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Claims (32)
CIA did_business_with
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
document
“While the General Counsel must concur with the Deputy Director for Operations on the provision of technical equipment to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for overseas operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.293
John R. Bartels Jr. headed
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
document
“From the statement of DEA Administrator John R Bartels Jr.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.292
Mitch Werbell supplied_arms_to
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“on providing the DEA with assassination devices. See how easy, how convenient that is to have a death squad co-located with a company that sells all that shit. Among Warbill's other associates were Frank Sturgis and Robert Vesco. The same R…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 34:19
Sandra Smith member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration host_asserted
“This is Operation Gladio. This is 1948 and on. We know they do this. In Paul Williams' book, we outline the entire pipeline of them doing this. Megha, go ahead. Not only that, Colonel, but you have one lone DEA agent by the name of Sandra S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:04:27
Drug Enforcement Administration reassigned
Sandra Smith host_asserted
“is shut that woman up. Reassign her. Give her another job. She's too smart for this. Go ahead, Mega. Colonel, I have got to say, listening to your X-Spaces and your Rumbles and your Operation Gladio that you've been running with Alpha is li…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 1:04:58
Drug Enforcement Administration spied_on
BCCI documented
“the dea agents in storefronts all over the country knew as a matter of course that bcci is the place to launder money and it says that the report that was given to kerry eventually said it argued that the most shocking failure to follow up …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 14; BCCI - The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 4) @ 20:02
Drug Enforcement Administration investigated
BCCI book_quoted
“It was Bench who in 1989 was assigned to supervise Pricewaterhouse's client relationship with BCCI in the U.S. and to help the bank comply with U.S. banking rules in the wake of the Tampa indictment. It says the Drug Enforcement Administrat…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale BCCI with War Hamster PART 4 @ 19:17
Drug Enforcement Administration funded
DALITE host_asserted
“Yeah. Well, the big name, who's the U.S. Attorney General in 1985 through August 1988, was a guy by the name of Edwin Meese. Meese came out of, he worked under, some interesting background things on Meese. Came out of Alameda County, worked…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 57:29
Grayston Lynch member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“So he leaves the CIA, but no one actually leaves the CIA. And he joins basically the DEA. And this is a problem that we've come across repeatedly where you really can't separate those two organizations. There are a lot of retired CIA in the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Grayston Lynch connecting Gladio to Cuban Exiles @ 11:51
CIA covered_up
Drug Enforcement Administration host_asserted
“Because if the DEA did anything about it, the CIA just thwarted them. And we learned that in the 70s, they did try to do something about it in that book that the Syntac organization that was set up. And every time they got to the kingpin of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 45:29
Joe Kelso spied_on
Drug Enforcement Administration host_asserted
“Mr. CIA himself. Kelso said his witnesses claim the CIA was involved in the operation of a drug lab at a contra base near northern, it was, I don't know how you say the name of the city, but it was in northern Costa Rica. So it was my probl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:02
Drug Enforcement Administration covered_up
Joe Kelso documented
“release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 36:07
James Kibble member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“I mean, they were doing activities that were way beyond the scope of DEA. Those were clearly covert activities. That was her statement. One of these double-duty DEA agents was James Kibble, a Madrid-based agent who visited jailed Medellín c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 36:33
Joe Kelso spied_on
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“According to the Iran-Contra Committee Minority Report, Kelso and Caldwell told Customs that the DEA agents in Costa Rica knew the location of the drug labs and had been paid to conceal the locations of narcotics. Kelso said he gave Kotchen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 42:31
John Kruzak member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“addicts at 600,000. 600,000. The end of that year, the Director of Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Health Administration had placed the number at 300,000. And in June of 74, the DEA Chief of Operations, John Kruzak, testifying before Congress, had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 3:00
Oliver North recruited
Drug Enforcement Administration guest_asserted
“release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 36:07
Robert Neves member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“The target of Kelso's investigation, DEA Robert Neves, went on to have a long and illustrious career at the DEA, rising to great heights. He became the head of cocaine investigations in Washington. Then he became the chief of all the major …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 59:14
Drug Enforcement Administration funded
Operation Condor book_quoted
“its predecessor, and customs didn't evaporate when they were all merged together into the DEA, thanks to Richard Nixon. The CIA seems still to be guided by political interest, and none of that has anything to do with drug enforcement. The 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 35:02
Drug Enforcement Administration merged_with
United States Customs book_quoted
“its predecessor, and customs didn't evaporate when they were all merged together into the DEA, thanks to Richard Nixon. The CIA seems still to be guided by political interest, and none of that has anything to do with drug enforcement. The 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 35:02
Sandalio Sandy Gonzalez member_of
Drug Enforcement Administration documented
“Costa Rican prosecutors report had a strange experience with one of Neve's men, Sandy Gonzalez, the DEA agent who had yelled at the L.A. detective Tom Gordon about not talking on the phone through Nicaragua. Quote, information from the exis…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 33:43
Joe Kelso spied_on
Drug Enforcement Administration guest_asserted
“participating in drug manufacturing. Okay, Kelso said. He said it was later determined that the two men may have been part of Norse resupply operation, which could or couldn't have been official CIA, but they were basically still working fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 39:33
CIA recruited
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“um good friend douglas valentine you know in when you mention the dea connections to cia i think it's in his second book i don't i can't whether it's strength of the will for strength of the pack where he talks about those 12 you know so-ca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 1:05:43
CIA supervised
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“any dissident that they had on their list. Much of this was supervised both by the CIA and their infiltrated DEA partners. The infiltration of DEA and their assignments of agents caused violent splits within the Bureau. One wing carries out…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 25:17
CIA infiltrated
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“into forming the DEA. Shortly after, heroin began flowing into the United States in large quantities. The CIA infiltration of the DEA through their dirty dozen, co-located with B.R. Fox, grabbed control of the Latin American political appar…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 4:25
E. Howard Hunt moved_into
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“That was saying that all of the heroin was coming in from Mexico when they knew that was a lie. The emergence of the DEA was the next to last phase of this coup. Hunt and Koenig, CIA agents, moved into DEA intelligence and operations. Koeni…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 21:48
Lucien Conein moved_into
Drug Enforcement Administration book_quoted
“That was saying that all of the heroin was coming in from Mexico when they knew that was a lie. The emergence of the DEA was the next to last phase of this coup. Hunt and Koenig, CIA agents, moved into DEA intelligence and operations. Koeni…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 21:48
Drug Enforcement Administration carried_out_attack
Mafia book_quoted
“and all of their little task force, the U.S. narcotics officials waged an all-out war on the Corsicans and made arrangements with Turkey to stop opium growing, forcing the emphasis to be placed in Southeast Asia. When the Corsican mafia was…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 3:52
Drug Enforcement Administration merged_with
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“its predecessor, and customs didn't evaporate when they were all merged together into the DEA, thanks to Richard Nixon. The CIA seems still to be guided by political interest, and none of that has anything to do with drug enforcement. The 1…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 11 @ 35:02
Drug Enforcement Administration absorbed
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs book_quoted
“Inside the new DEA was the intelligence function for the customs that had formerly been outside of the BNDD, the former organization before the DEA was created, but it was folded into the newly formed DEA. Suddenly, the White House had step…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 21:15
Drug Enforcement Administration took_over
USAID Office of Public Safety book_quoted
“coup, according to the author, began with the DEA's 1974 takeover of the CIA's Latin America torture and repression apparatus. That would be the USAID's Office of Public Safety. That led to the creation of CORU, C-O-R-U, Bosch's Terrorist M…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 12 @ 24:06
Drug Enforcement Administration funded
Contras host_asserted
“These particular Contras were in fact involved in narcotics and were smuggling them, period. That was his statement. One of Kelso's witnesses was Warren Trece, T-R-E-E-C-E, the deputy director of the narcotics department of the Costa Rican …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 33:14
CIA infiltrated
Drug Enforcement Administration host_asserted
“Because the entire basement was filled with weapons and they also used one of the rooms in the basement as a torture cell as part of Operation Condor. So the DEA, as I said, and as a matter of fact, I think it's a misnomer to think that mos…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Prelude to Terror Chapter 23 @ 59:10
Mentions (84)
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Costa Rican prosecutors report had a strange experience with one of Neve's men, Sandy Gonzalez, the DEA agent who had yelled at the L.A. detective Tom Gordon about not talking on the phone through Nicaragua. Quote, information from the exis…
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were transmitted by Tracy to an official of the DEA with the surname of Gonzalez in Costa Rica, but they were not investigated on account of the leak of information from that same agent. So anytime the DEA guys got someone caught on to what…
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a route being flown so that they could get out before they got caught. And that's according to the Costa Rican police. Gonzalez and Neves were never charged with a crime, either in Costa Rica or the United States, and the allegations were n…
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which was rather unbelievable considering that some DEA records concerning Kelso were made available to the Iran-Contra investigators in 1987, so they lied. The DEA would not allow Gonzalez to be interviewed, and Neves refused to answer any…
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strongly believes that the DEA agents stationed in Costa Rica during the Contra War were not what they appeared. Quote, in my opinion, both Neves and Sandy Gonzalez were connected with the CIA. There is no doubt, she insisted, you aren't go…
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release any records or answer any questions about the agent's background or their possible work for other government agencies. Sometimes the lines really got blurred when you were working for Oliver North, agreed former Iran Contra Committe…
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I mean, they were doing activities that were way beyond the scope of DEA. Those were clearly covert activities. That was her statement. One of these double-duty DEA agents was James Kibble, a Madrid-based agent who visited jailed Medellín c…
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implicate the Sandinistas in drug trafficking. According to a 1987 story in The Nation, Kibble was one of the select group of DEA operatives who conducted secret missions for Oliver North and the National Security Council. On October 24, 19…
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Because we were sending weapons to Iran to basically get them to work with the Lebanese to free hostages. That's where all of that comes into play. At the time, the DEA agents Neves and Gonzalez were stationed in Costa Rica. The CIA station…
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and some personal papers of DEA agents, including the radio code names. A customs agent familiar with the case said Kelso stole Agent Neves' briefcase from his car. In an interview with the Jack Webb, Kelso denied this. At the end of July 1…
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two gentlemen by phone that they had uncovered a counterfeit ring in Costa Rica, and there was other information that the informants wanted to provide, but they did not feel comfortable doing it over the phone. The other information Rosenbl…
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The Customs Service, quote, coordinated with Secret Service as well as our Customs Attaché in Panama, who is responsible also for the country of Costa Rica. Arrangements were made for one of New Orleans agents to travel to Miami down to Cos…
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According to the Iran-Contra Committee Minority Report, Kelso and Caldwell told Customs that the DEA agents in Costa Rica knew the location of the drug labs and had been paid to conceal the locations of narcotics. Kelso said he gave Kotchen…
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relatively inexperienced, became nervous, insisting that he had to report the information to the DEA attache in Costa Rica at the embassy, the very person that was being accused of the wrongdoing. Kelso couldn't believe his ears. If he had …
▶ 43:30
To qualify or disqualify it would be stupid, Kelso testified, because if he was doing it, he would normally head over and do something to protect himself so that no one could touch him. Kelso said Kotchenberger had explicit orders not to sa…
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that it was a waste of time, get back on the airplane, and immediately take the documentation out of town. The agent's response, Kelso said, was, wow, that's not State Department policy. I can't do that. I'm going to get in trouble. Kotchen…
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sat down with the DEA personnel and related, summarized everything that had been told. Iran-Contra lawyer Pam Naughton, who questioned Rosenblatt, was incredulous. Did they do that on your instruction, she asked? Or was that their own idea …
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Rosenblatt insisted that it was their idea. They didn't do that on my instructions. I didn't even know about it until after they came back. He agreed one may believe it not prudent to tell the very same office that the allegations were made…
▶ 45:26
How standard is it that you get accusations about the DEA dealing drugs? How standard is that? The next day when Kelso and Brian Caldwell were lounging in their rooms in the hotel in San Jose, the DEA called the Costa Rican National Narcoti…
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The DEA has been tipped off. Kelso's got the goods on him. So they call the Costa Rican police to go arrest Kelso. Kelso said they came stomping in there and demanding to see Caldwell and the stuff. And he saw a couple rolled up maps and he…
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started confiscating everything in the room, tried to take our notebooks, my briefcase, everything, Kelso said. Kelso and Codwell was hustled off to a construction warehouse owned by the Costa Rican Electric Company, where they were shoved …
▶ 46:58
He then said, get in the effing car. So we go there and we go down to the Costa Rican National Police main office, right up to the director's office. Soon, Kelso said, DEA agent Neves comes in and he starts screaming, I'm going to blow your…
▶ 47:28
Puerto Rican, and that that's the key word that makes him trip off, okay? He goes psychotic. He goes bananas, Kelso said. Neves told him, you are a dead SOB. And he's actually saying out the words. I'm just not going to say them. He also sa…
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Kelso's story was confirmed by the Costa Rican police officers that were present at the incident. According to Costa Rican newspaper, which asked Neves about Kelso in 1986, Neves did not even disguise his anger then about the fact that the …
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the one guy that I should contact. There's a real problem here. I think the DEA people are trying to kill me. I'm convinced that they were involved in the narcotics trafficking and looking the other way. I don't know who else to turn to. Pa…
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which Rosanello never released or publicly admitted. A defendant in the Frogman case had made 51 phone calls to the FDN office in San Francisco. A secret 1987 DEA report states, noting that one of the confidential informants had met with th…
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This is Operation Gladio. This is 1948 and on. We know they do this. In Paul Williams' book, we outline the entire pipeline of them doing this. Megha, go ahead. Not only that, Colonel, but you have one lone DEA agent by the name of Sandra S…
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raising money, obviously. The Miami crack market didn't really take off until political exiles from Jamaica moved in, which is why I went through Jamaica last night with Alpha, because this part fascinated me. The intelligence division of t…
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Eventually, the DEA said that Jamaican traffickers in the U.S. evolved into a nationwide cocaine and crack disposition or distribution. The political leanings of Miami and South Central major cocaine suppliers were not known to the lower le…
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Up until I started doing this research, it would have never dawned on me that there was someone in the DEA that basically stays there for 20 years, covers up all of the drug kingpins, and then retires with a government pension to go do the …
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company called br fox company that was located in washington dc with the cia embedded in the dea dirty dozen that was their specialty is making things blow up and surveillance under the guise of counter surveillance and then they had a guy …
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addicts at 600,000. 600,000. The end of that year, the Director of Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Health Administration had placed the number at 300,000. And in June of 74, the DEA Chief of Operations, John Kruzak, testifying before Congress, had…
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He goes on to say that today drug abuse constitutes a clear and present danger. By February of 77, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control reported that the addict population totaled 800,000. Not the 600,000 when the war s…
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It didn't stop there. From 1975 until the end of 78, the DEA consistently maintained that between 80 and 90% of the heroin consumed in the U.S. was of Mexican origin. What the hell? Mexico? Are you kidding me? That's ridiculous. 80% of the …
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heroin began flowing into europe and the u.s and canada was just even the minor bus was exploding none of it from mexico that's how our government lies to us the dea was aware of santo trafficani's dealings in southeast asia…
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And still, for some reason, can't figure out how to control it. Even the DEA had to admit this was a very tenuous claim. On 24 February 1976, the DEA's John Kruzak admitted that his agency estimated that only 8%, not 8-0, 8 was coming from …
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Why then did the DEA continue to overstate Mexico's role and minimize that of Southeast Asia? Even after publication in 1972 of Alfred McCoy's book, The Politics of Heroin, which I just showed on camera, perhaps to justify the great expendi…
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In March of 77, the DEA began to speak of major maneuvers in the international Asian narcotics market for a share of the U.S. drug scene. That's laughable since they owned the majority of the U.S. drug scene already, and everybody knows tha…
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The DEA's Golden Triangle Unit, which was acronym was SNO, made many whole and half-hearted attempts. But of course, they all failed. And we learned in that other book that I talk about often that talks about Syntac. They had an entire unit…
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especially in narco areas. So we only use that as a prop when we need to, to do something we don't really want to do. Chapter 19, the Mexican connection. The exaggeration of Mexico's and the downplaying of Southeast Asia's role as suppliers…
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Where in record time, just like overnight in a snap of the finger, he was able to set up an entire heroin and marijuana, primarily marijuana. He did do some heroin, according to Syntac. But yeah, and entrenched himself in Tijuana. According…
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the inauguration of the new president, quote, the new government is not interested in publicity regarding the Falcon case. It will quietly extradite him to the U.S. as soon as the new extradition agreement between the two countries comes in…
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It was a split within the DEA's own ranks, a split rooted in the effective control of Narcotics Intelligence Division, which had been infiltrated by the CIA. Since the DEA's emergence, many of its agents have resigned in disgust over the CI…
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its predecessor, and customs didn't evaporate when they were all merged together into the DEA, thanks to Richard Nixon. The CIA seems still to be guided by political interest, and none of that has anything to do with drug enforcement. The 1…
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They were attacked with rockets, machine guns, and napalm. Large groups of farmers and independent farmers were murdered and tortured so that they could gain access to their land. House subcommittee investigators went to Mexico in 1975 to d…
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DEA supervisor killing and torture had not stopped as of 1978 when the Mexican Bar Association documented 18 forms of torture applied by Mexican narcotic agents. You know, the ones that were trained by USAID Office of Public Safety? Those g…
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probably 300 pages worth of material, the names of the officers that helped them with that, the problems that they had dealing with the DEA inside of the United States, them sabotaging Miami courts. They blackmailed one of the prosecutors t…
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Both Koenig and Eagle Crow were to have been witnesses on his behalf. But Crow testified that he didn't know Warbell had worked for the DEA Special Operations Branch, which is the dirty dozen CIA people under the special ops group of the DE…
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that i'm reading that the three might have joined forces with the cia and their terror campaign in latin america i'd say that's very well documented actually in 1973 some of the details began to surface in a series of scandals linked to the…
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Charged Vesco with financing extensive heroin smuggling. For his initiative, Perov was fired. And somebody tried to assassinate him. What? The DEA guy doing his job that's outing an actual drug trafficker was fired? And they tried to kill h…
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Midway through the subcommittee's investigation of the heroin charges, the DEA announced the disappearance of their Vesco file. What? It just magically disappeared. Gone. Now we can't do anything to them because we lost all of our paperwork…
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Later, when Legros was placed in protective confinement in Brazil, newspapers speculated that he had involvement in Christian David's narcotic trafficking. Recent years investigation into the CIA organized crime connections has resulted in …
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And of course, I think lastly, you mentioned that right before the DAA replaces, you know, the BNDD. It's interesting. You mentioned a raid there in 73. If I'm not mistaken, that's the year that the DAA formally replaced the BNDD. So it's v…
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that the Nixon administration was putting together, including E. Howard Hunt, who basically in many respects was kind of the handler for that group of people, along with his CIA duties. Through a succession of bureaucratic reorganizations, …
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and all of their little task force, the U.S. narcotics officials waged an all-out war on the Corsicans and made arrangements with Turkey to stop opium growing, forcing the emphasis to be placed in Southeast Asia. When the Corsican mafia was…
▶ 4:25
into forming the DEA. Shortly after, heroin began flowing into the United States in large quantities. The CIA infiltration of the DEA through their dirty dozen, co-located with B.R. Fox, grabbed control of the Latin American political appar…
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inside the cia 100 focused on narcotics well not 100 i'd beg to differ a little bit they like their assassinations too so we'll just leave it at that in addition the cia's new official policy there was it manifests itself in such matters as…
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as CIA dirty work. And it's very interesting that the DEA was doing it under the auspices of CIA that had been placed in the DEA. The evidence suggests that sources behind the unofficial policy were able to place many of their loyal CIA age…
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into this new liaison group, both in the soon-to-be-created DEA and the White House. It was Hunt who recommended Lucien Koenig to head the group called the Dirty Dozen inside the DEA. Koenig's close friend, Mitch Warble III, told journalist…
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Inside the new DEA was the intelligence function for the customs that had formerly been outside of the BNDD, the former organization before the DEA was created, but it was folded into the newly formed DEA. Suddenly, the White House had step…
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That was saying that all of the heroin was coming in from Mexico when they knew that was a lie. The emergence of the DEA was the next to last phase of this coup. Hunt and Koenig, CIA agents, moved into DEA intelligence and operations. Koeni…
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The Dirty Dozen was officially created on paper to combat the narcotic smugglers. Well, if that's their chartered reason, they suck at it. And the proof is in the pudding, as they say. Their function is what they do. And what they did was n…
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coup, according to the author, began with the DEA's 1974 takeover of the CIA's Latin America torture and repression apparatus. That would be the USAID's Office of Public Safety. That led to the creation of CORU, C-O-R-U, Bosch's Terrorist M…
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any dissident that they had on their list. Much of this was supervised both by the CIA and their infiltrated DEA partners. The infiltration of DEA and their assignments of agents caused violent splits within the Bureau. One wing carries out…
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the evening prior to set up this meeting, he had met with his U.S. Embassy contact who informed him that Cheroff had spent the entire afternoon in the office of the DEA inside the U.S. Embassy. The agent he met with was Paul Knight. That wa…
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no doubt to return to the DEA agent at the U.S. Embassy. The author says that he didn't let on that he knew that he had met with the DEA. The meeting was short. He said that I would receive additional information the next day. Cheroff was n…
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So on the afternoon of a day in April in 1976, the author was in the DEA. Excuse me. Let me back up. Cheroff, in April of 76, was in the DEA Paris office discussing the author's interest in Christian David.…
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Because they were afraid the author was going to find out the connection between Gladio elements in Europe and Miami and Latin America. The connections we've been talking about now for years. Chapter 23, the Miami conspiracy. Early in 1980,…
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David Castillo's fate after exposing the CIA-supported Iran-Contra air arms for drugs smuggling operation in Central America certainly was not enhanced by powerful forces within the standing U.S. bureaucracy. This is the guy that we learned…
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His future with the DEA, however, was cut short after he exposed what he saw as corrupt operations in Central America being undertaken through the sponsorship of another federal agency and the White House. That's at Il Pango in El Salvador.…
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El Salvador. Those airport hangars, Castillo discovered, were serving as weapons in narcotic trans-shipment sites for funding and arming the U.S.-backed Contras. That was prohibited by the Boeing Amendment. From that moment forward, Castill…
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Gonzalez, who retired after a long career in the DEA, his last post as the head of the agency's El Paso, Texas field office. Gonzalez told the author, quote, they ruined his reputation over the stuff that happened in El Salvador and he beca…
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Ilopango airport operations eventually drew CIA interference. Castillo said with the CIA taking over control of his key informant. Castillo continued his investigation. So the guy that's helping him get around, showing him all the ins and o…
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That seems weird. Like they should all work for the same government, except for that we know they don't. So Castillo continued his, thank you, investigation. And the DEA, he was sending his information up the DEA chain. And what was coming …
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and it gets sealed and buried. Wow. Castillo subsequently, after a 12-year career, retired from the DEA, but he has remained outspoken advocate against the DEA and even authored a book about his life and experiences called Powder Burns. Yea…
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Even if we assume the government, the prosecutor, did everything by the book, his Castillo's lawyer still seems to have opened himself up to allegations of ineffective assistant counsel. Weird how those things just mysteriously happen aroun…
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Prior to falling out of grace and being arrested in the wake of the U.S. military invasion by George H.W. Bush, Mr. Drug Man CIA himself, while president in Panama in 1989, there was, in 1987, then DEA Administrator Jack Lawn penned a lette…
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After Noriega was indicted by the US, Congress and Justice Department officials accused DEA of giving the pandemonium dictator a free pass on his narco-trafficking activities during the period they were using him to help make cases against …
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um good friend douglas valentine you know in when you mention the dea connections to cia i think it's in his second book i don't i can't whether it's strength of the will for strength of the pack where he talks about those 12 you know so-ca…
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The Bureau of Narcotics is closing and being replaced by the new Virginal DEA, which is re-virginated right from the start with the Dirty Dozen from the Phoenix program. So that tells you how Chase, the new DEA, which is supposed to purify …
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Yep. Good point. And, you know, that's just like the, we talked about in someone else's book that was talked about as well, that special CIA cell inside of the DEA. That was one of our very early books. Trying to remember which one that was…
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It was Bench who in 1989 was assigned to supervise Pricewaterhouse's client relationship with BCCI in the U.S. and to help the bank comply with U.S. banking rules in the wake of the Tampa indictment. It says the Drug Enforcement Administrat…
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the dea agents in storefronts all over the country knew as a matter of course that bcci is the place to launder money and it says that the report that was given to kerry eventually said it argued that the most shocking failure to follow up …
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Which makes it's pretty hard to conclude anything other than someone is turning a blind eye on purpose. Correct. And that kind of was my takeaway from this. Part of that is that multiple people in the IRS, the DEA, the DOJ all knew about BC…