Contadora Island
 Contadora Island(Island, VIPaedophile/Venue, Sexual blackmail)    | |
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| A safe haven in Panama where U.S. politicians and corporate executives enjoyed sex and drugs away from the prying eyes of the international press, particularly in the 1980s. | |
Isla Contadora (or Contadora Island in English) is a Panamanian island in the Gulf of Panama. It has an area of 1.39 km² and a population of 253 (census 2000). In the 1970s and 80s, it was a safe haven where U.S. politicians and corporate executives enjoyed sex and drugs away from the prying eyes of the international press.
John Perkins believes that George W. Bush was secretly filmed while having sex with prostitutes and doing drugs there. According to Perkins, this was one of the reasons his father, then President George HW Bush, invaded Panama in 1989, in order to seize the incriminating tapes.
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Overview
Contadora has a small regional/domestic airport, and has regular flights to and from Panama City. Rich patrons arrived in private planes, or by yacht.[1]
History
In the 1960s, a sprawling, elegant resort was constructed and became a prestigious haven for the rich. Consisting of over three hundred rooms and an elegant dining room where sumptuous meals and elaborate drinks were served; it is said the champagne flowed like a fountain. Numerous outbuildings were built to accommodate the richest of the rich and their diverse pleasures, including a casino.[2] The island had 80 private homes.[3]
The island was bought by Gabriel Lewis Galindo in 1969, who began development of the island. Then the Panamanian Government became the majority stockholder in a development corporation called Contadora Panama.
Activities
The island and the resort became exclusive, expensive, and patronized by the rich and famous. Hollywood stars such as Sophia Loren, Christian Dior, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, and the Rockefellers[4] and the the Kennedys bought private getaways or resided in the now famous resort.[2]
Ellsworth Bunker stayed on a villa on the island when negotiating the Panama Canal treaties in the late 1970s.[3]
In 1980, the exiled and dying Iranian shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, briefly lived in Contadora.[5]
The resort was allegedly owned by Colombian drug lords and used for money-laundering. In 2009 one of the owners perished in a plane crash, leaving the place in serious debt.[2]
Sexual blackmail of Bush family?
John Perkins suggested that George W. Bush was secretly filmed while having sex with prostitutes and and taking illegal drugs there. According to Perkins, this was one of the reasons that George H. W. Bush, then US President, ordered the 1990 Panama invasion, in order to seize the incriminating tapes.
“Surely you've heard the rumors about why Noriega was taken down and today rots in a U.S. prison."
"I've heard that he had cameras on Contadora Island." It was an infamous resort off Panama's coast, a "safe haven" where U.S. businessmen could treat politicians to every conceivable vice. I had visited—and used—Contadora several times during my EHM days.
"You heard who got caught by those cameras?"
"Rumors that George W. was photographed doing coke and having kinky sex during the time his father was president." There was a theory in Latin America that Noriega had used incriminating photos of the younger Bush and his cronies to convince the older Bush, the president, to side with the Panamanian administration on key issues. In retaliation, H. W. invaded Panama and hustled Noriega off to a Miami prison. The building housing Noriega's confidential files had been incinerated by bombs; as a side effect, more than two thousand innocent civilians were burned to death in Panama City that day in December 1989. Many people claimed that this theory offered the only logical explanation for violently attacking a nation without an army and that posed no threat to the United States.
Jose nodded. "From where I sit, those rumors ring awfully true. I've experienced things that take them out of the realm of fantasy." He cocked his head. "So have you." He paused, looking around. "And it terrifies me."
”
John Perkins (2007) [6]
Suspicious deaths
There have been four premature deaths of people who were reporting about the island, or those who were gathering information about it, or interested in the strange deaths of those who have done so:
- David Blundy, a reporter, did write the initial report about the sexual blackmail operation there; he was shot a month later (in November 1989) - another month later the invasion of Panama started
- Gary de Vore was a Hollywood screenwriter with an interest in writing a script which incorporated the story about Contadora according to the British documentary: The Writer with No Hands; he died in a strange car accident in 1997 - the script disappeared with him
- Michael Sands was a Hollywood operative and possible CIA liaison who gave information to the documentary makers, allegedly choking to death on a piece of meat in a supermarket
- Robbie Graham, one of the British documentary makers, died at 41 of unknown causes
References
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/05/archives/in-panama-a-languid-isle-contadora-the-languid-delights-of-doing.html
- ↑ a b c https://www.liveandinvestoverseas.com/in-focus-panama/the-fascinating-history-of-contadora-island-panama/
- ↑ a b https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/02/03/panamas-contadora-island-learning-to-live-with-a-shah/05118ee6-4427-4a18-9e0d-faaebbf552c1/
- ↑ https://4elementscontadora.com/the-destination/
- ↑ Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 1980a. Answer to History. Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein & Day. ISBN 978-0-8128-2755-2
- ↑ https://ia903007.us.archive.org/7/items/JohnPerkinsTheSecretHistoryOfTheAmericanEmpire2007/John%20Perkins%20-%20The%20secret%20history%20of%20the%20American%20Empire%20-%202007.pdf The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption; 131
