Dossier # 4: Elliot Abrams The Narco News has launched its “Who Runs América?” Investigation on the fine upstanding and moral people who brought us Plan Colombia, the $1.3 million dollar US military intervention purportedly to fight against drug trafficking. The “Who Runs América?” Investigation seeks information about Elliot Abrams, former assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. Elliot Abrams serves, along with Stanley S. Arkin (Dossier #1), Bernard Aronson (Dossier #2) and Joyce Chang (Dossier #3) on the Council of Foreign Relations committee that lobbied Congress to approve Plan Colombia. Elliot Abrams, because he was caught lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra scandal, was perhaps the most visibly notorious choice by the Council of Foreign Relations to participate in its Plan Colombia committee. On Christmas Eve, 1992, as President George Bush was about to leave office, he issued an unconditional pardon of Abrams, three CIA chiefs – including Allen D. Fiers, client of Stanley S. Arkin (Dossier #1) – and two other administration officials whose reputations the CFR has also been active in resuscitating: Sec. Of Defense Caspar Weinberger and National Security Advisor Robert Bud McFarlane. We seek more background information on Elliot Abrams, especially on his activities since leaving the US Department of State after his governmental career was destroyed by his perjury before Congress. His replacement, after his fall, interestingly enough, was Bernard W. Aronson (Dossier #2), as Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American affairs. Some basic facts from the historical record about Elliot Abrams: A. Mr. Abrams, Oliver North and a third, unidentified, clandestine operator of the CIA “ran the private sector program for aid to the Contras” both before and after the Boland Act, a Congressional law authored by US Rep. Edward Boland (D-Springfield, Massachusetts) that prohibited covert funding of the Nicaraguan counter-insurgents. (Source: Los Angeles Times,” Jan. 15, 1987, “Reagan Reportedly Oked Iran Trip”) B. “Elliot Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American Affairs, was previously in charge of the Reagan Administration's "human rights" program. In testimony before a Congressional Committee, he implied that support for the contra war against Nicaragua was part of the Administration's "human rights" policies…. Abrams has lied to Congress repeatedly. He misrepresented his role in soliciting a contribution for the contras from the Sultan of Brunei (see card #17). When the Hasenfus flight was shot down (see card #29), Abrams testified to a House sub-committee that the U.S. government was not involved in any way, and later he helped concoct a story laying the blame on General John Singlaub (see card #7). A few months prior to this, he had helped win $20 million in "emergency" aid to Honduras by greatly exaggerating claim of Nicaraguan incursions into Honduran territory….Abrams went on to lead the Administration's highly publicized but unsuccessful drive to remove Panama's drug-dealing General Manuel Noriega from power.” (Source: Iran-Contra Trading Cards, 1988 by Paul Broncato). C. BANDAR SERI BAGWAN, BRUNEI, AUG. 2 -- The last time this tiny state of 276,000 people was in the news was back in 1986, when Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams shook the Sultan of Brunei down for a $10 million contribution for his favorite charity: buying arms for the Nicaraguan contras. Unfortunately, through a clerical error on the part of Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall, the sultan's money ended up in the wrong secret Swiss bank account. (Source: LETTER FROM BRUNEI: VISITING THE SULTAN'S ISLE FOR A SONG, By Michael Dobbs, Thursday, August 3, 1995) D. “The Council on Hemispheric Affairs reported that the breakdown of the Nicaraguan talks also implemented the game plan urged several weeks ago by Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams: that the administration was urging the contras not to sign a peace agreement with the Sandinistas, but go along with a prolongation of a de facto truce, hoping that some adventitious Sandinista military action, like shooting down a contra supply plane or opening fire on a contra unit, would enable the White House to seek a resumption of lethal military aid from Congress. According to Abrams this was the very least that he was hoping for. When asked what was the most that the United States would do if given such a pretext, he responded, "We'll flatten Managua." (Source: “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies” (1989) By Noam Chomsky) E. “Our original study was an examination of the guest list for all of Nightline's 865 programs over a forty month period (1/1/85 to 4/30/88). We identified Nightline's most frequent guests: Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Elliott Abrams and Jerry Falwell. We also found that 89 percent of the US guests were men, 92 percent were white, and 80 percent were professionals, government officials, or corporate representatives.” (Source: A Special Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, FAIR, Report -- ALL THE USUAL SUSPECTS: MACNEIL/LEHRER and NIGHTLINE -- by William Hoynes and David Croteau, Sociology Department, Boston College) F. “BOLIVIA: WAS THE FACTORY RUN BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT? Since 1992, a second parliamentary commission has been investigating the U.S. role in the jungle cocaine processing lab. Commission member Gregorio Lanza told reporter Steffen Knudsen that the Bolivian investigation has been stonewalled by the U.S.government: "The Pentagon and the State Department claimed national security prevented them from responding to our requestsfor information… It is possible that the lab supplied cocaine to the Colombian Medellín drug cartel that then sold the drugs in the U.S. to finance the Nicaraguan Contras," Lanza said. …it appears to have been a rogue operation by ruthless elements within the CIA. A source who was being recruited by legendary CIA operative J. A. Bueso-Rosa to an operation to assassinate the Honduran President, has told the Washington Weekly that this rogue operation called itself the "Super CIA." It operated outside U.S. territory and U.S. law to finance its anti-Communist covert operations through cocaine, when Congress could not and would not provide the funds. The assassination plot was foiled when Bueso-Rosa and his associates were caught with 760 pounds of cocaine in Florida. Intervention from the U.S. government, namely Oliver North and John Pointdexter from the NSC, Dewey Clarridge of the CIA, Elliot Abrams from State, and a number of heavyweights from the Pentagon got Bueso-Rosa off on a light sentence. This intervention shows the support for, or the extent of this Super CIA in the U.S. government. 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