| "For decades, the CIA, the Pentagon, and
secret organizations like Oliver North's Enterprise have been supporting
and protecting the world's biggest drug dealers.... The Contras and
some of their Central American allies ... have been documented by DEA as
supplying ... at least 50 percent of our national cocaine
consumption. They were the main conduit to the United States for Colombian
cocaine during the 1980's. The rest of the drug supply ... came from other
CIA-supported
groups, such as DFS (the Mexican CIA) ... [and] other groups and/or
individuals like Manual Noriega." (Ex-DEA
agent Michael Levine: The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack
Epidemic) |
| "In my 30-year history in the Drug Enforcement
Administration and related agencies, the major targets of my investigations
almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA." -- Dennis
Dayle, former chief of an elite DEA enforcement unit. FROM: Peter Dale
Scott & Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the
CIA in Central America, Berkeley: U. of CA Press, 1991, pp. x-xi. |
Former Congessional Investigator Jack Blum, on the structure
of CIA narco-colonialism:
"For criminal organizations, participating
in covert operations offers much more than money. They may get a voice
in selecting the new government. They
may get a government that owes them for help in coming to power. They may
be able to use their connections with the United States government
to enhance their political power at home and towave off the
efforts of the American law enforcement community."
(Prepared October 1996 statement of Jack
Blum (former special counsel to the 1987 "Kerry" Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations) for
the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug
trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by Senator
Arlen Specter) |
Taken alone, one CIA drug ring, that of Rafael
Caro Quintero and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo (two Contra supporters
based in Guadalajara, Mexico) were known by DEA to be smuggling four
tons A MONTH into the U.S. during the early Contra war. Other operations
including Manuel Noriega
(a CIA asset, strongman leader of Panama),
John Hull (ranch owner and CIA asset, Costa Rica), Felix Rodriguez
(Contra
supporter, El Salvador), Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros (Honduran
Military, Contra supporter, Honduras) along with other elements
of the Guatemalan and Honduran military. Cumulatively, the aforementioned
CIA assets were concurrently trafficking close to two hundred tons
a year or close to 70% of total U.S. consumption. All
of these CIA assets have been ascertained as being connected to CIA
via public documentation and testimony. -- "From the
outline
section of this web site:
(https://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/outline.html) |
| "The CIA functionally gains influence and control in governments
corrupted by criminal narco-trafficking. Politically, the CIA exerts
influence by leveraging narco-militarists and corrupted politicians
... This is really NEO-narco-colonialism, whereby local criminal
proxies do the bidding of the patron government seeking expanded influence.
But because of the quid-pro-quo of protecting the criminal proxies' illicit
pipelines, the result is still a functional narco-colonialism, involving
a narcotics commodity in the actual practical execution of policy, but
with the very different twist of covert action." -- from the analysis
section of this web site: |
| "Here's my problem. I think that if people
in the government of the United States make a secret decision to sacrifice
some portion of the American population in the form of ... deliberately
exposing them to drugs, that is a terrible decision that should never
be made in secret." (- Jack Blum, speaking
before the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged
CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by
Senator
Arlen Specter). |
