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Eden Pastora member_of Contras documented

“A wing of the Contra movement headed by Calero and Blanton and Menendez used their drug profits to help fund the FDN, meaning the Contras. In January of 1985, Eden Pastora, another Contra leader, had met with Blanton in Miami in an effort t…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 9:52

Oliver North supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“These certificates are sworn declarations in which the government buying the weapons certifies that it really did order them. It is supposed to provide the U.S. government with some assurance that American-made weapons aren't ending up in t…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 26:27

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“cattle from ordinary farmers. According to the FDN Chief of Logistics Captain Armando Lopez, the first CIA weapons arrived in early 1982. This shipment consisted of 92 Belgium automatic rifles, four machine guns, and two mortars. We were al…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 2:33

CIA covered_up Contras documented

“There never was any evidence suggest that the Contras were involved with the drug ring, he insisted. Another bold-faced lie. But even the Justice Department Inspector General didn't buy that. After questioning Rosanello, the IG concluded th…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 49:42

CIA funded Contras book_quoted

“and funneled millions of drug profits to a Latin America guerrilla army ran by the U.S. CIA, a Mercury News investigation has found, unquote. The Dark Alliance story documented a network of collusion in the 1980s that joined together the cr…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 4:48

CIA funded Contras documented

“Before the CIA program began, the Contras merely played at war. Their most serious effort had been the attempted destruction of a Nicaraguan airliner in Mexico City in December of 1981. Now, there was a possibility of some real action becau…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 1:01

Daniel Blanton founded Contras documented

“named Government Securities Corporation. From this bank, the monies are filtered to the Contra Rebels to buy arms for the war in Nicaragua. Gordon's sworn statement would prove to be a remarkably accurate portrait of the drug ring. A decade…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 5:22

Oliver North financed_via Contras documented

“could compromise the Nicaraguan Sandinista government for drug money laundering. In other words, they want to frame the Nicaraguan government. The client turned out to be former Medellin cartel accountant Ramon Milan Rodriguez, the man who …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 17:26

Elliot Abrams financed_via Contras documented

“As Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, Abrams facilitated $10 million in Swiss bank transfers to the Contras and misled Congress about U.S. involvement. In 1991, under investigation, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts o…”

▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 1:17:52

Iran-Contra affair diverted_funds_to Contras documented

“the sale of U.S. weapons to Iran despite an embargo. And the same was true with the Contras because that too was embargoed. Not embargoed, but prohibited by law. The Iran and Contra operation were merged when funds generated from the sale o…”

▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 53:55

Nicaraguan Resistance Education Fund Foundation funded Contras documented

“Herge was an attorney for the Nicaraguan Resistance Education Fund Foundation. It was an organization that lobbied on behalf of the Contras. And when Chanel and the Liberty Foundation got into trouble with its donations, Herge represented t…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 34:25

National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty funded Contras documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 34:25

Geomiltech supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“arranged for the sale of $5 million in weapons to the Contras. So, Geomillitech is a CIA front company. One Palmer loan that benefited Beebe and some other savings and loan crooks, including Don Dixon, was a quarter of a million dollar part…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 35:53

William Blakemore funded Contras book_quoted

“One of Bush's oldest and closest friends is the previously mentioned Midland, Texas oilman, William Blakemore. Blakemore was a fierce supporter of the Nicaraguan Contras and was president of the Gulf and Caribbean Foundation, which raised p…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 24:35

Gulf and Caribbean Foundation funded Contras book_quoted

“Sr. was very involved in because he was running that operation out of the office of the vice president. A paper found in Oliver North's White House safe diagramming the private aid network to the Contras show that the Gulf and Caribbean Fou…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 25:05

Jimmy Lyon funded Contras book_quoted

“Lyons is also a banker. He is mentioned at least four times in Oliver North's diary in connection with fundraising for the Contras. Lyons and Michener are also longtime good friends. Lyons said they had done business together for many years…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 2 @ 29:48

Felix Rodriguez trained Contras host_asserted

“Nicaragua, by the way. When the Reagan administration asked him to turn Honduras into a base for the anti-Sandinista rebels, known as the Contras, he eagerly agreed. And keep in mind, this is when Felix Rodriguez deploys to Honduras because…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 25:24

United States government funded Contras host_asserted

“From $4 million to $77 million of your taxpayer dollars is going to fund people that are murdering other people who just want their country back from United Fruit. Once again, it had surrendered its national sovereignty to Americans. Rivals…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 26:18

United States government supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“and the United States because Alvarez was a fierce, quote-unquote, anti-communist who detested the Sandinista movement. And keep in mind, the Sandinista movement was the freedom fighters that the U.S. government labeled as communists so the…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 24:53

Contras carried_out_attack Nicaragua host_asserted

“They used them to get rid of an elected president in Nicaragua in order to continue to use slave labor in Nicaragua. And in Tibet, you have their overall agenda was basically death by a thousand cuts to China because they want Chiang Kai-sh…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 1:05:02

U.S. Southern Command trained Contras host_asserted

“I had a conversation about six months ago with one of the guys that was actually deployed from South Com to Honduras who thought that Nicaragua had been infested with actual communists and that the Contras was the good guys and that he was …”

▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 2:03:42

Israel laundered_money_for Contras documented

“Those are just all facts. And those are things that we've talked about when we were talking about how Israel was being used as a cutout for the Iran-Contra deal, that we were actually sending billions of dollars to Israel for them to purcha…”

▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 1:55:33

Contras trafficked Julio Zavala documented

“and a member of the board of directors of the Contra organization, Avella's role as director of the Contra's support group office in San Jose, and their formal claim of drug-tainted money. Case could be made that the CIA funds are being div…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 53:00

CIA funded Contras book_quoted

“And it's basically identified as a terrorist organization. And its origins, as far as this book is concerned, was 1981. And of course, 1981 is the beginning of the Reagan administration and the beginning of the planning for the Contras in o…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 6:30

Ronald Reagan funded Contras host_asserted

“And again, we're going to get off if I allow us to. But I'm just curious, what percentage of that entire operation down there do you think he was aware of? I already know the answer. He was aware of all of it. I knew it was going to be 100%…”

▶ Just Because Keith Malinak w ColonelTowner-Watkins 2025-10-16 @ 53:26

Jimmy Lyon funded Contras documented

“He was a Republican friend of George Bush and Walter Michener. He was also a staunch supporter and fundraiser for the Contras. I don't know what just happened to, something just happened to my web browser. Well, Rumble seems to still be up.…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 28:52

Richard Ross Miller funded Contras documented

“is mentioned several times in Oliver North's White House diaries. North wrote Ryan's name in his diary at least four times, including one entry regarding a telephone call from Richard Miller, a major Contra fundraiser, on February 1st, 1985…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 30:01

Spitz Channel funded Contras documented

“On January 27th, 1986, Spitz Channel, the late convicted Contra fundraiser, associate of Oliver North and president of the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, wrote a letter to Starnes. That letter found in the files of the …”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 31:33

Ronald Reagan funded Contras documented

“of the White House. The briefing will be on President Reagan's legislative initiative to support the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, i.e. the Contras. The president is attending. Donald Reagan, White House Chief of Staff, Elliott Abrams, Under…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 32:02

Chanel funded Contras host_asserted

“for inclusion in the session with the president was a $30,000 or more contribution to Chanel's group, meaning funding the Contras. A National Endowment for Preservation of Liberty note on the meeting reported the following, quote, R.R. Rona…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 34:31

National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty funded Contras documented

“on the NAPL's list of the top 25 contributors. Starn's contribution was designated for Chanel's Central American Freedom Program, a propaganda campaign to get Congress to pass Reagan's weapons assistance proposal for the Contras. Policymake…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 35:01

Ronald Reagan funded Contras host_asserted

“Ronald Reagan, who during the same time brutally cracked down on the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, which, of course, the Sandinistas were the good guys. It was the Contras that we were funding under the Reagan administration that were the bad g…”

▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2 @ 49:50

George Morales supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“bought up all of that ranch land that installed airstrips in there and was a logistical hub, not only for the weapons trafficking, but for the drug trafficking as well in Costa Rica. Morales, the Colombian trafficker, had supplied a few shi…”

▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 23:13

Eden Pastora recruited Contras documented

“So in other words, everybody knew that they were setting up Pastora. After his first meeting with the Contras, Morales testified that he agreed to give men aged C-47 cargo plane that he had stored in Haiti. He also gave them $10,000 to fly …”

▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 32:49

CIA trafficked Contras host_asserted

“The Nicaraguans that get displaced out of the elite that the CIA has cultivated all get brought here, just like the Somoza family did. And they don't just sit idly by waiting for the CIA to overthrow the Sandinista government. They get invo…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:33:17

CIA funded Contras book_quoted

“I proposed to tell the tale of how the infant's L.A. crack market had been fueled with tons of cocaine from the Contra drug ring that helped spread the deadly drug all over the United States. This series will show that a dumping of cocaine …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 29:04

CIA trafficked Contras documented

“The verdict was significant enough to attract the attention of CBS Evening News, which aired a brief report in June of 1986 on Pereira's trial and the undercover taps. The wiretap phones calls show that drug dealers have ties the highest le…”

▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 14:06

Daniel Blanton supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“Despite all of the work that he'd been doing for Menendez personally, keeping the books, helping the Contras, you know, his what was me story. Every few months, Blanton would drive all the way to Menendez's house and pick up his cocaine to …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 40:24

Reagan administration supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“around a 4,000-man army as being positioned to overthrow the Sandinistas. There was full-color photographs, and basically they made it sound as if the invasion was imminent. But that was a gross exaggeration of reality. The Contras, in trut…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 9:57

Contras carried_out_attack Nicaragua documented

“had been told by the CIA officials that the Contras were merely border guards keeping the Sandinistas from getting into El Salvador. The Contras' first major act of war, in fact, had nothing to do with El Salvador. Under CIA direction, two …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 10:55

Tom Harkin targeted_for_regime_change Contras documented

“In response to the Newsweek report, Congressman Tom Harkins proposed a complete cutoff of the funding of all paramilitary activities in Nicaragua. The fact that the war was illegal, Harkins argued, was nothing compared to the U.S. governmen…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 11:24

CIA funded Contras documented

“And the story conceded, quote, the allegations that some elements of CIA-sponsored Contra Army cooperated with drug traffickers has been well-documented for years. You know, old news. But the story dismissed the idea that millions went to t…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 52:18

CIA trafficked Contras guest_asserted

“Costa Rican shrimp company North and the Cuban CIA operatives were using to funnel aid to the Contras. The second part was a story about the parallel investigation of Contra drug trafficking done in the summer of 1986 by DEA agent Castillo …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:05:45

CIA covered_up Contras host_asserted

“was helpful and had been informant for the CIA. And soon after he put Castillo on Grasham's trail, fingering him as the head of smuggling operations, the CIA basically took over the entire thing. Castillo's boss, Robert Stia, S-T-I-A, said,…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 16:16

CIA funded Contras host_asserted

“And he refused to be funded by that. They eventually kill him because he had the most ferocious fighting force because the Contras, i.e. the former National Guard, were all fat and lazy. And that's who the CIA primarily was funding. And the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 46:49

CIA trained Contras documented

“Via a national security decision directive, he signed on November 23rd, following with a presidential finding on December 1st. The plan allowed the CIA to recruit a force of 500, possibly to be supplemented by another 1,000 Contras, beginni…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 56:17

CIA trafficked Contras host_asserted

“is the U.S. ambassador, Lawrence Prezulo, told Managua that the aid money left from the Carter administration would be conditional on Sandinista behavior. So, hey, if you want your aid money, stop sending weapons over to the rebels that are…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 49:24

CIA funded Contras book_quoted

“Casey informed Congress that the CIA proposed to empty its contrafunding accounts immediately. The likely truth is that Claridge merely resolved to escalate it at that time. Also objectionable is Claridge's reading of the international law …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 31:48

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“The NSC discussed the orders on September 16th. President Reagan approved several days later. The finding provided the U.S. support for paramilitary operations against Nicaragua. It broadened the project to include both arms and inducing th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 7:17

CIA trained Contras book_quoted

“or U-Class. Soon afterwards, both the Contras and the U-Class began learning how to use mines on Roatan Island. Casey then took a page from the Mongoose playbook. The CIA outfitted a mothership. In the summer of 83, Langley leased a vessel …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 21:05

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 21:05

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“A pair of Q-boats could be launched or shipped by hydraulic ramps that the agency had installed given the time required for construction and the moment the mothership went into action. Acquisition of the ship and design and the installation…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 21:36

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“The boats were large enough to carry and lay mines. They were capable of incredible speed, 65 knots. Sailors trained to use them on Roatan Island off the northern shore of Honduras. Bill Shepard, a Navy SEAL assigned to the DO, CIA, designe…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 15:44

Al Pena funded Contras book_quoted

“office for the FDN, the informant said. Pena was one of the major Contra fundraisers in San Francisco and was one responsible for sending Menendez's drug proceeds to the Contras. In an interview years later with inspectors from the CIA and …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 1:08:26

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras book_quoted

“that the FBI's file on Menendez was two feet thick. I thought this bastard should have been arrested. I assumed there would have been an outstanding warrant on this guy. I was amazed. There wasn't a single outstanding warrant on Menendez an…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 1:12:33

United Fruit Company funded Contras host_asserted

“fruit, wanted to monopolize and capture all of the land and resources so that they could control. If you have independent people producing, that's competition. They're not about competition. They're not capitalists. These people are Satanis…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:54:28

Mossad supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“Our CIA went to Mossad and said, hey, here's the money. We need you to send the weapons to Angola. We need you to send the weapons to the Contras because we can't do it legally. And they did it with France. France also not only supplied nuc…”

▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 1:19:24

Mafia funded Contras host_asserted

“this international syndicate, as is the senior military people, and then they continue to rape, pillage, and steal all of the resources. That's why they wanted Nicaragua. That's why they wanted the Contras to install their own dictator ther…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:54:07

Reagan administration funded Contras documented

“a typical tactic. A few days later, it tacked on a request for support of the Nicaraguan Contras, more criminals, and Gladio operators to a bill to provide emergency fuel spending for the poor in parts of America, which were suffering a sev…”

▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 56:37

World Anti-Communist League funded Contras host_asserted

“and Nicaragua, where World Anti-Communist League collaborated with the Reagan administration and was a major source of support for the Nicaraguan Contras. That's the footnote, and that's the end of the chapter. So, there you have it. Open i…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 49:59

United States funded Contras host_asserted

“The CIA contracted for the Contra support in Central America with an airline owned by a ringleader of the largest cocaine network in the region. By providing funds for Heck Martyr, a drug trafficker selected for support by Pakistani intelli…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 40:54

Frank Castro supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“These charges against Frank Castro was also dismissed. So does that tell you that he works with the CIA? Yes, it does. From July 83 to January of 84, the same time period in which he was under indictment for drug smuggling, Castro was provi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 2:33

Amalgamated Commercial Enterprises supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“launder money through offshore companies and who was linked to amalgamated commercial enterprises, which was funneling money and equipment to the Contras. According to an attorney in the case, Samos' grand jury testimony made reference to N…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 20 @ 12:04

CIA implicated_in Contras documented

“when several federal investigations are underway into the CIA's possible role in cocaine smuggling by the Nicaraguan Contra rebels during the 1980s. Extensive documentary evidence, including the findings of a congressional investigation, ha…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 5:52

CIA trained Contras host_asserted

“Like Castro's the mastermind behind all of this? It's not. It's U.S. oligarchs that want that land in Nicaragua, in Honduras, and Guatemala. The blunt instrument, which the CIA chose as a ragtag army of former Somoza soldiers who were holed…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 12:36

Oliver North funded Contras documented

“about the church committee. Childs stayed in the Senate committee until 82, until that was put to bed. He rejoined the CIA as the comptroller, now that that fire had been put out. In 1983, Childs appeared before the Senate Intelligence Comm…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 14:06

CIA trafficked Contras book_quoted

“El Salvador. Those airport hangars, Castillo discovered, were serving as weapons in narcotic trans-shipment sites for funding and arming the U.S.-backed Contras. That was prohibited by the Boeing Amendment. From that moment forward, Castill…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 40:46

CIA funded Contras host_asserted

“While the Contras were forced to beg, the Argentines were being paid as much as $2,500 to $3,000 a month each in a salary that the CIA was funding, some of which is our taxpayer dollars. And that came directly from an Argentine advisor that…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 36:02

CIA funded Contras documented

“Barely a year had passed since the CIA had taken over the financing of the Contras and already a covert war was no longer a secret. The week before the 1982 elections, Newsweek magazine published the first detailed account of the Reagan adm…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 9:29

CIA funded Contras host_asserted

“is that the local people, the monks in Tibet, are always going to be the losers. The CIA uses them, and whoever they're using them against, it's the same thing with the Contras. They're not good guys. The Contras were not good guys. They we…”

▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 1:04:33

CIA trained Contras guest_asserted

“the Sandinista government by training the Contras and the drugs weren't coming from the Sandinista government. They were coming from Colombia and they all knew it and they fake pictures. We found all of those fake fishing shrimp boats that …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:24:04

CIA financed_via Contras host_asserted

“These people were literally on their payroll doing this. I don't know how you could make an argument that they're tacitly involved. No, these people were on their payroll. They were paying people to traffic drugs to America and using the pr…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:03:59

CIA funded Contras documented

“had dropped anti-ship mines in the Nicaraguan harbor, cut off all CIA funding for the Contras. Despite the CIA's effort to keep Contra involvement in the so-called Frogman case from becoming public, some of the truth got out when Carlos Cab…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 55:38

Contras trafficked CIA documented

“that some of the cocaine money was going to the Contras. He told the jury of his meeting with Horacio Pereira and that Pereira's nervousness over the Contras' profits being misspent by hard-drinking Zavala. Pages from the ledger book in whi…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 56:07

Ellison Starnes Jr. funded Contras documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 18 @ 34:31

Bob Perry exposed Contras host_asserted

“A policy in Iraq? No. It's like the International Spy or something like that. I don't have it in the room with me right now. That's fine. I'll find it. I just wanted to curious. I was just curious what the name was. Yeah. Hey, all along, do…”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 8 @ 1:11:00

Julio Zavala trafficked Contras documented

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 56:07

Richard Secord carried_out_attack Contras documented

“with John Molina, a banker for Ron Martin, who was gunned down in the streets of Panama City in 1987. On July 29, 1986, North had a meeting with retired General Richard Secord, who was running the Contra resupply effort, as well as handling…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 37:36

Carl Elmer Jenkins trained Contras host_asserted

“Wheaton said Jenkins was using the tiny nation of Belize as a training area for Latin American and Laotians to fight Nicaraguans. Yes, Laos, Laos, where we were running all of the opium out of. This is what I'm telling you guys. All of thes…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 42:22

Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“When Southern Air's role in the Iran-Contra scandal was exposed, it had been an airline of choice to haul arms to Iran and to the Contra. Bastian denied any connection to the CIA, because of course you're going to. What he couldn't deny wer…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 9 @ 55:17

Oliver North financed_via Contras documented

“Every crazy idea to get those people home. Perhaps this would not have been such a scandal if not for the intervention of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who apparently came up with a plan to divert some money from the sale of American arm…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 17:14

John Singlaub supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“was only allowed to provide humanitarian aid. Of course, no one was deceived. Singlum later used the World Anti-Communist League banner to offer combat helicopters to the Contras. And he did so by filling it with medical supplies and called…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 59:46

Kini Mini Services supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“with the CIA in Nicaragua. 1980s, the Iran-Contra had teeny-meeny services working with the Contras to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. KMS, for example, supplied pilots for clandestine airdrops in support of the Contras. The SAS-Lloyd'…”

▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedoan Part 1 @ 42:42

Southern Air Transport financed_via Contras documented

“and the Contras. Ace appeared on the diagram of the Contra aid operation found in Oliver North's safe. It was used by Southern Air Transport and North's Enterprise to funnel money to the Contras. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ace wa…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 35:20

Alan Byers supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“In Norse White House diaries, he wrote, tell Alan Byers, who was the head of the CIA's Central American Task Force, who we found in Costa Rica and El Salvador. He's the guy that was arranging all of the stuff to supply the Contras. That ACE…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 13 @ 35:52

Carl Chanel funded Contras documented

“A fire-breathing conservative fundraiser opened an account at Palmer National Bank in Washington, D.C. for a 501c3 foundation called the National Endowment for Preservation of Liberty. Chanel then went to wealthy Republicans and raised mone…”

▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:01:11

Wackenhut trained Contras host_asserted

“Even when so far as to say we got rid of the CIA, we don't want them back. To be sure, there has been much speculation over the years that Wackenhut was being used to run covert operations, both domestically and overseas, because they were.…”

▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 34:39

CIA trained Contras host_asserted

“terrorist training camps operation gladio all around them we use the cuban exiles because they're a bunch of gladio operators that are assassins we flew them all in they created and trained all of these um people terrorists and they went in…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:31:57

George H.W. Bush funded Contras host_asserted

“George Bush, Mr. CIA, had one of his friends sell his deposed dictator in Nicaragua a ranch in Texas, right outside of Houston, where George Bush goes all the time. And then George Bush goes on to create Contras, funds them, sends them weap…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:08:47

George H.W. Bush supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:08:47

George H.W. Bush trafficked Contras host_asserted

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:08:47

United Fruit Company funded Contras documented

“He got called a communist for doing that. And the CIA and all of the companies to include United Fruit, but also the railroads, went down there and funded the Contras, as did the Reagan administration, and told us they were freedom fighters…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 1:01:05

Ronald Reagan funded Contras documented

▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 1:01:05

Contras trafficked Nicaragua host_asserted

“When, of course, we found out later, based on Iran-Contra, that it was actually the Contras that were primarily the drug traffickers. Narco-terrorism encompassed a variety of phenomenon. Guerrilla movements financed by drugs or taxes on dru…”

▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 40:04

Honduras funded Contras book_quoted

“Bermuda's Air Force was set back when one of its C-47 transports went down on a flight out of El Aquacate. All that was left was a C-54 that couldn't fly for lack of spare parts and one last C-47 that Chamorro nicknamed the Rusty Pelican. H…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 1:40

Israel supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“The Israelis were providing weapons and all kinds of other things. At the height of the mining controversy, on March 27, 1984, Director Casey handed McFarland a memo expecting failure to obtain the money, adding, I am in full agreement that…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 7:54

Robert McFarlane funded Contras book_quoted

“In May came a breakthrough. McFarlane met with Prince Bandar, the ambassador from Saudi Arabia, already enmeshed with the CIA in Afghanistan. Saudis agreed to contribute $1 million a month to the Contras. The first of eight deposits were ma…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 8:50

Saudi Arabia funded Contras book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 8:50

Castle Bank & Trust laundered_money_for Contras host_asserted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 8:50

Ronald Reagan funded Contras book_quoted

“The secretary wanted an opinion from the attorney general, but others talked right past him. Casey agreed to a legal opinion, but one that made it clear that the U.S. could seek the money. We don't want any other ones. Reagan observed that …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 10:48

George H.W. Bush funded Contras book_quoted

“Vice President Bush wondered how anyone could object to the U.S. looking for money to support the rebels, not the guerrillas, the rebels. You see the change in anybody that tries to attack a CIA dictatorship, they're called guerrillas. Thes…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 11:16

Robert McFarlane funded Contras book_quoted

“Robert McFarland wound up by proposing that no one do anything about a third party support until the administration had a legal opinion. Reagan's last words, quote, if such a story gets out, we'll all be hanging by our thumbs in front of th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 11:41

Oliver North funded Contras book_quoted

“Calero had the declaration of U.S. officials from the CIA and national security staff who met with him in Honduras in April at the height of the mining controversy. One of those in attendance was Dewey Claridge. He introduced Marine Colonel…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 25:37

Donald Fortier funded Contras book_quoted

“Little more than a wish at the time, but the wish was Ronald Reagan's and a president's desire carried a lot of weight. North had called in to see his boss, National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, who told him that Donald Fortier, the d…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 26:04

Adolfo Calero funded Contras book_quoted

“Adolfo Calero threw himself into fundraising. Cuban exiles were a major target. Restaurants and community centers in Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, became locales for Calero and others to whip up sentiment for them to write checks. But th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 26:33

Brigade 2506 funded Contras book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 26:33

Adolfo Calero provided_bridge_financing_for Contras documented

“with any country in the region at the time, but had repeatedly invested in America's covert action programs. In the summer of 1984, North and Adolfo Calero in his office, when Oliver North asked for a bank account where money for the Contra…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 34:01

Oliver North funded Contras book_quoted

“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…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 4:01

Saudi Arabia funded Contras book_quoted

“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…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 4:30

CIA funded Contras book_quoted

“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…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 32:19

Richard Garner supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“As with Secord, he arranged through Southern Air Transport, which had made at least 14 flights to fly weapons to the Contras. Gad played a primary role in setting up the private benefactor airlift. He found the airplanes. Gad almost bought …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 20:23

Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 20:23

Tyco International supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“as the communist enemy. And it was a propaganda piece. That's the only way you can say it. At the same time, CAUSA International was directly working with the CIA in supplying weapons, because remember, the Unification Church owns weapons m…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner_ South Korea; WHAT IS GOING ON @ 33:27

Tyco International funded Contras documented

“They were paying for flights of rebel leaders around Latin America where they owned media. CAUSA's aid to the Contras escalated exponentially after Congress cut CIA off from spending their own funds on the Contras. Again, not a coincidence.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner_ South Korea; WHAT IS GOING ON @ 33:56

Unification Church funded Contras documented

“According to CIA reports, supplies for the anti-Sandinista forces and their families came from a variety of sources in the U.S., ranging from Moon's Unification Church to U.S. politicians and evangelical groups and former military officers.…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner_ South Korea; WHAT IS GOING ON @ 34:27

Eden Pastora member_of Contras book_quoted

“He checked it with former Contra commander Eden Pastora. Pastora is the guy who refused to use drug money to fund his efforts in support of the Contras. And they got rid of him. He says that they were friends and business partners and that …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 23:28

Enrique Miranda Jamie member_of Contras book_quoted

“been among the founders of the Contras. And he said Menendez's chief aide, Enrique Miranda, had admitted at trial that Menendez sold cocaine for the Contras, flying it out of the airbase in El Salvador into military airfields in Texas. In s…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 23:59

Daniel Blanton trafficked Contras documented

“told the judge that she was very disturbed O'Neill had hidden from the defense the fact that Blanton was a member of an organization responsible for numerous murders in Mexico. O'Neill denied it. While he admitted that Blanton had gotten in…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 42:38

Contras trafficked United States book_quoted

“I walked back to my hotel room that night, 10 feet off the ground. It was all out in the open now. The Contra FDN had sold drugs to American citizens, mainly Blacks, and the CIA was on the hook for it. A CIA agent had given the GD order. I …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 23 @ 57:19

Western Goals laundered_money_for Contras host_asserted

“which was the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, which Senglib also was in charge of, he solicited funds from private donors, Joseph Core, as in Core's beer, and heiress Ellen Garwood to fund the Contras. They were happy to ob…”

▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 13:55

Joseph Coors funded Contras host_asserted

▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 13:55

Ellen Garwood funded Contras host_asserted

▶ The Colonels Corner background & how others discuss Operation Gladio @ 13:55

CIA funded Contras book_quoted

“what he produced. Quote, for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Blood street gangs in Los Angeles and funneled millions of dollars in drug profits to Latin America guerrilla army ran by t…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 11:27

Arnold D. Bushgrave member_of Contras book_quoted

“Unquote. And on the editorial page, the editor at large, Arnold D. Bushgrave, a quote unquote journalist with a long history of connections to the CIA and the Contras, fumed that the same old pro-Marxist CIA bashers are at it again and quot…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 28:46

Ray Blanton trafficked Contras documented

“$60,000, he scoffed. You can raise that in an afternoon. According to another unnamed source, the Times quoted, Blanton and Menendez were making only $15,000 a kilo. Unmentioned was Blanton's testimony that he had sold 200 to 300 kilos for …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 52:46

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras documented

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 52:46

Carlos Cabezas trafficked Contras guest_asserted

“He banged out a letter to the reporter on February 27, 1987, stating, I am going to tell you that there was indeed supporting evidence hidden by the government. The receipt of drug money by the Contras, he wrote, is absolutely true, at leas…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:00:06

Carlos Cabezas paid Contras guest_asserted

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:00:06

Carlos Cabezas paid Contras guest_asserted

“He called me in December of 1996, barely able to contain his excitement. He'd found Carlos Cabreza, who admitted that he had, in fact, delivered millions of dollars in drug money to the Contras. Cabreza had names, dates, and amounts, George…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:04:22

Riverside County Sheriff's Department spied_on Contras guest_asserted

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:05:45

John Hall trafficked Contras guest_asserted

“Bill Casey's friend and Oliver North's liaison for the Contras had escaped from Costa Rica after he was indicted there for drug trafficking in 1989. After being thrown in jail, Hall was let out on bail for health reasons and vanished. The D…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 1:09:53

Oscar Danilo Blandón funded Contras host_asserted

“You know, the terrorists that we trained unleashed in the United States. They had meetings every week. And in 1980 to 81, we had raised money for the Contras. When it began, he said, his group was not officially connected to anyone. And I'v…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 31:39

Enrique Bermudez appointed Contras documented

“Bermudez to see if Bermudez would be willing to lead the new resistance force that can be put together. He was a logical choice to be the Contra's military commander of all of the former officers of the National Guard. He probably had the b…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 36:02

Ricardo Lau member_of Contras documented

“who was never charged in connection with Romero's murder, would go on to become Enrique Bermudez's right-hand man in the Contra organization. The CIA had admitted that during 1981 and 82, it was receiving regular reports that Lau and seven …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 46:03

CIA funded Contras documented

“that is going to be used in the United States to distribute cocaine to fund the Contras at the expense of the American people. But, oh, by the way, they're also using taxpayer dollars to buy weapons for them as well. So, again, we find ours…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 49:40

Donald Barrios member_of Contras host_asserted

“who had killed in Nicaragua, you know, for the Somoza government. Barrios didn't say why he wanted Blanton to meet with him, but Blanton figured it had something to do with the Contras, because he, Barrios, was in the Contras.…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 3:10

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras host_asserted

“into the U.S. in 1981 alone, which would have generated $54 million in sales. Blanton accepted Menendez's pitch to become a cocaine salesman for the Contras, he said, after he and the drug kingpin took a trip down to Honduras for another pe…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 46:02

Legion of September 15 trafficked Contras documented

“if you didn't want to be in the cocaine business in the future. Besides, at that point, Bermudez's contra group, the Legion of September 15, was already busily involved in cocaine smuggling and Bermudez knew it, as did all of the CIA in tha…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 50:49

Norwin Menendez laundered_money_for Contras host_asserted

“There was an understanding among them. No one would join the Contra forces down there without my knowledge or approval. Blanton confirmed that, telling the CIA that Menendez's role in the Contra operations in California was basically a pers…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 47:57

Adolfo Calero headed Contras documented

“Calero, the political leader of the Contras, and would handle some of the Calero's Caribbean banking activities, i.e. money laundering. By the fall of 1981, the time Blanton says Menendez recruited him to sell dope for the Contras, the DEA …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 37:14

Norwin Menendez funded Contras book_quoted

“is the next excerpt talks about Menendez allowing him just enough, and this is a repeat from what we have already heard, to pay the rent and blah, blah, blah. But among the Nicaraguan exile community, it was strongly suspected that Menendez…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 16:28

Norwin Menendez supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“that he was present on many occasions when Menendez telephoned FDN commander Enrique Bermudez in Honduras. Menendez told Pena of Bermudez's request for such things like gun silencers, which Menendez sent to him, crossbows, and other militar…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 13:55

Ron Lister supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“business dealings in Central America, especially in El Salvador. Lister explained his travels there to Moore as involving gun running and helping the Contras supposedly on behalf of the U.S. government, you know, like the CIA. I remember th…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 32:23

Daniel Blanton laundered_money_for Contras book_quoted

“Soon after Lister paired up with Blanton and Menendez, his security company began doing business overseas. Blanton told the Justice Department interviewers that he and Menendez entered into an informal partnership with Lister for the purpos…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 30:28

Ron Lister laundered_money_for Contras book_quoted

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 30:28

Ron Lister supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“guns in Southern California. When Blanton told him, he was, Blanton told Lister that he was sending them to the Contras. Anything I gave him, I was told was for the purpose of the Contras, Lister said. An FBI informant told the Justice Depa…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 44:36

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras host_asserted

“had spoken of obtaining night vision goggles from Lister in 1982, which the drug lord planned to sell to the Salvadoran government. Menendez intended to use the proceeds of the night vision goggles to aid the Contras. In October 1982, Pyram…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 45:02

Timothy LaFrance supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“He said he accompanied Lister to El Salvador at least twice and was involved as a weapons specialist in helping to set up facilities to make pistols for the Contras. Among a series of nameless biographies attached to Pyramid's proposal to t…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 49:33

Eden Pastora member_of Contras documented

“He had told friends that he was convinced that spies, armed merchants, and others were using the reservation as a low-profile site in which to develop weapons for Third World armies, including the Contras. The Chronicle stated that the Cont…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 57:36

Terry Reed trained Contras book_quoted

“Reed, a pilot and a machine tool expert, said he was initially recruited to train the Contra pilots with clandestine airstrips in Arkansas. Later, he claims he was asked to help the CIA set up secret weapon parts facilities in Arkansas and …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 1:00:04

Terry Reed supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“in Arkansas was a manufacturer of parking meters called Park On Meter Inc. And that's one directly tied to the Clintons, by the way. It was located in a town called Russellville. Reed claimed that the company was secretly manufacturing M16 …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 1:02:03

Ivor Johnson supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“exists in the same form that Reed had portrayed them. The Washington Post grudgingly admitted that Ivor Johnson's arm company near Little Rock, which the book portrays as being at the center of the gun manufacturing effort, did ship loads o…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 1:02:59

Jim Atkins trained Contras documented

“The Nicaraguan War smelled of the same. Atkins rejected an early offer to participate, but he could not avoid temporary duty as a trainer in Honduras during the year of mining. The ensuing controversy confirmed all of his fears. Atkins join…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 33:40

CIA funded Contras documented

“To help make the Contras more palatable to Congress, the agency brokered deals among the UNO factions and became Calero's group to merge with the indigenous Indians. It is reported that several million CIA dollars supported the UNO offices …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 38:55

CIA covered_up Contras documented

“was how to get Reagan's new Contra aid through Congress. Langley was quite willing to help. The 12-page CIA intelligence report in January tried to defend the Contras against charges of human rights abuses by discrediting the allegations, e…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 39:25

CIA funded Contras documented

“tried to divert Nicaragua by cutting communication routes. The program included $70 million for military, $27 million for humanitarian aid. Activity would be coordinated by a new Nicaraguan operational group under the control of an Army Col…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 40:21

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“bird crap that they had put a communication radio tower on it to pipe in propaganda to Cuba, primarily for the Bay of Pigs, but then they left it going. The air branch supervised procurement of Spanish aircraft for which the agency hired fo…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 41:21

CIA trained Contras documented

“One of the early endeavors involved a violation of the restrictions of CIA domestic activity when 100 Contra officers were sent for special training at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Meanwhile, the Contras lost Juan Gomez, their chief Air F…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 41:48

CIA funded Contras documented

“By March 88, the last major battle ended in a rebel stalemate. Five years of paramilitary action, $300 million had not moved the needle one bit. The administration spoke of 105 million requests in 1988. Congress rejected it. Officially, on …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 42:46

Eden Pastora member_of Contras documented

“a brigade of jungle fighters. It was called the Brigada Internacional Simón Bolivar in support of Pastora's southern forces. After the Sandinistas became too oppressive for Pastora's liking, he joined the CIA and took over the command of th…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 7:11

CIA funded Contras documented

“At that point, the Reagan administration was smuggling up to Noriega as it had never done before, frantically searching for ways around the 1984 congressional ban on CIA supporting the Contras. For months, a steady stream of high-ranking vi…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 24:19

Ramon Millian Rodriguez financed_via Contras book_quoted

“Milan tells a different story. He met with Rodriguez to offer $10 million to the Contras in exchange for the U.S. dropping the money laundering charges against him. Rodriguez accepted the offer and money was delivered to him on five separat…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 18:29

Contras trafficked San Salvador book_quoted

“The Contras were also dealing in cocaine, he told Castillo. He said they were using a small air force to do it that was based at Ilopango, and they were ferrying war materials for the cause. He justified the trafficking by blaming the U.S. …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 9:37

Girola laundered_money_for Contras documented

“Girola and one of his companions pleaded guilty to a minor currency violation charge and walked away. Charges against the other passengers and the pilot was dropped. And the plane returned to them and the U.S. government kept their money to…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 38:25

Girola trafficked Contras documented

“Girola zoom in and out of the airbase hauling drugs and carrying cash to the Bahamas and flashing credentials of the Salvadoran Air Force and the president's office. When I ran Girola's name in the computer, it popped up with 11 DEA files d…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 39:23

Carlos Amador trafficked Contras documented

“also used the hangar for the helicopter-based counterinsurgency program that was attacking the FARC and the Sandinistas. It was being used by the CIA in support of every aspect of the Contra program. Also, the suspected drug pilot, Carlos A…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 42:24

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras documented

“to the cartels of Colombia in the late 1980s, testified in 1992 that during the Nicaraguan trial, which we'll talk about later, that Norwin was selling drugs and funneling the benefits to the Contras with help from high-ranking military off…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 46:14

Marcos Aguardo trafficked Contras documented

“moved to El Apengo permanently, working as an aide to a high-ranking Salvadoran commander. The pilot, who had been instrumental in arranging the Contra's 1984 arms and drug deals with the Colombian trafficker, George Morales, was no longer …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 47:14

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras documented

“The friend was questioned in April 1986 by a DEA intelligence analyst as part of a secret DEA assessment of allegations that the Contras were involved in drug smuggling. He not only confirmed that Menendez was selling cocaine to raise money…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 53:37

Oliver North financed_via Contras host_asserted

“That's interesting. They also said North wanted to take $1.5 million in drug profits from Barry Still that he had gotten from the Medellin cartel and give it to the Contras. When the DEA refused to do that, the DEA officials, not the DEA in…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 1:40

Washington Times funded Contras host_asserted

“to the Washington Times, which was supporting the Contras, both financially and editorial. And who owns the Washington Times? The Unification Church and Reverend Moon, just so that we're clear on that. The leak to the Washington Times accom…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 2:10

Lawrence Walsh covered_up Contras host_asserted

“of their investigation. For the most part, the CIA reported any drug trafficking activity would have been stumbled upon in the course of the investigation over other issues like money laundering. So they knew that by sending it to Walsh tha…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 6:17

Edwin Corr covered_up Contras host_asserted

“He's sending all of his information to Edwin Corr, the ambassador. He was sending regular reports. And Corr later said that he thought that Castillo was a very professional and good agent and had no reason to doubt anything that he was tell…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 9:17

Oliver North funded Contras book_quoted

“By the spring of 86, the Contras were almost out of money, while North and his agents were able to replace some of the Contras' lost CIA funding with donations from Saudi Arabia and Taiwan again. Taiwan's awful involved in the crack cocaine…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 28:14

John Kerry exposed Contras book_quoted

“By June of 86, Kerry's staff had compiled enough information for the senator to approach his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and seek authorization for an official investigation. According to transcripts of that secret …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 31:08

Daniel Blanton funded Contras documented

“Number two, stated in your affiant that Blanton is a Contra sympathizer and founder of the FDN, an organization that assists the Contra movement with arms and money. The money and arms generated by this organization comes through the cell o…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 4:28

Daniel Blanton laundered_money_for Contras documented

“Gordon listed more than a dozen locations across Southern California where Blanton and his cohorts were storing drugs and cash. He traced the money trail from Los Angeles across the country, writing that the, quote, monies gained from the s…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 4:55

Arpaccio Marino laundered_money_for Contras documented

“The RCO Marino, a Colombian, oh, there's that one again, was involved in the Contra drug operation. The informant described Marino as a cocaine supplier and money launderer to both Norwin Menendez and Blanton, and said that Marino's wife an…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 22:44

Arpaccio Marino member_of Contras documented

“Ron Lister would tell police in 1996 that Marino was affiliated with the FDN as well, which is the Contras. And Blanton said the same thing during his interviews with the CIA IG. Blanton claimed that Marino arranged at least one, one ton de…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 23:45

Ron Lister supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“who claims to have worked for the CIA for many years and has insisted in supplying small arms and helicopters to CIA contacts in Latin and Central America. The CIA also named Daniel O'Blanton, identified as an accomplice of Lister's. Curiou…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 49:07

Oliver North funded Contras host_asserted

“Oliver North was going to take, because they sold it to him at inflated prices, was going to take that excess money to fund the Contras as well. And there was supposedly an agreement that Iran would intervene in Lebanon where they were hold…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 59:38

Ron Lister supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“and locations were cleaned out. Documents recovered indicate that suspect Lister is involved in buying and selling police and government radio equipment and heavy-duty weapons. Suspect possibly FBI informant and private detective, unquote. …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 44:36

Gustavo Álvarez member_of Contras documented

“using the proceeds of cocaine sales to finance it. Gosh, where have I heard that before? President Suazo had drawn Boceo Rosa's rap by dumping Honduran Army Chief General Gustavo Alvarez, a fanatical anti-communist who was one of the father…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 37:16

Orlando Morello laundered_money_for Contras book_quoted

“and served as a corporate lawyer for Norwin's suspected money launderer, Orlando Morella. And Morella is the guy that owned a series of different financial institutions in Miami that was laundering all of the cocaine money for the Nicaragua…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 12:37

Oliver North supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“de Osborne of El Salvador to restrict the movements of leaders of the FMLN in Panama, and more important, failing to comply with the demands of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to provide military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras. Norieg…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads & the War on Terror Part 5 @ 44:21

Ron Martin supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“Ron Martin, a Miami gun dealer, and James McCoy, the former military attache at the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua and a friend of Somoza, were partners in an arms company that supplied weapons to the Contras, first for the CIA and then after th…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 25:34

Ronald Reagan funded Contras host_asserted

“was part of an international drug syndicate. And they were using the money to fund other priorities. And they were using the money to fund the Contras, which everybody knew were fascist dictators. The actual good people in that whole thing …”

▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 1:37:47

CIA funded Contras documented

“Air Force program. They didn't know those aircraft was being created for the CIA. It's just so nefarious. Every part of it is so nefarious. All of the smokes and mirrors that is involved in this. And that's not even talking about what Warha…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:29:14

CIA member_of Contras documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:29:14

William Casey recruited Contras book_quoted

“We're on page 523 of Bill Casey's war. Even more than Afghanistan, Nicaragua became Bill Casey's war. When Reagan set the policy, Casey executed it. But for Nicaragua, Casey went to Reagan, pushing him, encouraging his worst fears. Supervis…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 2:41

Wackenhut supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“was going to be used to avoid that as well. Representatives of the Contras came to the reservations often for weapons demonstrations. Oh, we'll take five of those. We'll take 10 of those. It was like a shopping mall for terrorists. Then the…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 54:33

World Anti-Communist League supplied_arms_to Contras guest_asserted

“So, yeah, I got into it through Iran-Contra. And the Reagan era was sort of the golden era of the World Anti-Communist League. And the World Anti-Communist League was involved in supplying arms to the Contras. And its head was, at that time…”

▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 28:31

Argentina supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“like Honduras, which bordered Nicaragua to the north. They fell in line quickly, turned a blind eye to all of the CIA efforts. Costa Rica to the south would come later. After discussions and subsequent denials with Reagan ambassador at larg…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 57:20

Dewey Claridge trained Contras documented

“Claridge estimated a month and a half to implant a CIA base and logistics network with activation in two months. The CIA, Claridge, put the cost at about the same as a single F-16 fighter jet, whatever that is, millions. Diplomat Thomas End…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 55:18

Jose Alas supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“which is really just us, us, and us using those other two as cutouts. The 50 Contras went to Argentina for training and then became instructors at the camp in Honduras. Alas would be the chief of logistics. Another colonel, Osvaldo Rivera, …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 1:01:33

Osvaldo Rivera headed Contras documented

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 1:01:33

Contras carried_out_attack Nicaragua documented

“The first serious strike occurred in mid-March when FDN units blew up two road bridges in northern Nicaragua. The next day, the government declared a state of emergency. By the end of the month, Managua could point to half a dozen instances…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 3:05

CIA funded Contras documented

“on military aid. In other words, he was working with the entire group. His cable traffic, which has been declassified, shows he tried to counter unrest in Honduras and stimulate Honduran military cooperation with the CIA and El Salvador, wh…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 6:10

CIA funded Contras documented

“In its early stage, the entire Nicaraguan program is reported to have been staffed by fewer than 100 collective CIA people. That's not counting their contract people. Later, the personnel in Honduras alone would be reported at just that lev…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 8:02

CIA funded Contras documented

“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…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 8:32

CIA funded Contras 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

United States supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“just happened to be working on the CIA facilities under the pretense that they're conducting South Com training exercises. Great cover. Military aircraft flew Contra supplies to all of the locations. Headaches for Managua followed divisions…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 11:28

William Casey funded Contras documented

“To Langley, to brief Casey, the deputy director, Admiral Bobby Inman, walked in on the conversation. He thought a weapons drop to rebel troops in a friendly country was a crazy idea. But Casey approved it. The drop took place within a month…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 12:40

Argentina funded Contras documented

“But as the paramilitary effort built steam, the U.S. lost its Argentine allies. This followed the 1982 Falkland War between Argentina and Britain, in which Reagan took British side. That May, Argentina withdrew from the Central American dea…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 13:35

Israel supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“Repeated allegations of Israel's assistance also surfaced. The Israels openly sold arms to Honduras. This is documented repeatedly. They had advisors in all of these countries to assist the CIA in all of these operations, to include Colombi…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 15:02

U.S. Congress funded Contras book_quoted

“After one of those votes in July of 1983, Reagan officials boldly answered that they had no intentions of reducing aid to the rebels, the terrorists. They weren't rebels. Twice, the House voted to terminate the Contra program, saved only be…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 4:52

Bill Shepard trained Contras book_quoted

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 15:44

James Baker funded Contras host_asserted

“was still kind of like the godfather of the Contras. James Baker was now Secretary of State for Bush and he refused to meet Contra leaders, but he definitely backed them. Some leaders finally saw the president. Bush remained cool as he can'…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 46:27

U.S. Congress funded Contras book_quoted

“In the short term, the CIA got what it wanted. Congress did not strengthen the Boland Amendment, though it kept spending on Nicaraguan war to the 24 million already appropriated and warned that no more would be coming until the next fiscal …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 8:23

Young Americans for Freedom funded Contras host_asserted

“And members began focusing on opposing these movements. This growth was strongest in California, where members staged protests in favor of aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. Now, again, the Nicaraguan Contras are the terrorists. OK, so they are…”

▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 28:19

CIA funded Contras documented

“for guerrillas. That sounds so familiar. And to transit drugs and weapons. That's in a DEA document, part of a larger effort to fund and supply the Contras. Huh, like a Gladio training camp? That covert effort was linked to a scandal known …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 44:24

Tosh Plumlee supplied_arms_to Contras guest_asserted

“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 …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 48:25

Felix Rodriguez supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“The New York Times reported in 1992, quote, Felix Rodriguez, a retired CIA officer who spent most of his career on the shadowy side of espionage business, appeared today in federal court to testify in the trial of the agency's former chief …”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 1:01:31

John Hall trafficked Contras documented

“Plumlee says that he assumes the narco-trafficker was flown into John Hall's ranch in Costa Rica. John Hall's ranch was protected by the CIA and used extensively by the CIA. Hall took advantage of this protection and allowed planes loaded w…”

▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 46:58

Robert Vesco laundered_money_for Contras host_asserted

“much more recently, as we've seen with the whole Russiagate hoax and all of that other stuff. That involved all of those same people, same entities. And when today you are still seeing people from the 1970s and 80s that are caught up like t…”

▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 1:04:34

Gene Tatham flew_for Contras book_quoted

“You know, he does produce these documents from the 1980s showing, you know, from Guatemala, which he says, you know, show that he was, you know, flying these flights, you know, to the Contras. So it could be a little bit of additional corro…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror Part 6 @ 1:23:16

Daniel Blanton trafficked Contras documented

“who dealt dope for many years, started out dealing with the Contras, a right-wing Nicaraguan, yeah, they're not right-wing, give me a break, Nicaraguan guerrilla group in Los Angeles. He'd used drug money to buy trucks and supplies for the …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 38:15

Norwin Menendez trafficked Contras host_asserted

“I also obtained the 1987 FBI interview with the San Francisco Contra supporter Dennis Ainsworth. We've come across his name a couple of times, in which he told of his discovery that Norwin Menendez and a Contra leader by the name of Enrique…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 1:02:35

Enrique Barundez trafficked Contras host_asserted

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 1:02:35

Oscar Blanton trafficked Contras host_asserted

“correctional center. He knew nothing of Blanton's past, I discovered. He had no idea who the Contras were or whose side they were on. To him, Donella was just a nice guy with cheap dope. What would you say if I told you that he was working …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 1:10:48

William Black supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“Blanton told the CIA inspectors that Lister had access to such a wide variety of weapons that in 1983 and 84, he arranged for him to give a sales presentation to the leadership of the Contras. Blanton recalls that in addition to the normal …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 4:04

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras documented

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 4:04

Guatemala supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“This is what he's talking about. Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador fronted arms shipments for the Contras. In both cases, the CIA turned to the People's Republic of China, meaning Taiwan, to supply additional weaponry and missiles to its…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 24:57

Honduras supplied_arms_to Contras documented

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 24:57

El Salvador supplied_arms_to Contras documented

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 24:57

China supplied_arms_to Contras documented

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 24:57

Ron Lister supplied_arms_to Contras documented

“At the same time that he was reportedly meeting with Nelson, Lister was also advising Contra on security matters and selling them arms. The other documents seized from Lister in 1986 raid lend support. According to the Justice Department, L…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 29:11

Norwin Menendez funded Contras book_quoted

“Nicaraguan population that was currently in Costa Rica. A 1985 report stated he was one of the first economic supports for the Contras in Costa Rica. There are rumors that he works as an informant for DEA. It was more than a rumor. It was t…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 41:31

Oliver North funded Contras book_quoted

“by suggesting that $1.5 million in cocaine cash the DEA planned to seize from the Medellin cartel should be turned over to the Contras. The DEA says it declined North's suggestion. Subsequently, a White House leak blew the operation, and se…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 49:15

William Casey funded Contras book_quoted

“With the assistance of former securities lawyer and then CIA director William Casey, North created an elaborate network of offshore bank accounts to conceal the source of the money that was to sustain the Contras during the congressional cu…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 49:44

Troil Sanchez supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“Yeah, that too. His partner in one of them was FDN director Aristides Sanchez's brother, Troil, a former CIA pilot that was identified in 1982 as a supplier to Menendez's operation in San Francisco. He was one of the pilots flying the drugs…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 51:16

Manuel Noriega supplied_arms_to Contras book_quoted

“confirmed to the U.S. Subcommittee in 1988 that Noriega's pilots would fly up weapons for the Contras along with drugs, leaving the guns behind in Costa Rica before hitting two routes north, one through Mexico for the West Coast market and …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:03:26

Oliver North covered_up Contras documented

“would earn him a minor place in history, a footnote to one of America's worst scandals, the Iran-Contra. His case would be cited by the Congressional Iran-Contra committees as an example of how Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and the Nation…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 20:55

Oliver North funded Contras documented

“while boarding a plane for Switzerland. In their possession was a briefcase filled with $5 million in cash. According to Spanish government officials, in May of 1987, the money was destined for a bank account in Zurich controlled by North. …”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 37:34

Joe Kelso spied_on Contras guest_asserted

“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33

Felix Rodriguez headed Contras host_asserted

“winds up because remember he's brigade 2506 and a member of the cuban exile community in miami and he ends up as the number three guy running iran contra under vice president bush donald greg his national security advisor and felix rodrigue…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 4:27

CIA funded Contras host_asserted

“own experiences under Somoza's secret police led them to build an efficient body of police inside their Ministry of Interior to thwart any attempt by this CIA amassing of forces around their border. The Contras were forced to rely on help f…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 5:51

CIA supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted

“crates of radio equipment and rifles from local Miami sporting goods stores that started flooding in to both Honduras and Guatemala. The crates that were going to Honduras was sent directly to the chief of police for the country named Gusta…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 6:54

Argentina trained Contras host_asserted

“into the foreign infrastructure that was being built. By mid-1981, Argentine military advisors were secretly slipping into Honduras and Miami to teach the Nicaraguan exiles how to run guerrilla ops against the Nicaraguan government. They we…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 13:26

Gustavo Álvarez funded Contras host_asserted

“And basically, he paints the picture of them being taught espionage, counter espionage, interrogation techniques, torture techniques, and how to lead troops in psychological warfare. Kind of like a School of America is set up on the run. So…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 14:30

Norwin Menendez laundered_money_for Contras documented

“Bound for the U.S., approximately 10 to 20 kilos per month was imported in this manner. Now you know why they have used car dealerships. Herrero Menendez said that Menendez was working with the Honduran government and that the police agency…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 15:55

Daniel Blanton financed_via Contras host_asserted

“Between 81 and 82, he said that he had provided several thousand dollars in drug profits to finance the FDN's wing in Los Angeles. The drug money was used to support the operating expenses, plane tickets, rent, office spaces. Menendez was d…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 39:25

Norwin Menendez financed_via Contras host_asserted

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 39:25

Sandra Smith exposed Contras host_asserted

“From L.A. at the San Francisco airport and drive to the house in the earlier chapters. The DEA agent, Smith, gut feeling about Menendez's drug ring was right on target. She discovered the first direct evidence of the Contra drug pipeline in…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 40:24

Sebastian Pinal member_of Contras documented

“In the CIA files in late 1980, at the inception of the CIA's counter-revolutionary arrangement, the CIA identified Penal as the leader of the unnamed Contra group in Honduras and knew the Contra boss was a reported drug trafficker, describi…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 1:10:17

Carlos Cabezas financed_via Contras host_asserted

“which was Norwin Menendez, Costa Rica drug broker. Cabraza was taking, now he was making $50,000 a month. He was taking $50,000 a month to the Contras Miami office. He often would give the money directly to the FDN leader, Sanchez, the brot…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 1:10:48

Ivan Gomez laundered_money_for Contras documented

“So this is actually a CIA agent, Ivan Gomez, the agency's man in Costa Rica. Gomez said that he was there to, quote, to ensure that the profits from the cocaine went to the Contras and not into someone's pocket, unquote. Caprese saw the CIA…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 8:10

Dewey Claridge headed Contras documented

“Claridge was the CIA officer who headed the Contra program from 1981 to 84 and was later indicted for lying to Congress about the Iran Contra scandal. He was pardoned by President George Bush Jr. Oh, excuse me, George Bush Sr., the former C…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 9:02

CIA funded Contras documented

“Gomez told the CIA inspectors he'd never met Caprese or other traffickers. He's involved in drug trafficking. He just didn't meet any traffickers. Based on Caprese's statement and historical record from the early days of the Contra conflict…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 13:28

Vincente Rapicoli member_of Contras documented

“In 1988, State Department biography of Vincente Rapicoli identified him as the secretary of the Contra's political division. Incredibly, the 1998 CIA IG's report that contained all of the cables claimed Aviles and Rapicoli really hadn't wor…”

▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 54:24

Mentions (120)

Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1

▶ 25:47 During his time in South Florida, was a big Contra supporter, arranging funding. And they owned a berth area down there where boats docked that were loaded with weapons. He also was a business associate of a guy by the name of Camillo Pedre…

Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1

▶ 30:54 completely by mafia member Herman Beebe. And it was used to funnel private donations to the Contras. He is son-in-law, Stefan Halper is the son-in-law of CIA Deputy Director Ray Klein. He also helped set up the legal fund for Oliver North. …

Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1

▶ 37:23 murdered drug smuggler, gun runner, DEA informant, and CIA asset used by the CIA on drug stings with the Sandinistas, flew resupply missions for the Contras, caught in 1972 in a guns for drugs operation with Cuban exiles in Mexico that incl…

Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1

▶ 48:18 as money traffickers for the Contra operation that was coming up and all of the rest of their covert operations in Iraq, Kuwait, wherever. They purposely did this to facilitate the disaster that they knew. They planned the disaster. They li…

Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25

▶ 2:08:33 into Angola using South Africa. They did the exact same thing to traffic arms to Iran at inflated prices during the Iran-Iraq war in order to pay covert black money through BCCI in order to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. And so Israel has bee…

Gladio 101 El Salvador

▶ 56:37 a typical tactic. A few days later, it tacked on a request for support of the Nicaraguan Contras, more criminals, and Gladio operators to a bill to provide emergency fuel spending for the poor in parts of America, which were suffering a sev…

Just Because Keith Malinak w ColonelTowner-Watkins 2025-10-16

▶ 16:54 We found out in Contra that all of those U.S. agencies was literally involved in the trafficking of cocaine into the United States to raise money for the Contras. So that's a proven fact. But what most people don't know is the Medellin cart…

Just Because Keith Malinak w ColonelTowner-Watkins 2025-10-16

▶ 51:36 And I won't say extensively, but you can find it that the CIA and let me let me back up and just say this, since I already mentioned the Contras. The CIA purposely was taking Colombian cocaine, flying it into the United States and created t…

Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3

▶ 1:37:47 was part of an international drug syndicate. And they were using the money to fund other priorities. And they were using the money to fund the Contras, which everybody knew were fascist dictators. The actual good people in that whole thing …

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 1:16:52 spreading of weapons to places that we want them to go, a willing participant in that arrangement as well. And it's true for all of the European countries. Israel has served as a weapons conduit to anything that the Western countries wanted…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 1:18:55 Matt, sorry about that. Go ahead. I think it might have been fat fingers me. I'm sorry. It was an accident. So, Matt, let me let me rephrase because I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Our citizens in the United States had our repr…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 1:19:24 Our CIA went to Mossad and said, hey, here's the money. We need you to send the weapons to Angola. We need you to send the weapons to the Contras because we can't do it legally. And they did it with France. France also not only supplied nuc…

Operation Gladio (241113)

▶ 1:20:49 We were doing it because the American people had had enough. They didn't want our weapons going to Contra because they knew, like the Vietnam War, the Contras at the time was not the good guys, even though Reagan was lying to us, telling us…

Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots

▶ 1:27:46 Two guy for Vice President George Bush when they were running the Iran-Contra scam and trafficking guns and trafficking drugs, helping the Contras, who were the bad guys, by the way, they were the Gladio operators, try to overthrow the Sand…

Operation Gladio - Belgium

▶ 1:26:02 In Guatemala, the Contras supposedly were the good guys when it was actually the Sandinistas that were trying to get their country back from an international syndicate that wanted all of their farmland and wasn't going to give it up. They e…

Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2

▶ 49:50 Ronald Reagan, who during the same time brutally cracked down on the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, which, of course, the Sandinistas were the good guys. It was the Contras that we were funding under the Reagan administration that were the bad g…

Operation Gladio - Bulgaria

▶ 29:00 who was kicking the CIA off the island. In Nicaragua, they're talking about the Sandinistas, who were actually the good guys, not the Contras, who the CIA supported. And the same is true in Yemen and Tanzania. So it's how the international …

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 58 - 'L.A INSURRECTION - LINKS TO THE PAST' - EP.426

▶ 53:15 And when it was exposed in 2020, every single operation, every false flag, every where we were blaming another country, the Chilean coup, Nicaragua, the Contras, all of the Latin American countries had crypto AG. So the entire time that we'…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 58 - 'L.A INSURRECTION - LINKS TO THE PAST' - EP.426

▶ 1:15:24 OK, and it says also his death left General Singlub in charge of the Western goals. And General Singlub, again, comes up over and over and over again in Operation Gladio. He is at the heart of everything. And it says with the passage of the…

OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 58 - 'L.A INSURRECTION - LINKS TO THE PAST' - EP.426

▶ 1:15:54 But that's when Senglib stepped forward and worked with the vice president, George Bush. So the Boland Amendment was passed saying basically you could not use taxpayer monies to supply weapons to the Contras to fight the legitimate governme…

Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984

▶ 51:05 the story about Cuba. We've went over it, right? That the CIA trained and backed Castro, but when Castro decided he was not going to allow the CIA to run his government and it become a drug haven again, he was thrown out with the bathwater.…

Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984

▶ 1:54:07 this international syndicate, as is the senior military people, and then they continue to rape, pillage, and steal all of the resources. That's why they wanted Nicaragua. That's why they wanted the Contras to install their own dictator ther…

Operation Gladio - Honduras

▶ 4:59 And this Battalion 3-16 is specifically tied to the Contras. As you might remember, Felix Rodriguez, who I keep talking about because he's literally connected to everything as Operation Gladio, he's the guy that Tucker Carlson just intervie…

Operation Gladio - Honduras

▶ 5:26 23, 2506, I believe was the name of it. And he wore the shirt on Tucker Carlson's television show. This is the counterpart for Honduras. And he actually, Felix Rodriguez was actually in Honduras during this time when this guy was doing thes…

Operation Gladio - Honduras

▶ 24:53 and the United States because Alvarez was a fierce, quote-unquote, anti-communist who detested the Sandinista movement. And keep in mind, the Sandinista movement was the freedom fighters that the U.S. government labeled as communists so the…

Operation Gladio - Honduras

▶ 25:24 Nicaragua, by the way. When the Reagan administration asked him to turn Honduras into a base for the anti-Sandinista rebels, known as the Contras, he eagerly agreed. And keep in mind, this is when Felix Rodriguez deploys to Honduras because…

Operation Gladio - Honduras

▶ 25:53 Soon, hundreds of Contras were operating from the camps along the Nicaraguan border inside of Honduras, and thousands of American soldiers were flying in and out of an Aquacate, A-Q-U-A-C-A-T-E, airbase nearby. From 1980 until 1984, annual …

Operation Gladio - Honduras

▶ 26:46 It had two purposes, supporting the Contras and repressing dissent within Honduras domestically. The army established a secret squad, which goes by the name of Battalion 3-16. We're going to look into that tomorrow a little bit more. It is …

'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED

▶ 1:07:04 I ran Contra. If you understand Operation Gladio and you go back and you start reviewing the attempted overthrow of the Nicaraguan government under the same auspices that we don't want them to have their own farmland. They were primarily ow…

'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED

▶ 1:07:32 to fund the Contras. Reagan, with George Bush as his vice president, starts using Israel as a weapons cutout. So they become a major weapons trafficker. The U.S. is- Into Nicaragua. So we can sort of wash our hands- Well, into Iraq and then…

'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED

▶ 1:08:52 They were part of the, I told you about Felix Rodriguez. Felix Rodriguez was training the Contras. So all of this, Israel has been an integral part of all of this. As a matter of fact, we didn't even mention that Taiwan set up a thing calle…

Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day

▶ 1:31:34 He would buy it back, and he was going to buy it back for a million dollars. Well, United Fruit says, you can't buy it back for a million dollars. It's worth $16 million. And he goes, well, fuck you, because you've only been paying taxes on…

Operation Gladio - Korea part 3

▶ 31:04 in the whole CIA schema thing. Also, let's see. Yeah, he was involved in the Iran-Contra that we're learning a lot about in my most recent threads. He was involved in couping Guatemala. He was also the guy that was the CIA…

Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2

▶ 2:04:08 When I was able to provide for him the information that exactly the opposite was true and who these people were, not only on the Sandinista side, which happened to be the patriots trying to take their country back from the oligarchs, but th…

Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb

▶ 3:12:15 So what they did was they, using people like him, they went and bribed all of the senators. They tried to buy the senators because they're parliamentary and he had to be confirmed by the Senate. And they couldn't find enough corrupt people.…

Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies w_WarHamster Brady

▶ 41:30 From an economic war perspective, I see this over and over again. Again, going back to Gary Webb's book, they talk about counterfeiting as part of the funding of the Contras. We know that counterfeiting was a big deal in World War II. This …

OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372

▶ 17:45 which is going to take place based on the Soviet Union coming into Afghanistan, all of which was a sleight of hands by the CIA, by the way. And so you have that occur, and then you have this massive pipeline of money and weapons going into …

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12

▶ 1:30:52 The U.S. military is flown in and they are using CIA intelligence as as their go to source of intelligence in the area. Right. So the CIA says, oh, my gosh, they're all communist in the Sandinista government. And we have this we have this c…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12

▶ 1:31:22 And we're going to arm the Contras because they're freedom fighters. They're the heroes. They're actually the bad guys. And you military, we need you to bring in all of these resources. We're going to set you up in El Salvador and we're goi…

Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17

▶ 38:18 Sandinistas win the election in Nicaragua and basically begin kicking out United Fruit and everybody else. The entire thing falls apart, and that's Contras. So the Contras get housed over in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. They're flying …

Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke

▶ 28:19 And members began focusing on opposing these movements. This growth was strongest in California, where members staged protests in favor of aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. Now, again, the Nicaraguan Contras are the terrorists. OK, so they are…

Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet

▶ 1:55:33 Those are just all facts. And those are things that we've talked about when we were talking about how Israel was being used as a cutout for the Iran-Contra deal, that we were actually sending billions of dollars to Israel for them to purcha…

Operation Gladio - Turkistan

▶ 1:43:40 by national intelligent estimates, NIEs, that were generated from the CIA, and in some cases from DIA and NSA, but primarily from the CIA, that the forces that made up the Contras were 100% indigenous people that were the good guys.…

Operation Gladio - Turkistan

▶ 1:44:09 They were also in those same assessments told that the Sandinistas were all communist. Now, we know unequivocally both of those things are factually wrong because a lot of the Contras were actually Cuban exiles that had been trained as a CI…

Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9)

▶ 11:49 Most forces like the Contras and the Nicaragua in Nicaragua that we talked about, which, by the way, if you compare names, all as we pointed out with Felix Rodriguez, quite a few of the people that were in Vietnam all show and in the Phoeni…

Operation Gladio-Vietnam Part 6 Phoenix Program

▶ 6:08 where they learn these tactics, in many cases, not all, you are going to go back to the School of Americas. You're going to go back to their graduates having gone back to their home countries. You're going to go back to the Cuban exiles tha…

Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background

▶ 27:13 week called Captive Nations Week every year. It was like a nationwide thing where these Nazi collaborators were being publicized as freedom fighters. And, you know, they were riding on a train with like the Liberty Bell, like waving the Ame…

Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background

▶ 27:43 That's actually where I got into the World Anti-Communist League was through my interest. I read Contra and I was reading this Peter Dale Scott book called that. I think that, yeah, Ryan Contra Connection or something like that. Anyways, he…

Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background

▶ 28:31 So, yeah, I got into it through Iran-Contra. And the Reagan era was sort of the golden era of the World Anti-Communist League. And the World Anti-Communist League was involved in supplying arms to the Contras. And its head was, at that time…