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White Appreciated Boy Here- I'll be the one to finally say it...none of these "humans" in the comment sections actually know how to write articles or even do simple essays....they refuse to use the correct grammar when it's suggested to them...I can read articles from the BB reporters without having a seizure unlike the comments here..
ReplyDeleteWhite Dork.
DeleteIt's Nuffy the weirdo.
DeleteI volunteer for the department of sending the culo blanco a la v3£¿@, i mean 6:46...🤛🖕🤜.
DeleteWe refius to be Grametrikkkal!
I find your White Boy bs annoying but I couldn’t agree any more about the comments with a combined group education of 3rd grade.
DeleteWhy do people hate on Sol?
Y’all take the comment section way too seriously talking about “no pEriOd” I’m sorry for not typing my comment in times new Roman font size 12
Deletego to your peoples favorite island
DeleteYou don't have to be here. Go find news somewhere else. Are you evem white? Because those disparaging remarks about mine don't read like something a white boy says today. Maybe look inward as well and search yourself while you're trying g to catch up on some other news site. Please
DeleteI hated Sol.... however he has grown on me talking shit to him is fun and thats what this site has become.
DeleteHe also loves verga in the ear and I love giving to him too.....
Also I am sure I missed a coma someonewhere and spelt some words incorrectly.
Please point it out for me grammar dick......
Thx.....
..............
Please also tell me howmany how many pulgadas of verga I am.......
2:52 you are about 1/2 inch,
DeleteBased on your little pendejadas
252
DeleteIt's the "spelt" guy again!
Welcome back, hillbilly bob!
(It's "spelled")
Nuff please, don't stoop to this level.
ReplyDeleteI'm in a mexican prison currently lol
ReplyDeletewhat you in for?
DeletePlease contribute, really! I'm sure we have here very interested people to hear anything You could tell us. Stories, the real way of living there and all. Best regards!
DeleteWash that cul0
DeleteThat stuff don't happen on this side bro lol funny though first thing you thought of
DeleteMy ex security worked with govt and he put me up to get extorted by seido then they planted stuff to get me in here
DeleteAnimo Paisa
DeleteHuaso Thank you for putting this out. I’m considering jumping in with you guys. Since I wanted before. But something didn’t go right. I’m sure you guys need SOL for now even though him and Alice got their own thing going on. I find it a bit wrong that both left because of the comments. But didn’t try doing anything about it. And without this site. They would not be doing their site. It’s crazy how the world goes. Is there any way Hearst can come back. Since SOL SET HER UP IN THE FIRST PLACE???
ReplyDeleteWhat are there sites??
DeleteIs that Rubio of NYC?
DeleteWhat happened with hearts? Cuenta El chisme. I heard sol set chivis up too.
Delete9:18 can you tell what exactly is "their own thing"?
DeleteOther blogs or just a love affair in a cheap ass motel?
Ummmm you guys don’t know that Sol and Mica started a site? Welll Mica did, and Sol went and jumped ship. And yesss this is Rubio. I wanted to write for the site. And stupidly was defending Sol Not REALIZING what kind of person he is. I also couldn’t deal with all the haggling. There’s a lot of things you guys don’t know about why Hearst stopped writing here. But ya can thank Sol for that. I don’t need to lie. I like this site. I feel that Mica should at least not help bring this site down. Even if they are doing their own thing.
DeleteHave a good day people.
Hearst put in some serious work but I’m guessing she burnt out. Mica/Sol, won’t say anything against them. After all this is all unpaid work. I also miss the research work done by Mx/Morogris and whenever Itzli posts they are great too. TY to Huaso and Socalj for their recent artículos.
DeleteI was right Rubio Red Panties, had been hiding in here commenting and still trying to bring down, in anyway he can. You can't change your MO of writing, I can also trace when Connor is in here, Connor still believes Mencho is alive.
DeleteAs always the lying is pathetic with some clowns who come in here to make shit up. It's obvious that there are lots of actual details many of you won't ever really know about. Still though keep guessing away and believing made up bullshit from anyone that has to speak anonymously here. Unless you personally know who anyone of us actaully are then don't bother wasting time with the gossip.
DeleteWhat's the back story to this?
DeleteStarting Sentences with “But, Since, not forget And ????!!!! Yes something totally did not got right.
Delete9:45
DeleteSol I am sorry to say, that Rubio guy is back to rattle your cage, I hate to say it, but he is a back stabber.
That's why I never give personal information in here, they backstab you later. I know you took care of Rubio, but at the end he through you under the bus.
At 2:52 . Mica has cartel insider with sol. Sol has some good pieces. Mica is mostly using AI to write view, so even though info is good, it sounds like every other AI slop blog unfortunately.
DeleteIt used to be so different. Often, it was people that lived at some point in the areas that were the ones doing articles, Commenters with actual interesting first hand reports and info, not the same played out crap that has zero to do with anything.
DeletePre shut down, was the best. If only we could get Chivis, Char, Tex, Mx, Itzli back,Many more I forgot.
That Rubio is a fucking pest.
DeleteFuck off Rubio!
Nobody fucking likes your smarmy fucking posts.
Sol, why don’t you just not post those comments. End the drama they make and continue reporting and doing a good job. Just filter through and not post them, simple
DeleteExample:like the 10:29pm comment. Just don’t post it. When you post these comments it fuels other idiots to do the same thing. Just delete and move forward
Delete5:39-while I appreciate CI/Mica- you are absolutely correct about the AI writing, if I read one more example of "it's not A, it is B" in 'his' articles I'm going to scream.... I'll keep reading it but who are these people complimenting his ability to write?? Like I said I appreciate it but my God at least try to hide the AI word salad-it's so repetitive it's almost comical. Thank goodness for Loan Grillo-nobody can outwit his writing ability, and the respect that he has earned for himself over the past couple of decades and the number of books he's published, investigations,devoid of a slobbing, bloated ego- he also gives freely to this community of ours-
Delete1:22 insiders who like to hang with government gorillas like MICA and Ioan grillo are part of a bunch of cocksuckers trying to profit, ees all, i seen pictures.
DeleteWe the lowly commenters are humbly trying to support this motherfucking joint and will be here no matter what.
Why is AI written articles so repetitive?
Delete@1:22 yeah, the AI makes Micas posts frustrating to read. It works feels like you're reading an auto generated blog but hey, it's free.
DeleteI don't know what the point of all the extra AI fillers are. Maybe it's because English is his 2nd or 3rd language.
Hearst was the nuts, that woman was beautiful in the way she constructed her articles and the level of detail she showed.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know the circumstances behind her absence but I sincerely hope she shows back up, and here, an impartial site.
Also respect to the dedicated authors and crime correspondents that have kept this site alive. Maximum respect and thanks to you, it is a very important role and you are part of history.
Tricky
Yeah Tricky I hear you and I definitely agree with you.
DeleteNo one else could have said it better.
Hi Tricky. I agree with you 💯.
Delete💯
DeleteHearst is built like a mini fridge with the writing skills of a child.
DeleteTricky, go jack off somewhere else.
Fucking idiot.
“You are part of history”
DeleteWhat a really stupid thing to say.
You must be in your twenties.
lol.
Go the fuck to sleep lil Dicky.
None of these clown comments should be posted. This is why no one wants to do it. Just get rid of the trolls and the reporters will come back
DeleteTricky IS Rubio [any blind man can see the red thong peeking out of the waistband] pretty lights and his compliments are identical to Rubio and even signs off in a similar fashion
DeleteThis is perfect for me. I am an expert of all cartels in Mexico. Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteOff white soy boy here. Can I be called Soy Prendido if I write for BB? jajajajajajajaja
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
ReplyDeleteNot paid???
ReplyDeleteIt should be if they want good work but it’s not paid.
DeleteI bet some gate keeper gets paid to supress anti-trumpanzee comments and allow pro-trumpanzees get away with murder, Sol gets away with it once in a while, but it gets less and less all the time.
DeletePlease tell me it ain't so.
CBS and ABC are doing it, even willingly losing easy to beat lawsuits and "settling" for millions of dollars with the orange pumpkin head and we get "Whiskey Pete Pentagon", a failed "major" thanking God that the ellisons are about to take control of CNN, along with billions of dollars in US Government contracts.
Silencing freedom of expression should be left to "We The People", not to admins.
If Fentanyl addict Sol can do it anybody can.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the deal with Sol setting up Chivis and Hearst? I missed whatever that was. Can anyone explain?
ReplyDeleteYou come in out of the Blue and you want private personal information, take a hike.
DeleteTricky
@457
DeleteMr Tricky I hope I didn’t offend you with anything I said. I’m not looking to stir the pot. But the pot was already stirred long long ago. I would just like for the website to be a little more like it was over a year ago. Where people were a little more respectful of each other and appreciated everything that was being contributed. I understand that people want and can be critics. But none of the contributors here claimed to be original writers. And people forget that all these articles are basically translated, and these guys here go through the trouble of reading all these articles and looking to select the ones that they think we are going to want to read the most.
Tricky again, my apologies, and I hope I could become a contributor to the site in the near future. God bless to everyone.
12:40 you are welcome like everybody else, but:
DeleteFACK RESPECT in the ess!!!
That what got us to this world wide ass of bullshit from the trumpanzee world of wannabes that are bent on having their own militarized nazi-fascistas protecting their asses.
@12:40 Hello my friend, please don’t think you have offended anyone. Your tone is very much appreciated but the individual that responded to you had adopted my name, so I felt indebted to clear this up and offer the hand of friendship.
DeleteTricky
12:40 you sound as if you are apologizing for sister theresa's breathing and farting on a taco without chile and salt.
DeleteAhhh white boy here, huh huh wtf we care who you are, just comment on the fukn article
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Hearts? Loved her articles. Sol needs to go.
ReplyDeleteConnor is scared.
Nuffy is Nuffy .
Rubio Nyc is doing Ruby Nyc things.
What happened to Ms. H?
What happened to Canadian girl??
J gives the best comments.
Rubio Red Panties NYC
DeleteIt's Hearst not hearts.
You see what happens when you get locked up, things change at BB.
So now you hat Sol, so now you going to Facebook rant , like you did before and then you wonder, why many bullied you in the past.
@455
DeleteMy bad. I actually had the spelling app writing it and wasn’t paying mind. I appreciate you pointing that out.
Thank you.
@455. Yeah I was actually bullied when I came to this country. That’s what got me into Tae Kwon Do. And competing in fighting and Katas. And that’s why I became a Pro Muay Thai Fighter. Man I never knew what a bully was until I came here. And yes I tend to talk on behalf of people that I feel are dealing with the haggle aswell. I don’t have anything again Sol. Personally, I think that on his other side, he’s putting more work than his partner. Which I hope he’s being refunded for Because that’s one thing that he wanted. And like I said, I totally get it that he wanted to make some money for his contributions. I respect that. Also, please understand that there are two sides to every story. And instead of looking at me like I’m ranting all I’m doing is looking to defend this site and give some people a better idea of some of the things I’ve heard from those individuals. I appreciate that they trusted me enough to tell me some things. And I have my reasons for speaking out that’s all. Again, bullying sucks. And coming from Dominican Republic, and constantly having your ass kicked on the yellow bus, in school, in my building, was very tough.
DeleteThank you and take Care.
@ Mr Nuffy. I have no idea what happened to those women. It would actually be nice to hear back from them. Also, I started reading articles when The Almighty Chivis was here. But I guess we have to believe that people move on and have other things going on in their lives. So probably that that’s what happened. Respect to Nuff!!
DeleteChivas was involved with some very shady stuff and put out a lot of propaganda on behalf of these people, she claimed that she wrote a lot of her articles herself but they were direct translations from pieces that were written by Mexican journalists in Mexican publications and then she would throw her own propagandist spin on it -without giving any credit. -she was rooting for some cogs in the machine that were, okay I'll say it....up and coming CJNG adjacent, without explicitly wearing their banner on the outside but years later a lot of shit has come out and yeah, put on your boots because the shit gets deep...
DeleteChivas and her businesses [family businesses in Mexico] were involved in some fishy stop themselves in Mexico, and if you scratch the surface and did a little research the people she propped up have come out 10years later as very, very, corrupt individuals-90% of her writings were taken from Mexican journalists from Mexican journalism pieces, she would throw a propaganda spin on it and sign her name to it, she did not do the writing. Chances are this will get deleted by an administrator but there you go..... There's something for you to chew on
Delete🟡🟡🟡142-I wrote the above comment and I wish I had the capability of deleting it, I wrote things I never should have, nor do I have any proof, I'm just going on hearsay and that cannot be validated. For that I am wrong, foolish impulse on my part
Delete@9.36. You just don't stop. Broken bodies and you underneath, yapping away like a rabid little puppy: "Who is YOUR fave commenter? MY top ten is.... ". You shouldn't be here.
DeleteTrashy White boy looking for snitches
ReplyDeleteLook I don’t claim to know everything that’s going on here. But if you guys give it some thought about some of the individuals that come here that are completely different than everyone else like the Rambo and many others and then you wonder why when one individual leaves and then another one just like it happens to take their place don’t you guys find out a bit odd. Again, if you guys give us some thought, just think about it.
ReplyDeleteI will help out, but I want a corner office on the top floor of the Borderland Beat building
ReplyDeleteDeal. We will also throw in our C-Suite benefits package.
Delete2.46
DeleteWe will wash and dry your clothes.
Hi El huaso
DeleteWhite boy here.. I'm chilling haven't heard from you.
I'm still in The Bronx.
Rubio
Mr El Huaso. Let me know how we can get In contact. And speak. I have been interested in contributing for a few years now. And I feel that now might be the right time. Thank you for all the time that you put into this site and informing all of us. Trust me that everyone is grateful. Even the ones that joke on here. They come and read the articles. WE ALL DO.
DeleteGod bless.
Rubio.
Hey Rubio, thanks for your comments! Please reach out to Borderland Beat at borderlandbeat@gmail.com
DeleteIf you don't want to use email, my Twitter is @HuasoBB and my DMs are open.
Thank you HUASO. you’ll be hearing sometime for me today. Stay blessed and hope you have a wonderful wonderful day today.
DeleteRubio, you don't gotta SPEAK to nobody.
DeleteThe talking part is done!
We do our talking via KEYBOARD around here.
Add a COMMENT to some article.
Write it like an article, show us what you got.
May not be as easy as some think.
Put up or shut up, bro!
🤔🙂
Thank you HUASO. I’ll reach out to you with my info. Have a blessed day.
Delete12:28 el trabajo aqui no es de puta, get your panties together and grow a spine, you are not supposed to cut and run because the commenters grab and pull your pussy hairs.
Delete8:05
DeleteThat Rubio shum has inforier complex, everything has to be about him, Sol once was his best buddy. That went down the tube.
He is all over the place, does not focus on the article, what's so ever
Rubio you wished you were a Whitey Boy, but Domican or Puerto Rican don't make the cut.
DeleteNot tryna be cruel, but Rubio NYC is sort of like the pirata de culiacan, a bit touched in the head, the semi-retarded little brother that you let hang out with your crew.
DeleteSend him on beer runs, wash your car, kinda like a mascot.
Also, at whatever Thai boxing level he's at, he might be good backup in a barroom brawl or prison yard broncas!
Hope he keeps a sharp eye out for Mexican cartel drug stories and becomes a contributer, maybe someday have his moniker listed at the bottom of this page with those other cool cats and foxy ladies of the BB on-line press corps!
Halfwitio NYC
🙂
9:38
DeleteI had mentioned Rubio was hiding in the comments and no one believed me. Now he is in the open.
He was good friends with Sol, that he had a call name "El Churro".
Unfortunately he couldn't produce any articles, they took his name out
Beware of intelecshual differences and cat fights over our sexy commenters, that what got Prince Leon Trotsky murdered by ignorant piece of putrid potato josé stalin who had his Marxism-Leninism down pat, but by the time trotsky got murdered he had fucked Frida Khalo a few times.
DeleteReal journalism went out the door when the real founder buggs left wity chivis following. This site has become the equivalent to a middle school after school parking lot
ReplyDelete1150 I see your point and have to agree.
Delete11:50 and 9:29 but, but, butt, pero aqui estamos todas todavia comiendo caca...
DeleteAlso, I would like to clarify something for the individual stat thing that I’m going on some RANT ETC. This is what I’m talking about. When I was defending, Mr.Sol. I was doing so on the basis that many people here come down on an individual for misspelling something. They would come down on Sol And call him a cheerleader because he chose to write about a certain group. I believe that everyone has the right to put articles up on whomever they see fit. Maybe it’s easier for them to do so. Who knows? Maybe he has a past with them where they probably did something to him or one of his friends or a family member and he chooses to put those videos up. I do have to say that, even if Sol has a certain personality, which is even to my taste, not the best. He wasn’t being a cheerleader. It was just easier for him to post articles and find articles on those specific groups. Most of you were not complaining when he was posting all those videos. And most of you wanted him to put more Goresh stuff like it’s fun to see people getting chopped up and cut up into pieces. And technically, these are some of your same comrades as far as nationality. I would never want to see Dominicans being chopped up all the time, even if they deserved it, but it became more than that. It almost became like a sport for you guys to wanna see some of those things and not necessarily even comment or say anything good about it. And again for the third fourth and fifth time I don’t think Sol Did anything wrong with saying that he just wanted to get paid for what he’s doing? We all have preferences and our preferences have to be respected or should be respected. That’s all.
ReplyDeleteSo why don’t we try to be a little better towards each other?
Rubio.
Rubio Red panties, I knew you would come in ranting and raving.
DeleteThey say you threw Sol under the bus and now you want to be best friends with him.
835 whatever you say. Have a great weekend.
Delete@ 835. I actually am curious about something.
DeleteWhere did the red panties part come from? lol.
Rubio.
12:56 do your own shit, read the church order of the day, and "report" on it, you can skit what you don't like instead of just criticizing others.
DeleteWe don't necessarily like butcher videos, but we all need to KNOW the levels of shit Operation Condor has brought Mexico to since it started about 60 years ago, with Chilean General sergio arellano stark dismembering innocent chileans off camera sponsored by CIA and US Navy, nixxon and kissinger, theybare busy these days with Operacion Condor 2 trying to stick it all over again to mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba, off camera too.
I knew something is wrong with that Rubio dude. Gets his fetish when he wears Red panties.
DeleteLots of crazies in NYC.
@10.31. So, you need to "KNOW" the 149 ways you can decapitate a kid by watching it on film? Since "Operation Condor"? I was just writing a response to Rubio saying he was full of shit, but made the mistake of coming down to your bullshit. When you've seen a decapitation in person you don't need top watch it on film, and if you've seen it on film you don't need to watch it again, and again, and again, so don't pretend that gore shit is anything more than clickbait. If you don't believe me, see who got baited.
Delete10:16 Words is a song by the BeeGees not everybody believes, even you, it bothers you ass more that people get dismembered on camera and it gets posted and reposted again and again and again than the fact that it happens and will keep happening in spite of people seeing it in person, you don't have the right to censure us, and that is the bottom line.
DeleteProtests should be directed to those that have allowed this kind of people to run around doing this class of shit, not about those reporting it. The US government has never been questioned about their crimes against humanity, CIA and NAVY in chile because of faulty reporting i guess, and pictures and videos...
Les interesa
ReplyDelete'las muertas de Juárez '??????
Pregunta a Borderland Beat y lectores digitales...
I'd love to get paid but buggy is cheap af.
ReplyDeleteThe art of wanting to get paid requires a good sugar daddy,
Deleteand getting on the list.
Most of us are happy and grateful for being allowed to comment once in a while without charge.
Getting Paid, requires a good very pretty ass with very few miles on the muffler
1. I would like to contribute articles about the TACIT and OVERT approval of the drug trade by the United States Government, at least within the past decade, and going back as far as the early 1900's/Pre-WWII Era. (Chiang Kai Shek).
ReplyDelete2. I can show an agreement that allowed drugs to be imported into the United states, signed by William French Smith and Bill Casey called a MOU.
3. I would also write articles about the foundation of the modern drug trade on a large scale by Fugitive Nazi SS/ CIC Corp/ CIA /Bolivian Army Col. named Klaus Barbie. I can show official DOJ documents apologizing for his employment, signed by William French Smith
4. I can demonstrate foundations of the modern drug trade by Anti-Castro Cuban forces /Oliver North CONTRA drug operation and the creation of the first Narco State under Klaus Barbie , ROBERTO SUAREZ, and Garcia Meza
5. I can show LA Times coverage and DEA-6 of Hector Berrellez allegations of USG involvement in the drug trade in the 1990 Murder trial of Kiki Camarena. (See testimony of Lawrence Victor Harrison) and 1998 article, THE PARIAH that also interviews Berrellez' Supervisor Mike Holm.
6. I can document What happened to US REP Maxine Waters and the 6 DEA who came forth with these allegations (Mike Holm, Hector Berrellez, Celerino Castillo III, Phil Jordan, Michael Levine, Larry Harrison) Also, the pilot of the SAT C-123 aircraft meeting with Art Goodtimes, Journalist, and Senator Gary Hart
7. The 1982 firing of San Diego AUSA William Kennedy by Ronald Reagan for pursuing "biggest Latin American" US intelligence asset Nazar Haro on Drugs , weapons, murder charges. Nazar Haro (DFS) freed Tijuana Cartel Head Sicilia Falcone in 1975
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/07/16/trial-in-camarena-case-shows-dea-anger-at-cia/e91baa2d-7231-47c3-94f4-30196209ecd0/
8. Intelligence Authorization Act of 1999 (US House of Reps) lists US agency blocking the seizure of Felix Gallardo's Los Angeles bank account in 1982. Congressional Website lists Sicilia Falcone, the Head of Tijuana Cartel as a "CIA protege" that overthrew Governments with Joe Egozi.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/10/13/house-section/article/h10818-1 https://www.congress.gov/105/crec/1998/10/13/CREC-1998-10-13-pt1-PgH10818.pdf
https://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_hr/980316-ps.htm
9. Interview with Sheriff David Hathaway regarding Kiki Camarena's murder and his experiences with USG sanctioned drugs in Bolivia
10. Douglas Valentine's discovery of USG sanctioned Drugs while writing the book "The Phoenix Program" with USG permission to interview 100 LEA officers.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
Creating a Crime: How the CIA Commandeered the DEA
BY DOUGLAS VALENTINE
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/11/creating-a-crime-how-the-cia-commandeered-the-dea/
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
The CIA and Drugs, Inc.: a Covert History
BY DOUGLAS VALENTINE
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/07/the-cia-and-drugs-inc-a-covert-history/
See notes :
Lyons, David. “Noriega: CIA OK’d Deals for Guns, DEA for Drugs.” The Miami Herald [Miami, FL], 21 Aug. 1991, p. 28.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120208083401/http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/
http://web.archive.org/web/20121025005853/http://www.fair.org/issues-news/contra-crack.html
Media Censor CIA Ties With Medellin Drug Cartel
http://web.archive.org/web/20120908153238/http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1190
https://web.archive.org/web/20100210185054/http://www.wethepeople.la/ciadrugs.htm
https://www.alternet.org/2004/10/the_case_that_kerry_cracked/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130818061541/https://narcosphere.narconews.com/userfiles/70/DEA.Mexico.Report.2.1990.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/world/cia-says-it-used-nicaraguan-rebels-accused-of-drug-tie.html
https://www.congress.gov/105/crec/1998/10/13/CREC-1998-10-13-pt1-PgH10818.pdf
ReplyDelete[Page H10818]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CIA IGNORED CHARGES OF CONTRA DRUG DEALING
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters) is recognized for 5 minutes.
Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, well, the CIA has finally admitted it and
the New York Times finally covered it. The Times ran the devastating
story on Saturday, with the headline: CIA Said to Ignore Charges of
Contra Drug Dealing in 80s.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/world/cia-says-it-used-nicaraguan-rebels-accused-of-drug-tie.html
In a remarkable reversal by the New York Times, the paper reported
that the CIA knew about Contra drug dealing and they covered it up. The
CIA let it go on for years during the height of their campaign against
the Sandinista government.
Among other revelations in the article were that ``the CIA's
inspector general determined that the agency `did not inform Congress
of all allegations or information it received indicating that contra-
related organizations or individuals were involved in drug
trafficking.' ''
The Times article continued pointing out ``[d]uring the time the ban
on [Contra] funds was in effect, the CIA informed Congress only about
drug charges against two other contra-related people. [T]he agency
failed to tell other executive branch agencies, including the Justice
Department, about drug allegations against 11 contra-related
individuals or entities.''
The article continues stating ``[the Report] makes clear that the
agency did little or nothing to investigate most of the drug
allegations that it heard about the contra and their supporters. In
all, the inspector general's report found that the CIA has received
allegations of drug involvement by 58 contras or others linked to the
contra program. These included 14 pilots and two others tied to the
contra program's CIA-backed air transportation operations.
The Times reported that ``the report said that in at least six
instances, the CIA knew about allegations regarding individuals or
organizations but that knowledge did not deter it from continuing to
employ them.''
Several informed sources have told me that an appendix to this Report
was removed at the instruction of the Department of Justice at the last
minute. This appendix is reported to have information about a CIA
officer, not agent or asset, but officer, based in the Los Angeles
Station, who was in charge of Contra related activities. According to
these sources, this individual was associated with running drugs to
South Central Los Angeles, around 1988. Let me repeat that amazing
omission. The recently released CIA Report Volume II contained an
appendix, which was pulled by the Department of Justice, that reported
a CIA officer in the LA Station was hooked into drug running in South
Central Los Angeles.
I have not seen this appendix. But the sources are very reliable and
well-informed. The Department of Justice must release that appendix
immediately. If the Department of Justice chooses to withhold this
clearly vital information, the outrage will be severe and widespread.
We have finally seen the CIA admit to have knowingly employed drug
dealers associated with the Contra movement. I look forward to a
comprehensive investigation into this matter by the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, now that the underlying charges have finally
been admitted by the CIA.
Your revelations, breathlessly reported, are 40 years old.
DeleteWe all know about it.
Got anything more current?
Welcome back incarcerated Rambler!!!
Delete5:42
DeleteI love Incar Ramblo like a brother.🙂
5:15 the impunity the US government has afforded its official and unofficial criminals for 55+ years is what is astounding...
DeleteDemocrats kept quiet.
Creepublicans kept doing their crimes of state until today.
Kiki Camarena got tortured and murdered and his murderer and torturer still enjoys his freedom and impunity, namely:
FELIX ISMAEL RODRIGUEZ MENDIGUTIA, cuban motherfucker, he did his murderous crimes in Mexico, he needs to get extradited and tried there more than caro quintero who was following his orders and even rented him his rancho Camimo Real in Veracruz for his Contra Operation where they killed about 30 mexican federales...
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Delete2 federales whacked at El Rancho Camino Real, NOT 30..
Don't fabricate nor exaggerate, si vous plait!
9:13 how about fabrications:
Delete●24-06 -2017 Ciudad Cardela, Boca del Rio Veracruz, federal officers camilo castañe and rigoberto peña sent to investigate the murder of a presidential municipal candidate, were murdered by CJNG, governor miguel angel yunez, murderers caught, by castilla craviotto chief of federales(manelich)...
●Dec 6 1991 Llano La Vibora, Rancho La Piedra, municipio Tlalixcoyan veracruz, 7 federales asesinados por el ejercito mexicano, by mistake, they were investigating one airplane detected by DEA and reported to mexican drug enforcement, another mexican drug enforcement airplane landed and the federales got beat up, by mistake too.
●1985 kiki camarena tortured and murdered, rafael caro quintero fled in an airplane to rancho Camino Real, in Sanchez Taboada, Veracruz property of him and miguel angel felix gallardo, rented to felix ismael rodriguez mendigutia/CIA, for his drug trafficking contra training and air base for the drug trafficking to the US, journalist Manuel Buendia and his informant journalist javier juarez vazquez of coatzacoalcos Ver. suspected of informing camarena, buendia's records in mexico city stolen. later, (corrido de Sanchez Taboada by Trio Los Nativos de Hidalgo, on you tube) about 30 federales were assassinated in the area, they went to "investigate" drug trafficking after stealing some millions of dollars from somebody there, and the nicaraguan contras were waiting for them... the rest is history, lissen to the corrido.
●7 NOV 1991 CNDH Llano La Vibora, municipio Tlalixcoyan Veracuz.
●6 Dic 1991 sobre los hechos del 7 de noviembre de 1991 tlalixcoyan ver. CNDH org, mx.
●There is an ecyclopedia's worth of mexican murdering, also in Veracruz, like 30 "zetas" murdered by javier duarte de ochoa and arturo bermudez to show CJNG LOYALTY, BUT THE VICTIMS WERE NOT ZETAS, THE BUNCHES of murders of policias federales in michoacan where the soldiers conspired with templarios and left the federal police to their own resources...
https://manuelnoriega.medium.com/cia-dea-ran-the-drug-deals-1d9fc7c5933e
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General Manuel Antonio Noriega Archives
General Manuel Antonio Noriega Archives
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Aug 23, 2021
The Miami Herald
August 23, 1991
Manuel Noriega says he had good reasons for allowing drugs and guns to slip through Panama: The last seven CIA directors, including George Bush, asked him to help with the guns, while four directors of the Drug Enforcement Administration sought his help on the drugs.
CIA directors who asked Noriega to allow them to travel through Panama included George Bush, Richard Helms, William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield Turner, William Casey and William Webster.
The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through Panama included Terrance Burk, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll.
The assertions came in papers released Thursday by the U.S. District Court in Miami, where the deposed Panamanian leader is scheduled to be tried on drug charges Sept. 4. Noriega’s lawyers have always said that the U.S. government authorized his involvement in drug and weapons dealings in Panama in the 1970s and 1980s. But they never said who provided the authorizations until they submitted the names under seal in a March 22 court filing. The papers were made public Monday.
The weapons shipments were destined for Nicaragua and Honduras, the papers said.
Besides Bush, the CIA directors who asked Noriega to allow them to travel through Panama included Richard Helms, William Colby, James Schlesinger, Stansfield Turner, William Casey and William Webster.
“Further, Gen. Noriega was requested that these shipments not be inspected or molested by the Government of Panama”, the papers say. “Upon the return flight of the aircraft, Gen. Noriega was also requested not to inspect the returning cargo to the United States.”
The court filing did not identify the returning cargo.
A CIA spokesman in Langley, Va., declined comment, citing an agency policy not to discuss pending court cases.
The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through his country included Terrance Burk, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll.
“During these operations, either Gen. Noriega or a member of his staff fully cooperated with the Drug Enforcement Administration and did not seize the illegal drug shipment or arrest the smugglers,’ the court filing said.
The same policy was carried out for the shipment of ether and acetone, chemicals used in processing cocaine.
The court filing did not identify the returning cargo.
A CIA spokesman in Langley, Va., declined comment, citing an agency policy not to discuss pending court cases.
The DEA directors who purportedly asked Noriega to allow drugs to pass through his country included Terrance Burk, Francis Mullen, Jack Lawn and John Ingersoll.
“During these operations, either Gen. Noriega or a member of his staff fully cooperated with the Drug Enforcement Administration and did not seize the illegal drug shipment or arrest the smugglers,’ the court filing said.
The same policy was carried out for the shipment of ether and acetone, chemicals used in processing cocaine.
“On various occasions, officers of the Panamanian Defense Force, per the instructions of Gen. Noriega, placed electronic tracking equipment in shipments of ether and acetone so that those shipments could be traced and followed,” the court filing said.
Lyons, David. “Noriega: CIA OK’d Deals for Guns, DEA for Drugs.” The Miami Herald [Miami, FL], 21 Aug. 1991, p. 28.
SEE THE FULL TEXT HERE
https://manuelnoriega.medium.com/cia-dea-ran-the-drug-deals-1d9fc7c5933e
https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/secrets-of-noriega-and-the-cia
National governments implicated in drug trade?
DeleteThis is BIG NEWS!!!
...or at least it was big news in 1988!
Nuff!!!
518 red panties Rubio.
Delete11:39 thanks for bringing some quality to this joint, of course you are not the only one, take @5:18, motherfucker will never find his way, out of his pampers, that why history is repeating itself these days, with interest.
DeleteGlad they let you post from prison...at least you didn't write your rants on dirty used toilet paper.
National governments are involved now, esp the US govt. See the Zamabada Nieblas case. Legal documents show him with immunity and warned of impending raids by USG as recently as 2012-2013. the attorney for CDS had his charges dropped. . I will post the case data here. Also, the current head of CDS boasts of his CIA , National guard ties in Mex. in Italian police intercepts of his communications, I will post that also
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Sol please don't leave, the bozos in here don't realize, how valuable you are at this site.
ReplyDelete7:35 SOL won't leave, just to keep sticking it to the bozos in the ass is worth all the gold in the world
DeleteIf you amateur bozos write articles like you write comments, we are FUCKED!
ReplyDelete6:03 have to hand it to US the Bozos and Bozo leader SOL,
DeleteIf it wasn't for US, the prison rants from the Incarcerated Rambler would not be here, after 50 years, who woulda thunk it👏👏👏👏👏👍
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Gangstersout, West Coast, north of the 49. Operation Fast and Furious showed us Iran Contra never stopped. Garry Webb was right. Ryan Wedding is a smoke and mirror distraction. They are blaming him for Hells Angel murders. The Hells Angels are the biggest drug traffickers in Canada not Ryan Wedding. The Dirty News blogger is completely innocent.
ReplyDeleteI Read the LA Times- This is public record and open source
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See the original on The Congressional; website
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/5/7/house-section/article/h2944-1
https://www.congress.gov/105/crec/1998/05/07/CREC-1998-05-07-pt1-PgH2944.pdf
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998)
A Tangled Web: A History of CIA Complicity in Drug International Trafficking
Institute for Policy Studies
WORLD WAR II
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the CIA's parent and sister organizations, cultivate relations with the leaders of the Italian Mafia, recruiting heavily from the New York and Chicago underworlds, whose members, including Charles `Lucky' Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello, help the agencies keep in touch with Sicilian Mafia leaders exiled by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Domestically, the aim is to prevent sabotage on East Coast ports, while in Italy the goal is to gain intelligence on Sicily prior to the allied invasions and to suppress the burgeoning Italian Communist Party. Imprisoned in New York, Luciano earns a pardon for his wartime service and is deported to Italy, where he proceeds to build his heroin empire, first by diverting supplies from the legal market, before developing connections in Lebanon and Turkey that supply morphine base to labs in Sicily. The OSS and ONI also work closely with Chinese gangsters who control vast supplies of opium, morphine and heroin, helping to establish the third pillar of the post-world War II heroin trade in the Golden Triangle, the border region of Thailand, Burma, Laos and China's Yunnan Province.
1947
In its first year of existence, the CIA continues U.S. intelligence community's anti-communist drive. Agency operatives help the Mafia seize total power in Sicily and it sends money to heroin-smuggling Corsican mobsters in Marseille to assist in their battle with Communist unions for control of the city's docks. By 1951, Luciano and the Corsicans have pooled their resources, giving rise to the notorious `French Connection' which would dominate the world heroin trade until the early 1970s. The CIA also recruits members of organized crime gangs in Japan to help ensure that the country stays in the non-communist world. Several years later, the Japanese Yakuza emerges as a major source of methamphetamine in Hawaii.
1949
Chinese Communist revolution causes collapse of drug empire allied with U.S. intelligence community, but a new one quickly emerges under the command of Nationalist (KMT) General Li Mi, who flees Yunnan into eastern Burma. Seeking to rekindle anticommunist resistance in China, the CIA provides arms, ammunition and other supplies to the KMT. After being repelled from China with heavy losses, the KMT settles down with local population and organizes and expands the opium trade from Burma and Northern Thailand. By 1972, the KMT controls 80 percent of the Golden Triangle's opium trade.
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Click here to see the Full list
http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/contracoke.html
http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/MOU.html
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1998/08/total-coverage-cia-contras-and-drugs/
From 1982 to 1995 the CIA did not to have to report if they suspected any of their agents of dealing drugs. Why?
ReplyDeleteIt's the kind of government exchange you assume never actually takes place. But it did. And it went something like this:
CIA Chief: Dear Attorney General, Do you mind if CIA agents or informants are dealing drugs? I mean, we don't have to tell on them, do we?
Attorney General: Of course not! Well, you did. But I just changed the law. Don't worry about it.
CIA Chief: Gee, thanks!
This may sound absurd, but according to a series of recently declassified documents obtained by the MoJo Wire, it's just what happened in the spring of 1982.
Letter From Bill Casey To William French Smith
https://web.archive.org/web/20070613130342/https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/01.gif
Letter From William French Smith to Bill Casey
https://web.archive.org/web/20070613154234/https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/02.gif
Letter from the DOJ Codifying the MOU
https://web.archive.org/web/20070613051429/https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/14.gif
Central Intelligence Agency Director William Casey's request to then-Attorney General William French Smith isn't in the public domain. But two letters, one from Smith thanking Casey for his request, and a follow-up by Casey, are both available. They were released as part of a internal CIA report that explored allegations of CIA involvement in drug trafficking. (The most comprehensive allegations were reported by Gary Webb in a series of San Jose Mercury News reports and a book entitled "Dark Alliance.") In the first document, Smith thanks Casey for his letter (the one that isn't public) and says:
"...in view of the fine cooperation the Drug Enforcement Administration has received from CIA, no formal requirement regarding the reporting of narcotics violations has been included in these procedures."--William French SmithAttorney General
Casey in return thanks the Attorney General for his understanding:
"I am pleased that these procedures, which I believe strike the proper balance between enforcement of the law and protection of intelligence sources and methods, will now be forwarded to other agencies..."--William J. CaseyDirector, Central Intelligence Agency[See the full document]
The two men then codified their agreement in a Memorandum of Understanding. According to the agreement, intelligence agencies would not have to report if any of their agents were involved in drug running. (By agents, the agreement meant CIA sources and informants. Full-time employees still couldn't deal drugs.) That understanding remained in effect until August of 1995, when current Attorney General Janet Reno rescinded the agreement.
It's reasonable that the CIA be allowed to keep its mouth shut if it knows that some of its agents are involved in minor illegal affairs. Presumably some of the value of informants comes from the fact that they keep company with shady characters who engage in unlawful activities.
But why would the CIA ask to be exempt specifically from drug enforcement laws? According to Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who is calling for full disclosure of the facts, "The CIA knew that the Contras were dealing drugs. They made this deal with the Attorney General to protect themselves from having to report it."
Some of the remaining questions may still be answered. The Department of Justice and the CIA have finished separate investigations into possible CIA involvement in drug smuggling. But neither report has been made available to the public; the Justice department cites an "ongoing investigation" while the CIA says their report is an internal document and therefore classified. Says Congresswoman Waters: "What is it they don't want Americans to see? If the CIA was involved in drug trafficking, they should be brought to justice. Not covered up."
See the write up:
https://www.winterwatch.net/2025/09/cia-drug-smuggling-and-dealing-the-birth-of-the-dark-alliance/
China lost Hong kong and 5 other cities for 150 years, until 1997 because of the Opium wars. The forced importation into china of tens of millions of pounds of opium a MONTH: This created tens of millions of addicts and caused the partial collapse of the government. It went on for hundreds of years. The chinese emperor wanted to know why they were selling opium in China, but not in england where it was illegal!
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THE ORIGINAL STATE SPONSORED DRUG TRAFFIC….AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE NOT THE FIRST VICTIMS OF STATE SPONSORED DRUG DEALING, JUST THE LATEST. THE OPIUM WARS ARE WELL DOCUMENTED AND ARE PART OF THE REASON BRITISH EMPIRE GOT A HOLD OF TERRITORIES SUCH AS HONG KONG and 5 other chinese cities until 1997
. NARCO COLONIALISM CONTINUES ON. :
Starting in in the mid-1700s, the British began trading opium grown in India in exchange for silver from Chinese merchants. Opium — an addictive drug that today is refined into heroin — was illegal in England, but was used in Chinese traditional medicine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War
Why does it seem that you are saying "YES" to illegal narcotics in America?
ReplyDeleteI turned over video tapes to your NSC staff assistant, Tom Harvey, January 1987, wherein General KHUN SA, overlord of Asia's "Golden Triangle", offered to stop 900 tons of heroin/opium from entering the free world in 1987. Harvey told me, "...there is no interest here in doing that." General Khun Sa also offered to identify U.S. Government officials who, he says, have been trafficking in heroin for more than 20 years.
Instead of receiving an "Atta Boy" for bringing back video tape showing Khun Sa`s offer to stop 900 tons of illegal narcotics and expose dirty USG officials, Scott was jailed and I was threatened. I was told that if I didn't "erase and forget" all that we had discovered, I would, "hurt the government". Further, I was promised a prison sentence of "15 years".
I returned to Burma with two other American witnesses, Lance Trimmer, a private detective from San Francisco, and Barry Flynn from Boston. Gen Khun Sa identified some of those in government service he says were dealing in heroin and arms sales. We video taped this second interview and I turned copies over in June 1987, to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence; Chairman of the House on Foreign Affairs Task Force on Narcotics Control; Co-Chairman, Senate Narcotics Committee; Senator Harry Reid, NV; Representative James Bilbray, NV; and other Congressional members. Mister Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, is one of those USG officials implicated by Khun Sa. Nothing was done with this evidence that indicated that anyone of authority, including yourself, had intended to do anything more than protect Mr. Armitage. I was charged with "Misuse of Passport". Seems that it is alright for Oliver North and Robert MacFarlane to go into Iran on Irish Passports to negotiate an illegal arms deal that neither you nor anyone else admits condoning, but I can't use a passport that brings back drug information against your friends.
A U.S. agent I have known for many years stopped by my home last month enroute to his next overseas assignment. He remarked that he had worked for those CIA chiefs named by KhunSa, and that by his own personal knowledge, he knew what Khun Sa said wastrue. He was surprised it had taken so long to surface.
-----------------------Gritz speech describing what happened to him in South east asia June 1, 1990 http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/gritz/gritz.htm
NYSE CEO Richard Grasso Met Raul Reyes- (Now deceased) FARC leader on a State sanctioned mission. FARC are listed as terrorists and drug traffickers on the state dept list. AKA the infamous Grasso Abrazo Photo
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On June 26, 1999, Reuters reported that Grasso met with Colombian rebels, the FARC, in an article entitled "NYSE Chief Meets Top Colombia Rebel Leader". The FARC is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department (on its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations since 1997) and is allegedly responsible for kidnappings and narcotics trafficking in order to bankroll their revolutionary activities (see: narcoterrorism).[4]
The article quoted Grasso as saying, "I invite members of the FARC to visit the New York Stock Exchange so that they can get to know the market personally". Grasso told reporters that he was bringing "a message of cooperation from U.S. financial services".[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grasso
Here are a couple articles about the meeting. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-27-mn-50699-story.html
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0202/S00069.htm
DEA agent hector berrellez said that when he popped Rafael Caro quintero, he saw bank statements seized in the raids. He told Forbes magazine that he saw TWO accounts with over $4billion each, and to his knowledge, they had never been confiscated! https://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2013/12/05/mexican-fugitive-kingpin-caro-quintero-stashed-billions-in-secret-overseas-accounts-former-dea-agent-claims/
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OLIVER NORTH DIARY: "$14 million to finance [arms] came from drugs.", "went and talked to [contra leader Frederico] Vaughn, who wanted to go to Bolivia to pick up paste, wanted aircraft to pick up 1,500 kilos."
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OLIVER NORTH DIARY: "$14 million to finance [arms] came from drugs.", "went and talked to [contra leader Frederico] Vaughn, who wanted to go to Bolivia to pick up paste, wanted aircraft to pick up 1,500 kilos."
https://web.archive.org/web/20181016155732/http://www.powderburns.org/north.html
National Security Archives declassified records on Oliver North - North' diary submitted to congressional investigators contained hundreds of references to drug trafficking, even after North was given time to expurgate sensitive information from it before handing the diary over to investigators.
"went and talked to [contra leader Frederico] Vaughn, who wanted to go to Bolivia to pick up paste, wanted aircraft to pick up 1,500 kilos."--Oliver North's July 9, 1984, Diary entry
"$14 million to finance [arms] came from drugs."-- --Oliver North's July 12, 1985, Diary entryhttp://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/
US and Afghan Military patrolling the fields April, 2012
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Patrolling poppy fields 2011 U.S. military
https://publicintelligence.net/even-more-photos-of-usnato-troops-patrolling-opium-poppy-fields-in-afghanistan/
April, 2011 US military patrol Photos in the Opium fields
https://publicintelligence.net/more-photos-of-usnato-troops-patrolling-opium-poppy-fields-in-afghanistan/
May, 2010
https://publicintelligence.net/usnato-troops-patrolling-opium-poppy-fields-in-afghanistan/
March/April 1988
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http://web.archive.org/web/20120908153238/http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1190
The Washington Post (2/12/88) included this politically delicate aspect of Rodriguez's testimony in its headline: "Drug Money Alleged to Go to Contras." But Joe Pichirallo's page 30 article tiptoed around CIA involvement with Rodriguez. The Post also failed to mention Rodriguez's assertion that he worked with US banks, and it did not include his statement about laundering moneyfor the CIA after his drug indictment. This omission was egregious in view of the fact that Senator Kerry questioned Rodriguez in detail about an accounting sheet which a federal prosecutor submitted as evidence at his trail:
Senator Kerry: What does your accounting show with respect to the CIA?
Ramon Rodriguez: It shows that I received a shipment of three million and change sometime in the middle of the month. (Watch the video)
At the end of the hearing the Post's Pichirallo asked chief counsel Jack Blum why the CIA would use Rodriguez to funnel money after he'd been indicted. Blum responded that such a time would be ideal, since US government investigators cannot approach a defendant after he has been indicted. Extra! later asked Pichirallo why Rodriguez's testimony about moving dirty money for the CIA was excluded from the Post, but he was not forthcoming: "It is my policy never to discuss anything I do."
(Ramon Rodriguez mentions that he also paid the Watergate burglars earlier in his career, but Senator Kerry doesn't ask further questions.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20121025005853/http://www.fair.org/issues-news/contra-crack.html
(Video) West 57th TV show - John Hull's Ranch 8,000 acres in Costa Rica used for Contras and Drugs
6 Pilots admit landing on U.S. Military bases with drug shipments. Interviews with Sen, Kerry and John Hull, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, Gary Wayne Betzner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpEqF_51sw
EX-DEA Agent Michael Levine Video of DEA administrator Robert Bonner (Now a federal judge) admitting the govt is involved in Drug smuggling over 27 tons involved
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Nov 21, 1993 Transcript of the 60 minutes show with DEA administrator Robert Bonner
http://docshare.tips/60-minutes-head-of-dea-robert-bonner-says-cia-smuggled-drugs_5856baafb6d87fb8408b615d.html
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"CIA are drug smugglers." - Head of DEA said this too late for Gary Webb. EX-DEA Agent Michael Levine Video of DEA administrator Robert Bonner (Now a federal judge) admitting the govt is involved in Drug smuggling over 27 tons involved. The person who smuggled the drugs received a promotion.
https://youtu.be/5_UbAmRGSYw
Billionaire drugs trafficker George Morales had his legal case fixed after donating planes & $4 million to $5 million to the contras. Senator Kerry questioned him in-front of a U.S. Senate Committee. Morales testified he brought in $35m a month for the CONTRAS; The drugs were owned by the Contras
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THE TESTIMONY OF GEORGE MORALES
Before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism
Senator John Kerry questioning.
(The witness having been previously sworn)
Senator KERRY. Let me do this, because my colleague is also under some pressure. I want to ask you a few questions about one area, and then we'll come back. But I do want the record to go through this detail. I know it's tedious, but it's very important.
In 1984, you said your shipments began to change. Is that correct?
Mr. MORALES. Yes, they did.
Senator KERRY. Is that the point in time in which you were approached by people you knew to be part of the Contra organization?
Mr. MORALES. Yes.
Senator KERRY. Can you describe specifically when that took place and what took place?
Mr. MORALES. That was right after my indictment.
Senator KERRY. When was your indictment?
Mr. MORALES. March 3, March 3 or March 6, 1984. Right after that, few weeks, maybe a month, I was introduced by the Contra leaders in South Florida.
Senator KERRY. Who were you introduced to?
Mr. MORALES. I was introduced by Popo Chammoro, Octaviano Cesar, and --
Senator KERRY. Popo Chommoro.
Mr. MORALES. Yes.
Senator KERRY. Octaviano Cesar.
Mr. MORALES. Yes, and Marcos Aguado.
Senator KERRY. And Marco Aguado.
Mr. MORALES. Which they represent themselves as being leaders of the Contras and also represent themselves as CIA agents.
Senator KERRY. Now when you say they “represented themselves,” did you know of them at that time?
Mr. MORALES. I heard about they being CIA agents. Yes, I did.
Senator KERRY. When you say “their being,” who was a CIA agent?
Mr. MORALES. Marcos Aguado and Cesar Octaviano.
Senator KERRY. How do you know that?
Mr. MORALES. It's being very well known through many people for a long time around Central America and south Florida. (...)
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Senator KELLY. He said he could take care of your legal problems?
Mr. MORALES. Many times I talked to him and he told me that he had plenty of friends, being him, the CIA, can advise the superiors about my financial support and airplane and training, and, therefore, they will finally, eventually will take care of my problem, which they did. To an extent, they did. As a matter of fact, they did.
Senator KERRY. We'll come back to that in a little while. If you'd make a note on that, we'll come back to that in a while. I want to just run through this so Senator McConnell can have his round.
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Senator KERRY. Where was the money coming from?
Mr. MORALES. Drugs.
Senator KERRY. Did they know that?
Mr. MORALES. Of course they know that.
Senator KERRY. Why do you say “of course they know that”?
How do you know they know that?
Mr. MORALES. Because we discussed, as a matter of fact, we discussed to bring drugs that did not belong to me. They were their own drugs.
Senator KERRY. Whose drugs?
Mr. MORALES. The Contras drugs.
Senator KERRY. How do you know they were Contra drugs?
Mr. MORALES. They told me.
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ReplyDeleteSenator KERRY. What?
Mr. MORALES. They told me. As a matter of fact
Senator KERRY. What did they tell you? Did they say here's drugs, these are Contra drugs?
Mr. MORALES. No, no, no.
They say, there was a few trips that I was supposed to do for them in drugs. I did not ever ask him where the drugs come from other than that they were the drugs.
Senator KERRY. Did you do those trips?
Mr. MORALES. Yes, I did.
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Senator KERRY. Did you load these weapons onto the airplane in daytime or nighttime?
Mr. MORALES. I did load them in the daytime, 12 noon in the daytime.
Senator KERRY. Right in the full view of people?
Mr. MORALES. Yes. Many times.
Senator KERRY. And were you at the airport when the planes came back?
Mr. MORALES. Yes, I was.
Senator KERRY. What did you unload from those planes when they came back?
Mr. MORALES. I was in the beginning of the runway. The plane lands and unloads the drugs into the end of the runway.
Senator KERRY. How did you know they were drugs?
Mr. MORALES. I saw them.
Senator KERRY. What did you do with those drugs?
Mr. MORALES. Sell them.
Senator KERRY. What did you do with the money?
Mr. MORALES. Give it to the Contras.
Senator KERRY. All right. I'm going to come back to this because there's obviously considerably more detail that needs to be filled in.
Mr. MORALES. Let me make myself clear, Senator.
Senator KERRY. Please.
Mr. MORALES. I gave them back to the same people because the Contras means a lot to a lot of people. I gave them back to Mr. Octaviano Cesar, who works for, used to work for the CIA, and Mr. Popo Chammoro, and Marcos Aguado...
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How much -- can you estimate the amount of narcotics in dollars that you shipped back as part of this scheme for transfer of weapons down there?
Mr. MORALES. How much was the money?
Senator KERRY. How much money in narcotics value was brought back in as part of this linkage in 1984 and 1985?
Mr. MORALES. Many, many, many millions of dollars. Many millions of dollars. Many.
Senator KERRY. Can you give us an estimate of the kilos of cocaine?
Mr. MORALES. In 1984, the kilos of cocaine in July were going around $32,000, $34,000, $35,000 a kilo. That is $35 million right there, in July.
Senator KERRY. It’s $35 million?
Mr. MORALES. In July.
Senator KERRY. In July.
Mr. MORALES. July, yes...
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Senator KERRY. Now, when the drugs flew back in, did they come in the daytime or nighttime?
Mr. MORALES. They come in in nighttime. A few of them in daylight. But a few of them.
In the United States, they came twice at night. The rest of them came daylight.
Senator KERRY. Now here you are. You have been indicted before. You have a known reputation in the region as a narcotics trafficker. You are leading a pretty flashy lifestyle. You have helicopters, planes at your disposal, you are racing fast boats, with a lot of money moving around. And you’re telling us that at this airport, with all of this knowledge about you, you were still able to move around without any fear?
Mr. MORALES. I was very, very surprised myself.
FORBES: Rafael Caro Quintero The First Billionaire Drug Lord? Caro Quintero's network was pulling in at least $5 billion a year; He offered to pay off Mexico's foreign debt of $80Billion when captured. his drug assets --36 properties and over 300 businesses in Guadalajara alone were never seized
ReplyDeletehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2013/10/01/was-mexican-fugitive-caro-quintero-the-first-billionaire-drug-lord/
By Dolia Estevez
Fugitive Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, best known for ordering the kidnapping, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, appears to be the first in a generation of Mexican drug kingpins to amass a fortune estimated in the billions of dollars. During the 1980s he headed the Guadalajara Cartel, which was at the time the world’s most powerful drug organization.
Hector Berrrellez says that 2 bank accounts with over $8Billion was "Never confiscated" from Caro Quintero at the time he left the DEA
https://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2013/12/05/mexican-fugitive-kingpin-caro-quintero-stashed-billions-in-secret-overseas-accounts-former-dea-agent-claims/
2026 Update, The USG DID go after some of CARO Quinteros assets in Mexico in the past 5 years. BUT As far as I know the money referenced above was never seized