Word: noriega
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...Noriega agreed, Blandon said, and the guerrillas were trained at two Panamanian bases...
...morning session, Blandon testified that Noriega's first meeting with North, a former National Security Council aide, occurred in June 1985 on a yacht near the Panamanian city of Balboa. The second meeting was at Noriega's office four months later...
Blandon said North sought Panamanian training bases for the Contras because North told Noriega that U.S. laws banned any direct American support for the guerrillas...
...Noriega later offered to send Panamanian soldiers inside Nicaragua to conduct "terrorist sabotage" against the Sandinistas, Blandon said. North answered that he had no authority to accept such an offer but would relay it to his bosses at the National Security Council...
Blandon didn't indicate if Noriega's plan was ever put into effect...