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The late [[Gary Webb]] did more to break the news of CIA Drug trafficking than anyone else, compiling exhaustive evidence in [[1996]] which was put on [[WWW]] and named names of those involved. The {{ccm}} and the establishment in general showed little interest, even when he published the material in 1998 as ''[[Dark Alliance]]''. On November 15, 1996, [[Mike Ruppert]] dramatically confronted [[CIA Director]] [[John Deutch]] and testified that he has personally witnessed CIA complicity in drug trafficking.<ref>http://unwelcomeguests.net/23</ref><ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/162</ref> After a moment of confusion, Deutch asked for Ruppert to submit evidence, and promised to follow up - Ruppert submitted evidence, which was again ignored.
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One of the first systematic treatments of CIA drug dealing was [[Alfred W. McCoy]]'s 1972 book, ''[[The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia]]''. The late [[Gary Webb]] did more to break the news of CIA Drug trafficking than anyone else, compiling exhaustive evidence in [[1996]] which was put on [[WWW]] and named names of those involved. The {{ccm}} and the establishment in general showed little interest, (even when he published the material in 1998 as ''[[Dark Alliance]]''). On November 15, 1996, [[Mike Ruppert]] dramatically confronted [[CIA Director]] [[John Deutch]] and testified that he has personally witnessed CIA complicity in drug trafficking.<ref>http://unwelcomeguests.net/23</ref><ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/162</ref> After a moment of confusion, Deutch asked for Ruppert to submit evidence, and promised to follow up - Ruppert submitted evidence, which was again ignored. Innumerable independent efforts on the [[internet]] have probably done more to expose the CIA's drug dealing than any reporting in the {{ccm}}.
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In 1972, [[Alfred W. McCoy]] published ''[[The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia]]'', a groundbreaking expose of CIA involvement in the [[heroin]] trade which had burgeoned during the [[Vietnam War]].
 
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The events misleadingly dubbed "[[Iran-Contra]]" by the [[corporate media]] featured large scale drug trafficking centered on a remote airport in [[Mena]], [[Arkansas]]. This was orchestrated by a team of [[deep state actor]]s as [[Barry Seal]], [[Felix Rodriguez]], quite probably on the initiative of [[George H. W. Bush]]{{cn}}. Ex-CIA [[Terry Reed]] admitted to involvement in training contra pilots, but states that he originally knew nothing of the drug angle until he found tonnes of cocaine moving through his warehouse.<ref>[[The Mena Connection]]</ref>
 
 
 
[[Michael Levine]], a 25-year veteran of the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]], stated that:
 
{{QB|"I have put thousands of Americans away for tens of thousands of years for less evidence for conspiracy with less evidence than is available against [[Ollie North]] and CIA people... I personally was involved in a deep-cover case that went to the top of the drug world in three countries. The CIA killed it."<br/>
 
CNBC-TV, October 8, 1996<ref>http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.php#ixzz40Fpk7O5K</ref>}}
 
 
 
===Pilot whistleblowers===
 
[[Bo Abbott]] and [[Tosh Plumlee]] have admitted to flying drugs for the [[CIA]] by the planeload into USA.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/717</ref> Others such as [[Celerino Castillo]] and [[Terry Reed]] have provided detailed and sworn corroborating testimony. A 1996 affidavit by [[Chip Tatum]] claims the same thing and names [[William Barr]], [[Buddy Young]], [[Felix Rodriguez]], [[Oliver North]], [[Joe Fernandez]], [[Manuel Noriega]] and [[Mike Harari]]. He further claimed that [[George H. W. Bush]], [[Oliver North]] and [[Bill Clinton]] were in the loop via satellite phone.<ref>http://www.stewwebb.com/Gene_Tatum_Affadavit_19960815.html</ref>
 
 
 
===Mega busts===
 
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Various CIA linked planes have been involved in shipping cocaine into US by the ton, most notably the [[2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust]] ('Cocaine 1') and the [[2007 Yucatan Gulfstream drug crash|crash in 2007]] ('Cocaine 2'). (Former) CIA ownership of the planes is certainly telling, as is their use for "[[extraordinary rendition]]" but even more clear has been the failure to prosecute, investigate or even report basic details of these events, suggesting that their owners have the ''de facto'' ability to control the {{ccm}}. The most recent of these deep events was [[Western Global Airlines N545JN]], flying cash to [[South Africa]].
 
 
 
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The [[internet]] has proved an invaluable medium for circumventing the CIA's [[control of the corporate media]] and exposing their control of the [[global drug trade]], enabling [[Gary Webb]] in 1998 to get up to a million hits a day in his exposure of Dark Alliance.
 
  
 
==Premature deaths==
 
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Revision as of 02:43, 8 January 2019

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Exposed byBo Abbott, Richard Brenneke, Celerino Castillo, Daniel Hopsicker, Michael Levine, Terry Reed, Joël van der Reijden, Chip Tatum, Gary Webb
Interest ofPeter Abeles, Paul Lir Alexander, Jack Blum, Christic Institute, Bill Conroy, Bo Gritz, Guerrilla News Network, Paul Helliwell, Alfred McCoy, Jose Rodriguez, Michael Ruppert, Phao Siyanon, Gary Webb
SubpageCIA/Drug trafficking/Cover-up
CIA/Drug trafficking/Exposure
CIA/Drug trafficking/Premature death

Drug trafficking by the CIA has been a huge source of funds for the CIA/Black budget over the years. Joël van der Reijden names this area as one of the most important covered up conspiracies of all time. A relatively ad hoc affair in the days of the Vietnam War, the process has been upscaled in recent years and now appears well integrated with US/Foreign Policy.

Official narrative

Wikipedia has a page entitled "Allegations of CIA drug trafficking", as if there were any doubt as to the matter. As of 2018, there was also a page on "CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking"[1] a limited hangout, the lead paragraph of which concludes that "The subject remains controversial." The official line still promoted as of 2017 by corporate media such as the BBC denies that the CIA has been systematically trafficking in drugs for decades.[2] This is an highly selective interpretation of the available evidence, which Eric Umansky summarised in a 1998 Mother Jones article under the headline: "The CIA has a long and sordid history with drug traffickers. And it’s all in the Congressional Record."[3]

Origins

CIA spooks have been connected to drug traffickers even before the agency was formally set up,[4] In 1955 Colonel Edward Lansdale demanded the French Intelligence and the Corsican Mafia give up their control of the heroin trade from the Golden Triangle. They refused and a battle ensued in which the CIA had emerged victorious by 1956.[5] The Vietnam War was by many accounts a tremendous boost to its scaling up of operations.[citation needed]

Exposure

Full article: CIA/Drug trafficking/Exposure

One of the first systematic treatments of CIA drug dealing was Alfred W. McCoy's 1972 book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. The late Gary Webb did more to break the news of CIA Drug trafficking than anyone else, compiling exhaustive evidence in 1996 which was put on WWW and named names of those involved. The commercially-controlled media and the establishment in general showed little interest, (even when he published the material in 1998 as Dark Alliance). On November 15, 1996, Mike Ruppert dramatically confronted CIA Director John Deutch and testified that he has personally witnessed CIA complicity in drug trafficking.[6][7] After a moment of confusion, Deutch asked for Ruppert to submit evidence, and promised to follow up - Ruppert submitted evidence, which was again ignored. Innumerable independent efforts on the internet have probably done more to expose the CIA's drug dealing than any reporting in the commercially-controlled media.

Premature deaths

Full article: CIA/Drug trafficking/Premature deaths
Bo Abbott, who appears to have disappeared after testifying about his drug smuggling flights

Dozens (at least) of people connected to the CIA drug trafficking have suffered premature deaths of one sort or another. Prominent among these is Gary Webb, the journalist who broke the story with his 1996 Dark Alliance expose. Officially, depression lead him to shoot himself twice in the head. Various CIA pilots have suffered sudden death, sometimes just before or after testifying. A leading CIA pilot, Barry Seal, was assassinated when confined due to his bail conditions. Edward Cutolo died a supposedly accidental death after having signed an affidavit that helped expose Operation Watchtower. Bo Abbott, who also testified, appears to have disappeared.

Drug routes

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Gary Webb detailed many import routes from South America to USA, increasing in volume over time. Many witnesses have stated that the hub of CIA cocaine delivery in USA used to be Mena, Arkansas. The USA's invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 saw a huge rise in the cultivation of opium. Sibel Edmonds states that most of this is shipped in military planes via Turkey.[8]

Extraordinary rendition

Planes used for "extraordinary rendition" have also been used to traffic drugs (see for example Cocaine 1 or Cocaine 2), suggesting the possibility that they might be used for both purposes simultaneously, that extradition routes might yield insight into smuggling routes.

Money laundering

Drug trafficking operations tend to require money laundering of some kind. One CIA connected plane that might provide insight into this process is Western Global Airlines N545JN which landed in Harare with a dead body and 67 tonnes of fresh banknotes. As with the 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust, no legal proceedings ensued and the plane was allowed to proceed unhindered.

 

Examples

Page nameDescription
2014 Australia turboprop drug bust35 kg of heroin were accidentally found by local police aboard a CIA plane
Air AmericaA CIA front company
Angel FireA hub of deep state guns and drug running in the 1980s, similar to Mena, Arkansas, but much less known.
Mena/Intermountain Municipal AirportCenter of drug trafficking in the 80s.
Operation WatchtowerA project to streamline clandestine drug importation into USA

 

Related Quotations

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Rudi Dekkers“A few months ago Rudi wanted to visit, drink some beers. But he never showed up. He said over the phone 'I've never been so poor in my life'. I saw him making beautiful trips to South America and Middle America. In light of recent developments, maybe you need to place questions at that.”Rudi Dekkers
Arne Kruithof
2012
Federal Aviation Administration“the FAA system for registering airplanes is little-changed from when it was started back in the good ol boy days of the 1930's. Each plane has a paper folder, for example, stuffed with all correspondence regarding airworthiness and ownership relating to that plane. Its an antiquated system which some feel is kept deliberately in place to encourage a certain ambiguity when a plane is interdicted. When a change of registration is mailed in, the FAA places a plane's folder in what they call "suspense". That's a tremendous inducement to anyone with a chance of having a plane nabbed to keep floating sales in progress. The CIA, for example, is very adept at keeping files on its planes "in suspense".”Daniel Hopsicker2009
Federal Aviation Administration“FAA requirements in the air charter business are so minimal, one aviation executive told us, that all you need to go into business is a cell phone and a pair of sunglasses. The lack of oversight may be intentional. A surprising number of politically-powerful and well-connected Americans have been tainted through their ownership of planes caught ferrying large (in some cases multi-ton) loads of cocaine into the U. S.”2009
Journalist“This story of CIA drug dealing became a sensation because of the website, not because of the story, but because people could get to it. And they could never have gotten to it before because the San Jose Mercury News is a small regional newspaper in Northern California that you couldn't read if you lived in New York or you couldn't read if you lived in L.A.. But this story you could read anywhere in the world.”Gary Webb2003
Jesse Katz“The crack epidemic in Los Angeles followed no blueprint or master plan. It was not orchestrated by the Contras or the CIA or any single drug ring. No one trafficker, even the kingpins who sold thousands of kilos and pocketed millions of dollars, ever came close to monopolizing the trade... How the crack epidemic reached that extreme, on some level, had nothing to do with Ross... [who was one of many] interchangeable characters... dwarfed by [other dealers].”Jesse Katz20 October 1996
Michael Levine“I have put thousands of Americans away for tens of thousands of years for less evidence for conspiracy with less evidence than is available against Ollie North and CIA people... I personally was involved in a deep-cover case that went to the top of the drug world in three countries. The CIA killed it.”Michael Levine8 October 1996
Oliver North“Wanted aircraft to go to Bolivia to pick up paste. Want aircraft to pick up 1,500 kilos.”Oliver North9 July 1984
Oliver North“Honduran DC-6 which is being used for runs out of New Orleans is probably being used for drug runs into U.S.”Oliver North9 August 1984
Oliver North“$14M [million] to finance came from drugs.”Oliver North12 July 1985
Mort SahlGarrison was the man and he's quite correct. These people, they don't say anything, they just sit there. They don't challenge any of the reports or any of the conclusions [about the JFK assassination]. They left me out there. For me to go on the air and say that the CIA is the #1 dope dealer and adventurers within the CIA will bank the money from the [drug] imports from South East Asia and not to get a letter to challenge it or ask for documentation. Not to hear from anyone. And to know that that went out over 211 television stations to an audience of between 9 and 14 million. The silence is deafening. How can that be? How can you get no reaction? Where are we? What the hell is this, 1984?”Mort Sahl1970

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Affidavit of William CaseyWikispooks PageWilliam CaseyAn admission by William Casey, DCI, that he approved smuggling of cocaine into USA, having chosen Mena, Arkansas as a shipment point, with the support of Bill Clinton and Bill Weld. Casey names a range of names, including John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, Oliver North and William Colby, the CIA, NSA and ASA.
Document:Holy Smoke and Mirrorsarticle2000David GuyattA wide ranging overview into the history of the modern supranational deep state, with an emphasis on overall connections and interactions of groups and people, rather than on particular events and dates.


Rating

4star.png 30 November 2018 Robin  A solid introduction to this major activity of the US Deep state.
Not particularly well structured, but this page contains links to a lot of hard evidence that the CIA has owned the cocaine import business into the US for decades, and also profits from a lot of the rest of the world's drug illegal trading.
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