An Excerpt of Fabio Ernesto Carrasco's Testimony

By Carrasco, Fabio, Ernesto

Book Id: WPLBN0100002782
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Reproduction Date: 04/06/1990

Title:	An Excerpt of Fabio Ernesto Carrasco's Testimony
Author:	Carrasco, Fabio, Ernesto
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Political Science
Collections:	Authors Community, History
Historic Publication Date:	1990
Publisher:	The United Stated District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Member Page:	History Is A Weapon .org
Citation APA MLA Chicago Ernesto Carrasco, B. F. (1990). An Excerpt of Fabio Ernesto Carrasco's Testimony. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
On October 31, 1996, the Washington Post ran a follow up story to the San Jose Mercury News series titled "CIA, Contras and Drugs: Questions on Links Linger." The story drew on court testimony in 1990 of Fabio Ernesto Carrasco, a pilot for a major Columbian drug smuggler named George Morales. As a witness in a drug trial, Carrasco testified that in 1984 and 1985, he piloted planes loaded with weapons for contras operating in Costa Rica. The weapons were offloaded, and then drugs stored in military bags were put on the planes which flew to the United States. "I participated in two [flights] which involved weapons and cocaine at the same time," he told the court. Carrasco also testified that Morales provided "several million dollars" to Octaviano Cesar and Adolfo "Popo" Chamorro, two rebel leaders working with the head of the contras' southern front, Eden Pastora. The Washington Post reported that Chamorro said he had called his CIA control officer to ask if the contras could accept money and arms from Morales, who was at the time under indictment for cocaine smuggling. "They said [Morales] was fine," Chamorro told the Post.