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Claims (7)
Daniel Blanton member_of
Forces Democráticas Nacionales book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 17:16
Daniel Blanton trafficked
Forces Democráticas Nacionales book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 18:48
Norwin Menendez member_of
Forces Democráticas Nacionales book_quoted
“The same guy, Joe Rosanello, that did absolutely nothing with the Frogman case that we talked about a while back, and presented him with a list of reasons why Menendez needed to be indicted. Their prosecution memo detailed a long history of…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 24:31
Ronald Reagan ordered_assassination_of
Forces Democráticas Nacionales book_quoted
“would involve the CIA. Sensitive wasn't actually the correct word. It was white hot. The same morning Anderson was dictating his letter to the IRS, President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese were announcing to a group of reporters in…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 9:19
Oliver North supplied_arms_to
Forces Democráticas Nacionales book_quoted
“would involve the CIA. Sensitive wasn't actually the correct word. It was white hot. The same morning Anderson was dictating his letter to the IRS, President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese were announcing to a group of reporters in…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 9:19
Daniel Blanton laundered_money_for
Forces Democráticas Nacionales book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 18:48
Ivan Torres supplied_arms_to
Forces Democráticas Nacionales book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 17:16
Mentions (16)
▶ 8:49
asking the IRS to supply agents to help out on the case. As you know, Anderson wrote, this is a narcotics investigation involving FBI, DEA, and Los Angeles Sheriff Department units in Riverside and Whittier, California. It's a sensitive mat…
▶ 9:19
would involve the CIA. Sensitive wasn't actually the correct word. It was white hot. The same morning Anderson was dictating his letter to the IRS, President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese were announcing to a group of reporters in…
▶ 10:20
Auckland was temporarily assigned to work on Operation Front Door, the FBI's codename for the Iran-Contra probe, in order to look into possible connections between Lister and Oliver North. Auckland interviewed a retired Secret Service agent…
▶ 10:47
Auckland question Lister's realtor who told of Lister buying a house last summer with two sacks full of cash. When the realtor asked Lister where the money came from, Lister informed him that he ran a quote unquote CIA approved security bus…
▶ 11:45
between Lister and the Iran-Contra scandal and precluded any further investigation, even though they had pages of documentation showing the connection. The next month, the FBI would learn that Lister, quote, had told an unidentified neighbo…
▶ 12:39
They found all kinds of evidence linking North, the White House, and the CIA to illegal Contra resupply activities. Ilopango was exposed and Norse operatives hastily abandoned their airplanes, their barracks, and their safe houses and fled …
▶ 13:09
In December of 1986, Costa Rica's biggest newspaper published an extensive series on Contra connections to drug trafficking there. And one installment focused squarely on Norwin Menendez, describing him as a Contra supporter financier who h…
▶ 13:37
drug agents. Of course, he wasn't hiding from the American drug agents. He was working with them. The story sent the DEA office at the U.S. Embassy into a tizzy. Their top secret informant had just been outed as a major Contra drug traffick…
▶ 16:14
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…
▶ 17:16
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…
▶ 17:44
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…
▶ 19:40
As for the informants who snitched them off to the DEA and FBI, Blanton and Torres knew who they were, Roberto reported. The individuals would be killed. Nine months later, one of the men Blanton suspected, Contra FDN member Carlos Roca, wa…
▶ 20:38
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…
▶ 27:25
the chances were increasing that the Contra drug issue was going to be dragged out of the shadows and exposed in neon lights. An item in January 13, 1987, Washington Talk column of the New York Times headlined, quote, drugs and the Contras,…
▶ 30:43
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…