João Baptista Figueiredo person
also: Calero
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SAS Regiment, which is like their special forces, met North and proposed a commando attack. North and Calero discussed the idea. Calero also consulted General Singlib about the concept. A Walker associate entered Nicaragua to test the route…
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seemed impossible. Calero abandoned the idea. Although Walker received no immediate employment, he won a place on the team when Project Democracy expanded to include Airlift. In February 1985, North asked Rob Owens to carry intelligence, in…
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Enable a U.S. blockade and force Managua to fold. Elliott Abrams, RIG, actually discussed this theme as well. But the Pentagon and CIA both said it was nonsense. North nonetheless used the plan to solicit donations from donors. North busily…
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after they received a huge Saudi Arabia donation and warned Calero of the money's appearance. Owen carried another packet of intelligence to Calero in April when Oliver North told Robert McFarlane that Bermudez planned a big FDN offensive i…
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Declassified U.S. cable traffic confirms half that number. Despite the troops and the weapons bought by Calero, June was most notable for a shooting incident on the Costa Rican border. Nothing indicated an offensive at all. Bermuda's lacked…
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and it involved Calero, Bermudez, General Secord, and Oliver North. Secord stated his opinion that without aircraft, the Contras would be driven from the field and defeated post-haste. He then volunteered to create an aircraft capability.…
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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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intelligence support cabled from CIA headquarters. You know, because they're not involved at all. When Congress permitted intelligence cooperation, the agency used this cloak to deliver $13 million in Comgear. This was the quote-unquote hum…