Word: panama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blandon, who was fired last month by Noriega as Panama's consul general in New York, also told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee that Vice President George Bush used Noriega to send a warning to Cuban leader Fidel Castro hours before the U.S. invasion of Grenada...
WASHINGTON--Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, provided military training for U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels after he met twice in 1985 with Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, a former top Panamanian intelligence official testified yesterday...
...testimony before the subcommittee yesterday afternoon, a Panamanian pilot, his features hidden by a black hood, said Noriega contracted in 1982 with Colombia's Medellin narcotics cartel to protect cocaine shipments flown into Panama en route to the United States. The cartel is said to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine imported into the United States...
Blandon told the Foreign Relations panel that Noriega met in December, 1985 in Panama with Poindexter, who had just taken over as President Reagan's national security adviser...
...first time he called on Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega, in September 1983, says Steven Kalish, he brought along a briefcase containing $300,000 in cash. When the meeting ended, Kalish left the satchel behind. "Noriega called me back," Kalish says, "and said I forgot my briefcase. I told him it was for him, and he smiled...