats operating out of Texas, Louisiana and Florida. The Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve Kerry's request for a behind the scenes investigation, bu…
▶ 37:35
They won't do it. They didn't want to respond. They didn't want to provide any information. But some information trickled out anyway, and it got awfully close to exposing the Norwin Menendez-Daniello Blanton drug operation. In the spring of…
▶ 45:07
Though the examiner's expose appeared just two days before the House of Representatives was scheduled to take up the highly controversial issue of $100 million of our money to the Contras, not a single major newspaper published this story. …
▶ 46:34
and Rosanello got into a screaming match over the phone. On October 15th, 1986, the controversy over the Frogman files reached Oliver North's ears. 46 boxes of transcripts of Frogman case North wrote in his diary. Justice never provided. Th…
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Peckham granted the defense motion to fly to Costa Rica for the purpose of taking depositions of the two people that signed the letter. Six days later, the Costa Rican CIA station fired off a cable to Langley to warn that a federal prosecut…
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which Rosanello never released or publicly admitted. A defendant in the Frogman case had made 51 phone calls to the FDN office in San Francisco. A secret 1987 DEA report states, noting that one of the confidential informants had met with th…
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In October 1984, the federal government returned the $36,000 to Avelas and Zavala. And not a moment too soon, eight days after the check was issued, the U.S. Congress, outraged by the disclosure that the CIA and the Contras…