- Gary Webb, just in case you've already
forgotten him, was the journalist who,in a well researched, understated
article entitled "The Dark Alliance,"linked the CIA supported
Contras to cocaine and weapons being sold to a California street gang and
ended up literally being hounded out of journalism by every mainstream
news peddling organization in the Yellow Pages. Even his own employer
The San Jose Mercury piled on for the kill.
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- And guess what? The CIA finally admitted,
yesterday, in the New York Times no less, that they, in fact, did "work
with" the Nicaraguan Contras while they had information that they
were involved in cocaine trafficking to the United States. An action known
to us court qualified experts and federal agents as Conspiracy to Import
and Distribute Cocaine"a federal felony punishable by up to life in
prison.
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- To illustrate how us regular walking
around, non CIA types are treated when we violate this law, while I was
serving as a DEA supervisor in New York City, I put two New York City police
officers in a federal prison for Conspiracy to distribute Cocaine when
they looked the other way at their friend's drugdealing. We could not
prove they earned a nickel nor that they helped theirfriend in any way,
they merely did not do their duty by reporting him. Theywere sentenced
to 10 and 12 years respectively, and one of them, I wasrecently told, had
committed suicide. I have spent three decades as a court qualified expert
and federal agent and am not aware of any class of American Citizen having
special permission toviolate the law that we have been taxed over $1 trillion
in the past twodecades to enforce; the law that every politician, bureaucrat
and media punditkeeps telling us protects us against the most serious danger
to Americansecurity in our history.
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- The interesting thing to me, about the
Webb article is that the CIA isprovably (and now admittedly) responsible
for much larger scale drugtrafficking than Webb alleged or even imagined
in his report. In fact, according to a confidential DEA report entitled
"Operation Hun, a Chronology" that I used as part of the proof
to back up the undercoverexperiences detailed in my book The Big White
Lie, (optioned for a movie byRobert Greenwald Productions) the CIA was
actively blocking DEA fromindicting many members of the ruling government
of Bolivia, from,1980-83"during a time period that these same people
were responsible forproducing more than 90 percent of the cocaine consumed
in the United States.As CIA Inspector General Hitz himself stated before
congress, it was duringthis time period that Nicraguan Contra supporters
were buying large amounts ofcocaine from these same CIA protected Bolivians.
Do you think Congress wants to see this proof? The gang that can't spy
straight, as they are known to my listeners and aboutwhom President Lyndon
Johnson once said, "When Rich folks don't trust theirsons with the
family money they send them on down to the CIA," certainly did alot
more damage to this nation than, for example, computer company owner WillFoster
who was sentenced to 93 years in prison for possession of 70 marijuanaplants
for medicinal use. Of course, true to their shifty, sleazy form, while
admitting that they didaid and abet Contra drug trafficking, they are now
refusing to release theirown final investigative report which details the
damning proof. The samereport that CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz,
during February, 1998, hadpromised congress and the American people was
forthcoming "shortly", because,as CIA Director George Tenet now
claims, CIA does not have enough money in itsbudget to properly classify
it. You believe that then I know an old guy with a beard named Fidel, wanderingthe
streets of South Miami with an Island about 90 miles off the coast forsale.
He says the money is for his retirement. How, you ask, do they get away
with it? Well for one thing, mainstream media, the so-called Fourth Estate,
does allit can to help.
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- During the Iran-contra hearings, when
Senators Kerry and D'amato were makingpronouncements before the Senate
indicating that the CIA was involved withdrug trafficking, Katherine Graham
the owner of The Washington Post addresseda class of CIA recruits at CIA's
Langley headquarters in Novemeber, 1988, bysaying: "There are some
things the general public does not need to know andshouldn't. I believe
democracy flourishes when the government can takelegitimate steps to keep
its secrets, and when the press can decide whether toprint what it knows.."
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- Apparently CIA protection of drug trafficking
was among those secrets Thus, it should have been no surprise to those
CIA agent recruits whenWashington Post reporter and drug expert Michael
Itsikoff wrote that there was"no credible evidence" linking the
CIA supported contras to cocainetrafficking at the same time very credible
evidence was being heard by SenatorKerry's committee indicating that the
Contras may have been the top purveyorsof drugs to Americans in our history.
Neither should it have been a surprise to anyone who heard her statement
whenmainstream media refused to print the news that Oliver North, US Ambassador
toCosta Rica, Lewis Tambs and various top level CIA officers were banned
fromever entering Costa Rica by Nobel Prize winning President Oscar Arias,
fordrug running. The drugs, by the way, all going to us.
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- Nor should it have been a surprise when
Gary Webb was destroyed by mainstreammedia, for doing nothing more or less
than telling the truth as he found it.
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- And now, while CIA admits their felonies
to the press but refuses to releasethe proof, and, Janet Reno, the head
of the Obstruction of Justice Departmenthas done the unprecedented by classifying
her own department's investigationinto CIA drug trafficking, the partnership
for a Drug Free America is spending$2 billion of our tax money on already-proven-fruitless
anti-drug ads. And where do you think the money goes? Answer: to every
major media corporation on the big board. Gary Webb, my friend, you are
owed a huge apology. But I doubt that you'll get it. Not in this lifetime.
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