Manuel Noriega

He's like, I'm not taking this shit.

You know, points at Noriega.

He says, you're going to regret this.

And it's like, and the way Carlos tells it is like, yeah, it was like a threat.

It was like a personal vendetta.

It was like a personal threat.

It had nothing to do with like the nations or, you know, national security or whatever it was, you know.

one guy being pissed off by the ego of another guy.

And don't get me wrong, Noriega pissed a lot of people off, like he was not a good person.

But behind those closed doors, that's what a lot of people say really led to, that's what led to the invasion of Panama, not necessarily the scapegoating of like the Iran-Contra affair or whatever.

But that's why it's so complex, this whole thing.

It's like I feel every time I talk about it or every time I speak to someone who's really knowledgeable about it, it's like opening up a chest and all these bats are flying out and, you know, you're just discovering things that you never thought about or never seen before.

Yeah, it's complex.

It's complex for a reason.

Yeah, they're correspondents.

So they're letters, right?

They're letters typically between the administrators of the DEA in Noriega, some of which are letters from just various CIA agents to Noriega.

But they're all just correspondents that are talking about

like something so for instance a lot of the dea ones will be like we want to thank you mr nori or colonel noriega for stopping x amount of narcotics from passing through the panama canal on x date and then they will literally say like without you like our efforts would like would not be this great and like the narco trade from colombia to the united states would be like a huge risk to to our to the security of our nation like they'll say things exactly like that so

their direct correspondence their letters directly to noriega from an official member of the us government and they're all like they're all positive they have it's basically either gratitude or asking for a favor and it just shows like how important noriega was because there are hundreds of these letters