#1990s
50 entries tagged 1990s.
People (19)
- Alan Fenster Beverly Hills defense attorney who represented Ricky Ross throughout his legal troubles, including the DEA reverse sting case.
- Chuck Jones DEA agent who served as Danilo Blandón's primary handler from 1993 to 1995 and denied any knowledge of Blandón's Contra drug trafficking history during a contentious meeting with Gary Webb.
- Craig Chretien DEA Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego regional office who met with Gary Webb in October 1995 in an attempt to dissuade him from publishing the Dark Alliance story, and who was later promoted to head the DEA's International Division.
- Daniel Garner LASD Majors II deputy and court-certified money-laundering expert whose prosecution for corruption nearly exposed the Contra-CIA drug connection through documents he had seized from Ronald Lister's home in 1986.
- Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief who played a central role in spreading a 1984 CIA leak about Sandinista drug trafficking and later led the Times' refutation of Contra drug trafficking allegations.
- Fred Hitz CIA Inspector General whose 1998 investigation and congressional testimony revealed the agency's secret 1982 agreement with the Justice Department exempting CIA assets from drug crimes reporting.
- Georg Hodel Swiss freelance journalist based in Managua who located Norwin Meneses in a Nicaraguan prison and uncovered court files documenting his drug trafficking for the Contras, playing a critical role in the Dark Alliance investigation.
- Harland Braun Prominent criminal defense attorney who represented Deputy Daniel Garner in the Operation Big Spender corruption trial and attempted to introduce evidence of CIA drug money laundering, resulting in a judicial gag order.
- Jerry Ceppos Executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News who initially championed the Dark Alliance series before publishing a column describing shortcomings in the reporting, effectively ending the investigation.
- Jesse Katz Los Angeles Times reporter who covered Ricky Ross and the L.A. crack trade extensively, attempting to scoop Gary Webb's Dark Alliance investigation before publication.
- Leroy Brown Corner Pocket Crip and Compton crack dealer who became a business partner of Ricky Ross.
- LJ Oneale Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Ricky Ross and represented the government in efforts to suppress evidence of Danilo Blandón's Contra connections during the trial.
- Marilyn Huff Federal judge who presided over Ricky Ross's 1996 trial in San Diego, allowing the government to conduct classified testimony at sidebar and denying defense motions to obtain records about Danilo Blandón's Contra connections.
- Norwin Meneses Norwin Meneses Cantarero, known as "El Rey de la Droga," was Nicaragua's most prolific drug trafficker who simultaneously served as a DEA informant while running a cocaine distribution network spanning from Central America to California in support of the Contra movement.
- Rafael Cornejo Norwin Meneses's nephew and distributor in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1970s whose territory stretched to Portland, Oregon, convicted of income tax evasion in 1985 and cocaine trafficking in 1996.
- Ricky Ross Freeway Ricky Donnell Ross led South Central Los Angeles's largest crack cocaine distribution network, expanding from local dealing to a coast-to-coast operation that moved over 150 kilos per week at its peak.
- Tootie Reese Alleged king of cocaine in black Los Angeles during the 1970s, overtaken by the crack era and successors like Ricky Ross.
- Walter Pincus Washington Post national security reporter who led the newspaper's attack on the Dark Alliance series and had a documented history as a CIA operative and propagandist during the Cold War.
- Webb Hubbell Arkansas lawyer and associate attorney general under Clinton with connections to weapons manufacturing for the Contras and the Mena, Arkansas drug investigation.
Organizations (23)
- Abrasax Institute The Abrasax Institute was a Satanic cult, described as a gnostic sect, which briefly became the center of attention during the Marc Dutroux investigation around December 1996.
- Achats Services Commerces Achats Services Commerces, known by its acronym ASCO, was a secondhand car exporting business owned by Michel Nihoul that operated white Mercedes vehicles linked to child abduction attempts.
- Apollo Bulletin Board Service The Apollo Bulletin Board Service, commonly known as Apollo BBS, operated as one of the world's largest online distributors of sadomasochistic child pornography during the mid-1990s.
- ASCO ASCO redirects to Achats Services Commerces.
- ASCO Industries NV ASCO Industries NV was an aerospace company in Zaventem near Brussels owned by military industrialist Roger Boas, a close associate of politicians, lawyers, and financiers orbiting Belgium's Parti Social Chretien (CSP).
- Blue Boy The Blue Boy was a nightclub in the Spuistraat district of Amsterdam that operated as a boy brothel. In August 1993 a distressed British boy showed up at the UK Embassy in Amsterdam after escaping through the bathroom window of the Blue Boy and told...
- Boys Club 21 Boys Club 21 was a boy brothel operating as a nightclub in Amsterdam's Spuistraat district, managed by Alan Williams, a convicted pedophile dubbed 'The Welsh Witch' on account of his violent rapes of boys in Cardiff, Wales.
- G-Force nightclub The G-Force was a nightclub in Amsterdam frequented by Marc Dutroux and Robbie Van Der Plancken, according to a dossier compiled by the Morkhoven Workgroup. The club was owned by an American identified as John Edward Mullaney.
- Gaie France Gaie France was a pedophile magazine published by Michel Caignet, a neo-Nazi child pornographer and former member of the Fane and FNE (European Nationalist Groups).
- Gay Palace The Gay Palace was a boy brothel masquerading as a gay nightclub in Amsterdam's Spuistraat district, managed by Warwick Spinks during the 1980s and 1990s.
- Gero-Video Gero-Video was a video distribution company based in Dusseldorf, Germany, identified as one of the largest distributors of homosexual pornography in Europe.
- Le Dolo Le Dolo was a nightclub in Brussels managed by Michel Forgeot, where Jean-Michel Nihoul connected with figures from what were described as the 'clean professions.
- Los Angeles Times Largest newspaper in the western United States that published the 1996 attack on the Dark Alliance series, led by Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus who had previously spread a 1984 CIA leak falsely accusing Sandinista officials of drug trafficking.
- Morkhoven Workgroup The Morkhoven Workgroup was an NGO that played a central role in exposing the international child pornography network operated through the Apollo Bulletin Board Service from Zandvoort, Netherlands.
- Rex Productions Rex Productions was a hardcore pornography studio in Amsterdam linked to Jean-Michel Nihoul's trafficking network through Marleen De Cokere.
- Roxanne Films Roxanne Films was a hardcore pornography studio located at 111 Admiraal de Ruijter Road in Amsterdam, in a building owned by a transvestite named Didier Pellerin.
- San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News published the Dark Alliance series in August 1996, using the Internet to share source documents with the public in an unprecedented act of journalistic transparency.
- Spartacus International Spartacus International was founded by John Stamford, a British foreign-national and defrocked Anglican priest who fled to Amsterdam in 1972 after being charged with operating a child pornography service through the mail.
- Spartacus Network The Spartacus Network was an international child trafficking and pornography distribution network that operated from the 1970s through the 1990s, primarily based in Amsterdam but with global reach.
- Swiss Paedophile Association The Swiss Paedophile Association was a Swiss organization that counted among its founding members Beat Meier and Karl Hobi. Beat Meier served as the honorary president of the association and published a pedophile magazine called LIBIDO from Zurich.
- TAG Films TAG Films was a video production company established in Amsterdam by three Welsh pedophiles: Alan Williams, John Gay, and Lee Tucker.
- Toro Bravo Toro Bravo was a child pornography production company based in Bogota, Bogota, headed by Jean Manuel Vuillaume.
- Washington Post Major national newspaper whose national security reporter Walter Pincus, a former CIA operative, led the first major media attack on the Dark Alliance series.
Programs (2)
- Operation Big Spender FBI sting operation that exposed widespread corruption within the LASD Major Violators squads, resulting in the conviction of multiple narcotics detectives and nearly exposing the CIA-Contra drug connection.
- Operation Othello Operation Othello was the Belgian police investigation into Marc Dutroux's auto theft ring, which ran parallel to the Dutroux kidnapping investigation.
Events (2)
- White Marches Mass demonstrations in Belgium (October 1996) sparked by the politically motivated removal of investigating magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte from the Dutroux case.
- X-Dossier Classified dossier compiled under Judge Connerotte containing testimonies from witnesses X1-X8 alleging elite child abuse networks in Belgium linked to Operation Gladio.
Concepts (4)
- Apollo Disks The Apollo Disks were a collection of encoded digital disks containing evidence of the international child pornography network operated through the Apollo Bulletin Board Service by Gerrit-Jan Ulrich from Zandvoort, Netherlands.
- Boy Prostitution Boy prostitution emerged as a systematic commercial enterprise during the 1970s, operating through organized networks that trafficked male children across the United States and Europe.
- False Memory Syndrome An academic movement which began in the early 1990s pointed toward the exponential growth in child sex abuse allegations as being the result of people recalling false memories.
- International Child Trafficking Network Overview International child trafficking networks operated across Europe during the 1970s through the 1990s, with connections extending to North America and beyond.