INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
With the end of the second World War, the US became a World power. In the
ascending years it became a super-power. Subsequently, the United States
has also become the World's police and to some extent, the World's
Government. Whether this is a natural tendency of power or some sinister plan,
the United States has stretched its enforcement of policy to every corner.
To some, this policy has been to spread democracy and freedom, to others, it
was death, devastation, and imperialism.
It would be folly to believe that the US military and/or intelligence agencies
would operate in one manner and civil law enforcement in another. Whatever
form the policies of US imperialism has taken worldwide, it has trickled down
into the towns and neighborhoods across America.
The conflicting argument is whether the US is just in its cause for imposing
itself across the globe or if these are actions better explained as corporate
interests.
With the end of the second World War, the US became a World power. In the
ascending years it became a super-power. Subsequently, the United States
has also become the World's police and to some extent, the World's
Government. Whether this is a natural tendency of power or some sinister plan,
the United States has stretched its enforcement of policy to every corner.
To some, this policy has been to spread democracy and freedom, to others, it
was death, devastation, and imperialism.
It would be folly to believe that the US military and/or intelligence agencies
would operate in one manner and civil law enforcement in another. Whatever
form the policies of US imperialism has taken worldwide, it has trickled down
into the towns and neighborhoods across America.
The conflicting argument is whether the US is just in its cause for imposing
itself across the globe or if these are actions better explained as corporate
interests.
| The United States is the World's most hated country and its leader, George Bush, is the World's most hated person. |
Mohammed Mossadeq
1953, IRAN: The CIA overthrows democratically elected Mohammed Mossadeq
in a military coup and replaces him with a dictator, the Shah;
1954, GUATEMALA: The CIA overthrows democratically elected Jacob Arbenz
in a coup; a series of dictators follow;
1954-1958, VIETNAM: CIA officer Edward Lansdale
attempts subversion tactics to overthrow the government;
1957-1973: LAOS: The CIA carries out approximately
one coup per year to nullify the country's elections;
1959, HAITI: The US military helps "Papa Doc" Duvalier become dictator;
1961, CUBA: CIA sends 1500 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel
Castro - fails;
1961, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The CIA assassinates General Rafael Trujillo;
1961, ECUADOR: CIA-backed military forces the elected president to resign;
1961, CONGO (Zaire): CIA assassinates democratically elected Patrice
Lumumba;
1963, DOMICAN REPUBLIC: CIA overthrows democratically elected Juan
Bosch and installs repressive junta;
1963, ECUADOR: CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Carlos Julio
Arosemana;
1964, BRAZIL: CIA-backed coup overthrows the elected government;
1965, INDONESIA: CIA overthrows democratically elected Sukarno;
1965, GREECE: With CIA backing, the king removed George Papandreou as
prime minister;
1965, ZAIRE: CIA-backed coup installs Mobutu Sese Seko as dictator;
1967, GREECE: CIA-backed coup overthrows the government two days before
elections. (The favorite to win was former prime minister George Papandreou);
1968, UNITED STATES: CIA agents go undercover as "student radicals" to spy
on and disrupt campus organizations protesting the Vietnam War (Operation
Chaos );
1970, URUGUAY: CIA convinces right-wing forces to use torture as routine
practice;
1970, CAMBODIA: CIA overthrows Prince Sihanouk; replaced by CIA puppet
Lon Nol. Nol immediately sends troops against Vietnamese;
1971, UNITED STATES: Congressional report that CIA helped South
Vietnamese agents murder "Viet Cong Leaders" operating in South Vietnam
villages (Operation Phoenix);
1971, BOLIVIA: CIA-backed military coup overthrows and murders President
Jose Juan Torres; Dictator-General Hugo Banzer comes to power;
1972, UNITED STATES: Watergate break-in team consists of CIA agents,
James McCord, E. Howard Hunt and five Cubans with extensive CIA histories.
The group belonged to the Committee to Re-elect the President (Nixon), funded
and organized by CIA front, the Mullen Company;
1973, CHILE: CIA overthrows and assassinates democratically elected
Salvador Allende and replaces him with Dictator-General Augusto Pinochet;
1974, UNITED STATES: Congressional hearings on CIA chief of
counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton for illegal domestic spying on
Vietnam War protesters;
1975, AUSTRALIA: CIA helped topple the democratically elected government of
Prime Minister Edward Whitlam;
1975, ANGOLA: CIA backs civil war; 300,000 Angolans killed;
1979, AFGHANISTAN: CIA supplies arms to any faction willing to fight the
Soviets. One group leader was Sheik Abdel Rahman who later is involved with
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Another was Osama bin Laden;
1979: NICARAGUA: CIA trains and arms terrorist group the Contras against the
government;
1980, EL SALVADOR: CIA and US military arm terrorist death-squads; e.g. El
Mazote (1982), 700-1000 men, women, and children massacred;
1981, IRAN: CIA begins to sell them weapons; profits go to arm Contras;
1983, HONDURAS: CIA trains Honduran military (Battalion 316) in torture
tactics on thousands of dissidents; at least 184 murdered;
1984-1985, NICARAGUA: Lt. Col. Oliver North takes over Contra arms supplies;
1986, UNITED STATES: Iran/Contra arms scandal is exposed;
1986, HAITI: "Baby Doc" Duvalier, son of "Papa Doc," then president, is saved
by US and flown to France after popular revolt; CIA rigs elections in favor of
another "strongman."
1989, PANAMA: US invades and abducts General Manuel Noriega; Noriega on
CIA payroll since 1966.
in a military coup and replaces him with a dictator, the Shah;
1954, GUATEMALA: The CIA overthrows democratically elected Jacob Arbenz
in a coup; a series of dictators follow;
1954-1958, VIETNAM: CIA officer Edward Lansdale
attempts subversion tactics to overthrow the government;
1957-1973: LAOS: The CIA carries out approximately
one coup per year to nullify the country's elections;
1959, HAITI: The US military helps "Papa Doc" Duvalier become dictator;
1961, CUBA: CIA sends 1500 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba to overthrow Fidel
Castro - fails;
1961, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The CIA assassinates General Rafael Trujillo;
1961, ECUADOR: CIA-backed military forces the elected president to resign;
1961, CONGO (Zaire): CIA assassinates democratically elected Patrice
Lumumba;
1963, DOMICAN REPUBLIC: CIA overthrows democratically elected Juan
Bosch and installs repressive junta;
1963, ECUADOR: CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Carlos Julio
Arosemana;
1964, BRAZIL: CIA-backed coup overthrows the elected government;
1965, INDONESIA: CIA overthrows democratically elected Sukarno;
1965, GREECE: With CIA backing, the king removed George Papandreou as
prime minister;
1965, ZAIRE: CIA-backed coup installs Mobutu Sese Seko as dictator;
1967, GREECE: CIA-backed coup overthrows the government two days before
elections. (The favorite to win was former prime minister George Papandreou);
1968, UNITED STATES: CIA agents go undercover as "student radicals" to spy
on and disrupt campus organizations protesting the Vietnam War (Operation
Chaos );
1970, URUGUAY: CIA convinces right-wing forces to use torture as routine
practice;
1970, CAMBODIA: CIA overthrows Prince Sihanouk; replaced by CIA puppet
Lon Nol. Nol immediately sends troops against Vietnamese;
1971, UNITED STATES: Congressional report that CIA helped South
Vietnamese agents murder "Viet Cong Leaders" operating in South Vietnam
villages (Operation Phoenix);
1971, BOLIVIA: CIA-backed military coup overthrows and murders President
Jose Juan Torres; Dictator-General Hugo Banzer comes to power;
1972, UNITED STATES: Watergate break-in team consists of CIA agents,
James McCord, E. Howard Hunt and five Cubans with extensive CIA histories.
The group belonged to the Committee to Re-elect the President (Nixon), funded
and organized by CIA front, the Mullen Company;
1973, CHILE: CIA overthrows and assassinates democratically elected
Salvador Allende and replaces him with Dictator-General Augusto Pinochet;
1974, UNITED STATES: Congressional hearings on CIA chief of
counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton for illegal domestic spying on
Vietnam War protesters;
1975, AUSTRALIA: CIA helped topple the democratically elected government of
Prime Minister Edward Whitlam;
1975, ANGOLA: CIA backs civil war; 300,000 Angolans killed;
1979, AFGHANISTAN: CIA supplies arms to any faction willing to fight the
Soviets. One group leader was Sheik Abdel Rahman who later is involved with
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Another was Osama bin Laden;
1979: NICARAGUA: CIA trains and arms terrorist group the Contras against the
government;
1980, EL SALVADOR: CIA and US military arm terrorist death-squads; e.g. El
Mazote (1982), 700-1000 men, women, and children massacred;
1981, IRAN: CIA begins to sell them weapons; profits go to arm Contras;
1983, HONDURAS: CIA trains Honduran military (Battalion 316) in torture
tactics on thousands of dissidents; at least 184 murdered;
1984-1985, NICARAGUA: Lt. Col. Oliver North takes over Contra arms supplies;
1986, UNITED STATES: Iran/Contra arms scandal is exposed;
1986, HAITI: "Baby Doc" Duvalier, son of "Papa Doc," then president, is saved
by US and flown to France after popular revolt; CIA rigs elections in favor of
another "strongman."
1989, PANAMA: US invades and abducts General Manuel Noriega; Noriega on
CIA payroll since 1966.
Jacob Arbenz
Papa Doc" Duvalier
| Rafael Trujillo |
Patrice Lumumba
| Juan Bosch |
Sukarno
| George Papandreou |
Mobutu Sese Seko
Prince Sihanouk
| Dictator-General Hugo Banzer |
James McCord
E. Howard Hunt
James Jesus Angleton
Edward Whitlam
Abdel Rahman
Oliver North
"Baby Doc" Duvalier
| [Source: “Unmasking the CIA"; American Free Press May 10, 2004; pp. 12-13] |
Manuel Noriega
Finally, one man spoke out:
- "When I joined the CIA I believed in the need for its
existence. After twelve years with the agency I finally
understood how much suffering it was causing, that
millions of people all over the world had been killed or
had had their lives destroyed by the CIA and the
institutions it supports. I couldn't sit by and do nothing
and so began work on this book."
| Read excerpts from the book: |
| -Phillip Agee [Inside the Company; CIA Diary; 1975; p. viii] |
| Inside the Company; CIA Diary by Phillip Agee |
Disgusted with the tormenting and death the CIA inflicted on impoverished
countries and their poor, Agee clandestinely wrote his book in Paris fearing the
CIA would imprison him if he ever came back to the US.
countries and their poor, Agee clandestinely wrote his book in Paris fearing the
CIA would imprison him if he ever came back to the US.
- "Our government's support for corruption and injustice in Latin
America flows directly from the determination of the rich and
powerful in the US, the capitalists, to retain and expand these riches
and power."
| (p. 577) |
Most of his assignments were in Mexico, Central and South America. But he
traveled the world as well. Although Agee quit the Company in 1969, he left this
warning:
traveled the world as well. Although Agee quit the Company in 1969, he left this
warning:
| "It is estimated the CIA has committed over 100,000 serious crimes worldwide in its history so far. To finance its activities, it frequently engages in gun-running and drug smuggling - including large-scale importation of heroin and cocaine into the United States." |
- "[Keep] in mind that the kinds of operations I describe, which
occurred for the most part in Latin America, were typical of those
undertaken in countries of the Far East, Near East, and Africa. I would
also suggest that they are continuing today."
| (p. x) |
["Unmasking the CIA";
American Free Press;
May 10, 2004; pp. 12-13]
American Free Press;
May 10, 2004; pp. 12-13]
The CIA first became involved with heroin smuggling when the US penetrated
into Asia, especially Vietnam. The French had long been conducting secret
drug deals to finance their military operations, the US learned from them and
continued the networks once the French pulled out in 1954.
Author Alfred McCoy extensively chronicles the events as it happened, in his
book: The Politics of Heroin; CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (1972).
McCoy explains very clearly how and why the CIA became complicit. The trade is
so entrenched in that part of the world, as it has for the past 300 years when it
was introduced to China by the British government, that in order for the CIA to
establish strongholds in the area they formed alliances with heroin traders. Or
so they would probably explain if they ever had to.
McCoy references many such agreements between Hmong leaders and the
CIA. They help us - we help them. And the money was good too! If Congress
wouldn't appropriate funds for certain "missions," the CIA would raise their own
money.
Perhaps the same agreements could be made in South America? There were
more marijuana smokers and cocaine users!
For the past 50 years, there have been many drug smuggling reports involving
the CIA, yet, our government has yet to prosecute any CIA agent or even admit
that it happens. But to show how intolerant the US is about illicit drug trafficking,
on December 20, 1989, the US invaded Panama to arrest General Manuel
Noriega on drug charges. He surrendered January 30, 1990, and was sent to
the US for trial; found guilty and remains in a US prison to this day.
There are allegations that the CIA has supplied drug dealers in the United
States. If these accusations are ever to be found fully credible, it would conclude
that our own government is the largest organized dealers in illegal drugs in the
United States.
Commenting on the arms sent to Afghanistan in 1979 by President Billy Carter
in response to the Soviet invasion, presidential adviser Dr. David Musto warned
the White House Strategy Council on Drug Abuse:
into Asia, especially Vietnam. The French had long been conducting secret
drug deals to finance their military operations, the US learned from them and
continued the networks once the French pulled out in 1954.
Author Alfred McCoy extensively chronicles the events as it happened, in his
book: The Politics of Heroin; CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (1972).
McCoy explains very clearly how and why the CIA became complicit. The trade is
so entrenched in that part of the world, as it has for the past 300 years when it
was introduced to China by the British government, that in order for the CIA to
establish strongholds in the area they formed alliances with heroin traders. Or
so they would probably explain if they ever had to.
McCoy references many such agreements between Hmong leaders and the
CIA. They help us - we help them. And the money was good too! If Congress
wouldn't appropriate funds for certain "missions," the CIA would raise their own
money.
Perhaps the same agreements could be made in South America? There were
more marijuana smokers and cocaine users!
For the past 50 years, there have been many drug smuggling reports involving
the CIA, yet, our government has yet to prosecute any CIA agent or even admit
that it happens. But to show how intolerant the US is about illicit drug trafficking,
on December 20, 1989, the US invaded Panama to arrest General Manuel
Noriega on drug charges. He surrendered January 30, 1990, and was sent to
the US for trial; found guilty and remains in a US prison to this day.
There are allegations that the CIA has supplied drug dealers in the United
States. If these accusations are ever to be found fully credible, it would conclude
that our own government is the largest organized dealers in illegal drugs in the
United States.
Commenting on the arms sent to Afghanistan in 1979 by President Billy Carter
in response to the Soviet invasion, presidential adviser Dr. David Musto warned
the White House Strategy Council on Drug Abuse:
The Politics of Heroin;
CIA Complicity in the
Global Drug Trade
CIA Complicity in the
Global Drug Trade
| "Robert C. Bonner, the head of the DEA under President George Bush, Sr., acknowledged that there was 'at least some participation in approving or condoning' drug smuggling by the CIA." |
- "I told the council that we were going into Afghanistan to support the
opium growers in their rebellion against the Soviets."
| [The Politics of Heroin; p. 436] |
Musto had suspected that the CIA was complicit in the drug trade in Columbia
and equated the two.
Wherever the CIA has been deployed in countries that produce illicit drugs, the
production has increased. Afghanistan almost eradicated opium after the
country was taken over by the fanatical Taliban once the Soviets were driven out.
In 2001, after the US ran the Taliban out, opium was once again a thriving crop.
By 2003, it was the world leader in opium harvests and heroin production.
and equated the two.
Wherever the CIA has been deployed in countries that produce illicit drugs, the
production has increased. Afghanistan almost eradicated opium after the
country was taken over by the fanatical Taliban once the Soviets were driven out.
In 2001, after the US ran the Taliban out, opium was once again a thriving crop.
By 2003, it was the world leader in opium harvests and heroin production.
| [Source: Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed...; Judge James P. Gray; 2001; p. 140] |
Celerino Castillo
See also:
"U.S. Probes Narcotics Unit Funded by CIA," by
Michael Isikoff, Washington Post, Nov. 20, 1993, p. A1;
"U.S. Probes Narcotics Unit Funded by CIA," by
Michael Isikoff, Washington Post, Nov. 20, 1993, p. A1;
| "While with the DEA, I was able to keep journals of my assignments in Central and South America. These journals include names, case file numbers and DEA NADDIS (DEA Master Computer) information to back up my allegations. I have pictures and original passports of the victims that were murdered by CIA assets. These atrocities were done with the approval of the agencies." |
"The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic," by Michael Levine,
drug suspects investigated by DEA protected by the CIA;
drug suspects investigated by DEA protected by the CIA;
"Powderburns: Cocaine, Contras, and the Drug War," by Celerino Castillo, where
Castillo, a supervisory agent for the DEA in El Salvador, tells how he notified U.S.
government officials that large shipments of cocaine were being smuggled into
the U.S. by mercenary pilots he himself had hired to assist the Contras in
Nicaragua;
Castillo, a supervisory agent for the DEA in El Salvador, tells how he notified U.S.
government officials that large shipments of cocaine were being smuggled into
the U.S. by mercenary pilots he himself had hired to assist the Contras in
Nicaragua;
"Cocaine Politics, Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America,"
by Peter Scott and Jonathan Marshall;
by Peter Scott and Jonathan Marshall;
“Ex-Agent North Knew of Drug Flights," Orange County Register, June
17, 1994, and;
17, 1994, and;
"CIA Probed in Alleged Arms Shipments," by Susan Schmidt,
Washington Post, August 7, 1996, p. A6, allegations that the CIA
used an isolated airstrip in Mena, Arizona, during the 1980s for drug
and gun smuggling.
Washington Post, August 7, 1996, p. A6, allegations that the CIA
used an isolated airstrip in Mena, Arizona, during the 1980s for drug
and gun smuggling.
Since 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly worked to
subvert foreign powers and overthrow enemy governments to further
US influence abroad. The CIA's Black Ops; Covert Action, Foreign
Policy, and Democracy by John Nutter describes the various covert
operations including domestic and foreign narcotic conspiracies.
subvert foreign powers and overthrow enemy governments to further
US influence abroad. The CIA's Black Ops; Covert Action, Foreign
Policy, and Democracy by John Nutter describes the various covert
operations including domestic and foreign narcotic conspiracies.
If you might think that these acts by the CIA are on the outlines of the US, it may surprise
you to learn about the drug business life of Ricky (“Freeway Rick") Ross of Los
Angeles, his suppliers, Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses and their CIA protections.
Or you could hear from Celerino Castillo, a DEA agent who witnessed CIA drug dealing
from El Salvador in 1986; Ralph McGehee, a former CIA analyst who documented
hundreds of references to cocaine in Colonel Oliver North's diaries; Dave Sabow, M.D.
whose brother, a Marine Colonel, was murdered after discovering CIA smuggling drugs
onto military bases in 1990 (three years after the Contra war ended); and Mike Ruppert,
a former Los Angeles narcotics officer who came from a CIA family and caught the CIA
dealing heroin and cocaine in 1976-77 (before the Contra war started!).
What the stories from these people will tell you is that the CIA, therefore, the US
government, is complicit in the drug trade that links to the cities and towns of America,
as well as the rest of the world. Not that the CIA is actually dealing drugs in the streets,
but as Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance explained, “[I]t's not so much a conspiracy as
a chain reaction.” Well, Alfred McCoy, (The Politics of Heroin; CIA Complicity in the
Global Drug Trade (1972)) made that point already.
you to learn about the drug business life of Ricky (“Freeway Rick") Ross of Los
Angeles, his suppliers, Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses and their CIA protections.
Or you could hear from Celerino Castillo, a DEA agent who witnessed CIA drug dealing
from El Salvador in 1986; Ralph McGehee, a former CIA analyst who documented
hundreds of references to cocaine in Colonel Oliver North's diaries; Dave Sabow, M.D.
whose brother, a Marine Colonel, was murdered after discovering CIA smuggling drugs
onto military bases in 1990 (three years after the Contra war ended); and Mike Ruppert,
a former Los Angeles narcotics officer who came from a CIA family and caught the CIA
dealing heroin and cocaine in 1976-77 (before the Contra war started!).
What the stories from these people will tell you is that the CIA, therefore, the US
government, is complicit in the drug trade that links to the cities and towns of America,
as well as the rest of the world. Not that the CIA is actually dealing drugs in the streets,
but as Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance explained, “[I]t's not so much a conspiracy as
a chain reaction.” Well, Alfred McCoy, (The Politics of Heroin; CIA Complicity in the
Global Drug Trade (1972)) made that point already.
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Would you buy drugs from this guy?
Did crack cocaine get its start because of
Oliver North?
Is this a look of disappointment, guilt or
withdrawals?
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Did crack cocaine get its start because of
Oliver North?
Is this a look of disappointment, guilt or
withdrawals?
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In 1982, $200 million
in Taxpayers’ funds
were transferred in an
agency account
under the Central
Intelligence Agency.
The funds were then
covertly used by
dedicated officials in
high office for a
contract to purchase,
manufacture, and
import more than 500
tons of cocaine
between 1982 and
1987, with National
Security as a cover,
in order to secretly
finance anti-
communist military
operations in third
world countries. That
cocaine flooded the
inner cities of the
United States and
became the “Crack
Cocaine Epidemic.”
in Taxpayers’ funds
were transferred in an
agency account
under the Central
Intelligence Agency.
The funds were then
covertly used by
dedicated officials in
high office for a
contract to purchase,
manufacture, and
import more than 500
tons of cocaine
between 1982 and
1987, with National
Security as a cover,
in order to secretly
finance anti-
communist military
operations in third
world countries. That
cocaine flooded the
inner cities of the
United States and
became the “Crack
Cocaine Epidemic.”
| The Drug fLaws.com analysis of the drug laws by dennis mcbride |
Augusto Pinochet
Salvador Allende
Powderburns
