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CIA-involvement in Californian drug rings:

Operation New Wave - CIA heroin smuggling operation based in Thailand. CIA front

Van Der Bergen International is responsible for getting the drugs out of the Orient.Typically the heroin is smuggled aboard freighters and cruise liners heading from the

U.S. Transshipment points in the U.S. include San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Los

Angeles.Other operations include: Operation Short Field · Operation Burma Road · Operation

Morning Gold · Operation Backlash · Operation Triangle.

Information on the CIA drug smuggling operations listed above was provided by the

following CIA and ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) operatives: Trenton Parker,

Gunther Russbacher, Michael Maholy, Robert Hunt. There is extensive documentation

confirming the intelligence status of each of these men. This documentation was takenfrom Rodney Stich's seminal work, Defrauding America. The information provided by

these men, often at great personal risk to themselves and their families, as well as

information provided by CIA agents and contract agents such as Richard Brenneke,

Stephen Crittenden, Gene Tatum, and Terry Reed, can leave no doubt that the CIA has been involved in drug trafficking on a massive scale and over an extended period of time.

One example: The head of a drug ring's Southern California operation, a former  Nicaraguan government official named Danilo Blandon, has admitted in federal court

testimony that he and other exiles began selling drugs in black L.A. neighborhoods in

1982 to help finance the CIA's Nicaraguan army, known in the United States as theContras. Blandon testified that once U.S.-taxpayer dollars began flowing to his

organization, he stayed in the cocaine business to make money for himself.

Evidence indicates he was dealing an average of 100 kilos a week to the Crips andBloods in Los Angeles during the 1980s, an activity that helped spark the crack epidemic

in Los Angeles and, eventually, across the nation. While the CIA's heavy involvement inthe drug trade, and especially the crack cocaine trade, has been well documented byscholars such as Dr. Peter Dale Scott at least since the Iran-Contra hearings in the 1980s,

the mass media has refused to take notice. And even when they do take notice, most of 

the sheep-like journalists and anchorpeople continue to parrot the absurd government linein contradiction to the blatant facts, which are available to anyone who reads beyond the

corporate summaries of government press releases. On NPR, for example, a reporter 

commented that since the story wasn't picked up by the New York Times, it must be

false. Another reporter on FOX News said "there has been no direct evidence, repeat, nodirect evidence, linking the CIA to the drug trade."

Source: http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/DRUG.html

The journalist who brought CIA involvement in the drug cartel to light is now dead:

On Friday, the 49-year-old Webb, who won a Pulitzer Prize for other work, apparentlyshot himself.

Source: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=2066

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9TH CIRCUIT BACKS CONTRA LEADER RENATO PENA APPEALS CLAIM OF

CIA DRUG INVOLVEMENT

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/ninth_circuit.html

The CIA Agents Who Moved the Coke

For ten years, government leaders have blamed ghetto youth for a "drug epidemic." They

sent armies of cops to brutalize the people. They have crowded the prisons with a wholegeneration of youth. And now it leaks out that they were behind the "crack explosion" all

along! Recent articles by Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury kicked off the current

controversy by exposing a contra drug ring in Los Angeles.

The CIA denies its agents were involved in the drug trade. And major newspapers claim

that there is no proof that CIA agents were involved. Under attack, the chief editor of theSan Jose Mercury has pointed out what the Webb series documented and what it did not:

"We got to the door of the CIA. We did not get inside the CIA."

In this article, let's get past the door of the CIA--and look at the CIA agents involved in

the drug trafficking. Three levels of CIA agents are discussed in this article: First, there

are those who were top CIA officials--men like William Casey, Duane Clarridge, Donald

Gregg and George Bush. Second, there are CIA officers or operatives--people whoattended specialized CIA training schools and who must, by law, be U.S. citizens. Such

officers are usually well hidden and act through their field agents. Third, there are CIA

field agents, contract agents or assets--these are people paid to conduct espionage or covert activities under the direction of CIA case officers.

It is hard to dig up the truth about CIA operations. CIA agents routinely use elaboratecover stories that portray them as civilians, private mercenaries or "retired" agents. In

addition, the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act was passed as the CIA was

starting its contra war. This law made it a crime to expose CIA agents. The government

first threatens to imprison anyone who exposes what CIA agents are doing-- then theyaccuse their critics of not offering enough "hard proof" of CIA involvement!

Full article: http://www.rwor.org/a/firstvol/885/cia3.htm