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category: "Iran-Contra"
tags:
- person
- colombian
- contra-war
summary: Juan Rafael Bustillo was the Salvadoran Air Force commander who provided hangar space at Ilopango Air Base for Felix Rodriguez's Contra resupply operation.
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Juan Rafael Bustillo was the Salvadoran Air Force commander who provided hangar space at Ilopango Air Base for [[Felix Rodriguez]]'s Contra resupply operation. Rodriguez "greased the skids" with Bustillo, using his influence to secure the facilities needed for the covert weapons and [[cocaine]] trafficking operation at the base in [[San Salvador|El Salvador]].[^1]
### Ilopango Operations
Bustillo's cooperation was essential to the Contra resupply operation at Ilopango. By providing military hangar space, he enabled the CIA and [[Oliver North]] to use the Salvadoran military air base as the hub for their covert air force. The arrangement placed a foreign military commander at the center of an operation that moved weapons to the [[Contras]] and narcotics back to the [[United States]], with flights carrying cocaine from Hangar No. 4 to [[Miami]].[^2]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 15.
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 15.