John Vandewerker
Former CIA officer who employed Richard Wilker and knew of his weapons business activities with Ronald Lister in El Salvador.
John Vandewerker was a former CIA officer who once employed Richard Wilker as a salesman and knew of Wilker and Ronald Lister's business activities in El Salvador.1
Vandewerker said he knew Lister and Wilker were involved in some business activity in El Salvador. "It was kind of touchy... as far as getting out of the country and all that kind of stuff." He did not elaborate. Coincidentally, Vandewerker's name was found in the notebooks of investigative reporter Danny Casolaro after his death, in connection with the goings-on at the Cabazon Indian Reservation.1
Vandewerker also confirmed to journalist Nick Schou that Ronald Lister and William Nelson knew each other. When Lister was running to Fluor Corporation's headquarters in 1982 and 1983, it was Nelson - the CIA's former deputy director of operations - with whom he was meeting.2
Sources
- Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty" ↩
- Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 10: "Teach a man a craft and he's liable to practice it" ↩
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