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CIA activities in Nicaragua were frequent in the late 20th century. The increasing influence gained by the Sandinista National Liberation Front , a left-wing and anti-imperialist political party in Nicaragua, led to a sharp decrease in Nicaragua–United States relations , particularly after the Nicaraguan Revolution .
Eugene Hasenfus was born on January 22, 1941. In 1986, he lived in Marinette, Wisconsin. [2] [3] The U.S. Army described him as having joined the Marine Corps in May 1960 and having spent five years in the Corps before receiving an honorable discharge. [1]
HPF821 was operated by Corporate Air Services, a front for Southern Air Transport, the registered owner of the aircraft. [3] Some of the pilots and crew involved with the Contra supply flights, including Eugene Hasenfus, had been involved in the CIA's aerial supply activities during the Vietnam War, using Air America, Southern Air Transport, and other CIA proprietary airlines.
By 1986 the contras were besieged by charges of corruption, human-rights abuses, and military ineptitude. [104] A much-vaunted early 1986 offensive never materialized, and Contra forces were largely reduced to isolated acts of terrorism. [6] In October 1987, however, the contras staged a successful attack in southern Nicaragua. [105]
On March 16, 1986, the San Francisco Examiner published a report on the "1983 seizure of 430 pounds (200 kg) of cocaine from a Colombian freighter" in San Francisco; it said that a "cocaine ring in the San Francisco Bay area helped finance Nicaragua's Contra rebels." Carlos Cabezas, convicted of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, said that the ...
Malcolm X family suing NYPD, FBI and CIA Last November, Crump filed a lawsuit on the family's behalf accusing the New York City Police Department and the federal government of conspiring to play a ...
Duane Ramsdell "Dewey" Clarridge (April 16, 1932 – April 9, 2016) was an American senior operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supervisor for more than 30 years. Clarridge was the chief of the Latin American division from 1981 to 1987 and a key figure in the Iran-Contra Affair .
Most of a 23-page internal CIA memo documenting that phone call and other details of Oswald’s pre-assassination trip to Mexico City — a visit that has been the subject of endless speculation ...