-Caveat Lector- COLOMBIA Julian Borger, GUARDIAN, London: Of the $1.3 billion set aside by Congress last year for Plan Colombia - the program of military and development aid by which Washington hopes to stem the supply of narcotics to the US at their source - a great deal is going to commercial ventures. The biggest of the companies involved is DynCorp, a huge conglomerate based in northern Virginia near the CIA's Langley headquarters . . . The DynCorp contract is a study in vagueness. The section dealing with search and rescue says: "This operation deals with downed aircraft or hostile action by narcotics producers or traffickers." It gives no further details. Information about mercenaries was once draped with a thick blanket of secrecy labeled "national security". Nowadays the blanket has a new brand name: "corporate confidentiality". Thus, members of Congress have not even been officially told which company was flying the surveillance plane on April 20 over Peru . . . Janice Schakowsky, a Democratic congresswoman from Illinois, has been amazed at the secrecy surrounding companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money. "We are hiring a secret army," she said. "We are engaging in a secret war, and the American people need to be told why." MORE http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/GWeekly/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
