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Gary Betzner On Contra Gun & Drug-Running (Full Testimony)
Senate subcommittee on terrorism, narcotics & international operations (April 7th, 1988)
Full Hearing: https://www.c-span.org/video/?2124-1/drug-control-central-america-day-4
"Betzner, 47, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for cocaine trafficking, said he made two flights from the United States to deliver weapons to the Contras and returned each time with cocaine."
https://apnews.com/7be09dcb7a73b89414a572167ac53251
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-08-mn-1147-story.html
"Under cross-examination, Betzner said he was part of the 'Contra affair' in 1983-84 and had flown guns for the CIA to Central America and returned with illegal drugs."
https://oklahoman.com/article/2311995/pilot-says-he-met-abello-on-drug-runs
"Mr. Betzner, who is awaiting trial in a drug-related case, said that there was a Government-sponsored guns-for-drugs program''
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/12/us/drug-suspects-say-us-knew-of-deals.html
"They recounted two flights that Betzner made into Costa Rica and landed near the ranch of John Hull, an American who has acknowledged supporting the contras and who has been alleged to have been a CIA employee."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/04/08/from-shriner-to-smuggler/0f3c3c5a-4df1-4c02-8187-2a5fd12400fc/
"Hull denies that he is a former CIA agent but admits taking CIA money for the use of his airstrip for contra weapons drops."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/04/10/the-contra-drug-stink/04333da5-68de-4c36-aef8-adc670cc9d25/
"Congressional investigators probing the drugs-and-guns scheme say the operation involved agents from Mossad, Israel's spy agency, senior Honduran military intelligence officers, and CIA-connected arms dealers."
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/05/15/Contra-guns-linked-to-drugs/5998579672000/
"Their sworn statements were made only hours before ABC News reported Thursday that the same pilots and aircraft involved in flying loads of drugs into the United States from 1983 to 1986 were used in a covert U.S.-Israeli network supplying arms to the Contras even before the notorious Iran-Contra operation."
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/04/08/Contras-used-cocaine-to-finance-war-testimony-shows/2883576475200/
Category | News & Politics |
Sensitivity | Normal - Content that is suitable for ages 16 and over |
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