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(374 posts)Attorney Kevin Warren's site in Los Angeles has been down
here is the link to the archived version in archive.org
WE THE PEOPLE
https://web.archive.org/web/20100210185054/http://www.wethepeople.la/ciadrugs.htm
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NARCO-COLONIALISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY - EX DEA AGENTS SPEAK
https://web.archive.org/web/20120208083401/http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/
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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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/
Part One
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications and International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, May 27, July 15, and October 30, 1987
Part Two: Panama
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, February 8, 9, 10, and 11, 1988
entire volume in one Acrobat file [27 meg]
Part Three: The Cartel, Haiti and Central America
Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, April 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1988
entire volume in one Acrobat file [22 meg]
KERRY REPORT
Background
>>> In 1987/8, two subcommittees of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held three 14 days of hearings on drug trafficking. Headed by Sen. John F. Kerry (D - Mass.), the panel heard evidence of official corruption in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The next year, the government published the transcripts in a 4-volume set that has remained a touchstone for anyone interested in narco-corruption, particularly as it involves US intelligence agencies.
The trouble is, this 1,800-page goldmine of information has been incredibly hard to find. The Memory Hole's copy was given to me by a friend of the familyLorenzo Hagertywho told me an interesting story. As soon as the Kerry Report was published, Lorenzo ordered a set of the transcripts from the Government Printing Office. When it arrived, he began reading it and realized how important it was. He immediately called the GPO to order another set. He was told that the set was already out of print and would not be published again. It had been available to the public for one single week.
Small portions of the Kerry Report transcripts have been published online, but they are only a fraction of the entire four volumes. The Memory Hole is planning to scan and post the entire thing. The first volume has been posted as HTML, and the second two have gone up as Acrobat files. The front page and the email updates will contain notifications when the final volume is posted.
The one-volume final report based on these hearingsalso very rarehas been scanned and posted by the National Security Archive. It's available here [PDF format]
More info about the hearings is here.
SOME FINDINGS:
"The Subcommittee found that the Contra drug links included:
Involvement in narcotics trafficking by individuals associated with the Contra movement.
Participation of narcotics traffickers in Contra supply operations through business relationships with Contra organizations.
Provision of assistance to the Contras by narcotics traffickers, including cash, weapons, planes, pilots, air supply services and other materials, on a voluntary basis by the traffickers.
Payments to drug traffickers by the US State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies."
Senate Committee Report on Drugs,
Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy
chaired by Senator John F. Kerry
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MOTHER JONES COVERAGE of "A TAINTED DEAL"
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
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/
GARY WEBB SPEECH on PARASCOPE-
https://web.archive.org/web/20001119011800/http://www.parascope.com/mx/articles/garywebb/garyWebbSpeaks.htm
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For the paranoid, you can read the internal investigation on a 3rd party site
ALLEGATIONS OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CIA
AND THE CONTRAS IN COCAINE TRAFFICKING
TO THE UNITED STATES (1)
(96-0143-IG)
Volume II: The Contra Story
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/CIAREPORT/contents.html