Sandinistas organization
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Claims (78)
Sandinistas overthrew
Anastasio Somoza documented
“elites from Nicaragua. And when the Sandinistas overthrew the CIA-backed Samosan government, they do this all the time. They export all of the corrupt oligarchs and people that have been on their payroll.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 1:17:04
Manuel Noriega ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas documented
“According to the government's documents filed during North's trial, Noriega offered to have the entire Sandinista leadership assassinated in exchange for a promise from the U.S. to help clean up Noriega's image. North raised the proposal at…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 29:53
Sandinistas overthrew
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“In the pre-dawn hours of July 17, 1979, Somoza and his closest associates, his top generals, his business partners, and their family boarded two jets and flew to Homestead Air Force Base in Miami, Florida, to begin their exile. The vaulted …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 7:12
George H.W. Bush charged
Sandinistas book_quoted
“NSDD 221 was justified by allegedly hard intelligence data that has since completely been discredited. When Vice President Bush announced the directive in July of 1986, he, this is a quote, charged the Sandinista government in Nicaragua wit…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 21:27
José Raúl Martínez targeted_for_regime_change
Sandinistas host_asserted
“was awarded a Legion of Merit for murdering people. I got mine for doing a good job. And that, it just floored me. There's many other things like this thing called Operation Charlie. Click on that and just read a little bit about what they …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:12:25
Bolivia trained
Sandinistas book_quoted
“had been Bulgaria's involvement in the training of quote-unquote terrorists in Angola, Cuba, Nicaragua, Yemen, and Tanzania. Now, keep in mind, this is the U.S.'s definition of terrorists because they funded the people that even our State D…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 28:35
Ronald Reagan ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas documented
“At the height of the cocaine decade, the Iran-Contra scandal revealed the U.S. involvement in drug trades during the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Evidence emerged that the CIA's involvement in covert drug operations, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:01:27
208 Committee supplied_arms_to
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Every president decides the number of this committee, and it basically functions out of the National Security Council to do nefarious shit. So evidently, the Reagan administration had a 208, 208 committee. They met frequently throughout the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 1:03:50
Daniel Ortega funded
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Reagan's message in the intensive lobbying proved inadequate. The House of Representatives rejected the $100 million CIA program, as it had every other proposal of lethal assistance since the harbor mining incident. But now the Sandinistas …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 47:10
Joseph Fernandez spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Felix also got work crews to fix up his house, and the embassy expedited paperwork for Felix Quintero. From the CIA came the vital cooperation of Joe Fernandez, who sent his drop zone list through Quintero. The degree of CIA involvement hel…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 59:29
Enrique Miranda Jamie member_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“That would prove to be his undoing. A slippery character who was a lifelong Sandinista, Enrique Miranda, had been a paid CIA informant between 84 and 85, spying on his comrades and peeking into shipping crates to keep the agency apprised of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 34:33
Enrique Miranda Jamie carried_out_attack
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Sandinista arms from Panama to revolutionary groups throughout Central America, and that he had helped the Sandinistas design a sting of secret arms caches in and around Managua, which basically amounted to CIA stay-behind units. They had s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 35:31
Enrique Miranda Jamie spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“And he confirmed that Miranda was the person who was sending guns to the El Salvadoran death squads. He also confirmed that Miranda sold himself to the CIA and provided the agency with intelligence on Sandinista leaders. The CIA refused to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 36:51
Roger Sardino trafficked
Sandinistas host_asserted
“had a plane full of cocaine flown into Nicaragua, but the plane belly flopped on a dirt field in a small town. The crash was swarmed by local peasants who carted away all the dope. The people, they found it and they were selling it at the m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 50:34
Ibis Hernandez member_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Inside were 42 kilos of cocaine and a Nicaraguan airline stewardess by the name of Ibis Hernandez, who had been one of the Sandinistas' fierce guerrilla fighters. She was something else, Vargas said. He was an ex-marine who fought with the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:02:21
Jimmy Carter funded
Sandinistas host_asserted
“fired all of the covert agents and cut off aid to anyone that was running death squads or, you know, like the National Guard killing everybody. So that's what happened in Nicaragua. Instead of covering up and downplaying the brutality of So…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 8:38
Gustavo León de la Cruz carried_out_attack
Sandinistas host_asserted
“He had a terrifying, hateful look, and it instilled fear in anyone in the room with him. The Sandinistas considered him responsible for the revolution's worst atrocities. The State Department reported that in 1978, as far as the human right…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 11:10
Oliver North ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“For those of you who may have missed yesterday's show, what the U.S. government and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is trying to do is set up the Sandinista Nicaraguan government as drug traffickers when they are trafficking drugs from Colo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 2:39
Nguyen Thanh member_of
Sandinistas book_quoted
“In Vietnam, although civilian victims were often nameless to U.S. troops, there were exceptions. Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhan, a widow, was arrested several times in Saigon, the first in 1969, and charged with being a member of the National Liberati…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 45:16
Ronald Reagan ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“My plan is simple. I take the war to Nicaragua. Start killing them. Casey loved it. Claridge left with a mandate to draft a finding to cover the operation. Much of the work fell to the Central American Task Force Chief, Jerry Spott. Intelli…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 45:22
United States funded
Sandinistas documented
“but the Carter administration had not written off the Sandinistas. He was going to give $120 million in foreign aid to Managua. El Salvador was a thornier matter. To handle both the projects, in late 1980, Langley set up a Central American …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 36:03
Fidel Castro supplied_arms_to
Sandinistas host_asserted
“All remaining assistance ended in September and the Sandinistas further infuriated the State Department by denying that they served as an avenue for arms to the El Salvador rebels. Castro soon sent 2,000 teachers and doctors to Nicaragua af…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 1:04:48
William Colby spied_on
Sandinistas book_quoted
“75,000 Southerners, meaning in South Vietnam, who in 1954, quote, the communists took North for training in organizing propaganda and subversion, unquote. According to Colby, these cadres returned to the South, revived the networks that the…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Phoenix Program part 2 @ 25:07
CIA covered_up
Sandinistas host_asserted
“The larger enterprise revealed in these U.S. maneuvers had to do with fighting Managua. Halting arms would be a byproduct. The most crucial, by cloaking its real aims behind the goal of arms interdiction, the Reagan administration introduce…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 51:04
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Sandinistas guest_asserted
“My point was that the CIA has the ability to set up front companies in countries to traffic drugs out of. I mean, they even like it. They did it in Nicaragua a lot to implicate the Sandinista government. And then, you know, Congress gives t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:23:38
Sandinistas overthrew
Eden Pastora book_quoted
“not the fat slobs from the National Guard. In 84, Pastora did invade Nicaragua, capturing a small town of San Juan del Norte. The Sandinistas redeployed and ejected him. On May 30th, he had a brush with death in the form of a bomb built int…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 5:23
Sandinistas targeted_for_regime_change
Eden Pastora book_quoted
“Both the FDN and the Sandinistas had motive for the assassination. So did the CIA. By the time Pastora had recovered, ARDE had lost steam. Then Pastora again fell victim, this time to injury, suffered in a helicopter crash. Because again, h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 46 (48) @ 5:52
Bernardo Arce Castano member_of
Sandinistas documented
“The first person Menendez had approached was a commandant in the military, a guy by the name of Bernardo Arce Castano, a cousin of Menendez's wife and one of the most influential of the nine Sandinista leaders left. According to Menendez, A…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:19:36
Jesse Helms targeted_for_regime_change
Sandinistas documented
“was being subjected to intense pressure to purge her government of all Sandinistas by government, by the U.S. government, particularly Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, whose staff had been intimately involved in the creation and fundi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:22:21
Doyle McManus covered_up
Sandinistas host_asserted
“saw it in a box inside. Doyle McManus, the chief of the LA Times Washington Bureau, that explained it. In 1984, McManus had played a central role in spreading CIA's leaks about Barry Seale and the Sandinista dealing cocaine. Just in time fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 54:43
Norwin Menendez spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Acquaintances of his said that he was an undercover informant for basically their FBI. Samosa's plainclothes secret police, which rooted out subversives or anyone that they thought was Sandinista or Sandinista affiliates. Before going to Gu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 19:00
Roger Mayorga member_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“According to Nicaraguan police officials, Menendez's relationship with the drug lords of Colombia began during the marijuana era in the 70s. And the story they tell of his first big deal was illustrative of his way of doing business. A guy …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 10:26
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas book_quoted
“That's what William Casey said. Like many of the things the CIA said about the Contras, the explanation was a lie. It was a smokescreen to hide the agency's true agenda, which was to run a full-scale covert war against Sandinistas. The Reag…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 35:27
Sandinistas supplied_arms_to
El Salvador book_quoted
“had been running circles around the country's corrupt and inefficient military. The rebels' fight was being assisted by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, who have admitted supplying to them. The Reagan administration was concerned about what wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 33:22
Eugene Hassenfuss captured_by
Sandinistas book_quoted
“Cooper flew without standard evasive tactics against anti-aircraft missiles. That day, his luck ran out. The plane overthrew, flew a Sandinista unit that was hit by a missile and crashed. Hassan Fuss, even in Laos, known for precautions to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 48 (50) @ 15:28
Felix Rodriguez supplied_arms_to
Sandinistas 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
Sandinistas carried_out_attack
Southern Air Transport documented
“Out of the sky over Nicaragua in October 1986, the dead pilot's flight logs revealed that he had flown several Southern Air Transport flights from Colombia to the United States. The flights had occurred between October 1985, exactly when Pa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:02:13
Ronald Reagan framed
Sandinistas documented
“Because again, they're trying to set up the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as drug dealers. Snap pictures of the men loading the cocaine onto his airplane so they could use those pictures to implicate Nicaragua for what Colombia was actually doin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:03:41
Oliver North framed
Sandinistas documented
“It produced evidence suggesting that the whole episode had been staged by Oliver North and the CIA as a disinformation operation. Among other things, the House Judiciary Committee investigation revealed that the alleged Sandinistan official…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:06:11
Sandinistas overthrew
Somoza government host_asserted
“And eventually, the Sandinistas were able to overthrow the Somoza government. Well, then what do you do with all of these elite corrupt people? Well, as it turns out, they just shuffled them off to Honduras or Guatemala or Costa Rica, which…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 16 @ 1:18:25
Carlos Izaca spied_on
Sandinistas book_quoted
“and Macario escaped the country seven months after the revolution on the last day of February 1980. Macario's protector, Icaza, was publicly accused by the Sandinistas of being a CIA agent in 1983, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. H…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 11:38
Sandinistas overthrew
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“The secret warriors, particularly after Chile, better knew the danger of action taken on shaky policy grounds. Those in charge of Nicaraguan's government, which came to power in 1979 at the head of a popular revolution that deposed Somoza, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 32:26
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Oliver North didn't know where this money was coming from. And you can't tell me he wasn't aware of the people involved to do it. No, he went down there and met with them. It just blows my mind. Somebody wearing a U.S. Marine uniform went d…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:08:31
Joe Kelso spied_on
Sandinistas 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
Ronald Reagan targeted_for_regime_change
Sandinistas host_asserted
“citizens uprising against a corrupt dictatorship, they labeled it as, oh my gosh, that has to be communist. And if we don't do something about it, then they're going to turn out to be another Cuba, which of course we heard in Guatemala, in …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 10:48
Fernando Chamorro member_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Legion member, Pedro Yunez, said that they actually hated each other because the foreign commander, Fernando Chamorro, was a rabble rouser. And he had actually fought for the Sandinistas against Somoza.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 18:27
Ronald Reagan ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas documented
“that the CIA moved to make its sponsorship of the FDN official. President Reagan was presented with a document known as the National Security's Decision Directive No. 17, which served as a blueprint for the United States government to overt…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 29:01
Eden Pastora overthrew
Sandinistas documented
“was also involved. But in September of that year, when the former Sandinista commander Petora announced that he was taking up arms against his old Sandinista colleagues, Farn jumped ship, leaving the FDN and officially uniting with Pastora'…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 14:55
Sandinistas overthrew
Anastasio Somoza host_asserted
“was killing his own citizens that tried to do anything about the corruption. Their National Guard, all trained at School of America's and the whole nine yards, just like all the rest of the National Police down there in South America during…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 15:02
Sandinistas overthrew
Anastasio Somoza host_asserted
“They have to qualify. It's not just bad enough to be a Sandinista. Movement under Daniel Ortega had come to power after overthrowing Somoza in 1979. And the other country of significant note at this time is El Salvador, where what we're tol…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 19:01
Michael Townley member_of
Sandinistas book_quoted
“He sided himself with the Sandinistas. He traded expertise with the Cubans, inviting Cuban doctors into Jamaica. And that, of course, pissed off the entire warmongering Washington, D.C. crowd. And so immediately, you know, he's branded a co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 52:46
Sandinistas member_of
Nicaragua host_asserted
“to be the farmers for the landed elite on cattle ranches and opium farms and all that other stuff. And so anytime you see the dilemma, it comes up every single time. So if one of those non-landed people rises up to be a leader, like with th…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 31:26
Sandinistas member_of
Vietnam host_asserted
“At the top of the VCI organizational chart was a central office in South Vietnam. There was an executive committee that answered to a quote-unquote unification department in Hanoi. From its headquarters along the Cambodian border, this orga…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 13:04
Sandinistas headquartered_in
Iron Triangle host_asserted
“as well as the central authorities in the north. When operations were mounted against it, the central committee slipped into what was referred to as the Iron Triangle north of Saigon and into the famous Coochie Tunnels. Regardless of where …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 14:31
Sandinistas overthrew
Anastasio Somoza host_asserted
“In Nicaragua that same year, the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by the Sandinistas' Liberation Front, which launched agrarian reform, which pissed off United Fruit because they were going to take their land back that they ha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 3 @ 26:50
Sandinistas shot_down
Fuerza Democrática Nacional documented
“October 3rd, the FDN supply flight was shot down by Sandinistas over northern Nicaragua. One man among the crew died, but two were taken prisoner. Both had been National Guardsmen under Somoza. Nicaraguan operations were indirectly responsi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 55:05
Sandinistas shot_down
Jeffrey Swab documented
“when the helicopter he piloted toward Aquacate went off course into Nicaragua and was shot down by Sandinista soldiers. The following month, maneuvers led to the death of four Americans, with six others injured, including Green Berets. Two …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 55:35
Sandinistas overthrew
Anastasio Somoza book_quoted
“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- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 38:18
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Sandinistas host_asserted
“one year after the discovery by Occidental Oil of the billion-barrel Kenyo Limon oil field in 1983. A concerted U.S. propaganda campaign was mounted in 1984 against alleged drug trafficking by conspiracy involving Nicaraguan Sandinistas, Co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 36:48
Joseph Fernandez spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“like we're still pretending that the CIA works for the State Department. Ha ha! The other nodes on the net were Norse NSC office, Secord, GAD, Calero, Southern Air Transport, Rafael Quintero, and Felix Rodriguez. Fernandez subsequently prov…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 39:10
Ronald Reagan targeted_for_regime_change
Sandinistas host_asserted
“on both the right and left, all of the ones that they set up. Tyranny in any form is an enemy of democracy. And oh, by the way, I've got this other thing over here that I'm basically doing the same thing with, but it's called Project Democr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 45:06
Sandinistas overthrew
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“retaken their farmland to give it back to the people whose previous government had sold them out. They've made illegitimate deals with United Fruit in order to confiscate these people's land. It was rightfully those people's, not unlike the…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 2:07:36
United States funded
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Nationalists reflectively rebel against governments that they perceive is owned by foreign power. So, again, our presence there is what prompted much of what has happened over the years to include the creation of the Sandinistas. There woul…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 41:05
Adnan Khashoggi funded
Sandinistas guest_asserted
“Joseph Mifsud. And, you know, someone had alluded to Khashoggi earlier. Well, Adnan Khashoggi actually cut all the deals for Iran-Contra going all the way up until the Sandinistas in Rome, between Malta and Rome, through the P2 Masonic Lodg…”
▶ Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian @ 1:44:51
Sandinistas removed_from_power
United Fruit Company guest_asserted
“are the Contras. And the good guys are the Sandinistas that want their country back and their farmland from Nelson Rockefeller and the United Fruit people, right? You know, same thing that we want. We want our farmland back from China. Same…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 1:31:52
James Kibble carried_out_attack
Sandinistas host_asserted
“implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking. According to a 1987 story in The Nation, Kibble was one of the select group of DEA operatives who conducted secret missions for Oliver North and the National Security Council. On October 24, 19…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 37:04
CIA trafficked
Sandinistas 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
Sandinistas founded
Miskito Anti-Sandinista Resistance Front documented
“further from the Honduran border because they were being attacked. This led to a new anti-Sandinista force, MAZORA, which was an acronym from the first letters of the tribe and a later splinter group. Originally formed by the Sandinistas, M…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 4:07
William Casey ordered_assassination_of
Sandinistas book_quoted
“to cease backing insurgents in the region. Okay, who are you designating an insurgent? Nicaragua was to be robbed of the resources necessary to furnish such aid because they had already implemented an economic warfare campaign against them …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 7:48
Contras attempted_coup_against
Sandinistas host_asserted
“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 and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 1:27:46
Sandinistas removed_from_power
United Fruit Company host_asserted
“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 and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 1:27:46
Sandinistas removed_from_power
Nelson Rockefeller guest_asserted
“are the Contras. And the good guys are the Sandinistas that want their country back and their farmland from Nelson Rockefeller and the United Fruit people, right? You know, same thing that we want. We want our farmland back from China. Same…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 1:31:52
Libya trained
Sandinistas book_quoted
“sphere of influence, which means they were going to be using these assassins, not the Russians. Wilson discovered that Libya was training Latin Americans as well. Huh. Let me see if they say Russia was funding that too, because we know we f…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror Chapter 20 @ 19:56
Phoenix Program carried_out_attack
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Being orchestrated in different venues throughout South America, Latin America, like with the Sandinistas and the Contra conflict. Well, and so now I have I have made it perfectly clear a multitude of times that and I'm sure if you're into …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Trump assassination attempt @ 1:54:32
Office of National Estimates spied_on
Sandinistas host_asserted
“basically are the way the CIA lies to the American people and coerces other government offices to do what they want because they will write the national intelligent estimate on a subject and then everything in the government structure, whet…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 1:28:48
Cora Weiss spied_on
Sandinistas guest_asserted
“to the day before, one year before, to the day that he was assassinated. I found it. During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, Weiss regularly received Cuban intelligence agents, KGB agents, and Sandinista friends. Yeah. So, and she proba…”
▶ MLK’s Conspiracy Trial thru Gladio Glasses @ 1:47:07
CIA attempted_coup_against
Sandinistas guest_asserted
“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.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 1:07:04
Manuel Artime spied_on
Sandinistas book_quoted
“Artemi was and had always been a Castro intelligence agent and that he was helping Castro regime take control this is bullshit of the Sandinista revolution this is total horseshit this is the CIA trying to legitimize what they're about to d…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 43:24
Mentions (120)
▶ 1:44:51
Joseph Mifsud. And, you know, someone had alluded to Khashoggi earlier. Well, Adnan Khashoggi actually cut all the deals for Iran-Contra going all the way up until the Sandinistas in Rome, between Malta and Rome, through the P2 Masonic Lodg…
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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…
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The civilian members of the government found themselves unable to exercise any control over the armed forces and was left to function only as a camouflage to real reform. Washington had supported the removal of the brutal Romero because onl…
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communist abated by the Soviet Union, by Nicaragua, and by Cuba. And Nicaragua only because the guy currently in Nicaragua when the statement was being written was the guy who was the Sandinista government that they were also attacking beca…
▶ 52:05
landed a plane in Nicaragua, got off the airplane and took a picture of a bale of cocaine laying on the tarmac, put the bale back on the aircraft and took off. So there was a picture that the CIA could circulate and accuse the Nicaraguan go…
▶ 1:47:07
to the day before, one year before, to the day that he was assassinated. I found it. During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, Weiss regularly received Cuban intelligence agents, KGB agents, and Sandinista friends. Yeah. So, and she proba…
▶ 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 …
▶ 1:29:17
that the Sandinistas are the communists, then literally everything else mobilizes around that. And so I find it very interesting that he's one of the guys that has actually written about the sinarchism.…
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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…
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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…
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That's their mode of operandi. That's exactly what they did in Italy. That's exactly what they did in Turkey with the Kurds. They dress, it's Operation Northwood. They dress up as the people that they want to pin the blame on. We saw it on …
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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 …
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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to be the farmers for the landed elite on cattle ranches and opium farms and all that other stuff. And so anytime you see the dilemma, it comes up every single time. So if one of those non-landed people rises up to be a leader, like with th…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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governments that crushed every attempt at national development and went back on lies, bribery, and everything. In 1980, when democracy finally seemed ready to emerge in Honduras, the U.S. prevented it from flowering because it threatened th…
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Nationalists reflectively rebel against governments that they perceive is owned by foreign power. So, again, our presence there is what prompted much of what has happened over the years to include the creation of the Sandinistas. There woul…
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It's done in a way on page 10 that never brings it to national attention. But it's out there. And that's why going back after the fact is very important because you can pull those pieces out. So if you go to this Martinez page, you see that…
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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…
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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…
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Now, I can tell you exactly that that's what happened in Nicaragua. The United Fruit had came in there. The Sandinistas had basically.…
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There is a lot of analogies there. And so these Sandinista people were trying to take their government back from a CIA installed dictator who was basically the butt boy of United Fruit. And not only were they fighting the communist installe…
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and basically stole all those people's farms that were middle-class people making coffee and selling it internationally. Does that ring a bell, like closing all of our manufacturing plants and doing away with our entire middle class? This s…
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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…
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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…
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are the Contras. And the good guys are the Sandinistas that want their country back and their farmland from Nelson Rockefeller and the United Fruit people, right? You know, same thing that we want. We want our farmland back from China. Same…
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Father Somoza was the guy that the CIA put in. His son succeeds him as a dictator in Nicaragua. And it was the political party of the Sandinistas that won the election when this second generation Somoza goes out the window. Then when the...…
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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 …
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is how Iran-Contra got created. And Jimmy Carter was basically cutting all ties to the dictator death squad last Somoza. And we've been brainwashed to believe that Jimmy Carter's the bad guy. It's just crazy. He also believed that if he sup…
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and his infamous National Guard, which were basically the death squad, that he would avoid implicating President Eisenhower's mistake of driving Fidel Castro into the Soviet camp. So he was right in supporting the Somoza's overthrow, howeve…
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the Sandinista movement, which were the nationalists. But the CIA is not going to like that because the CIA doesn't work for us. They work for the syndicate, and the syndicate wanted to be there with slave labor. As Somoza lost his power gr…
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to go to war against the people that are truly the freedom fighters and the people that want the land back for their original owners, which happened to be in the Sandinista government. Okay, Tom Clines enjoyed a long history and friendship …
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Artemi was and had always been a Castro intelligence agent and that he was helping Castro regime take control this is bullshit of the Sandinista revolution this is total horseshit this is the CIA trying to legitimize what they're about to d…
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in charge of the Sandinistas. Castro had no control over the Sandinistas at all. They just wanted their land back from United Fruit. Wilson recalls that Klein told him it looked like Somoza was going down the drain and Carter was not going …
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terror threats to people in the incoming administration mirror the struggle in Latin America of the non-infiltrated political parties trying to come to power like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and I forget what the name of the guys were in …
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It ain't happening, people. Unlike Reagan, Carter was not convinced that the Sandinistas were dominated by Marxists because they weren't. Had he been given the information that many of them had been trained in Libya, the president might hav…
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Being orchestrated in different venues throughout South America, Latin America, like with the Sandinistas and the Contra conflict. Well, and so now I have I have made it perfectly clear a multitude of times that and I'm sure if you're into …
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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…
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The ports, the guys in Nicaragua that was the Sandinistas and how they mine the harbor, they can't get any weapons. Well, you know what they're going to call the guy from the Soviet Union that delivers the arms? The merchant of death. So I …
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down to the regional level in many of these places. And we saw that exact same thing happen in all of South America, in Africa, in all of those places that we've talked about. Okay. And for the Vietnamese, all they wanted out of it was to r…
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And in the end, they never had the election that they had promised the world that they were going to have. And this quote unquote national liberation front never came to be from an entire national standpoint. And the crushing of the Buddhis…
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to traffic the guns, traffic the drugs, and fund the attack on the Sandinistas, which basically became the Viet Cong of Central America. Named the target, set up the Phoenix program, and turned the same people loose that had ran the Phoenix…
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They would use these to wage a massive campaign of kidnapping and torture aimed at destroying the Sunni insurgency. In Syria, they would train the Wahhabi death squads in an attempt to overthrow the government in a similar way that they use…
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And the labeling psychologically that is done to those patriotic people of that country for demonization of it by the CIA actors on behalf of their corporate sponsors is to label those people a name, whatever that name is. And they change, …
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entity called the National Liberation Front, the People's Revolutionary Party liberation committees, which were, quote-unquote, pretended local governments rather than simply political bodies, and pretended provisional revolutionary governm…
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At the top of the VCI organizational chart was a central office in South Vietnam. There was an executive committee that answered to a quote-unquote unification department in Hanoi. From its headquarters along the Cambodian border, this orga…
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The province committees in turn directed the subordinate units. They tried to get people into all of the villages, blah, blah, blah. The National Liberation Front sought to mobilize the people through organizations and associations encompas…
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as well as the central authorities in the north. When operations were mounted against it, the central committee slipped into what was referred to as the Iron Triangle north of Saigon and into the famous Coochie Tunnels. Regardless of where …
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rationale to develop its own counterterrorism team. Well, they used it anyway. By announcing the formation of the NLF in a bid for political legitimacy, just as the notion of killing off your enemy's civilian leadership was being advanced, …
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The reconnaissance aircraft spy satellites made routine overflight, photographing all of northern Nicaragua for the Contra War and monitoring Sandinista troop movements in rural airfields where the Contra is used for their supply flights. N…
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this around 1986 when he heard all the evidence from Senator John Kerry's hearing and from the newspapers. Friars is adamant that he had no knowledge of CIA complicity in any of this. Hall said that about Friars' testimony that he was aston…
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In 1984, he set up an import-export business, hello, in Miami with the help of Coral Gable's attorney and who had also handled several of Blanton's real estate purchases. He also was in business with the Major General Gestapo Medina and bus…
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CIA called them terrorists because they were fighting back against the CIA corrupt government. So of course they're going to call them terrorists, just like they called the Sandinistas communists because they were fighting back against the …
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In Nicaragua that same year, the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by the Sandinistas' Liberation Front, which launched agrarian reform, which pissed off United Fruit because they were going to take their land back that they ha…
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He becomes the main man. No, no. He becomes a liability. And that's when we invaded Panama and took him out. And this was the Sandinistas. No, that's Nicaragua. There's just too many of them. Yeah. No, we end up going in and taking out Nori…
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At the height of the cocaine decade, the Iran-Contra scandal revealed the U.S. involvement in drug trades during the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Evidence emerged that the CIA's involvement in covert drug operations, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver …
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the exception of Cuba, become the largest and most powerful revolutionary force politically and militarily in the Western Hemisphere. Narco-terrorism was a term first used by the Reagan administration during the Cold War to condemn the left…
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later on was overturned due to technicalities of his trial. Abram was a central figure in Iran-Contra where Reagan officials illegally sold arms to Iran and diverted funds to the Nicaraguan Contras fighting the Sandinista government in defi…
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My point was that the CIA has the ability to set up front companies in countries to traffic drugs out of. I mean, they even like it. They did it in Nicaragua a lot to implicate the Sandinista government. And then, you know, Congress gives t…
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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 …
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The ambassador told Somoza that his top generals needed to step down and give them what appeared to be a clean break from its bloodstained past before the Sandinistas marched in and it became too late to salvage anything. In other words, th…
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In the pre-dawn hours of July 17, 1979, Somoza and his closest associates, his top generals, his business partners, and their family boarded two jets and flew to Homestead Air Force Base in Miami, Florida, to begin their exile. The vaulted …
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proclaiming an end to the guard which had hunted the rebels mercilessly for more than a decade. Those National Guard officers who could escape poured across the border into El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Some of them hid inside the …
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Like Somoza, Blanton, and other wealthy Nicaraguans, Menendez had a home there since the Sandinista takeover. Menendez owned not one house, but several, and large ranches in northern Costa Rica near the war zone because the CIA was using th…
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Contra office in California was a Sandinista sympathizer. Even more suspicious is the fact that DEA made no official record for at least a year that Menendez was one of their informants. The drug kingpin's name didn't show up in any DEA dat…
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Chief of Criminal Investigations for the Nicaragua National Police, believes Menendez was actually working for the CIA in Nicaragua, using his role as a DEA informant as a cover. They used Menendez in Costa Rica basically for money launderi…
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We didn't see any of it, even though we were involved in all of it. Unless, of course, the wrong people were selling it. One CIA officer and several other agency analysts noted that with respect to Nicaragua, the U.S. policy focused on the …
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a revolution an overthrow of the sandinista government so it's my firm belief at this point that i don't know what part of the career that he was hired by the cia but from the time he pinned on 05 on that he was a cia operative so now that'…
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He was an unusual mix of a warrior and a middle class professional. When he was murdered, Spada Fora had been fighting for the Contras in Nicaragua at the side of his old friend, Edan Pastora. That's the guy the CIA doesn't like. They had f…
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Aldemar started by kidnapping Carlton's friends and employees and slapping them around. One of his relatives, Carlton said, was brutally beaten when the power shovels arrived and began digging up Carlton's ranch. They spent weeks there look…
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According to the government's documents filed during North's trial, Noriega offered to have the entire Sandinista leadership assassinated in exchange for a promise from the U.S. to help clean up Noriega's image. North raised the proposal at…
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El Opango began with a very strange step. Shortly before he left Washington, D.C. to get final approval for his mission to El Salvador, he received a call from a friendly private eye in Miami who wanted to meet with him. And they wanted him…
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What Rodriguez said, Milan was trying to broker information to obtain help in the money laundering case pending against him. Not only did he tell Rodriguez of Manuel Noriega's drug activities, but he claimed he could provide proof that the …
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The CIA was fully aware of his agent's reported involvement in drug trafficking because they like to embed these people in these organizations so they can, whenever drugs get discovered, they go, oh, they're coming from the Sandinista gover…
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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…
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The DEA informant related that Menendez had recruited him to coordinate drug and weapons shipments to Colombia and drugs were shipped back to the United States, sometimes through Nicaragua. Menendez boasted that he traveled in and out of Ni…
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Because, of course, Vice President George H.W. Bush was still performing CIA roles as vice president. Rudd has stated that Escobar and the rest of the cartel members are very supportive of the Contras and dislike the Sandinistas. Rudd claim…
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But when her allegations leaked to the press, Palacios was publicly dismissed as a crank by top justice officials who had basically just admitted it was all true. They basically said she was a liar and a lunatic. Her story, though, was supp…
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Southern Air said in a statement that the planes were carrying drilling equipment, not drugs. The wrecked C-123, in which those flight logs were found, had a history of involvement in cocaine, the Medellin cartel, and the CIA. It was the sa…
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In that case, the CIA had taken Seale's plane, which he recently obtained through a aircraft swap with the cartel, to Rickenbacker Air Base in Ohio, outfitted it with hidden cameras. Then Seale, who was working as a DEA informant, because t…
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the night before a crucial vote to provide aid to the Contras. See, we're just fighting the drug dealers. No, you are the drug dealers. That picture secretly taking at a military airfield outside of Managua shows Frederico Vaughn, a top aid…
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illegal narcotics found for the U.S., Reagan said. No, there seems to be no crime to which the Sandinista government will not stoop. It's an outlaw regime. But declassified CIA records show that the Reagan administration knew there was prec…
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in Central America, on alert for Sandinista drug dealing, had found zero evidence of the Nicaraguan government doing any drug deals. Although uncooperated reports indicate there was Nicaraguan involvement in shipping, they were all uncooper…
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It produced evidence suggesting that the whole episode had been staged by Oliver North and the CIA as a disinformation operation. Among other things, the House Judiciary Committee investigation revealed that the alleged Sandinistan official…
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In March of 1985, the CIA reported that Vaughn was said to be an associate of Nicaraguan narcotics trafficker Norwin Menendez. Menendez, at the time, was working with the DEA in Costa Rica, assisting the Contras and Oliver North on the whol…
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In trying to set up the Nicaraguan government because they hated it, he was nationalizing shit. He was kicking the U.S. government out of it, just like Venezuela. They did everything under the sun to set the Nicaraguan government up and gen…
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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…
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For those of you who may have missed yesterday's show, what the U.S. government and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is trying to do is set up the Sandinista Nicaraguan government as drug traffickers when they are trafficking drugs from Colo…
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into the United States. But in order to ignore their drug trafficking, they're going to blame the Sandinistas in order for Congress to appropriate money to fight the drug trafficker Sandinista government that isn't trafficking drugs, just t…
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And eventually, the Sandinistas were able to overthrow the Somoza government. Well, then what do you do with all of these elite corrupt people? Well, as it turns out, they just shuffled them off to Honduras or Guatemala or Costa Rica, which…
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I mean, they were doing activities that were way beyond the scope of DEA. Those were clearly covert activities. That was her statement. One of these double-duty DEA agents was James Kibble, a Madrid-based agent who visited jailed Medellín c…
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has his maps of coke labs located in Costa Rica, but is protecting them. A large lab located up north and other ones in other areas. While Kelso talked, Hall carefully examined the stranger's passport, which bore the name Richard Williams, …
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with people that had worked in the U.S. Embassy in Managua. So he was kind of like sponsored here into the United States as someone that was going to be able to help the CIA get people into the United States to set up this network is the bo…
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and attorney Carlos Izaca, a son-in-law of General Menendez, the guy that died a long time ago. Acasa was the personal attorney for Calero, who had been a CIA agent before 1979's revolution and would become one of the Contra's political lea…
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and Macario escaped the country seven months after the revolution on the last day of February 1980. Macario's protector, Icaza, was publicly accused by the Sandinistas of being a CIA agent in 1983, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. H…
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to attacking Venezuela because it's the one holdout of not allowing themselves to be exploited by American corporations. And so, again, I'm not saying Chavez or Maduro's good. I'm just saying that this is exactly what they did to the Sandin…
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Just so that they had the propaganda material to say all of this shit's coming from Sandinista, from Nicaragua. Not from Colombia, not from Peru, not from Bolivia, not through Mexico. It's all Nicaragua. And why? Because we don't like the S…
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Norwin, it appears, was still fighting the Nicaraguan government and trying to implicate them in cocaine. Though combat between the Contras and Sandinistas all but ceased in March 1988 with a truce, the CIA continued a covert war to destabi…
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public, wary of a decade of war and strife and tension with the U.S., voted the Sandinistas out of office. With the U.S. backing, Norwin's former business partner, Valetta Chamorro, was elected president. And the Chamorros has still, as rec…
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They have been backed by the CIA the entire time and was part of the destabilization of Nicaraguan government the entire time the Sandinistas were in charge. She was immediately began bringing back all of the Somoza friends and relatives, g…
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Even though the Sandinistas were no longer running the government, they still controlled the country's military and national police. If they caught him dealing cocaine, he would be at the mercy of his old enemies. To cover his bets, Norwin …
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That would prove to be his undoing. A slippery character who was a lifelong Sandinista, Enrique Miranda, had been a paid CIA informant between 84 and 85, spying on his comrades and peeking into shipping crates to keep the agency apprised of…
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He says that he was one of two CIA operatives working inside the Sandinista Ministry of Interior in a super secret dirty tricks unit called the Bureau of Special Operations, which was funded by the CIA. In addition to having extensive polit…
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Sandinista arms from Panama to revolutionary groups throughout Central America, and that he had helped the Sandinistas design a sting of secret arms caches in and around Managua, which basically amounted to CIA stay-behind units. They had s…
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arm caches. So when they finally melted what they had anticipated as being the overthrow of the Sandinista government with their contra forces, they had their stay behind caches of weapons already there. They had been hidden in concrete bun…
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And he confirmed that Miranda was the person who was sending guns to the El Salvadoran death squads. He also confirmed that Miranda sold himself to the CIA and provided the agency with intelligence on Sandinista leaders. The CIA refused to …
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apparently due to a long-standing friendship with Armani's ex-wife. In March of 1990, a week after the Sandinistas were voted out of office, Arman called the San Diego DEA agent Charles Jones and told him that Blanton is preparing to move b…
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had a plane full of cocaine flown into Nicaragua, but the plane belly flopped on a dirt field in a small town. The crash was swarmed by local peasants who carted away all the dope. The people, they found it and they were selling it at the m…
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and relegated himself to helping the DEA tail Blanton, surveilling his meetings with the Torres brothers. I actually had a better case against him if it would have come about, Hodge said. I think they just let him run. In stark contrast to …
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The chief of the Nicaraguan National Police said Commander Roger Mayorga, the head of the criminal investigation section, were well acquainted with Norwin and his family and the work that he had done for Somoza and the Contras. Mayorga, a s…
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Inside were 42 kilos of cocaine and a Nicaraguan airline stewardess by the name of Ibis Hernandez, who had been one of the Sandinistas' fierce guerrilla fighters. She was something else, Vargas said. He was an ex-marine who fought with the …
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When his men excitedly returned from their stakeout with the news, Mayorga was dumbfounded. Viril was a senior agent with the USDA agent in Costa Rica. They had just met with Mayorga to discuss the idea of the DEA starting a formal cooperat…
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The DEA agents there had been running the whole cocaine trafficking, covering it all up, putting people under, you know, cooperation informant thing so they couldn't be arrested in the U.S. They're running, on behalf of the Colombian govern…
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and was still being ran by Sandinistas, offering to do a partnership with them in Nicaragua while setting up another cocaine operation with Norwin Menendez in Nicaragua. And they would have been able to do that to shield Norwin Menendez and…
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prison outside of Managua to personally take charge of Menendez's interrogation. He found the trafficker relaxed, almost smug. He said he wasn't worried about me because he had the backing of a much higher superpower, Vivas recalled. He sai…
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He made me understand that Menendez had been playing both sides, which may or may not be true, but it's crazy. So I want to make sure I didn't skip over this part too much. Menendez is telling the chief of narcotics in Nicaragua that the DE…