Jeremy Renner Ready To ‘Kill The Messenger’ In Film About CIA-Smeared Journo Gary Webb

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1. Here is some background on the upcoming film OCT 10,2014

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How a Dogged L.A. DEA Agent Unraveled the CIA's Alleged Role in the Murder of Kiki Camarena
The "Elliot Ness" of The DEA, Hector Berrellez speaks out about the Camarena Murder
By Jason McGahan Wednesday, July 1, 2015
http://www.laweekly.com/news/how-a-dogged-la-dea-agent-unraveled-the-cias-alleged-role-in-the-murder-of-kiki-camarena-5750278








Here is some background information on the upcoming movie
http://www.facebook.com/KillTheMessengerMovie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/
http://www.killthemessengerthefilm.com

Watch KTM movie trailer

Kill the Messenger Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Jeremy Renner Crime Movie HD
MOVIECLIPS Trailers

The producers promise it will do Gary Webb's story Justice.....


http://www.scribd.com/doc/129856371/Jeremy-Renner-will-star-in-2013-film-about-journalist-Gary-Webb



"There is no question in my mind that people affiliated with, on the payroll of, and carrying the credentials of,the CIA were involved in drug trafficking while involved in support of the contras."—Senator John Kerry, The Washington Post (1996)


"It is clear that there is a network of drug trafficking through the Contras...We can produce specific law-enforcement officials who will tell you that they have been called off drug-trafficking investigations because the CIA is involved or because it would threaten national security."

--Senator John Kerry at a closed door Senate Committee hearing


“Because of Webb’s work the CIA launched an Inspector General investigation that named dozens of troubling connections to drug runners. That wouldn’t have happened if Gary Webb hadn’t been willing to stand up and risk it all.”
Senator John Kerry (LA Weekly, May 30, 2013)

“On the basis of the evidence, it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter.”

--Senator John Kerry’s Committee Report Executive Summary April 13, 1989.



NARCO-COLONIALISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY - EX DEA AGENTS SPEAK

https://web.archive.org/web/20120208083401/http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/


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Dark ALLIANCE timeline-
http://www.scribd.com/doc/130518873/Dark-Alliance-Investigation-Timeline-1996-to-2000

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US CONGRESSWOMAN Maxine Waters Investigation

Quite unexpectedly, on April 30, 1998, I obtained a secret 1982 Memorandum of Understanding between the CIA and the Department of Justice, that allowed drug trafficking by CIA assets, agents, and contractors to go unreported to federal law enforcement agencies. I also received correspondence between then Attorney General William French Smith and the head of the CIA, William Casey, that spelled out their intent to protect drug traffickers on the CIA payroll from being reported to federal law enforcement.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/world/cia-says-it-used-nicaraguan-rebels-accused-of-drug-tie.html
Then on July 17, 1998 the New York Times ran this amazing front page CIA admission: "CIA Says It Used Nicaraguan Rebels Accused of Drug Tie." "The Central Intelligence Agency continued to work with about two dozen Nicaraguan rebels and their supporters during the 1980s despite allegations that they were trafficking in drugs.... The agency's decision to keep those paid agents, or to continue dealing with them in some less formal relationship, was made by top [CIA] officials at headquarters in Langley, Va.". (emphasis added)
.........The CIA had always vehemently denied any connection to drug traffickers and the massive global drug trade, despite over ten years of documented reports. But in a shocking reversal, the CIA finally admitted that it was CIA policy to keep Contra drug traffickers on the CIA payroll. The Facts speak for themselves. Maxine Waters, Member of Congress, September 19, 1998




The 1982 MOU that exempted the reporting requirement for drug trafficking was no oversight or misstatement. A remarkable series of letters between the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence show how conscious and deliberate this exemption was.

On February 11, 1982 Attorney General William French Smith wrote to Director of Central Intelligence William Casey that, "I have been advised that a question arose regarding the need to add narcotics violations to the list of reportable non-employee crimes ... No formal requirement regarding the reporting of narcotics violations has been included in these procedures."

On March 2, 1982 Casey responded happily, "I am pleased that these procedures, which I believe strike the proper balance between enforcement of the law and protection of intelligence sources and methods..."

Simply stated, the Attorney General consciously exempted reporting requirements for narcotics violations by CIA agents, assets, and contractors. And the Director of Central Intelligence was pleased because intelligence sources and methods involved in narcotics trafficking could be protected from law enforcement. The 1982 MOU agreement clearly violated the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949. It also raised the possibility that certain individuals who testified in front of Congressional investigating committees perjured themselves.
....... Many questions remain unanswered. However, one thing is clear - the CIA and the Attorney General successfully engineered legal protection for the drug trafficking activities of any of its agents or assets. Maxine Waters, Member of Congress, September 19, 1998



“Several informed sources have told me that an appendix to this Report was removed at the instruction of the Department of Justice at the last minute. This appendix is reported to have information about a CIA officer, not agent or asset, but officer, based in the Los Angeles Station, who was in charge of Contra related activities.According to these sources, this individual was associated with running drugs to South Central Los Angeles,around 1988. Let me repeat that amazing omission. The recently released CIA Report Volume II contained an appendix, which was pulled by the Department of Justice, that reported a CIA officer in the LA Station was hooked into drug running in South Central Los Angeles.”

--U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters – October 13. 1998, speaking on the floor of the US House of Representatives.


http://www.scribd.com/doc/117070568/US-Congresswoman-Maxine-Waters-Investigation-of-CIA-Contras-involvement-in-drug-sales-1996-2000



Exhibit 1
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U.S. Attorney General William French Smith replies to a still classified letter from DCI William Casey requesting exemption from reporting drug crimes by CIA assets.

Source: cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/01.gif



Exhibit 2:

DCI William Casey happily agrees with William French Smith and signs the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) exempting his agency from reporting drug crimes. This agreement covered both the Latin American conflicts and Afghanistan war. It remained in effect until August, 1995 when it was quietly rescinded by Janet Reno after Gary Webb began making inquiries for his series. The 1995 revision of the DoJ-CIA MOU specifically includes narcotics violations among the lists of potential offenses by non-employees that must be reported to DOJ.

Source: cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/13.gif



Exhibit 3:

On February 8, 1985, Deputy Chief of DoJ's Office of Intelligence Policy andReview (OIPR) from 1979 to 1991, A. R. Cinquegrana signed off on this letter approving the MOU. Mark M. Richard, Deputy Assistant Attorney General with responsibility for General Litigation and International Law Enforcement in 1982, states that he was unableto explain why narcotics violations were not on the list of reportable crimes except thatthe MOU had "other deficiencies, not just drugs."
Source: cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/14.gif


MOTHER JONES COVERAGE of "A TAINTED DEAL" - Analysis of The secret agreement (above) allowed drugs into the USA
https://web.archive.org/web/20050420101319/http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1998/06/cia.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20050405214411/http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/total_coverage/coke.html


SEE ALSO:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/128584423/Law-Enforcement-Award-Named-After-a-Drug-Trafficker

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IMPORTANT!!

HPSCI Investigation closed out CONTRA CRACK INVESTIGATION JUNE, 2000
From LOYAL OPPOSITION: In Plain Sight: The CIA Keeps Getting Away With It
By David Corn June 5, 2000
http://www.alternet.org/story/9268/


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JUNE 8, 2000 Journalist Robert Parry report on CLOSE OUT OF HPSCI hearings

CIA Admits Tolerating Contra- Cocaine Trafficking in 1980s

By Robert Parry
In secret congressional testimony, senior CIA officials admitted that the spy agency turned a blind eye to evidence of cocaine trafficking by U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contra rebels in the 1980s and generally did not treat drug smuggling through Central America as a high priority during the Reagan administration.

“In the end the objective of unseating the Sandinistas appears to have taken precedence over dealing properly with potentially serious allegations against those with whom the agency was working,” CIA Inspector General Britt Snider said in classified testimony on May 25, 1999. He conceded that the CIA did not treat the drug allegations in “a consistent, reasoned or justifiable manner.”
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/060800a.html


READ ROBERT PARRY's COMPLETE COVERAGE OF CONTRA CRACK - THIS IS ESSENTIAL READING
PARRY NAMES THE NAMES OF REAGAN ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COVER-UP. PLEASE READ AND DISTRIBUTE.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/crack.html


ROBERT PARRY BROKE THE CONTRA CRACK STORY IN 1986, TEN YEARS BEFORE GARY WEBB
ENDING HIS CAREER AT ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) and NEWSWEEK.

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How John Kerry exposed the Contra-cocaine scandal
Monday, Oct 25, 2004 7:04 PM UTC
Derided by the mainstream press and taking on Reagan at the height of his popularity, the freshman senator battled to reveal one of America's ugliest foreign policy secrets.
Robert Parry
http://www.salon.com/2004/10/25/contra/
WRITTEN EXACTLY TEN YEARS AGO, THIS IS A MUST READ.

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Ex-DEA officials: CIA operatives involved in 'Kiki' Camarena murder
By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times Posted: 10/19/2013

Former local DEA officials Phil Jordan and Hector Berrellez are alleging that CIA operatives killed the late DEA Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.

This week's bombshell and widely publicized allegation, which come two months after Mexico's release of kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero from prison, set off a firestorm. Caro Quintero and two other high-level drug-traffickers had been sentenced to 40 years for their roles in Camarena's kidnapping, torture and murder.

Former CIA contract pilot Tosh Plumlee joined Jordan and Berrellez in making the allegations. Celestino Castillo III, another former DEA agent and author of "Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War," said Jordan, Berrellez and Plumlee "are right on the money.
Jordan and Berrellez said they've learned that the real reason Camarena was targeted was because Camarena's investigation had discovered that U.S. intelligence operatives were involved in drug-trafficking.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_24343140/ex-dea-officials-make-bombshell-allegations-about-kiki
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2013/10/assassinated-dea-agent-kiki-camarena-fell-cia-operation-gone-awry-say-l
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elpasotimes.com%2Fnews%2Fci_25244835%2Fchapo-guzman-had-role-kiki-camarena-affair
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/frontera-list/


How a Dogged L.A. DEA Agent Unraveled the CIA's Alleged Role in the Murder of Kiki Camarena
The "Elliot Ness" of The DEA, Hector Berrellez speaks out about the Camarena Murder
By Jason McGahan
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

http://www.laweekly.com/news/how-a-dogged-la-dea-agent-unraveled-the-cias-alleged-role-in-the-murder-of-kiki-camarena-5750278


Blood On The Corn
In 1985, a murky alliance of drug lords and government officials tortured and killed a DEA agent named Enrique Camarena. In a three-part series, legendary journalist Charles Bowden finally digs into the terrible mystery behind a hero’s murder.

By Charles Bowden and Molly Molloy
Illustrations by Matt Rota
https://medium.com/matter/blood-on-the-corn-52ac13f7e643


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Essays by retired DEA agent Mike Levine

http://www.scribd.com/doc/123124540/Collection-of-Essays-by-Retired-DEA-Agent-Mike-Levine

In 1972, I was assigned to assist in a major international drug case involving top Panamanian government officials who were using diplomatic passports to smuggle large quantities of heroin and other drugs into the US. The name Manuel Noriega surfaced prominently in the investigation. Surfacing right behind Noriega was the CIA to protect him from US law enforcement. As head of the CIA, Bush authorized a salary for Manuel Noriega as a CIA asset, while the dictator was listed in as many as 40 DEA computer files as a drug dealer. (pp. 166, 167)--Retired DEA Agent Michael Levine

http://www.scribd.com/doc/128180246/Mike-Levine-DEA-retired-CIA-Interference-in-Drug-Cases

http://www.scribd.com/doc/129916338/Mike-Levine-Press-Release-Bolivian-President-Bans-DEA-From-Bolivia



Dark Alliance Book
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117076273/Dark-Alliance-Gary-Webb-full-867-page-book-Please-Distribute

Powderburns Book
http://www.scribd.com/doc/111246977/Powderburns-COCAINE-CONTRAS-AND-THE-DRUG-WAR
After downloading, please make a suggested donation of $25 Via PAYPAL. (any amount is appreciated- press the DONATE button) http://powderburns.org/store.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117693611/Powderburns-2012-with-photos


The Pariah- Interview with 2 retired DEA agents
Hector Berrellez and Mike Holm (DEA-Ret)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117078597/The-Pariah-by-Charles-Bowden
http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=163286
LA sheriff investigation 1996
http://www.scribd.com/doc/111254696/Los-Angeles-County-Sheriff’s-Department-Investigation


Head of the DEA says CIA smuggled drugs (see the video)
When this case broke, EX DEA Mike Levine spoke with his former colleague in DEA, Annabelle Grimm. She stated that "27 Tons, Minimum" had been smuggled into the U.S.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/131231070/60-MINUTES-Head-of-DEA-Robert-Bonner-Says-CIA-Smuggled-Drugs

The original 1996 Dark Alliance 3 day series in the SJMN is now back online at
http://narconews.com/darkalliance/
Thank you to Bill Conroy and Al Giordino for hosting the series and continuing on with the drug war coverage






National Security Archives declassified records on Oliver North - North' diary submitted to congressional investigators contained hundreds of references to drug trafficking, even after North was given time to expurgate sensitive information from it before handing the diary oiver to investigators.

"went and talked to [contra leader Frederico] Vaughn, who wanted to go to Bolivia to pick up paste, wanted aircraft to pick up 1,500 kilos."
--Oliver North's July 9, 1984, Diary entry

"$14 million to finance [arms] came from drugs."
-- --Oliver North's July 12, 1985, Diary entry
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/


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Testimony of Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive October 19, 1996 (Includes declassified documents)
“..I can and will address the central premise of the story: that the U.S. government tolerated the trafficking of narcotics into this country by individuals involved in the contra war. To summarize: there is concrete evidence that U.S. officials-- White House, NSC
and CIA--not only knew about and condoned drug smuggling in and around the contra war, but in some cases collaborated with, protected, and even paid known drug smugglers”

“..Mr. North called a press conference where he was joined by Duane Clarridge, the CIA official who ran the contra operations from 1981 through mid 1984, and the former attorney general of the United States, Edwin Meese III. Mr. North called it a "cheap political trick...to even suggest that I or anyone in the Reagan administration, in any way, shape or form, ever tolerated the trafficking of illegal substances."

Mr. Clarridge claimed that it was a "moral outrage" to suggest that a Reagan Administration official "would have countenanced" drug trafficking. And Mr. Meese stated that no "Reagan administration official would have ever looked the other way at such activity."

The documentation, in which Mr. North, Mr. Clarridge and Mr. Meese all appear, suggests the opposite. Let me review it here briefly:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/pktstmny.htm


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Lawrence Victor Harrison Testimony in DEA agent Enrique Camarena Case Ties Contras and Drugs
DEA: CIA Trained Guerrillas At Ranch Owned By Drug Lord July 5, 1990 |Los Angeles Times
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129497281/Lawrence-Victor-Harrison-Testimony-in-DEA-agent-Enrique-Camarena-Case-Ties-Contras-and-Drugs


PBS Frontline Special on Drugs. #613 Original Air Date: May 17, 1988 Produced and Written by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn. Includes an interview with legendary Intelligence officer Tony (“Tony Poe”) Poshepny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Poshepny

(Poshepny was a legendary covert operations officer who had supervised the CIA’s secret war in Northern Laos during the 1960s and early 1970s. In the interview, Poshepny stated that the CIA had supplied air transport for the heroin shipments of their local ally, General Vang Pao, the only such on-the-record confirmation by a former CIA officer concerning agency involvement in the narcotics trade.)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html



The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations — Documentation of Official U.S. Knowledge of Drug Trafficking and the Contras

This electronic briefing book is compiled from declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive, including the notebooks kept by NSC aide and Iran-contra figure Oliver North, electronic mail messages written by high-ranking Reagan administration officials, memos detailing the contra war effort, and FBI and DEA reports. The documents demonstrate official knowledge of drug operations, and collaboration with and protection of known drug traffickers. Court and hearing transcripts are also included. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm







NYT --CIA Inspector General admits that Agency kept working with drug smugglers-/ Had an agreement to not report smuggling
New York Times 1998
http://www.scribd.com/doc/128181161/NYT-CIA-Inspector-General-admits-that-Agency-kept-working-with-drug-smugglers-Had-an-agreement-to-not-report-smuggling


“When CIA Inspector General Fred P. Hitz testified before the House Intelligence Committee in March 1998, he admitted a secret government interagency agreement. `Let me be frank about what we are finding,’ Hitz said. `There are instances where CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking activity.’

“The lawmakers fidgeted uneasily. `Did any of these allegations involved trafficking in the United States?’ asked Congressman Norman Dicks of Washington. `Yes,’ Hitz answered. Dicks flushed.”

“And what, Hitz was asked, had been the CIA’s legal responsibility when it learned of this? That issue, Hitz replied haltingly, had `a rather odd history…the period of 1982 to 1995 was one in which there was no official requirement to report on allegations of drug trafficking with respect to non-employees of the agency, and they were defined to include agents, assets, non-staff employees.’ There had been a secret agreement to that effect `hammered out between the CIA and U.S. Attorney General William French Smith in 1982,’ he testified.”

Hitz concluded his testimony by stating “This is the grist for more work, if anyone wants to do it.”



In 1998, Fredrick Hitz, CIA Inspector General (IG) and Michael Bromwich DOJ Inspector General released reports admitting to the existence of an agreement which exempted the Intelligence agencies of the USA from reporting drug crimes. The legislative body chosen to hear the allegations was the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) chaired by Porter Goss, a former CIA officer (1960-71) who would later serve as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) (2004 to 2006) under George W. Bush. The committee hearings were held behind closed doors from 1998 to 2000 and a final classified report was released in June, 2000. The report has never been released to the public.









https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/findings.html#top



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FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN MEDIA COVERAGE OF CONTRA CRACK
http://web.archive.org/web/20121025005853/http://www.fair.org/issues-news/contra-crack.html
Gary Webb Explains how the media caved in
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/taking-a-dive-on-contra-crack/
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/exposed-the-contra-crack-connection/



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CIA’S BIN LADEN CT UNIT RUN BY CARTEL HITMAN SUSPECTED IN 7 MURDERS

CIA Thugs, Drugs and Terrorism with True Crime Author Evan Wright -watch the video--

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166312/Top-CIA-spy-Enrique-Ricky-Prado-accused-HITMAN-Miami-mobsters.html#ixzz1z9uGlEfj

Journalist Evan Wright discovers ties between drug cartels and CIA outsourcing of assassinations and intelligence to private contractors. When Wright interviewed a drug trafficker named Jon Roberts, he disclosed participation in a murder with a hitman who would later join the CIA and rise to the top level of the agency. Meyer Lansky’s stepson Richard Schwartz was killed on October 12, 1977, allegedly by the man who would eventually run the unit hunting for terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Ric Prado joined the CIA in 1982. By the time of the 9/11 attacks, he was the chief of counterterrorist operations with the rank of SIS-2. He would later leave the CIA to become a Vice-President at Blackwater from 2004 to 2008. The evidence against Ric Prado was so compelling that one investigator from the case described him as “technically, a serial killer.” Mike Fisten, a former Miami-Dade detective who served on the federal task force stated “The CIA fought us tooth and nail, and basically told us to go fuck ourselves.” Evan Wright interviewed more than a dozen law enforcement officials for this story. He was told “You can’t indict people like Prado. It doesn’t work that way.”

The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit

By Conor Friedersdorf (July27, 2012)

A federal investigation alleged Enrique Prado’s involvement in seven murders, yet he was in charge when America outsourced covert killing to a private company.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/the-terrifying-background-of-the-man-who-ran-a-cia-assassination-unit/259856/

Miami Dade Homicide detective Mike Fisten was part of the FBI/DEA task force CENTAC who tried to capture drug lord Alberto San Pedro and his bodyguard hitman Ric Prado. Implicated in more than 7 murders, Prado was a CIA officer who later moved a privatized assassination program to the private sector firm Blackwater with the help of Cofer Black



Did a CIA Agent Work for the Mob?

Thursday, June 28, 2012, 1:57am (PDT) By Evan Wright

http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/politics/did-a-cia-agent-work-for-the-mob-1721447.story

How to Get Away with Murder in America

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/cia/
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2011 hack of 2007 Stratfor email: “CIA and White House told DEA to back off investigation” of Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the President, Hamid Karzai. AWK was named as a major trafficker and on US payroll since 2001.

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5522439_re-humint-afghanistan-karzai-strictly-protect-confidential-.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/hacked-stratfor-emails-dea-told-to-back-off-from-the-brother-of-afghan-president-hamid-karzai-2012-9#ixzz26t3ZkYiE



Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www&_r=0

2013-- HAMID KARZAI HIMSELF LATER ADMITTED TO BEING PAID BY CIA FOR TEN YEARS
Afghan Leader Confirms Cash Deliveries by C.I.A. - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/world/asia/karzai-acknowledges-cash-deliveries-by-cia.html
https://secure.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/cia-bribes-karzai-millions-ghost-money-paid-afghanistan-president-new-york-times_n_3176956.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/afghanistans-hamid-karzai-confirms-cia-cash-paymen/

Apr 30, 2013 · April 29 (Reuters) - Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times says, citing current and former advisers to the Afghan leader.


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Cables Depict Afghan Graft, Starting at Top

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/world/asia/03wikileaks-corruption.html?pagewanted=






19 October 2009 Classified Embassy Cable: Afghan Vice-President Ahmad Zia Masood was stopped by DEA with $52 million he was ultimately allowed to keep without revealing the money’s origin or destination

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/wikileaks-elite-afghans-millions-cash

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/230265



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The Head of the UN Drug commission said that 352 billion in drug cash infused into the banking system is what saved the banks from collapsing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims

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Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray says UK and USA sent prisoners to Uzbek to be tortured. Murray says that the Taliban sympathizers only account for 10% of drug exports from Afghanistan, whereas Karzai’s people account for well over 50%. See this recent speech by Murray at the 7:20 mark:

CIA pays many in Karzai administration: report

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/27/us-afghanistan-usa-cia-idUSTRE67Q0YG20100827


BRITAIN PROTECTING THE LARGEST OPIUM CROP OF ALL TIME

“My knowledge of all this comes from my time as British Ambassador in Uzbekistan. I … watched the Jeeps … bringing the heroin through from Afghanistan, en route to Europe. I watched the tankers of chemicals roaring into Afghanistan.

The four largest players in the heroin business are all senior members of the Afghan government – the government that our soldiers are fighting and dying to protect.”

Craig Murray / The Mail, July 21, 2007

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-469983/Britain-protecting-biggest-heroin-crop-time.html





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Retired CIA Officer Robert D. Steele appeared with Celerino Castillo III in Kevin Booth’s 2007 film American Drug War: The Last White Hope along with several other notable law enforcement agents and political figures. Steele went on to review Dark Alliance and validated the Contra drug allegations. His comments go even further as he alleges that intelligence agencies employed a “eugenics” policy towards low income blacks, considering them “expendable”. “It is safe to say that all US Senators know the truth and have chosen to betray their Oaths of Office and their responsibility under Article 1 of the Constitution…. We the People are considered expendable by those who do this.”

The full Two hour film is here:

CIA Case Officer from Central American Era Validates This Book, June 9, 2007

By Robert D. Steele

This review is from: Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

I am probably the only reviewer who was a clandestine case officer (three back to back tours), who participated in the Central American follies as both a field officer and a desk officer at CIA HQS, who is also very broadly read.

With great sadness, I must conclude that this book is truthful, accurate, and explosive.

Website of Robert D.Steele: http://www.phibetaiota.net/

Contact Robert D. Steele at: [e-mail]

Source: http://www.amazon.com/review/REVFM3PIMTIUN

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Lt Col Bo Gritz Letters to George Bush about his findings of US Government sanctioned heroin traffic after meeting drug lord KHUN SA
Archive of Bo Gritz letters
http://www.apfn.net/dcia/bo-index.html

(related information below)\

Book details drugs, arms trafficking, money laundering in Asia—
THE CRIMES OF PATRIOTS — A TRUE TALE OF DOPE, DIRTY MONEY, AND THE CIA by Jonathan Kwitny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kwitny

Some background on Nugan Hand Bank:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank

Complete book is online here:
http://www.naderlibrary.com/lit.crimesofpatriots.toc.htm


THE CRIMES OF PATRIOTS -- A TRUE TALE OF DOPE, DIRTY MONEY, AND THE CIA BY JOHNATHAN KWITNY 1987
COMPLETE BOOK--

"There is a secret government in America. It operates with the explicit and implied authority of the highest officials, and in the name of America's interests it has inflicted great damage on the unsuspecting peoples of other countries and on our own fundamental principles.... I wish everyone would read The Crimes of Patriots. Perhaps then the current hearings on the Iran-Contra affair -- for Ronald Reagan is the latest to wield this secret weapon and to perish by it -- will be the last. An informed people might become an outraged people and finally put a stop to our own self-destruction. If so, we will owe much to Jonathan Kwitny's reporting."
-- Bill Moyers





NYSE Chief Richard Grasso Meets FARC Rebels in Colombia to Encourage Investment in the USA
As it turns out, the U.S. does negotiate with Terrorists and Drug Traffickers NYSE Chief Meets Rebel in Colombia June 27, 1999|From Associated Press Los Angeles Times

http://www.scribd.com/doc/131345354/NYSE-Chief-Richard-Grasso-Meets-Rebels-in-Colombia-to-Encourage-Investment-in-the-USA




Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail
2/15/13 Rolling Stone Magazine
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it
by: Matt Taibbi

http://www.scribd.com/doc/129919272/Gangster-Bankers-Too-Big-to-JailHow-HSBC-hooked-up-with-drug-traffickers-and-terrorists-And-got-away-with-it-by-Matt-Taibbi-Feb-2013
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214




Robert Parry Interview with Mike Levine on how Bolivian government was overthrown by drug traffickers and former Nazis

Hitlers Shadow Reaches Toward Today by Robert Parry December, 2010
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129909346/Hitlers-Shadow-Reaches-Toward-Today-by-Robert-Parry-Dec2010


LA Sheriff Sherman Block 1996 Investigation into Contra involvement in drug sales in the County of Los Angeles and Interference in drug cases

(The report denies a link between LASD and a coverup. strangely, the report contradicts the summary of the report. )
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117079476/Los-Angeles-Sheriff%E2%80%99s-Department-Investigation-CIA-Contra-Drug-Sales-in-LA





CIA MANAGES THE DRUG TRADE July, 2012 article
http://www.scribd.com/doc/130468416/CIA-Manages-the-Drug-Trade-July-2012


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Reports: U.S. Government Cut Secret Deals For Years With Mexico's Sinaloa Drug Cartel
Published January 14, 2014
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/01/14/reports-us-government-cut-secret-deals-for-years-with-mexico-sinaloa-drug/

According to government documents from the United States and Mexico, Drug Enforcement Agency agents met more than 50 times with members of the Sinaloa Cartel – headed by billionaire kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and believed to be the country’s most powerful drug trafficking organization – and the information obtained by the U.S. law enforcement agency led to a series of drug seizures. In return cartel members had charges dropped in the U.S., among other pledges.

The meetings appeared to have occurred between 2006 and 2012, a time when Mexico saw a major surge of violence in Mexico, and when the Sinaloa cartel rose significantly in prominence.

In one report obtained by the Mexican newspaper El Universal, David Gaddis, the former regional director of the DEA’s Mexico City office, said that one facet of the meetings allowed the drug cartels to operate freely and that the Mexican government was never informed of the DEA’s meet-ups with cartels.

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Senator John Kerry's Aide. Jonathan Winer interview: Jackie Kennedy tried to squash BCCI Investigation.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.html
see also:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/winer.html

There was a phone call from Jackie Kennedy to the senator's (John Kerry) office, correct? Do you remember that incident?

I remember John talking to us after it happened. He felt badly. He thought the world of Jackie Kennedy, thought she was a wonderful human being. He admired her. He had affection and respect for her, and all those all those things. To have her say, "Why are you doing this to my friend Clark Clifford?" was painful. You know, he shook his head. It wasn't a location he particularly wanted to be in.

But he didn't tell us to stop. He said, "You do what you have to do." The hearings continued, and the investigations continued until we'd found out as much as we possibly could. That's what happened.

--Jonathan Winer was U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters 1994-1999. He previously worked as counsel to Sen John Kerry (D-MA) advising on foreign policy issues 1983 to 1997
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This story ran on page A1 of the Boston Globe on 6/20/2003.
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

Kerry's investigation, launched in 1988, helped to close the bank three years later, but not without upsetting some in Washington's Democratic establishment. Prominent BCCI friends included former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, former President Jimmy Carter, and his budget director, Bert Lance. When news broke that Clifford's Washington bank was a shell for BCCI -- and how the silver-haired Democrat had handsomely profited in the scheme -- some of Kerry's Senate colleagues grew icy.

"What are you doing to my friend Clark Clifford?" more than one Democratic senator asked Kerry. Kerry's aides recall how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Pamela Harriman, a prominent party fund-raiser, called on the senator, urging him to not to pursue Clifford.

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Martha Honey and Dennis Bernstein Interview Gary Webb (4parts) VIDEO

http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=1566


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WE THE PEOPLE
https://web.archive.org/web/20100210185054/http://www.wethepeople.la/ciadrugs.htm




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RUSS KICK's THE MEMORY HOLE -- THE KERRY REPORT ONLINE! (3 parts)

"Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy"
a/k/a the Kerry Report Transcripts

https://web.archive.org/web/20070104000306/http://www.thememoryhole.com/kerry/


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PETER DALE SCOTT SITE

http://www.peterdalescott.net/q.html



PROFESSOR BeN ATTIA's siite- CAL STATE Northridge

https://web.archive.org/web/20080304020543/http://www.csun.edu/CommunicationStudies/ben/news/cia/


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TERRORISTS PROTECTED BY US GOVERNMENT
Ann Louise Bardach's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Louise_Bardach
comprehensive coverage of Terrorist and Contra Drug Trafficker Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Bosch

Bosch was later pardoned by Bush Sr. and resided openly in Miami until his death until 2011.
Posada Carriles illegally entered the United States, has bragged of blowing up a jetliner with 74 people on board, blown up bars in Havana, Cuba, assassinated Chilean ambassador Orlando Letlier and his assistant, Spent years in a Panama prison after trying to assassinate Fidel in 1999, ran drugs for the Contra operation, escaped from prison in South America where he is still wanted. He lives openly in Miami to this day.
Read the full coverage here:
http://www.bardachreports.com/posada_files.htm
http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/peter-kornbluh-comments-on-the-aquittal-luis-posada-carriles-former-terrorist-and-cia-asset/
http://www.constantinereport.com/from-the-archives-harboring-a-terrorist-posada-carriles-and-the-iran-contra-affair-2005/

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The CIA, the Contras and Crack Cocaine
by Dennis Bernstein and Robert Knight


One day in the early 1980s, Wanda Palacio watched a Hercules cargo plane roll to a stop on the tarmac of Barranquilla International Airport, located in the Andean foothills just off the azure waters of Colombia's northern coast. According to Palacio, the aircraft bore the markings of Southern Air Transport, a private airline formerly run by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency.

Palacio was in Barranquilla that day with her host, Jorge Luis Ochoa, to arrange a cocaine deal. At the time, Ochoa was known as Colombia's most ambitious drug lord.

As Palacio watched men in green uniforms remove two green military trunks out of the plane and onto a truck -- she would describe this scene later in an 11-page sworn statement to Congress -- her host explained his operation: The plane was a CIA plane, Ochoa told her, and he was "exchanging guns for drugs." The crew, he said, were CIA agents, and "these shipments came each Thursday from the CIA, landing at dusk. Sometimes they brought guns, sometimes they brought U.S. products such as washing machines, gourmet food, fancy furniture or other items for the traffickers which they could not get in Colombia." And each time, Ochoa told Palacio, "they took back drugs."

http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9612a/ciacontra.html


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This page is edited by the family of Gary Webb. Everyone please stop by and thank the family of Gary for his great sacrifice in bringing this story out.
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We live in a dirty and dangerous world ... There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. --1988 speech by Washington Post owner Katharine Graham at CIA Headquarters



“The Contras moved drugs not by the pound, not by the bags, but by the tons, by the cargo planeloads.”
--Jack Blum, investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, testimony under oath on Feb. 11, 1987



"We were complicit as a country, in narcotics traffic at the same time as we're spending countless dollars in this country as we try to get rid of this problem. It's mind-boggling.
I don't know if we got the worst intelligence system in the world, i don't know if we have the best and they knew it all, and just overlooked it.
But no matter how you look at it, something's wrong. Something is really wrong out there."
-- Senator John Kerry, Iran Contra Hearings, 1987