John Hall person
also: Reverend John Hale, Hall, Paul, General John Hall, General Hall
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Claims (16)
John Hall succeeded
James Killian book_quoted
“This unfortunate situation highlights the necessity for reviewing and perhaps recasting some of the virtually autonomous functions presently assigned. Virtually autonomous. They're beckoning back to the Hall board, which we already talked a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 1:05
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
John Hall trafficked
Contras 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
Ron Lippert covered_up
John Hall 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
J.J. Perez covered_up
John Hall guest_asserted
“Hall confirmed Lippert's story, as did Anthony Rasbuto, a former DEA inspector who'd investigated Perez's role in Hall's escape. Rasbuto believed Perez set up Hall's escape on his own initiative without official DEA sanction, but Hall dispu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:10:50
United States covered_up
John Hall guest_asserted
“as a national security secret. The U.S. refused repeated Costa Rican requests to extradite Hall and the drug charges were eventually dropped. Murder charges that were filed against him shortly after his escape are still pending. Hall denied…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:11:46
John Hall trafficked
Contras documented
“Plumlee says that he assumes the narco-trafficker was flown into John Hall's ranch in Costa Rica. John Hall's ranch was protected by the CIA and used extensively by the CIA. Hall took advantage of this protection and allowed planes loaded w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 46:58
CIA covered_up
John Hall documented
“Plumlee says that he assumes the narco-trafficker was flown into John Hall's ranch in Costa Rica. John Hall's ranch was protected by the CIA and used extensively by the CIA. Hall took advantage of this protection and allowed planes loaded w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 46:58
John Hall covered_up
Joe Kelso guest_asserted
“Hall, who had been accused repeatedly of facilitating contra-drug trafficking, was weary, thinking Kelso may have been sent by the Sandinistas. He knows he wasn't. Hal is part of the CIA. And obviously, he's just putting that in there for h…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 51:48
Joe Kelso spied_on
John Hall 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
Alan Fiers covered_up
John Hall documented
“Fiers Jr. was convinced that Hall's Ranch was being used for Contra drug flights. There is no doubt in Fiers' mind that Pastora's men trans-shipped drugs out of the airstrip on Hall's Ranch. Investigators for the Iran-Contra prosecutor, Law…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 26:28
CIA trafficked
John Hall documented
“was a training area and a hiding place for Contra soldiers. It was where the Legion of September 15 gathered before its raid on the Argentina radio station, which we read about several chapters back. After they dropped off arms, Morales and…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 25:30
John Hall front_for
CIA documented
“was a training area and a hiding place for Contra soldiers. It was where the Legion of September 15 gathered before its raid on the Argentina radio station, which we read about several chapters back. After they dropped off arms, Morales and…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 25:30
John Hall member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“My interview with Lippert, jailed for 10 years by Fidel Castro for flying explosives into Cuba for the agency, solved one of the final mysteries of the Southern Front. How CIA operative John Hall, that's the guy that had the big ranch in Co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:09:32
John Hall member_of
CIA guest_asserted
“Arias took Kelso up in the jungle and dropped him off and then returned to San Jose to pick up weapons in one of the presidential security cars. Kelso said he had been instructed by his handlers to rendezvous on the CIA operative John Hall'…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 49:56
Presidential Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities headed
John Hall book_quoted
“This unfortunate situation highlights the necessity for reviewing and perhaps recasting some of the virtually autonomous functions presently assigned. Virtually autonomous. They're beckoning back to the Hall board, which we already talked a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe For Democracy Part 15 (16) @ 1:05
Mentions (37)
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It was one of the first organized intel networks in American history. You've heard of Nathan Hale, right? Yes. So Nathan Hale is pretty much the United States Spying Hall of Fame. He was born in 1755 in Connecticut. He's the great-grandson …
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determine uh foreign policy and the only presidents who stood up to it you know are jfk carter and trump it doesn't matter if it's republican or democrat that that is the neocons and neoliberals are both into the wars so um since you mentio…
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directly involved in the operations of Contra aircraft. Like Cesar, Acuando was another old friend of Menendez. He was also a close associate of CIA's man in northern Costa Rica, John Hall, who served as the agency's unofficial liaison for …
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bought up all of that ranch land that installed airstrips in there and was a logistical hub, not only for the weapons trafficking, but for the drug trafficking as well in Costa Rica. Morales, the Colombian trafficker, had supplied a few shi…
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Morales and the pilots Carrasco and Gary Wayne Benzner said plane loads of weapons were flown to the ranch in northern Costa Rica owned by CIA operative John Hall, whose cover was that Midwestern farmer managing some large plantation for ri…
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was a training area and a hiding place for Contra soldiers. It was where the Legion of September 15 gathered before its raid on the Argentina radio station, which we read about several chapters back. After they dropped off arms, Morales and…
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Every one of the flights I made to Costa Rica, the cocaine was the Contras, not mine, Morales testified. I have no suppliers in Colombia. I don't need to go to Costa Rica, he said. While Hall was vehemently denied all of the accusations tha…
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Fiers Jr. was convinced that Hall's Ranch was being used for Contra drug flights. There is no doubt in Fiers' mind that Pastora's men trans-shipped drugs out of the airstrip on Hall's Ranch. Investigators for the Iran-Contra prosecutor, Law…
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this around 1986 when he heard all the evidence from Senator John Kerry's hearing and from the newspapers. Friars is adamant that he had no knowledge of CIA complicity in any of this. Hall said that about Friars' testimony that he was aston…
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is the conspiracy theorist. That never happened. One of Morales' pilots who flew in and out of Hall's ranch, Tito Carrasco, testified that one of Pastora's commanders assured him that he had nothing to worry about because the CIA was protec…
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I had agreed or made a plan with Mr. Watson to steal the drugs, Carlton said. Carlton suspected that the Costa Rican Contra leader, Sebastian Gonzalez, and his strange M3 Contra group had done Watson in, leading him into an ambush at an air…
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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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Aldemar started by kidnapping Carlton's friends and employees and slapping them around. One of his relatives, Carlton said, was brutally beaten when the power shovels arrived and began digging up Carlton's ranch. They spent weeks there look…
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may have been because its Costa Rican manager, Nunez, was a CIA agent himself. John Hall, the CIA's Costa Rican liaison for the Contras, confirmed in an interview that Nunez was working with the agency as an intelligence source, and in a 19…
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from Colombia by the cartel pilots arrived in Costa Rica in square 25 kilo packages. It was unloaded at various airstrips, including one located on the CIA operative John Hall's farm in northern Costa Rica, where it was placed on Contra pla…
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Arias took Kelso up in the jungle and dropped him off and then returned to San Jose to pick up weapons in one of the presidential security cars. Kelso said he had been instructed by his handlers to rendezvous on the CIA operative John Hall'…
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In the dead of night, Tracy and Minolte drove Kelso north to Hall's well-guarded compound and dropped him off with a dentist friend of Hall's where he spent the night. The dentist drove Kelso to Hall's ranch the next day. Rob Owens later re…
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the one guy that I should contact. There's a real problem here. I think the DEA people are trying to kill me. I'm convinced that they were involved in the narcotics trafficking and looking the other way. I don't know who else to turn to. Pa…
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has his maps of coke labs located in Costa Rica, but is protecting them. A large lab located up north and other ones in other areas. While Kelso talked, Hall carefully examined the stranger's passport, which bore the name Richard Williams, …
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Hall, who had been accused repeatedly of facilitating contra-drug trafficking, was weary, thinking Kelso may have been sent by the Sandinistas. He knows he wasn't. Hal is part of the CIA. And obviously, he's just putting that in there for h…
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He tries to get up and he hit me again, knocking me right back to the ground. Paul watched this parade from his porch. It was very, very obvious attempt to get him to resist so they could shoot him. The colonel kept running up, pointing his…
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was DEA agent Neves. Paul's report stated that the embassy told the rural guard colonel that if he resisted arrest to kill him. So I'll spare you the rest of the details because it's pretty crazy, but suffice it to say, Kelso lived and they…
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My interview with Lippert, jailed for 10 years by Fidel Castro for flying explosives into Cuba for the agency, solved one of the final mysteries of the Southern Front. How CIA operative John Hall, that's the guy that had the big ranch in Co…
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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…
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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…
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Hall confirmed Lippert's story, as did Anthony Rasbuto, a former DEA inspector who'd investigated Perez's role in Hall's escape. Rasbuto believed Perez set up Hall's escape on his own initiative without official DEA sanction, but Hall dispu…
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You don't get a DEA pilot and a DEA airplane to fly you around without the DEA knowing about it. The DEA panel recommended Perez's dismissal. Rasputo said, but the Justice Department provided Perez with an attorney and much of the case was …
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as a national security secret. The U.S. refused repeated Costa Rican requests to extradite Hall and the drug charges were eventually dropped. Murder charges that were filed against him shortly after his escape are still pending. Hall denied…
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inauguration of the new president in a very, very corrupt country. That's where John Hall had his CIA ranch, where they were running contra operations, weapons trafficking, drugs trafficking out of it. That's all in Costa Rica. So Jeb Bush,…
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Edwin Wilson is the guy that was in Libya brokering weapons into Gaddafi that the CIA set up and sent to jail. Thomas Klein shows up in so many of these things, especially the ones that deal with drugs. Jenkins is mentioned in a number of p…
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This unfortunate situation highlights the necessity for reviewing and perhaps recasting some of the virtually autonomous functions presently assigned. Virtually autonomous. They're beckoning back to the Hall board, which we already talked a…
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judging how well they do their job. General Hall and others made these points to President Eisenhower when the Presidential Intelligence Board met with him on December 16, 1958. They urged Ike to take the function away from the CIA, especia…
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Without Pastora, the followers would not stay there. Any idea the FDN could step in and gain allegiance to these rebels was non-existent because they hated the FDN because those were the National Guard from the former Somoza regime. Calero …
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Plumlee says that he assumes the narco-trafficker was flown into John Hall's ranch in Costa Rica. John Hall's ranch was protected by the CIA and used extensively by the CIA. Hall took advantage of this protection and allowed planes loaded w…
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near Naples, Florida. Castro told FBI agents that he provided food, ammunition, and M14 rifles to the camp. He would go to the camp weekly to take the supplies. He told that to the FBI. Castro also traveled to Costa Rica and met with the in…
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Castro went to Costa Rica in order to assist Rene Carvo and the Cuban exile fighting there, said the FBI report. Castro tried to tell the FBI agents that John Hall, quote, does not work for the CIA but funnels information to them, unquote. …
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Some with ties to the CIA and the Contras with planning the murderous assault. One of the persons fingered was John Hall, H-U-L-L, a Contra supporter who had a ranch in Costa Rica. We've talked about this guy a lot because that is one of th…