Ramon Guillen de Vela person
also: General Ramon Guillen de Vela, General Gillian
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Claims (6)
Ramon Guillen de Vela trafficked
Venezuela documented
“A far more dramatic involvement of the CIA was acknowledged in 1997 when General Ramon Guillen de Vela, chief of the CIA created anti-drug unit in Venezuela, was indicted in Miami for smuggling a ton of cocaine into the United States. Let m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 25:23
Ramon Guillen de Vela trafficked
CIA host_asserted
“who was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami earlier this year. Gillian, who remains at large, presumably in Venezuela, was charged with smuggling 22 tons of cocaine into the United States between 1987, which is during the Iran-Contra …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:10
CIA collaborated_with
Ramon Guillen de Vela host_asserted
“Even worse, in December of 89, the CIA actually collaborated with Gillen on one dubious plan to ship a ton of cocaine, which I posted about purportedly for intelligence purposes. It was part of the supposed plan to catch drug traffickers. W…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 2:11
CIA authorized
Ramon Guillen de Vela host_asserted
“The CIA went over the attache's head and appealed to Washington. DEA headquarters also said no, but that was an answer the CIA would not accept. A federal statute forbids the government's importation of illicit drugs for controlled crime-fi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 2:39
CIA admitted_error
Ramon Guillen de Vela documented
“exploded three years later as a public relations embarrassment when 60 Minutes broadcast a report on the illegal shipment of the one ton, not the 20-some tons, but just this one. The story also led the CIA to make a rare admission of error.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 3:35
Ramon Guillen de Vela confessed_to
CIA book_quoted
“cracked during interrogation in November of 1991 and confessed to the illegal shipments. A year later, however, he denied that he had made any such confession. He insisted that his involvement in the drug shipment to the U.S. was done with …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 4:26
Mentions (13)
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A far more dramatic involvement of the CIA was acknowledged in 1997 when General Ramon Guillen de Vela, chief of the CIA created anti-drug unit in Venezuela, was indicted in Miami for smuggling a ton of cocaine into the United States. Let m…
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the total amount of drugs smuggled by General Gillian may have been more than 22 tons. But the U.S. never asked for Gillian's extradition from Venezuela to stand trial. And in 2007, after he was arreste…
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Agency assets cross the line. This does not have a date on it. One after another, former CIA allies in Latin America seem headed for the dock on cocaine trafficking charges. The latest CIA asset in drug trouble is Venezuelan General Ramon G…
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who was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami earlier this year. Gillian, who remains at large, presumably in Venezuela, was charged with smuggling 22 tons of cocaine into the United States between 1987, which is during the Iran-Contra …
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cocaine cartel, while he simultaneously was running the Venezuelan Guard Unit, which coordinated with the CIA on quote-unquote drug interdiction. They weren't interdicting any drugs. They were trafficking in drugs. He was the CIA's most tru…
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Even worse, in December of 89, the CIA actually collaborated with Gillen on one dubious plan to ship a ton of cocaine, which I posted about purportedly for intelligence purposes. It was part of the supposed plan to catch drug traffickers. W…
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the spies agency's certainty that in areas of national security, it always knows best. In an internal government report on the case, DEA Special Agent James Kibble wrote that vital information was not forwarded to the DEA or was withheld fo…
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exploded three years later as a public relations embarrassment when 60 Minutes broadcast a report on the illegal shipment of the one ton, not the 20-some tons, but just this one. The story also led the CIA to make a rare admission of error.…
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As a special advisor, which is the normal course of action, the Caracas station chief was recalled and retired soon after, but no CIA official was charged. They never are. The Miami Herald has reported that internal DEA documents claim that…
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cracked during interrogation in November of 1991 and confessed to the illegal shipments. A year later, however, he denied that he had made any such confession. He insisted that his involvement in the drug shipment to the U.S. was done with …
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while supposedly standing shoulder to shoulder with the CIA in the drug war. Those 22 tons over four years averaged out to six tons a year, a volume that would put him in the same big leagues with Mexican drug kingpin Juan Garcia Abrego, wh…
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cocaine smuggler at the time he was palming himself off to the CIA as the leading anti-drug warrior. Whichever way one looks at the case, it does not reflect well on the boys at Langley. Either the CIA was complicit in the illegal drug ship…
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were trained by the United States. Faced with this new pressure, Honduran authorities surrendered Mata. In a raid on Mata's ranch in April of 1988, the U.S. and Honduran law enforcement agents seized the drug kingpin and spirited him off to…