by robertdreed » Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:41 am
First, let's get this out of the way: the FBI was compartmentalized out of drug enforcement at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover from the outset, and it wasn't until the early 1980s that Federal law enforcement was reorganized during the Reagan administration to bring the FBI into drug trafficking investigations. <br><br>The compartmentalization during Hoover's reign, from the 1930s to 1973, served several wider aims. Mostly, it kept the FBI away from investigating Organized Crime, particularly the Syndicate that built Vegas: Lansky-Luciano-Costello-Giancana-Dalitz-Humphreys et alia...that crowd. Hoover was a principal denier that an organized crime syndicate of that wealth and power ever existed, even while the entire city of Las Vegas was being constructed by drug and gambling profits during his watch. <br><br>It also kept FBI agents away from the lure of drug money corruption- not to mention making the acquaintance of unsavory characters like the FBN-CIA/TSD's George Hunter White. I've known a few FBI agents in my time, they were all straight arrows without much guile. (Tended to be hard drinkers, though.) Narcotics would have been too dirty a business for them to hack. Just the political impunity part of it would have been too much for them...and if a typical rank and file FBI square had ever caught wind of what operatives like George Hunter White were doing with the sex and drug experiments of MK-ULTRA...fuggedaboudit. <br><br>Maybe that's why a couple of those FBI guys I've known drank so much, often alone, brooding (note: one of them has since gotten sober)- they suspected the wider game was fixed, but they couldn't figure out the particulars...actually finding out, from their vantage point, would either have required their own corruption or their resignation. The FBI agents I've known have had in common that peculiar sort of mental block associated with those who think that a sense of moral decency comparable to their own is a universal condition for any sworn agent of the US government. And that's just what Hoover wanted, for the rank and file agents of the Bureau...people who, for instance, would never suspect The Chief. Able, intelligent people, quite capable of pursuing investigations and making cases, within directed limits...and by all means, cloistered from the temptations of the Dope Trade. <br><br>FBI agents like Richard Cain were rare exceptions- sheep-dipped CIA, if not something even more sinister.<br><br>Then, in the late 1970s, after Hoover had passed on, parts of the DEA and the Centac program were beginning to get a little too good at cracking international drug trafficking organizations, and continual CIA stonewalling was looking too suspicious. So the ReaganBush response in the 1980s was to have a massive bureaucratic reorganization, and dismantle the Centacs, and bring the square johns of the FBI, who were totally out of their depth, into the mix. Probly a few sheep-dipped dirty CIA people in the FBI influx, too...<br><br>the result? Chaos...and that disruption of continuity really helped the large trafficking orgs and cartels of the early 1980s. All very plausibly deniable, a "policy failure, bureaucratic ineptness"...that George Bush. How "inept." And how he's paid for his failures... <br><br>But at the time Mark Felt was in de facto charge in the 1970s, the FBI didn't work drugs. <br><br>As for the "alien back-engineering" explanation for drug profiteering, guilty covert operatives can always be counted on trying to pull a UFO explanation- or just a plain "U" explanation- to save the day when their asses have been backed into a corner by the facts. <br><br>I'm not going to argue over the pros and cons of some vaporware sci-fi saga that someone has read on the Internet, or heard on Art Bell. <br><br>What I will say is that if there is such a program, it isn't funded by some hidden horde of drug profits. The CIA doesn't own drug plantations, or operate trafficking rings. They don't rake off tens of billions of dollars in profit and put it in one big secret black budget. That isn't the way the business works, there's no such central mechanism for consolidating all the drug profits in the world. <br><br>Sometimes drug profits have been known to fund covert operations, weapons purchases, paramilitary groups, etc. But I think the "black budget" angle throws people off about the actual situation. It's more the usual case that the payoffs in the illegal drug game more work like this: the CIA, etc. compartments involved with the drug trade grant impunity to ideological cronies and/or political allies of big-time players like the Bush Dynasty and Associates- political elites powerful enough to flim-flam their ambitions and mendacities as "foreign policy initiatives" pursued on behalf of The American People. Quid pro quo franchises, that's what protected drug operations work like. Boons, granted to henchmen. I'd bet that for every dollar in drug profits that went into Contra resupply, easily 20 dollars went into the pockets of the traffickers. Probably more. Ah yass, the lucrative rewards of being On The Team...<br><br>And the lifetime impunity of a Lansky, Gelli, or Berezovsky (Boris may yet be taken down, although I'd bet against it) is rare- more often, the immunity of traffickers from legal prosecution, extradition, or even assassination is "use-limited." It's contingent on the usefullness of the mobsters to the larger geopolitical-sociological-mass psychological goals of the people at the top, the ones whose values make the System what it is. <br><br>And I doubt those goals have anything to do with "alien tech"...their goals are much more along the traditional lines of empire building, taking over the globe and having it run in accordance with their "will to power" desire/vision/whim, etc. <br><br>Given that state of affairs, perhaps the most surefire way for a high-profile criminal middleman to guarantee their continued impunity is blackmail.<br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 6/11/05 1:40 pm<br></i>
