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Richard Armitage: Foreign Narcotics Control Office
ÂÂÂÂby CONSPIRACY PLANET
In a blockbuster column called "âMr. Cocaineâ: The Secret History of Richard Armitage," government whistle-blower Al Martin reveals the sordid story of Richard Armitage, US Deputy Secretary of State and head of the notorious Foreign Narcotics Control Office.
If the US Government has its own in-house drug kingpin, that kingpin is Richard Armitage. "The State Department tolerates this because itâs part of its function through the FNCO to aid the CIA in narcotics trafficking to produce covert revenue," writes Martin, author of the unprecedented expose' of Bush Family Fraud called "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider."
"When Richard Armitage is involved (and you can link Richard Armitage and the FNCO to controlling a certain area of the world, where either coca leaves or poppies are produced, there will quickly be an ensuing surge in drug trafficking in that particular classification or drug, not only in the United States, but globally," writes Martin. "Today in the last 18 months, heroin trafficking has increased 380% in the United States as heroin prices have plummeted, as the nation is being flooded with fresh heroin supplies from Afghanistan.
There is a direct correlation."
Martin continues, "Since Armitage is currently the Under Secretary of State, he is in charge of the Foreign Narcotics Control Office of the State Department, which is supposed to control cocaine and heroin. This is pursuant to the State Departmentâs policy of monitoring and containing the growth of those drugs in the countries and to encourage regimes to destroy those crops, as well as offer U.S. aid packages for foreign governments that canât afford it, (which none of them can) to buy helicopters and special equipment to destroy the crops -- which, of course, never get destroyed."
And why is Armitage called 'Mr. Cocaine'? "The famous quote by Kerry Committee senior panel member Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii (D-Hawaii) should be noted. When Armitage was put under oath, he kept calling him "Mr. Cocaine" instead of "Mr. Secretary." I donât think Inouye meant it as a joke. Armitage didnât much like it.
"Anyway, he was the Assistant Secretary of State in charge of the Foreign Narcotics Control Office, which, of course, was rife with fraud and effectively used as a coordinating policy tool from the State Department with CIA Deputy Director Clair George, who was in charge of all CIA narcotics operations in the mid-1980s.
"Armitage was also a member of the restricted access group known as RAG-1 (Restricted Access Group One) along with Elliott Abrams, Clair George, Attorney General Ed Meese, David Margolis, Chief of Domestic Criminal Operations of the Department of Justice, and Mark Richards, Chief of the International Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. These were very sinister characters indeed. Restricted Access Group was an interagency group, which met in order to form, manage and control the liability of the illegal covert operation of government. (More details can be found in "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insiderâ by Al Martin.)
"Then National Security Advisor, Frank Carlucci, was also a member, as was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Bobby Gates. They were all members of the so-called RAG-1.
"The purpose of RAG-1 was first to develop and then to coordinate the CIAâs policy of trafficking in narcotics on a large-scale basis, in order to produce ongoing covert revenue streams pursuant to the aid and sustenance of illegal operations of state. Simply put, this was 'Iran Contra.'"
Martin begins his column with these words -- "Watching the dynamic duo of Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Armitage sitting next to each other and testifying before the Senate Arms Services Committee struck me as being funny. Dick Armitage has been prominently featured, and it was confirmed today that he is as round -- as he is tall. This is what I had predicted 20 years ago, and it has come to pass.
"It reminds me of what Oliver North always did. When Dick came into a room, you could look over his head and say, âHey, whereâs Dick?â And then you look down at him.
"Now Armitage was telling the committee that itâs going to take the Iraqi Ruling Council 18 months to have elections and that weâll be there for years and years and years at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money -- but itâs worth it -- just to get rid of Saddam Hussein. So now it's time (as we did with J.D. Negroponte and Elliott Abrams) to point out that Richard Armitage was one of the so-called Terrible Trio in the mid-1980s, when he was Assistant Secretary of State during the entire Iran-Contra period. Now, he is the Under Secretary of State. However, he is still in charge of exactly the same office -- the Foreign Narcotics Control Office. And what is the purpose of this office? Itâs time for the whole sordid story to come out...
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* AL MARTIN is a political-economic analyst as well as America's foremost expert on corporate and government fraud. His columns (for subscribers only) are published weekly on Al Martin Raw.com: Political, Economic and Financial Intelligence (www.almartinraw.com). His memoir, "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider," chronicles his adventures with the Bush Cabal (National Liberty Press; 866-317-1390). Unprecedented in publishing history, this book is a detailed account of criminal government operations, including state-sanctioned fraud, drug trafficking and illicit weapons sales.
