Manuel Noriega
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And in like 1988, I think he was pretty close with Noriega.
He wasn't like the top Air Force guy.
That was this dude, Lorenzo Purcell, who I...
I met, I think, his son or maybe his nephew, something like that.
But I met the people that were still alive that could tell the story.
Trujillo comes over with this big, big black briefcase.
He slams it down on the table, doesn't say hi, opens it up, and pulls out, like, hundreds of these CIA, DEA, and Department of Justice documents.
And he slams them down.
He's like, look.
He's like, mira, mira, like, look.
So I'm looking through them.
I'm like, holy shit, like, this is...
this tells sort of the entire story from 1971 all the way up until like 1987, right?
It fills in all these blanks.
And what it filled in was like, what exactly were the US government, the DA and CIA asking Noriega to do?
Like, what exactly was he doing for the US government?
These documents just, it's the paper trail, just proves exactly what he was doing.
All of the illicit stuff like the narco trafficking and like racketeering and money laundering, like benefiting from that stuff behind closed doors.
Documentation doesn't exist about that.
Right.