Mike Durant

I mean, he was actually an MI.

When I was there as a lowly NCO in the 470th Military Intelligence Group, Noriega came and had a meeting at our facility when he was a colonel in the MI in the Panamanian Defense Force.

So I had seen him.

I mean, he kind of looked the same.

I mean, he was a little short dude, you know, pineapple face with –

this same stature he had when he somehow took over.

But Torrijos died when I was actually in Panama, and that's actually the only highest priority message we could send as an intel unit that went out during my time there when Torrijos was killed.

I don't know if there was speculation that Noriega had anything to do with Torrijos' death.

It wouldn't surprise me, because, I mean, he aspired to take over.

And then he was running drugs.

I mean, we found boxes of shit marked drilling equipment.

That was weapons.

I mean, he had bundles and bundles of cash with little address labels on there.

Manuel Noriega personally sent to him.

Wow.

He had, I mean, he's a heavy drinker.

He was into drug trafficking.

I didn't read this in this latest book I read, but I was told in one of his offices, he had pictures on the wall of his adversaries and red Xs through the ones that were dead.

I mean, that kind of guy.

Bad dude.