Barry Seal plane crash event
also: cargo plane... shot down in Nicaragua
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Contrasorganization · 4Nicaraguacountry · 2United Statescountry · 1Barry Sealperson · 1El Pangoplace · 1
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Julio Blanton, the ex-slumlord, stored cocaine in his apartment. Gordon's affidavit was pure political dynamite. At the time, the Contras were the hottest story in the country. Less than three weeks earlier, drug smuggler Barry Seal and his…
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Since then, new revelations about illegal U.S. government involvement in the Contra War had been appearing in the media almost daily. The White House, the State Department, and the CIA had immediately denied that the cargo plane, which was …
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aircraft wreck. The Sandinistas announced that the flight crew had not been flying with what we call in the business clean pockets. And that came from the CIA officer that was in charge of the Contra program. Quote, they had all sorts of po…
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to win congressional approval for the $100 million the CIA needed to put us in the hot seats, taxpayers funding their Contra war. When the cargo plane went down, the new aid bill was in the final stages of passage in Congress. The Reagan ad…