Rank
of arms trading, illegal drugs trafficking and oil production among
the world's largest industries: 1.2.3 (Charis
Conn - The Harper's Index Book, pg. 69)
The
offenders at the end of the drug trafficking route are the same
as those at the beginning: governments.Without the cooperation of
governments, the international narcotics industry could not exist.
But governments, our own particularly, lean over backward to conceal
this fact from their constituents. Over a period of five years I
became convinced of the participation in the drug traffic of high
officials in at least 33 countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia,
the Bahamas, Brazil, Belize, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burma, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, France, Haiti, Honduras,
Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and the
United States. Not to mention a host of Caribbean, Asian and European
money-laundering nations, plus the PLO and various revolutionary
and terrorist groups. (James
Mills - The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace,
pgs 1139-1143)
There
is an established chain of command within the CIA and other government
agencies with respect to narcotics trafficking with the involvement
of its Deputy Director, his subordinate Assistant Deputy Director,
his subordinate, and certain foreign CIA Station Chiefs. This chain
of command has been publicly detailed in a variety of forms
- The involvement of senior FBI personnel
- The creation of a separate quasi-agency in 1983 (the so-called
Vice-Presidential Task Force on Drugs) so that Customs officies
in the Southeast United States would ensure that certain air and
sea traffic was not intercepted or searched
- The maintenance both in the United States and in Central and South
America of secure facilities for the transportation and storage
of narcotics under the auspices of the US military. (Al
Martin - The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider, pg.
162)
What
cannot now be denied is that US intelligence agencies arranged for
the release from prison of the world’s preeminent drug lord,
allowed him to rebuild his narcotics empire, watched the flow of
drugs into the largely black ghettoes of New York and Washington,
DC escalate and then lied about what they had done. This founding
saga of the relationship between American spies and gangsters set
patterns that would be replicated from Laos and Burma to Marseilles
and Panama. (Alexander
Cockburn - Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, pg. 134)
A
main purpose of the Vietnam war was to settle who controls the opium
producing Golden Triangle: the Communists or the mafia, the drug-trafficking
branch of the international banking oligarchy. (John
Drabik - Usury Civilization II - pg. 249)
In
practice, the politically appointed Attorney general routinely has
used the Justice Department to cover up corrupt and criminal acts
including CIA drug trafficking. (Rodney
Stich - Terrorism Against America, pg 47)
The
Pennsylvania Bureau of Narcotics Investigation agents discovered
that drug money from the Dominican drug traffickers was gathered
and distributed at fund raisers held in Pennsylvania and that various
government agencies were actively aware of these facts. (Rodney
Stich - Terrorism Against America, pg 172)
Catherine Austin Fitts, Assistant
Secretary of Housing under George Bush makes things very simple.
She points out that the four largest states for the importation
of drugs are New York, Florida, Texas and California. She then points
out that the top four money laundering states in the U.S. (good
for between 100 and 260 billion per year) are New York, Florida,
Texas and California. No surprise there. Then she rips the breath
from your lungs by pointing out that 80 per cent of all Presidential
campaign funds come from - New York, Florida, Texas and California.
(Michael
Ruppert - CIA, Drugs, and Wall Street)
Operation
Watchtower was a series of very powerful radio transmitters on towers
with beacons on the end of them, built from Andros Island off the
coast of Colombia all the way up into US air space, essentially
transversing all of Central America. These beacons created a "safe
corridor" for the shipping north of narcotics and the shipping
south of weapons, pursuant to US Government-authorized narcotics
and weapons transactions. The response transmission code, or aircraft
code for the Watchtower signal was HTR585, or in military parlance,
Hotel Tango Romeo 585. Because of press leaks, the control over
Watchtower was moved over from the DIA to the newly established
Vice Presidential Task Force on Drugs, an office created to secure
sea smuggling corridors. The main sea corridor started at Swan Island,
Honduras, and went all the way up to Haiti (Cap Haitien), through
the Bahamas (Andros island) and the United States. The operation
was maintained by active US military forces, with linkages to DIA
and CIA, under a central control in Panama (Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pgs. 263-267)
The
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) had a narcotics shipping corridor
and facilities completely separate from the CIA. They operated out
of Spokane, Washington and Medford, Oregon, and down into Fire Lake,
Nevada. They operate principally through Mexico and Evergreen Air
was their principal cut-out. (Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pg. 323)
Customs
service "controlled deliveries" accounted for more than
half of all the cocaine seized by the Customs Service in South Florida
in the late 1980s according to the General Accounting Office. The
Texas State Highway Patrol publicly complained a few years ago that
most of the metamphetamine they were finding in the state was being
supplied to people by the DEA. Houston attorney Kent Schaffer complained,
"The government has brought in more cocaine than the Medellin
cartel." (James
Bovard - Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z, pg.
8)
Abbott
described CIA Operation Bushmaster in Belize which was intended
to take over the drug business from the many independent drug smugglers
for greater profit and greater security. Busting independent drug
traffickers was one of the joint CIA - Justice Department tactics
to control the drug business into the United States. He also described
a Mexican cocaine processing lab that he discovered north of Cuatrocienegas
in the state of Chihuahua. Cocaine processed at that lab was transported
by land, and sometimes by air to a small strip at Lajitas in West
Texas, on land controlled by Walt Mischner. (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pg 38)
In
August 1984 the leaders of the biggest South American drug cartels
held a meeting with representants of the CIA and the mafia in Hotel
Zurich, Geneva, Switzerland. They decided that 50% of the drugs
shipped to North America will go through Mena, Arkansas, from where
the mafia will distribute them across America. The CIA will provide
protection for the drug smuggling planes. (Kenneth
Bucchi - C.I.A. Cocaine in America?: A Veteran of the C.I.A. Drug
War Tells All)
Col.
Tommy Goodwin, the Commander of the Arkansas State Police got on
the phone to Governor Bill Clinton. He was all pissed off because
he was not being kept informed of all the CIA narcotics and weapons
transactions in the state. Clinton replied, he is well-advised of
it, and that it's an authorized operation of the US Government.
(Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pg. 148)
The
CIA was charged 10 percent by high Arkansas state officials for
allowing and covering up its Contra training operations, gun and
drug running flights. In 1985 the CIA was moving normally $3 million
per flight. It transfused over $250 million in two years into Clinton's
Arkansas economy in less than two years, while the governor's people
stole, er "diverted" another $75 to $100 million, according
to a CIA asset. (John
Cummings - Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, pgs 125, 144,
244)
Abbott
described how Arkansas State Police protected drug loads by blocking
off roads leading to small airstrips when drug flights arrived.
He described one such instance occurring in the spring of 1982.
Abbott flew a Cessna 210 containing 300 kilos of cocaine to a corp-dusting
landing strip in Marianna, Arkansas. A Memphis-based DEA agent took
the cocaine from him, while an Arkansas state trooper blocked the
road leading to the landing strip. (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pg 38)
By
the end of 1986, Joesph Kelso testified, he had six US and Costa
Rican government official witnesses, willing to testify how DEA
agents were skimming cocaine from drug seizures, making counterfeit
money, and protecting cocaine processing labs in Costa Rica, including
at least two on Contra bases. (Gary
Webb - Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine
Explosion, pg. 296)
On
November 22, 1996, the US Department of Justice indicted General
Ramon Guillen Davila of Venezuela on charges of importing cocaine
into the United States. The federal prosecutors alleged that while
heading Venezuela's anti-drug unit, General Guillen smuggled more
than 22 tons of cocaine into the US and Europe for the Cali and
Bogota cartels. Guillen responded that the cocaine shipments to
the US had been approved by the CIA and went on to say that “some
drugs were lost and neither the CIA nor the DEA want to accept any
responsibility for it.” (Alexander
Cockburn - Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, pg. 95)
In
1981 Meneses had been moving 900 kilos of cocaine a year. Two years
later the numbers had surged to around 5 tons a year –- and
the latter figure represents just the amount Blandón's LA
operation was handling. (Alexander
Cockburn - Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, pg. 7)
Bank
statements showed deposits of as much as $2,000,000 at a time into
the Blandón drug operation's account from the US Treasury.
(Gary
Webb - Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine
Explosion, pg. 342)
The
US is now money laundering $500 billion to $1 trillion a year. Such
a volume requires significant proactive leadership from the US Treasury,
the Federal Reserve and the Department of Justice. Government deficit
financing worldwide had for decades depended on an ever expanding
illegal narcotics trade. Narcotics had been a banking business from
the beginning.(Catherine
Austin Fitts - The Myth of the Rule Of Law, pgs 11, 25, 26)
International
telephone records prove that Felix Rodriguez, the CIA boss of (drug
smuggler pilot) Eugene Hasenfus at Ilopango was reporting several
times a week to Vice President George Bush's office. Don Gregg (later
VP George Bush's national security advisor), was in charge of the
contra air effort working out of Ilopango in El Salvador. Rodriguez
was also named as having been involved in receiving money for the
contras from the Medellin cartel. (John
Stockwell - The Praetorian Guard : The US Role In The New World
Order, pgs. 23, 120)
The
biggest business in the Lajitas, Texas area today is nacotics trafficking.
Some of it comes over the Rio Grande on foot, some on truck, and
some by airplane. One of the landing strips used for the transshipment
of drugs is about 12 miles northeast of Lajitas, according to Joaquin
Jackson, a Texas Ranger who patrols the area. It's a lot longer
and wider (4000 ft x 200 ft) than the typical narcotics -smuggling
landing strip. That's because it had to accomodate C-130 cargo planes
bringing in arms and weapons for the CIA transshipment to Latin
America. According to CIA contract pilots and law enforcement officers,
the strip is controllled by Walter M. Mischer., the fourth largest
landowner of Texas, a friend of George Bush. The landing strip near
Lajitas was tied into another landing strip about 60 miles to the
northeast on the Iron Mountain Ranch outside Marathon, owned by
Midland oilman William Blakemore II, President Bush's close friend.
(Pete
Brewton - The Mafia, CIA and George Bush, pgs. 89-90, 97-98)
Various
divisions of the Zapata Corporation (a CIA asset, organized by George
Bush), such as Zapata Petroleum, Zapata Off-Shore and Zapata Cattle
company were heavily involved in drug trafficking. The oil rigs
were used to carry out the drug operations. Drugs would be off-loaded
from ships onto the drilling platforms and then taken into the nearby
coastal areas in helicopters that were constantly carrying supplies
and personnel. CIA cable analyst Michael Maholy confirmed that this
practice existed, having learned about it from cable traffic and
his own observations while on the rigs. (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pg 41)
What
people urgently need to know is that the drugs are being distributed
by those fronting for the drug war, who are offering 'solutions'
at the same time. Much of the 'anti-drug' network is deeply corrupt
and used as a vehicle for distributing drugs without detection.
George Bush has fronted more wars on drugs than any other American
politician and yet he is one of North America's premier drug barons.
(David
Icke - The Biggest Secret, pg 286)
Richard
Brenneke (CIA) Congressional testimony, June 1991: "As far
back as 1968 and early 1969, the CIA had begun to launder money
from organized crime families in New York. We used to wash their
money overseas and put it in Switzerland in nice, safe places for
them. The organized crime members had a need for two things: they
needed drugs brought into the country on a reliable, safe basis;
and they needed people taken out of the country or people bought
into the country without alerting Customs or INS. They also needed
money taken offshore so that it would not be subject to US taxes.
So we (the CIA) performed these kinds of functions for them."(Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pg 53)
A
veteran FBI agent and highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Richard
Taus felt that the selective crackdown on the Sicilian Mafia was
to eliminate competition to the CIA-backed American Mafia. He explained
the difference between the street Mafia represented by the five
crime families in New York and the higher-level Mafia imbedded in
blue-chip Fortune 500 corporations and in high government positions.
He described the situation in which the Sicilian drug trafficking
involved in the Pizza Connection cases was interfering with other
government drug routes and supplies from the Middle east through
Turkey, Bulgaria, Syria and Lebanon. Taus: "It was this competition
that caused Justice Department personnel to eliminate the Sicilian
Mafia from the drug business. There is a sanctified Mafia organization
that works within our government and industries. I have discovered
it under the veneer of surface "street gangsters" such
as Gotti, Scarpa, Bonnano, et al, who answer to an appointed Godfather
(the late Paul Castellano). In turn, Paul takes orders from his
first cousin, Vito Castellano who words for the governor of New
York in Albany, N.Y. (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pgs 203-206, 208)
Jim
Rothstein (ex-NYPD vice squad detective) described the reports that
he had filed of CIA drug sales to the blacks in New York City, naming
some of those who were involved. His reports described how CIA operatives
sold drugs directly to black distributors from 1967 to 1972, after
which time organized crime groups took over the distribution. The
CIA then concentrated on supplying drugs to the crime groups. (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pg 217)
During
the 1960s the CIA would use the Opium Wars technique to smother
political dissent in the black ghettos under an avalanche of No.
4 China White - heroin of extraordinary purity (Terence
McKenna - Food of the Gods, pg 113)
An
overlooked area is the CIA's involvement with the British MI-6,
the French DST and the German BFI intelligence services for the
importation of cocaine into their countries and its distribution
as part of the overall CIA scheme to produce an ongoing covert revenue
stream. Certain foreign intelligence services and agents profited;
certain conservative parties in Europe profited the same way the
Republican Party profited in the United States. (Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pg. 233)
Several
of my CIA and DEA sources who were directly involved in the
drug trafficking described how the Mossad marked their drug packages,
how the Mossad shared space of CIA aircraft flying drugs into the
United States, and about the vast network of Mossad operatives throughout
Central and South America engaging in drug smuggling (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pgs 44-45)
ASEAN
is devoted to making money, has minimal interest in human rights
and democracy and, of course, has its own hidden agendas, such as
the enriching drugs trade. (John
Pilger - Hidden Agendas, pg. 178)
The
CIA had prepared an internal survey that estimated that 60 percent
of the opium of the world market was coming from Southeast Asia
and noted the precise whereabouts of the four largest heroin labs
in the region, in villages in Laos, Burma and Thailand. This report
was leaked to the New York Times, whose reporter relayed the main
conclusions, without realizing that these villages were all next
to CIA stations with the labs being run by people on the CIA’s
payroll. (Alexander
Cockburn - Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, pg. 240)
The
narcotics trade, which along with money laundering is perhaps the
most lucrative field of organized crime, has been a state-run enterprise
in Communist China since 1949. The Soviets entered the field in
1956, and their Cuban clients came on board in 1961 (The
New American - 04.09.2001 - William Norman Grigg Interview)
In
1972 the Indonesian authorities arrested a Ch'ao Chou Chinese in
Djakarta, in possession of a Chinese Communist Party card and 30
kilos of heroin, worth between 60 and 150 million in US, depending
on quality. The investigation showed that the purpose of the heroin
imports was the financing of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)
through the creation of a drug ring in Djakarta. China distributes
narcotics to its fraternal communist parties in Southeast Asia as
a means of raising funds for their activities. The most recent case
is that of North Korea. Their diplomats have been also kicked out
of several European countries for smuggling and distributing heroin.
(Executive
Intelligence Review - Dope, Inc., pg. 170, 171)
The
United States never fully achieved domination of the Golden Crescent
(drug producing) region until the outbreak of the CIA instigated
Afghanistan War. (Rodney
Stich - FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery, pg. 180)
The
only publicly acknowledged US casualties on the Afghan battlefields
were some Black Muslims who journeyed to the Hindu Kush from the
United States to fight on the Prophet’s behalf. But the drug
casualties inside the US form the secret CIA war, particularly in
the inner cities, numbered in the thousands, plus untold social
blight and suffering. (Alexander
Cockburn - Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, pg. 261)
Whenever
you see governments using the guise of "national security"
to deny justice and information, what they really mean is the security
of their own criminal behavior. (David
Icke - I am me I am free, pg. 67)
Only
"pariah" governments traffic drugs without fronts. "Legitimate"
governments prefer their intelligence agencies cut deals with the
drug mafiosi while the visible machinery of the bureaucracy seems
all aflutter over the "drug problem. (Terence
McKenna - Food of the Gods, pg 112)
You
are now familiar with the outward operations of my banking operations.
… This weekend will mark the beginning of your training in
the technology of power that lurks behind outer appearances. ..
We have found absolute control of governmental intelligence gathering
and covert operations to be vital. Besides the benefits of public
financing reaped by these "nationalized secret societies,"
we obtain a decisive advantage from the fact that these our "spook"
operations are sanctioned by law. To envision how we operate in
this lucrative field, let’s briefly look at the mechanics
of drug smuggling. Police and customs officials are told to leave
certain gangsters alone, even when transporting suspicious cargoes...
if they could see the big picture, as we can, the agent would see
that practically all drugs are smuggled by federal intelligence
agents and secret police. How ever could such a volume be transported
safely? Real harassment and prosecution is reserved for those who
enter the field without our approval. (The
Occult Technology of Power, Ch. 8)
The
power of narco dollars comes when you combine drug trafficking with
the stock market. If I have a company that has a $100,000 of income
and a stock trading at 20 times earnings, if I can find a way to
run $100,000 of narcotics sales by a few teenagers in West Philadelphia
through my financial statements, I can get my stock market value
to go up from $2 million to $4 million. I can double my "pop."
That is a quick $2 million profit from putting a few teenagers to
work selling drugs in their neighborhood. (Catherine
Austin Fitts - Narco-Dollars for Beginners, Pt. 2)
Every
year since I was a child public safety goes down and the budgets
that I pay for as a taxpayer to fund more enforcement, prosecution
and incarceration go up. If you look at what taxpayers are paying,
you would think we were picking up all the narco dollar industry's
expenses. The more we pay for enforcement, the more public safety
goes down and drug profits go up. The more we pay for national security,
the more thousands of boat loads of white agricultural products
seem to have no problem moving back and forth across the borders.
(Catherine
Austin Fitts - Narco-Dollars for Beginners, Pt. 3)
If
you are taking hard drugs, or thinking doing so, remember this:
You are not being a 'rebel', you are committing mental and physical
suicide, and you are doing exactly what the people who control this
world want you to do. (David
Icke - The Biggest Secret, pg 286)
The
existence of a two-tier code of criminal justice, in which people
holding key positions of trust in the US government go unpunished
for their role in moving tens of thousands of pounds of hard drugs
into the United States, while the average Joe is given years in
prison for possession of drugs the size of an M&M beats even
Mexican "justice"! (Rodney
Stich - Drugging America, pg 78)
The
giving of aid and comfort to the enemies of democracy by our government
is recognized by the people as treasonous. (William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pg 231)
If
you have the power to control, and you have also the knowledge that
such power is being abused criminally - and you don't do anything
about it - you are indeed criminal in a most deep and intimate way.
(Josiah
E. Du Bois, Jr. - The Devil's chemists, pg 315) |