Manuel Noriega

"This is not the deal, call your boss!"

- Noriega during Suffer with Me

General Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno is the former Commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces. He was the de facto military governor of Panama from 1983 to 1989.

Biography
He aids the CIA in capturing Raul Menendez by sending the PDF to his cartel's plantation in Nicaragua. The PDF capture him, but Noriega later betrays his own men by helping Menendez. Despite this, the drug lord nearly beats Noriega to death. He is the objective of Operation Just Cause, the United States invasion of Panama. Alex Mason and Frank Woods are sent to look for him in the outskirts of the Panama City. He is captured, but Jason Hudson later informs that he is an HVI and must be taken safely to a US Army checkpoint for a 'prisoner exchange'. He later takes advantage of his captivity and throws Woods under the bus by capturing Alex Mason and placing a bag over his head so Woods would mistake him for Menendez. Noriega is last seen when Woods shoots Mason and finds out about the whole trick and attempts to shoot and kill Noriega only to get shot in the legs by Menendez. Throughout the mission he is codenamed "False Profit" by the CIA.

Trivia

 * Even though he never actually held the position of president, he is labeled as the President of Panama in the description of "Time and Fate" and mentioned by Frank Woods.
 * Noriega has a strong tendency to kill his own men, as a way of getting rid of "witnesses". This is much like Shepherd from Modern Warfare 2, as both of them manipulate the main characters (Soap/Roach/Ghost/Price and Woods/Mason/Hudson) and later kill them to eliminate a witness.
 * Noriega can be briefly seen in the non-canonical ending when Avenged Sevenfold plays "Carry On".
 * He is the only real-life character from the 1980's missions to appear in the non-canonical ending.
 * The M1911 that Mason gives to Noriega has a different firing sound.
 * Sometimes after Mason gives the M1911 without ammo to Noriega he will shoot and kill people while executing them.