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Carlos Amador was a pilot who planned to fly into Ilopango Air Base to pick up cocaine from Hangar No. 4 and transport it to Miami, according to a DEA cable. |
Carlos Amador was a pilot who planned to fly into Ilopango Airbase to pick up Cocaine from Hangar No. 4 and transport it to Miami, according to a March 1986 DEA cable. Amador's planned flight provided direct evidence of the drug trafficking operation at the base where Felix Rodriguez and Oliver North managed the Contras resupply effort.1
The Ilopango Connection
DEA agent Celerino Castillo, based in Guatemala City, received reports that Amador "was intending to fly into Ilopango, pick up cocaine at Hangar No. 4, and take it to Miami." When Castillo's investigation escalated, the Central Intelligence Agency station in El Salvador sent a desperate message to Costa Rica Station advising the DEA not to make inquiries about anyone at Hangar No. 4. Amador's case illustrated how the CIA's Contra supply operation and the cocaine trade used the same facilities and infrastructure.2