<tt>From:</tt> <tt> "Dan Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]></tt> <br><br> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>From: "David Goldman" <<A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>> <DIV>To: <<A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>></DIV> <DIV>Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 10:17 AM</DIV> <DIV>Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] Hiett convicted....</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>> From: David Goldman <<A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>><BR>> <BR>> Is she covering for hubby????? David Goldman</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Palatino size=3> <FONT face=Arial>Yes, she was covering for hubby. This was a covert op. </FONT> <P align=justify><A href="http://www.drugwar.com">Drug War:</A></P> <P>The most powerful paramilitary leader, Carlos Castaño, leader of the militia alliance known as the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, is a longtime CIA asset who can call on regular army support any time. <I>The Washington Post</I> reports, 12/30/98, that the DEA insists that Castaño is also a major Cali kingpin.<I><FONT face=Palatino size=3></P> <P>The Washington Post</I>, 8/11/98: "Colombian Army’s Third in Command Allegedly Led Two Lives; General Reportedly Served as Key CIA Informant While Maintaining Ties to Death Squads Financed By Drug Traffickers: For years Colombian Gen. Ivan Ramirez Quintero was a key intelligence source for the United States. After training in Washington he was the first head of a military intelligence organization designed by U.S. experts to fight Marxist guerrillas and drug traffickers, and served as a liaison and paid informant for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to U.S. and Colombian intelligence sources." That is, as the first head of the special counterinsurgency unit, it was Ramirez’ job to coordinate military operations and weapons financing with Cali kingpin Carlos Castaño.<I><FONT face=Palatino size=3></P> <P align=justify>The Village Voice</I>: 8/5/99: "The wife of the Army commander leading the U.S. government’s antidrug efforts in Colombia has been charged in connection with a cocaine smuggling ring that shipped that drug from an American military base in Bogotá to New York City, the <I>Voice</I> has learned."</P> <P align=justify>"Laurie Hiett, the wife of Colonel James Hiett, was named in a criminal complaint filed in late June in Brooklyn federal court, according to records. She has been charged with conspiracy to distrubute cocaine." </P> <P align=justify>Others named in the complaint reveal a vast, decentralized distribution system involving the entire structure around Col. Hiett, including many "embassy employees," direct military subordinates, their wives, chauffeurs and stateside contacts. The "embassy employees" were using the Army Postal Service (APO), which in Bogotá is a <I>de facto</I> part of the embassy’s customs-free diplomatic pouch. And whose coke was the antidrug Colonel exporting? Carlos Castaño’s Cali coke.</P> <P align=justify><FONT face=Arial>Dan Russell<BR></FONT><A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"><FONT face=Arial>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT></A><BR><A href="http://www.kalyx.com"><FONT face=Arial>www.kalyx.com</FONT></A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML> <hr> <!-- begin ONElist Sponsor --> <center> <iframe width=468 height=60 noresize scrolling=no frameborder=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 src="http://adforce.imgis.com/?adiframe|2.0|2|82050|1|1|ADFORCE;"> <a href="http://adforce.imgis.com/?adlink|2.0|2|82050|1|1|misc=7693;loc=300;" target=_top><img src="http://adforce.imgis.com/?adserv|2.0|2|82050|1|1|misc=7693;loc=300;" border=0 width=468 height=60 alt="ONElist Sponsor"></a> </iframe> <br><font size=1>Please click above to support our sponsor</font><br> </center> <!-- end ONElist Sponsor --> <hr>
