Scott Weakley person
also: Mr. Weakley, Weekly, Dr. Death, Scott Weekly, Weakley, Mr. Death
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Claims (13)
Steve Korotash covered_up
Scott Weakley documented
“When Weakley explained the C4 had been safely detonated in the Nevada desert, he said the prosecutors offered him a deal. If he kept quiet and pled guilty to illegally transporting the C4 to Las Vegas, he would be released on unsupervised p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 50:24
Wayne Allen covered_up
Scott Weakley documented
“Commending Weakley for his help in other investigations was withdrawn at the last minute. Judge Wayne Allen told Weakley that it appeared that he was simply trying to protect the names of others. That's your privilege, but it comes at a cos…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 56:11
Scott Weakley member_of
CIA documented
“reading transcripts of his telephone conversations. Those transcripts said that Scott Weakley was connected not only to the CIA, but to the NSC and the State Department as well, because he was dealing with this Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Nor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:04:01
Richard Norton spied_on
Scott Weakley documented
“Norton confronted that that's the attorney asking the questions, confronted Richard with two sheets of lined paper filled with handwritten notes. Just tell me what this is, Norton asked. Is that your handwriting? First of all, Richard said,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 33:03
Scott Weakley member_of
National Security Council documented
“reading transcripts of his telephone conversations. Those transcripts said that Scott Weakley was connected not only to the CIA, but to the NSC and the State Department as well, because he was dealing with this Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Nor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:04:01
Scott Weakley member_of
James Bo Gritz documented
“of a relationship to the CIA and Hasenfuss. And for those of you who haven't listened to the earlier versions, Hasenfuss was the sole survivor of the CIA aircraft shot down over Nicaragua. And the exportation of explosives to the countries.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 34:26
Scott Weakley member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“reading transcripts of his telephone conversations. Those transcripts said that Scott Weakley was connected not only to the CIA, but to the NSC and the State Department as well, because he was dealing with this Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Nor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:04:01
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Scott Weakley documented
“Where does that sound familiar? In every single Latin American country. According to court records, similar promises of leniencies were made to Scott Weakley to keep him quiet about his involvement with Bode, Pino, and the quote-unquote ent…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 49:01
Scott Weakley member_of
James Bo Gritz documented
“at a downtown Holiday Inn. Weakley had just returned from his latest POW hunt with Bo Gritz, allegedly on behalf of the National Security Council, but he discovered that the agents, accompanied by Oklahoma City Federal Prosecutor Steve Koro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 49:55
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Scott Weakley host_asserted
“did not appear to have been turned over, nor were Weakley's phone records made available to Walsh's office, which again is obstruction of justice. While no evidence has surfaced suggesting the State Department officials Boat and Pinion knew…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 36:21
Scott Weakley spied_on
George H.W. Bush host_asserted
“tied into the CIA and Hassan bus said he reports to people reporting to Bush. What does that mean? This is his response. I don't know what that post means, but apparently there was a tape recording. This is a matter which had just arisen in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 33:57
Scott Weakley supplied_arms_to
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross host_asserted
“He has developed a large organization which handles weapon sales, cocaine shipments, and business enterprises, and as a result, has used the cash to buy real estate, commercial, and residential. Now, again, Ricky Ross was not supplying the …”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 36:07
Ron Lister spied_on
Scott Weakley speculative
“Incorporated, which happens to be an international barter brokerage company owned by none other than Scott Weekly, Mr. Death. Whether the DEA was using Weekly's company as a cover or if Lister was also spying on Weekly is not clear. Whateve…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 1:05:13
Mentions (41)
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He has developed a large organization which handles weapon sales, cocaine shipments, and business enterprises, and as a result, has used the cash to buy real estate, commercial, and residential. Now, again, Ricky Ross was not supplying the …
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Deputy Juarez described some of the paperwork as containing references about a Mr. Weakley and his contact in Iran relating to hostages. He saw training manuals and training films for state-of-the-art weapons like Stinger missiles, tanks, a…
▶ 38:44
they documented how the Contra officials were stealing money and perhaps laundering it through the Cayman Islands. She had sent, the sister had sent Daniello copies because she thought it would amuse him at the level of corruption of the Co…
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Weekly's name was found on a sheet of handwritten paper dealing with weapons and equipment sales. The documents involved a list of armaments, anti-aircraft weapons, firebombs, a thousand AR-15s, air-to-sea torpedoes, and napalm bombs. The n…
▶ 39:49
Arpasio, Lister had written FDN coordinator. Another list of names included Bill Nelson, the CIA former deputy director of operations, Salvadoran politician Roberto de Albruson, that's the guy that was basically functioning as their preside…
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Scott Weakley. In another document Lister had written, I had a regular meeting with DIA subcontractor Scott Weakley. Scott had worked in El Salvador for us. That was what was written on the note. Meeting concern my relationship with Contra …
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Information provided to FBI Los Angeles indicates the subject, Ronald J. Lister, had made statements concerning his CIA contact, identified Mr. Lister also was Mr. Weekly. Investigations has also identified documents indicating that Lister …
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only on Menendez and Morella. The DEA claimed it didn't know anything at all. But that didn't stop the Riverside FBI agent, Doug Auckland, from digging a little further. He decided to do some checking on Mr. Weakley, Ron Lister's alleged CI…
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The agent told Sergeant Hoffman in mid-January 1987, can't confirm weekly is or isn't CIA connected, unquote. But that was only because Auckland wasn't asking the right people, his own bosses in Washington. By then, record show senior offic…
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reading transcripts of his telephone conversations. Those transcripts said that Scott Weakley was connected not only to the CIA, but to the NSC and the State Department as well, because he was dealing with this Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Nor…
▶ 0:49
Scott Weakley in Chapter 18. Scott Weakley was an arms dealer in San Diego. He worked and was exposed by Ron Lister, who also was an arms dealer. Ron Lister kept saying when he was questioned by the local police that he was working for the …
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Chapter 19. It didn't take the FBI very long to figure out who Scott Weakley was. Weakley had been something of an inadvertent celebrity back in 1983. Readily available was a story in the Los Angeles Times that gave him a nickname called Dr…
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Kind of a tough little guy, said Ron Lister's longtime attorney, Lynn Ball. Quote, he got busted out of the Naval Academy and entered the service as an enlisted man, which basically means he got. So when you go to the Academy, you have to s…
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He went on to become, once he was forced to enlist, to become a Navy SEAL. Then after he got out, he had some friends in Virginia. Essentially, Scott was involved in the same kind of bullshit that Ron was, providing, quote unquote, providin…
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A federal public defender told a judge in 1987 that Weakley was, quote, some sort of a combination between John Wayne and Rambo and Oliver North, perhaps, and even James Bond. He does have an involvement, a lengthy involvement in some rathe…
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Oh, sorry, demerits. That's how he got kicked out. He joined the SEALs, the Navy's most elite band of fighters, and became a demolition and weapons expert, thus earning him a living when he got out. He was awarded two Bronze Stars in Vietna…
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The U.S. Customs agent told federal investigators that Weakley's stint with the Navy SEALs gave him, quote, unquote, contacts in the intelligence community, including the CIA and NSA, unquote. In 1983, he and several other Americans were ar…
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Also, given satellite photos and other intelligence data, the operation was codenamed Grand Eagle. Dr. Death, Weakley, was Gritz's right-hand man. In congressional testimony, Gritz said that Grand Eagle was officially shelved after a bureau…
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of DIA, Admiral Alan Paulson, confirmed to Congress that a Department of Defense organization proposed an operation using Mr. Gritz in a collection capacity, but Paulson said the operation was turned down at the first level of approval. The…
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the ironic codename Operation Lazarus. Weakley's contributions, according to a 1983 Soldier of Fortune magazine story, included having silencers altered to fit a 9mm submachine gun to be used by the team. The first mission in November of 19…
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As he prepared to make another stab at infiltrating Laos in early 1983, word of his mission was leaked to Soldier of Fortune magazine and picked up by the Los Angeles Time and Boston Globe. Exposed, Gritz and his squad were arrested by Thai…
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anti-terrorism expert and the daughter of a missing U.S. pilot were jailed and held for trial. In a letter to the LA Times, Grits said that the CIA and DIA both knew of the mission and provided him with the gear. Both agencies disavowed any…
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Rinald was convicted of fraud and sentenced to an astonishing 80 years in federal prison. When a police investigator asked Scott Weakley in 1996 about his relationship with the CIA, Weakley replied that it really didn't matter what answer h…
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In 1998, the CIA Inspector General reported it could find no evidence that Weekly had any relationship with the CIA. Another officer tried to check out Weekly's military background by calling the Office of Veteran Affairs in Los Angeles. Ac…
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He quickly informed me that due to provisions of the Privacy Act, only the fact that he was a veteran could be confirmed. No information about the length of service, branch, or MOS, which is what his job would have been, could be released w…
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to the L.A. Major's drug investigation that, quote, Mr. Weekly knows what I'm doing, unquote. It is difficult to say with certainty if Weekly knew of Lister's cocaine dealings with Danielle O'Blanton. Weekly denies it. But there is no doubt…
▶ 15:17
On the flip side of Blanton's criminal enterprise, the sale of exotic weapons and communication gear, some of which was being sold to freeway Ricky and his fellow craft dealers in South Central Los Angeles. A U.S. customs agent, John Kellog…
▶ 15:45
And how did you come to that belief, he was asked. Kellogg was asked by a federal judge that exact question. Though his various contacts with me and his foreign travels, Kellogg said, he would come by after several months absence and come i…
▶ 16:16
the customs agency. According to interviews Weakley did with the ATF agents in 1987, he admitted that he had been involved with the Contras in the past. A U.S. customs official told the ATF that Weakley was acting at the directions of custo…
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Lister confirmed that he, quote, often met with Scott Weekly because Weekly was very knowledgeable in the area of commercially available military-related systems, unquote. He said Weekly was a dependable source of information as to which sy…
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Evidence surfaced suggesting that Lister's description wasn't far off the mark. At the time Lister made that claim, Scott Weakley was participating in at least two covert operations involving the National Security Council and a special unit…
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Cuban mercenaries working on the southern front. So in other words, he was one of the key coordinators for the entire Contra operation. Gritz testified that he approached Bode and Pena to discuss the Afghan training program he and Weakley w…
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I would call him excited. He said that not only did he approve the proposal, but that he would provide other Afghan groups, since there was a division of about six or seven subgroups, that he would provide other people for us to train also.…
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Grits said. Bode said that that had to be shortened to 30 days, quote, and eliminated some of the classes that he felt were too sensitive for the Mujahideen at the time. It included various secure communication courses that we planned to gi…
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The State Department has provided cover for more CIA operations over the years than any other government entity, except maybe the military. Bode's assistant, Nestor Pino, also denied that he had officially authorized the missions. But he sa…
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into the United States. Braun's motion linked the Blanton family to the crash that Hassan Foss C-123 drug plane in Nicaragua in October 86. In other words, he's going for broke here. The same crash Scott Weakley claimed on tape that he'd be…
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nor allowed him to discuss any information of the CIA's involvement or that of any other government entity. But Lister said there was another motive behind the prosecutor's lack of curiosity about that topic. In a letter to his CIA contact,…
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Written while Lister was in prison in 1990, Lister said his debriefers are purposely staying away from anyone who might be connected to the agency. They would like to tell them who they can't get because of national security. Lister informe…
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The 20th, 10 days after the verdicts in the first big spender case, that's all of the L.A. sheriffs and deputies were handed down. Ron Lister was released from federal custody and sent out into the world as an undercover DEA informant to in…
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He was also unconcerned, he said, that he had declined federal protection because he was not afraid because, again, he works for the CIA. He told the Columbians that he did not need any protection since he and his associate, Scott Weakley, …
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through Weekly's company, Marcon Corporation, which they said was set up to launder money for narcotics and weapons. Defendant intended to sell weapons as well. Weekly insisted Marcon was a legitimate trading company. In any event, no charg…