| "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) ... [and] other groups and/or individuals
like Manual Noriega." (Ex-DEA
agent
Michael Levine:
The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic) |
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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). |
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| "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: (http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/outline.html) |
"Here's my problem. I think
that if people in the government of the United States make a secret decision
to sacrifice some portion of the American population in the form of ...
deliberately exposing them to drugs, that is a terrible decision that should
never be made in secret."
(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).
"The CIA functionally gains
influence and control in governments corrupted by criminal narco-trafficking.
Politically, the CIA exerts influence by leveraging narco-militarists
and corrupted politicians... This is really NEO-narco-colonialism,
whereby local criminal proxies do the bidding of the patron government
seeking expanded influence. But because of the quid-pro-quo of protecting
the criminal proxies' illicit pipelines, the result is still a functional
narco-colonialism, involving a narcotics commodity in the actual practical
execution of policy, with the very different twist of covert action."
--
from the analysis section of this web site:
(http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/analysis.html) |
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