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summary: Baton Rouge, Louisiana was the base of CIA-DEA contract agent Barry Seal, whose farm served as a cocaine drop site connected to both the Medellín cartel and Contra supply operations.
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[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana was the base of [[Central Intelligence Agency]]-[[DEA]] contract agent [[Barry Seal]], whose farm served as a [[cocaine]] drop site connected to both the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] and Contra supply operations. Seal moved from Baton Rouge to Mena, [[Arkansas]], in 1982, but his Louisiana connections remained central to the drug trafficking network.[^1]
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[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana was the base of [[Central Intelligence Agency]]-[[DEA]] contract agent [[Barry Seal]], whose farm served as a [[Cocaine]] drop site connected to both the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] and Contra supply operations. Seal moved from Baton Rouge to Mena, [[Arkansas]], in 1982, but his Louisiana connections remained central to the drug trafficking network.[^1]
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summary: Bogota was the capital of Colombia and a center of the cocaine trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the United States.
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Bogota was the capital of [[Colombia]] and a center of the [[cocaine]] trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the [[United States]]. [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] studied at the University of Colombia in Bogota, where he was recruited into the drug trafficking world by [[Donald Barrios]] on behalf of [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]].[^1]
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Bogota was the capital of [[Colombia]] and a center of the [[Cocaine]] trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the [[United States]]. [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] studied at the University of Colombia in Bogota, where he was recruited into the drug trafficking world by [[Donald Barrios]] on behalf of [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]].[^1]
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### Blandón's Colombian Base
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summary: Cali, Colombia was the headquarters of the Cali Cartel, a rival to the Medellín Cartel that also played a role in the cocaine trade connected to the Contra supply chain.
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Cali, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]], a rival to the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] that also played a role in the [[cocaine]] trade connected to the Contra supply chain. The city's drug trafficking organizations were part of the broader Colombian narcotics infrastructure that supplied the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] network.[^1]
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Cali, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]], a rival to the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] that also played a role in the [[Cocaine]] trade connected to the Contra supply chain. The city's drug trafficking organizations were part of the broader Colombian narcotics infrastructure that supplied the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] network.[^1]
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summary: Chicago was one of the cities where Julio Zavala distributed cocaine as part of the Contra-connected trafficking network on the West Coast.
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Chicago was one of the cities where [[Julio Zavala]] distributed [[cocaine]] as part of the Contra-connected trafficking network. Zavala had customers in [[Miami]], [[Los Angeles]], Chicago, and [[San Francisco]], demonstrating the coast-to-coast reach of the trafficking operation run by [[Norwin Meneses]] and [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]].[^1]
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Chicago was one of the cities where [[Julio Zavala]] distributed [[Cocaine]] as part of the Contra-connected trafficking network. Zavala had customers in [[Miami]], [[Los Angeles]], Chicago, and [[San Francisco]], demonstrating the coast-to-coast reach of the trafficking operation run by [[Norwin Meneses]] and [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]].[^1]
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Compton, along with [[South Central Los Angeles]], bore the brunt of the crack explosion that resulted from the thousands of kilos of [[cocaine]] dumped into the Los Angeles area by Blandón and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city's predominantly Black neighborhoods became primary markets for the cheap crack cocaine that devastated communities through addiction, violence, and mass incarceration. The Contra-connected drug pipeline's impact on Compton was a direct consequence of the decision to fund the [[Contras]] through cocaine trafficking in American inner cities.[^2]
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Compton, along with [[South Central Los Angeles]], bore the brunt of the crack explosion that resulted from the thousands of kilos of [[Cocaine]] dumped into the Los Angeles area by Blandón and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city's predominantly Black neighborhoods became primary markets for the cheap crack cocaine that devastated communities through addiction, violence, and mass incarceration. The Contra-connected drug pipeline's impact on Compton was a direct consequence of the decision to fund the [[Contras]] through cocaine trafficking in American inner cities.[^2]
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summary: Houston, Texas was a destination for Contra-connected cocaine shipments and was monitored by federal agencies tracking the Blandón-Meneses drug network.
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Houston, [[Texas]] was a destination for Contra-connected [[cocaine]] shipments and was monitored by federal agencies tracking the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] drug network. The city's port facilities and proximity to the Mexican border made it a key node in the southern drug trafficking corridor.[^1]
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Houston, [[Texas]] was a destination for Contra-connected [[Cocaine]] shipments and was monitored by federal agencies tracking the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] drug network. The city's port facilities and proximity to the Mexican border made it a key node in the southern drug trafficking corridor.[^1]
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summary: "Nevada gambling city where the CIA had the prosecution of Robert Maheu's wiretappers dropped, Pat Price died in 1975, and an FBI informant hosted Atomwaffen Division's 2019 leadership meeting."
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location: "Las Vegas, Nevada, United States"
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### The Syndicate
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The Fremont Hotel was financed through a loan from [[Jimmy Hoffa]] and tied to [[Meyer Lansky]], whose lieutenant, the Las Vegas gambler [[Edward Levinson]], joined a 1963 lawsuit against [[Bobby Baker]].[^1] [[Robert Maheu]], who had known [[Johnny Roselli]] through Las Vegas gambling circles, recruited him for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s plots against [[Fidel Castro]] in September 1960. When Maheu's men were arrested for a wiretap in Las Vegas, done as a favor to [[Sam Giancana]], the agency's director of security, [[Sheffield Edwards]], asked that the prosecution be dropped; a CIA memorandum records, "At our request, prosecution was dropped." The case was the occasion for the briefing Edwards and the general counsel, [[Lawrence Houston]], gave Attorney General [[Robert F. Kennedy|Robert Kennedy]] on the operation on May 7, 1962.[^2][^3]
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[[Pat Price]], the retired Burbank police commissioner whom [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Russell Targ]] of [[Stanford Research Institute]] considered their most productive subject, died of a heart attack in Las Vegas on July 14, 1975.[^4] The real estate developer [[Robert Bigelow]], born in Las Vegas in 1944, later held, through [[Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies]], a [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] contract to study anomalous phenomena.[^5]
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### Trials and Plots
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The former Special Forces officer [[Bo Gritz]], indicted in May 1987 for using a false passport in the name of Patrick Richard Clark, told the court at his arraignment in Las Vegas that he had "proper authorization" for his travels, and was acquitted; the contractor [[Patrick Moriarty]] was subpoenaed to testify for him.[^1]
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In about September 2019 [[Joshua Caleb Sutter]], a paid [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] informant, organized the [[2019 AWD Nuclear Congress]] of [[Atomwaffen Division]] in Las Vegas, with FBI-provided funds covering members' travel and lodging; [[James Mason]], author of *[[Siege]]*, made his first documented appearance with the group there.[^6] On August 8, 2019, the FBI's Las Vegas Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested [[Conor Climo]], who had been in contact with the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] since late 2017 and had planned to firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue and attack an LGBTQ bar; he was sentenced to two years in November 2020.[^7] On January 1, 2025, the active-duty soldier [[Matthew Livelsberger]] detonated a Tesla Cybertruck loaded with fireworks and fuel outside the Trump International Hotel on the Strip, in the [[Cybertruck Trump Hotel Bombing]].[^8]
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010.
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[^2]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels," memorandum of Howard J. Osborn, Director of Security, to the Executive Secretary, CIA Management Committee, May 16, 1973, with attachments. Released June 25, 2007.
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[^3]: U.S. Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. *Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: An Interim Report.* S. Rept. 94-465, 1975, pp. 133-134.
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[^4]: As stated on the Pat Price page, which gives no source for the date and place of death.
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[^5]: Lacatski, James T., Colm A. Kelleher, and George Knapp. *Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UFO Program.* RTMA, 2021.
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[^6]: "New Video May Signal Dangerous Change For Neo-Nazi Terror Cell Atomwaffen." *Vice,* September 2019. https://www.vice.com/en/article/new-video-may-signal-dangerous-change-for-neo-nazi-terror-cell-atomwaffen/ ; "FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim." *Vice,* 2021. https://www.vice.com/en/article/fbi-bankrolled-publisher-of-occult-neo-nazi-books-feds-claim/
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[^7]: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nevada. "Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Bomb-Making Components." February 2020. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-possession-bomb-making-components ; "White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case." *Las Vegas Sun,* November 13, 2020. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/11/13/white-supremacist-sentenced-to-2-years-in-bomb-plo/
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[^8]: "Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel," archived at https://archive.is/nxAPd
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The [[cocaine]] that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks originated in the Andean production zone that included Peru, [[Bolivia]], and [[Colombia]]. The early epidemic in Lima served as a warning that went unheeded when cheap cocaine began flooding into American inner cities through networks like the one run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The Peruvian experience with coca paste smoking in Lima demonstrated the destructive potential of smokable cocaine years before crack devastated [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]].[^2]
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The [[Cocaine]] that flowed through Contra-connected trafficking networks originated in the Andean production zone that included Peru, [[Bolivia]], and [[Colombia]]. The early epidemic in Lima served as a warning that went unheeded when cheap cocaine began flooding into American inner cities through networks like the one run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The Peruvian experience with coca paste smoking in Lima demonstrated the destructive potential of smokable cocaine years before crack devastated [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]].[^2]
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summary: Largest city in California and the center of the crack cocaine explosion in South Central Los Angeles, fueled by cocaine supplied by Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected drug ring throughout the 1980s.
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Los Angeles is the largest city in [[California]] and was the epicenter of the [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] cocaine explosion in [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]] during the 1980s, fueled by [[cocaine]] supplied by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s Contra-connected trafficking network.[^1]
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Los Angeles is the largest city in [[California]] and was the epicenter of the [[Crack Cocaine|crack]] cocaine explosion in [[South Central Los Angeles|South Central L.A.]] during the 1980s, fueled by [[Cocaine]] supplied by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]]'s Contra-connected trafficking network.[^1]
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After the [[Sandinistas]] were voted out in 1990, Meneses moved back to his mansion on the outskirts of Managua and began reclaiming $12 million in confiscated holdings. In November 1991, Nicaraguan police raided his drug ring, seizing 725 kilos of [[cocaine]]. Meneses was convicted and sentenced to thirty years, serving his time at Tipitapa Prison outside Managua.[^3]
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After the [[Sandinistas]] were voted out in 1990, Meneses moved back to his mansion on the outskirts of Managua and began reclaiming $12 million in confiscated holdings. In November 1991, Nicaraguan police raided his drug ring, seizing 725 kilos of [[Cocaine]]. Meneses was convicted and sentenced to thirty years, serving his time at Tipitapa Prison outside Managua.[^3]
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summary: Medellín, Colombia was the headquarters of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied cocaine to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by Blandón and Meneses.
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Medellín, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]], which supplied [[cocaine]] to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city gave its name to the most powerful drug trafficking organization of the 1980s.[^1]
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Medellín, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]], which supplied [[Cocaine]] to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city gave its name to the most powerful drug trafficking organization of the 1980s.[^1]
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The FBI's Mexico City office's request to monitor Meneses showed that the U.S. government knew about his drug trafficking well before he began selling [[cocaine]] in [[Los Angeles]] to fund the [[Contras]]. Despite this awareness, Meneses was never prosecuted and continued to operate freely in [[San Francisco]] and Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. The failure to act on the intelligence about Meneses, combined with his known role as a Contra political leader, raised questions about whether his connections to the U.S.-backed war protected him from law enforcement action.[^2]
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The FBI's Mexico City office's request to monitor Meneses showed that the U.S. government knew about his drug trafficking well before he began selling [[Cocaine]] in [[Los Angeles]] to fund the [[Contras]]. Despite this awareness, Meneses was never prosecuted and continued to operate freely in [[San Francisco]] and Los Angeles throughout the 1980s. The failure to act on the intelligence about Meneses, combined with his known role as a Contra political leader, raised questions about whether his connections to the U.S.-backed war protected him from law enforcement action.[^2]
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Miami is a city in southern [[Florida]] that served as a major hub for both [[cocaine]] trafficking and [[Contras|Contra]] political activity during the 1980s.[^1] [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] moved to Miami from [[Los Angeles]] in 1987, investing his drug profits in a string of businesses and reconnecting with Nicaraguan exile networks.[^2]
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Miami is a city in southern [[Florida]] that served as a major hub for both [[Cocaine]] trafficking and [[Contras|Contra]] political activity during the 1980s.[^1] [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] moved to Miami from [[Los Angeles]] in 1987, investing his drug profits in a string of businesses and reconnecting with Nicaraguan exile networks.[^2]
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The [[KGB]] was headquartered at the [[Lubyanka]], a building on Lubyanka Square in central Moscow that also housed the organization's internal prison. The Lubyanka was the administrative center of Soviet intelligence from 1920; the KGB's various predecessor organizations (Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB) were all headquartered at or adjacent to the same building. [[KGB]] operations directed from Moscow included: comprehensive programs to penetrate Western intelligence services (the Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, and others operated as Soviet assets); active measures campaigns to spread disinformation in Western media; and directorate operations that ran agents across Europe, the [[Middle East]], Africa, and the Americas.[^1]
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The KGB was headquartered at the [[Lubyanka]], a building on Lubyanka Square in central Moscow that also housed the organization's internal prison. The Lubyanka was the administrative center of Soviet intelligence from 1920; the KGB's various predecessor organizations (Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB) were all headquartered at or adjacent to the same building. KGB operations directed from Moscow included: comprehensive programs to penetrate Western intelligence services (the Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, and others operated as Soviet assets); active measures campaigns to spread disinformation in Western media; and directorate operations that ran agents across Europe, the [[Middle East]], Africa, and the Americas.[^1]
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Moscow's political evolution under Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms (1985-1991) produced the conditions for the [[Cold War]]'s end. The Soviet coup attempt of August 19-22, 1991, launched against Gorbachev by hardliners, failed when military units refused orders to fire on protesters surrounding the Russian parliament ([[White House]]) building. The [[Soviet Union]] formally dissolved on December 25, 1991; Moscow became the capital of the Russian Federation. The KGB was dissolved and its functions distributed among successor agencies including the FSB (Federal Security Service) and SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service).[^1]
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Moscow's political evolution under Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms (1985-1991) produced the conditions for the Cold War's end. The Soviet coup attempt of August 19-22, 1991, launched against Gorbachev by hardliners, failed when military units refused orders to fire on protesters surrounding the Russian parliament ([[White House]]) building. The Soviet Union formally dissolved on December 25, 1991; Moscow became the capital of the Russian Federation. The KGB was dissolved and its functions distributed among successor agencies including the FSB (Federal Security Service) and SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service).[^1]
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Moscow is indirectly present in this vault's parapsychology subjects. The [[STARGATE PROJECT]]'s most significant early remote viewing test - [[Pat Price]]'s 1974 description of a Soviet military facility at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - was directed at Soviet military infrastructure. The [[Moscow Signal]] (the Soviet microwave irradiation of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 1953 to 1976) generated CIA research into the health and potential psychological effects of microwave radiation that intersected with the agency's broader interest in psychotronic research.[^2]
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New Orleans served as a [[cocaine]] entry point for Contra-connected flights and was where [[Central Intelligence Agency]]-[[DEA]] contract agent [[Barry Seal]] was murdered by Colombian hit men in 1986. The city's port and airfield infrastructure made it a key node in the Southern drug trafficking corridor that connected the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] to the [[Contras|Contra]] supply chain.[^1]
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Pacifica, [[California]] was where [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] settled after arriving in the [[United States]], establishing his first base of operations near [[San Francisco]]. The coastal city south of San Francisco became Blandón's initial home as he built the [[cocaine]] trafficking network that would eventually supply [[Ricky Ross|"Freeway" Ricky Ross]] and fuel the crack epidemic in [[Los Angeles]].[^1]
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San Bernardino was a Southern [[California]] city where the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] [[cocaine]] network distributed drugs, extending the [[Contras|Contra]]-connected trafficking operation beyond [[Los Angeles]]. The city was part of the broader distribution network that moved Contra-connected cocaine throughout the Southland.[^1]
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San Bernardino was a Southern [[California]] city where the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] [[Cocaine]] network distributed drugs, extending the [[Contras|Contra]]-connected trafficking operation beyond [[Los Angeles]]. The city was part of the broader distribution network that moved Contra-connected cocaine throughout the Southland.[^1]
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summary: "Major California city that served as the base of operations for Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network, the site of the Frogman Case, and the location of key DEA and FBI offices investigating Contra drug trafficking."
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San Francisco is a city in northern [[California]] that served as the primary base of operations for [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]'s [[cocaine]] trafficking network on the U.S. West Coast from 1980 to 1984 and the location of key federal investigations into Contra drug dealing.[^1]
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San Francisco is a city in northern [[California]] that served as the primary base of operations for [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]'s [[Cocaine]] trafficking network on the U.S. West Coast from 1980 to 1984 and the location of key federal investigations into Contra drug dealing.[^1]
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San Jose, [[California]] was the home of the [[San Jose Mercury News]], which published the [[Dark Alliance]] series, and a secondary market for Contra-connected [[cocaine]] distribution. The city appeared in the story both as a base for [[Gary Webb]]'s newspaper and as one of the communities affected by the Contra-drug pipeline.[^1]
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San Jose, [[California]] was the home of the [[San Jose Mercury News]], which published the [[Dark Alliance]] series, and a secondary market for Contra-connected [[Cocaine]] distribution. The city appeared in the story both as a base for [[Gary Webb]]'s newspaper and as one of the communities affected by the Contra-drug pipeline.[^1]
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summary: San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, hosted Ilopango Air Base, the central hub for CIA and Oliver North's Contra resupply operations and a key transshipment point for cocaine during the 1980s.
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San Salvador, the capital of [[El Salvador]], hosted [[Ilopango Airbase]], the central hub for [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and [[Oliver North]]'s Contra resupply operations and a key transshipment point for [[cocaine]] during the 1980s. The base's Hangar No. 4 served as the operational center for both weapons shipments to the [[Contras|Contra]] army and return flights carrying narcotics into the [[United States]].[^1]
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San Salvador, the capital of [[El Salvador]], hosted [[Ilopango Airbase]], the central hub for [[Central Intelligence Agency]] and [[Oliver North]]'s Contra resupply operations and a key transshipment point for [[Cocaine]] during the 1980s. The base's Hangar No. 4 served as the operational center for both weapons shipments to the [[Contras|Contra]] army and return flights carrying narcotics into the [[United States]].[^1]
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[[John Kerry]]'s Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations held hearings in 1987 and 1988 into links between the [[Contras]] and [[cocaine]] trafficking. Chief investigator [[Jack Blum]] detailed that narcotics were coming into the United States "not by the pound, not by the bag, but by the ton, by the cargo planeload." The [[State Department]] assured Congress that DEA had found no information indicating Contra members were involved in narcotics trafficking. CIA Inspector General [[Fred Hitz]] testified before Congress in March 1998 that the CIA had failed to cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking.[^4]
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[[John Kerry]]'s Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations held hearings in 1987 and 1988 into links between the [[Contras]] and [[Cocaine]] trafficking. Chief investigator [[Jack Blum]] detailed that narcotics were coming into the United States "not by the pound, not by the bag, but by the ton, by the cargo planeload." The [[State Department]] assured Congress that DEA had found no information indicating Contra members were involved in narcotics trafficking. CIA Inspector General [[Fred Hitz]] testified before Congress in March 1998 that the CIA had failed to cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking.[^4]
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