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Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:21 pm**

Here is a start: Drugs “Since the end of World War II, the United States has spent a thousand billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these men and their hunger for power. Could the CIA kill a president to keep such an operation going? Kings have been beheaded for infinitely less.” - Judge Jim Garrison, A Heritage of Stone (1970) As for Bush’s friend Larry King, it was reported that he was a top contributor to a Contra support committee—the Citizens for America. Contra organizer Oliver North was seen by at least one witness at one of King’s parties. King’s public relations firm was also used by the drug-running Contras. Sources told John DeCamp that Omaha Police Chief Bob Wadman “was protecting the expansion of the Cryps and the Bloods into Omaha—far from their home turf of Los Angeles. As DeCamp writes: “One of Caradori’s informants stated that Wadman was instrumental in bringing the drug-trafficking gangs, the Los Angeles Bloods and Cryps, into Omaha. According to a June 19 1989 report by Caradori’s predecessor at the Franklin committee, Jerry Lowe, members of the Bloods and Cryps were identified by local police as driving Larry King’s car....” San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb has meticulously documented how the LA street gangs were intimately tied in with Contra liaisons in the U.S. George Bush, Oliver North’s boss, was essentially running the Contra show, or at least the drug angle. As DeCamp writes: “So, was Larry King’s buddy George Bush the country’s ‘drug kingpin’ in the 1980s? I don’t know. But what I do know, is that if Bush were running the Contra affair, and drugs were a big part of it, that would certainly jibe 100% with everything known or rumored about Bush, Larry King, and the Franklin Credit Union....”[69] As Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz, the most highly decorated Special Forces officer of the Vietnam War and later head of Special Forces in Central America, adds in his book, Called To Serve: “George Bush was head of the CIA in 1975-76, appointed by President Gerald Ford; as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, he was our top drug cop for eight years; one of his chief aides, Donald Gregg, was a direct contact in the Contra line of communication to the White House. Ollie North’s personal diary has more than 550 entries citing drug money being used to support contra operations. If George Bush didn’t know about the drug smuggling, he wasn’t doing his job. If he did know about it, then he is clearly culpable. Either way, it doesn’t stand as a credit for a man who would represent the best interests of the United States.”[7<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/alien.gif ALT="0]"> Like Richard Nixon, Bush publicly claimed to be a strong anti-drug president, escalating the so-called “war on drugs” begun by his mentor Richard Nixon. Nixon had first brought Bush into his “war on drugs” in 1971-77 when Nixon appointed him to the White House Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control. In his first formally scheduled prime time television address to the nation as President in September of 1989, Bush again reiterated his plan to rid the nation of its devastating drug scourge. Bush held up a bag of crack cocaine for the camera and announced with mock incredulity that it had been purchased right across the street from the White House, in Lafayette Park. In fact, the drug bust of the dealer had been a set-up. During his 1988 election campaign, Bush had hawked himself as President Reagan’s number one drug fighter. In his acceptance speech before the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush stated: “I want a drug-free America. Tonight, I challenge the young people of our country to shut down the drug dealers around the world.... My Administration will be telling the dealers, “Whatever we have to do, we’ll do, but your day is over. You’re history.’” Bush was telling the truth, in a sense. At least small drug dealers would be out of business—replaced by the Medellin Cartel which Bush, along with Ted Shackley, allegedly helped organize. The CIA reportedly arranged at least two meetings with Colombian drug smugglers—first in Buenaventura, Colombia in September of 1981, then in December of that same year, with approximately 200 dealers in attendance. The meeting, according to former FAA investigator Rodney Stich’s (Defrauding America and The Drugging of America ) CIA sources, was held at the Hotel International in Medellin. The CIA set up a “crisis” situation to compel the dealers to consolidate under the protection of the CIA by kidnapping drug kingpins Carlos Lehder and Jorge Ochoa’s sister. The CIA reportedly paid a group known as M-19 three million dollars to carry out the kidnapping. As CIA operative Trenton Parker told Stich, “...Bush knew the whole goddamn thing.”[71] According to Russell S. Bowen, a highly decorated World War II P-38 ace and former OSS agent imprisoned for smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from Colombia (and other sources), Noriega and the Israeli Mossad worked hand-in-hand with the CIA in the drug traffic from Central and South America.[72] Bowen was a friend of Shackley’s, having worked with him from the early 1950s until 1984. In 1959, Shackley was a passenger onboard a C-46 piloted by Bowen when the plane crashed in the Bolivian Andes. As Bowen told Stich: “It was loaded with drugs!” “[Bowen] stated that this trip occurred several years before Shackley was made CIA station chief in Miami, and that Shackley was instrumental in setting up the CIA drug trafficking into the United States from South America.... “Bowen described the conflict between different CIA factions. “At that time, “ Bowen said, “Shackley was the leader of the CIA faction bringing the drugs in. The CIA team I worked for did not want the drugs in.”[*] “I asked who set up that initial drug operation. Bowen, referring to Shackley, said, “He was the mastermind of the drug operation. he had full authority to set it up.”[73] Another pilot maintained in voluminous correspondence from prison with Senator John Kerry’s Iran-Contra Committee (and since his release in 1990) that “Bob Haynes” was the alias used by Shackley during their close interaction between 1979 and 1984. As Harry Martin reports in the Napa Sentinel: “[The pilot] also has a number of documents in safekeeping which prove the presence of Shackley in Medellin, not only directing the cocaine cartel, but orchestrating many of the activities in Panama and Costa Rica related to the contra war in Nicaragua, and the large-scale smuggling of cocaine into the United States. Included among them are a handwritten note from Haynes/Shackley directing him to deliver a DC-6A aircraft from the Dominican Republic to Floyd Carlton in Panama “for Col. Robert.” “The pilot has claimed that he functioned as one of an elite group of military intelligence agents with service dating back to World War II, who reported, until his imprisonment in 1984, directly to [former OSS agent and CIA DCI] William Casey, and maintains that he was directly involved with Theodore Shackley in the establishment of the arms network to the contras through Panama in the early 1980s. Among the letters received from Haynes/Shackley was one directing him to acquire a number of planes in the Dominican Republic and Aruba for the network. The list has been verified by the special U.S. Customs team in Miami investigating Munitions Control Board violations as planes they are familiar with having been used in such activities.”[74] “Haynes” also furnished the pilot with his business card for INTERKREDIT, with offices in Medellin, Ft. Lauderdale and Amsterdam. INTERKREDIT was the corporate cover under which Shackley conducted business with General Noriega during 1983.[75] In addition to the pilot, witnesses allege Shackley maintained a home in Medellin, Colombia at one point, where he lived with his Colombian wife, Leona Ochoa, sister of cartel kingpin Jorge Ochoa.[76] It was a convenient spot to manage the CIA’s drug business. As previously mentioned, the CIA, through DCI George Bush and Deputy Director for Operations Ted Shackley, virtually set up the Medellin Cartel. The meetings were held at the Hotel International in Medellin. Two CIA operatives: Trenton Parker and Gunther Russbacher, confirmed the meetings to Stich.[77] Ramon Milian Rodriguez, an accountant and money launderer who had laundered $1.5 billion for the Medellin cartel, testified before a Senate committee that he had given Bush-Shackley CIA associate Felix Rodriguez $10 million from the cocaine profits to fund the Contras. Rodriguez told journalist Martha Honey that Rodriguez had offered that “in exchange for money for the Contra cause he would use his influence in high places to get the cartel U.S. ‘good will.’”[78] The CIA would eventually eradicate top leaders of the Medellin Cartel, killing Medellin founders Pablo Escobar and Jorge Ochoa. Medellin co-founder Carlos Lehder and his associate Manuel Noriega would be sentenced to life terms. During Operation “Just Cause” in Panama, Bush replaced many Medellin allied bankers with political and financial leadership more closely allied with the rival Cali Cartel. Trenton Parker said he secretly gave evidence of CIA criminality from 1976 to 1982 to Congressman Larry McDonald of the Joint Armed Services Committee. The files revealed corrupt activities of several presidents, numerous federal officials and the CIA. Immediately after McDonald let it be known that he was going to reveal the information, including information on the CIA’s drug smuggling activities, his plane was shot down. Bush’s Zapata Petroleum Co. (later Zapata Offshore), with upwards of 600 branches worldwide, is reportedly used for the CIA’s intelligence gathering. (Bush had begun his career working for International Derrick and Equipment Company, a subsidiary of the Houston-based Dresser Industries—a long-time CIA cover. Dresser’s Chairman, Henry Neil Mallon, who offered Bush the job, was a friend of Prescott’s and a fellow Skull and Bonseman.) Some sources, including covert operatives interviewed by Stich, contend that Zapata’s offshore drilling rigs, located beyond the U.S. jurisdictional limit, are centers for transferring large quantities of illicit drugs and other contraband. CIA cable analyst Michael Maholy told Stich that he personally witnessed numerous drug flights while working on Zapata rigs, and was told to forget what he had seen. The operation was run through Rowan International. “Rowan International was a cover for a branch of Zapata Oil,” says Maholy. Three of the propietaries involved were the CIA-connected Evergreen (owned by Raytheon; see Chapter XX), Southern Air Transport, and Pacific Seafood. Maholy says he worked directly under George Bush and Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. These people and their accomplices and agents, made hundreds of millions of dollars bringing drugs into the U.S. over the years.[*] Implicated in the Venezuelan operation were naval officer Lizardo Marquez Perez, Mossad agent Michael Harari, CIA officer Dewy Duane Clarridge, Army lieutenant General Paul Gorman, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Washington DEA Chief Ron Caffrey, Oliver North, Pacific Seafood’s Russell Hebert and others. Maholy says Bill Clinton was also in the loop. “...not only was I arrested four blocks from the then-Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton’s mansion,” says Maholy, “but I was also involved in the ‘Mena, Arkansas’ incident. Our drugs were going to many of the high-ranking state and government officials in Arkansas. Roger Clinton (Clinton’s brother) was one of our better customers.”[79*] Former CIA operatives Russell Bowen, Tosh Plumlee, Gunther Russbacher, Chip Tatum and others confirmed much of Maholy’s story.[8<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/alien.gif ALT="0]"> Some of the money, according to former CIA operative Richard Brenneke, was banked at the infamous Nazi-connected Brown Brothers-Harriman Bank. Brenneke testified under oath that he opened an account there for Bush’s operation in 1980. The money was funneled through the John Gotti organized crime family.[81] Another bank used for hiding Bush’s secret accounts was the Hawaii-based Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong—a CIA propietary that in part took over the failed CIA Nugan-Hand Bank of Australia. Agency operative Ronald Rewald told Stich that he personally set up accounts for Bush under the aliases “Irwin M. Peach” and “Mr. Bramble.”[82] According to former LAPD Narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, two key men in the drug pipeline were Ted Shackley and George Bush. Shackley, a CIA Deputy Director, had reportedly played the key role in smuggling heroin out of South-East Asia when he was Saigon Station Chief, as popularized by the movie “Air America.”[*] In 1976, Bush would appoint his friend Shackley as Associate Deputy Director of Operations—the third most powerful position in the CIA. Shackley had been in charge of the Miami CIA station that had been running the Agency’s anti-Castro activities, and was a key architect of the CIA’s “low intensity conflict” operations in Central America (death squads modeled after the Agency’s murderous Phoenix Operation in Viet Nam). Fired by the Agency in 1979, Shackley would re-emerge in the early 1980s as an integral player in Iran-Contra, meeting frequently with Bush at his Arlington, VA home.[83] As Ruppert states: “Both men are central to the drug trafficking by CIA and NSC which became epidemic in the Iran-Contra era.” A report by the Costa Rican government states that Oliver North, John Hull, and a number of other Americans were deeply involved in the drug trafficking in the area.[84] When DEA agent Celerino “Cele” Castillo naively tried to inform Bush of the high-level drug running at a cocktail party in Guatemala City in 1986, he said, “Bush just smiled, shook my hand and walked away.”[85] As former CIA operative Phillip Agee told the Associated Press in January of 1990: “Bush is up to his neck in illegal drug running on behalf of the Contras.”[86*] These allegations would be repeated by numerous others. One man who decided to blow the whistle was former CIA operative Richard Brenneke. As Brenneke stated in a sworn deposition before Congressman William Alexander, Jr., and Chad Farris, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Arkansas: A. ...As far back as 1968 and early ‘69, we had begun to launder money from organized crime families in New York. At that time, Mr. Gotti was an up-and-coming member of the families. I got to know them at that time. We used to wash their money out overseas and put it in Switzerland in nice, safe places for them. Q. So you worked for Mr. Gotti as well as for the CIA? A. Actually the CIA told me to do that on his behalf. Q. So the CIA was in, would you say, partnership or association with Mr. Gotti? A. Yes, sir. I would say a partnership. Q. And can you describe the nature of that partnership? A. Sure. The organized crime members had a need for two things: they needed drugs brought into the country on a reliable, safe basis; they needed people taken out of the country or people brought into the country without alerting customs or INS to the fact that they were being brought into the country; they also needed their money taken offshore so that it would not be subject to United States tax where they might have to declare its source. And so we performed these kinds of functions for them. Q. Mr. Brenneke, are you saying that the CIA was in the business of bringing drugs into the United States? A. Yes, sir. That’s exactly what I’m saying. (snip) Q. Can you recall any conversations you had with any of the CIA agents about the money, and tell us the nature of that conversation, the scope of it? A. Sure. When I found that we were bringing drugs into the United States, and that we were receiving money which was being put into accounts which I knew to belong to the United States Government, as I’d set them up specifically for that purpose, I called Mr. Don Gregg, who was a CIA officer with whom I was acquainted, and complained about the nature of what we were doing. Q. Now, who is Mr. Don Gregg? A. At that time, he was... Vice President George Bush’s National Security Advisor.... Q. And can you tell us what you remember about that conversation? A. I surely can. I was told that it was not my business, what I was flying in and out of the country. That I was hired to do specific things, and if I would do those things and not pay any attention to anything else, we would all be very happy. I didn’t like that. Q. Well, what else did he say? A. Shut up and do your job.[87] <a href="http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_world_class_criminal.html">www.voxfux.com/features/b...minal.html</a> Chip Tatum <a href="http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/the_pegasus_file-part1.htm">www.deepblacklies.co.uk/t...-part1.htm</a>

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:30 pm**

Wonderful link. While I have to read your story in depth. Here's one of my favourite stories: Drugs, the CIA and Faustian Alliances by John Stanton <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca">www.globalresearch.ca</a> 28 June 2004 The URL of this article is: <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/articles/STA406B.html">globalresearch.ca/articles/STA406B.html</a> Drugs, Faustian Alliances and Sibel Edmonds Taking Turkey as the focal point and with a start date of 1998, it is easy to speculate why Sibel Edmonds indicated that there was a convergence of US and foreign counter- narcotics, counter-terrorism and US national security and economic interests all of which were too preoccupied to surface critical information warning Americans of the attacks of September 11, 2001. After all, who would have believed drug runners operating in Central Asia? And besides, President Clinton was promoting Turkey, one of the world’s top drug transit points, as a model for Muslim-Western cooperation and a country necessary to reshape the Middle East. The FBI’s Office of International Operations, in conjunction with the CIA and the US State Department counter-narcotics section, the United Kingdom’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Pakistan’s ISI, the US DEA, Turkey’s MIT, and the governments and intelligence agencies of dozens of nations, were in one way or another involved in the illicit drug trade either trying to stop it or benefit from it. What can be surmised from the public record is that from 1998 to September 10, 2001, the War on Drugs kept bumping into the nascent War on Terror and new directions in US foreign policy. It’s easy to imagine the thousands of drug couriers, middlemen, financiers and lab technicians moving back and forth between Pakistan and Turkey, and over to Western Europe and the United States, and the tidbits of information they gleaned from their sponsors as they traveled. As information gathering assets for the intelligence agencies of the world, they must have been invaluable. And given the dozens of foreign intelligence services working the in the counter-narcotics/terrorism fields, the "chatter" that just dozens of well-placed operatives may have overheard about attacks against Western targets must have found its way into the US intelligence apparatus. But, again, who could believe the audacity of non-state actors organizing a domestic attack against the supreme power of the day, the USA? Implementing a new strategic direction and business deals may have overcome the wacky warnings from the counter-narcotics folks. Back in the late 1990’s and early 2000, who would have believed the rants of a drug courier from Afghanistan saying that some guy named Bin Laden was going to attack America, particularly if it involved America’s newest friend, Turkey? Or that a grand design to reshape Central Asia and the Middle East with Turkey and Israel as pivot points was being pushed by the Clinton Administration as a matter of national policy. The historical record shows that the US War on Drugs and the nascent War on Terror kept colliding with not only within the US intelligence, policy and business apparatus, but also with European strategic and business interests. Turkey continues its push for entry into the European Union and the USA wants that to happen as the June 2004 meeting of NATO, and President Bush’s attendance under dangerous circumstances, in Turkey demonstrates. Turkey is one of the USA’s and Europe’s top arms buyers and is located near what could be some of the biggest oil and natural gas fields in the world. At this point it’s worth noting that the one of the FBI’s tasks is to counter industrial espionage and to engage in it. Where big arms sales pit the US against its European competitors--as is the case in Turkey (particularly starting in 1998)--the FBI is busy making sure the US gets the edge over its competition. Allies are friends only so far. Did warnings foretelling of an attack on American soil by Bin Laden’s crew get lost in the War on Drugs or the US national and economic interest in troublesome Turkey? It seems only Ms Edmonds knows. Turkey Cold to UK and USA Concerns In 1998, the US Department of State (DOS) was finally forced to admit that Turkey was a major refining and transit point for the flow of heroin from Southwest Asia to Western Europe, with small quantities of the stuff finding its way to the streets of the USA. In that same year, Kendal Nezan, writing for Le Monde Diplomatique, reported that MIT, and the Turkish National Police force were actively supporting the trade in illicit drugs not only for fun and profit, but out of desperation. "After the Gulf War in 1991, Turkey found itself deprived of the all-important Iraqi market and, since it lacked significant oil reserves of its own, it decided to make up for the loss by turning more massively to drugs. The trafficking increased in intensity with the arrival of the hawks in power, after the death in suspicious circumstances of President Turgut Özal in April 1993. According to the minister of interior, the war in Kurdistan had cost the Turkish exchequer upwards of $12.5 billion. According to the daily Hürriyet, Turkey’s heroin trafficking brought in $25 billion in 1995 and $37.5 billion in 1996...Only criminal networks working in close cooperation with the police and the army could possibly organize trafficking on such a scale. Drug barons have stated publicly, on Turkish television and in the West, that they have been working under the protection of the Turkish government and to its financial benefit. The traffickers themselves travel on diplomatic passports…the drugs are even transported by military helicopter from the Iranian border." Nowhere is the pain of Turkey’s role in the heroin trade felt more horribly than in the United Kingdom. According to London’s Letter written by a Member of Parliament, "The war against drugs and drug trafficking in Britain is huge. Turkish heroin in particular is a top priority for the MI6 and the Foreign Ministry. During his visit to the British Embassy in Ankara, the head of the Foreign Office’s Turkey Department was clear about this. He reassured an English journalist that the heroin trade was more important than billions of pounds worth off trade capacity and weapons selling. When the journalist in question told me about this, I was reminded of my teacher’s words at university in Ankara ten years ago. He was also working for the Turkish Foreign Ministry. The topic of a lecture discussion was about Turkey’s Economy and I still remember his words today, "50 billion dollars worth of foreign debt is nothing, it is two lorry loads of heroin..." Afghanistan: Top Opiate Producer and America’s Friend Both the DOS and the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) described in detail the transit routes and countries involved in getting the goods to Turkey. Intelligence organizations here and abroad must have sanctioned the role that they, and Turkey and Afghanistan, played in the process. "Afghanistan is the original source of most of the opiates reaching Turkey. Afghan opiates, and also hashish, are stockpiled at storage and staging areas in Pakistan, from where a ton or larger quantities are smuggled by overland vehicles to Turkey via Iran. Multi-ton quantities of opiates and hashish also are moved to coastal areas of Pakistan and Iran, where the drugs are loaded on ships waiting off-shore, which then smuggle the contraband to points in Turkey along the Mediterranean, Aegean, and/or Marmara seas. Opiates and hashish also are smuggled overland from Afghanistan via Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia to Turkey. Turkish-based traffickers and brokers operate directly and in conjunction with narcotic suppliers, smugglers, transporters, laboratory operators, drug distributors, money collectors, and money launderers in and outside Turkey. Traffickers in Turkey illegally acquire the precursor chemical acetic anhydride, which is used in the production of heroin, from sources in Western Europe, the Balkans, and Russia. During the 27- month period from July 1, 1999 to September 30, 2001, over 56 metric tons of illicit acetic anhydride were seized in or destined for Turkey." The Ankara Pact The Middle East Report concluded in 1998 that probably the greatest strategic move in the Clinton post-Cold War years is what could be called "The Ankara Pact" -- an alliance between the U.S., Turkey, and Israel that essentially circumvents and bottles up the Arab countries. Earlier in 1997, Turkish Prime Minister Yilmaz visited with Bill Clinton to ensure him that Turkey would attempt to improve its human rights record by slaughtering less Kurds, but also mentioned that if the US pushed too hard on that subject or if the US Congress adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution, Turkey might award a billion dollar contract for attack helicopters to a Europe or maybe even Russia. During this timeframe, and with approval from the USA, Turkey began to let contracts to Israel to upgrade its F-4, F-5 and F-16 aircraft. Pemra Hazbay, writing in the May 2004 issue of Peace Watch, reported that total Israeli arms sales to Turkey had exceeded $1 billion since 2000. "In December 1996, Israel won a deal worth $630 million to upgrade Turkey's fleet of fifty-four F-4 Phantom fighter jets. In 1998, Turkey awarded a $75 million contract to upgrade its fleet of 48 F-5 fighter jets to Israel Aircraft Industries' Lahav division, beating out strong French competition. In 2002, Turkey ratified its largest military deal with Israel, a $700 million contract for the renovation of Turkish tanks." But that pales in comparison to the $20 billion in US arms exports and military aid dealt to Turkey over the last 24 years. Then in 1999 came a news item from a publication known as the Foreign Report based in the United Kingdom. That publication indicated that "Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, had expanded its base in Turkey and opened branches in Turkey for other two departments stationed in Tel Aviv. The Mossad carried out several spy operations and plans through its elements stationed in Istanbul and Ankara, where it received support and full cooperation from the Turkish government. According to the military cooperation agreement between the Mossad and its Turkish counterpart, the MIT, signed by former Turkish Foreign Minister Hekmet Citen during his visit to Israel in 1993, the Mossad had provided Turkey with plans aiding it in closing its border with Iraq, as well as being involved in the arrest the chairman of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan." That agreement also included help with counter-narcotics. Earlier in 1998, Israeli, Turkish and American military forces engaged in exercises in the Mediterranean, according to Reuters and Agencie France Press. ``[These exercises] signal to the radical states in the region that there is a strong alliance between Israel, Turkey and the United States which they must fear, Israeli political scientist Efraim Inbar said. Defense officials said during last month's visit to Ankara that they hoped the Jewish lobby in Washington would help Turkey offset Greek and Armenian influence on Capitol Hill. That's certainly part of this. They expect us to help them and we do help them a bit, said David Ivri, an adviser who directs biannual strategy talks with Turkey." Reports also indicated that the CIA and Pentagon intelligence organizations had regularly chaired meetings of Turkish and Israeli officers in Tel Aviv for years. DEA & FBI Prior to the US invasion of Afghanistan, the DEA monitored the Afghanistan drug trade from its two offices in Pakistan: The Islamabad Country Office and the Peshawar Resident Office. In addition to Pakistan and Afghanistan, the DEA Islamabad Country Office also includes in its area of responsibility Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Asa Hutchinson, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, testified in October 2001 that DEA intelligence confirmed the presence of a linkage between Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and international terrorist Osama Bin Laden. He went on to say that although DEA had no direct evidence to confirm that Bin Laden is involved in the drug trade, the relationship between the Taliban and Bin Laden is believed to have flourished in large part due to the Taliban’s substantial reliance on the opium trade as a source of organizational revenue. "While the activities of the two entities do not always follow the same trajectory, we know that drugs and terror frequently share the common ground of geography, money, and violence. In this respect, the very sanctuary enjoyed by Bin Laden is based on the existence of the Taliban’s support for the drug trade. This connection defines the deadly, symbiotic relationship between the illicit drug trade and international terrorism." Meanwhile, back at the FBI, the Office of International Operations oversees the Legal Attaché Program operating at 46 locations around the world. The operation maintains contact with Interpol, other US federal agencies such as the CIA and military agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency, and foreign police and security officers. Its job is to investigate or counter threats from foreign intelligence, terrorists and criminal enterprises that threaten the national or economic security of the USA. It coordinates its activities with all US and foreign intelligence operations. In 2000, it opened offices in Ankara, Turkey and Almaty, Kazakhstan. Since 1996, it has had offices in Islamabad, [[Pakistan] and Tele Aviv, Israel. In 1997 it opened one in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Combined, these offices monitor the entire Middle East, Persian Gulf and Central Asian threat areas developing thousands of "investigative leads". Ms Edmonds has given the American people leads that show that they are easily sacrificed for a perceived greater good. John Stanton is a Virginia based writer specializing in national security and political issues. His forthcoming book is America 2004: A Power But Not Super. He is the author, along with Wayne Madsen, of America’s Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II. Reach him at cioran123@yahoo.com Related Global Research article The Spoils of War: Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade by Michel Chossudovsky <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO404A.html">globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO404A.html</a> To express your opinion on this article, join the discussion at Global Research's News and Discussion Forum , at <a href="http://globalresearch.ca.myforums.net/index.php">globalresearch.ca.myforums.net/index.php</a> The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) at www.globalresearch.ca grants permission to cross- post original Global Research (Canada) articles in their entirety, or any portions thereof, on community internet sites, as long as the text & title of the article are not modified. The source must be acknowledged as follows: Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) at www.globalresearch.ca . For cross-postings, kindly use the active URL hyperlink address of the original CRG article. 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Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:36 pm**

If you have a streamripper, you are well advised to rip the following 2 hour documentary, since it's very in depth about the War On Drugs and you'll never know how long those links are going to be working. <a href="http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/bb.20030622.rm">cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/str...0030622.rm</a> <a href="http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/bb.20030629.rm">cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/str...0030629.rm</a>

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:46 pm**

Octafish's Know your BFEE: Dope Dealers & Money Launderers Ask: Why is dope illegal? Answer: There’s more money in it. Wonder: Who benefits most? <img src="http://wizbangblog.com/images/bush41bush43.jpg" style="border:0;"/> <blockquote>Quote:<hr> The CIA & Drugs: Narco Colonialism in the 20th Century EXCERPT... "For decades, the CIA, the Pentagon, and secret organizations like Oliver North's Enterprise have been supporting and protecting the world's biggest drug dealers.... The Contras and some of their Central American allies ... have been documented by DEA as supplying ... at least 50 percent of our national cocaine consumption. They were the main conduit to the United States for Colombian cocaine during the 1980's. The rest of the drug supply ... came from other CIA-supported groups, such as DFS (the Mexican CIA) ... other groups and/or individuals like Manual Noriega." (Ex-DEA agent Michael Levine: The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic) Former Congessional Investigator Jack Blum, on the structure of CIA narco-colonialism: "For criminal organizations, participating in covert operations offers much more than money. They may get a voice in selecting the new government. They may get a government that owes them for help in coming to power. They may be able to use their connections with the United States government to enhance their political power at home and towave off the efforts of the American law enforcement community."(Prepared October 1996 statement of Jack Blum (former special counsel to the 1987 "Kerry" Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations) for the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by Senator Arlen Specter) "We also became aware of deep connections between the law-enforcement community and the intelligence community. I, personally, repeatedly heard from prosecutors and people in the law-enforcement world that CIA agents were required to sit in on the debriefing of various people who were being questioned about the drug trade. They were required to be present when witnesses were being prepped for certain drug trials. At various times the intelligence community inserted itself in that legal process. I believe that that was an impropriety; that that should not have occurred."(Jack Blum, speaking before the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by Senator Arlen Specter). "In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA." -- Dennis Dayle, former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit. FROM: Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Berkeley: U. of CA Press, 1991, pp. x-xi. Taken alone, one CIA drug ring, that of Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo (two Contra supporters based in Guadalajara, Mexico) were known by DEA to be smuggling four tons A MONTH into the U.S. during the early Contra war. Other operations including Manuel Noriega (a CIA asset, strongman leader of Panama), John Hull (ranch owner and CIA asset, Costa Rica), Felix Rodriguez (Contra supporter, El Salvador), Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros (Honduran Military, Contra supporter, Honduras) along with other elements of the Guatemalan and Honduran military. Cumulatively, the aforementioned CIA assets were concurrently trafficking close totwo hundred tons a year or close to 70% of total U.S. consumption. All of these CIA assets have been ascertained as being connected to CIA via public documentation and testimony. -- from the outline section of this web site: ( <a href="http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/outline.html">ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/outline.html</a> ) CONTINUED WITH LINKS N' SOURCES N' BFEE (SECRET GOVERNMENT) CONSPIRACY STUFF... <a href="http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files">ciadrugs.homestead.com/files</a> <hr></blockquote> <img src="http://www.redvoltaire.net/IMG/jpg/north390.jpg" style="border:0;"/> “I was authorized to do everything I did.” Further reading at: <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3783153">www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3783153</a>

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:58 pm**

Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" Returns to the Web. <a href="http://narconews.com/docs/disclosures.html" target="top">narconews.com/docs/disclosures.html</a> Thanks to The Narco News Bulletin, (narconews.com), Gary Webb's groundbreaking piece of investigative journalism has been restored to the internet. If you are unfamiliar with Webb's story, it can be summed up like this; with a lot of hard work, Webb was able to flesh out the stories about CIA-linked cocaine sales in the United States. (Reminder: cocaine is a banned substance.) He did his research, and came up with documentary evidence to substantiate his claims, and the story "Dark Alliance" was published in 1996 by the San Jose Mercury News. They created a website to go along with the story, and Webb says at the height of the website's popularity was getting a million hits a day. The goverment's response was no response. Instead, mainstream media killed the story for Reagan and co. by saying, "Hey, it's not true. Never happened." The charge was led by the Washington Post, and soon 'the liberal media' was downplaying Webb's accusations in chorus. But truth never dies. Here is "Dark Alliance" restored to its former glory. <a href="http://narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm" target="top">narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm</a> Consortium News: America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2004/121304.html" target="top">www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2004/121304.html</a> Narco News: Gary Webb: Do What He Did <a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/12/15/184725/08" target="top">narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/12/15/184725/08</a> Guerilla News: Gary Webb: In His Own Words <a href="http://www.gnn.tv/videos/video.php?id=30" target="top">www.gnn.tv/videos/video.php?id=30</a>

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:46 pm**

One little point about Bo Gritz since you've mentioned him. Bo is a wonderful source during the period when he had a fight poppy bush and then tried to run for president, because he was pretty mad at George H.W. Bush screwing him over the POWs in Vietnam. The information he gave during that period always checks out and is correct and is usually very valuable information which is hard to find, but afterwards he returned to his spook job. He was originally a Defense Intelligence Agency officer and went to work for Howard Hughes as well. It seems that he resolved his disagreements after running for President and has been operating as an agent provocateur for the right winged libertarians since then. So as far as Gritz go. During his fight with poppy and his attempt at becoming the president, his information is excellent and always checks out. Afterwards the information of James Gritz cannot be relied upon. See also: <a href="http://www.conspiracyworld.com/index0071.htm">www.conspiracyworld.com/index0071.htm</a>

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:50 pm**

DeD In the bush family photo did the lovely father/son just come back from a shape shifting extravaganza??? they look so tired..nothing like a gin and tonic and some SNOW to get ya back on the go and glow!! ya know??

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:07 pm**

> did the lovely father/son just come back from a shape shifting extravaganza??? Well it's very tiring thinking of new ways to abuse the sheeple. Also dad looks a bit tired of hanging around his idiot son and son is not allowed to drink or snort in front of dad, so he is pissed off as well.

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:25 pm**

I am trying to not bash YALU..those doctors from Yale saved my dads life.. its just so coincidental that Yale U has had a grip on the US Executive branch since 1980..when opium poppy was VP..but really it goes back further to his CIA directorship under Ford from 74-76.. only 76-80 was there no yale in exec or any other power office..I think? BUT why are not people connecting dots..? Oh its a prestigious university..!! yeh well how come .. we in this mess ..or is this the mess that all prestigous universities do ??? how does Yale U rule the USA and how does Yale U benefit???

Posted: **Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:29 pm**

Institutions don't wield power, human beings do. Institutions are merely their capacitors, so to speak. That'a one of my big problems with "answers" like "it's the Masons", "it's the CIA", it's the Knights of Malta", etc. Name names, of authenticated human beings, with real locations in physical space-time, addresses, places of business, documented histories, etc.

Posted: **Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:05 pm**

... for all the good it will do, still people DO persist and do patient, thorough, rigorous, methodical research to uncover what people in positions of tremendous power and authority do their best to keep well-hidden and buried beneath layers of deep cover and within distributed compartments -- and which not a few people have been killed for digging too hard or getting too close to something. The Catbird Seat: Info and Links exposing some of the most corrupt, shady businesses and individuals and government ties to frauds and crimes -- Great Resource -- The sheer scale of endemic corruption revealed here is absolutely mind-bending and ill-making, that can easily overcome one with a sense of hopeless despair that the filthy rot can ever be excised and the nation saved from internal decay. Kinda heartbreaking. Clearly, the reason so many people get away with enormous, unprecedented crimes is because they USE the power of institutions to their advantage. <a href="http://www.the-catbird-seat.net/Catbird1.htm">www.the-catbird-seat.net/Catbird1.htm</a> Starman -sigh- <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smokin.gif ALT=":smokin">

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