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Claims (137)
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were involved in Iran-Contra. These are the s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 59 - '1983 BEIRUT MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING' - EP.429 @ 42:52
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair documented
“at Palmer to an account in Switzerland used by Oliver North for Contra fundraising for arms deals and the Iran portion of the Iran Contra. The money would go from this foundation account at Palmer to an account in another Washington bank co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 25:31
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Contras documented
“These certificates are sworn declarations in which the government buying the weapons certifies that it really did order them. It is supposed to provide the U.S. government with some assurance that American-made weapons aren't ending up in t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 26:27
Oliver North financed_via
Contras documented
“could compromise the Nicaraguan Sandinista government for drug money laundering. In other words, they want to frame the Nicaraguan government. The client turned out to be former Medellin cartel accountant Ramon Milan Rodriguez, the man who …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 17:26
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council documented
“would earn him a minor place in history, a footnote to one of America's worst scandals, the Iran-Contra. His case would be cited by the Congressional Iran-Contra committees as an example of how Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Nation…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 20:55
Stefan Halper funded
Oliver North documented
“Underneath the heading, North wrote Halper's name, along with the name of Chris Lehman, the brother of the former Secretary of Navy. When Halper was asked about it, quote, we at the time thought we might be able to help him, North, in the d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 33:23
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“The Gulf and Caribbean Foundation hired Michael Ledeen to write a booklet on the situation in Latin America. Michael Ledeen has come up several times in our conversations as well. They were focused on Nicaragua. Ledeen was a part-time advis…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 26:06
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“Also, Rob Owens, and if you remember Rob Owens, Rob Owens is the guy that was Oliver Norse. We've talked about him in Gary Webb's book. Rob Owens is the guy that was Oliver Norse's right-hand man that they stuck in the State Department unde…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 33:44
Oliver North recruited
Sergio Brule documented
“North then wrote that Weiland wants Woodworth to proceed with a meeting with Sergio Brule, B-R-U-L-L, in Miami. The next line was set off in quote marks by North. Quote, White House, underlined twice by North, is interested in moving on Pro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 35:19
Oliver North received_call_from
Alan Fiers documented
“asked whether Buffalo did business with the CIA. Sheehy said, absolutely not. However, there's an entry in Oliver North's White House notebook that indicates otherwise. On March 21st, 1985, North received a phone call from Alan Fiers, the d…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 19:58
Oliver North interceded_for
Jose Bueso Rosa host_asserted
“General Jose Rosa, a senior officer who had worked with the CIA Contra operation. They're all involved. As arrested, was arrested and charged with masterminding the coup, which was to be financed with cocaine profits. After the arrest, Whit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 16:24
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Civilian Military Assistance book_quoted
“It absolutely is. I'll get it back to you. Okay. So I'm going to say this again because this just blew my mind. Enrolled in the Contra supply effort by first the DIA and then Oliver North, CMA volunteer work in patrolling the Arizona border…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414 @ 1:14:35
Oliver North recruited
Richard Garner documented
“Richard Gad, G-A-D-D, who was pushed by Oliver North into Contra support operations despite a CIA's warning that his background would set off alarms. Accused by another ex-CIA operative of big profits in ripoff, Gad, through his firm East, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 39:59
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 16:43
Oliver North member_of
Jimmy Lyon documented
“is mentioned several times in Oliver North's White House diaries. North wrote Ryan's name in his diary at least four times, including one entry regarding a telephone call from Richard Miller, a major Contra fundraiser, on February 1st, 1985…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 30:01
Oliver North applied_to
CIA book_quoted
“That's what happened. So basically, they staged a fight to prove that North was fine. Corson also knew that North fretted over the potential loss of his military career, and he hadn't even started it yet, and waited for word about getting r…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 14:47
Oliver North served_in
Vietnam book_quoted
“He achieved his dream of going to Vietnam. He served as a Marine officer while Shackley and his cronies were running the intel war in Vietnam. After that first contact at the Navy Academy, the clandestine services had kept an eye on North. …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 15:41
Oliver North member_of
Washington, D.C. book_quoted
“Oliver North's deputy listened to the outrageous charges from Greg via Felix Rodriguez. We're supposed to believe that Felix Rodriguez, the trained assassin, cares about money. Greg followed up in CIA and Pentagon channels a few days later.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 7:37
Oliver North resigned
Washington, D.C. book_quoted
“In May of 1987, he never saw the final denouncement. President Reagan would make many apologies. The Iran-Contra effectively turned him into a lame duck. Poindexter and North resigned. There would be congressional hearings aplenty, joint in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 29:33
Oliver North joined
CIA book_quoted
“One of Brennan's cronies, Lieutenant Colonel James Tully, T-U-L-L-Y, became a friend of Oliver Norse. Tully, who had a knack for making money, was also a close friend of General Richard Secord and Ted Shackley. North did not know it at the …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 25:53
Oliver North handled_funds_for
CIA book_quoted
“He tried to warn North about the character flaws in the men that he was dealing with, but all I could do was hope that Oliver North would get burned and back away before the whole thing fell apart. Preaching to him just caused him to shut y…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 30:18
Oliver North dismissed_from
Blackwater book_quoted
“He said that I told North to knock off the Mr. Roberts Act for feeling sorry for himself. There would be enough time to go to Vietnam. North was declared medically unfit to remain at the Naval Academy. Corson said that North had such a stro…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 12:46
Oliver North manipulated_records
Blackwater book_quoted
“career officer after Annapolis, one classmate claimed North managed to strip any harmful information from his medical records. North was accepted back at the Naval Academy on the condition that he repeat his plea year. He was one of the stu…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 13:46
Oliver North ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“For those of you who may have missed yesterday's show, what the U.S. government and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is trying to do is set up the Sandinista Nicaraguan government as drug traffickers when they are trafficking drugs from Colo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 2:39
Oliver North funded
Contras documented
“about the church committee. Childs stayed in the Senate committee until 82, until that was put to bed. He rejoined the CIA as the comptroller, now that that fire had been put out. In 1983, Childs appeared before the Senate Intelligence Comm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 14:06
Oliver North exposed
CIA documented
“was being regularly briefed by the CIA on Seale's sting operation, was supplied with some of the evidence it produced, and allegedly leaked the information to the press shortly before a critical vote on contra aid coming up in Congress. So …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 6:30
Bob Perry exposed
Oliver North book_quoted
“and Brian Barger of the Associated Press, which you guys have heard Illini talk about repeatedly, after they broke several stories on the Contra involvement in drug trafficking and Oliver North's secret resupply operation. In both cases, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 17:47
Oliver North covered_up
Project Democracy host_asserted
“cash solicitation, North argued to Admiral Poindexter that the more viable democracy project became that the planes and pilots and weapons, the more inquisitive people would become. Steelhammer wrote, quote, we have to lift some of this ont…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 1:00:00
Oliver North member_of
BCCI book_quoted
“Bank accounts opened by Oliver North and BCCI's Paris branch. BCCI operated, had an account with Adon Khashoggi and an association with Monte Carlo's branch of BCCI that Adon Khashoggi used in his arms deals. Sheet Khalid bought into main b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 39:56
Oliver North financed_via
Contras documented
“Every crazy idea to get those people home. Perhaps this would not have been such a scandal if not for the intervention of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who apparently came up with a plan to divert some money from the sale of American arm…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 17:14
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Oliver North was, you know, we went on this mission. So I do think that as people gain more knowledge about what our real history is, that there will be more stories, excuse me, like that of them coming out and sharing things that they did …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner OPEN MIC FRIDAY @ 48:33
Oliver North student_of
William Corson book_quoted
“the FBI, NSA, CIA, White House, and the Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerry. Probably no one in Washington knew more genuine secrets than Corson. Marines who had served under his soldier spy leadership ended up in some of the most important …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 10:15
Oliver North injured_in_accident
upstate New York book_quoted
“His admission into the Naval Academy was a dream come true. In February 1964, Oliver North and some of his Naval Academy classmates were driving to a ski trip in upstate New York. The car's driver fell asleep at the wheel and hit a truck he…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 11:48
William Corson visited
Oliver North book_quoted
“Corson first got to know Oliver North when he was recovering in the hospital. Corson would stop by to visit various students and occasionally contributed beer or other items to their recovery. North brooded over his injury, fearing that it …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 12:17
James Webb threw_fight_for
Oliver North book_quoted
“James Webb, who boxed with North at the Academy, and asked Webb for a favor. The fight was filmed. Webb and North fighting, they were both lefties. I told Jimmy, I know you can take him out, so just carry him for a few rounds. In effect, Ji…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 14:15
Oliver North witnessed_for
Sung Thang killings book_quoted
“North made national news when he returned to Vietnam in 1970 as a witness for one of his men, who was on trial for taking part in the Sung Thang killings of 16 women and children. North was a guest on William Buckley's firing line, and Will…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 17:07
Oliver North appeared_on
William F. Buckley book_quoted
“North made national news when he returned to Vietnam in 1970 as a witness for one of his men, who was on trial for taking part in the Sung Thang killings of 16 women and children. North was a guest on William Buckley's firing line, and Will…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 17:07
Oliver North hospitalized_at
Bethesda Naval Hospital book_quoted
“Corson said that in 1974, North suffered an emotional problem. At one point, North was hospitalized after an incident with a handgun. North had just returned from assignment to Okinawa and was committed to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for se…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 18:06
John Lehman recommended
Oliver North book_quoted
“Corson said that North went to great lengths to keep details of his illness out of his medical records. That would be interesting to know what those links were. After distinguished service in Europe, North received a coveted assignment to t…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 18:34
Richard Allen assigned
Oliver North book_quoted
“In late 1981, North was plucked from the Naval War College to serve on the National Security Council. I had no business being assigned to the National Security Council, North later wrote. I was in over my head. As North pointed out, he held…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 19:07
Oliver North discovered_items_in_safe_of
Richard Allen book_quoted
“final dagger in his back. North opened a safe in an office that had been assigned to Allen during the presidential transition period. In the safe, North discovered an envelope containing $1,000 in cash, several bottles of liquor, and two ex…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 20:29
Oliver North reported_to
B.B. Jennings book_quoted
“North took the items over to Jerry Jennings, who ran security for the NSC. And in short order, the incident was leaked to the press. Allen was crucified in the press and he was gone. And let me explain something to you guys, which speaks to…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 20:58
Robert McFarlane took_under_wing
Oliver North book_quoted
“Bud McFarlane had emerged from the original Marine landing at Da Nang to become Henry Kissinger's military aide in 1973 with the help of his mentor, Nixon, Marine aide, Colonel Jack Brennan. Now McFarlane took North under his wing as Brenna…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 25:27
James Tully friend_of
Oliver North book_quoted
“One of Brennan's cronies, Lieutenant Colonel James Tully, T-U-L-L-Y, became a friend of Oliver Norse. Tully, who had a knack for making money, was also a close friend of General Richard Secord and Ted Shackley. North did not know it at the …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 25:53
Oliver North lied_about
Henry Kissinger book_quoted
“He had the same ethical character Corson had seen in Shackley. He exaggerated his role at the NSC. He claimed to be on the phone with Henry Kissinger when he was not. He told a colleague he had dined with Jean Kirkpatrick, only to have Kirk…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 26:53
Oliver North lied_about
Jean Kirkpatrick book_quoted
“He had the same ethical character Corson had seen in Shackley. He exaggerated his role at the NSC. He claimed to be on the phone with Henry Kissinger when he was not. He told a colleague he had dined with Jean Kirkpatrick, only to have Kirk…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 26:53
William Corson warned
Oliver North book_quoted
“He thought he'd had them figured out. He thought he was playing poker with the big boys. But Corson repeatedly warned North, people like you and I play one role, and that's to be expendable. I don't think he ever really understood what I wa…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 28:48
William Casey introduced
Oliver North book_quoted
“Altitude was too high, Corson said, and Oliver North would not give up and would not ask for reassignment. I told him it could all end only one way, but he just wouldn't give up. William Casey liked North a great deal. He quickly introduced…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 32:12
Oliver North carried_out_attack
Libya bombing host_asserted
“Yeah, he's another one that I don't remember. He was part of the Libya bombing. He was in Contra. Well, if you've ever, when we first started talking about the Iran-Contra on Alpha's show, you know, Alpha had to go rescue him. One of Alpha'…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 1:34:19
Oliver North recruited
Keeney Meany Services documented
“for Operation Gladio. For the purposes here, it is most interesting to note that Oliver North enlisted KMS to work with the Contras in Nicaragua, including sabotage operations targeting Soviet-made helicopters. This is likely one of the ear…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 54:05
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Forces Democráticas Nacionales book_quoted
“would involve the CIA. Sensitive wasn't actually the correct word. It was white hot. The same morning Anderson was dictating his letter to the IRS, President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese were announcing to a group of reporters in…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 9:19
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“Brothers and sisters. Yeah, it's amazing. And I mean, Annapolis has the same thing. You got Poindexter, McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North and Webb all out of the same basic couple of years at Annapolis. And they all go on to Iran Contra fame …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 44:23
Dewey Claridge appointed
Oliver North book_quoted
“Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 25:37
Oliver North member_of
United States Marine Corps book_quoted
“Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 25:37
Oliver North funded
Contras book_quoted
“Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 25:37
Oliver North appointed
Rob Owens book_quoted
“tax-exempt entities, one for education and the other to raise money. He showed this plan to North, whom he had met while working in the Senate in 1982. North encouraged Owen to visit Central America and scout out conditions there. Owen went…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 28:03
Oliver North member_of
Restricted Interagency Group documented
“The policy fights in 83 had neutralized Reagan's crisis pre-planning group as a Nicaraguan secret war command. Central America policy fell to the restricted interagency group of senior officials. North represented the NSC at these meetings,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 35:03
Oliver North recruited
Rob Owens book_quoted
“safe for democracy. We are still talking about Nicaragua and Oliver North. Oliver North asked Robert McFarlane for permission to provide intelligence about El Bluff and went to the U.S. Southern Command General Paul Gorman and the CIA's Nat…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 0:31
David Walker proposed
Oliver North book_quoted
“to get data. He assembled it into a package that Robert Owen carried to Honduras. Then Vickers found himself cut off from the clandestine service data on future events. In December, because again, we don't want the CIA actually doing CIA st…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 1:02
Oliver North recruited
David Walker book_quoted
“seemed impossible. Calero abandoned the idea. Although Walker received no immediate employment, he won a place on the team when Project Democracy expanded to include Airlift. In February 1985, North asked Rob Owens to carry intelligence, in…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 2:01
Oliver North funded
Contras book_quoted
“Enable a U.S. blockade and force Managua to fold. Elliott Abrams, RIG, actually discussed this theme as well. But the Pentagon and CIA both said it was nonsense. North nonetheless used the plan to solicit donations from donors. North busily…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 4:01
Robert McFarlane covered_up
Oliver North book_quoted
“Fires would not be the sole victim of his deception. Oliver North exhibited the opinion on plain paper without letterhead whenever anyone questioned the legality of his actions. Robert McFarland protected North from a congressional inquiry …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 10:43
Oliver North appointed
Louis Tams book_quoted
“had talked to Oliver North, purporting to speak for the RIG. North gave Tams the task of getting the Southern Front moving again. Elliott Abrams gave no such order, according to the author, nor did Secretary Shultz in his written instructio…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 16:58
Oliver North recruited
Felix Rodriguez book_quoted
“El Pango airfield. That fall, Oliver North convinced him to add the task of liaison between the El Salvadoran air operations and private benefactors. Working closely with the Salvadoran air commander, General Rafael Bustelo Rodriguez, arran…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 25:31
Oliver North recruited
Rob Owens host_asserted
“In fact, he was there on another purpose as well. The L-100 was supposed to take Contra weapons at Aquacate and fly them to El Salvador, from where the next night it would take its first airdrop into the southern front. Oliver North asked O…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 36:23
Oliver North laundered_money_for
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“Elliott Abrams. Taiwan did, however, donate millions of dollars. Isn't that nice of them? Oliver North dreamed up the scheme that brought fresh culpability into the White House. This was a diversion of the Contra's money from the Iran arms …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 49:41
Oliver North funded
Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“This may have been what led North to put Lake Resources account number on the file card for Elliott Abrams for the Brunei caper. So court again raised the issue of intelligence support from the agency. So we're going to stop right there. Is…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 1:01:25
Felix Rodriguez reported_to
Oliver North book_quoted
“And the letter was addressed to Felix Rodriguez. Felix ends up in Oliver North's office in early May. And he's basically wanting to throw the towel in, according to the author. And also, Dutton, D-U-T-T-O-N, the guy that we discovered had c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 2:33
Elliot Abrams worked_with
Oliver North host_asserted
“Working with Oliver North. On the. On the. Weapons. Trafficking. With Iran. So. I just wanted to. Go over a couple of things. Because do you know where we find. Elliot Abrams. In 2019. We find him.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 2:08
Oliver North orchestrated
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“This is an off-books CIA operation, both Western goals and the world anti-communist league. Singlib would eventually be called to testify before Congress to explain his role in the Iran-Contra affair, which was orchestrated by CNP bigwig an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 14:24
Brian Barger exposed
Oliver North book_quoted
“and Brian Barger of the Associated Press, which you guys have heard Illini talk about repeatedly, after they broke several stories on the Contra involvement in drug trafficking and Oliver North's secret resupply operation. In both cases, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 17:47
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Doyle McManus book_quoted
“meaning he's basically on their payroll. O'Leary's story in the Washington Times, which had supported the Contras both editorially and financially, gave McManus the excuse he needed to rush the CIA's leak into the LA Times. According to Nor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 56:11
Gary Webb spied_on
Oliver North guest_asserted
“George and I flew to Costa Rica and began interviewing police officials, lawyers, prosecutors, contras about Menendez's activity, fleshing out his role as a DEA informant and his drug operations connections to Oliver North's resupply networ…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:03:52
George Anderson spied_on
Oliver North guest_asserted
“George and I flew to Costa Rica and began interviewing police officials, lawyers, prosecutors, contras about Menendez's activity, fleshing out his role as a DEA informant and his drug operations connections to Oliver North's resupply networ…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:03:52
John Hall member_of
Oliver North guest_asserted
“Bill Casey's friend and Oliver North's liaison for the Contras had escaped from Costa Rica after he was indicted there for drug trafficking in 1989. After being thrown in jail, Hall was let out on bail for health reasons and vanished. The D…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:09:53
Dagoberto Nunez trafficked
Oliver North guest_asserted
“and then shuttling Hall to Miami, where Hall hid in an apartment of a Cuban CIA operative and suspected drug dealer, Dagoberto Nunez, who had helped North in the CIA in Costa Rica, the DEA officer who had recruited Lippard for the escape fl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:10:22
Oliver North diverted_money_for
FDN book_quoted
“At Langley, Jim McCullough, dismayed when he saw the letter, objected to sending it. Casey's secretary told the staff director he held a copy. The original had already gone out. That afternoon, McCullough was startled again by the White Hou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 26:34
Edwin Meese investigated
Oliver North book_quoted
“At Langley, Jim McCullough, dismayed when he saw the letter, objected to sending it. Casey's secretary told the staff director he held a copy. The original had already gone out. That afternoon, McCullough was startled again by the White Hou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 26:34
Dennis Ainsworth exposed
Oliver North documented
“Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 2:33
Dennis Ainsworth exposed
Oliver North documented
“and about North's illegal Contra support network in the U.S. and Central America. Much of the information that Ainsworth gave the FBI and later Lawrence Walsh, who, for those of you who don't know, was the quote-unquote special prosecutor, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 3:05
Oliver North funded
Manuel Noriega documented
“that the United States wasn't interested in doing that and the entire reason they're down there is to set up a drug trafficking network? Because that's what that sounds like to me. A month after Spadafora's body was found under the bridge, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 30:39
Oliver North recruited
CIA documented
“While all of the official ring kissing was going on, Oliver North and the CIA was quietly knitting parts of Noriega's drug transportation system into the Contra supply line and hiring drug smugglers to make the Contra supply flights for the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 33:26
William Casey appointed
Oliver North documented
“While all of the official ring kissing was going on, Oliver North and the CIA was quietly knitting parts of Noriega's drug transportation system into the Contra supply line and hiring drug smugglers to make the Contra supply flights for the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 33:26
Lawrence Walsh exposed
Oliver North documented
“There was no doubt that he was the driving force behind the process. Former Iranian Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who indicted and convicted North on a variety of felonies, suspects the Marine officer was a cutout for the CIA, a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 34:24
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council documented
“the dopey, gap-toothed zealot portrayed by the Reagan administration and the press, North was one of the most powerful men in Washington. The spring of 1985, he was on top and testified at Allen Fires, the CIA's Central American Task Force …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 33:54
Oliver North trained
CIA documented
“There were many other instances when he told me things that I thought was totally crazy that turned out to be absolutely true. One of the many surprises North had for Fires was the fact that he had received specialized training, usually res…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 35:51
Oliver North appointed
Rob Owens documented
“In 1985, he pressured the newly created organization to hire one of his aides as a consultant. It was a tall former L.A. prep school counselor named Robert Owen, a Stanford grad and one time advertising executive. Dang, that sounds like Lan…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 41:01
Oliver North recruited
Felipe Vidal documented
“In addition to distributing State Department money to the Costa Ricas, Nunes was also permitting the shrimp company to be used by Oliver North and the CIA station chief, Fernandez, as a cover for a secret maritime operation that they were r…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 58:50
Oliver North used
Setco documented
“to the FDN. That came from a CIA inspector general's report as well. Quote, Oliver North also used Setco for airdrops of military supplies to Contra forces in Nicaragua, unquote. In fact, that appears to have been the reason behind all of t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:23:05
Robert Dumling instructed_by
Oliver North documented
“like so many other things that we've found. Who told you that, by the way, going back to the beginning of this? Doomling said Oliver North. He said North instructed him not to dislodge or replace existing arrangements. They certainly were, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:24:59
Oliver North member_of
United States Marine Corps host_asserted
“Oliver North was not functioning as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps at the NSC, not knowing the shit that he knew. On that, I can agree. And I can almost sit here and say that if that's the case, that loan of Oliver N…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:38:14
Oliver North framed
Sandinistas documented
“It produced evidence suggesting that the whole episode had been staged by Oliver North and the CIA as a disinformation operation. Among other things, the House Judiciary Committee investigation revealed that the alleged Sandinistan official…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:06:11
Oliver North financed_via
Contras host_asserted
“That's interesting. They also said North wanted to take $1.5 million in drug profits from Barry Still that he had gotten from the Medellin cartel and give it to the Contras. When the DEA refused to do that, the DEA officials, not the DEA in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 1:40
Jefferson Morley exposed
Oliver North book_quoted
“has North fingerprints all over it, columnist Jefferson Morley wrote in the LA Times. After Steele flew in his CIA and DEA mission, he never used the C-123K cargo plane again. It was parked in a Mena, Arkansas airport for a year. Then it wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 4:15
Oliver North funded
Contras book_quoted
“By the spring of 86, the Contras were almost out of money, while North and his agents were able to replace some of the Contras' lost CIA funding with donations from Saudi Arabia and Taiwan again. Taiwan's awful involved in the crack cocaine…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 28:14
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
Oliver North member_of
Council for National Policy host_asserted
“CNP in its early days was a hotbed of fundraising for conservative causes like the Nicaraguan Contras and Jack Singlib and Oliver North were participants and speakers in many of the early meetings. While the CNP met only a few times a year,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 11:23
Oliver North funded
Contras host_asserted
“Oliver North was going to take, because they sold it to him at inflated prices, was going to take that excess money to fund the Contras as well. And there was supposedly an agreement that Iran would intervene in Lebanon where they were hold…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 59:38
Oliver North covered_up
Jose Bueso Rosa documented
“in the Naval Academy at the same time Oliver North is, the same time Weekly was, before he got kicked out. In September 1986, North fretted that the case would become a major headache for the administration. Quote, the problem with the Bose…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 40:45
Oliver North covered_up
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
Manuel Noriega removed_from_power
Oliver North host_asserted
“de Osborne of El Salvador to restrict the movements of leaders of the FMLN in Panama, and more important, failing to comply with the demands of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to provide military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras. Norieg…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 44:21
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Contras host_asserted
“de Osborne of El Salvador to restrict the movements of leaders of the FMLN in Panama, and more important, failing to comply with the demands of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to provide military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras. Norieg…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 44:21
Oliver North member_of
United States documented
“At the height of the cocaine decade, the Iran-Contra scandal revealed the U.S. involvement in drug trades during the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Evidence emerged that the CIA's involvement in covert drug operations, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:01:27
Gene Wheaton member_of
Oliver North host_asserted
“And you have no idea who they are. Okay. Gene Wheaton, a former Pentagon criminal investigator, claims the landing strip was part of a nationwide private secret operation that trafficked guns and drugs to Central American mercenaries and cr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 38:43
Richard Secord headed
Oliver North host_asserted
“trying to work with Norse group and was going to arrange a delivery of some of the small planes. At a later date in the diary, he discusses as having a falling out with retired General Richard Secord, who headed up Norse resupply efforts fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 39:14
Oliver North recruited
Gene Wheaton host_asserted
“trying to work with Norse group and was going to arrange a delivery of some of the small planes. At a later date in the diary, he discusses as having a falling out with retired General Richard Secord, who headed up Norse resupply efforts fo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 39:14
Oliver North member_of
Iran-Contra host_asserted
“Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to be tasked with that either, but he was. So the rank of the individual has literally nothing to do with that. And it was out of the vice president's office using his national security advisor that Iran-Cont…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:10:49
Richard Secord collaborated_with
Oliver North host_asserted
“And phone records show that several calls were placed to Barbadi's office to Secord's private number in McLean, Virginia. Now, again, Richard Secord is the same guy that was arranging the missile cells with Oliver North via Israel to Iran a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 35:17
Oliver North member_of
Reagan administration host_asserted
“Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, working for the Reagan administration, paired up with Constrano, the CIA guy, in a program meant to destroy Qaddafi's regime. Coincidentally, that same CIA officer later headed up the CIA's investigation int…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 39:22
Oliver North used
Southern Air Transport documented
“but an arrangement to deliver humanitarian assistance to Nicaraguan rebels in Honduras as well. And those are the ones that Oliver North and his buddy in the State Department is going to use. Southern Air Transport remained strong through t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 42:54
Gene Tatham implicated
Oliver North book_quoted
“He implicates, you know, obviously Barry Seale gives him allegedly this list that implicates everybody from Bill Barr to Bill Clinton to Oliver North and all those guys. And he's actually in MENA, Arkansas, meeting, you know, with Clinton o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 1:22:18
Oliver North funded
Contras book_quoted
“by suggesting that $1.5 million in cocaine cash the DEA planned to seize from the Medellin cartel should be turned over to the Contras. The DEA says it declined North's suggestion. Subsequently, a White House leak blew the operation, and se…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 49:15
Oliver North recruited
CIA host_asserted
“a revolution an overthrow of the sandinista government so it's my firm belief at this point that i don't know what part of the career that he was hired by the cia but from the time he pinned on 05 on that he was a cia operative so now that'…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:08:58
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Oliver North didn't know where this money was coming from. And you can't tell me he wasn't aware of the people involved to do it. No, he went down there and met with them. It just blows my mind. Somebody wearing a U.S. Marine uniform went d…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:08:31
Oliver North covered_up
Contras documented
“would earn him a minor place in history, a footnote to one of America's worst scandals, the Iran-Contra. His case would be cited by the Congressional Iran-Contra committees as an example of how Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Nation…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 20:55
Oliver North recruited
Drug Enforcement Administration guest_asserted
“release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 36:07
Oliver North funded
Contras documented
“while boarding a plane for Switzerland. In their possession was a briefcase filled with $5 million in cash. According to Spanish government officials, in May of 1987, the money was destined for a bank account in Zurich controlled by North. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 37:34
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Iran documented
“Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 38:07
Oliver North secretly_owned
Guardian Technologies host_asserted
“called Guardian Technologies. And guess who owned that? Lieutenant Colonel Fricking North. And the guy that ran the CIA office in Costa Rica, none other than Joe Fernandez. So this bastard ordered the death of an American, wanted to kill hi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 1:00:12
Joe Kelso spied_on
Oliver North guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
Oliver North exposed
Aristide Sanchez host_asserted
“Adolfo Calero, the former manager of Coca-Cola in Managua. He worked closely with Aristide Sanchez. Oliver North later called Sanchez the Calero's hatchet man. Though the FDN would change and merge with other groups over the years, Bermuda'…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 27:37
Oliver North headed
The Enterprise host_asserted
“trafficking here. We're having dog logistic problems here. Okay, so that's what this bar is called because the apparatus that Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North set up was referred to as the Enterprise. And because they were busy trying to reh…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 16:58
Oliver North paid
Thomas Dowling documented
“He lived in San Francisco. He didn't go to Nicaragua. Dowling later admitted that he had received $73,000 in cash and traveler's checks from Oliver North, CIA agent Adolfo Calero, and other members of North's operation between 1986 and 87 t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 53:41
CIA recruited
Oliver North book_quoted
“He achieved his dream of going to Vietnam. He served as a Marine officer while Shackley and his cronies were running the intel war in Vietnam. After that first contact at the Navy Academy, the clandestine services had kept an eye on North. …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 15:41
Oliver North financed_via
BCCI book_quoted
“had all used BCCI services in some of their key operations.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 36:35
Oliver North member_of
National Security Council host_asserted
“directly tied to the CIA and Oliver North out of the national security. So they have all of this information and they literally are doing nothing with it. And that's the chapter. Evil people doing evil things. They need to be stomped out. I…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:04:32
Stephen Halper member_of
Oliver North host_asserted
“Talked about by the name of Stephen Halper, whose father was Ray Klein, father-in-law. The same Stephen Halper that was involved in the Trump scandal. The absolute same. Same Stephen Halper. You ready for this? He was the last entry in Oliv…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies (Bush family) with War Hamster Brady @ 1:29:38
Oliver North headed
National Security Council book_quoted
“and cut Israel out. The architects of this was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Richard Secord. By this time, Buckley had succumbed to the stress of incarceration and torture and had died. Still, there were no other hostages to be rescue…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Medusa Files Part 13 @ 6:28
Buffalo Airways flying_arms_for
Oliver North book_quoted
“So it appears that Buffalo Airways was flying arms from Poland to Guatemala for the CIA and Oliver North when they ran into some problems in London and had to call the CIA. And if I remember correctly, there's a story in another book about …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 20:58
Nelson Bunker Hunt financed_via
Oliver North book_quoted
“Another alumni, Nelson Bunker Hunt, the son of H.L. Hunt, who tried and failed to corner the silver market. Hunt dropped out of UT and didn't make the yearbook, but he was in the fraternity. He was also involved with Oliver North and Spitz …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 2:50
Oliver North targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua guest_asserted
“On February 17, 1986, Steele was murdered in New Orleans by a quote-unquote Colombian hitman. Four months later, in June, North called the FBI and claimed that there was an active measures program being directed against him by the Sandinist…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 7:29
Oliver North covered_up
Daniel Blanton's Cocaine Ring host_asserted
“North wrote, quote, only Gorman, Claridge, and I were fully aware of all that he was doing on our behalf, unquote. North's computer messages about Rosa was revealing for another reason. They illustrated just how skewed the Reagan administra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 41:16
Nestor Sanchez linked_to
Oliver North host_asserted
“assigned to Manuel Noriega until we decided we didn't like him anymore. And he's, okay, so he was linked to all of the illegal arms deals in the Contras with Oliver North. He was kind of basically their in-theater guy. So you see how import…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 31:33
Oliver North recruited
Oliver Revell host_asserted
“When Southern Air's role in the Iran-Contra scandal was exposed, it had been an airline of choice to haul arms to Iran and to the Contra. Bastian denied any connection to the CIA, because of course you're going to. What he couldn't deny wer…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 55:17
Oliver North covered_up
CIA host_asserted
“was being regularly briefed by the CIA on Seale's sting operation, was supplied with some of the evidence it produced, and allegedly leaked the information to the press shortly before a critical vote on contra aid coming up in Congress. So …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 6:30
William Corson warned
Oliver North host_asserted
“William Corson warned Oliver North that this whole thing would blow up in his face. Of course, what I did not know was the games that were all being played in the raising of the money. The idea that they would try to link all these operatio…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 40:28
CIA recruited
Oliver North speculative
“To me, it's not a bad thing. That's a solidly good thing. And the less information we hear, in my humble opinion, knowing how things work, and I'm sure you can attest to this, that's actually a positive. But what I wanted to get to in terms…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 1:48:36
Mentions (120)
▶ 1:08:40
You just triggered all kinds of stuff in my head, Colonel. All right. So PATCON was particularly focused on a former asset of Oliver Norse Illegal Networks supplying arms to Iran Contra. A guy by the name of Tom Posey, P-O-S-E-Y. He had a p…
▶ 1:11:32
Just so you guys remember that whole story. We went over that in depth during our World Anti-Communist League series. So, in the 1980s, according to Paul D. Armand, CMA, Civilian Military Assistance, had begun as an adjunct to the Alabama K…
▶ 1:14:35
It absolutely is. I'll get it back to you. Okay. So I'm going to say this again because this just blew my mind. Enrolled in the Contra supply effort by first the DIA and then Oliver North, CMA volunteer work in patrolling the Arizona border…
▶ 36:07
was furious at the pardons and said that Bush, quote, had stopped the trial of a Confederate, unquote. But the fact was that the arms dealers, former military officers, and Middle Eastern hustlers like Oliver North, William Casey, Admiral P…
▶ 59:32
BS things that Oliver North was doing. Right. So he's following all of the money. He knows. Well, where did he end up? Where did all of them in this 20 year period that has filled that position that would know unequivocally how corrupt the …
▶ 30:54
completely by mafia member Herman Beebe. And it was used to funnel private donations to the Contras. He is son-in-law, Stefan Halper is the son-in-law of CIA Deputy Director Ray Klein. He also helped set up the legal fund for Oliver North. …
▶ 32:21
The White House was so amazed at Sarkis' contact that they had Oliver North and other people asking who knew him and where did his connections come from. What they learned was that he had serious connections to King Hussein in Jordan and ha…
▶ 24:21
This is the law firm that's representing Perkins Coie against the Trump administration. All right, let's jump back into the clients because this is great. That's a nice find. Okay. William and Connolly. Tell me when I'm back up. Take me dow…
▶ 16:43
The colorful special operations expert, General John Sengleb, who shows up in all of these stories, worked in Laos and Cambodia with Shackley. Under Sengleb, during this period, were Secord and a young Marine named Lieutenant Oliver North. …
▶ 42:52
Let me just put a little bit more history here. Robert McFarlane was part of Iran-Contra. McFarlane, McCain, Oliver North, John Poindexter all went to the Naval Academy together. And all of them were involved in Iran-Contra. These are the s…
▶ 1:30:42
And I'll just go from H.W. Bush onward. Obama, his dad, stepdaddy. And, of course, the Clintons were given the Pablo Escobar situation and the Oliver North situation as well. And they're all connected. And then, of course, Barack Obama conn…
▶ 31:04
in the whole CIA schema thing. Also, let's see. Yeah, he was involved in the Iran-Contra that we're learning a lot about in my most recent threads. He was involved in couping Guatemala. He was also the guy that was the CIA…
▶ 1:29:38
Talked about by the name of Stephen Halper, whose father was Ray Klein, father-in-law. The same Stephen Halper that was involved in the Trump scandal. The absolute same. Same Stephen Halper. You ready for this? He was the last entry in Oliv…
▶ 1:20:11
And I'll leave it alone with that. Halper was the last entry in Oliver Norris' White House diaries when Oliver Norris was leaving the White House. The last entry was him talking about Halper. And that actually circled back to Silverado Bank…
▶ 35:21
Glenn Robbie Robinette. And this always struck me as weird that this Robinette guy, isn't that Biden's middle name? The agency security expert who later arranged for Oliver North's infamous home security system. That also was Glenn Robinett…
▶ 41:55
Kerry later discovered that the AP Washington bureau chief was having regular meetings with Lieutenant Colonel North, who was running the Contra drugs for weapons program. So, although he was cut off from his editors and ignored by most of …
▶ 46:20
kept right on coming. The concern about Chamorro is that he drinks too much and may surround himself with people that are not in the war to fight, but really just to make money. That came from one of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North's assist…
▶ 52:14
The CIA was forced to give up its active role in the Contra Project and left the mess it had created for someone else to clean up. When the Boland Amendment went into effect in October 1984, the day-to-day control of the Contra Project was …
▶ 52:41
On one side was resistance, always expanding, always needing more. On the other side, the CIA that was steadily withdrawing its support. And by the way, I don't think the CIA ever withdrew their support. They just, like they do all the time…
▶ 9:19
would involve the CIA. Sensitive wasn't actually the correct word. It was white hot. The same morning Anderson was dictating his letter to the IRS, President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese were announcing to a group of reporters in…
▶ 10:20
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…
▶ 11:15
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…
▶ 11:45
between Lister and the Iran-Contra scandal and precluded any further investigation, even though they had pages of documentation showing the connection. The next month, the FBI would learn that Lister, quote, had told an unidentified neighbo…
▶ 12:39
They found all kinds of evidence linking North, the White House, and the CIA to illegal Contra resupply activities. Ilopango was exposed and Norse operatives hastily abandoned their airplanes, their barracks, and their safe houses and fled …
▶ 14:24
This is an off-books CIA operation, both Western goals and the world anti-communist league. Singlib would eventually be called to testify before Congress to explain his role in the Iran-Contra affair, which was orchestrated by CNP bigwig an…
▶ 14:50
On orders from the executive branch, Iran-Contra was the biggest scandal of the Reagan presidency. A messy, complicated affair, it threatened to ruin his legacy and those of several others, including Robert McFarlane, Reagan's national secu…
▶ 1:22:18
He implicates, you know, obviously Barry Seale gives him allegedly this list that implicates everybody from Bill Barr to Bill Clinton to Oliver North and all those guys. And he's actually in MENA, Arkansas, meeting, you know, with Clinton o…
▶ 1:01:27
At the height of the cocaine decade, the Iran-Contra scandal revealed the U.S. involvement in drug trades during the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Evidence emerged that the CIA's involvement in covert drug operations, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver …
▶ 1:02:55
The fourth contractor was a company called, I'm not even going to try that, Seco de Pontera Naras, that was owned by another anti-Castro Cuban, Luis Rodriguez. I wonder if he's related to Felix. That's a good question. In Oliver Knorr's per…
▶ 1:11:39
and also among Oliver North and the Contra leaders. The BCCI link, which is the Pakistani bank, CIA bank, link with the CIA strengthened under President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush. Bush and CIA Director William Casey, with the as…
▶ 44:21
de Osborne of El Salvador to restrict the movements of leaders of the FMLN in Panama, and more important, failing to comply with the demands of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to provide military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras. Norieg…
▶ 48:21
A former congressional staffer described MPRI's activities as not sexy, but far bigger than Oliver North's operation. Alongside DynCorp and MPRI, Florida-based AirScan has been contracted by the Pentagon to monitor movement of the narcotics…
▶ 1:10:49
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to be tasked with that either, but he was. So the rank of the individual has literally nothing to do with that. And it was out of the vice president's office using his national security advisor that Iran-Cont…
▶ 44:01
I followed him closely and I heard all about it. Don's memory, as it turned out, was better than mine. During one part of Oliver Knorr's congressional testimony in 1987, two men from Baltimore had jumped up in the audience with a large bann…
▶ 1:28:45
One other guy, Gene, I'm trying to remember his name, but they have multiple witnesses, I'll say, that Oliver North and George Bush knew what was going on at that airport, and they were complicit too. So, like, nobody should, like, well, ok…
▶ 2:33
Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…
▶ 3:05
and about North's illegal Contra support network in the U.S. and Central America. Much of the information that Ainsworth gave the FBI and later Lawrence Walsh, who, for those of you who don't know, was the quote-unquote special prosecutor, …
▶ 54:32
Well, Ross said that while he did not sell exclusively to Crip's gang members, they initially formed a large part of his customer base simply because he and Ollie had lived in a Crip neighborhood growing up. But that only mattered at the be…
▶ 59:21
Ross had bought a silver plated Uzi submachine gun and Ollie, his partner in all of this, his old neighborhood friend that lived next door. He became a gun fanatic like he couldn't buy enough guns and he had everything to include a 50 calib…
▶ 26:27
These certificates are sworn declarations in which the government buying the weapons certifies that it really did order them. It is supposed to provide the U.S. government with some assurance that American-made weapons aren't ending up in t…
▶ 42:56
If Menendez wanted to help the Reagan administration, he'd come to the right place. The U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica was the nerve center for all of their covert operations in the Contra War. And these included a number of illegal C…
▶ 48:32
who had few known drug problems at the time. It was a very small office. During the time the Reagan administration was desperately seeking to replace the CIA money the Costa Rican Contras had lost, within the administration, there was no do…
▶ 49:00
The only question was how. One idea North had in 1984 was to use drug money. At a top-level meeting with DEA officials in Washington, North shocked the room to silence.…
▶ 49:15
by suggesting that $1.5 million in cocaine cash the DEA planned to seize from the Medellin cartel should be turned over to the Contras. The DEA says it declined North's suggestion. Subsequently, a White House leak blew the operation, and se…
▶ 1:08:31
Oliver North didn't know where this money was coming from. And you can't tell me he wasn't aware of the people involved to do it. No, he went down there and met with them. It just blows my mind. Somebody wearing a U.S. Marine uniform went d…
▶ 1:08:58
a revolution an overthrow of the sandinista government so it's my firm belief at this point that i don't know what part of the career that he was hired by the cia but from the time he pinned on 05 on that he was a cia operative so now that'…
▶ 1:11:21
an officer, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, while you were 100% functioning as an agent of the CIA is perfectly not, I mean, it's unusual, but it's definitely happens.…
▶ 1:12:39
Somewhere along the line, somebody has to say, oh, that's a prime candidate. So I would have to think that Colonel Oliver North was doing something shady well before any of this went down, if that makes any sense. Yeah, but maybe not even s…
▶ 24:48
the Pacific port of Balboa. North and Noriega struck an important bargain, said Jose Blanton, who attended the meeting. Colonel North was interested in gaining Panama support for the Contras, and he particularly requested training assistanc…
▶ 25:20
promised to provide training in specific locations to members of the Contra's training to be provided at bases located in Panama. He was also willing to allow Contra leaders free access to the country and made it clear to North that he was …
▶ 29:53
According to the government's documents filed during North's trial, Noriega offered to have the entire Sandinista leadership assassinated in exchange for a promise from the U.S. to help clean up Noriega's image. North raised the proposal at…
▶ 30:16
North was instructed to tell Noriega that the administration wasn't keen on murdering the entire Nicaraguan government officials, but that Panamanian assistance was sabotaged was another story. Now, again, let me just stop here for a second…
▶ 30:39
that the United States wasn't interested in doing that and the entire reason they're down there is to set up a drug trafficking network? Because that's what that sounds like to me. A month after Spadafora's body was found under the bridge, …
▶ 33:26
While all of the official ring kissing was going on, Oliver North and the CIA was quietly knitting parts of Noriega's drug transportation system into the Contra supply line and hiring drug smugglers to make the Contra supply flights for the…
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the dopey, gap-toothed zealot portrayed by the Reagan administration and the press, North was one of the most powerful men in Washington. The spring of 1985, he was on top and testified at Allen Fires, the CIA's Central American Task Force …
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There was no doubt that he was the driving force behind the process. Former Iranian Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who indicted and convicted North on a variety of felonies, suspects the Marine officer was a cutout for the CIA, a…
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continued as the agency overseeing the U.S. undercover activities in support of the Contras after the Boland Amendments were enacted. Walsh wrote in his memoirs, the CIA's strategy determined what North would and would not do. So he's just …
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Subjects so highly classified, even top CIA officials didn't know about all of them. He told me in 1985 that there was two squadrons of stealth bombers operational in Arizona. And I just thought he was crazy, Fiers testified. It was one of …
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There were many other instances when he told me things that I thought was totally crazy that turned out to be absolutely true. One of the many surprises North had for Fires was the fact that he had received specialized training, usually res…
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cascade of cover companies, just quote, just like they taught us at the CIA clandestine training site, unquote. And I thought that was pretty interesting because I went there and I didn't learn how to do any of that stuff. And I also didn't…
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Fires called him a power figure in the government, a force to be reckoned with. When he asked for something, people jumped. When he gave orders, they followed. Ollie North had the ability to work down in my chain of command and to cause it …
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I saw that happen in other ways in other places with other agencies. FIRE's boss at the CIA was Claire George. And he echoed, I suffer from the bureaucrat's disease that when people call me and say I am calling from the White House for the …
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Quote, to a GS-15, this guy talks to God, right? Unquote. Fernandez said of North during a secret congressional hearing in 1987, quote, obviously I knew where he worked in the executive office building. He got tremendous access. I mean, Nor…
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This is a man who had dealings with, obviously, the director of the CIA. You know, he deals with my division chief, unquote. North was telling U.S. ambassadors what to do. In 1985, before taking his new job as ambassador to Costa Rica, Loui…
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We would encourage the freedom fighters to fight. And the war was in Nicaragua. The war was not in Costa Rica. And so that is what I understood my instructions to be. But with the CIA's billions officially banned from the scene, North had a…
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It takes tons of material to sustain an army in the field, particularly one that is warring deep inside enemy territory, separated by days of supply depots. The CIA had plenty of experience handling such complicated logistics problems, but …
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One of the vehicles North selected to handle that chore was a new unit set up inside the State Department called Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office. The office was officially created in the middle of 1985 to oversee deliveries of $27…
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North and CIA first tried to get the operation placed inside the National Security Council, where it would be free from public scrutiny and North could control it directly. But that failed. Instead, Fiers said, North simply just hijacked it…
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In 1985, he pressured the newly created organization to hire one of his aides as a consultant. It was a tall former L.A. prep school counselor named Robert Owen, a Stanford grad and one time advertising executive. Dang, that sounds like Lan…
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But North kept pushing. Doomling said North had Contra leaders write letters demanding Owens hire. He lobbied Doomling's superior at the State Department, Assistant Secretary Elliott Abrams, a fervent Contra supporter. After one stormy meet…
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That meant I was hiring him. Owen was given a $50,000 contract as a quote-unquote facilitator, a job that mystified Doomling's aide, Chris Arcos. Arcos testified that no one was sure what, in fact, Rob Owens could do or bring to the office.…
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The minutes from a November 1985 meeting show that for some reason, Abrams and North was extremely concerned about the fallout if someone discovered Owen's involvement in the office, and they began working on a cover story to explain his pr…
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It did, the pilot said. So how could a company started by the Medellin cartel and used as a front to run drug into America ever wind up with a contract from the U.S. Department of State Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office? Yes, they c…
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could compromise the Nicaraguan Sandinista government for drug money laundering. In other words, they want to frame the Nicaraguan government. The client turned out to be former Medellin cartel accountant Ramon Milan Rodriguez, the man who …
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date the Contras' use of Ilopango to September 1985 when North wrote to Rodriguez asking him to use his influence with the Salvadoran Air Force commander Juan Rafael Bustillo, a secure hangar for the Contras to use as supply flights. Rodrig…
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made arrangements to base Eden Pastora's group in that location. Since he could not devote all of his time to North Secret Air Force, Rodriguez wrote, I found someone to manage the base resupply operations on a day-to-day basis at the air b…
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if word ever leaked to the public. CIA records show that Hangar 4 had been used by the agency for covert contra operations until it was turned over in 1985 to the National Security Council and Oliver North for illegal arms called the Enterp…
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and a Nicaraguan pilot by the name of Marcos Aguardo. Aguardo was the chief pilot for the Contra Forces in Costa Rica. He was identified in 1987 congressional testimony as a CIA agent. Soon after North set up the resupply operation at the a…
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It produced evidence suggesting that the whole episode had been staged by Oliver North and the CIA as a disinformation operation. Among other things, the House Judiciary Committee investigation revealed that the alleged Sandinistan official…
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In March of 1985, the CIA reported that Vaughn was said to be an associate of Nicaraguan narcotics trafficker Norwin Menendez. Menendez, at the time, was working with the DEA in Costa Rica, assisting the Contras and Oliver North on the whol…
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Traffickers working for North and the CIA, Bay of Pigs veteran Dagoberto Nunez, obtained a contract with the Heroes and Martyrs Corporation in order to cover an intelligence operation aimed at the Nicaraguan president, Noriega. So basically…
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According to a 1986 memo from CIA operative Rob Owen to North, Nunes was preparing to sign an agreement with the heroes and martyr for shrimping rights off the Pacific, another front company. Nunes is doing this so he can help us. He will c…
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Crazy, crazy. It's crazy town. OK, so we're going to pick up where we left off with four DEA officials testifying before a committee that they had felt pressure from North and the CIA to leak the news of Vaughn's involvement with drugs to t…
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That's interesting. They also said North wanted to take $1.5 million in drug profits from Barry Still that he had gotten from the Medellin cartel and give it to the Contras. When the DEA refused to do that, the DEA officials, not the DEA in…
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For those of you who may have missed yesterday's show, what the U.S. government and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is trying to do is set up the Sandinista Nicaraguan government as drug traffickers when they are trafficking drugs from Colo…
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And by prematurely exposing the sting, it blew up the DEA's investigation of the Medellin cartel, which DEA agents said had been their most promising chance to break up the Colombian drug trafficking. The drug lords went free. Vaughn, their…
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has North fingerprints all over it, columnist Jefferson Morley wrote in the LA Times. After Steele flew in his CIA and DEA mission, he never used the C-123K cargo plane again. It was parked in a Mena, Arkansas airport for a year. Then it wa…
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named Rick and Ollie, it appeared that the gangs had established a direct pipeline to the Colombian cartels, which meant they had access to as much cocaine as they could sell. Since the circle was small, it was little wonder that its bosses…
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in any of their stories was ever referenced. The crack hysteria continued unabated through the elections until something else diverted its attention. It was not until the revelations about Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Iran-Contra…
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Not only was Congress screaming about North and beginning to scrutinize the Justice Department's involvement in the scandal, but Trott was monitoring a pesky Senate investigation into allegations of the Contra drug trafficking. Trott viewed…
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By the spring of 86, the Contras were almost out of money, while North and his agents were able to replace some of the Contras' lost CIA funding with donations from Saudi Arabia and Taiwan again. Taiwan's awful involved in the crack cocaine…
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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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would earn him a minor place in history, a footnote to one of America's worst scandals, the Iran-Contra. His case would be cited by the Congressional Iran-Contra committees as an example of how Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Nation…
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But the four paragraphs about Joe Kelso buried deep in that official report only tell a fraction of his story. How the former fireman from Golden Valley, Minnesota, happened to attract the gaze of Oliver North and his preppy CIA informant, …
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in San Jose, Costa Rica. When he checked to see who was paying the storage bills, he learned that it was the owners of the shrimp company, the cocaine-dealing CIA threat, that was helping Oliver North funnel U.S. government money to the Con…
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release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…
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while boarding a plane for Switzerland. In their possession was a briefcase filled with $5 million in cash. According to Spanish government officials, in May of 1987, the money was destined for a bank account in Zurich controlled by North. …
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Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…
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who was later forced to resign from the CIA for his illegal involvement in the Contras. Fernandez was indicted by Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but the charges were dropped when the U.S. attorney, Richard Thunberg, refused to decla…
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but get out of it. Kelso was taken to the U.S. Embassy, where he said the DEA agents began copying the documents in his briefcase until a person that I had never saw before came in, sat down at one of the desks, very nice suit, well-dressed…
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was the eyes and ears of the CIA and Oliver North. Kelso testified that after Owen got a look at the documents seized at the hotel room, he ordered the DEA agents to stop making copies. He whisked Kelso out of the embassy and dropped him ba…
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It was all done by the DEA agents that, or ordered by the DEA agents that he had tried to turn in. So it goes on later to say that Owen confirmed, North's sidekick, Robert Owen, confirmed that he had picked up the tapes from the customs off…
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He gave the only copy of the tape recording made by an undercover source to a total stranger, the congressman complained. Owen did not tell Rosenblatt that he worked for North or the CIA. He told him he worked for a private organization. No…
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called Guardian Technologies. And guess who owned that? Lieutenant Colonel Fricking North. And the guy that ran the CIA office in Costa Rica, none other than Joe Fernandez. So this bastard ordered the death of an American, wanted to kill hi…
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never spent a day in jail, and when he retires from being a dirty DEA agent, he gets rewarded by the guy he was actually working for, CIA, Joe Fernandez, and Lieutenant Colonel North. That's the end of that story. Bridget got dropped again.…
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Oliver North was going to take, because they sold it to him at inflated prices, was going to take that excess money to fund the Contras as well. And there was supposedly an agreement that Iran would intervene in Lebanon where they were hold…
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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…
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directly tied to the CIA and Oliver North out of the national security. So they have all of this information and they literally are doing nothing with it. And that's the chapter. Evil people doing evil things. They need to be stomped out. I…
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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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Now, what's really interesting about that, there's a book called The Nightingale Song, and it talks about how all five people that were involved in Iran-Contra, John McCain, Poindexter, North, a guy, Webb, and another guy that went on to be…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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were responsible for Central America and their jobs involved keeping in touch with the Department of Defense and other government agencies to determine what U.S. assistance programs would work. One of those programs appeared to have been th…
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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…
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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 …
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who was used on non-routine projects, basically meaning ones that were being ran out of the State Department as opposed to the CIA, Boat's desk calendar obtained from the National Archives show frequent meetings from 1985 and 86 with North …
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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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the beacon of freedom. In federal court, Weakley and Gritz testified that the money to pay the Afghan training courses came from Stanford Technology, one of the companies fronting for Oliver Norse Enterprise, the quasi-government arms deale…