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...families relocate to Guadalajara, introduced them to local officials and assigned them bodyguards. In the meantime, the agency, which, among other duties, is charged with keeping tabs on political subversives and works in close contact with the CIA, went after minor traffickers, winnowing down competition to the new Guadalajara cartel. In exchange, the cartel handed over 25% of all its profits...
...cocaine and more than 1 million lbs. of marijuana to the U.S. through Panama. Noriega, head of the Panama Defense Forces and de facto ruler of the country since 1983, is charged with accepting more than $4.6 million in bribes, most of it from the so-called Medellin cartel of powerful narcotics lords, who are based in Colombia's second largest city...
With the entire 16,000-man Panama Defense Forces at his disposal, Noriega showed little fear of the violent Colombian cocaine barons. His former private pilot Floyd Carlton, who showed up in the hearing room wearing a black hood, told the subcommittee that when the Medellin cartel offered Noriega $30,000 to protect drug flights, the general laughed and asked if they thought he was begging. Carlton said Noriega then demanded, and got, $100,000 in advance for the first flight, $150,000 for the second and $200,000 for the third...
Some of last week's most chilling testimony came from Ramon Milian Rodriguez, who described himself as the former chief financier for the drug cartel. The slim, Cuban-born accountant told how he laundered as much as $200 million a month through Panamanian and overseas banks. A fervent anti- Communist, he said he siphoned funds -- TIME has learned the amount was in the millions -- into secret accounts set up for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials have denied knowledge of any such transaction...
...Noriega's role in protecting the money shipments, Rodriguez claimed, the Panamanian general received about $10 million a month from the cartel. "I paid him -- in ball-park figures -- between $320 million and $350 million from 1979 to 1983," Rodriguez testified. In exchange, he maintained, he was given not only the run of Panama's airports and banking system but also the identities of U.S. drug agents and the schedules of U.S. Coast Guard and Navy drug-surveillance vessels. Rodriguez, 36, is now serving 43 years in prison...