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Drugs And The Bogus 'War
Against Terrorism'
What Do The 1996 Sudden Death Of Former
CIA Chief William Colby
And The Current Expanding Heroin Production In Afghanistan Tell Us About The Bush
Administration?
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATcolby.htm
"Search crews on Monday combed the muddy waters of the
Wicomico River, and helicopters scoured the area in a search for former CIA director William Colby,
presumed drowned in a weekend boating accident."
'Hunt for former CIA director continues'
CNN, 29 April 1996
click here for CNN 'boating accident'
report on Colby's death
"Russian border guards say they have made their biggest
haul of heroin in 10 years, on Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan"
Four dead in Afghan border drugs bust
BBC Online, 14 July 2002
"The presidents of Russia and four Central Asian states
have begun a summit in Kazakhstan with calls for more active involvement in helping
rebuild Afghanistan. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said they were concerned at
reports of an expected bumper harvest of opium poppies there..."
Afghan heroin threat alarms Central Asia
BBC Online, 6 July
2002
"In Chambliss' view governments often engage in
smuggling (arms and drugs), assassination conspiracies, terrorist
acts, and other crimes in order to further their foreign
policy objectives.... In this section [of this University Course] we will examine
the issue of state-organized crime as it relates to the United
States ... In recent years, intelligence agencies in the United States have sought
and received assistance from drug traffickers. While it is,
of course, outrageously hypocritical for a government waging a drug
war against its own citizens to seek assistance from drug traffickers, it is not
surprising.... In the early 1970s, the CIA and organized crime played a key role in
establishing and operating the World Finance Corporation, a Florida-based company involved
in laundering drug money and supporting
terrorist activities (Lernoux, 1984).....There is precious little difference
between those people who society designates as respectable and law abiding and those
people society castigates as hoodlums and thugs. The world of corporate finance and
corporate capital is as criminogenic and probably more criminogenic than any
poverty-wracked slum neighborhood.... In the everyday language of the police, the press,
and popular opinion, 'organized crime' refers to a tightly knit group of people, usually
alien and often Italian, that run a crime business structured along the lines of feudal
relationships. This conception bears little relationship to the reality of organized crime
today... "
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of
Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
"The men who perfected the guns-for-dope traffic moved
to the Middle East as experts in the sale of sophisticated arms, protected by officials at
the top in the Pentagon and CIA. Richard Armitage, now the
key Pentagon official in counter-terror and covert operations [under President Bush Snr,
former CIA chief] is named consistently by investigators as the man who helped the drug
warlords market their crops.... The most prominent name recurring in
this [CIA drug tafficking] connection is Vice President George Bush. While he was CIA
director, much of these activities blossomed, but more
serious charges are being made by former intelligence officers ..... who fear that their
institutions have been corrupted by a few self-proclaimed patriots."
BANK OF INTRIGUE
Toronto Sun, 13 August 1987
Armitage is now Deputy Secretary of State under the new Bush Jnr administration
"While we usually think of corruption in relation to
police officers on the street and local prosecutors, the drug
war has managed to offer incentives for corruption that reach to the
very highest levels of the United States government. It is indeed ironic that the
very agencies of government who are beating the drums loudest in the war on drugs have also established an infamous record of accepting
assistance from and providing logistical support to some of the largest drug trafficking syndicates in the world."
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 5: The Failure of Drug Control Policies
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
CIA and Bush Drug Crime
Chronology
(Dates approximate and overlapping)
2002
"US President George W Bush has decided to waive sanctions against Afghanistan despite acknowledging
its failure to tackle illegal drugs....... Of the 23 nations on the US drugs blacklist, all but Afghanistan, Haiti and Burma were
removed this year on the grounds that they were meeting anti-drugs standards. But
President Bush also waived
anti-drugs sanctions against Haiti in view of its extreme poverty."
US drops Afghan drug sanctions
BBC Online, 25 February,
2002
'The Immaculate Deception : The Bush Crime Family Exposed' - Amazon.com
Dark
Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion - Amazon.com
The
Mafia, CIA and George Bush - Amazon.com
Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of
THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE
"Afghanistan's new government is
failing to tackle the cultivation of opium poppies, a BBC
investigation has found. Earlier this year, Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw announced that almost a third of the country's poppy fields had been destroyed.
But BBC Radio 4's Today programme found there was little
evidence that the crops were being eradicated.... According to the Foreign Office, 90% of the heroin in the UK originates in
Afghanistan..."
Afghan heroin trade 'booming'
BBC Online, 25 July 2002
2001
"[In 2001]Pakistan and the United States have
turned to a tried and trusted 'friend' in their efforts to exert control over events in Afghanistan - convicted Pakistani drug baron and former parliamentarian, Ayub Afridi.... Without fanfare, Afridi
was freed from prison in Karachi last Thursday after serving just a few weeks of a
seven-year sentence for the export of 6.5 tons of hashish, seized at Antwerp, Belgium, in
the 1980s. No reasons were given for Afridi's release..... It is a matter of record that top US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) officials believed in the early 1980s that they would never be able to
justify a multibillion-dollar budget from the government to provide support to the
mujahideen in the fight against the Red Army. As a result, they decided to generate funds
through the poppy-rich Afghan soil and heroin production and smuggling to finance the
Afghan war. Afridi was the kingpin of this plan.... "
US turns to drug baron to rally support
Asia Times, 5 Dec, 2001
For more on US current support for drugs baron Haji Ayub Afridi in Afghanistan see bottom of page
"...Pakistani
Major General Zafar Abas has gone on the public record, confirming my claim that the
American military has not in the past, and is not now, bombing Afghan drug assets,
including heroin laboratories and drug dumps. Speaking on Australian SBS Television on 14
January, Major General Abas said, 'It is
common knowledge that southern Afghanistan, which is infested with narcotics dumps and
factories, has not been bombed by the Americans at all.' Major General Abas, commander of the southern Baluchistan
Province of Pakistan, agreed to the interviewed after his troops intercepted and seized a
large shipment of pure heroin on its way to Europe. The single half ton shipment, the
first intercepted since the 'downfall' of the Taliban, is estimated to have a street value
of US$1 billion."
Pakistani General confirms publicly
that 'War on Terror' is all about Heroin
Joe Vialls,
January 2002
"Bush
[Jnr] has been choosing people [for his post 2000 election
administration] from the most dubious part of the Republican stable of the 1980s, those
engaged in the Iran-Contra [US government illegal arms and drugs running] affair... Armitage served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs in the Reagan years, but a 1989 appointment in the elder Bush administration was
withdrawn before hearings because of controversy over Iran-Contra and other scandals. Armitage was one of the main architects
behind US covert support to the Mujahedin and the militant Islamic base, both during the
Afghan-Soviet war as well as in its aftermath. US covert
support was financed by the Golden Crescent drug trade. This
pattern has not been fundamentally altered. It still constitutes an integral part of US
foreign policy by the Bush Administration
and the basis of CIA covert operations."
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the
September 11 Attacks
Centre for Research on
Globalisation (CRG), Montréal, 2 November 2001
1996
"Search crews on Monday combed the muddy waters of the
Wicomico River, and helicopters scoured the area in a search for former CIA director
William Colby, presumed drowned
in a weekend boating accident. The search was called off for the night late Monday.... He was dismissed
by Ford because of a growing feeling in the White House that he was cooperating too freely
with congressional investigators looking into allegations of
CIA wrongdoing."
Hunt for former CIA director continues
CNN, 29 April 1996
"... a few days prior to his
disappearance, Colby was in
Texas at a university seminar on the Viet Nam War. Some thought maybe Colby was knowledgeable about POWs who the
U.S. government cannot admit still exist in Southeast Asia: are the POWs made into 'mules'
in the dope trade for the
reported benefit of Colin Powell and his pals George Bush [Snr] and Richard Armitage? Did Colby
whisper explosive items into some ears in or near the seminar? Former CIA Director William
Colby was too involved. So, the mysterious 'they' used the boat trick, to make him disappear ...
At the time of his disappearance, Colby was under Congressional subpoena to
testify...."
'WILLIAM
COLBY and CIA DIRTY TRICKS' - click here
Sherman H. Skolnick - 1996
"Much of the opium profits
from CIA involvement with drug traffickers in the Golden Triangle were laundered through the Nugan Hand Bank in
Australia. A network of high-ranking U.S. military officers and intelligence officers had
links to the Nugan-Hand Bank, which was charged by an Australian commission of
investigation with narcotics trafficking, gun-running, money laundering, and massive fraud
(Kwitny, 1987, New York Times, March 8, 1987). In his investigation of the Nugan-
Hand Bank, Jonathan Kwitny charges that the bank laundered billions
of dollars, helped finance the heroin trade in the Golden
Triangle and engaged in tax fraud and theft (Kwitny, 1987: 76). Who were the officers of
this 'heroin' bank? The president of Nugan-Hand was retired U.S. Admiral Earl F. Yates.
Its legal counsel was former CIA director William Colby...."
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of
Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
1991
"The world's worst banking scandal, inflicting huge
financial losses on thousands of people worldwide, surfaced in the media in 1991. This was
the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). As could be expected, it had heavy
ties with the CIA, terrorist organizations, drug traffickers, and any other crooked
financial transaction shunned by most other banks. It financed terrorist activities,
financed drug trafficking deals,
defrauded depositors. .... The BCCI scandal was related to other criminal activities,
including BNL; Iraqgate; Iran and its Contra cousin; and others. BCCI and BNL both played
a role in the Iraqi armament buildup, in which funds provided
by U.S. taxpayers were forwarded by the Atlanta branch of
Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. There were numerous cross-dealings between the banks.
BCCI used its international connections to fund loans to BNL, which funded the Iraqi
weapon buildups, which then required the U.S. taxpayer to fund much of the Persian Gulf
War.... BCCI was custom-made for the covert and corrupt activities of the CIA, the Mossad,
drug dealers, and terrorists. My
CIA contacts, including Russbacher, described how CIA operatives used the bank to launder
money from CIA enterprises, including drug trafficking proceeds, money from its various financial activities within the United
States, including its looting of savings and loans, to fund unlawful arms shipments,
finance terrorist operations,undermine foreign governments, and other covert
activities."
'Defrauding America'
Rodney
Stich, 1994
Copies of 'Defrauding America' available via Amazon.com
"The close relationship between
the U.S. government, the financial community, and organized crime is nowhere clearer than
in the activities of
the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
(Kappeler, Blumberg, and Potter, 1993: 237-238). BCCI was the seventh-largest privately
owned bank in the world....Among its many criminal activities was the laundering of at
least $14 billion for the Colombian cocaine cartels; the facilitating of financial
transactions for Panamanian president Manuel Noriega and international arms merchant Adnan
Khashoggi; the funneling of cash to the contras for illegal arms deals and contra-backed drug trafficking.... Despite the enormity of
BCCI's crimes and its vital role in drug trafficking, the U.S. Justice Department was more than reluctant to investigate. In
fact, the Justice Department had complete information on BCCI's drug and arms operations and its illegal
holdings in the United States for over three years before it even initiated an inquiry.
Perhaps the reluctance of American law enforcement to interfere with such a major
organized crime entity can be explained by the proliferation of what some have perceived
as BCCI's 'friends' in the U.S. government holding high office. "
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of
Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
Bush and the Iran-Contra arms and drugs scandal - click here
Bush, Harken, BCCI and the Contras - click here
Bush, Harken, BCCI and Bin Laden - click here
1987
"A drug warlord in Burma accuses Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard L. Armitage and others of drug trafficking to fund anti-communist
operations, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Thursday... In a three-hour videotape
interview smuggled out of Southeast Asia within the past
week, Khun Sa said high-ranking American officials were involved in drug trafficking between 1965 and at least
1979."
Associated Press Article 4 June, 1987
Cited by Newsmax
1 March 2002
"After his appointment in 1981, Armitage began working in Southeast Asia to
track down reports of MIAs ['Missing
In Action' soldiers] in Viet-Nam; [Ross] Perot suspected him of not doing enough. Last
October, Perot met with Armitage
at the Pentagon and bluntly demanded that he resign. Perot's stated reason was that
Armitage had written, on Pentagon stationery, a glowing character reference for a
Vietnamese woman refugee, Nguyet Thi O'Rourke, who had been convicted of running a
gambling operation in Virginia. Armitage later conceded that using Pentagon stationery had been 'dumb', but not
illegal or improper. At the meeting, Armitage vigorously denied any implication that he had anything to do with an illicit arms or drug network, Perot then took
his case to George Bush [Snr].
The Vice President's office has confirmed that Perot raised 'what he considered to be
evidence of wrongdoing ' by Armitage. Bush told Perot to go to the 'proper authorities.' So the billionaire
called on FBI Director William Webster. Perot has also made at least one visit to the
White House carrying a pile of documents. Yet he has received no support from the Reagan
Administration. In fact, National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci in January called him in to ask him to stop pursuing Armitage....."
PEROT'S PRIVATE
PROBES
Time Magazine, 3 May 1987
"Michael J. Hand, a Vietnam war
hero and later a CIA agent in Asia, disappeared after his founding-partner of the
Australian Nugan-Hand Bank was found dead. Four Australian government investigations
produced voluminous reports that do little to clear up the mystery of a financial
operation said to have become a 'giant theft machine.' Some of the Iran-Contra hearing's
characters came under scrutiny: Gen. Richard Secord, the CIA's Tom Clines and Ted Shackley
.... That's why the Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry began its work after former
U.S. government officials shredded Nugan-Hand records when the bank failed seven years
ago. ....The bank laundered money from the Southeast Asian drug trade. Profits bought arms to be sold to the world's trouble spots...
Former chief of special operations for the U.S. Air Force, Fletcher Prouty, says it began
when drugs were used to pay
anti-Japanese tribesmen in World war II. Out of this sprang a drug trade that then became the means by which U.S. run guerrillas fought the
secret wars of Indochina. This drug trade, he states, was the reason for starting the Nugan Hand Bank and
'Michael Hand worked out of my office before going to Indochina'....The men who perfected
the guns-for-dope traffic moved to the Middle East as experts in the sale of sophisticated
arms, protected by officials at the top in the Pentagon and CIA. Richard Armitage, now the key Pentagon official in
counter-terror and covert operations is named consistently by investigators as the man who
helped the drug warlords market
their crops. Gen. Khun Sa, who governs the Shan territory of Upper Burma with an army that
dominates the infamous Golden Triangle, the world's biggest single source of dope,
testified recently that U.S. officials facilitated his business running funds through the
Australian bank with Armitage's
help.... Daily News
Digest reports, 'There is an enormous amount of
coroborative material being sent to our office nearly every day. It supports the
conclusion that a formal or informal organization of high CIA and military officers, some
former, some present, exists which has for decades been a major, if not the major importer
of heroin and cocaine into the U.S.' The most prominent name
recurring in this connection is Vice President George Bush.
While he was CIA director, much
of these activities blossomed, but more serious charges are being made by former
intelligence officers who believe passionately in the need for a powerful secret
intelligence capability but who fear that their institutions have been corrupted by a few
self-proclaimed patriots."
BANK OF INTRIGUE
Toronto Sun, 13 August 1987
"Aronow's role in marijuana
smuggling was reportedly confirmed by Bill Norris, head of the Major Narcotics Unit at the
Miami US Attorney's office and thus the top federal drug prosecution official in south Florida..... Aronow was reportedly a close
friend of George Bush.... As one
local resident recalled of that time, 'everyone in Miami knew that if you needed a favor
from Bush, you spoke to Aronow.'
It was proverbial among Florida pols and powerbrokers that Aronow had the vice president's
ear.... Don Aronow was murdered by Mafia-style professional killers on February 3, 1987.
During the last days of his life, Aronow is reported to have made numerous personal
telephone calls to Bush. Aronow
had been aware that his life was in danger, and he had left a list of instructions to tell
his wife what to do if anything should happen to him. The first point on the list was '#1.
CALL GEORGE BUSH.' .... Starting
in 1985, and with special intensity during 1987-88, more than two dozen persons involved
in various aspects of the Iran-contra gun-running and drug-running operation met their deaths... the overall pattern of these deaths
strongly suggests that they are coherent with a damage control operation by the networks
involved, a damage control operation that has concentrated on liquidating those
individuals whose testimony might prove to be most damning to the leading personalities of
these networks. The death of Don Aronow occurred within the time frame of this general
process of amputation and cauterization of the Iran-contra and related networks. Many
aspects of Aronow's life suggest that his assassination may have been a product of the
same 'damage control' logic...."
The Phony War On Drugs
'George
Bush: The Unauthorized Biography'
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
'The Immaculate Deception : The Bush Crime Family Exposed' - Amazon.com
Dark
Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion - Amazon.com
The
Mafia, CIA and George Bush - Amazon.com
Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of
THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE
1986
"Global International Air was part of Oliver North's
logistical network which shipped arms for the U.S. government on several occasions,
including a shipment of 23 tons of TOW missiles to Iran by Race Aviation, another company
owned by Azima. Pete Brewton, in his investigation of the Indian Springs bank collapse was
told that FBI had not followed up on Indian Springs because the CIA informed them that
Azima was 'off limits' (Houston Post, February 8, 1990). Similarly the assistant
U.S. Attorney handling the Indian Springs investigation was told to 'back off from a key
figure in the collapse because he had ties to the CIA.' Global International's planes
based in Miami were maintained by Southern Air Transport, another CIA proprietary company.
According to Franck Van Geyso, an employee of Global International, pilots for Global
International ferried arms into South and Central America and returned to Florida with drugs.... In the 1980s the CIA also began
operations in support of the Mujahadeen, a fundamentalist Moslem group of rebels fighting
Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Like his Nicaraguan 'freedom fighters' (discussed below),
Reagan's Mujahadeen allies financed their war through drug
trafficking, in this case heroin. Mujahadeen leaders
supervised the growing of the opium poppy and with the assistance of the CIA, which had
reopened trade routes to supply the Mujahadeen with weapons, smuggled the drug onto the world market. The net result of
CIA assistance to the Afghani rebels was that the areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan they
control had become 'the world's leading source of heroin exports to the United States and
Europe' by 1986, according to a State Department report. "
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of
Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
Iran-Contra National Security Archive - George Washington University - click here
1975
"The nomination of
George Bush
[Snr] to succeed Colby [as CIA director] disturbed Senator Church and he wanted to wind up the speech
by opposing the nomination.... Church wanted ... to stress how Bush 'might compromise the
independence of the CIA -- the agency could be politicized.' .....Senator Church viewed the Bush appointment in the context of a letter sent to him by Ford on October 31,
1975, demanding that the committee's report on US assassination plots against foreign
leaders be kept secret. ... on November 3, Church was approached by reporters outside of
his Senate hearing room and asked by Daniel Schorr about the firing of Colby and his likely replacement by Bush. Church responded with a voice that was
trembling with anger. 'There is no question in my mind but that concealment is the new
order of the day,' he said. 'Hiding evil is the trademark of a totalitarian government.'
Schorr said that he had never seen Church so upset.... He told reporters: 'Now comes the
firing of Colby ..... and the
general belief that Secretary Kissinger is behind these latest developments... clearly a
pattern has emerged now to try and disrupt this [Senate Intelligence Committee]
investigation'..."
Chapter -XV- CIA DIRECTOR
'George Bush: The
Unauthorized Biography'
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
1973
"More obscure was one Michael Hand, who had been a CIA
contract agent in Laos. In 1973, Hand and his partner Frank Nugan established the Nugan
Hand Bank in Sydney. A slew of top-level retirees from the CIA and U.S. military
intelligence were associated with this bank; William Colby served as its attorney. Nugan Hand collapsed spectacularly in 1980. After
three major investigations, Australian officials concluded that the bank had been
primarily involved in laundering money for arms and drug traffickers."
Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media
NameBase NewsLine, No. 16, January-March 1997
"During the Vietnam
War, the CIA supplied, financed, and supported a renegade Laotian army made up of members
of the Hmong (or Meo) tribe. General Vang Pao commanded this 36,000 man secret army in a
war against the Pathet Lao in an attempt to disrupt North Vietnamese supply routes to Viet
Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam. Vang Pao's army was under the command of veteran CIA
officers and was totally supplied, financed, and equipped by U.S. funds... The war
interfered with their opium trade, so the CIA supplied them with aircraft from a CIA
proprietary company called Air America to transport their opium from the Laotian hills to
a massive CIA base at Long Tieng, Laos. At Long Tieng, Vang Pao had established a massive
heroin refinery. DEA's Far East regional director, John J. O'Neill, said, 'I have no doubt
that Air America was used to transport opium' (Kwitney, 1987: 51). Some of the Laotian
heroin was transported to South Vietnam, where it was sold to U.S. troops, 20% of whom
came home addicted to heroin."
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 9: State-Organized Crime as a Case Study Of
Criminal Policy
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
The Department of Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
"The names of some
of those who have been connected to CIA drug trafficking by a multitude of sources are: Ted Shackley (CIA Station Chief in Laos
and later Saigon), Tom Clines (Shackley's deputy), Richard Secord (Air Force/CIA liaison
to Shackley after flying many missions as a fighter pilot), General Heinie Aderholt (Chief
Air Operations strategist for CIA's undeclared war in Laos), Richard Armitage (former Navy officer and covert
operations specialist charged with removing key materiel from Vietnam in 1975), Erich von
Marbod (Defense Department), John Singlaub, William Casey, William
Colby and Oliver North.... And Colby, who ran the Phoenix Program in Vietnam, was
DCI [Director of the CIA] from 1973-6 and on the Board of
Directors of the Nugan-Hand Bank. The Nugan-Hand Bank and its successor firm BBRDW were
high rolling investment-banking operations, both of which laundered covert drug profits for CIA."
THE POWs, CIA and DRUGS
From the Wilderness
Publications, 23 July 1998
Why the CIA is not interested in ending al-Qaeda - 26 Feb 2002
More On William Colby
From the "Bush Body Count" web site
http://www.bk2k.com/bushbodycount/home.html
"This is a list of bodies, a roster of the dead, who might have been called Witnesses had they not met their untimely deaths. All these people were associated with the name of Bush, and coincidence aside, did not live to tell the tale. Some of the names on this list will give you pause. Some are rumor. Some you may find incredible, and some ridiculous. Do your own research. You will draw your own conclusions. I make no assertion but this:
If the dead could speak, perhaps the loudest and most tragic voice would be that of Democracy, who died December 12, 2000, when the Supreme Court of the United States stopped a legally mandated count of ballots, votes that had never been counted, effectively appointing Bush to the White House, even as it became ever more clear that he was not the true winner. Subsequent media recounts have shown that Al Gore was indeed the winner of the popular vote of Florida and hence the Presidency of the United States, but it appears as though the fix was in.
Ask yourself, can they get away with it? The answer - only if you let them. Spread the word ... "
http://www.bk2k.com/bushbodycount/bodies3.html
This former CIA director disappeared in an apparent boating accident, and a body was later discovered (minus the life jacket Colby's friends insisted he always wore while boating) and buried promptly. John DeCamp, a lawyer from Lincoln, Nebraska, and Colby's close friend and confidant, said Colby's death was not an accident. He stated that Colby was prepared to disclose that missing P.O.W.'s were working for a dope smuggling operation orchestrated by General Colin Powell, Pentagon official Richard Armitage, and George H. W. Bush.
From the "Public Information Research" web site
In 1984, John DeCamp came in at number five in an Associated Press listing of the ten most powerful people in Nebraska, as ranked by media editors and publishers. In Vietnam he worked with William Colby in CORDS, and later initiated Operation Baby Lift in 1975. Back in Nebraska he served 16 years as a state senator. This book is about a cover-up that involved Lawrence E. (Larry) King, Jr. and his Franklin Community Federal Credit Union. Franklin was raided in November 1988 by federal regulators, and King, a wheeler-dealer with Washington connections, went to jail. The Nebraska legislature launched a probe, only to have their chief investigator, among others, die violently under suspicious circumstances. What began as a financial swindle ended up as a "hideous tale of drugs, Iran-contra money- laundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, and ritual murder." DeCamp was involved with the probe from the beginning, and became the attorney for two of the abuse victims. The investigation, unfortunately, fizzled out.
William Colby was secretly hired by the legislature's committee to look into the
investigator's death. Colby warned DeCamp to stay away, or he could end up dead as well,
because "sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful."
Nevertheless, DeCamp wrote this book, which documents untold corruption in the American
heartland.
ISBN 0-9632158-0-9
Franklin Cover-Up
Author: John W. DeCamp
Binding: Paperback, 324 pages Publisher: AW T, Incorporated Published
Date: 03/01/1992
List: USD $9.95 ISBN: 0963215809
"What looked like a financial swindle,
soon exploded into a hideous tale of drugs, Iran-Contra money-laundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, & ritual
murder. Nineteen months later, the legislative committee's chief investigator
died--suddenly & violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin
case. Author John DeCamp was a Nebraska state senator for 16 years, & is one of
America's most decorated Vietnam veterans. In 1990, his 'DeCamp memo' first publicly named
the alleged high-ranking abusers. Today, he is attorney for two of the abuse
victims."
Franklin Cover-UP
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Amazon.com - The Franklin Coverup
John DeCamp and the Franklin Coverup - click here
The Bogus 'War Against
Terrorism'
The Afghan CIA-Drugs Connection
"[In 2001]Pakistan and the United States
have turned to a tried and trusted 'friend' in their efforts to exert control over events
in Afghanistan - convicted
Pakistani drug baron and
former parliamentarian, Ayub Afridi.... Without
fanfare, Afridi was freed from prison in Karachi last Thursday after serving just a few
weeks of a seven-year sentence for the export of 6.5 tons of hashish, seized at Antwerp,
Belgium, in the 1980s. No reasons were given for Afridi's
release..... It is a matter of record that top US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) officials believed in the early 1980s that they would never be able to
justify a multibillion-dollar budget from the government to provide support to the
mujahideen in the fight against the Red Army. As a result, they decided to generate funds
through the poppy-rich Afghan soil and heroin production and smuggling to finance the
Afghan war. Afridi was the kingpin of this plan.... "
Asia Times, 5 Dec, 2001
"Neither does the last State
Department report explain why Haji Ayub, a major Pakistani drug baron, who had voluntarily surrendered
to U.S authorities, returned to Pakistan in 1999 after spending a mere three and a half
years in a U.S prison ....The saga of Haji Ayub
Afridi is a good illustration of the troubling links
between traffickers and politicians in Pakistan, as well as the shady deals made by the
United States with both sides..."
The
World Geopolitics of Drugs - Annual Report 1998/9
"Afridi lives in
Jalalabad, a half-hour outside Peshawar in a compound protected by anti aircraft guns and
armed tribesmen. His responsibility is to keep the flow of heroin and hashish moving to
local distribution and sales groups in New York, Newark, NJ, L.A.
and San Francisco."
War's Bastard Son
"Afghanistan's new government is failing to tackle the
cultivation of opium poppies, a BBC investigation has found. Earlier this year, Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw announced that almost a third of the country's poppy fields had been
destroyed. But BBC Radio 4's Today programme found there was little evidence that the
crops were being eradicated.... Mr Straw has congratulated the interim government on its
opium eradication scheme which he said would help stem the flow of heroin into the UK.
Eradication teams go to the farms armed with sticks to destroy the opium crops. They give
farmers $350 US for about one-fifth of a hectare of poppy. Sayed Tariq, governor of
Badakshan, said although progress was being made, the cash incentives for eradication were
counter-productive because they encouraged more farmers to grow poppy... According to the
Foreign Office, 90% of the heroin in the UK originates in Afghanistan... The Taleban had
banned the growing of opium in areas under their control. "
Afghan heroin trade 'booming'
BBC Online, 25 July 2002
February 2002 - CIA REINSTATES AFGHAN HEROIN TRAFFICKING TO USA
The Global US Government Drugs Scene
"US President George W Bush has decided to waive
sanctions against Afghanistan despite acknowledging its failure to tackle illegal drugs....... Of the 23 nations on the US drugs
blacklist, all but Afghanistan, Haiti and Burma were removed this year on the
grounds that they were meeting anti-drugs standards. But President Bush also waived
anti-drugs sanctions against Haiti in view of its extreme poverty."
US drops Afghan drug sanctions
BBC Online, 25 February,
2002
| States dropped 2002 by George Bush from US list of drug producers or transit points according to BBC |
| Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Paraguay, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Jamaica, Laos, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Thailand, Venezuela, Vietnam |
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Security Services (OSS),
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THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE
"While we usually think of corruption in relation to
police officers on the street and local prosecutors, the drug war
has managed to offer incentives for corruption that reach to the very highest levels of
the United States government. It is indeed ironic that the very agencies of government who
are beating the drums loudest in the war on drugs have also
established an infamous record of accepting assistance from and providing logistical
support to some of the largest drug trafficking syndicates in
the world. Consider the following examples (Chambliss and Block, 1981; Lernoux, 1984;
Lyman and Potter, 1999; McCoy, 1972; Mills, 1986; Simon, 1998): For more than three
decades the U.S. government has directly supported the opium-growing warlords of the
Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia. Not only does the government provide them with military
assistance and arms under the guise of fighting communism, but it has also protected
corrupt governments, such as that of Thailand, which nurture the heroin industry.
Immediately following World War II, the OSS, predecessor to the CIA struck a deal with
Corsican organized crime groups in Marseilles to break a dockworkers strike which was
impeding French efforts to put down a rebellion in the colony of Vietnam. In return the
Corsicans were given carte blanche to refine heroin in Marseilles and import to the United
states. The result of this deal was the infamous French Connection. During the Vietnam war
and for some time thereafter, CIA-funded Laotian tribesmen were used to refine opium
poppies into heroin. A CIA front company, Air America, was used to transport the heroin
out of Southeast Asia. The CIA has helped to establish money-laundering facilities for the
Southeast Asian heroin connection. The Nugan Hand Bank, established in Australia in 1973,
laundered funds for both the CIA and the Southeast Asian heroin traffickers. CIA
associates in the Caribbean, including the paymaster for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs
invasion, played key roles in the operations of Castle Bank, a Florida money laundry for
organized crime's drug money. Another Florida bank with
strong intelligence- community connections, the Bank of Perrine, has been used by the
Colombian cartels to launder money from their burgeoning cocaine business. The CIA and
organized crime played a key role in establishing and operating the World Finance
Corporation, a Florida-based company involved in laundering drug
money and supporting terrorist activities in the early 1970s. Mexican heroin magnate
Alberto Sicilia-Falcon not only claimed to have been a CIA agent operating on orders from
Washington but also had access to classified CIA documents and had a chief enforcer with
CIA ties. The world's largest opium merchant, Chang Chi- fu, operated as a CIA 'client.'
Another heroin czar, Li Wen-huan, was given direct financial and logistical assistance by
the CIA. A third major heroin trafficker, Lu Hus-shui, was protected from a Drug
Enforcement Administration investigation on orders from the CIA. In the 1980s, the CIA
provided assistance to the mujahadeen rebels fighting a civil war in Afghanistan. As part
of the effort, U.S. supplied funds, supplies, and technical assistance were used to
re-open the heroin pipeline out of Afghanistan through Pakistan which had been severed
during the war. The CIA effectively blocked a major DEA investigation of drug trafficking and money laundering by Manuel Noriega in Panama,
and the State Department blocked an investigation targeting the government of the Bahamas,
after evidence was developed that the government drug traffickers
were making a deal to use the islands as a safe haven for both drugs
and money. In the 1980s, U.S. government intelligence agents working with the Nicaraguan
contras in an attempt to overthrow the government of Nicaragua (1) solicited funds for the
operation from the Medellin Cartel; (2) provided logistical air support for cocaine
flights to United States and allowed the cartels use of contra landing strips in Costa
Rica; (3) arranged State department payments to companies owned by drug
traffickers, ostensibly as part of a humanitarian relief operation; and allowed the
contras to deal in large quantities of cocaine themselves. Recent investigations have
revealed that a sizeable portion of the cocaine being sold to Los Angeles-based street
gangs for the production of crack came from the contras."
CRJ 875: Crime and Public Policy
Module 5: The Failure of Drug Control Policies
Gary W. Potter, Professor, Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Eastern Kentucky University
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Additional Press Reports of Interest - 2002
Bush Poll Disapproval
at Pre-Attack Level
Iran president attacks
US war plans
BBC NEWS Business Enron scandal
hits US banks
New York Times - U.S. disdain provokes new
unity in Europe
Iraq garners
support for Arab meet on US threats - The Times of India
Bush, Sharon and US defense
contractors sued over military assistance to Israel
Cheney firm won
$3.8bn contracts from government
Case of the Missing
Anthrax
Japan
discussing involvement in trans-Afghan gas pipeline
Republicans facing
re-election defy Bush to woo voters
October Surprise - Saddam's
'Green Light'
(7-31-2000) Cheney's
Dirty Business
news.telegraph.co.uk
- Cheney's job at risk
Iraq
- Let's not go there
We're
coming to get you, Saddam (but it may take a little while)
The
first battle against terrorism leaves behind an angry populace
Who is stonewalling the US
anthrax investigation
Report
says that Harken sought influence in buying Bush firm
Halliburton Probe Is
Growing Worry for Bush, Hill Republicans
The
Road to Perdition
Files Reveal Bush Knew
Firm's Plight Before Stock Sale
Scandals force Bush to
take a working holiday
Court Rules Against
Cheney, Bush - In Favor Of Judicial Watch
US
air security chief quits amid disarray
Bush Renews Pledge to
Strike First to Counter Terror Threats
French
sources - U.S. to attack Iraq `soon'
Protesters
highlight 'war against Muslims'
Pentagon hawks hasten
Iraq attack
PM and Bush plan Iraq
war summit
Allied
forces 'must stay in Kyrgyzstan for long haul'
Cheney's Grimy Trail in
Business
Turks
Express Concern About Possible Invasion of Iraq
Bush's praise could
damn Cheney
Moussaoui
guilty plea rejected
Special Agent John
Walker Lindh
What is John Walker Lindh guilty
of
Congress
damns US intelligence agencies
Blundering Bush in Iraq - One Big Hizballah
Sticky Business - Cheney's activities
at Halliburton
For Cheney,
Tarnish From Halliburton
USATODAY.com -
Washington masks deficits using accounting tricks
Bush job performance drops to 62%
Unexplained
9-11 Explosion at WTC Complex
Euro
breaches parity with dollar on US woes
The Bush Cabal Turning the USA into a
Banana Republic, by Al Martin
The Ultimate
Terrorist ... America Itself - John Pilger
Judge says Bush view of
executive privilege is too expansive
Bush
Crime Aide Led Company Accused of Fraud
US
Bases Court Plan on Own Threat to World Peace
BBC -
Analysis Is US terror fight 'overplayed'
US
Taleban fighter pleads guilty
British
troops will stay in Iraq for five years after Saddam is ousted
Observer: The great War
Against Terrorism charade
NY Times Halliburton
Profits From Terror War
'US
Taleban' refused access to lawyer
Bush is Losing
Credibility Fast
Forget Enron - Congress Is Far Worse
A Look At The Powerful Jewish Lobby In
America
Mysterious explosion
shot 550 feet into the air above the U.S. Customs House at 6 World Trade Center
DOJ To Attempt Shut Down
of 9-11 Evidence
German Intelligence Says US Knew in
Advance About 9-11
Jordan refuses
to allow launchpad for invasion
Gorbachev:
I Fear Bush and Blair War Plan
British
spies in Iraq to incite revolt
President's Budget Uses Accounting Devices And
Implausible Assumptions to Hide Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Costs, 2-4-02
Iraq - West sees
glittering prizes ahead in giant oilfields
Schroeder
Says US Corporate Scandals 'Iceberg Tip'
Balkans tribunal turns to
Clinton -- The Washington Times
NLPWessex War on Terrorism Archives - click here
The Main 'Fight Smart' 911 Story So Far
Who's
Really Running America - 10 July 2002
The Coming (R)evolution
- 1 July 2002
Press Relay More 911 absurdities - 16 June 2002
Bush's ignorant 'gift' to the world - 3 June 2002
Is Bush's 'Watergate' Emerging? - 21 May 2002
Hot Why Did Bush Not Act On Sept 11? - 9 May 2002 Hot
Hot Did Sept 11 victims
die for Enron? - 8 March 2002 Hot
Why the CIA is not interested in ending
al-Qaeda - 26 Feb 2002
Cheney Panics Over Sept 11
Congressional Investigation - 4 Feb 2002
CIA provided funds to financiers of Sept 11 bomber - 18
Nov 2001
Sept 11 Deja Vu?
- 22 Oct 2001
Global War - 'It's the oil stupid' - 30 Sept 2001
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