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@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Webb wrote that in October 1995 Assistant U.S. Attorney [[David Hall]] warned hi
Webb listed Blandón's network as Chepita, Lister, Corrales, Guerra and the Colombian supplier [[Aparicio Moreno]], whom Webb described as having reported ties to the FDN and the CIA and whom Blandón said Meneses introduced to him in 1985; the Inspector General records Blandón's statement that he and his associates thought a one-ton air delivery of Moreno's cocaine routed through Oklahoma "might be connected to the CIA because someone had placed a small FDN sticker somewhere on the airplane," which he called "just a rumor."[^29][^3] Webb added that Blandón had a partnership with Jairo Meneses in the 764 kilograms seized in Nicaragua in 1991 and owned hotels and casinos there with the Meneses family; the Inspector General's report mentions neither the hotels nor the 425-kilogram figure.[^29][^24]
Webb wrote that Blandón's electronics, procured by Lister, included walkie-talkies, pagers, police scanners, voice scramblers and anti-eavesdropping equipment; that during a 1987 raid on Ross associates Los Angeles County Sheriff's sergeant [[Robert Sobel]] complained that the dealers had "better equipment than we have"; that Blandón proposed to Ross that Ross set up a cocaine buy as an ambush, offering "you keep the dope"; and that Ross also bought police-raid warnings from him.[^9] Webb wrote that Meneses's later aide [[Enrique Miranda]] said Meneses's drug planes flew out of [[Ilopango Airbase]] in El Salvador, the hub [[Oliver North]] used for his Contra air force, where, according to Iran-Contra prosecutor [[Lawrence Walsh]], North's operatives worked "practically unfettered"; the Inspector General found Miranda's account second-hand and uncorroborated.[^26][^30]
Webb wrote that Blandón's electronics, procured by Lister, included walkie-talkies, pagers, police scanners, voice scramblers and anti-eavesdropping equipment; that during a 1987 raid on Ross associates Los Angeles County Sheriff's sergeant [[Robert Sobel]] complained that the dealers had "better equipment than we have"; that Blandón proposed to Ross that Ross set up a cocaine buy as an ambush, offering "you keep the dope"; and that Ross also bought police-raid warnings from him.[^9] Webb wrote that Meneses's later aide [[Enrique Miranda]] said Meneses's drug planes flew out of [[Ilopango Airbase]] in El Salvador, the hub [[Oliver North]] used for his Contra air force, where, according to Iran-Contra prosecutor [[Lawrence Walsh]], North's operatives worked "practically unfettered"; the Inspector General found Miranda's account second-hand and uncorroborated.[^26][^30][^31]
### Footnotes
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[^28]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 25: "Things are moving all around us."
[^29]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Cast of Characters.
[^30]: U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, *The CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine Controversy* (December 1997), Chapter VII (Enrique Miranda-Jaime), https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch07.htm
[^31]: Office of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, Final Report, Vol. I, Part V, The Flow of Funds: The Prosecution of the Private Operatives, Overview. https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/walsh/part_v.htm