DEA confiscation of cocaine and loading it onto an aircraft at a military airfield outside Managua. Important people in the photos: Frederico Vaughn, an assistant to Nicaraguan Minister of Interior Borge (in vertically-striped shirt), Pablo Escobar, notorious cocaine trafficker from Colombia (in horizontally-striped shirt), and Barry Seal, U.S. informant later murdered in New Orleans after refusing protective custody (fat man in white tee shirt), 1985.
- Containers:
- Box IX.2, Folder MFM-PF-203
- Physical location:
- 32108050383879
- Physical description:
- 12(8" x 10")b/w
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