from: http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/cia.html Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/cia.html">The CIA</A> ----- The CIA By the end of the 1980's it was calculated that the illegal use of drugs in the United States now netted its controllers over $110 billion a year. � Moder n Times, p.782. Because (some) drugs are illegal, there are huge profits to be made in supplying them to those who want or need them. Legalization would eliminate the enormous profits now being made and would provide a social context in which education concerning the use of drugs was not only respectable but also a social obligation. In the meantime the Drug War works only to keep (some) drugs illegal and to maintain the profits of the traffickers. And who are these traffickers? I ask Dennis [Dayle, former head of DEA's Centac], "If the following statement were made to American citizens would you agree with it? 'Enormously powerful criminal organizations are controlling many countries, and to a certain degree controlling the world, and controlling our lives. Your own [U.S.] government to some extent supports them, and is concealing this fact from you.'" "I know that to be true. That is not conjecture. Experience, over the better part of my adult life, tells me that that is so. And there is a great deal of persuasive evidence. But I also believe that what you just said can be dealt with very effectively. You can contain drug trafficking by the immobilization of the few cartels who truly control it. There must be conscious decisions, based on fact rather than propaganda, at the grass-roots level of the global community, that the global drug-trafficking situation should not be tolerated." � The Underground Empire, p.1161. >From the days of the Vietnam War the CIA has been at the forefront of heroin trafficking. When the Reagan administration needed to finance its war against Nicaragua the CIA applied what it had learned in Vietnam to importing vast quantities of cocaine from Latin America, selling it to the Mafia, and using the profits to finance its "covert activities", activities so contrary to America's professed values that they must be concealed at all costs from the American people. Much information about the CIA is already available (see Audiotapes, Videos, CD-ROMs, Books and Articles), but the mainstream media has deliberately ignored this information, and as others have said, if it's not on TV then for many Americans it isn't real. But this is real, and it affects everyone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * William Blum: The Real Drug Lords: A brief history of CIA involvement in the drug trade * The CIA Paid * The CIA and Cocaine: Some Quotes * How the U.S. Drug War Plays in the European Media * Jim Hargrove: CIA "Smoking Files" at COPA '97 * Celebrating a Golden Anniversary: 50 Years of Drug Dealing by the CIA * National 'Clear Yourself' Day Announced! * The Duplicity of the War on Drugs The intent of this essay is to demonstrate that the War on Drugs was America's first great psy-war campaign perpetrated against its own people and that such abuse of power is likely to happen again. * Noam Chomsky: The War on (Certain) Drugs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Sally Denton and Roger Morris: THE CRIMES OF MENA Of this Michael Rivero has written: This is the article which had been scheduled to appear in the Washington Post. After having cleared the legal department for all possible questions of inaccurate statements, the article was scheduled for publication when, just as the presses were set to roll, Washington Post Managing Editor Bob Kaiser (Like George Bush, a member of the infamous Skull & Bones Fraternity) killed the article without explanation. According to the sidebar which appeared with the Penthouse Magazine version of this story, Bob Kaiser refused to even meet with Sally Denton and Roger Morris, hiding in his office while his secretary made excuses. Mena, Arkansas, was (and perhaps still is) one of the major centers for the smuggling of cocaine and heroin into America. This article is about the late Barry Seal, a CIA agent who is said to have smuggled between $3 billion and $5 billion worth of drugs into the U.S. It is based in part upon an extensive archive of Seal's personal records. Denton and Morris write: If the Seal documents show anything, an attentive reader might conclude, it is that ominous implication of some official sanction. Over the entire episode looms the unmistakable shape of government collaboration in vast drug trafficking and gunrunning, and in a decade-long cover-up of criminality. * The "Train Deaths" August 23, 1987, in a rural community just south of Little Rock, police officers murdered two teenage boys [Kevin Ives and Don Henry] because they witnessed a police-protected drug drop. The drop was part of a drug smuggling operation based at a small airport in Mena, Arkansas. ... There were CIA operatives who took advantage of the protection their positions gave them, and they participated in saturating our country with drugs. Kevin and Don were victims of this atrocious crime, and it is up to us to expose those responsible. This site includes: * CIA Operatives and Drug Smuggling * Mena and * information on the video Obstruction of Justice * Jean K. Duffey: * Mena, Drugs and the Train Deaths Case * Bipartisanship Outrage * A PLEA FOR FUNDING to support our federal law suit that is going to trial the first week in August [1999]. * A review of the book by Mara Leveritt, The Boys on the Tracks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Alexander Cockburn: Chapters in the Recent History of Arkansas * The Mena Scandal A chronological summary and archive of the Washington Weekly, with links to many supporting documents. * Ace R. Hayes: New York Mob at Mena America is losing its mind. The two-party system has been utterly homogenized by corrupt money. The mob and Mossad have cut a deal with Wall Street and the CIA to run the world as a global plantation for the benefit of the global plutocracy. Only impoverished presses like the PFP, some talk radio and the Internet are yet outside the hegemonic power of transnational corporate fascism. However, when the Imperial pigs succeed in driving 80 percent of the world into the new serfdom, they will probably wish they had not let their greed glands run wild. When the middle class discovers that they are part of the impoverished and imprisoned rather than the privileged, they will lead the "underclass" in a revolution against the plutocracy and its gun thugs. Failure to deal with the Mena cesspool will continue to erode the credibility of a terminally corrupt governing class. * Ace R. Hayes: CIA Drug-Money Laundering ... knowledge of drug-running through Mena, Arkansas has been known to the FBI and the head of the Arkansas State Police since January 1988 ... The Arkansas Attorney General and Special Prosecutor Walsh have known of this since June 1991 ... How in the hell have the corporate media and government law enforcement succeeded in playing dumb for the past decade? * Mena: The Oral Deposition of Richard J. Brenneke Joint Investigation by the Arkansas State Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Congress * Daniel Hopsicker: The Secret Heartbeat of America: A New Look at the Mena Story What in my opinion has been involved is a CIA or rogue CIA operation, conducted by the CIA or CIA operatives. To smuggle drugs into the United States from South America, using Barry Seal's drug smuggling operation in Mena. � Linda Ives, mother of Kevin Ives, one of the boys murdered in the Train Deaths. * The Mena Scandal * Two messages from Daniel Hopsicker: * J'accuse * The Dixie Mafia * Bill Clinton's Skeleton Closet has links to many articles concerning Mena, Barry Seal, etc. * Dick Russell: Spook Wars in Cyberspace � Is the FBI Railroading Charles Asked if then-Governor Bill Clinton was aware of the Mena operation, Hayes responded, "No, but his associates were involved." He elaborated that some of the money was laundered through two powerful Arkansas companies with ties to Clinton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Walter Pincus: CIA Had Hit List of 58 Guatemalans In 1953, the CIA included plans for 'K' groups, or assassin teams, to work with sabotage groups, and rebels began training assassins. CIA headquarters in Washington sent 20 silencers for .22-caliber rifle to the rebel killers training in Honduras, said a Jan. 11, 1954, cable. In the spring of 1954, CIA officers made official requests to the State Department to implement assassinations. ... Three weeks before President Arbenz resigned, a CIA field officer met with officials in Washington to submit the political assassination plan in person. * Ralph McGehee: CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam Information about the CIA's assassination program in Vietnam. * Who killed Rajiv Gandhi? An electronic discussion held in May 1991. * Death squads supported by the CIA (This link has expired.) ... from CIABASE files on Death Squads supported by the CIA. Also given ... are details on Watch Lists prepared by the CIA to facilitate the actions of Death Squads. * FBI Probed Alleged CIA Plot to Kill Saddam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The Central Intelligence Agency � the lair of the beast itself. The CIA's web site has been through several versions. Here's an early version (with links to their site removed). At that time (1996-09-19) their website was broken into by some Swedish hackers, who replaced the CIA's home page by this (much more interesting) version: Welcome to the Central Stupidity Agency The CIA then cleaned up their act, but the next version had this on their home page: You are entering an Official United States Government System, which may be used only for authorized purposes. Unauthorized modification of any information stored on this system may result in criminal prosecution. The Government may monitor and audit the usage of this system, and all persons are hereby notified that use of this system constitutes consent to such monitoring and auditing. Sounds like the CIA alright. We could hardly expect otherwise from a bunch of control freaks. They've now moved this notice to a lower-level page. If you'd like to see what's on their web site but don't wish to attract the attention of the spooks then view it anonymized (courtesy of The Anonymizer). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Rodney Stich: Defrauding America * A letter from Rodney Stich * MOCKINGBIRD -- The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA "You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." -- CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. This web site contains the article "Tales from the Crypt: The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA's Operation MOCKINGBIRD" by Alex Constantine. * Carl Bernstein: CIA AND THE MEDIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Domestic Surveillance: The History of Operation CHAOS An article by Verne Lyon, former CIA undercover operative. "For over fifteen years the CIA ... conducted a massive illegal domestic covert operation called Operation CHAOS ... [during which] the CIA spied on thousands of U.S. citizens." This article concludes: Given the power granted to the office of the presidency and the unaccountability of the intelligence agencies, widespread illegal domestic operations are certain. We as a people should remember history and not repeat it. It is therefore essential that the CIA be reorganized and stripped of its covert operations capability. Effective congressional oversight is also an important condition for ending the misuse of the intelligence apparatus that has plagued every U.S. administration since the formation of the CIA. A great deal is at risk our personal freedoms as well as the viability of this society. The CIA must be put in its place. Should we demand or allow anything less, we will remain vulnerable to these abuses and face the risk of decaying into a lawless state destined to self-destruction. * Campus Surveillance A sidebar to the preceding article. * The Secret Wars of the CIA Excerpts from a talk by John Stockwell, who served as a CIA case officer in Africa and in Vietnam. He was commander of the CIA's secret war in Angola in 1975 and 1976. * Producing the Proper Crisis Philip Agee on the connections between Bush's military adventures in the Gulf and Truman's military adventures in Korea. * The CIA and the Gulf War A talk by John Stockwell. But the key to understanding this system is that these ARE NOT U.S. corporations. Not anymore! They are multinational corporations, on a welfare dole from the U.S. taxpayers, producing MX missiles which are put in holes in the ground, which can never be used, and producing Tomahawk missiles and everything that we're pouring into the desert at a million dollars a shot ... [The] course that we are on will definitely lead, eventually, to rendering this planet UNINHABITABLE. Now, it won't happen in five years or ten years. But eventually, unless we profoundly change what we are doing, there will BE NO MORE warm-blooded life on this planet. Sooner or later, we MUST change or we will destroy ourselves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The #59 issue of CovertAction Quarterly has a very interesting article by New Zealand writer Nicky Hagar about the Global Surveillance Network, which is the means whereby the spooks of the U.S. and the U.K. (and to a lesser extent those of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, making up the five countries in the UKUSA espionage 'alliance') are able to eavesdrop on every international telex, fax and email message (including yours). This is the ECHELON system. Plenty of other governments besides the U.S. and the U.K. are interested in spying on their own citizens. Germany (though it does not receive information from the ECHELON system) is one such country. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Excerpts from The Underground Empire - Where Crime and Governments Embrace, by James Mills (Doubleday, New York, 1986; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1987). These were uploaded to the CIADRUGS mailing list in June 1997. The CIA may argue that it dirties itself in the narcotics industry because that is where it finds the leaders of nations it seeks to comprehend and influence. Over a period of five years I became convinced of the participation in the drug traffic of high officials in at least thirty-three countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia ... France, Haiti, Honduras, Italy ... and the United States. -- from Excerpt 5 * Excerpt 1 Information [about Centac] continued to pour in. Phone calls came from as far away as Hong Kong, classified documents appeared in envelopes with no return addresses, a forty-pound cardboard carton arrived packed with CIA documents stamped SECRET. * Excerpt 2 No more than a handful of men in the world understood completely what Centac was and what it did. Though Centac was controlled from a position within the Drug Enforcement Administration, its operations and power reached far beyond that agency. * Excerpt 3 But leaders of source country governments, seeking foreign exchange or personal enrichment, frequently participated in the [drug] traffic themselves, and the American State Department and CIA, seeking to retain military, diplomatic, and intelligence allies, were loath to blow the whistle. * Excerpt 4 Another secret cable, four pages in length, from the CIA's Bahamas station reported government corruption with astonishing precision, detailing not only the names of a half-dozen bribe-taking officials but the exact amount of the bribes ($50,000 to over $100,000) and specifically what favors they bought. At least one DEA official expressed shock, not so much at the revelations as at the thoroughness with which they were known. It was almost as if the CIA had been involved in some way. * Excerpt 5 When Noriega later visited Washington, the CIA tried to prevent his meeting with DEA Administrator Francis Mullen. ... Evidently the CIA did not want Panama's boss establishing direct relations with the leadership of DEA. "Why not?" I asked an agent familiar with Noriega's visit. "Because the CIA takes the position that 'We have the total picture. We see things you don't see. You don't know it all.'" And surely that is true. Only the CIA knows it all. * Excerpt 6 You do not have to be a ClA-hater to trek around the world viewing one major narcotics group after another and grow amazed at the frequency with which you encounter the still-fresh footprints of American intelligence agents. You might never be absolutely certain the footprints shouldn't be there, but you will always be uncomfortable that so many solemn men in pinstriped vests are lying about them. The tracks are everywhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The CIA in Australia, Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 A transcript of a five-part radio program series on the CIA and its involvement in Australia and in New Zealand, including an account of its overthrow of the Whitlam Government (originally at http://www.cia.com.au/vic/c ia.html). * See also a transcript of the 1982-05-23 Australian 60 Minutes program: A Spy's Story Just two days before a Federal Parliamentary debate was due on the American satellite bases, a CIA telex arrived in Canberra. It warned that Prime Minister Whitlam was in danger of blowing the lid off Pine Gap. The next day, the Whitlam Labor Government was dismissed [by the Australian Governor-General]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The CIA's interest in drugs goes beyond heroin and cocaine. They have always been very interested in LSD and other such drugs for the potential for use in interrogation and brainwashing. * G. J. Krupey: The High and the Mighty: JFK, MPM, LSD and the CIA Could it have been possible that some faction of CIA agents, their typical cold war super-patriot minds blown by acid, indeed flooded the country with LSD, not as part of some plot to forestall change or stifle rebellion, but to encourage it, especially in the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination by their dark counterparts within the agency? * The Sleep Room's Missing Memories "... how mental patients in Montreal were once subjected to CIA-sponsored brainwashing" which included the involuntary (on the part of the patient) use of LSD and PCP. * In fact a book has been written on this subject � Father, Son and CIA, by Harvey Weinstein. Here is Chapter 9 from that book, Supply and Demand, concerning the origins of the CIA and its interest in brainwashing techniques. For more on these topics see The CIA, MKULTRA and Timothy Leary and Project Monarch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Clandestine Drug Study Commission Act This document concerns an amendment to legislation pending before the U.S. House of Representatives. This amendment, put forward by Ms. Maxine Waters, Democrat from California, would establish a commission to be known as the "Clandestine Drug Study Commission" to investigate the involvement of the CIA in the smuggling of drugs (in particular, cocaine, in ton quantities) into the U.S. and the subsequent distribution of those drugs. The amendment was opposed by representatives Goss from Florida and Dixon from California. The discussion ends with the withdrawal of the amendment by Ms. Waters, perhaps because the votes were not there to pass it. The discussion is interesting, revealing on one hand the courage of Ms. Waters and her desire to bring the facts of this matter to the attention of the American people and, on the other hand, the willingness of representatives Goss and Dixon (despite their apparent agreement with the aims of Ms. Waters) to block this inquiry and to participate in the cover-up-as-usual. * Senator Barbara Boxer Calls for CIA Probe * Of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories Some would have us believe that only paranoids believe in conspiracies. Is this what certain people want us to believe? And why? * Dope Story: Doubts Rise on Report Reagan Cited in Tying Sandinistas to Cocaine Jonathan Kwitney's Wall Street Journal article on the attempt of the Reagan administration to accuse the Sandinistas of smuggling cocaine into the U.S. * Tim Weiner: House Panel Says CIA Lacks Expertise to Carry Out Duties * Michael Ravnitzky: 1996 CIA FOIA Case Log Highlights Information available from the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act. * Norman Solomon: Media Focus on CIA's Cocaine Links is Long Overdue * Cocaine Politics - Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America A book by an academic and a journalist which exposes the lies and hypocrisy behind the Drug War. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Newsgroup and Mailing List There is (or was) a Usenet newsgroup concerned with the CIA, alt.politics.org. cia. Here are some postings from this newsgroup. 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