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title: Ramon Milian Rodriguez
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aliases:
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- Ramon Milian Rodriguez
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- Ramón Milián Rodríguez
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- Ramon Milian-Rodriguez
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- Ramón Milián-Rodríguez
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- Ramon Milian
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- Milian Rodriguez
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- Milian-Rodriguez
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created: 2026-05-13
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updated: 2026-10-15
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category: "Organized Crime"
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tags:
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- Person
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- DrugTrafficker
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- MoneyLaundering
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- MedellinCartel
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- Colombia
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- CostaRica
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- Panama
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- ContraWar
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- CongressionalTestimony
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- CIA
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- 1980s
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relations:
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- type: participant_in
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with: "[[Medellin Cartel]]"
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start: 1979
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role: "money launderer and accountant for the cartel by his own testimony; said he set up a cash management system for Pablo Escobar in 1979"
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fn: 1
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- type: founded
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with: "[[Frigorificos de Puntarenas]]"
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role: "created as a laundering front, according to the Kerry report citing grand jury testimony and Milian's own testimony"
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fn: 13
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- type: founded
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with: "[[Ocean Hunter]]"
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role: "American seafood importer created for Luis Rodriguez of Miami, according to the Kerry report"
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fn: 13
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- type: funded
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with: "[[Contras]]"
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start: 1984-12
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end: 1986-01
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role: "by his own account gave the Contras between $9 million and $10 million from his contact with Felix Rodriguez until his sentencing in January 1986"
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fn: 7
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- type: participant_in
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with: "[[Kerry Committee]]"
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start: 1987-06-25
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end: 1988-02-11
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role: "witness in a closed session on June 25, 1987 and in public hearings in February 1988"
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fn: 11
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- type: prosecuted
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with: "[[United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida]]"
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reverse: true
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start: 1983-05
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end: 1986-01
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role: "tried on a sixty-two count indictment; convicted on 60 counts; sentenced in January 1986"
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fn: 8
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- type: subject_of
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with: "[[Operation Greenback]]"
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start: 1982-11
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end: 1983-05
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role: "federal task force whose investigation led to the May 4, 1983 stop of his aircraft and arrest"
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fn: 8
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- type: participant_in
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with: "[[Central Intelligence Agency]]"
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start: 1979-12
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role: "courier for the agency by his own account; the CIA said it would neither confirm nor deny his statements"
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fn: 7
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- type: participant_in
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with: "[[Manuel Noriega]]"
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start: 1980
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end: 1983
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role: "by his own account negotiated cartel laundering fees of one to ten percent with Noriega and delivered money to him"
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fn: 5
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- type: employed_by
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with: "[[Manuel Artime]]"
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start: 1973
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end: 1976
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role: "accountant and handler of covert funds for Artime, by his own testimony, until Artime's death in 1976"
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fn: 2
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- type: participant_in
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with: "[[Felix Rodriguez]]"
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start: 1985-01
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end: 1988-07-14
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role: "met Felix Rodriguez once at the office of Raoul Diaz; Milian testified in closed session that he offered drug money to the Contras, a claim Rodriguez denied under oath"
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fn: 15
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summary: "Cuban-American accountant who laundered Medellin cartel cash through Miami and Panama, was sentenced in January 1986, and told Senate investigators in 1987 and 1988 that cartel and CIA money reached the Contras."
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---
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Ramon Milian Rodriguez was a Cuban-American accountant in Miami who laundered money for the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín cartel]]. Federal agents stopped his aircraft at [[Fort Lauderdale]] on May 4, 1983, and he was convicted on federal racketeering and money-laundering charges and sentenced in January 1986. He later told a [[Kerry Committee|Senate subcommittee]] chaired by [[John Kerry]] that he had built an interlocking chain of companies to move cartel cash, including [[Frigorificos de Puntarenas]], and that he had carried money for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and for the [[Contras]].[^1]
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### Early career
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Milian testified on February 11, 1988 that he was born in Havana, came to the United States on January 17, 1959, and graduated from the University of Santa Clara in California in 1973 with a bachelor of science in commerce. He moved to Miami immediately afterward, worked for a Miami accounting firm until 1977 or 1978, and became a certified public accountant in Florida in 1976 or 1977. His father's businesses in Cuba, he said, included a bank, meat packing and construction.[^2]
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His first major client, he testified, was [[Manuel Artime]], the political officer of the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion|Bay of Pigs]] force, who arranged for teachers (whom he declined to name) to train him in banking secrecy law and vehicles of incorporation, the "covert handling of money." The first project, he said, was delivering cash to the families of the Cuban [[Watergate]] burglars in Miami, together with deliveries to accounts in Nicaragua whose beneficiaries he did not know. He became accountant for all of Artime's companies and then for Cuban exile fishermen, who after the Bahamian government closed its fishing grounds turned to marijuana smuggling. He testified that Artime kept his ties to the intelligence community until Artime became too ill to work, about 1975 to 1976, and that many of Artime's people, among them veterans of Brigade 2506, then drifted into smuggling.[^2]
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### Accounting for the cartel
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Milian told the subcommittee that he drew business from members of the [[Cuba|Cuban]] exile community who had turned from shellfishing to drug trafficking during the 1970s. Beginning on a modest scale, he took responsibility for counting, packaging and shipping their currency to [[Panama]], where it was deposited in accounts held by Panamanian corporations formed for a single deposit. The funds were then moved through teller's receipts to a second bank and into dummy Panamanian corporations, and from there to an investment company in the Netherlands Antilles that bought luxury real estate, stocks and bonds.[^1]
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He testified that in 1979 he established a cash management system for [[Pablo Escobar]]. Currency from wholesale cocaine sales was delivered to cartel operatives in American cities, counted and banded in safehouses, and shipped to consolidation points for Panama. Cartel-owned freight forwarders packed it in cardboard boxes, which Milian later provided to the subcommittee, designed to exact dimensions and bearing the logo of the forwarder.[^1] The report also says Escobar later asked Milian to explore starting drug operations in Nicaragua, documenting them and using the information to bargain for amnesty, and that a Miami attorney who met the cartel's lawyers in 1985 corroborated Milian's account of that request.[^3]
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Milian said the airline station managers handling the Panama flights were in the employ of [[Manuel Noriega]]. The report says Noriega also held an ownership interest in the armored car business that met the planes at the Panama airport.[^1] Carlton, a former pilot for Noriega, told the subcommittee on February 10, 1988 that Milian carried money to Panama in private airplanes and landed at the military part of the airport.[^4] Milian told the subcommittee that he negotiated an agreement for the cartel with Noriega, with fees of one to ten percent depending on the amount laundered.[^5] In the February 11, 1988 hearing he dated his meeting with Noriega (then a colonel) to the second half of 1979 and said it took place at the office of a Panamanian university classmate, Henry Ford, whose uncle had been Panama's foreign minister. He said Escobar and his lieutenants had by then asked him to handle $50 million to $100 million a month, that he incorporated a company called Cambias Monetarios Internacional for the purpose, and that he demanded army protection for the cash, immediate credit on cash deposits and access to Panamanian diplomatic passports, pouches and information. He said the cartel's requests for the identities of American agents and for radio and patrol schedules were forwarded to Noriega, that he paid Noriega about $10 million a month by the end, and that the operation by then moved about $200 million a month.[^6] The [[Christian Science Monitor]] reported in 1987 that Milian claimed to have laundered almost $2 billion for the cartel.[^7]
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### Arrest and conviction
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On the morning of May 4, 1983, federal agents saw Milian's Lear jet loaded in the same way as on two earlier flights to Panama that April. The flight plan showed a nonstop trip to Panama, and no currency report had been filed for it. Agents stopped the plane on the runway at the Fort Lauderdale airport, removed the passengers and crew, and searched the cabin, where they found about twenty boxes of currency.[^8] The Eleventh Circuit put the total at almost $5.5 million; the Kerry report gives $5.4 million.[^1][^8] An attaché case in the cabin held records of about $146 million carried to Panama between August 1982 and April 1983.[^8]
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The court wrote that Milian, in an office at the airport, described himself as "the biggest money launderer in the country" and was apparently seeking to become a government informant.[^8] Agents later opened a locked closet in his Miami office and found about sixty-two pounds of cocaine, along with firearms, which the district court suppressed.[^8]
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The government brought a sixty-two count indictment. The jury convicted him on counts 1 through 60, which included racketeering, transportation of drug proceeds and failure to file currency reports, acquitted him on the counterfeit currency count, and could not agree on the cocaine count. The trial judge later decided that count on the existing trial record and convicted him on it.[^8] A 1985 panel of the Eleventh Circuit reversed the suppression of the closet and home evidence, and on September 28, 1987 the court affirmed the convictions.[^8]
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The sentence is given differently in two records. The Kerry report says Milian was "sentenced to 43 years in federal prison."[^1] His 1988 petition to the Supreme Court says the court imposed a cumulative jail term of 35 years and a cumulative fine of $6,495,000.[^9] Milian himself gave the term as 43 years at the February and April 1988 hearings, with parole eligibility in 1995.[^6][^10] The Monitor placed his sentencing in January 1986.[^7] Certiorari was denied in 1988.[^9] In February 1988 he told the subcommittee that he was held at the Federal Correctional Institution at Butner, North Carolina.[^11]
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### The CIA claims
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In a 1988 Frontline interview, Milian described Manuel Artime as a man who ran a very large covert operation out of Miami for the CIA. The program's narration said Artime recruited and arranged CIA training for Milian in 1972.[^12] Asked about the group, Milian said, "I made payments for the Watergate burglars, yes," and that after Watergate the group Artime ran in Miami was disbanded.[^12]
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The Monitor reported in 1987 that Milian said his courier work for the CIA began late in 1979, and that between 1980 and 1983 he gave or had sent to Noriega $20 million to $30 million in CIA funds. He also claimed to have distributed roughly $50 million of CIA money to political figures in Central and South America. A CIA spokeswoman told the Monitor that the agency would neither confirm nor deny the statement.[^7]
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In February 1988 Milian testified that "Narcotics proceeds were used to shore up the Contra effort," and that he had personally played a role in transferring the money.[^11] He said he had a liaison with whoever was running the resupply. Kerry said the names would be left out for the time being and taken up in a few weeks.[^11]
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Kerry then placed before him a page from his seized accounting records, which the prosecution had introduced at his trial as Government Exhibit 12 and which the subcommittee made Exhibit 14. One column was headed "CIA," and Milian testified that it recorded one shipment of "$3 million and change" received in the middle of a month, which he distributed under instructions that came with it. He said that no one had asked him at trial what the notation meant and that his lawyers had tried to keep the page out of evidence.[^11]
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### Frigorificos de Puntarenas and Ocean Hunter
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The Kerry report describes Frigorificos de Puntarenas, a Costa Rican seafood company based in [[Puntarenas]], as a company "created as a cover for the laundering of drug money," according to grand jury testimony by one of its partners and to Milian's testimony.[^13] The report says the company was owned and operated by Luis Rodriguez of Miami, with the convicted traffickers Carlos Soto and Ubaldo Fernandez.[^13] [[Ocean Hunter]], a Miami seafood importer that bought from Frigorificos, was created for Luis Rodriguez by Milian, according to the report.[^13]
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The report says the State Department's humanitarian assistance office deposited funds into a Frigorificos account in 1986, and that $261,937 was received. Luis Rodriguez signed most of the transfer orders.[^13] At the February 1988 hearing the figure put to Milian was $230,000.[^11] Milian described Frigorificos as "a shrimp processing warehouse" and "one of the fronts that we used," said he was "the key person setting up the interlocking chain of companies around" it, and said Ocean Hunter was an agent for Frigorificos that "was supposed to import shrimp into the United States." Asked whether arrangements had been made for the Contras to receive money through Frigorificos, Milian answered "Yes, sir," and said, "I, through my intermediaries, made it possible."[^11] Asked whether money he had supplied to Frigorificos was traceable to drugs, he answered "No, sir," and gave the reason: "Because we were experts at what we do."[^11]
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The report adds that Milian told federal authorities about Luis Rodriguez's narcotics trafficking before his own arrest in May 1983, that Luis Rodriguez took the Fifth Amendment on every question when IRS agents interviewed him in March and April 1984,.[^13] The report dates his indictment on tax evasion charges, in connection with laundering through Ocean Hunter, to April 5, 1988.[^13] Dick Gregorie, the Miami federal prosecutor, told the subcommittee on July 12, 1988 that Milian had told him in May 1983 of a client named Luis Rodriguez, and that the later Ocean Hunter indictment followed from records seized from Milian.[^14]
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The report says Miami police told the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] in September 1984 that Ocean Hunter was funding Contra activities through "narcotics transactions," information that it says confirmed earlier accounts reaching the FBI of Ocean Hunter and its officers in Contra supply operations involving the Cuban American community. Kerry advised the [[Department of Justice]], the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]], the State Department and the CIA of allegations about Luis Rodriguez's companies in May 1986.[^13] The report dates the federal drug indictment of Luis Rodriguez to September 30, 1987.[^13]
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### The June 25, 1987 testimony
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The Kerry report sets out Milian's testimony in closed session on June 25, 1987. He said that at a meeting arranged by [[Raoul Diaz]], a Miami private detective, he offered drug money to [[Felix Rodriguez]] for the Contras, that Rodriguez accepted, and that $10 million was provided through a system of secret couriers. He also testified that he offered to help entrap the [[Sandinistas]] in a drug sting, in return for the dropping of charges against him.[^15] Rodriguez strenuously denied this version. He said that he reported Milian's offer to the FBI and the CIA, and that no action was taken.[^15] Diaz refused a subpoena to discuss the meeting, and the report sets the two accounts side by side.[^15]
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Felix Rodriguez gave his own account in public on July 14, 1988, after a closed session on August 6, 1987. He said that Diaz, whom he described as a former lieutenant in the Miami sheriff's department, asked him to meet a man who could compromise the Nicaraguan government and who had a tape of a call from an aide to [[Daniel Ortega]]; that they met once, at Diaz's office, for about an hour, on January 18, 1985; and that Milian said he controlled $300 million to $375 million of drug assets in Florida, had given Noriega about $600 million, and would provide money to the Contras if he struck a deal with the government. He said he passed the information to an FBI agent in Miami and, on January 23, to a CIA official at Langley, and that Milian's remark about the Contras was made in passing. In later questioning by Kerry he gave the dates as February 18 (the meeting), February 20 (the FBI) and February 23 (the CIA), and said he met Vice President [[George H. W. Bush]] on February 22. He called Milian a liar and said he had sworn a June 7, 1988 affidavit denying that he had ever been involved with drug money for the Contras or for himself.[^16] At the [[Iran-Contra Affair|Iran-Contra]] hearings on May 28, 1987, Rodriguez told Senator [[Daniel Inouye]] that he had heard of drug transport out of Central America but had no direct knowledge of it or participation in it.[^17] In February 1988 the Panamanian witness [[Jose Blandon|José Blandón]] told the subcommittee that "Felix Rodriguez is a very close friend of Milian Rodriguez," and said that he had information on El Salvador from friends there.[^18]
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The Monitor reported the same closed testimony in July 1987, attributing the account to Senate sources. Its version has Rodriguez contacting Milian in December 1984 and asking whether Milian and his cartel sponsors would contribute to the Contras. Rodriguez, according to the same sources, admitted the meeting but said it took place at Milian's initiative after Milian's drug indictment.[^7]
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A 1998 CIA Inspector General report on Contra cocaine allegations records that Rodriguez, who it says retired from the agency in 1976, stated that he has no knowledge of any alleged Contra drug trafficking activities being conducted from Ilopango or elsewhere.[^19]
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### Credibility
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Kerry told Milian on February 11, 1988 that the subcommittee staff had checked a great number of his statements, that other witnesses had corroborated him, and that the names of corporations he gave privately had checked out.[^6] At the opening of the April 6, 1988 hearing Kerry said Milian had testified in open session and in closed sessions on June 26 and 27, 1987. At that hearing Milian said he had no deal and was in isolation because of his testimony, and Kerry said Milian was willing to take a lie detector test and that no law enforcement office had spoken to him since the Florida prosecutors a couple of years earlier.[^10] On July 12, 1988 Gregorie testified that he would not put Milian on the stand as an ethical prosecutor, that Milian was telling "about 35 to 40 percent of the truth," and that some of what he now said was physically impossible; Kerry answered that the subcommittee had corroborated the Noriega and money laundering portions through four or five sources and had withheld portions it could not corroborate.[^14] On July 14 Senator [[Mitch McConnell]] read into the record a June 8, 1988 affidavit of the trial prosecutor, Stephen Schlessinger, stating that searches of Milian's offices, residence, car and a warehouse found no records of laundering on the scale he described and no communications with cartel members, Noriega or persons involved in Contra funding, and that the office did not regard him as a credible witness.[^16]
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### Later accounts of the $10 million claim
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In a 2004 article, Bob Norman wrote that Milian failed a lie detector test on the subject in 1988 and that Kerry retracted the allegation. Norman wrote that Milian met Rodriguez in 1985 while out on bail on federal drug charges in Miami, told the committee that Rodriguez solicited the cash from the cartel in return for good will from U.S. authorities, and was adamant that Rodriguez kept none of it. Norman also wrote that in 1991 [[Carlos Lehder]], testifying for the government against Manuel Noriega in Miami, admitted that the cartel had given the Contras $10 million.[^20]
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At Noriega's trial in November 1991, Lehder testified on cross-examination by Noriega's lawyer, Frank Rubino, that two American officials had offered in the early 1980s to buy his Bahamian island, [[Norman's Cay]], for about $5 million as a Contra arms-shipment base. He said he broke off contact with the two men because he suspected a sting.[^21] The same testimony covered Lehder's account of a money-laundering pipeline through [[Mike Harari]].[^21]
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[[Gary Webb]] wrote in 1998 that Milian testified that he used Frigorificos to launder a $10 million donation from the cartel to the Contras, arranged by and paid to Felix Rodriguez, that Kerry's committee did not believe the claim, especially after Milian failed a lie detector test on the question, and that Lehder testified that the cartel had given the Contras $10 million and that Lehder said he had arranged the donation himself.[^22] Webb noted that [[Adolfo Calero]] denied the Contras received such a sum, and that Calero had denied for many years that the Contras received CIA money or assistance from [[Oliver North]].[^22]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy*, S. Prt. 100-165 (1988; Letter of Transmittal dated April 13, 1989), pp. 117-119 (accountant, cash system, arrest, sentence). https://archive.org/details/Kerry-Report-Drugs-Contras
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[^2]: Hearing of February 11, 1988, S. Hrg. 100-773, Pt. 2, pp. 220-225 (testimony of Ramon Milian Rodriguez on birth, education, Artime, Watergate payments and the fishermen). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41152832_0004
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[^3]: Kerry report, S. Prt. 100-165, Cuba and Nicaragua section, citing closed session testimony of June 25, 1987, p. 67, citing transcript pp. 53-55 (Escobar's request that Milian explore drug operations in Nicaragua).
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[^4]: *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy: Panama*, hearing of February 10, 1988, S. Hrg. 100-773, Pt. 2, p. 218 (testimony of Carlton, Noriega's former pilot; Milian's landings at the military airport). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41152832_0004
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[^5]: Kerry report, S. Prt. 100-165, Panama chapter, pp. 80-82 (the fee range of one to ten percent appears at p. 81), citing Milian's testimony.
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[^6]: Hearing of February 11, 1988, S. Hrg. 100-773, Pt. 2, pp. 226-245 (Panama meetings, fees, payments to Noriega, $200 million a month; Kerry on corroboration at p. 244). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41152832_0004
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[^7]: Dennis Volman, "Money courier tells of services for CIA," *Christian Science Monitor*, July 16, 1987. https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/0716/adrugs.html
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[^8]: *United States v. Milian-Rodriguez*, 828 F.2d 679 (11th Cir. Sept. 28, 1987), No. 86-5036, on the appeal from the suppression rulings reported in 759 F.2d 1558 (11th Cir. 1985). Opinion text: https://static.case.law/f2d/828/cases/0679-01.json
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[^9]: Petition for writ of certiorari, *Milian-Rodriguez v. United States*, No. 87-1364 (October Term 1987), statement of the case on sentence; certiorari denied, 486 U.S. 1054 (1988). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA40385019_1357
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[^10]: *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy*, hearing of April 6, 1988, S. Hrg. 100-773, Pt. 3, pp. 165-178 (testimony of Ramon Milian Rodriguez; Kerry on the lie detector offer at p. 178). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41152832_0005
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[^11]: *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy: Panama*, hearing of February 11, 1988, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, S. Hrg. 100-773, Pt. 2, pp. 219-265 (testimony of Ramon Milian Rodriguez; Frigorificos questions at pp. 261-262). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41152832_0004
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[^12]: *Frontline*, "Guns, Drugs and the CIA," PBS, broadcast May 17, 1988, transcript. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html
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[^13]: Kerry report, S. Prt. 100-165, pp. 45-47 (Frigorificos de Puntarenas; Ocean Hunter; Luis Rodriguez; State Department funds; Kerry letters of May 1986).
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[^14]: *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy: The Cartel, Haiti and Central America*, hearing of July 12, 1988, S. Hrg. 100-773, Pt. 4, pp. 169-172 (testimony of Dick Gregorie). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41152832_0009
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[^15]: Kerry report, S. Prt. 100-165, pp. 61-62, "Ramon Milian Rodriguez and Felix Rodriguez" (closed session of June 25, 1987; Diaz subpoena).
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[^16]: S. Hrg. 100-773, Pt. 4, hearing of July 14, 1988, pp. 322-326 and 361-365 (testimony of Felix Rodriguez; Senator McConnell reading the Schlessinger affidavit of June 8, 1988). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41152832_0009
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[^17]: *Iran-Contra Investigation: Joint Hearings*, S. Hrg. 100-3, testimony of Felix I. Rodriguez, May 27-28, 1987, pp. 362-363 (questions by Chairman Inouye). https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41152840_0196
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[^18]: *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy: Panama*, hearing of February 9, 1988, S. Hrg. 100-773, Pt. 2, p. 136 (testimony of José Blandón).
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[^19]: CIA Office of Inspector General, report on allegations of connections between the CIA and Contra cocaine trafficking (1998), section on pilots and companies working for the Contra program, as reproduced by the Federation of American Scientists. https://irp.fas.org/cia/product/cocaine2/pilots.html
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[^20]: Bob Norman, "Contra Campaign," *Miami New Times*, September 22, 2004. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/contra-campaign-6343374/
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[^21]: Peter Eisner, Newsday, "Bombshell Dropped At Noriega Trial," November 22, 1991, as printed in *The Seattle Times*. https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19911122/1318805/
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[^22]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion* (Seven Stories Press, 1998), ch. 12.
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