From: Daniel Hopsicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Goldman wrote: > > From: David Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gary Webb mentions something about the fact that the cocaine money trail > ties in with Whitewater (the "failed land deal"....)in addition to Mena. > What is supposed to be the intersection of these two things, who is > pursuing that angle, and what hard info is there? > > David Goldman barry seal worked with dan lasater worked with bill clinton worked with george bush worked with jackson stephens. dear god, i'm beginning to sound like larry-jennie! Barry Seal and the Colombian Air Force First, this story from Reuters yesterday... Sunday November 15 2:06 PM ET Colombia Air Force ``Infiltrated'' By Drug Mobs BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's air force has been ``seriously infiltrated'' by drug traffickers and is rife with corruption, Defense Minister Rodrigo Lloreda said in an interview published Sunday. His comments came four days after a Colombian air force Hercules C-130 transport plane was seized by U.S. authorities in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with 1,639 pounds (743 kg) of cocaine and 13 pounds (6 kg) of heroin aboard. Colombian officials in the past have sought to play down frequent rumors that a full-blown drug cartel was operating within the air force and blamed a small number of individuals for a string of embarrassing drug finds on military aircraft. ``Drug cartels have infiltrated this institution (the air force) in a serious and dangerous fashion,'' Lloreda, one of the few plain-speakers in President Andres Pastrana's cabinet, told the leading El Tiempo newspaper. ``The incident of the Hercules has shown there is an organization within the air force that supports drug trafficking and that is unacceptable and inconceivable in a state organization, even less in the armed forces,'' he added. Air force commander Sen. Jose Manuel Sandoval resigned in disgrace the day after the huge drug shipment was found in the cargo bay of the Hercules. He blamed the incident on a ``small number of people committing crimes in the air force''. Colombia is the source of an estimated 80 percent of the world's cocaine and has become one of the top suppliers of high-grade heroin sold on U.S. streets. The military has frequently blamed the country's 20,000 Marxist rebels for close ties to the drug trade but has rarely admitted its own role in the multibillion dollar business. here's something nobody wants you to know... Incredibly, in 1985 a 3-star general in the Colombian Air Force was arrested in a drug raid at Barry Seal's Commications Center. >From an interview with the arresting officer: Colombian Three-Star General Arrested at Barry Seal's Camp "And we took the camp by storm, and we took it hard, because we didn�t know what we were going into. This sounds like a bad movie, but it happened, its in the search warrant affadavit filed in court. "Inside Seal's camp we find two extremely immaculately groomed Colombian nationals-- two really polished guys. One of them turned out to be a 3-star General in the Colombian Air Force (Ramos), and the other WAS HIS AIDE-DE-CAMP. We brought them all in...then had to release them when threatened by Washington. An anonymous bureaurcrat in an unnamed federal agency screamed over the phone, "Release them or I will have the FBI surround your headquarters in an hour!" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription > to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and > select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. -- Daniel Hopsicker http://www.madcowprod.com The DrugMoney Times ALL THE NEWS THAT'S RIPPED FROM PRINT! "And it came to pass that idiots roamed the earth, and morons ruled the masses." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left.
