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title: Federico Vaughn
aliases:
- Federico Vaughn
- Freddy Vaughn
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Drug_Trafficker
- Person/Intelligence
- DrugTrafficker
- Intelligence
- CIA
- Nicaragua
- 1980s
- Contra_War
summary: Alleged Sandinista aide shown by President Reagan loading drugs onto an aircraft, who evidence suggests was actually a U.S. double agent working for the CIA.
- ContraWar
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Alleged Sandinista aide shown by President Reagan loading drugs onto an aircraft, who evidence suggests was actually a U.S. double agent working for the CIA."
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Federico Vaughn was identified by President Ronald Reagan on national television as "a top aide to one of the nine commandantes who rule [[Nicaragua]]," shown loading an aircraft with illegal narcotics "bound for the United States." Evidence later emerged suggesting Vaughn was actually a U.S. government double agent.[^1]

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title: Gerrit Ulrich and Robbie Van Der Plancken
aliases:
- Gerrit Ulrich and Robbie Van Der Plancken
- Gerrit-Jan Ulrich
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Belgium Scandals"
tags:
- Event
- Child_Pornography
- Person
- ChildPornography
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Murder
- Cover-up
- Apollo_Network
category: "Belgium Scandals"
summary: "In the mid-1990s, a private investigator named Marcel Vervloesem was investigating the disappearance of Manuel Schadwald for an NGO called the Morkhoven Workgroup when he came across Lothar Glandorf's name in a 1992 police report detailing a raid on..."
date: 1998-06-20
location: Zandvoort, Netherlands
- CoverUp
- ApolloNetwork
summary: "Gerrit-Jan Ulrich was a Dutch computer technician who administered the Apollo Bulletin Board Service child pornography network and was murdered in Italy in June 1998 after passing evidence disks to investigator Marcel Vervloesem; Robbie Van Der Plancken was arrested as a suspect in his murder."
start: 1998-06-20
location: "Zandvoort, Netherlands"
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### The Zandvoort Discovery

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title: Ivan Torres
aliases:
- Ivan Torres
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Organized Crime"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Drug_Trafficker
- Person/Contra
- DrugTrafficker
- Nicaragua
- United_States
- UnitedStates
- 1980s
- Contra_War
summary: Ivan Torres was a Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN West Coast branch chief who managed Danilo Blandon's Los Angeles cocaine operations while claiming CIA awareness of his drug activities.
- ContraWar
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Nicaraguan drug trafficker and FDN West Coast branch chief who managed Danilo Blandon's Los Angeles cocaine operations while claiming CIA awareness of his drug activities."
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Ivan Torres was a [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] drug trafficker and [[FDN]] official who headed the organization's West Coast branch while managing [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s [[Los Angeles]] cocaine operations. He was a brother of [[Torres Brothers|Jacinto and Edgar Torres]].[^1]

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title: John Vandewerker
aliases:
- John Vandewerker
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Intelligence
- United_States
- Intelligence
- UnitedStates
- 1980s
- Contra_War
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
summary: Former CIA officer who employed Richard Wilker and knew of his weapons business activities with Ronald Lister in El Salvador.
- ContraWar
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Former CIA officer who employed Richard Wilker and knew of his weapons business activities with Ronald Lister in El Salvador."
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John Vandewerker was a former CIA officer who once employed [[Richard Wilker]] as a salesman and knew of Wilker and [[Ronald Lister]]'s business activities in [[El Salvador]].[^1]

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title: Lawrence Walsh
aliases:
- Lawrence Walsh
- Lawrence E. Walsh
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Iran_Contra
- IranContra
- Law
- Independent_Counsel
- Reagan
- Bush
- IndependentCounsel
- 1980s
- 1990s
summary: "Lawrence E. Walsh (1912-2014) served as Iran-Contra Independent Counsel from December 1986 to August 1993, producing 14 criminal cases, 11 convictions, and a final report documenting Reagan administration Iran arms sales and Contra funding, before President Bush pardoned six defendants three weeks before Walsh's release of key findings."

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title: Leonard N. Weigner
aliases:
- Leonard N. Weigner
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- CIA
- Military
- The_Finders
- Cold_War
- TheFinders
- ColdWar
summary: "Colonel Leonard N. Weigner was a confirmed CIA military officer identified in an unverified 1990s memo as the officer who directed Marion Pettie to embed within Washington counterculture circles as an intelligence asset, a claim with no corroboration in primary sources."
location: "Washington, D.C."
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title: Richard Wilker
aliases:
- Richard Wilker
- Richard E. Wilker
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Intelligence
- United_States
- El_Salvador
- Intelligence
- UnitedStates
- ElSalvador
- 1980s
- Contra_War
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
summary: Former CIA agent who served as technical director for Pyramid International Security Consultants' weapons operations in El Salvador.
- ContraWar
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Former CIA agent who served as technical director for Pyramid International Security Consultants' weapons operations in El Salvador."
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Richard E. Wilker was a former Laguna Beach resident described by arms manufacturer [[Tim LaFrance]] as an ex-CIA agent who served as the "technical director" on [[Pyramid International Security Consultants]]' security proposal to the Salvadoran government.[^1] Wilker was a key link between [[Ronald Lister]]'s weapons operations and the CIA.

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title: Robert Garder Terrell
aliases:
- Robert Garder Terrell
- Robert Gardner Terrell
- Tobe Terrell
- Genghis K. Plato
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- CIA
- The_Finders
- Washington_DC
- Computer_Operations
- TheFinders
- WashingtonDC
summary: "Robert Gardner Terrell (aliases: 'Tobe Terrell,' 'Genghis K. Plato') was the principal spokesman and financial manager of The Finders, a former IRS appeals officer and certified public accountant who was associated with Future Enterprises, a company that provided computer training to CIA employees."
location: "Washington, D.C."
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title: Scott Weekly
aliases:
- Scott Weekly
- Dr. Death
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Intelligence
- Intelligence
- CIA
- United_States
- UnitedStates
- 1980s
- Contra_War
summary: Former Navy SEAL and weapons expert known as "Dr. Death" who was Ronald Lister's CIA contact and participated in covert operations for the NSC and State Department while connected to the Blandon drug investigation.
- ContraWar
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Former Navy SEAL and weapons expert known as 'Dr. Death' who was Ronald Lister's CIA contact and participated in covert operations for the NSC and State Department while connected to the Blandon drug investigation."
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Scott Weekly, nicknamed "Dr. Death" for his SEAL demolition expertise, was a former Navy SEAL and [[Ronald Lister]]'s identified CIA contact who participated in covert operations for the National Security Council and State Department during the 1980s while simultaneously being connected to the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]] drug investigation.[^1]

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title: Torres Brothers
aliases:
- Torres Brothers
- the Greens
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
category: "Organized Crime"
tags:
- Person
- Person/Drug_Trafficker
- Contra_War
- DrugTrafficker
- ContraWar
- 1980s
- Los_Angeles
summary: The Torres brothers, known as "the Greens," were Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers who worked for Danilo Blandón before becoming independent suppliers to Ricky Ross, eventually rivaling Blandón in volume and sparking a bitter feud.
- LosAngeles
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
summary: "Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers who worked for Danilo Blandón before becoming independent suppliers to Ricky Ross, eventually rivaling Blandón in volume and sparking a bitter feud."
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The Torres brothers, towering [[Nicaragua|Nicaraguan]] men known to [[Ricky Ross]] and his crew as "the Greens", were initially introduced to Ross through [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]. Ross assumed from their size that they were Blandón's bodyguards. They also delivered cocaine and picked up money for Blandón on occasion. One day, as most of Blandón's assistants eventually did, they slipped Ross their phone number in case he ever needed something extra.[^1]