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George H.W. Bush overthrew
Manuel Noriega documented
“So it says in reviewing the intersection of Bush and Ted Shackley, while Bush was head of the CIA in 75 and 76, we see a genesis of a later action in the Bush administration, namely the 1989 invasion of Panama and the deposing of Manuel Nor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 56:51
CIA paid
Manuel Noriega documented
“of the purpose for which the United States had paid Noriega. In pretrial proceedings, the government offered to stipulate that Noriega had received approximately a third of a million dollars from the U.S. Army and the CIA. Noriega insisted …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 49:26
Manuel Noriega ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 29:53
Manuel Noriega ordered_assassination_of
Hugo Spadafora documented
“Nicholas Barletta announced an immediate investigation into his murder. It was to be one of Barletta's last official acts. A few weeks later, he was forced to resign by Manuel Noriega, the commander of the country's military. And the promis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 8:11
Nestor Sanchez assigned_to
Manuel Noriega 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
Robert Mueller exposed
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“But it was fun stuff. And it led us into this series. A little bit more on Bob Mueller. We all know what he's done lately, but, you know, he's a Marine and actually did some real combat, although he sat out a year with a knee injury. He end…”
▶ Operation Gladio Meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Brady 250508 @ 33:19
CIA covered_up
Manuel Noriega documented
“had performed valuable work for the U.S. government in Central America during the 80s and should give him a break. Though federal prosecutors called him an international drug trafficker and money launderer of unequaled proportions, Winters …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 14:25
Manuel Noriega spied_on
Fidel Castro documented
“had performed valuable work for the U.S. government in Central America during the 80s and should give him a break. Though federal prosecutors called him an international drug trafficker and money launderer of unequaled proportions, Winters …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 14:25
CIA recruited
Manuel Noriega documented
“provided details on guerrilla and terrorist activities, and even gave the former Shah of Iran a safe haven. There were specific instances when the U.S. government worked through General Noriega. There were major, major considerations, unquo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 14:49
Richard Gorge indicted
Manuel Noriega book_quoted
“favored known drug traffickers with government contracts and intervened to prevent recipient drug cases from being prosecuted. Active in the latter role was a chief assistant U.S. attorney in Miami by the name of Richard Gagori, G-E, excuse…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 13:55
George H.W. Bush targeted_for_regime_change
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“He gets involved in a really weird thing. He gets involved in election integrity and he goes on election missions during election cycles. And his first one he ever did was Noriega in Panama, who we know Bush overthrows once he becomes presi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 49:44
Manuel Noriega member_of
BCCI host_asserted
“the building where the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI, had its Houston branch. Isn't that weird? The CIA front bank that Bush Sr. had an account at, along with Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, and all of the drug kingpins, t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 50:25
United States removed_from_power
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“He becomes the main man. No, no. He becomes a liability. And that's when we invaded Panama and took him out. And this was the Sandinistas. No, that's Nicaragua. There's just too many of them. Yeah. No, we end up going in and taking out Nori…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 52:44
George H.W. Bush ordered_assassination_of
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“Excuse me, a legal memo that provided justification for the U.S. invasion of Panama. I'm sure that's a coincidence. The ensuing Operation Just Cause, which George H.W. Bush administration launched in December 20th, 1989, resulted in the arr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:31:48
William Casey recruited
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“That was the CIA, too. After all, President Reagan had held the Contras as the moral equal to our founding fathers. The U.S. government would be hard pressed to expose the Contras as drug traffickers. In Panama, CIA director William Casey r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 14:02
Manuel Noriega cooperated_with
CIA host_asserted
“That was the CIA, too. After all, President Reagan had held the Contras as the moral equal to our founding fathers. The U.S. government would be hard pressed to expose the Contras as drug traffickers. In Panama, CIA director William Casey r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 14:02
CIA funded
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“for many many years but in pre-trial negotiations or directions because of national security you're not allowed to say those words and therefore they have an entire trial without ever saying those words and no one ever knows and they convic…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 3 @ 50:17
George H.W. Bush covered_up
Manuel Noriega documented
“When the DIA discovered that Manuel Noriega had purchased intelligence information from three U.S. Army non-commissioned officers in Panama, Bush elected not to prosecute the Americans. Doing so would expose sources and the embarrassing fac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 57:20
Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed
Manuel Noriega documented
“Years before anyone knew what that bank scandal was even about, they had found evidence in Manuel Noriega's involvement with drugs years before the invasion. Many of the Kerry committee witnesses, I noted, later became U.S. Justice Departme…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 54:46
Manuel Noriega supplied_arms_to
Contras book_quoted
“confirmed to the U.S. Subcommittee in 1988 that Noriega's pilots would fly up weapons for the Contras along with drugs, leaving the guns behind in Costa Rica before hitting two routes north, one through Mexico for the West Coast market and …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:03:26
Manuel Noriega ordered_assassination_of
Neil Livingstone book_quoted
“Livingstone laughed. Are you serious? He did it for the money, and I can tell you who his partner was, Michael Harari. Michael Harari was much like Ed Wilson, a front man used by Mossad, and he had deep interest in his own personal profits.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 20:15
George H.W. Bush funded
Manuel Noriega documented
“inexplicable than his relationship with the Pandemanian strongman Manuel Noriega. The records show that Bush Sr. put Noriega on the CIA's payroll. Even after Bush had left the CIA, he kept in touch with Noriega through Admiral Daniel Murphy…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 1:31
CIA recruited
Manuel Noriega documented
“During the Bush period, actions against dissidents in the U.S. was carried out by the intelligence services of Iran, the Philippines, South Korea, and Israel inside the U.S. under George H.W. Bush. The CIA, during his tenure, recruited Manu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 30:51
Floyd Carlton Caceres spied_on
Manuel Noriega documented
“and he was convinced that the revelation would sink the tyrant. In the months before the murder, the doctor had befriended a drug and arms smuggler who once ran Noriega's drug operation, Floyd Carlton Caceres. Carlton, who also served as No…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 11:02
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
Norman Bailey exposed
Manuel Noriega documented
“Billions of dollars in $50 and $100 bills, money that Bailey concluded had come from criminal activities. Bailey set off on a quest to persuade Reagan administration to distance itself from Noriega, pressing his reports into the hands of Re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 31:39
Manuel Noriega trafficked
CIA documented
“and said that he did nothing with the information the doctor risked his life to bring him. Since Noriega's drug dealing was the official reason the United States invaded Panama four years later, Neves' perverse inaction is astonishing, but …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 18:32
William Casey covered_up
Manuel Noriega documented
“again to discuss his help for the Contras. According to a Senate subcommittee report, Casey decided not to raise the allegation of Noriega's cocaine trafficking with him, quote, on the grounds that Noriega was providing valuable support for…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 33:01
Dagoberto Nunez spied_on
Manuel Noriega documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:09:15
United States overthrew
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“They overthrew Noriega's government because he was side-dealing with Escobar, and that wasn't allowed. Noriega was detained as a prisoner of war and taken to the U.S., where he was convicted under federal charges of cocaine trafficking, rac…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 43:55
Manuel Noriega financed_via
Pablo Escobar host_asserted
“In 1989, President George Bush authorized a covert operation to track down the Medellin cartel, just like Nixon had done with the Corsican mafia. In the same year, another important relationship in the U.S. was terminated. The U.S. invaded …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 43:25
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
Manuel Noriega member_of
Medellin Cartel host_asserted
“Well, it started in Pakistan. It ends up being ran out of London. But now you see how all these connections of all these things we've been talking about all play into exactly what we're talking about right now. Yes. And George Bush in the p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 52:12
CIA paid
Manuel Noriega book_quoted
“That would have led her to Panama and Manuel Noriega, who happened to be on the CIA's payroll at the time.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 33:49
United States installed
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“And take over because, you know, all these people that they're dealing with are just criminals. So. So, again, you have to make a distinction between the fact that they have a fairly new president and the way their government had been ran i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:25:23
United States removed_from_power
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“And then when he started cozying up too close to Israel, we overthrew him too. And so there's absolutely no denying that Panama has been destabilized, but it was destabilized as a result of the United States. And to then think that the answ…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 1:25:51
Manuel Noriega provided_bridge_financing_for
Sebastian Gonzalez documented
“Having recently fled Costa Rica after he and the FARN's logistics chief were caught with 600 grams of cocaine in a house in Costa Rica. Gonzalez was overheard calling Pereira from his hideout in Panama, where he had been living under the pr…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 10:39
Manuel Noriega laundered_money_for
BCCI host_asserted
“It was the seventh largest bank in the world, 100% money laundering, narcotics and weapons. George Bush had an account there. Noriega had an account there. Saddam Hussein had an account there. Aidan Khashoggi used that bank almost exclusive…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 54:30
Manuel Noriega laundered_money_for
Pablo Escobar host_asserted
“killing the Cuban exiles that had been relied upon for decades at that point to do the interior distribution and the mafia and all that. So Pablo Escobar also didn't like laundering all of his money through the U.S., which was basically a r…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 59:22
Manuel Noriega trafficked
Hugo Spadafora host_asserted
“which may be the reason the Times sidestepped the issue involved drugs in the CIA. When Noriega's goons hauled Spadafora off a bus at a Pandemanian border, he was on his way to Panama City, where he intended to publicly release information …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 10:04
Manuel Noriega member_of
Safari Club book_quoted
“scandal involving Rice, which was nicknamed Koreagate, and it involved bribing people's members of Congress back in the 1970s. But it would be Park's later involvement with Manuel Noriega and other Japanese organized crime elements and the …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 16:30
Medellin Cartel targeted_for_regime_change
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“The only reason that any cartel, like the Medellin cartel, gets busted is because they go rogue. I mean, that's what happened to Noriega, too. There you go. Yeah, they were worried that this, I mean, some of the cartel members, some of the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 4 @ 1:09:08
Manuel Noriega removed_from_power
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Your individual humanity or rights are that of your children. It is just as plain as day that a system is being created, and they use these nations, they use Operation Gladio to shatter them. Then they place the people that will play ball w…”
▶ Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2 @ 1:13:00
BCCI laundered_money_for
Manuel Noriega host_asserted
“Noriega, all of the people that they did major drug deals with all had bank accounts at BCCI because that's how they were skimming money off of the drug proceeds and funding covert operations.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 42:16
Mentions (118)
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In Colombia, and that's the one I did the most investigation on, in Colombia, there were Israelis assigned as quote-unquote advisors. Noriega had one as well. And they picked the top quote-unquote cartel members to go to an in-residence one…
▶ 33:49
That would have led her to Panama and Manuel Noriega, who happened to be on the CIA's payroll at the time. But the Afghan civil war, not a civil war, the CIA war was heating up and the CIA was bent on U.S. foreign policy to their own end. A…
▶ 47:45
Because the CIA, if they're going to install a dictator, they always have dictator number two waiting in the wings. They've already learned because of Manuel Noriega and Penashe and all these other people that eventually they're installed. …
▶ 42:16
Noriega, all of the people that they did major drug deals with all had bank accounts at BCCI because that's how they were skimming money off of the drug proceeds and funding covert operations.…
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I think there is something to say, and especially like with Nixon. And we've seen it in other cases where we actually have documents to prove this, where they have assassinated or overthrown a government because they decided to. And Noriega…
▶ 1:13:00
Your individual humanity or rights are that of your children. It is just as plain as day that a system is being created, and they use these nations, they use Operation Gladio to shatter them. Then they place the people that will play ball w…
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A man who only a year earlier had declared, I still think capitalism as it's carried out is a sin. Or the Fidel Castro in Cuba, who could not be controlled. The atrocities of the Haitian government were simply trotted out by President Clint…
▶ 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…
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So what they did was they, using people like him, they went and bribed all of the senators. They tried to buy the senators because they're parliamentary and he had to be confirmed by the Senate. And they couldn't find enough corrupt people.…
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All of them. Ford, if their assets were going to be jeopardized in an upcoming election like the one in Nicaragua, which is how we got the Contras. Noriega and all this. Well, Noriega was in Panama. Sorry, Noriega. Yeah, OK, go on.…
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including Noriega, the Lockerbie bombing, Gambino crime boss, John Gotti, and of course, BCCI. So cover up, cover up, cover up, cover up, just so that we can do the Reader's Digest version. Yeah. Not to mention 9-11. Oh, would that be cover…
▶ 49:44
He gets involved in a really weird thing. He gets involved in election integrity and he goes on election missions during election cycles. And his first one he ever did was Noriega in Panama, who we know Bush overthrows once he becomes presi…
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meaning the CIA, paid Neil Livingstone. The airline in question, called Air Panama, was every inch a badly ran CIA proprietary. Livingstone and his partner took it over in the hopes of turning a profit. Frequently, Colonel Noriega would use…
▶ 16:22
would be billed, Livingstone had learned enough about Panama not to press him for payment because he was basically doing CIA's business anyway. Livingstone had come to Panama via an arrest in Libya in 1976. Libyan authorities released him a…
▶ 19:17
Livingstone said that he was constantly scrambling for deals and the Air Panama deal was one that looked good. Intelligence work had gotten sporadic at best. Livingstone confirmed that he was present in Panama when Operation Watchtower was …
▶ 20:15
Livingstone laughed. Are you serious? He did it for the money, and I can tell you who his partner was, Michael Harari. Michael Harari was much like Ed Wilson, a front man used by Mossad, and he had deep interest in his own personal profits.…
▶ 1:28:17
whatever the quadruple, whatever the number is for five, it went up five times into the United States as far as the amount of heroin. And so there was never a war on drugs. There was a war on the competition for the CIA's drug trafficking. …
▶ 1:31
inexplicable than his relationship with the Pandemanian strongman Manuel Noriega. The records show that Bush Sr. put Noriega on the CIA's payroll. Even after Bush had left the CIA, he kept in touch with Noriega through Admiral Daniel Murphy…
▶ 3:00
was Bush used in an elaborate scam to conduct a drug operation for profit under the name of the CIA when it was really benefiting others. Well, it benefited a whole lot of people to include the CIA. They are not mutually exclusive. Behind t…
▶ 3:30
Watchtower had begun within a month of Bush's assuming the CIA director's job. And it was about the same time that he was having his first meeting with Noriega, who then was the head of Panama's intelligence services. In other words, his pe…
▶ 7:57
in the election season. He was present when 30 high-performance aircraft landed safely at Albrook Air Station, where the planes were met by Noriega, who at the time was the Defense Force officer assigned to the Customs and Intelligence Sect…
▶ 13:59
A month before he was killed in what was officially labeled an accident during a military training exercise. Well, that's convenient. So he goes on record and then he mysteriously disappears. Manuel Noriega learned of the entire Watchtower …
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at the NSA that were nicknamed the singing sergeants. So by FBI counterintelligence agents, they provided transcripts and tapes from NSA station in Panama. Noriega learned that the CIA was financing the operations with drug money that it ha…
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To make matters worse, Noriega had possession of all secret communication channels and frequencies for the CIA and military intelligence agencies throughout Latin America. Now, let me tell you how he had this. Because again, this is putting…
▶ 15:35
So all of the encrypted intelligence from Crypto AG, which again is the equipment used to spy on every embassy and all of their ambassadors around the world, that node for Latin America was in Panama. And Noriega had access to it so that he…
▶ 16:06
directly to the CIA, and he had access to all of it. Noriega then simply went to the CIA and demanded a piece of the drug action. Bush not only agreed, he went a step further and did not notify the Justice Department of the six NSA employee…
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scandal involving Rice, which was nicknamed Koreagate, and it involved bribing people's members of Congress back in the 1970s. But it would be Park's later involvement with Manuel Noriega and other Japanese organized crime elements and the …
▶ 17:01
Now, I have to stop here for a second because I want to put a couple pieces together. Manuel Noriega, obviously drugs, and obviously the CIA's connection in Central America to the drug network. And Noriega was also part of the Latin America…
▶ 12:29
Well, it's always been regime toppling, but it was the transfer from communist to radical Islamist as the boogeyman. Sure. That's Cheney. He's the one who orchestrated all of that. He also oversaw Operation Just Cause, which is, as you've t…
▶ 13:02
Yes. Yeah, I'm familiar with it. And the only reason we do that, by the way, is to eliminate the competition. Oh, Noriega got a little big for his britches. Yes. Yeah, we've talked about that. And, of course, he oversees the invasions of Ir…
▶ 10:39
Having recently fled Costa Rica after he and the FARN's logistics chief were caught with 600 grams of cocaine in a house in Costa Rica. Gonzalez was overheard calling Pereira from his hideout in Panama, where he had been living under the pr…
▶ 11:11
Gonzalez had worked for the CIA since 1983 as the Panamanian quartermaster for all Costa Rican Contra armies, supplying supplies and deliveries from Noriega's armed forces because they were using Noriega as a drop-off point to supply the Co…
▶ 1:25:23
And take over because, you know, all these people that they're dealing with are just criminals. So. So, again, you have to make a distinction between the fact that they have a fairly new president and the way their government had been ran i…
▶ 1:01:11
in what's going on with the drug trade. So I'm sure Warhamster would have a lot more to say about that than myself, but something that I got tumbling in my head at the moment. Thank you, Colonel. So, and just keep in mind that this big tran…
▶ 1:19:16
of the drug trafficking in the mid-1970s exposure, especially after they got rid of Noriega in 89, there was a complete shift from kind of all hands on deck method where the transportation routes through Mexico became a necessity to get the…
▶ 1:27:37
Go ahead. Okay. You're making a lot of good points, so I'm just going to add to some of what you're stating, ma'am. We did, obviously, you mentioned Noriega's time, right? There was a different purpose there. They've even made some pretty i…
▶ 52:12
Well, it started in Pakistan. It ends up being ran out of London. But now you see how all these connections of all these things we've been talking about all play into exactly what we're talking about right now. Yes. And George Bush in the p…
▶ 52:44
He becomes the main man. No, no. He becomes a liability. And that's when we invaded Panama and took him out. And this was the Sandinistas. No, that's Nicaragua. There's just too many of them. Yeah. No, we end up going in and taking out Nori…
▶ 1:09:08
The only reason that any cartel, like the Medellin cartel, gets busted is because they go rogue. I mean, that's what happened to Noriega, too. There you go. Yeah, they were worried that this, I mean, some of the cartel members, some of the …
▶ 43:25
In 1989, President George Bush authorized a covert operation to track down the Medellin cartel, just like Nixon had done with the Corsican mafia. In the same year, another important relationship in the U.S. was terminated. The U.S. invaded …
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They overthrew Noriega's government because he was side-dealing with Escobar, and that wasn't allowed. Noriega was detained as a prisoner of war and taken to the U.S., where he was convicted under federal charges of cocaine trafficking, rac…
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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…
▶ 59:52
or checked or whatever, with all of the documents laid out to implicate whoever they want to implicate. And that's exactly what they did with Pablo Escobar. And again, that doesn't make him good. It just makes him part of the narrative. And…
▶ 1:31:48
Excuse me, a legal memo that provided justification for the U.S. invasion of Panama. I'm sure that's a coincidence. The ensuing Operation Just Cause, which George H.W. Bush administration launched in December 20th, 1989, resulted in the arr…
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Began shortly after 2 a.m. So here's some advice. Don't tweet or post when you're drunk. And don't do it at 2 a.m. Because if you're up at 2 a.m., you're most likely drunk. Just don't do that. But he did it. He tweeted out side-by-side phot…
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Years before anyone knew what that bank scandal was even about, they had found evidence in Manuel Noriega's involvement with drugs years before the invasion. Many of the Kerry committee witnesses, I noted, later became U.S. Justice Departme…
▶ 55:42
Blanton's testimony about selling cocaine to the Contras in LA wasn't part of a fantasy. This could have actually happened. I called Jack Bloom, the Washington DC attorney who headed the Kerry investigation, and he confirmed that Norwin Men…
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from Colombia. That drug ring, which was being ran with the help of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, worked closely with the Contras. Specifically, use was made of the same landing strips in Costa Rica areas with the Contras. The gasolin…
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the drug planes. Evidence produced during a DEA investigation of Manuel Noriega revealed that his drug trafficking ring loaded up planes with cocaine in Colombia. The planes refueled in the Contra airstrips in northern Costa Rica before con…
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confirmed to the U.S. Subcommittee in 1988 that Noriega's pilots would fly up weapons for the Contras along with drugs, leaving the guns behind in Costa Rica before hitting two routes north, one through Mexico for the West Coast market and …
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Nicholas Barletta announced an immediate investigation into his murder. It was to be one of Barletta's last official acts. A few weeks later, he was forced to resign by Manuel Noriega, the commander of the country's military. And the promis…
▶ 8:41
by a Panamanian court in 1993. The New York Times in June of 1986 story that first exposed Noriega as a drug dealer and money launderer cited Spadafore's murder as an example of why U.S. government officials were growing tired of the tyrant…
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Officials in the Reagan administration and past administrations said in interviews that they had overlooked Noriega's illegal activity because of his cooperation with American intelligence, meaning the CIA. They said, for example, that Gene…
▶ 9:36
So Noriega's fine as long as he's useful to the CIA. But the Times story left unaddressed a rather obvious question. Why would a cunning political strategist like Noriega take the risky step of having the popular Spadafora, Panama's former …
▶ 10:04
which may be the reason the Times sidestepped the issue involved drugs in the CIA. When Noriega's goons hauled Spadafora off a bus at a Pandemanian border, he was on his way to Panama City, where he intended to publicly release information …
▶ 10:33
He is aiding Pastora, the guy on the Contra team that refused drug money. He would not work with the CIA using proceeds from drug trafficking. This guy was his key guerrilla fighter. Before leaving for Panama, Spadafora had excitedly told f…
▶ 11:02
and he was convinced that the revelation would sink the tyrant. In the months before the murder, the doctor had befriended a drug and arms smuggler who once ran Noriega's drug operation, Floyd Carlton Caceres. Carlton, who also served as No…
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was a very honest man, Carlton said. He was an idealist, and he tried to get the best for everyone needing justice. If anyone needed justice right then, it was Floyd Carlton. The smuggler was lying low, trying to avoid a hitman Colombian de…
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Since he was too busy to do it himself, he had delegated the task to another pilot. I had to pay that money, Carlton said, which he agreed to do by flying a drug load north for free. But again, he had sent someone else to fly the mission, o…
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They killed him and then took the airplane of drugs to Mr. Hall's ranch, Carlton testified. The plane was cut up and thrown into the river that ran through Hall's property, and the cocaine was taken to the United States, where it was traded…
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gave Spadafora the names of other pilots involved and the dates of specific drug flights through Costa Rica. He also implicated Noriega's high school buddy, Gatchin Gonzalez, who was then hiding out in Panama from a Costa Rican cocaine indi…
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And San Jose was quickly relayed back to the CIA headquarters in Langley, which was informed that Hugo Spadafora had made quote-unquote vague allegations to DEA that Gonzalez, Manuel Noriega, and other Contra leaders were engaged in drug tr…
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He strenuously denied any involvement in the death, but Spadafora's family remains convinced Gonzalez played a major role. I mean, he's on tape planning it. Though Noriega apparently felt the information Spadafora possessed was important en…
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and said that he did nothing with the information the doctor risked his life to bring him. Since Noriega's drug dealing was the official reason the United States invaded Panama four years later, Neves' perverse inaction is astonishing, but …
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where he tried telling them about Noriega's drug dealing in January of 1986. I did actually make contact with intelligence agencies in the United States Embassy in Panama, Carlton said. And I asked, have you heard my name? And they said, ye…
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And the fact is that I believe that I can go before the American judicial system and speak about a lot of things that are happening in this country, and I can even prove them. So they ask, such as what? So I told them money laundering, drug…
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helped Noriega plant false media reports about who actually killed Spadafora. Jose Blanton, then Noriega's consul general in New York, told Congress that he and Noriega discussed Spadafora's murder a few weeks after the body was found durin…
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Especially, he was interested in the developments regarding a witness by the name of Hoffman. It was a witness of German origin who appeared on Panamanian television saying that he knew who had killed Spadafora and publicly said that Spadaf…
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was a witness who was created by Noriega, and he was obtained through the CIA operating in Costa Rica. Blanton testified to this. He is a specialist in electronics, and he worked for the CIA. Blanton describes the episode as an absurd farce…
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A month after Spadafora's killing, Noriega's men contacted the CIA and asked for help in diffusing an effort by family members of the slain rebel to implicate Noriega in drug trafficking. The CIA cable discussed putting Gonzalez on a popula…
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Gonzalez's drug dealings as far back as October 1983, after Spadafora had informed him that Noriega was smuggling drugs with the Contras and that Gonzalez was involved. The agent said his CIA supervisor simply replied that CIA had heard som…
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The good doctor had the bad luck of being murdered at a potentially inconvenient time. It was in no one's interest right then, Noriega's or the U.S. government, to delve too deeply into the crime for fear that it would expose the apparent c…
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At that point, the Reagan administration was smuggling up to Noriega as it had never done before, frantically searching for ways around the 1984 congressional ban on CIA supporting the Contras. For months, a steady stream of high-ranking vi…
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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…
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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 …
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What Rodriguez said, Milan was trying to broker information to obtain help in the money laundering case pending against him. Not only did he tell Rodriguez of Manuel Noriega's drug activities, but he claimed he could provide proof that the …
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making payments to Rodriguez. But the examiner reached no conclusion about his claim that he'd been given money to the Contras. In the congressional testimony, Noriega's former political advisor described Felix Rodriguez as a very close fri…
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He greased the skids with Bustillo and eventually became the overseer of Norse Contra resupply operations at the El Salvador base. The Contras had been using El Opango with General Bustillo's blessing since 1983, when Norwin Menendez's frie…
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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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When former pandemonium dictator Manuel Noriega appealed for a reduction in his 40-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering in early 1999, he came armed with influential witnesses. Donald Winters, the former chief of t…
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had performed valuable work for the U.S. government in Central America during the 80s and should give him a break. Though federal prosecutors called him an international drug trafficker and money launderer of unequaled proportions, Winters …
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provided details on guerrilla and terrorist activities, and even gave the former Shah of Iran a safe haven. There were specific instances when the U.S. government worked through General Noriega. There were major, major considerations, unquo…
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Noriega's judge apparently agreed, so in March of 1999, his jail sentence was slashed from 40 years to 10, making eligible for parole in less than a year. No one explained why, if Noriega had been such a great and valuable friend to the U.S…
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favored known drug traffickers with government contracts and intervened to prevent recipient drug cases from being prosecuted. Active in the latter role was a chief assistant U.S. attorney in Miami by the name of Richard Gagori, G-E, excuse…
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That was the CIA, too. After all, President Reagan had held the Contras as the moral equal to our founding fathers. The U.S. government would be hard pressed to expose the Contras as drug traffickers. In Panama, CIA director William Casey r…
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the building where the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI, had its Houston branch. Isn't that weird? The CIA front bank that Bush Sr. had an account at, along with Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, and all of the drug kingpins, t…
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as saying that this company was used by Mike Harari for money laundering. And who is Harari? Well, we've come across him quite often in this story of Operation Gladio. He was also an Israeli intelligence officer and a close contact of the P…
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along with Miami gun dealer David Duncan, and the use of East German ship that Panamanian dictator Noriega was holding. Bruhl was also named by Secord in an interview he had with the FBI in 1986. Secord said Bruhl was an associate of Jack T…
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For Sarkis, his conversations with the media about Iraq and George H.W.'s role in building up Saddam Hussein and his inflammatory interviews concerning Bush's involvement with the narcotic trafficking of Manuel Noriega grew Washington's wra…
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This interview resulted in Parliament's ordering an investigation. George H.W. defeat in the polls in 1992 was followed by a remarkable series of legal events. Sarkis, then in the same federal facility in Miami that held Manuel Noriego, beg…
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for the Noriega election in 1989. And then he works with Gorbachev in 1992 to set up the Gorbachev Foundation in 94.…
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Every single one of those countries, and you read every single time, we did it because of Castro. We did it because of Castro. You're like, damn, that's awful convenient that you had a Castro. So, and we do know that the CIA helped, and thi…
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During the Bush period, actions against dissidents in the U.S. was carried out by the intelligence services of Iran, the Philippines, South Korea, and Israel inside the U.S. under George H.W. Bush. The CIA, during his tenure, recruited Manu…
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the guy that he will overthrow when he's president. Throwing a few military KIAs in the mix. He recruited Manuel Noriega as CIA director. And then in, I think it was 1992, orders the CIA and the military to go down there and overthrow him. …
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By 6 a.m. the next morning, Claridge stood at Leahy's hotel door. Claridge fed the senator a line on why he had denied the brief. It all hinged on Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, but obviously this had nothing to do with arms interdicti…
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Even if we assume the government, the prosecutor, did everything by the book, his Castillo's lawyer still seems to have opened himself up to allegations of ineffective assistant counsel. Weird how those things just mysteriously happen aroun…
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Prior to falling out of grace and being arrested in the wake of the U.S. military invasion by George H.W. Bush, Mr. Drug Man CIA himself, while president in Panama in 1989, there was, in 1987, then DEA Administrator Jack Lawn penned a lette…
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After Noriega was indicted by the US, Congress and Justice Department officials accused DEA of giving the pandemonium dictator a free pass on his narco-trafficking activities during the period they were using him to help make cases against …
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In July 1999, appeals court ruling in the Noriega criminal case also reveals that the CIA had an intimate relationship with Noriega. However, the appeals court ruling let stand the trial court decision to conceal that relationship. What? He…
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of the purpose for which the United States had paid Noriega. In pretrial proceedings, the government offered to stipulate that Noriega had received approximately a third of a million dollars from the U.S. Army and the CIA. Noriega insisted …
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And that he should be allowed to disclose it. And what he did for the $10 million. Yeah, they said no. No. We're not interested in what you did for the $10 million or the fact that it was $10 million. Yeah. The district court held that the …
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I don't want to do any spoiler alerts, and I just jumped in, so I don't want to spoil your reading there. I just happened to be in Miami at the time at the Noriega trial, and because straits and canals are of essence right now, I just remem…
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But yeah, I'm sorry. I don't want to jump in there. No, no, that's fine. So I think it's worthy of looking into. I don't know if you're ever going to find any concrete connection between the canal and Noriega. What you will find, though, is…
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killing the Cuban exiles that had been relied upon for decades at that point to do the interior distribution and the mafia and all that. So Pablo Escobar also didn't like laundering all of his money through the U.S., which was basically a r…
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and the pandemonium banks to do money laundering. And all of the above totally pissed off Mr. CIA President George H.W. Bush.…
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Um, so it's a closed loop system that if they target you, you are going down. It's just a matter of time. It's, it's, it's awful. So just, uh, there was no research there to, that we know of that the, the ending of the Panama canal deal.…
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During this same timeframe, things like the School of Americas that had been in Panama was shutting down and being moved to Fort Benning. So there was a lot of things in flux at the time. I just have never seen anybody say, you know, hey, N…
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I have seen lots of evidence on the banking accounts, the narco thing, him being on the CIA's payroll that directly relate and the evidence of him helping Pablo Escobar get outside of the CIA approved system in several different books. So t…
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If, like you said, he's turning more inside, wanting to separate from the CIA, and they think he's getting outside their grasp, and then you have the Panama thing coming up, is that going to be? But it didn't happen for quite a while. So co…
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It was the seventh largest bank in the world, 100% money laundering, narcotics and weapons. George Bush had an account there. Noriega had an account there. Saddam Hussein had an account there. Aidan Khashoggi used that bank almost exclusive…
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which meant select information related to his case would be withheld from his attorneys. And they do this every single time we've documented it. Just like when they did Noriega's case, they preemptively agree that his lawyer, the defendant,…
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They actually live there. They're being killed, but they're guerrilla insurgents. Okay, so, and then, of course, comes the normal psychological operation. Noriega was another Castro, and we absolutely can't have two Castros in the same hemi…
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Cocaine from Colombian cartels was flown to Panama, to a Panamanian Air Force base, where agents of Manuel Noriega removed a percentage for their cut. Israeli Colonel Michael Harari and Mossad agent Mariam Nir was also involved, and we've c…
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All of the leaders that were installed after governments were couped, in order to be paid their share of the take, had to set up an account at BCCI. Even George Bush Sr. had an account at BCCI. Saddam Hussein did. Noriega did. Every one of …
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So it says in reviewing the intersection of Bush and Ted Shackley, while Bush was head of the CIA in 75 and 76, we see a genesis of a later action in the Bush administration, namely the 1989 invasion of Panama and the deposing of Manuel Nor…
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When the DIA discovered that Manuel Noriega had purchased intelligence information from three U.S. Army non-commissioned officers in Panama, Bush elected not to prosecute the Americans. Doing so would expose sources and the embarrassing fac…
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Bush didn't say no to anything, unquote. So we all know now that Noriega was taken out because he was trying to get the dirt on the CIA because he was starting to make his own drug deals. He became the competition and had to be eliminated. …