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Nicaragua: CIA-contra drug charges resurface
Submitted by Weekly News Update... on Tue, 11/05/2013 - 00:37 Central America Theater
The torture death of US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique ("Kiki" Camarena near Guadalajara in the western Mexican state of Jalisco in February 1985 was linked to drug running by the US-backed "contra" rebels seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua, according to two former DEA agents and a former pilot for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Camarena was kidnapped by criminals working for Rafael Caro Quintero, a founder of the so-called Guadalajara Cartel, and was executed at one of Caro Quintero's ranches. According to the US, the cartel targeted Camarena because he had uncovered Caro Quintero's marijuana growing and processing operation. Under pressure from the US, the Mexican government eventually captured Caro Quintero and sentenced him to 60 years in prison for Camarena's murder.
The new allegations appeared on an Oct. 10 broadcast by the right-wing US-based Fox television network and in an Oct. 12 article published by the left-leaning Mexican weekly Proceso. Both reports were based on interviews with Phil Jordan, an ex-director of the DEA's El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC); former DEA agent Héctor Berrellez, who said he directed the investigation of Camarena's death; and Tosh Plumlee, who worked as a pilot for SETCO, a CIA-linked airline that flew military supplies to the contras. It isn't clear why Fox chose to air the allegations now, but attention on the Camarena murder increased after a Mexican judge released Caro Quintero from prison on a technicality on Aug. 9 of this year.
According to the Fox and Proceso reports, CIA operatives had infiltrated Mexico's now-defunct Federal Security Directorate (DFS), many of whose agents provided protection for Caro Quintero's criminal activities in the 1980s, including the Camarena kidnapping and murder. CIA infiltrators were present when the DEA agent was killed, the reports allege. "I was told by Mexican authorities
that CIA operatives were in there," Jordan said to Fox News. "Actually conducting the interrogation. Actually taping Kiki." Ex-DEA agent Berrellez gave Proceso the name of at least one CIA operative he claimed was involved. "Two witnesses identified Félix Ismael Rodríguez," he said.
The Cuban-born Félix Rodríguez was a long-time US agent who was active in the Bay of Pigs invasion, in the Vietnam war and in the October 1967 execution of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ("Che" Guevara in Bolivia. In the middle 1980s Rodríguez was in El Salvador working with another Cuban-born agent, Luis Posada Carriles, supplying contra operations. According to the Proceso report, Rodríguez introduced the Honduran drug trafficker Juan Matta Ballesteros to the Guadalajara cartel. Matta allegedly used his Colombian connections to supply cocaine to the cartel, with the complicity of the CIA, which received part of the money and used it to supply arms and other military equipment to the contras. The reason for Camarena's murder, according to Proceso, was that Camarena had "discovered that his own government was collaborating with Mexican narco trafficking in its illicit business."
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Félix Rodríguez, the drunk leaning on the stage in the left
foreground, and Tosh Plumlee, trying to hide his face with
his coat, in a photo taken of Operation 40, a CIA
assassination unit, in a Mexico City night club. Porter Goss
is behind Félix Rodríguez & the late Barry Seal, behind him.[/center]
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(650 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)... now...".
Well worth thinking about.
Say there is an internal war within our actual government (the people and corporations behind the people who appear to run things) between a faction that has long profitted from illegal drugs & the fake "war on drugs," on the one hand, and those who have long been planning to legalize, GMO-ize and monopolize said drugs, on the other?
Who would Fox News side with?
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(160,527 posts)777man
(374 posts)this is ongoing coverage on the issue, please let everyone know
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)at all. Someone has extraordinary courage in this attempt to shine the light on a dark history which never should have happened, never.
You have given those of us who care something very big to anticipate.
The link you've provided, and stocked with such valuable information is clearly an education for anyone concerned enough to study it. I sidelined it immediately for my own files so I can delve into it at a slower pace when I can really concentrate. You've saved us all a lot of time locating these events which demand to be made public, and we know you don't just stumble across these facts in a current newspaper any more, and certainly will never see them on any tv news show.
Really looking forward to spending time with the link you've posted here. Thank you.
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