A probe into a money-laundering operation in Mena seems to have gone nowhere. ibid.
Here in Washington there are investigators in both the House and the Senate who would like to know what’s going on at the little airport. ibid. Carol White, WMAQ ch5 Chicago reporter
The NSC has blocked recent Congressional requests to examine the relationship of drug smuggling to American foreign policy in Central America. ibid.
So why did Time magazine use its vast resources to protect Bill Clinton? Maybe the fact the Bill Clinton’s friend and former Oxford roommate Strobe Talbott who was then Time’s editor at large played a role. ibid.
Lasater: Bill Clinton’s old friend: ‘Lasater, Locke plead guilty to drugs charges’ [newspaper article] … Dan Lasater who employed Roger Clinton as well … Barry Seal running the CIA’s money through Lasater … Arkansas Development Finance Authority, a state agency, was created by Bill Clinton as a way to launder CIA money. ibid.
The war on drugs can be shown to be even more of a farce in that the very ones who are bringing the drugs into the country are those in the intelligence service. The Corbett Report, 19 The CIA Ships in the Drugs, James Corbett online 2007
So too has the CIA been found time after time to be at the heart of the modern international drug trade. The Corbett Report: The CIA and the Drug Trade, James Corbett online 2012
We are obviously engaged in many facets of what is generally called the Cold War … at no time has the CIA engaged in any political activity or any intelligence activity that was not approved at the highest level. The Corbett Report: Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster, James Corbett online August 2015
CIA honors Saudi Crown Prince for efforts against terrorism … The medal, named after George Tenet … The Corbett Report: The War of Terror is a CIA-Sponsored Psy-Op, James Corbett online 2017
Trump’s Homeland Security Team Likely to Emphasize Facial Recognition and Biometric Surveillance. ibid. The Intercept online
It was in 1988 that Webb came to join the San Jose Mercury News as a staff writer. The Corbett Report: Requiem for the Suicided: Garry Webb, James Corbett online
Gary’s investigation linked the CIA’s cocaine operation to the crack epidemic that was rampant in Los Angeles ghettos. ibid.
‘The cocaine that was being sold in those neighbourhoods was coming from mainly one source, and this one source was being used to finance a guerrilla war in Central America.’ ibid. Webb
Was Gary Webb Suicided To Kill New Book? … ‘I spoke to Gary and in the conversation he indicated he had a lot of evidence that did not appear in his writings. I cautioned him that the CIA might contrive to ‘suicide’ him, and he indicated that if he died it would not be suicide’. ibid. Rense online article Charlene Fassa April 2012
Original Associated Press reports stated that Webb had died of gunshot wounds (plural) to the face. ibid. news report
The many deaths of prominent political figures linked to Bill Clinton’s scandals in the 90s and how their obvious murders were always ruled as ‘accident’ or ‘suicide’ became known as ‘Arkancide’ because Clinton’s favourite Coroner Fahmy Malak helped him cover up every case’. ibid. Prison Planet online report
[Abdul] Khan and his network were known, identified, surveilled, funded and even protected by the CIA from its very inception. In 1974 Abdul Qadeer Khan offered his services to the Pakistani government to help them develop a nuclear bomb. The Corbett Report, How the CIA Runs the Nuclear Black Market, James Corbett online 2017
CIA operatives managed to come up with a complete set of floor plans for an ambitious Pakistani uranium-enrichment at Kuhuma. ibid.
Jeddah Saudi Arabia Visa Bureau: These contacts got sleazier and sleazier … I began refusing these applications … ‘If you complain … you’re going to get fired’ … ‘This is important to the state department’ … I complained … Issuing visas to terrorists. The Corbett Report, How the CIA Lets in the Terrorists, James Corbett online 2017 & Interview 1019 of 2015, Michael Springmann
CIA: Catholics in Action … For decades Jesuit affiliates of the Roman Catholic Church have directed the CIA. Donald Trump: Illuminati & Zionists & New World Order is Coming, Youtube 2017
It came through the mail just weeks after 9/11. Noon terrorist attacks, first in Florida, then New York and Washington. Anthrax. It spread fear and panic through the nation. Anthrax War, 2009
The US bio-warfare programme was born here [Fort Detrick] during World War II ... The spores of weaponised anthrax are processed into a fine aerosolled powder. ibid.
In the wake of the anthrax letters an important lead seems to have been overlooked. The Baltimore Sun reported US army scientists in Utah had been making weapons-grade anthrax and shipping it to Fort Detrick. The anthrax spores were virtually identical to those mailed to Congress. ibid.
Fort Detrick scientist Frank Olson was a liaison between the two facilities [Portland Down and Fort Detrick]. On November 28th 1953 Olson fell thirteen stories from a New York City hotel room. Was his death part of a pattern of mysterious deaths of bio-weapon scientists, including that of Anthrax Letter suspect Bruce Ivins also of Fort Detrick? Did all three scientists [inc David Kelly] know too much? ibid.
A CIA agent who used to run these covert operations who may have been murdered because of it. In 1953 Frank Olson plunged to his death from a 13th floor hotel window in New York City. The CIA man who was in the room with Olson said he jumped. An autopsy demanded 40 years later by Olson’s son conclude he was pushed. Spotlight: Code Name: Artichoke, 2002
It has been eight years since the exhumation. Eric Olson is still searching for the reasons behind his father’s death. ibid.
Olson senior was one of the chemists responsible for the biological weapons centre the US Army ran nearby. ibid.
When Frank Olson was later debriefed about the LSD experiment he knew immediately what it meant: they had interrogated him with Artichoke techniques. ibid.
‘I do think that most Americans would be utterly shocked if they knew the depth of involvement that the Central Intelligence Agency has had in the international drug trade.’ America’s War on Drugs, History 2017
September 1960: 11 years before America’s War on Drugs was declared the story began here in Miami’s Fontainebleau Hotel, a favourite spot for one of the era’s most notorious gangsters – Santo Trafficante … he was there to meet with two CIA operatives. ibid.
The CIA undertakes extortion, kidnapping, torture, even murder, plotting assassinations and coups in Iran, Indonesia, the Congo, Guatemala, and now Cuba where the Mafia are their natural partners. ibid.
The CIA has just authorised the purchase of ten kilograms of pure LSD25, enough to dose over half the population of the United States. ibid.
Over the next ten years the Agency doses a cross-section of the American public. ibid.
In south-east Asia a covert CIA war will fuel a new drug epidemic: heroin. ibid.
By 1970 New York City alone will have over 200,000 heroin addicts. ibid.
The Weather Underground breaks Timothy Leary out of prison. ibid.
1969: Nixon’s drug-control budget: $81 million; 1974: Nixon’s drug-control budget: $760 million. ibid.
The French Connection heroin robbery remains the single largest theft in American history and it was done by the police themselves. ibid.
On a humid August night in 1987 two high school seniors Don Henry and Kevin Ives while hiking in the woods of their nearby Southern community paid a terrible price for being in the wrong place at the wrong time: the facts in the case indicate that the two boys happened upon a transaction of some kind involving a ring of long-time smugglers and billion-dollar drug profiteers. Phenomenon: The Lost Archives s1e4: American Midnight, 1998
Dr Malak failed to notice clear evidence of beating marks and a stab wound. ibid.
Two years of botched investigations, blatant lies, false autopsies and cover ups. ibid.
In the 1980s The most notorious drug smuggler in America was Barry Seal … recruited by the CIA … He amasses a fleet of airplane with a network of pilots and mechanics. ibid.
The fundamental differences between the Soviet Union and the United States … This state of perpetual tension was called the Cold War. Secrets of War s1e37: Cold War: Inside the CIA, 2001
It was time to bring back some of the dirty tricks the OSS had developed in World War II. ibid.
The ultimate mission of the CIA and the OPC was to subvert the Russian hold on eastern Europe. ibid.
Soon CIA aeroplanes were buzzing Guatemala dropping small bombs. Secrets of War s1e56: Cold War: Eisenhower’s Operatives
The CIA sent bombers painted with Cuban markings to destroy Castro’s Air Force planes. Secrets of War s1e61: Cold War: Cuba’s Communist Revolution
Following humiliating defeat in the Bay of Pigs John F Kennedy’s brother and attorney general Robert Kennedy vowed vengeance. ibid.