The Agency has dealt drugs throughout this country for a long time. Mike Ruppert, remarks to John Deutch CIA director
And what happened to me was that I met and fell in love with a woman who was a contract CIA agent, a career agent. Now, I come from a CIA family and they had tried to recruit me, so this was not unexpected to me, but I began to see that she was protecting drug shipments and that the Agency was actively involved in dealing drugs ... It is that drug money is an inherent part of the American economy. It has always been so, as it was with the British in the 1600s when they introduced opium into China to fund the triangular trade with the British East India Company ... The CIA has dealt drugs for all 50 years of its existence – 50 plus years, even before it was the CIA. And the point is that with 250 billion dollars a year in illegal drug money moved, laundered through the American economy, that money benefits Wall Street. That’s the point of having the prohibitive drug trade, which the CIA effectively manages for the benefit of Wall Street. Mike Ruppert, ‘Wall Street, CIA and the Global Drug Trade’
Well, it’s not a War on Drugs. It’s a War on People. Consider this: Joseph McNamara, a former chief of San Jose from the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, published some really telling figures. In 1972, when Richard Nixon started the War on Drugs, the annual federal budget allocation was 110 million dollars a year for enforcement. In fiscal year 2000, 28 years later, the budget allocation was 17 billion dollars a year, and yet, in the year 2000, there are more drugs in this country, they are cheaper, and they are more potent than they were in 1972. That has to tell you that there’s some other agenda going on here. Mike Ruppert, former CIA drug enforcement officer, interview Guerrilla News Network, 2000
And so the CIA and Ronald Reagan and Bill Casey and George Bush (Vice President George Bush) were running the whole operation; we know that now. They circumvented the will of Congress and there was this explosion of drug trafficking all throughout Central America, coordinated by the CIA. ibid.
The Sons of Malta ... The CIA is the Catholic Church ... The Vatican owns the Watergate ... The Vatican set up its own people. Jordan Maxwell, Government Conspiracies, 2002
In their national best-seller International War Against the Jews authors Loftus and Aarons reveal indisputable evidence that Hitler’s top Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen transferred his entire network of Nazi spies and double agents to Fort Hunt Virginia to join America’s newly formed CIA. This highly secretive operation was codenamed Operation Paperclip. Ring of Power, 2008
When Skull & Bonesman George Bush senior became CIA director in the 1980s the CIA recruited Osama bin Laden to train Al Qaeda and Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan. The job of Osama’s trainees was not just to fight the Russian communists, it was run Afghanistan’s multi-billion-dollar opium trade. ibid.
Twice the CIA flatly refused to carry out instructions from Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge brought from Washington because the agency disagreed with it ... The CIA’s growth was likened to 'a malignancy' which 'the very high official' was not sure even the White House could control. If the United States ever experiences [an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government] it will come from the CIA. Arthur Krock, New York Times 3rd October 1963 article, ‘The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam’
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery. Jim Garrison
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. Jim Garrison
Using Nazi criminals is how the CIA got started. And these were as bad guys as you could ever find. Elizabeth Holtzman, Congresswoman
The Criminal Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. William Colby
The building that housed Germany’s leading industrial organization prior to World War II, and for all practical purposes the Third Reich during the war, became CIA European headquarters immediately following the war. The marble-decorated I G Farben building was intentionally spared from Allied bombing runs. It was largely built by the ‘Bayer Pharmaceutical’ consortium that included the distributors of aspirin and heroin to US markets by the Farbenfabriken of Elberfeld Co 40 Stone Street, New York. Dr Len Horowitz
The Afghan war resulted in a continuation of the dope trafficking – heroin out of Afghanistan. For certain, the Central Intelligence Agency, which was once headed by George Bush Senior, was trafficking in heroin to finance their operations. They were trafficking in heroin out of South East Asia. Anthony J Hilder
‘The CIA is a state-sponsored terrorist association. They don’t look on people as human beings.’ Secrets of the CIA, man, Top Documentaries 1998
‘The CIA has been involved in assassination and torture behind the scenes all through its history.’ ibid.
The public embraced the cloak of secrecy the CIA wrapped around itself. ibid.
The CIA brought hundreds of Hitler’s ex-Intelligence officers back to the USA after the War. At secret bases they were retrained as CIA spies, then sent back to Germany to spy on the Russians. Secrets of the CIA, Sky One 2006
In 1953 in fact the CIA secretly sponsored its first full-scale coup in Iran, and as a result the USA kept control of one of the largest oil producers in the world. ibid.
In 1951 Prime Minister Mosaddegh became Iran’s first democratically elected leader. His first act in power was to nationalise Iran’s oil industry, and his second was to begin talks with Iran’s Soviet’ neighbour. ibid.
The CIA’s actions in Cuba were designed to spark a popular revolution against Fidel who had come to power via a revolution himself – a revolution against American power in Cuba. ibid.
The CIA’s first enemy was to be the red menace from Russia. ibid.
The CIA became convinced that the Russians had a new and powerful secret weapon. The CIA believed that the Russians knew how to control people’s minds. The CIA turned to its scientists and asked them to find a drug which could be used to control people’s minds. And in 1958 the CIA started a secret drug-testing program under the catchy but meaningless name of M K Ultra. ibid.
Indonesia was strategically important. It had a huge population. And the CIA believed their prime minister, Sukarno, was going to open up the country to communism. The CIA made a bizarre decision. They tried to blacken prime-minister Sukarno’s name by making the world’s first celebrity porn film. They hired a Sukarno lookalike and filmed him enjoying the company of a young lady who wasn’t his wife. But the CIA failed to realise that Sukarno was already a famed womaniser, and this movie had no impact at all on his popularity. So when this amusing attempt to get rid of him failed, the CIA turned to something a lot less funny – black operations. ibid.
Sukarno was driven from power. After the coup the CIA worked together with the generals to ensure every single communist in Indonesia was killed. ibid.
Laos had enormous strategic importance in the fight for Vietnam. The Vietnamese communists from the north had been using a secret trail which ran through Laos to direct troops, weapons and supplies to fight the US troops in the south of Vietnam. The Americans couldn’t invade Laos, so the CIA was called in and ordered to take care of the problem. ibid.
By 1965, less than 20 years after its formation, the CIA had already got mixed up in heroin traffickers, overthrown governments in eastern Africa, and tried to control people’s mind. ibid.
It’s been responsible for mayhem, murder and revolution. ibid.
A huge quantity of the heroin produced by the tribesmen was delivered straight into the hands of the American GIs stationed in Vietnam. ibid.
By 1970 the CIA had perfected the art of overthrowing democratically elected leaders: Iran, Congo and Indonesia had already fallen victim to CIA plots to depose and replace their prime ministers. ibid.
Now the CIA turned its attention to Chile with devastating results. ibid.
Salvador Allende was killed in the process. With Pinochet in power, violence, corruption and torture quickly spread throughout Chile. ibid.
Angola: The CIA chose to influence the conflict in the most convenient way it could. It spread propaganda and pumped money into Angola. Millions of dollars were provided for mercenaries, and nearly one hundred agents were sent to the country. ibid.
In February 1979 the Iranian people staged the first ever Islamic revolution, which not only changed the face of Iran but changed the face of the entire Middle East. And the CIA had no idea that any of this was going to happen. ibid.
Since the early 1980s the CIA had been interfering in the civil war in Nicaragua. The CIA were funding the right-wing Contra guerrillas in the fight against the left-wing Sandinista government. But in 1983 the American Congress voted to cut off funding for this war. The CIA was brought in to find a secret way to get these funds to the Contras in Nicaragua. ibid.
In 1980 Ronald Reagan sent the CIA into Afghanistan. Their secret mission was to fund, train and arm the Mujahideen, a band of Islamic Afghani fighters. They were at war with the Soviet-backed People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. The CIA was told to crush the Soviet fighting force by any means possible. ibid.
On February 24th 1994 Aldrich Ames a CIA Soviet expert who’d worked at the CIA for nearly thirty years, was arrested with a suitcase stuffed full with cash and a plane ticket to Russia in his pocket. ibid.