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Norwin Menendez moved_to
San Diego documented
“And the Colombian had a novel idea. Why not get back into the cocaine business? It was hotter than ever. Why? He just sold Blanton's friend in LA a ton of cocaine, literally 2,000 kilos. So if you want to go back, I can get some merchandise…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 22:43
Sergio Herrera owned
San Diego documented
“in a house that was owned by his buddy, Sergio Herrera, the smooth Mexican millionaire. Herrera had become a well-known figure in San Diego business circles, owning profitable parking lots and car dealerships. Of course. Of course. He was o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 23:13
Colonel J.R. Newman member_of
San Diego guest_asserted
“I know Rob Hahn, and I know he's back there. Him and I, crazy story, you guys, and I don't mean to bore you since we're here for a completely different reason, but I graduated from IU, and I went to Los Angeles Air Force Base. Sergeant Hahn…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam and the Catholic Church @ 1:12:19
Cleveland Mafia funded
San Diego host_asserted
“is they've got really good-sized lots and they're valuable properties. Obviously, with Hollywood, you get some mafioso types from day one, Cleveland Mafia, et cetera. Post-World War II, especially, San Diego became a military town. We've go…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 1:04:20
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Maggie Goodlander was just elected for Congress in New Hampshire's second congressional district. She is not my rep, but she lives in my district, not the one she represents, carpetbagger. Which is weird. How is that real? It happens all th…
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I know Rob Hahn, and I know he's back there. Him and I, crazy story, you guys, and I don't mean to bore you since we're here for a completely different reason, but I graduated from IU, and I went to Los Angeles Air Force Base. Sergeant Hahn…
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I came across him and Frank Sinatra a bunch down in Cuba. Interesting. So I spent a lot of time at the Del Mar racetrack in San Diego. My family lived in Del Mar and I actually even worked one summer as a bartender and a waiter at the Del M…
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The family, if you listen to any of the family members interviewed, I always talk about, well, the heritage is more important than wealth. Well, I guess if you only have one of the two, you're going to like it. You might as well make the be…
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surveillance detection, blah, blah, blah. In 1992, court records show Sabario posted part of Shepita Blanton's bond after she was arrested on her drug trafficking charges in San Diego. The doctor did not return phone calls inquiring about h…
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prostitutes, hotels, limousines and everything and selling secrets of these naval officers of where the ships were going, where the munitions were going, whatever. And as part of that, it starts to talk about some of these guys having been …
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ring on the West Coast, alleged involved in a major cocaine pipeline that ran from Cali, Colombia, to several West Coast cities, which we just read about in our last book, which means it was under the control of the CIA because Cali was the…
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She mulled it over for a moment and said, it's not like there's a lot going on in Sacramento right now. That was true. The Sunbaked City capital during the summertime was like siesta. With any luck, I was about to join the siesta people on …
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He may be living down there for all I know. Probably the quickest way to find out is to go there. She okayed the trip. A few days later, I was in San Diego looking at microfiche in the clerk's office at the U.S. District Court. I found a Bl…
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Better yet, with his Swiss-German-Spanish accent, it was like talking to Peter Lorre. I persuaded Don to hire him as a stringer, and he set off to find Menendez. Meanwhile, the San Diego attorney who had been out of town when I was looking …
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Another lawyer in her firm had defended Chapika Blanton. She knew quite a bit about both. You don't happen to know where he is these days. No, but I can tell you where he was a couple of months ago here in San Diego. Entirely by coincidence…
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right when I was getting going. Damn, I thought. That was right when Blanton said he had started dealing drugs. Would you be willing to sit down and talk to me? He said, hell yeah. I'll tell you anything you want to know. At the end of Sept…
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only on Menendez and Morella. The DEA claimed it didn't know anything at all. But that didn't stop the Riverside FBI agent, Doug Auckland, from digging a little further. He decided to do some checking on Mr. Weakley, Ron Lister's alleged CI…
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They were undertaken. Weekly was under federal investigation in connection with Daniel Blanton's cocaine ring, something that had been known at the highest levels of the CIA Justice Department and DIA. On December 21st, 1986, just two days …
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happened to be a police informant, ran to tell the cops in Costa Mesa Police Department. They sent out an undercover agent who ended up buying two kilos of cocaine from Lister. But after just two days in jail, Lister was released on his own…
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To the chagrin of Costa Mesa's authorities, Lister was arrested by a DEA agent in San Diego and charged with conspiracy to distribute 13 kilos of cocaine. But the same thing happened again. Instead of being taken off the streets, Lister was…
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That wasn't what they thought when they signed him up as informant. During the negotiations for Mr. Lister's service, his attorney, Lynn Ball, sent the San Diego DEA and U.S. Attorney's Office a resume of his work history, touting him as ha…
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of El Salvador, Colombia, Italy, and Iran. He knew intelligence operatives, weapon smugglers, the whole thing. He knew Norwin Menendez. He knew Daniel O'Blanton, everybody. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mesa, in a 1997 interview with the CIA insp…
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The 20th, 10 days after the verdicts in the first big spender case, that's all of the L.A. sheriffs and deputies were handed down. Ron Lister was released from federal custody and sent out into the world as an undercover DEA informant to in…
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unorthodox activities for a federal informant, moving mountains of cash for drug traffickers, just as he had done while he was working for Blanton. Barely six months after he began working for the DEA, Lister strolled into Anthony's Fish Gr…
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One of the undercover agents was being contacted by the Colombians and said, quote, by the way, we want to kill this guy Lister. And if we can't kill him, we're going to kidnap his mother and put her on the phone and torture her. So he pays…
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to help her figure out what was going on with her boyfriend who had sat for years in jail with no charges preferred. We get back to that story. But that simple request for help led Gary Webb through everything that we've just uncovered. Thi…
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And the Colombian had a novel idea. Why not get back into the cocaine business? It was hotter than ever. Why? He just sold Blanton's friend in LA a ton of cocaine, literally 2,000 kilos. So if you want to go back, I can get some merchandise…
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in a house that was owned by his buddy, Sergio Herrera, the smooth Mexican millionaire. Herrera had become a well-known figure in San Diego business circles, owning profitable parking lots and car dealerships. Of course. Of course. He was o…
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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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In July 1990, Blanton flew back to Miami to deal with his rental car company and returned to L.A. a few days later. Armand met him at the airport where an expansive Blanton announced that he had just received $40 million for a loan to build…
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and then having it seized off the coast of Hawaii. Armin dropped Blanton off at the Nicaraguan Hilltop Home in San Diego. They had made plans to meet for dinner later that evening. Shortly before 7.30 p.m. on July 21, 1990, Armin arrived at…
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Are they going to put you in jail? Dumb F, but quickly. That was what Blanton said. Are they working for the police? Yes, Blanton said. They are the ones who F'd Herrera. Sardina's suggestion apparently prompted Blanton to do a little check…
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who we read about at the beginning of the story. In Vega's apartment, police found $350,000 in cash, a miraculous amount for a man who claimed to be a warehouse worker. Then the LAPD got a call from the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego a…
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LAPD Sergeant Ron Hodges heard a similar story while working his own case against Blanton in 91. Hodges, a narcotic detective who was also working with the Torres brothers, was attempting to arrange a hand-to-hand sale with Blanton when he …
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Quite unexpectedly, my tipster, which was that lady whose boyfriend had been in jail forever with no charges, allegations that the CIA and the Contras and cocaine had led me to the Metropolitan Correction Center in downtown San Diego, a ble…
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But if lives were in danger, I'd certainly be willing to hear them out. On October 19, 1995, I walked into a room full of DEA agents in National City's regional office in San Diego. Two of the agents I recognized from court and reading thei…
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I told him of Creighton's remarks that there was no proof the Contras was involved in drugs. He laughed. Oh, that's bullshit. Of all people, he knows perfectly well what was going on. He was reading every one of my reports. He was reading t…
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Creighton was going to be his replacement. So they knew Neves was going to be outed by Gary Webb. So he, all of a sudden, after having told Creighton what he knew, resigned. And Creighton is now going to take his job. I never spoke to Creig…
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to alert the government that he might reveal classified information at trial. Therefore, O'Neill wanted a court order prohibiting any defendant from making any reference in the case about the CIA or any alleged activity of the CIA. Fenster …
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Here are some quotes. Ricky was the hardest one for us to decide, the juror said. 29-year-old data entry person from San Diego. None of us liked Blanton. A few jurors were very upset that he was used by law enforcement. Another juror that w…
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At the end of the first week, I returned to San Diego for Ricky Ross's sentencing. That was where I had my first inkling of the firestorm I'd touched off. Radio stations were blanketing the newspaper with interview requests. Before heading …
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beginning in 1982. Tim LaFrance told LA journalist Nick Hsiao that DIA was also involved in Ronald Lister's weapon manufacturing plant in El Salvador. That's the one we talked about yesterday, that the owner of the San Diego plant went down…
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And this is coming from Blanton, who has lied about everything. Years later, however, evidence would surface suggesting Lister's claims of having a big CIA contact were not wild-eyed. In many ways, the relationship between Lister and ex-cop…
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No, that's the point I was making. Exactly. We're in agreement on this. It is voter rolls first, last and always. Without that, none of the cheating is available. I live in a county in San Diego where we, you know, in a good county in Ameri…
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Oswald being in Japan at Atsugi Air Force Base guarding the U-2 spy plane becomes especially relevant in their coverage of Gary Francis Powers, who, as I mentioned earlier, that's the U-2 pilot. He survived the U-2 getting shot down. But in…
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but not in complete control of his mind. Sirhan's death sentence was commuted to life in prison, and he was denied parole 15 times. In a 2018 interview with the Washington Post, RFK said that he traveled to meet Sirhan at the…
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The Air Force transport stood ready at several bases in Japan. The Navy sent out from San Diego the fast transport Horace Bath, a ship equipped with four landing craft and modified to carry 162 commandos. Submarine reconnaissance troops and…
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I did have a good friend back in San Diego who was active duty back when I knew him, and I asked him about the Kurdish situation. He goes, well, are all Americans the same? No, of course not. He goes, well, all Kurds aren't the same. You're…
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SAIC was mostly based out of San Diego. One of their three main headquarters was the floor below me when I worked for UBS down in La Jolla. I knew dozens of these SAIC people. And when they went public, a bunch of them became my clients. I …
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part of the beginning of Operation Gladio. He spends a lot of time in Italy. I did not know until I was reading this guy's article that he actually spent a lot of time in San Diego. Oh, that's interesting. I'll have to dig deeper on that. Y…
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Masonic Lodge in San Diego is after this guy arrives. Well, I guess we're going to have to do the Masons deeper than I thought. But it's true. It's a shadow state. Yeah, again, how many times do I have to say it? What's the best place to hi…
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a project with a very checkered history. The late mob lawyer, Morris Shanker, had started it and then defaulted on his union pension loan. Shanker sold the project to San Diego developer Jack Bona, one of the select group that borrowed more…
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pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine, a misdemeanor, and received a one-year probated sentence. The more serious felony charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and the unlawful use of communication facilities w…
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Only official brush with the law. But federal law enforcement officials knew very well who he was because of his father and his financial mentor. His father was Edward D. Fast Eddie Susila. He was a manager and general partner of La Casa Sp…
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I was hoping Warhamster was in here because he's from San Diego. He could add a lot of color to this. It was controlled by the mob and built with Teamsters pension funds for the financing. Fast Eddie was brought in as a general partner in t…
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because he was the son of Fast Eddie. In 1985, a report on Beebe's banking activities by the Comptroller of the Currency noted, quote, because Beebe owns two residences in Southern California and spends the majority of his time there, specu…
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his real estate investments, unquote. The name of that company is TLC Investments. It stood for Texas, Louisiana, and California, the three states where they were doing the bulk of the real estate deals. In San Diego, Susala was also a gene…
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San Dequinto National Bank to the tour company. That was the name of their travel agency. It was headed by a guy by the name of Stephen Leo, who like Ken Beebe also listed his same, the address of Scott Susala in the business drafting docum…
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that he had known him for years and that he had socialized with him at La Costa Country Club. During the research this author did, he was told by California journalist Mary Fricker that sometime during the late 70s or early 80s, B.B. was ne…
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due to a financial statement that he submitted to the Texas Insurance Department while he was applying for permission to start an insurance company there. This statement said he owned 50% of a house in La Costa. It was dated 1972. San Diego…
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I think I told you that this is a book I read a long time ago, so I was really happy you were doing it. But a couple of funny coincidences in this chapter. I caught the first half. I used to be a member of the La Costa Country Club, and mos…
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And my beach condo is about a quarter mile south of the beach house you're referring to. And again, our family moved there in 1985. Do you have anything you want to tell me, Warhamster? I don't have any juicy details, but when I used to sne…
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So if you're thinking about a beach house on a cliff, it's going to be Carlsbad, Encinitas, or Solana Beach. It's one of those three. Those are the three areas that have beach houses on the cliffs. Yeah. Pretty much San Diego and North Coun…
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Hello, Colonel. Also for Warhamster, I'm very curious about the San Diego history that you brought up. I'm like pretty darn ignorant about that area. And I should be way more knowledgeable about Los Angeles. But I get, as you're saying, tha…
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The little I know about San Diego history is like I was reading this one article published in 1973 in a book with kind of overlapping leftist and fake leftist. Because that kind of that Venn circle is not always a constant, although it woul…
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as Richard Nixon's lucky, quote, lucky city, unquote. And I'm very interested in what Warhampton describes as the Del Mar racetrack shenanigans, which is something you hear about scattered in virtually everything you read about. But I'm sor…
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situation where Nixon changed the 1972 RNC or somebody, let me put it that better, somebody changed the RNC convention location from San Diego to Miami in 1972. And there may, you know, there's probably a number of overlapping reasons for t…
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compatible left, the CIA's compatible left, in order to prevent the working class from ever getting a single ounce of power in my view, but we could disagree on that as to the cause of that, the reason. Colonel, you want me to touch on the …
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is they've got really good-sized lots and they're valuable properties. Obviously, with Hollywood, you get some mafioso types from day one, Cleveland Mafia, et cetera. Post-World War II, especially, San Diego became a military town. We've go…
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A lot of the defense companies grew up in San Diego. San Diego has a lot of defense contractors. That's your connection to the SNLs that we're talking about right there. It's Yankees and Cowboys. San Diego was built by Cowboys. After that, …
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Yeah, and we found in Gary Webb's book that all of the guys that ended up with lots of money running cocaine all had houses down there. That's where the CIA gun runner was at.…
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to Michael Shea and his wife Cheryl of San Diego, California. San Diego's back in. Who flipped it the same day to a company called KLP Inc., whose president was Leilani Jones Pierce of Houston. In 1986, KLP defaulted on its promissory note …
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Rabbit holes that disappeared into offshore bank accounts, trips to Long Island, San Diego, Kansas City, all the mafia headquarters, slippery politicians. Ultimately, the quest led to the Houston's business establishment, which when examine…
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as an infantryman and Marine sniper. He was injured and medevaced to U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego and spent quite a bit of time in the hospital there. In 1969, he joined the Tulsa Police Department. He spent 26 years as a policeman. He …
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rice paper had come down in Butte, Montana. But before technicians could respond to investigate the device, which they believed could have carried plague, another report came in that a large rubberized silt balloon had landed in Washington …
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noted in their sailing orders, the sailors aboard one of the vessels cranked open a valve from a pressure tank. Within seconds, a stream of air contaminated with influenza virus rose into the atmosphere and drifted ashore. When the tanks we…
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Domestic terrorists calling themselves Sons of Gestapo had derailed a passenger train near Hyder, Arizona. According to news reports, sometime around 1 a.m. in the morning, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train en route from Phoenix to S…
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of the Reagan administration and their quote-unquote freedom fighters around the world. The 18th Annual Assembly was held in San Diego in 1984. The counteroffensive for world freedom was the label, that was their slogan for that meeting, th…
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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…