Chapter 16
America’s Drug Lords, Banksters & War Criminals When most of us think of the words ―organized crime‖ we envision Marlon Brando and recall his great lines in ‖The Godfather‖. Yet my experience has taught me that both the Italian and Russian mobsters can learn a thing or two
from Uncle Sam. Ever since
President Nixon declared ―war on drugs‖ more and more Americans have been jailed for putting drugs into their own bodies. The Colombians were being publicly blamed for the responsible for growing , cultivating, processing, and smuggling 80% of all cocaine in the world up until the demise of Fabio Ochoa and Pablo Escobar the Coca Kings of the world. They pioneered the huge trend of drug consumption in the U.S. but once they proved the market was the most lucrative in the world (roughly a $139 Billion a year), our shadow government decided this is a market worth controlling.
Fabio Ochoa Extradited To USA
Pablo Escobar assassinated
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Today the world is focused on the deadly and gruesome heroin and marijuana and heroin gangsters of Mexico. This is a convenient and welcomed distraction for America‘s government drug lords who dominate the lucrative cocaine trade.
While President Reagan and the DEA was trying to convince all of us that drugs will kill us, the federal government continued to net over a billion dollars a year on cigarettes and alcohol tax revenues. Even though the National Institute of Health and CDC admit the below figures are accurate, no efforts were made to make these top killer drugs illegal. Why? Too much money was being made by their sales.
Tobacco kills about 390,000. Alcohol kills about 80,000. Sidestream smoke from tobacco kills about 50,000. Cocaine kills about 2,200. Heroin kills about 2,000. Aspirin kills about 2,000.
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Marijuana kills 0. There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in US history. All illegal drugs combined kill about 4,500 people per year, or about one percent of the number killed by alcohol and tobacco. Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the people killed by all of the illegal drugs in the last century.
In the U.S. today roughly 60% of all state and federal prisoners are jailed for drug-related crimes, and about ten percent of this group were jailed to eliminate competitors to the U.S. Drug Lords who have smuggled more than $1 Billion of cocaine into the U.S. and Canada between 1990-2000. Here is a breakdown of America‘s prisoners Drug Offenses 59.6% Robbery 9.8% Property Offenses 5.5% Extortion, Fraud, Bribery 6.8% Violent Offenses 2.7% Firearms, Explosives, Arson 8.6% White Collar 1.0% Immigration 2.8% Courts or Corrections 0.8% National Security 0.1% Continuing Criminal Enterprise 0.8% Miscellaneous 1.5%
I want you to buy MY drugs, and only MY drugs!
Do I make myself clear?
When Fabio and Pablo were conveniently removed from the cocaine and marijuana markets, drugs became a corporate business run by the biggest organized crime family in America – The U.S. Shadow Government and all the corrupt rogue CIA and FBI agents that work for them as their trusted and untouchable lieutenants. The public first learned about this government drug
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cabal when an Australian bank called Nugan Hand Bank fiasco.
In short this
was an Australian Bank serving as a proxy for the CIA after they just orchestrated the political coup of a democratic Ally – Australia. For concise summary of what took place I refer to the following which I found to be the shortest way to explain what author Penny Leroux took 389 pages to explain… “Whitlam’s election in 1972 began a short-lived era in which the stated aims of the new Labor government were to promote equality and involve the people in decision-making processes. Within two weeks of Whitlam’s election, conscription was abolished and draft resisters released from jail. Voting rights were extended to all Australians over 18, and university fees abolished. Whitlam’s youth constituency also gained community radio stations, and the Whitlam government intended to decriminalise marijuana. Aborigines were granted land rights in the Northern Territory. Whitlam was less subservient than his Liberal predecessors to Washington’s foreign policy directions. He took a more critical line in foreign policy, condemning Nixon’s 1972 bombing offensive against North Vietnam and warned he might draw Indonesia and Japan into protests against the bombing. The People’s Republic of China was recognised and the Whitlam government spoke up in the United Nations for Palestinian rights. The French were condemned for testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific, and refugees fleeing the CIA-backed coup in Chile were welcomed. Nixon and the CIA found such independence intolerable. After Whitlam was re-elected in 1974, and Jim Cairns became his deputy, Nixon ordered the CIA to review US policy towards Australia. Although the CIA’s response to Nixon has never been released, it seems it began a covert operation to destabilise the Whitlam government began then. The puppet masters who led the coup were Ted Shackley and Marshal Green. Nixon appointed Green as US Ambassador to Australia in 1973. Nick-named “the coup-master”, Green had been involved in several countries where the CIA had masterminded coups, such as Indonesia (1965) and Cambodia (1970). Green’s goals were to maintain US bases in Australia and to protect US economic interests. 324
Green let it be known that if the Labor government honoured one of its key election pledges to reclaiming ownership of oil refineries and mining industries, the US would respond. Green carefully cultivated the Fairfax, Murdoch and Packer dynasties that controlled the Australian media . Ted Shackley, known as the “Blond Ghost”, joined the CIA in 1951. Over the next two decades, he emerged as the agency’s “dirty tricks” specialist, directing the CIA’s campaign against Cuba and Fidel Castro’s government in 1962. In 1966 he became Chief of Station in Laos and directed the US secret war there — earning his other nickname, “the Butcher of Laos”. In 1971, he became head of the CIA’s Western Division (covering North and South America) where he plotted the overthrow of Allende. In 1974, Shackley became head of the Eastern Division of the CIA, covering Asia and Australia. Shackley’s speciality was financing black operations through the drug trade and he learned the dark art of running drug armies during the secret war in Laos. One of his foot soldiers in Laos was Michael Hand, co-founder of the Nugan Hand bank. Michael Hand helped forge documents used by the media to discredit the Whirtlam government, while his partner Frank Nugan was the conduit for CIA money to the Liberal Party. Millions of dollars flowed to the conservative parties via Nugan Hand. Shackley played a key role in the security crisis of November 1975, which revolved around the US military base at Pine Gap. Whitlam had threatened that if the US tried to “bounce” his government, he would look at the presence of US bases in Australia. The lease for Pine Gap was due for renewal in December 1975. On 10 November 1975, the day before Whitlam was sacked, Shackley sent an extraordinary cable from the CIA to ASIO’s director general, threatenin g to remove ASIO from the British-US intelligence agreement because he considered Whitlam a security threat. The cable was published by the Financial Review in 1977 and has been widely reprinted. It shows Shackley’s involvement in the security crisis. Shackley was furious that Whitlam had accused the CIA of funding the opposition conservative parties and had claimed CIA money was being used to influence domestic Australian politics. In particular, Whitlam was asking questions about the close relationship between Richard Stallings,
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who ran the so-called joint facility at Pine Gap, and National Party leader Doug Anthony. “The CIA has grave concerns as to where this type of public discussion may lead”, Shackley’s cable said. In his 1977 speech calling for a royal commission into the activities of the CIA in Australia, Whitlam called Shackley’s cable “a clear example of the attempted deception of the Australian Government by the American intelligence community … The message was offensive in tone, deceitful in intent and sinister in its implications.” For the Australian media, the message of Remembrance Day 2010 was clear: sleeping dogs must be allowed to lie. There could be nothing nobler to aspire to than the service of our imperial overlords, and to remind the Australian people that these imperial overlords had subverted a democratically elected government was well off message.” [My thanks to John Jiggens who has been involved in civil liberties and anti-corruption campaigning for many years. He is the author of a number of books, including the recently released The Killer Cop & the Murder of Donald Mackay, about the drug trade, Nugen Hand Bank and the overthro w of the Whitlam government.] Within 10 years an inconvenient suicide in 1980 would reveal that this C IA bank had been laundering heroin monies out of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. At the time it was the best kept secret in America while half of Australia was talking about it openly.
A CIA former
Former CIA Director William Colby
Director (William Colby) was even a lawyer for the bank. Pentagon officials were found to be linked financially and legally with the bank as well. There was no plausible denial that the bank laundered at least $25 million of drug monies. You can read all the details here: http://wolfwhistle.the-eleven.com/archives/stories/BCCI1.html
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Then in 1986 we received further confirmation that our own government was in the drug smuggling business when top smuggler Barry Seal was found shot to death in his car less than two weeks after having an argument with George H. Bush about why he had to pay taxes on their illicit drug proceeds and Bush did not. In the dead man‘s car trunk was a piece of paper on which was written the personal cell phone of President George Bush yet there was barely a peep in the mainstream press about this outrageous oddity. Details are all here: http://barrysealmurder1986jebbusholivernorth.blogspot.com/2013/04/jeb-bush -and-murder-of-cia-drug.html But in October of 1986 the real proof literally dropped out of the sky in Central America contract
when pilot
CIA Eugene
Hasenfus and his C123 cargo plane with a load of cocaine was shot down. After Senator Kerry had good intentions but a weak spine，we learned about the drug smugglers working for President Reagan via Oliver North, and we‘d hear about it right from the mouths of the smugglers and pilots themselves. They admitted to flying tons of cocaine into Homestead Air Force Base and small airports like Opa Locka in Miami. Despite overwhelming evidence and eye-witness testimony, only Colonel Oliver North and Major Secord were
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allowed to take any heat at all while Reagan and Bush were probably sweating bullets in the Whitehouse. But it didn‘t stop here… in 1997, FBI Agent Terry Nelson was arrested by the RCMP on a Indian reservation in Saskatchewan, Canada with a full load of cocaine valued at more than $15 million dollars.
Five pages have been witheld due to threats m ade against my fa mily by criminal rogue agents still walking free in this world. http://www.operationmorningstar.org/Department_of_Justice_Cover-up_of%20Drug_T rafficking_In_Montana.html
On December 15, 1997, Ron Gold wrote a letter to FBI Director Louis Freeh. He never got an answered back from Freeh. That letter stated in part: 1. South Florida FBI Agent Terry Nelson is a target of an internal agency investigation involving the drug operation….The drug smuggling operation occurred in flight routes to Nova Scotia and Chapeau Airfield in Quebec; then over to Weyburn, Saskatchewan and do wn into North Dakota and Montana. The major shipping zones in Montana were Sidney, Chinook, Havre, and clandestine airstrips on the Fort Peck Tribal Lands. Alternative Routes went into Eureka, Libby, Whitefish, and Shelby may also have been used. 3. Corrupt Montana authorities in Chinook, Sidney and the Fort Peck tribal lands coordinated protection of the smuggling operations. A prominent Montana state official received payments into accounts in the Helena Norwest Bank branch in conjunction with the multi-ton shipments of Colombian Cali-cartel heroin and cocaine. 6. FBI agents operating out of the Glasgow office assisted the Nelson smuggling operations and involved Fort Peck tribal police as well as other tribal members in illicit activities. 10. Two Glasgow FBI agents involved in the drug operation likely 328
compromised dozens of investigations on the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap tribal lands. Witnesses are available and have information directly linking the Glasgow FBI agents and other officials to drug related activities and violent civil rights abuses. http://www.afrocubaweb.com/montananarcomurders.htm CIA “Nelson OPERATIVE not only recruits CHIP TATUM: the law enforcement officials and CIA Pilot Chip Tatum: politicians he needs, he can also supply data from the law enforcement arena such as the DEA NADDIS computer, Customs TECS II, EPIC, FBI, and others involved in ongoing investigations. Nelson then provides this intelligence to his drug contacts. This helps obstruct any investigation and diffuse potential problems. Terry Nelson, a senior agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, continues to provide his valuable services to drug cartels and others who will pay his fee, out of his FBI office in southern Florida.”
http://www.pbsblog.com/pdf/EDrugging_America_part.pdf
In the 1980s when the Colombians were the primary players running drugs, the Piper Navajo was the choice aircraft of drug smugglers. It could carry roughly a half ton of cocaine into America – enough to addict 3,000 people. But when the CIA decided to enter the drug market they upgraded the equipment to actual cargo planes like this one that can deliver 10 tons – enough to addict 329
60,000 people per trip. Congresswoman Maxine Waters was never fooled like most of us.
Then we learned from 1987 testimony at the Iran-Contra Senate hearings that even Air Force C-130 cargo aircraft like this one below was being utilized. Gee, how much cocaine do you figure it would take to fill up this baby?
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But in recent years the trend has been to use corporate jets that can fly farther, faster and many fly with diplomatic immunity, like this Gulfstream jet leased by the CIA to shuttle victims of their ―renderings‖ (kidnapping) of ―suspected‖ terrorists.
It crashed with 4 tons of cocaine on board in Mexico‘s Yucatan
peninsula on September 24, 2007, and it was bound for the United States. Of course the CIA had ―no comment‖. Officially the aircraft was registered to ―Donna Blue Aircraft Inc. A weekend visit to ―Donna Blue Aircraft Inc‖ of Coconut Beach FL., the company which FAA records show owned t he Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA) which crash-landed with 3.7 tons of In reality, 500 times more people in th eworld will die this year from prescription abuse than from cocaine and heroin abuse combined. cocaine aboarddrug in Mexico‘s Yucatan two weeks ago, has revealed that Yet the over a million people around the world will be arrested and company‘s listed address is an empty office suite with a blank sign out front. jailed for drug abuse There was no sign of Donna Blue Aircraft, Inc., at the address listed at the Florida Dept. of Corporations, 4811 Lyons Technology Parkway #8 in Coconut Concerning American War Criminals… "In theFL. counsels of Government, we oddly must enough, guard against the acquisition Beach ……. However, there were, a half-dozen unmarked of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by police cars parked directly in front of the empty suite. the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger Only 17 months a U.S. registered DC-9 jet (tail no. was ourbefore, liberties or democratic processes. We N900SA) should take nothing granted. Only an alert busted in Mexico with 5.5fortons of cocaine onboard. Tipsand from knowledgeable local informants citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge identified the pilot of the plane to be a CIA employee carrying false industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and soaircraft that security and liberty identification. The FAA has refused to saygoals who the was registered to but may prosper together." independent investigation reveals the plane was twice used for CIA missions with links to arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi who helped supply Oliver North with weapons for the Contras in the mid 80s. A complete history of this aircraft and
FAA
registration
records
can
be
found
here
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busted CIA Director Porter Goss resigned without explanation. Kudos to Daniel
The pilot of the DC-9 pictured below was a Venezuelan citizen named Carmelo Vasquez Guerra. He was caught eventually flying yet another load of coke on board, and it was later discovered that he was inexplicably released from a Mexico jail after serving less than years behind bars. Keep in mind that I served 38 months in prison for a phony $2,000 ―bribe‖ yet this fellow who smuggled more than $100 million of cocaine is released after 18 months!
Ironically, the DC-9 was painted with the same design as planes used by the Department of Homeland Security – complete with the official seal. Hmmm…
An identical sister plane to this DC9 and parked right next to it at Clearwater Airport in Florida with the same DHS paint job bearing tail number N120NE is registered to a known CIA front company known as Finova Capital which bought the plane from yet another CIA front company Genesis Aviation. These companies were not much different that Air America or Southern Air Transport other than Southern Air Transport kept up a much more credible front by actually recruiting some clients unrelated to the U.S. government. Just tracking the previous flights plans of both DC9s showed and inordinate amount of trips between Mexico, South American countries and the U.S. as the final destination point.
The straw man owners of these aircraft can never be
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Now how do you hide all these millions of dollars if you are a government smuggler.
Not difficult.
In March of 2010, Wells Fargo Bank executives
admitted in a U.S. Federal Court that its acquisition of Wachovia Bank ―overlooked‖ $378 Billion dollars they laundered. For this they were fined $50 million – not even 1% of their profits from the laundering. In 2012, Britain‘s largest Bank, HSBC ―apologized‖ to the U.S. Senate for laundering $7 Billion 333
of drug proceeds. Not a single bank officer from Wells Fargo nor HSBC were jailed, yet 18,000 Americans go to jail an average of 5.6 years for drug offenses valued at an average of $32,000. Go figure.
Government
employment apparently comes with ―Get out of jail cards‖.
Few Americans know that as much as one fifth of all stocks traded on NASDAQ and as much as one-tenth of all stock purchased on the NYSE are paid for with dirty money – illicit proceeds from drugs, gambling, prostitution rings etc. Wall Street is an easy place to wash money thanks to the wholesale deregulation of the 70,s, 80s, and 90s, that made it easier for the wealthy to move their monies, evade taxes, and not even declare sources of their income when purchasing shares of a publicly-traded company. So while main street citizen Joe must declare any and all transactions of $10,000 or more, Wall Street William can purchase and liquidate millions of dollars of stock shares without question and by spending $499 to attend one of 500 some seminars every year, he can learn how to do it all and avoid paying a cent in income taxes by utilizing off-shore IBC (International Business Company) and banks. 334
So in essence, Wall Street lends itself to anyone and everyone who has money to wash provided stocks are purchased and the J.P. Morgans, Goldman Sachs, and other brokers of the world collect their 5% on the purchase and the sale as their brokerage fee. Do the math people. Now take this short quiz:
Q:
Who smuggled more than $1 Billion of cocaine into America via
Canada from 1990-2000 and was arrested in 1997 red-handed and then released?
a) Colombian smugglers b) Mexican immigrants c) The Mafia d) Al Qaeda terrorists e) A corrupt FBI agent
I will conclude my rant on the $39 Billion dollar drug trade by saying only this…600 times more people will die from prescription drug abuse this year than cocaine and heroin. Nobody has died yet from marijuana but hundreds of government officials and rogue agents will continue to prosper from the biggest cash crops in world history…coca and poppy plants.
But to be very clear, the American shadow government earns more than $30 million in net profits every week and believe it or not, it all started in…
Almost 65 years ago. Below is a quick summary of the modern drug trade compliments of William Blume and www.serendipty.li 335
Many people have heard about the Opium War but maybe one American in 100 can accurate relate it‘s significance or why the English were so keen on invading and occupying China‘s coastlines and seizing power from the Qing emperors. This short timeline may enlighten you…
Early 1950s, SOUTHEAST ASIA The Nationalist Chinese army, organized by the CIA to wage war against Communist China, became the opium barons of The Golden Triangle (parts of Burma, Thailand and Laos), the world's largest source of opium and heroin. Air America, the ClA's principal airline proprietary, flew the drugs all over Southeast Asia. (See Christopher Robbins, Air America, Avon Books, 1985, chapter 9.)
1950s to early 1970s, INDOCHINA During U.S. military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indochina, Air America flew opium and heroin throughout the area. Many GI's in Vietnam became addicts. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin. After a decade of American military intervention, Southeast Asia had become the source of 70 percent of the world's illicit opium and the major supplier of raw materials for America's booming heroin market.
1973-80, AUSTRALIA The Nugan Hand Bank of Sydney was a CIA bank in all but name. Among its officers were a network of US generals, admirals and CIA men, including former CIA Director William Colby, who was also one of its lawyers. With branches in Saudi Arabia, Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and the U.S., Nugan Hand Bank financed drug trafficking, money laundering and international arms dealings. In 1980, amidst several mysterious deaths, the bank collapsed, $50 million in debt. (See Jonathan Kwitny, The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA, W.W. Norton & Co., 1987.)
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1970s and 1980s, PANAMA For more than a decade, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was a highly paid CIA asset and collaborator, despite knowledge by U.S. drug authorities as early as 1971 that the general was heavily involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. Noriega facilitated "guns-for-drugs" flights for the contras, providing protection and pilots, as well as safe havens for drug cartel officials, and discreet banking facilities. U.S. officials, including then-ClA Director William Webster and several DEA officers, sent Noriega letters of praise for efforts to thwart drug trafficking (albeit only against competitors of his Medellin Cartel patrons). The U.S. government only turned against Noriega, invading Panama in December 1989 and kidnapping the general, once they discovered he was providing intelligence and services to the Cubans and Sandinistas. Ironically drug trafficking through Panama increased after the US invasion. (John Dinges, Our Man in Panama, Random House, 1991; National Security Archive Documentation Packet The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations.)
1980s, CENTRAL AMERICA The San Jose Mercury News series documents just one thread of the interwoven operations linking the CIA, the contras and the cocaine cartels. Obsessed with overthrowing the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, Reagan administration officials tolerated drug trafficking as long as the traffickers gave support to the contras. In 1989, the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations (the Kerry committee) concluded a three-year investigation by stating: "There was substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zones on the part of individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters throughout the region.... U.S. officials involved in Central America failed to address the drug issue for fear of jeopardizing the war efforts against Nicaragua.... In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. government had information regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter.... Senior U.S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras' funding problems." (Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, a Report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, 1989) 337
In Costa Rica, which served as the "Southern Front" for the contras (Honduras being the Northern Front), there were several different ClA-contra networks involved in drug trafficking. In addition to those servicing the Meneses-Blandon operation detailed by the Mercury News, and Noriega's operation, there was CIA operative John Hull, whose farms along Costa Rica's border with Nicaragua were the main staging area for the contras. Hull and other ClA-connected contra supporters and pilots teamed up with George Morales, a major Miami-based Colombian drug trafficker who later admitted to giving $3 million in cash and several planes to contra leaders. In 1989, after the Costa Rica government indicted Hull for drug trafficking, a DEA-hired plane clandestinely and illegally flew the CIA operative to Miami, via Haiti. The U.S. repeatedly thwarted Costa Rican efforts to extradite Hull back to Costa Rica to stand trial. Another Costa Rican-based drug ring involved a group of Cuban Americans whom the CIA had hired as military trainers for the contras. Many had long been involved with the CIA and drug trafficking They used contra planes and a Costa Rican-based shrimp company, which laundered money for the CIA, to move cocaine to the U.S. Costa Rica was not the only route. Guatemala, whose military intelligence service — closely associated with the CIA — harbored many drug traffickers, according to the DEA, was another way station along the cocaine highway. Additionally, the Medellin Cartel's Miami accountant, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, testified that he funneled nearly $10 million to Nicaraguan contras through long-time CIA operative Felix Rodriguez, who was based at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador. The contras provided both protection and infrastructure (planes, pilots, airstrips, warehouses, front companies and banks) to these ClA-linked drug networks. At least four transport companies under investigation for drug trafficking received US government contracts to carry non-lethal supplies to the contras. Southern Air Transport, "formerly" ClA-owned, and later under Pentagon contract, was involved in the drug running as well. Cocaine-laden planes flew to Florida, Texas, Louisiana and other locations, including several military bases. Designated as 'Contra Craft,' these shipments were not to be inspected. When some authority wasn't clued in, and made an arrest, powerful strings were pulled on behalf of dropping the case, acquittal, reduced sentence, or deportation.
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1980s to early 1990s, AFGHANISTAN ClA-supported Mujahedeen rebels [now, 2001, part of the "Northern Alliance"] engaged heavily in drug trafficking while fighting against the Soviet-supported government and its plans to reform the very backward Afghan society. The Agency's principal client was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the leading druglords and a leading heroin refiner. CIA-supplied trucks and mules, which had carried arms into Afghanistan, were used to transport opium to laboratories along the Afghan/Pakistan border. The output provided up to one half of the heroin used annually in the United States and three-quarters of that used in Western Europe. U.S. officials admitted in 1990 that they had failed to investigate or take action against the drug operation because of a desire not to offend their Pakistani and Afghan allies. In 1993, an official of the DEA called Afghanistan the new Colombia of the drug world.
Mid-1980s to early 199Os, HAITI While working to keep key Haitian military and political leaders in power, the CIA turned a blind eye to their clients' drug trafficking. In 1986, the Agency added some more names to its payroll by creating a new Haitian organization, the National Intelligence Service (SIN). SIN was purportedly created to fight the cocaine trade, though SIN officers themselves engaged in the trafficking, a trade aided and abetted by some of the Haitian military and political leaders. FBI
Agent
Terry
Nelson
and
Steve
Finta
took
Charge
of
the
Canadian/American operation in 1990. I know because three of my friends and I were recruited to be part of it (Pilot Curt Emmer, Erling Ingvaldsen, and Colombian supplier Rene Benitez) See ―Deniability‖ Chapter for details. For more detailed history of the drug trade read:
Killing Hope: U.S Military and
CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum (A 5 Star read for sure) In 2012, more than 80,000 people in the were died from an overdose or complications of prescription drugs. Less than 500 people in the world died from any overdose of heroin, cocaine, or marijuana. As former White House lawyer Richard Brenneke testified to the U.S. Congress, the CIA was partners with John Gotti smuggling and selling drugs on the streets of New York. We are fighting the wrong “Drug War friends. 339
Moving right along, I‘d like to shine a light on another well-hidden fact. Our beloved government never signed a treaty to join the International Criminal Court as did 120 other nations in 1998. To understand WHY the United States refused to place itself under the jurisdiction of the new International criminal court,
you need to first understand the mission of the court as I excerpted from their web site as follows: “The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an independent, permanent
court that tries persons accused of the most serious crimes of international concern, namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The ICC is based on a treaty, joined by 122 countries (effective as of 1 May 2013). The ICC is a court of last resort. It will not act if a case is investigated or prosecuted by a national judicial system unless the national proceedings are not genuine, for example if formal proceedings were undertaken solely to shield a person from criminal responsibility. In addition, the ICC only tries those accused of the gravest crimes. In all of its activities, the ICC observes the highest standards of fairness and due process. The jurisdiction and functioning of the ICC are governed by the Rome Statute.” Now consider that Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other NGOs around the globe have accused my American government of some very ugly war crimes. When countries hostile or otherwise ―not friendly‖ to the U.S. government commit war crimes, the U.S. ambassador at the United Nations will summon the General Assembly and Security Council and arrange televised coverage of his/her condemnation. Yet in reality, American troops and officials have factually committed more than 200 war crimes in the past 60 years as detailed by a U.S. Political Science Professor Robert Elias whose internet posts get continuously deleted. Here is a hard copy for you…
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US CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & GLOBAL TERRORISM US Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war situation, for wanton destruction, for no military objectives, whose targets and victims are civilian populations, or what we now call "collateral damage." Japan (1945) China (1945-46) Korea & China (1950-53) Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69) Indonesia (1958) Cuba (1959-61) Congo (1964) Peru (1965) Laos (1964-70) Vietnam (1961-1973) Cambodia (1969-70) Grenada (1983) Lebanon (1983-84) Libya (1986) El Salvador (1980s) Nicaragua (1980s) Iran (1987) Panama (1989) Iraq (1991-2000) Kuwait (1991) Somalia (1993) Bosnia (1994-95) Sudan (1998) Afghanistan (1998) Pakistan (1998) Yugoslavia (1999) Bulgaria (1999) Macedonia (1999) US Use of Chemical & Biological Weapons
The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following locations abroad: 341
Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s) Canada (1953) China and Korea (1950-53) Korea (1967-69) Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970) Panama (1940s-1990s) Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96) And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without their knowledge, in the following locations: Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950) SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67) Minneapolis (1953) St. Louis (1953) Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967) Florida (1955) Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58) New York City (1956, 1966) Chicago (1960) And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including: Egypt South Africa Iraq US Political and Military Interventions since 1945 The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since 1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests), undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth. It has done so in nations such as China (1945-51) South Africa (1960s-1980s)
Philippines (1945-53) East Timor (1975-99)
France (1947) Bolivia (1964-75)
Korea (1945-53) Ecuador (1975)
Marshall Islands (1946-58) Australia (1972-75)
Albania (1949-53) Argentina (1976) Eastern Europe (1948-56) Pakistan (1977)
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Italy (1947-1975) Iraq (1972-75)
Cambodia (1955-73) Libya (1981-89)
Greece (1947-49) Portugal (1974-76)
Laos (1957-73) Fiji (1987)
Philippines (1945-53) East Timor (1975-99)
Thailand (1965-73) Panama (1989)
Korea (1945-53) Ecuador (1975)
Ecuador (1960-63) Afghanistan (1979-92)
Albania (1949-53) Argentina (1976)
Congo (1960-65, 1977-78) El Salvador (1980-92)
Eastern Europe (1948-56) Pakistan (1977)
Algeria (1960s) Haiti (1987-94)
Germany (1950s) Angola (1975-1980s)
Brazil (1961-64) Bulgaria (1990-91)
Iran (1953) Jamaica (1976)
Peru (1965) Albania (1991-92)
Guatemala (1953-1990s) Honduras (1980s)
Dominican Republic (1963-65) Somalia (1993)
Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71) Nicaragua (1980s)
Cuba (1959-present) Iraq (1990s)
Middle East (1956-58) Philippines (1970s-90s)
Indonesia (1965) Peru (1990-present)
Indonesia (1957-58) Seychelles (1979-81)
Ghana (1966) Mexico (1990-present)
Haiti (1959) South Yemen (1979-84)
Uruguay (1969-72) Colombia (1990-present)
Western Europe (1950s-1960s) South Korea (1980)
Chile (1964-73) Yugoslavia (1995-99)
Guyana (1953-64) Chad (1981-82) Iraq (1958-63) Grenada (1979-83)
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US Perversions of Foreign Elections The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign elections, and sometimes engineered sham "demonstration" elections to ward off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such practices have occurred in nations such as: Philippines (1950s) Italy (1948-1970s) Lebanon (1950s) Indonesia (1955) Vietnam (1955) Guyana (1953-64) Japan (1958-1970s) Nepal (1959) Laos (1960) Brazil (1962) Dominican Republic (1962) Guatemala (1963) Bolivia (1966) Chile (1964-70)
Portugal (1974-75) Australia (1974-75) Jamaica (1976) El Salvador (1984) Panama (1984, 89) Nicaragua (1984, 90) Haiti (1987, 88) Bulgaria (1990-91) Albania (1991-92) Russia (1996) Mongolia (1996) Bosnia (1998)
US Versus World at the United Nations The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of "no" votes, the US was the "sole" nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time. Here's a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987: US Is the Sole "No" Vote on Resolutions or Treaties For aid to underdeveloped nations For the promotion of developing nation exports For UN promotion of human rights For protecting developing nations in trade agreements For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations For development as a human right Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa For cooperative models in developing nations For right of nations to economic system of their choice Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times) Versus Namibian apartheid For economic/standard of living rights as human rights 344
Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times) Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa For world charter to protect ecology For anti-apartheid convention For anti-apartheid convention in international sports For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times) For prevention of arms race in outer space For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times) For international law to protect economic rights For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction Versus naval arms race For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues For UN response mechanism for natural disasters For the Right to Food For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination For UN study on military development For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colo nial Countries For Industrial Development Decade in Africa For interdependence of economic and political rights For improved UN response to human rights abuses For protection of rights of migrant workers For protection against products harmful to health and the environment For a Convention on the Rights of the Child For training journalists in the developing world For international cooperation on third world debt For a UN Conference on Trade & Development US Is 1 of Only 2 "No" Votes on Resolutions or Treaties For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times) Versus foreign intervention into other nations For a UN Conference on Women Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times) For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states For a Middle East nuclear free zone Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times) For a new world international economic order For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa For the Law of the Sea Treaty For economic assistance to Palestinians For UN measures against fascist activities and groups For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic 345
For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US. **For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism (including its underlying causes) For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua US Is 1 of Only 3 "No" Votes on Resolutions and Treaties Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times) Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times) Versus return of refugees to Israel For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times) For an embargo on apartheid South Africa For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times) For the independence of colonial nations For the UN Decade for Women Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories For a Middle East Peace Conference For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times) In addition, the US has:
Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights initiatives Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming Refused to back the World Health Organization's ban on infant formula abuses Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on Political & Civil Rights (30 years after its creation) Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development & Environmental Protection
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Sampling of Deaths From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt Dictators (using the most conservative estimates) Nicaragua 30,000 dead
Iraq 1.3 million dead
Palestine 40,000 dead
Brazil 100,000 dead
Iran 30,000 dead
Indonesia 1 million dead
Korea 4 million dead
Sudan 8-10,000 dead
East Timor 1/3-1/2 of total population
Guatemala 200,000 dead
Colombia 50,000 dead
Greece 10,000 dead
Honduras 20,000 dead
Panama 5,000 dead
Laos 600,000 dead
El Salvador 63,000 dead
Japan 140,000 dead
Cambodia 1 million dead
Argentina 40,000 dead
Afghanistan 10,000 dead
Angola 300,000 dead
Bolivia 10,000 dead
Somalia 5000 dead
Grenada 500 dead
Uruguay 10,000 dead
Philippines 150,000 dead
Congo 2 million dead
Ecuador 10,000 dead
Haiti 100,000 dead
Egypt 10,000 dead
Peru 10,000 dead
Dominican Republic 10,000 dead
Vietnam 1.5 million dead
Other Lethal US Interventions Libya Chile CIA Terror Training Manuals 500 dead 50,000 dead Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military personnel or foreign nationals, Macedonia including instructions on assassination, subversion, sabotage, population control, 1000 dead torture, repression, psychological torture, death squads, etc. South Africa Specific Torture Campaigns 10,000 dead Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an instrument of terror and social control Pakistan for governments in Greece, Iran, 10,000 dead 347
Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama Supporting and Harboring Terrorists The promotion, protection, arming or equipping of terrorists such as: Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists, after WW II Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose terrorism has come back to haunt us Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas (Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft. Benning GA) Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean, Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and torturers Assassinating World Leaders Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state (some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile) Arms Trade & US Military Presence The US is the world's largest seller of weapons abroad, arming dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe The US is the world's largest provider of live land mines which, even in peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which have led to frequent victimization of local populations. The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or another almost continuously since 1983, i ncluding Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991)
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This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50 years. The FBI uses the following definition for Terrorism: "The unlawful use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives." This sounds like the terrorism we just experienced. It also sounds a lot like the US policies and actions since 1945 that I've just described. Granted most of us never heard about most all of the above, but ask yourself why?
How is that millions of other people around the world know that U.S.
Drone strikes have killed more than 180 children by mistake in the last 5 years?
How is that we were never told about the 2,000 Iraq civilians killed b y
our troops with chemical weapons in 2007 in the city of Fallujah? The dead included dozens of children and elders who were burned alive with White Phosphorous bombs, yet no mainstream media reported it – WHY? If you are still shaking your head in disbelief or denial, you can read the details on most all of the above here: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FOE201A.html or google independently. Perhaps the above is the primary reason our government pushed so hard on CISPA and other legislation now in the works to censor and edit what we in America can find on the internet?
Hmmm…
There are now two bills winding through Congress that would allow the U.S. Attorney General and other individuals (not courts) to decide what web sites an and posts should be deleted from the Internet. And guess what? None of these people would be elected. They would all be political appointees. You can read the details here: https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill
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A war crime is a war crime no matter who commits it. We cannot allow double standards to prevail for any government – including our own. Here are three good five good places to start with criminal proceedings and since there are no statute of limitations on murder, every American citizen should write to their local Congressman, radio talk show host,and local newspaper editor demanding criminal prosecution for those who perpetrated the following crimes: 1. The Use of Napalm A hill outside Basra was napalmed during the initial invasion of Iraq. So were two bridges south of Baghdad. Reports are based on an article by Andrew Boncombe (―U.S. Admits It Used Napalm Bombs in Iraq‖) in The Independent on August 10, 2003, and a second source, Martin Savidge (―Protecting Iraq‘s Oil Supply) broadcast on CNN on March 22, 2003. The use of napalm is banned by Article 55(1) of Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions. Adopted in 1977, the provision reads ―Care shall be taken in warfare to protect the natural environment against widespread, long-term and severe damage. This protection includes a prohibition of the use of methods or means of warfare which are intended or may be expected to cause such damage to the natural environment and thereby to prejudice the health or survival of the population.‖ 2. Use of White Phosphorous During November 2004, white phosphorous, a chemical that can cause serious burns, was used as an anti-personnel airborne weapon in Fallujah, according to several American military officers. On the last day of the month,
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General Peter Pace, who headed the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended the use of white phosphorous to illuminate targets at night. Evidence was first reported by Peter Popham (―US Forces Used Chemical Weapons During Assault on City of Fallujah‖) in The Independent on November 8, 2005, and affirmed as well by Ali A. Allawi in The Occupation of Iraq (Yale University Press, 2007, p. 339). According to the Article 2 of the Protocol on Prohibition or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons of 1980: ―(1) It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons. (2) It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons.‖ 3. Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Some 2,000 tons of depleted uranium bullets, which can combust into a ball of fire measuring 10,000 Centigrade degrees, were utilized in the invasion of Iraq. At least 200 tons were used after the invasion. Children exposed to the munitions have come down with leukemia. There are many sources: Dahr Jamail, ―What Have We Done?‖ Iraq Dispatches, August 6, 2005; Neil Mackay, ―US Forces‘ Use of Depleted Uranium Is ‗Illegal‘,” Sunday Morning Herald, March 20, 2003; Angus Stickler, ―Depleted Uranium Weapons—A BBC Investigation,‖ BBC Radio, August 21, 2007; Geert Van Moorer, ―One Year After the Fall of Baghdad: How Healthy Is Iraq?,‖ Health-Now.com, April 28, 2004; Nao Shimoyachi, ―Depleted Uranium Shells Decried: Citizens Find Bush Guilty of Afghan War Crimes,‖ Japan Times, March 14, 2004; World Tribunal on Iraq Declaration of the Jury of Conscience, Istanbul, June 25, 2005.
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According to Article 11 of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management of 1997: ―Each Contracting Party shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that at all stages of radioactive waste management individuals, society and the environment are adequately protected against radiological and other hazards.‖ 4. Indiscriminate Murder - On July 12, 2007 two U.S. Apache helicopters murdered ten peaceful people in cold blood and injured two young children. The video of this horrific homicide that clearly constitutes a war crime can be watched on video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 5. Illegal War - George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Condaleeza Rica, and Donald Rumsfield, should all be prosecuted for the fabrications they used as false pretenses to launch an illegal war that killed over 100,000 innocent civilians (at the very least) as well as 5,000 American sons, husbands, and fathers. Listen to this former U.S. soldier explain how they were ordered to ―Kill Everyone‖ (including unarmed civilians) indiscriminately if fired upon in Iraq: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwwMF6biCJU
War criminal George
W. Bush plunged America into a trillion dollar deficit from a phony war. Fifteen years later he cannot find any of those infamous ―WMDs‖ and he walks free as a multi-millionaire. If a tiny country like Malaysia can try the man for war crimes and win a conviction, why can we not do the same. Are former government officials above the law in America?
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So far 180 children have been killed by American drones flying illegally over the sovereign airspace of other sovereign countries.
They are using our tax
money to pay for these war crimes. They are using our tax money to pay for secret prisons and torture of ―suspects‖ over which 80% turned out to be ―the wrong guy‖. If you say and do nothing you implicating condone these actions. Christians
do
not
condone murder so either be a Christian or become an atheist accomplice
to
yet
another bully regime.
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All war criminals belong here…
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