Richard Benenke person
also: Richard Beneke, Benique, Baneki, Benake, Meneke, Menakee, Beneke, Benenke, Dickie Beneke
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Claims (6)
Robert Corson recruited
Richard Benenke book_quoted
“Corson introduced Benenke to Michener in mid-1970s in the lobby of Michener's bank, Allied Bank, in downtown Houston. Benenke recalled describing a mural on the wall. I met Michener originally through Corson. I didn't work with Michener. He…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 22:36
Richard Benenke founded
Internal Fund for Mergers and Acquisition book_quoted
“for mergers and acquisition. It was incorporated by Beneke and none other than Panama in 1970 and set up to be an offshore mutual fund. It would take money from Americans and invest it offshore so that the income was not taxable. Panamanian…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 15:10
Richard Benenke exposed
October Surprise 1980 book_quoted
“Beneke was one of the first people to talk publicly about the October surprise, the trips that members of the Reagan team made in order to cut a deal with the Iranians to hold the American hostages until after the election. So, of course, t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 21:45
Richard Benenke laundered_money_for
CIA book_quoted
“who is also a close friend and political operative of George Bush's. That's going to be discussed in the next chapter. According to Meneke, Corson worked with him in laundering money for the CIA. He went on to say his group would take cash …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 10:11
Richard Benenke spied_on
Lajitas book_quoted
“Benake said that he flew into Texas landing strip in the early 1980s with some Colombian and Panamanian associates of the Medellin drug cartel. He said they told him the landing strip was Walter Michener's. This was in 82 or 83. And that it…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 22:58
Richard Benenke member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“R-U-P-P that goes back to 75. Rupp, a Denver precious metal dealer, was a former CIA contract pilot sentenced to prison in 1988 for bank fraud with the mafia. Rump's friend and partner, Richard Benecke, testified after Rump's trial and conv…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 45:00
Mentions (30)
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Ask about, but also understand the CIA is in bed with them too. Ask about Corson. Northrop replied, quote, I have heard that Corson had very heavy agency connections. Corson has all the moves and all the connections, but I can't tell you th…
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Corson was really sort of a homegrown Republican type of guy. The difference between a guy like Beneke and a guy like Corson is that Beneke was born into this stuff. And Corson sort of rode or seemingly rode the mule in with the Republican …
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who is also a close friend and political operative of George Bush's. That's going to be discussed in the next chapter. According to Meneke, Corson worked with him in laundering money for the CIA. He went on to say his group would take cash …
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has alleged that Beneke was used by him and his associates as a stalking horse or red herring to divert attention away from the real weapons deals. Ben Meneshe was indicted in 1989 in a U.S. Customs sting operation for attempting to sell th…
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Israelis in the 1986 sting operation that included Northrop. However, Ben Meneshe has said that he did it because of others Israelis involved and not Northrop, who he said was working with a different group. Ben Meneshe, like Benenke, was d…
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An Israeli government official stance on Ben Meneshe since his arrest has been that he was a low-level translator. But recent revelations that have emerged from inside Israel tell a much different story. During an interview with freelance j…
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Criticizing a theory by attacking its proponents rather than the substance is a weak and questionable mythology. And these people have greater credibility and a better record of telling the truth than anyone in the CIA or George Bush. That'…
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for mergers and acquisition. It was incorporated by Beneke and none other than Panama in 1970 and set up to be an offshore mutual fund. It would take money from Americans and invest it offshore so that the income was not taxable. Panamanian…
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several other countries over there during this time period. So that's the work they're talking about. Benenke said there was very little activity with this company in the first years of its existence. It was then turned over to the CIA to l…
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vouchers Northrop, Mike Harari was just following orders. D'Onofio said he doesn't remember Corson, but adds that that's not unusual because Beneke had other people that he used. Corson is listed in a federal law enforcement record as a kno…
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He knows that that data has now been erased, and he tells the author that it's not there anymore. That's how bold these people are. Weiland never responded to a letter from the author six days later, asking him on how many trips Corson had …
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Corson introduced Benenke to Michener in mid-1970s in the lobby of Michener's bank, Allied Bank, in downtown Houston. Benenke recalled describing a mural on the wall. I met Michener originally through Corson. I didn't work with Michener. He…
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R-U-P-P that goes back to 75. Rupp, a Denver precious metal dealer, was a former CIA contract pilot sentenced to prison in 1988 for bank fraud with the mafia. Rump's friend and partner, Richard Benecke, testified after Rump's trial and conv…
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team members to Paris for the October surprise of promising Iran missiles. After Beneke's testimony and Rump's psychological evaluation, the judge reduced Rump's sentence from 42 years in prison to just two years. The U.S. Attorney's Office…
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In a November 18th, 1988 letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney C. Jeffrey Kinder, CIA Associate General Counsel W. George Jameson stated, quote, after a diligent search, no record or information of any kind was found that indicates Heinrich Rum…
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But that's a lie because they will not disclose that information. The Denver U.S. Attorney's Office then brought an indictment against Beneke for making false statements before a U.S. judge. Almost a year later, Thomas O'Rourke, an assistan…
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who was a sitting Democrat representative in the House of Congress from Colorado, stating, quote, I received a phone call from Bob Cottle of the CIA. Mr. Cottle told me that CIA files show that in 1966, Heinrich Rump received flying lessons…
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Three. And he controlled it. The actual owner of the land was a widow, Eve Nichols, who lived in Florida, who had never set foot on the site and didn't even know there was a landing strip that had been built on her property. When a relative…
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told the author about the landing strip. Benecke, a controversial Portland, Oregon, arms dealer and real estate manager who says he worked for the CIA for 18 years, was acquitted in federal court in Portland in 1990 on charges of making a f…
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federal agent who patrolled the Rio Grande area for years, former Pentagon criminal investigator Gene Wheaton, and a veteran CIA contract pilot Robert Plumlee, all have confirmed Benique's description of the purpose of the landing strip, a …
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This book was written several years later for fear they'd lose their jobs. The author was able to locate the landing strip using aerial photographs and a map that Beneke drew at his desk in his Portland home. That's how well he knew the are…
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not have attained the location from a map or from the FAA because it was not a registered map. And at the time, we didn't have GPS or this new mapping software. Baneki's credibility is a controversial matter among reporters and government i…
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Others like Jack Bloom and author Mark Hasenball says some is and some isn't, and it's hard to tell the difference. The jurors in Beneke's trial in Portland believe Beneke over the witnesses from the CIA, Secret Service, and Donald Gregg. A…
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that he is frustrating to deal with. Because as you see, most of these people don't ever tell the truth the first time. It was only after the author confirmed Beneke's description of the landing strip outside of Lajitas and its use that I g…
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Beneke was one of the first people to talk publicly about the October surprise, the trips that members of the Reagan team made in order to cut a deal with the Iranians to hold the American hostages until after the election. So, of course, t…
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Beneke was exposed in a story in the Village Voice as having lied about his presence in Paris during the alleged meetings. But who did they rely on to prove him a liar? A CIA agent. Yeah. So, supposedly, Frank Snepp, Mr. CIA himself, acknow…
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Benake said that he flew into Texas landing strip in the early 1980s with some Colombian and Panamanian associates of the Medellin drug cartel. He said they told him the landing strip was Walter Michener's. This was in 82 or 83. And that it…
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in the early 1960s. Some of the weapons going through the Strip were shipped to the Colombian drug cartels as well as the Contras. You have to keep your drug traffickers armed. According to Menakee, the guns came from the United States and …
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Ron Martin, a Miami gun dealer, and James McCoy, the former military attache at the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua and a friend of Somoza, were partners in an arms company that supplied weapons to the Contras, first for the CIA and then after th…
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Miami, Martin's wife alleged that he owned a Hi-Li Fontan in Spain. Benake also said that in mid-1990s, Martin borrowed money from Michener's bank to buy guns for Chile. Mid-1970s, where's Illini? What was happening in the mid-1970s in Chil…