Word: panamanians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
That is the story that Kalish, 35, a convicted drug dealer, told a congressional subcommittee last week. His testimony was the most damaging public testimony so far linking the Panamanian strongman to drug-smuggling operations. Kalish testified that he gave at least $650,000 to the general and his associates to help with drug deals and money laundering. Noriega had no comment on the charges. Meanwhile, a Miami grand jury is conducting a separate inquiry into drug-trafficking allegations against Noriega...
...indictment details the involvement of Cuban President Fidel Castro, who allegedly mediated a dispute between Noriega and Columbia's Medellin Cartel after Panamanian troops raided a drug laboratory the general protected. But Castro is not charged in the indictment...
Noriega also allegedly arranged for the shipment of cocaine processing chemicals, including those seized by Panamanian police agencies and allowed the cartel to construct a cocaine laboratory in Panama's Darien province...
Noriega laundered millions of dollars of the cartel's narcotics proceeds in Panamanian banks, prosecutors said...