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==CIA asset==
==CIA asset==
Noriega was recruited by the U.S. [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] in 1959, who went on the CIA payroll in 1967, and who became head of Panamanian military intelligence in 1968, where he was in a strategic position to supply both information and drugs to the United States, and later on arms to the [[Nicaragua]] [[Contras]] in an operation based in Panama, [[Mexico]], and the [[Mena airport]] in Arkansas. CIA money was paid to Noriega through the Panamanian branch of [[BCCI]]. Noriega deposited $33 million in his account inder the name of the Panamanian Defense Forces at the Panamanian branch of BCCI. The head of the branch was the son of a former director of intelligence in [[Pakistan]]. The CIA and [[U.S. Army]] only acknowledged paying Noreiga $322,226 between 1955 and 1986.<ref>''[[New York Times]]'', January 19, 1991</ref>
Noriega was recruited by the U.S. [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] in 1959, who went on the CIA payroll in 1967, and who became head of Panamanian military intelligence in 1968, where he was in a strategic position to supply both information and drugs to the United States, and later on arms to the [[Nicaragua]] [[Contras]] in an operation based in Panama, [[Mexico]], and the [[Mena airport]] in Arkansas. CIA money was paid to Noriega through the Panamanian branch of [[BCCI]]. Noriega deposited $33 million in his account inder the name of the Panamanian Defense Forces at the Panamanian branch of BCCI. The head of the branch was the son of a former director of intelligence in [[Pakistan]]. The CIA and [[U.S. Army]] only acknowledged paying Noreiga $322,226 between 1955 and 1986.<ref>''[[New York Times]]'', January 19, 1991</ref>
Noriega had much earlier gotten into trouble with the [[US State Department]] because of his drug dealing. But this changed when his support was needed in the negotiations for a new [[Panama Canal Treaty]].
{{Quotebox|"By 1976, Noriega was fully forgiven. CIA Director [[Geoerg HW Bush|George Bush]] arranged to pay Noriega $110,000 a year for his services, put the Panamanian up as a houseguest of his deputy CIA director, and helped to prevent an embarrassing prosecution of several American soldiers who had delivered highly classified U.S. intelligence secrets to Noriega's men. . . .
"If Carter needed friends in Panama to smooth the way for a canal treaty, [[Reagan]] (who strongly opposed that treaty) needed them to support the Contra cause. . . . CIA payments to Noriega resumed when Reagan took office in 1981, starting at $185,000 a year. At their peak, in 1985, Noriega collected $200,000 from the Agency. The CIA deposited the money in Noriega's account at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, two of whose units later pleaded guilty to laundering drug money. CIA Director William Casey frequently met with Noriega alone in Washington."<ref>Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, ''Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America'', University of California Press, 1991</ref>}}
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