Nestor Pino person
also: Colonel Nestor Pino, Colonel Pena, Nestor Pino Marina, Pena, Pino
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Claims (2)
Nestor Pino recruited
Jose Bueso Rosa documented
“In the summer of 1986, the Honduran attorney flew to Washington and met with Colonel Pena, who began a vigorous lobbying campaign at State and Justice to turn Bolsa Rosa loose, even though he had been indicted for racketeering conspiracy an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 39:14
Nestor Pino recruited
Jose Bueso Rosa documented
“North wrote, quote, for a short period, days or weeks, and then walk free, unquote. How's that for justice? The Justice Department official, Mark Richard, who met with North to discuss the case, said he was told that Rosa was going to go in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 43:08
Mentions (14)
▶ 18:18
That's where you get that information from. Before undertaking that mission, they said, they sought to obtain an approval of two State Department officials in Washington. William R. Bode, who at the time was a special assistant to the Under…
▶ 18:48
Air Force security expert who knows both of those men personally believes Bode and Pino were CIA agents working under the State Department cover on the Contra project with Oliver North. That office was CIA through and through, he said. Whea…
▶ 19:19
During the 1985 and 86, there is some independent evidence to suggest Wheaton's conclusions. In an interview with Iran-Contra investigators, former CIA Central American Task Force Chief Alan Fiers admitted that he and North, in late 1985, d…
▶ 19:48
you spell his name B-O-D-E, and a company called Falcon Wings Incorporated. What that program involved is not known. The restifier's interview was censored because of quote-unquote national security. Undersecretary of State William Snyder t…
▶ 21:13
In an interview with Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Welch's office, Walch, sorry, Pino confirmed that he and Bode met with North to discuss the purchase of the speedboats. During that meeting, Pino said, North unexpectedly announced that h…
▶ 21:40
But he said his impression was that the phrase was common usage in the military before an inspection. I've had a lot of inspections in the military. I've never, ever said I was going to jail. Just saying. Colonel Pena, another Bay of Pigs v…
▶ 22:11
on the Civil War in El Salvador, you know, where we were training the death squads and then pretended they were a political party. Pena was a close friend of former CIA agent, the star of our show, Felix Rodriguez, who was overseeing Norse …
▶ 22:40
Like Rodriguez, Pino was close to the Salvadoran Air Force General Rafael Bustillo, the guy who ran El Opengo Air Base. Pino referred to Bustillo as family, and the Salvadoran general sometimes stayed at Pino's house in Virginia when he was…
▶ 23:41
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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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…
▶ 26:08
are in concert with and complementary of U.S. policy for Afghanistan and that Colonel Gritz and Mr. Weakley saw it that way, too. Unquote. Their activities, Pino declared, were inspired by a strong desire to support the Afghan resistance ag…
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Southwest Regional Director of the U.S. Customs Service, to the National Security Council, and to a defense contractor by the name of United Technologies. The agents broke the news to federal prosecutor Kortash, who was not pleased. The sto…
▶ 43:08
North wrote, quote, for a short period, days or weeks, and then walk free, unquote. How's that for justice? The Justice Department official, Mark Richard, who met with North to discuss the case, said he was told that Rosa was going to go in…
▶ 49:01
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…