Celerino Castillo
 Celerino Castillo    (spook, whistleblower) | |
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| Born | 1949 |
| Alma mater | University of Texas–Pan American |
| Exposed | • “Iran-Contra” • CIA/Drug trafficking • Operation Fast and Furious |
A former DEA agent who exposed deep state involvement in drug trafficking. | |
Celerino Castillo provided first hand testimony to the US Senate House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He told the Senators of his direct personal knowledge of massive CIA complicity in the drug trade. In 1975, he was closely involved in Operation Watchtower, a CIA run series of missions. Watch-Tower was pure "black ops," dedicated to shipping massive quantities of Cocaine from Bogata, Columbia, to Panama and onward to the United States for distribution. Directed by the CIA's ace field agents, Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil, the operation was also supported by the Mossad.[1]
Publications
In 1994 he published POWDERBURNS - Cocaine, Contras and The Drug War a TV exclusives on ABC's Primetime Live, Dateline NBC, and The Discovery Channel.
Later exposures
In 2008 (three years before Operation Fast and Furious was exposed publicly) Castillo made the revelation to reporter Bill Conroy that ATF agents were smuggling high powered weapons into Mexico. According to Castillo the source of that information was a government informer who was later murdered.
