Blanton Winfield person
also: Blanton
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Claims (3)
Blanton Winfield trafficked
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross host_asserted
“Colombian-Bolivian cocaine was coming into the United States, both through Texas and Miami, and they were shuttling it out to Los Angeles, to Blanton in Los Angeles. Blanton eventually becomes Ricky's direct. There was some cutouts in betwe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 1:16:34
CIA covered_up
Blanton Winfield book_quoted
“Every time that he was coming up to finding some of these people that like Blanton and Menendez, they were coded in the system as informants.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 1:22:19
Ron Lister supplied_arms_to
Blanton Winfield host_asserted
“Lister admits his company was dealing guns in El Salvador. He told the Justice Department investigators that Blanton and Menendez were ones that opened the doors down there. They had many connections in El Salvador from drug trafficking bus…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 7 @ 43:45
Mentions (5)
▶ 1:16:17
He has a very interesting story. The CIA was not supplying him directly. They were using the guys that we just talked about, Blanton and Menendez. Blanton was the L.A. guy. Menendez was the San Francisco guy.…
▶ 1:16:34
Colombian-Bolivian cocaine was coming into the United States, both through Texas and Miami, and they were shuttling it out to Los Angeles, to Blanton in Los Angeles. Blanton eventually becomes Ricky's direct. There was some cutouts in betwe…
▶ 1:17:04
elites from Nicaragua. And when the Sandinistas overthrew the CIA-backed Samosan government, they do this all the time. They export all of the corrupt oligarchs and people that have been on their payroll.…
▶ 1:18:37
How he was basically pulled into this whole thing because they had one of the distributors in San Francisco that had been held for years without charges in jail in San Francisco. And his girlfriend had contacted Gary Webb. And it was throug…
▶ 1:22:19
Every time that he was coming up to finding some of these people that like Blanton and Menendez, they were coded in the system as informants.…