Rafael Quintero person
also: Quintero, Caro Quintero, Cara Quintero, Carrero Quintero, Mexican drug lord
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Claims (7)
Tosh Plumlee carried_out_attack
Rafael Quintero guest_asserted
“was transported to the CIA-linked ranch near Veracruz, where Plumlee was ordered to intercept him. Quote, I was ordered to pick up Caro Quintero at the ranch. I didn't really know who he was at the time, but it was a CIA government-sanction…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 45:31
Rafael Quintero member_of
Operation 40 book_quoted
“with all of those same people. Rafael Quintero, the Posada guy, Felix Rodriguez again, Frank Sturgis, all of those show up. And this is the Operation 40 team that we mentioned a little bit earlier, E. Howard Hunt, blah, blah, blah.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 34:46
Rafael Quintero assassinated
Enrique Kiki Camarena documented
“That guy that was running the Tijuana sector has some weird name. He was on the payroll of the CIA, and he even said that in his trial when Syntac eventually arrested him. One of the chief architects of Camarena's kidnapping, brutal torture…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 40:35
CIA recruited
Rafael Quintero book_quoted
“They were told to set up a dozen infiltration teams to link up with Cuban resistance. Colonel Hawkins now got orders to form a larger conventional armed unit to back up the teams. On August 22nd, the lead group of infiltration trainees from…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 19 (20) @ 46:24
Federal Security Directorate covered_up
Rafael Quintero guest_asserted
“Jordan says DEA agents managed to catch up with Quintero at the airport in Guadalajara, but were prevented from apprehending him because Quintero was protected by DFS agents that were also connected to the CIA. Jordan, who says he has two t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 54:16
CIA covered_up
Rafael Quintero guest_asserted
“Jordan says DEA agents managed to catch up with Quintero at the airport in Guadalajara, but were prevented from apprehending him because Quintero was protected by DFS agents that were also connected to the CIA. Jordan, who says he has two t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 54:16
Rafael Quintero ordered_assassination_of
William Cantrell book_quoted
“His conclusion was that the trio had been eliminated because they had discovered profit skimming going on, which again is exactly what the CIA does. They go in and they set these fake companies up. They get all of these military contracts a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 24:14
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whose demise at the hands of Mexican traffickers made him a hero to narcotic agents. Menendez claims he provided information that helped U.S. authorities capture one of the Mexican drug lords involved, Rafael Quintero, at a mansion outside …
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Years later, Lino Fernandez recalled this period painfully. The resistance did not call the CIA, rather the reverse. Resistance member Rafael Quintero makes the same point. He went to the U.S. to get someone, anyone, to agree to help. He ha…
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The CIA tried to invent or fabricate opposition inside Cuba while there was already a growing resistant movement. Rafael Quintero recalls being asked by the CIA in March of 1960, how many Cubans were actively against Castro? He put the numb…
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They were told to set up a dozen infiltration teams to link up with Cuban resistance. Colonel Hawkins now got orders to form a larger conventional armed unit to back up the teams. On August 22nd, the lead group of infiltration trainees from…
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and confirmed that they intended to do so. The State Department, Robert Hurwicz, Assistant for Cuban Affairs, wanted exiled pilots to bomb the missiles using unmarked planes, ostensibly trying to attack oil refineries. Bobby himself, accord…
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Bill Harvey took the Shockley Cable and forwarded it to Ed Lansdale. General Lansdale circulated it in the Pentagon and forwarded it to the Special Group. Three of the teams had already left in submarines for the north coast of Cuba. Six mo…
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and Bobby Kennedy had to knock the Navy into line. As had happened with Quintero during the missile crisis, exiles had disagreed with Califano's actions, often took their cases to Bobby. Okay, so this is the program we've talked about in ot…
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He was a prime mover at invigorating the brigade. He became the centerpiece. He wanted to be based in Central America and stage raids into Cuba. This would have been the Bay of Pigs all over again, with the exiles supposedly calling the sho…
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So again, they're passing them off as independent, but they're directly tethered to the CIA and their oversight and their funding. Public speculation of CIA involvement ran high. The public was right. Langley had assigned Henry Hechner as a…
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often accompanied by Quintero, usually in the U.S., though not in Miami. Another indication of CIA support was what happened when our time in Quintero tried to recruit Felix Rodriguez for their communications. They promised him a demonstrat…
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Call sign in this operation became Island. Rodriguez was doubtful about one of the operatives called Mr. Green, actually fellow Bay of Pigs and Mongoose veteran, Rafael Quintero, who went between Sawyer's people and the higher ups. Quintero…
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that enabled North to communicate privately with them. Again, that's CIA. Those are their devices. Rafael Quintero told Fernandez the sophisticated coding devices produced were actually contracted by the NSA for deployable units for the CIA…
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General Secord concluded that Atkins, as well as the agency station chief in El Salvador, were openly, quote-unquote, hostile to this operation. Sure. The next day at El Pango came a meeting among Owen Felix Rodriguez, Rafael Quintero, and …
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like we're still pretending that the CIA works for the State Department. Ha ha! The other nodes on the net were Norse NSC office, Secord, GAD, Calero, Southern Air Transport, Rafael Quintero, and Felix Rodriguez. Fernandez subsequently prov…
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Dutton immediately went to El Salvador to meet the people, see the equipment, carrying the legal opinion under his arm. There, he reviewed ground rules with the crews. He emphasized William Cooper's role as air boss and restricted Rafael Qu…
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Bill Cooper, Calero, Quintero, and Rodriguez also had no security clearances. But they were all using this classified encryption machine without authorization. Beyond the use of secret encoding devices, there was many ways in which the U.S.…
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and intervened several times when Dutton's people were locked out of the airfield. Still allowed Felix Rodriguez access to the encryption machines provided him a military car and advisory group identification. He also made him a deputy in n…
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May 21st, Quintero informed Dutton that the CIA officers were saying that they could not talk to Secord's people at all. That applied to Bill Cooper's crew and presumably enjoined CIA Joe Fernandez from helping. Secord went to North, who fo…
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That guy that was running the Tijuana sector has some weird name. He was on the payroll of the CIA, and he even said that in his trial when Syntac eventually arrested him. One of the chief architects of Camarena's kidnapping, brutal torture…
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Plumlee told the author during the course of a series of interviews that after Camarino's murder in early February 1985, that he was ordered by his CIA handlers to fly into a ranch located near Veracruz, Mexico. That ranch, Plumlee says, at…
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via arms sales to Iran to fund Nicaraguan Contras. Part of the scandal also implicates the CIA and the national security staff in narcotic and arms trafficking. Investigative Gary Webb further bolstered the claims of the U.S. government's i…
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was transported to the CIA-linked ranch near Veracruz, where Plumlee was ordered to intercept him. Quote, I was ordered to pick up Caro Quintero at the ranch. I didn't really know who he was at the time, but it was a CIA government-sanction…
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to a private airstrip located just across the Mexican border in Guatemala. Plumlee then goes on to say, I was told to take a person from point A to point B and I did it. He said, that's what I did as the CIA contract pilot. If you ask too m…
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because we know they have ranches, at least one by haul, in Costa Rica. In fact, Caro Quintero was captured in Costa Rica in April of 1985, three months after Camarino's murder. After dropping Quintero off in Guatemala,…
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Jordan says DEA agents managed to catch up with Quintero at the airport in Guadalajara, but were prevented from apprehending him because Quintero was protected by DFS agents that were also connected to the CIA. Jordan, who says he has two t…
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adds that the plane Quintero flew out on that day was owned by narco-trafficker Mata Balataras, the founder of CETCO, which is a CIA proprietary. Jordan also contends that Quintero was carrying DFS credentials and that the aircraft pilot wa…
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Present at the house in Guadalajara, where Camerino was held after his kidnapping, Varela said were narco-traffickers like Quintero, his partner, Ernesto Ferseco Carrillo, and members of their organization. At the house were DFS agents, as …
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Reporting for The Guardian in July of 2025 revealed that the U.S. Justice Department planned to turn over audio recordings of the 1985 torture and killing of Camerino to Caro Quintero's defense team as part of discovery in his then pending …
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of an American being tortured that the CIA had. How did they get those tapes? And my source indicated there were five tapes, but we, the DEA, only got three from the CIA. In 2013, explosive reporting from Mexican news magazine Prosecco, bas…
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Recordings contain information that implicates the CIA. The revelations made by Plumlee, a known CIA asset and later whistleblower, along with the information dug up by Barillas and Jordan via their DEA sources and investigation, if accurat…
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Quintero. One loose end in Plumlee's story seems to be that he insists he flew Quintero to Guatemala from a ranch in Veracruz, Mexico. Jordan and Bareilles contend that Quintero boarded a plane in Guadalajara in the wake of Camarino's murde…
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Given the international manhunt underway for Quintero at the time, Borrellas told me that Quintero did not leave Mexico after he flew out of the Guadalajara airport with the assistance of the DFS agents. Instead, Borrellas says Quintero fle…
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Two major documented heroin traffickers. One of the largest heroin seizures on the border was traced to one of his cousins. The Quintero Paya family is well known in that area. The flight to Costa Rica happened a week later. According to Pl…
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The Sabah began providing him with a list of names of anti-Shah activists that needed to be eliminated because this is a consistent theme of all of these countries. It isn't really the country that does it. They do it in cooperation with th…
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His conclusion was that the trio had been eliminated because they had discovered profit skimming going on, which again is exactly what the CIA does. They go in and they set these fake companies up. They get all of these military contracts a…
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with all of those same people. Rafael Quintero, the Posada guy, Felix Rodriguez again, Frank Sturgis, all of those show up. And this is the Operation 40 team that we mentioned a little bit earlier, E. Howard Hunt, blah, blah, blah.…
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They were intimate players in JM Wave, CIA operations against Cuba, where Shackley was the Miami station chief. All weirdly enough, at the same time, JFK was assassinated as well. It goes on to say that it was Shackley and Clines that set u…