Aguacate place
also: Aquacate base, Aquacate, Aquagate
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Claims (1)
Ray Doty headed
Aguacate documented
“When agency officers looked at the strip, they knew something needed to be done to improve it. The CIA rented the base from the Honduran Air Force, installed facilities, built a road to connect to the main contra camp at Las Vegas, and impr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 9:02
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arranged the use of Salvadoran Air Force facilities to launch contra-attacks on the Nicaraguan communication center. That would be the Ipala Pango place where Felix Rodriguez was. The Aquacate base started as nothing more than a dirt airstr…
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When agency officers looked at the strip, they knew something needed to be done to improve it. The CIA rented the base from the Honduran Air Force, installed facilities, built a road to connect to the main contra camp at Las Vegas, and impr…
▶ 9:31
base at Aquacate. Langley's local presence with the Contras at that base. Like Claridge, neither Doty nor his chief engineer spoke Spanish. They had cut their teeth in Laos. In fact, Laos veterans permeated the paramilitary staff and provid…
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between the air ops, particularly the U.S. military assistance in Honduras. When General Paul Gorman took over SOUTHCOM and made his first trip to Tegu in June of 83, Honduran Commander Alvarez asked for help in improving eight airfields su…
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Jamestron, Aquagate, Marcala, and a whole bunch of other names I can't pronounce. The American forces on maneuvers in Honduras did the work. Nothing like building air bases for CIA to traffic weapons and drugs. The Hondurans wanted the airf…
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October 3rd, the FDN supply flight was shot down by Sandinistas over northern Nicaragua. One man among the crew died, but two were taken prisoner. Both had been National Guardsmen under Somoza. Nicaraguan operations were indirectly responsi…
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Until that happened, Felix Rodriguez had had that duty since he was the only one that spoke Spanish. The airlift's first great moment occurred in March of 86. A Sandinista infantry force pursued FDN troops across the border and made for the…
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by Southern Air Command, who sent helicopter with U.S. crews to lift a Honduran infantry battalion into the area. One CIA pilot was badly injured when one of the aircraft crashed. Within days of the incursion, Project Democracy aircraft wer…
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between March 24th and 28th alone. In Nicaragua, a Southern Air Transport L-100 completed its first successful air resupply mission to a column that had moved inside of Nicaragua. Another Southern Air Transport flight reached Aquacate on th…
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In fact, he was there on another purpose as well. The L-100 was supposed to take Contra weapons at Aquacate and fly them to El Salvador, from where the next night it would take its first airdrop into the southern front. Oliver North asked O…