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category: "Iran-Contra"
title: Julio Bonilla
aliases:
- Julio Bonilla
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Contra
- Nicaragua
- San_Francisco
- SanFrancisco
- 1980s
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
summary: FDN coordinator in San Francisco who connected Contra supporters with the organization's leadership.
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "FDN coordinator in San Francisco who connected Contra supporters with the organization's leadership."
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Julio Bonilla was the local coordinator of the [[FDN]] in San Francisco.[^1] Bonilla connected [[Dennis Ainsworth]] with the Contra support network after meeting him at a seminar at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in February 1984. About three weeks later, Bonilla invited Ainsworth to an informal gathering at a house on Colon Avenue to meet [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] supporters who had helped organize the seminar. This gathering introduced Ainsworth to [[Don Sinicco]] and the group that would become [[USACA]]. According to one published source, [[Norwin Meneses]] helped finance the seminar at the Drake.