Ivan Torres person
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“said that his brothers, Edgar and Pacito, were distributing up to 1,000 kilograms of cocaine on a monthly basis in Los Angeles. According to Torres, Menendez, and Blanton, Torres was the head of the West Coast branch of the FDN, meaning the…”
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if they delve too deeply into Blanton's drug ring. Again, they already know they helped set it up. Soon after the new year, a series of strange meetings took place in Los Angeles between Blanton Menendez, the CIA agent Roberto, and a top FD…
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Torres was a brother of Jacinto and Edgar, the two guys that are part of Blanton's drug trafficking network. So there's a third Torres brother. Roberto later reported back to the DEA on those meetings and his debriefing reports must have ch…
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said that his brothers, Edgar and Pacito, were distributing up to 1,000 kilograms of cocaine on a monthly basis in Los Angeles. According to Torres, Menendez, and Blanton, Torres was the head of the West Coast branch of the FDN, meaning the…
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Ivan Torres claims to be in contact with the FBI and CIA as a result of his involvement with the Contras. No kidding. He claims to have been trained by the CIA in San Bernardino in an area that represented Nicaraguan terrain so that they co…
▶ 18:16
want to know about drug trafficking, but only for their own purposes and not necessarily to assist law enforcement agencies. The CIA knows all about it because they set it up. Torres told Roberto that CIA representatives are aware of his dr…
▶ 18:48
Some of the income had gone into numbered bank accounts in Europe and Panama. The major's raids, Torres reported proudly, had not interfered with any of their cocaine trafficking to the black neighborhoods in Los Angeles. They had merely ca…
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Quote, Blanton was keeping a low profile and may have turned over cocaine distribution to a black group in South Los Angeles to the Torres brothers. The DEA report said, describing Blanton's sales to blacks as half his trade. Blanton appare…
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The FBI agent had been investigating and sent him back to Costa Rica, all without letting him know. Auckland was staking out Blanton's auto dealerships at the time of the meeting, and he watched for eight straight days as an unidentified ma…
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he did not add a lot of information to what they already knew. He did point out that the majors had missed $850,000 in cash that Blanton had hidden in a safe at the bottom of a swimming pool. And he said that the Contra official, Ivan Torre…
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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 …
▶ 4:34
Blanton also says that Ivan Torres, one of the two twin Torreses, was present. Mariano Montalegra, a CIA-trained Contra pilot, was implicated in a scheme to haul drugs for the Contras, but never charged Ivan Torres. But he was never charged…