that he was having." (Trial Tr. AM Session 31-32, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas said the discussions *18 between John 40 and the defendant involved weapons and narcotics, "but more especially about weapons and ammunitions." (Trial Tr. AM Session 32, Mar. 18, 2010.)
From 1996 to 2001, however, Vargas spoke to the defendant only rarely by radio. (Trial Tr. AM Session 37, Mar. 18, 2010.) When they did talk, they "would never talk directly about anything on the radio, because we would know that many people are listening in." (Trial Tr. AM Session 37, Mar. 18, 2010.) As a result, they would "always use certain codes, or different dialects with different names." (Trial Tr. AM Session 37, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas gave several examples of the code words they frequentlyused, such as the word "candy" when they were talking about ammunition or "kitchen" or "restaurant" when they were referring to a laboratory, or "vegetables" when they were talking about United States currency, to name a few.[15] (Trial Tr. AM Session 38, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas testified that, aside from Colombian pesos, the currency he saw most frequently in the 16th Front was United States dollars. (Trial Tr. AM Session 39, Mar. 18, 2010.) He confirmed that during drug transactions he sometimes saw United States dollars instead of Colombian pesos and that "many times" from the 1990s to 2002 he saw large quantities of United States dollars in quantities of $2 million to $3 million all in one place. (Trial Tr. AM Session 40, Mar. 18, 2010.)
During Vargas's testimony