Chapter 16

Americas 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 Americas 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 Americas 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
Whitlams 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 Whitlams election, conscription was abolished and
draft resisters released from jail. Voting rights were extended to all
Australians over 18, and university fees abolished.
Whitlams 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
Washingtons foreign policy directions. He took a more critical line in
foreign policy, condemning Nixons 1972 bombing offensive against
North Vietnam and warned he might draw Indonesia and Japan into
protests against the bombing.
The Peoples 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 CIAs
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).
Greens goals were to maintain US bases in Australia and to protect US
economic interests.
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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 agencys dirty tricks
specialist, directing the CIAs campaign against Cuba and Fidel Castros
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 CIAs 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.
Shackleys 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 ASIOs 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 Shackleys 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, Shackleys cable said.
In his 1977 speech calling for a royal commission into the activities of the
CIA in Australia, Whitlam called Shackleys 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 mans 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 spinewe learned about
the drug smugglers working for President Reagan via Oliver North, and wed
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 didnt 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
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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
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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 Mexicos 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
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jailed for drug abuse
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Florida Dept. of Corporations, 4811 Lyons Technology Parkway #8 in Coconut
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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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http://www.madcowprod.com/05252006.html A few days after this plane was

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

located nor reached for comment. Quite convenient considering their

payloads.
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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, Britains
largest Bank, HSBC apologized to the U.S. Senate for laundering $7 Billion
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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.
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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
this600 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 historycoca 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
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Many people have heard about the Opium War but maybe one American in
100 can accurate relate its significance or why the English were so keen on
invading and occupying Chinas 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)
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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.
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Moving right along, Id 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:
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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)

Greece (1967-74)
Vietnam (1945-53)
Germany
Suriname(1950s)
(1982-84)
Angola (1975-1980s)
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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
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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
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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
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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 Iraqs 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 WeaponsA 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?

Liberty and justice for

all?
Or just a select
few?
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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

Copyright 1995-2014 By Bruce A. Gorcyca All Rights Reserved

"Any People who are willing to surrender essential

liberties, for a little temporary safety, will deserve to
receive neither liberty nor safety"
- Benjamin Franklin
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