The final report of the Department of Justice/Office of Inspector General Office on CIA/Contra drug trafficking is the reason that we, the American people, will continue to lose our loved ones to the so called, "war on drugs." We are still paying a tremendous price for addictions that have been caused by our shadow government back in the 1980s. The US government agencies involved should be the first targets of an effective drug strategy. They continue to deceive the American people by utilizing every loophole available.

Again, I find myself responding only to the facts as I know them while employed by the DEA both domestically and on foreign soil. I do not claim to be an expert on all aspects of the CIA/Contra drug trafficking. However, my documents, journals, pictures and my intelligence stand on their own merits. So, as the former US Ambassador to El Salvador Edwin Corr would say, "Let the chips fall where they may."

First and foremost, I find it very disturbing, that the DOJ has again failed to conduct a proper investigation into CIA/Contra drug trafficking. These are the facts as I know them:

On May 05, 1998, I responded with a written statement to The House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence (www.copvcia.com). The statement reveals dates, times, names and case files from my journals. My statement further cites several new investigative leads on the CIA/Contras issue. However, the primary witnesses that I furnished have never been interviewed.

I will initiate my first response to the introduction of the DOJ/OIG report, in which they state, "…the government(DOJ) directed all DOJ components to produce documents from their files relating to the specific individuals mentioned in the Mercury News and allegations of drug trafficking by the Contras." In their report (number IX): Carlos Cabezas, it states Cabezas was only involved in the "Frogman Case" in San Francisco between 1981 and 1982. Once more, the FBI and DEA failed to introduce their files on Carlos Cabezas, specifically the April 1991 DEA case file number R3-91-0036; Rodriguez, Milagro. In this file, (1991) Carlos Cabeza's wife, along with several Colombian females, sold me, in an undercover capacity, 5 kilos of cocaine in San Francisco. After her arrest, she decided to cooperate and made several recorded undercover telephone calls (exhibits) to the source of the 5 kilos of cocaine. The source was a well known documented Colombian trafficker, none other then, Alvaro Carvajal-Minota. Soon after her arrest (April 15, 1991), Carlos Cabezas came into the DEA San Francisco Office and attempted to cut a deal with the DEA case agent, Paul Rosario and myself. Carlos Cabezas stated that he and another Nicaraguan, Julio Zavala (number VIII. in the DOJ/OIG report)were paid informants for the San Francisco FBI office. He stated, that they were the main undercover informants for a year-long FBI drug investigation involving Nicaraguans.

He emphasized that the investigation involved a money laundering operation and long term wire tap intelligence. To make his point, Cabezas gave me his FBI undercover business card. It was identified as "The California Company" located at 3519 Mission St. San Francisco, Ca 94110 "Real Estate & Investments Carlos A. Cabezas, Sales Associate, pager: 371-7108 Fax: 415 647-0918; Res: 415-991-3104: Bus: 415-647-8014." I questioned Cabezas as to why the FBI would invite their informants to conduct the illegal sale of narcotics (5 kilos of cocaine). Cabezas stated that the FBI had given them permission to conduct illegal activities. Immediately, a DEA 6 (Report of Investigation) was initiated by SA Paul Rosario and myself on the allegations and forwarded to DEA HQS OPR (Office of Professional Responsibility). SA Rosario and myself proceeded to contact the San Francisco FBI where they confirmed that Cabezas and Zalvala were in fact FBI informants. They further stated that the DEA arrest on Mrs. Cabezas would jeopardize their long-range investigation. Soon after, I departed the DEA and was later advised by DEA that Mrs. Cabezas had been released because of Mr. Cabezas connection with the Contras and CIA. The above information is in my journals and my biweeklies (DEA 352) for that month.

To no one’s surprise, it was later revealed that the FBI case file on the Nicaraguans was on none other then Rafael Cornejo, whose case is in the US Northern District Court of California (Dist. Court 92-0403-TEH). This is the same case that initiated "The Dark Alliance" story by Gary Webb.

I would like to now respond to DOJ/OIG report on section number X. Celerino Castillo, which said (A). ..." The OIG found it difficult to evaluate Castillo's allegations because of their general nature". (B)..."Castillo's refusal to be interviewed by the OIG except under unacceptable conditions."

On their second quotation (B), on my refusal to be interviewed, I am stating that the OIG denied me the right to record the interview. I felt that, for reasons that we now know, recording would have been my only proof of what statements I made or did not make. At one time, I even had requested to have US Congresswomen, Maxine Waters present during the interview. Again, they denied me that right, stating that she had her own investigation into the same allegations.

On their first quotation that ...Castillo's allegations were of general nature... FACTS: The following witnesses were not interviewed on my allegations, even after the DOJ/OIG had been furnished with the names. (See registered letter, June 20, 1997, from me to Tamara J. Kessler, Special Investigative Counsel).

The Following are a few individuals who can radiate some daylight into my allegations.

I. Ramiro Guerra (DEA Active informant STG-81-0013) Was involved in reporting several CIA/CONTRA drug trafficking operations for the DEA in Guatemala and at El Salvador Ilopango airport. (case files are available)

II. Mario Rodolfo Martinez-Murga (former DEA and CIA Informant.) DEA informant # STG-86-0006Murga was the individual who conducted the flight plans for the Contra pilots at Ilopango airport. He reported on several documented CIA/CONTRA drug traffickers. Case files #s are available. The McAllen, Tx. Monitor Newspaper has audio recordings on the CIA/Drug trafficking from Murga's interview in 1994. Murga is still employed at the Ilopango airport.

III. US Lt. Col. Alberto Adame (retired) Col. Adame worked under El Salvador US Milgroup Commander, Col. James Steel. Adame is ready to testify before the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

IV. Janis Elmore (Political Officer in El Salvador 1986- 1990). I reported all the El Salvador CIA/CONTRA intelligence to her. Elmore would send all DEA intelligence to her superiors in the CIA and signed off on all DEA cables to Washington. Elmore is a key figure in this investigation. She replaced Don Richardson in El Salvador.

V. Jack McCavett (CIA Chief of Station in El Salvador and Guatemala during that time period.) He was questioned by me, in El Salvador, as to why one of his agents by the name George Witter, was attempting to obtain a US visa for a known Nicaraguan drug trafficker, Carlos Alberto Amador (mentioned in several DEA files). El Salvador US Consular General, Robert J. Chavez can confirm said allegations.

VII. Lupita Vega, the only Salvadoran with Top Secret Clearance under US Col. James Steel. - She was the logistics individual who knew where the Ilopango contra airplanes would refuel in Mexico. She is a key figure in how the Contra operation functioned in Mexico and El Salvador.

The DEA has the above evidence that will not only show that the CIA had knowledge, but participated with Contra pilots in drug trafficking. Next is one of many drug traffickers working for the CIA at Ilopango during that time period.

(A). Francisco Rodrigo Guirola-Beeche, DEA NADDIS #s 1585334 and 1744448. Mr. Guirola is documented in several DEA case files. In 1986, I started documenting Mr. Guirola at Ilopango as a CIA/Contra drug trafficker, arm smuggler and as being involved in money laundering. This is per my journals and an Ilopango informant: June 18, 1986, at approximately 7:30a.m., Guirola departed Ilopango to the Bahamas to air drop US monies. His passenger was identified as Carlos Castaneda Ferman (Salvadoran). On his return trip (June 21, 1986), Guirrola arrived with his passengers Alejandro de Urbizu and Patricia Bernal. In 1988, De Urbizu was arrested in the US in a cocaine conspiracy case. Urbizu was mentioned in 8 DEA files. However, a year earlier, February 6, 1985, Mr. Guirola and three Cuban Americans were arrested in a private plane by US Customs at Kleberg County Airport in Kingville, Texas with $5.9 million. The monies had been picked up in California. Federal agents charged that the cash was drug money destined for El Salvador. A month earlier US Customs had been tracking Mr. Guirola, with the same plane, departing Orange County California for Florida. In mid-flight, he diverted his plane to Panama, there he landed with $1.2 million in cash. The Los Angeles Times, reported that Guirola had accompanied, head of the death squads in El Salvador, Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, to a "very sensitive" meeting with former CIA deputy director Vernon Walters in May 1984.

On February 14, 1989, I wrote a memo (have copy) to the Contra File on Intelligence Gathering on narcotics trafficking at Ilopango Military base in El Salvador. In this memo I document some Contra pilots involved in drug trafficking.

The problem that the DEA has is its' own exposure of its own agents involved in atrocities (I have pictures and case files as proof), corruption, and massive cover-ups in Central America. All the DEA has to do, is obtain all the 1980's DEA informant files, case files, and general files for Central America especially the ones in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica. If the DEA cannot find these files its because it's in their own interest not to do so. However, NADDIS (DEA data base) is available to the proper authorities.

Quote: ..."We did not find proof that it was because the CIA was involved with or knew about drug trafficking at the airport (Ilopango)". The DOJ/OIG are alleging that no pressure was placed on DEA to release the drug information.

Mario Murga, the DEA informant at Ilopango, was deactivated by me in 1987. The reason was that two US CIA agents ordered me to stop communicating with him because he was now a CIA asset. (see Murga's DEA deactivation report and transcript of his audio).

In conclusion, the DOJ/OIG did not have to interview me to obtain the above information. After my denial of the interview, I sent Tamara J. Kessler, Special Investigative Counsel, Office of the Inspector General, a registered letter with all of the above information so that it could assist them in their investigation. However, they failed to investigate because it would have revealed "Obstruction of Justice" by some high government officials.

One of these agencies which "obstructed justice" is the Drug Enforcement Administration. The reasons is that they have their own major problems with their own agents. These agents are involved in atrocities (I have pictures and case file numbers as proof),corruption and massive cover-ups in Central America. To prove my allegations, all the DEA has to do is release all the Central America 1980s DEA informant files, case files and general files, especially the ones from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica. If the DEA will not release these files it is because it is in their best interests not to do so.

However, the NADDIS (DEA Data Base)is available to the proper authorities. The CIA is not the only Agency that hides behind "National Security" or the Privacy Act. Maybe the DEA is more powerful than the DOJ. Here is one reason. On October 15, 1986, Asst. Atty. General Mark Richard, testified before the Kerry Committee,"...that he had attended a meeting with 20 to 25 officials and that the DEA did not want to provide any information that the committee had requested on the Contra involvement in drug trafficking." Why? It is well established that the DEA has CIA moles in its organization, from former administrators to Cuban exiles, who pose as DEA agents.