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Lawsuit Alleges FEMA Funded by Laundered Drug Profits
by Uri Dowbenko
from The Laissez Faire City Times, Jan. 11, 1999
Speculation about the mysterious origin and funding of the
so-called Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has
continued for decades. The history of FEMA as an illegal
unconstitutional entity has been most recently exposed in an
unprecedented lawsuit against the CIA and its alleged drug
trafficking and money laundering operations.
In September 1998 a $63 million lawsuit (Case No.
98CV11829JLT) was filed by Massachusetts attorney Ray Kohlman on
behalf of former Green Beret Bill Tyree.
Kohlman, a former legal investigator for attorney William
Pepper in the Martin Luther King murder trial of James Earl Ray,
filed a 101-page complaint on behalf of his client.
The suit, replete with five inches of affidavits and
appendices, names the Central Intelligence Agency, former
Massachusetts Governor A. Paul Celucci, former Massachusetts
Attorney-General Scott Harshbarger, former CIA director and US
President George Bush and self-admitted government assassin D.
Gene Tatum as defendants in a far-reaching case involving US
Government sanctioned drug smuggling, murder, and coverup.
Bill Tyree is currently serving a life sentence for the
murder of his wife -- a case eerily similar to that of Dr.
Jeffrey McDonald, a Ft. Bragg doctor who was framed for the
murder of his wife and children in the early 1980s.
In the mid 1970s, while serving in Panama, Tyree and other
Green Berets were led into Colombia under the command of Green
Beret Colonels Cutolo and Baker to plant radio beacons, so that
plane loads of cocaine could fly below Colombian and US radar,
and land undetected in Panama,&" writes former LAPD officer Mike
Ruppert in his newsletter (From the Wilderness, P. O. Box
6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413). "Orders for these missions
came from the CIA's Ed Wilson and Tom Clines," continues Ruppert.
"Tyree had been a part of many secret missions and was losing his
taste for it. His wife was keeping a diary [for which she was
presumably murdered, and which later disappeared]."
"Five Special Forces Colonels -- Cutolo, Baker, Malvesti,
Rower and Bayard -- have died under mysterious circumstances
since. The heart of the Tyree documentation consists of an
affidavit allegedly written by Colonel Cutolo who was also
Tyree's commanding officer at Fort Devens, Mass. at the time of
Tyree's arrest. Both were then with the 10th Special Forces."
"That fifteen page document gives precise details of CIA drug
operations using Special Forces personnel. It also describes how
Tyree was framed for the murder of his wife and how Special
Forces personnel were used to intimidate and conduct illegal
electronic and physical surveillance of anyone who might expose
CIA drug dealing."
According to the complaint in the lawsuit, "the Plaintiff
[Tyree] alleges that the Defendants CIA and George Bush were
negligent and failed at the conclusion of Operation Watchtower to
monitor the post-Watchtower events and seek legal congressional
funding for the origination of FEMA (Federal Emergency Managemnt
Agency), and this failure led to the concealment and coverup of
Operation Watchtower, written about in the diaries of Elaine
Tyree, seized illegally and turned over to Colonel Carone and
then to the CIA, which ensured that the Operation Watchtower drug
trafficking operation would remain covert, allowing the drug
profits from this Operation to be used to circumvent Congress and
fund FEMA and continue the pattern of criminal activity."
Colonel Carone, who died in 1990, was a CIA paymaster and
Mafia-connected money launderer, who incidentally held the rank
of full colonel in Army Intelligence. As Oliver North's bagman,
he also couriered large amounts of cash in and out of the
country.
Carone's Complex Relationships
According to former FAA investigator Rodney Stich, "Carone
had complex relationships." In his underground bestselling book
"Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the
CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies," Stich writes that Carone
"was a member of the Gambino family with connections to other
crime groups in the eastern part of the United States, a
detective on the New York City vice squad, a member of the
military and a CIA operative."
"Dee [Ferdinand, Carone's daughter] said her father was a
detective and bagman in the New York City police department,
collecting money that was distributed to captains and inspectors
as payoffs for looking the other way where drugs were involved."
"Referring to CIA-Mafia drug trafficking, she said she knew
from what her father said that the drugs coming from South
America, went to the Colombo, Genovese and Gambino families, and
that it was a joint CIA-Mafia drug operation under the code name
Operation Amadeus. She said that during World War II, Operation
Amadeus was involved in transporting Nazi officers from Germany
into South American countries. According to her father's notes,
Operation Amadeus split into several other operations, including
Operation Sunrise and Operation Watchtower."
Tyree's lawsuit alleges that "to coverup Operation
Watchtower which was one of several illegal drug operations that
produced a profit which was used in turn to help originate and
implement FEMA violating: a. Separation of powers: the executive
branch brought about an agency (i.e. FEMA) which has the
authority to suspend the US Constitution, (e.g. further
suspending legislative and judicial branches), but is vague in
its verbiage as to what does constitute an emergency and fails to
list what, if any duties the legislature and judiciary will have
to perform if the US Constitiution is suspended."
Even though the origin of FEMA has remained historically
unclear, Tyree's lawsuit alleges that FEMA, created by Executive
Order, is illegitimate "since Congress had to approve FEMA for
two specific reasons: (1) FEMA is a vaguely written Executive
Branch created agency that has the power to suspend the US
Constitution and put the legislative and judicial branches of
government out of work; (2) FEMA is an Executive Branch creation
that clearly affects all three branches of Government capable of
silencing the voice of the people, (i.e. legislative) and the
legal redress of the people, (i.e. judiciary)."
FEMA was allegedly created by Executive Order 12148 which
became law simply by its publication in the Federal Registry. In
other words, Congress was bypassed for FEMA's authorization as
well as its funding. But if Congress never authorized the
"agency," where do its operational expenses come from?
Tyree's lawsuit alleges that laundered drug profits were the
initial source of funding.
According to the lawsuit, "the Plaintiff alleges the
Defendants CIA and George Bush did intentionally engage in the
complained of conduct herein to conceal: (1) the origins of FEMA
and that profits from drug trafficking by the CIA were used in
some part to originally fund FEMA and the drafting of the FEMA
infrastructure."
Two FEMAs?
In an even more astounding allegation, the lawsuit claims
that Colonel Carone told the Plaintiff that "Colonel Ollie North
worked on developing a plan known as FEMA, which would in an
ill-defined national emergency, allow the US Military to take
control of the United States to ensure National Security" and
that Colonel Carone said that "FEMA originally stood for "Federal
Emergency MILITARY ACTION" (i.e. Martial Law), but was retitled
Federal Emergency Management Agency because it would be better
received by the people of the United States.
The late Colonel Carone also claimed that "he took drug
profits that were clean and laundered in 1982-1984 to the
following: NSC -- Colonel Oliver North who used the funds to
create and develop FEMA." [p. 88 of the lawsuit]
Colonel Carone also testified that "FEMA was one of those
off-the-shelf creations that was funded through the giant black
operations fund which came about from drug trafficking operations
instituted by the CIA which Congress has no idea of and no
control over," that "the FEMA Chain of Command, rules and
regulations that he had seen violated the US Constitution, and
actually established a succession to the Office of the President
in the event of an emergency that circumvented the Vice-
President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives."
Carone said "NSC used drug trafficking profits to start FEMA
without congressional approval... a 1981 NSC Directive written by
Frank Carlucci [states]: 'Normally a state of martial law will be
proclaimed by the President. However in the absence of such
action by the President, a senior military commander may impose
martial law in an area of his command where there had been a
complete breakdown in the exercise of government functions by
local authorities.'"
"Colonel Carone said a literal interpretation of the 1981
NSC Directive was that a local yokel national guard commander
could institute martial law, and the actions of FEMA, without
local citizens ever knowing how FEMA came to be, or what FEMA was
originally intended to be about, would automatically be triggered
without any type of presidential order... Congress doesn't even
have the purse strings on this one. It's all from the Black
Operations Fund which Congress will never force the US
Intelligence Community to admit even exists."
None dare call it fascism, but due to this explosive
lawsuit, the origin of FEMA and its funding may finally be known.
On the other hand, don't hold your breath. If this lawsuit
escapes the black hole of so-called "national security law" or
the clutches of a corrupt judiciary, it will be a major miracle.
Uri Dowbenko is the CEO of New Improved Entertainment Corp. He
can be reached by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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