 Card number 23 is this guy. Rafael Chichi Quintero. Rafael Chichi Quintero. Is he Cuban? Is that Castro though? I think he's not a chicho. He's a chichi. C.I. Veteran. Rafael Chichi Quintero. Card number 23. Rafael Chichi Quintero. C.I. Veteran. Once said that if he were granted immunity and compelled to testify about past actions, it would be the biggest scandal ever to hit the United States. An explosives expert and sniper, Quintero got his early training as a member of the CIA's Operation 40 assassination unit, also called the shooter team. This elite group, born of secret collaboration between agents of the CIA, the mafia, and Richard Nixon, was formed to assassinate Fidel and Raul Castro and Che Guevara. Led for many years by E. Howard Hunt, the shooter team was part of an advanced unit that was left stranded in Cuba after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Quintero escaped from Cuba and returned to Miami, where he began working under then CIA agent Thomas Klein's C-card number 22. This work included engaging in CIA covert operations in southern Asia, Iran, and Central America. After Klein joined the C-card number 19, Rafael Quintero handled the offloading and distribution of weapons, shipments, to the contras under Klein's direction. When John Hall's wrench, C-card number 12 began to attract attention from Costa Rican authorities, the enterprise built a new secret airstrip at Santa Alina, Costa Rica, with help from the State Department's Elliott Abrams, C-card number 18, Robert Owens, C-card number 14, and Lewis Tams, then U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, Quintero, whom C-card called my man, managed supply operations from this new airstrip, which was used for the shipment of guns and drugs at Chichi, Quintero, Rafael Chichi, Quintero.