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title: Adolfo Calero
aliases:
- Adolfo Calero
- Adolfo Calero Portocarrero
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
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- Nicaragua
- CIA
- 1980s
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
summary: Longtime CIA agent and former Coca-Cola bottling plant manager in Managua who was selected by the CIA in 1983 to lead the political wing of the FDN and worked closely with Oliver North.
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Longtime CIA agent and former Coca-Cola bottling plant manager in Managua who was selected by the CIA in 1983 to lead the political wing of the FDN and worked closely with Oliver North."
born: 1931-12-22
died: 2012-06-02
location: "Managua, Nicaragua"

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title: Albert Hakim
aliases:
- Albert Hakim
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Iran_Contra
- IranContra
- CIA
- Iran
- Arms_Dealer
- ArmsDealer
- 1980s
summary: "Albert Hakim (1930s-2003) was an Iranian-American businessman who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Richard Secord, managing its finances and negotiating with Iranian officials before pleading guilty in 1989 to supplementing Oliver North's salary and cooperating with Independent Counsel Walsh."
summary: "Iranian-American businessman who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Richard Secord, managing its finances and negotiating with Iranian officials before pleading guilty in 1989 to supplementing Oliver North's salary."
born: 1930-01-01
died: 2003-01-01
location: "San Jose, California"

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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Celerino Castillo.md
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title: Celerino Castillo
aliases:
- Celerino Castillo
- Celerino Castillo III
- Cele
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Law_Enforcement
- LawEnforcement
- DEA
- El_Salvador
- ElSalvador
- 1980s
- Contra_War
summary: Celerino Castillo III was a DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department.
born: 1949
- ContraWar
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "DEA agent who discovered Contra drug trafficking operations at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador and had his investigation repeatedly shut down by the CIA and State Department."
born: 1949-01-01
location: "Edinburg, Texas"
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[[DEA]] agent Celerino Castillo III was assigned to the DEA's regional office in [[Guatemala City]] in October 1985, covering both [[Guatemala]] and [[El Salvador]]. Two days into his new job, agent-in-charge Robert Stia warned him that the U.S. government was running a covert operation at [[Ilopango Airbase|Ilopango Air Force Base]] and Castillo should not interfere with it. At the time, El Salvador produced no drugs and had no major drug rings; the DEA had never opened an office in the country.[^1]

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title: Danilo Blandon
aliases:
- Danilo Blandon
- Danilo Blandón Reyes
- Oscar Danilo Blandón
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Organized Crime"
tags:
- Person
- Drug_Trafficker
- DrugTrafficker
- Nicaragua
- Contra
- 1980s
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
summary: Danilo Blandón Reyes was a Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who operated a multimillion-dollar distribution ring in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1991, serving as the primary supplier to Freeway Ricky Ross while maintaining connections to the Contra movement and receiving U.S. political asylum despite known drug involvement.
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Nicaraguan cocaine trafficker who operated a multimillion-dollar distribution ring in Los Angeles from 1981 to 1991, serving as the primary supplier to Freeway Ricky Ross while maintaining connections to the Contra movement."
born: 1951-07-29
location: "Managua, Nicaragua"
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title: Dewey Clarridge
aliases:
- Dewey Clarridge
- Duane Clarridge
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- CIA
- United_States
- UnitedStates
- Contra
- 1980s
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
summary: Chief of the CIA Latin American Division from 1981 to 1984 who oversaw the creation of the Contra project, recruited Contra leaders including Eden Pastora, and was later indicted for perjury during the Iran-Contra investigation.
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Chief of the CIA Latin American Division from 1981 to 1984 who oversaw the creation of the Contra project, recruited Contra leaders including Eden Pastora, and was later indicted for perjury during the Iran-Contra investigation."
born: 1932-04-16
died: 2016-04-09
location: "Nashua, New Hampshire"

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title: Enrique Bermudez
aliases:
- Enrique Bermudez
- Enrique Bermúdez
- Commandante 380
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Military"
tags:
- Person
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- Military
- Nicaragua
- 1980s
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
summary: Supreme military commander of the FDN and former Somoza military attache in Washington who was hired by the CIA in 1980 to reassemble the National Guard into a Contra fighting force, and was murdered in Managua in 1991.
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Supreme military commander of the FDN and former Somoza military attaché in Washington who was hired by the CIA in 1980 to reassemble the National Guard into a Contra fighting force, and was murdered in Managua in 1991."
born: 1932-12-11
died: 1991-02-16
location: "León, Nicaragua"

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title: Gary Betzner
aliases:
- Gary Betzner
- Gary Wayne Betzner
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Organized Crime"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Drug_Trafficker
- DrugTrafficker
- Pilot
- 1980s
- Contra_War
- Congressional_Testimony
summary: Gary Wayne "Hippie" Betzner was a copilot who flew CIA-protected drug and weapons flights for the Contras and testified under oath as a Justice Department witness.
- ContraWar
- CongressionalTestimony
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Copilot who flew CIA-protected drug and weapons flights for the Contras and testified under oath as a Justice Department witness."
location: "Akron, Ohio"
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Gary Wayne "Hippie" Betzner was a copilot who flew weapons and drug missions for Colombian trafficker [[George Morales]] in support of the [[Contras]]. Betzner, who had pleaded guilty to federal drug charges, testified during a federal trial in Oklahoma as a witness for the Justice Department - not as a defendant.[^1]

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title: Tom Clines
aliases:
- Tom Clines
- Thomas G. Clines
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- CIA
- Iran_Contra
- Ted_Shackley
- IranContra
- Laos
- Vietnam
- 1970s
- 1980s
summary: "Thomas G. Clines was a CIA career officer who served under Ted Shackley at JMWAVE, Laos, and the Western Hemisphere Division, joined the private Safari Club and Iran-Contra Enterprise network after Shackley's 1979 departure, and was convicted in 1993 of underreporting Iran-Contra income."
summary: "CIA career officer who served under Ted Shackley at JMWAVE, Laos, and the Western Hemisphere Division, joined the private Safari Club and Iran-Contra Enterprise network after Shackley's 1979 departure, and was convicted in 1993 of underreporting Iran-Contra income."
location: "United States"
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