Carlos Icaza
Nicaraguan attorney and son-in-law of General Edmundo Meneses who served as Adolfo Calero's personal lawyer and was publicly accused by the Sandinistas of being a CIA agent involved in a foiled plot to poison Nicaragua's foreign minister.
Carlos Icaza was a Nicaraguan attorney and son-in-law of General Edmundo Meneses who served as the personal attorney of Adolfo Calero and was publicly accused by the Sandinistas of being a Central Intelligence Agency agent. Before the 1979 revolution, Calero had been a CIA agent himself, and Icaza was deeply embedded in the pre-revolution Nicaraguan power structure.1
The Thallium Poisoning Plot
In 1983, the Sandinistas publicly accused Icaza of being a CIA agent and issued a warrant for his arrest. He was charged with being a central conspirator in a foiled CIA plot to poison Nicaragua's foreign minister with a bottle of thallium-laced Benedictine liqueur. Icaza fled Nicaragua.1
Role with the FDN
After fleeing, Icaza went to work for the FDN in Honduras, as did his wife. He later became an attorney for Norwin Meneses, arranging the sale of a Salvador Dali painting Meneses owned. Icaza also served as corporate lawyer for economist Orlando Murillo, whom authorities suspected of being Meneses's money launderer.1
Shielding Macario
During the 1979 revolution, Icaza's home in Managua also housed the Colombian embassy. When Jose Macario Estrada was targeted by the Sandinistas, Icaza sheltered him there until Macario could escape the country seven months later.1
Sources
- Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 21: "I could go anywhere in the world and sell dope" ↩
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