Fernando Chamorro person
also: Chamorro, Aldolfo Chamorro, the foreign commander
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Claims (2)
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
Fernando Chamorro laundered_money_for
CIA guest_asserted
“So the cartel and people like that are definitely anti-communist. I don't suppose their world would function too well in a communist world. It's strictly a capitalist movement and a drug business. When money from the drug sales was collecte…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 29:55
Mentions (11)
▶ 7:15
Karina Lanunez. He was referred to as La Barra, the Menendez lieutenant who had been supplying cocaine to Caprese and Zavala in San Francisco and funneling the profits to the Contra Army under the command of Chavarro. In August or September…
▶ 9:09
Costa Rican investigation agents listened in on phone calls. They were stunned to find themselves eavesdropping on Costa Rican Contra commanders who were discussing cocaine shipments, drug labs, weapons deliveries, and international politic…
▶ 18:48
became to replace the uncontrollable Pastora with someone the CIA could control. They wanted to use Fernando Chamorro. To get rid of him, Pastora complained, the Nicaraguan CIA assets approached him with offers of financial assistance, whic…
▶ 21:46
In March of 1984, Cesar and two other contra officials who had close ties to the CIA's ARDE logistics chief, Aldolfo Chamorro, and the Air Force commander, Marcos Awando, met with a major Colombian drug trafficker named George Morales at hi…
▶ 29:55
So the cartel and people like that are definitely anti-communist. I don't suppose their world would function too well in a communist world. It's strictly a capitalist movement and a drug business. When money from the drug sales was collecte…
▶ 30:22
He said he delivered bags of money sometimes two or three times a day. I paid a lot of money, maybe millions. In 1996 interviews with the Washington Post, Cesar and Chamorro both said the CIA was fully aware of their involvement with the Co…
▶ 30:50
Drug-based, this same thing. Chamorro went higher than that to Langley. I called our contact at the CIA. Of course I did, Chamorro told the Post. The truth is, we were still getting some CIA money under the table. They said Morales was fine…
▶ 4:04
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 …
▶ 18:27
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.…
▶ 19:48
That is, in fact, what they decided to do. So the Chamorro's Contra Group, with its connections to the Miami Cubans, was actually further along in developing organized regional opposition forces than the Bermudez Legionnaires. So the guys t…
▶ 13:58
which was at the time under the control of the CIA. A 1984 DEA report described Farn's deputy commander, Edmundo Chamorro, well known to the CIA. That's actually a quote. His brother, Farn Commander Fernando Chamorro,…