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For Noriegas del ble det dommer William H. Hoeveler: Han nektet Noriega å føre de<br />

bevisene Noriega så som relevante i saken, og dømte han på grunnlag av vitnemålet til til<br />

flere av hans gamle bekjente. Dette var i hovedsak narkotikasmuglere som allerede satt i<br />

fengsel på lange dommer, som ble belønnet med amnesti for opplysningene de kom med,<br />

redusert straff, og gode penger for sine vitnemål. Floyd Carlton, en av hans tidligere flyvere,<br />

vitnet mot han på disse betingelsene; Ricardo Bilonick, som ellers hadde sett frem til 50 år i<br />

fengsel, gjorde det samme (han fikk også 1.2 millioner dollar for vitnemålet sitt av Calikartellet);<br />

og det samme gjorde den colombianske piloten Roberto Striedinger, og ti andre<br />

kjente narkosmuglere.<br />

Under rettsaken kom det frem at Noriega har vært på amerikanske<br />

etterretningstjenesters lønningslister siden 1955, da han som 19 åring ble medlem av<br />

Sosialist partiet i Panama og begynte å rapportere videre om hva de foretok seg der. Peter<br />

Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics; Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central<br />

America (University of California Press, 1998), s xvi<br />

413 Al Martin, The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider, (2002 National Liberty<br />

Press), s 266.<br />

414 Mossad i Latin Amerika<br />

Israel har vært svært aktive i Latin Amerika, både i forhold til våpensalg og narkotikasalg.<br />

Mossad agenten Mike Harari var en viktig brikke her, og det var også Ariel Sharon, en venn<br />

av Mike Harari. De var begge en del av et større nettverk av israelske krigsprofitører som<br />

solgte våpen til land som Guatemala, Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, og Mexico. Mossad<br />

agenten Ari Ben Menashe forteller:<br />

“*B+etween 1975 and 1977, Sharon was a private citizen who was trying to build a fortune<br />

dealing arms in Central America. He had a network of people working with him there, one<br />

being the disgraced Mossad agent Mike Harari, who had just left Israel because of his failure<br />

in the “Moroccan Waiter Affair,” where the wrong man was shot dead in Lillehammer,<br />

Norway. (…) Sharons network had been able to provide military equipment from Israel to<br />

various Central American countries, including, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica,<br />

and even Mexico. This was never official Israeli government policy, and it was frowned upon<br />

by the cabinet itself, but Sharon was too wild a goose for anybody to handle. (…) Gates had<br />

developed a professional interest in the arms network that Sharon and his former<br />

intelligence cowboys were operating in Central America. By 1981, Sharon and Harari were<br />

running what Harari described as more of a CIA network than an Israeli operation – and were<br />

filling their private bank accounts at the same time. It was in 1981 that they started<br />

supplying a secret army in Central America, the contras, who were trying to destabilize and<br />

eventually bring about the downfall of the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, which had<br />

come to power in 1979.(…) Sharon, with all his power, could not force the prime minister or<br />

the leaders of the Israeli intelligence community to pay for weapons from the slush fund that<br />

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