Doug Auckland person
also: Auckland, Doug Auckland, Douglas Auklan
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“The FBI agent had been investigating and sent him back to Costa Rica, all without letting him know. Auckland was staking out Blanton's auto dealerships at the time of the meeting, and he watched for eight straight days as an unidentified ma…”
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▶ 7:26
Despite the overall failure of the raids and the departure of the majors, FBI agent Douglas Auckland and DEA agent Tom Shretner kept working. If they couldn't get their respective agencies to help them investigate the Nicaraguan drug ring, …
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Auckland was temporarily assigned to work on Operation Front Door, the FBI's codename for the Iran-Contra probe, in order to look into possible connections between Lister and Oliver North. Auckland interviewed a retired Secret Service agent…
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Auckland question Lister's realtor who told of Lister buying a house last summer with two sacks full of cash. When the realtor asked Lister where the money came from, Lister informed him that he ran a quote unquote CIA approved security bus…
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When Auckland finally got to Lister, he asked him point blank if he was involved in training of Contras. Lister denied knowing anything about North, clammed up and, quote, requested that an unidentified representative of another agency be p…
▶ 20:11
What is most strange about these meetings between contra traffickers and the CIA agent is the fact that FBI agent Doug Auckland, who was supposedly leading the investigation, was never told of them until afterwards. Under Auckland's nose, t…
▶ 20:38
The FBI agent had been investigating and sent him back to Costa Rica, all without letting him know. Auckland was staking out Blanton's auto dealerships at the time of the meeting, and he watched for eight straight days as an unidentified ma…
▶ 21:07
Only later was Auckland told who the mystery man was. It was Norwin Menendez. And let me just tell you guys, even back then when we didn't have facial recognition, they had a flipping photograph. There's no way Norwin Menendez, the kingpin,…
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that he was particularly angry that he didn't get a chance to debrief Menendez and had only last-minute notice that he could speak to the CIA agent, Roberto. The Justice Department IG reported this. Supposedly outraged, Auckland shot a cabl…
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He was done. He wasn't cut out to be an informant, he decided. As long as the FBI was trying to indict him, he would never go back to the U.S. and would never testify against anyone, he said. Furious that they had been duped. I don't think …
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had put together enough evidence to indict Menendez for running a continuing criminal enterprise, a racketeering offense that carries possible life term. That would fix both his ass and the DEA's for good. Norwin's informant days would be o…
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It was once again up to the Riverside agents, Auckland and Shretner, though their investigation had been burned, undermined, compromised, and backstabbed at every step. They still thought they had a few options. For instance, they had Menen…
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as in the other drug source of cocaine. Only after months of pressure from the DEA headquarters did Roberto finally agree to come to LA and meet with Shretner and Auckland. According to Auckland, the operative quickly made it clear that he …
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Even though the FBI had shelved a promising case against Menendez in San Francisco to ensure his cooperation, the drug lord had proven virtually worthless. Auckland criticized the DEA in his case closing memorandum and later interviews with…
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Without the assistance, further efforts will not be worthwhile, unquote. Auckland was frustrated with the case, he told the Justice Department. He was glad to get rid of it. He was not getting sufficient help from the FBI in Los Angeles, Mi…
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Then Shredder dropped a new bombshell on Tom Gordon. The DEA wasn't the only federal agency that had their eye on Blanton. Just a few days earlier, Shredder related he'd met with an FBI agent named Douglas Auklan, A-U-K-L-A-N, whose office …
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the same as what had happened to Shredner. Auckland was sitting in his office, minding his own business, when a stranger came in off the street with a story right out of the movies. A monster drug ring ran by high-ranking Contras pouring co…
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According to Auckland's official report of the encounter, the man said the ring was being ran by Blanton and Menendez, who imported the cocaine from Colombia through Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and was one of the largest distributors o…
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anti-crack laws that came out of Washington that summer, a product of the congressional stampede whipped up by all the lurid propaganda the media was carrying for the CIA. It was a self-propelling cyclone with obvious benefits for both fore…
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He knew a major crime when he saw one. His informant was believable. He had a lot of details, lots of valuable information, things that could only have come from inside the operation. Auckland checked on Menendez with his counterparts in Sa…
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which they had no intentions of doing because that U.S. attorney is the one hiding Menendez. Convinced that his informant was reliable, Auckland went to his superiors in Riverside and to his supervisors in Los Angeles and pleaded for permis…
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He couldn't work on something like this inside the FBI. He also wanted a PIN register put on Blanton's phones, and he'd need surveillance teams to set up stash locations that the informant had given him. Auckland got permission to start an …
▶ 16:35
a blatant obstruction of justice. I'm going with option C. After LA Deputy Tom Gordon solved the lay of the land, he decided the majors weren't going to wait for the feds to get off their duffs. His crew could handle the bad boys themselves…
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He now had three independent sources telling the same story. The majors had enough evidence to obtain a search warrant and bust the operation. Gordon told the FBI agent, and that was what they were going to do. Once it became clear that Gor…
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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…