Veracruz place
also: Velocruz, Villa Cruz
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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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that the CIA was involved with Carrero Quintero and also being used by the CIA, that site, that ranch. U.S. spy agency was operating there with cover from the Mexican intelligence service, then called the Federal Security Directorate or DFS…
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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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Camerino had come to Phoenix to interview Plumlee as part of his investigation into covert Contra supply operations in Mexico. Following Plumlee's recollection of what was discussed at the meeting, and this is a quote, I had flown into the …
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interest, unquote. That's on record in the Senate. Plumlee's testimony also included a reference to a 1990 DEA report marked secret. It discusses information the late Mexican journalist Manuel Bodina had uncovered that exposed the CIA's all…
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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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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…