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The Binge Crimes: Cut, Color, Kill

Fade to Black I 3. Panama!

The Binge Crimes: Cut, Color, Kill

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We delve into the script Gary was writing when he disappeared—The Big Steal—set during the US invasion of Panama. What can this script tell us about Gary’s connection to the CIA? And could it be the key to his baffling disappearance? Unlock all episodes of Witnessed: Fade to Black, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Witnessed show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.0

The bench.

0:37.0

The bench. General Noriega's reckless threats and attacks upon Americans in Panama,

0:50.0

and that is why I directed our armed forces to protect the lives of American citizens in Panama

0:55.6

and to bring General Noriega to justice in the United States.

0:59.8

Everything Gary was writing about was in Panama and it was really dirty.

1:04.4

It was about the government agencies like the CIA looking the other way

1:11.6

as they shipped cocaine from South America and Central America

1:14.3

into the United States and the money that Gary was writing about was being put in

1:18.6

Panamanian banks.

1:19.6

In 1988 the US Drug Enforcement Agency accused Norega of drugs trafficking.

1:27.0

I tell the North Americans, he says, to stop threatening me because I do not fear death.

1:33.2

That's the sound of the U.S.

1:39.6

invasion of Panama, a sort of baby war that really only lasted two weeks.

1:47.5

The U.S. went in to grab the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and he hit out in the

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