While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Saudi Arabia, “determined to protect the lives of American citizens abroad,” Federal prosecutors from the southern district of the confederate state of florida admit that the Central Intelligence Agency and U.s. Army Intelligence paid military dictator Manuel Noriega, incarcerated in Federal prison, 320,000 “dollars” while he was an ally of the U.s. government.
NOTE: This was to deflect claims from Noriega’s defense attorney that he had been paid over 11,000,000 “dollars.”
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References:
Davis Johnston, “U.S. Admits Payments to Noriega,” New York Times, 19 January 1991, 14.
Larry Rohter, “More Than an Ex-Dictator’s Future at Stake as Trial of Noriega Begins,” New York Times, 5 September 1991, D24.
U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid… January 18 in History
www.brainyhistory.com/events/1991/january_18_/1991_165532.html
EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION AND SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY ON TRIAL
www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/lwsch/journals/bciclr/25_1/05_FTN.htm
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