C.I.A. and DRUGS - FACT SHEET

IRAN-CONTRA ERA

C.I.A. & DRUGS FACT SHEET

"Without the Honduran military there would have been no Contras. $14 million [to finance arms] came from drugs." [through Honduras.] - Oliver North's diary 7/5/85.- Oliver North then intervened to get an absurdly lenient sentence for General Jose Bueso-Rosa, convicted of smuggling tons of cocaine into the U.S.

"We don't need to investigate [C.I.A.'s role in drug dealing]. We already know. The evidence is there." - Jack Blum, former Chief Counsel to John Kerry's Subcommittee on Narcotics and Terrorism in 1996 Senate Hearings. - The Medellin Cartel gave more than $10 million to the contras.

"In my 30 year history in DEA, the major targets of my investigations almost invariably turned out to be working for the CIA." - Dennis Dayle, Chief of an elite DEA unit in Central America.

"With respect to [drug trafficking by] the resistance forces... it is not a couple of people. It is a lot of people." - Alan Fiers former CIA deputy for Central American ops.

FOUR FIRMS LISTED BY DEA AS MAJOR SMUGGLING OPERATIONS WERE ON CIA's LIST OF APPROVED VENDORS AND EACH RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN STATE DEPARTMENT SUBSIDIES WHILE THEY WERE DEALING DRUGS: DIACSA - SETCO - VORTEX - FRIGORIFICOS DE PUNTARENAS.

Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro-Quintero supplied the contras with guns and money. Caro ran a Contra training camp in Veracruz. Together they smuggled 4 tons of cocaine a month into the U.S. Both were later tied to the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE PILOTS WHO FLEW DRUGS ON CIA PROTECTED FLIGHTS INTO THE U.S.:

Michael Palmer * Werner Stoltz * Floyd Carlton * Bill Cooper * Tosh Plumley * Marcos Aguado * Bo Abbott * Gerardo Duran * Pat Foley * Frank Moss * Tito Carrasco * Barry Seal * John Allen * Cesar Rodriguez * Teofilo Watson * Alfredo Caballero * Gary Betzner

CIA FUNDED AIRLINES CONNECTED WITH DRUG OR WEAPONS SMUGGLING:

So. Air Transport * SETCO * EVERGREEN * Hondu Carib * Arrow Air

IN A COURT OF LAW THE STRONGEST FORM OF DIRECT EVIDENCE IS TESTIMONY BY EYEWITNESSES. THE FOLLOWING ARE EYEWITNESSES TO CIA DRUG TRAFFICKING WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO TESTIFY:

Celerino Castillo (DEA) * Michael Ruppert (LAPD)* Mike Levine (DEA) * Bill Tyree (Spl forces) * John Mattes (Fed. Pub Defender) * Dee Ferdinand * Jack Terrell (Contra supporter) * Anabelle Grimm (DEA) Brad Ayers (DEA) * Bo Abbott (Air America) * Tosh Plumley (CIA) * Ralph McGehee (CIA) * Lt Col. Bo Gritz (ret.) (US Army Spl. Forces) * Dr. David Sabow, MD (brother of murdered Marine Col. Jim Sabow) *Dois G. (Chip) Tatum (CIA) * Gene Wheaton (Army CID)

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